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Speaker 7: I like to start with something funny, and I heard
Speaker 7: about this new police recruit.
Speaker 6: He was taking his final exam and he was in
Speaker 6: front of this large classroom. The sergeant asked him what
Speaker 6: would you do if you had to arrest your own
Speaker 6: mother in law without missing a beat? He said, call
Speaker 6: for back up. Say it like you mean it. This
Speaker 6: is my Bible. I am what it says I am.
Speaker 6: I have what it says I have. I can do
Speaker 6: what it says I can do. Today I will be
Speaker 6: taught the word of God. I boldly confess. My mind
Speaker 6: is alert, my heart is receptive. I will never be
Speaker 6: the same. In Jesus' name, God bless you. I want
Speaker 6: to talk to you today about say so. Words have
Speaker 6: creative power. When you speak something out, you give life
Speaker 6: to what you're saying. It's one thing to believe that
Speaker 6: you're blessed. That's important, but when you say I am blessed,
Speaker 6: it takes on a whole new meaning. That's when blessings
Speaker 6: come looking for you. The scripture says, let the redeemed
Speaker 6: of the Lord say so, doesn't say let the redeemed
Speaker 6: think so, or believe so, or hope so. That's all good,
Speaker 6: but you have to take it one step further and
Speaker 6: say so. If you're going to go to the next level,
Speaker 6: you've got to say so. If you're going to accomplish
Speaker 6: a dream, overcome an obstacle, break an addiction. You've got
Speaker 6: to start declaring it. It has to come out of
Speaker 6: your mouth. That's how you give life to your faith.
Speaker 6: When God created the worlds, he didn't just think them
Speaker 6: into being. He didn't just believe there would be light
Speaker 6: and land and oceans and animals. He had it in
Speaker 6: his heart, but nothing happened until he spoke. He said,
Speaker 6: let there be light, and light came. His thoughts didn't
Speaker 6: set it into motion, his words set it into motion.
Speaker 7: It's the same principle today.
Speaker 6: You can believe all day long and not see anything happen.
Speaker 6: You can have faith in your heart, big dreams, be
Speaker 6: standing on God's promises and never see anything change.
Speaker 7: What's the problem. Nothing happens until you speak.
Speaker 6: Instead of just believing you're going to get out of debt,
Speaker 6: you've got.
Speaker 7: To say so, declare every day.
Speaker 6: I'm coming out of debt. I'm the head and not
Speaker 6: the tail. God's favor surrounds me like a shield. When
Speaker 6: you speak, just like when God spoke, things begin to happen.
Speaker 6: Opportunities will find you, good breaks, promotion, ideas will track
Speaker 6: you down. Instead of just thinking, I hope I get
Speaker 6: over this illness, Joel praying I'll get better. That's good,
Speaker 6: but you've got to take it one more step and
Speaker 6: start declaring it. I'm strong, I'm healthy, I will live
Speaker 6: and not die with long life.
Speaker 7: God is going to satisfy me.
Speaker 6: That's what activates your faith instead of just hoping you
Speaker 6: have a good year, instead of just hoping that you
Speaker 6: accomplish your dreams. Hope is good, but nothing happens until
Speaker 6: you speak. Before you leave the house every day, declare it.
Speaker 6: Twenty thirteen is my year. Things have shifted in my favor.
Speaker 6: God is about to show me something that I've never seen.
Speaker 6: When you talk like that, the angels go to work,
Speaker 6: opening up new doors, lining up the right.
Speaker 7: People, arranging things in your favor.
Speaker 6: Now all of us are hoping, believing, praying about something.
Speaker 7: My question today is are.
Speaker 6: You giving life to your faith by speaking it out.
Speaker 6: Psalm ninety one says I will say of the Lord,
Speaker 6: he is my refuge, my fortress, my shield. The next
Speaker 6: verse says he will deliver me, protect me, cover me.
