1 00:00:13,000 --> 00:00:17,080 Well, you know, Sunday for those that were here, Pastor 2 00:00:17,080 --> 00:00:21,240 ministered on the bread of life. Amen. 3 00:00:21,560 --> 00:00:27,560 He ministered on the bread of life and it just seemed right 4 00:00:27,560 --> 00:00:32,360 with me and him and the Holy Ghost that I would share a 5 00:00:32,360 --> 00:00:35,920 little bit on one bite at a time. 6 00:00:38,000 --> 00:00:43,480 One bite at a time. Because I say, how do you eat a 7 00:00:43,480 --> 00:00:47,560 loaf of bread one bite at a time? 8 00:00:47,560 --> 00:00:52,760 And you're going to understand why it's one bite at a time in a 9 00:00:52,760 --> 00:00:55,000 minute. All right, as we get into the 10 00:00:55,000 --> 00:01:00,520 Word tonight, and aren't you thankful that He's given us this 11 00:01:00,520 --> 00:01:07,440 daily bread that brings life and nourishment and sustenance to 12 00:01:07,440 --> 00:01:08,520 us? Amen. 13 00:01:08,960 --> 00:01:11,120 Hallelujah. And you know what? 14 00:01:11,120 --> 00:01:16,760 Every time you get to partake of the Word of God, of the Word of 15 00:01:16,760 --> 00:01:23,480 God, you get to partake of life. Come on and nourishment and 16 00:01:23,480 --> 00:01:27,440 everything that you need to sustain you in life. 17 00:01:28,000 --> 00:01:30,880 Amen. Everything you need to sustain 18 00:01:30,880 --> 00:01:35,920 you in life and so he ministered out of Matthew 4 four and it 19 00:01:35,920 --> 00:01:42,600 said where he began to say Jesus man shall not live on what bread 20 00:01:42,600 --> 00:01:48,560 alone by but every word that proceeds out of the mouth of 21 00:01:48,560 --> 00:01:52,400 God. Every word that proceeds out of 22 00:01:52,400 --> 00:01:56,840 the mouth of God. That is what we should live by. 23 00:01:56,960 --> 00:02:01,040 Amen. To get our spiritual nourishment 24 00:02:01,880 --> 00:02:03,680 to get our spiritual nourishment. 25 00:02:03,680 --> 00:02:08,000 And then he also said this out of John 635. 26 00:02:08,000 --> 00:02:11,680 It said Jesus said to them, I am the bread of life. 27 00:02:12,160 --> 00:02:17,880 He who comes to me will not hunger, and he who believes in 28 00:02:17,880 --> 00:02:23,320 me will never thirst, will never thirst. 29 00:02:23,560 --> 00:02:28,480 And you know what will never hunger, will never hunger. 30 00:02:28,480 --> 00:02:33,280 This is important because if you're hungry, then guess what? 31 00:02:33,680 --> 00:02:37,600 It's your fault because you're not eating of the daily bread 32 00:02:39,080 --> 00:02:43,680 because He lets us know, listen, you will never have to hunger 33 00:02:43,680 --> 00:02:46,840 again because I am the bread of life. 34 00:02:46,840 --> 00:02:50,240 And all you have to do is open up the word of God. 35 00:02:50,240 --> 00:02:58,360 Come on and start eating of it. Start eating the Word, Amen. 36 00:02:58,360 --> 00:03:01,800 We know John 11, Jesus said this. 37 00:03:01,800 --> 00:03:06,360 He said Jesus is the word made flesh. 38 00:03:06,960 --> 00:03:13,000 So we know that Jesus was born right wrapped in flesh. 39 00:03:13,360 --> 00:03:17,600 He was in the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God 40 00:03:17,600 --> 00:03:22,400 and the Word became flesh. Verse 14 of John says what? 41 00:03:22,760 --> 00:03:26,760 And we beheld him right? Hallelujah. 42 00:03:26,760 --> 00:03:31,480 And so again, when we talk about who Jesus is, we have to 43 00:03:31,480 --> 00:03:34,920 recognize that Jesus was not just the Savior. 44 00:03:34,920 --> 00:03:42,880 Jesus is the Word. Amen, Jesus is the Word, and so 45 00:03:43,080 --> 00:03:47,200 we are not just to have a relationship with Jesus as this 46 00:03:47,200 --> 00:03:54,880 spiritual being outside of reading the Word to discover and 47 00:03:54,880 --> 00:03:59,400 participate and eat from what it is that He needs to give us in 48 00:03:59,400 --> 00:04:00,560 this life. Amen. 49 00:04:00,560 --> 00:04:03,560 To be able to sustain us as is children. 50 00:04:04,880 --> 00:04:07,760 And so it's very important that we recognize this. 51 00:04:08,000 --> 00:04:11,440 And then in Matthew 611, we know this prayer. 52 00:04:11,440 --> 00:04:15,120 What is it? Give us this day, Our Daily 53 00:04:15,120 --> 00:04:18,680 Bread. So what does that let us know 54 00:04:18,680 --> 00:04:22,320 that every day there is bread for us to eat? 55 00:04:23,040 --> 00:04:28,600 Every day there is something in His word that's going to give us 56 00:04:28,880 --> 00:04:34,720 the nutrients, the sustenance, the food that we need for the 57 00:04:34,720 --> 00:04:37,720 day. And it's daily, right? 58 00:04:37,720 --> 00:04:41,800 It's daily and you know, I was thinking about this about how 59 00:04:41,800 --> 00:04:46,400 the children of Israel, how God provided for them in the desert, 60 00:04:46,400 --> 00:04:50,400 the manna, which is a representation of the bread of 61 00:04:50,400 --> 00:04:54,280 life as well. He gave them manna and what he 62 00:04:54,280 --> 00:04:59,920 gave them manna enough for every day to sustain them. 63 00:05:01,240 --> 00:05:08,760 And again, we have to realize that we as believers must be in 64 00:05:08,760 --> 00:05:14,360 a position that we are taking in this day, Our Daily Bread, 65 00:05:14,360 --> 00:05:21,080 reading the Word of God every day so that we can receive from 66 00:05:21,080 --> 00:05:26,000 him everything that we need. That means everything, 67 00:05:26,520 --> 00:05:34,320 everything that we need is going to come from us eating upon the 68 00:05:34,320 --> 00:05:37,000 daily bread. His Word, Amen. 69 00:05:37,600 --> 00:05:41,240 That's where our sustenance is going to come from, to be able 70 00:05:41,240 --> 00:05:46,200 to be the children of God that He desires for us to be. 71 00:05:46,600 --> 00:05:51,760 So really I want to talk about Joshua 1/8. 72 00:05:52,440 --> 00:05:55,960 Why do we see? Why do I say, how are we going 73 00:05:55,960 --> 00:05:58,680 to eat a loaf of bread one bite at a time? 74 00:05:58,680 --> 00:06:03,640 Because Joshua 18, actually when pastor was ministering this, 75 00:06:03,840 --> 00:06:06,160 this scripture sprung up within me. 76 00:06:06,520 --> 00:06:12,840 And Joshua 18 says this, this book of the law shall not depart 77 00:06:12,840 --> 00:06:17,520 from your mouth. Eating has to do with your 78 00:06:17,520 --> 00:06:21,320 mouth. You have to open up your mouth 79 00:06:21,320 --> 00:06:26,440 to be able to eat. And he's letting us know that 80 00:06:26,440 --> 00:06:30,080 the book of the law shall not depart from our mouth. 81 00:06:30,080 --> 00:06:32,400 But you shall what? Read it. 82 00:06:32,400 --> 00:06:38,000 I'm reading out of the amplified Meditate on it day and night so 83 00:06:38,000 --> 00:06:43,360 that you will be careful to do everything in accordance to what 84 00:06:43,360 --> 00:06:47,920 all that is written in it for. Then you will make your way 85 00:06:47,920 --> 00:06:53,200 prosperous and then you will be successful. 86 00:06:55,920 --> 00:07:01,480 We are not going to be successful spending all of our 87 00:07:01,480 --> 00:07:10,000 time in education and getting knowledge because we know the 88 00:07:10,000 --> 00:07:13,640 scripture says what does it profit a man to gain the whole 89 00:07:13,640 --> 00:07:20,240 world and forfeit his soul? So to be successful, this is the 90 00:07:20,240 --> 00:07:22,960 key. There's not, you know, 9 91 00:07:23,800 --> 00:07:28,000 principles to be successful. You know, all these motivational 92 00:07:28,000 --> 00:07:31,520 speakers, all the conferences, all these things, they're going 93 00:07:31,520 --> 00:07:35,480 to tell you how to be successful as a businessman, how to be 94 00:07:35,480 --> 00:07:40,840 successful, you know, in all these different fields of 95 00:07:40,840 --> 00:07:44,200 academia and, and everything in the world. 96 00:07:44,200 --> 00:07:47,960 But he lets us know right here out of his word that the way 97 00:07:47,960 --> 00:07:53,480 we're going to be successful and not just successful, prosperous, 98 00:07:55,400 --> 00:08:04,400 prosperous is what US meditating on the word of God day and 99 00:08:04,400 --> 00:08:07,760 night, but not just meditating on the word. 100 00:08:07,960 --> 00:08:10,800 What else? We have to be careful to be 101 00:08:10,800 --> 00:08:14,320 doing everything the word is saying to do. 102 00:08:16,080 --> 00:08:19,800 So it's not just good just to, oh, I read my scriptures every 103 00:08:19,800 --> 00:08:22,080 day. You know, I do this da, da, da, 104 00:08:22,080 --> 00:08:24,480 da, da, da. But then there's no action 105 00:08:24,480 --> 00:08:27,160 behind what it is that you're reading. 