Say Something | Bishop Joseph Garlington

as i was coming in one of the one of my elders actually is my prayer partner in our church been with me for a number of years and we were dealing with with the guy who is in the throes of being reshaped by god and he doesn't like it and so we were trying to help him with it and he said he says i gave him this word and he says the word that he gave him came out of this text and i love the way god helps us to find our way to him and the text that he gave was from the book of job chapter 22 and i want you to go there with me for a moment and as my brother once said before i preach i want to say something a young man lived in brazil and he had been he'd been living there for about four years and he had seen his adopted father in years this is the guy who who took him in when his own parents died and and he owed him everything put him through college cared for him loved him like a father and he said he hadn't been home each year christmas was something that they couldn't get to and so he decided that he wanted to send his dad a really significant christmas gift and he decided by advice and counsel and suggestion to get him a macaw and that's a bird that is very capable of speech and so this bird he said when he purchased it was capable of speaking both portuguese as the primary language in brazil and english and when he found out what it was going to cost he shook a little bit and when he found out if he wanted to ship it to his father it was gonna cost and he shook a little more but he said my dad's worth it so he actually ended up spending about ten thousand dollars just to get the bird from brazil to atlanta and he couldn't wait to hear about it so the day after christmas he called his dad and said did you get the bird dad he said yes son and it was delicious and it was real quiet for a moment and then he said dad are you saying you ate the bird he says yes kind of an unusual taste but he said we had the same thing that we had with regular turkey and he said my friend said it was great he said dad he said i paid a fortune for that bird it's a unique bird it can speak both portuguese and english i meant for you to have something that you could cherish and it got real quiet on that end and finally his dad spoke up and he said well if he could speak two languages he should have used one of them he should have said something i think it's time to say something we have two languages you ought to use at least one of them to get where you're going look at somebody and say i'm getting ready to say something what i was saying was that my prayer partner sent me this text and he said he says this is what i gave to him and i told him about what he says and when you look with me please said job the book of job don't worry i had a guy who was lazy and i said read the book of job and he thought it's a job and he stayed away from it so sometimes you'll have to think about what i'm saying to you did you find job yet all right you find a job i've been walking through a number of years on on the 2nd of january celebrated my 82nd birthday and it's been a joy to be alive at this point my own natural father he died when he was 59 years old and so i figured if i could get beyond 59 i was doing good and then when i got beyond 70 i said there's any bad at all and then to stay healthy it's great to be healthy if you're going to go old grow older right but in all of my life there there are so many paradoxes and strange things that that we're experiencing and someone sent me this he said he said there are certain things i'm reflecting on in in 2020. he said in 2019 i learned stay away from negative people 2020 stay away from positive people the world the world has turned upside down old folks are sneaking out of the house and their kids are yelling at them to stay indoors the virus has done what no woman has been able to do cancel sports shut down all bars and keep men at home [Applause] he said i never thought the comment i wouldn't touch him i wouldn't touch him or her with a six-foot pole would become a national policy never in a million years could i have imagined i would go up to a bank teller wearing a mask and ask for money it's all out there it's just you don't know who you don't know who the real robber is all right are you at job chapter 22 verse 28 when my prayer partner to this young man you need to focus on what you're saying and this is the passage that he shared with him you will also decree a thing and it will be established for you and light will shine on your way when you are cast down you will speak with confidence in the humble person he will save he will deliver one who is not innocent and he will be delivered through the cleanness of your hands you will decree a thing and it will be established for you and so i'm pondering my notes and looking at my message and i just happened to hear this lyric in this song tonight and i said god are you trying to tell me something and you're saying what we declare will be established did you all hear that do you all know that that when you sing you're not just saying words you're decreeing you're saying things and one of the problems that we have it's more difficult to say something and believe it than it is to sing it we sing things that we would never say spirit of the living god fall afresh on me melt me fire mold me pressure break me hammer use me you wouldn't pray that but because it's spirit of the living god for me [Music] and here's the thing i fear god will get you to say what he wants you to say by wrapping it in a song that sounds so good and you're singing that song for all your worth i'll go anywhere lord i'll follow you anywhere but you're seeing you see and then you find out god is saying you're going with me justin corbell said god spoke to him one day and said judson um i want you to go to venezuela he says lord i haven't lost anything in venezuela he said the second day he said god said justin i want you to go with me to venezuela and he said god i don't want to go to venezuela he said the third day he said justin he said yes he says i'm going to venezuela what does that mean well i'm going with or without you if i go you're here by yourself i'm looking for some a man there there gotta be there's gotta be several several ought to be around here this place should be filled with amens [Applause] i don't want to be anywhere if god's not there i'd rather be with him in the midst of a furnace if he's there if he's not there don't want the furnace i'd rather be with him in alliance then then safe at home without him i'd rather be with him in the presence of god than in the finest hospital in hawaii they're just for me there's some things that just you you just don't have a comparison or a choice i will decree a thing say that please and it will be established light will shine on my ways how much you get this idea i decree say that god establishes light or revelation comes i decree god establishes what does god establish he establishes what i decree but you see i want god to do something and god is saying then say something do something it's like i'm waiting for god to initiate something and god is saying i've given you everything that you need now use it and sometimes we don't use it until we are forced to use it my pastor told me one day he said joseph heroes aren't born they're cornered the message bible says you'll decide what you want and it will happen your life will be bathed with light the new living translation says you will succeed in whatever you choose to do and light will shine on the road ahead of you i want to share with you some concepts and i want you to look at two passages that you're very