WEBVTT 00:00:00.385 --> 00:00:01.558 Let's get into the word tonight. 00:00:01.558 --> 00:00:03.528 Would you pick up your Bible and wave it around? 00:00:03.528 --> 00:00:04.740 That's our custom around here. 00:00:04.740 --> 00:00:11.513 We like to wave our Bibles around, remind ourselves that the Word is the main thing, make Jesus glad and the devil mad. 00:00:11.513 --> 00:00:27.228 Let's say this together Say Heavenly Father I've tuned in tonight to live stream because I want life and I know the life is in the Word Show me a revelation that will change my life. 00:00:27.228 --> 00:00:29.425 I have a willing heart. 00:00:29.425 --> 00:00:34.969 I'm willing to make changes, I'm willing to make corrections in my thinking. 00:00:34.969 --> 00:00:42.624 Many times, lord, I know I admit that my own thinking is standing between me and the blessing. 00:00:42.624 --> 00:00:50.122 So tonight I thank you for renewing my mind with the Word of God in Jesus' name, amen. 00:00:51.420 --> 00:00:55.871 And let's turn in our Bibles to a book of Isaiah, chapter 55. 00:00:55.871 --> 00:01:02.234 And read a couple of verses here, starting with verse 10. 00:01:02.234 --> 00:01:07.691 And the prophet is speaking for God. 00:01:07.691 --> 00:01:26.831 And he's saying in verse 10, for as the rain cometh down from heaven and the snow and returns not fither but water at the earth and make it bring forth in bud, and that it may give seed to the sower and bread to the eater, so shall my Word be that goeth forth out of my mouth. 00:01:26.831 --> 00:01:39.091 It shall not return unto me, void, but it shall accomplish that which I please, and it shall prosper in the thing where too, I sent it. 00:01:39.091 --> 00:02:00.105 And so, and then in Jeremiah, just a few pages over to the right Jeremiah chapter, one another prophet of God says this then said the Lord unto me, thou hast well seen, for I will hasten my Word to perform it. 00:02:00.105 --> 00:02:07.070 Another version says I will hasten, I will watch over my Word to make it come to pass. 00:02:07.070 --> 00:02:14.469 I watch over my Word to carry it out, to put it into effect, to do it. 00:02:14.469 --> 00:02:20.019 And so tonight I wanted to talk about sending the Word. 00:02:20.019 --> 00:02:26.506 That's exactly what God said he sends the Word, and when he sends the Word, it accomplishes something. 00:02:26.506 --> 00:02:28.368 It doesn't come back, void. 00:02:28.368 --> 00:02:33.560 It doesn't come back and say, oh, I know you sent us to do this, but we didn't get it done. 00:02:33.560 --> 00:02:39.286 No, the Word will get the job done, and you know back. 00:02:39.286 --> 00:02:49.707 It's been now 18 years ago, almost 18 years ago, when we were pouring the slab on this building and God spoke to me. 00:02:49.747 --> 00:02:56.653 I went away to pray December of 2003, and we were looking forward to moving in. 00:02:56.653 --> 00:03:08.328 We finished by May of 04, moved into this building, phase One, and I went away to Galveston and the Lord spoke something very strange to me at the time. 00:03:08.328 --> 00:03:10.007 He said there's a dearth of the Word. 00:03:10.007 --> 00:03:15.368 And I knew it was God speaking to me, but I didn't understand what he was saying. 00:03:15.368 --> 00:03:17.347 I said, lord, I don't understand that. 00:03:17.347 --> 00:03:19.164 The word dearth means famine. 00:03:19.164 --> 00:03:20.489 It's an Old Testament word. 00:03:20.489 --> 00:03:24.087 How could there be a famine of the Word? 00:03:24.087 --> 00:03:31.388 There's more churches existing today than ever before and not all of them are good churches, but some of them, you know, some of them are certainly like ours. 00:03:31.479 --> 00:03:32.304 It preached the Word. 00:03:32.304 --> 00:03:34.927 How can there be a dearth of the Word? 00:03:34.927 --> 00:03:40.106 And he just simply said your children don't know what you knew, what you know. 00:03:40.106 --> 00:03:45.405 And of course I knew he wasn't talking about my personal children, he was talking about the next generation. 00:03:45.405 --> 00:04:00.807 And of course we have learned at that over the last many years that there is a huge gap in revelation about what the Word means, what it says, whether it's really God's Word is true. 00:04:00.807 --> 00:04:25.072 I mean there's a huge gap and it's because there are so many contrary voices, so much deception, and so when we look at that, over the years I've really meditated on that statement because I knew the Lord had spoken it to me for me to do my part and I took the responsibility for being more direct about what I preach. 