Your attitude matters. It can determine whether or not you receive a blessing from God. We see this when Jesus visited Nazareth. Although He had performed many miracles in neighboring towns, the people of Nazareth criticized and belittled Jesus. Because of their lack of respect and honor, they missed out on the mighty works God wanted to do for them…
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connection I submit to you today that
the spirit of Honor will either elevate
you and your children and your
grandchildren or it will absolutely
decimate you may there be a culture of
honor in this house and on our house and
on our children and our children’s
children all right if you have your
Bible Matthew Matthew chapter 13 verse
57 and so they were offended at him and
jesus said to them a prophet is not
without honor except in his own country
and in his own house and I want you to
notice what happens next
now he did not do many mighty works
there because of their unbelief a
prophet is not without honor except in
his own country and in his own house and
it’s not a coincidence that the next
verse is there he did not do many mighty
works in the previous chapter he was in
Capernaum and He healed them all but he
goes to his hometown and he performs not
many mighty miracles because he was not
shown honor I want to talk for you talk
to you for just a few moments today on
the spirit of honor and the power of a
spirit of Honor upon your life when you
find a Bible principle when you find a
Bible truth if you will if you will grab
hold of it and begin to practice it it
will release the mighty works this is
one of those things that I am convinced
can limit your life if you don’t have it
and it’s a spirit of honor if you don’t
have a spirit of honor it really affects
your life we live in a generation where
it’s popular to disrespect honor it’s
popular to show dishonor it’s popular
for comedians and movies and TV shows to
show
honor two people it’s almost like if you
want to be popular and you want to be
known then show more dishonor and you
get a bigger microphone many of us I’ll
speak for myself grew up in a time when
you know we were forced to show honor we
were taught to show honor we were taught
to honor people’s property and honor
people people’s places and things and
honor our school teachers and honor
people in authority and honor people
like our mother our father our
grandparents we were taught that we had
to honor people because of the position
that they were in in our life but now
you know so many people have a spirit of
dishonor and it’s not just dishonor is
manifest by not doing what you’re asked
to do but it’s possible to dishonor
people while doing what you were told to
do you can dishonor people with what you
say you can dishonor people with your
attitude if if someone in authority
tells you to do something and you do it
sucking your teeth and rolling your eyes
and spilling something all over them
because you’re mad you had to do it then
that is a spirit of dishonor give me a
big a man right there of course you know
I’m not promoting abuse in any way but
if we sucked our teeth when I was a
little kid we would be missing one of
them for for too long I’m just going to
tell you like it was we were it was not
tolerated in in our family and in our
house a spirit of dishonor is not
something that you want to get hold of
your life because the if you allow your
children to dishonor you then it’s a
matter of time before they get a job and
they think that they can treat their
boss like they treated you and so when
they lose their job later in life
because they gave them a piece of their
mind and the boss decided to give them a
piece of a piece
slip don’t be surprised if they fail at
life if you don’t watch it you allow a
spirit of dishonor to attach itself to
you and what I want to talk about is
this spirit of honor because it’s
possible to do an honoring thing in a
dishonouring manner and when you have
the right spirit it’s the way you do it
we get called up well I did it I did
what they asked me to do but did you do
it with the right attitude you can be
doing all the right things and still
have a spirit of dishonor jesus said in
my own hometown this is Jesus speaking
I’m not honored and read the story it
shut him down this is a big principle
this honor shuts down what God puts in
people for you this honor closes you off
to whatever they have the miraculous
power of God in Jesus Christ was shut
down he didn’t say you didn’t want to it
said he could do no mighty works there
are many mighty works there because of
their unbelief and because they had
dishonored him in the previous verse
they were talking and saying is he not
Joseph’s son they were dishonouring him
as God in the flesh standing there ready
to perform miracles for them but they
did not show him the honor and as a
result it cut off his power in their
life you can be under the most anointed
person and not get your breakthrough and
not get nothing and people all around
you be getting breakthroughs and getting
blessings because they have a spirit of
honor your reception is not the
thermostat for the body of Christ just
because you don’t like a singer or you
don’t like a preacher or you don’t like
a way the woman looks or the person
who’s speaking looks or you got a
problem with this you
are not the temperature thermometer for
the body of Christ you have to
understand that if whoever you honor you
get opened up and they can release
whoever you dishonor is shut off to you
and other people around you may benefit
greatly but if you’re shut off to it
you’ll never get it your reception
matters in other words if we develop a
spirit of honor in the culture of our
house when people come in the Bible said
if you receive a prophet in the name of
a prophet you receive or get their
reward you receive them in the office
you honor the office you honor the
authority you honor the place that God
has raised them up to there’s something
about showing honor to people that can
release mighty works in your life the
next generation desperately needs to
develop a spirit of honor a culture of
honor in their lives when people come in
we want to have an honor culture in this
house that even if we don’t agree with
everything even if we don’t agree with
everything about them can you eat the
