All right, and good morning, good morning, good morning, welcome to the Prosper Power
Hour.
Of course, this is every week as we're bringing heaven and earth together.
As part of the Prosper Leader membership, we've got both of those dimensions, the heaven
and the earth.
Wednesdays, 8 a.m., that's the heaven side of things, and that's what we do today, four
15-minute segments of promise, of principle, of prayer, and of practice.
So I'm thrilled seeing all of you.
Those of you that are here live, I'm so excited to see your faces and do this together.
Those of you listening to the recording, you missed stuff, like I cannot play the music,
copyrighted music in the recording and so on, and we just did a really fun blues song
about putting God first, which, of course, our principle last week was Matthew 6.33,
about seeking God first, and I loved in that song how it's saying, your first word, your
first thought, of course, the first fruit, and I love doing that.
I love the minute I wake up, just immediately praising God, putting God first that way.
Thank you for a great night's sleep.
Thank you for my bed.
Thank you for waking me up.
Thank you for a new day, right?
We're starting, instead of going straight into, ah, what do I have to do today, or starting
with lack, you know, I don't have enough time, I don't have enough money, I don't have enough,
you know, instead of starting with lack, we're starting in the fullness of putting God first.
So yay.
So welcome, welcome, welcome.
Um, we have, um, a praise report, you know, an answer to last week's prayer, uh, Joy and
Renee, important paperwork got signed, so we're celebrating that.
Um, I don't see that Christy was able to make it, and if you guys see anybody in the waiting
room, so I don't miss it, but she has a praise report, um, the progress in healing the cancer
is absolutely incredible and astounding, the doctors, and so we're super celebrating Christy's
healing, um, of course Kim is always right in the middle of that, so if anything you
want to fill in and represent her to share, that's always awesome.
We continue to pray for her and lift her up, and if you have any prayer requests that we're
going to cover, uh, we're continuing to pray, of course, for Dana and finding the right
business lane for her, and for Elen, for complete healing, and also for those of you
that just joined for Kim, welcome Kim, welcome back Kim, she's been a Prosper Leader member
many years, welcome back, and, um, for her daughter Chelsea, and just clarity, um, in,
uh, in the diagnosis, confirming the diagnosis, and let's just pray complete and 100% healing.
She's a beautiful woman of God.
Uh, I threw my daughter in there, Kristen, and I know Rose, I can speak for you, we'll
throw your daughter in there, cover her absolutely, um, because so much in that, oh look, Christy
just joined, she's gonna get to speak herself, yay, you guys get to hear this, um, let's
see, she's coming in, did she make it in?
We'll just check.
Christy, welcome, welcome, welcome.
Thank you, Brenda, nice to see you.
Oh my goodness, you're, you're, like, your grand entrance, the timing was, like, perfect,
we were just, oh my gosh, we were just celebrating your healing that is happening, and I'm trying
to speak for you, but you're here, so do you want to just share a praise report?
Yeah, um, well, I mean, God has told me from the very beginning, I went to, uh, Bethel
Church right after I found out to receive, you know, healing and prayer and all that,
and God said, you've got a long life ahead of you, you're gonna be absolutely fine, and
that is not what the doctor's report said, so, and I, I don't speak about what that is,
because it doesn't matter.
Anyway, it was very cool, because, uh, yesterday I went in for, um, my, one of my treatments
for, uh, chemo, and my doctor said, your numbers are amazing, he said, I see you being in remission
in two more sessions, and they had originally told me six months.
And so it's been like the time was cut in half and I know that you know my
my journey with this as soon as like I was waiting for my diagnosis and and
everything was
Okay, God
if you're gonna
Allow me to walk through this journey on this path
and I expect at least a million people to be touched by what I'm going through because it's not gonna be for not and
And I'm telling you like I can't I mean I've been telling clients and friends and they're like, oh I was just telling my mom
I was just she was telling her this and you know
and it's it's I was on live TV and they we were they were praying over me and so like
There's another how many ever people so I know that God is doing so much. He's transformed my family and
it's just
You know, I'm in awe of I know God is gonna complete the work
but to
like to be walking through it and
Have that news yesterday, I just wanted to stand on my roof and say
You know, I
Love it. Thank you for sharing. I
Course, I always love your heart and your beautiful heart of love
for people and for God and
your courage and your faith and from day one when you first told me this and
You're such a great example of what we talk about in these Bible studies about whose report
Are you going to believe whose report?