106 00:08:28,040 --> 00:08:31,840 You see what I'm saying? So again, he lets us know that 107 00:08:31,840 --> 00:08:36,159 it's going to take these two steps, actually three steps to 108 00:08:36,159 --> 00:08:40,000 be able to be successful and to be prosperous. 109 00:08:40,360 --> 00:08:43,880 But here I want to just focus on meditate. 110 00:08:44,720 --> 00:08:48,600 It says this book of the law shall not depart from your 111 00:08:48,600 --> 00:08:53,280 mouth, but you shall read it. You shall meditate on it day and 112 00:08:53,280 --> 00:08:56,000 night. What does the word meditate mean 113 00:08:56,000 --> 00:09:00,200 here? It means to chew on it. 114 00:09:03,000 --> 00:09:10,840 To mutter, Mudder brings actual your vocal cords into play with 115 00:09:10,840 --> 00:09:13,720 it. So it also could be that that 116 00:09:13,720 --> 00:09:18,360 mouth has to begin to speak out the word that you're chewing on. 117 00:09:19,720 --> 00:09:26,560 So it's not just chewing on it, it's also muttering it, meaning 118 00:09:26,560 --> 00:09:30,080 you're going to meditate on this word, you're going to chew on a 119 00:09:30,080 --> 00:09:32,760 scripture. Maybe you know, a scripture pops 120 00:09:32,760 --> 00:09:36,280 up on the inside of you because you've been reading the word 121 00:09:36,280 --> 00:09:39,560 every day and a scripture jumps off off the page. 122 00:09:39,840 --> 00:09:44,360 That is the scripture that he's highlighting to you, bringing 123 00:09:44,360 --> 00:09:48,760 revelation to you about that you need for the day. 124 00:09:49,040 --> 00:09:53,080 And so therefore, when you receive that, you should be 125 00:09:53,080 --> 00:09:58,480 chewing on it throughout the day, meaning meditating on it, 126 00:09:58,640 --> 00:10:03,720 reading it to yourself, thinking about it, chewing on it, right. 127 00:10:03,720 --> 00:10:08,160 And one picture that some, you know, people talk about is like 128 00:10:08,160 --> 00:10:11,520 how a cow chews the what the cud. 129 00:10:12,880 --> 00:10:16,160 They just keep it in their mouth and, you know, just keep chewing 130 00:10:16,160 --> 00:10:19,640 on it, chewing on it and chewing on it and chewing on it. 131 00:10:19,960 --> 00:10:24,200 So this is the picture that he's letting us know that this is how 132 00:10:24,200 --> 00:10:26,560 we're going to be able to eat Our Daily Bread. 133 00:10:26,720 --> 00:10:32,480 We're going to do it by 1 chew at a time, one bite at a time. 134 00:10:32,920 --> 00:10:37,760 We're going to receive what the word says to us that day, and 135 00:10:37,760 --> 00:10:41,040 then throughout the day we're going to begin to meditate on 136 00:10:41,040 --> 00:10:46,680 it, chew on it, let it go around in our mind throughout the day 137 00:10:47,240 --> 00:10:49,920 and then also throughout the day. 138 00:10:50,040 --> 00:10:53,880 What what happens? All of a sudden the word will 139 00:10:53,880 --> 00:11:01,800 want to come out of your mouth. This is a byproduct, a by 140 00:11:01,800 --> 00:11:06,400 product of you meditating and chewing on the word is that it 141 00:11:06,400 --> 00:11:11,760 will come out of your mouth. It will want to, it will want to 142 00:11:12,160 --> 00:11:14,640 again, but you have to release it. 143 00:11:14,640 --> 00:11:19,920 You have to open up your mouth and begin to speak it as you are 144 00:11:19,920 --> 00:11:23,800 meditating on it. That's where that mudder comes 145 00:11:23,800 --> 00:11:28,560 in, OK, to where you're going to begin to release it out of your 146 00:11:28,560 --> 00:11:30,960 mouth because you've been chewing on it all day. 147 00:11:31,200 --> 00:11:33,760 And then you can thank him. Father, I thank you that your 148 00:11:33,760 --> 00:11:37,080 word did say whatever it was going to say to you today, 149 00:11:37,800 --> 00:11:39,840 right? Whatever you had been meditating 150 00:11:39,840 --> 00:11:42,440 on. Because a byproduct of that 151 00:11:42,440 --> 00:11:45,080 meditation is, is that it's going to want to come out of 152 00:11:45,080 --> 00:11:49,360 your mouth and you still have to release it out of your mouth. 153 00:11:50,200 --> 00:11:53,720 OK, you have to release it out of your mouth. 154 00:11:53,920 --> 00:11:58,800 So in Joshua 18, we can see several things here. 155 00:11:59,120 --> 00:12:04,320 Is that that word chew on or mudder, meaning meditate on it 156 00:12:04,480 --> 00:12:07,880 day and night. What also, we can say these 157 00:12:07,880 --> 00:12:10,280 three simple things. You're going to have to speak 158 00:12:10,280 --> 00:12:13,200 it. You're going to, you're going to 159 00:12:13,200 --> 00:12:17,560 have to read it right. But then not only that, you're 160 00:12:17,560 --> 00:12:19,960 going to have to do it. We're going to have to because 161 00:12:19,960 --> 00:12:26,360 he says here, he says, now you be careful to do everything in 162 00:12:26,360 --> 00:12:31,480 accordance with all that is written, with all that is 163 00:12:31,480 --> 00:12:36,720 written right. And once we do that, then we 164 00:12:36,720 --> 00:12:40,160 will begin to start seeing success in our life and 165 00:12:40,160 --> 00:12:42,240 prosperity happening in our life. 166 00:12:42,240 --> 00:12:46,080 The things that we've put our hand to will begin to prosper 167 00:12:46,200 --> 00:12:49,600 because we're actually meditating on the word day and 168 00:12:49,600 --> 00:12:51,720 night. We're actually spending time 169 00:12:51,960 --> 00:12:58,520 daily living off of that daily bread that we need for our life. 170 00:12:58,560 --> 00:13:01,200 And this is how we're going to be fruitful. 171 00:13:02,840 --> 00:13:05,600 This is how we're going to be fruitful, right? 172 00:13:05,600 --> 00:13:09,160 Because He wants us to have a fruitful life in him. 173 00:13:09,160 --> 00:13:14,800 Now look over in Psalms chapter 1, Psalms chapter 1 and verse 2. 174 00:13:15,080 --> 00:13:21,320 So meditation is the key, OK? Meditation is the key. 175 00:13:21,480 --> 00:13:27,600 We have to be people that as we receive Our Daily Bread, that we 176 00:13:27,600 --> 00:13:30,600 take that and begin to meditate on it. 177 00:13:31,120 --> 00:13:36,200 OK, Psalms 1-2 says this, but his delight is in the law of the 178 00:13:36,200 --> 00:13:42,080 Lord and on His law, His precepts, His teachings, He 179 00:13:42,080 --> 00:13:47,920 habitually meditates day and night. 180 00:13:48,520 --> 00:13:52,760 You see that habitually. So again, this needs to be a 181 00:13:52,760 --> 00:13:56,200 practice of our life as believers. 182 00:13:56,440 --> 00:14:02,000 If we are going to be people right walking in success from 183 00:14:02,000 --> 00:14:06,000 prospering in our life and enjoying the Kingdom life that 184 00:14:06,000 --> 00:14:09,880 God expects us to enjoy, then we're going to have to get back 185 00:14:09,880 --> 00:14:15,040 to making sure that daily we are partaking of His bread, but not 186 00:14:15,040 --> 00:14:18,960 only partaking of it. We are actually meditating on it 187 00:14:18,960 --> 00:14:21,880 day and night. One of one good practice that I 188 00:14:21,880 --> 00:14:26,080 like to do is I always like to start my day off in the word and 189 00:14:26,080 --> 00:14:28,680 before I lay my head down, I want to read. 190 00:14:28,680 --> 00:14:32,600 I want that to be the last thing in me before I go to sleep 191 00:14:32,960 --> 00:14:36,480 because you know what? He can his your spirits always 192 00:14:36,480 --> 00:14:40,280 awake and he can speak to you while you're sleeping on the 193 00:14:40,280 --> 00:14:43,520 word that was just put in you before you went to bed. 194 00:14:46,600 --> 00:14:52,200 So this is a good practice to do again day and night, right when 195 00:14:52,200 --> 00:14:55,680 the morning when you wake up, you start your day with the word 196 00:14:55,840 --> 00:14:58,480 and before you lay your head down on the bed, you're 197 00:14:58,480 --> 00:15:02,080 meditating on a scripture before you go to sleep. 