Harnessing the Power of Words and Faith

Do you want to really live? Would you love to live a long, happy life? Watch your mouth. Every one of you is important. Every one of you, your words carry weight. The Bible says in the book of wisdom, life and death is in the power of the tongue. A lot depends on this because this is the mark of royalty. You're not an ordinary Christian. You are a Christian with a different spirit. The Lord gave you that authority and that gift to speak and it happens. So guard what you speak. My son, attend to my words. Incline thine ear unto my sayings. Let them not depart from thine eyes. Keep them in the midst of thine heart. for they are life unto those that find them, and health to all their flesh. The Lord will give strength unto His people. The Lord will bless His people with peace. Oh Lord my God, I cried unto thee, and thou hast healed me. And Jesus went about all Galilee, teaching in their synagogues, and preaching the gospel of the kingdom, and healing all manner of sickness and all manner of disease among the people. Surely He has borne our griefs, sicknesses, weaknesses, and distresses, and carried our sorrows and pains. Beloved, I wish above all things that thou mayest prosper and be in health, even as thy soul prospereth. My friend, I really believe these resources will be a blessing to you. Proverbs 4 tells us that God's Word is life to those who find them and health to all their flesh. If it's your liver that's giving you trouble, you receive health in that area when you receive His Word. If it's your heart that's causing you pain, you receive health in that area when you receive His Word. If you have a loved one in the hospital who might not even be able to pick up a book, can I ask you to consider getting this audio resource for them? Play it for them and just... allow the healing power of God's Word to take effect in their bodies and allow the sweet presence of the Lord to fill the room. It will help you on your journey of faith as you begin to walk more and more in God's divine health and healing. Amen. I have a question to ask all of you. And this is the question. Ready? Do you want to really live? Would you love to live a long, happy life? This is from the Bible. I love this translation because it brings out. The Hebrew. In the King James it says, do you love life and see many days? Amen. Do you want to really live? Would you love to live a long, happy life? It's in the Bible. Amen. How many like that? Angels taking notes. All those at home, you should be here. The first condition if you want a long, happy life, you must attend physically. Amen. So, what is the condition? Keep on reading. It says, Come, children, listen to me. I'll teach you. This is how it starts, what it means to fear the Lord. Do you want to really live? Would you love to live a long, happy life? Then make sure you don't speak evil words or use deceptive speech. Turn away from evil and do what is right. Strive for peace and promote it. Notice it begins with, children, the Father is talking to you. I want to teach you the fear of the Lord. So we have all kinds of ideas about the fear of the Lord in the body of Christ. In fact, there seems to be a revival of teaching on the fear of the Lord, the Old Testament way. In other words, I heard someone say one time when I was younger, many years ago, he says that the fear of the Lord is very simple. No need to define it. It just means vanilla fear of God, all right? You know, it's pure. It's just fear. You fear someone, you fear the Lord. Somehow it never sat well with me when I heard that. When I was reading Romans 8 one day, I came to a verse that says, you have not received the spirit of bondage again to fear. Notice again, Paul is writing by the Spirit and telling the believers, you have not received the spirit of bondage again to fear. And the whole context there is about relationship with God. And for a child of God, you have not received the spirit of bondage again to fear. What kind of fear? Slavish fear. The fear of God. The kind of fear that you fear Him. Is there a fear of the Lord? Yes, there is. But this is how it is defined. The fear of the Lord is seen in how, you can see, I fear God, I fear God, and not watch over your mouth. Because the very verse says what? I'll teach you what it means to fear the Lord. Would you love to live a long, happy life? Make sure you don't speak evil words. Don't use deceptive speech. In the world we live in today, we can say there's no fear of the Lord, right? And of course, the people of the world will not have the fear of the Lord. But what is the true fear of the Lord for believers? Watch your mouth, set a guard. And this is becoming more and more lax. People complain, people slander very easily. They insult, they post. All right, there are commands, these are also words. And many of times, they take majority as truth. Majority is not always truth. The majority of the people of Israel, when the Bible tells us that I give you a land flowing with milk and honey, the Bible says, right, go in and possess, what do they do? Instead of rushing in, flying in to possess. the land, right, because God has given to us, they spoke bad of the land. And how many of them spoke? Majority. Majority was wrong. And majority of them suffered the consequence. Only two of them, Joshua and Caleb, said, we are able to possess the land. And Joshua and Caleb lived to a long good life. Caleb, at the age of 85, said, I'm as strong today as I was the day Moses sent me. because he believed God. God says he has a different spirit about him. I like this boy. In fact, the Bible says literally, God said, Caleb will enter the land because he has a different spirit. You know, as I was preparing for this message, the Lord showed me this, I want you to fire up the people and impart the spirit of faith to them. Amen. You're not an ordinary Christian. You are a Christian with a different spirit. Like what the father said of Caleb. He said he has a different spirit. Amen. The spirit of faith. And what is the spirit of faith? I believe and therefore I speak. We also believe and therefore speak. When you think about it, the world emphasizes doing. They'll say, you know, all talk is nothing, okay? It's the doing that's important. When you think about it, it makes sense, natural sense, yes. But for royalty, the way God ordained you to be, And when God first made man, God made man the crowning creation, all right, over all His creation. God made man special, above, we didn't evolve from animals. God made man in His image. Amen. Therefore, you are royal. You were created to rule. God says to man, have dominion. That's why it was such a big travesty for Adam to sin when the snake came. He had authority over the creeping thing that creep. And he bowed actually and obeyed the creeping thing. Amen. At that time, it wasn't creeping yet because of the sin. That snake came down to its form. It used to walk. It was upright. And they say that when you look at the way a snake is built, you look at the anatomy of the snake, you can find there are atrophied feet. Atrophied feet. So they say this is proof of evolution. No, it's not. It's to show it once walked. Amen. Evolution, everything. degenerates, doesn't become to a higher form. Everything in life degenerates. You leave a hot coffee for a while, it becomes cold. It doesn't become hotter until your mug explodes in smithereens. You leave your garden alone, it will grow thorns, weeds. It doesn't become a beautiful garden. You have to work at making the garden work. But then God made man to rule over everything that He has made. That's why God made man last. So man would rule everything. Amen? For His glory. And God made man in His image. You are not made in the image of a monkey. You are made in the image of God. In the likeness of God. And how did God create? How did God get things done? How did God affect situations? He spoke. It's the privilege of royalty to speak. They speak and things happen. Okay, we understand that for the chickens and all that, Adam can use a stick, all right, and just drive them to a certain corner or whatever he wants, wherever he wants to drive them. But what happens when there's a big dinosaur that he has to control? Back in those days, they obeyed man. He just had to speak and the animals obeyed. Today, that power is gone. Amen? You speak to the lion, the lion want to speak back. The lion bows his head and you say, there, it worked. He's saying grace. Where is that authority? Where is that dominion over every creeping thing that creepeth? It's gone. There it is, in the dust, his crown that God crowned Adam with. Bible says God crowned Adam with glory and honor. It's an all-encompassing glory and honor that all the animals obeyed him. So royalty speaks and it happened. That's why faith is an exercise of authority. Amen. It is, you speak. Evil spirits obey the authority that you have in the name of the Lord Jesus Christ. Amen. We think that a policeman who is in charge of traffic, if he goes to sleep or just scroll on his, you know, his social media or whatever while he's on duty, all right, that's a mismanagement. Amen. That's being irresponsible. Amen. He must be held accountable. What about believers who know that they have authority and they're not using it? So much like, same like the policeman, you see someone robbing someone and he's just busy scrolling. Yeah, before you say amen, all right, let me just say this. That's the reason we need to see this world in a different way than what the social media is trying to present to us. They say that the more you try, the harder you try, the world will be a better place. No, the world is crying. The world is groaning. Amen. And it will groan some more. That's why Jesus will come back and establish a new heaven and a new earth and a millennial rule. The Bible says everything that's happening, yes, we can call it, the climate is changing. Yes, I agree completely. But it's changing because you know why? Man was made to be in authority over creation. When man fell, creation fell. And every time man falls further in sin, in all kinds of lawlessness, the creation under them, the earth even groans. You look at countries that have murdered thousands upon thousands in their history. They hardly can grow a decent crop. They have to import grain from abroad. I can tell you stories of countries that there are believers that worship the Lord and countries just next door where they kill believers. Many martyrs have died. Their ground shares the same sun, same seasons, but this one here is fruitful, this one here is struggling. Why? The earth is rebelling. God said to Cain when he murdered his brother Abel, the first murder in the Bible, and it's all about the issue of approaching God. One believed that by his works he can approach God. The other one came by the blood of the Lamb. Amen? And the one that believed in his efforts was jealous of the one that was accepted by God because his trust is not in his works, but in the blood of the Lamb, the picture of Jesus Christ. And the first murder happened. He killed his brother. What did God say to him? The voice of your brother's blood cries to me from the ground. Now the ground will not yield to you his strength, the Bible says. The ground will not yield to you his strength. So, ground responds to man. You call it vibrations or whatever from man. I don't care what you call it. They respond to man. Man's righteousness, man's lawlessness. Praise God. Righteousness exalts a nation. The Bible says, of believers, you are the Salt of the earth. And salt keep things from being corrupted. In those days, it's the refrigerator. Salt. They have salted fish even. In fact, Magdala, the city of Magdala by the Lake of Galilee has been known to be, during the time of Jesus, a place where there's salt fish, the salted fish industry. It's just by the Lake of Galilee. Amen. You are the salt of the earth. You keep things from being corrupted. That's why you are planted there by God in your workplace. You say, I want to work among Christians. I want to work among Christians. No point being in the salt shaker. Everyone is salt shaker. Shake, shake, shake, shake. Shake, rattle, roll. But you're still all salt. Amen? Yeah, all those full-time in New Creation Church right now is thinking, Pastor. Okay, you have a calling, all right, you have a calling, but it's time for it to be reversed. Many people envy those who are working in church. Let me tell you this, God trusts you to put you out there because He wants to salt that place. He also calls us, you are the light of the world. A city that is set on a hill cannot be heathen. When Jesus said that in the Sermon on the Mount, many of you have been to Israel, there was a city really high, a town where it can be seen near the Lake of Galilee and the Sermon on the Mount where it was preached. Jesus pointed to a city just like the city set on a hill. No one can miss it. You are the light of the world. You're like a city set on a hill. Amen. And that means you shine. You shine. Even when you don't realize it, you are shining. Praise the Lord. And I thank God for all those who are in the body of Christ. serving in the body of Christ. Because let me tell you this, today I share with someone some of the things that God put on my heart, just now only, that the work that she's doing is not menial. I was telling