Verbal Sucide. Ep. 8: Talking Crazy in the Wilderness: Stop Verbal Suicide, Start Speaking Life

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Welcome to the Diary of a Black Woman podcast. I'm your host,

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Connie Morris, and this is Faith on the Go, where you take the word with you

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Before we get into today's word, let's take a moment to center ourselves with

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a familiar prayer, the prayer of Jabez.

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Oh, that you would bless me indeed and enlarge my territory.

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Let your hand be with me and keep me from harm so that I will be free from pain.

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Father God, we come before you this day asking that you would indeed bless us,

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not just with what we have, but in who we are becoming.

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Enlarge our territory, Lord. Expand our capacity, our mindset,

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our ability to receive what you have for us.

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Let your hand be upon us, guiding us, covering us, and leading us in every decision we make.

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And Father, keep us from harm, physically, emotionally, and spiritually,

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that we may walk in peace and not in pain.

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And Lord, just as you heard Jabez when he cried out to you, hear us now.

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Your word says that you granted his request. And we believe that you are the same God today.

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So we come boldly before you, knowing that you hear us, knowing that you see

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us, and knowing that you respond to the prayers of your people.

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Have your way in this moment as we sit, listen, and receive your word. In Jesus' name, amen.

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Hello and welcome back to Diary of a Black Woman podcast. I'm your host Connie

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Morris and we are on the series of Verbal Suicide or Prosperity.

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We are walking through chapter 9, episode 9 today and it's titled Talking Crazy in the Wilderness.

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Negative words never built anything.

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We will understand how destructive speech tears down what God is trying to build in our lives.

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Our negative speech destroys vision, our confidence, relationships,

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even the momentum. It destroys peace, creativity, and progress.

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Words either help build the environments or slowly tear them apart.

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God uses words to create, restore, heal, and strengthen.

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The enemy uses words to discourage, weaken, divide, distract,

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criticize, and most importantly, destroy momentum.

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Many people underestimate how much damage it's causing, that our words is causing

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in our life when we're using a lot of negative words.

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Those words kill the vision and criticize the vision.

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And who created that vision? That vision is from God.

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And so it never, ever get a chance to grow.

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I remember just recently, my children sent me a flower,

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not just flowers, you know you get roses they usually send roses on

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mother's day but this time they sent me a plant a

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peace lily plant and it was a small peace lily plant but it was it was in a

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box it was stored properly I took it out of the box and I let it sit on the

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porch for a little while so it can stretch out as little leaves and then I end

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up repotting that plant into a nice ceramic pot you know.

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And I was just wondering, like, when we, if I would have left that plant in

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that box, how much would that plant have grown?

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And that's what happens when we put our words. When we have negative words,

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our negative words are really in our belly, right? Our positive words are in our belly.

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And if we can create life or death by the power of our words,

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it's just like repotting that plant.

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I actually let it stay in that box, that negative words in that box.

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Nothing happens, right? It stays contained. But when I let that plant out,

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I mean, it grew almost two or three inches in about two or three days once I repotted that plant.

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You know, Satan wants us to stay the same, constant, in a whole,

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instead of allowing us to grow.

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Remember the plant. The plant began to grow immediately when I took it out of

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that small pot, put it in the big pot, put some new fresh soil in it,

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and it just began to grow.

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And God wants our words to be just like that. We can see life or death in the power of our words.

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God desired us to have life. And what I saw in that plant, how it bloomed in

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the right environment, I believe our words can also bloom in that right environment.

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It stayed in the container, the box that it was delivered in,

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just for a temporary, right?

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It wasn't going to live and survive in that box.

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There's no sunshine in that box. The roots, when I replanted it,

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the roots were really balled up at the bottom. So.

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It had nowhere to go. That was the end of that life plan, right?

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It just stayed in that box. It would just die.

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But many people underestimate the power of their words and they die in a box. They die.

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You die in a box. You know, you die. Your words just die. There's nowhere for

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it to go. It's inside the box.

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You think it's doing something, but when you open up that box and You don't

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give that plant water, air doesn't give it sunshine, it's going to die.

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But we can do that with our negative words if we do not expose them to air. That's good.

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If you do not expose your words to air, it will dry.

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Well, if you're a negative person and all negative, Nancy, we call it,

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when you are a negative person, all you know is negativity.

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And you can look in your life, you can even look in the mirror and see how death

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is starting to take over in your face. You got wrinkles. Your eyes are sad.

