Thanks for checking out the Anchor Faith Message Podcast
from St. Augustine, FL.
Now enjoy this message. I'm so excited to be speaking
today. Pastor Earl and Marcy I'm are
currently down at our Anchor Faith Church in Managua doing a
Kingdom Rise Conference. Come on, If you're connected to
the vision of Anchor Faith Church, this is an exciting
moment. We have every pastor from every
Anchor Faith Church. Every Head Pastor and every
Anchor Faith Church is currently, right now in Managua,
bringing a Kingdom Rise Conference to a whole another
country. This is something you're
connected to, a vision you're a part of that weren't able to
start seeing it truly influence the world.
It's an exciting time. And so Pastor Earl had asked me
to minister while he was out, which is always an honor to be
able to speak in your own home, church, in your local body.
You know, it's a blessing to be here.
And so, you know, as I was preparing for this message, it
just kept stirring within me the word Pastor Earl spoke at the
beginning of the year called raining resonance, raining
resonance. And I realized we're just over,
you know, the halfway point of the year.
You know, we're we're in into August, a couple months past
halfway. And I thought it would be a
great time to kind of revisit a little bit of that and kind of
do a check in on ourselves and see how are we doing this year?
How are we doing in raining this year?
How is our resonance? Right.
So Pastor had began. You know, if you've been in
Anchor Faith Church for many years, you know, we don't always
do like a word for the year kind of thing.
That's not something we've always done before raining
residents, we were doing equip for like 3 years.
We just felt like it was time to equip, equip at Anchor Faith
Church, what we were doing. So it's not we're not always
seeking to have like a word for the year or something that's
going on. But Pastor had it late in his
heart the word Rayma. And obviously we're connected
with the Rayma Bible Church, which is awesome, and we do a
lot with them and they're great. But he was specifically talking
about the spoken word, right? The spoken word of God, the
Rayma word, the spoken word of God.
And what he said was In 2023, your words will have power like
never before. In 2023, our words will have
power like never before, right? And so I want to go into today
and just kind of look a little bit into it and give ourselves,
like I said, a little check in on how are we doing this year,
Are we raining in our words? Right.
So if you're taking notes, the title of my message today is the
empty echo of a quiet. King Oh, wow.
Good. Thank you, put a lot of thought
into this title. The empty echo of a quiet.
King, Let's start in a mark, 1123 through 24, it says, Truly,
I say to you, whoever says to this mountain be taken up and
cast into the sea, and does not doubt in his heart, but believes
what he says is going to happen. It will be granted him.
Therefore I say to you, all things for which you pray and
ask, believe that you have received them and they will be
granted to you, right? Truly, truly, I say to you
whoever what says, whoever, what, whoever says to the
mountain, right? So right out the bat Jesus is
telling us, look, it's not just enough to believe in your heart,
you have to what? Say something with your mouth.
So what is resonance then, right?
What is a resonance? Resonance means to have a
lasting effect, right? When something has resonance, it
means it resounds beyond. Just the immediate.
I don't know. Has anyone ever been in You can
raise your Hand one of those really quiet sound rooms.
No, I mean I've been in a couple doing some sound boosts and what
they do is they got like. All the phone, all over, all the
walls. And you get in there, and I've
been in one. It was actually at Rama Bible
Church. They have one.
And it's like, so quiet. You can hear your blood, like
rushing in your veins, Like it's just like unsettlingly quiet,
right? And so then when, like, you
speak or clap, it just dies. Like instantly.
There's no resonance at all. The minute you say something,
it's like it comes out your mouth and then hits the ground
and it's just gone. It's like the weirdest feeling
to be involved in something that has no resounding or echoing
fact at all. It just kind of ends, right?
But we want our words to go on past us and then resound into
the world, right? And we understand that our words
have the ability to bring change.
Your words have the ability to bring change.
And I understand sometimes people get locked up on like you
have authority right. Which we just saying some people
get locked up on like what do you mean we have the authority
that Jesus had. And so taking, you know that off
the table for a second, naturally speaking, there's tons
of science to prove your words literally do enact change,
right. Has anyone remember that little,
like, kindergarten thing where they took all the plants and
they put them in a room and then they spoke really nice to the
plants, right? They walk in like, you are so
beautiful. Your shade of green is the only
shade of green that has ever existed in all of the shades.
