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well god bless you family we thank god
for worship we thank god for this
movement and we thank god for this
moment
what is this moment it’s time for the
word i’m so
so thrilled about what god is is doing
and one of the things that i love about
god is that god is always
making us better
a life with god is is a lie it’s a
journey where we get to become
better we we get to become who he has
created us to be and who we have been
created to be is absolutely incredible
and we’re going to talk about it as we
get into this word even further
we’re talking about conversations on on
new year’s eve and into new year’s
weekend we we started a series called
the higher conversation series and my
heart was
i just don’t know
if we are having the right conversation
sometimes and so i just believe that god
wants to elevate our conversations and
and if you weren’t here
or if you didn’t experience the new
year’s eve service or that weekend
service higher conversations i encourage
you go the podcast go to youtube if you
missed last week we talked about
conversations with god i encourage you
again to go to the podcast go to youtube
get these messages in your spirit
because i believe that as our
conversation improves
as we get better at at communing and
conversing with god as we as we elevate
our conversation our life very much is
going to be elevated you you you would
be shocked to know
how interlinked your conversation your
conversation with god your conversation
with self which is where we’re going
today and your conversations with others
you’d be shocked to know how linked
those things are how that is
as a direct is it directly related to
the quality of your life i just believe
it with all my heart and so we’re going
to pray we’re going to go further into
this message there’s a passage of
scripture
that i want us to look at uh it’s not
unfamiliar but as i was studying uh and
really seeking a word
some text that would bring context to
what we’re talking about this one jumped
out at me
and i’ve talked i’ve preached this this
passage several times before but there
was something in it that really blessed
me and i think is going to to help us
to better understand what it means to
have a conversation with ourselves so
let’s get right into it that’s in first
corinthians chapter 2 uh beginning at
the ninth verse and we’ll read through
verse 16
and it says but as it is written eye has
not seen
nor ear heard
nor have entered to the heart of man the
things which god has prepared for those
who love him
but god has revealed them to us through
his spirit
for the spirit searches all things yes
the deep
things of god
and then it says something and this is
really insightful in verse 11 it says
for what man knows the things of a man
except the spirit of the man which is in
him that’s powerful for what man knows
the things of a man in fact if you study
that in the greek the things the the
words things of a were actually added to
try to help us to understand
what was what’s being implied but it
actually more literally reads for what
man knows the man
except the spirit of the man which is in
him and i’m going to talk about that
even so no one knows the things of god
except the spirit of god now we have
received not the spirit of the world but
the spirit who is from god that we may
know
the things that have been freely given
to us by god hallelujah that blesses me
these things we also speak
not in words which man’s wisdom teaches
but
with the holy spirit but that which the
holy spirit teaches comparing spiritual
things with spiritual
but the natural man does not receive the
things of the spirit of god for they are
foolishness to him
nor can he know them because they are
spiritually discerned
but he who is spiritual judges all
things yet he himself
is not rightly judged by no one
for
who has known the mind of the lord that
he may instruct him
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but we have
the mind of christ hallelujah let’s pray
let’s pray family
father thank you so much
for this opportunity to get into your
word to learn and to grow and
and to become hallelujah i thank you for
wisdom revelation insight knowledge god
access to the gifts and the fruit of the
spirit
to bless your people your sons and
daughters that are under my voice i
thank you that they won’t be the same
after this word goes forth for your word
is a transformation agent hallelujah
it
shapes us and shifts us and strengthens
us from the inside out there’s nothing
like it we don’t live by bread alone we
live by the words that come out of your
mouth your words shape us they shape our
mind they shape our heart
they shape our souls they shape our
lives and i thank you god that along
with this word
there will be a measure of faith
hallelujah faith to walk in this word
hallelujah that it won’t be something
that just goes in one ear not the other
but that it would take root and bear
fruit in the lives of the hears we thank
you holy spirit for a wonderful time in
your word in jesus
matchless and mighty name we pray
amen amen anybody receive that i just i
just i feel something this is happening
in this moment right now i feel like the
holy spirit’s stirring i feel like like
somebody’s about to get better i just i
just feel like there has been habits bad
habits and bad ways of of talking to
yourself and you’ve just been bullied by
you and i just feel like after this
message after this experience
you’re going to get some you’re going to
be up on top of something something was
up on top of you but you’re about to get
on top of something and i just believe
that things are getting ready to click
for you the light bulb is getting ready
to go on you’re going to start walking
in something different if that’s your
words that’s my word pt i am ready for a
new beginning i am ready for
breakthrough i am ready to become
everything that god has called me to
become i feel it is it’s here it’s here
and sometimes you just gotta prophesy
see even that pastor said those things
we speak and that’s what i’m doing
because there’s power in what you speak
in your conversation to yourself and i
want to begin to break down that wall of
doubt and break down that wall that
tells you you can’t i want to start
speaking to the enemy that is with enemy
are you tracking with me
i just want to be free today can i be
free
can i be free because we we’re going to
break a we we’re going to fix some
negative conversation we’re gonna fix
some unprofitable conversation and we’re
gonna talk about how to do it this is
not just gonna be a hype moment we’re
getting ready to get tools i feel that
thing just put it right there in the
feed or if you’re driving say it out
