The A to Z of Healing: Meditation That Moves Mountains
Meditation, as discussed in this episode, possesses the transformative capacity to effect profound changes in our circumstances, aka "move mountains." In our ongoing exploration of healing, we delve into the concept of scriptural meditation, emphasizing its significance as a deliberate practice rather than a mere contemplative exercise. This episode illustrates how meditating on the Word of God not only renews our minds but also strengthens our hearts against life's challenges, thereby manifesting a divine peace that transcends human understanding. We are encouraged to engage in daily meditation, fostering a deeper connection with God's promises, which in turn cultivates a robust spiritual foundation. The overarching message reinforces that through meditation, we can tap into the supernatural power of God, enabling us to confront and overcome the obstacles that may arise.
Takeaways:
- Meditation on God's Word, as presented in this episode, is a vital practice that aligns with God's will for our well-being, allowing us to engage deeply with His promises.
- We explore the profound impact of meditation on our lives, asserting that it possesses the power to alter our circumstances significantly.
- By continuously meditating on scriptural truths, we can cultivate a mindset that renews our thoughts and facilitates the manifestation of God's promises in our lives.
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Transcript
Welcome to Power Hour where we believe it is God's will for you to be well.
Speaker A:I'm your host Kylie Terradez and this podcast is created from the weekly live streams that I do every Thursday at 1pm Mountain time.
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Speaker A:Let's get started.
Speaker A:Welcome to Power Hour.
Speaker A:I'm so excited to be with you this afternoon.
Speaker A:The Lord has given me a message and I'm just, I'm just blessed to be able to share the word with you.
Speaker A:Today we're talking about meditation that moves mountains.
Speaker A:We have been going through the A to Z of healing when all the way down to M. Right now we are cranking through this Alphabet is A to Z of healing.
Speaker A:So we're going to be looking at meditation and the impact that has to really change our circumstances.
Speaker A:You know, meditation is not sitting cross legged on the floor in a lotus position saying right, right.
Speaker A:It's not lighting incense candles or doing some sort of weird new age rain dance.
Speaker A:You know, there's meditation based upon the word of God.
Speaker A:It is very scriptural and we, we need to know what meditation is according to the, the word of God and practice that kind of meditation.
Speaker A:Sometimes we kind of shy away from things that we don't understand.
Speaker A:But this is really powerful, engages your really everything about you.
Speaker A:It's how we renew our mind to the word of God and start to see the word of God manifesting in our everyday life.
Speaker A:So meditation will literally move the mountains that you have in your life.
Speaker A:Super, super important.
Speaker A:Make sure you practice it daily.
Speaker A:We're going to get into it, but before we do, let's take a moment and pray.
Speaker A:Father God, I just thank you that you're here with us today.
Speaker A:Wherever we're watching from, Lord, you know all of our concerns, you know our needs.
Speaker A:You've already made a plan for us, made a provision for us.
Speaker A:The supply from you is always on.
Speaker A:Thank you Lord that you give us ears to hear your word today.
Speaker A:That you give us a mind to understand and a much receive everything that you have for us today in Jesus name.
Speaker B:Thank you Lord.
Speaker A:God is good to us.
Speaker A:Well, we're going to get straight into this.
Speaker A:I'm going to jump in here, get your bibles out.
Speaker A:We are going to look at a scripture here that is really super important.
Speaker A:And we're going to start here in Philippians 4.
Speaker A:I'm going to start actually in verse 6.
Speaker A:It says for be anxious for nothing but in everything by prayer and supplication with gratitude.
Speaker A:Make your request rests known to God.
Speaker A:Now, there's a lot in this.
Speaker A:It doesn't say be.
Speaker A:It says be anxious for nothing, but in everything.
Speaker A:Okay, this is really important.
Speaker A:So this is talking about not allowing anxiety and fear to really grip us, but in every situation, not for every situation, but in every situation by prayer and supplication.
Speaker A:Now what does supplication mean?
Speaker A:Well, I.
Speaker A:Look, this word supplication actually means our request that's made with gratitude.
Speaker A:So it's kind of repeating itself.
Speaker A:And anytime you see the scripture repeating itself, it's almost like, pay attention.
Speaker A:You know, kind of like when your mom would call your name more than once or when she would use like your middle name.
Speaker A:Oh, Carly Jane, right.
Speaker A:If I, if I had Carly Jane, I knew I was in trouble.
Speaker A:It was serious.
Speaker A:Right?
Speaker A:When there is something in the scripture that is repetitive, it's because the Lord really wants us to get it right.
Speaker A:And sometimes, you know, we need to hear it more than once.
Speaker A:I heard that announcements, when they're made, need to be made.
Speaker A:Like you need to hear something nine times before you really get it.
Speaker A:And not sure if there is.
Speaker A:That is has any scientific backing, but certainly if you're raising teenagers or husbands, you know, the repeat repetition is helpful.
