Stepping into Your New Frontier

Cleaned from the live recording. Lightly edited for reading.

A rocket needs a destination

Good morning. It's so good to be back home. I heard you guys missed me, but I didn't miss you. I'm joking. Yes, I missed you guys. It's good to be back home.

Ready. T minus 3, 2, 1, lift off. God is taking us somewhere.

You can have a rocket, but if you don't have a destination, it will be useless. Any rocket that just goes into space with no destination will just drift. There are two space satellites that were sent nearly 50 years ago, travelling to the edge of our solar system.

My heart is to help you to understand where we're going, why we're going there, and your part in it. But before I do that, let us sing this song, "These Are the Days."

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...800 times, I can't remember, bigger than our sun. So you can imagine the magnitude of the light it produced. When Saul saw him on the road to Damascus, the Bible says he saw a light brighter than the sun (Acts 26:13). And the Bible says the captains will run to the mountains and say, fall on us and hide us from the face of him that sits on the throne (Revelation 6:15-16).

New frontiers

So we're talking about going to new frontiers. Places we've never gone before.

Everybody who's paying attention to what's happening in the world will know that Elon Musk, with the vision to colonize Mars, in doing that has perfected the reusable rocket, making the launch of satellites far cheaper than 10 years ago. Now we see China recently becoming just the second nation in the world to launch a rocket and land it back safely on Earth. There are just about six nations so far who have been able to send landers to the moon. Just six, because it requires a level of sophistication.

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I remember, Apostle, when we were in Dubai, I sat on the plane and I looked at this massive machinery we're flying in, hundreds of people. And I'm thinking to myself, there are wires and circuitry all over, the intricacies, the sophistication of this aircraft, and you're there about 14 hours in the air.

And then I met Philip in Ghana. They were saying when they went to New Zealand, they flew on Qantas, if I'm getting it right, and they said they'd never flown in anything like that. When they were at the airport and looked at the plane, they asked one another, is that what we're going on? Because they flew on Emirates before, those 777 aircraft, and they were massive. But the one travelling to New Zealand was far bigger.

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...you see these are people who plan 50 years down the line. You see these are people who are thinking about citizenship. And as a nation and as a church, we need to change.

Let me tell you the truth. The first time I went to the US, someone was taking me somewhere, and when I saw the infrastructure I said to him, I'm persuaded that our politicians are wicked. Because you can't be travelling and seeing those things and come back and do foolishness. If you notice, I say politicians. And I'm praying for the people I'm speaking to this morning. I want you to have where we're going.

Planning that endangers people

Let me give you a perfect example. in the fastest-growing economy. If you ever drive there trying to get through, it's like you're playing hide and seek. You have to be guessing the speed, the velocity of vehicles to figure out, let me go now, let me don't go, let me go. And when you have an accident, people go on television and blame the citizens for driving recklessly. But nobody blames the politicians for foolish planning. Planning infrastructure that endangers the lives of their citizens and then blaming the citizens.

Let me move on from there.

Kingdom people must set the standard

I'm saying this: as kingdom people, we need to start to change. We can't criticize politicians, and then in the church or the shop where we have jurisdiction, people are seeing the same foolishness. You said "Amen" when I was talking about politicians. But now that I'm talking about church people, church gone quiet.

If we must be standard setters, we must be showing and setting the standard. So we need to change how we think and how we plan. When they come to church, they must see excellence. When they come to our work site, they must see excellence. When you plan things on the job, they must see you're doing it with excellence. You're thinking 10, 15 years down the line. You're not planning like our politicians, who build a massive nice bridge to ease traffic jam, and two weeks after they finish building the bridge, there's traffic jam.

When I was in Ghana, I heard somebody came up with a great idea. They're going to put traffic lights on that have traffic jam already. And I'm saying to myself, people are building overpasses so the traffic can flow smoothly, and we put in traffic lights.

When I say these things, I say it with love, and I'm not addressing a party. Because when Granger's government wanted to do three lanes over the Demerara Harbour Bridge, I said to myself, these people are taking us back to the 60s and 70s with planning. So understand, I'm not talking about party politics. I'm saying there is an issue in this nation as it relates to how people plan and how they think, and as a church we need to move beyond that.

Musk plans 20 to 30 years ahead

I started by saying what Elon Musk was doing, because when he wanted to build a rocket to go out of this atmosphere, it was said he went to buy refurbished ICBMs, intercontinental ballistic missiles, and they were laughing at him. That meeting turned out to be a disaster. He just jumped on his plane, went back to the US and decided he's going to start building rockets from scratch.