This flower is so unique that you have blossoms yourself,
right? And then they go to the other
room. They're like, you are the
ugliest plant I've ever seen. I don't that's not even you
can't even call that green. Is this supposed to be a flower,
right? And then they come back after
weeks of talking to these plants and they literally see the ones
you spoke life into. I've actually blossomed and
bloomed and shown more positive growth than the ones you spoke
negative to. And this even goes into music,
right? They'll play like nice uplifting
music or like really sad and dreary music.
And then you see the difference of the effects on the plant.
So I'm not just even talking spiritually, just from a natural
standpoint. Your words and that change.
This is just a proven thing, right?
Then you got like this the the, the new thing.
Like like manifesting, right. I'm going to manifest something.
Right. And why does this work?
Because this is here you go. You're tapping into an actual
spiritual law on a natural see because the God said I have no
problem speaking and saying oh, I'm beautiful and I'm feeling
better. Whether they're not speaking the
word they are speaking word. The Bible says you are
beautifully and wonderfully made so you can be speaking word over
your life without actually knowing you're speaking Word
over your life and you're seeing the change because God has
placed the law into effect that will change your life, right?
So just from a natural standpoint, we have to
understand that the words you speak do actually enact change
on your life, right? And why is this important?
Because if you aren't speaking anything, then you aren't
changing anything. If you're not speaking anything,
then you're not actually changing anything.
And so we can't go into life wondering, why is nothing
changing when we're keeping our mouth quiet, right?
So we look back and we say, man, I want to have a reigning
resonance. I want to have a reigning
resonance. Proverbs 1820 and 21.
Says with the fruit of a man's mouth, his stomach will be
satisfied. He will be satisfied with the
product of his lips. Death and life are in the power
of the tongue and those who love it.
Will eat its fruit. Death and life are in the power
of the tongue, and those who love it will eat its fruit,
right? So what have we been decreeing
this year? Because, you know, the word at
the beginning of the year, to an extent, is basically just like
a, you know, a spiritual, like New Year's resolution, right.
A lot of times it's like you come, what are you going to do
this year? I'm going to lose 15 pounds.
What are you going to do this year?
I'm going to read one book every month.
And then you read like your first book for the first month,
the second book for the second month.
Then you read like half a book the third month.
And then you don't finish that book and you read like, well,
maybe I should just go to like a I'll just read this pamphlet.
Like, you know, what blog articles that's reading those
count. You know what?
Actually, I read 4 Instagram status updates today.
So I've got my reading in, you know, And so like that
resolution just kind of like Phase and Trickles.
And if we're not careful, our spiritual resolution can do the
same thing, right? We get fired up, like, I'm going
to have a rating resonance. And then two months later,
something kind of comes and you're like, the words aren't
really there anymore, right? And we're talking about you'll
have whatever you say. Then we got to be saying some
things, right? Do you want to a raining
resonance or do you want an empty echo?
We want to have a raining resonance.
We want to be speaking life into not only our situations, but
into the situations of those around us, right?
Like we preach so much here at Anchor Faith Church.
This isn't just about you. We have to get out of thinking
so much about my personal walk. You need a personal walk, but
you should have that locked down.
I don't have a big personal walk goal because I locked down my
personal walk. So I started thinking, how can I
now enact change for those around me?
I want to spend more. I want to get myself locked down
and what I'm saying about me so that I can spend more time
focusing on those around me, so that when I have to take time to
do something, it's because I'm actually helping other people,
right? And we should be looking out for
those opportunities, finding things.
Where can I put my word today, right?
Because if you understand that your words have power, then we
should be looking for opportunities to speak life
somewhere. We should be searching for them.
I'm not satisfied with not having something to speak about.
If we live faith to faith, then I need to be looking for the
next place to put my faith. I'm looking for the next thing.
I'm never satisfied with what I just had.
I'm looking for what I can be doing next, right?
I'm looking forward, just like Pastor said in The Greatest
Right. It's OK to want to achieve
greatness, but greatness doesn't come by only being satisfied
with what you had, right? Because if you do what someone
else did, you only ever have what they had.
