Episode Transcript
[00:00:01] Good morning. Good morning. How are you on this fine, fine, beautiful day? Hope you're having a great day today. I hope you are excited today because today is the day that the Lord hath made. We'll be glad. We will rejoice in it. Rejoice in every single moment that you have under the sun in this cosmos, in this arrangement. Be thankful. Be happy. Continually give God that sacrifice. Praise. Praise him and thank him.
[00:00:24] I'm feeling a little less financial pressure. It's amazing how much you turn into a say not so nice of a person when you're feeling pressure. And then I notice I've been arguing with everybody lately and I think that has something to do with it. I'm calming down a little bit now. But you know, last night I was reading and we did a little bit of a men's fellowship regarding just the freedom that we have. The freedom, the liberty. Stand in the liberty wherewith Christ hath made you free. And be not entangled again with the weight or yoke of the bondage of servitude to the law. Like you have the freedom to go where one wants. But what you choose matters. You can choose to reap carnal things of corruption, which is the flesh, or you can reap spiritual things if you walk and follow the words of Christ. If you believe in the name of Jesus Christ, and if you follow this word, it's amazing the fruits and the good works that will be produced.
[00:01:16] God is so good. And if you're living in fear or if you have something going on. Prayer. We're to be anxious for not one thing, but in all things. Through prayers to God of supplication, which are prayers of personal need. With thanksgiving, let your specific requests be declared unto God and the peace of God will protect you. It surpasses all understanding, it surpasses all thought. And keeping guard your hearts through Christ.
[00:01:42] We just live in a tremendous time. But this morning I was reading in Ecclesiastes and I always like Ecclesiastes because it's little golden nuggets of information.
[00:01:50] But if you go to chapter five, verse one, it says, keep thy foot when thou goest to the house of God. And be more ready to hear or obey than to give sacrifice of fools. For they consider not that they do evil. Be not rash with thy mouth and let not thine heart be hasty or quick to utter anything before God. For God is in heaven and thou upon the earth. Therefore let thy words be few.
[00:02:13] I always do this where you do something wrong. Let's say now again you're righteous the minute you believe in the name of Jesus Christ. So you're. It's not held to your account. You're not going to hell if you don't. If you sin because you're already righteous. However, you can choose the course of life that you're on. But be more ready to hear. I mean, I can't tell you how many times like we do something wrong and wrong, wrong and wrong and wrong again. I am definitely one of those people. And then you're quick to God, like, oh, I'm sorry. And then you turn around and do it again.
[00:02:42] Be more ready to obey. God tells you to do certain things in the Word, and it's only for our benefit.
[00:02:49] Listen to God. Build the relationship with God. That's what this life is about. Godliness, which is that true and vital relationship. Building the relationship. It's not the ceremonial things of the external, it's the internal. Where do you sit with God in your heart? Where do you reverence him in your life? Is he up top?
[00:03:09] Is he the highest?
[00:03:12] Because it's all about God. God's the one that give us, which is amazing.
[00:03:16] If you go to chapter six, verse seven, it says, all labor, all the labor of a man is for his mouth, yet the appetite is not filled. For what hath the wise man more than the fool, and what hath the poor that knoweth to walk before the living? Better is the sight of the eyes for what's seen thereby than the wandering of the desire for what's pursued thereby. This is all vanity and vexation of spirit.
[00:03:43] Stay in the now, don't live in the future.
[00:03:46] Stay in the now. Better is the sight of the eyes for what you see than the pursuit of something you're going after.
[00:03:55] It's beautiful what God does. The thing is that I think a lot of people will live in a dream, will live in the future and not now. And God tells us to live now.
[00:04:07] There's a reason why he says these things.
[00:04:10] If you jump back to verse chapter 5, verse 10. He that loveth silver shall not be satisfied with silver, nor he that loveth abundance with increase. This also is vanity.
[00:04:22] If you love. If you work for something, let's say you work and you really want a car. And you go and you get that car. It's not going to stop.
[00:04:30] You're going to continue into the next thing.
[00:04:34] Maybe it's a nicer car. So then you pursue that nicer car. But if you recognize, like you're not going to be satisfied with the thing that you love, you're just going to want more of it, and that's okay.
[00:04:48] But to recognize that will calm the mind down, will calm the pursuit so that you can enjoy the things that you have now, right now that God's given you under the sun.
[00:05:00] And it all works out into this. If you jump to verse 18. Behold that which I have seen. It is good and comely or well for one to eat and to drink and to enjoy the good of all his labor that he taketh under the sun all the days of his life which God giveth him, for it is his portion.
[00:05:20] He wants you to enjoy. I'm going to go back to this car. He wants you to enjoy the car that was given you.
[00:05:27] He wants you to enjoy the moments of your life now, not in the future. Right now. The time is quick, man. It's going fast. I can't believe how old I am and how quickly it's going and it's almost speeding up.
[00:05:41] It is good and comely for a man or well for a man to eat and to drink and to make his soul enjoy the good of the labor that he does under the sun.
[00:05:52] It's from God.
[00:05:54] Enjoy the moments of your life. Stay in the focus. Stay now.
[00:05:59] Enjoy the things that God tells you to enjoy. There is a reason to. God tells you to enjoy it.
[00:06:05] Have a beautiful day today. Pray the big prayers lift everything up in the name of Jesus Christ. When you pray, it's a specific word. It's praying out loud. When you pray, you pray to God only, never to Jesus Christ. It's not going anywhere. You pray to God, lifting it up in the name of Jesus Christ with thanksgiving. Have a phenomenal day today. God bless you and your family. I'll talk to you tomorrow.
[00:06:38] Well, Heavenly Father, thank you so much for everything you do for us. I thank you for a great day today, a blessed day that we can knock out the things that need to get knocked out. I thank you for just lowering that pressure that I'm not. I'm not losing it. I thank you for just the pursuit that we can finish this gym. We are so close.
[00:06:54] I thank you for that, Father, and just for the people you put in our life. I thank you for just showing me how to walk and just how much of a blessing last night was for me and hopefully for those that were in just who were there. I pray for each and every one of your believers today, the people that are listening that you take care of their life and protect them, give them a hedge of protection and just let them know you're there with them and comfort, any type of comfort that's needed. And again, I thank you for your son and what he did. That we can live this way. I lift up a great day to you in the name of my Lord and savior, Christ Jesus.
