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Hallelujah, Hallelujah. Congratulations, you're about to hear a message that would help you, that would remove some strongholds,

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that will change your mind completely and open you up to all that God has for you. The title of my message today is why you should

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also be a receiver. Why you should also be a receiver.

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Now, many of us are taught to be givers. We are taught to be givers.

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The Bible actually says that it is more blessed to give than to receive. And so we are thought to give.

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We spend all our lives giving. But what we've not noticed is that that emphasis has

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brought some challenges to us because we've missed the balance.

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In that, we've prioritized giving without putting understanding in its proper context. There's a place for understanding.

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You see, the Bible says that it is more blessed, more blessed, to give than to receive.

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He's not saying that it is blessed to give and then it is evil to receive.

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This scripture actually shows up in Acts chapter 20, verse 35, where Paul was talking to the elders of the church in Ephesus, and he was giving them his last words.

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And then he says, Acts 20:35, 'In everything I did, I showed you that by this kind of hard work, we must help the weak,

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remembering the words of the Lord Jesus himself, remembering the words of the Lord Jesus himself said, "It is more blessed to give than to receive."'

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Now, it's very important how you interpret the scripture because that can form the foundation of your life.

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If you interpret the scripture as, 'It is better or it is good to give and terrible to receive,' then you're going to have problems.

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And unfortunately, subconsciously, many people have interpreted the scripture that way. He says that it is more blessed to give than to receive,

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which means that it is also blessed to receive. It is just more blessed to give.

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But there's a blessing in receiving. You should be someone who is interested in receiving, and I'm going to show it to you from the scriptures.

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Look at Matthew chapter 10, verse 8. The Bible says, 'Freely have you received, freely give. Freely have you received, freely give.'

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Notice the order. It is receiving first, then giving. It is not giving before receiving. It is receiving first before giving.

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Okay, sometimes you may even feel guilty about receiving. You may have difficulties and all of that. Receiving may feel like a weakness,

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but the order is receiving first, then giving. Receiving comes before giving.

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You know, Jesus himself, Jesus who is our perfect example, lived as a receiver. Of course, he lived as a giver,

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but he also lived as a receiver, which is the emphasis of my message, right?

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For instance, Jesus said, 'All the things I've received from the Father.' Okay, for instance in John chapter 17, verse 8,

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he says, 'For I have given them the words which thou gavest me.' So all the words that we had Jesus sharing with us and blessing our world with,

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were received from the Father. Were received from the Father, okay?

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Jesus received grace, he received authority. He said, 'All power is given unto me.' The Holy Spirit descended upon him at his baptism.

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Jesus, at a point when he was even going to the cross, in the Garden of Gethsemane, received strength, strength

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from angels. The Bible says, 'An angel appeared unto him from heaven, strengthening him.'

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Okay, so Jesus received help, right? Jesus lived as a receiver.

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So we highlight the ministry of Jesus as a giver, but there's also the aspect of Jesus as a receiver.

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As a receiver, yeah. And if you don't understand that, you will spend your life giving, giving, giving, giving, giving, giving, and never receiving.

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Some of the people who give the most, some of the people who give the best, their best, are the people who have not learned to receive, and so they suffer as a result.

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Listen, you cannot, think of a cup. Think of a cup.

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Now, you cannot overflow if that cup, you cannot have an overflow of that cup if that cup is empty.

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An overflow means that you've been filled. It is only after you've been filled that you can overflow. Overflow.

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In other words, you can only be a blessing to others when you've been filled. You've been filled, right?

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So receiving is not a wrong thing. Receiving is a right thing and it's a proper order. It's a proper order. Okay.

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You notice, for instance, the people who are not able to receive love are not able to give love much.

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So if you look at the people who commit crimes and become serial killers and all kinds of things, ofttimes they are from broken homes, broken families,

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they have been hurt, they have been molested, they have been abused one way or the other. So what they have received,

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is what they are giving out. So they end up molesting, abusing, and doing all kinds of things, okay? What they have received is what they have given out.

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In the same way, if someone is receiving love, it becomes easier for that person to love others. If someone is receiving grace, it becomes easier for that person to give grace to others.

