Confessions and Criticism vs.Encouragement

good morning everybody happy tuesday uh this is the day that the lord hath made we will rejoice and be exceedingly glad in it may the 11th so glad to have you join us today neptune new jersey i never heard that before welcome welcome sonia from neptune new jersey uh davidson new york we sent new north carolina we send blessings to you guys this morning we are blessed going in and blessed coming out you are blessed going in and blessed coming out and uh we're just we're just gonna go for it i'm convinced that the more active uh satan gets the more word we need to preach and the more word we need to turn it on it's like it's like bring it on devil bring it on and uh and then just you know we're gonna operate in god's word we're gonna stick with god's word no matter what this thing's gonna close up one day yes and all of the stuff that's going on on this earth right now it won't matter it won't matter so tap and i are convinced that our part in these last days is and all you're getting get understand and give people an opportunity whether they change or not give them an opportunity to know or hear the things that are wrong and here are the things that are out of whack or are not flowing right and if you correct these things you can live life life is supposed to be live uh it's not supposed to be like painful and stressful and hurtful and that's not life it's supposed to be uh in abundance to the full till it overflows and not a lot of people get up with that not a lot of people do that and we've got to that listen the key to crazy times is your commitment to the word of god and you can go looking for answers everywhere else but man you know people people that's got it they're tripping out you you the only way that you're gonna get out of certain things in your life right now today is through the word of god and so unfortunately people uh no longer see the word of god as an option no longer see the word of god as something that is real and so the deception of the world uh has gotten them in a place and you and i hopefully will talk about just that word deception we had a great conversation about you know deception and what it means to be deceived and the consequences of remaining in deception right so nothing nothing just happens it every output in your life and my life is a result of some input every output is a result of some input so you gotta offset it you have to make sure that with all the negativity and all the things that may try to bombard your spirit and weeds to come in to your heart or you know the enemy is active with his attacks and strategies and schemes speaking to people and people are under demonic influence like never before and are being led by um demonic oppressions and things like that so you have to uh be prepared and just store the word up in your heart and just stay full stay strong stay in the presence and as a result you can be prepared for the attacks of the enemy because he is i mean he is really really attacking the body of christ uh families relationships marriages mental just the mindset of believers uh to want to cause us to not believe the truth or not think that the truth will will prevail but we know that um the bible says the word prevails in all things so you know it's just being steady being consistent getting a daily dose of the word of god just like what you guys are doing now as you were speaking i saw somebody laughing like hahahaha they're so funny yeah yeah see that you you're gonna die one day uh this is gonna be over with one day it's gonna end one day and um you know you will never ever ever ever forget the time that you laughed at truth the time that you turned your back on on truth yeah and these are the last of the last days and we know the bible has talked about everything um that would happen and it is happening and um people will will laugh at the truth and won't think that the truth um will prevail but we know that god has a final he has a final laugh and i don't know about you i i want to be on god's side and um experiencing the things that have been made available who would have thought that in 2020 half a million people would transition and things are happening and they're still happening and so we as a body of christ we're here and we're here for a purpose and we should uh just be in the position where we can carry out what um we believe we're assigned to do and and the the calling and the purpose for our lives you know kathy beth just bought up a phrase uh thank you kathy uh spiritual warfare and i want to talk about that just for a second spiritual warfare it doesn't mean a war against the devil it does but it does let me show you what it means it's not fighting the devil spiritual warfare is maintaining the victory that jesus died for you to what that jesus died to obtain in other words jesus died to give us healing so spiritual warfare is maintaining that healing that jesus died for you to have uh jesus died so you can have deliverance so your our job is to maintain that promise of deliverance so the warfare is in the mind the place of the war the mind is the battleground the mind is the battleground and so what happens is most people don't realize that their minds the battleground and you're not paying attention to what the enemy's doing every attack that's happening where deception is concerned is taking place in a person's mind and thought life and so satan can get you to think uh the wrong way then you'll live the wrong way and then you'll believe the wrong way see the worst part of deception is that you start like to have to say it on sunday you start believing your lies you start believing your own lies and what happens is you know you believe the lies are true you believe the lie is the truth and like romans uh what was that 125 25 says we take the truth of god and turn it into a lie yes and and how