WEBVTT 1 00:00:00.280 --> 00:00:01.879 So today I'm excited. 2 00:00:02.600 --> 00:00:05.280 I am. I am at the butt end of this 3 00:00:05.400 --> 00:00:09.759 series we're doing restoring the Ancient Pathways of Life, and 4 00:00:09.759 --> 00:00:13.679 and I'm just I'm excited to do the topic I'm doing. 5 00:00:13.720 --> 00:00:17.000 I'm doing the prophetic topic. And I like this topic 6 00:00:17.160 --> 00:00:20.839 because there's so many things. This topic is so vast 7 00:00:20.879 --> 00:00:25.000 that I'm not going to do justice to cover it 8 00:00:25.079 --> 00:00:27.039 even halfway. You know, I'm just going to do a 9 00:00:27.079 --> 00:00:31.160 partial lick of it. But I am excited because my 10 00:00:31.280 --> 00:00:35.920 goal this morning is to restore a practicality to the 11 00:00:35.960 --> 00:00:39.039 prophetic that that goes with us and every single one 12 00:00:39.119 --> 00:00:42.960 of us everywhere we go. That makes sense. So, you know, 13 00:00:43.000 --> 00:00:46.320 in the prophetic topic, it's it's interesting because we do 14 00:00:46.399 --> 00:00:48.439 one of two things. One, it's like I don't want 15 00:00:48.479 --> 00:00:50.240 to hear it. I don't want anything to do with it, 16 00:00:50.640 --> 00:00:54.079 keep it away from me. Two we say, uh, we 17 00:00:54.159 --> 00:00:56.359 put the pressure on someone else, and we like to 18 00:00:56.439 --> 00:00:59.359 receive words. We put it on a person, kind of 19 00:00:59.399 --> 00:01:03.479 like they did the Old Testament, or in certain sects 20 00:01:03.479 --> 00:01:05.799 of our religion, they say, what does the man? What 21 00:01:05.840 --> 00:01:08.560 does the woman of God have to say? What's the 22 00:01:08.599 --> 00:01:10.799 word for the hour? I don't know what the term 23 00:01:10.840 --> 00:01:13.760 they use. What's the thing for the anyway? You know? 24 00:01:14.159 --> 00:01:16.920 So we we put the pressure on somebody else and 25 00:01:17.000 --> 00:01:20.599 we come more as receivers rather than participators. 26 00:01:21.079 --> 00:01:21.840 Does that make sense? 27 00:01:22.200 --> 00:01:24.760 And so I believe God this morning wants to do 28 00:01:24.879 --> 00:01:29.000 something good in our hearts and our souls that would 29 00:01:29.079 --> 00:01:33.319 restore this to us all individuals. Does that make sense? 30 00:01:33.640 --> 00:01:35.760 Okay? So I'll try the best I can this morning, 31 00:01:36.159 --> 00:01:38.120 and you try the best you can just to keep. 32 00:01:37.959 --> 00:01:38.519 The heart open. 33 00:01:38.560 --> 00:01:40.239 Cool, all right? 34 00:01:40.280 --> 00:01:42.280 I want to do something pretty cool this morning. I 35 00:01:42.280 --> 00:01:45.799 want to do a prophetic act. So bear with me. Shana, 36 00:01:46.239 --> 00:01:49.439 would you come on up please? I'm gonna have who else? 37 00:01:49.439 --> 00:01:50.640 Who else? Am I gonna pick on? 38 00:01:51.879 --> 00:01:52.159 Craig? 39 00:01:52.400 --> 00:01:57.400 Please? Would you come? Claara was like, is the heart 40 00:01:57.480 --> 00:02:01.359 that was not me? Terrell? Would you come up real quick? 41 00:02:02.560 --> 00:02:05.480 And I want one more? One more Lord? Who would be? 42 00:02:05.560 --> 00:02:09.319 Who would be? Costra Anchlow? Would you come up? Again? 43 00:02:09.479 --> 00:02:11.759 I had her come up for service. So I'm gonna 44 00:02:11.759 --> 00:02:14.599 ask each one of you, because we're in the topic 45 00:02:14.639 --> 00:02:18.199 of the prophetic, I'm gonna ask you just to take 46 00:02:18.280 --> 00:02:22.840 thirty seconds and pray over the congregation. You can leave 47 00:02:22.879 --> 00:02:24.840 it out of prayer, but if the Lord puts something 48 00:02:24.879 --> 00:02:27.639 in your heart, just release the word okay for today, 49 00:02:27.719 --> 00:02:30.800 for now, for the congregation ye have, for whatever the 50 00:02:30.840 --> 00:02:33.560 Lord might be doing. It might be a word of encouragement, 51 00:02:33.680 --> 00:02:35.400 might be a word of comfort, might be a word 52 00:02:35.439 --> 00:02:37.680 of you know straight, whatever it is, okay. 53 00:02:38.080 --> 00:02:39.639 So I'm gonna give the mic to Shana. 