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once you can see this principle and
understand it the Bible says do unto
others as you would have them do unto
you
so you can change there’s a lot of
things in your life you can change
just by learning how to sew the right
kinds of seeds
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all right I’ve been talking about
the power of thoughts and words and
I mean the Bible tells us that we will
never experience what Jesus died to give
us unless our mind is completely renewed
by the word Romans 12.
and um boy that was such an eye-opener
to me when I first started studying
the Bible because I had no idea that
I had no idea that my thoughts are my
words affected anything
in my life I mean I went to church for
years and I was never taught that
and because of being on television we
have a lot of people from a lot of
different denominations that come to our
conferences and
so
I always try to remember that not
everybody knows what some of us know
that
there may be people here this afternoon
that have never heard anything like that
you don’t
you have no idea that
negative thoughts can produce a negative
effect in your life whereas positive
thoughts can
produce a positive or you don’t think
you can do anything about your thoughts
you just think whatever Falls in your
head and
you don’t realize that you can
not think something if you don’t want to
and you can choose to think something
that will benefit you
and I certainly had no idea that my
words affected anything I just said
whatever I felt like saying to whoever I
felt like saying it whatever I felt like
saying it
and uh
but Proverbs 18 21 says the power of
life and death
is in the tongue
I mean
just that one scripture
when we speak to people
we’re actually hearing what we say as
well as speaking to them
and
the Bible literally says I mean doesn’t
put it in these words but
we eat our own words
that the power of life and death is in
the tongue and that
we have to deal with the effects in our
own life
of those words so I was a very negative
person because I grew up in a very
negative atmosphere and I was actually
taught to be negative I mean my father
taught me
doesn’t do any good to don’t trust
anybody everybody’s gonna
hurt you
don’t expect anything good because life
is just
you know blankety blank blank and it’s
not
and so I just had a very negative
attitude anybody else here grow up was
just like you know you’re your
surroundings were all negative and so
that just became normal for you and it
takes a while
change is wonderful but it takes a while
you don’t just say I’m going to change
and then change
you do have to work with the Holy Spirit
I’m so grateful for the Holy Spirit
Jesus said I’m going to send you
and a comforter
and also the holy spirit is an
encourager
and what we all need comfort excuse me
we all need comfort and we all need
encouragement don’t we
and Jesus said you’re going to be better
off when I leave
because I’m going to send the Holy
Spirit Well
how can we be better off than to have
Jesus because he was in a human body
could only be one place at a time like
we can but the Holy Spirit
literally I can be up here speaking and
the Holy Spirit could be speaking
something different to different ones of
you
same words coming out of my mouth but
they he can deal with each one of you
based on what
you need
and um
I want you to understand that the holy
spirit is
ministering to each person here
personally
something that you need to hear now let
me ask a question how many of you would
you you need to feel better physically
than what you what you do
okay
well I think most of us have an issue
with that and
a large majority of it is just caused by
the stress that we deal with
in life today and I can tell you the
stress is not going to go away so we
have to change how we
life’s not going to change if it does
it’s only going to get worse
and I’m not being negative that’s just
I mean things are going to get worse
before Jesus comes back
and uh
I used to think you know if my life
would just change well I finally figured
out I was the one that had to change
so
get that right now you’re the one that
has to change your life
is not going to be a nice little life
where there’s never anything for you to
worry about there’s no stress
we have to learn how to deal with life
differently
and uh
what I want to teach this afternoon is
how our thoughts and our words affect
our health
and
I want to say first before I do this
I am not in any way shape or form saying
that everybody who is sick
it’s your own fault because of the way
you talk and the way you think
there’s a there’s sin in the world
there’s pressure in the world there’s
I do believe that all sickness is caused
by sin but it does it’s not necessarily
our personal sin
it’s just I
when I read about the way things were in
the garden and in the early days when
people lived to be 980 and 950 and I
mean it took the devil a long time to
teach us how to die
and uh
we went all the way from that to it one
time
the life expectancy
for an American was like about 40 years
and uh
but there are things that we can do to
help ourselves
and we need to do them it really amazed
me when I put this together how many
scriptures
talk about
how different things got into their
bones and caused them to be weak and
even caused their eyes to grow dim
and it has a lot to do what especially
the way people think
and the way they talk
so
thoughts and words are very important
and if nobody’s ever told you that
you’re going to get a little bit out of
what you hear here this afternoon but I
have a lot of material on these two
subjects and I want to encourage you to
either visit the resource table or get
online and
get a lot of good stuff
get the battlefield of mine get power
thoughts
get change your words change your life
get the help that you need
and it’s only going to come from the