00:04:26.220 --> 00:04:29.985 And one of the times right after that, he said you know you need to preach more what you take for granted. 00:04:29.985 --> 00:04:43.949 And you know, sometimes preachers want to preach something fancy, something new, something exciting, when really what we need to do is drill down what the Word says and what we take for granted is knowledge. 00:04:43.949 --> 00:04:49.428 A lot of people haven't even heard it the first time, and so God delivered me from the fear of repetition. 00:04:49.428 --> 00:04:58.827 I've preached this Word many times, this same exact message many times, but it is worth listening, because the Word is both seed and water. 00:04:58.827 --> 00:05:04.264 If you've never heard this approach to the Word before, then it's seed. 00:05:04.264 --> 00:05:08.266 If you've heard it, then it's water for the faith that you already have. 00:05:09.339 --> 00:05:23.790 But I came to realize it's not just on the preaching side that there's a dearth of the Word, but there is a dearth of the Word on the sowing side, or the speaking side, or we could say the sending side. 00:05:23.790 --> 00:05:28.524 A lot of believers don't just send the Word the way God does. 00:05:28.524 --> 00:05:32.362 You know, god never panics, god never. 00:05:32.362 --> 00:05:33.165 You know. 00:05:33.165 --> 00:05:47.247 He's just not at a loss and we're not God, but we're in the God class of being, and so God's Word in our mouth will accomplish what we say, just the same way as God's Word in His mouth accomplishes what he pleases. 00:05:48.560 --> 00:05:55.240 And so, a couple of years after that Word that I got, I went. 00:05:55.240 --> 00:06:07.560 I heard the brother of Oral Roberts and I heard that he had had a corrective Word for the body of Christ and it was called the wake up call, and I'd never, ever heard him correct the church like that. 00:06:07.560 --> 00:06:10.805 He's always been a very encouraging, uplifting type of preacher. 00:06:10.805 --> 00:06:20.625 God's gonna do something good for you today I mean, that was his hallmark and for him to say some of the things he would say it about the church. 00:06:20.625 --> 00:06:28.250 And one of the things that he said was that there is a wasting of power in the church. 00:06:28.250 --> 00:06:34.403 Very powerful statement, and I lined that up with the dearth of the Word and I could see it very. 00:06:34.403 --> 00:06:56.250 I mean, I absolutely knew that that was a confirmation of what I'd heard a couple of years before that, and what a waste it is for us to have this power in our mouth, that God has delivered up to us His Word on every subject we need to have it on so that we too can send the Word and get results. 00:06:58.220 --> 00:07:00.569 So many times, I think we, you know, want to pray. 00:07:00.569 --> 00:07:01.723 We gotta beg God. 00:07:01.723 --> 00:07:07.208 Let's ask God to do this, let's ask God to do that when we have the power to send the Word. 00:07:07.208 --> 00:07:10.584 You know, we send letters, we send emails, we send text messages. 00:07:10.584 --> 00:07:17.728 Maybe we need to learn how to send the Word more consistently, and there's always a time for prayer. 00:07:17.728 --> 00:07:24.447 But prayer is more about communing with God rather than begging God to change things. 00:07:24.447 --> 00:07:26.107 Let's change things with the Word. 00:07:26.107 --> 00:07:30.290 Let's send the Word to our circumstances. 00:07:32.560 --> 00:07:33.985 So here in Isaiah 55, god sends the Word. 00:07:33.985 --> 00:07:38.971 He, god, changes and creates by sending the Word. 00:07:38.971 --> 00:07:47.310 You know, anytime God wants to change a man or a woman, he will send the Word to them to change what they say. 00:07:47.310 --> 00:07:56.485 And when he can get a man or a woman on the earth to change what they say and say the same thing as he's saying, in other words, to confess the Word. 00:07:56.485 --> 00:07:59.848 So my greatest example, I think, of that is Abraham. 00:08:00.079 --> 00:08:11.086 Abraham was first Abram, but God changed his name, you know, when he's 99 years old, and said now you're no longer Abram, you're Abraham, the father of many nations. 00:08:11.086 --> 00:08:12.108 I have made thee. 00:08:12.108 --> 00:08:20.730 And so as soon as Abraham and Sarah started identifying with their new names and started speaking their new names. 