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Positive Energy (June 8, 2025)

• Organic Church • Season 2 • Episode 31

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Every day, we stand at a crossroads between positivity and negativity, between faith and fear. This choice, while seemingly simple, shapes our entire reality in profound ways. As we explore the battlefield of the mind, we discover that our thoughts aren't just passive reflections—they're active creators of our lived experience.

The scripture tells us in Romans 12:2 that transformation comes through "changing the way you think." Not by changing our appearance or even our words first, but by renewing our mental landscape. When we allow negativity to take root, it colors everything we see, creating distortions that feel real but don't reflect truth. Even innocent interactions become tainted when viewed through a lens of suspicion or hurt.

Our words carry immense creative power. They can build up or tear down, heal or wound, bring life or death. Proverbs reminds us that "kind words are like honey—sweet to the soul and healthy for the body." This isn't just poetic language—it's spiritual reality. When we speak life over ourselves and others, we create an atmosphere where God's power can flow freely.

The message uses jumper cables as a powerful metaphor: just as these tools must be properly connected to transfer power, we must be grounded in Christ and focused on the positive for God's power to flow through us. There's no middle ground here—we're either speaking life or death, faith or fear, truth or falsehood. And only when we're properly connected can the true power of Christ energize our lives.

This isn't about ignoring life's challenges or pretending everything is perfect. Valleys are real, but even there, we can find "lush green forest" while we rest until God calls us back to the mountaintop. The same power that raised Jesus from the grave lives within believers, empowering us to choose positivity even when circumstances suggest otherwise.

Join us as we learn to harness the transformative power of positive thinking and life-giving words, creating a life that reflects the joy and strength found only in Christ. Your thoughts become your words, your words become your actions, and your actions become your legacy. Which path will you choose today?

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If we have to go into next week with this one, we will. But I want to start by saying every day we face a choice. Amen. Can we turn out the front row of lights, just the back row, please? Thank you. Every day we face a choice, and that choice is between positivity and negativity. Amen. Every day we face that choice. Every day that choice can be a challenge. It's a choice between faith and fear, between encouragement and criticism, and the world often gravitates towards the negative. Amen, the world often gravitates towards the negative. But we all know that the scripture tells us that we are to live for higher perspective. Right, that we should always be looking for the positive. Amen, and we should be praying for the positive.

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Now I heard a lady say first of all, let's just back up for a quick second. I'm all discombobulated, but this started. You know, Joyce Myers thinks that, or doesn't think, but she preaches. A big part of her ministry is on that the mind is a battlefield. Right, that the mind is the battlefield. And I used to think that's a great gimmick for selling books and audio books and all of that stuff. But it's true, right, it's all about how you look at it, it's all about perspective, but truly it's all up here. It starts there before it goes anywhere else. It doesn't come out of your mouth before it comes into your brain right Now. The problem is is sometimes our brains are wired to just say whatever comes in there, without a filter to stop it from coming out Guilty as charged. Hallelujah, right. It's not a good thing. I'm just saying it happens, it exists and it's something that's real, that we have to be aware of and we have to fix. So I said that because I heard a lady say that.

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Well, I had a young lady say to me. She was sitting next to me and she made this comment. She said everybody here is lazy. That was the comment. That was not about the church, it was in another setting. But she said everybody here is lazy. And I thought on it for a second. I said when she comes back, I'm going to call her out on that, I'm going to say something about it because I ain't lazy. I might be a lot of things. You can call me a lot of names. Lazy ain't one of them, right? So she came back and she said something to me, almost as if she was asking me for something, and I said I'm so sorry, I'm lazy. And she was shocked because she didn't know that I had heard what she had said. And she just kind of looked at me, walked away.

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And a few minutes later she came over and she plopped down beside me as hard as she could and she said when I said everybody was lazy, I wasn't referring to you. I said but I'm part of everybody, therefore you are accusing me of being lazy. And she said well, I didn't mean it that way. Fine, I said but this person's not lazy and that person's not lazy and this. Well, I was just saying something to somebody else and nobody should have been listening anyway. Right, but when you say it in public, out loud, everybody can hear it and therefore you are accusing me and the other people of being this thing that you said. Right, I said to her.

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I said if I would say everybody in this room is ugly, how would you feel about that? And she would say well, I wouldn't care, because I don't care what other people think. I said well, you care enough what I think that you came over here and apologized. You do care. Here's what it boiled down to, her final statement to me, before I just simply gave her grace was I can be angry and still be a happy person.

