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Remember what this year is? Because you understand I'm not
going to minister that Sunday. I got some other things to do.
So I wanted to kind of end out a Wednesday night on reminding us
of what this year was. Because you have what's today,
the 20th. You have 11 days to get your
mouth together, all right. To rekindle what you started
saying, to check up on yourself and make sure that you cause.
Here's the thing, just because there was an emphasis in the
area of our miles this year, it was raining residents, which
means our decree should go beyond our lifetime, OK.
And that there's power in our words.
We're going to see this again tonight.
But you understand it doesn't stop when 2024 hits.
Because you know, what I am extremely aware of is that when
God brought us in the 2017 and he said, Pastor Earl, this is
your year to equip the Saints, we're going to deal with
equipping like never before. And we started on a journey
that's produced a book and it took three years to do that.
Because then 2018 came and we did it again, two point O and we
did it equipped again 3 point O. Then we got to 2020 and it was
year to rain and we've been talking about raining ever
since. But what's interesting is in the
Year to Rain was the year the world shut down and God had
given us three years as a corporate body.
Not that we aren't equipping because man, if you've not been
to anchor Faith Church long, let me just let you know what goes
on here. I mean, we have services on
Sunday and on Sunday before you even come into service, you can
do an Anchor Faith live class. There are three that are running
each Sunday that you can attend to continue to grow and develop.
As a believer, we are into discipling the Saints because
the Bible says go make disciples, not converts.
Although we have evangelistic things that we do, we are very
purposeful in discipling the believer.
OK, and so you can do that then. Then, if you're not doing one of
those classes, you can come to corporate prayer.
At 9:30, 10/30, we're hitting our classes.
If you are a vision partner on Sunday night you can attend our
Kingdom Institute, by which you would take three classes, right?
And then you can be disciple there.
If you are a male, that is a male by birth.
You can then attend our 318 classes on Monday night, OK.
And so that's a three-year commitment as well.
So we have that discipleship. Then our women at various times
through the year, they go through some additional
training, discipleship through books and various meetings.
Same thing we do some general sessions with men, not to
mention our Wednesday night that we do here at the church where
we're always training people and doing stuff.
I mean, we're constantly in a position where we are wanting
the Bible or the Saint to grow up and mature.
But there was an emphasis throughout those three years of
what it means to actually be equipped.
And as you remember, one of our context was, if all you do is
educate the body of Christ, and this isn't our book equipped,
there's some great stuffing stalkers out there, stock
stuffing, stocking stuffers. Thank you.
Out there is that if all the church does is educate their
body the best they can produce as a Pharisee.
Because God never intended for the fivefold ministry to only
educate the body. He expected them to equip them.
And equipping is more than education, OK.
And so you know, we endeavor to do that here.
So when we came through those three years, we found out who
developed an equipped body. Because when the world shut
down, the church that Jesus Christ is building prospered and
flourished. During that trial, it continued
to grow. It took its persecution, but it
did not back down and it is thriving today.
Well, then we get into raining, and this may be our theme till
Jesus comes, which could be very soon, extremely soon, super
soon. That's why we're probably
talking about all the things we're talking about by the
Spirit. So you just need to look up and
start practicing flying like Superman, right, 'cause people
go watch me go up and I'm not going to look stupid.
How many of you are one of those 80s kids like me?
And there was that one show called The Greatest American
Hero. Remember that show?
And he lost the manual on how to fly and he stunk at flying.
I'm not going to look like that being caught up.
And if you do, I'm going to tell you.
When we get to the Lord, you look like the greatest American
hero guy. You should have been practicing.
Say, well, Pastor Earl, how do I practice?
We have gravity. Just jump out over on your bed,
you know, see yourself flying. Imagine it.
Have faith that you're going to look good.
Got to believe God, for some things you understand.
Not like you're going to just be doing somersaults all the way
up, screaming, no, you're going to be like, all right,
Hallelujah. So it's reigning residents for
2023. Amen.
And it's concerning the Kingdom principle of decree.
A decree is a Kingdom principle of decree is a royal decree is
the declaration of a king that becomes law.
It is sustained by the King's personal commitment to bring the
declaration or promise to pass. What is a decree?
By just a simple definition, it's an official order having
the force of law given by a person with power or by a
government. OK, why are we talking to Creed?
Well, if you've been at Anchorage church long, do you
know that we know that the Bible is not not a religious book.
It's about a king, his Kingdom, and his royal offspring.
All right? And that's all the Bibles ever
been about. And when we see in Genesis
chapter one, verse 26, when God said, let us make man in our
image according to our likeness and let him have dominion or
rule on the earth. So God created man in his image,
in his likeness. So as God rules in heaven, man
was the rule over the earth as God wanted him to.
And in turn, both heaven and earth would have had the same
environment of which God came down the cool of day, spent time
with Adam and Eve, no issue. But when Adam abdicated his
throne by eating the fruit, God told him not to eat.
