This is “Change Your Words, Change Your Life”. What is your overall outlook on life? Are you an optimist or a pessimist? Do you tend to see silver linings, or do you mostly see gray skies and rain? Think about this: God spoke the world into creation, then He created man in His image… and gave him the power to speak! What does that mean for you and me? God says in Isaiah, He creates the fruit of our lips. The words we say affect our world. In this message with Pastor Jentezen Franklin, you’ll see how the fastest way to change your life is to change your words.

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>> Thank you for joining us

today on Kingdom Connection.

I believe today what God

is going to speak to you can

bring healing to your body,

salvation to your life,

freedom to your soul,

it can heal your mind,

it can cause you to overcome.

Listen to this

and let God speak to you.

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>> I want you to look

with me in Isaiah 57:18.

“I’ve seen his ways,

and will heal him;

I will also lead him,

and restore comforts to him

and to his mourners.”

Isaiah 57:19.

“‘I,” God speaking:

“create the fruit of your lips:

Peace, peace to him

who is far off

and to him who is near,’

says the Lord,

‘I will heal him.'”

God said, “I create,”

the word create

means to form, fashion,

and mold, like a potter.

I listened to what you say,

I create, form, and fashion,

the fruit of your lips.

How do you get God

to work in your life?

How do you activate

God’s miracle power?

God said, “I have linked

My creative,

miraculous power

inseparably to the words

that you speak into your life.”

I create whatever

you keep speaking.

I create, I form, I fashion,

I mold what you constantly,

consistently, pray for,

confess, and praise for.

Whatever you dare to utter,

the word fruit means utterance.

I create the utterance

of your lips.

What you speak,

when you speak it,

and if you keep holding

to that confession,

there’s a verse in the Bible,

it says, “Hold fast

to your confession.”

Hold fast to it.

Man has the power to speak,

to talk, to confess.

Man is God’s only creation

that He made that can talk.

Just like God.

He spoke the world

into existence.

There’s no other creation,

the animals can’t talk.

You say, “A parrot can.”

It can repeat words,

it cannot believe

in its heart

and speak with its mouth.

I’m not just talking about

saying whatever you want,

but when you find something

in the scripture,

and you believe it

in your heart,

and then you begin to speak it,

no matter what you see,

I believe this book

and what it says, greater —

“Let God be true

and every man a liar,”

the Bible said.

And man is the only creation

that God made

that has the power to talk,

to speak.

God took speech

away from the serpent

in the Book of Genesis.

When Satan came in,

and he borrowed the body

of a serpent, back then,

apparently, serpents could walk,

and they could talk.

I’m not teaching

something weird, please,

look at your Bible.

The serpent said to Eve.

It could talk.

And when God cursed it,

He de-feeted it,

He took the legs off,

and it crawled on its belly,

and then He took the power

to speak away from that devil.

If a demon’s gonna talk,

he’s gonna talk

through somebody now.

They have no legal right

to say anything,

except in your mind

through suggestions,

and you don’t have

to listen to it.

And God took speech away

from that serpent,

but He has not taken

speech away from man.

You are now a composite

of everything

you’ve been saying.

Change your words,

and you’ll begin

to change your life.

If you wanna become

something different,

change what you are confessing.

Change what you are saying.

God said, “I gave you two ears,

and I gave you two eyes,

but I only gave you one mouth.”

He wants you to listen

twice as much as you talk,

and He wants you to watch

and see more than you talk.

Aren’t you thankful God

didn’t give your husband

or wife two mouths,

like He gave ’em two ears

and two eyes?

Aren’t you glad

God didn’t give you two mouths?

Haven’t you had enough trouble

out of the one mouth

that God gave you?

Words change the atmosphere

of your life.

Hebrews 13:5, this is what

changed my life, when I saw

in Isaiah 57:19: “I create,” —

God said, “I create

the fruit of your lips,”

and then Hebrews 13:5 says this:

“Therefore, by Him,”

watch this word:

“let us continually,” —

it’s not that you just talk

positive one day

’cause you heard a sermon.

It’s not ’cause you talk right,

but continually, let us:

“offer the sacrifice

of praise to God,

which is the fruit of our lips,

giving thanks to His name.”

That verse changed my life,

before I ever started

pastoring Free Chapel,

I learned the secret.

