Sharing good news of great joy to all people.
Elation Church. For over four weeks now, every
day, this Bible verse has just popped up in my
head. Who has ever memorized Ephesians 3 .20?
A lot of us. It says this, now to him, everybody
say God. Not to him who is able to do exceedingly
abundantly above all that we ask or think, according
to the power that works within us. I've known
this Bible verse for a long time. I might have
mentioned it before, but it's never been the
foundation verse for a message that I preached
until God began laying it on my heart. And I
know... When I keep thinking about a Bible verse
over and over, I mean, we were preaching through
the incarnation and having those services and
preparing those services, but during the whole
time, over four weeks, like I said, almost every
day, the Holy Spirit kept bringing that up, bringing
that up, and I'm like, well, how am I going to
preach that one verse? So I believe God's given
me some new kind of insight through His Word.
And today, just to keep you engaged, we're going
to find the connection. Everybody say connection.
Between Legos, Legos, and Ephesians 3. There's
a connection. Is anyone interested yet? Okay.
Here we go. So I've entitled this message, Exceedingly
Abundantly More in 2024. So hopefully that will
be burnt in your mind and you'll think about
this all year, not just this week. See, most
of the time we get excited about what we're thinking
about right now and then we forget it. Get excited
about the Word of God that's present in our lives
and then we don't remember what God just did
and what God just revealed to us. But I believe
this can stay with us all year because of that
funny little rhyme, exceedingly abundantly more
in 2024. Now, I didn't get this from anybody
else. Jeffrey said, who'd you hear say that?
Where'd you get that at? Well, I'll tell you
where I got it at. Back in the 90s, when we first
went on the road in evangelism, I was preaching
at Commission Road Baptist Church just outside
of Gulfport, Mississippi. And they had a gravel
parking lot at the church. How many of you know
if you wear dress shoes on gravel, it's rough
on leather heels and shoes? Or, you know, girls
wearing spike heels. I mean, it's almost impossible
to walk on gravel, right? So their theme for
1994 was gravel no more. In 94. That's the closest
I've come to giving anybody credit for this message
today. Exceedingly abundantly more in 2024. Like
I said, that verse, Ephesians 3 .20. Now to Him,
God, who is able? Everybody say, God is able.
God is able to do exceedingly abundantly above
all that you can ask or think. How many of you
can ask a lot? How many of you can think about
asking a lot? Well, God is able to do exceedingly
abundantly more than that according to His power
that is working in you. Everybody say, God is
able. Romans 16, 25. Now to Him, God, who is
able to establish you according to the gospel
and the preaching of Jesus Christ. Everybody
say, God is able. 2 Corinthians 9 .8 And God
is able to make all grace abound toward you,
that you, always having all sufficiency in all
things, may have an abundance for every good
work. And this is talking about our finances.
And as we give, and the same measure we give
will be measured back to us. And it's saying
God is able to make all grace abound toward you.
What does that word grace mean? Has anybody figured
that out yet? My definition for grace. I mean,
most people just quickly say unmerited favor.
Grace is unmerited favor. Mercy is not getting
what I deserve. Grace is unmerited favor. But
to expand that a little bit, grace is God's acts,
His activity, His actions of kindness and favor
towards you and towards me. I had to have an
amen right there. Okay? God's acts of kindness
and favor towards you and towards me. Not because
we've earned it or deserve it or worked for it,
but because He's God. And He's good. And He's
able. Everybody say, God is able. Now to Him,
Jude 1 .24, Now to Him who is able, there you
go, God's able again, to keep you from stumbling
and to present you faultless before the presence
of His glory. with exceeding joy. Amen. I'll
start amening myself. Everybody say, God is able.
He's able to keep you from stumbling and to present
you faultless. You might look at yourself. So
many times we look at ourselves and we want to
beat ourselves up and we're like, but I've messed
up. I'm not faultless. How many of you would
say, I'm not faultless? Well, because of the
cross, Jesus is able to present you to the Father
as faultless. Isn't that freeing? I mean, doesn't
that give you some freedom? 2 Timothy 1 .12.
I know whom I have believed in, and I'm persuaded
that He is able. Everybody say, God is able.
