I have a word from God for you today. It wasn’t really what I was thinking about, I just couldn’t get it out of my mind. I’ve been ministering to so many people, I keep ministering over and over again about God’s power is made perfect in our weakness. It's just kind of a catchphrase, but it’s really in our inability to figure things out. Just the way things move in our lives and our business. And so this word is kind of for business people because that's who I've been talking to. But at the same time, it's also for anybody doing business of any kind in the marketplace or just in your life, and that it has to do with certain things that happened. And I'm sure this has happened to many of you out there. And this is why I feel that God wants me to talk about it. It’s because you're praying for things, you're praying for answers. And then the answer seemed to come and as soon as your focus on them, they move away. As soon as you think, Hey, here's the answer. And so you turn your focus on it and out it goes. It's like what's going on? The answer to that is just really simple. It’s a problem that we have that the favor of God brings answers into our life. But as soon as we changed the focus from focusing on him to focusing on what we think the answer is, it moves away from us. And it comes down to this experience that I had. When I was younger, I just got out of teaching karate. That was my life at the time. And I decided to go into sales. I didn't have any training in that way and I had a mentor that was mentoring me in sales. And so I would look at different jobs and I would ask God, God will this job meet my need for my family? That sounds like a wonderful prayer. And then I would go, is this one better or is this one better? I'd look at different jobs. And as it is in sales, a lot of times you work for one job and then you do that for a year or something, and then you go to a different job. And so it wasn't like I'm looking for jobs every day, but I was working on straight commission and so I would ask God, you know, will this position meet the need for my family? And I never got an answer. After 2 or 3 years of not getting an answer, so finally I thought, Hey God talks to me all the time. Why isn't he answering my question? And so I just said, God how come you're not answering my question when I ask you, and immediately he answered, because you're asking me if this job is going to meet your need. And I can't answer that question because I'm the one who meets your need, not the job. That has stuck with me forever and now more than ever it's making, as I start ministering to more and more people, God starts giving me more wisdom. This principle of our God meeting our needs is more relevant today than at any other time in probably our life. And it comes down to this idea that when we focus on something, that's going to meet our needs. We're not focusing on Christ to meet our needs. Okay. What we're doing is we change our focus from God over on to something that seems like it's going to be the solution. Now for business people, it could be that you're going to get a contract. And so you're in this position and Hey, I'm going to get this contract. And then right before you sign it and get it signed, it moves off. Or it could be a loan, or it could be maybe a supply line or maybe you're going to make a sale selling insurance or it's going to be a big sale. I remember that happening one time. It could be a lot of different things. As soon as you start focusing on that being the solution, it moves away from you. And the reason is that God doesn't want things to be the solution. He wants him to be the solution. And so once something becomes our source, we get out of step with the Holy Spirit. The Lord is our source. And once we changed our focus from him being our source to something else, being our source, and I don't know how to say this exactly, but what seems like is going to be the answer to what our need is. Once we focus on that being the source for that need, we change our focus from focusing on him, to what we think is a solution. This is going to be the solution to my business. And that's where we mess up. So we can't look at what we think are solutions. We have to always concentrate and focus on God being our solution. So I've said this to several people, I pray for things, for answers, and different things like that. But I also pray for the unknown. I pray for what I don't know. And God said, don't wonder how, in other words, not to wonder how, because we start changing our focus and we start wondering how this is going to happen. Well, how's this going to happen? And how's that going to happen? And all of that leads down to is just doubt and unbelief. In other words, I don't know how that's going to happen. I don't know how that's going to work out. And then the next thing that happens is something comes and it looks like a solution. And we go, well, that must be it. That must be the source. And so we start focusing on that. And as soon as we do that, we get close. It moves away. Why? Because God's calling us to a position that's higher than where we're at. And it works this way. When you get born again, you'll start believing God for things and it seems like they happen right away. But as we progress in our relationship with him, our faith is required at higher and higher levels. So you might be at a level. And it seems like when you get born again and you believe for something. When I got born again I was teaching karate and my paycheck met all my bills and it didn't leave much leftover. And so I gave a tithe and people were giving me food and it was salmon. I mean smoked salmon, cans of smoked salmon, fresh salmon. We never ran out eating salmon. Now a lot of people would like to be in that position because they love salmon. Well, I was eating it almost every day for a while. It just kept pouring in, but then there's another level where you have to exercise your faith for bigger things and you have to keep moving up and moving up and moving up because God is always bringing you up to a higher level where your faith needs to progress to. And so now you're at a level where he expects you to focus on him more than you did before. Maybe it's not quite the way. It's just that now you're dealing with bigger numbers, you're beating bigger situations, your employees, you have employees now. Now you have a bigger overhead, you have all of these things and you need to exercise your faith for these bigger things. So we get distracted because we think that something is going to be our source. And as soon as we do that, we lose our focus on God being our source. And what happens here is we're getting into a situation that seems disastrous. It seems like it is absolutely the worst possible situation that we could be in or the worst possible thing that we could do. And it is exactly what we need. Okay. So you may go, God may tell you to go apply here. Well, I'm not gonna apply there because if I do that, their salary or their sales thing is not gonna pay my bills. But God's telling you to do it anyway. God may tell you to do something in your business. And it might at first make a lot of sense. In other words, you're growing. And so you have this problem in your businesses going under, and you're asking for wisdom from God, and he gives you the solution and goes, oh, that makes a lot of sense. I wonder why I haven't thought of that before. But then as you grow in your faith, he'll start telling you more hidden secrets that are made for you. That doesn't make sense. In other words, they look like they could be a disaster if you took those on, but they're exactly what you need. Because God has hidden something for you. And when you take your focus off of him and you look at what seems like the natural solution, you're missing God. And so