Speaker 1: We welcome.
Speaker 2: I was reflecting a little bit this morning, and as
Speaker 2: I've been pressing into what the word of the Lord is,
Speaker 2: what he would have me say, one of the things
Speaker 2: that I was pondering was just how different I am
Speaker 2: than when I arrived here fourteen years ago. And it's
Speaker 2: really a testimony to the healthy leadership of this house
Speaker 2: and to our pastors, and just the gift of faith
Speaker 2: that's on the house, but also the gift of grace
Speaker 2: and the compassion. It's just this is a healthy place
Speaker 2: to be. It's a healthy place to be. So Okay,
Speaker 2: I'm one hundred percent positive what I'm going to share
Speaker 2: with you is not my words, because I've been praying,
Speaker 2: Lord Jesus, I do not want one word that comes
Speaker 2: out of my mouth.
Speaker 1: To be my thoughts. I want it to be your thoughts.
Speaker 2: And there's been a number of things that have happened
Speaker 2: over the course of the past handful of of of
Speaker 2: dates of people preaching, whether it was Frank or whether
Speaker 2: it was pastor Joel or Roman.
Speaker 1: But we've had a number of things.
Speaker 2: We've had a number of things that have been kind
Speaker 2: of declared prophesied, and there's been these easy, interesting threads
Speaker 2: that have come from each of their messages, and as
Speaker 2: I've been pressing in, Lord, what would you have me say?
Speaker 2: It's funny because he highlighted or illuminated something from each
Speaker 2: of them. And so that's gonna it's gonna kind of
Speaker 2: work through everything that I'm gonna share here in a minute.
Speaker 2: But the name of this message is Words of Life.
Speaker 1: The encouragement Challenge.
Speaker 2: Okay, so I'm gonna I'm gonna encourage you to take
Speaker 2: a challenge with me to do something for the next
Speaker 2: thirty days. Because five years ago or so, I found so,
Speaker 2: you know, middle forties, I was finding I'm getting a
Speaker 2: little weaker and I didn't really like it, and I
Speaker 2: eat well and I'm pretty healthy. But my wife is like, hey,
Speaker 2: this is easy to fix. She's kind of like she
Speaker 2: works out a lot, and she's really like pretty fit,
Speaker 2: and so she's like, you just need to start exercising consistently.
Speaker 1: You just need to do this. And after you've done
Speaker 1: it for thirty days, what's gonna happen is it's gonna
Speaker 1: become like a lifestyle for you.
Speaker 2: You're not actually gonna have to really think about it
Speaker 2: too much. It's just gonna become kind of like part
Speaker 2: of what you do. And so that was like five
Speaker 2: years ago and I'm still doing it, so like it's
Speaker 2: and I don't like it, Like you know, I don't
Speaker 2: like to do hit, high impact training, I don't like
Speaker 2: to do core. I don't like to really do any
Speaker 2: of it. But I'm doing it because I want to
Speaker 2: age gracefully. So if you would apply the same things
Speaker 2: to our physical training to our spiritual training, I think
Speaker 2: there's something to glean here.
Speaker 1: Okay, how many people work out or exercise.
Speaker 2: Are we also exercising our spirits because one is more
Speaker 2: valuable than the other.
Speaker 1: Not that you should neglect either, Okay.
Speaker 2: So I'm gonna give you like seven scriptures and then
Speaker 2: we're gonna get into it. Okay, so you're gonna have
Speaker 2: to roll with me. I'm gonna cover a lot of information.
Speaker 2: I'm gonna do this because I don't want you to
Speaker 2: think this is my opinion.
Speaker 1: I want you to hear that this is the Lord.
Speaker 3: Okay.
Speaker 2: Genesis one one through three. In the beginning, God created
Speaker 2: the heavens and the earth. Now the earth was formless
Speaker 2: and empty. Darkness was over the surface of the deep,
Speaker 2: and the spirit of God was hovering over the waters,
Speaker 2: and God said, let there be light.
Speaker 1: What did God say? What happened? What happens when God's
Speaker 1: peks things are created. Do you know who?
Speaker 3: You are?
