Money Level Unlocked | Pastor Micahn Carter | Forward City Church

What's up everybody? We're in the middle of a sermon series entitled Level Up. Today I'm going to be talking about money. Whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa. Don't log off. It's going to be good. We're talking about money level unlocked. And there are some things that you can do to unlock some things that God has for you in your life.

So stay tuned, stick it out, and while you're at it, like, subscribe, and share it with a friend. Love y'all. We're in the middle of a sermon series entitled Level Up. Someone say level up. >> Level up. >> And um I started thinking about this sermon series and leveling up.

And I'm I was born in 1979. So get God almighty, Pastor Jamal. And uh something spectacular happened in the summer of 1986. There was a game that was released on the Nintendo called Super Mario Brothers. I was seven when this game came out. And I remember when my mama got me this system.

And I don't know if I got any gamers in the house. I know I'm old school. I played Atari 2, but this game was so amazing at the time. and you just jumped on mushrooms and shot fireballs at little things that came out of the little tunnel pipe looking thing.

I don't know what it's called. What's it called? We don't know, but it's green. And um one day I went to my cousin's house. Now, mind you, I don't know how this happened because there was no internet. There was no news article that you could get your hands on at the latest moment of things you could do in the game.

But I went to my cousin's house and he was playing the game completely different than the way I was playing the game on level two at the very end when you're supposed to beat the level. He broke this brick and jumped up top and went to a whole another place where you could warp worlds.

I don't know how he found that out. I don't know who told him. There was, like I said, you couldn't say, "Chat GBT, tell me how to cheat on this game. You couldn't Google." Then there was none of that. There was no cell phones. We had a phone that had a long curly q thing attached to the wall and it would eat you if you walked to the kind your mama when she got mad would just unplug it and take it to work with her.

And I remember looking at my cousin like, "How did you do that?" And he said, "Meon, there's a whole another level you just didn't know it was there." >> And so today, I want to talk about a level. >> We're going to talk about money level unlocked. >> Money level >> unlocked.

For some of you, what I'm going to share with you may be elementary. For some of you, it'll be lifechanging. I believe what I'm going to share with you, it'll be something you could watch over and over again to reacquaint yourself with principles that are found in the Bible that you can unlock a money level.

This isn't a get-richqu scheme. This is about the faithfulness of God downloaded into his people that will be found faithful with what he's given to them. And I'm telling you, if you're sick of being broke, if you're tired of the generational curse that could be on your life, if you're overwhelmed with anxiety because you got more bills than you do more money.

If you're exhausted from running the rat race that the culture seems to give you and try to keep up with the Joneses who can't even keep up with themselves, this message is for you. If you want to be someone that you'll look 30 years down the road and be proud of the decisions that you made financially, this message is for you.

If there's a dream in your heart, if there's a business in your heart, if there's something big that God has called you to do, this message is for you. And I got good news. We're not taking another offering so you can relax. Matter of fact, ushers, lock the door.

I'm I'm teasing. I'm teasing. I'm teasing. I'm teasing. I'm teasing. Bring the buckets back. No, I'm teasing. I'm teasing. I'm teasing. We're not taking another offering. So, take the pressure off. I want you to hear this in a way that brings transformation to your soul. >> Cuz that day when I was with my cousin, he started doing things on that game that wasn't even the way the game was supposed to be played.

He's jumping backwards and jumping on a turtle 50,000 times to get unlimited lives. Stuff you're not supposed to do to get bonuses and rewards. And I realized that just like Super Mario, the kingdom has some things. >> That the rest of the world is playing a certain way, but there's another way to play this thing >> to have a money level unlocked.

Father God, anoint my words and help us to live changed by these words. God, I pray we would put our reservations aside. We would put our walls down. And I pray that this word falls on fertile soil. I believe there's people listening to my voice today and later on watching this on YouTube.

