24th November 2024 - Teaching Service - Ad-dressed Right

To do in Jesus' name. Amen. The worship team did

a great job. The last song is exactly in line

with where I'm going today, are you? This is about

being dressed and ready. That's our theme for this month

as we head towards Christmas. Anybody dress up for a Christmas?

Do yet? Anybody being out on a Christmas Do You've

got all specially dressed up? Maybe you got a special

dress or a suit, or got a special tie out.

You know, We've dressed for special occasions, don't we We're

going somewhere special. Maybe we want to impress somebody, maybe

our boss, maybe our children, maybe a you know, if

we're courting, maybe a boyfriend or girlfriend. But we dress

to impress. Do you know what I want to say?

We need to dress on the inside too. He has

been talked a bit about this last week. We need

to dress on the inside too. So please bear with me.

This is going to be a pretty ouch sermon. So

please press in because I'm with you in this, and

I've got a whole load of different versions of the Bible.

But let me start with Exodus chapter nineteen, verses five

and six. But you, that's us. But you are a

chosen race, a royal priesthood, a dedicated nation, God's own

purchased special people, that you may set forth the wonderful

deeds and display the virtues and perfections of Him who

called you out of darkness into his marvelous light. We're chosen, Church,

We're special. That means your special. I am absolutely certain

quite a few people who are listening online and who

are in the room today, at some point in our

lives we will have said I'm not good enough or

I'm not special. Scripture says you are special, You're chosen.

Set apart. Why does God set us apart? Why does

he do that? In Philippians chapter four, it says this,

then God's wonderful peace that transcends human understanding will make

the answers known to you through Christ Jesus. So keep

your thoughts continually fixed on all that is authentic and real,

honorable and admirable, beautiful and respectful, pure and holy, merciful

and kind, and fastening your thoughts on every glorious work

of God, praising him always. I wonder if I said, Okay,

for the next five minutes, I'm now going to broadcast

up on the screen to the world what you've been

thinking about this week, I'd start to get a bit nervous,

if I'm honest with you, if that was okay. So

now we're going to press the button. It's going to

be Dave's version of the week. Uh okay, can we

filter that out please, because there's some things I'm not

proud of you and we probably all do that. We

probably all do that from time to time. But we

need to keep our eyes continually fixed on what is authentic,

kingdom real, and I want to really challenge and explore

some of this. I've got some principles I want to explore.

So brace your minds, be sober, circumspect, morally alert, set

your hope wholly and unchangeably on the grace divine favor

that He's coming to you when Christ, Jesus the Messiah

is revealed. So that's me setting the scene. Do you

know where I'm going. I'm going to challenge you. I'm

going to provoke you. Do you know what we think

we will become? And I'll unpack this. You know what

goes on in here. If we're not careful, we will

become it. Pep on feeding our minds with rubbish, rubbish

will come out. You can say exactly the same about

our bodies. If you keep on eating ten doughnuts a day,

you know your body will not be in good shape.

I was listening to a podcast this week and said,

you know most things, if you eat in extremes, if

you eat at a stadium full of Mars bars every week,

you will probably get cancer. Yeah. Probably. I'm not trying

to It's a stupid statement in some senses, because no

one will ever eat a stadium full of Mars bars.

But what it was saying in moderation, many things are good,

but if we are not careful, what we think is

what we become. And I want to start by talking

about our thought life. The first thing I want to

say is we need to identify the thoughts that come

into our minds. Think about this morning, have a think

about this morning. Think about not what you had for breakfast,

but at some point during the morning you probably thought something.

It might have been triggered by the news. It might

have been triggered by the radio. It might have been

triggered by a phone call. But now your thoughts are running.

