I'm pastor Stephen Brooks and welcome
today to our Wednesday morning midweek
Bible study called morning glory I'm so
happy that you are here today I believe
that God's Word will build you up strong
in the faith and that you will be
empowered to do everything that God has
called you to do now today we are going
to be in Psalm number one let's turn
over there today and let's talk about
the subject of whatever you do shall
prosper
praise the Lord so we will be in Psalm 1
we're going to start in verse 1 and
let's open up today in prayer Heavenly
Father as we jump into your word we ask
that your Holy Spirit would illuminate
the Scriptures so that your word is a
Living Word to us that we can take it
and consume it as our source of
spiritual nourishment and food we thank
you Father that your word does feed us
and that we are strong in faith and that
we are walking out your plan for our
lives we give you all of the praise
today we bless you in Jesus name we all
agree around the world today and say
Amen now verse 1 blessed is the man the
word blessed in the hebrew means
empowered to prosper okay so if you are
in Christ you are blessed you may not
feel like you are empowered to prosper
but walking in faith requires that we do
not walk by feelings in other words we
don't walk by sight we walk by faith not
by sight and what that scripture means
which is a statement that the Apostle
Paul made under inspiration of the Holy
Spirit is that we are not living by
external circumstances or external
indicators to dictate what we believe
what we believe is the Word of God and
that is what we choose to live our lives
by so you are empowered to prosper
you may not feel like it don't go by
feelings go by faith and you will see
that it is true
blessed empowered to prosper is the man
who walks not in the counsel of the
ungodly now we are aware of the counsel
of the ungodly in the sense that there
are voices out there that would counsel
you to do things that would run opposite
of what God's Word would direct us to do
for instance somebody could say it's
good to invest in this particular
company because they are a profitable
company but if you go and look at the
company and you see what their product
is it could be something that's you know
killing people literally you know you
have corporations that make money
sending people to an early grave
you have the tobacco industry you have
the alcohol industry you have many
things that do not help humanity they
actually hurt people so you don't want
to walk in the counsel of the ungodly
because an ungodly person would say well
it doesn't matter long as you're making
money who cares if people are dying from
it or if it's destroying families who
cares as long as you're making money but
my friends we are aware of things like
that that would be out there but we are
not going to follow that type of counsel
who walks not in the counsel of the
ungodly nor stands in the path of
sinners okay
so we're not going to stand in the path
or a direction that sinners go come on
pastor Steven go with me to the bar no
I'm I'm not going to any bars I'm not
going to any clubs people know that I
haven't had anybody asked me to go with
them but that's that is the path of the
sinners pastor Steven it's five o'clock
works over let's go down to the bar and
have some drinks no that's that's not
the kind of life that I live that's what
sinners do but that's not what we as
Saints do so I don't stand in the path
of sinners nor sits in the seat of the
scornful the scornful the armchair
critics those that scored mock ridicule
regardless of who is in office
politically with regards of who the
leader would be regards regardless of
how good they're doing you know these
people they just constantly cast scorn
well we're not going to be like that it
says in verse two but his delight now
when it's talking about delight it's
talking about something that makes you
happy something that you enjoy doing Oh
pastor Steve and I I love cooking I I I
love to cook as a hobby I get great
delight in that Pastor Steven well my
thing is astronomy I have a big
telescope and I like to look at the moon
at night okay that's all cool see it
says his delight is in the law of the
Lord so it's fun to have hobbies it's
fun to have interest but you should have
a great interest and the love I wouldn't
call it a hobby but a joy in the things
of the Lord in the things of when it
says the law we're talking about the
commandments of God or as we know it the
Word of God so your delight should be in
the Word of God well pastor Steven
that's boring
well that's why a connection is not
being made now while we can enjoy the
various interest of the things God has
put in our hearts we all like certain
things I think that we really need to
love the Lord and love his word and when
your delight is in the word and you just
you're just like lord I I tell you what
Lord I just absolutely love your word
now when you love his word you also love
his ways you realize the wisdom of God
the strategy of God how he makes
everything work in the most amazing ways
all of his loss makes sense everything
he does has order and beauty to it and
so when you start to delight in that
really you're on the right path to great
increase in your life but here's delight
is in the law of the Lord or as we would
say from a New Testament New Covenant
perspective his delight is in the Word
of God and in his law in his word he
meditates day and night
that means and here's the challenge that