loud i’m getting ready to get tools come
on i’m getting ready to get me some
tools see sometimes the difference
between failure and success sometimes
the difference between defeat and
victory are tools
and that’s one of the things that i love
about god god gives us tools hallelujah
you know the scriptures say that the
weapons of our warfare he talks about
the weapons of our warfare he’s talking
about tools
god gives us tools he doesn’t put he
doesn’t allow us to go out into the
battle
and go out into the cray-cray of life
and go out into to the heavy oppression
that’s in the world without giving us
tools
god is wise enough and smart enough
to know how to prepare us i feel it i
feel it i feel it you’re more prepared
than you think when you got jesus you
got prepared i feel the spirit of god he
he he put tools out there
see let me just say this and we’re going
to get to the message let me just say
let me say this and say this before god
puts you in any environment he has
already placed in the environment graces
and tools to allow you to not just
survive it but to thrive in it
so you’re called to thrive i want you to
hear me clearly you’re not just called
to get through i know sometimes you feel
like you’re drowning i know sometimes it
feels like like the water you’re like
you’re in over your head the water is
coming over your head i know you feel
that but you’re not gonna drown you just
gotta grab a tool
are you tracking with me and so that’s
what we’re going to get today we’re
going to get some tools let’s get into
this word we’re talking about
conversations
with self
and last week
we talked about in detail
conversations with god
and if you weren’t here you need to get
it and i do think
that the most important conversation
that you need to recognize and and
improve the quality of
is your conversation with god your life
literally we talked about it last week
literally
is a conversation with god god is always
speaking and oftentimes he speaks
through circumstances but he’s always
speaking and we talked about last week
the seven
questions
that anyone who wants to improve the
quality of their conversation with god
must ask and and there were many of them
but one that stands out one worth
reiterating again
is the question shall i go up
it is the art of surrendering to god’s
directive for your life
and not being so uh anxious
eager or desperate that you move without
him particularly
in this season that we’re in
this is a way that we have never been
before this is an age and a stage an era
in life
in the history of the world none of us
have been here before i know there’s
nothing new under the sun i know history
repeats itself but at the end of the day
even if history repeats itself you
weren’t there when it happened
and the way that it’s going to happen
and so it is imperative and i’m just i’m
i’m highlighting this even though that’s
last week’s word i’m highlighting this
because i want to reiterate and
reinforce the the command for you to not
move
expeditiously
without the confirmation of the lord
even if it seems good just take a minute
and say god maybe this is one of the
other questions is this it or shall i
look for another
i really really really want you to do
that do this because there is a rhythm
and a pace to this year and you don’t
start off running
if you don’t know where you’re going
you pace it
you pace it out
you pray and you pace it
and when god brings clarity and he will
bring clarity and he will say this is
the way walk in it then
you can run
are you tracking with me so the most
important conversation
that any of us ought to to get good at
is our conversation with god and again i
talked about last week but the very next
best
best conversation that we ought to be
uh
ought to be improving at and growing in
our understanding of is our conversation
with self
our conversation
itself is everything and
many of you may not know
this or you may not think this because
it happens so naturally and so so so
much without effort
is that we are always pretty much in a
conversation with ourself
we might just call it thinking or
whatever and all that kind of stuff but
we are we are all we’re conversing with
right now you’re conversing with
yourself you’re processing what’s being
said you’re you’re some of you are
saying is that really for me
you know can i really all that kind of
stuff so so so you and i we converse
with ourselves and watch this this means
that
each of us
have a relationship with ourselves
did you know that did you know that you
have a relationship
with you
oh
well i’ma teach today
and the crazy thing is and the honest
thing is
is most people
don’t have a good relationship with
themselves
have you ever said something bad about
yourself
hit yourself on the forehead say what
were you thinking
come on about i know i tori then i start
calling myself turret sometimes i call
this my toray thomas roberts
because
because we’re in relationship with
ourselves and again like i said
sometimes we’re not in relationships
with ourselves in a good way in fact
watch this without some sort of
intervention
it usually isn’t the best relationship
with ourselves well this is why jesus
when you think about jesus when jesus
was asked what the great commandment was
what was the greatest commandment you
know the story he says oh it’s easy love
the lord your god with all your heart
mind soul and strength he says and then
love your neighbor as you love
self
so jesus ultimately was saying that you
know to the greatest commandment and
then i’ll talk about commandment what
that means but the greatest commandment
is to love god but then
the next one is to love yourself you say
wait a minute no i’m supposed to love my
neighbor no he said love your neighbor
as you love yourself
so so so how you love yourself
was actually meant to be the benchmark
of how you love other people
so jesus knew
that what we needed was to be in a
better relationship
with us
how
are you
and you doing
i know how you and your boo are doing i
know how you would but how how how are
you and you doing
what what’s what’s your
relationship like and see this is crazy
this is something we don’t really think
on these lines because cause doesn’t it
kind of almost seem weird to think that
maybe there’s more than one me
isn’t it kind of like a little a little
off or a little weird
to think you know having a relationship
with myself
isn’t it just one of me no it’s two
in fact if we take a look at verse 11 in
the text
and this is something that i’d never
really seen before bruno’s i’d never
seen this before but it kind of jumped
out at me
in verse 11. let’s look at it really
quickly
it says for
what man
this one man
knows
the things and like i mentioned before
things is not in there so let’s read it