Did you guard your mind? Did you allow whatever came

to go straight into your head and go, okay, that's

the right. The first thing we need to do is

to identify that there is a thought. We need to

identify that thought. Why do we need to identify because

we're accepting it, we're allowing it in. Let me give

you an example. You're not very good. Some people have

thought that. Well, do you know what? Somebody might say

that Your dad or your mom might have said that

at some point over your life, and you've just allowed

it to drive down the freeway of your mind. You've

allowed it in. The first thing we need to do

is guard our minds. So just think about this. On

our motorways here in the UK, we allow almost anything

to drive on the motorway, trucks, vans, not bicycles. But

do you know what, We need to guard our minds

in the same way. And so we cannot allow everything

that travels on the freeway of our minds just to

arrive and take over. So the first thing we need

to do is to identify those sorts. We need to

identify the thoughts we're allowing in. Maybe actually we ought

to think of our mind more as a toll road

that will only allow certain things on that road. And

in deciding what we're going to allow. So will we

almost have a policeman at our door of our minds

going no, I'm not allowing that. In two key questions

I want to ask to help us to guard our minds.

Number one is who's it from? What's the source of

the idea. Let's say I walked up to you and

I said to you the world body is flat. Some

of you might for some reason go, no, it's not okay,

Well prove it to me, because there were many people

in the world who, for many, many decades thought the

world was flat. They thought if you came to the

end of the world, you'd fall off, and that's why

exploration was limited for many centuries. People were afraid you'd

fall off the end of the world. And we laugh

now because we've had the privilege to have pictures from

space that show us the planet we live on that

what God created. So first thing is what's the source?

And the second thing is does it align with God's words?

So simple principle, I'd like you to imagine sitting down

and having a cup of coffee. You're sitting down and

having a cup of coffee with somebody and they start

sharing some really kind of unpleasant things with you. Not

their own life, not their own experience, but gossip about

somebody else. First thing we want to ask ourselves is, Okay,

where's this from? Because sometimes it'll be from the enemy,

sometimes it'll be from a bad source. It is Google

a good source. I challenge my students all the time.

I say to them, what do you trust as a

good source? And You've heard me quote this many times before,

but I'll quote it again. A fantastic piece of research

done out of the University of Southern California that got

a whole bunch of people to get up in the

morning and for breakfast they read a great text, the Bible,

the Tour of the Little Prince. Another group of people,

they were only allowed to read the news, the newspapers, podcasts,

those kind of things, just the news of the day.

After a few months, those who read the great texts

were healthier, happier, more at peace, and I could keep

on going. Those who are reading the news every day

the roller coaster of the news up and down. And

I'm not saying we shouldn't read the news, but I'm saying,

let's look at the source, because quite often the source

is not reliable. Oh Google says, who trusts Google? Who

trust Wikipedia? I mean, I trust God's word. But Wikipedia

is virtual truth. Anybody can change it. And so you know,

don't put your tru As an academic, I would say

to my students, please don't quote Wikipedia to me. You

will get a black mark on you in your exam

or your essay if you quote Wikipedia, a negative mark.

So question number one, what's the source? Question number two?

Does it align with God's word? Let's explore some of

the lies that maybe we've heard before. Let's see if

I can find them. I think I put some up here,

some lies that come our way. Let me read out

some of them to you. And this is not meant

to be exclusive. You are not good enough at church.

I don't believe this. I'm just saying this is now.

Let's say somebody said to you you're not good en. Well,

what's the first thing we do or where is it from?

When it might be somebody's opinion. It might be your

dad might have said that to you. It might be

their opinion. But second test, does it align with God's word? No,

Jesus sent his one and only son to die for you.

He said, his one and only son to die for you.

So why would he do that if you weren't good enough.

He's done it because you're special, You're unique. I've already

given you scriptures to declare your special, your precious, your unique.

You've been chosen. People don't choose people who are not

good enough. You've probably been there at some point when

you were getting selected, and you know you had primary

school selects, two teams, two team captains, and you're the

last person to be picked. You know how that feels.

It feels like I'm not good enough. But that's just

a lie, so we reject it. On premise number two.

Another lie is it's better somewhere else. That may be

true sometimes, but you know what, if we are always

looking over the fence, if we're always looking at something else,

then we have not fucking scripture says godly contentment is

great gain being at peace with where you're at now.

