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Now enjoyed this message. So tonight I want to start kind
of wear what past or what a powerful message that he
ministered on Friday Saturday and then Sunday morning.
At the Kingdom rise, Revival. So if you were not able to
attend that I would encourage you to go online and listen to
those, we had a service on Friday night, Saturday night,
and then he finished off on Sunday morning and during that
time at the Kingdom, Rob survival, he talked about Realms
of Dominion. And so, he launched from a
Matthew chapter 16, which I launched from that scripture
tonight verses 13 through 19. And the word says this when
Jesus came into the region of caesarea Philippi.
He asked his disciples saying, who do men say that?
I the son of man a.m. So they said some say that
you're John the Baptist some say Elijah others?
Say Jeremiah or one of the prophets, but Jesus said to
them, who do you say that I am? Simon, Peter answered and said,
you are the Christ or the anointed king.
And the son of the Living. God Jesus answered and said to
Peter blessed, are you Simon bar Jonah for flesh?
And blood has not revealed this to you.
But my father who is in heaven and I also say to you that you
are Peter and Upon This Rock, I will build my church.
God is in the building business. God brings you out to improve.
You to build you to equip. You said I will build my church
and the Gates of Hell shall not Prevail against it.
Let me say that again. God came to build his church and
the Gates of Hell shall not Prevail against the church and
he also said I will give you the keys and this is a pastoral
Minister Don starting off on Friday night at the Kingdom
rise, Revival. He said, I will give you the
Keys of the Kingdom of Heaven. Whatever you bind on Earth will
be bound in heaven and whatever you loose on Earth will be
loosed in heaven. And pastoral did a phenomenal
job teaching about the three heavens and you can go back and
review that. But he also said this that keys
in that verse talked about principles keys are Rules are
what we would call fundamental truths.
He also said that keys are laws. He also said that keys are a
systems and he said that Keys activate function.
And then he said this keys, do not operate by emotion or
feeling. Just like with the key to your
house, doesn't matter how you feel it, all his kitchen, the
front door, doesn't matter what your emotions are like that key
will always work if you work the key.
And so Jesus said, I will give you the Keys of the Kingdom of
Heaven. Whatever you bind on Earth will
be bound in heaven. Whatever you loose on Earth will
be loosed in heaven. That word bound means you limit,
you can limit things, you can restrain things or you can find
things. Let me ask you this, you know
what is going in on in your life?
Life. What are you allowing and what
are you limiting? Because the authority is in your
realm or your jurisdiction that God has given us.
So say whatever you bind on Earth will be bound in heaven.
So you can confine things or restrain things.
But he also said, whatever you loose, that were loose means to
release or to liberate. What Freedom do you need in your
life? Because once again, it's in the
Power of Choice that Jesus has given us.
That we have a key to operate in a law, right?
A fundamental truth. A function that we can
experience true freedom and release in life.
Now Jesus said this in John 10:10, he said I came to give
you life and to give you it more abundantly, he went on to say
it's the thief that comes to steal to kill and destroy.
The New Living Translation. Says it this way, I came to give
you a rich and satisfying life. So, really God wants us to have
Abundant Life. Hey gay.
Men. God wants you to have an
abundant life. Let me say it again.
God wants you to have an abundant life.
Overflowing blast prosperous doing.
Well, God wants you to have an Abundant Life.
He's just, he's just not about one day when you get to heaven,
God Wants You. Now to experience his best.
Hallelujah. So let me tell you, four things
in an abundant life is comprised of number one.
If you're taking notes, number one and Abundant Life Is A Lie
for all of your needs are met. Where do we get that in the
Bible? Philippians chapter 4?
verse number 19, says my God shall supply some Thirty-three
percent. He shall supply, what he shall
supply what your needs, right? According to his riches, in
glory, in Christ Jesus, everything that you have need
of, as a believer in God Almighty, he will supply for
you. Listen, that goes for provision.
That goes for health. Right.
So your bills, your mental well-being, your physical
health. God said, I will supply all of
your need. What?
Good is a full bank account with a broken-down body.
Well, good is a healthy body and full bank account with a broken
mind. So God said, I will supply all
of your needs an abundant life means all of your needs are met.
Secondly, an abundant life is a life full of righteousness.
Peace. and joy in the Holy Spirit and Abundant Life has a
life full, overflowing With righteousness, what is
righteousness, is God's way of doing an acting.
It's the character and the attitude of God, Matthew 6:33
says to seek first, the kingdom of God, and his righteousness,
righteousness, and righteousness means we're in right standing
with God. Almighty Abundant Life means
that I have been made in the image of Christ, but I Stay.
In my Lane with their relationship, right?
He's made me write. And I seek after righteousness
and man, it's nice when you're living, right?
You never have to be intimidated or scared, or afraid if you're
doing the speed limit, Hallelujah.
I won't have any hands raised tonight, but all of us have
passed police officers at times. And if you have to look down At
your speedometer. To determine, are you doing the
speed limit and then you get nervous because you're doing 45
in a 35 and what do you do next? You look in the rearview mirror.
What are you looking for lights? Hallelujah.
But when you're doing the speed limit and you're in, right
standing, guess what? The next thing that comes is
peace. Righteousness, and peace.
An abundant life has righteousness and peace.
Peace means, man. I don't get agitated about
things I don't get annoyed. I'm, I'm not Disturbed.
I'm in a tranquil state of being right?
No matter what's going on. I read today that you know, the
interest rates are going up, Hallelujah.
To slow down inflation, glory to God.
I'm in this world but I'm not of this world.
I operate in a different Kingdom and the Old Testament.
One person sewed in the year famine and received a
hundredfold. So even when the world is
struggling those of us that are children of God could Thrive and
Excel, right? So I'm at peace.
