Keith Moore Marriage Enrichment 2013 Pt 1 Faith Hope and Love

thank you lord turn with me please to first Corinthians the 13th chapter I'm excited about tonight I'm excited about this week I just I'd have to talk in tongues I think to try to explain why I'm excited but I know that you and I are not here and there in Branson and the internet we're not here by accident we are here by divine appointment and there are things that are done in meetings like this and will be done in this this meeting this week that lasts for eternity now that's that's saying a lot but what God does it's forever hallelujah and it's wonderful when healing miracles take place financial miracles take place wonderful but some of the greatest miracles happen inside the hearts of people and they're not always readily visible or apparent things can happen by the Word of God in spirit of god in in meetings and times moments just like this right now to where a person's heart and mind is changed a man didn't do it a woman didn't do it God did it by his word by his Spirit but a person's heart and mind shifts changes and it's not always obvious but they begin to think a little differently and talk a little differently and see things a little differently and it alters their course you know flying airplanes if you leave here in Florida going to Seattle Washington if you change your course just five degrees me much you probably won't even hit Washington State you might be in Oregon or California here anybody know what I'm talking depending on the winds you and and in your heart and mind sometimes it can it didn't seem like that much and yet there was a course change and over the course of the next year or five years or 10 years or 20 years you wind up at a completely different place in life a completely different person because that change kept affecting you and moving you further and further toward his will his plan his likeness his image can you say Amen in first Corinthians 13 let's begin reading in the first verse now before I start reading this this is also part of your reading assignment every year marriage meeting we have reading assignment yes I'm serious and yes you will be tested on this material not by me but in life every year we read two chapters out of the Song of Solomon and first Corinthians 13 every day from Tuesday now through Friday Tuesday Wednesday Thursday Friday then you'll have read Song of Solomon completely through and you'll have read first Corinthians 13:4 times everybody clear on on the reading assignment you read two chapters in Song of Solomon now you got to do it right got to release your faith on it you take your time husbands and wives do it together read it out loud don't be distracted by anything else and before you read it pray and ask the Lord to open it up to you to show you things you've not seen and to feed many believe the Word of God is spirit food spirit food it'll know even even if you might your head your mind doesn't understand it it'll still feed your spirit and do things for you beyond what you're understanding in your mind so please take the time to do it it'll it'll take a few minutes but not too long and not answer what about our daily chapter read that - four chapters is not going to put you over the limit right take take just the tell you won't take long but don't do it in a rush and release your faith be how many believe there's a reason why Song of Solomon is in here there's a reason why more than we know and these words are anointed and there's the spirit of things whether you understand it or not open up your spirit open up your mind read it out loud read it in faith believe it comes into you and opens you up to see things away God sees them think the way he thinks about husbands and wives and marriage in relationship and first Corinthians 13 we're about to read is the great love chapter and nobody ever had too much of the God kind of love working in their life let it manifest in you so and if you can read that in other translations that will help you to two chapters Song of Solomon each day and first Corinthians 13 every day and we'll do that tomorrow Wednesday Thursday Friday next four days that's our assignment and then first Corinthians 13 verse 1 you ready 1st Corinthians 13:1 says though I speak with the tongues of men and of angels and have not charity oh that's that's love I'm become a sounding brass or a tinkling cymbal keep going we're gonna read the whole chapter here though I have the gift of prophecy understand all mysteries have knowledge though I have all faith so that I could remove mountains and have not charity I'm nothing though I bestow all my goods to feed the poor though I give my body to be burned and have not love it profits me nothing now how can you give everything you've got without love why would you do that give our every dollar you got to feed people but it wasn't in love then what are you doing well it'd be because of some religious notion of how spiritual you are something that was still focused on you that you're oh you're a martyr that you're spiritual or some kind of works thing that you imagine that you're in you know will help your chances get into heaven or but you didn't do it out of love for them you did it for some other reason and if you do it's worth nothing even if you gave millions it's worth nothing because you didn't do it in love the heart of the giver determines the acceptable nosov the gift with God it's always about to heart not just the gift love suffers long and is kind you need to read this out loud with me love suffers long and is kind so it's kind while it's suffering long love helped keep going with me love envies not that's not at all love thoughts not itself is not puffed up that's the big head show off keep going does not behave itself unseemly did you know that love is not rude it's not rude it's not unmannerly it's not pushing keep going it seeks not her own is not easily provoked thinks no evil if you all can love the way I'm a talker does some people think you're naive they'll think look at that didn't even know those people were being mean to them those people were insulting them and you go really well cuz it goes on to say it takes no account right of a suffered wrong you don't have to keep up with everything somebody's trying to do do you you can be blissfully oblivious or even when you hear about it so Who am I hmm love makes you godlike because it is the love