Sermon Note
Pastor Prince
The world is so full of pessimism. The world is dark. We have devices that hundred years ago they will die for. We can communicate without going to phone booth. We have instant communication. And yet we are one of the most unhappy people in the generation
Go to the villages. You see the children happy with simple stones.
Have we become people with sense of entitlement? We crave what we cannot attain and discredit what we have.
We are more polite to strangers.
Appreciate what we have.
We are not made righteous by God by what we do. By Jesus, He is our righteousness
Whatever level of walk, it is not our doings or works. Jesus is my righteousness
God does not overlook our sins for us. It has been removed!
The blood is on mercy seat.
Behold the Lamb of God who takes away the sin of the world.
Before God there is no sin on us.
Though there is still sin in us.
God cares and loves us. We need to know His ways. His ways are not religious.
There is nothing you can do. We are justified by faith.
It causes Jesus everything at the cross.
You need to guard in the area of your heart
Proverbs 4:20
My son, give attention to my words;
Incline your ear to my sayings.
Proverbs 4:21
Do not let them depart from your eyes;
Keep them in the midst of your heart;
Your vision.
What you see will go to your heart.
Incline my ears to God’s sake
What you hear, what you see.
Guard your heart.
Life to those who find them. Health to ALL their flesh.
Good and perfect gift is from the Father above.
Whenever you are holding bible you are holding a piece of heaven
It is the only medicine that says health to all their flesh.
Side effect – you become joyful. Joy unspeakable
When people are radiant, they attract people
You shall be witnesses. Your very person attract people
Above all, guard your heart
The only thing you can guard is your heart
The only privacy you have is your heart and your mind.
Protect your heart. No one should enter there. Only the holy spirit
Your heart is not your spirit
We are tripartite.
Our body is not us. Is our house.
We are a spirit
We have a soul
We live in a body
Spirit connects with God
Soul connects with your surrounding
Body and soul has nothing to do with your spirit
You can understand something better not by its definition but what it does
What does a heart do?
God said guard your heart.
Let not your heart be troubled. If you guard your heart, God will guard everything
Genesis 6:5
And GOD saw that the wickedness of man was great in the earth, and that every imagination of the thoughts of his heart was only evil continually.
The thoughts of his heart
Imagination – Yeser
Sometimes to have peace you have to go to war.
Sin and evil will he judged.
Only God can see the heart
The imagination of the heart
You are safe forever!
You fall inside the ark and never fall out of the ark
God said come into the ark. He was the first one in. He was the last one out. He said come out of the ark.
God’s word gives life and health to your flesh.
Genesis 8:21
And the LORD smelled a soothing aroma. Then the LORD said in His heart, “I will never again curse the ground for man’s sake, although the imagination of man’s heart is evil from his youth; nor will I again destroy every living thing as I have done.
Ephesians 1:17-18
I keep asking that the God of our Lord Jesus Christ, the glorious Father, may give you the Spirit of wisdom and revelation, so that you may know him better. I pray that the eyes of your heart may be enlightened in order that you may know the hope to which he has called you, the riches of his glorious inheritance in his holy people,
Spirit of wisdom gives us this –
Length of days
Riches
Honour
Pleasure
Peace
The eyes of your heart
Your heart has eyes!
Your heart speaks of imagination
Guard your imagination
Imagination is the act
Imagination is creative
Genesis 2:7
And the LORD God formed man of the dust of the ground, and breathed into his nostrils the breath of life; and man became a living being.
Formed – Yeser
It has something to do with creating, formulating
Imagination to God is creative
Best time to practise is when you pray in tongues and be alert of your imagination
Young men shall see visions
Old men shall dream dreams.
They both are pictures. God speaks through pictures.
The bible is chope full of pictures
His leaf shall not wither. Whatsoever he does shall prosper!
I am in the world but not of the world. I am planted by the rivers!
Whatsoever! God does not exaggerate
God said whatever you do, shall prosper!
You are seeing!
Whatever you do prosper!
Yeser creates! It forms your mind!
With the heart
With the mouth
You fill your heart by spending time with the Word
Matthew 12:34-35
Brood of vipers! How can you, being evil, speak good things? For out of the abundance of the heart the mouth speaks.
A good man out of the good treasure of his heart brings forth good things, and an evil man out of the evil treasure brings forth evil things.
The devil is after your heart
I see good things in your life
The good things come from your heart. It is from God.
You receive the vision from God
Out of
Bring forth
A good man out of the good treasure of his heart brings forth good things, and an evil man out of the evil treasure brings forth evil things.
Genesis 3:6-7
So when the woman saw that the tree was good for food, that it was pleasant to the eyes, and a tree desirable to make one wise, she took of its fruit and ate. She also gave to her husband with her, and he ate. Then the eyes of both of them were opened, and they knew that they were naked; and they sewed fig leaves together and made themselves coverings.
Tree of life
Arise. Walk through the length and breath of it.
Walk in your imagination.
Genesis 13:14-18
And the LORD said to Abram, after Lot had separated from him: “Lift your eyes now and look from the place where you are—northward, southward, eastward, and westward; for all the land which you see I give to you and your descendants forever. And I will make your descendants as the dust of the earth; so that if a man could number the dust of the earth, then your descendants also could be numbered. Arise, walk in the land through its length and its width, for I give it to you.”
Then Abram moved his tent, and went and dwelt by the terebinth trees of Mamre, which are in Hebron, and built an altar there to the LORD.
See yourself enjoying.
See yourself enjoying all the fruits that come from Mediterranean diet.
Take the picture of your youth, visualise and re-possess your promise land.
Keep visualising
Ephesians 1:17-18
I keep asking that the God of our Lord Jesus Christ, the glorious Father, may give you the Spirit of wisdom and revelation, so that you may know him better. I pray that the eyes of your heart may be enlightened in order that you may know the hope to which he has called you, the riches of his glorious inheritance in his holy people,
The eyes of your heart
This is how the spirit of your wisdom operates.
Pray and be alert to the pictures that come out.
God wants you to learn the language of your holy spirit
Psalms 144:12-15
Then our sons in their youth
will be like well-nurtured plants,
and our daughters will be like pillars
carved to adorn a palace.
Our barns will be filled
with every kind of provision.
Our sheep will increase by thousands,
by tens of thousands in our fields;
our oxen will draw heavy loads.
There will be no breaching of walls,
no going into captivity,
no cry of distress in our streets.
Blessed is the people of whom this is true;
blessed is the people whose God is the LORD.
The world is always giving you picture
The way to overcome it, is to replace the picture
Have a better imagination
You see a dark future
But you see my leaf is green! How can my future be dark !
Always green!
Becoming great in their youth
Psalms 144:13
Our barns will be filled
with every kind of provision.
Our sheep will increase by thousands,
by tens of thousands in our fields;
This is Prosperity !
Have the picture!
Psalms 144:15
Blessed is the people of whom this is true;
blessed is the people whose God is the LORD.