Speaker 2: Created in the image and likeness of And you know
Speaker 2: what happens When you open up your mouth?
Speaker 1: Things are created.
Speaker 2: When you open your mouth, things get created. The wonder
Speaker 2: of God is in you, and when you use this,
Speaker 2: things get created. This next verse, most of you have
Speaker 2: this memorized. This is Proverbs eighteen twenty one.
Speaker 1: It says for.
Speaker 2: Death and life are in the power of the tongue,
Speaker 2: and those who love it will eat of its fruit.
Speaker 2: A different passage says, for those who indulge in it
Speaker 2: will eat of the fruit thereof, or the fruit that
Speaker 2: comes from it. And so the contrast here is that
Speaker 2: we could produce life with our mouth and our tongue,
Speaker 2: or we could also maybe produce something other than that. Okay,
Speaker 2: there's a contrast. Listen to this scripture. This is Psalm
Speaker 2: five to nine. Not a word from their mouth can
Speaker 2: be trusted. Their heart is filled with destruction, their throat
Speaker 2: is an open grave. With their tongue they speak deceit. Okay,
Speaker 2: I don't think that's for our church. But think about
Speaker 2: the contrast it's talking about when someone opens their mouth
Speaker 2: it's an empty grave. Like that's kind of not I
Speaker 2: don't want that to be said to me, right. So
Speaker 2: if you think about this, this is a little bit
Speaker 2: like when Jesus rebuked the Pharisees and the Sadducees, he
Speaker 2: called them a whitewashed tomb.
Speaker 1: It.
Speaker 2: You know, you gotta be careful what's in the heart,
Speaker 2: because whatever's in the heart, it comes out of the mouth.
Speaker 2: It's out of the abundance of the house that the heart,
Speaker 2: that the mouth will speak, right. And so I don't
Speaker 2: want words of an open grave coming out of me.
Speaker 2: I want words of life coming out of me. And
Speaker 2: look at James three four. It says, look at the ships. Also,
Speaker 2: though they are great and they are driven by strong winds,
Speaker 2: they are directed by a very small rudder wherever the
Speaker 2: inclination of the pilot desires. So the tongue is a
Speaker 2: small part of the body. In the next little bit
Speaker 2: after that chapter, in that same chapter, it's going to
Speaker 2: talk about a forest being set a blaze, like on fire,
Speaker 2: by a tiny spark, And the context.
Speaker 1: Is that your tongue is the small spark you tracking
Speaker 1: with me.
Speaker 2: I think potentially we were talking about legacy here a
Speaker 2: minute ago. I think potentially one of the greatest legacies
Speaker 2: that we may be able to leave our kids and
Speaker 2: grandkids is the modeling of how you use your rudder,
Speaker 2: of how you use.
Speaker 1: Your rudder. Some of you in here.
Speaker 2: We're friends, and so we've gone out in a boat
Speaker 2: together and we've had times where we're on the Columbia
Speaker 2: River and there's a lot of like it's white caps,
Speaker 2: and it's strong current and there's heavy winds. When you're
Speaker 2: running the boat, there's the small motor on the back.
Speaker 2: It's kind of like a rudder, and it controls where
Speaker 2: you go. And depending upon where you set that thing,
Speaker 2: it'll totally change the course that you're on.
Speaker 1: It'll change the charting of where you end up.
Speaker 2: You could end up in the rocks, slammed against the
Speaker 2: bank if you don't have that rudder in the right direction.
Speaker 2: And so what I'm gonna tell you is that this
Speaker 2: thing that's sitting right here between my two cheeks is
Speaker 2: powerful to create life or to be an open grave.
Speaker 2: And I'm gonna choose the It's going to be the
Speaker 2: first not the latter. This is Jeremiah one six through ten.
Speaker 2: It says, a last sovereign Lord. I think, Frank, I
Speaker 2: think you might have hit this one.
Speaker 1: Somebody in the.
Speaker 2: Past that's pret recently hit this last and I already
Speaker 2: had this. I'm like, oh, this is And then I'm like,
Speaker 2: this is the Lord. I know it's the Lord.
Speaker 4: This is He's.