of God can you see God the Father on the throne threatened about the junk people said about him today do you see him asking the angel nearby going what did they say they called me a what he's above all that you know we can be to keep going rejoice is not an iniquity rejoices in the truth keep going bears all things believes all things hopes all things endures all things keep going love never fails whether it be prophecies they will fail I'm read the rest of it here whether it be tongues they'll cease whether there be knowledge it'll vanish away keep going for we know in part we prophesy in part keep going but when that which is perfect is come that which is in part shall be done away now notice in talking about love now he's talking about being a child and growing up because growing up spiritually is growing up in love which is growing up in God who is love there's no such thing as developing spiritually are maturing spiritually apart from growing up in love doesn't exist they are the same because God is love how could you develop spiritually without developing in God or without developing in love so he's talking about this so he didn't change subjects he's talking about the same thing when I was a child I spoke as a child how did children speak yeah childishly is obviously a good answer but what distinguishes now in the the framework of his subject love what would distinguish a an immature one from a mature one children are selfish right without meaning to be without thinking they are hmm infants will wail in the middle of the night and wake you up out of a sound sleep and don't care that they woke you up am i right don't care and there might be nothing wrong except they were turned a little funny in their bed just woke up and just didn't feel quite right they don't need a good reason to interrupt your sleep or what you were doing or interrupt you from anything and little ones that they're not thinking that way but and it's all about me all about me what I want to do and what I want to eat and what I want to play and and and and just that's they live in the world of me but you're not supposed to be the same way when you're 40 years old you're supposed to have realized there's other people in the world besides you hmm there's other people on the road besides you and they have a life too and they have stuff they want to get to and do too right they think what they're doing is as important or more important than you there's people in the grocery store too there's people there's people in your house that's too quiet on that one day when I was a child what happened I spoke like a child I understood like a child I thought like a child which is to say not in love self centered fleshy but when I became a man I put away when I became the tour when I grew up I put away childish things keep going now we see through a glass darkly but then face to face now I know in part but then shall I know even as also I am known you know this is a wonderful revelation then I'm as dumb as I will ever be moving forward I'm only going to get brighter come on is anybody happy about that besides me I'm better than I was years ago I'm seeing more I've got more light I've got more understanding if we're growing up in God we will also be less selfish less foolish hmm not so easily deceived and duped and etc etc but moving forward it's only gonna get better we're gonna get stronger and sharper and brighter and more understanding and more faith and more light anybody happy about this and what kind of you know have you improved in the last ten years twenty years forty years what if you just kept improving at that rate for the next 5,000 years what kind of being will you bear I'll tell you a son of God beloved now are we the sons of God and it doesn't yet appear what we will be in people who says they don't recognize us who we are but it's because of our early stage of development but in time to come I said in time to come it'll be obvious because of the light we walk in and the glory we walk in and the place we hold in his kingdom ruling and reigning with him all other beings will know they are the sons of God glory to God keep going now abides say you need to say this one out loud with me now abides faith hope and love these three but the greatest of these is love glory to God I want to talk to you about this verse tonight as the Lord would help us faith hope and love these three these three are interconnected these three you know if you have faith you have hope Hebrews 11:1 says that faith is the substance of things hoped for another translation says it's the confidence or the assurance of things hoped for or expected faith and hope are connected you also know that the Bible says faith works by what by love faith hope and love are connected and when talking about marriage and talking about relationships I don't know if anything better to talk about tonight than these three things because they are the answer to myriad issues and challenges we were singing shut Dido and that's not a just a little song how many know the Bible says neither give place to the devil didn't it say when translation says don't give him any foothold don't give him any opportunity what if the devil has a foothold what if he has place in a marriage in a home somebody gave it to him somebody opened the door somebody left the door open the devil's not all these cracked itself up to be he can't just push his way into your life into your marriage and wreak havoc he can't I said he can't don't you believe he can't he can't somebody has to let him in now there's no need in pointing fingers because everybody in here has let him in different times or places or situations but it's a dumb thing to do isn't it somebody says shut the door and the best way I know to shut Dido is with faith and hope and love I can see him the word tonight that by living in faith hope and love we can shut every point of access to the enemy working to get in do you believe we can shut the doors and closed off access the enemy goes about like a roaring lion what's he looking for seeking whom he may devour this is not a fairy tale this is reality and the devil is attacking and assaulting marriages with a fever pitch and sadly he's made a lot of progress I mean 50 years ago marriage and homes were much more respected in this country than they are now people you know we have masses of folks in the country and in the world they have no intention