Why Your Biggest Dreams Attract the Strongest Opposition

is that when we're looking at others that does great in life, you know like somebody that when you look at them and you see them doing better than you sometimes it's very important to look at that person in a sense of trying to find out what is the person doing differently than what you are doing. Because through that, you can get some nuggets. Nuggets that can help you to be better. You see, when I look at people that is buffed, like what do you call, is buffed, that one that Ishmaelis is big, guy is looking so he's buffed yeah so when they are buffed the only thing i know is that they come from gym and some of them goes to gym but then they use some extra things and we all know some of them are using steroids what's your steroids steroids so some of them use steroids to get to where they want but the fact of the matter is they still motivating us to look better or to do better although they know they're doing it or although they are doing it they are doing it the illegal way they still giving us motivation you see us with mukawas and looks like a plank ish so they motivate us to look better but then you find somebody who naturally looks like that. You know, like, they're just natural. They don't, they've not done even one iron ever in their lives. But they look like they are bodybuilders. I hope that Matthew helped that Matthew so most of them most of them look like that and you wonder then you find somebody like a for argument's sake a natural runner, a natural sports person, a person that doesn't have to do much. They just do well in sports. And then us, we have to extra, you know, do that extra things to get there. and sometimes we forget that God's grace is actually that thing that we call it comes natural and that is how Joseph being the one that he is has been doing so well that's because of the grace that God has been given now i'm going to go on again on my on my and i think today is the fifth the part five already of the principles of of the life of joseph and that is now to navigate detours fulfilling destiny so that is destiny when it comes to God's gift and when I look at this guy Joseph I'm so glad that we can see the end of his life and not being able to to talk about only the bad things that happen in this life. You know, when I look at my life, and I'm making an example of my own, I'm not making an example of yours, I'm talking about my own. Things are so difficult. It's so difficult that I don't see a light at the end of the tunnel. But that makes you to feel like it not going to work So that the reason why it very important to understand that at least there you can see how it will play out Makes sense when I say play out. You know, like some of the things that we just have to let go and let God. That's one of the things I can say to you. you just have to let go and let God. Because why I'm mentioning let go and let God is that sometimes the bad things that you're going through is actually the things that is of such that you need to make sure that you keep on keeping on. you remember the principle i gave you previously of of of joseph where i said to you that one of the things that joseph knew was to keep on keeping on so if you want to give up in the pit no no no let me say it was first the dream that come then the fight with the brothers so if you want to give up at the fight of your brothers picture it's getting worse it's becoming to get worse because your brother's fight shows you that there's destiny for you shows you that there's a bigger thing for you because the moment your brothers are fighting you, you should know God has something better in store for you. Then them throwing you under the bus. Picture this in the put. And you think it will get worse. Then your brothers are selling you out. Hold on. Hold on. Because by holding on there's one more step maybe. It might be three. It might be five. It even might be twenty. But as you proceed with your steps you soon realize it becoming better because don ask God to give you no problems or no obstacles Never ask God to give you a smoother life. Ask God to give you the grace to endure those things. Because once you ask God to give you a smoother life, you will only be able to travel on smoother roads and you won't be able to see the nice parts of the roads I mean Pastor, a swollen dam has a good way like no, let me go Northern Cape Northern Cape is flat like flat, flat, flat, flat so when you are getting used to northern caves roads you only see where the eye can see there's no up where you can look down and see a nicer place while when you go down to the western cape side you see mountains and when you up the mountain let's make the argument say when you're on a table mountain picture the nice view from table mountain now you've asked God to give you a smoother road and you can't see like nice, you can only see against a tree if a tree is here, you can only see the tree, you can't see the beauty behind the tree so therefore it's important not to ask God to give you smoother roads rather ask God to give you strength to endure the upper roads. Because once you can endure the upper roads, imagine looking down on your life like Joseph did, looking back when he sat on the throne and gave his brothers a cup, like a cup in the eat goed, like the food that he gave them. Now, Him sitting there, putting the cup in there, and them not knowing about the cup, and the words of the cup, giving them a little bit of a fright as well because now you must think that if you can be found with a cup that belongs to potiphar you are in trouble so they were frightening you see so because of the fright if they would have