WEBVTT 00:00:00.444 --> 00:00:20.012 Let's wave our Bibles around and say this together Say Heavenly Father, I'm tuned in to live stream tonight because I'm hungry and thirsty for more, more of your word, more of your spirit, more of your presence, more of your glory. 00:00:20.012 --> 00:00:34.088 Thank you, father, for the Holy Spirit, the Spirit of truth, the greater one lives on the inside of me and he helps me, he puts me over in every circumstance. 00:00:34.088 --> 00:00:37.363 At Jesus' name, amen. 00:00:37.363 --> 00:00:43.100 Let's turn in our Bibles to Isaiah, the 10th chapter, verse 27. 00:00:43.100 --> 00:00:48.289 We'll just read the very last part of that verse, very familiar scripture to most of us. 00:00:48.289 --> 00:00:56.079 And it says here and the yoke shall be destroyed because of the anointing. 00:00:56.079 --> 00:01:02.576 The yoke shall be destroyed because of the anointing. 00:01:02.576 --> 00:01:09.170 And so tonight I just wanna share a simple message, but profound destroy every yoke. 00:01:10.500 --> 00:01:12.007 Now, what exactly is a yoke? 00:01:12.007 --> 00:01:27.814 Well, a yoke was, in Bible days, was made out of wood and it spanned the shoulders of an ox or a donkey or a horse, and it was the way that you hooked up an animal to a load. 00:01:27.814 --> 00:01:43.167 And that's how they pulled a plow, that's how they pulled a wagon, that's how they were beasts of burden, and the yoke was a very necessary piece of equipment that fit around their neck and shoulders and helped them to pull that load. 00:01:43.167 --> 00:01:48.650 So, in this context, a yoke is anything that binds. 00:01:48.650 --> 00:01:57.147 Sickness, pain, bad habits, demons, all of these things bind the believer. 00:01:57.147 --> 00:02:00.108 It binds us and hinders us. 00:02:00.108 --> 00:02:02.307 But the yoke shall be destroyed. 00:02:02.307 --> 00:02:02.561 Why? 00:02:02.561 --> 00:02:04.843 Because of the anointing. 00:02:04.843 --> 00:02:07.271 Destroyed, not just broken. 00:02:07.271 --> 00:02:08.818 A lot of people misquote the verse. 00:02:08.818 --> 00:02:10.406 They said oh, we break every yoke. 00:02:10.406 --> 00:02:17.026 We were singing a song we've just started singing the last few months and it talks about break every chain. 00:02:17.026 --> 00:02:18.090 Break every chain. 00:02:18.090 --> 00:02:22.408 Well, you know that's okay, but really the chain is destroyed under this right here. 00:02:22.408 --> 00:02:23.443 It's not just broken. 00:02:23.443 --> 00:02:32.209 Something broken can be put back together, but destroyed means it's not coming back, and that's what the anointing has the ability to do. 00:02:32.209 --> 00:02:39.287 The anointing destroys the ability of the devil to hinder you and I. 00:02:40.620 --> 00:02:50.793 And so the other point I wanted to make is the anointing of the Holy Spirit is upon God's holy word. 00:02:50.793 --> 00:02:55.500 It's upon God's word in John 832. 00:02:55.500 --> 00:02:57.066 Let's turn over there. 00:02:57.066 --> 00:03:01.627 And it says here Jesus is speaking. 00:03:01.627 --> 00:03:07.169 He said you shall know the truth and the truth shall make you free. 00:03:07.169 --> 00:03:10.046 You shall know the truth. 00:03:10.046 --> 00:03:13.628 And in John 17, 11, you don't have to turn there. 00:03:13.628 --> 00:03:17.951 But Jesus said to the Father your word is truth. 00:03:17.951 --> 00:03:19.182 So truth. 00:03:19.182 --> 00:03:24.205 God's truth and God's word are equivalent terms, they're the same. 00:03:24.205 --> 00:03:25.599 They're one and the same. 00:03:25.599 --> 00:03:40.484 And so we could say then God's word will set you free, god's Word will destroy the yoke, because God's Word is anointed John 6.63,. 00:03:40.965 --> 00:03:44.997 The words that I speak to you, they are spirit and they are life. 00:03:44.997 --> 00:03:52.852 Jesus said so, that in other words, that means the Word is truth and the Word is anointed, the truth is anointed. 00:03:52.852 --> 00:03:54.337 All of those things work together. 00:03:54.337 --> 00:03:58.454 And so you know that now I understand more perfectly why. 00:03:58.454 --> 00:04:02.368 All those years ago, 27 years ago, god spoke to me about this church. 