He wants to go to Mars. I was listening to this this morning. Somebody was saying that to really colonize Mars and make it sustainable, they'll need about 200,000 people on Mars. But to build those things, he started working on robots, humanoid robots, and they're training the robots in-house to assemble machinery. Why are they doing that? Because Mars is not habitable for humans yet. So the idea is they're going to send these robots to build proper habitats for humans before they go there.

So you're seeing somebody who's planning 20 to 30 years in advance. He's building more than rockets. He understands the frontier. He understands where they're heading, and he needs to make preparations for that. Everything he does needs to sync up, to converge, to achieve a single mission or vision.

Do you know the vision of the house?

What is the mission or vision of Throne Room? Tell your neighbor, so your neighbor can tell me.

Let me see those that don't know. Don't be ashamed if you don't know. Can somebody tell her what's the vision? I thought you said you didn't know! Put your hands together for her.

The motto is "Imparting the realities of heaven, transforming lives." Our vision: we exist for people to hear Jesus, see Jesus and feel Jesus through us. Put your hands together for her.

So how do we go about that? Put your hands together for her.

So we're doing some in-house work. The leaders will know there are persons who started to come around to you to do surveys. For example, we need to get the organizational chart up. If I ask you who's responsible for certain things, you may not be able to say who you should go to, who you should contact, who's working under them. We're working to get all those things up and running. So before the year is out, we'll be able to present to you vision, motto and proper objectives.

When you aim for nothing

The last time, after the crusade, I asked the evangelism team, what was the objective for the crusade? As a church we spent money. We invested human resources, time. Did we achieve the objective?

Somebody said to me, "Pastor, rain fell." I said to them, I don't have time with that. It sounds harsh. But that's not what I asked. I didn't ask for constraints or problems. I asked for objectives. Did you achieve it or did you not achieve it?

I know I was being tough with those leaders. But why was I being tough? When you aim for nothing, what will you achieve?

Abraham at a crossroads

Let's go into Genesis 24. Let me get into my message and some of the other things will come out.

"Now Abraham was old, well advanced in years. And the Lord had blessed Abraham in all things. And Abraham said to his servant, the oldest of his household, who had charge of all that he had, 'Put your hand under my thigh, that I may make you swear by the Lord, the God of heaven and God of the earth'" (Genesis 24:1-3).

Abraham reached a certain stage in his life where there had to be some changes, some transitions. I know some of you are looking up. It's an area we'll need help in. These are some of the things where sometimes I sound tough and people take it hard. But we can't be advising people out there while we're going backward. We need to get things in order inside. Just hear my heart.

Speak against injustice

If you don't understand my heart, you'll do like some pastors did. They blamed me for being PPP. Why did they blame me for being PPP? When the Granger administration was in power, I noticed some things, and I said to them, we need to speak out against these things. There was some pushback. But this is what I said to them: a day is coming when the administration is going to change, and you're going to decide to open up your mouth, and they will tell you, shut your trap. You had a chance to speak against injustice and you kept your mouth shut because you sided with an administration.

I hope you guys observe what's happening now. Many pastors can't open their mouths and speak, because instead of speaking against corruption, speaking against policies, they aligned themselves to a party and kept their mouths shut.

One thing I'll tell you also. Last year, Good Friday, when I was on 93.1 FM, I said something. I said Duterte from the Philippines, Bouterse from Suriname, Lula from Brazil, all found themselves in prison. And I said public opinion will change, and those who ride the wave of power on public opinion today can find themselves in prison tomorrow. would not be the last. He who has ears to hear, let him hear what the Spirit of God is saying. When I said that, he was in power, mouthing off. But you see where he is right now?

Public opinion changes. And the people who ride a wave of power based on public opinion, many of them say, we have political immunity, nobody can touch us. The only person that is immutable, unchangeable, is God (Malachi 3:6). Everything else can change and will change.

There was a man who went up on his palace and looked over his kingdom and said, "Who is like me? Who can do all these great things that I have done?" And the Bible says the watchers decreed, and they executed judgment against him (Daniel 4:17, 30-33). It was the great king Nebuchadnezzar, who ruled over the Babylonian Empire, and the Babylonian Empire ruled over the kingdoms of the earth at that time. He boasted in his might. He boasted in his power. He boasted that no one can touch him. Who could have political immunity like him? He's ruling kingdoms of the world, 120-something provinces. And in one night, God turned him to nothing. God caused him to be like the wild animals, eating grass, until he came to his senses. The Most High rules over the kingdoms of men. He sets up and he brings down.