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There's nothing happy about you. And so those environments of complaining,

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sarcasm, constant criticism.

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Discouragement, pessimism, and toxic relationship never builds marriages,

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ministries, families, don't even build your confidence, and it definitely does not add to your peace.

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However, people flourishes in environments that where wisdom,

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encouragement, truth, and accountability exist.

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But environments filled with negative eventually become emotionally exhausting

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and you begin to die spiritually and also physically because God created us in his image,

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right? And he wants us to grow.

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Just like the plant, when you removed it from a box, it just grows.

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It doesn't really take a lot of care. You just add water once a week,

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say good morning to it every day or whatever you do to your plants.

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And you can watch positive words create your environment, change your environment.

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We understand that our first verbal battle began in the Garden of Eden.

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You know, we read in the book of Genesis 3, chapter 3, verses 1 through 6,

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how the serpent was more subtle than any beast of the field.

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Genesis 3, 1. And the first spiritual attack was not physical.

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It was what? A conversation.

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And we can think back to all the conversations we've had, both negative and

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positive, and to see the outcome.

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Like I shared with you before, I'm the HOA president, and I have some negative

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Nancy's around me, and they always want to see the negative.

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They cannot see the positive.

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And I say, whatever's going on out there, if it's not adding to me,

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let's not bring it to me, okay?

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Because I'm on a focus to bring life, to bring peace, to bring prosperity to

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our community. And I can't worry about what the enemy is doing.

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I can't even have conversation about what the enemy is doing because it's stunting my growth.

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It's stunting my hearing ability from the Lord. You ever had that where you

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can't hear from God because you got all the negative nancies in your ear?

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God doesn't need that environment to work.

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Satan does. And so when I close down that environment and only want to hear

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what God is telling me to do next, we are now walking through that prosperity because of that, right?

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So let's continue with our first verbal conversation. And we understand that

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the serpent was more subtle, means he was a little bit smarter than Eve.

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He'd been around for a minute, so he'd been watching Eve in the garden.

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And then the serpent understands something powerful. Eve didn't quite get it,

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but the serpent was on top of it because we know we read it.

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I'll probably read it again for you in James 3, how the tongue,

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when it's used improperly, helps the enemy win.

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I mean, he has no creative ability. He's using your ability to create words,

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to create words of negativity, to alter your perception, to alter your direction.

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We see here that it happened to Eve. Eve's perspective was changed by a conversation

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that she shouldn't have been having.

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Her, even not just that conversation, she had the power to alter human direction.

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Humanity was changed because of Eve's conversation.

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You know, the enemy did not begin by forcing Eve into sin. He planted doubt.

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How come Eve had doubt?

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When you were so close to God, it was only them.

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The question that always gets us when we're walking with God is always this.

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God's authority, God's integrity, God's instructions, and God's intention.

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God always has the best, our best interests at heart.

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But if we have just a little bit of dirt in that, a little bit of lies,

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a little bit of untruth, We begin to doubt God's authority in our lives,

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God's integrity, His instructions, His intentions.

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You know, and many times when God gives us instructions, it's not always easy.

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Matter of fact, it's never easy. Why? Because it's causing a growth.

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He's taking you out of that box and He wants you to be free.

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But if you don't know how to be free, like the plant that I just mentioned,

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then you're going to stay stuck in that box. and eventually that plant will not live. It will die.

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It will just be a beautiful plant in a box that died, that never had an opportunity

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to be stretched into an uncomfortable scenario, which is causes growth.

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The serpent reframed God as restrictive instead of protective.

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How many people had that feeling when you first came a Christian,

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you started reading the Bible and you realized, hey, I can't do nothing.

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And you realize that that's protection. When you were a kid.

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And you live with your parents. You can go out and do everything you wanted to do.

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And that's why God is our father who protects us. You know, so check out Eve.

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Eve slowly moved from dangerous stages from hearing the truth to entertaining

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deception to repeating altered truth.

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So she repeated it wrong. She knew the truth.

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Satan got in her head and started talking stuff. And then she ended up misquoting

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the word. and a misquoted word will lead you down the trail of obedience.

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And then she began to act on her corrupted belief. The fall began verbally before it began physically.

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This is the foundation of verbal suicide, agreeing with words that contradicts God's truth.

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The enemy convinced humanity that God was withholding something from them.

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Disobedience will produce wisdom and rebellion will produce advancement.

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You see how it gets twisted? The result of her disobedience was shame, fear.

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She was hiding from the God that she walked with every morning.