he's trying to get you to find these hidden solutions. These hidden secrets have been hidden for you, not hidden from you, but hidden for you. And so you have to focus on that. And so what I'm learning and that I've been learning is how to relax in a situation where I don't wonder how things are going to work out. So I'll give an example. Last night, I went out with my wife. We were going to go to a restaurant. She likes to go to this one restaurant and we pull in, we get out of the car and she just stops and goes, what are we doing? You know you don't like this place. This is not your type of restaurant. I said, Hey, don't worry about it. Just relax and flow with it. Okay. You know, I don't know how things are going to work out. I don't know anything. Okay. Let's just flow with it. And I've just learned to be in that situation, we went in, we had a wonderful time. God spoke to me and the food that, I might not have liked, I had and I liked it. She was looking at me like you don't normally like that food. I'm going, no, it's really good. And it was, and we had a really good time. We had a wonderful time. It seems like a small thing, but it's really not because it's being comfortable walking into situations that look like they could be a disaster. I'm fine with that. You see, I've learned how to be fine with this. We were ministering to somebody yesterday, my partner and I, and we were kind of laughing. And I said, we were talking earlier, cause we talked back and forth and we share the word and we share about the peace of God, you know, passing understanding. And, Susan is my partner, she at first, she almost didn't want to say it, but I knew what she was going to say. I said it's like, you feel guilty for being at peace. And she goes, yeah, that's exactly right. You see, everybody else is all worried and stuff. You know about their situation where no, we got this. Why? Because we'll keep focusing on him. We don't care about the stuff around us. You know, God's going to meet our needs and that's all we do. We don't think about anything else. We just know he's going to meet our needs. How? I don't care how. He told me not to wonder how so I'm not even going to wonder how. If something comes and it looks like the solution might be, but I don't care. Okay. Because I'm not changing my focus off of him onto something else that looks like it might be what I need this thing over here may look like I don't need that, but it may be what God wants me to take. Okay. But I can't see it. You see, I can wonder about things and I can kind of figure things out in my mind. And I can think, well, they're going to kind of work this way or that way. But I've learned to tell the difference between what's in my head and what's coming to me from the Spirit of God and what's coming to me from the enemy. And so even though I might think this is going to work a certain way, I don't focus on that. I keep my focus on him because I know that I don't have to figure this out. I've gotten very, very comfortable in walking with him and not wondering how things are going to happen. Just being totally comfortable. So with my wife and I, you know, I said, Hey, don't worry. Don't worry about it. It's going to be okay. Well, I just knew. I just had that peace. I didn't care about the restaurant. Okay. It may not have been my first choice. It wasn't my first choice. My wife and I have other restaurants that we like to go to, but she wanted to go to this. Now that seems like such a small thing, but it's just not. So I'm going to give you a couple of scriptures over here in Second Corinthians. This has really been one of the scriptures that I've been talking to people about so much lately. And Paul, he's writing this letter to a church in Corinthians. It's a second letter. And he's talking to them about the different problems that they're having and correcting them and giving them instruction. And he said, he's talking about boasting. And he says, I'm going to kind of get over into the flesh here a little bit. And you know, boasts about these things because other people are coming to them and they're boasting about who they are and you know, their position and why they should listen to them. And it's like somebody walking around with their chest out, you know who I am and I can tell you how good I am. And I'm wonderful. Paul follows, just like the opposite. He's going, listen, I've been through a lot. I have this thorn on my side and I've asked God three times to get rid of it. I've been in deep trouble. And God told me my grace or my favor is sufficient for you because in your weakness, my power, my strength is made perfect in your inability to produce results. And so Paul says, you know, Hey, he says, so then I will boast most gladly about my weakness so that the power of Christ may reside in me. Therefore, I am content with weakness, with insults, with troubles, with persecution, with difficulties, for the sake of Christ, for whenever I am weak, then I am strong. Yeah. See, when he says persecution, it's not like today, you know where people are saying, well, it is kind of like today a little bit, because we're getting into some serious persecution, you know, on the church today. But for Paul back then the persecution was, they stoned him. They left him for dead and the disciples came and they carried him off and he came back to life. But that was his persecution. They just stoned him. So, you know, we have persecution like this too. We have, churches that aren’t closing down. And so they're charging him like a thousand dollars a day in fines because they won't close their church because we have a constitutional right to have church and the government isn't supposed to interfere in our church. But they're trying to put fear on us and say, Hey, you have to close your church. This in the past, we're not doing that right now, but they've had hundreds of thousands of dollars in fines and they say, I don't care where we're still gonna have church. That's what they've done. So for some churches that have been persecuted, they have been persecuted because they haven't complied because they believe in the constitution and their churches have grown. And the ones who have tried to comply, their churches collapsed. And now they're out of, out of business, so they have to start over again. So he says, therefore, I am content with weakness, with insults, with troubles. You remember that Paul, He said, I feel bound by the Holy Spirit to go to at the time of Pentecost and everybody was warning him, Paul, you're going to be bound up. They're going to bind you up. And he says, I don't care. I don't care about that. I feel bound by the Holy Spirit to go on some I'm going okay. I'm not worried about anything, but God was getting him ready, preparing him for what was going to happen. And it wasn't pulling him back. His grace was sufficient for him. Okay. And he's become an example for us to be able to walk in whatever God gives us. And to know that he's going to take care of us. And his favor is going to be on us. See his favor attracts solutions. They attract opportunities into our life. But the moment we focus on those opportunities and we don't listen to God and focus on him, they move away from us. And that's a concept that we have to understand because there's some of you out there and you're in that situation where it seems like it's coming and then it moves away and you don't know why that's happening. And the reason why that happens is that you're changing your focus from off of him onto something. And I've recently had this happen where something came, an opportunity came and it didn't look like it was going to be a good opportunity at first, I was just like, well, whatever I didn't really care. And then I went to God and I said God, should I take this opportunity? Because