SUNDAY OCT 14

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TITHE NUGGET

word search - Love 442 x forgive 95X mercy 262X

Word give is over 1392X

Then the word of the Lord came to him, saying, 9 “Arise, go to Zarephath, which belongs to Sidon, and dwell there. See, I have commanded a widow there to provide for you.” 10 So he arose and went to Zarephath. And when he came to the gate of the city, indeed a widow was there gathering sticks. And he called to her and said, “Please bring me a little water in a cup, that I may drink.” 11 And as she was going to get it, he called to her and said, “Please bring me a morsel of bread in your hand.”

12 So she said, “As the Lord your God lives, I do not have bread, only a handful of flour in a bin, and a little oil in a [a]jar; and see, I am gathering a couple of sticks that I may go in and prepare it for myself and my son, that we may eat it, and die.”

13 And Elijah said to her, “Do not fear; go and do as you have said, but make me a small cake from it first, and bring it to me; and afterward make some for yourself and your son. 14 For thus says the Lord God of Israel: ‘The bin of flour shall not be used up, nor shall the jar of oil run dry, until the day the Lord sends rain on the earth.’ ”

15 So she went away and did according to the word of Elijah; and she and he and her household ate for many days. 16 The bin of flour was not used up, nor did the jar of oil run dry, according to the word of the Lord which He spoke by Elijah.

You can give w/o love but you cannot LOVE W/0 GIVING.... I love so I give

God set the ex in tithe He gave of the very first

God does not have a problem with us having things he has a problem with things having us.

Word give is over 1392X

Skills and gifting s are to advance His kingdom...God is not after your money he is after your heart....

Skills and giftings are to advance His kingdom...God is not after your money he is after your heart.... 0- Cannot serve God and money at the same time.

God is after your ❤️!!! that is why He set the example of giving His only Son

Everything we give is seed not harvest. often We see it as our harvest... makes it hard to give - I will build, I will make, I will....we may be doing the labor but it is God who gives the increase.

Our perspective directly impacts our priority...

What you have is seed

What you have is seed selfmade - I am going to ..... I will build... I will make...

God doesn’t want to take what you have he wants to bless what you have left over. II cor 9:10-11

God does not give you money he gives you seed

No problem spending money on the things we love.... Prov 3:10 Mal 6:6-10

Tithe means tenth/test - This is how God establishes priority

This is how God establishes priority

TEST ME Bring all the tithes into the storehouse, That there may be food in My house, And try Me now in this,” Says the Lord of hosts, “If I will not open for you the windows of heaven And pour out for you such blessing That there will not be room enough to receive it.

11 “And I will rebuke the devourer for your sakes, So that he will not destroy the fruit of your ground, Nor shall the vine fail to bear fruit for you in the field,” Says the Lord of hosts; 12 “And all nations will call you blessed, For you will be a delightful land,” Says the Lord of hosts.

we don’t give tithe we bring it.... we are retuning what belongs to him. The blessing is bigger than money it is our heart.

Tithing breaks the curse of the world.,, Generosity breaks dependency on money Breaks selfishness in me Provision - I King’s 17:15 the shulamite woman’s Act of trust brought blessing. she did not have any bread but she had the ingredients.... 90% blessed is better than 100%cursed.

the author RICK WARREN WHO WROTE Purpose driven life…TESTED THIS HE NOW lives on 9%....#1 SELLING CHRISTIAN BOOK HAS NOT TAKEN A DIME

We would do better with Gods leftovers than what we can do on own

It starts with God I give you my heart!!!! WHERE YOUR TREASURE IS THERE WILL YOUR HEART BE ALSO

MESSAGE - STRETCH OUT YOUR HAND

MAKEAWAY - FEW YEARS AGO - A LADY CALLED AND REQUESTED HELP WITH HER CAR....SHE TOLD US IT WAS A SIMPLE FIX AND THAT IT WOULD NOT TAKE MUCH TO GET IT BACK ON THE ROAD....I CALLED BILL POWELL WITH GET IT IN GEAR…A COVENANT MAN AND ASKED HIM WHAT TO DO....HE SENT A TOW TRUCK TO PICK IT UP AND HAULED TO HIS SHOP.....THE GAS TANK WAS IN THE FRONT SEAT OF THE TRUCK…PARTS WERE MISSING....,...God WILL only RESTORE you if you give Him ALL of you

Luke 6:10 NIV

He looked around at them all, and then said to the man, “Stretch out your hand.” He did so, and his hand was completely restored.

STEVE WYNN OWNED “Le Rêve,” Picasso’s 1932 portrait of his mistress, Marie-Thérèse Walter, YOU MAY HAVE SEEB IT in your college art-history textbook. STEVE PURCHASED IT IN 2001 from an anonymous collector, who had bought it at auction in 1997 for $48.4 million. IN 2005 HE DECIDED TO SELL IT TO A FRIEND STEVE COHEN FOR $139M...

a representative of Cohen’s FLEW IN TO VEGAS from California to inspect the painting. She removed it from the wall, took it out of its frame, and confirmed that it was in excellent shape. she wrote her condition report, and so, according to their contract, the deal was done. All that was left was the actual exchange of money and art.