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Inspiration, God had to remove them from the garden and then a spiritual death,

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then eventually a spiritual death.

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Not realizing that if I would have just been, if Eva had just been obedient,

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that she would have been able to live forever without evil in her life,

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we would have been able to do the same thing.

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The conversation in Eden became the blueprint for every future spiritual battle.

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How? Because we listening, having conversations with the wrong people.

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You ever did that? You know, you're having a conversation, you think you're

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discussing, maybe a small issue, but that other person has advanced knowledge

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on the issue, so they see.

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And then now you're caught up in what they think is the truth.

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And then it alters your perception, your reality. And if you're hanging with

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that person long enough, even your destiny and your opportunities.

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Don't you get it twisted that your employer, God, your church pastors do not see who you walk in with.

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Understand your growth or your stunting of growth may be involved with more than just you.

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When we're talking crazy in the wilderness, I love that title only because when

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you read the story of the Israelites, they had everything.

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They were slaves. God freed them from their slavery.

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God opens up the Red Sea. He gives them manna from heaven, water from a rock.

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Supernatural protection, and deliverance from Egypt. They were protected.

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Yet in the wilderness, it exposed something deeper.

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Their mouths were still enslaved. They removed the person from the conditions

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of slavery, but not the condition of slavery from that person.

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In the book of Numbers, chapter 13 and 14, it gives you an example of what they did.

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The wilderness was a place for them to grow closer to God, deeper to God,

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but yet their mouth and their attitude was still stuck in Egypt.

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So they got to have a plan.

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Hey, I want to grow you up. I want to take you out the box and I want to give

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you the land because he wasn't going to have them in the wilderness forever.

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But when the spies came back, 10 had a negative report and only two had a good report.

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The good report is that we are well able to take this land. The other 10 started

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to talk differently from what God has said.

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Remember, death and life are in the power of your tongue. So the spies returned from Canaan.

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They carried proof of abundance. So everybody was carrying these big grapes

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and things that were happening over in Canaan, and the land truly flowed with milk and honey.

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But instead of focusing on the promise, the people magnified the problems.

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Fear shifted the entire atmosphere.

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The wilderness became a place where miracles were forgotten.

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Fear became louder than faith.

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Bondage sounded safer than freedom. This is what happened when pain becomes

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louder than your promises. The people began speaking these words.

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We can't do this. We're going to die.

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Egypt was better. God brought us here to fail. Their speech revealed their internal condition.

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Freedom had left their bodies in the wilderness, but Egypt had not fully left their minds.

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Whenever we think that God is taking us somewhere to fail, we automatically

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lose trust in the whole story, right?

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So God's brought them out from Egypt. Many of us been brought out from Egypt,

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Yet we're in a land that's flowing in milk and honey, but yet our words does

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not reflect that, right?

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Our words reflect our Egyptian mentality when you were a slave, right?

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Remember, you can always look

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to look, but what comes out your mouth tells you where you really stand.

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And so in Numbers 13, 30, image of God Almighty shrunk, identity has shrunk.

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They end up with what you call the grasshopper mentality.

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They said, we were in our own sight as grasshoppers. What?

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You brought grapes over bigger than the average grape. They're carrying a huge

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grapes, huge fruit, abundance of abundance.

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They just experienced it. They saw it, but yet they saw themselves as grasshopper.

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So this statement is one of the deepest psychological revelations in scripture.

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The Giants never called Israel grasshoppers.

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Israel called themselves grasshoppers. Before opposition defeated them externally,

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they defeated themselves internally.

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This is verbal suicide connection to identity.

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The wilderness exposed insecurity, inferiority, fear-based thinking,

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and trauma from the slavery.

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Years of oppression shaped how they viewed themselves.

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Even though God called them chosen, they still saw themselves as small.

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This mentality still exists today when people say, I'm not enough. I'll never succeed.

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People like me never make it. I'm too broke.

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Nothing good ever happens for us. People often shrink themselves with their

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own words before life ever attacks them.

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I was sharing with you that there's some changes going on at my workplace and

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nothing's happened yet. Nothing's happened yet.

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It's all in writing. Things are going to change and they have a process of this change.

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But fear, grasshopper mentality, people start to talk against their destiny.

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They talk about quitting.

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They tell me, I can't do this again.

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Negative words, right? Even though it's under a whole different supervisory

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person, they've already suffering from that post-traumatic stress in their body,

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saying words that they know they can't back up.

