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Speaker 1: I'd like to start with something funny, and I heard
Speaker 1: about this lady. She's surprised a burglar in her house
Speaker 1: late one night, and she was home alone, didn't have
Speaker 1: any kind of weapon. She didn't know what to do. Finally,
Speaker 1: she decided, I'll quote a scripture verse. She shouted out
Speaker 1: Acts two thirty eight. The burglar froze in his tracks,
Speaker 1: wouldn't move, and the police soon arrived. And we're amazed
Speaker 1: that a woman with no weapon could do this. They
Speaker 1: asked the burglar, what was it about that script that
Speaker 1: had such an effect on you? He said, scripture?
Speaker 2: What scripture?
Speaker 1: I thought? She said she had an axe in two
Speaker 1: thirty eighths. All right, y'all say it like.
Speaker 2: You mean it.
Speaker 1: This is my Bible. I am what it says I am.
Speaker 1: I have what it says I have. I can do
Speaker 1: what it says I can do. Today I will be
Speaker 1: taught the word of God. I boldly confess. My mind
Speaker 1: is alert, my heart is recepted. I will never be
Speaker 1: the same. In Jesus' name, God bless you. I want
Speaker 1: to talk to you today about the sound that opens heaven.
Speaker 1: Every person has a sound. With our words, we're creating
Speaker 1: an atmosphere. Some people's sound is worry, what if it
Speaker 1: doesn't work out? Other people their sound is discouragement it's
Speaker 1: never going to change, or a sound of not enough,
Speaker 1: I can't get ahead. Those sounds will keep you limited.
Speaker 1: That atmosphere will bring defeat and life. But there is
Speaker 1: a sound that Heaven responds to, a sound that brings healing,
Speaker 1: favor and breakthroughs. It's the sound to praise. The scripture
Speaker 1: says God inhabits our praises. God shows up not when
Speaker 1: you complain, not when you talk about how big the
Speaker 1: problem is, but when you talk about how big our
Speaker 1: God is. One version says God is enthroned when we
Speaker 1: praise him. When you go around thanking God for his
Speaker 1: goodness and bragging on what he's done, you're putting God
Speaker 1: on the throne, not the worry, not the discouragement, not
Speaker 1: the problem. You're making him bigger than anything that comes
Speaker 1: against you. That's the sound that causes angels to go
Speaker 1: to work. That's the sound that opens prison doors in
Speaker 1: the midnight hour, just as Paul and silas. That's the
Speaker 1: sound that turns enemies into footstools, that takes that stumbling
Speaker 1: block and makes it in to a stepping stone. What
Speaker 1: sound are you creating, Oh Joe man, it's been rough.
Speaker 1: Doesn't look like my child will ever get back on course.
Speaker 1: I lost a big client. I don't see how I
Speaker 1: can make it. That's the wrong sound. Don't use your
Speaker 1: words to describe the situation. Use your words to change
Speaker 1: the situation. Start thanking God for what he promised you.
Speaker 2: Lord.
Speaker 1: I thank you that as for me and my house,
Speaker 1: we will serve the Lord. By that. I thank you
Speaker 1: that you're supplying all of my needs. You said even
Speaker 1: in famine, I would have more than enough. That's the
Speaker 1: sound that gets God's attention. You can't talk defeat and
Speaker 1: have victory. You can't talk sickness and have hell get.
Speaker 2: A new sound.
Speaker 1: You have to change your atmosphere. You're creating an environment
Speaker 1: for either God to work to open the heavens, bring
Speaker 1: good breaks, influence, turnarounds, or for the enemy to work
Speaker 1: to steal, to kill, to destroy. Pay attention to your sound.
Speaker 1: Paul said in Ephesians, be continually filled with the spirit,
Speaker 1: making melody in your heart.
Speaker 2: To the Lord.
Speaker 1: We're supposed to be making melody in our heart. That
Speaker 1: means joyful, cheerful, a song of praise, always thanking God
Speaker 1: for what he's done, talking about his goodness. Says to
Speaker 1: do this continually. One version says to be ever filled.
Speaker 1: This is not something you do ever once in a
Speaker 1: while when things are going your way, you have a
Speaker 1: good attitude. When your boss is treating your right, then
Speaker 1: you'll thank God. When this medical report changes, then you'll
Speaker 1: be grateful. This should be a lifestyle under your breath
Speaker 1: all through the day. You're constantly making melody. Lord, thank
Speaker 1: you for waking me up this morning. Thank you for
Speaker 1: strength to get out of bed, making breakfast for your children.
