Episode 12
You Shall Have What You Say
Takeaways:
- This podcast emphasizes the paramount importance of understanding the words of Jesus in the Bible, particularly the 'red letter' words which carry profound significance for believers.
- We are invited to develop a deep and personal relationship with Jesus Christ, which serves as the foundation for a robust faith that can effectively navigate life's challenges.
- The necessity of forgiveness is highlighted as a critical component for maintaining a clear heart, which is essential for effective prayer and receiving answers from God.
- The episode teaches that speaking with authority is essential; we must verbalize our faith and commands to the mountains in our lives, as this is how we activate God's promises.
- Listeners are encouraged to examine their own faith and ensure it is anchored in a relationship with God, rather than in methods or outcomes, to truly experience the fullness of His promises.
- The discussion stresses that one's identity as a child of God and understanding one's authority in Christ are crucial for moving obstacles and receiving what one prays for in faith.
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Transcript
Welcome to Freedom Through Faith and the Red Letter Crusade, where the words of Jesus take center stage.
Speaker A:Join us as we bring healing, unity and clarity to your walk with God by focusing on one thing.
Speaker A:What did Jesus say now?
Speaker A:Now let's join Pastor Robert Thibodeau for the Red Letter Crusade.
Speaker A:Because when it comes to understanding the entire Bible, his words matter.
Speaker B:Hello, everyone, everywhere.
Speaker B:Pastor Bob Thibodeau here.
Speaker B:Welcome to Freedom through Faith.
Speaker B:Glory to God.
Speaker B:It's a blessing to be here with you again today as we dive into the word of God, sharing the words of Jesus, understanding on a deeper level what belongs to us as believers.
Speaker B:Amen.
Speaker B:Praise the Lord.
Speaker B:Let's go to the Word with the Lord with a word of prayer, we'll get started in today's Bible study.
Speaker B:I've been waiting all week for this.
Speaker B:Heavenly Father, in the name of Jesus, we just thank you and praise you for your word.
Speaker B:We thank you and praise you for the technology you made available to us to share your word with the world through the power of the Internet.
Speaker B:Father, we pray that your Holy Spirit will lead, guide, direct this conversation today.
Speaker B:And our prayer, Lord, is that someone, somewhere this day would receive Jesus as their Savior.
Speaker B:We just give you all honor, glory and praise for it.
Speaker B:In Jesus name, Amen.
Speaker B:And Amen.
Speaker B:Glory to God.
Speaker B:Join me on a profession of faith commonly referred to as the Apostles Creed.
Speaker B:You do this each and every Sunday on this broadcast just to lay the solid foundation upon which we're going to build.
Speaker B:Amen.
Speaker B:Just repeat these words with me out loud.
Speaker B:At least loud enough for your own two ears to hear.
Speaker B:Amen.
Speaker B:Faith comes by hearing, hearing by the word of God.
Speaker B:And it is so important as we're going to be studying today, you have what you say?
Speaker B:Amen.
Speaker B:Just repeat after me.
Speaker B:I believe in God, the Father Almighty, maker of heaven and earth, and in Jesus Christ, his only son, our Lord, who is conceived by the Holy Spirit, born of the Virgin Mary, suffered under Pontius Pilate.
Speaker B:He was crucified, dead and buried.
Speaker B:He descended into hell.
Speaker B:But the third day he rose again from the dead and ascended up into heaven and is seated now at the right hand of God, the Father Almighty, from where he is about to make his return to judge both the living and the dead.
Speaker B:I believe in the Holy Spirit.
Speaker B:I believe the church is the body of Christ.
Speaker B:I believe in the communion of saints.
Speaker B:I believe in the forgiveness of sins.
Speaker B:I believe in the resurrection of the body.
Speaker B:And I believe in life everlasting in Jesus name.
Speaker B:Amen.
Speaker B:And Amen.
Speaker B:Praise God.
Speaker B:If you have Your bibles turn to mark chapter 11.
Speaker B:Now you know brother Bob loves to preach on Mark chapter 11.
Speaker B:And my favorite verses are going to be, you guessed it, verses 22, 23 and 24.
Speaker B:Amen.
Speaker B:Because today we are going to look at engineering.
Speaker B:Well, we're going to look at you can have what you say because we're going to reverse engineer the red letter blueprint of faith.
Speaker B:Amen.
Speaker B:Praise the Lord.
Speaker B:So join me in reading this scripture now beginning in verse 22.
Speaker B:And Jesus answering said to them, have faith in God.
Speaker B:Have faith in God.
Speaker B:Where does your faith lie?
Speaker B:You need to have faith in God.
Speaker B:For verily I say unto you, whosoever shall say to this mountain, be thou removed, be thou cast into the sea, and shall not doubtless heart but shall believe that those things which he says shall come to pass, he shall have whatsoever he says.
Speaker B:Therefore I say unto you, whatsoever things you desire when you pray, believe you receive them, and what you shall have them.
Speaker B:It's right there in red, folks.
Speaker B:And you know, brother Bob is focusing on the red letter words of Jesus.
Speaker B:We don't build our doctrine around opinions, we build on the words of Jesus.
Speaker B:And today we're going to look at one of the most bold, straightforward, and let's be honest, controversial things Jesus ever said.
Speaker B:You shall have whatever you say.
Speaker B:It's not a quote from a preacher on tv.
Speaker B:It's not a motivational line from a self help book.
Speaker B:That's Jesus talking.
Speaker B:Red Letters, mark chapter 11, just as plain as day.
Speaker B:You can't make it any simpler than that.
Speaker B:But here's the problem.
Speaker B:A lot of believers love to quote this verse, but few really understand how it works.
Speaker B:And we treat it like it's a spiritual vending machine.
Speaker B:If I say the right words, push the right buttons, I get my miracle.
Speaker B:When it doesn't work like that, we get discouraged and we start thinking, maybe I don't have enough faith.
Speaker B:Maybe it just wasn't God's will.
Speaker B:Maybe this promise isn't really for me.
Speaker B:Maybe, maybe, maybe.
Speaker B:Folks, let me challenge you.
Speaker B:Today Jesus meant exactly what he said.
Speaker B:You shall have whatever you say.
Speaker B:But if we want to experience this fruit, we gotta look at the foundation.
Speaker B:If the promise isn't working, that doesn't mean the word's broken.
Speaker B:It means we.
Speaker B:You and I need to go back to the blueprint.
Speaker B:And here's the exciting part.
Speaker B:Jesus didn't just give us a one liner here, he gave us a step by step kingdom process.
Speaker B:And it's hidden in plain sight.
Speaker B:And today we're Going to reverse engineer looking at it.