God is able to keep what I've committed to Him
until that day. Everybody say, God is able. Acts
20, verse 32. So now, brethren, I commend you
to God and to the word of His grace, which is
able to build you up and give you an inheritance
among all those who are sanctified. Well, He
sanctified us, right? So He's able to build us
up. He's able to give us... An inheritance. We
are joint heirs with Jesus. Joint heirs with
Christ. That's what the Bible says. Everybody
say God is able. See, y 'all need to smile when
you say God is able. Do you believe that He's
able? Well, that should put a smile on your face.
Hebrews 7 .25 Therefore He is also able if you
didn't think He was able enough He's also able
to save To the uttermost, those who come to God
through him. That word save in the Greek is save,
deliver, protect. And he does it entirely. Full
ended, all the way through. Okay? He's able to
save to the uttermost. And then back to Ephesians
3 .20. Now to him who is able to do exceedingly
abundantly above all that we ask your thing,
according to the power. that works in us. Who
would like to see God's promises and God's blessings
and who God is? Who would like to see that in
a greater measure in 2024 than you've ever seen
in your life? Who wants to? Now I've got a question.
Is there anything that can limit what God is
able to do for us? Think about it. We're going
to look at the Word, okay? I'm not just coming
up with an answer that's not based on what God's
Word says. But is there anything that can limit
us, can limit what God can do for us, what He's
able to do for us? Is there anything that can
make us not experience? exceedingly abundantly
more in this upcoming year. Turn your attention
to Mark chapter 6, verses 1 through 6. And yeah,
we've read this before maybe a time or two in
the last three years. Mark 6, starting with verse
1. Then he, Jesus, everybody say Jesus, went
out from there and came to his own country. And
his disciples followed him. And when the Sabbath
had come, he began to teach in the synagogue.
And many hearing him were astonished, saying,
Now, this word saying, the Greek word saying,
is lego. Everybody say lego. Lego. Lego. That's
not where Lego came from. Because it's not Greek
origins in the word of Lego. But this particular
word is Lego. So the people who heard Jesus in
his own hometown teaching in the synagogue, they
were astonished, but then they began saying something.
What were they saying? Where did this man get
these things? And what wisdom. is this which
is given to him, that such mighty works are performed
by his hands. Is this not the carpenter, the
son of Mary, and the brother of James, Joseph,
Judas, and Simon? And are not his sisters here
with us? So they were offended at him. Do you
get the picture? Jesus came back to his own hometown.
He came back to the synagogue. And he stood up
and he read the scriptures in the synagogue and
talked about that a little bit. And the people
there said, now wait a minute. We know this guy.
He's just a carpenter. All of his brothers and
sisters, we know him. We're familiar with him.
And they're basically saying, Why does he think
that he's such big stuff? Okay? I mean, he's
just like the rest of us. They were offended
at who Jesus was. And Jesus responded in verse
4. It says, but Jesus said to them, a prophet
is not without honor except in his own country.
among his own relatives, and in his own house.
Even his brothers tried to pull him back and
say, you know, you're just our brother. They
tried to pull him back. James, his brother, who
became the pastor of the church in Jerusalem,
didn't believe until after the resurrection.
Didn't believe it. I mean, it was always his
fault. It was never Jesus' fault. Hello? How
would you like to grow up with somebody who is
actually perfect and never sinned? Would you
be upset at them? All right? You never do anything
wrong. I always get in trouble, right? So, listen
to verse 5. It says, now he could do no mighty
work there. Everybody say, what? I mean, he's
Jesus. He's God. He's God and man. I mean, he's
the God man. He's doing all these miracles. I
mean, changing water into wine and healing people
and delivering people and all those things. But
it says he couldn't do it in his own hometown,
except that he laid hands on a few sick people.
And healed them. And Jesus marveled. He went,
wow. Everybody go, wow. Say it backwards. He
marveled because of their unbelief. He marveled
because of their unbelief. How many of you believe
Jesus wanted to do more in his own hometown than
he was able to do? Right? So, something limited
him from being able to do what he wanted to do.