the way it’s actually laid out in the
greek text
for what man
knows the man
for what man
knows the man
except
the spirit of the man
which is in the man
did you see it
so so watch this
what man
knows the man
except the spirit of the man which is in
the man which means that the spirit of
the man
that’s in the man is the one that is in
relationship with the man
did you catch what i just said
so so the spirit
the spirit of men all of us
we have us and then we have the spirit
of us
and it is the spirit of us that’s always
talking to us the spirit of us watch
this it says what man knows the spirit
of us is the one that perceives us
that that knows us that that thinks that
it knows us the one that is in
relationship with us so your spirit is
in relationship with you and our spirits
and this can work positively or
negatively
the spirit our spirit is subject to
influence
so the part of us that is in us that
shapes our perspective of us is subject
to the influence of things
environments upbringing
let’s take a spiritual the demonic
okay the the enemy
uh
our experiences how we process our
experiences watch this
influence the spirit in us which is the
one that relates to us and even projects
unto us
in a way
that affects us
self-talk you’ve heard you’ve heard
there have been studies on self-talk
and how critical the narrative of self
is
how critical self-doubt even in science
and psychology self-talk they they
recognize the power of self-talk
what you say to yourself
and what you say to yourself is vital
vital but you have to look at that what
i say what i say to me but what part of
me is the one saying it
and the text are we tracking together
are we trying because we’re going to
teach today you know i’m going to preach
we’re going to teach today just if
you’re tracking just put it right there
in the feed see i’m track i’m still
tracking pt i’m still tracking
so so we have to get in here and
understand how to
to differentiate
the voices
how to know what’s me
and what’s the spirit of me and the
beautiful thing about the spirit of me
is the spirit of me can change
are we tracking
and so
so your conversation with yourself i’m
going to talk about this more but your
conversation with yourself comes down to
your relationship with yourself
and
self-conversation or self-talk
is largely based upon self-perception
self-perception this is why when you
when you look at
god and and when god deals with us deals
with us he always goes right to identity
get in oh you mighty man of valor
you know he calls us you know i’m gonna
make jeremiah i’m gonna make you a
prophet to the nation right he’s dealing
with the reality that he knows that we
come standard issue
with less than ideal
self-narrative
because look at jeremiah jeremiah was
young when god goes to jeremiah and
jeremiah chapter one and he says
jeremiah before i formed you in your
mother’s womb i knew you ordained you i
set you apart to be a prophet in the
nations what does jeremiah do jeremiah
immediately says oh no no no i am a
child i cannot speak where where did he
get that from
but god in his love for us and his
desire for us to fulfill our potential
knows that one of the first things that
he has to do when he engages us is he
has to begin to deal with the identity
or the our perception of our identity
because as a man thinks so is he and as
a man thinks so that man speaks
and so our conversation has to do with
with our perception of self and i don’t
believe that the average person watch
this i don’t believe the average person
reflects upon
the value
of who they are enough
i i don’t think so
i think instead of reflecting upon
the mystery of who we are
we obsess over
our weaknesses and our shortcomings
when the reality of it is you know see
there’s a passage of scripture in psalm
chapter 8
and the psalmist says something and he
says what is man he says what is man
look at the question he says what is man
that you are mindful of him
and what is the son of man that you
visit him they believe that psalm eight
somewhere around verse four read your
whole
reach reach you’ll find it okay
what is man look at he’s asking a
question
what is man that you’re mindful of him
or the son of man that you visit him he
says and then he says and you made him a
little lower than
and most translations read
the angels
that’s inaccurate that word there is the
word elohim
and elohim is the same word used for god
or gods in the plural
and so so he’s saying
man who am i
what wait what is man that you that
you’re mindful that you that you’re
engaged
and so invested in me
and who am i that that you god almighty
who are
flawless
and you don’t have a to use
you don’t have a you and the spirit of
you you are perfectly whole and complete
who are you
to to to be mindful what does that say
about me and you made me just a little
lower than you
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that’s the posture
that the individual
should have
it is a posture
of curiosity
not condemnation
oh i feel the holy spirit
see see when you make a mistake
you should ponder not penalize
wait wait wait there is a solution in me
and so instead of me
dwelling on the negative
i’m saying what is man
who who am i i i i’m
an exquisite creation
and and i need to be
see i’m talking about self-perception
because your self-perception has to do
with your self-narrative and your
self-conversation
and the way that we should should see
self
and perceive self
is to be in awe of the watch this
untapped and undiscovered
reality of who i am
you ought to be curious about you
oh hallelujah who am i really
what am i gonna be
when this is all said and done
what am i gonna be
when i grow a little bit more
what what am i going to be when i get a
little bit more whole
what am i going to be
when i i’m i’m able to from level to
level evict every negative idea and
every every
self-deprecating a thought that comes in
my head who am i gonna be when i’m free
and so i’m excited
and so even when i make a mistake yeah
hey i repent i need to make a move but
but there’s something in me that’s going
to heal come on somebody that part of me
that made me do that if i don’t allow
condemnation to keep me down
anybody curious about who you are
my very first book was a book called
purpose awakening discover the epic idea
that motivated your birth and the
premise of that book and i think that
was one of my best book balance is
coming out and
balance is a game changer but but but
but
that first book man it was something the
premise was every life began as a
brilliant thought in god’s mind
and a thought so wonderful it was the
motivation
for your birth
i want you to get curious about you i
feel the spirit of god i don’t want you
to come down on you i want you to start