Speaker B:We're going to work backwards through this passage and uncover what Jesus was really saying, what must be in place before you speak to any mountain, and why your relationship with him is the key to it all.
Speaker B:So don't tune me out now.
Speaker B:Praise God if you've ever wondered why your words aren't moving mountains, or have you been praying and not receiving, this message is for you today.
Speaker B:Let's dive now into the red letter blueprint together and learn how to truly have what you say.
Speaker B:Step number one, the unshakable foundation is your relationship with Jesus.
Speaker B: aid have faith in God in Mark: Speaker B:Let me say it again.
Speaker B:Nothing else in this passage works.
Speaker B:Not the speaking, not the praying, not the receiving.
Speaker B:If this is not in place first.
Speaker B:You cannot have faith in God without first having a relationship with God.
Speaker B:And that only comes through Jesus Christ.
Speaker B:That's where we often miss it at.
Speaker B:We jump.
Speaker B:We want to jump straight to the part about speaking to that mountain.
Speaker B:But we skip over the part about who we are in Christ.
Speaker B:Think about it.
Speaker B:Jesus always spoke from identity.
Speaker B:He knew who he was and he never acted outside the Father's will.
Speaker B:That's the kind of faith he's talking about here.
Speaker B:God centered faith, born out of an intimacy with the fellowship through the Word isn't just about speaking, it's about belonging.
Speaker B:To even begin walking in faith, you have to be able to say, I believe Jesus is who he said he is, the Son of the living God.
Speaker B:I believe he came to this world as a man to pay the price because of my sin.
Speaker B:I believe he went to the cross, died in my place, rose from the dead and and rose from the grave on that third day.
Speaker B:I believe he forgave me, not based on what I've done, but on what he did.
Speaker B:I believe that when I received him as my Lord, he gave me a new spirit, not a better version of the old self, a new creation entirely.
Speaker B:I believe I'm no longer a sinner trying to be righteous.
Speaker B:I believe I am the righteousness of God in Christ.
Speaker B:I believe I've been adopted into God's family.
Speaker B:I am a child of the living God and his heir, a joint heir with Jesus, with full rights and full access to the kingdom.
Speaker B:I believe I have everlasting light.
Speaker B:I walk in that eternal life right now.
Speaker B:And because I believe all of this, I now have the authority to speak the words of faith which Jesus described Praise the Lord.
Speaker B:Don't shut me down, I'm preaching.
Speaker B:Good.
Speaker B:Let's put Jesus own words, his old red letter words to work right now.
Speaker B:Turn over to John chapter three.
Speaker B:Hallelujah.
Speaker B:John chapter three.
Speaker B:Amen.
Speaker B:Get over there.
Speaker B:Bible figures aren't working right.
Speaker B:There we go.
Speaker B:Hallelujah.
Speaker B:John chapter three right there.
Speaker B:And verse number three.
Speaker B:I love this.
Speaker B:Jesus answers into him.
Speaker B:Unless a man is born again, he cannot see the kingdom of God.
Speaker B:John chapter 14.
Speaker B:Turn over.
Speaker B:There I am.
Speaker B:What?
Speaker B:The way, the truth and the life.
Speaker B:No man comes to the Father but by me.
Speaker B:John 1:12.
Speaker B:As many as received him.
Speaker B:To them he gave power to become the sons of God.
Speaker B:John chapter 5, verse 24.
Speaker B:He that hears my word and believes on him that sent me has everlasting life.
Speaker B:Folks, these are red letter words that give life to every other promise Jesus made, including the one in Mark, chapter 11.
Speaker B:You cannot skip this part.
Speaker B:If you try to speak to the mountain without being born again, you're using kingdom language.
Speaker B:Without kingdom, citizenship and spiritual authority does not work outside of a spiritual relationship.
Speaker B:It just doesn't work.
Speaker B:It's kind of like let's say you went to another country, say you went to a communist country or a Muslim country.
Speaker B:And then you're so offended by some of the things you see, you stand outside on the street corner cussing out their government, cussing out their government authorities, telling everybody that walks by to listen to what you're saying, rise up, overthrow this stuff.
Speaker B:When the local authorities come and lock you up, you turn around and say, I'm an American citizen, you have no right to arrest me.
Speaker B:I have my constitutional rights of freedom of speech and freedom of expression.
Speaker B:And as they throw you into jail cell, they're going to remind you you have no authority in their country, let alone any rights in their country.
Speaker B:Amen.
Speaker B:Well, it works the same way with kingdom authority.
Speaker B:If you are not a born again child of the living God, you have no authority to have what you say.
Speaker B:The devil may grant your requests, especially if it gets you beholden to him, but you have no spiritual authority to enforce your kingdom rights to receive what you ask for.
Speaker B:I know we're getting deep in and it's early on in this broadcast.
Speaker B:Amen.
Speaker B:Make sure everything's still working there.
Speaker B:Yep, okay, amen.
Speaker B:But I mean, just stick with me here, okay?
Speaker B:Praise God.
Speaker B:You must be born again.
Speaker B:This is not just a one time decision, it's just the entry point into your new identity.
Speaker B:Being born again is not just about going to heaven when you die.
Speaker B:It's about becoming a new person right now.
Speaker B:A person with the right to use the name of Jesus, the right to use the authority to speak his word, and the confidence to know the Father hears you when you pray.
Speaker B:John 15:5.
Speaker B:Apart from me, you can do nothing.
Speaker B:That includes moving mountains.
Speaker B:That includes answered prayer.
Speaker B:That includes having what you say.
Speaker B:Everything in the Christian life flows from one thing.
Speaker B:What's that?
Speaker B:Abiding in Christ.
Speaker B:Amen.
Speaker B:Now let's flip the flow a little bit.
Speaker B:Remember, we're reverse engineering this passage.
Speaker B:People get excited about verse 24.
Speaker B:Whatsoever things you desire, when you pray, believe, you receive them, and you shall have them.
Speaker B:They hinge everything on that.
Speaker B:But the promise is built in verse 22.
Speaker B:Have faith in God.
Speaker B:That faith is built on an even deeper truth, that you belong to Him.
Speaker B:You've been made new, you are in covenant.
Speaker B:Until that's settled, faith will feel like a gamble.
Speaker B:But once you know who you are in Christ, faith becomes a natural expression of your identity.
Speaker B:And identity fuels authority.
Speaker B:That's what made Jesus Word so powerful.
Speaker B:He spoke with authority because he knew who he was.
Speaker B:He said, as the Father sent me, so I'm sending you.
Speaker B: John: Speaker B:You don't walk in power because you yell loud.
