"W.A.T.C.H." with Jentezen Franklin

the following program is sponsored by friends and partners of Kingdom connection life is real there's joy there's laughter and chaos lifelong friendships are forged love is found moments cherished and gift and together we are real family real friends real people experiencing real life this is free chapel look with me and mark chapter 13 powerful powerful scripture notices all read letter so this is our this is our leader our Redeemer speaking but all that day in that hour no one knows no not even the angels in heaven nor the son but only the father take heed watch and pray for you do not know when the time is if a man has gone to a far country has left his house and given authority to his servants to each his work and commanded the doorkeeper to watch watch therefore for you do not know when the master of the house is coming in the evening at midnight at the crowing of the rooster or in the morning lest coming suddenly he find you sleeping everybody read verse 37 with me and what I say to you I say to all watch watch that's what I want to talk about watch the Solomon had an amazing thought in the Song of Solomon 1 and verse 6 when he said they've made me the keeper of others vineyards but I have not kept my own he was looking at his life and looking at the mistakes he had made looking at his family that had been destroyed and he said I was I was put over the responsibility of caring for other vineyards but I didn't keep my own God gives us responsibility of others but that others begins first I cannot be a leader of the church if I do not have careful control of my own life and particularly watch my own life the elders of Ephesus Paul wrote and he said take heed to yourselves take heed to yourselves in acts 20 he said take heed to yourselves be careful lest you be disqualified listen to 1st Corinthians 9:27 I keep my body under subjection lest after I preach to others I should become disqualified and be asked to stand aside they that's haunting words to a pastor to a spiritual leader that it is possible that I can preach to others and not watch and take heed to myself and God finally reach a point where he looks at me and he says you are disqualified stand aside I'll have to have someone replace you there's a scripture in the book of Revelation that said let no man take your crown which means you have a work and a purpose that God has put you on this earth and he has a crown that he's going to reward you for doing what he called you to do but if you don't do what he's called you to do his kingdom was still advanced he'll have to replace you with somebody else and he said don't become disqualified and have to be told to stand aside and let someone else take your crown I don't want Jesus to have to ask me to stand aside because I was loose in my life and loose in my living and I missed the will of God many people are in battles and when they get in battles they drop out they fade away they they don't last the long haul they're not they're not strong til the end and so they they drop out of reading the Bible of church attendance you see them and then you don't see them Joseph said to his brothers when when he told them who he was and he had the keys to the corn in the middle of the famine he said go back with this good news and tell the rest of the family but then he gave this admonishment in Genesis 45 see that you fall not out of the way on your journey back one translation said don't get in an argument among yourselves and fail to find your way home with all this good news while on your journey home don't get in arguments and fall out with one another but take heed to yourself I want to encourage everyone under the sound of my voice today to take heed to yourself don't leave loose be careful what you look at what you listen to what you give your heart to take heed to yourself don't get don't get loose with your standards with your morality it's so easy to just begin to erase the lines and just begin to to live looser and looser and before you know it there's no difference between the old you and the new you Jesus said watch I thought about what do we need to watch number one we need to watch our words the W in the word watch stands for words words are powerful things words can destroy or words can uplift words can build up a words can can tear down mark chapter 11 Jesus said whosoever shall say unto this mountain be removed and cast into the sea shall not doubt in his heart but believe that the things that he said shall come to pass he shall have whatsoever things he saith he keeps emphasizing it's important what you say it's important what comes out of your mouth watch your words proverbs 18 and 21 said the power of death and life are in your tongue and you'll eat the fruit thereof it goes on to say in other words if you taunt death if you talk disaster if you talk defeat if you taunt depression that is the seeds every word is a seed and it's going forth and creating the future and he said the world that you will walk into the future that you will walk into is being determined by the words that you speak you can speak death or you can speak life you can speak depression or you can speak joy you can speak hopelessness or you can speak faith and it's up to you death and life are in the watch your words number one watch the words that come your way from the devil I'm telling you now that Satan will get in your head and tell you things that are not of God that's why Jesus turned to Simon Peter and he said the things that you are speaking are from the devil get the behind me Satan I'm telling you that you have to watch the words that come from the devil words like just give up words like what's the use words like you're never going to get free it's never but I promise you that the Holy Spirit if you have an addiction or bondage or some major issue in your life and and it's destroying your life the Holy Spirit will never tell you you're never going to get free this in that is a voice of a demon spirit that says and it's straight from hell and you need to recognize it and watch those words and say you're not coming in here I have another report I have a report that says I'm loved by God that He shed his blood for my deliverance watch the words that come from the devil watch the words that come your way from other people they can captivate you in inferiority and torment you and defeat you and turn a tear a beautiful day into a terrible day all because of the words that somebody speaks to you you don't have to you don't have to make your ears a garbage can watch the words that come to you from other people and lastly watch the words that come out of your own mouth words we are to speak words of life we are to speak words of faith we are to speak words that agree with God we are to speak what God's Word says over our families and over our lives and over our bodies and over our pain and over I heard Jesus said my