Keys to Living the Right Life | Jentezen Franklin

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I’m gonna teach you today a message on

keys to living the right life because

you can live your life and live it wrong

or you can live it right and one of the

keys is found in Psalms 34 to a happy

life one of the keys to a happy life is

found right here I will bless the Lord

at all times his praise shall

continually be in my mouth my soul shall

make its boast in the Lord the humble

will hear of it and be glad ole magnify

the Lord with me let us exalt his name

together listen to this it’s a powerful

verse for I sought the Lord and he heard

me and delivered me from all my fear and

you began to magnify God when you begin

to praise God he said that was the key

to my deliverance he delivered me I love

what he said he delivered me from from

all my fear and so many people are bound

by fear and everybody just looking at me

just a moment

I’m preaching today to you just somebody

out here I’m preaching to you how to

live the right life it starts with

number one if you take your notes just

take some notes you got to have the

right atmosphere what do you mean the

right atmosphere in your life you create

the atmosphere in the right atmosphere

in a word is praised have you ever

noticed that emotions create atmospheres

if somebody’s sad you walk into the room

and you feel that sadness if somebody is

fearful if somebody for example is angry

if they’re upset about something without

a word being said they pretty

from their spirit into the atmosphere of

a room a negative feeling just from the

anger that they possess if somebody is

is is afraid that creates an atmosphere

and the way that you get God’s favor on

your life and you draw God’s blessings

into your life is God as a God who

responds to atmosphere and what

atmosphere is it that he responds to one

of Thanksgiving one of gratitude one a

praise the right atmosphere is praise

there’s an amazing story in the Old

Testament King Saul would be diagnosed

as a manic-depressive he had fits in

times when darkness and depression would

come on him and he would go out of his

mind and the Bible said when the evil

spirits of depression troubled him and

he went into the dark place of his life

that he did something strange

he called for David and he said tell

that boy to bring his harp and begin to

play and fill this palace with praise

and as David would play his music while

that King was sitting on his throne in

depression in darkness in in in in the

in the sorrow of life and hopelessness

as David would play your Bible said the

evil spirits departed from Saul and he

would come back to a place of a peace

again in his life and all David did was

fill the room with praise and it changed

the atmosphere of the palace that story

is in your Bible it says that we can

change the atmosphere even when things

aren’t changing yet that you’re praying

about in hoping for and believing for

but you can control the atmosphere of

your life through praise when you

understand that you have to ask the

question what is the atmosphere of your

life what kind of people do you have

around you that’s what creates the

atmosphere of your life are they

negative or are they positive are they

faith-filled or are they fear filled

because the people around you create the

atmosphere of your life not only that

what kind of music do you listen to what

kind of things do you feel your mind

with it creates the atmosphere and God

is either drawn to the atmosphere or he

withdrawals from certain atmospheres and

he’s looking for an atmosphere of

gratitude a praise of thankfulness then

I want you to see something else you’ve

got to have the right energy source if

you’re fighting the flesh issues that

you’re dealing with with the flesh you

just find it against yourself when

you’ve got problems and you’ve got

challenges and you’ve got addictions and

you’re trying to fight the flesh with

the flesh you’re gonna lose because the

flesh is the flesh we don’t we don’t

fight in the flesh we have to have a

supernatural energy source and the

supernatural energy source of the

believer is the power of the Holy Spirit

that’s why the Bible talks about praying

in an unknown tongue when you pray in

the spirit when you pray in the language

that God gives and before you get

dismiss me and before you say I don’t

believe in that stuff that you don’t

believe in part of the Bible because the

Bible said when we speak in first

Corinthians 14 when we speak in an

unknown tongue we speak not unto men but

unto God we bypass the natural mind we

bypass your opinion anybody else’s

opinion and when you pray in the spirit

you go to God the Apostle Paul said I

thank God I speak in tongues more than

you all yet when I do it I don’t get up

in an audience and I don’t confuse

people but in my prayer life the Apostle

Paul said I pray in the spirit I pray in

an unknown tongue he said don’t forbid

speaking in tongues he said that in

first Corinthians 14 but religion will

say you can’t have that oh it was in the

upper room

it happened in Acts chapter 2 it

happened in Acts chapter 19

it happened in Acts chapter 10 it’s

talked about in 1st Corinthians 14 but

you can’t have that

now but that’s religion I’d rather