many people have taken the truth of god and turned into a lie or have allowed uh the input that comes from other people your friends unsaved folks the world they have made inputs this is so important they've made inputs into your thinking and the output that deception and the way you live you and then you have enough nerve to say well that's just me that ain't you you are a result of whatever has been inputted into your way of thinking and uh whatever you have been hanging around the most whatever you have been doing the most uh whatever you have been exposed to the most is going to be successful in making inputs into your life that's the harvest yeah that you'll have is what you spend the most time with what you sow what you plant the things that are uh in your spirit um so we we've got to make sure that we are we got to become a better custodian of uh the influences that we hang around that's good what are you listening to yeah you know well you know one that says guard your eye yeah your ear gates those things that are that are vital that is so true but a lot of people don't believe that they don't think it takes all of that and so what happens is you're crazy field life filled with all kinds of pain and hurt and tragedy and confusion is a result of not being a good maintenance person over the influences that come into your eyes your ears come out of your mouth it creates the way you think and then it creates the way you feel and so what happens when you start feeling bad you start looking for ways other than god's word to handle your emotions and the way you manage your emotions is you manage the way you think you manage the way you manage the influences that are around you but but people don't believe that they just they just they struggle with with what is being preached because i mean i understand a lot of crazy stuff has happened in the church but it's amazing to me uh that most people leave the church because of what somebody else did to him that's what that's what uh dee was talking about this morning because of what somebody else did to him and you let somebody else put you in a position where you're out of the will of god for your life where you're not hearing the word of god and and you think it's okay well it's okay for me not to hear the word no more because they did something to me or they treated me bad and it's not okay the devil will use anything he possibly can to get you out of an atmosphere where you will hear the word of god ministered and preached because away from the word he can deceive you away from the word he can turn the truth into a lie away from the word he can get you to believe a lie away from the word you will become so convinced that your way of thinking about a certain thing is the right way no matter what somebody else says and i'm telling you satan has unleashed an all-out attack yes to to snatch people away from the word the battle is in the mind and what he can do is if he keeps you ignorant of the word you don't know the word you don't renew your mind uh you don't care about getting no word you know you replace god with something else you replace church attendance with something else you replace streaming in and getting fed with something else there are consequences and all of those consequences are at hand i have warned and warned and warned for 40 years that these times are coming and they are now here i mean they're they're they're they're kids now that get up and go outside and don't know that's their last day because they bump into a demon-possessed person at a park who decides he's gonna pull a gun and start shooting everybody and yeah you laugh at that demons ain't no such thing as demons that's exactly what the devil wants you to think he wants you to think he's not real demon's not real god's not real that's how he deceives people and then you go around thinking that because you know the norms and values of the world has changed so much that here's the biggest change with norms and value norms and values it's just whatever a group of people decide to be okay is okay not because it's okay but because they said it's okay because so many people this is how we look at it now so it's okay and so the problem with that the norms and values of this world have convinced you and have governed your thinking to see what the norms and values are and then you say well it's right according to the norms and values well it's not right according to the word but it's it's right according to the norms of values and here's what i've heard people say about the truth they said this about the truth listen to this they said this about the truth when they look at they said they said that that's outdated honey the bible ain't never going to get outdated and god's given us more and more revelation but if you convince that the the truth i mean the truth of all truth is god's word but what what happens when god's word becomes outdated you are a prime target for the deepest kind of deception available to man and that's what's happening right now people are a prime target and satan is having a field day i don't like giving him no credit at all because we bind him in the name of jesus but i'm just trying to tell you what is going on you make a decision to become absent from the word of god then you make a decision to allow satan to deceive you in all kind of different ways and everything everything will be right because the world says is right everything is fine because the word says it fine and then when the bible tells you not to live by your feelings the world says if it feels good do it that's because people's minds have been blinded to the truth yep and the scripture says that that satan blinds minds and unfortunately we see that happening today so much blindness in society and it causes the church to be challenged with embracing the truth and not accepting the mindset of the world and