her. Amen. The ushers, the servers, there's no menial work. You know when the tabernacle was moving from place to place, amen, they had to... Dismantle the tabernacle, the pillars, the coverings, the different curtains, amen. And also the little pins and nails. And pins, it's more like, not so much of nails, but the pins that put them together. The small, small people responsible for them. The Marorites. They are responsible for the little pins that put all the tabernacle together. Imagine if they are, they say, ah, my job is just mediocre job, you know. I envy those who are carrying the ark of the covenant. The Lord gave you that authority and that gift. Amen. To speak and it happens. That's why the spirit of faith is like this. I believe and therefore I speak. We also believe and therefore speak. So, God, what you speak. Amen. And every one of you. you is important. Every one of you, your words carry weight. Imagine, like the Marorites, they're responsible for the pins. When they go to another location and God says, now, build the tabernacle again, they have to because the tabernacle is dismantled. It doesn't move in its complete form. Different ones are responsible for the ark, the furniture, the table of showbread, the candelabra, and different ones are responsible for the curtains and the pillars. There's the Kohatites responsible for the furniture. holy furnitures and the Gushanites responsible for the pillars, the curtains, and the Merorites, the pins. Imagine, finally they say, we can't find, we are missing five pins. And the five pins is responsible to someone who says, ah, my job is just mediocre, so I just put this pin here, anyhow, and it will still stand. Great accidents in history have happened because of small, small You know, shall we say, not just accident, but carelessness, misplace, a slipshod attitude towards small things. So everyone's role is glorious. If a Marriott holds the pin and he says, Hallelujah, what a responsibility. I have power to put tabernacle together. Amen? If not, nothing will stand. All of us need one another. Amen? So that's my sermon. Praise the Lord. Thank you, Jesus. Hallelujah. So it's not just, do you want to really live a long, happy life? Make sure you don't speak evil words or use deceptive speech. Turn away from evil and do what is right. Strive for peace and promote it. Now, in a sense, it's what we call negative instruction. That means don't, don't, alright? Don't speak evil words. Don't speak... Deceptive speeches, right? Am I right? It's negative instruction. God's way is always positive. Okay, in case you're wondering, oh, pastor, you're quoting from an Old Testament passage, Psalms 34. Then let me bring you to 1 Peter 3. In 1 Peter 3, this is quoted by the apostle Peter, which means it applies for new covenant people. Can I have a good amen? Look, it says here, for he who would love life, and this is New King James, and see good days. How many want to see good days? How many want to see good days? Not just a long life, but a long life of good days. Amen. Let him refrain his tongue from evil and his lips from speaking deceit. Let him turn away from evil and do good. Let him seek peace and pursue it. So this is a quotation from Psalm 34 that we just read. But this is New Testament. So it applies for us. God still wants you to live a long, good life. Full of good days. Like what I shared. David, Abraham, all of them, when they died, satisfied with days. Amen. Doesn't mean that they have many, many, many, many long life of good days, right? Satisfied with days means it's a good day. You know, that day when you feel like it's a good day today. You have many of it. secret is in your mouth. So, we have a negative instruction that tells us, restrain from speaking evil words, amen? But God in the New Testament puts something there that helps us completely. God says, if any man, in James, can tame his tongue, you know, the same tongue by which we worship God, with the same tongue we curse men. But pastor, I don't curse men. Ever since I was saved, I don't curse anymore. But you know what's a curse? A curse is speaking something that puts someone down. Amen. Malign, slander, untruth about someone. For example, when Jesus cursed the fig tree, right? What did Jesus say? He did not say, I curse you. Right? What did He say? No man eat fruit from you hereafter forever. So when you say, you, you tell your son, you are forever callous. You are always callous. You just place a curse. The God says, if anyone can tame their tongue, He's a perfect man. Whoa. I didn't say it. You find it in the book of James. All right. More like a complete man in every area. Complete in his character. Amen. No one can be perfect in his behavior this side of heaven until Jesus comes. Amen. And we have a brand new body. But The idea there is that you'll be a whole character, you'll be complete. You know, with the word integrity, amen, is someone who is integrated, complete. You know the word disease, disease come from the word disease, when there's no ease, there's no completeness. Shalom means completeness. Shalom is used for health, the Hebrew word for shalom. The word there is used for wholeness. Peace is an all-encompassing word. Well-being, wholeness, right? Amen. You know, the word holy in English actually has its root in the word whole. Complete. That's why when we are not holy, it means we are doing something that is not according to our high calling that God has placed you. You're acting like a beast. You're acting like a monkey. You're acting like a, you know, you're ruled by your body. So what do I do then? Well, God has given us a gift. And some of you know by now. Pastor Prince is going to preach on this. Sooner or later, he will preach on this. Because you know why? I get revelation about this from the Lord all the time. Amen. It is a gift that happened when the church was born. The church birthday. You know the birthday of the church? When is it? The day of Pentecost. And what happened on the day of Pentecost? The Holy Spirit came. Amen. And where did He come on? Mount Zion. Because the first Pentecost was when the children of Israel, where were they? In the Old Testament, in the wilderness of Sinai, before the Mount of Sinai. Alright, they were there. They were there before Mount Sinai, when God gave them the law. Are you listening, people? That was the Jewish people will tell you that, all right? Those religious Jews, they will tell you, this was our first Pentecost. Just like their Passover was when they put the blood on the doorpost, right? This is their first Pentecost. Recall, long story short, it ended up with 3,000 people died at the foot of the mountain, okay? You fast forward New Testament, the Bible says when the day of Pentecost was fully come, God gave now, not the law, but the Spirit, and the result is 3,000 were saved. But it's on a different mountain. It's on the Mount Zion. And Mount Zion, the Bible says, this is the mountain I love, God says. God chose Mount Zion. In fact, in Psalms 1, 3, 2, it says like this, the Lord has chosen Zion. God purposely picked, of all the mountains, in fact, there's a verse, I should, maybe I should have given you that verse, but there's a verse that says, God is challenging all the other mountains that's famous and God says, why are you so envious of Mount Zion? Do you know there's a verse like that in the Bible? Ah, you thought you know the Bible, huh? Do you know this verse or not? It says that God is talking to, challenging all the mountains and God says, all you mountains, you great big mountains, He says, why are you looking at Mount Zion with envy? Why? God chose Mount Zion. So if Mount Sinai is law given, and 3,000 died. Mount Zion is where they were gathered, the disciples, apostles, and believers on the day of Pentecost. And this time, God gave not the law but the Spirit, and 3,000 people were saved. 3,000 died here at Mount Sinai. 3,000 were saved. The Bible says the letter, the law kills, but the Spirit gives life. Amen. He always gives life. Now, we call healing healing because, you know, it's easier to express it. And Bible talks about healing as well. But more than healing, more than the word healing, the Bible used the word life to give life, to quicken your body. That's to give life to your body. When you receive healing for your knee, God released life. And people are losing life. The Bible says, you know, when lust has conceived, it brings forth sin. Sin, when it is finished, brings forth death. Every form of death in your body, in your brain is a death taken to ultimate. It's like dementia, Alzheimer. You say that, well, Pastor Prince, are you saying that it's all caused by sin? No, it's caused by Adam's sin. And our body is still, until Jesus comes again, our body is still an old body. And one day we have a body that's forever young, forever strong, forever healthy. It's called the glorified body. We're looking forward to that. And that's what we receive in the rapture. But until then, we need the Holy Spirit to quicken up. What is quicken? Give life to our bodies. Are you with me so far? You understand what I'm saying so far? So here on Mount Sinai, some people are still camping at Mount Sinai. In Hebrews 12, it says, You are not come to Mount Sinai. That burns with fire, tempest, and smoke. And the voice was so frightful, the writer says, that even Moses, who was a godly man, said, I exceedingly fear and I was quaking. That's Mount Sinai. No one could bear the word that was given. Thou shall not, thou shall not, thou shall not. But Mount Zion, it says, you are not come to the mountain. Say, you are not come. Say, I have not come to this mountain. But the Bible says, in the same passage, Hebrews 12, it says, you are come to Mount Zion, to the city, watch this, to the city of the living God. Where is God at? Mount Zion. Notice when it says you're not come to this Mount Sinai, God's name is not mentioned here. God is no more staying in Mount Sinai. He has moved out from Sinai Lane to Zion Boulevard, okay? Amen. Are you listening? Are you listening, people? So, we as pastors must move our pulpit from Mount Sinai to Mount Zion. The preaching of Mount Sinai is, God wants you to do this. It's claim. The essence of law is claim or demand. All right? The essence of grace is gift. Amen. Gift. The characteristic of grace is all about gift, impartation, free gifts, supply. Law is demand, grace is supply. Here doesn't say how many of you have prayed, how many of you have fasted, how many of you have it all together. Are your families with you? Are you in good relationship with your spouse before the Holy Spirit comes? No, you're all gathered there. on the day of Pentecost, because, it's the day of Pentecost, because the reason they have the Holy Spirit is because Jesus has been glorified. The Bible says, because Jesus has been glorified. One time Jesus said it like this in the day of, the seventh day of the Feast of Tabernacles. He stood up in John 7. He says that, he that believes on me, out of his belly shall flow rivers of living water. This spoke he of the Holy Spirit, who was not yet given. Because Jesus was not yet glorified. We say the Holy Spirit is not given because you have sinned, you have sinned, you have sinned. No. He comes because of one reason. Just like we are saved because of one reason. Christ died for my sins and rose again when I was acquitted in Him. Amen. Likewise, I receive the Holy Spirit because Jesus has been glorified at the Father's right hand. Are you listening, people? Hmm. Are you with me so far? So what happened on the day of Pentecost over here? When they received the Holy Spirit, these two things, you might think, that's very simple, Pastor, I see it. You'll be surprised, you see it. A lot of people don't see it. God has moved mountains, they don't even realize. They are camping in old ground. They are in new covenant, right? They are, you know, like David. David is an old covenant man with a new covenant mentality. Many, many, many Christians, unfortunately, are in the new covenant, old covenant mentality. They still have the wrong kind of fear of God. God wants you to have the spirit of sonship and address God as Father. Yes, He is El Shaddai. Yes, He is Elohim. And I teach you all the names of God also. Amen? I got a great series on this. But the name by which Jesus came to reveal His Father, He came to reveal Father and His heart to all of us. You are the family of the Father. The Father and His family. Smile your neighbor and say, yo bro, hi sis, amen. So, the Bible says God is now on Mount Zion, Hebrews 12. You are come, and the word you are come there is perfect tense. You have come and there you remain. You have come to Mount Zion, the city of the living God, the heavenly Jerusalem, to a place where there's an innumerable company of angels. There's the house of God. When the house of God was first mentioned, it was Jacob lying on a rock as a pillow, and the next day, he anointed the rock, and he says, this is the house of God, and he saw angels descending and ascending. And in John 1, Jesus, when he was introduced, amen, to, uh, uh, Nathaniel, he told Nathaniel, when Philip called you just now, you were under the fig tree. I saw you. And Philip says, my. My Lord, He says, you believe this because I saw you under the fig tree? From now on, you will see angels descending and ascending on the Son of Man. It happens in