Blessing And Boundaries

I have a question for you this morning and here it is. How many of you have some boundaries in your life? Let me see you hand. How many of you have some boundaries in your life?

You know, I said to somebody one time, you have to set boundaries because if you don't limit what somebody's doing to you, then it gives them the inkling that what they're doing is okay because you've never resisted what it is that they're doing to you. And so in life, we have to set boundaries. In all of life, there are boundaries. I'll tell you one of the ones that, as I'm getting older, really frustrates me more and more.

And I don't understand what's wrong with some of the younger generation that they don't understand that stop signs mean stop, they're not suggestions. They literally mean stop. That means complete stop, not semi-stop, not drift through stop. Stop means stop.

We were in Mexico and we found out when we were there in a mission trip that the stop signs there are just suggestions. That's what our missionary friend told us. They're just suggestions. They're not suggestions here.

Stop, red lights. My wife and I are sending a red light the other day and there's a lane, a turning lane to our right. We're sending in this lane and we have the red light and there were cars going. And two cars came right up alongside of us.

Never even applied their brakes. Just, and I'm, hey, hey, did you see that? They're there for a reason. It's a boundary because you may have got away with it today, but tomorrow you may not get away with it.

You may hear woo woo woo. I mean, you know what the woo woo is, huh? Or, or maybe even more tragically, another vehicle may hit your vehicle, right? They're there, they're boundaries.

They're set there for a reason. There's a purpose for them. And the purpose and the reason for them is protection. We set boundaries and we set limits for reasons and then most of them are for protection.

So living within boundaries are good things. Living within the boundary of God's word is a really good thing. Because when we live within the boundary of God's word, church, we experience the blessing of God. How many can say amen?

We experience the blessing of God when we remain in the boundaries of God's word. And it is when we step outside of those boundaries. When we step outside of those boundaries, we experience the pain and the difficulty that is associated with disobedience. And that's not because God is cruel, but because God's design is good, amen?

Now I wanna share with you a number of things about God's word and then we're gonna get into the gist of the message today. The first thing I wanna share with you is found in Matthew 24 verse 35. And I'm gonna go through these ones very quick. God is eternal and God is unchanging.

How do we know that? Well, Matthew 24 verse 35 says, heaven and earth will pass away. Heaven and earth will pass away. There'll be a new heaven and a new earth, but my word will never pass away.

The word of God is eternal, church. The word of God is steadfast. And the word of God is unchanging. How many of you ever gave your word and then changed your word?

Come on. You said something, you said you were gonna do something, you said you held to something, you said you believe something, and then you changed whatever it was that you said you held to. This God that we worship, this God, Jehovah, the King of Kings and the Lord of Lords, the great I am, the everlasting, everlasting, the one who is in, the one who is to come. He is unchangeable and you and I should be ecstatic about that because he is faithful, amen?

The second thing is this, Hebrews chapter four verse 12. Hebrews chapter four verse 12. The word of the Lord is living and active and sharper than any two-edged sword, piercing to the division of soul and spirit. So secondly, the word of God is living and it's active.

This is not just some old stale dead book. This book is alive and it is active and the word of God is still relevant today, amen? The third thing I wanna share with you is found in the book of Isaiah chapter 55, Isaiah 55 and verse 11. And this is what Isaiah 55 verse 11 says, so shall my word be, so shall my word be.

That goes forth from my mouth. This is what the Lord says. It shall not return empty. Come on church, his word, the things that he has said, the things that he has spoken, they will not return empty, but those words will accomplish what they are sent out to accomplish.

So here it is, if God says something, God performs. Can anyone else see that hair that keeps dangling in my face? That thing just keeps dropping down in my eye. I'm gonna let my wife come up here and pull it out or something.

His word is alive. And that's the response I get. His word is alive. There you go.

You're allowed to say yes, that's true. That's what, you know the word amen means so be it. So when a pastor or somebody says something, somebody says amen, they're not being showy or just wanting to be seen. Literally what that means is yes.