words are spirit and they are life and if you're going to watch your life you're going to have to watch your words watch your words secondly watch your attitude watch your attitude just because bad things happen doesn't mean you need to be ticked off all the time Satan has this plan to not let you get saved but if you get saved he immediately opts to Plan B to make you miserable I'm saying to you when it comes to children more is called been talked they're going to catch your attitude and the attitude that you have toward God toward worship toward his house toward life in general if you if you have a positive attitude they're going to face life with a positive attitude and you can be down Paul said I think myself happy I think myself happy you have to have a up attitude we've got too many children that are not dreaming big dreams because they're round a negative attitude all the time you can't do it you'll never be anything I watch your attitude refuse to be a negative angry upset mean person nothing worse than a bunch of mean angry Christians have a good attitude have a positive attitude look over somebody say you need to smile your face is bothering me right now just tell you need to smile don't you want to get saved and go to heaven with me throughout all eternity no the young people think all the fun people go to hell amen there ought to be some Christians that have such an uplifting wonderful attitude that they want to be like them they're dreamers they're achievers come on somebody get up in your attitude the joy of the Lord is our strength let's just take a praise break and have an attitude correction right now what was i discouraged about what was i depressed about this is the day the Lord is made I need to rejoice I'm alive I'm healthy what else matters number three what's your temptations if you're going to watch your life you got to watch your temptations because they're coming I really felt a quickening in my heart about this point all of us are tempted one man was 80 years old and young kid went up to him and said I just want to ask you I'm really battling temptation he said how old is it before before I won't be tempted he said I don't know I'm just 80 it's a lot of people that you got to understand that as long as you're in this body even after 21-day fast temptation is still real you're going to be tempted to quit you're going to be tempted to sin you're going to be tempted to look at stuff you shouldn't look at listen to stuff you shouldn't listen to tempted to gamble tempted have illicit sex tempted by drugs tempted by alcohol Lord told me to tell you once your temptations it can cost you everything there's something going on in West Texas that have baffled the scientists and and they said what it is is there have been more rattlesnake bites in West Texas in the last few years than in decades and they cannot figure out why especially in remote places just where farmers are more farmers are being bitten experienced people with the country they're the barren kind of hot area of Texas are being bitten by rattlesnakes and they couldn't figure it out and they said they believe this is what has happened wild hogs were imported from Europe many many decades ago and those wild hogs have over bred and there they're everywhere and wild hogs have bad vision but they have tremendous ability to hear and and feel feel vibrations and they have developed an immunity against rattlesnakes so they eat rattlesnakes is one of their favorite meals and so what has happened is over time they believe that when the Hogs would hear a rattlesnake go off it would immediately be you know turn to go to that rattle and the snakes have gotten smarter and they've stopped rattling and you don't you don't get bit until it's too you know before you get a buzz that would go off and your buzzer you know on this from the rattles and you'd know back up but now there's no warning when you if you get close enough to a snake now he's not gonna rattle he's going to bite and I thought what a message that sometimes we get to thinking the Bible said in please ask these 10 that if if the hedge is broken down the snake will come in and bite and sometimes we get to stomping hedges meaning standards and convictions and stomping them down and say I didn't hear any rattle of the snake I didn't hear any rattler go off oh I'm gonna go over there and do this too and look nothing happened to me and I'm gonna go to that party and I'm going to get drunk I'm going to sleep with that person I'm going to look at that filthy website I'm going to do this and we get to thinking nothing's happening no lightning bolt is hitting me I'm getting by with it but here maybe what it is is the snake is so smart that the reason you don't hear the rattle is you he's waiting until you keep stepping more and more and more and when he sinks his things in you it'll be too late to try to fix it then and the Lord sent me to tell you today watch your temptations sin is still sin death is still death even if it's not rattling wrong is still wrong and you may feel like nothing's happening and you're doing it and you're fine and you can control it but if it's not rattling that doesn't mean it's not deadly it may be that serpent is so wise that it's just pulling you further and further and further and here's the good news Jesus Christ was tempted he has overcome Satan he has overcome the devil he has overcome every addiction and by his blood you can be free I want you to praise God right there and I'm going to finish this message everybody how many of you believe the blood of Jesus is greater than any temptation please hear a man who has pastored for 25 years plus sin will destroy it thrills you and then it kills you it fascinates and then it assassinates nobody gets by with it sooner or later the serpent will bite if the hedge is broken down watch your temptations number 4 watch your character the see and watch stands for character character matters character when you leave your bills unpaid character what Jehovah Jireh is paying my rent no he's not whoever you renting at home from has not got to check in six months and it's not Jehovah Jireh paying it well I'm just gonna write a faith check that's not faith that's a felony character Abimelech the Bible said was a king and he saw Sarah Abraham's wife I'm almost finished but listen he saw Abraham's wife he had a harem full of beautiful women the most beautiful women in the country and he saw Sarah and she was 99 years old and he started less than in saying I gotta have her she was 99 years old how many of you want that lotion come on just be on 99 and she was hot 99 and she's turning heads 99 turn to your wife right now and say that's what you look like baby that's you that's you and you know what God said to a family he took her pitiful Abraham lied and said she's my sister and and he took her and he's going into her bedroom to to assault her and molest her and