WEBVTT 1 00:00:00.480 --> 00:00:01.080 We welcome. 2 00:00:01.720 --> 00:00:07.960 I was reflecting a little bit this morning, and as 3 00:00:08.000 --> 00:00:11.240 I've been pressing into what the word of the Lord is, 4 00:00:11.240 --> 00:00:13.679 what he would have me say, one of the things 5 00:00:13.720 --> 00:00:16.879 that I was pondering was just how different I am 6 00:00:16.960 --> 00:00:19.960 than when I arrived here fourteen years ago. And it's 7 00:00:20.600 --> 00:00:25.280 really a testimony to the healthy leadership of this house 8 00:00:25.679 --> 00:00:30.320 and to our pastors, and just the gift of faith 9 00:00:30.320 --> 00:00:32.679 that's on the house, but also the gift of grace 10 00:00:32.840 --> 00:00:36.039 and the compassion. It's just this is a healthy place 11 00:00:36.079 --> 00:00:44.799 to be. It's a healthy place to be. So Okay, 12 00:00:45.759 --> 00:00:47.960 I'm one hundred percent positive what I'm going to share 13 00:00:47.960 --> 00:00:51.159 with you is not my words, because I've been praying, 14 00:00:51.240 --> 00:00:54.159 Lord Jesus, I do not want one word that comes 15 00:00:54.200 --> 00:00:55.280 out of my mouth. 16 00:00:59.799 --> 00:01:03.320 To be my thoughts. I want it to be your thoughts. 17 00:01:05.159 --> 00:01:06.959 And there's been a number of things that have happened 18 00:01:07.000 --> 00:01:10.519 over the course of the past handful of of of 19 00:01:10.719 --> 00:01:14.079 dates of people preaching, whether it was Frank or whether 20 00:01:14.159 --> 00:01:16.840 it was pastor Joel or Roman. 21 00:01:16.840 --> 00:01:18.400 But we've had a number of things. 22 00:01:19.000 --> 00:01:20.879 We've had a number of things that have been kind 23 00:01:20.920 --> 00:01:24.799 of declared prophesied, and there's been these easy, interesting threads 24 00:01:25.200 --> 00:01:28.000 that have come from each of their messages, and as 25 00:01:28.000 --> 00:01:30.400 I've been pressing in, Lord, what would you have me say? 26 00:01:30.719 --> 00:01:34.719 It's funny because he highlighted or illuminated something from each 27 00:01:34.760 --> 00:01:37.799 of them. And so that's gonna it's gonna kind of 28 00:01:37.840 --> 00:01:40.760 work through everything that I'm gonna share here in a minute. 29 00:01:41.120 --> 00:01:49.760 But the name of this message is Words of Life. 30 00:01:48.560 --> 00:01:51.280 The encouragement Challenge. 31 00:01:51.359 --> 00:01:55.159 Okay, so I'm gonna I'm gonna encourage you to take 32 00:01:55.200 --> 00:01:58.000 a challenge with me to do something for the next 33 00:01:58.079 --> 00:02:03.760 thirty days. Because five years ago or so, I found so, 34 00:02:04.359 --> 00:02:06.599 you know, middle forties, I was finding I'm getting a 35 00:02:06.599 --> 00:02:09.319 little weaker and I didn't really like it, and I 36 00:02:09.360 --> 00:02:12.199 eat well and I'm pretty healthy. But my wife is like, hey, 37 00:02:12.439 --> 00:02:14.960 this is easy to fix. She's kind of like she 38 00:02:15.039 --> 00:02:17.400 works out a lot, and she's really like pretty fit, 39 00:02:17.879 --> 00:02:21.520 and so she's like, you just need to start exercising consistently. 40 00:02:22.080 --> 00:02:24.439 You just need to do this. And after you've done 41 00:02:24.439 --> 00:02:27.680 it for thirty days, what's gonna happen is it's gonna 42 00:02:27.719 --> 00:02:30.039 become like a lifestyle for you. 43 00:02:30.039 --> 00:02:33.240 You're not actually gonna have to really think about it 44 00:02:33.240 --> 00:02:35.400 too much. It's just gonna become kind of like part 45 00:02:35.439 --> 00:02:38.560 of what you do. And so that was like five 46 00:02:38.680 --> 00:02:42.199 years ago and I'm still doing it, so like it's 47 00:02:42.280 --> 00:02:45.879 and I don't like it, Like you know, I don't 48 00:02:46.080 --> 00:02:49.319 like to do hit, high impact training, I don't like 49 00:02:49.400 --> 00:02:51.639 to do core. I don't like to really do any 50 00:02:51.680 --> 00:02:53.879 of it. But I'm doing it because I want to 51 00:02:53.919 --> 00:02:59.120 age gracefully. So if you would apply the same things 52 00:02:59.159 --> 00:03:02.719 to our physical training to our spiritual training, I think 53 00:03:02.759 --> 00:03:04.000 there's something to glean here. 54 00:03:04.240 --> 00:03:09.759 Okay, how many people work out or exercise. 