00:04:02.368 --> 00:04:04.937 He gave me the name, glorious way. 00:04:04.937 --> 00:04:05.759 I argued with him. 00:04:05.759 --> 00:04:12.143 I said that's a long name, it's hard to say and it's hard to spell, Lord, as if he didn't know. 00:04:12.143 --> 00:04:20.706 But he wanted to make a point that this church was founded upon the Word and the Spirit and we need both. 00:04:20.706 --> 00:04:30.098 And he said I want the Word and the Spirit to be equally portrayed or spoken about, and I'll determine what's equal. 00:04:30.098 --> 00:04:37.490 And so you know, we here around here, we like to let the Holy Ghost move and let do what he says to do. 00:04:37.490 --> 00:04:48.528 But you know, on the flip side of that, whenever we preach the Word, the Word of God itself is anointed and it has the ability, if you'll receive his Word, to destroy every yoke. 00:04:48.528 --> 00:04:49.913 Amen. 00:04:49.913 --> 00:04:57.692 And so Jesus said the words that I speak to you, their spirit and life. 00:04:57.692 --> 00:04:59.156 That word words. 00:04:59.156 --> 00:05:00.824 There is the word Ramah. 00:05:00.824 --> 00:05:08.245 You might have remembered recently I've been stressing how important it is for us to receive Ramahs from God. 00:05:08.245 --> 00:05:21.790 You know, when you read the logos and store it up in you when you don't need it, then God will bring it out as Ramah when you do need it, and Ramah is what destroys the yoke. 00:05:21.790 --> 00:05:25.901 But we do need the logos. 00:05:25.901 --> 00:05:30.216 We need to read the logos, read the logos, read the logos every day. 00:05:30.216 --> 00:05:39.045 I know I sound like a broken record, so what I'm saying here about you shall know the truth and the truth shall make you free. 00:05:39.165 --> 00:05:47.057 Well, knowing the truth, you've got to know the Word, got to know it, how important it is to know God's Word. 00:05:47.057 --> 00:06:00.639 You know, over 33 years of ministry, now finishing 33 years, I look back on the people that I knew that went to church on a regular basis, that just didn't know the Word. 00:06:00.639 --> 00:06:02.509 They didn't practice the Word. 00:06:02.509 --> 00:06:03.394 They didn't know the Word. 00:06:03.394 --> 00:06:05.324 The Word was not abiding in their heart. 00:06:05.324 --> 00:06:10.660 They couldn't quote the Word Any great amount Jesus wept. 00:06:10.660 --> 00:06:15.408 It's about all Jesus loves me. 00:06:15.408 --> 00:06:17.598 This I know Well, that's not the Word, but it's true. 00:06:17.598 --> 00:06:22.420 That's just a little song you sing when you know in vacation Bible school. 00:06:22.420 --> 00:06:24.043 It's good to know that. 00:06:24.043 --> 00:06:30.067 But I mean it takes more than just a cursory, shallow knowledge of God's Word. 00:06:30.067 --> 00:06:32.514 We need to get it in our heart. 00:06:32.514 --> 00:06:38.399 We need to have our minds renewed and refreshed with the Word of God. 00:06:38.399 --> 00:06:51.403 So you know, in all trouble and I've said this a number of times lately and I say it again right now, in all trouble and all Circumstances that you face, you know you ought to go. 00:06:51.783 --> 00:06:57.055 The first question you ask is what does the word say about my situation? 00:06:57.055 --> 00:06:58.365 What does the word say? 00:06:58.365 --> 00:07:00.764 What does God say? 00:07:00.764 --> 00:07:02.471 See, the word is what God said. 00:07:02.471 --> 00:07:05.639 It's the word is what God said about it. 00:07:05.639 --> 00:07:14.480 And If you've been reading your Bible on a regular basis every day a Lot of times, it'll just come right up out of you. 00:07:14.480 --> 00:07:17.040 You, you won't even have to pray about it very much. 00:07:17.040 --> 00:07:18.966 It'll just come right up out of you. 00:07:18.966 --> 00:07:19.226 Why? 00:07:19.226 --> 00:07:22.684 Because it's abiding Inside of you and it's just ready. 00:07:22.684 --> 00:07:29.865 It's sitting there right on the surface and as soon as you say, what does the word say Suddenly, here comes a scripture right out of your mouth. 