hey everyone welcome to the multiplied course I'm so glad you're going to be going through this course because I know what's going to happen in your life your vision your abilities are about to expand and it's going to be god-given and God blessed this is actually the third part of a three course series now each of the courses are Standalone you don't have to watch the previous two courses to watch this course however it's highly recommended the other thing I want to highly recommend is the reading of this book this course will be drawn from
this book and it's a book called X multiply your god-given potential there will be much of what I've written that you will hear in this course but there is so much more in this book that I highly and I can't stress the word highly enough recommend that you would journey through this book as well as watch the course both are very important I want to say this in our world today things are getting so chaotic evil is getting is so strong darkness is entering our society in an unprecedented way that we need to be built
up in the word of God and this is what's happening to many Believers that I'm seeing people are drawing back they're shrinking in fear instead we should be multiplying advancing the kingdom this is what we are called to do this course will certainly build your faith to do that in this time when the world is drawing back we the Believers should be standing out and one of the ways we stand out is by being fruitful and multiplying so as we enter this course I want to pray for you I want to pray that God the
Holy Spirit Will Reveal to you things that will change your life forever making you more effective in his Harvest field so father in the name of Jesus I pray for my brother my sister the group that is watching this or the individual that is watching this I'm asking spirit of God that every time they turn on one of these lessons that your presence would literally fill their home their office their living room their car wherever they're watching or wherever they're listening you will fill their atmosphere with your presence and you will teach them and reveal
to them secret Hidden Truths that they have not known before and that they will become stronger as a result and become more effective father in building your kingdom and it's in Jesus mighty name I pray amen let's begin our journey and [Music] multiplication welcome to lesson one of the multiplied course now first of all let me tell you I'm so excited for you why am I saying that because I know what God has done in my life how my life was totally completely changed when he revealed what I'm about to share with you in this
course my productivity fruitfulness whatever you want to call it in life completely and radically changed now before we jump in I want to tell you right up front this is actually the third part of a threep part series that we are doing as far as courses go now each of the parts are Standalone but they are a continuation of each other that I believe everyone should go through all three the first course is entitled called the second course is entitled gifted and this course of course is entitled multiplied I want to say this if you
have not gone through gifted I highly recommend that you do but if you don't I'm going to review gifted in the first two lessons however if you have gone through gifted recently skip the these first two lessons and go right to lesson three in this multiplied course so let's jump in and we're going to begin with the Apostle Paul's words in Romans the 12th chapter the 6th verse Paul makes this statement in his grace God has given us different gifts for doing certain things well now in the beginning here I'm going to identify three very
important crucial words that we'll build upon all throughout this course two of the words are located in this verse the first one in His Grace Grace is the first word I want to identify and make sure that we're all on the same page as far as the grace of God and the reason I say that is when you say grace to most Christians they will think of forgiveness of sins they will think of uh a free gift they will think of Salvation however very few Christians that I've met when they hear the word Grace think
empowerment but if you look at the word throughout scripture it is defined as empowerment God himself made this statement to the Apostle Paul he said my grace is sufficient for you for my power works best in your weakness or your human inability so God in 2 Corinthians 12:9 actually identifies the word Grace as his empowerment if you look at Strong's definition of the Greek word carus it is this gift favorable beneficial all the things that most Christians understand however strongs goes on to Define this Greek word as the Divine influence in the heart with its
reflection in the life so there's an outward reflection of the grace of God if you look at acts chap 11 Barnabas came to the churches in Antioch and he saw the grace of God upon the people he didn't hear about it he saw the empowerment if you look at Peter in second Peter chapter 1 he says Grace be multiplied to you as as his divine power so Peter identifies Grace the grace of God as his empowerment so after years of studying Greek words after studying the New Testament I've come up with a definition for this
Greek word it is God's empowering presence that gives you and I the ability to go beyond our natural ability now if you look at the call of God upon every one of our lives I'm going to tell you this right now what God has called you to do in this earth it is impossible for you to fulfill it in your own ability you say what then why would he call me to do it because he wants you to depend on your his grace so if you don't understand that Grace empowers you to go beyond your
natural ability you'll never be able to fulfill what you were put on this Earth to do the Bible actually says in Romans chapter 5 that we have access to this grace through faith so I almost want you to see Faith as like the pipeline that brings the empowerment of God's grace into your life now the second word in this verse let's read the whole verse again in his grace God has given us different gifts for doing certain things well so the second word I want to highlight is the word gifts now if you take the
Greek word carus c h a r i s and you add an m and an a onto it you get Charisma that is the Greek word for gifts what does this Greek word mean it means this a special endowment of Grace that empowers an individual with a special ability okay I'm going to read that again a specific endowment of Grace that empowers you with a special ability oh my goodness now now listen to the verse again it's going to make a lot of sense in his grace God has given us different gifts for doing certain
things well if you look at the Charisma on our lives it sometimes may seem like a natural ability but it's still extraordinary sometimes it's obvious we can see the gift of God on a person's life but other times it's almost hidden but it's always extraordinary let's just say it like this the the Charisma of God gives you and I the ability to go beyond mainstream natural ability it's so important that we understand this God has placed a gift on every single one of his children okay listen to me not just pastors not just missionaries not
just uh worship leaders every single child of God has a Charisma on their life and that may manifest as one gift even two gifts three gifts if you look at my personal life you would say the obvious now gifts on my life are speaking and writing now was I always gifted in speaking and always gifted in writing the answer is no because here's something very important to understand there are times that God places his gift on a person's life right from birth if you look at John the Baptist he had a gift a gift of
