God's Vision For My Life

[Music] [Music] if you have your Bibles last week as I said we looked at God's will and and really God's vision and and our vision for God's will in our life that's what it said this week we want to look specifically at God's vision for our life God's vision last week we focused on our vision for our life now we want to look at God's vision for our life and hopefully hopefully the two work together I mean wouldn't that be would it be good okay if your vision for your life and God's vision for your life we're one in the same any of you know you probably have a better life amen all right so give you a couple of scriptures first number one we have to remember in Psalm 89 verse 34 it says that God will not alter the thing that's gone out of his lips remember that God will not alter the thing that has gone out of his lips now that's just part of it I'm paraphrasing and you can read all of it we will read all the later on but I want you to realize in this that a lot of people think that the Old Testament in the New Testament are somehow opposed to one another right and they're really not opposed to one another it's just a different as well the way theologians would said it is a different economy okay I don't know why they use the word economy in that but basically it is the system that God had to use dealing with different types of people now his will has always been the same but we have to remember that under the Old Covenant God had to deal with people the way that a just and righteous God would have to deal with people that were not just and righteous so there was a system for that now that doesn't mean that God's Will was any different than it is now his will has always been the same and but there was a different way that he had to deal with people and even in the Old Testament we have to realize that God did not have to do anything man messed up God could have left it at that and said you're on your own but he didn't and even in the middle of messed up man God devised a system that would allow man to walk in some type of harmony and union with him until the end result until God could get things back to the way he actually wanted them to go so that he could actually work in and with people right and that means that his whole goal all along was literally to walk in man and to live in mankind now but because of man's fallen nature because of man's unrenewed man and all these things there was certain systems that God had to put in because natural man doesn't fellowship with God on a spiritual basis he has to fellowship with God based on rules because natural man only understands tell me what you want me to do and I'll try to do it and even then he messes up right so there had to be a way for a man to mess up and still get back into somewhat right relationship with God and that was the mosaic system the Abrahamic law we would say or the Abrahamic covenant the Mosaic law that you can see in the Old Testament now in the New Testament and this is what's so amazing because most people think that Jesus came along and said oh all that Old Testament all that long I could forget that right he didn't he was saying look the law was there and we know according to Roman's that the law was there to show us our need for Christ but the the law didn't show us a system that God didn't like the the law is wrapped up in the statement to love God and love your neighbor as yourself that's what Jesus said so if you and there are several scriptures that tell us this also that if we walk in love then we will fulfill the law of God do you got that now so I want to but talking specifically and the reason I'm saying it is because I and that's why I'm reading the scripture that God will not alter the thing that has gone out of his lips so God has not altered anything but now we see a a divine progression to where God is getting things into a place and now has got things into a place I should say to where he can walk with man the way he wants to all right now that was Psalm 89 34 and remember this okay cuz today we're talking about God's vision for our life remember this statement here's the statement actually this is from mark Hankins I've just mentioned him as what reminded me God will not make a plan for your life that does not require faith you hear that what does that mean that means that God has made a plan for your life that is beyond what you can do on your own right and it takes faith for you to be able to accomplish the will of God for your life it takes faith faith in God right for his will to be accomplished in your life so if you think that your you've got it all worked out and you're working toward you know and everything's your doing everything just right and you got your life exactly where you want it I can tell you if you've got your life exactly where you want it your life is not where God wants it right for you to have your life where God wants it you're gonna have to stay on that edge which means that at any moment everything could fall through because that's what faith is faith is trusting God to the point where if he doesn't show up everything will fall apart or you are quite okay anyway maybe you're thinking that's why I'll give you the credit you're thinking alright okay now Jeremiah chapter 29 verse 11 here's what it says know we used to add this hanging up here now if you notice or not well we've changed this up here a little bit more in tune with kind of our mentality I guess you would say the other one we had the church looking window and that kind of stuff naturally not along the lines of our mentality we are more Word of God soared Word of God kind of mentality so some I'm sorry Jeremiah 29 and this is the verse that most of you know and verse it will start in verse 11 it says for I know this is God speaking for I know the thoughts that I think toward you saith the Lord thoughts of peace and not of evil to give you and expected in right now that's King James now notice these works number one I know the thoughts that I think towards you now that word thoughts is number 42 84 in Strong's Concordance and the Hebrew Old Testament and the word literally means plans and intentions right so what God is saying is I know the plans and intentions I have for you you give that God knows his plans and intentions and intentions now then look what he says and these he says I know the thoughts that I think toward you say I thought thoughts of peace so if the word thoughts is plans and intentions then he says his plans and intentions are a piece you that not of hardship not of struggle not of these I'm not saying those things don't exist understand they are not God's will for you they may come because you fulfill God's will they make on the other hand they may come because you kick against God's will and you're not trying to fulfill his will you may have some problems in those areas now but here he said my thoughts of you my intentions for you or what plans and intentions of peace and what just and not of evil so God's plans and intentions for you or not evil they're not sickness or not disease or not lack they're not suffering through their not that those are not God's intentions or his plans for you you got that now this is straight out of the Bible and if you read Hebrew this is what you'd be reading you know two and agree to a degree I would say no so but now notice what he says the the plans and intentions he has for you our plans and intentions of peace now that word peace is number 79 65 Strong's Concordance and it is the word guess what word Shalom exactly the one almost everybody knows that word to some degree and it literally means to be safe to be well to be happy to be friendly in that it means also welfare health and prosperity so you know a lot people say well you know this prosperity gospel like I said what there are there are excesses absolutely absolutely excesses but you have to realize what God says and what God says you have to work from that and so God said hear my thoughts my intentions my plans for you are plans of Shalom peace prosperity health wellness happiness do you that God wants you happy believe it or not now I was raised Pentecostal that wasn't in the in in in the program okay when I was in the Pentecostal church the ideas you know the thoughts of us being happy was not really too strong right matter of fact if you looked happy they thought you must be off sinning somewhere don't be so happy no but we have to realize that's not okay looking like you just you know ate a fresh prune is not if you did that you fit in good with most religious people because that's how their idea of what how you should be but that's not God's idea right God's idea is that you have so long amen all right now notice what else he says and not of evil now that word not evil it's number 74 51 Strong's Concordance again and it means not of bad not of evil either natural or moral not listen this now not plans of adversity or affliction not bad not plans of calamity or displeasure or distress or evil okay not of grief none of those are God's plans you get that don't think about that if none of these things are God's plans then that means that if we're experiencing any of those things it is because somewhere we got off the path but if we get back on the path and be what we're supposed to be these are not God's plans for us now understand this because there is suffering in the Christian life but the suffering even according to Peter you know all the Bible writers basically especially even in the New Testament we should not suffer unnecessarily but if we suffer it should be because we are doing what is right and we are in this that kind of suffering is called persecution right now you can be persecuted by man you can be persecuted by demons they don't like you're doing right either and many times when you're trying to do right they'll try to attack you and these kind of things but just realize if you're going through that and and the scripture even says if any man suffer let him suffer because he's doing right right not because he's doing wrong right let him not suffer as an evildoer but because you do righteously amen so the key is and here's one of the main things that that for some reason a lot of people don't mix or - together okay we either need the Bible okay haven't you know we need the Bible all right now the Bible is here to give us the rules you wanna say that or even a game plan or have I'm trying to you know not make it sound like oh you got to walk this path in a certain way or you get smacked down because it's