Meditation of the Word Brings Hope | Bishop Keith Butler | August 25, 2021

amen praise the lord you see to open your bibles to the first psalm please we're going to pick up where we left off on last week praise god last wednesday night because the lord hasn't has instructed me that particularly to go back to some foundational things amen to make sure that his people are ready for the things that are coming peter wrote praise the lord that i'm put you in remembrance of these things though you know them that you may be grounded and settled in the present truth because the truth can be past truth and no longer present truth hebrews chapter 2 says that you can allow things you know to slip amen and then even though you think you know things i have found praise god that even when i think i know something when i have ears to hear i always get fresh revelation on it never fails always happens i say something i didn't see before praise god and so now here's part two of this meditation of the word brings hope amen so once again we read psalm 1 1 bless because how happy is the man the welcome not in the counsel of the ungodly nor stand if in the way of sinners nor sit up in the seat of the scornful but his delight is in the law of the lord and in his law does he what meditate once again that word meditate means he murmurs he imagines he speaks he studies and he talks glory to god day and night then it tells you the result he shall be like a tree planted by the rivers of water that bringeth forth his fruit in his season his leaf also shall not wither and whatsoever he does shall prosper now i love to see what the word says and what the result of it says but i i always like to ask these questions and those of you who who work for me ministers know that from time to time i always talk to them about this these are the questions you always ask who where when why and how okay so we read what happens when you meditate the word but why why is it that he becomes like a tree planted by the rivers of water is able to bring forth his fruit in his season that his leaf or whatever he does doesn't wiggle away amen his work doesn't doesn't wither away and whatsoever he does prospers well one of the reasons praise the lord is because when you meditate the word meditate meditating the word gives you a greater knowledge of god the father in the lord jesus christ remember ii peter chapter 1 verse 2 grace and peace is multiplied grace of god of course manifestation of holy ghost power peace of god hallelujah when you operate into irene the peace of god that i mean there's that tranquility regardless to what's going on it says grace and peace is multiplied through the knowledge of god and of jesus our lord the more you meditate god's word the more you come to understand him the more you come to know him the more you learn what to expect from him i've been reading the bible my entire life and been a serious student of the bible for almost 50 years praise god and i tell you still i meant to take the word i learned more and more about god's character who he is now see it makes a big difference when you know who somebody is and why they are okay amen you can tell me all you want pastor deborah such and such and such and that you can talk all you want pastor i have been married to pastor deborah for 46 years and i have been with over 47 years i know her better than anybody on earth including her brothers and sisters why ain't nobody been there as long as i have not even close you don't you understand what i'm saying say so when you meditate the word that's what you get so i know what to expect from i know what you're going to do i'm telling you i can finish her sentences for her and vice versa you understand what i'm saying all right now praise god turn to psalm 119. now in the 119th psalm we're going to read verse 49 and of course on wednesday night you take a lot of notes amen because you know i'm gonna look at a lot of scripture but 119 verse 49 tells us this remember the word which thy servant upon which thou has caused me to hope that's what we're talking about tonight see when you're talking about hope the hope is a confident expectation of the future right and note what it says here he says what has caused me to have hope is the word see so when you meditate the word and one of the things of course you got here was greater knowledge of god which is not where i'm so much going tonight but it's one of the things i'm going about the hope side tonight but you you have a confident expectation of the future now this is vital to faith amen praise god faith hebrews 11 1 now faith is the substance of things hoped for see so faith has an absolute connection to hope faith comes by romans 10 17 by hearing and hearing by the word of god so the more you meditate the word the bigger your hope gets and it opens a capacity for faith to work can i get three hallelujah somebody praise god and see without faith he was 11 6 it's not possible to please god he that comes to god must believe that he is and that he is a rewarder of them who seek him diligently praise the lord amen so there's a connection this is why we meditate the word no wonder he said you do this day and night because right off the top you can see the benefits of that now if you don't know this already praise god there are new testament names of god and one of the new testament names of god is three people so familiar with all the old testament jehovah jihad jirah and tiscanu and rapha but there are new testament names of god one of them romans 15 13. he is the god of hope one of his new testament names he says he's god of hope god of patience some others and so that's one of his names the names of god always describes his attributes now in jeremiah chapter 17 praise god and we read over in verse 7 blessed is the man that's trusted in the lord and whose hope the lord is and so praise god hope which comes from the word opens up blessings to come your way anybody in here want to be blessed well then how about first corinthians 13 13 now abideth this is what remains paul wrote now abideth faith hope love these three the greatest larger of these things is the love of god that's the largest thing of