familiar with in the new testament the first one is in romans 15. um are you guys okay with time all right good because it's going to take about two hours to get this to you all right just but i'll i'll just shave a couple of those times off look with me please at romans chapter 15 and then first corinthians 10. verse 4 of romans 15 for whatever was written in earlier times was written for our instruction now here's what paul is doing he's talking to the people of the new testament and he's saying those things that were written in the old testament in earlier days they were written knowing that we were going to read them when people talk about uh interpreting the scripture according to culture in accordance with the historical background and all the things they're associated with with what they call uh interpreting scriptures and so forth they it's like they didn't know that the holy spirit knew that he wasn't just talking to that person but he was talking to us and one of the challenges that we face is that we don't realize that the old testament is filled with stories that teach us something and i want you to write this down if you can if you don't write then just memorize it but here's the thing principles tell stories sell principles tell that's the new testament stories sell whenever jesus wanted to make a point he never did a three-point alliteration he told the story and the story came home to everybody everybody got it because we love stories and you can find yourself in almost every story it's hard not to read a book and as you're reading without picturing yourself somewhere in that book in that story and you can identify with it because it is a compilation of the experiences of humankind there is no temptation that's come upon you but such as is common to man not common to cr to christians but coming to man so when sister duesenberg used to say they all pray for me because i'm going through something nobody else has ever been through and i'm saying to you sister duesenberg that's not quite right because this verse says there is no temptation there is nothing that you're going through right now that somebody else hasn't gone through and then he makes this statement and think about it please god will with the temptation provide an escape say that god will with the temptation provide the escape and then he adds this little tagline to it that says that you might be able to bear it now i can't associate escape and bearing in the same phrase laugh over here laugh over there because they got it and the rest of y'all were saying what does he mean look if god says i'm going to provide a way for you to escape that's really what i'm looking for escape i'm not looking to bear anything i'm looking for the escape where is the escape hatch how do i get out of this and god says i provided a way for you to escape that you might be able to bear it so when i'm looking at the scriptures i'm looking at this passage whatever if i say whatever when you read something in the old testament there's something in the story that's part of you or whatever and what i have found is that as i'm reading the bible at times i'm i'll come across a passage of scripture that i haven't quote seen like i've seen others and i'm looking at this passage i'm saying man i never saw that before but because sometimes the story has a season and when you're in that season you'll see that story and god will speak to you from that story but the stories are real they're not made up these are not myths these are real stories of real people dealing with a real god going through something that they needed to go through whatever somebody said whatever whatever was written and because i'm going to the old testament just a moment and i want us to understand that the stories that we're going to read about were written for our instruction i'm going to ask a question i have read the passage in 2nd kings 13 where where elisha says to the king shoot arrows out the window shoot an arrow and then strike the ground and he struck the ground how many times three times and he quit and elisha got frustrated with him he said you should have struck the ground six or seven times and then you would have utterly defeated your enemy now i've read that i've read that and and i've i've looked in the old testament in hebrew i've looked at various languages and i said god he didn't tell him how many times to strike the ground why is he frustrated and so i tried to create an answer but i couldn't find one that i could legitimately say the holy spirit gave me some of you don't know what i'm talking about but preachers do i mean preachers know that when we can't find an interpretation we'll make up one that will work right in harmony with the message so the other passage that i want you to look at is in first corinthians chapter 10. verse 11 he describes the things that took place with the children of israel and their passage out of egypt into the wilderness into the purposes of god and they got into difficulty with them and verse 11 if you have verse 11 whatever you put scriptures on the screen or anything like that you have your own bible how many have a bible okay how many memorized and so you didn't bring all yourself just i love that okay we got those lighted things here have you ever been able to underline a verse in your little phone verse 11 i'm going to read verse 11. now these things happen to them as an example and they were written for our instructions upon whom the ends of the ages have come so he's saying don't do what they did and i'm writing this for you so that you will not do what they did somebody said experience is the best teacher and another person said experience is not the best teacher someone who has had the experience and will tell you so you don't have to have the experience that's the best teacher but then someone ended up like singing like this experience is not the best teacher but it's the only school of fool we'll go to so some people just have to have the experience and some experiences you can't avoid when our my oldest son joey was a little boy walking around in my mom's kitchen in the projects and it was in the wintertime and she had the stove door open and and he's walking he's just learning how to walk and he was touching stuff and as he would get near the oven she would say joey stop that's hot don't touch that and he would say hot he'd just say the hot and several times she had to warn him away from it and i went out of the kitchen and i heard the scream and i came in tears coming down his face he's holding up his finger and he was saying hot now prior to the experience all he had was a symbol but once he touched that stove he had a symbol to go along with the word some of us only have words and we don't have an experience to attach to them and so we're not convinced of what it is that god is saying to us and sometimes you have to fall really hard before you realize god said i told you not to do that and we live in a world where god has said to us don't do certain things and so i go back to my story with with elisha and the king and i came to this conclusion the point is not to say why didn't he tell them how many times that's not the point the point is for you and i who are on this side looking back at that story and saying i'm going to do better than that so god tells you to do something don't just say i'll do it do it until god says okay that's enough you didn't have to do it a hundred times i was just saying strike the ground the point for me is that we don't stop when we think we should we stop when he says that's enough and part of the need for us is to press in without feeling like people are going to think i'm crazy