55 00:03:10.960 --> 00:03:16.360 Are we also exercising our spirits because one is more 56 00:03:16.400 --> 00:03:17.280 valuable than the other. 57 00:03:19.479 --> 00:03:22.400 Not that you should neglect either, Okay. 58 00:03:22.639 --> 00:03:24.520 So I'm gonna give you like seven scriptures and then 59 00:03:24.520 --> 00:03:26.879 we're gonna get into it. Okay, so you're gonna have 60 00:03:26.879 --> 00:03:29.000 to roll with me. I'm gonna cover a lot of information. 61 00:03:29.080 --> 00:03:30.680 I'm gonna do this because I don't want you to 62 00:03:30.719 --> 00:03:31.759 think this is my opinion. 63 00:03:31.800 --> 00:03:33.719 I want you to hear that this is the Lord. 64 00:03:33.919 --> 00:03:34.240 Okay. 65 00:03:35.319 --> 00:03:40.000 Genesis one one through three. In the beginning, God created 66 00:03:40.039 --> 00:03:42.800 the heavens and the earth. Now the earth was formless 67 00:03:42.840 --> 00:03:46.319 and empty. Darkness was over the surface of the deep, 68 00:03:46.360 --> 00:03:49.759 and the spirit of God was hovering over the waters, 69 00:03:50.080 --> 00:03:52.520 and God said, let there be light. 70 00:03:53.000 --> 00:03:59.759 What did God say? What happened? What happens when God's 71 00:04:00.000 --> 00:04:04.400 peks things are created. Do you know who? 72 00:04:04.520 --> 00:04:04.840 You are? 73 00:04:04.919 --> 00:04:08.280 Created in the image and likeness of And you know 74 00:04:08.319 --> 00:04:10.080 what happens When you open up your mouth? 75 00:04:12.039 --> 00:04:13.159 Things are created. 76 00:04:14.439 --> 00:04:18.519 When you open your mouth, things get created. The wonder 77 00:04:18.560 --> 00:04:21.560 of God is in you, and when you use this, 78 00:04:21.959 --> 00:04:27.399 things get created. This next verse, most of you have 79 00:04:27.519 --> 00:04:31.439 this memorized. This is Proverbs eighteen twenty one. 80 00:04:31.519 --> 00:04:32.439 It says for. 81 00:04:32.560 --> 00:04:36.279 Death and life are in the power of the tongue, 82 00:04:36.360 --> 00:04:38.759 and those who love it will eat of its fruit. 83 00:04:39.079 --> 00:04:42.600 A different passage says, for those who indulge in it 84 00:04:42.800 --> 00:04:45.519 will eat of the fruit thereof, or the fruit that 85 00:04:45.600 --> 00:04:48.800 comes from it. And so the contrast here is that 86 00:04:49.079 --> 00:04:52.879 we could produce life with our mouth and our tongue, 87 00:04:53.319 --> 00:04:57.079 or we could also maybe produce something other than that. Okay, 88 00:04:57.279 --> 00:05:02.279 there's a contrast. Listen to this scripture. This is Psalm 89 00:05:02.480 --> 00:05:06.959 five to nine. Not a word from their mouth can 90 00:05:07.000 --> 00:05:12.120 be trusted. Their heart is filled with destruction, their throat 91 00:05:12.319 --> 00:05:19.240 is an open grave. With their tongue they speak deceit. Okay, 92 00:05:19.720 --> 00:05:23.040 I don't think that's for our church. But think about 93 00:05:23.079 --> 00:05:26.319 the contrast it's talking about when someone opens their mouth 94 00:05:26.720 --> 00:05:30.800 it's an empty grave. Like that's kind of not I 95 00:05:30.839 --> 00:05:33.720 don't want that to be said to me, right. So 96 00:05:34.399 --> 00:05:36.199 if you think about this, this is a little bit 97 00:05:36.319 --> 00:05:39.079 like when Jesus rebuked the Pharisees and the Sadducees, he 98 00:05:39.160 --> 00:05:40.759 called them a whitewashed tomb. 99 00:05:41.959 --> 00:05:42.000 It. 100 00:05:42.639 --> 00:05:45.560 You know, you gotta be careful what's in the heart, 101 00:05:45.600 --> 00:05:47.839 because whatever's in the heart, it comes out of the mouth. 