Pronounce Before You Possess

0:00:00.400 --> 0:00:02.160 Hi, this is Joel and Victoria. 0:00:02.240 --> 0:00:05.279 Thanks for listening to our podcast and thanks for supporting 0:00:05.280 --> 0:00:08.240 the ministry. If you enjoy today's message, why don't you 0:00:08.280 --> 0:00:10.399 be a blessing and share it with a friend. We 0:00:10.520 --> 0:00:13.760 appreciate you and pray for God's very best in your life. 0:00:13.960 --> 0:00:15.960 Well, God bless you. It's great to. 0:00:15.840 --> 0:00:18.560 Be with you today, and I hope you'll stay connected 0:00:18.560 --> 0:00:21.200 with us during the week through a daily podcast or 0:00:21.280 --> 0:00:24.600 YouTube channel, social media, and you can come visit us 0:00:24.600 --> 0:00:26.680 in person. We'd love to have you be a part 0:00:26.720 --> 0:00:29.000 of one of our services. Now, I let you talk 0:00:29.040 --> 0:00:32.120 with something funny. I heard about this pastor and he 0:00:32.159 --> 0:00:35.199 found a dead mule on the church grounds and he 0:00:35.280 --> 0:00:37.840 called the health department and they said they couldn't pick 0:00:37.840 --> 0:00:41.120 it up without authorization from the mayor. Well, the mayor 0:00:41.280 --> 0:00:43.600 was known to be rude and hard to get along with, 0:00:43.840 --> 0:00:47.080 and when the pastor called, the mayor didn't disappoint He 0:00:47.120 --> 0:00:51.000 started ranting and raving. He finally said, isn't it your 0:00:51.080 --> 0:00:52.280 job to bury the dead? 0:00:52.680 --> 0:00:53.920 Why are you even calling me? 0:00:54.800 --> 0:00:57.200 The pastor asked God to give him the right response. 0:00:57.400 --> 0:00:59.800 He said, yes, Mayor, it is my job to bury 0:00:59.840 --> 0:01:02.760 the dead. But I always like to notify the next 0:01:02.760 --> 0:01:03.360 of ken. 0:01:03.320 --> 0:01:06.280 First say like you mean it. 0:01:06.680 --> 0:01:09.360 This is my Bible. I am what it says I am. 0:01:09.840 --> 0:01:12.120 I have what it says I have. I can do 0:01:12.200 --> 0:01:14.679 what it says I can do. Today I will be 0:01:14.760 --> 0:01:18.600 taught the word of God. I boldly confess. My mind 0:01:18.680 --> 0:01:22.000 is alert, my heart is receptive. I will never be 0:01:22.080 --> 0:01:26.800 the same. In Jesus' name, God bless you. I want 0:01:26.800 --> 0:01:30.240 to talk to you today about pronounce before you possess. 0:01:31.360 --> 0:01:34.760 All through the scripture, God has given us incredible promises 0:01:34.800 --> 0:01:40.039 of healing, freedom, abundance. It's important to believe the promise 0:01:40.120 --> 0:01:43.800 and get it down in your spirit, but believing alone 0:01:44.000 --> 0:01:48.360 is not enough. What activates the promise is by speaking it. 0:01:48.880 --> 0:01:53.320 By declaring what God says about you. Your words have power. 0:01:53.880 --> 0:01:59.440 They set things into motion, either blessing, favor, breakthroughs, or 0:01:59.480 --> 0:02:00.720 sickness life. 0:02:00.800 --> 0:02:01.720 You can't do it. 0:02:02.360 --> 0:02:05.640 One of the last times Moses spoke to the Israelites 0:02:05.760 --> 0:02:08.919 was in Deuteronomy eleven. He told them how God was 0:02:08.960 --> 0:02:11.640 going to bring them into the Promised Land, and how 0:02:11.680 --> 0:02:14.880 they'd have houses they didn't build, and all these crops 0:02:14.919 --> 0:02:19.280 and livestock, amazing things. But he said there's a couple conditions. 0:02:19.639 --> 0:02:23.120 Number one, you must obey the Lord your God. And 0:02:23.200 --> 0:02:26.760 number two, verse twenty nine, when the Lord God brings 0:02:26.800 --> 0:02:30.320 you into the land to possess it, you must pronounce 0:02:30.400 --> 0:02:35.239 a blessing. He was saying, the blessing the promised land, 0:02:35.760 --> 0:02:37.040 the houses you didn't build. 0:02:37.520 --> 0:02:40.240 It's not going to happen just because I promised it. 0:02:40.600 --> 0:02:41.680 You have to declare it. 0:02:42.160 --> 0:02:46.000 You have to pronounce the blessing before you receive the blessing. 0:02:46.720 --> 0:02:49.600 You have to pronounce your healing before you get weld. 0:02:50.280 --> 0:02:53.639 You have to pronounce the breakthrough before you get free. 0:02:53.880 --> 0:02:58.360 Pronounce the abundance while you're still in not enough. The 0:02:58.400 --> 0:03:02.400 promise is an invitation. It's not a possession. It's not 0:03:02.520 --> 0:03:04.600 done just because God said it. 0:03:04.600 --> 0:03:05.480 It's an offer. 