Yes, I agree with that. That is the word of God. You know, I believe that. So shall my word be that goes forth.

That should bring great joy, comfort and strength to each one of us to know that he has given us a book. And within the parameters of this book, he has given us a circumference. I shared it with your leadership the other day. He has given us a circumference in which we should live.

This book tells us how to live, how we should think, how we should act, the way we should walk, the way we should treat each other. And so many other things. It teaches us those things. And if we walk in the parameters of it, if we stay within the circumference of what he has said to us, then great peace, joy, comfort, strength and life comes from it because we remain in the parameters of God's word.

And many people will say, but why did God let that happen? Well, you got outside of the parameter of God's word. And when you get outside of the parameter of God's word, then we face difficulty. Then we face peace.

You say, well, you know, I love God and I still have this thing. But if you don't have peace, you're outside the parameter of his word. Because his word says he has given you. That's past tense.

It's already happened. You don't have to wait for peace. Peace has already been given. Here's the thing.

You and I just have to believe it. We have to receive it. And we have to understand that yes, this thing may be hard. Yes, this thing may be difficult.

Yes, you may not want to be going through this thing. But if God before you, who can be against you, that's the parameter of God's word. Not why is this happening to me. Why did God do this to me?

Why am I going through this? That's not in the parameter of God's word. In the parameter of God's word says, yeah, this weapon's been formed against me. But God's word says it won't defeat me.

That's remaining in the parameter of God's word. It's trusting God at what God says. You understand that? That's powerful.

We've got to remain in the parameter of the circumference of what God has given us. Adam and Eve didn't do that. God said you have the whole garden. You're going to do anything you want in this garden.

But that one thing, that one tree, stay away from that. They could do anything else they wanted in the proximity of that garden. Anything. All the provision that they needed was there.

They didn't have to labor. They didn't have to to toil. They didn't have to struggle. They didn't have to have pain.

None of that was present in the world at that moment. They had everything at their disposal, and it was good. It was good. But God set a parameter.

God set a boundary. And God said to them, you have choice. But don't choose that. I'm giving you everything else in your proximity.

But that one thing, no. And they stepped outside of the boundary that God had set. How many of you have crossed a boundary? At some point in your line.

And none of you're going to admit that. Oh, there's a few of you, brave souls. How many of you have kicked down the door of your boundary? Well, like last Sunday morning, I said to my wife, I can't remember which one of them little ones it was.

But he was so excited to get downstairs. He jumped over. He went around that bed and kicked that door with his foot wide open. He didn't hit it with his hand.

He chucked nor his head right there. There was a boundary. And he was going through it. Boundaries are for reasons.

God does not give us boundaries or parameters because he's mean. He gives them to us because he loves us. I've never asked my children not to do something because I wanted to be mean to them. Never.

I did it because I loved them. They're getting, they're all three getting close to them already. And they're beginning to understand, I think, those things. We don't understand that when we're young and when we're teenagers, our parents are just mean.

And they're out of touch. And they don't know because we're cool and they're not cool. And we know and they don't know. And the older you get, you realize sometimes they weren't sedumb.

They set boundaries for reasons. My dad used to say to me, nothing good happens after that time. You need to be home at a specific time because nothing good happens after that time. Boundaries, I said to my wife just the other day, I woke up, I was feeling so good.

And I called her, I said, I found out something amazing. I said, I'm going to apply this in my life. She said, what is it? I said, it's so good.

I said, it's really this article. And it said, I think it's 158 people die every year from lifting heavy weights. But it's only recorded that one person has died eating donuts. I said, I'm going to set a boundary.

We can laugh at things like that, though. And they are funny, right? But we have to set boundaries in life. And God has given us.