I'm not saying it's easy. Jesus said there will be

troubles in life. He did say that, but you know

we can get through it with him. And so if

we start believing day after day it's better somewhere else,

we're not looking about improving where we are. We're looking

about going somewhere else. Third one, I'm not gonna make it.

I'm not going to finish this. Do you know what?

God helps us, He enables us, he feels us, he

equips us. We can do all things through Christ, who

strengthens us. And so sometimes God will be with us.

God will be with us in many different ways. I

heard only this week somebody say everyone's against me everyone.

I kind of go, everyone, God's for you. If God

is for you, who can be against you? And so

these are lies. I can refute these all with scripture.

They're very simple to refute with scripture. And that's one

of the reasons I give you memory versus every week,

because I want to give you weapons of warfare. That means,

when this whisper comes in your ear, you go, no,

that's not true. That's not true about me. I'm not

going to accept this. So just think about this. Someone

comes and sits and I'm picking on the coffee drinkers.

Could have tea drinkers too. But you sit down and

have a coffee and somebody suddenly starts talking and you go, okay,

I'm not comfortable. This doesn't line up. If it's not

from a good source, and it doesn't line up with

God's word. Stop, I'm not talking about this. Just imagine

your best friends. Somebody comes and they starts telling you

things that you know are lies, but and you think, well,

I just need to listen to it. Oh no, stop, stop, Okay,

what are we going to talk about. If it's not

going to be from a good source, it's not going

to line up with God's word. Let's move on because

I'm not going to sit here for two hours. I'm

not going to sit here for two hours and listen

and allow this to contaminate my mind and my heart.

Because we can change our thoughts. We can change our thoughts,

and if we change our thoughts, it will change our actions.

And if we change our actions, it will change the

way we walk. And if we change the way we walk,

it will change the way we live. It starts with

some simple things, by the way we think. That's why

we need to make room in our minds. You know,

I while I went to see a pediatrist who kind

of measured my gate and put me on machines and

made me walk, And he said, Dave, you're your You

know your feet are out of alignment, and it's a

whole bunch of history, you know. And he got some

inserts from my shoe which I put inside my shoes,

and I meant to wear them every day. I meant,

notice I say I meant to wear them every day

because they're uncomfortable. At the moment, they're uncomfortable. I know

they're doing me good. But do you know what I

have to choose to put the right pair of shoes on.

I can put on another pair of shoes that don't

have the inserts in, and then I think, oh, that

feels okay, but I'm not standing right. And because I'm

not standing right, everything else goes out of kils it,

you know. So I have to choose put the right

shoes on, put wear the right inserts that will result

in a good walk, and a good will result in

a healthier life. I want to be here for decades.

I don't know about you. I want to be here

for decades. I want to live out my retirement, whatever

that means. When I say retirement, I don't mean retirement

from the kingdom. I don't think you retire in that way.

But you know, when you earn a pension, those kind

of things, don't have to go to work every day.

So in two Corinthians, chapter ten, verse five, and I'm

going to read from the Message now, I just love

this version. Here we use our powerful God given tools

for smashing warped philosophies, tearing down barriers erected against the

truth of God, fitting every loose thought and emotion and

impulse into the structure of life shaped by Christ. Two Corinthians,

chapter ten, verse six, from the Message version, if we

allow it. In Oh, let me pick up that one

that I gave you, the world is flat? Okay? Shall

we talk about it? Some of you are going no, Dave,

that's boring. I'm not interested. Some of you will go, well,

our humor you. Sometimes we talk about things because we

want to humor the person who's talking to us. Do

you know what if they're preaching lies to us, If

they're speaking lies to us, we need to just go

whoa hang in a second, can we change the subject?

And you are perfectly at liberty to change the subject.