That something supernaturally is going to shift in their life and they will never be the same. And God, I pray for those that don't know you as Lord and Savior. God, I pray that the end of this message, by the end of this message, something would shift on the inside of them and they would gladly receive you as Lord and Savior.

Lord, have your way in Jesus mighty name. Amen. >> And amen. Money level unlocked. When I was with my cousin that day, I remember going to the house, my mind was blown because, like I said, he was jumping in directions you're not supposed to be able to jump and sliding under stuff that you're not supposed to be able to slide under and getting unlimited men that I didn't even know you could do.

I just thought you had three lives and you died. But no, he he showed me that there was another way. And the kingdom is just like that. I want to give you a glitch in the kingdom that if you apply this one simple truth to your life, everything could change.

In the kingdom, the way up is down. In the kingdom, the way up is down. Essentially, if you want to level up, you've got to learn to get low. This is something our culture doesn't like to hear because in our culture, everyone's trying to come up, >> right? >> We trying to bubble up.

We trying to be on top. But Jesus tells his disciples one day, "For y'all it should be different. Whoever wants to be the greatest must become the least." He was telling his disciples, "Hey, look, there's a different way to live. You can live like everyone else if you want to, but if you really want to be great, if you really want to level up, the way up is down." >> He says it like this in Matthew 23:12.

He says, "But those who exalt themselves will be humbled. But those that get low, >> those that humble themselves will be exalted. Which had me thinking about the area of our money. And what I started thinking about was there's a difference between stewardship and ownership. >> Stewardship is a principle that says this isn't mine.

It's someone else's, but I am responsible to manage it. I will give an account for what I did with someone else's property. Ownership on the other on the other side says this is mine and I get to do what I want with it. Stewardship versus ownership. Now the thing about ownership is the owner is invested in that thing.

Their interest is in that thing. their backing is in that thing. Let me give you a practical example. So for instance, if I have a car and I say, "Hey, this is my new whatever Rolls-Royce. Go ahead. You could drive it. You can use it for a year.

Take good care of it. Now, if it gets nicked and dinged, I'm going to be invested in it. >> I'm going to make sure my car is taken care of. If the tires go flat, I'm going to pay for the tire to get repaired because it's my investment.

Now, you have a car. I don't know what your car is, but if you wreck it, I don't care. Someone door ding your car at Walmart. Sorry for you, but I really don't care. I know that sounds rude, but the truth is you're the same way towards me because you don't own my car. >> You're not invested in my car.

You're not backing my car. When it's out of gas, you don't come pump it. You say, "Meon, put gas in your car." Dumb dumb. You shouldn't have ran out of gas on the side of the road. But the owner has a vested interest. And here's the thing. This is what the Bible says.

Psalm 24:1. The earth is the Lord's. Not just the globe, but everything in it. The world and all its people belong to him. >> Everything I have, everything I possess, everything I acquire, every part of who I am belongs to God. He's the owner. God, listen to me.

God is calling us to stewardship, not ownership. >> And the problem that some of you have when it comes to money is you're the owner. >> And you don't own much. >> You don't own roads of gold. You don't own unlimited ideas. >> You don't own protection. >> You don't own a cattle on a thousand hills.

You don't own enough. >> I don't even care if you're a billionaire. You don't out own God. >> So here's the question. Do you want the owner to intervene on your behalf? because he has a vested interest >> and he has his own backing and he is wanting a good return.

Or do you want you being the owner to decide how much you can acquire >> and what happens with it >> now? If you don't want anything to change financially, keep being the owner. If you want God to show up, you got to get >> I'm not the owner. >> I don't know what's best for me.

I can't predict the stock market. ((applause)) I don't know how to open up doors for me. I've put in all the applications. I've got the college degree. I don't know how to do anything else. I put money in the stock market. I'm invested. I'm s But God, >> I got to get low because the way up >> is down. >> Okay.

