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  1. 0:01Hey Bible nerds, this is Dr. Manny
  2. 0:02Orango. Welcome to the Bible department
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  9. 0:25Family, welcome to day 273.
  10. 0:28Today we are going to look at three of
  11. 0:30David's Psalms. We've got Psalms 63,64
  12. 0:34and 65. If you've already done the
  13. 0:37reading and we are going to dive in, I
  14. 0:40think that the content today is going to
  15. 0:41be super helpful. These Psalms
  16. 0:43definitely minister to me in my alone
  17. 0:45time, in my private time as I was
  18. 0:47reading through these Psalms. These
  19. 0:49Psalms personally resonated with me.
  20. 0:51I've been reading Psalm 63 specifically
  21. 0:54since I was like a teenager. So, I
  22. 0:55really, really love Psalm 63. I've got a
  23. 0:58lot of things to share with you
  24. 0:59regarding all these Psalms, but
  25. 1:01definitely Psalm 63 in particular. So,
  26. 1:05if you have not done the reading, hey,
  27. 1:07go do the reading for the day. Honestly,
  28. 1:10it should take you less than 10 minutes.
  29. 1:12I mean, Psalm 64 is really short. Psalm
  30. 1:1563 is short. Psalm 65 is the longest of
  31. 1:17the three, but it shouldn't take you
  32. 1:19long to get the reading done. How about
  33. 1:21you go get the reading done so that you
  34. 1:22have context for everything that we're
  35. 1:24going to talk about on today's episode.
  36. 1:26All right, like every day, we are going
  37. 1:29to start with context clues. We're going
  38. 1:31to look at the historical, cultural,
  39. 1:33linguistic, literary context of the
  40. 1:36Psalms. We're going to try to situate
  41. 1:38these words or this content inside of
  42. 1:41some context and then I'll give you as
  43. 1:43many nerdy nuggets as I got and we'll
  44. 1:45leave with a timeless truth. All right,
  45. 1:49let's dive into context. All right,
  46. 1:51Psalm 63. We're actually going to get a
  47. 1:54heading that's going to give us a little
  48. 1:55bit of context. It says this, uh, Psalm
  49. 1:58of David, when he was in the desert of
  50. 2:01Judah. Okay, in the desert of Judah.
  51. 2:03Now, there are two possibilities for
  52. 2:06when David was in the desert of Judah.
  53. 2:09Okay, the first possibility uh or the
  54. 2:12first option is when David was hiding in
  55. 2:15the cave with Saul. Okay, remember
  56. 2:18that's 1st Samuel chapter 24:es 1-2 and
  57. 2:21that is the context of Psalm 57. Okay,
  58. 2:25so about six Psalms ago, probably a
  59. 2:27couple of days ago, Psalms 57, David was
  60. 2:30out in the desert. Okay, but the desert
  61. 2:33that he was in meant that he was in a
  62. 2:35cave where he could have killed Saul,
  63. 2:36but he chose not to. And then the second
  64. 2:39option for context, cuz again, the
  65. 2:41heading only says when he was in the
  66. 2:44desert of Judah. Well, there's multiple
  67. 2:45times in David's life where he's in the
  68. 2:47desert. So, we're trying to narrow it
  69. 2:49down to figure out which context fits
  70. 2:52the scenario the best. And the second
  71. 2:55option is actually going to be 2 Samuel
  72. 2:5715:23
  73. 2:58when David is forced out of Jerusalem by
  74. 3:02his son Abselum who's trying to usurp
  75. 3:05the throne. So, the context is either
  76. 3:09that David is out in the wilderness on
  77. 3:12the run from Saul or that he's on the
  78. 3:14run from Abselum. This is either early
  79. 3:17in David's life or later in David's
  80. 3:19life. We're going to figure out which
  81. 3:20one it is. All right. Psalm 64 has no
  82. 3:25context that is clearly discernible. All
  83. 3:28that we have as a heading is for the
  84. 3:30director of music, a psalm of David.