I'm not looking to be as good as someone.
I'm looking to be better. Therefore, I have to do more
than they were willing to ever do.
I have to be willing to go a step further than them, Right?
Romans 8, four through 14. We'll do a little bit of reading
here. Romans 8, four through 14.
So the requirement. Of the law might be fulfilled in
us who do not walk according to the flesh, but according to the
Spirit. For those who are according to
the flesh set their minds on the things of the flesh, but those
who are according to the Spirit. The things of the Spirit.
For the mindset on the flesh is death, but the mindset on the
Spirit is life and peace, because the mindset on the flesh
is hostile towards God. For it does not subject itself
to the law of God, for it is not even able to do so, and those
who are in the flesh cannot please God.
Those who are in the flesh cannot please God.
However, you are not in the flesh, but in the Spirit, if
indeed the Spirit of God dwells in you.
But if anyone does not have the Spirit of Christ, he does not
belong to him. If Christ is in you, though the
body is dead because of sin, yet the Spirit is alive because of
righteousness. But if the Spirit of him who
raised Jesus from the dead dwells in you, he who raised
Christ Jesus from the dead will also give a life to your mortal
bodies through his spell it who dwell his Spirit, who dwells in
you. So then, brethren, we are under
we are under obligation not to the flesh to live according to
the flesh. For if you are living according
to the flesh, you must die. But if by the Spirit you are
putting to death the deeds of the body, you will live.
For all those, for all who are being led by the Spirit of God,
these are the sons of God. For all those who are being led
by the Spirit of God, these are the sons of God.
And I would further add that all those who are led by the Spirit
of God will speak from the Spirit of God, but those who are
led by the flesh will speak from the flesh.
Why? Because what you put in you will
come out of you, right? What you're putting inside of
you will inevitably be what comes out of you, right?
And a quiet king won't see any change, because if you don't
have anything in you to say, then you won't say anything,
right? And he is the king of Who are
those kings? We are so I don't want to be a
quiet king. I want to enact change around
me. I want to be speaking from the
Spirit. I want to be speaking words of
life. I want to be speaking something
that's going to enact change in my life and the ones around me.
But I can only do it if I'm if I'm putting the word inside of
me, and if I believe that when I speak it will.
Actually happen. Numbers 2319 says God is not a
man, that he should lie, nor a son a man that he should repent.
He has, he said, and he will, and he and will he not do it?
Or has he spoken, and will he not make it good?
When God says He will do something, He will do it, and
this is something we have to be so firmly persuaded about,
because if I'm going to speak his words confidently then I
need to know that they are backed. 100% See, I'm the kind
of person who likes to be prepared.
Like I like to be ready for whatever the situation is that
I'm going to go into. There's nothing more that bugs
me than when someone's like, hey, we need to meet next week
and then like, gives you nothing else.
OK, what are we meeting about? Like, what does this pertain to?
I need to collect my information so that when I get to this
meeting, I know what's going on. I don't like being surprised,
like I want to build the case. I want to know what's going on.
Am I in trouble? Have I done something wrong?
Like you start saying like I haven't done anything wrong.
Like I know I'm good, so I can't be that.
What is it we need to know? I like to have the game plan
right, because when you have the plan and you know what's going
on, then you can show it with so much more confidence because I
already know the outcome. When I already know the outcome,
it's so much easier to deliver information.
And so when I know that God will do what he says every time
period, it's easy for me to speak His word because I know he
will accomplish it. But I have to have that
confidence that when I speak, it will go for Isaiah 5511.
Isaiah 5511 says so will my word, which goes forth from my
mouth. It will not return to me empty
without accomplishing what I desire and without succeeding in
the matter for which I sent it. We have to believe that we're
speaking from the Spirit and that we're speaking the word.
See, this is where people lock up.
They think it's what they are saying that's actually doing the
change. No, it's what God is telling you
to say that will have change. It's not just me saying whatever
I want hoping it will change. No, it's me saying what God has
told me to say that will enact change because with his word is
being spoken. I know it will accomplish
whatever it was sent for, but my word being spoken can hang out
there in a lot of hope, right? That's why some of us have been
saying a lot of stuff without getting a game plan from God.