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If someone is receiving strength, it becomes easier for that person to give strength to others. So if you are not receiving anything,

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then you're going to have difficulties being able to give, being able to give. And

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I think that our upbringing, the way we are brought up, has actually severely affected our ability to receive.

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It is really, really, really affected our ability to receive.

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So for instance, many of us are brought up in a survival-based setting. You know you have to survive, you have to scramble.

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So you are not interested in receiving, you're interested in just getting. Sometimes you've been in a place where you had constant rejection.

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Okay, you've been taught, this is a problem that we have in a lot of African homes, we've been taught independence instead of interdependence.

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Okay, so we're taught that, hey, you have to make it on your own, there's nobody for you, there's nobody, yeah. And there's a reason why the message is put that way,

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to help you focus on not depending on anybody. But there's a blessing of interdependence, okay?

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Sometimes our upbringing affects us in the sense that we fear being indebted to anybody. We don't want anybody, we don't want to owe anybody.

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So we are brought up in a way that, when you are coming up, you are told, 'Don't take food from anybody, don't take money from anybody, don't...'

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So you hear a lot of people, 'Okay, I'm not used to taking things from people. The way they raised me, the way they taught me.'

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And for that period of time, that was a very important way for us to be raised because as a little child, you do not have the discernment, you do not have the capacity or the wisdom to know what is right from wrong, what is good from bad, who wants to harm you from who wants to simply be a blessing to you.

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So absolutely, that teaching was relevant for our upbringing. But as we've grown into the world now, that teaching must be refined.

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That teaching has not been refined for a lot of people, so they are still living as 10-year-olds or 12-year-olds in a world of 30-year-olds, in a world of 25-year-olds, okay? So they don't want to receive anything.

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One of the, one of the interesting things, I had a story of someone who told me that he

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he, um, went to a certain place and someone wanted to give him a huge sum of money.

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And by his upbringing, he just said, 'Oh no, no, no, no, it's fine, it's fine.'

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Hoping that the person would come again and the person would insist, and the person didn't insist, and that was the way he lost that money.

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And he didn't have the courage to go back and say, 'Oh, I was just joking.' Right? Sometimes we are thought that, 'Oh, like the person must insist.'

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So, 'I'm only taking it because you are insisting, not because I'm interested in receiving, but it's just because I'm insisting, you are insisting.'

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Okay? Sometimes we've been taught in our background as well, not to be a bother to anybody.

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So, often, 'I don't want to bother anybody, I don't want to worry anybody.' Amazingly, the people who don't want to bother anybody are the people who go out of the way for others the most.

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So, it's a wrong mindset to have, 'I don't want to bother anybody.' Listen, you have bothered people all your life.

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When you were born, you were helpless. You were a helpless child. Right from the cutting of your umbilical cord, all the way to sending you to school, paying your fees, to all of that.

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Listen, you have bothered many people over the years.

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It's not, it's not now that you'll start bothering people. You have been bothering people all your life, right?

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But that mindset of, 'I don't want to bother anybody, I don't want anybody to go out of their way for me,' it is not a good mindset.

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Imagine us telling Jesus Christ that, 'Oh, Jesus, well, our sins, we'll figure it out.' I have a feeling if some of us, based on our upbringing, met Jesus and he was going to the cross, we would have said, 'Why are you stressing yourself? If it's just for me, don't worry. I'll be fine. I'll stop sinning tomorrow.'

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'I don't need that help, like, I'm worrying you having to go through all this for me, you're doing all this.' 'Oh, Jesus, oh, no, no, no, no, no.' We would have stopped, would have organized and stopped Jesus from going to the cross

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simply because we did not want to receive or we don't want anybody to be in a position where they're having to go out of their way for us.

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But I'm highlighting to you that this is a wrong way to think. This is a wrong way to think.

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And there are certain signs that show that you're bad at receiving, okay? Yeah.

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You feel uncomfortable when people help you. You resist it. Yeah. You struggle to ask for help.

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Yeah. This is something I've noticed in my life personally. I noticed that sometimes when I'm doing something, I could just ask for help.

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In fact, just last week I was somewhere, and, um, I had left my charger somewhere.