  85. 3:32That's all we got for Psalm 64. Now,
  86. 3:35most people are going to see a lot of
  87. 3:38similarities between Psalm 64 and a lot
  88. 3:42of the other on ther run psalms. Okay? I
  89. 3:45would say the on ther run psalms are
  90. 3:47these psalms from early in David's life
  91. 3:50where he's fleeing from King Saul and
  92. 3:53he's out in the wilderness or out in the
  93. 3:56desert and just running for his life.
  94. 3:57And we're going to look at the clues as
  95. 4:00to why that could be the context for
  96. 4:02Psalm 64. And then lastly, Psalm 65. We
  97. 4:06don't have a ton of context for.
  98. 4:07However, we've got literary context. We
  99. 4:10don't have historical or cultural
  100. 4:11context, but we've got literary context.
  101. 4:14And this is a psalm of praise. This is a
  102. 4:18hymn of praise. This is I love Psalm 65.
  103. 4:22And so, we've got a psalm where David is
  104. 4:26clearly on the run, scared for his life.
  105. 4:28It could be that he's on the run from
  106. 4:30Saul. Could be that he's on the run from
  107. 4:31Abselum. We'll look at both. And then
  108. 4:34we've got probably another on the run
  109. 4:36psalm from David's uh younger years
  110. 4:39where he's running from Saul. And then
  111. 4:41we've got a hymn of praise for our three
  112. 4:44psalms today. All right, let's dive into
  113. 4:46some nerdy nuggets. We're just going to
  114. 4:48kind of move through the text. Okay,
  115. 4:49I'll start at Psalm 63. And you, God,
  116. 4:53are my God. Earnestly I seek you. I
  117. 4:56thirst for you. So the first metaphor we
  118. 4:59get right out of the gate is I thirst
  119. 5:01for you. Now, the context for where
  120. 5:04David is at this point is huge because
  121. 5:08David is out in the desert. And I love
  122. 5:09this that David's response to being out
  123. 5:14in a dry, barren, desert land is not I
  124. 5:18thirst for water. It's I thirst for God.
  125. 5:21Okay? David is definitely using the
  126. 5:25context that surrounds him to inspire
  127. 5:28him on how to communicate with the Lord.
  128. 5:31Okay, so the words that David is
  129. 5:34speaking cannot be disconnected from the
  130. 5:38context in which David is sitting. Okay,
  131. 5:40he is in the desert and once you begin
  132. 5:43to realize that makes all the difference
  133. 5:44in the world. Okay, I thirst for you.
  134. 5:48Many of us would assume he's about to
  135. 5:49say, "I thirst for water." No, no, no. I
  136. 5:53thirst for you. My whole being longs for
  137. 5:58you. In a dry and parched land where
  138. 6:01there is no water. Okay, so right there,
  139. 6:03he he lets us know where he's at. He's
  140. 6:06in a dry and parched land where there is
  141. 6:08no water. And in the middle of the worst
  142. 6:11situation, what am I longing for, God?
  143. 6:14What am I thirsty for, God? Then I could
  144. 6:17move into a timeless truth right there.
  145. 6:19Because how many times are we in
  146. 6:21situations where there's no provision
  147. 6:23and the thing we're longing for is
  148. 6:25provision that there is no protection.