means when you get up in the morning
what is your meditation well at pastor
Stephen for me it's the news I flip on
the news and look I'm not saying there's
anything wrong with the news and I think
in our culture we've almost become
programmed to check to news which is in
many ways repetitive it's the morning
news is the same thing we heard last
night and then the afternoon news okay
we get a little bit of a refresh update
but it's just cyclical it kind of gets
repeated over and over same stories over
and over and you have the literal
Talking Heads just talking the same
thing over and over but really if you
want to come into where the blessings of
the Lord are at you have to start
working these principles and it says and
it is law he meditates day and night so
really the Word of God if you'll get to
a point in the morning where you're
thinking about it in the morning and you
you're thinking about it at night when
you get to a to a point like that it's
really gonna start changing your world
now it says he meditates meditating day
and night on the Word of God the word
meditate is referring to the Hebrew word
that means to in our English language it
means literally to mutter so when you
are meditating in the Hebrew mindset the
the biblical form of meditation
which is the only form of meditation
that there should be you know there's
Eastern meditation which is basically
empty your mind go off in the no-man's
land and just you know let your mind
become this you know open portal for
whatever wants to come in well something
will certainly want to come in and often
it wouldn't of course be from the Lord
so my friends don't go into the Eastern
mysticism and their forms of meditation
where you quote into yourself go into
the biblical Hebraic form
which is what it means to literally
mutter now what you're muttering is the
law of the Lord or the Word of God you
are speaking it and and mutter is
usually spoken in a way where it's kind
of like under your voice or it's quietly
you're not telling others you're not
talking to others you're talking to
yourself and you're talking that word
you know in a way where you can hear it
not not loudly for others this is just
for you but you're meditating that word
and it means to to mutter to speak it
out in his law in the word you are a
person who meditates day and night so
when you get to a place where at night
time you're not just watching hours and
hours of TV although I'm sure the Lord
is not against TV yeah you know the Lord
is to one releasing the technology for
television and things like that
television is wonderful but if you if
you let these other things crowd out the
word that's when the power of the word
will become weak in your life and you'll
see the promises but you're thinking why
are they are not producing in my life
it's because you really have to work
this and so you're meditating you are
muttering constantly day and night
morning afternoon evening late at night
you're muttering that word that you that
you know that you are attracted to that
word that is nourishing you you're
you're muttering it speaking it out
mulling it over thinking it over
pulling the juice out of it receiving
the life and the nourishment out of it
and as you continue to do that day by
day the word becomes well let me say it
like this the promises that are in God's
Bible in his word they start to seem
believable they start to instead of like
too good to be true when you initially
hear about something it starts to become
you know a way of thank you like this is
going to happen I really start
to believe in a sense because faith is
getting strong in me I'm really gonna
I'm really starting to believe you know
I've got this thing in the Lord God's
gonna do this this is going to happen
but that only begins to unfold through
constant meditation that is done
day and night not on all of these
external things like the news it is so
easy to meditate negative news it is so
easy to meditate problems and worries
and concerns but to do that it's not
going to produce anything good in your
life actually to do that it would
produce number one the first thing that
would start operating would be fear
you're going to have fear in your life
you're going to have worry and all types
of concerns and that the reason that is
happening is not because they're it's
not that there aren't real problems out
there but it's because you're meditating
on the wrong thing so we are told what
to meditate on and that is the word of
the Lord now for the person who does
this we start to move now into the
incredible proofs and results and
blessings that are clearly evidenced in
the life of the believer who works these
principles now watch this he shall be
like a tree planted by the rivers of
water he shall be like a tree now I've
said this before in my teachings that
often in the Old Testament you'll see
people symbolized through trees and
you'll see a tree mentioned in the Old
Testament but the tree is in a reference
to a person or a forest of trees a whole
bunch of trees perhaps in reference to
an army symbolically along along that
line so look at yourself as a tree
because you're going to grow strong and
big and tall and you're going to be well
nourished because you are plugged into
the river to the water that's right next
to you now here on the property of the
ministry property here in Moravian falls
we have been planting quite a
you ever green trees and in somebody's
we're just getting started we're gonna