00:07:29.865 --> 00:07:31.769 I can't even count the times that's happened to me. 00:07:31.769 --> 00:07:34.084 Well, yeah, pastor, that's because you're a pastor. 00:07:34.084 --> 00:07:34.788 Well, it would. 00:07:34.788 --> 00:07:37.199 It happened before I ever started pastoring a church. 00:07:37.199 --> 00:07:43.911 I Mean it had to happen, as I was a believer when I was, before I ever held any office of ministry. 00:07:44.192 --> 00:07:51.553 So, oh, what does God's word say about this particular situation? 00:07:51.553 --> 00:08:04.487 And so if we develop our Bible reading the way that we should, that is, we continue, then that's exactly what it says in John, chapter 8, in verse 31. 00:08:04.487 --> 00:08:05.610 We read verse 32. 00:08:05.610 --> 00:08:14.004 It says Jesus said to those Jews which believed on him if you continue in my word and what is that word? 00:08:14.004 --> 00:08:22.168 It's the anointed word if you continue in my truth, the word, word and truth are interchangeable. 00:08:22.168 --> 00:08:26.742 When you see the word, God's word and God's truth, they're the same. 00:08:26.742 --> 00:08:38.186 So if you continue in my word, then argue my disciples indeed, and you shall know the truth, and the truth She'll make you free, make you free, set you free. 00:08:38.186 --> 00:08:40.491 Many, how many of you want to be free? 00:08:40.491 --> 00:08:42.984 See, that's what the devil does. 00:08:42.984 --> 00:08:56.006 He comes to bind you, he sends a yoke of Bondage and it takes the anointed word to destroy that yoke and once that thing is destroyed, it it can't be put back together. 00:08:56.006 --> 00:08:57.530 I mean he might have to start over. 00:08:57.530 --> 00:09:00.480 He might start over trying to build something over you again. 00:09:00.480 --> 00:09:08.154 But I'm telling you, that's why it's so valuable for you to ask that question what does the word say about my situation? 00:09:08.154 --> 00:09:09.399 And? 00:09:09.399 --> 00:09:12.886 And so you develop your Bible reading the way that you should? 00:09:12.886 --> 00:09:16.453 I mean, you know, let's, let's not take vacations from the Bible. 00:09:17.282 --> 00:09:24.940 I've known people Been in church for many years and then they just get kind of lazy to read their Bible because they've read it so many times. 00:09:24.940 --> 00:09:32.830 They think they know it but they don't, because if you're not Refreshed in it on a daily basis, it just evaporates. 00:09:32.830 --> 00:09:35.504 It's kind of like men Remember the manna. 00:09:35.504 --> 00:09:41.971 The manna had to be gathered every day and it was designed to melt if it. 00:09:41.971 --> 00:09:50.293 If they didn't gather it every day, If they went back to try to get it the next day, it was gone, it was melted, disappeared. 00:09:50.293 --> 00:09:55.971 Or if they tried to stack it up, see, they were told not to gather it on the Sabbath. 00:09:55.971 --> 00:10:01.652 So sundown on Friday night, they were supposed to gather twice as much. 00:10:01.652 --> 00:10:08.070 That would last them All Friday night, all day Saturday, all the way down to Sunday and then. 00:10:08.070 --> 00:10:09.953 So that's what they were supposed to do. 00:10:09.953 --> 00:10:17.006 That was the only time they were to gather more than they needed was to keep them from gathering on the Sabbath, because they couldn't work on the Sabbath. 00:10:17.561 --> 00:10:25.106 Well, if they gathered even more than they needed, if they're out and they just kept gathering and gathered, well I'm just gonna quit going out every day. 00:10:25.106 --> 00:10:34.433 I'll just gather it up, and then it rots, it turns, it gets worms in it, it smells, and so it's really very similar to the Word of God. 00:10:34.433 --> 00:10:36.600 We need the Word every day. 00:10:36.600 --> 00:10:48.384 There's something fresh for us every day, and if you think you can just cram it in there all at one time and then rest for a month, you're sadly mistaken. 00:10:48.384 --> 00:11:02.466 I've seen people really have huge Yokes of bondage that weren't broken because they put up with not ingesting God's Word on a daily basis. 00:11:02.466 --> 00:11:06.024 And so the anointed words. 