Speaker 2: Highlighting all these things through these different people, A last
Speaker 2: Sovereign Lord. Jeremiah one six through ten. I said, I
Speaker 2: do not know how to speak. I am too young.
Speaker 2: But the Lord says to me, do not say I
Speaker 2: am too young. You must go to everyone I send
Speaker 2: you to and say whatever I command to you. Do
Speaker 2: not be afraid of them, for I am with you
Speaker 2: and will rescue you, declares the Lord. Then the Lord
Speaker 2: reached out his hand and touched my mouth and said
Speaker 2: to me, I have put my words in your mouth.
Speaker 2: See today I appoint you over the nations and kingdoms
Speaker 2: to uproot and tear down, to destroy and overthrow, to build,
Speaker 2: and to plant. So some of us using our mouth
Speaker 2: is we're rebuking back the enemies of darkness. We're casting
Speaker 2: out spiritual forces of evil in heavenly realms.
Speaker 1: So that's a component.
Speaker 2: But the other component is our sowing, in our reaping
Speaker 2: and the things that we're planting, and that would be,
Speaker 2: I think is what's very applicable within our own life,
Speaker 2: the life of our family and those that are around us. Okay,
Speaker 2: So Frank referenced Revelation five ten when he preached last week,
Speaker 2: and in.
Speaker 1: That, I know, I'm giving you a lot of.
Speaker 2: Verses and he has made us kings and priests to
Speaker 2: our God, and we shall reign on the earth.
Speaker 1: What are you? You're a king and you're a priest.
Speaker 2: You're a king and you're a correct Well, have you
Speaker 2: been around royalty? They talk a little different. Royalty talks
Speaker 2: a little different. They don't just they're not just flippant
Speaker 2: with their with this the rudder. Royalty talks a little
Speaker 2: bit different. And royalty works in a certain way. And
Speaker 2: I've noticed being around royal people. Royalty it affirms, it coronates,
Speaker 2: and it crowns. Have you guys ever watched the movies
Speaker 2: where they take the sword and they take and they
Speaker 2: knight somebody. That's what royalty does. That's what royalty does.
Speaker 1: And you are a king and.
Speaker 2: A priest, So what do you do you affirm you
Speaker 2: crown and you coronate.
Speaker 1: All of you?
Speaker 2: Have this verse memorized John ten ten in the back.
Speaker 2: The thief comes only to steal and kill and destroy.
Speaker 2: But I have come that you may have life, and
Speaker 2: have it more abundantly. In a amplified Bible, it says,
Speaker 2: I have come that you may have life, that you
Speaker 2: may have it to the full, that it may be overflowing,
Speaker 2: that it would be like super abundant. Is the context, right,
Speaker 2: super abundant, That there's no lack in it, but that
Speaker 2: it's an overflowing river coming from the throne on high
Speaker 2: that Jesus says he produces for you.
Speaker 3: Okay.
Speaker 2: The word in that scripture, that passage there, that most
Speaker 2: of you already know is Zoe.
Speaker 1: Right.
Speaker 2: We have a child that runs around here with that name.
Speaker 2: But there's two synonyms to it, okay. The other synonym
Speaker 2: is sue Ke. And here's what your concordance says. It
Speaker 2: says sue keplay breath, spirit and could be translated vitality, vitality.
Speaker 2: You think about vitality, you're thinking of life and birth
Speaker 2: and excitement, right, vitality, youth and health. Sue Ke is
Speaker 2: that word and that means life. This term corresponds exactly
Speaker 2: to the Hebrew word for heart, life, mind, and soul.
Speaker 2: It's God's desire that the words that we speak would
Speaker 2: bring vitality to the heart, the life, the mind, and
Speaker 2: the soul of everyone that were around.
Speaker 1: John one four.
Speaker 2: In him was life, and the life was the light
Speaker 2: of men. What animated Jesus? Obviously he was a man
Speaker 2: like we all are, but he was anointed with power
Speaker 2: from on high. What animated the life of Jesus?
Speaker 1: What does this verse say?
Speaker 2: So he had life and he took and his life
Speaker 2: became the light of his disciples. The light in the life.