plant a whole lot more but it was only
about maybe five or six weeks ago we
planted two redwood trees now these are
not the the type that are out in
California I sure would love to have
some of those trees here and of course
if you've ever been to see the redwoods
out in California that is one of the
most amazing sights and actually Sequoia
National Forest is probably one of the
prettiest places in America but that's
also a biosphere so you can plant those
trees somewhere else and they're not
going to get that big in other parts of
the country because it's more than just
a tree it's the area that it's in but
nevertheless we plan it to redwoods here
and they are called dwarf redwoods but
they're still redwoods so they're going
to get real big and we put those things
into the ground about five or six weeks
ago put really good fertilizer in there
and we have just watered those trees
like crazy and it has also been raining
a whole lot for those of you that live
in the Carolinas you know what I'm
talking about
but it's been raining like crazy plus
we've been watering those trees just all
the time and they're already taller than
I am I mean it's almost like I can
literally see them growing with my own
eyes they every time I pull into the
parking lot here and I look it over at
those trees I'm like they've gotten
taller again and they're getting wider
and bigger oh what an amazing thing I
believe that's a picture of your life
that as you meditate day and night not
on the news but as you meditate day and
night not all not on all the bad stuff
going on out there but as you meditate
day and night on the word of the Lord
you're going to Bri you're going to be
just like that tree that's getting all
of that water and you're gonna grow
you're just gonna take off and grow whoo
this is amazing he shall be Planet like
a tree that's you he shall be Planet
like a tree excuse me he shall be like a
tree planted by the rivers of water that
brings forth its fruit in its season
I'm here to tell you today it's your
season this is your moment this is your
hour this is your time where it is fruit
producing time in your life you're
plugged into the word you are receiving
the things that you need spiritually to
equip you and it is time to grow and
produce amazing fruit in every area of
your life that brings forth its fruit in
its season whose leaf also shall not
wither you're not going to have any
dryness you you're not gonna have any
setbacks I would say this you're not
going to have any these falling away
moments anymore that stuff's all over
with when you are planted right by that
River and your roots are going down that
means your devotional life is strong
these are times where you are dialed in
into the secret place this is not like
when you first got saved and you know
maybe you would pray one day and then
three weeks later maybe you'd pray again
no this is like you know that your walk
with God is vibrant and fresh you're not
yielding that to the enemy for any for
anything and so your leaf is not going
to wither you will always carry out an
anointing you will always be fresh you
will always be sharp of mind you will
walk in health and strength and vitality
and the enemy will not catch you off
guard your leaf also shall not wither
say Amen praise the Lord no more
withering no more shrinkage no more
going backwards praise God you're moving
forward now these are promises that are
associated with the person the man the
woman the boy or girl who chooses to
meditate day and night up on the word of
the Lord and it says next now get ready
for this one get ready for this one and
whatever he does shall prosper
prospering in your job prospering in
your family prospering in your
relationships prospering in your
investments you're just you
are prospering in every compartment of
your life why because it's not my luck
that these things are happening it's not
my accident that somehow maybe as some
say you were born under a lucky star
we know that's a bunch of baloney no
it's because you are working the word
you are in it day and night there is
life in the word there is power in the
word and as you meditate on that
life-giving word while it's working
praise the Lord
when you give God your attention to what
he says then he will give you his
attention and the blessings really flow
now again let me read this and whatever
he does shall prosper whatever he does
well pastor Stephen I'm not really doing
anything well you need to do something
because he can't prosper zero okay in
other words it needs to be something
that you put your hands to something
while pastirada
I don't know what to do well find
something to do okay if you're if you're
meditating the word day at night then
you need to find something to do B and
I'm sure you have something okay there
just look around but the Lord will begin
to bless whatever he does Wow
now stop and think about that that is a
name a given statement sometimes when
people don't walk close with God I'm
talking about Christians who don't walk
close with God they look at things like
this like this in the Bible they say
well I know it's there
it must be true but it's not working for
me it's not it's not touching my life at
all why because their mind is on
everything but what God said mm-hmm Wow
pray use the Lord this is amazing now if
you will meditate day and night I'm not
saying it's easy it takes discipline and
when you get up in the morning you know
you may be used to just pumping into
yourself one hour of news and maybe you
