Why Is It Not Working?

Open your Bibles to Proverbs chapter 18, and meet me at verse 20 through 21,

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Proverbs chapter 18, 20 through 21.

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And the word of the Lord says, a man's stomach shall be satisfied from the fruit

of his mouth, from the produce of his lips he shall be filled.

Death and life are in the power of the tongue, and those who love it will eat its fruit.

Now, last week, we talked a little bit about this verse, and I encourage you

to go back online and listen to it. The title was Talk That Talk.

Talk That Talk, and it was an encouraging word, and I recommend you go listen

to it on our YouTube channel.

And as we begin to talk about this word, I want you to know something about

me, guys. I've gotten to the place in my life and ministry that I'm just not preaching sermons.

I'm just done preaching sermons. I ain't trying to excite you.

I ain't trying to make you run around the building. I want you to be changed from the inside out.

I want to spark something in you that will instigate something for you to start

something so that you can receive what the promises are from Scripture.

And yesterday, we had a great time eating some good old food,

some hamburgers and some bratwurst and some ribs. Come on, somebody.

And some, what else we have? I know that's not good to you to now,

but it was good. It was good.

And we had some good old food. We had a lot of good food. But as I was eating

and resting, the Lord began to talk to me about something that I want to share with you guys today.

It's a little different in the way that I was going to go.

And so I believe this message is from the Lord. And we found out here,

we'll piggyback from last week, that a man's stomach shall be satisfied from the fruit of his mouth.

That simply means that whatever you are saying, your life will be satisfied

by the words that are coming out of your mouth.

And he says, from the produce of his lips, he shall be filled.

Or from the production, the creation, the manifestation, or the increase of

his lips, his mouth, and his tongue, he shall be filled.

And so your mouth, your lips, your tongue produces things.

It creates things. It manifests things.

And death and life are in the power of the tongue.

Death and life is not in the power of the devil. Death and life is not in the power of God.

Death and life is in the power of the tongue. This is why the enemy tries to

get you to talk a certain way so you can kill yourself.

He can't kill you, so he wants you to kill yourself.

And so we got to watch what's coming out of our mouth because death and life

is in the power of the tongue.

And those who love it, those who love the talk will reap the consequences.

Those who love the talk will reap the consequences so what if i told you that

speaking is more about creating than it is about communicating.

Let me say it again speaking words are more about creating producing than it

is about communicating god has created you

in his likeness and his image and his resemblance.

God is a speaking spirit.

You and I are speaking spirits. When God speaks, things happen.

When you and I speak, things happen.

God is a speaking spirit. Now, with God, when he speaks, it's on a grand level.

When he says something, things are going to change.

But when you and I speak, it'll change on our level of influence.

Things will change in our sphere of influence.

We found out in Genesis chapter 1, it says, then God said, verse 3, then God said, verse 6,

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then God said, verse 9, then God said, verse 12, then God said,

verse 15, then God said, verse 18, then God said, verse 21, then God said.

Verse 26, then God said. Verse 29, then God said.

And then in verse 31, it says, and then God saw everything that he made.

How did he make it? He said it.

He said it. And so it's important what we're saying.

It's important what we're allowing to come out of our mouth and our lips and

our tongue because it will cause us to be able to create and be able to manifest

what is on the inside of us.

And so here's the question I heard the Lord say to me yesterday,

and I wrote it down in this way, and I want to talk to you about it.

Have you ever found yourself saying all the right things, confessing the word,

speaking in faith, and yet wondering why doesn't it seem like anything is changing.

I'm saying all the right things. I'm confessing the word. I'm speaking in faith.

But why doesn't it seem like anything is changing?

And as I was sitting on the couch yesterday, this was reverberating on the inside

of me to answer this question today.

Because I believe there are some of you that say, I have been saying,

I've been confessing, I've been speaking, and I don't see any changes.

I don't see anything manifesting. I don't see any difference whatsoever in my condition.

I don't see anything different in my finances. I don't see anything different in my health.

I don't see anything different in my relationships. I've been speaking the word.

I've been saying things, but I don't see a difference.

The Lord has an answer for you today.

We find in Mark chapter 11, verses 22 through 24, very famous passage of scripture.

Mark 11:22–24

Jesus answered and said to them, have faith in God.

For surely I say to you, whoever says to this mountain, be removed and be cast into the sea

and does not doubt in his heart, but believes those things he says will be done,

he will have whatever he says.

