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Now enjoy this message. Well, we all know this year is.
About the reigning. Spirit, right?
So you disagree with me that I can get across to you what's in
me tonight about an enemy to your reigning spirit understand.
And and you, you got to have this foundation first is that
that that you are a spirit, you are a spirit, you have a soul
and you live in a body. And so your spirit man, the Holy
Ghost, when you got born again, came to live inside of your
spirit man. And he lives inside of your
spirit man now to lead you and to guide you in the truth and to
show you things that are to come and to to guide you in every
endeavor that you're in, in life.
And and you know, this is his time, and this is his
dispensation. This is the dispensation of the
church and the Spirit of God. And so that's what he's called
here to do, is to live within you and upon you and do you with
power so that you can live in this crazy world that we're in.
And you can have the victory and you don't have to.
You don't have to succumb to to any heaviness or any thoughts or
any demise or or anything that would take you down or take you
under. You don't have to succumb to
that. You can live in victory, and
we're supposed to have a reigning spirit.
But I do want to talk to you a little bit about trusting.
I want to just fortify you tonight and your trust in the
Lord. But one of the enemies to a
reigning spirit is the reasoning mind.
The reasoning mind. And I just want to talk about
that just a little bit. You know, in my studies for
tonight I could not get out of Romans chapter one and I'm going
to get there. But I first want to start with
Proverbs chapter 3. And can I just say Proverbs
chapter 3 tends to be a cliche scripture that we love to throw
out. I trust in the Lord with all my
heart and I'll lean not to my own understanding and all my
ways. I'll acknowledge him and he'll
make my path straight. It's all great and awesome that
you can quote it, but do you do it?
Are you actually doing it? You know, we like to quote No
weapon formed against me shall prosper.
We like to do that, but we forget.
Sometimes the the beginning of that and the end of that is But
their righteousness is of me, says the Lord.
So if you don't have that trust in him, you can't be saying no
weapon formed against me shall prosper.
You got to 1st be fortified in him and trusting in him.
But I do want to talk about this reasoning mind, because the more
and more I see people in the church and and and outside of
the church I see that we we tend to lean to our own
understanding. We tend to lean to our own
perception, our own our own feelings, our own emotions about
a certain situation. And the Lord wants you to trust
in Him at all times, that His praise would continually be in
your mouth, that He's the one that you're constantly shifting
to, constantly looking to. So let's go to Proverbs 3 and I
actually want to read it A few other scriptures in and I want
to start with verse one. It says, my son, do not forget
my law, but let your heart keep my commands for length of days
and long life and peace they will add to you.
Let not mercy and truth forsake you.
Bind them around your neck and write them on the tablet of your
heart. And so find favor and high
esteem in the sight of God and man.
Trust in the Lord with all your heart, and lean not on your own
understanding. In all your ways.
Acknowledge him and he shall direct your paths.
Do not be wise in your own eyes. Let me say that again.
Do not be wise in your own eyes. Fear the Lord and depart from
evil. It will be health to your flesh
and strength to your bones. When it says, lean not to your
own understanding. That actually does mean your own
perception. Your own understanding of
something. Your own viewpoint.
Your own emotions, your own feelings about something.
And you have to ask yourself in in everything that you do.
When something hits you, When a trial hits you, when a
relationship hits you the wrong way, when something hits you,
what is your first reaction? What is your first go to and is
it? Is it first?
Luke? Luke said That's his first.
We're going to talk to you a little bit tonight.
If your first reaction is to respond and and and and not
yield to the Holy Ghost, then that's where we need to make the
adjustment. If your first reaction is to
quickly speak and not yield and and time out and wait, you know
we adults need a time out sometimes, not just yield and
wait and say Holy Ghost, what do you want me to do in this
situation that you don't take your own understanding of of
whether it's your finances, whether it's a trial, whether
it's your job, no matter what it is, your your life
circumstances, you take your own understanding of that.
And that's the way it is. And that's why, honestly,
there's a lot of people are that are just doing what they want to
do. And go in their own way.
And the Scripture is very clear about that.
And we're going to get to, we're going to talk about it.
Proverbs chapter 20, verse 27 says it's not going to be up
there. The spirit of man is the lamp of
the Lord, searching all the inner depths of his heart.
I want to read it to you in another translation.
The spirit of man is Yahweh's lamp, searching all his
innermost. Hearts, you know, the scripture
in Romans says those who are the children of God or the sons of
God are the ones that are led by the Spirit of God.