Peace means that there's calmness in my life.
I'm not getting a Agitated. Now, you can pass up marvelous
one opportunities, to get agitated.
It doesn't mean that they don't present themselves to you.
But, you know what? You can just say, I'm not going
to get aggravated about that. I'm not going to somebody cuts
you off in traffic. You don't have to tell them that
their number one. Right?
You don't have to honk your horn.
You don't have to start yelling, you could just stay at what now
your flesh will say hit the horn, right, your flesh will
tell you something else, but you can in your spirit man, will
say, no, no, no, the love of God.
Can strange you Right? So you can stay up peace and no
matter what's going on in the middle of a pandemic, guess
what? Because we're in Covenant with
God, you can stay at peace. You don't have to freak out like
the world freaks out. Right?
You can stay in calmness. Jesus want a boat one time.
With the disciples, he said we're going to the other side.
There was enough power in his word to get them where he wanted
him to be, but then contrary, circumstances arose and the
winds are blowing, the are the ways are blowing, the winds are
hitting against the boat, but Jesus was sleeping.
On the boat. What's that mean?
You don't sleep when you're agitated?
When you're frustrated, there's a good gauge for you tonight.
If your minds going going going going going, when you hit the
pillow, maybe it's time for you to say, Lord, I cast all my
cares, unto you, all these things I'm thinking about right
now, all these things. I'm processing all these things.
I'm reviewing. I'm going to do what the word of
God says, which means to cast all my cares, upon you.
The Bible says in Proverbs 3, that the God gives his beloved
sleep. So I'm going to take you at your
promise. And I'm not going to worry about
it. I let it go.
Trusting that you never sleep. You never Slumbers.
So you're going to be working on it even when I'm resting
tonight. Lord, when you're in peace,
though, you can rest well and then you need Joy.
So Abundant Life is filled with filled with righteousness, peace
and joy in the Holy Ghost, is there laughter in your life?
You know, James one says to count it all joy.
So even when circumstances are not what you thought, they would
be, you can still have a faith laugh in the middle of anything.
Something breaks down. Ha.
Ha! Ha ha!
Ha. Ha?
Why? Because God is going to get me
through this. I've never seen the righteous
Afflicted or seed begging for bread.
People, who laugh really do heal faster.
By the time babies are four months old.
They're laughing once every hour.
By the time they're that's for months, by the time, they're
four years old, they average a laugh once every four minutes or
four hundred times a day. Now, do you know what the
statistic is on adults? How much they laugh per day. 15
times a day. So from 4, to the time to you
get in adulthood 415. New Studies have shown that even
the thought of laughing or anticipating something humorous,
will begin to reduce reduce stress and boost your immune
system. So on a scientific level, which
is backs up the word of God, when he said your life should be
full of righteousness. Peace and joy.
Now, my wife will laugh at things.
I don't laugh at But she's get so tickled.
My immune system goes crazy because I'll start laughing with
her, her kind of at her with her.
But it's good. Amen.
In the Holy Ghost, thank God for the Holy Spirit.
Thank God for the holy spirit's an abundant life is filled with
righteous peace and joy in the Holy Ghost.
You have the Holy Spirit. On the inside of you, you're an
overcomer because the greater ones on the inside of you,
you're not by yourself. Jesus said, I'm not going to
leave you an orphan. I'll send a comforter to be with
you which is the Holy Ghost. Are you drawing on the person of
the holy spirit daily Romans 8:14 says, as many as are led by
the spirit, these are the sons of God, you can ask the Holy
Spirit to help. Help you every day and
decisions. Big and small and he will
communicate with you. He'll direct you, he'll give you
a piece about what to do. I give you a check about what
not to do. The thing is, are we tapping
into that great power of the great person of the Holy Ghost?
So Abundant Life all your needs are met.
It's a life filled with righteousness, peace, and joy.
In the Holy Ghost, thirdly, an Abundant Life Is A Life That's
well-balanced in all six areas of life and those six areas are
Spirit Soul body, family, financially, and socially.
I'll say it again, an abundant life as well.
Balanced in all six areas of life.
Spiritually in your soul realm, and your body family, finances
and socially. Spirit comes first above
everything else. Proverbs 4 says, guard your
heart with all diligence for out of it.
Are the issues of Life issues of the flesh or result of issues of
the spirit first goal that we should look at every year as our
spiritual goals. You know an anchor Faith Church.
We encourage strongly to read through the Bible every year.
How you going to know God? The Father the truth that's
contained in the word, The Authority that's contained in
the word. The promises that are contained
the word. If you don't read the word, how
are you going to build a relationship if you don't
communicate with God, through reading the word, How do you
build any relationship through communication?
If there's no communication, will guess what a relationship
is never built? And this word is God speaking to
you. So, spiritually, the very first
thing is, developing your devotional life, through
reading, the word of God. Secondly is exercise in your
prayer life. Now prayer is more than just
asking for things. There's a prayer of faith where
yab, Lord, I need this or maybe I need healing, but man, there's
worship, there's prayer, praise and worship where you can just
come in and say, Lord, I just thank you, not asking for
anything, just want to spend time with you, right?
There's a prayer of agreement where you can come into
agreement with somebody else. There's all different types of
prayer, there's a their prayer of commitment where you cast
your cares on the Lord. Did you know that worry is a
sin. Got in suggest not to worry.
He commanded you not to worry. Hallelujah.
You can say, Amen. Ro me.
That's why I says the cast all your cares on the Lord.
So that's the type of prayer, right?
So we want to we want to end in praying in the Holy Ghost, Jude
Jude. There's only one chapter the
20th verse says, build yourself up praying in the Holy Ghost so
we can pray in English and we can pray in the spirit.
