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See terms and conditions at 0:01:29.360 --> 0:01:30.080 UNEs dot co. 0:01:31.120 --> 0:01:33.959 You may have things roaring in your life telling you 0:01:34.000 --> 0:01:36.959 what you can't become, how you'll never get out of debt, 0:01:37.319 --> 0:01:41.360 never get free from that problem. Start roaring back. The 0:01:41.400 --> 0:01:45.399 scripture says, give no place to the enemy. Don't let 0:01:45.520 --> 0:01:49.600 him fill your mind with thoughts of defeat, lack insecurity. 0:01:50.000 --> 0:01:56.960 Roar back the clear feed Declear Strength, Declear Health, Declear Victory. Hi, 0:01:57.040 --> 0:02:00.720 this is Joel and Victoria. Thanks for downloading our podcast. 0:02:00.880 --> 0:02:03.880 We enjoy spending this time with you. I know you're 0:02:03.880 --> 0:02:05.760 going to leave encouraged and inspired. 0:02:06.040 --> 0:02:09.000 Make sure you subscribe to get new messages every week, 0:02:09.080 --> 0:02:11.760 and follow us on social media to stay connected. 0:02:11.919 --> 0:02:15.320 We appreciate your support. It helps keep the ministry going. 0:02:15.760 --> 0:02:19.480 Enjoy the message. God bless you. It's a joy to 0:02:19.560 --> 0:02:22.359 come into your homes, and our prayer is that you'll 0:02:22.400 --> 0:02:25.799 be inspired and encouraged and live the life of victory 0:02:25.919 --> 0:02:29.200 that belongs to you. I like to start with something funny, 0:02:29.200 --> 0:02:32.320 and I heard about this man named Bubba. He called 0:02:32.400 --> 0:02:35.240 nine to one one wanting help for his wife who 0:02:35.320 --> 0:02:38.200 had fallen and hurt herself. The nine to one one 0:02:38.320 --> 0:02:41.919 operator asked for his address. He said, we live at 0:02:41.960 --> 0:02:46.240 thirty three ten Eucalyptus Street. The operator asked him to 0:02:46.280 --> 0:02:49.720 spell it. There was a long pause. Bubba said, how 0:02:49.760 --> 0:02:53.640 about we just meet you over on Oak Street. Say 0:02:53.680 --> 0:02:57.000 it like you mean it. This is my Bible. I 0:02:57.040 --> 0:02:59.440 am what it says I am. I have what it 0:02:59.480 --> 0:03:02.000 says I have. I can do what it says I 0:03:02.040 --> 0:03:05.520 can do. Today I will be taught the word of God. 0:03:06.080 --> 0:03:10.280 I boldly confess my mind is alert, my heart is receptive. 0:03:10.600 --> 0:03:14.280 I will never be the same. In Jesus' name, God 0:03:14.360 --> 0:03:17.600 bless you. I want to talk to you today about 0:03:17.880 --> 0:03:20.800 it has to go back. We all have things that 0:03:20.840 --> 0:03:24.160 come against us in life that look permanent. A child, 0:03:24.160 --> 0:03:28.160 this off course, an addiction. We're struggling with a health issue. 0:03:28.480 --> 0:03:32.320 It seems so big, so intimidating. It's easy to be 0:03:32.440 --> 0:03:35.920 overcome and think that it will never turn around. But 0:03:36.000 --> 0:03:40.960 Isaiah said, no weapon formed against you will prosper. He 0:03:41.040 --> 0:03:44.600 didn't say nothing would ever form. We never have times 0:03:44.720 --> 0:03:49.280 where we feel outnumbered. It looks impossible. God said, trouble 0:03:49.360 --> 0:03:53.200 may come, sickness may form, people may do you wrong, 0:03:53.400 --> 0:03:57.000 but don't worry. It's not going to prosper. That's not 0:03:57.120 --> 0:04:01.280 how your story ends. God has the fine say. He 0:04:01.320 --> 0:04:05.680 doesn't stop every difficulty it may come, but he promises 0:04:06.080 --> 0:04:09.840 it's got to go back. It's not permanent. That addiction 0:04:10.080 --> 0:04:12.680 is not going to hinder you your whole life. It's 0:04:12.680 --> 0:04:15.880 got to go back. That sickness didn't come to stay, 0:04:16.240 --> 0:04:19.480 it came to pass. It's got to go back. God 0:04:19.520 --> 0:04:23.320 didn't create you to go through life overcome by problems, 0:04:23.720 --> 0:04:28.360 burden down when thoughts whisper, you'll never get well, never 0:04:28.400 --> 0:04:31.800 break the addiction, never get out of death. Just smile 0:04:31.880 --> 0:04:34.600 and say no thanks. I know a secret. You have 0:04:34.680 --> 0:04:38.040 to go back. Sickness. You can't stay in my body. 0:04:38.440 --> 0:04:41.080 I am a temple of the Most High God. You're 0:04:41.120 --> 0:04:44.760 on foreign territory. You're not welcome here. You've got to 0:04:44.800 --> 0:04:48.920 