00:11:06.024 --> 00:11:06.928 So you feed on it. 00:11:06.928 --> 00:11:09.106 Feed on it every day. 00:11:09.106 --> 00:11:12.779 I mean you can't just eat one meal and and skip for a week. 00:11:12.779 --> 00:11:17.413 I mean you'd be weak, you might not die, but you sure wouldn't feel very good. 00:11:17.413 --> 00:11:19.119 No, feed on the word. 00:11:19.139 --> 00:11:21.626 And Then number two agree with it. 00:11:21.626 --> 00:11:25.038 I, number three, don't speak against it. 00:11:25.038 --> 00:11:30.534 Don't speak contrary to what you have read, agree with. 00:11:30.534 --> 00:11:31.879 I know that sounds so simple. 00:11:31.879 --> 00:11:33.897 Well, of course, pastor, I agree with the word. 00:11:33.897 --> 00:11:36.658 Well, every time we complain, we're not agreeing with the word. 00:11:36.658 --> 00:11:39.674 Every time we confess we're in pain, we're not agreeing with the word. 00:11:39.674 --> 00:11:43.754 Every time we say we can't afford it, we're not agreeing with the word. 00:11:43.754 --> 00:11:49.599 There's a whole lot of things you say every day that really does not agree with the word. 00:11:49.599 --> 00:11:59.754 So let's maybe do an inventory of our confession and make sure that we're not disagreeing with the word more than we are agreeing with it. 00:11:59.754 --> 00:12:03.856 Never speak contrary to God's word. 00:12:03.856 --> 00:12:07.235 You know Isaiah 55,. 00:12:07.576 --> 00:12:12.779 I told this testimony recently, but I was in the hospital back in August. 00:12:12.779 --> 00:12:16.159 I was in the ICU and I hadn't slept in three days. 00:12:16.159 --> 00:12:18.196 So I was just almost hallucinating. 00:12:18.196 --> 00:12:41.993 I was miserable, I was short of breath, I couldn't take a deep breath, I couldn't catch my breath and you know they were about to give me an injection of a blood pressure medication that I had taken a large dose of once before. 00:12:41.993 --> 00:12:42.173 That. 00:12:42.173 --> 00:12:49.982 It just made it really hard for me to breathe and they fixed a dump twice as much as that into my IV and I warned them. 00:12:49.982 --> 00:12:53.154 I said look, you're giving me more of that than I've ever been able to take. 00:12:53.154 --> 00:12:56.496 Well, this is what's suggested in the protocol. 00:12:56.496 --> 00:12:57.541 We have to give it to you. 00:12:57.541 --> 00:12:58.354 It's the protocol. 00:12:58.354 --> 00:13:01.940 See, there's so much of what doctors do to us. 00:13:01.940 --> 00:13:09.018 It's governed by insurance and they have to follow these protocols rather than the doctor-patient relationship. 00:13:09.018 --> 00:13:11.638 So they acted like it's no big deal. 00:13:11.789 --> 00:13:16.716 Well, you know, I just told I warned them and, of course, exactly what I said happened. 00:13:16.716 --> 00:13:27.855 I mean, I got more short of breath, my blood pressure fell, and but during that time I just, under my breath, isaiah 55 came up. 00:13:27.855 --> 00:13:38.384 You know, god's Word is like rain and like snow from heaven Water's the earth. 00:13:38.384 --> 00:13:46.855 It does not return to Him void, but it waters the earth and it springs up and it doesn't return to Him void. 00:13:46.855 --> 00:13:49.017 It prospers in the thing where to it is sin. 00:13:49.017 --> 00:13:51.916 And so I started talking to my heart. 00:13:51.916 --> 00:13:53.272 Under my breath, I said hard. 00:13:53.351 --> 00:13:55.177 I've sent the Word to you for decades. 00:13:55.177 --> 00:13:59.341 I'm telling you, isaiah 55 says God's Word in my mouth. 00:13:59.341 --> 00:14:03.000 It does for me exactly what it does for God. 00:14:03.000 --> 00:14:04.436 It prospers in you heart. 00:14:04.436 --> 00:14:07.158 That Word that I've sent to you is prospering in you. 00:14:07.158 --> 00:14:10.937 You might as well get right right now you might as well start beating correctly. 00:14:10.937 --> 00:14:24.679 You get lined up with God's Word and you start beating with a sinus rhythm, you start beating with a normal blood pressure, you supply a normal blood pressure in Jesus' name. 00:14:24.679 --> 00:14:30.917 And so I said those words and I believe that that Word was prospering in my heart. 