Then he turned his power over to the devil, which is clearly
outlined in Luke chapter four that he received that when he
was tempting Jesus, he said, I'll give you all this domain in
a moment of time, for it's been handed over to me.
It was handed over to him by the 1st Adam in the garden, who
rebelled against God, ate the fruit, and handed that power to
the devil. Jesus Christ said I came to
destroy the works of the devil, right?
Which is the sin or rebellion against God's word.
That's why Jesus only did what God said, because he's the last
Adam. And all the miracles that Jesus
performed in the four gospels we know were under the dominion
that Adam had. What was that dominion He had
demean over the birds of the sky, the fish of the sea, over
all the cattle, over all the earth, and over every creepy
thing that creeps on the earth. So it's not surprising when he
can tell Peter, go out into the deep and put your neck down,
'cause fish will listen to him. Because fish were going to
listen to the first Adam. OK, This is why he can say,
Peter, go throw your hook in in the water and the first fish
that comes is going to have your tax and my tax in it.
And that fish heard him when he gave that order or decree to
Peter. And when Peter obeyed that
decree, that fish obeyed the King's decree, found the 2
coins, and went and found Peter. Are you hearing me?
So we know this again. Jesus could curse a fig tree
pretty easy because it's a plant in the planet, right?
He could speak to it. This is why he can multiply the
loaves, because they came from grain, which came from the earth
itself, and it had to listen to him okay.
And so this is all about rulership.
It's all about God being the ultimate king.
Jesus is the king of And who are those kings?
We are those kings and we are not those kings when we get to
heaven where those kings the minute we come into the Kingdom
of God because we are transferred out of the domain of
darkness into the Kingdom of his beloved Son.
A Kingdom, The Kingdom of God does have a physical place to
it, but it's not necessary for it to be active.
Just like it's not necessary for the United States to own every
piece of real estate on the globe to enforce this policies.
Because if you attack an embassy in a foreign territory, by all
rights our nation can come after your nation and you are
ambassadors for Christ. And when people try to attack
the church, by all rights you're authorizing God to send his
special forces. They're called angels and they
will smoke you. There's not an army nor a bomb
big enough. Are you hearing me?
Because those guys are so stealth they can get in behind
enemy lines. Push your button, let it blow up
and walk out. Hallelujah.
So the church is not this beat down.
You know all. We're just wringing our hands
wishing Jesus would come back. We are the most powerful force
on the face of the planet. Amen.
Now we are terrorized and there's tribulations that come
to us because the world hates us and hates God.
But we are not in the position of inferiority.
We're in the position of power. And that's why we have mercy and
compassion when we see people attack us.
Because like, you just don't know.
You don't know you're on the wrong side.
You don't know you're on the side that's ultimately going to
lose. And I'm going to respond in a
way that you're not even used to in order to help open up your
heart and your eyes to see so that you'll accept the same
Christ that I did. So you can get out of that junk
and get into what we're in. Are you hearing me?
So then because God made man in his image and image of his
likeness, we know that one of the very first assignments he
did with Adam, when he changed in the guard, he brought him all
the animals and he said to Adam, he said, you name them.
Now, why did you do that? Because God declares with his
words, and so he required then Adam to declare with his words
as well. So our decree rest in what we
hear Jesus saying, not in what the world is saying.
Amen. And it is heir to think that the
whole world can have a unified idea.
And for some reason we think that's God when the majority of
the world does not hold an allegiance to our King and it
always tries to come about it in a particular way to discredit
who we serve. And so, you know, when the mass
majority agrees on a thing, you should take a step back and say
because again, we are not led by what we see or what we hear, we
are led by the spirit of God. You know, he can tell you
something different now. The world can be accurate,
actually concerning a condition. I'll give you a case in point.
Isaac. You know the son of Abraham is
in the land and there is a famine.
And it's factual. There's a famine and everyone is
taking the advice of the land and that is go to Egypt.
That's where you can prosper. But Isaac heard God, and God
said, don't you go to Egypt, You plant right here.
Now, Do you think God knows there's a famine?
Sure he does. Is he moved by it?
No. I mean, this is God getting rid
of competition. Just to be honest with you, I'll
just go ahead and get rid of all the competition.
Let you be the only one in the land to plant.
Then he does. And he ends up having what the
farmers call a bumper crop. I mean, he has a hundredfold
return. And the transfer of the wealth
of that area goes straight into Isaac.
Why? Because he wasn't moved by what
he saw, He was only moved by what he heard.
And we have to do that all the more as we see the day
approaching, is that we must become proficient at being led
by the Spirit. Now let me caveat that the Holy
Spirit will never say anything outside the alignment of His
word. So if you come to me and say I
heard the Holy Ghost say and it is in, it is not in keeping with
the scripture, I'll have to tell you you're not telling me the
truth. Now I need to help you
understand how to hear the Holy Ghost 'cause that really wasn't
his voice. Now it probably was a spirit.
It just wasn't the Holy Spirit because the Holy Spirit will
never speak against or violate truths within God's word.