Are you going to stand on the report of the Lord or the report of whatever?
Yeah statement your diagnosis your doctor your whatever because negative reports come always and
Whose report are you standing on and so you've been standing on faith and you're not just standing on faith about
Healing for you, but you're standing on faith
We just got done listening to a song about seeking first the kingdom of God and you're standing on faith
That this is gonna touch a million lives
So I hope you all are as inspired by this as I am
And of course, this is the purpose
this is why the Bible says forsake not the gathering together because we need to
encourage one another and be
encouraged by one another and so whatever you're going through I
Strongly know and stand on faith that we're gonna see so many
Miracles here in this community. We we opened the entire
Season, whatever it's been now four or five times ago. We opened with this
Idea, right this this idea of mountain moving
Prayers that get answered about moving beyond
What I've kind of coined now pray and go moving beyond just the quick
You know prayers, I mean, they're fine, you know God, you know, thank you for the food. Keep me safe driving
You know take care of my kids, etc, etc
But we're we're going deeper together. And so I'm so honored to be able to do that with you together
So let's keep moving so we don't run out of time
today's promise and
I hope I hope you're going back over the promises until they become part of every fiber of your being
especially
Psalms was it 103 or 105? I don't have it in front of me about forget not his
Benefits right because this is this is it the benefit first. He forgives our sin
The second is he heals all our diseases. That's his word. We're standing on that, right?
he pulls us out of the pit right and
he satisfies us with good things and with long life and he restores our youth and
I hope you're getting good at looking at different translations. So it really gets in you
I like to use Bible gateway, although it doesn't have the passion translation
So sometimes I also have to just look up the passion translation
But all of these are online and so you can go between
different
Translations because it's going to go deeper and deeper when when you do that today's promise
comes from Isaiah
55 11
My eyes are trained to see
Numbers God's order of creation and the way everything's numbered and I'm always in awe even how scripture is numbered
So, 5511, five is the number of grace in Scripture.
So we've got double grace, and then we've got double one, right, the one, right?
And so, I just love that.
So 5511, and let me read it really quick in the Amplified and in the New Living Translation,
then we'll move it straight into applying it in the principle and then actually pray
it out, and then we'll come back and do the application.
So the promise, because the promise and the principle go together today.
So the promise is essentially that God's Word never returns void.
So, why do we need to be getting God's Word in us, and then also God's Word through us
and speaking His Word and declaring His Word and standing on His Word?
There's three spiritual technologies.
There's three packets of power that God gives us, our thoughts, our feelings, and our words.
And so, this one is that spiritual technology of our words, how that changes everything.
And I've talked to you before about not letting our words cancel while we're praying.
Many people will pray something, and then they go out and talk about the exact opposite.
And so, their words are actually canceling out their prayer and stuff.
So we have to be so careful to stand guard at our mouth.
And so, one of the most powerful ways to use our word is to speak God's Word.
And so, Isaiah 5511, does anybody have it that you want to read it out loud?
Tell us the translation and read it out loud for us.
Anybody have Isaiah 5511?
Tell us the translation and then read it.
Okay, I have it.
Okay.
All right.
So it is, so shall my mouth be.
This is the King James.
Okay.
Today I'm reading King James.
So, so shall my word be that goeth forth out of my mouth.
It shall not return unto me void, but it shall accomplish that which I please, and it shall
prosper in the thing whereto I sent it.
I love that translation.
It's got the word prosper in there.
Of course, I'm pretty attached to that word.
So how cool.
Thank you.
Anybody have a different translation?
That was the King James.
Who else?
I have the new international version, the NIV.
It says, so is my word that goes out from my mouth.
It will not return to me empty, but will accomplish what I desire and achieve the purpose for
which I sent it.
Love it.
Beautiful.
Anybody have another translation?
I have the Passion.
Good.
Let's hear it.
It says, so will my word be which goes out of my mouth.
It will not return to me void, but it will accomplish what I please, and it will prosper
in the thing for which I sent it.
Love it.
I like the Passion translation.
Oh, it's always one of my favorite favorites.
Anybody have the Amplified?
Any Amplified?
