Building Your World With Words 3

Let's lift our bibles up and wave them around and make Jesus glad and the devil mad.

Let's say this together Say Heavenly Father, I'm so glad for the Word of God.

I am a person of the Word and I love the Holy Ghost.

The Spirit of God lives inside of me and I'm filled with Him.

It's the Word and the Spirit working together in my life that puts me over in every circumstance.

I have the victory in Jesus' name.

Amen, you can be seated and our junior high students can be dismissed.

And we're gonna turn in our bibles to Hebrews 11 and read, starting with verse one, hebrews 11, one.

Now, faith is a substance of things hoped for, the evidence of things not seen For.

By it, that is by faith we understand that the worlds were framed by the Word of God, so that things which are seen were not made of things which do appear.

And I like to quote that third verse in the Barclay translation.

It is by faith we understand that the universe was constructed by the Word of God, for the scene had to take its origin from the unseen.

The scene had to take its origin from the unseen.

So we're talking and having this is our third message on this subject building your world with words.

I like the amplified in verse three.

The worlds were framed, fashioned, put in order and equipped for its intended purpose by the Word of God, and so if you don't like your world, you can start over.

Sometimes, as a home builder for 25 years, you'll construct something and then you're continually, as you're building, you're continually looking at the house to make sure it lines up with the practices that are acceptable for strength.

I mean in a home builder, a home building, I mean everything has got to be level and square and plumb.

If something's at a level, you got major problems.

If something's out of square, you've got worse problems.

You've got something out of plumb what is plumb vertical, and so everything in that house has got to be level, square and plumb, or you've got a bad start.

And then, once you've established that, you still have to watch things.

I mean I go through my houses every day, sometimes multiple times a day, depending on what stage it was in, and every now and then you'd see you'd have a stud which is a two by four that makes up the walls, and most of my houses were two-story so it was pretty critical downstairs, for have good studs, it carries a lot of weight.

It's second floors above it and all of that.

And so every now and then you'd see a stud that's crooked and yeah, it's strong, but it's got a bow in it.

It's sticking out into the room on one side and it's on the other side it's drawn in.

You cover that with sheetrock and you're gonna have an ugly-looking bow and it's always gonna look ugly and there's no way to fix it.

When do you fix it?

Right now, you fix it now.

You don't wait.

You fix it now.

Okay, framer, you should've called this one out.

That's somebody not paying attention.

When they're out there in the yard, they're breaking the stacks of studs.

My houses I still remember they'd take about 800 studs built an average house that I was building back out here in the suburbs, and out of that stack you're gonna find a few that are just substandard.

It's wood, it's made out of trees, I mean, they're not perfect.

So what do you got?

You have to call, you have to throw aside, and it's a process to build something and build it with excellence.

Well, you know, we're no different than that, but we have building blocks that are perfect, and that's the Word of God.

The Word of God, see, it's the application of the Word sometimes on our side.

You know, if there's a problem it's on our side, hey man.

And so we have to pay attention.

And so sometimes you know you've got to do some adjusting, you've got to take some things that maybe you've glossed over and you've got to revamp that part of your life.

Maybe you kind of just went through it.

Think about sometimes, when people grow too fast, hello, you know trees, arizona ash, you know they used to run ads in the back of magazines how about this fast growing tree, arizona ash?

And they'd sell you a seedling, you know, and you'd buy it and put it in your yard and it would, that thing would grow and it'd be 20 foot tall before you could blink a couple of years.

But what happened?

It was weak, first windstorm and break off, bang.

And so sometimes when we grow too fast, when we're not really paying attention, we think we're really growing and we're assimilating knowledge and we're having success.

It's easy sometimes to gloss over some things.

And now we've got to come back and revisit that part of our life and we've got to do.

Some say it's never too late, god, god, it's never too late, amen.

But we've got to recognize it, amen.

So the Word of God will frame your world, it'll fashion it, put it in order and equip it for its intended purpose.

I mean, we were chosen by God to live in the last days.

I'm teaching this series because we need to pay close attention to ourselves and to our lives and let's make the adjustments necessary.

Let's close the gap between what God what Jesus' blood paid for and what we actually are receiving on our end.

There's always a gap.

Jesus paid for this up here and we're living down here.

So it's time to what Close the gap.

It's not time to give up.

The gap might be kind of big.

It's all right, just work on it.

Start working on it.

He'll help you.

You start doing something, the Holy Ghost will help you.

So we discovered then in the Genesis account of creation over and over, god said and God saw.

God said and God saw.

So if we want to see something, we got to say something and mix it with faith.

That's the only way things will change.

That's the only thing that will bring us what has been bought and paid for.

If you ever want to see it, you've got to say it and believe God in your heart.

The whole kingdom.

In Mark, chapter four, we discovered the whole kingdom operates on the seed sowing principle, and Jesus said the seed is the word, the sower is the believer and he sows it into the ground, which is our spirit.

And in the parable of the sower soweth the word all four of the gentlemen.

I'm saying they're men, they could be women, but all four of the people, they all sowed the word.

They all sowed the word, but only one out of the four got a crop.

And so we discovered then that there are crop failures.

I mean, sometimes we can sow the word and nothing happens.

So what's the problem?

Where Jesus illustrated in some cases it's stolen.

The word is stolen right out of our heart.

It has no depth of earth.

It'd just be like me sowing seed on this carpet.

It's not gonna grow.

You know something to lead it up eventually.

And if you throw it out on the parking lot, I mean it won't last very long, the birds will eat it up.

It's not gonna, you're not gonna get a crop.

And then you've got people.

Another kind is the word is scorched.

It comes up.

All right, that little green plant comes up, but the heat of circumstances, immediately they're offended and the plant withers because there's no depth of earth.

See, they haven't prepared their heart properly and they're just not developing a systematic discourse.

You know it's not what you say once, it's what you keep saying over and over again.