yes yes they will think you're crazy but paul says if we are crazy it's for your sake and sometimes you got to be crazy sometimes when you whip your kid oh we can't talk about that right now all right but you know what i'm talking about it's an experience that people used to have years ago and and when your child did something really really stupid that made you really really angry your face said what you did is wrong and i'm gonna make this your last time to do that there's some things i will never do again because of the kind of thing that happened to me i sassed my mother one time on sunday morning and it was when we she had invited young people to come to our house and they came it was dinner time my mom's a great cook great hospitality she says oh you all sit down i had some business take care she says joe you come on back with me and she took me back she says going to the bathroom and i said all right she said take your clothes off and i'll be in there and she came in with something we call the switch or in in north carolina they called it a hickory and she started working on me i mean she worked on me when you say well why i said i don't know why i just i just know she worked on me i can't even remember what i did but i knew she was working on me and i could hear my brothers outside the bathroom door saying don't kill him don't kill him she didn't but i'll tell you what there are certain things that you don't learn until you go through the dealings of god and you can't avoid them if you choose to be disobedient strike the ground how many times until he says stop you pray until you have you got the answer push press through all right go with me please because i want to share this with you in a in a in a movie i think it's matrix reloaded anybody ever seen in the matrix series there's a point in the matrix one of the sec i think was the second matrix reloaded where there is a need for them to go and look for the the principal ship and it's going to require taking one of the ships that's needed to fight and so the command is you take that and go look for neal and the lieutenant who's in charge is having a problem and he gets upset and they said he said i don't understand i don't understand and the response of the counselors was this a prerequisite for your comprehension is not required for your cooperation you don't have to understand you have to do it you know look when we're talking about decreeing we want to say well how do it work that's not your provence the the issue is that god has said do this and i'll do this so let me just give you a several illustrations a couple anyway depends upon how long it takes to get it across i make a distinction between decrees and prophecy let me give you an illustration in fact go to second kings chapter four second kings chapter four we're going to use the bible tonight it's a good book second kings chapter four you remember the story of the shanah woman and it says uh there came a day when elisha passed over to shunam where there was a prominent woman and she persuaded him to eat food and so it was as often as she passed by turned in there to eat food she said to her husband behold now i perceive she said to her husband everybody say she said to her husband who said she said to who her husband sometimes she will see before you do now i know you don't want me to say that in public but she said i perceive i perceive everybody say i perceive now later on you're going to see in the text and we won't have time to get there but you're going to see why she perceived because he doesn't always perceive yeah you're just as quiet as that keyboard i perceive that this is the holy man of god passing by his continuity please let us make a little walled chamber and set a bed for him there kind of like what you did a couple of months ago pastor and a table and a chair in the lampstand and it shall be everybody say it shall be say it again it shall be what is she doing when she says it shall be she's decreeing remember you will decree a thing god won't decree what he calls you to decree you decree say i decree say please i decree god establishes what i decree and it's when i decree and god establishes that revelation or light comes i want this god says but you need to say something you need to open your mouth and you need to say what it is that you want and so here this woman is saying we're going to do this and we're going to do this and it shall be when he comes he can turn in there and he did and when he turned in there one day he's he's in the chamber he's lying on the bed and he says his servant gehasi uh go go go summon the woman and see she comes and stands in the doorway and he says you have been careful with me for all of this care you've taken great pains to be a blessing to me what can i do for you how can i help you i want to return something to you and then he asked this question shall i speak to the king or to the captain of the army on your behalf and she says no sir i dwell among my own people she's not even conscious of the deep need that she has because she's secure in her family and she's secure in her relationships i ask people all the time what happens to people when stuff like this is going on in the world and you don't have a church you don't have a body of christ you don't have friends that you can pray with or you can seek what happens but she's secure because she dwells among her own people and so he says well thank you she leaves and then when she's gone he says to gehazi what can we do for her and gahazi says well i've been talking to the kitchen people and they told me that what she really wants is a boy a son he says call her back and she's standing there and he looks at her and he says next year about this time you're going to have a son now gehazz has already told him she wants a child but her husband is old now i've never appreciated that phrase what's all got to do with it got to do with it got to do it what's all got to do with it he said call her back he says next year somebody said next year next year about this time you're going to have a child and she says don't go there don't go there i know he's old but he's nice and uh you know i believe in my disappointment for a long time so i'm now comfortable in my disappointment and he says no not not maybe for nine months you're gonna have a child this time she says don't don't mess with me don't deceive me but the following year she had a child now look i'm saying to you he didn't say thus says the lord he says i'm telling you this time next year you're going to have a child he could have said thus says the lord he'll say that later on but in this passage there's sometimes that we need to be able to say i just want to say something to you that i believe god will back me up when i say it and knowing that you have a position particularly with elisha he wants to express his gratitude sometimes your expression of gratitude can be just this phrase god bless you now when you say god bless you it can't just be one of those passing statements that everybody says for you it's a decree for you it's a statement of fact for you it's a statement that something is going to happen in your life because of what you've been doing for me god bless you and then a year later you find out that god has blessed them and sometimes a little more than he's blessed you now that'll change your parameters a lot decree a thing can i speak to the king on your behalf nah the captain of the army no no you know the child dies elijah raises the baby from the dead and all of a sudden things have changed in their lives one day elisha comes to her and says and you got to find us in in second kings eight he comes here