Therefore, I say to you, whatever things you ask when you pray,

believe that you receive them and you will have them.

Now, in this verse, we find out three times Jesus mentions the word say.

Say, three particular times.

He says, I say to you, whoever says, be removed, be cast in the sea,

does not doubt in the heart, but believes those things he says will be done.

He will have whatever he says.

So three times in this verse, there's an emphasis placed on what you are saying.

Jesus not Devon Jesus not New Age movement Jesus said you can have what you say.

But here's the issue the Lord began to talk to me about yesterday that I want

to emphasize with you and I today.

In the middle of that verse, he says, but if you do not doubt in your heart,

but believe those things you say.

So can you honestly say that you truly believe what you are saying?

Now, this is the question you got to answer. Because Jesus said that if you

believe what you say, not believe what the word says.

Do you believe what you say?

Do you believe what's coming out of your mouth?

Do you believe what you are communicating and speaking?

So if you don't doubt in your heart, this is important. We're going to talk about this.

But believe what you say. I've got to believe what I say.

Then you can have whatever you say.

But the emphasis has been placed a lot upon speaking it.

And I want to place this emphasis today on do you believe it in your heart?

Do you believe in your heart what you say?

Now, you have before, if you ever gave your life to Jesus, you have before.

Romans 10, 9 and 10 tells us this, that if you confess with your mouth the Lord

Jesus and believe in your heart that God has raised him from the dead, you will be saved.

For with the heart, one believes unto righteousness, and with the mouth,

confession is made unto salvation.

So when you gave your life to Jesus, one, you had to recognize that you needed a Savior.

You were lost. You were in sin. You were on track to go to hell,

and you had to say, oh my gosh, I need a Savior. I can't do life alone.

I can't accomplish these things on my own.

I need a Savior. And so you found out Jesus is a Savior.

So you confess with your mouth and you believed in your heart.

But what if you just confess with your mouth and you didn't believe in your heart?

You wouldn't be saved. You wouldn't receive the free gift of salvation.

Believing in your heart is important.

Believing in your heart. What is your heart? It's your inner man.

It's the seat of your affections and your desires and your emotions.

It's the place where who you truly are in your heart.

So if you believe in your heart, it's where your appetites are, your passions are.

If you believe in your heart and confess with your mouth, salvation will take place.

Colossians 2.6 says it this way, that as we have followed Christ Jesus, so walk in it.

What does that mean? We follow Christ Jesus by believing in our heart

and saying with our mouth, We're supposed to walk this Christian life the same

way believing in our heart and saying with our mouth but many times we say things,

that we don't believe,

and we say it in a way to convince someone else of something that That you're

really lying about I heard someone recently say I'm believing God for a Lamborghini and.

Do you believe that? No, no, like, do you believe your own words?

Yes, I do. No, let's think about it. Do you believe that?

And so you're trying to convince me. You're trying to make me think highly of

yourself. But is that in your heart?

Listen to me now. Is it in you?

Is what you're saying in you?

Because I think you and I may be confessing but not believing in our heart.

Results occur when you believe in your heart and speak out of your mouth.

It's the heart-mouth connection.

When you want manifestations or results, you must believe it in your heart and

speak it out of your mouth.

Matthew 12, 34, and 35. Listen to this in the New Living Translation.

He says, you brood of snakes, how could evil men like you speak what is good and right?

For whatever is in your heart determines what you say.

Listen to that. Whatever's in your heart determines what you say.

A good person produces good things from the treasury of a good heart.

So your heart is producing things. And an evil person produces evil things from

the treasury of an evil heart.

And so whatever is in your heart determines what you say.

The King James Version says, for out of the abundance of your heart, the mouth will speak.

So you always say what's in your heart.

There's no disconnect there. You wonder, why did I say that?

It's in your heart. Why did I blow up that way? It's in your heart.

Why am I talking negatively? It's in your heart.

Why are you not believing God for the impossible? Because in your heart,

you don't believe God for the impossible. Oh, you'll say God can do anything,

but you really don't believe that in your heart.

And so we've got to get these words in our heart, and once they get in our heart,

we can release them out of our mouth, and things will begin to be changed and rearranged.

The factor is it's got to be in your heart. Is it in your heart?

This is the key. Healing. I'm believing God for healing. Is healing in your heart?