of getting married ever they don't respect the covenant they don't respect a home or a family but they also don't realize that the dissolution and destruction of the family and marriage is the destruction of society is the destruction of nations the devil knows this which is why it's it's right at the top of his list of things to devastate and destroy you think about this right now you and I Branson what if every one of our marriages was destroyed Phyllis's and mine yours ever every couple in here what would that do to the families what would that do to this church what would that do to Branson would there be a local church left if all of us see it says you know the world doesn't want to acknowledge that they won't act like it doesn't matter we can now just group together and pull our resources and and everything will be okay it's not true I said it's not true it takes real love and real faith and a covenant come on are you listening to be strong enough to overcome the assault and the temptations and the attacks and the flesh come on are you listening to overcome all the junk that comes against marriage and Families and to be victorious over it and year after year and decade after decade still have a home and a house and a foundation and family that's one of the greatest miracles going on in the earth isn't it let people scoff and say whatever they want to but you and I know the truth and that's one reason I said I commend you and knows that Branson and those joining us for making the effort being here because a lot of people they I mean if its own prosperity they be here or healing or you know but marriage okay maybe I don't think I need it and whatever and people I like it's an admission of a failure that you come to a marriage meeting no it's the glory of God it's the divine mystery of Christ and the church revealed in human form in the earth that's one of the greatest most glorious things you could talk about the Devil attacks assaults marriages he orchestrates specific attacks and they can't just execute him he's got to find an opportunity he's got to find an opening a way in we see this with Jobe don't we fact just turned there to the book of Job you remember reading in Jobe that would go to the 3rd chapter that it says that the enemy had said that he had he was knew that God had put a hedge around everything that job had and job's family in and and obviously the enemy couldn't get access to it and I don't know how long this had gone on but then the accuser of the Brethren came and accused him in acts let's back up to the second chapter did you say you're believing with me man there's a lot of things here tonight I'm trusting God you're trusting God with me write this there's a lot of things here tonight and we need to get to as much of it as we should and a foundation for the rest of the week job two and for the devil's accusing job to the Lord notice what he said skin for skin yeah all that a man has will he give for his life put forth your hand now touch his bone in his flesh everybody say flesh and he'll curse you to your face what's his accusation skin for skin that's flesh touch his flesh he'll curse you he'll unhook from you he'll bail because skin for skin all all a man has he'll give for his life Jesus said something about this fact just hold your place here how would you place here and go with me to the book of John hold your place in job we're coming back there and go to I tell you what go to go to Matthew sixteen then maybe we'll go to John Matthew sixteen Jesus was telling his disciples that he's going to be scourge he's going to be crucified and Peter Matthew 1622 took him and began to rebuke him wonder who inspired him to do that what in the Holy Spirit to rebuke the Lord and he said be it far from you lord this shall not be to you the margin of some Bibles say that he said pity thy self pity thyself no and Jesus turned and said to Peter get behind me Satan one of the strongest reactions we see out of the master he wheeled around I believe he raised his voice he said get behind me why would he respond like that because what Peter doesn't realize is he's being used of the devil right now and this is something that Jesus won't allow himself to think about for a moment he resists it very strong what the thought of you don't deserve this to happen to you pity yourself keep reading then said Jesus to his disciples If any man will come after me let him do what deny himself take up his cross and follow me for whosoever will save his life what will happen he'll lose it whoever will lose his life for my sake what will happen he'll find it I want you to put this with the accusation the devil made skin for skin all a man has he'll give for what his life then he said touches flesh Jesus said if you save your life you lose it if you lose your life from my sake you'll find it John says a similar thing in John 12 25 you not to turn there but he says he that loves his life will lose it he that hates his life in this world will keep it unto life eternal the enemy wants to destroy our marriages which we shouldn't run hide from this we should know this and he'll do everything he can to destroy but we also need to know he can't do anything unless we let him in where's the weak points where our people let him in how is this happening it's happening through the flesh that's the accusation that the enemy made skin for skin this is still going on today the flesh didn't Jesus say the Spirit is willing but why the flesh is weak and one of the evidences that you're not operating spiritually that you're operating in the flesh that you're seeking and concerned about your own life and preserving it and finding it and getting it rather than losing your life for the Lord Satan is the presence of fear it is a telltale sign that you're yielding to the wrong thing and you're going the wrong way isn't that what happened with Joe go back to chapter 2 job chapter 2 after job may after the devil made this accusation about him you know what happened the devil did find access to him and there was destruction loss of his children's lives loss of his prosperity loss of his protection loss of his own physical health and his he and his wife wasn't doing good either were they she's telling him why don't you just die right hey I wouldn't say they're doing very good but now you think about this of all the things she could have told him at this juncture in their life what