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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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

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