And so maybe they're starting out saying, yes, thank God, by a stripe, some healed, they went with the follow up with the doctor and doctors.

Well, you know, this cancer's growing.

Oh, immediately they're offended.

And so I thought this faith stuff was too good to be true.

Well, you know, you didn't give it a chance.

It's a seed.

You're not moved by a circumstance like that.

You're not moved by doctors.

Doctors are not God.

In fact, nowadays doctors are charged.

Liberals have gotten in charge of the doctors left wing.

The left wing is in charge of the American Medical Association.

Didn't know that?

You go to these hospitals?

They're nuts.

The top of those hospitals.

You've got doctors that were not do damage and they're doing damage to people.

Anyway, I'm awful.

Listen, jesus never does damage, he always helps us.

The Word of God always works when you work it.

And then the third one, of course, you know it's.

He said you know the strangled word, the scorched word, the stolen word.

The strangled word was you know, they sowed the word, but cares of this world, the deceitfulness, riches, lust of other things entering in to where the spirit?

How did they enter Words?

You start talking about how bad things are, start talking about how poor you are, start talking about how sick you are and talking about all the pain you've got, and talking about this and talking about how fed up you are in your marriage and you start talking the problem and you're gonna sow all of that down into your spirit.

And now your spirit can't produce, Even though maybe one day you were speaking.

Right, see, again, it gets back to having a systematic discourse.

We've got to say the same thing.

I confess means to say the same thing and to say it every time, all day long.

And what does that take?

Discipline, discipline, all right, and so and we talked about identity and you gotta find out who you are in Christ, what you have in Christ and what you can do in Christ.

130 times in the epistles it talks about in Christ, with Christ, through Christ.

That's your identity, that's how God sees you.

You can't look in the mirror and see you.

You're seeing your body.

That's not you.

You are a spirit.

You live in that body.

You've never seen you.

I said you've never seen you, but you can get glimpses of you out of the Word, because you're described by the Word.

You can do all things through Christ, who strengtheneth you.

You are more than a conqueror, through him, who loves you.

Greater is he that is in you than he that is in the Word.

See, you start getting in readings.

You gotta read the logos and study the logos.

If you keep doing it, then God can bring the Ramah out of you when you need it, because Ramah then becomes the what Sword of the Spirit.

That's our supernatural weapon.

So you've gotta have an ID to fly to airport.

Try getting on an airplane.

You're gonna have to have picture ID to get on that plane.

You ought to have to have picture ID to vote.

There again, the left wing makes up all these stupid excuses about oh, it's racist to require that, what?

What are they racist at the airport?

Are they racist?

I mean, there's all kinds of places you've gotta have picture ID to do business in this country.

Good thought, racist.

They want dead people to vote.

That's what it is.

They want their pets to vote.

They want illegal aliens and I said it illegal aliens.

Biden you, idiot, apologize.

Oh, I shouldn't have said that.

Well, why not?

They're illegal aliens.

That's what they.

They broke our law Really, I mean, they're criminals.

I'm sorry, and if you're one of them, I'm sorry again, but I didn't do it.

You did Well.

I was invited.

No, you weren't.

It's against the law.

We happen to have a lawless person in the White House.

It doesn't enforce the law.

He has a whole regime that doesn't wanna enforce it.

Why?

Because it doesn't get all these people to vote for them.

Once they do that, there won't be any more voting.

Do you understand where we're headed?

There won't be any more voting.

They're making a big deal out of voting in Russia.

Well, they might vote, but it's a foregone conclusion.

Don't you dare run against Putin.

You'll have a cocktail that you'll drink that will send you into the eternal realm.

Okay, so your idea is so important and your voice is your address in the spirit realm that's your identification, is when you speak.

God knows where you live.

God knows, oh, I've got one ambassador.

He's talking down there.

See, this is what's lacking in the church.

We just let the left wing and we let the communists, and we've left all these people take over and we've sat in our churches and we complain, we don't stand up and exercise the influence that we can.

That's changing.

I said that's changing.

A week from tomorrow, we're having our first service in Baton Rouge, louisiana.

Oh, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah.

Claren James, invited by a local pastor here in Tombaugh to come and present the vision for my God votes to his congregation on both morning services River Praise Church and the pastor was here at our banquet got so excited.

We've interfaced with him a few times.

Great guy, and that church has been around a long time, decades.

That's the church where they got the big, huge cross, six up corner 99, 249.

So they're excited about my God votes.

God is beginning to knit together a network, supernatural relationships, and not all the churches that we're hooked up with really believe exactly like we do.

We've got Jesus in common, we've got the Bible in common and I'm telling you, god's preparing this country for the end time harvest.

He wants America to get back to its roots.

If you believe it, that the country is evil, well then you're wrong.

Is it perfect?

Well, of course not.

It's the greatest thing that ever was put forth.

I don't say that without any, yeah.

I mean, what nation can fight a civil war and even survive, and we did.

Yeah, the fact that God has brought us back from the brink of death as a nation over and over.

Really, there's no way we could have been an independent nation if God hadn't intervened.

But over and over we've seen God intervene and he's going to do it again.

We're gonna have the greatest revival, but we can't have a revival sitting in church.

It starts here, it starts right here, and then it starts right here and then it goes out.

So, anyway, it's exciting time to live and we want you to do what's necessary to equip your world for its intended purpose, because every one of us has an intended purpose and we wanna equip our life to be able to achieve that.

All right.

So let's look at Isaiah 55 today, and I wanna say this if you want your world to change, you have to change your thinking.

Kind of the theme of today's message.

I've just been going over things that we've already looked at and it's all.

Podcasts are up and you can.

If you haven't heard all these messages, be sure and avail yourself.

Isaiah 55, verse six Seek ye the Lord while he may be found.

Call upon him while he's near.

Let the wicked forsake his way and the unrighteous man his thoughts.

