Sunday Message · Fountain of Grace International · Pretoria North
Month End and No Money Left
Preached by Ricardo Zaal, Founder and Lead Pastor ·
You get paid on the 25th and by 3pm there is nothing left. The money is gone because you are looking for it in the wrong place. Pastor Ricardo Zaal shows you what you already have in your hands that can end the paycheck-to-paycheck cycle.
You got paid today. By tonight it's gone. And you have no idea how to stop it.
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This message is for you if:
- You get paid and within hours the money vanishes
- You borrow from Peter to pay Paul every month
- You have a skill but no clue how to sell it
- You need action steps today, not theory about tomorrow
The Monthly Trap Everyone Recognizes
Today is the 25th. You got paid. By 3pm your kids ask, "You got paid today, right?" You say yes. They ask for ice cream money. You say no. The money is gone. Not because you spent it foolishly. It went to debts, bills, and needs that swallowed it whole before you could breathe.
You check your balance before buying anything. You dial *130 to see how much is left. You borrow from people you owe, just to cover what you owe to someone else. It is a vicious cycle. You go to work every single day, miss nothing, and still go backwards. Or you have no job at all and the panic is even sharper.
Most financial advice starts too far ahead. Save 20 percent of what? Invest with what money? Buy property with what deposit? The advice comes from people who already have a foundation. You have no foundation. You are trying to survive until Tuesday. The gap between the advice and your reality is a canyon.
What God Gave You: The Power to Get Wealth
Pastor Ricardo Zaal turns to 2 Kings 4 to show a widow in crushing debt. Her husband died. Creditors came to take her two sons as servants just to settle what she owed. She had nothing. When Elisha asked her, "What hast thou in the house?" she said one thing: a pot of oil.
Oil was the one small thing she owned. It looked like nothing to her. She saw it as worthless. But Elisha told her to borrow empty vessels, pour the oil into them until they were full, then take that oil to the marketplace and sell it. She did. She sold it. She paid her debts and lived from what was left.
The Hebrew word for power in Deuteronomy 8:18 is kuhaj, which means strength, ability, or capacity. God hands you the power to get wealth. He hands you the ability to produce wealth. That is the difference between waiting for miracle money and building real change. God gave the widow the ability to produce oil. She had it already. She just had to act.
Your Oil: What You Already Have Right Now
What is in your house? Not cash. Skills. Experience. Knowledge. Tools. Connections. Pastor Ricardo Zaal asks people directly: Do you have a phone with data? That is a shop in your pocket. Can you plait hair? Salons charge 210 rand. Can you make pancakes? They sell for five to seven rand each. Can you take photos? People need matric ball pictures, family portraits, product shots. An iPhone works. Can you cook curry noodles, braised meat, flapjacks? People will buy. Can you repair things, teach something, organize spaces, connect the right person to the right person? That is a finder's fee.
You worked for years. Does that mean you learned nothing? You lived through hard things. Does that mean you have no ability to teach others how to survive what you survived? You had to make it work on nothing. That skill is gold. A graphic designer, a social media helper, a language tutor, someone who sells old clothes that still look good, someone who buys something for one rand and sells it for two. The oil is already there. You just have yet to take it to the marketplace.
From Having Oil to Selling Oil: The Action That Matters
Elisha never said "I will sell it for you." He said "Go thou and sell the oil." This is the hard part. The widow had to take action. She had to find buyers. The oil sitting in her house forever would have meant losing her children to debt. But the oil in the marketplace meant freedom.
Pastor Ricardo Zaal is blunt: wishing moves nothing. Decision does. The moment you decide "this pattern ends in my life," everything changes. You ask people. The first says no. The second says no. The third says no. But you keep asking. According to the Bible, "Ask and ye shall receive." The same applies to selling. You learn something, you ask, you try, you fail, you adjust, you try again. The people who make real money fail first, learn from it, adjust their product, and try again. The cycle repeats.
Find your oil and sell it within 24 hours. Not next month. Not when circumstances are perfect. Now. Call someone. Post something. Offer to braid hair for 150 rand. Offer five iPhone photos for five rand. Sell the thing you think nobody will buy. Action teaches you what wishing never will. Even a no teaches you something. It builds your resilience. It teaches you how to handle rejection, which every successful person had to learn.
The Path Wealth Follows
The Bible shows the same pattern everywhere. In Matthew 17:27, God provided a coin, but Peter had to go to the sea, cast a hook, open the fish's mouth, and get it. In Genesis 41:36, God was preserving grain, but Joseph had to store it during the good years. In 2 Kings 4, God multiplied the oil, but the widow had to pour it and sell it. In Proverbs 22:29, God gave the skill, but the person had to be diligent in their business. In Matthew 25:21, God gave stewardship, but the servant had to multiply what they were given.