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I said I don't think it works that way. And she continued to argue the point and I said I'm going to make an agreement with you the next time you make a generalized statement. I will just assume that you are not talking about me. And she said okay, and she got up and walked away and she felt like she had won that argument. All I did was plant a seed that you cannot be miserable and angry and mean and be happy at the same time. It's not possible. You can't live life like that. Amen.

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Somehow in their mind, that's real, that's rationalized. Can I tell you that each and every one of us do that with something in our lives. We all rationalize something that we know is wrong and try to make it right. Amen. All right, got a couple of scriptures. I want to hit first thing. But at the end of the day, we want to be a positive-minded people, amen. We don't want to be fixated on the negative, we don't want to be fixated on the things of the world, but we want to be fixated on the positive things. And that means that doesn't mean there can't be things we dislike. It means that when we see something that we dislike, we have to pray about it right. We have to be able to handle it with grace and with mercy. What you think shapes who you become Amen.

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If you think negative thoughts all day long, if you think everybody around you is out to get you, pretty soon everybody that's around you will be out to get you Good, bad or indifferent. That's how it will be. If you allow yourself to think that that will become your reality. Whether it's true or not is not the point. It will be your reality. You won't be able to walk into a conference. There are people who like to think that Pastor Holly and I talk about them. I don't have the time when Pastor Holly and I get on the phone.

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It's about ministry. It's about positive things. It's about moving forward in the kingdom. It ain't about your life. I mean, it's not that we don't care. We love you guys. We care deeply, but we don't have the time to manage it right. We want to lift you guys up in prayer and that's what we do. We aren't going to. We aren't. I'm sorry. I know you might have thought that you were really popular in the ministry circle, but we ain't talking about you.

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Romans 12.2. It says don't copy the behavior and the customs of this world, but let God transform you into a new person by changing the way you think. Then you will learn to know God's will for you, which is good and pleasing and perfect, amen. It didn't say by changing the way you dress. It didn't say by changing the way that you talk. It said by changing the way that you think, because everything that goes through here is what your life becomes.

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You know, I said to Courtney this morning. I said I thought your pants were cow print, because she's got on these black and white pants and this is a fun story. I saw her a long time ago it was months ago and she was in a shirt that was like was it purple? It was like a deep purple but it was kind of iridescent and I thought it was camo. For those of you who like camo, don't judge me. I saw it and I went. Why is she wearing that Like? She certainly has better taste than that, right.

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But now my mindset is I don't trust Courtney to dress herself Cal print pants, camo. None of that was reality, right, it wasn't. Yes, I know it's not cal print, I'm correcting myself. It's not reality, but in my mind that's what it was and therefore it became my reality, right? So I was allowing the world to shape how I think about Courtney's pants, right, and therefore I made an assumption about Courtney's pants, right, and therefore I made an assumption about Courtney. Well, that's not very fair, right? I didn't allow my brain to process it and I didn't go back and say, hey, I probably need to think about that before I say something about it. Amen, amen. Like if I'd have walked in and mooed really loud, that would have been offensive, right, my mind would have said it's just a joke, but it would have been offensive.

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That's the stuff that we have to be thinking about all the time. We have to fix our minds on the things that are positive and good. Therefore, we don't have to worry about the things that are negative. Philippians 4.8, it tells us. And now, dear brothers and sisters, one final thing Fix your thoughts on what is true, hold on to that word and, honorable and right and pure and lovely and admirable, think about the things that are excellent and worthy of praise. Is somebody's sin worthy of praise? I didn't think so, but why are we holding on to it? Why are we constantly talking about it and thinking about it? If it is not worthy of praise, I don't need it, I don't need to hold on to it. Think of the thoughts of what is true.

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Now, here's the problem. A lot of times there are two truths. Right, we remember when Jesus was being tempted in the wilderness, the enemy would quote scripture. Right, he would quote scripture. It's not that the scripture was untrue. But then Jesus comes back, but man shall not live on bread alone. Amen. Listen, I don't need to know the things that aren't real. This is a hard lesson for those of us who go to work every day, because you hear things about people and it's real easy to look at somebody else and go hey, did you hear what so-and-so said? I think that such and such is about to happen. Right, that was a hard lesson for me. I'm gonna just tell you the truth.