Speaker A:It helps us to get it on the inside of us.
Speaker A:So it says here, you know, make your requests known by prayer and supplication.
Speaker A:So it's saying make your requests twice, basically, and, but with gratitude.
Speaker A:Make your requests, make your petitions, make.
Speaker A:Ask God for things.
Speaker A:In prayer, we ask God for things and we do that with a heart of gratitude.
Speaker A:That is a heart of thanks, Thanksgiving.
Speaker A:Thank you Lord, that you're good to me.
Speaker A:Thank you, Lord, that you provided for me.
Speaker A:Thank you Lord, that you hear me, that you care about me, that you are not distant, but you're close to me.
Speaker B:Thank you, Lord.
Speaker A:You know, and it's almost like a.
Speaker A:It's almost like a Thanksgiving sandwich.
Speaker A:When we are praying, if we, if we put our request right in the middle there, like the meat and a sandwich of thanksgiving, that is that, that is the example that we're being set here of how you say, make your request known to God.
Speaker A:And look at happens when we, when we form our prayers and our requests in the sandwich between Thanksgiving, it says, and the peace of God which surpasses all understanding, will protect your hearts and your minds through Christ Jesus.
Speaker A:Well, this is interesting because the peace of God, this is a supernatural peace.
Speaker A:This peace surpasses our natural circumstances.
Speaker A:And you know, most of the time when we come to God in prayer is because we have a need.
Speaker A:Because we have a need, because we have a crisis, because we have a fear or a concern about something.
Speaker A:So this, this fact that when we bring our requests to the Lord sandwiched between Thanksgiving, it says the God, the peace of God, that supernatural peace with a bypasses, it says it surpasses, it goes beyond, goes above our human understanding, will protect our hearts and minds.
Speaker A:Now, this is interesting because a lot of the times when you see the word mind or heart in the New Testament especially, it's talking about your mind, will, and emotions, and those words are used interchangeably.
Speaker A:But here in this verse, it's actually two different words, right?
Speaker A:So the word here for heart is cardiac, and that is actually talking about your physical heart and your.
Speaker A:And the word mind here, that's talking about your thoughts, your intellectual purpose, your thinking, your brain.
Speaker A:Right, Your thoughts.
Speaker A:So this is interesting because not only does this supernatural peace protect our thinking, but it also protects our physical being.
Speaker A:So we are covered there by the supernatural.
Speaker A:This, this prayer, that's that sandwiched with a request in between Thanksgiving releases a supernatural power that brings a protection over our physical body and over our thinking, over our thought life, over the our mind.
Speaker A:Man.
Speaker A:That's something that we want to tap into.
Speaker A:This is actually talking about meditation.
Speaker A:I want to go on and I want to explain this a little bit more.
Speaker A:Look at this.
Speaker A:It says, finally, my brothers, brethren.
Speaker A:And I'm reading from Philippians 4.
Speaker A:8.
Speaker A:Now, finally, brothers, whatever things are true, whatever things are honest, whatever things are just, whatever things are pure, whatever things are lovely, whatever things are of good report, if there's any virtue and if anything is praiseworthy.
Speaker A:And think on these things.
Speaker A:Think on these things.
Speaker A:What things are we supposed to be thinking on where it says, you know, meditate?
Speaker A:Actually, if you look in the new King James, it says, meditate on these things.
Speaker A:To think is to meditate.
Speaker A:We're talking about the supernatural power of peace actually protecting our thought life and our physical life.
Speaker A:When we think on things, when we meditate on the things, things that God has laid out for us, something interesting happens.
Speaker A:You know, I like to remember this scripture, Philippians 4.
Speaker A:Eight, meditate.
Speaker A:That's how I like to.
Speaker A:The rhyming part of it helps me remember it, but it means to meditate on these things.
Speaker A:It means to think, to count, to impute, to.
Speaker A:To give it force and weight, or to consider something, to determine something, or to reckon something.
Speaker A:So God has given us an instruction.
Speaker A:The Apostle Paul has given us an instruction under the inspiration of the Holy Spirit here on how to control our thought life.
Speaker A:And it comes through a process called meditation.
Speaker A:That meditation is to think.
Speaker A:It is to consider, right?
Speaker A:To give something, weight to say.
Speaker A:It's almost like when you hear somebody's opinion, you know, you place more weight on an opinion of somebody that you care about, don't you?
Speaker A:This is why words can be really powerful to cause encouragement or to cause discouragement and harm.
Speaker A:But we place more value, more weight, more force on the opinion or on the words of somebody that we know and we love and we trust than we do on the opinion of a stranger, somebody that doesn't know us, that doesn't know our situation, that we don't have a relationship with already, or at least we should do in healthy relationships, right?
Speaker A:And this is, this is important.
Speaker A:When we really get to know, when we spend time with, with, with Jesus, when we spend time meditating on God's word, we'll get to know him better and we'll naturally start placing more weight, more reckoning, more force, more trust, more confidence on the words that we read in our scripture than we will on the opinions of other people.
