Own It

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Good afternoon, and welcome to Healing Stream Waters Daily Doses.

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It's a privilege and an honor just to be in the land of the living. You lay down last night and you got up. But somebody didn't do that. Somebody's life was cut short. Somebody's life just slipped away. And not here to experience this day, a day that we have not seen before. God is good and we owe him all the praise, glory, and the honor. Today I'm going to be sharing with you out of Isaiah 58, just a few verses. Actually, I'm going to start at the 9th and finish on the 12th. And it reads like this. Then you shall call and the Lord will answer. You shall cry, and he will say, Here I am. If you take away the yoke from your midst, the pointing of the finger, and speaking wickedness. If you extend your soul to the hungry and satisfy the afflicted soul, then your light shall dawn in the darkness, and your darkness shall be as the noonday. The Lord will guide you continually and satisfy your soul in drought, and strengthen your bones. You shall be like a water garden and like a spring of water whose waters do not fail. Those from among you shall build the old waste places. You shall raise up the foundations of many generations, and you shall be called the repairer of the breach, the restore, the restorer of streets to dwell in. And the subject or topic that I want to leave with you today is own it. That's right, own it. OWN, own it, take responsibility, take it because the Lord is giving a direct message to you. He says, when you call, I will cry, I will answer. And when you cry, I will say, Here I am. He said, but he gives commandments and directions. If you do this, if you do this, if you do that, then I will do this. So it all depends on you. You are responsible for you. That's why today I'm saying own it. If you take away the yoke from the midst of you, the Bible says that we put yokes on people that we won't even lift a finger to lift the heavy burden. Do not cause people to stumble. Do not cause any extra heartaches on people. Guard your mouth. Guard your actions. Guard your behavior. You do it. He said, if you do this, I will guide you continually. I will satisfy your soul even in the draw. Even when you can't see your way, even when you can't find your way, he said he will satisfy you continually. Uh come over where the Lord is, because there's a feast going on, and the table is spreaded. There's no lack and no slack in our God. If you take away the pointing of the finger, the blame game, blaming somebody else's else for your mishaps for what you're going through, take responsibility of your life. Your life is here with Christ in God. And if you pray to God, He will answer your prayer. He doesn't wait. Um, it's not dependent on somebody else, what he does for you. If you do it, if you own it. I was reminded of my mother when she was asking the Lord for a child, and we came up on a prophetic ministry, and God had promised that several of the women were going to be impregnated, and it wasn't all it wasn't order, and so we can have things collectively, but we can also have things individually, and at that time, the uh pastor at the church prophesied and said, The Lord said that the blessings are ready to be given, but the first couple had it held up, and so my mother said she went back to the Lord and she asked God. First, she said to him, God, I want them to have their child because you promised all of us that we were gonna have a child. But she said, If I please you, get I don't know what the other couple is doing, it's not even my business, it's not my jurisdiction, that's between them and you. But one thing I know if I please you, God, give me mine, and so this scripture is saying, if we take away the yoke that is from amongst us, if we take away the pointing of the finger, whoever uh problem is, whoever's at fault, it doesn't matter. God, if I please you, the word says, if you take away the pointing of the finger, he will spring forth your health speedily. There may be things that you desire from God that only God can do. We know in the 31st chapter, Proverbs, it says many virgins did well, but you excel. So in God, it doesn't matter who's doing what, who's in front. He said the first will be last, and last will be first. It don't matter what position, what status, what place you in. When you please God, and when you take away the pointing of the finger and desire to please God and Him only, God will go around, God will go roundabout way, he will move positions, move things in order for you to be blessed. I'm reminded of Cain and Abel. Abel gave his best offering. Cain could have done the same thing. Why he didn't, I don't know. But God told him, Why are you angry? Because if you do the same, you will have praise of the same. Don't look over the fence, don't be envious, don't be jealousy. Do what God has laid on your heart and your hand to do, because everybody is unique. There's no other person like you but you. Do all