If you're, if you're born again and filled with the Holy Ghost,
you can exercise prayer through praying in the Holy Ghost and
just, you don't know what to pray in English anymore.
Pray in the spirit. You can sing in the spirit, too.
You can sing in English and you can pray in English.
Thank God. So, we need a strong devotional
life and we need a strong prayer life, you need your soul to be
intact to. That's another goal after the
spirit and your soul is your mind, your will, and your
emotions, you know, in third John 2.
It says beloved. I wish above all things that you
would prosper and that you would be in health even as your soul
prospers. The prophet Isaiah said he who
keeps his mind stayed on the Lord will be in perfect.
Peace. So you want to keep your mind
stayed upon him, he wants things to go.
He don't want a vice grip, God doesn't want you to live with a
vice grip around your mind. Squeezing it Write your
thoughts, always going, always thinking, but you're always
thinking on the wrong thing. God said, I want your soul
delivered to thank God. When were born again, our spirit
man is released its made in the image of Christ, but the
renewing of your mind is a process or the renewing of your
soul is a process. How do I know that?
Because James, a letter written to the church.
The first chapter that book said you can receive with meekness
the engrafted word, which is able to save your soul.
So he was, he's already written to write to church.
That was born again but he's saying your soul needs to be
saved or needs to be renewed. Anu to truth, Romans chapter 12
verses 1 and 2 back back setup. It says, don't be conformed to
this world but be transformed by the renewing of your mind.
Your mind is a part of your soul, right?
So God wants things to go well in your mind to And there's
different ways to indifferent armor that God has given us to
overcome and the Conqueror in that and that realm of
jurisdiction, right? Where to cast down, every
thought that tries to present itself against the knowledge of
God. I thought of lust comes.
What do you do? Throw it down, the thought of
worry comes, what are you supposed to do?
Cast it down. You're not supposed to grab it
and meditate on it. And ponder it.
Well, how's this going to happen?
How's this going to happen? How's this going to happen?
That's why we go to the throne of God.
Lord, here's the problem. Here's the issue.
I'm coming to you for the wisdom of God for a plan.
I thank you for downloading it from heaven, from your throne.
So, your soul should be, well, your soul should be prospering,
your body is the outer really at the temple of God, that carries
the spirit man around, right? So you got to take care of
yourself. Thank God, that were born again.
Spiritually, thank God. You could have a strong Soul
realm, A Renewed in the word of God and meditating on the word
of God. Matter of fact, meditation is
one of the biggest keys to success for your soul realm to
prosper. Meditation is the biggest key to
success for your soul, realm to prosper.
What are you supposed to meditate on?
Joshua 1:8 tells us, you're to meditate upon the word.
You know what that means is to revolve it over and over again,
to process it, to review it to repeat it over and over again,
in your mind. But thank God.
We're born again. We can have a strong soul but if
your body Is not in shape, right?
Or you're eating all the wrong things that could be detrimental
to your purpose, over the Long Haul, right?
And thank God for the Holy Ghost.
He'll Lead You In direct you as you go on with God.
I know that me. Personally, I've refined my
eating a lot over the years as I've gone on with God.
I remember when we were at bible school the dean at that time was
Reverend Gary Krause, who we had here several times ministering
and he was telling a story. Worried about how he was having
some internal problems and he was praying to the Lord about
it. There was some pain in his
stomach and the God told him say this God told him who he tell,
not you but God revealed to him. Quit drinking diet coke.
So he'd pray for healing and experience healing, but then
guess what, he drink diet coke and guess what?
The pain would come back. So God actually got to the root
And said, you know, remove this from your diet and it'll stop
and it did. So God cares about you so much
that these little tweaks, or these little adjustments along
the way, can help you. Why?
Because he has a purpose for you but the body's important, First
Timothy 4:8, First Timothy chapter 4 verse number 8 says
bodily exercise. Profiteth little doesn't say
done profit at all. Hallelujah.
The Bible said, I don't have to work out.
It said it profits, but comparably, godliness, or
spiritual things. It's small in comparison, but
there is an advantage. Let me say it.
That way, there is an advantage to having some kind of regimen
when it comes to discipline for your body.
Whether your passion is, I don't know who is running one.
Run a run, 12 miles, but praise the Lord, if you want to do
that. I don't know if it's racquetball
basketball, I don't know if you like to hit the gym, but there's
probably something that you may enjoy doing that, could be a
benefit. Listen, pastoral preach about
this, a couple weeks ago, about seedtime and harvest, right?
How do we determine the Harvest? We get the Harvester.
Get is to see that we plan. So if you plant some exercise,
guess what, you're going to read some strength and some stamina,
it's a law member. He gives you the Keys of the
Kingdom keys are laws or principles, right?
and so, if you eat Twinkies and ice cream all the time, you're
going to reap. Hallelujah.
What you're sewing? Which is spiked insulin release
glory to God with a crash one hour later.
Hallelujah. But there should be financial
goals to write Abundant Life. You're well, bouncing all six
areas Spirits old body family. Let's see it.
Family, first family, God, let me say this guy puts a premium
on parenting. And God puts a premium on the
family, the way that he sees it biblically.
And we can see this inscription New Testament and Old.
One of the reasons that God chose Abraham is because he knew
that he would command his household in the ways of
righteousness and justice. And then Paul told Timothy that
you can't even qualify for leadership unless your
households in order. So God puts a premium on the
family. Really the family is a microcosm
really of the church because it's a bunch of families coming
together. So really when they come to when
we come to church, you know the family unit should be really in
Strider and character with what's going on at the house if
you come to church, you're hearing one thing.