Or do you just want to say that? I just believe for healing. Is it in you?

You got to ask yourself the question, is it in me? Is it in me?

Years ago, and I'm going to give you a financial example. Can I give you a financial example?

Years ago, there was a prophetic word that was spoken over me.

And the prophetic word was people are going to come to our ministry.

And we had just gotten started.

And people were going to come to our ministry and they were going to get really

excited about what God's doing.

And they would come and they will give ones, fives, tens, and twenties,

receive them, call them blessed. This is what the word said.

And then it said, people will give thousands, receive them, call them blessed.

And the word said, people will give tens of thousands, receive it, call it blessed.

And then the word was, people will give hundreds of thousands,

receive it call it blessed and the last part was and people will give millions

receive it call them blessed because the lord wants you to get big things done quickly for me

so i heard this word and what normal people kind of do hallelujah let's just

wait and see what happens,

that's well that's a word spoken i'm just gonna wait just gonna wait and see

what god does no i heard that word and i put it in my heart.

I begin to say, in Jesus' name, we'll receive our first $10,000 gift in Jesus' name.

For years, we operated without receiving a five-figure gift before this word came.

And I was believing God for it, and so I had to deposit it in my heart.

And I begin to say, our $10,000 check is arriving today in Jesus' name.

And I begin, my wife will tell you, I had sticky notes of $10,000 just written.

Just written out on my computer.

I'm believing for a $10,000 check to come.

And I would say, today, a $10,000 check is going to come.

And I would say, once we get a $10,000 check, this whole conversation is going to change.

And I begin to deposit that in my heart.

It's coming. It's coming. Well, lo and behold, we had church one day,

and this was something that I did privately. I didn't do this publicly.

This was private. Church one day, we get done.

The team that does our offering said, Pastor, Pastor, I got to tell you something.

I said, what? They said, in the offering today was a $10,000 check.

Hallelujah. Glory to God.

How did it happen? I deposited it in my heart.

Well, then I began to say $100,000 is coming to our ministry. Come on, somebody.

Now, it's one thing that, oh, I believe for $10 billion.

Okay, do you believe that in your heart?

This is what I'm talking about. I was at a ministry event one time,

and the minister was asking, what are y'all believing for?

And some guy shouted, $8 million.

And the minister said, no, you're not. What are you going to do with $8 million? Oh.

It sounded good. you know it sounded great.

But what are you going to do with $8 million?

And the minister said that. The place was packed. What are you going to do with

$8 million? He didn't have no response. It sounded great. It's not in your heart.

You got to get that thing in your heart. Once it's on the inside of you,

then you can speak it out, and the heart-mouth connection will go to work, and it'll manifest.

And so my family would tell you, I would say $100,000 is coming into our ministry.

Today's the day we receive $100,000. I would have sticky notes, $100,000.

On my computer, there would be $100,000 written out. What am I doing?

I'm getting it in my heart.

I'm getting it in my heart because I know that there are some big things that

the Lord wanted us to do and accomplish.

I'm getting it in my heart, and I'm putting it in my heart. And I'm saying,

today's the day that $100,000 check's coming. Can I talk to you like this?

You're not afraid of this kind of money. You should be believing for this kind of money.

I said, $100,000 is coming. Today's the day, $100,000 is coming.

And y'all know the story.

I get a call, December 2024, and a man sent me a text and said,

the Lord told me to send you $100,000 to your ministry. Come on, say amen to that.

I said, what happened? I put it

in my heart and it manifested because I began to say it out of my mouth.

Your life is dependent upon what's coming out of your heart.

We can say what we want to say, but if it's not in our heart,

it's not going to come to pass.

So when God began to speak into the universe and he said, let there be light.

And he said all these different things. He believed it.

And then it came to pass. So whatever's in your heart is what's going to come out,

of your mouth and when it comes out of your mouth it'll have power with it because

you put it in your heart. Somebody shout amen.

Whatever is in your heart determines what you say.

Your words reveal what has filled your heart.

If you're always negative, your words are revealing what is on the inside of you.

If you say things like, that never works out for me.

That is in your heart, and it never will work out for you.

Or I change that to say, that always happens to me.

I say that, hey, that always happens to me. Somebody tell me a story.

I say, that always happens to me.

I'm changing my perspective. I'm getting good things in my heart so good things

can be produced out of my mouth and manifestation will take place.