00:08:20.730 --> 00:08:33.504 I mean, they sent the Word to their bodies, they sent the Word to their minds and they conceived a child in their old age and that child's name was, you know, he became Israel. 00:08:33.504 --> 00:08:38.307 I mean, you know, praise God, isaac, and so Isaac means laughter. 00:08:38.307 --> 00:08:48.480 So we absolutely his Word will not come back to him void. 00:08:48.480 --> 00:08:53.424 Well, if it won't come back to him void, it then won't come back to you void. 00:08:53.424 --> 00:08:57.610 You know the old Elvis song that he sang back in fifties. 00:08:57.610 --> 00:08:57.921 You know. 00:08:57.921 --> 00:09:02.841 Return to sender address unknown, you know. 00:09:02.841 --> 00:09:08.667 So you know it's I don't know, we don't see that very much anymore again, because people don't send letters very often. 00:09:08.667 --> 00:09:12.527 But if you have the wrong address, you know there's nobody at that address. 00:09:12.527 --> 00:09:18.546 You'll get that letter back, you know, and it says return to sender on there because they couldn't deliver your mail. 00:09:19.600 --> 00:09:21.246 Well, it never happens with God's Word. 00:09:21.246 --> 00:09:27.671 When you send God's Word with faith in your heart and you speak it forth, it accomplishes what you please. 00:09:27.671 --> 00:09:33.508 It never comes back and says, oh, too late, the Word just isn't gonna work in this circumstance. 00:09:33.508 --> 00:09:36.288 No, the Word always works in every circumstance. 00:09:36.288 --> 00:09:47.087 So it accomplishes what he pleases, then it accomplishes what we please, it prospers in the situation, the person, our thing to which it is sent. 00:09:47.087 --> 00:09:54.919 It makes all the difference and the Bible says in Jeremiah that God himself watches over his Word. 00:09:54.919 --> 00:09:56.460 You know the minute we send it. 00:09:57.125 --> 00:10:03.559 It's not like we're all by ourself when we send the Word to a situation, to a circumstance. 00:10:03.559 --> 00:10:12.519 You know, brother Roberts had that Word for the church that there's a wasting of power in the church. 00:10:12.519 --> 00:10:16.779 When I heard that I knew it was confirmation of that dearth of the Word. 00:10:16.779 --> 00:10:31.440 I mean how much power has been lost because the church has failed to value God's Word and to use it as power against the circumstances they face, whether it's health or finances or whatever. 00:10:31.440 --> 00:10:33.485 What a wasting of power. 00:10:33.485 --> 00:10:47.360 When God has given us his Word to send to the situations that we have in front of us, it's just like when it's God's Word in his mouth accomplishes what he pleases, it prospers in the thing that he sends it to. 00:10:47.360 --> 00:10:48.655 It's the same with us. 00:10:48.655 --> 00:10:56.533 It accomplishes what we please, it prospers and changes the thing to which we send it. 00:10:56.533 --> 00:11:07.890 And so when we begin to realize that the power of the Word, there's a gaining, then a gaining of power back in the church that the church dearly needs right now. 00:11:08.788 --> 00:11:13.744 I'm not saying there's not a time to pray, I mean, but our idea of prayer needs to be transformed, though. 00:11:13.744 --> 00:11:18.320 So many believers just pray and beg God to do things he's already done. 00:11:18.320 --> 00:11:19.899 Oh God, please heal me. 00:11:19.899 --> 00:11:22.039 Oh God, help me with my finances. 00:11:22.039 --> 00:11:23.567 Well, god's already. 00:11:23.567 --> 00:11:26.984 He's already redeemed you from poverty and lack. 00:11:26.984 --> 00:11:29.471 He's already redeemed you from sickness and disease. 00:11:29.471 --> 00:11:39.153 So we're praying about things that we ought to be sending the Word to those circumstances, instead of praying about them and begging God to do something he's already done. 00:11:39.153 --> 00:11:40.379 So there, what is that? 00:11:40.379 --> 00:11:42.179 That's a wasting of power. 00:11:42.179 --> 00:11:47.980 And so, you know, back along that period of time, god began to encourage me. 00:11:47.980 --> 00:11:51.488 See, he said you know you need to preach the things you take for granted. 00:11:51.488 --> 00:11:52.860 Preach and teach those things. 00:11:52.860 --> 00:12:00.205 Preach and teach them over and over, because you have new people that are coming into more understanding of the Word and they need to hear what you're saying. 00:12:00.205 --> 00:12:03.399 And so God delivered me from the fear of repetition. 00:12:03.399 --> 00:12:06.828 And so I guess. 00:12:07.591 --> 00:12:14.658 So here in Jeremiah says he watches over his word to perform it or to put it into effect. 