Speaker 1: Not all man, I'm so tired.
Speaker 2: Another meal.
Speaker 1: Know how about Lord, thank you for blo bless me
Speaker 1: with these beautiful children. Not I gotta go to work.
Speaker 1: Traffic is so bad. Lord, Lord, thank you for this job.
Speaker 1: Thank you for the gifts you've given me. Thank you
Speaker 1: for a car to drive. Lord, I'm grateful for this opportunity.
Speaker 1: All the people at my office, they get on my nerves.
Speaker 1: They don't treat me right. They played politics. It's tempting
Speaker 1: to complain. Don't let them take your song. You can
Speaker 1: make melody in the midst of a difficult situation. Lord,
Speaker 1: I thank you that you're my vindicator, that you're fighting
Speaker 1: my battles. Gord, thank you that you're preparing that table
Speaker 1: in the presence of my enemies. Start speaking his promises,
Speaker 1: declaring what he says about you. That's what Heaven responds to,
Speaker 1: sound of praise, sound of thanksgiving. When God hears that
Speaker 1: melody coming from your heart, he sends angels with answers, favor,
Speaker 1: peace and breakthroughs. That's how you're gonna overcome adversity. That's
Speaker 1: how you will outlast the opposie. Not by complaining, not
Speaker 1: by begging God telling him how bad it is. The
Speaker 1: more you talk about the problem, the more it weighs
Speaker 1: you down. The longer you dwell on it, the more
Speaker 1: discourage you'll get. Change your sound, get in tune with God.
Speaker 1: He's looking for that song of praise. That's what he
Speaker 1: inhabits when he hears you praising through the pain and
Speaker 1: worshiping in the wilderness, a good attitude when it's not fair.
Speaker 1: All the forces of darkness cannot stop you. I've heard
Speaker 1: it said, complain and remain or praise and be raised.
Speaker 1: Are you making melody or are you making noise?
Speaker 2: Do you have a.
Speaker 1: Song of praise? Or are you complaining talking about the
Speaker 1: problem that's going to keep you where you are? I
Speaker 1: went out in my backyard the other day and there
Speaker 1: were all these crows, hundreds of them, everywhere you looked,
Speaker 1: on the ground, in the trees, my roof. It was
Speaker 1: so loud, all this squawking and screeching. There was nothing
Speaker 1: pleasant about it. It was, in fact irritating, just a
Speaker 1: bunch of noise. But at the same time, in the
Speaker 1: midst of all this clamor, I could hear some cardinals
Speaker 1: and robins singing, whistling back and forth, so cheerful and happy,
Speaker 1: like they were having a conversation celebrating the morning. I
Speaker 1: thought about the contrast. Those crows no offense, but you're irritating.
Speaker 1: You get in on my nerves. The sooner you leave,
Speaker 1: the better it will be. But these cardinals, they're making melody,
Speaker 1: They lift your spirit. They have a joyful song, a
Speaker 1: bright outlook. That's the way it is in life. You
Speaker 1: can be a crow or you can be a cardinal.
Speaker 1: Both birds were in the same environment, same backyard, same weather,
Speaker 1: same circumstances, but one squawking and one singing. The difference
Speaker 1: is the crow doesn't have a choice, that's the voice
Speaker 1: he was given. But you and I do have a choice.
Speaker 1: You can choose your sound. You can go through the
Speaker 1: day crowing, complaining, focused on what's wrong, or you can
Speaker 1: be a cardinal, go through the day singing, thanking God
Speaker 1: for what he's done, declaring his promises. When you're a crow,
Speaker 1: you're making it difficult on your relationships. Can I tell
Speaker 1: you something your friends may not tell you. Nobody wants
Speaker 1: to be around the crow. Somebody's always complaining, negative, talking
Speaker 1: about their problems. You're pushing away the good people in
Speaker 1: your life. You're making it harder on your spouse and children.
Speaker 1: Not only that it's keeping you from opportunity and promotion.
Speaker 1: Do yourself a favor. Tell the crow in you you're done.
Speaker 1: You're not welcome here. You're not going to run my life.
Speaker 2: Let the cardinal in. How do you do it?
Speaker 1: You get up in the morning and the crow shows up.
Speaker 2: I don't want to go to work.
Speaker 1: I can't stand my boss. These kids get on my nerves.
Speaker 1: That's the crow. They let me come in, Let me
Speaker 1: dictate your attitude. You have to say no, thanks, mister crow.