And I'm telling you, it's the same in Guyana. It's the same in every part of the world. People can ride the wave of popular opinion, and then you find them in a hole, hiding.

What do you see?

Back to Genesis 24.

Abraham was at a crossroads. The Lord had blessed him, but the Lord had said something to him that was not yet fulfilled: "In you all the nations of the earth shall be blessed" (Genesis 12:3).

When he was complaining, "Lord, you gave me a name, father of nations, but this one Eliezer in my house seems to be the one who will inherit everything from me," God took him out and said, "Look up to the sky and tell me what you see." He saw stars innumerable. And the Lord said, "So shall your offspring be" (Genesis 15:2-5). God said to him, look at the sand. He saw sand he could not count. And God said, that's how your offspring will be (Genesis 22:17).

Abraham was experiencing some crisis and God needed to work on his vision. If we're going to succeed in life, if we're going to accomplish anything great, it needs to start with what do we see. It's the same with Jeremiah. God asked Jeremiah, "What do you see?" Jeremiah replied, and God said, "You have seen well" (Jeremiah 1:11-12).

We're talking about a vision, church. A vision for your life. What do you see five years from now?

Minister Tracy, what do you see five years from now? Business expansion. Amen. You need to go fine-tune that.

Ask your neighbor, what do you see? Can you see yourself on an autobahn in Germany? Can you see yourself no longer working with GRA but running your own company? You could help the development bank by signing a couple million for people to start home businesses, because you're talking about a multi-billion-dollar business.

For example, when I think about the development bank and the $3 million, what do I see? I see I'll never need to go there. The money too small. No kidding. Money too small is what you need to see.

Vision makes you deliberate

So Abraham was at this crossroads, and because the Lord had told him what his plans were for his life, he called Eliezer, the same one he mentioned in the earlier chapter who may have been his heir. And he said to him, "I want you to promise me that you will not choose a wife for my son from among the Canaanites, from among the people we're living in."

When you have a vision and you know what God is saying, it helps you to be deliberate in your choices.

Some of us need to make some covenants right now with God and with ourselves that we'll never do certain things. There are certain things that work counterproductive to our vision, and we need to make a covenant like Abraham did with Eliezer.

"And I will make you swear by the Lord, the God of heaven and the God of earth, that you will not take a wife for my son from the daughters of the Canaanites, among whom I dwell" (Genesis 24:3).

If we're going to fulfill a vision, there must be some separation, from some of the company that you're keeping. You must make a covenant. Some of us have to make some covenants with ourselves. I will not look at certain things. I will not indulge in certain things. The Bible says flee sexual sin (1 Corinthians 6:18), and I will run. I will run faster than Joseph.

Some of us need to make a covenant that we will not be covetous. If you want to be a leader, a pastor, apostle, prophet, if you want to be in government, you need to make those kinds of commitments. Because from the time you start prophesying and God gives you a little revelation, and somebody stands up in the congregation, and the Lord shows you they have money or they'll get money, you're planning how to give them a word so you can partake in the money.

If we don't make certain covenants, politicians will own us, with hooks in our mouths. Let me stay away from that.

We need to make some covenants between ourselves and God that we will not do certain things.

You are not wiser than Solomon

If you go into Deuteronomy, Leviticus and those books, you see God warned the Israelites not to intermarry (Deuteronomy 7:3-4). And some of us are so wise, we know better than God. I look at young women and young men in church always finding somebody who doesn't know the Lord that they're going to train in the ways of the Lord, and the person has them outside the church right now.

They're wiser than Solomon. Even Solomon himself fell in the same mess. The wisest man on the face of the earth married wives that served different gods (1 Kings 11:1-4). Some of it was for political alliances, but they led him away from God. You're not wiser than him. You're not stronger than him. So we need to make some covenants.

But if you've made some mistakes, you can come boldly to the throne of grace (Hebrews 4:16). Have it legally dealt with by the blood, and then ask the Lord to help you hold on to these vows.