54 00:02:39.719 --> 00:02:42.800 We're gonna go and just thirty seconds, be gracious with me. 55 00:02:44.439 --> 00:02:46.080 I just think that the Lord's saying that there's a 56 00:02:46.159 --> 00:02:49.080 breaking that's happening, and this is a different kind of breakthrough. 57 00:02:49.120 --> 00:02:51.199 It's starting to shake from the ground up, so you 58 00:02:51.280 --> 00:02:53.919 might feel the shaking and then see the breakthrough later. 59 00:02:54.039 --> 00:02:57.960 So if now you're experiencing a shaking, expect the breakthrough 60 00:02:58.000 --> 00:02:58.400 to come. 61 00:02:58.960 --> 00:03:00.879 Come on. Thank you. 62 00:03:01.960 --> 00:03:03.879 I just the Lord gave me a picture of a 63 00:03:03.919 --> 00:03:07.960 pair of shoes, and so I feel like what that 64 00:03:08.120 --> 00:03:12.039 means is that this He's called this congregation to be 65 00:03:12.199 --> 00:03:15.560 those that would put out the leather, get the shoes on, 66 00:03:16.120 --> 00:03:19.680 and then take the prophetic to where you are, to 67 00:03:19.879 --> 00:03:24.759 your job, to whomever you interact with. And I also 68 00:03:24.879 --> 00:03:27.000 hear the other thing I hear is that he has 69 00:03:27.120 --> 00:03:30.800 called New Horizon Church to be those that would be 70 00:03:31.080 --> 00:03:35.039 the breakers of the demonic realm. Come like he's calling 71 00:03:35.120 --> 00:03:37.919 us to take out the shoe leather, and he's saying, 72 00:03:38.280 --> 00:03:41.039 I have equipped you as a body or as a 73 00:03:41.199 --> 00:03:44.960 church to go and destroy the works of the enemy, 74 00:03:45.199 --> 00:03:48.280 to destroy the works of darkness, and that he's actually 75 00:03:48.360 --> 00:03:52.960 saying he's participating with the words that come out of 76 00:03:53.000 --> 00:03:56.919 your mouth, and he's actually sending his angels out to 77 00:03:57.120 --> 00:04:00.599 destroy the demonic realm based upon what's coming out of 78 00:04:00.639 --> 00:04:03.599 your mouth and what you prophesy over those you are 79 00:04:03.719 --> 00:04:04.479 interacting with. 80 00:04:04.879 --> 00:04:09.240 So good, come on, thank you, So first service. 81 00:04:10.199 --> 00:04:12.919 I got a picture of a tree, and on that 82 00:04:13.000 --> 00:04:15.639 tree I've seen fruit, and I feel like the Lord 83 00:04:15.719 --> 00:04:19.120 is saying that all the old fruit is dead and gone. 84 00:04:19.439 --> 00:04:21.720 And so I decree and declare over each one of 85 00:04:21.759 --> 00:04:24.759 you that all the dead fruit is dead and gone, 86 00:04:24.920 --> 00:04:28.439 and new fruit is coming in this season. I also 87 00:04:28.519 --> 00:04:31.920 see in the spirit realm, I see the power and 88 00:04:32.040 --> 00:04:35.120 electricity going through that trunk of that tree, and I 89 00:04:35.120 --> 00:04:37.720 feel like the Lord is saying, I'm coming in power 90 00:04:38.160 --> 00:04:41.639 and authority in this new season for New Horizon. 91 00:04:42.759 --> 00:04:48.199 Come on, solue, I'm hearing the same thing as Craig declaration. 92 00:04:48.319 --> 00:04:50.480 The Lord is saying, I want you to declare who 93 00:04:50.560 --> 00:04:53.199 you are in me, and he says that you are 94 00:04:53.480 --> 00:04:56.800 a royal priesthood, a chosen nation, a city on the 95 00:04:56.920 --> 00:04:59.720 hilltop that cannot be hidden, a light. 96 00:04:59.600 --> 00:05:00.360 Of the war old. 97 00:05:00.600 --> 00:05:04.639 You are filled with every spiritual blessing in the heavenly realms. 98 00:05:05.000 --> 00:05:06.879 You are righteous and holy. 99 00:05:07.000 --> 00:05:09.199 I feel like, on this one, can you lead us 100 00:05:09.240 --> 00:05:15.160 through like three declarations decorations? Okay, so when he declares it, 101 00:05:15.240 --> 00:05:16.959 let's declare it right after and agree. 102 00:05:17.839 --> 00:05:19.120 I am a royal priesthood. 103 00:05:19.360 --> 00:05:20.879 I am a royal priesthood. 