But something else is going on at the house, you need to make
adjustments. Amen.
And so there should be family goes.
Well, how do you build family goes?
You know, get away with your spouse.
Pray for your spouse. Pray for your kids, right?
Pray for your grandkids, pray for your family, right.
Put write goals down. What can I do in 2022?
That's going to add to or increase because God wants us to
go from Faith to Faith or from glory to glory.
What can I do to help increase his family unit capacity?
That God has given me? We're only stewards of what
God's given us. We don't own We possess and
there is a day that's God's going to reckon and say, what
did you do with what I gave you? And that's that's a great thing.
He's a rewarder. A lot of people look at that
afraid and that should motivate you but also the same time man.
If you're running your race with diligence, you're running your
race with faith, you run your race led by the Holy Spirit,
that's exciting. Because God saying that's my,
that's my son, that's my daughter down there.
Look at them thriving, look at them, setting the example, Hey
man, look at that atmosphere in the home, right?
And so we got to line it up when your character and your call
lineup, you have credibility. So, we could be called, but if
you're not developing character, there's no credibility.
And there needs to be credibility in the home right
between Mom and Dad. And and the kids, right?
So what are the goals? You knows it and the Holy Spirit
will help you make adjustments. He's helped me.
Make adjustments with Angie's. Help me made adjustments with my
girls and he still helping us make adjustments.
You know what? Because we're not through
growing. We're not through learning and
this lifetime. Will be better five years from
now than we are today because why we have an attitude to grow
and a hunger to grow and what can we do to improve?
So what's a book? I could read this this year to
help improve the marriage. Covenant.
What's a book? I could grab, you know, on
parenting. What do I need to pray?
What do I need to say? These are questions.
You ask God and guess what? He'll communicate with you.
These are goal spiritually. I want you to do.
Pray in the Holy Ghost, 30 minutes more day, whatever it
would be, right. Focus on this for your soul
realm. This is what I want you to
meditate on. God will give you a scripture,
he knows what you're going through, he cares about where
you're at. And he brings a word in due
season that says, chew on this, renew your mind to it, speak it
out, right? He'll give you somebody goals.
Hey for where you're going in life, you need some more salmon.
A pastoral talks about when the Holy Spirit spoke to him, some
years back that he needed to get some more endurance training.
So guess what? That became a body goal for him
and then family goals are the same way.
Lord, what do I need to work on to grow?
Its not Lord. What do I need?
What does my spouse need to work on?
Because I'll pray for that. And I'll tell them, no.
Hallelujah. Oh, that's an elbow right there.
Okay, financial goals. You know, obviously ties 10%.
Lord, do you want me to do anything in offerings?
Right. Do you want me to so something
to missions? Right?
You just ask God these questions.
What do you want me to do this week this year?
What are the goals? You have financially and online,
right? Up with them?
Are you, what are you believing for?
You want to believe to get out of debt?
Right? You want to believe for a paid
off house? You want to believe to pay
somebody else's house off? Right.
But there's there's goals. We need to write down write that
we can aim for and believe God for and then socially.
What are you go socially? What are you doin to release
your gift? Other people and influence and
impact their lives were to ignite this City Impact, this
nation influence the world, and we can't do that, you know, if
we're just sitting at the house all the time, you know, just
ourselves and not getting out amongst people, right?
So socially, how can I connect, right?
How can I be an ambassador? How can I be light and salt when
I'm out? Among other people, right?
And then lastly an abundant life is a life that is full of
purpose. so, for things with an abundant life, All your needs
are met, you're full of righteousness.
Peace and joy. In the Holy Ghost, your
well-balanced and all six areas of life.
Spirit soul body, family financially and socially and
fourthly an. Abundant life is a life filled
with purpose. Second Timothy Chapter 1 verse
number 9 says this that God has saved us and called us with a
holy calling, not according to our own works, but according to
his own purpose and Grace, which was given to us in Christ Jesus
Before Time began. There's a purpose and I'll say
there's a Grace for your purpose in the Earth.
Purpose is a key to life. Remember, we're talking about
the keys of the kingdom and there's many keys.
Whatever you bind on Earth will be bound in heaven.
Whatever you loose on. Earth will be loosed in heaven.
Keys are fundamental truths member of their systems.
They need activated and purpose is a key in the kingdom of God.
Purpose answers. The question of why.
Why am I on the Earth? Why did God put me here during
this time? Purpose is the progressive
realisation of the predetermined predetermined goals dreams and
visions that God has for your life.
Purpose is the progressive realization of the goals, the
dreams and the visions that God has for your life.
Psalms 37:4 says, delight yourself in the Lord and He will
give you the desires of your heart.
That doesn't mean it's just my desires.
When you're delighting yourself in the Lord, which you'll if you
look at that up in the Hebrew, that means to be soft and to be
pliable. That means God, I'm coming
before your throne and whatever you want to do with this life.
Go ahead and do it, your the Potter, I'm the clay, whatever
you want to do through this vessel.
I'm submitted and committed to it.
That's what it means, delight and then he'll start dropping
desires or purpose into your heart.
How do you find your purpose? Purpose is where your passion
and your pain intersect. Purpose is found where your
passion and your pain intercept. I was at, Publix a few months
back, getting some items to bring home and I notice a mother
had her son in the buggy. They were in the water.
I'll and the Sun reaches up and grabs a water bottle and throws
it off the shelf. I'm sitting there observing.
The mom goes over. Picks up the water.
Jug, puts it back on the Shelf, guess what happened next?
The kid, grab the water bottle. Again, my pain was boiling and
my passion was boiling. You find your purpose?
Where your passion and your pain intersect.