And you're like, why is this not working?
Why am I not seeing it? Because you haven't actually
gotten the word to say, right? We want to get a word from God
and then speak that word because that's what he's obligated to
make sure is accomplished is His word.
This is why we say you have to understand that God's word in
your mouth is just as strong as God's word in His mouth.
Why? Because if it's God's word, then
He will accomplish it. You're just speaking it into
existence. God still needs us to say some
things. God still uses man and he needs
us to speak that word into existence so he will go
accomplish. It he's looking for you to open
your mouth, not just be a quiet king.
We can't be passive in our Kingdom relationship hoping
someone else is going to say something for us.
No, it's time for us to start speaking this stuff out.
It's time for us to do it first, John 514 through 15 says.
This is the confidence which we have before him, that if we ask
anything according to his will, he hears us.
And if we know that he hears us in whatever we ask, we know that
we have the request which we have asked from him, right?
So he's obligated to honor his word when you're asking
according to his will. And This is why I like I said,
This is why I think a lot of people get hung up, is they
think they can just speak anything and God has to do it.
Even if it sounds positive. Even if it's got all the well
intentions. Even if you think it's the best
course of action for your life. But God is obligated to honor
his word and his will, and that's what he will see through
to the end, right? So when we talk about having a
reigning residence, we have to be resonating that which was
spoken. We want to resonate that which
God has spoken to us. A lot of time is God saying
something and he's casting a word into your life and he's
wanting you to push it into this resonance out into the world,
but instead you let it hit you and then it becomes this empty
echo of nothing. See, we're looking for the word
of God, for our life, for the word of God on a situation.
A lot of times people are trying to formulate some big game plan
when they just need a word. You just need to speak that
word, and if that's the only word you got, then you just keep
saying it. Then you just keep saying that
one thing. I've seen some people get led
into baptism of Holy Spirit and sometimes they're like, look, if
you only got 1, just keep saying the one thing over and over and
over until it builds up enough that it starts overflowing and
coming out. But then they think, well, I'm
just saying the same thing, doesn't matter, just start
somewhere, let it build and then it overflows out.
Sometimes if you just start saying a word over and over, God
will start bringing more context and like to that word, but he's
waiting for you to start saying it and let it resonate out into
the world. Some of you are just a few few
spoken words away from getting what you need.
I don't know how many times I've personally got just a little
fragment of a sentence and then I just meditate on that fragment
of a sentence and then it, and then it becomes something so
much bigger it grows in. Sometimes it's months later I
hear something else and I'm like.
That's what that meant. That makes sense.
I've heard things over my life that in the immediate didn't
really connect with me. And then I've reviewed them and
kind of sat on them and meditated on them, then let it
go because I didn't really make a connection.
The next thing you know, something else is spoken.
I get and it connects in and boom, now I'm off on something,
right? So some of you have a word that
you just need to start enacting that one word and let everything
else start piling onto it. Let everything else start
forming around it, right? We don't want to be a quiet
king. Our words have power when we're
saying his words, right? Our words have power when we're
saying his words, Second Corinthians 413 says.
But having the same spirit of. Faith according to what is
written. I believed, therefore I spoke.
We also believe, therefore, we also those who believe will be
speaking. When you know you know
something, you want to talk about it.
When you know you've got something, you want to let other
people know. And so when we are truly doing
this thing and we're believing what we've got going on, we're
going to want to let other people know about it.
We're going to want to say something about it.
We're going to want to speak it into existence.
You don't want to just hide it in yourself.
No, you want other people to know.
You want to see that they can see the change.
You want to see change because sometimes you're not saying
something that's happening in your life and someone might get
sparked just by seeing the change that's affecting you, but
because you're keeping it quiet, you're not impacting those
around you. Now we want to be speaking
Matthew. 823 to 27 This is when they got done.
Jesus got done preaching. They're going across the other
side of sea, he says. When he got into the boat, his
disciples followed him, and behold, there arose a great
storm. On the sea, so that the boat was
covered with the waves. But Jesus himself was asleep,
and they came to him and woke him saying, Save us, Lord, we
are perishing. And he said to them, Why are you
afraid, you men of little faith? Then he got up and rebuked the
winds and the sea, and it became perfectly calm.
