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I had something else but this morning while I was worshipping and preparing it the Lord just gave me a word, a demo, and said it's your choice. Said it's your choice. It's my choice. It's your choice. Today the Lord says to you it is your choice. Come on, you've got the choice. You've got the power to choose. You see, the devil is playing a narrative where, have you ever heard anyone say, Well, I've got no choice?
SPEAKER_00Right?
SPEAKER_01You know, I've got no choice in this matter. Can I just say that it's a lie from the pit of hell? You need to exercise your authority and to declare against that lie. No, that the Bible says that I have a choice. And so whenever the enemy tries to sit on your shoulder and say, in this situation, uh uh, you've got no choice, you can become babbling with the world, just like Jesus did in the wilderness. It is written and I'm going to show you where it's written in Deuteronomy in chapter 30. Verse 19. You have the choice. Now it's up to you whether you exercise that choice, but he certainly has given you the freedom of that choice to make. And not only that, he backs you up with that choice. Amen. Can anyone say anything about that? It's good news. General 8 chapter 30 in verse 19. Verse 19. Look at this. I call heaven and earth as a witness today against you. What's a witness? What's a witness? When you're in the courts of law and they call for the witness, what are they to do? They're to swear on the Bible that they're going to tell the truth. Can I tell you that the Lord has made heaven and earth as a witness? That's interesting. The earth is to witness. Now it's going to witness against you, or it's going to witness for you. You choose. Look what it says here. I call heaven and earth as a witness. Today against you that I have set before you life and death. Say life and death. Two polar opposites. There's no sickness in life, is there? There's no destruction in life. Where does all those sicknesses and the assignments and the trouble it comes to try to steal from us? It comes from the camp of death. Right? But the Bible says here that the Lord is saying, I have set before you life and death. Blessing and cursing. Therefore. What? Does it say choose? Therefore, you've got no choice. Therefore, you're either going to go down the road of death, or no, no, you could you could possibly go towards life. What happens is we just take, you know, some people put their lives in on automatic mode. I think they're automatically going to go down the life of the road of life and the abundant life and the and the prosperous life. And because they've heard all their life, God's going to bless me. God is going to bless me. And then they put their life on automatic, and then they wonder they come against some sort of child and go, Why is this happening? Because it takes a decision, it takes a choice. When God said this is what I've already set up for you, it's time now to actually enforce that decision and choose the way that you should go. Amen. Therefore, choose life. That both you and your descendants may live. You will live and not die, says the Lord. You shall fulfill the call of God on your life, and you shall prosper beyond measure because he has already gone before you and paved the way, and he's appointed you for seasons of times to establish his kingdom on the earth. So therefore the enemy has no authority to take you out before your time. We have to receive. We have to believe. Genesis four and verse six seven. So the Lord said to Cain. Who knows the story about Ken and Abel? So the Lord said to Cain. Why are you angry? And why has your castle fallen? If you do well, will you not be accepted? And if you do not do well, sin lies at the door. And its desire is for you that you shall rule over it. Say, I shall rule over it. You see, you see that there is a law of life in Christ Jesus that is greater than the law of sin and death. And that when sin comes to knock on your door, you have to put it in remembrance that now I am living by the law of the spirit of life in Christ Jesus. And although before me there's the choice of life and death, I decide to go the way of life. I use my chooser. I use my chooser. 2 Corinthians 5 7, and we said it last week says that we walk by faith and not by sight. See what happens is when we get we get given a situation, we make choices every day, don't we?
SPEAKER_00Yeah.