Speaker 6: Notice the connection I will say and he will do
Speaker 6: doesn't say I believe he's my refuge. I believe he'll
Speaker 6: be my strength. No, the psalmness went around declaring it,
Speaker 6: speaking it out. The Lord is my refuge, The Lord
Speaker 6: is my strength. Notice what happened. God became his refuge,
Speaker 6: his strength. God would say, and in effect, if you're
Speaker 6: bold enough to speak it, then I'm bold enough to
Speaker 6: do it. Have you ever declared that your dreams are
Speaker 6: coming to pass? Have you ever said I will pay
Speaker 6: off my house, I will start my own business, I
Speaker 6: will get my degree, I will lose this weight, I
Speaker 6: will see my family restored. Whatever God's put in your
Speaker 6: heart needs to get in your conversation. Talk like it's
Speaker 6: going to happen. Talk like it's already on the way.
Speaker 6: When I get married, when I graduate from college. When
Speaker 6: I see my family restored, not if it's going to happen,
Speaker 6: but when it's going to happen, that's your faith being released.
Speaker 6: One of our staff members had been trying for a long,
Speaker 6: long time to have a baby, over ten years no success.
Speaker 6: One day we were in a staff meeting planning out
Speaker 6: the next year. She made the statement, when I have
Speaker 6: my baby, I'm going to be out for a couple
Speaker 6: of months. We'll have to find somebody to fill in. Well,
Speaker 6: I thought she was pregnant, and nobody had told me,
Speaker 6: so I didn't act surprised or say anything. After the meeting,
Speaker 6: my sister Lisa was in there as well. I said, Lisa,
Speaker 6: why didn't you tell me she was pregnant. She said, Joel,
Speaker 6: She's not pregnant. She just talks like it's going to happen.
Speaker 7: This went on for years.
Speaker 6: When I have my baby, when I get pregnant, when
Speaker 6: my child shows up, what was she doing saying so?
Speaker 6: She didn't just believe it, she was declaring it in
Speaker 6: the natural. She was getting too old to have a baby.
Speaker 6: Her doctors told her it wasn't going to happen. Looked impossible.
Speaker 6: Most people would have given up and accepted it, but
Speaker 6: not this lady. She kept saying, so, kept declaring it
Speaker 6: when my baby shows up.
Speaker 5: Do you know?
Speaker 6: Twenty years later she gave birth, not to one baby,
Speaker 6: but to two.
Speaker 7: She had twins.
Speaker 6: She declared of the Lord, and God did what he promised.
Speaker 6: But think about the opposite of Psalm ninety one. I
Speaker 6: will not say of the Lord and he will not
Speaker 6: do That's the principle. Nothing happens until you speak. When
Speaker 6: we were trying to acquire this facility, Victoria and I
Speaker 6: would drive around it night after night and say that's
Speaker 6: our building. Father, thank you for fighting our battles. Lord,
Speaker 6: thank you that you're making a way where we don't
Speaker 6: see away. We didn't just think about it, pray about it,
Speaker 6: believe that it would happen, and that's all important. But
Speaker 6: we took one more step and declared that it was ours.
Speaker 6: It became a part of our everyday conversation.
Speaker 7: At the dinner table.
Speaker 6: When we get the compact center, we could do this
Speaker 6: when we renovated, when we move in, when we have
Speaker 6: the grand opening. Not I don't know, Victoria, it's going
Speaker 6: to be very expensive.
Speaker 7: Where are we going to get the funds? I don't know.
Speaker 7: The opponents they're really really strong.
Speaker 6: No, we said of the Lord, like the Psalmist, God,
Speaker 6: we know you're bigger than any obstacle. We know you're
Speaker 6: supplying all of our needs. Lord, we know if you
Speaker 6: be for us, who dare be against us? We declared it,
Speaker 6: and God did it. What are you saying of the
Speaker 6: Lord when Joel, my problems are really big today, my
Speaker 6: dreams look impossible. My marriage is so messed up we'll
Speaker 6: never be restored. No, don't talk about how big your
Speaker 6: problem is. Talk about how big your God is. When
Speaker 6: you say.
Speaker 7: Of the Lord, You're my healer, my.
Speaker 6: Waymaker, my dream giver, my restorer, my vindicator.
Speaker 7: My health, my peace, my.
Speaker 6: Victory, that's when God will show up and do more
Speaker 6: than you can ask or think. I have some friends
Speaker 6: that were believing to have another child. They have a daughter,
Speaker 6: but they really wanted to have a son. And every
Speaker 6: time the wife got pregnant, she had a miscarriage.