102 00:05:47.879 --> 00:05:50.600 It's out of the abundance of the house that the heart, 103 00:05:50.759 --> 00:05:53.480 that the mouth will speak, right. And so I don't 104 00:05:53.519 --> 00:05:56.439 want words of an open grave coming out of me. 105 00:05:56.800 --> 00:05:59.839 I want words of life coming out of me. And 106 00:06:00.480 --> 00:06:04.480 look at James three four. It says, look at the ships. Also, 107 00:06:05.519 --> 00:06:08.600 though they are great and they are driven by strong winds, 108 00:06:08.680 --> 00:06:13.399 they are directed by a very small rudder wherever the 109 00:06:13.439 --> 00:06:18.000 inclination of the pilot desires. So the tongue is a 110 00:06:18.079 --> 00:06:24.079 small part of the body. In the next little bit 111 00:06:24.079 --> 00:06:26.639 after that chapter, in that same chapter, it's going to 112 00:06:26.720 --> 00:06:32.279 talk about a forest being set a blaze, like on fire, 113 00:06:32.879 --> 00:06:36.319 by a tiny spark, And the context. 114 00:06:35.759 --> 00:06:39.639 Is that your tongue is the small spark you tracking 115 00:06:39.720 --> 00:06:39.959 with me. 116 00:06:41.680 --> 00:06:44.360 I think potentially we were talking about legacy here a 117 00:06:44.399 --> 00:06:49.040 minute ago. I think potentially one of the greatest legacies 118 00:06:49.120 --> 00:06:52.560 that we may be able to leave our kids and 119 00:06:52.639 --> 00:06:57.040 grandkids is the modeling of how you use your rudder, 120 00:07:00.399 --> 00:07:01.480 of how you use. 121 00:07:05.959 --> 00:07:09.600 Your rudder. Some of you in here. 122 00:07:11.839 --> 00:07:14.800 We're friends, and so we've gone out in a boat 123 00:07:14.879 --> 00:07:18.319 together and we've had times where we're on the Columbia 124 00:07:18.399 --> 00:07:21.120 River and there's a lot of like it's white caps, 125 00:07:21.160 --> 00:07:24.959 and it's strong current and there's heavy winds. When you're 126 00:07:25.040 --> 00:07:27.360 running the boat, there's the small motor on the back. 127 00:07:27.399 --> 00:07:29.399 It's kind of like a rudder, and it controls where 128 00:07:29.439 --> 00:07:32.759 you go. And depending upon where you set that thing, 129 00:07:33.079 --> 00:07:35.800 it'll totally change the course that you're on. 130 00:07:36.920 --> 00:07:39.680 It'll change the charting of where you end up. 131 00:07:40.319 --> 00:07:43.199 You could end up in the rocks, slammed against the 132 00:07:43.240 --> 00:07:45.920 bank if you don't have that rudder in the right direction. 133 00:07:47.439 --> 00:07:49.920 And so what I'm gonna tell you is that this 134 00:07:49.959 --> 00:07:53.800 thing that's sitting right here between my two cheeks is 135 00:07:54.040 --> 00:07:57.720 powerful to create life or to be an open grave. 136 00:07:58.879 --> 00:08:00.600 And I'm gonna choose the It's going to be the 137 00:08:00.680 --> 00:08:06.879 first not the latter. This is Jeremiah one six through ten. 138 00:08:06.959 --> 00:08:11.040 It says, a last sovereign Lord. I think, Frank, I 139 00:08:11.040 --> 00:08:12.720 think you might have hit this one. 140 00:08:12.959 --> 00:08:13.680 Somebody in the. 141 00:08:13.600 --> 00:08:17.199 Past that's pret recently hit this last and I already 142 00:08:17.199 --> 00:08:19.439 had this. I'm like, oh, this is And then I'm like, 143 00:08:19.480 --> 00:08:21.560 this is the Lord. I know it's the Lord. 144 00:08:21.920 --> 00:08:22.560 This is He's. 145 00:08:22.480 --> 00:08:26.279 Highlighting all these things through these different people, A last 146 00:08:26.319 --> 00:08:31.600 Sovereign Lord. Jeremiah one six through ten. I said, I 147 00:08:31.680 --> 00:08:34.360 do not know how to speak. I am too young. 148 00:08:34.919 --> 00:08:37.639 But the Lord says to me, do not say I 149 00:08:37.720 --> 00:08:41.840 am too young. You must go to everyone I send 150 00:08:41.879 --> 00:08:45.879 you to and say whatever I command to you. Do 151 00:08:46.080 --> 00:08:48.720 not be afraid of them, for I am with you 152 00:08:48.960 --> 00:08:52.440 and will rescue you, declares the Lord. Then the Lord 153 00:08:52.519 --> 00:08:55.960 reached out his hand and touched my mouth and said 154 00:08:56.000 --> 00:09:00.000 to me, I have put my words in your mouth. 