Speaker B:You don't walk in power because you pray long.
Speaker B:Or you don't walk in power because you have the perfect church to go to.
Speaker B:Now, if you found the perfect church, please don't go there.
Speaker B:Because once you go there, you're going to mess it up.
Speaker B:Amen.
Speaker B:Don't shut me down.
Speaker B:I'm preaching good.
Speaker B:Praise God.
Speaker B:You walk in power because you are a child of the King.
Speaker B:You're born again, filled with the Spirit.
Speaker B:You're living in fellowship with Jesus.
Speaker B:And when that is your foundation.
Speaker B:Oh, you're not just trying to believe.
Speaker B:You just do.
Speaker B:You hear me?
Speaker B:You're not.
Speaker B:At that point, you're no longer just trying to believe.
Speaker B:You just do.
Speaker B:You're not trying to speak in faith.
Speaker B:You're speaking from your identity.
Speaker B:Amen.
Speaker B:Amen.
Speaker B:Let's examine your foundation.
Speaker B:I mean, before we talk about prayer, before we talk about confession, before we even get to the part about forgiveness, we have to ask the most important question.
Speaker B:Do you know him?
Speaker B:How about, have you been born again?
Speaker B:Are you walking in daily relationship with Jesus?
Speaker B:Are you confident in your identity as a child of God?
Speaker B:Because when you are, when that is truly settled, everything else Jesus said in Mark 11 starts to make perfect sense.
Speaker B:Faith is not a formula.
Speaker B:It's a flow, a natural flow, a supernatural flow that Just begins when you're anchored in Christ.
Speaker B:Amen.
Speaker B:And that takes us now.
Speaker B:That was step one, your relationship.
Speaker B:Step two is clearing the channel, the power of forgiveness.
Speaker B:Oh, praise God for his forgiveness.
Speaker B:If the foundation of our faith is our relationship with Jesus, the next layer Jesus addresses is the condition of our heart towards others.
Speaker B:And he doesn't want us to.
Speaker B:Jesus doesn't wait till later to talk about this.
Speaker B:It's part of the same teaching.
Speaker B:In fact, immediately after promising us that we can have whatsoever we ask for in prayer, Jesus brings up an issue most of us would have probably left out if we were teaching it.
Speaker B:Forgiveness.
Speaker B:And Jesus said, when you stand praying, forgive if you have ought against any, so that your father, which is in heaven, may forgive you your trespasses.
Speaker B:But if you don't forgive, neither will your father forgive your trespasses.
Speaker B:That's a sobering statement right there.
Speaker B:And it is not optional.
Speaker B:Jesus doesn't say, now if you get around to it, or when it feels right, be sure you forgive.
Speaker B:No, he didn't say, after 90 days, you can forgive them.
Speaker B:No, he didn't say, you know, next time you see that person, tell them you forgive them.
Speaker B:No.
Speaker B:What did he say?
Speaker B:When you stand there praying, forgive.
Speaker B:In other words, you're not even supposed to take another step or even say one more word in prayer.
Speaker B:Not even one, until your heart is clean.
Speaker B:Don't even waste your time trying to ask him for anything.
Speaker B:If you're holding a grudge against anyone, period, don't look at me in that tone of voice.
Speaker B:Praise God.
Speaker B:Don't get mad at me.
Speaker B:Jesus, the one that said it.
Speaker B:I'm just letting you know what he said.
Speaker B:Amen.
Speaker B:All right, let's tell you what, let's pause here for a minute.
Speaker B:He's not talking about being sinless.
Speaker B:No, that's not the standard.
Speaker B:We've already settled that in step one.
Speaker B:That we've been made righteous through Christ.
Speaker B:Okay?
Speaker B:So it isn't about works or about trying to earn God's favor.
Speaker B:It's about keeping your heart clear, especially in your relationship with other people.
Speaker B:Because unforgiveness, whether we like it or not, becomes a spiritual blockage.
Speaker B:It clogs the channel between your heart and heaven.
Speaker B:Amen.
Speaker B:You can be praying, you know, with boldness, quoting scripture, speaking to that mountain.
Speaker B:None of it's going anywhere because you got a bitter root that's short circuiting the flow of faith.
Speaker B:Why is this so serious?
Speaker B:Because Jesus takes forgiveness personally.
Speaker B:Think about it.
Speaker B:He paid the highest price imaginable to Offer us full and complete forgiveness.
Speaker B:And when we withhold forgiveness from others, it's as if we're refusing to give away what Jesus died to give us.
Speaker B:In fact, praise God.
Speaker B:Yes, sir.
Speaker B:Matthew.
Speaker B:Believe it's Matthew 18.
Speaker B:Jesus talks about.
Speaker B:Gives us a parable about a servant who is forgiven a massive debt by his king, only to go out and choke out a fellow servant who owed him a fraction of that amount.
Speaker B:What was the result?
Speaker B:The king rescinded his mercy and delivered the man to the tormentors.
Speaker B:Think about it.
Speaker B:It's a striking picture.
Speaker B:And it reinforces what Jesus is saying here in Mark 11.
Speaker B:If we want to walk in the fullness of God's mercy, we must extend that same mercy to others.
Speaker B:Amen.
Speaker B:This principle is not just about obedience.
Speaker B:It's about protection.
Speaker B:Praise God.
Speaker B:Unforgiveness does not just hinder your prayers.
Speaker B:Nope.
Speaker B:It opens the door to the enemy.
Speaker B:It breeds offense.
Speaker B:It breeds bitterness, even sickness and health problems.
Speaker B:In some cases, it slowly poisons your ability to love, to serve, to speak with clarity and conviction.
Speaker B:And all the while, the enemy laughs.
Speaker B:Not because he stopped your prayers.
Speaker B:Nope.
Speaker B:It's beyond that.
Speaker B:It's because he tricked you into stopping them.
Speaker B:He didn't just stop your prayers, he tricked you into stopping them yourself.
Speaker B:Yourself.
Speaker B:Your bitterness, your unforgiveness towards somebody else stops your prayers.
Speaker B:And you're the one who stopped them yourself.
Speaker B:So how do we deal with that?
Speaker B:How do we fix that?
Speaker B:We make a decision.
Speaker B:We choose to forgive.
Speaker B:Not because the other person deserves it.
Speaker B:We didn't deserve it.
Speaker B:Not because they apologize.
Speaker B:It's about time they apologize to me.
Speaker B:Praise God.
Speaker B:Yeah, I'll forgive you now.
Speaker B:That's not forgiven forgiveness.
Speaker B:Not even because it's easy to do.
Speaker B:We forgive because we were forgiven.