198 00:15:03,280 --> 00:15:06,240 Hallelujah. Glory to God. 199 00:15:06,360 --> 00:15:09,880 So he's letting us know that this should be a habitual thing 200 00:15:09,880 --> 00:15:16,000 that we we have to be people that meditate on his word day 201 00:15:16,200 --> 00:15:22,160 and night, day and night. And I believe that this is 202 00:15:22,360 --> 00:15:25,960 something that a lot of believers are struggling with 203 00:15:25,960 --> 00:15:29,480 because we're living in such a busy world today. 204 00:15:30,760 --> 00:15:35,240 We're living in such a world that is so distracted, right? 205 00:15:35,320 --> 00:15:38,040 With our cell phones, with the reels. 206 00:15:38,040 --> 00:15:40,320 You know, what did Pastor talk about? 207 00:15:40,320 --> 00:15:43,400 What was it last Wednesday night? 208 00:15:43,840 --> 00:15:48,040 Brain rot, right? That this is a literal thing. 209 00:15:48,760 --> 00:15:52,040 This is literal language that people are using. 210 00:15:52,040 --> 00:15:56,800 And a literal thing in our world today is is called brain rot. 211 00:15:57,120 --> 00:16:01,120 Now listen, your brain will never rot on the word. 212 00:16:07,720 --> 00:16:09,360 And we're going to see this in a minute. 213 00:16:09,720 --> 00:16:12,200 It's never going to rot on the word. 214 00:16:12,600 --> 00:16:24,280 Psalms 11911 says this, Thy word I have hid in my heart that I 215 00:16:24,280 --> 00:16:28,840 might not sin against thee. So we have to be people. 216 00:16:28,840 --> 00:16:34,920 One way that we can hide the word in our heart is through 217 00:16:35,040 --> 00:16:40,920 meditation, is through US daily meditating on the Word of God 218 00:16:41,200 --> 00:16:44,520 day and night. And this is how we get His word. 219 00:16:44,680 --> 00:16:48,640 Listen, His law, He says when we're born again, when we get 220 00:16:48,640 --> 00:16:52,000 our new spirit and our new heart, when we get born again, 221 00:16:52,160 --> 00:16:57,080 He says He writes His laws within our heart, our new heart. 222 00:16:57,320 --> 00:17:00,440 He's written His laws already within it. 223 00:17:00,640 --> 00:17:03,760 So you know what? Our heart desires it. 224 00:17:03,960 --> 00:17:10,040 Our spirit desires the word of God, it desires it. 225 00:17:10,040 --> 00:17:14,760 Before it didn't want it. A cold Stony heart. 226 00:17:14,960 --> 00:17:19,560 Ezekiel talks about before we get born again, we have a cold 227 00:17:19,560 --> 00:17:23,240 Stony heart. But once we get born again, now 228 00:17:23,240 --> 00:17:25,839 he's written that law within our hearts. 229 00:17:25,839 --> 00:17:29,400 So now our heart wants to receive the word of God. 230 00:17:30,320 --> 00:17:35,280 It wants to be fed, it wants to be strengthened, right? 231 00:17:35,280 --> 00:17:40,320 It wants to be built up. And the way we do that is going 232 00:17:40,320 --> 00:17:46,760 to come through US meditating on the Word day and night, daily 233 00:17:47,000 --> 00:17:52,520 participating and taking a bite of the Word of God, the Bread of 234 00:17:52,520 --> 00:17:53,680 Life. Amen. 235 00:17:54,480 --> 00:18:02,120 Look at Psalms 119 and 97. It says, oh how, how, oh how I 236 00:18:02,120 --> 00:18:05,240 love thy law. You see that? 237 00:18:08,320 --> 00:18:15,320 It is my meditation all day. And I've said this in years 238 00:18:15,320 --> 00:18:20,360 past, if you're struggling with wanting to read the word of God 239 00:18:20,360 --> 00:18:25,280 as a believer, just go read Psalms 119. 240 00:18:28,400 --> 00:18:31,240 I just challenge you. And I had, you know, I've had 241 00:18:31,240 --> 00:18:35,080 people come up to me after I've said this through for years. 242 00:18:35,280 --> 00:18:38,400 They say, you know what, it felt like it was always stale reading 243 00:18:38,400 --> 00:18:41,000 the word and I just lost my passion to read. 244 00:18:41,240 --> 00:18:44,840 But when I heard you say, just go read Psalms 19, just focus on 245 00:18:44,840 --> 00:18:49,080 Psalms 19 and just read it every day for 30 days, you know what? 246 00:18:49,080 --> 00:18:53,120 They came back and said I have a desire now for the word. 247 00:18:54,080 --> 00:18:58,480 You see what I'm saying? Because I'm telling you, we were 248 00:18:58,480 --> 00:19:05,120 meant to live off of this thing. We were meant to live by it, OK? 249 00:19:05,120 --> 00:19:07,320 We were meant to be nourished by it. 250 00:19:07,320 --> 00:19:11,680 And it's the only thing that can nourish us and sustain us in 251 00:19:11,680 --> 00:19:15,240 life. It's the only thing that can 252 00:19:15,240 --> 00:19:20,600 nourish and sustain us. So he says that in Psalms 119, 253 00:19:21,040 --> 00:19:25,640 oh how I love thy law, it is the meditation, my meditation all 254 00:19:25,840 --> 00:19:30,280 day long. Psalms 19, not 119, but Psalms 255 00:19:30,280 --> 00:19:37,360 19 and 14 says this because again, this is going back to 256 00:19:37,360 --> 00:19:43,080 seeing that a byproduct of us meditating and part of us 257 00:19:43,320 --> 00:19:47,800 meditating on the word will have to do with our mouth. 258 00:19:50,040 --> 00:19:51,760 It will have to do with our mouth. 259 00:19:51,760 --> 00:19:59,920 It says, Let the words of my mouth and the meditations of my 260 00:19:59,920 --> 00:20:04,480 heart. Right, be acceptable in thy 261 00:20:04,480 --> 00:20:08,960 sight, O Lord, my strength and my Redeemer. 262 00:20:09,320 --> 00:20:15,040 So again, a by product of you really meditating on the word is 263 00:20:15,040 --> 00:20:17,840 is that your mouth is going to begin to say something. 264 00:20:17,840 --> 00:20:21,800 And you know we've said this before in years past. 265 00:20:21,960 --> 00:20:27,360 You know, you can recognize where a person is by the words 266 00:20:27,360 --> 00:20:28,840 that are coming out of their mouth. 267 00:20:31,200 --> 00:20:34,680 What are you speaking? Because I can tell you the 268 00:20:34,680 --> 00:20:38,600 things that you are speaking is what you have been meditating 269 00:20:38,600 --> 00:20:42,840 on, period. It is a result of what you're 270 00:20:42,840 --> 00:20:46,200 meditating on. So how are you talking? 271 00:20:46,320 --> 00:20:51,080 What are you talking like is going to prove what you've been 272 00:20:51,080 --> 00:20:56,480 meditating on, what you've been watching, what you've been 273 00:20:56,480 --> 00:21:02,160 listening to, Everything will begin to come out of your mouth. 274 00:21:03,400 --> 00:21:08,880 It's just a principle because what you take in from out of 275 00:21:08,880 --> 00:21:15,480 your mouth, what flows, it flows. 276 00:21:15,480 --> 00:21:18,880 And so again, whatever you're taking in, whatever you're 277 00:21:18,880 --> 00:21:22,440 meditating on, whatever you're focusing on, whatever you're 278 00:21:22,440 --> 00:21:25,880 spending time listening to, these things are going to come 279 00:21:25,880 --> 00:21:28,040 out of your mouth as a byproduct. 280 00:21:29,000 --> 00:21:33,680 And so we want to make sure that as believers that we are 281 00:21:34,480 --> 00:21:38,880 meditating in the Word so that when we get in situations, in 282 00:21:38,880 --> 00:21:42,360 circumstance, the word is the first thing that comes up. 283 00:21:42,360 --> 00:21:45,040 And that's what my mouth will begin to speak. 284 00:21:46,720 --> 00:21:49,400 That's what my mouth is going to say, right? 285 00:21:49,400 --> 00:21:51,320 It's going to say the word, right? 286 00:21:51,320 --> 00:21:54,160 Isn't that what we say? Speak the word only? 287 00:21:54,160 --> 00:21:57,240 Isn't that what Jesus did when he was up underneath the 288 00:21:57,240 --> 00:22:01,200 temptation of the devil? You know, the devil was tempting 289 00:22:01,200 --> 00:22:05,200 him and all Jesus would say it is written. 290 00:22:05,720 --> 00:22:11,360 He spoke the word because he was the word. 1 But we can say that 291 00:22:11,360 --> 00:22:18,320 is what we know he meditated on because he only did what he said 292 00:22:18,320 --> 00:22:22,000 that his father told him to do. He only spoke what his father 293 00:22:22,000 --> 00:22:27,320 told him to spoke speak, right. So again, what is it that's 294 00:22:27,320 --> 00:22:31,680 going on that you're meditating on is going to automatically, if 295 00:22:31,680 --> 00:22:37,560 you're meditating on the bills and worry, come on and and all 296 00:22:37,560 --> 00:22:41,240 these other things, guess what's going to be dominant out of your 297 00:22:41,240 --> 00:22:47,520 mouth, right? But if you begin to go back to 298 00:22:47,520 --> 00:22:53,040 what the scripture says, come on to give right? 