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  1. A few weeks ago, I ministered on the

  2. power of our words.

  3. And I kept getting the phrase, never

  4. underestimate

  5. the power of your words. How many of you

  6. were here for that service? Okay. Well,

  7. just as a reminder, Jesus Jesus knew the

  8. power of words. He said, "Whatever we

  9. say, we'll get." He didn't say what we

  10. pray for.

  11. He didn't say what we hope for. He

  12. didn't even say what we believe we'll

  13. get. He said, Jesus said we will have

  14. what we

  15. say, the power of our words. And then

  16. God used Solomon. It said that he was

  17. the wisest man ever to live on the face

  18. of the earth. He used Solomon and to

  19. write all of Proverbs which is full of

  20. wisdom

  21. about the words of our mouth. I think

  22. it's so important that we realize that

  23. our words matter

  24. everything that comes out of our mouth.

  25. Maybe we need to just pause and listen.

  26. Well, I think I'm saying everything

  27. right. Are you? What are you saying?

  28. What are you agreeing with?

  29. In Proverbs 2, it says, "We are snared.

  30. We're trapped by the words of our

  31. mouth." In other words, Satan will lay

  32. traps for us. And we fall into those

  33. traps through our words. Maybe it's

  34. through words regarding being offended

  35. or getting into strife, getting into

  36. arguments, not walking in love. Words

  37. are flying. Or maybe it's even talking

  38. about the circumstances and the problems

  39. more than the answers.

  40. What are we saying? What are we saying

  41. about situations that we face every day?

  42. Not just when on Sunday

  43. we're particularly conscious of our

  44. words, but then Monday hits and there

  45. they go flying out of our mouth. What

  46. are we saying? What are we saying?

  47. Proverbs 21:23

    Proverbs 21:23

  48. Solomon says this, "Watch your tongue

  49. and keep your mouth shut

  50. and you will stay out of trouble."

  51. I'm telling you,

  52. I didn't say that, but I agree with it.

  53. Solomon said that if the wisest man on

  54. earth knew how to stay out of trouble,

  55. it would behoove us, it would be to our

  56. advantage to do what he said, watch our

  57. tongue and keep our mouth

  58. shut.

  59. It's not easy.

  60. It's not easy. There are times you just

  61. want to just open up your mouth and let

  62. her fly.

  63. We're all human, but we need to

  64. understand where those words come from.

  65. So important to understand where those

  66. words come from. They don't just pop out

  67. of nowhere.

  68. Our words originate

  69. with our thoughts.

  70. It begins as a thought. And there is a

  71. direct connection between what we think

  72. and what we say.

  73. Proverbs 13:3 says this, "The one who

    Proverbs 13:3

  74. guards his mouth, thinking before he

  75. speaks,

  76. protects his life. The one who opens his

  77. lips wide and chatters without thinking

  78. comes to ruin."

  79. Guard your words and you'll guard your

  80. life.

  81. But if you don't control your tongue, it

  82. will ruin

  83. everything.

  84. So, self-inventory time.

  85. Do we think before we speak or do we

  86. speak before we think?

  87. I'll say that again. Do we think before

  88. we speak or do we speak before we think?

  89. Sometimes people say, "I'm just going to

  90. give them a piece of my mind." Have you

  91. ever heard that expression? My mama

  92. might have said that. I know that

  93. expression. Just going to give them a

  94. piece of my mind. But honestly, we don't

  95. have any mind, extra mind to give away.

  96. We need our mind.

  97. It's in moments like that that we speak

  98. before we think. What we're doing

  99. basically is verbalizing our thoughts in

  100. no uncertain terms.

  101. The result being we ruin everything.

  102. It never helps a situation.

  103. One translation of Proverbs 16:23 says,

    Proverbs 16:23

  104. "A wise person's thoughts control his

  105. words,

  106. and his speech promotes instruction."

  107. Turn it around. A foolish person's

  108. thoughts can't control his words, and

  109. his speech promotes destruction.

  110. I don't know about you, but I don't want

  111. to fall in that category being foolish.

  112. I want to be wise. Wise with my words.

  113. If we control our thoughts, we will be

  114. able to control our words. But it all

  115. starts

  116. with our thoughts.

  117. Boy, it's quiet in this. Are y'all

  118. thinking?

  119. I think you're thinking. So, how we

  120. think and what we think matters. In

  121. Proverbs 23, Solomon made this

  122. statement. As a man thinks in his heart,

  123. so is he.

  124. If you think

  125. negatively, defeated mentality, you will

  126. never rise above that.

  127. I'll say that again. Our our thinking,

  128. our mentality, if it's a defeated

  129. mentality, will never rise above it. You

  130. have to change your thinking because we

  131. are what we think.

  132. I was born again when I was four, raised

  133. in a pastor's home. But it wasn't until

  134. I was 18 years old, going to a Bible

  135. school in Texas, that someone handed me

  136. a book called Right and Wrong Thinking.

  137. I never knew there was a right way to

  138. think and a wrong way to think and that

  139. the mind is the battleground. That's

  140. where the fight takes place. Think about

  141. it. We can't read each other's minds. We

  142. don't know what's going on in someone

  143. else's mind. No one knows what's going

  144. on in your mind. No one knows the

  145. thoughts. The thoughts may be going off

  146. like machine gun bullets. There might be

  147. a battle that's raging in your mind, but

  148. no one else can hear it

  149. and no one else knows it. It's called

  150. the silent battle.

  151. We're living in a day where there's such

  152. an attack on people's minds.