Speaker B:We forgive because Jesus commanded us to.
Speaker B:We forgive because we want nothing, absolutely nothing, standing in the way of our relationship with God and our authority in prayer.
Speaker B:And notice how Jesus says when you stand praying.
Speaker B:That means this isn't just something we do once in a while.
Speaker B:This is a posture we carry into every time of prayer.
Speaker B:Why didn't he say, when you're kneeling in your prayer closet?
Speaker B:Bowed before you know your.
Speaker B:No.
Speaker B:He said, when you're standing.
Speaker B:When do you stand up?
Speaker B:All through the day, everywhere.
Speaker B:You know, you could walk down your hallway.
Speaker B:You're standing.
Speaker B:You better be in forgiveness.
Speaker B:You could be going to the store.
Speaker B:What are you doing?
Speaker B:You're walking.
Speaker B:Well, walking is a form of standing.
Speaker B:I'm standing right now, sharing this word with you.
Speaker B:He said every Time you stand up, you better forgive something.
Speaker B:Pray, walk in forgiveness all day long.
Speaker B:Amen.
Speaker B:Now, before we make our request known, before we speak in authority, you have to examine your own heart.
Speaker B:We ask the Holy Spirit to reveal any area of offense, and then you have to let it go.
Speaker B:Not just with our words, but with our will.
Speaker B:We have to choose to forgive in advance if necessary.
Speaker B:That may sound a little backwards, but it's true.
Speaker B:So we can stand in purity and power, right?
Speaker B:I heard.
Speaker B:I heard one person, one time, they're.
Speaker B:They're walking into the doctor's office.
Speaker B:And you know how it is in doctor's offices.
Speaker B:One, you're in there with a bunch of sick people.
Speaker B:Those are the only people that go to the doctor.
Speaker B:Number two, you're gonna sit in that waiting room for 45 minutes waiting to be seen around, what, all those sick people, right?
Speaker B:And not all of them are going to be believers in there either.
Speaker B:Amen.
Speaker B:So they're in there talking and about what they do on Saturday nights and all this other.
Speaker B:Everyone say just to go to the doctor, I got to pray myself up and forgive.
Speaker B:I walk in the door as I forgive everybody in this room, everybody in this office, I make a decision to forgive right now.
Speaker B:What I see, what I hear, what I think, I make a decision to forgive.
Speaker B:If that's what it takes, that's what you got to do.
Speaker B:Amen.
Speaker B:Because we have to stand in purity.
Speaker B:And through that purity and through that act of forgiveness, we stand in power.
Speaker B:And it's especially crucial when we're going about to engage in bold prayer, when we're believing God for healing, for provision, for breakthrough, for restoration.
Speaker B:The greater the mountain, the clearer that channel has to be.
Speaker B:Jesus is showing us here how to keep that channel open.
Speaker B:Don't carry grudges.
Speaker B:Don't let wounds turn into weapons.
Speaker B:The enemy, you know the wet.
Speaker B:Yes, sir.
Speaker B:The enemy will try to turn.
Speaker B:When somebody hurts you, he'll try to turn that wound into a weapon, and then he's going to take that weapon and bring even more hurt to you.
Speaker B:Amen.
Speaker B:You need to be able to let that go.
Speaker B:You need to be able to forgive freely, forgive quickly.
Speaker B:Quickly.
Speaker B:As soon as some offense, someone does something, and.
Speaker B:And you're like, what.
Speaker B:What.
Speaker B:What did you just say to me?
Speaker B:Let it go.
Speaker B:You got to release that quickly and then forgive completely.
Speaker B:Let me tell you, this may be the most difficult part of the process for some people.
Speaker B:Okay, I had.
Speaker B:Okay.
Speaker B:I was asking the Holy Spirit if I should share this or not.
Speaker B:But until I Was born again.
Speaker B:Let's put it like that.
Speaker B:I had a hair trigger.
Speaker B:I mean, I could go from calm and collected to a.
Speaker B:Let's just say to a sinner real quick, okay?
Speaker B:And that was how I was.
Speaker B:And I don't want to go too deep into this story because it's off topic, but let's just say that I could sin at the drop of a hat with offense, okay?
Speaker B:And there were times after I got done dealing with the situation, I was offended at that.
Speaker B:I actually felt bad for doing that to the other person, okay?
Speaker B:And, yeah, but once I got born again, that changed.
Speaker B:Now, that trigger that, that anger, that.
Speaker B:That ability to react instantly in situations, that's still there, okay?
Speaker B:There were times when I was a cop that, you know, I'm calm, cool and collected, and somebody tries to attack me or something like that, that same person that I was before will come out, okay?
Speaker B:In that instance to deal with this situation.
Speaker B:Then afterwards, I'll ask the guy if I want.
Speaker B:If he wants me to pray for his healing.
Speaker B:I'm putting him in cuffs and throw them into the back of the car, right?
Speaker B:But let me just put it like this.
Speaker B:You can't let that rule your life, okay?
Speaker B:Because that's the most difficult of the process for some people.
Speaker B:They say, well, that's just the way I am.
Speaker B:Well, change.
Speaker B:Praise God.
Speaker B:Let the Holy Spirit guide you in changing like that.
Speaker B:Because it's not just about forgiveness on paper.
Speaker B:You have to have a clean heart.
Speaker B:That's what we're talking about here.
Speaker B:It's about releasing your right to get even, your right to be angry, to make someone pay for what they did.
Speaker B:But that release, in that release, that's where true freedom comes from.
Speaker B:And when you walk in that ability, in that kind of freedom, folks, your faith becomes so powerful, so unhindered, that you can literally do all things through Christ.
Speaker B:Amen.
Speaker B:So Jesus says, if you've been praying but not receiving, speaking but not seeing results, declaring, but nothing's moving, it's time to ask the question, is there anyone I have not forgiven yet that I'm holding a grudge against?
Speaker B:Is there bitterness buried in me that I've ignored or justified as being there?
Speaker B:Don't wait for a special altar call for a perfect moment.
Speaker B:No.
Speaker B:Jesus said, when you stand praying, forgive.
Speaker B:That means now.
Speaker B:It means every moment in time.
Speaker B:That's step two in this red letter blueprint of faith.
Speaker B:Before we speak to the mountain, before we declare and believe and receive, we have to forgive.
Speaker B:It's not a side note In Jesus teaching, that's the hinge on which the entire door swings on.
Speaker B:Praise God.
Speaker B:Amen.
Speaker B:Now our next step.
Speaker B:We'll talk about what it means to truly have faith in God.
