Confessions and Give Your Attention to God

good morning everybody happy monday this is the day the lord hath made we will rejoice and be exceedingly glad in it and i pray you are getting a hold of the importance of making a decision to rejoice and to be exceedingly glad in it and so uh we're excited another week and yet our country is going towards a terrible milestone of 500 000 people died of covet that's more than like all the wars i think and um you know it really makes you think that you know god you know i want to make sure i'm ready and um we won't walk in any fear but it's just like wow this is just something to really open yourself up to man i mean it's just time to put all the tom foolishness aside and and just really trust god so we we're here to encourage you this morning and uh you know we don't know how many of you have have relatives that make up that uh that number but we are we are blessing you in the name of jesus and uh our heart goes out to you and we believe that the best is still yet to come um we thank god that your psalms 91 equipped every day and that we thank god that all is well with you and your house and um we love you and we send our our love our condolences our respect uh to those of you who loved ones have gone home to be with the lord and um you know we just we want to encourage you we we just want to kind of like let you know a lot of times you just don't know what to say when people go through that even though we've gone through it ourselves but you know it's just um uh brighter days are ahead but we still walk by faith and not by sight and it it uh it's the faith of god that just allows you to just keep going on and doing what needs to be done and uh the faith of god that helps you to recover the faith of god that strengthens you and um i'm gonna tell you you know me and my heart goes out someone lost their best friend yesterday and um we're just we're just believing god that um you know you're gonna see the goodness of the lord and and um you know uh the name of jesus is there and i'm glad that you know you have faith but i'm not here to do anything else but to encourage those who have gone through it you know um and um and and say that we love you and we appreciate you uh i'm not here to try to condemn anybody we're not here to try to condemn somebody's faith or you know some somebody must have did something wrong in order to do that no that's not the case at all uh and and we we certainly don't believe that we believe the bible says to to to rejoice with those who rejoice it also says to weep with those who weep that's right uh but we got to be careful sometimes not to over spiritualize things and and not be sensitive to what people are going through and what people have gone through and uh you know it's it's okay for us to weep with those who weep and rejoice with those who rejoice without you know uh using our spirituality to try to bring condemnation and shame towards people it's just not time to do that kind of thing and um so that's why i'm reaching out this morning to say you know and i'm glad taf is joining me that uh we just we want to just say we love you and we believe that god is able to bring you up and out of all of these situations and that that the best is yet to come be encouraged stay with jesus don't doubt for one moment remember god loves that loved one more than than you uh loved them and so it's an amazing thing and so we send blessings out to those of you who are watching from cairo egypt we send blessings to to those of you who have uh tuned in from cape town south africa um and we we bless you in jesus name so regardless of what you've gone through we send blessings to you uh in alabama uh we send blessings to all of you who are uh here from california we bless you guys in the name of jesus um yeah bolivia we uh jacksonville florida we send blessings to those of you in decatur georgia nigeria this morning we send blessings your way and um you know we yeah we still believe in healing and so you believe god that with his strife you're healed you believe god that you're already healed believe god that you're healed now before anything ever uh comes on your body and we send blessings to calgary this morning and and uh to massachusetts that uh you're blessed and and we're calling you blessed we declare that you live and go from one level of blessing to another level of blessing those of you in shreveport louisiana uh that's where our our good spiritual son and friend rick layton and barbara layton we we bless them in jesus name and and uh man we're just we're just believing god that listen there's nothing that can happen that should stop you from just staying with the word of god what what up what people experience doesn't change the word right and uh we stay on the word you know uh we send blessings to those of you in pretoria south africa uh miss you guys over there we send blessings to west palm beach uh we send blessings to baltimore and the united kingdom and uh you know we we're just we're just happy we got we got a lot of folks tuning in from south africa today and um we certainly miss you guys from india lots of love to the padas our friends over in india hyderabad we just thank god for you guys all is good those of you in cameroon god bless you uganda abu dhabi we thank god for you guys and uh yes