  153. It's a demonic attack. It doesn't come

  154. from God. It's a demonic attack on

  155. people's minds, but it's a silent

  156. battle.

  157. Suicide rate is at an all-time high for

  158. all ages. And so, I Googled and got some

  159. information. It says an estimated

  160. 740,000

  161. people die by suicide

  162. globally each year, which is roughly one

  163. death every 43 seconds. Globally, we're

  164. talking around the world. Is that crazy?

  165. Every 43 seconds. How many seconds have

  166. we been in here? We've been in here

  167. about an hour.

  168. I don't know how many seconds. I can't

  169. do that really that fast in my mind. I

  170. can't talk and think at the same time.

  171. [laughter]

  172. That's a lot of That's a lot of people

  173. dying every 40 every 43 seconds. Suicide

  174. is the leading cause of death for teens

  175. and young adults around the world.

  176. In 2024,

  177. I found some statistics just because the

  178. 2025 statistics have not been calculated

  179. yet. So, they're still just posting

  180. 2024. Just here in the US, approximately

  181. 2.2 Two million adults

  182. reported suicide attempts.

  183. 12.8 million adults seriously thought

  184. about suicide

  185. and 3.7 million adults made suicide

  186. plans but never followed through.

  187. And those statistics are based on those

  188. that actually reported,

  189. probably went for help, actually. And

  190. can you even imagine the millions that

  191. never told anyone fighting the silent

  192. battle?

  193. These are unacceptable numbers, folks.

  194. And we can't ignore what's happening in

  195. people's minds. Maybe in your mind.

  196. There's help for you. There's help for

  197. you. We need to wake up and and be aware

  198. of what's happening. It begins as a

  199. single thought

  200. that can eventually turn into a thoughts

  201. of complete hopelessness.

  202. He is our hope. There is an answer.

  203. Jesus is our hope. God is our hope.

  204. We're living in a day where bad people

  205. are using the internet

  206. as a way to blackmail good people and

  207. literally extort thousands of dollars.

  208. Cyber security reports say that 1.3

  209. mobile users

  210. phone

  211. one in three mobile users have been

  212. targeted by some kind of online scam.

  213. Probably many of you under the sound of

  214. my voice could say, "Yep, I was

  215. targeted."

  216. And it says suicides, this report says

  217. suicides are up as a result of online

  218. black males.

  219. Pastor Mark and I personally know

  220. someone that this happened to few years

  221. back. We knew him well. He was 32 years

  222. old. He was the life of the party.

  223. Funniest guy you could ever be around.

  224. But he got blackmailed

  225. through an online scam

  226. and he didn't tell anyone.

  227. No one ever knew, not even his best

  228. friend. He didn't tell anyone. And for

  229. months and months and months he was

  230. getting extorted for money.

  231. They were blackmailing him. And he the

  232. thought came to him and kept coming to

  233. him. If you tell somebody no one's going

  234. to believe you,

  235. you'll never get out of this. And that

  236. one thought consumed him until he took

  237. his own life.

  238. The biggest shock, biggest shock. When

  239. we got the call,

  240. no one knew. He No one knew. No one knew

  241. what he was fighting mentally. the

  242. thoughts that were bombarding his head,

  243. being blackmailed by an online scam.

  244. He's not the only one. When this

  245. happened,

  246. I started researching stuff. I started

  247. talking to people and this is very, very

  248. common,

  249. much more common than I would even want

  250. to think about or talk about. But there

  251. are bad people out there and they're

  252. doing scams, blackmailing people through

  253. the internet. Parents, wake up.

  254. Parents know what your children are

  255. looking at on their device. When I was a

  256. kid, we didn't they weren't even

  257. invented.

  258. But today, every kid has a phone. Every

  259. kid has access. Hey, if you want to give

  260. them a phone, but don't give them

  261. internet.

  262. They can use whatever, but watch. Put

  263. blocks on their phones. Don't think,

  264. well, my child would never do that.

  265. Excuse me. There are people out there

  266. looking for innocent people to

  267. blackmail.

  268. >> I'm telling you, let this be a word to

  269. the wise. Don't be

  270. ignorant.

  271. We have to understand that every thought

  272. that we think does not necessarily

  273. originate with us.

  274. You know, we have natural thoughts.

  275. Natural thoughts based on our natural s

  276. senses. What we see, what we hear, what

  277. we feel. Some of you stomachs may be

  278. growling about now. And the thought hits

  279. you, I wish you'd hurry up so I can go

  280. eat lunch.

  281. I'm sure no one would ever think that.

  282. But we have these natural thoughts. But

  283. then there are thoughts that come into

  284. our minds from the evil one, from Satan

  285. himself. These thoughts are contrary to

  286. what God's word says. You're like, "How

  287. do you recognize it?" If it's not lines

  288. up with the Bible, don't believe it.

  289. It's from the pit of hell. That's where

  290. those thoughts come from. Thoughts like,

  291. "I'm a loser.

  292. I'm dumb. I'm stupid. I've messed up too

  293. bad. I'll never amount to anything."

  294. Those are lies of the devil. Lies of the

  295. devil. And the Bible says Satan is the

  296. father of all lies. He cannot tell the

  297. truth. So if a thought comes to you like

  298. that, do not dwell on it. It's a lie.

  299. It's a lie. And we're told what to do

  300. with these thoughts. But then there are

  301. thoughts that God gives us. God lives on

  302. the inside of us. And that thought will

  303. come up from the inside where he lives.

