IT'S WHAT YOU'RE SAYING | Dr. Hart Ramsey

hallelujah so father we love you and we praise you we thank you lord for the word of the lord that comes forth today now speak specifically cause us to connect on the level of god that when the word of lord comes forth that freedom comes and that the people who reach to you or god to touch you will find what they desire it is not written anywhere in scripture where jesus touched anyone and they weren't set free or made whole so we declared today in jesus name according to the written word that your people find freedom in your presence and from the word of the lord today in jesus name you believe that everybody say amen amen you may be seated in the presence of the lord glory to god it's good to be here again the last time i was here we were engaged in slaying sacred cows and we ate steak and porterhouse and t-bones and uh many people wrote to me and asked me uh for further instruction and for notes concerning uh this issue of declaring the lord's decree and so what i want to do today is i want to continue to speak to that i came to teach this morning are you okay with that for those of you watching online i want to tell you this right now this what god has done in the last year and some change or to some seem like a setback but it's actually god's setting us up for something going forward um the bible says the bible indicates that errors change all the time i want to say something to you that may seem strange but jesus told his disciples lo i'm with you always that that word a contraction always is literally short for all the way i'm with you always even to the end of the world and when we hear end of the world many of us translate into the world as the end of the world the actual physical end of the world but in the language of the greeks what he was saying to the people is i will be with you to the end of this age everybody says this age he's speaking of your speaking not of cosmos not the arrangement of the universe but of aeon which is actually speaking of the eras and since then i'm going to blow your mind with this and when i say this people always write me so what the world has ended several times since then what yeah see what we don't understand is because this for many of us what happened in the last year was so traumatic and so significant that we think that this is a once-in-a-lifetime situation but actually uh for us it's once in a lifetime but it has happened at least 25 to 30 times before where the whole world shuts down there was one pandemic where the world shut down listen to this in some form or another for 27 years that is not our testimony amen our testimony is that things will open up quickly but i want you to know that when eras end the reason you have to understand this is because when the era ends it puts you in a position where those who are waiting on their turn many times miss the fact that the turn comes when the when the world opens up again a lot of shifting took place in the last 365 days a lot of shifting took place and so the way you have to position yourself and the way you have to stand with god is you have to understand that maybe maybe i've been on the bench for a long time and god has finally called my number to put me in the game somebody said lord put me in the game all right now i need you to jump on real quickly because if not i'll be here a long time and i don't want to be a long time i want to deal with this issue or i i pointed out to you psalm chapter 2 verse 7 on the last time we spoke and it actually says the king proclaims or declares the lord's decree the lord said unto me you are my son and what i did was i picked up in the middle of psalm chapter 2 and didn't give you context and i want to do that today because the context makes a difference if we don't have context then what happens is we read a text and we give pretext to it and the problem with that is all the bible can be made to say what we wanted to say um what i want to challenge you with today is to understand that god is calling on you to change the way you speak based on what he said i i shared with you that we are ambassadors an ambassador is one that speaks for another you speak for another you show up on the scene and you actually walk into a situation and you say i am so and so i stand in the presence of the president of the united states this is what the president said we ended the last message with the statement of gabriel the angel or the messenger angel when he says i am gabriel i stand in the presence of the lord and this is what the lord says that is a testimony that that is our positioning we're going to stand in the presence of the lord and speak to nations but first it has to start here all nations in our house everybody say man now um this is going to be very instructional so please take a lot of notes it starts in psalm 2 verse 1. it says why are the nations so angry why do they waste their time with feudal plans the kings of the earth prepare for battle the rulers plot together against the lord and against his anointed one now back then in in uh in israel when their king was anointed god gives specific instructions about how the king was to be perceived the king was called in their language messiah believe it or not he was called the anointed one which is messiah in in our modern uh language he's called a christ so to speak so the bible says here that the kings of the earth are plotting against the government that god is setting up in verse three here's what they said let us break their chains and free ourselves from the slavery of god there are people in the earth who seek god's rulership as a form of slavery they see they see being under god as bondage and they want to change how they see god how we see god and so they're speaking against the lord now i want to say something to you in the earth if it hasn't happened to you yet you're going to find yourself in a position where it's uncomfortable it will be uncomfortable for you to stand up for god it'd be uncomfortable for you to say i'm a christian because the all of the the powers that be the so to speak all the the voices are actually against the things of god and we're we're the last line of god's defense saying no this is not what the lord is doing this is what the lord is doing you there has to be a boldness about you but watch just now if your mind has been compromised if you don't know who you are if you're struggling with your own acceptance issues then what will happen to you is you you'll go into a situation and your number one desire will be to fit in now understand when the enemy is doing it to especially if you're dealing with you're already dealing with rejection issues maybe what happened at home the problem becomes now that the enemy is conditioning you and that's a powerful word the word conditioning is an educational work he's conditioning you to not go against the grain to not play against the odds he's conditioning you to fit in to go to what whatever is given to you because what he wants to do is he's going to give you some words that he needs you to say and the reason he needs to speak these words is because once you use your words to create it gives him access i said to you before that satan is of the angelic class and they do not have the power to create so if he wants to create a door where there is no door what better way to get a jordan to get someone from the god class to speak the word in that situation get you to speak against your own best interest so he creates a door watch this in your life if he knows that you only speak what you see and all he has to do is manipulate what you see what is he looking for your words satan does not care about about you being personally defeated what he needs is watch this now he needs a voice he needs a host he begins by watching that he begins by putting things before you and getting you to look at these things and he'll whisper in your ear and get you to speak words i'll show you the power of this in a minute that's