299 00:22:54,160 --> 00:22:56,960 And all these things good measure pressed down, shaken 300 00:22:56,960 --> 00:22:58,800 together and running over. Come on. 301 00:22:59,120 --> 00:23:02,560 Listen, I'm telling you these things, you they're not going to 302 00:23:02,560 --> 00:23:07,440 come up if you've not been meditating on the word for it to 303 00:23:07,440 --> 00:23:11,160 come up. And when it comes up, listen, 304 00:23:11,360 --> 00:23:15,280 when a scripture comes up within you, acknowledge it. 305 00:23:15,280 --> 00:23:19,080 The way you acknowledge it is by speaking it out of your mouth. 306 00:23:21,720 --> 00:23:26,880 You if a scripture comes up and you're in a situation and the 307 00:23:26,880 --> 00:23:32,080 Holy Ghost begins to pull up a scripture for you, acknowledge 308 00:23:32,080 --> 00:23:38,760 it by speaking it out, releasing it, releasing it and speaking it 309 00:23:38,760 --> 00:23:43,160 out because it's no good, just that it came up and it reminded 310 00:23:43,160 --> 00:23:47,800 you it will only have power. Listen, His Word only has power 311 00:23:47,800 --> 00:23:51,680 when it's activated by faith. And the way that it's activated 312 00:23:51,680 --> 00:23:56,200 by faith is not just thinking about it, not just knowing 313 00:23:56,200 --> 00:24:00,840 scripture and verse of it, but actually you speaking it out to 314 00:24:00,840 --> 00:24:06,640 release it into the atmosphere. That's when it goes into effect 315 00:24:07,200 --> 00:24:10,040 for your situation. OK. 316 00:24:10,600 --> 00:24:14,440 And so again, if you haven't been meditating on the Word of 317 00:24:14,440 --> 00:24:19,400 God and eating the daily bread, then the Holy Spirit has nothing 318 00:24:19,400 --> 00:24:25,200 to recall to you when you're in a situation if it's not in you. 319 00:24:25,200 --> 00:24:27,440 And we're going to see the scripture that will prove that 320 00:24:27,440 --> 00:24:31,040 in a minute. Now let's go over to Proverbs 4. 321 00:24:32,040 --> 00:24:37,960 Proverbs 4 is a powerful scripture, Proverbs 420 through 322 00:24:37,960 --> 00:24:39,960 22, which you could go on and read. 323 00:24:39,960 --> 00:24:43,240 It's just awesome anyway. But I just want to focus on 324 00:24:43,240 --> 00:24:49,040 Proverbs 420 through 22 and there's 5 little points within 325 00:24:49,040 --> 00:24:50,760 this. Can you believe this? 326 00:24:51,360 --> 00:24:55,920 Five points within Proverbs 420 through 22. 327 00:24:56,080 --> 00:25:00,160 Now again, remember what we're talking about, meditating on the 328 00:25:00,160 --> 00:25:03,240 word of God. So the first thing we see here, 329 00:25:03,240 --> 00:25:07,080 let's read it. It says this, my son, give 330 00:25:07,080 --> 00:25:15,560 attention to my words. Incline your ear to my sayings. 331 00:25:16,200 --> 00:25:19,120 Do not let them depart from your eyes. 332 00:25:19,760 --> 00:25:22,560 Keep them in the midst of your heart. 333 00:25:23,080 --> 00:25:25,720 For that here it is, for they are life. 334 00:25:25,720 --> 00:25:29,240 This is that word life, sustenance, right? 335 00:25:29,480 --> 00:25:32,760 This is the life, this is the nourishment that you're going to 336 00:25:32,760 --> 00:25:37,400 need, he says. For in it they are life to those 337 00:25:37,400 --> 00:25:42,840 who find them, and health to all their flesh. 338 00:25:43,520 --> 00:25:50,560 There are 5 promises right here within these two scriptures and 339 00:25:50,560 --> 00:25:55,280 it's powerful when we understand what these two scriptures are 340 00:25:55,280 --> 00:25:59,040 actually saying. So I want to read this also out 341 00:25:59,040 --> 00:26:01,320 of the Amplified Classic real quick. 342 00:26:01,320 --> 00:26:08,080 It says, my son, attend to my words, consent and submit to my 343 00:26:08,080 --> 00:26:10,600 sayings. There's a key there. 344 00:26:11,480 --> 00:26:15,680 You have to consent to the Word of God for it to be activated 345 00:26:15,680 --> 00:26:20,080 within your life and you have to be submitted to the Word of God 346 00:26:20,080 --> 00:26:25,000 and what it is it's saying to you for it to work within your 347 00:26:25,000 --> 00:26:26,760 life. This is powerful. 348 00:26:28,040 --> 00:26:31,440 He says consent and submit to my sayings. 349 00:26:31,720 --> 00:26:36,280 Let them not depart from your sight. 350 00:26:37,560 --> 00:26:41,200 Keep them in the center of your heart. 351 00:26:41,200 --> 00:26:43,320 How do you? We're going to see it in a 352 00:26:43,320 --> 00:26:46,680 minute, OK, Just a minute. For they are life to those who 353 00:26:46,680 --> 00:26:52,640 find them and healing and health to all your flesh. 354 00:26:52,680 --> 00:26:57,480 Wow, so many good things within this two scriptures here. 355 00:26:57,920 --> 00:27:01,040 The first thing I want us to look at is, again, we're talking 356 00:27:01,040 --> 00:27:06,840 about here attending to His Word or meditating in His Word. 357 00:27:06,840 --> 00:27:08,280 This is how we're going to do it. 358 00:27:08,280 --> 00:27:12,680 When we are in a position of meditating in His Word, what are 359 00:27:12,680 --> 00:27:14,880 we doing? We're attending to it. 360 00:27:16,760 --> 00:27:21,480 We're attending to it all right. We're giving attention to it. 361 00:27:21,800 --> 00:27:26,120 We're putting our attention on the word of God, not on the 362 00:27:26,120 --> 00:27:30,480 problem or the circumstance or the situation that we are in. 363 00:27:31,040 --> 00:27:35,560 My attention is going to be on the word of God and for me to 364 00:27:35,560 --> 00:27:40,160 give my attention to his word. Listen to what this means in the 365 00:27:40,480 --> 00:27:45,600 in the Greek, give attention. We're going to hear the word, 366 00:27:46,840 --> 00:27:51,000 We're going to hearken. We're going to take heed. 367 00:27:51,120 --> 00:27:55,160 That's a very powerful word. We're going to take heed to it. 368 00:27:55,600 --> 00:27:58,800 We're going to mark well, mark it well. 369 00:27:59,120 --> 00:28:02,800 We're going to pay attention to it and we're going to listen. 370 00:28:03,360 --> 00:28:06,080 So here we see. He says listen. 371 00:28:06,080 --> 00:28:10,680 To give attention to it or to attend to His word, we're going 372 00:28:10,680 --> 00:28:19,240 to have to open up our ears. And we were taught that they 373 00:28:19,360 --> 00:28:22,880 that we have a ear gate and we have a eye gate. 374 00:28:23,960 --> 00:28:29,080 And this is how things get within our lives and not just 375 00:28:29,080 --> 00:28:32,200 good things. So we can have a ear to hear 376 00:28:32,400 --> 00:28:35,320 ungodly. You know, we, we taught the 377 00:28:35,320 --> 00:28:38,520 teenagers this years ago. If you're listening to ungodly 378 00:28:38,520 --> 00:28:42,080 music, your ear is a gate. And guess what's going to be 379 00:28:42,080 --> 00:28:45,080 coming out of your heart because that's what you're listening to, 380 00:28:46,120 --> 00:28:48,760 right? If your eyes are looking at 381 00:28:48,760 --> 00:28:52,640 things it shouldn't be looking at, like on your phone, you know 382 00:28:52,640 --> 00:28:55,440 what I'm talking about, then guess what? 383 00:28:56,080 --> 00:29:00,080 You're going to be opening your eye gate to that. 384 00:29:01,000 --> 00:29:04,320 And then you're going to want to produce what it is that you're 385 00:29:04,320 --> 00:29:08,560 seeing. So your eye gate, your ear gate 386 00:29:08,560 --> 00:29:17,040 is one way that we receive in information, period information. 387 00:29:18,640 --> 00:29:22,800 And so here for us when he's talking about for us to meditate 388 00:29:22,800 --> 00:29:26,600 on the word, that means why you ought to be listening to the 389 00:29:26,600 --> 00:29:30,880 word when you're driving to work or listening to the word you 390 00:29:30,880 --> 00:29:34,440 know, whenever. This is because you're now is a 391 00:29:34,440 --> 00:29:38,240 part of meditating because you're opening your ear to it, 392 00:29:38,240 --> 00:29:42,000 you're giving attention to it, you're letting it enter within 393 00:29:42,000 --> 00:29:46,120 your heart, right? So meditation is not just 394 00:29:46,120 --> 00:29:51,800 sitting down, you know, being quiet, like, you know, holding 395 00:29:51,800 --> 00:29:55,040 your fingers out like they say meditation is, you know, all 396 00:29:55,040 --> 00:29:58,200 these things. You understand what I'm saying. 