did she say why don't you just curse God where'd she get that cursing god that's the very phrase the devil said to the Lord accusing him she doesn't know it but like Peter she's a mouthpiece for the devil right now against her husband where did she come up with that phrase why don't you just curse God and die those are the exact same words the devil spoke I guess because it is his words coming through her mouth we've all yielded the wrong stuff in times past but let's make up our mind I mean you we're not gonna be the devil's mouthpiece we're not gonna let him speak through us or influenced through us we're not going to yield to him we're going on shut the door and keep the devil outside unable to gain access to get in it's up to us it's our choice what we yield to is it our choice what we say certainly it is you know what to say something just cuz it comes to your mind that's just cuz you get your little feelings hurt just catch you get you a little temper stir it up don't mean you got to start talking and doing all kind of stuff it could actually be a real Christian and be led and control yourself and walk in faith and hope and love and if you did you would avoid opening any doors or access come on can you see it Saints you would you just keep everything closed to the enemy oh somebody say thank you lord thank you lord notice how the enemy got access to job chapter 3 chapter 3 and 25 I'm reading this out of Young's literal translation job 3:25 he said after all this stuff happened to him what did he say happened what job say happened he said for I fear a fear I feared I'm reading Young's literal and it meets me and what I was afraid of does come to me keep reading I was not safe nor was I quiet nor was I at rest and trouble comes is it a spiritual law in principle that if you yield to a fear and you keep on yielding to it the thing you fear will be drawn to you it will come to you even though job and his family had been protected for years and decades are supposed and blessed and blessed and blessed yet the enemy found access into their lives to steal kill and destroy through their fear their fear all this is connected fear of what fear of what it's it's what Jesus was talking about it's fear of losing my life everybody awake are you helping me I know these things are spiritual I know you gotta listen with your heart but do you believe there's power in the word I Phyllis and I have counseled with folks concerning their marriage years past recent times hey you watch this again and again when marriages are in trouble and you're listening to people talking to people you won't talk very long until one of them will say I'm afraid I'm just afraid I'm afraid I'm afraid I'm losing them I'm afraid they're lying to me I'm afraid they don't love me anymore I'm afraid is anybody listening I'm just afraid too much has happened I'm just afraid is it okay for a child of God to be afraid see we've been brought up in religious circles that have told us that everybody's afraid sometime and that's okay and we struggle with it no no fear is an open door to the devil it's one of the most serious things we deal with in life friends what happened to job when he feared a fear havock devastation flowed down upon him and everything he had and the reason why people are so susceptible to the fear is because they care too much about their life and the thought of losing my this or my that losing my identity losing myself in this relationship I just feel like I'm losing myself whether you should have already done that I just don't know who I am anymore but the only place you gonna find out who you are is in this book who you are in Christ Jesus you need to die to everything else but when there's this this fear of I but I have needs and I have desires and I just feel I'm afraid life is passing me by I'm afraid I'm stuck in a loveless marriage I'm afraid I'm afraid I'm afraid I'm afraid yeah and all the doors are wide open and the devil is eating your lunch and kicking your tail somebody say they don't know we're having a service tonight so that lets shut Dido how do you shut the door how do you shut the door yielding yielding to fear is opening the door what's the opposite of fear faith what's the opposite of hope hopelessness despair yielding to despair oh it's never going to be any better it's hopeless yielding to that thinking that talking that is opening the door to the devil what's the opposite of love hate and selfishness self-centeredness yielding the selfishness is opening the door to the enemy and if you seek to save your life what will happen jesus said you will not night you will lose it you'll lose it in talking with people that are experiencing problems you'll also hear this you won't go very long till you're so hearing this me me they just don't mean and they don't for me and they don't know how that affects me me me and what are they afraid of there's a fear of loss I'm gonna I'm gonna lose my opportunity you ever heard of a midlife crisis huh do you know what's happening in a midlife crisis certainly it's fear but it's exactly the same thing that happens with the three year old when it comes bedtime what happens with the three-year hope comes bedtime with a lot of them what it's crunch time to go to bed huh their eyes are like this they're going no no I want to stay up I wanna I wanna I wanna I wanna why what a fear they gonna miss so now you know they're not gonna miss a thing right they don't care what's on The Late Show right they're not gonna miss a thing they need to get their little self in the bed right they're not gonna miss a thing that's exactly what's happening with a 50 year old that went crazy mmm jumped out of their career and their family and everything they're afraid they're afraid come on are you listening they're afraid I'm getting old and missing my window you know get to old and slow nobody I want me in and friend if you do you have just opened the door to the destroyer in your life and that's why people get in such terrible messes and they lose and the devil is able to steal and kill and just devastate and destroy because the fear the fear now we're not nobody's judging nobody's pointing any fingers all of us have yielded to some things we shouldn't have you to do all of us have yielded to fear but can you do something about it hmm can you do something can you make a change and stop yielding to fear I'm not quite done on this can you