And the scripture says, in your spirit, God is the light, He is
the lamp, He is the one that's leading you in everything that
you do. And so anytime in life something
comes at you, your first response should be not to in
the, you know, the Psalm says I look to the hills from where my
help comes. You know, the help doesn't come
from the hills anymore. The help comes from the inside.
The help comes from the Holy Ghost.
And your first response should be to look inward and say, Holy
Ghost, you're leading me, I'm yielded to you.
You know you can quench the spirit of God.
You know, you can grieve him. The Bible says you can, You can
put the fire out of the Holy Ghost.
You can quench him and everything that you do.
And you don't want to be in that position where you're quenching
the spirit of God. And I say that because this
Scripture says the Holy Ghost is in you, searching the very
innermost of your being. And so there's not anything that
gets away from him. There's not anything that hides
from him. Everything is naked and exposed
before him. And I'm going to tell you if
there's anything in you, anything in your heart that
you've not dealt with, the Holy Ghost has definitely talked to
you about it, and it's going to keep you in a position of guilt
and condemnation. And if you stay there you'll not
live by faith. You'll not live by faith.
And you can say we we just sang the song.
How he saved me. How he delivered me.
How he set my feet on solid ground.
And and we sing that and we say, God, you delivered me.
God you set me free. You set my feet on solid ground.
But for some reason now we want to do what we want to do.
We want to have our own plans. We want to have our own minds.
And and in Galatians it says, how come you foolish people how
come? And the scripture says that.
I'm not saying that you started this thing out in the Spirit and
now you want to perfect it by doing it in the flesh and and
and honestly we got to stop and and and I asked the Holy Ghost
where do you want me to go tonight.
And there must be there must be at least one of us.
I bet there's more than that that needs to to to take a
little step back and look inward and go.
You know I've kind of been leaning to my own plan my own
understanding my own what I want to do.
You know, even in the story of Mary and Martha, you know Martha
was cumbered about with many things that she thought the Lord
wanted her to do. But was it what he wanted her to
do? And we get all, we get all upset
or mad because we're doing all these things for God, or we're
doing all these things, or I'm getting this list done.
How come my sister's not helping me?
How come my sister in Christ not helping me?
How come my husband ain't helping me?
I'm getting my my list done, but I'm not doing anything, is unto
the Lord I'm doing. Everything is unto Me.
In my own plan, in my own, my own way.
Now Proverbs 2826 says he who trusts in his own heart is a
fool. He who trusts in his own heart
is a fool. But whoever walks wisely will be
delivered, Jeremiah 923 says. Thus says the Lord, let not the
wise man glory in his wisdom, and let not the mighty man glory
in his might, nor let the rich man glory in his riches.
But let him who glories glory in this, that he understands and
knows me, that I am the Lord, exercising loving kindness,
judgment, and righteousness in the earth.
For in these I delight, says the Lord.
Now I want to go to Romans chapter One and you can follow
along with me on the screen. Romans chapter One to me is
something that I can read and just get so passionate about
because I see it not just in people that are outside of the
church, but people that are in the church and and you know,
sometimes. We think we read this and we go
a reprobate mind. I'm not, that's not me.
I'm not that. But we're going to look.
At what the definition of that is tonight?
But let's start in Romans chapter one, verse 16.
It says, for I am not ashamed of the gospel of Christ, for it is
the power of God to salvation for everyone who believes, for
the Jew 1st and also for the Greek.
For in it in the gospel the righteousness of God is revealed
from faith to faith. As it is written, The just shall
live by faith. Thank God for righteousness, for
the wrath of God is revealed. Listen to this, for the wrath of
God is revealed from heaven against all ungodliness and
unrighteousness of men who suppress the truth in
unrighteousness, because what may be known of God is manifest
in them. Are you listening?
Because what may be known of God is manifest in them, for God has
shown it to them. For since the creation of the
world, His invisible attributes are clearly seen, being
understood by the things that are made, even His eternal power
and Godhead, so that they're without excuse, because although
they knew God, they did not glorify him as God, nor were
they thankful. Let me read that again.
Because although they knew God, they did not glorify him as God,
nor were they thankful, but became futile because they
didn't glorify Him as God, and because they were not thankful,
they did. Not they did not have him as
Lord, and they were not thankful.
Are you glorifying him as God every day?