what this text is about so uh in this psalm two a king is appointed he's anointed set on the throne this is the historical account of this and the nations around us saying we're not gonna submit to you but the lord had already said you are my king. and in one part he said you are my son if you read the scriptures you see one of the laws of the kings of israel is that he was a son of god god said the king your king will become my son i will treat him like i treat my own children so every all of israel knew this now get this the bible says in in verse 4 but the one who rules in heaven now they said we can break up away from god's slavery but the bible says but the one who rules in heaven laughs the lord scoffs at them or mocks them so imagine this scenario the kings and the earth are getting together they're sending telegrams to one another we're not submitting to this we're not we don't care what god says and the bible says that god is sitting in heaven and he's actually he's laughing and if you don't believe that god laughs understand this we're made in the image and likeness of god everything that we can do got it started with god our emotions are reflections of god's emotions so the bible says that god first he looks at them and he actually chuckles but then his chuckle goes into anger i remember one time my mother came to me up and she said to me she says heart i need you to wash the dishes and i said to her i said but it's not my turn and she said she said to me but i tried to wash the dishes i said i said to her i'm not washing the dishes because i didn't the last time it's lenox's turn my mother started to laugh so i i started laughing before i knew it i was getting above the ground because she has slapped me clean off the couch the bible questions the bible says that the lord first laughs that's what it says it says the lord the one who rules in heaven he laughs he scoffs at them he's actually the laughter is a mocking then verse 5 says then in anger he rebukes them terrifying them with fierce fury i'm going somewhere stay with me for the lord declares i have placed my chosen king on the throne in jerusalem on my holy mountain now the scene changes that's the last it leaves heaven now in heaven god says you can do what you want to say what you want to i've already made a declaration of the declaration in heaven god's declarations in heaven becomes a decree in the earth god's declarations in heaven becomes a decree in the earth i'll say it again god's declaration in heaven becomes a decree in the earth now watch this it shifts now to the earth verse seven it says the king now proclaims or declares the lord's decree the lord said unto me today i have become your father only ask of me and i will give you the nations as your inheritance and the whole earth as your possession i want to show you what this is saying get this so here's a scenario the kings of the earth are watching jerusalem god appoints a king it's this is the historical issue god appoints a king the kings of the earth say we won't submit to him god laughs and he says this is the one i've chosen i'm not changing my mind in the earth god sends a signal in the heart of this king and the king now begins to speak what god is saying the lord has said to me or he has declared of that i am king so i declare the lord's decree what is i am the king and i'm going to rule and here's what he says the lord said to me all i have to do is ask of him and he will give me the nations if god already decreed that he's going to give me the nations then why do i have to ask of him because that's the way his system works he decrees a thing the enemy fights against it and his people now put in position to either declare what he decreed or listen to the enemy and speak what the enemy says and i'm gonna tell you what's happening in our lives today many of us are in a position where god is saying one thing the enemy's saying another thing and you're caught in the middle and you see because you may have a good job or have good status or you may be popular or well accepted it's not pressurizing you yet but if you keep living according to this fitting in and making making the greater making the deal mindset the enemy is actually working up to something we have got to practice saying about ourselves the things that god says about us even when we don't understand them for example in first corinthians chapter 1 verse 31 the bible says concerning jesus that he has been made unto us salvation he's been made unto us wisdom he's been miraculous to our sanctification and righteousness what does that mean many people don't know so they start saying they start trying to interpret well god says jesus gives us wisdom he gives us salvation he gives us righteousness to give that's not what he said it's that he's been made unto us so if he's if god says here's what god says jesus is my salvation jesus is my wisdom jesus is my sanctification he's my righteousness then my mind can't calculate that what does that mean it makes no difference you know what i do i stand in the earth and i begin to say what he said watch us now because it's not until i unders i begin to say what he said when i understand it so even when i'm even when i'm struggling in sin or i'm struggling to to please god or to make whatever grade i say of myself what he said about me he said watch this he said i don't feel too safe today that's not what he said about you he said jesus is your salvation i don't know what to do jesus is my wisdom watch this now i'm just trying to be holy jesus is my sanctification which is the word holiness you got it you say well i don't feel i don't feel too righteous jesus is my righteousness pastor what does that mean at this point it makes no difference what god is what makes a difference are you willing to say what god says although you don't understand what it means when i started saying money is not a problem for me i was broke and i started saying it because i kept saying the opposite for so long and nothing was changing a story comes to mind and i'm getting the meat of this message in a minute i drove to a city in alabama called daleville right outside of the fort rocket gate a lady had called and said she says i have a car for you i had a one car but we needed a second car i drew a friend dropped him off in daleville and we pulled up this car it wasn't it wasn't a great car but it was a second car and when i got maybe two miles from where she was a car broke down and i'm i'm i'm out of the car and someone pulled over and i'm pushing the car saying to myself this is not working for me and the lord said i said i said to myself i'm gonna leave this car right here and the law says no he said you're not gonna leave this car right here here's why he said you're gonna fix this car and you're gonna start you're gonna practice sewing vehicles watch this so i ended up getting the car home called a friend of mine i said hey come take a look at this car for me tell me when you charged me to fix it he looked at the car he said oh this is easy he fixed the car no charge right he said man he said um i've been looking the car like this and he just started talking about looking for a car and he started describing the car what's good about the car i said do you want it he said you gave it to me i said sure and i gave the car away and i thought to myself you just got a second car he just fixed it why did you give it away but i had a piece about it watch this not long after i got a call i need you to come see something i show up to this place and they say to me uh you like this car said yes i said you can have this after a while i started in a cycle of getting vehicles and giving them away give to the point where watches not to the point where i wasn't buying cars i was getting them but it started with it started versus now i didn't understand what god was doing but i started saying about myself what he said well i start saying that about money whenever i'm and i say today whenever i'm in a situation