and says there's going to be a famine in this place for seven years i need you to go somewhere stay away for seven years and come back anybody remember this story it's right there and so she does that when she comes back somebody has moved into her house and has taken it over and so she goes to the king who she said i don't need seven years ago or 12 years ago and she walks in and gahazi is sitting at the table and the king has just said to gahasi tell me another one of the elisha stories and so he says did i tell you the one about the shenanight woman who had the old husband and she could have me baby see he says no and he starts to tell him the story and while he is telling the story this lady walks in because she's seeking redress from her problem and she and he has he's just shocked he says oh my god he says right there he says what's the problem the lady i'm telling you about that's her right there and that's the boy that was raised from the dead he says really right in the middle of the conversation what a story god is a setting up god and she she comes in he says why are you here somebody took over my house and they won't leave and you're the lady that he says yes and that's the boy yes son were you dead yes i would have asked and you got raised yes yes why are you here because somebody took over my house and they won't leave and i've come to you and the king who she didn't need said to the captain of the army who she didn't need say follow her to her house whoever is in there throw them out calculate what her harvest would have been for seven years and give it all back to her see the thing i love about decrees is that they just don't stop in the place where they were spoken but they can go on and on there are some decrees that you can make that will follow the person for the rest of their lives don't underestimate the power of the decree the ability of the decree in many cases to outlast you you will decree a thing and it will be established for you and light will shine what will happen the day we start decreeing the things that god's given us the decree what elisha is doing he is he is making a decree in response to an unprecedented act of kindness when people do you well you can decree you can say god i want you to pour out on them give them something for what they've given to me let the good they made happen for me happened for them the right of hebrews says god is not unjust to forget you and your labors god's a good god and he doesn't mind you drawing on his goodness particularly when you're doing it for other people i'm going to go back here again and because once in a while this i just i just i'm feeling like i'm not communicating just so i'm going to just go talk to myself for a minute just look don't worry about these people you're doing good you've done this message in other places and the response has just been a whole lot better than it has been here but so do do not get discouraged all right amen i feel better say i decree god establishes light comes so when he says your comprehension is not a requisite for your cooperation the thing is you don't have to know how this stuff works in order for it to work you don't have to know how how seed sowing and harvest you don't have to know how it works you just need to do it you the bible says when the seed is put in the ground no one knows what's going on with it and you put it there and there's so many things that are taking place when that seed is out of sight but then there comes a day when the when the first blade breaks through and then first the blade then the ear then the full corner in the ear some people feel like they can't celebrate until they see the whole corn but you need to learn how to celebrate when you see the blade because the blade tells you something else is coming and it's not too far behind celebrate the blade if god's doing something in your life and it's not the fulfillment of what you've been asking him to do celebrate the part that you can see because i want to see the whole thing he says no just celebrate it in part just lay hold of this lay hold of it get it because when when seeds are planted in fact jesus says the kingdom of heaven is like a man who puts seed in the ground and he goes to bed and he gets up and he goes about his regular routine and the bible says and the seed sprouts and grows how he doesn't know how he doesn't know i told our church a number of years ago that people get stuck on hell because if i don't know how god's going to do that but there's certain things that god just keeps himself no magician is going to tell you how he did that trick guys i'm going to tell you how he did that we got to accept the fact that god knows how to do it well they say but if i'm here with how what do i need to do i said well you're stuck on how and what you need to say when people say to you well how's that going to happen bishop i just say get the hell out of here no just get come on just get how can not participate in an atmosphere of faith it's an illegal entrance into the participation who are you fighting while i'm fighting that and fighting how no forget how how does it matter god wants to do something in our lives that doesn't depend on our ability to know exactly how he's going to do it when he's going to do it where he's going to do it he says the seed sprouts and grows how he does not know he does not know how he says but the earth brings forth of itself i was sharing uh something that mark shirona shared with me and he said he says joseph he says do you know that that soil trains seed and i said no i didn't know that he said soil train seed when you put the seed in the ground the seed makes a demand from the soil this is the nutrient i need this is what i have to have and eventually if you keep putting that same seed in the same soil the soil would know exactly what you need to give to the seed soil tracy say that place everybody say it come on so when i say say that i mean everybody all right so he said don't let me have to say it twice because it makes the message longer he says soil surgery and see yes so i'm i'm hearing that statement and so i shared it with a medical professional and i said what do you think of that he says let me tell you something that's more profound and i said what could be more profound than that he says we've been trying to figure out how a nursing mother's milk changes during breastfeeding and and i said well he says what we've discovered we used to think it was some kind of thing that the mother ate or whatever he says but what we have found is that when the baby begins to nurse the mother and as they are nursing at her breasts his or her saliva on the mother's breast sends a signal to the brain that says i need this in my milk tomorrow and i say well i guess that is a little more profound my seed my word my decree is looking for something in the soil and one of the things that the bible tells us don't sow two kinds of seed in the same soil because how is a seed and it will fight the word that you already have there because if you're looking at this is what god's gonna do how's he gonna do that we don't we don't have that in our soil that's not that's not a part of our deal here we don't even sing how we sing even if you can't see him he's working even if you don't know what he's up to he's working even if you don't know how long it's going to take he's working but guess he's always working he's always working he's always working he's always working he's always working and he will work with the word you give him if you believe that he can make the transition over from where you are to where he wants to get you [Music] words words are things words are life words