104 00:05:20.959 --> 00:05:22.199 I am a chosen nation. 105 00:05:22.519 --> 00:05:23.800 I am a chosen nation. 106 00:05:24.079 --> 00:05:27.319 I am filled with every spiritual blessing in the heavenly realms. 107 00:05:27.399 --> 00:05:30.519 I am filled with every spiritual blessings in the revenue. 108 00:05:30.519 --> 00:05:32.160 Helms can't continue, but we're good. 109 00:05:33.759 --> 00:05:36.480 I am righteous. Come on, man, I am holy. 110 00:05:36.639 --> 00:05:37.000 Come on. 111 00:05:37.439 --> 00:05:40.519 I am one spirit with God, one spirit with I 112 00:05:40.600 --> 00:05:41.879 am seated with Christ. 113 00:05:42.079 --> 00:05:45.199 I am seated with heavenly places. 114 00:05:45.240 --> 00:05:46.399 I cannot be defeated. 115 00:05:46.560 --> 00:05:46.839 I can. 116 00:05:47.720 --> 00:05:48.120 I am. 117 00:05:48.480 --> 00:05:52.920 I am as Christ is in Jesus name, in Jesus Name. 118 00:05:53.040 --> 00:05:53.360 Was that it? 119 00:05:53.480 --> 00:05:56.560 Or did you have more? That's it? Come on? Wow, 120 00:05:59.399 --> 00:06:06.279 that's so. I told him a week ago that I 121 00:06:06.319 --> 00:06:10.079 was gonna do that. I'm kidding. They got as much 122 00:06:10.160 --> 00:06:13.079 notice as you did, except Angela. She was here first service, 123 00:06:13.120 --> 00:06:19.439 so she had anyway. So I love I love hearing 124 00:06:19.639 --> 00:06:21.639 all the things that God's doing. You can feel it. 125 00:06:22.000 --> 00:06:25.000 You can feel when when somebody partners with the prophetic, 126 00:06:25.480 --> 00:06:30.839 they're climbing a ladder into the heavenly places, reaching into 127 00:06:30.959 --> 00:06:34.199 the heart of heaven and bringing it into our current reality. 128 00:06:34.720 --> 00:06:38.399 And so the temptation you and I would have is 129 00:06:38.439 --> 00:06:43.240 to put that on people and disqualify ourselves. For whatever 130 00:06:43.319 --> 00:06:45.680 reason you want to come up with, you have it. 131 00:06:46.360 --> 00:06:50.759 And so I feel like the Lord wants to restore 132 00:06:50.879 --> 00:06:55.839 the reality of simple prophecy to us, Okay, And so 133 00:06:55.959 --> 00:06:58.079 this morning I want to do the best I can 134 00:06:58.160 --> 00:07:01.279 to dismantle what the End has put in our hearts 135 00:07:02.000 --> 00:07:05.319 over the years, or over even the centuries as the 136 00:07:05.399 --> 00:07:08.079 church progressed. And I feel like I feel like coming 137 00:07:08.120 --> 00:07:10.000 out this morning, we're gonna be a little bit stronger, 138 00:07:10.040 --> 00:07:13.040 a little bit sharper, a little bit wiser in the Lord. 139 00:07:13.079 --> 00:07:16.199 And I think that we're gonna go out winning a 140 00:07:16.240 --> 00:07:17.800 lot more spiritually speaking. 141 00:07:17.800 --> 00:07:18.639 Cool. 142 00:07:18.759 --> 00:07:20.920 So close your eyes for a second and say Jesus, 143 00:07:22.079 --> 00:07:27.839 open my ears to hear, open my heart to feel 144 00:07:28.800 --> 00:07:34.360 in Jesus' name. Amen. Amen. So this morning, the title 145 00:07:34.839 --> 00:07:39.279 of my message, the subtitle under our series is what 146 00:07:40.040 --> 00:07:41.800 are you saying? 147 00:07:42.000 --> 00:07:42.680 Can you say that? 148 00:07:43.000 --> 00:07:47.800 What are you saying? The emphasis I have this morning 149 00:07:47.879 --> 00:07:54.079 is primarily with the words that come forth from your mouth. Okay, 150 00:07:54.439 --> 00:07:59.160 keep that in mind. Naturally, we are all very prophetic people. 