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I met with my owners several months ago and they said something to me. I mean, it crushed me. I have a great deal of respect for these men and they said we can't tell you certain things because we're afraid you'll tell other people. Oh, that's crushing. Now, vicki, you went. Oh, because you don't think I would do that, do you? I'm going to tell you something. If you've told me, my wife knows. It's the truth, right, and it's not a bad thing. My wife knows, because I've got to go somewhere Now she wouldn't tell anybody. I can't even get her to tell me what she got me for Christmas. Most of the time, this lady is a secret keeper, she is a vault, she knows stuff that she's never told me and I'm thankful for that, because there is stuff she knows I don't need to know, right? Hallelujah, thank you Jesus. Thank you Jesus.

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But my point is when we tell other people things, we break trust, we break confidence, and when we do that, there's this level of like discontent that starts to well up inside of people, right, and the problem is, is we're not typically focused on the truth or, if it's honorable, we're focused on getting it out of our face, right? I need people to know this, and a lot of times it's stupid stuff, right? Yeah, okay, all right, hey, listen, last Sunday, when Pastor Holly started talking about people that like to start the fire and then stir the fire, and I got fired up in the sound booth, I could have preached a whole message last Sunday, because I'm going to tell you. It happens to me every single day. Somebody will call me and be like Pastor Michael, so-and-so said or so-and-so did. Why are you starting this fire? What's the purpose of this fire? Is it to glorify God? Because, if it's to glorify God, why are you starting it with me and not with God? Right, because if God needs to deal with it, let God deal with it. Keep me out of it. Listen, my wife said to me yesterday you are not a social person. I'm a very social person. I just don't want to know about your problems. Personable, personable, personable that's what she called me. I'm not personable. Can you go back to class or something? Can you go, get out of here? Yeah, I know we won't fist fight in front of you, that'll be later. We'll have to cut that. Who said that? Do it. I know, I know that I have no idea what I was talking about. Completely lost it, which means I ain't supposed to talk about it.

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Negativity is often born in the mind and it starts with a thought, but it becomes a mindset, right? That thought, that single thought where you say Dale says well, pastor Michael doesn't like me anymore, pastor Michael doesn't like me anymore. That's a thought. That becomes a mindset, right? And then when I approach Dale in the hallway and Dale's like he didn't even talk to me it has nothing to do with the fact that he was talking to three of them, he just doesn't even like me anymore, right? And then this mindset becomes our. We identify with that exact thought and it consumes us, right?

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Listen, people say bad stuff about me all the time and that used to bother me a lot, a lot. And now I look at it and I go why does it matter? I can't please every person. I would rather let the world down and please God every day, all day, and not care what the world thinks about me Right Now. That doesn't mean to say that I want to be hated by the world. It means I want to be valued by the world, but for who I am in Christ, not who I am in the world. Amen, amen, hallelujah, hallelujah in the world. Amen, amen, hallelujah. God calls us not to just think better, but to be transformed by a renewing of our minds. Right, we are not just to think better, but we are to be transformed. Listen, every morning when I get up, I pray that I am transformed from the person I was the day before and listen, I think that I have been right.

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I can apologize to people now and I'm like hey, I'm really sorry about doing that. I shouldn't have done that. I don't even have to explain why I did it. I'm okay with just saying I'm sorry, I was wrong. Right, it used to be. Hey, I'm sorry, I was wrong, but that, this, that or the other right.

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There's always the but Not that way. I am really sorry if I made you. I'm really sorry if I hurt your feelings. I'm really sorry if you felt neglected. That's not my intention. I'm getting much better at that. That's growth, people. That is growth. All right, your words have creative power. Creative power. Pastor Holly always tells me that I am always on something up here in my brain, right? Pastor Holly always tells me that I am always on something up here in my brain, right, like I find creative ways, creative solutions for just about every problem. We find right. We don't run across something that I can't come up with. It might not be the right solution, but we can guarantee it's creative.

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Ephesians 4.29, it says notice that it says he ascended. This clearly means that the Christ who descended Christ also descended to our lonely world. That's not the scripture that I have written down here, so I don't know. I wrote it wrong apparently. What is that? Is that Ephesians 4.9 or 4.29? It should be 4.29. I'm sorry I wrote it wrong. Can you quickly change that? When I read it I was like that doesn't make sense. It's a great scripture, not for today's message. Hold on to that. Maybe there it is. Oh, I don't like this one.