so what satan does is he gets you emotional and then drags you over here to the world because you don't got hurt or or stuff like that listen the system was designed for godly people to except for persecution and whoever told you that now that you're saved no more persecution that's wrong it's deception the bible says those that live godly shall suffer persecution and so you know we got to learn how to live through persecution we got to learn how to live through the pandemic we got to learn how to live through rough times and uh in victory too not just putting up with it uh putting up with it defeated uh just have no joy none of those things but really knowing that although battles are real much more real is our victory over them absolutely and um knowing that um as we live through it we can walk in victory and experience victory on the other side of going through it not just crawling through it amen we don't want to crawl climbing up the rough side of the mountain and all that no we are speaking to the mountain yep and commanding it to be removed and go into the sea so that's what this is all about today is using the authority that we have been given and walking in the authority that we have as uh god's children and knowing how to uh appropriate it in our everyday lives and to defend the deception and defend the um the lies of the enemy amen well let's get some 91 equip make some confessions here and if i have time i want to talk to you about criticism versus encouragement it's a part of taking the truth and turn it into a lie people just don't people are not just critical there's a reason why people are critical i think yesterday we talked about um accepting responsibility and the blame game see blame and manipulation and criticism they all come from the same uh foundation it comes from a person who has been deceived into thinking that that blaming and criticism and manipulation that that's true and it's okay and all it is is flesh power trying to get people to do what you want them to do and you're thinking it's okay but there's always a consequence for doing that and unfortunately sometimes consequence is a broken relationship and some you remember i taught this sermon i said what what what if god doesn't put that relationship back together and there's some relationships in the bible that were broken but god didn't put them back together because as you're going to talk about soon the toxicity in certain relationships has to be resolved and so let's let's make some confessions here we're going to speak good things over some stuff plead the blood of jesus on some stuff see what time we got left over from that and uh god bless y'all you ready i declare i declare that i dwell in the shelter that i dwell in the shelter of the most high god of the most high god i declare i declare that i find rest and i find red in the shadow of the almighty in the shadow of the altar i declare i declare that god is my refuge god is my refuge and my fortress and my fortress you are my god you are my god and whom i trust and whom i trust with great confidence in whom i rely and with great confidence in whom i rely i declare i declare that god will rescue me from every trap god will rescue me from every trap and protect me from every disease and protect me from everything i declare i declare that i'm covered and protected that i'm covered and protected by his outstretched arms by his outstretched arms i declare i declare god's faithful promises are my armor that god's faithful promises are my arm and my protection and my protection i declare that i'll not be afraid i declare that i will not be afraid of the terrors of the night the terrors of the night nor of the arrows that fly in the day or the arrows that fly in the day i declare that i'll not dread any disease i declare that i'll not dread any disease that stops in darkness that stalks it darkness nor any disaster or any disaster this strikes at midday that strikes me i declare i declare because god is my refuge because god is my rhythm and the almighty god of my home and the almighty god of my home no evil will befall me no evil will befall no plague can come near my dwelling no player can come near my i declare i declare that god has ordered his angels that god has ordered his angels to guard to guard defend protect defend and protect me and my house be in my house i declare that god's armies of heaven i declare that god's armies of heaven keep me from falling keep me from falling i walk unharmed i will unharm i kick anything that is evil i kick anything that is evil from my path from my path i declare that because of god's love for me i declare that because of god's love i will call upon him i will call upon him he will set me above all my troubles he will set me above all my troubles he will deliver me from all my fears he will deliver me from all my faith he will honor me with his presence and power he will honor me with his presence i declare that he will reward me with long life i declare that he will reward me with long life and show me his salvation show me his salvation yes in jesus name psalms 91 equip say out loud wisdom and understanding wisdom and understanding not better than silver and gold are better than silver and gold and nothing i desire nothing i desire can't compare with them can compare with them therefore therefore i make it my ambition i make it my ambition and desire and desire to have understanding to have understanding insight insight and wisdom and wisdom therefore i know therefore i know i will have all of the other desires of my heart i will have all the other desires of my heart my words go before me my words go before me in securing my divine health in securing my divine health my divine healing my divine healing and my divine provision my divine provision i will not be sick today i will not be sick today by the wounds of jesus i was healed