I was laughing the other day. Somebody showed me a photo, and I didn't recognize the person. Only the person in here knows who I'm talking about, so don't go back and say anything. When I recognized who it was, I just smiled, because I remember. When the person was trying a thing, they asked me, so you're an auntie man? Because I made a vow in my heart that I will wait until I'm married. I'm not saying it was easy. You had to be radical. Sometimes people made fun of you.

Don't take my son back there

Abraham asked Eliezer to swear by the Lord that he would not take a wife for his son from among the Canaanites, and he swore to him.

"But you shall go to my country and to my family, and take a wife for my son Isaac. And the servant said to him, 'Perhaps the woman will not be willing to follow me to this land. Must I take your son back to the land from which you came?' But Abraham said to him, 'Beware that you do not take my son back there'" (Genesis 24:4-6).

God told Abraham to leave Mesopotamia and go to a land that I will show you. Leave your mother and father. Take a step of faith. But now God was looking to fulfill his promise to Abraham. And Abraham understood, even though God had promised, God will not just drop a wife out of the sky. It means you have to put in work. You can get the prophetic message, but you need to put in the work. Tell your neighbor, you need to put in the work.

God spoke to Abraham, but Abraham wasn't sitting down saying, "God, send me a wife for Isaac. Send me a wife for Isaac." That's how we operate as Christians, and we don't accomplish anything, and then we blame God.

Look at your neighbor and tell them, God gave you a mind for a reason. He gave you a brain for a reason. He expects you to use it. He just wants you to renew it (Romans 12:2), so you think like him, you have a mind like him, and then use your brain.

"Do not take him back there. God took me out. Do not send my son back." When I was reading this, let me say this to you: there are some places, don't go back there. And the places he took you from, don't let your children end up there. You need to work hard. You need to make some decisions so that your children don't end up where you came out of. It's deliberate.

"The Lord God of heaven, who took me from my father's house and from the land of my family, and who spoke to me and swore to me, saying, 'To your descendants I give this land,' he will send his angel before you, and you shall take a wife for my son from there" (Genesis 24:7).

I declare, may the angel of God go before you and bring you good success. May the angel of the Lord go before you and prosper your ways, in Jesus' name.

"And if the woman is not willing to follow you, then you will be released from this oath; only do not take my son back there" (Genesis 24:8).

Partner with someone who has the same vision

God was looking through Abraham to fulfill his promise that his descendants would be like the sand on the seashore and the stars in the sky. But to fulfill that, his son needed a wife. And this wife had to have the qualities of the man of faith. She had to be willing to leave her house, just like Abraham left his house, and go to a place whose builder and maker is God (Hebrews 11:10).

If you're going to partner with anybody, they must have vision. The same vision as us. They must be looking to fulfill purpose. One mind. It's a terrible thing when you marry somebody and they have a different purpose and a different vision than you. It makes your life miserable.

Imagine the woman saying to the servant, "Bring Isaac here." His father said, I don't want him to go back to where I came out of.

There are some men and women that you marry that take you back to where God brought you out of. I'm speaking to many persons here, especially single people. Don't let any man or woman take you back to the mess God brought you out of. You need to fight. You need to speak up. You need to say, not me, I'm not going back there. I don't care how beautiful you are. I don't care how handsome you are. I don't care about your physique. I don't care about your money. I don't even care if you're Miss World. You're not taking me back to where God brought me out from.

Tell your neighbor, I'm not going back. God brought me out and I'm not going back.

Let me say it to you. I remember when I was a young Christian, making a statement like that was a challenge, because of the temptations. Sometimes I didn't know if I could live two days without sinning, much less a whole week. I don't know if you've ever been there. I'm sure I'm not the only person. When you go a week without sinning, you say, "Wow, this is a milestone. God has done great things."

A servant God can trust

Let's jump to verse 10. "Then the servant took ten of his master's camels and departed, for all his master's goods were in his hand" (Genesis 24:10).

This is a good servant. This is the type of servant Paul meant when he said, I'm a servant of the Lord. This is a servant who would have been released from his obligations after maybe seven years, and he said to his master, I don't want to leave your home. I want to serve you. And they would take him to the door and bore his ear (Exodus 21:5-6). He would have been freed, but he loved his master so much he wanted to serve him all his life.

So you see he was in charge of what? All. Tell your neighbor, all.

Can we give you the church checkbook and say you're responsible for that? Can we trust you to count the offering when you don't have somebody counting with you, and you count it properly? I'm thankful for you guys. Can we put you on documents where you can sign for the church, and we can close our eyes, and you don't end up like somebody on Street fighting over the property, and they put them out? Let me shut my mouth.