Speaker A:And, you know, something amazing happens that when your identity.
Speaker A:I've done a whole teaching, we did the I on identity.
Speaker A:When you allow your identity to be formed by the word of God, by God's opinion of you, rather than putting so much weight on the opinions of other people, there becomes more confidence in your, in your life.
Speaker A:More, more boldness, right?
Speaker A:More security, less indecision, less wavering, more stability comes from somebody who has their identity and therefore has been meditating in the word of God than somebody that's just moved around by everyone's opinions.
Speaker A:You know, James actually says, don't be tossed around.
Speaker A:Don't be tossed around between opinions.
Speaker A:You know, we become unstable in all of our ways, like a ship tossed on the ocean.
Speaker A:We need to let the word of God be literally the anchor of our soul.
Speaker A:How do we do that?
Speaker A:How does the Word of God anchor our soul?
Speaker A:By meditating, by thinking upon the scripture, by.
Speaker A:By considering what does the word of God say?
Speaker A:But, you know, one way to meditate.
Speaker A:I like to do this.
Speaker A:Meditate is really a link to your imagination.
Speaker A:So if you're reading the scripture, one practical way to meditate on the Word of God would be to read a scripture and read it through a couple of times, literally see the words on that page.
Speaker A:And it helps actually, if you say it out loud, something.
Speaker A:It's more powerful, almost Your, your brain retains a lot like 90% more information if you read it and you listen to it.
Speaker A:So you're speaking out.
Speaker A:And then if you write it out, man, that's like really cementing something.
Speaker A:That's one way that we can meditate.
Speaker A:So we, we, we hear it, we, we speak it, we write it, and then we close the book.
Speaker A:And when we close the Bible, when we close that scripture, I want you to see it now in your imagination.
Speaker A:That is a form of meditation.
Speaker A:When we start to see, when we can see the scripture, even when we're not reading the scripture, when we can imagine it.
Speaker A:I'm, I'm an immersive reader read the scripture.
Speaker A:I'm imagining myself walking on the shore of the Jordan.
Speaker A:I'm imagining myself out in the, in the boat on the, on the Sea of Galilee.
Speaker A:I imagine myself running after, you know, Goliath and, and selecting the, the five stones, getting ready to hurl one at him.
Speaker A:I imagine myself at the, sitting at the, at the foot of the cross.
Speaker A:I imagine myself peering over Mary's shoulder as she wouldn't wanted in to.
Speaker A:In the tomb in the garden.
Speaker A:I imagine myself there on the day of Pentecost when the fire came down.
Speaker A:I put myself in that scripture.
Speaker A:That's one way that I meditate personally on the word of God, to the Word of God becomes real to me.
Speaker A:So that when I dream at night, when I, when I think during the day, when I'm considering the circumstances and the things that are going on around me, when I'm learning to hear and listen to the Holy Spirit, you know, what's coming back to me is the picture of, of the scripture that I saw on the inside of me.
Speaker A:That's meditation.
Speaker A:And that's so important because, you know, we live in a world where our five senses are bombarded every day.
Speaker A:We're literally.
Speaker A:Now we, now we're doing like, you know, AI and virtual reality and all those kinds of things.
Speaker A:But you know, when we engage our five senses and even more so allow ourselves to meditate on the word of God, we're engaging actually our sixth sense, which is faith.
Speaker A:This is important because this will really help you when you're under fire, when you're under a time of stress, when you're under, you know, duress in some area, when you're tempted to feel anxious or afraid, when you've been meditating on the scriptures, that those things that you read and you saw and that you heard are going to come back to your imagination.
Speaker A:You know, the Holy Spirit One of the Holy Spirit's jobs is he's our helper, he's our counselor.
Speaker A:His job is to lead us into all truth and to bring things back to our remembrance.
Speaker A:This is a very function of the Holy Spirit.
Speaker A:So the things that we are meditating on.
Speaker A:The Holy Spirit can bring it back to your remembrance in the moment that you need it.
Speaker A:But he can't do that if you haven't meditated on it first.
Speaker A:You know, me and Ashley, we play a little game and we travel a lot and we go to the airport and we usually fly out of Denver International Airport.
Speaker A:It's a big airport with multi level parking lots and stuff.
Speaker A:And, you know, they have those signs.
Speaker A:You know, you've parked in lot A or, you know, level three, in the red zone or wherever it is.
Speaker A:And so in Denver Airport, it has like a picture.
Speaker A:So.
Speaker A:And each picture is a different animal and it's a different color and it has a number and it's east or west.
Speaker A:And then it has a number of the door that you go in.
Speaker A:And when we park, I take a picture in my mind of where we parked.
Speaker A:Ashley takes a physical picture on his phone so he doesn't forget.
Speaker A:But, you know, I find that if I look at that picture, that parking space, and it says that you have parked on level 4, K Red.