155 00:09:00.759 --> 00:09:04.279 See today I appoint you over the nations and kingdoms 156 00:09:04.480 --> 00:09:08.360 to uproot and tear down, to destroy and overthrow, to build, 157 00:09:08.399 --> 00:09:11.399 and to plant. So some of us using our mouth 158 00:09:11.919 --> 00:09:16.399 is we're rebuking back the enemies of darkness. We're casting 159 00:09:16.519 --> 00:09:19.799 out spiritual forces of evil in heavenly realms. 160 00:09:19.840 --> 00:09:21.159 So that's a component. 161 00:09:21.360 --> 00:09:24.759 But the other component is our sowing, in our reaping 162 00:09:24.960 --> 00:09:27.360 and the things that we're planting, and that would be, 163 00:09:27.440 --> 00:09:30.960 I think is what's very applicable within our own life, 164 00:09:30.960 --> 00:09:34.039 the life of our family and those that are around us. Okay, 165 00:09:34.919 --> 00:09:39.799 So Frank referenced Revelation five ten when he preached last week, 166 00:09:40.600 --> 00:09:41.000 and in. 167 00:09:40.919 --> 00:09:42.000 That, I know, I'm giving you a lot of. 168 00:09:42.039 --> 00:09:49.440 Verses and he has made us kings and priests to 169 00:09:49.519 --> 00:09:52.720 our God, and we shall reign on the earth. 170 00:09:52.919 --> 00:09:57.240 What are you? You're a king and you're a priest. 171 00:09:58.600 --> 00:10:02.679 You're a king and you're a correct Well, have you 172 00:10:02.759 --> 00:10:08.480 been around royalty? They talk a little different. Royalty talks 173 00:10:08.519 --> 00:10:10.879 a little different. They don't just they're not just flippant 174 00:10:10.879 --> 00:10:14.600 with their with this the rudder. Royalty talks a little 175 00:10:14.600 --> 00:10:17.559 bit different. And royalty works in a certain way. And 176 00:10:17.600 --> 00:10:24.759 I've noticed being around royal people. Royalty it affirms, it coronates, 177 00:10:25.360 --> 00:10:28.600 and it crowns. Have you guys ever watched the movies 178 00:10:28.639 --> 00:10:31.960 where they take the sword and they take and they 179 00:10:32.039 --> 00:10:38.919 knight somebody. That's what royalty does. That's what royalty does. 180 00:10:39.120 --> 00:10:42.320 And you are a king and. 181 00:10:42.320 --> 00:10:48.919 A priest, So what do you do you affirm you 182 00:10:49.039 --> 00:10:51.000 crown and you coronate. 183 00:10:56.440 --> 00:10:56.919 All of you? 184 00:10:56.960 --> 00:11:05.279 Have this verse memorized John ten ten in the back. 185 00:11:06.639 --> 00:11:09.080 The thief comes only to steal and kill and destroy. 186 00:11:09.320 --> 00:11:12.159 But I have come that you may have life, and 187 00:11:12.279 --> 00:11:16.519 have it more abundantly. In a amplified Bible, it says, 188 00:11:16.600 --> 00:11:18.840 I have come that you may have life, that you 189 00:11:18.879 --> 00:11:22.279 may have it to the full, that it may be overflowing, 190 00:11:22.320 --> 00:11:26.519 that it would be like super abundant. Is the context, right, 191 00:11:27.000 --> 00:11:29.679 super abundant, That there's no lack in it, but that 192 00:11:29.720 --> 00:11:32.960 it's an overflowing river coming from the throne on high 193 00:11:33.159 --> 00:11:34.879 that Jesus says he produces for you. 194 00:11:35.440 --> 00:11:37.120 Okay. 195 00:11:38.279 --> 00:11:42.080 The word in that scripture, that passage there, that most 196 00:11:42.120 --> 00:11:45.200 of you already know is Zoe. 197 00:11:45.279 --> 00:11:45.480 Right. 198 00:11:45.879 --> 00:11:48.159 We have a child that runs around here with that name. 199 00:11:50.120 --> 00:11:54.279 But there's two synonyms to it, okay. The other synonym 200 00:11:54.360 --> 00:11:57.919 is sue Ke. And here's what your concordance says. It 201 00:11:58.000 --> 00:12:06.919 says sue keplay breath, spirit and could be translated vitality, vitality. 