all but once again he said faith hope and love now there there are people who have hope without faith and that's another issue praise god because you got to connect both of them because you can have hope without faith you can just only be looking at the future and not be in the present amen faith is now hope is future come on somebody now faith is substance of things hoped for faith gives hope gives a dream reality come on somebody amen and so praise the lord turn to hebrews chapter 7. oh thank you jesus meditation of the word brings hope see this is why day and night you got to meditate think about murder talk about consider how does this apply to my job how does this apply to my school work how does this apply to my kids how does this apply to whatever it is in life then you got to meditate and think about that because it's like praise god they used to do in the old days with gold in in back in frisco days and you know in the 19th century well if you just wanted some specks and little little chunks you know you just panhandle in the water but if you really want to get rich you got to take some time you got to dig for gold that's the way the truths are in the word of god you got to dig for them okay and that's what meditation does for you now here praise the lord hebrews chapter 7 notice verse 7 19 excuse me for the law made nothing perfect see that's why there is an old covenant the old testament we call it our hebrew brothers we call it the first covenant amen amen so there's a reason there's a reason there's a new why is there new see if everything was taken care of by the old you wouldn't need anew so if you keep going back to the old during the time of the new year you're likely to get some things wrong although there are some things in the old that transcend into them let me understand the difference okay so let's keep reading this for the law made nothing perfect but the bringing in of a better hope did there was a better hope than the law who that what was that better hope jesus and his new covenant amen and we draw close to god unto it and so amen meditation of the word helps us take advantage of that now first corinthians chapter 9 o hallelujah hope thou in god the bible said and in dark times having hope is critical it's like right now in afghanistan people who are unable to get to the airport right now and i'm talking about just a natural person doesn't know the word and with god and all that the only hope that they have right now okay is it if they get a call from the state department or someone in government that gives them some hope i mean you can see that they can give me some hope i can still get out of here but if you heard nothing and you're just trapped you have no hope oh what it does to you well now here in first corinthians 9 10 it says or say if you all together for our six for our sakes no doubt this is written amen again i'll tell you anytime you see something written go back and look it up where it's written ain't got time to go there today but i encourage you to do that amen that he that plows shall plow in hope plows work he that works should work in hope or a confident expectation he that thresher for works in hope should be partaker of his hope what does he say here he said hope is the reason why you get up out of bed and go to work it's the motivation you have hope that if i do this job i will get a paycheck every two weeks or you have hope if i do this job really well somewhere down the line they gonna give me even more money than they pay maybe two weeks and give me more authority he says it is even true for the preacher he says he he said let him plow in in hope amen praise god for even even the preacher praise the lord wants to do his job well in the hope that even good things will come to them it says it right here in chapter 9. praise god i'm not speaking on that but we know that's true because in verse 14. even so hath the lord ordained he which preached the gospel of the gospel praise god now i'm gonna give you tonight seven points about meditation of the word and hope okay the real part of this message is to show you why you need to take the time by your morning coffee to meditate the work [Music] amen and i know you get your morning coffee how many y'all get y'all morning coffee let me see what happens see look at this 90 of the crowd okay i'm married to a coffee drinker like that she has several plaques several actually she has several plaques over the coffee machine but one of them says i drink coffee for your protection she gonna get that cup of coffee so now so you need to understand you need to build this okay it was 15 minutes what it's going to be you need to build this meditation and work because of what it does it could put you in position that you'd be like a tree planted by ribs of water you prosper what you do prospers amen gives you information about god opens you up so that the wisdom of god can be transmitted unto you in a natural setting praise god hebrews chapter 6. and let's read verse 19 talking about seven points praise god about meditation of the word and the hope of god hebrews 6 19 says this in fact i'm going to back up to verse 17 to give you the context it says wherever and god willing more abundantly to show unto the heirs of promise that's us the immutability of his purpose praise god immutable means the unchangeableness of his personal purpose or counsel to us he confirmed it by an oath that by two immutable things those two immunible things are the word and the blood in which it was impossible for god to lie we might have a strong consolation oh glory to that god amen who have fled for refuge to lay hold upon the hope that is set before us which hope we have as an anchor of the soul both sure or secure and steadfast praise the lord and which entering into that within the veil whether that of course turns out to be jesus i know what he said hope does hope confident expectation is an anchor what does an anchor do with a ship even today why do they toss an anchor above or over overboard they do it because the anchor goes down into the ground grabs hold to the bottom of the sea floor lake floor whatever it is amen holds the ship in place even though