where finances are involved god finds a way to get money to me personally why are you saying it because the bible says that because i'm very i'm very particular about honoring the lord with my first fruits and with my increase so my barns are always full my my my wine bats are always overflowing what does that mean my my my checking account and my saving account always overflowing when i met my wife i told her i said somebody tell you something about me i i don't struggle for money i believe god and god always give me money she's look she looks at me like okay that's the rule of my life you start saying it before you understand it the verses we just read we learn that regardless of what people think about us what they feel about us what they say about us or what they do to us the lord already has a plan that if we would say what he said about us and then pray in line with his word watch this now his decree over my life will prevail now here's the thing that is why the enemy was fat happy and dumb he got satisfied watch this when we start saying i decree because the enemy understands your decree means nothing in the earth your decree means nothing unless now watch this now unless you now in your there's certain things you can make rules in your house but you don't call it a decree you call it order right but if you set an order that's not based on the word of god what's going to happen is you're going to damage everything in the house so i want you to understand something my purpose in killing the sacred cow that we did was not to make a mockery of of our prayer and prophetic language i wasn't doing that i wasn't trying to embarrass people it's simply i need to educate us concerning god's protocol for faith confessions i i want to educate us listen there's a lot of churches saying a lot of things i see i've heard great people say but the problem with the church is have you noticed and i'm going to be real transparent that a lot of stuff we talk about don't ever happen come on talk to me huh have you noticed that we've been waiting a lot because god is waiting for us to get it's right in the word it's right in the but what we have done is we're preaching what has been passed down to us not researching it not not asking the lord what's missing and this is a major part of it our prophetic and our our prayer language is off because what it does let me show you something when i say i decree and i declare where's god who am i representing a prophet is a messenger a pastor's a messenger watch this now but when i say i declare the decree of the lord the shadow of the almighty comes over me and the bible says that when mary asked gabriel how shall these things be seen i know not a man he said that he said this the power of god will overshadow you and the holy thing is born of you will be called the offspring of god and that's what happens when the power of god overshadows me how does that happen what mary said be it unto me according to your word when she said that gabriel left why why because she gave god permission to execute his decree in the earth when did mary get pregnant the moment she said be it unto me let me translate mary's word she said well if that's what god says i declare the decree of the lord so be it and gabriel left he got permission and from that moment mary was pregnant by the holy spirit that that's that was a transaction that's that's when the power of the most high overshadowed her when does the power of the most high overshadow you when you say what he said and stop saying what you want i'm gonna show you today um the lord challenged me i was i was uh i was in my time of wisdom with the lord and that's something i'm gonna talk to you about my time of wisdom and i was in there i was telling god i was just complaining and the lord stopped me he said if you keep doing this in this situation a particular situation i was talking about he said if you keep doing this he said it won't change and i need for it to change so you have to stop doing this listen to what i'm saying to you i need you to examine your life and ask yourself what situation have i been constantly complaining about the relationship i i see i see an x that that that keeps coming around keeps coming around and and you're so frustrated over the arrangement between the x and the child or the x and the money whatever it is and you keep saying these things and the lord's word to you is you got to change what you're saying about it let me show you we live in a word world everything in this world functions and responds to words so establishing the proper way to use jurisdiction now the word jurisdiction means verbal power the word jewish or juris means are law and dictionaries to speak i speak out the law excuse me other word the way i use our jurisdiction is important because declaring god's decree does three things number one it acknowledges god's order number two it accepts his word as the reality of my life and number three it honors him as a sovereign of the universe i'm gonna say it again number one when i begin to declare what god says this decree i acknowledge this order in other words i acknowledge that god has a system that's working many times we we go and try to make our ends meet and start to fend for ourselves because we don't believe that god has an order i'm gonna give you a good example someone insults you or lies on you and your response is i'mma fix this watch this if you understood that god has an order to even these things what you would do is you sit back watch us now and take care of your heart and get yourself together why because you know from the moment that person took your name in their mouth that god took issue with it watch this now and all you watches regardless of what you say you say i gotta defend myself gossip no see romans 12 says watch this it says leave space for wrath god can't even god can't even protect you and defend you because you cried in the situation why you don't believe it that god has an order [Applause] now watch this now so number one i acknowledge god's order whenever i declare decree number two i accept his word on the matter i said to the lord you know what you've given your word and you cannot lie i can't tell you how many times i've stood in the presence of god and said to god you gave me your word you gave me your word my son was telling me a story about when he was little he said uh we were talking about what he got well he's actually his faith was really born he said to me said dad he reminded me says i was sick and i came to you he said and you laid your hands on me and you prayed for me and you sent me away and he said the way you did it he said you told me you said um you'll be well by morning he said then you went to pray he said i watched you and he said and i woke up he said i was totally well i thought to myself this this god my father serves as real that's one son my oldest son said to me he said he knew the lord was real when he walked in on me in my prayer closet when my hands lifted talking to someone and i was he said you were crying he said never seen you cry he said but whoever you talk to you crying and he said yeah he said when you walk and i asked you who are you talking to and he said you walked by me and said the lord and he said in that moment i knew god is real watch this like what happens is i acknowledge i accept the word of god i say when i start declaring what god says i accept that the word is real and people around me now will begin to embrace that number three i honor god as a king who's the sovereign of your life who's the one that makes the rules when you don't feel like it who's the one that can get you to do it if it's not the lord it's gonna be someone else now for the sake of continuity i want to do a quick review and i told you we're gonna be here because i came to teach today is that okay and yeah we've got to break this up and finish it next week then so be it we said that a decree is a law it's a legal and binding decision that's put on