yes god is so good and we're we're gonna celebrate the goodness of the lord and um you know you might have tears in your eyes but celebrate the goodness of the lord you might be coming out of a painful situation but give him praise anyway celebrate the goodness of the lord uh we send blessings to those of you in peace street city georgia uh for the to the philippines and uh uh missouri we send blessings to you guys we we want to declare right now that everything is going to be all right and so by faith we say that everything is all right so you you grab hold of that with your faith we send blessings to the kids over in thailand and and new jersey in durham north carolina you're blessed going in blessed coming out uh this is the day the lord has made amen and and and so i challenge you rejoice yeah rejoice in the day that lord has made and uh there's a joy and there's a peace in jesus christ that uh is so so so different than you know worldly joy and worldly peace uh this is the peace of jesus this is the joy of the lord amen and when you tap into that peace and and that joy um you you you walk in in a way that uh i'm telling you um god's good god is good god is good god is good i am so so excited blessed is those of you in connecticut and uh new mexico we send blessings to you guys hey world changers church uh international world changers church uh indianapolis new york world changers church orlando world changers church in the carolinas world changes church in canada in australia uh you know we just we thank god world changers church washington dc um we just we we send blessings to you guys all is well in the nation world changes church international world changes nation we just thank god for you guys man and uh i pray you're growing i pray you're growing every day i hope you got a hold of the message we started a new series yesterday on servanthood the pathway to success and blessings and um it was so refreshing to hear about the ministry that jesus operated in that jesus chose the form of a servant rather than to be equal with god and i'm so excited about it and i want to get deeper and deeper in it because if we all decide to travel down that path then uh we're all going to reap the benefits of knowing the power of god's increase and blessings and anointing like never before and i think sometimes the devil's trying to cover up uh certain amazing principles that jesus has put in the earth and that's one of them and so we love you guys and um you know god is good and and we come to you as servants today we come to you uh you know for it's almost a month now i mean excuse me a year right it'll be a year next year in march yeah we come to you guys in march yeah yeah and we we made a decision that we were going to hang in here together and all of you have uh been been in this with us and and we've been there with you and and that's what this is about us coming together and just encouraging one another that's right day by day saying to you it's gonna be all right even when it's not all right then you say it's all right and you know that's what we're gonna do we're not gonna curl up give up cave in and quit there is no quit in you the holy ghost is in you but there is no quit in you you are the light and i think as the community of believers that has been established here during the daily confessions is the fact that we're realizing that blessing and empowers us to move forward it empowers us to be the light to the world that we're supposed to be that encouragement that we get that we can go out and encourage someone else you know and people are really going through a lot of different things and we want to be sensitive to that and to know the word and have a relationship that we can be what god has put us here to be and to fulfill our purpose as the body of christ as the church those who bring encouragement good news and that we uh operate in what we're here to do amen praise god well let's uh go ahead and get psalms 91 equipped and then jeff and i want to share with you out of uh proverbs chapter four and uh verse 20. he talks about uh where we should be giving our attention and that is going to be vital in these last days you're you're you're seeing the dress rehearsal for some of the things that are going to happen in these last days yeah and um uh we want to make sure we pay attention to the answer that he's already given us and that is to give our attention to the things of god so let's get psalms 91 equip and then we're going to um go ahead and speak to some mountains and then we're going to minister that word to you today amen amen we're living in one of the most dangerous times and getting psalms 91 equipped is what we're doing because we enable the angels to be dispatched and so let's say this together i dwell i dwell in the shelter of the most high god in the shelter of the most high god i find rest in the shadow of the almighty i find rest in the shadow of the almighty god is my refuge and my fortress god is my refuge and my fortress in him i trust in him i trust with great confidence in him i rely with great confidence in him i rely he rescues me from every trap he rescues me from every trap and protects me from every disease and protects me from every disease i'm covered and protected i'm covered and protected by his outstretched arms as i'll stretch