0:03:06.080 --> 0:03:08.360 It's God saying, this is what I want to do 0:03:08.480 --> 0:03:11.360 for you. This is what I have in store. But 0:03:11.440 --> 0:03:14.239 you have to get your words in agreement and speak 0:03:14.280 --> 0:03:17.560 what I say about you. This is where the Israelites 0:03:17.600 --> 0:03:20.480 missed it. The first time they came to the Promised Land. 0:03:20.680 --> 0:03:23.960 The appearance of these people. God gave them this same promise. 0:03:24.480 --> 0:03:28.119 This is your land. You're gonna have these houses. 0:03:27.560 --> 0:03:29.880 And these vineyards fruits. 0:03:29.919 --> 0:03:33.040 So big that the cluster of grapes take two people 0:03:33.080 --> 0:03:33.519 to carry. 0:03:33.919 --> 0:03:35.040 God said, I'm gonna fight. 0:03:34.920 --> 0:03:38.120 Your battles and defeat these enemies and give you this land. 0:03:39.080 --> 0:03:42.240 They had this incredible promise. All they had to do 0:03:42.360 --> 0:03:43.280 was get in agreement. 0:03:43.840 --> 0:03:46.320 Lord, thank you that this is our land, that we 0:03:46.360 --> 0:03:48.520 are well able to take it, that you are fighting 0:03:48.520 --> 0:03:53.440 our battles. That's what activates the promise, pronouncing the blessing. 0:03:54.240 --> 0:03:55.840 But they did just the opposite. 0:03:55.920 --> 0:03:58.400 They looked at the people living there and saw how 0:03:58.440 --> 0:04:02.000 big they were, and instead of pronouncing a blessing, they said, 0:04:02.000 --> 0:04:02.960 we don't have a chance. 0:04:03.320 --> 0:04:04.680 The giants are too big. 0:04:05.200 --> 0:04:08.440 Even though God promised in the land, even though he 0:04:08.560 --> 0:04:10.800 said it's yours, they never did go in. 0:04:11.360 --> 0:04:15.160 Not because of giants, not because of walls, but because 0:04:15.160 --> 0:04:15.920 of their words. 0:04:16.680 --> 0:04:20.640 Your words are deciding whether you inherit the promises or 0:04:20.640 --> 0:04:24.360 whether you forfeit the promises. What are you saying about 0:04:24.360 --> 0:04:28.359 what God has promised you. God said he's restoring health 0:04:28.400 --> 0:04:31.839 back into you. The number of your days he will fulfill. 0:04:32.480 --> 0:04:34.279 Well, I don't see how I can get well. Joel. 0:04:34.680 --> 0:04:37.880 You should see this medical report. You're doing what they did. 0:04:38.560 --> 0:04:40.040 You're counseling out the promise. 0:04:40.600 --> 0:04:43.560 God said, you will lend and not borrow, that your 0:04:43.600 --> 0:04:44.560 cup will run over. 0:04:45.040 --> 0:04:47.719 Well, I can't get ahead. I'd take one step forward, 0:04:47.760 --> 0:04:48.839 two step backwards. 0:04:49.040 --> 0:04:52.280 That's keeping you out of your land. God said, your 0:04:52.400 --> 0:04:54.760 children will be mighty in the land that. 0:04:54.760 --> 0:04:56.080 You see is blessed. 0:04:56.440 --> 0:04:58.760 I don't think my son's ever gonna get back on course. 0:04:58.880 --> 0:05:01.359 I don't know what's wrong with it. The problem is 0:05:01.600 --> 0:05:05.520 you're pronouncing the wrong thing. God has given you the promise. 0:05:06.200 --> 0:05:06.960 You may even. 0:05:06.800 --> 0:05:10.000 Believe it in your heart, but if you pronounce defeat, 0:05:10.440 --> 0:05:13.760 you're going to see defeat. And God told the Israelites 0:05:13.880 --> 0:05:17.120 to pronounce the blessing while the opposition was still on 0:05:17.200 --> 0:05:20.760 their land. They were still outnumbered and outside the city. 0:05:21.080 --> 0:05:23.160 They could have thought, why are we going to pronounce 0:05:23.200 --> 0:05:24.000 the blessing now? 0:05:24.160 --> 0:05:28.160 Once we get in, once we're victorious living in those houses, 0:05:28.440 --> 0:05:31.080 then we'll say we're blessed. But this is what faith 0:05:31.160 --> 0:05:34.280 is all about. You have to speak what God promised 0:05:34.320 --> 0:05:37.560 you before you see any sign of it. You have 0:05:37.680 --> 0:05:41.599 to pronounce healing when the medical reports not God. You 0:05:41.680 --> 0:05:45.000 have to pronounce abundance when your finances say you're barely 0:05:45.000 --> 0:05:45.600 gonna make it. 0:05:46.160 --> 0:05:49.520 You have to speak freedom when the addiction seems strong. 0:05:49.600 --> 0:05:53.039 As ever, when you get your words in agreement with 0:05:53.120 --> 0:05:57.000 what God says, angels go to work. The chain breaker 0:05:57.080 --> 0:06:02.560 shows up supernatural power, provision, healing things you couldn't make happen, 0:06:02.680 --> 0:06:06.560 God will make happen. Now, don't forfeit the promise by 0:06:06.600 --> 0:06:11.160 speaking against what God says about you get an agreement. 0:06:11.160 --> 0:06:14.200 Have a report of victory, health, abundance. 