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For the month of February, we, I
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do a series and they're dead in 
the middle of it right now. 

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It is called the Voice in the 
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We started with it last week. 
And this is a series on 

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confession. 
And the, my heart and my intent 

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and my goal here is that we 
would have a deeper 

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understanding of this subject, 
but not only just a revelation 

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on the inside in our spirit, but
also have some practical 

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application tonight, some 
practical understanding of how 

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our confession works. 
So as, as we get into it, I know

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that last week we laid quite a 
foundation about how the word of

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God, our words matter. 
The value of not just the word 

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of God, but the value of your 
words as a whole. 

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I'm not going to spend too much 
time in review, but it's 

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important for me to go back and 
remind you of a couple key 

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concepts #1 God said, let there 
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So in the beginning of all 
things, we know God is a creator

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and he's also somebody that 
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He's a speaking spirit. 
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you and me, He made us to be in 
His image and in His likeness. 

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That means He made us to operate
like Him. 

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So if God is a speaking, a 
speaking spirit, what does that 

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make us speaking spirit? 
The same way that God is the 

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King of heaven. 
He established man to be the 

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ruler of this earth. 
When He gave man dominion, gave 

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him the Kingdom. 
That means we have the right to 

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say and the dominion we carry on
this planet just as He does in 

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heaven through our voice. 
So in the garden, whenever Adam 

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and Eve fell, they ate the 
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They they aligned their speaking
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So last week we said whenever 
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came to attack the most powerful
thing in the universe. 

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He did not come to attack the 
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He came to attack the word. 
His first question was, what did

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God say? 
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Because he recognizes the enemy,
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and you should too, that the 
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universe is the word of God. 
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the whole universe that is more 
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precious of a commodity than the
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So even when the devil first 
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to get you to doubt or to 
manipulate the King's word. 

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So this should lay a pretty good
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If you haven't heard it, go back
and listen to it. 

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We've got it on podcast. 
But again, the word of the king 

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is what God values most, his own
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He says he exalts his his word 
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And again, if we don't think 
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is there such a, a, a, a battle 
throughout the entire Old 

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Testament, through the New 
Testament and even in your daily

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life, a battle of words. 
We we come into, you know, a 

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men's discipleship course that 
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And I can't tell you how many 
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speaking with, you know, men 
over the years that words their 

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parents spoke over them when 
they were children have dictated

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how they think about themselves 
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We want to act like, oh, it's OK
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want. 
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somebody's comes to me and 
they're like, oh, you know, I 

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just say what comes to my mind? 
Danger. 

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Oh, you know, I don't really 
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You know me get one fast, 
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You're going to hurt yourself. 
You're going to hurt people 

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around you because again, if the
word of God places such a heavy 

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value on words, why would it not
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you to devalue that? 
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that we have, we gave an example
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this whole series is going to 
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chapter 3, verses four and five.
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the value of words. 
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he's like, listen, a person who 
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perfect person. 
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mouth is a perfect person. 
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control the mouth? 
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when somebody makes the 
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statements that God's in 
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Well, I can add something to the
list that he's not in control of

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your mouth. 
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you wouldn't be saying the stuff
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We wouldn't be having half the 
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You haven't. 
He's not in control of your 

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mouth. 
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verse four and five, he says, 
look at the ships also that they

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are so great and they are driven
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still directed by a very small 
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of the pilot desires. 
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massive ships, and if you've 
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seen some of these things that 
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Britain in the time of their 
Royal Navy, these massive, huge 

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ships that they would get in the
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The water would be dragging them
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The wind would come in these 
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them. 
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direction was not the current of
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wind that was in the sails. 
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was the small piece of wood at 
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rudder. 
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though the king could decree 
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and say here's where I want you 
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the boat and say everybody turn 
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nothing would happen until the 
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controlled that rudder. 
So I love to do what Jesus did 

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right when he was here. 
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said this is how the Kingdom 
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These are things that the 
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In the same way, God is the 
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He's, he has laid out a destiny,
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every beating heart in this 
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But whether you reach that or 
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By him. 
He's giving you the compass, 

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He's giving you his word, He's 
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way. 
He's giving you a final 

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destination. 
He hasn't given you the whole 

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map, but what he can do is as 
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turn E, turn W, turn starboard, 
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He can give you those small 
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And as he does that, you now 
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adjustments you hear from his 
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So when we talk about the voice 
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voices happening in the voyage 
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One is the voice of the captain 
telling you where you should go,

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and one is your voice that 
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because your mouth determines 
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Remember last week we talked 
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looking at degrees right, and 
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and you just get 1° off in your 
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steering, your final destination
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And if you've ever driven a car,
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is that if you're, when you're 
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not sitting there. 
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wheel and saying I'm not going 
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The rest of my, no, you're even 
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minor adjustments along the way 
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That's how it's going to be with
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If you find yourself shipwrecked
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Who got you there? 
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No, it wasn't. 
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You steered it somewhere else. 
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Oh wait, you know I know what 
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I know what He's called me to 
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But it just seems like I keep 
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Why then it's not His perfect 
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His perfect plan isn't that you 
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failure to failure to failure. 
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would follow His direction. 
You would heed His voice and 

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then use your voice to direct 
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But this is important because a 
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confession, I, you know, I went 
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I love the, the wealth of 
teaching that we have at Anchor 

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Vague Church. 
I'm telling you right now, we, 

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we get fed well by our apostles,
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I mean, if you, if you're here 
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really get fed at Anchor Vague 
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You're a liar. 
You're an absolute liar. 

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We, it means you're sitting in 
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So I've got children. 
We feed our children good at our

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house. 
We eat organic. 

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We just got a bunch of venison 
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killed. 
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You know what? 
My kids have the choice. 

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They can sit at the table and 
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I find some believers have done 
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They come in, there is a great 
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They said they're going, I don't
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It's good for you. 
You'll grow. 

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You'll be healthy. 
Anyway, that's like the pastoral

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thing coming out, right? 
See, nobody's safe in this place

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because I've grown up here with 
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All my stories are just y'all, 
At least half of you had a meal 

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in my home. 
It's like I can give an 

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allegory. 
Oh, you know, so and so one time

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and you're like, wait, he's 
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Probably, I don't know. 
We're not sure we'll get we'll 

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cross that bridge when we come 
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But when we look at the destiny 
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one of us, the goal is that we 
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follow that. 
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he's saying about our identity. 
We want to say what he's saying 

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in our circumstance. 
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the winds and the waves can be 
tough, they can be trying to 

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push you in a direction still 
where that rudder points is 

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where you'll go. 
The Bible's full of ocean 

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analogies with people on a ship.
Remember we talked about how 

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Jesus was on this ship, man. 
And these guys were professional

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sailors. 
They knew how boats operated. 

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Yet there's this storm happening
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we're going to die. 
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boat. 
Then when he gets up, he comes 

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out and says, listen, peace, be 
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And with his voice commands the 
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And they were blown away. 
And he's able to look at him and

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say, where's your faith? 
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speak to the winds and ways 
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No, apparently as a good 
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teacher. 
Can we agree about that? 

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You know what a bad teacher is? 
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comes in and just slides a test 
in front of you with no 

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instruction on, says take the 
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they go you're a failure. 
That's a bad teacher. 

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A good teacher instructs you and
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examples of how to accomplish 
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So if Jesus came in and said you
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through his example, through his
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his words that he gave them, he 
apparently had equipped them to 

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pass that test. 
When he said you didn't have 

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faith, it wasn't because they 
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Same thing is going to be with 
you whenever trials come. 

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We are equipped through the word
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accomplish victory in that 
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In that test. 
Proverbs chapter 18 verse 21. 

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Let's look at this Proverbs 
chapter 18 verse 21. 

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It says that death and life are 
in the power of the what are in 

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the power of the tongue? 
Whose tongue? 

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OK, those who love it will eat 
its fruit. 

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Now, it's not saying those who 
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OK, those who value the words 
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Now I'll also say you'll eat the
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eat the fruit of death. 
And then going over, you know, 

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listening to some some messages 
from last year, I came across 

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one where Apostle Earl had this 
phenomenal quote. 

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And I'm going to quote him 
tonight and he's sitting right 

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here and I love it. 
But he said, you know, your life

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can manifest in just one 
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You may have confessed your way 
into the mess that you're in. 

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You may have declared a lot of 
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one moment you can get a word 
from the Lord and just with one 

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word begin to declare life and 
set yourself in the right 

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direction. 
See what I think we do sometimes

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with our confession? 
And I'm going to talk a lot 

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tonight to not just believers 
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in church like me, but there's 
some people in here you may not 

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have ever heard this before. 
And I'm aware of what the Word 

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of God does, right? 
Let me just say this real quick.

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The Word of God, every time it's
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it, every time we hear it, it 
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It either forms a brand new 
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course of victory if we would 
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do what it says. 
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it does is it strengthens the 
foundation of what you already 

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know. 
It doesn't matter if we get up 

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here and read. 
Life and death are in the power 

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of a tongue again. 
I'm telling you, if everybody 

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already had it, we wouldn't have
to get up here. 

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You're like, oh, I already know 
that. 

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I can tell by that sentence. 
You said you don't got it, but 

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every time we hear the word, it 
strengthens something in US. 

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It builds us a a deeper 
foundation. 

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God's wanted to prepare us, 
especially whenever somebody 

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gets up here and ministers. 
We're not in here just to just 

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to hear our own voice. 
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Pastor Mike and Angie, Apostles,
Earl and Marcy, Pastor Chase, 

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Pastor Bradley, Pastor Danny, 
me, whoever comes up here, we 

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have spent time with the King. 
We have heard. 

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What do you have for your 
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And that should never go 
unnoticed by any of us, that 

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when we're sitting in here, we 
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What is God saying to me? 
I don't have to go to YouTube 

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and hear a bunch of other 
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They're not responsible for my 
soul. 

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There may be good information 
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the number one source of 
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at my house. 
I'm going to let my pastors, the

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five full minutes against that 
God called me to submit to and 

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be with and run with and do life
with. 

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Those are the ones that are 
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in the deepest. 
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power of the tongue, which means
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going to dictate where you wind 
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Just like we said, when the ship
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is in motion. 
Nobody is in stagnant waters. 