run. Picture that. They wouldn't have went to Potiphar's place because of being scared and they run. So these are the principles of Joseph that you need to look at. Therefore I'm saying to you, from in the beginning I said to you, when you look at somebody, somebody's life, and you see the person is where you want to be, don't just look at the glory. Look behind the story. Because there's a story behind that glory. There's a story behind... No. No, I'm not going to do that. Let me... No man, let me do it. Let me say it. I found myself sitting with a car I bought myself on a higher purchase. Found myself, bank come to take the car. When the bank took the car, there's nothing I can do. I just have to give it back. knowing that when they took the car, they put in there stating that when they took the car, there was problem with the car, so whatever comes with the car, whatever they sell the car for, the rest I must still pay. I'm still paying for something I don't have. Imagine paying for something that is no longer. That is hard. You see the pain that you go through there, but do you know what it teach you? It teach you to be careful to make these depths It teach you how to not go into it again Or even if you do go into it again you go with a clearer mind knowing that anything can happen. So that is something that I was taught while I was going through these difficult roads. Let me talk about the next principle. My opening was very long. I have not even touched it. Now I'm coming back to number 14. Remember last week we were talking about preparation. Be prepared for opportunities. And just a brief, I'm not going to take long. Where I said to you, the Roman philosopher Seneca said that success occurs when opportunity meet preparation. So you need to be prepared for when your opportunity comes, you will make success out of it. The long and the short of it. So meaning to say that when Joseph prepared to interpret dreams, at first the dream came was, what did the dream does? The dream, because he was, who's that man? What is that man? like the dream was he was not knowing how to interpret the dream. Yeah, let me say because of the lack of knowledge, he didn't know how to interpret the dream. That is why he went to give his brothers the dream. Then what happened is his brothers then knowing what the dream meant at that time, trying to then get him into the put, sell him off, knowing that that dream will be a problem. Then after that, he get into jail, and then the next dream that he then learned in the interim, he started to be knowing how it will work to interpret dreams. And then he interpreted the dream of somebody that is now in the jail. And that then opened up to him a nice part Do you remember that when he went to the king or let me say when he interpreted this dream he said his interpretation But when it came to the king's interpretation, he said he doesn't know, but God knows. You remember, that's how the part comes. So from him not knowing what a dream means, he was preparing himself to go to a place where he then interpret dreams and realizing no, no, no, no. Dreams are not for me to interpret, but for God to interpret. And that made him to when the opportunity came where he stood in front of Potiphar, where he could say what the dream meant. That opportunity or that preparation that he's been preparing for has prepared him now to go to greater heights. So that was the preparation. And I said to you, I said to you, when you go to the scripture, 1 Peter 3 verse 15, 1 Peter 3 verse 15 says, always be prepared to give an answer to everyone who asks you to give the reason for hope that you have, but to do the gentleness and respect. So when you're prepared, which the Greek word for it is, meaning to be constant state of readiness, implying both spiritual and intellectual preparation. This doesn't just say, intellectually you must be good. It means that you need to be prepared for your spiritual side as well. So that is the one I said to you last week. So this week we are going into something as well. Now the principle here is when God gives a dream, not anybody or not everybody will understand or support it. That's a principle. In principle, when you have a dream to move out of your house and you are 16 years of age, I can guarantee you now, your mother and father won't be in that dream of you. They will not support that dream. Regardless of whatever you do, They will not support that dream Because they feel that you still need to be at least 18 Then you can move out And that not because of it wrong Remember in the old days somebody was married already on the age of 14 On the age of 12, that's how they married earlier those years. Now as time goes on, the age went upper. So now when you want to get married at 16, they will not support you. So not everybody will support your dream. Now imagine you wanting to get married to this rich guy, knowing that your family will be taken care of. That's a dream of some people. To make sure that my family gets taken care of, but your family doesn't want you to get married early. I remember one of my friend English is friend Afrikaans is friend ok but English so this friend of mine her sister got married into the Muslim site while their house is Christian and even at a young age, like very, very young, and I'm not going to say the age, but very, very young, they were fighting it so hard that the girl thought she was doing the wrong thing. That's how hard they were fighting her. They didn't see the dream. And when I look back, I'm like, we get used to Christian married Christian. Because now it's two backgrounds clashing. and I'm not going to tell you the story what happened there but what I'm trying