Speaker 2: Correct light and life come from Jesus. And our words
Speaker 2: should create light in life in those people that we
Speaker 2: deal with every day.
Speaker 1: Twenty four to seven.
Speaker 2: The Hebrew word for this life is kahi, and it
Speaker 2: implies alive, fresh, strong, in your concordance.
Speaker 1: Here's what it says about kahi.
Speaker 2: It says and alive, springing Mary, multitude, congregation or troop.
Speaker 2: So like alive Mary, we know what those things mean.
Speaker 1: Right.
Speaker 2: What's a multitude, It's a group of people. What's a congregation?
Speaker 2: This is one right. Many churches use the term congregate,
Speaker 2: our congregation. What's the troop, Well, the troop is the army, right,
Speaker 2: what are we? We are the army of God. What
Speaker 2: is the ecclasea the called out legislative body. But we
Speaker 2: are we are the We are the army of God.
Speaker 1: Correct. What is this word, Kahi say?
Speaker 2: It says that this army, this congregation, is to be alive,
Speaker 2: it's to be mary, and it's to be like springing
Speaker 2: forthinging forth. I believe that the key to the troop
Speaker 2: walking in vitality is agreeing with the word of the
Speaker 2: Lord over us, our church, the people that we deal
Speaker 2: with every single day. It's prophesying the word of the
Speaker 2: Lord over us and the people that we interact with.
Speaker 2: That's what brings Kahi. That's what brings Suke. It's what
Speaker 2: brings the vitality. It's what brings the energy. It's what
Speaker 2: brings the the the the springing forth, to the to
Speaker 2: the to the merry multitude congregation or troop. So there's
Speaker 2: going to be three points I'm gonna get to right now.
Speaker 1: In my challenge to you.
Speaker 2: Point one, you don't have to do anything, but I
Speaker 2: believe this is an invitation, an invitation that God has
Speaker 2: for us. Number one, I think that you need to
Speaker 2: partner with words of life for yourself. Okay, you need
Speaker 2: to stir yourself up in your most holy faith.
Speaker 1: That's Jude three.
Speaker 2: You need to be meditating on his word day and light.
Speaker 2: Psalm one one. Proverbs three to six says that the
Speaker 2: person that does that, they find success in whatever they
Speaker 2: put their hand to. Joshua one says seven says that
Speaker 2: that person who does that, basically.
Speaker 1: Nothing can stop them. Okay nothing.
Speaker 2: You be like a tree planted by streams of living water.
Speaker 2: You'll produce your fruit and due season your leaf will
Speaker 2: not wither or fade. That's Psalm one, right. And so
Speaker 2: you need to do that over yourself. You need to
Speaker 2: speak words of life over yourself and agree.
Speaker 1: Here's my challenge. I want the next thirty days.
Speaker 2: For our body, our congregation, that we don't agree with
Speaker 2: any words, any that aren't what he says. Unless he
Speaker 2: says it, we disagree with it.
Speaker 1: And that's all we meditate on.
Speaker 2: And it's all that we let come out, and it's
Speaker 2: all that we let steer our rudder Psalms twenty seven thirteen.
Speaker 2: I would have despaired unless I had believed to see.
Speaker 1: The goodness of the Lord in the land of the living.
Speaker 2: Many of you know the scripture that, depending upon which
Speaker 2: versions you're reading, in it, it says, I would have fainted,
Speaker 2: I would have been depressed, I would have had anxiety,
Speaker 2: I would have had a panic attack. I couldn't go
Speaker 2: on anymore unless I had believed to see the goodness
Speaker 2: of the.
Speaker 1: Lord, not in heaven, not in heaven.
Speaker 2: But in the land of living, in this lifetime, right now,
Speaker 2: and successively progressively revealed during our lifetime, how many people
Speaker 2: are we around that are despairing, that are ready to
Speaker 2: have a panic attack, and that are depressed. They would
Speaker 2: have fainted unless they had believed to see the word
Speaker 2: of the Lord coming off of your tongue, so that
Speaker 2: they would begin to see that the Lord has a
Speaker 2: different plan for them, and that they say, you know what,
Speaker 2: I actually am feeling more merry, I feel like I'm
Speaker 2: I feel like.
