SPEAKER_00: We're going to continue today what is now a series about speaking from your heart.
SPEAKER_00: So that's the title of the series that from the last two messages that I just titled it this week.
SPEAKER_00: And you know, we've been we've been on a on a path of talking about your words, what you say, that out of the abundance of the heart comes what you believe, no matter what, good or bad.
SPEAKER_00: But then out of the abundance of the heart comes what you say.
SPEAKER_00: And what you speak is what you believe.
SPEAKER_00: You can mask it for a little bit.
SPEAKER_00: You can try to basically hide it through changing your words on purpose, but eventually what you believe is going to come out.
SPEAKER_00: Typically in a pressure moment or a you know something that suddenly comes up that happens, that you know, if you are in church praising God, praising God, and then when something happens on the road and somebody cuts you off and it's not praise God, sometimes what's in your heart is coming out in that natural moment.
SPEAKER_00: Um so we've got to start changing what's in our heart to get what's gonna come out a lot different.
SPEAKER_00: Um that's why this is not in my notes, but that's why so upset at the Pharisees, because they were more concerned about what they were eating and the different, you know, they got it, they got upset with the disciples for um not washing their hands and for eating you know from the cornfield on a Sabbath day, or you know, there they just he they got up the Pharisees were all about the uh the appearance of things.
SPEAKER_00: And he's like, No, it's not what you eat that defiles you, it's what comes out of you that defiles you.
SPEAKER_00: He said, because that and that's where he said, out of the abundance of the heart, the mouth speaks.
SPEAKER_00: God created you and I in his image.
SPEAKER_00: So it's not just our appearance, not just the fact that we are a three-part being, but how we work and how we live.
SPEAKER_00: Um and that's why I quoted that verse.
SPEAKER_00: In him we live and move and have our being.
SPEAKER_00: So it's just like God that we live and move and have our being.
SPEAKER_00: Whether we believe that or not, that's exactly how God designed us.
SPEAKER_00: When God speaks, his words come from his heart, his belief, and it gets things done every single time.
SPEAKER_00: There are no empty words coming from God's mouth.
SPEAKER_00: You know, God doesn't say, I'm just saying, he never just says.
SPEAKER_00: Every word has a purpose, every word has an as a um a power behind it, because that's what's full in his heart.
SPEAKER_00: So, since we're created like that, let's start learning how to use that for what we're supposed to be using it for and not to bring us down, which is what the world and most people tend to use it because they don't know about it.
SPEAKER_00: So now that we know what the principle is and know how we how we've been designed, let's start getting better and better at filling our hearts so that our words aren't empty.
SPEAKER_00: So, first verse we're gonna look at is in Isaiah chapter 55.
SPEAKER_00: We're gonna start with verse 10.
SPEAKER_00: Isaiah 55, 10.
SPEAKER_00: The rain and the snow come down from heavens and stay on the ground to water the earth.
SPEAKER_00: They cause the grain to grow, producing seed for the farmer and bread for the hungry.
SPEAKER_00: In the same, it is the same with my word.
SPEAKER_00: This is the Lord speaking.
SPEAKER_00: I send it out, and it always produces fruit, and it will accomplish all I want it to, and it will prosper everywhere I send it.
SPEAKER_00: The King James verse 11 says, So shall my word be that goes forth out of my mouth, it shall not return unto me void or empty, but it shall accomplish that which I please, and it shall prosper in the thing whereunto I send it.
SPEAKER_00: I want you to take note of that word prosper, because we're going to get back to it.
SPEAKER_00: So let's look at a comparable verse in the New Testament, and then we'll get into the connection between these.
SPEAKER_00: Um in Mark 4, it's the parable of the sower and the seed.
SPEAKER_00: Mark 4, we'll just jump into it.
SPEAKER_00: Verse 14.
SPEAKER_00: Um, the farmer plants seeds by taking God's word to others.
SPEAKER_00: This is the new living.
SPEAKER_00: Verse 15 the seed that fell on the footpath represents those who hear the message, only to have Satan come at once and take it away.
SPEAKER_00: The seed on rocky soil represents those who hear the message and immediately receive it with joy.
SPEAKER_00: But since they don't have a deep don't have deep roots, they don't last long.
SPEAKER_00: They fall away as soon as they have problems or are persecuted for believing God's word.
SPEAKER_00: Verse 18 The seed that fell among the thorns represents others who hear God's word, but all too quickly the message is crowded out by the worries of this life, the lure of wealth and the desire for other things.
SPEAKER_00: So no fruit is produced.
SPEAKER_00: And the seed that fell on good soil represents those who hear and accept God's word, and produce a harvest of thirty, sixty, or even a hundred times as much as has been planted.
SPEAKER_00: So, and then I just want to use the the King James again to give the comparison.