You've got to get it in your heart and you've got to change the way you talk

because when you put a guard over your mouth, you'll begin to understand that

what's on the inside of you is so powerful, it'll create things

and rearrange things.

You carry a power on the inside of you. it's in your mouth,

but it's got to come out of your heart you will produce what's in your heart,

I didn't write this down but I'll say it this way you will always produce,

what's in your heart you will always produce create what's on the inside of

you Proverbs chapter 4 verse 20 through 23.

Proverbs 4:20–23

Says my child pay attention to what I say listen carefully to my words don't

lose sight of them listen to this let them penetrate deep into your heart,

so these words have to penetrate deep into your heart for they bring life to

those who find them and healing to your whole body,

So the Word of God will, if you let it penetrate your heart,

will bring life and healing to your entire body.

Let me ask you this question before I finish that verse. Is the Word of God for everybody?

And if the Word of God is for everybody, and this verse says the Word of God

will bring healing, then it's healing for everybody.

Yes, it is. If someone would take the word of God and put it in their heart

and let it penetrate their heart and it gets in their heart until it's full,

until it overflows and it comes out of their mouth, they will be healed.

That's what the word of God's for. It's not just for a select.

Healing's not for a select few people.

It's for everybody that allow the word to get in their heart,

penetrate their heart, produce on the inside of them, speak it out of their

mouth, and they'll see change on the outside of their body. Say amen to them.

So watch this let me read it again let's go back to verse 20 guys my child pay

attention to what I say listen carefully to my words don't lose sight of them

let them penetrate deep into your heart watch this,

for they bring life to those who find them and healing to their whole body watch

this guard your heart say that guard your heart say it again.

Say it one more time. Guard your heart. Guard your heart. Watch this. Above all else.

For your heart determines the course of your life.

And so if we're to guard our heart, that literally means put a armed person

there to block your heart.

To guard your heart. Put somebody there that is going to monitor what comes in and what goes out.

So you're going to have to put a guard, you are the guard, over your heart.

Listen, your heart is only soil.

It is soil. And that soil will produce anything that's been deposited on the inside of it.

Your heart is simply soiled. So whatever seed you allow to come in through your ear gate,

through your eye gate, through your tongue, will be implanted on the inside

of you, and it will produce.

Your heart has been created to always produce whatever's been planted on the inside of it.

So you say, why is it not working? because you have planted bad seed in your

heart and your heart is doing exactly what it's designed to do, produce, produce.

It determines, the last part of that verse there said it determines the course of your life.

So your heart is determining the course of your life. Let me tell you again, what is my heart?

It's who I am. It's the inner person. It's my affections and appetites and desires and passions.

It's where I think and choose and it's where I deliberate. It's how I make decisions. It's how I feel.

Scriptures say we're to guard our heart. So I'm the literally monitor,

what do I allow in my heart?

One particular time, I'm going to speak freely to you. Don't nobody get offended

by this story. Say, I will not get offended.

I was talking to a man. This was a black man. And I was telling him,

we're going to buy a building.

Glory to God, we're going to get a building.

And I said, I'm believing God.

We've got a realtor. The Lord has blessed us financially, put us in position

to where we can start looking, and we're going to get a building.

Thank God we're in this building today. Amen?

We're going to get a building. And we believe in God, and we had to go through

some wilderness seasons, but I'm believing that we're going to get a building.

And I was talking to this black preacher in town, and he said to me,

he said, black people don't buy buildings in Charlotte.

It. That's just reserved for white people.

Now that came through my ears and anything that comes through your ears tries to get in your heart.

Do you know what I said to him next? I have to get off the phone.

I got to go now. Oh, oh, oh, oh. I said, I got to go. And I haven't talked to him since.

Because I don't need that negativity in my heart. So I had to put a guard over my heart.

Because this black man just bought a building. Amen. Hallelujah.

On six acres of land. Glory to God. What he said is not true.

But if you let it in your heart, that'll begin to produce.

And it'll begin to push you think well I can't I can't buy nothing because I'm black,

how ridiculous does that sound money is green,

amen and so I said I said sir we need to get off the phone right now you got to go now I got to go now,

because I don't want any more negative seed that you plant he'd been written

for 25 years and guess what he gonna keep doing written,

because in his heart black people can't buy buildings and stuff that's only

reserved for white people that's in his heart,

but that's not in my heart.

