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0:02[music]
0:09>> Jesus called money the mammon of
0:12unrighteousness.
0:15Most preachers read that phrase and move
0:17past it in a hurry as if it were just a
0:20colorful idiom
0:22Jesus used to describe cash.
0:26But the word mammon
0:28is not decoration.
0:30It is a disclosure.
0:32It is
0:33Jesus himself pulling back the curtain
0:37and telling you something
0:39about the nature of money
0:41that organized religion
0:43has spent centuries
0:46trying to soften, domesticate, and
0:49finally bury.
0:51Mammon is a spirit.
0:53Money is not merely paper or metal or a
0:56digital number in a ledger.
0:59It is a substance
1:01that operates under spiritual law.
1:04And that means money can be commanded.
1:08E.W. Kenyon
1:11writing out of decades of revelation
1:14drawn from the word of God
1:17taught
1:18that the same spiritual authority
1:21that governs healing and governs demonic
1:25oppression
1:26also governs the financial realm.
1:29The same law that causes sickness to
1:33leave a body when a believer speaks in
1:37the name of Jesus causes provision to
1:41move when a believer speaks in covenant
1:45authority.
1:47That is not prosperity theology dressed
1:51up in religious language.
1:53That is the raw unedited framework of
1:57Luke 16 confirmed by Philippians 4 and
2:01ignored by nearly every pulpit in
2:05America.
2:07If you are watching this right now
2:11and you have been praying for provision
2:14for months asking God to open doors
2:19wondering why the breakthroughs other
2:22believers testify about never seem to
2:25land in your life, I want you to stop
2:29and hear this clearly.
2:32The problem is not that God has not
2:35answered.
2:36The problem is
2:38that you have been using the wrong
2:41posture in a realm
2:44that requires authority, not appeal.
2:47Before we go any further
2:50take a moment and type a declaration
2:54in the comments below. Type I am a
2:57covenant here, not a beggar.
3:00Type it out.
3:02Shed it in the atmosphere.
3:04We are going to come back to that
3:06declaration by the end of this teaching.
3:11Most of the people who have been praying
3:14about their finances
3:15have never once investigated what Jesus
3:18actually
3:20said about money.
3:22They know the caution scriptures.
3:25They know 1 Timothy 6:10
3:28which says the love of money is the root
3:31of all evil.
3:33They know Matthew 6
3:3524 which says you cannot serve God and
3:39mammon.
3:41But those are warning scriptures and
3:43warning scriptures
3:46address the wrong relationship with
3:48money.
3:49Kenyon drew a critical line between
3:53sense knowledge and revelation
3:55knowledge.
3:56Sense knowledge reads the Bible
3:59and gets no information.
4:02Revelation knowledge
4:04reads the Bible and gets transformation.
4:08Sense knowledge hears Jesus
4:10say, "You cannot serve God and mammon."
4:14And concludes that money is the enemy.
4:18Revelation knowledge hears that same
4:21verse
4:22and asks a better question.
4:24What is mammon, exactly?
4:27And why does it operate like a master?
4:30The word mammon is an Aramaic term
4:34rooted in a concept of trusted wealth.
4:38Wealth that is relied upon as a source
4:40of security and power.
4:43Jesus is not just saying money is
4:46spiritually neutral, but potentially
4:49dangerous.
4:51He is saying money functions as a spirit
4:54force
4:55that seeks to sit on the throne of your
4:58life.
4:59It wants to be your source.
5:02It wants to be your security.
5:04It wants to be what you run to
5:08when you are afraid.
5:10And here is the devastating reality.
5:14If you do not tell money what it is
5:18and where it stands in your life, money
5:20will tell you.
5:22Money will dictate your decisions.
5:26Money will determine your level of
5:28peace.
5:30Money will set the ceiling on what you
5:32believe God music can do.
5:36The believer
5:37who has never confronted the spiritual
5:39nature
5:41of mammon
5:42is a believer
5:44who is unconsciously serving it
5:47every single day.
5:49Even while praying against poverty,
5:53now we get to the wound that nobody in
5:56your church has been willing to press
5:58on.
6:00Most spirit-filled Bible reading
6:02genuinely born again
6:04believers are walking around as heirs
6:08who act like orphans.
6:10The covenant of God through the blood of
6:13Jesus Christ has made provision not a
6:17possibility but a legal reality.
6:20Philippians 4:
6:2219 does not say God might supply your
6:25need.
