Steward The Seed

Welcome to the Legacy Churches Podcast. We are so glad that you get you

win us today. We praise that God speaks to you through his message and

through his word. Now let's tune into the message Romans chapter twelve. It

is our custom to standing for the reading of God's word. I'm telling you

this word, this word, this word. I hope you're ready. Last

week we talked about oh Man, we talked a lot about how God wants

to renew our minds and how we got to let God's word break in and

break down in our lives. Today we're in the whole new series called The

Battle Within. Because your life is always moving towards your strongest thoughts. So

I want to encourage you today to go to Romans chapter twelve, verse one

and two. And I want to make sure my organist is miked up in

the house. I hear him humming behind me, but I want to make

sure he gets in the house as well. That we're gonna have church today.

I said we're gonna have church today. Don't start now. Therefore,

I urge you, brothers and sister, in view of God's mercy, to

offer your bodies as a living sacrifice. Holy and pleasing to God. This

is your true and proper worship. Do not tell your neighbors, say do

not empactic, do not conform to the pattern of this world. I mean,

the world wants to put you in a hold, wants to bring you

into submission. But be transformed by the renewing of your mind. Then you'll

be able to test and prove what God's will is, his good, pleasing

and perfect will. But you bow your heads with me, Father, we

love you. Today. You pray a blessing upon this house, and a

prayer blessing upon this word. Today, God, let this word go forth

with power and clarity. And God, I give you all the praise in

the mighty name of Jesus. And everybody said, Amen. As you're see

to just tell your neighbors, say steward the seed. Steward the seed.

Today, Steward the seed. That's what I'm going to be talking about.

And I just want to just do a little bit of a recap from where

we have been for those that may have been coming. Maybe this is your

first time that we're in a whole series called Battle within the battlefield of the

mind. Understanding how the enemy works. I about the scheme of the enemy.

If the enemy wants to sow seeds of doubt and disbelief, because if

he can get you to doubt God's word, he can get his hands or

his clutches on you. And so it's recognizing the strategy of the enemy.

Last week we talked about how we got to begin to allow our minds to

be open, to allow the word of God to be sown, not on

hard ground or on ground that is full of rocks and thorns and places where

the root can't take place. But today I'm gonna talk to you about how

to steward the seed. How many of the Word of God has the power

to change your life. Everything in that seed, everything in that seed,

in the seed form, has the potency to become everything that God has declared

over your life. Just like an acorn. An acorn, it doesn't look

like it's much, but inside of it, inside of it, it has

the DNA, the blue and all that it needs for it to become the

largest oak tree standing into the forest. So you need to know that the

enemy is always trying to fight the seed. He's trying to fight the seed

because he knows that if the seed ever gets large deep into your life.

It will cause havoc on his kingdom. It'll won't just change your life,

but it will change the destiny of your children's children's children. How many know

the valuable declares that God says when I bless you, when you walk under

the blessing, It'll be on your kids, kids, kids. You'll break

generational curses, You'll break generational patterns. Things that you used to be a

part of will be broken because of the power of God's words. So the

enemy wants to put you into submission. Now. I grew up in Indiana,

and most people think in Indiana that we are all about basketball. And

that is true. That is true if you are from if you are Hoosier,

you know that every kid had a basketball goal outside uh in in in

the driveway we recognized. But as for me, in my little town,

we had a we had a continual development of wrestling or some people call it

wrestling, whichever one you want to prefer, not you know what I'm saying.

And so we grew up as in wrestling and and and it was always

interesting because as a elementary kid, I wrestled from like first grade all the

way up through elementary and something a little bit into junior high UH wrestling was

just part of the culture because the coach that was overseeing the elementary UH,

Jim, was also the high school wrestling coach, and so he had an

invested interest to make sure that UH that we started young learning how to wrestle.

And if you know anything about wrestling, there are two different positions that

you are in. There is the neutral position and there is the submissive position.

And so what would happen in a wrestling match is that you would start

in a neutral position, but eventually one of you would have to switch and

you would get into a submission position. And the submission position you would literally

be on your hands and on your knees. Y'all see this, don't make

me have to get on the ground. Y'all see what I'm talking about,

hands and knees on the ground. And then there would be somebody that would

literally ride you. That's what they would say. They would put their chin

in the middle of your back and put their hand over your over your right

hand because they were going to Once the referee called the next moment to the

next round, you would have to begin to fight your way out of the

submission hold so that you would not be pinned down or lose a point.