Okay. Okay. Okay. Okay. Okay. Okay. So, so here I'm going to give you three things. Just three things. If you want to unlock the money level in your life, you must do these three things. And they're in order. You can be mad at me. You can not like what I'm going to say, but I'm going to say it anyway.

You'll hear me on the way out. Number one, if you want to unlock the money level, you have to do everything you can to show you trust him. Amen. >> If he's the owner, if he's in control, wouldn't it make sense that God who is control that I would yield my will, my thoughts, my opinions, my desires over to him and say, "God, I trust you >> more than I trust If he has the unlimited bag, >> and he is the one who distributes the bag, >> wouldn't if you were the one that distributes the bag, >> wouldn't you want to give it to someone who trusts you >> with what you did?

Would All right. So, here we go. How do we show we trust them? >> We tithe. >> Once again, there's no more offering buckets coming. >> You can unclench your cheeks right now. There's no surprise offering at the end. There will be no QR code to tell you if you feel led because this is about you leveling up. >> And here's what I need you to do.

I need you to take away every thought you had about every pastor. I need you to take away every thought you've heard about every church. I need you to take away every thought that you had about every I just for a second, please. Please, if you trust God with your soul, >> we know there's been corrupt people and corrupt churches and corrupt pastors, but you're not giving to a church or a pastor.

You're you're saying, "God, I trust you. I don't trust them. I may not even trust Forest City. I may not trust Pastor Travis or Pastor Meon. But God, I'm not giving to them. I'm giving it to you. Listen, >> tithing isn't about your money. >> It's about your trust. >> Who gets to decide? >> Who gets to provide? >> Who gets to show up?

You, Mrs. and Mr. undependable. >> You >> can't even get your budget straight. You >> barely made out of high school. You >> done all you can, but you're still broke at the end of the month. You >> who said when I make six figures that I'll be good, but now you make six figures and you're just as broke as you was with 30,000.

You What are we talking about? And then you come to church and all they do is want your money. You don't say that to Starbucks. >> You don't say that to Nordstrom. You don't say that to Nike. >> And all they want is your money. But God wants to see if you will trust him.

So he makes it clear. Listen, I'm I'm going just keep it real with you. Don't let your clap be louder than your trust. >> Cuz some of us amen better than we obey. ((applause)) >> He says this in Malachi 3:10. He says, "Bring all the tithes into the storehouse so there'll be enough food in my temple."

And if you do this, listen, level unlocked. >> If you do this, says the Lord of Heaven's Army, I will. >> This is God talking, by the way. >> This ain't someone else making you a promise they can't keep. >> This is God. He says, "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. >> It's the only place in the Bible where God allows us to test him. >> Proverbs 3 verse 9 and 10.

Honor the Lord with your wealth and with the best part of everything you produce. >> And then he, >> not your boss, Not the president, >> not the government. He It says he will fill your barns with grain and your vats will overflow with good wine. So what's the tithe?

Because some of us still we've heard that we but what it it's just it's pretty simple. 10% of everything you produce you bring back to God. 10% of every paycheck. >> Not off emotion. >> Not when I feel good about it. >> Not when I got a little extra despair. >> Cuz trust is only tested when you don't have enough.

Trust is only tested when you've thought of another way >> and are tr wanting to try another way. >> But when you get low, >> you say, "Woo, I've been trying my way for the past 30 years. >> I think it's time that I trust you." when I feel like it.

When I don't. >> When it's easy, when it's hard, when I know I'm getting ready to go on vacation cuz I got a bonus. And when I'm not sure how I'm gonna make it out this month, tithing is not tipping. >> I don't give to God because he's been good >> or he did good >> or I got a raise.

I give to God because I'm trying to announce to heaven that I don't trust this. I trust you. >> And when we do everything we can to demonstrate to God that we trust him, there is a commanded blessing when we recognize him as the owner. >> Let me say it like this.