go back. If you're having trouble at work, people aren't fair. 0:04:49.400 --> 0:04:52.120 You're not going to steal my joy, keep me from 0:04:52.160 --> 0:04:56.000 my purpose. You've got to go back. Whatever is trying 0:04:56.000 --> 0:05:00.000 to hold you down, whatever looks permanent in your imagineation, 0:05:00.560 --> 0:05:04.040 you need to see it turning around, walking away from you, 0:05:04.279 --> 0:05:08.039 getting smaller and smaller. Now all through the day, instead 0:05:08.040 --> 0:05:11.520 of complaining, Father, thank you that it has to go back. 0:05:11.880 --> 0:05:14.760 It may have formed, but Lord, thank you that it's 0:05:14.839 --> 0:05:18.880 not going to prosper. God said in Jeremiah five, I 0:05:18.960 --> 0:05:22.200 have placed the sand as the boundary for the sea, 0:05:22.720 --> 0:05:26.880 an eternal decree, so it cannot go beyond. Though the 0:05:26.880 --> 0:05:31.599 waves toss to and fro, they cannot prevail, though they roar, 0:05:32.000 --> 0:05:36.200 they cannot pass over it. God put an eternal decree 0:05:36.360 --> 0:05:41.479 in the sand. One translation says, an everlasting ordinance. You 0:05:41.520 --> 0:05:45.080 could say God put his word in every grain of 0:05:45.200 --> 0:05:48.719 sand that gives it the ability to keep the ocean 0:05:48.920 --> 0:05:54.560 in its boundaries. That doesn't seem possible. The sand is tiny, minute, 0:05:54.839 --> 0:05:58.719 it's nothing compared to the vast ocean. The ocean is 0:05:58.920 --> 0:06:03.599 massive and power, yet the tiny sand holds it in place, 0:06:03.920 --> 0:06:08.000 all because God put the decree in the sand. I 0:06:08.040 --> 0:06:11.240 can imagine the sand and the ocean having a conversation. 0:06:11.839 --> 0:06:14.919 The ocean says, little sand, do you really think you 0:06:14.960 --> 0:06:20.400 can heap me in my boundary? I'm billions of times bigger, stronger, mightier. 0:06:20.480 --> 0:06:23.240 You don't have a chance. The sand says, listen here, 0:06:23.279 --> 0:06:26.599 mister ocean. You may have a loud roar, but you 0:06:26.640 --> 0:06:30.280 don't intimidate me. It doesn't matter how small I am 0:06:30.760 --> 0:06:33.520 or what I look like. You'll never be able to 0:06:33.600 --> 0:06:38.200 overpower me. Because Almighty God put his word in me. 0:06:38.720 --> 0:06:42.719 There's an everlasting ordinance that says I can hold you back. 0:06:43.520 --> 0:06:46.760 That makes the ocean so mad he begins to churn 0:06:46.960 --> 0:06:51.000 and churn. A great storm comes, The water rushes past 0:06:51.040 --> 0:06:55.640 the sand way beyond its normal boundaries. The ocean begins 0:06:55.680 --> 0:06:58.200 to laugh and laugh. I told you I could do it. 0:06:58.640 --> 0:07:00.680 I told you I was more power, powerful than you 0:07:01.040 --> 0:07:04.520 that you'll never contain me. But the little sand is 0:07:04.560 --> 0:07:08.240 not worried, He doesn't begin to complain, God, what happened? 0:07:08.640 --> 0:07:11.080 I thought you put a decree in me. I thought 0:07:11.120 --> 0:07:14.760 you gave me your promise. No, all the grains of sand, 0:07:15.240 --> 0:07:18.280 like a big choir, begin to sing. You've got to 0:07:18.320 --> 0:07:21.240 go back. You've got to go back. You've got to 0:07:21.280 --> 0:07:25.200 go back, just like God promised. When the storm is over, 0:07:25.680 --> 0:07:29.640 the ocean recedes and goes back to its normal boundaries, 0:07:30.320 --> 0:07:33.880 not because the sand was more powerful, but because God 0:07:33.920 --> 0:07:38.040 put his decree in the sand. What you're up against 0:07:38.200 --> 0:07:42.280 may look bigger, more powerful, but when you have God's 0:07:42.320 --> 0:07:46.880 word in your heart, that's the everlasting ordinance. His word 0:07:47.120 --> 0:07:51.400 is the decree that enables you to withstand storms that 0:07:51.440 --> 0:07:55.960 are stronger, overcome enemies that are bigger, accomplish dreams that 0:07:56.080 --> 0:08:01.640 seem impossible. When you go around declaring his promises, speaking 0:08:01.680 --> 0:08:04.600 what he says about you. I can do all things 0:08:04.640 --> 0:08:08.400 through Christ. I am blessed and cannot be cursed. I 0:08:08.480 --> 0:08:12.440 will live and not die. Just like that sand, the 0:08:12.520 --> 0:08:16.560 creator of the universe will push back forces of darkness. 