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There is a truth I return to again and again, both in Scripture and in my own life.

God cares about what concerns you.

Not just the big moments.
Not just the life altering crises.
But the everyday things. The inconvenient things. The moments that feel too small to bother God with.

In this teaching, I want to walk you through three short stories found in 2 Kings chapters 4 through 6. These stories may seem minor at first glance, but they reveal something powerful about God’s care, His authority, and how He invites us to partner with Him through obedience and faith.

God Is a Present Help in Trouble

Before we even step into 2 Kings, I want to ground us in truth.

Psalm 46 tells us that God is our refuge and strength, a very present help in trouble. He is not distant. He is not passive. He is actively involved, even when the earth feels unstable beneath our feet.

No matter what you are facing today, you serve a God who is risen, powerful, and moving on your behalf. He promises that when we ask, we receive. When we seek, we find. When we knock, the door is opened.

That truth sets the foundation for everything we are about to read.

Poison in the Pot and God’s Care in Everyday Needs

In 2 Kings 4:38–41, Elisha returns to Gilgal during a famine. The sons of the prophets are hungry, so Elisha instructs his servant to make stew for them.

One man goes out to gather herbs. He finds wild gourds, slices them into the pot, and follows the instruction he was given. No rebellion. No negligence. Just obedience.

But once the stew is served, the men cry out, “There is death in the pot.”

What strikes me here is that something went wrong even though they were doing the right thing.

Elisha does not panic. He tells them to bring flour, puts it into the pot, and instructs them to serve the food again. The poison is neutralized.

This story reminds me that God cares about problems that arise in the middle of obedience. Sometimes we think that if God led us somewhere, nothing should go wrong. Scripture does not support that idea.

God cares about the problem, and He gives instruction for the solution.

When What You Have Is Not Enough

The next account comes from 2 Kings 4:42–44.

A man brings Elisha twenty loaves of barley bread and some grain during a famine. Elisha instructs his servant to feed the people with it. The servant responds honestly and logically.

“How can this feed one hundred men?”

It is not enough. It does not make sense. The numbers do not add up.

Yet Elisha speaks the word of the Lord. The people eat, and there is food left over.

This mirrors what we later see when Jesus feeds the multitudes. God is not limited by our calculations. He is not constrained by what looks sufficient to us.

Our role is obedience. God’s role is multiplication.

The Floating Axe Head and What Feels Lost

In 2 Kings 6:1–7, the sons of the prophets need more space. Elisha agrees to go with them as they build. While one man is cutting down a tree, the iron axe head flies off and sinks into the water.

His response is telling.

“Alas, master, it was borrowed.”

This was not just an inconvenience. It represented responsibility, relationship, and loss. Something entrusted to him was now gone.

Elisha asks where it fell. He cuts a stick, throws it into the water, and the iron floats. Then Elisha tells the man to pick it up himself.

God performs the miracle, but the man still has a part to play.

Nothing that feels lost is beyond God’s ability to restore.

God’s Care and Provision Are Personal

Psalm 138 says that the Lord will perfect that which concerns me.

I quote this Scripture often because it reminds me that God is actively working on the things that trouble my heart. His mercy endures forever, and He does not abandon the work of His hands.

Even when I am the one who caused the problem.
Even when I made a mistake.
Even when I feel unqualified to ask for help.

God is merciful, attentive, and deeply concerned with the details of our lives.

Casting Your Cares on God

First Peter 5:7 tells us to cast all our care upon Him because He cares for us.

When I studied this verse, the Greek meaning stood out to me. God is not just aware of our concerns. He is thoughtfully attentive. He gives meticulous attention to what worries us.

That means nothing is dismissed. Nothing is too small. Nothing is ignored.

God Is Sovereign Over Natural Circumstances

Flour does not remove poison.
Twenty loaves do not feed one hundred men.
A stick does not make iron float.

Yet God overrides natural law because He is sovereign over what He created.

When we come to God with faith, we are trusting Him to work beyond natural outcomes, natural consequences, and natural limitations.

Many of us have experienced moments where something worked that should not have worked. Favor where there should not have been favor. Provision where there should not have been enough.

That is the sovereignty of God at work.

Spiritual Discernment While Doing the Right Thing

All three stories have something in common.

People were doing good things, yet problems still arose.

This is where spiritual discernment matters. Obedience does not mean the absence of challenge. It means staying close enough to God to know what to do next.

Sometimes the mistake is thinking that hearing God once means there will be no further instruction needed. Faith requires ongoing relationship, not autopilot.

God’s Word Is Our Authority

Before Jesus, the people went to the prophet. Today, we go directly to Christ.

Hebrews 4:16 tells us to come boldly to the throne of grace to obtain mercy and find grace in time of need.

No matter how you arrived at the situation, God’s word is the authority that speaks into it. His word is living, active, and working in those who believe.

