Justice Fulfilled - Established in Righteousness with Ps. Angie Krulcik

We're going to talk about, in fact, the title of my message

today is Justice Fulfilled and and Being Established in

Righteousness. Such a huge topic and we're just

going to start in Galatians chapter 2, verse 20.

Galatians 2:20

And I'm just going to read some scriptures to you.

Yes, stand up for the reading of the word.

Galatians 220 says I have been crucified with Christ.

It is no longer I who live, but it's Christ that lives within me

and the life which I now live in the flesh.

I live by faith in the Son of God who loved me and gave

himself for me. Amen.

You can be seated. You have Christ in you.

You have the greater one in you. And, and if we don't make it a

spiritual habit every day to remind ourselves who we are in

Christ, then we'll come up in here in the church.

And the church is such a great corporate anointing and a place

where we can unify, we can get the truth.

We can grow in the truth. But what happens when you're

faced with a crisis out there? And what happens when you're

when you're faced with brokenness in here?

And what happens when you're at home sitting on your couch and

the battle is raging in your mind, 'cause we can come in here

and we can get built up and we should.

But what happens when you go home?

And God desires that we be of one mind of 1 accord, 1 spirit,

thinking the same thing. And so we're going to talk about

how to live in victory every day, every hour, every minute.

I want to read Galatians 220 to you.

In the Passion translation. It says this new life is no

longer mine, for the anointed one lives his life through me.

We live in union as one. My new life is empowered by the

faith of the Son of God who loves me so much that he gave

himself for me, dispensing or imputing his life into mine.

We're going to talk about what that word imputation means, but

first let's go to Ephesians chapter 2.

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Ephesians chapter 2 verse one says, And you He made alive, who

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were dead in trespasses and sins in which you once walked,

according to the course of this world, according to the Prince

of the power of the air, the Spirit, who now works in the

sons of disobedience, Among whom also we all once conducted

ourselves in the lusts of our flesh, fulfilling the desires of

the flesh and of the mind. And we were by nature children

of wrath, just as the others. But God, everybody say but God,

but God who is rich in mercy, because of His great love with

which He loved us even when we were dead in trespasses, He made

us alive together with Christ. By grace you have been saved and

raised us up together and made us sit together in heavenly

places in Christ Jesus. That in the ages to come,

sometimes we need to remind ourselves where we're seated,

that you're seated. The Scripture says in Ephesians

one that that God has placed all things under Christ's feet.

Everything is under his feet. And then it says, and he placed

him at the right hand of the Father.

And then it goes on in chapter 2 to say, and now he's seated you

with him in heavenly places. So spiritually speaking, you're

seated in righteousness. Justice has been fulfilled and

we're going to look at that. But you got to remember where

you're seated because you're always every hour, all the time

above, far above all rule and authority and power and dominion

and every name that is named always, every hour, all the

time, not just when you're here. It reminds me, and I've shared

this before, but it reminds me years ago when the Lord spoke to

me about when David used to go play for Saul and it and it and

it eased his mind and it eased the demonic pressure that he was

feeling. He had peace in those moments.

But but when David left, he went right back to to the torment and

the affliction in his mind. And sometimes as church people,

I'm not saying this is you, although we all should be going

from faith to faith and from glory to glory.

And if you think you've arrived or you think that you don't have

any mind renewal to do, then then I got a spot for you right

up here in just a little bit because we all should be

growing. It wouldn't be right even in the

my marriage with my husband if I just expected that I'm just

right now I'm just this perfect wife, although maybe so that I'm

just this perfect person. I should always be growing.

I should always be saying God search me, see if there's any

offensive way in me and lead me in the way everlasting.

We all should be in that place. So it so it says, we're seated

together in heavenly places in Christ Jesus that in the ages to

come, that's right now, that in the ages to come he might show

the exceeding riches of his grace and his kindness toward us

in Christ Jesus. In other words, God wants to

show out through you His grace, His kindness towards us who

believe. For by grace you have been saved

through faith, and it's not of yourselves.

It's the gift of God. It's the gift of God, not of

works, lest anyone should boast. Colossians chapter 2 verses 9:00

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and 10:00. I'm going to read it in the

Living Bible. It says for in Christ there is

all of God in a human body. So you have everything when you

have Christ. You have everything when you

have Christ. Let me say that again.

So it so it gets in you, you have everything.

When you have Christ, you have everything and you are filled

with God through your union with Christ.

He is the highly highest ruler with authority over every other

power. Christ in you, the hope of

glory. The Scripture says, are you God

conscious? Are we Christ conscious?

You know, Kenneth Hagin said this, You want to find somebody

spiritual, you don't come up in the church to find them.

You follow them home because anybody can.

Anybody can look spiritual and play the part in here.

And I'm not saying we're a bunch of pretenders, but I'm just

saying what happens in your mind when you go home?

And this is a passion for me because because we over the

years have have counseled and talked with a lot of people and

and people walk through things because of circumstances in

life. But sometimes we go around the

same mountains and the same strongholds in the same patterns

in our lives because of the way we think.

And God redeemed you, but he asked you to do something with

your mind. And it's not hard.

The Bible said his, his, his yoke is easy and his burden is

light. But you got to get in this

spiritual habit of waking up every day and saying, God,

you're good, God, you're in me. Christ, the greater 1 is in me.

Holy Ghost, you're leading me. Thank you, Lord, that I hear

you. You got to wake up because if

you hit the floor and you and you immediately go to how you

feel, then your feelings are going to be sitting on the

throne. Come on.

And we want to be a people who are of one mind.

Emotions aren't sitting on the throne, but we're living the

just shall live by faith. By faith.