not God doing the Smackdown right but what I want you to realize is that if you could follow the Old Testament let's say proverbs if you went into proverbs and did everything in Proverbs right and how many of you know your life would be extremely blessed because the book of Proverbs is to give you wisdom so that you can know how to walk with God properly and when you walk with God properly then the blessings of God flow freely amen and st. now here's a problem see a lot of people can can see this but the problem is they know they have the Bible but then they have this idea that whether the Bible is here and it's it's what it says but really the real thing is God's over here and he's doing stuff behind the scenes that we don't see and he's doing things and sometimes this problem is his plan for my life and sometimes this sickness is going to teach me something and sometimes me going through this hardship was God's plan right now first off I just showed you from Scripture that's not true God's plan is that you live according to his word right so when if people for instance especially in the area of and and these are well two areas as we talked about last week health and finances those are the two men here's where most people need help and honestly in both areas usually the number one reason people need help in those areas is because they are not walking in accordance with the Word of God write it listen if you do not live according to the even the natural law you have a natural body your body is not glorified yet it's not immortalized yet have I agree with that okay so you're still in this natural body okay and as long as you're in this natural body there are natural rules that would apply to keep this body working accurately and correctly right now the power of God can supersede those rules that God gave us the body and he gave us the natural rules of our body to live by so he does not expect us to violate the natural rules indefinitely amen now you can go through anything for a period of time and many times when you go let's say you go overseas you go somewhere not always overseas but for me when I've gone overseas usually it's a drastic change and sometimes it's a drastic change in eating and sleeping and all these things you know first off you have different time zones and all that but then you have different times and ways that you do things so there's a drastic change but usually I'm hardly ever overseas for more than a month at a time just because of the responsibilities I had back here so I know that for a month you know if my sleep is you know a couple of every now and then you go a couple of days without sleep because you're doing something that it requires it okay my body can handle that because God is there and he can handle what I need to do and he'll he will supersede the natural laws of needing sleep and needing certain amount of nutrition a certain amount of food and I can said all that can be superseded for a while but then whenever I come back home I try to get back into a natural routine of things right and so I don't now understand I trust God all the time to keep me well no matter what I'm doing right because it's not about well let me put this way me staying healthy isn't just you know trying to eat right and drink of water and exercise and you know either I don't get new good nutrition anyway because the way I eat so I do supplements whenever I think about them and so yeah that kind of stuff and but that is not what keeps me healthy because even if I did all that just right I'm still touching sick people every day right and usually what they have is contagious all right so I can't rely on nutrition and exercise to keep me healthy I have to rely on the power of God to keep whatever I'm touching from jumping on me right otherwise I'd be hesitant and just send prayers to you and say no you don't need to clear I don't need to lay hands on you I'll pray for you from here all right so but generally I've never turned down laying hands on anybody and believe me I've touched some some diseases and things that are highly contagious and have never caught anything I mean it's been amazing if you went on trips and you see some of the some of the sad situations and and even not even the trips every day I get texts and usually the many times they'll have pictures of horrific situations that people are going through and most of those I have laid hands on there's real I don't know of any sickness or disease that I haven't laid hands on and I've never caught it because my faith in God is that he will keep me protected because I'm doing what he said to do amen and he has proven himself true across the board now I also know that even without touching sick people if I just constantly go and go and go and don't drink enough water and you know and drink too many cokes and oh you know and eat like I normally eat I know that eventually my body starts to wear down it starts to get tired quicker it's I don't get sick but I can tell sometimes whenever I need okay back off the cokes okay I call that my saturation limit I have reached saturation so I'll drink more water okay so but the reason I'm saying is because there are natural laws that God gave us and most of the reasons why people are sick or many I can't say most but a lot of times it's because we have violated these natural laws for so long that eventually our our violation of the natural laws catches up to us right now the good thing is guess what even if that happens god is good he's merciful he heals no matter what even if it's our own stupidity he still heals saying man aren't you glad God didn't say well I'm sorry you're just too stupid I'm not gonna do it I'm not no no he does it anyway amen so but it's the same thing with finances many times people go through financial struggles not because well mainly because say this it is mainly because they're not putting into practice the principles of what God put in his word of how to prosper financially it's just that simple God is not picking you know you be rich in you before God God hadn't done that right he allows you to choose how much of his blessing you allow into your life and but many times we're raised around circumstances that we don't learn the biblical principles in finances or healing or health or anything else and because that we suffer from it but if you start listen there are natural people not even born again that do the the the principles of the Bible for help and for finances and they're blessed and they're not even know God what because they are laws and they work right the law of sowing and reaping works for the farmer whether he's a believer in agnostic or an atheist what because God put the laws of motion that you do it this way this is what work and it's the same thing with help the same thing with finances it's the same thing across the board God is an equal-opportunity blesser and then he makes the rain well the Sun does shine I should say back then rain was the real blessing many times because it made the crops to grow but God makes a Sun to shine on the just and the unjust what because God is just he is good amen too many times and I've been around a lot of Christians even before I was ministering I was in church and people thought oh if I'm not walking right where God wants me then God is making my life hard God didn't have to make your life hard if you're not walking where he wants you right you're making your life hard because you're not keeping the the principles that God has put into into practice or into existence I would say this makes sense so it is not God deciding whether you're blessed or not God even told me said look this day I put before you blessing and cursing life and death you choose he said if you walk in my statutes if you walk according this you're gonna be blessed if you don't you'll be cursed in that simple so really when it comes down to it all we gotta do is look in the mirror if we want to see our biggest problem Satan is not your biggest problem we are our own biggest problem what because we decide how much of God's Word we follow see Satan can't make you do anything he can only suggest things to you and hope that you bite at the bait and that you walk his way cuz he's you know God and Satan are both doing the same thing they're both whispering you know they're both whispering your ear Satan is pushing you and trying to get you to do the things that God says no come on let's do the right thing let's do it this way so there they're both trying to get you to follow them amen but you make the choice so we can't blame God but what we have to and this is one of the biggest hindrances to receiving the blessings of God in your life is that we think that God is in the background some puppetmaster pulling the strings that is dictating our life when he said no here's how I want your life to be I want to give you I have mine my plans for you my intentions for you are good they are sure long they are to give you peace they're to give you happiness and health and strength and life and prosperity why because he wants you to be a blessing and not just always having to be blessed I mean he doesn't want you to live in perpetual need a blessing he wants you to live as a perpetual blessing to be able to help any man the Bible says give to any man that ask you and so we are to be able to help now that means automatically we say give thee man that ask you most people they owe money yeah I suppose give to anybody that's money it's not always just money it could be anything it could be healing you should be able to lay hands on anybody anytime anywhere and set them free right so it's not just one area it's across the board say to we compartmentalize our quote/unquote religion and we think well the gods interested in this but he's not interested in that God has plans for your entire life he doesn't have plans just for your religious life you got that what because your entire life affects your religious life right if God wants you to think of his on his word and think of him night and day 24/7 then how many of you know that if you're if they're fixing to you know repossess your car or lose your job how many know your mind isn't going to be on him 24/7 why because if you have responsibilities your mind is going to kind of keep trying to go back to the problem at hand and so that's not his will for you and if you're in that situation you can't always bless other people and so you have to see the overall plan of God the big picture you might say of what God has for us now I need to move along here notice