And That My Soul Knows Very Well 17th OCT 21HOW’S YOUR SOUL?I BEGAN THE FIRST PART OF THIS SERMON ABOUT 4 WEEKS AGO, ON The 19th Sept, Called And That My SOUL Knows Very WELL. David wrote Psalm 139, and in Verse 14 HE SAID Psalm 139:1-18 14, I will praise You, for I am fearfully and wonderfully made; Marvelous are Your works, And that my soul knows very well.
David is Looking at Himself with all His FINGERS and TOES and Every Part of HIS BODY and HE Says, GOD, . . . H...
And That My Soul Knows Very Well 17th OCT 21
HOW’S YOUR SOUL?
I BEGAN THE FIRST PART OF THIS SERMON ABOUT 4 WEEKS AGO, ON The 19th Sept, Called
And That My SOUL Knows Very WELL.
David wrote Psalm 139, and in Verse 14 HE SAID
Psalm 139:1-18 14, I will praise You, for I am fearfully and wonderfully made; Marvelous are Your works, And that my soul knows very well.
David is Looking at Himself with all His FINGERS and TOES and Every Part of HIS BODY and HE Says, GOD, . . . HOW DID YOU Make HUMANS as GOOD As WE Are??
WE Also Talked about the FACT that WHAT DOES YOUR SOUL KNOW??? VERY WELL ???
I SPOKE TO YOU ABOUT A VERY WEALTHY AUSTRALIAN NAMED RICHARD PRATT, A MULTI BILLIONAIRE [NOW DECEASED] WHO IN HIS DAY OWNED THE VISY CARDBOARD BOX COMPANY, And HE Made this Statement in his BOOK CALLED, YOU DON’T KNOW What You Don’t Know, UNTIL You Know It !!!
In other words, IGNORANCE Is Not BLISS
And you had better get Some KNOWLEDGE in your Soul, so that you can GROW and DEVELOP as a Person, because living in IGNORANCE is Not going to Take You VERY FAR IN LIFE, Because there’s Enough People, and the Devil Himself, WHO will Try to HOOD-WINK YOU and ROB you of Your POTENTIAL and YOUR JOY, and Everything Else that GOD Wants to PUT into YOUR LIFE.
JOSEPH’S BROTHERS. ATTEMPTED TO DO THAT.
And So Today I am Asking Us this Question, … HOW’s YOUR SOUL?
HOW’S YOUR SOUL???
WHAT does Your KNOW VERY WELL ??
Does it Know that GOD IS WITH YOU ?
That GOD IS WITH YOU?..... That You’re Not A Victim or an Accident going Somewhere to HAPPEN. But that you Know that You Know, that regardless of WHAT is Happening in your life, GOD is With You, (and HIS HAND IS ON YOUR SHOULDER) and HE’S Going to Journey in Life With YOU.
YOU KNOW….. REAL CHANGE STARTS ON
THE INSIDE.
SO….. DOES YOUR Soul Know VERY WELL ????? THAT God is WITH YOU????
SO REAL Change begins on the Inside. HOW YOU View, the World, Yourself and YOUR future, And HOW WE VIEW OURSELF, OR LOOK AT OURSELF,
[Put UP The]… KITTEN………. LION PICTURE.
WHAT MATTERS MOST IS HOW YOU SEE YOURSELF
PICTURE OF KITTEN LOOKING IN THE MIRROR AT HIMSELF AND SEEING A LION IN THE MIRROR. HE Believes in HIMSELF, and HE Sees Himself As Bigger than Just A Little KITTEN. I’M BIGGER THAN JUST A Little Kitten, and HE SEE’s Himself as a Lion. Our Lives are Either Enlarged or Restricted by the SIZE OF OUR SOUL. Because it’s the Window to OUR WORLD.
From the Day David Killed Goliath his World got BIGGER, and SAUL’S World Got Smaller.