fish and spit out the bones if somebody
says the name of Jesus can you get
something good out of it and you know
what the rest of that stuff is up to God
to deal with but if I show honor I can
get the reward
Romans 13 put it like this it said give
tribute give honor where honor is due
for there is no power except for God
people in position over you on the job
or in life may not be qualified to be
over you but that doesn’t give you the
right to dishonor them because honor has
to do with your own standard no matter
how someone acts I’m not going to get
over into a spirit of this honor because
honor has to do with me and if and if
they’re acting dishonorable
you know what I’m gonna pray for them
but I’m not gonna get into that same
spirit no matter how someone acts I’m
not gonna get over into their spirit of
dishonor I’m gonna keep a spirit of
honor it affects your life it affects
your children the Bible talks about in
the Book of Numbers I think it’s the
thirteenth chapter it talks about Miriam
it talks about Aaron and it talks about
Moses now they were siblings Miriam this
is really amazing jakka bed their mother
was a phenomenal mother apparently
because she raised the first prophet who
was Moses she raised the first worship
leader who was Miriam and she raised the
first high priest she must have had some
kind of culture going on in her house
and the Bible said that Moses was
elevated above his siblings and Moses
decided to marry any in the Ethiopian
girl so she was of a different
nationality and she was of a different
skin color and the siblings didn’t like
it and they had a falling out Aaron and
Miriam the Bible said did not agree and
they started murmuring and talking about
their brother Moses and his fiancee are
now his new wife and the Bible said the
Lord heard it that blows my mind
and the scripture said God heard them
running down his friend Moses I just
want to warn you that God here is a
spirit of dishonor in our life people
you know they begin to lose their
passion for God when they take on a
spirit of dishonor when you quit
honoring people and honoring God and you
get an ugly spirit and you you you get
you cut them off because you don’t like
this about them or you don’t like that
and you can no longer receive from what
they have and what God has gifted them
with that’s that’s not their loss it’s
your loss and it’s like a card
runs out of gas I’ve seen it I’ve seen
people who get in church and they get
offended at somebody and they lose the
honor in it and because they don’t like
something that was said or done and the
next thing you know they can’t receive
and they’re like a they’re like a car
out of gas sitting out there and nobody
can preach you into happy and nobody can
sing you into happy and people can be
rejoicing all around you but you’re
empty and it has to do with your own
spirit of dishonor I’m preaching good
today the Lord heard it somebody shout
the Lord heard it and this is the part
of the story that got me and God said
tell them Moses tell those though your
sister and your brother that are talking
about you tell them to meet me at the
door of the tabernacle this is the only
time when God and the Old Testament was
not behind the veil once once a year the
only way you could get back there was
for the high priest to go through he was
the only one God stayed behind the veil
but on this day he got so upset with
them dishonouring the one that he had
raised that the scripture said that God
said tell him to meet me at the door I’m
not waiting on them to come back into
the third level back here I want to meet
them I’ll be waiting at the door Wow God
said I’m breaking the rules I’m not
going to let them dishonor Moses in the
tabernacle that’s my first earthly
Church in other words listen I believe
God was thinking like this I believe
it’s so disturbing because he said I’m
not about to let the same spirit that
got in Lucifer that dishonored me in
heaven now get in my first church down
there on earth I am a God who believes
in honor in authority and God met them
at the door and he said who do you think
you are y’all don’t y’all to read it he
said who do you think you are he starts
saying things like this I talked to
everybody else in dreams and visions and
prophecies but
I talked to Moses face to face and you
got the nerve to come up in here
you you you you’re eating the food he
prayed in you you drinking the water
that he struck with a stick and no and
turned into a water fountain and you
drinking it and complaining about it you
wearing those clothes for 40 years and
as your feet grew they grew and as you
barely got bigger your shirt went out
there and you and you every all this
stuff and all you can do is murmur and
complain and the Bible said that they
had a problem with his wife because of
her color and the scripture said that
leprosy came on Miriam and she turned
white it’s kind of funny and Moses being
the meekest runs to God I actually I
almost want to turn there because it’s
it’s really remarkable in in numbers
chapter 12 he turns to he Moses being
the meekest you know he turns and says
God please this is my sister she can’t
die of leprosy please Lord most of us
most of you being people out there you’d
say get good good get her killer but not
Moses Moses had the right spirit and
listen to what God said listen to what
God said in verse 14 and the Lord said
to Moses well if her father as she had
disrespected her father here to spit in
her face
God said that this is how serious honor
is to God God said that he’d spit in her
face and he would have shamed her shamed
her seven days she at least had to sit
outside the camp for seven days for just
showing dishonor to her father it spit
on her and put her and put her outside
the camp for seven days now watch this
so God said I just decided to give her
leprosy and Moses said please Lord
please but listen to this leprosy
carries with it isolation and God said
let her have leprosy for seven days and
when you got leprosy you haven’t got to
tell people to not get around you
the principle is this if a person has a
spirit of dishonor you’re supposed to
treat them like a leopard you’re
supposed to treat them like they have
leprosy until they get over their little
negativism because the leprosy is
contagious this honor is contagious