Christ in me. So are we God conscious?

I only have about 50 pages, but it's fought 30, so you'll be OK.

Let me say something about true conversion real quick.

I just want to throw this nugget in here.

This might be for somebody and they know who they are.

True conversion, true faith should look very different.

Come on. When, when Saul was confronted

by the Lord and the Lord showed himself to him, Saul said, what

should, what can I do? What should I do?

What do you want me to do? And it reminds me of of the day

I grew up in, in, in the church, grew up in, in Baptist Church,

but but didn't really learn how to live by faith.

And I remember getting born again.

I got born again as a young girl at a Baptist Church camp.

And I'm so grateful for that. But it wasn't until Fast forward

in my 20s, after running my course, drinking drugs, doing

all those things, that the Lord arrested me.

And I remember the day that I got rid of those things and I

said, God, what? What do you want me to do?

What do you want me to do? How can I, how do I make you

Lord? How do I do this all by myself

in my apartment? And I, I just knew.

I just knew on the inside. Go get a Bible, Go get a

devotional. I remember going to the

Christian bookstore and I didn't know who, who Kenneth Copeland

was at all, but just found me a devotional and just started

reading it every day. So I, so I'd learned how to read

my Bible and so I started reading it every day.

And when my friends, you know, would, would come in with the,

the, the, the blunts and the marijuana and all those things,

there was just something in me that knew I can't do it anymore.

I can't do that anymore. True conversion should look

different. True faith should look different

if we go out into the community and our community sees us broken

in our mind, broken in our body, broken in our emotions.

What is? What is faith?

Then? What is the gospel?

Then Jesus bore it all. He carried it all, every grief,

every pain, every sorrow, every sickness.

But if you don't tell yourself that, and you don't tell

yourself what he did, then you'll just stay in the old ways

of thinking. You'll keep your old garments

on. The Bible says put on the new

man. When I was a little girl, I ran

out of the house without my shirt on and I forgot to put it

on. And I was horrified.

I remember running over to my neighbor's house and and she was

like, what's happening? And I realized I didn't have a

shirt on. And so I ran home as fast as I

could and cried and put a shirt on.

And some of us are like that. We're running around half naked

got don't have our belt of truth buckled around our waist, don't

have our feet fitted with the readiness that comes from the

gospel of don't have our helmet of salvation on.

Don't have our sword of the Spirit up with which we can

extinguish all the fiery darts of the evil 1.

And we don't have our breastplate of righteousness on

which we're going to talk about today, because think about that

breastplate, because it covers all your vital organs.

You don't wear that breastplate or righteousness.

You're dead, you're gone. So we're going to talk about

that today, Galatians 524 says, and those who are Christ have

crucified the flesh with its passions, its affections and

desires. And that word affections means a

feeling which the mind suffers or an affliction of the mind.

So in other words, we've crucified the things which have

afflicted our mind. We've done it.

We've crucified when when depression tries to come, thank

you Lord. The joy of the Lord is my

strength. When heaviness tries to come,

thank you Father, the peace of God reigns in my mind.

It's up to you. It's up to you to choose daily

that you're going to live this life of faith.

If we're going to rise, it's got to, it's got to be time for us

to become disciplined and, and skillful in our mind.

It's our job, The Bible says to be transformed by the renewing

of your mind so that you'll know what is good and perfect will is

for your life. And, and often times as

believers, you know, we'll, we'll be like, I just don't hear

him. I, I just don't know him.

I, I'm, I'm not sure if I know what his will is for my life.

Well, that's because we've become dull in our mind.

That's because we've allowed low level thinking.

And this is for every age. It doesn't matter if you're a

teenager. It doesn't matter if if you're

an adult. The same fiery darts come at all

of us. The the devil tried to to

question Jesus, his identity. Are you really the Son of God?

He does the same thing to you. Who do you think you are?

Who do you think you are that you think you can stand on those

healing scriptures? Who do you think you are that

you think you can walk in always walk in peace and joy in the

Holy Ghost? He's a liar and he's under your

feet and you can extinguish all the fiery darts that he throws

at you. There comes a time if you've

examined yourself that you, that you know, there's still a wall

there, There's still a, a stronghold there.

Like I said, even in my progression of, of faith in my

life, I, I knew after that after to start reading my Bible to, to

find a church. I knew to go find a church.

I knew to attend the church. And then next thing I know I

got, I got hooked up with some believers of like faith and they

helped me grow and a pastor who helped me grow.

And then God called me to Bible college and I thank God for

that. And then I and then I met my

husband there and then what was I done growing at that point?

Not even close. I was absolute basket case when

when we got married and God healed me and he redeemed me and

he and he helped me transform my mind so that so that we can go

from faith to faith and glory to glory and have heaven on earth

in every area. And we all can do that.

We all can do that. Second Corinthians chapter 13

2 Corinthians 13:5

verse 5 says examine yourselves as to whether you are in the

faith. Test yourselves.

And King James says, prove yourself.

Do you not know that Jesus Christ is in you?

When you look in the mirror in the morning, do you look in the

mirror and go, oh, clearly I didn't look in the mirror, but

that's OK. Do you look in the mirror and

go, what's happening? Or do you look in the mirror and

go, God is in me, Christ is in me?

I don't care if you think that's silly or not.

I'm just telling you, you either want victory or you don't.

I remember I've shared this in light of there, there he is

right there. My husband and I, when we got

married, when we got married by faith and now I was a Bible

college student and I was growing in the word.

But like I said, I was kind of a mess.

And he would say to me, you're a woman of God.

You're a woman of God. And he would continue to speak

the word to me. Now, was I looking like that?

Maybe not. But he wasn't moved by that.