The quality of your life will either be restricted by a defeated heart, or enlarged by a victorious, positive ONE. Your Soul, OR Your heart, is the seat of your emotions, thinking and decision making. In other words, A Prosperous Soul, Will Build a Prosperous Life. RELATIONALLY, EDUCATIONALLY, FINANCIALLY, WITH YOUR HEALTH AND EVERY OTHER AREA OF THE CONNECTIONS OF LIFE.
3 JOHN 2 (NKJV) SAYS, THESE WORDS…………..
2 Beloved, I pray that you may prosper in all things and be in health, just as your soul prospers.
JOHN THE HALF BROTHER of JESUS WAS WRITING TO THESE NE BELIEVERS, AND SAYING..
IF YOUR SOUL PROSPERS THE OVERFLOW, WILL FLOW OUT THROUGH THE REST OF YOUR LIFE.
WE ALL LOOK OUT AT LIFE THROUGH DIFFERENT COLOURED GLASSES. Our OUTLOOK Flavours Our World. NEGATIVE People Look Out through their Mind in a Negative Coloured WAY.
EMBITTERED People have Bitterness Coloured on their Glasses, and Everybody is Suspect.
And FAITH PEOPLE Have FAITH Coloured Glasses.
They BELIEVE GOD CAN DO What Needs To BE DONE, For Them: and It’s Amazing How FAITH PEOPLE GET ALL KINDS OF MIRACLES Happening in their Lives,
AND I Mentioned in my Sermon FOUR WEEKS AGO from NUMBERS 13 Verse 30, When they were ready to go in and TAKE Canaan, they had Spied Out the LAND, and Caleb said….. Let Us go up at once and take possession of the land, for WE ARE WELL ABLE to Overcome IT. But the Unbelieving Other 10 Spies Said, NO WE CAN’T, we’re Like Grasshoppers, ……..
AND IF YOU LOOK AGAIN AT THE PICTURE OF THE LITTLE KITTEN LOOKING IN THE MIRROR [ON YOUR SCREEN AGAIN] The KITTEN SAW HIMSELF AS A BIG LION, …. BUT MOST IMPORTANT IS THE SAYING Below, What’s Most Important is How We See OURSELVES.
(PUT THE PICTURE UP AGAIN)
And that’s What determines SO MUCH of What Happens IN OUR LIVES. CALEB…. Yes We Can
PROVERBS 19:2, SAY’S It is not good for a soul to be without knowledge, It amazes me That a lot of people can have a Masters degree in Psychology, and at the same time be dependent on anti-depressant tablets. Or someone else might have a degree in Communications, but their Marriage Fails, and they get divorced and remarried sometimes many times. Why is this?? They are educated, BUT their Soul is not Educated.
BECAUSE OUR Soul is the Engine Room of OUR Life.
SO WE actually Need to Go To a Different Kind Of SCHOOL WE NEED TO GO TO the School of the Spirit, and To TEACH OUR Soul Some Truth. To Be able to Hear FROM GOD and HIS WORD, the Truth. It is a matter of teaching Our Inner Man in a way that enables Our Soul to be conversant with Biblical Truth. That’s why David in PSALM 139: 14, SAID…. I will praise You, for I am fearfully and wonderfully made; Marvelous are Your works, And that my Soul knows very well. 100%
I Fully Believe it. I am Made By GOD…. I’M 100% CONVINCED OF THAT.
SO What your Soul KNOWS “Very Well” becomes clear when it is TESTED. If you Squeeze a Lemon, Lemon juice comes out, If you squeeze a beautiful ROSE, a lovely Smell will come out of the ROSE ….. and what We REALLY are convinced about in Our Hearts, comes Out, when we’re Under the Pressure, when we’re under the PUMP. That’s what starts Oozing OUT of our life, and Our MOUTH.
Is It FEAR? Is IT Anxiety? Is IT Uncertainty? OR Is IT a Confidence that GOD Has Got His Hand on My Life, and That I HAVE, NOTHING TO FEAR.
