Tongue Trouble

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We'd love to 0:01:29.200 --> 0:01:31.200 have you be a part of one of our services. 0:01:31.640 --> 0:01:34.000 I'd like to start with something funny, and I heard 0:01:34.000 --> 0:01:36.200 about this man. He was out walking on the beach 0:01:36.240 --> 0:01:39.120 and God said, son, you've been so faithful, I'm going 0:01:39.200 --> 0:01:41.319 to grant you one special wish. 0:01:41.440 --> 0:01:42.600 He was so excited. 0:01:43.000 --> 0:01:45.399 He said, God, I've always wanted to go to Hawaii, 0:01:45.640 --> 0:01:48.360 but I'm afraid to fly. So my wish is that 0:01:48.400 --> 0:01:50.640 you'd build me a bridge across the ocean. 0:01:51.200 --> 0:01:55.040 God says, son, that's impossible. Think of the logistics of that. 0:01:55.520 --> 0:01:57.000 Now take a moment and wish again. 0:01:57.720 --> 0:01:59.800 The man thought about it and said, Okay, God, I've 0:01:59.800 --> 0:02:03.240 been married four times. All my ex wives say I'm 0:02:03.280 --> 0:02:06.440 so insensitive. So my wish is that I would be 0:02:06.440 --> 0:02:09.640 able to understand a woman. I want to know why 0:02:09.680 --> 0:02:12.600 they think like they think, why they feel like they feel. 0:02:13.120 --> 0:02:14.240 There was a long pause. 0:02:14.520 --> 0:02:16.959 God said, do you want two lanes or four lanes 0:02:17.000 --> 0:02:20.840 on that bridge? This is my Bible. I am what 0:02:20.919 --> 0:02:23.480 it says I am. I have what it says I have. 0:02:24.040 --> 0:02:26.560 I can do what it says I can do. Today 0:02:26.639 --> 0:02:29.440 I will be taught the word of God. I'll boldly 0:02:29.520 --> 0:02:33.680 confess my mind is alert, my heart is receptive. I 0:02:33.720 --> 0:02:37.720 will never be the same. In Jesus' name, God bless you. 0:02:38.960 --> 0:02:41.480 I want to talk to you today about tongue trouble. 0:02:42.520 --> 0:02:43.720 One thing that can keep. 0:02:43.639 --> 0:02:46.880 Us from our destiny is our mouth. If we go 0:02:47.000 --> 0:02:51.639 around saying negative things about our self, our family, our future, 0:02:52.040 --> 0:02:55.440 it will limit how high we can go. Things like 0:02:55.800 --> 0:02:59.400 I'll never be successful. I'm not that talented and I 0:02:59.440 --> 0:03:02.320 can't break this addiction. It's flu season. 0:03:02.360 --> 0:03:03.280 I'll probably get it. 0:03:03.919 --> 0:03:06.320 I've been through so much in the past, I don't 0:03:06.320 --> 0:03:10.639 think I'll ever be happy again. Everything you're saying, you're 0:03:10.680 --> 0:03:14.080 giving the right to come to pass. You are prophesying 0:03:14.160 --> 0:03:18.000 your future. It's just like you're inviting that into your life. 0:03:18.680 --> 0:03:20.720 Before you say it, make sure. 0:03:20.600 --> 0:03:21.239 You want it. 0:03:22.000 --> 0:03:24.440 I'm so lonely. I don't think i'll ever meet the 0:03:24.520 --> 0:03:29.680 right person. You just invited more loneliness. Imagine you're sending 0:03:29.720 --> 0:03:34.880 an invitation, loneliness, please come. I'm so old, so wrinkled, 0:03:35.200 --> 0:03:38.559 I'll never get back in shape. You're inviting more wrinkles, 0:03:38.840 --> 0:03:43.920 more fatigue, sending that invitation oldness. You're welcome here. Well, 0:03:43.920 --> 0:03:46.480 it's going to be a rough year. Man, with inflation, 0:03:47.200 --> 0:03:48.240 trouble at work. 0:03:48.040 --> 0:03:50.000 I'm having raising these kids. 0:03:50.560 --> 0:03:56.960 You're inviting difficulties, hardships. Do yourself a favor, change your invitations. 0:03:57.600 --> 0:04:01.040 Start sending out some new words to be a great year. 0:04:01.520 --> 0:04:05.560 I'm surrounded by favor. I'm strong in the Lord. Goodness 0:04:05.600 --> 0:04:08.600 and mercy are chasing me. Get your words going in 0:04:08.640 --> 0:04:12.280 the right direction. You can't talk negative and have a 0:04:12.320 --> 0:04:17.200 positive life. You can't talk defeat and live victoriously. You 0:04:17.279 --> 0:04:21.440 can't talk lack and have abundance. Your words are setting 0:04:21.520 --> 0:04:24.440 the course for your future. If you want to know 0:04:24.600 --> 0:04:26.919 what you're going to be like five years from now, 0:04:27.440 --> 0:04:31.400 listen to what you're saying about yourselves. I can't accomplish 0:04:31.440 --> 0:04:34.960 my dreams. I don't have the connections. I'll never get well, 0:04:35.240 --> 0:04:38.920 the medical reports not improving. I can't break this addiction. 0:04:39.600 --> 0:04:42.120 My children will never get back on the right course. 