397 00:29:58,560 --> 00:30:04,200 Biblical meditation. Biblical meditation is opening 398 00:30:04,200 --> 00:30:08,640 up your ears to hear what the word is saying, opening up your 399 00:30:08,640 --> 00:30:14,280 eyes to read what the Word is saying so that you can what? 400 00:30:14,680 --> 00:30:18,080 Put it within the midst of your heart. 401 00:30:18,080 --> 00:30:25,840 Okay, now when he says listen to let me see it says attend to my 402 00:30:25,840 --> 00:30:28,200 words. Let them not depart from your 403 00:30:28,200 --> 00:30:29,680 site. Keep them in the and then he 404 00:30:29,680 --> 00:30:34,680 also says here, incline your ear out, not in the amplified, but 405 00:30:34,680 --> 00:30:36,680 it's talking about incline your ear. 406 00:30:36,680 --> 00:30:41,360 To my sayings, that word incline your ear means that you need to 407 00:30:41,360 --> 00:30:48,080 bend your ear towards the word. That means you're not going to 408 00:30:48,080 --> 00:30:51,120 let anyone else. Have you ever heard that saying, 409 00:30:51,120 --> 00:30:54,360 oh, they're they have that person talking in their ear. 410 00:30:57,000 --> 00:31:01,320 They've bent their ear to them. Have you heard that saying? 411 00:31:01,560 --> 00:31:06,920 That's what this is meaning. You're inclining your ear to 412 00:31:06,920 --> 00:31:09,880 something else. You're listening to someone 413 00:31:09,880 --> 00:31:11,800 else. You're listening to something 414 00:31:11,800 --> 00:31:13,960 else. And most of the time that's the 415 00:31:13,960 --> 00:31:17,080 enemy. You've inclined your ear to 416 00:31:17,080 --> 00:31:20,560 listen to what the enemy is saying about that situation 417 00:31:20,880 --> 00:31:24,600 instead of here. He's letting us know we are to 418 00:31:24,600 --> 00:31:27,800 incline our ear to what the word is saying. 419 00:31:28,440 --> 00:31:32,440 So that means I'm only going to give attention and incline my 420 00:31:32,440 --> 00:31:35,200 ear. It also means to bend it, to 421 00:31:35,200 --> 00:31:39,560 bend it to hear what the word is saying and not bend it to hear 422 00:31:39,560 --> 00:31:43,960 what anybody else is saying. You see that? 423 00:31:44,400 --> 00:31:47,560 So that's what that word means. So we're going to incline our 424 00:31:47,560 --> 00:31:50,600 ear or bend our ear to the word of God. 425 00:31:50,760 --> 00:31:54,440 We're going to give attention to it and how are we going to give 426 00:31:54,440 --> 00:31:57,360 attention to it? We're going to consent to it and 427 00:31:57,360 --> 00:32:01,280 submit to it back again what I said, we're going to acknowledge 428 00:32:01,280 --> 00:32:03,840 it. We're going to acknowledge what 429 00:32:03,840 --> 00:32:08,920 the word says in that situation above what anybody else has said 430 00:32:09,040 --> 00:32:12,760 or whatever anybody else is saying to me to try to get me 431 00:32:12,760 --> 00:32:16,040 distracted or wait. Maybe it's the enemy as well, 432 00:32:16,440 --> 00:32:19,320 right? But we're going to keep our ear 433 00:32:19,600 --> 00:32:25,040 bent to what the word is saying. Look at Proverbs 4 one through 434 00:32:25,040 --> 00:32:27,120 2. It says here, O children, the 435 00:32:27,120 --> 00:32:30,800 instructions of a father, pay attention. 436 00:32:30,960 --> 00:32:35,040 This is this is clear picture of what he's saying here, where 437 00:32:35,040 --> 00:32:37,040 he's saying give attention to the word. 438 00:32:37,040 --> 00:32:39,680 Incline your ear to the word he's saying. 439 00:32:39,680 --> 00:32:46,440 Listen, pay attention to the instruction of a father and be 440 00:32:46,440 --> 00:32:52,480 willing to learn. So another indication of us 441 00:32:52,480 --> 00:32:56,840 bending our ear or inclining our ear or giving attention to the 442 00:32:56,840 --> 00:32:59,840 word is that we have to want to learn. 443 00:33:00,760 --> 00:33:06,800 We have to be teachable. We have to be people that say, 444 00:33:06,800 --> 00:33:10,960 God, what is your word say? And no matter what, that's what 445 00:33:10,960 --> 00:33:14,800 I'm going to do because I'm learning from you. 446 00:33:14,800 --> 00:33:19,000 I'm going to be teachable in what you're saying to do in that 447 00:33:19,000 --> 00:33:22,280 situation rather than something else. 448 00:33:22,280 --> 00:33:26,880 So he's saying be willing to learn so that you may gain 449 00:33:26,880 --> 00:33:31,320 understanding and intelligent discernment. 450 00:33:32,680 --> 00:33:38,480 For I give you good doctrine, I give you good food, good 451 00:33:38,520 --> 00:33:40,280 doctrine. Listen to what it says. 452 00:33:40,520 --> 00:33:45,200 So do not turn away from my instruction. 453 00:33:46,280 --> 00:33:50,680 See, he gives us good doctrine. He gives us good food to eat. 454 00:33:50,920 --> 00:33:56,320 And we have to be people willing and ready to be a learner, to be 455 00:33:56,320 --> 00:34:00,840 teachable in what the instruction is saying from His 456 00:34:00,840 --> 00:34:06,640 word and give attention to it, acknowledge it, submit to it, 457 00:34:06,840 --> 00:34:11,080 consent to it. You see what I'm saying? 458 00:34:11,320 --> 00:34:14,480 Because it's not going to work for us if we don't. 459 00:34:14,480 --> 00:34:19,120 Just because you sit here and hear the word, it can fall on 460 00:34:19,120 --> 00:34:24,320 what does he say, deaf ears. And it will do you no good. 461 00:34:24,320 --> 00:34:28,239 It will not prosper you and it will not make you successful, 462 00:34:29,719 --> 00:34:31,639 right? And we know actually I believe 463 00:34:31,639 --> 00:34:35,199 it was Sunday Pastor mentioned Hebrews where he talked about 464 00:34:35,199 --> 00:34:38,120 you had become what dull of hearing. 465 00:34:38,320 --> 00:34:42,719 So our ears are very important. And we know in Revelations, I've 466 00:34:42,719 --> 00:34:47,480 said this too, that we need to what have ears to hear what the 467 00:34:47,480 --> 00:34:52,880 Spirit is saying. And we're only going to do that 468 00:34:52,880 --> 00:34:57,360 if we make sure that we're inclining our ear to only want 469 00:34:57,360 --> 00:35:02,720 to hear what the word is saying, not what everything else in the 470 00:35:02,720 --> 00:35:07,400 world is saying, Right. So then Proverbs 2, one through 471 00:35:07,400 --> 00:35:11,720 2 says this, my son, if you'll receive my words, here it is. 472 00:35:12,120 --> 00:35:15,200 You have to consent to it. You have to submit to it. 473 00:35:15,440 --> 00:35:21,640 You have to receive it in your heart for this word to to to 474 00:35:21,640 --> 00:35:28,360 take root and to actually come alive within you for it to 475 00:35:28,360 --> 00:35:30,640 produce. So he says, listen, you have to 476 00:35:30,640 --> 00:35:36,560 receive my words and here it is and treasure my commandments 477 00:35:36,560 --> 00:35:41,760 within you this and we know he says his word is like great 478 00:35:41,760 --> 00:35:46,640 treasure. It's a treasure, and He lets us 479 00:35:46,640 --> 00:35:49,960 know, listen, we're going to have to receive His word and 480 00:35:49,960 --> 00:35:53,640 we're going to have to treasure this commandment within you. 481 00:35:53,840 --> 00:35:59,440 So here it is verse 2, so that your ear is attentive to 482 00:35:59,440 --> 00:36:07,880 skillful and godly wisdom. When we give attention to the 483 00:36:07,880 --> 00:36:11,880 word, when we meditate on the word, when we incline our ear, 484 00:36:11,880 --> 00:36:15,160 when we are learner, being a learner, when we are being 485 00:36:15,160 --> 00:36:20,600 teachable, when we're saying, Lord, give me this bread, I need 486 00:36:20,600 --> 00:36:23,440 this nourishment. Listen to what he's saying. 487 00:36:23,440 --> 00:36:29,520 Then you are going to what apply to your heart, understanding, 488 00:36:29,520 --> 00:36:35,040 seeking it consistently and striving for it eagerly. 