the house of God. And that's why I want to encourage you. This is where it happens. Christianity is not just me, mine, my family, and I. You know, it's not, that is fine. You know, God wants you to be whole, holy. Amen. Amen. Complete in all those areas. But it's all about one another. How many times in the New Testament it's about loving one another, bearing with one another, speaking to yourselves, plural. Amen. By the way, the last lesson we learned, how do you redeem the time? Wash your tongue. Speaking to yourself in Psalms, hymns. Redeeming the time there is what? Save all the good moments. Amen. God is not saving you bad time. You don't have to save bad time. Let it go. But the word there is, let me show you. Redeeming the time, verse 16, because the days are evil. The word time here, kairos, which is what? An opportunity. That's why some translation put it as buying up every opportunity. But I don't like the word just buying up, okay? Because it doesn't give the sound of redemption. Though the word redemption means to buy, but the word redemption means more to buy, more than just to buy. It buys with a cost, a price paid. So what is your price to buy a lot of Kairos moments, good days in your life? Speak to yourself. It drops down, all right? It says, speak to yourself. Speaking to one another in psalms and hymns and spiritual songs. Notice that? Involves one another. It's church life. Yes, on your own as well. Sing, pray. Pray in the Spirit, pray in tongues. Amen. Sing. Sing the songs we sung just now. Exalt the name of Him. When you're driving, right, I just recommend you don't lift your hands. Amen. Sing. You'll be in a much better shape when you arrive. When stress, all right, fills your mind and you feel like you're looking forward, but you're not looking forward. You know, you're going forward, but you're not looking forward to the day because there's some assignment. You're feeling stressed. What do you do? Sing. When you are singing, you are being filled with the Spirit. When you are singing, God is feeling. I say when you are singing, God is feeling. When you are speaking, God is feeling. So notice that in Christian life, a lot depends on this. Because this is the mark of royalty, not this hand. Are you listening? It is not about doing, it's about speaking. The righteousness of the law says, the man who doeth them shall live in them, but the righteousness of faith speaketh. How do you get saved? The greatest gift of all, if you confess with your mouth the Lord Jesus, believe in your heart, you're saved. Amen. A lot of people find, oh, it's just too simple. Yeah, simple doesn't mean cheap. It cost God His Son. It cost Jesus His life. Hmm? But it's received in this way. I believe and therefore I speak. But what are we believing and what are we speaking? Wah, jialak, jialak. You gotta tell my international audience, Mr. Terrible, terrible, okay? Um, you know, you just imagine, imagine, all right? If Jesus appears, right now and touch every one of you on the head and it says, from now on, whatever you say will happen. Wah! It was so funny. I never hear this before. I want to laugh until I die. Okay. So, imagine. Why is it that we are so quick to say death? The Bible says in the book of wisdom, life and death is in the power of the tongue. And those who love it, whether you love life and talk about it all the time, or you love death, talk about death all the time, you love the dark side, those who love it shall eat the fruit thereof. Death and life are in the power of the tongue. Are you listening? Hmm, what a privilege to be a child of God. Amen. You know, Joseph, he was favored by the Father, and the Father gave him a coat of many colors. Right? God wants you to know you are like Joseph. You are the Father's favorite. Of course, not all typology of characters is perfect. I mean, Jacob had some favoritism because Joseph was the product of his beloved Rachel, his second wife. Nonetheless, God is teaching us a lesson in the type of Joseph that he had a coat of many colors. If you study carefully the word coat of many colors, it's not just a coat of many colors to show the dignity of his position, that he's well-beloved. It's also a coat in the Hebrew, ketonav, a word that means long sleeve. That means in those days, they wear a lot of sleeveless shirt. Not to show off their muscles like Pastor Lawrence sometimes does when we go out for, you know. But, so it's easier. They tie their loose garments around the waist, right, with a girdle, so they can work. It's easier for them. You got it? But when someone has a long sleeve, many-colored coat, that means what? He's exempted from work. The brothers knew it. The brothers knew it. They were jealous of him. And I'll tell you this, you can be brothers, but you're always jealous of the one who believes strongly that he receives by grace. If you don't watch your heart, why not join that brother? Why not join that sister and receive everything by grace? Oh, grace, grace, grace. You all do nothing one. How do you know? How do you know that recently Pastor Lawrence and his team didn't go to Cambodia? How do you know where our team is right now for missions? How do you know how many souls are saved or not? What have you done with the young people in Singapore? and around the world. You know why you criticize, Lord? You want to have a long happy life? Today we don't criticize like this, we criticize like this. You're watching via audio, I'm using my typing fingers. Are you with me so far? Do you understand? Amen. So God gave a gift because the Bible says, if anyone can tame the tongue, He's a complete man. So on the day of Pentecost, something happened. A prayer was birthed in the church on the birthday of the church that never existed in the Old Testament. I don't care who they are, David, a man of the God's heart, never prayed in the Old Testament. the Spirit. Amen. Jeremiah, Elijah, and all the rest, Moses even, never prayed in tongues. In other words, prayed in the Spirit. Okay, from now on, praying in tongues will be known as praying in the Spirit. And by the way, that's the correct definition because in the Bible, we pray in tongues. In 1 Corinthians 14, 14, it says, I'll sing with the Spirit and I'll sing with the understanding. Cannot be Spirit means um, more um, more um. Their understanding, no um. No, it means praying the Spirit true to the entire meaning. If I pray in an own tongue, my Spirit prays. So I'll sing with the Spirit and I'll sing with the understanding. Amen. So the gift came. When? It was birthed on the birthday of the church. And the devil saw it and the devil, you know what, he cannot wiretrap it, he cannot understand it, he cannot hack it, he doesn't understand! I don't care if AI or chat GPT or whatever, they cannot access tongues and the mysteries and the revelations that come on the inside that no computer, no AI, no intelligence, artificial intelligence can ever come close to. They, they, you see, they, they, I'm not against these things. I'll use these things. Amen. I use them. I use ChatGPT also. Not for revelation. It never gives me revelation. You know, I ask them, the power of right believing, my book, all right, is about principles from the Bible with many self-help principles. What's self-help? The power of right believing, it says, don't trust your efforts, don't trust yourself. Wrong, ChatGPT. You see, what they do is that they take from materials that's around. And those materials that are around was written by men who are fallible. And they take those materials and sometimes things that are subject, for example, like chess, everything that there's 1,124,000 moves. I'm not too sure, I'm just saying out. But there's a lot of moves. When you move your rook or you move your queen, there's a lot of moves on the other side. You're fighting against AI on chess, you sure lose. Because everything has been delayed. All the moves are there already. When it comes to the affairs of the heart and a human being, it's not as simple. It's not as simple. You cannot just say, today Dr. AI is in the room. Okay? When he calls for you, you come out. Meep. Tanah kau. Oh, go in. Please be seated. Okay, next time. Alright, your doctor is an AI. Are you willing? No. We can use them for precision in the area of like medicine and allotment and all that for those medicine makers or whatever. Other areas. But not in the area where you're... your life is at stake, where your family relationship and all that. That's why don't trust an AI to pick up a life partner for you. A lot of people lie on dating apps, you know. They will say like, they always make themselves slimmer than they really are online. Taller than they really are online. So when you have speed dating, right, or internet dating, right, or online dating sites, these people make a lot of money, you know. And they'll tell you there are 40 people who like you. And somebody will tell you, you don't even pay for the subscription yet, alright? You just ask them more questions, you put up your portfolio, and straight away they'll tell you, 40 people like your post. But in order for you to access what they said, you have to subscribe. You have to pay the subscription fee, you understand? Alright? Now, I know in spite of this, thank God, and it's because of the Lord. There are some people who go into online dating, Christian online dating and all that, they have ended up as a couple. Yes, but I tell you, it's in spite of, not because of. You better know that. You better know that. Amen. When I exercise, I tell the Lord, Lord, bless my exercise. It's your blessing that make us rich, not my efforts. Let's I think one day, I've been there before where I start exercising and I start feeling good and all that. I say, wow, exercise is very good. No, I fall sick the next day. It's like the Lord telling me and I thank God. It's to wake me up. So when I exercise, I tell the Lord while I'm exercising and not because of. Quicken my body. Strengthen me. You'll find that a little becomes much. You don't have to spend one hour at the gym. A little, 10 minutes even, moving around with your body. God will bless. My time is almost up. I haven't come to the crux of it yet. So I'll tell you this. The devil saw that gift of praying in the Spirit. You know what he did? He started attacking that gift. Just like he attacked, you know, the strongest Blessings of God upon man, he will attack. The way of salvation, so many people in the world believe is by their efforts, by their doing. Amen. That's why Jesus calls it a narrow way. Why? It's only by grace through faith you are safe. Not of works lest any man should boast. Do you see that? So the devil attacks this. and give them many, many, many ideas about. You see, He's telling you, you're not needed. Your efforts are not needed. People's pride rise up when you tell them that. I don't want to receive a gift for nothing. Hey, friend, you better know that. Whatever you do, ask the Lord for His blessing. Depend on Him. You know, I don't take for granted, even coming down here, I'll tell you this. Every time I think about preaching and I say, Lord, bless my preaching this coming Sunday. Bless my preaching. Bless it, Lord, because it is your blessing that makes rich. It's not my efforts. Bless it. When the Lord's blessing is on the loaves and fish, no matter how few they are, how small they are, it will multiply. When the Lord blesses your health. It multiplies. The Lord blesses you. You want the blessing of God. But pastor, we are blessed with all blessings in heavenly places. Yeah, we are. But the Bible never stops you from that relationship where you keep on asking God for more blessings. Because when Abraham, you look at Abraham, he blessed Isaac. But then later on, he already blessed Isaac, but Isaac was still blessed in other places. Isaac blessed Jacob. But later on, God says, I will bless you. And he asks God for blessing. You find that people who are blessed keep on asking God for blessing still. In other areas of their life, I have a message that says, why God keeps on blessing and blessing. Amen. We need to know. Because when you ask God for blessing, you are telling the Lord, my trust is in you. Unless you bless, it doesn't... Become more valuable. It doesn't become greater. It doesn't, you know, Lord, unless you bless, it will not work. So you pray like, you know, you're desperate. Lord, bless me. Bless my project. Bless what I'm doing, Lord. Look to the Lord. Even your exercise, look to the Lord. Bless my sleep. Do you say, bless my sleep before you sleep? Or you just, poh, pen son, pen, what can I, right? No wonder you're gonna attack at night. So ask the Lord for blessing. Bless my sleep. It's your blessing that makes rich. Bless my sleep. The blessing of the Lord maketh rich and adds no sorrow with it. Hallelujah. Amen. in the Spirit, pray in the Spirit. Jesus said on the day of Pentecost, excuse me, John 7, real fast before we close. In the last day, the great day of the feast, Jesus stood and cried saying, if any man thirsts, let him come unto me and drink. It's a very personal thing. I cannot drink for you. Your grandmother cannot drink for you. You got to drink for yourself. If any man thirsts, let him come to me and drink. Drink, enjoy yourself, come to me and drink. He that believes on me, as the Scripture has said, out of his belly shall flow rivers of living water. A lot of our