0:04:42.680 --> 0:04:46.159 You know what's limiting you, tongue trouble. If you have 0:04:46.240 --> 0:04:49.200 a negative mouth, you're going to have a negative life. 0:04:50.040 --> 0:04:52.200 Quit speaking defeat over your future. 0:04:53.000 --> 0:04:57.400 I know people that are always saying negative things about themselves. 0:04:57.120 --> 0:04:59.760 What they don't like, what they wish they had. 0:05:00.520 --> 0:05:03.560 I played basketball with a young man at the WYMCA 0:05:03.640 --> 0:05:06.799 for many years. When I would see him, I would 0:05:06.800 --> 0:05:09.960 ask how he is doing, just nonchalantly. He'd always say, 0:05:10.040 --> 0:05:13.640 I'm fine, I'm just getting old and fat and bald. 0:05:14.640 --> 0:05:17.000 I must have heard him say that hundreds of times. 0:05:17.040 --> 0:05:19.680 Every time I saw him, we'd always laugh and not 0:05:19.760 --> 0:05:22.280 think much about it. Well, I hadn't seen him in 0:05:22.320 --> 0:05:25.400 twenty years. I ran into him at the mall. I 0:05:25.440 --> 0:05:28.560 didn't recognize him. He said, don't you remember me? 0:05:28.920 --> 0:05:29.760 I'm so and so. 0:05:30.040 --> 0:05:33.320 We used to play basketball together. I couldn't believe it. 0:05:33.400 --> 0:05:35.400 He was old and fat and bald. 0:05:35.760 --> 0:05:38.920 He did not look like the same person he had 0:05:39.040 --> 0:05:40.920 prophesied it all those years. 0:05:41.800 --> 0:05:45.720 Be careful what you're inviting in. I don't know about you, 0:05:45.800 --> 0:05:48.520 but I am good looking, I have plenty of hair. 0:05:48.960 --> 0:05:52.760 I am healthy, I am strong, I am vibrant. 0:05:53.400 --> 0:05:55.120 My mind is full of wisdom. 0:05:55.320 --> 0:05:59.719 My youth is being renewed like the eagles prophesy victory 0:05:59.760 --> 0:06:03.600 over your life. You're going to talk about yourself, talk about. 0:06:03.360 --> 0:06:04.240 The way you want to be. 0:06:04.960 --> 0:06:09.839 Speak hell speak, vitality, speak abundance. Most of us would 0:06:09.880 --> 0:06:13.200 never go up to another person and criticize them. You 0:06:13.200 --> 0:06:15.719 wouldn't say to that person sitting next to you, man, 0:06:16.080 --> 0:06:19.960 you don't look good today. That hairstyle is in the past, 0:06:20.040 --> 0:06:22.919 and your personality is kind of dull. What were you 0:06:23.000 --> 0:06:26.000 thinking when you put those clothes on? We may think 0:06:26.040 --> 0:06:27.919 some things, but we would never say it. 0:06:28.600 --> 0:06:30.600 We're not going to put them down. We're not going 0:06:30.680 --> 0:06:31.760 to make them feel bad. 0:06:32.520 --> 0:06:36.479 Sometimes we're better to other people than we are to ourselves. 0:06:37.279 --> 0:06:40.640 Why are you criticizing yourselves? Why are you talking so 0:06:40.760 --> 0:06:44.120 badly about you? Why do you think it's okay to 0:06:44.160 --> 0:06:48.360 put yourself down, to find fault, verbalize all the things 0:06:48.440 --> 0:06:51.680 you don't like. Why don't you be as respectful to 0:06:51.760 --> 0:06:55.120 you as you are to others? Let me encourage you 0:06:55.520 --> 0:07:00.320 don't say another negative word about yourselves, think, think it, 0:07:00.640 --> 0:07:04.160 but don't verbalize it. If you don't speak it out, 0:07:04.400 --> 0:07:07.760 that thought will die stillborn. You won't give it light, 0:07:08.279 --> 0:07:11.280 it won't become a reality. But when you go around 0:07:11.400 --> 0:07:16.160 putting yourself down, I'm an attractive I'm not that talented. 0:07:16.480 --> 0:07:20.080 I don't have a good personality. That's pushing down all 0:07:20.120 --> 0:07:20.840 the good. 0:07:20.640 --> 0:07:21.880 Things God put in you. 0:07:22.400 --> 0:07:26.760 That will keep your personality from blossoming, your beauty from shining, 0:07:27.160 --> 0:07:32.040 your gifts from flourishing. The scripture says, the tongue can nourish, 0:07:32.280 --> 0:07:33.480 and the tongue can kill. 0:07:34.400 --> 0:07:35.680 Don't let the tongue. 0:07:35.520 --> 0:07:39.640 Kill your dreams, kill your personality, kill your self esteem, 0:07:39.920 --> 0:07:41.080 kill your value. 0:07:41.520 --> 0:07:46.080 Let it nourish your life. You should be your best encourager. 0:07:46.800 --> 0:07:50.960 You should compliment yourself more than you complement anyone else. 0:07:51.640 --> 0:07:54.480 You should speak better of you than you do others. 