the water never stops pushing now the soul is the mind the will and the emotions and that is where the fight is the fight is between these two things that's where the war it's the war of the soul okay and that's what satan's trying to attack okay he's trying to attack that that's what he's trying to do and what god's telling you is that how to protect that is to meditate upon that word because the word is sure it's an anchor it will keep you from being too angry to keep you from getting depressed it it'll keep you from just losing it with your mind come on somebody put meditation of the word you don't need to take medication what you need is a bunch of words i'm not telling somebody don't take medication i gonna get between you and your doctor but i'm gonna tell you the word of god is medicine i get people to meditate on the word enough i've done this well over the years for so many decades and i've been doing this for decades and decades you know how many people i've seen just just not throw away their medicine if they meditate the word of god they were completely fine if i can get them to do it enough come on somebody i said hallelujah so it is the anchor of the soul and you have if you have problem with up and down emotions okay here's your answer now turn acts chapter 2 praise god because when you see things as things get darker and darker and crazier and crazier and wilder and wilder amen you need to put in front of your eyes something more and more meditation of the word now in acts chapter 2 praise god and verse 26 it tells us this therefore that my heart rejoice and my tongue was glad moreover also my flesh underlined shall rest and hope oh so we took care of the mind now we can take care of the body because this is a medical fact that your soul will determine what happens to your body if you're full of anxiety and fear and anger and worry there's been study after study after study after study after study they have shown that will open the door for cancer and every kind of sickness and disease hope not only protects your mind that confident expectation through meditating the word because your mind is protected so is your body so now you've got all three parts of your human system spirit soul and body glory to god becoming like a tree planted by the rivers of water amen progressing when it should do so so number two praise god it will cause your flesh to rest number one as an anchor over soul 2 it will cause your flesh to rest three turn to romans chapter five can i get three more hallelujah somebody we're talking about why why meditate we know we say well what it does but why what's the reason you know when you understand sometimes why things work it'll help you be motivated to do something we we see this with with children you know i got teenage grandchildren i even had one his first day in college was today lord have mercy the first day of college was today amen and i got one as young as a one years old well you know there's when i have my five-year-old he's be brad he's with me a lot so am i fabrio with me and so he's always asking me this question why paul you know i tell him such why why don't girl say because he says why i want him to know why if he knows why because he's bright okay if he knows why then he won't be tempted to do it not just you gonna get this result no but why between those two things okay here's why this is the steps that happens from this you understand see so that's what we're getting here tonight praise god now romans chapter 5 verse 4 tells us this here amen and patient experience and experience hope what's he talking about hope will help us to be patient hope will help us to wait so our faith can work remember the parable of the sower in mark chapter 4 okay the seed is planted in the ground right and then the man goes to bed gets up goes to bed gets up goes to bed gets up i always add praise god but goes to bed and gets up and praise god go to bed and gets up and praise god what's happening here see the time the word has been planted out of your mouth amen because your mouth is the planter when when you say god's word and you plant it into the ground amen and then you meditate on that word then it will stop you from i don't see nothing happening it's been two days two weeks two months whatever how long you're talking about it's been so long and now you'll be getting the waiver well the bible said james he that waver like a wave of the sea don't let him think you don't get anything of the lord a man of double minds is unstable in all his ways amen so what hope does and that's from meditation of the word hope caused you to be able to wait long enough for your faith to complete the task and bring what it is you're believing from not just from the invisible realm but you consider long enough so you can see it in the physical but what's required between those things is time notice again what he says here actually if we were to back up verse two who must we have access by faith to disgrace when we stand rejoice rejoice rejoice in hope see that connection there too see rejoice in hope of the dachshund that's a great word for glory which means that which is praiseworthy upstanding you know praise god so we rejoice in our confident expectation of that which is praise worthy of god not only that we glory and tribulations also tribulations of course once again that word means test and trials and problems yeah but we we praise god and tribulation knowing that tribulation work in patience for us or cheerful endurance and that cheerful endurance because that's what patience means brings us proof experiences proof and that experience gives us even more confident expectation and that more confident expectation that doesn't cause us to be disgraced or ashamed in other words it will work you know what else you will get when you start meditating the word the love of god praise god shed abroad in your heart by the holy ghost all that comes from meditation work that's why so if you miss your coffee and you miss your toast and you miss your bacon you miss whatever it is praise god miss it don't miss the word that morning praise god let me add some more to that turn to first thessalonians chapter