Speaker 7: This happened five.
Speaker 6: Times in nine years. They were very discouraged, tempted to
Speaker 6: give up. The man's name is Joe. He'd gone by
Speaker 6: Joe his whole life, but one day he read where
Speaker 6: his full name Joseph, means God will add. When he
Speaker 6: saw that something came alive on the inside, he knew
Speaker 6: God was saying, I'm going to add to you a son.
Speaker 6: He remembered the story in the Scripture where God changed
Speaker 6: Abram's name to Abraham, which means father of many nations.
Speaker 6: God gave Abraham a child, a son, at a very
Speaker 6: old age. When it looked impossible, Joe decided to go
Speaker 6: back to using his original name. He told his family,
Speaker 6: his friends, coworkers, don't call me Joe anymore. Call me Joseph.
Speaker 6: They thought he was having a midlife crisis. But every
Speaker 6: time someone said hello, Joseph, they were saying God, what
Speaker 6: had They were speaking?
Speaker 7: Victory over his life?
Speaker 6: He kept saying so, declaring it. About six months later,
Speaker 6: his wife became pregnant with the baby boy for the.
Speaker 7: First time in ten years. She cared him for term.
Speaker 6: The baby was born healthy and whole, and as a
Speaker 6: testimony to God's goodness, they name that little boy Joseph.
Speaker 7: God will add, well.
Speaker 6: Let me ask you, are you declaring victory over your life,
Speaker 6: over your family, over your career. Nothing happens until you speak.
Speaker 6: When you get up in the morning. You need to
Speaker 6: make some declarations of faith. Whatever God's put in your.
Speaker 7: Heart, declare that it will come to pass.
Speaker 6: I say every day I am increasing in the anointing,
Speaker 6: in wisdom, in favor, and in influence. Every message is
Speaker 6: getting better. God is taking our ministry where no ministry's
Speaker 6: ever gone. You've got to speak favor into your future.
Speaker 6: I declare every day my children will fulfill their destinies.
Speaker 6: Their gifts and talents will come out to the full.
Speaker 6: They will supersede anything that we've done. Ever since I
Speaker 6: took over from my father. I've said when people turned
Speaker 6: me on on television, they cannot turn me off.
Speaker 7: Do you know how many.
Speaker 6: Letters I get from people that said, Joel, I was
Speaker 6: flipping through the channels.
Speaker 7: I don't like TV preachers.
Speaker 6: I never watched TV preachers, but when I turned you on,
Speaker 6: I couldn't turn you off.
Speaker 7: I think to myself. I called you in, I said so.
Speaker 6: One man wrote and told how his wife tried to
Speaker 6: get him to watch the program for many, many years,
Speaker 6: but he wouldn't do it. One day, he was flipping
Speaker 6: through the channels, he came across our program, and normally
Speaker 6: he would flip by it very quickly, but for some reason,
Speaker 6: this day his remote control stopped working and he got
Speaker 6: stuck on our program. He was so frustrated he finagled
Speaker 6: with it, ended up changing the batteries. It still wouldn't work,
Speaker 6: he said, Joel. Even though I tried to act like
Speaker 6: I wasn't listening, you were speaking directly to me. The
Speaker 6: funny thing is when our program was over, the remote
Speaker 6: control went back to work, and just find it, he said.
Speaker 6: Now I never missed one of your programs. When you
Speaker 6: declare favor over your life, over your future, God will
Speaker 6: make things happen that should have never happened. Our attitude
Speaker 6: should be I'm coming out of debt, and I'm saying so,
Speaker 6: twenty thirteen is my year, and I'm saying so, I
Speaker 6: will overcome every obstacle, and I'm saying so. When I
Speaker 6: first started ministering, I was very nervous and very intimidated.
Speaker 6: I knew I was supposed to step up and pastor
Speaker 6: the church, but I'm naturally more quiet and reserved. I
Speaker 6: didn't know if I could get up here really and
Speaker 6: speak and minister in front of people. During the week,
Speaker 6: negative thoughts would bombard my mind.
Speaker 7: I would go and.