Pastor Ricardo Zaal lays it out: first you make your first sale. Then you earn more. You build a skill people pay for. You start controlling your spending. You get out of debt that eats you. You start saving. You start investing. You start a business. Then you think about assets. You start with your first sale, long before business ownership. You start where you are.
If you have fifty rand, buy something for your stomach with half of it, but make at least fifty percent profit on the other half. Take that profit and double it again. If you can do that, you will build wealth. A hundred becomes a hundred twenty. A hundred twenty becomes two hundred forty. Ten rand becomes ten thousand becomes a million. It is a step towards it. But you have to start.
Your Five Questions Before Sleep Tonight
Pastor Ricardo Zaal gives you a framework. Before you sleep, write down five things. One: What do I have? Skills, knowledge, tools, people, access, experience. Two: What problem can I solve? Hair, photos, food, repairs, teaching, connecting. Three: Who has that problem? Friends, family, neighbors, strangers you can reach through someone you know. Four: What will they pay me to solve that problem? Price yourself at what you are worth. If someone else charges 210 rand, charge close to that. Five: What will I do in the next 24 hours? Start today. When Jesus comes, let Him find you already moving.
Call somebody. Post something. Make one offer. Tell ten people about it if you are stuck. Choose one action. Just one. This is the year of action. Wishing moves nothing. A decision does. You have to decide that this pattern, this monthly panic on the 25th, the conversations about having nothing, the borrowing, the debt collectors, the avoidance of phone calls from creditors, the kids sleeping without food, the electricity unpaid, the school fees missed. You have to decide this is the last time. Because until you decide, nothing will move you there.
"Stop waiting for God to send it to you. He is waiting for you to pour it. Take that oil and pour it."
- Pastor Ricardo Zaal
Key Takeaways
- Power to Create Comes Before Money Itself Deuteronomy 8:18 says God gives you power to get wealth, not the wealth itself. The Hebrew word kuhaj means strength, ability, capacity. This is the foundation. You can start making money with no money. You need the ability that is already inside you. A pot of oil looks worthless until you recognize it as a tool to produce value. Your skill, your knowledge, your experience, your phone, your connections are all pots of oil. God gave them to you already. The power is there. God is waiting for you to use what He already put in your hands.
- Action Closes the Gap Between Survival and Breakthrough The widow got out of debt by pouring the oil. She poured it, sold it, and paid what she owed. Elisha left the pouring to her. Matthew 17, Genesis 41, Proverbs 22, Matthew 25 all show the same truth: God provides the ability and the opportunity, but you must act. Peter had to get the coin. Joseph had to store the grain. The widow had to pour and sell. Diligence stands before kings. One sale leads to knowledge. Knowledge leads to the next sale. Failure teaches you what to adjust. You can start before you see the whole path. You just have to take the first step in the next 24 hours and let action teach you.
- Decide Today That the Cycle Ends Today Wishing moves nothing. Wanting moves nothing either. A decision moves everything. Decide that the 25th paycheck panic, the borrowing, the debt collectors and the "I have no money" conversations end here, or they carry on. Circumstances change for people who move. Decisions change people. The moment you decide "I am done living like this" and you move on that decision by making your first call, your first offer, your first sale in the next 24 hours, you enter a completely different life. You teach your brain that you are capable. You teach your family that change is possible. You build momentum. Poverty is nothing to glorify. You are where you are because you have yet to act on what you have.
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Frequently Asked Questions
I have nothing. No skills, no tools, no connections. What oil do I have?
You have lived. You survived something. You learned something in school, at work, through life. You have a phone. You have hands. You have a voice. You have time. Do you know how to make food? Sell it. Can you organize? Help others organize. Can you listen? Counsel someone. The oil hides in plain sight because you have looked at it so long it became invisible. Write down everything you do well, everything you have learned, everything you own. At least one thing there can become money in the next 24 hours. Start small. Sell one thing. Then adjust based on what you learned.
What if I sell something and nobody buys?
Then you learned something. You learned that either the price was wrong, the person you asked was wrong, the time was wrong, or the thing itself needs adjustment. Successful people fail constantly. They just keep going after the first no. They ask the next person. They adjust the price. They adjust the product. They try a different approach. The no teaches you resilience. It teaches you that rejection is survivable. Every no brings you closer to a yes. Pastor Ricardo Zaal says even a no teaches you something. Make that decision to ask ten people, not one.
How do I know what price to charge?