believe what God says and when you pray

in the Holy Spirit when you pray in that

unknown tongue listen to me it’s the

believers energy source

suddenly the Bible put it like this in

Isaiah with stammering lips and an

unknown tongue will I speak to my people

listen to this and he said it’ll be a

refreshing it’ll be a refreshing it’s an

energy source it’s where you get your

strength from I want you to understand

that the Holy Spirit not only is a

person but he has a mind to think and he

has a mouth to speak and Romans 8 said

when you don’t know how to pray the

Spirit Himself wants to pray through you

and he wants to pray the perfect will of

God if you pray in the perfect will of

God we know he hears us how do you do

that you get baptized in the Holy Spirit

you get filled with the Holy Spirit

America needs to be filled with the Holy

Spirit it makes you love everybody

it wouldn’t be any race issues if we’ll

get full of the Holy Spirit

we’ll love one another we’ll be for one

another we’ll encourage one another

there’s too much hate there’s too much

flesh we need the power of the Holy

Spirit back in our lives again he’s our

energy source do you know how we

defeated the Japanese after the bombing

of Pearl Harbor and the sin during World

War two you know what we did

they were intercepting they had Japanese

interpreters who could intercept the

messages that were being sent from from

from two soldiers from platoon to

platoon they could they could hear that

our plans and they kept defeating us on

the battlefield until we went to the

Navajo Nation and we got some Navajo

Indians who had a language that had only

been spoken and taught handed down from

generations on the reservations and we

gave them a walkie-talkie they were

called code talkers or some called them

wind talkers and and they would talk in

Navajo and though and those those spies

would be listening in and they could

understand English but

they start giving the orders in the

language that was only unique to those

few they only had I think it was 17 of

them in the whole nation in the whole

army but they had all the orders going

in that language that the Japanese could

not understand what I’m trying to say to

you is we don’t have to play fair with

the devil we can go straight to the

throne room don’t some of you are new to

this church and I’m blowing your mind

but we are not ashamed of the power of

the Holy Spirit it’ll change your life

it’ll make a weak man strong it’ll make

a person who’s bound and addicted free

it’ll cause you to love God with passion

and with fire and you don’t have to just

grow cold after you get saved be filled

with the spirit pray in the spirit and

you’ll have your energy source turn to

somebody and say the Holy Ghost is my

right source of energy

I’m trying to stay calm this morning but

I’m preaching the truth you growing

colder and colder and sitting there

looking at me I don’t believe it that’s

why you’re growing colder and colder and

some of you who claim to have it how

long has it been since you prayed I’m

telling you today that as a pastor and

as a preacher I pray in the spirit every

day of my life it’s my secret source

it’s the source of energy and power for

the believer the right atmosphere is

praise the right energy force for the

believer is praying in the spirit going

back and reconnecting to the power of

the Holy Spirit then you got to have the

right information the right information

you can’t listen to garbage and see a

Rose Garden what you take in determines

what you see if you get bad information

frightening information you’ll see a

world of fear and hopelessness and it’s

all connected to what you’re taking in

constantly

even while I’m preaching what are you

taking in are you taking in the

distractions are you taking in the truth

of God’s Word

Jeremiah 15 and verse 16 said your words

were found and I did eat them I took

them in it’s not enough to hear it some

of you hear it out here but it never

gets in you but when you hear it and you

take it in you start getting the right

information what does the Lord say about

your situation is what matters what does

the Lord say about your family what does

the Lord say about your future what does

the Lord say about your freedom it

doesn’t matter what your circumstances

are people’s opinion has to say it’s a

remarkable story in the Old Testament

the book of Joshua the sixth chapter and

seventh chapter about a man by the name

of Gideon the Midianites took over the

Israel the nation of Israel and Gideon

was hiding in a cave and God sent an

angel and the angel told him and said

you are a mighty man of Valor he didn’t

feel like a mighty man of Valor he felt

like a wimp but God said you’re not a

wimp you’re a winner

God said you’re not a weakling you’re my

you’re my man you’re the man of Valor

what was God doing God was putting the

right information in him God wanted him

to be aware of more than his fear and

his overwhelming circumstances and he

wanted him to get a new picture of

seeing himself in victory God doesn’t

call you like you are he calls you like

you’re going to be that’s why when you

start taking this in it many times will

speak the opposite of what you’re

experiencing but God is beginning to get