Okay, I'll read it.
Oh, go ahead.
Do you have it, Lynn?
Good.
Go.
It says, so will my word be which goes out of my mouth.
It will not return to me void, useless, without result, without accomplishing what I desire,
and without succeeding in the matter for which I sent it.
So, as we speak God's word, it goes forth, and it is never void.
It is never without result.
It is never without fruit.
It's never useless, okay?
And so, you know, the note I'd love for you to make that is that God's word is never neutral.
That could be a teaching from that.
God's word is never neutral.
It always carries power.
It always has an assignment and an outcome, and this is a lot of what is so important
is us learning to direct so that the assignment can be accomplished.
So, we direct his word, and that's why I say find the promise, find the principles.
in your business and direct it, give it that assignment, that God's power goes there, right?
We give an assignment to our money. It's a different way of looking at your profits or at
money. Every dollar has an assignment, right? And so knowing that the word is never neutral,
it carries power, assignment, and outcome, your agreement. So now we get two or more in agreement.
We come into agreement. Again, what are you coming into agreement with? What word? The
negative report, are you coming into agreement, telling everyone, crying over it, envisioning it,
picturing it? You know, this is what happens often in a diagnosis is we take that, we move it into
our imagination, we speak it, we start seeing that this is where we're going, we add our faith to it
to the negative report, or we can say, that's not my situation. I'm standing on the word and I'm
going to put that into my imagination, that coming out in my words, that what I tell other people,
that which I stand on prayer. Do you see the difference? And I wish I could stay here and
tell you story after story after story, but we will as we go, but it's just so important.
Now, those of you students that want to cross-reference, let's put some other powerful
verses with that, then we'll move into the principle. Jeremiah 1.12 says that God watches
over his word to perform it. So when you're sending out his word on assignment, God is
over his word to perform it. Then Hebrews 4.12 says that his word is alive and active.
So this is not some, you know, dead thing that was written that just sits dusty on a shelf.
His word is alive, it's active. Scripture says it cuts between the bone and the marrow. It's
truth. And we combine it with today's principle. And today's principle, the principle of this week
comes from the parable of the sower. So this parable is about a sower that goes out and sows
seed and has different kinds of soil that the seed lands in. The entire chapter of Matthew 13
is about this. And so the first, like the chapter, the verses three through nine describe the four
soils. Again, I would look at this in different translations. Matthew 13, three through nine
describe. And then the verses 18 to 23, Jesus breaks it down and makes sure that they really
understand what he meant. And so jumping ahead, I want you to notice two things. And then we're
going to go back and look at the soil and the seed. First of all, I want you to understand
something that the seed is the word when he gets into explanation. And since we're talking about
the word today, the seed is the word of God. And the soil is your heart, your spirit, where that
word lands, what kind of soil is your heart for the word. And there's different kinds of soil.
And that all comes together with understanding what I've been sharing with you so much. It's
one of my huge passions is understanding that God is always giving. He's a giving God. He gave
everything. He gave his son. He doesn't hold anything back. He is a lavish, lavishly generous
God. The sun is always shining on the just and the unjust, right? Like God is just always pouring
out his light, his love. He loves to bless his children. So what's the difference?
This is what we're reading, what happens with God's generosity, with God's word, with God's
promises. It's our capacity, our capacity to know the word. First of all, that's why I want us
memorizing a new one every week. We've got to know this. First of all, it's got to be in our awareness
and then our ability to hold it, to steward it, to like, to, when it talks about meditating on
the word, it's a cow chewing its cud, like to, that's why I have you look at so many translations
to like chew on it, to just...
digest it, to let it become part of you, to steward God's word, and then to release it,
to speak it, to live it, and you know, opening with the song and opening with Christi's testimony
is probably the best way, an example of that, taking God's word, standing on it, meditating
on it, adding the promises to it, speaking it, and then adding faith and expectation.
Faith and expectation to the word, right? Many people don't have any expectation for their
prayers. They don't have any expectation for God. They don't have any expectation for the promises.
Just like, let the chips fall where they may. If it's God's will, it'll be. That's not what the
Bible says, right? In fact, there's a verse, and I'm not going to go into it right now,
but there's a verse where it talks about that, two verses, one about the promises of God where
they were not fulfilled because, that's from Hebrews, we didn't add our faith to the promises.