And that's what I'm saying to you.

And and there came a day as I, as I meditated on the word that

that at first I was like, that's weird.

That's so weird. And you're phony and stop saying

that to me. And there's nothing weird about

it. If you're going to live by

faith, you got to learn how to say God is in me.

The greater 1 is in me. Thank you, Father God, I'm the

heel to the Lord. Thank you that you're Jehovah

Jireh, that you meet all of our needs.

You got to learn to do it, whether you feel it or not.

This is how you overcome. This is how we overcome.

I need to move on. I just want to stir you up today

about this. Who are you?

What did God say about you? This is life or death for you.

And that doesn't mean that you're you're going to fall over

and die, but you can have the effects of death in you and the

effects of death, sorrow, grief, brokenness, depression,

sickness, a broken mind. There's so many.

And Jesus paid for all of them. He conquered all of them, All

your insecurity, all all your insecurity.

There's a word in Scripture that we glaze over and we

misunderstand it. We don't.

We don't know the weight of it. And if you don't understand it,

you'll do things in your own strength to appease your

conscience before God. You'll do things in your own, in

your own actions to make you feel good before the Father and

God never wanted you to do that. God even in the, even in the Old

Testament, when, when Adam and Eve fell, you know, we know that

they hid themselves and, and they were naked, not ashamed,

and they sinned and they hid and there was shame, there was

guilt. And and instead of waiting for

God to clothe them, they found their own clothing.

And that's really just a foretelling and a picture of man

doing what he can in the natural to cover his own shame and his

own guilt and his own insecurity.

We do all kinds of things. We we find our security in our

jobs. We find our security in our

finances. We find security and people

pleasing. Your security can only be in

Christ alone. This word is righteousness.

It's righteousness. Righteousness is so big.

If I was to, if I was to bring the mic and come down and say,

what is your definition of righteousness?

Hands down, most of you would say doing the right thing.

And that's half of it. If you don't understand that he

made you righteous. If you don't understand the gift

of righteousness, you're doing righteousness will all be in

your own strength. It'll all be what you do on your

own. So we're going to look at it

here for just a minute. Part of it is doing

righteousness. But even when I teach

righteousness and in FCUI take 6-7 weeks just to just to hammer

who you are and the gift of righteousness because we as in

our in our human nature, we have a tendency to try to work things

out on our own. We try to do things to feel good

before God. We come to church.

It makes us feel good we read our Bible.

It makes us feel good. When you read your Bible, it

should be to to know Him, to know who He is, to understand

what He said about you. When you come to church, it's

you coming in this corporate anointing to learn, to grow, not

so you can feel good about yourself.

And you got to guard it. We all have to guard it.

When we understand the gift, then we can become so, so wise

and so skillful in our mind to line it up with who we are in

Christ every day, all the time. Hebrews chapter 5.

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Let's go there. Hebrews chapter 5, verses 12

Hebrews 5:12–14

through 14. Now, now pay attention to this

scripture. It says, for though by this time

you ought to be teachers, you need someone to teach you again

the 1st principles of the oracles of God, and you have

come to need milk and not solid food.

Now listen to verse 13. For everyone who protects only

of milk is unskilled in the word of righteousness, for he is a

baby, but solid food belongs to those who are a full age.

And let me go back to verse 13. For everyone who protects only

of milk is unskilled in what the word of righteousness for he's a

babe. I I in our in my class that I

teach I I'm reminded always of the Avatar movie and I I will

say you stupid you a baby. It's time to grow up and I'm not

I don't literally call them stupid, but it's just to get

their attention. Verse 14, though, says, But

solid food belongs to those who are a full age or mature, that

is, and it explains what those people do, those mature

believers. It says, that is, those who by

reason of use, have their senses exercised to discern both good

and evil. When it says that the babes are

unskilled, that means they're inexperienced.

But when it tells us that the believer that's mature, the one

who by reason abuse, that means habit, habit has their senses,

exercise. That's your mind, that's your

emotions. When you understand

righteousness, this word of righteousness, then you went

you'll, you'll, you'll speak to your mind.

When your mind says otherwise, if that makes sense, you'll tell

your mind what to think. You have to line your thinking

up with who God created you to be.

You cannot take counsel in your own mind.

You cannot take counsel in your own thoughts, so the Scripture

says, but those who by reason of use are by habit have their

senses exercised to discern good and evil.

In other words, when something comes at me that's against what

God says, I'm so quick to say, Nope, I take that thought

captive and I put it up underneath the obedience of the

word of God. God, you said, and we're quick

to do it. It it's habit for us.

We get in the habit. Honestly, a lot of us get in the

habit of just getting up, going through our day, going to work.

We don't meditate. We don't we don't take captive

our thoughts And then we get home and we're wiped out and

we're funky and we don't want to talk to our spouse and we don't

want to deal with our kids. That's on you by reason of use,

by habit, you got to count it joy.

No matter what you're doing, if you're working with kids in the

preschool, you got to count it joy.

You might not feel like doing it tomorrow, but you say, Father, I

thank you, Lord, the love of God has shed a bright in my heart by

the Holy Ghost. I can love these kids, help

these kids. When I used to work at the

detention center back in Tulsa, OK, when I got the job, I said

God with every with every word, with every action, with

everything that I couldn't openly talk about Christ or the

Bible. So I just said with everything

that I do, every touch, I thank you, Lord, that, that you'll

make your word known and they'll ask me.

And, and if they asked me, I could tell them.

And so, so that was my prayer. And God opened so many doors.

I didn't always feel like going. There was a lot of rough things

that happened in the detention center on a daily basis.