take it I hope so cause you about to get it what's the fear of go to first Corinthians 3 you know first Corinthians 3 is just a few chapters before the chapter we read verse 13 it's a progression all this flows together and first Corinthians three and one first Corinthians three and one says brethren eyes I couldn't speak to you as spiritual I had to talk to you as carnal now carnal means flesh you know carne steak meat flesh as opposed to spiritual well what's what is flesh it's not just this it's everything this is attached to it has to do with everything this lives in and flesh is the emphasis on the physical temporal earthly satisfaction and fulfillment and if you live for that it'll never be enough and you will lose it not mate jesus said you will and if you can die to this you can if you will die to this and it's something you got to keep affirming every day you can get free you can get soul free till the devil can access you like he's accessing other people he can't get to you he can't hurt you lucky hurts other people hmm because you don't love what they love you're not living for what they're living for so when the devil threatens to take it away from you it don't even scare you it's like death itself I'm so thrilled I'm not afraid to die it just affects everything in your life I'm genuinely I'm not just trying to convince you I'm genuinely completely unafraid to die I know the Lord tarries is coming won't be much longer I'll go you too and but I am so convinced of the reality of God and spirit and heaven and eternity I'm so convinced of what's going to happen when this body breathes its last and falls on the ground I'm gonna step out of it and I'm gonna be me only me free free me hallelujah and it's just it's just gonna be the beginning of the most glorious part of our existence thus far so it delivers you from the fear and the Bible said in Hebrews that because of the fear of death people were all their lifetime subject to bondage well who's enforcing the bondage well then what gave him access to create create this bondage it was the fear the fear we understand faith in God gives God access into our life doesn't it allows him to move and do great things in us and for us well fear gives the destroyer access to our life gives him opportunity to do terrible things against us and to us should we take fear seriously hmm what about fears concerning our marriage and our spouse hmm what if they can y'all take this or not what if your spouse decides tomorrow they don't like you anymore they don't love you anymore here's two words their loss do you have to fall apart man I'm just saying don't care and I'm not saying it wouldn't touch your heart and I'm not saying you wouldn't shed some tears but do you have to come apart and do you have to fail and cease being you or do you have enough of your heart in God that he is your everything come on are you listening and you can overcome every obstacle and trial and test I'm just I'm just afraid I'm afraid that they they don't love me I'm afraid that they're having an affair I'm afraid they're lying to me I'm afraid they're making a fool out of me here's a great truth only you can make a fool out of you that's the truth only if somebody's hurting you lying to you deceiving you I didn't it's not a bad reflection on you that's their failure and why do people get so bent out of shape we're getting into it now let me tell you something about your spouse you don't own them you never have and you never will and they can do anything they decide to do and you can't stop it and if you're gonna tell you stay tied up in knots about what they might be doing who they might be talking to what they might be saying what is that what is that fear and it's connected with some ugly stinking flesh pride my my my what about how I look what about what they'll say what about what about me yeah but that's my eyes now I notice where the emphasis is my thing about them it's about my MA and as long as those fears are there does anybody listening as long as those fears are there what do you have you've got a for the devil to harass you and feed all kind of lies into your mind and torment you torment you fear fear fear fear of not getting what I want fear of not getting what I need I need respect I need to be treated I'm a special person I need to be treated I'm a wonderful person I need somebody who appreciates me you're seeking your life you're clinging to hold into your life and the fear is that you might not get it or that you might lose it and that'll keep you perpetually vulnerable fear of being taken advantage of like we already said I know years ago this was a good 25 plus years ago there were several things going on and in our life and ministry that was troubling and I was in the floor praying and I had been I've been quite heavy about some things and I was praying and Brenda's going on for weeks and months actually and some of these things and and the Lord spoke to my heart he said Keith if you'll just forget about you most of these problems will just evaporate I thought hmm if I'll just forget about me most of these problems will just evaporate I thought is that true I set up I thought well I'm thinking about how this affects me about how I want how I need I and if I forgot about me I suddenly realized how would even have anything to pray about right now go to Hebrews 13 please can you take a little bit more what about faith and hope and love faith is always believing don't take account of a suffered wrong never fails always believes we're gonna make it hope always has a vision love is always thinking about the other person if you got one person in a relationship doing that God's got access if you got two people doing it God's got total access and the devil's got none now I'm moving too fast uh something I had a question about for years that I believe I got an answer on just in recent times I know I told you what I tell you to go hold that place go to Matthew 19 Matthew 19 in the amplified and verse 4 Matthew 19 and verse 4 he says have you never read that he who made them from the beginning made them male and female keep reading and said for this reason a man shall leave his father and mother and shall be united firmly joined inseparably to his wife and the two shall become what said out loud the two shall become one spirit huh spirit the two will become one spirit oh no I often wondered why it didn't say one spirit why it