really getting god who am i like to talk
about last week god who am i for real
god there’s something in me
i i you know because some of us are
pleased with where we are but you’re
untapped land
you’re like australia you’re
you’re not even fully inhabited yet you
know what i mean i think australia like
40 of australia is not uh is
uninhabited or you know it’s not fully
you know developed and cultivated and
may have something to do with the
climate or whatever but still at the end
of the day there’s still more
or maybe a better analogy is to see
right we are so we’re land creatures and
we know the land we know mountains and
we know the deer and the goats and the
bot cats and all that kind of stuff we
know all those things but you know when
you get in the ocean there’s a whole
another world
and that’s how you are
there’s more to you
than you think
and since there’s more to you than you
think
watch this
if you let me put it this way if you
take notes this is a good this is a good
quotable it’s a good tweetable
if you see yourself as a mystery
you will arrive this will lead you to
self-mastery
i’ma say it again
seeing yourself as a mystery
will lead you to self-mastery
because there’s more
to you are we tracking together
i want to talk a little bit more about
what that looks like
yeah
when you find a problem you don’t
you don’t penalize yourself you you
start pondering there’s a passage in
ecclesiastes
what the writer says in the day of
prosperity rejoice
but then he says in the day of adversity
consider ponder
isn’t that something because you would
think that if if we’re talking about
opposites in a day of adversity rejoice
then you would think that well then if
in the good or in the day of prosperity
i’m sorry in a day of prosperity rejoice
and then the day of adversity you would
think beside but he doesn’t say be sad
he says ponder
he says search
he says seek
because i’ve got solutions
and there are solutions i feel the
spirit of god that there are solutions
in you
one of the things that i appreciate
about science is science is is
super optimistic
it really is sciences if i just keep
studying
if i just keep searching if i just keep
learning
i’m gonna find cures for things
are you tracking with me now sometimes
it can be overly optimistic but i would
rather you be overly optimistic
than pessimistic
are you tracking what i’m saying we got
to have that same thing if i keep if i
just keep pondering
if i just keep believing see i i’m i’m
pondering because i believe that there
is
more in me
than what i’m experiencing i feel this
are you catching what i’m saying i mean
like like like no i’m not gonna come
down on myself
i’m gonna dig into myself i’m gonna find
out what god knew about me before he put
me in my mother’s womb are you tracking
with me we have to develop in such a way
as it relates to our conversation with
ourselves that we start
talking ourselves into things and not
out of things
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god ever try to do something for you and
you talk yourself out of it
has life ever tried to present itself to
you and you say nah that not me oh
god i feel the spirit of god
there’s so many things that i believe
that i would have been able to realize
faster
if i would have talked myself into it
and not out of it
that’s what i want you to do and i
believe that as you develop in your
conversation with yourself
i believe with all of my heart you’re
going to start talking yourself into
things see there’s some of you under the
sound of my voice right now and you’d be
talking yourself out of stuff be i i
said that to english to you you beat
y’all like it just flows better you be
talking yourself
out of stuff
yeah yeah yeah that person that that
other that the spirit
that other person that’s in you that
you’re in relationship with you know you
get a little fired up and then here
comes that little voice
saying now you what about this
what about that
what about this what about that and the
next thing you know you’re not even
postured for it anymore
oh i feel the holy spirit you have to be
in position to receive what god has for
you
and what that voice and what that
negative self-talk will do is it will
move you out of position you you will
shrink
and sometimes the miracles sometimes the
blessing sometimes the open door is not
for the shrinker
sometimes it only responds to the person
that stands tall and believes in his or
herself you have no idea
how powerful it is to believe about
yourself what god believes about you
because until you believe who you are no
one else around you will and your belief
in self particularly if it is aligned
with who god knows you are will move
people around you i feel it belief is a
powerful thing the power of belief you
can get somebody to believe so much in
you because of you that they will open a
door and give you everything because
most people don’t know who they are and
the person who knows who they are will
stand out from the crowd people are
looking for something that is real
are you for real i feel the spirit of
god are you for real life this is a
question that life is going to ask you
over and over and over again are you the
real thing
i’m thinking about john the baptist when
he was in prison
and he asked when he heard about jesus
you know he sent word are you the real
thing or shall i look for another
life
purpose
destiny these things will always be
asking the question are you for real
because here is the thing god will not
bless a counterfeit
oh i feel the holy spirit
this is why
when jesus walked the earth he was so
discouraged by faith he wasn’t
discouraged by faith
he was i’m sorry he was encouraged by
faith discouraged by doubt he was not
discouraged by doubt because he was mad
at people
he just knew that they could not access
it
outside of faith
oh god i feel it you and i can’t even
access us
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without believing in us
you and i can’t even access levels of us
so that we can realize our potential
unless we believe
in who god says we are
what is man that you are mindful
who am i that you would send your son
who was perfect and sinless
to die for me
what value what do you see in me
i am not your pet project
i am not doing this god is not doing
this
because you know you’re his littlest uh
you know his little project
you’re not god’s project watch this
you’re god’s product
and you have to know that and you have
to say god what did you produce
when you produce me
i’m not your project
the lord said you got to say that god
i’m not your project and sometimes i
live my life as if i’m god’s project
that is little old me
and i need a widow all helping hand from
god
and god just wants to no no no no baby
i’m your product