SPEAKER_00: Verse 14 in the King James says, the sower sows the word.
SPEAKER_00: Because in um in Isaiah, um, I didn't put it on here, but in Isaiah verse 10 um 55, 10, it says that he may give seed to the sower and bread to the hungry.
SPEAKER_00: In other words, God's word, so what we're saying is let's look at it like this.
SPEAKER_00: The Bible says, as the rain comes down and waters the waters the ground, and it waters the seeds that are going in there, so it is with God's word.
SPEAKER_00: And when I when I really saw this, I saw it as a picture like this, because let's say, you know, let's use the comparison of this is God, his words coming down, and waters the earth and the seed.
SPEAKER_00: But just like in Mark chapter 4, there's different kinds of grounds that the seeds can be planted into.
SPEAKER_00: So when the Bible says in Isaiah 55 that God's word never returns void, it always accomplishes that what it pleases.
SPEAKER_00: That's true.
SPEAKER_00: But just like a farmer sowing those seeds, some of those seeds may fall on ground that it doesn't produce.
SPEAKER_00: But the seed itself is always ready to produce.
SPEAKER_00: The seed itself contains everything in it.
SPEAKER_00: Think about a seed for a tree that, you know, I've got a zillion acorns in my yard right now that, you know, I have to watch because when I step out, I want to roll around.
SPEAKER_00: Um the that acorn contains an entire oak tree in it.
SPEAKER_00: It is not just a piece of wood, it's not just a little marble type object.
SPEAKER_00: It has the entire blueprints, DNA, whatever you want to call it, of an entire tree in it.
SPEAKER_00: That's what God's word is.
SPEAKER_00: God's word is a seed that has everything in it that it that is needed to get the job done.
SPEAKER_00: But where it falls and how it and how it lands and how it grows all depends on us.
SPEAKER_00: So we have the opportunity to either be the kind of ground that the seed grows in, or if we let other things come in, the kind of ground that that seed just bounces off, and it just, if it rains on it, it washes it away rather than helps it grow.
SPEAKER_00: So God's always the same, his word's always the same, but we have a choice in our lives of how that seed's going to be in our life.
SPEAKER_00: We the the word is a container.
SPEAKER_00: It's not just so let me say that again.
SPEAKER_00: Words are containers.
SPEAKER_00: They contain either the blessing or the cursing that comes out with that.
SPEAKER_00: They they I mean, our words, when we say empty, we want to watch that our words are not empty.
SPEAKER_00: Um, you know, have you ever, you know, if you order something from Amazon right now and all of a sudden the box comes in, you open it up and it's empty, well that's worthless.
SPEAKER_00: I mean, it's like, what's the use of shipping a box that has nothing in it and paying for it?
SPEAKER_00: That's exactly what empty words are like.
SPEAKER_00: If I just always talking and talking, and my words have no nothing backing it up, or I don't believe what I'm saying, or I'm not, I'm just speaking out whatever is coming to my head.
SPEAKER_00: I'm speaking empty words, and I'm delivering boxes that are empty to people as doing nothing, as producing nothing.
SPEAKER_00: God's words always are packed full of things, packed full of everything that's needed.
SPEAKER_00: The the authority to get the the action done, the power to get it done, and the command to do it, um, and the power to do it.
SPEAKER_00: So one of the one of the one of the words that stuck out to me when I was reading Isaiah, you know, I always like to go in and look at the original languages.
SPEAKER_00: Um I'm not an expert at any of them, but I think it's interesting when you have the right tools to help you look at them.
SPEAKER_00: But the word prosper um in Isaiah 55, 11, I'll just put it back on the screen, especially the King James Version, it'll prosper in the thing whereunto I sent it.
SPEAKER_00: Um it means to make prosperous, to bring to successful issue, to cause to prosper.
SPEAKER_00: Now, so that basically prosper means prosper.
SPEAKER_00: You're like, wow, that's great.
SPEAKER_00: What I what I like about it is how the the the fact that when I looked at all, this is what I love about the when you look at the original language, and then you look at how it was translated throughout the rest of the Old Testament.
SPEAKER_00: It's not always translated prosper.
SPEAKER_00: And when I started looking at the other verses that use that same Hebrew word that was translated prosper here, it's really an interesting, it really kind of shows what God was trying to get across here.
SPEAKER_00: Because all the translations are imperfect.
SPEAKER_00: Because it was human beings taking the original language and going, well, what did they mean here?
SPEAKER_00: And you know, I believe they all have a purpose.
SPEAKER_00: That's why we like to, you know, both Jordan and I like to switch around versions and all, because a lot of times you're looking for the one that really is portraying the heart of what need was what the Spirit was saying.