Is he first? Are you seeking first the
Kingdom of God, and are you thankful?
Those are two very very important, very powerful
principles. So they did not glorify him as
God, nor were they thankful, but became futile in their thoughts,
and their foolish hearts were darkened.
Professing to be wise, they became fools, and change the
glory of the incorruptible God into an image made like
corruptible man and birds, and four footed animals and creeping
things. Therefore God also gave them up
to uncleanness in the. Lusts of their hearts to
dishonor their bodies among themselves, who exchanged the
truth of God for a lie and listen to this part and
worshipped and served the creature rather than the Creator
who is blessed forever. Amen.
Worshiped and served the creature rather than the
Creator. We are living in a time where
people are worshipping and serving the creation, the the
creature yourself. Me, what I want, what I feel,
what I need, instead of the Creator.
They worshipped and served the creature rather than the
Creator, who is blessed forever. For this reason God gave them up
to vile passions. For even their women exchanged.
And that you know why this is happening all over the the earth
today. Right here he gave the women,
the women exchanged the natural use for what is against nature,
and likewise also the men leaving the natural use of the
woman burned in their lust for one another, men with men
committing with it what is shameful, and receiving in
themselves the penalty of their error which was due.
And even as they did not like to retain God in their knowledge,
God gave them over to a debased mind or a reprobate mind to do
those things which are not fitting or not proper.
Being filled with all unrighteousness, sexual
immorality, wickedness, covetousness, maliciousness,
full of envy, murder, strife, deceit, evil, mindedness.
They are whisperers, backbiters, haters of God, violent, proud
boasters, inventors of evil things, disobedient to parents,
undiscerning, untrustworthy, unloving, unforgiving,
unmerciful, Who, knowing the righteous judgment of God, that
those who practice such things are deserving of death, not only
do the same, but also approve of those who practice them.
Now, I'm not trying to to get y'all all serious.
Tonight we're going to talk about trusting in God and not
your own self, but we got to talk about this.
For just a minute, the reprobate mind actually means it.
It was tested. The mind was tested and not
approved. It was rejected.
OK, the the thoughts. You know, you know the the
scripture says that he searches, he searches the innermost part
of your belly. Everything that's going on in
you and he, he, the eyes of the Lord are are roaming to and fro
looking for somebody whose heart heart is right before him.
What does that mean? What does that mean?
What is your mind thinking on? Can Can Can your mind be tested
and approved? Can the Lord sees every thought
in your mind? Can your mind be tested and
approved or rejected? What's going on in your mind?
Are you glorifying God? Listen this.
I know it's the Bible says not to get away from the simplicity
of that's in Christ. I know this may sound simple,
but what I'm saying to you is this is life and this is how you
overcome. And every single day of your
life, when something hits you, you're either going to choose
life or you're going to choose death.
You're going to choose life in your thoughts or you're not.
You're going to choose what the word of God says, or you're
going to choose what you feel about it, what you think about
it, what's your mind and what your emotions are saying about
it. And you know your emotions are
loud. I get that they are super loud
and they can certainly talk, but you got to have enough maturity
and enough discernment that when those things hit you, you're
able to properly step back and discern.
But like the scripture says, those that are mature and a full
age by reason of use have their senses exercised to discern good
and evil that I can recognize. Whoa.
My emotions are lit right now. They are on fire about
something. I feel angry.
I feel frustrated. I feel disappointed about
something. What are you going to do with
that feeling? What are you going to do with
that emotion? You going to respond to it?
You're going to respond to the circumstances of it?
This is, this is where our maturity happens.
Right here is when those things come at us, that we're able to
stop for a minute and say Holy Ghost, what are you saying?
Lead me, search my heart, see my anxious thoughts, see if there's
anything offensive in me and lead me in the way everlasting.
If David can do that, if David can do that, and we have the
Holy Ghost within us and upon us, there's no excuse.
There's no excuse for us. And when I read Romans chapter
one, we're talking about people who who really can can have have
been preached the word of God, can look at creation and say
there's a God, have yet maybe even quoted some scriptures.
Here and there. But you've got to guard your
heart as a believer that you are always, always giving him the
glory and always acknowledging him first and always being
thankful so that you don't slip into.
