Living With God Not Fear

00:00 so let us go ahead and pray father I
00:05 just thank you for tonight I thank you
00:07 Lord that we are in our fourth session
00:09 of this fearless living series I thank
00:13 you that you have called us to live with
00:16 you and not with fear so father I pray
00:21 that you would open the eyes or
00:23 spiritual eyes to see you tonight and
00:27 that Lord you give us understanding
00:30 living understanding of your word in
00:34 Psalm 27 that you would transform our
00:38 thoughts transform our emotions
00:40 transform Lord the way we live the way
00:44 we act and father we ask right now for
00:49 the anointing of your Holy Spirit on
00:51 each person each person listening so
00:54 that we can move out of the place of
00:57 fear that have held so many people
01:00 captive and can live in the place father
01:03 that you have given to us in your son
01:05 Jesus Christ in that place of peace and
01:09 joy in Jesus's name Amen so tonight's
01:14 session is entitled living with God not
01:18 fear and it's my hope that in in this
01:22 session that you'll be able to engage
01:24 your heart as well as your mouth in what
01:27 is being said tonight and that you can
01:32 encounter the Lord as you listen and as
01:36 you speak the Word of God from Psalm 27
01:39 so I'm gonna give begin by giving you an
01:42 overview but each one of you have been
01:45 given to three by five cards on one
01:48 three by five card I want you to write
01:50 down if you don't have that you can ask
01:53 Sylvia in the back there just go ahead
01:55 to each person make sure they have them
01:57 okay but on one card I want you to write
02:01 down what is the fear or the fear
02:04 provoking situation that you are facing
02:07 you can write down one or two things and
02:09 then on the other card I want you to
02:12 write down
02:13 the word what does the word say about
02:16 who God is what does a word of God say
02:20 of how you're to respond to the fear the
02:24 fear provoking situation and if you
02:26 don't know right now that's fine because
02:28 this is what our lesson is about tonight
02:30 so you can actually jot down on that
02:32 card as we speak tonight some things on
02:36 that second card for you so throughout
02:42 this session I want you to listen to
02:44 what the Holy Spirit is speaking to you
02:46 about how you're to treat your fears in
02:49 the fear provoking situation that you're
02:51 facing according to the Word of God in
02:53 Psalm 27 I want you to especially listen
02:57 to the declarations and actions of faith
03:00 in the midst of the fear provoking
03:03 situations and then join in as we begin
03:06 to pray and declare Psalm 27 over our
03:09 lives declaring God's word putting his
03:15 word in our mouth is one of the most
03:18 powerful things that you can do job
03:21 22:28 says this you will also declare a
03:25 thing and it shall be established for
03:29 you so light can shine in your ways can
03:34 you believe that we can put the Word of
03:36 God in our mouth and have that thing
03:38 established in our life so that God's
03:42 light will shine in our ways what does
03:44 it mean to have God's light shine in our
03:46 ways it means that we can get God's
03:48 percepts perspective about our situation
03:50 that we can start seeing things as God
03:53 sees things and also I believe when his
03:56 light shines upon our way the light of
04:00 God disperses darkness it'll disperse
04:04 the fear and the fear of provoking
04:06 thoughts that we have the fear provoking
04:09 emotions that we have in it'll actually
04:12 start the light of God dispersed the
04:14 darkness of the circumstance itself as
04:17 we sit there and we partner with the
04:20 Holy Spirit in our situation I love
04:23 isaiah 55:11 talking about putting the
04:26 Word of God
04:26 in our mouth the power of it it says
04:28 this so shall my word be that goes forth
04:30 from my mouth it shall not return to me
04:34 void but it shall accomplish what I
04:37 please and it shall prosper in the thing
04:41 for which I sent it god's word is to
04:44 prosper in our mouth you know it's so
04:48 easy in a session like this to put the
04:51 word of god in our mouth and that's what
04:52 we're gonna be doing tonight putting the
04:54 word of god into our mouth but how about
04:56 as you walk out of this room or into
04:58 your normal life will that word of god
05:02 stay fastened to your lips 2nd
05:05 corinthians 10:3 through 5 it talks
05:08 about bring every thought into captivity
05:10 to the obedience of Christ every thought
05:14 is to come an agreement with God's Word
05:17 if our thoughts are an agreement with
05:19 God's Word guess what our mouth will
05:21 start being an agreement with God's Word
05:23 and then we'll have that light shining
05:26 upon our ways seen as God sees and then
05:30 the darkness in our life will be
05:33 dispersed and at the very end we're
05:37 going to come for what I call the great
05:38 exchange of the Cross you have three to
05:40 three by five cards you're gonna give
05:42 God your fear provoking situation and
05:45 then as you walk through the cross
05:47 you're gonna hold on to what the Word of
05:50 God says about who God is and what the
05:53 Word of God says concerning the