SPEAKER_00: But I'm gonna quickly read a few verses, you don't have to turn there for these, um, that use the same words, the same Hebrew word as the word prosper here.
SPEAKER_00: And Joseph, when he was in Egypt, um, this is Jacob's son Joseph, says the Lord was with him, and he was a successful man, and he was uh and he was in the house of his master Egypt.
SPEAKER_00: So the word successful man, King James does actually use the word prosperous, but it's talking about, okay, Joseph was prosperous as a slave.
SPEAKER_00: Same word as my word will always prosper, everything I send it to.
SPEAKER_00: In Judges 15, 4, this is Samson, it says, And when he came to Lehi, the Philistines came shouting against him, then the Spirit of the Lord came mightily upon him.
SPEAKER_00: That phrase, the Spirit of the Lord came mightily upon him, is the same Hebrew word prosper in the other verses.
SPEAKER_00: And the ropes that were on his arms and you know, all that.
SPEAKER_00: So the word that God used to say, Joseph was prosperous, and my word is always prosperous.
SPEAKER_00: Hear about another person, it's saying the spirit of the Lord came on him to get it done.
SPEAKER_00: So we could say he was prosperous, but this really shows he wasn't just prosperous, he rose up in a power that was beyond his own strength from the spirit of the Lord, and he was successful in overcoming the enemy.
SPEAKER_00: And then in Samuel 16, 1 Samuel 16, 13 says, So as David stood there among his brothers, Samuel took the flask of olive oil that he had brought brought and anointed David with the oil, and the spirit of the Lord came powerfully upon David from that day on.
SPEAKER_00: Same Hebrew word.
SPEAKER_00: The Spirit of the Lord came powerfully upon him.
SPEAKER_00: Then Samuel returned.
SPEAKER_00: This is when David gets anointed out of his brothers to be king.
SPEAKER_00: If you've watched that um TV series, House of David, there's a really good depiction of when Samuel anoints David.
SPEAKER_00: I mean, it just it kind of just portrays that, what it probably felt like or looked like in the spirit of just that there was a there's a difference when he anointed David with his hands.
SPEAKER_00: But the fact that Samson, who we just picture as you know, super strength, David, who we picture as God's anointed, Joseph, who was a slave, who was prosperous in his everything he did, all those are the same word that God says, every time my word goes out, there is power behind it.
SPEAKER_00: There is the Spirit of the Lord will come powerfully on you to get the job done.
SPEAKER_00: So when we start getting God's word in our mouth, we have the same result.
SPEAKER_00: We have the Spirit of the Lord come mightily upon us.
SPEAKER_00: So when the Bible talks about prosperous and prosperity, don't just put dollar signs in front of it.
SPEAKER_00: That can be one part of it, but that is not that that's where you know some religion has gotten off on, where it's just, oh, give me, give me, give me, you know, dollar sign.
SPEAKER_00: Yeah, God wants you to be prosperous in the kingdom of God so that his kingdom can prosper.
SPEAKER_00: But he also has a whole lot more, there's a whole lot more behind it than just dollar signs and money in the bank.
SPEAKER_00: The spirit of the Lord came mightily upon him.
SPEAKER_00: God's word contains the very spirit of the Lord to empower to prosper.
SPEAKER_00: I remember you remember our first uh message where we read from Genesis 1 where it says, the Spirit of the Lord hovered across the face of the earth.
SPEAKER_00: So God's Spirit was already there, but nothing was happening until the words came out and God said, Let there be.
SPEAKER_00: So when we have the Spirit of God in us, always.
SPEAKER_00: As born-again Christians, we are we have God's Spirit in us.
SPEAKER_00: That doesn't mean everything's happening yet.
SPEAKER_00: It's like the Spirit of the Lord is hovering around the face of the earth, but until there's speaking, there's not the power that comes out from it, because the words are the very containers that start things like this happening, where the spirit, now the spirit's moving mightily.
SPEAKER_00: So if our hearts aren't filled enough to believe, then we're not going to see the same results as someone else.
SPEAKER_00: And maybe our hearts are full in one area but not another, and this is where we can start seeing every area of our life start to prosper using God's word, prosper and see the results that we want to see.
SPEAKER_00: We had that wonderful testimony this morning about healing.
SPEAKER_00: The more you want more success, you need to send more word containers of success.
SPEAKER_00: Start shipping more packages out that have something in it rather than empty packages.
SPEAKER_00: I just had we have a we're getting a lot of packages at our house right now from all the sales.
SPEAKER_00: So I have a ton of boxes.
SPEAKER_00: Um that package image is in my head right now, too.
SPEAKER_00: Um just like the seed is not just the small object itself, but it's the container of the very thing it represents.
SPEAKER_00: It's a plant, it's an animal, it's a baby inside that little seed.
SPEAKER_00: Our words are the containers of the thing it represents.