I'm not telling you he's going to give you specific Scriptures.
What I am saying is that whatever concept he gives you is
going to have a biblical truth based to it, whatever that
leading is, and you'll be able to trust it emphatically without
doubting, and it will come to pass.
Amen. So then God's Word in your mouth
is the same as God's Word in his mouth if you are firmly
persuaded the authority of God is in what you say.
This is not just reciting Scripture.
This is being firmly persuaded that the Word I just said, God's
authority is within it to perform it, period.
And it cannot be any other way. And the easiest way to explain
this one is you know when you first came into the Kingdom of
God, OK? And the reason you want to use
this one is because you didn't know Jack, right?
You just knew I ain't right with God.
And somebody right now is telling me that if I believe in
my heart and confess with my mouth, Jesus Christ is Lord.
That He that he was born of the Virgin.
He died on the cross. He was dead for three days, but
on the third day the Holy Ghost raised him.
And I can't get to God by myself.
I could not do it alone. I need what he did, His
sacrifice his blood to take care of my sin issue.
OK, so I'm. I call him Lord, which is not a
religious word. It means supreme in authority.
He is supreme in authority of my life.
OK, When you did that, when you made that confession, which is a
scripture at the end of the day, then you know you were born
again. You didn't go and say, well, I
hope I got it, 'cause if you said that, then you made a
confession where your mouth without your heart, because you
can say God's word and not believe it.
That's what Pharisees do, right? That's what lost people do.
You know, Jesus himself says, you know, they, they use my
word, you know, But there are hearts far from me, OK?
And so when you truly believe, I mean, it's every bit of your
being, you are firmly persuaded that I am right with God.
And with this confession, I believe God.
I believe God at His word. Well, then, you know you're born
again. And 1st John 513 confirms that.
He says, you know, that once we've accepted Christ, we will
know that we have eternal life. So I know I do.
I mean, I know that I have no doubt about that.
I know that I am right with God now.
Why else do I know it? Because another scripture tells
me that since I was born again, I became a new creature in
Christ. But the Holy Ghost came and
moved in on the inside and bore witness with my spirit.
I'm a child of God, so I had the Holy Ghost telling me, which
again, sure, he would tell me that because the scripture tells
me he would tell me that. Now what he wouldn't do is say
you're the most special one of all.
Now we're all special, but ain't none of us better than others.
We all have equal access to the Father, but not all of us enjoy
the benefits of the Father because not all of us accessing.
Although we have equality to do so now, we're not all equal
because our assignments dictate what our Father needs us to
have, and that doesn't show favoritism.
That's just called placement. Are you hearing me all right?
Because if that was a problem for you, then you'd have a
problem when he said, well, I gave 1512111, but the five and
the two, when they did what he knew they could do, what was his
report on both of them? Well done.
And that's pretty amazing. So again, we're not in
competition with one another. We're just doing what God's
called us to do to accomplish the task.
Amen. All right.
I better get moving or I won't finish tonight.
OK. So with that being said, Psalms
33, verse 9. For he spoke and it was done.
Man, you should just say that 100 times.
I mean, this one verse should be on your refrigerator, right?
I mean, it's right here. Get you jacked up, right?
For he spoke and it was done. He commanded, and it stood firm.
That's our father. Our father is not how some
people well, you know if the Lord wants it or not, you know,
well, I mean our God is not like that.
Our God does His word. So when someone's talking like
that, then I I know, OK, you haven't got, you have not set
down enough and heard the father's word on it yet to have
a confidence. And that's OK.
But you need to have at least acknowledge that that I haven't.
I do not have at this point such confidence that I've heard him
on this matter because when he speaks, it's done.
Now I'm going to add this to my book capacity when we write it.
I was listening to Doctor Miles Monroe the other day and he made
this statement. I thought, wow, I knew right
then. I said I might have to put that
in that capacity book when we write it.
He said, you know, because the Scripture says that the Lord
knows the beginning from the end.
And so he says this if God starts something with you, it is
guarantee that it's completed because he knows the beginning
where from the end. Which means then he's not asked.
He If he's asked you start this, his guaranteed is completed
because he never starts something that he hadn't already
finished. Wow, you know, so people here,
all the Lord wants me. Don't be afraid.
He's already got it mapped out. Your assignment in this process
now is to be led by the Spirit and stay on the path.
Let his words be a lamp into your feet and a light into your
path. You're guaranteed.
Amen. Now, that's if you're hearing
right. Because again, when the Lord
says it, he's already had the end before he spoke.
The beginning. All right.
So he spoke. It was done.
He commanded. It stood fast.
Look at Psalms, 148 verses five and six, he said.
Let them praise the name of the Lord.
For he commanded and they and they were created.
He also established them forever and ever.
He has made a decree which will not pass away.
Amen. Will not pass away.
So when the Lord speaks, that's why he's careful at what he
says. He himself is obligated to the
word He says. This is why.
