The Word of God is essential to every believer. Bill Johnson walks us through the Parable of the Seed and the Sower to further explain our role in cultivating good soil for His promises to thrive in our lives. Let’s come together to see every promise fulfilled that He would be revealed for who He is.

happy father’s day

come on happy father’s day

yes indeed

while the offering bags are being passed

i’m gonna read an oldie but a goodie

anybody ready for an oldie but a goodie

a lawyer and an elderly gentleman are

sitting next to each other on a long

flight

the lawyers thinking he is so much more

intelligent that he could get one over

on this

older man quite easily so the lawyer

asked if the man would like to play a

fun game

the senior’s tired he just wants to take

a nap so he politely declines

tries to go to sleep but the lawyer

persists

he says the game’s a lot of fun i ask

you a question

if you don’t know the answer you pay me

only five dollars

then you ask me one if i don’t know the

answer i pay you 500 dollars

this catches the senior’s attention and

to keep the lawyer quiet he agrees to

play the game

the lawyer asked the first question

what’s the distance from the earth to

the moon the older gentleman doesn’t say

a word

reaches into his pocket pulls out a five

dollar bill hands it to the lawyer

now it’s the senior’s turn he asked the

lawyer

what goes up a hill with three legs and

comes down with four

the lawyer uses his laptop to search all

references he can find

he sends emails to his smart friends to

no avail

after an hour of searching he finally

gives up he wakes up the senior

hands him 500 the senior puts the 500

in his pocket goes right back to sleep

the lawyer’s going nuts not knowing the

answer he wakes up the senior and he

asks well so

what goes up a hill with three legs and

comes down with four

the senior reaches into his pocket and

his lawyer five dollars

[Applause]