Speaker 1: You're in retirement. You are permanently done. I don't need
Speaker 1: you anymore. Let the cardinal come out. Father, thank you
Speaker 1: for another day to be alive. For this is the
Speaker 1: day you have made.
Speaker 2: I'm gonna live at happy Lord.
Speaker 1: I'm grateful for my family.
Speaker 2: Father.
Speaker 1: Thank you for choosing me before I could even choose you.
Speaker 1: That's making melody in your heart. That's the sound Heaven
Speaker 1: response to.
Speaker 2: Now.
Speaker 1: Crowing about it, complaining will keep your stuff.
Speaker 2: But when you're a cardinal.
Speaker 1: Making melody a joyful spirit, that's what activates God's goodness.
Speaker 1: It's interesting that crows gravitate toward what's dead. They're scavengers.
Speaker 2: They feed on.
Speaker 1: Carcasses and animals that are decaying and rotting. It's symbolic
Speaker 1: that they make that squawking sound. If you're focused on
Speaker 1: what's dead in your life, you're going to crow too.
Speaker 1: If you're dwelling on relationships that didn't make it, who
Speaker 1: hurt you, mistakes you've made, you're not going to have
Speaker 1: a song. You're going to have a squawk. You can't
Speaker 1: stay ever filled dwelling on your disappointments and who let
Speaker 1: you down. Quit feeding off of dead things. It's poisoning
Speaker 1: your spirit. It's souring your attitude, it's limiting your vision.
Speaker 1: Nothing that's happened to you has stopped God's purpose for
Speaker 1: your life. No mistake you've made has canceled your destiny.
Speaker 1: God has seen every injustice, every herd, every person that
Speaker 1: walked away. He knows how to take what was meant
Speaker 1: for harm and turn it to your advantage. Now, quit
Speaker 1: dwelling on what didn't work out, and move forward with
Speaker 1: your life. Get your song back, get your joy back.
Speaker 1: Start making melody, not making noise. You can't always change
Speaker 1: your circumstances, but you can change your sound. When you're
Speaker 1: making melody despite the disappointments, and you're thanking God for
Speaker 1: what's right instead of focusing on what's wrong. That's the
Speaker 1: sound that gets Heaven's attention. That's when God will step
Speaker 1: in and make the wrongs right and pay you back
Speaker 1: for the injustice. No more complaining self pity. It's not fair, bitterness,
Speaker 1: they did me wrong, defeat, I'll never get ahead. That's
Speaker 1: the crow sound. That's noise. Crows talk about the problem,
Speaker 1: Cardinals talk about the promises. Crows make noise, Cardinals make music.
Speaker 1: Crows react to the environment, Cardinals rise above it. The
Speaker 1: truth is there's a crow and a cardinal in each
Speaker 1: one of us. You get to choose your voice. David
Speaker 1: put it this way. I will bless the Lord at
Speaker 1: all times. His praise will continually be in my mouth.
Speaker 1: David was saying, in effect, I'm going to be a cardinal.
Speaker 1: I'm gonna choose to make melody. I'm gonna focus on
Speaker 1: the greatness of my God. I'm gonna declare his promises
Speaker 1: over my life. Well, David had every reason to be
Speaker 1: a crow. All kinds of unfair things came against him,
Speaker 1: being overlooked by his father. When Samuel came to choose
Speaker 1: the next king, he could have been offended. Man my
Speaker 1: old father doesn't believe in me, but he didn't let
Speaker 1: the crow in. He knew people may leave you out,
Speaker 1: but God will call you in. They may discount you,
Speaker 1: but God will cause you to shine. King Saul was
Speaker 1: jealous and tried to kill David, threw spears at him.
Speaker 1: David could have been angry. Man, I'm trying to help
Speaker 1: and you're trying to kill me. Saul chased him through
Speaker 1: the desert, made his life miserables, but out hiding in
Speaker 1: the caves, running for his life. Some scholars say that's
Speaker 1: where he wrote some of the great songs, like sing
Speaker 1: a new song unto the Lord, let us exalt his
Speaker 1: name together. Wait a minute, you're singing when this king
Speaker 1: is trying to kill you. You're blessing the Lord when
Speaker 1: you could be complaining. You're being a cardinal when you
Speaker 1: have every reason to be a crow.
Speaker 2: David knew this secret.