SPEAKER_00: If we want to change our harvest, we change our seed.
SPEAKER_00: If we want to change what we want to see at the end result, we've got to start shipping something different in the package.
SPEAKER_00: Send something different in the container.
SPEAKER_00: Proverbs 11, 24, a couple more verses and and along this line of the word the Hebrew word.
SPEAKER_00: It says, There is one who scatters yet increases more.
SPEAKER_00: And there is one who withholds more than is right, but it leads to poverty.
SPEAKER_00: The increases more, same Hebrew word, prosperous.
SPEAKER_00: I would try to pronounce it, but I would butcher it a lot.
SPEAKER_00: So my Bible lap, I hit a button and it pronounces it for me very so I just I let that do it.
SPEAKER_01: But we wouldn't know who it was not.
SPEAKER_00: Yeah.
SPEAKER_00: It's got the guttural sound, so it's really just sounds like I'm I'm having to clear my throat when I say it.
SPEAKER_00: Um the I love the new living on this one too, though, just to kind of go over it.
SPEAKER_00: Give freely and become more wealthy, be stingy and lose everything.
SPEAKER_00: Again, don't just think dollar signs, don't just think bank accounts.
SPEAKER_00: This is give freely of your love, give freely of your just the knowledge of the word, give freely of the fact that if you have had testimonies of healing, give that freely.
SPEAKER_00: Tell other people, because that's what they need too.
SPEAKER_00: They're not people, not everybody's just waiting for more money to show up in the bank.
SPEAKER_00: People need a lot more than just the dollar sign.
SPEAKER_00: So when we see these words in the Bible, give freely, and the Spirit of the Lord will move mightily, to use the different translation of the same word.
SPEAKER_00: Not just wealthy, not just not just the bank account.
SPEAKER_00: God always speaks what he wants to exist.
SPEAKER_00: Just like we read in again in Genesis.
SPEAKER_00: He didn't He didn't just say, I hope there's I hope there's light this morning.
SPEAKER_00: I hope we're gonna I wonder if we're gonna have some light today.
SPEAKER_00: No, he said, light be.
SPEAKER_00: And it was.
SPEAKER_00: You and I have that same Holy Spirit living in us, that same power with our words to get things happening.
SPEAKER_00: But we have to, like we talked about last time, we have to ignite the flame.
SPEAKER_00: We have to set that spark.
SPEAKER_00: And I think today's analogy of the seed, getting those seeds, get those seeds out.
SPEAKER_00: The sower sows the word.
SPEAKER_00: That just means we're always sowing, and God's word always returns void, and eventually it will start hitting good ground somewhere.
SPEAKER_00: Even in your own heart.
SPEAKER_00: There might be some areas of your heart that are a little more stony, and areas that are kind of overwhelmed with the cares of this life, and then all of a sudden there's an area, oh, it hit good ground.
SPEAKER_00: That seed starting to grow, starting to take take um take root.
SPEAKER_00: Um I really feel like this this message, this series.
SPEAKER_00: Is not just the word for today and the last couple of weeks, but this is going to lead us into the Christmas message because I already kind of know where we're going with it from the Lord.
SPEAKER_00: But I also know and just really have the direction of the Lord.
SPEAKER_00: This is how our 2026 is going to go.
SPEAKER_00: Because we're going to start as a church, we're going to start coming together and speaking over us as a church, as families, over our year 2026.
SPEAKER_00: And it's going to be not what we experience, it's going to be what God wants it to be for us.
SPEAKER_00: We're not just going to react, we're going to proclaim.
SPEAKER_00: We're not just going to see and wait and see what happens.
SPEAKER_00: We're going to see the Spirit of the Lord God move mightily in our lives, in the lives of our families, our kids, our church, our jobs.
SPEAKER_00: So this, as we get this in here, this is, we're setting the foundation, we're learning.
SPEAKER_00: This is, we're in the we're in training, and I believe really we're going to start to see, we're already starting to see some fruit of it, but we'll really start to set what this does for us as a church family for the next year.
SPEAKER_00: Because remember the steps that we talked about in really the first two messages.
SPEAKER_00: That number one, we find out what God said, we meditate on it a lot, and we do that through our words.
SPEAKER_00: We believe it, and then we speak it out.
SPEAKER_00: So we said that, okay, we part of meditation is thy word have I hid in my heart that I might not sin against thee.
SPEAKER_00: The Lord is my shepherd, I shall not want.
SPEAKER_00: We're saying the word, we're saying the words that God said to us.
SPEAKER_00: If God said we're going to have a place of our own, which I believe he did for us as a church, then I'm going to say, we're going to have a, we have a place of our own.
SPEAKER_00: I don't see it, I don't know where it is, but God already has it in store, so I'm just going to start saying it.