151 00:07:59.279 --> 00:08:02.480 And as we speak this morning, and as I share 152 00:08:02.519 --> 00:08:05.120 my heart with you, I hope that you will realize 153 00:08:05.160 --> 00:08:09.720 that prophetic gifting is all around us. It's in us 154 00:08:09.759 --> 00:08:12.319 and through us. We're called to desire it, to crave it, 155 00:08:12.560 --> 00:08:16.639 and to participate with it. So naturally, the words we utilize, 156 00:08:16.759 --> 00:08:19.959 especially if you're a believer, are prophetic, almost like in 157 00:08:20.000 --> 00:08:26.120 their essence. You know, you can be pathetically pathetically prophetic, 158 00:08:26.399 --> 00:08:28.639 where you declare things that are not of God, but 159 00:08:28.680 --> 00:08:33.000 that still come true. Because the scripture says, actually, let's 160 00:08:33.000 --> 00:08:35.960 put it up on the screen Proverbs eighteen twenty one. 161 00:08:36.799 --> 00:08:37.279 Watch this. 162 00:08:38.000 --> 00:08:39.360 It says death. 163 00:08:39.440 --> 00:08:45.240 And life are in the power of the tongue, and 164 00:08:45.279 --> 00:08:47.600 those who love it will eat its fruits. What he's 165 00:08:47.639 --> 00:08:50.960 saying is, you will reap the consequences of how you speak, 166 00:08:51.960 --> 00:08:54.120 and so death and life are in the power of 167 00:08:54.159 --> 00:08:57.519 your tongue. James writes that if you figure out how 168 00:08:57.559 --> 00:08:59.919 to control this thing, you'll be like perfect. 169 00:09:00.600 --> 00:09:02.159 Like this thing makes grand. 170 00:09:01.919 --> 00:09:05.440 Speeches and it breaks things down, like it can serve 171 00:09:05.480 --> 00:09:07.519 as a blessing, but then it turns around and can 172 00:09:07.559 --> 00:09:12.440 curse something too. Like the power that comes forth from 173 00:09:12.559 --> 00:09:15.360 the words you utilize is phenomenal. 174 00:09:15.759 --> 00:09:16.600 It's amazing. 175 00:09:16.879 --> 00:09:19.240 We see this in the Life of Jesus where he 176 00:09:19.360 --> 00:09:24.360 comes to the grave place of Lazarus and he says, 177 00:09:24.440 --> 00:09:29.960 a Lazarus, come out. He comes to a place of 178 00:09:30.120 --> 00:09:35.000 death and the source of life releases a word of 179 00:09:35.080 --> 00:09:40.120 life that brings forth life. 180 00:09:41.559 --> 00:09:43.120 It's actually an amazing story. 181 00:09:43.159 --> 00:09:44.720 I'm going to go into it a little bit because 182 00:09:44.799 --> 00:09:47.360 it's a very important one that we understand because the 183 00:09:47.399 --> 00:09:52.720 words that we utilize, it's more than just opinions you're spewing. 184 00:09:52.840 --> 00:09:57.080 Sometime you know what's carried on your opinions of spiritual 185 00:09:57.120 --> 00:09:58.519 powers and principalities. 186 00:10:01.039 --> 00:10:05.799 So Jesus comes, he tells. 187 00:10:05.519 --> 00:10:10.200 His disciples, we gotta go because our brother Lazarus fell asleep. 188 00:10:10.279 --> 00:10:11.399 We gotta go wake him up. 189 00:10:11.879 --> 00:10:16.039 He's dead, basically, And so when he gets to the place, 190 00:10:16.440 --> 00:10:19.519 he reaches Martha, and Martha's like, Jesus, if you would 191 00:10:19.559 --> 00:10:22.240 have been here, he would have not died. And Jesus 192 00:10:22.279 --> 00:10:25.600 goes into a journey of trying to get Martha to 193 00:10:25.679 --> 00:10:28.919 believe that the source of life just entered your room. 194 00:10:30.159 --> 00:10:33.320 So would you believe for a miracle. And Martha begins 195 00:10:33.360 --> 00:10:36.720 to delay the miracle for another day, and she says, 196 00:10:36.799 --> 00:10:39.440 I know you're the resurrection, and I know we will 197 00:10:39.480 --> 00:10:43.360 all raise from the dead on the last day. And 198 00:10:43.480 --> 00:10:46.240 Jesus like trying to get these people to believe in 199 00:10:46.320 --> 00:10:50.879 him that life has come, transformation has come, the miracle 200 00:10:51.000 --> 00:10:51.399 is here. 201 00:10:52.759 --> 00:10:54.679 She doesn't get it. Mary comes. 202 00:10:54.720 --> 00:10:57.440 This is the Mary that at the feet of Jesus. 