05:55 situation that you're facing that has
05:57 provoked fear in your life and you're
06:00 going to hold on to that and then
06:01 confess that word with your mouth
06:03 throughout the week we're going to take
06:07 a look even though this is our fourth
06:09 session we have not talked about that
06:12 how Psalm 27 is divided so struck
06:16 there's a structure a way that it's been
06:18 divided structurally but then I saw a
06:21 different way that it could be divided
06:23 and I call this the functional division
06:25 that's how sue saw how it could be
06:28 divided and that's the chart that you
06:29 have at the very last page of the
06:32 handout you've been given and that's
06:34 what we'll be mainly focus on but we're
06:36 going to start with the structural
06:38 division
06:38 in Psalm 27 it's divided into three
06:43 parts and so if you actually look at
06:45 Psalm 27 I have a break between Psalm 27
06:52 we the first part is praising god that's
06:54 verses 1 through 6 and you see a little
06:56 break there and then 7 through 12 is the
07:01 petitions of Psalm 27 and then you see
07:05 another break and then the last part is
07:08 what I call an exhortation of faith and
07:11 hope in God verses 13 and 14 so let's
07:15 just look at the first section verses 1
07:17 through 6 praising God you know that's
07:20 the first thing that you and I are
07:23 called to do when we are faced with a
07:25 fear provoking situation but it's not
07:28 automatic and it wasn't automatic for
07:31 David either but this is what he first
07:36 did in Psalm 27 when he encountered some
07:40 very very very fearful situations he
07:44 began to basically when David started to
07:47 praise God you see this cross here and
07:50 there was you know Jesus wasn't there
07:53 during the time that David you know
07:56 lived on planet Earth but basically
07:59 David when he started to praise God it
08:01 would be like me you know living this
08:05 down here representing the world in
08:07 which we live and when he started to
08:09 praise God what happened is David then
08:12 started going into another world the
08:16 world of God heaven so to speak the
08:19 kingdom of God and as believers we get
08:25 to live in the kingdom of God through
08:28 the power of the Cross through the this
08:30 represents here this red the blood of
08:33 Jesus Christ we get to live in this
08:36 reality we get to live in this reality
08:39 the awareness of who God is and what
08:43 Jesus Christ has done for us on the
08:45 cross even
08:47 though were out in the world here this
08:51 reality over here of who God is has to
08:56 be greater in our thinking greater in
08:59 our heart and just greater in our
09:03 emotions then what we're facing out here
09:06 in this world we can't allow anything in
09:10 this world to get bigger than our
09:13 awareness of the presence of God upon
09:19 our lives in our lives and the awareness
09:23 of what Jesus Christ has already
09:26 victoriously accomplished for each one
09:30 of us through the cross is that an amen
09:33 amen
09:34 okay so David here he is his primary
09:38 desire in life we talked about this a
09:41 lot last session in session number three
09:43 was Psalm 27 for one thing I have
09:47 desired of the Lord and that why seek
09:49 what's the one thing father God
09:53 one thing I have desired of the Lord
09:55 that why seek that I might why dwell and
10:00 the presence of the Lord all the days of
10:03 my life
10:04 you guys get a dwell and the presence of
10:06 the Lord every moment of every day I bet
10:09 all throughout your life and for all
10:11 eternity you get a dwell in the reality
10:13 of who Jesus Christ is for you that is
10:18 like so awesome and over-the-top you
10:21 know God says this to David and he says
10:24 it to each one of you and I in verse
10:26 eight of Psalm 27 he says seek my face
10:31 you know what David responded he says
10:34 Lord when you said seek my face I said
10:38 to you your face Lord will I seek acts
10:44 2:25 through 26 says this David actually
10:49 says I foresaw the Lord always before my
10:53 faith and therefore my heart rejoiced
10:57 and my tongue was glad moreover my flesh
11:00 we'll also rest in hope so David saying
11:03 it doesn't say this in Psalm 27 that we
11:06 learn in acts 2:25 through 26 is God
11:10 said in Psalm 27 seek my face and David
11:13 says I'm always gonna be seeking your
11:14 face in fact I'm not what's gonna put
11:16 your face before me in other words I'm
11:20 gonna always live with the reality the
11:22 awareness of who you are God I'm not
11:27 gonna forget it and because of that I'm
11:30 gonna praise you and nothing it's gonna
11:33 get bigger than who you are in my life
11:37 so how many of you would like to have a
11:40 heart that rejoices in a tongue that is
11:43 glad how many of you would like your
11:46 flesh to rest in hope that's a
11:50 supernatural hope that's in God in Jesus
11:53 Christ how many of you then you need to
11:57 do what David did you need to go ahead
12:00 and allow no fear provoking situation
12:04 nothing to get bigger than your
12:07 awareness of God and always seen the
12:09 Lord before your face sounds easy right
12:14 no okay now being able to do this will