record by someone who sits in a place of high authority if um they're there the decrees given to determine boundaries and outcomes and to establish ownership and rights now that's a lot and that's for just for people who want our definitions but a declaration now is the proclaiming or releasing of an established decree what it means is when i when i look in the scripture i'm looking for three things make a note of this number one i'm looking for all the commands of god that pertains to me number one is the command number two i'm looking for the promises i'm looking for the promises of god because god's god's word translates to us by command by by promises and number three i'm looking for instruction because watch this now god never gives a command without instruction i'll say it again god never gives a command without destruction now you say it god never gives come on louder god he'll never tell you to do something and not tell you why now he will make a promise to you and i'll tell you how but he'll never give you a command and i'll tell you why so i'm i'm searching for these things why because once i find them watching they have to be fitted in my mouth i got to speak them out i got to declare what god has said because nothing happens in the earth unless i say what god said watch this in eternity past the will of god was sovereign god did what he wanted to do what he wanted to do it everything that was created god by himself decided what angels would look like what people would look like with trees god decided that in eternity future the will of man will be willingly submitted to god everyone in eternity future with god will think like god and act like god and love being with god but in eternity present the place we call time understand i've said this to you before i will repeat it till you get it watch this in eternity present the place we call time the will of god has been subjected to the will of man god willingly said you tell me what you want so that's why we pray thy kingdom and thy will be because if we don't pray that his kingdom won't and his will won't be done how's that why is that important it's important because everything in nature functions by a response to a divine decree everything you don't pay attention to it as i was raised in the virgin islands i used to stand on the beach and watch the ocean come in it'll come up to the shore and they go right back out the earth is 67 water but watch just now on few occasions you have you have a tsunami warning you may have a flash flood but when all is said and done any water that comes out of the ocean has to go back you know why because just like a direct deposit in your account or or some kind of automatic deduction that you set in place when you decreed concerning your account that a hundred dollars a month will come out to pay that bill and it goes into a system your your decree watches now becomes a declaration for whoever handles your account they put in the system and every month until you stop it you'll continue to do it even less president what's crazy about it is it doesn't care whether you have the money or not have you have you ever set up a direct or automatic payment and this month was kind of rough but the system didn't care did it you know by perpetual decree your money came out of your account right it's the same way with god by perpetual decree watch this now the bible lists in psalm 148 um all of the angels all the stars the sun the moon watches the ocean here's what god said by a perpetual decree matter of fact in the book of jeremiah he said don't you fear me here's what god says don't you fear me he said by a perpetual decree i told the ocean when you see sand go back when he was when god was interrogating job in job 38 god asked him god says he says i'm the one who broke up the deep and i decreed its place i set bars and doors for it i said to it heather heather too shall thou come and no further he says and here shall thy proud wave stay translation because i told ocean i don't care how big your waves get when you come to sand go back out by a perpetual decree and watch this and if satan could he would drown us all but he can't why because the ocean won't cooperate with him the ocean is so submitted to god that the ocean will come and where it sees set and that now notice this when a flash flood happens or when it's when a flash flood is predicted you know what we do we fill bags with what sand we fill up why because what we know is we know that the water is programmed by god to respond to sand so we fill up sandbags that's that's why we do it by every shot by perpetual decree when you're when when you get this when i listen to me when i found out about this i was i was a piano player in in a charismatic church sitting there with questions on my mind when this stuff came alive in me god snatched he literally kicked me out that church everywhere i go when prophets will say god call you the pastor god needs you to pastor start now what was god doing the thing that was in me god said you gotta get it start getting the people i'll never forget this god spoke to me in a dream he said i need to go to dolph and start a church but where i was was 30 miles south of doth and figure was close enough and for three years i struggled the moment i moved that church to doth and watch this walked into the biggest nightclub in the city had just closed down someone had been killed there and i walked into this building and the lord said this is your building i look at the being like what am i gonna do here a huge building before long people start coming alongside me intercessors whatever we need was right there all i have to do is stay before the lord and say what he said the day before the first service in this building none of what we plan to come to pass and i started saying well i'll say maybe i miss the lord and the lord spoke to me and said how did i teach you to do this i made a plan called all my elders together and i made a plan we're gonna do it here in all nations atlanta and i made a plan and i gave all my elders i said when the people come to the door you're gonna you're gonna take them around you're gonna read this script to them and so they will take them to all the corners of this building and say now right here is going to be the children's church and over here pastor says it's going to be a nursery now come over here with me over here it's going to be the office i'm talking about it was trashed out there was nothing there and here and they walk him into this place where nothing isn't going and this is going to be a sanctuary if you look up you'll see that there were speakers here there'd be a drop ceiling over there was the platform walked them around and said um now you may be seated and then they go back and i had the elders couples bringing people in and taking them on tours when the service started the prison worship went forward it was horrible no the sound was horrible it sounded like a gym but watch this when i got up to speak as i asked them here's what i asked what do you see and when i said that you would think that someone lit a match and just dropped it i didn't even know the people i asked them what do you see that thing ignited and people started reaching into their pockets and coming through it never happened to me before start throwing money on the altar that sunday the offering was four times what we were customer bringing in you know what we did all we did was show them what god showed us the problem with many of us is we tell people what we want but we don't tell what god wants we don't show them what god is doing and people want to know what god is doing i i'm gonna be able to bypass a lot of this i could tell so so one of the things that that i wanna and this seems so academic is so basic but i gotta do this so we speak for god and we recognize only as we speak his word we release his order into our chaos doors open relationships begin to end wars are won and lost hearts are enraged or engaged all by the