I'm talking from my level, because the Bible says judgment begins at the house of God (1 Peter 4:17), and if judgment begins with the house, I think it begins with the leaders. You have to be careful before you sign over a property to somebody, because before long, what happens? And it's not only pastors. Before long they're cooking up with somebody to take away your property.

I was with a businessman. He said one day he was in his building and he looked at his camera and saw a vehicle pull up outside, and they were talking and pointing at the building. He said, this is strange. So he went out to find out what was going on, and it was the of a particular ministry. They knew him, because they had helped him get the land where he was. And somebody told him, come in quickly before it reaches the courts. People were already checking his property because they had started proceedings to take it away. He's operating a business there, and somebody went into some organizations and already started changing papers. And they said to him, we must move quick before it hits the courts. Once it hits the courts, you're in problems.

My wife has a power of attorney for me. She went to the bank to collect the title for the building. They said she couldn't get it. I went in with her to introduce her as the attorney, so when I'm not there she can do the transactions. They said they're not taking power of attorney. I was getting a little agitated. But because I understand how these things operate, and the woman wasn't forthcoming with information, I asked her, "Okay, if you're not using power of attorney, what else can someone do?" I had to go around it in a certain way. And when I asked it that way, she said you can have a notarized authorization. They would not tell you what you need if you don't know to ask the right questions. So I asked another one why, and she said it's the people from overseas. People did some things, and they're not taking power of attorney anymore.

I'm saying all of this to say, God must be able to trust us.

We're talking about going to new frontiers. The new frontiers God wants to take you to are where he wants to bless you, give you resources that can help your generation. But if he has not worked in your heart as it relates to virtue, you'll hold everything for yourself.

Some of you think you're good. You're a nice person. Let your mother or father die and leave some things. Then you'll realize Satan still has some stronghold there.

Before he finished speaking

"And he made his camels kneel down outside the city by a well of water at evening time, the time when women go out to draw water. Then he said, 'O Lord God of my master Abraham, please give me success this day, and show kindness to my master Abraham'" (Genesis 24:11-12).

I declare over your life, may God give you success this day and show kindness to you and to your household, in the mighty name of Jesus.

"Behold, here I stand by the well of water, and the daughters of the men of the city are coming out to draw water. Now let it be that the young woman to whom I say, 'Please let down your pitcher that I may drink,' and she says, 'Drink, and I will also give your camels a drink,' let her be the one you have appointed for your servant Isaac. And by this I will know that you have shown kindness to my master. And it happened, before he had finished speaking" (Genesis 24:13-15).

I declare, before some of you finish speaking, before you finish thinking, before you finish planning, may God answer your prayers (Isaiah 65:24). May God show you kindness. May God show you favor. May God connect you with destiny helpers, in the mighty name of Jesus.

God knows what we need before we ask. And the Bible says he's able to do far above anything we could ever ask or think or imagine (Ephesians 3:20). May God surprise your imagination. May God do more than you can imagine.

Tell your neighbor, start using the brain. Tell them imagination is not bad. Sometimes it's good to walk and daydream. Some of you looking at me. It's good to walk and daydream. Dream some nice things, great things, so when you open up your mouth, God has something to work with.

Who decided how much?

I asked a church in Ghana: God said to the Israelites, go and borrow from the Egyptians (Exodus 3:22; 12:35-36), because God wanted to reward them for their years in slavery. Who determined how much they came out with? Who determined how rewarded they were?

See, that's the problem with Christians. Some of you don't even know how to answer the question now. Because here's what we say many times: "God knows what I need. If God wants to give me, he will give me." If that's how they were thinking, many of them would have come out with nothing. And it would not have been God they had to blame. It would have been themselves.

God said go and borrow. Borrow much. What does much look like? For some people, much looks like 10 million. For another set of persons, it looks like 10 billion. The much is not determined by God. It's determined by you.

When you say these kinds of things, it rattles some Christian brains, because all your Christian life you heard "if God wills." How many of you heard that? Let me tell you God's will. That you prosper and be in good health, even as your soul prospers (3 John 2). So tell your neighbor, God's will is for me to prosper. God's will is for me to be in good health.

So when I say to some person, "See you tomorrow," and they say, "If God wills," I say, I'll still see you tomorrow, unless you know God intends to kill me by tomorrow. See you next year, if God wills? I will see you next year. I know his will is to give me a good future, a good end (Jeremiah 29:11).