0:08:16.800 --> 0:08:20.200 He won't let that obstacle defeat you. It may go 0:08:20.360 --> 0:08:25.080 past its boundaries temporarily, don't get discouraged is got to 0:08:25.160 --> 0:08:28.800 go back now. Make sure you do your part and 0:08:28.920 --> 0:08:32.959 keep God's word in your heart. That's the everlasting decree. 0:08:33.600 --> 0:08:36.400 Any area that you're struggling in, you need to find 0:08:36.480 --> 0:08:39.760 scriptures that you can stand on. It's good to pray, 0:08:40.120 --> 0:08:42.400 it's good to ask God to help you, but there's 0:08:42.440 --> 0:08:46.200 nothing more powerful than saying what God says about you. 0:08:47.040 --> 0:08:50.440 Even when Jesus was tempted by Satan in the desert, 0:08:50.800 --> 0:08:54.640 he said, it is written each time he went back 0:08:54.679 --> 0:08:58.439 to the scripture and quoted what God said. When you're 0:08:58.480 --> 0:09:02.280 in difficult times, just say what you feel, what you think, 0:09:02.440 --> 0:09:05.839 what you want, Say what God says about your situation. 0:09:06.720 --> 0:09:11.320 The scripture says God's word will not return void, it 0:09:11.360 --> 0:09:15.440 will not be ineffective. When you have God's promises coming 0:09:15.480 --> 0:09:18.520 out of your mouth, you can't be defeated when you 0:09:18.559 --> 0:09:21.679 go around with what he said playing in your thoughts 0:09:21.760 --> 0:09:27.200 all day. I'm blessed, I'm prosperous, I'm redeemed, I'm healthy, 0:09:27.679 --> 0:09:31.560 I'm a masterpiece. I have the mind of Christ, I 0:09:31.600 --> 0:09:35.400 have peace that passes understanding. I'm more than a conquer 0:09:35.520 --> 0:09:39.240 God always causes me to triumph. My latter days will 0:09:39.240 --> 0:09:42.880 be better than my former days. You are activating a 0:09:43.000 --> 0:09:45.920 power that will take you where you can't go on 0:09:46.000 --> 0:09:51.439 your own. You will overcome obstacles that look insurmountable. If 0:09:51.440 --> 0:09:54.320 you feel like you're stuck in your career, you've reached 0:09:54.320 --> 0:09:58.200 your limits. Instead of going around discouraged, get that eternal 0:09:58.280 --> 0:10:02.559 decree in your heart. Father, you said your favor surrounds 0:10:02.600 --> 0:10:05.320 me like a shield. You said you're taking me from 0:10:05.360 --> 0:10:08.720 glory to glory. That the path of the righteous gets 0:10:08.760 --> 0:10:12.880 brighter and brighter when you agree with what God said. 0:10:13.120 --> 0:10:16.439 He'll open doors you couldn't open. He'll do what medicine 0:10:16.440 --> 0:10:21.760 cannot do. You'll defeat enemies that were much bigger. Jeremiah said. 0:10:22.120 --> 0:10:27.040 Though the ocean roars, it cannot cross its boundaries. You 0:10:27.120 --> 0:10:29.960 may have some thoughts that are roaring in your mind, 0:10:30.480 --> 0:10:33.200 thoughts that are so loud, telling you look at the 0:10:33.240 --> 0:10:37.079 medical report. You'll never get well. You've been single all 0:10:37.120 --> 0:10:40.719 those years. You'll never meet the right person. This depression 0:10:40.840 --> 0:10:44.680 is permanent. You'll never be free. The scripture says, the 0:10:44.840 --> 0:10:49.520 enemy goes about as a roaring lion. He loves to roar, 0:10:50.080 --> 0:10:54.360 he loves to make loud threats loud accusations trying to 0:10:54.360 --> 0:10:57.679 get you to live in fear, worried, thinking that what 0:10:57.679 --> 0:11:01.400 you're up against is too big, too wrong. Just accept it. 0:11:01.920 --> 0:11:06.160 Live defeated, live addicted, live depressed. Don't let the roar 0:11:06.520 --> 0:11:10.679 fool you. He's all bark and no bite. When God 0:11:10.720 --> 0:11:13.840 breathed life into you like that, sayd he put an 0:11:13.920 --> 0:11:18.000 eternal decree in you. He said, he will always cause 0:11:18.000 --> 0:11:20.920 you to triumph. He said, when the enemy comes against you, 0:11:21.040 --> 0:11:23.920 one way, he will defeat them and cause them to 0:11:23.960 --> 0:11:28.440 flee seven different ways. When the enemy roars at you, 0:11:28.920 --> 0:11:31.719 sometimes the best thing to do is just ignore it, 0:11:32.040 --> 0:11:35.360 don't pay it any attention. But there are times you 0:11:35.440 --> 0:11:38.720 need to roar back at him. When those threats come 0:11:38.840 --> 0:11:42.880 loud in your thoughts. Enter back boldly what God says, 0:11:43.480 --> 0:11:47.280 that thought roars, He'll never get over this sickness. Roar back. 0:11:47.520 --> 0:11:50.280 I will live and not die. The number of my 0:11:50.400 --> 0:11:54.400 days God will fulfill. When he roars, you can't accomplish 0:11:54.480 --> 0:11:58.160 your dreams. You don't have the talent. Roar back. Whatever 0:11:58.240 --> 0:12:02.200 I touch prospers, and so seeds goodness and mercy are 0:12:02.240 --> 0:12:06.440 following me. With this anxiety, this depression is always going 0:12:06.520 --> 0:12:09.400 to sour your life. There's no way you can overcome. 