6:27It says,
6:28"My God shall supply all your need
6:31according to his riches in glory
6:34by Christ Jesus."
6:36That word shall
6:39in the original language
6:41is a future certain declaration.
6:44It is not a promise
6:46that is waiting to see whether you have
6:48been faithful enough.
6:51It is a covenant clause backed by the
6:54integrity of the one who signed it.
6:56>> [music]
6:57>> E.W.
6:58Kenyon
7:00writing on the nature of the Father's
7:02family
7:03taught that the moment you were born
7:05again,
7:07you were born into an inheritance that
7:10already [music] exists.
7:11The storehouse is not empty.
7:14The supply has been allocated.
7:18It is already there.
7:20But an heir
7:22who does not know he is an heir
7:25will stand outside the storehouse door
7:29and beg for what already has his name on
7:31it.
7:33That is the picture of the modern church
7:36in the financial realm.
7:38We have people
7:40fasting and crying and pleading with a
7:43God who has already said yes.
7:47We have believers
7:49driving past the storehouse with their
7:52name on the deed.
7:54Pulling into a parking lot
7:57and begging the building to let them in.
8:00The authority was granted at the cross.
8:04The supply was secured by the blood.
8:07The covenant is already in force.
8:10The only question is whether you are
8:12going to show up to it as an heir or as
8:15an orphan.
8:16Now,
8:18let us go to the passage that holds the
8:22key
8:23that most preachers skip entirely.
8:26Luke 16, beginning at verse 9.
8:30Jesus says, "I say unto you,
8:33make to yourselves friends of the mammon
8:37of unrighteousness,
8:39that when he fail, they may receive you
8:42into
8:43everlasting habitations."
8:46This is one of the most mishandled
8:48verses in the entire New Testament.
8:52Preachers either avoid it
8:54because it sounds like Jesus is
8:57endorsing the dishonest
8:59steward who just
9:02cheated his master,
9:03or they spiritualize it so heavily
9:07that all the practical authority gets
9:09drained out of it.
9:10But, read the parable again carefully.
9:14The steward is called unrighteous,
9:17but he is also called shrewd.
9:20And Jesus remarkably commends his
9:23shrewdness.
9:25He says
9:27in verse 8
9:29that the children of this world are in
9:31their generation wiser than the children
9:35of light.
9:36That is a confrontational statement.
9:39Jesus sweep at his disciples, the ones
9:43who had been following him.
9:45Hearing his teachings,
9:48watching miracles happen in front of
9:50their eyes,
9:52and he said,
9:54the people who do not know God are
9:57operating with more practical wisdom
10:01about how to mobilize resources than you
10:04are.
10:06That should stop you cold.
10:08The unrighteous steward
10:11understood something about the nature of
10:14money.
10:15He understood that it is relational.
10:19He understood that it moves in response
10:22to decisions,
10:23relationships,
10:25and strategies.
10:27He understood
10:29that resources can be directed toward
10:32building a future.
10:34And he acted on that understanding
10:37boldly and decisively.
10:40Jesus did not tell his disciples to
10:44condemn the strategy. He told them to
10:47learn from it. And then he elevated it.
10:51Use the unrighteous mammon to make
10:55friends,
10:56to build relationships, to create
10:59lasting impact so that
11:01when earthly wealth fails,
11:04which it always does,
11:06something eternal has been produced by
11:10how you managed it.
11:12Kenyon's framework here is essential.
11:17He taught that we live in a world
11:19governed by
11:21spiritual law and money as a spiritual
11:24entity responds to those laws.
11:28The sinner applies spiritual law
11:31unconsciously.
11:32He speaks
11:34with confidence.
11:36He makes decisions with boldness.
11:40He puts his words into the atmosphere
11:43without the paralysis of religious
11:46doubt.
11:47And
11:48money moves for him because money being
11:52spirit responsive
11:54follows the law of authoritative action.
11:58The believer meanwhile has been taught
12:01to be
12:02suspicious of prosperity,
12:05to qualify every prayer about finances
12:08with maybe
12:10it is not God's will,
12:12to sit in a posture of perpetual
12:15uncertainty
12:17and call it humility.
12:19And so the storehouse stays locked
12:22not because God has withheld the key,
12:26but because the believer never picked it
12:29up.
12:30Consider this carefully.
12:33The same spiritual law that governs
12:36healing governs provision.
12:39In the realm of physical healing,
12:42Kenyon's framework from Jesus the healer
12:45is precise.