immune, what do you call that, gases or, I don't know what you call it, they're in your belly. Now, this word belly is literally belly. And I'm not using the New King James for this because the New King James says out of his heart. But it's not the word kardia in the original. It's not kardia. Kardia is heart. It literally says belly. Also, the area is your innermost man. But belly is belly. And the word belly is used by the Jews also for womb. You got problems in your womb? Let the rivers of living water flow out. Amen. And then, he says very clearly, this is living water, but this, he spoke of the Spirit, which they that believe on Him should receive, because the Holy Spirit was not yet given. Why? Jesus was not yet glorified. He has not yet been crucified, rose from the dead, and He has not risen from the dead yet. He is not back to the Father where He is glorified. But is he glorified today? So the Holy Spirit has been given. Okay, I'm going to close with this one last picture for you to see. Something about wisdom. Wisdom has this, okay. Job 11 verse 6 says this. Let me disclose to you the secrets of wisdom. For true wisdom has two sides. True wisdom has two sides. Okay, I said before, prophecy, which is God's wisdom for the future, it's an entire word of wisdom actually. Prophecy has two sides. There's a near fulfillment and there's a far fulfillment. For example, when they received the Holy Spirit on the day of Pentecost, Peter stood up and says, what you are saying, these praying tongues and the sound of mighty wind and tongues of fire and all that, this is that which the prophet Joel says. But it's not a complete fulfillment. Why? The prophet Joel says, in that day, the moon will turn to blood. All right, all Israel will mourn for him, right? That's not yet happened, but a part of it is fulfilled. That was a near fulfillment. The far fulfillment is our day and age. You got it so far? You understand? Physical one. So, I'm gonna show you this. You must understand this before I show you this. I'm cl- I'll close with this vision, all right? Prophet Ezekiel was given a vision by God of the temple. And this is what he saw. He saw along the bank of the river, on this side and that, will grow all kinds of trees used for food. Their leaves will not wither. Reminds you of Joshua, sorry, Psalms 1 verse 2. All right, he's delighted in the law of the Lord. In his law doth he meditate day and night. Okay, real fast, real fast. Psalms 1 verse 2, show them. Meditate. In his law doth he meditate day and night. Just know from Hebrew, the word meditate meditate is haggah. Haggah is matah, matah. It's got to do with your mouth. This is not other meditation. This is got to do with your mouth. You matah it. Memorize the verse, matah it. The Lord is my shepherd, I will not lack. I will not lack. The Lord is my shepherd. Matah it, matah it. And what's going to happen to you? You'll be like, a tree planted by the rivers of water that brings forth its fruit in its season. Your leaf will not wither. Whatever you do shall prosper. Go back to that verse 12 in Ezekiel. Along the bank of the river on this side and that side, both sides of the river, will grow all kinds of trees used for food. Their leaves will not wither. What does it mean? The leaves will not wither. And their fruit will not fail. They will bear fruit every month because their water flows from the sanctuary. Their fruit will be for food and their leaves for medicine. Notice the leaf will not wither and the leaf is your health. The leaf is for medicine. Or the Hebrew word there, from the word health, for medicine. Isn't it beautiful? Okay, the secret is the water. The water, because their water flows from the temple, from the sanctuary. Who is the temple of God today? You and I. So the more you let the river flow. And now, this is a spiritual fulfillment. There'll be a literal fulfillment, by the way, let me show you real fast, all right? Chapters 47, like I said just now, this vision, go back to verse 1. Then he brought me back to the door of the temple, there was water. flowing from under the threshold of the temple towards the east, all right? And he said the water was flowing from under the right side of the temple, south of the altar. Drop down. Then he said to me, this water flows towards the eastern region. Jerusalem, eastern region is the Dead Sea, all right? It goes down to the valley and enters the sea, the Dead Sea. When it reaches the sea, its waters are healed. Today, there's a Dead Sea. Sea always speaks of humanity. Sea always speaks of mankind as a whole, amen? The waves roaring, spewing its foam because it's restless. The sea is restless. Mankind is restless. Amen. That's why Jesus calmed the storm. Only He can calm the storm. So the dead seem is what? They are dead. They are dead, cut off from God. They are dead. Amen. You can call it mental health issues, whatever it is. I got physical problems. I got this problem, that problem. Death can even come into a marriage, you know. I'm not enjoying my married life. Whatever it is, it's death. A Dead Sea. Jesus wants to save them. Jesus came to conquer death. So this river is a secret. When it reaches the sea, its waters are healed. It shall be that every living thing that moves wherever the rivers go will live. What's going to happen if you pray in the Spirit and you meet someone dead? Just a shake hand, they'll live. Because of the waters that you issue from the sanctuary. Now, I'm talking about the two sides of wisdom here. Because today you are the temple of God. But in future, this is a future fulfillment by the way, there will be a temple of Ezekiel. There will be a temple, excuse me, not temple of Ezekiel, but rather the prophecy of Ezekiel, the vision of Ezekiel will happen in the future. From Jerusalem, the waters will flow out. You know what they found out recently? On Mount Zion, right? Mount Moriah, they found out that there are water currents being heard underneath. They have the instruments now to find that out. So one day it will be released, the rivers will be living water, and then it shall be that everything that moves, every living thing that moves, wherever the rivers go will live, there'll be a very great multitude of fish. Salvation. I'll make you fishers of men, because these waters go there, for they will be healed, and everything will live wherever the river goes. Wherever you go when you are praying in the Spirit will live. Now, you understand why you step into a boutique or a restaurant, no one is there. After you are there for a while, people come in there. Wendy and I see that all the time. Amen. You are good for business, you believers. I think it's in Zephaniah or Zechariah. It says, so will I say for you, and you shall be a blessing. You, all of you, will be a blessing. Amen. Next verse. And it shall be that fishermen will stand by it from to un-gallium. There will be places for spreading their nets. Their fish will be of the same kind. Drop down, all right? Its swarms and marshes will not be healed. They'll be given over to salt. So, one part of the Dead Sea is healed. All kinds of fishes are there. But another part is not healed. How can that be when your Bible, you open your Bible, not now, you open your Bible to the last pages, right? You have the maps. And the maps give you the outline of the Dead Sea. It has this sliver of land that comes out. It's one whole Dead Sea. Let me show you 1972 satellite from NASA. Alright. You see the, it's one Dead Sea, right? You can see the sliver of land. That sliver has been growing and growing. And what Ezekiel saw in vision was that there are now like two Dead Seas. The north part, that if you draw a straight line in the east side all the way up, it goes to Jerusalem. The waters are released from there. And when the waters hit the Dead Sea, the northern part is healed and there'll be fishes. But there's a part that's given to salt. It will not be healed. How come? If it's one date, see how come one part, you know, doesn't make sense. So some people laugh, some people say, you know, Bible is like, you know, it's not according to geography even. But no one is laughing now. This is 1972. Another satellite photo. It's covered. There's a land bridge now. We were there recently. We can stand at Qomran Caves there, and we can see the entire place, bridge. Many of you have seen that. Now there's a North Sea, South Sea. We are being, I believe we are getting ready for little water coming into, constant torrential river coming into the Dead Sea, healing it. It's a picture. It will happen in the future. Literally, it will happen. But the spiritual truth is this. Everything that will happen in the future, we can enjoy the foretaste as the children of God. For we are kind of first fruits of His creation. We enjoy it now. I say we enjoy it now. So imagine if you pray in the Spirit all day long before you talk to your child. Amen? Before you fetch your child or before you go into a hard conversation, pray in the Spirit. Pray in the Spirit. Pray in the Spirit. When you're tired, you don't feel like praying. The devil want to jam your mouth. Has he succeeded? Do you want to live a long, happy life? How do you not speak evil? If you speak good, now there's positive instruction. If you're speaking in tongues, speaking in the Spirit, singing, Psalms, hymns, spiritual songs, there's no room for evil words. You drive your car and someone just, you know, always driving car for pastors is the problem. All right, so we drive our car and someone just overtakes us like that, go like, because your mouth, the devil wants your mouth to speak bad things so that you cannot speak good things. But you don't know what to say to the person, right? You say, amen. And then you drive on your way to work and then you feel like you're stressed, amen. Thy loving kindness, remember don't look up, okay. Thy loving kindness is better than life. Thy loving, and people passing by will be wondering, he's listening to a hot song, okay. A real good song, whatever, I wonder what. And they'll see the joy of the Lord. And I tell you, stress will just, will just melt like butter on a hot day. By the time you arrive to your destination. So, this is the part the devil want to jam. And I want to unjam it, and time is up. God bless all of you. I only skim the surface. Remember, because the waters flow out from the... So in other words, Ezekiel is saying, when you pray in the Spirit... Amen. You will produce food for your soul, for your spirit. We all need food, revelation, knowledge, food. Not only that, your leaf will not wither. The idea of evergreen, like the trees planted by the rivers of water, evergreen, will not fade. And then we see the Holy Spirit defining the leaf also as medicine. The more you pray in the Spirit, you are applying the best medicine known to man. So yes, God can heal you. In one instant, God heals you by the gift of healing. Why aren't you glad God is so rich? It's called the manifold grace of God. Amen. You can pray in the spirit, Holy Spirit, I have this problem. I don't know why this pain has been here for some time, but you know, pray for my healing. So, karababaraba. I tell you this, while you're doing that, you're also being freed from stress. Maybe God want to free you from stress first before He brings the healing. But you know, something is being done because you are praying to the only one who can really do something about it. Amen. If you are here today, my friend, and you have never made Jesus your Savior, your Lord, you have never put your trust in Him, Jesus says, if you are thirsty, come unto Me and drink. If you believe on Me, out of your innermost being will flow rivers of living water. Pray this prayer with me. If you need help to pray, follow me in this prayer. Mean it from your heart. He is listening to you. Say, Father God, I confess Jesus Christ is my Lord. I believe you raised him from the dead. I believe you have glorified Christ at your right hand. Therefore, baptize and fill me with your Holy Spirit. Because Jesus Christ is my Lord. In Jesus' name. Amen. Babarababaramahantara. Stand to your feet and pray in tongues for a while. Shekarababaramahantarabakaya. Amen. As I bless you, keep on praying in the spirit. Get back. When it's just unjammed, you find it a bit hard. It's like a trickle. Then slowly, slowly after a few hours, it's a stream and then it becomes, all right, keep that river flowing. And wherever it goes, life will come forth. Fruitfulness and life in place of the curse and death. Amen. This coming week. The Lord bless you, all of you, with the blessings of Abraham. The Lord bless you with favor everywhere you go. The Lord bless you in your marriage. The Lord bless you in your parenting. The Lord bless you in all that you undertake this week. May you see. the manifestation of the blessing of the Lord upon you and your loved ones. That it might be said of you that was said of Obed-Edom, the blessing of the Lord resteth on all that he has. Thank you, Father, in Jesus' name. And protect us from sickness and disease, from danger and harm throughout this week, and from all the power of the evil one. In the name of Jesus. And all the people said, Amen. God bless you. You are dismissed. I hope you enjoyed today's episode. 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Do you want to really live? Would you love to live a long, happy life? Watch your mouth.