Every dollar you make, he's asking you to manage it. You are not the owner. >> And if you manage his property well, he will take care of you. He will supply all your needs, the grain. He'll give you good wine, which means you'll have stuff to enjoy, not just stuff to pay your bills.

If you recognize that I am not the owner, you don't own your time. >> You don't own your talent. Everything is on loan to us from >> And if you ever get ahead of yourself, >> he could knock you right off your feet whenever. And not only listen to me, listen to me.

I'm trying to say this. I got I got some other stuff I need to give to you. But not only does he bless, but there's also commanded protection. >> And some of us, what we need is not more blessing. We need more protection >> because we found a way to get it in our hands, but it keeps sliding through our fingers. car breaking down and water heaters going out and the roof got to be repaired and I lost my job and all these other things and some of what you need God for the owner because he's invested in the things he owns.

He wants to make sure it's protected. >> Number one, we got to get low. And the first thing we do, this has to be in order. If you don't do number one, number two and number three won't work. So, some of you are going to try to cheat the system and do number two and number three.

And I'm just telling you, you're under a curse. ((applause)) >> That's what Malachi chapter 3 says. You are robbing God. >> Okay? >> Number one, do everything you can to show you trust him. Number two, do everything you can to show you are trustworthy. >> So, it's one thing to say, "God, I trust you."

It's another thing to say, "God, you can trust me." >> And if he's the owner and I'm clear that he's the owner, then I have to make decisions that would make the owner happy. >> And my decisions demonstrate to God that he can either trust me or he can't.

Luke 16:10, it says, "If you are faithful in little things, you will be faithful in larger ones. But if you are dishonest in little things, you won't be honest with greater responsibility." >> So, here's what we need to do. Here's how you show God, I'm trustworthy. I'm going to give you some practical things.

Be responsible. Let me give make it real plain. Show up to work on time. and ready. Let me rewind. Get a job. >> Let me start there. >> Eating Doritos in the bedroom at your mama's house where she pays all the bills. Don't make your mama tell you it's time to go be a man and get a job. >> Be responsible.

Show up to work on time and ready. Work hard. And when I say work hard, I'm not talking about exhausting yourself. >> I'm talking about improving the area that God has called you to steward. ((applause)) If you make coffee, make it good with a smile. If you give oil changes, make sure the most fastest, most efficient oil changes.

If you work at a restaurant, make sure your people never have to ask for a drink. Why? Because I'm not just working hard. I'm working smart. I'm doing everything as unto the Lord. Here's one. >> Pay your bills on time. >> Not three days late, not next month, not next year.

If it's on the 5th, pay it on the fourth. >> Well, why would I do that? Why would I do that? So you can show God, >> God, you gave me this bill and you can trust me because your name is on this check. >> And if I don't pay it on time, I'm showing the world that you ain't on time.

So God, if I'm going to be a reflection of you, then I got to pay this thing on time because you would never be late, God. So because you would never be late. And if you can't pay it on time, then it's probably not a bill you should have.

((music playing)) >> You can't pay them couches on time. You probably shouldn't have bought those couches. You probably should have got a different couch on Facebook Marketplace. You probably should have just took a hand-me-down until you could save up the money for the couch because you can't pay for it on ((applause)) If you're going to be responsible, watch this.

You got to have a plan for the money he gave you. >> Can I tell you what that plan is called? >> A budget. Do you even know where the money's supposed to go? >> Or when you get it, you just I don't know. I just there here everywhere.

Boom. It's gone. >> I don't know about you, but if I was the owner of something, I would like to see where my investment >> is going. It's called a P&L. And if you have a business, you have profits and losses. And you use that to find out if people are stealing from you, if we're being efficient, if we're being taken advantage of.

Where can we cut? Where can we be more wise with our money? And as an owner, I reward the manager who manages my investment the best. Those are called bonuses >> and raises >> and God is looking for some people >> that just won't put money in the offering to say I trust you but will say God you can trust. >> So let me give you a simple budget if you don't have one.