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You're going a direction whether
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So whenever we begin to confess 
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it's going to change the 
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we're going, which then tells us
that's how we wind up at our 

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final checkpoint. 
But what I think a lot of people

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try to do, especially, you know,
the religious believers want to 

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want to, they want to teleport 
and not actually voyage 

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somewhere. 
They, they, they find a 

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circumstance that hits them and 
they're like, I'm going to just 

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say words that'll change my 
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I mean, I've seen it, you know, 
there's been times where we come

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and visit people in the hospital
and, and I've, I've seen time 

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and time again where people will
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their healing, but the way that 
they're going about their 

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confession makes them seem 
wacky. 

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You understand, you can be a 
believer and you can be a man or

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woman of God and you can be a 
little weird. 

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And it's not the goal is to be 
weird. 

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The word of God comes in and 
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And that's a, that's a miracle 
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Don't tell me God ain't moving 
when he's making the weirdos not

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weird. 
But but what happens sometimes 

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is I think in our religious 
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confession is like waving a 
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Then all of a sudden somebody 
will be in the hospital room and

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the doctor will walk in and say,
you know what? 

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We did the biopsy and you, you 
have cancer. 

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And they go, I do not have 
cancer. 

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I do not have cancer. 
I do not have it. 

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And you're like, just because 
the reality is presently you do 

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have it doesn't mean that the in
the future you got to keep it. 

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Confession doesn't teleport you 
from all of a sudden, Oh, oh, 

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it's not there actually. 
Oh, everybody psych everybody. 

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God didn't do that in the 
garden. 

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Whenever Adam and Eve ate the 
fruit, God didn't look and go, 

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they didn't eat the fruit. 
They didn't eat the fruit. 

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The fruit wasn't eaten. 
He he embraced reality and said,

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no, but I'm going to declare 
something about the future of 

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this situation. 
He said, I will send my seed. 

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See that word was more powerful.
So what we're doing with 

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confession is not denying 
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What we're doing is we are 
shifting reality to become what 

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God says about it. 
See, I think sometimes we read 

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the Abraham he says he called 
things that be not as though 

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they were and felt like he was 
just some kind of blind. 

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You know, I have no idea what's 
going on. 

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You can know what's happening in
life and then begin to decree 

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something that along the path it
changes the reality. 

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You know I grew up in a church 
where you sing this song. 

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It's like whose report will you 
believe we will believe the 

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report of the Lord. 
But if you apply that to an 

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immediate present circumstance 
that the report can be, I got a 

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sore throat. 
I'm telling you, I've been a 

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weird Christian before. 
I've been through it. 

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There's been times where I'm 
like, my throat is not sore in 

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the name of Jesus. 
My throat is not sore. 

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It's not sore when I thought 
what I'm trying to do with my, 

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with my voice is trying to 
immediately change something 

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when what I'm doing is I'm 
directing the course of my life.

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That's good. 
I'm telling you, somebody can 

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come in. 
There's there was a time I 

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prayed with somebody that got a 
negative report about diabetes, 

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diabetes. 
They came in and said you've 

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got, you've got type 1 diabetes.
And the person goes, I do not 

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have it. 
I'm like, the doctor thinks 

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we're weird. 
I'm here representing the doctor

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thinks we're weirdo. 
He's looking at the paper. 

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The fact is you got it. 
And the fact is a lot of life 

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choices LED us to this moment. 
Somewhere along the way, your 

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mouth dictated it may not have 
just been what was coming out. 

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But just because you have a 
present report doesn't mean this

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is your final report. 
The goal as believers is not to 

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say, oh, whatever the doctor 
tells me, that's what I have to 

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believe forever. 
No, God has a reality that he's 

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trying to get you to. 
What you have to do is align 

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your mouth with saying, I'm 
going to get there. 

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Because again, this is the issue
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Anonymous. 
They come in and they want to 

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assign you an identity in your 
present circumstance. 

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I am this when the truth of the 
matter is you could have just 

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taken a drink, but the direction
you're heading is going to be 

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determined. 
Do you identify with this is me?

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I'm an alcoholic. 
That's all I'll ever be. 

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And then that's all you are. 
And you wonder why? 

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But if we can get God's word on 
the matter and say, what do you 

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say about me? 
What are what? 

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What is the reality? 
See, there is no victory in 

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denying reality. 
There's only victory in 

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declaring His word. 
That's it. 

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So we don't get to just come in 
and wave a magic wand of oh, I, 

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I all my debts are paid off in 
the name of Jesus. 

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You may as well well say Bibbidi
Bobbidi Boo. 

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You don't get to just say words 
and they just happen. 

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No, we got to find what words 
are have already been said. 

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See, faith is a firm persuasion 
based on the word God has said. 

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But we got believers walking 
around disappointed because all 

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of a sudden they hear the 
principle of, oh, I could, you 

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know you, I can have what I say 
when? 

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Let's get in the word and really
define what that means. 

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You can't just have whatever you
want to say. 

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What you can have is what were 
God's promises? 

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What has God declared? 
And you say that same thing. 

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The original Greek word for 
confession literally means to 

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say the same thing. 
So it doesn't mean just declare 

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whatever you want. 
I have a Lamborghini Bibbidi 

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Bobbidi Boo. 
That's what you're saying. 

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You're trying to use magic. 
See, there's there's not 

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authority in a wish. 
There's authority only in the 

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word. 
So if I attach my mouth to my 

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wishes, then I'm going to find 
myself disappointed and wonder 

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why didn't got working when he 
was never in that. 

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What he's in is in the word. 
So I know if I do get a report 

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that somebody says, hey, you've 
got this diagnosis. 

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I don't have to sit there and go
this is the end. 

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This is how I go out and see, we
think that's funny because we 

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get good teaching, right? 
We think that's funny because 

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we, there's a bunch of people in
here that have overcome, but 

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this is the hot tape for the 
world. 

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See, what we don't want to do is
go in and be like, oh, I'm just 

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going to say a bunch of words. 
No, I have to find, Lord, what 

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do you want me to declare over 
my situation? 

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Life and death are in the power 
of the tongue. 

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That's why Jesus makes such an 
emphasis about a false tongue or

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a lying tongue, because he wants
to make sure that what you're 

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saying aligns with his example 
as a good teacher. 

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He not only told us what to do, 
he also showed us how to live. 

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I mean, again, he made the 
statement. 

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He said I don't say anything of 
my own initiatives, but I only 

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say what the Father tells me to 
say. 

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He didn't say that. 
So we'd all clap our hands and 

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go, good job, you're a great 
guy. 

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He did that so that we could 
know the pattern of how life and

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victory work. 
You're like, oh, I'll give you a

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piece of my mind. 
I don't want a piece of your 

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mind. 
I don't want a piece of my mind.

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My mind can take me a bunch of 
different directions. 

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Let me get a piece of his mind. 
Somebody's like, what do you 

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think about this? 
You don't want to know what I 

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think about this. 
We got to find out what does he 

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think about this? 
And let's just say that because 

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I've seen too often where people
will just declare something. 

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I mean, the, the world has this 
idea of this manifesting, right?

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They want to just go out there 
and decree something that they 

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want. 
And then you know what? 

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Some people have some things to 
happen for them. 

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You're like, there is still a 
law of sowing and reaping and 

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your words are seeds. 
Whether you're a believer or 

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unbeliever, when you speak those
words get planted and then begin

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to bear a harvest. 
That's how we know even with 

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parenting. 
We gave an example last week. 

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It was just bears repeating 
again that with parenting, what 

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you declare over your kids will 
determine the direction of your 

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home, especially when they're 
minors growing up in your home, 

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that they're not just here to 
rest on their own faith. 

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So whenever parents come, 
they're like, oh, you know, you 

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know how it goes. 
You know, we're getting ready to

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enter into the terrible twos and
then your little terrible 2 year

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olds running around like a jerk.
This is your problem. 

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This is your fault. 
It's not because every terror A2

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year old has to be terrible. 
It's not because it's just God's

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will. 
God's testing me. 

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He's not testing you. 
You failed the test when you 

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declared death over your family 
about to have a kid. 

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You know, we're not going to 
have any sleep just because the 

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rest of the world and every 
movie and TV show you've ever 

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watched, everybody's like, oh, 
we're tired. 

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We're parents, we're so tired. 
Doesn't mean your life has to be

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miserable. 
You don't have to declare that 

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and accept it and receive it in 
your life and say this is what 

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I'm going to be. 
It's OK, we'll keep going. 

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We'll keep going. 
Speaking alone doesn't get the 

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result. 
You have to attach it from the 

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word of God. 
This is again another quote from

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our apostle that he said 
confession is a firm persuasion.

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It doesn't just produce of 
itself in its words, it produces

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when it's attached to faith. 
If you want the direction of 

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00:22:47,760 --> 00:22:51,480
your life to go God's way, find 
out what He's saying and then 

449
00:22:51,480 --> 00:23:02,960
declare that over yourself. 
I mean, think about how Jesus 

450
00:23:02,960 --> 00:23:05,240
was about to leave the planet 
and the last thing that he 

451
00:23:05,240 --> 00:23:06,920
wanted to leave us with. 
I mean, you would think that's 

452
00:23:06,920 --> 00:23:08,840
the most, one of the most 
important moments. 

453
00:23:09,160 --> 00:23:11,520
You know, if I knew I was going 
to, you know, have to go 

454
00:23:11,520 --> 00:23:14,000
somewhere, be taken away. 
And I and my kids were here and 

455
00:23:14,000 --> 00:23:14,960
they were hearing what I was 
saying. 

456
00:23:14,960 --> 00:23:17,280
The last few things I would say 
to them would really be 

457
00:23:17,280 --> 00:23:20,480
important and heavy. 
And so Jesus, whenever he was 

458
00:23:20,480 --> 00:23:22,480
raised from the dead and walked 
around before he left his 

459
00:23:22,480 --> 00:23:26,080
disciples and ascended, he had a
heavy emphasis on two things. 

460
00:23:26,080 --> 00:23:29,680
One was walking in love with 
each other, and two was the 

461
00:23:29,680 --> 00:23:32,680
ministry of the Holy Spirit. 
But I find it interesting that 

462
00:23:32,680 --> 00:23:35,520
he defines the Holy Spirit as 
the spirit of what? 

463
00:23:37,320 --> 00:23:40,280
The Spirit of truth. 
He said in his job. 

464
00:23:40,400 --> 00:23:42,920
His job description is not to 
remind you where you left your 

465
00:23:42,920 --> 00:23:46,080
keys. 
I grew up, I was Christian in 

466
00:23:46,080 --> 00:23:48,480
the 90s, OK, We prayed for a lot
of stuff. 

467
00:23:48,720 --> 00:23:50,320
We had a lot of spirits of 
stuff. 

