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Our needs vary from season to season, but the question remains, “Do we have enough, in the moment or for the future?”

God's kingdom isn't built on scarcity. It is built on Faith, Trust, Obedience, and Generosity.

The Bible addresses the human mindset of scarcity, whether physical lack, emotional emptiness, or spiritual hunger and contrasts it with the mindset of the Kingdom of God, which reflects hope, trust, and contentment.

What mindset were you raised in? Abundance or Poverty?

You can have a generous mindset in one area of your resources and a scarcity mindset in another. God wants us to be generous in all areas and with all our resources.

When we see God as our Provider, we move from scarcity thinking to generosity thinking, from worldly thinking to Kingdom thinking:

• Reordering where we place our trust.
• Becoming a neighbor to those around us.
• Placing what we have into Jesus' hands so it can become more than enough.

1. God is Our Provider

“Therefore I tell you, do not be anxious about your life, what you will eat or what you will drink, nor about your body, what you will put on. Is not life more than food, and the body more than clothing? Look at the birds of the air: they neither sow nor reap nor gather into barns, and yet your heavenly Father feeds them. Are you not of more value than they? Matthew 6:25-26 ESV

And my God will supply every need of yours according to his riches in glory in Christ Jesus. Philippians 4:19 ESV

Key Truth: The kingdom of God doesn’t run on scarcity. The Father knows, the Father cares, the Father provides. Seek first His kingdom.

Name one anxiety, time, talent, or treasure. Pray Matthew 6:33 over it. This week, take one ‘first and best’ step in that area.

When God has our trust, He also gets our treasure, because our hearts follow our treasure.

Trust doesn’t stay theoretical, it shows up in our budgets and behaviors.

2. Generosity Becomes Compassion Expressed

Principles that influence generosity:

• Contentment is learned; it is not personality or luck (Philippians 4:11–12)
• Faithful with little → entrusted with more (Luke 16:10–12).
• Once our hands open to God, they will open to others.
• As we offer what we have, we find the pattern of God’s Kingdom: Little in our hands becomes more than enough in God’s hands. (Feeding of the 5000: Matthew 14:13-21 (ESV); Feeding of the 4000: Mark 6:36-44 (ESV))
• Jesus was teaching the disciples Kingdom abundance.
• Obedient giving prompted by the Holy Spirit releases God’s abundance: “Keep a small ‘ready-to-bless’ fund to respond when the Spirit nudges. when the Spirit nudges.
• As we offer what we have, we find the pattern of the kingdom: little in our hands becomes more than enough in His.
• Compassion opens our hands. Jesus multiplies what we place in His

3. Surrender Releases Multiplication:

Lifting up his eyes, then, and seeing that a large crowd was coming toward him, Jesus said to Philip, “Where are we to buy bread, so that these people may eat?” He said this to test him, for he himself knew what he would do. Philip answered him, “Two hundred denarii worth of bread would not be enough for each of them to get a little.” One of his disciples, Andrew, Simon Peter's brother, said to him, “There is a boy here who has five barley loaves and two fish, but what are they for so many?” John 6:5-9 ESV

Have you ever thought to yourself: The need is so great and my ability is so small, what good would it do?

Lessons We Learn About Surrender:

• Need tests our application of truth, and reveals our understanding.
• Need doesn’t overwhelm God.
• Lack doesn’t constrain God.
• Size doesn’t impress God.
• Obedience moves God.
• Multiplication happens as it leaves our hands.

Jesus Himself is our sufficiency The Bread of Life.

“Seed principle”: “What’s kept stays one; what’s sown multiplies.”

Words of Knowledge

• We believe the Lord wants to heal someone who is having pain in the joint of their right jaw.

• We believe the Lord wants to heal a mom who has received a diagnosis of placenta previa.

• We believe we heard the Lord saying that there are some here today who are really struggling with their identity in Christ. You feel like you are struggling to find purpose. The Lord wants you to know that you do not have to be afraid; He has redeemed you, and you are His son or daughter. He has good plans for you; rest in the assurance of His promises for your life.

• We believe the Lord is reviving old dreams, prophecies, and anointings today. We feel like the Lord wants His sons and daughters to prophesy over these areas that seem to be dead places and command them to live again. The season that was, is no more and He is doing new things. Begin to recall and decree the words that were given to you long ago for this season and the ones to come given to you long ago for this season and the ones to come.