power of your words by the power of your words you've heard words messages before but here's what i want to show you the uh the bible says we're stewards of of god's word and we're held accountable for our words we're stewards of god's word but we're held accountable for hours listen to what jesus said and this still today bothers me i can't give you a full explanation of this but it's on record here's what he said in matthew 12 36 but i say unto you that every idle word that men shall speak they shall give a count thereof in the day of judgment for by thy words thou shalt be justified and by thy words that shall be condemned now the best i could do for you because what does that mean i it as a theologian i i will be i'll be remiss to say that i well this definitely means this it's dogmatic for me to think that it could be it could mean one thing but i do know it's we have to think of face value let me interpret some words i say to you that every idol has a definition every careless every unemployed word the word idle here means unemployed every unemployed word that you speak you're gonna give a count thereof in the day of judgment every watch this so he says everything you speak has to have employment behind it in other words watch us now let me say the better way why did you speak that word what is its responsibility what's the job you gave that word because if the word does not have if you if you deploy a word without employment the bible says watch this now if it doesn't you're just talking you've wasted breath and opportunity and god takes issue with it because a lot of stuff in the earth that needs to be addressed watch this now what's this he said for by that thy word that shall be justified that means made right and by their words that should be condemned that means found guilty or pronounce a judgment against yourself listen to what he said by your words you can make yourself right put yourself in the right position or by your words he said you could pronounce judgment against yourself so i don't know what that means but here's the interesting thing in the engagement with jesus and satan in the wilderness i want to revisit that for a minute because i want you to see the story from a totally different light in matthew chapter 3 the bible says jesus comes to john and he says to him i desire to be baptized john says to me in a whisper man i should be baptized by you jesus which was back to his older cousin he said um it behooves us to fulfill our righteousness translation let's do it the way he said it john said okay so john baptizes jesus he comes out of the water and when jesus walks up out the water the bible says that the spirit of god falls in like a dove and a voice from heaven says this is my beloved son chapter three ends chapter four verse one jesus is thrust by the spirit into the wilderness he goes into this into the wilderness and now you notice the pattern what is he doing he's undoing everything that satan did to israel israel went through the red sea came out of the red sea and they were thrust into the wilderness jesus goes into the jordan he comes out of jordan he's thrust into the wilderness watch this israel failed god because they spent 40 days in the promised land right surveying it spying it they come out they decide they can't take the land god assigns a year to a day he said you'll spend 40 years in the wilderness a year for a day so jesus goes into the jesus is going to undo the whole thing so he goes into the wilderness when he gets there the bible says when the tempter shows up what does satan say he says if you be the son of god watch this where'd he get it from he's observing he's listening he heard the perpetual decree so what says he can't do what god says he doesn't like it but he needs to get jesus to undo it why because he can't he can't do it so what he does he he comes and he used three and each time if thou be the son of god i want to tell you something about that scripture that you need to know the bible says he came and said if thou be the son of god then um turn these stone into bread what is he doing it work with eve so he's just just regurgitating his playbook but the second time the bible says then the devil taketh him to the pinnacle of the temple i want to serve notice on you satan did not take jesus anywhere physically you do know that you do know that this was a mental attack but here's what he said to jesus he said if you're the son of god throw yourself down from the temple well why would he tell him that it's because the jews were told that the messiah would come out of the sky and land in front of the temple and so he he gave him now watches satan gives him the scripture in psalm 91. he said you won't hurt yourself but every time satan spoke to jesus the lord responded and he's the son of god he could have said anything he wanted to but here's me says it literally says it stands written man shall not live by very long deuteronomy 8 verse 3. second time it stands written you got it that's not tempt the lord thy god the third time it stands written thou shall worship the lord thy god in him only shalt thou serve the three areas that satan came in to undo a decree we need to be aware of number one the lust of the flesh he comes in the area of what you desire your hunger he comes to the area where you're lacking he knows your constitution number two he comes to the area in the area of popularity or acceptance if jesus threw himself off the temple and he floated down the jews would accept him as the messiah but number three comes in the area of washington of jewish dictionary authority he comes he wants you to enjoy the pride of life the third temptation he takes him to the highest mountain and he shows him all the kingdoms of the world in a moment of an eye i'm twinkling he says um i give this all to you but look what he asked for he said all this what i give to you if you bow down and do what worship me worship is currency in the realm of the spirit listen your worship is currency and many times when you find yourself in the press and you don't know what to say you don't know the word your worship works just as well until you get until you get the word of the lord now there's a scripture it's in proverbs chapter 18. is this too much because we i want you i want you to lock in just keep pulling on this in proverbs chapter 18 verse 21 we know the scripture by heart it says death and life are in the power of the tongue and they that love it shall eat the fruit thereof now watches the word power in this verse is the hebrew word yad yad everybody say yad why is that important because it means hand and so it's saying to us that that your tongue is actually managing anything that a hand can do matter of fact these words are manage and maneuver and manipulate and manual labor it's the lack of what it means the word manu m-a-n-u means with the hands so when a person says i do manual labor that means i work with my hands if a person is maneuvering something it means they're moving it with their hands if a person is manipulating something they're controlling it with their hands see how this works so here's what here's what the bible says the yard or the hand or the power of your tongue is holding your relationships your health your opportunities your favor your spiritual development either in a life grip or death grip understand what i'm telling you your tongue is managing maintaining maneuvering manipulating events in your life right now and you don't even probably you probably don't even notice it you're blaming people for what's happening to you are you doing it with your own mouth see what let me tell you how the enemy uses people is he gets them to stir you up and provoke you it's not it's not what they do to you i'ma destroy you they can't destroy you but what happens is when they provoke you they get you talking crazy you you watch this you kill it with your own mouth it's it's what you say is the yard so your tongue say your tongue is having hands it manages