468
00:23:50,600 --> 00:23:54,200
The spirit of neglect. 
We got to what is that spirit of

469
00:23:54,200 --> 00:23:55,600
lost keys? 
No, it's not what we have. 

470
00:23:56,840 --> 00:24:01,160
He can help you, but his job 
description from the mouth of 

471
00:24:01,280 --> 00:24:06,360
Jesus is He will lead you and 
guide you into what not so you 

472
00:24:06,360 --> 00:24:08,240
can just know truth. 
And I want you to get this 

473
00:24:08,240 --> 00:24:10,000
tonight. 
The goal is not that you just 

474
00:24:10,000 --> 00:24:13,840
know truth. 
It's that you believe, live and 

475
00:24:13,840 --> 00:24:17,560
declare truth. 
For us to just have the 

476
00:24:17,560 --> 00:24:19,960
knowledge of what the word says 
or just have the knowledge of it

477
00:24:19,960 --> 00:24:24,400
does us no good. 
If you keep your mouth shut, you

478
00:24:24,400 --> 00:24:27,360
can know God is the healer. 
You can know God wants you whole

479
00:24:27,360 --> 00:24:29,520
and healthy and you can sit 
there with your mouth completely

480
00:24:29,520 --> 00:24:32,120
shut and never declare it and 
wonder why it didn't happen. 

481
00:24:34,720 --> 00:24:36,440
We got to be people that apply 
the truth. 

482
00:24:36,440 --> 00:24:38,920
That's why the Holy Ghost Job is
way more than just letting you 

483
00:24:38,920 --> 00:24:41,240
know something. 
He's here to tell you how what 

484
00:24:41,240 --> 00:24:44,520
to declare. 
Remember, we're kings. 

485
00:24:44,520 --> 00:24:46,320
I mean we always say here at 
Anchor Faith Church, you know, 

486
00:24:46,440 --> 00:24:49,280
he is the king of kings. 
Who are those kings? 

487
00:24:49,720 --> 00:24:51,600
And when a king speaks, his word
is. 

488
00:24:55,760 --> 00:25:00,400
And This is why I'm preaching 
tonight, next week, you better 

489
00:25:00,400 --> 00:25:02,600
have it down. 
When a king speaks, his word is 

490
00:25:02,760 --> 00:25:05,440
power. 
Where the word of a king is, 

491
00:25:05,440 --> 00:25:08,600
there is power. 
So whenever you speak, your 

492
00:25:08,600 --> 00:25:11,680
words have the power to carry 
your direction. 

493
00:25:12,440 --> 00:25:15,280
Your words have the power to 
carry your physical body. 

494
00:25:16,000 --> 00:25:18,800
Your words have the power to 
carry your relationships. 

495
00:25:20,480 --> 00:25:21,840
Now I need to interject the 
note. 

496
00:25:21,840 --> 00:25:23,880
You're not going to be just 
confessing over all your friends

497
00:25:23,880 --> 00:25:26,640
and confessing over your family 
members and expecting that their

498
00:25:26,640 --> 00:25:29,920
free will is going to be 
overridden like that should be a

499
00:25:29,920 --> 00:25:32,960
disclaimer we give here because 
I love this point that in the 

500
00:25:32,960 --> 00:25:34,600
Bible we get the fruits of the 
Spirit, right? 

501
00:25:35,320 --> 00:25:37,240
These are the fruits of an 
individual believer. 

502
00:25:37,600 --> 00:25:40,600
Lovejoy, peace, patience, 
kindness, goodness, 

503
00:25:40,760 --> 00:25:44,400
faithfulness. 
I'm missing 1 and gentleness and

504
00:25:44,400 --> 00:25:50,600
self-control, not others 
control, not just circumstance 

505
00:25:50,600 --> 00:25:56,520
control, self-control because 
you have the ability to control 

506
00:25:56,600 --> 00:25:59,480
what you say when a situation 
happens. 

507
00:26:01,320 --> 00:26:04,120
See when we begin to speak about
confession, obviously the way we

508
00:26:04,120 --> 00:26:07,240
get into confession and as as 
Christians as a whole is we have

509
00:26:07,240 --> 00:26:09,280
the negative side right? 
Which is like confess your sins,

510
00:26:09,960 --> 00:26:12,520
which means declare and and 
admit to your sins. 

511
00:26:12,520 --> 00:26:14,720
Admit there was a problem. 
But then on the other side, we 

512
00:26:14,720 --> 00:26:17,080
get into the benefits of 
confession, knowing that God 

513
00:26:17,080 --> 00:26:21,240
created us to speak out his will
and have his will manifest in 

514
00:26:21,240 --> 00:26:22,960
the earth. 
That's what we also would go 

515
00:26:22,960 --> 00:26:26,840
through with prayer. 
Prayer is a form of confession. 

516
00:26:27,720 --> 00:26:30,160
I find a lot of people miss it 
in prayer because they just want

517
00:26:30,160 --> 00:26:33,600
to talk about their problems all
the time, and they miss that 

518
00:26:33,600 --> 00:26:38,000
your prayer life is also meant 
to declare God's will in the 

519
00:26:38,000 --> 00:26:40,240
planet. 
If all you're doing in prayer is

520
00:26:40,240 --> 00:26:42,920
just talking to God about what's
wrong, then you're missing half 

521
00:26:42,920 --> 00:26:45,080
of the equation. 
You can take your problems to 

522
00:26:45,080 --> 00:26:47,320
Him, and you can give your 
weights to Him, but the other 

523
00:26:47,320 --> 00:26:50,520
half of your prayer should be 
victory that you come out on the

524
00:26:50,520 --> 00:26:51,200
other side. 
No one. 

525
00:26:51,200 --> 00:26:54,400
I'm going to decree the opposite
of my situation. 

526
00:26:56,560 --> 00:26:58,280
Again, just because someone 
gives you a negative report 

527
00:26:58,280 --> 00:27:00,280
doesn't mean you have to deny 
that it exists. 

528
00:27:00,840 --> 00:27:05,520
That's weird, but what you do 
need to do is acknowledge it 

529
00:27:05,520 --> 00:27:08,040
doesn't end here. 
I'm going to direct it with what

530
00:27:08,040 --> 00:27:16,850
I say next. 
There's a few things that that 

531
00:27:17,290 --> 00:27:19,290
confession does in our life. 
When we speak and declare 

532
00:27:19,290 --> 00:27:20,930
things, there's three things 
that I want to go over tonight. 

533
00:27:20,930 --> 00:27:23,290
I'm going to get real teachy. 
I'm going to give you 3 points, 

534
00:27:25,330 --> 00:27:27,650
three things that confession 
will produce in your life. 

535
00:27:28,810 --> 00:27:34,440
The first thing is identity. 
Not only this confession and 

536
00:27:34,440 --> 00:27:36,880
what comes out of your mouth 
reveal your identity, but it 

537
00:27:36,880 --> 00:27:42,960
also will shape your identity. 
This is important to note 

538
00:27:42,960 --> 00:27:45,920
because a lot of times whenever 
we get into a situation, we want

539
00:27:45,920 --> 00:27:47,280
to say, oh, here's just what I 
am. 

540
00:27:47,440 --> 00:27:51,040
Be careful with that statement 
because if you're saying 

541
00:27:51,040 --> 00:27:54,320
something other than what God 
says, you're actually damaging 

542
00:27:54,320 --> 00:27:58,360
your course. 
Well, you know, I've always been

543
00:27:58,360 --> 00:28:00,560
like this change. 
Yeah, it's good. 

544
00:28:03,080 --> 00:28:05,920
You know, this is my, you know, 
it seems like I knew a woman. 

545
00:28:06,840 --> 00:28:09,360
I knew a woman that every time 
we got in a conversation, she 

546
00:28:09,360 --> 00:28:11,520
always go, I'm so confused. 
I'm confused. 

547
00:28:12,160 --> 00:28:13,360
What do you say? 
I'm confused. 

548
00:28:13,360 --> 00:28:15,880
And you know what? 
She was confused every time I 

549
00:28:15,880 --> 00:28:18,200
talked to her, she was confused.
And at some point I was like, 

550
00:28:18,400 --> 00:28:22,400
stop saying that, please. 
It's like every time I walk up 

551
00:28:22,400 --> 00:28:22,800
to you. 
I'm sorry. 

552
00:28:22,800 --> 00:28:24,920
Oh my God. 
I know what she's going to say. 

553
00:28:24,920 --> 00:28:26,440
I get up there. 
Hold on, hold on. 

554
00:28:26,440 --> 00:28:28,640
I'm confused. 
But it was just this knee jerk 

555
00:28:28,640 --> 00:28:32,200
reaction of a statement that she
just flippantly said on a 

556
00:28:32,200 --> 00:28:35,360
regular basis that all of a 
sudden what she continually, 

557
00:28:35,360 --> 00:28:38,800
perpetually confessed, she all 
began to actually reap a harvest

558
00:28:38,800 --> 00:28:42,360
of. 
So sometimes we're just letting 

559
00:28:42,360 --> 00:28:45,240
things come out of our mouth 
without recognizing the value of

560
00:28:45,240 --> 00:28:48,280
what it is and it, we 
inadvertently create a whole 

561
00:28:48,280 --> 00:28:51,760
crop of a mess that we we 
weren't watching diligently what

562
00:28:51,760 --> 00:28:55,680
came out of our mouth. 
I mean, there was a time when 

563
00:28:55,680 --> 00:28:57,640
they, the Pharisees came to 
Jesus and they had an issue. 

564
00:28:57,640 --> 00:28:58,640
They're like, look at your 
disciples. 

565
00:28:58,640 --> 00:29:00,200
Look at they're eating and they,
you know, washing their hands 

566
00:29:00,200 --> 00:29:02,280
and they're nasty and whatever 
their complaint was. 

567
00:29:02,480 --> 00:29:05,600
And Jesus said, listen, it's not
what's going into the man that 

568
00:29:05,600 --> 00:29:09,800
defiles him, What's coming out. 
He wasn't talking about vomit. 

569
00:29:10,160 --> 00:29:14,960
He was talking about words. 
He was talking about, yeah, word

570
00:29:14,960 --> 00:29:17,040
vomit. 
He was talking about what's 

571
00:29:17,040 --> 00:29:19,800
coming out of your mouth is 
shaping who you are, whether you

572
00:29:19,800 --> 00:29:24,920
like it or not. 
You know, I've always, I've 

573
00:29:24,920 --> 00:29:26,960
always just had, you know, I've 
always just had this problem. 