it says thoughts of peace and not of evil to give you an expected end here that God hasn't expected in and you are to haven't expected in God has given you and expected in he has an end that he expects for you and he wants you to expect that end that means that you are to know his will we proved that last week from Scripture so if you know his will you know his expected end right you know his plans and you might not always know every detail of every step of his plan but you can know look if it's heading this way that's his plan if it's heading this way that's not his plan see that's why the Bible is not a book of details you cannot find in this book where you are to live what car you're to drive even who you're supposed to marry and that right why because it's not a book of details it's a book of principles and whenever you get the principles that's why Jesus as a principle he said this you know a principle means we would even say like a law okay but I don't want to think of law of okay if you mess it up God's gonna smite you I'm not talking about that kind of law I'm talking about like the law of gravity the law of gravity works whether you're savory unsaved right the law of gravity works all the time you can supersede it but it's working and even whenever you superseded it's still working you have just superseded it and then the law of gravity doesn't stop on this earth amen it can be superseded that's why planes fly the law of gravity is superseded by the law of aerodynamics so there are actually by the law of lifts is actually what they would call it anyway so but now notice God hasn't expected in for you and he wants you to know the expected end that he has for you to do that you need to know his will which has have already said last week he has shown us that no but here's what the word expected means okay it's number 86 15 Old Testament again it means literally a chord a chord like an attachment something tied to one another okay and it means literally expectancy it means to hope to live or the thing that I longed for now think about that God has an end that he longs for for you and he has an end that he wants you to long for do you that now as I said Jesus spoken even in terms of principle not in terms of specifics or details but his if you go by the principle you can know the details okay but if you don't know the principles you'll be really questioning the details let me give you one principle what did Jesus say in John 10:10 the thief cometh not but for to what steal kill and destroy a principle now he didn't say the thief comes to make you sick but the detail of making you sick is in the principle of he comes to skip to kill steal and destroy these do you see that so God is not telling you specifically but he's telling you by principle Jesus spoke by principle Jesus was the Express image of God what he did was the express life of God right he showed us the father he said if you've seen me you've seen the father what does the father like oh you want to father like watch me watch how I live watch I'm compassionate watch I touch the sick and they get well that's what God is like you want to know God watch I live now it says that he is the complete total expression of God that means there is not one part of God that Jesus did not show us think about that not one part of God that Jesus did not show us now so that means that basically God does not do anything that Jesus did not show us now here's the question never yeah I guess it'd be a question show me one time in the Bible where Jesus made somebody sick because if he was the perfect expression of God and he's going to show us every aspect of God if it is in God to make us sick even for our own good even so we'll learn something from it then somewhere Jesus had to do that or Jesus did not show us all of God is that right so if Jesus didn't do it it's not God's will alright so now let's look at some things so would we say healing is God's will yeah he did it a whole lot I mean they're right okay let me ask this is feeding the hungry God's will right must because Jesus did it didn't he he multiplied food and gave it out right and had more left over than when he started again that's a principle what he was sowing and when you sow you reap more than you so right we can see this is that God's will that we take care of even our natural thing even things that God didn't ordain right okay let me give you the example what did Jesus send Peter to do whenever they needed money for taxes he's a go fish and notice he used a natural thing that Peter knew how to do right he used a natural thing and he didn't say well forget that that's not important that's natural and I'm not going to deal with that no he'd done with the natural ok think how many of you would love to have Jesus pay your taxes amen okay and some of you need it all right because it'd be a miracle so all I'm saying is that God is interested in every aspect of your being every aspect he has a plan for you right now I'm not saying and and let me let me be very clear here I'm not telling you that you need to get on your face before God and not get up until he has given you a complete detailed list of the next 10 20 30 years of your life I'm not talking about that that's where faith comes in that you move and you step and you realize that we make our plans but God directs our steps you know there's there's a lot of plans that I make that God says yeah that's good but we're going to do this and it will be back over here so because many times just like in the Old Testament Isaiah saw the reigning Messiah envision right he also saw the suffering Messiah but he didn't see the two together and he saw different times different pictures they say that prophecy in the Bible is they call it the mountain tops of prophecy in other words you could see from one mountaintop to the other but you don't always see the valley in between and so many times you'll see things and people especially the Jewish people at the time they could not see especially during the time of Jesus they could not see the suffering Messiah all they saw was a new as they was a new David you know somebody then knew Joshua somebody they would come along a new Moses that would come along and do these great and amazing things but they didn't see the really great and amazing thing of the suffering Messiah that would go through all of this suffering for the people so many times you see the mountaintops of prophecy but you don't always see the the valleys in between and those are the details so the principles or the mountaintops but the valleys will not say are some of the details that you figure out now when I talk about a valley I'm not saying that it's right or good or biblical for you to be on a mountaintop one day and in a valley the next I'm not saying that right because I I know these are all terminologies that religious people use and I don't use them that way right do I walk through valleys yeah but most time don't even notice it what because I'm walking with God when you walk with God well who cares if you're walking on a mountaintop or in the valley it's all good amen I don't mean every experience is good because sometimes you can have bad experiences but God is with you amen and so it's not very well I'm in the valley you know I've seen so many Christians been around so many Christians that one day on they're on the mountaintop next day they're in the valley and you can tell the difference right now I'm not saying there any problems yeah I go through things family stuff ministry stuff people's stuff I mean you know I saw a sign the other day I said I used to be a people person then people ruined it so I have a sign right there on my desk I mean my desk is you know I'm about three foot wide I guess so much that maybe I guess and right there under I put a sign right there I bought a long time ago it's been all over my office different places but there are times when I take it I move it and I put on the other side of my desk and it's facing me it's not facing out facing me why cuz I need to read it you know what it says when you think about quitting think about why you started that stays on my desk what because every day I'm getting an opportunity to quit right but instead every day sometimes slower than others but every day I keep walking I keep stepping you keep moving forward right what cuz that's God's will right why stop because then you're not even doing God's will if you think things are bad when you're doing God's will try not doing it that's when things get bad okay so now let's keep moving now look at this and expected to have a an expectancy of too long for something and expected in another word end it means literally it's number of 3:19 Old Testament Strong's it means the last or end hence the future also posterity so God knows that he has an expected posterity for you he knows what your legacy is going to be he knows what he expects for your history to be he knows and he has an expected plan for you to and is a good one not a bad one not evil say most times you talk to people you ask them what you know give me a quick summary of your life 90% of its gonna be just griping and complaining basically because I know you don't understand it's bad it's tough it's always right no that's that is not the expected end God has for you that's not the posterity that God has for you and now you may be going through some things but I've known people that you know two opposite people going through the exact same thing at the same time and you talk to them and you would think these are two different people living under totally different circumstances because one side is oh it's bad it's horrible has never been worse and the other side is oh man it's great it's wonderful I'm moving forward I'm walking with gut it's what you focus on right many people focus on the problem the situation the circumstances and the Bible tells us what to keep our mind on what think on these things things that are good pure holy it's in that right now you can't think on things are good and pure and all these other things that he says to think on and stay down you can't do that you you you have to look at and you have to say okay yeah this circumstance the bad why focus on that you know tomorrow will be a different circumstance maybe even later today it'll be a different circle who knows but regardless I'm walking with God amen but you can put yourself in a bad part is when you put yourself in that frame of mind to where you're focusing on the bad then you are also doing some things and you can