And then they were amazed and said, What kind of man is this,
that even the winds and the sea obey him?
Jesus spoke to it. But see, they woke him up.
And Jesus was like, where's your face?
I gave you a word. OK, come on.
I gave you a word that you could have spoken, but you stayed
quiet. I gave you a word that we would
get to the other side. I gave you something to hold on
to. I gave you something.
You could speak into existence. You could have stood here and
said yourself, now we're going to make it to the other side.
But because you held a word within you, no change took
place. God wants us to be speaking, and
he's telling them, where was your faith?
You didn't believe that you could have done change here.
You didn't have enough faith to believe the word I gave you, and
so you were too scared to speak it.
So you got to ask yourself, do I believe this thing, or am I
holding on to a word God's given me because I'm scared it won't
work? Because what if I do step out
and I sink? At least you stepped out.
Like I've said before, he took more steps on the water than
anyone else. No one else in the Bible is
credited for walking on water. We sure like to make fun of the
guy for sinking, but he still stepped out there way farther
than all the other disciples. It was him and Jesus walking on
water for at least a moment, right?
We can't lose sight of the word. We can't let the things around
us affect the word that was spoken to us, right?
This is why it's so important to have the word inside of you,
right? Some of us are only dealing with
surface problems because we only have surface word.
See, when pressure comes, it's what's hidden deep down in your
heart that starts to come out. When the pressure comes, it's
those things that you've tucked away, those things you've
meditated on, those things you've spent time in, that
starts to reveal itself. Some of us are feeling pressure,
but we haven't put enough word deep down, so it's not coming
out. So on the surface we look good.
Our little problems are fine because with a little pressure
we got just enough. But once it starts to get tight,
we realized we didn't put as much in as we thought we did.
Why do we not see change? Do you have enough in you to be
speaking? Do you have enough word in you
that no matter what circumstances comes and it
applies pressure, only the word will come out?
I'm going to be honest, I'm not a big chapter verse guy.
Like you know, that's not my strong suit.
I read the Bible, I know get a lot of word, but I've always
kind of struggled with like here's the word, here's where
it's at. Like I know it because I've been
in it enough and it's in there enough that it starts to squeeze
out. And I've been in some
conversations before and you know, the Holy Spirit has
brought some things up that I've, I've wrote down
afterwards. I've told my wife, sometimes I
even preach messages and then some some section comes up
that's not in your notes because you just get it by the Spirit
and you're like, I come back and like add that back in for next
time, right? Because when the word is in
there, it's amazing how it will just start coming out right.
I've been in conversations, just buddy conversations and
something brings up and the next thing you know, some word is
coming out. Why?
Because I put it in me and it wants to get out.
We talk about, we talk about in worship being overflowing.
Why? Because you're so full it has to
go somewhere else. Are we filling ourselves with
the words so much that it has to get out or do we have such a
surface amount of word that all these little surface problems
keep draining anything before it can really sink in?
Because I'm so focused on me and my immediate surface problems
and I'm not getting enough where I got my Bahrain plan and I read
and I checked this box, but I don't ever dive deeper because
we all know that Bahrain plan. Some days it's like 3 minutes,
right? Wednesdays is like Psalms and
some of those things like you can get done reading before you
even realize you started reading it.
I've done it, Molly. Like you get done, you start
reading like oh that was it. And I'm not a fast reader.
Yeah. Then you do have other days
where it's like I think like Thursday or Friday is where it's
like you reading for like 40 minutes some, some, some maybe
just me. Something might be a little
slower, like I was reading for an hour and a half.
I'm also one of those. Readers like I read it, then
realize I read 3 pages and I didn't read 3 pages.
You know, like I read it, but I didn't retain any of it.
You know, like you read, then you're like, get to averse.
Like, what are they talking about?
Like, where did this come from? All of a sudden I had to go back
and read it again. And I felt like, I'm like, like,
you know, my daughter London's in Washington.
She gets like those reading comprehension.
Like what? What have you learned from
reading? Sometimes I asked her a
question. I was like, did you?