You know, some of you younger folks that are here today, you need to set boundaries what you'll accept in your life, what you won't accept. How you allow somebody to treat you and how you will not allow them to treat you with honor and respect and dignity and caring. But if you don't have a boundary for those things, then people can treat you or do whatever they want because you've never set boundaries. But those who you associate are really, it's really important because if you don't set boundaries and who you're going to allow into your circle, then your circle may become contaminated.

Anybody know what I'm talking about? His word, Isaiah 55, 11, it goes forth and it's powerful and it's not empty. It's not you. Have you ever spoken something that just was empty?

You've ever said something, just didn't have a nut. It was just garble. It was just words, you know? Some people go through life and say thing and why did you say it?

Why didn't you mean it? But you said it, right? God doesn't say things. He doesn't mean.

God speaks absolute truth. And for you and I, that is a powerful understanding. The book of Psalm, chapter 119, the book of Psalm 119 verse 160, it says, the sum of your word, the sum of your word is truth. And every one of your righteous rules endure forever.

So the word of God is truth and it is righteousness. Amen? So it's eternal. It's unchanging.

It's living and active. It's powerful and effective. It is truth and it is righteousness. Second Timothy chapter three verse 16.

Second Timothy chapter three verse 16. That says this, all scripture, say all scripture. That includes front to back. All scripture is breathed out by God and it is profitable.

There's profit to this. This book will profit you. The boundaries of this book will profit you. If you will remain in the circumference of what God has told us, there is profit there.

It is profitable for teaching. It's profitable for reproof, for correction, and for training in righteousness. So the word of God is inspired. It is beneficial for us to grab hold of it, to walk in it, to trust it, and to believe it.

But we live in a time that resists, hear me now, we live in a time that resists boundaries. Some of you when you were younger, your parents would say, now when you go out, don't do, what was that, a boundary? They were sitting up, setting a boundary for you. Be careful that you don't do this or be careful that you don't do that.

It's a boundary. It's meant to protect you, not to suppress you, not to wound you, or not to harm you, but to guard you. But we live in a time that resists boundaries. We celebrate our freedoms, don't we?

We celebrate freedom, but we resent restraint. We want to celebrate our freedoms, but we resent restraint and restraint is good at times. Thank God we don't always do what we want to do. Thank God we don't always say what we want to say, or we think we should say.

How many of you ever, at the end of a conversation, but, boy am I glad I didn't say that. Boy am I glad I didn't say that. We celebrate the freedoms that we have, but we don't like the boundaries or the restraints. We praise, we praise independence, yet we reject, hear me church, we reject instruction.

We don't want to be told what to do. We don't want to be told how to do it. But from Genesis to Revelation, God has never hidden the powerful truth that life works best when it is lived within the parameters of this book. When he has spoken and when he has said, and much of what we see in society today and much of the downfall that we see in society today is because so many has gotten away from the book.

God didn't give us this book to restrict us. He gave it to us to protect us. He gave it to us not to rob us of joy, but he gave it to us to lead us in to blessing. Then we will follow in the parameters of what he has taught us.

We will experience great blessing and joy and peace in our lives, but every time you and I step outside of that design that God has created, the same outcome occurs, the same pattern emerges. If we will just understand this church, pain, confusion, and suffering every single time we step out of the parameters of God's Word. This life has enough of its own pain and suffering and confusion in and of itself that we put ourselves in those situations and circumstances to highlight the pain. We're called to something different.

Yeah, it doesn't mean we're not going to have pain. It doesn't mean you're never going to be confused. It doesn't mean you're never not going to have some suffering, but it doesn't last. You rise above those things and you begin to walk in peace and comfort and joy and love and strength and a sound mind because of the Word of God.

We have hope in the midst of pain. We have hope in the midst of confusion and we have victory in the midst of suffering. Somebody should say, Amen. We are the church of the Lord Jesus Christ and he died on an old wooden cross to give us victory.

And we can walk in that victory, but so many times we step outside of the parameters of what God has set for us. Church's Word isn't like a stop sign or a yield sign. Pentomismized while not even waste time on those anymore. I don't even think the younger generation, yield signs went out with curse of writing.