0:07:55.200 --> 0:07:58.040 Now, I don't mean be selfish or arrogant, but if 0:07:58.080 --> 0:08:01.360 you're not positive towards yourself, you're not going to be 0:08:01.440 --> 0:08:02.440 your best for the. 0:08:02.440 --> 0:08:04.960 Other people God put in your life. 0:08:05.120 --> 0:08:08.840 The scripture says, love your neighbor as you love yourself, 0:08:09.600 --> 0:08:12.760 you can't love others. The way you're supposed to. If 0:08:12.800 --> 0:08:16.680 you don't first love yourself, it's not humility to put 0:08:16.760 --> 0:08:20.680 yourself down, to speak less of you, to say things that. 0:08:20.640 --> 0:08:23.360 Diminish, devalue, lesson who you are. 0:08:24.160 --> 0:08:28.040 I know some people that are always complimenting others, talking 0:08:28.080 --> 0:08:31.880 about how beautiful their friend is, what a great personality 0:08:31.920 --> 0:08:35.000 their brother has, how talented their coworker is. 0:08:35.400 --> 0:08:36.160 And that's good. 0:08:36.640 --> 0:08:40.280 We should be generous with our compliments. But when was 0:08:40.320 --> 0:08:44.160 the last time you complimented yourself, you thought about how 0:08:44.200 --> 0:08:47.839 great you are, how talented you are, how kind you are. 0:08:48.640 --> 0:08:50.679 You don't have to do this in front of others, 0:08:50.800 --> 0:08:54.280 but in your private time, Lord, thank you that I'm gifted, 0:08:54.640 --> 0:08:59.920 I'm talented, I'm smart, I'm attractive, I'm favored, I'm anointed, 0:09:00.200 --> 0:09:05.400 I have a good personality that I'm fearfully and wonderfully made. 0:09:05.440 --> 0:09:08.480 In the scripture, God told Jeremiah that he was going 0:09:08.559 --> 0:09:11.720 to become a prophet, that he would speak to nations, 0:09:12.040 --> 0:09:14.120 that he would do something great with his life. 0:09:14.880 --> 0:09:18.120 But Jeremiah was very young. He didn't have the training, 0:09:18.320 --> 0:09:19.199 the experience. 0:09:19.760 --> 0:09:23.360 No one in his family had done anything significant. All 0:09:23.400 --> 0:09:27.000 these doubts and insecurities started to fill his mind. 0:09:27.679 --> 0:09:30.000 He said, God, I can't speak to nations. 0:09:30.120 --> 0:09:33.080 I'm too young. I wouldn't know what to say. You 0:09:33.160 --> 0:09:37.800 must have the wrong person. God entered back, Jeremiah, say 0:09:37.840 --> 0:09:41.360 not that you're too young. He didn't say, don't think 0:09:41.400 --> 0:09:44.720 you're too young. Don't believe you're too young. He said, 0:09:44.720 --> 0:09:49.800 don't speak it out. Don't say negative things about yourself, Jeremiah. 0:09:50.559 --> 0:09:52.520 God was giving us this principle. 0:09:53.080 --> 0:09:57.600 Don't give life to those doubts, those weaknesses, those insecurities. 0:09:58.480 --> 0:10:02.000 God knew if Jeremiah have gone around saying I'm too young, 0:10:02.760 --> 0:10:05.840 I'm not tall enough, I'm not attractive enough, I don't 0:10:05.880 --> 0:10:09.559 have the experience, if he would have been negative toward himself, 0:10:09.920 --> 0:10:13.240 he would have missed his destiny. When you start to 0:10:13.280 --> 0:10:17.760 criticize yourself, tell God what you're not, what you don't have, 0:10:18.080 --> 0:10:21.360 what you can't do. God says to you what he 0:10:21.440 --> 0:10:26.360 said to Jeremiah, say not zip that up. Quit telling 0:10:26.400 --> 0:10:27.840 me what you think you're lacking. 0:10:28.320 --> 0:10:31.679 Quit talking about how you're at a disadvantage. 0:10:31.760 --> 0:10:35.199 Friends, when God created you, he put in you everything 0:10:35.320 --> 0:10:38.720 you need to fulfill your destiny. He gave you the 0:10:38.800 --> 0:10:43.400 right looks, the right height, the right personality. You have 0:10:43.520 --> 0:10:47.920 the gifts, the confidence, the wisdom, the favor. Now say 0:10:47.960 --> 0:10:51.440 not that you're too young, Say not that you're not 0:10:51.480 --> 0:10:54.720 attractive enough. Say not that you don't have the talent, 0:10:55.240 --> 0:10:57.600 Say not that you come from the wrong family. 0:10:58.200 --> 0:11:01.160 Zip that up, and say what God says about you. 0:11:01.559 --> 0:11:06.560 I am well able, I'm a masterpiece. I'm gifted, I'm valuable, 0:11:06.800 --> 0:11:11.400 I'm attractive, I'm competent, I'm creative. I can do what 0:11:11.440 --> 0:11:14.640 God has called me to do. Don't go through life 0:11:15.080 --> 0:11:20.280 cursing your future by speaking negative words over yourself. You 0:11:20.320 --> 0:11:24.400 have enough people in life against you. Don't be against yourself. 