202 00:12:06.960 --> 00:12:10.200 You think about vitality, you're thinking of life and birth 203 00:12:10.279 --> 00:12:17.279 and excitement, right, vitality, youth and health. Sue Ke is 204 00:12:17.320 --> 00:12:23.679 that word and that means life. This term corresponds exactly 205 00:12:23.759 --> 00:12:31.080 to the Hebrew word for heart, life, mind, and soul. 206 00:12:31.320 --> 00:12:35.480 It's God's desire that the words that we speak would 207 00:12:35.519 --> 00:12:40.399 bring vitality to the heart, the life, the mind, and 208 00:12:40.480 --> 00:12:43.399 the soul of everyone that were around. 209 00:12:47.600 --> 00:12:48.639 John one four. 210 00:12:49.919 --> 00:12:52.960 In him was life, and the life was the light 211 00:12:53.080 --> 00:12:59.320 of men. What animated Jesus? Obviously he was a man 212 00:13:00.159 --> 00:13:03.919 like we all are, but he was anointed with power 213 00:13:03.960 --> 00:13:08.039 from on high. What animated the life of Jesus? 214 00:13:09.039 --> 00:13:11.960 What does this verse say? 215 00:13:13.320 --> 00:13:17.000 So he had life and he took and his life 216 00:13:17.039 --> 00:13:21.440 became the light of his disciples. The light in the life. 217 00:13:21.679 --> 00:13:28.480 Correct light and life come from Jesus. And our words 218 00:13:28.720 --> 00:13:32.120 should create light in life in those people that we 219 00:13:32.200 --> 00:13:34.120 deal with every day. 220 00:13:34.480 --> 00:13:35.320 Twenty four to seven. 221 00:13:38.200 --> 00:13:44.440 The Hebrew word for this life is kahi, and it 222 00:13:44.559 --> 00:13:51.399 implies alive, fresh, strong, in your concordance. 223 00:13:52.320 --> 00:13:53.759 Here's what it says about kahi. 224 00:13:54.919 --> 00:14:04.320 It says and alive, springing Mary, multitude, congregation or troop. 225 00:14:05.840 --> 00:14:09.000 So like alive Mary, we know what those things mean. 226 00:14:09.120 --> 00:14:09.360 Right. 227 00:14:10.080 --> 00:14:12.759 What's a multitude, It's a group of people. What's a congregation? 228 00:14:13.440 --> 00:14:17.440 This is one right. Many churches use the term congregate, 229 00:14:17.480 --> 00:14:24.039 our congregation. What's the troop, Well, the troop is the army, right, 230 00:14:24.840 --> 00:14:29.759 what are we? We are the army of God. What 231 00:14:29.919 --> 00:14:35.840 is the ecclasea the called out legislative body. But we 232 00:14:36.000 --> 00:14:39.039 are we are the We are the army of God. 233 00:14:39.600 --> 00:14:45.919 Correct. What is this word, Kahi say? 234 00:14:46.000 --> 00:14:50.559 It says that this army, this congregation, is to be alive, 235 00:14:50.720 --> 00:14:54.240 it's to be mary, and it's to be like springing 236 00:14:54.320 --> 00:15:10.960 forthinging forth. I believe that the key to the troop 237 00:15:11.080 --> 00:15:18.279 walking in vitality is agreeing with the word of the 238 00:15:18.320 --> 00:15:25.480 Lord over us, our church, the people that we deal 239 00:15:25.519 --> 00:15:29.440 with every single day. It's prophesying the word of the 240 00:15:29.519 --> 00:15:33.960 Lord over us and the people that we interact with. 241 00:15:35.519 --> 00:15:40.320 That's what brings Kahi. That's what brings Suke. It's what 242 00:15:40.440 --> 00:15:43.159 brings the vitality. It's what brings the energy. It's what 243 00:15:43.279 --> 00:15:47.039 brings the the the the springing forth, to the to 244 00:15:47.120 --> 00:15:58.279 the to the merry multitude congregation or troop. So there's 245 00:15:58.320 --> 00:16:01.480 going to be three points I'm gonna get to right now. 246 00:16:03.440 --> 00:16:04.559 In my challenge to you. 247 00:16:05.159 --> 00:16:10.440 Point one, you don't have to do anything, but I 248 00:16:10.480 --> 00:16:15.159 believe this is an invitation, an invitation that God has 249 00:16:15.159 --> 00:16:19.000 for us. Number one, I think that you need to 250 00:16:19.080 --> 00:16:24.080 partner with words of life for yourself. Okay, you need 251 00:16:24.120 --> 00:16:26.360 to stir yourself up in your most holy faith. 