watch it on TV maybe you listen to it on
the radio or internet you just you're
just absorbing news and it's all
negative it's all bad
it may be a real challenge for you
instead to listen to a faith-building
message from the Word of God it may be a
real challenge to you instead to pray or
to open up your Bible and begin to get
into the word but I'm telling you if you
do that if you go that route instead of
eating all of this rotten stuff of the
world if you will do this instead if
this will work for you and it will work
quickly as a matter of fact when it says
whatever he does shall prosper this
promise will work any place it will work
anywhere it will work any time it will
work for any person why because God is a
covenant-keeping god
well pastor Stephen how does it work I
mean it says and whatever he does shall
prosper what what what is the driving
force behind this it's God and really
it's you have to understand that this
prospering of your life whatever it is
that you're doing I mean everything you
do is working if you plant tomatoes they
grow well if you go buy a car you you
you get a good you get a good car if you
go to buy clothes you're the clothes
work out everything just everything's
working if you take a trip it's a great
trip if you go do this this works if you
try that I think I'll try that
that works what's going on whatever he
does shall prosper you have to
understand that the source of this
empowerment is coming from the Lord and
it's a it's a direct result of you
meditating on the word and making
application of that word into your life
you're meditating on it you're like Lord
this is right this is what I must do
Lord I'm meditating on your word and I
see that I've I have not been doing some
things that I should be doing so you
make those adjustments and you just
meditate the word and you apply the word
to your life and as you continue and
continue to do that the prosperity
anointing gets stronger and stronger on
your life praise God
now I want to share something with you I
thought it was
I already knew about this for several
years I had heard scientists talk about
it but I guess now that others are
beginning to hear about it it is quite
fascinating here's the scoop we've been
flying airplanes you know as far as you
know humans have now for over a hundred
years and people think well because
we've got you know planes in the sky and
all these airlines and people fly by the
millions literally every single day then
we've got everything figured out about
aviation
but I knew years ago the truth is that
scientists the most brilliant scientists
still cannot explain how the wings on an
airplane work and let me get into this
just for a moment because it really ties
in with what we're talking about here's
an article on Scientific American and
their articles are very technical but
they are written also in a sense where a
layman can understand it without too
much technical jargon Scientific
American and the article which was
published February the 1st 2020 ok so
this is a current year article says no
one can explain why planes stay in the
air ok so here we are 2020 Scientific
American coming out with an article that
says no one can explain why planes stay
in the air so here's what people think
people think well Pastor Steven oh no we
know why because we got this figured out
years ago what happens is that with the
airplanes wing if the you get the plane
with a lot of thrust and get it going
real fast that wind starts going beneath
the wing and that wind pushes the wing
up and the plane goes up no that's not
why it happens
oh well Pastor Steven this is why it's
the wind going over top of the wing and
that wind going over the top of the roof
Wayne creates like a vacuum and that
pulls it up no that's not why either
well pastor Stephen why why does it work
nobody knows nobody knows and we thought
it was figured out it's not figured out
and so let me come back to the
scriptures in just a moment but lint but
listen to this
in brief here are the points mentioned
in this article on a strictly
mathematical level engineers know how to
design planes that will stay aloft but
equations don't explain why aerodynamic
lift occurs mm-hmm there are two
competing theories that illuminate the
forces and the factors of lift but both
are incomplete explanations ok
aerodynamicist you know scientists that
study flight have recently tried to
close the gaps in understanding but
still no consensus exists so here we are
in 2020 and no scientists no matter how
brilliant brilliant they are can explain
there's not one on the planet that can
explain why an airplane goes up
Oh Pastor Steven we've got that figured
out nope nobody's got it figured out not
one person living on the planet has that
figured out the only person that knows
is God why is that not wild
now I haven't forgotten where I'm at I'm
in Psalm 1 and we are holding in verse 3
and I want to come back to this in just
a moment the scripture whatever he does
shall prosper I haven't forgotten where
we're at but listen to this let me just
read a little snippet of the article in
December 2003 to commemorate the 100th
anniversary of the first flight of the
Wright brothers ok as you know from here
in Kitty Hawk North Carolina okay the
New York Times in 2003 ran a story
entitled saying staying aloft
what does keep them up there the point
of the piece was a simple question what
keeps planes in the air to answer it
the times turn to John Dee Anderson jr.