Our responsibility is obedience. God’s responsibility is the outcome.

If It Matters to You, It Matters to God

It does not matter how far something has sunk.
It does not matter how small the issue feels.
It does not matter if you made the mistake yourself.

God wants to perfect what concerns you.

When He gives instruction, even if it sounds illogical, do it in faith. That is how partnership with God works.

If it matters to you, it matters to Him.

Where To Dive In

00:00 God Cares About Your Concerns
17:21 God’s Care and Provision
23:24 God’s Sovereignty Over Nature
30:05 Spiritual Discernment in Action
41:02 Understanding Prophetic Authority

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Jaime Luce (00:08.033)
Welcome to the Jaime Luce podcast. If you’re new to this podcast, we just love the Bible, the power of the word, and the way that it can impact our daily lives. So we just spend some time digging in. am ready to dig in today. I hope that you are too. If you would get out your Bibles, maybe something to write with. I’ve got lots of scripture for you today. The topic for today is God cares about what you’re concerned about. God cares about what you’re concerned about.

I want to start, we’re going to be in 2 Kings and we’re going to be in chapter 4 and chapter 6, but I wanted to start this morning by giving you Psalm 46. I felt like it really tied in what we’re going to be focusing on this morning. And so just let this word find its way into the place that you need it today in your heart, maybe in your mind.

depending on where your thoughts are at or what you might need today. But God is our refuge and strength, a very present help in trouble. Therefore, we will not fear, even though the earth be removed and though the mountains be carried into the midst of the sea, though its waters roar and be troubled, though the mountains shake

with its swelling. There is a river whose streams shall make glad the city of God, the holy place of the tabernacle of the Most High. God is in the midst of her. She shall not be moved. God shall help her just as the break of dawn. The nations raged, the kingdoms removed. He uttered his voice, the earth

melted. The Lord of hosts is with us. That word hosts is the heavens armies. The Lord of heavens armies is with us. The God of Jacob is our refuge. Come behold the works of the Lord who has made desolations in the earth. He makes wars to cease to the end of the earth.

Jaime Luce (02:35.724)
He breaks the bow and cuts the spear in two. He burns the chariot with fire. I mean, think about that. Whatever you feel is being shot at you today, he breaks the bow. Whatever you feel like is cutting you, he cuts the spear in half. Whatever you feel is chasing you, he burns the chariot in fire. Be still and know and know.

That’s trust in, be confident in, be still and know that I am God. I will be exalted among the nations and I will be exalted in the earth. The Lord of hosts is with us. The Lord, the God of Jacob is our refuge. I just wanted to read that to you this morning, no matter what you’re facing today.

You serve a God who is not only risen, but he is powerful and he is acting and he is moving on our behalf. He’s taught us that if we would ask, we would receive that if we knock the door will be open to us. If we are seeking answers today, he promises we will find them. So let’s go ahead and turn to second Kings and we’ll start in chapter four. And now.

I skipped over this particular little story that we’re gonna read today about Elisha. In fact, and I didn’t mean to, but I guess I’m skipping over when he feeds the 100 men as well, though it could easily fit into this category. So maybe I’ll just read it anyway. This is, again, I mentioned this a couple weeks ago, but.

Elisha is continually in the book of second Kings, we continually see this bidding of people in need and God wanting to answer those needs and an instruction by the prophet is usually given. And then when that word or instruction is received, it is then

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acted on it’s an act of obedience it’s an act of faith according to the word of God and We’re gonna see that again. This is this is the theme that just kind of repeats itself over and over again This is a theme that should repeat itself over and over again in our lives that whenever we come up against something that we need God is saying okay when I give you an instruction

follow that instruction. If you follow that instruction, this will lead to the answers that you’re asking me about. And so we’re gonna be reading about poison in the pot. And I’ll go ahead and include Elisha feeds 100 men. It’s very symbolic of Jesus feeding the 5,000 and then the axe head floating in second King six. And I’m gonna give to you, is it four or five? I’m gonna give to you four.

specific thoughts. So if you’re taking notes, I’ll be very clear on giving you these four things that we’re going to see in each of these passages and how they translate and pertain to our lives and what we need to see about that, what we need to understand about that, and what we might need to take action on and do about that. So let’s first go to the word. I’m going to start in 2 Kings 4 verse 38.

And it says, and Elisha returned to Gilgal, and there was a famine in the land. Now the sons of the prophets were sitting before him. And he had said to his servant, put on the large pot and boil stew for the sons of the prophets. So he’s wanting to feed them. There’s a famine and they’re hungry. So one went out into the field to gather herbs and found a wild vine and gathered from it a lap.

full of wild gourds and came and sliced them into the pot of stew, though they did not know what they were. So this was something that they brought in, but they’re not familiar with this particular thing. Not really sure if it’s safe to eat, but they sliced it all up and put it in the pot. They were following instructions. Then they served it to the men to eat. Now it happened as they were eating the stew that they cried out and said,

Jaime Luce (07:17.876)
man of God, there is death in the pot. They recognize that this food was poisonous and they could not eat it. So he said, then bring some flour. And he put it in the pot and said, serve it to the people that they may eat. And there was nothing harmful in the pot. Okay. That’s the first story.