  304. He lives. He dwells on the inside. And

  305. his spirit will from our spirit, it'll

  306. go to our minds. thoughts like, "I can

  307. do all things through Christ.

  308. >> I'm a I'm going over, not going under. I

  309. will not be defeated because Jesus did

  310. it for me. I walk in victory in every

  311. situation. I'm more than a conqueror."

  312. Those thoughts are the thoughts that we

  313. have to replace the other thoughts with.

  314. We have to be able to distinguish the

  315. source of our thoughts. And

  316. >> that's only going to come by spending

  317. time in prayer and in the word to know

  318. his thoughts. In Isaiah 55, God said,

  319. "For my thoughts are not your thoughts,

  320. neither are your ways my ways. For as

  321. the heavens are higher than the earth,

  322. so are my ways higher than your ways,

  323. and my thoughts than your thoughts." We

  324. can read that and think, well, what's

  325. the use? His ways and his thoughts are

  326. totally higher than mine and whatever.

  327. No. What he's trying to tell us is first

  328. of all, God has thoughts. Have you ever

  329. thought, have you ever thought about the

  330. thought that God has thoughts? He

  331. actually thinks. God thinks. Says in

  332. Jeremiah 29, God says, "For I know the

  333. thoughts that I think toward you,

  334. sayeth the Lord, thoughts

  335. [clears throat] of peace and not of

  336. evil." If it's an evil thought, it's not

  337. coming from God. If it's a if it's a bad

  338. thought, it's not coming from God.

  339. Thoughts of if it brings you anxiety,

  340. it's not coming from God.

  341. Thoughts of peace and not of evil to

  342. give you future and to give you hope.

  343. Hope.

  344. And then secondly,

  345. God's trying to get across to us that

  346. his thoughts are much different than our

  347. thoughts. But in 1 Corinthians 2:16, we

    1 Corinthians 2:16

  348. are told we have the mind of Christ.

  349. We have you have the mind of Christ.

  350. Really? Yes. When you are born again,

  351. you're able to tap into his mind, but

  352. your mind becomes renewed. You have to

  353. change the way you're thinking. Change

  354. the way you change the way you're

  355. thinking, then you'll change the way

  356. you're talking.

  357. >> Philippians 2:5 says, "Let this mind be

    Philippians 2:5

  358. in you which also is in Christ Jesus. We

  359. have within us. You have within you the

  360. capability to think like Jesus. But we

  361. have to let his mind. It's a choice.

  362. >> There's an understood subject. It says,

  363. "Let this mind be in you." Who's he

  364. talking to? He's saying you, you let

  365. this mind. I can't do it for you. If I

  366. could, I would. But I can't. You let

  367. this mind be in you which was also in

  368. Christ Jesus. We have you have the mind

  369. of Christ. You have the capability of

  370. thinking like his he thinks of thinking

  371. his thoughts.

  372. We have to do something though in order

  373. for this to happen. In Romans 12, it

  374. says, "Don't copy the behavior and

  375. customs of this world, but let God

  376. transform you into a new person by

  377. changing the way you think. Then you

  378. will learn to know God's will for you,

  379. which is good and pleasing and perfect."

  380. You see, it doesn't say anything about

  381. God's will being bad and evil. No, God's

  382. will for you is good and pleasing and

  383. perfect. God will change us,

  384. but we have to change the way we think.

  385. He made us free moral agents. He's not

  386. going to make it. We're not robots. He's

  387. not going to make us think certain

  388. things. He leaves it up to us. He leaves

  389. the blessing and cursing. Have I said

  390. before you death and life, choose life,

  391. choose blessing. He tells us what to

  392. choose. But we have to make that choice.

  393. And he says it's it's

  394. not to we're not to copy the behavior

  395. and customs of the world by thinking

  396. like the world. You know the thought

  397. comes it's flu season. I get it every

  398. year. So I might as well get ready.

  399. That's how the world thinks.

  400. >> Do not think that way. do not think

  401. those thoughts or we have to replace

  402. that wrong thinking with God's thoughts

  403. and we find out what his thoughts are

  404. and how he thinks in the world. So in

  405. Philippians we're told what to think. He

  406. says fix your thoughts. Focus. Focus.

  407. Focus. Seems like so many people can't

  408. focus anymore. Focus.

  409. Focus on what? Focus on what is true.

  410. what is honorable, right, pure, lovely,

  411. and brings peace and admirable. Think

  412. about these things that are excellent

  413. and worthy of praise. He tells us,

  414. "Well, I don't know. I just don't know

  415. what to think." Yes, he tells us what to

  416. think.

  417. If it's not true, don't think about it.

  418. >> If it's not honorable, don't think about

  419. it.

  420. >> If it's not right, don't think about it.

  421. If it doesn't bring peace, don't think

  422. about it. And if it's not pure, don't

  423. focus on it.

  424. >> It's your choice. Well, the devil made

  425. me do it. No, you made the choice.

  426. >> You can't blame it on anybody but

  427. yourself.

  428. >> We take control of our thoughts. We'll

  429. take control of our words.

  430. >> We must control our thoughts. And the

  431. good news is we can. Don't believe the

  432. lie. It might say, "Oh, you know, you

  433. you're your brain just never stops, you

  434. know." No, you have the mind of Christ.

  435. You have the mind of Christ. You can

  436. think God thoughts. You just have to do

  437. it.

  438. And it's so important that we do. There

  439. is a progression to thoughts. A thought

  440. comes,

  441. we think about it, we think about it,

  442. and we think about it until we actually

  443. see it.