And so what you allow in, you're going to have to cut some people off.

Some of the people you call friends, they should no longer be your friend because

they're holding you back. And you don't know, but they don't like you no way.

They want to keep you down there with them while you're trying to fly.

They're holding on to your legs and they're speaking negativity over you when you're not around.

You're going to have to just cut them off because I don't need what's in their life in my heart.

I got to have what the word of God is in my heart says, and so that I can produce

and then go further than anybody's ever gone before.

You just think about the five most common people you talk to.

And just literally the five people just think, now, why do I talk to these five people?

And I guarantee you, three out of the five ain't benefiting you not one way or another.

And listen to me today, cut them off.

We don't need to talk anymore.

I did this a few years ago. I'm really good at staying in contact with people.

I'm very good at it. I like to stay in contact.

I've got friends from Bible school, from high school, from college.

Man, I stay in contact with people. I'm really good at it. And one year,

this was a few years ago, I just heard in my heart, you know what,

stop reaching out to folks and just see who reaches back out.

So I stopped reaching out to folks and on about one or two reach back out.

And guess what? I feel much fresher because I don't even talk to them folks

no more. Amen. I let them go.

They weren't producing anything in my life. And so you're going to have to get

around people that are going to speak to you and say, you can do it.

All things are possible to you. Today is your day.

You're going to meet that person today. Divine connection is coming your way.

Open doors are coming. Girl, you just keep coming because it's going to work

out for you. These are the people you need to talk to.

I talk to people. There are times I was talking to one particular friend.

He handed me a magazine, and the magazine was obscure vacation spots.

And I'm like, and he said, man, look at these vacation spots.

My first thought, why am I looking at this? I said, oh, he's trying to get something in my heart.

Are you listening to me? And I start, so I said, oh, oh, yeah.

Then I started envisioning Stacey and I there. Come on, somebody.

Now it's getting in my heart.

And pretty soon I'm going to be at one of these places. Amen. Amen.

Once you get it in your heart, it'll produce.

But you have to get it in your heart. Guard your heart above all else.

So that means I've got to monitor what comes in.

So some of these songs you're listening to, you need to put a guard over your heart.

Kill, kill them, kill them, shoot them up, bang, bang. You're going to get mad.

You're going to reach for your weapon and shoot them up, bang,

bang, because it was in your heart.

And how did it get in your heart? You put it through your ears.

Or if loving you was wrong, I don't want to be right.

Or me and Mrs. Jones had a thing going on. If that's in your heart,

you're going to dip out on your spouse.

I know it got quiet in here, but I'm telling the truth. Yeah,

you and Miss Jones go and you're going to lose everything you got. Just read Proverbs 5.

Proverbs 5 said you're going to lose it all because you're dipping out with Miss Jones.

Shout me down. Mr. Johnson, shout me down when I'm preaching good.

I don't know where I got on that, but it needed to be said. It needed to be said.

I got to monitor what I listen to. It's the music I listen to.

I got to monitor that. You know, even the Christian music.

I got to monitor that too. Yeah, like I don't want that getting on the inside of me.

Well, you think you're too uppity. No, I'm guarding my heart.

I'm protecting what gives life. The King James says, for out of your heart are the issues of life.

I'm protecting my heart. I don't want to talk that way. I don't want to hear

that negative talk. I don't want to be involved in that.

One of the reasons we're in this building today, God's grace,

obviously, but I had to get this building in my heart.

So we were at another location. It was comfortable. We were making the payments. It was easy.

I could just wake up and everything was just fine and dandy.

But the Lord said, it's time to leave here and stretch.

And I want ownership was the word he gave me. It's time for you to own something.

As soon as the Lord said, own something, that's when the other pastor said,

black people can't buy me. And I said, you know, you're out of my life and we

don't talk no more, okay?

Because I'm trying to hear from God and ownership. So I had to get this building

in my heart. So I had to create a picture.

Y'all remember the picture we used to show on the screen of a building?

I had to create a picture because I needed to get in my heart and I needed it

to say, and it came to pass.

So I began to put it in my heart. It came to pass. We ain't seen it yet, but it came to pass.

And I'm believing for it, but it came to pass. I started speaking as though it's already done.

I had to get it in my heart. Nothing just happens.

You got to get it on the inside of you. So I begin to say, today's the day we're

going to find our building.