build worlds around us by faith we understand that the worlds were created by a word the world you and i live in it was created by a world my own personal world whether it's good or bad it's it's the world i created by my words when people say i don't like my world what can i do i say you got to find something else to say you better say something that's in harmony with where you want to go stop saying i'm struggling stop saying no no you the bible says you're a victor and victor speak from a whole different point of view i decree in relationship to an uncommon acts of kindness let me just give you one more you have time for one more go to joshua chapter 10 joshua chapter 10 joshua chapter 10. decree in harmony with your god-given assignment decree in harmony with your god-given assignment joshua chapter 10 verse 12 then joshua spoke to the lord in the day when the lord delivered up the amorites who did joshua speak to say who i turn to somebody say joshua spoke to the lord he spoke to the lord in the day when the lord delivered up the amorites before the sons of israel and he said in the sight of israel he's speaking to who the lord and who's listening to him israel he's talking to god and israel is listening and he said in their sight o son stand still at gibeon and o moon in the valley of azealan who is he talking to no he's talking to the lord i mean that's what it said he's talking to the lord but he said son but who's he talking to he's talking to a seer that exists a 93 million miles from where we are right now it is 800 and some thousand degrees fahrenheit at its core and the guy who measured the core isn't here right now and this is amazing thing the sun and he's talking to the sun as though the sun can hear him and understand but who is he talking to the lord come on say it i'm going to show it to you the lord he's talking to the lord and he's saying sun stand still moon in the valley of yazhalan so the sun stood still and the moon stopped under the until the nation avenged themselves of their enemies it is is it not written in the book of jashar and the sun stopped in the middle and of the sky and did not hasten to go down for about a whole day verse 14 read verse 14 whatever translation you had except the amplified because it's too loud you read it come on verse 14 there was no day say it please there was no day like that before or after it when the lord listened to the voice of the man [Applause] there was no day like that joshua didn't have any experience he didn't have any background he didn't have any any past stories of where somebody talked to the items in the universe he said something there was something that was birthed in him there was a confidence that came and i want you to understand something holy spirit was not absent in his work with god's people in the old testament very present very present sons stand still look how can that happen here's one of the ways it can happen the holy spirit was the one who arranged the stars god put them in space by the breath of the holy spirit god spoke somebody say god spoke and it was done somebody else said god spoke and it was done when god said let there be lights and stars in the heaven and the holy spirit said i got this my mentor told me that the holy spirit is the executive agent of the trinity god says something in the holy spirit says i'll take care of it i'll handle this and god knows it's going to get done see your answers to prayer aren't coming about because you applied more energy they're coming to pass because the holy spirit began to make the kinds of things happen that ought to happen god's intention is that when he speaks the word of prophetic prophecy to us he wants us to understand that when that word of prophecy comes from us that the holy spirit is the person who has to make all of this happen in the i think it's isaiah 34 he says he will gather he will gather these words think of it like this you have a word that's been given to you and there's a let me put it like this my one year when when i i didn't know better i waited till christmas eve to put together a very extensively built package for my sons and i was really happy about it and i opened the box and there were all these pieces and i looked at it and i opened the box and i looked at all these pieces and i closed the box and opened the box and there were all these pieces and then i closed the box again and my eye fell on a phrase that was written on the box the day i bought it some assembly required see because when the holy spirit hears the prophetic word his responsibility is to assemble all the parts no matter where they are you and i don't know where some of the parts are that need to be a part of this in order to bring this thing to pass but he assembles he gathers and some of what he's gathering is on the other side of the world some of what he's gathering is in the hands of somebody that hasn't been born yet but he's doing it and it's his doing he gathers somebody saying he gathers see i'm speaking something by his initiative he will say to me here's what you need to say and i'll say it and he says all right i've got this and you say okay you remember in the movie superman the first one when lois lane was hanging from the building and superman came up to her and said don't worry miss lane i've got you she said that's not my problem he said what's your problem she said who's got you who's got god who's got the holy spirit see none of that's our problem i can't figure that stuff out and my comprehension is not a requisite for my cooperation give and it will be given to you so seed multiply he gives seed to the sower he multiplies your bread if god says stay in the land even if it's famine you couldn't get out of the land anyway he says but don't stop sowing because there's a covet epidemic here because i'm still doing what i always do and i don't need to have this and that in order to make it work god's waiting for the church to get it he's waiting for us do you understand this i love that when jesus was to say something that seemed fairly simple and he returned to his disciples y'all understand this he said yeah yeah yeah and then they get back to the house and they would say would you explain to us what you were you don't have to get it you just had to believe it son stand still now look you can't yell loud enough for the sun to hear you even though sound travels at 700 miles per second something like that it would still take a while for the sun to hear that but when god says you heard them holy spirit says you heard him just stand still now people don't believe that because in order for the sun stand still according to the scientists the moon all of that then the earth what happened to the revolution i don't have to know i just need to know that he can do it and i just need to know that he's waiting for me i love that past ask of me ask of me call upon me and i will show you great and mighty things which you didn't know some of us are discovering that god is waiting for us to say something he's waiting for us to declare something and he's telling us if you remain silent you're going to have a problem this is not the time to be quiet because people are going to locate you or box you in or isolate yourself oh you are one of them oh yeah i was one of them before they were one of them i'm a believer in god i believe that god wants righteousness and peace and joy in the holy ghost he wants that in the earth and my my place is to declare what god is saying even if people don't want to hear it because he can work with your words god told me one day and i said i said god do something he said joseph say something just give me something to work with