Y'all getting this? And I want you to know that my coach from a

young age would teach us the strategies of how to get out of a submission

situation where it looked like I was going down, but because the coach had

taught me how to maneuver, I was only down until the ref blew the

whistle because I had given the strategy so that I could get out of the

hold and stand up in a neutral position to be able to come to combat

to my opponent. And here is the problem today with many of us,

including myself, as many times we're asking God to take it away from us.

We're saying, God, get me out of that Come on, now,

get me out of that situation. God, if you just get me

into another relationship, I know it'll get better. But have you ever noticed

that your problems will follow you wherever you y'all better help me today, They

will follow you wherever you go. And the problem is is that we are

praying the wrong type of prayer. The prayer is, God, don't take

it away from me, but give me the power and ability and strategy to

overcome what the enemy is trying to do in me and on me. And

that's why the apostle Paul says, do not conform to the pattern of this

world. But be ye transformed by the renewing of your mind. Come on,

tell your neighbors say you need to renew your mind. You have got

to retrain your mind, because the valuable tells us that we got to learn

how to steward the seed. Now I'm gonna teach for a minute because I

want you to get this. Go to the Book of Mark chapter four.

Now that's kind of like this chapter. These verses you'll find them as well

in Matthew and Luke in the Synoptic Gospels. But in Mark chapter four,

verse thirteen. We read this last week, but it talks about the soil.

We talked about the hard spaces. We've talked about the shallow spaces.

But I want you to look at verse eighteen. Still others like seeing sown

among thorns, hear the word, the word takes root. But the Bible

says, but the worries of this life, the deceitfulness of wealth, and

the desires for other things come in and choke the word, making it unfruitful.

Do you see that? So that's why it's so important today that you

guard your thoughts. You got to learn how to guard your thoughts because it's

in your cultivation of stewarding. The seed is going to determine what type of

fruit develops in and on your life. So if the enemy cannot snuff out

the seed, he will try to choke out the seed by bringing the cares

of this world all around your life in such a way that the word won't

work because you are focused on all the worries and cares of this world.

Are you getting this? So here's the question, what are you feeding?

Because whatever you are feeding is growing. That's why you always have to have

a thought audit. What am I thinking on? What am I dwelling on?

What is my mind moving towards what am I focusing on? Because what

I focus on the longest becomes the strongest. Are you hearing what I'm saying?

What am I focusing on my focusing on the fact that things aren't working?

Am I focusing on the economy? Am I focusing on what the news

is saying? Am I focusing on the pandemic problems that are beginning to become

unfolded in our world? What am I focusing on? Because whatever you focus

on the longest is becomes the Come on, now, y'all gonna help me

today. Come on, whatever you focus on the longest becomes the strongest in

your life. So it's so important because you either are worrying or you are

worshiping. Hello. This is why, this is why it's so important,

because you either are walking in worry or you are walking in worship. That's

why worry is a problem because it causes the sea to be choked out.

And here it starts by a sea. Have you ever noticed that you never

invited weeds into your garden? In fact, I would like to put out

a sign. Now. My wife's looking at me because you know I'm gonna

go there, but at me. So she looked at me like you better

not. I said, it's in my MoES. We Lord have mercy forgive

me Jesus right now. It is her birthday this month. Come on,

give it up from first lady turning forty on October the nineteenth, baby who

forty looks good on you, glory to God. Better keep my mind on,

Jesus, Come on mine on, Jesus, thank you thank you,

thank you. But here's the thing. I wish I could put a sign

out that said no weeds allowed. I wish I could. But have you

ever noticed that seeds that seeds of weeds, they come in uninvited, that

come in they come in through the air, that come in through the air,

or they come in through others, and they sow themselves into your garden

unexpectedly. That's why you gotta be careful what you're watching. That's gotta be

why you're gonna be careful what you're listening. Because there's some stuff in the

