Welcome, Bible-Based Spiritual Equipping.
We are on number three, call number three in the series, The Four Agreements.
The subtitle I put, A Biblical Perspective, Discovering the Secret to Transformation.
The Four Agreements is one of my favorite books.
I've read it many, many times, and then on a trip recently, I listened to it, which just
took it to a whole new level, listening to it on audio, but the reason I put Discovering
the Secret to Transformation, I really believe that these four agreements, as we become conscious
of them and begin to apply them, truly have the ability to undo all of these conscious
and unconscious, just thousands of tiny agreements we've been making, many without even realizing,
from the time we're four, five, six, seven, eight, some of you, your finances are still
being controlled right now by agreements you made back when you were like eight years old.
Some of you, your relationships are being controlled by agreements you made, and many
of you didn't even stop to analyze those agreements and say, is this truth?
Is it based on truth?
Does it even line up with God's will, God's desire for my life?
Does it line up with my destiny?
Does it line up with my highest good?
Does it even serve me?
And so many times, we just take these agreements on, and we don't even stop to kind of put
them under the microscope and say, man, is this belief system, is this thing that I've
agreed to, does it even serve me?
Some of you heard my story, you know, growing up in a very wealthy, gated community in Southern
California with horses and indoor swimming pools, but I saw so much craziness, you know,
my dad beating up my mom and tearing up the house and drugs and alcohol.
I saw so much insanity, and my little brain didn't have the ability to process it and
make wise agreements, I just made the agreement, I didn't want any money, didn't want anything
to do with it, money made craziness.
And later when my dad had a heart attack, very young, and we had to move and he'd have
to fly back to LA for all of his business, he'd be gone all week long, I'd only see him
on the weekends, and then my little brain said, ooh, money took my daddy away.
And so you can imagine the battle I ever had to have any money.
And so here's this unconscious agreement, and then of course in high school, I got introduced
to a Christian church, and the teaching was that money was the root of all evil, and I
thought, yeah, I agree with you, sign me up, I don't want any.
Then you wonder why you struggle and struggle and struggle, and however much comes in, exactly
that much goes out.
I would propose to you that if the exact amount coming in goes out, you get a little blessing
and some money comes in and then your car breaks down and it just goes out and you're
always just right there, I would propose that there's some agreements that you're not even
thinking about that you have around money.
While you've made these agreements around everything, around your femininity and sexuality,
around money, around relationships, oh, so many areas, and the four agreements is a beautiful
way to begin to break those thousands of agreements, and actually he talks about bringing
heaven to earth.
You know, Jesus talked about the kingdom of God, and that when we pray to bring the kingdom
of heaven here to earth, to bring that into our reality to begin to live it, and I would
propose that God wants us to have kingdom living and to enjoy heaven and earth and to
that life is actually supposed to be blissful and that you are the one, you, not God, not
the devil, not Obama, you are the one setting your point of enjoyment of your life and of
your circumstances and of the flow of your finances and of the people and things that
you're attracting into your life and of the blessings and of the curses, and as we teach
the first of the four agreements, which is be impeccable with your word, any of you that
have been around Prosper and All Things or been around me any length of time, I mean,
you know, I will be talking about words, I have been talking about words for years and
I will be talking about words for years.
It's actually a huge part of the equation of manifesting that which
you desire in your life. I talk about the mind, heart, mouth connection. There's this triangle
you can imagine. In fact, as you're listening to me, just kind of put your hand on your head,
your mind, your thoughts. Everything begins with a thought. The chair you're sitting on
begins with a thought. I've got this beautiful cherry wood desk in front of me. It began with
a thought. This laptop that I'm looking at began with a thought. The Delta E that I'm drinking with
began with a thought. The Prosper oil that we've got wiped on began with a thought. Everything,
creation begins with a thought. And you get to choose the quality of those thoughts. And the
quality of those thoughts then gets picked up by the different parts of your brain. The quality of
those thoughts then, you are adding the emotions, the feelings around those thoughts. So I had the
thought as an eight-year-old girl that money took my daddy away. Then for that thought to really
manifest itself in my life that I don't want any money for it to become a belief system that I
live by, I needed to add the emotion. It would cause the electromagnetic frequencies to bring
the law of attraction. It would speak to every cell in my body. It would speak over my finances.
It would literally be a force that would push money away from me. I had to have the emotion.
And so I would have this emotion of sadness, a low frequency emotion of grieving that, you know,
money takes my daddy away, etc, etc. And so you take this thought and now you bathe it. You literally
water it with emotions. And then scripture says, out of the heart flow the issues of life. Scripture
says that the mouth speaks out of what's in the heart. If you want to know, if you're not sure
about your subconscious mind, if you're not sure what it is that the thoughts you've really been
holding, maybe you've been disconnected, maybe you've been out of touch and you don't know the
thoughts you're holding, you don't know what emotions you're wrapping around those thoughts,
all you need to do is get very keen on opening your ears and begin to listen to your words.
Pretend you're someone else. Just step outside of yourself and on a daily basis,
just check in for a moment, get present, get in the moment and listen to what you're saying.
Both the chatter, the choir going on in your mind and the words that are actually coming out of your
mouth. As soon as you start putting that level of consciousness, as soon as you wake up that you
actually hear your own words, you will begin to understand what you've been storing in your heart
and what thoughts you've been really dwelling on and you're in the position to begin to make
changes and bring about total transformation. So you've got your hand on your mind where your
thoughts are, now put your hand over your heart and understand that it is this that gives life
to it. It is this that births it and that puts it into action and then put your fingers on your
mouth and as you speak that is your sickle if you think in terms of harvest. So the seed is the
thought in your mind and the water, the fertilizer is your emotions and your words are the sickle
that harvests those emotions. So just pray real quick, Lord I just ask that you open every one
of our spiritual senses. I ask like Paul prayed that you'll open the eyes of our heart. I ask that
you'll open our spiritual ears. I ask that you will open every sense, our taste that will taste and see
that you are good and our feeling and every one of our spiritual senses, open them to receive
the word today. I ask that we will be able to receive the word today, that it'll take root,
that it'll bring about transformation, Lord. I ask for every woman and enlightened man listening
on this call, Father God, that their words will become an instrument of blessing and that
their words will become an instrument of transformation and that they will discover
the incredible power in words, that the power of life, the very power of life to birth something
and death, to curse and destroy something. Be it the finances, the relationships, the health, we have
the ability to bring life to our bodies, life to our finances, life to our relationships or we have
the ability to curse and bring death and cause them like the fig tree that you curse to shrivel
up and disappear and no longer ever produce fruit. Lord what an amazing power you gave us when you
made us in your image. Lord today I ask that the words of my mouth and the meditations of my heart
will be pleasing in your sight. Bless this entire conversation in Jesus name.