0:06:14.560 --> 0:06:17.839 If you'll keep pronouncing the blessing, then you will possess 0:06:18.240 --> 0:06:21.680 all God has for you. Back in the Bible days, 0:06:21.839 --> 0:06:25.640 the way a king took new Land wasn't just by force, 0:06:25.920 --> 0:06:28.080 but first he proclaimed. 0:06:27.560 --> 0:06:28.440 It was his land. 0:06:28.760 --> 0:06:32.320 He made this public declaration to all the people, his 0:06:32.360 --> 0:06:36.800 supporters and the opposition, that this was his territory. He 0:06:36.839 --> 0:06:40.320 didn't wait to conquer the city to take ownership. He 0:06:40.320 --> 0:06:42.560 didn't wait to build the infrastructure to. 0:06:42.520 --> 0:06:44.200 Say it was his. 0:06:44.200 --> 0:06:49.560 His words mark territory, his words established dominion. It's the 0:06:49.640 --> 0:06:52.800 same principle with God. That's what he told the Israelite, 0:06:53.400 --> 0:06:55.680 this land is yours. I'm giving it to you. 0:06:56.200 --> 0:06:59.919 Now. You have to pronounce the blessing before you possess it, 0:07:00.880 --> 0:07:01.480 not after. 0:07:02.120 --> 0:07:04.840 When you see what you're believing for when the trouble 0:07:04.880 --> 0:07:08.159 turns around. When you get that promotion you or before 0:07:08.240 --> 0:07:11.000 you go into the land, you need to announce this 0:07:11.040 --> 0:07:15.720 is your land. Your words are marking territory. Your words 0:07:15.760 --> 0:07:20.160 are setting boundaries. You are announcing not just to people 0:07:20.200 --> 0:07:23.360 who are for you, but you are announcing to the enemy. 0:07:23.680 --> 0:07:26.880 You are on my territory and you are not welcome here. 0:07:27.880 --> 0:07:30.920 You are drawing that line in the sand. You are 0:07:30.960 --> 0:07:34.880 exercising your authority. It's like you're putting a stake in 0:07:34.960 --> 0:07:39.600 the ground with the flag of your country, establishing ownership. 0:07:40.520 --> 0:07:42.560 When you say healing is mind. 0:07:42.520 --> 0:07:47.400 You're marking that territory, abundance belongs to me, salvation for 0:07:47.560 --> 0:07:51.239 my family, good relationships, successful. 0:07:50.720 --> 0:07:52.240 Business, bright future. 0:07:52.720 --> 0:07:57.600 That's not just being positive, hoping, wishing like kings back 0:07:57.640 --> 0:08:01.400 in their day. You're making a public death that that 0:08:01.520 --> 0:08:05.360 land belongs to you. You have to mark the land 0:08:05.440 --> 0:08:08.480 with your words before you mark it with your feet. 0:08:09.480 --> 0:08:13.680 When you speak that promise in the unseen realm, boundaries 0:08:13.680 --> 0:08:16.240 are established forces of darkness. 0:08:16.280 --> 0:08:16.880 Pay attention. 0:08:17.600 --> 0:08:21.320 You are setting your flag, putting on notice that you 0:08:21.400 --> 0:08:24.960 are coming for the territory the most time God has 0:08:25.000 --> 0:08:29.800 promised you. Now, let's start marking some new territory. God 0:08:29.880 --> 0:08:33.000 told the people of Israel, You've gone around this mountain 0:08:33.080 --> 0:08:38.000 long enough, same thing, over and over forty years, complaining, 0:08:38.559 --> 0:08:40.040 we can't do it. 0:08:39.320 --> 0:08:40.920 It's hot out of here. 0:08:41.600 --> 0:08:45.559 It's never gonna change. Oh, it's time to take new ground. 0:08:46.000 --> 0:08:48.000 It starts with our words. 0:08:48.320 --> 0:08:48.600 Lord. 0:08:48.640 --> 0:08:51.000 I want to thank you that you promised to do 0:08:51.120 --> 0:08:55.720 exceeding abundantly above and beyond what I ask or imagine. 0:08:56.160 --> 0:08:59.480 You're setting your stake in new territory for God to 0:08:59.559 --> 0:09:03.320 exceed your expectations, to show out in your life, to 0:09:03.440 --> 0:09:05.600 surprise you with his goodness. 0:09:06.320 --> 0:09:09.040 Maybe you have children that are off course. It's been 0:09:09.080 --> 0:09:09.960 that way a long. 0:09:09.800 --> 0:09:13.080 Time, and it's easy to settle in that land. Just 0:09:13.160 --> 0:09:16.439 keep going around the same mountain. Well, Joel, I'm making it. 0:09:16.720 --> 0:09:20.040 God's been faithful. Yes, it's good to be grateful, But 0:09:20.160 --> 0:09:23.800 how about stretching your faith. God, you promised that as 0:09:23.800 --> 0:09:26.240 for me and my house, we will serve the Lord. 0:09:26.840 --> 0:09:30.480 Thank you that my child will fulfill his purpose, Holy Spirit. 0:09:30.679 --> 0:09:32.880 Thank you that you're helping him do what he can't 0:09:32.880 --> 0:09:37.199 do on his own. That's marking new territory. That's announcing 0:09:37.280 --> 0:09:40.240 to the enemy that you can't stay on that land. 0:09:40.520 --> 0:09:43.160 That's God's property, and I'm coming for you. 0:09:44.600 --> 0:09:46.080 With your words, you're. 0:09:46.040 --> 0:09:52.200 Establishing dominion, you're setting boundaries, You're making that proclamation. We're 0:09:52.240 --> 0:09:55.560 not just in the natural but in the unseen realm. 