574
00:29:27,120 --> 00:29:30,520
Stop, stop saying that. 
It's like in the Kingdom. 

575
00:29:30,680 --> 00:29:33,160
And again, all of us in here are
like, yeah, obviously this is 

576
00:29:33,160 --> 00:29:34,800
what we do. 
But that's because we have a 

577
00:29:34,800 --> 00:29:37,880
culture and a way of talking. 
It's not just a language that we

578
00:29:37,880 --> 00:29:39,440
have in the Kingdom. 
We've got speaking in tongues. 

579
00:29:39,440 --> 00:29:41,320
We've got the evidence of the 
Holy Ghost that comes upon us. 

580
00:29:41,320 --> 00:29:43,400
That's great. 
But you understand there's a way

581
00:29:43,400 --> 00:29:46,960
of talking that also goes along 
with our Kingdom culture that 

582
00:29:46,960 --> 00:29:48,520
you get you come to anchor faith
for a time. 

583
00:29:48,520 --> 00:29:50,920
You get around believers at a 
time that have that have been 

584
00:29:50,920 --> 00:29:53,000
mature, that know how to control
their mouths. 

585
00:29:53,040 --> 00:29:55,200
And all of a sudden you'll start
talking and saying something to 

586
00:29:55,200 --> 00:29:58,360
go, hey, hey, don't say that. 
Has anybody ever heard one of 

587
00:29:58,360 --> 00:30:00,080
their brothers and sisters that 
say that to them? 

588
00:30:00,600 --> 00:30:03,200
Hey, don't talk like that. 
Why? 

589
00:30:03,200 --> 00:30:06,320
Because we know truly the value 
of the Kingdom word. 

590
00:30:07,440 --> 00:30:10,320
We know the value of you. 
Whenever you open your mouth and

591
00:30:10,320 --> 00:30:12,520
you begin to declare something, 
I want you to speak life over 

592
00:30:12,520 --> 00:30:14,680
yourself. 
I don't want to hear you saying 

593
00:30:14,680 --> 00:30:17,000
crazy stuff over yourself. 
I don't want to see that 

594
00:30:17,000 --> 00:30:19,360
manifest in your life. 
I want to hear you say something

595
00:30:19,360 --> 00:30:20,440
right? 
And I know we're on the same 

596
00:30:20,440 --> 00:30:23,240
page. 
I mean, the same way with my 

597
00:30:23,240 --> 00:30:24,520
children. 
If I came in and I was like, 

598
00:30:24,520 --> 00:30:26,080
listen, hey, we love you. 
You're valued. 

599
00:30:26,080 --> 00:30:27,200
And they're like, I'm not 
valued. 

600
00:30:27,200 --> 00:30:29,680
I'm the worst. 
That'd make me mad. 

601
00:30:30,080 --> 00:30:34,240
Who said that? 
Did God not do that in the 

602
00:30:34,240 --> 00:30:35,280
garden? 
He's goes in there and he's 

603
00:30:35,280 --> 00:30:37,560
like, listen, eat from anything.
He gives them this whole great 

604
00:30:37,560 --> 00:30:39,120
pitch. 
He gives them the pregame speech

605
00:30:39,120 --> 00:30:40,960
that we give our kids before we 
go to somebody's house. 

606
00:30:41,080 --> 00:30:42,520
God gave them the whole pregame 
speech. 

607
00:30:42,840 --> 00:30:44,400
I look at my kids, I'm like, 
listen, we're grown. 

608
00:30:44,400 --> 00:30:45,840
You're not grown. 
You're not going to run your 

609
00:30:45,840 --> 00:30:46,560
mouth. 
You're going to sit there, 

610
00:30:46,560 --> 00:30:48,080
you're going to be quiet. 
You're not going to run around 

611
00:30:48,080 --> 00:30:49,840
like a spazz in their house. 
God did the same thing with 

612
00:30:49,840 --> 00:30:51,560
Adam. 
Adam is born into the planet. 

613
00:30:52,200 --> 00:30:55,000
And God goes, listen, eat 
anything you want over here. 

614
00:30:55,920 --> 00:30:58,520
But there's this one tree. 
You do not touch that tree. 

615
00:31:00,360 --> 00:31:03,360
He's a good dad. 
But then from there, all of a 

616
00:31:03,360 --> 00:31:04,520
sudden, Adam and Eve were in the
garden. 

617
00:31:04,520 --> 00:31:06,040
God didn't say. 
And also what? 

618
00:31:06,040 --> 00:31:08,200
Just know you're naked. 
He didn't say that. 

619
00:31:08,880 --> 00:31:10,920
He told them what they needed to
know to accomplish their 

620
00:31:10,920 --> 00:31:12,960
assignment. 
Then all the sudden they show up

621
00:31:12,960 --> 00:31:15,720
and they're hiding and God comes
in and he goes, they said, well,

622
00:31:15,720 --> 00:31:20,920
we realized we were naked. 
And God said, who told you that 

623
00:31:22,520 --> 00:31:26,720
you just spoke something out of 
your mouth that I never said, 

624
00:31:27,880 --> 00:31:29,920
that you had to have heard from 
somewhere. 

625
00:31:31,240 --> 00:31:32,800
So let me find the source who 
said it. 

626
00:31:32,800 --> 00:31:35,560
And God went and dealt with the 
source of words. 

627
00:31:36,480 --> 00:31:38,080
He didn't just look at them and 
say, I'm going to punish. 

628
00:31:38,080 --> 00:31:40,320
I'm going to no, he said, no, I 
need to find the source of words

629
00:31:40,320 --> 00:31:42,480
because words are the most 
valuable, potent thing in the 

630
00:31:42,480 --> 00:31:44,280
universe. 
I'm going to find who said it, 

631
00:31:44,400 --> 00:31:45,520
then I'm going to deal with 
that. 

632
00:31:48,680 --> 00:31:52,000
So in the same way I could go 
and sit down with you and find 

633
00:31:52,000 --> 00:31:53,280
out what the situation you're 
in. 

634
00:31:53,280 --> 00:31:56,800
What have we been saying? 
What have we been declaring? 

635
00:31:57,600 --> 00:32:00,040
Whose voice have we been 
listening to? 

636
00:32:03,240 --> 00:32:06,440
Because what we don't talk about
sometimes with confession is 

637
00:32:06,440 --> 00:32:11,000
this word gossip. 
Gossip is a form of confession. 

638
00:32:12,080 --> 00:32:15,680
If it's in the same category, 
then all of a sudden you've got 

639
00:32:15,680 --> 00:32:18,760
problems in your relationships 
you got with your with with the 

640
00:32:18,760 --> 00:32:20,960
people that God's assigned you 
to do life with, and you've got 

641
00:32:20,960 --> 00:32:22,400
little bitterness and little 
frustrations. 

642
00:32:22,400 --> 00:32:23,720
And all of a sudden, what does 
this come out of? 

643
00:32:23,840 --> 00:32:26,440
Somebody's been having 
conversation that you've been 

644
00:32:26,440 --> 00:32:29,240
listening to and then 
regurgitating out of your mouth,

645
00:32:29,240 --> 00:32:31,600
and you wonder why the direction
of your life is the way that it 

646
00:32:31,600 --> 00:32:35,560
is. 
The words you hear, whether 

647
00:32:35,560 --> 00:32:38,120
they're from the enemy, from 
God, or from one of their 

648
00:32:38,120 --> 00:32:40,480
vessels, because they both have 
vessels. 

649
00:32:40,480 --> 00:32:44,920
Maybe you don't believe me. 
Everybody's not saying Amen. 

650
00:32:44,920 --> 00:32:50,880
Let's look at Matthew 16. 
Let's look at Matthew 16 because

651
00:32:50,880 --> 00:32:55,800
this is an important source of 
confession because confession 

652
00:32:55,800 --> 00:32:58,160
gives you your identity. 
It forms who you are if, if you 

653
00:32:58,160 --> 00:33:00,200
know who God is. 
But what another thing that 

654
00:33:00,200 --> 00:33:02,640
confession also does is that it 
also forms allegiance. 

655
00:33:02,640 --> 00:33:05,640
The second point would be that 
confession, it, it forms in you 

656
00:33:05,640 --> 00:33:10,280
an allegiance to something what 
you confess you're committed to.

657
00:33:14,600 --> 00:33:16,640
Why do you think in the United 
States of America, in our own 

658
00:33:16,640 --> 00:33:19,680
government, if you've ever been 
to a sporting event or if you've

659
00:33:19,680 --> 00:33:22,400
ever been to a government 
assembly, we start out with the 

660
00:33:22,800 --> 00:33:29,800
Pledge of Allegiance. 
Every time you open your mouth, 

661
00:33:30,320 --> 00:33:33,880
you're pledging allegiance to 
one or the other. 

662
00:33:37,640 --> 00:33:40,680
There's a domain of darkness and
there's a Kingdom government of 

663
00:33:40,680 --> 00:33:44,960
God's beloved Son. 
And when you open your mouth, 

664
00:33:44,960 --> 00:33:48,040
that every time is a Pledge of 
Allegiance to which Kingdom or 

665
00:33:48,040 --> 00:33:50,080
which dominion you want to 
participate in. 

666
00:33:51,840 --> 00:33:54,920
There's not an in between. 
Again, a lot of believers think 

667
00:33:54,920 --> 00:33:56,600
there's three options. 
There's I could do what the 

668
00:33:56,600 --> 00:33:57,680
devil wants. 
That's bad. 

669
00:33:57,840 --> 00:33:59,920
No, I could do what God wants. 
That's best. 

670
00:33:59,920 --> 00:34:01,720
But sometimes it's hard. 
So I'm just going to do what I 

671
00:34:01,720 --> 00:34:03,800
want. 
There's not three options. 

672
00:34:04,240 --> 00:34:07,680
Your flesh and what you want and
your selfish desire is part of 

673
00:34:07,680 --> 00:34:10,360
the enemy's plan. 
When you're like, I just need a 

674
00:34:10,360 --> 00:34:11,960
little bit of me, you're 
choosing him. 

675
00:34:13,320 --> 00:34:18,360
But if you do what John 330 
says, I must decrease, he must 

676
00:34:18,360 --> 00:34:22,000
increase, and the end result of 
the increase and decrease, if we

677
00:34:22,000 --> 00:34:24,080
have scales, is all him, none of
me. 

678
00:34:25,800 --> 00:34:28,080
But is that what comes out in 
your conversation? 

679
00:34:29,239 --> 00:34:31,719
See, that's why we're here, 
because there's this 

680
00:34:31,719 --> 00:34:33,679
conversation that happens with 
Jesus and his disciples. 

