Reverend Ike was very philanthropic, but he gave in secret. He once told me a story about a school in Brooklyn that was about to go under due to financial problems. Reverend Ike sent four different people down to the school, each of them prepared to give $200,000.

When each of them tried to make the donation, the school refused the money. Finally, Reverend Ike visited the school, himself, and asked why they weren’t allowing him to help save it. He said, “I tried on four separate occasions, and you kept kicking the money away.”

Reverend Ike would often teach that people who refused money were, on some level, not ready for it, and that it was wrong to force it upon them. So, he never went back to the school to try again to give them money. Their refusal was a clear message that they were not prepared to handle it.

People refused money because of pride. Most of the time, people refuse the help of others because they felt others pitied them. They reject the help that is in front of them, maybe because they don’t trust the people extending the help. They may think, “What’s in it for you?” Or, maybe they don’t want to owe anyone anything. Or, they didn’t want to feel like they “need”. It’s their own issue of self-pity. They refuse the help of others, when really they’re refusing God’s help.

When God sends money your way, do not reject it. You need to realize that God cannot be placed in a box. You must be expectant to receive from God. He can use so many different people to bless you. Maybe it’s not the person you like the blessing to come from, but God is teaching you something important. God is teaching you to be humble enough to receive His help.

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One of the prophets in POME has a three-car garage, but seven vehicles. He used to go to the car lots to feel having more than his garages could fit. He would sit in cars his wallet and bank account couldn’t afford, but that his conscious would buy, anyway. Since then, his life has become exactly what he felt. To act against feelings is to act against ethos (the guiding belief or ideal that characterizes a community or nation). People can have it in their mind that something is right, and all of the calculations can say something is right, but they’ll pull back on a business deal, anyway, because they weren’t feeling it. And they will have made the right choice. They will have made the right choice if no one said they could or should do something, but they did it anyway because they felt it.

Many pastors preach against feelings. They preach strong and hard, but where are they? They’re broke.  God as the subconscious Self is a Feeler.  And Jacob said to Rebekah his mother, behold, Esau my brother is a hairy man and I am a smooth man (Genesis 27:11).

Reverend Ike would always say something that made me laugh every time. He would say, “Jacob was a smooth operator.” Jesus, my elder brother, has nails in his hands, and I do not. Jesus, my elder brother, has a piercing in his side. I do not. Jesus, my elder brother, is 2,000 years older than I, but I can tell you that the subconscious self, divine intuition, is dressing me just like Jesus every day so that I can feel like my elder brother.

God communicates through our emotions. Who do you think designed us to be emotional beings? Isn’t it God? God is an emotional God. We must recognize the feelings we have and ask God what to do with them. God wants to bless us. When we desire the blessing, Satan will feed us the lie that we’re being too much, we’re being to needy, we’re being discontented, or we’re being too greedy. In reality, we just feel that we need the Father. We need Him to bless us, just like a Father takes pleasure in blessing His child.

The issue comes when we reject these emotions. It’s like we’re rejecting the desires God placed in your hearts. Why did He place it there? Why does He want us to listen to His voice?  What do you want to feel today?

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What do you want to feel and how do you activate this feeling?

It is in giving that we receive. We understand that, as Reverend Ike would say, “Life takes from the taker and gives to the giver.” Whatever it is you need, give some of it away.

That’s called “seeding.” It’s called “priming the pump.” When I used to visit South Carolina as a child, my maternal grandmother had a pump we kids would run up to and pump, but nothing would come out. But when we’d pour a little water into the pump, all of a sudden that water would start coming up out of the well. We had to prime it. It was almost like we had to tell the pump what it was we wanted.

Some of you need to “prime” your faith. The reason you don’t have any money coming to you is that you keep wishing for it without doing anything to help it manifest. You have to use what you have to get what you want.

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Napoleon had no fear in battle because he believed a bullet that could kill him had not been made. Even though he was small in size, he was not a dwarf in his mindset. Mark Twain said, “It is not the size of the dog in the fight, it’s the size of the fight in the dog.” Napoleon had no hesitation when it came to attempting a seeming impossibility because he believed the heavens were on his side and that the very stars would swoop down to clear the obstacles from his path.

Who is in you? John tells us, “You, dear children, are from God and have overcome them because the one who is in you is greater than the one who is in the world” (1 Jn. 4:4). In an epistle, Paul said, “What, then, shall we say in response to these things? If God is for us, who can be against us?” (Rom. 8:31). Napoleon was depending on his ego and self-trust, and he was able to accomplish greater feats than most people in his generation ever could.

If you are hinged on the goodness and faithfulness of God in your life, then what can’t you do? You are doing this for God’s greater glory. Are you worried about your mortgage? Are you fearful for not being able to provide for your children or your medical bills? Maybe you are frustrated because of the things you want to do but cannot do because of the lack of funds. Let me tell you this — it’s not your problem.  It is He who is in you who is able to accomplish God’s purposes for your life.