Amen. So as we look at the four agreements we began in the first couple
weeks we talked about transformation we talked about Romans 12 about not being
conformed and we said that's like a Jell-O mold that's like pouring Jell-O
into the Jell-O mold and it takes that shape and then you turn it upside down
you put it on the dish to put it on the table and the mold doesn't have to be
there anymore but that Jell-O took on that image and will always bear that
until someone eats it right and we're being told not to allow the the
Amplified version of the Bible says the external superficial customs to to be
that which we conform to in other words you got to look at whose mold whose mold
have you shaped yourself into what is it that is shaping you what's shaping
your decisions what's shaping how you go about your day what what is it that that
if someone said oh I can see what pattern she followed after I can see
what mold that she was poured into what is it that they will see in and so
description Romans 12 verse 2 says don't be conformed to the world but but the
opposite of that instead of being conformed be transformed not conformed
but transformed and the word transformed the Amplified says changed completely by
the entire renewal of your mind all change all transformation becomes
happens when you begin to renew your mind remember re means do again new make
your mind new again go back go back and figure out what are these agreements
that you've had what are these belief systems you're holding on to and be
willing to say you know what is this even true and number one is it true
number two does it even line up with what God feels and thinks and does is
insane to me and number three does it even serve me we've got to step back and
look at this mold that we've shaped ourself into and then say wait wait wait
whoa I never even thought about my thinking most people go through life and
they never think about their thinking and this scriptures telling you to think
about your thinking it's telling you to be completely transformed to be
completely changed by renewing your mind having new ideals new attitude and it
says right there so you can prove for yourself the good the acceptable the
perfect will of God for you you see there scripture Ephesians says that God
has a good life prepared for you even before the foundation of the earth there
is this amazing life that God wants to give you when we're told to make sure
that whatever we speak and agree that it lines up with what is in the kingdom
of God he said whenever two of you agree and and and you you say anything make
sure it lines up with the kingdom of God well in the kingdom of God there is no
lack so if you're speaking lack if you're saying I'm broke if you're saying
I'm sick and tired if if you're speaking what you're speaking is not in line
with the kingdom you don't have a kingdom mindset and you don't have a
kingdom mouth and so you're actually out of the will of God and you've stepped
out of the good life the abundant life the overflowing life but the life of
bringing the kingdom of God the kingdom of heaven on earth the life of enjoying
happiness and bliss you see I happen to believe that when God made Adam and Eve
he put him in the garden and he put him in a state of bliss it says they were
naked they were unashamed they were tending the garden I believe God wants
us to experience bliss now not some ticket later and all that it takes is
beginning to know the secret how is it that I can enjoy perpetual happiness how
is it that I can experience bliss the kingdom of God on earth how how is it
and it's like taking every moment you see you get out of bliss you get out of
alignment with the kingdom of God when you dwell on the past because now you
dwell on the past it's already gone you can't do anything about it you dwell on
the past and now you've got shame and regret and all of these low frequency
emotions that are getting to get you all bound up in your head and they're gonna
steal your joy and it'll take the kingdom of God right where you're not
experiencing it anymore there's no more bliss the other side of it is to go
future focus so much and now you build in
anxiety and worry and concern and what-if and using your image maker, your
imagination and using it to image and create things that are in the negative.
But when you can take each moment and commit to stay in that moment and you
can look at that moment like a container. Think of a giant, I have a giant
measuring cup whenever I make brownies or cookies or anything it's really like
a bowl. It's such a huge measuring cup and I tend to picture each moment like
that measuring cup and I get to choose what I put. If I'm making brownies
I get you know this amazing gluten-free dark chocolate you know base to start
with and put that in the cup you know and then I get some really nice organic
vanilla to kind of complement the chocolate and I'm wondering if I'm
making you hungry this morning but you know I get to pick all that I put in
that cup and that becomes what I eat and scripture says that the power of life
and death is in the tongue and we eat the fruit thereof. Well we take this
thing called the present which is a present and I want you to imagine it
every single moment in your life imagine that giant measuring cup every
single moment the present which is a present imagine this giant cup this in
this giant container this giant bowl whatever works for your brain imagine
that and understand that you get to choose in this moment what you're going
to put in that cup. Now you could put gratitude in there and gratitude is a
frequency that very much connects you with with your creator it very much it's
it's a very high frequency thankfulness praise gratitude anything along that
line you put that in this moment and you're going to be on the frequency up
there with your with your creator you're going to feel connected to God you're
going to feel high frequency and remember anything above a 200 when you
look at frequencies of emotions is going to be strengthening your body so you're
going to find health increasing you're going to find your energy increasing
you're going to find the life force increasing in you you're going to find
the results just by simply choosing in that moment what you put in that cup you
could put in that cup shame which is the lowest frequency that we know of and
you're going to find that frequency is going to affect every part of your body
and now in that moment you're going to see your whole body weakening remember
everything below 200 the body weakens you're going to find the EMFs you put out
the law of attraction is going to be repelling every good thing from you now
scripture says that God prepared this good life for you to walk in he said it's
an abundant life it's a life of overflow and you choosing to step into that has
to do with what you choose each moment and as we're talking about the four
agreements we're speaking specifically in the words what words are you going to
bring into this moment when you wake up are you thanking God for the day are you
thanking God for new life you know I'm sitting here at my big beautiful desk at
home I'm looking out the window and there's a maple tree really bright green
big palm tree next to it and I know that's a weird combination but it's kind
of neat together and the sun is just shining and the leaves are all different
colors of green and and if you just stop for a moment and get in that state
you can just feel God's love just speaking to you and in that moment you
can pour love you can pour gratitude you can pour joy you can choose to make you
can you can choose like scripture says this is the day the Lord has made I will
rejoice again look at words re do again joys joy I'm going to re do again the
joy I'm gonna bring back the joy into this moment and you what the next moment
I'm going to rejoice again I'm gonna bring the joy back again and the next
moment I'm gonna read you I'm gonna keep reminding myself of the joy and I'm
gonna count my blessings and I'm gonna thank God for all the things that he's
given me in this moment we are going to attract more and more and more of that so
we have this idea of not being conformed and thinking about our thinking and I've
talked about in the past couple weeks about how our beliefs are formed you're
just walking around with all these beliefs and some of them are no longer
serving you and you're gonna have to have the courage to begin to let go of
those beliefs that are no longer serving you and be willing to embrace new
beliefs by trying on a new set of clothes you know Judy's on the on the
line I heard her say hello when she got on the line
line and there's an interesting thing that happens when you step over this line of courage
and you step over this line of transformation and you begin to have new beliefs and you
begin to get a hold of your power and Judy's been focusing on this and she's been getting
a hold of her power and she's watching her words and she's changing the things that she's
saying and her new words are attracting new things to her and literally you're watching
her body transform and what happens as you change your vibration like this, you're going
to find that maybe some of the people you used to associate with, they can't be in your
presence anymore and you can't be in theirs anymore and there's an energy shift and now
you have to be in a different environment.
