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and wildly succeed in the marketplace
and now your host Andre J. Benjamin. Welcome,
welcome, welcome CEO of destiny welcome
welcome to a brand new episode this is Andre J.
Benjamin here your host and today we are
going to be talking about recession or
expansion. I know a lot of times we are
surrounded by a world that is constantly
talking about the chaos and the turmoil
that is seen at the highest levels of
our economic system so I don't know what
government you're in or you're a part of
I choose to be a part of the kingdom
government though I know that I am a
citizen I have a dual citizenship one in
my citizenship according to Paul is in
heaven the nation called heaven which is
a ruler nation than any of the nations
of this earth. Ah serve that the centralized
throne and power of the almighty
Heavenly Father which means source is
their Father God, Abba, Father he's there
and he has his nation that is the home
nation the kingdom nation that he
desires to make earth a colony of it and
these nations that were formed out of
our human wheels of which he formed the
boundaries Acts 17 declares and put us
in our different locales and regional
localities so that we would reach out
and grope and search for him. Be
reconstituted back to him but that's
beside the point when we look at the
governments of the world we look at
their economic systems and we see them
continually going through challenges
where the market crashes there's booms
and busts there's the boom when things
are taking off it seems like money is so
available and people are kind of
spending it people are buying the hot
stock and people's confidence in these
companies and these CEO's and these board
of directors and their ability to drive
these companies these high, high sale
high performance sales teams or the
ideas that are coming for people really
have a lot of confidence in in those
times we're seeing booms and expansion
it sometimes people will allow the love
of money or a love of money to be a root
of all types of evil in their life and
so they'll manipulate numbers and then
we find out that things weren't really
as good as they were you know they'll
use tactics and strategies that are
dishonest doing ussery or banking
systems that are unjust or different
things that come upon the different
systems of the planet and then things
will explode and people lose confidence
and with they see that it was a sham and
our markets tank and people lose out on
a lot they lose their retirement that
company's recede and have downsizing it
and they have to do layoffs and cutbacks
in and in reductions and and now people
are who had vested all their energy and
their interest in all their, their, their
time into these organizations are out on
the street so to speak there's they're
there sorry out of look, look there
they're out of position and it's not
good so this time we are going to be
talking about recession or expansion
what should be our mindset are we in a
recession we're trying to recover
apparently from the great dip that we
took in 2008 called the Great Recession
by some which they say we have numbers
in the double digits around the nation
of unemployment and some people are
seeing a recovery but a lot of jobs have
been lost and a lot of companies have
shut down. Companies that weren't
performing or actually giving values to
the customers that were over inflated or
deflated now and so there's a lot of
people disillusioned with with with what
their mindset should be so my question
to you is that do we have a recession or
expansion so the Bible declares in
Ephesians it says now unto Him who was
able to do exceedingly abundantly above
all we could ask him or even imagine
according to the power that is at work
within you that's right God according to
the Apostle Paul was writing to us
letting us know that the Lord is telling
us that he wants us to know that he can
do exceedingly and abundantly which
means expanding more a bountiful
not scarcity more than we are able to
even ask think or even imagine to even
conceptualize in our mind according to
the power that he put at work at us
there is a resident power that is
founded being connected to the source
that is found in being filled with the
spirit and led by the spirit now the
word declares now as many were led by
the Spirit of God they were called the
sons of God so you're a son and a
daughter sonship has nothing to do with
your sex or your male female nature it
has to do with your your position
positionally co-heirs and joint heirs
with Christ Jesus we are part of the
royal family we were no longer orphans
that were cut off what we have a father
and we are heirs and joint heirs with
Christ Jesus to the inheritance which is
the kingdom of God so that's literal
real estate just literal thrones powers
and authority in the planet the word
declares in Acts 20:20 one of my
favorite verses about the mindset that
we should have so this is Paul talking
I'll start in verse 17 from a latest he
sent to Ephesus and call to him the