Let the unrighteous man forsake his thoughts, forsake his way, forsake his thoughts, leave it in the Bible, forsake his thoughts, leave it behind, abandon it and let him return unto the Lord.

Sometimes we can let our thinking lapse.

We can let our life lapse.

Things we're doing are not really consistent with a Christian life.

The old man wants to come back all the time.

What you were delivered out of, what you got saved out of, it's called the old man.

Old things are passed away.

Behold, all things are become new.

So that old man is what it's passed away, it's a corpse.

Would you wanna hang a corpse around your neck and walk around?

Because that old man wants to come back.

It wants you to do what you used to do before you got saved the same demons that drove your life before you got saved.

They didn't die.

They might have left you, but they come back, knock on the door and see if they can find any way in.

So he's talking about that.

And if you recognize that, if your thinking and your ways have not bind up with God, if you think with God, you forsake that and you come back to the Lord.

Return, let him return.

Under the Lord, everybody say I'm returning full steam and he'll have mercy upon him.

He said covenant obligation the less is blessed by the better.

That's another kind of a meaning of he said and to our God, for he will put you on probation.

He'll put an ankle monitor around your ankle.

He will abundantly pardon, give you another chance, for my thoughts are not your thoughts, neither are your ways, my ways, sayeth the Lord.

We stopped there, we'd be hopeless.

But no, we don't stop there.

For as the heavens are higher than the earth, so are my ways higher than your ways and my thoughts and your thoughts.

For as the rain coming down and the snow from heaven and returneth not thither but water at the earth and makeeth it bring forth and bud that it may bring seed to the sower and bread to the eater, so shall my word be that goeth forth out of my mouth.

It shall not return unto me void, but it shall accomplish that which I please and it shall prosper in the thing where to I sent it, that he send us his word.

Do we have it?

It was written so it could be spoken.

We have it right here.

Thanks to the Jews, we have this word written down so that we can speak it just like God did.

I mean, when we speak God's word, it does not return to us void, it prospers where we sent it.

Your life will change if you'll speak it in your mouth and believe it in your heart.

But you've got to believe it in your heart.

So you know we've got to identify when our thinking.

See God's thoughts right here.

This is God's thoughts.

Everything God thought about concerning you is right here, and so you've got to line your thinking up with him.

He's never going to line up with your thinking.

Romans 12, verse two, and I'll start in verse one.

I beseech you therefore, brethren, by the mercies of God, that you present your bodies a living sacrifice.

Hold acceptable unto me, which is your reasonable service, your spiritual worship.

One worship says and be not conformed to this world, but be transformed by the renewing of your mind.

Be not conformed to this world's way of thinking.

Don't be conformed to this way, this world's way of behaving.

See both things.

Your body and your mind are belong to God.

They're not yours.

Your body's not yours.

You're bought with a price.

You're supposed to glorify God in your body.

If what you're doing doesn't glorify God, then what are you doing.

Well, you're going to mess up.

You're going to mess things up to where God's Word won't work for you.

He still loves you.

If you don't think right, you're not going to talk right.

Jesus said out of abundance of heart, the mouth speaks.

Whatever you're thinking about on a continual basis will come right out of your mouth.

If it's the worldly things, the worldly things will come out of your mouth and you will sew them into your spirit.

Where everything happens, in your spirit.

You're moving toward the three that are going to have a crop failure.

Are y'all getting this?

Now?

Your mind, what you think about, is so important, and so in your behavior too, of course, and so God's thoughts, his way of thinking, is higher than the natural man's way of thinking.

You were programmed your whole life to think negatively, and when you got saved, you still had the same brain, you still had the same way of thinking.

And so, over a period of time, you come to a church like this, you start oh, oh, oh, and you start making adjustments.

Well, we're not through making adjustments.

I don't know.

I haven't arrived.

Have you arrived?

I'm still tweaking, I'm still.

Oh, I'm going to change that, I'm going to look at that different.

Why?

Because if I don't, I'm going to speak against God's plan.

And Jesus told you know one of these things, brother Hagin, about how important our confession was.

He said you know, the Bible teaches that you're going to have what you say, either the positive or the negative.

That's the kind of being we are.

The kind of being that God made us is that we have what we say.

So when we say something you know wrong, guess what that's going to show up in your future.

I still have to say, oh Lord, I pray a crop failure on that statement.

I don't want that.

I take it back.

But you know that's really not cool to do that and you let something come out of your mouth that doesn't belong.

That's why you have to stop it right there and learn amen.

So meditating on God's word will renew your mind and refresh your mind to His way of thinking, and so my job is to watch over your way of thinking Hebrews 13, 17.

And watch after your soul as one that will give an account If I don't teach this, and on a regular basis.

Why I ask our new members to give me a year of their life.

It takes me at least a year to kind of to go over all of the things that are basic to our way of the Word of faith, to help people understand how to be led by the Spirit, how to be filled with the Spirit, how to how to cooperate with God's plan, how to get healed, how to get other people healed.

I mean, all of these subjects are so important and it takes about a year minimum.

And if you miss a few Sundays it'll take longer than that.

And if you only come once every when you feel like it, it's going to take a lot longer than that.

And how much longer have we got before Jesus comes?

I don't know.

It's it's it's countdown time, so I feel an urgency.

I believe that's one reason why, god.

You know, almost five and a half years ago, god just reset my clock.

I could have gone to heaven and he said no, I'm going to reset your clock, I've got more to share.

So I'm watching over your way of thinking Now.

So if you think wrong, you'll speak wrong.

Look at Romans, chapter eight.

If you think wrong, you'll speak wrong.

Romans eight you know there are chapters in the Bible that are like Romans, I mean.

Hebrews 11 is a massive chapter.

Romans eight is one of those chapters.

I mean all the Bible's great.

But I mean you know there's some chapters are just chock full.

Roman chapter eight is one of those chapters, verse six.

For to be carnally minded is death, but to be spiritually minded is life and peace.