And then there was pressure when we left our last building to rent,

right? Well, we could have rented something. The Lord said, give me a little

more time because he had to work on the sellers here.

Give me a little more time. All right. It's in my heart. A little more time is in my heart.

It's in my heart. You know what? And y'all gave the Lord a little more time. And it's in the heart.

I had to get it on the inside. I had to say it. I had to speak it.

I had to meditate it. I had to get it on the inside of me. It took some time,

but I started thinking that God can do it for me.

This is how you got to think. Yeah, he did it for Leroy and Fred,

Fred, but can he do it for you?

And when you get it in your heart, you start believing he'll do it for me.

Amen. And so now we have a testimony about securing this facility that's going all over now.

Ministers are reaching out to me. How did you buy a building?

We had to be the first one to show that a smaller church can get these things done.

God ain't never used a whole lot of people to get anything done in the earth.

You got to get these things in your heart. Everything in your life flows from

what's happening in your heart.

Everything in life flows from what's happening in your heart.

You're going to have to put a guard over your heart.

You're going to have to eliminate some things that's on the inside of you.

Some negativity. Some things your parents planted on the inside of you.

Some things maybe your spouse said over you.

Some things you've been reading you're going to have to stop reading those things

because they're impacting your heart

you're going to have to just start saying I'm not touching that no more I can't

listen to that that movie I can't watch no more I don't watch scary movies I'm

not trying to be legalistic I don't watch scary movies because I ain't got time to be awake at night,

scared that something's under my

bed getting in my heart now I'm fearful everywhere I go because I'm scared,

so I just don't watch it because it gets in my heart.

And when it gets in your heart, it'll change and rearrange the way you live.

And so monitor what comes in and what goes out of your heart.

Put a guard over your heart.

Now, it is very possible to plant seeds in your heart.

There are things that you can hear or that you desire. Scripture says,

so whatsoever things you desire when you pray.

There are desires that God gives you and that he'll place in your life.

Now, you would have to take those desires and then put them in your heart.

How do I take this desire and put it on the inside of me?

And this is what I want to answer for you today. You're going to have to watch what you are looking at.

What are you looking at?

What are you listening to? You are a culmination of whoever you're listening to.

You really are. And don't trust social media.

I just don't trust it because it's a lie. There are bots that are being administered

out that are lying to you. It's like it's real people.

I had a friend do this. he created two social media accounts because he wanted

to see something because he was told that people see different comments so he created two,

and he went and liked the same thing and come to find out both accounts receive

entirely different comments.

He didn't even see the same comments as the other one because one account was

giving you the comments they think they want you to see.

The other account was sending comments they think they want you to see.

It's all divisive and it's all a waste of time and it's getting in your heart

and you think that Sheree Ray is doing great and Sheree Ray is going on her third divorce.

She lying, it's bots and stuff.

And you're comparing yourself among yourself with other people. That's not wise.

Just focus on what God's called you to do and get that word in your heart and

you're going to have to watch what you're listening to in order to do that.

You're going to have to watch what you're saying.

What are you saying? You know that your words can also deposit things on the inside of you?

I'm ugly. I'm so ugly. I'm so fat. I'm so fat and ugly, I'm so fat and ugly.

That'll get into your heart.

And you'll start feeling fat and ugly, and then your body will start getting fat and feeling ugly.

And next thing you know, you really are fat and ugly.

But somebody thought you was beautiful until you turned fat and ugly, right?

You got to watch what you say out of your mouth.

You can create images. Words create images. Black dog.

You know what you pictured right now? Was a black dog. But you didn't picture B-L-A-C-K-D-O-G.

You pictured an image of a black dog. That's what words do. Creates images.

Those images get on the inside of you, then you begin to meditate these images.

What are you thinking or what are you meditating?

When you begin to meditate these images, you begin to now create what God has

designed, create your own future.

I had to start meditating us in a new facility where this church was concerned.

I just, because my whole view was our last facility. I had to get our last facility

out of me and get a new facility on the inside of me.

So I would meditate. Meditation is a godly thing.

Meditation, Eastern meditation is demonic where it says empty your mind and

let yourself go and be free.

That's so the demons could come in.

Meditation from scripture is godly. It means to feel your mind.

Biblical meditation means to fill your mind with the Word of God.

Don't empty your mind. No, fill it with God's Word, and it'll push out everything else.