Because we're seeing people in the church slipping into this
debased mind, slipping into this, this unrighteous thinking
and and starting to make choices that go along with the reasoning
of their mind. It should not be happening with
us. It starts with a thought every,
every single time. And then when it says they were
vain in their imagination, that means the thinking of a man
deliberating with himself, the thinking of a man deliberating
with himself. It means inward reasoning.
It means questioning what is true.
It means hesitating. And doubting or disputing,
That's what it means when they were vain in their imaginations.
What are your imaginations on? What are your thoughts on?
It says they were darkened, and that means the eyes of their
understanding were not enlightened, they were darkened.
Your desires don't define you. Can I just say that just because
you have a desire does not mean that's you.
Just because a a passion or a thing comes at you, you better
know enough of the word of God and you better have enough in
you to say I recognize where that's coming from and I'm going
to kill that and squash that right now so it doesn't become a
passion or a lust in me. Believers, this is believers.
I'm talking to believers tonight.
The devil is coming at you just like he is everybody else, Day
and night, day and night. But you have the victory, We
have the victory. You have the victory.
And then remember a couple of Sundays ago, I said, you better
look like and act like you have the victory on the inside all
the time. Because you do.
Because he's under your feet. And that's why righteousness is
such a big subject for you to understand.
When it says seek first the Kingdom of God and his
righteousness, it's because remember, that's a gift to you.
There are there are fruits of righteousness and you will do
righteous things. But you first have to understand
that he made you righteous, and there's nothing that you did to
earn it other than you believed. And once you believed and you
became righteous, you right then are seated in heavenly places
with him far above all rule and authority and power and dominion
and everything that's named. You're far above it.
That's where you're seated in your righteousness.
And so when the accuser of the brethren is coming at you and
with those fiery darts, you have the Holy Ghost.
You have Jesus all interceding for you and talking to you and
leading you. It's nothing for you to say, OK,
I hear you, OK, I know what the word of God says.
That's under my feet. I don't have to yield to that.
You know, the Bible says you're seated in the presence of your
enemies. They're there.
They're all, they're going to be there.
But you got to stay seated. You got to stay seated at the
table. I remember, and I've shared this
before, when I was a Rhema student and I had gotten home
from class one night and I was listening to Brother Hagen, and
he was talking about casting your cares upon the Lord.
And he started talking about Psalm 23 and being seated at the
table. And he said, pass me a big bowl
of victory and then he and then he got kind of wound up.
He said pass me a bowl of joy. And then he got a little more
wound up and he said pass me a bowl of peace.
Well, I was sitting in in my apartment parking lot and I
opened my little door in my car and I took off running down the
street, left it playing in my car, just did something hit me.
And I just all by myself, dark at night, just took off running
because I got it. It clicked with me.
I was like, yes, I don't have to worry about a thing.
I can rejoice when anything comes.
My brethren. Rejoice when you face trials of
many kind, because you know why the testing of your faith
develops perseverance. And sometimes the testing of our
faith makes us want to run. We want to blame other people
and we want to run or we want to stay offended when something
comes instead of going well, Glory to God, this is a test and
I'm not going to be moved. I'm going to count it all.
Joy. OK, I better get through my
nose. Jeremiah, chapter 17, verses 5
through 10. Thus says the Lord.
Cursed is the man who trusts in man, or trust in yourself, and
makes flesh his strength. Cursed is that man whose heart
departs from the Lord. For that man he shall be like a
shrub in the desert, and shall not even see when good comes,
but shall inhabit the parched places in the wilderness in a
salt land which is not inhabited.
Oh, but blessed is the man who trusts in the Lord, and whose
hope is the Lord. For that man he shall be like a
tree planted by the waters, that spreads out its roots by the
river, and will not fear when heat comes.
But it's leaf will be green, and it will not be anxious in the
year of drought, nor will cease from yielding fruit the heart.
Then it goes on to say the heart is deceitful above all things
and desperately wicked. Who can know it?
I, the Lord, search the heart and I test the mind even to give
to every man according to his ways, according to the fruit of
his doings. OK, if he's if he's giving to
you, every man according to his ways.
Do you think it's just everything that you do
outwardly, or do you think it? He also is looking at what
you're thinking and what the meditation of your heart is.
Always, always. He sees every bit of it.