and goes right back to sleep

i think i’ve met this guy he’s a hundred

she’s young

it’s awesome i want all the dads in the

room to stand up

if you would yep

thank you thank you guys stay standing

thank you i really believe the anointing

of the lord is on

fathers to help to recalibrate what a

father

is that a father is not one who abuses

who robs who steals but instead

gives and imparts life sets a standard

for sacrificial love

so i pray and declare that over every

one of you i want you to extend your

hand towards one of these

lay your hand on them and here’s what i

want you to do i want you to pray it

in every way you can think of but i want

you to pray for prosperity of soul

because if they get prosperous on the

inside it’ll affect

everything around them including you so

pray for it lift your voices on no quiet

prayers

pray for right now just pray prosperity

of soul

great bounty great increase increase

increase

prosperity of soul prosperity of soul

ask the lord to restore anything that’s

been stolen from them

that this would be the season of

restoration

thank you lord yeah we pray this

abundance

this blessing this increase and every

father and that the role of fatherhood

would be even more profound in its

effect

on culture for this day we ask this for

the honor of the name jesus

everybody said amen just declare over

them we bless you in the name of the

lord

we bless you in the name of the lord

beautiful wow wow

all right let’s have every single mom

stand

with children at home single mom if you

weren’t hearing the last service

sing a mom with children still at home

all right

beautiful all right

stay standing though stay standing

all the single moms not trying to

embarrass you but just stay standing

uh you can pray for them if you want but

i’d rather you give them cash

so bethel family you know what to do

let’s take care of these single moms

let’s go out of our way just a blessing

just

open the wallets walk up to them hand

them cash stay standing though

it’s the only way you’ll be recognized

yep

we’ve got them standing around the room

yep there they are up here

back over there yep

just just give until they’re

uncomfortable

just just give till they’re embarrassed

or something you know

yeah for those who are watching online

sorry we can’t do this for you

but i pray someone does someone does

yeah bless them good bless them good

yeah excellent

go out of your way just prophesy

increase in blessing over their life now

we declare that over you in jesus name

that this would be a season of rich

fulfillment he would make up for

everything that’s been lost

that he’d be the great restorer for you

in this season

amen amen thank you bethel family you

did good as always

good

eric and ken to send their love by the

way they are on vacation

and uh benny and i were on vacation the

last two weeks it was so good we’re

going to take some more coming up

it was we did what people call a

staycation

where you just stay at home oh jesus

i didn’t have to drive anywhere i didn’t

have to fly anywhere

it was heaven on earth it was

it was everything i like about life

at my house swim in a pool that nobody

else swims in

you know what i mean that that that

murky water

none of that at my house no sir this is

we had we had honestly a wonderful

wonderful time we’re gonna do it again

in a couple of weeks so

i want to talk to you today about the

the parable of the seed and the sower

i’ve not talked about it in several

years

that i recall i’m going to take a little

different angle today anyway

um in the gospel of mark

jesus says if you don’t understand this

parable

how will you understand any parable

he’s identifying something that this

parable

is actually key to unlocking all the

others

in this parable is the illustration of

the nature

and the purpose for the word of god

i value the voice of god just more than

anything in life

but my value for the voice of god has to

be represented

in my value for scripture

if i value the voice above scripture

then i’m very open to deception the

voice will never contradict the word

in a day when it’s so easy to have the

bible imprint in various translations

there’s no excuse for biblical

illiteracy

so we give ourselves to the study of

scripture but it is a voice

that brings causes things to come alive

the scripture excuse me the word of god

is the seed the heart

is the soil tender soil

receives a word deeply

and the life of god then brings about

the change

that god intended in thessalonians

paul uses this phrase he says that the

word of god

actually carries in it the the greek

word

actually represents the energy of god

that that the word of god

has the energy of god in it so when god

speaks to you it comes in seed form

to produce in us through the energy of

god functioning in us

bringing about the fruitfulness that he

intended

so the the heart is

the soil the seed is the word of god

jesus gives us an illustration now a

parable if you will

in mark four it’s also in matthew 13.

and this parable is to help us to

understand the process

and purpose for the word of god being

deposited in our life

i want you to look at two passages

before we go to mark four

so if you would open your bibles with me

to hebrews chapter five

and then we’re also going to read out of

james chapter one

i need to set the stage here for a few

minutes so just

be patient with me as we uh try to lay

the groundwork for this

by the way i found a quote this week

that i love so much

it’s from martin luther he says we need

to hear the gospel every day

because we forget it every day

we need to hear the gospel every day

because we forget it every day

and hearing the gospel is what

recalibrates the compass of the heart so

to speak

as to where is true north why we’re

alive

what we’re on the earth to do what is

important in god’s

eyes what is to become important in ours

and all of that stuff becomes defined

in hearing the simplicity the purity the

power of the gospel every day

hebrews chapter 5

verse 12. how many of you have your

bibles

let me see them say this with me i love

my bible oh i do i love my bible

all right verse 12

for though by this time you ought to be

teachers

you need someone to teach you again the

first principles of the oracles of god

and you have come to need milk and not

solid food

for everyone who partakes only of milk

is unskilled

in the word of righteousness for his

obey all right this tells us two things

the word of god comes to us in several

forms or

the word carries several different roles

or assignments

one is the milk of the word the milk of

the word is that which comforts

and encourages the meat

of the word he identifies here as the

word of righteousness

the meat of the word is that which

provokes and brings about change

it’s the transformational word of god it

provokes us

to recognize what god is saying needs to

happen

and it brings us into a place where we

yield to that which god has purpose

so there’s the milk that which comforts

that which

gives encouragement and then there’s the

meat that which confronts

exhorts and provokes us to change but

the third

area that is going to be especially

important for this morning

is the area of promise there are over

7 700 promises of god in the scriptures

in the word of god and what happens

is the lord with his word deposits

promise

in us to describe our hope-filled future

what is possible for us should we

embrace what god has said over our life

and we’re gonna we’re gonna go over that

process in a moment here

so we’ve got the word of god comes uh it

may come in dozens of forms but

there’s three that i understand clearly

one is the comfort of the words the milk

it’s that which soothes gives peace

gives comfort

encourages me the word of righteousness

that which exposes

what’s in me that needs to change and it

gives me the motivation if you will

to pursue the transformation that is the

result of the word of god

and third is that which gives hope it’s

a promise

for a hope-filled future all right three

things

now i want you to look at james chapter

1.