air that's trying to get into your guard and it looks cute and it looks

sweet, but I promise you it's poisoned from the pit of hell, and

it's gonna cause a problem in your life. That's why you gotta be careful

what you see, what you listen to, because be careful, little eyes

what you see, Be careful, little ears what you hear. That's why

the Bible says in Proverbs chapter four, verse twenty says, my son,

pay attention to what I say. Turn your ears to my words. Do

not let them out of your sight, keep them within your heart, to

put them in your soul, for they are live to those who find them,

and help to one's whole body. Above else, God your heart,

for out of it flows the issues of life. Guard your heart, Guard

your thoughts, guard your emotions, guard your will, because you gotta be

careful because the enemy is trying to sow some things into your life through the

air, through the medium. That's why you gotta turn off the news,

and you gotta turn off the notifications, and you gotta recognize that the enemy

is suddenly trying to sow the seed. And if they can't get in through

the news, it'll come in through your friends. It'll come in from your

family. Have you ever noticed that you were doing so good, You were

doing so well, You hadn't talked to your ex whatever it is, in

six months, but all of a sudden, they started showing up in your

life, sending you DMS and sending you text letting you know, hey,

I saw you. I saw the picture on Instagram. Girl, You're looking

good on all of a sudden, and all of a sudden he trying to

lure you back. Isn't an amazing how the enemy knows when the seed is

growing, and how he knows if he can't. He can't get around you.

He'll try to get inside of you. He gonna work his thing because

he knows that the moment that you allow the word of God to get rooted,

it's going to grow in your life today. And you gotta be careful

what seeds are being sown. You gotta capture your thoughts or your thoughts will

capture you. They come in through stuff. That's why when you're hanging around

people that gossip, all of a sudden, you find yourself thinking about what

they think about and talk about hello, and you start the enemy starts sowing.

See that because somebody came in and told you that you hear what they

said about you, and it don't really matter what they say about you.

It's only matters what God says about you. But your mind is focused on

somebody else. And because your mind is focused on somebody else, you can't

hear what God says about I'm not there yet yet. I'm trying to help

somebody today. See worry. And here's the thing. The enemy knows exactly

how to push your buttons. He knows exactly where the area in my life

is the weakness. And watch this. Worry is an indication of where we

trust God the least. I'm trying to help somebody. Y'all getting quiet on

me, but you better say amen. If you can't say amen, say

oh me, come on now. Because here's the thing. It's where we

trust God the least. That's why the enemy focuses on finances and the economy

because he knows that our faith may not be in the place of trusting.

That's why the Bible says you gotta trust in the Lord with all your heart

and lean not to your own understanding. Because where you trust God the least

is where the enemy wants to work in your weakness. And you get it

passed down by generations. You get it passed down. Abraham had a problem

with telling the truth. Isaac had a problem. You know why, because

he was trying trying to figure his way out of a problem. And you

gotta guard your thoughts. And when I don't guard my thoughts, have you

ever noticed that the weed grows faster than the seed? Have you ever noticed

that? And and here's the thing. You planted the garden. My wife

and I she looked at me because I'm gonna talk about it. I'm gonna

talk about it come on, te your neighbor say he gonna talk about it.

You can shake your head, but we're gonna talk about it. We're

gonna talk about it today. Y'all with me today. I know it's warm

in here. Don't worry about the don't worry about the air condition. God

gonna take care of that. Here's the deal. Here's the deal. We

went on vacation. We went on vacation for two weeks. Now. Here's

the thing that I found out was, you know, when I see a

little bit of weed, this is what I do. I just go in

there and I just pluck it out. You ever done that? Like,

I'm really particular. My mother in law's coming in this weekend, and so

I'm gonna make sure because they are really like they have like their their their

their yard is like plush. You know what I'm saying. You know,

you know those people that they got they get yard of the month every month,

you know what I'm talking about, Like like they got the grass so

green that it looks like heaven. You know what I'm talking about? Like

what did you put on it? Don't even look real? Like what are

you feeding it? Like you got some kind of drug on that on that

week. You know what I'm talking. I mean, so I know so

like you know, like and our and so even in my flower garden,

you know, I'm just if I see a little those little crab of grasses

or you know, nut grass, you know, just little little one,

just pull them up. You know what I'm saying. We went on.