  444. The Bible calls that an imagination.

  445. Then we begin to believe that thought

  446. and we believe it. And the more we

  447. believe it, we'll eventually start

  448. talking about it. It will come out of

  449. your mouth because you talk about what

  450. you believe. And when we begin talking

  451. about it, we get what we say not just

  452. positively but negatively.

  453. >> And it all goes back to that original

  454. thought to that original thought that

  455. came and we didn't do anything about.

  456. Well, what am I supposed to do? Well,

  457. we're told what to do. When a thought

  458. comes from Satan and it's become

  459. imagination, in other words, you can see

  460. it coming to pass. It's a bad thought,

  461. but you've thought about it so many

  462. times, you can actually see it coming to

  463. pass. He tells us in 2 Corinthians what

  464. to do. He said, "For the weapons of our

  465. warfare," we are in a spiritual war.

  466. >> A spiritual, not a natural war. We're in

  467. a spiritual war. When the battleground

  468. is the mind, that's where the fight is

  469. going to take place. It's in the mind.

  470. It's that silent battle.

  471. He tells us, he said, "For the weapons

  472. of our warfare are not carnal, but

  473. mighty in God for pulling down

  474. strongholds or pulling down those

  475. imaginations in our mind and casting

  476. down imaginations, wrong thoughts.

  477. >> Do something about it."

  478. >> Like, I just can't get rid of this all.

  479. Yes, you can. Yes, you can. casting down

  480. wrong thoughts and every high thing that

  481. exalts itself against the knowledge of

  482. God and bringing into captivity every

  483. thought to the obedience of God.

  484. >> If that thought exalts itself against

  485. God,

  486. cast it down.

  487. >> Reel it in. I was reading this and

  488. meditating on this last night and I was

  489. like, you reel in a fish and sometimes

  490. it's a fight because that fish is I've

  491. never caught one that big. I catch more

  492. like minnows.

  493. Yes. Or sardines. But I've seen I've

  494. seen videos of people that are out there

  495. catching these huge fish and it's

  496. it might be a fight, but we know how it

  497. ends. It ends with us winning.

  498. He said, "Just do something. Cast those

  499. thoughts down. Reel them in." No, you

  500. don't. Or maybe I should say reel them

  501. out. You don't want to keep those

  502. thoughts. Get rid of them. Delete them.

  503. Push the delete button.

  504. >> Mentally, push the delete button. Stop

  505. thinking those thoughts. You can do

  506. that.

  507. >> We take control of our thoughts. We

  508. replace that wrong thought with a

  509. thought from God.

  510. that we let his thought become our

  511. imagination. What we begin to see, we

  512. see ourselves healed. We see ourselves

  513. blessed. We see ourselves having all of

  514. our needs met. We see ourselves walking

  515. in victory in every situation. We see

  516. ourselves victorious.

  517. It all begins with a thought.

  518. Dad Hagen used to say this, "Thoughts

  519. may come and thoughts may persist,

  520. but thoughts left unspoken

  521. will die unborn."

  522. >> I say it again. Thoughts may come and

  523. thoughts will come and thoughts may

  524. persist. It's like, oh, just it's like

  525. it just won't leave my head. But

  526. thoughts left unspoken

  527. will die unborn.

  528. That's why it's so important that you

  529. realize the connection between what we

  530. think will eventually be what we say and

  531. we will have what we say. Don't speak

  532. those thoughts. Let them die unborn.

  533. They take a life on them, a life onto

  534. themselves once they come out of our

  535. mouth. It's like a runaway freight

  536. train. No, no, no, no, no, no, no. You

  537. can stop it.

  538. >> The thought may come. The thought may

  539. come, but do something about it.

  540. >> Take that thought, get rid of it, delete

  541. it, and then replace it

  542. >> with a thought of what God is saying

  543. about your situation. The devil plants a

  544. thought in your mind. You're going to

  545. die young.

  546. You play so dirty. You're going to die

  547. young. You're not going to live out your

  548. life. Replace that thought. That's not

  549. from God. Obviously replace that thought

  550. with what he says with long life. With

  551. long life you'll satisfy me and show me

  552. your salvation.

  553. >> Woohoo.

  554. >> And say that out of your mouth.

  555. >> A symptom hits your body and the first

  556. thought is one of fear.

  557. >> Get on top of it fast.

  558. >> Say out of your mouth, "You haven't

  559. given me a spirit of fear, but of power,

  560. love, and sound mind. I've been set free

  561. from fear. delivered from fear. I will

  562. not have fear anywhere near me. Fear

  563. cannot attach itself. No, no, no, no,

  564. no. Stop that thought. Stop that

  565. thought. Open your mouth and say what

  566. God says.

  567. >> Say what God says. The enemy

  568. comes to you and says, "Economy is not

  569. looking so hot. It keeps everything

  570. keeps going up. Keeps going up." That's

  571. the thought that comes to you and I

  572. don't know if I'm going to be make it

  573. I'm going to be able to make it with my

  574. income.

  575. But let me tell you something to focus

  576. on.

  577. If God can take care of the birds of the

  578. air,

  579. >> go read in Matthew. If God can take care

  580. of the birds of the air, and he can feed

  581. the children of Israel coming across the

  582. desert twice a day with mana from

  583. heaven.

  584. And he used dirty ravens to feed the

  585. prophety Elijah.

  586. If he can do all that, that's just what

  587. he does. Don't you think he can take

  588. care of you? It doesn't matter how

  589. Actually, our gasoline right now is

  590. probably the lowest in the country. I

  591. talked to someone in California this

  592. last week and she said, "Our gasoline is

  593. up close to $5 a gallon.