Now let's shift over into if you're reasoning, if you're
trusting in your own mind, then really that's just a good
indicator that you're not trusting God, that you're
doubting, that you're letting unbelief come in and you know
one moment of worry squashes every bit of faith that you
have. You can come in here and you can
get built up in the spirit. You can do your Bible reading at
home, and you can feel strengthened, and then something
hits you and you take about 10 minutes to worry about it and
meditate on it and it you just squashed every bit of faith that
you had. Do not give the devil a
foothold. Do not give him an inch.
You've got to be that precise, that deliberate in your mind, in
your meditations, in your actions, that no matter what
comes to you, you know exactly what to do.
You discern it. And you know exactly what to do
with it. Do not let doubt remain in you.
All right, so let's go to Second Samuel, chapter 22, verse 31.
As for God, his way is perfect. The word of the Lord is proven,
and He is a shield to all those who trust in him.
As for the Lord, his way is perfect.
Do you not know? I mean all of you.
I could look at all of you, and you could all say I was without
the Lord at one time. We can all say that we we go,
Wow, He set me free. He delivered me.
He put me in a great church, look at what he's done for me.
But then we get this certain trial and we think he doesn't
have the strength to handle it. We think he doesn't have the
wisdom to do anything with it. We think the Holy Ghost is not
really our helper. We think he's just there to give
us goosebumps. We don't really realize the Holy
Ghost is really our comforter. We think we're supposed to worry
about it. The Holy Ghost is your guide.
He's your counselor. He's your comforter.
He's your helper. He's the one that leads you and
everything that you do. You shouldn't have any reason to
worry at all. And you know, people like to
say, well, I'm just worried about so and so.
I'm just I'm just a little concerned.
I just. I'm just concerned that they're
not going to. Well then you are have 0 faith
and and and people will get downright mad at you for telling
you you shouldn't be worrying about something people will get
upset at you for for rebuking you for your emotions.
I found a scripture the other. Day.
I wish I could remember where that was.
That gave me permission to slap people and I need to find that.
I think I said it in my Ki class it, but it literally said
something about you ought to be happy about it.
When I slap you and when I rebuke you, it was something
like that. It was something along the lines
as when when a friend or when a pastor or when a, you know, some
spiritual person in your life, it just kind of, you know, hits
you or wants to slap some sense into you that you ought to be
happy about it. So there Psalms 18.
Two says, the Lord is my rock and my fortress and my.
Deliverer my God, my strength, in whom I will trust.
My shield and the horn of my salvation and my stronghold.
You know, he's a strong tower, and the Bible says the righteous
run into him and they're safe, safe from all harm.
From anything that could come to you, Psalm 62, eight, I'm just
want to build you up in your trust a little bit.
I just want to slap you though about your own reasoning.
About your own understanding, and I also want and we'll either
do at the end of service or you better do it when you leave here
to take a minute and say, Lord, forgive me, forgive me for
having my own plans. Forgive me for making my own
way. Forgive me for reasoning things
out in my mind. Forgive me for justifying my
situation, because we do that. We justify our situation as to
why we're going through it and whose fault it is.
Let me keep reading. Trust in him at all times, you
people. I feel like that's the way I
want to say it. Trust in him at all times, you
people. Pour out your heart before him.
God is a refuge for us. Psalm 84, Psalm 84, Verse one.
Let's read a few of the verses here.
How lovely is your Tabernacle, O Lord of Hosts.
My soul longs, yes, even faints, for the courts of my God, my
heart and my flesh cry out for the living God.
Even the Sparrow has found a home, and the swallow and nest
for herself, where she may lay her young.
Even your altars, O Lord of Hosts, my king and my God,
Blessed are those who dwell in your house.
They will still be praising you. Blessed is the man whose
strength is in you, whose heart is set on pilgrimage or God's
way of doing things. As they pass through the valley
of Baca, they make it a spring. The rain also covers it with
pools, and they go from strength to strength.
That means when they pass through a valley of weeping when
you when yay. Though I walk through the valley
of the shadow of death, I will fear no evil.
No evil. You know when you're walking
through the valley of anything that the scripture says, it's
just a shadow. I can see my shadow right there,
but that's not really me right there on laying down on the
carpet. Here I am.
That's just a shadow. When you're walking through the
valley of the shadow of death, it's not anything that can
really take you out. As long as you keep your trust
in him, as long as you keep your faith in him, Just go.
Sometimes you ought to just say that's just a shadow.
It's just a shadow. I'll fear nothing.
I'm not going to fear anything. So it says that blessed is a man
whose strength is in you, whose heart is set on God's way as
they pass through the valley of. Weeping or or a valley of of of
trial, of valley of testing. They make it a spring.