curator of air
dynamics at the National Air and Space
Museum and author of several textbooks
in the field
what Anderson said however is that there
is actually no agreement on what
generates the aerodynamic force known as
lift here's what he said there is no
simple one-liner answer to this he told
the times people give different answers
to the question
some with religious fervor more than 15
years after that pronouncement there are
still different accounts of what
generates lift each with its own
substantials rank of zealous defenders
at this point in the history of flight
this situation is slightly puzzling why
should it be so hard for scientists to
explain what keeps birds and airliners
up in the air and it's 20/20 and still
nobody can figure it out now here's what
I want to tell you that if you will
meditate in the Word of God day and
night and what you meditate upon okay
what's your muttering and you're getting
that word into your spirit what you
meditate upon you act on okay you apply
it to your life because remember James
said don't just be a hearer of the word
but also be a doer okay so as you
meditate and then make application of
that word let me tell you this you will
go up in other words the Lord says
whatever he does shall prosper that's
you getting flight that's you getting
the lift and you go up well I don't
understand how that works
welcome to the human race welcome to the
planet called Earth there's a lot of
things about God and his laws you don't
have to understand and if I can say this
humbly to you you may live on this
planet for the rest of your life and
never understand technically how it
works but let me add this one point you
don't need to you don't need to
understand what makes the plane go up
and stay there you just need to design
the wing and do the aerodynamic testing
on the wing and make sure it's all safe
and balanced right and stuff like that
and you'll go up you'll go up the plan
not only will you go up here's what's
amazing
you will stay up while the pastor steep
and I'm just afraid that if I ever did
break out got a little prosperity that
within a few weeks it would all collapse
it can't collapse because can't you see
the law can't collapse I'm not talking
about the law of Moses I'm talking about
these spiritual and even natural laws
that not only will get you up as long as
you keep obeying them and operating them
they will keep you up
all paths just even that believer over
there that's just always doing so good
they're just lucky no no lucky look look
luck is random chance maybe you can make
it happen once but you can't replicate
that scientifically and do it over and
over and at the same time see science
scientists want proof by let's do a test
and do it over and over and if it's
scientific we should get the same
results so we're not playing the lottery
you know we're one person out of you
know 300 million it only only is going
to win that's what you know in other
words well you might get up but you're
gonna that's the only time you're going
to get up and if you ever did
who knows how you're to get back down
you pop go to crash no we're talking
about laws that have been proven to work
even if you don't understand them if you
will just obey them they'll keep you up
well I don't see pastor Stephen how just
meditating on the word do it and what
God says to do see that's also called
delighting yourself in the law of God
you you're into it I mean this is stuff
that you would you realize hey this is
this is where the bread and butter is
that this is the steak of potatoes just
do what God said to do keep your mind on
what God said oh but pastor Steven you
don't know how bad things are out there
I know I'm just not meditating on that
I'm aware of it sure because you hear it
you you know even without a TV or radio
or or internet connection just walking
around people talk about it just walking
around you can also see things also just
walking around you can feel certain
tensions
certain cities and things like that but
also we do you know we see news and I
check the news and things like that but
I check it get the update and then I
just move on I don't dwell on it or
really dig into it because this just
goes downwards a downward spiral
so my friends just keep moving with the
Lord and stay meditating on that word
day and night you'll find out you'll
keep going up even with all the crazy
stuff going on though out there yes
it'll still work yes
well Pastor Steven how can it work when
we all of these things the news is
talking about it seems like the contract
countries having so many problems the
world's going through such turmoil I'm
just telling you that right now