we’ve got one verse to read here and

then we’re going to end up in mark 4 and

read that parable

all right

james chapter 1 verse 21 therefore lay

aside all filthiness and overflow of

wickedness

and receive with meekness the implanted

word

which is able to save your soul

receive with meekness the implanted word

okay so it’s a wonderful picture that

james is giving us here

um new american standard puts it this

way in humility now that’s

that’s uh condition of heart in humility

receive the word implanted which

is able to save your soul the ability

is in the word of god

the life is in the word not the soil

the soil creates the condition the

atmosphere

but the energy of god is in what he said

the energy of god takes root in a person

to illustrate who god is it’s always to

reveal him

so he says in humility so that’s heart

condition

receive the word implanted and here’s

the phrase which is

able to save your souls you say well

bill i was already saved i’ve saved 20

years ago at a camp meeting

that’s awesome you were saved

but you’re also being saved and someday

you’re going to be

saved there’s those three realities all

through scripture

i was saved the moment i received christ

but paul

exhorts his the disciples of jesus he

exhorts them

to work out their salvation daily

with fear and trembling trembling daily

work out your salvation

so that’s that’s the right now process

so there was

yesterday when i received christ there

is today

and then there’s the future when jesus

returns or i die

and i go to meet the lord then i will be

saved salvation will be complete for me

past present future this word

in humility receive the word implanted

which is able to save your souls

is present tense it is the

transformation that takes place in a

person’s life

because of our yes to whatever god

says it’s our ability our willingness

our desire

to hear and to receive what god says and

his very

life and power come into the heart of a

person to bring about the transformation

they could not bring about for

themselves all right

yes bill now oh you know what i didn’t

do in hebrews 5

is i didn’t read verse 14.

are you guys still alive i need you to

hang hang in a few more minutes

and then we’ll get to mark uh four and

hopefully this all makes sense

in chapter five of hebrews verse 14 says

solid food belongs to those who are of

full age

that is those who by reason of use have

their senses

exercised to discern both good and evil

that’s a favorite verse for me for a lot

of reasons one it’s just because it’s so

strange

it’s so is it so violates

western culture it’d be a lot easier in

an eastern culture to adapt to this

particular word

he says he basically says this

your maturity as a believer

is going to be measured by your ability

to train your own senses to recognize

the difference between good and evil

your senses sight hearing smell

taste touch senses

look at it this way everything about you

was perfectly designed to recognize

and fellowship with god everything about

you every sense

every uh personality trait everything in

you that god put in you

was designed so that you can recognize

him

and commune in fellowship with him

i remember standing down here years ago

um just during worship and a young lady

came

you know it’s always crowded down here

so

it’s always crowded down here we now

have barriers

we did have a guy running through here

with a sword once

a wooden sword half face painted half

blue he was doing braveheart

that week he ran through so we now have

protection

a gal started just just a real

cute nice young lady standing right here

in front of benny and me and

she started doing some strange things

but we’re used to strange things so it

didn’t

i didn’t but what i noticed was the

temperature around me

probably dropped 10 degrees and i

thought well that’s weird

so i walked over here and it was warm i

walked back there it’s freezing

and i went okay i remember a specific

encounter that my brother had had

where something like that happened and

so i had uh

summer uh our head dancer at the time

it’s a summer i need you to get upstage

and dance i need you to break some

she raced across the platform and as

soon as she did it was

like it was like this young lady was on

puppet strings

and as soon as summer began to dance

across the front somebody cut the string

she collapsed into a ball

benny leaned forward just let her

through deliverance because there was

there was a demonic thing going on she

was being

heavily heavily tormented to the enemy

senses trained

now i’d like to say the heat outside is

the devil

but but i i’m not allowed to say that

i’m not allowed to say that so i’ll i’ll

let you do without what you want all

right let’s get back

let’s get back to this i want you to go

now to mark chapter 4.