Because the carnal mind, say the carnal mind, the minding of the flesh, or the fleshly controlled mind, carnal means body rude, body rude.

So a carnal mind is enmity against God, it's the enemy of God.

What if it's the enemy of God?

It's our enemy.

But it's not what we have when we first get saved, we have the carnal mind.

I mean that's all we got.

It's there.

We were saved.

I guess our spirit was born again, but we had this carnal mind that we came into See.

So something had to start happening to that carnal mind.

That carnal mind had to be what?

Reprogrammed?

Let me tell you, it takes a lifetime to do it.

You get satisfied Well, I've been saved a long time.

I've heard that.

I've heard that.

Well, have you done it?

There's a gap.

Amen, amen.

The carnal mind is enmity against God, for it is not subject to the law of God, neither, indeed, can it be.

It can't be subject to God's law.

So with a carnal mind, you're never going to change your life.

Your life is going to be displeasing.

You're not going to be walking by faith and you're not going to equip your life for its intended purpose, you're never going to get to where God had in mind when he created you.

Each one of us have a calling and a destiny.

That's why we pray.

I have a prayer life.

When you have a prayer life, you start to get some revelation about what you're here for.

You get a to-do list.

It's not a you giving God a to-do list, he's giving you a to-do list.

You mean God's going to speak to me.

Well, maybe not in words, but he will inject you with his truth about your life.

Are you getting anything out of this thing?

So right thinking, then, will produce right speaking.

So as long as you've got a carnal mind, you're going to speak death.

You're going to speak poverty.

You're going to speak defeat.

You're going to speak inability, unworthiness.

You're going to have every excuse in the world to underachieve.

But if you renew your mind to the word of God, part of that is getting who you are in Christ, what you have in Christ, what you can do in Christ, all of that identity stuff.

You start thinking that way and you start speaking that way, but again, it's not what you speak one day and then fall the next day.

No, we have to develop that systematic discourse.

Systematic discourse, it's just.

You never stop speaking in line with the spiritual mind, the minding of the spirit, not the minding of the flesh.

So then God's word in your mouth accomplishes what you please, just like God's word in his mouth accomplishes what he pleases.

And it's not overnight, it's like rain.

He soars the seed and then he waters it and it comes up and it brings forth and bud.

And see, in Mark four it says first the blade, then the ear, then the full.

It takes time, it takes a lifetime.

We're just now coming into ministry that God showed me in 1996, the regional center.

We're just now coming into it.

Almost 30 years of praying and developing and praying in tongues, countless prayer meetings, countless visitations, countless.

You know, count over and over.

I preach about a lot about this on Sunday nights more than Sunday morning, because I just want to get you the basic information Sunday morning but Sunday night sometimes I get back in our history and I get back in what God has shown me over these years and I'm telling you right now, not overnight, all good growth is slow growth, fast growth, as I was mentioning before.

Fast growth can be problematic, it can cause weakness.

Slow growth is good, systematic.

Everybody say systematic.

It will prosper in the thing where to you send it?

Go back to Isaiah 55, here a second and let's, let's put this to further examination.

So you know, the word goes out of his mouth, it prospers in the thing where to his sins it.

It accomplishes what he please, verse 12.

Now he sent the word to Israel and it says in verse 12, for you shall go out with joy and be led forth with shalom.

The mountains and the hills will break forth before you into singing and all the trees of the field shall clap their hands.

Instead of the thorn shall come up the fir tree and instead of the briar shall come up the myrtle tree, and it shall be to the Lord for a name, for an everlasting sign that shall not be cut off.

You might have a life full of thorns and briars, but I'm telling you, if you start speaking the Word of God, you're going to have, you're going to have good stuff come up.

Good stuff is going to start growing in your life.

Oh, come on, lift your hands right now.

Oh, my, my, my, my, my, my.

So we have to develop a spiritual mindset and you know, in James chapter three, it says that your words can set your life on fire.

You can have a force.

You can burn your life up with words.

You know the old adage, you know sticks and stones can break my bones, but words can never hurt me.

Well, that's a lie.

Words can destroy you, especially words that you speak.

But if it sets your life on fire, it can turn your life into a garden, it can turn your life into a forest of mighty oak trees or fruit trees or whatever.

You know, whatever it is.

So I'll remind you.

Then.

Feelings are the voice of the body.

A coronal mind is real sensitive to feelings.

I've been ministering, I've been a ordained minister for 36 years now and I just see a lot of people that just live by the seat of their pants, so to speak.

They just live.

You know, life just happens.

They don't dictate anything, they just kind of go with the flow, complain mostly, and you know when they're sad they're sad.

When they're down, they say so.

When they feel bad, they say so.

I mean, in other words, they don't.

There's no resistance really, any different than the world has, they're saying.

I'm not saying they're not saved, I'm just saying they live like they're lost and they can't please God.

The word will not work for them in that condition.

Why?

Because they've sown their spirit or their heart full of thorns.

That's gonna choke the word.

If they ever get the word growing.

It's gonna choke.

Are y'all women in them?

So feelings are the voice of the body.

Reason is the voice of the mind.

Men are susceptible to reasoning everything out.

Jesus would come up to him and say why do you reason?

They'd always reason things.

Why did he say that?

Why did Jesus say that?

He said you forgot to bring the bread, you know.

And Jesus was talking to him about where are the living, or the Pharisees.

And he said he wasn't talking about the bread.

Weren't you there when I multiplied the loaves and fishes, you dummies?

I'm not talking about bread, I'm talking about these people that are filled with sin.

Don't emulate them.

What were they doing?

They're reason with their brain tissue.

You know.

God's not a mind.

Hindus say he's the eternal mind.

No, he's not.

He's a spirit.

God is a spirit and we're spirit.

He speaks to us, spirit to spirit.

When I say speak, it's not always in words he's got words right here but he can open this to you and show you what belongs to you.

So conscience is the voice of your recreated human spirit.

Now the Holy Spirit has a voice.