Here’s another miracle, I should say. Here’s the next miracle. And when you’re reading these, they’re just short little snippets of miracles. And it may seem like, are these even in here? Like, what does this have to do with us other than knowing the prophets did miracles and that Elisha did twice as many miracles as Elijah did because he had the double anointing from the mantle that he received because he was able to see Elijah go up in the whirlwind. So.

First, I mean, I thought the same thing. I’m wondering like, why is this here? Why are you sharing this with, I mean, it’s a miracle. They didn’t have anything to eat. God provided. That’s wonderful. So we know he’s a provider. Okay. Kind of hang that. I’ll check that one up. We’ll hold onto that one. But it just seems like we’re repeating these simple little miracles. These are not major miracles as we would categorize them, you know.

You need oil to pour for days into vessels so that you can sell so much of it that you’re out of debt and are able to live off of it. That’s quite a huge miracle. That someone has a child in their old age is one miracle that’s big. And then you turn around and this child dies and you raise the child back to life. That’s a huge miracle. We’re used to seeing these really major miracles and we’re now witnessing these smaller.

Miracles now it’s a miracle nonetheless and they’re they’re a big miracle actually, but People don’t think of them as big because they’re so personal This is the stuff that goes on in our lives that nobody maybe knows or sees and we need God Regularly moving on our behalf to do the simple things. It’s not always major things I see God do little things in my life all the time all the time Just and to me it’s a miracle like that was not supposed to happen. I didn’t have that now I have it

Jaime Luce (09:36.078)
You know, a little miracle for me could be I have misplaced keys. Now I don’t normally do that. I keep them attached to my purse, but you could misplace something. And I literally, don’t, I usually go looking for it right away, but there comes a point in the looking where I stop and I just say, Holy spirit, where is it? And I’m not kidding you. Almost, almost 100 % of the time. I wouldn’t say 100 % of the time, but almost 100 % of the time.

I’ll get this little go look here or it’s over there. And sure enough, if I will listen to the voice of the Holy Spirit, he tells me where those things are. Little miracles, big deal to me. I have to be somewhere, right? I can’t get anywhere. can’t leave without my vehicle and something is lost. Now hang on to that thought that something is lost for a moment. Now let’s go to go, we’ll go ahead and read this verse 42 through 44.

Then a man came, now remember it’s a time of famine, then a man came from Baal-Sheleisha and brought the man of God bread of the first fruits. So he’s bringing a tithe, he obviously had a crop come even though there was a famine but he’s from Baal-Sheleisha wherever this is and he brought the man of God bread of his first fruits, 20 loaves of barley bread and newly ripened grain in his knapsack.

And he said, and he is Elisha. And he said, give it to the people that they may eat. But his servant said, what shall I set this before 100 men? So it looks like we are still dealing with about a hundred men. The same way that we had read about how Obadiah had hid a hundred of the prophets and kept them alive with bread and water when

Jezebel was chasing after him. It sounds like we have this Sons of the prophets group and there’s it’s still about a hundred men and He so obviously these 20 loaves and this little bit of grain that’s in this man’s back And I don’t know how big the loaf was. I don’t know if it’s like a little Brioche bun. I don’t know if it’s a little roll. I don’t know if it’s a long baguette Don’t know what it is, but it’s a loaf anyway, and he has 20 loaves now

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Compared to 100 men, he’s saying, what is this gonna do? This isn’t enough to feed them. Sound familiar? Jesus had the same issue, only he had even less for far times more people.

But his servant said, what shall I set this before a hundred men? And he said, give it to the people that they may eat for thus says the Lord, they shall eat and have some left over. Does that sound familiar? So he said it before them and they ate and they had some left over according to the word of the Lord. Again, another place of obedience where something shouldn’t happen.

based off of what you have under your control, based off of what you were able to put together, it either wasn’t good or now it’s not enough, okay? Hold that thought. Now we’re gonna go to 2 Kings chapter six and we’re gonna read verses one through seven. And the sons of the prophets, same group, said to Elisha, see now,

The place where we dwell with you is too small for us. You got a lot of men. And obviously this space is feeling bit cramped. Please let us go to the Jordan and let every man take a beam from there and let us make there a place where we may dwell. So he answered, go.

Then one servant said, please consent to go with your servants. And he said, I will go. So he went with them. And when they came to the Jordan, they cut down trees. But as one was cutting down a tree, the iron axe head fell into the water. Can you just see it flying? You go to chop and whew, there it goes, into the water.