Let me wrap up. Some of you need to stop blaming God for what you don't have. The Bible says when you pray and ask God, believe that you have received what you've asked for, and you will receive it (Mark 11:24).

He opened his mouth and prayed, and before he could shut his mouth, God just pushed the thing on him. Before you can shut your mouth, I declare you'll see answers to prayer, in Jesus' name.

Plan great. Think big.

No plan for the money

Suppose y'all go back and you strike enough gold and diamonds too. What will you do with the money?

Why am I asking you this? Most persons that don't have a vision are poor. It don't matter how much they have. That's why they show you almost all the persons that won the lotto, they're poor again, because when they got the money they had no plan for it. The only plan they had was to put on some costume and hide from all the neighbors when collecting it, and from all the family. That's all the plan they had for the money.

Plan big. Think big.

Destiny helpers are coming

"And it happened, before he had finished speaking, that behold, Rebekah, who was born to Bethuel, son of Milcah, the wife of Nahor, Abraham's brother, came out with her pitcher on her shoulder" (Genesis 24:15).

I don't care if they've never met you before. Destiny helpers are coming your way. Investors are coming your way. People to take you to the next level in your assignment, in your purpose, will be connected to you, in the mighty name of Jesus. And they're not coming empty-handed. They're coming with exactly what you need on their shoulders. You will recognize them.

"Now the young woman was very beautiful to behold, a virgin; no man had known her. And she went down to the well, filled her pitcher, and came up" (Genesis 24:16).

When I read this, I said to myself, Abraham knew God. He heard God. He had face-to-face encounters with God. Eliezer went with an angel. But Rebekah was prophetic. Rebekah knew the time. She knew the hour. She knew what she had to carry. And she knew who she had to help.

May God open your eyes. May he quicken you and help you to understand who you need to help, who you need to respond to. The Bible says some have entertained angels unaware (Hebrews 13:2). May you entertain your angels, whether you're aware or unaware. I declare you'll not miss your appointed time. You'll not miss your appointed season, your appointed destiny or the appointed person, like Rebekah. I declare you will step out at the right time, you'll stand in the right place, and you'll reach the right people. I declare, like Issachar, you are people that understand times and seasons (1 Chronicles 12:32). You are a prophetic people. Inside of you there is a stream. Inside of you there is a grace, an anointing, that will help you accomplish all that God has planned for you.

She was in a city, but she understood something changed. Something today is different from yesterday. I'm speaking over your life: there's something about today that is different from yesterday. There's something about my today that is different from yesterday, and I will not miss it, in Jesus' name.

Humility and service

She stepped out and she served. Humility.

God does what? Exalts the humble, but brings down the proud. I use the verse in such a way to cause you to think. God resists the proud (James 4:6; 1 Peter 5:5). Tell your neighbor, resist. You know what resist means? It means some of the things fighting you are not the devil. God is pushing back. It wasn't the devil that made Pharaoh drown in the sea. It was God (Exodus 14).

So ensure that your fight is not with God. You cannot win that fight. Don't waste time. Humble yourself.

Tell your neighbor, I pray that God humbles you. No. The Bible says humble yourself (1 Peter 5:6). Don't wait for God to humble you. You might not like how the humbling happens. Humble yourself, and in due time he will exalt you.

He prayed that the person who would come out would know how to serve. When I ask her for a drink, she'll give me a drink. But she'll not stop there. She'll say, let me give your camels something to drink too. May God give you a heart to serve. It's in your service many times your breakthrough comes.

How serving opened doors for me

I was in the UK, and not because I knew anybody there. Remember when Jonathan Curley came the first time? When he was coming back the second time, I said to my wife, why don't we give him one of the apartments to stay in? She said okay, we won't rent out that one, we'll just allow him to stay in it free. I didn't want anything from him. But I felt like Elisha and the widow. This is a prophetic season for me. Let me do something for this guy.

So when I was about to come back through JFK, he said, since you don't need a visa for the UK, why don't you go to the UK and then come back to Guyana? I said no problem. He made some calls and connected me with a person who would pick me up. I put in for my ETA for the UK, headed to the UK, got picked up at the airport. The rest is history.

We'll never know what God wants to do. Even with Prophet Frank, that's how we met Bishop. He was going to and we knew he didn't know the area, so we said, let us go with him. And while we were there he said, let me connect you to Bishop. He gave us his personal phone, and he's an advisor to Trump, a very busy man. We talk with him, just because we helped someone. Serving. Humility.