Speaker A:And it's a, you know, it's a picture of a deer.
Speaker A:And I, and I.
Speaker A:What I do is under.
Speaker A:In my mind, I see it, but then I repeat it out of my mouth.
Speaker A:It could be two, three weeks later.
Speaker A:And I have not looked at, you know, I haven't looked at the photograph of it.
Speaker A:But when we get back off the plane and we get our luggage and we go back to, you know, to find the car, Ashley said, where do we park?
Speaker A:And I said, we parked on level four.
Speaker A:It's K. It has a.
Speaker A:A red deer on it.
Speaker A:He's like, how do you remember that?
Speaker A:Because I meditated on it.
Speaker A:See if you can meditate on.
Speaker A:On stupid stuff.
Speaker A: es and who won the US Open in: Speaker A:I mean, they, they retain the most minute, insignificant amounts of insignificant details, vast amounts of information.
Speaker A:How do they do that?
Speaker A:Because they've meditated on it.
Speaker A:If we can do that with natural things, we can do that with the word of God.
Speaker A:And it is so powerful.
Speaker A:And you might say, carly, I'm just not very good at remembering things.
Speaker A:You don't have to be good at remembering things.
Speaker A:Meditation isn't about remembering.
Speaker A:It's about thinking.
Speaker A:It's about imagining.
Speaker A:It's about considering something.
Speaker A:And then the Holy Spirit's job is to help you remember it.
Speaker A:Well, if you know the Holy Spirit's job is to help you remember it, all we have to do our part is to meditate on it.
Speaker A:Man, that's powerful.
Speaker A:And he said, what things are we supposed to meditate on?
Speaker A:Well, it gave us a whole list there, right?
Speaker A:Think on these things.
Speaker A:Think on things that are.
Speaker A:That are noble, that are true, that are just, that are pure, that are lovely, that are of a good report, that have virtue.
Speaker A:That's pray or praiseworthy.
Speaker A:That's praiseworthiness, ma'.
Speaker A:Am.
Speaker A:When we're sick, when we're struggling with something, when we're under pressure, it's really easy to let all of those things occupy our minds, occupy our thoughts, occupy our words, to take control, to take charge, to come out of our mouth.
Speaker A:You know, we'd call this.
Speaker A:We'd call this worry, right?
Speaker A:And some of us are professional worriers.
Speaker A:You know, you did all the worrying for your family, right?
Speaker A:So this idea of not being anxious for anything is kind of like almost an alien impossibility.
Speaker A:But the Lord is never going to ask us to do something we're not capable of doing.
Speaker A:We just can't do it by ourself.
Speaker A:We need the power of the Holy Spirit to help us to take charge of even our own thought life.
Speaker A:And, you know, it begins with the decision to choose to think on things that are good, that are true, that are noble, that are lovely, that are of good report.
Speaker A:You know, that takes some effort, especially if everything around you is full of negativity.
Speaker A:And I was talking to my son this morning.
Speaker A:I'm like, there's only so much news that I can watch because none of it's.
Speaker A:I don't care what side of news you're on or where you get your sources of news from, but there's rarely anything ever good because good news doesn't sell as well as bad news does.
Speaker A:You know, if they can create a drama or a crisis or a storm in a teacup or a fuss about Nothing, they absolutely 100% will, because bad news sells better than good news does.
Speaker A:Good news doesn't usually make the news, right?
Speaker A:So it's not that everything in the world is bad.
Speaker A:It's just what's on the news is usually bad.
Speaker A:So take that in mind.
Speaker A:But the Lord says, focus, focus, meditate, think on, consider, put weight behind things that are good.
Speaker A:Things that are.
Speaker A:Things that are true, things that are noble, things that have praise, a praise worthy of virtue about them, right.
Speaker A:Of good, things that are of good report.
Speaker A:And it goes on, it says, look at this, the next scripture, it says in verse nine, I mean, Philippians four, verse nine, do those things.
Speaker A:So you're not just thinking on those things, meditating on those things.
Speaker A:But then it says, once you've, once you've meditated, once you've, once you've thought about those things, imagine those things.
Speaker A:It says that we're supposed to do these.
Speaker A:Those things which you have learned, learned and received and heard and seen in me.
Speaker A:So he's saying, the example that you see in me, the things that you've heard from the Lord, the things that you've witnessed from the Lord, the thing, the testimonies, the breakthroughs, the miracles, the, the words of encouragement, the answered prayer, right?
Speaker A:Those things that, those nuggets of truths that you have listened and to.
Speaker A:And learned over the, over the years, right?
Speaker A:And it says, do those things press into those things, Focus on those things, move towards those things, right?
Speaker A:It says, and there's a consequence, it says, and the God of peace will be with you.
Speaker A:Well, this is really interesting because within like three scriptures there is mentioned this same phrase, the God of peace, twice.