wow son stand still why could joshua do it because it was in harmony with his god-given assignment go take the land go take the land and he's encountering a battle that he needs god to help him in and he says you know what we need a little more son if only he says oh is that all we need and he says stands still you stand still over there you stand still over there and the bible says it stood still and there is no other day when god listened to the voice of a man god is waiting to hear the voice of the church to ask for something that is so phenomenal [Applause] he said to habakkuk i'm doing a work in your day you won't even believe it if it was told you i'm gonna i want to see god do some things that i won't believe that if you told me i want to see that and i believe that day is right on us and the more we declare together what god is saying about this planet and about the nation and about the revival that's on the way it's look at somebody say it's coming say it's coming prophet was in our church a few days ago and he looked at us and he said you've been waiting for something and you need to know that it's coming he says it's dry where you are it's a dry valley dry riverbed but he said water is coming and he says the reason you don't see it yet because up in the mountains way up there there's a rainstorm falling on the mountains and water is about to come out of those mountains and it's about to touch you where you are i want you to know something that some of what we are asking for is on the way it's on the way you remember that passage in second kings three where elisha said to them you remember the uh the king of israel came and he says we need a word from the lord elisha looked at me said man if it wasn't for jehoshaphat i wouldn't even look at you and so he he called for a worshiper he said i need a minstrel then the minstrel came and he started to play and the bible says as he begin to play the hand of the lord came upon elisha and he said make this dry riverbed fill it with ditches i believe one of the things that god is saying to us there is water coming there is a flood coming but don't allow it to come if you haven't made provision to capture everything that's there one of the things that reece howell said people were getting saved but there weren't enough people to care for them don't ask for revival if you don't believe in rain don't ask for revival if you don't believe in an outpouring say god what do you want us to do and he says make this valley full of ditches he says because you will not see wind and you will not see rain but you're going to see water and i'm saying god i know it's raining already and i know it's coming i don't know how far off it is but i'm telling everybody it's on the way it's on the way god i i told god one day i said god you are so slow i mean i mean it's a problem he says yes i am he says but aren't you glad i'm slow to anger i said yes and i stopped telling him how slow he was because my need is to understand that god's doing something he doesn't allow me to waste prayers he says whoever asks anything according to his will if you ask according to his will he hears you he hears you the greek word hears is present tense verb it's not like he heard you but he hears you you say but i prayed that prayer 10 years ago he still hears it he still it's not like he heard it but it's before him he hears your prayer he's listening to your prayer and he says and if i know he hears me then i know i have present tense i have if he hears i have because i've asked according to his will whatever it is you've asked according to his will you've got to leave up the how to him stop trying to figure out well how's going to do it now how's god god we've been going after you he says look don't worry about my part just do yours my wife and i were challenged in the early days of our faith walk because we had been believing god for a number of things and they weren't happening and the guys in in the world that we were part of they used to say things they was they would step but brother hagin would come up and he says well bless god amen and i would say okay that works fred price ken copeland i said okay that must be the part the thing that goes with the word of faith faith life well bless god amen come and say my will bless god and i got it one morning my wife was sitting at the kitchen table and she had this disconsolate look on her face and i said what's wrong she said we don't have any groceries and i said well let's just go buy some she says we don't have any money and i said well bless god amen and then i heard myself now listen to what i'm saying i heard myself say that he hurt himself okay i didn't have a script i didn't have anything else to go along with it i just heard myself say write a list of all the things that we need and she looked at me and i saw the look on her account and it said colored man negro did you not hear me say we don't have any money she didn't say it she just looked it and i i can interpret the look i'm not making anything up i'm telling you what actually took place i was preaching before but now i'm telling the truth so [Applause] so my wife started writing and as she was writing on the outside i was saying well bless god amen well bless god amen on the inside i was speaking in tongues as hard and as fast as i could well bless god eventually and i'm walking back and forth and and all of a sudden she said something that i wish she hadn't said she said i'm done now what and when she said now what the doorbell rang i promise you the doorbell rang and i said to her hang on a second honey the doorbell just rang i know you didn't hear it but i did and so i go to the stairs and i open the door and there are two ladies who live on the other side of our city about a half hour drive to where we are and both of them had grocery bags in both arms and i said i said the most stupid thing you could have imagined i said what are y'all doing here and she said the lord said bring you groceries and i said well come on in i said honey we got groceries and they brought the groceries in and as they were going out i said thank you they said we're not done and i looked outside and the door of the car was open and grocery bags in the back seat grocery bags in the trunk and they just kept bringing bags in and i was too stupid to even help them and i'm just saying well bless god amen well bless god amen and i heard my wife say these words honey i said what is it she said everything on my list is in these bags [Music] you will decree a thing whether you say it or whether you write it you're saying to god here's what i believe you can do and i said when did god speak to you and he said last night he knows what you have need of before you ask but he still wants you to ask ask and there were things in the bag that she had put on the list that were exactly what she had asked for and then there were some things in the bag that she hadn't asked for because he knew we were going to have company in a couple of days and we were already ready for it you will decree a thing and it will be established for you and light will shine on your way i want you to look at ii samuel do you have a second samuel chapter 17 verse 45 through 46. and all i want to do is read this phrase david said to the philistine david said to the philistine say it please the philistine is enormous i heard this phrase in the song don't worry about the giants they're our bread they're our food you're the korean thing and it will be established for you what you decree will be established and david said to the philistine now here's how it's going to go today doc you're coming at me in the name of somebody that you