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Decreeing Our Identity
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| I believe we can be more than conquerors. | |
| Jim, the only place the devil has is under the saints' feet. | |
| Psalm 16:20. | |
| Psalm 16:20. | |
| I'm at Romans 16:20 said, The God of peace will crush Satan under your feet. | |
| So, what? | |
| The God of peace, not panic. | |
| And how do we keep from panicking? | |
| You listen to the news, you'll panic. | |
| The Bible says, Man's heart's failing them for the things they see coming up on the earth. | |
| Do Isaiah 26:3, thou wilt keep him in perfect peace when on the person whose mind is stayed upon the Lord. | |
| Trust in the Lord Jehovah, for in the Lord Jehovah is everlasting, never-failing peace. | |
| We got to focus on him. | |
| Yes, we look at the problems. | |
| We're not just ignoring them, but let that be your gait, let that be your glance. | |
| Let him be your focus, your gaze. | |
| They looked into the Lord and their faces were enlightened. | |
| We got to realize God meant what he said. | |
| And about this prospering, he said, I wish above all things, beloved, that you would be in health and prosper, even as your soul prospers. | |
| Listen, oh, we got the greatest gift of all. | |
| We're not going to hell. | |
| That's right. | |
| We're prospering. | |
| Amen. | |
| I'm telling you, it says in Colossians 1, 13, he took us out of the family of death and darkness and put us into the family of light, love, and liberation. | |
| I'm telling you guys, whom the sun says free, it's free. | |
| Free indeed. | |
| Oh, man. | |
| I want us to enjoy Jesus. | |
| Jim, I tell them, some people have just enough Jesus to be miserable. | |
| They got him in the head, but not the heart. | |
| They're always mixed up with rules, regulations, stipulations. | |
| Stop it. | |
| He's a friend that sticks closer than a brother. | |
| We need to get to know really Jesus and walk with him and commit ourselves to him. | |
| He's worthy of it. | |
| Wow. | |
| You said recently that this is not a time to be dull and dumb. | |
| Is that right? | |
| Did you say that? | |
| In the word of God. | |
| You need to explain that to me. | |
| All right. | |
| The Bible says, study to show yourself approved unto God a workman that needeth not to be ashamed, rightly dividing the word of truth. | |
| Said, my people are perishing for a lack of knowledge. | |
| John 17:17 says, Sanctify them, the saints of God. | |
| The word sanctify means clean up, set apart for the service of God. | |
| And how do you do it? | |
| With the word. | |
| John 17:17. | |
| And we have got to get back to the word of God. | |
| And listen, this is not just print on paper. | |
| This is a person. | |
| And the word became flesh and dwelt among us. | |
| I'll just be quite honest with you. | |
| You'll never be in the committed to God like you need to be if you're shallow in this word. | |
| My people, that's us, are perishing for a lack of knowledge. | |
| Study the word of God. | |
| The number one question I get asked around the whole world is, how did you memorize the Bible? | |
| I studied it till the oil on my fingers would wear a hole in the and wear the print off the page. | |
| My wife will testify. | |
| I've got a stack of Bibles. | |
| I've done that too. | |
| Now, here's what I'm doing now. | |
| I'm trying to memorize every translation that really speaks to me. | |
| And listen, one great verse, and I'll kind of shut it down. | |
| Ephesians 2:10. | |
| Ephesians 2:10. | |
| I studied that out of every English translation I could find on earth. | |
| Ephesians 2:10, we are his workmanship, created in Christ Jesus unto good works, which God before ordained that we'd conduct ourselves in them. | |
| We're his workmanship. | |
| I looked up the Greek word workmanship. | |
| It means you're the final stroke of a master artist. | |
| So when the devil says to you, who do you think you are? | |
| You go, I'm the best God could do. | |
| You're the final stroke of a master artist. | |
| Get a new appreciation of who you are. | |
| Yes. | |
| You know, identity theft you hear a lot about. | |
| I'll tell you it's rampant in the church. | |
| The devil's stolen our identity. | |
| Well, who are we? | |
| We're sons and daughters of the most high God. | |
| Revelations 1, 5, and 6, unto him that loved us and washed us from our sins in his own blood and has made us to be what? | |
| Priests and kings. | |
| That's an upgrade, don't you think? | |
| It says a priest can solve sticky situations and the word of a king has authority. | |
| You and I need to be so appreciative to the fact that God has put his word within our mouth and we can decree a thing and it will be established. | |
| That's right. | |
| I said in Texas terms, just to stir people up. | |
| Here's what it says: Make up your mind what you want. | |
| Tell God what that is, and he'll get it for you. | |
| That's good. | |
| What? | |
| That can't be in the Bible. | |
| Yes, it is, Job 22:28. | |
| And you shall decide a thing. | |
| Make up your mind. | |
| Then you decree what you've decided, and the Lord will establish it, and the light of his favor will shine upon your pathway. | |