The Holy Spirit, a witness of the spirit.

If you've ever heard me teach on being led of the spirit, the witness of the spirit is how you know you're saved.

You know that you had the witness.

Verse John says we have the witness in ourselves.

Every believer has the witness of the spirit to help lead and guide us if you learn how to obey the witness.

But apart from that, your spirit has a voice.

It's called your conscience.

Ever say my conscience, my conscience?

Now, if your spirit is full of the Holy Ghost, your spirit is fed on a diet of God's Word, then your conscience becomes a reliable guide.

You can listen to your conscience.

It will guide you.

It will also inform you when you've missed the mark.

Your conscience will let you know.

Yeah, you know, the Holy Ghost convicted me as soon as I said that the spirit of God convicted me.

No, the Holy Ghost does not convict the believer of anything.

Jesus said.

The Holy Ghost will convict the world of sin, he will convict the world of righteousness.

When they get saved, the Holy Ghost convicts them that they're saved and he convicts the world of judgment.

I mean, everybody on this earth knows there's judgment and a lot of them are ignoring it.

They're calling it different things.

They're making all kinds of crazy movies glorifying judgment.

They're gonna glorify it until they have to live through it and then they're gonna find out it's not that glamorous and they're not any superheroes to save them.

There's one and that's Jesus.

And if they let them go, they're gonna be saved, jesus, and if they left him off of their agenda they're gonna suffer greatly.

So they already know folks who told them the Holy Ghost convicted the world of judgment.

Well, if the world knows there's judgment, how much more the church should know what is judgment?

Separation he separates the wheat from the chaff, tears from the wheat, the good fish from the bad fish.

Read your Bible.

Remember the net.

They threw the net overboard, brought a big old catch and they got the catch on board.

And they're just going through the catch and they're throwing the trash overboard.

No, no, no, no.

Oh, here's one.

Let's put it nice.

Put that one on ice.

Praise God.

All right.

So, feelings of the voice of the body, reason of the voice of the mind, the conscience of the voice of the spirit.

So, since your world is built from sowing God's word in your spirit, then, number one, I've got three things for you to keep in mind today out of this whole message.

Number one read and meditate on God's word, that's, his thoughts, and you'll be transformed.

And it should be a continual thing.

I said it should be a continual thing.

We're not designed to plateau, because there's no such thing as plateauing.

You're either increasing or you are decreasing.

I'm gonna say that again.

You're either increasing in your knowledge and your revelation and your faith, or you are decreasing.

There's no plait, there's no treading water, there's no floating.

I'm telling you you're either going up or you're declining.

Now's not the time to be declining.

Now's the time to be rising up, now's the time to be getting higher.

Are you women now?

Romans 12, to be transformed?

Don't be conformed to this world's way of thinking, but be transformed.

That word transformed is the Greek word metamorphuo, which means metamorphosized.

It means letadpole into a frog.

It means it's a completely different species.

A caterpillar into a butterfly is metamorphosis Totally different thing.

You got a little worm, little hairy worm, crawling on the ground and next thing you know it's a beautiful butterfly with just flying with the wind and everything else, totally transformed.

That's the kind of transformation the word of God in your mind will give you.

And again, see, you're sowing seed out of your mouth into your spirit.

So what you think about has a lot to do with what you're saying.

If you don't get transformed up here, you're not gonna speak what needs to be spoken to change your life.

You might wish and hope it would change.

I'm wishing and I'm hoping, you know, maybe some, yay, you know it'll never happen because you're not actively contending.

All right, number two thing to do Ephesians five.

Let's look at that and get it in front of our eyes.

Most of you can quote it, but we're gonna read it.

Book of Ephesians.

That's why it's so good to read out of the New Testament more than the Old Testament, because these are written right to you, for you, they belong to you ever.

Verse, verse 17.

Wherefore, be not unwise, but understanding what the will of the Lord is, and be not drunk with wine, whereas in excess, but be filled with a spirit.

The word be there is literally be being filled.

The linguistic key to the Greek New Testament says that this way.

That word be means to be continually, not occasionally, continually and habitually filled with a Holy Ghost.

And then it gives you three things that help you stay that way.

Number one speaking to yourself.

Do you speak to yourself, glad to say, why'd you say, honey, I just talk to myself.

I talk to myself all the time.

I'm my greatest audience, I'm always interested in what I have to say, and you are too, because what you have to say is kingdom, important.

Speaking to yourselves, in what Psalms and hymns and spiritual song singing and making melody in your heart to the Lord?

I mean, you'll get over reading your Bible and you'll just come across a verse that's so beautiful and you'll start just reading that over and over and so on and so forth, just reading that over and over, and so, oh Lord, I wanna be like Paul.

It's no longer I that live it, but Christ live it than me For the life that I now live in the flesh.

I live by the faith of the Son of God, who loved me and gave himself for me.

I mean, that's a confession, all right, but really it's more like you're worshiping him with that fact, because God's no respecter of persons that Paul got it, I can have it.

That's why it's in there for us, for me, to live as Christ and to die as gain, to live as Christ.

I said this a couple of weeks ago.

But you're the only Jesus some people are ever gonna see.

And some people stumble over that.

They think, oh, oh, you just need to get identified better.

You're not identified the way you need to be.

You're still trying to identify with the old man.

Well, that's prideful.

No, it's not prideful.

It's never pride to say what the Bible says about you, what the Bible says about you.

Why so you're gonna have to speak to yourself in songs and hymns and spiritual songs, singing and making melody in your art to the Lord.

Sometimes I would lapse off.

I mean, I've composed a few songs out of my prayer time, just songs that just came, and I wrote them down and played them on my little Omnicord and we sometimes will sing them every great once in a while.

So much anymore, but used to we'd sing songs that I wrote and it came from being filled with the spirit.

They're not gonna play them on KSBJ, I don't care.

I didn't write them for that purpose.

I wrote them to worship him.