And if they don't want to change the subject, maybe

you want to say, do you know what, I'm going

to go and get another cup of coffee. I'm going

to go to the Loo and then we're going to

come back and we have a different conversation. About six

or seven years ago, I remember going into a kitchen

of a couple who have I've known for many, many,

many years, and they went abroad and they lived in

Europe for a number of years in different countries, and

then they came back to the UK and I went

into their kitchen and I was chatting to them, and

I nearly burst into tears. I honestly nearly burst into

tears because we were having the same conversation we'd had

probably ten years before. They were stuck in a rut.

They were still stuck in a rut. They hadn't made

any other choices to walk differently. Even though I tried

to sow some scripture into them, they were still stuck

in a rut. And it's particularly about family relationships, you

know what I mean, When part of the family's fallen

out with another part of the family, and then you

get asked these kind of questions, so whose side are

you on? But do you know my general answer to

most people who say whose side are you on? Is

I'm not on anybody's side right now. All I'm doing

is listen but I'm listening for the truth. Remember those

two tests, what's the source? Now you imagine you've got

one side of the family going, oh he said this,

and she said that, and oh, you almost want to

go I'll switch this off and I'll just sit and

on nod and I won't. Well, Okay, I don't think

you're being helpful allowing them to talk. Let's change the conversation.

Sometimes people do need to unload. If people are grieving,

they do need to unload. You know. That kind of

stuff happens, and sometimes we don't want to. But do

you know what whenever someone you know, I had the

privilege of taking the funeral of an elderly gentleman who

lived opposite us. He passed away a number of weeks ago,

and I had the privileges doing his funeral. I talked

to his family, and some of them just very sad

that he's gone. He's lived into his nineties, a lovely guy.

What I just let but do you know what I

was looking for was Okay, I want to turn this

conversation around. I want to take this somewhere else now.

I don't want them to stay in their grief. And

what I have the privilege, and I've said it to

a number of you, is whenever I take a funeral,

and I've taken quite a few over the years, sometimes

I don't know the people who are asking me to

take the funeral. Maybe I knew their mum or their dad.

And then saying, Dave, my mum and my dad used

to come to your church or to a senior sits

as lunch, And I think, would you be willing to

do their funeral? And I say yes, if we're number one,

going to celebrate their life. If we're not going to

celebrate a life, I'm not interested. Number two, we're saying

farewell because their grief is very much part of the process.

But the third piece, which I think is important, is

that there's a message of hope. I've been to funerals

where there is no message of hope at all. It's

like you walk out there, you're hedge down, you're looking

at the floor. No one's talking because you don't know

what to say. I really believe we need to God

needs to help us to take things to a greater place.

And sometimes that's about Number one. Where's it from? Okay?

If it's not from God, sorry, I'm not listening, and

you can find polite ways of saying this. You don't

always have to say nan and I'm not listening. Now

that's a teenage response, and you may have teenagers who

do that. But do you know what there are different

ways of doing Do you know what can we move

the conversation on? Because what we allow in we need

to guard our hearts and minds. How do we do that? Well,

let me quote Romans twelve, Chapter two, Chapter twelve, US

two and do not be conformed to this world, but

be transformed how by the renewing of your mind, that

you may prove what is good and accepted and perfect.

Word of this scripture alone describes I'm talking about today.

You only need to practice this one scripture and you've

got it. Be transformed by the renewing of your mind.

You know, our brains renew themselves on a second by

second basis. You know there are cells that are dying,

there are cells that are being reproduced. You know the

neurons are firing. You know, that's that's the great thing.

Let me put it a different way in the amplified version,

because I do like to go into the amplified version

from time to time, Romans twelve two. Do not be

conformed to this world, this age, fashioned after and adapted

to this external superficial customs. You know, we allow superficiality

to come in. We allow customs to overall sometimes, you know,

kingdom principles overall, in my perspective, kingdom principles. There will

be things. There were things that Daniel was asked to do.

He would not bow down. There are plenty of examples

in scripture where they said no, I'm not going to

do that. And there may be a time in your

life when you have to say no to an official.