Every one of you is important. Every one of you, your words carry weight. The Bible says in the book of wisdom, life and death is in the power of the tongue.

A lot depends on this because this is the mark of royalty. You're not an ordinary Christian. You are a Christian with a different spirit.

The Lord gave you that authority and that gift to speak and it happens. So guard what you speak. My son, attend to my words.

Incline thine ear unto my sayings. Let them not depart from thine eyes. Keep them in the midst of thine heart.

for they are life unto those that find them, and health to all their flesh. The Lord will give strength unto His people. The Lord will bless His people with peace.

Oh Lord my God, I cried unto thee, and thou hast healed me. And Jesus went about all Galilee, teaching in their synagogues, and preaching the gospel of the kingdom, and healing all manner of sickness and all manner of disease among the people. Surely He has borne our griefs, sicknesses, weaknesses, and distresses, and carried our sorrows and pains. Beloved, I wish above all things that thou mayest prosper and be in health, even as thy soul prospereth. My friend, I really believe these resources will be a blessing to you.

Proverbs 4 tells us that God's Word is life to those who find them and health to all their flesh. If it's your liver that's giving you trouble, you receive health in that area when you receive His Word. If it's your heart that's causing you pain, you receive health in that area when you receive His Word. If you have a loved one in the hospital who might not even be able to pick up a book, can I ask you to consider getting this audio resource for them? Play it for them and just...

allow the healing power of God's Word to take effect in their bodies and allow the sweet presence of the Lord to fill the room. It will help you on your journey of faith as you begin to walk more and more in God's divine health and healing. Amen.

I have a question to ask all of you. And this is the question. Ready?

Do you want to really live? Would you love to live a long, happy life? This is from the Bible. I love this translation because it brings out. The Hebrew.

In the King James it says, do you love life and see many days? Amen. Do you want to really live? Would you love to live a long, happy life? It's in the Bible.

Amen. How many like that? Angels taking notes. All those at home, you should be here.

The first condition if you want a long, happy life, you must attend physically. Amen. So, what is the condition?

Keep on reading. It says, Come, children, listen to me. I'll teach you. This is how it starts, what it means to fear the Lord. Do you want to really live?

Would you love to live a long, happy life? Then make sure you don't speak evil words or use deceptive speech. Turn away from evil and do what is right.

Strive for peace and promote it. Notice it begins with, children, the Father is talking to you. I want to teach you the fear of the Lord. So we have all kinds of ideas about the fear of the Lord in the body of Christ. In fact, there seems to be a revival of teaching on the fear of the Lord, the Old Testament way.

In other words, I heard someone say one time when I was younger, many years ago, he says that the fear of the Lord is very simple. No need to define it. It just means vanilla fear of God, all right?

You know, it's pure. It's just fear. You fear someone, you fear the Lord. Somehow it never sat well with me when I heard that.

When I was reading Romans 8 one day, I came to a verse that says, you have not received the spirit of bondage again to fear. Notice again, Paul is writing by the Spirit and telling the believers, you have not received the spirit of bondage again to fear. And the whole context there is about relationship with God.

And for a child of God, you have not received the spirit of bondage again to fear. What kind of fear? Slavish fear. The fear of God. The kind of fear that you fear Him.

Is there a fear of the Lord? Yes, there is. But this is how it is defined.

The fear of the Lord is seen in how, you can see, I fear God, I fear God, and not watch over your mouth. Because the very verse says what? I'll teach you what it means to fear the Lord.

Would you love to live a long, happy life? Make sure you don't speak evil words. Don't use deceptive speech. In the world we live in today, we can say there's no fear of the Lord, right? And of course, the people of the world will not have the fear of the Lord.

But what is the true fear of the Lord for believers? Watch your mouth, set a guard. And this is becoming more and more lax. People complain, people slander very easily. They insult, they post.

All right, there are commands, these are also words. And many of times, they take majority as truth. Majority is not always truth. The majority of the people of Israel, when the Bible tells us that I give you a land flowing with milk and honey, the Bible says, right, go in and possess, what do they do?

Instead of rushing in, flying in to possess. the land, right, because God has given to us, they spoke bad of the land. And how many of them spoke? Majority. Majority was wrong.

And majority of them suffered the consequence. Only two of them, Joshua and Caleb, said, we are able to possess the land. And Joshua and Caleb lived to a long good life.

Caleb, at the age of 85, said, I'm as strong today as I was the day Moses sent me. because he believed God. God says he has a different spirit about him. I like this boy. In fact, the Bible says literally, God said, Caleb will enter the land because he has a different spirit. You know, as I was preparing for this message, the Lord showed me this, I want you to fire up the people and impart the spirit of faith to them.

Amen. You're not an ordinary Christian. You are a Christian with a different spirit. Like what the father said of Caleb.

He said he has a different spirit. Amen. The spirit of faith. And what is the spirit of faith? I believe and therefore I speak.

We also believe and therefore speak. When you think about it, the world emphasizes doing. They'll say, you know, all talk is nothing, okay?

It's the doing that's important. When you think about it, it makes sense, natural sense, yes. But for royalty, the way God ordained you to be, And when God first made man, God made man the crowning creation, all right, over all His creation.

God made man special, above, we didn't evolve from animals. God made man in His image. Amen. Therefore, you are royal.

You were created to rule. God says to man, have dominion. That's why it was such a big travesty for Adam to sin when the snake came.

He had authority over the creeping thing that creep. And he bowed actually and obeyed the creeping thing. Amen.

At that time, it wasn't creeping yet because of the sin. That snake came down to its form. It used to walk. It was upright.

And they say that when you look at the way a snake is built, you look at the anatomy of the snake, you can find there are atrophied feet. Atrophied feet. So they say this is proof of evolution.

No, it's not. It's to show it once walked. Amen. Evolution, everything.

degenerates, doesn't become to a higher form. Everything in life degenerates. You leave a hot coffee for a while, it becomes cold. It doesn't become hotter until your mug explodes in smithereens. You leave your garden alone, it will grow thorns, weeds.

It doesn't become a beautiful garden. You have to work at making the garden work. But then God made man to rule over everything that He has made.

That's why God made man last. So man would rule everything. Amen?

For His glory. And God made man in His image. You are not made in the image of a monkey.

You are made in the image of God. In the likeness of God. And how did God create?

How did God get things done? How did God affect situations? He spoke.

It's the privilege of royalty to speak. They speak and things happen. Okay, we understand that for the chickens and all that, Adam can use a stick, all right, and just drive them to a certain corner or whatever he wants, wherever he wants to drive them. But what happens when there's a big dinosaur that he has to control? Back in those days, they obeyed man.

He just had to speak and the animals obeyed. Today, that power is gone. Amen? You speak to the lion, the lion want to speak back.

The lion bows his head and you say, there, it worked. He's saying grace. Where is that authority?

Where is that dominion over every creeping thing that creepeth? It's gone. There it is, in the dust, his crown that God crowned Adam with.

Bible says God crowned Adam with glory and honor. It's an all-encompassing glory and honor that all the animals obeyed him. So royalty speaks and it happened.

That's why faith is an exercise of authority. Amen. It is, you speak.

Evil spirits obey the authority that you have in the name of the Lord Jesus Christ. Amen. We think that a policeman who is in charge of traffic, if he goes to sleep or just scroll on his, you know, his social media or whatever while he's on duty, all right, that's a mismanagement. Amen.

That's being irresponsible. Amen. He must be held accountable.

What about believers who know that they have authority and they're not using it? So much like, same like the policeman, you see someone robbing someone and he's just busy scrolling. Yeah, before you say amen, all right, let me just say this. That's the reason we need to see this world in a different way than what the social media is trying to present to us. They say that the more you try, the harder you try, the world will be a better place.

No, the world is crying. The world is groaning. Amen.

And it will groan some more. That's why Jesus will come back and establish a new heaven and a new earth and a millennial rule. The Bible says everything that's happening, yes, we can call it, the climate is changing.

Yes, I agree completely. But it's changing because you know why? Man was made to be in authority over creation.

When man fell, creation fell. And every time man falls further in sin, in all kinds of lawlessness, the creation under them, the earth even groans. You look at countries that have murdered thousands upon thousands in their history.

They hardly can grow a decent crop. They have to import grain from abroad. I can tell you stories of countries that there are believers that worship the Lord and countries just next door where they kill believers.

Many martyrs have died. Their ground shares the same sun, same seasons, but this one here is fruitful, this one here is struggling. Why?

The earth is rebelling. God said to Cain when he murdered his brother Abel, the first murder in the Bible, and it's all about the issue of approaching God. One believed that by his works he can approach God. The other one came by the blood of the Lamb. Amen?

And the one that believed in his efforts was jealous of the one that was accepted by God because his trust is not in his works, but in the blood of the Lamb, the picture of Jesus Christ. And the first murder happened. He killed his brother.

What did God say to him? The voice of your brother's blood cries to me from the ground. Now the ground will not yield to you his strength, the Bible says.

The ground will not yield to you his strength. So, ground responds to man. You call it vibrations or whatever from man.

I don't care what you call it. They respond to man. Man's righteousness, man's lawlessness. Praise God. Righteousness exalts a nation.

The Bible says, of believers, you are the Salt of the earth. And salt keep things from being corrupted. In those days, it's the refrigerator. Salt. They have salted fish even.

In fact, Magdala, the city of Magdala by the Lake of Galilee has been known to be, during the time of Jesus, a place where there's salt fish, the salted fish industry. It's just by the Lake of Galilee. Amen.

You are the salt of the earth. You keep things from being corrupted. That's why you are planted there by God in your workplace.

You say, I want to work among Christians. I want to work among Christians. No point being in the salt shaker. Everyone is salt shaker.

Shake, shake, shake, shake. Shake, rattle, roll. But you're still all salt. Amen?

Yeah, all those full-time in New Creation Church right now is thinking, Pastor. Okay, you have a calling, all right, you have a calling, but it's time for it to be reversed. Many people envy those who are working in church. Let me tell you this, God trusts you to put you out there because He wants to salt that place. He also calls us, you are the light of the world.

A city that is set on a hill cannot be heathen. When Jesus said that in the Sermon on the Mount, many of you have been to Israel, there was a city really high, a town where it can be seen near the Lake of Galilee and the Sermon on the Mount where it was preached. Jesus pointed to a city just like the city set on a hill.

No one can miss it. You are the light of the world. You're like a city set on a hill. Amen.

And that means you shine. You shine. Even when you don't realize it, you are shining. Praise the Lord.

And I thank God for all those who are in the body of Christ. serving in the body of Christ. Because let me tell you this, today I share with someone some of the things that God put on my heart, just now only, that the work that she's doing is not menial.

I was telling her. Amen. The ushers, the servers, there's no menial work. You know when the tabernacle was moving from place to place, amen, they had to...

Dismantle the tabernacle, the pillars, the coverings, the different curtains, amen. And also the little pins and nails. And pins, it's more like, not so much of nails, but the pins that put them together.

The small, small people responsible for them. The Marorites. They are responsible for the little pins that put all the tabernacle together.

Imagine if they are, they say, ah, my job is just mediocre job, you know. I envy those who are carrying the ark of the covenant. The Lord gave you that authority and that gift.

Amen. To speak and it happens. That's why the spirit of faith is like this.

I believe and therefore I speak. We also believe and therefore speak. So, God, what you speak.

Amen. And every one of you. you is important.