Speaker B:Not just belief in the concept of God, not just faith in our own faith, but a deep rooted trust in the nature and in the character of, of the one who never fails.
Speaker B:Hallelujah.
Speaker B:But first, let's clear the air a little bit.
Speaker B:Let's forgive.
Speaker B:Amen.
Speaker B:Let's keep the channel of faith wide open.
Speaker B:Let's pray right now.
Speaker B:Father, in the name of Jesus, I make the decision to forgive.
Speaker B:Lord, if there is anyone I am offended at right now, bring them to my mind that I may make a decision right here, right now to say, lord, I forgive them and I cast this unforgiveness out of my very being.
Speaker B:I release whatever it was they did to offend me.
Speaker B:I release it now and cast it down at your altar and make the decision to forgive.
Speaker B:And I praise you, Lord, that every time this offense rises up in my heart, say, nope, nope, nope.
Speaker B:I forgave that person.
Speaker B:I forgave them, Lord.
Speaker B:I turn it over to you.
Speaker B:I forgave them and I walk in love towards them in Jesus name.
Speaker B:Amen and amen.
Speaker B:Praise God.
Speaker B:That's how you deal with every time that comes up again in your spirit, every time the devil tries to bring that back up, say, nope, nope, nope.
Speaker B:I forgave that person.
Speaker B:They are forgiven.
Speaker B:I'm not holding that offense.
Speaker B:Hallelujah.
Speaker B:All right, now let's move on to step number three.
Speaker B:Hallelujah.
Speaker B:Have faith in God, because that's the anchor that holds us in place.
Speaker B:I mean, so far in this red letter blueprint of faith, we've established the foundation, our relationship with Jesus.
Speaker B:Without that, nothing else matters.
Speaker B:Nothing else.
Speaker B: Mark: Speaker B:Then we looked at the condition of the heart, how unforgiveness acts like static in our spiritual radio signal.
Speaker B:Before any mountain can move, the heart has to be clean.
Speaker B:Amen.
Speaker B:Now we've arrived at the command that launches this whole process.
Speaker B:Have faith in God.
Speaker B:Simple, direct and clear.
Speaker B:Yet probably one of the most misunderstood statements in the modern church.
Speaker B:What does it mean to have faith in God?
Speaker B:Not faith in the outcome, not faith in your faith, not even faith in a doctrine or a faith in your denomination.
Speaker B:Especially not even faith in your church or your pastor.
Speaker B:Amen.
Speaker B:Especially that one.
Speaker B:Jesus said, have faith in God.
Speaker B:Notice it ends in a period, not a comma.
Speaker B:That means our confidence, our trust, our complete assurance is to be placed in the character and the integrity of God, the Father Himself.
Speaker B:Period.
Speaker B:Amen.
Speaker B:Now, if we're honest, for many people, faith has become basically a formula.
Speaker B:It's treated like a spiritual transaction.
Speaker B:You know, if I believe hard enough, if I speak the right words, if I avoid doubt, then God is obligated to give me what I want.
Speaker B:Oaks that is not faith in God.
Speaker B:That's faith in a method actually is closer to superstition than submission.
Speaker B:Real faith, the kind Jesus is talking about here, is personal.
Speaker B:It's relational.
Speaker B:It's rooted in knowing who God is.
Speaker B:You can't trust someone you don't know.
Speaker B:You won't rest in someone's word if you're not sure about their nature.
Speaker B:And that's exactly why Jesus starts here.
Speaker B:He says, have faith in God.
Speaker B:In the original Greek, the phrase have faith in God is more literally rendered as have the faith of God or have the God kind of faith.
Speaker B:That means the type of faith Jesus is describing is even sourced from you.
Speaker B:It's not about you trying to work up enough belief so you can push out doubt.
Speaker B:It's about yielding to a kind of faith that flows from intimacy with the Father.
Speaker B:Amen.
Speaker B:The same kind Jesus demonstrated in every single miracle, every command, every word he spoke.
Speaker B:Remember how Jesus operated during his ministry?
Speaker B:He never acted in fear.
Speaker B:He never hesitated.
Speaker B:Why?
Speaker B:Because he said, I'm only doing what I see the Father doing.
Speaker B:He had a constant connection, and because of that, he had absolute confidence in what he was doing.
Speaker B:That's the kind of faith he's inviting us into.
Speaker B:Not blind belief, but a relational certainty.
Speaker B:When Jesus says, have faith in God, he's not telling us to hope for the best result you can.
Speaker B:No, he's telling us to trust the one who never fails.
Speaker B:Never fails.
Speaker B:Amen.
Speaker B:To rest in the unshakable truth that God cannot lie, cannot change, will never forsake us.
Speaker B:This is why your relationship with Jesus must be settled first, because only someone who knows the Father can have that kind of confidence in the Father.
Speaker B:I mean, you're not going to be speaking to this mountain with authority if you're not sure if God's going to back you up or not.
Speaker B:Amen.
Speaker B:Still there.
Speaker B:All right.
Speaker B:I just want to make sure you didn't go anywhere.
Speaker B:You will not pray with boldness.
Speaker B:If you secretly think God might say no because of your past history, you won't believe what you say unless you first believe who he is.
Speaker B:Faith is only as strong as its object.
Speaker B:If your faith is in your feelings, it'll Crumble.
Speaker B:If your faith is in the result, it'll waver.
Speaker B:But if your faith is in God, in His nature, in his promises, in his goodness, then your faith becomes immovable.
Speaker B:That's why Jesus starts with that.
Speaker B:Let's look again at his words, have faith in God.
Speaker B:He didn't say, try harder.
Speaker B:He didn't say, have faith in the formula.
Speaker B:He didn't even say just believe.
Speaker B:No, he said, have faith in God.
Speaker B:The.
Speaker B:The enemy doesn't mind if you talk about faith as long as you never put your faith in the right place.
Speaker B:He wants you chasing your feelings, confessing empty words and wondering why nothing's happening, what is going on here?
Speaker B:But when you place your faith squarely in the God of Abraham, Isaac and Jacob, in the God who raised Jesus from the dead, then your words carry the weight of heaven and they produce results.
Speaker B:Amen.
Speaker B:That's why Jesus constantly pointed his followers back to.
Speaker B:To the Father.
Speaker B:When he performed miracles, what did he do?
Speaker B:He gave glory to the Father.
Speaker B:When he taught about provision, he pointed to the Father's care.
Speaker B:When he raised the dead, cast out demons, calm the storms.
Speaker B:He never took credit for it.
Speaker B:He simply operated in perfect trust, showing us what life looks like when you have faith in God.
Speaker B:And here's the amazing part.
Speaker B:Jesus didn't keep that kind of faith to himself.