elders of the church and when they had
come to him he said to them you yourself
so this is Paul testifying about what he
had done from the first day that I set
foot in Asia remember how I was with you
the whole time serving the Lord with all
humility and with tears and with trials
which came upon me through the plots of
the Jews now this is the key verse he
says remember to them how I did not
shrink from declaring to you anything
that was profitable and teaching you
publicly and from house to house so I
thought this verse was powerful because
Paul even under the most adverse of
circumstances Paul was constantly not
shrieking back how I did not shrink but
he continued to declare he continued to
move for he continued to persevere are
you saying that which are you doing that
with your gift am I doing that with my
gift let's self assess and take some
time and look at your own life and are
you not shrinking back but are you
moving forward he says he declared he
didn't hold back anything but he
declared to everyone all of that was
profitable there's things that you have
in your life there's things that all of
us have that God has put inside of us he
did not
cause you to arrive to the planet
empty-handed but he put gifts, talents
and abilities God is your greatest
investor that is principle number one
that you should understand about the
nature of the father is that he is your
greatest investor he is the one who has
invested more than anyone else that you
shall ever encounter the source the
father of the universe has deposited so
much talents, abilities, aptitude skills
just nuances anointing graces
assignments these are things that you
can do solutions to the problems on the
earth you are the answer to someone's
prayer you are here to produce a result
so he didn't hold back anything he
didn't shrink back from holding anything
that was profitable and he taught them
publicly and from house to house you and
I have the ability to do that through
the internet that we have an ability to
distribute things to people house to
house phone the phone moment by moment
minute by minute another verse that is
powerful is found in Hebrews and I'm
going to paraphrase and quote it it says
that we are not of those that shrink
back we know that we are not of those
that shrink back so the writer of
Hebrews lets us know that we should
never be shrinking back from the
opportunity to be the light of the world
in the salt of the earth. You are the
revelation the light of the world you
are the salt the seasoning, the
preservative, the purifier, the flavor of
the planet that were literal real estate
the real estate has value on planet
earth because the meek shall inherit it
according to Matthew 55 Psalms 37
declares that the earth shall be filled
with the righteous, the righteous shall
remain in the land Luke 2:52 says and
Jesus continue to increase in wisdom and
stature and in favor with both God and
men a powerful verse because it lets us
know that he was continually increasing
so stop receiving is the word that I'm
saying to you. Today stop receiving, stop
having recession based scarcity thinking.
This is time for you to expand in your
mindset. Stop having a fixed mindset have
a growth mindset expand. Have diligence
expanding your diligence let's expand in
our health by exercising, by eating right
by resting, by guarding our thoughts not
allowing toxic thought to
enter into our mind. Cut off the news
take the news feed off fast from social
media if you need to and replace it with
the word of the Lord replace it with
good news. Find stories that reinforce
the reality of what it is you're called
to do. Find the stories of those that
have succeeded not those that have
failed. Find the stories of those that
have overcome adverse circumstances that
have been able to recover and impact
people at a tremendous scale put the
things in front of you that inspire you.
The beauty expanded beauty expanding
your opportunities create opportunities
to others by adding value to others.
That's how we create opportunity so
there's opportunities that come for us
it says in the book of Ecclesiastes time
and chance is for all which means is
Solomon the writer was letting us know
that there's no such thing as good luck.
There's opportunities that happen for
everyone and what do you perceive the
opportunity as sometimes blessings are
work are they become as problems dressed
in work clothes we have to get to work
and we have to find a solution and take
the opportunity and seize them so add
value to others. Let's expand in our
relationships in this season. Let's gain
key relationships let's look for people
who are right mind like spirit that can
help us accomplish what we need to
accomplish. What is your plan? What is
your mission? without a vision the people
perish without a vision which is a
prophetic revelation we will cast off a
screen we will have scarcity based
thinking we will live in fear and
without faith it is impossible to please
God because those who know God must
first believe that God existed that he
is a rewarder of those that diligently.