you have shaped me with your bare hands
you made me you breathed your breath
into my nostrils and i came alive
you created me in your image
i am somebody
i am some thing i am an exquisite
miracle
yeah
i think it was coldplay
a miracle wrapped up in chemicals
i’m a miracle god i feel it
i want you to look in the mirror and say
i’m a miracle
i’m not ordinary
i’m not
some project some divine project
i am a divine product i am a partaker of
the divine nature and there is so much
to me
yet to be discovered i don’t need to be
trying to find a partner i need to be
trying to find me
first and foremost
cause i’m something
oh you’re tracking me
this is
what healthy
self-talk looks like
this is what healthy
conversation looks like
and it’s based on a healthy
perception
of and relationship with self but
but but but
if i am to be totally honest here
if it were that simple
most people
wouldn’t struggle
in the area of self-talk
if it were that simple
and that’s why in the text
the emphasis is placed
on the spirit of god
let’s go back to the text let’s go back
to the text
it says
but as it is written i has not seen nor
ear heard nor have entered into the
heart of man the things which god has
prepared for those who love him
and so it it it is not
naturally
discerned
see the truth of the matter is
seeing yourself
right
necessitates a revelation
eye is not seen
nor ear hurt neither has it into the
heart of man
that’s why
it is easy to be talked out of who you
are
because it doesn’t come natural
to know who you are
anymore that it is natural for a child
to be born
knowing its greatness unless an outer
influence upon the child affirms them in
it
are we tracking together
it says but but
but god has revealed them to us
through what
through his spirit
ah here we go his spirit remember it was
our spirit
that
is influenced
to
to
to talk to us or to converse with us to
relate to us to know us in such a way
that it can determine
how we see ourselves
but we’re talking here about god’s
spirit right so let’s let’s let’s check
this out but god has revealed them to us
through his spirit for the spirit
searches all things
yes the deep things of god then it goes
into what man for what you know the
analogy of for what man knows that
things
knows man what man knows the man except
the spirit of the man which is in him it
says even so no one knows
the
things of god
except the spirit of god now we have
received here we go now we have to
qualify this week
because not everyone has received the
spirit of god receiving the spirit of
god
is a gift
that is rewarded to you and i based on
our belief
in his son
belief in the son is not just some
religious little thing that happens and
oh my god you click your hears three
times and everything’s good no when you
believe in the lord you come into a
relationship with the lord because the
holy spirit the spirit of truth has
drawn you
to perceive jesus properly
then one of the initial rewards which
the scriptures say in ephesians is the
down payment
is the spirit
and so when he says for we have respec
receive he’s writing to the church of
corinth those of people who have already
received jesus that jesus not somebody
to come and help your life you realize
jesus is much more than that
he is the christ he is the bridge he is
the way right and so it says that that
we
now we in verse 12
it says now we have received not the
spirit of the world but this spirit
capital s the spirit who is from god
that we might know oh this is beautiful
that we might know the things
that have been freely given to us
by god that we might know i love that
word that word no
that’s translated there is in the
perfect tense it’s it’s it’s in the
perfect what’s called the perfect
present tense
and the perfect present tense
brings something brings a word in
present tense that is perfected and
that’s why if you i’ll explain in a
second that’s why when it says that we
might know the things that have been
freely given to us by god that we might
know in the present tense what we have
known
oh god that we might know in the present
tense what we already know in the spirit
and that’s why having a relationship
with the holy spirit is so powerful is
because in the moment when you need to
know you know because the spirit has
already known it
that’s why things are familiar in the
holy spirit sometimes you have a
familiar experience and how do i know
this truth
how do i how did i get this knowledge
about something
that i have no knowledge of it’s because
when you receive the spirit watch this
remember i said there is no distinction
between god and his spirit they are one
there is a distinction between us and
our spirit that’s why ultimately we have
to get to a place where we submit our
spirit
to god’s spirit
oh can i teach today
yeah i love that’s one thing that i love
about god i can walk in the truth
without ever having experienced that
truth
i can walk in a knowledge and in a
wisdom and an
information that i have never ever ever
been exposed to and let me just run this
alongside to the person that is always
disqualifying themselves not feeling
like they belong in the rooms that
sometimes the spirit and the anointing
opens the doors to allow you to walk
into let me tell you something if you
have got the holy ghost you are the
smartest person in the room now i’m not
saying that to make you proud i’m not
saying that that doesn’t mean you can’t
learn i’m not saying that they’re things
that you you shouldn’t be uh mentored
into but trust me you if the spirit
brings you in the room you have a right
to be in the room because the spirit is
the knowledge of god
are you hearing the words that are
coming out
of my mouth this is how the playing
fields
get leveled
sometimes god will put you in the room
and you’d be like why am i here
and guess
which you is saying why am i here
see you know it’s not the spirit because
the spirit doesn’t talk like that
the spirit doesn’t speak with a deficit
mentality
because the spirit is omniscient the
spirit is omnipotent the spirit is
omnipresent
the spirit knows
so anytime you hear the words
why what am i doing here i don’t belong
to being there no that’s your spirit
not the spirit
oh hallelujah see part of
growing in your conversation is
recognizing the voice recognizing when
this spirit is speaking versus when your
spirit is speaking
can i talk like this today sir bronies
it is distinguishing
between the two
if you have see see the holy spirit is
not insecure
the holy spirit is not fearful
the holy spirit is not jealous
the holy spirit is not empty the holy
spirit is full
the holy spirit watch this here’s one
the holy spirit
does not focus on self-preservation
see our spirit
because our spirit has a lack mentality
our spirit has a deficit mentality our