  149. 6:27The thing that we're longing for is
  150. 6:28protection. But actually in moments
  151. 6:30where there's lack, God is saying, "How
  152. 6:33about you long after me?" Because if you
  153. 6:36get me, you get everything else that you
  154. 6:38need. Okay? And now I I just want to
  155. 6:40kind of give you a barrage of how much
  156. 6:44of a sensory descriptive episode we're
  157. 6:47getting. Okay. I have seen you in the
  158. 6:49sanctuary. Okay. Seen and beheld your
  159. 6:53power and your glory. Seen, beheld. So,
  160. 6:56we're activating the eyes because your
  161. 6:58love is better than life. My lips will
  162. 7:02glorify you. So, we've gone from eyes
  163. 7:04seen and beheld to my lips. I will
  164. 7:07praise you as long as I live in your
  165. 7:10name. I will lift up my hands. This is
  166. 7:14think about how many body parts are
  167. 7:16involved here. Okay, David is saying
  168. 7:18that true worship or true worship
  169. 7:21encapsulates all the senses. It's it's
  170. 7:24it's taste, touch, feel, see. It's it's
  171. 7:27all of it. Okay. And sometimes I think
  172. 7:30we can get this understanding that you
  173. 7:33know God is to all to be only
  174. 7:35experienced spiritually. But David is
  175. 7:38actually saying no God isn't to only be
  176. 7:42experienced spiritually. But there's a
  177. 7:45physical experience that should
  178. 7:47accompany a spiritual reality. A
  179. 7:50physical experience that should
  180. 7:52accompany a spiritual reality. And what
  181. 7:54is that physical experience? God, I want
  182. 7:57to see you. I want to behold you. I want
  183. 7:59my lips to praise you. I want to lift up
  184. 8:02my hands. It's funny. I was actually in
  185. 8:06a conversation with my therapist and
  186. 8:07they were talking through just how
  187. 8:10transformation happens in a person. And
  188. 8:12they kind of drew this diagram for me
  189. 8:14that um there's this triangle between
  190. 8:17your feelings, your thoughts, and your
  191. 8:19behavior. Feelings, thoughts, behavior.
  192. 8:22And he said you can introduce change to
  193. 8:24any of those three. that it's our
  194. 8:27feelings that really begin to produce
  195. 8:29our thoughts and those thoughts produce
  196. 8:31behaviors. Okay. But they said a lot of
  197. 8:35times people want if if they're
  198. 8:37struggling with anxiety or depression,
  199. 8:39they will want to, you know, enter new
  200. 8:42thoughts, okay, get new thoughts, which
  201. 8:44then are going to have an impact on the
  202. 8:46feelings and then ultimately it's going
  203. 8:48to change behavior. But my therapists
  204. 8:51are saying you could actually do the
  205. 8:54opposite way and instead of just waiting
  206. 8:56to feel better, you just start going to
  207. 8:58the gym. So you introduce a new
  208. 9:01behavior. You introduce something that
  209. 9:04makes your body do something different.
  210. 9:08And my therapists are saying it's just
  211. 9:10as effective to introduce a behavior
  212. 9:14because that behavior, believe it or
  213. 9:16not, is going to begin to release
  214. 9:18dopamine and serotonin and all kinds of
  215. 9:20good chemicals which are going to give
  216. 9:22you different feelings which are going
  217. 9:24to lead to new thoughts that sometimes
  218. 9:27in the western world which is so heavily
  219. 9:29dominated by the transformation of the
  220. 9:32mind that we can sometimes think the
  221. 9:35only way that transformation can happen
  222. 9:37by introducing some new thoughts which
  223. 9:39change our feelings which change our
  224. 9:40behavior. But my therapists are saying,
  225. 9:42"Well, really, you could change behavior
  226. 9:45which change feelings which change
  227. 9:48thoughts." And I recently told the
  228. 9:51entire worship team at our church, I
  229. 9:53said, "Isn't it cool that on Sunday
  230. 9:55mornings we actually get to do both?