We went just two weeks. We took care of the dogs, we took

care of everything. We were gone for two weeks, but we didn't take

care of the garden. I'm telling you. I came home, the whole

garden got taken over by weeds. I couldn't. I didn't, my wife

says. My wife told me the other day. I said, well,

what's in there? She said, cucumbers? I said, where we got

zucchini? Where I can't see the growth because of the weeds. And what

was crazy was when we got in there and started taking up the weeds.

Have you ever noticed that when it's a small weed, how easy it is

is pull it up. But once it starts taking root, when you pull

on it, it don't come up like it did when it was just a

seed form. And all of a sudden you have to get some gloves or

what we call it. You may have to even get some tools to be

able to pull up the weeds. Now we call them tools, God calls

them weapons. That's why he said the our warfare is not carnival, but

mighty through God to the pulling down of strongholds, because he recognizes that this

thing needs an arsenal. Because when you pull it up, you're not just

pulling up the weed, you're also pulling up the soil, which lets me

know that you're also giving it some strength. You're giving it some strength in

your life. And because of that, it's going to choke out the seed.

That it's a lot harder to deal with these roots than it was when

it was just the seed you'll get in this. That's why you got to

make sure that you steward the seed. You don't allow itself to choke out

the word of God over your life. That's why Sunday morning sermons cannot sustain

you Sunday morning. That's why you've got to recognize that worry starts with what

if. Worry always starts with what if. And you've got to learn today

that the enemy is so good at feeding you the lie about what if?

What if? He doesn't do this. What if he doesn't show up.

What if this doesn't happen you've been praying and believing. What if the doctor's

report is negative. What if that person that you've been believing God for in

your life doesn't show up. See, the enemy always gets you to focus

on what you don't have. He gets you focused on what's not working,

and he starts playing on your mind. But that's why you've got to declare.

Worship is not just a song. Worship is declaring God is. You

got to speak up. You will either feed the seed or you will feed

the weeds. Worship is about removing tomorrow's worry by declaring who God is.

In the air of my weakness is where I begin to worship the Lord.

What are they saying about me? What are they talking about? Did you

hear what they said about your pastor no I didn't. I need you to

recognize that if God is for me, who can be against me? He

is my strength, He is my helper, he is my strong power.

Today I'm not focusing on what they said. Well, what if the things

don't work? What if something's around the corner? Can I tell you today?

I'm declaring The Lord is my light, he is my salvation. Whom

shall I fear? Can I get a witness today? I'm not focusing on

what they say. I'm focusing on what God says and declaring God is somebody

shall God is? What is he to you? He's my friend, he's

my helper, he's my strength, he's my piece, he's my choice,

he's my redeemer, he's my rescuer. He's my savior. He's my prince

of peace. He's my righteousness. I know I may not be perfect,

but he still calls me his son because of what he says. I said

what he says about me. And that's the problem today. Too many of

us are telling telling people what they said about you. But you gotta learn

that you that you in your in your place of worship. You've got to

declare what God says about your life. You gotta learn how to worship your

way out of your word. I said, you gotta learn how to worship

your way out of your worry. That's why the Psalmist said, I will

bless the Lord at all times, and his praise shall continually be on my

mouth. I will ble the Lord, oh my soul, and all that's

within me. I will bless his holy name. I will bless the Lord,

oh my soul, and not forget all of his benefits. Baby,

listen, I'm gonna put a worship on it. I know what the doctor

said, I know what the world is saying, I know what my enemies

are saying. But I'm going to declare what God says about my situation.

Come on, did anybody know what I'm talking about? Anybody ever been in

a situation that you had to bank your faith not on what other people said,

but you had to bank your faith or what God said, and you

had it in clare. There's the benefit of the crosser. There's the benefit

of the bloodstained banner. There's a benefit of being a child of God.

There's a benefit that I can stand boldly before the throne room of grace and

ask for mercy and grace in my time and Needa that he is Jehovah Chirad,

I say, he is Jehold the Chira. Have you ever been in

a place where you didn't know where your he was gonna come from and you

found out that he was sha Hold the Chira, the Lord that will provide.