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So, I was lodging somewhere, and then there was somebody else, so,

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uh, I thought to myself for about 15 or 20 minutes before I said, 'Oh, let me ask him.' In my mind, I thought I'd be bothering him. 'Why am I asking for his charger?'

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But my phone was really going off, my charger was not around, so I needed to get it. So, I went to knock on his door, and then he gave me a charger.

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And then I tried the charger, and the charger simply wasn't charging. So, I was there for another 30 minutes, I was thinking, 'Oh, should I just,

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you know, ignore it?' and all of that, and then eventually, I just gathered courage. Can you imagine, I needed courage to just ask for a simple charger.

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I gathered courage, and went to ask him, and then he gave me a better charger that charged my phone. Now, in my mind, the whole thing is, 'I, I, I,

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like, you know, nobody should have to...' No, no, no, no. It's a terrible thing. It's a sign of independence.

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It's a sign of, of, 'I can do it all by myself.' It's a sign of pride, even sometimes, right? You don't want to look vulnerable, you don't want to look weak.

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Now, you you also reject compliments, that's also another sign. You reject compliments.

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You see.

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When we say you are sharp, you say, 'Oh, no no no no'. You are DB, 'Oh no no'. Every oh, 'You are smart.' 'Oh, no no no'. 'Hey, you are beautiful.' 'Oh, no no no.'

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You don't know how to receive, because even words, compliments, are things to receive.

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So we've been trained not to receive at all.

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You see, you isolate when you are in pain.

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I know someone who said that when he falls sick, he doesn't want anybody to come around him because he doesn't want anybody to see him sick. That's a wrong mindset.

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That's a wrong mindset. You resist correction. You know, you have to receive correction.

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You see.

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And some some some of us even overgive to avoid vulnerability.

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Because giving feels safer than receiving. It's like in giving I still have the leverage, I still have the upper hand.

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Okay, I still have the upper hand.

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But I want to submit some things to you.

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That all that you have, you have received.

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Every single thing you have, you have received.

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Let me prove it to you. First Corinthians chapter four

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the verse number

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number 17.

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Oh, thank you, Jesus, for helping us.

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For helping us.

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First Corinthians, what verse did I mention? First Corinthians chapter four,

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the verse number seven, the verse number seven, rather.

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First Corinthians chapter four, the verse number seven.

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Let's open it and read it.

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King James.

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Paul says, 'For who maketh thee

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to differ from another? Who maketh thee to differ from another?

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And what hast thou that thou didst not receive?

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Now, if thou didst receive it, why dost thou glory as though thou hadst not received it?' Let's read a lighter version. King James is quite interesting. Okay.

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NIV says,

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'For who makes you to differ from anyone else? What do you have

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that you did not receive?

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And if you did And if you did receive it, why do you boast as though you did not?'

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He's saying that everything we have,

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we received it.

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And when you take stock of your life, you will notice the same to be true.

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The life you have, you received it. The breath you have, you received it. The surname you have, you received it. The name you have, you received it.

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The opportunities you have, you received it.

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Everything, we we were born receiving

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both from God and from men.

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We were born receiving.

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The relationships you have, you received it. The wisdom you have, you received it. It was given to you. It was imparted to you. Opportunities were created for you to have it.

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The Bible says in James chapter one, verse 17, 'Every good and perfect gift is from above, the Father of lights with whom there's no shadow of turning, no variableness.'

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So, nothing really self-originated.

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Sometimes I hear people say things like, 'Oh, by my own hard work, you know, I've gathered these resources.' Listen, someone took your hands and took you to kindergarten for you to be able to speak English as eloquently and as fluently as you do.

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I tell you, you may not have ever even known that person. Someone sat to teach you. Everything you have, you have received. Our lives have been lived by receiving.

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Now imagine a child saying that they will not receive, they are not interested in receiving, they want to have a self-made life, a baby that is born suddenly starts speaking. No, no, no, no, no.

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It won't work. So everything you have

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is by receiving. And And he's highlighting the fact that that is the reason why we should not boast. Boasting is disallowed here

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because what do you have that you do not receive?

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Everything we have, we received it. The ability to talk, the ability to walk, the body, everything,

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we received it.

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We received it.