0:11:25.200 --> 0:11:27.720 The enemy would love for you to go around feeling 0:11:27.800 --> 0:11:30.800 wrong on the inside, like you're not up to par. 0:11:31.360 --> 0:11:35.240 You're at a disadvantage, and too many people swallow that bait, 0:11:35.840 --> 0:11:39.559 go around speaking defeat. I don't have a good personality, 0:11:39.800 --> 0:11:42.960 I'm overweghed, I don't like my nose. I wish I 0:11:43.000 --> 0:11:45.920 had more here less there. No, you've been made in 0:11:45.960 --> 0:11:50.800 the image of God. When you criticize yourself, you're criticizing 0:11:50.840 --> 0:11:54.760 God's creations. You're saying God, you didn't do a very 0:11:54.760 --> 0:11:58.080 good job on me. No, God wasn't having an off 0:11:58.200 --> 0:12:01.679 day when He created you. He calls you a masterpiece. 0:12:02.080 --> 0:12:04.440 He put his DNA in you. 0:12:04.440 --> 0:12:07.000 You have royal blood flowing through your veins. 0:12:07.640 --> 0:12:11.200 Don't let tongue trouble keep you from becoming who you 0:12:11.240 --> 0:12:15.800 were created to be. Proverb says we are snared by 0:12:15.840 --> 0:12:16.920 the words of our mouth. 0:12:17.640 --> 0:12:18.920 Snared means trapped. 0:12:19.679 --> 0:12:22.520 It doesn't say we're trapped by our thinking or trapped 0:12:22.520 --> 0:12:25.559 by our circumstances, trap by the giant that's in front 0:12:25.559 --> 0:12:25.960 of us. 0:12:26.440 --> 0:12:28.640 What traps us is what we're saying. 0:12:29.720 --> 0:12:32.679 Negative thoughts come to us all we can't stop them 0:12:32.720 --> 0:12:33.319 from coming. 0:12:33.760 --> 0:12:35.040 The mistake we make. 0:12:35.240 --> 0:12:39.040 Is when we verbalize them, when we start speaking defeat, 0:12:39.800 --> 0:12:43.160 lack and how big this obstacle is. I don't see 0:12:43.160 --> 0:12:46.040 how it can turn around. You just gave life to 0:12:46.080 --> 0:12:49.439 the negative. If you continue to speak it, it will 0:12:49.480 --> 0:12:53.440 become a reality. The key is when these negative thoughts come, 0:12:53.800 --> 0:12:57.720 don't verbalize them, don't speak them out, and those thoughts 0:12:57.800 --> 0:13:02.240 will die still born. They need words to come to life. 0:13:02.440 --> 0:13:05.720 When David went out to face Goliath, you can imagine 0:13:06.120 --> 0:13:07.319 the thoughts that came. 0:13:07.160 --> 0:13:11.400 To his mind. He's too big, he's twice my size. 0:13:11.480 --> 0:13:14.160 I don't have any armor. This is impossible. 0:13:15.040 --> 0:13:19.240 All these negative thoughts bombarded his mind. One thing that 0:13:19.280 --> 0:13:22.520 made David a champion is he didn't speak them out. 0:13:23.280 --> 0:13:25.760 If he would have had tongue trouble, we wouldn't be 0:13:25.840 --> 0:13:29.760 talking about it. I know negative thoughts are going to come, 0:13:30.080 --> 0:13:33.199 but the scripture says, put a watch over your mouth. 0:13:33.840 --> 0:13:38.479 When you're in difficulties, up against giants, things that look impossible, 0:13:39.120 --> 0:13:40.400 that's when it's easy to. 0:13:40.360 --> 0:13:41.400 Start talking defeat. 0:13:42.000 --> 0:13:44.760 How it's not going to work out, and the pandemic 0:13:44.840 --> 0:13:48.000 set me back, inflation, gas prices. 0:13:48.280 --> 0:13:49.840 I don't see how I'm gonna get ahead. 0:13:50.200 --> 0:13:53.960 Zip that up. God's on the throne. He makes streams 0:13:54.000 --> 0:13:56.760 in the desert. He said in famine, the righteous will 0:13:56.760 --> 0:13:59.920 have more than enough. There's not a giant in your 0:14:00.160 --> 0:14:03.640 path that he can't bring down. He's already armed you 0:14:03.679 --> 0:14:07.280 with strength for every battle. One of the best ways 0:14:07.320 --> 0:14:10.640 to change negative thinking is to start talking positive. 0:14:11.440 --> 0:14:12.679 Every thought is telling you. 0:14:12.840 --> 0:14:16.280 It's too big, you don't have a chance, it's been 0:14:16.320 --> 0:14:20.120 too long. Your report should be I am well able, 0:14:20.600 --> 0:14:22.040 I will defeat this giant. 0:14:22.200 --> 0:14:23.840 I will accomplish my dreams. 0:14:24.080 --> 0:14:26.560 God being for me is more than the world being 0:14:26.600 --> 0:14:31.240 against me. When you go around speaking faith, speaking victory, 0:14:31.400 --> 0:14:37.280 speaking hell, speaking abundance. Negative thoughts cannot stay. Your words 0:14:37.320 --> 0:14:40.840 will override what you're thinking. But the enemy would love 0:14:40.920 --> 0:14:44.240 for us to verbalize the negative. He knows when you 0:14:44.320 --> 0:14:47.320 speak it, he can bring it to pass. But when 0:14:47.320 --> 0:14:50.440 you turn it around and speak victory in the face 0:14:50.480 --> 0:14:54.560 of defeat, health in the face of sickness, abundance in 0:14:54.600 --> 0:14:57.000 the face of lack, Angels go to work. 0:14:57.400 --> 0:15:00.400 Forces of darkness are broken. Favor is least. 