Look at what others charge for the same thing. If hair plaiting costs 210 rand at a salon, charge at least 150 rand when you do it. If photos sell for thousands, start at 1000 rand for a specific event. If pancakes sell for five to seven rand, you are in the ballpark. Charge what your time and skill are worth. People understand that money has value. When you charge fairly, people take you seriously. When you charge too little, they think it is worth little. Set your price, state it clearly, and stick to it. Adjust only if your skill level changes.
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But I would like to tell you, my message is entitled, More Month Than Money. and I would like to tell you who this message is for if this message is not for the following people or for you it's like you're not fitting in this category I would like you to just don't listen to this but this message is for the person that every month when they get paid today which is the 25th by the three o'clock that same afternoon the kids asking you but didn't you get paid today and you say but I don't have money but didn't you get paid today mommy yes I did get paid but I don't have money this message is for the person that Literally, the kids are saying, Daddy, I know today you got paid. Can you please buy us ice cream? And Daddy say, but I don't have money. The one who, every time whenever he goes to pay for something, whether it is a shop right checkers whether it is a wherever he goes he first have to take out the phone and dial star not 120 star 130 Because the star 130 is the free version of how to check your balance. Or he had to go and look for wifi to go onto his app to see how much money is on his account. This is for the person who borrows money from Paul to pay Peter and he borrows money from Pete to pay Paul. It's like a vicious cycle of borrowing. the person who borrows money long before his payday he already says can you borrow me 50 rand on the 25th but the person that knows it's the person's payday is also saying Mara Sirius don't you get paid today the one who goes to work everyday like you don't even miss a day of work but yet you go backwards the message is for the person who doesn't have a work and financially struggling the person who says seriously what's happening now I would like you to understand something people start when they give financial advice or they give you financial ways of doing things, what they normally does, they start almost at the end. They don't start from the beginning. Now let me explain what I mean by starting from the beginning. They don't start from the beginning. They say you must invest to make more money. My question to you is invest with what With what They say no save 20 20 of what? because even as I'm speaking to you today somebody is sitting there and saying Mara seriously how can you ask me to save 20% of what? because I don't even have money for bread now no no no you must buy properties because if you have property then you can make money with what deposit? No, let's start a business. Let's start a business with what capital? Do we start a business? But I would like you to I would like to take you to a woman who also said the same thing than what you might be saying today. Let us go to our Bibles and we go and read 2 Kings 4. 2 Kings 4. Now, I'm going to read from verse 1. Now 2 Kings 4 verse 1 says, Now there cried a certain woman of the wives of sons of prophets unto Elisha, saying, Thy servant, my husband, is dead. Do you have a person that you relied on who is dead today? my husband is dead and thou knowest that thy servant did fear the Lord a husband who feared the Lord and the creditors came to take unto him my two sons to be bondmen are you the one that even had to sell your children this message is for you to be bondman and Elisha said unto her what shall I do for thee tell me what has thou in the house and she said thine handmaid had not anything in the house save a pot of oil Then he said, Go borrow the vessels abroad of thy neighbor, even empty vessels, borrow not a few. And when thou art come in, thou shalt shut the door upon thee and upon thy sons and shall pour out into all those vessels and thou shalt set aside that which is full so she went from him and shut the door upon her and upon her son who brought the vessel to her and she poured out and it came to pass when the vessel were full that she said unto her son bring me yet a vessel and he said unto her there is not a vessel more and the oil stayed then she came and told the man of God and said go sell the oil and pay thy debt and love thou and thy children of the rest my God bless his word let me say this woman might be the same as you sitting with a lot of debt sitting with a debt situation that has been doing things for her a debt husband that has done a lot for her it might be the same with you a creditor that knock at the door almost every time you as a person having a cell phone that doesn't even want to answer your cell phone anymore because of the debts that you have. Do you know that phone calls if the name of the person is not there? You don't answer. They are about to take your two sons. They are about to take your house. They are about to take your car. They are about to tell your daughter, your son not to go to school anymore because you have not paid the school fees. Yet you don't even have a plan. What would happen after this? She is the person in front of you. She is the person in front of you. I'm not going to tell you to invest with what you don't have. I can't even tell you, Look, the way to make money is to have money. Because where are you going to get that money? Where are you going to get that money? and here the question that we ask this woman has been going into so much problems that her sons was about to be sold, not sold but given as bond men as servants just to pay off her debts are you in a situation where people expecting blood from you because you owe them people expecting the worst from you because you owe them most of the people that teach you about money almost start they ask you to take a road but the navigator that they give to you starts a hundred or a thousand kilometers from where you are they start from a way ahead of you trying to teach