0:12:09.960 --> 0:12:13.240 Don't let him have the last roar. There's nothing too 0:12:13.320 --> 0:12:16.520 difficult for my God. What he started in my life, 0:12:16.559 --> 0:12:20.000 he will finish. Though I am surrounded by trouble, I 0:12:20.040 --> 0:12:23.360 will know no fear. For God being for me is 0:12:23.400 --> 0:12:26.720 more than the world being against me. I talked to 0:12:26.760 --> 0:12:29.880 a young lady. She was in her mid twenties, and 0:12:29.920 --> 0:12:32.040 she was so concerned that she wasn't going to be 0:12:32.080 --> 0:12:35.160 able to have a baby. Her mother had a difficult 0:12:35.200 --> 0:12:39.040 time getting pregnant. Her grandmother had trouble conceiving as well. 0:12:39.559 --> 0:12:42.480 It had been in their family line for generations. It 0:12:42.520 --> 0:12:44.520 seemed like it was going to be passed down to 0:12:44.600 --> 0:12:47.840 her from the time she was a little girl. She 0:12:48.040 --> 0:12:52.120 was afraid that she couldn't have children. And sometimes we 0:12:52.200 --> 0:12:55.480 believe a lie early in life, and it's keeping us 0:12:55.520 --> 0:12:58.560 from our destinies. She and her husband had tried to 0:12:58.600 --> 0:13:01.360 have a baby for several years, but she couldn't conceive. 0:13:01.880 --> 0:13:05.120 She took the fertility treatments, did what she could, but 0:13:05.160 --> 0:13:08.840 still no success. She came down to the front for prayer, 0:13:09.320 --> 0:13:14.000 very discouraged. I told her to find the scriptures about 0:13:14.000 --> 0:13:17.920 having a child and start dwelling on them. The enemy 0:13:17.960 --> 0:13:21.240 had been roaring in her thoughts for years. As long 0:13:21.280 --> 0:13:23.839 as she let those lies play, it was going to 0:13:23.920 --> 0:13:26.960 hold her back. It was her time to start roaring. 0:13:27.760 --> 0:13:31.240 She began to declare what God said in Psalms. God 0:13:31.280 --> 0:13:35.200 will make the baron woman a happy mother of children. God, 0:13:35.320 --> 0:13:38.400 you said, the fruit of my womb is blessed. You said, 0:13:38.440 --> 0:13:42.520 no good thing? Would you withhold? Because I walk up rightly. Lord, 0:13:42.600 --> 0:13:46.320 thank you that my baby is on the way. When 0:13:46.360 --> 0:13:50.040 you get the eternal decree on the inside, God will 0:13:50.040 --> 0:13:53.960 make things happen that you couldn't make happen. Like the ocean, 0:13:54.480 --> 0:13:58.439 infertility seemed so much bigger. The medical report said, you 0:13:58.520 --> 0:14:03.040 can't have children. She was like the sand. It seemed impossible. 0:14:03.520 --> 0:14:06.720 But the sand with the decree will push back the 0:14:06.800 --> 0:14:10.680 mighty ocean. A few years later, she came down front 0:14:10.840 --> 0:14:14.439 with a beautiful to your old daughter. She was so happy, 0:14:14.840 --> 0:14:17.720 she said, God bless me with this child, and now 0:14:17.800 --> 0:14:22.200 I'm pregnant with another baby. The enemy may be roaring 0:14:22.280 --> 0:14:25.320 in your life. It's time that he hears you roar. 0:14:25.920 --> 0:14:29.520 You need to start boldly declaring what God says about you. 0:14:30.520 --> 0:14:32.480 When my father went to be with the Lord, and 0:14:32.760 --> 0:14:35.960 I stepped up to pastor the church. I had never ministered. 0:14:36.480 --> 0:14:40.440 Thoughts roared Joe, you can't do this. Nobody's going to come. 0:14:40.760 --> 0:14:44.200 You don't have the training, the experience. You're too quiet. 0:14:44.840 --> 0:14:47.640 What's funny is most of that was true. In the 0:14:47.640 --> 0:14:50.000 middle of the night. I would wake up and those 0:14:50.040 --> 0:14:53.680 thoughts played so loud. The enemy will try to talk 0:14:53.720 --> 0:14:57.120 you out of your destiny. I did what I'm asking 0:14:57.160 --> 0:15:00.240 you to do. Every time he roared, I roared back, 0:15:00.800 --> 0:15:03.880 you can't do this. I can do all things through Christ. 