I saw a young person the other day saw a curse of writing didn't even know what it was. What was that? It are meaning the other night you were writing a shorthand, weren't you? I knew I could tell by the way you were writing a shorthand.

And after you left I said, look it, I said, Karen was writing every single thing. I said, you go back and transfer. You put that in all the words or you just keep in shorthand. I said, Karen was writing a shorthand.

Am I so honest? What's that? I said, in fact, ancient Greece you'll figure it out. There are just some things that, through time we lose.

We don't do any more. But yield signs, yield means, yield means slow down. Don't pull out in front of the person who has the right away. In case some of you didn't know, I got a real bone to pick.

This week has been horrible. I was going down about 30. And there's a guy coming off a ramp. Yield.

He ran me right off of the slow lane and almost into the medium, because he just didn't want to go into the slow lane. He wanted to be in the fast lane. Why? into the slow lane in front of the car in front of them and then sit back into the fast lane and then sit into the slow lane.

A weaver. Haha, that's who they are, they're weavers. We need to repute those weavers. Put the thing in, here's the thing, here's the thing.

There's supposed to be a certain car length between distances of cars and stuff. I'm not real buddy daddy aren't I? I've just learned to understand how much cars cost, how much insurance costs, how much gas costs, how much tires cost. I want to treat it the best way that I can.

I understand that if I'm irresponsible I can cause the harm of someone else. I've come to the age where I realize my actions, I hold on I know this is crazy, but my actions have consequences. I know that's revelation to some of you. But your actions have consequences guys, when she comes on and says, how's this look?

Don't go. Your actions have consequences. You look at her and say, God forgive me baby, you look hotter and you've ever looked. Jesus.

Jesus. Our actions, how many of you realize your actions have consequences? The things you say. I heard a wife one time say, you know, she was, she was a stay-at-home mom who actually had a work-at-home job and she, you know, was able to do things around the day, but the husband came home from work and he walked in the door and he had had a rough day.

He had really had a rough day and he walked in the door and soon as he walked in there was something in his way he had to kick it out of the way and he walked over and he looked over and he looked, there was nothing on the stove and he said, what have you been doing all day? Do you know not one man responded there but every single woman groaned from her belly? Every woman in this building groaned with almost like a demonic sound. I mean, some of you ladies you snapped your neck.

In our meeting the other day the other day the thing came up about when somebody sends you a thumb emoji is that just being cooler is up saying whatever. Yeah we were talking about it and one wife said, don't you send me no thumb emoji and I'm not gonna tell you that was Jill telling Danny but it was, you know, some people, I've learned to like the thumb emoji now. It's fun to me, you know, but some people take it as being passive aggressive like whatever. How many you take it like whatever?

Let me see your hand. Come on, raise an eye. Raise an eye. Now all of you thumb emoji people look, don't thumb them.

Do not thumb them. I'm setting a parameter for you. I'm setting a boundary for you. Every hand that was raised do not thumb emoji those people, okay?

We can do it though. And every time I send it I send a laugh face. I'm not being passive aggressive. How many are glad we have boundaries?

How many won't we just finish? You realize I'm not really asking your opinion. Yeah, yeah, every time, but every time we step out of God's design we face the same thing and we got to understand this. God's word is not a suggestion.

It's a design and we've got to get this into us. And the Psalm is told us in Psalm 1 verse 1 and 2 something incredibly powerful. He said this, blessed is the man. That word blessed there translated means happy.

That word blessed means happy. Happy is the man. Happy is the one who walks not in the council of the ungodly. So we're told right in Psalm 1, be careful who you take counsel from.

Be careful who you listen to. Be careful who you take advice to from, right? We need to be careful of that. But his delight, who?

The happy man. The blessed man. But his delight is in the law, the council, the parameter, the circumference of the word of God. Come on church.