12:24 allow you to live the life that God
12:28 always intended for you a life that is
12:32 filled with his presence and a life that
12:36 is filled with the victory of the Cross
12:41 it's not automatic your flesh will
12:45 actually resist doing this because it's
12:48 not accustomed to praising God but your
12:51 spirit man we're God dwells the fullness
12:55 of the Godhead dwelling in bodily form
12:58 inside of your spirit your spirit man
13:02 needs to start talking to your flesh to
13:05 your soul this is what we've studied in
13:08 Psalm 103 right David spoke to the soul
13:11 bless the Lord O
13:13 so hey mine bless the Lord will bless
13:18 the Lord
13:18 emotions bless the Lord to bless
13:21 remember that to come into thankful
13:24 agreement with who God is and because we
13:27 come into thankful agreement we're gonna
13:29 start praising God and thanking him now
13:33 that's the first part of the structural
13:36 division of Psalm 27 verses one through
13:39 six is talking about praising God the
13:42 next section is about petitions verses 7
13:46 through 12
13:46 ATS David stands in God's presence
13:51 praising him he then starts talking to
13:55 God heart-to-heart sharing with God the
13:59 concerns of his day his concerns of
14:03 what's going on in this world around him
14:06 he says you know there's an army and
14:09 camped around me there's war breaking
14:11 out against me people are wanting to eat
14:14 up my flesh people are wanting to
14:16 destroy my name and he's talking to God
14:18 about this in verses 7 through 12 he's
14:21 saying hey God have mercy upon me answer
14:24 me but before he enters in to this all
14:28 these petitions he starts with one
14:31 petition one thing I have desire to the
14:35 Lord that will I seek I'm asking you
14:37 Lord that I can just dwell in your house
14:39 to dwell in your presence all the days
14:42 of my life to behold your beauty into
14:43 inquiring your temple if you begin with
14:47 this one petition in your heart when you
14:50 get in God's presence after praising him
14:53 then all these other things Matthew 6:33
14:57 says will be added on to you seek ye
15:00 first the king and his kingdom I'm
15:03 adding the King and all these things
15:05 shall be added to you so begin with
15:08 verse 7
15:09 well actually it's actually for the one
15:11 thing but put that it if you look at the
15:15 chart that I have on the petitions just
15:17 take a look at your functional divisions
15:19 you'll see at the very top is one thing
15:22 I have desired of Lord and that wise
15:24 seek ok do you see that above the
15:26 petition column the
15:27 third column okay so if you begin with
15:30 that petition as you enter into your
15:34 request then all these other things will
15:37 be added on to you all the other
15:39 requests are just part and parcel of who
15:42 you are in Christ they're going to be
15:44 added to you and if you start looking at
15:46 the petitions there that I have listed
15:48 in the third column you're going wow
15:51 he's asking for mercy he's asking God to
15:53 answer him not forsake him you know and
15:57 God's gonna hear him and we're gonna be
16:00 going on and making declarations
16:02 regarding that but once again we need to
16:06 understand that when we come to God we
16:10 actually need and you're going to be
16:11 doing this at the end where you wrote
16:13 down your fear in the fear of provoking
16:15 situation you actually need and this is
16:18 what going to do we have a bucket here
16:20 hand over the situation to God so I'm
16:24 thinking like what example you know and
16:26 immediately the Holy Spirit pops into my
16:28 head when I go to a shoe repairmen which
16:31 I haven't done for a while but say that
16:34 my shoe was broken okay I take my broken
16:38 shoe to the repairman here in town and
16:41 when I take it there
16:43 I tell him what's wrong with it and this
16:47 guy he's fixed thousands upon thousands
16:50 of broken shoes right and he's like just
16:53 give me the shoe you have to tell me
16:55 what's going on you know just give it to
16:57 you I'm gonna fix it for you and so he's
17:00 reaching out his hand to take my shoe
17:03 and I'm sitting there holding it
17:05 explaining it to him and he's his hands
17:09 outreach to me and I'm still like I
17:14 don't know if he got really what I was
17:17 saying about my shoe how broken it was I
17:19 mean he just thinks this is an easy fix
17:21 but you know I don't really don't know
17:23 if he can do everything that's required
17:25 you know and so I'm holding onto my shoe
17:28 and I start react splaining to him
17:30 everything that I think needs to be
17:33 fixed about my shoe and the guys
17:34 probably thinking like what's this lady
17:37 doing I mean like where she's coming
17:39 from
17:41 did she just give me her shoe well this
17:44 is how it is I believe in prayer so
17:46 often we have an area that's broken in
17:51 our life and God says just give me that
17:56 brokenness give me that fear provoking
17:59 situation give me the fear and you're
18:03 going to be given an opportunity we need
18:05 to hand it over to the Lord and put it
18:10 in his shop his heavenly court his
18:14 kingdom and let him work on it and that
18:19 goes into our last part of the