SPEAKER_01We're what to wear, who to call, which road we're going to take to work. We make choices. But when the Lord says we're to walk by faith and not by sight, he's saying, Don't let your eyes deceive you. Don't let that tunizar when you've got that choice be decided by what your eyes see. He said, when you've got a choice, you can lean towards the arena of faith, or you can lean towards the arena of what your eyes are telling you. Now, your eyes can be telling you good stuff, or they can be lying to you. Because sight is the opposite to faith. Why? Because fear still operates by faith. You're hearing the wrong thing and it grows, and fear can take root. But just as faith is, faith can take fruit. It's done by not what we see. Not by what we see. You see, choosing, and I've got only one key here, choosing requires the singleness of eyes. The singleness of your eye. Singleness of your eye. Go to Matthew chapter six. Choosing requires a singleness of eye. Matthew chapter six and verse 22, and I'm just reading from the King James Version here. The light of the body is the eye. Right? If therefore thine eye be single, thy whole body shall be full of light. That word single is to be focused. To be focused. You see, when we walk by faith and not by sight, it means we we're focusing on one thing alone: the kingdom of God. Now the kingdom of God is what is our focus, and it is supernatural, but it provides for the natural. You've read before where we seek first the kingdom of God. Now seeking requires a choice. Seeking requires a focus. Seeking requires you, if you're seeking, you're looking for something, right? You're looking, you're looking down here, you're looking over here. It requires the use of your eyes. But the Bible is saying here, it needs to be single. Why? Because it is the gateway to the soul. Your eyes is the gateway. That means it's a gate. What do gates do? Gates let you in and gates let you out. Right? Gates, when you when you have a gate, you are you can give someone access, or you can lock that gate and have no access. Right? So the eyes is the gateway to your soul. Now our soul said, Paul said that I wish that you would prosper even as your soul prospers. Well, what happens? We have to be simply not survived. And what happens normally, on some times, and in some cases, we don't mind it. The enemy said, Come, look at this situation. Look at this. This is not lining up with what you're praying about. This over here, look at what's going on, and you're gonna try to get you to sink on the wrong thing. And your eye game is now looking at something which designed, is designed, the enemy's designing this situation for you to focus your eyes on this, and it's gonna trip up your faith. Why? Because you're seeing and not walking by faith. The higher truth is the word of God, but the lower fact, it could be a fact, I'm not denying it, we're not living in fairy land. There's something going on here, right? But what do you choose to put your eyes on? What are you standing and guarding at your gate away with? If God wants to prosper and to heal your soul, why are you looking at destruction?
SPEAKER_00Man.
SPEAKER_01Right? Our eye gate. God helped Abraham in Genesis 22, 17. Blessing, I will bless you. Multiplying, I will multiply you. Your descendants as the stars of the heaven and as the sand, which is on the seashore, and your descendants. Watch this. Your descendants shall possess the gates of your enemy. You are designed to possess your gates. This takes a decision. This takes a decisive choice to possess your gates. You're not at the mercy, you're not at the mercy of the winds and the waves and the doctrines that so easily beset somebody who's not a single mind. When you choose to get up, do you command the morning? Do you say this is the day the Lord is like a shall rejoice? Or do you listen to that voice that's going, oh, is that going to work out for all the time? Oh, your body's in pain. Oh, you're going to this is the greatest. It's too good to be true. What is your mouth and your eyes struggle single?
SPEAKER_00Yeah. Amen.
SPEAKER_01You say we are called to possess the gates. And the gate that we have to possess is our gate. We have the choice, life or death. How do we see it? We see it with our eyes. You're going to make a decision. Now that decision is going to be made either based on the word that you like God to do, or it's going to be based on something that's designed to steal your faith.
SPEAKER_00I know.
SPEAKER_01Jesus said in Matthew 16. Let's go there. Matthew 16. You've heard me say this before, it's probably one of my very famous passages passages. Passenger passages. Matthew 16. Mother, very little food and sleep. You know it. Alright, so Matthew 16 and verse 13. Let's start reading from there. Then Jesus came into the region of Sir Philippi and he asked his disciples, saying, Who do you mean say that I am? The Son of Man. So they said, Some say John the Baptist, some say Elijah, others say Jeremiah, or the one of the prophets. But notice what he notice what Jesus says. Because he comes to challenge us this morning. When we've been given the ability to choose, he's now challenging you, going, so okay, what what what are you wanting me to do for you? What do you want Jesus to do for you? Who is Jesus to you? Now he said to some, yeah, they don't think that. Your mom might say that Jesus is about this. Your super spiritual friend over here says Jesus is about this. But what do you take? What has the Father revealed to you? Where have you pressed him? Where have you sought him to reveal the key to which belongs to you today? You see, he's got a key of the kingdom for you. Stop mooching and trying to get everything, all the keys of somebody else's revelation. God has something for you this morning. He has a key for you this morning. No more mooching.
SPEAKER_00Alright.