00:12:14.658 --> 00:12:18.759 Say you're not by yourself when you send the word out there. 00:12:18.759 --> 00:12:26.602 God himself watches over that word until it gets to the destination and then he watches it change that situation. 00:12:26.602 --> 00:12:34.230 He watches it, he puts it into effect, but your job is to speak it and his job is to watch over it. 00:12:34.230 --> 00:12:35.178 Isn't that powerful? 00:12:35.178 --> 00:12:37.995 I mean so powerful You're not by yourself. 00:12:37.995 --> 00:12:40.998 Well, it just seems like I'm speaking into the air. 00:12:40.998 --> 00:12:42.657 Well, quit going by what it seems like. 00:12:42.657 --> 00:12:49.177 Just take the word for what it says and begin to speak the word to your situations that you have. 00:12:50.669 --> 00:12:54.020 You know, the greatest example that Jesus, god sent Jesus. 00:12:54.020 --> 00:12:55.049 You know, didn't he? 00:12:55.049 --> 00:12:59.160 He sent you know, as the Father has sent me, so send I you. 00:12:59.160 --> 00:13:01.309 That's what he told the disciples. 00:13:01.309 --> 00:13:07.474 So God sent Jesus the word, and how many of you know he made a big difference in all our lives. 00:13:07.474 --> 00:13:08.594 I'm so glad. 00:13:08.594 --> 00:13:09.774 I mean he did. 00:13:09.774 --> 00:13:14.919 You know, jesus the word didn't return back to God void and say, no, griner's a hopeless case. 00:13:14.919 --> 00:13:16.409 He didn't get saved too bad. 00:13:16.409 --> 00:13:18.176 No, I got saved. 00:13:18.176 --> 00:13:21.197 I'm here tonight because the word works. 00:13:23.389 --> 00:13:28.370 So let's look at James, chapter three, the apostle James. 00:13:28.370 --> 00:13:29.929 You know he was a little late to the party. 00:13:29.929 --> 00:13:36.495 You know he's the Lord's brother and he wasn't an early adopter, he of Jesus. 00:13:36.495 --> 00:13:39.974 At first he doubted Jesus, like the rest of the family. 00:13:39.974 --> 00:13:55.206 But he eventually came around and in James chapter three, in fact, he was the head of the church at Jerusalem, and so he, he, he fully joined into what Jesus came to do. 00:13:56.270 --> 00:14:07.556 And James, chapter three, he talks about the power of words, and in verse five he said even so, the tongue is a little member in both great things. 00:14:07.556 --> 00:14:15.414 Behold how great a matter a little fire kindled, and the tongue is a fire. 00:14:15.414 --> 00:14:16.820 A world of iniquity. 00:14:16.820 --> 00:14:25.261 So is the tongue among our members that it defiles the whole body and sets on fire the course of nature. 00:14:25.261 --> 00:14:29.981 The NLT says it can set your whole life on fire. 00:14:31.730 --> 00:14:42.643 And, and so James is coming at it from the negative, he's coming at it from the power of words being the negative side. 00:14:42.643 --> 00:14:45.115 And that's true. 00:14:45.115 --> 00:14:49.402 I mean, he said just take a little kindling, a little kindling. 00:14:49.402 --> 00:14:49.970 What's kindling? 00:14:49.970 --> 00:14:51.796 It's little small pieces of wood. 00:14:51.796 --> 00:14:57.481 You ever wonder why California has so many devastating fires? 00:14:57.481 --> 00:15:15.475 It's because they don't spend any money on forest management and they let the trees grow and grow and grow and they shed dead limbs and then the trees die in the forest and they don't clean them up, they don't do anything, and so then all it takes is a lightning strike that kindles a little fire. 00:15:15.475 --> 00:15:21.535 A little old bit of straw, a little old bit of kindling can burn an entire forest down. 00:15:22.570 --> 00:15:32.038 And so he's talking about little words, words that seem so insignificant in your mouth, against your big forest fire. 00:15:32.038 --> 00:15:38.071 Well, you can start a forest fire, but you can put a forest fire out with words, see. 00:15:38.071 --> 00:15:41.375 So let's turn around the negative and make it the positive side. 00:15:41.375 --> 00:15:43.475 It's the same power. 00:15:43.475 --> 00:15:45.216 He's talking about the power of destruction. 00:15:45.216 --> 00:15:48.418 I'm talking about the creative power of words. 00:15:48.418 --> 00:15:55.457 I'm talking about the power of words to change things for the better, change things for what God has got in mind for you. 00:15:55.457 --> 00:15:57.951 Yeah, it's true, you can. 00:15:57.951 --> 00:16:00.572 You know, death and life are in the power of the tongue. 00:16:00.572 --> 00:16:02.158 Proverbs 18, 21. 