Speaker B:Nope.
Speaker B:If you turn over to John, chapter 14, verse 12, it says, he that believes on me, what the works I do shall he do also.
Speaker B:But he didn't leave it there either, did He?
Speaker B:He said, and even greater works than what I do shall they do also.
Speaker B:Amen.
Speaker B:Oh, you missed a good place to shout Amen right there.
Speaker B:That means the same kind of faith that Jesus spoke in, the same kind that he walked in.
Speaker B:The unshakable trust in the Father is now available to you and me.
Speaker B:And it gets better after that.
Speaker B:He said, even greater works than I do shall he do.
Speaker B:Oh, praise God.
Speaker B:Amen.
Speaker B:But hallelujah.
Speaker B:What we got, okay.
Speaker B:But it only comes from knowing Him.
Speaker B:You can't have the faith of God if you're distant from God.
Speaker B:You can't walk in that kind of confidence if you only talk to him once a week.
Speaker B:Faith grows in the soil of intimacy.
Speaker B:That's why prayer and worship, the Word, the daily fellowship matter so much.
Speaker B:Not because they earn points, because they build trust.
Speaker B:So when Jesus says, have faith in God, he's issuing both an invitation and a challenge.
Speaker B:He's saying, don't just believe in me from a distance.
Speaker B:Walk with me, know me, trust me.
Speaker B:Because Only then can the words you speak be filled with the kind of faith that moves these mountains.
Speaker B:Now, before we go to the next step, speaking to the mountain, we have to be sure we're anchored in the One who made the mountain.
Speaker B:We don't move obstacles in our own power.
Speaker B:We do it in the confidence that God's with us.
Speaker B:God's for us.
Speaker B:God's word never returns void.
Speaker B:So let me ask you, where's your faith anchored, huh?
Speaker B:Is it in a prayer method?
Speaker B:Is it in a result?
Speaker B:Is it in a feeling?
Speaker B:Or is it in God, the One who is faithful and true?
Speaker B:The power of your words is direct.
Speaker B:Directly, folks.
Speaker B:It's directly connected to the source of your trust.
Speaker B:And Jesus said, without hesitation, without any condition whatsoever, have faith in God.
Speaker B:That's the launch pad for every promise that followed after that.
Speaker B:Amen.
Speaker B:All right, next, I want to look at how speaking words of faith from that anchored position of trust is what activates the supernatural.
Speaker B:But it all begins right here in a heart that knows beyond all doubt who God is and that he can be trusted every single time.
Speaker B:So step four is speak to the mountain.
Speaker B:That's authority in action.
Speaker B:Now we've laid the foundation, our relationship with Jesus.
Speaker B:We've cleared the channel.
Speaker B:Through forgiveness, we've anchored our trust in God.
Speaker B:We come to the next part of this red letter blueprint of speaking.
Speaker B:And this is where many Christians either get overly excited or completely confused.
Speaker B: Because Jesus said in Mark: Speaker B:I am a whosoever whosoever shall say that speaking verbal words to this mountain, be thou removed and be thou cast into the sea.
Speaker B:He didn't say pray about the mountain.
Speaker B:He didn't say wish it away.
Speaker B:He didn't say quote scripture to the mountain.
Speaker B:He did not even say, ask God to move the mountain.
Speaker B:No, he said, you speak to it and you do it with authority.
Speaker B:You do it with faith.
Speaker B:You do it expect expecting it to move whatever mountain is impeding your God walk.
Speaker B:It will obey you.
Speaker B:Who's it gonna obey you?
Speaker B:Ah, don't shut me down.
Speaker B:I'm preaching.
Speaker B:Good.
Speaker B:Praise God.
Speaker B:Everything we've covered today up to this point has brought us to this point.
Speaker B:That is why the point.
Speaker B:I gotta get a sip of coffee before we go down this next hole.
Speaker B:Amen.
Speaker B:Praise the Lord.
Speaker B:Hallelujah.
Speaker B:All right, this is why here, Jesus is not talking about a physical mountain.
Speaker B:He's talking about obstacles.
Speaker B:He's talking about Barriers.
Speaker B:He's talking about impossibilities, those immovable things that stand between you and the promises of God.
Speaker B:And he says you have the right as a child of God to speak directly to those obstacles and command them to move.
Speaker B:I'm going to use an illustration here, a real, true life illustration about how people respond to you when you speak to your mountain publicly.
Speaker B:Publicly.
Speaker B:Don't hide it in your prayer closet.
Speaker B: nt, right here, right back in: Speaker B:Required.
Speaker B:This.
Speaker B:I was in the drill sergeant school.
Speaker B:Let me rephrase that.
Speaker B:Back in the army drill sergeant school, we were required to memorize the appropriate army manuals.
Speaker B:That would be teaching the soldiers from word for word or you would fail.
Speaker B:If you says, like position of attention, you said your thumbs be running along the seams of the.
Speaker B:No, that's where they're going to be.
Speaker B:But it says alongside and touching the index finger.
Speaker B:If you left that part out, you failed, Right?
Speaker B:Now, if you've never been in the military, you may not understand, but let me give you a reference you might be able to grasp.
Speaker B:Have you ever read an instructional manual for, say, a TV or setting up a phone or a microwave oven or anything like that?
Speaker B:Okay.
Speaker B:Imagine memorizing that instruction manual word for word.
Speaker B:I mean, you couldn't even leave out an it or an if word for word.
Speaker B:Pretty boring stuff, right?
Speaker B:That's what I'm talking about here.
Speaker B:Glory to God.
Speaker B:The instructors will call you out when you said you were ready for the test, and then you took a buddy with you to be your demonstrator, and then you had to teach your buddy whatever it was you were being tested on.
Speaker B:Marching, position of attention, wherever the case may be.
Speaker B:As you were explaining it to him and he was reacting to the commands and the instructions you were giving, the evaluator had the manual open.
Speaker B:Like I said, if you missed one word, you failed the test and it go retake it.
Speaker B:If your demonstrator didn't do what he was supposed to do and you didn't correct it, you failed that too.
Speaker B:Okay.
Speaker B:You were only allowed a total of three fails before you failed the entire thing and then were either recycled or back to another class or washed out of the school totally.
Speaker B:I mean, it was high pressure to memorize everything you were required to do.
Speaker B:Okay, so how did you prepare for that exam?
Speaker B:Well, you had to read the manual, and you had to memorize the manual, and you memorized it by practicing it over and over and over and over and Over.
Speaker B:Out loud.
Speaker B:Out loud.
Speaker B:How do you do that?
Speaker B:Well, everybody in the class there might be.