you know, I don't think it's really something for us at this time. And God said, well, you shouldn't do it this way, but you should do it this way. I said, okay. So I didn't know how we were going to do it, but he told me how to do it. And I took that opportunity, but I didn't really care. I didn't change. I didn't think of that as being a solution. I didn't think of that as being my source. I kept my focus on him, but that was just an unknown source. Do you see? I kept my focus on him. I looked at it. Yeah. Whatever, you know, should I take it or not? Okay. It never became my source. It's not my source today. It's just something that came. I asked God about it. He told me how to do it. I said, okay, I did it. And that's it. But my focus is still on the Lord. He's the source. And I don't change that every time my mind starts looking at things as being a source, I cut it off. I don't let that imagination come into my mind. I don't care about those things. God is going to meet my need. God is the one that meets my need. Nothing else meets my need. Philippians 4:19. We'll just look at that real fast. He says, and my God shall supply my need according to his riches in glory in Christ Jesus. I love the scripture. I'm going to tell you something about this scripture. Some people think that God's going to supply only what you need and nothing else. No, I only have one need and that need is for every promise in the Bible to be manifested in my life. And some of those promises are very important. Like Psalms 21, God will give me the desires of my heart. He will not withhold the requests of my lips. You have desires that are put in you for your business, to expand your business that is from God. But as soon as you make them the focus, then you're getting out of step with the Holy Spirit. So I say, well, God I'd like this or I'd like that, you know, he's pushing that into me, but that's not going to be the source of my pleasure. It's not going to be a thing that gives me, my joy is the best way to say it. In other words, people will go after things, I want a new motorcycle, and then I've got to have a new boat. And then I got to have this and I got to have that. And those things just become distractions and you have fun, but they don't bring them, they don't bring the peace of God. They don't bring the delight that the Lord brings. They're just distractions. You might want a bigger house or something like that. But when you get in it, you just want something more. Okay. I just joke with people all the time because people, you know, we talk about cars. I like cars. I want to buy a new car every day. It doesn't matter if I buy a car, the next day I want to buy a new car. I see another car. I like it. Oh, I like that car. Oh, I like that car. Every day, I'd like to buy a new car, but then I'm sitting in my truck and I'm happy. What's the other car going to give me that this car doesn't give me. I drove around in a car for a long time and I was very happy with it. I didn't buy a new one until the transmission went out, but I was happy with that car. There were a lot of things I liked about that car. Even though I looked at other cars and I liked those cars, I thought, but you know, when I'm driving my car, what's the difference. I'm looking out the windshield. I don't look at anything else. Okay. So it's not the source of my happiness. It's not the source of my peace. It's not the source of my joy. Things don't do that for me. He does that for me. But as long as I keep my focus on him, as long as my delight is in the Lord, he gives me the desires of my heart. But the desires of my heart are not locked up in material things. That seems kind of weird because he's telling you, he's pushing you to expand your business and that's the desire of your heart. And so you go, okay, and you step forward to expand your business. And it is a desire of your heart. And he says to you, I will not withhold the requests of your lips, but at the same time, you don't lose focus off of God. Okay? I'm expanding my business. It is a desire of my heart. God has put that desire is there, but the thing of expanding your business is not the source of your joy. He is. And that's the difference. It can be a slight variant, but it makes all the difference in the world. What I've noticed when I'm listening to different pastors over the years and different people in their struggles, but especially pastors, because they're always trying to push you and always trying to lean into the Spirit of God to see what he has to say. And there's something that seems to come in, but then move out. And there's something that they have to change. Some little tiny tweak that needs to be tweaked, and God is trying to get them into a different level. Once they tweak it, the doors open up, and these things flood in. And for a lot of us, it's a focus of changing him as being our source into thinking that that, because our favor from God has brought something to us that that is now our source to our need. No, we can't look at it as a source to our need because as soon as we do that, we're going to push it away. Okay? God supplies our needs. Through the power that works within us, Christ Jesus, it's the favor of God that brings things into our life. And that favor is actually pouring into our life. It's actually pulling opportunities into our life. It's actually pulling solutions into our life, but we can't take our focus off of Jesus meeting our needs, to focus on things being the source for our needs. Seems like a fine thing, but it's very, very important because God's power is made perfect in our inability to produce results. So that's why I actually like Paul, I could boast in being able to go into a situation and I don't know where I'm going with it. I don't know what the outcome's going to be. And I'm perfectly at peace in doing that. And that's something that I've been gaining ground in. It's a marker in my life that I've gained some ground in. And so I'm okay with that. I delight in that. I think it's fun. See, I look at The Rone Dolph Show. Where’s it going? What's it going to turn into? How's it going to turn in a certain direction? What's going to happen? I don't know. And I'm okay with not knowing, I'm okay, with as long as I keep my focus on him. I'm okay. And I don't let people speak in and say, well, I think you should do this. Or I think this is, I can see this happening and I can see that happening. No, no. If God hasn't told me, I'm not interested. Okay. If you give me a word, it better confirm what's inside my heart. There's a story of a prophet and God told him to go and speak and then go right back and not talk to anybody. And on the way back, a prophet said, well, God told me that you could come in and eat with me. And so he did, but he then when he went out a lion ate him. Because he didn't do what God said he was trying to do with somebody else, the direction somebody else was telling him, but that he wasn't being correct. So I've learned to be very, very careful and keep my focus on what the Lord is saying. Hebrews chapter three, it's another one of my favorite scriptures, because it’s become very meaningful, meaningful to me. He says, oh, that today you would listen as he speaks, do not harden your heart. As in the rebellion, in the day of testing in the wilderness. There your father's tested me and tried me. And they saw my works for 40 years. And when we think of testing, we think of testing in kind of a negative way. No, they were actually stepping out in what God told them to do, but they were doing it grudgingly. They were going through three days in the wilderness. They came up to the red sea, which looked like an absolute impossibility. When I was talking, when I just said a few minutes ago, God bringing you into something that looks like it could be disastrous. And