don't even know i'm coming after you in the name of the lord and david begins to tell him what he's going to do to him almost kind of like a rap song hey you hear me i'm coming today to get you i'm going to kill you now i'm going to kill you now i'm gonna take your head off gonna take your head off and the birds are gonna eat you up and he's just he's a psalmist he's a rap psalmist and he did exactly what he said he was going to do when i understand what my arena is when i understand what my sphere of authority is i can stand within that sphere and i can decree the kinds of things that need to take place in order for me to fulfill my assignment davis to be the king he can't be taken taken out by a giant he's going to take the giant out though there be giants in the land we will not be afraid he brought us out to take us in to the promised land god why did you bring all this to me he says because i needed you to know what you got i said earlier heroes aren't born they're cornered god is saying well here's what the guy did he ate a ten thousand dollar bird because he didn't know the bird could talk and i said like this speak up or be eaten up we're in a world where they don't care anything about you and they care even less about you than they cared last year and it's not going to get better you say well what makes it better you're going to have to get out there and get some of those enemies saved and filled with the holy spirit and you need to keep asking god lord send it lord send what needs send a tidal wave across this nation god keep on doing it and stop looking at what's going on because way up in the mountains there's a rainfall that's coming way up there where you can't see it it's already happening somebody say it's already happening it's it's already happening and so all i'm waiting for is the thing that i am believing to manifest itself right here because god has told me whenever i pray according to his will he hears me and if i know he hears me i know i have the petition for which i've asked it's a strange world abraham's servant was sent to get somebody he had never seen before for something he'd never heard about and he gets down there and he's there and he says to god he's a god i'm here standing at the well maids are coming out and i'm just trying to figure out he says here's what i need i should have been able to pray this prayer five weeks ago before i left but here's what i need i need the first person that i go to when i say to her please give me some water and she says yes i'll give you some water i want that lady to say are those your camels and she water my camels he says and i'm gonna choose her it's one thing for god to choose but when you say i'm gonna initiate it and he walks up to this rebecca girl and when he walks up to her and he says may i have some water and she says yes here are those your camels sir yes they are all ten of them yes would you like them to water them you want to and he stands there he doesn't help her he doesn't do anything but just watch her because she's fulfilling his presence his this is the decree i want this i want this i want this and god says it's already on the way now see how do you get somebody to agree to water 10 camels when each camel needs 20 gallons of water to replace the thirst that they had when they came he's not looking for he's just not looking for pretty he's looking very powerful look i don't want any scrawny by bride for this man and he's watching her and she does everything that he says and he only needs one more question who's your daddy and when she tells him who is that her daddy was that's when he goes into worship and look if if a pentecostal and i'm just i'm just being nice because i am a pentecostal but a pentecostal he would only have had to hear her say may i water your camels that's all he wouldn't need anything else thank you thank you she's welcome but before he left home he made a serious vow and he needed to be sure who's your daddy and she told him who daddy was he says oh god thank you so much thank you and he gives her a gold earring and a bracelet for her arm and then he says is there room at your house for somebody with 10 camels and some servants she said yes and rachel runs ahead of them rebecca rather runs ahead of him comes into the house and when laban saw the gold people missed that when laban saw the goal he said girl where you been and she tells him he said where is he still by the way go get him bring him here this rebecca you say well i'm saying god how do you get somebody to be prepared to do something extravagant and out of the pail for somebody they've never seen before he says one of the ways i do it i make them dissatisfied with where they are you know what laban is like bible tells you can you imagine rebecca walking around the house somewhere out there there's a man for me he'll come and he'll save me and then i will be free she's just sweeping somewhere out there there's a guy i know he'll come and he'll take me and i'll be sure to go rebecca yes go get the water okay and she walks up there and she sees this elegantly dressing guy and he says some water sure she waters 10 camels about 200 gallons for all of them you ever do something and while you're doing it the thought occurs to you what possessed you to say you would water all his camels because he needed it as a sign to fulfill his degree you need what he has for you to answer the decree that you're making the day after she waters the camels listen to this she's riding on one of the camels that she watered when she watered them they were somebody else's the day after they were hers what's god got for you if you're willing to go out of your way and in your decree ask god for something that only god can give you the bible says he who waters will himself be watered she watered and got watered look water your decrees don't just pray them sow into them if you're involved in a session then so into that when you hear somebody praying what you believe invest in that don't walk away from that there's an assignment that you have in your assignment that you're to guard the perimeters of that assignment and not let anybody take anything from you that god's given you guard it when god said to adam guard this the very idea of guarding something means there is someone from whom it needs to be guarded you've heard this announcement in the airport keep your eye on your luggage why because someone else has their eye on it keep your eye on your your inheritance battle for it fight for it don't let anybody say to you come and go with me well who's going to watch this oh it'll be all right in japan maybe but not in brooklyn in japan you can leave your briefcase on the on the subway deck and get on the on the train forget about it and not worry about it because nobody will take it when they told me that i said are you kidding me they said oh here in japan they won't do that and when we came back it was there we left a bag of groceries things that we bought and it was sitting by the telephone booth and we walked away from and i said hey where's our bag he says oh i'll let the back he says okay it'll be okay to be there i said in japan there are millions of people here he says in japan it'll be okay but not here you've got to watch your stuff you've got to guard it you've got to guard your mouth the bible says be careful what you say every idle word that men shall speak they will give an account up in the judgment and one of the decrees that i think is such a is such a fatal decree because we don't realize we can decree things that we wish we hadn't said rachel died but jacob did not know that when laban said they've stolen my gods jacob in self-righteousness