to say is that everybody will not be supporting your dream they won't now when God gives you a dream opposition comes from those that is even closest to you so that's a principle that you need to know if you want to make it big See how your family is reacting See how your family is reacting Because God given dreams Are often misunderstood Now I want to take Let me quickly read uh genesis 37 verse 5 genesis 37 verse no one but this one will take a bit long it's or maybe i maybe i should just give you a a brief now let's read it and joseph dreamt a dream and he told it to his brethren and they hated him yet the more and he said unto them here I pray you this dream which I have dreamt for behold we were binding sheaves in the shield and lo my sheep. Let me not give you the dream. And he dreamt yet another dream. And he told it to his father and to his brethren. And his father rebuked him and said unto him, What is this dream that thou hast dreamed? Shall I and thy mother and thy brethren indeed come to bow down ourselves to thee on earth? Imagine. Papa. Not somebody else. Papa. Your father. and his brethren envied him, but his father observed the same. You see, although the father was the one that says, ah, you're saying this is what happened. Now you need to understand, they even hated him more. now when you go to the word the the the hebrew word for for dream it's chalom not shalom chalom it's ch chalom now it implies a prophetic revelation rather than just a subconscious thought you know sometimes you we subconsciously think of something but a dream it's more prophetic than anything else now if you go to Daniel 2 you will realize that Daniel also had a dream and the dream that Daniel had at that time was not just an ordinary dream but it was more of a prophetic dream If you go to Daniel 2, let's read Daniel 2 verse 19. Daniel 2 verse 19 says the following. He says, then was the secret revealed unto Daniel in a night vision. Then Daniel blessed the God of heaven. Can you see where it comes? It says that he got the dream of the night, but he didn't just take the dream. He blessed God for the dream. So whenever you do dream, it's very important to understand that your dreams, you should not be taking them just lightly as yet because some of the dreams that you dream happen in a split of a second and it shows you the time frame God has how can you dream for things that looks like you've been dreaming for half an hour but when you look at the time you saw it was just one minute or a second or three minutes but to you it felt like a long time now when I look back there was a time when I was I woke up like not waking up but I was awoke by something normally my wife scurrying there doing something waking up but still being asleep and as I was asleep I felt that deep sleep and I had a dream that took a long time but then she did something else and I was like what? and I realized it was not a long time and there I realized wow dreams are really spiritual because in God there's no time like a thousand years or one day it's a different thing then and therefore your dreams are spiritual. And I want to ask you, whenever you do have a dream, make it your means to have some sort of a pen and paper next to your bed And make the pen and paper big not like small papers You must not focus when you write So that when you write, even in the dark, you just go, you just write whatever you dreamt of. And as you go, the next day you will go back and look at it. Because it might be that the dream that you got, God is still trying to show you something but you woke up too early or sometimes it's the devil that wake you up too early so that you can't finish the dream and then when you write it while you sleep even with your eyes closed and you can write it, you put it down and you try and sleep again, you might be finding yourself that the dream go on I don't know, Marty you know that thing so dreams are very important to understand that it comes out prophetically now I want to bring you to the next principle principle number 15 and I'm rushing through it because last week I only did two yeah it was it was two the one was love with an external perspective knowing that your life is part of God's bigger story so when Joseph went into the pit he didn't think at that time it was part of God's plan or the bigger picture for his life so whenever you go through things live with a mindset knowing this is also part of God's plan. I mean, when I get out of here and I got bumped, I don't see this as part of God's plan. But when I get better and I look back, it's a testimony to show the enemy tried to kill me, but I'm still alive. You see, there is some way of knowing that is why I said this principle live with the knowing that God the whole plan for you is there that the one we did last week That 12 and 13 Then I now on 14 going to 15 Now 15 this principle you should know this is one of the principles that we all have realized it one way or the other and I've spoken to you about it in a I remember something happened no no no let me there's camera here sorry I almost said something but let me do this There's a divine favor often that attracts envy and attacks. So when you have a divine favor upon your life, the enemy attacks. The enemy attacks. He can see, ah, this brah is going to make it far. He starts attacking. and when he attacks me he doesn't make it obvious he won't tell you i want to two feet you then he comes with whatever that kick is or whatever you know the the chinese tell you all these funny words, what it is, then it's just a kick. So, when there's a divine favor upon your life, knows there's a divine attack as well. And not attack because of what? Divine