yet he's telling you to do it. That's the way it was for these children of Israel coming out of Egypt, they came into what looked like a disastrous situation, the red sea in front of them, the army behind them. That's disastrous. But sometimes God leads us into what we think as being a disaster so that we can know that we can trust him. We can take our eyes off of what we think is going to be our source and keep our eyes on him, knowing that he is our source. And that's what we have to understand. So when we get up to the red sea, it's easy to understand that, Hey, I got to keep looking at God. But when you think that you have a solution to your problem, okay. And you think, okay, this is a solution. You take your focus off of God onto that as being the source for your solution. Now you're in trouble. Okay. So that's what was happening to them. Okay. They got up to the red sea, they saw a mighty miracle. Then they got three days into the desert and they start complaining. Okay. God, you're just trying to kill me. You've brought me out in here into the wilderness, just to destroy me. No, brought you up there so that you might learn the ways of God, so that you might learn to keep your focus on him and know that he's going to come through for you. So they only did that for 40 years and they still couldn't get ahold of the message. And so, because of that, he got angry with them and he said, you'll never enter into my rest because of that because they couldn't get a hold of keeping their focus on the Lord and knowing that he was gonna come through for them. And that's an important lesson for us. What may look like a disastrous situation may be exactly the answer and the solution to what we need in our business. And it gives glory to God. You see when the children of Israel went through and they had to fight different armies and they were conquering the armies when God told them to go up and fight this army. And they would defeat it. When they refuse to go, then God said, okay don't go. No, no we're going to go now. No, you refused. Okay. I said, okay, now you want to go, don't go. Because you're going to get beat. Okay. No, no. We're going to go anyway. No, they got, they got wiped out. But when they finally went over into the promised land, the spies went out and they said, listen, we've heard about what God's doing in your life. We're afraid of what God's doing in your life. Because God gets the glory in our weakness, in our inability to produce results. When we get into a situation that looks like it has no impasse. That's where God's power is made. Perfect and gives him glory and people around us. See, wow, God's really working for you. Yes, he is. And so that's what happened. I like to read sometimes out of the message translation because it really puts things into words that we're accustomed to. So I'm going to read it out of the message today. Please listen, don't turn a deaf ear to what God's saying. As in the bitter uprising, that time of wilderness testing, even though they watched me at work for 40 years, your ancestors refused to let me do it my way. Over and over they tried my patience and I was provoked, oh, so provoked. I said, they'll never keep their minds on God. They refuse to walk down my road. Exasperated I vowed, they'll never get where they're going. They're never able to sit down and rest. You see the only time that we can get into the rest that God has for us is when we keep our eyes on what he's doing and keep our eyes on him being the answer to our prayers, that my God shall supply my need according to his riches and glory. Nothing else is going to supply, only what he's going to supply and I trust in that. Now I can get into a rest. And when you get into that rest, you almost feel guilty. It seems like I gotta be worrying. No, no, we shouldn't be worrying, but you get into that situation. I know some of you are out there and you're thinking, yeah, I know exactly what you're talking about. Do you know? It seems like you gotta be worried because everybody else gets worried in this situation. No, no, we're the opposite. We're supposed to be at rest. We're supposed to be at peace. No, we're not. We're not guilty about it. Matter of fact, we should proclaim it. So the people will see us and go, wow, something's going on? Something's going on with those people. God wants to work in your life. And he wants to be the source of every need that you have. And he wants people to recognize that he's working in you so that he gets the glory. So Matthew six says, of course, seek first, the kingdom of God and his righteousness, and all these things shall be added to you. So remember I said, the favor of God brings all these things that everybody else has after and he brings those to us. We just can't look at them as being any kind of source for what we need. And that's in verse 33. Now in verse 31, I talked about this yesterday, it says, therefore, take no thought saying what shall we eat? Having any kind of concern over our needs. Don't take any thought. In the New King James version, he says, therefore do not worry. Saying, don't worry saying how is my need going to be met? How can I get by? You've told me to do this God, now how can I do this? It seems like everything is coming and it's leaving. How can I? Don't take the worry and say it. Out of the abundance of your heart, your mouth speaks. Okay. So what do you say? You say this, but seek first, the kingdom of God, I'm seeking the kingdom of God. I'm focusing my focus on the Lord. Okay. My favor that God has given me. He gave me that favor even before I was born again when I was just a sinner doing stupid stuff. Those were the things that I shouldn't have been doing at all. I knew better, but they were the lust of the flesh. I did them anyway. And he was still giving me his favor. He still protected me. And when the time came and I recognized his worries about what you need and start saying it, You capture worries and you bring them into submission to the word of God. Therefore take no thought. Then King James says, therefore, don't take a worry. First of all, don't take it. And second don't say it. Okay. Because when you say it, you take it instead, you bring it into captivity. How do you do that? By seeking first, the kingdom of God and his righteousness. And then all these things that everybody else is running after coming to you. So the thought comes well, I'm not going to be able to get over this situation. And that thought is actually in the form of a worry, but you don't take it. No, no, no, no, no. I'm going to seek the kingdom of God first. I'm going to ask God, maybe what looks like a road that I need to go down doesn't look like the best road, but I'm going to ask God about it. Maybe this solution isn't a solution that I think that I can take hold of. In other words, it's going to cost me such and such. I don't have the money right now. I can't do this. But you don't look at that. You go, God, should I do this? And God says, yes, you should. Well, I don't have the money for it. That has nothing to do with it. We seek first, the kingdom of God and all of his righteousness. I might go, God, should I do this? Cause I don't have the money for it. And God says, yeah, do it go, okay. How do I do it? And then he tells you something else comes and you go, man, that looks like that's going to fit right in. Should I do it? And God says, no, don't do it. But God, it's not going to cost me anything. It's free. It's going to be given to me. No, no, don't do it. Okay. Don't touch it. Okay. I'm won’t touch that. But this thing I can't do, I'll do it now. It's a fun life. I mean, it gets really exciting doing life this way. It's incredible how much fun it is. And yes, sometimes you can feel a little guilty for having so much fun in the midst of all this stuff. I've