[00:00:00] Let us pray, Grant together on our knees. Let us pray, Grant together on our knees.
[00:00:13] When I fall on my knees with my face to the rising sun, O Lord, ever mercy on me.
[00:00:26] Welcome to the Bible Speaks with Elgin Carelock. The Bible Speaks is a weekly ministry of
[00:00:32] Harvest International. Our prayer is that the Bible Speaks will encourage you in your
[00:00:37] study of God's Word. You will be able to contact Elgin at the address given at the end
[00:00:42] of this broadcast and now here's Elgin.
[00:00:45] Brothers and sisters, I welcome you to another edition of the Bible Speaks. We always look
[00:00:51] forward to an opportunity to read God's Word and share it with you. Today I want to begin
[00:00:57] a series for this week titled, God heard your requests but you have to grow together.
[00:01:05] And it is based on Proverbs 19 verse 21 reading from the English Standard Version. It reads,
[00:01:14] many are the plans in the mind of a man but it is the purpose of the Lord that will stand.
[00:01:22] Sometimes when we do not receive what we are asking for from God, we feel that he is
[00:01:28] not listening. But I'm here to tell you that he certainly heard you, but he also sees
[00:01:34] you. As the one who built you, God knows exactly what you're capable of and will bless
[00:01:41] you accordingly. If you're not a person who manages money well, he gives you just enough
[00:01:48] and sometimes not enough. But the difference between not enough and more than enough of
[00:01:55] anything in your personal life is your growth. We have to be the person who is capable of
[00:02:01] handling what we are asking God for but the thing is we don't know how he will bring us
[00:02:07] the blessing. But we have to do is correct our perspective. We must understand our purpose
[00:02:14] and how we bring glory to God. I want to share with you how I'm approaching my growth
[00:02:23] in hopes that it may inspire you to lean into God more and take advantage of the unbelievable
[00:02:29] resource he is. In order to grow, we must have great proficiency in three areas. Mindset,
[00:02:38] skill set and toolkit. And this is what we'll discuss this week. And I look forward to
[00:02:45] hearing from you in regards to anything that I've said and that you need clarity, honor or
[00:02:51] thoughts that you want to share yourself. Number one is mindset. Who am I? Romans 12,
[00:02:57] chapter two reads, and be not conformed to this world but be transformed by the renewing
[00:03:05] of your mind that you may prove what is that good and acceptable and perfect will of God.
[00:03:11] It is so important that we have the proper mindset in order to move to life as humans. Our
[00:03:19] spiritual lives are strengthened through our faith into God's grace but on earth, we have
[00:03:26] to have emotional intelligence, spiritual intelligence, relational intelligence and leadership
[00:03:34] intelligence in order to properly treat on another the way God would have and also to bring
[00:03:41] God glory through our helping others. So let's look at emotional intelligence. Emotional
[00:03:48] intelligence is about self-awareness. It's about taking into consideration who you are and by
[00:03:55] who you are, I mean knowing the things that causes you to be the person that you are. It's
[00:04:02] about the ability to take a deep look inside and prayerfully consider your personality. And
[00:04:10] the reason that we do that is we have to have the ability to interact with others which comes from
[00:04:18] our ability to understand ourselves. What are the things that trigger you? What are the things that
[00:04:25] make you happy? What are the things that cause you to be fearful? Once we have an understanding of
[00:04:32] those things, it gives us the ability to be able to manage it. And whether that is through help from
[00:04:39] our professional, from prayer and fasting and meditating but getting an understanding of who we
[00:04:47] are emotionally gives us the ability to build better relationships with others because we know
[00:04:54] when we get into situations that may cause us to act outside of God's will, how to manage that,
[00:05:02] how not to put ourselves into situations where we are living beneath what God would have us do.
[00:05:10] Having proper emotional intelligence also helps us when we experience challenges in life.
[00:05:17] What we think about what going through valley experiences, it usually happens in one of three ways.
[00:05:25] One God sent it. There are times when the Holy Spirit tries to motivate us through inspiration
[00:05:33] of a cooking of our spirit but we don't always listen. So in response, God sends us an experience.
[00:05:42] Now it's not an experience that we like many times but the point of the experience is to give
[00:05:48] you knowledge and insight into what it was he was trying to get your attention about.
[00:05:54] The second one is what I affectionately call life, life in. There are things that we go through
[00:06:02] in our lives that are simply a part of our human existence. We didn't do anything to cause it.
[00:06:08] It's not a point of gestivement but just do course. There are things that happened that we
[00:06:15] aren't even involved in. The person that runs through a stop sign and hits your car may not have
[00:06:22] anything to do with you. It's just a part of life. The third are the times when God gives Satan permission
[00:06:30] to challenge you. He has so much confidence and your ability to maintain your faith and move
[00:06:37] through challenges presented by the enemy that he will allow it to come but having a proper
[00:06:44] emotional intelligence allows us to not let those challenges keep us from being able to
[00:06:52] pour into the lives of other people, to maintain a level of peace that will allow us to be used by God.