And you know, I'm not going to go down and teach this at this
juncture because there's too many new people in here and I'm
not going to go there. But when the Lord said to Adam,
you can eat from any tree of the garden, but at the tree of the
knowledge of good and evil you shall not eat for the day you
eat, you will surely die. That's going to happen.
Let me back up one. Let us make man in our image
according to our likeness, and let them have dominion.
Rule over what? The earth.
They don't own the planet, but they are to rule the planet.
So who now rules planet Earth? Man does not God.
Then he tells his man. You get to do this as long as
you are obeying what I say. But if you eat this, you're
going to die and we're going to be separated.
Adam has never blown it his whole life, never made a
mistake, never sinned, didn't even know what sin was.
Then a tempter shows up in the garden, right convinces Eve to
eat the fruit, of which she does.
Adam totally rebels, eats the fruit, and then two things
occur. A transfer of power doesn't go
back to God, but goes to the voice they submitted to.
Because notice when Jesus was being tempted by the devil in
Luke chapter four, he said. All this domain's been given to
me. You know I can give to you.
I have it. I can give it to you.
Give it to whoever I wish, because it's been handed over to
me. Notice she didn't say it is
written. The earth is the Lord and the
fullness thereof. Notice he did not say that
verse. He did not rebuke that thought.
OK, he said. I'll give this to you if you'll
fall down to worship me. And he says it is written you're
only going to worship God. That's all we going to do.
Because you don't know I have a plan to get it back legally.
You understand what I'm saying? We got a plan you're unaware of.
OK, so then the minute that takes place, God doesn't come
down because the way we talk about the Father today, you
know, why didn't the father just come down and say, Adam, where
are you? Right.
And he said, well, you know, we were naked and we hid ourselves.
Well, who told you you were naked?
Did you eat the fruit? I told you you weren't supposed
to. Well, it's that woman you gave
me. She ate it and gave it to me.
He goes to Eve, right? You know, he's blaming God, not
Eve. So he goes to Eve, said what he
does, she tells the truth. I was deceived.
I ate the fruit from this serpent.
So he goes to the serpent and he goes and says, OK, I'm, I'm
obligated to my decree. So this is what we call an
amendment. He said, well, I'm going to
bring my seed through a woman because I can't use man.
His seed's corrupt, so I'm going to bring my seed through the
woman, OK? And Joshua?
Where's Joshua? Shirley.
Joshua hates it when I do this, too.
I call him out. Yeah, he probably is.
Joshua, you're going to want to talk to me about God?
Said to the serpent. I'll bring my seat through the
woman. OK.
You'll crush his, you know. You'll bruise his heel, but
he'll crush your head again. We we treat forgiveness so
flippantly now. Why didn't God just say Adam?
I forgive you. Let's just sound like it didn't
happen. I mean, you never made a mistake
before because he's obligated to his word.
Do you think he loved Adam? Sure he did.
But love put Adam out the garden.
He did that because his word he has to perform.
He can't let emotions dictate his decisions.
And that's the power of our words.
Are you hearing me? Colossians 116 and 17.
For by all by Him all things were created, both in heaven and
on earth, visible and invisible, whether Thrones or dominions or
rulers or authorities. All things have been created
through him and for him He is before all things, and in him
all things hold together. Revelations 411 Worthy are you,
O Lord and our God, to receive glory and honor and power?
For you created all things, and because of your will they exist,
and were created at His Word. Then when we get Jesus in the
flesh because he decreed He would come because he can't stop
death now in this way deaths in the earth.
So he's obligated to his word said, well I'll have to pay the
price because the wages of sin is so somebody's got to die.
So guess who dies? God.
He puts his Son in a skin suit, which is himself.
Yeah, God the Father, God the Son, and God the Holy Spirit.
So we know God. Jesus Christ is the Son of God,
our God, the second person of God.
So in essence, God says I'll die.
I'm going to do it. I'm the only one who can.
I'm the only one righteous enough.
I'm the only one who can redeem. Amen.
He created the plan because the other plan's still in play.
Man's died and man's dead didn't stop.
But the alternative to come back in alignment with what God
wanted for man, which is to have dominion, has now been reopened
because of Jesus. Hallelujah.
So Jesus. Then when he God, gets in the
flesh, God the Son in the flesh, we call him Jesus.
Notice how he functioned on the planet.
It says this in John chapter 12, verse 49 and 50.
Because Jesus knew he was a king, right?
Jesus knew he was a king. I mean, he said, you know,
talking to the woman at the well because the woman at the well is
like, you know, can you tell me when the Christ, when they say
the Christ, that's not Jesus last name.
As you know, that is title. That is the Greek equivalent to
the Hebrew word Messiah. That is the king who's coming
and he's going to set up his Kingdom.
There's going to be no wind. They looking for a king.
They ain't looking for a lamb, but the king is a lamb and a
lion. He had to be the lamb first.
He's coming back as a lion, bro. I'm telling you, he is not
coming back as a suffering servant.