0:15:04.320 --> 0:15:07.040 You don't have what it takes. I am fearfully and 0:15:07.200 --> 0:15:11.440 wonderfully made. Joel, you're too quiet. I am strong in 0:15:11.520 --> 0:15:16.400 the Lord. I am equipped, empowered, anointed. I have seeds 0:15:16.440 --> 0:15:20.000 of greatness. I am well able to fulfill my destiny. 0:15:20.200 --> 0:15:23.920 I am full of can do power. I started declaring 0:15:24.120 --> 0:15:29.040 what God promised. His words have an eternal decree. I 0:15:29.120 --> 0:15:32.120 felt like the sand. I was up against the ocean. 0:15:32.680 --> 0:15:36.320 There were times it overtook me, but every time it 0:15:36.440 --> 0:15:39.600 had to go back. Twenty years later, I can tell 0:15:39.600 --> 0:15:43.280 you God is faithful. He's taken me further than I've 0:15:43.280 --> 0:15:47.400 ever dreamed. You may have things roaring in your life, 0:15:47.400 --> 0:15:50.200 telling you what you can't become, how you never get 0:15:50.200 --> 0:15:53.600 out of debt, never get free from that problem. Start 0:15:53.720 --> 0:15:58.480 roaring back. The scripture says, give no place to the enemy. 0:15:58.920 --> 0:16:01.600 Don't let him fill your mind with thoughts of defeat, 0:16:02.120 --> 0:16:08.000 lack insecurity. Roar back the clear favor, declear strength, declear health, 0:16:08.200 --> 0:16:12.600 declear victory. This is what my mother did. In nineteen 0:16:12.640 --> 0:16:16.560 eighty one. She was diagnosed with terminal liver cancer and 0:16:16.640 --> 0:16:19.480 given a few weeks to live. There was nothing more 0:16:19.560 --> 0:16:23.160 doctors could do. She weighed only eighty nine pounds, Her 0:16:23.160 --> 0:16:26.400 skin was very yellow. She looked like she wouldn't make 0:16:26.440 --> 0:16:30.120 it much longer. But instead of giving up, she found 0:16:30.160 --> 0:16:33.720 about forty passages of scripture that had to do with healing. 0:16:34.360 --> 0:16:37.280 Her voice was very weak, but she would go around 0:16:37.320 --> 0:16:41.040 the house saying, by his stripes, I am healed. I 0:16:41.080 --> 0:16:44.040 will live and not die, and declare the works of 0:16:44.080 --> 0:16:47.880 the Lord with long life. God will satisfy me. It 0:16:48.000 --> 0:16:52.400 was barely even a whisper, but Jesus said in Mark four, 0:16:52.960 --> 0:16:56.600 God's word is like a seed when it's sown in 0:16:56.720 --> 0:17:00.120 our hearts. If we'll keep believing, keep thanking him for 0:17:00.520 --> 0:17:04.760 keep declaring it it will grow and become what God promised. 0:17:05.600 --> 0:17:09.200 In the natural we could hear that word cancer booming 0:17:09.240 --> 0:17:13.879 out like thunder throughout the house. God's promises seemed so 0:17:14.080 --> 0:17:17.639 small compared to what she was up against. But my 0:17:17.800 --> 0:17:21.119 mother wasn't moved by the size of the ocean, so 0:17:21.200 --> 0:17:24.439 to speak. She didn't get discouraged by the roar of 0:17:24.480 --> 0:17:28.800 the waves and intimidated by the circumstances tossing her to 0:17:29.160 --> 0:17:33.640 and fro. She just kept declaring what God said. Week 0:17:33.720 --> 0:17:36.640 by week she got a little stronger. She would say 0:17:36.640 --> 0:17:39.719 it with a little more power. By his stripes, I 0:17:39.800 --> 0:17:43.120 am healed. It seemed like the enemy would roar back 0:17:43.200 --> 0:17:47.359 even louder, with greater force. You're not healed. You have 0:17:47.480 --> 0:17:51.160 terminal cancer. You'll be gone in a few weeks. Mother 0:17:51.320 --> 0:17:55.000 wasn't moved by the roar. She knew the enemy is 0:17:55.400 --> 0:17:59.119 like a roaring lion. He's not a lion. He doesn't 0:17:59.160 --> 0:18:03.879 have any power over you. His only weapons are deceit, fear, 0:18:04.080 --> 0:18:08.240 and lies. My mother kept watering that seed, thanking God 0:18:08.280 --> 0:18:12.040 for what he promised. The seed kept growing. A few 0:18:12.080 --> 0:18:16.320 months later, the tables had completely turned. Instead of the 0:18:16.359 --> 0:18:20.840 word cancer booming out in our house, dominating our thoughts. 