you can and in your might for God, and He will bless that. He said, Whatever the your hand, whatever your hands touch, whatever your feet shall try. I'm gonna give you that land. When you do it in the vein of pleasing God, and pleasing God is pleasing and helping his people, have you on your mind what God wants and desire? God will bless. Where there is a vision, there will be provision, and God pays for that that he orders. He says that you're gonna build the old waste places. There's some places that is laid uh dormant, is it's just like uh where Mephiboshef uh was at when David the King asked the question Is there anyone left of this of Jonathan's lineage that I the king may bless? And he was told, Yes, there is someone of that lineage that's left, but he's down there in Lodibar, and Lodi Bar is a place is uninhabited, it's waste places, but that doesn't mean anything because God got the power to resurrect everything that's dead in your life, and he gave us the power and said, Y'all gonna build the old waste, old waste places. Yes, you you're gonna raise up the foundation of many generations. Some people have lost hope, some people don't feel that it can be any better, but God has transformation power, and He can do what no other power can do. Have you any rivers that you feel uncrossable, and have you any mountains that you can't tunnel through? God specializes in things impossible, and he can do what no other power, Holy Ghost power can do. Not only are you going to raise the foundations of many generations, you're gonna be called the repairers of the breach. And a breach is when something doesn't come out the right way. We heard of you, may have heard of a breached birth, a natural birth or the normal way a birth happens is the head come out first, but when you have a breach birth, it means the foot comes out first, it's backwards, it's not the right way, and so there are things that are not the right way. They uh it doesn't um amount to anything. God has given us the power, and he said we're gonna be repairers of things that should have been and not not are not done. We're gonna be repairs of those places, of those issues. We know what God said, we heard what God set things out to be when He called uh a person, when He called a ministry, He may have called you into one area, but because of life, because of struct uh struggles, because of uh sometimes and grafting or bringing in people without the same like mind and same vision, then we get off track and start going another way. However, there's someone, and God has called some people to be repairers of the breach. Is it you? Is it I? Are you gonna raise the foundations of many generations? Some generations may have gone astray. There's some generations that don't know God because of our lifestyle, because of disobedience, and so it was at a time God do stop talking, heaven is will be set up when we refuse to hear the word of the Lord. There are times God goes silent on us, but He always has a ram in the bush. Somebody gonna be repairer of a breach, a restorer of pastor dwelling, the raiser up of foundation. Is it you? Could it be I? But if only if we take away the pointing of the finger, they did do what they you said they did, but God is calling us to greater glory, the higher heights, and deeper depth, forgetting those things which are behind us and reaching forward to the higher calling, mark the to the mark of which is in Christ Jesus. Go forward, look forward, look ahead, onward and upward. God didn't call us to be stagnated or complacent. There's no standstill in Jesus Christ. He's constantly moving, he's a progressive guy, he keeps going. Things are not the same, and we have to go with where God is down, thanking God for his word. His word is forever settled in the heaven. He said, We're gonna be like a water garden and like the spring of water whose water fell not. The Bible says, Out of your belly will flow rivers of living water, springing up until everlasting life. He will satisfy our soul and draw, and the Lord will continually to guide us, he will continue to open up your understanding, open up your revelation. When you lay on that uh altar and let him do the open heart surgery out of our bellies, it's gonna flow rivers of living water. Let him deal with your heart, let him deal with those crevices and those hidden chambers, the hidden madness of the heart that don't nobody know but God. Man looks on the outward, but God looks on the heart. He knows why you do what you do, why you say what you say, why you behave like he behaves. He knows the root and the heart madness of things. But he said, Give it to me, and I'll bear it, give it to me, I'll share it. If there's a need in your life, I would take it. If you only give it to me. This is healing stream waters, daily doses. I'm happy to say that God's word will not go out, it will go out and will not return unhimp to him void. It's gonna accomplish and it's gonna prosper in the thing that he sent it to. Be blessed, God loves you, and I love you, and there's nothing you can do about it.