18:21 structural divisions and that's waiting
18:24 on God waiting on God having faith and
18:28 hope in the process of God making this
18:32 situation right is so crucial for you to
18:38 see the kingdom of God being brought
18:41 into your circumstances and into your
18:44 life for God's kingdom coming in his
18:48 will being done for heaven meeting earth
18:55 amen
18:57 so we need to hand it over to God we so
19:03 often once we hand it over for some
19:06 reason we want to take it back and once
19:09 we hand it over to him we really need to
19:12 enter back into then Thanksgiving and
19:15 praise
19:19 thanking him thank you you know when we
19:22 think about that situation telling
19:23 instead of telling him how broken the
19:25 shoe is he already has it he knows what
19:28 to do he knows how to fix it we'd say
19:30 thank you Lord that you're taking care
19:32 of the situation and you told me that
19:35 you don't want me to be troubled about
19:37 anything so I'm just leaving it in your
19:40 hands and I'm moving on now okay okay so
19:45 now let's go to the third division
19:47 verses 13 and 14 exhortation of faith
19:49 and hope and God some 27 13 and 14 I
19:54 would have lost heart unless I had
19:56 believed I see the goodness of the Lord
19:58 in the land of the living
19:59 wait on the Lord be of good courage and
20:01 he will strengthen your heart wait I say
20:05 on the Lord so if we want to see God's
20:12 goodness in land of the living
20:14 we need to what believe that we'll see
20:18 it this is exactly what Jesus says to
20:24 his disciples when he talks about
20:26 mountain-moving faith Jesus begins with
20:29 mark 11:22 and he says have faith in God
20:34 Jesus is saying this have faith in God
20:37 and then at the very end he says when
20:40 you pray believe that you have received
20:47 right believe that you have received
20:51 that's the same thing as believe that
20:54 you will see the goodness of the Lord
20:56 and living we first receive it in the
21:00 spirit realm
21:01 you know we've handed over the shoe and
21:04 we're believing we received it's
21:05 happening in the spirit realm it's
21:07 already been given to us your healings
21:09 already been given to you your peace has
21:12 already been given to you you have it in
21:14 the spirit realm but now we are staying
21:17 in faith and hope to pull it from the
21:19 spirit realm and into the natural realm
21:25 what does it mean wait on the Lord so I
21:30 looked up the word weight and it comes
21:32 from a Hebrew word kabaah QA vah and it
21:37 actually means to look with eager
21:39 anticipation or expectation and so
21:42 that's just another word for hope right
21:46 and I've shared this with you before the
21:48 acronym for hope h ope hold on to the
21:54 promise eternally
21:56 okay hope so will the Lord how's your
22:01 situation you need to keep holding fast
22:06 Hebrews 10:23 it says hold fast the
22:10 confession of your hope without wavering
22:14 for he who promised is faithful so it's
22:17 not like say that this is you know
22:20 you're waiting for your shoe to get
22:21 fixed it's not like you give it and then
22:24 you know back and forth back and forth
22:26 your wavering back and forth you see
22:28 doing it or isn't he is it doing it or
22:30 isn't he know you hold fast your
22:33 confession of hope that what he has
22:35 spoken he will do so he says by His
22:39 stripes you were healed so if you were
22:40 asking God for healing you're going I
22:43 thank you lord I've given you the
22:46 situation once you've told them what
22:48 your request was I thank you now I'm
22:50 just gonna start praising you as Jehovah
22:52 Rapha as my healer and we stay in that
22:55 place of faith now David was probably in
22:58 his 40s when he wrote Psalm 27 this
23:02 means that he has gone through some of
23:04 his low times where he was not standing
23:09 in a place of hope and waiting on the
23:11 Lord so he knows what he's talking about
23:13 now and in verses 13 and 14 about
23:16 believing that you're gonna see the
23:17 goodness of the Lord in the land of
23:19 living because when you don't do that
23:20 you end up doing some crazy things like
23:24 David ended up doing in some of his low
23:26 points of his life now we begin this
23:31 year with what I call courageous living
23:33 series
23:36 fearless living what we're studying
23:38 right now the fourth session is part of
23:40 this series and it began I started
23:43 talking about Joshua one where the Lord
23:46 commands Joshua three times be strong
23:50 and be courageous well this is how verse
23:54 14 or Psalm 27 ends right wait on the
23:57 Lord be of good courage and he will
24:02 strengthen your heart three times Joshua
24:05 Joshua's told his has this tremendous
24:07 you're gonna bring all the Israelites
24:10 into the promised land and the Lord
24:11 tells him three times Joshua look at me
24:14 be strong be of good courage and I want
24:19 to tell you this the way that you get
24:20 strength and courage meditate on my word
24:24 day and night keep it in your heart and
24:26 keep it in your mouth and then you're
24:29 gonna be able to do it you're gonna have
24:31 you'll be able to have good success
24:33 you'll be have be able to prosper and