said whoever stole them will be put to death will surely die he didn't know rachel had done it but he decreed something y'all are really quiet you would decree a thing you would decree a thing don't decree things that you don't want to see happen guard your mouth for out of it issue the streams and the flow of life david is on the way out of city and this is my last illustration and it since ii samuel you're already there i hope second samuel chapter 16. then verse 20. then absalom said hit the fell give your advice what shall we do hit the fell said to absalom go into your father's concubines whom he has left to keep the house then all israel will hear that you have made yourself odious to your father the hands of all who are with you will also be strengthened so they pitched the tent for absalom on the roof absent went into his father's concubines in the sight of all israel now god had already said that was going to happen the advice and listen to this place the advice of a hypothetic which he gave in those days was as if one inquired of the word of god so was all the advice of the hitlef regarded by both david and absalom when david heard that a hitherfell bashsheba's grandfather had aligned himself with absalom he said this is not good and so shy goes back and he takes his position as a counselor and here's david's prayer and i want you to see it chapter 15 verse 31 15 verse 31 now someone told david saying a hypothal is among the conspirators with absalom and david said and david said and david said and david said and david said say that please say it again and say it again davis said oh lord i pray make the counsel of a hitherto foolishness when histophel saw that his concert was not followed he saddled his donkey and arose and went to his home to his city set his house in order and strangled himself thus he died and was buried in the grave of his father make the console of your adversary's foolishness bring it to not make their counsel so absurd that no one will respond to it god raise up godly men and women who can say things that will overhear something that's being said and they will call it foolishness god we decree that those various things that are being declared in council in dark chambers and great offices in in polit political circles god we pray today even as david prayed make their council foolishness make it foolishness so when someone says we're no longer going to say mother and father here in we're not going to say that what are you going to say what what are your alternatives what what's the alternative and he made them male and female let me just say and i hope this doesn't doesn't come off really wrong but i'm praying that god will let you hear right when my pastors said a guy he hadn't seen in years came back to the city and he says i'm back in town i know you don't know where i've been he says but i've been living in another state and he says and i'm not the same person that i was when i left when i left i was a man he said but i went through um change he says and now i'm a woman. he said but don't worry i love women so he became a woman so he could be a lesbian i'm telling you there's thinking out there that you haven't seen yet and that's what we got to say make it foolishness make it foollessness until we say naked foolishness it gives god a chance to hear us i hate the fell i look at hitherto and i say he had it in for david for a long time and when his opportunity came he gave the kind of advice that he would want to have so that he could do the david what david had done to uriah and god helped david to say make his counsel foolishness have you heard some stupid stuff coming from the bible says how long will you be stupid it's out there and you're looking at it and you say and here's my problem pastor why don't believers why why are believers struggling with something that they know is contrary to the will of god and they're still saying well well and and that's the only stupid answer you can get now somebody said to me he asked this question he said he said do you know what it's like when someone dies and the people around that person they are broken and they're weeping and they're distressed about it but the dead person doesn't know it and i said yes he said it's the same way when you're stupid they don't know they don't know you're looking at them and you're saying can't they see that that's crazy no they can't see it because the god of this age has blinded them lets the light of the glorious gospel of christ just shine he said what do we do about it always time to decrease something it's time to say something it's look at somebody say it's time to say something and so in intercession in crying out to god in the rhys house experiences that i'm looking at i'm sitting just saying god you did amazing doing things to one person or through a handful of people who in their classroom morning noon and night were crying out to you to push back the nazi army to push back mussolini to do this and to do that and god did it they had some they had some what we would call setbacks but sometimes setback is just a way to come back so you go forward with a greater momentum don't look at something and say it's all over come stand with me stand with me thank you lord thank you jesus and just lift your voice and use your prayer language for a moment thank you father thank you father thank you father thank you father in 1997 we moved into our current sanctuary the night we dedicated a prophet said you have built too small and i got so mad it's a state-of-the-art building it's it's in fact the prophet who said it didn't even have a building and i'm talking i'm telling him off i am really upset and he says build bigger bill larger nice and i heard myself say these words no one else could hear and i say yeah yeah yeah we'll build another one we get this one paid for and a few years later our resources started to dwindle and i said god what's going on he said you're standing in the river of your prosperity i said what does that mean he says that prophet told you what i was telling you put your trust in the lord and you will be established we sang it didn't we believe the prophets and you were prospered and he gave me this picture i'm standing in a riverbed water is flowing it's throwing enough to meet the needs but because i'm standing there not willing to move because this building ain't paid for he said you're damning up your provision by your resistance which makes me a damn bishop and i said god i'm so sorry because my words were coming back to me believe the lord and you'll be strengthened established believe the prophet and you'll prosper and i back i tried to step out of the river and i said god give me one more chance and the next thing i knew another prophet came told us what to do we found resources we found a lower payment all of that kind of thing and what i saw was that the payment that we had was lowered by something like seven thousand dollars a month and we were able to do a lot of things i'm just saying god it would be really good if we could depend on you all the time put your trust in god and you'll be established there's some things that we've been waiting for i've been waiting for since 19 since 2009 and just heard a word that says to me it's time god doesn't move by your clock he moves by his so just say god tonight what we're going to decree what we're going to declare you're going to accomplish and your word will not return to your void even though i think it will i celebrate answers give me a position in my territory to defend it with everything you've given me to do in jesus name [Music] amen you

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