And so I begin to meditate. Man, we're going to, a new building,

new building. I begin to see ourself in a new building.

I begin to create images of a new building, and I begin to meditate.

And I begin to meditate. When we get in it, we're going to do renovations,

cash in this new building. Praise God.

Begin to meditate. You've got to meditate this.

You got to think about it and create pictures and images and see yourself.

And then when you do, then you speak it out and things will be changed and rearranged.

Then you call things that be not as though they were and things will begin to

change and rearrange in your life.

So what are you looking at? What are you listening to? What are you saying?

And what are you thinking?

These are questions that you got to ask yourself. Well...

The devil tried to get me to think, well, you're never going to find a building.

So the devil tried to get me there. Well, I'm thinking, well,

we're never going to find it. I said, no, devil use a lie. We're going to find our building, amen?

And we're going to get it at our price, amen?

And it's going to be good. But the devil's a lie. Well, it ain't ever going

to happen. It ain't ever going to happen. That's the job of the devil.

And if you hear it never going to happen, that's the devil.

That's not God. It's the devil. Or you're never going to get healed.

I mean, you're just never, ever going to get healed.

That's the devil because the word said he healed them all.

And so that's the devil. And so what are you thinking? Now, here's the part,

that ministered to me yesterday. I wrote this down.

How do you know it's in your heart?

How do you know it's in your heart? Now, listen to this. When you can honestly

say that you truly believe what you're saying, When you can honestly say,

I truly believe what I'm saying, then it's in your heart.

Not saying it because pastors say I need to say some good things.

No, I'm saying it and I honestly, truly believe what I'm saying.

Now, you do have to start somewhere.

You do have to start. Don't get me wrong. You got to start somewhere.

But eventually, this is what a liar will do. They'll keep saying the lie and

then they'll really believe the lie.

Well, let's just take that in reverse. We just keep saying what the Word of

God says and then we'll really believe the Word of God. Amen? Say amen to that.

How do you know it's in your heart when you cannot picture your life without it?

When you cannot picture your life without it.

What does that mean? In this new building, we got it in our hearts.

And I could not picture life without it. We are going to be in our new building.

And I'm not taking nothing else. That's when it's in your heart.

You cannot picture life without it.

How do you know it's in your heart? When everything coming out of your mouth

lines up with what you believe on the inside.

Listen to this. That is key. When everything coming out of your mouth lines

up with what you believe on the inside.

That's how you know it's in your heart. Everything coming out of your mouth,

is going to line up with what you believe on the inside.

That's how you know it's in your heart.

How do you know it's in your heart? when your actions begin to match your faith.

There's corresponding action. You know with this building, we had to leave our

last building. It would have been easy to stay.

But we had to leave. That's corresponding action. God said ownership.

We had to leave corresponding action because we believe in our heart God's got

something for us. Say amen to that.

When your actions begin to match your faith, you're no longer just talking about it.

You've started living like you believe it.

You're not just talking about it anymore. you're living like you believe it.

If it's a healing in your body, I'm living like I believe it.

I'm living like I believe I'm healed.

That's how you know it's in your heart. So this week, I want you to get the

promises of God in your heart.

Nothing just happens. Nothing happens automatically.

These things have to get on the inside of you and I.

And how do we get them on the inside, then we've got to read the promises.

We said this is a summer of miracles, did we not? So now well,

I'm just going to wait until a miracle happens.

No, I've got to get that word on the inside of me.

I've got to wake up and say today is my day for miracles. I'm expecting great things today.

Today is the day I'm going to see something unexplainable. Today is the day

that God's going to do something miraculous in my life.

The joy of the Lord is my strength. This is the day the Lord has made.

I will rejoice and be glad.

This is how you got to wake up because it's on the inside of you.

Get these promises on the inside of you. Read them. Meditate on them.

Listen to them. Declare them.

Imagine them and act like it is so.

Somebody shout amen. This is how you deposit these things in your heart.

So you say, pastor, it's not working.

My answer to you, my response to you is, is it in your heart?

Because if it's in your heart, it always works.

So some way, somehow, I've got to get it in my heart.

And once it's in my heart, it'll start producing. I can't tell you when.

I can't tell you how long. But it will begin to produce.

And one day, you're going to wake up and you're going to say,

look what the Lord has done.

Because you cultivated it on the inside of you.

And you put it in your heart and it manifested on the outside of you.

This is how you experience true life.