He is not coming back as a lamb. He is coming back as a lion, a
Judah with a scepter to rule. OK, he's paid that price.
He went to battle for you. He did not let the troops come.
He said. I got this all by myself, I'll
pay this price for you. But notice when Jesus wrapped
himself in man. Look how he functioned on the
planet. Because again, Jesus did not
come to earth to let you know what he can do.
He came to earth to let you know what you can do when you are in
Him, because this is how man was supposed to function.
That's why I said every miracle that Jesus performed was in the
dominion that the first Adam lost.
So he says. For I do not speak on my own,
but my Father himself, who sent me, has given me a command as to
what to say and what to speak. I know that His commandment is
eternal life. Therefore I therefore the things
I speak, I speak just as a Father has told me.
We run off at the mouth because we have too much USA government
in our way of life. Now what do I mean by that?
You exercise your First Amendment in God's Kingdom.
Now let me just be honest with you.
There is no First Amendment in the Kingdom.
Now there's free will in the Kingdom, but people who love God
say I just speak the word. Because again, you realize this
isn't about denying me. I wouldn't even be here if it
wasn't for him. He is the existence of life.
To speak anything other than he says means I speak death.
Again, we look at this thing as right and wrong, good and evil,
but when it comes to God, this is life and death stuff.
So your First Amendment right in the Kingdom doesn't exist, but
we sure use it in the USA church.
Well, let me tell you what I think.
Oh, freedom of speech. OK, right.
I mean, that's like having the having Jesus Christ himself
stand up here, or the Holy Ghost, one of the other.
And they tell you what they meant in the book and you argue
with them. Well, I don't.
I just can't believe. I don't think it's that way.
Seriously, let me tell you what I think.
Right? I have a right to say something.
There's freedom of speech here. Well, you know what?
God will let you think what you want and do what you want, but
he'll hold you accountable to what you think and what you do.
And it'd be according to his word again.
So if anybody ever accuses you of being afraid of some groups
or being certain ways, you're like, no problem bro.
You can do whatever you wanna do, gotta let you do whatever
you wanna do. But at the end of the day,
you're gonna be held accountable to what you did.
According to his word. At the end of the day, I'm not
here to make you be different. I'm just saying you it's not my
opinion in the matter. See, that's what ambassadors do.
Ambassadors don't give their. I'm just tell you right now in
our U.S. government, our ambassadors are supposed to.
I'm not saying that they all do it because I don't live around
them. Right.
But by policy and ambassador is not supposed to speak his
opinion. Well, I really think the US
should do this concerning the Ukraine conflict, or I really
think the US should do this concerning the Israel and Gaza
Strip conflict. Ambassadors don't do that.
Ambassadors say, I have no opinion in the matter, but our
president's position is, and that's all they speak.
That doesn't mean they don't have an idea, but we're supposed
to be ambassadors for Christ. But what do we do?
We bring our First Amendment rights in on our marriages.
We bring our First Amendment rights in on our parenting.
We bring our First Amendment rights on.
You know how often we come to church?
1st Amendment rights concerning healing.
I mean, the list could go on. You know, I have no opinion in
the matter. I only speak what the Father
says. So what's the Father say
concerning this subject that I've been right now?
Are y'all doing all right? All right, John. 14 verses 10 to
14 says this. Do you not believe that I am in
the Father? The Father is in Me.
The words that I say to you I do not speak on my own initiative,
but the Father abiding in me does his work.
Believe me that I am in the Father and the Father is in Me.
Otherwise believe because of the works themselves.
Truly I say to you, he who believes in me and the works
that I do, He will do also and greater worse then these will he
do because I go to the Father whatever you ask in my name that
will I do so that the Father may be glorified in the Son.
If you ask me anything in my name, I will do it.
Wow, what a guarantee. How awesome is that?
Now if only every Jesus Christ confessing believer believe that
I mean was firmly persuaded and got rid of their U.S. government
thinking concerning the Bible, then it would be this way.
Oh man, their lives will be different.
John 828 and 29 So Jesus said, when you lift up the Son of Man,
then you will know that I am he and I do nothing on my own
initiative. That doesn't mean he didn't have
other thoughts. We know this.
The garden lets us know that when he's in the garden praying
to his father just before he's handed over to be beaten so bad
you can't tell he's a man and to be scourged and have stripes put
on his back so that we can walk in the divine healthcare or
Kingdom healthcare while we remain in the earth, he said.
Father, if there's any other way, let this cup pass, but not
my will. Your will be done.
Yeah, 3 * 3 times. Hallelujah.
But he put it down. And do you think he was
suffering emotionally? I mean, this is 3 years of
ministry, three years of raising dead people, healing sick
people, giving finances away, feeding people, delivering
people from demons and devils. I mean, everybody's seeing his
miracles all over the place and now a mobs come to kill him.
This is the things I get. I mean, even the most solid
person can get a little aggravated at that.
It's like really, Lord, I'm. Dying for these people here.