spirit
is ultimately insecure
you know what you when you’re trying to
self-preserve you’re trying to preserve
your job you’re trying to preserve your
position you’re trying to you know
you’re trying to you’re trying to
protect yourself
the holy spirit has no such concern
the holy spirit is god
the holy spirit is complete
the holy spirit lacks nothing
the holy spirit recognizes that in truth
there are no real threats because even
if the weapon is formed the holy spirit
knows it will not prosper
watch this the holy spirit is free
the holy spirit is i feel the spirit of
god
see when you are preoccupied with who
you’re not you can’t be free
when you are preoccupied with what you
don’t have you can’t be free
when you are preoccupied with the notion
of what might happen to you you are not
free
and you are
in fight or flight mode
which does not
utilize your frontal cortex
which is
where all your creativity comes from are
you tracking with me so so so the holy
spirit will unlock you
can i talk to you like this today the
holy spirit will unlock your genius
because it is not into self-preservation
it is not into fight or flight it is not
into
trying to survive
the holy spirit does not put you into
survival mode it puts you into
thrive mode
are you tracking with me
and so
as i mentioned
we get there
that will ultimately to the place that
ultimately brings us
to this place of
of of conversation in fact speaking of
conversations i i almost forgot about
verse thing it says now verse 13 now we
have received not the spirit of the
world but the spirit who is from god
that we might know the things that have
been freely given to us by god and then
look at what it says right after that it
says what these things we also speak
oh that’s good
speak to who
speak to our circumstances
speak to others but most importantly
we speak to ourselves
see your conversation with self
has to do with how well you and i submit
our spirit to the holy spirit
and the natural
byproduct and fruit the natural response
of this phenomenon
is how we talk
these things we speak
are you tracking
to circumstances
these things we speak to mountains
these things we speak to others to bless
and influence their lives
but most importantly these things we
speak
oh to ourselves can i go further
can i go a little deeper
is that okay just just if you if i can
go deeper just put in the feet right
there say you can go deeper you can go
deeper you can go deeper
we
we need the holy spirit
in order
to have
truthful
and healthy
conversations
with
ourselves what
is the holy spirit saying to us
in these uncertain times versus what our
own spirits are saying
even in this moment that we’re in right
now
oh god i feel holy spirit
even in the these moments that we’re in
right now these scary moments
these uncertain moments
these trying moments
who’s talking to you
who are you listening to
what what is the holy spirit saying to
you about the world
is it safe
am i safe
do i have a future
what is that future
am i going to be able to survive
will i be able to provide for myself
will i be able to take care of myself
see this is critical
especially now
because if you don’t
tap into the right self-talk
then you and i will be making fear-based
decisions
and not
faith-based
decisions oh god
the earth shook but god did not
all of man’s plans over the last couple
of years shook
but not the council of the lord
corona
whether it be delta
or fluorona
omarion omicron whoever ought none of
that
watch this shook prophecy
in fact
it aligns for prophecy
so i have to be careful in uncertain
times to make certain
that i’m not missing the most important
voice
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because his voice has not changed i feel
the holy spirit somebody needs to know
this god’s plan has not changed for your
life
he’s still good i hear him saying in
jeremiah 29 11 for i know for i know
look at what god is saying he doesn’t
even say he has plans for you he says
for i know
the plans that i have for you
i know yada in the hebrew i am
intimately connected to watch this i am
in relationship with my plans for you
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oh god i feel it for i know the plans
that i have for you they are good and
not evil plans to prosper you and not to
harm you oh my god if you recognize the
context of him communicating that it’s
when the children of israel were getting
ready to go into babylonian captivity
for 70 years
that word came in a tough time
and maybe that word is coming to you
right now in a tough time but why did
god give him that word in a tough time
it’s because he wanted them to focus on
the divine narrative
when they were in conversations with
themselves
are we tracking
and so what is the holy spirit saying
and how do i get to his voice
the beautiful thing is like i said we
can subject our spirits
to the spirit of god
through watch this through spiritual
and discipline
through spiritual disciplines
and discipline what what do i mean
by spiritual disciplines when i say
spiritual disciplines i’m talking about
principle based practices
principle based practices
again i’m saying that you can submit
your spirit to the holy spirit through
spiritual disciplines and through being
disciplined and when i say being
disciplined i mean fortitude in other
words you have to work
the practices
with fortitude
it’s not just that you know the
spiritual disciplines it takes i’m
telling you let me tell you something
when you start really developing and
really pursuing to grow in the things of
the spirit you’re going to have to press
through because there’s going to be all
sorts of things that attempt to distract
that because the greatest thing that you
can do is become
the greatest thing that you can do is
become the greatest threat to anything
negative and evil around you is you
becoming who you really are
the enemy to your soul banks on you
never getting there
the enemy to your soul banks on you
not figuring out who you are not being
curious i feel the lord being curious
and so and so and so
and i’m gonna these i’m gonna give you
four things look these things are gonna
be
common knowledge to people who are
serious about spiritual development but
sometimes common knowledge the reminder
to do what you know to do is everything
for some it’s going to be
revelation for some it’s going to be
different but i’m going to give you
four
of these spiritual these principle-based
spiritual disciplines that i want you to
be disciplined in doing particularly in
this season is that okay
four
number one
your personal
worship time
your personal
worship time i think that every single
day
we ought to have
personal
worship time i’m not talking about in
your small group