attack because of jealousy. And I'm not going to go into jealousy that much because jealousy is the same thing that they call it's almost like trying to kill somebody but eating the poison yourself jealousy I don't know did you understand what I was saying I'm not going to say again but let me say it no let me say it jealousy is like somebody drinking poison T thinking that they want to kill the others. It's the same. I'm using it in the forgiveness sense. Because forgiving, if you don't forgive, it's like it's killing you, thinking that you are killing the other person. But it's killing you more than it kills others. It's the same with jealousy. Now, let me get into jealousy for you. Now, this guy is knew in how to interpret dreams. Knew for a fact that this dream means this guy is going to be our our endoona. You know the biggest of the big. They knew this guy is going to take over the company one day. When my father die, he will take over this company. So I need to make a plan. Let's cut him off there by the main switch. Because if we can cut him off by the main switch, he won't be able to be the switch one day. Now, now, let me, give you a perspective. Let me give you a perspective. Let's go to 1 Samuel. I want you to look at this. Let's go to 1 Samuel 18. I don't want to talk something that doesn't make sense, but I want you to go to Samuel 18 verse 20. I mean Samuel, sorry, 18 verse 8. Samuel 18 verse 8 says, And Saul was very wrought, and the saying displeased him. He said, They have ascribed unto David ten thousand, and to me they have ascribed by a thousand. And what can he have more but the kingdom? And Saul ate David from that day forward. Imagine you have done so well that the crowd are even screaming, we know David has killed 10 while Saul has killed these thousands David has killed 10 they start singing a song is made for David telling him how great he is while Saul is not and that's where it comes and Saul eyed David from that day and forward. Ah! I mean, this is a mere normal man. A king is jealous of somebody that doesn't even have a seed in his land. A king, big boss, he's jealous about a mere man now you can see when divine favor is upon you it does attract envy divine favor will attract envy and I can tell you now the one thing that you should know now is that devil doesn't fight who's with him. He fight who's against him. So when you are with him, expect there's nothing happening. Just see your life smooth sailing. Yeah? You'll be like, ah, I got it. Sure. Let me not go there. I'm so much aware of when I look into your life do you remember that your manager you didn't even have a say but your manager were jealous of you I mean the owner's the owner's daughter is jealous of you it's not even It not even somebody that you can say if the owner is no longer there that one will also be not there You know for a fact that once when the owner died God forbid something like that happened that person will be the next in charge. But they are jealous of you. Imagine you with your mkuku having the nice finisher. Somebody in big house is jealously you. you must know you have it great things are going well because now they are against you that's number 15 number 16 I so much wish I can get into each and every one of them in depth You know when you go in depth. I should have used this as a one at a time. But because I don't want you to miss out or take too long to get to the one that might be resonating with you. I'm worried that it might have been the one that will change your life forever. because that principle might be the one that can catapult your whole life because once you know that principle specifically, ah, you are gone let me go to 16 principle number 16 hey what looks like a betrayal what looks like a betrayal it's a principle what looks like a betrayal may be positioning you for God's purpose or let me say it may be positioning you for God's greater purpose I'm not talking about I'm not talking about Juddashia I not even bothered about Judas because everybody knows the biggest betrayer was Judas But if he didn betray Jesus would would jesus been found it might have been not if it wasn for judas being greedy you know judas he loves money so if it wasn't for him loving money he wouldn't have betrayed Jesus so that was a sign that says that it seemed like a betrayal and yet though it wasn't a betrayal it was a plan of God to move you to your next direction I mean if you're looking at this now this guy gets sold this is not Joseph now I'm no more talking about Jesus now I'm talking about the other J we were talking about Jay and now we're talking about the other Jay, Joseph. Joseph was sold for 20 shekels of silver. Now, at least they got the money. Yes. And they enjoyed the money for years. Judas got the money but he didn't enjoy it. Because his betrayal were at that time what he taught would be an unforgiving sin. Not knowing that that was actually a forgiveness in working. Because if only he knew that Jesus must die for our sins, he wouldn't have killed himself. Joseph's brothers, they were because if you're looking at this 20 checkers neck and jesus was sold for 30 it shows you joseph although he he was a big guy he was no bigger than jesus that's why it cost more for Jesus to be betrayed. And Joseph is only 20. He is small. And the titty has a the titty at that time had a greater meaning because of the tree that is within there. No, no, no. Let me not be prophetic. I'm here to teach. Picture titty, ne? At that time. How old was Jesus? in his 30s okay so let me say Judas I'm sorry that you killed yourself because if only you knew the act that happened was actually for your sins to be taken away Joseph something