So I'm sorry, I'm not doing that. But be transformed,

changed by the entire renewal of your mind. That's the

biological stuff that's going on in there by its new

ideas and its new attitude, so that you may prove

for yourselves, because we need to know ourselves that this

is good and healthy. You know, just the p dietary

is saying to me, oh, it'll do you good. You know,

when I did a check up with him, he went,

how's it going. I said, it's pretty painful, to be honest,

and he went, yeah, but look at the way you're

walking differently. So I can see the benefits for anybody

who doesn't like going to the gym. And I know

we've got people who love going to the gym and

other people who like me, you are not so good.

You know there is benefit in doing it. There is

benefit in making right choices that you may prove to

yourselves what is good and acceptable and perfect will of God,

even the thing which is good and acceptable and perfect

in His side for you. So four steps I want

us to take. Number one is identify the thought as

a thought comes towards you go, Oh, there's a thought coming.

A bit like crossing the road. You know, if you

think about it, when you cross the road, the first

thing I say, stop, look right, look left, you are

looking for traffic. Now, let me encourage you. If you

are uncomfortable in a particular moment, you're about to go

into a conversation, just stop and think, Okay, what's coming?

What thought is coming my way? Sometimes you will have

a particular conversation you're going to meet someone. You go,

I know where this is going to go. So you

take a deep breath. In that deep breath, ask God

to help you. So number one, identify the thought. Number two,

speak to the thought. And if you think I'm nuts here,

I regularly see people walking around the street speaking as

if to themselves. Now I'm starting to pray out loud

whilst I'm walking, more than I ever used to do.

I didn't use to do it because I thought, Okay,

somebody's going to label me as a bit nuts because

I'm walking down the street and I'm talking to myself.

And then I realized, all I have to do is

to put my ear buds in so I look like

I'm on the phone and I can start talking. Because

you have been annoyed, just like I've been annoyed when

someone's on the train and they're talking on their phone

on their ear buds and you can hear the whole conversation.

You think, I don't want to hear about what you're

having for dinner tonight, But we can utilize that. Put

an earbud in your ear and carry on talking. Walk

the high street and pray because what we talk about

is what we become. So speak to those thoughts, So

dress those thoughts. Allow into your mind what is important?

What is something? Now? Once we've then said what does

it align to God's word, to his truth? We can

claim that truth. I can do all things through Christ,

who strengthens me. We know that to be true. We

know it's the Bible says that, But can we claim it.

Can we say that's true for me? It's true for

me now, because that's the difference between having a truth

and claiming a truth. So I want to encourage us.

Let's lay hold of that truth. Those some of those

lies that I talked about, Let's claim some of the truths,

some of the words we just sung. There's no shadow

you won't light up. There's no mountain you won't climber,

there's no wall you won't kick down. Coming after me,

not coming after somebody else, coming after me. God's coming

after you. God's chasing after you. Jesus talks about he

left the ninety nine to go for the one. That's

what a shepherd would do, the lost sheep. We will

go and find that lost sheep. So let's claim that truth.

And then once we claimed it and said that's true

for me, now let's choose to walk it. And I

know you don't want to hear a about my pedetary experiences,

but this is the reality. The reality is every day

I need to make a choice going, Okay, the advice

that I've been given is good. I can feel the

benefit of it. I can also feel the pain of it.

But I'm going to claim that truth, and I am

going to walk in that truth. I'm going to walk

in that truth, and I'm going to walk better and better. Now,

that may not be true about shoes for you, but

Scripture talks about putting on the full armor of God,

the belt of truth that holds everything together, the breastplate

of righteousness, the helmet of salvation, the feet shod with

the readiness of the Gospel of peace. One of the

things about shoes is it takes you somewhere. I've been

told that empathy means walking in somebody else's shoes, and

I literally took that story once and I thought, Okay,

I'm going to try and put somebody else's shoes on. Now,

I've got big feet, I've got sized twelve shoes. So

when I try and put my wife's garden shoes on,

I put my toes in and around like this because

I can't be bothered to look for my shoes. I

just got to go out in the garden and feed

the birds or something, and I'll do it. In my

wife's shoes, and I'll put my toes in the shoes,

and I'll walk really strangely. And if somebody was watching me, Chris,

you may have seen me do this. Ah, you know,

but they're not fit for me. They're not designed for me.