talked about this before, he prepares a table before us in the midst of our enemies. He describes that table as being overflowing. It's a cup overflowing. You gotta be careful because something could drop off the table. Something could fall off the table. It's full and yet there's chaos running around you. But we don't run around the world, the world runs around us. This is where we're supposed to be. You’re thinking Rone, I don't want to be here. No, this is where you're supposed to be. You're supposed to be in a position where you don't know how things are going to work out and you calmly walk in it because God tells you to walk in it and you have a blast when you do it. I'm telling you it's so much fun. I mean, it is so much fun to learn how to trust God. So we don't worry about it. We definitely don't take the worry and these thoughts and say them. We only say what God tells us to say. So the opposite is true. In other words, we don't take the thoughts and the worry and say them. So what we do is we say what the word of God says. That's how we answer those thoughts and worries. We answer them with the word spoken out of our mouths. That's what Jesus did. Well, Jesus just make this stone into bread, and then you can eat it. No, he says the word. Man shall not live by bread alone but by every word that comes out of his mouth, that's what we're going to live by. Okay. So we don't take these thoughts and we especially don't say them, we do the opposite. We say what the word says. Philippians 4:6, going back to Philippians 4 and I'm going to read this out of two translations again. The peace of God, which surpasses all understanding will guard your heart and your minds in Christ Jesus. You see, he's telling us that the peace that God gives us surpasses your understanding. Yeah. I don't understand it. I really don't. That's why you feel guilty about it sometimes like, well, everybody else's worried about this and I'm not, maybe there's something wrong with me. No, there’s nothing wrong with you. The peace of God surpasses understanding when you keep your focus on him and you're relying only in him, then this peace comes on you and it surpasses your understanding. It doesn't make sense, but you got it anyway. The message translation says don't fret or worry. Instead of worrying, pray. Let petitions and praises shape your worries into prayers, letting God know your concerns. Before you know it a sense of God's wholeness. That's peace, wholeness, everything coming together for good will come and settle you down. It's wonderful what happens when Christ displaces worry at the center of your life. You see Christ displaces, the anointed one displaces the worry and thoughts. So when these things are coming and they look like they are going to be the source of our problem or the source of the need that we have in our life. We don't focus on it. We don't think it's a source. We let Christ be the center of our source. And then the wholeness, the peace cause that's what peace is, the wholeness. It's going to surpass your understanding. You're going to be made complete. So we just have to continually make him our source and not let anything else take its place because the moment we do, we push solutions away from us. So I know this is the answer for some people out there that you've been wondering about this situation, cause it's been happening in your life. And when you make Christ the center, then his peace passes all understanding. And so when you get over into only concentrating on him, then these things that seem to come in and go away, opportunities come and they leave. These things keep bouncing. You don't care about it. You just know that he's going to supply your need. And in that, you get into this peace that surpasses understanding you don't understand how it works. But you just know that God is meeting your need, period. What was it going to be? This or that or this or that? I don't know. I'll ask him. Okay. And maybe the thing that I think is going to be a disaster is actually what he's going to tell me to go after, or he's going to tell me to do something and I can't afford, or he's gonna tell me to do something that maybe you're in sickness and maybe you can't walk. And what he's going to tell you to do is run instead. I've heard stories of that. I've heard stories where somebody was crippled from something and they were in a wheelchair and God said, get up and walk. And they got up. And so they put their feet on the ground and they start walking and they're walking with a cane or something. And one day God says, I want you to run. Why run? I can barely walk. I'm using a cane or a walker. How am I going to run? But they put it to the side and they start running. Well, that seems like a disaster. You're going to fall on your face. No, because God said to run, you see faith comes by hearing and hearing by the word of God. But it's his word, his Holy Spirit word, speaking to us and making the word, what's in the Bible alive to us. And so we act on what he says and we see a phenomenal result. We do things that he tells us to do. Things that don't make any sense. I've shared this story with you before, I've done this many, many times, but this last time that I did this it was just kind of memorable. This lady says, man, my back is really sore. And she goes, oh my back. You know how people with their back is, cause you know, their back really sore. And I said, well, sit here. I said, in the name of Jesus, you're healed. Sit here in this chair. She sits down in this chair. I said, okay, stand up. She stands up. I said, okay, sit down. She sits down. I said, okay, stand up. She stands up the second time. And she goes, my back is healed. I don't have any pain in my back. She starts jumping up and down. So that didn’t make sense, didn’t make any sense whatsoever. But it was what the Spirit of God said to do. You may be hearing something. So like today, I've been talking to people about this very same thing that I spoke about today. But I was expecting God to lead me in a different direction, but I couldn't get it out of my mind. So I said, okay, well that's what God wants me to say. You see, God's going to tell you things and you just have to act on it. You have to be willing to act on what God is telling you to do even though it's not going to make sense. You may be in a situation right now and you need healing in your body. And God's going to tell you you need to do something. Do it. If it doesn't make sense, it's probably God. You may need a financial miracle in your business. He's telling you to do something, do it. Well, that doesn’t make sense, do it. Well, I can't do it, do it anyway. Well, that's going to seem foolish. Yes, it's supposed to. It's supposed to confuse the wise. It's supposed to confuse the strong. It's supposed to confuse those people that are in business around you that say you can't do it. Do it anyway. So father, we just thank you for this time. We thank you for your word and we thank you that this word is for people out there, that you are people that are experiencing God. And this is an answer to something that you needed. It's an answer to a problem that you had. And because of this, you're going to change your focus. And now the favor of God is going to start rushing in like a flood. And He is going to be your source for everything you need and everything he's telling you to do in Jesus name. All right. We'll see you tomorrow and we'll have another word from God for you, but until then have a great, great day. Experience God all day long. Expect to have God talk to you today in Jesus' name.