0:09:55.720 --> 0:09:59.679 You're taking authority, declaring what God promised will come to 0:09:59.720 --> 0:10:02.240 pas and it's not up to you to make it 0:10:02.280 --> 0:10:05.000 all happen. God said, I want you to obey me, 0:10:05.600 --> 0:10:08.920 pronounce the blessing. Declare what I said about you. 0:10:09.640 --> 0:10:12.360 That's when God will do what you can't do. He'll 0:10:12.400 --> 0:10:14.120 make ways where you don't. 0:10:13.880 --> 0:10:17.839 See away with your words, your mark in territory. 0:10:18.480 --> 0:10:21.160 Now, pay attention to what you're marking. Well, I've had 0:10:21.200 --> 0:10:22.199 this problem. 0:10:21.880 --> 0:10:24.880 So long, I don't think I'll ever meet the right person. 0:10:25.240 --> 0:10:29.400 Everybody in my family struggles with an addiction, or nobody. 0:10:29.000 --> 0:10:31.360 Can get ahead. We'll never have enough. 0:10:31.880 --> 0:10:35.679 That's like the Israelites going around that same mountain. Giants 0:10:35.679 --> 0:10:39.559 are too big, always gonna be this way. That group 0:10:39.679 --> 0:10:42.760 never did go in the next time they were at 0:10:42.800 --> 0:10:47.280 the promised land. Forty years later, God told their children, 0:10:47.360 --> 0:10:51.400 in effect, don't be like your parents. Don't defeat yourself 0:10:51.440 --> 0:10:55.720 with your words. You have to pronounce the blessing. Not 0:10:55.960 --> 0:10:58.520 pronounce the problem that's gonna. 0:10:58.280 --> 0:10:59.080 Keep you circling. 0:10:59.400 --> 0:11:03.359 Why don't you start pronouncing your healing, pronouncing your abundance, 0:11:03.720 --> 0:11:08.520 your children, honoring God, your business, excelling your future filled with. 0:11:08.520 --> 0:11:12.520 Peace, joy and new levels. You can't wait for it 0:11:12.559 --> 0:11:15.600 to happen. You have to mark the territory. You have 0:11:15.679 --> 0:11:18.120 to put your flag in the ground, so to speak. 0:11:18.600 --> 0:11:22.480 This land belongs to me. God, you promised me healing. 0:11:22.800 --> 0:11:25.800 I believe healing is mine. God you said I have 0:11:25.880 --> 0:11:30.640 a sound mind, free from worry, anxiety, confusion. Lord, I 0:11:30.720 --> 0:11:33.720 thank you for your peace. God you said I'd be 0:11:33.760 --> 0:11:34.680 the happy. 0:11:34.400 --> 0:11:36.760 Mother of children. Experts say we. 0:11:36.720 --> 0:11:39.000 Can't have a baby, But God, I thank you that 0:11:39.080 --> 0:11:41.640 a child is on the way, that I will conceive 0:11:41.800 --> 0:11:46.120 and give birth. That's how you possess the land. Speak 0:11:46.160 --> 0:11:51.600 the blessing, declare what God promised. That's marking your territory. 0:11:51.920 --> 0:11:54.640 We have a little dog at home named Evie. She's 0:11:54.679 --> 0:11:58.200 a shizoo and she weighs about ten pounds, the nicest, 0:11:58.200 --> 0:12:01.480 friendliest dog ever. When we take her for a walk, 0:12:02.080 --> 0:12:05.520 every thirty feet or so, she'll stop and mark her territory. 0:12:06.000 --> 0:12:08.840 That smell tells the other dogs that they don't belong there. 0:12:09.440 --> 0:12:12.920 This is her street. She's very small, but. 0:12:12.920 --> 0:12:16.720 She doesn't know her size. She thinks she's a great Dane. 0:12:16.800 --> 0:12:19.599 In her mind, she's a big, powerful dog. 0:12:19.640 --> 0:12:20.720 Not afraid of anything. 0:12:21.320 --> 0:12:25.160 Another dog will pass ten times her size. She'll go 0:12:25.320 --> 0:12:29.720 right up to it, growling, snarling, barking. Have to hold 0:12:29.720 --> 0:12:32.600 that least so tight to not let her get away. 0:12:33.440 --> 0:12:35.680 She's not afraid of the other dog, but I am 0:12:37.160 --> 0:12:40.319 don't get him mad at us. But Evie is letting 0:12:40.360 --> 0:12:44.120 that other dog know that he doesn't belong there. She's 0:12:44.160 --> 0:12:47.520 already marked her territory, set her flag in the ground. 0:12:48.080 --> 0:12:49.960 He better get out of their fast or there's going 0:12:50.000 --> 0:12:53.480 to be trouble. She marks her territory a different way. 0:12:53.800 --> 0:12:57.400 We mark our territory with our words. When you speak 0:12:57.480 --> 0:13:00.680 God's promises, you are establishing ownership. 0:13:01.360 --> 0:13:02.880 And it's good to believe the promise. 0:13:03.440 --> 0:13:06.400 But the scripture says, the spirit of faith is in 0:13:06.480 --> 0:13:07.599 our words. 0:13:08.120 --> 0:13:10.400 Words give life to what you're believing. 