not talking about at your church not
talking about in the corporate gathering
as you’re watching online or you’re in a
service well i’m not talking about that
that’s your corporate that’s your
corporate worship experience that is
wonderful it’s it’s beautiful it’s
amazing but that ain’t what i’m talking
about because that typically is not
where the majority of the believer’s
development takes place
i’m talking about your personal
worship time it’s interesting in the
model prayer when when the disciples
asked jesus to teach them how to pray he
starts the prayer off by saying our
father who art in heaven hallowed be thy
name
he was basically starting them off in
worship
our father who art in heaven
holy is your name that’s worship
worship is a part of prayer but your
personal and private worship time have
you as we are stepping into this new
year and we’re working new habits and
we’re working new disciplines what about
the habit and the discipline of personal
worship time
every single day
you and god
in a set apart place
without any particular agenda
other
than to be
in the awareness of his presence and
allow whatever happens in that
experience to happen
your place
of intimacy
with god himself
not with the pastor
not with no with god
it doesn’t have to be long you don’t
have to be in there for hours sometimes
you might want that
but what if you just set aside
20 minutes 45 minutes an hour 30 minutes
whatever you have and you’re just going
to be there and you’re just going to
open up to the lord
and you’re just going to say and maybe
you start with
my father
who is in heaven
holy is your name
and you just start there
and you enter into his gates
and you enter
into god’s presence
you know what happens when you get there
the first thing that happens when you
get there if you dig in a little bit is
a mirror comes up
i talk about this in my book balance and
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tendency to procrastinate the way that
you break the spirit of procrastination
is you embrace the spirit of immediacy
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but so be it
but i talk about um what your day should
look like anyway i i got distracted but
you understand what i’m saying
that mirror comes up in your private and
personal worship time that mirror comes
up
and you start seeing right
let me give you an example uh in psalm
73 and i believe that the writer of this
psalm was asaph and asaph was having a
difficult time he was seeing the
prosperity of the wicked and he just
felt like like serving god wasn’t paying
off he was like man i’m you know i’m
doing the right thing i’m doing it right
and people around me and they ain’t
serving god and they’re getting blessed
and i don’t understand and it’s not
worth it it’s not worth it and he said
his foot almost slipped
and then he says until you find this in
psalm 73 he says until i went into the
sanctuary until i went into the place of
worship he said and then i understood
sometimes it’s right in that personal
private god some of you your life is
getting ready to change by worship
god thought you got to do any miracles
anything like that you just had to get
into the place where you see right where
the conversation that comes to you is
proper
first thing
talk about disciplines and i want you to
do it right i want you to do it every
day
if you’re rushing and you can only do it
for 10 minutes 10 minutes is better than
no minutes
your personal worship time is number one
number two this is critical particularly
when you’re trying to
to bring your spirit ins and
bring your spirit subject to the spirit
is consecration
and i might add fasting consecration
what is consecration consecration is is
clean sometimes you got to delete your
social media off your phone
because if you’re like me you know and
it could be anything maybe emails you
got to delete emails whatever or or or
take your phone and just put it
somewhere for a season or whatever but
sometimes you’ve got to clean out and
clear out
because because we are in an information
age which means that that information is
coming at us all the time in the book
balance i talk about techniques and how
to quiet the noise life is so noisy
it’s noisy it’s loud
everybody has a microphone
wise people have a microphone fools have
a microphone
and everything in between everybody’s
got a microphone and watch this and
everybody has access to you and your
mind
so you have to find a way to protect
yourself in seasons while you are trying
to get your conversation with self to
where it needs to be
consecration
fasting is powerful pastor stephanie did
a wonderful job teaching on fasting uh
just a couple i think about a month ago
it was amazing but fasting and study
fasting there are a number of different
facts i’m not going to get into it now
but there are a number but the idea that
i’m the predominant idea that i’m
speaking of right now is consecration is
getting
a clean slate
so that god can begin to rewrite the
truth
about you
and about the plans he has for you some
of you when you just consecrate when you
get off that social
or you just pull back for a minute or
you take a couple days down
spin with god and consecrate yourself
watch this and only let god in
it’s gonna make a big difference in
helping you
to allow the spirit
to manage your self-talk
so number two is consecration and
fasting number three is reading it’s so
critical and of course
scripture is amazing to read because
scripture talks to you in god language
you know what i mean it’s god talk you
can find the voice of god in scripture
and so you certainly want to do
scripture but then also anointed books
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several other anointed books not just
let me tell you something
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let me put it this way because i’m not
going to do what i was about to do let
me put it this way listen for the voice
of the lord
and you have to know the voice of the
lord in order to perceive the voice of
the lord every good voice is not a god
voice
and it doesn’t mean that that that just
because it’s not god it’s it’s bad i’m
not saying that at all
but but you you want to the the shaping
that you and i need
to uncover the mystery of us
you need the anointing for that
and so anointed books and pray that the
lord will lead you to anointed books as
well to complement your study of the
scripture right one personal worship
time two consecration fasting three
readings scripture anointed books and
then four and again there can be ten of
these but i’m giving you four that i
know work
aligned relationships
see if you have the holy spirit and i
have the holy spirit
there’s there’s power in agreement
and and and you can you can agree