Our World Is a Pretty Messed Up Place Right Now,
AND This COVID THING that is going Around has Been Very Unsettling for MANY, MANY, PEOPLE.
And what I want To SAY IS…… We Need to Keep Our Eyes on JESUS, We NEED to Know that HE HAS Got HIS HAND on Our LIVES. Let THAT, BE OUR DEFAULT MODE
I have a Few Questions???? How do you respond to discouragement? OR….. What about when You’re Criticised? OR How well do you and I handle Stress?
So the Question I have is TO….. Ask…
HOW’S YOUR SOUL… X2
An educated Soul KNOWS VERY WELL, Not to Panic, Not to React, and Not to Quit. JUST STAND STILL AND SEE THE SALVATION OF GOD. I Don’t Have To Fight For MYSELF, (SONG…… God Is Fighting For Me…. Pushing Back THE DARKNESS (A Song in
(2 Chronicles Chapt 20:15-17)
PSALM 62:5, SAYS, My soul, wait silently for God alone, For my expectation is from Him.
6, He only is my rock and my salvation; He is my defense; I shall not be moved. SO HERES The Question? Where does OUR expectation come from? DAVID SAID, FROM HIM. MY EXPECTATION IS FROM HIM.
GOD HAS GOT THIS THING !!! GOD’S Got a Handle on this Thing, and HE’S GOT A Handle on MY LIFE As Well, AND YOUR LIFE AS WELL.
And SO…. My Expectation COMES from GOD.
Things Are Going CRAZY….But My expectation is from GOD….. And There is a PEACE That COMES.
JEREMIAH IN JEREMIAH 4:19, HIS NATION WAS BEING INVADED, and He says These Words about His SOUL, O my soul, my soul! I am pained in my very heart! My heart makes a noise in me; I cannot hold my peace, HE is Grieving, because what was happening, was HIS Nation was on the brink of National disaster, And HE SAID My heart makes a noise in me;
SO HERE’S the Question ?, What Is it That Sceams Out inside Your Heart? You-Know…
Whatever it is, IT CAN BE SILENCED, IF you exercise the authority You Have, and YOU Say to your Heart, Why are you Cast Down?..... Why Are You Getting Upset? DAVID At times HE Would take authority OVER HIS Own Soul. WHY ARE YOU GETTING SO UPSET ??? IN PSALM 42:5-6, David Spoke to His Heart, Saying…
Why are you cast down, O my soul? (HE’s Talking to HIS Own Soul) And why are you disquieted within me? Hope in God, DAVID is Counselling His Own Soul, for I shall yet praise Him, For the help of His countenance. DAVID Is Counselling HIS OWN SOUL
6, O my God, my soul is cast down within me; Therefore, I will remember You from the land of the Jordan, And from the heights Of Hermon.
This same David prayed in:- PSALM 142:7, Bring my soul out of prison, That I may praise Your name; The righteous shall surround me, For You shall deal bountifully with me.” He took authority over His Inner Man, and Told His Soul To Calm DOWN, Calm Down Soul.
Listen to these Verses…… HE’s Talking to his Soul
PSALM 103:1, Bless the Lord, O my soul; (He’s Talking to His Soul) And all that is within me, bless His holy name!
2, Bless the Lord, O my soul, And forget not all His benefits: Soul, you are going to Bless the Lord. IN EVERYTHING, (ALL that is within me) .....MY inferiority,
MY insecurity, MY hurt, and MY rejection, are going to Bless His Name. Because HE is In Charge. It’s HIS WORLD.
IT’S NOT MAN IN CHARGE……………… IT LOOKS LIKE THE SHIP IS ROCKING (THE BOAT IS ROCKING) BUT I want To TELL You, IT’S GOD’S WORLD, and HE IS IN CHARGE.
The WISE Person, takes this kind of authority over their Soul. The negative voices that Scream to be heard....are silenced by a Commitment of the Soul to bless God in everything.