i have

for those who are watching online it’s

hot in redding

and we haven’t gotten to the hot part

yet so we’re we’re praying in tongues

all of us right now

constantly praying jesus have mercy on

our souls

how many of you love the heat

what’s the matter with you

actually i admire you bless your hearts

okay

mark chapter four

verse three listen behold a sower went

out to

sow it happened as he sowed some seed

fell by the wayside

birds of the air came devoured it some

fell on stony ground

where it didn’t have much earth

immediately it sprang up because it had

no depth of earth

when the sun was up it was scorched

because it had no root it withered away

some seed fell among thorns thorns grew

up and choked

it yielded no crop other seed fell on

good ground

yielded a crop that sprang up increased

and produced some 30 fold some 60 some

hundred fold

verse 11. to you it has been given

to know the mystery of the kingdom of

god say this with me

to me it has been given

to know the mystery of the kingdom of

god

say it together to me it has been given

to know the mystery of the kingdom of

god

he has already given us a key

to perceive unseen realities

all right verse 13. and he said to them

do you

understand do you not understand this

parable how then will you understand

all the parables the implication is this

is key to the rest

the sower sows the word and these who

uh and these are the ones by the wayside

where the word is sown

when they hear satan comes immediately

and takes away the word

that was sown in their hearts likewise

are the ones sown on stony ground

who when they hear the word immediately

receive it with gladness

and they have no root in themselves and

so endure only for a time

afterward when tribulation or

persecution arises for the word’s sake

immediately they stumble now these are

the ones sown among

thorns they are the ones who hear the

word of god

and the cares of this world and the

deceitfulness of riches

and the desire for other things entering

in

choke the word and it becomes unfruitful

and then he goes on to talk about

the seed that’s planted in good soil i

want just real briefly

the seed throne on the wayside it should

be an obvious picture

it’s on trampled ground it’s very hard

surface

it doesn’t receive seed that seed sits

there on the surface

and it’s easy for the birds of the air

to come and steal that seed

when there’s hardness of heart you may

hear all the right things

but if there’s not a breaking in a sense

of the soil of our own hearts to receive

that which is god is saying

then that seed is planted in such a way

that it’s very easy for the enemy to

come and take

to take take away the second one is the

rocky soil

rocky soil should be fairly easy to

understand

it’s the places in the heart of a person

rocks it’s uh regret

it’s resentment it’s bitterness it’s all

the issues of heart

that just never get dealt with season

after season

and those things actually become the

very parts of our

life and personality that reject and

resist

the word that tickled our ears that made

us encouraged to hear when we first

heard it

and yet because there was no depth in us

to receive what god was saying

it couldn’t be any fruitfulness but the

one i want to talk to you about

is the thorny one

verse 18. these are the ones sown among

thorns

they are the ones who hear the word and

the cares of this world

the deceitfulness of riches and the

desires for other things

enter in and choke the word listen to me

carefully

you and i with our thoughts

our attitudes

our appetites have the capacity

to put a stranglehold on the promise

that god has given he talks here about

giving ourselves

for weeds to grow anybody anybody a

gardener in here

i’m not my wife is although we just are

in the process of

doing a wonderful garden and i’m

cheering

i’m cheering her on go penny

go and as soon as my hot peppers

are in full bloom i will help her

harvest

that’s that’s my responsibility

and we have a little orchard of about 30

trees and i’m going to pick the apples

too

that’s my gardening part

that’s my part go benny give me an apple

fill it in

why do weeds grow bigger faster stronger

than the plant you want to grow it’s a

weird thing

it happened because of the fall

here he says weeds

grow and choke the word of the lord the

promise of your life

can actually be choked strangled

by the deceitfulness of riches the cares

of this world