Speaker 1: I'm springing forth. I hope you're getting what I'm trying
Speaker 1: to so I uh so.
Speaker 2: Number one, you need to be you need to declare
Speaker 2: the word of the Lord over your life just twenty
Speaker 2: four to seven, and you need to do it not
Speaker 2: only over you.
Speaker 1: You need to do it over your family.
Speaker 2: So if you have a kid and they're like having
Speaker 2: a tough time, you go grab that kid and you
Speaker 2: go up in their room with them, and you spend
Speaker 2: thirty five or forty minutes and you just start declaring
Speaker 2: the Lord says he loves you. You are his chosen one,
Speaker 2: You are the Princess of the most High. I'm telling
Speaker 2: you you will lift your child right out of the
Speaker 2: funk that they're in, that they're despairing in, or they're
Speaker 2: anxious over. And how many parents are going to go
Speaker 2: grab their kid, pull them in the stinking room and say, no,
Speaker 2: we're not leaving this room until we have prophesied the
Speaker 2: goodness of God over your life and we lift you
Speaker 2: out of this so that we can have a merry,
Speaker 2: springing multitude. You need to do it over your family.
Speaker 2: For some of you, this is going to be really
Speaker 2: easy because you grew up with the most awesome parents
Speaker 2: and they just told you how special you were, and
Speaker 2: you wanted every trophy and you were you know, And
Speaker 2: but not everybody comes from that place, not everybody, does
Speaker 2: you know.
Speaker 1: I told just I told a.
Speaker 2: Brief testimony earlier that the family that I grew up in.
Speaker 1: They were hyper critical of everybody.
Speaker 2: So if the neighbors got a new car, they'd be like,
Speaker 2: must be nice.
Speaker 1: I think, must be nice.
Speaker 2: One of them was one of the slogans I heard
Speaker 2: as a child, Must be nice.
Speaker 1: And what were the what was the implication there? The
Speaker 1: implication there was.
Speaker 2: Darn it, I really wish God would do something like
Speaker 2: that for me, like you just did for that person
Speaker 2: over there. And I'm kind I don't really like that.
Speaker 2: And they must have done something dishonest to even get that.
Speaker 2: Must have been crooked or something. And so if you
Speaker 2: grew up in an environment that wasn't super like conducive
Speaker 2: and uplifting verbally, this may become something that you have
Speaker 2: to work through, right you you work out yourself like
Speaker 2: you're saved. It's we're redeemed by the blood of the Lamb.
Speaker 2: We're good, but we got stuff we have to work
Speaker 2: out along the way. And depending upon how how wet
Speaker 2: the cement was for you when you were a kid,
Speaker 2: and what was declared or prophesied over you, you may have
Speaker 2: some work to do with your kids. You may have
Speaker 2: some work to do with your soul and your spirit,
Speaker 2: and what I'm gonna share with you is that at
Speaker 2: a certain point in my life. So I used to
Speaker 2: have long hair down past my shoulders, I used to
Speaker 2: do drugs, and I got radically transformed when I was
Speaker 2: in my early twenties, and I knew that the Lord
Speaker 2: had a plan for me, and I started on that plan,
Speaker 2: and I knew it a calling for me to do something,
Speaker 2: and so I taking the steps to do the calling.
Speaker 2: And what I found was that in my family, I
Speaker 2: came and I'm like, this is what I'm gonna do,
Speaker 2: and they looked at me and they were like, nobody
Speaker 2: knows what the heck you're talking about. You are going
Speaker 2: contrary to all of culture and.
Speaker 1: What people know. You're gonna fail. You're not gonna make it.
Speaker 2: So depending upon the family you have, you may have
Speaker 2: to stir yourself up, maybe.
Speaker 1: Even a little bit more. You see what I'm getting at.
Speaker 2: So here's what I'm gonna share with you. There are
Speaker 2: people in this room that have had radical transformations that
Speaker 2: have happened because maybe I helped you with something, and
Speaker 2: that wouldn't happen if I listened to them. Most of
Speaker 2: us in this room have had most of us in
Speaker 2: this room have had some level of freedom that is
Speaker 2: coming from our lives through restored life. What if the
Speaker 2: other people in Christianity when Pastor Dwayne's like, yeah, I
Speaker 2: want it, I want to do deliverance ministry, what if
Speaker 2: they were like Christians can't be demonized, that's ridiculous. What
Speaker 2: if he listened to them, your life wouldn't be benefited
Speaker 2: like it has been from his ministry?