  231. 9:57We're asking people to lift up their
  232. 9:59hands even before they fully surrender
  233. 10:02to God mentally or emotionally. But then
  234. 10:05in the sermon, what we're doing is we're
  235. 10:07trying to change people's minds. We're
  236. 10:10trying to cause them to repent. We are
  237. 10:12teaching people to reach their minds,
  238. 10:15but we're preaching to them to reach
  239. 10:16their hearts. And worship is kind of top
  240. 10:20down. It It's saying, "No, let's get
  241. 10:22people to do a different behavior so
  242. 10:24they could feel different and think
  243. 10:26different." And then the preaching is
  244. 10:27getting people to think different so
  245. 10:29they could feel different and behave
  246. 10:30different. And I told the worship team,
  247. 10:32"We're a tag team duo." Okay, I'm going
  248. 10:35to tackle the thoughts and the feelings
  249. 10:37and then ultimately challenge people to
  250. 10:39change their behavior. But guess what
  251. 10:41you guys get to do? And before I ever
  252. 10:43get up the stage, you're challenging
  253. 10:45behavior, which is ultimately going to
  254. 10:46challenge feelings and thoughts. And one
  255. 10:50way is not better than the other. We are
  256. 10:52a team. And so I just want you to see
  257. 10:54how physical of a reality this spiritual
  258. 11:00moment of worship is. Okay? I want to
  259. 11:03see you. I want to behold you. My lips
  260. 11:06are going to praise you. My hands are
  261. 11:09going to be raised. I will be fully
  262. 11:11satisfied as with the richest of foods.
  263. 11:15That's a metaphor, right? That that this
  264. 11:17is like the presence of God is something
  265. 11:19I'm consuming. With singing lips, my
  266. 11:22mouth will praise you. It's very very
  267. 11:24physical. On my bed, I remember you. So
  268. 11:28now I'm activating the mind. Okay. I
  269. 11:30think of you through the watch of the
  270. 11:32night because you are my help. I sing in
  271. 11:35the shadow of your wings. I cling to
  272. 11:38you. Your right hand upholds me. So what
  273. 11:42does what does lurggical corporate
  274. 11:46worship do? It causes people who have
  275. 11:49had an experience congregationally with
  276. 11:52God's presence to remember the Lord, to
  277. 11:56think of him through the watch of the
  278. 11:59night. So it says, "Those who want to
  279. 12:01kill me will be destroyed. They will go
  280. 12:03down to the depths of the earth. They
  281. 12:04will be given over to the sword and
  282. 12:06become food for jackals. But the king
  283. 12:08will rejoice in God." All right. Now,
  284. 12:10the big million-dollar question is which
  285. 12:12king? And I would say that when we get
  286. 12:16to chapter 63 or Psalm 63:1,
  287. 12:20that king that's being talked about
  288. 12:21there is not Solomon, but the king
  289. 12:23that's being spoken about there is
  290. 12:25David. Which means I would make the
  291. 12:28context for this psalm when David was
  292. 12:31fleeing from Abselum. Okay, because of
  293. 12:33this verse. But the king will rejoice in
  294. 12:36God. Which king? I don't think he's
  295. 12:38talking about Saul. I think he's talking
  296. 12:40about himself. Okay. All right. Psalm
  297. 12:4364. This is a good on therun psalm.
  298. 12:46Okay. Let's get some nerdy nuggets out
  299. 12:47of here. Why? Why do I think this is a
  300. 12:49good on the run psalm? Well, because
  301. 12:51David is literally complaining about his
  302. 12:55enemies. Listen to the first words of
  303. 12:56the song. Hear me, my God, as I voice my
  304. 12:59complaint. He's like, "Hey, look, man. I
  305. 13:01got some complaints." All right. Hear
  306. 13:03me, God, as I voice my complaint.
  307. 13:04Protect my life from the threat of the
  308. 13:06enemy. Hide me from the conspiracy of
  309. 13:08the wicked and the plots of evildoers.
  310. 13:11Right? We've already read multiple
  311. 13:13psalms where people are stitching on
  312. 13:15David. They are reporting him to King
  313. 13:18Saul. Okay? So, I think now Psalm 64 is
  314. 13:22back in the past. We we so I think Psalm
  315. 13:2663 is about Abselum when David's old. I
  316. 13:28think Psalm 64 is about Saul when David
  317. 13:32is a young man. So again, it's a
  318. 13:34reminder the Psalms are not organized
  319. 13:36based on any kind of chronology. Okay.