00:16:02.158 --> 00:16:07.778 Yeah, you can burn your life down, you can set your whole world on fire with the wrong words. 00:16:07.778 --> 00:16:18.779 But let's, tonight, for just for the message sake, let's turn that around and realize how much good we can do when we speak God's Word into our situations. 00:16:18.779 --> 00:16:25.914 It can be transformative, and it will be, if we just simply believe it in our hearts and speak it with our mouth. 00:16:29.649 --> 00:16:32.849 And then, when we do speak it again Jeremiah 112,. 00:16:32.849 --> 00:16:39.720 God is there to watch over what we've said to make sure it's carried into effect. 00:16:39.720 --> 00:16:56.259 In Hebrews, in Hebrews, chapter three, it talks about how Jesus is our high priest and he administers, executes, implements and carries into effect the Word that we send. 00:16:56.259 --> 00:17:00.134 That's what Jesus is doing at the right hand of the Father right now. 00:17:00.134 --> 00:17:09.978 Jesus is watching over our words to do what To administer, to execute, to implement and to carry them into effect. 00:17:09.978 --> 00:17:12.520 That's exactly what Jeremiah 112 says. 00:17:12.520 --> 00:17:19.335 And so Jesus, our high priest, he's the high priest of what our profession or our confession. 00:17:19.335 --> 00:17:25.820 That's why, when we speak the same thing, when we speak the Word, I mean it's so powerful. 00:17:25.820 --> 00:17:39.377 It may seem like you're speaking words against a hurricane or a forest fire or something, a tsunami or something like that, but listen, the Word in your mouth will accomplish what you please, what you desire. 00:17:39.377 --> 00:17:42.739 It will prosper in the thing where, too, you send it. 00:17:42.739 --> 00:17:44.737 So we need to send the Word. 00:17:44.737 --> 00:17:49.355 Let's send the Word, let's not be derelict in sending the Word. 00:17:49.355 --> 00:17:49.957 Amen. 00:17:52.329 --> 00:18:10.020 I think about in Acts 1044, when Peter is preaching to Cornelius's house, and Cornelius gathered all of his family and his near kinsmen and a lot of friends, and so they had a big old crowd of Jewish people and he's preaching the gospel to them. 00:18:10.020 --> 00:18:15.358 And it says, while Peter yet spake, the Holy Ghost fell on all of them that heard the Word. 00:18:15.358 --> 00:18:16.741 And how did they know? 00:18:16.741 --> 00:18:20.316 Because they all began to speak in other tongues Right in the middle of his message. 00:18:20.316 --> 00:18:22.036 He was just getting to the crescendo. 00:18:22.036 --> 00:18:26.000 He was just getting to the point that he was gonna make. 00:18:26.000 --> 00:18:27.835 He was wound up in preaching. 00:18:27.835 --> 00:18:32.778 Then he had a good audience and the first thing, you know, the whole crowd started speaking in other tongues. 00:18:32.778 --> 00:18:40.115 He didn't have an altar call, he didn't have 10 repetitions of just as I am and all of that kind of stuff. 00:18:40.115 --> 00:18:41.756 I didn't have a choir singing. 00:18:41.756 --> 00:18:49.037 I mean just they heard the Word and the Holy Ghost fell on all of them and they all began to speak in other tongues. 00:18:49.037 --> 00:18:52.817 So somewhere during the message they got saved. 00:18:52.817 --> 00:18:54.957 You can't get the Holy Ghost until you get saved. 00:18:54.957 --> 00:18:59.836 So they got saved and filled with the Holy Ghost, and all because they heard the Word. 00:19:00.750 --> 00:19:02.557 I mean, are your circumstances here in the Word? 00:19:02.557 --> 00:19:03.880 Is your body here in the Word? 00:19:03.880 --> 00:19:05.636 Is your brain here in the Word? 00:19:05.636 --> 00:19:07.055 You know we need to send the Word. 00:19:07.055 --> 00:19:12.696 So tonight I've just got some things to remind you about sending the Word. 00:19:13.630 --> 00:19:15.218 Number one send the Word in prayer. 00:19:15.218 --> 00:19:26.535 Pray the Word Instead of praying these begging gosh, forsaken, terrible, you know, just complaints masquerading as prayers. 00:19:26.535 --> 00:19:29.327 Let's pray the word. 00:19:29.327 --> 00:19:34.192 Ephesians, chapter one, you know verses 14 through 22,. 00:19:34.192 --> 00:19:41.375 Or Ephesians three, 16 through 20, philippians one nine through 11, colossians one nine. 00:19:41.375 --> 00:19:46.631 All those prayers are Holy spirit inspired prayers in your Bible and many others. 