You see that? Psalm 1 does not begin with a command. It begins with a promise. It's not just a command.

Blessed. That's a promise. Blessed is the one. Fortunate.

Happy. Fulfilled. Flourishing. Deeply satisfied.

That's what that word blessed means. So you can just look at it from a service level or you can understand that word literally means for you to be happy. Fulfilled. Flourishing.

Deeply satisfied. Can I ask you how many would not want that? Is there anyone here today that would not want to be fulfilled? Would not be want, would not want to be flourishing?

Would not want to be deeply satisfied? And like how many of you here would not want that? Because if you wouldn't, we're going to pray for you. I mean, these are good things.

We all should want that. We should all desire for that. But we should understand where it comes from. It comes from being within the parameters, the framework, the circumference of God and God's Word.

There's something really important here for you and I to grab hold of. The blessing is connected to where we walk, where we stand, and where we sit and who we listen to. What am I saying to you today? Well, thanks for asking.

In other words, what I'm saying to you is how you live will determine the things that you experience in life, cause and effect. God gave us His Word for instruction, say instruction. We don't get to ignore the manufacturer's design and then complain when it breaks. We don't get to ignore the manufacturer's design and we're good at, oh, what's, what came in that box?

Oh, instructions. Well, I don't need those. And then at the end, we got like a whole pile of stuff that we don't, didn't know what to do with. And my dad used to always say, you know, I need that stuff.

They just, they just put it in there in case you lose something or like that. Don't you think that bolt? You think we should use that bolt? They're there for a reason and a purpose.

Sometimes they do give you extras, you know, but we can't put something together. And then when we put it together, like, you know, you can't put together a desk and then lay something on it and fall apart and you go, oh, that's a piece of junk, but you got a pile of stuff that you didn't put in it to hold it together, right? I don't think I need those screws. I'm just going to use a little glue and it'll be all right.

We can't reject the manufacturer's design and then complain when things break or don't work the way that we want or think that they should work. You know that we are free within the framework, the boundaries, the circumference, the will of God. Freedom doesn't come from removing boundaries. Freedom comes from functioning where you were designed to function.

True blessing is found inside God's plan. Joshua 1 8 says this, this book of the law shall not depart from your mouth. For then you will make your way prosperous when it doesn't leave you and then you will have good success. When you stay within the parameters and the circumference and the will of God for your life, the Bible says then say then, then you will have success.

Then you will walk in love. Then you will walk in joy. Then you will walk in peace. Then you will walk in strength.

Then you will walk in comfort. Why? Because you never have any problems. No, those things will always exist as long as we're here.

But you have a promise that God will be with you, that God will strengthen you, that God will give you wisdom, that God will give you comfort, that God will guide you, that God will direct you, and God will bring victory to pass in your life. Amen? God speaks to Joshua a moment of transition. God says Moses is gone.

I understand leadership is difficult and it's heavy. The future may be uncertain, but God doesn't say to Joshua, but you need to be creative Joshua. God doesn't say to Joshua, you need to follow your heart. That's some of the worst advice you'll ever get.

When somebody says do you follow your heart, you need to know that's bad advice. Because the Bible says above all things, the heart is wicked and deceitful and who can know it. Your heart, your feelings, your emotions can deceive you, but the Word of God will always lead you in the right direction. What you think isn't always what you should do.

Be creative, follow your heart, do you, be you, live your, you know, don't worry about anyone else. That's all contrary to the Word of God. That is all outside of the parameters of God. Jesus said if you're going to follow me, then take up your cross.

Do you understand what that means? In case you don't, Paul put it in a little bit simpler terms. Paul said you must die to yourself and then live as Christ. In other words, stop doing things your way and start doing things his way.

Get out of the circumference of your own head. How many have ever lived in the realm of your own head? You know what I mean? Your own thoughts control you, your own thoughts.