24:35 everything that I've sent for you to do
24:37 and so here we are
24:39 Psalm 27 14 wait on the Lord be
24:45 encouraged and he will strengthen your
24:49 heart okay let's go to the declaration
24:53 at the end of this structural division
24:57 do you guys all see it where it says
24:58 declare I believe it I'll see the
24:59 goodness of the Lord in the land of
25:01 living so you're gonna put in the blank
25:04 your own fear provoking situation so
25:06 let's all stand up and declare this out
25:08 loud and if you're online you can
25:11 declare this also just take your fear
25:14 provoking situation and declare it with
25:16 us so we're gonna say it together I
25:18 declare that I will see I believe that
25:21 I'll see the goodness of the Lord in and
25:24 then put your situation in there say it
25:26 out loud soft enough so you can hear it
25:28 the fear provoking situation instead of
25:32 losing heart becoming discouraged
25:34 anxious and filled with fear I am
25:37 choosing to place my faith in the God of
25:40 my salvation soul I'm telling you to
25:43 wait on the Lord
25:44 eagerly expecting his word of and this
25:47 is your other card
25:48 what are you waiting
25:49 the Lord to do what's his name to be
25:52 manifested in the land of the living in
25:54 my life thank you Lord for renewing my
25:57 strength so that I can fulfill all of
26:00 your will for my life okay thank you be
26:03 seated
26:04 now we're going to look at the
26:05 functional divisions and I want you to
26:08 turn to that functional division chart
26:11 and you can just see that there's three
26:13 columns here at the top of the chart I
26:16 called it thinking feeling and living
26:18 with God so in order to think feel live
26:21 with God in his kingdom rather than
26:27 thinking and feeling and living like the
26:29 world around you want you to think feel
26:31 and live and like your flesh is trying
26:33 to tell you and like Satan's trying to
26:36 tell you okay look at column 1 we praise
26:40 God these are all the ways the names
26:43 that are directly spoken to us how David
26:47 praise God or that are implied by his
26:51 statements so I just listed them light
26:54 salvation strength defender protector
26:56 deliver helper caretaker and he is good
26:59 and then the second column goes into how
27:03 is David's response and you can
27:06 personalize this how is your response to
27:09 who God is if you really believe who God
27:13 is what will you say and what will you
27:18 not say what are you committing yourself
27:21 to in your heart before something arises
27:24 and then the final column is the request
27:28 these are David's requests and you can
27:30 use his in your own personal prayer time
27:33 or come up with your own okay and you
27:36 can see right above where I say praise
27:39 it says God's face or Jesus's face call
27:44 him number one David's response to
27:47 Jesus's face and then the quest he's
27:51 making before God's face so that's what
27:54 I came up with it as far as despite in
27:56 Psalm 27 up
27:58 okay before we begin we declared Psalm
28:03 27 I invite you to do this on your own
28:07 when you declare Psalm 27 out loud by
28:11 yourself mixed your words with faith
28:15 Hebrews 4 2 says this the word they
28:19 heard did not profit them because they
28:21 did not mix it with faith so whatever we
28:23 hear we want to like mmm join connect to
28:28 it have faith in what we are speak
28:30 saying and then consider what the Holy
28:33 Spirit is personally speaking to you
28:35 about your situation
28:41 now the psalm 27 the structural pattern
28:46 that we are talking about in where you
28:49 begin with praise and then you go into
28:52 petitions the Lord was reminding me as I
28:55 was writing this this is just like The
28:57 Lord's Prayer our Father who art in
29:00 heaven hallowed be your name how are we
29:05 can hell his name we declare his name we
29:08 make his name big we magnify his name by
29:11 putting it in our mouths so we're going
29:14 to take now and then your kingdom come
29:16 your will be done on earth as it is in
29:18 heaven so stand up and we're gonna pray
29:21 or declare Psalm 27 in the fashion of
29:26 our Lord's Prayer so just say it all
29:29 together with me our Father in heaven
29:33 Hallowed be your name you are good you
29:37 are my light my salvation and my
29:39 strength my defender my protector my
29:43 deliverer the lifter of my head and my
29:45 caretaker I joyfully sing praises to
29:49 your holy name as I do this I invite
29:52 your kingdom of love that come into my
29:54 heart to cast out every fear regarding
29:57 and then fill in your situation I know
30:00 that is not your will that my heart be
30:03 troubled or afraid because Jesus Christ
30:06 the Prince of Peace lives at me and I on
30:09 him thank you for giving me a new idea
30:12 and Jesus Christ so that I can live with
30:15 you in peace and not in fear go ahead
30:18 and be seated what would happen in our
30:20 Healing Rooms if when people come in and
30:22 they have requests on their heart
30:24 we begin with praise think about it you
30:29 guys
30:31 okay petitions the our Father prayer
30:36 give us this day our daily bread and
30:37 lead us not temptation but deliver us