  320. 13:40They sharpen their tongues like swords
  321. 13:42and aim crew words like deadly arrows. I
  322. 13:46just think that's amazing imagery. What
  323. 13:50good? What? Like that's like that's a
  324. 13:52good lyric, man. That's that's strong.
  325. 13:55They sharpen their tongues like swords.
  326. 13:59It's the words that people are using.
  327. 14:02They're sharpening their tongues like
  328. 14:03swords. They encourage each other in
  329. 14:05evil plans. They talk about hiding their
  330. 14:08snares. They say, "Who will see it?"
  331. 14:11They plot injustice and say, "We have
  332. 14:14devised a perfect plan. Surely the human
  333. 14:16mind in heart are cunning. So verse 8
  334. 14:21says this and I think this is um the law
  335. 14:23of sewing and reaping like right here in
  336. 14:26Psalm 64. It says he will turn Yahweh
  337. 14:30okay will turn their own tongues against
  338. 14:33them that they are seeking to destroy
  339. 14:36other people with their words but really
  340. 14:38what they are doing is they're
  341. 14:40destroying themselves with their words.
  342. 14:43Okay. he will turn their own tongues
  343. 14:46against them. And so seriously, this
  344. 14:48isn't my Thomas truth for the day, but
  345. 14:50if you struggle with gossip, just know
  346. 14:52that you're not actually tearing another
  347. 14:53person down. You're tearing yourself
  348. 14:55down. And if if you sharpen your tongue
  349. 14:59like a sword to speak negatively or to
  350. 15:03speak harmfully towards other people,
  351. 15:06ultimately you're going to reap what
  352. 15:07you've seown. And you're sowing words
  353. 15:10all the time. And you can't sew negative
  354. 15:13words and think that other people are
  355. 15:15going to reap it. You're not primarily
  356. 15:17just hurting them. You're actually
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  379. 16:18back to the episode. Okay, let's go to
  380. 16:20Psalm 65 and kind of look at our last
  381. 16:24couple of nerdy nuggets. Okay. Um Psalm
  382. 16:2665. It's going to start. I love this
  383. 16:29psalm. Praise awaits you, our God in
  384. 16:32Zion. To you our vows will be fulfilled.
  385. 16:36You who answer prayer. Right there.
  386. 16:39Ain't that a good verse? You who answer
  387. 16:41prayer, like if there's something you
  388. 16:43need to know about God, he answers
  389. 16:45prayer. Okay? When you pray, the Lord
  390. 16:47answers. He hears, he answers. You who
  391. 16:51answer prayer, to you all people will
  392. 16:54come. Okay? People flock to God. Why?
  393. 16:57because he answers prayers. When we were
  394. 16:59overwhelmed by sins, you forgave our
  395. 17:03transgressions. God, you're a forgiving
  396. 17:05God. You hear prayers, you forgive
  397. 17:07people. You hear prayers, you forgive
  398. 17:10people. When we were overwhelmed by
  399. 17:13sins, we didn't know how we were going
  400. 17:15to find any kind of freedom or
  401. 17:18deliverance or forgiveness. Okay? You
  402. 17:21forgave our transgressions. All right.
  403. 17:23Now, I want to skip all the way down.
  404. 17:26Okay? Uh, I actually want to skip to
  405. 17:28verse 7. There are two things that I'm
  406. 17:30going to highlight from verse 7 all the
  407. 17:32way to verse 12. Okay, verse 7. You
  408. 17:36stilled the roaring of the seas, the
  409. 17:38roaring of their waves, and the turmoil
  410. 17:41of the nations. All right, so this is
  411. 17:44also like a creation psalm. Okay. So, so
  412. 17:47the writer is going to go into detail on
  413. 17:51how Yahweh tamed the chaos with a toou
  414. 17:54vavohu of Genesis chapter 1 and over the
  415. 17:57course of seven days created order where
  416. 18:01there was chaos. Now, there's a nerdy
  417. 18:04nugget. If you see the creation account
  418. 18:06in Genesis chapter 1 primarily as a
  419. 18:10story or a narrative whereby God creates
  420. 18:13something out of nothing, then there's a
  421. 18:16bunch of psalms that actually are going
  422. 18:19to display or talk about God in language
  423. 18:23that is not consistent with God turning
  424. 18:27nothing into something, but which is
  425. 18:29very consistent with God taking chaos
  426. 18:32and molding it, making at shaping it
  427. 18:35into order. Okay. And so we see this you
  428. 18:39who stilled the roaring of the seas.