You might have to be in a different home, you might have to be around different people
but you're going to have this energetic shift that happens as to who you can even allow
in your life and your body's going to respond and things that used to be symptoms which
was your body's reflection of what was going on in your subconscious begin to drop away
and you begin to stand different and speak different and well a natural reflection of
that is you begin to look different and Judy recently went to an image consultant and she's
got a whole new hairdo, she's got a whole new look, those of you that were at the event
on Saturday, she just looked cute in her purple shirt and her beautiful skirt and her hairstyle
and she just looks like a completely different woman than I saw two years ago and you see
this is letting go of the beliefs that no longer serve you and taking on the ones that
you do.
In fact, I went yesterday, yesterday was the first day of the second half of the year and
it's almost like New Year's, it's like a New Year's gift that you get now the second half
of the year, anything that you didn't do the first half, you still get it, any thoughts
you need to adjust, anything you want to create, now you get to do it and I felt so strong,
I actually called Doretta, my hairdresser and I said you got to do my hair today and
I've never done this to her before and she was like really scrambling, she didn't have
any appointments and she's like what about tomorrow and I'm like no, I just feel it,
I'm supposed to do it today and it was like so strong in me and I just kept pushing and
pushing and she finally, like I've never done this in all the years I've gone to her and
she finally changed some things around and got me in there and I went and I did a completely
different look, when you guys see me, my hair is really different and I did this completely
different look and I said I just had this feeling, it's the first day of the second
half of the year and I'm supposed to do it and she says you know that hair is one of
the things we change when we're going through a transformation and I went that's why I'm
feeling it so strong, that old hair look didn't work for where I'm going now and my
spirit is lighter and I have a lot of joy and I'm just at a higher level of frequency
and this hair needed to reflect that and so this is what happens as we're changing because
you see originally when we were young, we didn't think about it but someone, our parents,
our clergy, our teachers in school, they hooked our attention and they domesticated
us and they taught us how to dream, how to think, how to live and they created this belief
system and they domesticated you, they taught you when you were a good girl and when you
were a bad girl, they gave you rewards and punishments until they no longer needed to
do it and now you do it to yourself, they don't have to be anywhere nearby, you're giving
yourself your own rewards and punishment but what we saw last week is that a lot of these
do not agree with the word of God, they don't agree with God's will for your life, they're
not even God made, they're man made and so we put these things on ourselves, these beliefs
on ourselves and they have nothing to do with God and yet they shape our life and we blame
God for our circumstances and it has nothing to do with God, it is 100% the thoughts you're
thinking and the belief systems you're holding on to. I can remember just crying so many
nights because I had this belief that came out of my dysfunctional childhood and the
opposite, my response to the craziness I saw was that I was going to be the perfect wife
and the perfect mom and the perfect Christian and the perfect homeschool mom, etc. etc.
And so I had this belief system that of course is an impossible standard, drove myself to
exhaustion and symptoms in my body and depression, all these things that I drove myself to had
nothing to do with God and then the funny thing is I look at my prayers, I would go
in my bathroom at night and I would sit there and cry and cry and cry and I would ask God
to help me to be able to do these 12 dozen things that no human being should be able
to do at once and here I was just wondering why God wouldn't help me to be able to do
these things. It wasn't God's idea!
first place do you understand? I was conformed by a false belief system. I was living a lie and I'm
asking God to bless this and then people go God just doesn't hear me he's not blessing me he's
not answering what I'm asking him and you're asking something that's so out of alignment
with his will for you and the abundant life that he has for you it's your own man-made craziness
self-inflicted nonsense sin right that we are putting on ourselves that has nothing to do
with God and yet we're begging God and wondering why God's not answering our prayers well in Mark
7 we saw that with the Pharisees they were all stressed out man they were not going to eat food
unless they'd gone through the whole washing ceremonial purification you had you hung your
arms upside you know down and you from the elbows and had to go down I had to do it this many times
and yada yada yada and then what happens after you get a belief system it hooks your attention
you come into agreement with it so it becomes yours then the next thing that happens as soon
as you agree is you get the judge the internal judge and now this internal judge is speaking
all the time and it's judging others harshly in fact the more harshly you're judging yourself
the more harshly you're judging others the more harshly you're judging others the more harshly
you're judging yourself and so now you end up judging those around you and here's the religious
leaders of the time the Pharisees in Mark 7 in verse 3 it said the Pharisees and all the Jews
don't eat unless they wash their hands and we scroll down to verse 8 in Mark 7 verse 8 Jesus
says man in the amplified version you have a fine way of rejecting the amplified says thus thwarting
and nullifying doing away with the commandments of God in order to keep your own traditions your
own human regulations so here's the leaders of the people the religious leaders that people
were following and doing what they said because they were the religious leaders and it had been
going on for generations and they're doing what the religious leaders say and following a belief
system that really had nothing to do Jesus is going you're doing your own human deal this is
your deal you're putting on yourself I didn't say you had to be sick and tired and broke
I didn't say that you had to do 552 regulations to try to earn the approval of God I didn't say
you had to make your life complicated this has nothing to do with God and yet these are the
religious leaders he's saying man you have a heck of a way of just putting aside what God really does
believe for your own human regulations so we make agreement with these things and as soon as you
really believe it it becomes faith it becomes your trust and this becomes your life and so this
internal judge then begins to pose sentence on each other and that's what they were doing the
pharisees saying hey Jesus how come how come your peeps aren't washing their hands they just go over
and start eating what's up with your peeps and we do the same way you might have been raised in a
church or religion that women didn't wear pants I have friends that's the case now they see a woman
in pants and they think that person's less holy and they're setting up a whole system of judgment
there's another church that I'm familiar with that you don't wear any jewelry
and now you're looking at people with a lot of jewelry and I was part of that for a while in
high school and so now you see people wearing jewelry and oh boy you really judging their
relationship with God and the quality of their life and all kinds of things or makeup there's
some about drinking there some will see someone have a have a glass of wine and now they're
completely judging the spirituality of that person so isn't it interesting all these agreements and
now we set up judgment and we judge others and then Romans 2 2 says this that imposing as judge
and passing sentence on another you condemn yourself because you who judge practice the
very same things it's very likely that the thing you're most judging in others is that thing that
you're judging in yourself it's that thing that you have fear around in yourself and now you're
judging everyone else well the four agreements says there's just thousands of agreements that