12:47Sickness operates in the spirit realm
12:50before it manifests in the body.
12:54And it must be addressed in the spirit
12:56realm before it departs from the body.
13:00You
13:01do not beg a disease to leave.
13:04You do not ask God to maybe consider
13:06removing it if it is his will.
13:09You command it.
13:12You speak to it
13:14with the authority of the name of Jesus
13:17and the purchase rights of the new
13:19covenant.
13:21And it yields
13:23because spirit responds to spirit
13:27authorized speech.
13:29The same framework applies without
13:32exception to the financial realm.
13:36Poverty is not merely an economic
13:37condition.
13:39It is a spiritual oppression
13:42operating through the same
13:44principalities and powers
13:46that operate
13:48through sickness.
13:51And it must be addressed with the same
13:53instrument that addresses sickness.
13:56The
13:57authoritative spoken word of a covenant
14:02conscious believer.
14:04This is where the modern church
14:07has created its own prison.
14:09Sunday after Sunday, believers stand in
14:13sanctuaries
14:15and open their mouths.
14:17They confess weakness.
14:19They confess [music]
14:21lack.
14:22They pray prayers that begin with,
14:24"Lord,
14:25if it be your will." And end with,
14:29"But whatever you decide,
14:31I will accept it."
14:33They talk about their debt.
14:36They talk about their bills.
14:38They talk about how tight things are.
14:41They discuss their financial limitations
14:46with their spouses,
14:48their friends, their small groups.
14:52They post about their struggles.
14:54And in doing so,
14:56they are not expressing humility.
14:59They are exercising authority in
15:02reverse.
15:03They are using the most powerful
15:06instrument in the created [music] order.
15:09The human voice operating from a
15:11recreated spirit to build the very walls
15:15that are imprisoning them.
15:18E.W.
15:20Kekekekekekekekeke.
15:22Kenyon's teaching
15:24on the confession principle drawn from
15:26his work on the inner man
15:29is not a motivational concept.
15:33It is a revelation about how the spirit
15:35realm works.
15:37What you confess
15:39consistently becomes
15:41the spiritual atmosphere
15:44that governs your physical
15:46circumstances.
15:47This is not wishful thinking dressed up
15:51as theology.
15:53This is the mechanics of a created order
15:56in which God himself spoke the worlds
16:00into [music] existence.
16:03In which Jesus commanded storms and they
16:05obeyed.
16:07In which Paul and Silas sang in a prison
16:11and the chains fell off.
16:14Words do not float harmlessly into the
16:16air and disappear. Words are spirit
16:21containers.
16:23They carry the faith or the fear of the
16:26one who speaks them and they go to work
16:29building the reality
16:31that matches
16:33their content.
16:35When you say I am always broke
16:38you are not describing your financial
16:41reality.
16:42You are decreeing it.
16:45When you say I cannot afford that as a
16:48blanket statement of identity rather
16:51than a momentary observation
16:54you are not being responsible.
16:58You are being destructive.
17:00When you
17:01rehearse your debt with anxiety in your
17:04voice you are not being realistic.
17:07You are planting seeds in the spirit
17:10realm that will produce exactly the
17:13harvest you are declaring.
17:16Stop.
17:17This is not about positive thinking.
17:20This is about the law of confession
17:23that undergirds the entire covenant.
17:28The tongue of the righteous is as choice
17:31silver, says Proverbs 10:20.
17:36It is a currency, and you have been
17:38spending it in the wrong direction.
17:41Now, let us look at Philippians 4:
17:4419 with fresh eyes
17:47and hear it not as a comfort versus,
17:50but as a covenant clause.
17:53Paul writes from a prison cell, which is
17:55important because it establishes that
17:58this declaration is not dependent on
18:02external circumstances.
18:05"My God shall supply all your need
18:08according to his riches in glory by
18:11Christ Jesus."
18:13Notice the standard, not according to
18:15your faithfulness, not according to your
18:19level of spiritual performance,
18:23not according to the economic climate of
18:26the Roman Empire, according
18:29to his riches in glory.
18:32The supply is calibrated to the wealth
18:35of God himself.
18:37It is measured by heaven's economy, not
18:39earth's.
18:41And it is released by Christ Jesus,
18:45meaning the
18:46entire mechanism
18:48of supply runs through the covenant
18:51secured by the blood of the Son of God.