you how to make this money thing work for you what is the use of you having the information of half of your road there is nothing but it only start after the half of your road how much money do you have that's the question that we expect but Elisha did not ask how much money do you have Elisha did not ask her anything else she said I mean he Elisha asked what has thou in the house according to 2nd king 4 verse 2 what has thou in the house and one of the things that you must understand if you read this whole passage the passage is a story about a miracle that happened that's how somebody reads it but I want you to understand that some of the things when it comes to money you should understand it is not any time that miracle money will happen if you wait for miracle money you might wait for a long time because this got seen as a miracle that happened but this is not a miracle this year this story is not a miracle This is not even a story of how much money do you have. Because the lady said, nothing save a pot of oil. Now my question to you is, Nothing except I want you to take that little word accept She said the thing that she felt like accept the thing that she felt like I don have anything that thing she saw it as nothing to her she saw it as almost a minus zero in your bank account do you know that bank account that is in overdraft with minus a thousand rent that is how she saw the pot of oil the oil unfortunately was not money because you thinking that when you want to make money you must have money you thinking that when you have money the money will add another money you thinking of the story of of of the the what jesus was telling he gave to the one one rent he gave to the other one 10 rent he gave to the You thinking of that story. That maybe if I get something. My stewardship will help me. Somebody will bring me money. I have to be the better of bad news. And tell you. It ain't going to happen. Because we've been expecting money to lend in our lips. that we call miracle money and i'm not saying that it can't happen i'm saying to you that it it might happen but it's a rare occasion that it can happen let me make an example of the rare occasion what what happened is when when there was a shortage of certain things jesus said to a man of God, he said, go to the fish and you will find a coin in the mouth of a fish. That was a miracle. So you were expecting that miracle to happen. You were expecting the thing that you are going through that God must send you a raven But I have to tell you there's some bad news for you, if you expect that, how? That is how you would survive. That is not how you would survive. Except for a bit of oil. I want your emphasis to understand that accept for what you got now I want us to read to read the Bible what's this Deuteronomy Deuteronomy 8 verse 18 let me just read from here Deuteronomy 8 verse 18 says the following, he that hath given thee power to get wealth. Now, if God has given you power to get wealth, my question to you is, what is that power that you have? The Hebrew word for power, it's kuhaj, which is a strength, an ability or a capacity. God gives the ability that produces the wealth. Accept the ability. Accept the oil. that little bit of oil is the thing that I want you to you can almost say uncover today because if you don't uncover except that little bit you will be waiting for miracle money to happen all the time and that is why Christians got seen as if they are the ones that must always say I prophesied that money will land in your lap and you say Amen the next day you feel worse than the day when you said louder Amen because money didn't land in your lap the miracle didn't found you God why didn't it found me while it found a lot of people surrounding me accept a little bit of oil what is that accept in your life what is that little bit of oil that is in your life because God has given you the power to get wealth now wealth in the Hebrew it's shahil or chail it's the same word used for an army for strength or for a force God does not hand you wealth he doesn't give you wealth he gives you the strength to produce it he gives you the strength to produce it and some of us keep praying God please I would like you to send me a hundred rent your prayer is God please send me two hundred rent God please send me five thousand rent but let me ask you the question if I can ask you a question if you are working and you getting paid five thousand or five thousand what they call it five thousand rent or five thousand dollars regardless whichever one you get paid with why is it that the same day that when you got paid there's no more money in your account because your prayer has been prayed for for money but when you have the money it's almost like as if the money is not there anymore lord give me money our prayer should change not to lord give me money lord show me the ability you already put within me that can produce money. Show me the ability you already have put in my life that can produce the money and I want you to to take this in a you can almost say a two way because when God has given it to you it means that there is something within you already did you see what it says he that giveth the power it means the power has been given already it's not he says he that giveth the power I just want to check another version quickly. Let me, I don't have my other Bible now, but let me check if I can give you another version. i'm just going to give you the the the new international version the new international version says it as follow but remember the lord your god for it is he who gives you the ability to produce wealth and so confirms his covenant which he saw to your ancestors as it is today. Which means that it is a past tense of things that has already been given to you. Now when somebody has been given to you it means that you already have it. So my question to you is when you have already have it it means that something within you is already there to create for you you are a force of creature you can create he started with what is in your house and I would like you to ask you what is in your house and I want you as a person to start writing what is in your house please separate those two So I want you to write down what is in your