He wanted them to experience all the miracles
that he was going to share with the rest of the
region. He wanted them to experience it too.
He wanted that to happen in his own hometown.
But it could not happen. It says he could not
do mighty work there. He wanted to. But he couldn't.
Because of two things. Everybody say two things.
Unbelief. Everybody say unbelief. And Lego. Everybody
say Lego. He couldn't do it. And just like their
unbelief and their Lego, what they were saying,
just like that, limited what Jesus could do in
his own hometown, those same two things can limit
you and me from seeing God's ability and what
God wants to do. Hello? How many of you believe
God probably wanted to do more in 2023 than he
was able to do in your life? How many of you
believe He wants to do more? Exceedingly abundantly
more than you can ask or think. I mean, is it
in the Bible or not? Are you with me? Don't get
offended like they did because I'm sharing the
truth with you. Because I know this rubs all
up against what some of us have been taught.
I mean, it rubs hard. Can anybody agree with
me? But unbelief and words can limit what God
can do in your life. I'm going to look at two
words that are translated say in our English
Bibles. The first one is epo. Everybody say epo.
That means to speak or say. That means you've
got to get it out. You can't just think it. And
this is something that I deal with every day
in my walk of faith. Because I think it a lot.
And I think Bible verses. And I think all these
things. But I never get it out of my mouth. It's
important to say it. Look to the person beside
you and tell them it's important to say it. It's
important to speak it. Epo. To speak or say.
Not just think it. But say it. Okay, the other
word is lego. Everybody say lego. Lego is different
even though it's translated say or saying in
our English language. And it means to lay forth
in words. But it also carries this with it. Words
of systematic or set discourse. Systematic or
set discourse. Instead of just speaking it out,
it means that there's a systematic or set discourse.
We're building something. We're establishing
something with our words. Are you with me? Don't
look like a calf looking at a new gate, even
though this is a new gate. Okay? Lego, to lay
forth in words of systematic or set discourse.
We're building and establishing something with
our words. We're not just saying it one time.
I mean, it's what we say on a regular basis,
on a repeated basis, is showing what we believe,
actually. So when these people saw Jesus come
back to their hometown, they began to build or
establish that Jesus is not all that. He's just
one of us. His brothers are here. His sisters
are here. He's just a carpenter's son. Who does
he think he is? So they established that with
their words. And because of their words, Jesus
said, well, wow. I wanted to do so much more,
but I can't because of their unbelief. That's
what Jesus said. Because of what they had established
or built with their words. Are you with me? Are
you with me? Say amen or oh me or something.
I mean, because you probably know where I'm going.
Let's take a look at another example that's different.
Mark chapter 5, start over verse 25, says this.
Now a certain woman had a flow of blood for 12
years and had suffered many things. from many
physicians. She had spent all that she had, everybody
say broke, busted, disgusted. She had spent all
that she had, and was no better, but was worse.
12 years. When she heard about Jesus. Does anybody
remember that verse? Faith comes by hearing,
and hearing by the word of God. So she heard
something. She heard that there was a man named
Jesus. She heard that he was helping people and
delivering people and healing people and doing
all these great things for all these people.
She heard about Jesus. It says, when she heard
about Jesus, she came behind him in the crowd
and touched his garment. For she said, everybody
say Lego. She said, if only I may touch his clothes,
I shall be made well. I've got a question. Did
she say that one time? I think if she said it
one time, we'd have the word epo here instead
of lego. The word lego tells us. That as soon
as she heard about Jesus, she began establishing
and building with her words. And she said, I've
heard about Jesus. If I can get to him and if
I can touch the hem of his garment, I'll be made
well. I'll be healed if I can get to Jesus. I
bet she said that all the time. That became her
set. She's building that. She heard about Jesus.
He's not in town yet. But she's like, oh, if
I can touch his clothes. And you know why she
said, if I can touch the hem of his garment,
right? Because the Bible said when the Messiah
comes, he will have healing in his wings. And
that word wings is also translated the hem. So
she believed in Jesus. She believed that he was
the Messiah. She believed. that he had healing
even in the hems of his garment. And she began
to say, everybody say believe. Everybody say
say. Now, I'm going to tell you what she didn't
say. I don't know if this will work or not. I
doubt it. I've had this for 12 years. I'm going
to give Jesus a chance. I'm going to try. I'm
just going to try. I don't know if it will work
or not. But I'm going to try it because, you
know, the guy at church last Sunday down at the
synagogue, he said, you know, well, if you say
it and believe it, then I'm going to try it.