Every one of you, your words carry weight. Imagine, like the Marorites, they're responsible for the pins. When they go to another location and God says, now, build the tabernacle again, they have to because the tabernacle is dismantled.

It doesn't move in its complete form. Different ones are responsible for the ark, the furniture, the table of showbread, the candelabra, and different ones are responsible for the curtains and the pillars. There's the Kohatites responsible for the furniture. holy furnitures and the Gushanites responsible for the pillars, the curtains, and the Merorites, the pins.

Imagine, finally they say, we can't find, we are missing five pins. And the five pins is responsible to someone who says, ah, my job is just mediocre, so I just put this pin here, anyhow, and it will still stand. Great accidents in history have happened because of small, small You know, shall we say, not just accident, but carelessness, misplace, a slipshod attitude towards small things.

So everyone's role is glorious. If a Marriott holds the pin and he says, Hallelujah, what a responsibility. I have power to put tabernacle together.

Amen? If not, nothing will stand. All of us need one another.

Amen? So that's my sermon. Praise the Lord.

Thank you, Jesus. Hallelujah. So it's not just, do you want to really live a long, happy life? Make sure you don't speak evil words or use deceptive speech.

Turn away from evil and do what is right. Strive for peace and promote it. Now, in a sense, it's what we call negative instruction.

That means don't, don't, alright? Don't speak evil words. Don't speak... Deceptive speeches, right? Am I right?

It's negative instruction. God's way is always positive. Okay, in case you're wondering, oh, pastor, you're quoting from an Old Testament passage, Psalms 34. Then let me bring you to 1 Peter 3. In 1 Peter 3, this is quoted by the apostle Peter, which means it applies for new covenant people.

Can I have a good amen? Look, it says here, for he who would love life, and this is New King James, and see good days. How many want to see good days?

How many want to see good days? Not just a long life, but a long life of good days. Amen. Let him refrain his tongue from evil and his lips from speaking deceit.

Let him turn away from evil and do good. Let him seek peace and pursue it. So this is a quotation from Psalm 34 that we just read. But this is New Testament.

So it applies for us. God still wants you to live a long, good life. Full of good days.

Like what I shared. David, Abraham, all of them, when they died, satisfied with days. Amen. Doesn't mean that they have many, many, many, many long life of good days, right? Satisfied with days means it's a good day.

You know, that day when you feel like it's a good day today. You have many of it. secret is in your mouth.

So, we have a negative instruction that tells us, restrain from speaking evil words, amen? But God in the New Testament puts something there that helps us completely. God says, if any man, in James, can tame his tongue, you know, the same tongue by which we worship God, with the same tongue we curse men.

But pastor, I don't curse men. Ever since I was saved, I don't curse anymore. But you know what's a curse?

A curse is speaking something that puts someone down. Amen. Malign, slander, untruth about someone. For example, when Jesus cursed the fig tree, right?

What did Jesus say? He did not say, I curse you. Right?

What did He say? No man eat fruit from you hereafter forever. So when you say, you, you tell your son, you are forever callous. You are always callous.

You just place a curse. The God says, if anyone can tame their tongue, He's a perfect man. Whoa. I didn't say it. You find it in the book of James.

All right. More like a complete man in every area. Complete in his character. Amen. No one can be perfect in his behavior this side of heaven until Jesus comes.

Amen. And we have a brand new body. But The idea there is that you'll be a whole character, you'll be complete.

You know, with the word integrity, amen, is someone who is integrated, complete. You know the word disease, disease come from the word disease, when there's no ease, there's no completeness. Shalom means completeness.

Shalom is used for health, the Hebrew word for shalom. The word there is used for wholeness. Peace is an all-encompassing word. Well-being, wholeness, right? Amen.

You know, the word holy in English actually has its root in the word whole. Complete. That's why when we are not holy, it means we are doing something that is not according to our high calling that God has placed you.

You're acting like a beast. You're acting like a monkey. You're acting like a, you know, you're ruled by your body. So what do I do then?

Well, God has given us a gift. And some of you know by now. Pastor Prince is going to preach on this.

Sooner or later, he will preach on this. Because you know why? I get revelation about this from the Lord all the time.

Amen. It is a gift that happened when the church was born. The church birthday. You know the birthday of the church? When is it?

The day of Pentecost. And what happened on the day of Pentecost? The Holy Spirit came. Amen. And where did He come on?

Mount Zion. Because the first Pentecost was when the children of Israel, where were they? In the Old Testament, in the wilderness of Sinai, before the Mount of Sinai.

Alright, they were there. They were there before Mount Sinai, when God gave them the law. Are you listening, people? That was the Jewish people will tell you that, all right?

Those religious Jews, they will tell you, this was our first Pentecost. Just like their Passover was when they put the blood on the doorpost, right? This is their first Pentecost.

Recall, long story short, it ended up with 3,000 people died at the foot of the mountain, okay? You fast forward New Testament, the Bible says when the day of Pentecost was fully come, God gave now, not the law, but the Spirit, and the result is 3,000 were saved. But it's on a different mountain. It's on the Mount Zion.

And Mount Zion, the Bible says, this is the mountain I love, God says. God chose Mount Zion. In fact, in Psalms 1, 3, 2, it says like this, the Lord has chosen Zion. God purposely picked, of all the mountains, in fact, there's a verse, I should, maybe I should have given you that verse, but there's a verse that says, God is challenging all the other mountains that's famous and God says, why are you so envious of Mount Zion?

Do you know there's a verse like that in the Bible? Ah, you thought you know the Bible, huh? Do you know this verse or not?

It says that God is talking to, challenging all the mountains and God says, all you mountains, you great big mountains, He says, why are you looking at Mount Zion with envy? Why? God chose Mount Zion.

So if Mount Sinai is law given, and 3,000 died. Mount Zion is where they were gathered, the disciples, apostles, and believers on the day of Pentecost. And this time, God gave not the law but the Spirit, and 3,000 people were saved.

3,000 died here at Mount Sinai. 3,000 were saved. The Bible says the letter, the law kills, but the Spirit gives life.

Amen. He always gives life. Now, we call healing healing because, you know, it's easier to express it.

And Bible talks about healing as well. But more than healing, more than the word healing, the Bible used the word life to give life, to quicken your body. That's to give life to your body. When you receive healing for your knee, God released life. And people are losing life.

The Bible says, you know, when lust has conceived, it brings forth sin. Sin, when it is finished, brings forth death. Every form of death in your body, in your brain is a death taken to ultimate. It's like dementia, Alzheimer.

You say that, well, Pastor Prince, are you saying that it's all caused by sin? No, it's caused by Adam's sin. And our body is still, until Jesus comes again, our body is still an old body. And one day we have a body that's forever young, forever strong, forever healthy.

It's called the glorified body. We're looking forward to that. And that's what we receive in the rapture. But until then, we need the Holy Spirit to quicken up.

What is quicken? Give life to our bodies. Are you with me so far? You understand what I'm saying so far?

So here on Mount Sinai, some people are still camping at Mount Sinai. In Hebrews 12, it says, You are not come to Mount Sinai. That burns with fire, tempest, and smoke.

And the voice was so frightful, the writer says, that even Moses, who was a godly man, said, I exceedingly fear and I was quaking. That's Mount Sinai. No one could bear the word that was given.

Thou shall not, thou shall not, thou shall not. But Mount Zion, it says, you are not come to the mountain. Say, you are not come. Say, I have not come to this mountain. But the Bible says, in the same passage, Hebrews 12, it says, you are come to Mount Zion, to the city, watch this, to the city of the living God.

Where is God at? Mount Zion. Notice when it says you're not come to this Mount Sinai, God's name is not mentioned here.

God is no more staying in Mount Sinai. He has moved out from Sinai Lane to Zion Boulevard, okay? Amen. Are you listening? Are you listening, people?

So, we as pastors must move our pulpit from Mount Sinai to Mount Zion. The preaching of Mount Sinai is, God wants you to do this. It's claim.

The essence of law is claim or demand. All right? The essence of grace is gift. Amen.

Gift. The characteristic of grace is all about gift, impartation, free gifts, supply. Law is demand, grace is supply. Here doesn't say how many of you have prayed, how many of you have fasted, how many of you have it all together.

Are your families with you? Are you in good relationship with your spouse before the Holy Spirit comes? No, you're all gathered there. on the day of Pentecost, because, it's the day of Pentecost, because the reason they have the Holy Spirit is because Jesus has been glorified. The Bible says, because Jesus has been glorified.

One time Jesus said it like this in the day of, the seventh day of the Feast of Tabernacles. He stood up in John 7. He says that, he that believes on me, out of his belly shall flow rivers of living water. This spoke he of the Holy Spirit, who was not yet given.

Because Jesus was not yet glorified. We say the Holy Spirit is not given because you have sinned, you have sinned, you have sinned. No.

He comes because of one reason. Just like we are saved because of one reason. Christ died for my sins and rose again when I was acquitted in Him. Amen.

Likewise, I receive the Holy Spirit because Jesus has been glorified at the Father's right hand. Are you listening, people? Hmm.

Are you with me so far? So what happened on the day of Pentecost over here? When they received the Holy Spirit, these two things, you might think, that's very simple, Pastor, I see it.

You'll be surprised, you see it. A lot of people don't see it. God has moved mountains, they don't even realize. They are camping in old ground. They are in new covenant, right?

They are, you know, like David. David is an old covenant man with a new covenant mentality. Many, many, many Christians, unfortunately, are in the new covenant, old covenant mentality. They still have the wrong kind of fear of God. God wants you to have the spirit of sonship and address God as Father.

Yes, He is El Shaddai. Yes, He is Elohim. And I teach you all the names of God also. Amen?

I got a great series on this. But the name by which Jesus came to reveal His Father, He came to reveal Father and His heart to all of us. You are the family of the Father. The Father and His family. Smile your neighbor and say, yo bro, hi sis, amen.

So, the Bible says God is now on Mount Zion, Hebrews 12. You are come, and the word you are come there is perfect tense. You have come and there you remain. You have come to Mount Zion, the city of the living God, the heavenly Jerusalem, to a place where there's an innumerable company of angels.

There's the house of God. When the house of God was first mentioned, it was Jacob lying on a rock as a pillow, and the next day, he anointed the rock, and he says, this is the house of God, and he saw angels descending and ascending. And in John 1, Jesus, when he was introduced, amen, to, uh, uh, Nathaniel, he told Nathaniel, when Philip called you just now, you were under the fig tree.

I saw you. And Philip says, my. My Lord, He says, you believe this because I saw you under the fig tree?

From now on, you will see angels descending and ascending on the Son of Man. It happens in the house of God. And that's why I want to encourage you. This is where it happens.

Christianity is not just me, mine, my family, and I. You know, it's not, that is fine. You know, God wants you to be whole, holy.

Amen. Amen. Complete in all those areas. But it's all about one another. How many times in the New Testament it's about loving one another, bearing with one another, speaking to yourselves, plural.

Amen. By the way, the last lesson we learned, how do you redeem the time? Wash your tongue.

Speaking to yourself in Psalms, hymns. Redeeming the time there is what? Save all the good moments.

