God Responds When We Share Our Needs

T.D. Jakes shares a powerful word on presenting our needs to God so that He can pour out His grace and provide blessing after blessing!

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Today…….I am asking all my prayer warriors to say a prayer that may help others. So many people are hurting right now. Many are struggling with finances and need jobs. Some are facing foreclosure and don’t even know how they are going to make it from week to week..

Many are lonely. . Many are heartbroken. . Many are facing sickness and health is fading. . Some are dealing with difficult family members. Many have lost HOPE.. Tonight, let us put our prayers and faith together decree and declare breakthrough over our families. Financial miracles WILL take place. Jobs WILL be found. Our Bodies WILL be made whole & sickness WILL flee. Marriages and relationships WILL be restored. Family members WILL find Jesus. Heartbreaks WILL be healed. JOY WILL be restored and HOPE WILL be found. In Jesus Name. Amen!!!!!! Keep God First…….

If you don’t want anything, you won’t get anything. If you don’t need anything, you won’t receive anything.
You not know that the real star of the story with the 2 sis and the 5 loaves of bread is not the little boy and is not the lungs it was the hunger that moved the Lord when the when they came to Jesus, and they said the people that are with you are hungry.
He said, oh, goodness, capacity. Wherever I see capacity, I will release and apply.
I’m gonna I’m gonna read more assets than I normally do.
I want you to go to Philipp 04:15 through 19.
And I’m also gonna consider first king 17 13 through 17.
Lord has me on a unusual course tonight, but I feel a prophetic undertone to the direction that the Lord has brought me in.
I don’t promise you a shout because That’s not the objective of my preaching, not at this stage.
I do promise you a word from god.
And I have the feeling that the message god gave me is in response to where you are at in life and something you have been asking him for.
Yeah. Yeah. It is it is almost as if I feel like I’m responding to something that I didn’t even hear But something you said to him, he will respond now through me.
He that had an ear, let him hear what the spirit of the lord is saying to the church.
You don’t come this far to get your dance in.
You could’ve got your dance in at home.
When you come this far, you come for a shifts going into a whole different orbit and a completely different dimension.
Are you ready? You don’t have time to worry about whether you about this methodist, press at hearing, church of god, church of god in Christ, church of god and prophecy.
You teach of god, got it going on in Jesus’ name by faith incorporated saints of god and friends.
You don’t have time to worry about whether you’re Democrat or Republican.
You don’t have time to worry about whether you’re white or black or Hispanic or African or Australia.
We don’t have time to worry about any of that because where god wants to put something is so deep down in your spirit.
That you you you you wanna leave this meeting carrying more baggage than what you can check-in at the counter You wanna go home, load it down with keys that are gonna open up things that have been shut down in you for years.
Are you getting what I’m saying? Leap up on your feet, and let’s go into the word of god.
We stand for the reading of the word of god in here.
In First Kings, I want you to notice verse 17 through 13 through 17.
I’m gonna go start there first, and then I’ll go to the back backtrack and go Philipp.
I’m gonna lay, my early foundation in, first kings 17 13 through 17, then we’re gonna go to Philipp.
And elijah said unto her, fear not.
Go and do as thou has said, but make me there a a little cake first and bring it on to me, and after make for thee and for thy son, for thus saith the lord god to be is real.
The barrel of meal shall not waste.
Neither shall the cruise of oil fail until the day that the lord sendeth rain upon the earth it won’t stop until it rains again.
And she went and did according to the saying of Elijah, and she and he and her house did eat many days.
Once this? And the barrel of meal wasted not.
Neither did the cruise of oil fail according to the word of the lord, which he spake by Elijah, and it came to pass.
After these things that the son of the woman the mistress of the house fell sick and his sickness was so sore that there was no breath left in him.
Now leave a little notepad or card or finger.
If you’re still using Bibles, I know most y’all got, iPads now, but leave some kind of notation there.
We’re going we’re going we’re going to the New Testament to hear a very unique phrase from the apostle Paul in Philipp chapter 4 verse 15 through 9.
Now you Filipians know also that in the beginning of the gospel, when I departed from Macedonia, no church communicated with me as concerning giving and receiving, but ye only.
You’re the only ones who communicated or ministered unto me.
For even in thessalonica, ye sent once, and again, unto my necessity. Somebody say necessity.