search out some stuff from dr. Caroline leaf on this that whenever you think and these things it literally sets up negative a negative frequency because you're in electrical you are an electrical system basically and there is a certain frequency you operate at and when that frequency is operating optimally guess what you're healthy you're strong you're mentally stable everything is good but whenever that frequency changes and we would even say that vibration of your frequency changes it's just like you know driving a car too fast for too long eventually things start shaking apart and so why cuz you were never meant to live in constant stress and usually when your mind is on the bad all the time you're in you put yourself in constant stress and your mind actually causes your body to start to shake apart so when he says think on these things he wasn't just saying oh let's be good spiritual Christians no he said look I want you to stay healthy you can't stay healthy and think negative you can't do it it's impossible eventually you will suffer physical breakdown some mental breakdowns and everything and it's all based on where you put your mind it's not God and it's not even the devil it's you making the decision right now the devil's right there going oh yeah what about this what about that and God's going to get but what about this what about that I think God's trying to remind you think on the positive think on the good things think on the the things that I provided for you think matter of fact yeah and God does not say listen ignore problems he never says it he says deal with it you got a problem I got an answer your problem is this my scripture is that answer apply the scripture think on these things think on the things they you say but you know understand the doctor just said I got this diagnosis and got says oh but you don't understand I gave you the cure for the diagnosis before the doctor ever gave the diagnosis so that shows you that I'm thinking about you before you the doctor even knew of you right so think on things that are good that appear there holy a good report praiseworthy amen so you decide where you keep him out now I'm not saying it's easy it's not easy why because you are constantly bombarded with the negative you're constantly bombarded with oh what about this oh this is gonna happen oh you know this is happening that's happening this is gonna be bad just going and you know prepare for it no what you have to remember is that no matter what God is with us if God is with you if he's not with you it's real easy get with him right you know so some people might not want to hang out with you but if you just hang around them ain't nothing they can do about it right that's kind of way it is with God okay okay we'll just leave that there anyway okay now notice now look at verse 12 know we've really we've went through knitting that when I'm studying this is usually the way I do it I will take the scripture and then I go into the concordance and I look up every word and then many times I'll look at different translations because I don't want to make you know I don't want to see it one way I want to look at how most people have seen it usually the majority of people together usually many times they're they're accurate sometimes they're not but you'll almost always find at least one somebody that says it differently and especially if you find that it says it different you'll find somebody that says that and then you can actually go through it and check it out the real key is find out what it was actually says without any predetermined idea or preference right it's amazing what you'll find out when you don't care what you find out right when you don't care but when you have a certain idea you get tunnel vision and you start seeing everything the same way right now in verse 12 now notice this he just said I know the plans I know these and good plans not bad plans not evil good plans plans of peace plans of prosperity plans of advancement I know these good plants is that what he said plans that give you an expected in not a dreaded end and expected one with expectancy if it's if it's bad you're not going to look at it with expectancy you're going to look at it with dread that makes sense so he gives you a plan for your life that he wants you to look at with expectancy I have a sign by my bed did every morning they some you know how I normally sleep when I opened my eyes there's a Sun the first thing I see and it says wake up each morning I remember exactly what it says no but it says wake up each morning as though something wonderful is about to happen that's the first thing I see when I open my eyes right what because that's how one live my life I have another son somewhere around I don't know what's that right now but it said I got signs and stuff all over the place but it said there are two ways to live one as is as if nothing is a miracle the other is as if everything is a miracle I prefer to think everything is a miracle I prefer to live that way not I mean I understand everything is not great everything is not wonderful but I would rather expect the wonderful I'd rather expect the good then expect the bad because what you expect is what you get amen now think about this you can manage so what you expected what you get and it's this bad man and I'm thinking pop well okay now think about it if you've been thinking positive and it's this bad imagine how bad it be if you thought negative I'm just giving you some hope okay now after he said all of that right after he said all this I expect it in I want you to expectancy it's a good thing it's good plans laughs right now watch then he says in verse 12 then then when now after after you know this after you know his plans for your life right then shall you call upon me and you shall go and pray unto me and I will hearken unto you what because what are you gonna pray you're gonna pray his plan do you get that you don't pray the problem you pray the plan pray the blessing pray the answer amen God God already knows the problem it's you're like in business you know people that can point out the problem or a dime-a-dozen it's the person that knows the problem doesn't dwell on the problem but looks for the answer and comes to the boss with an answer that's the person who gets promoted why because they're not a dime-a-dozen they are worth their weight in gold amen and so it's the same thing with God God is looking for the people that will come to him with the answer not with a problem he already knows the problem he knows probably better than you do he even knows when you caused the problem right I don't you caught that or not but anyway we'll move on so he said in verse 13 and you shall seek me and find me when you shall search for me with all your heart I see there's another problem that's another reason why many people say you know I try to walk with God and I don't understand he seems so far away it's because you're not searching from with all your heart you know you're searching for him to a degree and you know you know that somebody recently was talking about jailhouse religion you know how people go to jail and they get all something get real spiritual right and they're praying to God we'll get them out when they get out usually they left their religion in the jail right and so whenever and God no God knows that problem he knows it that you whenever you were many times when you're calling out to him and you're saying oh god help me help me here and I'll do this and you make all these promises even in you you know you're not going to keep them right and you're just saying things you know it was a movie years ago I came here what is now but and I probably I'm I'm actually giving you a little bit of I'm dating myself you might say on this that I think it had Dom DeLuise do you remember him okay and I think the other person it was Burt Reynolds I think those two were in it and they were in a raft something out in the ocean and they started praying to God to save them Oh God and they had a lot of money or something god I'll give you God I'll get I'll give you I'll give you 99 percent of everything I got if you just get us to shore God if you just get us to shore and the closer to shore they got the lesser percentage got you know to where they finally when they started getting out and kind of walking in the sand and the water color guy you know Cohen God ten percent do you really need my ten percent I mean I thought you had more I mean it was it's amazing how realistic that is so you make promises keep them and then so now let's look at Ezekiel chapter 36 Ezekiel thirty now I'm gonna give you remember first we're talking about God's will for your life his vision for your life but now notices and Ezekiel 36 I'm remember a principle okay verse one also thou son of man prophesy unto the mountains of Israel and say now notice he told man Ezekiel to prophesy any told him what to say do you that so the principle is to prophesy and the principle of prophesying is to know what to say and what you say is the Word of God together that you can prophesy your own future what because you are the greatest prophet in your life what because if you believe what you say you shall have what you say and then now and and if somebody else prophesized into your life then you can believe what they say or you can refuse what they say right some of God's prophecies are conditional and some are unconditional and you can see the difference but conditional says if you do this then I will do this that's a conditional prophecy it means if you do something God will do something other prophecies God is saying you know it usually says something along the lines of as surely as I live this will happen when God says that most of times it's not good right you read it it was like whoa these people have really upset him now usually because they did something against God's people or God's people did something against him right but now notice here he says also thou son of man prophesy unto the mountains of Israel and say you mountains of Israel hear the word of the Lord thus saith the Lord God because the enemy has said against you AHA even the ancient high places are ours in possession therefore prophesy and say and what now notices God is saying son of man person human I want you to prophesy because these people are saying this I want you to say God's word against that situation do you that ok have you ever maybe wondered like I say this what if Christians actually did what God said to do think of the difference in the