I wish I had a help in this place. But just tell your

neighbor he's on there. Come on, just tell him, come on,

tell about five other people. Tell him he's all that. Whatever you're looking

for her, whatever you're in need of. You can focus on your problem.

You can focus on your situation, or you can focus on the throne

and focus on the God who is able. I said he's able. I

said he's able. I said he is a Jesus, Jesus, Jesus.

Listen, that's what worshiped us. Worship is declaration. And the problem is

is that you're not declaring who God is in the place of your weakness,

and the enemy's got you focus on what's not working and what's not happening.

But I tell you today, if you would muster up your faith and open

up your mouth. See here's the problem. We think we gotta feel our

way into worship. No, you gotta faith your way into worship. Some

of you looking at me all stranger because you don't feel it, because you're

walking by sight and you're walking by what somebody else says, and you're walking

out what the news say. But I tell you to get out of your

feelings and say, today the just shall live by faith. I feel like

preaching her. I feel like declaring today that God is more than enough.

He is Shirah. He is Shirah. He is able. He's even able

to heal your broken heart. He's able to mend up the broken places.

He's able to send liberty to those that are in captivity. Can I tell

you what he can do? If you put your hands off of it and

let God put his hands on it, he will make a way where there

seems to be no way. I'm talking to somebody today. Your faith is

getting stirred right now because there's worship coming up out of your mouth. I

dare you to declare who he is right now in this way. So go

ahead and brag on him. Come on, tell him who he is.

Come on, I said, tell him who he is. I said,

tell him who he is. I said, tell him who he is.

You gotta learn how to worship your way out. You gotta worship your way

out. You gotta worship your way out. See, worship is declaration.

Worship is not just declaration. Hold on, it's not just declaration. Worship

is activation. It's activation. See declaration is making room and pushing out the

lie of the enemy. Y'all getting this, But what keeps the weeds out

it's by me obeying what God already said for me to do. You understand

that, right, you see, worship is not just declaring who God is,

but it's also obeying in faith, knowing that He's going to show up.

Hello, now I tell you come with your baby. Didn't I didn't

tell you, but she is eight months pregnant. Come on up here,

Come up here, Jake, you're the reason why You're the reason why she's

come on now, come on, and here's the problem. Now look then,

she look good, she looks she looked somebody. I'm not gonna touch

it because that's one of the rules. People always want to touch. Do

not touch the belly. I know you want to touch it, but don't

touch it. The only people that can touch it is tell you and Jake,

amen, amen, rub that belly. Call. They when she found

out that she was pregnant. They use the word saying she's expecting. The

seed germinated and they found out that they were pregnant. And what they started

to do, even though they didn't have signed this, it's called activation.

Worship is activation. They started getting the baby room, They I don't know

what the baby room was. What was the baby room before it was the

baby room. It was the guest bedroom. That's where they put mother in

law. That's where they put father in law. That's where they put friends.

But when they started expecting, they changed the room. It no longer

was the guest room. It became the baby room. And they started putting

furniture together, and they started putting the rocker together, and they started putting

off that. Now they got they got clothes, and they and they and

and they're and they're doing something so unique. They're they're not doing gender reveal.

They're gonna find out what the baby is on the day that the baby

is born. They gotta they got a name for the girl, and they

got a name for the boy. And they ain't telling us anything, but

they already got a name for the baby because they they got a baby room,

they got a crib, they got a rocker, they got a changing

table. They even got a little diaper. Genie, because she's expecting,

but she hadn't had the baby yet. And here's the problem with a lot

of us. We don't know we're expecting, and we haven't activated our faith.

Baby if you're gonna have a baby, you know, only just gotta

be able to see it. But you gotta put some baby cribs together.

You gotta put some stuff together. You gotta get the baby room. But

you ain't ready until you get the baby room. And that's the problem.

You gotta learn how to walk by faith. Faith is activation. Get your

baby room ready. You guys can be seen that I'm talking to somebody.

You've been talking about a business. You better get the business baby room ready.