203 00:10:57.440 --> 00:10:59.240 You know what I'm saying. She's a presence girl. We 204 00:10:59.279 --> 00:11:01.480 got Martha's in the room. Those are more like the 205 00:11:01.559 --> 00:11:03.840 analytical this, this, and this needs to get done. 206 00:11:03.960 --> 00:11:05.399 How many Martha's we got in the room. 207 00:11:05.399 --> 00:11:07.879 There's no shame in it. We got some here, you 208 00:11:08.000 --> 00:11:10.399 know what needs to get done. And then we got 209 00:11:10.440 --> 00:11:12.200 a lot of Mary's in the room. I just want 210 00:11:12.240 --> 00:11:14.240 to sit here in the presence and get figured it. 211 00:11:14.360 --> 00:11:17.279 So fout, you know, the food will get ready, the 212 00:11:17.320 --> 00:11:18.240 things will get done. 213 00:11:18.399 --> 00:11:20.519 How many Marys we got in the room. Raise your hand. 214 00:11:20.720 --> 00:11:22.840 I know we got more Marris than Martha. I know 215 00:11:23.440 --> 00:11:26.159 some of you just lazy, but you're a Martha, all right. 216 00:11:26.279 --> 00:11:27.039 We know the truth. 217 00:11:28.519 --> 00:11:31.399 So it's a beautiful marriage when two come together because 218 00:11:31.399 --> 00:11:34.039 the engine works. But really, well you know what I'm saying. 219 00:11:34.039 --> 00:11:35.720 You got the tires and you got the heart. It 220 00:11:35.720 --> 00:11:38.799 needs to happen anyway. So you got both of these 221 00:11:38.799 --> 00:11:41.840 people and both have the same response. So it's not 222 00:11:41.919 --> 00:11:44.679 a question of who God created you to be. It's 223 00:11:44.679 --> 00:11:45.600 a question of faith. 224 00:11:46.080 --> 00:11:49.240 So Mary comes and. 225 00:11:49.120 --> 00:11:52.200 She says, oh, Jesus, if only you had been there, 226 00:11:52.600 --> 00:11:56.279 my brother would not have died. Lazarus would still be here. 227 00:11:56.600 --> 00:12:00.840 And once again she puts this situation of death on Jesus, 228 00:12:01.200 --> 00:12:05.240 and Jesus again tries to say, well I'm here, I'm 229 00:12:05.279 --> 00:12:07.559 the miracle maker, I'm the source of life. 230 00:12:07.679 --> 00:12:10.720 They don't get it, and so. 231 00:12:10.799 --> 00:12:18.240 The scripture says that anger builds up within Jesus, and 232 00:12:18.279 --> 00:12:22.559 then that shortest verse in the scripture is recorded he wept, 233 00:12:24.039 --> 00:12:25.799 and a lot of us we like to relate that 234 00:12:25.879 --> 00:12:30.360 scripture to the humanity of Jesus. That look, Jesus also 235 00:12:30.480 --> 00:12:32.320 had a heart he also knew how to mourn. 236 00:12:32.320 --> 00:12:33.480 He also knew how to weep. 237 00:12:33.679 --> 00:12:37.559 And that's what John is writing actually when he's talking 238 00:12:37.559 --> 00:12:40.200 about the people are saying, look how much he loved 239 00:12:40.200 --> 00:12:42.600 his friend and all this stuff. But if you read 240 00:12:42.639 --> 00:12:47.759 that in context, Jesus is not sad. Why would he 241 00:12:47.879 --> 00:12:50.399 be sad when he's about to go raise somebody from 242 00:12:50.399 --> 00:12:52.600 the dead and he told his disciples, we're gonna go 243 00:12:52.679 --> 00:12:56.039 raise him from the dead. He's sad. No, he's not sad. 244 00:12:56.080 --> 00:13:00.200 He's angry because he's saying, guys, I am life. I 245 00:13:00.200 --> 00:13:02.679 have come to restore, to bring life. 246 00:13:02.720 --> 00:13:03.639 Would you believe in me? 247 00:13:03.879 --> 00:13:07.360 And all they can see is the death. They can 248 00:13:07.399 --> 00:13:09.799 see their issue, they can see their trauma, they can 249 00:13:09.840 --> 00:13:12.600 see their difficulty, they see their situation, and they don't 250 00:13:12.600 --> 00:13:18.039 see Jesus. But Jesus is in their midst and they 251 00:13:18.080 --> 00:13:23.080 continue to tell him about their problem. 252 00:13:23.200 --> 00:13:25.519 So they bring him to the grave because he's angry. 