681
00:34:33,679 --> 00:34:36,280
He pulls them all together. 
These guys should know stuff. 

682
00:34:36,679 --> 00:34:39,440
They've been with the Son of 
God, the living embodiment of 

683
00:34:39,440 --> 00:34:44,199
the word of God for three years 
and they still say dumb stuff. 

684
00:34:46,760 --> 00:34:49,000
And you've been Anchor Faith 
Church for like 3 years and 

685
00:34:49,000 --> 00:34:50,400
you're like, why are we still 
talking about this? 

686
00:34:50,400 --> 00:34:52,520
Because you, this is how it 
goes. 

687
00:34:53,159 --> 00:34:55,960
We got to keep growing. 
We haven't arrived yet. 

688
00:34:55,960 --> 00:34:58,840
But he looks at me and says, who
do you say that I am? 

689
00:34:59,800 --> 00:35:02,600
What he's doing is calling on 
them words he wants to hear 

690
00:35:02,600 --> 00:35:05,720
their declaration He want 
because he realizes the identity

691
00:35:05,720 --> 00:35:08,480
that you have, the identity you 
ascribe to things comes out of 

692
00:35:08,480 --> 00:35:10,000
your mouth and is revealed to 
your mouth. 

693
00:35:10,000 --> 00:35:12,320
They were like, well, some say 
you're this and some say this 

694
00:35:12,320 --> 00:35:14,360
and he looks at Peter and say, 
who do you say that I am? 

695
00:35:15,120 --> 00:35:17,560
He says, I say that you are the 
Son of the living God. 

696
00:35:18,600 --> 00:35:22,480
You are the Christ. 
And Jesus says you got it. 

697
00:35:23,120 --> 00:35:25,560
Blessed are you Simon Barjona, 
for flesh and blood has not 

698
00:35:25,560 --> 00:35:27,640
revealed this to you. 
But my Father who is in heaven 

699
00:35:27,640 --> 00:35:30,440
directly gave you revelation 
that you just declared out of 

700
00:35:30,440 --> 00:35:32,160
your mouth. 
And upon this rock, this 

701
00:35:32,160 --> 00:35:33,760
revelation, I will build my 
church. 

702
00:35:36,240 --> 00:35:39,720
And then like seconds later he 
goes, I'm going to die. 

703
00:35:39,720 --> 00:35:42,200
I'm going to be buried, I'm 
going to rise again. 

704
00:35:43,880 --> 00:35:46,240
He literally quotes like the 
majority of the creeds of the 

705
00:35:46,240 --> 00:35:48,880
Christian faith right there, the
foundation of what we believe in

706
00:35:48,880 --> 00:35:50,840
Christianity, his death, burial 
and resurrection. 

707
00:35:50,840 --> 00:35:56,840
And Peter goes, no, I won't let 
it happen. 

708
00:35:57,240 --> 00:36:00,280
May that not happen because I 
love Jesus. 

709
00:36:03,080 --> 00:36:06,880
And then Jesus looks at him and 
says, same guy, exact same 

710
00:36:06,880 --> 00:36:08,600
person that Jesus went blessed 
are you. 

711
00:36:08,600 --> 00:36:10,840
What you just declared out of 
your mouth is divine revelation.

712
00:36:10,880 --> 00:36:13,120
Jesus looks at him and he goes, 
get behind me, Satan. 

713
00:36:16,080 --> 00:36:19,120
And this is Peter. 
This is one of his closest 

714
00:36:19,120 --> 00:36:20,800
disciples. 
This is the second most 

715
00:36:20,800 --> 00:36:25,320
mentioned man in this in the New
Testament, Peter, Simon Peter. 

716
00:36:27,000 --> 00:36:28,800
And Jesus looks and he goes, get
behind me, Satan. 

717
00:36:33,040 --> 00:36:34,480
People don't like when their 
leaders correct them. 

718
00:36:34,480 --> 00:36:36,160
You would have hated Jesus's 
correction. 

719
00:36:38,160 --> 00:36:39,480
Like you mean make an adjustment
in your life. 

720
00:36:39,480 --> 00:36:41,320
Jesus, look, hey, Satan, quit 
talking. 

721
00:36:42,680 --> 00:36:46,360
Oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, this pastor 
thinks he's the Good Shepherd, 

722
00:36:46,360 --> 00:36:50,400
Not so great in this moment. 
Come on, give Jesus a little 

723
00:36:50,400 --> 00:36:52,040
more credit. 
No, Jesus tells him. 

724
00:36:52,040 --> 00:36:55,440
He says, listen, you set your 
mind on man's interests and not 

725
00:36:55,440 --> 00:36:57,000
on God's, and it just came out 
of your mouth. 

726
00:36:57,960 --> 00:37:01,120
You have aligned yourself with 
the enemy's plan based on what 

727
00:37:01,120 --> 00:37:06,880
you just said. 
Now, the problem is we got a 

728
00:37:06,880 --> 00:37:08,680
bunch of people that want to 
Riddle their whole conversation 

729
00:37:08,680 --> 00:37:09,960
with disclaimers. 
Well, that's not what I meant. 

730
00:37:09,960 --> 00:37:12,360
That's not what I meant. 
Jesus, Hey, hey, nobody cares 

731
00:37:12,360 --> 00:37:15,760
what you meant. 
God, That's how confession 

732
00:37:15,760 --> 00:37:16,960
works. 
That's why it matters. 

733
00:37:16,960 --> 00:37:18,560
It doesn't matter what you just 
meant. 

734
00:37:18,920 --> 00:37:24,400
What did you say in that moment,
Peter? 

735
00:37:24,400 --> 00:37:25,640
It doesn't say he said anything 
else. 

736
00:37:27,120 --> 00:37:29,000
Good job. 
Because I have found when it 

737
00:37:29,000 --> 00:37:31,400
comes to our mouths, listen, we 
need boldness. 

738
00:37:31,520 --> 00:37:34,760
The Holy Spirit can come upon us
and do us with power from on 

739
00:37:34,760 --> 00:37:37,200
high to give us boldness to what
Witness. 

740
00:37:37,320 --> 00:37:39,120
Boldness helps you open your 
mouth. 

741
00:37:39,120 --> 00:37:41,400
But I found there's this other 
thing called maturity that helps

742
00:37:41,400 --> 00:37:48,400
you keep it shut. 
Second tale, when somebody's 

743
00:37:48,400 --> 00:37:50,000
like, oh, you know, I just say 
what I want. 

744
00:37:50,560 --> 00:37:55,560
Amateur, your baby, little baby,
Wham, Wham, That's all I'm 

745
00:37:55,560 --> 00:37:57,200
hearing. 
Wham, Wham. 

746
00:38:00,040 --> 00:38:02,040
There's a time when you just 
come in and you say, Lord, what 

747
00:38:02,040 --> 00:38:03,880
do you want me to say? 
And if he doesn't say anything, 

748
00:38:03,880 --> 00:38:09,160
you don't either. 
Don't just say what you said 

749
00:38:09,160 --> 00:38:10,800
before. 
Don't just say what you think. 

750
00:38:10,800 --> 00:38:13,160
The old manner was that, oh, 
last time they'll find out. 

751
00:38:13,160 --> 00:38:15,320
What is the King saying about 
this right now? 

752
00:38:19,880 --> 00:38:21,600
That's one thing that I always 
pray before I get up here. 

753
00:38:21,600 --> 00:38:24,240
I said Lord, I want I know what 
the subject is. 

754
00:38:24,240 --> 00:38:26,880
I've heard about confession my 
whole life, but my prayer is 

755
00:38:26,880 --> 00:38:29,160
always Lord, I don't want to 
just get up and say what I know.

756
00:38:29,320 --> 00:38:31,400
I want divine revelation from 
your spirit. 

757
00:38:31,400 --> 00:38:33,760
I want my tongue to be the pen 
of a ready writer that speak 

758
00:38:33,760 --> 00:38:35,720
forth the unction and oracles of
God. 

759
00:38:35,880 --> 00:38:38,600
I don't want just old man of 
something I already studied. 

760
00:38:38,760 --> 00:38:40,840
I want to come in here and give 
fresh word. 

761
00:38:42,320 --> 00:38:46,000
Then the goal is that all of us,
every time somebody ministers to

762
00:38:46,000 --> 00:38:48,760
us and opens their mouth, that 
we would receive it. 

763
00:38:48,760 --> 00:38:51,880
Not as just the words of a man, 
not as just the words of a 

764
00:38:51,880 --> 00:38:54,360
pastor or an apostle, but we 
would receive it for what it 

765
00:38:54,360 --> 00:38:57,880
truly is. 
The Word of God that it says is 

766
00:38:57,880 --> 00:39:02,800
able to perform its work in US 
who believe, think about. 

767
00:39:02,800 --> 00:39:04,800
We all want miracles, we want 
signs, we want wonders. 

768
00:39:04,800 --> 00:39:09,280
But what do they follow? 
Preaching of the what? 

769
00:39:11,120 --> 00:39:13,080
So even miracle signs and 
wonders. 

770
00:39:13,200 --> 00:39:15,560
Whether it's in a corporate 
environment or in your personal 

771
00:39:15,560 --> 00:39:20,000
life, they're waiting first to 
follow something. 

772
00:39:23,080 --> 00:39:27,360
And it's the word. 
We got to value what comes out 

773
00:39:27,360 --> 00:39:31,640
of our mouth. 
Just because you get a 

774
00:39:31,880 --> 00:39:36,680
impossible diagnosis doesn't 
mean it ends there. 

775
00:39:43,480 --> 00:39:46,240
Tony, if you could see into the 
spirit, there's, there's times 

776
00:39:46,240 --> 00:39:48,480
when people get bad news, they 
go, oh, well, this is going to 

777
00:39:48,480 --> 00:39:50,400
happen to you. 
Or this is, this is taking place

778
00:39:50,400 --> 00:39:51,800
in your family or this is taking
place in. 

779
00:39:52,040 --> 00:39:54,080
If you could see into the 
spirit, the spirit world sets 

780
00:39:54,080 --> 00:39:57,560
and waits not for what the 
diagnosis was or not for what 

781
00:39:57,560 --> 00:39:59,520
the report was. 
The spirit world's waiting to 

782
00:39:59,520 --> 00:40:00,800
say, what are you going to say 
about it? 

783
00:40:03,360 --> 00:40:04,600
What are you going to say about 
it? 