It pains me to see dysfunctional homes are a man out of his role
or not functioning as God designed him, it's a passion for
me. Overseeing the Men's Ministry,
because I get the chance with the help of the Holy Ghost to
see men and grow in the purpose in the potential that God has
for them, I believe. That as the man goes.
So, goes the house. It's not, if Mama's happy,
everybody's happy. I believe that.
If the man's in place, it makes it a lot easier for everybody
else to be in place me person. That's my conviction.
And so pains me to see when that's not operating as it
should be. Now, ladies that doesn't get you
off the hook, there is a well-defined role and a
well-defined anointing and Grace for you to do your part.
But me personally, that's my passion and my pain.
But here's another key that I really wanted to hone in tonight
or really zero in on tonight or magnify tonight, because it's
not how you start. It's how you finish.
And though purpose is the key to life, a key in fulfilling, that
key is a thing called forgiveness.
Forgiveness. In Romans chapter 1.
Verses 16 through 17. Let me put it this way.
As I read several scriptures to you, I want to give you a lot of
word tonight. Unforgiveness will hinder your
purpose. We went over when an abundant
life is part of that. The fourth one was a life filled
with purpose and I want to say live, just don't exist.
You should be able to say at the end of your life, I've fought
the good fight. I finished the course.
I finished the faith. Right.
You shouldn't leave this life fool like not giving out like
you should have but like Paul said I've been poured out like a
drink offering but unforgiveness will hinder your purpose.
Romans chapter 1, because another key in life is Faith.
There's many keys that God has given us in the Kingdom to be
successful. Remember, these are keys that
can bind and they can loose. But we got to know these keys,
are these truths and work them in order to be successful in the
kingdom of God. So, faith is a key in life.
Purpose is a key in life. Forgiveness is a key.
In life, I can go on, confession is a key in life.
Stay in WorryFree is a key in life.
Are you tracking me? We can go on and on with all
these truths within the kingdom of God, that he's given us.
The question is God's already done everything he's doing.
Are you going to do your part? Some people are waiting on, God,
God said, I gave you the word, I gave you the word you're sitting
under your, in a good church. Hearing teaching preaching,
impartation instruction. But what are you going to do
with it? It's up to you say it's up to
me. So Romans chapter 1, verses 16
through 17 says this, I'm not ashamed of the gospel of Christ
for it is the power of God to Salvation for everyone, who
believes for the Jew first. And also, for the Greek, for, in
the gospel, the righteousness of God is revealed from Faith to
Faith. It's written.
The just shall live by faith. So faith is a key.
For your, for your life, for Success, right?
Hebrews chapter 11, verse number 6 says this, but without faith
It's impossible to please. God.
What is faith? Faith is what the word of God
says. Romans chapter 10, says faith
comes by hearing and hearing by the word of God.
Why is it so important to be in the word all day or two?
Do your devotional? Get that meditation scripture?
Why? Because it builds your faith.
I can say this way. What's your faith?
Fuel level? Are you at a quarter tank?
You had a half a tank. You putting 87 octane in it.
When you need 93 octane. You know, you don't put 87
octane in a Ferrari. And gods made your ass over
Thoroughbred, right? So you want to put premium fuel
the word of God in your tank often?
Just because you filled up your car last week.
What do you have to do this week?
And you can have peace while you fill it up.
Even though gas, you could just laugh at the pump.
Ha ha ha. $6. I don't care.
Guys got me taken care of. Bring It On, hahaha.
People with like what are you laughing at the gas price?
It's great. Why is it great?
Well, let me tell you about the kingdom.
I'm in Hallelujah. But without faith, it's
impossible to please God. For he who comes to God, must
believe that he is, and that he is a rewarder of those who
diligently seek him. Now, I'm building a case right
now, right? The just shall live by faith
without faith. It's impossible to please God.
But in Galatians chapter 5 verse.
Number 6, it says in Christ, Jesus neither circumcision
circumcision nor uncircumcision while said that bad avails
anything. NG but Faith working through.
Love, how does faith work? Do you see where I'm going?
So if you have unforgiveness We could, we could ask this house
Your Love walk. You know, in First Corinthians
chapter 13 verses 4 through 7. This is from the New Living
Translation. It says, love is patient.
Love is kind. Love is not jealous or boastful
or proud. Or rude, it does not demand its
own way. You ready for the next one?
It is not irritable. One translation says touchy.
You ever been with somebody before that?
Your what's that saying that you feel like you're walking on egg
shells? That's touchy.
That's irritable. Next one though to go along
lations 56 it says Faith Works through love.
It says and it keeps no records of being wronged.
Let me say it again. Love keeps some records.
The ones that were really painful was okay to hold onto.
No, it says, it keeps no records of being wrong.
Now, that's faith, not your feelings.
That is faith. Not your feelings.
So does not rejoice about Injustice but rejoices whenever
truth wins out love, never gives up Lieutenant love, never loses
Faith. It's always hopeful and endures
through every circumstance. I'm bringing, I brought those
scriptures in order because in order to have strong faith, you
need a strong love walk. But your love walk can be
hindered if you're on and unforgiveness because you're not
supposed to be keeping records of wrongs, this means I haven't
forgiven somebody, right? So unforgiveness will hinder
Your Love. Walk a hitter love.
Walk will create stifled Faith. Stifled faith will create a
frustrated prayer life, a frustrated prayer.
Life will keep you from your purpose.
So, let's look at three dimensions or three dimensions
of release. I want to look at three
dimensions of release. Before I jump into these, I just
want to give you some general scriptures on forgiveness.
All right, these are things that you can take with you tonight.
It does no good to sit in here for an hour and a half and then
leave and not review or retain. What said, you know?
That's looking for LG because he played at Notre Dame.