0:15:00.640 --> 0:15:03.960 God will do what only he can do. This is 0:15:04.000 --> 0:15:08.200 what David did. He looked at Goliath, this giant twice 0:15:08.240 --> 0:15:11.200 his size, and said, you come against me with a 0:15:11.280 --> 0:15:14.480 sword and a shield. But I come against you in 0:15:14.560 --> 0:15:16.640 the name of the Lord, God of Israel. 0:15:17.200 --> 0:15:20.600 This day I will defeat you and feed your head 0:15:20.720 --> 0:15:21.800 to the birds of the air. 0:15:22.880 --> 0:15:26.680 In the midst of all those negative thoughts, negative circumstances, 0:15:27.040 --> 0:15:31.280 he could have verbalized doubt, uncertainty, this is not possible. 0:15:32.000 --> 0:15:35.800 But David knew this secret. He spoke victory. He said, 0:15:35.800 --> 0:15:38.600 I am well able. I will defeat you. I will 0:15:38.640 --> 0:15:43.240 fulfill my destiny in the face of difficulties. That's what 0:15:43.440 --> 0:15:46.200 needs to be coming out of our mouth. I will 0:15:46.200 --> 0:15:49.720 overcome this sickness. I will break this addiction. I will 0:15:49.760 --> 0:15:52.920 see my family restored. I will have a bountiful year. 0:15:54.080 --> 0:15:57.000 When we were trying to acquire this place, the former 0:15:57.040 --> 0:16:00.280 Compact Center, there were many times I would wait up 0:16:00.320 --> 0:16:02.640 in the middle of the night and thoughts would say, 0:16:02.800 --> 0:16:03.440 you're never. 0:16:03.320 --> 0:16:03.920 Going to get it. 0:16:04.440 --> 0:16:07.720 That company that's against you is way too big. The 0:16:07.760 --> 0:16:10.840 city's never going to let a church have it. Besides, Joe, 0:16:10.960 --> 0:16:14.960 you don't have the funds, the experience, the influence. We 0:16:15.080 --> 0:16:18.560 can't stop negative thoughts from coming. But when you don't 0:16:18.560 --> 0:16:22.680 speak them out, they'll die stillborn. You're not giving them life. 0:16:23.480 --> 0:16:26.920 I learned from David. If I'm gonna prophesy anything, I'm 0:16:26.920 --> 0:16:31.520 gonna prophesy victory. See, the enemy doesn't know what you're thinking. 0:16:32.080 --> 0:16:35.360 He can't read your mind. He only knows what you're saying. 0:16:36.280 --> 0:16:38.880 What's coming out of your mouth is telling him what 0:16:38.920 --> 0:16:39.520 you believe. 0:16:40.560 --> 0:16:43.080 I felt doubt, I felt over. 0:16:42.880 --> 0:16:46.960 My head, like I was outnumbered, But I knew better 0:16:47.280 --> 0:16:49.320 than to let any of that come out of my mouth. 0:16:50.200 --> 0:16:53.680 If you can't say anything good, zip it up. Don't 0:16:53.680 --> 0:16:57.640 speak defeat over your life. Don't come into agreement. 0:16:57.320 --> 0:16:58.200 With the negative. 0:16:58.880 --> 0:17:01.800 Use your words to give life to your faith and 0:17:01.840 --> 0:17:05.639 not your doubt. When those negative thoughts came, they roared, 0:17:05.640 --> 0:17:08.280 it's never gonna happen. The words that came out of 0:17:08.280 --> 0:17:11.680 my mouth, well, Lord, thank you that you're fighting our battles, 0:17:12.000 --> 0:17:14.719 that you're making ways where we don't see away, that 0:17:14.760 --> 0:17:17.480 you're causing the right people to be for us, that 0:17:17.520 --> 0:17:21.240 you're opening doors that no person can shut. It was 0:17:21.280 --> 0:17:24.639 a three year battle. God caused things to fall into place. 0:17:25.000 --> 0:17:28.439 Here we are today. I don't believe this would have 0:17:28.560 --> 0:17:32.760 happened with negative words. It's easy to talk about how 0:17:32.800 --> 0:17:36.000 big the problem is, But how about talking about how 0:17:36.040 --> 0:17:40.960 big our God is. How about prophesying victory, prophesy in favor, 0:17:41.160 --> 0:17:42.440 prophesy in abundance. 0:17:43.160 --> 0:17:45.359 Don't be snared by the words of your mouth. 0:17:45.880 --> 0:17:49.800 Don't let a negative report keep you from your destiny. 