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And so I remember a person says, well, I'm going to quit. I said, what you going to do?

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I'm going to find something different. Making this much money?

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Where? And that silenced her. Where are you going? I asked.

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The next day, you know, she said, well, she decided not to quit.

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And so she changed that, I'm going to go do this or that or the other.

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And it's like, no one even told you that you were even going to be moved.

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But when you start to think insecurity, inferiority, fear-based thinking,

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and trauma, you start to think of yourself so small that people can just move you around, right?

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People can just do what they want with you. But that doesn't come from God.

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The first thing you do is, Lord, where are you taking me?

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And not allow your years of trauma or drama to cause you to say things out of your mouth.

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God had caused them to be chosen ones. He picked them out of all the people

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for him to show himself strong in.

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But yet their language shows that their mentality wasn't ready for what God

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was about to do or what was trying to do.

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Another thing about talking crazy in the wilderness is found in Numbers 14, 1 through 4.

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Verbal suicide language. The Israelites continually to rehearse the feet.

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You got to understand, they crossed the Red Sea. The Red Sea was no small feat, but they forgot.

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And if we keep forgetting and keep rehearsing the negative, we will stay.

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We're going to keep talking about the Israelites because their life,

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we talked about last week, I think, that they end up staying there.

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I'm going to give you what your words have showed you.

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You want that? Your words will produce your destiny right there.

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They kept rehearsing. They're going to die. Die. We're going to die.

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They're going to die. God brought us here to fail.

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Let us return back to Egypt. Why do they think slavery was so much better than

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freedom? They didn't just get frustrated. They became hopeless.

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They became despair. They saw a limitation.

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Their speech created an atmosphere of unbelief. And guess what? It became contagious.

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And one fearful report that we're not able to do it.

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Not the two that said that we were able, Joshua and Caleb. The other 10 spies,

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it caused them to speak death over their life, defeat over the promise, and fear over faith.

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Eventually, their words became their reality. The wilderness became their grave

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because they continually prophesied destruction over themselves.

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Do you know anyone who passed away suddenly? And if you think back,

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what was their words? What did they say?

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It wasn't a surprise to them because they were asked, each time you say a negative

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word, you're like taking a scoop and you're pulling it aside, digging a hole.

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So when you fall in it, all they have to do is cover the dirt.

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No one has to pay for a funeral because you've already created your life through your words.

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The word, when I titled this verbal suicide, it wasn't my title, it was God's title.

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Verbal suicide is a thing and it happened in the Bible.

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Verbal suicide is you're causing self-infliction on yourself when you relate

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with your words, your tongue is causing that.

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So pay attention, pay attention.

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This is how you should do it.

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Joshua and Caleb, they were the only two that believed that God was well-able.

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They saw the same things that the other crew saw, the other 10 spies.

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But Joshua and Caleb saw the same land. They saw the same obstacles,

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but they spoke differently.

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They say that we are well-able to overcome it. Why?

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Because wherever God sends you, he wants you to get a view of the land,

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but there's going to be victory in the land.

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And I moved here from Michigan to Nebraska, found a nice townhome,

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and little did I know that God had other plans for me.

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I was doing well without being the HOA president.

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Trust and believe that. But I was invited to HOA meeting, and I went there,

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and I realized, because I was a HOA president in Michigan, that I realized that

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the things that they're doing was not quite right.

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This is not how we do things.

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We don't do it this way. And I began to speak up in the meeting.

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And by the end of the meeting, I was vice president. And about three weeks later,

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I was president because people were tired of the same old thing, you know.

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And I remember like, I remember wanting to quit.

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And I said, I can't do this. I got it.

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And the Lord told me to shut my mouth and begin to pray because he had some things he wanted to do.

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Now, I could have ignored that. You know, how many times did the Lord tell the

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Israelites to just stop all the noise?

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You know, God kept overdo, like he will overdo the miracles,

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overdo everything. So they will understand that I'm the God that's going to protect you.

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I'm the one that delivered you. Ever God just kept blessing them,

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blessing them and blessing them. And it came a point where they had to do something.

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They had to go over and see, check out the land.

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And they, the spies saw that they couldn't do it. They had the grasshopper mentality.

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But not Joshua and Caleb. And I always loved them. They were over there analyzing

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how God is going to really do this.

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They saw it in the covenant that he made with them.

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They trusted him. The vision that he gave them, God will have us do something

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and go out and do a little research on it before he tells you the process on

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how you're going to actually achieve that goal.