The rain also covers it with pools.
They go from strength to strength to strength.
Each one of them appears before God and Zion, oh Lord God of
Hosts. Hear my prayer.
Give ear, O God of Jacob, oh God, behold our shield, and look
upon the face of your anointed for a day in your courts is
better than 1000 elsewhere. I would rather be a doorkeeper
in the House of my God than dwell in the tents of
wickedness, for the Lord. God is a son and shield, and the
Lord will give grace and glory. No good thing will he withhold
from those who walk uprightly. Oh Lord of hosts, Blessed is the
man that trusts in you. The Scripture Did y'all hear
that the scripture says no. Good thing will he withhold?
From those who walk uprightly from the inside out, can I say
that from the inside out, no good thing is he going to
withhold. From those who walk uprightly.
Blessed is the man who trusts in you.
You know you're going to have a lot more.
You're going to experience a lot more victory, a lot more
blessing, a lot more overcoming, a lot more things coming your
way. If you'll just rest and trust,
Come on. If you'll just have faith, you
know the minute that you start getting worked up about
something, you know it. Your blood pressure rises, your
heart starts pumping, You start trying to figure things out on
your own. You got to cut that out.
You got to recognize the minute that you start doing that and
go, No, no, no, no. I'm going to trust in God.
He's faithful. He's never let me down.
He'll always deliver me. He's my strong tower.
He's everything to me. He's Jehovah Jireh.
He's Jehovah Shalom. He's Jehovah Sid Canoe.
He's every, every, whatever, whatever the rest of the
Jehovah's are. He's everything that you need.
I can't. Remember all of them.
But he's everything that you need.
He's everything. He's not lacking in anything.
Not anything. You know, the scripture says
goodness and mercy follows me all the days of my life.
It follows you. Are you living like it follows
you? Or are you trying to grab
goodness on your own and grab provision on your own and grab
things on your own? Or are you trusting that if I'll
just stay seated right here, if I'll just stay in my position of
rest and all those things will be added?
All those things will be added. This is the fight right here.
This If you can conquer this, you can conquer anything,
anything. It won't matter what comes to
you. Psalm 112, verses 7 and eight.
He will not be afraid. This is talking about the
righteous man. He will not be afraid of evil
tidings you know you're not afraid of of an evil report
coming to you. You're not afraid of a doctor's
report coming to you. You're not afraid of a bill
coming to you that you weren't expecting.
You're not afraid of evil tidings.
His heart is steadfast, trusting in the Lord.
His heart is established, and he will not be afraid.
How many times does the Scripture say even in the Old
Testament? Fear not and be courageous.
Be strong and be courageous. Fear not, do not fear.
Do not be dismayed. Do not shrink back.
Do not get weary. In well doing you can conquer
anything. You can conquer this.
Psalm 91. Psalm 91, I think Mr. David.
May have found my slap scripture.
Let's see. Is that what you sent me?
Mr. David? Thank you.
That might be it. Let the righteous smite me.
It shall be a kindness, and let him reprove me.
It shall be an excellent oil which shall not break my head
for yet. My prayer also shall be in their
calamities. Let the righteous smite me.
That means let him. Let him reprove me as long as
I'm speaking the truth in love. As long as your righteous
brother or sister are speaking the truth in love, you ought to
be excited about it. You ought to be happy about it,
and if they have to slap you to get it through, then okay.
All right. Psalm 91 He who dwells in the
secret place of the Most High shall abide under the shadow of
the Almighty. Are you dwelling?
Are you dwelling, I will say of the Lord.
He is my refuge and my fortress, my God.
In him I will trust. Surely he will deliver you from
the snare of the Fowler, and from the perilous pestilence.
He shall cover you with his feathers, and under his wings
you shall take refuge. His truth shall be your shield
and buckler. You shall not be afraid of the
terror by night, nor the arrow that flies by day.
Doesn't say you may not or please don't be.
It says you shall not be afraid of the terror by night, nor the
arrow that flies by day, nor the pestilence that walks in the
darkness, nor the destruction that lays waste at noonday. 1000
may fall at your side, 10,000 at your right hand, but it will not
come near you only with your eyes.
You shall look and see the reward of the wicked, because
you've made the Lord who is my refuge even the Most High your
dwelling place. No evil shall befall you, nor
shall any plague come near your dwelling.