We worked at the group home here in Saint Augustine before we

adopted our boys. And, and day after day after

day, we had to remind and we, this was our confession.

If we're here, God's here. And if God's here, then then

these boys have to change. That's got to be the confession

of faith. That's got to be the confession

of Saint Gerard. If I'm here, God's here.

And if God's here, then these girls are going to change, their

minds are going to change, their hearts are going to be healed.

That's got to be your belief system, your confession by

reason of use. Now the Bible tells us to seek

first this righteousness. Matthew 633 says seek first the

Kingdom of God and his righteousness and all these

other things will be added unto you, His righteousness.

It's not seek first the Kingdom of God and and doing the right

thing. It's first seek first the

Kingdom of God and your position in it and then all these things

will be added to you. Doing righteousness is going to

be an automatic thing when you understand I am the

righteousness of God in Christ Jesus.

We're supposed to seek it first. Seek first the Kingdom of God

and your legal position in it. Romans 1417 says, for the

Kingdom of God is not eating and drinking, but righteousness,

peace and joy in the Holy Spirit.

It does not matter how much you come to church, it does not

matter how much you pray in the Spirit.

If you don't have peace and joy, then you don't understand

righteousness. You can pray in the Spirit all

day long, but I'm telling you, faith is a rest.

Faith is a peace on the inside. Joy and peace are not.

They're not an emotion. They both are a spiritual force.

Man, it'll affect your feelings though.

I'm telling you, if you get in the the habit, the spiritual

habit of saying thank you, Lord for the joy that is my strength,

then your body and your emotions start lining up with that.

It's like it's like in a marriage.

I don't, I didn't wait till I felt something.

Although I loved my husband when we got together, but but if I

wasn't feeling it on a certain day, I didn't wait till I was

feeling it to tell him I love him with the love of God that's

been shed. I love you with the love of God

that's been shed abroad in my heart by the Holy Ghost.

You got to call it done. You got to say it's that.

OK, let's go to Hebrews chapter 1.

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Your feelings will always line up, always line up.

Righteousness is your access. Hebrews chapter 1 says God, who

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at various times and in various ways spoke in times past to the

Father's by the prophets, has in these last days spoken to us by

His Son, whom he has appointed heir of all things, through whom

also He made the world's. Who being the brightness of his

glory, and the express image of His Person, and upholding all

things by the word of His power. When He had by himself purged

our sins, He sat down at the right hand of majesty on high,

having become so much better than the angels as he was by

inheritance, as He has by inheritance, obtained a more

excellent name than they when you speak the word.

Let me just say this before I go to verse 8, the word of his

power. When you speak the word, you're

not trying to get something from God.

When you speak the word, there's power in the word that you

speak. And so when I'm not feeling it

and I speak it, you know, they, they had that old saying, name

it, claim it, blab it, grab it. They can say whatever they want.

We're going to live by faith and that means I'm calling those

things that are not as though they are, verse 8 says, but to

the Son he says, your throne, O God, is forever and ever.

A scepter of righteousness is the scepter of the Kingdom.

You have loved righteousness and hated lawlessness.

Therefore God, your God, has anointed you with the oil of

gladness more than your companions.

Hallelujah that that verse says that righteousness is your

access. This scepter.

If you remember the story about Esther when she had to go to the

king, if he did not extend the scepter to her, then she would

be killed. If he didn't extend the scepter

to her. That was access for her.

That was her access to come boldly before the King and

present her case before him. The Scripture says righteousness

is your access, Righteousness is your scepter.

Not doing, don't think OK, if I just do the right thing, I have

access before God. It's being righteous.

It's being the gift that God has made you to be, and out of that

you will do the right thing. By faith, you will do the right

thing. The the Bible says, let me tell

you what scepter means actually. It means access, it means favor,

it means acceptance in Him. Justice is fulfilled when you

stand in righteousness, in His righteousness.

The Bible says in Romans 8, the righteous requirement of the law

is fulfilled. When you walk in the Spirit, the

righteous requirement of the law is fulfilled.

Justice is fulfilled when you live by faith.

You don't want to get out of your seat.

You don't want to get out of your place.

You don't want to get out of this legal position that God has

given you. Righteousness is that legally He

justified you, legally he's justified you.

Romans chapter 5 verse one says therefore having been justified

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by faith, we have peace with God through our Lord Jesus Christ.

This is something every day that word justified and the word

righteous or interchangeable so much in Scripture I can say

therefore having been made righteous by faith, therefore

having been justified by faith, I have peace with God.

There's no guilt, there's no shame, there's no unworthiness

that follows me around. He's made you worthy in him.

Romans chapter 4, verse two and three says, for if Abraham was

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justified by works and he has something to boast about, but

not before God, for what does the Scripture say?

Abraham believed God. Abraham believed God and it was

accounted to him for righteousness.

You sing the song. I sing the song.

Sing the song. Father Abraham, come on.

And so are you. Yeah.

What's the first action? Or like this?

Yeah, we all sang it and we didn't have a clue.

We did not have a clue what we were even singing.

The Scripture says before Jesus ever died was was buried,

resurrected and gave us his righteousness.

That Abraham was given was it was transferred from God's

account to his account. That's what imputation is.

Abraham was given righteousness just because he believed God.

By faith you believe God and it's accounted to you for

righteousness. That's why Abraham's your daddy.

Romans 10/10 says For with the heart you believe under

righteousness, with the heart you believe unto righteousness,

and with the mouth confession is made unto salvation.

Romans 517 I will never forget Romans 517 because when I was a

Rhema student and Doug Jones was teaching our righteousness class

and he would tell us all the time you're carnal if you have a

favorite teacher. And so we would be like, OK, we

don't have a favorite teacher, but when he read this Scripture,

I never, I never heard of righteousness.