Not because I desire a gift.
You didn’t send it because I desire it, but I desire fruit that may abound to your account.
But I have all and abound. I am full.
Having received of hepatitis, the things which were sent from you, an odor of a sweet smell of sacrifice acceptable, well pleasing to god.
But my god.
Shall supply all of your need.
What will he supply?
All of your, according to his riches in glory by Christ Jesus.
Now that’s that’s where I’m gonna really expand.
My god shall supply all of your lead.
According to it. Yeah. You heard it, didn’t you? Woah.
Don’t you get ahead of me like that? My god shall supply all of your uh-huh.
You they minister to his necessity.
My god shall supply all of your need according to his riches in glory by Christ Jesus.
Now this scripture in its context is in reference to giving and needs being met.
For the apostle Paul in the middle of his ministry.
For the purpose of our understanding tonight, let us not just compartmentalize me to money.
Because it is possible to have leads in other areas And sometimes money gets such a center stage as it relates to need because we have come through such struggle historically that it is almost a given that there is a financial need.
And if you do have a need, my god shall supply.
But the reality is some of the things that that is slowing you down hindering you our needs in other area, the need for support, the need for validation, the need for love, the need for companionship, the need for connectivity, the need for staffing for your business, the need for a building for your vision that that needs to see see is a it wasn’t that they were just handing out ducats all the time.
If you’re hungry, the need might be bread. If you’re thirsty, it might be water.
If you’re lonely, it might be help.
But whatever your need is, you have to fill that in because the lord told me to tell you he is the master of your need.
He is the master of your need.
Your need has not shocked him It has not embarrassed him.
It has not intimidated him In fact, he is in control, not only of what he supplies.
But he is control of of your need.
Don’t you ever even say he’s a master of my need.
Now let’s pray over the word, sanctify it down in our hearts and in our spirits and cultures to understand more abundantly, lord.
What you would speak tonight. I know what you downloaded into me.
Let let it be released in this place in a coherent and effective way that it that it gives illumination and light and understanding.
I feel as though that I’m about to feed a feeder.
I’m about to feed a feeder.
As I release what is in my spirit tonight, somebody’s gonna take it and do like the body does with food.
They’re gonna convert it into so many nutritious elements that are gonna minister to them.
It’s gonna go in a sermon It’s gonna come out a building.
It’s gonna go in a sermon. It’s gonna come out a husband.
It’s gonna go in y’all are not ready for this. It’s gonna go in a sermon.
It’s gonna come out a degree. It’s gonna go in a sermon. It’s gonna come property.
It’s gonna go in the word that I speak to you right now.
Your spirit is gonna take it just like your body does food, and it’s gonna convert it into the you need for what is about to happen next in your life.
If you can understand what I just said, praise him
on credit. Just dial it.
You may be seated.
You may be seated.
I was having lunch with some close friends and people I’ve known for a number of years, and we were reminiscing about years ago when we were in a little storefront back in Montgomery, West Virginia.
And, Bishop Watkins was, coming down to minister, and and, and I needed he had so many members.
He brought 4 or 5 busloads about 20 cars down. I had about 30 members.
And, I ended up going to the high school.
I think they’re in Montgomery and renting the auditorium at the high school to hold the crowd because my church, which would seat about a hundred and 20 people, wouldn’t hold the crowd.
And I talked to myself how that align with a conversation I had had with god.
I said, god, I am the same man and the same preacher.
With the same anointing that I had back then.
Why did you give me American Airlines by then?
I’m the same guy. I was younger. I was stronger. I was hungry.
Why why do you take us through stages of development?
Why why do
you let us exercise in the gymnasium of small beginnings and go from 30 to 60 to a hundred full.
Because sometimes we can get stuck at a stage and never evolve to the capacity that we need to evolve to receive what we need to receive.
And as I begin to talk to the lord about it, he said, you see I supply
need.
It did amazing how you can come to church with somebody, and you can really get blessed and the person you brought with you got nothing.
Have you ever rode home from church with somebody who got nothing and you were really, really blessed and they got in the car talking about who was cute and who was fine and who had gained weight.
And why did she wear those shoes with that dress and And you’re going crazy because you’re having a spiritual moment with the lord, and they seemingly got nothing.
How could there be so much supply? Of glory, and they’d be oblivious to it.
