Ecclesiastes 3:1-8; Exodus 3:1-12

– People get attached to seasons, because things are attached to seasons.

– If we don’t know our purpose, there is not one single thing that is going to make us happy.

– We were created with a purpose.

– To everything there is a season, but there is a time for every purpose under the sun.

– We will find our purpose through a relationship with the God who created us.

– We are not going to find our purpose where are, we’re going to have to move.

– God has met us in our pain so that He can change us.

– The mourning period is a purposeful one.

– There is a time to move on from certain relationships.

– There are physical times and emotional times.  All of it is linked to our purpose.

– Time to be at peace. To put into practice what you have learned.

– Time to go from debt to debt freedom. There is a purpose for our losing.

– There was a time for you to be silent.  A time where you have learned, listened and grown. Now it’s time for you to come forth and speak up.

– When you move, God is with you filling you with His power so that His purpose can be fulfilled in your life.

Acts 9 (the Story of Saul’s Conversion)

– Too many of us are ignoring the burning bushes in our lives and not hearing the voice of God calling us to purpose.

– You are fully equipped for this next phase in your life.

– If God is calling you to more on, He has fully prepared for you to move on.

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Romans 4:16-21; Hebrews 11:1; 1 Samuel 1:8-18

– Our believing and hoping must be according to that which was spoken.

– There’s no reason to hope, but we believe anyway.

– Faith is acting or living like the promises of God are true.

– Biblical hope is not wishful thinking.

– Hope is a confident expectation that God will do what He said.

– So many times do we not understand the depth of someone’s pain.  Not understanding may not be a malicious thing.

– Just because someone doesn’t get it doesn’t mean that they don’t want to.

– Hannah wanted to do something different.

– It’s a mark of godliness when we have every right to be mad, but respond in grace.

– Our soul can be lifted up, our psyche can be changed, even when things all around us remain the same. That is the power of hope.

– When hope begins to dissipate, so do our words.

– Hopelessness takes away our voice.

– God will fill us when our mouths are open.

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Colossians 2:8-10; Numbers 14:21; Matthew 12:43-45; Ephesians 4:27

– Some of the philosophies, the traditions we follow are man-made.

– We must not let anyone, including ourselves, capture us from following the teaching of Christ.

– God is not a God of fairness, He is a God of justice.

– We are not looking for things that seem right, we’re looking for things that are right.

– All that God is and all that God can do is found in Jesus.

– God wants us full of Him. He fills.

– We can look in order and yet be empty. We need to be filled with God.

– When we are complete in Christ, we are missing nothing.

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Genesis 16:3-9, 21:16-19; Proverbs 28:1; John 4:4-5; Romans 8:35-37; James 4:7; 1 John 4:18; Luke 15:11-18

– The only true basis that we have that things will change is a Word from the Lord.

– It’s easier to run away from problems than face them.

– We think that if we run and hide, the problem will go away.

– When we try to run away from our problems, we end up in a bigger mess, we end up in the wilderness.

– Some of us run from problems with no destination in mind.

– God commands us to go back. Return, submit and go back with the right and different attitude.

– God has a Word for us just like He had a Word for Hagar.

We have to listen and stop running.

– We need to do what we can to face or problems, instead of running away.

– Once Hager returned and faced her problems, then she saw a solution.

– We have to stir up on faith.

– Resist the devil.

– We resist lies with Truth.

– Focus on God and not the problem.

– We have to take extra steps of faith when problems arise.

– We have to avoid doing the bad opposite of running away with our problem, and not get too familiar with it.

– Our problems will not get any better by running away from them or getting comfortable with it.

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Luke 12:13-21; Deuteronomy 8:18; Proverbs 1:24-25; 1 Timothy 6:17-19; Exodus 12:35-36; Psalm 105:37; Genesis 32:13-18, 33:8-11; Haggai 1:1-11; Isaiah 58:1-11

– The blessings of God do not come through man’s devices.