Whose shoes are you wearing? Because if you empathize with someone,

you'll put shoes on like them. And if you walk

the way they walk, you will find that you will

find you are looking at the world from their perspective.

That's why if we allow some of these thoughts into

our minds, we will find ourselves in places we don't

want to be. And that's both physical and spiritual. There

are places that people can take us if we're not careful.

One Peter chapter three, verse ten. For he who loves

life and sees good days, let him refrain his tongue

from evil and his lips from speaking. To see. What

we allow in is often what we speak out. I

find myself often quoting things that I've heard in the week.

Somebody said something, and I think, oh, that's good, I'm

going to use that. We're doing a Bible study at

the moment, and if you want to join us or

even get the book you ask me, you've still got

some books. God on Mute by Pete Gregg. It's a fantastic,

real journey through talking about difficult things. What do you

do when God doesn't seem to be answering your prayer? Well,

these are some of the things that are lies that

need to be dealt with. Okay, Notice I use the

word seems like he's not answering your prayer. Anybody understand

the four letter acronym fomo. Do you know what it

stands for? Fear of missing out? It's probably one of

the biggest fears in the world today. We feel we're

going to miss out, so we hold back. I'll give

you a really simple example that's true in church life.

You put an event on, you say, people, let us

know whether you're coming, because we need to buy the

meat or whatever it is. We're having a barbecue. We

need to buy the meat. And some people will respond,

some people won't, and some of us we're thinking, well,

something better might come along, So I don't want to

commit because something might better might come along. Do you

know what fear of missing out to lie? The enemy

wants to keep on coming back to us, something better

on the other side of the fence. Somebody came up

to me about nine years ago. Nine years ago and

he said, Pastor, I've I've been given this prophetic word

by a profit in our network, and I'd just like

to understand what you think about it. He said, okay,

far away. This is in the coffee break at a

conference I was speaking at. He said, yeah, this person

cared to me and said I've got a word for you.

And I said, yeah, what did they say? And they said,

the wife that you have is not the wife that

God has for you. God has a better wife for you.

I don't know what you'd have said when that was

shared with you. I said, number one, do you trust

the person who shared that with you? What's the source?

I'm going back to some principles. I'm just i want

to give you some example. What's the source? He said, well, yeah,

they're a good person. But I said, okay, if you'd

have asked them to share this with somebody else being present,

what would they have done? He said, yeah, Actually, interestingly,

they asked to share it privately with me. I said

what did private mean? I said just for me? And

then I said, whaha, stop. Okay, you know there are

prophetic words that are very personal and private, but not

private enough that it has to be one to one.

And if anybody, and certainly here asks you, if anybody

ever says to you, I've got a prophetic word and

I only need to speak to you, go okay, stop,

I'm teaching this right now from the front. I've said

it before, but I'm saying it again. If someone says

I've got a word for you, and they won't, you know,

you just you say, can I bring my friend? Can

I bring my husband? Can I bring my wife? If

they say no, then you go so thank you very much,

thanks for willing to offer it. But the prophetic needs

to be accountable. It needs to be tested, it needs

to be validated. And do you know what, if it's

a word that you want to hear, it'll tickle your

ears and you'll only remember bits of it. That's why

we live in a modern age where you can record stuff.

It's great to be able to record stuff. Well. When

the spirit started moving in revivals in Wales, they had

scribes who sat at the front of church and wrote

down every prophetic word in a fountain pen. Just imagine

that if when a prophetic were You've got to write

really quickly, and you've got to remember it all. Wow,

we have the privilege now being able to record all

it and listen to it again and again and again.

Number one, Okay, is it willing to be shared public?