Sale G and here I thought, uh, so Bethenny, but they have a
sign that they touch when they go out on the field.
His play Like A Champion today, all the players touch it as
they're heading out of the locker room and to me, you know,
being a sport fan. This is kind of like the locker
room. You know, you're getting the
instructions from the coach and we all need to touch the sign.
When we're leaving the door that says play, Like A Champion.
When you leave out of here, you go in the parking lot, you go to
publish, you go to your house, play Like A Champion.
G p--. Are you with me?
Oh yeah, we got the church. Okay, we got some Kirk Franklin.
Hallelujah. And so play Like A Champion.
So these are some general scriptures.
That's going to give you that you can actually take with you
carry with you, meditate on them.
Think on them, speak them, do them.
Now look at Ephesians chapter 4. Verses 26 to 27.
The Bible says this be angry. Now listen, it doesn't stop
there. Let's read on in context and
find out how to act. Okay.
And do not. Sin.
So you know, God knows that in humanity.
You do have a soul realm with emotions.
There can be disappointment. There can be discouragement.
There could be great happiness and guess what?
There could be anger. So, the Bible says, be angry but
don't sin, and then God gives us.
Listen, this isn't suggestion. This is a commandment.
Do not let the sun go down. On your Wrath.
So that means the anger could border, man.
I want to I want to do something, right.
That's not right. But at the Bible says, Don't Let
the Sun Go Down on that. That means we're to handle it
when every day. Let me stop right here.
Take you to Hebrews chapter 13, if you guys can get this up
there. Great, Hebrews chapter 13.
Let me find this real quick because if you don't deal with
it daily, Sorry, Hebrews chapter 12.
Hebrews chapter 12. Verse.
Number, let's start in verse number 12.
And the read through verse number 15.
This would be another good verse for you to think on and to
meditate on in the speak. It says, therefore strengthen
the hands which hang down and the feeble knees, make straight
paths for your feet and that which is lame.
So that, which is lame, may not be dislocated.
Now, God set. All the members in the body has
its pleased him. Which is a medical term.
He set them there, do you realize just with your body?
If you get in an accident you can actually dislocate
something, right? So I'm going to show you what
unforgiveness can do. It can get you dislocated.
It says, but let a let a rather let it be healed.
How does heal income pursue? Peace?
with those that you like, No says with all people.
And Holiness without which no one will see the Lord looking
carefully. Lest anyone should fall short
looking carefully? Observing taken heed paying
attention to write less, you should show us fall short of the
grace of God, lest any root of bitterness springing up causes
trouble. And by this many become defiled
So what I'm talking about and but life is a life filled with
purpose. And forgiveness is a key to
staying in your purpose. You can see, unforgiveness is a
key to getting out of your purpose.
Many become defiled. If they choose not to forgive
going back to Ephesians chapter 4, be angry, do not sin.
Do not let the sun go down on your wrath.
So, if you choose, not to forgive one day, one day turns
into one week, one, week, turns into one month, you're piling up
all of these wrongs, all of these hurts, all of these,
Disappointments. You just keep on piling them up
and you're never releasing them as God has commanded us to Guess
what? You're going to have a root of
bitterness. It's a lot easier on a daily
basis to pluck out little things.
But when you let things go unchecked for years, that's how
divorce happens. That's how people leave
churches. That's how an employee employer
relationships are severed. That's how friendships become
disgruntled. Because there's not forgiveness.
So be angry, but don't send. Don't let this.
How do you do that? Well, you say, father, you know,
so-and-so tick me off, you know, you can talk to God like this,
they really did me wrong. And boy Lord, I want to do but I
didn't. You know, he's thinking you're
on the right track child. He's pleased with that.
And now father I realized I just want to settle it today.
I didn't act on it but I want to say something, I close my mouth
but I know to really be in your will right now.
I need to make sure I let that go.
So Not only was I good that I didn't say anything man.
If you said something you need to apologize to them and God.
But in this instance you're saying God I want, I want to let
it go. I don't want to hold anything
against them. No ill will.
Matter of fact, I pray for them Lord for a spirit of wisdom and
Revelation is, can I go to Matthew 5?
I'm going to go to Matthew 5 real quick.
Matthew chapter 5. Starting at verse 43.
It says you have heard that it was said, You shall love your
neighbor and hate your enemy. Hallelujah, let's read on, but I
say to you, Jesus said this love your enemies, bless those who
curse you do, good to those who hate you.
And pray for those who spitefully use you and persecute
you, that you may be sons of your father in Heaven.
For he makes his sun rise on the evil and on the good and sends
rain on the just and the unjust for if you love those who love
you, what reward? Or do you have do not even Tax
Collectors? Do the same?
And if you greet your brother, only what do you do more than
others? Do not even the tax collectors
do so therefore you shall be perfect just as your father in
Heaven is perfect. You know, there's people in life
that celebrates you. There's people in life that
tolerates you and there's people in life that hate you three
types of people. And guess what?
Your to forgive any of them, and all of them.
And then you go, the extra mile. And really settle it and
concrete it, your love walk by praying for him.
And you know what, let me give you this as an additional
weapon. Is if their name or that
incident pops up tomorrow, guess what?
Instead of reviewing what happened, pray for them.
I guarantee you, the devil is not gonna want to keep bringing
that up. The more you pray for them.
Guess what? The stronger.
Your Love Walks gets, the more Revelation that you possibly,
they could get right as you're praying for Truth for them but
that's it. That's a great way to overcome
in a conquer. Verse 27, back to Ephesians
chapter 4, it says to finish that you know, be angry, don't
send, Don't Let the Sun Go Down on your wrath, don't give place
to the devil. Do you realize that you're given
devil? You're leaving your door open at
night unlocked, if you're going to walk in unforgiveness for the
devil to walk, right? And who can who gave place to
him, God, God. No God said.