Have you ever recognized that everybody doesn’t have the same capacity?
That they could be exposed to great things and not have an appetite for them.
That’s why you you don’t need you need to evolve from needing to do a census before you evolve.
That is to say. You don’t need everybody on your road to line up with you for you to receive what you need from god.
You don’t need a reaction from other people to validate what you need from god because there can come a release on such a level that if you don’t have the capacity to receive it, you might not even know it happened.
My god.
And our text Paul says, I I needed something and you came and ministered unto my necessity when other churches didn’t.
Unto my necessity when other churches did. I thought this is the apostle Paul.
This is the impossible. This is the guy let me explain to you.
This is the guy who was the Saddam who’s saying of the early church who kill Christians for a living.
And yet, god had such a plan for his life in spite of all the people he had slaughtered and murdered and destroyed.
And some suggested he even held the coat early on in his life while people stoned stepping He has a history of being a Christian killer, and yet god touches him and converts him for the master’s use.
How could god use somebody so filthy, so nasty, so hateful? He basically called the terrorists.
And put him on a street call straight and delivered him and turned him around and filled him up with the Holy Spirit and sent him out to do amazing things, not because he was pure, not because he was holy, not because he was righteous, not because he had a wonderful past, not because he had not made horrendous mistakes, but but even in his past life, he was a big guy.
Who did big things in a big way. When he hated Christians, he wasn’t too faking about it.
He said, I’m going to kill him. As soon as I get down to Jerusalem, I’m going to destroy him.
He was bold. And god chose boldness over righteousness, over purity, because he he he had the ability to function on a certain level, and god used it.
Now you must understand that much of our new testament theology is a result of the apostle Paul.
There would be no understanding. Yes.
Jesus died and shed the blood shed his blood rose from the dead and birthed the church, but the church that Jesus’s birth was an organism with no organization.
There was no structure. There was no order. There were no apostles, prophets, pastors, teachers, and evangelists.
Paul gives us all of that. Paul begins to teach us and make us understand.
There’s therefore not no condemnation to them that are in Christ’s Jesus who walk no longer after the flesh, but after the spirit.
Paul begins to tell us that if this earthly house or tabernacle should be dissolved, we have another building, eternally in the heavens, which is made of god, Paul teaches us, it is it’s him that we live, in him that we move, in him that we have our being.
It is the apostle Paul that makes us understand.
Therefore, having peace with god, that we are reconciled with him.
We understand peace of god, peace with god, peace in god. All because of the apostle Paul.
Without the apostle Paul, we would not have a clear understanding that the door to the gentiles had been opened that they might be saved us at free.
Paul preached with
so much power that a man died while he was preaching.
Paul ran down the steps raised him from the dead and kept right on peaches.
Paul was so awesome that they tried to kill him They couldn’t kill him.
They tried to beat him to death. They left him from there.
He got up and shook himself and walked away. He was in shittrex but he survived.
He was snake bent, but he shook it off. Or y’all don’t hear what I’m saying.
That Paul that raised people from the dead withstood chip ricks and shook off snakes.
Why are you needing anything?
If you can raise people from the dead, you can pay your water bill.
Paul says The truth of the matter is I am full lacking nothing.
But so that you might have credit to your account.
God created a need to test you to minister to that need.
This is weird. In other words, Paul is saying, I needed something, but I didn’t. I was in trouble, but I wasn’t.
It’s kinda strange. This is the same guy that said, I have learned how to abase and abound both to be full and to be in want.
He said he he said, even when you’re in trouble. You’re not in trouble.
Now I
need to preach this to somebody who’s got some faith in them.
Even when you’re in trouble, you are not in trouble, that god allows certain to suscities to come, either to create a backdrop for you to experience another dimension of his glory or for the people around you to have an opportunity to flow into another dimension of his grace.
Now back in the early days, Doctor.
Jasper, when I was preaching I would I would I would say something real hot and jazzy, as a subject.
I would do something like tell you to touch your neighbor.
And say it’s a setup.
So touch your neighbor and tell them It’s a setup.
They they they they they they don’t understand exactly what I’m saying yet.
Because I’m not totally through unloading it yet.
And when I unload it, everybody’s not even gonna get it because some people are so shocked by the situation, and they’ve been praying so hard about the situation.