Do you trust them as a source? Have they been

reliable before? Now? One of the things, and it's one

of the tests we as church have to do, is

if we say a prophetic word, you know, we've said,

we said, we've said, and this is again teachability. I

tend to say, I hope. I tend to say I

think the Lord is saying and it's not because he's imperfect,

it's because I'm imperfect. Corinthians talks about we prophesy in

part we prophesy. Now, there have been one or two

times in my life when something has happened just before

a meeting when I've been traveling. Something happened that destructed

once I got an email that was really kind of problematic.

Another time, somebody came and started ranting at me just

before the service was about to start. They weren't they

weren't mentally well. This particular person, the pastor, came up

to me, but I didn't know that, and they kind

of ranting at me. And then I went in, I

wasn't in a good place. And so some of the

things that I prophesied probably carried a little bit of

that nervousness, and that we prophesy in part. That's why

we need to make ourselves. Set ourselves apart. People who preach,

make sure you're in a good place. People who prophesy,

make sure if you're got to pray for someone, make

sure you're in a good place. So number one, I'm

going back to this, what this prophetic word? Do you trust?

This aorce? Were they willing to be accountable? And then

does it align with God's word? Does it alone? Sorry,

that's two. Does it allown with God's word? No, no

it doesn't. So just on those two tests alone, I've said,

I would just say thank you very much, bye bye.

I wouldn't even allow it in I wouldn't even talk

about it because it doesn't line up with God's word.

And Ruth said this, which I'd love. In the Book

of Ruth, Chapter one, verse sixteen, Ruth said, don't force

me to leave you, don't make me go home. Where

you go, I will go where you live. I will live.

Your people are my people. Your God is my God.

Do you know what? There are times when we need

to buddy up together and say, do you know what.

I'm on the same page as you, and I want

to do this together. And as I want to do

this together, I want to encourage us to be of

good carriage. To Samuel ten, verse twelve ends with it.

I'm going to end with this, be of good courage,

and let us be strong for our people and for

the cities of our God. And may the gods do

what he's good in his SIGHTE What do we allowing?

Because what we allow in will probably linger, and if

it lingers, it will probably have an effect. Think about

not washing your saucepans properly. Think about a strong flavor anchovies, curry, chilies.

You haven't washed your saucepan quite properly. You then go

and make rice pudding. This rice pudding tastes of chilies.

Why is that? Because it's contaminated by something that went before?

Good timing? Rob nice love it? I love it, you know?

So who's for us? Who's with us? What do you

allow in? Let me go back to those four questions

if you want to bring them up. Okay, identified number one.

Identified the thought. Once you've identified it and you've pleased

it and said not allowing that in that that's not beneficial.

And do what Please be very wise about the conversations

that you have identified. Firstly, identify it is a thought. Second,

speak to that thought. Once we've got hold of that

thought and allowed it in, and we're going to do

something with claim it. If it's truth, then claim the truth,

walk out the truth, live the truth, and then walk

in that truth. I've given you some lies, and I'm

not to go back to them again because I don't

want to give them any more footage than I've already

given them. I've given them too much footage as it was.

But I think I wanted to go there because for

some people that would have been true. For some people

listening at home, that might be true that you have

thought I'm not good enough. God sent his one and

only son for you and for me. And we're going

to step back to worship now. And we have room

to minister now. And one of the reasons for us

moving here was to make room for ministry. We have

a big space at the front. Now. We have people

who are happy to come and pray. If you need

prayer today, if you've allowed thoughts into your mind that

you need to get rid of. Maybe there's some that

are stuck, maybe there's a thought that you've carried for decades.

Then now is the time to press in. As we

worship God, let's examine our hearts. So let me pray, Father,

thank you for loving us. Thank you for loving us

so Dearly Father, help us to walk aright, help us

to walk through, Help us to help others to do

that too. Father, we want the light of your presence,

the love of your spirit, the manifest of your presence

in our world to change us. Move us, bless us,

and release us for freedom's sake. In Jesus' name, Amena Chaur.

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