Humility will take you far.

It's just like with Dubai. When I go there, there's somebody to pick me up, somebody to take me to the hotel, and many times the person has already paid for the hotel. All because of serving, helping somebody. People connect you with other people around the world.

May you understand who you need to help. Somebody is waiting on you to help you get your breakthrough. You just need to know when to move, when to act, and how to humble yourself.

"And the servant ran to meet her and said, 'Please let me drink a little water from your pitcher.' So she said, 'Drink, my lord.' Then she quickly let her pitcher down to her hand and gave him a drink. And when she had finished giving him a drink, she said, 'I will draw water for your camels also, until they have finished drinking'" (Genesis 24:17-19).

Humble yourselves. Some of you are too high and mighty. God wants to raise you up, but you think you're already up. You think you're already high, already exalted. And where he wants to take you, you've cancelled that because of pride. Humble yourself.

People who are filled with the Spirit know how to be humble. Elisha served Elijah. It wasn't the other sons of the prophets that got a double portion. It was the one that knew how to serve. And when Elijah told him, "You have asked a hard thing; nevertheless, if you see me when I am taken up" (2 Kings 2:10), he had to know how to look. Vision. Some of us, as soon as somebody starts talking something nice beside us, we turn our attention. Gossip makes us lose our blessing.

"Then she quickly emptied her pitcher into the trough, ran back to the well to draw water, and drew for all his camels" (Genesis 24:20).

Understand other cultures

I have to wrap up because of time. But let me say what some of the other verses say. When she finished doing all of that, he was so excited that the Lord had answered his prayer so quickly. He took a ring and two bracelets. What did he do with the ring? I deliberately asked that question, because he put the ring on her nose (Genesis 24:22, 47).

Some of us read that and just pass over it. Why would he put a ring on her nose? You see, that's how we think. In Pakistan, you know a woman is married by the ring in her nose. They don't wear it on their fingers like us.

So in certain cultures, when we don't understand, we judge. A woman comes to Guyana walking around with a ring in her nose, and you say she's a prostitute. We judge people wrongly when we don't understand certain things.

A minister told me about his mother. She's one of these holiness Christians, dressed long, no this, no that. He said to her, when you go to the US, get some of those tight pants, leggings. She said, "Who, me? I would never wear something like that." When he went and saw his mother in the US, he started to laugh. "What happened, woman?" The cold nearly killed her. Then she understood that some people don't wear these things for style. They wear them to survive.

Understand cultures. That's why I asked that question. Many of us, when we go to other people, try to impose ourselves on them, because this is how it's done where I live, so it must be done where you live.

The grace on this house

He put a ring on her nose and two bracelets on her hands. I declare to you, as you partner with this church, with this grace, with this anointing, there's benefit in it. I declare you reap the benefits of the grace that is on this house. Just like she helped, I declare every helper, every person that gives, it don't matter how small or large, I connect you with the angels of this house and the blessings on this house, and you'll not leave empty-handed. The grace on this house is already working for you.

I met a man in Ghana, Dr. Seth. He was responsible many times for taking people like Morris Cerullo and Oral Roberts to Africa for those big campaigns. He was talking about a particular grace on his life. He'll just walk into places and the automobile dealer will say to him, take any vehicle in here and drive out. And he prayed for people, and they came back and said the same thing happened to them. There's a grace for prosperity. Anybody who comes into it starts to benefit. There's a grace, there's an angel of prosperity over this house, over this ministry. I declare you're benefiting from the grace upon this house, in Jesus' name.

So when I ask you things like, what do you see? What are you going to do with the business? Because you won't be working at GRA all your life. The other day I was ministering at New Life and I asked one of the guys, what will you do with your first $50 million? He said, I already have plans for it. When I said to him, what about bringing in containers? You should be bringing in two containers. He came to me after and said, "Pastor, I have two containers coming in."

There is a grace to prosper, and you're connecting with it. God will not leave you empty-handed.

When I see some of the young people here, Ashley used to tell me the vehicle she'll be driving. They used to just smile at me. But if you could only see five years from now what our parking lot will look like, what people will be driving in this place, you will shout. Some of you who judge my vehicle, in five years' time you'll have changed two, three vehicles. You'll have upgraded and upgraded, in the mighty name of Jesus. Don't let your mind tell you you can't drive it. Tell your neighbor, you look good in it.