house. And the reason I'm asking you is to write down what is in your house. I would want you to see when the lady got the oil that was already there. It meant nothing. because the oil was already there it doesn't mean anything if you have oil it doesn't mean anything if you have whatever don't confuse having no money with having nothing what is in your house and I'm not asking you about cash what is in your house a skill something that you do well I know one of the things I can tell you now I wasn't well in speaking but today I speak because that's a skill that I learned over the years you don't have nothing you have a life of things that already happened let me ask you something if you look at your your years in life whether in school whether you have never had a school there's some sort of experience that you got from your life what is that experience? because that's the nothing that you think you don't have. Let me not go far Do you have a phone If you do have a phone that have data it's literally a shop in your pocket. Some of us have a car. And the car that you have might become a transport to somebody. What do you have? Maybe a tool, equipment that you can use. And when I say a tool, we South Africans, we have it bad. Levin, you following those American YouTubers and TikTokers, do you know that those American YouTubers and TikToks American and UK ok and other countries as well all they have is a phone that they just keep on talking to and every view they make over thousand to a million or whatever the case may be they got a certain amount of money just by your phone. It's a tool that you can use. A recipe. You know how to make flapjacks? Isn't it? Pancakes. Pancakes. Do you know how much it What is DIPLEX? Checkers. It's asking for even a smaller pancake than what you made. 15 rand, 1, or 5 rand, 5 rand, 7 rand. Let's call it 7 rand. Let's call it 5 rand. Picture you making only 5 pancakes and selling it for 5 rand. It's already a 25 rand. What is in your house? Somebody was asking me, hey, but I just need this and that and all I can hear is as long as I can get my... Because the questions... Let me explain it this way now. This person has been struggling for a long time in his life due to the past that happened in his life. In his past he did something wrong and the unfortunate part is that the past is now affecting his now now if you go to South Africa and look for a job with a criminal record you won't find it or no no no let me rather rephrase it you won't find it easily you will find it but they will pay you almost like peanuts they making you a monkey and this person was asking me please is there a possibility that you can help me I just want to do something and the doing something to him is almost like give me a money for starting a tuck shop. Let's say tuck shop of a few things is costing 5000 rand 2000 rand or 1000 rand. Let's say tomatoes and onions. Let's sell tomatoes and onions. But the person is asking me that they must now I must now give them that to start the business. But here in my message today has nothing to do with the amount of money that you have. It is what is in your house. An ability to cook, ability to repair, ability to teach, an ability to organize, an ability to sell, or an ability to connect the right person with the right people. Let's be honest. If you know somebody who is selling a car why not go and get somebody who wants to buy a car and connect this to and charge a fee a finder's fee that's just connecting imagine the old clothes that is in your cupboard that is still looking good but just because you've outgrown it selling that is already what is in your house God has already been giving you the ability to make wealth that ability you just have to go deep within you he didn't ask for a miracle Elisha's miracle repeat the oil because the oil in your house is still nothing if it didn't go to the marketplace if it didn't go to the shop did you read that part? let me read that part for you he says then she came and told the man of God and he said go sell the oil this is in 2nd Corinthians 4 verse 7 2 Corinthians 4 verse 7 then she came and told the man of God and he said go sell the oil and pay thy debts and love thou and the children of the rest so my question to you is why would you then have to struggle with the thing that you want if you can get that thing that you want from what you have at this moment God asks nothing because you worked for 20 years does it mean that you have learned nothing if God say really nothing with the question mark so you worked for three years for somebody and you've learned nothing you lived for twenty years thirty years five years 7 years and you don know anybody does it mean that you survived what you have survived through and you don't use that ability that how you survived to teach others how to survive let me make an example I can use you is it alright to use you you do do you know that to plait people's hair not fancy plaiting just straight back what does that mean? what does that mean? mighty what? ok let's a hair salon is charging 210 rand for plaiting somebody's hair not put extensions not the extra bravings and things like that only the person's hair they plait and they ask 210 rent don't you think you can make 210 rent like 3 times in a week or let's call it 2 times a week because you are still in school that can make you to make a lot of money isn't it and I'm just making an example I know you play that's why I'm making the example with you let me make an example with you do you know you have an iPhone or by now you don't know do you know iPhone when you take photo of a person you can charge them 5 rent for 10 photos and they will pay you Yeah Do you know quality photos people that take quality photos they literally don't use expensive things they just know how to do it God gives you power God gives you power but there's a difference between the power that you got to make wealth and the diligence to carry it before kings. If you go to Proverbs 22 verse 29, Proverbs 22 verse 29 says, Sear thou a man diligent in his business. He shall stand before kings. he shall not stand before mean men so what is that specific diligent in your business what business are you diligent in what business are you