Jim Bakker Show - Stop Talking Old
Aired: 2021-03-04
Duration: 05:00


=== Stop Talking Old (03:47) ===

[00:00:00]  Cindy, you said something that God spoke to you about.
[00:00:04]  Stop talking old.
[00:00:08]  Explain that for what that means, okay?
[00:00:12]  That was actually Michael.
[00:00:13]  That was me.
[00:00:15]  He's older than me, so he should be the one to answer this.
[00:00:22]  Well, the story goes like this.
[00:00:24]  Cindy and I were in Hawaii a couple of years ago and relaxing, having a wonderful time.
[00:00:32]  The Lord spoke to me and he said, Mike, you are talking old.
[00:00:36]  And if you don't stop talking old, your body is listening to what you say and it's going to mold you into exactly what you're saying out of your mouth.
[00:00:46]  And that really shook me up because, you know, I really was.
[00:00:49]  I was telling old jokes and stuff like that.
[00:00:52]  And I said, well, Lord, what am I supposed to do?
[00:00:54]  And he said, go back and look at Caleb in the Bible.
[00:00:57]  And those of you who know that Bible story know that Joshua had sent, or not Joshua, but Caleb had been one of the spies, Joshua and Caleb were the two spies who went into the promised land and came back with a good report.
[00:01:11]  And Caleb is now 85 in the scripture passage.
[00:01:16]  And he's reminiscing.
[00:01:17]  He says, I still have the same strength and vitality that I did when I was 40 years old and I was sent into the promised land.
[00:01:27]  And so the Lord said, that's a biblical precedent.
[00:01:30]  You can make a declaration to your body that you will have the strength and vitality of a 40-year-old, even until your mid-80s.
[00:01:39]  And so that's what I have been consciously doing ever since.
[00:01:43]  And I just say one little benefit of that.
[00:01:46]  Recently, actually, it was now a couple years ago, when I was working on getting a motorcycle permit, the guy that would have an eye test was part of that.
[00:01:59]  And the guy said, why do you have a vision restriction on your driver's license?
[00:02:05]  Your vision is good enough.
[00:02:06]  You don't even need a vision restriction anymore.
[00:02:09]  And sure enough, my vision had improved to the point where when I went in to get my motorcycle endorsement on my license, they took off the restriction.
[00:02:19]  My eyesight had actually improved.
[00:02:22]  Yeah, so he's getting younger.
[00:02:23]  Yeah.
[00:02:24]  And I said, gee, if he's 40, I'm 37.
[00:02:27]  That's pretty good.
[00:02:28]  Yeah.
[00:02:28]  Oh, yeah, but I think that there is truth.
[00:02:32]  You know, I mean, some people say, oh, I'm just old guy, old guy, old guy.
[00:02:36]  But I think that, you know, we're not, we're not saying we're not, you know, we understand that we are older.
[00:02:44]  Okay.
[00:02:44]  But the point is, we agree with divine healing health.
[00:02:49]  We agree that God has given the strength, that our bodies are being daily renewed.
[00:02:54]  And, you know, Mike doesn't take any, I mean, neither of us have any medications.
[00:02:59]  Our blood pressure is perfect.
[00:03:01]  Our heart, our cholesterol, everything.
[00:03:03]  But this is supposed to be the blessing for every believer.
[00:03:06]  If you're watching this and, you know, you're saying to yourself, oh, I never considered that.
[00:03:12]  This happens a lot when I share that testimony.
[00:03:14]  But people go, I never realized that I was speaking things into my life and it was causing something physically to happen with me.
[00:03:25]  By the same token, they begin.
[00:03:27]  People will curse their own destiny.
[00:03:29]  They will speak against the very promises of God.
[00:03:32]  And when they do that, that establishes a dynamic in the spirit that will cause the evil that they're speaking.

=== Believing God's Renewal (01:27) ===

[00:03:42]  Not even that Satan's speaking against you.
[00:03:44]  You'll start speaking against your own destiny.
[00:03:47]  So don't do that.
[00:03:49]  Particularly in this time, it's a time to fill your mouth with the words of God, with the promises of God, because those are the things God wants to bring about in your life.
[00:03:59]  Yeah, we're not criticizing anybody that, you know, maybe you're fighting some kind of sickness or anything like that.
[00:04:06]  We're standing with you, actually.
[00:04:08]  And we're believing with you that God is going to renew your body.
[00:04:12]  And that's why we prayed for you.
[00:04:14]  But I think that that's true.
[00:04:15]  The body, you know, what we speak is important.
[00:04:19]  Death and life is in the power of the tongue.
[00:04:21]  And Jim and Laurie, guys, I mean, God has been, you know, convicting me that, you know, I just started saying anything, you know, I mean, like, you know, oh, I'm afraid I can't or, you know, or I'm so worried about you, you know, and we're southern and I don't know where you're watching, but we're in Dallas, Texas.
[00:04:41]  And, you know, if you're, if you love somebody here, you worry about them, you know, oh, I'm so worried or that just scares me to death for you, you know, or stuff like that.
[00:04:50]  But we don't need to talk like that, right?
[00:04:53]  Yeah.
[00:04:54]  Don't don't curse your friends.
[00:04:56]  Yeah, yeah, yeah.
[00:04:57]  So anyway, that's that's that.
[00:05:00]  Yeah.