We didn't add our expectation to the promises, right? Or another one where Jesus couldn't do
any miracles in the town because they didn't mix their faith with the word, right? So the faith is
activate this word. So we're talking about four kinds of soil, okay? Matthew 13, and
before I read those four kinds of soil, I want to read from the Passion Translation
something super deep that is in between. So you've got these two sections. You've got three through
nine that describes the seed and the sower. Then you've got Jesus talking to his disciples because
they're like, Jesus, why do you always talk in parables? Why can't you just like make it plain?
Like, why do you make this so hard, right? They're coming to him, and they're going,
what does this mean? Like, why are you always talking about stuff like this, right? Just talk,
make it plain. And Jesus, there's this interim where Jesus explains why he talks in parables,
and then he goes on to explain. Does that make sense? And so it's broken up into kind of three
parts in this chapter. But I love what he says in the in-between that's so important about what
we're talking about here. And so he says, you've been given, I've got this highlighted so much,
it's hard to even see it anymore. It's highlighted in so many different colors. But anyway, you've
been given like the secrets to the kingdom, right? And he goes on to say, what are you doing with it?
Because so many people are missing it, it's saying here, because it says their hearts
are not teachable. This is what we're talking about in the soil. And so it says their hearts
are closed. It goes on to say, it says that their minds are dull and slow to perceive.
So when we're not meditating on this, when we're not going deep with God, our hearts
become closed and our minds become dull to spiritual things, to kingdom truths.
Okay, so now we go into the four types of soil. So anybody want to read Matthew 3 through 9?
Tell us the translation and the four types of soil.
Somebody want to read for us? So it's Matthew 13, 3 through 9. I can read for you. Okay.
Let's see. He told them many things in parables saying, listen carefully, a sower went out
to sow seed in his field and as he sowed, some seed fell beside the road
between the fields and the birds came and ate it. Other seed fell on rocky ground where they did not
have much soil. And at once they sprang up because it had no depth of soil. But when the sun rose,
they were scorched. And because they had no root, they withered away.
Other seed fell among the thorns and thorns came up and took them out. Other seed fell on good soil
and yielded grain, some 100 times as much as was sown, some 60 times as much, and some 30.
He who has ears to hear, let him hear and he
my words. Okay, beautiful. So there was four types of soil. So
the solar is just scattering. Like I said, God is lavish. It's
just going out. The word is just boom, boom, boom. He's not doing
one little seed here, one little soy. He's not picking that. It's
just going out there. The word is out there. And so then it's
where it's received. So who can tell me what's the what's the
first soil? Describe the first soil of our heart. First one.
The first soil that the seed lands on is
gravel,
hard, hard soil. The first one is hard soil. The second one is
the gravel, the rocky or it's also shallow, shallow soil. And
the third one is
what's the third type of soil?
thorny, weeds,
thorny, thorny. And the fourth? Good soil. Good soil. Good soil.
So if we were going to, well, let's let let's let Jesus
explain what each of those are. And then we'll just kind of wrap
up with that and go into prayer. So going forward to verses 18 to
23. When they finally say, Okay, Jesus, just make it plain. And
he tells us the four soils who wants to read 18 through 23. And
tell us what translation.
I can read it. I don't know what translation I'm in. I'm in the
Bible or Bible gateway. Okay. It's the new internal version.
New International. Okay. Okay. You want me to read it from
that? It's fine. Whatever, whatever you want to grab.
That's just what I popped up when I put it in. Listen, then
to what the parable of the sower means. When anyone hears the
message about the kingdom and does not understand it, the evil
one comes and snatches away what was sown in their heart. This is
the seed sown along the path. The seed falling on rocky ground
refers to someone who hears the word, and it once receives it
with joy. But since they have no root, they last only a short
time. When trouble or persecution comes because of the
word, they quickly fall away. The seed falling among thorns
refers to someone who hears the word, but the worries of life
and deceitfulness of wealth choke the word, making it
unfruitful. But the seed falling on good ground refers to someone
who hears the word understands it. This is the one who produces
a crop yielding 160 or 30 tons of sown.
