The Blessing : My Part to Manifestation

**Ralph** (0:00)
God, you are awesome, you're wonderful. We thank you for your word. We thank you for the opportunity to come and learn more about you. We pray that the word that goes forth, God, will teach us how to produce more fruit. We thank you that we are everything that your word has said that we could be. We believe it, therefore we become it. We thank you that our lives are living manifestations of what heaven looks like in the earth. And we declare that we live according to what you have called us to do, and that we do not grow weary, we do not faint, we do not stagger at any of your promises, but we walk upright according to what you have said. There is nothing lacking in our lives, and no weapon formed against us will prosper. And we thank you that tonight, God will be taught the word, and that word will change our lives forever more. In Jesus' name, amen. Y'all, I got a lot going on. It seems like every kid in my house tonight want to be walking by doing something. So, but anyway, guys, I'll start with a testimony. Man, let me tell you, your tithes and your offerings are always working for you. This week, this past week, some of you guys are my friends on Facebook, or following me on Facebook, or whatever. I had an opportunity to kind of get bothered. There's a couple of things that happened. First, Aidan was really happy one morning, and jumping around the house, just playing, and decided that he was going to do target practice. He wanted to take a little toy and try to aim it at our TV cabinet. And he missed about three feet and bust our TV, and so it was broken. And so our TV no longer worked. And I just, I didn't pay much attention. We don't watch that TV a lot anyway in the living room. We don't watch a lot of TV, period. But it just was there, and I was like, whatever. But it was the most amazing thing was that I didn't get upset about it. And I actually had to talk to the Lord about why I didn't get upset, because I was like, I felt like I should have a right to get upset, but I didn't get upset. And the Lord was like, Ralph, it's just a TV. Like, what's the big deal? It's no different than him going in the kitchen and going to get a glass out the cabinet and dropping a glass. The only reason you would get upset is because of the difference in value. A coffee cup is $2 or TV is $1,000. He said, are you getting upset? Would you get upset based on the fact that it's broken or the fact of what it costs? Because if you're getting upset about what it costs, then who's your supplier, yourself or God? I was like, God, yeah, you don't want to surprise. Well, I'll buy you a new TV, Ralph. There's no need to get upset. And so we just got in the car, and I just talked to him about don't throw stuff, and that was it. But in my mind, guys, in my flesh, I wanted to whoop him. I still wanted to spank him because it just seemed like it was the right thing to do, right? If I, when I grew up and you broke something in the house or something like that, you got to whoop it. And the Lord was really working on it. He's like, hey, look, you got to learn to trust me. You got to learn to be able to move. And I say, move. If I say it's not a big deal, it doesn't matter what your flesh says. It doesn't matter what you want to do. It doesn't matter what you've experienced or the things or how you were even raised. If I say that this is how we're doing it, this is how we're doing it. Yeah, the Holy Ghost saved Aiden a lot. I mean, I ain't going to lie to you, as a parent, there's going to be times I want to whoop him. And the Holy Ghost is like, no, that's not what we're doing today. But honestly, when I evaluated my life, it wasn't I was so concerned about him breaking that. That wasn't the issue. Because kids are going to be kids, right? The thing was, I was going to be out of $1,000. That's really what was going to bother me. No, I said, I got you. So come to find out, I got $1,000, got a new TV. Everything was good, right? But then I walk out to my truck, and when I walked out to my truck, I saw all this neon green liquid on the ground. And I was like, man, what's that? And so immediately in my mind, I'm like Aiden done done something again, right? Aiden is one of my family that does most stuff, as you guys know. And I'm like, he done got some highlighters and just busted them all over the country. Well, it wasn't highlighters. It was all the free-hand from my suburban. So now my suburban air conditioning is not working. And so in this case, last time I made money for the TV, I got $1,000. I actually got more than that. I was able to buy a TV without ever touching any money in my savings checking or anything. So praise God for that. And then now my car was broken, and I didn't need money in this situation. What I needed in this situation was some favor, because I had a warranty on my car to cover it, but man, nobody wanted to take the car warranty. I called eight different places, and then I even took my car to a company who said that they will fix it. I left my car there for 24 hours. I called them to say, Hey guys, are y'all finished? They said, no, we're not finished. Not only are we not finished, but we're not touching your car because we're not going to accept the warranty company. And I'm like, dang, so now it's four days. I don't have any air in my truck. And this is the car we drive the most. And so I'm like, okay, God, it's not that I need favor. I mean, money now. Now I need favor. So as a tither, as a giver, these are the things that you promised me. So God, where can I take this car? And so long story short, God reminded me of a place that I took it before. I called them and they're like, it'll be four days before we can touch it. Well, I'm