and the desire for other things let me

break down those three things for you

the cares of this world that word for

cares

actually comes from two word number one

is divided

and number two is mind divided mind

cares of this world

is the divided mind

a lot of people experience not you it’s

them other folks

a lot of people experience anxiety

confusion and stress because their mind

is divided

too many options jesus and

all these other options years ago i

remember

hearing a story read a story actually in

a book

about this uh this gentleman was a it

was a great athlete

and uh loved competition loved sports of

all kinds and

he ended up in a horrible accident lost

in arm

and uh and he spent considerable time

after that

trying to find some kind of a sport that

he could be involved in

with only one arm and he ended up for

some reason picking up the sport called

handball

anybody ever played handball man that’s

painful it’s

give me a racket i’d rather hit the ball

with a racquet it’s this hard little

ball almost as hard as a golf ball that

you hit off your hand

that has a thin layer of leather over

each hand you hit it off the wall

as in racquetball and it’s a very

intense and competitive sport

so he picked up this particular sport

called hannibal

and he became so good over time he

became the club champion

and then his club entered him in the

state championship

and he competed on a statewide level and

he ended up taking

first place in his state for handball

following his championship match a

newspaper writer

wanted to interview him so he

interviewed him and one of his questions

he says how is it that a man with only

one hand

can defeat all your opponents

that play with two hands and he said oh

it’s easy

he said options and the newspaper guy

said what do you mean options

he said when the ball comes off the wall

my opponent

has to decide what hand to use

only had one option the decision had

been made

too many christians have too many

options

and we invite confusion when you invite

confusion

you actually create the atmosphere for

anxiety

worry all of those things it doesn’t

mean we would never face it otherwise

it’s just we always have the upper hand

when we only have one option

when our only option is i am hungry for

the will of god

i don’t care what it tastes like in the

moment it’s what i’m hungry for

it’s what i want jesus said my food is

to do the will of him who sent me

and i the will of god

sometimes is very sour or bitter to the

taste

but it’s always pleasant to the stomach

the will of man is always sweet to the

taste

but it turns sour in the stomach

and there’s something about the will of

god that nourishes and strengthens so

here we have

this issue of the cares of life so think

about it this week

every moment that you and i spend in

worry

and anxiety we are actually feeding

the beast that strangles the promise

over our destiny

every moment that i spend in worry and

anxiety i’m actually

fueling i’m feeding the beast that is

working to put a stranglehold

over my destiny over the promises over

my life

the devil cannot read our thoughts

anybody say amen to that

he cannot read your thoughts but he can

read the thoughts he suggests

and i think he can sometimes tell when

one of his suggestions called fiery

darts

has made it past the shield of faith

because it affects our countenance

and whenever that has happened there is

a an agreement

and the enemy is always empowered by our

agreement

agreeing with the enemy

empowers him to kill steel destroy i

don’t want to over exaggerate the

devil’s role

but i do want to make us alert in the

assignment because i believe

so much i’ve talked about this subject

from different angles a lot in the last

year

i feel like we’re coming into a season

of unusual

unusual breakthrough but it requires the

fulfillment of promise

how many of you have a whole bunch of

promises of your life that are not yet

fulfilled

amen

all right so here we have the cares of

this world the divided

mind the second one is the deceitfulness

of riches

notice it doesn’t say riches

it doesn’t say riches it says there’s a

deceitfulness

that can come be included with

riches now riches let’s just take his

money resource

uh income uh what you own your

possessions

but it also riches can be can overlap

into areas of

position title uh accomplishments

it’s the abundance that we have in life

there’s a deceitfulness that comes with

riches