00:19:46.631 --> 00:19:48.531 I just wrote down a few. 00:19:50.224 --> 00:19:57.218 I made it a point one time to go through all the word where I could find, where it was, mostly Paul, but Peter has something too. 00:19:57.218 --> 00:20:05.769 And these are Holy ghost inspired prayers that are written down in the epistles for us to pray for ourselves and others. 00:20:05.769 --> 00:20:14.929 And you can be sure that God is listening and hearing those prayers and he's bringing those prayers to pass in your life If you're praying them for you. 00:20:14.929 --> 00:20:19.009 He's bringing them to pass in your loved one's life if you're praying for someone else. 00:20:19.009 --> 00:20:22.145 So send the word in prayer so you quit. 00:20:22.145 --> 00:20:25.868 Get out of the habit of begging God to do everything. 00:20:25.868 --> 00:20:28.252 Oh God, I need this. 00:20:28.252 --> 00:20:29.390 Oh God, help me. 00:20:29.390 --> 00:20:32.453 Oh, you know that's a baby Christian kind of prayer. 00:20:32.453 --> 00:20:33.296 Let's grow up. 00:20:33.296 --> 00:20:36.355 It's time to grow up and send the word for ourselves. 00:20:36.444 --> 00:20:44.095 We have the word, send it, send it in prayer and then, of course, send the word to your body, to your flesh. 00:20:44.095 --> 00:20:50.390 I mean rule your body, cleanse your body, make it obey you. 00:20:50.390 --> 00:20:54.553 See, you are not your flesh, you are a spirit. 00:20:54.553 --> 00:20:55.630 No one has ever seen you. 00:20:55.630 --> 00:20:58.530 They see your outward man. 00:20:58.530 --> 00:21:00.570 Peter called it an outward man. 00:21:00.570 --> 00:21:03.153 Yeah, they seem to outward man, but that's not really you. 00:21:03.153 --> 00:21:05.010 It's the hidden man of the heart. 00:21:05.010 --> 00:21:05.613 That's really you. 00:21:05.613 --> 00:21:09.997 The hidden man of the heart is Paul called it the hidden man of the heart. 00:21:09.997 --> 00:21:11.351 That's the part that's saved. 00:21:11.351 --> 00:21:12.912 That's the part that's gonna live forever. 00:21:12.912 --> 00:21:20.468 That's the part that, when our body is worn out, our spirit says you know, this body is no longer suitable for my home. 00:21:20.468 --> 00:21:23.173 I'm gonna lay this body down and I'm gonna go to heaven. 00:21:23.173 --> 00:21:24.067 See, that's you. 00:21:24.067 --> 00:21:25.593 That's the real you. 00:21:25.593 --> 00:21:26.709 Nobody's ever seen you. 00:21:26.709 --> 00:21:27.932 God's seen you. 00:21:27.932 --> 00:21:28.928 God looks on the heart. 00:21:28.928 --> 00:21:31.470 So he sees you, but no one else has ever seen you. 00:21:31.470 --> 00:21:36.055 And so you can rule your body. 00:21:36.055 --> 00:21:39.755 You can rule and cleanse your body. 00:21:39.755 --> 00:21:44.746 If you can't, your body wants to do things it shouldn't do, well, cleanse it in Jesus' name, you know. 00:21:45.087 --> 00:21:47.750 Let's look at a few of these verses in Romans, chapter six. 00:21:47.750 --> 00:21:51.828 I pray this often I speak to my body. 00:21:51.828 --> 00:21:57.337 It says here Romans six 13. 00:21:57.337 --> 00:22:08.493 Neither yield your members as instruments of unrighteousness unto sin, but yield yourselves unto God. 00:22:08.493 --> 00:22:10.112 And what does it mean, your instruments? 00:22:10.112 --> 00:22:13.334 Well, it means your hands, your feet, your eyes, your ears. 00:22:13.334 --> 00:22:19.290 Yeah, every now and then it'd be good to just tell the devil look, devil, these right here do they look like garbage cans? 00:22:19.290 --> 00:22:21.432 These are not here to hear a bunch of gossip. 00:22:21.432 --> 00:22:23.030 These are not here to hear a filth. 00:22:23.030 --> 00:22:24.608 See these eyes. 00:22:24.608 --> 00:22:26.034 These are the windows of my soul. 00:22:26.034 --> 00:22:27.609 They're not here to look on evil. 00:22:27.609 --> 00:22:33.732 See, sometimes you just gotta let the devil know and let your flesh know who's in charge, who is in charge. 00:22:33.732 --> 00:22:52.133 You are your spirit and don't yield those parts of your body to the devil to have, but yield yourselves unto God as those that are alive from the dead, and your members as instruments of righteousness. 00:22:52.133 --> 00:22:54.050 The word instrument there means weapon. 00:22:54.050 --> 00:23:02.497 Your body can be a weapon of righteousness instead of an instrument of sin and degradation. 00:23:02.497 --> 00:23:04.630 Quit giving yourself permission. 00:23:04.630 --> 00:23:07.173 Don't give your flesh permission to rule. 00:23:07.173 --> 00:23:08.730 You rule, etsy. 00:23:08.730 --> 00:23:10.890 Send the word to your flesh. 00:23:12.184 --> 00:23:13.771 Sometimes I have to speak to my health. 