I'm just going to give it a shot. Probably won't
work because I've been dealing with this for
12 years. It's really who I am. You know, everybody
in town knows who I am. Everybody knows I got
this condition. Everybody knows I have this trouble.
You know what? It probably won't work, but I'll
give it a shot. She did not say that. Come on.
Her systematic discourse. She's building a case.
And over and over and over again. Not wavering,
not doubting, she's saying, if only I may touch
his clothes, I shall be made well. If I touch
the hem of his garment, I'm going to be healed.
It's going to happen. This is what's going to
happen to me. I'm going to touch the hem of his
garment, and I'm going to be made well. It was
her Lego. Immediately. The fountain of her blood
was dried up. She felt in her body that she was
healed of the affliction. And Jesus immediately,
knowing in himself that power had gone out of
him, turned around in the crowd and said, Who
touched me? Who was it? Who touched me? But his
disciples said to him, Jesus. There's people
all over the place. Everybody's bumping into
everybody because everybody wants to be close
to you. And you see the multitude thronging and
you're going to ask who touched you? 20 people
have touched you in the last 30 seconds. What
do you mean who touched you? Jesus was talking
about a different touch. A bunch of people touched
him. But only one reached out and touched him
in faith. He looked around to see. And you know
what? I believe Jesus could see it on her face.
He looked around to see her who had done this
thing. But the woman, fearing and trembling,
knowing what had happened to her, came and fell
down before him and told him the whole truth.
What was the truth? I heard about you, Jesus.
And I knew if I could touch your clothes, I'd
be made whole. I knew it. That was the whole
truth. And he said to her, whoo, I felt that
power come out of me. Can't nobody do you like
Jesus. Y 'all heard that song? Is that what he
said? Y 'all ain't never heard that song? Can't
nobody do me like Jesus. Nobody's heard that
one? All right. That's not what he said. Power.
You know, aren't you glad I was here today? With
all my power. That's not what he said. Jesus
said to her, daughter, your faith, has made you
well. Go in peace and be healed of your affliction.
So, in this story, we see a combination of two
things, right? Hello? Is anybody with me? Do
you see a combination of two things? Actually,
a combination of three things. We have her words.
We have her faith. We know she had faith because
she acted on what she believed. And we have the
ability and the power of God. We have all three
of those things, right? Are you with me? Come
on, somebody. I know you're trying to figure
it out. But that's what we have. See, here's
the deal. It was not all up to Jesus whether
she got healed or not. It wasn't. But it wasn't
all up to her either. It wasn't all up to Jesus.
Some people live their whole life, and I can't
tell you how many years I lived my life saying,
you know, it's just up to God whether good or
bad is going to happen to me. It's all coming
from God. It's tragedy and it's stuff and it's
loss and all this. I mean, it's just all coming
from God because God's in control and it's all
Him. I'm just a little puppet living through
this life and it's all up to God. If God wants
to heal me, He can heal me. If He don't, He won't.
If God wants to provide for me, He'll provide
for me. But if He don't, He won't. It's just
all up to God. Has anybody lived a day of their
life thinking that? It's just all up to God.
I tell you, if you'll take hold of this truth
today, it'll change your life. It wasn't all
up to God. But that doesn't mean that it's all
up to me and it's all up to you, right? It's
not up to us either. It's not all up to us. But
we play a part in it. We play a part. Mark 11,
22 says, So Jesus answered and said to them,
Have faith in God. And I know I've talked about
this story before, but it just all came together
in these words, all working out together. I had
no idea until I began to study. These words are
connected through these stories. Because I never
looked it up. So Jesus answered and said to them.