Speaker 1: There is a sound that Heaven responds to, a sound
Speaker 1: that keeps your enemies from defeating you, a sound that
Speaker 1: brings protection, provision, favor. It's the sound of praise. It's
Speaker 1: the sound of magnifying our God, talking about his greatness,
Speaker 1: declaring his promises. When you have that song of praise
Speaker 1: in your heart. The enemy cannot keep you down when
Speaker 1: you do like David and keep making melody in your heart. Lord,
Speaker 1: I want to thank you that no weapon formed against
Speaker 1: me will ever prosper you. Being formed me is more
Speaker 1: than anything trying to stop me. Nothing can stand against you.
Speaker 1: That's the sound that gets Heaven's attention. Maybe today you
Speaker 1: need to change your sound. You need to tell that
Speaker 1: crow go on vacation. No more complaining, being sour, begging God.
Speaker 1: Turn that worry into worship, Turn that pressure into praise.
Speaker 1: Start making melody, no more making noise. Learn to bless
Speaker 1: the Lord at all times. The bigger you make God,
Speaker 1: the smaller your problems become. As you begin to do this,
Speaker 1: it's not only going to make you feel better. You're
Speaker 1: gonna get your joy back and have more energy. But
Speaker 1: things are about to shift. What look permanent like it
Speaker 1: could never change. God is going to suddenly turn around.
Speaker 1: You can't explain it. There was no saw, no sign.
Speaker 1: But suddenly soul is gone and you take the throne,
Speaker 1: so to speak. You get promoted, you're vindicated, or suddenly
Speaker 1: Samuel shows up and annoyance you was king. You go from
Speaker 1: being overlooked to being charged, from borrowing to lending, from
Speaker 1: sickness to hell. How did that happen? You found the
Speaker 1: sound that opens heaven, the sound of prayings, the sound
Speaker 1: of faith making melody in your heart. It's interesting how
Speaker 1: a cloud forms. The sun shines on water and it
Speaker 1: produces an invisible vapor. You can't see it, you can't
Speaker 1: feel it, but those vapors rise up into the Earth's atmosphere.
Speaker 1: They condense and eventually become clouds. When enough vapors go up,
Speaker 1: those clouds get too heavy to hold it all, and
Speaker 1: the water begins to release, first to miss, then a sprinkle.
Speaker 1: But if the condensation keeps building up, those clouds will
Speaker 1: open up and begin to pour down rain. In the scripture,
Speaker 1: rain is symbolic of God's favor, his goodness, and his blessing.
Speaker 1: Sometimes we find ourselves in a dry season, a drought,
Speaker 1: not getting any good breaks dealing with these problems. The
Speaker 1: good news is you can create an atmosphere for rain
Speaker 1: in your life. Your praise is the vapors going up
Speaker 1: to form the clouds. You may not see anything happening,
Speaker 1: you don't feel any different, but as you go through
Speaker 1: the day, thanking God for his goodness and making melody
Speaker 1: in your heart. Lord, I think that I'm alive today.
Speaker 1: Thank you for my family, father, Thank you that you're
Speaker 1: fighting my battles and so you're making my crooked places stray.
Speaker 1: Lord God, I know you're all powerful and nothing can
Speaker 1: stand against you. That's not just being grateful. That's creating clouds.
Speaker 1: Your praise is shifting things in the atmosphere. As you
Speaker 1: keep praising and keep making there will be a time
Speaker 1: where those clouds open up and you will see the
Speaker 1: rain of God's blessing, favor, healing, abundance. There wasn't a coincidence,
Speaker 1: It wasn't a lucky break. You sent the praises up.
Speaker 1: You created that atmosphere for God to work. But sometimes
Speaker 1: we're complaining about what's not happening. Why isn't this changing,
Speaker 1: and when is this problem gonna resolve? My question is
Speaker 1: what are you sending up? What you send up is
Speaker 1: gonna come back down. If you send up complaints, negativity.
Speaker 2: It's not fair.
Speaker 1: You're gonna get back defeat, black struggle. Change what you're
Speaker 1: sending up. If you have a child this off course,
Speaker 1: it's easy to talk about the problem, call your friends.
Speaker 1: Tell them what's wrong, how he's never gonna change. Those
Speaker 1: are the wrong vapors, they're forming the wrong clouds. Try
Speaker 1: a different approach. Lord, Thank you that my seed is blead. Father,
Speaker 1: you said that my children will be mighty in the land.
Speaker 1: Thank you that what you have purpose for them will
Speaker 1: come to pass. You keep thanking God. You don't see
Speaker 1: anything happening. That's okay. The vapors are going up. The
Speaker 1: cloud is getting fuller. There will be a time when
Speaker 1: the heavens open, the rain comes down, breakthroughs, deliverance your
Speaker 1: child back on course, or maybe you fight in a
Speaker 1: battle in your health, or perhaps you had a set
Speaker 1: back in your finances. Be careful what you're sending up.