They, some of you are texting me thumbs up emojis right now. How many have ever just been in your own head? You know what I mean by that? You just in your own head.

You're worrying about something you don't need to worry about. You think about things you don't need to think about. You're so overwhelmed about things. Do you know they say the majority of things that people worry about never come to pass?

The overwhelming majority of things that we worry about never really come to pass. But yet we get in our own head. And this is what we say. Matter of fact, I've seen people God do a miraculous miracle in their life and then them turn around and say this.

Well, if that wouldn't happen then. They didn't even accept the joy of the victory because they were so consumed with but if it didn't happen. But it did happen, right? We need to be transformed in our thinking and renewed in our way of walking and living and thinking.

God didn't ask us to be creative. He's created. He didn't ask us to follow our heart. He asked us to follow his heart.

God never told Joshua to adapt to the culture. We are not here to adapt to the culture. He wants us to stay in his word, believe his word, trust his word and be obedient to his word. Why is that important?

Because prosperity, success are in God's. Prosperity and success in God's eyes are always tied to obedience. Obedience, say obedience. God's word is true.

It's life-giving. It guards our hearts. It guards our minds. It directs our steps.

Are you ready for this? It stabilizes our emotions. Listen, if you're in the counseling field, I'm not meaning to be offensive to you. I think there's value, great value to what you do.

But people don't need theories. They need Jesus. The only counsel that's going to change your heart, a life and a mind, is the Word of God. How do I know it?

I've seen it. I've seen it. God's, people don't need ideas. They don't need philosophies.

They don't need another book. They need Jesus. They need the Word of God. It's life-changing.

It guards your minds. It directs your steps. It brings stability to your emotions. It brings stability to your emotions.

We are such an emotional people, aren't we? We are such an emotional society. It brings stability. Why?

Because of peace, love, and a sound mind, which means discipline. Come on, worship. Let me make you back to the platform. It's an anchor for your soul.

And when you live inside of God's Word, it's not that it's absence of troubles or situations or circumstances, but it's that you will survive in the middle of those things. It's not the void of them. You'll have victory in spite of them. God's blessing is not accidental.

It's not accidental. It's conditional. Did you hear me? God's blessing is not accidental.

It is conditional. And don't forget this. Pain begins when we step out of God's Word. Deuteronomy 30 verse 15 says, I see.

He says, see, I have set before you today. God says, I've set before you today. Life and good or death and evil. God says, it sets before you.

The choice is yours. You can choose life and good or you can choose death and evil. And so many times the things that we say represent which one we've picked. God's honest with us.

He doesn't pretend all choices lead to the same place. He doesn't say that every path ends in blessing. Church, there are parameters. There are boundaries.

And when we step outside of God's truth, here's what happens. Are you ready? Relationships break families fracture churches. We can nations decline.

And pain is often not God's punishment. It's the natural consequence of ignoring God's plan and being disobedient to His Word. Did you catch that? And boy, don't we see these things in our society today.

When we step outside of His plan, relationships break families, fracture churches. We can nations decline. And the pain and the suffering is a natural consequence of ignoring and being disobedient to His Word. Listen, the prodigal son didn't suffer because the father stopped loving him.

He suffered because he left the father's house. The father never stopped loving him. And the prodigal son is an analogy of God in us. The father son did not suffer because the father stopped loving him.

The father always loved him. And the father longed for him to come back. But the son suffered because he got outside of the parameters that his father had set for him. How many times we get outside the parameters of God's Word?

Outside of the Word of God. Grace becomes misunderstood. Freedom for many becomes bondage. Pleasure turns to regret.

Does anybody understand what I'm talking about this morning? Outside of His Word. Listen, grace is misunderstood. Freedom becomes bondage.

And pleasure turns into regret. But God's boundaries are not prison walls. They're meant to protect us. They're put there to keep us safe so that we don't fall into the deadly traps of the enemy.