world would be ok let me give you one example too many Christians agree with the world with how things are going to be and it really doesn't matter what they say but when we agree with them what we say comes to pass that's why it's so wrong for most of you to get your opinions from the nightly news why because they're telling you how things are going to be now you look at recent let's give you I'll give you a recent example stock market BAM it hit low and then started trying to build back up a little bit not a whole lot but what everybody keep doing oh they keep talking oh it's going to get bad it's gonna get bad oh it's going to be bad what happened boom it gets lower and it kept getting lower right what because of expectation and now I'm not saying that just because you are saying it it's automatically happening I'm saying they're saying and then their actions have actually taken their stock out or taking their money out of stock yeah that's going to make it drop obviously but I'm saying this Christians start agreeing with it oh yeah oh did you notice this now think about that we have the ability as the ecclesia to dictate the spiritual and natural conditions in the area that we have influence over now every area you have influence over is the area you participate in and put this way if you didn't vote shut up because you got nothing to say if you're not going to participate don't graph about winning or losing right why cuz you're not participating it's the same thing if you're not in a stock market don't talk about it it's none of your business you give that now if you're involved in it you better start speaking life into that thing because it's on life support right now okay so I will tell you you know full disclosure I have nothing in the stock market so I you know it doesn't make any difference to me either way right but I'm using that as an example that as Christians at some point we're supposed to be the priests of this world and be the purveyors of God's blessings on to this earth all of creation is waiting for the sons of God to manifest that what does that mean that means that this whole system this whole earth is waiting for us to grow up speak up and show up that's what he's waiting on right that's what this earth is waiting on and so we when we talk like the world what does that mean that means that we're still a natural thing which means we're not grown up yet so we have to start looking at things and speaking according the Word of God God told Ezekiel son of man prophesy and say hear the word of the Lord and then he said the word of the Lord so what did he tell us we are to prophesy prophesied to your life to your situation to your job to York something you may need to process out of your car right I've had two profits out of mine many times okay it does pass we had the prophesy praying fast okay cuz I had faith in God I didn't have any faith in that car that was drivin okay but so you have to prophesy over every area of your life but you are also it's not just about your life it's about being a blessing to this world Jesus was a blessing to the world is that right and we ought to be a blessing to this world so we are to have impact on this world so that's one of the reasons why there is so much problems in politics is because for so long the church said oh don't get involved in politics that's natural and we're spiritual and we stay out of it and we have enforced this idea of separation of church and state which is not in the Constitution right it was just something written by Thomas Jefferson and had no legal standing whatsoever right but now it's become it's been said so many times that we think now it's part of the Constitution or somewhere in there it's not even in there right there's nothing in there it says Christians stay out of politics amen and we need to realize if we want to sing the run right we need Christians in politics right why because when the righteous rule the people live in peace right but all it takes is for for evil to reign is for good men to do nothing so that ought to tell us something right there anyone now so with that I'm announcing my candidacy tonight goodness I wouldn't step down to a lower office like that for anything in the world all right let's look at verse we look at verse where we at verse three therefore prophesy and say thus saith the Lord God because they have made you desolate and swallowed you up on every side that you might be a possession under the residue of the heathen and you are taken up in the lips of talkers and are an infamy of the people therefore you mountains of Israel hear the word of the Lord God thus saith the Lord God to the mountains and to the hills and to the rivers to the valleys to the desolate wastes and to the cities that are forsaken notice what he's speaking to everything is bad you see that everything is forsaken it's desolate it's waste it's bad that is you don't see that in Genesis chapter 1 when God looked around and said he created all the stuff and said what it is good and here he's saying look at all this bad he said I want you to profits out of the bad notice he didn't prophesied it to the good he's prophesying to the bad he got that because things are bad he says into the desolate wastes the cities that are forsaken which became a prey and derision to the residue of the heathen that are roundabout therefore therefore one because of all this because of the situation everything is in therefore thus saith the Lord God surely in the fire of my jealousy have I spoken against the residue of the heathen and against all Adam and which have appointed my land into their possession with the joy of all their heart with despiteful minds to cast it out for a prey prophesy therefore concerning the Land of Israel and say to the mountains and to the hills to the rivers to the valleys thus saith the Lord God behold I have spoken in my jealousy in my fury because you have borne the shame of the heathen and where does God didn't like that you hear that therefore does say it a little God I've lifted up my hen surely the heathen that are about you they shall bear their shame know where things are about to change you know that I'm gonna shift this thing over but now notice for this shift to take place what had to happen a man had to prophesy to prophesize simply means to speak the end-result before it happens do you get that so he had to get a man to speak not what man saw but what God wanted to be so if you're gonna prophesy in your life you have to be able to prophesy not what you see if you're saying what you're seeing you're not prophesying to give that if you're saying what you're seeing you're not prophesying you can only prophesy when you're saying what you can't see but you're saying what God sees you get you get that now and if y'all realize how serious this is right and the opportunity we have know he says in verse 8 but you o mountains of Israel you shall shoot forth your branches and yield your fruit to my people of Israel for they are at hand to come in other words in all this bad stuff this way but now I mean he said I'm telling you your future is good right there's life when you shoot fourth branches that means growth it means the extension it means advancement right now go with me to Ezekiel chapter 37 just the next chapter down most of you know this scripture I've heard of it in verse 1 it says the hand of the Lord was upon me and carried me out in the Spirit of the Lord and set me down in the midst of the valley which was full of bones and caused me to pass by them roundabout and behold there were very many in the open Valley and lo they were very dry now drive that means bad you get that it's a bad situation and he said unto me son of man can these bones live and I answered Oh Lord God you know again he said unto me prophesy upon these bones and say unto them so now what is he doing he's speaking to bones right which makes absolutely no sense so if you're gonna do what God wants you to do it's probably not going to make sense what because most people don't think like God thinks right oh ye dry bones hear the word of the Lord thus saith the Lord God unto these bones behold I will cause breath to enter into you and you shall live and I will lay sinews upon you and will bring up flesh upon you and cover you with skin and put breath in you and you shall live and you shall know that I am the Lord so I prophesied as I was commanded and as I prophesied there was a noise and behold a shaking and the bones came together bone to his bone and when I beheld lo the sinews and the flesh came upon came up upon them and the skin covered them above but there was no breath in them then said he unto me prophesy unto the wind prophesy son a man here I keep saying prophesy prophesy he's encouraging him remember the story about the arrows and he said fire the arrows and he eats and he fired three arrows and he said these are the errors of the Lord deliverance and he said oh you should have you should have fired more errors you should have hit you know more times he said because you didn't do it enough you didn't destroy the enemy but if you'd have done it more you were to destroy the enemy remember the story think about that all of that net could God have done it differently yes but he has a plan he has a way that he does things and the way that he does things relies upon man to do God's will do you give that it doesn't just happen too many times we can see over and over again what happened was not necessarily the way God wanted it but it would happen according to the limitations of what man did so many times God wants us to be prophesied but that don't make sense it doesn't make any sense for me to smile you know I I'm gonna go get in a room by myself somewhere so nobody sees me and thinks I'm crazy and I'm gonna start speaking to these things that's exactly what you're supposed to do well that don't make sense good what does that mean it means you're out of your head and probably getting into God's head amen so just because it doesn't make sense don't mean you don't do it a lot of things don't make sense before you see the result okay then he says son of man prophesy on the wind prophesy Son of Man it's an eye cast to keep encouraging him no do this do this and say to the wind thus saith the Lord God come from the four winds o breath and breathe upon these slain that they may live so I prophesied as he commanded me and the breath came into them and they lived and stood up upon their feet an exceeding great army as always known as the vision of the dry bones or