Are y'all with me now?

Giving thanks is the second thing.

Yeah, giving thanks.

You can have a reading on your spiritual condition as to how much gratitude you're expressing.

Griping and murmuring is not gratitude.

Complaining, finding fault is not gratitude.

Being grateful in all things and the King James says, for all things.

Well, we're not gonna praise God for what the devil does.

I have, you know, there's a book out years ago.

The guy wrote and he was talking about praising God for cancer.

And praising God.

That's stupid.

It didn't come from God.

God didn't give it to you.

How can you praise him for it?

It's a stupid thing.

He said no, we're not praising God for what the devil does.

We praise God in whatever's going on, in that happening.

We're praising God because, while we have the victory, we're gonna get through this.

If I can't get through you, I'm gonna get over you.

If I can't get over you, I'm gonna get around you.

If I can't get around you, I'm gonna get under you, but I'm getting on the other side of this, in Jesus name.

So let's say thank you, lord.

And then the last one is submitting yourself one to another in the fear of God Submitting yourself one to another.

I've had to sit with a lot of married couples and the man sometimes will say well, you know, my wife just won't submit to me.

I said, would you submit to her?

Have you submitted to Jesus?

See, I mean, there's nothing in the Bible.

Yeah, it says, you know, the husband's ahead of the wife.

But then it comes back around and says the wife is the princess of the home, she's the queen of the home.

You run over her.

You have to have her.

You have to dictate all the decorating.

You have to.

You have to fill the house with your personality.

The whole house looks like a man cave.

I mean, what, what?

What personality is she?

I mean your heirs together of the grace of life, bozo, you're treating her like she's your servant.

But you better, you know your prayers are hindered already.

I can tell by your attitude, and so it usually cuts down the counseling that I have to do because they, you like somebody's on fire.

They're ready to leave pretty quick.

Instead of an hour it's 15 minutes.

I was griping one time because Gladys just wasn't on board.

For me being a pastor, he was not on board.

I mean, I knew as soon as I got saved.

God, let me know I've got a call on your life and I began to remember things from my childhood.

I had forgotten long and you know, I knew that none saw a call on me when I went to Catholic school late.

But I really I got called when I was four years old.

Our lady of Fatima Catholic Church in Glenapark, texas.

The low is still there, little old, ramshackle, abandoned, I guess, center block building.

I didn't remember it being that humble.

You know everything.

When you're little everything looks big.

You know it's little, it's about the size of the center section right here.

But I was there on a Sunday.

My mother made sure and my dad wasn't going to church in those days.

But we went to church every Sunday and also Wednesday benediction Wednesday night, benediction Sunday morning.

And we had South American missionaries that Sunday and they were up there.

You know now.

I know what they were doing.

They were testifying what they had seen and lives that had been changed in the Amazon River basin and and they were telling their stories and I didn't really understand all of it.

My little heart burned and I knew that God had called me and so I thought, man, if he's called me to be a priest, you know, and I didn't say no to it until I saw Gladys and then I knew celibacy was not in my future.

I'm not, I'm not, I'm not, I.

This sounds funny but it's true.

It's true.

That's when I absolutely said no, not going to do that, I can't do that.

And years later, after I get saved, God said well, that was me, that was me calling you, me separating you, not to be a priest, but but for you, give your life and hallelujah.

So I was griping one day because, you know, after we'd been going to Lakewood and I kept, you know, thinking about it when is that going to happen?

I was really interested in when every brother was staying with lay hands on different ministers and send them out.

And I went to one couple.

They went in South Texas, to a little old town.

They were in a water burger.

You talk about a little bitty church.

It was an abandoned water burger on the main drag of this little South Texas town.

And here they were and Jim Scalise was preaching and I was singing.

Jim Jim brought the message that morning and I talked to both of them.

I was there when brother Osteen sent them out to go obey God and be a pastor, and so they were pastoring this town and of course he wasn't big enough church to support him.

So he had to get a job and he was working and she was working and they pastored on weekends, and so the gym had come out about the six month mark.

They're both tired, both worn out from doing everything it takes to pastor and work.

And so Jim went he's, come on, brother, do some singing.

So we stood, we stood in this little old I mean it didn't have 15 people in it, isn't that 15 people in it?

And I was so interested, how did you know?

How did you?

You know?

And I'd interview people, try to find out how they knew, and all that kind of.

I was really, and so glad whenever I'd bring it up she just, ah, you're doing that now, you're doing that now.

I was kind of her.

So I was griping to the Lord one day and he said don't talk to me about her.

You didn't even have the.

You know, she married an engineer, she helped push you through school so you could be a mechanical engineer, and you didn't even have the, the integrity to ask her permission to pursue a different career.

You just informed her one day that you're going to build houses, and you know.

And I can go on, but you know what I'm talking about.

You just leave her to me, I'll take care of her.

You just concentrate on you.

Okay, okay, I'm sorry I brought it up, submitting yourself one to another, and you know when the time was ripe, I said, when the time was ripe, praise God.

All right, the last one.

So read or meditate on God's word, that's his thoughts.

You'll be transformed.

Number two be continually, ambitually filled with a holy ghost speaking to yourself, giving thanks, submitting yourself one to another in the fear of God.

And then the last one is keep a tender heart toward God and man.

I want to read out of Acts 24, verse 16.

Acts 24:16

I'm going to read it in the amplified.

Paul is talking to Festus, I think it is.

He said I also do my best and strive always to have a clear conscience before God and before men.

I strive to have a clear conscience before God and before men.

And what is conscience?

Well, conscience is the voice of your spirit.

It's the part of you that will inform you when you've missed the mark.

It's the part of you.

It's not the holy ghost telling you that you've sinned.

It's your own spirit that will give you trouble when you go against God's word or when you speak wrong or when you do wrong.