Jaime Luce (14:04.886)
And he cried out and said, alas master, for it was borrowed. It’s like, yeah, this would be a problem, but it’s not mine. I’ve lost something that I need to be able to return. This could represent a lot of things in our life. We could lose something of value, period.

We could lose something that technically we think doesn’t belong to us. It made me think about business people who have loans that they’ve taken in order to do business. And somehow there’s not enough funds coming in. And now you’ve lost what you have paid out and you owe. Alas, my master, it was borrowed. Can you hear that?

What if you literally borrowed something from somebody and they let you know, because these were valuable tools. This wasn’t an actual valuable tool and this wasn’t his, he’s borrowed it from somebody and now this loss not only affects me and the job I’m trying to do, it affects the relationship with the person that I borrowed it from and it affects the person even on their own, not just.

Now there could be strife because you didn’t return something and didn’t take care of something that didn’t belong to you. But also this person now doesn’t have what they need. This, was an important tool in their life. They happen to be kind and let you borrow it. So he’s very concerned. A last master for it was borrowed. the man of God said, where did it fall? And he showed him the place. So we cut off a stick. I mean, he just.

cut off a stick and threw it in there and it made the iron float. So Elisha, a miracle of God seems to make no sense, throws in just a stick in the water like throwing flour into a pot of poison. What’s that gonna do? And the iron head floats. Therefore he said, this is Elisha speaking, pick it up for yourself. So there’s a job.

Jaime Luce (16:24.43)
I did this part, now you have to do this part. I did what you asked me to, now you get busy, you do what you need to do. Go get it, pick it up for yourself. I’m not gonna, I did this, I’m not gonna do the whole thing for you. You’ve got to partner with me in this. This is what I was talking about. We partner with God in obedience. We do the thing he’s called us to do. He does what we can’t do, but we do the part he’s called us to do. Pick it up for yourself.

So he reached out his hand and took it. Okay, so three simple stories here, but I want us to dissect these a little bit. So the first thing I think that we can see very clearly in these passages, and again, I’ve titled this, God Cares About What You’re Concerned About. In God’s care, let’s look at Psalm 138, this point is God’s care and provision.

Okay. We can see God’s care and provision very clearly in these three stories. Psalm 138 says, the Lord will perfect that or perfect. The word is perfect or perfect. The Lord will perfect that which concerns me. I quote this scripture all the time. The Lord will perfect that.

which concerns me. Your mercy, O Lord, endures forever. Do not forsake the works of your hand.” I like this scripture for many reasons. One, being that I know God is concerned about what concerns me, that he plans on perfecting the thing that is obviously not perfected and I am concerned about it. He will perfect that which concerns me. What a great word.

But then it says he calls on the mercy of God that his mercy endures forever. And then he says, do not forsake the works of your hands. Meaning that there’s already a work you’re doing. I know you’re already at work in this. That is faith in action. And he’s asking the Lord, do not stop the work. Do not stop the work that you’re doing. I know you’re working.

Jaime Luce (18:45.132)
He is speaking in faith. I know you are I know you are so merciful every day. You’re merciful. You will be merciful forever So if I have messed this up if I’m the one that has caused this problem If I’m the one who lost the axehead if I’m the one who went and picked poisonous gourds Go, you know goads gourds gourds gourds. Yeah Anyway, if I’m the one who doesn’t have enough whatever my plight is he will

Perfect that which concerns you. It says me. I get to claim for me. You call on His mercy, you know He’s merciful. You speak out in faith. God, I know that you see me. I know you care about this, because you care about what concerns me. And because you care.

I call on you God to keep on working. Show me the way, show me the thing. Show me if I’m supposed to reach out my hand and pick something up. Show me the way, if I’m supposed to lay something in front of somebody. The man who brought the bread, he had to lay it out in front of them. Maybe you have to lay out a plan in front of somebody. Maybe you’re supposed to, maybe you’ve got some kind of pitch you need to make and you need to lay it out in front of somebody. What if you have something,

that you’re making do with and you’re worried because you don’t think it’s going to get the job done. Any of these scenarios just start thinking about how this applies to you and know that in faith I can declare because he is concerned about what concerns me that he plans on perfecting it that he’s not going to stop the work until it’s perfected because he is so merciful always. His mercy endures forever.

Okay, next verse go to first Peter five seven. This goes along with God’s care and provision we can count on this This is in scripture. This is our word. I know i’ve been saying this a lot because we’re talking about the prophet elijah, but it bears repeating This was before Jesus The only way they could get to god was get to the prophet We have the word we have jesus. We go straight to jesus. We go straight to his word so

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These circumstances when we see this we know okay, they’re crying out to the prophet for help We cry out to God for help we cry out knowing he hears us We cry out knowing that Jesus has paid the price for us that he has removed any hindrance that there could have been between me and God and Anything that would have stopped me from being able to come into his holy presence I am covered in his righteousness that I am able to boldly come first Peter 5 7 says casting

all your care upon him, him meaning God, for he cares for you. Casting all care that Greek, the Greek root of that word that he cares, the word cares. I liked it because I like reading

the old King James and it actually uses the all the it’s and the thousand these and I like that because sometimes it actually makes a difference when you’re looking up the fullness of a word. Sometimes it just makes the difference and I looked up that word because he careth for you. I cast all of my care. I throw it on Jesus. I cry out to him. I cast it on him because he careth.

for you. What does that word careth me? The Greek root means to be concerned because he cares about what concerns you. He is concerned. He is thoughtful. He careth for you. He is thoughtful about what it is. And it means to give meticulous attention. I love that because sometimes we get bogged down in the details.