[00:07:00] Spiritual intelligence. Spiritual intelligence is when we lean into God,
[00:07:08] when we open our ears, open our minds and open our hearts to hearing from God. Some call it a
[00:07:14] success. We do have intuition which God has given us as an onboard warning system for things that
[00:07:23] may cause us harm. But spiritual intelligence is about receiving the words from the Holy Spirit,
[00:07:30] whether it be through something audible, whether it be through a person who comes and confirms
[00:07:36] something that the Lord has placed upon your heart and just hearing from God in general.
[00:07:42] I've had people say to me that they don't hear from God but I want to say to you that we have
[00:07:49] to turn into God's frequency. He is always speaking to us but are we always listening?
[00:07:56] We have to be tuned in to God's frequency and looking for His voice. But let me tell you it may
[00:08:05] not come to you like the burning bush or the rumbling at Mount Sinai. More times than not
[00:08:12] it's going to be in your head and it's going to sound like you but the difference between an
[00:08:18] intuition and a word from God is that the word from God is talking to you. And so it's in the third
[00:08:27] person. So what do I mean by that? A good example is I was leaving the house the other day on my
[00:08:34] way to the office and the Holy Spirit said, hey, weren't you supposed to carry these notes over to
[00:08:42] this meeting? And I was like, oh, you're so right. Thank you so much. And I went back in and got it.
[00:08:47] See, talking to you. There are times when someone says something to you and you go to respond
[00:08:54] and the Holy Spirit says to you, I don't know that that is the best answer. If you do say that
[00:09:00] won't there be some ramifications behind it? And you think better and you don't say it. That
[00:09:07] is spiritual intelligence. When we open our mind to hearing from God, what we find is that he wants
[00:09:16] to be involved in as much of your life as you will have him be involved in from the greatest details
[00:09:22] to the smallest. And that recognition is the beginning of spiritual intelligence, relational
[00:09:29] intelligence. As you have a better understanding of your emotional intelligence and lean into
[00:09:36] spiritual intelligence as the guide for your life, then that leads to better relationships.
[00:09:44] And relational intelligence takes that one step further in that there are people in your
[00:09:51] lives for different reasons. God has gifted you with talents and he has gifted you with a specific
[00:09:58] purpose. And the relational intelligence is understanding where a person that you are interacting
[00:10:07] with falls. So they can be a friend, they can be an associate, they can be an assignment or
[00:10:16] they can be a mentor. And what happens is you take every encounter and ask yourself which they
[00:10:24] are. And this isn't being done so that you can segregate people or shut people out but it's
[00:10:33] done so that you can be more effective in your purpose. So if they are an assignment, then
[00:10:41] you are to be spirit led and ask God to show you what it is that they are to receive from you.
[00:10:51] If they're a friend, that's someone that you are going to do life with, that you are calling
[00:10:57] with that you spend time with and your responsibility to them is simply to love them in the way
[00:11:04] that God loves you and to support them and to help them through this journey. If they are a mentor,
[00:11:12] you are to listen, you are to seek the wisdom that God sent them to you to impart. This type of
[00:11:18] relationship intelligence will allow God to send a wider variety of people to you so that
[00:11:25] they can be blessed by you. But keep in mind the types of relationships are separate.
[00:11:32] Sometimes we get into situations where someone who was simply an assignment is endearing to us
[00:11:40] and we want to have a deeper relationship that wasn't intended. And so this is also where
[00:11:47] spiritual intelligence will come into it because in all of your interactions, you should seek
[00:11:53] the discernment of God first. It will help you, it will help you better determine what the
[00:11:58] relationship is about and what you are to do as part of that relationship, leadership intelligence.
[00:12:06] Leadership intelligence is perhaps one of the most important parts of our dealing with others,
[00:12:14] especially if we are in a supervised reposition or management position. It gives us the perspective
[00:12:22] of what God expects from us as leaders. And one of the things that we have to understand
[00:12:29] is that we are to produce fruit from every relationship that we're in and we're to give God glory
[00:12:36] out of every relationship we're in. And so leadership intelligence is about understanding
[00:12:41] that this life isn't about you. It's about pouring into other people's lives. Good leaders
[00:12:49] build more leaders. We take the inspiration and education that we receive from God and we
[00:12:56] pour it into others to show them how to then bear fruit, that we then are discipling the word of
[00:13:04] God through individual interactions. The more clear we are, the clearer we can help others be on
[00:13:12] their purpose and the will of God. And person by person, city by city, we can have the opportunity
[00:13:19] to take back what the enemy in the world has stolen and bring the full glory of God into every
[00:13:28] situation that we find ourselves. So brothers and sisters, this concludes the Bible speaks for today
[00:13:35] and I look forward to discussing the rest of this conversation with you as we move through the week.
[00:13:42] Thank you and God bless.
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