we've made with ourselves with other people with our dream about life with God with society with
our parents with our spouse with our children and the most important he says are the ones you made
with yourself the ones that you really think about how you feel and you believe
and how you behave that's what we call our personality that's what we say
that's that's who I am this is who I am and that's when we decide what's
possible and what's impossible what we can do and what we can't do how much
money we'll ever earn how much health we can have how we feel about our body and
we just begin to see these agreements you know it's real funny my brother and
I are real opposite I mean just as opposite as two can come and you know
I'm 90% of the time you know the vegan gluten-free you know whatever and you
know drinking alkaline water and taking all my supplements and he is you know
energy drink and doughnuts and chips and he'll joke he'll go the more chemicals
the better like his body he says is designed for chemicals and zero thought
about what he's putting in his body and the level of health that he's gonna walk
in and um and you know he's losing his hair a little bit and I said you know
you don't have to that's just you know some DHT going on in your body you could
easily do you know some supplements we've got Prostalon and get that DHT out
of your body and you'd stop losing your hair you don't have to go bald and no
this is the way I am and isn't that the comment is it really the way he is is it
really the way you are do you say that kind of sentence this is the way that I
am have you accepted things that are far like the Pharisees far from God's heart
he had no desire for eating to be such a burden and he had no desire for so many
regulations and rules and laws you know that's the thing that most people have
trouble with religion they think of it as a bunch of rules and regulations well
that wasn't even God that's not a God God is not about rules and regulations
he's about relationship and so what ends up happening is that these
agreements if they're fear-based if they're not love based then what ends up
happening is it really becomes energy leaks and we begin to use up our
personal power to maintain these agreements and then we wonder why we're
so exhausted all the time so these four agreements we're still on in the first
we're gonna spend 12 weeks about three weeks in each of the four so this is the
last that we're going to be doing on be impeccable with your word that's the
first agreement be impeccable with your word which of course we defined him means
not Pekka means sin so it means being without sin in your word and and then
this particular book I like the way that he brings out not sinning against
yourself you know I was riding I was riding with someone that was helping my
brother move yesterday in the day before and he was talking about you know he had
a drinking and using problem and so he was separated from his wife and yet he
wanted the marriage to get back together again he had this hope in his heart and
he was staying in a recovery home he wasn't at home and he was saying that
this girl had started kind of hitting on him and saying hey can we go to a movie
together there's a movie theater right near you how about and he was saying you
know I I'm tempted I mean it's nice that she's asking me he said but I I really
don't feel right about it because I'm married and I'm hoping that I can get
back together with my wife and he'd been married 17 years and I said don't violate
yourself that's what this means this impeccable don't sin against yourself
not by doing those things which you don't feel good about doing if what
you're doing doesn't make you feel good if it's not a high-frequency emotion
don't do it if it violates your sense of right and wrong don't push through it
and do it anyway and of course he talks about sinning against ourself when
you're talking about your words are you using your words to tear yourself down
do you say things like I'm so stupid I'm so fat I always I never get it right I
mean I can't do this I'm broke you know I'm sick and tired are you
violating my are you calling your diseases my cancer my heart disease my
diabetes are you violating yourself with your word and I just kept saying to him
dude be impeccable with your word don't don't violate yourself don't go against
yourself don't sin against yourself with your word and that's a question you can
put down for thinking about that you can journalists and in what ways am I
sinning against myself what belief systems are am I holding on to that no
longer serve me what words am I speaking what things am I doing I
I go to a job that I just feel I'm supposed to leave but I don't have the courage to leave.
I'm in a relationship that's been dead for 10 years.
It's making me sick.
It's causing damage to my children and yet I keep staying because I have a belief system
that this is what I'm supposed to do.
What are you doing that you're sinning against yourself and you're violating yourself?
So this talks about being impeccable with your word.
And this is probably, I can see why it's number one because you have to understand
your word is the power you have to create your life.
It's through your word that you manifest everything.
Can someone read Proverbs 18 verse 20 please?
Proverbs 18 verse 20.
Proverbs was written by Solomon.
He was considered the wisest king in history.
And let's just kind of start with this.
Proverbs 18 verse 20 actually and 21 is actually the one that I'm really interested in.
20 and 21.
A man's body shall be satisfied with the fruit of his mouth and with the ingredients
of his book shall he be filled.
Not the life or in the power of the tongue.
And they that want it shall eat the fruit thereof.
Thank you.
Who is that that just read that?
Is that Candace?
Yeah.
Okay.
Thank you.
They're just kids that are originally made.
Thank you.
Sometimes I'm not sure if your voice is as nice for me to know.
So here he says that a man's self is filled with the fruit of his mouth.
You need to understand your tongue, your mouth, your words produce fruit.
Understand that.
The results in your life.
Think of the results as fruit.
You've got a tree and it starts with a seed.
It grows into a full tree and the culmination in the right season usually sometime around
summer if it's persimmons early fall.
You get these fruit that grow all over the tree and that's why you grew it and now you
get to go out and you get to eat this fruit.
Well our life has a lot of fruit.
It has financial fruit, relational fruit, spiritual fruit, peace fruit.
It has fruit and so you stop and you look at the fruit in your life.
How's your financial fruit?
How's your relationship fruit?
How's your health fruit?
You start looking at the fruit of your life and scripture's real clear on this.
If the fruit has bugs or brown spots or it's diseased or there was no fruit, scripture's
really clear that when you see the fruit you need to look if there's a problem you need
to look at the root.
It's not the fruit that's the problem.
The disease, the spots, the bugs did not originate in the fruit.
They originated in the root and the root is your thoughts, your emotions and your words
and so here it says that your self is filled with the fruit of your mouth.
Your mouth produces fruit and the Amplified says to make it plain, the consequence of
your words.
Words have consequences.
Words have fruit.
Words produce results and it goes on to say he must be satisfied whether good or evil.
So you know what?
If you're not liking the consequences of your word, you need to be satisfied because you
spoke them.
You have the choice.
No one makes you speak any words.
This is your conscious control.
You're either going to make a decision to bridle your tongue or to just let it flap
and say whatever it wants and it says in verse 21, death.
Think of death, destruction, withering, no life, right?
No vitality, death or life.
Think of the opposite, joy, peace, fruit, death and life are where?
Where does it say death and life are in the power?
There's that word power.
Death and life are in the power of what?
Death and life, your choice, are in the power of the tongue.
There's power in your tongue.
Death and life are in the power of the tongue and they who indulge in it, you get to indulge
in your tongue.
You're going to eat the fruit of it.
If you don't like the fruit, look at the root.
So let's go through the scripture and really look at an aspect of words.