word of God Amen
now
one of the most powerful principles in
the word is that we reap what we sow
as long as the Earth remains there will
be seed time and harvest so
every Harvest that we have in our life
is because of some seed that has been
sown
for example the Bible says the way you
judge other people is the way you will
be judged
if you sow Mercy you’ll reap Mercy
the Bible teaches us a lot about sowing
and reaping concerning finances give and
it shall be given unto you good measure
pressed down shaken together and running
over shall men give back into your bosom
God does not need your money
but it’s interesting to me that
God could pay for the things that he
wants to do in the earth any way that he
wants to but he wants us all to be
involved
you know God could raise up one
billionaire
whose life was changed but my teaching
and
he could give me just a couple of oil
wells and I’d never have to receive
another offering ever ever but
God doesn’t do it that way because
he wants us to sow
so we can reap
and you reap according to how you saw
the attitude you sow with
the amount you give out of what you have
and this whole principle of sowing and
reaping is all throughout the Bible and
I love it and I’ll tell you one of the
reasons why I love it and this may sound
strange at first I feel like it gives me
a little measure of control over how my
life turns out
not that I’m a control freak I don’t
mean that but
I hate to think that there’s nothing I
can do about the way my life goes
and so this gives me an opportunity boy
if I sow good seeds
then I’ve got a promise that I’m going
to reap a good harvest in my life
you know if if I want more friends then
I need to be friendlier
if I want to have more love then I need
to give more love away
once you can see this principle and
understand it the Bible says do unto
others as you would have them do unto
you
so you can change there’s a lot of
things in your life you can change
just by learning how to sow the right
kinds of seeds and
every thought is a seed
until you get that every thought is a
seed we think about 6 000 thoughts a day
and at 5 900 of them are negative
foreign
it’s not too hard to tell why you would
have a lousy life
I was so negative when I started
learning the word of God
and I mean God Has Changed me and I
cannot stand negativity and I’ll tell
you if he could change me there’s nobody
in here that he can’t change because I
mean I was negative
my attitude was if you don’t expect
anything good to happen then you won’t
be disappointed when it don’t
and I’ve come all the way from that to
every morning in my prayers I say I am
expecting something good to happen to me
today
I’m expecting good news
don’t you love good news I love good
news
well the devil’s on a rampage with the
news I mean they if it’s not negative
they say it’s not even news but I’ll
tell you there there is good news we
just need to hear it
God’s doing a lot of great things
in people’s lives in the Earth
we need to have a good news newspaper
and no I’m not going to start it
Galatians 6 7 says be not deceived God
is Not mocked for whatsoever a man
soweth that shall he also reap
if you sow exercise you’re going to reap
muscles
if you sow stretching you’re going to
reap flexibility
if you sell Mercy you’re going to reap
Mercy
if you sow junk food in your body all
the time you’re going to reap feeling
lousy
if you sow overeating you’re going to be
fluffier than you want to be
it’s not your thyroid
foreign
it’s
your mouth
now I know some people do have a
physical problem or you know you might
be having to take some kind of medicine
that’s
made you gain a lot of weight but I’m
just talking about
really and truly and I don’t want to
make anybody mad when I say this but if
you don’t want to be overweight then
don’t overeat
just that simple and
everybody’s different
to be honest I can’t eat
a really whole lot and stay the size
that I am and I had to make a decision
about which I wanted
and I want to be able to keep wearing my
clothes and so
I just have to discipline myself on a
regular basis is it fun no
what would I love to do today when I
leave oh I don’t know get the biggest
dessert
I could find
and eat it and it would probably make me
sick but I would enjoy it going down
if you sow judgment you’re going to reap
judgment
if you give you’re going to receive
Matthew 7 1-2 do not judge and criticize
and condemn others
now pay attention to those words do not
judge and criticize and condemn
do not judge and criticize and condemn
so that you may not be judged and
criticized and condemned yourself
when somebody criticizes you are they
sowing or are you reaping
was that too fast for you do I need to
for just as you judge and criticize and
condemn others you will be judged and
criticized and condemned and in
accordance with the measure you used to
deal out to others it will be dealt out
to you again
Matthew 5 7 blessed happy to be envied
and spiritually prosperous with life joy
and satisfaction in God’s favor and
salvation
regardless of your outward conditions
are the merciful for they shall obtain
Mercy
I mean there’s just so many scriptures
that back up this principle
of sowing and reef and reaping
what goes in our thoughts and heart
attitudes shows up in our bodies
now remember I’m not saying I
I’m not saying that everybody who’s got
something physically wrong with you
I mean I hurt my back last week and my
back’s been bothering me all weekend
I’m icing in between sessions and
you know I don’t know of anything I did
to
except I got on the treadmill and stayed
on it too long
and of course Dave tried to tell me
you know just just
do a quarter mile to start I’m like
that’s useless so I get on it and I do
almost two miles and then my back hurts
well
you know that was just a case of stupid
you know
and but I’m a little bit like that it’s
like I can do this
it’s paid off in some ways in my life