I love it. Okay. So we've got hard soil. And depending on the
translation, if you're really looking at that, just think
about it. Think about packed soil, like it's hard. Like the
seed never even gets below the surface. It's just right there
on the top, right? And the hard soil looking at different
translations. That's when there's so many distractions, so
much busyness, never quiet, never still. The seed can't get
in your heart. There's no time, there's no room, there's no
space, there's no margin. It's packed, it's packed tight, it's
packed hard. God's word can't get in and do this work. And so
the birds come and just pick it off. So the word comes and boom,
it just gets carried away. You don't even you don't even
remember. It's not changing your life. Right? It's just
surface hard level. That's the first type of, again, we're
talking about our capacity to receive. Okay. The second one,
the rocky soil or also it's called the shallow soil. This is
where there's no deep root. And I love it. It's described this
way, shallow soil, shallow experience. Like your
experience with God, like, you just barely surface, you get a
15 minute sermon, you get a little devotional, you catch a
little word here, a little shallow soil, right? But no
root is going in there. Okay. And so that, of course, never
develops root. So then hard times, the sun comes and it
the drought comes, you know, it can't
stand because there's no root system. A plant without a root system can't stand.
Your faith can't stand with no roots, right? That's why scripture talks about being rooted
and grounded. Okay, then the thorny soil, okay, that's when the thorns, all the weeds come and
crowd it out, right? If you've ever had blackberry or boysenberry bushes, like those of you that live
up in hill country. I grew up in Placerville. That was our punishment growing up as kids,
having to get rid of all those blackberries. Of course, I like going out and picking them and
making blackberry cobbler and all that, but those things spread and they kill anything. They take
over everything, right? And that's what this is describing, is that what is it that's coming into
your life? And some translations use worry, is worry crowding out the word? Some use like money
pressure, life's demands, like is that what's crowding out the word? Like the thorns take over,
right? And so when the soil, here's what I want you to leave with this. When the soil is tended,
the word grows. So when we tend, that's why Jesus said, above all, guard your heart,
for out of it flow the issues of life, right? God says that everything happens in the heart.
Says man judges on the outside, God judges by the heart. The Bible says out of the heart,
the mouth speaks. Out of the heart, like your experience is coming from your heart. And so
that's the soil for the word. And so scripture's talking about our stewardship of our heart,
of our spirit, our stewardship of God's word, right? And so when the soil is tended, the word grows.
And when the word grows, the kingdom expands. So when the soil's tended, the word grows.
When the word grows, the kingdom expands. When the kingdom expands, fruit is inevitable.
Harvest, like the good soil, tenfold, hundredfold, thousand. It doesn't just come back like one seed
doesn't produce one plant. One seed can produce a whole orchard, right? And so it expands.
So as you're thinking about this week, we're going to add a practical application to that.
But let's stop and pray right now. And so remember, as we pray, we learned in Psalms 100,
we enter his gates. We enter, we come into prayer, we enter his gates with thanksgiving.
So we're going to start our prayer with thanksgiving. So begin to think of the things
you're so thankful for, so grateful for. Gratitude just opens up the pipelines. And it says we enter
his courts with praise. So thankful what God has done. Praise who God is. So we open with prayer,
with our prayer, with thanksgiving, with praise, and then with petition, asking him,
right? Believing that we've already received. So I'm going to open it up for anybody to pray,
remembering, of course, the prayer request, remembering the gratitude. Just pray what's
on your heart, and we'll all be touching and agreeing, and then I'll close our prayer
when we're done. So anybody can go in any order, okay? This is the power of community,
the power of agreement, the power of layering our faith on each other's faith, right?
Or two or more agreed, there God is.
Anybody can go first.
Lord, I just thank you for all that you have done and are doing in not only my life,
but in all the people that are connected to me. And Father, I just release
praise for you. I thank you, and I'm in awe of who you are, and how much you love us,
how much your passion is just oozing over us like honey. And all you want to do is say yes.
So we just need to stand in that place of yes, as we look to you and your
a word that says, by Your stripes we were healed.
And all the things that You're doing are just beautiful.
So I just, I release an abundance of faith over these women and over all the people who
are not here, Lord, to just have the courage and the excitement to know that You can do
all things, because You're our God and Your Father.
Father, I just thank You for this time of community with these incredible women,
those that You see as dearly loved and chosen, Lord.
I'm so grateful to be part of a community that honors You and that we are trusting in You
step by step so that the harvest will be mighty, Lord.