18:55Kenyon, writing on prayer in His
18:57Presence,
18:58described uh
19:00this kind of covenant engagement as a
19:03requisition,
19:05not a petition, not a plea.
19:09A requisition in any legitimate legal,
19:12or military structure. [music]
19:14A requisition is an authorized formal
19:18demand made by someone with standing to
19:21draw resources from a storehouse
19:24that
19:25already belongs to them.
19:29An officer does not beg
19:31the warehouse manager.
19:33He presents the authorization document
19:37and the supplies are released because
19:40the document
19:42has legal force.
19:44That is the exact posture you are called
19:47to in the financial realm.
19:50You are not appealing to a reluctant God
19:52who may or may not decide to help you
19:55this month.
19:57You are a son, a covenant heir
20:00presenting the word of God
20:03which is your authorization document
20:06and drawing on a supply
20:09that has already
20:10been allocated to you
20:13by the terms of the blood covenant.
20:16This is what Jesus meant when he said,
20:19"Make to yourselves friends of the
20:22mammon of unrighteousness."
20:25He was not speaking romantically.
20:28He was issuing a command about posture
20:32and strategy.
20:33Take dominion over the spirit force of
20:36money.
20:38Do not let it be your master.
20:41Position yourself as its manager.
20:44Speak to it with the authority of a
20:46steward
20:48who understands
20:50the master's resources
20:52and the master's purpose. Use it
20:55deliberately
20:57intentionally
20:59redemptively
21:01directed toward relationships that
21:04outlast the money itself.
21:07Build
21:08with it that has eternal weight.
21:11When you do that,
21:13when you take your God- given position
21:16of stewardship
21:19over the resource,
21:20rather than trembling before it
21:23as its subject,
21:25something shifts in the spirit realm.
21:28The grip of mammon is broken.
21:31The supply channel opens and money
21:34begins to serve its proper function in
21:37your life rather than sitting on the
21:40throne of it.
21:41Let me be precise
21:44about what this looks like in practice
21:47because spiritual authority that stays
21:49abstract never changes anything.
21:53It is exercised in the moment of the
21:56specific need.
21:58When a bill
22:00arrives and the account does not cover
22:02it,
22:03you do not sit down and spiral into
22:07fear.
22:08You sit down with the word of God and
22:10you speak.
22:12You say, "Father, your word in
22:14Philippians 4
22:1619 declares that
22:19you supply all my need according to your
22:21riches in glory by Christ Jesus.
22:26I am presenting that covenant right now.
22:30I am a joint heir with Christ as
22:34established in Romans 8:17. This supply
22:37belongs to me. It has been secured by
22:40the blood of Jesus.
22:43I command every spirit of [music] lack
22:46and every
22:47obstruction of the enemy to be removed
22:51from my financial channels
22:53in the name of Jesus.
22:56And I declare that the supply moves now.
23:01That is not a formula.
23:03That is a posture.
23:05That is
23:06covenant consciousness meeting
23:09a specific need
23:11with specific authority.
23:13And when you operate in that posture
23:16consistently,
23:18when you bring your financial
23:20declarations
23:22in line with the covenant
23:24rather than
23:26in line with the fear,
23:28when you stop rehearsing your
23:30limitations and start declaring your
23:32legal standing,
23:34the financial realm begins to respond.
23:38Not because you found a magic formula,
23:41but because you aligned yourself with
23:45the law
23:46that already governs the universe.
23:50The same law that made the worlds,
23:54the same law that emptied the tomb,
23:57the same law that says in Mark 11:23,
24:01"Whosoever shall say unto this mountain,
24:05be thou removed
24:06and be thou cast into the sea,
24:09and shall not doubt in his heart,
24:13but shall believe
24:15that that those things which he sayeth
24:18shall come to pass,
24:20he shall have whatsoever he sayeth."
24:23Now,
24:24here is the final confrontation, and I
24:27want you to sit with this for a moment.
24:30There are two voices
24:33speaking
24:35over your finances right now.
24:37One is the voice
24:39of the enemy which speaks through fear,
24:43through statistics,
24:45through [snorts] economic reports,
24:48through the memory of every time you
24:50came up short.
24:52That voice says,
24:54"You will always struggle."
24:57That voice says,
24:59"This is just the way it is for you."
25:02That voice says,
25:04"God's promises are real,
25:07but they work for other people."
25:10And if you spend more time
25:12meditating on that voice
25:15than you spend meditating on the
25:16covenant,
25:18that voice
25:19will win.