Well, good morning, this is Rone with The Rone Dolph Show and it is Wednesday morning. And I gotta tell you what God gave me, now I'm expecting cause God's told me that we've gone through the first six months of the year and we're going to go through the second six months and he's going to, you know, increase some things, increase some understanding and bring out some, you know, some revelation. So I was in prayer this morning, very early. And I like to get up and pray because it's so quiet and I don't have any distractions. But he's been talking to me and talking to me about having a relationship with him that's exceedingly, abundantly above what we can ask or think or imagine, or even comprehend. And so I'm going to talk to you about this scripture. That's in Ephesians 3:29 or 20. And it says now to him who is able to do exceedingly abundantly above all that we ask or think according to the power that works in us, to him be glory in the church, by Jesus, by Christ Jesus, to all generations, forever and ever amen. Now to him who is able to do exceedingly abundantly above all that we can ask or think according to the power that works within us. So it's a scripture that I use a lot when I'm talking to people, about the things of God, about our business, about expecting more from God in business. I talk about, you know, in business we will be able to see things that maybe other people can't see, we'll be able to look down and see fine details about our business. But when we can't see it, we don't go after it. God wants to do exceedingly abundantly above what you can imagine. He wants to do what you can't imagine. So in my case, The Rone Dolph Show was something that I would never imagine, never had a desire for it. Didn't have any thoughts about it. And yet, you know, he gave it to me. I wrote it down and looked at it, thought I was writing down different things that I wanted to do different goals, and I wrote it down and I go, what the heck is that? That's really what I thought. And that's what I got is sometimes I'm, I'm writing things down for, you know, I got to do this, this, this, and then I'll write something I've written down scripture. I come back and I'm going through my list and I go, what's this scripture here? What is this? It's my handwriting. I wrote it down. I don't remember writing it down. I go and look up that scripture. And it's a message to me from, from the Lord. So he works with us in different ways, ways that, you know, we don't even know sometimes. We don't expect it. Pastor Barnett is my pastor, has always taught that if he had one regret in life that he wouldn't have pushed himself out there in faith enough, he wouldn't have tried to do more exceedingly great things. Now everybody looks at pastor Barnett and I go, you're just amazing. You started the dream center in LA, which is bringing in the homeless people, bringing in the drug addicts, bringing in the people off the streets, bringing in at the time, even people that had aids, bringing them in housing, um, you know, feeding 'em and that's what they do. They'll house people or feed them. And then from there, we have the dream center in Phoenix and then other ministries, have done the same thing. Now there are over 300 of these dream centers in the world and they're increasing. So he started that whole thing. And then of course he started the campus on the church. It's got a gymnasium. I mean, it's got people come to church and they go, this just blows us away. This is just, it's beyond their imagination, I guess is the best way to say it. And he's always expanding. Now, Luke is just taking that, you know, and just taking it to another level because pastor Barnett has, has taught. *We're still filming. We're not starting over. Is that okay? Is it working now? I must've hit something. Okay. You went quiet, dark on me. Yeah. I went dark on you because my mic went off. Okay. So I got a kind of a short cord on this, but so he's always taught We're having technical difficulties here. Am I hot? Okay. I'm live. All right. Can you hear me now? Everything's coming through. Okay. Good. And now tell me about Tony. Show them your show, your picture of you behind the scenes there so they can see you, Tony.. Just bought some new equipment and we're hooking it up and we're getting everything set up. We're working on it. Yeah. Yeah. That's good. But this is an important message and I'll finish it out. So he's always taught that if our God gives us something, it's beyond our ability and for business, man, that becomes very difficult. Sometimes they can't see. It's something that they've never thought of. Now, guys, it's just for the next six months, God has told me to start thinking about something new and he's put something in my mind. And quite frankly, I can't even see it. I don't have any experience of it. We'll tell you about it later, what we're doing, but for right now, you know, it's just really one of those things it's beyond my imagination. If God doesn't help us, it won't get done. So that's the way your life becomes when you're walking with God. Now I'm going to read from you because God wants to what God said this morning was this in the same way that God wants to do exceedingly abundantly above all that you can ask or think he wants your relationship to be the same way he wants it to be exceedingly abundantly above what you could ask or think according to the power that works within you. Do you get that? This is very important. Probably need to write it down. God wants to do exceedingly abundantly above what you can ask or think. We get limited in our thinking and as you know, the devil is going to try to steal the word from you. So he's going to try to make you think that you don't have it. We read, you know, that Enoch walked with God, and then God took him up. And we say, man, I would like to walk with God like that. Well, the fact of the matter is you do walk with God that way you do. But the devil has stolen that from us. The thought that we actually have that position with Christ. Jesus said my sheep, I know my sheep. And they follow me. They hear me and they follow me. That's just a fact. That's, that's the truth. Okay. That's more than a fact. That's the truth. We look at Elijah and we look at, uh, Elijah and Elijah wanted a double portion. So he says, I want a double portion. Well, you have a double portion. You have the fullness. Okay? So we get this thing that, that, that says, I want what they have when we don't realize that we have it. And God wants to take us in our relationship to an exceedingly abundantly higher level in our relationship. And the devil wants to steal that from us. And he wants to make it seem like it's unobtainable. We can't obtain it. It's like I said in business, it's beyond my imagination. So I don't go after it. So God makes the devil wants you to think that it's beyond your imagination. And so you can't have it. You know, some people can get it, but you can't get it. It's like some people can get healed. It's God's will for them to be healed immediately. But it's not God's will for you to be healed immediately. No, it's, you know, God doesn't change. Okay. His word is the truth. Okay. He has his word. That's given any can't break his word. He can't lie. He can't say by his structure healed, but John is not going to be healed. Sally's not going to be healed right now. They have to wait until they get to have it. That's not true. It's not the way it works. It's not, you know, um, Martin Luther King is going to have this fantastic relationship with the Lord, but, but not you, um, pastor Tommy Barnett is going to have this fantastic relationship with the Lord, but not you, you know, this, you know, pastor or that pastor, this person, and that person have this fantastic relationship, but it's not going to be you. You're not going to hear from God. No, that's wrong. God wants to take you. And do what's exceedingly abundantly in your relationship with him. That's far beyond and exceeds. Anything that you can imagine. And if you can't imagine