one this is a big step now this is practical stuff i'm telling you this is practical stuff that's not sexy it don't mean people run out don't make people run up to the altar and shout amen this is what will work for you when things get rough listening to me here has ear to hear well here now first thessalonians chapter one praise god verse 3 remembering without ceasing your work of faith he says to the church at thessalonica your labor of love and patience of hope in our lord jesus christ in the sight of god and our father god is watching and praise god he's commending this church because of love patience and hope obviously faith see so hope and patience get they get connected together and meditating meditating of the word will cause you to keep your faith working because you'll stay walking in love you can't keep meditating the word of god and it don't affect you see if you hang around god long enough what he is going to splash off on you again whoever you hang around long enough that's why your parents don't run with so-and-so because you know so-and-so would have an effect you knew the kid didn't know but you knew that they would have an effect on you that was negative amen praise god hallelujah i've been hanging with pastor pastor deborah for all these decades now you think she ain't rubbed off on me you better believe it oh yeah oh yeah you know there's some people who tell me bishop you don't calm down over the years you not nearly as whatever that's deborah's she did that all right she rubbed all them rough edges down somebody said thank god for pastor devil i'm a whole lot softer than i used to be come on somebody there's some people in here who will attest to it glory to god in romans chapter eight thank you jesus then my first ministerial assignment was given to me was over a choir man and my heart was right and actually what i was talking about was right but my mannerism needed a little bit of help it's like a it's like a doctor without any bedside manner ever dealt with a nurse that didn't have any bedside manner she just come in and slammed the thing in there you need some blood she just stick the thing in there you don't care to hurt you or not just karen talks to you like a dog you know what i'm saying okay and you say you know you need to retire from the medical profession okay you better put your retirement papers in yeah romans chapter eight we're still talking about here praise god number three that meditation of the word brings hope hope helps us to be patient so that our faith can work romans 8 24 for we are saved now this word saved us sozo we are delivered we are protected we are healed we are preserved we are made whole by our confident expectation that's what we're talking about amen by hope but hope that is seen is not hope because hope doesn't have any substance alone you need faith with it amen for what a man seeth why does he yet hope for you don't have to hope for something you already got in your hand but if we hope for that we see not then do we with patience wait for them there's that patience and hope and bridge connected praise god hallelujah this also helps you with prayer because if you believe that god answers prayer then you have hope that your prayers are answered it'll help you have patience with the people you're praying for okay amen praise the lord now let's go on to number four anybody get anything out of this turn to psalm 71. but we're talking about how important and why why it is so important to meditate the word on purpose at home not coming to the service you know for us to teach you the book and say we can teach you the book but you need to also know i'm trying to help you understand why you need to do the book why you need to do this verse 14 says but i will hope continually and will yet praise thee more and more again praise god i will hope continually well where does hope come from meditate in the word he says so i constantly have to have hope because i'm meditating the word and guess what it makes me praise more and more the bigger my hope gets the more i praise it makes a whole lot of sense glory to god the more you believe you win the more you believe you have victory the more you believe you conquer praise god the more you just feel like you want to praise god hallelujah and guess what praise is an expression of faith amen it expresses faith and in fact praise is one of the hallmarks of faith go over to god is that mark 11 20 24 when you pray believe you receive and you shall have what the shale have in christ time you pray you believe you receive what do you do between the time you pray and you believe you receive your praise amen well what will it make me pray because i don't see nothing would it make me praise that is so meditation of god's word that's why whatever subject i said last week whatever subject you need need at this point you need to then put that and meditate that now this came to my mind just came to my mind thank you lord where would i find that where would i find that okay two places i'ma look and if i don't find it then i'll keep going there was a testimony there's a testimony that i got yesterday from one of our members we don't tell names when people send us testimonies we don't tell who it is or don't don't ain't none of your business okay but let me find that testimony real because it just has a direct bearing and i meant to where's that testimony um not there i'm gonna try one more time let me go over here otherwise i'm just gonna tell it to you okay all right praise the lord hallelujah i ain't fighting right now okay but here was here was the testimony i got yesterday one of our members of the church wound up getting attacked in their body was rushed to the hospital and uh when they were in the hospital the doctor was telling them about the bad news and how they're going to keep them for at least three weeks or a month and the the testimony the person wrote was well i listened because we can do this now online and all this i went and listened to what you taught last wednesday night on meditation and they said and when i listened to it i went to meditate in the word the next morning i was out the hospital i was going to find it on