  594. It doesn't matter. God is our source.

  595. God is our source. God is your source.

  596. Make sure you're dwelling. My God shall

  597. supply all of my need according to his

  598. riches in glory, not my paycheck.

  599. >> Don't get locked into that thinking that

  600. I live on an limited budget because of

  601. my paycheck. Who says,

  602. >> "Where'd that thought come from?" Huh?

  603. >> Came from the pit of hell. It's a lie.

  604. It's a lie. It came from Satan, the

  605. father of lies. Don't believe it. Don't

  606. dwell on it. Don't think about it. But

  607. replace that thought. You see, get rid

  608. of the thought. Delete it. No, I'm not

  609. going to do that. But replace that

  610. thought with what God says.

  611. >> He said he'd meet all your needs. And if

  612. he's done it all through the time, all

  613. through time, why would he change now?

  614. >> It's just what he does.

  615. You know, my husband, I I sometimes I

  616. break things or can't figure out things.

  617. Like I opened the cabinet door in the

  618. kitchen the other day and the the whole

  619. knob came off in my hand and I'm like,

  620. "What?" [laughter]

  621. And I went, "Honey, honey." The knob

  622. fell off. Just I don't even know how. I

  623. just pulled on it. You know what I did

  624. with it? I laid it on the counter. I

  625. said, "I'm not even I don't know how to

  626. fix things. I know how things break, but

  627. I don't know how to fix things." But

  628. that's what he does. That's what he

  629. does. It's just what he does. He's had

  630. lots of experience in 46 years. He can

  631. fix anything. It's the most amazing

  632. thing

  633. because it's just what he does. Our

  634. father God is the same.

  635. It's just what he does. He takes care of

  636. us. He leads us. He guides us. He loves

  637. us because he is good.

  638. He is good.

  639. You are good. Your mercy endures

  640. forever. You are good.

  641. You are good.

  642. You You are good and your mercy

  643. endures forever. Don't forget that he's

  644. good. He's good. He's a good God. He and

  645. the devil never change places.

  646. God doesn't use the devil to do his

  647. dirty business. I don't care what you've

  648. heard in church. That's not the truth.

  649. >> I'll say it again. God does not use the

  650. devil to do his dirty business.

  651. The thief comes to steal,

  652. >> to kill, and destroy. Look it up

  653. yourself. John 10:10. Look it up. The

    John 10:10

  654. thief comes to steal. If it steals from

  655. you, it's not God.

  656. >> It's the devil. It's the thief. Who's

  657. the thief? Satan. The thief comes to

  658. steal. To kill.

  659. People go, "Why did God kill?" God

  660. didn't kill that person.

  661. >> The thief killed that person.

  662. >> Steals. Kill and destroy. That's the job

  663. description of Satan.

  664. But Jesus said, "I am come that you

  665. might have life and have it more

  666. abundantly."

  667. Life, death,

  668. blessing,

  669. cursing.

  670. Choose.

  671. It begins as a thought. It begins as a

  672. thought. Catch it. Make sure that

  673. thought lines up with what God has said,

  674. which means spend extra time in his word

  675. finding out what his thoughts are. Find

  676. out how he thinks. And then he tells us

  677. what to think. Think on those things

  678. that are pure, lovely, good report.

  679. Bring peace. Don't dwell on things that

  680. steal your peace.

  681. It opens the door to anxiety. Anxiety is

  682. a result of a lack of peace. But God has

  683. an answer for that. He is the prince of

  684. peace. He is the prince of peace.

  685. Let the prince of peace saturate you

  686. with his peace. His peace.

  687. Thinking his thoughts and then speaking

  688. his words. Our words become his words.

  689. His words become our words. But it all

  690. begins with a thought. Stand to your

  691. feet.

  692. >> [clears throat]

  693. >> If you're in this house, you're under

  694. under the sound of my voice or even

  695. watching streaming.

  696. And as I was talking about the silent

  697. battle

  698. within yourself, you were saying,

  699. "That's me.

  700. I've got a silent battle going on.

  701. I haven't told anyone."

  702. But it began as a thought and now that

  703. thought is like gripping you. It plays

  704. over and over and over and over in your

  705. mind to the point that [music] it's

  706. trying to become, if it hasn't already,

  707. an imagination.

  708. where you can see it actually happening.

  709. You don't have to leave here like that.

  710. You don't have to leave with that your

  711. thoughts in your mind raging, raging,

  712. raging.

  713. God wants you free.

  714. God wants you free. God wants you free.

  715. God wants you free. And the best part of

  716. is you [music] can be free. You don't

  717. have to go through life with these mind

  718. attacks, with anxiety and fear and all

  719. these thoughts hitting your mind that

  720. you you don't even want to verbalize it

  721. to anyone. But there are thoughts there

  722. that you're fighting a silent battle.

  723. I know that I know that there are people

  724. here that have been fighting a silent

  725. battle

  726. just dealing with thoughts maybe about

  727. the future, maybe about the past, maybe

  728. about the current situation. I don't

  729. know. And I'm not going to even try to

  730. guess. But I want to minister to you. I

  731. want to minister to you. I can help you

  732. by the anointing of God.

  733. But then you'll have to do everything

  734. that I said today. You'll have to change

  735. the way you think. And when that thought

  736. comes, if it tries to come back, you're

  737. going to have to

  738. delete it.