784
00:40:07,160 --> 00:40:08,880
Now, this is tough. 
If you don't want personal 

785
00:40:08,880 --> 00:40:11,880
responsibility because I'm just 
sorry, you know, I've got to 

786
00:40:11,880 --> 00:40:14,560
apparently apologize, you got to
find a different book. 

787
00:40:16,000 --> 00:40:18,920
Because if you want somebody 
else to do everything for you, 

788
00:40:18,920 --> 00:40:21,240
you want God to be in control of
everything and you don't have 

789
00:40:21,240 --> 00:40:23,800
any responsibility, you won't 
find it in this Bible. 

790
00:40:26,200 --> 00:40:28,920
You won't find it with this Holy
Spirit because He's going to 

791
00:40:28,920 --> 00:40:32,560
point you back to here's how you
can fix your problem. 

792
00:40:32,880 --> 00:40:34,640
Here's how you can live 
victorious. 

793
00:40:34,640 --> 00:40:37,240
God's not fighting it for us, 
but He sure is with us because 

794
00:40:37,240 --> 00:40:38,680
He didn't leave us without His 
Word. 

795
00:40:40,120 --> 00:40:41,920
A lot of times we're like, man, 
if God could just show up. 

796
00:40:42,000 --> 00:40:45,240
He does. 
Every time you speak the Word, 

797
00:40:45,240 --> 00:40:49,560
that is God in John 11, in the 
beginning was the Word. 

798
00:40:50,360 --> 00:40:53,200
So in the beginning of all 
things, it was the Word. 

799
00:40:55,080 --> 00:40:59,760
Sometimes we just got to go back
to the beginning, the very, very

800
00:40:59,760 --> 00:41:02,440
beginning. 
What existed before your 

801
00:41:02,440 --> 00:41:05,400
problem? 
What existed before your 

802
00:41:05,400 --> 00:41:09,600
mistake? 
Let's just go back and say what 

803
00:41:09,600 --> 00:41:11,480
was in the beginning? 
In the beginning was the Word. 

804
00:41:11,480 --> 00:41:14,080
The word was with God. 
The Word was God. 

805
00:41:14,240 --> 00:41:17,200
If I could just have a touch 
from God, you can right here, 

806
00:41:20,600 --> 00:41:24,760
right here. 
But we got some people that call

807
00:41:24,760 --> 00:41:26,520
themselves Christians that don't
even read their Bible. 

808
00:41:27,440 --> 00:41:31,080
They don't even go to the very 
source of life itself and power 

809
00:41:31,080 --> 00:41:33,800
itself. 
They think just some action of 

810
00:41:33,800 --> 00:41:36,040
just declaring something is 
going to get them victory when 

811
00:41:36,040 --> 00:41:39,880
no, you hearing a word and then 
decreeing that word is what 

812
00:41:39,880 --> 00:41:46,840
brings the victory. 
But the second thing that 

813
00:41:46,840 --> 00:41:50,240
confession does obviously is it 
brings it aligns you and shows 

814
00:41:50,240 --> 00:41:55,280
your allegiance. 
James chapter 3, if we go back 

815
00:41:55,280 --> 00:41:59,080
to the the the 3rd chapter of 
James and look at verses 9 and 

816
00:41:59,080 --> 00:42:05,120
10, James has a lot to say about
your mouth, but he says listen 

817
00:42:05,440 --> 00:42:09,320
with James chapter 3 verse nine.
With it we bless talking about 

818
00:42:09,320 --> 00:42:10,960
our mouth. 
With it we bless our Lord and 

819
00:42:10,960 --> 00:42:14,840
Father and then with it we curse
people and some from the from 

820
00:42:14,840 --> 00:42:16,960
the same mouth come blessings 
and cursings. 

821
00:42:17,120 --> 00:42:21,080
It ought not be this way. 
James is also the one who tells 

822
00:42:21,080 --> 00:42:22,880
us about being a double minded 
person. 

823
00:42:23,920 --> 00:42:28,000
So which tells me that the way 
you speak reveals the way you 

824
00:42:28,000 --> 00:42:30,760
think. 
And if your thinking is double 

825
00:42:30,760 --> 00:42:33,280
and your thinking is scattered, 
then your mouth is also going to

826
00:42:33,280 --> 00:42:35,040
be the same. 
That means you're going to hang 

827
00:42:35,040 --> 00:42:37,200
out with a certain group of 
people and you'll talk one way, 

828
00:42:37,320 --> 00:42:39,280
then you'll get with a certain 
other group of people and also 

829
00:42:39,320 --> 00:42:41,800
you'll be saying something 
completely different, confusing 

830
00:42:41,800 --> 00:42:44,280
everybody all along the way. 
And then God says in the very 

831
00:42:44,280 --> 00:42:47,960
end, you'll have to give an 
account for every idol word, 

832
00:42:48,120 --> 00:42:50,800
every word you flippantly said, 
every word that you didn't 

833
00:42:50,800 --> 00:42:53,400
actually value knowing that you 
were creating something with 

834
00:42:53,600 --> 00:42:55,520
God's like that's what I'm going
to account for. 

835
00:42:56,040 --> 00:42:58,600
Notice he doesn't say that every
deed you've done. 

836
00:43:01,080 --> 00:43:02,360
I mean, that's that's other 
religions. 

837
00:43:02,360 --> 00:43:04,360
If you're acquainting, God's 
going to weigh all the good and 

838
00:43:04,360 --> 00:43:05,480
bad. 
You did wrong. 

839
00:43:05,480 --> 00:43:07,920
Religion. 
We're not even part of a 

840
00:43:07,920 --> 00:43:10,000
religion. 
What our king does in his 

841
00:43:10,000 --> 00:43:12,920
Kingdom is causes you to give an
account for what have you said? 

842
00:43:14,680 --> 00:43:17,520
What have you said about me? 
What have you said in my name? 

843
00:43:17,520 --> 00:43:19,680
See, a lot of times we talk 
about, you know, don't take the 

844
00:43:19,680 --> 00:43:21,560
Lord's name in vain. 
And we think that means just 

845
00:43:21,560 --> 00:43:23,840
saying a certain little phrase 
that is cursing. 

846
00:43:23,840 --> 00:43:26,240
When in the end, taking the 
Lord's name in vain would have 

847
00:43:26,240 --> 00:43:30,520
more to do with you declaring 
God said something that never he

848
00:43:30,520 --> 00:43:36,480
never said, or you mocking 
something that he did say 

849
00:43:36,480 --> 00:43:38,560
because you didn't believe what 
He said would come to pass. 

850
00:43:38,840 --> 00:43:40,800
Both are dangerous. 
Do not do either of them. 

851
00:43:44,760 --> 00:43:50,240
See, I've heard a lot of people 
say in Jesus name that he would 

852
00:43:50,240 --> 00:43:57,240
never attach his name to. 
So don't use the Lord's name 

853
00:43:57,240 --> 00:43:59,840
flippantly and don't ascribe it 
to something he didn't say. 

854
00:44:01,600 --> 00:44:03,520
People want to come to you and 
be like, oh you know, God's 

855
00:44:03,520 --> 00:44:06,720
telling me to do this. 
Hey, he better be saying it. 

856
00:44:07,720 --> 00:44:08,880
There better be a word from the 
king. 

857
00:44:08,880 --> 00:44:12,960
But if it doesn't line up with 
his written word, then I come in

858
00:44:12,960 --> 00:44:16,320
and say call a foul. 
Flag on the play. 

859
00:44:16,320 --> 00:44:18,880
It's the only sports reference 
you'll get out of me. 

860
00:44:20,400 --> 00:44:23,160
Flag on the play. 
You just said the Lord said 

861
00:44:23,160 --> 00:44:24,840
something that he does not say 
in his word. 

862
00:44:26,640 --> 00:44:29,440
See, that's why other religions 
were able to dupe entire 

863
00:44:29,440 --> 00:44:31,040
generations and nations full of 
people. 

864
00:44:31,040 --> 00:44:36,560
They said I heard from God. 
Trust me by myself I did. 

865
00:44:37,760 --> 00:44:39,240
And here's what he said only to 
me. 

866
00:44:40,440 --> 00:44:43,120
Nope. 
No, God was smarter than that. 

867
00:44:43,120 --> 00:44:46,680
When He put the value of words 
spoken, He put value on it. 

868
00:44:46,680 --> 00:44:52,280
He had His Word written and 
documented like every other 

869
00:44:52,280 --> 00:44:58,720
solid real Kingdom government. 
This isn't about religion. 

870
00:44:58,720 --> 00:45:00,640
It's about this government that 
God has established. 

871
00:45:00,640 --> 00:45:03,680
And any functioning true 
government that actually has 

872
00:45:03,680 --> 00:45:06,880
authority on this planet has 
written down their decrees. 

873
00:45:07,040 --> 00:45:10,560
And I'm telling you, God wrote 
His Word so that you could then 

874
00:45:11,000 --> 00:45:14,400
repeat it. 
It was written to be repeated. 

875
00:45:14,400 --> 00:45:24,170
That's why thank you, Lord, for 
your word. 

876
00:45:25,770 --> 00:45:27,450
What, what more could he give 
you? 

877
00:45:27,450 --> 00:45:30,970
I mean, sometimes I'm just like,
the Lord's got to remind me, 

878
00:45:30,970 --> 00:45:32,970
right? 
Like I'm, I'm not perfect, you 

879
00:45:32,970 --> 00:45:34,970
know, in any way. 
I've got to be reminded by the 

880
00:45:34,970 --> 00:45:37,330
Holy Ghost and some stuff that's
really simple sometimes like, 

881
00:45:38,210 --> 00:45:39,650
well, what does the word say 
about this? 

882
00:45:41,600 --> 00:45:43,440
Like I said before, I've had a 
sore throat before and here's 

883
00:45:43,480 --> 00:45:46,200
here's the, here's the, here's a
shift that had to happen to me 

884
00:45:46,200 --> 00:45:48,600
as I grew and matured with just 
getting symptoms on me. 

885
00:45:48,600 --> 00:45:50,040
And I think this will be good 
for some people because 

886
00:45:50,040 --> 00:45:51,800
sometimes you're like, if you 
get a symptom, you feel bad 

887
00:45:51,800 --> 00:45:52,760
because like, oh, I'm a 
believer. 

888
00:45:52,760 --> 00:45:54,840
I shouldn't be sick. 
Listen, just because the symptom

889
00:45:54,840 --> 00:45:57,040
comes on you doesn't mean this 
is it. 

890
00:45:57,640 --> 00:46:00,800
It's over WebMD. 
The Bible's not WebMD. 