Now this is this is bare minimum. This is starter budget. These percentages can change, >> but I'm going make it very simple for you. 10% to God. >> Some of you should be writing this down. You need to get this in your 10% to God. 10% to your future.

This is savings. >> The Bible says a good man leaves an inheritance to his children's >> children, not a debt, not a funeral bill. an inheritance to his children children which means I have to be planning >> for my legacy. >> So I can't spend every I can't eat every crop I get.

I have to invest in the f 10% to God first >> not last. I trust you God. 10% to my future and then 80% you live on it. You pay your bills. You go to a movie. You buy your purse. Now, if you can't do that, you need to figure out and get back to the drawing board and reorder your life. >> So, you can >> when I was, I don't know, 22 years old, maybe.

Now, now, mind you, I I want to tell you, I'm I'm not I'm not I'm not selling something I ain't smoking, >> right? >> Okay. Some of y'all knew what I meant. The others of you like, "What? >> I've been tithing since I was 18." Me and my wife have never missed.

Not because we're good, but because we just made a common practice to do this when we had jobs, when we got fired from jobs, >> when we had a lot of money, when we were drowning in debt, when we wanted to go on vacation and didn't have money for vacation where I wanted new clothes and couldn't afford new clothes >> and if we ever were a week late I promise you April Carter done made up for it >> because she does not let us miss now this 10% 10% 80% we've lived on that and those percents have changed now we give more than 10% we save more than 10% which means we're living on less than 80% %.

But I remember a day when we were probably 22 years old and um I remember we're in my house and I looked at my house. We had bought a new house $87,000 $89,000. The good old days 80 good Lord $89,000. And we bought the house and um and uh one day we were like we need to go get new furniture.

So, we went to the furniture store and we just picked out whatever we could pick. It had 0% interest. We just picked everything. It didn't come for 12 weeks, so we just had camping chairs in the living room till it came. But, I mean, we picked everything. We bought new carpet.

Put put that on the credit card. Put the new carpet on the credit card. Got a new stove. Got a new washer and dryer. Got a new refrigerator. All on 0% interest or low interest rate or something. and April, we she got pregnant with our second son, Elijah, the guy who plays the electric guitar.

And something in her mind said, "I need a Suburban now. I need a Suburban cuz I'm going to have seven kids one day, so I need a Suburban." And we had just bought a new car. And so, she's like, "This car is too small. We need a Suburban."

So, we go buy this Suburban, and we're now in this Suburban, and she got her Suburban, and we got all this. And I remember walking into my house one day, and I looked around and I said, "I own nothing. This carpet, it ain't mine. >> This stove ain't mine. >> This bed that I sleep on >> ain't mine.

These drawers with my clothes in it ain't mine. This couch that I'm sitting on, it ain't mine. And something switched in me and said, I'm not going to live like that. Not one more day. >> So, we went to the car lot and I took that Suburban back and I bought this nice Suburban.

It was nice and I owed a lot of money on it. And I went and bought a $3,000 Nissan Sentra that was 10 years old. >> Ultima, >> a Ultima. And I had to carry over $7,000 because I was upside down in my suburban. >> But I said, "I'm getting out of debt." >> I had extra Xboxes.

I sold those. I had gold chains. I sold those. Anything extra that I could have, I sold it so I could pay off that car, paid off that house, paid off the carpet, paid off the couch, paid off the thing. And still to this day, I don't have a car payment.

I'm not living in debt. And we did that at 22. >> Enough's enough. What I'm telling you is you got to make a decision that if this is God's and he can trust me with it, I need to say back to him, I am trustworthy. So here's here's what you do.

You get out of debt >> and you stay out of debt. Romans 13:8, "Owe nothing to anyone." >> Another translation says, "Oweow no debt to no man except for your obligation to love one another. And if you love your neighbor, you will fulfill the requirements of God's law."