SPEAKER_00: And then as we start saying it more and more and we start believing, and all of a sudden it's going to it's going to show up.
SPEAKER_00: How?
SPEAKER_00: I don't know.
SPEAKER_00: That's not the part that I have to think through.
SPEAKER_00: I have to do what God told me to do.
SPEAKER_00: We have to do what God tells us to do.
SPEAKER_00: So yeah, we're going to have a place of our own as a church.
SPEAKER_00: I heard a testimony that I've heard before, but Keith Moore was saying it again recently on a message that another minister, Kenneth Hagin, who was God mightily used to bring, to bring kind of this teachings of faith back into the American church back in the 60s and 70s and 80s.
SPEAKER_00: But he, back in the early the 80s, I think it was, he told his, he would, he would teach in his school, he said, Someone's going to give us a million-dollar gift.
SPEAKER_00: It was, you know, he and he knew it by the Lord, but he would just say it.
SPEAKER_00: He would just say, Someone's going to give us a million-dollar gift.
SPEAKER_00: He wouldn't talk about it.
SPEAKER_00: He would explain that.
SPEAKER_00: He would just say it and then go on to everything else he was doing.
SPEAKER_00: And he did that for about six months.
SPEAKER_00: Well, one day, somebody gave two$500,000 checks in one day.
SPEAKER_00: And he kind of joked and said, and we received them both.
SPEAKER_00: And then a year later, two years later, he said, somebody's going to give us a$2 million gift.
SPEAKER_00: And eventually it happened.
SPEAKER_00: Now what I'm saying is, I don't have that word of the Lord.
SPEAKER_00: I don't have a word that God's going to give somebody's going to give us a million dollars.
SPEAKER_00: That's not the point.
SPEAKER_00: And if I said it, I'd be saying it empty.
SPEAKER_00: Because I don't have God's, I don't have the part one that I just said.
SPEAKER_00: I don't have God's first telling me to say that.
SPEAKER_00: But I do have, we're going to have a place of our own.
SPEAKER_00: I know that's the case.
SPEAKER_00: And so as we start saying that out, we don't have to do anything more than just keep saying it.
SPEAKER_00: We're going to have a place of our own.
SPEAKER_00: Amen.
SPEAKER_00: That's how simple it is.
SPEAKER_00: Is that we just keep saying it.
SPEAKER_00: We don't have to go, well, how's that going to happen?
SPEAKER_00: Nope.
SPEAKER_00: Just we're going to have a place of our own and just keep going.
SPEAKER_00: Nope, my kid's not going to be bullied anymore in school.
SPEAKER_00: Keep going.
SPEAKER_00: Nope.
SPEAKER_00: We're going to, that need's going to be met in my life.
SPEAKER_00: Keep going.
SPEAKER_00: Don't dwell on it.
SPEAKER_00: Just keep saying that word.
SPEAKER_00: Keep letting God's word come down.
SPEAKER_00: Get it into there.
SPEAKER_00: And eventually, when it hits that, it's going to hit that good ground.
SPEAKER_00: That seed's going to grow, and all of a sudden you're going to see the very fruit of what you've been saying.
SPEAKER_00: So going back to, I just want to go back to that verse in Isaiah 55.
SPEAKER_00: It's the same with my word.
SPEAKER_00: I send it out, and it always produces fruit.
SPEAKER_00: It will accomplish all I want it to, and it will prosper.
SPEAKER_00: The Spirit of the Lord will move mightily everywhere that I send it.
SPEAKER_00: And then when we put that with Mark 14, it says, and the seed that fell on good soil represents those who hear and accept God's word and produce a harvest of 30, 60, or even a hundred times as much as the planet.
SPEAKER_00: Again, the church kind of has narrowed this down to offering time.
SPEAKER_00: Hey, if you give some seed, you're going to get 30.
SPEAKER_00: And yes, there's an application of that.
SPEAKER_00: But this is about God's word.
SPEAKER_00: This is everything that applies into God's word, not just give and it shall be given back to you.
SPEAKER_00: But it has to be in our heart first in order for us to really give it and for that fruit to show up.
SPEAKER_00: So this is where, yeah, God's word comes down, it gets into our heart, then all of a sudden the seed comes up, and then we're the ones producing the fruit, and we're the ones sowing the seed to others, and it just keeps reproducing and reproducing 230, 60, and 100fold.
SPEAKER_00: So it's not again, not just the money.
SPEAKER_00: The money's a good part of it, but it's that's not just that's not the only application of it.
SPEAKER_00: Um I wish my image can save my save my screen while I'm also doing the verses, but we can't.
SPEAKER_00: So let's read redraw it.
SPEAKER_00: If this is our heart down here, what we're doing every time we're speaking that word is we're either sowing the seed, or like Paul said, I planted Apollos watered.