God is so good about getting mixed up in the details with us and to work our Tangled mess out that he makes our crooked paths straight He is concerned. He is thoughtful and he takes meticulous gives meticulous attention to the things that concern us cast All your care upon him for he cares for you Okay, the second thing that I see here

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in all of these stories is God’s sovereignty over nature. All three of them, God’s sovereignty over nature. We know that flower, putting flower on something does not kill poison. In the natural sense, if I’m cooking and I’m cooking something poisonous and I go grab the flower and throw the flower on that, that’s not gonna take away the poisonousness of it.

I can’t throw flour on arsenic and then make the arsenic powerless. So we know this is a miracle, okay? This is a miracle. Flour doesn’t kill poison. We know obviously by the concern of the servant, 20 loaves, whatever the size of these loaves were, do not feed a hundred men. 20 loaves don’t feed a hundred men. We also know that a stick does not, thrown in water doesn’t make something that’s

iron and lead that’s at the bottom float to the top just because I threw a stick in the water. That’s nature. None of those things naturally would do anything. Okay? They would do it. They would do nothing. So when we place our faith in God’s power, because we’re talking about God’s sovereignty over nature,

We are putting our faith in God’s power to override natural law Override natural now. He’s the one who spoke those natural laws into existence We are asking him because he has authority over what he has created Over what he has spoken over what he has deemed or put in place That we go to the one who was sovereign over natural law

He is sovereign over natural consequence. We can say that to, you know, the technical scientific term is to every action there is an equal and opposite reaction, right? So that’s like if I have the force of something that I hit that way, you can see that there’s going to be an equal amount of pressure or whatever that comes this way against it. There’s an equal and opposite reaction.

Jaime Luce (25:48.214)
So this is how we understand natural loss. These are things that God has spoken into the way that the world works. This is how nature and God work. And we are saying that if I were to do this and whatever I’m doing has a natural consequence, I have the ability to go to God and say, God, the natural consequence

of the man with the poison in the pot was that they would eat this poison and they would all die from this poison. That’s the natural consequence of eating the poison. So we are crying out to God because the natural consequence of losing this iron head to the bottom of the lake is it’s gonna stay in the bottom of the lake. The natural consequences will follow. And he is God and is sovereign.

Over his creation over nature. So he’s he is God over natural consequence. He is God over natural cause Just natural causes for instance if you’re sick in body because you’re older and Your immune systems kind of broke down and you didn’t kind of take care of yourself and now you’re sick It’s natural cause right? but God

God over the natural cause he is God over nature God is then when we cry out to God About natural consequence about natural law about natural cause when we are crying out him about that. We are saying that we trust That you God are not only bigger than these things, but that because you created it all

And because you are sovereign over it and because you care about what concerns me, you will answer me. You will make a way where there seems to be no way. That’s the God we serve. We’ve just read it in three different circumstances. Okay. Have you ever had something work that shouldn’t have worked? You’re just like, I don’t know how that worked, but it worked.

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I don’t know what just happened, but it worked. Something naturally shouldn’t have happened, but it worked. Have you ever received favor from a person or in a circumstance or in maybe a court of law or in a relationship? Somehow you should not have received favor.

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but you received it. Somehow, some way, the gavel comes down and you’re the one who’s either freed from that thing or been given a settlement in your favor or, and you know, it’s like the big, I haven’t ever watched the entire movie, but I know the story. So the Aaron Brockovich story, you know, where the little person and the little tiny,

The nobody with a no name lawyer goes up against big corporate business and actually wins. I mean, we know that that doesn’t happen. Naturally, it doesn’t happen. There’s too much money and too much power and too much ability to control the outcomes on the other side. And yet favorable things happen. What if you have the, goes against you.

And yet because it goes against you and everybody knows good consequences now follow and now come behind that that thing that should have been bad actually turned out good for you. A circumstance that didn’t go your way, but somehow God took what the enemy meant for evil and he made it good for you. That is God sovereign over nature. Number three.

spiritual discernment. And you might think, does spiritual discernment have to do with this? I’m gonna tell ya, I’m glad you asked. In all of these situations, they are doing a good thing. The person attempting to chop down the tree is doing a good thing. He’s trying to build, he’s trying to produce more living space for all these people. It’s not just in service to himself, but it’s all these people, 100 people.