We know that there are many that do not know Your name, Father.
And I am so grateful and thankful that we have Your word in our hearts
and that it sets us up to be a catalyst to Your good news, Lord, that we can spread it
like wildfire, Lord, so that more can live in Your living waters, the spring of life, Lord.
I am thankful, Lord, that You are in the healing process of our daughters, of our mentors,
of the generations to come, Lord, as You speak that our generations upon generations
will be healed in Your mighty name, Lord.
So for all illness, disease, lack of trust and faith, Lord, I just cover us.
I just ask that You would cover us in Your healing, Your redemption, and Your
incredible eternal love for us, Lord.
Not only during this season, but day to day, Father, that You would just unite us,
Lord, that You would anoint us and You would appoint us in Your mighty name.
Amen.
I just thank You for today, Lord.
Today is the day the Lord's made.
We're going to rejoice and be glad in it.
I just declare and decree over our group, for miracles, signs and wonders, I thank You,
Lord, that You will show up.
And Your word says it's by the blood of the Lamb and the word of our testimony that we
overcome.
And the dark world needs the light of us in our testimony.
I pray that we are that light in every connection.
I pray right now I release in the name of Jesus, divine connections, divine provision
for the vision on their heart, but in divine healing.
I just thank You, Lord.
Your word says the Jabez prayer.
I just feel led to pray that over our group today in agreement.
It says, Lord, that You bless us indeed and enlarge our territory, that Your hand would
be with us, that You would keep us from evil, that we may not cause pain.
And You granted that for Jabez.
And Lord, I'm asking in the name of Jesus that You grant it over our sisters on this
Zoom call today.
I pray that as we come back together, I break any distractions that have been holding any
of us back.
And we just thank You, Lord.
Your word says we thank You for the closed doors and we thank You for the new open doors.
So we just give You all the praise and glory today in Jesus name.
Amen.
Father, I thank You so much for another beautiful day, for this beautiful group, for these beautiful
women, for the purposes and plans and all of the things that You intend for us.
Your plans are good.
We trust You completely and holy God, knowing that Your word is true.
It can do anything but fail.
Lord, I am so grateful that You are breaking new ground with us.
You are sowing new seed, Lord, that it would not fall to the wayside or fall upon cement,
but that it would take root and it would grow and it would prosper and it would never return
to You void.
It is impossible.
God, I just pray for every prayer request.
Lord God, it's already been opened up in the windows of heaven.
Lord God, that Your blood that was poured out for such a time as this has covered every
need, Lord.
And I just thank You so much, especially for Brenda, Lord.
Her heart for You and to grow with You and in You and through You and those around You.
and just around her are just inspired, Lord God, as your Holy Spirit rests upon her and
this entire group, those that love in their hearts that pant for you is the dear thirst
for water, God.
I pray, Lord God, and thank you, Father, in advance for every prayer request, every miracle,
every word that comes back that glorifies you and magnifies you.
We stand on that, Father, and help us, Lord God, to be deaf to the whispers of the enemy.
We don't recognize his voice.
You are the Good Shepherd, and we know and recognize your voice and receive those things
which you have for us.
Thank you for your generosity and your love, God, and just every need that we have that's
been met, whether we know it or not, God, we give you glory for it and we thank you
and I praise you and I ask you to give us direction and purpose and continue to lead
us and guide us down the path of righteousness that we might stand and see you one day face
to face, God, and help us to bring those in that are lost, those that don't believe, that
we might be a light in a dark place.
In your name, Jesus, we pray.
In Jesus' name, Lord, we just seal this.
We seal all the prayer requests.
We touch and we agree.
We love you and we give thanks.
In Jesus' name, amen and amen.
Okay, we've got to run, so I'm going to give you just super, super fast your practical
application this week.
Every morning this week, speak Isaiah 55, 11, and speak the word over the parts of your
life and business that need fruit and then ask the Lord what rocks or thorns or distractions
need to be removed from this area and then take action in what he shows you.
I love you all.
I bless you.
Those of you Prosper Leader members, of course, tomorrow we get into the practical side in
the business.
I'm going to be talking about the three disconnects that are happening in business and how to
repair them.
So lots of love.
We'll see you either tomorrow or next week.
God bless you.