SPEAKER_0115. He said to them, but who do you say that I am? Song and Peter answered and said, You are the Christ, the Son of the Living God. Jesus answered, He said, Blessed do you, Son and my job, for flesh and blood has not revealed this to you, but my Father who is in heaven, said life is spiritual. Peter's living an actual life, but the Father from heaven has downloaded the revelation that Jesus, who's gathering his disciples, actually is the Christ, the Messiah, the one that they are looking for, the Messiah, the Savior, and He's going to witness the next three years of being the healer, the deliverer, the provider. Everything that the Father reveals to you is a key for kingdom living in the natural. So we need spiritual keys. Give me the keys this morning. Say, give me the case.
SPEAKER_00Give me the case for that.
SPEAKER_01Sometimes we get we get told by the devil asked you hard to live in God. It's Jim. Look at all the trouble I end up in. I was living in less trouble than I didn't like Jesus. Because you're entering in that you know that was then you're living for him. No, it's not. Because the power of God has been made available to you. The power of Jesus covers you. The mind of God is shut and powerful to you. The revelation and the key that he's given to you causes you to overcome every situation that you choose all within.
SPEAKER_00Thank you, Lord. Just do it.
SPEAKER_01And I say to you, notice the notice this. When the Father gives you a revelation, hold his precious treasure because this is a spiritual key. Notice I told you about the gate. These keys, these keys are to unlock gates. These keys are to close gates. When you recognize the enemy that had in your life, it's time to close that gate. It's time to shut and lock him out in the name of Jesus, right? You've got no access, devil. You've got a choice. Stop allowing the devil run riot over your life. Hallelujah. And I will give you the keys of the kingdom of heaven. Isn't that good news? Who would like keys to the kingdom of heaven? Hallelujah. And whatever you bind, notice this. This key, whatever you bind, is bound in heaven. Whatever you loose is loosened in heaven. It's the same thing as choosing. Whatever you allow, whatever you choose, that is what it's gonna be. What do you who is Jesus to you? Have you allowed a wishy, was she, unbelieving Jesus only heals the other person, but not me. Or do you have a revelation that Jesus wants to do a mighty work through me, upon me, and towards others? Faith. Hallelujah. You see, Jesus is what you allow for me, what you allow, what you allow what the Father has shown me. You see, Paul said, all things are lawful for me, but all things are not helpful. Not all things are helpful. So there's some things that you're gonna have to choose. You're gonna have to ask yourself, Lord, is this helpful for me? Is shaken out before marriage helpful for me? No, it's not, it's designed to destroy and shipwreck your life. The devil is a liar. 1 Corinthians 10 23 says, All things are lawful for me, but not all things are helpful. All things are lawful for me, but not all things edify. So the Father gives you freedom of choice, and we need to be single-minded in our eyes. Right? Go to Hebrews chapter 11. Hebrews chapter 11. And we'll read that famous definition of what faith is. Hallelujah. I preached myself out here this morning. You see, we have to get violent. We have to we really have to um believe God. We have to believe at his word. Either this word is true or it's not. If it's not true, don't come to church. Go to life. But if it is true, come to church and be committed. If it is true, follow it before your heart. Let it prove to you who he is. Let it shorten your life. Let it use you like never before. Now faith is the substance. Say substance. That means it's something tangible. It's something that can that is is you can you can you can see it, but you can't see it. It's it there's a substance to it, it's things hoped for. One of the things in the Marvel says that when hope deferred is deferred makes the heart sick. And so what happens is we've got a hope and a dream from God. But then we start looking with our eye down on the opposite. And what happens is delays. It causes a spirit of delay coming. Yeah. Show off the flower because your eyes are not single anymore. Not choosing life. Faith is the substance of things hoped for, the evidence of things not seen. It's an evidence. It's evidence that God is for you. It's the evidence that God is your healer, it's the evidence that God is your redeemer, it's the evidence that God has a life for you, a life that is for purpose, a life that is not just now, but it's for eternity with him. You see, life is only just a fake on this earth. We're living now in the natural, that life is supernatural. We can only soon translate and move into eternity. But we're gonna serve him for the rest of our lives. And those gifts and the callings are irrevocable. It means they are still in your life. He still calls you up to walking them, he still calls you up to moving them. Yeah, why don't we we get busy with the natural, we get busy being distracted? Well, we're gonna pay attention to the rest of God. If only you knew how powerful the Spirit of God is in you.