by the wounds of jesus i was healed i will not be grieved today i will not be grieved today for the joy of the lord is my strength for the joy of the lord is my strength i will not have fear today i will not have fear today god has not given me the spirit of fear for god has not given me a spirit of fear of power but of power love love and a sound mind and a sound i expect i expect to have divine appointments today to have divine appointments today to run into the right people to run into the right people and be delivered from the wrong people and be delivered from the wrong people any adversity any adversity attacks attacks accidents accidents tragedies tragedies that were headed my way that were headed my way are diverted right now i divert it right now in the name of jesus the name of jesus father father i thank you i thank you that because of the blood of jesus because of the blood of jesus death has no hold over me death has no hold over me i will live forever i will live forever with you in heaven with you in heaven because through the blood because through the blood to be absent from the body and to be absent from the body is to be present with the lord is to be present with the lord father father i am so thankful i'm so thankful that you forgive me and you forgive me from all of my sins all of my sins because of the blood of jesus blood of jesus i declare i declare that i am made innocent i'm made innocent by the blood of jesus by the blood of jesus i am free from guilt i'm free from guilt shame shame and condemnation and condemnation forever forever father father i thank you i thank you that i have abundant life have abundant life through the blood of jesus through the blood of jesus i have an abundance i have an abundance of your peace your peace your joy your joy your righteousness your righteousness and your healing and your healing and your provision in your position my life in my life i plead the blood of blood of jesus jesus name in jesus name amen praise god folks thank you for the blood thank god for the blood leave the blood feed the blood plead the blood please romans chapter 1 25 again the bible says they took the truth of god and turned it into a lie and we'll we'll share more scriptures with that but the enemy is attacking you when you say taffy through divine through relationships i think the enemy attacks through relationships he did that with adam and eve he attacked through their relationship and they as you mentioned on yesterday pointed the finger at each other yeah and it was their relationship with one another in their relationship with god you know i i was i was uh talking about uh deception deception literally means it's when you think you're right but you're wrong that's that's the simplest i can put it self-deceptions is when you think you're right but you're wrong um that's so amazing because you you can meet a person that's deceived because they'll think they're right but they're wrong that's that's deception and what happens is they think they're right even in the face of evidence they think they're right but they're wrong now if you're deceived like that you are going down the wrong road the consequences of that is inevitable and so there's a reason why some people might be very critical of other people rather than being encouraging the bible wants us to to encourage people and not be critical of people right and um some of those reasons we'll talk about a little bit now number one you feel like you have have to be in control and so you'll be critical of somebody because you feel like i need to be in in control um and sometimes the the battle to try to be in control means you'll use the flesh to try to control people you'll use anger uh and guilt and shame to try to control people uh and that's flesh power that always has a result that's coming and so uh secondly your criticism of others is a is a reflection of what you do to yourself what i mean by that you criticize others because you criticize yourself somebody says how do i criticize myself it's that inner voice it's that voice that you hear um your internal voice and the dialogue you have inside is critical i mean if you just check out what you're saying about yourself if you just check out how you're devaluing yourself on the inside and um what you feel about yourself and i know people that do that they spent all day long thinking and hearing the and having a dialogue internally about how bad they are and how ugly they are and how nobody wants them and all that kind of stuff when that stuff's going on on the inside that's the same it's like a mirror it's it's like you know when i was doing a lot of counseling with people i would pay attention to what they bring out and then it would be easy to realize that that's a reflection of what was in sure okay so what are you bringing out that is a reflection of what's really in and it's a this you need to know these things because listen i i try to make a point every day to examine my life i need to look at me before i go to preaching the gospel before i go to talking to you i need to check me out i need to judge myself i need to look at me because that's the only way i'm gonna keep going forward people try to keep you back don't do that the chains have been broken amen keep going forward that's true but what happens is you got to pay attention to you know if you're doing something to somebody or saying something to somebody you know blaming people is a defense mechanism because you feel like criticism is coming uh and and and it's so important that you pay attention to that mirror because whatever is coming out whatever you're sending to somebody is probably a reflection of what's on the inside of you so think about that here's another reason you think your way is right or the correct way oh my gosh i can't tell you you're talking about somebody being delivered from this