Join Cherri Campbell as she delivers an uplifting message about the abundant giving nature of God. In this episode, she clarifies misconceptions about God’s role in life’s challenges and emphasizes that God is always a giver, never a taker. Through biblical teachings, Campbell invites listeners to understand the importance of receiving actively and how to embrace the overflowing love that God offers to each of us.
Welcome to Victorious Faith. We believe you will be blessed, encouraged, and receive fresh faith to begin your day as you listen to today’s message with international missionary and Bible teacher, Cherri Campbell.
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Good morning. Welcome to Victorious Faith. I’m Cherri Campbell. This morning, I’m going to continue sharing with you the message that I’ve been sharing with you for the last several broadcasts that I preached in one of our Victorious Faith services called God Loves Me. So join me now in our live service for part eight of God Loves Me. He never takes health. He never takes away money or possessions. He never takes loved ones. God is not a taker. Think of those words. Jesus said, I give life more abundantly. What is a thief? A taker. And he takes what is not given away. Satan is the thief. He is the one coming to steal, kill, and destroy, taking what you did not give or want to give up. Jesus only comes to give, give, give, give, give. He’s only on the outward side and only receives what you give him. Remember even my lesson on faith and receiving, the Greek word for receive there, believe you have received, and I give you the example of my Bible, it’s actually the aggressive word to take. Whatever you have asked for in prayer, believe that you have received it. But that Greek word is lambano, and it means to take, to grasp with the hand, to take to yourself, to take possession of, to seize. Right? That’s the word receive in the Bible. So whenever you see the word receive in the Bible, New Testament, Greek, it’s almost always that word take. So you need to scratch out receive and take. Whatever you ask for in prayer, believe to take it. Because take and receive have totally different attitudes. Taking is aggressive behavior. Receiving is passive. And I give you the example. If one person is holding my Bible and I’m going to take it, I’m going to take hold, grasp and pull it to myself. But if I just put my hand out open, palm face up. And I’m going to receive the Bible. Somebody else has to be active and lay the Bible in my hand. I did nothing at all. Inactive, passive. God gives. Active. He does not receive in the Greek tense passive. word lambano take he receives in the passive tense what we think of in english inactive god will only receive from you what you give him you have to put it in his hand he will never reach out and grab it and take it from you He will not take your tithe out of your pocket. You have to give your tithes and offerings. Neither will he take your child. I want that one. Your mother, your father, your brother, your sister, your spouse, your loved one. Foolish and ignorant preachers and Christians have said, God, why did you take them? He didn’t. He never reached out and snatched them and said, I’m taking that one. I want that one. I want that one. I want that one. God is not a taker. Everybody say that. God is not a taker. Say it again. God is not a taker. Jesus said, I came to give, give, give life more abundantly. He will never take the aggressive action. But God will sit there with open palm and say he will receive anything you give him. That’s why he receives your tithes, your offerings. He receives your love. He receives your devotion. He receives your obedience. He receives your life when you say I give my life to you. And remember, think of Jesus on the cross. The father did not take Jesus’ life. Jesus said, Father, into your hands I commit my spirit. I put my spirit in your hands. I give you my life. The father is there to receive life. All of his children who are going to heaven, whether they died in accident, sickness, or old age, he receives them. But he’s not reaching out and grabbing and plucking anybody he chooses. He’s not a taker. I want to take that one. I want to take that one. God, why did you take? He didn’t. He received them into his arms, but he did not take them. The thief comes only to steal, kill, and destroy. And what does it do? A thief takes what is not given. He takes life, takes money, takes health, takes peace of mind. The thief is the one taking. Blame the devil and resist him. Resist the devil and he’ll flee from you. God will give life. He’ll give gifts. If God gave his own son, how will he not also along with him graciously give us all things? He gives health. He gives peace. He gives joy. He meets your needs physically, financially, materially, mentally, emotionally, spiritually, relationally. He gives everything you need. He’s a giver, giver, giver, giver, giver, giver, giver. His arms are there to open and receive and cradle, cherish whatever you give him, but he’ll never take anything from you. He is not a taker. So blame the devil and learn how to overcome the devil. That’s a whole message I gave you in a nutshell and I’ve taught it in many other lessons and how to overcome the devil, how to receive from God the operation of the laws of the kingdom. So God… Look at this