Your conscience, if you've fed it, if you've built it on the word, if you've prayed in other tongues, if you've, if you keep it charged up and edified by praying in other tongues, if you you're continually and habitually filled with a holy ghost and you're thinking, you're lining, you're thinking up with God's word, if you do all those things, then your conscience is going to be the one to tell you when you're off base, not the holy ghost.

The holy ghost won't do that.

He's not going to tell you when you're wrong, He'll chasing you.

He always uses the word to chase him.

He doesn't use car wrecks, doesn't use cancer, he uses the word to chasing you.

What is chasing?

Mean Child train is all it means.

It doesn't mean beating the side of the head, but your spirit will let you know when you've crossed the line, when you've done something that's wrong.

And then right, then I mean immediately you, oh Lord, forgive me, I missed it, that was wrong of me, forgive me.

And then you receive that and you go on.

It's under the blood.

Then what have you done?

Well, you've.

You've walked with a tender heart toward God.

Look at Hebrews, chapter three.

I'm about to say tender heart, verse 12.

This is written to believers, verse 12.

Take heed, brethren, lest there be an interview.

An evil heart of unbelief.

Wait a minute, pastor.

How could that be?

No, they're saved.

They're new creatures.

Old things have passed away.

Behold, all things have become new.

What is that?

That's the legal side.

Everything we have is legal.

But our side is what have we actually brought forth in our life, in our decisions?

How are we living our lives?

Have we let our mind get flooded with the world's way of thinking?

And now we're got the world's way of talking?

And now we're got the world's way of acting.

And what have we done?

See, you've got an evil heart of unbelief and departing from a living God.

But exhort one another daily, while it's called delay.

Today, see, let's stay in contact with each other.

Let's have good friends that'll tell us the truth when they see things that are not right.

Let's not hang around the world.

Let's hang around other Christians that love us enough to tell us the truth, lest any of you be hardened through the deceitfulness of sin.

Sin unrecognized will harden your heart the more you continue in a behavior that's inconsistent with God's Word, you'll start to harden your heart and at first you'll say, well, Lord, forgive me, I did that, I'm so sorry.

I'm sorry, please forgive me, lord.

But then you just don't do much about it.

You don't keep speaking, lord, you know you are.

If you've got some kind of besetting sin, some kind of habit that's trying to come on you from your past life and you're trying to get hooked up, I mean you know whether it's drinking or dope, or women or men or something like that.

Listen, you've got to start changing what you're saying.

You need to get up every morning and say Lord, I present my body, living sacrifice, all except on you, with my reasonable service, father, I just put away for me the old man, which is corrupt according to the seatful us, and I take upon me the new man which, after God, has created and righteous his true holdings.

In fact, I just put on the Lord, jesus Christ, and make no provision for my flesh.

Glory to God.

I mean you start speaking like that.

You're saying that you're going into your spirit and you're beginning to speak and believe things that are belong to you, and it will pull you out of this place where you're headed.

It's dangerous to go there.

The deceitfulness of sin will harden your heart.

First Timothy, chapter four, a few pages to the left.

There Verse one.

Now the spirits speaketh expressly that in the latter times some shall depart from the faith.

Why, giving heed to seducing spirits and doctrines of demons?

Speaking lies in hypocrisy.

What's hypocrisy?

Say in one thing and live in another, having a double life, misrepresenting yourself.

You, you know, speaking lies in hypocrisy.

Having their conscience seared with a hot iron.

Your conscience is what Force of your spirit?

You go down this line very long and soon your conscious voice gets lower and lower in the voice of your feelings Get louder and louder.

The carnal mind starts to take over.

The carnal mouth takes over.

The carnal living takes over your conscience can't get a word in edgewise why it's been seared with a hot iron.

Brother Hagen tells a story along these lines of as a young Baptist boy preacher, first church pastoring, and they didn't have a parson.

So he was living with a farmer and he was an older gentleman.

His son and grandchildren would go out in the fields at five o'clock every morning.

Go, they'd get up before the chicken.

So you got to.

You got to in your farming.

You got to get up before the chickens and, you know, got cows to milk, you got all that chores to do before school and and I mean it's but, but the old man would sleep in and brother Hagen didn't have to get up that early, he was a kind of a night person.

So he, he would sleep in and about eight o'clock they'd get up and have breakfast together and there would be on the old wood stove there'd be this old coffee pot full of boiling hot coffee and he'd pour it in a couple of 10 cups you know old timey 10 cups and the old man would just throw that coffee right there and he'd just gulp the entire thing in one gulp boiling hot coffee.

And he said I couldn't do that, man, I could barely.

I'd have to let it sit a while and just, and then I just, you know, try to sip it, and God, it's still too hot.

He said, well, he couldn't do that at first, but over a period of time, over a period of time, he just seared the inside surfaces of his mouth and tongue and throat to where he could do that.

See, that's exactly what sin will do.

It will sneak up on you.

Well, pastor, I thought I was the righteous and well, you are.

That's the legal side.

Now let's just close the gap between the legal and what we are doing now, because if that's true, then we ought to be living this way.

He that doeth righteousness is righteous.

Now you know, you're practicing.

Now I'm not saying having a slip and fall All of us slip and fall and miss the mark occasionally.

I'm talking about things that get a hold of you.

Well, don't quit, don't give up, first of all today.

Don't give up.

If you're, in that case, there's hope for you.

Remember what we read in Isaiah He'll come on back, stop right now and turn around and get off of that pathway.

Are y'all getting this down?

Brother Hagen tells a story of a preacher during the voice of healing.

I will not mention his name.

I know his name, but I won't mention it because I'm not trying to disparage him or his memory.

But he was a young man, in his 30s, and he had the greatest, one of the greatest ministries anybody had ever seen.

He had more faith in any of the voice of healing ministers.

I mean, he just he would dare the devil, but he got in trouble when he dared.

God can't dare.

God, don't you dare.

Dare God, you're too arrogant if you're daring God.

But he got in that position.