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Joshua and Caleb was excited. They had great expectation and they came in agreement

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with God. Prosperity language is not pretending that the problem does not exist. Okay?

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It's not this fantasy world. You're seeing reality, but you're seeing reality through the eyes of God.

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One thing that I do in the morning, and I want you to do this,

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is I want you to put on your helmet of salvation.

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Yeah, we understand what salvation is. We get that God's given us a sound mind.

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We have the mind of Christ, but we also have the perspective of Christ.

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And with that helmet on, it helps control your words.

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Your words will begin to produce life, prosperity, right?

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Speaking truth, and it will change it. put on that helmet of salvation and ask

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God to watch over your mouth and let him show you what he wants you to do through his eyes.

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And so Joshua and Caleb acknowledged the giants, but they believed God was greater.

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Their speech was different. They said, God is with us. The land is good. We can't possess it.

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Do not fear. The promises still stand.

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Faithful words create endurance. While everyone was prepared for defeat,

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Joshua and Caleb was prepared for an inheritance.

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Wow, what a difference.

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Two people out of the 10 believed that God was well able to do it.

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Go with me to Numbers 14, 27. Numbers 27, God did not treat their complaining

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as a harmless event, venting.

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Every word that we say creates life or death.

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But God was like, you know, everything you're saying, you're not allowing me

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to do anything because you're talking against what I'm trying to do in you.

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And God says, I can't ignore it.

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John, let's go to Numbers 14, 27.

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And it was, I'm going to find it. It says, How long should I bear with this

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evil congregation, which murmurs against me?

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I have heard the murmuring of the children of Israel, which they murmur against me.

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Say unto them, As I truly as I live, says the Lord, as ye have spoken in my ears, so will I do to you.

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Your carcasses shall fall in the wilderness, and all that were numbered of you,

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according to your whole number.

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Verse 1. twenty years old and upward, which have murmured against me.

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Doubtless ye should not come into the land concerning which I swore to make

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you dwell therein, save Caleb the son of Jephunneh, and Joshua the son of Nun,

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but your little ones, which he said should be a prey.

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Them will I bring in, and they should know the land which ye have despised. But for you,

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Your carcass will fall in this wilderness, and your children shall wander in

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the wilderness 40 years and bear your whoredom until your carcass be wasted in the wilderness.

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And the number of the days in which ye should search the land,

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even 40 days, each day for a year, shall ye bear your iniquities,

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even 40 years, and ye should know my breach of promise.

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God put his foot down there. He says, guess what?

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You are going to have what you say. He did not treat it as something harmless.

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He called it murmuring, rebellion, and distrust. And the people constantly accused

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God of abandoning them, misleading them, trying to destroy them.

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What does that sound like to you?

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It sounds like the conversation in the Garden of Eve. Did God really say that? Are you really free?

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Will he really protect you? Their mouths contradicted God's miracles,

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God's provision, and God's promises.

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The wilderness became dangerous because of conversations inside the camp.

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Negative speech spreads faster than faith. This still happens today.

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Cynicism spreads quickly. Hopelessness become normalized. Negativity sounds intelligence.

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Sound intelligent. Complaining becomes a culture, but constantly negativity

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slowly poisons your faith.

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Powerful. The tongue will produce a delay.

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It will delay your destiny. James 3, 5, and 6.

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Even so the tongue is a little member and boasts great things.

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Behold how great a matter a little fire kindled. And the tongue is a fire, a world of iniquity.

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So is the tongue among our members that is defiled, the whole body,

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and it setteth a fire, and it setteth a fire, the course of nature that is set on fire from hell.

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James compares the tongue to fire, a rudder, a ship.

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He compares it to things that we have control.

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It also goes on to say that we're able to tame every animal of the land,

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but we cannot tame our tongue.

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We're talking here about talking crazy in the wilderness. And so we're saying

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on this topic, Israel was geographically close to the promise.

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Remember, this was an 11-day journey, which turns out to be a 40-year journey

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where they died in the wilderness because of their tongue, because of the verbal suicide.

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It produced death.

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It took 40 years. And he said, your kids won't even make it.

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Only people gonna make it out of this is Joshua and Caleb.

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Now think about this. If you're Joshua and Caleb, how would you feel if you

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gotta still walk with these people for 40 years knowing that they are gonna die?

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That's trauma, right? But they learned a lesson. If Joshua and Caleb were well

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able, we know Joshua went on to conquer more land and Caleb ended up getting his land at the end.

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But sometimes we delay our own self.