Speaker 1: It's important what you're saying in difficult times.
Speaker 2: No more.
Speaker 1: I'll never get well, Joel. You should see the medical report.
Speaker 1: For all the odds are against me. I'll never get
Speaker 1: out of debt.
Speaker 2: Zip that up.
Speaker 1: That's forming the wrong clouds. That's gonna bring to feed
Speaker 1: negativity struggle. Send up some new vapors. Lord, I thank
Speaker 1: you that you're restoring health back into me, that I
Speaker 1: will live and not die and declear the works of
Speaker 1: the Lord. Instead to complain and about the finances.
Speaker 2: How about Father, I want.
Speaker 1: To thank you that you're Jehovah Jahrah, the Lord, my provider,
Speaker 1: that you're pouring out blessings that I cannot contain. Well, Joel,
Speaker 1: I tried that for a week, but nothing happened. Your
Speaker 1: cloud didn't get full enough.
Speaker 2: You need to.
Speaker 1: Keep sending up those praises, keep thanking God for what
Speaker 1: he promised. Every time you do, the cloud is getting heavier.
Speaker 1: It's just a matter of time before you see the
Speaker 1: downpour the goodness of God. Another interesting thing about rain
Speaker 1: is scientists tell us that there's the same amount of
Speaker 1: water on the earth today as there has always been.
Speaker 1: There's no new water. Everything's recycled. I used to think
Speaker 1: when it rained that was new water for me, but
Speaker 1: actually it's the same water. The sun hid it, it condensed,
Speaker 1: went back into the clouds, and came back down again. Well.
Speaker 1: The scripture talks about how God has blessings stored up
Speaker 1: for the righteous, blessings that have your name on them,
Speaker 1: good breaks, opportunity, maybe that baby you've been dreaming about.
Speaker 2: They belong to you.
Speaker 1: How do you get it out of storage? Praise is
Speaker 1: one of the ways God releases what He has already
Speaker 1: prepared for you. Your healing is already there, your freedom,
Speaker 1: your abundance, but it needs your voice, your sound, your
Speaker 1: thanksgiving to form those clouds so God will release what's
Speaker 1: been stored up. You don't have to beg God, it's
Speaker 1: already in place. Just thank Him in advance all through
Speaker 1: the day. Thank Him for your healing, Thank him for
Speaker 1: your dreams, Thank him for the provision. Thank him that
Speaker 1: he's working. Even when you don't see anything happening. Keep
Speaker 1: those vapors going up, continually making melody, and you will
Speaker 1: see the heavens open up, pour down blessings that you
Speaker 1: cannot contain. When I was in my early twenties, I
Speaker 1: worked here at Lakewood. At the other location, there was
Speaker 1: this man that did the landscaping and some repairs around
Speaker 1: the property. He was in his forties. He was always
Speaker 1: so negative, always something going wrong. And I would see
Speaker 1: him and just in passing being friendly, Hey, good morning.
Speaker 1: How you're doing. He would say, Oh, Joel, it's so hard.
Speaker 1: I'm having such a struggle. He would tell me how
Speaker 1: he had a leak in his roof and some of
Speaker 1: his equipment broke. His wife was sick he didn't know
Speaker 1: if he could pay his bills. It was always such
Speaker 1: a sad, depressing story. I just wanted to say, Hi,
Speaker 1: I didn't know the world was coming to an end.
Speaker 1: And I understand, you know, if that happens at times,
Speaker 1: we all go through difficult seasons. But this was every time,
Speaker 1: year after year. His first line was always is so hard. Well,
Speaker 1: here's the problem. What you're sending up, you're gonna get
Speaker 1: back down. You send up, defeat long enough, it's gonna rain.
Speaker 1: Defeat you send up, can't do it. Bad breaks, always struggle.
Speaker 1: You're gonna see just that you're creating the clouds. Those
Speaker 1: vapors are forming what you're declaring. When this man was
Speaker 1: in his early fifties, he was diagnosed with terminal cancer.
Speaker 1: He struggled for a few months and soon passed away.
Speaker 1: I thought to myself, you know, it's sad, but that's
Speaker 1: all he ever talked about.
Speaker 2: Defeat, struggle, so hard, not gonna make it.
Speaker 1: Don't send those things up, It's gonna come back down.