Amen. God is not saving you bad time. You don't have to save bad time.

Let it go. But the word there is, let me show you. Redeeming the time, verse 16, because the days are evil. The word time here, kairos, which is what? An opportunity.

That's why some translation put it as buying up every opportunity. But I don't like the word just buying up, okay? Because it doesn't give the sound of redemption.

Though the word redemption means to buy, but the word redemption means more to buy, more than just to buy. It buys with a cost, a price paid. So what is your price to buy a lot of Kairos moments, good days in your life? Speak to yourself.

It drops down, all right? It says, speak to yourself. Speaking to one another in psalms and hymns and spiritual songs. Notice that?

Involves one another. It's church life. Yes, on your own as well. Sing, pray. Pray in the Spirit, pray in tongues.

Amen. Sing. Sing the songs we sung just now.

Exalt the name of Him. When you're driving, right, I just recommend you don't lift your hands. Amen. Sing.

You'll be in a much better shape when you arrive. When stress, all right, fills your mind and you feel like you're looking forward, but you're not looking forward. You know, you're going forward, but you're not looking forward to the day because there's some assignment. You're feeling stressed.

What do you do? Sing. When you are singing, you are being filled with the Spirit. When you are singing, God is feeling.

I say when you are singing, God is feeling. When you are speaking, God is feeling. So notice that in Christian life, a lot depends on this. Because this is the mark of royalty, not this hand.

Are you listening? It is not about doing, it's about speaking. The righteousness of the law says, the man who doeth them shall live in them, but the righteousness of faith speaketh.

How do you get saved? The greatest gift of all, if you confess with your mouth the Lord Jesus, believe in your heart, you're saved. Amen.

A lot of people find, oh, it's just too simple. Yeah, simple doesn't mean cheap. It cost God His Son. It cost Jesus His life.

Hmm? But it's received in this way. I believe and therefore I speak. But what are we believing and what are we speaking? Wah, jialak, jialak.

You gotta tell my international audience, Mr. Terrible, terrible, okay? Um, you know, you just imagine, imagine, all right? If Jesus appears, right now and touch every one of you on the head and it says, from now on, whatever you say will happen.

Wah! It was so funny. I never hear this before.

I want to laugh until I die. Okay. So, imagine.

Why is it that we are so quick to say death? The Bible says in the book of wisdom, life and death is in the power of the tongue. And those who love it, whether you love life and talk about it all the time, or you love death, talk about death all the time, you love the dark side, those who love it shall eat the fruit thereof.

Death and life are in the power of the tongue. Are you listening? Hmm, what a privilege to be a child of God.

Amen. You know, Joseph, he was favored by the Father, and the Father gave him a coat of many colors. Right?

God wants you to know you are like Joseph. You are the Father's favorite. Of course, not all typology of characters is perfect.

I mean, Jacob had some favoritism because Joseph was the product of his beloved Rachel, his second wife. Nonetheless, God is teaching us a lesson in the type of Joseph that he had a coat of many colors. If you study carefully the word coat of many colors, it's not just a coat of many colors to show the dignity of his position, that he's well-beloved.

It's also a coat in the Hebrew, ketonav, a word that means long sleeve. That means in those days, they wear a lot of sleeveless shirt. Not to show off their muscles like Pastor Lawrence sometimes does when we go out for, you know. But, so it's easier. They tie their loose garments around the waist, right, with a girdle, so they can work.

It's easier for them. You got it? But when someone has a long sleeve, many-colored coat, that means what?

He's exempted from work. The brothers knew it. The brothers knew it.

They were jealous of him. And I'll tell you this, you can be brothers, but you're always jealous of the one who believes strongly that he receives by grace. If you don't watch your heart, why not join that brother? Why not join that sister and receive everything by grace? Oh, grace, grace, grace.

You all do nothing one. How do you know? How do you know that recently Pastor Lawrence and his team didn't go to Cambodia?

How do you know where our team is right now for missions? How do you know how many souls are saved or not? What have you done with the young people in Singapore? and around the world. You know why you criticize, Lord?

You want to have a long happy life? Today we don't criticize like this, we criticize like this. You're watching via audio, I'm using my typing fingers.

Are you with me so far? Do you understand? Amen.

So God gave a gift because the Bible says, if anyone can tame the tongue, He's a complete man. So on the day of Pentecost, something happened. A prayer was birthed in the church on the birthday of the church that never existed in the Old Testament. I don't care who they are, David, a man of the God's heart, never prayed in the Old Testament. the Spirit.

Amen. Jeremiah, Elijah, and all the rest, Moses even, never prayed in tongues. In other words, prayed in the Spirit. Okay, from now on, praying in tongues will be known as praying in the Spirit. And by the way, that's the correct definition because in the Bible, we pray in tongues.

In 1 Corinthians 14, 14, it says, I'll sing with the Spirit and I'll sing with the understanding. Cannot be Spirit means um, more um, more um. Their understanding, no um. No, it means praying the Spirit true to the entire meaning.

If I pray in an own tongue, my Spirit prays. So I'll sing with the Spirit and I'll sing with the understanding. Amen.

So the gift came. When? It was birthed on the birthday of the church. And the devil saw it and the devil, you know what, he cannot wiretrap it, he cannot understand it, he cannot hack it, he doesn't understand! I don't care if AI or chat GPT or whatever, they cannot access tongues and the mysteries and the revelations that come on the inside that no computer, no AI, no intelligence, artificial intelligence can ever come close to.

They, they, you see, they, they, I'm not against these things. I'll use these things. Amen. I use them. I use ChatGPT also.

Not for revelation. It never gives me revelation. You know, I ask them, the power of right believing, my book, all right, is about principles from the Bible with many self-help principles.

What's self-help? The power of right believing, it says, don't trust your efforts, don't trust yourself. Wrong, ChatGPT. You see, what they do is that they take from materials that's around.

And those materials that are around was written by men who are fallible. And they take those materials and sometimes things that are subject, for example, like chess, everything that there's 1,124,000 moves. I'm not too sure, I'm just saying out. But there's a lot of moves.

When you move your rook or you move your queen, there's a lot of moves on the other side. You're fighting against AI on chess, you sure lose. Because everything has been delayed.

All the moves are there already. When it comes to the affairs of the heart and a human being, it's not as simple. It's not as simple. You cannot just say, today Dr. AI is in the room.

Okay? When he calls for you, you come out. Meep. Tanah kau.

Oh, go in. Please be seated. Okay, next time. Alright, your doctor is an AI. Are you willing?

No. We can use them for precision in the area of like medicine and allotment and all that for those medicine makers or whatever. Other areas. But not in the area where you're...

your life is at stake, where your family relationship and all that. That's why don't trust an AI to pick up a life partner for you. A lot of people lie on dating apps, you know.

They will say like, they always make themselves slimmer than they really are online. Taller than they really are online. So when you have speed dating, right, or internet dating, right, or online dating sites, these people make a lot of money, you know.

And they'll tell you there are 40 people who like you. And somebody will tell you, you don't even pay for the subscription yet, alright? You just ask them more questions, you put up your portfolio, and straight away they'll tell you, 40 people like your post. But in order for you to access what they said, you have to subscribe.

You have to pay the subscription fee, you understand? Alright? Now, I know in spite of this, thank God, and it's because of the Lord.

There are some people who go into online dating, Christian online dating and all that, they have ended up as a couple. Yes, but I tell you, it's in spite of, not because of. You better know that. You better know that.

Amen. When I exercise, I tell the Lord, Lord, bless my exercise. It's your blessing that make us rich, not my efforts. Let's I think one day, I've been there before where I start exercising and I start feeling good and all that. I say, wow, exercise is very good.

No, I fall sick the next day. It's like the Lord telling me and I thank God. It's to wake me up.

So when I exercise, I tell the Lord while I'm exercising and not because of. Quicken my body. Strengthen me. You'll find that a little becomes much.

You don't have to spend one hour at the gym. A little, 10 minutes even, moving around with your body. God will bless.

My time is almost up. I haven't come to the crux of it yet. So I'll tell you this.

The devil saw that gift of praying in the Spirit. You know what he did? He started attacking that gift. Just like he attacked, you know, the strongest Blessings of God upon man, he will attack.

The way of salvation, so many people in the world believe is by their efforts, by their doing. Amen. That's why Jesus calls it a narrow way.

Why? It's only by grace through faith you are safe. Not of works lest any man should boast. Do you see that?

So the devil attacks this. and give them many, many, many ideas about. You see, He's telling you, you're not needed. Your efforts are not needed.

People's pride rise up when you tell them that. I don't want to receive a gift for nothing. Hey, friend, you better know that. Whatever you do, ask the Lord for His blessing.

Depend on Him. You know, I don't take for granted, even coming down here, I'll tell you this. Every time I think about preaching and I say, Lord, bless my preaching this coming Sunday.

Bless my preaching. Bless it, Lord, because it is your blessing that makes rich. It's not my efforts. Bless it.

When the Lord's blessing is on the loaves and fish, no matter how few they are, how small they are, it will multiply. When the Lord blesses your health. It multiplies.

The Lord blesses you. You want the blessing of God. But pastor, we are blessed with all blessings in heavenly places.

Yeah, we are. But the Bible never stops you from that relationship where you keep on asking God for more blessings. Because when Abraham, you look at Abraham, he blessed Isaac.

But then later on, he already blessed Isaac, but Isaac was still blessed in other places. Isaac blessed Jacob. But later on, God says, I will bless you. And he asks God for blessing. You find that people who are blessed keep on asking God for blessing still.

In other areas of their life, I have a message that says, why God keeps on blessing and blessing. Amen. We need to know. Because when you ask God for blessing, you are telling the Lord, my trust is in you. Unless you bless, it doesn't...

Become more valuable. It doesn't become greater. It doesn't, you know, Lord, unless you bless, it will not work. So you pray like, you know, you're desperate. Lord, bless me.

Bless my project. Bless what I'm doing, Lord. Look to the Lord.

Even your exercise, look to the Lord. Bless my sleep. Do you say, bless my sleep before you sleep? Or you just, poh, pen son, pen, what can I, right?

No wonder you're gonna attack at night. So ask the Lord for blessing. Bless my sleep. It's your blessing that makes rich. Bless my sleep.

The blessing of the Lord maketh rich and adds no sorrow with it. Hallelujah. Amen. in the Spirit, pray in the Spirit. Jesus said on the day of Pentecost, excuse me, John 7, real fast before we close.

In the last day, the great day of the feast, Jesus stood and cried saying, if any man thirsts, let him come unto me and drink. It's a very personal thing. I cannot drink for you. Your grandmother cannot drink for you. You got to drink for yourself.

If any man thirsts, let him come to me and drink. Drink, enjoy yourself, come to me and drink. He that believes on me, as the Scripture has said, out of his belly shall flow rivers of living water. A lot of our immune, what do you call that, gases or, I don't know what you call it, they're in your belly. Now, this word belly is literally belly.

And I'm not using the New King James for this because the New King James says out of his heart. But it's not the word kardia in the original. It's not kardia.