489 00:36:36,040 --> 00:36:40,640 So we need to be people that are always being consistent and 490 00:36:40,640 --> 00:36:44,960 daily taking in the bread, eating the Word of God, making 491 00:36:44,960 --> 00:36:49,200 sure our ear is being attentive, becoming skillful to it. 492 00:36:50,240 --> 00:36:53,200 That's very important. You know you're not going to 493 00:36:53,200 --> 00:36:58,600 become skillful or have wisdom if you're not applying the Word 494 00:36:58,600 --> 00:37:02,440 of God to your life every single day. 495 00:37:04,440 --> 00:37:09,520 Every single day. He wants you to apply the Word 496 00:37:09,520 --> 00:37:14,560 in everything in your life, every detail, every single day. 497 00:37:14,560 --> 00:37:17,800 He wants you to live by this Word. 498 00:37:18,680 --> 00:37:22,960 Amen. Proverbs 51 says this. 499 00:37:22,960 --> 00:37:26,040 My son, give attention to my wisdom. 500 00:37:26,200 --> 00:37:28,920 Here it is again. Incline your ear to my 501 00:37:28,920 --> 00:37:33,000 understanding. So these ears are very important 502 00:37:34,920 --> 00:37:38,720 and we have to pay attention. We have to be people that are 503 00:37:38,720 --> 00:37:43,560 going to incline our ear to only hear what the word is saying. 504 00:37:43,680 --> 00:37:45,960 Amen. Let's look at the next point. 505 00:37:45,960 --> 00:37:48,880 It says this. Do not let them depart from your 506 00:37:48,880 --> 00:37:52,600 eyes. This is very important because 507 00:37:52,600 --> 00:37:58,840 he lets us know that our eyes. He tells us that we need to 508 00:37:58,840 --> 00:38:09,360 actually fix our eyes, fix our gaze on what the word is saying. 509 00:38:09,360 --> 00:38:14,400 Do not let them depart from your eyes. 510 00:38:14,400 --> 00:38:16,480 Do you know what this means when you look it up? 511 00:38:16,640 --> 00:38:18,760 Depart from your eyes. Depart. 512 00:38:19,000 --> 00:38:23,080 It means do not let, do not go back. 513 00:38:24,520 --> 00:38:27,280 How about this one? Don't look back. 514 00:38:29,800 --> 00:38:35,200 Don't turn aside because he tells us to look what? 515 00:38:35,320 --> 00:38:38,440 Straight ahead. Keep our eyes fixed on the 516 00:38:38,680 --> 00:38:41,920 prize. Who is the author and finisher 517 00:38:41,920 --> 00:38:43,840 of our faith? Who is it? 518 00:38:44,480 --> 00:38:48,360 Jesus. So he tells us, fix your eyes, 519 00:38:48,680 --> 00:38:51,280 keep them straight. Don't look back. 520 00:38:51,480 --> 00:38:54,200 Don't turn to the side. Come on. 521 00:38:54,200 --> 00:38:58,320 We're supposed to keep our view ahead. 522 00:38:59,280 --> 00:39:05,520 That's what this means actually. Also it means don't go crooked. 523 00:39:06,960 --> 00:39:11,920 How about cross eyed? I mean, I'm adding that I think 524 00:39:11,920 --> 00:39:14,800 it could. I think that word could attain 525 00:39:14,800 --> 00:39:16,840 to this. Don't go crooked. 526 00:39:18,640 --> 00:39:21,000 What are we talking about? Keep your path straight. 527 00:39:21,560 --> 00:39:24,440 Keep your eyes fixed on the word of God. 528 00:39:24,640 --> 00:39:30,400 So our eyes are important in this as well, in this meditating 529 00:39:30,400 --> 00:39:34,960 and keeping it fixed on the word of God. 530 00:39:35,280 --> 00:39:38,520 Don't let it get out of your view. 531 00:39:41,400 --> 00:39:46,080 Don't let it get out of your view, keep it before your eyes. 532 00:39:46,280 --> 00:39:50,400 Psalms 1/19/15. This is the English standard 533 00:39:50,400 --> 00:39:52,000 version. It says it like this. 534 00:39:52,000 --> 00:39:56,040 Psalms 11915. I will meditate on your precepts 535 00:39:56,360 --> 00:40:01,840 and fix my eyes on your ways. You see that? 536 00:40:02,520 --> 00:40:07,800 So as believers, our eyes are important. 537 00:40:07,960 --> 00:40:12,080 Our ears are important. And He also lets us know our 538 00:40:12,080 --> 00:40:14,200 heart is important. We're going to see that in a 539 00:40:14,200 --> 00:40:19,160 minute. Proverbs 3, Proverbs 3, and 540 00:40:19,160 --> 00:40:22,160 verse 3 says this. And then I'm going to drop down 541 00:40:22,160 --> 00:40:25,320 to verse 21. It says do not let kindness and 542 00:40:25,320 --> 00:40:29,200 truth leave you. Bind them around your neck. 543 00:40:29,560 --> 00:40:34,040 Write them here it is on the tablet of your heart. 544 00:40:34,480 --> 00:40:38,480 You know, when the Word of Faith movement came out years ago, 545 00:40:39,920 --> 00:40:43,720 this was really, really something that a lot of people 546 00:40:43,720 --> 00:40:45,920 did. They would write down the 547 00:40:45,920 --> 00:40:52,320 scriptures or even write down a scripture and take a picture of 548 00:40:52,320 --> 00:40:55,040 something that they were believing and put it on the 549 00:40:55,040 --> 00:40:57,840 refrigerator. They would write down scripture 550 00:40:58,000 --> 00:41:02,280 and they would put it on, you know, wherever their mirror. 551 00:41:03,520 --> 00:41:06,160 What were they doing? They were literally keeping the 552 00:41:06,160 --> 00:41:11,800 word before their eyes. And I feel like, you know, we've 553 00:41:11,800 --> 00:41:15,000 all gotten away from this, right? 554 00:41:15,000 --> 00:41:19,480 Because this is part of meditation on the word met. 555 00:41:19,480 --> 00:41:23,640 A part of meditation is us not just reading it, writing it 556 00:41:23,640 --> 00:41:25,960 down, putting it before our eyes. 557 00:41:25,960 --> 00:41:30,560 What's the scripture that we're standing on, right, Putting it 558 00:41:30,560 --> 00:41:35,000 before our eyes and we're going to see that One of the important 559 00:41:35,000 --> 00:41:39,280 things too, about meditation has to do with memorizing. 560 00:41:41,000 --> 00:41:44,280 Memorizing. This is why in Sunday school, 561 00:41:44,480 --> 00:41:47,720 what is the number one thing we try to do is, is get the 562 00:41:47,720 --> 00:41:52,360 children to to memorize little verses, right? 563 00:41:52,480 --> 00:41:55,160 What is that doing? Do you think we're just doing 564 00:41:55,160 --> 00:41:57,720 that just to do it? No, it's getting it in their 565 00:41:57,720 --> 00:42:00,360 heart. It's lodging it within their 566 00:42:00,360 --> 00:42:07,000 heart because that's part of a very important part of 567 00:42:07,000 --> 00:42:10,440 meditation is memorization as well. 568 00:42:10,840 --> 00:42:14,000 And so he says, listen, write them on the tablets of your 569 00:42:14,000 --> 00:42:17,280 heart, my son. Let them not vanish from your 570 00:42:17,280 --> 00:42:21,160 sight. Keep sound wisdom and 571 00:42:21,160 --> 00:42:23,360 discretion. You know what that tells me? 572 00:42:23,680 --> 00:42:26,600 That if I don't keep meditating on the Word, if I don't keep the 573 00:42:26,600 --> 00:42:29,680 Word before my eyes, if I don't keep my ears inclined to the 574 00:42:29,680 --> 00:42:34,480 Word and what it's saying, then I'm going to not have proper 575 00:42:34,480 --> 00:42:39,560 discretion and not have sound wisdom when it comes to a 576 00:42:39,560 --> 00:42:44,720 situation that I'm encountering. I'm not going to have proper 577 00:42:44,720 --> 00:42:51,800 discernment. And so, you know, I know for me, 578 00:42:51,800 --> 00:42:55,160 I want to know that when I'm encountering situations and when 579 00:42:55,160 --> 00:42:59,960 I'm in, in, in a scenario, I want to have sound wisdom and I 580 00:42:59,960 --> 00:43:04,480 want to have discernment and discretion about reality of 581 00:43:04,480 --> 00:43:08,640 what's happening. Because if you're not keeping 582 00:43:08,640 --> 00:43:13,360 yourself in a place of this meditation, then I'm going to 583 00:43:13,360 --> 00:43:15,800 tell you when you get in situations, you're not going to 584 00:43:15,800 --> 00:43:19,000 have sound wisdom and you're not going to have the discernment 585 00:43:19,000 --> 00:43:21,440 that you need. The next thing he lets us know 586 00:43:21,440 --> 00:43:24,000 here #4 this is the fourth point. 587 00:43:24,000 --> 00:43:28,160 I had five. The 4th point was keep them in 588 00:43:28,160 --> 00:43:33,600 the midst of your heart. Keep them in the midst of your 589 00:43:33,600 --> 00:43:35,760 heart. So what does this mean? 590 00:43:35,920 --> 00:43:40,440 You're getting in the Word every day and it's keeping it in the 591 00:43:40,440 --> 00:43:43,000 midst of your heart. You're putting it within your 592 00:43:43,000 --> 00:43:47,160 heart, your spirit man. But listen to what this heart is 593 00:43:47,160 --> 00:43:50,560 letting us know. Don't have a divided heart. 