253 00:13:25.559 --> 00:13:27.399 He's like, where have you laid him? Like he's he 254 00:13:27.440 --> 00:13:30.120 can't like the closest people to him don't get it. 255 00:13:30.559 --> 00:13:32.759 So he's like, I just have to show them. So 256 00:13:32.919 --> 00:13:36.039 he gets to the grave and the scripture still says 257 00:13:36.080 --> 00:13:42.879 still angry, as he arrived, still angry, and then he says, 258 00:13:43.000 --> 00:13:47.879 roll the stone away, Roll open up the tomb. But Jesus, 259 00:13:49.480 --> 00:13:57.720 it's gonna smell bad. It's gonna get ugly. Man, how 260 00:13:57.759 --> 00:14:01.320 many times we pray for God to intervene, but we 261 00:14:01.480 --> 00:14:04.960 keep that stone closed in our heart. We don't open 262 00:14:05.039 --> 00:14:07.720 up the places of our heart that need healing. We 263 00:14:07.759 --> 00:14:10.080 want to tell God about the pain and the situations 264 00:14:10.120 --> 00:14:12.480 and the death and the difficulties and the hardships and 265 00:14:12.480 --> 00:14:14.759 what they did and what it happened and how it 266 00:14:15.080 --> 00:14:17.559 should have happened, all this stuff. But yet when Jesus 267 00:14:17.639 --> 00:14:21.000 is in the room, oh that heart is closed. Oh, 268 00:14:21.200 --> 00:14:24.080 don't mess with that sensitive part. I'm still looking for healing. 269 00:14:24.399 --> 00:14:28.240 And healing is in the room. Transformation is in the room. 270 00:14:28.600 --> 00:14:31.480 Your breakthrough is in the room. But no, not that part. 271 00:14:31.519 --> 00:14:37.000 I'm not ready. But Jesus is gonna smell bad. They 272 00:14:37.080 --> 00:14:39.679 roll the stone away, and Jesus is like, God, I'm 273 00:14:39.720 --> 00:14:42.320 saying these words allowed, not for my sake, but for theirs. 274 00:14:43.120 --> 00:14:44.679 I know you heard me. I know you always do. 275 00:14:47.200 --> 00:14:49.639 Then he says, Lazarus come out. He releases that word 276 00:14:49.679 --> 00:14:53.440 of life. How many of us need that word of life? 277 00:14:54.080 --> 00:14:58.879 In Jesus' name, and so it's a beautiful picture of 278 00:14:58.960 --> 00:15:01.399 the power of the world of life. But Jesus also 279 00:15:01.559 --> 00:15:04.360 in a situation as he got close to his crucifixion, 280 00:15:04.480 --> 00:15:07.720 was going to Jerusalem, back and forward, and at a 281 00:15:07.720 --> 00:15:11.320 certain point he walked past the tree that looked like 282 00:15:11.360 --> 00:15:14.000 it was luscious and good, and so he reached into 283 00:15:14.039 --> 00:15:17.279 the tree to pick a fruit. I believe it was 284 00:15:17.279 --> 00:15:20.679 a fig tree, and when he reached in, there was 285 00:15:20.720 --> 00:15:26.600 no figs, there was nothing there, and he cursed the tree. 286 00:15:28.039 --> 00:15:30.200 The next day as they were walking past it again. 287 00:15:30.320 --> 00:15:32.960 You know what happened. The disciples saw the tree that 288 00:15:33.200 --> 00:15:35.799 was and it was cursed from the root. It was 289 00:15:36.360 --> 00:15:39.919 withered from the root up. And Jesus shows us the 290 00:15:39.960 --> 00:15:43.039 power of our words, where a blessing, a good word, 291 00:15:43.120 --> 00:15:46.320 can produce life, and then a negative word, a curse, 292 00:15:46.480 --> 00:15:51.120 produces death. And he shows us that we carry the 293 00:15:51.159 --> 00:15:54.039 power of both in our life. I personally believe that 294 00:15:54.039 --> 00:15:57.799 that tree that looks so good goes hand in hand 295 00:15:57.840 --> 00:16:00.759 with the scripture of we look like we have it 296 00:16:00.799 --> 00:16:03.960 all together, like the we look like we're blessed of God, 297 00:16:03.960 --> 00:16:08.519 but lack the power thereof We look like it's what 298 00:16:08.559 --> 00:16:11.600 it's called is religion where we put on a facade 299 00:16:11.639 --> 00:16:14.480 to show and look at us. We look so good, 300 00:16:14.840 --> 00:16:19.240 but we produce nothing. And so that area of our life, 301 00:16:19.720 --> 00:16:21.879 it's okay to curse it. It's okay to curse the 302 00:16:21.960 --> 00:16:24.200 religion that might be in you. Trust me, you don't 303 00:16:24.200 --> 00:16:28.759 want it anyway. It's okay to curse anything that is 304 00:16:28.879 --> 00:16:31.879 hindering you from the Lord. You see a bit of bitterness, 305 00:16:31.879 --> 00:16:34.600 Oh bitterness in me, you are cursed. You are set 306 00:16:34.600 --> 00:16:39.000 apart for destruction. Be out of me, spirit of animosity, 307 00:16:39.120 --> 