30:40 from evil
30:40 I went skipped over the forgiveness part
30:42 because it's not listed necessarily here
30:45 in Psalm 27 so once again I gave you
30:49 that example we actually have to hand
30:51 the situation over to God and there's a
30:54 lot of handing over in this last column
30:56 on your chart hand in your situation
30:58 over to God if you take a look at verse
31:04 12 in Psalm 27 it says this do not
31:08 deliver me to the will of my adversary
31:13 leave me not into temptation Jesus says
31:17 in a similar way in John 17:15 he says
31:21 this I do not pray that you should take
31:24 them out of the world that inferior
31:26 reality that is speaking about but that
31:30 you should keep them from the evil one
31:33 how are you kept from the evil on the
31:36 best way is by getting into God's
31:40 presence that's in your secret place you
31:44 and God but then when you get out of
31:47 your secret place and you go out into
31:49 the world you carry that awareness of
31:53 God's presence into your situations Amen
31:57 you see how that works okay so let's go
32:03 ahead and stand up and pray now
32:05 according to the Lord's Prayer this next
32:07 session section of the Lord's Prayer
32:09 today give me fresh bread from heaven
32:12 help me to make you God my top priority
32:16 strengthen me by the power of the Spirit
32:18 so Jesus Christ and his words of life
32:21 will richly dwell in me by faith do
32:24 for me from the will of my adversaries
32:26 who have come against me to steal kill
32:29 and destroy my identity in you thank you
32:32 for hearing and answering my prayers
32:34 regarding whatever situation you came
32:37 with tonight and for never leaving me or
32:40 forsaking me go ahead and be seated
32:43 then we enter into Thanksgiving
32:45 Thanksgiving is an important part of
32:47 peace rather than fear ruling over your
32:51 heart in mine we know that from
32:53 Philippians 4:6 through seven be anxious
32:56 for what nothing but in everything by
32:58 prayer and supplication with what
33:01 Thanksgiving let your requests be made
33:04 known to God and then as you do that
33:07 don't leave out the Thanksgiving part
33:09 the peace of God then will come and
33:14 you're allowing it to rule over your
33:16 heart and mind okay
33:18 I love Psalm 69 3 it says this I will
33:22 praise the name of God with a song and
33:27 will magnify him with Thanksgiving so
33:31 when you start thanking God O Lord
33:33 you've given him your situation then
33:37 you're just thanking him that he's
33:38 taking care of it
33:39 I just thank you and I just praise you
33:42 that you are taking care of the
33:45 situation you're magnifying his name
33:49 your blessing him okay now we're gonna
33:53 go to column 1 this is Roman numeral 2
33:57 it says God's face column 1 column
34:00 number 1 on your chart we're talking
34:05 about God's face is Jesus's face because
34:08 Jesus perfectly exemplified who God was
34:13 as he walked around here on planet Earth
34:15 okay and if you look at everything in
34:19 column 1 as David praised the name of
34:22 God or God's face you will see my me eye
34:29 that's because David had a personal
34:32 relationship with God Psalm 27 is
34:34 talking about a reality of
34:37 real person having a real relationship
34:40 with a real god and you can put yourself
34:44 into that situation as you personalized
34:47 the Word of God for your own life okay
34:50 so you can take a look at that column
34:52 and say gosh in my situation I need God
34:56 as my protector
34:58 well then start thanking and praising
35:01 him as your protector or you look at
35:04 this column and you find out and I'm
35:06 gonna take we're gonna do this with
35:07 verse 10 okay where it says the Lord
35:10 will take care of me I put down he's our
35:13 caretaker so let's all stand up okay and
35:17 we're going to declare Psalm 27 verse 10
35:23 in different fashion so we're going to
35:26 begin to say it just like it is and then
35:29 we're going to declare it to God and
35:31 then allow God to declare it to us and
35:33 then we're going to visualize it
35:35 happening in our life in our situation
35:37 okay ready
35:41 the Lord will take care of me
35:44 God is the most excellent caretaker I
35:46 could ever have now we're talking to God
35:49 Lord you told me to cast all my care
35:53 upon you because you care for me right
35:55 now I give to you God all my fears and
35:59 worries concerning and whatever it is
36:02 sad because I know you will take
36:05 excellent care of me and all that
36:08 concerns me now here God talked to you
36:12 okay put your name in there sue I will
36:16 take care of you and feel in your
36:19 situation if you're a guy my son
36:22 Gail my daughter my daughter I want you
36:25 to walk by faith in my faithfulness and
36:28 not by your natural sign and then
36:31 sanctified visualization see with your
36:34 spiritual eyesight the end the victory
36:37 from the beginning from where you're at
36:40 right now
36:41 picture what God's goodness looks like
36:44 in the land of the living for you okay
36:48 amen be seated
36:50 is that good you can do that with every
36:53 one of these in column one every youth
36:56 one of God's name okay that was just an
36:59 example why is it important for you to