594 00:43:54,800 --> 00:43:58,200 Don't have a divided heart because you can have an opinion 595 00:43:58,200 --> 00:44:02,360 about something that's not what the Scripture is saying and your 596 00:44:02,360 --> 00:44:11,600 heart be divided. So we can't be people that have 597 00:44:11,600 --> 00:44:15,720 a divided heart. We for us, we want just the word 598 00:44:15,720 --> 00:44:19,440 kept within our heart. We want nothing but the word, 599 00:44:19,440 --> 00:44:21,640 right. So help us God, the truth, the 600 00:44:21,640 --> 00:44:24,520 truth of God's Word, That's what we want to keep in the midst of 601 00:44:24,520 --> 00:44:26,360 our heart. We don't want to have a divided 602 00:44:26,360 --> 00:44:30,760 heart with other opinions, other thought processes, other things. 603 00:44:31,400 --> 00:44:35,080 We want to have strictly a heart full of His word, and that's 604 00:44:35,080 --> 00:44:38,280 what that's talking about here. Keeping it in the midst of your 605 00:44:38,280 --> 00:44:41,560 heart. Listen to what it says. 606 00:44:41,880 --> 00:44:49,640 It means this, to guard it, to guard it, to protect it, to 607 00:44:49,640 --> 00:44:55,000 observe, to do it. So again, just because we're 608 00:44:55,000 --> 00:44:58,800 meditating on it and putting in our heart, we have to actually 609 00:44:58,800 --> 00:45:04,480 do it for it to actually be the center of our heart. 610 00:45:04,480 --> 00:45:07,240 We have to be doing what the word is saying. 611 00:45:08,800 --> 00:45:12,880 Because if we're not doing it, we're doing our thought or our 612 00:45:12,880 --> 00:45:17,480 opinion or whatever we want to do instead of what the word is 613 00:45:17,480 --> 00:45:20,920 saying to do because it won't be the center of your heart. 614 00:45:21,000 --> 00:45:24,000 You have a divided heart is what he's letting us know here. 615 00:45:24,360 --> 00:45:28,680 So again, guarding it, protecting it, observing it, 616 00:45:28,880 --> 00:45:39,200 retaining it, or I love this how it said this treasure up, build 617 00:45:39,280 --> 00:45:47,320 your treasure up, get your heart so full of the treasure of the 618 00:45:47,320 --> 00:45:52,760 word of God, treasure up. But in that word, treasure up 619 00:45:53,080 --> 00:46:00,200 means memory. How do you get so much word in 620 00:46:00,200 --> 00:46:04,800 you again that you got it memorized to memory? 621 00:46:07,560 --> 00:46:14,440 Treasure up, get so much of His word. 622 00:46:14,760 --> 00:46:16,960 And we're going to see this in a second. 623 00:46:16,960 --> 00:46:21,320 I'm going to read the scripture that talks about this treasure 624 00:46:21,320 --> 00:46:25,120 up in your memory. And not only that, it means to 625 00:46:25,120 --> 00:46:28,160 keep watch over. That means you're not going to 626 00:46:28,160 --> 00:46:31,080 let because you know, what are the number one things when the 627 00:46:31,080 --> 00:46:34,960 seed of the word is sown in your heart, the enemy tries to come 628 00:46:34,960 --> 00:46:38,960 and what? Snatch it out of your heart? 629 00:46:39,880 --> 00:46:45,880 That's why he tells us to guard it, protect it, because the 630 00:46:45,880 --> 00:46:51,080 enemy wants to snatch it out of your heart so it don't take root 631 00:46:51,160 --> 00:46:57,560 in you to become a treasure, to become so treasured up that it 632 00:46:57,560 --> 00:47:00,960 is in memory. So that means when you're in a 633 00:47:00,960 --> 00:47:03,680 situation, the Holy Ghost, you're just quoting these 634 00:47:03,680 --> 00:47:04,800 scriptures. Come on. 635 00:47:05,000 --> 00:47:09,800 They're just coming up because you're so full of the treasure 636 00:47:09,800 --> 00:47:13,280 of God's Word because you've been meditating on it day and 637 00:47:13,280 --> 00:47:16,760 night. Come on, you're so full of His 638 00:47:16,760 --> 00:47:20,640 word that that's the only thing that can come out of your mouth 639 00:47:27,040 --> 00:47:31,720 now the center of your heart also, because we know the heart 640 00:47:31,920 --> 00:47:37,280 is connected here is talking about your inner man and your 641 00:47:37,280 --> 00:47:42,080 soul realm, which is your mind, your will, your the seat of your 642 00:47:42,080 --> 00:47:45,960 emotions. See if you get so treasured up 643 00:47:46,000 --> 00:47:52,040 in the word of God and so full of it, you will dominate your 644 00:47:52,040 --> 00:47:59,920 emotions because remember First Thessalonians 523. 645 00:47:59,920 --> 00:48:03,720 This is just a side note. He wants us to sanctify ourself 646 00:48:03,720 --> 00:48:08,520 what be blameless spirit, soul and body. 647 00:48:08,680 --> 00:48:12,320 So we need to get and we've talked about this when we taught 648 00:48:12,320 --> 00:48:18,120 on spirit, soul and body. We want our spirit man so full 649 00:48:18,160 --> 00:48:21,960 of the word of God that it dominates our body, our flesh 650 00:48:22,280 --> 00:48:27,000 and it right and it dominates our emotions in our soul realm 651 00:48:28,760 --> 00:48:32,160 so that it would be what two against one. 652 00:48:33,160 --> 00:48:37,640 And when you get your heart so full of the word of God, it will 653 00:48:37,640 --> 00:48:43,720 dominate in both all three arenas and you won't have to 654 00:48:43,720 --> 00:48:48,200 worry about letting it, you know, be the you you already so 655 00:48:48,200 --> 00:48:53,120 full that it's not your flesh is not dominating you at all and 656 00:48:53,120 --> 00:48:57,800 your mind and your emotions are stayed on the Lord on the word. 657 00:48:59,600 --> 00:49:02,720 It's on the word and why do I say that? 658 00:49:03,680 --> 00:49:07,560 Because of this word right here. Colossians chapter 3, Colossians 659 00:49:07,560 --> 00:49:11,000 chapter 3 and verse 16. Listen to what he says. 660 00:49:11,120 --> 00:49:15,400 Let the word of God. I'm reading out of the 661 00:49:15,400 --> 00:49:18,320 amplified, but I'm going to just quote it what it says. 662 00:49:18,600 --> 00:49:26,200 Let the word of God what richly dwell within you, Let the word 663 00:49:26,200 --> 00:49:30,920 of God richly dwell within you. This is richly. 664 00:49:30,920 --> 00:49:38,560 This is that word treasured up. It's richly dwelling within you, 665 00:49:38,760 --> 00:49:41,560 the word of God. You are so full because you've 666 00:49:41,560 --> 00:49:44,800 been meditating day and night. You've been keeping your eyes 667 00:49:44,800 --> 00:49:46,840 fixed on what the word of God says. 668 00:49:47,080 --> 00:49:50,240 Come on, you've been inclining your ear to what the word of God 669 00:49:50,240 --> 00:49:54,760 has said about your situation and you are the word of God is 670 00:49:54,760 --> 00:49:58,720 so richly dwelling within your heart. 671 00:49:58,960 --> 00:50:00,680 Listen to what the amplifies it says. 672 00:50:00,680 --> 00:50:06,240 Let the spoken Word of Christ have its home within your or 673 00:50:06,240 --> 00:50:11,360 dwelling in your heart and your mind, because again, that was 674 00:50:11,360 --> 00:50:16,560 connected the heart and the mind in your heart and mind 675 00:50:16,840 --> 00:50:20,920 permeating every aspect of your being. 676 00:50:21,360 --> 00:50:25,880 As you teach spiritual things, listen to what it says, admonish 677 00:50:25,880 --> 00:50:29,680 and train with one another. With all wisdom, look at the 678 00:50:29,680 --> 00:50:33,520 byproduct of the Word of God richly dwelling within you. 679 00:50:35,080 --> 00:50:38,400 Your mouth is going to open up and sing psalms of hymns, 680 00:50:38,600 --> 00:50:41,880 spiritual songs, making melody within your heart and 681 00:50:41,880 --> 00:50:44,280 thankfulness. So I'm going to tell you, when 682 00:50:44,280 --> 00:50:47,200 you come in here and you act like you can't worship God, you 683 00:50:47,200 --> 00:50:51,760 know what? That lets me know you have not 684 00:50:52,240 --> 00:50:56,160 been meditating on the word day and night so that the word is so 685 00:50:56,160 --> 00:50:58,680 full and richly dwelling within you. 686 00:50:58,960 --> 00:51:03,000 A byproduct of it is that I'm going to open up my mouth and 687 00:51:03,000 --> 00:51:04,920 I'm going to begin to praise him. 688 00:51:04,920 --> 00:51:08,000 Come on, I'm going to begin to worship him. 689 00:51:08,240 --> 00:51:12,480 I'm going to begin to sing a song of praise of him. 690 00:51:12,920 --> 00:51:16,600 Hallelujah. I'm going to begin to give glory 691 00:51:16,600 --> 00:51:20,880 to Him because his word. Oh, it's treasured up on the 692 00:51:20,880 --> 00:51:26,240 inside of me and I can't help but to sing praises to his name. 693 00:51:30,320 --> 00:51:33,320 Hallelujah. It's a byproduct. 