Just as a young evangelist,

I learned that the fruit

of my lips that God forms

and fashions and creates

in my future are the words

that I praise Him with,

that the fruit of my lips,

the praise is the fruit

of my lips,

and if I will continually pray,

which is talk, speak,

to God and turn to God

and praise Him

for what He’s doing,

that that’s what He creates

and forms and fashions.

God, I praise You

that my steps are ordered.

That’s right out of the Bible.

I praise You

that You’re leading me

and guiding me,

and the steps of a righteous man

are ordered of the Lord.

God, I praise You that I know

that my God shall supply

all my needs,

according to His riches

and glory,

and You’re setting up resources

for me the rest of the year.

You’re gonna have surprises

down the road.

I thank You that I’m favored.

I thank You that I’m blessed.

I praise You, God,

that I know that He

that has begun a good work in me

and in my family,

we may be going through

a rough time,

but He will perfect

that which concerns me.

And so, Father, I pray —

now, see, what am I doing?

That’s how you pray.

You don’t just sit back

and let life hit you

and hit you and hit you,

and you sit there with lockjaw.

He said, “I create, I form,

I fashion the fruit

of your lips.”

And then, He told you

in the New Testament,

in Hebrews, that the fruit

of your lips

is the continual praise

you offer God.

It’s life or death,

what you speak.

What you confess.

Continually.

It’s life or death.

Proverbs 18 said

that your words —

that death and life

are in the power of the tongue,

and you will eat its fruit.

There it is again.

This is something

you’ve got to get ahold of.

Mark 11, says Jesus said,

“Speak to the mountain,”

Jesus said,

“Talk to the mountain,”

Jesus said, “For surely,

I say unto you

that whosoever shall say

unto this mountain,

‘Be thou removed

and cast into the sea,'” —

what did He say?

“Say to the mountain.”

Talk to the mountain.

Your mountain knows your voice.

Talk to the mountain.

Whosoever shall say

to this mountain,

“Be thou removed,

cast into the sea,”

shall not doubt in his heart

but believe that the things

which he saith

shall come to pass,

he shall have whatsoever

things he saith.

What are you saying

about that teenager?

What are you saying

about that marriage?

What are you saying

about the economy

and your business,

and we’re probably gonna

lose everything.

What are you saying?

Speak to the mountains,

and say the word of God

to the mountains,

and believe it in your heart,

because you serve

a God of miracles.

I’m tired of singing songs

we don’t believe.

We serve a miracle,

mountain-moving God,

and you either believe it

or you don’t.

He can move

the mountain of cancer.

He can move

the mountain of COVID.

He can move the mountain

of financial disaster.

He can move

the mountain of addiction,

but you’ve gotta open your mouth

and begin to give God words,

because He’s a word God,

and He works with words.

Joel said, “Let the weak say,

‘I am strong.'”

Say it right now.

Let the weak say, “I am strong.”

Say it again, now,

you know what?

You just threw seeds out there.

I’m going through hell.

I am strong.

I’m not quitting,

I’m not falling,

I’m not failing.

I’m not going back

to alcoholism.

I’m not going back,

I am strong.

Now, when you start saying that,

God forms a new you

in the future.

My marriage is strong.

My children are strong.

My faith is strong.

My home is strong.

I don’t care what I’m feeling,

what I’m sensing,

what my emotions are screaming.

I believe this report,

whose report will you believe?

Hallelujah.

I’m preaching to myself now.

I feel the anointing

right now, I do.

I’m tired of just, you know,

taking whatever hell

wants to send.

Let’s send it back.

Return to sender.

Glory to God, everybody,

get some fruit of your lips,

and praise God for victory.

O, victory in Jesus,

my Savior forever.

He sought me and He bought me

with His redeeming blood.

He knew me, and I loved Him,

and all my love is due Him.

He plunged me to Calvary,

beneath the cleansing flood.

I love Him,

I got victory in Jesus.

When you understand

the power of your words,

the power of fasting negative,

faithless words,

it can change your life.

Three quick examples

in the New Testament

of people who got miracles,

because of what they said.

The woman with

the issue of blood.

She was sick,

she had used all of her money

going to doctors,

and they could not help her.

And then, she said

within herself,

she had to say something.

If I can but touch

the hem of His garment,

I will be made whole.

But the miracle didn’t start

until she started saying it,

and when she said it, God said,

“I was waiting on that.