That's like the title. And she's like, Mary had a
little lamb. Who had the lamb?
Oh, I don't remember her name. It's in the title of the book.
Her name was Mary. What did you even read?
And I you know. Like frustrates me.
Then I realized I've read the bomb.
I've done the same thing like King so and so was like where'd.
This king come from, But then you ask yourself, do you keep
going or do you go back and reread it?
Because I know some of you sitting in the chair, I've done
the same thing. We're like, yeah, I'll just pick
up from here. Well, you get to so and so but
get so and so but get so and so. You know, I love, you know,
Joshua Clay because he's a big history Bible guy and you know,
for me, like you just reading so and so, but get so and so, but
get so. And so, like, you know, I'm
reading this, but why? I don't even know my family tree
this well. But then Josh comes in, He's
like, did you realize David's father was actually this person
was like, you know, I read it like four times.
No, I did not realize. Right.
So are we reading and actually trying to get something put
inside of us? Or are we just going through
emotion, trying to act like we're spiritual, trying to act
like we got something? Because there's the thing
Hebrews 412 says for the word of God is living and active.
And sharper than any two edged sword, and piercing as far as
the. Division of the soul and the
spirit of joints and marrow, and able to judge thoughts and
intentions of the heart. The word of God is like a sword.
When we speak, we're getting battle ready.
But if you ain't got the word, it's like running into a war
with an empty sheath. Some of you are in a sword fight
trying to Kung Fu with your arm. You ain't got no words.
You just out there like, let's try to do something.
We're leaving our weapon behind us, Running out into battle.
Why we losing? Oh, I don't know why.
I just keep feeling like you can't overcome this because I'm
leaving my weapon behind. The big new thing, my praise is
a weapon. I tell you something, the word
is a weapon. Your praise is only a weapon if
you're singing the Some of you are singing songs that ain't
word and the weapon you're using is being used against you.
Some of you are trying to praise your way through problems with
the wrong songs and now you're just confession confessing
death. So why we don't just sing
anything in Anchor Faith? We check to make sure these
words that we're going to be singing are going to be words of
life. So why you can't just jump on
YouTube and pick any worship band and then start going
through their stuff? Because next thing you know,
like I love this song. It's amazing.
I realize you're confessing yourself into problems, but I'm
worshipping. But what are you saying?
Because most of your did. You just end up getting into
emotion anyways and we find out if you ain't worshipping with
the word then you're not really worshipping from the spirit.
In a year of reigning residents, we got to check ourselves on
everything we are saying. Because if we said our words
will have power, then we want to make sure the words we're saying
are going to be as powerful as possible for us, not against us.
Because you all know you can get around someone who's negative
and it's amazing how much of a drain they can be.
You get around. Someone who's negative and it's
just like you see them coming down the hall and you're like.
What's the problem today? All right.
Like you already know. There's gonna be something like
no wonder there's never change. Every morning you wake up
wanting to be angry. Like, what do you?
Some of you might just need to have a morning confession.
Tape it on your mirror. Say it whether you're mean it or
not. Say it so repetitively that it's
eventually sinks into your spirit.
Then you do mean it, right? Because if we believe our words
have changed and we want to be finding as much to speak about
as possible, as much to confess about as possible, some of us
are just a a simple mind shift away from having so much things
open up in our life. If we can just start confessing
something a little different, or just start confessing something
we haven't been. This is why it's so important to
watch what you are saying and to watch what you got being put
inside of you. Like I said, I want to be so
filled with something that it has to come out.
I want to be so filled with something that is all that can
come out. And look, I've seen movies.
I've seen a lot of movies. I can probably quote movies
right up underneath how much I can quote the Bible.
So it's not like I'm saying you got to spend all your time just
praying in the Spirit instead of doing anything else.
But my point is, are you prioritizing it at least enough
that it's there? Are we putting enough emphasis
or are we just giving it Sunday, Wednesday emphasis?
Because I'm telling you now, Sunday, Wednesday emphasis on
the word will only help you with surface problems.
Like Pastor said, a whole lot of time.
That's only, what, 234 hours out of your whole week?