I give you a key. You want to bind up
unforgiveness, you want to loose forgiveness.
Man, it's so free. I'm telling you I've been on
both sides of the fence and boy. It's man, if there's confusion
cloudiness, you're dealing with things, get out of the Flesh and
get in the spirit, man. When you truly do forgive it's
like, and you get in the word. It's like the cloud has lifted.
And you get that Mountaintop experience with God and
everything just come. I mean you know somebody could
slap you upside the head and you're just like I love you man.
I got so much love in me here. Here's the other cheek, right?
Mark chapter 11, one more scripture for this.
For we getting the three dimensions.
Hallelujah, Mark chapter 11 verses 22 through 26.
So Jesus answered and said to them, have faith in God.
I surely, I say to you, whoever says, to this mountain, be
removed and be cast in 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 said you what.
So things you ask when you pray, believe that you receive them
and you will have them. Now, here's a key verse at the
end whenever you stand praying. if you have anything against
anyone, if you have anything against anyone, if you have
anything against anyone forgive Forgive me is to release it.
Drop it. Let It Go.
If you have anything against anyone, forgive, release it,
drop it, Let It Go. That your father in Heaven.
May also forgive your trespasses, but if you do not
forgive, neither will your father in Heaven?
Forgive you? Your trespasses?
Imagine that heaven becomes brass.
Because you choose not to forgive, what?
I mean, it's like my prayers at the ceilings and come back down.
You know, this can affect in a marriage.
Covenant. First Peter 3:7 says husband's
dwell, with your wife. According to knowledge, treating
her, as a weaker vessel, less your prayers, be hindered.
There's things that can hinder our prayer life And a hindrance
to prayer. Life could be out of you being
out of love. So, your faith is weak and God
is a faith. God in order to get something
from God. You got to be in faith, which
means you got to be in love, and if you're in unforgiveness,
you're not in love. If you want to be strong in
faith, you need to have a strong love walking.
Be a man or a woman that stands up, you know, with a backbone
and says, I'm going to choose her forgive and Let It Go.
First Dimension of release is asking or receiving forgiveness
from God. This is the first dimension of
her least. We're going to cover three
dimensions of release. So if you've done something
wrong, if you've what a send me in mean, send means to miss the
mark and guess what Humanity sometimes we miss the mark.
Thank God, I believe he's, you go on with God, you grow in
faith, you grow in love and that road becomes narrower, right?
But still, there could be something that happens.
And what when I trespass against God, or when I violate his
commandment or his way of doing it, how do I get back in right
standing with him? Well, you need to go to him.
And receive and ask for forgiveness.
Now, in this, their sins of commission, their sins of
omission that we have to deal with sins of commission, meaning
sins that are committed, man. If you're a substance abuse, if
you're in pornography, if you just cussed out your spouse,
right? Whatever the case is, you know,
those are sins of that you action, you acted right against
somebody or against yourself, you violated God's Command,
right? But then their sins of omission
In James chapter 4. Verse number 17 says he, that
knows what to do, but that doesn't do.
It is sin. So like, you know, to exercise,
forgiveness, but guess what? I ain't going to do it.
Guess what? That's into.
Right, or the purpose of God, for your life.
Ask Jonah. God said you're going to go
there. He said no, I ain't doing it.
Took a Mediterranean truth Cruise.
In the belly of a whale for God to get him back into his
purpose. Right.
So sins of omission sins of commission, but either one, you
need to go to God and say, listen, I blew it.
Lord, and we always deal with ourselves first.
You know how you going to Matthew?
And the gospel of Matthew chapter 7, it says, don't look
at the log or the, you know, the speck in your brother's eye and
you got to log in your own eye, right?
If you read it carefully says deal with yourself first and
then clearly, you can go and communicate with your brother.
So it's not saying I can't go correct my brother.
It's just saying evaluate yourself first scripturally.
The church has this thing, you know, don't judge me first.
Peter 4:17 says it's time for judgment to begin in the house
of God. I want somebody to tell me if
I'm doing wrong, when I was courting, my wife I was rooming
with he's already smiling back, their Chancellor, Brian You
know, we were taking naps together.
In our courtship. And he came to me said, man,
that don't look good and man, Proverbs came ride, the wounds
of a friend. Are faithful.
That was like a punch in the gut.
I'm like, what? I didn't say that to him, but
I'm like, that's that hurt. But I did make the adjustment,
you know what? You're right.
So you can thank God for that. You know, kept us pure before
marriage, you know, before you know it you're napping on each
other. Never got their praise the Lord
because he the wounds of a friend are faithful but deal
with yourself first. And then you'll be able to see
clearly to help others. You know, Paul confronted Peter
face-to-face about withdrawal in and eat with the Gentiles, even
the Gentiles upon the Jews game. He's like I don't want to see
you have me seeing doing that? So confrontation is biblical,
but first we deal with what our self.
So when we're receiving forgiveness from God, we need
first. John 1:9 first.
John 1:9 says, if that's a conditional statement, if We
confess our sins, he is faithful and just to forgive us, our sins
and cleanse us. From all unrighteousness.
Be a real man of God in a real woman of God and just take
responsibility, right? Whether it's a commission or
Omission. These are daily Lord.
I even even little attitudes of the heart, You know, God's
please, when you're, you may not have committed something, you
want to say something, but you're still kind of it's eating
at you. And he said, Lord, I just want
my heart to be right and that really aggravated me, you know,
those little things God's please with, when you deal with and say
my attitude was wrong on that, please forgive me.