I mean as much as. We've seen, I mean, and they
still can't figure this out. But what'd he do?
Not my will butcher will be done, he said.
I do nothing on my own initiative, but I speak these
things as the Father taught me, and he who sent me is with me.
He has not left me alone. For I always say always, always
do the things that are pleasing to him, and again, that word
pleasing. You have to know that in
context, anytime you're seeing this word pleasing to him, that
is the context of faith. Because Hebrews 11/6 says
without faith it's impossible to please him.
And we saw on Sunday that verse five talks about how Enoch was
pleasing to God because by faith, Enoch just went on home,
which means the Lord told him, son, I could just bring you up
here and save you for another time.
I got a different purpose for you.
And he believed that and left the planet in his flesh.
Wow, that's amazing. OK, So he was always pleasing,
which means he was always in faith.
He was always believing Father at his word.
Where does that bring us to us in our decree to remind us?
Mark chapter 1122 to 24 right. Huh.
My dad's name was. Enoch.
That is true. My dad's name was Enoch.
My father unfortunately did not care for his name.
But it's probably because he rebelled.
Against God anyway. Not till the later part of his
years He did get born again, and he's present with the Lord.
Hallelujah. But he did not like his name, so
he used the pseudo name Earl instead.
So, well, my wife, my, my, my, my wife.
But my mom got pregnant with me or and had me because they
didn't have what you were having back then.
And I came out and it was a boy. So they had a name picked out.
They were going to call me Gregory Frank at one point.
That was really my second name. My first name was going to be
Stephen Paul. Yeah, right.
But my father's brother had a son 18 months earlier and called
him Stephen Michael or Michael Stephen.
I don't remember now. I just called him Steve, so I
don't remember if it's a middle name or whatever.
So I lost Stephen Paul because of that.
So. Then my mom was thinking about
Gregory Frank. Frank happened to be his father.
I don't know where Gregory comes from, to be honest with you, but
my dad's like, I may not have another son, so I would rather
him, you know, have my initials. But he didn't like his name.
His full name was Enoch Washington Glisson.
Right, So. And here's the thing about
Enoch. It was a family name.
It was in every generation. Tell me.
Yep. So he wanted EWG.
So he went with his pseudo name because he went by EW.
So much so they didn't even know how to spell his name when he
was in 6th grade. They say write out your name,
put EW, glisten. They said no, your full name.
He couldn't spell Enoch Washington because he never
spelled it. They always called him EW.
He was from Georgia I. Get it?
I mean, he was from Georgia. I mean, that's true.
Here's what it is. I mean, it is what it is.
So anyway, I got Earl Wayne Glisten, but Earl is noble and I
appreciate that. At the end of the day, my wife
didn't like Enoch either, so it didn't make it any my sons.
But my daughter brought it back into the bloodline with Caius
Caius Enoch Fouche. So.
He'll be an Enoch that gets caught up.
I believe it in Jesus name. All right, Side Story.
Thank you. Mark 11.
And I was on time to finish early.
So, Jesus. Answered and said to them, Have
faith in God, one translation says, Have have the God kind of
faith. For surely I say to you, whoever
says to this mountain be removed and be cast into the sea and
does not doubt in his heart, but believes that those things he
says will be done. He will have whatever he says.
Therefore, I say to you, whatever things you ask, when
you pray, believe that you receive them, you will have
them. So there's power, in our words.
We know this. We've talked about this all
year. And you got to make sure you
always recognize this. Because the more and more we're
being bombarded by social media and all kind of stuff, and the
hours, if you don't watch out, are being bombarded, you're
going to say stuff that you should not decree.
OK, your. Words have power, period.
Because. God is going to.
Judge us by every idle word. So that's why I said be quick.
To hear Slow to open your mouth. Come on.
Reminds me of the. Movie Titanic at the end when
they're all on the boat and the one lady was screaming, he says.
Shut that hole in your face. Husbands, you need to let your
wives. Have permission.
When you start speaking out of lineman of the word say, shut
that hole in your face. That's not.
What a king would say connected to Jesus.
Amen. So again at the end of the day.
You're going to have what you say.
The key here is you don't doubt. So this is not magical thinking.
It's not wishful thinking. These are not.
This is not like this is not a A spell.
Right. You know, a little.
Magical spell that with a little enchant that you enchant and it
comes No, this is a firm persuasion because you will say
what you firmly believe all. Right.
It's going to come out. That's why Proverbs 1821 says it
this way. Death and life.
Are in the power of the tongue. And those who love it will eat
its fruit. That's both fruit.
You can eat death or you can eat life.
It's entirely up to you, but you're.
Saying it. Because there are two laws out
there, right? There are two laws out there,
and let's just go there. Romans chapter 8, verse 2.
Says for the law. Of the spirit of life.
For the law of the spirit of life.
In Christ, Jesus set you free from the law of sin and death.
There is a law in play with sin and death.
If you speak according to that law, you will decree that law
and you'll get what that law demands.