37:03 declare God's name his face when a fear
37:07 provoking situation is staring you in
37:09 the face because you are not going to
37:11 allow anything to get bigger than your
37:15 awareness of God so as long as you keep
37:18 who God is and his word in your mouth
37:21 and in your thought processes and in
37:25 your heart then nothing will get bigger
37:27 than that
37:28 okay Jesus is my light you can do this
37:36 very similar thing that we just did with
37:39 first ten but I wanted to just show you
37:42 that David specifically began his psalm
37:46 by saying the Lord is my light okay so
37:53 when the light of God comes into our
37:58 situation his presence he is the light
38:02 Jesus is the light of the world darkness
38:06 has to flee so when David says in verse
38:10 one the Lord is my light or you put that
38:14 in your mouth the Lord is my light guess
38:18 what has to happen in the spirit realm
38:20 when you declare God's name you just
38:22 flipped on the spiritual switch the
38:25 light came into your situation what has
38:28 to happen to darkness it has to flee
38:33 when I turn a light switch on when these
38:35 lights come on and that was the only
38:37 light in the room darkness had to flee
38:40 if it's to in the physical realm how
38:44 much to err is it in the spirit realm
38:48 when we put the name of God in our mouth
38:53 then the opposing force will have to
38:57 flee every one of God's name has an
39:01 opposing force
39:05 if you're looking for God it's a healer
39:07 the opposing forces sickness at every
39:17 one of these opposing forces to God's
39:20 name originates from one source and one
39:25 source only I put it in black here this
39:28 represents the kingdom of Satan and the
39:30 one that rules it is Satan the opposite
39:34 is the light of the world is represented
39:38 by this white cloth here there's two
39:40 opposing forces in this world if you can
39:44 allow fear to prevail in your emotions
39:47 and to prevail in your thoughts you have
39:50 just allowed a dictator the evil
39:53 dictator to rule and reign in your life
39:58 you've given him authority but you can
40:02 say no to that and you can say yes to
40:07 allowing the peace of God that surpasses
40:10 all understanding to rule over your
40:13 heart and mind how do you do that
40:15 declare God stained begin to thank and
40:19 praise Him and as you thank and praise
40:21 Him his presence comes as you speak the
40:27 Word of God is a very spirit and life of
40:30 Jesus himself
40:32 so as you speak the word the very spirit
40:35 and life of Jesus will manifest in your
40:39 situation and in and over your heart
40:42 your mind your thoughts your emotions
40:45 and God will start transforming your
40:48 emotions you don't have to think I got
40:50 to transform my emotions yeah you want a
40:52 partner with joy takes more faith to
40:54 partner with joy than it does to partner
40:56 with fear takes more faith to partner
40:58 with peace and it does too then it does
41:01 with anxiety yes you can partner with
41:04 that but God Himself will come and help
41:07 you transform your emotion so you can
41:09 actually live in this reality of peace
41:11 and joy amen the kingdom of God
41:14 righteousness peace and joy well in the
41:17 Holy Spirit whole
41:18 spirit makes it possible okay let's
41:21 stand upright before no Roman numeral
41:23 three and we're going to declare this I
41:25 once lived and walked in darkness
41:29 that's this over here and the fears of
41:31 the world of this world but now I am one
41:34 who lives with God in Jesus Christ I
41:37 thank you Jesus that you are the light
41:40 of my life you have given me a fresh
41:43 perspective and have even dismantled the
41:46 works of darkness that have come against
41:48 me sit be seated Roman numeral three
41:52 David chose his response to God that's
41:56 the center column of this chart you have
41:59 I will and we've gone over this many
42:02 times but just declare with me from the
42:05 very top to the bottom what it says in
42:08 column two of that functional and
42:12 division chart okay I will not fear or
42:15 be afraid my heart I can't hear you guys
42:19 my heart shall not fear I will be
42:23 confident your face Lord I will seek I
42:27 will offer sacrifices of joy I will sing
42:30 yes I will sing praises to the Lord I
42:33 will believe in the that God's goodness
42:35 will be manifested I will wait on the
42:38 Lord I will be of good courage so you
42:42 can say these things here but it's so
42:46 important that when you leave here and
42:49 when the fear comes knocking at the door
42:51 of your heart and knocking at your life
42:54 that you don't allow the flesh to come
42:58 out but rather the very spirit of the
43:00 Living God to come out and to display
43:03 his peace and his joy in your life okay
43:08 Romans 8:31 says this what then shall we
43:13 say to these things if God is for us who
43:19 can be against us who shall separate us
43:23 from the love of God so solve 27:1
43:29 begins it says whom
43:31 I fear whom shall I be afraid there's a
43:35 real person behind the fear and that is
43:40 I told you Satan himself so when you
43:44 understand who the originator of fear is