If you want to show God that you could be trustworthy, be responsible, but also don't be wasteful, >> let me give you a term this will help you. Act your wage. >> Let me say it again cuz some of y'all didn't hear me. I I didn't say act your age.

I said act your wage. You make $30,000, you don't need a Gucci bag. At your wage. >> What? You got a BMW in a driveway, but you don't even own your house. At >> your wage. Your purse is worth more than what's in it. At >> your wage, >> man.

When we were married and my wife was a stay-at-home mom, I think I was making $30,000, which is not I'm not shaming $30,000. You make $30,000. Amen. But for a family of four on one income, that's a stretch. No matter what decade you were living in, >> and our clothes budget >> was $25 a month. >> You know what you can get for $25?

Nothing. So, you'd have to save up four months before you could go buy something. Or you had to get everything on clearance. Or you got everything from a friend, a hand-me-down as a grown man. Ain't no shame on my game cuz I ain't going to be in debt to no man. >> I'll go to the Goodwill.

I don't care. >> Everyone from church was going out to eat after church. You know where me and my wife was going? Home for the 10 for 10 hamburger helper. And we were making them hamburger helpers like they were gourmet meals. Some top ramen and grilled cheese goes a long way.

((applause)) >> But even in that process, >> we budgeted giving not just to the Lord >> but to others. Don't live beyond your means. >> Can I give you one tool to show God you're trustworthy? And this will I promise you if you just learn this simple tool, this will help you save a lot of money.

It's called the discipline of not right now. >> I would like that car >> and I can afford that car. But not right now. >> I remember this was a couple years ago. Me and my wife were working in the finance industry and a friend of mine just bought a Cybert truck, a brand new Cybert truck.

They had just came out and uh my wife was like, we got in it. She goes, "If you want this, you can get it." And I looked at her and I was like, "Thank you, babe. I appreciate you, but not right now." There's something powerful >> when you can >> but I don't have to. >> There's something powerful when you realize the season of your life and what God has called you to >> and you can make a decision based on your future, not on your present. >> I would really like a bigger house one day, but just not right now.

I really would like that purse one day, but just not right now. I would really like that TV, but just not right now. This one's working just fine. I'd really like to get some more clothes, but just not right now. I want a new pair of glasses. They're like $400, but not right now.

My prescription is the same. and these frames still >> cuz the truth is when you do get to a place where you can get it, I've had cheap shoes and expensive shoes. >> You know what the difference is? Nothing. ((applause)) ((music playing)) I've had real gold and fake gold. You know what the difference is? >> Fake, baby.

Fake. I ain't paying no $5,000 for this. You crazy. Fake. This gold watch was $39 on Amazon. Holl at your boy. Why? Cuz I ain't going to press not not one of you. I know the difference of what it means to have something and what it means to have nothing.

And I ain't going to be in debt to nobody. All right. All right. I told you I'm giving you three things. Is this helping anybody? >> Number one, do everything you can to show God you trust him. Number two, do everything you can to show God you are trustworthy.

Number three, do everything you can to show you care about what he cares about. >> The first one is about trust. The second one is about stewardship. And the third one is about generosity. Because God is looking for conduits. >> He's looking for vessels he can pour into that will pour out. >> And if you care about the things he cares about, he will release more to you because you care about what he cares about. 1 Timothy 6:1 17-19 says this, "Teach those who are rich in this world not to be proud and not to trust in their money, >> which is so unreliable.

Their trust should be in God who richly gives us all we need for our enjoyment." And tell them to use their money to do good. They should be rich in good works and generous to those in need, always being ready to share with others. By doing this, they will be storing up treasure as a good foundation for the future so they may have experienced true life.

Money level unlocked. Show God you trust him. Show God you're trustworthy and show him you care about what he cares about. What does that mean? Live a generous life. Don't live to impress. These people we're trying to impress. Don't have a heaven or hell to put us in.