00:16:41.120 spirit of hatred, spirit of fear. 308 00:16:41.360 --> 00:16:43.559 All that stuff is cursed in Jesus' name. 309 00:16:43.960 --> 00:16:46.399 You speak a negative word over something that is evil, 310 00:16:51.679 --> 00:16:55.559 it withers. It's what it does. In twenty eighteen, there 311 00:16:55.600 --> 00:16:59.240 was a study done in a little school where a 312 00:16:59.279 --> 00:17:02.559 teacher had their students take two plants and they put 313 00:17:02.600 --> 00:17:06.759 it on the windowstill two exact plants, everything all the same. 314 00:17:06.880 --> 00:17:09.519 And what they did for the next several days is 315 00:17:09.559 --> 00:17:11.480 they watered it the same and got the same amount 316 00:17:11.519 --> 00:17:15.519 of sun. But the destruction was one tree. You speak 317 00:17:15.519 --> 00:17:18.759 of blessing over it, Tell it how beautiful it is, 318 00:17:19.039 --> 00:17:21.759 how amazing it is, how it's gonna flourish, how it's 319 00:17:21.759 --> 00:17:22.559 gonna do great. 320 00:17:24.440 --> 00:17:26.960 And the other tree, you take it and you say, how. 321 00:17:26.759 --> 00:17:30.000 Fat it is, how ugly it is, how it's good 322 00:17:30.039 --> 00:17:33.599 for nothing. It's never gonna account for nothing. It's ugly, 323 00:17:33.759 --> 00:17:39.039 it's withering all this stuff. Seven days, one tree, the 324 00:17:39.039 --> 00:17:42.799 one that was spoken blessing or it was flourishing. The 325 00:17:42.880 --> 00:17:51.480 other tree was withered. Seven days the power of your words. 326 00:17:52.400 --> 00:17:55.319 Ikea actually thought it was great idea. So they did 327 00:17:55.319 --> 00:17:59.640 the same thing. They took an insulated these two plants 328 00:17:59.640 --> 00:18:02.000 out of the warehouse. They took it and put it 329 00:18:02.519 --> 00:18:05.640 side by side, enslated in glass containers, and they had 330 00:18:05.720 --> 00:18:10.440 people record message of goodness over one that they pressed 331 00:18:10.440 --> 00:18:14.279 play on, and then they recorded message of bad stuff. 332 00:18:14.440 --> 00:18:18.359 You know, anything you want to say that is negative, okay. 333 00:18:18.400 --> 00:18:23.240 Thirty days later, one tree was flourishing, really good. The 334 00:18:23.279 --> 00:18:33.880 other tree was withering away. That's the reality of what 335 00:18:33.920 --> 00:18:36.480 we carry. And that's just even for the non believer. 336 00:18:38.200 --> 00:18:40.640 How much more for the believer who partners with Heaven, 337 00:18:40.680 --> 00:18:43.720 who understands we have a mission here on earth to 338 00:18:43.839 --> 00:18:46.880 demonstrate the Kingdom of God and to bring it into every. 339 00:18:46.640 --> 00:18:47.440 Sphere of life. 340 00:18:48.559 --> 00:18:51.960 How much more for those who are activated as believers, 341 00:18:52.000 --> 00:18:55.000 as representation of the King of king and the Lord 342 00:18:55.000 --> 00:18:58.079 of lords here on this earth. You might be upset 343 00:18:58.119 --> 00:18:59.640 over a job you lost, but you might have been 344 00:18:59.640 --> 00:19:06.440 the only Jesus that they would have ever seen. I 345 00:19:06.440 --> 00:19:11.279 want to quickly go into First Corinthians, chapter fourteen. 346 00:19:11.759 --> 00:19:12.880 I'm gonna read verse one. 347 00:19:12.920 --> 00:19:17.680 But in the early Church, the Corinthian Church had a 348 00:19:17.680 --> 00:19:19.039 lot of things that they need a little bit of 349 00:19:19.079 --> 00:19:22.680 correction with, and that was okay. And one of them 350 00:19:22.839 --> 00:19:26.000 was the balance of the prophetic and also the balance 351 00:19:26.039 --> 00:19:28.200 of speaking in tongues. But I want to emphasize on 352 00:19:28.279 --> 00:19:31.640 the prophetic. And Paul writes here in the first verse 353 00:19:31.640 --> 00:19:36.200 the chapter fourteen, he says, let love be your highest goal, 354 00:19:37.279 --> 00:19:41.279 but you should also desire the special abilities the spirit gives, 355 00:19:41.400 --> 00:19:46.519 especially the ability to prophecy. Verse three. The one who 356 00:19:46.720 --> 00:19:54.079 prophesies strengthens, encourages, and comforts. Can you say those three 357 00:19:54.119 --> 00:20:00.839 with me? Strengthens, encourages, comforts one more time, strengthens, encourages 358 00:20:01.359 --> 00:20:06.160 and comforts. So what Paul is laying out, He's laying 359 00:20:06.160 --> 00:20:08.279 out the boundaries of what we do and why we 360 00:20:08.359 --> 00:20:14.559 do it. He's saying, when you prophesy, you have three agendas. 