Speaker A:Remember I said this twice, that requests with, with gratitude and thanksgiving are repeated.
Speaker A:There's also twice that it talks about as a result of that, the God of peace, that supernatural peace of God will be with us.
Speaker A:This word peace is in the New Testament.
Speaker A:Here is Irene in the Greek, and it means to set up one.
Speaker A:Again, it is talking about a reset.
Speaker A:Why is meditation on the word of God so powerful?
Speaker A:Because there is a supernatural component when we meditate on the things of God and we, we bring our requests before God with praise and thanksgiving and gratitude that there is a.
Speaker A:There is a reset that occurs.
Speaker A:So not only does making our requests known to God in a sandwich of prayer and thanksgiving protect our heart, our mind, that's our physical body and our thought life, but as we press on and we meditate and we focus on the good things that God is doing, that supernatural power of peace that God has for us that fills our heart and mind in Christ Jesus goes way beyond even our natural understanding.
Speaker A:And it creates a reset.
Speaker A:It turns things back to the beginning again.
Speaker A:Have you ever had a situation where, where something hasn't worked?
Speaker A:Right?
Speaker A:Maybe you've been on a computer, you've been doing this?
Speaker A:Happens to me a lot, right?
Speaker A:And one of the, you know, you from maybe your phone, tech support, you know, or you go on a chat or whatever it is and one of the first things they tell you to do.
Speaker A:Have you tried unplugging it and plugging it back in again?
Speaker A:You know, reset.
Speaker A:Why are they telling you to do that?
Speaker A:Because it's a resetting.
Speaker A:When we meditate on the word of God, it is resetting our physical body.
Speaker A:It is resetting our thought life.
Speaker A:And there is a supernatural power that is released in us when we are reset to our default position.
Speaker A:What is our default possession?
Speaker A:Child of God.
Speaker A:When you were born, have you ever seen a newborn baby?
Speaker A:I've got a newborn, A grandbaby at the moment.
Speaker A:Elsie Jane.
Speaker A:She's adorable.
Speaker A:You know, she doesn't have a care in the world.
Speaker A:She just sleeps.
Speaker A:She's not, you know, she sleeps, she snores, she eats, she poops, she just, she doesn't care.
Speaker A:She's anxious for nothing.
Speaker A:She is in her default position.
Speaker A:She has been born as God intended her to be.
Speaker A:Perfect, lacking nothing.
Speaker A:And she doesn't have a care in the world.
Speaker A:She's not anxious for anything.
Speaker A:She is in a place of peace.
Speaker A:She can sleep soundly, right.
Speaker A:When she's hungry, she cries.
Speaker A:She knows that, you know, her parents are going to feed her.
Speaker A:Amen.
Speaker A:I mean, she's not worried about her safety.
Speaker A:She's.
Speaker A:She's just in her default position.
Speaker A:When we meditate on the word of God, it resets us to our default position.
Speaker A:Like a, like a newborn baby again, I guess you could say as we.
Speaker A:Before all the worry, before all the stress, before all the symptoms, it resets us into that place again.
Speaker A:It sets us at peace again, you know, in the amplified, it says to practice these things in daily life.
Speaker A:To practice these things in daily life.
Speaker A:So you know, this isn't just a one time deal.
Speaker A:We need to meditate on the scripture every day.
Speaker A:Hence shameless plug.
Speaker A:We were a 365 day devotional because we need the word of God on the inside of us every single day.
Speaker A:This isn't, you know, you don't just eat, you know, once now and again.
Speaker A:You're supposed to eat multiple times a day, maybe two or three times a day, you know, and if you miss a meal, you're going to start feeling it in your physical body.
Speaker A:Your, your, your stomach gives you signs.
Speaker A:It starts rumbling.
Speaker A:Well, guess what?
Speaker A:Our spiritual life is just the same.
Speaker A:If we miss a meal of the word of God, we're going to start to feel it in our, in our physical body.
Speaker A:We're going to start to feel those waves of anxiety, those waves of, of fear, those, those, those physical attacks more strongly because there's a part of us that's starving.
Speaker A:We need to be built up in the word of God that is meditating in the Word and, and, and thinking on those things which are good, true, noble, worthy, praiseworthy of good report.
Speaker A:And then the, the supernatural power of God's peace is with us.
Speaker A:It flows through us to reset us to our default position again.
Speaker A:Man, this is so powerful.
Speaker A:I want to show you this in Luke.
Speaker A:Let's go on over here to Luke.
Speaker A:Now, sometimes there are things that we don't understand.
Speaker A:There are situations, there are circumstances that come against us and just out of our control even and, you know, try to rob us of our peace.
Speaker A:They try to rob us of our joy.
Speaker A:They try to take our mind, our attention, our focus off of the word of God onto anything but the word of God.
Speaker A:And, you know, these are usually natural circumstances.
Speaker A:They could even be demonic attacks or physical symptoms within the body or just, you know, concern about natural things like carnal concern about things that are going on in the world.