891
00:46:02,800 --> 00:46:04,040
And again, we gave the example 
last week. 

892
00:46:04,120 --> 00:46:06,800
Words matter because listen, if 
you come in and say, I've got a 

893
00:46:06,800 --> 00:46:09,200
sore throat and then somebody 
anointed in the medical field, 

894
00:46:09,200 --> 00:46:12,000
like Miss Cassie or, or, or, you
know, Doctor Fatty or something 

895
00:46:12,000 --> 00:46:14,360
comes and goes, listen, well, 
let's pray over it. 

896
00:46:14,440 --> 00:46:16,080
And then, you know, just drink 
some hot tea. 

897
00:46:16,080 --> 00:46:17,640
You'll be all right. 
Those words matter. 

898
00:46:17,640 --> 00:46:19,240
You can meditate on that and go,
I'm going to be all right. 

899
00:46:19,240 --> 00:46:21,000
But all of a sudden, if you go 
search on the Internet and you 

900
00:46:21,000 --> 00:46:24,000
say, I've got a sore throat, Web
MD is like definitely cancer. 

901
00:46:24,840 --> 00:46:27,280
You're definitely, you got a 
good six to nine months and 

902
00:46:27,280 --> 00:46:30,560
that's all you got. 
And but and we laugh, but people

903
00:46:30,560 --> 00:46:33,320
will stir on that and meditate 
on that. 

904
00:46:33,320 --> 00:46:35,120
Then they'll go tell their 
friends I looked up my symptoms 

905
00:46:35,240 --> 00:46:39,200
on boy MP. 
You're declare you're repeating 

906
00:46:40,320 --> 00:46:42,840
what the what the what the 
Internet said. 

907
00:46:45,720 --> 00:46:48,600
We live in a crazy time when 
people repeat repeating the 

908
00:46:48,600 --> 00:46:52,120
Internet all the time and it's 
coming out of their royal mouth.

909
00:46:54,520 --> 00:46:56,960
Watch it. 
Just because you read it doesn't

910
00:46:56,960 --> 00:47:00,360
mean it's worth repeating. 
Just because you heard so and so

911
00:47:00,360 --> 00:47:03,640
say it doesn't mean it's a word 
for you anyway. 

912
00:47:04,120 --> 00:47:06,520
But in the in my walk with my 
illness, I realized there was a 

913
00:47:06,520 --> 00:47:08,560
time when I would get a symptom 
to come on me. 

914
00:47:08,560 --> 00:47:10,880
And I would say, you know, I 
mean, I don't feel great. 

915
00:47:10,880 --> 00:47:12,920
Lord, I know you're my healer. 
I'll feel better in the morning 

916
00:47:14,320 --> 00:47:15,920
and then felt like crap all 
night. 

917
00:47:17,120 --> 00:47:18,760
Why? 
I decreed it. 

918
00:47:18,760 --> 00:47:20,280
And when I woke up, I felt 
better. 

919
00:47:21,040 --> 00:47:23,040
But then I had a shift in me. 
I was like, well, wait, if I'm 

920
00:47:23,040 --> 00:47:25,560
decreeing this thing, I'm going 
to, why would I wait till 

921
00:47:25,560 --> 00:47:27,560
tomorrow? 
So if I seem to come out and 

922
00:47:27,560 --> 00:47:29,280
say, Lord, I'm thank you, I'm 
getting better right now. 

923
00:47:30,200 --> 00:47:33,640
I'm, I'm going to progress. 
I didn't say I feel fine now I'm

924
00:47:33,640 --> 00:47:35,000
fine. 
God, no, I'm, I'm healed and 

925
00:47:35,000 --> 00:47:38,080
that, listen, the reality is I 
have the symptom. 

926
00:47:38,320 --> 00:47:40,600
It may take a few seconds or a 
few minutes or whatever to get 

927
00:47:40,600 --> 00:47:42,040
off. 
I'm not trying to teleport my, 

928
00:47:42,160 --> 00:47:44,880
my circumstance to a different 
circumstance, but I am guiding 

929
00:47:45,080 --> 00:47:48,200
where this thing will go and 
this thing's going to get off me

930
00:47:48,200 --> 00:47:49,720
quicker than it's going to get 
off anybody else. 

931
00:47:49,880 --> 00:47:52,720
And there's more faith in that 
than there is in just believing 

932
00:47:52,720 --> 00:47:57,200
in a wish. 
But also you got to have a word 

933
00:47:57,200 --> 00:47:59,640
from the Lord. 
There's been times where I say, 

934
00:47:59,640 --> 00:48:02,160
Hey, Danny, come pray for me. 
Put lay hands on me, says 

935
00:48:02,160 --> 00:48:03,440
believers, lay hands on the 
sick. 

936
00:48:06,320 --> 00:48:07,760
There's been times where I'm 
just like, you know what, I'm 

937
00:48:07,760 --> 00:48:08,880
going to speak this thing off of
me. 

938
00:48:08,880 --> 00:48:10,920
Lord, in the name of Jesus, I 
declare right now my body's 

939
00:48:10,920 --> 00:48:14,600
whole. 
I'll speak what the just like 

940
00:48:14,600 --> 00:48:16,520
Abraham did the things that be 
not as though they were in the 

941
00:48:16,520 --> 00:48:18,360
name of Jesus. 
My body's whole right now it's 

942
00:48:18,480 --> 00:48:20,040
it's beginning to mend in this 
moment. 

943
00:48:20,440 --> 00:48:23,000
And I don't go didn't work. 
Faith doesn't work. 

944
00:48:23,000 --> 00:48:24,360
I'm the worst. 
I'm have no faith. 

945
00:48:24,560 --> 00:48:28,200
That's not what I do. 
I direct my course with my mouth

946
00:48:28,280 --> 00:48:31,360
and then I expect that my 
destination will be victory 

947
00:48:35,080 --> 00:48:38,080
saves us from disappointment 
when we understand that. 

948
00:48:38,080 --> 00:48:39,680
This is why I'm so thankful for 
our church. 

949
00:48:39,880 --> 00:48:42,280
We don't just expect everybody's
all read the Bible figured out 

950
00:48:42,280 --> 00:48:43,800
for yourself. 
There is some explanation that 

951
00:48:43,800 --> 00:48:46,240
can come in with the teaching of
the Word and what the Bible 

952
00:48:46,240 --> 00:48:47,640
calls the foolishness of 
preaching. 

953
00:48:48,720 --> 00:48:50,920
How crazy is it that we have to 
get up here and convince people 

954
00:48:50,920 --> 00:48:52,800
the trust in a God who's never 
ever failed? 

955
00:48:52,800 --> 00:48:56,200
That is wild. 
Trust in the Lord. 

956
00:48:56,200 --> 00:48:59,040
You're like, it's so hard. 
He's never ever failed. 

957
00:48:59,400 --> 00:49:02,760
Not one word he's ever said 
didn't happen. 

958
00:49:03,520 --> 00:49:05,480
But we got to get up here and 
go. 

959
00:49:06,640 --> 00:49:09,160
I promise it'll happen. 
Why am I having to say that? 

960
00:49:11,200 --> 00:49:13,080
He says you can have what you 
say and then you can. 

961
00:49:13,080 --> 00:49:16,840
You're like, maybe, maybe it's 
here in the Word. 

962
00:49:16,840 --> 00:49:18,360
What's written in the Word is 
finite. 

963
00:49:18,360 --> 00:49:20,960
It is final, it is official. 
It is not changing. 

964
00:49:21,320 --> 00:49:26,240
Heaven and earth will pass away.
There's only one thing that 

965
00:49:26,240 --> 00:49:28,560
remains forever and ever. 
What is it? 

966
00:49:29,840 --> 00:49:31,840
Why would you not attach your 
life to the word? 

967
00:49:34,960 --> 00:49:40,440
Oh, Jesus help us. 
That's why we have to understand

968
00:49:40,440 --> 00:49:43,200
who Jesus is in our life in the 
1st place, who is Jesus? 

969
00:49:43,200 --> 00:49:47,280
He's not just a, a guy that came
and walked around and said good 

970
00:49:47,280 --> 00:49:49,440
things and then died so that you
wouldn't have to have a bad 

971
00:49:49,440 --> 00:49:51,320
punishment. 
That's not just, that's not the 

972
00:49:51,320 --> 00:49:53,160
summary of who he is. 
The summary of who he is is 

973
00:49:53,160 --> 00:49:54,640
found in the same passage of 
John. 

974
00:49:54,960 --> 00:49:57,320
What it says in the beginning 
was the word and the word was 

975
00:49:57,320 --> 00:49:58,440
with God. 
The word was God. 

976
00:49:58,440 --> 00:50:03,880
Verse 14 tells us the identity 
of Jesus says the word became 

977
00:50:04,440 --> 00:50:07,800
flesh. 
So whenever you tell somebody 

978
00:50:07,800 --> 00:50:12,120
you need Jesus, that's true. 
But what you don't need is just 

979
00:50:12,120 --> 00:50:15,040
have an emotional relationship 
with a human that's not actually

980
00:50:15,040 --> 00:50:17,880
present on the planet His. 
He's seated, seated at the 

981
00:50:17,880 --> 00:50:21,760
Father's right hand. 
For you to try to introduce 

982
00:50:21,760 --> 00:50:27,480
somebody to just a fleshly 
friendship relationship, you're 

983
00:50:27,480 --> 00:50:30,280
going to fall short. 
What you need to do is introduce

984
00:50:30,280 --> 00:50:33,120
Him to the relationship of who 
He is and who He always has 

985
00:50:33,120 --> 00:50:35,320
been. 
The man Jesus that walked this 

986
00:50:35,320 --> 00:50:38,640
planet did that for 33 years in 
the span of time, but He always 

987
00:50:38,640 --> 00:50:42,040
was the Word. 
So if you're to say you need 

988
00:50:42,080 --> 00:50:44,560
Jesus, that's right, what you 
need is the Word. 

989
00:50:45,320 --> 00:50:47,520
What did He say? 
You need the Word in your life 

990
00:50:47,520 --> 00:50:51,000
so I can worship Jesus and honor
Jesus as the King because He is 

991
00:50:51,000 --> 00:50:57,400
the Word. 
It's just as much Jesus speaking

992
00:50:57,400 --> 00:51:00,160
to your circumstance as it is 
when you read it in the 

993
00:51:00,160 --> 00:51:04,760
Scripture. 
There's just as much power and 

994
00:51:04,760 --> 00:51:07,520
you repeating that Scripture or 
that promise of God that there 

995
00:51:07,520 --> 00:51:09,840
is when Jesus first declared it 
in the first place. 