arms god's faithful promises are my armor god's faithful promises are my armor and my protection and my protection i'll not be afraid i'll not be afraid of the tears of the night of the tares of the night nor the arrows that fly in the day no the arrows that fly in the day i'll not dread any disease i'll not dread any disease that stalks in the darkness that stalks in the darkness or disaster that strikes at midday or disasters that strike at midday because god is my refuge because god is my refuge and the almighty god of my home the almighty god of my home no evil can befall me no evil can be following me no plague can come near my dwelling no player can come near my dwelling god orders his angels god orders his angels to guard defend and protect me and my house to guard defend and to protect me and my house they keep me from falling they keep me from falling i walk unharmed i walk unharmed and kick anything that is evil and kick anything that is evil out of my path out of my path because of god's love for me because of god's love for me i call upon him i call upon him he sets me above all my troubles he sets me above all my trouble delivers me from all my fears delivers me from all my fears honoring me with his presence and power honoring me with his presence and power he rewards me with long life he rewards me with a long life and shows me his so great salvation he shows me his so great salvation we receive that in jesus name where psalms 91 equip now let's speak to every mountain you know you can speak the mountains you don't have to climb them you can speak them you can speak to them you know some people i'm trying to climb this mountain or somebody say i'm climbing the rough side of the mountain you ain't got to climb the smooth side of the mountain you don't have to climb the mountains amen so let's go ahead and speak to every mountain uh say this after me sickness sickness fear fear anxiety anxiety discouragement stress stress depression depression oppression oppression jealousy jealousy bad temperament bad temperament anger anger tiredness tiredness laziness laziness heaviness heaviness unbelief unbelief doubt doubt addictions addiction struggles struggles hindrances hindrances unforgiveness unforgiveness poverty poverty lack lack insufficiency insufficiency hardness of heart heartness of heart spiritual blindness spiritual blindness and spiritual deafness and spiritual deafness i say i say be removed be removed and cast into the sea and cast into the sea in jesus name in jesus name i expect the best day i expect the best day of my life in my life spiritually spiritually emotionally emotionally relationally relationally physically physically materially materially today today in jesus name in jesus name i expect to prosper i expect to prosper and to be in health and to be in hell even as my soul prospers even as my soul prospers in jesus name jesus name i expect i expect to have divine appointments today to find appointments today to run into the right people to run into the right people and to be delivered from the wrong people and be delivered from the wrong people any adversity any adversity attacks attacks accidents accidents and tragedies and tragedies that were headed my way that were headed my way are diverted right now i dare verdict right now in jesus name in jesus name all is well all is well with me in my house with me in my house in the name of jesus in the name of the lord jesus and everybody said amen amen and amen praise god now let's let's look at this in in proverbs i believe it's uh i believe it's like key to the future and um i was thinking about this last night and i was thinking about this morning when i got up um it is so important that we prepare ourselves uh for an onslaught an on uh a situation where i think the enemy is coming after every christian with everything he has the problem with that is he's already he's already lost and somebody need to tell him he's already been defeated satan is a defeated foe right but we don't want you to be you know not informed on his strategies you remember that uh that thing you were explaining me years ago about how satan takes the time to develop strategy yes could you talk about that um over in ephesians i think it's chapter six um the fact that we have authority over all the um devices i think is one of the words that's used in strategies of the enemy and um even the fact that he is a thief as the bible describes him in john chapter 10 verse 10 that word is klepto and um it means to to be undetectable almost like um a pickpocket um i don't know if you you remember that movie will smith did it was called focus yeah he went around pickpocketing everybody and people weren't able to realize that they were wrong and so it's the same thing that strategy that he has is almost the same thing from when adam and eve were they didn't even know that they were being raw because he's so subtle and sneaky [Music] and just crap yeah very crafty yeah and so what has to happen is you have to you have to understand that he's going to come in [Music] uh like a kleptomaniac uh and use very clever inspiring words and speeches to rob you they sound like the truth it sounds like the truth and you get chill bumps and and in the middle of it you have been robbed you've been robbed of the righteousness of god and somebody