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We received it.

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Yeah. So, we have been living our lives receiving, just we've just not realized it.

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You know, when someone goes to class or goes to school, you go through school and you spend years

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receiving, receiving, receiving. And one day you graduate so that you can start giving,

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giving,

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giving.

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The order must always be receiving

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and giving.

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Receiving and giving.

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Receiving and giving.

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How did we get born again? We do not get born again because we did anything.

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The only thing

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that we had to

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step into

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was to receive him.

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John 1:12 says, 'He came unto his own, and his own received him not.

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But as many' John 1:11 and 12, 'But as many as received him, to them gave he power to become sons of God.'

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Sons of God.

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Sons of God.

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John 3:16, what does it say? 'For God so loved the world, that he gave his only begotten Son,

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you know, whosoever, whosoever believes in him should not perish, but have everlasting life.' Whosoever, anybody who believes in him, who receives him

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should not perish.

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So, salvation is not something you achieve. Salvation is something that you receive.

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Salvation is a gift of God. So even your Christian walk

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began with receiving. Your natural life began with receiving. Your Christian walk began with receiving.

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You received salvation. And when you receive salvation, you received eternal life. And you received every single thing that Jesus did for you on the cross. You received the love of God.

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The love of God is not something you attain. There are people who are trying to attain it.

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The righteousness of God is not something you attain. There are people who are trying to attain it. You receive it.

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Let me show you a big mistake people make. This is in Romans chapter 10.

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Romans chapter 10.

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Oh, what a blessing.

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May we become masters at receiving. Because I'm I'm just showing you that we've already been receiving, whether you know it or not,

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you have already been receiving. And you just need

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the consciousness to understand that receiving is not wrong.

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Imagine if there was no receiving, how would we get born again?

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Romans chapter 10, from the verse one.

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Paul says, 'Brothers and sisters, my heart's desire and prayer to God for Israel is that they may be saved. For I can testify about them that they are zealous for God, but their zeal is not based on knowledge.

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Since they did not know the righteousness of God and sought to

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establish their own, they did not submit

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themselves to the righteousness to God's righteousness.'

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He says that these Israelites they were moving around trying to create their own righteousness. They did not receive the righteousness of God.

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The righteousness of God. Every good thing we have in Christ is by receiving.

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Paul says, 'Dear brothers and sisters, the longing of my heart and my prayer to God is for the people of Israel to be saved. I know what enthusiasm they have for God, but it is misdirected zeal.

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For they don't understand God's way of making people right with him.

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Refusing to accept God's way, they cling to their own way of getting right with God by trying to keep the law. For Christ has already accomplished the purpose for which the law was given. As a result, all who believe in him are made right with God.' Hallelujah.

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How did we How did we become right with God? By believing and receiving what he has done for us.

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Receiving what he has done for us.

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It's like It's like somebody, maybe someone prominent in your family passing on and leaving a a large inheritance for you. And then you say, 'Oh, no. I'm I'm not

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I don't like to receive. I just want rather, you know, I have to work on my own. I have to accomplish it. I have to' This is what the Israelites were doing.

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take, take a hold, take a hold, take a hold

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enjoy their walk with God. Because they are always thinking about attaining, accomplishing.

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of the things God has spoken to you about.

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Okay, they want to prove themselves right before God. But in Christ, you receive.

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This joy is mine, this grace is mine, this increase is mine, this promotion is mine. Take a hold of it.

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You receive his goodness, you receive his grace, you receive his mercy.

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and it will be yours.

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So, you receive it first by believing

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You receive his mercy. He says, 'Come boldly before the throne of grace.'

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and then you later receive it by having it physically in your hands.

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'that you may find

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you may obtain.'

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This is Hebrews chapter four, verse 16. It says, 'that we may receive mercy and find grace to help us in a time of need, in our time of need.' We can receive mercy. We can receive mercy, mercy, constantly receiving mercy.

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lambano, receive it.

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In Christ, He used the word dekomai, which is another type of receiving.

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Okay. All that we have in Christ, we have received, dekomai. Dekomai is like an embrace.

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So, don't live your life thinking that receiving is wrong. Our Christian life, the foundation of our Christian life is receiving.