diligent in do you know my wife make the nicest noodles curry noodles you make that curry noodles and you tell people hundred rent a pocket plate, no not plate plate is small, the bucket the way it's nice people will pay for it I can guarantee you now I know a few people that will pay for it this is how God is asking you accept and the things that you think I don't have anything except for my voice that word after accept is the thing that you should more look into I understand making money there is a long road and it's real you can make money with that long road but the person who doesn't have a start, the broke person in fact, I must say, that doesn't have a start, it's just for you to start with the first sale. Start with the first sale. Do you know that wealth over the years have a known path, a known road a known way even the Bible backs it up this is what happened to Joseph Joseph stored in 7 good years he stored that money he earned more he built a skill someone pays for after that he controlled the spending after that he get out of debt that eats you after that you start saving after you save you start investing after you invest now you're thinking I can start a business after you start a business you are like there's some extra money that comes in from the business let me buy some assets there is those kind of things there's even a newer one now you do it once and you can sell it forever it's just a PDF you don't have to do books anymore because once you write a book once you can sell it over and over and over again AI made it so easy for us these days that even with that skill if you can use how to on an AI. It will tell you exactly how to make the next money or the next sale. My question to you is what do you have? Accept. because that part that accept that is what you have to look into it what you have to look into even the bible will tell you like you can store things you know like store it and it will multiply if you go to genesis 41 verse 36 genesis 31 verse 46 says the following and that food shall be for store to the land against the seven years of famine which shall be in the land of egypt that the land perish not through the famine that the land perish not through the famine if you go to matthew 25 verse 21 the bible says his lord said unto him well done thou good and faithful servant thou has been faithful over few things and i will make thee ruler over many things enter thou into the joy of thy lord the bible tells you about that but my question to you is or the question that you might ask is seriously no brah are you being serious you talking about 10 years from now what about the bread that I'm looking for now at this moment how am I going to pay just the electricity now I can't wait for 10 years to put the things that I'm in need of now I'm only trying to survive for just up until Tuesday why do you want me to go and store things to survive that is not what I want you to go and do because what you can do is what you have right now somebody would like to pay for that for you now what knowledge do you have that can make that money whose hair can you do that you can charge at least 150 rand don charge less than 150 rand because you will waste your time Even if it's small hair, small, short, I mean even if it's short hair, don't charge less than 150 rand so that people can understand that so that people can understand that it's really important for you that there is money to make from something you already have. If you can sell to somebody, ask the question, who have that kind of problem? Who would like to take a photo for the matric ball that can't afford to pay the real McCoy photographer you have an iPhone you can charge that person for that specific day you can charge that person at least a thousand rand and say I will be there every step of the way and you make sure that you take every shot that you can find at that moment you give him some are thousand photos doesn't matter as long as you can get that thousand rent for that day from him or her who got that problem and how do you reach them you don't have to go jump the hoops because somebody knows somebody that knows somebody that is in need of that all you have to do is ask is anybody in need of a graphic designer somebody will know somebody that knows somebody what is the smallest thing that you can sell small sale five photos for five rand and here I'm just giving you examples but there's quite a lot of things that when you're looking at what you have in your house the lady says the woman now there cried a certain woman of the wives of the sons of the prophets unto Elisha saying, Thy servant, my husband, is dead, and thou knowest that thy servant did fear the Lord. And the creditors is come to take unto him my two sons to be bondmen. And Elisha said unto her, What shall I do for thee? tell me what has thou in the house what has thou in the house she said oil but what is the use of having a lot of oil because she even went to go and borrow some vessels for the oil to be more if she only had the oil in the house because this is what people think wow it's a miracle really now what miracle is there in having oil if you can't use that same oil and you have nothing to use the oil for let me make an example if you don't have flour to make magunya's fat cake you have a lot of oil but you don't have the flour to make magunya you have a lot of oil if it was let's call it if this oil was car oil I'm just making an example it's a 5W40 oil what is the use of having this oil but you don't have a car so the oil is not the miracle that happened here it has nothing to do with the miracle that has happened here. That is not the miracle. The miracle is when she took that oil and took it to the marketplace. She went to go and sell it. What is that except that you have? Because, and she said, Thine handmaid had not anything in the house save a pot of oil. What is the use of you having that gift that God has given you? you can sing like nobody's business but you don't use that singing to make yourself known in front of kings you remember i gave you the i gave you the scripture the scripture that says see thou this is in proverbs 22 verse 29 proverbs 22 verse 29 says seest thou a man diligent in his business he shall stand before