concerning things but then we sharpen
each other the scripture says that iron
sharpens iron community is very
important
in in keeping your conversation right
you want somebody that when you start
talking crazy about yourself you want to
buy hey hey hold up hold up
my wife and and and one of her best
friends and you know and her best
friends would would have a moment and
and try to say something about herself
and my wife ah don’t be talking about my
friend like that
you need somebody who can help you to
identify
when your conversation
with self is not healthy
and so family i believe that if you work
first of all if you take this
understanding
this understanding that you are a
mystery
this understanding that you are
absolutely exquisite
that there is so much more
to you
and that you are awesomely and
wonderfully made
and if you take the posture
where you say what am i
and not what am i like what a mess am i
no no no god what am i
that you’re mindful of me that what am i
that that you sent this message to me
what am i really
what’s in there
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and and you stop coming down on yourself
and and you just say if i get it wrong
that just means that i gotta i gotta dig
into me deeper
that’s all there’s a solution in me
and i just gotta consecrate more i gotta
press it more but i’ma figure it out but
i won’t get there
by talking bad to myself
i won’t get there
by going off of myself not believing in
myself
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i’m gonna get there first by posturing
myself same way the writer of the psalm
8
did
what am i
that you’re my you made me just a little
lower than you who am i then
just a little lower than elohim
who am i
and you work the disciplines
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if you’ve never opened up your heart to
the lord
that’s the first step
because you just like all of us
need god’s spirit
to be talking to us
god
will put his spirit in you
and your self-talk will change
hallelujah
and you’ll have a fighting chance
his spirit
says wonderful things about you all the
time
hallelujah
so what i want to do i’m we’re going to
pray in a moment
and then i have a
video about an exciting thing that that
we do on on the regular with children’s
hospital but
but i want to give you an opportunity i
know many of you have already done this
you’ve already tapped into this but
but if you have never
said yes
to jesus
who
is being presented to you by the holy
spirit
not by religion not by force but
but these words we pray these words that
are coming in you that are resonating
are not my words they’re words that are
produced by my relationship with the
holy spirit
that came to be because of my
relationship
with jesus the son of god
and so if you’re under the sound of my
voice and you’ve
these words are
touching you deeply and and
they almost in some part some some
moments in this felt even familiar
if you’re over there and you say i i
need
to see myself this way and i need to
have the power
to overcome my own
negative self narrative
by embracing
the divine narrative concerning my life
and i’m ready to say yes to all of the
goodness that god has promised me and
even
some of the promises that i’ve even
perceived in this message
and i’m ready to surrender
and to say yes
if that is you
i just want you to say yes
say yes if you’re driving in your car if
you’re watching this at home if you’re
at work just say yes god knows
if you’re right there
on the live feed i want you to say yes
just put just put yes in there just put
yes just put yes not hard just put yes
that’s all god wants
because his yes is unlocked by our yes
the things that god wants to say yet in
fact no not that god wants to say yes
there are things that god has said yes
already
concerning your life
there’s a passage that says that all of
the promises of god are yes and amen in
jesus
so there’s some yeses already you’ve
gotten a lot of no’s you’ve got a lot of
doors closed you’ve gotten a lot of
rejection
not realizing that the real you
has innumerable yes it’s a sign of your
life
crazy yeses that will blow your mind
yeses from now into the day that you
transition
yeses
yeses
god wants to baptize you in every good
yes
that’s a sign of your life and to get
his yes
all you got to do
is give him yours
he’s knocking on the door of your heart
just say yes i’m yours put it right
there in the feed say it out loud yes
and i believe that as you do the spirit
of god who’s knocking
on the outside trying to get in so that
he can make a difference in your life
from the inside out
is going to come in hallelujah
and
everything is going to change
strength is coming to you
clarity is coming to you hear me loud
and clear because i feel this so strong
in my knower
healing is coming to you physical
healing
is coming to you without a shadow of a
doubt
of course emotional healing and
spiritual healing but i’m talking about
physical healing
as you say yes i’m telling you it’s
gonna happen right now and you’re gonna
be tweeting us and emailing us and
sending us testimony healing is coming
to you right now i decree it right now
as you say yes
and some of you are giving god a re-yes
you gave him a yes before and that’s
okay like sheep all fall astray all go
astray sometimes
but you’re giving him a fresh yes
and restoration is coming to you
restoration
no pastor you don’t know it’s been it’s
been too crazy but no i don’t want to
hear that
god knows
he’s omniscient he already knows
god has a way of saving things for us
yeah
saving things for us thank you lord just
say yes come on flood flood flood your
car flood your work flood your home
flood this timeline with yes just yes
just yes just yes just yes and i feel
like every time you say yes god’s going
to release a yes yes yes yes yes to your
healing yes to your breakthrough yes to
your miracle yes to your future yes to
your family yes yes
hallelujah
thank you lord so lord you know
what’s happened in the hearts and the
minds of those that you
have engaged in this moment in this
unique specific way i thank you for
breakthrough i thank you for testimony i
thank you for healing i thank you god
for what you’re doing
and god i thank you
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that the quality
of their self-talk
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quality
of their relationship with themselves
is going to a whole another level
and now
instead of having an antagonist within
they’re going to have the encourager
the counselor
the supporter
the advocate
the holy spirit
guiding
leading
strengthening
and encouraging their way thank you god
i seal this
in jesus name
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amen amen hallelujah