They’ve been so focused on the circumstance They’ve been so distracted by what they’re going through that they don’t understand that everything you have been going through and every area you’ve been up under a type.
And every area that you have a necessity, your necessity is not a necessity it is in fact a opportunity for
you to experience another dimension of god’s glory to the 10 people who understand it, touched him be the same, into setup.
It’s training wheels for your faith.
It’s training wheels for your faith. It is the passage of entry into the next dimension.
It is the bar mitzvah for the son of god to have matured enough to carry the weight.
Why didn’t you give me this back then? I couldn’t handle it back then.
And why would he give me all of these thousands of seats?
When I didn’t need them.
Why would god give me something that I didn’t need?
So is the embryo of my success the supply or the need.
The only thing that makes an answer important is the question.
The profundity of the question is built.
The profundity of the answer is built on the profundity and the power of the question.
Why would I answer what you didn’t ask?
If god says the trigger point of my supply, is your need.
No wonder he hates a proud look because a proud look will never admit need.
I know I knocked out about 10 Rose with that.
I killed about 10 people with that. Why why does god hate a
proud look above everything else? Above I mean, murderers and lying in the back pocket and everything.
God said, He hates not only does
he hate pride. He hates a proud look. You won’t even have to be pride. He said
if you’ll sit there and act like you’re important, I
hate the fact that you adopt your Liz Cross acting like you’re important.
Because proud people will never admit me.
Why would you have a savior if you won’t admit that you’re drowning?
Why would you have a miracle worker if you won’t admit that you’d have a need.
No wonder some people get anointed while some people are just tired if god suppressed forms to need, if you don’t need anything, you won’t All and needy people caught your hands.
God says, let me see.
I got I got fish. I got stars. I got water. I got sunshine.
I got oak trees. I got pineapple trees.
I got all of this stuff that I wanna give, but I cannot give it until there’s a need.
So he forms the earth when he forms it it creates a void.
Boyd is capacity.
And he responds to the capacity of what it’s for.
He said, I create capacity in the ocean so I can put fish in it.
I created capacity in the earth so I could so see them to it.
I created capacity in the heavens so I could throw stars at it and birds at it.
Now you got something to fly in I couldn’t release the answer until I formed.
Alright. Alright.
Alright. Before on earth, and fills it.
He forms the ocean and fills it with fish.
He forms the air and fills it with birds. Everything god forms, he feels.
He formed the tabernacle. And filled it with furniture.
He formed the Holies of Holies
and then filled it with glory. In fact, he formed man and filled it with hair.
Which came first, the man or the breath.
God had the breath, but until there was capacity, he couldn’t feel anything.
Until you admit oh, y’all don’t hear it.
He responds to capacity.
Egypt can go down and show me what you see in the valley.
I see dry bones in the valley. He said, kidneys bones live again lord, I’ll know.
I speak to the bones that they might live. So I prophesied as I was commanded.
Suddenly there was noise, there was a shaking. The bone came together bone to his bone.
And they came together bone to his bone and sinews came upon them.
And then he said, prophecy out to the wind.
Because now I can fill what I form because god responds to capacity.
If you don’t want anything, you won’t get anything.
If you don’t need anything, you won’t receive anything. Do you not know that the real star
of the story with the 2 fish and the 5 loaves of bread is not the little boy
and it’s not the lunch. It was the hunger that moved the Lord.
When the when they came to Jesus, and they said the people that are with you are hungry, he said, oh, good.
That’s capacity. Wherever I see capacity, I will release a plan.
Oh, I want all the people that’s got capacity to hollow right now.
They said, Lord, you got 5000 hungry people.
What do you have? He said, We don’t have nothing but the little boy’s lunch.
He said, I can work with anything if they’re hungry. I can work with anything if there’s a need.
I can work with anything if they’re thirsty. I can work with anything.
Just give me the little bit you got it. I know it’s not much. Because the star is not what’s
in the bag. The star is aching in the belly of the people. God respects the hunger.
The the said that when Jesus, after John, the Baptist was beheaded, it said when Jesus saw the people, and they were hurt, he was moved with compassion and heal them.
What I’m trying to tell you, your need to act like you don’t need anything is stopping the flow of the miracle working power of god in your life.
If you would shake your little cute dress up, And say, lord, I’m hungry.
He even hung us, and blessed us to write just to show this field.