Now he had just went to get figs off of a fig
tree. And when he got there, no figs. The tree
was advertising. Everybody say advertising. The
tree was advertising that it had figs. By the
look of it, by the leaves, all this stuff. I
mean, Jesus thought there would be figs on this
tree. And when he got there, he found out that
the tree was false advertising. There were no
figs on the tree. So he said, you know what?
Because of your false advertising, nobody will
ever eat a fig off you again. You're done as
a fig tree. And then the next morning, Jesus
and his disciples were walking by. They saw the
fig tree. They said, what? The leaves are falling
off of it and wrinkled and dying. I mean, isn't
this the tree that you talked to last night?
And they were going, wow. Wow. His words are
powerful. His words are powerful. As a matter
of fact, when you look at Jesus, we don't see
that people said, oh, he was handsome or had,
you know, just penetrating eyes or anything like
that. I mean, it doesn't say he had the best
robe or the best sandals. People don't talk about
his Gucci robe or his whatever kind of shoes
are very expensive. People said, when he talks,
something's different about the way he talks
than anybody else I've ever seen before. There's
authority in what he says. They were asking Jesus
all the time, Jesus, we see your faith in action.
We need faith. We need more faith. How does this
work, Jesus? And Jesus said, have faith in God.
Everybody say, have faith in God. See, it's not
all up to you, and it's not all up to God. We're
to have faith in God. Then he said this, for
surely I say, Lego. Everybody say Lego. Because
Jesus is establishing something. He's building
something. And this probably isn't the first
time he's ever said anything like this. But this
is his systematic discourse. He says, here it
is. I'm going to build something for you about
faith. I'm building this. I'm establishing this
about faith for you. And then he says, whoever
says epo, that means you got to say it with your
mouth, right? Not just thinking it in your head.
You got to say it with your mouth. To this mountain.
Now, wait a minute. Can mountains hear? Can things
that look really big in your life that are keeping
you from God's promises or what God wants for
you and has for you, can mountains hear? Some
people are shaking their head no. Yes. What Jesus
said to say to the mountain. Now, if Jesus tells
you to say to the mountain, then mountains can
hear. Can storms hear the storms of life that
you face? Can storms hear? Well, Jesus was out
on the sea one night and a bad storm came up.
And He spoke. The Bible doesn't say He waved
His hand or anything like that. He just said,
Peace, be still. So storms can hear. Can plants
hear? They say if you talk real sweet to your
plants in your house, they'll grow better. I've
done research on this. You've got multiple plants.
You scream at one plant. You talk nice to the
other plant. The plants that you talk nice to
will grow better. Scientific studies. If you
don't believe it, do it at your own house. Okay?
So plants here. Can fevers here? Well, Jesus
spoke to a fever, the Bible says, and the fever
went away. So we may feel foolish or crazy speaking
to inanimate things or to situations. See, this
always gets me. Sometimes I think about what
God's Word says, I think about His promise, and
then all of a sudden I'll have to tell myself,
Don't just think it, say it. I've done that this
week. I mean, I'm up here preaching this today,
but I've done that this week where I've said,
no, I don't need to just think it, I need to
say it. Y 'all are looking at me way too intense.
We gotta say it. Whoever says to this mountain,
be removed and cast into the sea. Why didn't
Jesus just say, move over just a little bit,
just get out of my way so that I can get to what
God has for me? Why didn't he say, move over,
instead of moved and be cast into the sea? Here's
a thought. The sea is the only thing big enough
to take a mountain and to make it look like it
never existed. Hello? You put a mountain in the
sea, it just dissolves all in there, and there's
no trace that it ever existed. How many of you
have some mountains in your life? Not like dirt
mountains, but things that are in your life that
look like it's impossible to scale in front of
you, and it's keeping you from what you feel
like God wants as your future. And how many of
you would say, I sure would have liked that moved
out of the way. Have you spoke to it? Because
I believe that it can be removed and cast into
the sea and there will be no evidence that it
ever existed in your life. Jesus said that. And
he says, and does not doubt in his heart. Everybody
say waver. Waver. Has anybody ever wavered a
little bit? I mean, you know, we're here at church,
man. It's time to start speaking to those mountains.