Speaker 1: The scripture says in Hoseiah sow to the Heaven's righteousness,
Speaker 1: and God will rain down righteousness on you. Notice that principle,
Speaker 1: what you so upward will rain back down on you.
Speaker 1: Some people so complaints, so discouragement, so bitterness. They wonder
Speaker 1: why nothing is changing, why.
Speaker 2: They're still struggling.
Speaker 1: You have to change what you're sowing. When you sow
Speaker 1: praise and you sow the promises of God, and you're
Speaker 1: always thanking Him for who he is, magnifying his greatness,
Speaker 1: then you're going to reap the blessing and favor of God.
Speaker 1: Keep the right vapors going up. Let him become a
Speaker 1: lifestyle where you're always making melody in your heart. When
Speaker 1: you sow righteousness, Hoseiah said, God will reign righteousness. That
Speaker 1: means right opportunities, right people, the right brains. This is
Speaker 1: what Elijah did one King, Chapter eighteen. The people of
Speaker 1: Israel had been in a famine for three and a
Speaker 1: half years, no rain, no growth. But in verse forty one,
Speaker 1: Elisha said, I hear the sound of the abundance of rain.
Speaker 1: He heard something in his spirit, a sound from heaven,
Speaker 1: a promise from God. He didn't wait till he saw
Speaker 1: the rain. He went on top of Mount Carmel and
Speaker 1: begin to thank God for the rain. He let that
Speaker 1: sound in his spirit become a sound of praise to God.
Speaker 1: When God gives you a sound, when he gives you
Speaker 1: a promise, turn that promise into praise. Start thanking God
Speaker 1: for what he said, and thank him that he's working
Speaker 1: in your life. Every time you do. Those vapors are
Speaker 1: going up. Your cloud's getting heavier. Well. Elijah told his
Speaker 1: assistant to go out and see if there was any
Speaker 1: sign of rain, and the young man came back. Sorry, Elijah,
Speaker 1: not a cloud in the sky. It's perfectly clear. Elijah
Speaker 1: didn't get discouraged. He didn't start sending up complaints. God,
Speaker 1: where are you? Why didn't this happen? He just kept
Speaker 1: sending up more praise.
Speaker 2: Lord.
Speaker 1: I thank you that the rain is coming. Think you
Speaker 1: that abundance is on the way. The assistant went back
Speaker 1: checked again, again and again six times.
Speaker 2: Still nothing. Thoughts told Elijah, you're.
Speaker 1: Wasting your time. You heard wrong. Elijah just kept on praise,
Speaker 1: sending up more things. God. I know that you're faithful,
Speaker 1: and I know things are happening behind the scenes. The
Speaker 1: seventh time, the assistant came back and said, this time
Speaker 1: I saw a little cloud starting to form. Don't be fooled.
Speaker 1: A little cloud can bring a big blessing. Before long,
Speaker 1: the heavens opened up. The drought came to an end.
Speaker 1: There was a downpour of rain. Maybe you've been in
Speaker 1: a drought. Things not improving, feels like you're stuck. But
Speaker 1: like Elijah, you've been sending up your praise, thanking God
Speaker 1: for his goodness. When you don't see any sign, you
Speaker 1: could be crowing, but you keep singing, making melody like
Speaker 1: God did for him. The heavens are about to open up.
Speaker 1: You're going to see the rain of God's favor, the abundance,
Speaker 1: the breakthrough, the healing. You are closer than you think.
Speaker 1: Don't stop now. You may be on time number five,
Speaker 1: time number six, But Saven is coming. God is working,
Speaker 1: That cloud is getting fuller. Keep sending up the right vapors,
Speaker 1: the praise, the thanksgiving. Remember when that old crow comes
Speaker 1: warning to complying, tell him you're not welcome here. That's
Speaker 1: not the right sound, you know, the sound that opens heaven,
Speaker 1: the sound of praise. Now, keep making melody in your heart,
Speaker 1: keep sowing to the heaven's faith, hope, the promises of God.
Speaker 1: I believe and declare. The heavens are about to sow
Speaker 1: back to you. Rain is coming, healing, freedom, the right people,
Speaker 1: breakthroughs the fullness of your destiny in Jesus' name, and
Speaker 1: if you receive it, can you say amen? I'd like
Speaker 1: to give you an opportunity to make Jesus the Lord
Speaker 1: of your life. Would you pray with me? Just say, Lord, Jesus,
Speaker 1: I repent.
Speaker 2: Of my sins.
Speaker 1: Come into my heart.
Speaker 2: I make you my Lord and Savior.
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