else. Now Joseph got sold for 20 shekels of silver to the Ishmaelites. Now when Joseph was sold he was sold for redemption of his family. Not just his family but also what say men? Nageslag? A's. But also the A that also lead into other places, which I'm not going to get into. Now, if you can remember the story, Joseph dream seven years, seven years, they had multiple or they had plenty. So they took, they took, they pile up, they pile up, they pile up, they pile up. Then when it becomes where there's nothing, what then happened, maybe I should not speak so fast, let me speak nicely. The food was so plenty at that time that they put the food together. And when the food was plenty, it was a savings account that they put it in. Like us, when we get more money, we make more problems We forget that when you have a lot of money safe for the linear years Okay but that something else on his own I'm just, I'm not about that. But what I'm trying to say is, when Joseph made this lot, then suddenly it's like that there was nothing. Now, what people had to do is they had to sell their belongings to get food. a basic thing so now when you sell all your food the best thing that can happen is now because there's nothing else what will then happen is now you have to sell your soul did you hear that you have to sell yourself because there's nothing that you can do you know you're going to die if you don't get food. Spiritually, it always means that when there's no food, it means you haven't read the Bible. There was no Bible for you. There were no revelation of God for you. Because that is why you hunger. I hope this makes sense. Let me be prophetic. Then you find the northern people Only when they get drunk Die Heere wat ons dien Hy is so wonderbaar Die Heere wat ons dien Hy is so wonderbaar Hy hal my uit die dode En sit my in die lewe Hy hal my uit die dode En sit my in die lewe They start singing do you know what that singing means it's a yearn for God they dried up they are drying up because now their soul are yearning for God it's where the lean years become do you know what they do now they sell their souls for alcohol I don't want to go so deeply but I just want you to understand where there no word people need to come to the word That is why when I went to the northern cape last month i was sitting in an in a evangelistic tent like evangelism they were doing evangelism i saw this auntie sitting with closed eyes and i talked to myself oh this auntie is in the spirit oh wow this auntie is in the spirit the tears were running and to me I'm like oh this auntie is high I so much wish I could have been there where the auntie is because to me I got aggravated because certain things happened and as you know being a human being when you see fault with something you unfortunately don't focus on the core thing and here I'm looking at this auntie admiring her and I realize let me just relax the next thing the auntie stands up and I'm like oh okay this is another spirit here it's not the spirit I thought she was in but I realized that the hunger the yearning for God made her to come into a place like that what is the place that you need to go to to hunger for god or when you are hungry for god is it going to church because sometimes church is there but it's not there to to it's not there to to gain people that don't know God church is mostly a place to equip the saints of God to go out there to make disciples of men you see what's the difference there's a difference between somebody coming to church to get revived you see somebody gets revived in church knowing God already that is why I can speak easily because I speaking to somebody who knows God but when I go out there it the message change the message needs to be repent because the time of the lord is here that's where the difference comes in okay but sometimes when they come to church the hunger for not knowing like you as a preacher make them to want to they say ah this guy is breaking up this whole scripture so nicely now I can see in my life as well I want to be more like that person and that is when it happens let me go to 70 and this will be our last Principle number 17 Is God's presence Remains even I'm not going to put something At the end there I'm going to say even God's Presence Remains Even What you want to put in there think of your life even if I lost my job is he gone now? his presence is there that's a principle God's presence is forever there ah but you don't understand I became gay and people rejected me is God not with you? People might reject you, but God is still with you. You know the way I fought with my manager. I am a Christian. I was not supposed to say so harsh things to my manager. But I did. Is God not with you? God's presence remains. God's presence remain. And I can actually, I can actually put this under God's virtue in every season. Whether it is a good season, whether it's a bad season, He's with you. That is why Genesis 39 says it. This is Genesis 39 verse 2. Genesis 39 verse 2 says the following. And this is a principle that comes from Joseph. It comes from Joseph. So a principle that came from Joseph, Genesis 39 verse 2 says, And the Lord was with Joseph, and he was a prosperous man, and he was in the house of the master, the Egyptian. Can you see? Because of God's presence, Joseph prospered. It's not because of his own. It's because of God's presence. Because God was with him. So, whenever you see things are going a bit bad, even though you know it's bad, it's still... what is the what does the scripture say it all worked for good for those who love the Lord according to his purpose you see so does it mean that when you have a purpose on earth that things will become