Bill Winston - Renew Your Mind
Your increase doesn’t come just by you working. It comes by you confessing. Look, look. Hold on. Look at Proverbs 18 and 20. Read. With the increase where? So I’m talking about increase, and it not coming from a culture, from where you are, from your color, from where you came from. It says with the increase of his what? Lips. Shall he be what? So every morning you would confess where you are financially. You, you don’t let leave that up to the world. You take charge of your own life. Look at Jacob. Ready? Read. So He might send you to X, Y, Z company to bless the company itself. That’s what I’m telling you. Because He’s got His blessing on you, and you’re going to work for somebody and bless the company. And whether the man wasn’t making his ends meet, now he’s making a profit. Because who’s there? You were there. Say amen.
Now, I know Jacob was talking about this in a negative way, but I’m just saying. Sometimes God will send you to a company because the mother of the owner of the company had prayed for him. Lord have mercy. God bless America. Boy, let me tell you. Alright. Now read the next verse. Ready? Read. So I’ve taken care of you now, Laban. Now I want to provide for my own house. Now watch Laban’s response. Ready? Whoa, whoa. You didn’t drop half the church off right there. You don’t have to pay me nothing. George Washington Carver, they came by to get the checks that they paid him every payday. Stacks of them. He hadn’t cashed them. They asked him, «How are you living»? He said, «God is taking care of me».
A lady came to… gave to one of the ministries. If I call her, you’ll know it. And she was taking her paycheck and signing it and sending it in every two weeks to this ministry. And they had to call her. They said, «Well, now, wait a minute now. I know you’re getting older. What? Why, how are you living»? She said, «I’m living by my giving». See? The soul must prosper. Something must prosper up there or else this thing won’t work for you. All right, let’s keep going. 31. Go ahead and read. Go ahead and read. Now who is that giving him the ideas of what to do? God, say the blessing. That’s what it does. It gives you creative production. That’s what the blessing does. Keep going.
Now stop right there. So my righteousness is going to answer for me. So I have potential. Say, «I have the potential that cannot be seen». Say, «I have potential that cannot be seen right now because it is inside». Now, what God wants to do is reveal your potential. So He’s going to stretch you on purpose. «Go to Chicago». — «I only got $200». — «Go». And I had to do it. He’s stretching my potential. Who gave you that potential? Say God. He put it in you when you were born again.
Now, wait a minute. Wait a minute. How much potential is in you? Oh, come on. You, right now, you don’t know how much is in you, but every time you move forward, that means you got more potential. Because where you are is not potential. Say amen. So, Jacob got pulled into his God-given what? Potential. You are being pulled into your God-given potential. God knows what you got inside of you. Y’all want to set some goals? You can be… Oh, boy. Can I let this come out? Now… All right, now. You can be a millionaire… All right. Y’all ready? …By Christmas Eve. Because your increase doesn’t come from the world. Say amen to that.
And now sit down a minute. Let’s, let’s just sit down. Look at Amos 9:13. Se, you are not Let’s, let’s just sit down. Look at Amos 9:13. Se, you are not blessed because you’re rich. You’re rich because you’re blessed. Look. Look at it. Look at that. Ready? Don’t know what? Put it up there in the message. Message. Okay. Ready? Read. Now, now your mind say, «Oh, I can’t believe that». But what? That’s the first thing I told you tonight. But what about your spirit? If it’s in the Word of God, your spirit can believe it. And your spirit is what produces it. Your mind is still searching. Your spirit can produce a millionaire by Christmas Eve. I ain’t going to back up. If anything, I’ll add to it. So, are you ready?
Lord have mercy. I said, are you ready? «Father, I am willing to let Amos 9:13 work in my life. I know my mind may not be able to understand, but my spirit can believe every Word of God. I believe you can take me from nothing to abundance by Christmas Eve. Now, I am availing myself. You give me the strategy for production and I will receive it. So from this day, I’m available, and I believe that I receive. Thank you, Lord. I give you praise in Jesus' name. Amen». And amen. Sit down for just a minute. I’m just going to give you a close here. I know some people… now looking at him, talking to all those people. You know…Yeah. Yeah. You, you… you just watch. Your money is a thought away. It is a thought away.
Come on now. You can renew your mind to what is right and what God will allow. God will… He’s ready. He’s waiting on you. You’re not waiting on Him. The prodigal son’s brother, he lived there with a father and never, ever took his inheritance. But I’m telling you, you got plenty of inheritance. God’s will. Come on. God’s way. And God’s what? Why. And it will come to you. Other ways to prosper is, first, God will meet your needs, every need you have, with a bank deposit you make. So as you sow seed, He makes a deposit in your bank that is multiplied of what you have sown because of His law that says He’ll give it back to you 30, Come on, 60, and 100 fold.
Now, The next way He’ll give it to you is He’ll give it to you by favor. And favor is found in Exodus chapter 12 in verse 35 and 36. Ready? Read. Stop right there. Look at Esther, chapter 5 and verse 1-3. Esther chapter 5 and verse 1-3. Hallelujah. We’re talking about favor. That once you have the blessing on your life, favor comes with it. Ready? Read. She obtained what? She obtained what? Favor means God is leaning in your direction. Come on. God is leaning in your direction. Say it to me. «Father, I thank you for favoring my life. For producing supernatural increase, promotions, restoration, honor, increased assets, great victories, recognition, prominence, preferential treatment, and battles won which I do not have to fight. I receive your favor into my life starting tonight in the name of Jesus'. Favor, let me see you work in Jesus' name. Amen».
All right, favor. All right. Even giving to the poor. Say, «Giving to the poor». Now, this is coming as prosperity in another direction. But look at Psalms 41, verses 1-3. Ready? Read. Ready? Read. This is when you give to the poor. Look, look. I want to look at it in the NIV translation, please. The NIV translation. Want to get the full impact of this. Giving to the poor. Ready? Read. Ready? Read. Look at that. When you get sick, He’s going to restore you, from giving to the poor. They tell me Rockefeller started a march of dimes. And when he did, he is so, oh, it was so bad that doctors telling him he couldn’t hardly eat anything. And he started giving away those dimes and putting them end on end down New York, Fifth Avenue.
And next thing you know, he start getting better. Now. I’m just saying, giving can get you better. Tonight has been a special night. We have just found that God’s will is for us to prosper. And God’s way for us to prosper is with the blessing. Turn to Luke chapter 5, please. Luke chapter 5. And this is when Peter was fishing And caught nothing. Now Jesus comes. Jesus is now coming with the blessing. Now look at verse 4. Ready? Read. Ready? Read. As I what? Notice, God prospers you through Jesus. Jesus prospers you through the Word and through you renewing your mind. So notice, He told him to launch out nevertheless at thy Word, I’ll do it. Put the next verse up there, please. Ready? Read. Ready? Read.
So notice, Peter experienced the blessing, and this blessing created fish. They had fish… That lake dry, I’m sure of it. But the blessing came and created what they needed. Jesus was operating in that blessing and demonstrating to them how the blessing works. Now, I’m saying to you, if you give your million dollars time, you’ll never get. Don’t give it time. That’s why I said let’s believe for it by when? Night. Or whatever it is. You see. I don’t want to give it time. If you give it time, it gets in 3D. That’s where satan is. Take it out of 3D and put it, come on, 4D. satan can’t reach it. And that’s where faith works. Faith needs no time. Say, «I got the faith to believe for it. It might not make sense to my head, but my spirit has the faith that takes. In Jesus' name, I believe everything that was taught here tonight. Thank you, Lord. In Jesus' name». Now get up and give Him a shout and a praise.