Kardia is heart. It literally says belly. Also, the area is your innermost man.

But belly is belly. And the word belly is used by the Jews also for womb. You got problems in your womb? Let the rivers of living water flow out. Amen.

And then, he says very clearly, this is living water, but this, he spoke of the Spirit, which they that believe on Him should receive, because the Holy Spirit was not yet given. Why? Jesus was not yet glorified. He has not yet been crucified, rose from the dead, and He has not risen from the dead yet.

He is not back to the Father where He is glorified. But is he glorified today? So the Holy Spirit has been given.

Okay, I'm going to close with this one last picture for you to see. Something about wisdom. Wisdom has this, okay.

Job 11 verse 6 says this. Let me disclose to you the secrets of wisdom. For true wisdom has two sides. True wisdom has two sides. Okay, I said before, prophecy, which is God's wisdom for the future, it's an entire word of wisdom actually.

Prophecy has two sides. There's a near fulfillment and there's a far fulfillment. For example, when they received the Holy Spirit on the day of Pentecost, Peter stood up and says, what you are saying, these praying tongues and the sound of mighty wind and tongues of fire and all that, this is that which the prophet Joel says. But it's not a complete fulfillment.

Why? The prophet Joel says, in that day, the moon will turn to blood. All right, all Israel will mourn for him, right?

That's not yet happened, but a part of it is fulfilled. That was a near fulfillment. The far fulfillment is our day and age.

You got it so far? You understand? Physical one. So, I'm gonna show you this. You must understand this before I show you this.

I'm cl- I'll close with this vision, all right? Prophet Ezekiel was given a vision by God of the temple. And this is what he saw.

He saw along the bank of the river, on this side and that, will grow all kinds of trees used for food. Their leaves will not wither. Reminds you of Joshua, sorry, Psalms 1 verse 2. All right, he's delighted in the law of the Lord.

In his law doth he meditate day and night. Okay, real fast, real fast. Psalms 1 verse 2, show them.

Meditate. In his law doth he meditate day and night. Just know from Hebrew, the word meditate meditate is haggah. Haggah is matah, matah.

It's got to do with your mouth. This is not other meditation. This is got to do with your mouth.

You matah it. Memorize the verse, matah it. The Lord is my shepherd, I will not lack.

I will not lack. The Lord is my shepherd. Matah it, matah it. And what's going to happen to you? You'll be like, a tree planted by the rivers of water that brings forth its fruit in its season.

Your leaf will not wither. Whatever you do shall prosper. Go back to that verse 12 in Ezekiel.

Along the bank of the river on this side and that side, both sides of the river, will grow all kinds of trees used for food. Their leaves will not wither. What does it mean?

The leaves will not wither. And their fruit will not fail. They will bear fruit every month because their water flows from the sanctuary. Their fruit will be for food and their leaves for medicine. Notice the leaf will not wither and the leaf is your health.

The leaf is for medicine. Or the Hebrew word there, from the word health, for medicine. Isn't it beautiful?

Okay, the secret is the water. The water, because their water flows from the temple, from the sanctuary. Who is the temple of God today? You and I.

So the more you let the river flow. And now, this is a spiritual fulfillment. There'll be a literal fulfillment, by the way, let me show you real fast, all right? Chapters 47, like I said just now, this vision, go back to verse 1. Then he brought me back to the door of the temple, there was water. flowing from under the threshold of the temple towards the east, all right?

And he said the water was flowing from under the right side of the temple, south of the altar. Drop down. Then he said to me, this water flows towards the eastern region.

Jerusalem, eastern region is the Dead Sea, all right? It goes down to the valley and enters the sea, the Dead Sea. When it reaches the sea, its waters are healed. Today, there's a Dead Sea.

Sea always speaks of humanity. Sea always speaks of mankind as a whole, amen? The waves roaring, spewing its foam because it's restless. The sea is restless. Mankind is restless.

Amen. That's why Jesus calmed the storm. Only He can calm the storm. So the dead seem is what?

They are dead. They are dead, cut off from God. They are dead. Amen.

You can call it mental health issues, whatever it is. I got physical problems. I got this problem, that problem.

Death can even come into a marriage, you know. I'm not enjoying my married life. Whatever it is, it's death. A Dead Sea.

Jesus wants to save them. Jesus came to conquer death. So this river is a secret. When it reaches the sea, its waters are healed. It shall be that every living thing that moves wherever the rivers go will live.

What's going to happen if you pray in the Spirit and you meet someone dead? Just a shake hand, they'll live. Because of the waters that you issue from the sanctuary.

Now, I'm talking about the two sides of wisdom here. Because today you are the temple of God. But in future, this is a future fulfillment by the way, there will be a temple of Ezekiel.

There will be a temple, excuse me, not temple of Ezekiel, but rather the prophecy of Ezekiel, the vision of Ezekiel will happen in the future. From Jerusalem, the waters will flow out. You know what they found out recently? On Mount Zion, right? Mount Moriah, they found out that there are water currents being heard underneath.

They have the instruments now to find that out. So one day it will be released, the rivers will be living water, and then it shall be that everything that moves, every living thing that moves, wherever the rivers go will live, there'll be a very great multitude of fish. Salvation.

I'll make you fishers of men, because these waters go there, for they will be healed, and everything will live wherever the river goes. Wherever you go when you are praying in the Spirit will live. Now, you understand why you step into a boutique or a restaurant, no one is there.

After you are there for a while, people come in there. Wendy and I see that all the time. Amen.

You are good for business, you believers. I think it's in Zephaniah or Zechariah. It says, so will I say for you, and you shall be a blessing.

You, all of you, will be a blessing. Amen. Next verse.

And it shall be that fishermen will stand by it from to un-gallium. There will be places for spreading their nets. Their fish will be of the same kind.

Drop down, all right? Its swarms and marshes will not be healed. They'll be given over to salt.

So, one part of the Dead Sea is healed. All kinds of fishes are there. But another part is not healed.

How can that be when your Bible, you open your Bible, not now, you open your Bible to the last pages, right? You have the maps. And the maps give you the outline of the Dead Sea. It has this sliver of land that comes out.

It's one whole Dead Sea. Let me show you 1972 satellite from NASA. Alright.

You see the, it's one Dead Sea, right? You can see the sliver of land. That sliver has been growing and growing. And what Ezekiel saw in vision was that there are now like two Dead Seas.

The north part, that if you draw a straight line in the east side all the way up, it goes to Jerusalem. The waters are released from there. And when the waters hit the Dead Sea, the northern part is healed and there'll be fishes.

But there's a part that's given to salt. It will not be healed. How come? If it's one date, see how come one part, you know, doesn't make sense. So some people laugh, some people say, you know, Bible is like, you know, it's not according to geography even.

But no one is laughing now. This is 1972. Another satellite photo. It's covered. There's a land bridge now. We were there recently.

We can stand at Qomran Caves there, and we can see the entire place, bridge. Many of you have seen that. Now there's a North Sea, South Sea. We are being, I believe we are getting ready for little water coming into, constant torrential river coming into the Dead Sea, healing it.

It's a picture. It will happen in the future. Literally, it will happen. But the spiritual truth is this. Everything that will happen in the future, we can enjoy the foretaste as the children of God.

For we are kind of first fruits of His creation. We enjoy it now. I say we enjoy it now.

So imagine if you pray in the Spirit all day long before you talk to your child. Amen? Before you fetch your child or before you go into a hard conversation, pray in the Spirit.

Pray in the Spirit. Pray in the Spirit. When you're tired, you don't feel like praying. The devil want to jam your mouth.

Has he succeeded? Do you want to live a long, happy life? How do you not speak evil? If you speak good, now there's positive instruction. If you're speaking in tongues, speaking in the Spirit, singing, Psalms, hymns, spiritual songs, there's no room for evil words.

You drive your car and someone just, you know, always driving car for pastors is the problem. All right, so we drive our car and someone just overtakes us like that, go like, because your mouth, the devil wants your mouth to speak bad things so that you cannot speak good things. But you don't know what to say to the person, right? You say, amen. And then you drive on your way to work and then you feel like you're stressed, amen.

Thy loving kindness, remember don't look up, okay. Thy loving kindness is better than life. Thy loving, and people passing by will be wondering, he's listening to a hot song, okay. A real good song, whatever, I wonder what.

And they'll see the joy of the Lord. And I tell you, stress will just, will just melt like butter on a hot day. By the time you arrive to your destination. So, this is the part the devil want to jam.

And I want to unjam it, and time is up. God bless all of you. I only skim the surface.

Remember, because the waters flow out from the... So in other words, Ezekiel is saying, when you pray in the Spirit... Amen.

You will produce food for your soul, for your spirit. We all need food, revelation, knowledge, food. Not only that, your leaf will not wither.

The idea of evergreen, like the trees planted by the rivers of water, evergreen, will not fade. And then we see the Holy Spirit defining the leaf also as medicine. The more you pray in the Spirit, you are applying the best medicine known to man.

So yes, God can heal you. In one instant, God heals you by the gift of healing. Why aren't you glad God is so rich? It's called the manifold grace of God.

Amen. You can pray in the spirit, Holy Spirit, I have this problem. I don't know why this pain has been here for some time, but you know, pray for my healing.

So, karababaraba. I tell you this, while you're doing that, you're also being freed from stress. Maybe God want to free you from stress first before He brings the healing.

But you know, something is being done because you are praying to the only one who can really do something about it. Amen. If you are here today, my friend, and you have never made Jesus your Savior, your Lord, you have never put your trust in Him, Jesus says, if you are thirsty, come unto Me and drink.

If you believe on Me, out of your innermost being will flow rivers of living water. Pray this prayer with me. If you need help to pray, follow me in this prayer. Mean it from your heart.

He is listening to you. Say, Father God, I confess Jesus Christ is my Lord. I believe you raised him from the dead.

I believe you have glorified Christ at your right hand. Therefore, baptize and fill me with your Holy Spirit. Because Jesus Christ is my Lord.

In Jesus' name. Amen. Babarababaramahantara.

Stand to your feet and pray in tongues for a while. Shekarababaramahantarabakaya. Amen.

As I bless you, keep on praying in the spirit. Get back. When it's just unjammed, you find it a bit hard. It's like a trickle. Then slowly, slowly after a few hours, it's a stream and then it becomes, all right, keep that river flowing.

And wherever it goes, life will come forth. Fruitfulness and life in place of the curse and death. Amen. This coming week.

The Lord bless you, all of you, with the blessings of Abraham. The Lord bless you with favor everywhere you go. The Lord bless you in your marriage. The Lord bless you in your parenting. The Lord bless you in all that you undertake this week.

May you see. the manifestation of the blessing of the Lord upon you and your loved ones. That it might be said of you that was said of Obed-Edom, the blessing of the Lord resteth on all that he has.

Thank you, Father, in Jesus' name. And protect us from sickness and disease, from danger and harm throughout this week, and from all the power of the evil one. In the name of Jesus.

And all the people said, Amen. God bless you. You are dismissed. I hope you enjoyed today's episode. But don't go just yet.

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Harnessing the Power of Words and Faith