I didn't know I saw it in the Bible.

I probably heard it in church when I was sitting in the

Baptist Church writing notes and tickling my friend's arm.

I didn't know what righteousness was.

And Romans 517 says, for if by one man's offense that's Adam,

death reigned through the one much more, how much more those

who receive the abundance of grace and the gift, the gift,

say the gift, the gift of righteousness will reign in life

through the one Jesus Christ. It's a gift and you got to be

trained in it. It's a gift and you got to stay

in it. You got to remind yourself about

it. Second Timothy chapter 3, verses

2 Timothy 3:16

16 and 17 says all Scripture is given by inspiration of God, and

it's profitable for doctrine, for reproof, for correction, and

for instruction in righteousness.

Why? So that the man of God will be

complete, thoroughly equipped, complete and thoroughly equipped

for every good work. That breastplate is so huge of

righteousness. I want to give you a couple of

definitions of righteousness that I want you to write down as

best as you can and and remind yourself of them.

Righteousness is number one, right standing with God, right

position, right relationship, right standing with God.

Righteousness is number 2, restoring to mankind what was

lost in the fall, restoring to mankind what was lost in the

fall #3 it is the life and nature of God.

He is Jehovah Sid canoe the Lord.

Your righteousness #4 and #5 are big ones.

They're all big, but but ones that you can remind yourself of

#4 is the ability to stand before God without the sense of

guilt, inferiority, or shame. The ability to stand before God

without the sense of guilt, inferiority, or shame.

You have to ask yourself, do I go boldly before God or do I

still have shame? Do I still deal with guilt and

insecurity #5 is righteousness is the ability to stand in the

Father's presence as though sin had never been as free as Adam

was before he transgressed? The ability to stand in the

Father's presence as though sin had never been in your life?

Let me say this about righteousness.

It's what God demands, but it's what He provides.

It's what He requires for access into the Kingdom, but He

provides it. There's a legal position that

God's put you in and you got to stay in it.

You got to legally stand in it. Remind yourself, seek His

righteousness first and keep your mind set on these things.

Let's talk about the mind for just a couple of minutes.

When your mind tells you otherwise, which I mentioned

earlier, what are you going to do?

You got to be so quick not to give attention to something that

doesn't line up with Scripture. Sorrow, heaviness, whatever it

is, the more hurt, brokenness, unforgiveness, the more you give

attention to it, the more it will dominate your soul realm.

You got to be quick to give attention to what God says.

Romans chapter 8, understanding your position of righteousness

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is what's going to cause you to be stable, mature, and have

peace and joy. Romans chapter 8 says there is

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there, for now, no condemnation to those who are in Christ Jesus

who do not walk according to the flesh but according to the

Spirit. There's no condemnation if

you'll just stay in the Spirit, if you'll just stay believing

who God says you are, if you'll just stay speaking about your

righteousness all day long. If you'll just stay calling

those things that be not as though they are, then there's no

guilt and there's no condemnation to those who are in

Christ Jesus. For the law of the Spirit of

life in Christ Jesus has made me free from the law of sin and

death. For what the law could not do,

and that it was weak through the flesh, God did.

By sending His own Son in the likeness of sinful flesh on

account of sin. He condemned sin in the flesh.

Listen, that the righteous requirement of the law might be

fulfilled in US who do not walk according to the flesh, but

according to the Spirit. For those who live according to

the flesh set their mind on the things of the flesh, but those

who live according to the Spirit, in other words, they set

their mind on the things of the spirit.

For to be carnally minded is death.

Or we could say you're going to have, you're going to live in

the effects of death. But to be spiritually minded is

life and peace, life and peace, life and peace.

The word this year for us is to dominate, to take dominion.

What does it mean to be spiritually minded?

What does it mean to take dominion in your mind?

If you don't have dominion here, you'll struggle everywhere.

You're brand new here. God lives in you, the Holy Ghost

is in you. But if you don't change this,

you'll struggle in every area of your life.

If you continue to believe the report that comes against what

God says, then that's what you'll have.

And it's that simple. Taking dominion in your mind and

transforming. This takes effort, but God's

given you the grace and He's given you the strength and He's

given you everything you need the power to do it.

One of the biggest fights of faith is to govern or take

dominion or control of your thoughts in times of pressure or

crisis. Victory comes though, when you

possess your mind. You live in your thoughts, you

live in what you're thinking, and you've got to learn to live

from the Word of God and from your Spirit man.

We don't look to the hills anymore.

We look on the inside. We look to what God says on the

inside always. What does the word of God say

about this? I got a, a bill that that's,

that looks big. What does God say?

Oh, he says he supplies all my needs according to his glorious

riches in Christ. That's what I'm going to

believe. That's what I'm going to say all

these kids are are so hard. These kids are so hard for me to

parent. I'm I'm so stressed.

This is such a struggle. No, what does the word of God

say I'm anointed to parent. There's an anointing on me for

the love of God. I have wisdom from God.

You choose everyday. The Bible says today I've sent

before you life and death choose life multiple choice.

Here's the answer. Choose life so that you can

live, so that you can prosper, so that you can have health in

every area. The the scripture has a pattern.

There's a lot of finally brethren's, There's a lot of at

the end of Paul's writings and and other writings where where

it's like, OK, finally, this is what I want to say to you.

And when there's a finally, it means you're leaving, you're

transitioning, you're you're changing a season.

And I got some important things to say.

We're going to sit down and we're going to talk about what's

important and what needs to be done for you to have victory.