Speaker B:I think there's like, 35, 40 people there.
Speaker B:Everybody was doing the same thing.
Speaker B:So you had to get away from everybody else because they're talking out loud, practicing and getting ready for their test, too, Right?
Speaker B:They were doing the same thing you're trying to do.
Speaker B:So you might walk off, you know, into an open lot and go over there, find a tree, and then you speak to the tree as if you're telling it to march, right?
Speaker B:You know, you're out there, you know, speaking tree.
Speaker B:Attach left.
Speaker B:Because it had to be in your command voice, because that's how you need to take your test.
Speaker B:We used to get the weirdest looks from people.
Speaker B:What's that guy trying to do?
Speaker B:Getting a tree to march.
Speaker B:Yeah.
Speaker B:And somebody.
Speaker B:Oh.
Speaker B:So those drill sergeant candidates, you know, they're a bunch of weirdos over there.
Speaker B:Those guys are nuts, right?
Speaker B:I always knew they were crazy.
Speaker B:Now I know why.
Speaker B:You know, we always got a good laugh out of that.
Speaker B:The looks we get, some of the comments we'd hear.
Speaker B:But what were we doing?
Speaker B:We were speaking as if we expected that tree actually obey us.
Speaker B:That's how we had to practice, and that's how we had to do it in the real world.
Speaker B:All right, now, why did I just share that?
Speaker B:Because that's how you need to speak to your mountain.
Speaker B:You need to speak to that mountain, whatever it may be in your life, as if you expected to obey your command instantly.
Speaker B:Immediately.
Speaker B:Amen.
Speaker B:There's a catch, and Jesus makes that catch very clear.
Speaker B:This authority to speak is not just based on saying the right words.
Speaker B:It's based on what's happening in your heart when you say them.
Speaker B:If the drill sergeant on drill sergeant status.
Speaker B:If I said, okay, gentlemen, come to attention.
Speaker B:Come to attention.
Speaker B:Okay, turn that way.
Speaker B:Right face.
Speaker B:Okay, right face.
Speaker B:Yeah, that way.
Speaker B:Yeah, yeah, yeah.
Speaker B:Okay.
Speaker B:Forward march.
Speaker B:Let's go.
Speaker B:Come on.
Speaker B:They'd all be out of step.
Speaker B:They wouldn't be paying attention.
Speaker B:When you say baton, it's hook right forward.
Speaker B:I mean, it's in unison.
Speaker B:It looks good.
Speaker B:They're crisp, they're sharp.
Speaker B:They're going the way you want them to go.
Speaker B:Amen.
Speaker B:Because it's based on what you are saying in your command voice and knowing in your heart they are going to instantly obey you.
Speaker B:Amen.
Speaker B:Amen.
Speaker B:Praise God.
Speaker B:Jesus continues here.
Speaker B:He says, do not doubt in your heart, but believe that those things which you say shall come to pass.
Speaker B:Just like I was doing with the Platoon.
Speaker B:In other words, it's not the saying alone that moves the mountain.
Speaker B:It's the belief behind what you say.
Speaker B:You just can't repeat faith praises like a parrot and expect results.
Speaker B:It's not a matter of verbal formulas.
Speaker B:It's a matter of heart conviction.
Speaker B:When your heart is aligned with heaven, when your spirit's alive in Christ, your faith is anchored in God, then your words carry spiritual weight and authority.
Speaker B:When you speak, it's just sound waves going through the air.
Speaker B:No, it's kingdom authority being released at that mountain, whatever that mountain may be.
Speaker B:This is why the earlier steps matter so much.
Speaker B:Without the foundation of a real relationship with Jesus, without the clarity of a forgiving heart, without a genuine trust in the Father's character, your words lack the sustenance of faith.
Speaker B:You may be saying the right thing, but your heart is still filled with fear.
Speaker B:You may be saying the right thing, but you're.
Speaker B:You got some doubt or you got some bitterness in there, and the mountain won't even move.
Speaker B:But, oh, praise God, when everything lines up, when you're walking in intimacy with Christ and your heart is clean and your faith is fully in God, then you're in a position to speak.
Speaker B:And Jesus says, you must speak it.
Speaker B:Mountains don't move by accident.
Speaker B:Mountains won't move with thoughts.
Speaker B:They move by your commands.
Speaker B:Amen.
Speaker B:I could go out there.
Speaker B:That platoon say, man, what are they standing around for?
Speaker B:Don't they know it's lunchtime?
Speaker B:Let's go.
Speaker B:We need to go.
Speaker B:They're.
Speaker B:They're waiting for you to command them.
Speaker B:The mess halls waiting for you to command them.
Speaker B:The next instructional class they got after that, the instructors are there waiting for you to command them.
Speaker B:They're not moving unless you command them.
Speaker B:And the mountains are the same way in your life.
Speaker B:Amen.
Speaker B:All right, let's pause here and ask, why does God require us to speak all the time?
Speaker B:Why not just pray quietly in our hearts?
Speaker B:The emperor's answer is simple.
Speaker B:God himself operates through words.
Speaker B:Think about it.
Speaker B:From the very beginning, God created the universe by thinking about it.
Speaker B:Huh?
Speaker B:No.
Speaker B:God created the universe by speaking.
Speaker B:It says, and God said, let there be light, and there was light.
Speaker B:God didn't think light into existence.
Speaker B:He spoke it into existence.
Speaker B:His words are creative.
Speaker B:Amen.
Speaker B:His words are active.
Speaker B:And since we're made in his image and now redeemed in Christ, our words, when filled with faith, carry the same creative power that his words do.
Speaker B:Jesus modeled this repeatedly for us.
Speaker B:He spoke to the wind.
Speaker B:And what happened?
Speaker B:He spoke to the wind.
Speaker B:And the waves, they obeyed.
Speaker B:He spoke to the fig tree, it withered.
Speaker B:He spoke to demons.
Speaker B:They fled.
Speaker B:He spoke the sickness, it left.
Speaker B:He didn't beg.
Speaker B:He didn't explain.
Speaker B:He didn't even negotiate.
Speaker B:He spoke.
Speaker B:And now he's telling us what?
Speaker B:Whatsoever you shall say.
Speaker B:Notice he doesn't restrict his words to pastors or prophets or apostles.
Speaker B:He says whosoever.
Speaker B:That means this isn't reserved for the spiritual elite.
Speaker B:This is for every single believer who meets the conditions he just laid out.
Speaker B:That includes you and me.
Speaker B:And don't miss the importance of this, of that little word say.
Speaker B:In fact, in that one verse, Jesus used the word say or faith three times.