kings he shall not stand before mean men imagine you being a David standing and making music in front of a king and that same king who has been having a spirit that is not nicely so my question to you is what do you have what talent, what ability because God has given you the ability to make wealth he didn't give you the wealth he says the wealth belongs to him, remember the Bible says that all silver gold, everything belongs to him he didn't give it to you he gave you the ability to make that wealth did you read that part he says Deuteronomy 8 verse 18 he says but thou shall remember the Lord thy God for it is he that giveth thee power to get wealth that he may establish the covenant which he swore unto thy fathers as it is this day did you see what he says remember the Lord thy God for it is he that giveth thee power no no no he didn't say that giveth thee wealth don't or maybe my English is not Englishing but he didn't say he giveth thee wealth he said he giveth thee power so what is that power that is within you that can give you wealth what is that power if you can make use of that power that is what can help you through life I see I made here on my notes do not confuse money, I mean do not confuse having money with having nothing having money with having nothing I want you to take this this thing we have not spoken about cash no no no we spoken about a skill an experience that you have we spoken about something you already have that can be transformed into money God keeps on asking do you mean you have nothing? serious? he says nothing? are you sure? God kept on asking you and you say nothing he keeps on saying really? nothing? with a question mark is that what you say you don't have no mara god do you know last night my kids went to sleep they didn't even have food serious you have nothing nothing doesn't mean nothing there is some sort of skill you can use to make money accept oil and I don't want you to go and look at I want to start a company that can make me 100 million rand a month no no start with the small 100 rand can turn into 120 rand take that 120 rand and make it a 240 rand I like I like Kulichana Kulichana I not going to say about this Sorry Millie First I take a hundred Then a hundred thousand Then it becomes You know that That one It says I take a hundred I turn that hundred rand into A hundred Ten thousand yeah take 10,000 then take 10,000 to 100 then you have a million so it's a step towards it now for you that doesn't have anything the unfortunate part is the first 100 that you have to get is take the 50 rind and buy something for your stomach but don't eat that 50 rind make at least 50% of what you make to make that 50% to double up because if you can do that you will build a 10 million rand soon one thing I can tell you wishing doesn't move anything if I wish I wish I wish I was it's not going to get you anywhere but a decision you have to decide I have to decide this will not stay the pattern of my life because once you make a decision for how long would you want to live like this not having anything to prove that you are alive if you don't decide that this is the last nothing will get you there. If you, I'm making an example of my children, if you want a let's call it a Nike top for argument's sake. What is the use you want a Nike top while I can tell you that thing is too expensive? Every time I have to tell you it's too expensive. What if it is that you can make your own money and go and buy that make that decision I can no longer be having every time when I ask my parents please give me 10 rand I want to buy cold drink if you don't decide enough with this that my mother and father doesn't have money you will always look at you guys you don't have money you have to make a decision that this kind of pattern will not stay or stop the last time you had it you have to make a decision to start learning you have to make a decision to start asking because the more you ask the more you can sell you know if you ask somebody please would you like to buy this phone the first person will say no the second person will also say no the third person will also say no but the more you ask even the bible say ask and you will receive and it's the same thing about selling you learn something you ask the people that thing that you have learned you try it and then you're selling it once you have sold it and you try again and you fail. You just adjust the product. Because this is what happens in the industry of people making a lot of money. They fail at first but they learn from their failures and they adjust their products and as they adjust their products they try again and so the cycle starts again. So stop waiting for God to send it to you. While He waits for you to pour it take that oil and pour it take that oil and pour it I'm waiting for God sometimes it's fate sometimes it's like a quiet way of doing something at least because she went to found the vessels She brought them home. And she was the one that got the instruction, shut the door and she shut the door. She got the instruction. to pour and she poured. How many times we have asked you, keep pouring, keep selling as you sell, pay off your debts. According to the Bible, God provides, God preserves and He multiplies. But he expects us to act. What do you mean? Matthew 17 verse 27. What did God do there? He provided. But what did that provision look like? Peter had to go and find the coin. To pay that bill for that day. so it was provided but Peter had to go and get that coin out of the fish's mouth in Genesis 41 God was preserving but Joseph had to store all that thing for the seven good years so when life is happy you have to store it 2 Kings 4 this was the multiple application and trading but the widow had to pour and to sell the man of God didn't say I will sell it for you the man of God said you go and sell it Deuteronomy said God gave you the capacity Deuteronomy verse 18 so that is a capacity that God has already given to you but you had to go and get the wealth Proverbs 22 verse 29 God has given you the skill but you had to be diligent in that skills business Matthew 25 says that there is a stewardship that has been given to you already but you have to go and multiply what you been given You have to be