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Don't use foul or abusive language. Let everything you say be good and helpful, so that your words will be an encouragement to those who hear them. Jesus, I should have reread that scripture before I put it in there. Right? Don't use foul or abusive language. Let everything you say be good and helpful. Is everything that comes out of your mouth good and helpful? Ooh, if we're all saying no, that's not a good sign for us, is it Because the scripture I mean it's pretty clear, right, like there's no reading between the lines on this one? Be good and helpful, so that your words will be an encouragement to those who hear them. How often do we go out into the world and we say things to people that are hurtful? Those people may not know.

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Jesus, vicki, can I share your story about next Sunday? About next Sunday yeah. So Vicki approached me in the cafe this morning and she said Pastor Michael, I want to ask you if I can do something before I do it. That's usually not a good sign. Right Now, vicki, I trust her. I would trust her with my life. But that statement coming from anybody goes. And she said Pastor Michael, I have a friend who was scared to go to church. They're afraid to go to church because they went to a Pentecostal church when they were little and they were scared by the person that was the Sunday school teacher because they were just jamming hell down their throats. And she said can I go to another church to go with them on their first Sunday? Absolutely you can, because if you are bringing somebody to Jesus, it's not about this building, it's about the kingdom of God. Amen, it is about the kingdom of God.

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Now here's the thing Let everything you say be good and helpful, so that the words will be an encouragement to those who hear them. They didn't decide to go to church just because they decided to go to church. You know why they went to church. They decided to go to church because Vicki had been praying with them and been speaking life into them. That is what changes the kingdom of God, right? It's not that invitation just to church on a random Sunday. And listen, we're not for everybody, right? There would have been some newbies that would have showed up here this morning and be like, uh-uh, ain't coming back there. Right, they'd have been out the door. We are not for everybody in every season, but you know what, if we can get them into the hands of somewhere where they're comfortable, that's glorifying to the kingdom of God. Amen. That is a positive interaction. Proverbs 16, 24.

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It says kind words are like honey sweet to the soul and healthy for the body. I tell my wife she's beautiful all the time. All the time I tell my wife she's beautiful all the time. All the time I tell my wife she's beautiful, and you know what she says to me Shut up. Do you think her telling me to shut up stops me from telling her she's beautiful? Absolutely not, because I believe that those sweet words will only make her grow stronger. Right, it's like Miracle-Gro, right? I just keep telling her she's beautiful and whether she ever believes that she's beautiful or not, I think she's gorgeous, right, and I love her for who she is. I don't need her to change at all. I mean, I would like for her to be able to wash, dry and fold a basket of laundry in one day. But I mean, we're all working on ourselves, right, we're all working on ourselves, right. Anybody in here can do that Wash, dry, fold and put away a basket of laundry in one day. Good for you guys. Good for you guys. Anybody want to come to my house and help out? No, lord, have mercy.

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But I believe that when we go out into the world and we speak life and we speak sweetly and kindly and genuinely to people, I'm not talking about that kind of like, oh well, god bless you. Not that kind. I'm talking about the real kind that says, hey, my dad was at work a week or so ago and we had a church group in. Sometimes those church groups can be a little high maintenance, I'm not going to lie, all right. So this group of ladies were there. My dad gets in the elevator, he pushes the button and the lady looks at him, waits for a second, she goes. You know Jesus loves you. Like, how great is that? This lady didn't know him from Adam. She didn't know that he was saved, but she made sure that he knew that she didn't know him at all. I mean, you've seen that guy right, big goofy looking dude, little old lady just telling him Jesus loves him. We need to be more like that every day, because those sweet and kind words and you're going to get people who don't want to hear it. But you've planted a seed Because when they fall on hard times they're going to go. You remember that one time that lady told us Jesus loves us. You remember that one? Remember that young kid that said they're going to remember that and it's going to plant a seed. The lady that Vicki is going to church with next Sunday has been to church a long, long time ago 60 years, is that? What she said 60 years ago Hasn't gone back because she was afraid, but Vicki, speaking sweetly, gently into her life, has allowed her to have revelation. Amen, proverbs 12, 18.

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Some people make cutting remarks, but the words of the wise bring healing. Do any of us ever say harsh things just because we can? Yeah, like you meet somebody or you ever got that person you know in your life. You just don't like them and when they walk by you're like I'm going to make a snide comment, right, I'm going to say it loud enough that I hope they hear it, but I'm not going to say it directly to them. Amen, hallelujah, thank you, jesus. Nobody else can admit to that but me. Okay, that's fine. Muttering, yes, yeah, yeah, yeah. And you, just loud enough that they can hear it, right, because you want to cut them. But it says the words of the wise bring healing. Listen, I want to be wise in the kingdom, right? I want to be able to speak life. I want to be able to heal the brokenhearted. I want to be able to give them hope in a world that feels hopeless.