But if you'll speak from the. Other law, and this is new
covenant stuff, OK? Because people who says the laws
done away with are ignorant of the word, OK, It's just
ignorance of the word because they take stuff in such a little
nugget and it's so wrong. Jesus, I said don't think that
I've come to abolish the law, I've come to fulfill it first
thing, he said. But you understand things are
not off the books. Because thou shalt.
Not kill is still in this covenant.
OK, all right. Obviously we're not sacrificing
the animals. Jesus is the sacrifice.
My point is, is there is a law in effect.
It's called the law of the of life, the the spirit of life in
Christ. So when you speak what Christ
speaks, you speak life, and then it has to be created based upon
that. So if you keep calling, you know
your kids stupid, dumb, they're never going to obey you.
Well, guess what you're. Keeping an.
Environment in your home now again, they are free will.
They can do what they want, but there's no reason for you to
have a counter environment. I mean, they're.
Going to have a challenge. In love themselves you.
Might as well call them. Something else.
Same thing with your spouse. You should call them what the
Bible says. Even if they act different, at
least create the environment that life can show up.
I mean, it's easy to call those things that are as they owe are,
but we're faith people. Amen.
Now, some things I'm calling 'cause they are and 'cause it's
life. You know, when I say my wife is
better than silver and gold, that's not faith, that's
reality. It's happened.
I have what I say because she loves God and she does it, and
she is very proficient at putting down her flesh and not
walking according to her personal desire in any matter.
And I am the I am a beneficiary of that type of person who's
living by faith and loving God in the fear of the Lord like
that. I understand that it's not
because I declared it by myself, but I sure declared it before
she knew it, 'cause I used to call her a woman of God before
she would even believe she could be a woman of God.
She was just glad she's going to heaven.
Right, you've heard her. Testimony, she said.
I was raised in the church. She was raised heathen and at
the end of the day we both got touched by God and he's done
something amazing in our lives. And neither.
One of us picked what we're in. We just said yes, I mean that's.
It, you know, you could say, well, you were born to do this.
Yes, I was. I had to find that out.
I didn't know that when I. Was born.
I didn't know he called me into this because I have my own
plans. In the 4th grade I was going to
be an astronaut. And what an awesome report I
did, Yeah. And in the eighth grade, I was
still. Kind of pursuing it because I
actually applied to the Air Force Academy.
Yeah, I got a great score on the SAT in the eighth grade.
Then I went ahead and submitted an application of which they
wrote me back and say we love your scores but you.
Need to. Graduate.
OK, kind of ironic one time, I. Was watching the Air Force
county play a a football game and a guy was on their team that
had the last name Glisson. Yeah, it never would have been
me. I was too small.
I I don't know. They might be kind of desperate
in the Air Force to actually have players on the football
team, don't you think, King? They probably were desperate,
especially when I was in high school.
I might have made it anyway. I didn't make it.
My father died 15 days after I graduated, and I became highly
unfocused. So anyway.
What we're saying or decreeing life and death are in our mouth,
and this is always in play. So again, even though God wanted
us to emphasize, I think God just needed us to really focus.
And I hope you've been doing that this year and I hope you've
seen that there's been things done different in your life this
year because you've been focused on what you've said and.
Continue to do this and again. You're not better.
We're just doing what he says. And when we do what he says, we
have it. We're guaranteed it, and it's
life. KISS keeps showing up around us.
Now there's trials and tribulation, but we're able to
speak through that because we have life and we choose not to
call the problem the problem. We find God's answer.
Aren't you glad God's got an answer?
There's nothing more draining than to be around people who all
they want to do is point out the problem.
I mean, everybody can do that. That's.
The easiest thing. To do is find a problem.
It's a whole nother breed when you begin to say yeah, that's a
problem, but lost an answer. How do we fix?
It How do we not get stuck now at this problem?
We're going to have the answer that gets us in restoration and
reconciliation and, you know, recovery and love or whatever
makes us better. All right, Matthew 1237 says,
For by your words you will be justified, and by your words you
will be condemned. So again, what's going on?
What's wrong with your life? You.
Nobody else. See, I've learned to speak.
Such with my words that even if people are creating a negative
environment towards me with their words.
Because here's the thing. The words.
I speak have more power. You, I mean, you got to kind of
imagine sometimes, I mean just think if someone's bombarding
you with constant negativity, you know, and that seems
extremely powerful because some people just let that weigh them
down. But you understand I have a one
word from God that can obliterate all that.
Blitter if I believe what? God has said about me.
Let me say this. Yeah.
Thank you, Lord. The way that you know that your
words have power is when you first believe God's word about
what he has said about you. Because the minute you know what
God has said about you, you are the righteousness of God in
Christ. You are fearfully and
wonderfully made, right. I don't care what you've been
through, how you were raised, what happened in your life,
where you came from, what kind of atrocities happened, Doesn't
matter. Makes you got blood ball, man
minutes. You got up underneath the blood
and you got into the Kingdom of God and and you begin to renew
your mind and begin to realize who God has made you to be.