You can't be talking about I want a baby, but you don't got

a baby room. You better get the baby room ready. Your baby room

is a sign that when you pray, you were planning as if God was

going to answer your prayers. I'm gonna tell you today that I serve a

God that not only hears me when I pray, but he's a God that

will answer me. And see, that's why I walk by faith. I'm

already looking for land. I'm already looking for things because my faith is activated

towards what God has already. It's activation. That's why I'm trusting God.

That's why when I give my tithes and I say Lord that I trust you,

I'm not just saying it with my words. I'm saying it with my

faith. I'm saying God, you man my sorcer. Legacy's not my sorcer.

The Saints aren't my sorcer. God, you're my sorcer. If you

gotta feed me by a brooker with some ravens, I know you are avil.

I wish I had some help in this place. God, you can

make away if you said, I'm supposed to be there. There's not a

hell or hot water that's gonna sn me from doing exactly what God said.

Do I got any activated faith in this place? I said, do I

cut any activated faith in this place? James said, faith with our works

is show me your faith and I'll show you my works. Hello. Show

That's where worship is at. Worship is declaration. It's activation. That's why

you stepped away from some things. You're activating your faith. You don't understand

the power of your step. You think your step is small, but your

step activated something. Y'all missing this. If you could see what God's about

to do, if you just take a step, if you just say,

God, I don't understand it, but I trust you today. God,

I don't know how it's gonna work, but I trust you today. God.

I don't know how it's gonna happen, but I trust you today,

God, faith his body, walking it out and trusting you, even when

I don't see it, even when I don't feel it, even when I

don't understand it. I'm just gonna trust you. I'm gonna worship her with

my walker. I'm gonna worship you with my walk. I may don't feel

like anything's happening, but I know God, at the end of this,

you wanna get some glory out of my life. I'm gonna preach to myself

and I ain't got no help in this place. I wanna see you do

the impossible. I wanna see you do the things that you promised over my

life, over this house, over my children. I won't take a step

until I start running all the way to the promises of God, because there's

nothing that's gonna hold me back up. In my worship. My worship isn't

just my worship. My worship is my walk. Are you kidding this?

This is how you defeat discouragement by you blessing somebody. This is how you

overcome stinginess by being generous. This is how you overcome being passive aggressive by

just being open and honest and saying it's me. This is how you do

it. You gotta learn how to take a step. And here's the key.

It's that worship is one daily. Did you hear me? The Psalmist

declared his mercies are new every morning. Great is your faithfulness. And here's

the thing. You gotta win the war daily in yourship. You can't just

come in here on Sunday and fight and on Monday go back to the sidelines.

Your worship is twenty four seven. And here's the thing. What the

enemy does is he tries to get you to throwocus on perfection and not on

progress. You're watching this, watch this because everybody in this room is gonna

deal with worry. I wish I had some help in this place. My

might must be off. Everybody in this room has some area of weakness.

Now this is a call and response. I'll do this as many times until

you get it. Everybody, come on, just tell your neighbors here.

That means you is struggling in some area. Yeah, and everybody has had

has made a bad decision sometime sometime in the last week, don't you think

that your halo is not sitting on your head. It's broke, baby.

And here's what the enemy does. Watch what watch, What happens is is

how the seed worry begins at large. He lets you think that a bad

decision makes it a bad day. Come on, now, you're strewed up.

You are doing well, and then you got into traffic and then all

of a sudden somebody cuts you off. And then all of a sudden,

your blood pressure raised up, and you said a few words that we cannot

repeat in the poolpit. Right now, don't act all holier than now.

And he say, oh God, forgive me Jesus. And then the enemy.

And then all of a sudden, the enemy has got you self discouraged.

He's supposed to be a Christian. You went to church yesterday, and

look at you. You already cussing in traffic, and all of a sudden

and you think you better take that legacy sticker off the back of your car

representing the church and all that. He got you so beat up, and

he lets you make a one bad decision equals a bad day. And then

you go into work, and then another thing happens, and another thing happens

and all of a sudden, the devil's got you so defeated, and he's

just so in seed and so in seed and so in seed. But you

got to learn how to not let a bad decision to become a bad day.

That's why his mercies are new every morning. And I need you to

understand what I say every morning. That means that when you go up higher

listen, on this Earth, the sun rotates only one time in a day.