0:17:50.080 --> 0:17:52.760 There are dreams God will put in your heart that 0:17:52.880 --> 0:17:56.399 seem impossible. There will be giants on the weight of 0:17:56.440 --> 0:17:59.760 your destiny that are too big for you. Now test 0:17:59.840 --> 0:18:02.199 that we all have to pass is what are we 0:18:02.320 --> 0:18:05.919 saying it's not going to work out? These giants are 0:18:05.960 --> 0:18:10.280 too big, sickness too great, the addiction too powerful, or 0:18:10.320 --> 0:18:13.040 are we going to say like David, I will defeat them. 0:18:13.520 --> 0:18:16.359 I will get healthy, I will break this addiction. I 0:18:16.400 --> 0:18:18.640 will set new standards for my family. 0:18:19.560 --> 0:18:23.240 Don't be snared by your words, be propelled by your words. 0:18:24.160 --> 0:18:27.119 The key is to not say what you feel, not 0:18:27.240 --> 0:18:29.720 say what you think, not say what it looks like, 0:18:30.119 --> 0:18:33.879 Say what God says about you. Pay attention to what 0:18:33.920 --> 0:18:38.240 you're speaking. Are you suffering from tongue trouble? Are you 0:18:38.359 --> 0:18:41.879 talking about the problem, what you don't have, what's not 0:18:41.960 --> 0:18:45.840 going to work out? Your words are setting the direction 0:18:46.000 --> 0:18:50.000 for your life. Ask yourself, is what I'm about to say? 0:18:50.520 --> 0:18:53.360 What I want to come into my life. I don't 0:18:53.359 --> 0:18:54.960 see how I could ever get out of debt. 0:18:55.160 --> 0:18:55.880 Zip that up. 0:18:56.560 --> 0:19:00.399 You don't want struggle and lack. That's inviting the wrong things. 0:19:00.600 --> 0:19:03.360 How about I will lend and not borrow. I live 0:19:03.480 --> 0:19:06.439 under the open windows of heaven. Father, Thank you that 0:19:06.520 --> 0:19:09.640 my cup runs over. I don't know, man, it looks 0:19:09.680 --> 0:19:11.760 like this sickness will be the end of me. I'm 0:19:11.800 --> 0:19:12.960 not improving at all. 0:19:13.280 --> 0:19:14.080 Zip that up. 0:19:14.800 --> 0:19:18.160 That tongue trouble will keep you from you healing. Turn 0:19:18.160 --> 0:19:21.640 it around, Father, Thank you that you're restoring health back 0:19:21.680 --> 0:19:25.000 into me. That I'm getting better every day that with 0:19:25.200 --> 0:19:29.240 long life you will satisfy me. Well, Joel, we tried 0:19:29.280 --> 0:19:31.199 to have a baby, but we weren't able to. 0:19:31.800 --> 0:19:34.440 I guess it wasn't meant to be. Zip that up. 0:19:34.920 --> 0:19:37.760 Father, you said in Psalms, you would make the bearing 0:19:37.880 --> 0:19:41.520 woman a happy mother of children. So Lord, thank you 0:19:41.600 --> 0:19:45.200 that my baby is on the way. Before you see 0:19:45.320 --> 0:19:49.640 promises come to pass, there will always be these tests 0:19:50.000 --> 0:19:53.520 before you go into your promised land. There will be giants, 0:19:54.080 --> 0:19:58.160 things that look impossible. One way our faith is released 0:19:58.359 --> 0:20:02.600 is by what we're saying. If we're speaking negative, doubtful, 0:20:02.840 --> 0:20:04.680 it's going to limit what God will do. 0:20:05.320 --> 0:20:06.960 It's one of the best things you can do. 0:20:07.320 --> 0:20:10.480 Speak faith when every thought is telling you it's never 0:20:10.520 --> 0:20:13.800 going to work out. You've been through too much, you've 0:20:13.800 --> 0:20:17.600 seen your best days. You can complain, talk about how 0:20:17.640 --> 0:20:20.600 bad it's been, or you can say, Father, thank you 0:20:20.920 --> 0:20:23.960 that you have beauty for these ashes. Lord, I thank 0:20:24.000 --> 0:20:27.040 you what was meant for harm. You're turning to my advantage. 0:20:27.200 --> 0:20:30.360 That's what causes God to go to work. That's when 0:20:30.359 --> 0:20:34.840 you'll defeat giants. See compact centers beat the cancer. The 0:20:34.960 --> 0:20:39.119 right people suddenly show up in the book of numbers. 0:20:39.280 --> 0:20:42.400 Moses had led the Israelites out of slavery and through 0:20:42.440 --> 0:20:45.520 the desert. Now they were camped next door to the 0:20:45.560 --> 0:20:50.159 promised land. He sent twelve men in despy out the land, 0:20:50.200 --> 0:20:53.240 and God had already promised he would give them the victory. 0:20:53.800 --> 0:20:56.879 After forty days, ten of those men came back with 0:20:56.960 --> 0:21:00.879 a negative report. They said, Moses don't have a chance. 0:21:01.320 --> 0:21:04.280 There are giants in the land. The people are too big, 0:21:04.400 --> 0:21:08.679 will never defeat them. There were two other spies, Joshua 0:21:08.760 --> 0:21:13.199 and Caleb. They saw the same giants, same opposition, but 0:21:13.320 --> 0:21:14.560 they had a different report. 