  429. 18:42Okay. This is what every deity has to do
  430. 18:45in every creation myth whether it be
  431. 18:48Babylonian or Mesopotamian or Canaanite.
  432. 18:50Okay. They have to tame or conquer the
  433. 18:55chaos that's always found in the form of
  434. 18:58a raging sea and a sea dragon who still
  435. 19:01the roaring of the seas, the roaring of
  436. 19:03their waves, in the turmoil of the
  437. 19:05nations. The whole earth is filled with
  438. 19:07awe at your wonders. Where morning dawn,
  439. 19:10where evening fades, you call forth
  440. 19:13songs of joy. All right. So, so the
  441. 19:16first thing I want you to see is that
  442. 19:18one of the things that Psalm 65 is
  443. 19:20telling us is that God takes chaos and
  444. 19:24turns it into order. So, God's a God.
  445. 19:27Yahweh is a God of order as opposed to
  446. 19:30chaos. Okay. Second, okay, uh what's the
  447. 19:33second thing that we see? You care for
  448. 19:35the land and water it. Okay. So, God
  449. 19:39cares for it. So this is a God number
  450. 19:42one of order, not chaos. But this is
  451. 19:46also a God that is nurturing, that's
  452. 19:51careful, not wrathful. It's not that
  453. 19:54God's wrath is never on display, but God
  454. 19:58is being talked about like a gardener.
  455. 20:03like like the same way that you or I
  456. 20:05would care for plants or flowers or
  457. 20:07fruit in a garden. The earth is God's
  458. 20:11garden. Okay? You care for the land and
  459. 20:14you water it. And now I love this next
  460. 20:16word. It's going to give us the third
  461. 20:18image I want us to hear. You enrich it
  462. 20:21abundantly. So number one, God's a God
  463. 20:23of order, not chaos. He's a God of care,
  464. 20:27not destruction. He's a God of creation,
  465. 20:30not destruction. He cares for the
  466. 20:32creation. He doesn't destroy the
  467. 20:34creation. And then last, God is a God of
  468. 20:37abundance, not lack. Abundance. Read
  469. 20:40this. Okay. The streams of God are
  470. 20:43filled with water. That word filled,
  471. 20:46that's an abundance word. Okay. To
  472. 20:49provide the people with grain, for so
  473. 20:52you have ordained it. You drench its
  474. 20:55furrows. Drench. Okay. So, we got
  475. 20:58fields. We got drench. Okay. And level
  476. 21:02its ridges. You soften it with showers
  477. 21:04and bless its crops. You crown the year
  478. 21:07with your bounty. And your carts
  479. 21:11overflow with abundance. The grasslands
  480. 21:14of the wilderness overflow. The hills
  481. 21:18are clothed with gladness. The meadows
  482. 21:21are covered with flocks. The valleys are
  483. 21:24mantled with grain. Their shout for joy.
  484. 21:27They shout for joy and sing like you
  485. 21:31hear all those abundance words.
