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July 23, 2019
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Genesis 30:27-43 “Please listen to me,” Laban replied. “I have become wealthy, for the Lord has blessed me because of you. 28 Tell me how much I owe you. Whatever it is, I’ll pay it.” 29 Jacob replied, “You know how hard I’ve worked for you, and how your flocks and herds have grown under my care. 30 You had little indeed before I came, but your wealth has increased enormously. The Lord has blessed you through everything I’ve done. But now, what about me? When can I start providing for my own family?” 31 “What wages do you want?” Laban asked again. Jacob replied, “Don’t give me anything. Just do this one thing, and I’ll continue to tend and watch over your flocks. 32 Let me inspect your flocks today and remove all the sheep and goats that are speckled or spotted, along with all the black sheep. Give these to me as my wages. 33 In the future, when you check on the animals you have given me as my wages, you’ll see that I have been honest. If you find in my flock any goats without speckles or spots, or any sheep that are not black, you will know that I have stolen them from you.”
34 “All right,” Laban replied. “It will be as you say.” 35 But that very day Laban went out and removed the male goats that were streaked and spotted, all the female goats that were speckled and spotted or had white patches, and all the black sheep. He placed them in the care of his own sons, 36 who took them a three-days’ journey from where Jacob was. Meanwhile, Jacob stayed and cared for the rest of Laban’s flock.
37 Then Jacob took some fresh branches from poplar, almond, and plane trees and peeled off strips of bark, making white streaks on them. 38 Then he placed these peeled branches in the watering troughs where the flocks came to drink, for that was where they mated. 39 And when they mated in front of the white-streaked branches, they gave birth to young that were streaked, speckled, and spotted.40 Jacob separated those lambs from Laban’s flock. And at mating time he turned the flock to face Laban’s animals that were streaked or black. This is how he built his own flock instead of increasing Laban’s.
41 Whenever the stronger females were ready to mate, Jacob would place the peeled branches in the watering troughs in front of them. Then they would mate in front of the branches. 42 But he didn’t do this with the weaker ones, so the weaker lambs belonged to Laban, and the stronger ones were Jacob’s. 43 As a result, Jacob became very wealthy, with large flocks of sheep and goats, female and male servants, and many camels and donkeys.”
One. When God gives you something, there’s a “figuring it out” stage. God will give you ideas to get through obstacles.
Two. It requires you to think. In Financial Overflow, there is a chapter titled “The Power of Wise Planning.” In this chapter, we reference Proverbs 24:2-4 “A house is built by wisdom and becomes strong through good sense. 4 Through knowledge its rooms are filled with all sorts of precious riches and valuables.” Any enterprise is built by wise planning. If you skip this stage, nothing is ever built. In prayer, believe that the Lord will give you a wise plan!
Three. Remember the principle of the beehive. In life, you are like the bee- taking pollen from many flowers and building your own honeycomb. So you should get around people who are doing what you’re doing successfully. For example, if you are a pastor of a church and you only hang around pastors of small churches, then you will not learn anything about how to grow and glean from their secrets of what strategies worked for them.
The Bible says in Proverbs 13:20 “Walk with the wise and become wise; associate with fools and get in trouble.” If you get around people who are doing what you are wanting to do, and doing it successfully, you will get ideas and you can ask questions.
So remember the principle of the beehive. You are a “bee”, and you want to take “pollen” from as many people as you can to build your “honeycomb”.
Four. You can tweak what God’s given you to do with other people’s ideas, but you cannot build your life on someone else’s idea. People are lazy in prayer and study, and then try to take someone else’s idea and try to implement someone else’s idea into their situation when it’s not the right fit for what God has specifically called you to do. The gospel works everywhere, but the implementation of the gospel is very regional and very cultural. What works in Miami may not necessarily work in Indiana. You can tweak someone else’s idea, but you cannot build your business or your ministry based on someone else’s idea. You have to wait on God to get your own idea.
Five. Your life is going to be defined by whether you ever waited on God or not to get your own idea. God blessed Jacob, but Jacob was not tasting any of the blessings until he got an idea from God that outsmarted and outthought the system. He removed what was keeping him broke. Wherever you live, and wherever you are reading/watching this from, there is a system in place to keep the common man small. But you have the mind of Christ! You have to come up with a thought process that allows you to rise higher than the system. There’s a system in business, religion, and life to keep you small. But God has anointed your mind to outthink and outsmart those limiting systems.
Proverbs 25:2 “It is the glory of God to conceal a thing: but the honor of kings is to search out a matter.” Rather than just reiterate the obstacles in front of you, search out the answers in prayer.
Also, by not drinking alcohol, you can choose to keep your mind in a place where you are receiving ideas from the Lord. There are thinkers and there are drinkers- but you can’t have both. Choose not to partake in something that is going to make your mind placid- choose to keep your mind sharp!
Six. Not only is it important to get your own idea (number five above) but it’s important to continually think and keep tweaking the idea that God has given you. If something used to work, but now doesn’t work, it’s time to change it. You have to keep abreast of the facts. Keep thinking and keep tweaking. There’s always a way to outthink the system.
Seven. Giving opens you up to money-making revelation. Part of the undiscolosed blessing of giving, is that it gives you access to the mind of God as to how to beat the system aligned against you.
Malachi 3:10 “Bring all the tithes into the storehouse so there will be enough food in my Temple. If you do,” says the Lord of Heaven’s Armies, “I will open the windows of heaven for you. I will pour out a blessing so great you won’t have enough room to take it in! Try it! Put me to the test!”
Think of what a window is- it’s the opposite of a wall- you can see through it. A window is for looking through. So when the Bible says that giving opens the windows of heaven- God will actually let you look into His mind and see a way to beat to the system.
Consider Abraham, if you study his time in history, farmers were all nomadic. They led their animals around in search of water and food. Abraham did one thing that set him apart from all other cattle ranchers- he dug wells. This gave him many advantages over the pagan farmers and cattle ranchers. The first advantage was that the land was irrigated. This meant that his land was never affected in any famine. Second, because there were wells, they didn’t have to walk the cattle around in search of food and water, which meant the cattle became fat- which of course is very good as a cattle rancher. So the Philistines had little skinny cows, and Abraham had fatted cows. Third, because the pagans were walking their cattle around all the time, Abraham had a business advantage of being in the same place all the time. God gave Abraham an idea that changed everything. That he didn’t have to wait for the rain, but that there was water under the earth and he could have a spring in the desert. That set Abraham apart.
Part of the blessing of God that opens up to you as a giver is insight. God reveals His secrets to those who have His heart. And the Bible says where your treasure is, there your heart is also. Giving opens you up to money-making revelation.
Eight. Don’t quit. Don’t sell yourself short. You have a God-anointed mind. Whatever hurdle you are facing right now, think your way out of it. The Prodigal Son had a change of season by using his mind. God will honor people who move in the right direction. God honors the king nature that He’s put inside of you! Ask the Lord to help you think. Quit repeating what’s against you, refuse to accept the way things are, and understand that all it takes is ONE divine idea to get you past whatever hurdle you’re facing.
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