comes and says some little real fancy statement and all it does is rob you of the righteousness of god you've been robbed of your healing because somebody comes in and they say something that's satisfying to your emotions but he's constantly sneaking in trying to rob you and if you don't give attention to the word and and prayer and power you'll sit back and won't even know you've been ripped off and and and something that belongs to you something that jesus died for you to have you've allowed that subtle crafty strategy of the enemy through thoughts and words to come in and to steal something from you that you had a right to the whole time yeah and we've been so ignorant the church has not been informed and he's taken advantage of the ignorance of having the voice of god and knowing who we are our identity and recognizing when he's speaking that we don't spend enough time with god to know his voice to the point where the enemy's voice we won't listen to it or follow it we spend so much time listening to the world that we're not spending time listening to god and you know there's a time now where people don't like to get in the bible they don't like to read the bible and satan's just sitting there like yay this is making my job easy let's go and pickpocket let's go and steal from let's rob them of a privilege this that jesus has already given to them and uh their negative emotions just getting us so emotional negatively to the point where we don't even realize that we're going right into the trap of the enemy being so emotional at church and not really knowing the things that we need to know when we get home and so consequently he just passes on and we in many instances open the door for defeat you know i also think it's even emotional immaturity and he knows that a lot of people are emotionally immature but they're people who appear spiritual and you know they sound spiritual and they jerk spiritual and they scream spiritual and it might be the enemy using all of that to just try to pick your pocket yeah because we used to think that was spirituality oh i thought it was spirituality until we found out the word is spirit and not jiggling no the word is spirit you know we we remember when we finally got a definition of the anointing i thought the anointing was was shaking and jiggling and shouting and all that and and i found out that the anointing removes burdens and destroy yokes he said somebody says well how do i know if i'm on the anointing if i fail on the floor well it's it's not falling on the floor that's evidence of the anointing it's how you got up see if you fell on the floor uh uh sick but you got up healed then you you've experienced the anointing and so we were satisfied with the cheaper and uh instead of the deeper you know we didn't mind falling out but we never got up with with any evidence the anointing removes burdens and destroys yokes the anointing is not about just the physical um response to the presence of god which i don't have any problem with that but the anointing removes the burden destroy the yoke and so when if you really want to know if you've experienced the anointing then you'll see the burden removed and the yolk destroyed but if there's no burns being removed and no yolk's been destroyed then how is it you're going to call it anointing when in fact you were just being set up to be robbed and and and that's a lot of that going on in church and somebody says a lot of what a lot of religion religion is what satan uses to pick your pocket yeah playing church not being the church just yeah going through the emotions and not really getting uh the results when we get back up right from you know and going home and you and i have never been satisfied with just being churchy or playing church if if it didn't and if it doesn't get results it's like what why am i wasting my time with something that doesn't get results it's kind of like somebody asked me well how do you know god is real well i compared it to a recipe how do i know the recipe for this chocolate cake is real i go in the kitchen and i cook it and if it if it turns out like the recipe says then probably a real recipe so likewise how do i know this word is real because i i take it in the kitchen and i cook it and i see the results of of that word coming forth and and and that's what a lot of people got to understand it's like dude you hadn't even you hadn't even tried the recipe your your big your bit you've been given a fake recipe and you won't even go in the kitchen to cook it to see if it's real and that's what amy is doing and i think that word is so significant that a klepto is picking our pocket and as a result of it we suffer we suffer the sickness we suck for the poverty we suffer the lack we suffer the sadness we suffer the depression we suffer the condemnation we suffer the shame and and satan uh he really really really really today i see a lot of this he's really using these three things condemnation shame and guilt and he is just he is just rocking and rolling in some people's lives and you don't even realize that that he just robbed you of the freedom that jesus has given you from those three things and you're still walking around letting him pick your pocket and you already have the answer so here's what the scripture says in verse 20. he says my son attend to