25:21Not because it is stronger,
25:24but because you have given it more
25:26airtime in your life.
25:29The other voice is
25:32the word of God,
25:34spoken through the recreated
25:36spirit
25:38of a blood-bought believer
25:40carrying all
25:42the legal authority of the new covenant
25:46and backed by the integrity of the one
25:48who signed it with his own blood.
25:51That voice says in Deuteronomy 8:18,
25:56"That it is God who gives you power to
25:59get wealth."
26:01That voice says in 2 Corinthians 9,
26:05"Eight, that God is able to make all
26:08gross abound towards you, that you
26:12always having all sufficiency in all
26:15things may abound to every good work."
26:19That voice says in Malachi 3:10,
26:23"That when you honor God
26:25with the firstfruits
26:28of what you have,
26:30he opens the windows of heaven
26:33and pours out a blessing
26:35that there is not room enough to
26:37receive."
26:39That voice is not the voice of wishful
26:41thinking.
26:43That is the covenant speaking.
26:45And the covenant was sealed with blood
26:48that cannot be revoked.
26:51Kenyan understood writing on the nature
26:54of the hidden man of the heart.
26:57That the recreated spirit of the
26:59believer is
27:01the source of genuine authority in the
27:04earth.
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27:53May God bless you abundantly,
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28:02his perfect will.
28:05The spirit of God
28:06dwells in your spirit.
28:09And out of that union
28:11comes the capacity for speech that
28:14carries heaven's weight.
28:16When you open your mouth in covenant
28:18consciousness,
28:20you are not just making sounds.
28:24You are releasing the creative power of
28:26God
28:27that is resident
28:28>> [music]
28:29>> in your recreated inner man into the
28:32specific situation that needs to change.
28:37Money as a spiritual entity,
28:40subject to spiritual law, must yield to
28:44that authority just as surely as demons
28:46yield to it.
28:48Just as surely as sickness
28:51yields to it.
28:53Just as surely as storms yielded to the
28:57voice of the Son of God standing in a
28:59boat
29:00>> [music]
29:00>> on Galilee.
29:02You have been silent long enough.
29:05You have let the voice of lack
29:08be the loudest voice in your financial
29:11life.
29:13You have confused
29:15humility with passivity
29:17and you have called it faith while the
29:20storehouse sat full
29:23and your needs sat unmet.
29:26That season ends today.
29:29It ends the moment
29:31you pick up the covenant document and
29:35walk through the storehouse door
29:38with the authority of a son who knows
29:41what was
29:42purchased for him.
29:45Let me close with this declaration.
29:47Speak it out loud.
29:49Do not read it
29:52silently.
29:54Read it aloud because the authority is
29:56in the utterance.
29:58Father,
29:59I come to you not as a beggar,
30:02but as a blood bought heir.
30:04Your word declares that you supply all
30:07my need according to your riches in
30:09glory by Christ Jesus.
30:12I declare that the spirit of mammon
30:16has no dominion over my life. I am not
30:19subject to lack, to poverty,
30:22or to financial oppression
30:24because I am a covenant partner with
30:29God the most high God.
30:31I I direct my finances toward kingdom
30:34purpose.
30:36I speak to every mountain of debt, every
30:39obstruction of provision,
30:41every spirit that has operated against
30:44my
30:45financial channels.
30:48And I command it to be removed in the
30:50name of Jesus.
30:54So supply is allocated, the covenant is
30:56in force. I am drawing on it now.
31:00This is my declaration. This is my
31:02right. This is my inheritance.
31:05In in the name of Jesus.
31:06>> [music]
31:07>> Amen.
31:08If you prayed that with your spirit
31:10engaged,
31:13if something shifted in your chest as
31:15you said those words, that was not
31:18emotion.
31:19That was the spirit of God
31:22confirming what the word has always said
31:26to teach e in the comments [music]
31:28below.
31:29Not because it is a magic word,
31:32but because you are setting your
31:34declaration in the atmosphere
31:38and adding your voice to every other
31:40covenant heir who has watched this
31:44and refused
31:46to let mammon sit on the throne of their
31:50life any longer.
31:52Subscribe to E.W. Kenyon Revelations.
31:56We are not here to make you feel good
31:58about where you are.
32:02We are here to show you the legal
32:04reality of what
32:07the blood of Jesus has already secured
32:10so that you walk in it.
32:12We will see you in the next teaching.
32:15The covenant is in force.
32:17Go unforced.

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