We just need to be encouraged in this tonight that you can trust
in him at all times that the promises of God are Yes and
Amen. That you shouldn't have any
ounce of doubt or allow any ounce of fear to come into you.
You know fear is a spirit. Fear is not just an emotion, it
is a spirit. And when fear comes to you, you
better recognize that spirit right away.
And say I bind you up, you spirit of fear, you have no
place for the Lord. God has given me love and a
sound mind, power, love and a sound, sound mind.
I'll not yield to the spirit of fear.
And that, and that goes for anything that God's called you
to do. If he's asked you to step out in
faith in any area of your life, and you're letting fear hold you
back, you better recognize it. And you better step out in fear
and trust and step out in fear. Step out in faith and trust him.
Trust him. It takes.
You know, we listen to a message years ago by Keith Moore called
no risk, no reward. Sometimes when you step out in
faith, there's a risk. Involved, meaning you know, you
got to leave your house, you got to leave sometimes your family,
sometimes you got to step out from among those places.
You know what he told Abraham? Leave your family and go to the
land that I'm going to call you to.
And sometimes coming out and leaving our family means coming
out from the dysfunction of our family that we've been in,
coming out from the the wrong thinking of our family that
we've been around and being able to step back and go, OK, that
wasn't right. And I realized that caused some
kind of thought pattern. In my mind.
But but the scripture breaks down every stronghold in Christ.
I can destroy the strongholds that are built up in my mind.
And you can and you got to take step of faith and step out and
and do what God's called you to do.
And don't let fear grip you because that fears a spirit.
1000 may fall at your side and 10,000 at your right hand, but
it will not come near you. Only with your eyes shall you
look and see the reward of the wicked, because you've made the
Lord who is my refuge even the Most High your dwelling place.
No evil shall befall you, and no plague shall come near your
dwelling, for he shall give his angels charge over you to keep
you in all your ways. In their hands they shall bear
you up, lest you dash your foot against a stone.
You shall tread upon the lion and the cobra, the young lion
and the serpent. You shall trample under foot,
because he has set his love upon me.
Therefore I will deliver him. I will set him on high because
he has known my name. He shall call upon me and I'll
answer him. I will be with him in trouble.
I will deliver him and honor him.
He's saying this about you. I will deliver him and honor
him, and with long life I will satisfy him and show him my
salvation. Do you believe that?
Do you. Do you believe that he's going
to deliver you, that he's going to honor you, that he's going to
give you long life, That he's going to show you his
deliverance, his salvation in every circumstance of life?
Isaiah 26, Three. You will keep him in perfect
peace. Whose mind is stayed on him
because he trusts in him, Because he trusts in you.
Are you keeping your mind stayed on him?
The minute we're talking about those critical minutes, we're
talking about those pivotable moments when something comes at
you. That's the moment.
Are you going to say God, I'm going to keep my mind stayed on
you, God, I'm not going to be moved.
God, you're going to deliver me. God, you're my shield.
God, you're my buckler. Father, you're my deliverer
Father, you're the one that leads and guides me in the
truth. My my feet will not slip. 1000
will fall at my side, 10,000 in my right hand.
It will not even come near me. It's.
Got to be in you. You've got to believe it when
you say it. You've got to have faith in it.
Psalm 23 The Lord is my shepherd.
I shall not want. He makes me lie down in green
pastures. He leads me beside the still
waters. He restores my soul.
He leads me in paths of righteousness for his name's
sake. Yeah.
Though I walk through the valley of the shadow of death.
We just talked about this. I will fear no evil, for you are
with me. Your rod and your staff, they
comfort me. You prepare a table before me in
the presence of my enemies. You anoint my head with oil, and
my cup runneth over. Surely goodness and mercy shall
follow me all the days of my life, and I will dwell in the
House of the. Lord forever.
Forever Proverbs 133 But the one who always listens to me will
live undisturbed in a heavenly peace, free from fear, Confident
and courageous, you will rest unafraid and sheltered from the
storms of life. That is the passion translation
of of Proverbs 133. Let me read it again.
But the one who always listens to me will live undisturbed in a
heavenly peace, free from fear, confident and courageous, you
will rest unafraid and sheltered from the storms of life.
Isaiah 4110. Fear not, for I am with you.
Be not dismayed, for I am your God.
I will strengthen you. Yes, I will help you.