Once again expansion seek Him so we have
to first believe that God is real and
that he is a rewarder so there's a
reward waiting for us. There's nothing
wrong with being after rewards we have
rewards waiting for us when we
diligently expand and go after him so
gain key relationships let's expand in
our relationships let's expand in our
friendships let's stop receiving in our
friendships you need to recede in their
friendships that are not really
friendships they're based out of fear
ship so when you're just tolerating
people when people are not an investment
they said it like this do it like math
either people add to you and
multiply you or they subtract and divide
you. See that when you get a phone call, a
text message, inbox message does it drain
you or does it energize you does it put
you in a state of oh my goodness I must
reach back to this person because they
add value to me they multiply they
create multiplication they create
expansion in my life or is it a draining
is it an obligation that's based out of
fear ship you don't know how to break it
off or is a true friendship where
there's a mutual exchange of value
there's a sharpening or refining and
encouraging and exhorting to become who
you were designed to be pouring into
let's expand in our mentoring who can
you pour into what they say there's two
billion people coming online in less
than a year through mobile phones how
will you and I seize the opportunity to
reach those people. You provide the
information are there a group of people
is there three to five people can you
start up a group online? Can you start it
up in your real community, at a coffee
shop or at your house? To meet with a
group of people and pour the information
that you know in a particular area. Can
you expand in your marriage? Can you grow
in your serving? Can you expand and
forgiving? Can can I expand in my
listening capacity? Can I become a better
husband? Can you become a better wife in
your marriage? Can you become can you get
mentor and tutelage by other married
couples? Can you get poured into can you
expand in that can you expand in your
family relationships by reconnecting
your family and serving your family
members? Can you expand in your parents
you can you become a more patient parent
that calls forth the goal that's in your
child. What about expanding and
creativity and starting to create more
create haven't have the creative habit.
What if you take daily some time and you
schedule time to create what about
creating what about expanding and
innovation can we expand in unique ways
to see things in a different manner and
to find solutions and to find ways to
pair things together it's like when
people come together and they have let's
say chicken and waffles that's an
innovative combination some people
wouldn't think to have fried chicken and
waffles but it was innovative and it's a
staple that people come from all around
to be a part of what
our innovative combinations of things
that have been here before but you can
combine them and put them together and
now you see something different right
somebody put stalking and the internet
together and came up with facebook all
right i mean punning pun intended. What
about acid and accumulation can you
expand an asset accumulation? can you go
out and you can you pull your resources
together and go and accumulate assets
things that add value to you that feeds
you that our financing creating finances
and resources for you that can be a
blessing. What about asset creation? can
you create new assets? can you expand in
your asset creation? can you expand in
your investing in the knowledge and
wisdom. You are your greatest investment
investing in your mind, investing in
pouring into you. Stop waiting for others
to invest in you and for you to discover
you stop waiting for the stars to align
and for someone to discover you and find
you in the ashes. You have to go out
there and make things happen God wants
you to be diligent he wants you and I to
partner with him and to step out in
faith and not be in fear what about
expanding and getting personal mentoring.
Who can pour into you? Who are people? Who
are great achievers and have achieved
success in the areas that you desire to
go into. Who have broke the door is open who
are seemingly crack the code who have
results in the area not just talking
about it I'm not talking about people
who interview people that are successful.
I'm talking about people that are
actually on the front lines and that
they solve problems and they've got a
stack that proves it they've got a stack
of successes they've got a stack of
things that they've done problems
they've saw value that they added may
have tangible resources to prove it they
have a track record that's proven. Those
are the people you need you need to be
around those are the people I need to be
around so this is a this is a call a
clarion call what about expansion and
financial intelligence. Can we get better
and how we manage our finances? Can we
expand? Can we go to workshops and
classes? Can we buy curriculum? Can we
invest in being an accountability group
where we gain financial intelligence and
learn how to multiply the resources that
are put in our hand. Questions to ask
questions to think about. This is CEO of
destiny, I hope that you're not
comfortable with receding but you really
want to expand that this is your time
for expansion.
Alright signing off this is Andre J.
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