Speaker B:He emphasized that your mouth matters.
Speaker B:Here, your words are not trivial.
Speaker B:Your confession is not optional.
Speaker B:You can't just believe quietly in your heart.
Speaker B:Faith must be spoken.
Speaker B:That's why the enemy works so, so much overtime trying to keep you silent.
Speaker B:Don't be saying nothing like that around here.
Speaker B:You know how these people are, right?
Speaker B:No.
Speaker B:He knows that if you start speaking what God has promised with boldness and conviction, things are going to start shifting in your life.
Speaker B:Mountains will start trembling, chains will start breaking.
Speaker B:So instead, he'll try to fill your mouth with fear, doubt, or worse, and keep it shut entirely.
Speaker B:But silence doesn't move mountains.
Speaker B:Speech does.
Speaker B:Faith speaks.
Speaker B:So let me ask you, what are you speaking?
Speaker B:What are you declaring?
Speaker B:Are you declaring the word of God over your situation?
Speaker B:Or are you echoing your notes and repeating your pain and reinforcing your fear?
Speaker B:Because the mountain listens to your words?
Speaker B:Jesus said, you shall have what you say.
Speaker B:It's time to stop speaking what you feel and start speaking what you believe.
Speaker B:Don't tell God how big the mountain is.
Speaker B:Tell the mountain how big your God is.
Speaker B:Amen.
Speaker B:Speak life, Speak breakthrough, Speak healing, Speak restoration, speak peace.
Speaker B:And do it with a heart full of faith, anchored in Christ.
Speaker B:When your heart and your mouth are in alignment with heaven, your words become more than noise.
Speaker B:They become weapons.
Speaker B:Amen.
Speaker B:Every single obstacle that has tried to stand in your way will have no choice but to move.
Speaker B:Not because of your strength, but because of your authority and the authority that's backing your voice.
Speaker B:That's what Jesus meant when he said, you shall have whatsoever you say, not whatsoever you wish for, not whatsoever you mumble whatever you say in faith, from a believing heart grounded in a relationship with him and God, cleansed through forgiveness, rooted in the Word.
Speaker B:Amen.
Speaker B:Now.
Speaker B:Oh, praise God.
Speaker B:We're about out of time.
Speaker B:Let's talk for a moment about receiving.
Speaker B:Right.
Speaker B:What it really means to believe you receive something when you pray, not when you see it.
Speaker B:But before we go there, let's get this clear.
Speaker B:Your words matter.
Speaker B:Your mouth is not just for communication, it's for activation.
Speaker B:When you speak what Jesus told you to speak, mountains will move.
Speaker B:So let's look at the complete reverse engineered flow here.
Speaker B:Like we're starting with start where Jesus started.
Speaker B:Because by the time we get to Jesus saying, you shall have what you say, it sounds like the finish line, the miracle moment that we've been waiting for.
Speaker B:But as we've walked through this teaching step by step, we've learned it's actually the final link and a much longer chain of kingdom alignment.
Speaker B:Right, so let's again reverse engineer it and walk back through the steps backwards here, starting at the result and ending at the root.
Speaker B:We all want to see breakthrough.
Speaker B:We want mountains to move now.
Speaker B:We want answers to prayer and miracles to manifest now.
Speaker B:And Jesus said, clearly, you shall have whatever you say.
Speaker B:But how do we get there?
Speaker B:Well, you only receive what you've already believed.
Speaker B:For that's what Jesus said in verse 24, believe, you receive them and you shall have them.
Speaker B:Receiving doesn't come when the answer shows up.
Speaker B:It comes the moment you believe it's done.
Speaker B:But you can't really believe if you're filled with doubt.
Speaker B:That's why verse 23, Jesus connects that promise to a requirement.
Speaker B:You must speak to the mountain without doubting in your heart.
Speaker B:So true faith has to be present in your heart before it ever comes out of your mouth.
Speaker B:How does that kind of faith come?
Speaker B:Jesus said verse 22, have faith in God.
Speaker B:Not in outcomes, not in methods, not in yourself, in God, the God who's faithful, the God who never lies, the God who invites you to trust him fully.
Speaker B:But Jesus doesn't stop there either.
Speaker B:He has something vital, something most people will overlook.
Speaker B:And when you stand praying, forgive.
Speaker B:Why?
Speaker B:Because unforgiveness contaminates the heart and blocks the flow of faith.
Speaker B:Bitterness chokes belief.
Speaker B:A clean heart is required for faith to flourish.
Speaker B:And even that command presumes something deeper, something foundational, that you've already received forgiveness of God for yourself.
Speaker B:That you're walking it in a living, personal relationship with Jesus himself.
Speaker B:That you're born again, filled with the Spirit, securing your identity as a child of God.
Speaker B:So when we reverse engineer that entire process, here's what you see.
Speaker B:We receive because we believe.
Speaker B:We believe because we trust.
Speaker B:We trust because our heart is clean.
Speaker B:Our heart is clean because we've been forgiven.
Speaker B:And since we've been forgiven, we've been redeemed.
Speaker B:It doesn't start with speaking.
Speaker B:It starts with belonging.
Speaker B:Everything Jesus promised flows from that divine order.
Speaker B:You don't begin with a mountain, not at all.
Speaker B:You begin with the Master.
Speaker B:Amen.
Speaker B:Praise God.
Speaker B:This is the red letter way.
Speaker B:This is the kingdom way of God.
Speaker B:That's how faith works.
Speaker B:Speak, believe, receive, and it all starts with Jesus.
Speaker B:Amen.
Speaker B:So if you never received Jesus as your Savior, this is a great time to do it.
Speaker B:As we close today, just bow your head and pray this with me out loud.
Speaker B:Father, in the name of Jesus, I thank you and praise you and worship you.
Speaker B:And I thank you Jesus for paying that ultimate price for me.
Speaker B:Lord, come into my heart.
Speaker B:Fill me with your Holy Spirit.
Speaker B:Forgive me of my sins, created me a new man, one that loves you and one that loves the Father.
Speaker B:Help me to learn to speak these words by faith and move these mountains in my life.
Speaker B:And I give you all honor, glory and praise for it.
Speaker B:In Jesus mighty name.
Speaker B:Amen and Amen.
Speaker B:Praise God.
Speaker B:Well, if you prayed that prayer with me, email me@brother bobftfm.org we want to rejoice with you.
Speaker B:Amen.
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Speaker A:Thank you for joining us for this session of the Red Letter Crusade.
Speaker A:Remember, in a way world full of noise, only one voice still speaks with eternal truth.
Speaker A:That's the voice of Jesus through the red letter words in the Bible.
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