SPEAKER_00: We're doing something to get that seed to grow.
SPEAKER_00: And eventually, once that seed gets into our heart, that's when we finally start seeing the plant grow up.
SPEAKER_00: And that's when we start seeing the fruit.
SPEAKER_00: Because the seed could fall in the sunny ground, it could fall into thorns, it could fall into the rocky, you know, the birds come down, eat it, all the other parts of Mark IV, and you know, or our hearts, to use a King James word, is overcharged.
SPEAKER_00: It's full of other things that it shouldn't be full of.
SPEAKER_00: Mark IV said, the cares of this life, the deceitfulness of riches, the loss of other things, the lure of other things.
SPEAKER_00: Those enter in and choke the word.
SPEAKER_00: And then that's what comes out of our mouth.
SPEAKER_00: Because if other things are choking the word out, then it's not the word coming out of our mouth.
SPEAKER_00: It's man, this economy.
SPEAKER_00: Man, we want to we need to get another car.
SPEAKER_00: I don't know how we're gonna do it because we know we got you know, interest rates and car prices, and we start getting overcharged, we start getting full of other things that are overriding it, not my God's gonna supply my need.
SPEAKER_00: I don't care what it looks like, we're gonna we're gonna have this in a in a in this economy.
SPEAKER_00: Amen.
SPEAKER_00: I I've seen this personally in my life.
SPEAKER_00: I know the the I got in years where the company said, we're not doing any higher, there's a hiring fees, we're not doing any kind of thing, and all of a sudden my boss comes to me and gives me an opportunity, and I get the big, you know, the two biggest promotions I've ever gotten in the 17 years I've been there.
SPEAKER_00: In years where the rest of the company is like, nope, no, we're you know, we're on hold right now, we can't do that.
SPEAKER_00: So, you know, and I'm I wasn't even expecting it, but it's like I don't when I hear those things about the company or things like, nope, we're gonna, God's gonna supply my needs.
SPEAKER_00: And we just keep saying what the word says, not what we're seeing.
SPEAKER_00: This is where it all comes together.
SPEAKER_00: I mean, my heart's so full of all this, I'm trying to keep this in a a logical explanation or logical path of uh teaching it.
SPEAKER_00: Because this is where it says, don't look at the things that are seen, but the things that are unseen.
SPEAKER_00: Because we don't go, if we keep looking what our physical eyeballs see, that's when our heart gets overcharged with weeds and plenty of other things that are choking it.
SPEAKER_00: Because it's like our our brain just can't comprehend it.
SPEAKER_00: But if we start looking at the things that are not seen, then we're going, okay, I don't care what that looks like.
SPEAKER_00: This is what the word says.
SPEAKER_00: This is what God, this is what God told me.
SPEAKER_00: Yeah, we've been we've been running this school for almost two years now.
SPEAKER_00: I was thinking it would be like three months.
SPEAKER_00: Don't worry about it.
SPEAKER_00: We're gonna have a place of our own.
SPEAKER_00: We don't need to look back at the past and and what what has gone on already.
SPEAKER_00: We start right now today and say, I don't care what I've seen.
SPEAKER_00: I'm gonna look at, I'm gonna start looking at what I've not seen.
SPEAKER_00: So let's let's begin to wind this down close.
SPEAKER_00: And I want to finish up in Romans 10.
SPEAKER_00: We started, we actually read some of these verses last time.
SPEAKER_00: Romans 10, verse 16, it says, but they have not all obeyed the gospel.
SPEAKER_00: For Isaiah, it's actually Isaiah 51, 53, 1, if you want to look it up.
SPEAKER_00: For Isaiah says, The Lord, who has believed our report?
SPEAKER_00: So then faith comes by hearing, and hearing by the word of God.
SPEAKER_00: Sorry.
SPEAKER_00: Then verse 18.
SPEAKER_00: But I say, have they not heard?
SPEAKER_00: Yes indeed, their sound has gone out into all the earth, and their words to the ends of the world.
SPEAKER_00: So he's saying, people have heard the gospel but didn't obey it.
SPEAKER_00: But isn't the gospel full of God's power and salvation?
SPEAKER_00: Yeah, that seed is there, it's got everything in it to save you.
SPEAKER_00: But if you're not hearing it and you're not obeying it, it doesn't have that power for you.
SPEAKER_00: That seed is still not changed.
SPEAKER_00: It will accomplish what God wants it to do when it falls into that good ground, when we accept it and do it.
SPEAKER_00: So this is why, as powerful as God's message of salvation is, and Jesus did what he did for everyone until you receive it, that word has no power in you.
SPEAKER_00: David had other brothers.
SPEAKER_00: Samuel, the prophet, was there to anoint the king.