it maintains it maneuvers and manipulates and you you're sp he forces you and you say i i just i just i'm not doing this anymore i'm tired you ain't working no way what you didn't know is everything with god begins in the spiritual realm and it was almost to the point where it was heavy enough to drop into the earth but now god has to recycle you know what i noticed facebook is brilliant facebook every year will show you what you said you know what i noticed for the last four years around this time i preached the exact same message how many of you saw that when that memory came up about thermometer and thermostat it freaked me out i look at the date how many you saw that it freaked me out like and they don't and i said to the lord why is this and here's what god says he says not for them this is for you he said because what's happening he said you get to this point right here and the enemy brings the same attack he's saying no matter what else you're prospering in he always gets you to defeat my purpose by what you say when the enemy knows you're a fighter you will always have an opponent if the enemy knows that you don't you don't have to be played with you don't have to be played with someone will always be there [Music] and so you always have people testing you and threatening you and playing games with you and god allows it to happen why he's trying to get you to declare his decree in the situation and sometimes i'll tell you something when you fight i know what it felt like transitioning from a broke man to a man of means i know what it felt like the pain of it i remember that like it was yesterday i told my wife i never forget when when i ca i paid my time i gave god my tithe i worshipped my tithe i came home there was a slip on my door and i realized i didn't pay the electric bill so i checked the books i still died going so i called them i said listen uh i don't get paid to friday but i'll pay the bill oh you're like oh it ain't pay by four o'clock today we're cutting it off i said okay so i could what i could have done i'd already written a tithe check but i hadn't turned in yet what i could have done was instead of going by the church like i plan to do i could talk the check and just wrote another one i in my arrogance i drove to the church i put it in the box i blessed the lord i came home power was off and the kids said i think we blew a few and i said i said um no light candles so okay so we still i remember sitting here here's my thought in my thought process i said to god now i will see you work for the only time in scripture you ever give us permission to test you is in the tithe and you declared you did your declaration your decree is prove me now herewith so now i sit in the dark proving you're not here with went through the night watches woke up the next morning and called the lady i said hey it was thursday never forget i said i don't get paid to friday i gave him a whole story i said can you can you cut the pile back on and she said i don't see a problem with that i'm not supposed to do this but for some strange reason i think you're good no no it wasn't a strange reason but god gave me fake watches and i did what i said i was gonna do and from that moment to today i don't ever acknowledge financial struggle and i have no problem going to people and say um uh if my money comes and it's a certain amount and the price is that i'll go with him and say how much you selling this wall uh can i get it for so much oh no i can't stay for that i said okay if you change your mind call me here's my number every single time i've had property so that god that i said god that's my property they sold the prop that's what one guy said i said um um i want to buy this property with his soul i said when they call you and tell you that they can't do anything with it can you call me he started to laugh at me flew the fruit of houston my office called and said hey pastor you got a call from some guy i didn't i didn't remember his name i said give i said give him a call give me my number to have him call me he called me says he says mr ramsey he says i'm so-and-so from um the real estate agency says you remember the property across the street i said probably i said oh yeah the one that sold he said yeah he's the strangest thing [Applause] he said they submitted their plans to the city and the city rejected their plans i said really and he goes i said what did he do and he said they want to sell the property he says so if you're agreeable i'll sell to you for the same price i sold it and i said oh no no no no no no i said let's negotiate watch this so so the bidding war started and i got it for maybe five or seven thousand dollars or less than he sold to them the point i'm showing you is this is that and listen the thing is we look at our pastors and our preachers we say well you know you're better than me no we're the same the covenant is for all of god's people you got it now i want there's so much more to teach on this but i want to take you somewhere real quick i'll take you somewhere real quick because i got to come to the end you got to remember that words create proverbs 13 3 says those who control their tongues will have a long life but opening your mouth can ruin everything remember this words create you control your tongue watch this now by practicing the discipline of thinking about the outcome of your words before you speak them ask yourself what creature will i create if i speak these words what monster what's this in my situation that i'm in is what i'm about to say going to free me or bind me is what i'm about to say is it descriptive or prescriptive it's what i'm saying what i see or what i want you know you know i'm tired i'm so tired of preaching this and people look at me like this is gimmick it's not gimmick and it's and it's not and i i i would i don't care if you get excited it's not for excitement for education how long have you been saying the same things let me tell you something i wasn't raised in the church that's why that's why i don't have a churchy flavor let me tell you this right now i'm gonna tell you this when i came to church i saw people playing games if i want to play games i'm going to the world they have better games and the church said some of you all know okay so here's the thing let me help you out watch this so satan has conditioned us to speak based on what we're seeing what we're thinking what we feel and get this so we speak frustration to our frustrations we choose to address chaos with chaotic words we speak defeat in the face of defeat things are going wrong you say you see it always happens to me things will never change that's not what you say when you when defeat is on you in your in your path we watch this we we answer hatred with hatred when the bible specifically said a soft answer turns away wrath jesus spoke peace to storms he uses stone watches now to give instruction to confusion what he jesus he got up in the middle of stomach start organizing stuff he's okay um okay good um wind cease waves behave peace be still i'm going back to bed and by the way why didn't you guys do that he asked his disciples he said where's your faith translation why didn't you do that he told him you had the power to do the exact same thing what are you tolerating right now in your life see my kids just act a fool and you said you said look at your foolish self you just spoke chaos to chaos rebellion to rebellion what about this my mother used to tell me all the time you can get saved she used to find me wherever i was letters would come i'll be i was in germany i got a letter from my mother never gave him my address the letter starts out i don't know what you're doing but you need to stop smoking and read your bible and she always said the same thing and always tell me there's a call in your life always step and i would uh throw it away but what i didn't know was and i know now is that words are seeds and if you keep speaking chaotic seeds into a chaotic heart if you keep