said one flesh keep reading so they are no longer what two but what one what flesh now 1st corinthians 7 tells us such shall have trouble because of the flesh we didn't finish reading in 1st corinthians 3 did we he talks about the flesh and the carnality he said you're yet carnal because there's envying and strife and division what's that evidence of flesh carnality there's no such thing as a fleshless marriage people so we're gonna be all spiritual and have no flesh nope you live together every day every night all it goes with that but here's the thing you're no longer to flesh your what which means you need to get rid of the me and turn it into a we and correct yourself every time you're thinking well my this and neither no no it's we its weak I know that's simple but there's a great truth right here we I need no forget about I need what do we need because when it comes to flesh we are no longer two we're one flesh that means there's no more me well I unless I just need some me time no you don't me needs to die kapow dead die die me needs to death why because me and then the fear of me not getting what I need and won't is what it's open door it allows the destroyer access it's the very thing that is just just devastating relationships they'll no longer be too but they'll be what said out loud one flesh not me we we we married people you're not single you're not single all the married people here you need to say it out loud every married person say it out loud I'm not single my life is not just me right what is your life we-we-we ladies guys guys it's not just you know it's not just my house my my dishes my clothes my fishing gear my motorcycle come on you single or not huh are you single if you're not single one one one flesh that means we when it comes to flesh when it comes to natural things the kind of things we want to do and make us happy and make us comfortable it's all supposed to be a we take that in [Applause] turn that dude around I'm telling you me has been the murderer of a million marriages you know it you know it it's we we I think we don't just say we a couple of times we we we what's going in the future we are going to pray we are going to seek God we are going to believe God we are gonna find out his plan for us we are going to pursue it and believe for it and go for it we are gonna do it together we we Phyllis and I just shake that we shake our head sometimes ministers pastors we've had pastors wives tell us before so well you know he decided to come pastor this church and and they're mad at him because he's doing things in the church it's supposed to be we well I tell you what I know she's sitting here but I got one of the finest wives in the ministry you have ever seen or heard of I'm telling you whatever it takes all she wants to know is did the Lord really say so and if we got that settled whatever it takes whatever it takes hallelujah I should want her happy and comfortable with me she should want me happy and comfortable with her not apart not separate things together things you there's no way people are run in totally different directions so called calls that make them have completely different separated lives and that's God it's not people learn to sing and it doesn't work and that's why you hear time after time after time next thing you know they got involved with somebody else because it was me said again we not two but one flesh one flesh go with me in the first John how many verses you holding now huh you're in the word though you got your fingers stuck in there you know you're in the word I didn't finish telling you this all you need to know this I just I need to go a little further about what fear will do to you fear makes you stupid it does let me give you the definition of stupid seriously stupid means a slow mind stupid means given to unintelligent decisions will fear move you to make dumb decisions yes it will fear acting in an unintelligent or careless manner unreasoned thinking are acting hmm love tell us when people are there so they're in such a rage or they're in such a a depressed hurt actually they're scared they're scared and I don't care whether it's mild apprehension our full-blown panic it's all fear and it's just how much you're yielding to it it's whether you're opening the door a crack to the devil or whether you've got the garage and the barn to open but when you yield to fear or I yield to fear the enemy will come in it's just what he's been waiting on he's been circling he's been looking for cracks he's been looking for access and if we won't yield to this selfishness and despair and hopelessness and I'll let just if we won't do it we can keep him waiting waiting year after year until we run our whole course and just get out of here and he goes yeah they never did open up it's true said out loud I am not afraid fear makes you stupid it does mean what you think about some of the things people have done to their own family to their own relationship to the people that cared about them what other word would you use it's stupid it really is absolutely crazy and the reason they did it is cuz fear when you the more you yield to fear you don't see things right anymore you get to where you're not even thinking right you get to where you you do your version of reality is skewed and what's happening the enemy is is blind in your mind fear makes you weak it makes you weak and what evidence of weakness from fear is neediness neediness little children need a lot of attention need a lot of help they're naturally selfish we understand that their baby their child they should grow out of it but mature ones I'm not supposed to be needy clingy hmm you don't like me I know I had a couple sitting across the desk from me years ago experiencing a lot of marriage but young young I think I've been married six months and one of them said to the other I said what's the problem and and the lady said he doesn't love me he looked at me with pain in his eyes he said I do brother Keith I do he said he doesn't even think I'm pretty he looked at me with angst in his face he said brother Keith look at her she's beautiful I tell her all the time she looked at me you're just saying that he looked at me with it he didn't say anything but his eyes were said please help it goes the other way too you know guys are saying you know you don't believe in me and and you know you don't trust me and and you don't think I'm a man and you