it and you need help with him, it's from God. That's the way it works. So I'm going to read through this, chapter three, I just feel like I should go through it. Paul's writing to a church at Ephesus. And he says, for this reason, I Paul, the prisoner of Christ Jesus for you Gentiles that's us. If indeed you have heard of the dispensation of the grace of God, which was given to me for you. How that by revelation, he made known to me the mysteries as I have briefly written already, by which when you read, you may understand my knowledge of the mystery of Christ, which in other ages was not made known to the sons of men as it has now been revealed by the spirit to the holy apostles and prophets. So here he's saying, okay, there is a mystery out there. It hasn't been given before to the profits. It's a mystery that God has kept hidden until Christ came. And now this mystery of what's taken place in Christ. The knowledge of that, the revelation of that was given to Paul, okay, for the Gentiles. Now Peter preaches to the Jewish people. Paul went out to the Gentiles and that the Gentiles should be fellow heirs of the same body and partakers of his promise in Christ through the gospel, the good news of Christ of which I became a minister, according to the gift of the grace of God, given to me by the effecting of effective working of his power. Okay. So remember, power is the good news of the gospel is the power of God's salvation. To me who, who am less than the least of all the saints. We remember that Paul was out there persecuting the church. He killing people and he was taking responsibility for it, you know, while Peter and everybody else was, you know, preaching the gospel, the good news of Christ Paul was actually trying to destroy it. Okay. So he says, not in the least of the saints, this grace was given to me that I should preach among the Gentiles, the unsearchable riches of Christ, and to make all, see what he is, the fellowship of the mystery, which from the beginning of the ages has been hidden in God who created all things through Christ Jesus. So here we see that this mystery was hidden, but now it's been revealed. And Paul is revealing this mystery to the Gentiles that we could be fellow heirs in the kingdom of God that we could, you know, be accepted by Christ through what he did. We can be accepted. We have the right standing to come before God in this mystery, we have this mystery was that we could have a relationship with him that would far exceed anything that was there previously because God put his because Jesus put his blood on the mercy seat. Okay. He gave us a right to exceed. What was the relationship that they had before? Did he say this? He said, John, the Baptist is the greatest of all the profits. So, John, the Baptist was being led by the spirit of God. He was leading, living a life led by the spirit of God. And he was fully zealous for, you know, for the things of God. And he, he was the greatest of all the profits, but he's Jesus said, the least in the kingdom of heaven is greater than John. We've been giving because of the blood of Christ because of what he did on the cross because we've been born again. Okay. We exceed in our relationship, anything that they had previously, we have a relationship with Christ that they couldn't have because we've been born of the spirit of God. It's been given to us what was lost by Adam. So we have this relationship and I'll, I'll continue to read to the intent that now the manifold wisdom of God might be made known by the church to the principalities and powers in heavenly places, according to the eternal purpose, which he accomplished in Christ Jesus, our Lord, oh man, this blows me away. There's a, uh, a thing that's happened When we got born again, when Jesus died and went to the cross and he, this wisdom that God did this, this incredible wisdom of God, he wanted it to be made known by the church, to the principalities and powers in heavenly places, everybody. I mean the angels, the Satan, the devils, everybody let them be, let, let them know what's happened. Let them know of the goodness of God. Let them know that we are born again by the spirit of God. He living on he's living inside of us. It's an incredible thing. That's happened in whom we have boldness and access with confidence, through faith in him. We have boldness and access with confidence. In other words, we can come boldly before the throne of God. We can come boldly before God we can come to have a relationship. I didn't have a strong relationship with my father because I didn't see him. My mom and dad got a divorce when I was very, very young, but I didn't have any problem. When I, uh, connected with him again, later on in life, I didn't have any problem telling him I loved him. I didn't have any problem coming boldly into his house and be part of his household. My half-brothers, you know, I didn't have any problem being, you know, have a relationship with them. It didn't, you know, it was, they, they lived a life that was different from mine in, in, uh, another place. But I had no, no, um, Uh, Feelings of inadequacy or, or I don't know any other feeling than just being a part of the family. I was bold in that. I was, I just felt like I was part of the family. And so I never had any combat, uh, any compelling thought that I would be anything other than part of the family. And they took me in as, as a family. And so my, when I got married, my, uh, my father says to his other oldest son was younger than me. But, um, he said, you know, I'm going to go down to, uh, Rome's wedding. And he said, who's wrong. He goes, he's your brother. He goes, I didn't know I had a brother. Well, I knew them when they were kids. I was older. I knew I knew I knew they, but they didn't know me, I guess. And he had forgotten, you know, probably when he was younger than he actually did have a brother. So it came as a surprise to him. But that's just, this is the way it is. We have a relationship that we can come boldly and we have access to this relationship that actually exceeds our expectations. It exceeds our imagining for this one reason, I bow my knee to the father of our Lord Jesus Christ from whom the whole family heaven and earth is named that he would grant you according to the riches of his glory to be strengthened with might through the spirit in the inner man. Now, Paul was actually praying this, okay, this is a prayer from, from Paul that you would, that, that he would grant you according to the riches of his glory to be strengthened with might through the spirit in the inner man that Christ may dwell in your hearts through faith and that you being rooted and grounded in love may be able to comprehend with all the saints is the width and length and depth and height to know the love of Christ, which passes knowledge that you may be filled with all the fullness of God. That's amazing. Okay. Paul's praying that, that we would be filled with all the fullness of God, but now get this. Cause the next one is powerful. That's verse 19 now to him, um, who is able to do exceedingly abundantly above all that we ask or think according to the power that works in us, to him be glory in the church, by Christ Jesus, to all generations forever ever, and ever. Amen. You see how powerful that is. You see, he wants us to know the fullness that's inside of us in God. Okay. And any, he strengthens that by saying he's able to do exceedingly abundantly above all that. We think, see this mystery that's in that's God has hidden until now is all about us living in him all about us having this incredible relationship. That's above our imagination. When we look at the old Testament, it's almost like, Gosh, Almost feel sorry for Elijah. Almost feel sorry for her. [inaudible] no, I don't. Okay. When we realized that we have Christ living