Speaker 1: Correct mine has? We got to be careful when we
Speaker 1: listened to.
Speaker 2: Speak the word of the Lord of yourself, Speak the
Speaker 2: word of the Lord of your family.
Speaker 1: Point three. You need to speak the word of the
Speaker 1: Lord over every.
Speaker 2: Single person that you come in contact with, because every
Speaker 2: single day the Lord's going to put stuff in front
Speaker 2: of you and you have an opportunity, whether you know
Speaker 2: it or not, to share the gospel.
Speaker 1: And my question is how attractive is our gospel?
Speaker 2: When I was at thanksgivings for in my family, we
Speaker 2: used to do something and that was called and I
Speaker 2: I didn't.
Speaker 1: Know this wasn't normal.
Speaker 2: Everybody would get together and they would compete to tell
Speaker 2: stories of who had the greatest malady, who was in
Speaker 2: more pain than the other people, and literally it was
Speaker 2: a competition and it occurred every holiday, like twenty four
Speaker 2: to seven, And so I just grew up in this
Speaker 2: culture of like everybody just walks around talking about what's
Speaker 2: wrong with them, and they're going to tell you how
Speaker 2: it's worse than yours.
Speaker 1: And so here's what happened.
Speaker 2: When I start having kids, and all of a sudden,
Speaker 2: I'm like, WHOA, something's got to get cut off here.
Speaker 2: So I'd sit down and we you know, I can
Speaker 2: remember injuring anyhow I can remember injuring myself.
Speaker 1: I don't walk around saying, oh my whatever.
Speaker 2: We walked around and we would say to our kids
Speaker 2: if they injured themselves, not oh my shoulders killing me.
Speaker 2: We would say, thank you Jesus that we've been healed
Speaker 2: by the blood of the Lamb. Thank you Jesus that
Speaker 2: surely you took off our infirmities and carried our pains.
Speaker 1: Thank you that your word comes. And it's it's like
Speaker 1: health and healing to all my flesh. It's like medicine.
Speaker 2: So there's a different way of functioning in royalty, where
Speaker 2: you partner with the voice of truth, not the not
Speaker 2: partnering with the voice of the enemy.
Speaker 1: And I'm going to encourage you that in Malachi three.
Speaker 2: I Malachi three. There's this rebuke, and it's the rebuke
Speaker 2: is that the people's.
Speaker 1: Words are stout against the Lord.
Speaker 2: And the Lord says, your words are stout against me,
Speaker 2: and he says, anyhow, it's three thirteen. And what he
Speaker 2: says is he says, they say, well, what are you
Speaker 2: talking about, Lord, And he's like, well, you've said there's
Speaker 2: no purpose in serving God and following me. The wicked
Speaker 2: are advancing and the wickeder benefited. What about the righteous?
Speaker 2: And the Lord says, well, I can't even do what
Speaker 2: I'm trying to do because your words are stout against me.
Speaker 1: And so I don't want the words.
Speaker 2: That I speak, and the words that my children speak,
Speaker 2: and the words that we use in our family to
Speaker 2: be working against what he says. What I want to
Speaker 2: do is elevate his words and diminish my words until
Speaker 2: I don't have no words anymore. It's just his words. Dissuade.
Speaker 2: Dissuade Point three the people that you come in contact with,
Speaker 2: dissuade them from partnering with the voice of the enemy.
Speaker 2: Dissuade them. They may have their words stout against the Lord.
Speaker 2: You can try and dissuade that.
Speaker 1: We need to be the air underneath the airplane wings.
Speaker 2: We need to be the wind underneath the sail of
Speaker 2: the ship that's trying to get moving. I'm sure this
Speaker 2: is not for New Horizon, this isn't for any of you.