don't think I can lead and friends neediness is spiritual repellent oh it's it pushes people away but we're having one tonight aren't we you knew what we were having you came on and signed up for it anyway didn't neediness please please oh yeah you never spend any time with me you don't care about me and you know you know you didn't do it you didn't mean it I know you said it but you didn't mean it that means you're pitiful insecure which is another word for fear you're full of fear really and you hear you got people loving you telling you the truth and you don't believe them and you got the devil telling your life and you believe him and they love you don't want to help him he's trying to kill you how many know we didn't decide who our friends are we need to get it figured out for it's too late now here is a revolutionary idea come on you have to brace yourself for this everybody right are you ready I'm Tom Martin and this is revolutionary this is revelation you think you're ready are you a faith man or woman to you you believe you can believe for a miracle or believe to do something beyond okay here it is next time your spouse tells you they love you believe it just believe it without reservations believe it completely next time they tell you you look good just don't add anything to it don't go oh just something you just being I used to be a nice you just become no quit it quit it quit it just believe it completely let go you look good you go I guess I must look good thank you my I father in the faith Kenneth Hagin used to say this it does people said man that's a sharp suit you got him you sure look good he said you're just saying that cause it's true you just saying it because it's so I know that sounds so simple but do you believe that could change lives that could change situations it is not humility to tell somebody they're lying when they're telling you they love you or you look good or whatever it's an insult isn't it and to believe the destroyer over somebody who loves you he's one of the worst choices you could ever make faith people or to be just primed to believe something good anyway you have to tell us twice huh let's go man you're something you go whoo yes I am so people think oh that's oh that's ugly no that's religious junk that is messed up your head when God tells you you're the righteousness of God in Christ you're holy you're sanctified come on are you listening you gonna look at him and go ah you just say in there hmm say that loud I'm not gonna be stupid I'm not gonna be weak I'm not gonna be needy I'm gonna stop yielding to any fear no more fear no more fear yea though I walk through the valley of the shadow of death what what I will fear no evil I don't care what it is I'm not gonna be afraid of it I know God I'm in him I'm loved of him accepted of him my future is secure right yeah you got a soul you got emotions you got feelings they can be touched you can be hurt I'm not telling you not to care I'm telling you don't fear no matter what hmm if everybody were to you know the scripture says if my mother and father forsake me the Lord will take me up don't ever say I couldn't live without them don't ever say that you may need to you know people don't always die at the same times husbands and wise oh boy see the looks I'm getting across the crack hey listen you have to talk about that hey we've talked about everything else yeah we got to must we keep going it's a fear I said it's a fear it's a fear that can cause your damage and hinder you while you're alive you know you're not ready to live till you're ready to die you're not ready to be together and have everything you should have if you couldn't make it apart do you have enough of your heart and God do you believe he's big enough he could sustain you in any situation can you sure you can't say that light I can make it I can do all things through Christ who strengthens me I can't I can do anything I need to do everything I need to do I can do it with his help first John for oh you need to stop in that place I had you holding while ago Hebrews 13 it's on the way Hebrews 13:5 13 5 says let your conversation your lifestyle be without covetousness be content with such things as you have for he has said what did he say I will never leave you nor forsake you now notice what kind of effect that's supposed to have on you if you just believe that without reservation he will never leave me or forsake me what's verse 6 then I can boldly say the Lord is my perpetual helper always with me and as a result of that what I will not fear what man shall do to me the complete Jewish says I do now is my helper I will not be afraid what can a human being do to me a human being can't do anything to me that God's not much bigger than what if you had no fears no fears of having you heartbroken of being deceived to being lied to if somebody stopped loving you what if you had no fears of any of that what kind of person would you be this has been a lot to take in tonight already had its I know but do you believe there's power in the word do you believe these words have life in them we've been reading scriptures haven't how can you tell that you're yielding to fear go to first John 4 there is a very telltale sign and indicator and when you when you identify it make the connection it'll give you a real tool to not give it any more place but to immediately shut the door and put it out first John and four and down let's see in about verse 18 there is what what we read first Corinthians 13 that great love chapter what what one thing is conspicuous for its absence nothing that's related to any fear it's connected to love there is how much how much no fear in love if we could be in childish and we grow up in love what happens to us we stop being fearful and we stop acting stupid because of fear we stop being needy and weak because of fear because we the devil will come and try to lie to us and all be scared be scared they're gonna do this they're not gonna do that and you just want even you took you just go leave me alone graters he that sent us hmm I refuse to fear no matter what the Lord will never leave me he'll never forsake me my name is in the Lamb's Book of Life they're working on my mansion tonight in glory they don't like you anymore they'll get over won't love you anymore I still love you you better quit I'm not there's no weapon against love love never fails you can love people no matter what