We're going to speak to them all the way. And
then tomorrow morning, we're going to say, well,
yesterday I was living by faith, but today I'm
going to live by sight, and the mountain's still
there. And I don't know if any, I don't know,
you know, this don't work. This ain't going to
work. That's wavering. The Bible says when we
waver like that, when we're back and forth on
what God said and on our feelings or on our sight,
if we just move back and forth and back and forth
and back and forth and we waver, it's like we're
tossed by the waves of the sea, the Bible says.
And it says, don't let that person think that
they're going to receive anything from God. I
didn't say it. I mean, if it's up to me, I'd
say, you know, if you get it right 60 % of the
time. But God said, if we just waver back and
forth, don't expect to receive anything. Listen,
does not doubt in his heart, but believes that
those things he says, everybody say Lego, we
just talked about Epo, now we're talking about
Lego again. the systematic discourse of your
words that you are laying forth, if you believe
that those things you say will be done, Jesus
said he will have whatsoever or whatever he says.
He will have whatever he says. That's epo again.
Whatever he says out of his mouth, if he says
it, hey, if I touch the hem of his garment, I'm
going to be whole. If I touch Jesus' clothes,
I'm going to be healed. I've heard that Jesus
is healing people. I know He's not a respecter
of persons. I believe He's the Messiah. And I
believe if I touch Him, I'm going to be healed.
As we build with our words. Here's a question.
What is your Lego? What is your systematic discourse
of words? Over your life. What are you saying?
What are you saying over yourself? Over your
business? Over your family? What are you saying?
What are you building? I've heard these sayings
a lot. Seems like every time I get a step ahead,
I take two steps backwards. Has anybody ever
heard that? Has anybody ever said that? Has anybody
ever said, I always make the wrong decision?
You know? When it comes to getting in line to
check out, I'm thinking I'm getting in the right
line, but I always get in the slowest line in
the store. I always make the wrong decision.
Is that what you want? Every time you get a step
ahead, do you take two steps backwards? Is that
what you want? Come on, somebody. Is that what
you want? Well, by your systematic discourse,
that's what you're building. Anybody used to
watch Hee Haw? Come on. Only a few. You've seen
reruns of it. I used to watch Hee Haw, Lawrence
Welk. I mean, all those. But there was a song
on Hee Haw. Every week they would sing it. If
it weren't for bad luck, I'd have no luck at
all. Doom, despair, and agony on me. That was
their song. Has anybody ever thought, if it wasn't
for bad luck, I wouldn't even have any luck?
I mean, it just seems like nothing turns out
right. Nothing ever works out for me. And this
time of year, I hear people say it all the time,
if anyone's going to catch a flu, it's going
to be me. You know, I get the flu about every
time this year. If anybody's going to catch it,
I'm going to catch it. Is that your systematic
discourse? Are you laying a foundation for what
you want? Everybody say Lego. Lego. Now when
Jeffrey was little, and when I was little, I
got Legos, right? And they just came in a box.
Just a bunch of different colored bright Legos.
You know? I can't tell you how many little just
towers I built. I didn't have any instructions.
So I just went with my own imagination and I
would build a tower and I'd try to build a little
house. And you know what? It always looked terrible.
Is anybody with me? Because Jeffrey did it. I
did it. I mean, you know, just a bunch of blocks
in a box. So you just, ooh, let's see how high
I can build it and it'll stand up. It was always
ugly. It wasn't. I didn't create anything that
I was proud of. But I never got one of these.
I never got a box from the person who made the
Legos, from the people who made Legos. I think
I'm too old. I'm not sure that there were even
boxes when we were young, Mark. I don't know.
It was just a container of Legos. Now we got
stores and theme parks and all kind of stuff
that are all just about Legos. And now you can
go to the store and you can say, wow, that's
nice. A Fast and Furious car. Now when you open
it up, it just has some little plastic bags in
there that are filled with different colored
Legos and different sizes and different things.
But here's the cool thing. In the box, The people
who made the Legos give you step -by -step, systematic,
everybody say systematic, they give you systematic
instructions to find certain pieces and begin
putting those pieces together. And if you follow
the people who made the Legos, if you follow...