And in Philippians chapter 4, verse 8, it says finally,

Philippians 4:8

brethren, you know this is right after it says, be anxious for

nothing, but in everything with prayer and supplication and

Thanksgiving, make your request known to God.

And then it says finally, brethren, whatever things are

true, whatever things are noble, whatever things are just,

whatever things are pure, whatever things are lovely,

whatever things are of a good report, if there's any virtue,

if there's anything praiseworthy, meditate on these

things. I want to read to you that in

the amplified for the the rest, brethren are finally brethren.

Whatever is true, whatever is worthy of reverence and

honorable and seemly, whatever is just, whatever is pure,

whatever is lovely and lovable, whatever is kind, whatever is

kind, whatever is kind and winsome and gracious, if there's

any virtue and excellence, if there's anything worthy of

praise, think on and weigh and take account of these things.

In other words, fix your mind on them.

People are going to offend you on a daily basis.

Maybe people are going to hurt you.

You're going to have trials in life.

Are you going to count it all joy?

Are you going to are you going to say I love that person, I see

the good in them. Thank you, Lord, that that I can

pray and make power available to them.

I don't hold any unforgiveness in my heart.

You, you have to do. That's the fight of faith.

It takes effort. It takes effort for you.

Sometimes I want to wrestle people because it's fun, But but

sometimes in your mind, there's a peace, there's a rest, there's

a joy in this fight of faith. But you got to put effort to it.

You can't sit on your couch. Come on.

You can't just sit at your job and be down and discouraged.

You know you shouldn't stay discouraged.

Come on, you know God came to to help you and your

discouragement. Maybe your discouragement is

because your kids didn't do what you thought they were going to

do. Maybe you're discouraged because

you've told that person 1000 times and they still keep doing

the same thing. Maybe you're discouraged because

you keep seeing this debt in this one area.

Don't you stay in discouragement.

You don't let discouragement sit on you.

You be quick to count it all. Joy, brethren, sister.

And when you face trials of many kinds, because the testing of

your faith develops perseverance, testing of your

faith, it's the testing of your faith.

Are we that, are we that soft? Are we that Pansy?

Are we that I don't know what other word I can use up here

that we can't Doctor Fartine and I are thinking about basketball

right now. I'm like, I need an athletic

mindset around here. What's happening?

You can run. What's wrong with you anyway?

What was I talking about? Are we are we that way?

Are we pansies that we so soft that that when a trial of life

comes like and we call our friend, guess what happened to

me? Guess what's so and so sad?

Oh my gosh, God hates gossip. He hates it.

He hates it, he hates it. What do you do when that trial

comes to you? Get out of the habit of letting

your thoughts, taking counsel in your thoughts, letting your

thoughts and your emotions dominates you.

Then you'll have victory. That's where your victories at.

2nd Corinthians. No Psalms 13 two.

I'm about to best bust through these last 50 scriptures.

I'm kidding. Psalm 13 two says, how long

shall I take counsel in my own soul, having sorrow in my heart

daily. In other words, you want to keep

taking counsel in your soul, then go ahead and have sorrow

daily because that's what you're going to have.

Your spirit man should affect the mental, should affect the

physical, should affect the material, should affect

everything. 2nd Corinthians 417 says for our light and momentary

troubles are achieving for us an eternal glory that far outweighs

them all. Our light affliction should be

just a moment, just a moment. Sometimes we linger way too

long. We linger way too long on the

affliction. The light affliction should just

be a second. The Bible says, look not to the

things that are seen, but the things which are unseen.

Psalm 20. No, Psalm 42, five says, Why are

you cast down, O my soul? Why are you so disquieted within

me? Hope in God, for I shall yet

praise Him for the help of his countenance.

Why are you cast down on myself? David was saying this.

Sometimes you got to look at your soul and say, Why are you

so sad? Why are you so upset?

Why are you so disquieted? Why do you not have peace?

Sorrow doesn't have to rule you. Grief doesn't have to stay in

your life. It doesn't have to stay in your

life. Jesus bore it not so that we

could stay in it. Jesus bore it so that it's OK to

cry. And I'm not talking about being

insensitive. But don't you sit in grief?

Don't you sit in sorrow? Don't you sit in discouragement?

Don't you sit in disappointment? Why are you cast down on my

soul? Proverbs 1430 says a calm and

undisturbed mind and heart are life and health of the body, but

envy, jealousy and wrath are like rottenness in the bones.

A calm and undisturbed mind and heart are the life and health of

the body. A calm and undisturbed mind and

heart, you got to do what you got to do.

Sometimes I take authority over my hormones and I say hormones,

you get in line right now. Right now.

There are seasons of life, women, that you got to do that.

You take authority over that. Philippians 4 Chapter 11 says

for I've learned how to be content.

You got to learn this content while passing through your

moment. Second Corinthians chapter 10

2 Corinthians 10:3

verses 3 and five tells us how to do this.

It says though we walk in the flesh, we do not war according

to the flesh, for the weapons of our warfare are not carnal.

But what are they? They are mighty in God for the

pulling down of strongholds, casting down arguments and every

high thing that exalts itself against the knowledge of God,

bringing every thought into captivity to the obedience of

Christ. Every thought take captive,

every thought all the time, every second, every one of your

thoughts. There are trillions of them, so

many of them in your conscious mind, in your subconscious mind,

they're always there. And if you will just Start

learning how to your, your, you create these trees in your

brain. If we were to open up your brain

and look at them with there's trees that they either look

healthy. Has anybody seen the inside of a

brain before? Your trees either look healthy

or they they look messed up and it is proven.

It is proven in your physical body, your tree.

You can have happy trees. I should have worn.

I have a Bob Ross wig right here.