To the man who’s hears the instruction feed these people and he goes out and he unbeknownst to him brings something bad, but he goes out to do a good thing, to feed hungry people. He ventured out to do something good. The servant who says this isn’t enough wants to feed those people. So in obedience, he goes ahead and does the thing that seems ridiculous and serves the people.

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with not enough.

in all three of these situations, these people were doing something good and they needed God’s help for God to show up. They needed God’s intervention. They needed something different than what they had. And sometimes it can seem like I’m doing the right thing and something bad happens. For the pot, the guy’s doing something good and something bad happens. And for the guy chopping down the trees.

He’s doing a good work, but something bad happens and We can think something bad happened. We can actually get a wrong mindset so many times we feel like we heard God’s heart on a matter and or maybe his direction to do something about that and yet something goes wrong and We begin to We how should I say this?

We we run ahead with that thinking that the thinking is nothing bad should happen That’s what I want to say. We think nothing bad should happen. We think that we heard god We know What the plan is god has been good to us. He gave us confirmation we know we’re supposed to go this way and we go for it and something goes wrong and our thinking was well if

God told us to do it, then nothing should have happened that was wrong. Nothing bad should have happened. And this can really be an issue for women in particular. I might bring that up a little bit later, but that kind of thinking is not correct thinking. Just because God doesn’t mean, or just because God

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Set it doesn’t mean that there won’t be problems I know that’s contrary in our minds. We just think if I’ll give you a great example We look at salvation and we say wow. Look what God did He came and he sacrificed himself for us He was our lamb and we are now cleansed and their salvation and it’s for

ever, it’s eternal. mean, we think of all these wonderful, beautiful things, but we forget that things went wrong to make this thing happen. Jesus had to be crucified in order for this wonderful thing to happen. He had to be betrayed for this wonderful thing to happen. He had to be sold out. He was lied about constantly.

He was constantly brought before people and accused. Bad things happened even while he was doing the right thing all the way through. Right? So it’s a wrong thinking and we set ourselves up to be disappointed instead of saying, Lord, I hear you. Would you stay with me each step of the way?

so that I have spiritual discernment to know each step of the way, do I turn right here or left? It’s like getting directions. I don’t have somebody say, okay, I’m gonna give you directions on how to get to such and such a place. You’re gonna be driving and you turn right at such and such a street. You think, great, I got it. And they never finished giving you all the directions. And you make that right. You just keep driving. You never get to the place. Well, because you didn’t hear about where you should turn left and the other right.

and the other right and the other left. There are more instructions sometimes to follow and we can get stuck thinking, I heard God, I did it. The man said, okay, I’m gonna feed the people. But then there was poison in the pot. Now what do I do? God, how do I fix this? Okay, we got God’s approval for them. was the prophet. We’re gonna move and we’re gonna build.

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And it’s going to be great. And each man is going to carry his own load. And we’re all going to be able to do this together. It’s not going to be tedious because we’re all working together and he’s working away and whammo something happens. Well, he never expected that whammo to happen. He never expected to be interrupted in his day by a problem. God cares about the problem. God is sovereign over every issue, but we need spiritual discernment. We need to not just run ahead.

and think nothing else wrong is gonna happen, we need to stay in that relationship. He was able to run right to the prophet and say, I got a problem. I got a problem.

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The reason this is harder for women is because women in their core nature, just as females, not, this is not a personality thing. This is just a female thing. and it’s in our, it’s, it’s in our core. It’s how we are built just with female DNA, chromosomes, female chromosomes. This is just part of being female. And I’m not talking about, you know,

your upbringing and, and your personality and what you’ve been, what you learned from your environment and all that, just your core women. When we set our minds on, we’re going to go do something and it’s the way we’ve planned it, the way we want it to be planned or we’ve unplanned it the way we want it unplanned. Cause we wanted to do it, you know, free from restriction and, and we wanted to do things that were, you know,

Uh, since they’re not planned, we just wanted to be ready. If I want to stop here, I want to stop here. If I want to stop there, spur the moment, you know, whatever we just wanted, whatever the plan is as women, we tend to think if God said it, I mean, I’ve been guilty of this. If God said it, there’s not going to be a problem. God said it. This is the way we’re supposed to go. This is great. Wash my hands. No problems. We’re good. So when we get smacked up against a problem, we think, wait, and we question, did I hear God? Was that God?

Did I mess this up? What did I do? It’s our human nature to do that, especially for women. That we just, second guessed everything. We want to throw the baby out with the bathwater. Whoa, now what are we going to do? The world is falling apart because of the problem we’ve run up against. Men don’t usually, they expect problems. They’re problem solvers. They expect problems and that they’re going to have to solve problems along the way. They kind of have a better grasp just in their core of being a man.

that there’s gonna be problems or there could be problems. It doesn’t mean there always will be, but there could be, and they’re kinda planning for them just in case. I mean, that’s why they like to solve women’s problems. That’s why women sometimes don’t want their problems solved. They just wanna talk about it, right? And the men wanna solve the problems because they’re problem solvers. They kind of expect problems and it’s in their nature to want to solve the problem for you. anyway, side note, but this isn’t accurate.