996
00:51:11,560 --> 00:51:14,240
We said last week, if you could 
think in your mind, man, if 

997
00:51:14,280 --> 00:51:17,480
Jesus spoke the Word of God, how
powerful was that coming out of 

998
00:51:17,480 --> 00:51:20,600
his mouth? 
When it's the exact same potency

999
00:51:20,600 --> 00:51:23,680
coming out of your mouth, it's 
no different. 

1000
00:51:27,840 --> 00:51:30,480
The only difference is do you, 
have you heard a word and do you

1001
00:51:30,480 --> 00:51:34,760
believe it? 
Because faith is I'm convinced 

1002
00:51:34,760 --> 00:51:38,280
that what God said is true. 
And then when you repeat that 

1003
00:51:38,280 --> 00:51:41,840
thing that you're convinced of 
that God said, nothing can stop 

1004
00:51:41,840 --> 00:51:46,400
you. 
No report can stop you, no 

1005
00:51:46,400 --> 00:51:49,880
financial hardship, no no gossip
about you, no slander, no 

1006
00:51:50,000 --> 00:51:58,440
physical threat. 
The purpose of the Lord will 

1007
00:51:58,440 --> 00:52:02,240
prevail. 
We have to know then His purpose

1008
00:52:02,240 --> 00:52:04,600
at all times. 
What have you declared over me? 

1009
00:52:05,160 --> 00:52:08,000
The third and final thing that 
the the confession will produce 

1010
00:52:09,080 --> 00:52:17,260
that we'll cover tonight, is it 
produces permission. 

1011
00:52:18,700 --> 00:52:21,620
What you confess you will permit
in your life. 

1012
00:52:23,880 --> 00:52:27,800
Now this word is specific 
because you are allowing and 

1013
00:52:27,800 --> 00:52:32,360
permitting what you confess to 
manifest in your life, in your 

1014
00:52:32,360 --> 00:52:38,320
home, in your circumstance. 
The Bible's pretty clear that it

1015
00:52:38,320 --> 00:52:40,200
says whatever we bind on earth 
will be bound in heaven. 

1016
00:52:40,200 --> 00:52:41,720
Whatever we loose on earth will 
be loosed in heaven. 

1017
00:52:41,720 --> 00:52:45,600
And how does that happen though 
your mouth? 

1018
00:52:47,120 --> 00:52:50,840
It's your words that permit what
happens in heaven to happen on 

1019
00:52:50,840 --> 00:52:52,600
earth. 
See, we can whenever the 

1020
00:52:52,600 --> 00:52:55,600
disciples looked at Jesus again,
if we take this back to the 

1021
00:52:55,600 --> 00:52:57,880
principle of words, they looked 
at Jesus and saw all the 

1022
00:52:57,880 --> 00:53:02,920
miracles and great things that 
he did, and they went to him and

1023
00:53:02,920 --> 00:53:07,600
said, Master, teach us how to do
miracles. 

1024
00:53:08,480 --> 00:53:12,080
It's not what they said and I 
hate it whenever I do that 

1025
00:53:12,080 --> 00:53:14,800
because it's such a Christian 
preacher thing that I you quote 

1026
00:53:14,800 --> 00:53:16,680
the Scripture the wrong way, but
I do it anyway. 

1027
00:53:16,680 --> 00:53:19,000
It's OK. 
He didn't say that. 

1028
00:53:19,000 --> 00:53:24,240
What he said was teach us how to
pray, teach us what to declare 

1029
00:53:24,240 --> 00:53:25,840
out of our mouth. 
And then Jesus gave them this 

1030
00:53:25,840 --> 00:53:27,320
pattern. 
He says, our Father who art in 

1031
00:53:27,320 --> 00:53:32,680
heaven, holy is your name, your 
Kingdom come, your will be done 

1032
00:53:32,680 --> 00:53:38,040
on earth as it is in heaven. 
The way you permit heaven to 

1033
00:53:38,040 --> 00:53:41,720
interact in earth is through 
your prayer life. 

1034
00:53:42,240 --> 00:53:45,160
Your prayer life is a direct 
connection to your confession. 

1035
00:53:47,560 --> 00:53:50,160
See, that's why whenever we 
begin to pray and permit God's 

1036
00:53:50,160 --> 00:53:51,840
will to happen in this earth, 
you're like, well, that sounds 

1037
00:53:51,840 --> 00:53:54,320
arrogant, brother. 
You're permitting God to do 

1038
00:53:54,320 --> 00:53:56,120
something. 
Hey, just go back and read the 

1039
00:53:56,120 --> 00:53:57,880
Bible, but start at the first 
book. 

1040
00:53:59,920 --> 00:54:01,880
Start there. 
Don't come to me with like, oh, 

1041
00:54:01,880 --> 00:54:03,840
I've read enough to understand. 
No, no, no, no, no. 

1042
00:54:03,840 --> 00:54:08,440
Read the whole thing because 
from the very beginning, God 

1043
00:54:08,440 --> 00:54:11,800
established man to have final 
say of what was happening in the

1044
00:54:11,800 --> 00:54:15,560
planet and then allowed mankind 
to dictate what happened. 

1045
00:54:16,840 --> 00:54:18,920
He didn't slap the fruit out of 
his hand. 

1046
00:54:19,920 --> 00:54:22,560
He allowed her to bring sin into
the earth because she had a free

1047
00:54:22,560 --> 00:54:26,560
will and He honored free will. 
So the same way that he did that

1048
00:54:26,560 --> 00:54:28,760
is whenever he looked and said, 
my children, the you know, the 

1049
00:54:28,800 --> 00:54:31,360
his covenant kids in were 
captive in Egypt. 

1050
00:54:31,600 --> 00:54:34,520
God didn't come down and just 
move everybody away with some 

1051
00:54:34,520 --> 00:54:37,640
big heavenly Angel legion. 
No, that's not what he did. 

1052
00:54:37,640 --> 00:54:40,920
He came and found an obedient 
person that would do his will in

1053
00:54:40,920 --> 00:54:44,400
the earth and use them in a 
mighty way to deliver the 

1054
00:54:44,400 --> 00:54:46,880
people. 
The way God operates in earth is

1055
00:54:46,880 --> 00:54:50,240
he finds an obedient man or 
woman to bring heaven to earth. 

1056
00:54:50,440 --> 00:54:53,880
So his will is done. 
So when we say we our prayer 

1057
00:54:53,880 --> 00:54:56,960
life permits God to work in the 
earth, that's because that's the

1058
00:54:56,960 --> 00:54:58,960
authority structure he gave in 
Genesis. 

1059
00:55:01,480 --> 00:55:04,080
I want to permit him in every 
area of my life. 

1060
00:55:04,480 --> 00:55:07,000
If I'm struggling financially, I
got to find out, God, you got to

1061
00:55:07,000 --> 00:55:08,440
get in here. 
But the only way for me to do 

1062
00:55:08,440 --> 00:55:10,120
that is find out what does your 
word say about it? 

1063
00:55:10,120 --> 00:55:12,800
And let me declare it here. 
If I've got issues in my 

1064
00:55:12,800 --> 00:55:15,000
marriage or issues in my 
parenting, I've got to get with 

1065
00:55:15,000 --> 00:55:19,200
the Lord and say, hey, I want to
permit you into my parenting. 

1066
00:55:20,400 --> 00:55:22,000
I need your help parenting my 
kids. 

1067
00:55:22,000 --> 00:55:24,120
I need your help in my 
relationship with my spouse. 

1068
00:55:24,120 --> 00:55:25,760
I need your help in doing my 
assignment. 

1069
00:55:26,520 --> 00:55:30,400
And whenever I pray, that is the
power of us confessing and 

1070
00:55:30,400 --> 00:55:33,120
releasing God's will in our life
and in our planet. 

1071
00:55:33,160 --> 00:55:36,400
Amen. 
So again, the three things that 

1072
00:55:36,400 --> 00:55:39,200
your confession is producing, 
it's going to reveal and produce

1073
00:55:39,200 --> 00:55:45,520
identity in your life. 
If the band wants to come, it's 

1074
00:55:45,520 --> 00:55:49,000
going to reveal who you think 
you are and who you actually 

1075
00:55:49,000 --> 00:55:50,880
are. 
It's also going to reveal the 

1076
00:55:50,880 --> 00:55:52,880
allegiance that you have. 
What comes out of your mouth 

1077
00:55:52,920 --> 00:55:56,800
defines whether you're submitted
to the king or you serve a 

1078
00:55:56,800 --> 00:56:01,760
different master. 
The third thing that it does is 

1079
00:56:01,760 --> 00:56:05,600
it is the permission source in 
your life. 

1080
00:56:05,600 --> 00:56:09,160
What you confess is what you 
permit to operate in your 

1081
00:56:09,160 --> 00:56:12,560
everyday life. 
So again, tonight I'm not, I'm 

1082
00:56:12,560 --> 00:56:14,800
not going to give some kind of 
altar call of like, hey, you 

1083
00:56:14,800 --> 00:56:16,960
know, let me cast the the 
negative confession out of your 

1084
00:56:16,960 --> 00:56:17,920
mouth. 
I can't do that. 

1085
00:56:19,680 --> 00:56:21,360
A prophet of God can't show up 
here. 

1086
00:56:21,360 --> 00:56:23,200
No 5 fold minutes. 
You can come up here and lay 

1087
00:56:23,200 --> 00:56:26,120
hands on you and cast out your 
your your bad talking. 

1088
00:56:27,920 --> 00:56:31,080
But what I also want to say is 
that in this place, these 

1089
00:56:31,080 --> 00:56:34,920
principles of speaking life only
apply to believers. 

1090
00:56:35,560 --> 00:56:37,520
See with life and death are in 
the power of the tongue. 

1091
00:56:37,760 --> 00:56:40,440
An unbeliever or somebody 
outside the Kingdom can't begin 

1092
00:56:40,440 --> 00:56:45,360
to decree life outside of this 
one declaration, which is, I 

1093
00:56:45,360 --> 00:56:51,480
confess, Jesus is my Lord. 
That's the beginning of 

1094
00:56:52,240 --> 00:56:55,680
declaring life and setting your 
life in the direction that the 

1095
00:56:55,680 --> 00:56:58,120
rudder is now guiding you 
towards your destiny in the 

1096
00:56:58,120 --> 00:56:58,560
Kingdom.