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Amen, faith over fear, joy over despair. Amen, faith over fear, joy over despair. Romans 15, 13. It says I pray that God, the source of hope, will fill you completely with joy and peace because you trust in him. Then you will overflow with confident hope in the power of the Holy Spirit. There is hope In the mighty name of Jesus.

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Negativity often stems from fear, right? I think that fear is the leading cause of all sin in this world. I was watching this little advertisement for this company that they talk about addiction very differently. They say that when you're addicted to something, it's not because you're a bad person, it's not because you're sinful in nature. It's because your brain is chasing cheap dopamine. Well, that might be true, but sin is sin. Let's call it what it is right. Let's don't try to sugarcoat it and tell you it's okay if you sin. It's just the way your brain is wired.

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No, we need transformation in the name of Jesus. We need to have hope and faith in what Jesus Christ has told us. So then, we're not chasing cheap dopamine, right? Listen? There is nothing in this world that will replace the love of Jesus. It's not the love of a spouse, it's not the love of a child. There is nothing. It's not the love of a child. There is nothing. It's not Dunkin' Donuts, it's not Starbucks. There is nothing in this world that will replace the love of Jesus. Starbucks might taste good, dunkin' Donuts might be good, or McDonald's. Now, don't be coming after me like that. Don't be coming after me like that, but there is nothing that will take the place of Jesus in your life.

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Nehemiah 8.10, and Nehemiah continued go and celebrate with a feast of rich foods and sweet drinks. Get off my back and share gifts of food with people who have nothing prepared. Share gifts of food with people who have nothing prepared. This is a sacred day before our Lord. Don't be dejected and sad, for the joy of the Lord is your strength. I may be weak in a lot of things, but my joy in the Lord is great. Strength in all things, amen. I don't have to worry about what the world thinks or what the world does, because I have strength in all things. Amen. I don't have to worry about what the world thinks or what the world does, because I have strength in the Lord. Amen. All of my strength is in the Lord. Negativity drains us. Joy sustains us. See, when I live life negative, I will constantly be miserable.

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You ever had those days where you wake up and you just don't want to get out of bed because you know life is terrible, right, like, oh, nothing's going right. I've had a bad week, this, that and the other. You haven't had a bad week. You don't have a bad life. You had a bad situation. Let me tell you that that valley that you might be feeling like you're in today is one of the best places to be. There is lush green forest in that valley. You can rest comfortably until the Lord calls you back to the mountaintop. You cannot worry about everything in your life. You have to say God, I trust you and I know that can, and I have joy in walking out this experience with you. I have joy in walking out this path with you. Amen, all right, roger.

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You want to come help me? Harley, can you go get me your car battery? I'm just kidding. He got up, he was going to go do it. I'm just kidding, I know you would do it. That's why I asked you and not anybody else. I knew you, of all people, would do it. Pastor Roger, hold that end. So I brought with me a pair of jumper cables. Right Now, how many of you have a pair of these in your car?

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You didn't have a car. Well, I guess then you don't have one in your car? How many people Raise your hands? Okay, a good deal of you. How many of you know how to use them? Holly's, like, I got a set. I don't know what to do with them. Okay, most of us know how to use them. Most of us know that the red is positive, the black the negative the ground right.

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Okay, now, if you were to take both of these and you were to hook them up to the car battery incorrectly, what happens? Large spark or a large boom. Why is that? Because you can't have negative and positive at the same time, right, you can't have negative and positive at the same time. Right, you can't have negative and positive at the same time. However, if you take both of these and you hook them up to the dead battery the correct way, positive to the positive, negative to the negative and then you hook those up to the battery that has power, you can touch them together and make some space. But if you hook them up, what happens? Power flows from one to the other. Great power comes when we're grounded in Christ, focusing on the positive. Amen.

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Now, here's the thing. Here's the thing. Some of you are positive right. How many of us are positive? Positive people Great, wonderful. Some of us are positive. Some of us are negative, right. Right, how many of us are negative? Mike raised his hand involuntarily 50-50. Right, that's fair. That's fair.