43:47 then you can ardently desire to partner
43:51 with God and say no I'm turning my back
43:55 to his face and I'm gonna turn and I'm
43:57 gonna seek his face and I'm gonna do
44:00 like David says like in acts 2 25
44:03 through 26 I'm gonna set the face of the
44:05 Lord always before my face
44:07 therefore my heart's not going to be
44:08 shaken my flash my tongue is going to be
44:13 glad my heart's gonna rejoice in my
44:16 flash it's gonna rest Oh in the hope of
44:21 God I'm gonna rest the promised land is
44:26 a place of rest the kingdom of God is a
44:28 place of rest the presence of God is a
44:30 place of rest so if you find yourself
44:33 going oh you gotta get into a place
44:38 where you can experience God's presence
44:40 in the best way it says in Psalm 100 as
44:44 we studied into his gates with
44:46 Thanksgiving and his courts with praise
44:50 how many don't answer me don't raise
44:54 your hands how many actually do that
45:00 it's not automatic because your spirits
45:04 not used to ruling over your flesh but
45:07 the more that you start praising God on
45:10 a regular basis then that's gonna become
45:13 your automatic response putting the name
45:16 of God in your mouth rather than the
45:19 name that Satan wants you to partner
45:21 with that's out to destroy your life you
45:25 can read scenario one two and three you
45:28 know about the things that David faced
45:31 you know why he was so determined to say
45:34 I hey I'm going to partner with God and
45:37 not with fear but um
45:47 there's a reality in the kingdom of God
45:53 it's the unseen realm and so often when
45:58 we're down in this world down here we're
46:02 using our natural vision our natural
46:06 hearing and then we're succumbing and
46:09 bowing down or knee to the circumstances
46:14 of fear as soon as you succumb to fear
46:19 in the fear of provoking situations you
46:21 have begun the worship of a different
46:24 God when you realize that you can go god
46:32 help me to dwell in your the presence
46:36 and he goes what giving you a tool start
46:39 praising me start worshiping me because
46:41 when you start praising and worship me
46:42 my presence will come my strength my
46:46 power will come and then you'll be able
46:49 to turn your back on the thing that
46:51 you've been bowing to rather than bowing
46:54 your knee and worship of me very very
47:00 eye-opening Psalm 27 if we went over the
47:05 request of God which is the last column
47:07 on your sheet
47:08 why don't we all stand up we're going to
47:11 declare the last declaration on your
47:17 handout and then you're going to be
47:19 given an opportunity to hand over your
47:21 fear your fear provoking situation to
47:25 God you've got two cards in your hand
47:29 you'll be tearing them up putting it in
47:30 the bucket then you can walk through the
47:33 cross take communion
47:35 then whatever name of God or word of God
47:38 you're gonna hold on to you're gonna
47:40 hold on to that and continue to confess
47:43 it like Hebrews 10:23 says hold fast
47:45 your confession of faith hope hold on to
47:49 the promise eternally you can await on
47:52 the Lord and be of good courage and he
47:53 will strengthen your
47:56 so let's say the last declaration thank
47:58 you Lord for giving the great privilege
48:01 of abiding in Jesus Christ thank you for
48:05 hearing and answering my prayers showing
48:08 your great mercy and loving kindness to
48:10 me thank you for never leaving me or
48:13 forsaking me so I can boldly say the
48:16 Lord is my helper I will not fear thank
48:19 you for teaching your ways and leading
48:21 me in a smooth path and deliver me from
48:24 the evil one so I'm going to have
48:26 everybody that means everybody have an
48:30 opportunity I'm going to put the cross
48:31 down here and you're going to have an
48:38 opportunity to go ahead and to say you
48:42 know what I'm handing over for God to
48:48 fix my problem my situation that's
48:49 causing me so much fear in my life you
48:52 can tear it up put it in the bucket then
48:55 you can allow the blood of Jesus this is
48:58 representing the blood of Jesus to wash
48:59 over your thoughts to wash over you and
49:03 on the other side of the Cross is
49:06 communion if you have trouble writing
49:11 down on the other card what you're
49:14 believing God for in your situation or
49:16 who he wants desires to be for you your
49:20 prayer partners tonight if you're
49:22 receiving prayer can help you fill that
49:24 out so you have something to hold on to
49:27 you with your mouth and in your heart
49:29 this week amen so I'll just close with a
49:33 word of Prayer and then Wes will apply
49:35 as people come forward so father I just
49:37 thank you and I praise you for your word
49:39 tonight it's a powerful word on Psalm 27
49:42 and father I pray Lord God that you
49:45 would strengthen everybody by the very
49:48 power of your spirit in the inner man so
49:51 that your son Jesus Christ the word of
49:53 God would richly dwell in our hearts
49:57 through faith and that you would father
50:00 allow us to partner with you the god of
50:04 Hope so that we can have all peace and
50:07 joy and believing
50:09 who you are and what you have said in
50:12 Jesus's name Amen
50:14 thank you for