my phone green might have it somebody got it but praise god hallelujah they said all they did was they meditated the word and they went from talking about three weeks to the next morning get out of here you good why because god's word is medicine okay amen so that meditation praise the lord meditation of the word puts you in position for this amen praise god hallelujah then turn if you would romans chapter five and of course we just looked at that so amen turn to chapter 12 instead romans chapter 12 we looked at chapter five just a minute ago amen coming down the home stretch here we're talking about why you want to meditate the word see lots of people said in church and in my church they take lots of notes because i'm one of my three callers is that of a teacher bible teacher and so so they take lots of notes but doing the notes is something completely different in mark chapter four jesus said there were four types of people who heard who uh who heard the word only one out of four were good ground i can confirm that i've seen that as an observation only one out of four actually have the result because only one out of four do the things the rest of james 1 22 they hear the word but not a doer only so then they become james 1 says self deceived and they don't find out that their self to self deceive and that they're like samson after his hair have been cut until they run up against affliction persecution cares of this world deceitfulness or riches or lust of other things when they get hit wham then all of a sudden praise god instead of having the twinkie reaction of the word meditating the word instead the mind with fear comes out their mouth says the wrong thing the body follows the mouth and the mind open the door further for satan and then he hits you with a stack attack now i don't need to stop the first one now he's got the door open understand if he's got the door open he thinks i gotta rush in with as much stuff i can get in here god put as many hits on them as i can right now are you listening all right praise god romans 12 12. rejoicing in hope leads to patience in tribulation and continuing instant in prayer amen that's why you meditate the word why you do it why you do it why you do it it's why i hold up that this is my bible this is god speaking to me people tell me what well you're not the lord don't speak to me like you do to you uh how come he don't speak to me he is don't seek for voices seek for the word don't seek for voices satan will accommodate you come on somebody amen hallelujah and if you do hear a voice you better get this out meditate and make sure it lines up with the voice the scripture said there are many voices none without signification okay amen let's get to number five i got nine minutes left praise god now turn if you would praise the lord psalm 45 thank you jesus psalm 42 that is psalm 42 verse 5 actually where i'm going and it reads as follows david says this why art thou cast down you know feeling bad depressed oh my soul why are you disquieted in me hope in god for i will yet praise him for the help of his countenance oh my god my soul is cast down within me therefore i remember thee see you go back to the word and you can remember the things he said that he gave you the victory praise god his case he's talking about remembering testimonies from the land of jordan hallelujah how many you god has done something good for you in your past and you want to think about something else you want to meditate on something else meditate on past victories too just don't stay there we don't just want to stay with past victories we want some present victories too but number five meditation of the word will help you to to not be discouraged see depression is a big problem and depression is because of people not meditating the word of god and of course not having it or not meditating they're meditating the wrong thing but whatever you think on constantly will affect you whatever you think going constantly okay you can control your mind what does first corinthians say chapter 10 over there praise god it says cast down any thought that doesn't line up with the with the anointed one his anointing that cast it down how do i cast it down two ways meditate because meditate means murder speak it hallelujah and then praised as a soul how you flip the switch amen but you're sitting there and you're thinking about it thinking about this negative thing about this negative thinking about this negative and satan will accommodate you to you will imagine things that ain't even happened yet and act like they are so you will get angry at people who haven't even done nothing yet and you already angry and punishing them and it's all between your ears oh i'm preaching that i'm getting amen why it's meditation in reverse instead of meditating the word of god you're meditating circumstance you're meditating what you think is clues you think you're meditating this somebody did this to me you're meditating something else something that's negative and that kind of meditation will hurt your mind and hurt open the door to a hurt of your body and if you keep it up it may open the door to the devil you hear me okay it will bring about fear fear opens the door for satan just like faith opens the door for god satan lead lives for you to get over there you can't afford let your mind just be a wandering ground that's why he said meditate the word so that your mind just isn't just the wondering amen turning colossal chapter one get to number six thank you jesus this is practical how to practical stuff hallelujah you can apply now and be prepared to apply in the future amen see if you one person take notes here where faith you should have it all organized and then something happened you need to go what sermon would that be here's my seven points now you gotta do what's doing satan says what you gonna do what you gonna do what you gonna do what you gonna do oh i got bishop right here glory to god amen colossians chapter 1 verse 27 amen to whom god would make known what is the riches of the glory of this mystery among the gentiles us which is the anointed one remember the word christ is crystals amen refers to the anointing the holy