even with all the problems faced in the
world let me tell you this you can get
on an airplane and still go out and fly
today and the plane will go up and it'll
stay up as long as you work those laws
of aerodynamics it will still go up
well Pastor Steven like the article said
though we don't understand it you don't
need to understand it you just need to
obey it mmm what am i doing today I'm
stripping away all excuses from those
who say it won't work for me it will
work for any believer who will work it
Wow but Pastor Steven you don't know
where I live
okay so you're saying an airplane won't
fly where you live yes it will hmm just
go look out all you have to do is go
outside and look up and if you see an
airplane flying over near or around
wherever you're at know that where
you're at spiritual laws still work
natural laws still work and if you work
God's lost he's the author of them he
put them in motion then you can begin to
go up right where you're at
regardless of anything that anything
that society culture or the world would
look and say oh you can't make it
because of that in your life you can't
you can't do well because of that in
your life none it's all irrelevant in
the eyes of the Lord all you need to do
meditate day and night on the word and
walk out what it is you're meditating on
live the word obey it just keep on going
what will happen you will start to
prosper in every single thing that you
do right where you're at right where
you're at
boom praise God it is amazing it's an
amazing reality and it's
something that we really need to let
sink into our hearts let me give you two
two examples of this whatever he does
shall prosper so this again as a result
of delighting yourself in the word of
the Lord okay you're so into it that
you're you're literally muttering it out
underneath your breath day and night
lord I thank you I praise you I believe
your word and your speaking certain
scriptures and you may not understand
how they work you don't need to they'll
still work if you obey them here's one
and I talked about this one just a few
days ago but let's just take a look at
it
Luke Luke chapter 6 I'm gonna give you
one example Luke chapter 6 verse 38 you
may not know how it works but as long as
you work it it will work for you give
and it will be given to you now hold on
just a moment somebody would say that
doesn't make any sense
if you give you have just subtracted
from your life and if you give how do
you know somebody's gonna give back to
you see again that's getting over into
the mental or somebody would say now we
need to understand this all before we do
it no you don't just go get on the plane
pay your ticket get on the plane and fly
on it you don't have to understand it to
enjoy it oh you don't have to try to
reverse-engineer and dissect it and tear
it all apart just obey it it works give
ok and it shall be given unto you well I
still don't understand that they still
don't understand how an airplane stays
up either they still haven't figured it
out and if they haven't figured that out
and now those are some pretty smart men
and women PhDs and engineering PhDs in
you know all these areas of aerospace is
so if they haven't figured that out you
know these other things yeah you know
I'm just saying obey it don't be so
logical in the sense with all of these
things just enjoy it give and it will be
given to you it and it will good measure
pressed down shaken together running
over with good with good
measure shall been given to your bosom
hmm praise the Lord
with the same measure that you give out
it will be measured back to you Wow
pray used to Lord here's another one
here's another spiritual all this one's
wild this is this is one that really
separates in the church those that have
I would say normal faith from great
faith okay here it is and here's here's
the one that also people they think it
doesn't make any sense so why should I
do that
it's also like saying it doesn't make
any sense that this wind is passing
beneath and over Neath the wing doesn't
make any sense how this is not we can't
figure it out it doesn't matter but look
at this it still works look at this mark
11 verse 24 therefore I say to you
whatever things you ask when you pray
believe that you receive them
there's the hinge pin right there when
you ask God for something in prayer okay
a car a house if you're single you know
a godly spouse whatever it might be
the moment you ask in prayer Jesus said
believe right then at that moment
believe you receive them and you will
have them now why don't were what I do
that pastor Stephen why would I believe
I'd receive it when I look around this
obviously I obviously haven't received