SPEAKER_00Yes.
SPEAKER_01If only you knew that you can move a mountain just by speaking to it in the name of Jesus. The earth has been called to witness against you. When the courts of heaven are assembled and the Lord calls up the earth to witness, what's the earth going to say? Is it going to uh confirm where it says in Romans that the earth is groaning for the manifestations of the sons of God so that you can call and reign right now and exert the authority of Christ, and the earth is responding and agreeing and being blessed because of it? Or are you or is the earth gonna say they didn't pay attention to the game here and they came under a spirit of delusion and unbelief, and they just couldn't break through, and then they believed a lie, saying it's impossible. Like they just can't do it. My Bible says that all things are possible to him who believes. Hallelujah, to him who believes. See, by faith, they understood the worlds were framed by the word of God. So that things which are seen, notice that, were not made of things which are visible. What I say last week, the natural, what you see and touch, it's not the reality, it's the unseen. That's the reality. Oh, come on, make a shift. We've got to keep stop looking at the natural with our eyes and start to put a guard over that gate. Put a guard, put a guard over my gate, Lord, over my eye gate. We need to go to war against Ken King. Now, the if the Bible says that you have the authority to possess the gates. How do we do that? Look at Mark 9. Let's go to Mark chapter 9. Mark chapter 9. Is this helping anybody to say? Amen. Mark chapter 9. Verse 17, begin there. Then one of the crowd answered and said, Teacher, I brought you my son who was a mute spirit. And whenever it sees his hand, it throws him down and he throbes at the mouth, gnashes his teeth, and becomes rich. You thought you had some problems. So I spoke to your disciples, and they that they should cast it out, but they could not. So he answered him and said, Oh, faithless generation. I can imagine it's like, oh my gosh, why are you all so calm? Why are you still thinking that life is a natural process? In in nowadays, they're probably medicated, putting them in a mental assignment or dosing them up on you know, whatever it is. You don't medicate demons. You cast them out. Cast them out. Oh faithless generation, how long shall I be with you? How long shall I bear with you? Bring him to me. Then they brought him to him, and when they saw him immediately the spirit convulsed. The kingdom is evident. You see, Jesus went about preaching the kingdom, didn't he? And so here's Jesus. The kingdom is evident. What happens? The darkness has to flee. You see, darkness is not greater than light. It says in John that the darkness does not overcome light. So when the light in you shines, because the eye is the is the gateway to the soul, and your light must uh um come in through the eye gate by being single, the light increases. What happens? Darkness has to flee. Well, what happens? The darkness couldn't stand in his presence, it's starting manifest. Say I'm casting out demons today, Jesus alone. You see, you've been called to deal with the darkness. You've been called to overrule it and to set the captives free. Amen. Then they brought him to him, and then he saw immediately the spirit convulsed him, and he fell on the ground and wallowed from him and the mouth. So he asked his father, how long has this been happening? And he said, From childhood. Some people are carrying around their hurts, their their excuses, you know, being sick for years, explaining them away. Well, it's just natural. That's not, it's spiritual, and it's hard to wake up. Often he has thrown him both into the fire and into the water to destroy him. But if you can do anything, notice that if you can do anything, don't you know? You can do anything, if you can do anything, you know his disciples can do anything. But he's saying to Jesus, you can do it. Because I just witnessed that the fire of the disciples. Maybe you can do it, Jesus. Maybe you can do it. I love Jesus' response here. If you can believe.
SPEAKER_00What do you mean?
