I’m Joseph Z, and I want to share with you a very quick story about how my wife and I broke out of poverty and lack and challenge. And I think it’s going to really help you because you might be going through a struggle right now, a challenge and a difficulty that seems impossible. As a matter of fact, with the way the world’s going and how things are, you could look at it and it could be a little bit discouraging for you or anyone that you know, because of the way the trend is with the world system.
But here’s what I’d like to say to you. There was a time in our life, my wife and I, that we were so broke we couldn’t afford to pay attention. And in that same moment, I remember we were in a meeting and the Spirit of the Lord began to speak to me and my wife and I, Heather, we began to have an agreement, that if God ever spoke to us about giving money or sowing into ministry, that we would just do it. We had nothing to lose, and we had faith building in our heart.
We were in a meeting one time and I’ll never forget. There was a preacher preaching and we were high up in a balcony. And suddenly I felt the word of God come to me in my heart, speak to me and say, “You know, Joseph, why don’t you go ahead and give?” And when I turned to tell my wife, Heather, “Hey, let’s give,” I looked at her and you know what? She wasn’t there. She was gone. She had heard the same word that I heard. All of a sudden, the next thing I know, I’m looking for her. I didn’t know where she was, but we had an agreement. If we get a word, we don’t even have to ask permission. So I look over the balcony and I see my beautiful wife walking down the aisle of this enormous meeting. And she walked up to the front steps and began to go up the steps. Now this is one of those meetings, you know, where the preachers have security and people. And, it’s like the secret service of ministry where they’ve got the earpiece, “Okay, watch it, watch it.” And I thought to myself as she’s going up the steps, “Oh no, honey, they’re going to take you down. They’re going to take you down, honey.” And there’s nothing I can do about it. And then I’ll tell you, I actually thought, “Oh no, what is she doing, and what am I going to do about it? “She went up the steps boldly. She had an offering in her hand, our last hundred dollars. She went up and slapped it on the podium of this preacher while they were preaching. And as she did, she came down, nobody attacked her. She stepped away and I’ll tell you, she came back to where we were, but it was in that moment that suddenly we started a domino effect of breakthrough.
We gave and suddenly some resources came to us in the same amount. And we gave again, and we started a momentum until we began to, over a series of events, give our way out of lack and poverty. And I’ll tell you, with two little children and full-time ministry and all the things we were doing, it was a miracle what God began to do for us. Let me share a scripture with you. It says in Proverbs 10:22, “It is the blessing of the LORD that makes one rich, and He adds no sorrow with it.” I want to say this to you right now. Please hear me wherever you are. You may be saying, “I need to accomplish something here. I need to get victory there. I need enough resources to accomplish what God has called me to do, or just pay my bills right now.” And here’s what the word of God is saying. It’s saying so clearly to you. It is the blessing that makes you rich with no sorrow added to it. And the way you evoke or get the blessing activated in your life is by giving.
When you try to get God’s blessing to function, or you try to get resources without the blessing activated with giving and sowing and reaping, you’re in danger of operating in mammon. And mammon is simply man’s need for money without God. It means you have money, but not God involved in it. But the blessing is different than mammon. When you give and you sow and you reap, what begins to happen is the blessing will overtake you. But notice it says, “It’s the blessing of the LORD that makes you rich,” or it begins to provide for you “with no sorrow added to it.” God wants you to do well. He wants you to increase and He wants no sorrow added to it.
And you start by sowing today. Get ahold of the word of God, begin to practice it, mix it with your faith. And I promise you, you will break out of your shackles, 30, 60, and 100 fold. In Isaiah 10:27 it says so. The anointing, the fatness of the growth of your life will begin to grow where it breaks the yoke, but it does it in three ways: 30, 60, and 100 fold. The anointing will lift the yoke off your shoulder and Isaiah 10:27, as it says, then the anointing will cause the yoke to stretch off your neck from the growth of your neck, and you can begin to turn and see where you are. And ultimately at a hundred fold, the anointing will burst the yoke off, destroying it, making it no more use to you or anyone else. In other words, you will outgrow your bondage. You’ll become so prosperous and so victorious with what God’s called you to do, that the blessing of the Lord will make you rich and you’ll outgrow the yoke and there’ll be no sorrow added to it, and it’ll snap it right off your neck. I encourage you today. Get in God’s economy and get out of hell’s economy, and watch God begin to break you through. It worked for us. I know it’ll work for you. Jesus is Lord. I’m Joseph Z, and I hope to see you again very soon.
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