– We cannot just be wanting stuff.

– God looks at selfishness as foolishness.

– It’s selfish to want enough just for you and yours. God wants us to be distribution centers.

– Giving is a condition of the heart, not a condition of your wallet.

– Have a heart to give and God will give you your heart’s desire.

– The resources will come as we allow God to work on our heart.

– The generous prosper.

– God doesn’t mind us having things.  He just wants us to share what we have.

– God has no problem blessing His people.

– When we bless someone and they refuse it, it may cut off your blessing flow.

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Genesis 35:1-3,4-7, 25:20-28, 28:10-22, 31:11-13, 32:24-32, 34:1-30

– Just because your daddy and your grandfather knows God, does not mean you know God. You have to know God for yourself.

– God is with us and we don’t even know it.

– Jacob renamed the place Bethel, the house of God when He realized God was with Him.

– There will always come a time when God is going to come to you and release you from the place where you are.

– Jacob was forever changed when He held on to God.

– God is calling us to go back to the place where we first met Him.

– We need to remember that God answered us in the time of our distress.

– God puts limits on our enemies and what they are able to do to us.

– We need to not only know the house of God, we need to know the God of the house.

– We don’t mind hearing from the preacher, but we don’t want to hear from God Himself.

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Matthew 6:33; Psalm 89:14; Luke 6:38; Proverbs 19:17, 28:27, 11:25; 2 Samuel 6:1-9; 2 Corinthians 9:6-8

– God has a way of getting to us the provision we need.

– We cannot be the powerful representatives of Christ concerning our finances, if we are fretting.

– It’s through giving that we receive.

– We can only get to the place of prosperity God’s way.

–  It’s important to maintain a spirit of generosity during a period of lack.

– Giving is a condition of the heart.

– Blessings come when you give out of your lack.

– It’s very important to do what God says, how He says it.

– God has a way of doing and being right.

– God will make sure you have so that you can give to every good work.

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1 John 3:1-2, 4:16; 1 Corinthians 13:8; Romans 5:8, 8:38; Zephaniah 3:17; 2 Kings 4:8,18-26

– Knowing something goes beyond head knowledge… it’s heart knowledge.

– We have to behold God’s love. See it. Think about it.

– Love is decisional. Selfless choices that are made with your mind on someone else.

– God loves with an everlasting love.

– There is a difference between knowing and believing.

– Believing leads to receiving.

– God will quiet us by His love.

– God’s love will quiet all our fears.

– God will be with us in trouble.

– God lavishes us with His love.

– We will only become better at loving people when we receive God’s love.

– Our life will change when we love other people, not when people love us.

– God’s love gives us a sense of security.

– When we know God loves us we don’t run from our troubles, we run towards them.

– When we know the love of God, we will know that it’s going to be alright, in spite of what is happening to us.

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Galatians 3:13-14; Deuteronomy 28:1-14 (The Blessing), v.15-68, (The Curse  – Sickness, Disease, Poverty and Lack), Deuteronomy 8:18; 3 John 2; 2; Timothy 3:16; Genesis 12:1-3, 13:1-2; Psalm 35:27; 2 Kings 4:1-7

– Poverty and lack are a part of the curse of the law.

– I’m redeemed from poverty and lack.

– God wants to demonstrate His goodness in such a way that the world will say, the half has not been told.

– One of the reasons God wants to bless us is so that we can be a blessing to others.

– We’ve been empowered to prosper but not all of us are prospering, because we have not turned on the switch. The switch is faith.

– God wants us to prosper so that we can have resources and the ability to prosper in the earth.

– God doesn’t have a problem with us having money, it’s money having us.

– We have to be the ones to be generous with the resources He gives us.

– God gives us the power to get wealth so that He can establish His covenant in the earth.

– Others will see God when they see the extent of your generosity.

– A grateful heart is expressed in generosity.

– God gives us more than enough. He is not just interested in paying our bills.  He wants us to live.

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