Contribute

The teaching is about the concept of contribution and how it involves giving or offering something of value, such as resources, time, effort, or skills, for a common purpose or to help others. It is associated with generosity, stewardship, and a heart of service. The speaker shares a personal story of feeling like they had nothing to contribute due to financial struggles, but realized that their gifts were meant to make room for them to bring in finances and help others. They emphasize the importance of not allowing current circumstances to make one lose their vision. The speaker also talks about the idea of matter and how everything, including ourselves, is composed of atoms and has a weight and value. They encourage listeners to rest in the idea that they have something to contribute and to materialize their faith until they can touch it. They reference the scripture Hebrews 11:1 about faith being confidence in what is hoped for and assurance about what is not seen. All right, and so tonight I'm just going to be doing a teaching a quick teaching and so prayerfully you can follow it this teaching we're going to be teaching on contribution and so let me just pray and so father in the name of Jesus we give you the honor the glory and the praise Lord I thank you for all that you are all that you have been all of what you are doing we thank you God that you are just all God and all amazing by yourself we thank you that you are majestic that you are marvelous that you are mighty that you are wonderful Lord we thank you that you have or just done great things God we thank you that you are forever covering we thank you for your everlasting love Lord we thank you oh Lord for just allowing oh God us to just be here and to listen and to do what we do oh God Lord by way of your spirit we thank you God Lord I thank you Lord that you are moving through me Lord and I pray God that you would decrease me and you would increase yourself God I thank you tonight Lord in this moment Lord that you would get the glory oh God I pray Lord that each person oh God that would hear this word father Lord that they would be served Lord that they would other ears would be open that their hearts would be open Lord and they would be willing to receive father and so we just thank you God well that there be no technical technological issues no distractions father God in the name of Jesus we thank you amen all right so we're doing a teaching tonight on contribution praise the Lord and so we are going to just teach this tonight a quick teaching it's called contribute and so I just want to talk about the word contribute really quickly and so the word contribute contextually it means to give or offer something of value whether it's resources time effort or skills for a common purpose or to help people to act of contributing is often associated with generosity stewardship and a heart of service right and just give you a real quick biblical reference right because we like to do scripture Galatians 6 2 says to carry each other's burdens and in this way you will fulfill the law of Christ contributing by helping others carry their burdens is seen as fulfilling Christ's command to love one another and so if you are contributing to the solution of other people's burdens you are helping one another and so you are helping somebody by providing the solution and so this I woke up right I woke up one day and I heard the Lord gives me this word and he said contribute and in that moment I'm gonna be honest I didn't think that I had much I didn't have much to contribute right and that's usually how it goes right especially when you were dealing with the level of turmoil you in your life when you are dealing with all kinds of obstacles right you are in the midst of a storm you are in the midst of battles you are almost seeing the lowly the lowliness lowliness of yourself in your situation right if you are not seeing from the right vantage point and so in that moment I didn't think that I had anything to give me I was financially struggling and all I could and that was really all I could see and so I couldn't see past that current situation so I heard the Lord but I did not necessarily respond in that moment right I could see the current situation although you know I had plenty of different things I didn't realize that my gifts were trying to make room for me to bring in finances and to just contribute into the lives of other people and so I had allowed that current circumstance to make me lose my vision all right and so I need you to say don't allow your vision or that circumstance to not lose your vision okay I need you just to repeat that or you say that in your fear let me not allow my current situation to make me lose my vision all right because this is all faith all faith all faith and so one of the current efforts that I try to really focus on is confidence to create right because I truly believe that when we have the confidence we we really have the ability to move forward and knowing how to focus on what God is calling us to focus on right we have we understand the track and so you know what you really need to know is it's already created in heaven so there is something that God has placed on the inside of you that you have to contribute despite your circumstances despite your emotions despite what's in the inside of you despite what you think of yourself despite what you've been through despite what other people may think of you despite what boxes they have tried to put you in there is already something that God has put on the inside of you that he has said that you can contribute there are already things in heaven that you can begin to pull down even as you are contributing there's ideas there's what he inventions there is intel that God is saying listen this is for you this is a resource for you to do what I've called you to do as a matter of fact I want to share a quick dream as you know you may know I'm a dreamer if you don't know then welcome to my world I am a dreamer and so I had a dream that I was in what felt like a I was floating in what I call matter and I call it the matter of faith and I was floating there and as I was floating that particular week there were some needs that I had I needed my bills paid I needed some car my car note I needed the rent paid I needed my nails and I know y'all might not see that it's something but when I was dealing in the some of the lowest season I had me and the Lord had a deal and I said God please let me at least get my nails done okay I want to do some self-care and I needed my phone bill paid that week and that particular week everything had felt like it dried up right and the Lord has had me in that place of hey I need you to depend on me I need you to trust me and so I was like God I don't know how you're gonna do it and he took me into this dream and I seen I was floating in what I call the matter of faith everything that I needed the name was just sitting there and I just looked at it I was like it just looked like I could grab it and I was like okay well okay if I could grab it what do I do with it and so I had woken up in the middle of the night it probably was a three or so o'clock in the morning and I