it yet see you're getting over into the
natural again you're trying to look at a
spiritual law a spiritual principle and
you're trying to say I don't see how
that could work you're the same person
as the engineer looking at the wings of
an airplane saying I just don't see how
that thing's getting up but yet it is
isn't it and that it's like the
Christian looking at verse 24 I just
don't see how that makes and you said I
don't see how that's gonna work and they
sit back analyzing and they never
receive but all you have to do is when
you pray ask and while you're praying at
what and you ask God for that thing
right then believe that you have
received it and Jesus said you
you'll have it and you just stay on that
you stay on that now if you've asked for
something large it could take longer for
your faith to pull that in if you've
asked something smaller it's probably
gonna show up sooner
you know if let's say that like a car
for instance you you ask God for a car
well if you ask God maybe for you know
like a used you know nice used Toyota
maybe you can go out and get one within
you know a couple of weeks maybe a
couple of months but if you've if you're
asking God for a brand new Rolls Royce
well you you don't need a Toyota faith
you need Rolls Royce faith so if your
faith is developed for Rolls Royce and
it's not like that God cares just to him
it's just a car I mean you're talking
about I mean well Pastor Steven the
difference is several hundred thousand
dollars yeah what's that the God as if
God is concerned about that that that's
totally irrelevant to him to him it's
just a vehicle
yeah it's whatever you want but you know
you're gonna have to work with your
faith so I'm just saying when you ask
realize also your faith is involved in
that so you're gonna have to sustain
that faith and build that faith for that
why cause you're believing what Jesus
said the moment you've asked you've got
it and in the spirit you have it's not
like God said no he said yes he agreed
with you so just hang in there stay in
faith keep working your faith and you'll
see the rest of that verse manifested
where Jesus said and you shall have it
I don't understand that there's a lot of
things we don't understand including the
classic example still today and our
super high-tech world which maybe is not
so super high-tech after all when we
can't even figure out what keeps the
plane up there my friends I'm just
telling you God knows what he's doing he
knows how to get you up and if you will
just work it you'll find out it will
work for you all right so let me pray
for you Heavenly Father I just thank you
for those that maybe would feel a little
bit discouraged that maybe they feel
that they bait some efforts and some
good pushes but didn't quite see the
results yet that they're looking for I
pray that you would encourage them to
get back on track
to get back on your word to get back on
your promises especially the one that
says that whatever they do will prosper
that that would light a fire in them and
that they would believe it and stand on
it and refuse to ever come off of it for
anything father we thank you that they
would meditate day and night on your
word so that any attempts of the devil
and he certainly does make attempts to
rub that word from them that would be
blocked thank you Father God let your
people be diligent
let them be faithful to your word and
really stick with it and be like that
tree that's just growing and growing so
father we thank you for results in
proofs and miracles and we thank you for
the reality that whatever they do is
prospering praise you Lord praise you
Lord that you look and see it hallelujah
there are proofs I think you for valid
tangible proofs in the life of your
people thank you Father
in Jesus name in Jesus name hallelujah
glory glory hallelujah I feel like
somebody got there Kendall real it today
thank you Father
well if you're watching today also and
you're intrigued about the things of God
well but you don't know Jesus as your
Lord and Savior I'd like to give you an
opportunity right now to make that right
with the Lord if you want to give your
heart to Christ and receive his eternal
life into your spirit and also receive
forgiveness of your sins if you want to
leave behind the life of sin and live
for the Lord right now pray this after
me say Lord Jesus come into my heart I
give my heart I give my life to you wash
all of my sins away write my name in
your book of life right now thank you
Jesus thank you for saving me right now
amen and amen that he has heard your
prayer
and he just answered your prayer you now
belong to him if you're watching today
and you you have been a Christian but