WE All NEED TO, ANCHOR OUR SOUL WITH HIS WORD. HEBREWS 6:19, This hope we have as an anchor of the soul, both sure and steadfast, and which enters the Presence behind the veil,
In Other Words, GOD IS GOOD, and HE IS FOR ME.
GOD IS GOOD, and HE IS FOR ME. I want to say this today about HOPE. HOLD ON TO HOPE. X 2 PEOPLE cannot live without HOPE. A human can live a certain number of days without water, and a little longer without food, but They cannot live very long without Hope. Hopelessness rules the souls of so many people, AND It brings incredible insecurity and instability. AND IT Actually binds and chokes all Potential and Hope Out Of US, and often results in Suicides. People Taking their Own Lives because they Have NOTHING TO HOPE FOR.
BUT Hope IS AN Anchor For Our Soul? AND……
HEBREWS 6:19, tells us that, IT Anchors Our Soul
SO a Person WHO IS lacking in hope is LIKE An Unanchored BOAT in A Storm. Washed this way or that way, possibly out to sea, or UP on the Rocks and destroyed.
AND That’s Why HOPE Is such an Important thing.
SO I AM ASKING YOU THIS IMPORTANT QUESTION??? In LIFE what things do you PIN YOUR HOPES on?? What Do YOU PIN YOUR HOPES ON??
IS IT Your natural Skills? Family? Friends? Your Bank Account, Your Income and Your lifestyle?
That’s what the World Pins Their Hopes On.
They PIN their Hopes on all THIS NATURAL STUFF, but I Wrote HERE that…… HOPE IN GOD is the Perfect Anchor. SO PIN Your Hopes On GOD and What HE HAS SAID to You.
I’m going to finish in a few minutes talking about Abraham and Joseph.
They both had what I Call GOOD VISION.
BUT NOT 20/20 Vision, They Had 50/20 VISION.
Everyone Say 50/20 VISION. It’s WAY Better than 20/20 VISION. They say if you have 20/20 Vision you have really good Eyesight. BUT 50/20 Vision is MUCH MUCH BETTER, and I’ll Show you WHY, as I FINISH.
IN ROMANS 4:18, Abraham who, contrary to hope, IN HOPE believed, so that he became the father of many nations, according to what was spoken, (PROMISED)“So shall your descendants be.”
God had promised him children when HE HAD NONE. He Looked UP at the STARS and the SAND of the SEA…… And God Said your Children are going to be Like the STARS and the SAND. Millions of Them.
BUT it was HOPLESS. Because He had reached 100 years of age and his wife Sarah was 90, (She was half a Century past child bearing age) and Even when Sarah was younger she was NEVER able to bear children, SO WE ARE Talking About a HOPELESS situation.
It seemed hopeless. YET they Hoped against Hope, (HE No Longer Called her Sarai, (=Princes) BUT Sarah (= The Mother of a Multitude) and ABRAHAM (Father of a Nation)IN Order to see the promise of a miracle son. THEY KEPT SPEAKING THIS STUFF OVER THEIR LIVES, AND THAT HOPE Actually ANCHOURED ABRAHAMS SOUL. (An Anchored SOUL, IS A FIRM FOUNDATION FOR A POWERFUL DREAM. IF YOU’VE GOT A DREAM, AND ABRAHAM HAD A DREAM TO HAVE A FAMILY, IF YOU’VE GOT HOPE,
IT ANCHOURS YOUR SOUL.
So I Wrote Here TEACH YOUR SOUL HOW TO BOAST In The LORD.
SO TEACH YOUR SOUL HOW TO BOAST PSALM 34:2, My SOUL shall make its boast in the Lord; The humble shall hear of it and be glad. There are two kinds of boasting: One comes from insecurity and is devoid of humility. The other, which is not based on self, is the Boast of the Humble.
What is this Boast? It’s a Boast about How Good God Is. It’s a Boast about the Goodness of God in YOUR Life.