0:13:11.280 --> 0:13:15.320 God has given us all these incredible promises like the Israelites. 0:13:15.520 --> 0:13:19.720 He's promised us the land, the healing, the freedom, the family. 0:13:20.400 --> 0:13:23.360 But here's where we can miss it. Silence leaves the 0:13:23.480 --> 0:13:30.160 territory unclaimed. Silence is not neutral. Silence is surrender. You 0:13:30.280 --> 0:13:34.400 have to pronounce the promise before you possess it. When 0:13:34.400 --> 0:13:37.920 you speak what God says that gives life to your faith, 0:13:38.400 --> 0:13:43.800 you are marking territory. You are setting boundaries, establishing ownership. 0:13:44.800 --> 0:13:48.960 But I wonder if you're leaving territory unclaimed because you're 0:13:48.960 --> 0:13:52.760 not speaking it. Are you surrendering land that belongs to 0:13:52.800 --> 0:13:58.040 you promises of healing, freedom, abundance because you haven't spoken 0:13:58.080 --> 0:14:02.360 the blessing. If you don't pronounce it, you won't possess it. 0:14:02.880 --> 0:14:05.240 And it's good to believe that your family will come 0:14:05.280 --> 0:14:08.360 to know the Lord. Good to stay in faith, be positive. 0:14:08.720 --> 0:14:10.880 But when you say Lord, I want to thank you 0:14:11.040 --> 0:14:13.160 that as for me and my house, we will. 0:14:12.920 --> 0:14:15.520 Serve the Lord. That takes it to a new level. 0:14:16.400 --> 0:14:20.480 Just imagine you're putting your stake in the ground, claiming this. 0:14:20.480 --> 0:14:21.880 Territory belongs to me. 0:14:22.600 --> 0:14:25.720 It's good to believe that you're blessed and wish good 0:14:25.720 --> 0:14:26.600 things will happen. 0:14:27.160 --> 0:14:28.840 But when you say, Father, thank you. 0:14:28.840 --> 0:14:32.360 That I am blessed, that your favor surrounds me like 0:14:32.400 --> 0:14:36.600 a shield. Surely goodness and mercy are following me, I 0:14:36.640 --> 0:14:39.680 haven't seen her, or imagine what you have in store. 0:14:40.480 --> 0:14:44.040 That's putting a stake in the ground for a bright future, for. 0:14:44.080 --> 0:14:46.400 Promotion, increase, or abundance. 0:14:47.040 --> 0:14:50.600 Perhaps you struggle with your self worth, feeling like you're 0:14:50.640 --> 0:14:51.880 not enough insecure. 0:14:52.760 --> 0:14:55.720 You do your best to think the right thoughts, and that's. 0:14:55.560 --> 0:14:58.560 A great start, But you need to take this next 0:14:58.600 --> 0:15:00.480 step and pronounce the blessing. 0:15:01.320 --> 0:15:04.680 God has promised you freedom, confidence. 0:15:04.400 --> 0:15:08.240 Value, but you have to declare it. Something happens when 0:15:08.240 --> 0:15:13.040 you speak. Forces of darkness are broken, strongholds come down. 0:15:13.720 --> 0:15:16.520 Every morning. You need to say, Father, thank you that 0:15:16.560 --> 0:15:19.840 you created me in your own image. 0:15:19.440 --> 0:15:22.160 That you crown me with your favor, that I am 0:15:22.200 --> 0:15:28.800 a masterpiece, fearfully and wonderfully made, valuable, talented, worthy, a 0:15:28.960 --> 0:15:35.080 prize possession. That's exercising your authority. That's marking your territory, 0:15:35.400 --> 0:15:39.520 setting new boundaries, letting the enemy know that that land 0:15:39.600 --> 0:15:44.200 belongs to you. That's when God will fight for you. 0:15:44.200 --> 0:15:47.200 You don't have to defeat the enemy, he's already defeated. 0:15:47.600 --> 0:15:49.680 God will go before you and clear the path. 0:15:50.400 --> 0:15:52.680 He'll make the wrong things, He'll move them out of 0:15:52.720 --> 0:15:56.160 your way so you can possess the land. This is 0:15:56.200 --> 0:16:00.400 what David did. Seventeen years old. He heard Goliath haunting 0:16:00.440 --> 0:16:03.000 the Israelites. They were on one side of the mountain, 0:16:03.200 --> 0:16:06.040 the Philistines on the other. These two armies were in 0:16:06.040 --> 0:16:09.200 a standoff. Well, Goliath would come out twice a day 0:16:09.240 --> 0:16:13.200 and shout threats and insults to the people of Israel. 0:16:13.680 --> 0:16:16.800 He was a giant that stood over nine feet tall, 0:16:17.440 --> 0:16:19.240 the champion of their army, the. 0:16:19.160 --> 0:16:22.960 Most skilled and talented warrior. They had the land. 0:16:23.080 --> 0:16:26.600 God promised you will probably have some giants on it. 0:16:27.400 --> 0:16:32.200 Opposition will inhabit your land. It's easy to back down that. 0:16:32.240 --> 0:16:35.240 You have to mark that territory. You have to take 0:16:35.320 --> 0:16:39.160 ownership of it, and God will defeat your enemies. You 0:16:39.200 --> 0:16:43.800 don't have to fight Goliath by yourself. The sickness, the addiction, 0:16:43.960 --> 0:16:44.520 the struggle. 