00:23:13.771 --> 00:23:14.890 I have to speak to my heart. 00:23:14.890 --> 00:23:17.513 I say heart, you line up in Jesus' name. 00:23:17.513 --> 00:23:18.970 You beat with a sinus rhythm. 00:23:18.970 --> 00:23:23.929 You pulse rate I command you to get down to 75, beats a minute resting. 00:23:23.929 --> 00:23:24.510 Pulse rate. 00:23:25.704 --> 00:23:27.992 Recently I had a elevated pulse rate. 00:23:27.992 --> 00:23:29.451 It got up to 125. 00:23:29.451 --> 00:23:32.528 I get up out of bed first thing in the morning, go check my blood pressure. 00:23:32.528 --> 00:23:35.269 125 pulse rate that's ridiculous. 00:23:35.269 --> 00:23:38.628 I could hear my whole body is reverberating with my heartbeat. 00:23:38.628 --> 00:23:40.128 I knew that wasn't right. 00:23:40.128 --> 00:23:47.958 Why so I ruled over it, I said no to it, I resisted it and I finally got it down to 88 and then it just kept on falling. 00:23:47.958 --> 00:23:49.319 Now it's at 75 and I'm just. 00:23:49.319 --> 00:23:51.372 You know, I have to rule my body. 00:23:51.585 --> 00:23:52.589 See, what do you do? 00:23:52.589 --> 00:23:53.810 You send the word to it. 00:23:53.810 --> 00:23:55.826 Praise God, amen. 00:23:55.826 --> 00:23:58.211 I pray you're getting something out of this. 00:23:58.211 --> 00:24:01.330 If you've heard it before, let this be water for your faith. 00:24:01.330 --> 00:24:02.734 Let it be a reminder. 00:24:02.734 --> 00:24:09.412 If you've never heard it, millions of Christians have never done what I'm preaching here tonight and we have new people watching us. 00:24:09.412 --> 00:24:10.528 From all over the world. 00:24:10.528 --> 00:24:14.734 People are calling hey, can you come to my conference in Pakistan? 00:24:14.734 --> 00:24:15.729 Well, no, I can't. 00:24:15.729 --> 00:24:19.913 Can you come and be a speaker in Afghanistan? 00:24:19.913 --> 00:24:20.596 No, I can't. 00:24:20.596 --> 00:24:23.093 I just not on my list of things to do. 00:24:23.093 --> 00:24:26.828 But you can tap into what we're saying right here and get a lot out of it. 00:24:26.828 --> 00:24:28.769 That is, if you understand English. 00:24:28.769 --> 00:24:32.211 Amen, all right. 00:24:32.271 --> 00:24:37.772 So send the word in prayer, send the word to your flesh, send the word to your squirrely mind. 00:24:37.772 --> 00:24:41.535 You know our minds need to be renewed with the word of God. 00:24:41.535 --> 00:24:42.196 So what do you do? 00:24:42.196 --> 00:24:43.529 Send the word to your mind. 00:24:43.529 --> 00:24:45.210 In other words, think the word. 00:24:45.210 --> 00:25:00.429 Quit thinking all these other thoughts, these vain thoughts, meditating on useless things, and spend time every day meditating on the word, thinking the word, turning the word over and over in your mind. 00:25:00.429 --> 00:25:05.912 And Romans 12 to be transformed by the renewing of your mind. 00:25:08.164 --> 00:25:15.888 Years ago, I was preaching that word and after I got home, the Lord says you know, you use that word as it's written in the King James. 00:25:15.888 --> 00:25:23.873 But he said really, it's a refreshing, and sometimes people know what the word is, but they need to be refreshed in the word. 00:25:23.873 --> 00:25:28.253 See, you know just because you've read the Bible through many times. 00:25:28.253 --> 00:25:29.285 I know people like this. 00:25:29.285 --> 00:25:33.545 They've read the Bible many times and then they think they know what's in it so they never read it again. 00:25:33.545 --> 00:25:35.792 No, you're gonna lose. 00:25:35.792 --> 00:25:38.065 You need to read the Bible every day. 00:25:38.065 --> 00:25:43.376 You need to program your thinking with God's word every day, every day. 00:25:43.376 --> 00:25:48.031 Well, I just don't have time, but then you don't have time to be successful. 00:25:48.031 --> 00:25:55.031 You don't have time to have victory then, because it's the key, especially now we're surrounded by deception. 00:25:56.326 --> 00:25:58.384 Philippians 4-8 tells you what to think about. 00:25:58.384 --> 00:26:04.318 What sort of things are pure, what sort of things are lovely, if there be any virtue, if there be any praise. 00:26:04.318 --> 00:26:05.265 Think on these things. 00:26:05.265 --> 00:26:08.285 Think the word, think according to the word. 00:26:08.285 --> 00:26:20.364 Second, corinthians 10 talks about bringing every thought in captivity, the obedience of Christ, pulling down every strong goal, casting down every imagination that exalts itself against the knowledge of God. 00:26:20.605 --> 00:26:25.173 Have you ever had a negative thought that just turned into a full length feature movie? 