Out of your whole week. So we got to be making sure
we're putting the word in us outside of just this one time of
just this two times a week. Look, I'm telling you, I don't
want to be a quiet king. I don't want to have an empty
echo. I want to be able to speak words
of life into my life and those around me.
I want to be able to speak words of life into people, not even in
this building right now. I want to speak words of life
that that resounds into generations.
I want to speak words of life that impact my kids, that impact
their kids, that impact their kids.
I hope when I have great grandkids one day they go, well,
well, great, Papa Chase used to say, because my words have
resounded so much further past my own life, you can have a
resounding you can have a reigning resonance that impacts
so much further than you if you're willing to start stepping
out and speaking. You know, we sit back and we
think about all these greats in faith and greats in the Bible
and these historical accounts that happen and all this kind of
stuff. We're like, wow, look how it's,
you know, impact their lives. And we got to think man, what is
my resonance? What will be spoken of me in the
history? I really didn't, you know,
appreciate all that. Maybe it's not the world
history, but maybe it's just your family history.
But how will you be spoken of in your family history?
When we look back we say man, he had so many see growing up as a
pastor's. I got so young.
As I got older, I realized how much word and opportunity I had,
you know? And so, like, now I always
people like, oh, how is this, you know, how is it going with,
you know, Pastor Earl on this thing or going here?
And I'm like, honestly my favorite moments.
That I get to be a part of are when we go to the dinners or we
go to the and you can just sit back and be like a fly on the
wall and hear these ministers who have been doing it for so
long and just all these little bits.
That they drop, that you can just start to absorb.
And I didn't realize how impactful that not only has been
on my my personal life, but then even into like my parenting
style. And so all these kind of why?
Because I realized, man, I'm getting to sit around these
people that are so. Filled with the word just in
random conversation that isn't even about the Bible, they're
dropping these spiritual Nuggets because it's just all that flows
out of them. Right.
You sit at this table in your eyes, man.
I'm picking up so much that they might have been doing for the
last 30 years that this conversation probably means
nothing to them. They're just having a good time.
And I'm like, man, I can apply this now.
I can see change now, you know? And so you sit down and you
think, man, those words they're speaking are resounding past
them without them even realizing it.
Because here's the thing, every word you speak has the ability
to resound past due period. So are you saying things you
don't mind your kids hearing, or are you dropping things that's
resonating in them, that you don't realize how much it's
resonated in them? That's why we got to watch what
we say sometimes, too. I'll never forget when I was,
you know, or my oldest daughter was younger.
We had a dog and I don't remember what happened.
It was like a small dog or something like that.
I hate small dogs. Don't understand the point of a
small dog, right? They're just always in the way.
They bring nothing to the table. What is the point of a small
dog? Don't get it right.
So I'm walking through the house one day and I step on the dog
and I trip because it's a small dog and like you kind of feel
it. So you know, so you do that kind
of half step thing because you don't want to crush it.
Something like you kind of fall. And like as I fall, I kind of
like kick back because I'm trying to.
The dog goes flying across the hallway and I'm angry.
So I like, punch the wall kind of on my way down.
And I look over and my daughter staring at me and I realized
really quickly it looks like I just punted this dog across the
room and punched the wall. So I was like man, And she's
just so I look at her and I was like, will you please forgive me
for being angry In this moment I lost my temper even though I
really didn't kick the dog. I realized she saw it and there
was probably no real explaining away how it looked when the this
like £5 dog goes slinging into a door and running away.
So I went like picked up the dog in front of her and like let her
know like hey mean I love this dog.
So excited, I drove 5 hours to pick this thing up, right?
Let me put it back now. Why?
Because I realized I had the ability now for my daughter to
have a thought about me that would stay with her whether it
was a big deal or not because it's amazing what impacts kids.
Man, I'll know. I we took, we went to Downtown
Disney one day, just me and my wife.
We were like celebrating anniversary something.
So we want to get our kids something.
So obviously like, you know, like good parents.
I went in and it's Downtown Disney.
So I spent like $150.00 on a bracelet made of plastic, right?
You're like, she's going to love it and you're going to love this
thing. I'm going to be a great parent.
And then I had like changed. So I also did like the little
quarter roll thing where the penny comes out, You know, it's
like $0.75 for a penny. What a markup that is.