my words and then climb thy ears unto my sayings uh the amplified says attend to my words consent and submit to my sayings that's so important we studied yesterday of those of you who join me for sunday service that jesus said i'm washing feet all right what do y'all learn from that and he says i didn't i'm not washing feet just so y'all can learn something i'm i'm washing feet so y'all can do it not necessarily watching feet but he says i'm demonstrating servanthood so y'all can demonstrate servanthood one to another see that is true there and it's also true renewing the mind we think renewing the mind is learning renewing the mind is changing renewing the mind is not just just learning learning is a part of it please understand that you got to learn before you can change but it's renewing the mind is not just learning it's learning something so you can put it into action to change some things in your life but he says that's not going to happen until you consent until you attend give attention to my word he says how do i give attention to my to your word get your ears involved listen to the word how often are you listening to the word on a weekly basis are you satisfied with the amount of word amount excuse me are you satisfied with the amount of time you're giving the word of god well i don't know why god didn't do this and i don't know why god didn't do that are you satisfied my answer when you ask me well how come god didn't do this or that my answer is are you satisfied with the amount of time you've been spending with god in his word okay so he says you know give your ear unto my sayings them 21 says let them words not depart from your eyes keep them in the midst of thy heart so through the ear gate and the eye gate you can allow the word to get in your heart your mouth gate yeah and your mouth see if it didn't get in your heart then it doesn't grow out into your life just like a seed if you plant a seed in the natural just just go outside and just throw it in the wind well it's probably not going to grow but if you plant it yes if you plan it and you plant it in your heart it will grow and he says uh for they are the word is life unto those that find them and health to all your flesh think of that the word is a seed that will produce the life and it will produce health so if you don't like your life plant a different kind of seed if you want your life to line up with all the blessings that god says it should be then you should be planting word seed if you want health in your life think about this he says you can be healthy you know there is something greater than healing is health and he said the word can be health so if you take that word it can be health the word is a is a is a supplement that if you take that word as a supplement every day it provides health so the key is you know keep thy heart with all diligence guard your heart with all diligence why why should we place a guard over our heart how can you guard your heart by guarding what goes through your eyes your ears and what comes out of your mouth yeah cause those are like weeds yeah they keep the word from bringing forth fruit as you plant the seed of the word then it should grow if it's planted in good ground right but if you let you know there's there's there's word god seed and then there's that crazy seed and if you if you're spending a lot of time with that crazy seed and it's going through your eyes your ears come out of your mouth remember you're planting in your heart somebody said ain't nothing wrong with what i said ain't not wrong what i'm looking at ain't not wrong what i'm hearing yeah let's just give it time and then you'll get a chance to see it yourself i mean you know how do you like it now i mean it's like that's the thing he's doing that's his strategy you you don't think nothing wrong with nothing you you think real freedom is is is the freedom to go and do stupid no freedom is not jesus then set you free so you can go do stupid jesus set you free so you can live right yeah he says be not deceived god's not mocked whatsoever a man that's what you're going to read that and about translation says that and that alone that alone is is what you're going to reap this is called the law of receiving that's right and i don't think people really understand that your life is the sum total of what you've planted in your heart and out of your heart perceives the issues or the forces of life your life is a sum total of what you've planted in your heart or what came through your eyes your ears and your mouth and so look at your life you don't like it plant a different kind of seed glory to god hey our time's up we love you guys so much we pray that you have an amazing time planting that's right uh and today you're gonna plant some word of god and you're going to give more attention to the word than you do to everything else and you can make your way prosperous you can have good success but you got to you got to you've got to think about what you're thinking about you got to check out your attention what you're giving your attention to so taft and i pray you give your attention to the word today and all is well with you and your life i see you tomorrow morning we love you stay encouraged now in jesus name bye-bye

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Published: Mon Feb 22 2021