00:26:25.173 --> 00:26:37.159 And sometimes the devil if we don't pay attention, he can have us just thinking bad thoughts, thoughts of victimization, victimhood. 00:26:37.159 --> 00:26:39.553 There's so many victims in our country today. 00:26:39.553 --> 00:26:42.292 All they can think about is how bad they have it. 00:26:42.292 --> 00:26:48.911 All they would need to do is live somewhere like Afghanistan, live somewhere like some of these other countries. 00:26:48.911 --> 00:26:51.227 You'd know how good you have it If you're. 00:26:51.227 --> 00:26:53.625 I mean there's just no place like America. 00:26:53.625 --> 00:26:57.749 Why else do people die crossing the border trying to get in here? 00:26:57.749 --> 00:27:00.532 They're not trying to get here because it's so bad. 00:27:00.532 --> 00:27:02.290 They're trying to get here because it's so good. 00:27:02.290 --> 00:27:05.346 And you know it's just so. 00:27:05.346 --> 00:27:08.106 These people have programmed their mind in the negative. 00:27:08.146 --> 00:27:14.384 Let's reprogram to the positive and then finally send the word to your circumstances. 00:27:14.384 --> 00:27:15.269 We all have them. 00:27:15.269 --> 00:27:19.095 We all have things that rise up and attack us. 00:27:19.095 --> 00:27:27.292 Maybe it's in our flesh and our health, maybe it's in our finances, maybe it's in our marriages, maybe it's in our home life. 00:27:27.292 --> 00:27:31.633 Maybe we're having trouble with a child, or maybe there's all kinds of trouble. 00:27:31.633 --> 00:27:36.125 Maybe you're having trouble on the job, maybe at the office it's. 00:27:36.125 --> 00:27:37.590 You know these kinds of things. 00:27:37.590 --> 00:27:40.170 Rise up, send the word. 00:27:40.170 --> 00:27:46.045 Instead of having a pity party, instead of just blabbering to God about how bad you have it. 00:27:47.369 --> 00:27:51.313 Look, let's get the word of God and send the word to that circumstance. 00:27:51.313 --> 00:27:52.236 And watch God. 00:27:52.236 --> 00:27:55.192 He will watch over it to bring it to pass. 00:27:55.192 --> 00:27:57.189 He won't stop. 00:27:57.189 --> 00:28:03.771 Your high priest, jesus, will carry into effect your confession about the circumstances. 00:28:03.771 --> 00:28:08.871 Amen, the word in your mouth will do what the word in God's mouth will do. 00:28:08.871 --> 00:28:09.606 Amen. 00:28:09.606 --> 00:28:12.432 It will prosper in the thing where to it is sent. 00:28:12.432 --> 00:28:15.500 It'll accomplish what you please. 00:28:15.500 --> 00:28:16.244 What do you please? 00:28:16.244 --> 00:28:25.809 Well, speak the word, find the word that fits your circumstance and don't give up speaking the word and watch God bring it to pass, amen. 00:28:25.809 --> 00:28:27.805 And so what's gonna happen at the end of that? 00:28:28.547 --> 00:28:31.817 I like to read the next couple of verses in Isaiah 55. 00:28:33.633 --> 00:28:42.005 And this is what happens to those who will do what God does, and that's send the word, for you shall go out with joy and be led forth with shalom. 00:28:42.025 --> 00:28:45.984 The mountains and the hills shall break forth before you into singing. 00:28:46.227 --> 00:28:49.224 You know we see about mountains and hills and they're in our way. 00:28:49.224 --> 00:28:53.804 Well, you know, some of those obstacles are gonna start clapping their hands and they're gonna start rejoicing. 00:28:53.804 --> 00:29:02.444 They'll break forth before you into singing, and all the trees of the field shall clap their hands. 00:29:02.444 --> 00:29:09.265 Instead of the thorns shall come up the fir tree and instead of the briar shall come up the myrtle tree. 00:29:09.265 --> 00:29:16.903 And it shall be to the Lord for a name, for an everlasting sign that shall not be cut off. 00:29:16.903 --> 00:29:20.962 Praise God, send the word, come on, let's lift our hands and receive tonight. 00:29:20.962 --> 00:29:42.704 Father, we thank you for the word of God and we sent that word out over the airwaves and, father, it's prospering and everyone that's hearing it, and even the ones that come later, after this is over, they're gonna come back and hear this message later on and they are prospering because they've been heard the word and it's accomplishing what I please. 00:29:42.704 --> 00:29:49.973 And what I please is that the saints of God rise up in victory all over the world, in Jesus' name, amen.