0:18:21.440 --> 0:18:24.560 All we could hear was my mother's voice booming out, 0:18:24.880 --> 0:18:28.879 I will live and not die. God is restoring health 0:18:28.960 --> 0:18:33.200 back into me. Now, the word cancer was barely even 0:18:33.280 --> 0:18:38.200 a whisper. The scripture says so mightily grew the word 0:18:38.280 --> 0:18:42.240 of God and prevailed. When you get in agreement with 0:18:42.359 --> 0:18:46.600 God and let his word grow, you speak his promises, 0:18:47.000 --> 0:18:49.760 thank him for what he said. Then you will see 0:18:49.800 --> 0:18:55.040 that eternal decree, that everlasting ordinance come to pass. His 0:18:55.160 --> 0:19:01.000 word will prevail over sickness, prevail over addictions, prevail over 0:19:01.119 --> 0:19:06.360 fear and depression. Like the sand, when things come against you, 0:19:06.359 --> 0:19:09.840 you could live overwhelmed. Think it's never going to work out. 0:19:10.080 --> 0:19:12.320 You need to tell it. You've got to go back. 0:19:13.119 --> 0:19:15.920 If you're facing a health issue, don't learn to live 0:19:15.960 --> 0:19:20.000 with it. Tell the diabetes you've got to go back. Cancer, 0:19:20.160 --> 0:19:23.360 you've got to go back. High blood pressure you may 0:19:23.400 --> 0:19:26.320 have overtaken me for now, but you are not permanent. 0:19:26.600 --> 0:19:29.280 You have no right to stay here. You've got to 0:19:29.320 --> 0:19:33.320 go back. Well, Joel, the stock market being down has 0:19:33.359 --> 0:19:37.240 cost me so much. This pandemic, not being able to work, 0:19:37.320 --> 0:19:40.639 it's going to sink me financially. No, start telling it. 0:19:40.840 --> 0:19:43.800 You've got to go back. Father, you said you would 0:19:43.840 --> 0:19:46.840 open the windows of heaven pour out blessings that I 0:19:46.880 --> 0:19:50.199 can't contain. I know the economy is not my source, 0:19:50.359 --> 0:19:53.800 but you are my source. You said, even in famine, 0:19:53.880 --> 0:19:57.639 I would have more than enough. You can't be passive 0:19:57.920 --> 0:20:02.960 and reach your destiny. The addiction, the alcohol, the nicotine. 0:20:03.119 --> 0:20:06.399 You've got to go back. You controlled me long enough. 0:20:06.600 --> 0:20:09.359 This is a new day whom the sun sets free, 0:20:09.800 --> 0:20:13.600 is free. Indeed, start telling the fear you've got to 0:20:13.640 --> 0:20:17.520 go back. Anxiety, you're not welcome here. You got to 0:20:17.560 --> 0:20:21.479 go back. Maybe it's a child that's off course. Instead 0:20:21.480 --> 0:20:24.840 of complaining about the trouble, you need to start speaking 0:20:24.920 --> 0:20:28.240 to the trouble. Father, you said, as for me and 0:20:28.320 --> 0:20:31.680 my house, we will serve the Lord that my children 0:20:31.720 --> 0:20:34.359 will be mighty in the land. Lord, I thank you 0:20:34.440 --> 0:20:37.560 that every force that's trying to stop them has to 0:20:37.640 --> 0:20:41.560 go back. If you'll get in agreement with God, start 0:20:41.600 --> 0:20:45.720 declaring his promises. Like the ocean has to recede from 0:20:45.800 --> 0:20:49.640 the sand, even though it's bigger and more powerful. Anything 0:20:49.680 --> 0:20:53.040 that's trying to keep you down will only be temporary. 0:20:53.480 --> 0:20:56.600 It has to go back. I talked to a lady 0:20:56.720 --> 0:21:00.360 that struggled with depression for many years go on through 0:21:00.400 --> 0:21:04.080 some health issues, and things weren't getting any better. The 0:21:04.240 --> 0:21:07.160 enemy kept roaring, telling her that she had seen her 0:21:07.200 --> 0:21:10.879 best days. She didn't know any better. She believed those lies, 0:21:10.920 --> 0:21:14.240 and she fell into a very dark place. She was 0:21:14.280 --> 0:21:16.800 a mother, but she couldn't take care of her children. 0:21:17.160 --> 0:21:20.760 She had no desire to live, no passion. She was numb. 0:21:21.440 --> 0:21:24.760 When she would go outside, it could be bright and sunny, 0:21:25.240 --> 0:21:29.480 but for her everything was gray. She never saw blue sky, 0:21:30.080 --> 0:21:33.199 never saw green grass, never saw a red bird. It 0:21:33.280 --> 0:21:37.600 was always gray. Depressing, a friend gave her a copy 0:21:37.640 --> 0:21:40.960 of my book called I Declare. It has thirty one 0:21:41.080 --> 0:21:45.119 promises from the Scripture to speak over your life. She 0:21:45.160 --> 0:21:48.119 had never heard anything like that, and at first she 0:21:48.200 --> 0:21:50.720 was too discouraged to read it. It sat on her 0:21:50.720 --> 0:21:55.400 bedside table for months, But one night, at her lowest point, 