Jesus comes to restore. However, John 1010 tells us that the thief comes but pretty kill to steal and to destroy. But Jesus Christ said this to us. I have come that you might have life and that you might have it most abundantly.

Which way are you going to choose today? Jesus just doesn't offer a new philosophy. He offers restored alignment. We were away from God.

He offers to bring us back to God. Sin is not just breaking rules. Sin is living outside of God's plan. Outside of God's design.

Outside of the will of God. Jesus came to earth to bring us back. Back to truth. Back to obedience.

And back to life. Abundant life is not found in rebellion. It's only found in submission to God into God's Word. You will never lose your life when you obey God.

That's when you'll find it. That's when you'll find it. Church attendance in and of itself won't save you. Won't bring joy or peace in your heart.

It's important where to do it. Good intentions are not enough. Spiritual language isn't going to be enough. What God desires is obedience.

Alignment with him and his Word. Luke 6 verse 46 says this. Have you had too much word today? You can't get enough.

We've had new people come into harvest church. I never heard so many Bible verses in one sermon. Well what would a sermon be without Bible verses? I'm not coming here to quote poetry to you or some hip hop song.

I'm here to give you the word of God. The truth. The revelation of God's word to the heal. You deliver.

You set you free. Amen? Jesus said Luke 6 verse 46. Why you call me Lord, Lord?

And then not do what I tell you to do. That's a pretty amazing question right? Why do you call me Lord and then don't do anything that I've told you. Catch this.

The question is not do you believe the Bible. It's not do you own a Bible. It's not can you quote some scripture in the Bible. It's do you believe in Jesus and have you ask him to forgive you of your sin and is he Lord of your life.

And if you're willing and if you're living within his parameters are you willing to live within his parameters because every blessing of God comes and flows through obedience to God God's word. He gave us his word. Why? Because he loves us.

Because he cares for us. And every time we stay in it we remain in it. We experienced stability instead of chaos. Peace instead of anxiety.

Blessing instead of regret. But every time we step out of it we entertain pain. Not because God has failed because we have left his design and we must understand that. So today the Spirit's calling you and I calling us as a church.

Not the legalism but the life. Not the boundaries but to freedom. Back to the word. Back to obedience.

Back to blessing. Back to the who wouldn't want that. Right? Come on.

Stand with me today. Father in the name of Jesus I pray your word will seal in our hearts today. Thank you so much Lord for the privilege and the honor of being able to be here today. Thank you for the privilege that you've given me to stand on this platform to be able to speak the word of God to those who have shown up here today and to all of those around the world and around the country that will download this message today and listen.

Father I pray this word will speak richly and mightily into every heart. Why? Because you said it will not return back void. And so Father we have sent it out today and we know that your word will accomplish great things.

Thank you for what you're doing and what you're going to do in the heart and life of each and everyone that's here today. Thank you for the miracles that are going to take place. Thank you Lord for those who are going to this day begin to set boundaries and say well I'm not going to do that anymore. I'm not going to be a part of that anymore.

I think I need to give up that so that I can have this. Father you've promised us love, joy, peace, strength, joy, victory and salvation. We'd have to be a fool to reject that. I pray that not one that's hearing this message today will end this time together without saying Jesus you are my Lord and Savior.

And today I accept you. Today I am done with walking and disobedience. Today I want to follow after your heart. Today I want to be all that you desire for me to be.

And I understand that when I step outside of the parameters of your work of your plan of your word it brings nothing but pain, confusion, and suffering. So Father we thank you for the Holy Spirit today that you said will lead us and guide us into all truth. So Holy Spirit we are open today to receive you. Come and fill us.

Come and fill us as we face this new year and all the days ahead if you're carried Lord we need your wisdom. We need your strength. We need your grace. We need your mercy.

Help us to walk within the parameters of your word. We give you praise. Blessed be the name of the Lord. Blessed be the name of the Lord.

Blessed be the name of the Lord. From the rising of the sun to the going down of the same. His name is to be praised.