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It's not about the external enemies. It's about the tongue that you have in

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your mouth, you know, and the more you continue to agree with fear and the news is full of fear.

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And we start to, you ever had somebody give you the news and you looking at

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them like, you believe all that noise?

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I don't watch the news. You know, I turn it off. I might get a thread here or

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there, but my life ain't based on what the news is saying.

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We understand now that verbal suicide, that our tongue has the power under James

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to build, to destroy, to direct, to corrupt, to encourage, to sabotage.

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We must know that our speech matters because it shapes our world.

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It shapes our belief. It even impacts our relationship with the Father,

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the Son, and the Holy Spirit.

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And we talked a lot about, and we're going to go to this point eight,

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about Moses also spoke recklessly.

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Moses was surrounded by who? Reckless speakers, reckless people who were negative.

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And that became an effect on Moses. That had a great effect on Moses because

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Moses was frustrated with the people.

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And so we understand that we live in an environment where people have negative

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words, but we cannot get caught up in those words.

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Numbers 20, verse 7, and it tells us, and the Lord spoke to Moses.

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Moses had an opportunity to follow instructions, right? He spoke to Moses.

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27-12. And the Lord spake unto Moses, Take the rod, and gather thou the assembly

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together, thou and Aaron thy brother, and speak ye unto the rod before their eyes.

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And it should give forth his water, and thou should bring forth of them water

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out of the rod, so thou should give the congregation and their beasts to drink.

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And Moses took the rod from before the Lord, as he commanded him.

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And Moses and Aaron gathered congregation before the rock and said unto them,

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Here now, you rebels, must we fetch your water out of this rock? Look at that attitude.

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That attitude changed things. Who gives you the right to talk to God's people that way, right?

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And Moses lift up his hand, and with the rod, he smoked the rock twice,

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and the water came out abundantly, and the congregation drank, and their beasts also.

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Do not allow the people to change your attitude towards your God.

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Moses, Aaron said something that God probably didn't even say.

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And yet Moses missed the instructions because she got caught up in the drama.

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You ever do that? You'd say something wrong because you get caught up in the drama.

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In verse eight, it tells them that you should speak to the rock.

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Speak to the rock before their eyes. Show them I'm still working on their behalf.

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But no, Moses became frustrated.

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He became emotionally attached to what was going on, and he struck the rock.

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This moment reveals that exhaustion can affect our speech.

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Even strong leaders can become verbally reckless when they're overwhelmed.

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Pressure reveals a hidden frustration. This is why emotional discipline matters spiritually.

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And we know the story that Moses didn't get to go to the land because he allowed

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the people to make him frustrated, speak things that God did not say,

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not follow his direction to the T.

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I mean, he didn't even strike it once. He struck it twice. Out of God's mercy,

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he allowed the water to flow.

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But yet he had a private conversation with Moses regarding what he did.

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We'll get to that in another episode.

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Let's continue. The wilderness was never supposed to require them to fail.

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It was for them to become closer to God. Because remember, if you go back to

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Genesis, as Moses and Aaron was talking to Pharaoh, he said,

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let my people go so they can come and worship me.

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That was the whole goal of the wilderness, to create a dependence on God so

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that they can be well able to take the land, right? So they end up getting it twisted.

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They end up getting it twisted. Why? Because of their mouth, because of their fear.

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Let's go to Deuteronomy 8, verses 2 to 3.

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And it says, And thou shalt remember all the way which the Lord thy God led

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them these 40 years in the wilderness to humble thee and to prove thee,

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to know what was in thy heart, whether thou would keep his commandments or not.

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And he humbled thee and suffered thee to hunger and fed thee with manna, which thou knewest not.

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Neither did thy fathers know that he might make known that man does not live

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by bread alone, but by every word that proceeded out of the mouth of God and live.

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That sound familiar? Zach's scripture was quoted by Jesus when he was in the

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wilderness, was an example of what was to come.

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The wilderness was never designed to destroy Israel. It was designed to humble

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them, to teach them independence, to reveal their heart, to strengthen trust.

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But instead of allowing hardship to mature them, the hardship caused them to become bitter.

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Pain became louder than the promise.

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Witness revealed that people truly trust when comfort disappears.

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Who do you trust when you become uncomfortable? Who do you blame?

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What attitude erupts out of you? We saw that, what happened with Job and his

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friends, and we see it here in the Bible.

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Wilderness. Next one is Galatians 3.1.