Well then, at that point, nobody's negative words can
touch me, 'cause you ain't talking to me.
So what that? Does it has eradicated all
insecurities? I don't have one.
How can I have an insecurity when the king has called me his
favor? His beloved.
Right. How can his child?
How can I have any? That's my old life talking and
it's dead. I said it's dead.
It doesn't exist anymore. So I don't let somebody come
talk to me about my past or my perceived path past or what they
want my future to be. I only speak out of my nature.
And when you know that. Then you can say boom.
And it just Iraq because. Again, they are.
They have what the Bible would call dark sayings, and mine's
full of light and there's no place.
That darkness is. Overcome will ever overcome
light unless you put the light out.
And I'm telling. These last days, you're going to
need it. You're going to need it.
So you need to talk up yourself. Man, you fearfully and
wonderfully. Made.
That's not conceit. That's God's confession over
you. I'm strong in the Lord.
And the power of his mind, I mean, that's what he said about
me, right? So again, I'm only saying what
God said. So I have no inferiority
complex. First Peter 3. 10/4 The one who
desires life to love and see good days, must keep his tongue
from evil and his lips from speaking deceit.
Peter actually got that from Psalms 3413 If you want to write
that down, Proverbs 13 Three says it this way.
The one who guards his mouth preserves his life.
The one who opens wide his lips comes to ruin.
So you don't. You don't want to be known.
As a person who talks all the time, I mean, you don't know how
to carry on conversation because there's some people who are
extremely gifted to be able to carry on conversation.
I have no problem with that. Some personalities lend to that.
I'm just saying you need to be aware of what you're saying.
You need to become very aware. Of what you're saying, so that
your words are intentional, exact.
Right and and let. Me.
Just say this. You're going to say more when
things are positive, you'll say. You'll say less when things are
negative. When I say less, that just means
you'll hold your tongue more to make sure you know what you need
to say before you say. When everything's going good,
it's easy. Just to talk.
But when things start going bad, you shouldn't try to retaliate
quick. You should be listening in here,
not what this is saying. What?
How do I respond, Lord? Because again, it's slow.
To speak because I'm hearing from the inside on how to speak
life decree the right thing last.
Verse tonight is first. John 514 Well, 2 verses first
John 514 and 15. This is the confidence which we
have before him, that if we ask anything according to his what
will he God always hears his word.
In fact, the Bible says that. He is going to and fro looking
to perform His word. His word will not return unto
Him void, but it shall accomplish that which it was
sent to do. He's always looking over His
word to perform it. So when we begin, like Jesus,
only speak what we've heard the Father say, when we declare and
decree it as a king in the earth who represents the King Jesus
Christ, then we know He hears us.
And then verse 15 says, And if we know that He hears us, which
we do, He hears His own word in whatever we ask, we know that
that we have the request we have asked of Him.
So again, our decree is not our own personal idea, and we're
making God submit to us. Our decree is His will for us in
our situation or for our lives, whatever the case may be.
Or it could be a word of knowledge for someone else's
life, because for whatever reason, they just happen to not
be here in the Holy Ghost. OK, in any of those occasions.
We're there to speak life. We are we speaking what God,
which will speak life. And it will cause you know, us
to be able to move in the things that God's ordained for us.
Our decree always rests within His Word.
His Word is where the power is. God exalts His Word even above
all of His name. When everything's said and done,
heaven and earth will pass away. And when I say that, that mean
they will cease to exist. They'll be changed, but His word
will never end. So you want to get into?
Real maturity. As a believer you know and do
not know. Alone know and do His word
rightly divided, and nothing can stop you, because you'll hold
all the authority, just like nothing could stop Jesus.
He could not be stopped. On the planet, he had to lay
down his life. I mean, think about it.
The beatings they did on him couldn't kill him.
OK, the only reason? Death.
Exists is because sin. And when did Jesus sin?
He didn't. He became it.
That's why Jesus has to say it is and he gave up his spirit.
Hallelujah. Amen.
I said Amen. So when you're in the.
Perfect will of God doing. Nobody can stop you.
Nobody. Now your exit strategy or God's
will for you may be like Paul. Paul knew and so did Peter for
that matter. It's time to go.
We just happened to go because someone's going to cut our heads
off. And it's permissible this.
Time but before you couldn't do it.
You couldn't kill me in the sea. You couldn't beat me with rods
and kill me You. You couldn't even keep me dead
when you stole me and drugged me out of town.
When Paul said I know a man in body or out of body I don't
know, called it to the 3rd heaven during that time and Lord
said you ain't done. Get back in your body.
We got things to do. And then he walked back into the
same town are the people who stoned him.
I mean, that's bold stuff, right?
There. Are you hearing me?
And then John. They bold him and all.
He's still alive. I'm not done.
Are you hearing me? I mean, we're unstoppable.
Force. What can man do to us?
So you got to make sure your mouth is always in alignment
with the Kingdom, baby, I'm alright.
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