361 00:20:15.720 --> 00:20:21.119 You're either strengthening somebody, you're encouraging them, or you're comforting them. 362 00:20:21.440 --> 00:20:24.519 It's kind of interesting because this word comfort that you 363 00:20:24.599 --> 00:20:27.720 look at, it has a lot to do with past 364 00:20:28.039 --> 00:20:32.799 things that happen, traumatic things that took place. Potentially, maybe 365 00:20:32.799 --> 00:20:35.480 somebody died and there's a word of comfort. 366 00:20:35.480 --> 00:20:37.599 Maybe you're going through a hardship, maybe a persecution. 367 00:20:37.680 --> 00:20:41.240 Maybe something happened that your work stop that work, job 368 00:20:41.319 --> 00:20:44.480 that anyway you get it, something happened bad, and you 369 00:20:44.559 --> 00:20:47.920 need a word of comfort because that is holding you back. 370 00:20:49.039 --> 00:20:51.240 And the one who prophesies. 371 00:20:50.839 --> 00:20:53.880 Is required to go up into the places with God 372 00:20:54.000 --> 00:20:56.480 and to bring down a word that would relieve you 373 00:20:56.640 --> 00:21:04.359 of trauma or hardships from the past. What the enemy 374 00:21:04.400 --> 00:21:08.200 would like to do is utilize the people around you 375 00:21:08.640 --> 00:21:11.000 to get you second guessing about things of the past. 376 00:21:11.960 --> 00:21:13.680 You might be in your place of pain and you 377 00:21:13.759 --> 00:21:16.200 might share with somebody and then somebody's getting you the 378 00:21:16.279 --> 00:21:17.839 second guess everything you've ever done. 379 00:21:18.599 --> 00:21:20.920 They say, well, you should have done this, You could 380 00:21:20.960 --> 00:21:21.359 have done this. 381 00:21:21.480 --> 00:21:23.759 Man, if I was out, would have And you hear 382 00:21:23.839 --> 00:21:26.039 all these three You hear all these things that are 383 00:21:26.039 --> 00:21:30.440 bringing no comfort, no relief, no help. But you, as 384 00:21:30.480 --> 00:21:32.640 a mighty man and mighty woman of God, the one 385 00:21:32.680 --> 00:21:34.920 who knows Jesus, you're a call to say, you know 386 00:21:35.000 --> 00:21:38.000 what the past is, the past, yes, sterday is gone. 387 00:21:38.319 --> 00:21:41.119 You know what. Jesus is alive today. He can help 388 00:21:41.160 --> 00:21:43.400 you out. He can give you a word that needs 389 00:21:43.400 --> 00:21:48.640 to be done for that season. We're so used to 390 00:21:48.759 --> 00:21:55.839 giving people our opinions. Who's got so much information? I'm 391 00:21:55.880 --> 00:21:59.200 telling you they don't need a piece of your mind. 392 00:22:00.799 --> 00:22:04.160 They don't. I'm not trying to be route. They need 393 00:22:04.160 --> 00:22:08.319 a peace of God's mind. They need to They genuinely 394 00:22:08.359 --> 00:22:16.960 need what's in his mind. Comfort deals primarily with past situations. 395 00:22:18.720 --> 00:22:22.880 You look at this word strengthening. The word strengthening comes 396 00:22:22.920 --> 00:22:27.960 from the word edifying, edifying, and strengthening. It's it's really 397 00:22:28.000 --> 00:22:32.119 related to building something. You're building a house, You're you're 398 00:22:32.160 --> 00:22:36.400 fortifying something. Maybe you're shifting things around, you're maturing, you're 399 00:22:36.640 --> 00:22:40.880 you're you're there's something happening, but it's primarily in the now. Listen, 400 00:22:40.920 --> 00:22:42.759 you're going through something right now, and I feel like 401 00:22:42.799 --> 00:22:44.720