THAT WEEKEND WYNN WAS HOSTING A FEW CELEBRITIES INCLUDING Barbara Walters AT HIS HOTEL AND HE INVITED THEM TO HIS OFFICE TO SEE HIS PAINTINGS Wynn INVITED THEM TO see THE PAINTING THE FOLLOWING DAY,’

That weekend, Wynn had some friends visiting from New York—David and Mary Boies, Nora Ephron and Nick Pileggi, Louise Grunwald, and Barbara Walters. They were staying, as they often do, at his hotel and casino, the Wynn Las Vegas. As they had dinner together on Friday night, Wynn told them about the sale. “The girls said, ‘We’ve got to see it tomorrow,’ ” Wynn recalled last week. “So I said, ‘I’ll be working tomorrow. Just come on up to the office.’ ” (He had recently moved “Le Rêve” there from the hotel lobby.)

WYNNS GUESTS ARRIVED AROUND 5:30 THE FOLLOWING DAY AND On the wall to his left and right were several paintings, including a Matisse, a Renoir, and “Le Rêve.” WYNN began to tell the story of the Picasso’s provenance. As he talked, he had his back to the picture. Wynn suffers from an eye disease, retinitis pigmentosa, which affects his peripheral vision and therefore, occasionally, his interaction with proximate objects, and, without realizing it, he backed up a step or two as he talked. “HE THEN made a gesture with HIS right hand,” AND HIS right elbow hit the picture. It punctured the picture.” There was a distinct ripping sound. Wynn turned around and saw, on Marie-Thérèse Walter’s left forearm, in the lower-right CORNER of the painting, “a slight puncture, a two-inch tear. WYNN REACHED DOWN AN POKED HIS PINKY THRU THE HOLE AND NOTICED THE FLAP WAS STILL THERE.

WYNN said that he’d have to call Cohen and William Acquavella, his dealer in New York, to tell them that the deal was off.

A few hours later, they all met for dinner, and Wynn was in a cheerful mood. “My feeling was, It’s a picture, it’s my picture, we’ll fix it. Nobody got sick or died. It’s a picture. It took Picasso five hours to paint it.” Mary Boies ordered a six-litre bottle of Bordeaux, and when it was empty she had everyone sign the label, to commemorate the calamitous afternoon. Wynn signed it “Mary, it’s all about scale—Steve.” Everyone had agreed to take what one participant called a “vow of silence.” (The vow lasted a week, until someone leaked the rudiments of the story to the Post.)

A few hours later, they all met for dinner, and Wynn was in a cheerful mood. “My feeling was, It’s a picture, it’s my picture, we’ll fix it. Nobody got sick or died. It’s a picture. It took Picasso five hours to paint it.”

The next day, Wynn finally reached his dealer, and told him, “Bill, I think I’m going to ruin your day.” The first word out of Acquavella’s mouth was “Nooo!” Later that week, Wynn’s wife, Elaine, took the painting to New York in Wynn’s jet, where she and “Le Rêve” were met by an armored truck. Cohen met them at Acquavella’s gallery, on East Seventy-ninth Street, and he agreed that the deal was off until the full extent of the damage could be ascertained. The contract, at any rate, was void.

The painting wound up in the hands of an art restorer, who told Wynn that when he’s done with it, in six or eight weeks, you won’t be able to tell that HIS elbow HAD PASSED THRU THE PAINTING

LATER , UPON HIS WIFE’S WISHES, Wynn called Cohen and told him that he wanted to keep the painting, after all AND THAT IT WAS NO LONGER FOR SALE.

YOU HAVE A STORY… BROKENNESS, DAMAGE, MAYBE ALL YOU CAN SEE IS THE TEAR, THE HOLE IN YOUR HEART, THE REJECTION, YOU BELIEVE YOURSELF TO BE INSIGNIFICANT, DEVALUED....THE ENEMY WANTS YOU TO BELIEVE THAT BECAUSE YOU HAVE FAILED AT MARRIAGE, FAILED AT FINANCES, FALLEN DOWN SPIRITUALLY, EXPERIENCED LOSS, MARRIED THE WRONG PERSON, HAD AN ABORTION, YOU MESS UP JUST TO MESS UP.....

THE ULTIMATE PRICE HAS BEEN PAID FOR YOUR RESTORATION

IN 2013 STEVE COHEN MADE AN OFFER AGAIN TO BUY THE PAINTING…EXCEPT NOW THIS PAINTING HAD HISTORY..

LOOKING AT THE PAINTING YOU COULD NOT SEE ANY DAMAGE…BUT WHEN TURNING IT OVER…

YOU COULD SEE THAT THE RESTORER HAD BEEN AT WORK. HAD WYNN CUT THE TORN PIECE OFF AND GIVEN THE PAINTING TO THE RESTORER HE WOULD NOT HAVE BEEN ABLE TO DO THE WORK THAT HE DID....HE NEEDED 100% OF THE ART. TORN FLAP AND ALL. STEVE COHEN PURCHASED THE PAINTING FOR $155 MILLION.

YOUR RESTORER IS HERE TODAY! HE DOESN’T JUST WANT YOUR SUCCESSES, HE WANTS YOUR HANGUPS, MESSUPS, FAILURES, FAULTS, GIFTS, TALENTS, YOUR PAST, PRESENT AND FUTURE.

AT COVENANT WE BELIEVE IN RESTORATION:

Brethren, if a man is [a]overtaken in any trespass, you who are spiritual restore such a one in a spirit of gentleness, considering yourself lest you also be tempted.

WHAT IS YOUR WITHERED HAND? ADDICTION, FEAR, UNFORGIVENESS, LACK OF SELF WORTH, SELF LOATHING, RELATIONSHIP, FINANCES.....

- did not have bread but had ingredients