SPEAKER_00: Number two, nah, number three, nah, no power, no anointing.
SPEAKER_00: Finally, on David, the Spirit of the Lord moved mightily upon him.
SPEAKER_00: Because it was not Samuel who changed, not the Spirit of God, but there was something in the heart of David that was different.
SPEAKER_00: That the Spirit of God moved and powerfully and prospered him.
SPEAKER_00: It was his heart that was a difference.
SPEAKER_00: And that's what multiple verses in the Bible say it's because of David's heart that God said, You're going to be a king, anointed king forever.
SPEAKER_00: So David is still a king today.
SPEAKER_00: And of course, the king, Jesus, came from him.
SPEAKER_00: So just like it works with salvation, that's why I keep going back to these verses in Romans 10.
SPEAKER_00: Um, in this case, you know, he's uh Paul through the Holy Spirit's kind of lamenting.
SPEAKER_00: It's like, well, he said, have they not all obeyed the word?
SPEAKER_00: But he said through another prophet here, and this actually, this verse is a is a um quote of Psalms, Psalm 19.
SPEAKER_00: Their sound has gone out to all the earth and their words to the end of the world.
SPEAKER_00: In other words, God is getting the word out.
SPEAKER_00: Don't worry about that part, but the way he does it is through you and me.
SPEAKER_00: Their sound has gone out through all the world, and their words, or all the earth, and their words to the end of the world.
SPEAKER_00: But one, have we heard it?
SPEAKER_00: And two, have we put it in our mouth?
SPEAKER_00: And when that happens, that's when we see the result.
SPEAKER_00: So just like with salvation, we believe, we believe, because we all have believed, that when someone prays the prayer of salvation, they will be saved.
SPEAKER_00: Is there anything physical that changes on their body?
SPEAKER_00: No, you can't look at somebody and go, okay, yeah, they're saved, they're not saved.
SPEAKER_00: But it's the same thing with healing, it's the same thing with God meeting your need.
SPEAKER_00: Because God said, God's already done all the work to heal you.
SPEAKER_00: God's already done that work on the cross through the stripes on his back.
SPEAKER_00: His sound has already gone out.
SPEAKER_00: His word has already gone out.
SPEAKER_00: Now it's up to us to say, Lord, I receive that.
SPEAKER_00: I receive that.
SPEAKER_00: Just like I receive your salvation, I receive your healing.
SPEAKER_00: We started praying that regularly, not every night, but every every more frequently than we were before when we're praying our night prayers, even when we're not, even when we're feeling okay, Lord, we receive your healing for every part of our bodies.
SPEAKER_00: For our, you know, we start naming the systems, the immune system, our reproductive, our circulatory, our respiratory.
SPEAKER_00: We start naming our nervous system.
SPEAKER_00: We start naming them because we're we're we're receiving what God has already done for us.
SPEAKER_00: We're receiving that package of healing that He's already sent and already done, and we're saying, no, we're going to get that in our mouth so that we can start seeing the results of it.
SPEAKER_00: Just like Romans, we read last time, Romans 10, 9 and 10.
SPEAKER_00: How was somebody saved?
SPEAKER_00: You believe it in your heart, you confess with your mouth the Lord Jesus, then you'll be saved.
SPEAKER_00: Believe it in your heart, confess it with your mouth, you will be healed.
SPEAKER_00: With the heart, confession is made in salvation, or with the mouth, confession is made in salvation.
SPEAKER_00: Confession is made unto salvation.
SPEAKER_00: Confession is made unto saving, that also includes healing.
SPEAKER_00: And that's when we start to see verses like James 5, the prayer of faith will save the sick.
SPEAKER_00: That word save is translated healed in other places.
SPEAKER_00: So when it says the prayer of faith will save the sick, the prayer of faith will heal the sick.
SPEAKER_00: And we can say that as soon as we start getting that healing, that word that God wants us to be healed and healthy, not just healed when we're when we get sick, but not get sick.
SPEAKER_00: You know, so we're we're gonna work in in and progress where we love testimonies that that something that looked like it was gonna be a very long, hard ordeal and take time and money and expense, and all of a sudden turned into we're good.
SPEAKER_00: That's what we're believing God for.
SPEAKER_00: And the more we start doing it with the sniffle, the the sore thumb, the small things, we start building our faith up, and our heart gets more and more full so that when something else tries to come on and tempt it to feel something different, or the some report says something different.
SPEAKER_00: No, we're not looking at the things we see, we're looking at the things that aren't seen, and we're saying, no, I'm not gonna receive that.
SPEAKER_00: I receive God's healing.
SPEAKER_00: Amen?
SPEAKER_00: That's how we get that's how we start to see this in our lives.
SPEAKER_00: And this can happen with any area of your life that you're that that you want to see God's spirit move mightily in.