00:14:30.917 --> 00:14:31.840 And you know they did. 00:14:31.840 --> 00:14:38.951 They got it squared away and it took a few days to put the finishing touches on all the procedures that they did on me. 00:14:39.011 --> 00:14:40.857 But I'm just great today. 00:14:40.857 --> 00:14:41.821 I'm doing just fine. 00:14:41.821 --> 00:14:45.914 I hadn't had a relapse of any sort and I don't expect to. 00:14:45.914 --> 00:14:46.397 Why? 00:14:46.397 --> 00:14:51.518 Because I know the Word works in my mouth just the same way it does in God's mouth. 00:14:51.518 --> 00:14:56.096 It accomplishes what I plead, just the same way that it accomplishes what God pleases. 00:14:56.096 --> 00:15:02.378 It prospers in the thing where, too, I send it, the same way that it prospers in the thing where God sends it. 00:15:03.080 --> 00:15:05.136 Amen, I mean, it's all in the Word. 00:15:05.136 --> 00:15:10.653 See, let the Word I mean let the Word destroy the yoke of bondage. 00:15:10.653 --> 00:15:13.054 That's what the devil's trying to do. 00:15:13.054 --> 00:15:16.596 You know, let's stop looking. 00:15:16.596 --> 00:15:26.073 If we are looking, let's stop looking to man and to manifestations and to ministries. 00:15:26.073 --> 00:15:30.434 Even let's quit looking for someone to fix our problem. 00:15:30.434 --> 00:15:32.311 You know we have God's word. 00:15:32.311 --> 00:15:33.788 Let the word work. 00:15:33.788 --> 00:15:45.831 The word in your mouth can fix, it, can destroy any yoke that tries to attach itself to you, any sort of bondage, any sort of hindrance, any sort of circumstance. 00:15:46.004 --> 00:15:53.450 I'm telling you, it's not, it's not really it's not scriptural for us to always be leaning on other people's praying, other people's ministries. 00:15:53.450 --> 00:16:04.254 I'm not saying if I didn't, if I was facing a really severe health issue and some healing evangelists happen to be in town. 00:16:04.254 --> 00:16:13.509 I remember one time Gladys had fallen and broken her kneecap in two and Benny Hinn happened to be coming to town and we she was. 00:16:13.509 --> 00:16:24.210 If God didn't heal her kneecap and put it back together, she was gonna have to have two surgeries, one to wire it back together and another surgery to pull the wire back out after the surgery, six months apart. 00:16:24.210 --> 00:16:40.934 And so we were believing for healing and so we did go to where there was a healing, anointing and so forth, and it didn't turn out that she was healed that way and so she had to believe God the old fashioned way. 00:16:41.024 --> 00:16:52.256 Well, you know, anytime you depend on another manifestation or another ministry or another man or person for your, for your deliverance, you're gonna. 00:16:52.256 --> 00:16:56.173 At some point in time you're gonna have to develop your own faith to keep it anyway. 00:16:56.173 --> 00:16:59.953 So just determine that you're gonna do that Now. 00:16:59.953 --> 00:17:04.284 Quit looking to other people, quit looking for other folks. 00:17:04.284 --> 00:17:05.625 Get God's word. 00:17:05.625 --> 00:17:08.005 It's anointed, the anointed word. 00:17:08.005 --> 00:17:10.018 Everybody, say that out loud. 00:17:10.018 --> 00:17:11.025 The anointed word. 00:17:11.025 --> 00:17:13.744 This is God's anointed word. 00:17:13.744 --> 00:17:16.810 This is God's anointed truth, amen. 00:17:16.810 --> 00:17:21.805 And then you speak it in your mouth and believe it in your heart. 00:17:21.805 --> 00:17:30.862 I know you've heard me say that 10,000 times, 10,000 times, and watch every yoke be destroyed. 00:17:30.862 --> 00:17:31.644 Destroy the yoke, don't put up with it. 00:17:31.644 --> 00:17:32.742 Destroy it. 00:17:32.742 --> 00:17:35.741 Come on, lift your hands and receive God's word tonight, amen. 00:17:35.741 --> 00:17:45.334 Just a little encouragement and thank God for the heritage that I have with Brother Hagin and Brother Osteen and all these great preachers. 00:17:45.334 --> 00:17:51.924 Brother Narvel, I think about all the messages on faith that I've heard in my life and I treasure all of them. 00:17:51.924 --> 00:17:56.954 I treasure the revelation of the Word of faith.