woke up and I immediately turned the light on and I just felt the need to start pulling what was there out of heaven and I just said I'm pulling this down I'm pulled that down but I'm pulling my cardinal down I pulled this down everything that I need I'm just pulling it down okay and so I did that and I can guarantee you guess what in a few days within maybe two or so days every single thing that I need began to come up it began to show up okay because it was already established for me it was already created for me God had already provided the need that I needed it was already there and so let me tell you whatever you are in need of whatever God has put in you is already there you are not lacking anything you have something to contribute I just need you to be served in this moment for those who have been weary those have been burdened those who have been going back vacillating those that have been doubting man do I have something do I have something no you got something it's there that baby is there that seed is there he just needs you to begin to see it he needs you to see it because sometimes it looks like it's a small hand they are smart they look that it's a cloud that it's the size of a hand and you just need to have faith enough that it's going to turn into something okay and so let me talk a little bit about matter matter is anything that takes up space and can be weighed in other words matter has a value and mass we're talking about what already has a weight what already has been created okay so God has created you for a purpose you are the handiwork of the living God you have been created in his image some words of some some virgin says you are his a poem a you are his you are his poem his p.o.m.o. I'm sorry p.o.m.a. meaning you are the poem of God he's already created something for you to do all right there's already a contribution he would have not put you on this earth purposeless you have something to contribute you got a story you have you taking up a space and that space that you're taking up it's not for a purpose baby you have way meaning meaning everything every guy let me go back to this matter real quick every everyday objects that can be touched are ultimately composed of atoms even us which are made up of interacting sub automatic particles and every day as well as scientific usage matter generally includes atoms and anything made up of them and any particles or combination of particles right that acts as if they have both rest all right and so let me tell you something you rest in it you better rest in it rest in the idea that you have something to contribute you've been made up of a weight that provides something on this earth you aren't just sitting here as a dead weight there's something moving in you ready ready to come out of you there's something radio for you to take notice of it all right and so that's what we're talking about today therefore you have to materialize your faith until you can touch it all right and so let me give you a few scriptures about this let me just go to the to the to the one of the faith faith-based scriptures where we all know this scripture from Hebrews 11 and 1 it says now faith is confidence and what we hope for an assurance about what we do not see this is what the ancients were commended for by faith we understand that the verse was formed excuse me but the universe was formed a God's command so that was what is seen was not made out of what is visible maybe you gotta see what is in the unseen you may not be able to see it because it doesn't feel like there you may not be able to see it because you've gone through so much hard stuff and it may feel unseeable it's not irreparable is it there you just got to begin to believe you just got to begin to believe all right and so you need to begin to declare it whatever has even felt like it was stolen whatever feels like it's not there it shall return it shall begin to show up in the mighty name of Jesus in the mighty name of Jesus he created you for a purpose you've been mandated you have been given a mission and you have been mantled to do the work of the Lord amen amen amen amen okay all right and so now amen um let me go to um this because i want to talk about how to administer how to how do we administer and contribute okay i told you we're teaching i'm not preaching we're just teaching we're just flowing today and so we're going to say you have an ability right what is an ability ability is a talent it's an acquired skill it's a spiritual gift um it's a five-fold gift right um and um um let's see we we go to first peter four and ten all right uh it says four ten through eleven it says each of you should use whatever gifts you have received to serve others as faithful stewards of God's grace in its various forms if anyone speaks they should do so as who speaks the very words of God if anyone serves they should do so with the strength God provides so that in all things God may be praised through Jesus Christ to be him to him be the glory and the power of forever a man and amen all right and so whatever gift that God has given you um you are to use that gift you are not to hold it to yourself we are we are we are not owners we're managers all right and so we use those gifts for God's glory um whatever that gift is all right and so you want to talk about what you want to talk about how to administer um and contribute begin to use your talents all right begin to use your acquired skills what skills have you acquired what are your spiritual gifts you know do you prophesy to prophesy if you um if you if you are an evangelist in five folds go be evangelist if you're a teacher um some of those things don't always some of those things are translated not directly outside of the church as well you could be a consultant as a prophet you can be a uh counselor as a prophet you could be an epistolic leader um in the corporate world you know so what do you do whatever you got don't bury it all right don't bury it don't bury it don't bury it what knowledge and wisdom or experience do you have that serves other people what is your story what is your testimony what did you get from it right and i'm talking about something a testimony is a testimony when you have proof and evidence that you overcame it all right that's what a testimony is we overcome by the word of the blood of the testimony all right uh and so and we all know that and so we want to make sure that we have a testimony that we can share all right what did the lord allow you to overcome that becomes a bridge for other people to now begin to walk over and so you want to begin to identify that begins to go through your life go through the markers of your life and begin to see what did you learn what did you overcome you can begin to share that that is how you contribute what do you have the faith to administer and contribute according to your spiritual gifts or your inherent skill set baby are you a carpenter jesus was a carpenter are you a fisherman uh the disciples were fishermen most some of them okay what you you you you you you you you you you you you you you you you you you you you you you you you you you you you you you you you you you you you you you you you you you you you