I’ll form it, I’ll fashion it,

I’ll stop Jesus,”

and hundreds of people

are touching Him,

but only one of them said,

“If I can but touch

the hem of His garment,

I’ll be made whole.”

David and Goliath,

Old Testament.

And a lot of times,

we read right over the story,

and we don’t see

the amazing lesson there

is there about Goliath.

Your Bible said

that for 40 days and 40 nights,

first thing in the morning,

Goliath put on his armor,

walked out onto the battlefield,

and talked trash,

humiliated the Hebrew God,

humiliated the Hebrew people,

and talked trash.

The first thing they heard

in their tents,

as the sun came up,

was the voice of negative words,

curses, and defilement

of their God,

coming out of Goliath.

And then, the Bible said,

as the sun was setting,

he had put his armor on,

Goliath, and walked

right back out,

you know, the devil’s

pretty smart.

He said, “I’m gonna get

the first thought

in them’s gonna be negative,

and the last thought,

before they go to bed,

so I can make ’em toss

and turn all night long.

It’s gonna be the words

that I have,

the negative words

from my Goliath.”

And little David shows up,

thing about David

is he was a worshiper.

And in Ephesians 5,

the Bible said,

speaking to yourselves

in hymns and psalms

and spiritual songs,

singing, making melody

in your heart, and to the Lord,

and so, when you’re a praiser,

you better not mess

with a praiser.

And the guy just shows up,

and he hears this giant

out there, talking trash,

morning, night, morning night,

and he can’t take it anymore,

and he says —

he asks a pretty important

question, he said,

“Who is this

uncircumcised Philistine?”

See, we think —

that is funny to us,

but understand, circumcision

was the mark of the covenant.

God told Abraham,

“Circumcise all the male

children on the eighth day

of their life,

signifying that I have

a covenant with them,

that I fight their battles,

that I’m their Provider,

that I am their Source.”

What David was saying,

you know, it’s a biblical way

to curse people out,

is what I tell —

if you really get ticked off

at somebody, say, “You

uncircumcised Philistine, you.”

But the power of David is what

he was really saying was,

when I was only eight days old,

and I received

the mark of the covenant,

I want you to know

that I had more power

than that Goliath

that’s standing out there,

talking trash,

’cause all of heaven’s angels

stand behind

the covenant of blood,

and the mark of the covenant.

And then, he starts saying,

“And the same God

that helped me

kill the bear and the lion,”

notice his confession,

he said, “He will deliver you

into my hand.”

And he ran out,

and he defeated the Goliath.

But not without

the power of confession.

What are you confessing?

The last example

is the Syrophoenician woman,

meaning she was Gentile,

she was not Hebrew.

She was not Jewish,

she had no right

to the blessing.

And Jesus even said to her,

when she said, “Please, Master.

My daughter is demon-possessed.”

If you think that Satan

is not targeting

our young people

with demonic spirits,

demonic activity,

demonic oppression,

depression, suicidal thoughts,

addictions, alcoholism,

drug addiction,

eating disorders,

all these things

are targeting young sons

and young daughters.

Sexual immorality,

any and every way

Satan can destroy self-esteem

and hate yourself,

and this woman said,

“I cannot get my daughter free,

she is grievously vexed

with an unclean spirit,”

and Jesus said,

“It’s not right for Me to give

the children’s bread to dogs.”

She said, everybody say,

“She said.”

“But even the dogs

get the crumbs, Master.”

And Jesus made

a phenomenal statement,

He said, “Great

is this woman’s faith,”

watch, and He said,

“Because of this saying,

go your way, woman.”

That daughter

that’s just about driven you

to your wit’s end,

that’s made you think,

oh, God, will she ever get free?

Will she ever get straight?

Will she ever get sober?

Will she ever get deliverance?

Will she ever get

on the path of life?

Will it ever happen?

Because of what you’ve said,

woman, go your way.

The demon has gone out

of your daughter.

I’ve broken demonic

oppression, possession,

and attack over your house.

Oh, I wanna tell you,

you can walk in that bedroom,

and you can open your mouth,

and you can plead

the blood of Jesus,

and devils have to go.

I feel like somebody

needs to agree with me on that,

we’re not a bunch of victims.

[Applause]

I refuse to preach until

somebody really praises Him.

I will not go another

step further.

Ooh.

Ooh.

Somebody ought to march

around your house seven times,

and say, “Devil, you are leaving

the premises.”