speaking frustration into a frustrating situation you get more of the same why don't you speak the up speak what you want not what you see so there's a story in the bible great complain this is a story in the bible that people preach all the time and we shout on this i've shouted on this thing i don't even dance i danced on that thing it wasn't pretty but i did in the bible there's a story in ezekiel 37 and anyone that has read the bible for any length of time notices the story of the valley of dry bones here's what you don't know about that in the previous chapter god was talking to the prophet and god says to the prophet he says this is what the sovereign lord says he said when i cleanse you speaking of israel from your sins he said watch it i will repopulate your cities now when god was saying this they were pr they were actually slaves in babylon 70 years that expired and god is not speaking to them about what he god says here's the decree that's going to happen to you but by the time god showed up to talk to them they were 70 years into bondage they had lost their dignity they lost their drive they lost their vision has it ever happened to you where things have been the way they are for so long that you can't even see a future without you used to believe god to be healed but don't do it anymore you know what you do you've learned to live with it you've learned to accept it you know more about your sickness than you know about the word of god concerning healing you have changed your diet you should you've done you've accommodated it and what god did god waited until they were they were baptized into the situation for 70 years and then god sends a prophet and the gospel to the prophet he says oh this is what the sovereign world says this is the decree literally in in the in the uh hebrew he's saying this is what the sovereign lord decrees he said when i cleanse israel from his sins i will repopulate its cities and the ruins will be rebuilt the fields that used to lie empty and desolate and plain view of everyone will be farmed again in verse 35 of ezekiel 36 he says and when i bring you back people will say this former wasteland is not like the garden of eden the abandoned and ruined cities now have strong walls and are filled with people then the surrounding nations that survive will know that i am the lord i have rebuilt the ruins and replanted the wasteland as he says for i the lord have spoken and i will do what i say then in verse 37 he says this is what the sovereign law says i'm ready to hear israel's prayer and to increase their numbers like a flock they will be numerous as a sacred flocks that that filled jerusalem street that uh it goes only and at the end of it he says and then everyone will know i'm the lord so ezekiel imagine this ezekiel is talking to god and god is saying all this stuff and ezekiel's looking at god and the bible says what is before ezekiel could get a word out now we get to chapter 37 where ezekiel says that the lord's the hand of the lord was upon me he snatched me out in the spirit carried me out and set me down in a valley full of bones watching he says and he calls me to pass by them round about so let me show you the picture everybody walk with me from it i want to show you this a valley full of bones how does a valley become full of bones there was a war there there was a battle there and i'm gonna tell you something about vultures have you ever seen vultures eat they're very stingy very territorial birds so imagine a soldier falls dead and three vultures can uh just converge upon him one takes his arm over there one takes another arm one takes a leg and they go over and they feast on it and so now by the time he's ezekiel shows up in the spirit of the lord he sees a valley full of bones washes out and none of the bones are where they supposed to be in terms of where the individual died he goes on he says this while she says and he calls me to pass about a roundabout and behold there were very many in this open valley and lo they were very not just dry but very dry and he said unto me son of man can these can these bones live ezekiel understanding being a prophet of high order understanding how it works watch this now he could have said father or lord i decree they will live but that's not what he said you know he said thou knowest he said i can't say what you don't say so you tell me how it's going to be he said watch this he says thou knows pay attention to the questions that are before you the questions that are before you are loaded when you hear your spirit can i get the money for this will this work am i good enough these questions are your response to be to god god you know god you know show me your word give give me give me something to hold on to reveal to me what you're saying and watch this and god will actually show you and if you're wise and know how this works you'll hold on to scriptures and all you will say i've stood in the middle of a building project when it was raining tears in my eyes say you promise me we'll have the money and we've spent all we could we're million to end and nobody else i'm not asking people for my money we need help and while i'm standing in the rain my cell phone rings i answer the phone and it was bishop bishop says hart where are you i said i'm outside he said where are you i'm on the dome um um project he said uh go to your office and call me yes sir i go on a call he says here's what you do he says the banker by the name of so-and-so he's in this city i want to give him a call right now he said don't speak to anyone but him he has money for you that's the bishop did did god just say that he said son just do what i tell you to do i call the guy here's what he says to me he says on the word of nate holcomb i'm going to give you a loan how much do you need that's what we're meaning to end uh we laid the foundation i said we need the money to do the next part he said good he said i'm gonna send someone to your city i said where are you he said california he said someone will come in he said have you ever heard of libor i said no sir he says i said um because the interest rate raised he said don't worry he said we're gonna give you a libel alone i never heard of it i researched it it was a london exchange rate they come in they said this whole thing god saw me standing in the middle of this project that was just the foundation weeping reminding him you promised your children are dying on the vine your best years are passing you're wasting all your pretty messing with fools when all you have to say to you don't nobody want me stop saying that [Music] there's somebody i'm speaking to you somebody there's somebody out there if you stop giving yourself away for free stop acting like a wife and be you get before god he promised he brought my watch this real quickly yeah i know in verse five watch this again he said unto me watch this he said prophesy unto these bones and say unto them all dry bones says he says hear the the bar of the lord now the reason i use the hebrew word as we said god said i need you to speak to the bones they're dead they're dry there's no body they don't have ears but i need you to speak to the bone rushes out he says tell them to hear that the bar of god what's at the bar it's the command is it is the decree of a king hear what the lord said he said but they can't hear they don't have ears neither does the wind neither there's waves moses got in trouble because he spoke to something that couldn't hear he refused to he didn't speak to the rock when he was talked to rock can't hear but god says speak to the rock and war will come out it's not about the world it's not about the rock or the wind or the wave or the bones hearing it's about god hearing it [Applause] god has spoken once twice have i heard it the second time it's me second time it's you god speaks he declares i mean he decreed something and i declared in the earth and when i do that then god goes to work he says speak to these bones and tell