God spoke to him he said if you touch her you're dead man and then he made this comment he said I know you did this in the integrity of your heart and I withheld you from sinning because you even if you mess up if you have integrity in your heart God will help you work things out it's a big deal lastly watch your household the most valuable thing that we have in this world is our children our husband or wife our loved ones they're worth more than silver they're worth more than gold they're worth more than any a claim that the world could ever any title you could ever earn there's nothing more precious than Charisse and Courtney and Carissa and Caroline and Connor and Drake nothing and we're called to watch our household determine that your children will be fruitful in the kingdom of God and hell will not have them in Jesus name Genesis 14 and 14 Abraham's family was kidnapped and he sought God and God said go pursue and bring them back you shall bring them back David at Ziggler Ziggler lost his family and God spoke to him and said go after your family and you shall recover them all I feel like telling somebody that if you will believe according to acts 16 believe Evon the Lord Jesus Christ everybody say this with me and you will be saved you and your household does anybody believe that this morning does anybody claim that over your children over your grandchildren I know hail will come and assault and do all it but if we're watchful and we're praying there's nothing more powerful than the blood of Jesus Christ and a praying mother and father and I'm saying to you be watchful when that when that boy comes to pick that daughter up you be there and you open the door and just watch him don't smile and just look at it my kid there's a there's a man in this church that had an amazing month for during the fast he was on the 21-day fast very faithful member of this church and a personal friend and I have his permission to share this and just an outstanding business and very prosperous in his business and he was contacted by a national corporation that if I named them it's a household name and every one of you would note that name and they heard about this man all that he's done and all that he is doing and the International president of the whole corporation flew in on private jet picked him up and took him to a resort area sort of tried to wine and dine I guess you would say and offered him the vice presidency of this international corporation starting salary per year five million dollars per year starting salary and all of the benefits that go with that this man who has beautiful children beautiful wife beautiful family it's on the 21-day fast they said just pray that I'll do the right thing and he said that he said I thank God he's what he told me he said I thank God for the 21-day fast he said I don't believe it was by hands that I was on the 21-day fast and he said I went back to to the lodge after a day of all this offer after after after offer and he said I'm laying there in the bed and I'm fasting my stomach is growling he said I looked up at the ceiling and he said it was just like the voice of God came booming through that room and saying you can choose I'll bless you but my perfect will is for you to be with your family in the church where you are but I'll bless you and he said I never have felt such peace come over me he said I thought about my little son and I thought about my beautiful daughters and I thought about my wife and I thought about my church and he said there's some things money cannot buy money cannot buy a family money cannot buy a good Church money cannot buy a family being raised in truth money cannot buy a happy marriage sometimes we need to be watchful not every opportunity is God I said it before I'll say it again if you don't get anything else never move for money now if God tells you to move then go but don't let money be the deciding factor let the voice of the Lord be the deciding factor because there are ramifications that you cannot see I'll tell you this I told this man that you will not give up houses lands or anything for his name's sake and he not reward you a hundredfold in this life and in the life to come that's Jesus's words and how many of you know to see your family in heaven is a hundredfold in this life and in the life to come TBT not ck up a coating vatapá hippie no appeal me z ll a platoon be teaming up muy loco man dakhala guy Nando me - Paulo appear Mesa as a business owner I know what it is to start out small I remember not having anything and I remember I had to take care of my wife and my baby and I wanted them to have the best and I feel people have talents down there they don't have opportunity when I saw the picture of the marketplace I think that is one of the things that even today sticks in my mind because I saw a place where people could go and I could see him trying to barter and trade and sell something so that they could have their needs met for their family and their babies God can bless them just like he has blessed me so this marketplace will affect people's lives forever it will produce jobs that's why I love the marketplace is food for life sustainability helping patients to help themselves and I really like the concept of pouring in to the marketplace to that seed so we can grow one portable machine mega messy boy as an update we've sent another $190,000 to the miracle marketplace in Haiti thank you so much for those of you who have responded to the mission food for life this initiative to build the 1 million dollar miracle market in Haiti is going to provide over 2,600 new jobs and Haiti will have its first ever Christian marketplace but we are only halfway through our goal would you please consider helping us this month build the foundations for the marketplace it's a one hundred thousand dollar phase and you can be a part of laying a foundation of faith in Haiti when you give this month we have a special gift to send to you our new foundation series three inspiring messages which will help you build your faith and family values upon God's Word we're still receiving stories of life change from hundreds of thousands of you who joined us on this year's 21-day fast please join us on Facebook or Twitter and share your story with us of what's happening in your life thank you so much for watching Kingdom connection and we'll see you next time life is real there's joy there's laughter and Khaos lifelong friendships are forged love is found moments cherished and gift and together we are real family real friends real people experiencing real life this is free chapel this program has been brought to you by the friends and partners of Jenson drink land media ministries for more information on this broadcast or for additional resources go online at Jenson Franklin dot o-r-g

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Length: 28min 30sec (1710 seconds)

Published: Thu Feb 20 2014