0:21:15.080 --> 0:21:17.200 They said, Moses, we are well able. 0:21:17.800 --> 0:21:20.440 Yes, the people are big, but we know our God 0:21:20.520 --> 0:21:23.160 is bigger. Let us go in at once and take 0:21:23.240 --> 0:21:27.440 this land. There were two reports, one of victory, one 0:21:27.440 --> 0:21:31.919 of defeat. What's interesting is the negative report spread like 0:21:32.040 --> 0:21:34.320 wildfire throughout the rest of the camp. 0:21:34.880 --> 0:21:36.880 Before long, all two million. 0:21:36.680 --> 0:21:42.840 Of the Israelites were afraid, intimidated. They started complaining, said, Moses, 0:21:43.160 --> 0:21:45.840 why did you bring us out here to die? We're 0:21:45.880 --> 0:21:48.640 never gonna make it in. Let's just go back to Egypt. 0:21:48.920 --> 0:21:52.720 Let's go back to being slaves here. God had told 0:21:52.760 --> 0:21:55.920 them that they were going to go into this land that. 0:21:55.880 --> 0:21:56.920 They were going to defeat. 0:21:56.960 --> 0:22:00.760 These enemies, live in houses that they didn't build, eat 0:22:00.800 --> 0:22:04.000 from vineyards that they didn't plant. They had this great 0:22:04.200 --> 0:22:08.080 report of victory, then this other report. You're not gonna 0:22:08.080 --> 0:22:10.600 make it. There's no way. Look at how big the 0:22:10.640 --> 0:22:14.440 people are. They could have come into agreement with Joshua 0:22:14.520 --> 0:22:16.560 and Caleb, Yes, let's go in. 0:22:16.720 --> 0:22:18.920 We know we are well able. 0:22:19.000 --> 0:22:23.320 Instead, they let the doubt, the fear, the negativity dominate 0:22:23.359 --> 0:22:23.960 their thoughts. 0:22:24.560 --> 0:22:25.800 They made the mistake of. 0:22:25.880 --> 0:22:29.760 Speaking it we'll never get in. We're gonna die out 0:22:29.760 --> 0:22:33.800 here in the desert. God answered them back something very 0:22:33.840 --> 0:22:39.480 significant in numbers fourteen. He said, I will do exactly what. 0:22:39.480 --> 0:22:42.480 I heard you say. You will all die here in 0:22:42.520 --> 0:22:43.080 the desert. 0:22:44.080 --> 0:22:49.440 They didn't realize they were prophesying their future. Unfortunately, they 0:22:49.480 --> 0:22:54.560 prophesied defeat. If God were to do exactly what you're saying, 0:22:55.080 --> 0:22:55.520 would it. 0:22:55.480 --> 0:22:56.280 Be what you want? 0:22:57.119 --> 0:23:02.840 Are you speaking victory, speaking health, speaking abundance, freedom, new levels, 0:23:03.720 --> 0:23:05.920 or you're talking about how big the giants are and 0:23:06.520 --> 0:23:08.919 what you've been through in the past, how you can 0:23:09.000 --> 0:23:10.280 accomplish your dreams. 0:23:10.640 --> 0:23:14.000 Can't get out of that dysfunction. No, don't be like 0:23:14.080 --> 0:23:16.919 the ten spies be like the two. 0:23:17.359 --> 0:23:21.800 The majority are always going to complain, talk about the economy, 0:23:22.040 --> 0:23:25.320 what they can't do. You have to be in the minority, 0:23:26.000 --> 0:23:29.440 be one of the twenty percent that say, yes there's. 0:23:29.280 --> 0:23:32.760 Inflation, prices are high. But I know I'm going to 0:23:32.800 --> 0:23:34.040 have a bountiful year. 0:23:34.400 --> 0:23:38.480 God is supplying all of my needs. Yes, there are 0:23:38.480 --> 0:23:42.680 some giants in my land dealing with this sickness, this addiction, 0:23:43.119 --> 0:23:45.960 this trouble at work, but I know I am well able, 0:23:46.280 --> 0:23:49.960 breakthroughs are coming. Favor is on the way. What God 0:23:50.040 --> 0:23:53.879 started in my life, he will finish. Don't let tongue 0:23:53.880 --> 0:23:57.600 trouble keep you out of your promised land. In the 0:23:57.680 --> 0:24:01.240 nineteen nineties, there was a star based for the Houston 0:24:01.280 --> 0:24:05.040 Astros named Jose Lima. He was one of the best 0:24:05.080 --> 0:24:08.520 pitchers in the league. One year he won twenty games. 0:24:08.800 --> 0:24:12.280 His future looked very bright, but in March of two thousand, 0:24:12.720 --> 0:24:16.240 the Astros moved from the Astrodome into their. 0:24:16.119 --> 0:24:17.560 New ballpark downtown. 0:24:18.280 --> 0:24:21.199 The fence in left field was much closer than in 0:24:21.240 --> 0:24:24.960 the Astrodome. Of course, that favors the hitters and makes 0:24:25.040 --> 0:24:28.960 it more difficult on the pitchers. The first time Jose 0:24:29.200 --> 0:24:31.159 went to the New Paul Park. He stood on the 0:24:31.200 --> 0:24:34.879 pitchers mound and looked around. When he saw how close 0:24:34.960 --> 0:24:38.680 the outfield fence was, the first words out of his mouth. 0:24:38.520 --> 0:24:41.520 Were, I'll never be able to pitch in here. The 0:24:41.560 --> 0:24:43.040 fence is way too close. 