Speaker 6: Stand in front of a mirror and talk to myself.
Speaker 6: I would say, Joel, you are strong, you are well able,
Speaker 6: you have what it takes. You are anointed, you are talented,
Speaker 6: you can do this. At that time, nothing that I
Speaker 6: was saying was true.
Speaker 7: I was not strong or confident.
Speaker 6: I did not feel talented, anointed, well able. But as
Speaker 6: I kept saying it, day after day, month after month,
Speaker 6: things started to change. I begin to become what I
Speaker 6: was saying. Over time, it became a reality.
Speaker 7: Here's the key.
Speaker 6: What you keep saying, you are moving toward you may
Speaker 6: be struggling in your finances, but when you keep declaring,
Speaker 6: I'm blessed, I'm prosperous.
Speaker 7: I have the favor of God.
Speaker 6: Every time you say it, you're moving toward increase. You're
Speaker 6: getting closer to seeing that come to pass. You may
Speaker 6: be facing a sickness it look good, But every time
Speaker 6: you declare I'm healthy, I'm strong, I'm getting better. You're
Speaker 6: moving toward health, wholeness, victory. Or perhaps you're struggling with
Speaker 6: an addiction. Every time you declare, I am free, this
Speaker 6: addiction does not control me. You're moving toward freedom. You're
Speaker 6: moving toward breakthroughs now Here's the catch. This works in
Speaker 6: the positive end in the negative. If you're always saying
Speaker 6: I am so unlucky, I never get any good breaks,
Speaker 6: you're moving toward bad breaks, more disappointment. Joel, my back's
Speaker 6: been hurting for three years. I don't think I'll ever
Speaker 6: get well. You're moving toward more sickness, more pain. Or
Speaker 6: I've been through so much, I don't think I'll ever
Speaker 6: be happy again, moving toward more discouragement, more sadness. If
Speaker 6: you will change what you're saying, you will change what
Speaker 6: you're seeing. The scripture says, call the things that are
Speaker 6: not as if they already were.
Speaker 7: A lot of times we do just the opposite.
Speaker 6: We call the things that are as if they will
Speaker 6: always be that way. In other words, we just describe
Speaker 6: the situation. Man, gas is so high. I don't see
Speaker 6: how I'm going to make it. You're calling in more struggle,
Speaker 6: more lack. I can't stand my job. My boss gets
Speaker 6: on my nerves. You're calling in more frustration, more defeat.
Speaker 6: Don't use your words to describe the situation.
Speaker 7: Use your words to change the situation.
Speaker 6: If I would have just complained about how nervous and
Speaker 6: intimidated I was, if I would have gone around saying,
Speaker 6: you know, I can't do this. I'm afraid I don't
Speaker 6: have what it takes. If I would have described the situation,
Speaker 6: I wouldn't be standing here today. If you want to
Speaker 6: know what you're going to be like five years now,
Speaker 6: listen to what you're saying about yourself.
Speaker 7: You are prophesying your future. Five years from.
Speaker 6: Now, My messages are going to be better than they
Speaker 6: are right now.
Speaker 7: Don't you say, thank God?
Speaker 6: Five years from now, I'm going to be stronger, healthier, wiser,
Speaker 6: better looking. Our daughter Alexandra had a copy of my
Speaker 6: first book from ten years ago the other day and
Speaker 6: a copy.
Speaker 7: Of my newest book.
Speaker 6: She was comparing the pictures on the cover. She said, wow, Daddy,
Speaker 6: you look better today.
Speaker 7: Than you did ten years ago. I said, what would
Speaker 7: you like me to buy you?
Speaker 6: But do you know how many times I have said
Speaker 6: I'm getting stronger, healthier, wiser. My youth is being renewed
Speaker 6: like the eagles.
Speaker 7: Every time you say it, you're moving toward it.
Speaker 6: But if you're always saying, man, I'm so out of shape,
Speaker 6: I'll never lose this weight, you're moving toward the wrong thing.
Speaker 7: A gentleman told me last week. He looked to be
Speaker 7: about seventy.
Speaker 6: Joe, when you get old, it's all downhill, that was
Speaker 6: his say. So he was declaring, I'm going down he
Speaker 6: was calling in poor health, lack of vision, hard of hearing.