  486. 21:33Overflow, bounty, abundance,
  487. 21:37drench, fill. I mean, my gosh. The
  488. 21:41psalmist here, David, sees God as a God
  489. 21:44of order, not chaos, a God of care, not
  490. 21:47destruction, but ultimately a God of
  491. 21:50abundance, not lack. And and let me say
  492. 21:53this, prosperity gospel preachers get a
  493. 21:57really bad rap. It's like top 10 kinds
  494. 22:00of people that people hate. Prosperity
  495. 22:02gospel preachers. And I get why, but the
  496. 22:06Bible talks about prosperity. Like like
  497. 22:09when God created the Garden of Eden, God
  498. 22:12did not create a place of lack. He
  499. 22:14created a place of abundance. And my
  500. 22:17timeless truth actually for today is
  501. 22:20that I always want to have an abundance
  502. 22:24mindset everywhere I go. It's funny, you
  503. 22:27know, me and my wife, I challenge her
  504. 22:29with this a lot because there are years
  505. 22:32I said I wanted to plant a church in
  506. 22:34Charlotte, North Carolina. I'd lived in
  507. 22:35North Carolina. I want to plant a church
  508. 22:37in Charlotte. And then my best friend
  509. 22:38Brian Bulock plant a church in
  510. 22:40Charlotte. And I just went, "Oh, you
  511. 22:41know the other cities?" And my wife's
  512. 22:43like, "That was our city." And I was
  513. 22:45like, why do you have such a scarcity
  514. 22:47mindset? Who cares, man? There's other
  515. 22:49places. There's Boise, Idaho, there's
  516. 22:51San Francisco,
  517. 22:53there's Portland, there's Seattle,
  518. 22:55there's Houston. I And we ended up in
  519. 22:57Houston. I have an abundance mindset.
  520. 23:00One time I was talking to a couple of
  521. 23:02guys at the church. I kind of walked by
  522. 23:03them and they were talking about
  523. 23:04immigration. They were like, "Yeah, cuz
  524. 23:05they're taking our jobs." And I was
  525. 23:07like, whoa, the scarcity mindset is just
  526. 23:12the scarcity mindset is here in
  527. 23:14abundance. What do you mean they are
  528. 23:16taking our jobs? God owns a cattle on a
  529. 23:19thousand hills. There's an unlimited
  530. 23:21amount of jobs. There's not a limited
  531. 23:23amount of jobs. There's an unlimited
  532. 23:24amount of jobs. Like I just operate my
  533. 23:27life from an abundance mindset. It's
  534. 23:30actually the thing that's made me very,
  535. 23:31very generous. I'll give thousands of
  536. 23:34dollars away. Why? because there's
  537. 23:36always more. Like I don't care. I'm
  538. 23:38generous with ideas. I'm generous with
  539. 23:41cities. I'm generous with opportunities.
  540. 23:44You know, somebody came up to me
  541. 23:45recently was like, "Yo, thank you for
  542. 23:46recommending me for those speaking
  543. 23:48engagements." Obviously, I provide for
  544. 23:51my family by going to churches and
  545. 23:52speaking, but there's millions of
  546. 23:54churches to go speak at. I I'm not in
  547. 23:56competition with anybody. Somebody came
  548. 23:59up to me recently at an event here in
  549. 24:01Houston and they said, "Yeah, you know,
  550. 24:03you got a lot of competition here.
  551. 24:04There's a lot of churches. And I looked
  552. 24:06at them and said, "The only competition
  553. 24:07I have is Satan. I'm not in competition
  554. 24:10with any church." What kind of scarcity
  555. 24:12mindset do you have? You think I'm
  556. 24:15competing with other churches for
  557. 24:18Christians, man? You want to know what's
  558. 24:21going to happen with our ministry?
  559. 24:23Thousands of people are going to get
  560. 24:24saved. Thousand people are going to get
  561. 24:26saved by the tens of thousands. I'm not
  562. 24:29competing with anybody. I I and the fact
  563. 24:31that that's how people really think.
  564. 24:34People are really like, "No, these are
  565. 24:35my jobs. These are my opportunities.
  566. 24:37This is my speaking engagements. These
  567. 24:38are my people." It's like, "Wow, God's a
  568. 24:42God of abundance." Abundance. There's
  569. 24:45more than enough money for everybody.
  570. 24:47More than enough homes for everybody.