the valley of dry bones it's also talking about Ezekiel's army so I'm assuming you've probably heard preaching along these lines for don't know what all you've heard about it but the whole point and and too often we will take one thing and then make it mean something sometimes it's ababil never intended but the principle is there that God says you can prophesy to even the dead dry bones and it will cause it but now notice they didn't just jump up alive it was step by step step by step you get that first there had to be the sinew in the skin and then the breath had to come in too so it was a by step many times now I'm not saying God didn't do miracles he does miracles obviously but many times he wants you to walk through the process of a miracle so that you actually know how to do this and the beauty of this is by reading his EQ here we know the process of a miracle even if it takes a bit of time we know that if we notice how many times he had to prophesy notice how many times Ezekiel had to prophesy he presided in the in his chapter 36 he had to prophesy again in chapter 37 he didn't just prophesy once and let it go he had to continue to prophesy what because that showed continued faith in God Amen if there's nothing keeping you know I'd really like to help I reacted but I just can't you know I'd really like to have it to help with the outreach you know to buy clothing you know for the homeless I'd love to do I just don't have the money I just don't have money to give I really want to just don't have the money together great then murder but it's so I can't do anything yes you can't speak you can prophesy you can prophesy that the homeless will be closed amen and guess what God will start moving on the hearts of some businessman to donate you know maybe some company or someone donate coats who knows right the key is is not that you have to know how it's going to happen you just have to know it's going to happen because you prophesied and because it's God's will that you're at least in alignment with God's will amen then when you hear by didn't go high oh I had something to do with that what my faith in God had something to do with that amen rather than just sit back a well you know isn't that amazing that's a miracle God just did it now somebody somebody spoke it right if they didn't speak it how did somebody know to do it amen all right so now you notice he goes on and he says in verse 11 then he said unto me son of man these bones are the whole house of Israel behold they say our bones are dried and our hope is lost we are cut off for our parts therefore prophesy and say unto them he said now that God is telling his Iko here's what the house of Israel saying here's what they're saying now here's what I want you to do therefore because they're saying this I want you to prophesy and say this near that notice Ezekiel had to prophesy in response to what people were saying you get that what because what were they saying not the will of God so thus saith the Lord God behold O my people I will open your graves and cause you to come up out of your graves and bring you into the Land of Israel and you shall know that I'm the Lord when I have opened your graves o my people and brought you up out of your graves and shall put my spirit in you and you shall live and I shall place you in your own land then shall you know that I the LORD have spoken it and performed it saith the LORD now here's another reason why you need to prophesy alright I don't care who you're around I don't care what family you got around you I don't care if they're believers non-believers it doesn't make any difference whatsoever you need to be prophesying God's will in your life in the middle of the problem because as long as the problem is going on people are seeing the problem and when they see once you prophesy and God brings it to pass then people can go in that amazing no it's not amazing God's amazing one because I prophesied this because this was his will and then they will know that the Lord your God has done it for you do you get that do you understand that see if you don't prophesy this one this is why so many people don't see miracles in their lives because they're so afraid to say because they always know what they say well I'm afraid to say it because what if it doesn't happen then believe me if you say and it doesn't happen ain't nobody gonna remember you saying it why cuz if the situation's got worse right there any worried about what you said but the thing is if you say it whenever you start saying they may make fun of you they may laugh at you and go yeah okay whatever you are I see you're in that naming payment bunch you know yeah blab it and grab it you know whatever it is you know whatever you're part of that bunch well you know what I don't let's just do it let's say it that it did not work let's just say it's all farce and it did not work I would rather rather go through problems with a positive expectancy toward God than to go through problems with hopelessness and just end up giving up amen you know the beauty of it is it works well how do you know it works correct because the Bible says it I've seen it I've done it it works it's that simple right so I'm not questioning whether it does I'm saying even at the very least if it didn't at least you'd have a positive mindset you know doctors usually won't even operate on you if you're in a negative mindset do you know that that they will wait until you don't try to cheer you up get you in a positive mindset before they'll perform surgery one because they know that your negative mindset many times there is no explanation for one that person died the surgery went ok or they just died one mindset they put themselves in a grave because of their negative mindset it happens all the time it's amazing how you know and people oh I don't believe that stuff well eventually science will catch up and then you can believe science I still believe in God that's what too many people do that's one of the things about dr. Caroline leaf as we mentioned earlier all she is doing is verifying with science things that I would I would have to say a lot of the Word of Faith people were saying for years and everybody is making fun of them and saying all this stuff you know this or that it doesn't work on stuff and now she's verifying it with science and a funny thing is people are jumping on the bandwagon ag1 oh yeah you know this is science well don't take credit for that your belief in science not the Bible it takes faith to believe God first and then let science catch up what because eventually science will catch up at least to some degree I'm in quantum physics is just another word for faith talk that's what faith talk when faith speaks it speaks in terms of quantum physics right that's just how it is it's what because God is smarter than even the quantum physicist right but they're smart enough to realize hey there's a principle here and most Christians don't even think there's a principle they just think God's a puppet master pulling strings and whatever happens happens you never know what's gonna happen next no you can prophesy and predict what'll happen next according the Word of God and God will verify your words and not let one of your words fall the ground remember last week and he'll keep your words and he will cause your words to come to pass why because you honor him by speaking his words as your words that makes sense no well if it does it's probably not faith but anyway we'll move right on we'll get you there one way or another aim it so now look at this he says here and well I want to thank you couple other verses very quickly mark 11:23 everybody most everybody knows this for verily I say unto you verily surely without a doubt I say unto you this is Jesus who can not lie ok I say unto you that whosoever he doesn't say born again he didn't say righteous he didn't say the person the person who lives perfect they can say he didn't say that he said whosoever is that right that's a pretty that's a pretty wide parameters right whosoever for whosoever shall say unto this mountain be thou removed and be thou cast into the sea and shall not doubt in his heart what does that mean not get double-minded right in other words don't say something opposite of what you just said keep saying the same thing don't waver because a person that wavers doesn't receive ok stay stable ok and shall not doubt in his heart but shall believe that those things which he says shall come to pass he shall have whatsoever he saith now look at that first part you say second part you pray ok therefore I say unto you what things whatever you desire when you pray believe that you receive them and you shall have them so what are you doing you're speaking right and as you speak you can't listen you cannot pray opposite of what you speak when you pray opposite of what you say you're double minded and you don't get anything and then you turn around and go well I said it and I said it but but when I pray you know I'm saying well the Bible says by His stripes I'm healed so I'm saying by your stripes I'm healed by stripes I'm healed but then I'm bread oh god why don't you understand Oh God when are you going to heal me O God see you're saying one thing and praying another so you're double minded and says don't let that person think they're gonna receive anything from the Lord it doesn't say God won't give it it just says you won't receive it why because you're you're still saying you don't have it you can't say I believe that I receive and in trance I don't have that make sense because you're double minded that wasn't I'd love milker and say listen it doesn't what you say God's gonna do it anyway maybe that'd be great it'd be a total lie you know it might make you feel good but I ain't gonna help you right I'm here to help you I'm here to try to get you to agree with God say what he said don't back off of it who cares what people think go people think I'm crazy they already do they just don't say it you know they talk about you behind your back it don't matter you're right and it just didn't matter what counts is it what does God say about you because all the counts of what he's gonna say well done and they're right that's what counts so stick with him and stick with what he said and don't worry about and yeah you're gonna be different well if you're gonna be different be different don't be you know lukewarm different that doesn't do any good all that doesn't make you look like an idiot when it doesn't happen you know if you're gonna be on fire be on fire