0:24:43.800 --> 0:24:46.920 The next season, he went from a twenty game winner 0:24:47.280 --> 0:24:52.679 to a sixteen game loser. He prophesied his future, I 0:24:52.760 --> 0:24:56.159 wonder how many times we've been snared by the words 0:24:56.160 --> 0:24:59.719 of our mouth. I'll never get in that college. I 0:24:59.720 --> 0:25:03.760 can't break this addiction. My husband will never change. I 0:25:03.800 --> 0:25:06.119 don't think I'll ever get out of debt. You have 0:25:06.200 --> 0:25:09.120 to zip that up. You're looking at it in the natural, 0:25:09.320 --> 0:25:10.800 but God is supernatural. 0:25:11.440 --> 0:25:13.520 Don't cancel out the blessing. 0:25:13.200 --> 0:25:17.159 The favor, the abundance, thus speaking defeat. He's going to 0:25:17.280 --> 0:25:21.439 do what he hears you saying in the scripture. Have 0:25:21.560 --> 0:25:24.600 you ever heard of a man named Sether, a man 0:25:24.680 --> 0:25:29.000 named Gaddy, a man named Chaffithe. You've never heard of them. 0:25:29.440 --> 0:25:32.320 You know why they were one of the ten Spies. 0:25:33.160 --> 0:25:35.920 They were called to be a history maker. They had 0:25:36.000 --> 0:25:39.160 seeds of greatness deep down. They knew they could take 0:25:39.200 --> 0:25:43.480 the land. But instead of overwriting the fear, the doubt, 0:25:43.600 --> 0:25:48.359 the intimidation. Like Joshua and Calebs speaking faith and speaking. 0:25:48.080 --> 0:25:50.720 Victory, they chose to speak defeat. 0:25:51.320 --> 0:25:54.840 They chose to verbalize the negative, to talk about. 0:25:54.520 --> 0:25:55.719 How it could never happen. 0:25:56.400 --> 0:25:59.479 They didn't know that God was listening to what they 0:25:59.480 --> 0:26:02.720 were saying, that he was going to do exactly what 0:26:02.760 --> 0:26:07.000 they said. My challenge, don't be a sether, don't be 0:26:07.040 --> 0:26:10.720 a gaddy, don't be a Chaffi, be a Joshua, be 0:26:10.840 --> 0:26:14.800 a calib They said they would go into the Promised Land, 0:26:15.119 --> 0:26:17.399 and they were the only two that made it in. 0:26:18.040 --> 0:26:20.000 God did exactly what they said. 0:26:21.040 --> 0:26:24.480 Don't go around talking to feed about the problem, how 0:26:24.480 --> 0:26:25.560 impossible it is. 0:26:25.880 --> 0:26:29.240 Have a Joshua spirit, learn to speak victory. 0:26:29.760 --> 0:26:35.400 You are prophesying your future, prophesy, healing, prophesy, abundance, prophesy, 0:26:35.560 --> 0:26:36.280 new levels. 0:26:36.960 --> 0:26:40.720 God is listening what he's hearing you say. He's going 0:26:40.760 --> 0:26:41.000 to do. 0:26:41.800 --> 0:26:44.760 Father, Thank you, This is going to be a bountiful year, 0:26:45.119 --> 0:26:46.160 God says angels. 0:26:46.240 --> 0:26:46.879 Did you hear that? 0:26:47.119 --> 0:26:51.200 Go to work, bring some good breaks, bring abundance, bring increase. 0:26:52.000 --> 0:26:52.280 Lord. 0:26:52.359 --> 0:26:54.800 Thank you that as for me and my house, we 0:26:54.880 --> 0:26:57.680 will serve the Lord. Thank you that my children will 0:26:57.720 --> 0:27:00.479 be mighty in the land. God says, all right, let 0:27:00.520 --> 0:27:02.880 me get that child back on course. Let me help 0:27:02.920 --> 0:27:06.920 break that addiction. Let me free them from that dysfunction. Father, 0:27:07.040 --> 0:27:10.159 thank you that I'm healed, that I'm whole, that this 0:27:10.320 --> 0:27:13.640 sickness is not how my story ends. God says, all right, 0:27:13.760 --> 0:27:17.800 let me send healing restoration. Let me do what medicine 0:27:17.800 --> 0:27:22.440 cannot do. Is tongue trouble keeping you from your destiny. 0:27:23.200 --> 0:27:26.480 Are your words helping you? Are your words hindering you? 0:27:27.080 --> 0:27:30.920 Pay attention to what you're saying. Don't let negative words 0:27:31.160 --> 0:27:35.000 keep you wandering in the desert. The promised land belongs 0:27:35.040 --> 0:27:37.840 to you. If you'll put a watch over your. 0:27:37.720 --> 0:27:42.680 Mouth, zip up the negative. Only speak positive, faith filled words. 0:27:43.119 --> 0:27:44.600 I believe and declare. 0:27:45.240 --> 0:27:48.600 Like Joshua and Caleb, you will go into your promised 0:27:48.640 --> 0:27:52.879 land see favor that you've never seen. Like David, you 0:27:52.880 --> 0:27:56.919 will defeat giants that are much bigger. Negative situations are 0:27:56.920 --> 0:28:01.400 about to turn around. Healing, breakthrough the right people. 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