recognizing the Messiah he recognized the Messiah when the Messiah was in Mary's womb remember when Mary came to visit Elizabeth the baby John the Baptist leapt in Elizabeth's womb he had that gift of recognizing the Messiah right there from birth and 30 years later when Jesus came to the River Jordan to be baptized John was the first one to recognize him however this is not always true there are other times that God will release a gift into our life either by the word of the Lord or by the impartation through prayer this is something that
happened with me if you look at me obviously one of my gifts is writing however what many people don't understand is that one of my worst subjects in high school was English creative writing and foreign language I literally was terrified to write a one-page paper I remember getting assignments to write a one or two page paper and I would spend hours before I could get it completed I would write a sentence or two and throw it away I got very low grades in English and if you look at our entrance exam the SATs one half
of that at least when I was doing them one half of it was English the other half was math I scored a 370 on the English in all my travels I've only met one human being that scored lower than me on the English in the SAT so when God spoke to me and told me to write in 1991 I kind of laughed inside and said God I think you have so many of us kids on the the Earth you're getting us mixed up with one another you don't want me to write just talk to my
English teachers and I remember I did nothing 10 months later two women from two different states came to me within two weeks of each other and they both had the exact same word they said John if you don't write what God's giving you to write he will give the message to someone else and one day you'll have to give an account for it well when the second woman said it to me from the state of Texas two weeks after the first woman from Florida the fear of God hit me and I remember I I got
a notebook piece of paper and I wrote on the top contract and I wrote a contract with God I said God I think you're making a huge mistake I can't write so I need Grace and I signed the contract and now today tens of millions of books are all over the world and I'm actually kind of glad that I was a horrific writer in English because nobody knows more than me where those books came from I know that gift that ability to write is not mine it is his ability and this is one of the
definitions of Charisma it's not your natural ability it is his ability if you look at speaking another gift of mine is speaking I remember when Lisa and I were first married the first time she heard me preach she was in the Front Row 5 minutes into my message she fell sound asleep she slept through the entire message her best friend sitting next to her was a girl named Amy Amy fell into such deep sleep that I watched drool come out of the side of her mouth okay now that was so upsetting to me but I
was a horrific communicator but we I remember when we obeyed God and we served in our church for the first four and a half years of our marriage and then I was asked to become youth pastor when we crossed the Florida state line the first Sunday morning the pastor asked me to get up and address 2 200 people in the service my wife was terrified she said oh Lord please please don't let him embarrass us I mean she she had a right to be I was a horrible communicator and I remember getting up being handed
the mic and within 60 seconds 2500 people were on their feet screaming and shouting and I preached for four more minutes I remember handing the microphone back to the pastor I went back to my seat I'm trembling like a leaf either from the adrenaline or the anointing I believe it was both and Lisa told me after service she was almost scared she looked and said who just inhabited my husband's body she was shocked I believe at that moment that gift to be able to speak came on my life and so I remember years later we
were cleaning out our garage and we came across the master tape of and I know a lot of you don't understand what a tape is it is actually called a cassette tape it's prehistoric you got to Google it to get understand it but anyway I found the m master of that message that I put Lisa's friend and her to sleep and I went to toss it and the Holy Spirit said don't toss it I said Lord no no no I need to toss this tape nobody ever should hear this message it's horrific and the Holy
Spirit said again don't throw it away I said Okay God I need understanding why can't I throw this horrific message away he said son I want you to keep it because I want you to always know how bad of a communicator you are without me and you know can I say this it has protected me because there's been times when I'm speaking to five 10,000 people and people get up they cheer they get so excited you can sense what God's doing in the room and if I was stupid I might think I had something to
do with that but I remember believe me I remember how horrific of a communicator I was before God's anointing or excuse me God's gifting of Charisma came on my life to speak the word of God and so let me tell you I have gifts that I'm not gifted at okay uh every time I sing at H at at home everybody either politely or sometimes even passionately tells me to please be quiet and sing to myself why because I'm a horrific singer I was out praying yesterday morning and I started singing Holy Holy Holy you know
holy holy holy I don't even want to do it I don't want to repulse you okay and I'm sitting there going Jesus you must really love me because right now I can even tell I can't hold a tune and uh musical instruments you know I took piano lessons my parents made me take it for four years a professional music teacher and you know she approached my parents and actually said please would you have your son quit these lessons that's how bad I was with musical instruments I understand where my gifting is and let me say
this to you happy is the man or woman who knows their gifts and operates in them and miserable is the man or woman who tries to be somebody else they try to operate in somebody else's gifting I have seen terrible copies of the Charisma of God because you will never find never find listen to me carefully a good a an amazing copy of somebody's gifts because the gifts that God has placed in you are unique and they are needed for the body of Christ to grow and for the Harvest of souls to come into the
kingdom of God so listen to me carefully you are gifted God has placed his grace on your life and you have the ability to go beyond your natural ability and specifically he has put his Charisma that is the specific gifting on your life it may be to operate and remove a tumor that gift may be to sing beautifully in such a way that causes people's hearts to turn to God that gift may be able be being able to design some kind of a um Electronic Component that has never been invented before that gifting may be
in the marketplace where you have this ability to see opportunities to be able to bring in revenue for the kingdom of God the gifts are so vast there is no exhaustive list in the scripture concerning the gifts of God but believe me God has placed at least one gift on your life that causes you to be able to go beyond mainstream ability so this is what I want to do to conclude this first lesson I want to pray that God reveals to you clearly the giftings that he's placed upon your life father in the name
of Jesus I'm asking you please Lord God reveal to my brother to my sister what you have placed upon their life the gifting in order to build your kingdom in order to impact lives for eternity I pray Holy Spirit make this clear to them in Jesus mighty name amen we'll go to the next lesson and the next lesson we're going to introduce our third word that's going to set up this entire multiplication [Music] course