ghost christ in you the hope of doxa christ in you to hold all that which is honorable and praiseworthy hallelujah hope meditating the word praise god reminds you that the anointing is inside you that greater is he that's in you than he does in the world that philippians 4 13 is true i can do all things through christ or the anointed one the anointing which strengthens me christ's anointing has made me strong and is inside me well you start talking that way meditating the word you won't be putting your tail between your legs and running off amen and then number seven first john chapter three praise god we're talking about seven reasons why you ought to daily daily daily daily daily meditate the word not just read the bible say i have read the bible program and i i put such a thing in there for baby christians not for people like you see just got to get them started see so first of all they got to start reading the bible learn where stuff is hallelujah amen but then the next step for them is that they got to know a lot more than that now they gotta start tearing stuff apart they gotta start meditating this stuff hallelujah amen you ought to meditate you ought to just meditate all the words of jesus that's my next one i'm almost done with jeremiah i've been doing jeremiah the whole summer so i already know which one because i pray and ask the lord all right now what do you want me to meditate now okay so he's had me and me he's had me all summer in jeremiah wow or did i learn some things about god learn some things about what happened to israel and why i learned some things to do or not to do i'm telling you amen now and he already let me know next thing i'm supposed to do next thing next thing i'm almost done with jeremiah next thing i'm supposed to do now is take matthew mark luke and john cut out all just the words of jesus what he said and meditate each one of them well i'm going to be on that one probably a year hallelujah but man when i started meditating what jesus said about everything now i have read every word that jesus has said for years but when you start meditating to them again see i know this is going to do something to me i know what it did to me with jeremiah that's how you study the bible say i'm giving you how to's okay you might want to study the words of jesus with me you say my pastor's doing it maybe i ought to do that too first john chapter three let's read verse three and every man that have this hope or confident expectation in him does what purifies himself well what expectation was that he's talking about the coming of jesus so you meditate the word praise god and then it will remind you that jesus is coming you start meditating the word and you say the scripture says his coming shall be like a thief in the night you may take his word it will tell you you may not have time to get right amen talks about the you know the wise and foolish virgins i'm not interested in being a foolish version come on somebody hallelujah hallelujah this will help you stay pure you may have to take the word and it remains now i don't want to go here because now i'm putting myself out there i don't get caught out here turn to titus chapter two almost done praise god why are we meditating why why this is why this is why you want to do this you want to do this you want to do this you want to do this praise god titus chapter 2. let's read verse 13 praise god looking for that blessed hope that's what it is and the glorious appearing of the great god and our savior jesus christ the blessed hope helps us stay pure now romans chapter four let me give you an example of one individual where hope and meditation helped him greatly a guy who had his ups and downs anybody here have some ups and downs sure he wasn't always consistent and all of that praise god and because he wasn't consistent was not able to have manifest with god's intention was for amen for almost 25 years now the will of god was 25 years before to have happened it took almost 25 years telling my patients said we're talking about you know 2.5 years we don't have patience with something god has had patience with this man for 25 years he's finally going to say something to him in genesis 17 he's 17. he said now i know almighty god it's about time you walk now perfectly for me i mean there is a time where the lion gets strong all right so we're told we're talking about abraham i know what it says about abraham okay in romans chapter 4 in verse 16. therefore it is of faith that it might be by grace to the end the promise might be sure to all the seed now not to that only which is of the law but that also which is of the faith of abraham was the father of us all all of us are of the faith of abraham so he's talking about this is to us as it is written this is the psalm i've told you about praise god uh genesis rather i told you about i hope i didn't say something in genesis praise god 17 as is written i have made their father many nations before him whom whom he believed even god who makes alive the dead and call if those things would be not as though they were who against hope now does this word against it's the greek word near hope so he stayed near hope confident expectation amen how did abraham stay near hope with his mouth see god changed his name from abram to abraham changed his name to father great multitude so every time he opened his mouth or even said his name praise god he was stand near confident expectations who against hope on their hope believed in that hope praise god he put faith with that hope that he might become the father many nations according to that was spoken so shall thy seed be guess what happened to him being not weak in faith then he considered not his own body dead amen that meditation on what god told him became bigger than what he saw with his own body hallelujah even when he was about a hundred years old and not only that it even influenced when he saw sarah 90 years old then he came to the place he's staggering out of the covenant of god through unbelief but he's now strong in faith giving glory to god honored praise to god there's that praise and being fully persuaded or completely assured that what he had promised he was