0:21:55.520 --> 0:21:58.280 when she didn't think she could go on, she opened 0:21:58.280 --> 0:22:01.240 the book and started to read. It was like pouring 0:22:01.400 --> 0:22:04.440 life back into her spirit. She couldn't put it down. 0:22:05.080 --> 0:22:08.640 Every day she started declaring what God said about her. 0:22:09.200 --> 0:22:12.359 She began to memorize the promises, and she went around 0:22:12.400 --> 0:22:17.600 declaring health, declaring victory, declaring a bright future. She quit 0:22:17.680 --> 0:22:21.560 believing that the depression was permanent. She always talked about 0:22:21.560 --> 0:22:26.920 it as my depression, my illness. She stopped taking ownership 0:22:26.960 --> 0:22:30.119 of it and started saying, this is what I'm dealing 0:22:30.160 --> 0:22:32.920 with now, but it's not going to be here forever. 0:22:33.160 --> 0:22:36.560 This too, shall pass. She was saying, in effect, you've 0:22:36.560 --> 0:22:40.440 got to go back. You don't belong here. Little by 0:22:40.520 --> 0:22:44.160 little things begin to turn around. She got her passion back. 0:22:44.520 --> 0:22:48.679 She started smiling again. One day, she went outside and 0:22:48.720 --> 0:22:52.080 for the first time in years, the sky was blue, 0:22:52.359 --> 0:22:56.719 the grass was green. Color had returned. Today she's happy, 0:22:57.119 --> 0:23:01.160 enjoying her children, living the victorious life, life that belongs 0:23:01.200 --> 0:23:04.760 to her. When you get the seed of God's word 0:23:04.880 --> 0:23:08.480 down in your heart, when you declare his promises, then 0:23:08.480 --> 0:23:13.159 you'll tap into that eternal decree, that power that overrules 0:23:13.400 --> 0:23:16.880 anything that's trying to hold you back. The waves may 0:23:16.960 --> 0:23:21.159 overtake you. At times, it feels like you're overwhelmed. What 0:23:21.200 --> 0:23:24.640 you're up against seems so much bigger. Don't worry. It 0:23:24.720 --> 0:23:28.600 has to go back. It's not permanent. It's not how 0:23:28.640 --> 0:23:32.520 your story ends. You may not see anything changing yet, 0:23:32.760 --> 0:23:35.879 but God is working behind the scenes. It's just a 0:23:35.920 --> 0:23:40.480 matter of time before that trouble recedes, that depression lifts, 0:23:40.800 --> 0:23:45.320 that addiction is taken away. Like this, lady, your story 0:23:45.359 --> 0:23:49.120 doesn't end in defeat. Don't take ownership of the problem. 0:23:49.520 --> 0:23:53.480 Start telling it. It's got to go back. Something powerful 0:23:53.600 --> 0:23:58.000 happens when you speak it out. Jesus said, if you 0:23:58.080 --> 0:24:01.199 have faith the size of a grain of mustard seed, 0:24:01.680 --> 0:24:04.639 you can say to this mountain, be removed, and it 0:24:04.680 --> 0:24:08.600 will move, and nothing will be impossible to you. The 0:24:08.680 --> 0:24:12.080 mustard seed is one of the smallest seeds. It's so 0:24:12.280 --> 0:24:15.480 tiny you can barely grasp it in your hand. Yet 0:24:15.520 --> 0:24:19.280 God said, if you just have mustard seed faith, if 0:24:19.280 --> 0:24:22.040 you just have a little faith, you can speak to 0:24:22.160 --> 0:24:26.879 a huge mountain, a huge obstacle, and it will be removed. 0:24:27.160 --> 0:24:30.600 It's the same type illustration as that tiny grain of 0:24:30.680 --> 0:24:34.680 sand up against the huge ocean. God is showing us 0:24:35.000 --> 0:24:38.120 that when we're up against big challenges, when we're facing 0:24:38.160 --> 0:24:41.560 things that look impossible, it's not the size of our faith. 0:24:41.920 --> 0:24:44.400 It's not the size of what we have. It's what 0:24:44.520 --> 0:24:48.520 God has put in the tiny seed. It's the everlasting 0:24:48.680 --> 0:24:52.439 ordinance in the tiny grain of sand. How do we 0:24:52.520 --> 0:24:55.760 activate this mustard seed faith? How do we keep the 0:24:55.760 --> 0:25:00.280 ocean from overtaking us by speaking to the mountain with 0:25:00.320 --> 0:25:04.400 our words. If you will say to the mountain, be removed, 0:25:04.760 --> 0:25:09.160 then God will make things happen that seem impossible. There 0:25:09.200 --> 0:25:11.919 may be a mountain in your life right now, a 0:25:11.960 --> 0:25:15.880 mountain of debt, a mountain of fear, a mountain of addiction. 