I want to show you how this began all the way from creation as part of how we're made
in the image of our creator and I want to take you through a number.
of scriptural examples to really hone this in deep. I've given you, I've laid the
foundation, you understand where I'm going with this, now let's see what the
Word of God says about it. So turn to Genesis, right the very beginning, Genesis
1, 1. We're going to start, just open your Bible on the left side and you know the
very first chapter, the first verse, this is easy to find and it starts with in
the beginning, so we're starting right at the very beginning. There's a law when
you study scripture, the law of first mention, so if you can find when things
are first mentioned, you can get a bigger understanding of whatever that thing it
is that you're looking for. So if you want to understand something, look at the
first time it's mentioned in scripture and that will give you some insight. So
in this case, in the beginning, in verse 1, God prepared, formed, fashioned, created the
heavens and earth. It says that the earth was without form, it was just before it
was without form, it was an empty waste. I want you to circle that in your Bible,
without form. This is the stuff that makes up life. In other words, the earth
consisted of this, it's now called the matrix or the divine matrix, it
contained a substance, but it was without form. The substance had not been
manifested into a form, a tangible thing that we could feel, touch, see. Right now
it was still just the matrix, it was just still this stuff. We now know that all
the empty space in the solar system and beyond, all of that space is not
actually empty. We now know it's all interconnected. We know that by a number
of experiments and it's this substance, it's real, it's just it's
substance. And so here you have the earth when it was still substance, it was an
empty waste, there was no light, darkness was upon it in the great deep, but then
you see the Spirit of God was moving. So you've got two things going on. You've
got this substance, this divine matrix, and then you've got the Spirit, the life
force, the very Spirit that brings nothing into something. And you've got
these two things just hovering. What's gonna make it turn into something? You've
got substance, I would call that potential. Potential to be shaped in any
direction. This is true of your life. Watch how creation occurred and
then understand how to be a creator in your own life. You've got substance all
around you and then the Spirit of God is moving. The Spirit of God is moving
in you, through you, upon you. So you've got substance and you've got the Spirit
of God. Now what's going to be formed? What's going to bring form? It says the
Spirit of God was hovering, brooding. I would say over your substance, your
unformed substance, I would say that your dreams are unformed substance. Your
thoughts are unformed substance. Your future finances are unformed
substances. And so the Spirit of God is just hovering and brooding over this.
And then it says in verse 3, God said. Highlight said or circle said. God said.
How did creation move from formless darkness void and turn into
something tangible that we could see, feel, hear, touch? God said. God spoke. Let
there be light and there was light. How did light come about? How did light, how
did we go from darkness and no form, empty waste, to light? How? What would
cause light to happen? Yep, God's Word. He spoke and then God saw the light was good.
He approved it and he then named it. You see, after he spoke it, now we got to
categorize it. Verse 5, nomenclature, giving names to. Now God called. He gave
it a name. The way you take dominion over your substance, you speak it and
then you name it. And God called the light day and the darkness he called
night. And there was evening and morning one day. And then you see in verse 6, he
does it again. And God said, let the firmament, the expanse of the sky, in the
midst of the waters, let it be separated from the waters below. Let the waters
above and the waters below be separated.
See this whole process going all the way through everything from creating the animals to the stars, the fish, all of that, the trees, the vegetation.
You get to verse 26 on the highest of God's creation.
God said, how does this happen again?
God said, circle that in verse 26, let us, the Amplified says, Father, Son and Holy Spirit make mankind in our image.
So all of creation is made until we get to mankind.
Now there's a whole new twist on it.
Man is made in God's image.
You are made in God's image after his likeness and part of being made in God's image.
It says, let them have complete authority.
Let them have dominion over the earth.
You see, now you are given, you've got this substance and there's lots more besides what God made.
That's why Jesus said, greater things will you do than I do.
There's all this substance.
There's all this potential.
The world is filled.
Our earth is filled with potential, potential for resources, potential for love, potential for joy.
There's just all this potential.
And you're given dominion.
You're given authority to rule over your potential.
You get to do or not do whatever you want with your void, formless substance.
It's just the substance of the earth that you get to speak into.
You get to name.
You get to take dominion of and create what you want.
If your belief system is such that you want to create poverty or loneliness or lack or you want to create joy and bliss and peace and love and resources, it's up to you.
It's your potential.
No one's going to do it for you.
This is not waiting on God.
God's waiting on you.
He says, let me show you how this works.
I made you in my image.
I put you in the garden.
I will provide for you.
I'll give you provision, but I'm going to teach you how this works.
I'm going to give you dominion over it now.
The only thing you don't have dominion over is other people.
Each person has dominion over himself, but what you have dominion over is all that you see on the earth and all the unformed substance.
And so verse 27, God creates man in his image and the image and likeness of God.
And now you see the final step to it.
He called it.
He named it.
He took dominion over it.
And then verse 28, here's the final step.
And God blessed them.
You're going to see the pattern that the creator used to create.
And then he made you to be a co-creator using the same pattern.
And the final stage of this pattern is blessing.
Now he speaks blessing over it.
He takes the substance and he defines it, he names it, and now he blesses it.
And now he says, be fruitful.
Multiply, fill the earth, subdue it.
The Amplified says using all its vast resources in the service of God and man.
There's your potential.
Vast resources, unlimited resources that you get to use for service of God and man.
Have dominion over it, over every part of it.
And so now he's created Adam, and now he wants Adam as a co-creator to experience the same
thing.
So if you turn the page to Genesis chapter 2, you see that now out of the ground the
Lord God formed every wild beast, every living creature, every bird of the air.
And now he brings all of them to Adam.
He's going to involve Adam in creation because Adam needs to understand he's a co-creator.
Adam needs to understand who he is, whose he is.
Adam needs to understand the authority.
Adam needs to understand the power of his tongue.
So God's going to involve him.
He's going to say, Adam, come over here.
And now he says he brings them to Adam.
God didn't name all the animals.
God didn't name all the creatures, all the birds, all the fish.
He lets Adam, the first man, do that.
And he says he brought them to Adam to see what he would call them.
And whatever Adam called every living creature, that was his name.
You know, I homeschooled my kids all the way through until they went to college.
And one of the things I would teach them is you can have mastery of any subject, son,
daughter.
You can have mastery over mathematics, over physics, over chemistry.