What they tell you in your systematic building
of Legos, you'll come out with something really
nice. A person who made you has given you promises,
and relationship information in order for your
life to be something beautiful in the eyes of
God and in the eyes of everyone else. But for
most of us, all of our lives, we just opened
up the big bucket full of Legos and just been
going after it in our systematic discourse of
what we've been saying. And then we're just hit
or miss. We're just hit or miss. But God shows
us how to use our words and our faith to combine
with his ability and his power so their lives
can be... A lot better than they've been before
now. There are promises in the Word of God pertaining
to every aspect of your life. Everything that
you deal with on a day -to -day basis, there
are promises and blessings and provisions in
the Word of God for everything you face. You
might say, no, there's not. Well, you got to
dig it out. And listen. I try to spoon feed as
much as I can, but me just spoon feeding it isn't
going to help you. You're going to have to be
desperate and dig it out for yourself. You got
to dig it out. Because I don't know what you're
facing and what you're dealing with and how,
I mean, I can help you if you want me to help
you. I can do some research and try to help you,
but you're not going to get it the easy way.
Because it's going to have to be you. See, you
can't say, hey, Dean, here's about 40 things,
here's about 40 Bible verses that I want you
to speak over me and over my family and over
my business. I want you to do that every day.
And I'll give you 20 bucks a day if you say these
40 things every day for me. You know what's going
to happen? I'm going to have you 20 bucks every
day and I'm going to have all those promises
or blessings because I'm the one who said them.
Most people want to go to the gym starting January
1st. I mean, it's the same thing if you say,
hey Dean, I'll give you $20 a day to go to the
gym and work out for me. Who's going to benefit?
I would benefit. You can't pass it off on someone
else. There are promises in the Word of God pertaining
to every aspect of your life. Instead of saying
those other things, I just picked out a couple
of Bible verses and put them as me using Lego
to build a foundation in my life. I have favor
with man and God. I have favor. The Bible says
we have favor with man and God, or God and man.
Have you ever said that? Have you ever, when
you went to a meeting or went to talk to someone,
I have favor. The Bible says everything I put
my hand to prospers. Look it up. Google it. Find
the verse. Everything I put my hand to prospers.
Then you've memorized this one. I can do all
things through Christ, and it's actually in Christ
when you look it up. I can do all things in Christ
because he empowers me to do all things. Do you
ever say that? Is that your systematic discourse
over your life? Listen, it needs to be. If somebody
in your family begins to say something and it's
like, I know that's not what God says about you,
I want you to tell them this. I want you to say,
is that what you want? Is that what you want?
Is that your systematic discourse? Is that what
you want? What you just said, is that what you
want? Through our faith, in our words our systematic
discourse I believe we will see more promises
more of God's promises manifest in our life in
2024 than we've ever had before and just like
you agreed with me when I said do you think Jesus
wanted to do more for those people in his own
hometown and almost everybody said yeah I believe
he did by what he said I believe God wanted to
do more in your life Than you experienced last
year. Because just like me. Through our words.
And our faith. We limited. What he could do.
Now to him who is able. To do exceedingly abundantly
above all that we ask or think. According. to
the power that works in us. By adding your faith
and your systematic discourse words to God's
ability and to God's promises. I'm going to be
careful what I say over our church. I'm going
to be careful what I say over everybody who comes.
Because I want to add my faith and my words based
on what God's promises are. I want to add my
faith and my words to his ability and his promises
so that I can experience exceedingly abundantly
more in 2024. I know this is heavy. Because we
just want it all to be up to God and we don't
want to take any personal responsibility. It's
always got to be somebody else's fault. Is anybody
with me? We live in a world where it's got to
be somebody else's fault. We've got to take responsibility.
Get our words in agreement with what God says
and not waver. Not live by what we see. by what
we think, by what we feel, but live by the truth.
Let's pray together. God, I thank you. Thank
you for your word. I pray that it'll be planted
in our hearts. I pray that it'll find good soil
in every single person's heart. Not just one
or two, but everybody. Pray that your word would
find good soil and that it will grow and it will
produce a harvest as we act on your truth. In
Jesus' name I pray, amen. This online worship
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