like, okay, let's just go. So I go up there, and then I get the most rude service advisor ever. Like, this is what he asked me, y'all. I walk in there and I tell him the situation. He says, when do you want your car back? And I said, well, sir, that's not really a question I can answer. I said, you're going to be working on it. I already know that it's going to be a couple of days based on his days and everything. He said, well, when do you want it back? And I was like, you could tell me that. He's like, no, when do you want your car back? Guys, I told this dude, I said, well, I would like, it was Thursday. I said, well, I would like it back Wednesday. He looks at me and says, well, we can't do that. And so in my mind, I'm like, why ask me, right, if you can't do it? And so we go back and forth like this for probably about five minutes, and me just trying to explain, and he being rude, and I'm like, okay, God, this is where you told me to go. Because sometimes in life, you do what God says do, but you encounter something that looks contrary to God. But you got to go back to first Corinthians. You got to be unmovable. You got to be steadfast. You got to stand in there. I stood in there when I wanted to say something crazy to him. And just as I was going, I told April I was about to walk out because I'm not rude to people. I'm just like, I just figured this out. This lady comes through and said, hey, I remember you. Now guys, I ain't been there. I brought my car there, but I haven't been back there for one time to get it fixed. So I'm like, she don't really remember me, but she tells me, hey, hey, hey, I remember you. Now, and in my mind, I'm like, you can't remember me. She said, I just fixed this on your car a little while ago. And then I'm like, no, you didn't. But that was what? That was favor working on my behalf. She says, don't worry about him. She grabs a clipboard and walks me outside and says, I got this. She says, I will get your car looked at tomorrow. So she gets the car looked at, and then I was expecting to have to pay some money for the procedure, I mean, for the repair. Well, she calls me and says, hey, it's only going to be $100, which is my deductible. I said, why isn't it more? She says, I got them to cover everything. And I was like, praise God, because I thought it was going to be a couple more $100. And so I said all that to say, guys, when God tells you to do something, it doesn't matter what it looks like. It doesn't matter who you encounter along the way. It doesn't matter to know that you may get just hang in there. Why? Because God will cause favor to be shown to you. And as a tither, as a giver, a lot of times we don't take advantage of all the benefits that we get, right? So in a situation that the repair on the car was supposed to probably cost me $700, and the new TV was $1,000, and all I had to spend was $100. And honestly, I didn't have to spend that because the increase that I got was more than that to pay for both of them. Why? Because God is always looking out for you. He is always looking out for you. Why? Because the blessing is on you, and the job of the blessing is to empower you with favor, to empower you with endowment to do what you can do on your own. That's what it is. And that's what we're going to talk about tonight, is the blessing. All right? The blessing, the blessing, and what's my part in manifestation, right? So I told that testimony because, man, that was really good to me. Why? Because I'm growing up, guys, and a lot that I teach y'all on Wednesday, is just stuff that I'm studying myself. Because last week we talked about faith and how it comes, and this week we're talking about manifestation, because all those things that Pastor Edwin and Pastor Shun, and Minister Shundra, all those faith confessions, all those things, those are good to read. But if you don't have faith attached, and you don't understand that you're already the blessed of the Lord. See, the house is not the blessing. It's the effect of a blessing. The car is not the blessing. It's an effect of a blessing. The healing is not the blessing. It's an effect of the blessing. And when you, as a human being, attached your ability or your blessing to tangible things, what happens is you minimize the power. Because if I don't have things in my life that quote look blessed, then I think that I'm not blessed. If I think that I'm not blessed, then I don't have the ability to walk in the full power and extent in which God has given me to manifest the life that he has already ordained for me to live in, right? And you guys get that because when you talk about the wind, right, we talk about the nature of things. So we talk about, if I said, hey, the wind, you're like, yeah, I hear the wind or I see the wind. But honestly, you don't hear the wind or see the wind. What you observe are the effects of the wind. And so you can't get caught up in thinking that you're not blessed because your bank account isn't overflowing, that you're not blessed because you don't have the newest car that's being driven right now, that you're not blessed because you're not this or you're not that. Baby, I want to tell you tonight that you are blessed. You're not going to get any more blessed than you already are. You're not going to get any more blessed than you already are. As a believer, when I gave my life to Christ, the blessing came on my life to give me the ability to do what I couldn't do on my own. So go ahead and make this confession. Say, I have a role in seeing that the blessing produces in my life. I have a role in seeing that the blessing produces what God desires. I have a role in seeing that the blessing produces what God desires. So I am already blessed, but I got a role to play.