0:16:44.880 --> 0:16:47.520 It may be too much for you. You can't do 0:16:47.600 --> 0:16:50.120 it in your own strength. But that's not your part. 0:16:50.480 --> 0:16:52.600 Your part is to pronounce. 0:16:52.080 --> 0:16:56.200 The blessing, declare what God says, and once you put 0:16:56.240 --> 0:16:57.359 your state down. 0:16:57.200 --> 0:17:00.480 God will go to work. All the Israeli are was 0:17:00.520 --> 0:17:02.640 afraid when Goliath came out. 0:17:03.040 --> 0:17:05.439 They ran and hid and thought, oh man, there's no 0:17:05.520 --> 0:17:09.320 way he's too big. As long as you're silent, you're 0:17:09.359 --> 0:17:11.320 surrendering territory. 0:17:11.520 --> 0:17:13.640 Giants will occupy your land. 0:17:14.200 --> 0:17:17.879 Not because they're stronger, bigger, but because you haven't marked 0:17:17.920 --> 0:17:21.320 your territory, you have an established ownership. 0:17:22.320 --> 0:17:24.199 This is not something that God is going to do. 0:17:24.600 --> 0:17:28.560 You have to do it. Faith is activated through our words. 0:17:28.960 --> 0:17:32.439 One morning, Goliath came out making all this noise. 0:17:32.720 --> 0:17:37.160 David didn't run, he didn't hide. He said, Goliath, you come. 0:17:37.000 --> 0:17:39.679 Against me with a sword and a shield, but I 0:17:39.760 --> 0:17:42.520 come against you in the name of the Lord God 0:17:42.560 --> 0:17:46.960 of Israel. David didn't just believe the promise. He didn't 0:17:47.000 --> 0:17:48.560 just hope God was with him. 0:17:48.720 --> 0:17:50.040 He spoke the blessing. 0:17:50.920 --> 0:17:53.800 He went on to say, this day I will defeat 0:17:53.840 --> 0:17:56.480 you and feed your head to the birds of the air. 0:17:57.640 --> 0:18:02.080 That wasn't just trash talk. That was ratorial talk. David 0:18:02.160 --> 0:18:07.200 was marking his territory. He was establishing ownership, saying this 0:18:07.320 --> 0:18:11.199 land belongs to us. You are not welcome here. He 0:18:11.280 --> 0:18:14.000 went up to him, slung that rock and hit Goliath 0:18:14.000 --> 0:18:17.359 in the forehead and knocked him to the ground. That's 0:18:17.400 --> 0:18:21.040 recorded in First Samuel seventeen, verse forty nine. But the 0:18:21.119 --> 0:18:25.440 real victory happened four verses earlier, in verse forty five, 0:18:25.840 --> 0:18:29.479 when David said I will defeat you. He had to 0:18:29.520 --> 0:18:33.200 pronounce the victory before he could possess the victory. 0:18:34.400 --> 0:18:36.560 Had David gone in there and thought, I don't know, man, 0:18:36.600 --> 0:18:41.080 he's big. Look at his armor. He's got all this experience. 0:18:41.840 --> 0:18:44.920 If David had talked defeat, we wouldn't be talking about 0:18:44.960 --> 0:18:48.480 him today. If he had not marked his territory with 0:18:48.600 --> 0:18:52.160 his words, if he'd stayed silent, he would have never 0:18:52.240 --> 0:18:53.320 defeated Goliath. 0:18:54.240 --> 0:18:57.200 And here's the key. Goliath wasn't just a giant. 0:18:57.560 --> 0:19:01.360 He was a squatter living on the land that belonged 0:19:01.400 --> 0:19:04.040 to the Israelites, taking their inheritance. 0:19:05.000 --> 0:19:08.440 All the Israeli army was quiet. They were afraid. 0:19:09.400 --> 0:19:13.280 Silence gives permission for squatters to stay on your land. 0:19:14.119 --> 0:19:18.240 When we stay silent, we surrender the territory. On the 0:19:18.280 --> 0:19:21.600 way to your destiny. There will be some golias on 0:19:21.640 --> 0:19:27.160 your property, giants inhabiting places that God has promised you. 0:19:27.200 --> 0:19:34.600 Imagine squatters on your land, sickness, depression, generational dysfunction on 0:19:34.720 --> 0:19:39.120 your property, enjoying your house, eating from your garden. It's 0:19:39.240 --> 0:19:42.840 time to serve some eviction notices. You have to tell 0:19:42.880 --> 0:19:48.480 depression you are not welcome on my property. Tell shame insecurity, 0:19:48.560 --> 0:19:52.960 not good enough, you don't belong here. Your time is up. Sickness, 0:19:53.160 --> 0:19:54.600 you can't stay on my land. 0:19:54.840 --> 0:19:56.800 I will live and not die. 0:19:56.920 --> 0:20:00.880 Dysfunction, you have no right here. I will break generational 0:20:00.920 --> 0:20:04.320 limitations and I will start generational blessings. 0:20:05.200 --> 0:20:06.520 Or how about, giant. 0:20:06.320 --> 0:20:09.760 Of addiction, You have overstayed your welcome. This is a 0:20:09.800 --> 0:20:13.160 new day, whom the sun sets free is free. Indeed, 0:20:13.720 --> 0:20:17.840 I'm coming into freedom, into wholeness, into victory. You don't 0:20:17.880 --> 0:20:21.440 evict giants with your power, your might, your thoughts. 