So I come back, I give her the bracelet and I give her the
penny. She loses the bracelet in an
hour but can't shut up about this penny.
I could have saved so much money if I just would have got the
penny right? But the truth is you don't know
sometimes what is gonna make the most impact on them, what
they're gonna and most of you if your parents, you realize this,
you ask like, oh, how was the, you know you go on like a big
family vacation. Like what?
Was your favorite part. And then they tell you, like
that was your favorite part. Like we did all of this, and the
extra cheesy popcorn is the most memorable thing you have.
Right. But that's why it's so important
that we're paying attention to what we're putting out because
we don't always realize the positive or negative side of
what it is. And so when we talk about having
a reigning residence and you're going to have what you say, then
we want to be taking captive all of our words to making sure what
we're saying is going to be the most impactful.
That I'm placing my word in the opportune places to enact the
most change possible, and I'm not letting myself slip when
pressure starts to come. Because here's the thing, when
you start speaking a word, pressure will come.
Because obviously the enemy doesn't want everything to be
accomplished. But it's because you keep the
word inside you that you push through that pressure, and then
you hold on to those things and you look back on his
faithfulness and you say, man, look how far I've come on my
walk with God. This would have probably
stumped, you know, made me stumble a year ago.
Now it's not even a thought, right?
Has anyone progressed to a point that you have an unexpected bill
or unexpected something come up and then in your mind you're
just like, this is nothing. I've seen God's faithfulness way
beyond this. I can handle this thing.
I've seen God's faithfulness so much in my life.
This isn't even a thought for me.
I'm just going to put a word on it and get moving.
I'm just going to put a word on it and move on to the next thing
because I'm not going to let it try to get me off course.
I'm not going to let it apply pressure.
It doesn't need to because I got word available for it.
And then you realize you get so much word build up that when
something even try can't even apply pressure because the word
is just right there. The word is just right there,
you know, like I said, I like movies and I find myself
sometimes quote movies with the family.
You know, sometimes I say something real quick.
I'm pretty quick, pretty fast with the comebacks.
I'm pretty quick with like recalling things and sometimes
do that. But at the same time, I also
have realized that now and I think, you know, this is God,
you know, showing me something I've realized in conversation.
Sometimes I I give like a. Scripture real fast or a
scripture comes to mind super fast.
I'm like that was fast that recall was.
Quick Why? Because I put it there for the
Holy Spirit to pull on it. Some of us are wanting the Holy
Spirit to try to pull on things you haven't put in.
The Holy Spirit can recall it to you if you've put it there to be
recalled. So it's on us to put things
there to be recalled, right? So like I said, are we having a
reigning resonance or an empty echo?
Ephesians 320 says now to him, who is able to do far more
abundantly beyond all that we ask or think.
Then you can come up according to the power that works.
Within us, not only is God going to make His word happen, He will
show up far beyond what we thought He could even be
accomplished. Come on, that should be a little
bit more exciting, right? God is not only going to
accomplish the thing he said, but he can go far beyond that
which he said he would. Like I said, what are we saying?
Because some of the stuff we need is just a couple sayings
away from something far and beyond showing up.
Some of the stuff we're going through, we're just a couple
speaking the word away from God, showing up far beyond what we
could have imagined from God, taking it to a place we didn't
even think was possible. So I want to ask today, do we
have a raining resonance? Do we have a raining resonance
or have we let it start to fade as the year has gone on?
No, I'm not going to let my word fade.
I'm going to end this year strong.
And maybe there's some things you were speaking on in January
that you didn't see by February. So you stop speaking on that.
You need to pick back up right now so that we can see it before
the end of the year because I'm not going to let something take
away a word from me. I'm not going to let time Get Me
Out of where God wanted me to be because I'm going to open my
mouth. I'm going to start speaking life
into this problem. I'm going to start speaking life
into this situation. I'm going to start speaking life
into my kids. I'm going to start speaking life
into my family. I'm going to start speaking life
into my job. I'm going to start speaking life
into those around me. I'm going to start speaking life
into whatever it is you got going on.
There's a word for it that is life, if you're willing to say
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