inside of us and we've been born again, something happened to us that far exceeded what they had and we're supposed to expect that relationship or that communion or that fellowship that we can talk to him and we can have dreams and visions. See, that was something that was four told. Joel said, you know, dreams and visions are going to come up, you know, on these people, God's going to talk to us. We're going to have dreams. We're going to have visions. We're going to have, you know, your young men are going to see the dream, have dream dreams and your old men. No, you're there. Your young men are going to see visions and your old men are going to dream dreams. I do both. So I'm just kind of right there in the middle, But here, your Sons and your daughters are going to prophesize the spirit of God's going to come on us. Okay. It came on then like fire, okay, it's going to come on us the same way. Now we have this relationship. That's available well to us, but we need to seek it. We need to go after it. We can't just assume that God is going to put it on us. We got to be hungry for it. Um, a few days ago I had Susan on here, my partner, and we've talked about her longing. And you know, it brought her to tears to even start thinking about the longing that she has to know him. And that's what we need. We need that longing to know him and the power of his resurrection. And to understand this fellowship that we have with his, his suffering and, and this uh, that we might be conformed to his death, that in some way that we would be able to let that power of God, that resurrection of God working in our life now, not waiting for that to happen when we get to have it. So we have to seek it. It's important that we seek it. Now, this is going to be like the second part of what I'm going to say. This, this relationship that exceeds our expectation Is when you're walking in faith, It seems like some people don't step out in faith because it's painful. And we are created to Bush away from pain and we push away and we move into pleasure. That's our makeup. Okay. We can't help it. Okay. We don't, oh, there's hot fire. I'm going to get my hand, you know, into that fire so I can have the pain. No, we pull away from it. We push into what's pleasurable, man. These are candy bars, sweet and taste good. And man, I love this stuff. I want to eat one every five minutes. That's not good for us, but it's pleasurable. So we push into that. That's why people get into getting caught with, you know, other relationships and, and desires for other things because they find pleasure in that people get caught up in drugs because they find pleasure in it. People become alcoholics because they find pleasure in that. But God is changing that instead. And you can, you can actually change that yourself. So it works like this. Stepping in phase, stepping out in faith for a lot of people is painful, but it's going to become pleasurable for you. It's going to switch so that you go ahead, lean into faith, and stepping out into what is impossible becomes pleasurable and holding back becomes painful. So it almost becomes like an adrenaline rush. I can't wait. People jump off buildings and do all these crazy things. Um, they, you know, they, they, you know, they kill themselves trying to do things that are, you know, because they're, you know, they have, they get an adrenaline rush. They're called adrenaline junkies. That's the way it becomes when you're stepping out in faith with God, you get through something. And it's like, oh man, that was cool. I want to do that again. And I want to do that again. And I want to do that in every aspect of my life. I want to do that in my business. I want to do that. But see, here's the thing. It also becomes like an adrenaline rush. When you start having a relationship with the highest God, and he starts talking to you and giving you visions and giving you dreams and, and spending time with you and answering your questions, it becomes exciting. Sounds pleasurable. And once you get into that, you don't want to get out of it. You want to go on the next day, the next day, the next day. So, you know, the Romans all show, I do five days a week, but I don't stop talking to God on the weekends. I don't stop talking to God when I'm going on vacation. I still got to take my book and write things down because God's always talking to me and I'm always talking to him. I'll talk to him about everything. Sometimes when I'm driving, I remember driving through Columbia. Gorgeous, absolutely beautiful. You got the water and you know, it's you got the Gorge. And I said, man, God, you did, you know, you put this thing together. It's just beautiful. He goes, I didn't do it. I said what? He said, no, I didn't do it. I didn't build the dam. I didn't make the lake there. It was a river before. Yeah, it's beautiful now, but I didn't build a dam. I was like, oh, okay. It's still beautiful. I still appreciate it. We'll see that kind of relationship with God is pleasurable. It's something that we seek after because it becomes like a man talking to God is so spending time with God is so cool. You know, when he tells me to do something, it's just so awesome. It's an adrenaline rush to do things for God. And we have to understand that pleasure. We have to press into it and that pleasure will take over and is taking over. And that's what's happening in this great awakening that we're in right now, is this becoming more and more pleasurable for people to step in and have that relationship or that fellowship with God that they never had before. And it's going to flip the world upside down because the children of God are going to find this so pleasurable to be part of what's going on in their life, that they are going to, you know, they're going to grab it. I'm going to read one more scripture to you. [inaudible] And I'm going to read this Matthew 25 in verse 21. I'm going to read it out of the amplified Bible. So Jesus is teaching about the parable of the talents and he sends the, uh, servants away and he gives them a certain amount of money and one does really well. The next one does, you know, they double their money and the third one buries it in the ground. You've probably heard this story before, but to the first one, the master said to him, well done, you upright, honorable admirable, and faithful servant. You have been faithful and trustworthy over a litter. Little, I will put you in charge of much. I get this entry in and share the joy, the delight, the blessing, this which your master enjoys. That's the key here. God wants us to enter into the joy that he has. Okay. His enjoyment is us having this fellowship with him and him telling us, okay, do this, do this, take my instruction, follow this. And we do that. And then he says, oh, well done. You know, good and faithful service servant, enter into the joy, to the blessing, this, to the absolute pleasure that I enjoy, that God enjoys. And he's saying that about us. He enjoys the relationship that we have with him. He enjoys giving us instruction. He enjoys watching us move and watching us do what he's telling us to do. Stepping out in faith and walking in faith, not knowing where we're going to go. And that becomes pleasurable for us and becomes like, why can adrenaline high actually sweater comes and that's what's happening in the world today. People are getting, people are getting excited about having fellowship with Jesus Christ. It's amazing. So I want to invite you to do the same. I'm going to pray for you father, the same prayer that Paul prayed, that they would come to the, to the knowledge that, of this mystery of who they are in Christ and come into this fellowship, that's beyond their imagination. And I pray that in the name of Jesus, I'm going to keep it real simple. All right, we'll see you tomorrow.