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It starts out, Oldish Galatians, who has bewitched you? Who has bewitched you?

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Who told you something different than the word of God? Who has bewitched you? Who has tricked you?

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Who have you been listening to like God said to Eve? Who told you that you were naked?

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Who told you that you were naked? A lot of times our conversation can really

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reveal who we have been listening to, what has our attention.

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Go with me to Galatians chapter 3 verse 1.

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This is in the message. It says, you crazy Galatians, did someone put a spell

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on you? Have you taken leave of your senses?

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Something crazy has happened for it's obvious that you no longer have the crucified

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Jesus in clear focus in your lives.

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His sacrifice on the cross was certainly set before you clearly enough.

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He says, who have tricked you? Like Eve, like Israel, the Galatians were talked out of truth. Wow.

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Another voice slowly corrupted their thinking. This reveals how deception works

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gradually, emotionally, and with every conversation.

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Verbal suicide begins when people continually repeat defeat,

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fear, limitation, and hopelessness.

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Eventually, wrong speech will reshape your identity.

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11. Jesus passed the wilderness test. We saw here that he quoted the Bible.

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I'm not going to go through all the scriptures because we have that already,

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but I want you to read Matthew 4, 1-11.

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Israel fell verbally in the wilderness.

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Jesus seceded verbally in the wilderness. Every temptation Satan presented,

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Jesus answered it with this written, Israel complained about bread.

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Jesus said man should not live by bread alone. Israel wanted to go backward.

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Jesus stayed aligned with purpose. Jesus conquered the temptation through agreement with God's word.

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He never allowed the wilderness to alter his identity.

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One thing Jesus did is found in John 5, 19.

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The son can do nothing of himself, but what he sees the father doing.

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Jesus modeled alignment, obedience, trust, and submission.

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While others magnify fear, Jesus magnified the Father.

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This is prosperity language, living in agreement with heaven rather than circumstances.

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The final conversation happened in the wilderness with Jesus.

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It happened in the Garden of Gethsemane. Matthew 26, 39 tells us that nevertheless.

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Not as I will, but thy Father will.

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Jesus had an opportunity to agree with the In Eden, humanity agreed with another voice.

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In wilderness, Israel magnified their fear.

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But in the Garden of Gethsemane, Jesus surrendered fully to the Father.

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One conversation brought death to the world. Another conversation opened redemption.

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Jesus reversed verbally to the Father.

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Adam release verbally. They don't blame Eve for it, what happened.

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They blame Adam because Adam was right there.

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So who's responsible? So we see that with that language, your will be done,

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not mine, reverses that verbal suicide.

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Jesus was able to do that for us. Remember, death and life is in the power of our tongue.

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And it says we will eat the fruit of thereof. We want to make sure that the

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tongue that we're using, that it has the power to shape our belief,

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shape our identity, and shape our perspective, even shape the direction we're going with.

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But we see Jesus said, I only do what I see the Father doing.

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That was an example for us to

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follow. Don't keep repeating negative things because you'll believe that.

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And our final scripture is, life and death were set before them.

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I love this because God gives us the answer.

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It says in Deuteronomy 30, 19, I have set before you life and death, blessing and cursing.

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And the answer is, therefore, choose life.

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The wilderness revealed daily choices, fear or faith, agreement or rebellion, death or life.

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Some shows verbal death. Others shows covenant language.

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The difference was not the wilderness.

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The difference was a conversation happening inside of it. We have to be aware

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of what we're saying and what we're creating with our words.

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I want to close out with some decrees and then a prayer. So decree these after

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me. I will not speak defeat.

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Father, I decree that I will no longer use my words to destroy what you are building in my life.

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I renounce fear-filled speech, hopelessness, negativity, constant complaining,

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agreement with defeat. I will not magnify giants over God. I declare that my

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wilderness will not become my grave.

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Decree number two, I break the grasshopper mentality.

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I decree that I'm no longer seeing myself through the lens of fear,

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trauma, insecurity, or limitation.

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I reject every mindset that tells me I'm too small, I'm not enough,

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I will never succeed, I cannot overcome.

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God did not call me a grasshopper. I decree that I will see myself through the

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identity God has spoken over me.

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Decree number three, my mouth will align with God. I decree.

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That I will line my words with the Father. Jesus, just as Jesus said,

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I can only do what I see the Father doing.

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I decree I will speak life. I will speak wisdom. I will speak faith. I will speak truth.

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I will speak what heaven says. My mouth will no longer partner with destruction.