And What HE Has Done In OUR LIVES.
Boasting like this silences An “Out of Control” heart.
And Many People’s Hearts are Out Of CONTROL
When You BOAST IN THE LORD, You are building the God Foundation in your life which Settles your Heart Down, And ENLARGES Him , or as the Bible says , MAGNIFIES HIM. IN YOUR LIFE.
The Larger God becomes within you, the less room there is for insecurities, fears and failings.
ABRAHAM AND SARAH SAW THE PROMISE FINALLY FULFILLED. HE LITERALLY, called those things that BE NOT as Though THEY WERE. This HOPE was the foundation for their faith.
ROMANS 4:19a, 20-21, And not being weak in faith, he did not consider his own body, already dead (since he was about a hundred years old), and the deadness of Sarah’s womb. [FORGET THE FACTS…. WHAT DID GOD PROMISE?]
20, He did not waver at the promise of God through unbelief, but was strengthened in faith, giving glory to God,
21, and being fully convinced that what He had promised He was also able to perform.
Where did this incredible faith come from?? From HOPE!
………JOSEPH……….
I WANT TO FINISH TODAY WITH THIS THOUGHT OF 50/20 VISION. HE SAW IT FROM GOD’S PERSPECTIVE.
God Gave JOSEPH a Vision Or a DREAM, that His Brothers would Bow Down Before Him, and that they +His MUM and Dad would come as well,
This was a Vision that God gave Him, and IT WAS STILL A LONG WAY OFF,
(Believe me it was a LONG SHOT of a
Dream) ,……..BUT GOD Anchored it in His Heart, and it never left him. Genesis 50:20 is where this verse comes from, and it’s when the Brothers come to Joseph and they see Him, and they are really scared, and it says in verse 18- 21, (NKJV)
18 Then his brothers also went and fell down before his face, and they said, "Behold, we are your servants." (Just as the DREAM had Said.)
19 Joseph said to them, "Do not be afraid, for am I in the place of God?
20 But as for you, you meant evil against me; but God meant it for good, (He Could SEE GOD At Work In HIS World) (Even though Potiphar’s Wife meant Evil against Him, and His Brothers as Well, HE COULD SEE THE HAND OF GOD ON HIS LIFE, THROUGH IT ALL) in order to bring it about as it is this day, to save many people alive.
JOSEPH HAD WHAT I CALL 50/20 Vision……. He could NOT ONLY see with His Natural Eyes, …… But HIS Spritual EYES SAW THE DREAM, that God HAD Given Him, Happening in HIS LIFE, and THAT CARRIED HIM, to Where HE was Able to BLOOM where HE Was PLANTED,
Even In A BAD PLACE, HE BLOOMED, and the Blessing of GOD overflowed on HIS Life,
And The OTHERS AROUND HIM.
AND I’M Praying THAT For YOU TODAY.
SO……. I FINISH WITH THIS QUESTION,
HOW’S YOUR SOUL ??? . . . . . IS IT PROSPERING…… Because If Your Soul Is Prospering…… YOUR LIFE, ….Like Joseph’s, and like Abraham’s, WILL Prosper, as well.
LET ME PRAY FOR YOU, ……..Father Thank you Today for this Message.
Thank You that You have Called Us to Live in YOUR STRENGHT, and Not Our Own,
TO LIVE WITH HOPE in Our Hearts,
With NO FEAR in Our Hearts,
With FAITH in Our Hearts, that would be like
CALEB and JOSHUA,…… We can Go In and Do This, and GOD Will Help US, because GOD IS BIG in MY WORLD, and GOD You Want to be BIG in All of OUR WORLD’S, and I Pray for FAITH, PEACE and HOPE, for each and every Heart Here Today, that they will Realise GOD IS IN THE ROOM WITH THEM, ……. And HE’S GOT this Thing and WE Don’t Have TO FEAR, and I pray for that Now Father in Jesus Name.
