Homem de Deus - Paul Washer

[Music] you can trust God if God has called you to do something why run to me why tell them why raise support from them why speak great things about yourself so that they might give if God has called you he will provide every one of your needs according to his riches in glory and if as we hear these evangelists on television if you don't support our ministry we're going down then go down if God's in it he will hold you up I want to speak for a moment about Matthew chapter 7 says ask verse 7

ask and it will be given to you seek and you will find knock and it will be open to you for everyone who asks receives and he who F he who seeks finds and to him who knocks it will be open so many young people and so many older people come to me discouraged about this verse it it just doesn't work I pray and I ask and God doesn't answer would surely this can't mean what it says and then all the theologians come and say well of course it means exactly what it says but only

in regard to God's Will and of course we know God doesn't will anything for anybody nowadays this is a promise and it is true you must understand the context but it is true This Promise is not for those who seek to promote Advance or preserve self This Promise is not for those who seek to promote or Advance or even preserve you understand what I mean by that God if you can get glory for yourself that I be destroyed it is not about self-preservation it is not about the promotion of self this promise is for those

who seek God's glory and God's will above all other things this promise is for those who recognize their utter weakness to attain such a Heavenly ambition and This Promise is those who by faith lay hold of the promises of God and persevere until God comes down the promises belong to those with a right passion let me give you a few verses Matthew 6:9 pray then in this way Our Father who is in heaven Hallowed be thy name your kingdom come your will be done you see all these silly little things being said about Prosperity today

God wants to prosper you and he wants to give you a Mercedes and a nice home God wants you to go out there and name it and claim it and blab it and grab it and get it all for yourself let me tell you how it really works everything in our life as a Christian is within the Kingdom of Heaven the kingdom of God's Dear [Music] Son the mentality of those who pray correctly is this God if you can get glory for yourself and you can advance your kingdom through prospering me in any measure in

any way then so be it but dear God if your kingdom will advance and your name will be glorified through me being ground to powder then so be it this is not a prayer for you it is a prayer for him it's asking about him and asking about the advancement of his kingdom it's another passage that says Matthew 6: 21-24 for where your treasure is there is your your heart will be also the eye is the lamp of the body so then if your eye is clear your whole body will be full of light but

if your eye is bad your whole body will be full of Darkness if then the light that is in you is Darkness how great is that darkness no one can serve two masters for either he will hate the one and love the other or he will be devoted to one and despise the other you cannot serve God and wealth you cannot serve God and anything else the problem is with the eye because the eye reveals the passion of the Heart The Treasure of the heart I don't need to read your heart I only need to

look at your [Music] eye to what is your eye gazing what is the goal of your life and I want you to know something that even the greatest goals of life can be nothing more than idolatry nothing more than idolatry Ministry is one of the greatest Idols in Christianity becoming a success in Ministry is a putrid horrid abominable Idol to become a big person an important person one who speaks at a conference the charismatics they have their Heroes they're guys who can shake out their coat and make people fall down Southern B Baptist they have

their Heroes your success in the ministry how because you've got the biggest number of people and the biggest budget and the most baptisms and then the reformed guys they have their Heroes they all have really big heads with really big brains that know a lot of things everyone seems to be trying to be a hero or to get into the Inner Circle the eye is focused on one thing I love loved Whitfield no movement began with Whitfield because when he was dying he said let me die and let my name die with me just Christ

what are you've got to judge your motives you've got to look at those motives and ask yourself why are you doing this most men study the Bible to get a good sermon and get a good sermon so that they can get an Open Door study the Bible and know God you pray that God's kingdom might be Advanced some of you young men you've been praying oh God use me God use me what you ought to be praying is oh God use my roommate let me carry his bags all the days of my [Music] life God

will give anything to those who ask him if their heart is set on this view Matthew 633 but seek first his kingdom and his righteousness and all these things will be added to you go on to First Corinthians whatever you do whether the most menial task of eating and drinking do it all for the glory of God and the whole idea is this the full crust of your life is to be only one thing that God be glorified that the kingdom of Christ Advance once you step into that realm if your heart is truly there

to seek first only the kingdom than anything you ask with that passion and that direction he will give it to [Music] you anything that is necessary for the name of God to be glorified anything that is necessary for the kingdom of God to advance is yours absolutely everything and anything the promise belongs to those with the right passion and the promise belongs to the weak the promise belongs to the [Music] weak young men you will heartily agree that you can do nothing of yourself you you don't know at all what that means it's going to

take so many decades of all your strength being destroyed you have no idea what it is even those of us who are older and even those who've been in the ministry longer than I've been alive it's a process of learning what does God do God does such a work of destruction in our lives he says I will cleanse you in Ezekiel in the New Covenant I will cleanse you from all your filthiness and all your Idols he will break apart all those systemns that you make that can't hold water he will smash them and smash

them and smash them until you're left utterly destitute of everything with God that is of course if you're God's man if you're not God's man he'll give you the desires of your heart and that's the most terrifying thing you could ever imagine the Pharisees they wanted to receive Glory from men Jesus said that God gave them their reward in full and then they went to hell [Music] [Music]