leprosy is a disease that affects your
nerve ending and it causes you to lose
feeling and when a person has a spirit
of dishonor they lose the ability to
feel God anymore they’re singing but you
can’t feel it they’re preaching but you
can’t feel it
the anointing is flowing but you can’t
feel it you’ve lost the ability to feel
when you allow dishonor to come into
your life in Genesis chapter 9 Noah
spent 40 days and nights locked up on a
boat with a bunch of animals and his
family and he got off instantly and got
drunk and you would have to he was drunk
and he was uncovered in his tent and ham
one of his boys came into the tent and
saw his father’s nakedness he saw some
uncovered flesh this is very important I
don’t care how spiritual people act
around you I don’t care how holy and
anointed they are when they’re behind
the pulpit don’t you ever forget that
somewhere there is some flesh I don’t
understand why God uses who he uses it
blows my mind why do you think I’m
standing here I question
I really do I say God could can’t you
find somebody else to do this I like
what Paul said he said not many wise are
called hey I don’t know what the
Corinthians did to him I don’t know if
they gave them a bad honorarium or what
but he just starts riff
into him and he says he says he says not
many why there’s not many wise among you
and then he really gets insulted he says
and there’s not many good-looking he
does he says that he says really that
he’s hidden it from the prudent and the
wise and giving it to the simple I guess
I guess God’s trying to say like this I
want to see how you do with the position
of authority even when even when you’re
more qualified to be there than they are
but God put them there to test your
spirit because sometimes God would
rather have somebody leaning on him that
has a humble spirit then somebody who’s
so qualified that it they would be crazy
if they ever got there so hence you have
people like me with the microphone
that’s how it works how many of you glad
he said not many wise or among you that
God uses how many of you how many come
on the rest of you
how many be glad he said not many
good-looking let me see hands some of
y’all to raise the foot and and to hands
I’m getting ugly too he said listen to
this he saw some flesh and he ran out
and told everybody and he dishonored his
father he ran out and told his brothers
what he saw no one was in the tent
speaks of his covering and starts
slandering and spread it guess what I
know and guess what I saw I’m not
talking about weirdness I’m not talking
about you you just looked the other way
and blatant sin all that I’m not talking
about that I’m just talking about this
this spirit of dishonor do you
understand what I’m saying the Bible
deals with problems when there’s
problems you deal with them and confront
them and all of that but we must have a
spirit of Honor on our lives
his brothers watch this his brothers
hear about it and they get a blanket two
of his brothers and they go into the
same tent and they take the blanket and
they won’t even face him they back up
and walk in backwards and covering why
because they had a spirit of Honor
he’s just a man and we’re covering him
Noah has the blessing of the entire
world in his mouth what he pronounces
over these boys the prophecy that he
will release will touch the whole world
and he then prophesies Shem you will be
the head of the Semitic tribes and
you’ll do amazing things and Jeff as
you’ll you’ll be over the european
tribes and you will be spread out and he
prophesized amazing things but then he
gets to the boy ham and I’ve heard
people miss preach this and they said
that ham was cursed but that’s not what
the Bible says read it the Bible said
that ham was not cursed but watch this
he said curse it became your son ham was
the one who dishonored him and he said
curse it behind your cane your son
because what you did is going to the
next generation I submit to you today
that the spirit of honor will either
elevate you and your children and your
grandchildren or it will absolutely
decimate you a spirit of dishonor will
take them down the wrong path but if I
honor God and honor people it will be
passed down and it will affect my
children and my children’s children
now just shared with you in 25 minutes
20 30 years of wisdom and I’m here today
to declare a spirit of Honor over you to
honor God to honor authority I don’t
care what the Bob is doing I don’t care
what the press is screaming I don’t care
what others are doing we are to be
people of honor may there be a culture
of honor in this house and on our house
and on our children and our children’s
children we don’t have to agree with
everybody that we honor we honor the
office if we can’t honor the person may
not like it when you know what they do
but honor the office
and I just don’t like it when people get
personal show honor let this be a house
of honor honor the Lord honor leaders
honor pastors honor Authority honor
police honor all manner of men
government leaders honor the office even
if you can’t honor the person don’t be
caught up in a spirit it is a spirit of
dishonor don’t do it don’t do it do you
want the mighty works when you get a
spirit of dishonor he could do no mighty
works do you want mighty works released
in your life keep a spirit of honor I
honor God therefore I honor all all
people who are in authority the Bible
said God allowed them to be there
whether you agree with it or not so be
careful check yourself the Bible said
husband’s honor your wives as Christ
loved the church you love your wives
honor them do you have a spirit of honor
for your husband do you have a spirit of
honor for your wife or do you just treat
them like they’re nothing honor one
another the Bible said children honor
one of the Big Ten Commandments thou
shalt honor thy mother and thy father
they’re not perfect people you’re gonna
see some flesh but honor them
let’s disconnect from the spirit of
dishonor and say I’m not going to
dishonor people that God has put in a
position of authority I’m going to pray
for him God heal our leprosy well I just
want to thank you for watching this
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things that we know in our life are not
right and follow his will and his word
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