  571. 24:48There's more than enough jobs for
  572. 24:50everybody. More than enough
  573. 24:51opportunities for everybody. There's
  574. 24:53more than enough revelation for
  575. 24:54everybody. I don't got to steal
  576. 24:55anybody's sermons. This is I I just have
  577. 24:58an abundance mindset. An abundance
  578. 25:01mindset. You know, I came up with a
  579. 25:03really cool book idea and then a friend
  580. 25:05of mine wanted that book idea. I was
  581. 25:07like, "Yeah, take it. I come up with
  582. 25:08more ideas." The same brain that came up
  583. 25:10with that idea can come up with 10 more
  584. 25:13ideas. It's an abundance mindset. And
  585. 25:15and clearly David has an abundance
  586. 25:18mindset in Psalm 65. And he has an
  587. 25:20abundance mindset because he believes
  588. 25:23that God is a God of abundance. By no
  589. 25:25means am I trying to push prosperity
  590. 25:28gospel down anybody's throat. But the
  591. 25:31opposite would be what? Like poverty
  592. 25:33gospel? Like what are you saying? God's
  593. 25:36a god of lack. I don't see God as a god
  594. 25:39of lack. I see him as a god of
  595. 25:41abundance, which then should make me
  596. 25:43have an abundance mentality. But if I
  597. 25:45see God as a God of scarcity, I'm going
  598. 25:47to have a scarcity mentality. And a
  599. 25:49scarcity mentality creates poverty. And
  600. 25:52a prosperity mindset or an abundance
  601. 25:55mindset creates prosperity. And if by
  602. 25:58prosperity gospel you mean I don't have
  603. 26:00to do anything and God just blesses me,
  604. 26:02of course I don't believe in that. But
  605. 26:04if you mean that by prosperity gospel
  606. 26:07that God does have an abundant supply
  607. 26:10and then he puts conditions in place
  608. 26:12whereby I become a diligent, excellent,
  609. 26:15hardworking person that is operating
  610. 26:19according to the laws of reciprocity so
  611. 26:22that I can flow in the current or in the
  612. 26:25stream of God's provision. Absolutely. I
  613. 26:29I believe that God is a God of
  614. 26:31prosperity. When I look at Eden and when
  615. 26:33I look at heaven, those don't look like
  616. 26:35places of lack. Which means God's ideal
  617. 26:37is not lack. It is abundance. And if
  618. 26:41there's a truth that I think is relevant
  619. 26:44for David's context and for our context,
  620. 26:48say God is not a God of lack or
  621. 26:51scarcity. He's a God of abundance. He's
  622. 26:54a God of provision. And if you struggle
  623. 26:57with scarcity mindset, you're going to
  624. 26:59have to dismantle that thought process.
  625. 27:03And you're going to have to genuinely
  626. 27:06deconstruct that idea and reconstruct a
  627. 27:11prosperity mindset or an abundance
  628. 27:14mindset. Cuz honestly, it'll change
  629. 27:16everything about your life. I cannot
  630. 27:19stress this enough. An abundance mindset
  631. 27:22will change everything about your life
  632. 27:24because you'll stop operating based on
  633. 27:27fear. You'll actually start to operate
  634. 27:29based on faith. I have an abundance
  635. 27:32mindset. Therefore, I can create
  636. 27:34opportunities for others. I could be
  637. 27:36generous with ideas and opportunities
  638. 27:38and I can walk through the open doors
  639. 27:40that God's provided for me. But I have
  640. 27:43an abundance mindset and I think you
  641. 27:45should, too. And I think David did. All
  642. 27:47right. Tomorrow we got day 274 and we
  643. 27:51got Psalm 66-68.
  644. 27:54I can't wait to dive into the content
  645. 27:56with you. I love you. If you're on a
  646. 27:58streak, I am proud of you. Hey, how
  647. 28:01about this? Practice an abundance
  648. 28:02mindset. Share this podcast with
  649. 28:05somebody that you know needs it. Love
  650. 28:08you guys. See you tomorrow. Peace.
  651. 28:10Thanks so much for joining us on the
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