But if you go up to the International Space Station and you get up

a little higher, you know that the Earth orbit rotates eighteen times around and

then you see the Sun rotating the Earth eighteen times. Because when you're up

in a higher place, that you recognize that morning is based upon your position

and not on your condition. Can I tell you you may have made a

mistake, but you're not a mistaker. You may have had a bad decision,

but that doesn't make it a bad day. And throw off your worry

and throw up pure hands and say, today I'm going to give God my

worship. Today, I'm throwing what's in the past, I'm throwing in what

happened last night. But today I'm declaring war on myself, and war on

the end of me. You're not gonna steal my praise. You're not gonna

steal my worshiper. I'm gonna give God my best. That's why you can't

pause your praise. That's why you can't stop singing. Ton't desire it,

because it's in your praise that you are strengthened by the Lord. Stay with

me today. I'm telling you everybody in this room has had a place of

defeat. But your defeat doesn't have to be your discouragement. Your valley doesn't

have to be your vision. That's why every day you gotta guard your thoughts.

How do you guard it by your worship, by your worship? By

your worship, said pastor, I don't even know what worship is. Worship

is declaring who God is. I don't even know who he is. I'm

gonna tell you who he is. He's a father to the fatherless, he's

a friend to the friendless. He's not gonna leave you, he's not gonna

forsake you. And in fact, he said, while you were yet sinners,

Christ died for the young God. How much has God love you?

He loves you at your worst, and he still says I want you.

I know what other people have said, they have changed their mind, but

God has not changed his mind about you. Today, you say, I

want that. I want my mind to be transferred. I don't want to

be living and worried. My mind is messed up. My mind is focusing

on every problem. And I've gone to this and I've read every book about

this. But the problem is is that these books aren't helping me. Can

I tell you there's something only the word of God can do the Word of

God does not treat your mind. The word of God transforms your mind.

Oh you've been treating yourself, but you found that there's not a treatment that

can help you. But can I tell you there's one that what He puts

his hand on you, and he declares that you are clean. He saves

you spirit, soul, and body. He wants to transform you. With

every hit bown and everybody closed, no one looking around. He say,

Pastor, today, I want to surrender my life to God. Please bow

your heads with me, he said, Pastor, that's me. I want

relationship with God. Listen, he just wants you. What do I give

him? You give him your surrender. You ain't got to clean it up

you ain't gotta fix it up. You just gotta surrender. He said,

that's me, fastor I want to surrender with every hit, bout of every

id, clothed, no one look around, he said, that's me.

Just raise your hand right now, come on, come on, come on,

come on, thank you, thank you, thank you, hands going

up, m thank you. Jesus. Put those hands down. I'm telling

you them. There's some people in this room. You've been dealing with worry.

You are so worried about whatever it is. Can I tell you today

God wants to you to move from worry to worship. You can't change anything

by worry. Worry is like paying a down payment on a problem that hasn't

even happened. And today the enemy has been sowing seeds about what if?

What about this? What about that? What about your children? What about

the school? What about the job? What about the spouse? What about

the marriage. He's got you so vexed, so worked up. He's choking

out the seed, he's choking out your peace, he's choking out your joy.

And today, in the name of Jesus, how you gonna get out

of that? You're gonna worship your way out. You're gonna worship your way

out. I didn't say you're gonna feel your way out. You're gonna worship

your way. You're gonna begin to declare who God is over that situation.

God, I surrender it to you. I give it to you, and

then I give you my kids. I don't care how they act. I

don't care what they say. I don't care if they cust me out.

I don't care if they're going to the bars. I don't care if they're

sleeping around. God, you said that if I sow the seed in them,

God, that they will not return. They will not return broken.

But God, they will come back to you today. God, you're the

God of the prodigal and God, I just surrender. I'm giving you my

worship. I'm declaring your faithful. I wish I had some people in this

room. We'll just go ahead and just open up your mouth and me to

declare who God is over your situation. Come on, come on, God

wanted to hear your faith declaring who he is. Come on, come on,

come on, come on, come on, come on, let your

worship out. Come on the enemies afraid of your worship, come on,

come on, just worship your way out. Come on, just worship your

way out. Come on, I worship you today. I worship you today.

I worship you today. Come on, come on, get your worship.