Speaker 6: He keeps that up, he'll keep moving toward it. By
Speaker 6: the way he looked, he'd already been saying it for
Speaker 6: a long time. And I realized, we're all going to
Speaker 6: get old, we're all eventually going to die. But don't
Speaker 6: make plans to go downhill. Don't start speaking defeat over
Speaker 6: your life. Moses was one hundred and twenty years old,
Speaker 6: and the scripture.
Speaker 7: Says his eye was not them his.
Speaker 6: Natural strength not abated, one hundred and twenty healthy, strong,
Speaker 6: twenty twenty vision, didn't have glasses, wasn't awaring help I
Speaker 6: fallen and I can't get up.
Speaker 7: Button around his chest.
Speaker 6: He had a clear memory, a strong, sharp mind. I
Speaker 6: know I'm gonna get a letter on that one, but
Speaker 6: here's what I'm saying. In spite of how you feel,
Speaker 6: in spite of what's been passed down in your family line,
Speaker 6: every day you need to declare everything about me is
Speaker 6: getting better and better. My bones, my joints, my ligaments,
Speaker 6: my blood, my organs, my memory, my vision, my hearing,
Speaker 6: my talent, my skill, my looks, my skin, my youth
Speaker 6: is being renewed.
Speaker 7: Like Moses, I will finish my.
Speaker 6: Course with my eye not dim my natural strength not abated.
Speaker 6: You talk like that, you're moving toward renewed youth, health, energy, vitality.
Speaker 6: That's a lot better than getting up in the morning,
Speaker 6: looking in the mirror and say, oh man, I'm getting
Speaker 6: so old. Look at these wrinkles. Look how bad I
Speaker 6: look this gray hair. I'm so out of shape. You
Speaker 6: keep moving toward that in five years, it's gonna be scary.
Speaker 7: You need to have a better say.
Speaker 3: So.
Speaker 7: Don't talk about.
Speaker 6: The way you are, talk about the way you want
Speaker 6: to be. You are prophesying your future. Maybe you're in
Speaker 6: a difficult time today, instead of complaining, that's just gonna
Speaker 6: draw in more defeat. Your declaration should be I have
Speaker 6: grace for this season. I am strong in the Lord.
Speaker 6: Those that are for me are greater than those that
Speaker 6: are against me.
Speaker 7: When you say that, strength.
Speaker 6: Comes, courage comes, confidence comes, endurance comes. You go through
Speaker 6: a disappointment, a bad break, a loss. I don't know
Speaker 6: how this has happened to me, Joel, It's so unfair. No,
Speaker 6: that's just gonna draw in more self pity. Your declaration
Speaker 6: should be God mus me, beauty for ashes, joy for morning.
Speaker 6: I'm not staying here. I'm moving forward. New beginnings are
Speaker 6: in my future. The rest of my life will be
Speaker 6: the best of my life. You talk like that, and
Speaker 6: you're moving toward double for your trouble. You're moving away
Speaker 6: from self pity and toward God's goodness in.
Speaker 7: A new way.
Speaker 6: One of the best things we can do is take
Speaker 6: a few minutes every morning and make these positive declarations
Speaker 6: over our lives. Write down not only your dreams, your goals,
Speaker 6: your vision, but make a list of any area you
Speaker 6: want to improve in, anything you want to see change.
Speaker 7: Put that list on your bathroom mirror.
Speaker 6: Somewhere private before you leave the house, take a couple
Speaker 6: of minutes and declare that over your life. In other words,
Speaker 6: if you struggle with your self esteem, feeling less than,
Speaker 6: you need to declare every day, I am confident, I
Speaker 6: am valuable, i am one of a kind. I have
Speaker 6: royal blood flowing through my veins. I am wearing a
Speaker 6: crown of favor. I am a child of the most
Speaker 6: tied God. You declare that, and you'll go out with
Speaker 6: your shoulders back, with your head held high. You struggle
Speaker 6: with your way, Declare I am in shape, I'm healthy,
Speaker 6: I'm full of energy.
Speaker 7: I weigh what I should weigh.
Speaker 6: May not be true right now, but you keep saying it,
Speaker 6: and you're gonna.