that’s one of the reasons why I’m still
here but it does occasionally get me in
trouble
and um
you know Dave didn’t feel
great yesterday God raised him up and
that was good and
when I went home last night he was
watching sports so I’m not sure how bad
he felt her if he just wanted to watch
the ball game but
no he didn’t feel bad I could see it on
his face but he did get over it not too
long after I left
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but I don’t think Dave did anything that
caused him to feel bad so please please
I don’t want to condemn anybody I’m not
saying that everything is wrong but I
want you to be open
to realizing that what you think and
what you say does affect you not I give
you a great example
Dave has just always been healthier than
me
I’ve had
a lot of different issues
with my body I’ve had both hips replaced
I had breast cancer
I I could
go on and on but
I had hysterectomy
threw me into the change of life because
I had cancer I couldn’t take any
hormones so I had a terrible time going
through the change of life just awful
and uh
preaching the whole time ministering to
other people
here again God didn’t always deliver me
but he did keep me he made me able like
Dave asked me this morning did your back
hurt while you were preaching I said no
but it started the minute I got down the
steps
it’s amazing how God will always protect
me
when I’m up here
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and uh I thank God for that
but Dave has always been healthier than
me but
I started out being sexually abused by
my dad that lasted about 15 years
and it was
it was awful I don’t have time to go
into the details but it was just a
regular
weekly occurrence
and
so I just
started out in stress
by the time I was 18 it was already
showing up in my body stress will make
you sick I don’t care how Christian you
are stress will make you sick
amen
and we all know that we live in a world
today that is just pressure pressure
stress stress
I mean road rage you know just you know
just even the way that even the way that
you have to
be concerned when you go out in public
now I mean that kind of stuff wasn’t
that didn’t exist
when Dave was
a boy he said
he remembers when the first paper boy
was robbed and what a terrible shocking
thing that was
well
if q and gum was the worst thing that
you got in trouble for in school 50
years ago
things have changed dramatically
amen
and so
but Dave has always been
easy going
I’ve been more
he’s always cast his care about
everything
that’s his answer everything cast your
care and I know he’s right
but
I’m gonna fix it
now I’m not so much like that anymore
I’ve changed a lot but there was a lot
of years where I was like that
I was more tense
he slept better than me
you know on and on so
I can clearly see
how
disease will bring disease
no wonder Jesus said come unto me all ye
that labor and are heavy laden and
overburdened
and I will give you rest
I will ease relieve and refresh your
soul
take my yoke upon you and learn of me
for I am humble gentle meek and lowly I
am not harsh hard sharp and pressing
so I think it’s safe to say that Jesus
was pretty easy going
I can’t imagine him hurrying can you
imagine Jesus hurrying
I read a really good book recently
uh and I know if I read a book and I’m
you’re going to call the office and say
what was the name of that book so
it was called
um
that was a book about not hurrying
I can’t remember the name of it
John Mark Comer wrote it
so don’t call the office either write it
down or don’t call me
John Mark Comer the ruthless elimination
of hurry
it was a really good book and uh one of
the things that he said well probably
one of the main things was that you
cannot be in a hurry and walk in love
and that’s my thing that’s
that’s my prayer that’s my goal I really
want
more than anything to walk in love at
all times with all people
that’s like
that’s just it for me that’s what I want
I want to be a mature Christian but I
really want to love people because
they need it so bad
so bad
and
if you’re in a hurry all the time not
only does it put a lot of stress on you
but you miss the things that God could
use you for
you don’t even notice them or see them
somebody can be hurting right around you
you don’t even pay any attention to it
because you’re in such a big hurry
and so if you want to relieve some of
the stress in your life just slow down
if you’re taking notes write down slow
down and maybe you should make four five
six ten twenty signs and put them all
around your house Slow Down slow down
slow down slow down slow down amen
my family teases me although it’s really
not funny it’s just part of my
shows how I am
I’ve always ready for the next thing
while this thing is happening
and so
when I’m halfway home from wherever
we’re coming home from I get my door
keys out
I’m ready to open that door when I get
there
and
my daughter
takes me a lot of places and she says
mother
would you please wait until I park the
car before you open the door and try to
get out of it
and I don’t know why I do that but I’ve
got my hand on that door handle
I mean let me tell you something I may
be nothing else but I’m ready
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one time I wasn’t paying any attention
and
you know we rent cars here and there and
we get we rent a lot of white cars and
they’d
the car they drive me at home is a white
car and so one day I came out of
a restaurant in St Louis and
there was a white car there and I got in
it
well guess what I got in the car with
somebody who knew me
from television freaked her out
he’s like
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come on
so you know I I do some stuff
and um
I wish I had Dave’s personality but I
don’t
I just don’t and uh
thank you
say God makes me more like all of you so
you can relate to me
you know
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