252 00:16:26.399 --> 00:16:27.519 That's Jude three. 253 00:16:28.399 --> 00:16:30.720 You need to be meditating on his word day and light. 254 00:16:31.159 --> 00:16:35.360 Psalm one one. Proverbs three to six says that the 255 00:16:35.399 --> 00:16:37.879 person that does that, they find success in whatever they 256 00:16:37.879 --> 00:16:41.960 put their hand to. Joshua one says seven says that 257 00:16:41.960 --> 00:16:45.399 that person who does that, basically. 258 00:16:44.960 --> 00:16:48.919 Nothing can stop them. Okay nothing. 259 00:16:49.000 --> 00:16:52.080 You be like a tree planted by streams of living water. 260 00:16:52.399 --> 00:16:55.279 You'll produce your fruit and due season your leaf will 261 00:16:55.320 --> 00:16:59.000 not wither or fade. That's Psalm one, right. And so 262 00:16:59.320 --> 00:17:02.000 you need to do that over yourself. You need to 263 00:17:02.000 --> 00:17:04.960 speak words of life over yourself and agree. 264 00:17:05.200 --> 00:17:08.359 Here's my challenge. I want the next thirty days. 265 00:17:08.160 --> 00:17:11.519 For our body, our congregation, that we don't agree with 266 00:17:11.640 --> 00:17:19.039 any words, any that aren't what he says. Unless he 267 00:17:19.119 --> 00:17:20.960 says it, we disagree with it. 268 00:17:22.880 --> 00:17:24.720 And that's all we meditate on. 269 00:17:24.920 --> 00:17:27.279 And it's all that we let come out, and it's 270 00:17:27.400 --> 00:17:41.519 all that we let steer our rudder Psalms twenty seven thirteen. 271 00:17:42.680 --> 00:17:45.880 I would have despaired unless I had believed to see. 272 00:17:45.640 --> 00:17:47.839 The goodness of the Lord in the land of the living. 273 00:17:48.160 --> 00:17:52.000 Many of you know the scripture that, depending upon which 274 00:17:52.079 --> 00:17:55.759 versions you're reading, in it, it says, I would have fainted, 275 00:17:57.119 --> 00:18:01.119 I would have been depressed, I would have had anxiety, 276 00:18:01.599 --> 00:18:05.640 I would have had a panic attack. I couldn't go 277 00:18:05.759 --> 00:18:10.680 on anymore unless I had believed to see the goodness 278 00:18:10.720 --> 00:18:11.000 of the. 279 00:18:11.039 --> 00:18:16.400 Lord, not in heaven, not in heaven. 280 00:18:17.799 --> 00:18:21.960 But in the land of living, in this lifetime, right now, 281 00:18:22.480 --> 00:18:30.279 and successively progressively revealed during our lifetime, how many people 282 00:18:30.319 --> 00:18:36.119 are we around that are despairing, that are ready to 283 00:18:36.160 --> 00:18:41.000 have a panic attack, and that are depressed. They would 284 00:18:41.039 --> 00:18:45.039 have fainted unless they had believed to see the word 285 00:18:45.039 --> 00:18:50.559 of the Lord coming off of your tongue, so that 286 00:18:50.680 --> 00:18:52.519 they would begin to see that the Lord has a 287 00:18:52.559 --> 00:18:55.640 different plan for them, and that they say, you know what, 288 00:18:55.920 --> 00:18:59.000 I actually am feeling more merry, I feel like I'm 289 00:18:59.200 --> 00:18:59.759 I feel like. 290 00:18:59.720 --> 00:19:05.960 I'm springing forth. I hope you're getting what I'm trying 291 00:19:06.000 --> 00:19:17.839 to so I uh so. 292 00:19:17.960 --> 00:19:21.119 Number one, you need to be you need to declare 293 00:19:21.480 --> 00:19:24.440 the word of the Lord over your life just twenty 294 00:19:24.440 --> 00:19:25.880 four to seven, and you need to do it not 295 00:19:25.920 --> 00:19:26.680 only over you. 296 00:19:26.680 --> 00:19:27.960 You need to do it over your family. 