You can have mastery over any subject.
let me tell you the first step to mastery is understand the language
understand the vocabulary of that which you want mastery over
the secret to mastery is understanding the vocabulary
do you want a faith-filled life understand the vocabulary of faith faith
has a vocabulary so does fear do you want to have financial freedom
and financial abundance you need to understand the vocabulary
do you think that wealthy people have a different vocabulary
than uh than people that don't have anything
people that are are broke and homeless do you think there's a different
vocabulary
do you think they use the same words or do you think they have a different
vocabulary what are your thoughts
i think they're totally different they're totally different faith has a
vocabulary fear has a vocabulary love has a vocabulary fear has a
vocabulary understand that wealth has a vocabulary poverty has a
vocabulary health has a vocabulary sickness and
dis-ease have a different vocabulary so the
first step to mastery of any area in your life
is looking at the vocabulary and so in verse 29 we see adam does it
he gives names to everything and he begins to have dominion
over language gives dominion well just like god now he's going to
teach the final step to man he's going to teach man
look i need to teach you about blessings and i need to teach you about
curses the power of word you can use to bless
the power of the word you can use to curse we've
lost this we do not understand how to speak blessings over ourself
we don't understand how to speak blessings over our future
seed unborn and born we don't understand how to speak blessings over
our children we've completely lost touch with the power of blessings and
curses so turn to genesis chapter 12 we're
staying in genesis for a few minutes as you see the origin of how god
creates how he takes dominion and how he makes us co-creator and how he helps us
have dominion so turn to genesis chapter 12
and verse 3 could someone read genesis chapter 12 verse 3
i will bless those who bless you and whoever curses you i will curse
and all people on earth will be blessed through you
interesting i will bless those who bless you
the amplified says who confer prosperity or happiness upon you
and i'll curse those who curses you or uses insolent language towards you
and you will all through you all the families and kindred of the
earth will be blessed and by you they will bless themselves
i want you to understand the power of blessing
let's look at an example you see back then in this culture
um you know that would be i don't know almost 5,000 years ago in this particular
culture they understood the power of it turn
a little bit forward and now go to genesis 27
i'm going to show you how much power is in blessings and curses
genesis chapter 27
say amen when you're there
genesis chapter 27 say amen when you get there
okay so genesis 27 in beginning in verse 26
we see this played out we see isaac one of the patriarchs
about to die he is old and the culture of that time
the understanding of blessing and curses is that he's got something to do before
he goes to the other side he's got to bless his children and that
will determine their future wow
so 26 the father isaac says come near me and kiss me
my son now there's a great swindle happening here if you go back and
read all of chapter
27 for time's sake I'm gonna tell you there's a great swindle and
One of them become pretends
Esau pretends to be his brother Isaac because he wants to steal Isaac's blessing
Well, you know, you don't steal something that doesn't work. You don't steal something that's of no value
Nobody goes looking down the street finding a way to steal a smashed-up tin can they might pick it up for redemption
But they don't have to steal it. They don't break into someone's house
to steal an aluminum can
We don't try to steal something that doesn't have any value
You see they understood the greatest thing they could have would be a blessing, especially a father's blessing
Some of you fathers haven't discovered the art of blessing your children and the legacy that that can leave
Some of you mothers have not discovered how to give a mother's blessing to their children
And you could still do that
well, they understood it here so much so that the mother and and
Esau
Confer together how they can seal Isaac's blessing
So he comes near and Isaac was of the land
he was a hunter and
so he dressed him up in the furs and the smell of the animal and the smell of the
Outdoors because Esau was a mama's boy. He liked to be inside the house
He liked to be cooking and doing domestic things in there
He didn't smell like his brother and the dad was gonna pick this up because the dad was old and the dad was blind
The dad could not see the boys. And so he comes near he kisses him
Isaac smells the clothing and realizes
Okay, this is this is him and he blesses him
He says the son the scent of my son is as the odor of the field
which the Lord has blessed and may God give you the dew of the heavens and the fatness of the earth and the
Abundance of grain and new wine. Look he's speaking abundance over his son
He's speaking of fatness of the earth
he's speaking of abundance of grain abundance of wine and he says let people serve you and
Nations bow down to you
He's blessing him with authority and dominion and be master over your brothers and let your brother's sons bow down to you
He was the oldest this was the culture. Let everyone be cursed who curses you and
Favored with blessings who blesses you and so as soon as Isaac had finished blessing
Jacob
Jacob was the swindler pretending to be his brother
Jacob was scarcely gone out from the presence of Isaac his father then Esau the one that his father loved
comes in from his hunting and
Esau had prepared this food for his father and he walks in from his kill
He didn't made him the soup and and he says come my father arise eat your his son's game
That you may bless me
Isaac his father said to him. Who are you?
he replied I'm your son your firstborn I'm Esau and
Isaac trembles and shakes violently
You don't think he understood the power of a blessing what caused him to tremble and shake violently
He knew he had spoken and once the word was out. You can't put it back in once the blessings out
You can't put it back in once the curse is out
It's very difficult to cancel it. And so Isaac realizes what's happened
He trembles he shakes violently and he says who?
Where is he is hunted game and brought it to me and I ate of it before you came and I blessed him
Yes, and he shall be blessed and when Esau hears the words of his father
He cries Esau understands the power of a blessing
He cries out with a great and bitter cry and says to his father bless me also. Oh my father
I wonder how many
boys
Spending a whole life who never got their father's blessing and they're still
they're still not walking in their authority and their abundance because
They didn't have that and they didn't need they didn't learn how to bless themselves. They didn't know what to do to reverse this and so
Esau
Replied isn't he rightly named Jacob?
The supplanter for he has supplanted me two times. He took away my birthright now. He's taken away my
Blessing have you not still a blessing reserved for me?
Isaac understood the power of blessing Isaac answered Esau and said I've made Jacob your Lord and master
I've given all his brethren to him as servants. I've given him corn and new wheat
I've sustained and what else can I give you I've already blessed everything I can think of and now
Esau is just holding on to his dad's arms and said do you not even have one blessing for me my father
Please will you just not bless me, please? Oh my father and
Esau lifts up. He can't control his voice. He's crying
This is how serious they understood the power of blessing the father the grown man now is shaking
convulsing and crying and
and
Isaac his father answers and says your blessing and dwelling
Shall come from the fruitfulness of the earth and from the dew of the heavens above by your sword
You're gonna live and serve your brother
But the time will come when you will grow and break loose and you'll tear his yoke from your neck
And from that day a new hatred was born the seed of hatred was born
Esau hated Jacob because of that blessing which his father blessed him
Esau said in his heart as soon as the days of mourning for my father are near when he was gone
I'm gonna kill my brother Jacob and
These words of Esau her elder son were repeated to mom Rebecca
And she says Jacob to her younger son and says look Esau's coming to to kill you
You better get the heck out of here. And so you see that whole story that happens there
My point in bringing this is man. Ah, I don't see that in my culture
I don't know if you see that in yours
that a
Son would do anything to have his father's blessing and a father would take his blessing so seriously that he would cry when he gave
it wrong
Go forward in in scripture and go now to numbers chapter 22 numbers chapter
22
I'm going to show you this played out time and time again
And I'm gonna ask you to really consider what your blessing and what you're cursing how you're blessing yourself
How you're cursing yourself how you're blessing the next generation how you're cursing the next generation
I'm gonna ask you to be so impeccable with your word that you begin to consider the power of blessing and curses and maybe
Restore this again into your life
I told you about a book by Arthur Burke called blessing your spirit if you've not yet researched that
learn to bless your own spirit learn the power of
Blessing and curses. Okay. Say amen if you're at numbers 22
Okay, can you read that? Thank you. Can you read that for me? Oh
I'm sorry. We're at verse
Five and
Just start reading down three four verses and we'll switch readers. I want to read this whole story in numbers 22 starting in verse 5
Numbers 22 and 5
Behold there is a people
I
Okay, so you've got a king and
he's heard about how powerful the Israelites that have come out of Egypt and so he goes to Balaam a
Prophet a false prophet and he goes to him and he says get Balaam
And he says come I beg you will you curse these people for me because they're too powerful
He understands the power of curses and the only way he's going to overcome these people is maybe he can have them cursed
So come and curse these people. These people are too powerful
Maybe I'll be able to defeat them drive them out of my land because I know
That he whom you bless is blessed and he whom you curse is cursed
And so it says in verse 7 the elders of Moab and of Midian
departed with the rewards of foretelling in their hands and they come to Balaam and they tell him the words of King Balak and
in verse 8
He says to him lodge here tonight and I'll bring you the word as the Lord may speak to me and
So there the princes of Moab are all gathered with Balaam
That night. So so they're bringing Balaam. They're basically paying a profit
Look, I want you to come curse these people and he says, okay
I'll bring you the word as the Lord speaks it to me and in verse 9
God speaks to Balaam and says what men are these with you?