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has for us become ours.

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Right? Just embrace Him. Just embrace Him.

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Now, everything we have in Christ, we have received. We have received wisdom, riches, glory, grace, confidence, beauty,

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increase, progress.

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placing a... it says lay hold on it. Lay hold on eternal life.

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Whatever Jesus did has now been credit credited to our account simply because we received him. When you receive Jesus, you receive all that God is, all of God's goodness, you receive all of God's goodness.

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So, our walk with God is a walk of receiving.

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So you receive.

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Even prayer is a walk of receiving.

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In prayer you receive. That's how you receive in prayer.

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That's how you receive in prayer.

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It's it's a walk of receiving.

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Very, very important. This, this foundation is very important. Everything that we have, we have received.

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Mark 11:24 is a verse that I think that you should read over and over again.

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We have received. We have received.

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It says, 'Therefore, I tell you, whatever you ask for in prayer, believe that you have received it, and it will be yours.'

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wrap this up by talking about

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how you can receive well.

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How you can receive well.

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How you can receive well.

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you must receive from God.

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You must receive from God.

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God is the ultimate source of everything, every good and perfect gift.

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Do not make man your source.

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You see, if you want to receive love from people when you've not received love from God, there'll be a problem.

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that you have received it, and it will be yours.'

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So, when you ask in prayer, what God wants you to do is to believe that you have received it.

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The next thing after making a request in prayer is to believe that you have received it and then it will be yours. So, you ask God for something according to his will, just believe that you have received it and begin to walk in the

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of it. Begin to walk in the reality of it.

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Always start with God, and when you receive from God, you have an endless supply to be able to give.

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Begin to start saying, 'I have it. I have it. I have it.' What you have asked for, 'I have it.'

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and receive His love. The Bible says that for the love of God, Romans 5:5, is shed abroad in our hearts.

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You see, the Bible tells us of Abraham, that Abraham did not stagger at the promise of God through unbelief, but was strong in faith, giving glory to God,

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The love of God is shed abroad in our hearts.

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knowing that what God had promised, he was also able to do. So, what was Abraham doing?

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Shed abroad in our hearts, so God has given you enough love to make you so kind, so joyful, so peaceful

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Abraham was always giving thanks to God. Abraham was always rejoicing. Abraham was always celebrating God, thanking God, thanking God, thanking God, thanking God. Why? Because Abraham believed he had received it.

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towards any challenge, any difficulty, any person.

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Okay, if you notice that you are going through seasons where you are easily irritated, where you are, it means that there's a, there's a disconnect

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somewhere, that umbilical cord has been broken.

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when you receive before the actual thing manifest physically,

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the receiving is not when the thing manifest physically, oh, can you imagine? When you pray,

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You, you need to go back to your source and receive, get an infilling.

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but you overflow when you are full.

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the the receiving is believing that you have received it. He says, 'Therefore, I tell you, whatever you ask for in prayer, believe that you have received

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Believe that you have received it. And the way you know that you believe that you have received it, the way we can know, is when you are full of thanksgiving.

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Lambano, the word is lambano. Take a hold of it.

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Receive constantly from Him.

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You know, lay hold on it, take it. Say, 'This is mine. I have received it. This is mine. This job is mine. This opportunity is mine. This healing is mine. This this marriage is mine.'

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You know, when you spend time with the Lord, you are receiving. He's pouring out His love, He's pouring out His grace, He's pouring

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pouring out His wisdom, He's pouring out His strength. That's why your spending time with God is very important.

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pour out to others.

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Then you will also receive from men. You actually, you see this pattern with Jesus.

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Jesus received from the Father, and He also received from men.

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Someone is saying, "Hey, did Jesus really receive from men? How?"

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I'll show it to you.

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Luke chapter 8.

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Luke chapter 8.

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What a blessing. I hope you're being blessed by this message, receiving.

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Luke chapter 8 verse 1. It says, "After this, Jesus traveled about from one town and village to another,

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proclaiming the good news of the kingdom of God. The twelve were with him,

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and also some women who had been cured of evil spirits and diseases. Mary, called Magdalene, from whom seven demons had come out,

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Joanna, the wife of Chuza, the manager of Herod's household,

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Susanna, and many others. These women were helping to support them out of their own means."