you to understand that that it’s not

about what you are it’s what you shall

be he doesn’t announce just where you

are today but he simply declares where

you’re going to be tomorrow through his

strength instantly Gideon began to

manifest his inferiority when God said

you’re my called man you’re the one I’m

going to use he began to talk about you

pick the wrong person I came from the

smallest tribe I’m poor I don’t have

this I don’t he raised all these issues

to God and God said my way of giving you

victory is to get a new picture in your

mind go down to the

nice camp and listen to how the enemy

sees you and get a picture in your mind

of how your enemy sees you and how I see

you and let it change how you see you

the spirits way to victories is to give

you a picture of yourself not as you see

yourself but as God sees you God does

not see you defeated God does not see

you bound God does not see you poor and

broke and walked on and kicked by life

God sees you as an overcomer God sees

you as the head and not the tail God

sees you as blessed and highly favored

and he’s got to get that picture in you

and you got to get the right information

in you that’s why it’s so important that

you’re listening to me right now because

while I preach God will show you flashes

of your future get the right information

change the information that you’re

taking in fourthly you’ve got to get in

the right location you got to have the

right atmosphere the right energy source

the right information and you got to get

the right location first Kings 17 they

were in a famine in Israel they didn’t

know what they were going to do and God

told the Prophet to go to the little

river and he said I’ll cause the birds

to feed you but then the brook dried up

and God said go to the widow woman go

there I’ve commanded her there to feed

you the blessing was connected to a

location when God tells you to go there

and you stay here the blessing moves on

and you’re on your own

God will dry up the brook to bring you

back to your source and many times we

trust in systems instead of trusting in

God but God is our source and you got to

keep moving when God says move when he

says change locations and and I’m not

just talking about geographically I’m

talking about spiritually God is saying

to many people under the sound of my

voice at all of our campuses it’s time

for you to move to a new place that’s

why he’s put you in Archer

is because he’s saying you know there’s

an interesting story when he lied she

wanted a double portion how many of

you’d like to have a double portion of

God’s blessing on your life you know

what the Prophet told him he said if

you’re with me

in the right place when I’m taken up

it’ll come on you and then he’ll I

should did something interesting he

broke the plow the plow represented his

security the plow represented the system

that it fed his family the plow

represented every success he was a

farmer in a farming agricultural society

and the plow was everything to him but

he broke the plow and God said if you

want a double portion it begins with

breaking the old pile I don’t want you

leaning on what I used to do and what I

used to use and how I’ve always done it

in your life I need you to break the

plow sometimes denominations and the way

that we were raised can be the old plow

that we need to break that we say that

was good for then I honor what that did

in my life but I’m not stopping here and

living at the old plow the rest of my

life maybe God has you at a church like

this to take you where you’ve never been

before in the Holy Spirit why don’t you

make up your mind to break the old plow

somebody praise God if you’re tired of

living in yesterday’s blessings and

yesterday’s experience and way back then

when God really touched you break the

pile and say I’m ready for a new

location can I give you two more you got

to have the right people you gotta have

the right people people who are right in

your life or people who’ll be honest

with you they don’t just tell you what

you want to hear they tell you once

you’re supposed to hear what you need to

hear faithful are the wounds of a friend

how many of you got a good friend

faithful are the wounds of a friend

that means they they confront you get

the right people in your life everybody

who comes into your life brings a spirit

and sometimes we we want people that we

really can relate to

but the problem with that is if you’ve

got certain spirits or weaknesses that

that that you’re prone to you’re those

those people are drawn to you because

birds of a feather flock together and

once and it may feel good at first but

what you realize is eventually you just

multiplied your problems by two but when

you really want God’s blessing if you’re

struggling in an area you don’t need to

be around somebody who’s struggling with

the same thing you need to get around

somebody who’s strong in that area that

you’re weakened you need to get around

somebody who knows how to go where you

are trying to get and some of you don’t

have God’s favor and don’t have God’s

blessing because you’re around the wrong

people you don’t want to get around the

right people but if you’ll get around

the right people God’s presence will be