able also to perform and isaac showed up took a quarter of a century for him to show up but he finally showed up and when he showed up praise god you know what happened to abraham the end of abraham's life it said abraham was blessed in all things all this started with meditation on the word stand up with me praise god all started with meditating the word what do you think happened to paul paul is out there in acts 27 because i run out of time but i don't have time to turn to it but in acts 27 praise god in that your rock ladon storm out there for several weeks in a hurricane on water it's towing pits dark amen the ship is rolling they all know that they are dead and the scripture said in acts 27 all hope that we should be saved was gone and he said paul was silent for a long time amen and then god sent an angel to him and the angel told him be of good cheer you're going to be saving everybody with you and paul meditated on that oh the ship was rocking people throwing up and throwing stuff overboard looks like they're dead the wind's blowing they're shivering in the cold but he's meditating on what god said through that angel and finally it got to him so he says to everybody amen because you know you got to work it up sometimes to say it to other people and finally he said be a good child okay we ain't gonna die the lord has said to me he sent his angel hallelujah we're gonna all be saved now be a good chief hey let's have some meat feed yourself y'all ain't for almost two weeks everything's gonna be good and it said everybody else then became like him and they became glad and they began to act like they were going to be saved and guess what everyone or more because your meditation and hope or lack thereof is splashing off on other people and affecting them and affecting you with them so you can have an effect on people you can have effect on people and make people back away from you or you can have an effect on people and everybody's and the scripture said about you you are their signpost believer so meditation in the world will help you hope praise god let our hands give god praise for the word father we thank you for the word tonight we give you praise and glory and honor for it thy word is a lamp unto our feet lighter to our path we shall be like trees planted by rivers of water we shall bring forth our fruit and our season i praise god our production shall not wither away whatsoever we do shall prosper because we meditate the word the light in it day and night we know the word is you speaking to us glory to god thank you for your holy word so i thank god for the word every day speak it over myself over my mind or my body i speak of my memory i'll never have alzheimer's i'll never have dementia i'll never have any brain waste and memory destroying disease my mind and brain cells shall be sharp because himself took my infirmities and bore my sickness first peter 2 24 with his stripes my brain was healed over to god amen that's just one part of my body i talk about my heart liver praise god bones hallelujah especially talk about my mind because you can have your body working if your man is gone you in so i particularly put the word on the mind come on somebody hallelujah amen so i've noticed my memory is getting better and better it's getting better and better hallelujah glory to god and i ain't taking no memory medication except this medication glory to god i'm getting sharper and sharper and sharper thank you jesus meditation of the word to do that just pray in the holy ghost for a moment will you just pray in the holy ghost oh we are so grateful for the word oh what a gift you gave us what a gift you gave us when you gave us the word praise god thank you for the word there's a couple old songs we used to saying when you were a kid yeah the church it's a couple songs we used to sing about the word don't you look them up i mean they are we ain't saying him in 15 20 years okay when he was young baby all right praise god i want to start saying them too come on praise god i ain't talking about the old negro spirituals and i'm not and i'm not talking about the stuff we used to sing in churches 30 40 years ago these were songs about the word they didn't sing those in those churches we sang them here they didn't sing them in those churches hallelujah praise god glory to god see your flesh get used to stuff that ain't necessarily does you anything anything for you see music don't have much value to your spirit man or your soul if it not strictly intertwined with scripture so we get used to stuff and you know people go to churches because of the music that's just another delusion of the enemy because the music didn't save you it ain't going to heal you it ain't going to deliver you it didn't die for you it can't raise you what it should do is encourage you because it's full of the and the word music of all is word songs straight from the scripture that's the best that's the highest that's the best of all man when you get the word coming in the ear gate because you have a tendency to sing with them right you'll be singing with them praise god and your hands be going you got the whole centrifugal force you got the whole thing going amen the more you hear the more you say the more you say the more you get the more you boom boom boom and just keep on going glory to that god hallelujah and let me tell you that'll stick with you in the car when you're driving you'll be driving that next you know you'll be singing the word you're meditating now hallelujah amen praise god i'm waiting here to see what the lord want me to do thank you jesus see something else too you need to learn to slow down the older i get the slower i get and i don't mean by speed physical speed i'm time i learn and listen to the lord seek him amen listen to him in here amen listen to him in here i know whenever i made mistakes because i got too fast because i'm a i'm a dude i'm an actor you know some people it's super slow because you got to kick them in the butt to get them to do anything then you got people the other side they just you know they work i'm one of them see i want them boom i'm gone right so i have to learn i don't learn how to slow down okay