0:20:22.000 --> 0:20:23.600 You evictim with your words. 0:20:24.520 --> 0:20:27.680 David said, this day the Lord will deliver you into 0:20:27.720 --> 0:20:31.760 my hands. That's where he won the battle. Giants don't 0:20:31.840 --> 0:20:34.679 leave because you don't like them. They leave when you 0:20:34.720 --> 0:20:39.280 evict them. Eviction happens when you speak the promises, when 0:20:39.320 --> 0:20:41.680 you declare what God says about you. 0:20:42.440 --> 0:20:43.600 Goliath had been out. 0:20:43.480 --> 0:20:47.120 There for forty days before David showed up and evicted him. 0:20:47.560 --> 0:20:50.000 Had it not been for David, he may have lived 0:20:50.040 --> 0:20:53.400 there forty years. He may have permanently kept them from 0:20:53.440 --> 0:20:56.399 the Promised land. Why don't you be the David in 0:20:56.440 --> 0:20:59.359 your family. Why don't you be the one to rise 0:20:59.480 --> 0:21:02.840 up and set new standards when you see things that 0:21:02.880 --> 0:21:07.520 are limiting you, keeping you from freedom, wholeness, abundance. 0:21:07.760 --> 0:21:10.480 You know the secret. You don't have to accept it. 0:21:10.600 --> 0:21:11.920 A joy that's just who we are. 0:21:12.760 --> 0:21:17.600 This addiction, depression, mediocrity, this is all I've known. God 0:21:17.720 --> 0:21:20.920 has you hearing this because you're the one to change it. 0:21:21.760 --> 0:21:25.320 If you will pronounce the blessing, you can break bondages 0:21:25.400 --> 0:21:28.879 of the past and possess the new levels that belong 0:21:29.000 --> 0:21:32.840 to you. The enemy would love for you to stay silent. 0:21:33.640 --> 0:21:36.560 He doesn't want you to take your ground. He knows 0:21:36.560 --> 0:21:40.720 he's on your territory, living off of what belongs to you. 0:21:40.720 --> 0:21:45.080 You need to send some addiction notices. Your words carry power. 0:21:45.760 --> 0:21:49.600 When you declare what God says about you, Angels are dispatched, 0:21:50.200 --> 0:21:51.920 forces of darkness are broken. 0:21:52.480 --> 0:21:53.640 God will take your. 0:21:53.480 --> 0:21:56.679 Slingshots, so to speak, and you'll bring down giants that 0:21:56.760 --> 0:22:00.000 were much bigger. You're not doing this on your own. 0:22:00.840 --> 0:22:03.960 It's not just up to you to defeat Goliath. Your 0:22:04.000 --> 0:22:07.560 part is to pronounce the blessing, put your flag in 0:22:07.640 --> 0:22:11.160 the ground and say this family belongs to God. 0:22:11.400 --> 0:22:12.160 I claim the. 0:22:12.080 --> 0:22:17.080 Healing, the freedom, the peace, the salvation, the victory. 0:22:17.359 --> 0:22:20.840 You have to mark the land with your words before. 0:22:20.560 --> 0:22:23.880 You will mark it with your feet. Don't stay silent. 0:22:24.320 --> 0:22:28.080 Silence is surrendered. Well, Joel, I don't think it could 0:22:28.160 --> 0:22:30.920 work out. I got this opposition, this trouble. 0:22:30.640 --> 0:22:34.240 At work, this sickness. That's what held the first group 0:22:34.280 --> 0:22:35.359 of Israelites back. 0:22:35.760 --> 0:22:39.320 They were next door to the promised land, but they complained, 0:22:40.119 --> 0:22:44.120 focused on the opposition. I believe many of you are 0:22:44.200 --> 0:22:47.320 next door to your promised land. You are close to 0:22:47.400 --> 0:22:51.920 a breakthrough, close to healing, to freedom, to new levels, 0:22:52.640 --> 0:22:53.040 but there. 0:22:52.920 --> 0:22:56.840 Are giants on your land. It's easy to retreat. I 0:22:56.880 --> 0:22:59.320 don't see how it can happen. You don't have to 0:22:59.359 --> 0:22:59.960 figure it out. 0:23:00.720 --> 0:23:03.120 You don't have to have all the answers. Just get 0:23:03.119 --> 0:23:05.480 in agreement with God and speak what. 0:23:05.520 --> 0:23:06.600 He says about you. 0:23:07.040 --> 0:23:11.360 That's when giants fall, that's when chains break, That's when 0:23:11.359 --> 0:23:14.000 the right people show up. That's when you have a 0:23:14.040 --> 0:23:16.880 baby when you were told you couldn't. That's when you're 0:23:16.960 --> 0:23:21.000 healed from a serious illness, like my mother. Are you 0:23:21.080 --> 0:23:25.280 putting any stakes in the ground, are you establishing any boundaries? 0:23:25.760 --> 0:23:30.080 Are you marking your territory with your words. The enemy 0:23:30.119 --> 0:23:33.600 doesn't respond to our thoughts. He's not moved by what 0:23:33.640 --> 0:23:37.359 we're thinking. He responds to our words. That's where the 0:23:37.440 --> 0:23:41.399 power is. Think about Jesus. He didn't just go around 0:23:41.600 --> 0:23:44.919 thinking good thoughts and people got healed. He spoke to 0:23:45.000 --> 0:23:47.760 the situation, the demon possessed man. 0:23:47.880 --> 0:23:50.760 He said, come out of him. He spoke to the 0:23:50.760 --> 0:23:54.600 blind man, be healed. He spoke to the storm, peace 0:23:54.680 --> 0:23:55.440 be stilled. 