New Year, New View Pt. 3: Scarcity Mindset - 1/21/2024

Pastor Dale Benson Last week Pastor David spoke to us about "imposter Syndrome" and learning to find our identity at the feet of Jesus… Maybe some of us are just worse at this following Christ thing than others. Maybe this is just the state we human beings live in, where we naturally look at what we don’t have rather than what we do have. It started in the beginning with Eve wanting to eat from the only tree God told her and Adam they could not eat from. In the longest recorded sermon we have of Jesus, He tells us not to worry about what we will eat or drink, or what we will wear. Our Father takes care of the lilies and the sparrows. He will take care of us. I would love to talk with us a little about that today. We are going to talk about the perspective of a scarcity mindset. A Scarcity Mindset can affect us - Financially, Physically, Mentally. A scarcity mindset can be found among the rich as well as the poor. Those who attend church and those who don't. Those who claim to be followers of Jesus, and those who don't. 1 Kings 17:8-16 (NLT) - Make some for me first… - What do you do when God asks something of you, but you don't have enough? - What do we do when we come to the end of our resources? Sometimes God gives us enough for that day. 2 Kings 4:1-7 (NLT) 1 Kings 17:17-24 (NLT) - I am WHO I am because of WHOSE I am. Because I am God's child... I can live out of that mindset knowing that I have all I need. Because He is all I need, and He has everything I need. - Oil: - It is a symbol of the anointing and/or presence of the Holy Spirit. - It is a symbol of the healing power of God. For the Holy Spirit to fill your life...you must be empty. This week I want to perhaps remind us, or maybe even help us understand for the first time WHOSE we are. You see, we are the children of the God who does not run out of resources. While that may include money and time and things like that, I am talking about something different. We are children of the God who has enough grace and power and mercy and strength and self-control and patience and peace for all of us. But we must take our eyes off what we do not have and put them back on the One who has all we need. Some of us are here because we have reached the end of our rope...and the end of our resources, and you feel as though you have no resources. A scarcity mindset overshadows you, and you feel. His grace is sufficient, and His power is made perfect in weakness. Some of us are at the end of our resources. Some of us have been living beyond our resources and are in a deficit.