694 00:51:33,320 --> 00:51:40,560 What's in your mouth will come out of your heart and come out 695 00:51:40,560 --> 00:51:44,360 of your heart. Come out of your mouth because 696 00:51:44,360 --> 00:51:49,480 it's so rich within you and you'll have a song. 697 00:51:50,840 --> 00:51:55,960 Can't help but to praising, can't help but to sing a song, a 698 00:51:55,960 --> 00:51:58,720 hymn, a spiritual song making a melody. 699 00:51:59,000 --> 00:52:02,760 Come on because the word of God. Listen to what Hebrew says. 700 00:52:02,760 --> 00:52:06,880 We're closing the word of God in Hebrews chapter 4 verse 12 says 701 00:52:06,880 --> 00:52:12,120 for the word of God is living and active. 702 00:52:12,120 --> 00:52:20,440 How can you come in here and act dead if you've been meditating 703 00:52:20,440 --> 00:52:23,800 on the word day and night and you come in here like a bubble? 704 00:52:23,800 --> 00:52:29,000 The log, come on. I'm just, it's, it says it right 705 00:52:29,000 --> 00:52:31,840 here. His word is alive. 706 00:52:32,000 --> 00:52:44,360 His word is active, full of power, making it operative, 707 00:52:44,360 --> 00:52:49,840 energizing and effective. It is sharper than any 2 edged 708 00:52:49,840 --> 00:52:53,960 sword, penetrating as far as the division of the soul and the 709 00:52:53,960 --> 00:52:58,720 spirit, the completeness of a person of both joint and marrow 710 00:52:58,720 --> 00:53:03,240 to the deepest parts of our nature, exposing and judging the 711 00:53:03,240 --> 00:53:06,200 very thoughts and intentions of one's art. 712 00:53:09,320 --> 00:53:18,480 Hallelujah, glory to God. Oh thank you Jesus, thank you 713 00:53:18,720 --> 00:53:22,560 Jesus. And look at the last thing he 714 00:53:22,560 --> 00:53:27,720 says about Proverbs chapter 4. It says that his, his word, 715 00:53:27,720 --> 00:53:31,120 those that write it, they are life. 716 00:53:32,720 --> 00:53:41,200 Life to those who find them life. 717 00:53:42,520 --> 00:53:47,040 You should be so energized. Come on, you should be so full 718 00:53:47,040 --> 00:53:51,080 of life. You should be so excited that 719 00:53:51,080 --> 00:53:55,800 the word of God is in you, the seed of God's word, the divine 720 00:53:55,800 --> 00:54:01,560 nature, everything that pertains to life and godliness dwells on 721 00:54:01,560 --> 00:54:06,160 the inside of you. Glory to God, giving you life, 722 00:54:06,440 --> 00:54:11,240 giving you nourishment, giving you everything you need every 723 00:54:11,240 --> 00:54:16,880 single day. Hallelujah. 724 00:54:16,880 --> 00:54:19,360 And you know what it brings? Healing. 725 00:54:22,080 --> 00:54:29,320 It brings healing to your life, healing to your soul, healing to 726 00:54:29,320 --> 00:54:33,440 your emotions. See, when you're in the Word, 727 00:54:33,640 --> 00:54:37,240 come on, you ought to be so full. 728 00:54:42,000 --> 00:54:47,200 Healing health to all their flesh. 729 00:54:47,240 --> 00:54:52,760 That word in the Greek is MARPE medicine. 730 00:54:53,280 --> 00:54:57,560 It's the medicine you need every day, daily. 731 00:54:57,560 --> 00:55:00,800 What do we say? Take your medicine because it's 732 00:55:00,800 --> 00:55:04,360 going to be health and it's going to be healing to you. 733 00:55:04,720 --> 00:55:08,600 And if you are sick, if you are broke down, come on. 734 00:55:08,760 --> 00:55:12,720 If your emotions are controlling you, if all of these 735 00:55:12,720 --> 00:55:18,760 circumstances are going on and you are losing control, come on, 736 00:55:18,800 --> 00:55:23,320 it's because you've got treasured up and eat in your 737 00:55:23,320 --> 00:55:28,760 daily bread. Where is the life source that's 738 00:55:28,760 --> 00:55:32,960 going to flow to you for what you need in that meaning? 739 00:55:33,200 --> 00:55:38,880 Listen, when you look up that word, MARPE, healing for 740 00:55:38,880 --> 00:55:43,840 disease, just reading the word, just meditating on the word, 741 00:55:44,080 --> 00:55:48,960 healing your body, healing your diseases. 742 00:55:48,960 --> 00:55:55,240 This is a result of us being so full of God's word that disease 743 00:55:55,240 --> 00:56:01,640 cannot stay in your body. It's a byproduct. 744 00:56:02,360 --> 00:56:08,280 Healing is the dinner bread or the dinner bell of healing is a 745 00:56:08,280 --> 00:56:17,160 byproduct of our salvation and the one way we need to take our 746 00:56:17,160 --> 00:56:23,400 medicine every day so that disease can be pushed out of our 747 00:56:23,400 --> 00:56:25,640 body. What about the next thing that 748 00:56:25,640 --> 00:56:30,040 word means a refreshing of your body and your mind. 749 00:56:32,400 --> 00:56:39,400 A refreshing, we know Roman said he can quicken your mortal body, 750 00:56:40,240 --> 00:56:44,480 refresh you in your mind and in your body. 751 00:56:44,560 --> 00:56:46,720 And you know what that word also means? 752 00:56:46,720 --> 00:56:50,200 A deliverance from any type of calamity. 753 00:56:52,200 --> 00:56:54,760 You might have had calamity in your life. 754 00:56:54,760 --> 00:56:57,160 You know what you need to do? Just meditate on the word. 755 00:56:58,080 --> 00:57:00,240 Just meditate on the word day and night. 756 00:57:00,480 --> 00:57:03,720 Come on and just receive your deliverance from that calamity 757 00:57:03,720 --> 00:57:10,160 that just happened in your life. Just meditating on the Word, 758 00:57:11,080 --> 00:57:15,600 inclining your ear, observing and doing, consenting and 759 00:57:15,600 --> 00:57:22,720 submitting to the Word of God, the byproduct of it, the last 760 00:57:22,720 --> 00:57:30,720 thing it means. It's the remedy for tranquility 761 00:57:30,920 --> 00:57:35,800 of mine. It's the remedy, right? 762 00:57:36,160 --> 00:57:41,040 We take our medicine for what? The remedy of healing? 763 00:57:41,760 --> 00:57:48,120 And he's letting us know the remedy for a crazy mind. 764 00:57:50,440 --> 00:57:55,160 Come on, is meditating in the word day and night. 765 00:57:55,240 --> 00:57:58,600 You will have tranquility of mind and then you know what 766 00:57:58,600 --> 00:58:01,600 else? It's connected to your mouth 767 00:58:01,600 --> 00:58:05,040 because he says you will have a meek tongue. 768 00:58:06,960 --> 00:58:14,040 Wow, that's what that MARP means in the Greek. 769 00:58:16,480 --> 00:58:22,960 Wow, let's be people this year as believers to say, you know 770 00:58:22,960 --> 00:58:25,200 what? I'm going to meditate in his 771 00:58:25,200 --> 00:58:28,760 word day and night. I'm going to read and partake of 772 00:58:28,760 --> 00:58:32,360 the bread of life. Come on every day and I'm going 773 00:58:32,360 --> 00:58:35,560 to chew it and bite it one day at a time. 774 00:58:35,720 --> 00:58:38,160 I'm going to just take it in. I'm going to meditate it. 775 00:58:38,160 --> 00:58:40,960 I'm going to bite on it. I'm going to eat on it, come on. 776 00:58:41,320 --> 00:58:43,840 And I'm going to begin to be person that's going to just 777 00:58:43,840 --> 00:58:47,760 begin to speak his word in every situation. 778 00:58:48,000 --> 00:58:54,840 Listen, make it your New Year's resolution and I guarantee you, 779 00:58:55,040 --> 00:59:02,120 you will see the result of just you dedicating yourself to read 780 00:59:02,120 --> 00:59:07,520 the word and meditate on it and speak it and believe it and do 781 00:59:07,520 --> 00:59:11,400 it and see the changes that you need in your life. 782 00:59:12,880 --> 00:59:16,680 Amen. Hallelujah in that exciting, in 783 00:59:16,680 --> 00:59:20,520 that good news, he said. Listen, I am the bread of life 784 00:59:20,720 --> 00:59:23,600 and all you got to do is just take a bite every day.