build a big fire and then don't don't be a little fire be a big fire that's what they you say about John Wesley you know how do you draw the crowds I set myself on fire people just come watch me burn well you know the problem is we don't set ourselves on fire enough see people people are gonna watch it it's gonna because you're doing something different you're gonna speak different you're gonna say different it's you're gonna stand out and you're gonna be noticed why cuz you're supposed to be a light in this world you're not supposed to be you know going along with every other darkness that goes along and agree with everybody else you know the last thing you want is somebody that just constantly agrees with everybody else that's not the person that's going to get anything done amen so we used to say over you want to know where most things are not done is it the coffee shops around seven o'clock in the morning that's where all the do nothing's gather up and sit around and talk about how there's nothing to do and nothing getting done right whenever the people that actually doing things got up two hours earlier and they're already out doing it while the art wall the Doudna thinks or talked about how it can't be done it's better to get up earlier and go do it amen and don't tell anybody what you're gonna do before you go do it why because they'll try to talk you out of and tell you why you can't do it just because they can't do it don't mean you can't do it and then yeah nobody in my family ever traveled outside United States that I know of until I did what and people look at me and thought Curt I used to tell them back what I'm talking about way way back way back when I was in late teens I probably shouldn't said wait wait wait wait didn't think about that but it was way back now I just feel tired and old but way back then okay I told my mom I told my parents I told my Mike my mom my dad I told my my relatives and my my oh my aunts uncles you know in-laws outlaws all of my comb are the same thing and men told me yeah God has a plan for my life God has a plan for my life got and I was sent him I was gonna go around the world I didn't know why I didn't know what message I was gonna preach I don't even I didn't know anything about it I just knew in me that and yeah it was very cuz it well note and that's what their well nobody in our family has ever done that I don't know why he would think that way maybe it's God but I've never been bound by other people's small minds amen I look at this book and I see what God wants to do and he wants to do things far beyond and that's really the amazing thing is that I'm realizing you know about two years ago or yeah about two years ago I think it was I went to we went into Ukraine Czech Republic Germany went to England and while I was in England I went to Bristol which is where George Mueller had his orphanage something happened while I was there I was walking around and you know wasn't like an anointing came on me or anything like that but my faith grew because I'm walking through this man's house and looking at pictures of all these orphans he fed and clothed and educated over 10,000 orphans in his lifetime with nothing but prayer fed him everything and I'm walking through and looking at this and thinking here's this house and it was a you know it was nice and it was a you know fairly modest home and I went to where all the orphans where the orphanages were the actual buildings the buildings some of the buildings are still there and that's a kind of a college situation and so I go in and look at these and I think this man's faith in God built all this his his intangible faith toward God put this brick in mortar buildings here and nobody had done that not like that there had been some things done nothing like that and especially not just by prayer and I started realizing he did something nobody's had ever done and he in everybody kept telling what this can't be done it can be done and he had people around to always tell him all the poems and he still did it why cuz he didn't he wasn't limited by other people's thinking too often no you think well yeah but you know he was a preacher and he had a mailing list a sin thing I don't have that and you and I'm not a I'm not a preacher I'm like this mark 11:23 doesn't say oh and to any preacher this is because blaming there a lot of preachers that don't say right and they don't experience God's blessing but he didn't say to preachers he didn't say to apostles and prophets and he said whosoever that means in every person's individual life you realize Paul P to us let's stick with the original twelve you got you know James John Peter all these guys these were normal people they were whosoever they weren't apostles until they became apostles and they became apostles because they were whosoever who said when Jesus said come follow me guess what they got up and when I guarantee you those peoples alive I can promise you yeah you know Peter James and John it's like James and junk that was the family business they were the sons and the family business and they left the family business I guarantee that didn't go over good with James and John's mom and dad I can promise you there was a lot of discussions over you're being foolish here you can't do that out I guarantee it doesn't the Bible doesn't tell us if I can guarantee you even after they walked away from their boats I guarantee you family members mom and dad somebody caught them on the side hey come here listen I need to talk to you you know wise up and you following this pre-treat doesn't have a house didn't have a place to live you're gonna follow him all over you get up the family business you have a responsibility remember we raised you you think that didn't happen of course it did even when ever in the early days before I was in ministry before that before I launched out in ministry anyway I was walking and talking with a friend of mine that was we'd discuss these things and I seen all this stuff and I said you know I don't see anything in the Bible about staying put I don't see it everything in there I keep go go go and I've told you to go and go and I don't seen it I said I don't see anything in there that says that I can settle down and be in one place and just be a good little Christian I don't see that and I said in and and my friend said well but Korea everybody can't just get up and go and I said well I know everybody won't he said well what if they did how would how would they be supported or how would how would they live I said maybe if everybody would maybe this thing get wrapped up overnight we wouldn't have to worry about that other stuff you know maybe the reason it happened is because we're hanging on you know and trying to move forward and drag our stuff with us you know and my wife and I we recently moved and what's it mean you know we're gonna downsize we move and I realized we downsize and I realized you can't tell we downsize it's kind of like we need to downsize again you know just stuff that we don't need you know it's just like we were taught this morning if you hadn't used it in six months or a year you don't need it amen but too often we get wrapped up in these things but now again I want to get back on the idea of God's vision for your life listen he gave this principle and lived by and he says prophesied you guys start speaking it I spoke listen 20 what 30 years now yeah 30 years ago maybe almost closer to 35 I was prophesying a Bible School everything that we have done I ever written down I can show you I've shown it to most of my staff here things that I wrote in 1984 about a Bible School and the how it would be run ain't know what we're running exactly the way I said it would be running back then back then when there was no chance of having a Bible School no way that it could happen I mean nobody was asked me to preach I mean it wouldn't you know there was I was working two different jobs and coming home at night and study and these things but there was no there was no natural tangibility or evidence that I would ever be in full-time ministry none whatsoever and if you went by the churches I was at and how often they asked me to preach it didn't happen they weren't asking me to preach but some were asking me to leave but they didn't ask him to preach anyway but because they didn't like the questions I was asking but the bottom line is that I wrote all that stuff down and I started realizing a while back used to I wrote a whole lot and I started realizing the reason I wrote is because I didn't have an outlet and then as I started preaching more I started writing less what because I didn't need the outlet anymore because I have the outlet and so but then I also realized some things need to be written down and every year about this time I'll go in and start writing down I will prophesied next year because I find out what God wants us to do and what I believe he wants us to do and I'll start prophesying it and I've promised that by writing it down and then I constantly remind him of it and I don't know if anything I've ever written down that hadn't come to pass I don't know if anything like that one but it's not just writing it down it's also speaking it what because we are the prophets of our own life what because we have the Spirit of the Prophet in us amen it's it's a Holy Spirit in us who is the spirit that inspires the Prophet to speak it's that same spirit and so we can prophesy our own life now finally one more here or maybe one more couple more in Habakkuk everybody knows this Habakkuk chapter 2 verse 1 I will stand upon my watch and set me upon the tower and we'll watch to see what he will say to me listen carefully watch to see what he will say to me and what I shall answer when I am reproved and the Lord answered me and said write the vision make it plain upon tablets that he may run that reads it for the vision is yet for an appointed time but at the end it shall speak and not lie though it Terry wait for it because it will surely come it will not tarry hear that now if you get on if you have any of our manuals you can go in the back there are prophecies that had been spoken over my life by men of God that are well proven to be accurate and there are things that we have done that are there in those prophecies but to some of those prophecies are not yet fulfilled which means what that we're going to war a good warfare with the prophecies that have been put upon us right and we're gonna remind God of what he has said through his prophets through his people of his will