I will uphold you with my righteous right hand.
Philippians, chapter 4, verses 4 through 90.
Just listen and receive the scripture.
I could just sit stand here and just read scripture the rest of
the time. And and something on the inside
of you should be going. Yeah.
Yes, Yes. Say it again.
Give me more. Say it to me again.
That's what should be. It's going off in this, in your
spirit, on the Inside Philippians, Chapter 4, verses 4
through 9 in the Passion translation.
Be cheerful with joyous celebration in every season of
life. Let joy overflow, for you are
united with the Anointed one. Let gentleness be seen in every
relationship, for our Lord is ever near.
Don't be pulled in different directions or worried about a
thing. Be saturated in prayer
throughout each day, offering your faith filled request before
God with overflowing gratitude. Tell Him every detail of your
life. Then God's wonderful peace that
transcends human understanding will make the answers known to
you through Jesus Christ. So keep your thoughts
continually fixed on all that is authentic and real and honorable
and. Admirable, beautiful and
respectful. Pure and holy, merciful and
kind, and fasten your thoughts on every glorious work of God,
praising him. Always follow the example that
we all have imparted to you, and the God of peace will be with
you in all things. In all things you have to ask
yourself tonight. And that is my cry.
That is my call to you tonight. You have to ask yourself, have I
been leaning too much? To my own understanding, can I
easily quote Proverbs chapter 3? But it is Is it an actual
reality in my life? The Bible says many are the
plans in a man's. Heart.
But it's the Lord's purpose that prevails.
Commit your way, the Bible says. Commit your way unto him, and
he'll make your path straight. I just want to make sure that
we've we've all, and we are consistently all casting the
weight of our cares on the Lord that we're not carrying the the,
the sin that so easily entangles us, the weights, the burdens,
the cares of life. You know, you can just be
weighed down with the cares of life.
The scripture says that he came to heal every part of you, every
part of you, every broken part, every dysfunctional part.
Everything that's in you. That's anxious.
That's not right. That needs mending, that needs
healing. That's what he does.
And I just want us to make a mental shift and a spiritual
shift tonight where we say I'm going to not anymore.
Lean on my own understanding, on my own thoughts, On my own way.
On my own list, on my own discernment that I'm going to be
a mature believer. Maturity that this body, we can
be a body where we are in unity. I said this a couple of Sundays
ago. Listen, if we can get in Unity,
not just here but in our homes, you're saying the same thing I'm
saying, and I'm saying the same thing.
You're saying that we're all on the same page.
Speaking the word of God, taking dominion in our mind for the
battle that we fight is not carnal, it's not fleshly, it's
not anything in the scene. You cannot put your eyes or your
focus on anything that you see. You're you're.
The scripture says to be heavenly minded is life and
peace, life and peace for you. And I just want us to make the
shift that we're going to say, you know, God delivered me.
He brought me out of darkness, He brought me out of of drugs.
He brought me out of dysfunction.
He brought me out of all kinds of stuff.
But you know, I've gotten a little bit into trusting my own
way, trusting my own plan, worrying about what's said in
front of me. And I want us as Pastor Marcus
plays, I want us just to make an honest assessment.
Listen, today is the day of salvation, which means today's
the day of deliverance in every area, every area of your life.
And if you know there's something that you've trusted in
your your own strength, you've trusted in your own arm.
Remember, Jeremiah said, Cursed is the man who trust in his own
strength his own arm, But blessed is the one who trusts in
the Lord. That man will be like the tree
planted by the streams of water. And drought can come and heat
can come, and trials can come and anything can come to you.
But how are you going to respond?
And I just want us to ask the question.
The Holy Ghost have I been reasoning in my mind?
Oh, Father, we open our hearts to you, and we ask the question,
Lord, if I've been reasoning in my mind, I repent.
If I've been trusting in my own way and my own strength, and
encumbered about with many, many.
Things. We repent.
If you need to come down to the altar and repent, do it.
Do it. Don't let fear grip you.
Don't let anxiety grip you. Don't let justification in your
mind grip you. Just come down here and repent
and say, Lord, forgive me for trusting in my own strength, for
worshipping really my own way instead of the Creator.
Lord, forgive us that we would not trust in our own plans, in
our own way, our own devices, our own emotions, our own
feelings about something. But we'll trust in you with all
of our heart, everything on the inside, and we'll make the
adjustment tonight. Thank you so much for listening
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