Happy trees, happy trees. When you think on the right

thing, your chemicals all start to get in line and they all

start to go talk to that tree and get on that tree, and that

tree starts making itself right again.

But when you don't, when you think on the wrong thing, your

tree looks dead, it's unhealthy, and all your chemical imbalance,

your chemicals get all out of whack.

What you do effects every single part of you what you think on.

You got to fight the good fight of faith.

You got to lay hold of this eternal life.

You got to consider it. All joy, brethren, all joy.

Maturity by reason of use, by habits.

Joshua 18 says This book of the law shall not depart from your

mouth, but you shall meditate in it day and night, day and night,

day and night, day and night, all the time meditate in it day

and night that you may observe to do according to all that is

written in it. For then you will make your way

prosperous and then you'll have good success.

Colossians 33 says for you have died.

You have died and your life is now hidden with Christ in God.

You have died. I want my, I want to have AI

want to like get raspy and yell and yell at you or something.

You, you're dead. You've died.

Your life is now hidden with Christ and God.

Quit resurrecting your old self. Quit resurrecting the old

patterns. Quit resurrecting that stuff.

Kill that thing, Paul said. I die daily.

I die daily. I beat my body daily.

If you don't want to beat it, come see me remix.

If you don't want to beat it, come see me, girl, I got you.

I'll help you help you beat it. Let's beat that thing first.

John 44 says he who is in you is greater than he who's in the

world. Are you reigning?

And what you're thinking? Spirit, soul and body complete,

mature. Let's go to Isaiah 54 real

quick. Isaiah 54, and we're going to

read verses just 14 and 17. Isaiah 54 says in righteousness

you shall be established. I'm going to say it again.

In righteousness you shall be established.

You shall have your foundation, you stay, you shall have your

feet on solid ground in righteousness.

You shall be established. You shall be far from

oppression. You will not fear.

You will not fear, and from terror it shall not come near

you. I mean, if I'm reading that, if

I'm reading that I'm going to say righteousness, I'm

established. I'm going to do that because

this says I don't have to fear. I'm far from oppression, any

kind of oppression. I'm far from terror.

It won't even come near me. None of that even comes near me

if I understand righteousness. But I tell you some in the in

the you know, when I went to Bible college, there were there

were students that were solid and mature and there to learn

the word of God and there was some flaky people and you would

pass them and they would say all kinds of how you doing blessed

Holly favor. They go through all the and if

they meant it, awesome. If they believed it, awesome.

But then you but then you see them in the Walmart parking lot

doing something different. But but what what we like to do

what believers like to do that are that can be flaky.

They like to jump to verse 17 and say no weapon formed against

me shall prosper, and every tongue that rises against me

that rises against me, and it shall be condemned in judgment.

This is the heritage of the servants of the Lord.

But if you're not established in righteousness first, you have

no, no position. It's kind of like the sons of

Skiva that that tried to come and start saying in the name of

Jesus. This and that and and what

happened? The demons jumped on them and

they were naked and ran off. And you don't want to be like

that. You want to be established in

righteousness. In righteousness you'll be

established. Far from oppression, you will

not fear, far from terror. It shall not come near you.

And I've created the spoiler for you to destroy.

And verse 17 says no weapon formed against you shall

prosper. And every tongue that rises

against you in judgment you shall condemn.

This is the heritage of the servants of the Lord.

And the righteousness is of me, says the Lord, be established in

this righteousness. Psalm 92 verse 12 through 15

Psalms 92:12–15

says the righteous shall flourish like a palm tree, He

shall grow like a cedar in Lebanon.

Those who are planted in the House of the Lord shall flourish

in the courts of our God. They shall still bear fruit in

old age and they will be fresh and flourishing.

To declare that the Lord is upright.

He is my rock and there's no unrighteousness in him.

This Scripture particularly for me, I love because when I was

first born again and and I don't even think I was filled with the

Holy Ghost yet. But when I was when I was first

starting to live for God, I went to a little Bible study and

somebody spoke this scripture over me.

And it's already scripture. It's already in the word.

So I could have stood on it anyway.

But but for them to speak that over me that I'll still bear

fruit in old age. I have gone back to that count

countless times because when I get discouraged or when I have

some some some hopelessness try to come in or something comes

against my life, I say I'll still bear fruit and old age.

God, thank you, Lord, that I'm fat and flourishing.

Not fat physically, but you know it.

The scripture says fat and flourishing.

It means like full fat and flourishing and and I'm still

going to keep bearing fruit in old age.

That was a Rhema word for me. And I go back to that when I

want to jump off ship and go, Nope, I'm going to keep bearing

fruit all the day with long life.

Shall you satisfy me and show me your salvation?

And I'm going to bear fruit every single day of it.

I want to say something about Romans chapter 1 because it it,

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it's a big deal and I can't, I'm not going to preach on Romans

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chapter 1, but sometimes I want to.

But Romans chapter 1 says, for I'm not ashamed of the gospel of

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Jesus Christ, for in it, in the gospel the righteousness of God

is revealed. I'm not ashamed of this gospel.

And in this gospel the righteousness of God is

revealed. And then it goes on to talk

about man and how man, it says although they knew God, they

didn't honor him as God, nor were they thankful.

And so God gave them over to a debased mind.

They began to serve the creation, the other than the

Creator. And you wonder why we see what

we're seeing in our culture today.

Because although they knew God, although they may have grown up

in church, they did not honor him as God.

He was not Lord. They did not honor.

They didn't seek first the Kingdom of God, his rights, and

they were not thankful. A thankful heart is a happy

heart. Be glad for what you have.

That's an easy way to start. That's a veggie tale that I used

to sing all the time when my girls were little.

A thankful heart's a happy heart.