297 00:19:29.319 --> 00:19:32.359 So if you have a kid and they're like having 298 00:19:32.359 --> 00:19:35.279 a tough time, you go grab that kid and you 299 00:19:35.319 --> 00:19:37.400 go up in their room with them, and you spend 300 00:19:37.480 --> 00:19:40.000 thirty five or forty minutes and you just start declaring 301 00:19:40.319 --> 00:19:43.319 the Lord says he loves you. You are his chosen one, 302 00:19:43.880 --> 00:19:51.640 You are the Princess of the most High. I'm telling 303 00:19:51.680 --> 00:19:57.680 you you will lift your child right out of the 304 00:19:57.720 --> 00:20:01.319 funk that they're in, that they're despairing in, or they're 305 00:20:01.359 --> 00:20:04.079 anxious over. And how many parents are going to go 306 00:20:04.160 --> 00:20:07.880 grab their kid, pull them in the stinking room and say, no, 307 00:20:08.359 --> 00:20:11.759 we're not leaving this room until we have prophesied the 308 00:20:11.759 --> 00:20:15.119 goodness of God over your life and we lift you 309 00:20:15.160 --> 00:20:18.079 out of this so that we can have a merry, 310 00:20:18.119 --> 00:20:22.799 springing multitude. You need to do it over your family. 311 00:20:23.359 --> 00:20:25.000 For some of you, this is going to be really 312 00:20:25.039 --> 00:20:28.160 easy because you grew up with the most awesome parents 313 00:20:28.160 --> 00:20:30.559 and they just told you how special you were, and 314 00:20:30.599 --> 00:20:34.039 you wanted every trophy and you were you know, And 315 00:20:34.200 --> 00:20:38.519 but not everybody comes from that place, not everybody, does 316 00:20:39.359 --> 00:20:39.559 you know. 317 00:20:40.480 --> 00:20:42.440 I told just I told a. 318 00:20:42.400 --> 00:20:46.759 Brief testimony earlier that the family that I grew up in. 319 00:20:47.359 --> 00:20:49.720 They were hyper critical of everybody. 320 00:20:50.400 --> 00:20:53.599 So if the neighbors got a new car, they'd be like, 321 00:20:53.920 --> 00:20:56.319 must be nice. 322 00:20:56.519 --> 00:20:57.559 I think, must be nice. 323 00:20:57.440 --> 00:20:59.759 One of them was one of the slogans I heard 324 00:21:00.160 --> 00:21:02.279 as a child, Must be nice. 325 00:21:02.680 --> 00:21:05.160 And what were the what was the implication there? The 326 00:21:05.200 --> 00:21:06.319 implication there was. 327 00:21:07.960 --> 00:21:11.000 Darn it, I really wish God would do something like 328 00:21:11.039 --> 00:21:12.799 that for me, like you just did for that person 329 00:21:12.839 --> 00:21:15.400 over there. And I'm kind I don't really like that. 330 00:21:15.599 --> 00:21:18.039 And they must have done something dishonest to even get that. 331 00:21:19.559 --> 00:21:23.480 Must have been crooked or something. And so if you 332 00:21:23.599 --> 00:21:27.319 grew up in an environment that wasn't super like conducive 333 00:21:27.359 --> 00:21:31.160 and uplifting verbally, this may become something that you have 334 00:21:31.200 --> 00:21:35.480 to work through, right you you work out yourself like 335 00:21:35.519 --> 00:21:38.039 you're saved. It's we're redeemed by the blood of the Lamb. 336 00:21:38.240 --> 00:21:41.960 We're good, but we got stuff we have to work 337 00:21:42.000 --> 00:21:45.480 out along the way. And depending upon how how wet 338 00:21:45.519 --> 00:21:47.759 the cement was for you when you were a kid, 339 00:21:48.079 --> 00:21:56.799 and what was declared or prophesied over you, you may have 340 00:21:56.839 --> 00:21:59.480 some work to do with your kids. You may have 341 00:21:59.480 --> 00:22:01.440 some work to do with your soul and your spirit, 342 00:22:02.240 --> 00:22:05.680 and what I'm gonna share with you is that at 343 00:22:05.720 --> 00:22:08.839 a certain point in my life. So I used to 344 00:22:08.839 --> 00:22:11.319 have long hair down past my shoulders, I used to 345 00:22:11.319 --> 00:22:15.000 do drugs, and I got radically transformed when I was 346 00:22:15.039 --> 00:22:18.000 in my early twenties, and I knew that the Lord 347 00:22:18.039 --> 00:22:20.480 had a plan for me, and I started on that plan, 348 00:22:20.720 --> 00:22:22.799 and I knew it a calling for me to do something, 349 00:22:22.839 --> 00:22:24.960 and so I taking the steps to do the calling. 