I ask you to forgive me and to cleanse me from that Proverbs
chapter 28. Verse number 13 says he who
covers his sin or sins will not Prosper.
If you try to cover Her up your sins, guess what?
There's no prosperity. But the Bible says, whoever
confesses them and forsakes them will have mercy.
So we go Before the Throne of God.
And we say, God, we want to receive your forgiveness.
I'm coming to you. Just emptying myself right now
and this is my wrong. This is my fault.
I'm dealing with me first, please.
This is a daily practice. The Lord's Prayer says, forgive
us. Our trespasses as we forgive
others. The second dimension of
forgiveness is forgiving others. Forgiving others.
Acts chapter 6. I'm not going to read the whole
thing. It's only 15 verses but six men
are appointed a position of leadership in the church.
One of those is Steven Stephen at the end of that verse gets in
a confrontation with some religious folks, they're
persecuting him. It carries over in a chapter 7
of Acts and he gives a sermon after the sermon.
We see the result starting in verse 51.
So I'm going to read Acts chapter 7 verses 51 through 60,
but I want to he had every right to really he was in
righteousness and people were persecuting him, people were
doing him wrong. So First Dimension is you're
asking God forgiveness dealing with yourself for a second
dimension is you got to learn how to forgive others, right?
And so this is an example Steven who's in right standing doing
things, right? But yet there's great
persecution there's lies and people are trying to literally
take his life. So he says this in verse 51, he
says you stiff-necked. This is Steven talking, an
uncircumcised in heart and ears. You always resist the Holy
Spirit as your father's did and that love Hallelujah.
It is, I mean, he's a man of Love.
He's telling the truth. Which of the prophets really, to
arrest their attention to hopefully get them to repent.
We speak the truth in love. Which of the prophets of your
father's. Not persecute.
They killed those who foretold of the coming in the adjustment
of whom you now become the betrayers and murderers, who
have received the law by the direction of angels.
Have not kept it when they heard this.
And when the religious people are heard that they were cut to
Heart, they gnashed at him with their teeth.
But he being full of the Holy Spirit, Stephen e, gaze into
heaven and saw the glory of God and Jesus standing at the right
hand of God and said, look now, this made them really happy.
He said I see the heavens opened Open the son of man standing at
the right hand of God, when he said that that really angered
the religious people. They cried out with a loud voice
stopped their ears ran at him with one Accord, they cast him
out of the city and they Stone him.
They started throwing rocks at him, beating him to kill him,
and the witness is. Now, giving us laid down his
clothes at the feet of a young man named Saul.
And they. Stone Stephen.
As he was calling on God and saying, Lord, Jesus receive my
spirit. Then Stephen, knelt down and
cried out with a loud voice. Lord, do not charge them with
this sin. And when he had said that, he
fell asleep. What a man of God.
He is being murdered for the gospel and yet he still forgave
others. Which tells me this settle every
issue in life before you die. Before somebody passes away you
always in a make sure that all issues are settled that need
resolved in purified, death is too long to face without the
cleansing of the heart. Drop it release it, let it go.
So, First Dimension is forgiving yourself for your wrong.
Second dimension. I'm sorry.
First Dimension is asking God for giving a second Dimensions
forgiving others, right? It doesn't matter what goes on
that with, you know, at work relationships, husband-wife, let
drop it release it, Let It Go. Third Dimension is learn how to
forgive yourself. Pastor Marcus, you can come
forgive yourself, we could be great in two Dimensions but miss
one dimension and not be in full release or Liberation, and so
who did it, who do they lay the close down to of Steve and they
laid him by the soul who saw He becomes the Apostle Paul.
We read in Acts chapter 8, verses 1 through 3 it says now
Saul was consenting to Stephens death at that time.
There's great persecution that arose against a church which was
at Jerusalem and they were all scattered throughout the regions
of Judea Samaria except the apostles devout man carried,
Stephen to his burial and great lamentation over him, ask for
Saul. He went on to make Havoc of the
church entering every house and dragging off men and women
committing them to prison. So Saul kept on persecuting, the
church, but there was a day when he got converted in Acts chapter
9. Saul became the Apostle, Paul.
but listen to what he said in first, Timothy chapter 1 Verses
12 through 14, he said I thank Christ Jesus my Lord who has
enabled me, I thank Christ Jesus.
My Lord who enabled me or Grace me?
Or anointed me because he counted me faithful putting me
into the ministry. Although I was formerly a
blasphemer, a persecutor and an insolent man.
He was actually witness to the murder of Christians.
He said, but I obtained Mercy. Do you realize that Paul
couldn't have gone on with this purpose?
If he hadn't forgiven himself and you can't go on with your
purpose, if you don't forgive yourself.
So, I'm telling you tonight, make sure you exercise
forgiveness in these three Realms received forgiveness from
God, forgive others, and forgive yourself reconcile
relationships. Broken relationships are a razor
across the artery of the spirit. What happens when your arteries
cut you bleed out and death results?
True reconciliation is one of the most powerful of all human
interactions. It's not a matter of human
psychology, it's a Divine gift. I close with John 20:22 last
scripture because when you forgive, it's not psychology.
It's just not through the mind. It's by the power of the Holy
Ghost That You release it, and let it go.
It's an operation of faith and love and John chapter 20 verse
number 22. The Bible says this, and when
Jesus said this, he breathed on disciples.
He said receive the Holy Spirit. If you forgive the sins of any
one, they are forgiven. If you retain the sins of any
one they are retained. So it's by the power of the Holy
Ghost that you forgive, and it's in those three dimensions, you
ask God for forgiveness for yourself or for a few ask God,
forgiveness, for what you've done, you ask other you forgive
others and you ask God for forgiveness toward yourself.
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