Laugh Your Way to Victory: Wealth Transfer and Money With a Mission

Sermon outline

God laughs at everything that rises against His anointed, so His children can laugh their way through every challenge, think big, put their faith to work and walk into the new year expecting increase.

1. Stretch beyond your level: God works through your thinking

   Whatever level you are at is good, but do not get comfortable there. If your business turns over a certain amount, believe for more; if you won ten souls last year, go for twenty. God cannot do for any of His children apart from their thinking, so what you meditate on and brood over is what He will manifest.

   “God cannot do for any individual apart from their thinking.”

2. Christianity is the great confession

   Christianity is a profession in the sense that you are a practitioner of the word. You received salvation by confessing God's word, and you receive everything else the same way: believing, confessing, walking and appropriating. Do not grow weary in well doing.

   “Christianity is called the great confession.”

   • Galatians 6:9

3. God gets excited when you succeed

   God rejoices over every success, whether you speak in tongues for the first time, cast out a devil, see someone healed, lead one soul to Christ or buy a new house. As a young Christian he thought God was a sad old man waiting to punish him, but God is excited about your life.

   Illustration: Parents shrieking with joy when their baby takes a first step or says a first word: that is how God is about you.

   “God gets excited about your success.”

4. He who sits in the heavens shall laugh

   The nations rage against the Lord and His anointed, and God's anointed are those He carefully chose, plucked out and set apart, however much of a mess they were. He has sealed you, telling angels and devils 'this one'. When God sees the confusion He laughs, and so must His children, because pressure cannot destroy someone chosen, authenticated and sent by God.

   Illustration: Joseph, chosen by God and sent ahead to preserve Israel. He says this was not the message he planned ('the Holy Spirit will guide you'), but the Holy Spirit was guiding him this way.

   “When God sees confusion, he laughs. What must his children do? Just laugh.”

   • Psalm 2:1-4
   • 1 Samuel 16:7
   • John 1:46
   • Ephesians 4:30
   • John 1:6

5. Think big: wealth transfer

   The earth and its fullness belong to the Lord, and to His children. God is waiting for His children to agree with His word so He can transfer wealth into their hands, because all His promises are yes and amen and you have whatever you say. Big thoughts and big plans open the way.

   Illustration: Looking out of an aeroplane window at the clouds, the ocean, the mountains and the snow: God made it all.

   “Everything belongs to you.”

   • Psalm 24:1
   • 2 Corinthians 1:20
   • Amos 3:3
   • Mark 11:23-24

6. Money with a mission: the Lord has need of it

   All the money that comes into your hands is money with a mission. Jesus told the disciples to loose the colt and say 'the Lord has need of it', so speak that way over the contracts, jobs and opportunities you are facing. God will not expect you to do the job without giving you the tools.

   Illustration: He calls his son Adrian up to act out the disciples loosing the colt.

   “All the money that will ever come into your hands is money with a mission.”

   • Luke 19:30-34

7. Net-breaking experiences: violent faith

   Do not stop at small catches; believe for nets that break. Not everyone will see it, only those with violent faith who take it by force instead of saying 'whatever will be, will be'. When you meet an obstruction, remember you have been busy with the construction: praying in tongues, coming to church, sowing and speaking the word, so you can tell the obstruction to go.

   Illustration: The religious man who says he is waiting on the Lord in 2005, 2007 and 2011, until he is grey, while the Lord is waiting on him.

   “Before you met the obstruction, you have been busy with the construction.”

   • Matthew 11:12
   • Psalm 119:130

8. Laugh, because the devil is no longer your problem

   If the devil destroys your car, buy a better one; if he takes something, trust God for ten times more, because the silver and gold are His. He may look serious, but inside him there is laughter, because the devil tried to stop you, your marriage and your children and failed. Active faith is needed to grab hold of what God has given, and people in the church are testifying of unexpected money and cancelled debts.

   Illustration: Feeding a baby with an aeroplane spoon: the child giggles but does not open its mouth. Only those who open their mouths get fed.

   “Inside of me, there's a laughter.”

   • Haggai 2:8

9. Walk on the water at His word 'come'

   God wants you to walk on water as Peter did when Jesus said 'come'. Gravity pulls you towards the natural, but the word and the Spirit keep you up, so once you have stepped out in business or faith, do not look at your bank account or your friends; keep remembering the word 'come'. The church is not a natural thing but a spiritual one.

   Illustration: He calls a few people to the front row simply by saying 'come', to show that the anointing is right where they are.

   “When gravity attempts to pull you down and bring you into the natural, God's Spirit and anointing and the Word will keep you walking on the water.”

   • Matthew 14:28-29
   • Genesis 12:1
   • Zechariah 4:6