Be thankful always, all the time.

Psalm 23 I'm going to just slow down and with a few scriptures

to build your faith in this area.

The Lord is my shepherd. I shall not want.

He makes me to lie down in green pastures.

He leads me beside the still waters.

That's a peaceful place. He restores my soul.

He leads me in paths of what? Righteousness.

For his name's sake, For his name's sake, for his glory, not

for your glory. Man does what he wants to do,

and he thinks God accepts it. And man gets all the glory.

But God did the work, and we accept it, and he gets all the

glory for it. He leads me in paths of

righteousness for his name sake. Yeah.

Though I walk through the valley of the shadow of death, I will

fear no evil, for you are with me.

Your rod and your staff, they comfort me.

You prepare a table before me in the presence of my enemies.

You anoint my head with oil. My cup runneth over.

Are you seated at the table? Because the scripture says your

enemies are there. The scripture says you're seated

at the table and there's enemies all around you.

But what are you going to do? Are you going to, are you going

to look at the enemy? Are you going to look at the

distraction? Are you going to say, what did

you say? Are you going to say, just pass

me the bowl of victory, Just pass me the bowl of peace?

Just pass me the bowl of provision.

You got to stay seated. I remember when I first got

revelation of that. I was listening to Brother Hagin

a series called Casting Your Cares upon the Lord and he

started talking about being seated at the table.

And I was a Rhema student and and I pulled up.

I was driving a little Mazda Miata at the time, and the

driver door didn't work and I had to wear pantyhose and skirts

to class and I had to crawl over my stick shift.

It was super attractive and get out.

And I was in my Miata and he was talking about being seated at

the table and that your enemies are there and that they're

talking to you and that they're saying things to you.

But what are you going to do? And I victory came on me and I

jumped out of my car and I took off running by.

It was that night I took off running down the street all by

myself because it became revelation to me.

You can sit in here and never get revelation.

You can sit in here and the word not ever become real to you.

Do you know that what you receive in here is as much on

you as it is on the preacher? We can prepare till our guts

come out. We can spend hours and hours and

hours being ready for you. But if you're not ready, if

you're not bringing your supply of faith, then it's just going

to hit you and hit the floor and you're going to walk out of here

and not be any different. Oh, you got to get revelation of

the Word of God. We haven't.

We can say I have lived and I've seen the faithfulness of God,

living for God since I was 2122 when I really made Jesus Lord.

I can honestly say God is so faithful and He is true to His

Word and He will do what He says He will do and there's power in

what He says. You just have to choose it.

You just got to choose it every single day, every hour, every

time the fiery dart comes at you.

Psalm 34, when we were as students, Keith Moore was one of

our instructors and he made us stand up every day and quote the

first part of Psalm 34. And I didn't always feel like

doing it. And when we did it, once we

started saying it, I started like sitting standing up a

little taller. And my spirit mind started

getting strengthened and and I was like, yeah, but when I first

stood up, I was like, oh again. But he wouldn't.

He would have a stand up and say, I will bless the Lord at

all times. His praise shall continually be

in my mouth. My soul, my soul, say, My soul

shall make its boast in the Lord.

The humble shall hear thereof and be glad.

O magnify the Lord with me, and let us exalt His name together.

I will bless the Lord at all times.

His praise will continually be on my mouth.

Praise team, you can come. I will bless the Lord at all

times. His praise will continually be

on my lips. Isaiah 26 three says, Thou will

keep him in perfect peace, whose mind is stayed on thee, because

you trust in the Isaiah 6110 says, I will greatly rejoice in

the Lord my soul, my soul shall be joyful in my God.

For he has clothed me with the garments of salvation, and he's

covered me with a robe of righteousness, as a bridegroom

decks himself with ornaments, and a bride adorns herself with

jewels. He has clothed you.

Quit running out of the house naked.

Proverbs 13 four says, But the soul of the diligent, the soul

of the diligent shall be made rich.

The soul of the diligent. You got to be purposeful to say

I'm going to be diligent. I'm going to be diligent in my

thought life, in my thinking. Psalm one O 3 says, Bless the

Lord, O my soul and all that is within me.

Bless his holy name. Bless the Lord, O my soul, and

forget not, do not forget all his benefits.

He forgives all your iniquities. He heals all your diseases.

He redeems your life from destruction.

He crowns you with loving kindness and tender mercies.

He satisfies your mouth with good things so that your youth

is renewed like the eagles say my youth is renewed like the

eagles. The Lord executes righteousness

and justice for all who are oppressed.

Has He executed it? Has He done it?

I want to end with First Corinthians chapter 1, verses 9

1 Corinthians 1:9

and 10. It says God is faithful by whom

you were called into the fellowship of his Son Jesus

Christ our Lord. Now I plead with you, brethren,

oh, I plead with you, I plead with you, I plead with you,

brethren, by the name of our Lord Jesus Christ, that you all

speak the same thing, that there be no divisions among you, but

that you be perfectly joined together in the same mind and in

the same judgment. You've been justified freely by

his grace. Freely.

Don't be shaken in your mind. Second Thessalonians says don't

be so quick to be shaken in your mind for the day of the Lord

Jesus Christ is at hand. In Luke 21 when it begins to

tell us about all the things that in the last days that are

going to be happening, wars, rumors of war, all the things

that we're seeing a lot of them happening now in verse 19, I

think it is it says after it says all that it says.

Now in your patience possess ye your soul.

In other words, if you look up the meaning behind those words,

you it, you could say in your steadfastness, you possess your

soul in your effort, in your diligence, you possess your

soul. Nobody can do it for you.

The Word of God will definitely do it for you.

You just have to choose it every single day.