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Number four, excuse me, I will not die in the wilderness.

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I decree that this season is not destroying me. It is developing me.

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The wilderness will strengthen me, humble me, mature me, deepen my dependence on God.

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I will not allow pressure to corrupt my speech. I will not return mentally to Egypt.

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Number five, I choose faith over fear. Joshua and Caleb, I decree I am well able.

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God is with me. The promise still stands. I will possess what God promised.

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Giants will not stop my destiny.

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Fear will not control my future. I decree that the covenant is greater than opposition.

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Number six, I break agreement with negative words.

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I renounce every word spoken over my life that contradicts God's purpose.

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I break the agreement with failure, rejection, limitation, poverty,

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fear, self-hatred, hopelessness, generational negativity.

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I decree that my mouth will no longer produce verbal suicide.

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Number seven, I will speak life.

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I choose life. I decree life over my mind, life over my future,

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life over my family, life over my purpose, life over my emotions,

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life over my destiny. I will no longer rehearse destruction.

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I will speak what aligns with God's truth.

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Let's pray. Heavenly Father, in the name of Jesus, I repent every time I use

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my words against myself, against my future, or against your promises.

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Forgive me for murmuring, complaining, and doubting, rehearsing fear,

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magnifying problems over your power.

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Father, cleanse my mouth and renew my mind.

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Break every wilderness mentality inside of me.

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Destroy every grasshopper mindset rooted in fear, trauma, rejection,

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insecurity, and unbelief.

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Teach me to speak with wisdom, faith, and spiritual maturity.

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Lord, let my words align with heaven. Just as Jesus remained aligned with you

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in the wilderness and in Gethsemane, let me remain faithful under pressure.

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Help me, Lord, with this. When fear rises, help me speak faith.

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When obstacles of fear, help me speak promise. When the enemy whispers lies,

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help me answer. It is written.

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Father, I declare that I will not die in the wilderness of negativity, fear, or unbelief.

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I decree that this season will produce growth, wisdom, endurance,

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healing, maturity, and a deeper trust in you.

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Let my mouth become a source of life, encouragement, truth, peace,

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and prophetic alignment.

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I choose life today. I choose faith today. I choose agreement with your word

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today. In Jesus' name, amen.

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Wow. What a powerful episode. Wow. It's shifting things for us.

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It's shifting things where we will no longer align with death,

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but we will align with prosperity.

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We will no longer commit verbal suicide, but we will commit verbal prosperity.

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And we will see God grow us up so that we will not die before we receive all

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the promises that God has said to us, told us, gave us visions.

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We will not be like the foolish Galatians who got bewitched.

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I mean, they lost their truth.

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They didn't keep Jesus as the focus. They got distracted, but we won't do that.

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We will continue to walk in what God has called us to do.

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And so this has been the Diary of a Black Woman podcast.

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I'm your host, Connie Morris, and I will see you on the next episode. Thank you.

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Family, thank you for spending time with me today.

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To every woman listening who has ever felt hidden, overlooked,

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or pushed aside, hear me clearly.

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God has not forgotten you, and neither have I.

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Now let's go before the Lord and close this out with a word from God,

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because someone out there needs this reminder today.

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Jeremiah 29, 11, verses 11 through 14. For I know the plans I have for you,

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declares the Lord, plans to prosper you and not to harm you,

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plans to give you hope and a future.

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Then when you call on me and come and pray to me, and I will listen to you,

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you will seek me and find me when you seek me with all your heart.

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I will be found by you, declares the Lord, and bring you back from captivity.

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Father God, we thank you for your word, that it is true, that it is living, that it is for us.

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You said you know the plans you have for us, plans to prosper us and not to

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harm us, plans to give us hope and a future.

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So today we receive that, not just in our minds, but in our hearts.

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When we feel overlooked, remind us you still see us.

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When we feel forgotten, remind us you still have a plan. And when we feel hidden,

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remind us you are still working.

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Your word says that when we call on you, you will listen. So we call on you now. Hear us.

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Strengthen us. Guide us. Help us to seek you with our whole heart,

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not halfway, not sometimes, but fully.

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And as we seek you, let us find you in every season, in every place.

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Even the hidden one. Restore what was lost, renew what feels broken,

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and remind us that nothing in our lives is wasted in your hand.

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Lord, we trust you, we believe you, and we stand on your word. In Jesus' name, amen.

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This is Diary of a Black Woman podcast, and I'm your host, Connie Morris,

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and I'll see you on the next episode.