I'm not telling you to not like nice things. You like nice things. And if it's in your budget, go on with your bad self. Get whatever you want. >> You can afford a Rolls-Royce. Go ahead and get it. Cuz God said he'd give you grain and good wine.

And he's not mad about you having stuff. >> He just gets frustrated when stuff has. >> You have heaven on your mind. >> Remember, I'm a steward. I'm not an owner. >> So God, you have heaven on your mind. This stuff we try to acquire here on earth, we fight and scratch and claw to get is dirt in heaven.

The streets are paved, which means it has no value. >> But yet here we keep trying to chase the thing we're supposed to ((applause)) >> use what you have >> to love God >> and to love people. You're a steward. Everything you have, use it for the kingdom. your house.

You got to open it up. Fill it with people that you can care for, that you can love, that you can encourage, that you can console. And and I don't I don't trust nobody in my house. It's not your house. >> Whose house? >> That car. Use it to love God. and love people.

Pick people up. Taking them to church. >> Get in it. Go to a friend's house. >> Take some food over there when they're sick. >> Check in on them. See how they're doing. You take that car, you drive to a special place to go get a get well soon card that you go home and send in the mail.

You get in that car and you go to work and use that transportation to be a vessel of the church outside. And so when you get to your job, you get there with a smile, happy and thankful that God has entrusted me to be a representation of him here.

That skill that God has given you, use it to love God and to love others. >> That business that you have, >> open the doors of it. hire people that the world won't take a chance on, but because you're kingdom- minded, you hire people that are a liability because you believe that God can redeem anything. >> This brain that you have, use it creatively to find ways to advance the kingdom. >> When you feel prompted, give generous to the poor. help the sick and shut in, >> the widows, the prisoners.

Because the Bible says when we do it to the least of them, we've done it unto him. And here's what's crazy. You know what the Bible says? I'm not going to quote it for you, but I'm just going to tell you the principle. God will give you more when you care about what he cares about.

There's three things. I trust you. I don't know what's best for my money, God. You do. I'm not going to make all the decisions, God. I'm a steward of what you've entrusted to me. Number one, so I'm going to tithe. I'm going to give. I'm going to bring it to God.

Number two, I'm going to show that I'm trustworthy. I'm going to work hard. I'm going to be example on my job. I'm going to do my best. I'm going to be educated. I'm going to learn how to budget. I'm going to apply some principles to my life. I'm going to learn how to get out of debt.

I'm going to try my best to pay my bills on time. I'm going to be a man of my word, a woman of my word. I'm going to do my best. I'm going to show myself to be trustworthy. I'm going to show that you can trust me with these resources and I will do good with it.

And then not only that, but God, what you put in my hand after I give unto you and after I save for my future and while I'm planning out what I'm doing with my resources, God, when you're ready, I'm ready to release it to your people for the kingdom.

When you're ready, I'm ready to build and advance what you're building and advancing. God, when you're ready, I'mma pay for that kid to go to college. God, when you're ready, I'm going to help that lady who's going through cancer. God, when you're ready, when their washer breaks down, I'm going to be able to buy the washing machine.

God, when you're ready, I'm going to be the one giving people cars. God, when you're ready, I'm going to be the one giving people houses. God, when you're ready, why? Because you trust me with this $5 for this person that was begging on the side of the road.

And I said, I'm worthy. I'm trustworthy, God. You could trust me with this. Could you trust in me with this money? And I said, God, whatever you want to do. ((music playing)) It's a money level. Generosity is not an emotion. It's not an emotional event. It's a lifestyle. Everyone standing to your feet.

Well, hey, I hope you enjoyed the message. Make sure you're doing the things. Make sure you're doing everything you can to trust God. Make sure you're doing everything you can to show that you're trustworthy and that you care about what he cares about. And I promise you, God will unlock some things in your life.

There's a whole different way of doing this. You're going to do great. God bless you.