SPEAKER_01If you can believe. If you can believe, what did we read in Deuteronomy? Today I set before you life and death. Your choice. You're gonna believe him, or you're gonna be like all the others that accept the the the um mental and physical and whatever report that's going on. You see, when I was a child, I suffered um doctors had no um lymphnosis for it, they had no reason why, but I had sores, itching from top to bottom. I would scratch into my leg, and it was so embarrassing. I didn't like wearing uh summer clothes because it would reveal uh scabs and infections all over my body. It wasn't until I gave my life to Jesus Christ that that curse broke off my life. That devil left my life, and you know, that's 23 years of walking with that. If somebody had told me that I could choose life or death, that this belongs under the curse. It is actually in the curse of Deuteronomy 28, somewhere in those 60 curses, in the in those, uh, in the in the it's there. Jesus went to the cross and he dealt with the curse. Amen. What do we must do? We must enforce that truth. That's true to the devil, get off my body, get off my life, get off the devil in the name of Jesus, the blood of Jesus purchased my freedom, the blood of Jesus heals me today. And I'm telling you, my skin became new. Praise God. And I've got I've got a few stars to remind myself where I came from. I'm not going back to Egypt. Jesus delivers you from Egypt. I'm telling you, he says that you're to come out of Egypt. Don't don't live with the world, don't party with the world, don't take on the world's mindset. Be single-minded and seek him with all your heart and all your and you seek him, prove himself strong on your behalf. You know, sometimes we're just leading to the last minute, we think it's the last resort, go to Jesus, and our life's already a mess. You see, many times the people, people have uh messed up in the world, and the last thing they're gonna try is Jesus. Let it be the first thing we try on church. Amen. Let us run to Jesus first in everything. Hallelujah. Let us teach those around us. Oh, yeah, Jesus, he will fix it, right? What are you gonna do? You're gonna go back into the world and live a calm life, a wicked life of wickedness, or you're gonna honor him and thank him and start to build the kingdom on his behalf. Hallelujah. Let him use you. There is nothing greater than allowing the spirit of power to work through you. Yeah, it's so exciting. Christianity is not boring, it's exciting life. You know, I've been to Eatonia four times, I was thinking about it the other night, just four or five times. And in fact, I said it by myself. By myself! I was begging him, send me, send me, send me. And you know, the Lord is so faithful. The devil tried to tell me what's left you is is put you on the shelf, but the faithfulness of God will be there when you need it. And just the power of God flowing through to set these people free was supernatural. Yeah, I may have lived a natural life, and I may have got a couple of massages, but I was living a supernatural war coming. I'm walking by faith and not by sight. And I see the hand of God moving even greater in this hour. I see that the veil is lifted and we're coming into a new day. But the Spirit of God is pouring out on all flesh says the promises of God. And if anybody wants to come up and believe, it's for them. Yeah, it's for them. Hallelujah. Hallelujah. 23. We're mark 9, let's verse 23. If you can believe all things are possible to him who believes. And notice the response of the Father. He didn't get offended like some Christians when you reveal the truth. Because the Bible says in the end times, many will be offended. You've got to guard the next day. Be humble as a God, reveal to me the next step. Show me where I need real keys. Show me where I need to guard the gate. And this man here, he responded, not with a fence, but with a humble heart saying, Lord, help me believe. Help my unbelief. Yes, I recognize I'm at a place where I'm not believing you here. Help me, God, step up and believe you. Help me, God, to see with the eyes of faith. Help me to start to turn the situation around because you've called me to. You've called me to rule and reign with Christ. You've called me to speak to things and they respond. Come on, the Spirit of God is upon you because He's anointed you to preach the good news to the poor, to send liberty the captives, to bring sight to the blind, to heal the brokenhearted. That's not a boring life. That's an exciting life. I'd rather live that life than go to work every day. Get up, go to work, go home, go to sleep, get up, go to work, go home, go to sleep. That's boring. That's boring to me. Let God use us. I see a day where God is bringing people into his house. And we're seeing deliverances. We're seeing healings. We're seeing the power of God turn up in his house. Hallelujah. Who's believing with me? Yes. Amen. Hallelujah. You see, the Holy Spirit is faithful. What do we have to do? Let's go back to deuteronomy, chapter three. I call heaven and earth as a witness today against you. That I have set before you life and death. Blessing and cursing. Therefore, choose life. It's not just for you, it's for you and your resilience. We must possess the gates. The Bible says the gates of hell not pround against your eye. When has the enemy have ground your eyes? It's time to kick him out. It's time to possess those bats. I feel faith has been pounded into your heart. I feel a strength of the Holy Spirit in your body this morning. I see that God has given you a strength to get up and stand up and fight for him. Amen? Who believes that?
SPEAKER_00Yes.
SPEAKER_01Well, Father, let's all stand and thank him this morning. Let's put your head and seal it with the blood of the land. Oh, you just win.