Speaker A:And we can find ourselves struggling to stand in faith because we don't understand what is going on.
Speaker A:And I want to help you a little bit with this because, you know, there comes a place belief is outside of understanding.
Speaker A:Just like the supernatural power of peace surpasses our understanding, guess what?
Speaker A:Our faith surpasses our understanding too.
Speaker A:Okay?
Speaker A:And I want to show you an example of this in the scripture.
Speaker A:And we're going to look a little bit at Mary because, you know, Mary, when, when the angel appeared to her, you know, and told her that blessed is she among women, blessed and highly favored, that the Lord's gonna, you know, the Holy Spirit's gonna come upon her.
Speaker A:I mean, this was something that no one in, in the world has, will ever experience again.
Speaker A:There was no other virgin that we, we know about.
Speaker A:I don't believe that there is another virgin.
Speaker A:I believe that Mary was God's first choice.
Speaker A:But, you know, there was, there was nobody else that she could call and say, you know, when the angel appeared to you and told you were going to have a messiah, how did you respond?
Speaker A:You know, there was no precedent for that.
Speaker A:There was no, there was nothing written that she could, that she could read or knowing that she could really talk to.
Speaker A:But this was something that, this phenomenon, this angel appearing was something that was totally outside of her realm of human understanding.
Speaker A:But yet she responded and, you know that she was an amazing Woman of faith.
Speaker A:Because even though she didn't understand it, she, her response to the angel was, was, you know, let it be unto me according to your word.
Speaker A:Even though I, she didn't understand it.
Speaker A:Let it be unto me according according to your word.
Speaker A:And you know, the, the, we know that what happened, the Holy Spirit came upon her, she conceived Jesus and then she, she delivered him.
Speaker A:And there was still lots of things around the birth of Jesus that would just kind of blow your mind.
Speaker A:I mean like, and we think Mary's probably around the age of 14, you know, a young teenager at that point.
Speaker A:And, and so, you know, not hugely experienced in, in life now a first time mother.
Speaker A:And there were several incidences that Mary went through where she didn't understand what was going on.
Speaker A:She just knew the importance of hanging onto it.
Speaker A:And I want to encourage you, if you're going through something challenging right now, you don't understand all of the details, maybe you know, that you believe that God is working on your behalf because he is, but you can't see any evidence of that just yet.
Speaker A:I want to encourage you, we can take those experiences, we can take those words, we can keep them in our heart, we can meditate on what is true.
Speaker A:And God is always working on your behalf.
Speaker A:Amen.
Speaker A:And it will, it will bear fruit.
Speaker A:I want to encourage you with this.
Speaker A:Look at this.
Speaker A:And this is in Luke chapter two.
Speaker A:And so I'm just going to jump in here to verse things, verse 13.
Speaker A:This is after she'd given birth.
Speaker A:It says suddenly there was with the angel of the heavenly host, praising a great company of the heavenly host, praising God and saying glory to God in the highest and on earth peace and goodwill towards men.
Speaker A:This is the peace of God, the supernatural peace of God that surpasses all understanding that we were just talking about, right?
Speaker A:And you know, so think about this for a moment.
Speaker A:You know, you've just given birth and now this is real to me because my daughter's just had a baby, okay?
Speaker A:But I'm remembering back to when, you know, we had our children.
Speaker A:I couldn't imagine having just given birth and all of a sudden these, these men show up smelling of sheep.
Speaker A:And now if that wasn't strange enough, you know, we have an angel chorus and a drum solo and you know, animals and all kinds of things going on.
Speaker A:I mean, this is like, this is like sensory overload.
Speaker A:You know, you just got the baby Jesus to sleep and suddenly, you know, the angels are singing.
Speaker A:You know, this is, this, is this something.
Speaker A:This is, this is just Something.
Speaker A:Okay, it's a lot.
Speaker A:There's a lot going on there.
Speaker A:But it says here, you know, verse 19.
Speaker A:But Mary kept all of these things.
Speaker A:She kept all of these things that were going on and pondered them in her heart.
Speaker A:She didn't say she understood what was going on.
Speaker A:It says she pondered those things in her heart.
Speaker A:She kept those things in her heart and pondered them.
Speaker A:To ponder, it means to consider.
Speaker A:You know, meditate means to consider.
Speaker A:You could say she meditated, right?
Speaker A:She pondered, she considered, she meditated on these things in her heart.
Speaker A:It also means to combine, to join together in one's mind or to converse, to speak something.
Speaker A:She took those things that.
Speaker A:That were going on around her, even though she didn't have the answers for everything.
Speaker A:She meditated on them.
Speaker A:She thought about them, she recollected them, she considered them.
Speaker A:Man, this.
Speaker A:This is so important.
Speaker A:Why?
Speaker A:Why is this really important?
Speaker A:Well, the consideration of your heart, you know, what we fail to consider will move us.