Balaam says to God I've got Balaam the son of Zippor the king of Moab has sent me
Saying behold the people who came out of Egypt cover the face of the earth come now curse them for me
Perhaps I'll be able to fight against them and drive them out and
Verse 12. God says to Balaam. You'll not go with them
You will not curse the people for these people are blessed. So God's given them totally different instructions
No, there's not going to be any cursing going on here
Verse 13 Balaam rises up in the morning
He says to the princes of Balaam go back to your land. The Lord refuses to permit me to go with you
So the princes of Moab they go back to King Balaam and they say look Balaam's refusing to come with us
Balaam's very persistent. He's serious about this land
so he sends the princes again even more of them even more honorable than the first ones and
They go back to Balaam and they say look thus says Balaam son of Zippor
I beg you let nothing hinder you from coming to me and
Now we're gonna make the up the ante if you will right he says look I'll promote you
Let's let's see if I can appeal to your flesh. Let's get can I get to your ego?
Can I get to your pride because I need your power
I know the power of your tongue and I need your help. So here's the deal in verse 17. I'll promote you to great honor
I'll do whatever you tell me just come I beg you curse these people now
Here's the king of a great land who has tremendous amount of wealth and tremendous amount of power
I'm asking you why would he offer so much?
For blessings or curses if he did not have seen the fruit or understand the value
See, I don't think we understand the value of blessing and curses
so Balaam answers the servants of Balak
If Balak would give me his house full of silver and gold I still can't go beyond the word of the Lord my God
I can't do less or more. It doesn't matter. I can't be bribed. He says now therefore I pray you
Terry here again tonight that I may know what more the Lord will say to me. He's like I want the gold and silver
So let me ask again. Let me go back to God and see if I can do it
Okay, the last answer was no, but you know now that you've offered me silver and gold
We're speaking a different language. Maybe God will change his mind, right? This is comical and
So we get over to verse 20 and God comes to Balaam that night and says to him
If the men come to call you rise up and go with them, but still
Only what I tell you may you do so Balaam gets up in the morning
He saddles his donkey goes with the princess of Moab
Now God's and anger is kindled because he's going against the Word of God, right?
And the angel the Lord stands in the way is
riding his donkey and the and the angels tried to prevent him in verse 23 the donkey sees the angel and
And and he can't but the donkey see it and they they don't want to go
Because the sword is drawn right there and the donkey tries to avoid this and go the other direction
And now Balaam starts beating the donkey
Trying to make the donkey to go to see the donkey was seeing supernaturally
He was not because he was seeing gold and silver. He he wasn't seeing the things of the Lord anymore
He wasn't seeing the angel. He wasn't seeing any of it
He was seeing dollars and cents and he was driven by money
and so the angel the Lord's standing in in the path right there in 24 and
It's gonna get serious the donkey actually
you know lays down crushes Balaam's foot against it and Balaam starts beating the donkey and and the story goes on and on and
He tries to avoid going every which way this donkey ain't going toward this big angel
It's probably a 17-foot angel with a sword this donkey ain't having nothing to do with it
He's seeing supernaturally Balaam is getting angry and beating the crud out of the donkey with his staff and now the Lord
Opens the mouth of the donkey. He's not gonna speak through Balaam because Balaam has sold out for cash
He's gonna speak through the donkey and says what have I done that you struck me these three times?
Now Balaam doesn't think it's strange that the donkey's talking so I don't know if he'd heard the donkey talk before
I don't know if that was still a season when people could understand what the animals were saying
His Balaam doesn't question it
He just talks back to the donkey and says because you've ridiculed me and provoked me
I wish there was a sword in my hand. I would kill you
Now the donkey says to Balaam. Am I not your donkey upon?
which you've ridden all your life long until this day was I ever accustomed to
do so to you and he said no and now the Lord opens Balaam's eyes now Balaam gets
to see supernaturally and he sees the angel of the Lord standing in the way
with a sword drawn in his hand and he hits a nose-to-the-carpet kind of deal
he is on his face and the angel the Lord said to him why have you struck your
donkey these three times see I came to stand against you and resist you because
your behavior is willfully obstinate and it's contrary to me I'm trying to
protect you from yourself you didn't listen to God you're trying to go down
the wrong path I'm trying to help you and when the ass saw me he turned three
ways and if not I would have slain you and Balaam says to the angel of the Lord
I've sinned I didn't know you stood there and if my going displeases you I
will return the angel the Lord says to Balaam go with the men but you'll speak
only what I tell you so Balaam goes back to the princess and when Balaam
heard that Balaam had come he went out to meet him at the city of Moab on the
border formed by Arnon River at the furthest end of it and Balaam
says to Balaam did I not earnestly send you to ask you to come to me why did you
not come am I not able to promote you to honor back to bribing let's get to
his weak spot Balaam says to Balaam indeed I've come to you but do I now
have any power at all to say anything the word that God's put in my mouth that
shall I speak well the story goes on and on and he turns and he tries to do it he
tries to curse him and instead God turns it around and blessing my point is even
understood the power of blessings and curses in Deuteronomy chapter 11 it says
this Deuteronomy 11 8 it says keep the commandments I've commanded you that you
can be strong that you can go in and possess the land there's a promised land
I speak that for you to the day as you're listening to this call there's a
promised land that God has for you it's a land of joy and abundance and bliss
and prosperity and health there is a promised land that you can live long
health is part of this equation it's a land flowing with milk and honey you can
go in there and enjoy it and it goes on to describe all the beauty of the land
and the rain for the season and the latter rain you can gather your grain
your wine your oil the grass the fields the cattle and just take heed for
yourself lest your mind or your heart be deceived look there's a promised land
waiting for you as long as you can keep your mind and your heart and your words
in the right place not turn aside and serve other gods and worship them are
you serving the God of fear are you serving the God of lack are you serving
the God of deception because if that's the case it says in verse 17 the heavens
are going to get shut up and there won't be any rain you're going to try to figure
out why you have no finances the land won't yield its fruit and you're going
to perish early verse 18 therefore lay up my words in your mind and your heart
and your entire being in fact if you need to put a sign on your forehead man
put bands between your eyes and above all 19 teach this to your children you
know what speak there's your words speak understand the power of words speak to
your kids when they sit down speak to your kids when you walk along the road
speak to your kids when you lay down at night speak to your kids when you rise
up write it on your doorposts of your house write it on your gates these words
are so powerful I want you to be doing up down morning in out all over your
home write them on the doorposts write them on your gates so that verse 21 the
days and the days of your children can be multiplied in the land there's a
promised land waiting for you if you'll just love God walk in his ways cleave to
him he'll drive out the nations he'll dispose those things that are coming
against you verse 24 every place you put the soul of your foot it'll be yours
take dominion I've taught you the power of the word I've taught you the power of
blessing and curses take authority so that nothing will be able to stand there
will be no fear there will be no dread verse 26 behold I set before you this
day
Blessings and curses. Blessings and curses. You know, James 3, to wrap up this
conversation in the New Testament, in James chapter 3, James chapter 3
beginning with 3, it says, you know, we can put a bit in horses mouths to make us
obey them. We can turn their whole body about. You know, I love horseback riding.