Speaker 2: This is for your friend you have that goes to
Speaker 2: a different church, but you might be able to help
Speaker 2: them with this. In my family, what I used to
Speaker 2: hear all the time is must be nice, Must be nice,
Speaker 2: must be nice. Later in my walk I realized that
Speaker 2: was coveciousness. That was coveteousness, and Colossians three five says
Speaker 2: put to death. Therefore, whatever belongs to your earthly nature
Speaker 2: sexual immorality, impurity, lust, evil desires, and greed, which is idolatry.
Speaker 1: Greed is Coveteousnessness is.
Speaker 3: Okay.
Speaker 1: And how do I.
Speaker 2: Know if Craig's walking in coveciousness. Well, when the blessing
Speaker 2: comes to you and when the Lord does something great
Speaker 2: to you, I just need to look at my heart
Speaker 2: and say, is joy springing up within me when I
Speaker 2: heard that?
Speaker 1: And if it is, I'm probably good. But if joy's
Speaker 1: not springing up on the inside of me when I
Speaker 1: heard that, it could be that I need to put
Speaker 1: something off.
Speaker 2: Colossians talks about putting off those things greed and conveciousness.
Speaker 2: I actually, I cannot be blessed like the Lord wants
Speaker 2: to bless me unless I'm thankful for my brother. Do
Speaker 2: you know that if I'm not excited when I know
Speaker 2: that a baby's on the way for you, he won't
Speaker 2: give me one. Do you know that prosperity The truth
Speaker 2: of the Gospel of prosperity is that something that can
Speaker 2: hinder us receiving what the Lord wants to do is
Speaker 2: that our work words are stout against him because I'm
Speaker 2: not thankful for my brother. This chapter is about divisions
Speaker 2: in the church. Do you know how many divisions in
Speaker 2: the church have happened because of conveteousness. So when you
Speaker 2: talk to your friend that goes to a different church,
Speaker 2: you should tell them about this.
Speaker 1: Love binds the body.
Speaker 2: Of Christ together Colossians three point fourteen. Over All these
Speaker 2: virtues put on love, which binds them together in perfect unity.
Speaker 2: I'm gonna ask you as we close right now, I'm
Speaker 2: going to ask you that have your family, have your wife,
Speaker 2: have your spouse, your children, ask them to be your
Speaker 2: accountability partner. For the next thirty days, and that you
Speaker 2: would say, I'm only going to speak words of life.
Speaker 2: I'm only going to agree with the testimony of the
Speaker 2: Lord over my life. I'm only going to agree with
Speaker 2: the testimony of the Lord over my family's life. And
Speaker 2: I'm only going to agree with the testimony of the
Speaker 2: Lord over everybody I deal with at my workplace, at
Speaker 2: the grocery store, at the gas station, at home depot,
Speaker 2: that I only partner with that. And I would say,
Speaker 2: what's going to happen is you create a culture a
Speaker 2: community of this, and it won't become a thirty day challenge.
Speaker 2: It'll become a lifestyle change. Pastor Dwayne recently preached on
Speaker 2: test Drive the Promises that was about tithing and giving.
Speaker 2: I'm telling you right now, test Drive this, I'm telling
Speaker 2: you this morning.
Speaker 1: The Lord told me.
Speaker 2: He said, many people's prosperity is locked up and that
Speaker 2: they're not thankful for their brother.
Speaker 1: Like literally, I.
Speaker 2: Want, well, I want the deep things of God. Listen
Speaker 2: this one final scripture. Listen to this. I gave you milk,
Speaker 2: not solid food, for you were not yet ready for it.
Speaker 1: Indeed, you were all still not ready.
Speaker 2: You are still worldly for since there is jealousy and
Speaker 2: quarreling among you, are you not worthy? I ask myself, Lord,
Speaker 2: I want to know the deeper things of you. And
Speaker 2: I'm reading this and I'm like, we can't even get
Speaker 2: the deep things of God if there's greed, quarreling or
Speaker 2: jealousy amidst or amongst our heart. And I know you
Speaker 2: and me we want the deep things of God. So
Speaker 2: sometimes let's just put stuff off. It's really easy.
Speaker 1: We just put it off.
Speaker 3: Now.