multiplying what you been given Matthew 17 verse 27 says as follow Now withstanding lest we should offend them, go thou to the sea and cast a hook and take up the fish that first come up. When thou hast opened the mouth, thou shalt find a piece of money that take and give unto them for me and thee. So poverty is nothing to glorify it. Please don't glorify it. Money is not our God. It is not our identity. But there is work that really, really needs money. There's a lot of things that needs money. I would like to preach this because I know there is need of money children needs to be paid, school fees needs to be paid, debts that needs to be settled people that needs to be helped a church that needs to be built that needs to be, that needs money can we build a church without the money? we might be, but it cost one rent to buy a brick so what is your oil what has God already put in your house that you keep overlooking because it does not look like the money as yet you looking for the money but God gave you the capability maybe you do not have a lack of oil you don't have a lack of oil you just have the oil but you haven't taken it to the marketplace so before you sleep tonight write just five things before you sleep write five things what do I have and what do I have can mean skills it can mean knowledge it can mean tools It can mean people. It can have access to certain things. It can mean your experience. What experience do you have? It does not only mean cash What do you have is the first question The second question is what problem can I solve The second question is, what problem can I solve? The third question is, who have that problem? if it is that you have tools and you can fix a car, who have the problem with the car? Because you already have the tools. So who has that problem? Question number four. What would they pay me to solve that problem? And don't... fall yourself short you remember I said to you if anybody asks you to do your hair, don't charge less than 150 rin regardless whether it is short hair ah, nix askiz, it's my time and I'm sorry I'm picking on you but I'm just making an example because I know you can do it you get my point what can they pay you to solve that hair? The last question and I think it's the most important one. What will I do in the next 24 hours? Don't wait till thy kingdom come because Jesus will come and you have not started it as yet. You can call somebody. Post something. Like, hey, I'm asking if anybody would like to take a photo from my iPhone. I'm charging five rand. Post it. Offer something. Say, if you want, I can give you this cell phone for a thousand rand. Give that offer. and if it is that you are struggling call at least 10 people and tell them about that offer that you have but at least choose one thing one action This is the year of action. We have to move with one action only. And action doesn't have to be brought. Take one rand, buy a chepi for one rand, sell that chepi for two rand. What am I always saying? I always say to my daughter, Lachey, I said, when you buy that ice cream for your brother and sister, don't just give them that ice cream. Sell that ice cream. You bought it for six rand, sell it for eight rand. your brother and sister also have money why can't they pay their own action gives you a lot of information the more you act on it the more you can learn from it even a no teaches you something it teaches you resilience it teaches you patience if somebody says no I don't want it's also fine it helps you with rejection it teaches you how to get rejected easily because we are dying because people reject us a lot of times and we keep on fighting it I think I'm a bit long but forgive me I have to it's over an hour now find your oil and sell it within the next 24 hours did you hear what I say find your oil and sell it because it's useless having oil but don't take it to the marketplace don't take it to the shops. You don't take it to the shops. More month than money. I leave it at this because I want you to go and sit down and think this story about this woman that oil got poured out it was not a miracle story until she went and go and sell that oil the oil would have been in a house forever and she would have been getting even more into debt and she would have even lost her children if she didn't went to the market and I prophesy to you today that everything that you have in your mind today will come up and come out and come with good ideas in the mighty name of Jesus Christ our Lord and Savior and I prophesy to you today that every time whenever you have an idea that is so great God will give you the provision to execute it as well I prophesy to you today that even the oil that you have in your hands today may that oil be so slippery that you can't keep it for long without giving it to somebody I want you to understand that although most people teach about money they don't teach from a broke perspective you have nothing make that decision today that you won have nothing anymore You will stop having the conversations of today is the 25th I got paid on the 25th but I don't have two rent on the 25th. I want you to make that decision that anytime whenever there's somebody asking for something you always think of but I don't have the money let this be the last time we look at our hands that don't have money but we will look at our ability to make wealth the power that is in our hands to make that wealth the power to make it work in the mighty name of Jesus Christ our Lord and Savior Amen and Amen Heavenly Father I come to you now I pray for everybody that has listened to this message today Father God I pray in the mighty name of Jesus that you will just undertake for them you will just give them more abilities more power wherever they have not seen the power push that power out so that they can move with it in the mighty name of Jesus Christ our Lord and Savior, we pray. Amen and Amen. Let us all share the grace. Now may the grace of our Lord Jesus Christ, the love of God and the sweet fellowship of the Holy Spirit, rest and abide with us all until Jesus comes. Surely goodness and mercy shall follow us all the days of our lives and we shall dwell in the house of the Lord forever and ever. In Jesus' name, Amen and Amen. Amen.