it it makes it it cause rich

it’s easy for rich people to think they

have power

that you and me know there’s an illusion

of power and personal significance that

increases with greater possessions and

more money

and neither are true

eight minutes you’re kidding how did i

do this

i’m stealing five from the next service

i’m just gonna do it i’m just gonna you

can you can do it between the third and

fourth all right

riches neither riches nor poverty

create heart they reveal hurt

neither riches nor poverty create heart

they reveal heart

people ask the question how much is too

much money

it depends it’s whatever amount

so whatever amount causes you to not

trust anymore

see for one person 10 000 in the bank

they no longer trust god because they

only trust him

because they’re in constant need and

constant prayer or constant dependency

but as soon as they get a little pad in

their income

then suddenly it replaces trust how much

is too much

it’s whatever amount replaces trust for

another person

it literally could be 100 million

dollars

because their life is designed around

the trust component true spirituality

is the relationship of trust it’s not

what i own or don’t own

so much of wealth is used to create

image what is image

is the soulish attempt to create

identity

it’s the soulless attempt to create

identity

it’s it’s the it’s the counterfeit role

of creating identity in the life of a

believer

my identity is not in what i own it’s

not in my

title it’s not in how god uses me

none of those things i

i am a son

that was adopted by the most gracious

father

in existence my identity is

in the one who called me to himself

that’s it entirely

everything else is bonus everything else

is extra

and the deceitfulness of riches is it

creates

a sense of entitlement and a sense of

identity that is deceiving

what i’m hoping for is that

you and i would grow profoundly

in the area of trust to where he can

entrust

to us greater resource to actually have

impact on the course of world history

that’s what i want to see happen but he

won’t kill me

to do it he he he won’t give me more

than my heart can handle

deceitfulness of riches the last phrase

here

says deceitfulness of riches and the

desires for other things

it’s interesting the original language

here this

this actually means in all the rest it’s

like whatever’s left he didn’t even

bother creating a list

because the list isn’t important that

what’s important

is that is that in this person there is

an

appetite for things outside of that

which god would provide

here’s here’s one of my main goals for

today

is that everybody in this room could

come to a place where we would say

i only want what comes from his hand

i will not pursue anything in life that

is not

his heart his plan his idea for me

i i had a there was a season in in our

life

where i could take you through my house

and i could show you

you know this couch and this table and

this and

everything seemed to represent a season

and it’s that way again today but it’s

it’s uh it’s a different uh time in our

life

but i remember back um when benny and i

were first married probably married a

year or two

i was uh wanting to buy a hunting rifle

and if you’re

against hunting pretend it’s a camera

i’m going to shoot

i’m going to shoot photographs of

wildlife

and then for some strange reason eat the

photograph but anyway we’ll just leave

so i had saved up i had saved up money

and

i was going to buy i was going to buy a

hunting rifle

and uh we had some bills come up and i

mean i’d even say birthday money and all

this you know

how you do and we were we just yeah we

we just needed help so

i saved enough to buy a nice little

hunting rifle and

and these bills came up and i thought

yeah i mean who wants to be responsible

when you can have fun

that’s kind of like my my approach is

why be responsible when you can have fun

but jesus got the best of me and i i

just sucked it up and

paid the bills and and tried to be happy

in the fact that we no longer had those

debts

i don’t know if it was that week it was

two weeks later but it’s right in that

immediate period of time one sunday

night here at bethlehem goodness 1974

probably uh one of the older guys in the

church he was a

wonderful wonderful man he had become a

real good friend of ours

after after the service came up to me or

during this before the service

he came up to me says bill you need a

rifle

[Laughter]