SPEAKER_00: With school, work, home life, marriage.
SPEAKER_00: And here's the thing: this is why I just got excited about it.
SPEAKER_00: I won't do my drawing again.
SPEAKER_00: Um, that's okay.
SPEAKER_00: Um this is how Jesus' prayer of thy will be done on earth as it is in heaven.
SPEAKER_00: God's will up in the cloud there is already being done.
SPEAKER_00: He's trying to get his will done on this earth.
SPEAKER_00: The only way that's done is the more hearts it gets into and the more fruit that comes up, and then we start saying it to others.
SPEAKER_00: If our hearts aren't full of salvation, how can I get somebody saved?
SPEAKER_00: If I'm not saved, how can I how can I get somebody saved?
SPEAKER_00: I can't.
SPEAKER_00: If I as my heart is not full of knowing that God wants me healed, how can I tell that to somebody else?
SPEAKER_00: God wants you healed.
SPEAKER_00: I'm like, yeah, right.
SPEAKER_00: Try it yourself, buddy.
SPEAKER_00: You know, and that's kind of a funny example, but that's that's why it's so important for us.
SPEAKER_00: Because if we want to be like the disciples who went around healing others, delivering, casting out demons, we've got to realize that's what God wants for us.
SPEAKER_00: Our heart has to be full of that, it has to be in our mouth.
SPEAKER_00: We believe it, and then it becomes real easy when somebody at work says, Man, I just got diagnosed with whatever.
SPEAKER_00: Let's pray.
SPEAKER_00: Here's what God wants for you.
SPEAKER_00: And we have confidence that that's what God wants.
SPEAKER_00: But we, God, for God to get that done in this earth, we have to have it full in our hearts.
SPEAKER_00: Amen.
SPEAKER_00: So speak the word, sow that seed.
SPEAKER_00: And the more you do it, it's gonna find that good ground, it's gonna take root.
SPEAKER_00: Do this with yourself first.
SPEAKER_00: Do it on your own, but then start doing it with your kids.
SPEAKER_00: Start getting your kids to say something different.
SPEAKER_00: Even if it seems funny or weird to them.
SPEAKER_00: It's like, no, just trust me, say this.
SPEAKER_00: And we've we started doing that with our daughters.
SPEAKER_00: I don't want to, I don't think, or I'm not feeling well.
SPEAKER_00: Here's all I want you to say.
SPEAKER_00: Thank you, Jesus, for my healing.
SPEAKER_00: Ah, but I still feel I don't just say thank you.
SPEAKER_00: They're just voicing what we have voiced in ourselves before.
SPEAKER_00: So it's just they're learning to say, well, that's not what I'm feeling, so why should I say that?
SPEAKER_00: We have to overcome that first, because then we can teach others to do it.
SPEAKER_00: Keep speaking over your kids to them and with them to get the words of God in their mouths and then their hearts too.
SPEAKER_00: So we as a church, we will do this for the next year, for the new year.
SPEAKER_00: Speaking together what we know God wants for us.
SPEAKER_00: Not some empty wish list.
SPEAKER_00: We're not just gonna go, oh, what can we have for this year?
SPEAKER_00: It's not our Santa Claus list.
SPEAKER_00: It's here's what God has spoken to us, here's what we were gonna start saying about it.
SPEAKER_00: We're not gonna put timelines or due dates or anything else on it.
SPEAKER_00: That's another area that people tend to get a little bit off on.
SPEAKER_00: It's like, well, God told me this, and I'm gonna put a deadline by next month.
SPEAKER_00: No, no, no.
SPEAKER_00: If God doesn't give you a deadline, Which he typically doesn't, you look in Scripture, there's not a lot of timelines going on there.
SPEAKER_00: I mean, there's a few, but most prophecies, most words that are spoken out don't have a timeline to it.
SPEAKER_00: And that's going to be the fun part to me about what we get into about Christmas, because we're going to find out that to get what God wanted to happen on this earth, that's the whole reason why God had people speak it in the Old Testament.
SPEAKER_00: It wasn't just to prophesy to foretell it coming, it was to get it to come.
SPEAKER_00: He had to have people say the words to get it to come on this earth over hundreds and thousands of years.
SPEAKER_00: So it works the exact same way with what God wants to have happen on this earth.
SPEAKER_00: We're going to see what God wants for us, our church, our families.
SPEAKER_00: I'm excited.
SPEAKER_00: Amen?
SPEAKER_00: Amen.
SPEAKER_00: Well, let's just say this right now.
SPEAKER_00: God, I receive your word today.
SPEAKER_00: I receive what you have for me to hear today.
SPEAKER_00: And I will see the Spirit of God move mightily in my life, my children, my job, and my church.
SPEAKER_00: Amen.