Speaker 7: Move toward it.
Speaker 6: Instead of living guilty, condemned, focused on past mistakes. No,
Speaker 6: declare I am forgiven, I am redeemed. I'm wearing a
Speaker 6: robe of righteousness. God is pleased with me. See the
Speaker 6: scripture says, let the weak, say I'm strong.
Speaker 7: It doesn't say let the.
Speaker 6: Weak talk about the weakness. Discuss the weakness, call five
Speaker 6: friends and explain the weakness. Now, you can not.
Speaker 7: Talk defeat and expect to have victory.
Speaker 6: You can't talk sickness and expect to have health. You
Speaker 6: can't talk lack.
Speaker 7: And struggle and expect to have abundance.
Speaker 6: You've got to send your words out in the direction
Speaker 6: you want your life to go.
Speaker 7: When you're in a.
Speaker 6: Tough time, somebody asks you how you're doing, don't go
Speaker 6: through a sad song of everything that's wrong in your life.
Speaker 6: Oh man, my back's been hurting, and traffic so bad
Speaker 6: out today, and boss it and treat me. Why dishwasher broke,
Speaker 6: goldfish dyed, dog doesn't like me. All that's gonna do
Speaker 6: is roy and more defeat, turn it around, have a
Speaker 6: report of victory.
Speaker 7: How are you doing.
Speaker 6: I'm blessed, I'm healthy, I'm prosperous, I have the favor
Speaker 6: of God. What you consistently talk about, you're moving toward.
Speaker 7: Proverb six says we are snared by the words of
Speaker 7: our mouth.
Speaker 6: Could it be if you would simply change what you're saying,
Speaker 6: you would see a dream come to pass, a breakthrough,
Speaker 6: a healing restoration. That's what happened to a friend of mine.
Speaker 6: She had smoked cigarettes from an early age, and she'd
Speaker 6: tried again and again, but she just could not stop.
Speaker 6: She was constantly saying, I'll never break this addiction. It's
Speaker 6: too hard, and even if I do, I know I
Speaker 6: will gain so much weight. This went on for years.
Speaker 6: One day someone told her what I'm telling you, to
Speaker 6: change what she was saying, to call things that are
Speaker 6: not as if they were. She started saying, I don't
Speaker 6: like to smoke. I can't stand the taste of nicotine.
Speaker 6: I'm going to quit and not gain any extra weight.
Speaker 7: She said that day after day.
Speaker 6: Even when she was smoking and enjoying it, she would say,
Speaker 6: I can't stand to smoke. She wasn't talking about the
Speaker 6: way she was. She was talking about the way she
Speaker 6: wanted to be. About three months later, one morning she
Speaker 6: noticed the cigarette tasted funny.
Speaker 7: Almost bitter.
Speaker 6: She thought she got a bad pack got worse and worse.
Speaker 6: Several months later, it had gotten so bad she couldn't
Speaker 6: stand it anymore. She stopped smoking, and do you know,
Speaker 6: she never gained one extra pound.
Speaker 7: Today she's totally free.
Speaker 6: She broke that addiction in part by the power of
Speaker 6: her words.
Speaker 7: She prophesied her future. Some of you, like her, have.
Speaker 6: Spent years saying negative things over your life. I can't
Speaker 6: break this addiction, Joel. My marriage is never gonna make it.
Speaker 6: I'll never get out of debt. No, you got to
Speaker 6: send your words out in a new direction.
Speaker 7: You are prophesying the wrong thing.
Speaker 6: Get in a habit of making these positive declarations over
Speaker 6: your life every day. Declare that your dreams are coming
Speaker 6: to pass. It's not enough to just believe it. Nothing
Speaker 6: happens until you speak like the Psalmist, when you say,
Speaker 6: of the Lord, God will do what he promised. Let
Speaker 6: me lead you in a few of these declarations today.
Speaker 7: Say it like you mean it. I am blessed.
Speaker 6: I am prosperous, I am strong, I am healthy, I
Speaker 6: am talented, I am creative, I am confident, I am secure,
Speaker 6: I am disciplined, I am focused. I am attractive, I
Speaker 6: am well liked. I have a good personality.
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