yes yes

thus saith the lord yes

and uh and he said come to my house

after after church tonight so i went by

his house and

he brought out this pre-64

winchester oh yeah pistol grip

30 30 peep sight it was just it’s a

classic old gun

and he gave it to me

and that gun

means a lot more than

a gun because it actually came from the

father’s hand

through one of his special chosen ones

and it was very interesting some years

later i was in weaverville somebody

got into our house we were gone for a

few days and they stole i had three or

four guns there and

they stole them and that gun was with

the others but they didn’t take it

and it was it was i mean it was

literally they were all together in one

bunch

and it was like the lord

just said no you’re not touching that

one that is a prophetic

emblem this is a monument to prophesies

we had fellowship here we had agreement

here we had covenant here and this is

where i met with my son and

see what i want for my life is i want

that i want the will of god because it’s

so much more fun

when you stay in your lane so many

of you would be more than happy if you

had your

present condition and you were put in

some broken and impoverished part of the

world

because you would be doing so well as

compared to everybody else

let’s be honest but because of your

relatives that have more

or your neighbor or the person you work

with

the issue of comparison is the problem

here

the desire for other things it’s put

anything else on the list you want

it’s pursuing things outside of the

dominion of god

is if i could just have this position if

i could just have this marriage if i

could just have

this title if i could just have this

education if i could drive this car i

know i would be happy

amen if i could just have this or have

that if i could buy that house

and what happens is the appetite

for other things to satisfy we we pray

for it

because we want it to be in god’s will

but the appetite has pulled us

out of our lane and the appetite itself

fuels the beast that chokes the promise

of god over our life

that sometimes actually has the very

fulfillment of the thing we ate for

but because the appetite has taken us

out of our lane

does that make sense to anybody the

appetite pulls us out of our assignment

out of our lane out of the sense of

god’s timing then

suddenly the very hunger that i have

that could be fulfilled by the hand of

god

is now the very thing that works to

choke the promise of god over my life

years ago i had uh a a friend of ours

in waverville i’ve i’ve shared the story

i feel like i think i shared it recently

um he had a

a friend his wife’s

i’ve been on vacation my mouth is not

yet ready to talk

let’s let’s just be honest i’m still in

vacation mode and i just all i want to

do is talk about

sure is hot out there

you know anything beyond that’s just

challenging to me at the moment

so just just give me a break

my friend received a phone call from his

friend’s wife

who one day called and said hey if i

could schedule it

would you take my husband fishing they

love to fish

and so without her husband knowing it

she scheduled for him

to have several days off with his boss

everything

and send him to weaverville and he’d

spend several days with our friend tom

and tom would take him fishing for

several days

and but the guy didn’t know it the wife

scheduled talked to the boss

packed the gear packed his clothes went

and picked him up at work

and said you’re going to have to see tom

in weaverville and you’re going fishing

for the next several days

he said wait i’m supposed to go to work

nope you’ve got tomorrow off what about

the

you’ve got next day off she arranged

everything

so every every what if

was answered now

how much more fun is it to go up there

her sponsoring the trip than him

demanding his right as a husband

to be able to go fishing which is more

fun

which is more fun you having that

promotion

at work from god’s hand or because

you’re manipulated and whined

and complained until you go the point is

is the desire for other things actually

chokes

the actual destiny of god over our life

it has to do with appetite it has to do

with stewardship

it has to do with the divided mind these

are the areas

that monitored well keep us in our lane

so that by the end of our life we can

say with solomon

and everything that came into his heart

came to pass that’s what i want to see

i’ve been praying that over my own life

this week god everything that you have

promised i want to see come to pass

not just for for my sake i want

as as clearly as i know how to say this

i want to see

every word he has promised fulfilled

that he would be revealed for who he is

that he would be revealed i pray that

over you i pray that the lord would help

us

as stewards of the word i hear so many

people say it i don’t know why i’ve got

all these promises over my life and they

just don’t come to pass

not you it’s them other folks it’s when

i travel

i’ll be honest that’s when i travel

those are the people

the problem is never on his end of the

equate equation

and it’s not a time for guilt and shame

but it is a time to be able to say

god my appetite is for your dominion to

be fully realized over me

i hunger for your will i’ll make any

adjustment necessary

because i want to see you exalted and

revealed for who you are in the earth

so i pray that over us as a church

family right now

and i want to just ask i know somebody’s

already come to christ earlier

but if there’s anybody in the room that

would say i need to get my life

right with god and i don’t want to leave

until it’s done if that’s you put a hand

up real quick

because i want to make sure that we take

a moment

right over here wonderful wonderful

anybody else

anybody else if i miss it wave it at me

all right let’s go ahead and stand i

want to ask

i want to ask ministry team come quickly

to the front

this gentleman right here that put your

hand up if you’d come right down over

here we’ve got a team of people

and any others that would like to join

come down they will talk with you pray

with you

and and just help you in this beginning

of your life with christ church why

don’t you bless this gentleman

and others that will come forward right

now