Speaker 1: We're not going to put that on. It's like clothes.
Speaker 1: You know, that's ugly. I'm not gonna wear that.
Speaker 2: So in our last minute here, I just want to
Speaker 2: I want to declare over you. Okay, if you have
Speaker 2: a if you have a Bible with you, or if
Speaker 2: your Bible is your phone, I want you to pick
Speaker 2: it up, and I want you to put it in
Speaker 2: your hand right now.
Speaker 1: Pick it up, put it in your hand.
Speaker 2: I want you to raise it up, and I want
Speaker 2: to prophesy over you or declare over you. And you
Speaker 2: agree with me that you're going to take a thirty
Speaker 2: day challenge, And this thirty day challenge is going to
Speaker 2: be an agreement that you're saying. I only agree with
Speaker 2: what's in here over my life. I only agree with
Speaker 2: what's in here over my family's life. I only agree
Speaker 2: with what's in here over every person I interact with
Speaker 2: their life. And only the things that are in here
Speaker 2: are actually what comes out of my mouth. And I
Speaker 2: just say that we are a troup, a congregation, a
Speaker 2: multitude right now where we're actually saying, Lord Jesus, we consecrate,
Speaker 2: we set apart for holy service, our rudder, we set
Speaker 2: apart our tongue, and we agree that we only speak
Speaker 2: words of life. That everything that comes out of our mouth,
Speaker 2: we're like saying that we don't need, we don't even
Speaker 2: own our tongue anymore. That when you bought us, that
Speaker 2: you bought our tongue. That when you bought us, you
Speaker 2: were saying, we're.
Speaker 1: Giving you the right to control our tongue.
Speaker 2: And we just declare, and we consecrate, we sanctify our tongues,
Speaker 2: and we say New Horizon is a church of people
Speaker 2: that only declares the word of the Lord, and that
Speaker 2: everywhere we go we are an affirming, uplifting body of
Speaker 2: believers that helps to strengthen and spring forth the merry
Speaker 2: multitude or congregation or troop and Lord Jesus, we thank you.
Speaker 2: We agree for it at every holiday event this year,
Speaker 2: that we are going to prophesy life out of our
Speaker 2: mouth over our families, that our Thanksgivings and our Christmases
Speaker 2: will be a prophetic declaration of the goodness of the
Speaker 2: Lord and the land of the living. That it will
Speaker 2: lift off a heavy yoke or burden, that it will
Speaker 2: actually drive our family members out of despairing, out of anxiety,
Speaker 2: out of grief, out of stress.
Speaker 1: Lord, we just.
Speaker 2: Declare that your word is exalted out of our mouths
Speaker 2: and over our families, and we thank you, and we
Speaker 2: give you praise for it in the name of.
Speaker 4: Jesus as.
Speaker 1: Ture to do it now.
Speaker 3: So, hey, I.
Speaker 1: Know some of you are going to pick up kids.
Speaker 2: I know that we've got a lot of people who
Speaker 2: are here today who are here for baby dedications, and
Speaker 2: maybe some of you this isn't.
Speaker 1: Your home church. But if what we're talking about being
Speaker 1: freed by.
Speaker 2: The blood, if that sounds like something that you've never done,
Speaker 2: I want to invite the altar workers to come up
Speaker 2: right now, and I want to give an invitation for
Speaker 2: you that if you do not know Jesus Christ as
Speaker 2: your personal Lord and Savior, that there's a life that
Speaker 2: is abundant, and there's a life that's overflowing for you,
Speaker 2: and there's the life filled with springing forward wonderful things.
Speaker 1: And so Destiny Team, come on up.
Speaker 2: And if you're here and you're hearing my voice, even
Speaker 2: if you're walking out right now, and you would say,
Speaker 2: I want what it is that you're talking about. Holy
Speaker 2: Spirit arrest right now the heart, and I would ask
Speaker 2: that if you're here and you do not know him,
Speaker 2: come on up front. We'd love to pray for you,
Speaker 2: that you would come into the family and we thank
Speaker 2: you and we give you praise because the Lord loves
Speaker 2: you and we want to see his goodness manifest
Speaker 4: In your life.