Don't delay

When she went, he asked that she take them to her parents. And Laban, we'll talk about him some other time. As soon as Laban saw the ring in his sister's nose and the bracelets, he asked, where's the man? He went and said, come, we have space in the house, let me take care of your camels (Genesis 24:29-31). There's always somebody who knows how to work the angles.

What I want to conclude with: after Eliezer finished speaking to the parents, he said, let us go. The mother said, "Let her stay with us ten days." Eliezer said, "The Lord has prospered my way. Don't hinder me. Let me go to my master." And they said, "Let us call the young woman and ask her." And she said, "I will go" (Genesis 24:55-58).

Let us stand.

Rebekah was a type and shadow of the church. She was a virgin. The Bible says God is coming back for a church without spot or wrinkle (Ephesians 5:27). She also had a servant heart, but a heart that goes after the purposes of God. The mother said, let her stay ten days. She said, there is something for me there. I've not seen the land, but there's something for me there.

I declare there's something for you there. Just lift your hands. There's something for you here.

Ministry time

All those persons who have given for me to go on any trip this year, come quickly. You've given for me to go to Pakistan or to Nigeria early on, or recently for me to go back to Pakistan, Ghana, the UK. I don't care the amount. Some have given in the hundreds of thousands. Some have given in the tens of thousands. When I look at my bank account and see tickets in the millions, you realize these things are a lot of work. But God is faithful.

She knew there was something for her there. She did not want to delay. You guys did not go with me physically, but you partnered. You went with me financially. And there's a grace for that.

I have a gift for you right now. This grace helps people to prosper. It gives people creative ideas. It connects people with destiny helpers. This grace was there before, but it's amplified. (He recalls a businessman who received an unexpected $20 million.)

The giving, the money you've given, I connect this grace on my life to it right now. There's a fire being released right now. This fire is for you to prosper. Take it. A grace for elevation. I declare it's working for you. If it's healing you need, take it. If it's deliverance you need, take it. If it's revelation you need, take it.

There's somebody right here being healed of a pain in your right knee. Be healed right now in Jesus' name.

I hear for somebody right now: you've been saying, "Lord, it's taking long." I hear speed. Speed. Everything that locked your money, tied up your money, tied up your blessings, I declare it free now. I release it now, in Jesus' name.

I declare treasures hidden in darkness, you're locating them now. Things locked up, things held from your family, things buried by ancestors, things given away by ancestors, I release it to you now, in Jesus' name.

Hold hands quickly. Now I'm going to say something that sounds strange. I declare, as you hold hands, there's an elevation of $2 billion among this group right now. Receive it now. Receive it.

Anybody who's thinking of opening their own business, their own company, come in front. I'm talking about people who have already thought about registering.

I'm going to tell you something I want you to pay attention to. In the month of September, some people will come into your vicinity and start talking stories that have to do directly with what you're planning and what you want to do. These people have money, but they don't want to take the risk by themselves. They have money, but they don't know how to put it to use. God will be sending them your way so you can put the money to use. But when they're speaking to you, they'll only be speaking to people who know what they're about. That means you're not telling them, "Oh, I'm thinking about registering a business." You've registered the business. You've started to put things in place.

There are other young persons in here around's age. Parents, your child has been talking about business, talking about money. Let those children come quickly. Lord, I speak over their lives. May they count millions of their own before the age of 18, in Jesus' name.

It's because some of you will be doing more than one business. There's another source of revenue opening. Y'all don't forget the church.

You guys need to start bigger. You've worked for people too long. And just as you've gotten through with a license in the natural, so in the spiritual you've gotten through with the resources.

There's a great spirit upon you. I say to you, go and prosper. Remember I said the wealth of the children of Israel when they came out of Egypt: God determined to prosper them, but the level of their prosperity was not dependent upon God. It was dependent upon them. The woman with the cruse of oil that the prophet multiplied, the amount of oil she got was not dependent on the prophet nor on God. It depended on how many vessels she was able to get (2 Kings 4:1-7).

Don't limit God. I truly believe the word that there's $2 billion among the group that came out. Go, possess, conquer, in Jesus' name.

Here's what I'm hearing. Don't be intimidated to move with the big boys. Some people God is going to bring your way, and you'll want to run because you're Christian people. But the Lord is saying don't be intimidated. He's setting you up for a purpose. God bless you guys.