I'm a horse girl, okay? I'm a horse woman and there's nothing I love better than
getting up on the back of a horse. I ride English and I get myself up in that
English saddle. I put my feet in the stirrups. Oh, I'm imagining right now I
squeeze my knees against the horse and I take the reins. In English you put one
rein in each hand and in English all the control is in your little pinky. Think
about this. Any of you English riders on this call? And so you've
got these reins in your hand and you've got the rein kind of you're holding your
your thumbs kind of out. You've got like you make a fist and you've got the the
top of your fist facing upward, if I can describe it to you. So your second finger
is like at the top and so you've got the reins in your hands and now the rein
goes through all your fingers and at the bottom is your little pinky and you are
going to control this couple thousand pound horse by simply squeezing your
leg and and using this pinky. I can I can feel it now. I take my right pinky
and I can just kind of pull it back and I can turn this entire 2,000 pound horse
make it turn around. Now if the horse is real obstinate with this bit in his
mouth I can I can take my arm and and and pull my hand all the way to my knee
and double this horse's neck around and make him turn in circles until he
listens right. It says we set bits in the horse's mouth to make them obey and
we can turn their whole body around and then he takes another metaphor and he
goes over to the ship he says okay those of you that are not horseback riders in
our family we had horseback riders and we had boaters okay my son likes to my
daughter's horseback ride and jump and control those animals my son you know
likes to ski and do all of that so we had both we had the horses we had the
boats and he says look at the ships it can be a huge ship driven by rough
winds but it's steered by a very small rudder. I can just make a slight shift on
that rudder and I can turn the whole boat around. Well he's gearing up to talk
to you about your body about your life about what you manifest and in verse 5
he says even so the tongue just kind of look at your tongue right now maybe even
grab your tongue it's a little member in your body it's not as big as your
thighs or your your hamstrings it's not as big as your hand it's not as big as
your feet it's a little member in your body ooh but it can boast of great things
see how much he changes the metaphor again see how much wood or how great a
forest a tiny spark can set ablaze now he's gonna make your tongue like
starting a forest fire he says in verse 6 the tongue is a fire the tongue is a
world of wickedness set among our members contaminating and depraving the
whole body can I tell you that you can speak with your tongue and you can bring
dis-ease on your body just keep speaking sickness with your tongue just keep
saying I'm sick and tired and see how long it takes before you're exhausted
and dis-ease sets in just keep speaking low-frequency words it says it can
deprave the whole body being ignited by the very fire of hell you want to
experience hell on earth do it with your tongue verse 7 every kind of beast and
bird and reptile sea animal can be tamed it's been tamed by human human genius
but the human tongue ooh it's tough it's restless it's undisciplined it's
evil it's full of deadly poison with it we bless our God and with it we curse
the men who are made in God's image he's like pause push the pause button hold it
hold it hold it hold it how are you taking a tongue and saying I bless you
God I bless you father I love God and that same tongue that's blessing God is
tearing down your neighbor who's made in God's image who's created by God in the
image of God he's like we got problems in River City how out of the same mouth
can come forth blessing and cursing
These things, my brethren, ought not be so. For homework, go to Luke 7 and see how
with just a word Jesus could heal someone at a great distance. Go to Matthew 22 and
see how with just a word he could curse an entire fig tree never to grow, never to produce
fruit again. Go to Mark 4 and see how with just a word he could stop a storm that was
sinking the boat. Go to Psalms 15 when David says, Who can dwell in the house of God? And
the answer is, the one who speaks and thinks truth in his heart. Concluding this part about
be impeccable with the word. Be impeccable with your word. Speak and think the truth
in your heart. Make sure the words you're speaking are true. Make sure the words you're
speaking are high frequency and give life and health. Make sure the words you're speaking
are producing the fruit that you want to eat, that you desire to eat. Make sure 1 Corinthians
13, that even though you can speak with tongues and you're eloquent, you might have the tongues
of angels. Make sure those words are love based and not fear based. Inspired by God's
love in us or for us. Otherwise, you're just going to be a noisy gong and a clanging cymbal.
Make sure your words are producing life. And as I conclude this call, it's 9 o'clock now,
901, I'm just going to conclude with a blessing and say, all of you listening, I bless you.
I bless you. God bless you. God bless you. God bless you. God bless you. God bless you.
I bless you. I bless you that everywhere you set your foot to and everything that you put
your hand to prospers. I bless you with love to be able to love those that God brings in
your path. I bless you with healing, be able to heal your own body and heal the people
that come into your life. I bless you with the resources to carry out the work that God's
carried you to do. I bless you with a knowing of who you are and whose you are and the purpose
you're on the planet. I bless you with wisdom that you'll seek wisdom like fine jewels above
all else. I bless you with love, abundant love, God's love in you and through you that
attracts others' love and gives love to others. I bless you with a life that is the kingdom
of God on earth. I bless you to be a world changer. I bless you to touch the world where
it's hurting. I bless you to provide where there's need. I bless you with grace that
you can edify the listener to your words. I bless you that everything you set your foot
in your hand to prospers. I bless you in Jesus' name. Amen.