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today i am excited to share the word of
god with you so let’s get started
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what are you waiting for in your life
are you waiting for more trouble
or are you
really waiting for good news i love good
news i tell god all the time send me
some good news i love good news
my staff knows i love good news so when
they hear anything good they’ll call me
i’ve got some good
news are you waiting for a miracle from
god
are you waiting for god to surprise you
with something amazing
or are you just kind of hanging up out
waiting to see what’s going to happen i
don’t know we’ll
see i want you to listen to this
scripture this is the amplified version
of isaiah 30 18.
and therefore the lord earnestly waits
to be good to you
now that i’m kind of ad-libbing this
because it’s pretty long so i want you
to see this the lord is waiting
to be good to you
wow
we should say here i am
says he’s expecting looking and longing
to be good to you
god is good and he wants to be good to
somebody
therefore he lifts himself up that he
might have mercy on you
and show loving kindness to you
for the lord is a god of justice
that’s part of his character and that
means that he makes wrong things right
wow
we should clap for that
god makes wrong things right
so even when people mistreat you if you
put your trust in god
god will be your vindicator
he will make the wrong situation right
blessed happy fortunate and to be envied
are all those who wait
for him
now listen who expect look and long for
him for his favor his love his peace his
joy and his matchless unbroken
companionship so
what this scripture is saying and i love
it is god is waiting to be good to
somebody but he has to find somebody
who’s waiting for him to be good to them
well if i were you i would say god you
don’t have to look any further here i am
but don’t let this just be something
that you get excited about it today and
do today let this become part of your
everyday life
think and believe and expect
and declare out of your mouth that good
things
are going to happen to you and i always
say to god not because i’m good
but because you’re good
what about self-talk how do you talk to
yourself what kind of thoughts do you
have about yourself you know if you
think all kinds of negative downgrading
things about yourself you’re not going
to have joy
what about your imagination what goes on
in your imagination do you imagine all
kinds of bad things happening
our old nature produces evil
imaginations but we can daily put on a
new nature the bible says
ephesians 4 23 i think it is it says
daily
put on a new renewed thinking and
renewed
attitudes
the bible says we can cast down wrong
imaginations if you catch yourself
sometimes our mind will just drift off
into wherever
sometimes i this doesn’t happen very
often but i’ll catch myself
just thinking about some of the things
my dad did to me when i was a little
girl
well you know what i stop that
immediately
and i say no
that’s in my past that’s gone that’s
forgotten that’s forgiven
good things are going to happen to me
you do not have to just think whatever
falls in your head you can choose your
thinking and when you catch yourself
thinking wrong things
you can stop it
and think on something good
second corinthians 10 4 and 5 the
weapons of our warfare are not carnal
but mighty through god to the pulling
down of strongholds casting down
imaginations
and every high thing that exalts exalts
itself against the knowledge of god
and bring into captivity every thought
unto the obedience of jesus christ
oh my goodness this is so good
thinking good things
don’t think bad things about other
people
romans 12 says don’t think more highly
of yourself than you ought to
but see yourself through the grace of
god
you know maybe you’re very talented or
you’re extremely smart or
you know very creative
you know people that don’t have those
gifts well don’t don’t think you’re
better than them because you have those
gifts and they don’t you have those
gifts because god gave them to you
and if anything it should humble you not
make you feel better than somebody else
every time we put somebody else down
we’re really thinking more highly of
ourselves than we ought to
let’s talk about the mouth for a few
minutes here before we
run out of time i know you wouldn’t want
me to forget that
proverbs 18 20 and 21
a man’s moral self shall be filled with
the fruit of his mouth
you eat your words
and with the consequences of his words
he must be satisfied whether good or
evil so words have consequences
and he said whatever you speak
you’re going to be full of
and you’re going to have to be satisfied
with the result you get from the words
that you speak
and boy we just talk talk talk talk talk
talk talk talk talk
and a lot of times we don’t realize that
every word we say we’re selling a seed
that’s going to bring some kind of
harvest
in our life
death and life are in the power of the
tongue
wow
you can minister death or life to others
but you can also
minister death or life to yourself
so if you think right and talk right
it’s going to increase your joy
but let’s just say that you talk about
you excessively talk about everything
that’s going on in the world
you talk about everything you don’t like
about your job and everything you don’t
like about your boss and all the people
you don’t like that you work with and
your neighbors you don’t like and
everything that’s wrong well you’re not
you’re not going to be joyful
and don’t be saying i lost my joy you
didn’t lose it you gave it away
talk about good things
think about good things
if you hear anything good about anybody
talk about that
everybody you know no matter how they
might irritate you they have good things
in their life that you can talk about
as far as i’m concerned that’s a wow
scripture the power of life and death is
in the tongue and they who indulge it
will eat the fruit of it rather for life
or death
and i love first peter 3 10
let him who wants to enjoy life and see
good
whether a parent or not
keep his tongue free from evil and his
lips from
guile
if you want to enjoy your life you got
to keep your tongue free
from evil
proverbs 21 9 says it’s better to dwell
in the corner of a house top on a flat
oriental roof exposed to all kinds of
bad weather than in a house shared with
a nagging quarrelsome and fault-finding
woman i don’t understand why they always
blame it on the woman
but i can tell you
it would be miserable to live in a house
with a woman like that and i used to be
a woman like that but it would also be
miserable to live in the house with a
man like that or even if you have kids
like that
bring joy into your home
don’t just fill it full of every
negative thing that you can find to fill
it full of
be joyful
and then the favorite james 3.
we all stumble in many ways but anyone
who is never at fault and what they say
is perfect
they keep their whole body in check so
he’s saying if you can control your
mouth you control your whole body
and then he gives some really good
examples if we put a bit in the mouth of
a horse which is just a little piece of
metal
we can make them obey us and turn the
whole animal
in any direction we want to go in
or take a ship
they’re large and driven by strong winds
and yet they’re steered by a very small
rudder that determines what direction
they go in
likewise the tongue is a small part of
the body
but it makes a great boast consider what
a great forest is set on fire by a small
spark
in other words boy just one word can
cause so much trouble
but you know what
one word can also bring so much joy
i want you to enjoy your life god wants
you to enjoy your life and i believe you
want to enjoy your life
and i think there’s some people watching
today that you really really really
really really needed
to hear this
in the world there will be tribulation
jesus said cheer up
i have overcome the world
you may be going through a really rough
time right now
but i can tell you that being sad is
only going to make it worse it’s not
going to make it better
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today
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