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to think that because we’ve heard God give an instruction that there won’t still be things we need to get through. My point being in that is that you need to stay close and that you need to, if your relationship stays close and you are looking to discern what is the next thing, what do I do about this? It’s a way of saying and staying in a position of God, need you.

Father, there’s not enough. Master, there’s not enough here for 100 men. Alas, Master, it was borrowed. That I’m that close that I can discern what it is that I need to do, that I am discerning and listening, that I don’t run off. If the man didn’t go to God, what have been the natural consequence would have been the natural consequence. So instead of freaking out,

Thinking the world is coming to an end. We need to remember to go back to the Lord We need discernment not to see a demon hiding behind behind every rock We tend to do this if you’re of the charismatic persuasion We just want to blame the devil for everything Sometimes there are just natural consequences and natural things that happen Discernment is not the ability to see all the nasty things you think are in somebody else that is not discernment that

To be able to pick somebody apart is not discernment. The only time it’s discernment is when you are discerning spiritual things. Discern spiritual things. We discern this is not what God would have me to do. Or there’s a spirit acting right now. I’m not putting that on that person. I’m saying there is a spirit at work and I either need to

Embrace what’s happening because God is leading me this way or I need to stay away from this because God is leading me away from this We need spiritual discernment all along the way so we need to be Exercising and constantly growing in discernment to know the way forward to know what to do so that we have ears that hear Okay number four prophetic authority now people get really

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messed up with the word prophetic these days. And I know why, I get it. But what I’m speaking to when I say prophetic authority, I am not talking about people in your life right now who say they have prophetic authority over you. I’m saying that in this time before Jesus, the prophet was their way to God. The prophetic authority meant the word of God on the matter. What is God’s word?

on the matter, okay? So that’s what I mean by prophetic authority. What is God’s word on the matter? No matter what the problem is, no matter how I got into the problem, no matter if it was my fault, no matter if I didn’t expect it, no matter if I was doing everything right and I got smacked upside the head with this problem. What is God’s word on the matter? Prophetic authority. They had a prophet, we have Jesus, even better. We have his name, we have his word.

We have his blood. We have what we need. King Jesus is who we have. And what does the word say that this king that we serve, the King of Kings, we have access to his throne. So Hebrews 4 16 says, let us therefore come boldly unto the throne of grace that we may obtain mercy and find grace.

to help in time of need. If you’re in a time of need, we know Jesus, our prophetic authority, the word of God says in Hebrews 416, that I can come boldly to his throne, that his throne is a throne of grace, and grace could be that grace is extended to you, or grace can be that you are empowered in a situation.

and that I might obtain mercy if it was my fault, I get mercy. Even if it wasn’t my fault, I need mercy. If I need you to act on my behalf, and this is not even your problem, this is my problem, I need you to have mercy on me and help me. I know that this is a silly thing. I know this is, I got myself into this, whatever, I need your mercy. His throne of grace gives me mercy.

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And I find grace to help me. That’s the power to get it done in my time of need. Exactly when I need it, that’s the time I can go. I don’t have to be afraid to go. I don’t have to be, I don’t have to work my way up. Cause I understand that his throne is a throne of mercy and grace. I have not, if I got into a mess that was my own doing, I can run to that beautiful throne.

I say, God have mercy. I’m so sorry. I take responsibility for the mess I’m in. And I know I shouldn’t, it shouldn’t go in my favor and you shouldn’t do this for me, but I’m asking you Lord, would you help me? Would you give me the grace God? you give me a way out? Would you show me the answer? He is there in our time of need. This need that the author of Hebrews is addressing.

Is speaking about faith in I have faith to come to jesus. I have faith in his word I have faith in and I am believing in jesus If you go back and read of hebrews 4 the whole chapter is about faith And believing and what is available to the believer if I have faith in God’s word and that he is who he says he is

and I believe in Jesus and the words that he has spoken, then I speak that in faith and know that he will act on my behalf. Why? Because he cares about what concerns me. He cares about what concerns me. Okay, 1st Thessalonians 2.13 says, for this cause also, thank we God without ceasing. I don’t stop thanking him.

Because when you received the word of God, that’s our prophetic authority. When we received the word of God, which he heard of us, he received it. You received it. You believed it. You had faith in it. What we were just talking about, not as the word of men, but as it is in truth. You have received it as it is in truth.