for my life in this ministry and where we're going with it amen now we don't go by what we see we go by what the Word of God says then he said in Psalm 89 birdie verse 34 this is the one we talked about before my covenant will I not break nor alter the thing that has gone out of my lips once have I sworn by my holiness that I will not lie unto David his seed shall endure forever and his throne as the son before me now do you realize okay who is the seed of David Jesus guess what else you what because you're the seed of Jesus yeah that Jesus is the seed of David we're the seed of Jesus what does that mean that well that must mean then according to that logic that would mean that we are also seated upon that throne that would mean also that since that throne of David will never cease then everybody through that has to be Kings well that sounds kind of like the Bible doesn't it that we were made kings and priests under our God that we are seated with him in heavenly places is that right why why is that because God would not alter the thing that went out of his mouth we are in the seat of David and God has not what God promised David he has promised Jesus and because he was making the promise to Jesus through David and he made it to us through Jesus amen do you get that so Jesus the seed of David you're the seed of Jesus you are seated on his throne and in Philemon verse 6 it says that the communication of your faith made effective by the acknowledging of every good thing that is in you in Christ Jesus how does it become effective by you acknowledging every good thing that is in you in Christ what are you doing when you acknowledge what are you doing you are prophesying you are saying this is what's in me you may not see it that's why I have to prophesied right if I wait till you see it see it I don't need to prophesied so I'm going to prophesy it so we can see it amen now notice here's a couple things the word yeah the word homologate is the word for acknowledging it means to say the same thing as okay the word it says to acknowledge every good thing that is in you and it is the word homologate oh and it means and it comes from the basis of the word logo or logos as we know it right homologue AO is part of logos so we are to acknowledge to speak to say the overall concept of what God has said about us now watch it means literally an acknowledgment but it also means to profess to give thanks to acknowledge a promise now here's what he said in Joshua chapter 1 verse 6 be strong and of a good courage for unto this people shalt thou divide for an inheritance the land which I swore and their fathers to give them if you look at Isaiah you don't have to go there right now but in Isaiah chapter 53 verse 12 it says that he would divide the spoil with the strong is that right he will divide the spoil with the strong here he says in Joshua he said for you will divide an inheritance for the land to these people now he says only be strong and very courageous that you may observe to do according to all the law and it works to observe to do do you have to be strong and courageous means have faith okay to do what the Bible says to do when you do what the Bible says to do then it is it can come to pass in your life they can't come to pass in your life until you do what it says to do which Moses my servant commanded you turn not from it to the right or to the left that you may prosper with us so ever you go this book of the law shall not depart out of your mouth that means it'll never not be in your mouth it means you constantly say it okay but you will meditate therein day and night that you may observe to do according to all that written therein for then you will make your way prosperous and then you will have good success notice who makes your way prosperous you do what because you do what the Bible says to do you give that's what the word says okay have not I commanded thee be strong and of good courage be not afraid neither be thou dismayed for the Lord thy God is with you wherever you go now in well I just read isaiah 53:12 or i will it says therefore will i divide him a portion with the Great and he shall divide the spoil with the strong because she has poured out his soul unto death he was numbered with the transgressors bear the sin of many and made intercession for the transgressors now the strong notice who he's going to divide the spoil with the strong I've taught him this before but in Joel chapter 3 verse 10 it says beat your plowshares into swords your pruning hooks into spears and let the weak say I am strong you get that when the weak began to say I'm strong the weak start having the spoil divided to them and when the weak have the spoil divided to them guess what they become the strong they also get their inheritance which their inheritance is by His stripes you were healed do you get that you don't get that by saying I'm weak you get that by saying I'm strong okay now if you yeah by now hopefully you have that paper do you have the paper where's my paper I have a paper there we go yeah gone from my life did you fill that out okay you got it filled out all right now here's now we got handouts we got handouts she's got a handout right there all right let's hand those out I got you another handout give you some more homework okay now this one it says God and I will work together to bring this to pass so now you have your vision for God's life that's the paper you had the baby you're getting is actually going to help you bring it to pass the way you're going to do that it says the beginning what is one thing I can do each day to move toward fulfilling our vision our being you and God you got that what's the one thing and I gave you seven days there Monday through Sunday for you to write down one thing on each day that you can do that will help move you toward fulfilling these things on your other sheet you got that they work together I want you to think when you think about this and even pray about it and as you start the main thing I want you to start speaking it to God and I want you to start prophesying over your life these things that will cause these things to come to pass does that make sense now listen they're going to be sung to you right now there's some of you in this room probably saying I'm behind this yep I know this works I believe it I'm gonna do it and if you do we'll see the results of it then they're probably other people go and this is not something I'm into you know I just you know want to be preached at or I just came for a sermon because you know supposed to be in church on Sunday so if that's you guess what we will also see the results of that kind of thinking in your life it's that simple so you get to decide what is before you today life blessing amen so it is up to you to decide what you're going to do to move forward God expects us to move forward he had to tell the Israelites get up get across this river Jordan get into the land I promise you that's what I'm doing today I'm encouraging you get up get across this divide this thing that you can't think you can get through this you know what I need a breakthrough and I'm telling you how to get your breakthrough you get up and you break through you move forward and you actually do something that actually moves you forward and if you do that you get the breakthrough that you're looking for God wants us to live in constant breakthrough when you live in constant breakthrough that's called Dominion life that's called being victorious in life that's being more than a conqueror why because you're living in the victory that Jesus provided amen but you still hack this and God gave the Israelites the land of milk and honey but the Israelites still had to get up and go take it you get it he didn't dump it on them they had to get up and move into it and as they went their enemies fled before they came out of men 1 and they scattered in seven directions too many times you look at the problem and you think that problem is a wall you can't get through and that wall is just waiting to you stand in front of it so it can scatter into seven directions but if you don't stand in front of it let me tell you it know okay you can go to Walmart and sit in your car and those doors are not gonna open until you step up in front of them and guess why you have to touch them you're gonna step up to in front of those doors and they're gonna open for you but as long as you sit in your car all you're gonna see is a shut door amen so go to Walmart if you want a visual sermon go to Walmart sit in your car and watch the door stay shut if you want a visual sermon get out of your car walked over the door and watch the door open when it opens say that's how my God does things you might not want to yell it to left anyway this they do have security there all right so did y'all get anything out of this today amen amen amen all right well father we thank you for your word your word is true we can rely on your word we can stand on your word we can live your word we can live your word your spirit is in us to cause us to help us to live your word it is our victory so father we thank you our faith is in you and our faith is the victory so we thank you now father we thank you for healing for wholeness we thank you for breakthrough in these areas father we we know that your will for us isn't any plans of goodness plans of peace plans of prosperity plans - of advancement plans of health and healing that's your plans and we agree with you and we homologous or with you we agree with you and we speak with you that by the stripes of Jesus we are healed we were healed and we are healed we shall be healed and we shall remain healed we will walk in divine health we will walk in divine prosperity will be blessings upon this world and that people will say surely the sons of God are manifesting on the earth because we should express you Father just as your son Jesus did in every area of life showing your concern and your provision your provision in Jesus name so be it amen amen amen [Music] [Applause] [Music] [Applause] [Music]

Channel: John G. Lake Ministries

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Keywords: John G. Lake Ministries, JGLM, Curry Blake, Divine Healing Technician, DHT, New Man Seminar, Life Teams, Jesus Christ, Holy Spirit, Dominion Bible Institute, Diversities of Tongues, God's Son Man's Servant, Renewed Mind, Healing in the Atonement, Killing Sacred Cows, iChurch, JGLM Media

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Length: 90min 44sec (5444 seconds)

Published: Tue Dec 18 2018