tough yes it will mountains will be mountains and valley will be valleys when you are up on the mountain the valley seems low but when you are low in the valley the mountain seems high it's funny it's funny how we can we can make a mountain look big but it's because of a mountain that you have a clearer vision because once you are up the mountain the vision becomes clearer and it not about the mountain height it about the process to get there Because when you do accept the process a process to climb a mountain is to train for a small hill, then a bigger hill, then a bigger hill. Pastor, do you know Western Cape's mountains is serious mountains. Isn't these mountains that we call here in Northern Cape? Ma, if you go to Northern Cape, let's say this house, it's two of these houses up. They call it a mountain. That same thing, when you go to Western Cape, you'll be laughing, you'll be like, they call it like, it's just a hill. it's just something small small then when you're looking at the mountain you're like where does it end but you have to climb the smaller one before you climb the bigger one and the bigger you the higher you go the the harder the Seed Ooster. But do you know Seed Ooster? I don't know how to call it, but Seed Ooster is a wind in Cape Town. Now the wind in Cape Town, a big guy double my size, four times my size, won't stand against that wind. That wind takes you like a feather. That's how it is. But when you are down, it's not easy that it can take you. But just stand up. You will see. You must actually go on YouTube. You will see people holding on to poles and the feet are straight the way the wind are blowing them. But picture that when you are higher up the mountain you need more strength to hold on Because prophetically the stronger the wind is the stronger you have to hold on And the more you holding on the more you get hurt Because staying up there is causing you a lot of hurt to remain there. No, no, no. Let me put this back to you. Do you remember the previous one I said to you? That when there's a plan in your life, people are the more envious. It's the same thing. The higher up the mountain you are, the more thorough words you will receive. The more you are useless. You won't be able to make it. The more higher you come, the more you hear that the enemy is telling you ah if your father didn't make it what will make you think you will make it your mother is useless what will make you think that you can be useful the higher you become even the more it is to hold on the strongest these are the principles I can tell you now every season God is with you all you need to do is just to recognize his presence at that stage I mean Joshua 1 verse 9 who doesn't know Joshua 1 verse 9 oh no no no let me not assume let me not assume Joshua 1 verse 9 sorry let me not assume but let me where is Joshua again Joshua 1 verse 9 says the following Have I not have not I commanded thee be strong and of good courage. Be not afraid, neither be thou dismayed for the Lord thy God is worthy whatsoever thou goest The Lord thy God is worthy wheresoever thou goest. So Joshua 1 verse 9 makes it so clear. The Lord is with you wherever you go. and with that I'm saying to you if there is something that today you feel like I have not been in a place where I can say God I know there are some things that you have given me already and yet I have missed it because God has given us the life of Joseph and if you keep on reading it read it once through the second time when you read it read it slower the first time just read it so that you can understand the the life story so that you can put dots where dots is, commas where comma is. You read it through. The second time you start reading it slower. And when you read it, don't read it as a storybook. Read it as a question mark. God, why you quit? God, why this? Why that? How does it? How does it flow into my life? what does this have to do with me that's how you read it you don't just say hey man wait wait wait I'm not going to stop until you tell me what does this mean for my life and you will soon find out in Joseph's life there's a lot of nuggets that you can take and the nuggets what you can take is sometimes to keep your mouth shut when dreams are there not to share it with anyone because dreams are the reason that Joseph is where he was or Joseph was where he got himself into Because of your dreams, you might be the reason why you might not be making it. Because the higher you go, the quicker it is for Satan to two-feet you with the winds of not-truth. The winds of untrue. Let me say, because now suddenly he two-feet you because the wind is too strong, you fall easily. heavenly father i am of the opinion that i sometimes miss a lot of things because of i'm not looking up to somebody it might be that reason why i might not be where you want me to be and and i'm speaking of myself but i know somebody's under the sound of my voice here as well is also sitting in the same boat thinking that if only I could have somebody that I can look up to and use that person as a marker for me to go higher And that marker to be somebody that will help me to also overcome what you have brought into our lives. so therefore Heavenly Father I pray in the mighty name of Jesus Christ our Lord and Savior let this word that we are listening today let it not just be mere words but it will be something that we can take for the future something that we can make our own for the future something that we can if we can say call it our own in the mighty name of Jesus Christ, our Lord and Savior. And I want to pray that this morning let your spirit be the one that guide us in the mighty name of Jesus Christ, our Lord and Savior.