0:23:55.840 --> 0:23:58.560 He spoke to Lazarus, come forth out of that grave. 0:24:00.000 --> 0:24:01.760 Al has to be vocalized. 0:24:02.560 --> 0:24:05.119 A silent believer is a powerless believer. 0:24:05.960 --> 0:24:09.200 You have to speak the blessing before you see the blessing, 0:24:09.640 --> 0:24:11.520 mark the territory. 0:24:11.160 --> 0:24:13.480 Before you live in the territory. 0:24:13.840 --> 0:24:16.639 When we were trying to acquire this building, the former 0:24:16.720 --> 0:24:19.640 Compact Center, Victoria and I would come up at night 0:24:19.960 --> 0:24:22.960 when no games were going on, no events, when the 0:24:23.000 --> 0:24:25.919 security guard didn't run us all. We would walk around 0:24:25.960 --> 0:24:29.560 the building and thank God for making a way and 0:24:30.000 --> 0:24:33.280 thinking he was opening doors we couldn't open, and thank 0:24:33.359 --> 0:24:35.080 him that he was bringing the right people. 0:24:35.960 --> 0:24:37.760 The natural didn't seem possible. 0:24:38.480 --> 0:24:41.399 All the odds were against us, but we put our 0:24:41.440 --> 0:24:46.359 stakes down. We marked our territory with our words. We said, God, 0:24:46.400 --> 0:24:49.800 we believe you've given us this building to spread the 0:24:49.840 --> 0:24:52.320 Gospel around the world, to bring hope to people, and 0:24:52.720 --> 0:24:54.520 you can do things that we can't do. 0:24:55.040 --> 0:24:56.800 We don't see away, but Lord, you have. 0:24:56.800 --> 0:24:59.359 The final say, and we know you being for us 0:24:59.480 --> 0:25:01.120 is more than us being against us. 0:25:01.840 --> 0:25:05.280 So God, our trust is in you. We weren't just hoping, 0:25:05.680 --> 0:25:06.760 We weren't just wishing. 0:25:07.320 --> 0:25:12.760 We were setting boundaries, establishing ownership and evicting squatters off 0:25:12.800 --> 0:25:16.680 our land. Not people, but forces that were trying to 0:25:16.760 --> 0:25:20.000 keep us back. God calls things to fall into place. 0:25:20.160 --> 0:25:22.879 As twenty three years ago, here we are today, still 0:25:22.920 --> 0:25:26.440 going strong. But what God has put in your heart, 0:25:26.960 --> 0:25:30.800 the dreams, the promises, what you're believing for, you have 0:25:30.880 --> 0:25:34.199 to pronounce it before you'll see it. Don't stay silent. 0:25:34.800 --> 0:25:40.000 Don't just wish. Silence is surrendered. Silence is letting Goliath stay. 0:25:40.720 --> 0:25:41.479 Be a David. 0:25:42.280 --> 0:25:45.600 Speak to those giants, not in your authority, but in 0:25:45.640 --> 0:25:46.640 the authority of the. 0:25:46.640 --> 0:25:47.480 Most High God. 0:25:48.240 --> 0:25:51.919 Depression, I will defeat you cancer. You cannot stay on 0:25:51.960 --> 0:25:55.800 this ground. Healing belongs here. Lack and debt that may 0:25:55.840 --> 0:25:57.679 have been how I was raised. But this is a 0:25:57.720 --> 0:26:00.480 new day. I live under the open windows of Heaven. 0:26:01.359 --> 0:26:04.600 Start putting your stakes down. Tell the enemy he doesn't 0:26:04.640 --> 0:26:08.560 belong on your land mark your territory with your words. 0:26:08.760 --> 0:26:13.040 When you do that, you are setting boundaries, establishing ownership. 0:26:13.560 --> 0:26:17.040 I believe and declare what God promised the Israelites. 0:26:17.040 --> 0:26:20.359 He's promising you. As you pronounce it, you're going to 0:26:20.440 --> 0:26:21.080 possess it. 0:26:21.640 --> 0:26:25.040 Giants are about to fall, walls about to come down. 0:26:25.400 --> 0:26:26.840 The right people show up. 0:26:27.080 --> 0:26:32.199 Healing, promotion, breakthroughs, the fullness of your destiny. 0:26:32.240 --> 0:26:36.240 In Jesus's name. If you receive it, Can you say amen? 0:26:37.880 --> 0:26:40.560 I'd like to give you an opportunity to make Jesus 0:26:40.600 --> 0:26:41.760 the Lord of your life. 0:26:41.840 --> 0:26:42.840 Would you pray with me? 0:26:43.720 --> 0:26:48.200 Just say, Lord, Jesus, repent of my sins, Come into 0:26:48.240 --> 0:26:48.760 my heart. 0:26:49.440 --> 0:26:51.400 I make you my Lord and savior. 0:26:52.080 --> 0:26:54.400 If you prayed that simple prayer, we believe you got 0:26:54.400 --> 0:26:56.920 born again and we'd love to send you some free 0:26:56.920 --> 0:26:59.600 information on your new walk with the Lord. 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