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Can you see it? Yeah.

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These women, they were giving. Let me read another version, "They were giving."

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"And many others, who were contributing from their own resources to support Jesus and his disciples." So, these were people who had been helped by the ministry,

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and they were contributing to support Jesus. Can you imagine?

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and this, this, this was costly

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perfume. She broke it and anointed Jesus's feet,

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wiped, wiped it with her hair.

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She... Jesus did not say, "Hey, stop, stop, stop, stop, stop! What are you doing? That's a very expensive oil. Hey, stop it. How dare you!" No.

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Jesus received it.

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Jesus received, when He went to visit Mary, Jesus received food.

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He received it and then He was able to give.

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Sometimes you're so generous that when someone wants to give you something, you say no. Let's say your parent,

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you must learn how to even receive from your children.

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You must learn to receive it. In your mind, ah come on, we can buy bread, we can do this, why do, you don't need to do it.

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you will not give the child an opportunity to be blessed, because that child is giving, you are on the receiving end.

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to enjoy the blessing, the more, more than blessed

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aspect of, of, of giving.

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Okay, so because they are giving to you and you are receiving, you are blessed, but they are more than blessed. So if you want people to be more than blessed, you have to give them

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an opportunity to also give to you.

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ask for things and demand for things from people, absolutely not. But as the Lord lays on their heart,

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when people give you things, not just money, resources, time, opportunities,

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there are people who give you things that are worth more than money, just their time even.

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You see, their counsel, years of counsel, years of wisdom, just their correction that can save you from a lot of trouble.

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their help, you know, I think about when I was getting married, the amount of help I received,

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financially but people helping me, okay, do this, talk to this person, go about it this way, go about it that way, go about. My pastor would sit with me and show me, went through the, I mean, what a blessing.

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What a blessing. And I needed to learn how to receive,

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how to receive. So allow people to be a blessing to you, allow, don't reject, some of you

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you've made everybody think that you don't need anything because every good thing that comes you reject it.

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be open to receiving.

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It doesn't make you weak, it doesn't make you any less, right? It doesn't make you a beggar, but it gives people an opportunity to be blessed.

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pushing them back, you see, without rebuking them for trying to

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you should also learn to receive in your life,

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learn to receive,

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learn to receive. Remember,

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there are things that God receives.

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Ah. When you read in the book of Revelation, it says, "Thou art worthy to receive

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glory, honor, power, dominion." Oh, He's worthy to receive. When we, when we bring our worship, imagine, imagine God reject our worship. He receives our worship.

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It says Revelation 4:11, "Thou art worthy, O Lord, to receive glory and honor and power, for thou hast created all things and for thy pleasure,

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they are and were created." What a beautiful verse. He's worthy to receive everything.

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He's worthy. So even God now still He receives our worship,

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He receives our givings, He receives our time, He receives our love, He receives our praise, He receives, He receives everything,

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He receives it. So if your Father is a receiver, there's a principle of you also being a receiver.

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And as you are a giver, now this is not saying you should not be a giver. Please, absolutely, you should be a giver. But as you are a giver, you should also be a receiver.

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Look, look at how your life is, life is orchestrated. Your breath is orchestrated. You breathe in, you breathe out.

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back and forth is what, is what allows you to live.

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Constant giving and receiving is what allows you to live. Constant giving and receiving is what... this, this principle is what runs life. The seed principle is a, a principle of giving and receiving, giving and receiving, giving and receiving. Children are born by giving and receiving. Everything God has ordained His world by giving and receiving.

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So as we do one part very well, we should not neglect the very important part

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of receiving. Receiving first and foremost from God, receiving counsel, revelation, I mean receiving everything, receiving all these things from God and then pouring out and giving all these things to other people, giving, being a blessing by the power of the Holy Spirit.

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So, from today I declare that you are a receiver, you are a godly receiver.

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You know how to receive well. You don't reject goodness, you don't reject grace,

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you don't reject opportunities

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that are God-given.

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And in as much as you receive well, you also give well

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in Jesus's mighty name. God bless you so much, thank you for listening.