drawn into your life you got to have the

right people you got to have the right

focus the Bible said that when job was

going through his trial the battle

turned in joke 42 and 10 listen to what

happened when he prayed for his friends

the focus came off of his needs and his

sorrow and his bad days and his pain and

his hurt and he focused on others and

the moment he focused on others God

turned his battle and blessed him in the

trial in because you got to have the

right focus the widow woman when she was

gathering her last bit of bills to cook

for her and her son and they were gonna

eat it in down and he alone comes a man

of God and and so you got a woman with a

seed and a man of God with a need and

she has to make a decision do we eat it

and die or do we look at others and take

care of others even though we have needs

in our own life and the moment she got

the right focus and she put it in the

hands of the Prophet always remember

this what you keep in your hand strings

what you put in God’s hand multiplies

and the moment that she made a decision

that I am NOT going to just as as

precious as her child was she’s decided

we are not

going to be self focused people and that

just care about us but we’re going to

care about others the moment she got the

right focus the Bible said that the meal

didn’t run out for three and a half

years God multiplied it and multiplied

it and multiplied it because she got the

right focus

lastly last point you got to have the

right timing the right timing scripture

declared in Proverbs that for every

purpose there is a season it’s an

amazing verse that says for every

purpose in life there is a season for

every purpose it means you can’t just

have purpose purpose is connected to

timing and we quit I told you last

Sunday everything you are believing for

is on the other side of not giving up

most of the time because purpose is

established but the timing we give up on

but the timing of the purpose are they

have to be connected right time is

important God’s promises always have a

time frame on them we need to know what

time it is on God’s clock we need to get

our clock in sync with God’s clock and

some of your saying it’s time Lord it’s

time Lord why hasn’t it happened yet and

God says get in sync with my clock we

have to get a fresh revelation of what

David said my times are in your hands

the right timing is now the right timing

to serve the Lord is now the right

timing to give your heart to the Lord is

now there are so many things that God

wants to do in your life right now

and I tell you what I feel in my heart

this morning that our praise can change

the atmosphere of this room that the

favor of God can so come upon our lives

that it will astound us that the

blessing of the Lord will begin to

overtake us and God would use us in ways

that we can’t even imagine when we get

all of these areas right in our life

then suddenly when they come in a line

that the favor and the blessings of God

begin to overtake us like a wave hitting

you in the ocean from the back and you

didn’t see it coming and it just

overtakes you and some of you have in

your time caught when you’re gonna get

right with God when you’re gonna

surrender to God when you’re gonna be

filled with the spirit when you’re gonna

go after God with all of your heart but

the Lord says I want you to synchronize

your clock with my time and my time is

this morning my time is today

my time is to say to somebody you don’t

have as much time as you think you have

you need to get in sync with God’s

caught for your life the clock is

ticking on your destiny running around

wrong people wrong location wrong energy

source wrong atmospheres attracting

wrong people attracting wrong steps in

your life making wrong decisions I’ve

given you the floorplan of how to get

your life right this morning you don’t

have time to play games anymore you

don’t have time it’s more than you this

is state but there’s people that only

you can influence this is the day this

is the hour this is the moment man I

feel the Lord right here every once in a

while he hits me I’m not playing games

up here somebody somebody

needs to get right this morning with

Jesus I believe today that God is ready

to touch you and encourage you and help

you maybe you’re going through darkness

and feels like that life is turned into

some kind of nightmare scenario that you

never saw yourself being in this place

that you’re in I’m telling you that God

works in the darkness that God speaks in

the darkness God does some of his

greatest miracles in the darkest seasons

of your life if you need to help today I

want to pray for you father I pray for

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are going through heartbreak and whose

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they need miracles today you care you

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power of hell off of your life I plead

the blood of Jesus over you and over

your house and over your family over

your children and Lord most importantly

as people call on you I pray you would

save them and forgive them and change

them transform them by your love and

grace

in Jesus name Amen and we talk from the

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