Speaker A:That's a big statement right there.
Speaker A:If we fail to consider something, it will fail to move us.
Speaker A:If we fail to consider the Word of God in and how that.
Speaker A:And what the Word of God says about our circumstances, the Word of God will fail to have an impact on our circumstances.
Speaker A:This is really important.
Speaker A:This is why meditation moves mountains.
Speaker A:Sometimes we look at the size of the mountain and we think, oh, my gosh, that can never move.
Speaker A:Jesus told us to move, to speak to mountains and they'll move and be cast into the sea.
Speaker A:It's the meditation of our heart, what we consider, which determines whether that mountain moves or doesn't move.
Speaker A:Because as a man thinks in his heart, so is he.
Speaker A:Meditation means to consider, to ponder, to join, you know, to join together, to converse, to speak what we think upon, what we meditate on, what we join together in our mouth, in our mind, ultimately is going to come out of our mouth.
Speaker A:And what comes out of our mouth will either move a mountain or build a mountain will either lead us to victory or it will lead us to defeat, will lead us out of sickness and in triumph, or it will lead us down a pity party, a victim mentality, and keep us in bondage.
Speaker A:This is why the meditation of your heart will move a mountain, because it is that powerful.
Speaker A:She kept all these things in her heart, you know, and the scripture goes on and, you know, Jesus grows and he grows to be a teenager.
Speaker A:And then it comes a time a little while later, and this is, you know, Mary's first child.
Speaker A:It's not like she had, you know, Lots of, lots of other children to, you know, by, by the time Jesus, you know, may have had, there might be other children there.
Speaker A:But this was.
Speaker A:Jesus was her first child, okay?
Speaker A:And so he.
Speaker A:He was a child that was unlike any other children ever known to mankind.
Speaker A:And here she was, a teenage mum raising, raising the Messiah.
Speaker A:And there was many times actually in scripture that is recorded that Mary didn't understand all these things, but she kept them in her heart.
Speaker A:She kept them, she meditated on them.
Speaker A:One of those times was when.
Speaker A:Do you remember the story when Jesus got left behind in the temple?
Speaker A:They were all doing like the mass exodus, the pilgrimage.
Speaker A:And Jesus got, you know, he said they've gone on several days and they didn't realize.
Speaker A:A big group, extended family, didn't realize, you know, the size missing.
Speaker A:I mean, you know, we've had some pretty catastrophic parenting failures.
Speaker A:You know, we did lose our 2 year old at one point, you know, for 20 minutes in a store, very busy, and we had three children close together.
Speaker A:And so they outnumbered us.
Speaker A:They were all a year apart.
Speaker A:And I did my best to keep them contained in the stroller.
Speaker A:And actually our eldest, Zach, who was a bit of a runner, we had to put wrist rain on him because, you know, if there's one of you and there's three of them, those, those little, those little people get away from you.
Speaker A:And I lost him in a store and they did one of those, you know, Code Adam.
Speaker A:Everyone's on the radio.
Speaker A:Shut down all the exits, right?
Speaker A:We're gonna find this kid.
Speaker A:And so I had Josh and Hannah, like newborn and a one year old.
Speaker A:And my two and two, two and a bit year old is, has.
Speaker A:Is AWOL missing somewhere.
Speaker A:And you know, we are looking everywhere.
Speaker A:We were right there in the toy aisle and we turned around and like he just gone.
Speaker A:He was a runner.
Speaker A:He just, he just legged it.
Speaker A:He saw.
Speaker A:He's like, squirrel out of here, right?
Speaker A:So he's gone.
Speaker A:So we're combing the store and I'm standing there and if you're watching from England, you will know what I mean by pick and mix.
Speaker A:I don't even know if I don't think they have this in America so much, but big baskets in the store, department store, where there's all different wrapped candies and chocolates.
Speaker A:And then you, you know, you get your little scoop and you put what you want in the bag and then you weigh it and you pay per the pound, right?
Speaker A:So there's big, big pick and mix baskets for the chocolates.
Speaker A:And I'm standing there talking to the security people and the police and all the staff.
Speaker A:You know, it's a big department store, they're all like going around and 20 minutes just felt like an absolute eternity.
Speaker A:And in that moment I hear this little rustling, like, where could it be?
Speaker A:And I'm like, well, he was right by the toys.
Speaker A:You know, he loves, he loves Lego.
Speaker A:He could be looking at the Lego, you know, he, you know, we were talking about where he could be and I, and out of the corner of my eye I see this little hand that just comes up, up over the edge of the table and grabs a candy and then scoots back underneath you.
Speaker A:Just this little hand.
Speaker A:I'm like, I recognize that hand.
Speaker A:I see that hand.
Speaker A:You, you Pentecostal toddler, right?
Speaker A:And sure enough, there is my two year old.
Speaker A:He was sitting like just a couple of feet away from us the whole time underneath the table skirt, like where you couldn't see him.