  739. But if that's you, I want you to come

  740. down here right now. No one is going to

  741. be passing any kind of judgment. It's

  742. people that we need help. And the the

  743. [music] attacks on our mind are crazy.

  744. Way too many. And [music] so we're, you

  745. know what we're doing? We're calling his

  746. bluff. It's like this. That silent

  747. battle [music] is like being in a very

  748. dark, this is what really came to me.

  749. That silent battle is by is like being

  750. in a very dark room.

  751. A very dark place. And it is a dark

  752. place because it's from the pit of hell.

  753. It's a dark place.

  754. But you know the [music] funny thing,

  755. not haha funny, but the interesting

  756. thing is when you walk into a dark room

  757. and you flip the switch and the light

  758. comes on, the darkness has to go.

  759. And I knew that I knew that there were

  760. people and there's probably more of you

  761. that you're too you're [music] too

  762. whatever to come up, but if you want

  763. help, you best come down because God had

  764. me go this direction [music] for you.

  765. But but when the light shines, the

  766. darkness leaves,

  767. it's amazing. Every time

  768. you flip that switch,

  769. the darkness [music] leaves. And I

  770. believe today what I have delivered has

  771. been a word where the light is shining

  772. and that darkness has to go. It can no

  773. longer harass you. It can no longer

  774. bother you. The battle is over. The

  775. battle is over. The battle is over. But

  776. it is your choice. Your choice. The fact

  777. that you came forward says to me, I'm

  778. making a choice. [music] I'm done with

  779. the silent battle. Go public. Don't be

  780. silent anymore. Get help. And the

  781. anointing of God is in this house right

  782. now to help you, to set you free. And

  783. then as you leave, you know what to do

  784. to stay free. The devil has no part of

  785. you. If you're born again, God lives in

  786. you. How dare How dare [music] the devil

  787. try to influence you, try to [music]

  788. play with your mind, try to put these

  789. thoughts into you. How dare the devil?

  790. He is He is such a defeated [music] foe.

  791. He's under our feet, the Bible says. And

  792. there are times you need to just keep

  793. them there. You have authority.

  794. You have authority. Say, I have

  795. authority in Jesus name.

  796. You have authority in Jesus name.

  797. [music]

  798. But you have to exercise that authority.

  799. I can't do it for you. When you go home,

  800. I'm telling you, he'll try to put a

  801. thought in there. That's the way he

  802. does. [music] I'm just telling you

  803. what's going to happen. But when that

  804. happens, you need to say out of your

  805. mouth, "Nope. Nope. Nope. I have the

  806. mind of Christ. I have the peace of God

  807. reigning and ruling in my mind. I only

  808. think God thoughts. [music]

  809. Say it out loud. Sometimes he's hard of

  810. hearing. Yell it if you need to.

  811. >> Put your foot down. Say, "No, you don't.

  812. [music]

  813. No, you don't. No, you don't.

  814. >> No, you don't. I'm done. I'm done with

  815. this." Cast down

  816. those thoughts. Cast down those

  817. thoughts. They exalt themselves against

  818. the knowledge of God. In other words, if

  819. it's contrary to what God says about

  820. himself, [music]

  821. the thought will come, God's mad at me.

  822. I messed up too bad. Those thoughts will

  823. come. But they're lies. Because you know

  824. God isn't mad at you. His goodness.

  825. God is [music] good.

  826. He's so good.

  827. He

  828. is good

  829. and his mercy

  830. lasts forever. He [singing] is good. Say

  831. it [music] with me. He is good. He's

  832. good. You're good. You are. You are

  833. good. [singing]

  834. Your mercy is forever. You are good.

  835. [singing]

  836. >> You are [music]

  837. good.

  838. >> You're good. You're good. You're good.

  839. >> You are good.

  840. >> You are good. [singing] You are good.

  841. You're good. You're good. [music]

  842. >> Come on. Just keep

  843. >> I know there's some more of you out

  844. there. You're gripping [music] the back

  845. of your seat. Don't let the devil win.

  846. He doesn't want you to come down here.

  847. [music] Don't let the devil win. Get

  848. down here. Get free today.

  849. >> Shine the light. Shine the light. Shine

  850. the light on that darkness, on that

  851. silent battle. Get rid of it. Go public

  852. and let Jesus Jesus his anointing that

  853. destroys the yoke. His anointing that

  854. breaks the power. Let his anointing come

  855. on you and saturate you. You are good.

  856. You are good. You [music] are good. You

  857. are good. [singing] You are.

  858. [music]

  859. >> You're good. You're good. You [singing]

  860. are good.

  861. [singing]

  862. [music] You're good.

  863. You are good.

  864. [music and singing] Your mercy is

  865. forever.

  866. You are good. [singing]

  867. [music]

  868. You are good. You're good. You're good.

  869. You are good in the name of [music] In

  870. the name. [singing]

  871. In the name. In the name of Jesus. I

  872. take authority. I take authority. Ha ha.

  873. Be free. Be free in the name. In the

  874. name. In the name. Free. Free. Free.

  875. [music] Free. Ha. Haha. [crying] Devil.

  876. You're a liar. You're a liar. Thank you,

  877. Lord Jesus.

  878. Ha. Hallelujah.

  879. Hallelujah. [music] Yes. Yeah. Yeah.

  880. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Be honest

  881. [music]

  882. word. Speak it out of your mouth. Speak

  883. it forward out of this mouth.

  884. No more. No more. No more. No more. No

  885. [music] more. No more. No more.

  886. Free life. Free life. [music] Free. Free

  887. life.