him hear the bar of the lord thus saith the lord unto these bones behold i will cause breath to enter into you and you shall live i will lay sin you upon you i will bring flesh upon you and cover you with skin and put breath in you and you will live and you will know that i am the lord he said when your situation is dead and down to nothing he says i want you to do i want you to look at it and speak to it you said that you said they turned me down for the house yes i hear you they turn you down that's what the lord is saying he said i need you to look at that letter and say you will not stand here the word of the lord jesus said in matthew 6 that if we will trust the father he will give us places to live and close to where and food to eat he said it in his word somebody's watching this right now you you i don't know how you're seeing this but i see you in the spirit and you don't even have a place to live you're in a car [Music] and you just said to the lord i didn't know it would end up like this no you will not end up like that here's what you're gonna say father i thank you that you have a place for me to live you have people for me watch this watch this now so you declare the lord's decree to the dead and dying things in your life anything that's dead and dying speak the word of the lord to it you said i don't know how it's going you know it's not your responsibility to know how it's a pastor i've been sick with this for a long time let's stop putting god in your little box watch this in verse 9 ezekiel says then said he unto me prophesy unto the wind prophesy son of man and say to the wind thus says the lord come from the four winds of breath and breathe upon these slain that they may live since i spoke the message the message i spoke the message as he commanded me and breath came into their bodies they all came to life they stood upon their feet a great army listen to this you got to declare the lord's decree to activate divine solutions and strategies what does it mean sometimes sometimes we try something it doesn't work so i thought i tried something i was like no no what you all you did was you you put it together but when you put it together god has to breathe on it you know what i i suspect some of us have long stopped believing this stuff it failed so much for you that you stop believing it i'm to the place in my life with this where either god is real or he's not and i'll tell you what the spirit of god is speaking to me and everybody that's here today and watching by the stream it's the will of lord for you to hear this your life his intention is in flux right now there's a fluidity about your life right now this thing unsettled and you wonder how it's going to settle and god says gonna settle when you open your mouth and speak over yourself in your situation what i've said you've spoken the wrong things for a long time you say pass i didn't know what your words your words have hands god strength in your words your words it's funny how when i first met my wife i said some things to her and she remembered them to this day often she would say them to me she remembers the first message i ever i spoke of a word to a prophetic worker she still remembers it to this day words go down into your heart and shift things to shift eyesight your words and you know the problem too is that you're not listening especially the gifted people you're coming to church you're putting out your gift and then you're leaving or you're going and you're chatting with your friends and so you're pouring out all the stuff in the house of the lord and you're not getting any word [Music] so satan then you get to do your thing and say that like you hypocrite you know you're not hypocrite you just you're just empty from you need the word of the lord watch this i got to finish this so in verse 11 the listen the word is going to eventually bring results in verse 11 the bible says then he said to me son of man these bones represent the people of israel that's the part i want to get to listen to this he god said he said the reason i took you through all this is because these bones represent the people of israel that's what he says they are saying they are saying we have become old dry bones all our hope is gone our nation is finished watch this here's what god says god says the reason i gave you this vision is because i've been listening to him talk and there was a common or a descriptive of um word or by word that was used back then and i said you just owe dry bones and they start saying oh we just we just washed up which is all dry bones so god took ezekiel actually into a picture of their words the vision that he had god took him into their words and he said the reason i'm showing this is because that's what they're saying they're saying we've become old dry bones our hope is gone there's no hope for us and here's what god says he says therefore he said that the unchecked self-talk has put me in a position where i can't do what i've decreed because they won't agree with me so what i need you to do is go prophesy to them the answer the answer to our dilemma when god decrees one thing and we no longer believe is that god sends the prophet the prophet's job is to remind you of what god said he said i want you to speak the word of the lord to them he said prophesy to them and i want you to say this this is what the sovereign lord says all my people i will open your graves of exile and cause you to rise again i will bring you back to this land not you i'm gonna do it he says he said disengage don't you have nothing to do with it all i need you to do is say what i say that's all i need from you just just say what i've said just and when you speak just speak my word if you can't do anything else look at your checkup checking book look at your account and speak the word of the lord over it you don't like your job thank god god got more jobs for you there are other jobs you said well i've been in this job for 20 years and yeah look how you doing repeat after me say these words so i declare over my life that the word of the lord is true the word of the lord it works no longer will i speak against my best interest god knows exactly what he has planned for me i declare by the word of the lord that everything pertaining to me grows and strengthens the dead things come alive the dying things recover the broken things are fixed the sick things are healed god knows exactly what he wants for me and i will no longer cite against the lord his word over my life brings change here's the word of the lord i i need you to prophesy say all nations atlanta all nations charlotte by the word of the lord come to life wake up wake up [Music] i'm not gonna stir you you got the same faith i got you the devil came for you he tried to take you out he wanted your relationships he wanted your faith he wanted your children and now you know he didn't win god always has rams in the bush yeah he always has rams in the bush out of your own mouth you're going to make this declaration say by the word of the lord no no come on i need to end it by the word of the lord we will stand in this city and declare that jesus rules atlanta and charlotte we declare that we win and god fights for us and god fights for us come on and god fights for us ah come on do you believe that you how are you ready to confess to things yeah said he's my say lord my house needs presence come on say i said my house needs presence i declare today i'm going to the house and in my house anything that doesn't glorify you that gets in your way that stands against your judgments has to go i declare over my life that i am a prophet of god when i declare your degree things change in the earth and again when i declare your degree things change again when i declare your degree things change not blessing like you believe it let's let you believe it hallelujah hallelujah hallelujah come on i need your blessing right here hallelujah

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Published: Tue May 04 2021