0:25:16.680 --> 0:25:20.239 When there's a mountain, you can't see your future, it 0:25:20.280 --> 0:25:24.159 looks insurmountable. God used a mountain to let us know 0:25:24.640 --> 0:25:28.200 when you have these big obstacles, things that should keep 0:25:28.240 --> 0:25:31.920 you from your destiny, it's not the end. The mountain 0:25:31.960 --> 0:25:35.480 looks permanent, seems like it could never change. The truth 0:25:35.600 --> 0:25:38.880 is you have what you need to move the mountain. 0:25:39.520 --> 0:25:43.199 All it takes is mustard seed faith. That's the smallest 0:25:43.240 --> 0:25:47.199 amount of faith. Now, instead of complaining about the mountain, 0:25:47.760 --> 0:25:50.840 being depressed over the mountain, telling your friends how you'll 0:25:50.840 --> 0:25:54.119 never get past the mountain, why don't you start speaking 0:25:54.160 --> 0:25:58.000 to the mountain. Tell that depression you cannot keep me 0:25:58.080 --> 0:26:01.280 from my destiny. Tell this sick you don't have the 0:26:01.320 --> 0:26:04.560 final Say, tell that addiction you're not going to hold 0:26:04.600 --> 0:26:07.960 me back. You have to move. There was a man 0:26:08.000 --> 0:26:11.040 in the scripture named Zaruba Bell. He was in charge 0:26:11.080 --> 0:26:15.320 of rebuilding the temple, but everything came against him. City 0:26:15.400 --> 0:26:18.919 leaders hired lawyers to try to stop him. They wouldn't 0:26:18.920 --> 0:26:22.480 give him permits. Other people were causing trouble and strife. 0:26:22.760 --> 0:26:26.159 It looked impossible. He could have been discouraged, but he 0:26:26.280 --> 0:26:30.720 understood this principle. He said, who are you, o, great 0:26:30.840 --> 0:26:34.960 mountain that stands before me. You shall become a mere 0:26:35.080 --> 0:26:39.320 mole hill, and I will finish the temple by shouting 0:26:39.400 --> 0:26:42.960 grace to it. He was saying, I have this big 0:26:43.040 --> 0:26:46.280 mountain in front of me, but I'm not worried. I 0:26:46.400 --> 0:26:49.480 know it's going to be turned into a mole hill. 0:26:50.119 --> 0:26:52.600 How was it going to happen? What was his secret? 0:26:52.960 --> 0:26:57.280 By speaking grace to it? Another word for grace is favor. 0:26:57.840 --> 0:27:01.679 His attitude was, yes, this obstacle is big, but I 0:27:01.760 --> 0:27:05.199 have the favor of God. Mountain, you can't defeat me. 0:27:05.640 --> 0:27:09.399 I will accomplish what God put in my heart. He 0:27:09.440 --> 0:27:13.080 didn't talk about his mountain. He talked to his mountain. 0:27:13.640 --> 0:27:17.359 Against all odds, things fell into place and he completed 0:27:17.400 --> 0:27:21.840 the temple. I believe today God is about to flatten out. 0:27:21.920 --> 0:27:25.480 Some mountains. Problems that look permanent are about to be 0:27:25.600 --> 0:27:29.399 turned into mole hills. No more sign of them, Nothing 0:27:29.520 --> 0:27:34.040 stopping you, nothing keeping you from your destiny. Mountains of depression, 0:27:34.560 --> 0:27:38.399 mountains of insecurity, mountains of addictions. It may look like 0:27:38.480 --> 0:27:42.160 they could never change, but there's no mountain God can't move, 0:27:42.520 --> 0:27:45.800 there's no wall he can't break through. May not have 0:27:45.840 --> 0:27:48.840 happened yet, but this is a new day. God is 0:27:48.880 --> 0:27:51.919 doing a new thing. That set back isn't there to 0:27:51.920 --> 0:27:55.359 stop you. It's there to promote you. What God put 0:27:55.400 --> 0:27:58.840 in your heart will still come to pass. The dreams 0:27:58.840 --> 0:28:02.600 He's given you will still be completed. Now do your 0:28:02.640 --> 0:28:07.120 part like Zarubabel and start declaring favor, Start thanking God 0:28:07.160 --> 0:28:10.159 that you're coming out. Start talking like it's going to happen. 0:28:10.760 --> 0:28:14.120 As you keep God's word in your heart, God promises 0:28:14.320 --> 0:28:18.000 it will prevail, not the sickness, not the trouble, not 0:28:18.119 --> 0:28:22.480 the fear. You will be victorious. When those thoughts come 0:28:22.840 --> 0:28:25.600 roaring in your mind telling you it's never going to 0:28:25.680 --> 0:28:29.000 work out, like the waves roaring at the beach, don't 0:28:29.040 --> 0:28:33.080 believe those lies. Remember, like that sand, you have the 0:28:33.160 --> 0:28:37.240 eternal decree in you you have his word. Now tell 0:28:37.240 --> 0:28:40.600 the ocean you've got to go back. 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