  888. [singing]

  889. Oh.

  890. >> [music]

  891. >> In the name Jesus

  892. [singing] in the name in the name.

  893. [music]

  894. No more. No more. No more. [singing] No

  895. more.

  896. We stand tonight. [music]

  897. [singing]

  898. [music]

  899. >> Hallelujah.

  900. No. No more. No more. No more. [music]

  901. No more. No more. [singing] No more. No

  902. more. So we're free. Free free.

  903. Aha. Hallelujah. Thank you, Lord. Yes.

  904. [singing] Yes. [music] Yes. Free. Free.

  905. Free. No more. No more. No more. No

  906. more. No more. No more. I'll take a 40.

  907. Take a 40. I take a 40. [music] I take a

  908. 40. Free. Free. No more. No more. No

  909. more.

  910. [music]

  911. Hallelujah.

  912. Hallelujah. Hallelujah. Free. Freeh.

  913. [music]

  914. Say, I'm free. I'm free. No more. No

  915. more. No more battles. No more battles.

  916. [music]

  917. I have the mind of Christ. I have the

  918. mind of Christ. Woo.

  919. Hallelujah. Hallelujah. Hallelujah.

  920. Hallelujah. Woo. It's done. It's done.

  921. It's done. [music]

  922. It's done. You see? It's done.

  923. It's done. No more. No more silence.

  924. [music]

  925. [singing]

  926. >> Are you feeling the Holy Ghost? [music]

  927. When those thoughts try to come back and

  928. you feel that [singing] trying to come

  929. on you

  930. [music]

  931. [singing]

  932. are [music] good.

  933. You are [singing] good.

  934. Your mercy is forever.

  935. [music] You are good. [singing]

  936. You are good [music]

  937. once and for all. No more. The light is

  938. shining. The darkness has [music]

  939. to go. Has to go. Has to go. You

  940. [music and singing] are good. Ah, thank

  941. you Lord. Thank you Lord. Say I

  942. pray. Are you filled with the Holy Ghost

  943. [music and singing]

  944. and you feel [music]

  945. in the Holy Ghost

  946. the devil? No matter [music]

  947. the spirit of God you're filled with the

  948. Holy Ghost.

  949. [music]

  950. [singing]

  951. Your green your goodness is forever.

  952. [music]

  953. >> Your mercy [singing] is

  954. >> Thank you, Father.

  955. [music]

  956. No more. Your kindness is

  957. no more. Your goodness [singing] is

  958. [music]

  959. your

  960. [music]

  961. kindness.

  962. Your kindness [music] is forever. Make

  963. it only God. Make it only forever. Make

  964. it only God [music]

  965. forever.

  966. [singing]

  967. You are

  968. [music]

  969. my

  970. [music]

  971. mercy [singing]

  972. is forever. You are you [singing] are

  973. in the name. In the name. [music]

  974. In the name. No more. No more mind. You

  975. are [singing] good. No more.

  976. [music]

  977. You

  978. are good. You'll only believe

  979. [music and singing]

  980. what you have said about us. You have a

  981. child of God. your thing [music] in your

  982. image. We've been created for a purpose

  983. and we will fulfill your purpose [music]

  984. on you. He will fulfill your purpose. He

  985. will

  986. purpose you [music]

  987. forever. [singing]

  988. Your kindness

  989. [music]

  990. is forever. [singing]

  991. >> Your goodness is

  992. your mercy. is forever.

  993. >> You're a liar. Hands on fire. You're a

  994. liar. We know. We believe. Your kindness

  995. [singing and music]

  996. is forever. Father, your goodness is

  997. forever. The truth of what you created

  998. [singing] to be to do. [music]

  999. And the call of God to obey. Obey.

  1000. [singing] Obey. No more. No more. It's

  1001. over. It's over. [music] No more. No

  1002. more. No more. It's over. It's over.

  1003. It's over. It's over.

  1004. >> [music]

  1005. >> It's over. [singing]

  1006. >> It's over.

  1007. >> It's over. [music] Yeah.

  1008. >> Your kindness [singing]

  1009. is forever.

  1010. Your goodness [music]

  1011. is forever.

  1012. Your mercy [singing]

  1013. [music] is forever.

  1014. Forever.

  1015. Your

  1016. kindness [singing and music]

  1017. is forever.

  1018. Your goodness is [singing and music]

  1019. forever.

  1020. Your mercy is forever. [music]

  1021. >> Forever.

  1022. You [singing] are good.

  1023. You [music] are good.

  1024. You are good.

  1025. Your [music and singing] mercies

  1026. forever.

  1027. You [singing]

  1028. are [music]

  1029. good.

  1030. You are good.

  1031. >> You are [music] good.

  1032. Your mercy is

  1033. you [singing]

  1034. are [music] good.

  1035. So [singing]

  1036. good.

  1037. You're good. [music]

  1038. Your mercy is forever.

  1039. You

  1040. are [singing]

  1041. good. [music]

  1042. So good. [singing]

  1043. You [music] are good.

  1044. Your mercy [singing] is [music]

  1045. real.

  1046. And you see me

  1047. and you [singing] know me

  1048. and you [music]

  1049. love me through and [singing] through.

  1050. [singing]

  1051. >> [music]

  1052. >> And you love [singing] me through

  1053. your mind.