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the word of God which Effectually worketh also in you that believe so we believe this word why because this word is active and working in me who Who is it working in them that believe? Hi, my name is Jaime Jaime I wanted to share with you some information about a brand new book entitled. You don’t need money. You just need God

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God’s word is your prophetic authority if it is coupled with faith If you believe it That’s why the scripture says if you believe it and then you can receive it because you’ve believed it You receive it by faith And that faith is God’s word producing God results

Your faith in God’s word then when it comes into you when you believe it you’ve received it. It’s in you active It’s working. It’s working God’s work God’s results Ephesians 3 20 says now unto him that is able to do exceedingly abundantly above all that we ask or think According to the power that worketh in us. There’s that work again

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His word is working in us. We read it’s effectually working in you that believe and here it says that is the power that is working in us. That word worketh refers to God’s divine action with human responsibility. God’s divine action with human responsibility. When the man cried out,

poison in the pot Elisha said go get some flour and put it in the pot when the axe head floated or Yeah, when the axe head floated Elisha told the man to take it up pick it up for yourself He was saying you go get it when the man said there This isn’t gonna feed enough He said give it to them for the word of the Lord is it will feed them and there will be some left over so you Give it

You do your part, what you can do. God will do what God can do. God expects us to work with him. When Jesus was on this earth, still working out the plan of salvation here on earth, he said something in John 5 17 that we need to hear. It says, but Jesus,

answered them my father has been working until now and I Have been working So we can see that there was this partnership God’s been working Jesus said that I only do what I see my father do I only say what I hear my father say So he’s going where God is going. God is doing a work. He’s also Jesus is doing a work What is the work we do?

Look at what Mary said. Mary, mother of Jesus, understood when she was speaking to the servants at the wedding of Cana, she said, whatever he says to you, do it. Our work is to do whatever it is that he has said. Under his prophetic authority, under his power over us, our savior speaking to us, giving us

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by His grace and mercy, instruction and answers. We are to partner with Him in the work. That’s the obedience. She said, whatever He says to you, just do it. If He says to you, throw flour in it, do it. If He says to you, put the food in front of the people, do it. If He says, a stick in, do it.

If he says, go get it, get it. If he says, fill the pots to the brim, do it. If he says, hold out your staff over the water and the waters will part for you, do it. If he says, build an ark, there’s a flood coming, do it. In the words of Nike, just do it.

Can you get the picture? Just do it. Why? Because you need to exercise your faith. Is he able? Yes. Is he willing? Yes. But you need to receive that word and by faith act on that word. Why? Because if it matters to you, it matters to God. We need to exercise our faith. And just like the axehead,

It doesn’t matter how far you have sunk. If you are the axehead, if you are the poison in the pot, if someone brought you into something by good faith and you messed it up, you’re the poison in the pot, you need to confess that before God and ask him to remove the natural consequence and make a way for you.

to have mercy and grace if you’re the one who has fallen and you’re sinking in despair. You are sinking in despair and there shouldn’t be a reason to pull you out.

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God wants to perfect that which concerns you. All is not lost. It’s not sunk forever. If you’ll do what he asks you to do, it could sound crazy what he asks you to do. It could seem illogical. It could seem like doing that won’t make a difference. No matter what it is that he asks you to do.

Do it and do it with faith because he cares about what concerns you.

Cry out to your prophet Jesus Christ. Run to him. Run to him. Do what he tells you to do and do it by faith. Let me pray for you. Father, I’m so grateful for your word. It’s like we read in that Psalm when we started. We could praise you all day long for how good you are to us that we trust the power that you give over

every circumstance in our lives if we will partner with you, that you have shown your authority over our lives and circumstances so many times. You’ve never failed us. Your mercies are new every morning. God, we are so grateful. I’m so grateful that you are the captain of the host, that when I need an army of deliverance, you have an army ready to fight my battles. God, I thank you that you are always on time.

That no matter how far gone it seems, no matter what seems lost, no matter how difficult it may be, no matter how empty we are, no matter what, what famine we find ourselves in every circumstance, even if they are simple little things that are affecting our daily life, they may not be earth shattering and they may not affect nations, but they affect us. They affect our heart. They affect our mind. Father, we are asking you.

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to bypass whatever the natural cause is because you are sovereign over nature. No matter what is going on, that you will cover us. You will protect us. You will deliver us. You will provide for us. You will show us what to do. And we can receive an answer that brings great joy, great deliverance, great peace, great help, great advancement.

whatever it is that is needed, you are what’s necessary. Help us Father to stand in faith knowing that your word is truth and we will receive the answer that we have need of. We pray all of these things in Jesus’ name, amen. I hope this was encouraging for you. was encouraging to me when God gave it to me.

I’m asking you that if this was a blessing to you that you would give me a thumbs up like this episode, share it with friends who need it. If you would like to get in contact with me, you can do that by going to my website. It’s mail at JaimeLuce .com is my email and the website is Jaime JaimeLuce.com. was my pleasure spending time with you today. I’ll see you next time. Bye bye.