Somebody ought

to go home and just —

I don’t care

what your neighbor thinks,

I don’t care

what anybody thinks.

Open your mouth and say,

“This house

is a house of blessing.”

This house is a house

that has the blood

on the doorposts.

This house is an anointed house,

and God’s presence

will live in that house.

Hallelujah.

Take another praise break,

I just don’t feel like

we should shut up right now.

I just don’t feel like —

at every campus.

You need to lift up a roar

of praise right now.

Not for me, for Him.

It’s the fruit of your lips

that He forms.

If you don’t praise Him

for nothing, He forms nothing.

No change will come in your life

if you just sit there.

None.

Well, why does God

bless them and not me?

What is coming out

of your mouth?

Hallelujah.

There are three voices

that talk to you.

The voice from the pit,

says words like disease,

you’re dying, give up,

probably cancer,

is cancer, is fatal.

Trouble.

Just thunders,

hell just thunders

all the time.

And then,

there’s the voice of God,

which is His word.

Healing.

Health.

He’s speaking peace.

He’s speaking joy.

He’s speaking forgiveness.

There’s a big one.

He’s speaking acceptance,

just like I am.

He loves me.

He’s speaking salvation.

He’s speaking success.

And then,

there’s the third voice,

who is that?

You.

Your voice.

Malachi 2:17, God said:

“I am weary with your words.”

He said, “I’m weary

with your words.”

I wonder if the long epidemic

is God weary of our words.

My steps are ordered

of the Lord.

I think about, in 2 Kings 4,

that widowed woman,

when her son died,

the Bible said she was going

to get to the prophet

to tell him to come pray

for her son, and Gehazi,

the servant, came,

and he asked her

three questions.

He said, “Is it well with you?”

Notice her statement of faith.

She said, “It is well.”

Everybody say that,

“It is well.”

Then, she said —

the prophet said to her,

“Is it well with your husband?”

She said, “It is well.”

He said, “Is it well

with your son?”

And that’s where all of us

would’ve broke down.

He died.

But watch

this powerful statement.

“It is well.”

It is well.

That’s what you say

when you’re going through loss,

when you go through tragedy,

when you lose somebody to COVID,

when tears are streaming.

You look up with a spirit

of be grateful,

and say, “It is well.”

Nothing can separate us

from the love of God.

It is well.

Whatever comes,

I’m not worried about

the Antichrist,

I’m not worried about 666,

I’m not worried

about Washington,

I’m not worried

about nothing.

It is well.

When the trumpet sounds —

You ever seen a magnet?

You know, you can put it

over some things,

and if it doesn’t have

the nature of that magnet,

some things will lay there,

but if it’s got the same thing

as the big magnet has in it —

One of these days,

the same Spirit

that raised Christ —

I don’t know where

in the world

this is coming from —

but one day, the same Spirit,

if you’ve got His Spirit in you,

there’s gonna be

a blast of a trumpet,

and all of a sudden,

you know who’s going up?

You know who’s gonna feel it?

You know who’s gonna say,

“Uh-oh, I’m going up.”

It’s gonna be those

who have Christ in us,

the hope of glory.

Is He in you?

Then it is well.

It is well.

It is well.

[Cheering]

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>> I am so thankful today

that you’re watching

this program

and I don’t believe

it’s an accident

that you’re watching.

Right now where you are

you can ask Jesus to be Lord

of your life.

Let Him in.

Just say, “Lord I need you.

I want to sign up.

I want my name in the

Lamb’s book of Life.

I want forgiveness of sin,

I want a new body one day.

I want an eternal life

that has been secured

through the death

and resurrection

of my champion, Jesus Christ.”

O Grave, where is your victory?

O Death, where is your sting?

Praise the Lord.

We are overcomers

by the blood of the Lamb,

Jesus Christ.

If you want Him,

all you gotta do is say,

“Come into my heart, Jesus.

Come into my life,

come into my family.”

He will hear your cry.

And then we wanna hear

from you.

Pick up the phone,

dial the number that’s on

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We would love to hear

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Praise the Lord.

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>> God’s promise to Abraham,

Isaac, and Jacob has always been

a promised land.

Today, the Jewish people living

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These families stand firm

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>> Cherise and I want

to invite you to join us

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>> We hope you’ve enjoyed

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by Jentezen Franklin,

and thank you

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