you followed away from the Lord
and you haven't been serving the Lord
and you're you're starting to drift bad
and look any drifting at all it's not
good but some of you you've come across
this program and you're way away from
the Lord and you know you are but God's
touching your heart the Holy Spirit is
touching your heart and you don't want
it you don't want to be away from him
anymore
let's make it right pray this prayer
right now say Jesus please forgive me of
my sins I come back to you right now now
Lord re-established me I thank you thank
you for healing me and restored me thank
you for holding me and thank you for
that you've never let go of me Lord I'm
back to stay thank you Lord Jesus in
your name I pray amen
and a man and Jesus said that the
Shepherd would leave the one hundred
would leave the ninety-nine to go get
the one so that's what he's done he's
reached out today and he's pulled you
back in and He loves you and you're not
going to be drifting any more praise God
praise the Lord let's take holy
communion today and if you've never
taken communion before it's not
technical it's very simple just get a
little wafer I use these little bitty
flat wafers you can buy them on the
Internet
we have a Christian bookstore we go to
that we get to get them from we buy
whole bunches of them but you get a
little cracker if you don't have one of
these and some grape juice and this
we're gonna pray over it and as we pray
over it it will be blessed by the Lord
and then it will be the body and the
blood of Christ our Savior pastor
Stephen adults I don't understand that
one well there's a lot in the kingdom
that is just a divine mystery how about
that we've been flying jets and all
kinds of things and still nobody knows
even the most brilliant people
nobody knows all Pastor Steven but
so-and-so had the theory that no no that
theory didn't prove anything nobody
knows nobody knows you know I've read
them all - I've read you know Newton's
theory of this so that that explains
that no it doesn't nobody knows
steel what keeps them up there and I
don't know I don't under
and pastor Stephen how this becomes the
body in the blood you don't need to you
just receive what Christ said you said
when you receive it you said this is my
flesh and this is my blood so let's just
honor the Lord right now father we thank
you for the bread and the juice we
sanctify it which is we set it apart is
holy we thank you this is the body and
the blood of Christ our Savior Father we
thank you that your word has many
mysteries and some that we can really we
can grasp but we have to grasp them all
by faith because there's there's
elements of mystery and all of them so
father we just thank you for the promise
of your word we thank you that as we
delight ourself in you and meditate on
your word day and night and apply it to
our lives we thank you that whatever we
do prospers thank you Father for
prosperous blessed healthy marriages and
Families and relationships and
businesses and finances and investments
and ever-increasing expansion of the
preaching of the gospel
thank you Father in Jesus name for the
mighty promises in your word that we
delight to meditate on in Jesus name
Amen let's receive the body of Jesus
Heavenly Father we thank you for the
blood of Jesus and it's mighty cleansing
power we think you fathered that while
Jesus was on the cross all of our sins
all of our all of our most awful things
were placed upon him and he bore them
for us so that he could ransom us from
our sins and father we thank you that he
paid the penalty he took the punishment
that we deserved he took it and we thank
you for him that he did that Oh Lord we
give you praise father thank you for the
blood of Jesus it's mighty cleansing
power that washes all of our sins away
and that as we walk in fellowship with
you that blood is constantly cleansiness
even from things that that we would do
at times that we didn't even know what
was wrong or didn't notice it's
cleansing constantly cleansing us
thank you O God for the cleansing blood
of Jesus we give you praise thank you
father in the name of Jesus amen let's
receive the blood of Christ
praise the Lord my friends as you go
forth today make God's word your delight
speak it out mutter it talk about it yes
you can talk to yourself about the word
you can you can speak it out underneath
your breath and talk it over and just
build yourself up and speak that word
and pray you sky mmm that's good good
good and watch you're going to become
like one of those redwood trees out on
the property just flourishing I mean
growing literally every day stay blessed
I look forward to seeing you next time
bye-bye