  1054. >> You see [singing] me. You see me

  1055. and you [singing] know me

  1056. and you me [singing]

  1057. through and through. [music]

  1058. Oh, you see me. [singing] You see me.

  1059. And you know [singing] me

  1060. and you love [music] me through

  1061. all. [singing]

  1062. You [music] see me

  1063. and you love [singing] me [music]

  1064. and you love me through [singing]

  1065. [music] the name. You see you save me

  1066. and you [singing] love me [music]

  1067. and you love me

  1068. [music]

  1069. only because your kindness.

  1070. Your kindness is forever.

  1071. Your [music] goodness is forever.

  1072. Your mercy is [music] forever.

  1073. Forever [singing]

  1074. your kindness is [music]

  1075. forever.

  1076. Your goodness is [singing] forever.

  1077. Your mercy is forever.

  1078. [music]

  1079. Hallelujah. Your goodness is forever.

  1080. Your mercy [singing]

  1081. is [music]

  1082. forever.

  1083. Forever

  1084. [singing]

  1085. your kindness [music] is forever.

  1086. Your goodness is forever.

  1087. Your mercy [singing]

  1088. is forever. [music]

  1089. Don't ever question

  1090. the goodness of God.

  1091. A thought comes,

  1092. delete it.

  1093. Don't you spend five [music] seconds

  1094. dwelling on it.

  1095. What you think

  1096. is up to you.

  1097. Make [music] sure that your thoughts

  1098. are lining up with what God has said

  1099. about you.

  1100. And remember, always remember,

  1101. if it's a lie, it didn't come from God,

  1102. but the devil is the father of lies.

  1103. Liar, liar, pants on fire.

  1104. He can do nothing but lie. [music]

  1105. There is no truth. There is not one

  1106. ounce of truth. Well, maybe part of it

  1107. is true and maybe part of it's lie. No.

  1108. No. If it came from [music] the devil,

  1109. there's no truth in it.

  1110. Take your stand.

  1111. >> Don't copy the behaviors of the world.

  1112. Don't [music] think like the world.

  1113. >> Don't That's the bottom line. Don't

  1114. think like the world.

  1115. >> You're not You're in this world. We're

  1116. in this world, but we are not of this

  1117. world.

  1118. We don't [music] think like this world.

  1119. We don't act like this world, do we?

  1120. >> Do we?

  1121. This world has no hold on us. This world

  1122. [music]

  1123. >> has no pull on us

  1124. >> as long as we are walking in what we

  1125. know and who he is and who he's made us

  1126. to be. [music] Use your authority.

  1127. And I'll say it again for those that I

  1128. minister to. [music]

  1129. It'll be different.

  1130. It'll be different. No more dark. No. No

  1131. more darkness. No more darkness in the

  1132. mind. The light, the switch [music] has

  1133. been flipped. The light has shown.

  1134. But you'll have to use your authority.

  1135. You didn't give us authority just to h

  1136. Let's see. Do I want to use my authority

  1137. today or do I want to just enjoy [music]

  1138. being sick?

  1139. Use your authority. Use your authority.

  1140. Use your authority. think his thoughts

  1141. and then the words that come out of your

  1142. mouth will be lined up with what he says

  1143. about your situation. [music]

  1144. Don't allow the devil to set traps for

  1145. you. Don't fall into [music] the traps.

  1146. They're traps. And you know, a trap is

  1147. not made to be able to get free from.

  1148. Don't get in those traps. But the good

  1149. news is

  1150. Jesus came to set us free. [music]

  1151. He'll set you free if you get into that

  1152. trap. But then you have to make a

  1153. change. You continually get in that trap

  1154. through your words. At some point, you

  1155. just need to make up your mind. Okay,

  1156. I'm going to quit this. I'm going with

  1157. what God says about me. Period.

  1158. >> Period.

  1159. I love you.

  1160. I love [music] you dearly.

  1161. I don't like the devil [music] harassing

  1162. any of my sheep.

  1163. Makes me mad.

  1164. And you don't want me to get mad.

  1165. I actually don't really have a mad side

  1166. because my mama start say she beat into

  1167. me to be glad she didn't beat me. Well,

  1168. [music] she's baiting me, but she didn't

  1169. beat me.

  1170. But but it makes me angry to know that

  1171. the devil is harassing [music]

  1172. some of you. So, I encourage you. I

  1173. encourage you, use your authority. I

  1174. can't be with you 247.

  1175. I don't need to be with you 247. Use

  1176. your authority. Symptoms try to hit your

  1177. body. [music]

  1178. Use your authority. Don't wait and see.

  1179. I wonder what this is going to turn

  1180. into. What? It gets a stronghold and

  1181. then you got a major battle on your

  1182. hands. [music]

  1183. Stay on top of it. Stay on top of it

  1184. with the word. By Jesus stripes I was

  1185. healed. [music] No. No. No. No. No. No

  1186. weapon formed against me is going to

  1187. prosper. Attack. He may try to attack,

  1188. [music] but it doesn't have to attach.

  1189. I'll say it again. He may try to attack,

  1190. but it doesn't have to attach. That

  1191. [music] is our choice.

  1192. >> So, walk sickness free in the power of

  1193. God. [music] Healed. Healed from the top

  1194. of your head to the soles of your feet.

  1195. Even in the middle of flu season.

  1196. [music]

  1197. Yes. Especially

  1198. now. I love you.

  1199. >> [music]

  1200. >> Yeah. Let's just give him thanks one

  1201. more time. Come on everybody. Let's just

  1202. thank him. Thank you Lord.

  1203. >> Thank you Jesus. [music]

  1204. >> Thank you Lord. Thank you Lord. Thank

  1205. you Lord.

  1206. Hallelujah.