again. God’s great desire to give is beyond man’s comprehension. Although he has demonstrated it throughout history, he has always been faithful to his people to deliver them. Always. He has never failed. His word has never failed. Where people have failed to receive, it was due to lack of knowledge. God said in Hosea 4, 6, my people are destroyed because of lack of knowledge. Lack of knowledge. Not because God failed to give them what they asked. He has always been faithful to his people to deliver them and bless them. He has always been good. But man has always blamed God for their hardships when it was their own sin that caused it. Or you could say their own ignorance that caused it. God has been lied about more than any other person on earth. He’s been blamed for every bad thing. So we have to learn why do bad things happen. It’s not because of God. It’s because of sin. It’s because of Satan. It’s because of the curse of sin and death. It’s because of mishandling the laws of the spirit, the laws of the kingdom. All those are reasons, but none of them are because of God. Now his love is everlasting. Jeremiah 31, 3. I have loved you with an everlasting love. I have drawn you with loving kindness. His love is for the ages to come. Ephesians 2, 6 and 7. And God raised us up with Christ and seated us with him in the heavenly realms in Christ Jesus. In order that in the coming ages he might show. And that word show means put on a show. Put on a demonstration and put on a great show. The incomparable riches of his grace expressed in his kindness to us in Christ Jesus. Wiest talks about the coming ages is the ages that pile themselves on one another, one after the other. In order that he might exhibit for his own glory in the ages that will pile themselves one upon another in continuous succession. That’s what it means, the coming ages. Piled upon themselves one upon another in continuance. Continuous succession. They’re surpassing wealth of his grace and his kindness to us. The amplified says he did this that he might clearly demonstrate through the ages to come. The immeasurable, limitless and surpassing riches of his free grace in his kindness and goodness of heart toward us in Christ. So notice the ages are going to be piled upon themselves one after another that he would show the surpassing grace, immeasurable, limitless, surpassing riches that he’ll put on a show and demonstration for us. Throughout the ages to come. Hallelujah. Nothing can separate us from the love of God. Not even sin. Romans 8, 35, 38, 39. Who shall separate us from the love of God? For I am convinced that neither death nor life, neither angels nor demons, neither the present nor the future. I’ll add the past. Past mistakes or failures. Not that either. nor any powers, neither height, nor depth, nor anything else in all creation will be able to separate us from the love of God that is in Christ Jesus, our Lord. Nothing. You can’t make a mistake that will separate you from the love of God. All you have to do is repent. humble heart say god forgive me he’s waiting to embrace you remember the the prodigal son the father he the father ran to his son his son had been in the pig pen you don’t know if he got a bath he could have still smelled like pigs probably did and the father saw him from the distance means if you saw him from a distance he had to have been looking You don’t see someone from a distance unless you look up and look out at the distance. If you’re just looking around you, you’re not going to see it. So if you saw him at a distance, far, great distance, he was looking at that. It’s like, I wonder if my son’s coming. There he is. And he dashes off and runs and embraces him and says, but I think father. Oh, so what? That’s okay. God will take you in all of your stink. And we did stink spiritually. And he washed us in his blood. He washed us in his blood. To know him is to know his love. God is love. So if you don’t know his love, you don’t know him. This is big. Again, this is something that takes meditation. Like everything I’ve been saying, you’re going to have to study and think on each one of these things. But like at the beginning, God is love. If you don’t know his love, you don’t know him. You don’t know anything about him. You don’t know an inkling about him if you don’t know his love. Because that’s the essence of who he is. Hallelujah. As you fellowship with God in the word and in prayer. And in meditation and thinking on his, that’s the word, meditating on his word, you will begin to realize the greatness of his love and it radiates from his whole being. The apostle John changed his name to the disciple whom Jesus loved. John 13, 23, one of them, the disciple whom Jesus loved, was reclining next to him. John 19, 26, and the disciple whom he loved standing nearby. John 20, verse 2, so she came running to Simon Peter and the other disciple, the one Jesus loved. John 21, 7 and 20, then the disciple whom Jesus loved said to Peter, it is the Lord. You can change your name to the one whom Jesus loves. What you just heard was part eight of a message that I preached in one of our victorious faith services called God Loves Me. We will continue and conclude this message tomorrow. So join me again tomorrow. And remember, God loves you. You are blessed and highly favored by the Lord.
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