they do they say quit loving me no [Laughter] how can you know you're in fear fear has torment torment that same word he's used to describe earlier in the New Testament the atmosphere of Hell torment everlasting torment of hell you know you can experience days of heaven on the earth the Bible talks about it you know you can also experience days of Hell on the earth what is the atmosphere of heaven it's love it's life it's joy is peace what's hell like strife pain darkness death anguish right gnashing of teeth has ever been any gnashing of teeth in people's houses and homes they're experiencing the taste of Hell they've let the devil in their house and he's rampaging we don't have to I said we don't have to somebody say shut the door shut the door I know years ago at healing school I was ministering and the day was over we were closing the building and leaving it was a cold outside and a young lady came up in the parking lot and she had her little child with her and she said I knew her she'd been to the healing school before she said brother Keith would you please pray the baby was sick it's you could tell it was running a fever its nose was running it was whimpering and crying and we're outside now and it's cold and winds blowing and and and doors already locked and I said sure sure and I start to pray and the Lord check me and said don't pray I surprised I thought whoa why baby sick why not pray and I thought what am I going to tell her and just like that I knew by word of knowledge I knew I looked at her I said I said dear you and your husband been fighting she just boo-hooed she just broke out into this huge sob and crying eventually she stops and she's still crying and she said oh brother Keith it's awful it's awful I said the Lord checked me and said it'll do a little good to pray you guys got the door open that's your house does the Bible say if husbands don't treat their wives right and wives don't treat their husbands right that prayers will be hindered first Peter 3 did it say that well what would be hindered prayers to be God's not manifesting and the enemy is and I said I'll pray with you for Grace and wisdom I said but for nothing else for your little ones sake you go home and you and your husband get this fixed get this door closed and you baby you'll be all right so we pray thank God she had a good testimony at end of the week hallelujah somebody say shut the door shut the door go to Ephesians 6 I'm closing I think if he's and six in Ephesians the sixth chapter such a wonderful passage of scripture here in the eleventh verse Ephesians 6:11 he said do what put on the whole armour of God that you may be able to stand against the wiles of the devil he's a tricky one but you don't have to be exposed we wrestle not against flesh and blood but against principalities powers rulers of the darkness of this world spiritual wickedness in high places now they too shall be one what flesh are they your problem their flesh and blood is that your problem see the enemy has some people convinced my wife is the scourge of my life my husband has destroyed my life they are they've ruined everything it's a lie I said it's a lie flesh and bloods not your problem that's not the enemy of your soul the devil is the enemy isn't it it's time we'll quit fighting each other realize who our true enemy is right join forces got rid of me got into we gear right and resist the devil what would happen he would flee from us shut the door keep him out keep going verse 13 wherefore take unto you what he says it again take unto you the whole armour of God that you may be able to withstand in the evil day having done all to stand verse 14 stand therefore having your loins Girt about with truth and the breastplate of righteousness your feet shod with the preparation of the gospel of peace why do you need all this so that there's no opening for the enemy to get to you you're covered up I said you're covered up you're covered up in love you're covered up in hope the helmet of salvation you're covered up in truth you're covered up in righteousness come on can you see this that means the devil can't get to you he can't get to you can't get to you and what did he say the last one above all taking what the shield of faith wherewith you shall be able to quench all the fiery darts of the wicked so somebody's shooting at you aren't they lies deception feelings temptation he shooting at you and why are so many people going down with them because they're uncovered they're exposed this shield of faith was described the natural shield he was talking about was not one knees a little bitty dude said it was a door size shield that you could get behind and be completely covered somebody say door sighs now what happens when you stop being in faith and you get in fear what happens and so fiery darts sure you're hurt you're mad you're upset you're scared you're confused and it's sad but we got Christians they look like pin cushions hey you got fiery darts sticking out right every one cuz they're completely uncovered and every one that the devil shoots at them hits them demons are laugh and go hit them again what is that 932 Wow and Christians are just folding like wet noodles and this I can't take any more juice through I just feel like I'm losing myself I don't even know anymore and they'll be saying the same thing on marriage number five because finding a new partner does not magically fix everything and a lot of folks have had a lot of challenges and I know a lot of people have been through a lot of stuff in the room betrayal all kind of stuff listen the reason it bothers people so bad is my pride my feelings my dreams my needs and if you died of that and you put your armor on come on are you listening Saints you become something more than just flesh you become spiritual hallelujah and you're not just living for to fulfill your dreams anyway you will in lay down anything that you ever thought for him to live for him and accomplish his car in your life hallelujah and in your marriage they forget about them you forget about you and we seek the Lord see what he has for us and then we pursue it together and we find our course we run our race we finish it hallelujah can you say Amen go rebe to God glory be to God glory be to God there's more but I think you've had enough for right now go ahead and stand up everybody stand up oh thank you lord

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