I mean he had a whole wheelchair section get up, walk out of their chair.

15 people walked out of their wheelchair, nobody touched him.

Now he was.

He had a 10,000 seat tent, had a big staff of people to follow him around the cities of the country and they'd be in a town for a month or something, have a big meeting and people would get saved and filled with the Holy Ghost and healed, massive healings.

And one day Brother Hagen is praying you know, he's a prophet, prophets are seers and so God came to him and says I want you to go to brother so-and-so and I want you to tell him that he needs to judge himself in three areas.

Now this is God talking to Brother Hagen about somebody else's sin.

So that's judgment.

When God talks to someone else besides you, about you, that's judgment.

You should have heard that through your conscience.

You should have been close enough to God personally to have heard that warning and say hey, buddy boy, you're doing wrong.

But this you know.

What I'm saying is he'd overrode his conscience, this preacher, and so now God can't have access, and so this is really mercy.

God is trying to spare him of judgment because if he doesn't judge himself, he will be judged.

The devil is gonna kill him, not God.

The devil will kill him and take him off the scene.

He said you tell him to judge himself in three areas.

Judge himself in his diet.

He weighs 400 pounds.

I mean, if he's on a seafood diet, seafood and eats it and eat more of it, you know that's gluttony.

You can't be gluttonous, you know.

Is he anointed?

Yes, the most amazing miracles, but personally he's not living the life that pleases God.

Now, all of that is for other people.

His personal life is a wreck 400 pounds.

Tell him to judge his diet.

Number two judge his love wall.

He's arrogant, egotistical, treats his staff like dirt, treats other ministers with disrespect.

I've got the biggest tent, I'm bigger than you, my ministry's bigger.

Arrogant, not walking in love, judges, love walk.

Number three judge himself about money.

The 15 people that walked out of their wheelchairs, as you can imagine, in a 10,000 seat auditorium, I mean that crowd came alive and they saw the magnitude of the miracle and there is a healing anointing sweeping through.

There's no telling what all God could have done that day.

But he shut it down and says it's time to receive the offerings of the ministry, made merchandise out of the people so he could buy a bigger Cadillac, maybe have a bigger tent.

I mean, you know, it's just, it's wrong, said, if he doesn't judge himself in those three areas, he'll be coming to heaven.

Well, brother Hagin tried to take that message.

He did.

Brother Hagin never was really comfortable with the prophetic ministry and said so on many occasions.

I've heard him.

He had a hard time sticking with the prophetic ministry because the prophetic ministry is a seeing ministry.

You see things that you don't wanna see sometimes and this is one of them.

He'd rather not get involved.

This guy's not easy to talk to.

He's a jerk.

Personally, okay, he's a jerk.

He knows he's not gonna listen, but neither here nor there.

God told him you go tell him.

He got to go tell him.

So he tried and just about the time he was gonna finally approach him, somebody rolled up in their car and talked to him over the car to car and then he disappeared.

And he never did get to see him until the accident.

This guy's in his 30s had a terrible grinding car wreck.

His mortally injured, hospital near death.

Gordon Lindsey, the head of the voice of healing.

He wasn't their boss, but he just tried to have a magazine.

He tried to have an association to keep all of these men and their egos and check, get them in instead of competition and coordination with each other to try to keep them walking together.

I mean, that's a he's Christ for the nations later on became Christ for the nations Gordon Lindsey, freda Lindsey and so they called a prayer meeting for him to pray.

You know, let's pray for our brother.

And they all got together, these ministers, and we're in a little church and brother Lindsey said brother Hagan, come on up and pray for our brother.

And so brother Hagan gets up, knowing what he knew.

I mean, he knew that he wasn't gonna survive.

He knew he was headed to heaven, period, end of story.

Because why?

Well, because a spiritual law had been set in motion the carnal mind.

The laws of God cannot, cannot, cannot operate.

So spiritual laws that have been set in motion that cannot be changed at this time by praying.

He knew that.

But you know, brother Lindsey says brother Hagan, come on up and pray for our brother.

So he gets up and he moves to the aisle and he stops and the Holy Ghost says what are you doing?

Well, brother Hagan, he didn't answer him.

He just kind of in a quandary what to do.

He didn't want to say anything publicly, of course.

He couldn't say well, our brother's gonna die, you know, he just couldn't do it.

He couldn't say it.

They never did go up there and somehow I don't know.

So in it the meeting ended without brother Hagan actually doing the prayer, and I think brother Lindsey just finally did the praying.

And so Aretha, brother Hagan's wife, says Ken, what did the Holy Ghost tell you?

No, he's a rosy.

Why am I saying this?

I'm saying that if we're gonna change our life, we've gotta pay attention to our thought life, we've gotta pay attention to our behaviors so that our conscience can always inform us and we will walk in good cooperation with our conscience before God and before man.

Amen.

Let's change our world with our words.

Come on, lift your hands and receive the word of God today.

Hallelujah, glory to God.

Thank you, jesus.

Did you get anything out of this today?

Oh, come on, let's just rejoice today that we've got.

We've got revelation of the word of God so that we can change things.

I don't care how bad it looks, the Holy Ghost is not afraid of a mess.

You might have made the biggest mess, but I'm telling you it's not too late.

You can change it.

It's gonna take a lot of work, now you know, to undo something that's been done.

It's not impossible, but it takes consistency.

It takes a different thing than what you've exhibited up to now.

You gotta get real with yourself now.

Quit trying to take the shortcut.

You gotta have an accurate appraisal and when you finally get right with that, what the facts are, then now you've got the ability to change whatever it is.

The Holy Ghost, you wouldn't be living in this hour if God had given.

He hadn't given up on it.

He had given up on this nation.

I said he hasn't given up on this nation.

He never gave up on Israel.

I mean all Israel shall be saved.

That's what Paul said.

They're not gonna be in the church, but they're gonna be saved.

He's gonna perform His covenant at the end.

I tell you our God is faithful.