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Now, some of you are actually just like a set of jumper cables, because you like to start stuff, are actually just like a set of jumper cables. Because you like to start stuff, it's true, isn't it? Because you like to start it, stir it and let somebody else deal with it. Can I tell you something. It's not life-giving, it's life-draining. It's life-draining for the people that you're telling. It's life-draining for yourself. It is life-draining for the people that you're telling. It's life draining for yourself. It is life draining for the people who are around you. Listen, we shouldn't have to hide our every word because we are trying to sugarcoat it to make it feel positive. Well, that set of jumper cables is broken.

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Roger, I don't know if I'd use that if I was you. Just get a little electrical tape, it'll be fine. Hey, beth, we're going to use an extension cord and fix this. Okay, he says he can fix it. Yeah, we'll just fix that, it's fine. It's fine. Quit messing with it, get out of here, go. It ain't even hooked up to nothing. I'm going to get electrocuted because he won't stop touching it. Roger has a way.

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I know that we laugh at that joke that some of us are just like a set of jumper cables and we just like to start stuff. But let me tell you something. It's true. It is true every single day. Some of us wake up in the morning and go how much trouble can I stir and then go. I don't know what happened. What happened? Why are all of these people upset.

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I didn't say that. What I said was Easton, this kid can twist anything right, it's like a magic power, isn't it? He goes oh yeah, that's a superpower, I say to him. I say to him did you say that? No, I didn't say that. I'm like well, the other kid said you said that and he goes. No, I didn't say that. What I said was which is the exact same thing, with an inflection on a different word that makes the sentence feel different. What I didn't do, that, listen, life is not all rainbows and unicorns, right, life is going to be difficult. We are going to experience hardships, we're going to experience things that don't feel good. However, however, is oh, I forgot about those. Thank you for doing that.

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We have to realize that there is a positive and a negative in everything that we do. Give me the positive. The positive. We're speaking joy, faith and truth. There is a positive and a negative in everything that we do. Give me the positive. The positive we're speaking joy, faith and truth. Amen.

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The negative, we are speaking fear, doubt, or we're complaining. How many of us like to complain? I love to complain. It's like a pastime for me, right, it's like a pastime, but let me tell you only when you are connected properly can the true power of Christ flow in your life. Amen. You have to be properly grounded in the word and your positive needs to be fixed on Jesus, amen. Positive needs to be fixed on Jesus, amen. There is no gray area. It is black or red. You are in one or the other. You are positive or you are negative. You can't be one or the other.

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I woke up this morning in such a bad mood. No, god did not call you to that. God called you to speak life, amen. Listen, I'm preaching to myself right now. I know that when things happen in my life that I can fall over here, it's easy, it's easy to do, but I have to run it through that filter. Is it glorifying to God? Is it glorifying to the person I'm about to say it to or the person I'm about to say it about? If not, shut my mouth, lord, only allow me to speak positive things. Amen.

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Church, I need you to understand something. Today we're going to walk out of this room. Most of you are going to forget about this message. Be the last time you think about it, but the next time your car gets a dead battery, the next time you're going to go. Oh, I remember how to jump this sucker. First of all and I think I might be a little bit negative today you know how easy it is to be negative when your car battery dies. It ain't nice, right. But think about it. We need to ground ourselves in the word. We need to positively fix our eyes on Jesus and life giving power will flow. Amen. Let's pray together.

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Father, I thank you and I praise you for a word in season, lord, that we may be able to laugh and to joke. But, lord, I know, I know that you are doing something great in your house. Lord, that the words that are being spoken are directly from you and not of me. Father, god, that there is glory in your message. That, lord, each of us can walk out of here with our eyes fixed upon you. Lord, repentance is our heart's desire, a rebirth, walking from the old man to the new man.

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Father God, laying down all of those sins at the foot of the cross. Lord, you know that our flesh is weak, but each and every one of us have a strong, strong spirit Centered on you. Lord, there is nothing that can stop us, because the same power that rose Jesus from the grave lives in us. Lord, I thank you for life-giving power, for tongues of fire. Father God, that we speak life abundantly into our community, into our friends and our family, into our community, into our friends and our family, into the broken and lost world. Lord, I pray that you move through this house today, touch hearts, touch minds, release us from our chains. Father God, I thank you and I praise you. I give you all the honor and glory in the mighty name of Jesus, and the church says amen. Love you guys. We'll see you on Wednesday night.