one you know i'm thinking my way is right and it's the correct way and so though somebody says well what if you are right what that's not what i'm talking about whether you're right or wrong i'm talking about when you have to be critical of other people in order to be right or wrong that's when it's a problem if you're right about something then you don't need to be critical of other people and but you know when you start for the sake of just being right and being correct because you think your way is right and correct most of the time critical people who defend their right or wrong probably probably ain't gonna be that right because you can tell it's it's the fruit that comes out that lets you know there might be a problem with this i i want you to look at your own life um do you think your way is right and especially married relationships you know that that's all for discussion and it's all for talking about because what you might think is right may not be right to your partner and vice versa and so uh you've got to be and if you find yourself being critical of your spouse all the time then what is it about your right way you're you're trying to defend or something like that that could make a real toxic relationship so being critical of others you know it helps you to feel like you're in power and and then and then and you're dominant by focusing on others weaknesses or shortcomings have you ever been hooked up with somebody that just focuses on your weaknesses and shortcomings i just don't know if i want to i don't think i would want to be around somebody that always focuses on my weaknesses and my shortcomings that's like what you said earlier if a person internalizes their own shortcomings and their own weaknesses then it's easy for them to do the same thing with other people who are in relationship with them they'll constantly pick out pick on um be critical um instead of finding that voice that says you know god loves me therefore i'm going to love me love thyself and that the second commandment and when we allow that love of self because of god's love for us to be dominant that voice to be dominant then it's easy for us to be loving towards other people to be positive to be encouraging to uh bring out the best in people but if we downplay that and magnify the other voice and that's what's going to come out so it's really that dominant what's going to be dominant in your heart what's going to have the dominant um voice in your life that will guide you in terms of of the outpouring of your life because it says in proverbs 4 that out of the issues of the heart uh as a man think it as a woman thinking so is he and so it's on the inside it's uh our innermost being is the core of who we are and it's got to be uh free from fear yeah yeah so what really happens is you doubt your value and your worth that's right and when you doubt your value and your worth uh you're going to literally have to try to criticize others before they criticize you when when you when you have an issue with how you value yourself and you have a low self-esteem and and you don't value your your yourself you doubt your value you doubt your worth you kind of literally be competing to try to criticize other people before they can criticize you and that's sad that's painful that that that hurts uh because what happens is if you're not careful being critical can become a bad habit and you know uh you don't know how to relate to to and get the attention uh any other way and so you know are you being critical to get attention from other people there's a lot going on up here when you are constantly being critical of other people please understand you're not just being critical of other people and when you when you spot somebody that's being critical of of a lot of people then they're really telling on themselves there's an issue of value there's an issue of worth there's a fear that's going on here and then some of it may all be wrapped up into deception and uh we could we can do better than that uh being critical of others keeps people from getting too close to you right and you feel more protected and less vulnerable people don't like to become vulnerable it's a wall yeah well walls are put there because you want to keep people out well you want to keep people out but also you don't feel faith yeah it's a defense i don't i don't feel safe so i'm gonna build a wall right uh i'm gonna i need some defense so i'm gonna build a wall against being vulnerable becoming intimate letting down my guard receiving love yeah all that stuff so all that stuff anyway um we gotta let y'all go tomorrow tomorrow we're gonna be ministering to you from the pulpits yes come in yeah you need to get a hold of this i'm talking about the understanding series basic things that every christian needs to know and tomorrow i'm going to be talking about giving and i want to teach it correctly from a new testament standpoint so that uh you know every christian needs to know how important that is and that is a biblical a biblical truth that christians have as far as i've been in the ministry have tried their best to throw away like it's not there's a reason why and so uh we're gonna talk about that a little bit more hey guys have an amazing day today uh keep going through uh praise god all the way through and you know lord told me something i might talk about it tomorrow go through and come out on the other side yeah he said that his presence is going to be the master key to any trouble that comes your way in this season that's right you got all the keys that you need everything you need in his presence amen well good day everybody god bless you those of you who are about to go to bed heaven have a nice rest those of you who just woke up have a great day we love you and we'll see you soon bye-bye

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Published: Tue May 11 2021