350 00:22:25.400 --> 00:22:28.839 And what I found was that in my family, I 351 00:22:28.880 --> 00:22:30.799 came and I'm like, this is what I'm gonna do, 352 00:22:32.119 --> 00:22:35.279 and they looked at me and they were like, nobody 353 00:22:35.279 --> 00:22:38.799 knows what the heck you're talking about. You are going 354 00:22:39.000 --> 00:22:42.039 contrary to all of culture and. 355 00:22:41.960 --> 00:22:49.759 What people know. You're gonna fail. You're not gonna make it. 356 00:22:52.119 --> 00:22:55.079 So depending upon the family you have, you may have 357 00:22:55.119 --> 00:22:56.759 to stir yourself up, maybe. 358 00:22:56.559 --> 00:23:03.079 Even a little bit more. You see what I'm getting at. 359 00:23:05.279 --> 00:23:09.519 So here's what I'm gonna share with you. There are 360 00:23:09.559 --> 00:23:12.240 people in this room that have had radical transformations that 361 00:23:12.279 --> 00:23:16.839 have happened because maybe I helped you with something, and 362 00:23:16.880 --> 00:23:19.480 that wouldn't happen if I listened to them. Most of 363 00:23:19.559 --> 00:23:23.440 us in this room have had most of us in 364 00:23:23.480 --> 00:23:25.519 this room have had some level of freedom that is 365 00:23:25.519 --> 00:23:30.200 coming from our lives through restored life. What if the 366 00:23:30.319 --> 00:23:33.200 other people in Christianity when Pastor Dwayne's like, yeah, I 367 00:23:33.200 --> 00:23:35.160 want it, I want to do deliverance ministry, what if 368 00:23:35.200 --> 00:23:39.960 they were like Christians can't be demonized, that's ridiculous. What 369 00:23:40.000 --> 00:23:43.680 if he listened to them, your life wouldn't be benefited 370 00:23:43.720 --> 00:23:45.279 like it has been from his ministry? 371 00:23:45.359 --> 00:23:50.119 Correct mine has? We got to be careful when we 372 00:23:50.160 --> 00:23:50.640 listened to. 373 00:23:52.599 --> 00:23:54.400 Speak the word of the Lord of yourself, Speak the 374 00:23:54.440 --> 00:23:55.640 word of the Lord of your family. 375 00:23:55.960 --> 00:23:59.319 Point three. You need to speak the word of the 376 00:23:59.319 --> 00:24:01.319 Lord over every. 377 00:24:01.240 --> 00:24:07.599 Single person that you come in contact with, because every 378 00:24:07.599 --> 00:24:09.599 single day the Lord's going to put stuff in front 379 00:24:09.640 --> 00:24:13.000 of you and you have an opportunity, whether you know 380 00:24:13.079 --> 00:24:15.480 it or not, to share the gospel. 381 00:24:16.480 --> 00:24:19.559 And my question is how attractive is our gospel? 382 00:24:24.720 --> 00:24:28.240 When I was at thanksgivings for in my family, we 383 00:24:28.359 --> 00:24:31.000 used to do something and that was called and I 384 00:24:31.000 --> 00:24:31.880 I didn't. 385 00:24:31.680 --> 00:24:32.480 Know this wasn't normal. 386 00:24:32.880 --> 00:24:36.160 Everybody would get together and they would compete to tell 387 00:24:36.240 --> 00:24:40.160 stories of who had the greatest malady, who was in 388 00:24:40.200 --> 00:24:42.720 more pain than the other people, and literally it was 389 00:24:42.720 --> 00:24:46.799 a competition and it occurred every holiday, like twenty four 390 00:24:46.839 --> 00:24:48.319 to seven, And so I just grew up in this 391 00:24:48.359 --> 00:24:50.920 culture of like everybody just walks around talking about what's 392 00:24:50.960 --> 00:24:52.640 wrong with them, and they're going to tell you how 393 00:24:52.640 --> 00:24:55.960 it's worse than yours. 394 00:24:56.000 --> 00:24:57.519 And so here's what happened. 395 00:24:57.519 --> 00:24:59.279 When I start having kids, and all of a sudden, 396 00:24:59.279 --> 00:25:02.200 I'm like, WHOA, something's got to get cut off here. 397 00:25:02.480 --> 00:25:05.279 So I'd sit down and we you know, I can 398 00:25:05.359 --> 00:25:07.920 remember injuring anyhow I can remember injuring myself. 399 00:25:08.400 --> 00:25:11.119 I don't walk around saying, oh my whatever. 400 00:25:11.839 --> 00:25:13.759 We walked around and we would say to our kids 401 00:25:13.799 --> 00:25:17.319