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If God is for you, ___________ (insert challenge here) can’t be against you.

You can be what you want to be if you want it strongly enough and if you believe in it firmly enough to make it a dominant desire. Supply is an active force, and it is yours if you want to claim it. It goes to those who are alive, and who provide so many powerful magnets to attract it that they can pull it to themselves regardless of what obstacles may arise. When we understand the supply is ours, we will see the genius Napoleon possessed. First it was his intense desire for power, and then it was his overwhelming belief in his own destiny. We have to have an intense desire for power and a colossal belief in our own destiny if we are to be anything but dwarfs.

Hebrews 11:1 says, “Faith is being sure of what we hope for. It is being sure of what we do not see.” We may not see ourselves to be beings of great destiny, but it does not mean it’s not true. We may not see ourselves to have great power in the Lord Jesus Christ, because of the hopeless states we find ourselves in. The Bible will remain true whether you believe in it or not.

The Bible says you have a hope and a future, and the Bible said the Lord has given you power and authority.

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What are you going to believe in — the temporary situation you are in, or the eternal God who created the heavens and the earth?

Darkness is good. That is why God put darkness in you. There is darkness in every individual. Why do you think, when you close your eyes, it gets dark? God put darkness in you on purpose. That is because, whatever you are going to create, you can only do it in the dark. Interestingly enough, you cannot develop film in the light. It would expose it, become overexposed by the light and then ruin the film. There are things that God is going to make through you, but you have to take that picture and develop it in darkness.

You always thought darkness was something evil. Darkness is not evil; darkness is just a place of unformed purposes. Darkness is the divine feminine. Darkness is the female aspect of God, which is the void. Even when it appears that you do not have anything, you have everything. Genesis says: In the beginning God created the heaven and the earth. And the earth was without form … Everything that God starts with, starts without form. Most people are in trouble because they are so busy trying to see things as the creature sees things.

If your prophecy does not come to pass, are you looking at it as the creator or the creature? The creature is waiting to see then say, but the creator always deals with what is unseen. The creator works with the formless. The creator works with that which is in the void. And the secret to getting rich, wealthy, and having prosperity, is to know that you are rich when you have zero in your physical pocket. You have to know this. Although you have zero dollars in your wallet, you are walking down the streets like you own everything, because you understand that “I Am” money.

The creator operates as the formless. Even if I lose it all, I can create another, because “I Am” creator. And the earth was without form, and void and darkness was upon the face of the deep. All darkness that shows up in your life, is just God hovering over you. That is why you experience darkness upon the face of your deep stuff, that which you cannot even talk about. Darkness comes upon the face of deep things, because God wants to bring a book out of that darkness. There is a major story in you. He wants to bring a movie out of that darkness, an invention out of that darkness.

God wants to bring a picture, a divine idea out of that darkness. The reason why many of you can’t seem to get this is because you are afraid of the dark. In the dark you do not see any form at all. In the dark it is void. It looks like the check will not cash. Miraculous prophecy is when it looks like it will not even come to pass. You know God is in it when you are in the dark, when you cannot even see the form. If we are going to act as God, then we have to stay in the dark.

Every time God gets ready to do something for you, or to you or in you, He will always work through you darkness. If you are not in the dark, you have not heard God. The Holy Ghost has allowed me today to become Holy Spirit and give you what was needed. You have been in the dark for so long, you had no idea what you should be doing while in the dark. The dark was a place of unformed purposes. There is something forming, God was not through. That is why, in plays and movies, when the theme gets ready to change, they fade it to black.

Nothing evil happened, it just needs a change of scenery. They do not do it right in front of your eyes. They cut that theater light off, even if it is just for two seconds, then the set goes to black. Even when America needed a change in its history, they had to seek out darkness, and found people that were dark, to help a nation form its purpose and identity. Darkness is the place of unformed purposes. You have to be in the dark. You have to be in the place where you say; “I do not even know what is going on.”

What is done in darkness will come to light. You are what you have been doing in darkness. You came to light. If you want to change the way things are going you have to start in the dark. When you want to do something, you have to shut it down, fade it to black. That scene is over. Accept it, forgive and let go. Forgive and forget, fade it to black, impregnate yourself in the dark, come out on the stage with a new wardrobe, a new set, a new part and learn your lines and work your piece. Your attitude determines your altitude.

God always deals with things that are without form and void. Everything you need exists for you right now, but it is without form and void. It is waiting for you to go in and cash it. The universe is a big dough ball, and you have to take it and become the cookie cutter. Do you know how you cut the cookie out of the dough? You do it with the law of your imagination. Your imagination is creation. These truths are so simple.

Everyone has a dream in him or her that they have to reach into them- selves and pull out of the darkness that which needs to be showcased in the light. Now, did God say let there be light before the light was? No. Actually the light always existed, God just called light forth for everyone else to see. You can see what is in you, in your darkness that no one else can see. It’s already there.

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What is it that you need to call forth into existence?