just wait wait a minute let's see get anything you want me to minister to somebody you want me having out the call you don't want me on the call you want me to have this song you want me not to what you want me to do see what i get amen it's not always the lord speak to you sometimes that's still small voice and sometimes not that at all it's just this is the very impression you know in here you know what the spirit's saying not with these but here amen when you pray in the spirit the more you pray in the spirit the more sensitive you become to this and the easier it is for you to discern which way the spirit of god's going with anything and follow that and when you're able to follow the will of god guess what you get what he wants and you get blessed you get romans 8 27 and 8 then all things will work together for good them who love god that's where people stop and called according to his purpose his intention see that's the other part of that verse you can't just take that a part you got to take that be part of that verse so now where you were you you're where he won't intend for you to be okay praise god that's when you see stuff happen and it may not be spectacular people are looking for the spectacular and miss the supernatural because a miracle is not the definition of a miracle is not spectacularness is something happening beyond your physical ability and you've been living in some miracles you just know i don't know how this happened outside let me tell you how it happened it was god's favor somebody ought to thank god hallelujah it's god's favor he brought you in the right place the right time the right person the right situation glory to god amen you couldn't orchestrate this i don't care how shrewd you were or who you knew just some kind of way this whole thing i'm telling you it was god's favor you won't know why that was you was in the right place that's why coming up i will be teaching on again how to hear god hallelujah praise god thank you jesus every heads bow please every eyes closing prayer so one last time i want to heavily encourage you to get your bible out in the morning it's all right to read some scriptures with the scripture program you got time to do that but then i want you to take one of them scriptures and i want you to meditate it i want you to when we say meditate i don't mean sitting with your legs crossed going to the dome no i mean you imagine this word how it works with my life how it works with my body how it works with my family how it works my job how praise god whatever it is praise the lord how god does this you'll be surprised how much time the holy spirit will speak to you all day if you do that you'll be surprised how the spirit of god will speak to you he will speak to you amen maybe not at that moment i found out a lot of times not at that moment but somewhere during that day the spirit of god will let me share this with you thank you jesus and so this is for believers tonight go word of god i'm assaha come up higher with me said the spirit of grace and you come up higher with me by spending more time with me and how do you spend more time with me oh you spend more time with me by spending more time with my word and the more time you associate with my word you're associating with me and the more you associate with me and associate with my word my word gets in and on you and yes and my power goes before you and yes the things that the enemy is attempting to deceive you with he won't be able to do it and yes you'll know that you know that you know that you know what i'm saying you'll know where to go and what to do and how to do it and i will cause these things to be for you saith god for it is my will for you to prosper in every way and that the enemy may not be able to come against you yes soon what will happen as you do these things you'll say what i say and when you say what i say and see what i see you'll have be what i want to be done an enemy will be frustrated and you'll be glad and people around you will shout and say yes the lord has done great things for them whereof they are glad and you'll be glad coming in and going out peace shall be like a river and nothing shall be able to bother thee and in time you'll see all levels of prosperity so take the time which may say of god make it highest authority over everything else and you'll see these things shall be that's what the holy ghost said thank you we praise and worship we thank you for that we thank you for that hallelujah we thank you for that for our edification exhortation and praise god word supremacy so if you don't know jesus christ as your lord and savior all you need to do is ask them to come in this is where it all starts and say lord jesus i'm a sinner and i'm lost come unto my heart and save me now let me ask the congregation to lift one hand towards heaven i ask you to pray with me from your heart for just anyone watching me or in this room who is not born again and wants to be pray with me now you'll be fine it's just somebody who's out of fellowship with god and you want to come back to god pray with me now things will be fine hallelujah pray with me now dear heavenly father in the name of jesus i do believe that jesus christ is the son of god and he died for me hung on the cross for me carried my sins from me was put in the grave for me rose from that grave from me and today is my high priest come unto my heart now i accept you as my savior and ask the master of my life i repent of sin lord i am sorry i return back to you thank you for your forgiveness fill me to overflowing with the precious holy ghost we thank you for it now in jesus name and father who for those who prayed that prayer with me tonight thank you for new members into the kingdom thank you for those being returned back to full fellowship with you hallelujah thank you for them being filled with the holy spirit speaking with tongues and flowing saha flowing in all that you have available we thank you for it in the authority of jesus and everyone in agreement with this prayer said amen let's praise god somebody prayed that prayer with us somewhere around the world we thank you

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