Speaker A:And every now and again this little hand would come out and grab a candy, grab a chocolate and go back in again.
Speaker A:And you'd wait a couple of moves and it come out again.
Speaker A:And we pulled back the table skirts and there is that.
Speaker A:With a face full of chocolate and like all these dozens of wrappers all around him.
Speaker A:He just, he knew exactly where his mom and dad were.
Speaker A:He was just sitting there.
Speaker A:He wanted to eat the candy.
Speaker A:Absolutely right.
Speaker A:I mean, and at that point I'm like, the relief.
Speaker A:And then afterwards I was like, oh, you rascal.
Speaker A:Right, you rascal.
Speaker A:But you know, can you imagine, can you imagine being Mary and Joseph and you know, it's not your toddler eating candy that you've lost.
Speaker A:No, no, it's, it's the Messiah.
Speaker A:This isn't just any child.
Speaker A:This is the Messiah.
Speaker A:And you've, you know, three days has gone past and you've realized you've lost him.
Speaker A:So they trek all the way back and they find Jesus.
Speaker A:And there he is, sitting in the temple, reading the scrolls, reading the scriptures.
Speaker A:And they ask him, his mother, verse 48, I mean, Luke 2, verse 48, it says when they saw him, they were amazed, right?
Speaker A:I mean, and there's a whole wave of emotions that could have overcome a parent at that point, right?
Speaker A:And his mother said to him, son, why have you dealt with us like this?
Speaker A:What were you thinking?
Speaker A:What were you thinking, Jesus?
Speaker A:She says, look, your father and, and I have anxiously searched for you.
Speaker A:You can bet they were searching for him, right?
Speaker A:They've lost the Messiah.
Speaker A:And he said to them, how is it that you search for me.
Speaker A:Did you not know that I must be about my Father's business?
Speaker A:Now, when Jesus saying I must be about my Father's business, what is his Father's business?
Speaker A:Well, it was sitting, sitting and listening to the word of God.
Speaker A:It was meditating in the Word, in the scrolls, in the scriptures.
Speaker A:He was meditating.
Speaker A:He was about his Father's business.
Speaker A:And when Mary and Josie found him, that's exactly what he was doing.
Speaker A:He says they did not understand the Word which he spoke to, to them.
Speaker A:Sometimes there are messages, there are sermons, there are things that we hear, even verses, scriptures that we read that we don't understand.
Speaker A:But you know, part of meditating in it is to think about, it is to consider, it is to ponder, it is to imagine, it is to invite the Holy Spirit to come and give you revelation.
Speaker A:And as you do that, that understanding will come.
Speaker A:But it comes as a result of meditation, not before, right?
Speaker A:Look at this.
Speaker A:They kept, it says, then they went down with them and came to Nazareth.
Speaker A:But his mother Mary kept all of these words in her heart.
Speaker A:She kept, she guarded them in her heart.
Speaker A:And Jesus increased in wisdom and stature in favor with God and man.
Speaker A:You know, this is, this is important.
Speaker A:It says Mary kept all of these things in her heart, all of these words, these things that she didn't understand, these experiences that were happening that she didn't quite have the whole picture.
Speaker A:And she kept them in her heart.
Speaker A:She meditated on them in her heart.
Speaker A:In the amplified.
Speaker A:It says, mary persistently guarded all of these things in her heart.
Speaker A:She persistently guarded all of these things in her.
Speaker A:In her heart.
Speaker A:Why?
Speaker A:Because the enemy wants to see still them.
Speaker A:But when they're guarded in your heart, in the soil of your heart, and they're below that surface, he can't snatch them.
Speaker A:Do you remember Mark, chapter four, the parable of the Sower?
Speaker A:Right.
Speaker A:There's several different types of, of.
Speaker A:Of ground there.
Speaker A:And those different types of ground represent the conditions of the human heart.
Speaker A:Some, you know, some hearts are stony, some have weeds, some have thorns, some have the cares of this world that are like weeds trying to choke the word of God.
Speaker A:Sometimes we hear the word, the seed, but it doesn't penetrate our heart because it's snatched away too quickly or because we're distracted before that word takes root, before we've had an opportunity to meditate.
Speaker A:When we meditate on the Word of God, when we're not just hearing it one ear and going out the other, we're allowing to put down roots and if something, a seed of the Word has put down roots, the birds can't come and snatch it away, right?
Speaker A:It means that it's got below the surface of our heart.
Speaker A:It's now guarded.
Speaker A:It's below the surface level.
Speaker A:It's.
Speaker A:It's got roots.
Speaker A:It's not just skin deep.
Speaker A:It's.
Speaker A:It's penetrated deep, right?
Speaker A:This Word is penetrated deep.
Speaker A:Let's look at this scripture.
Speaker A:I've got a couple of scriptures here.
Speaker A:And then, then I'm going to pray for you here, okay?
Speaker A:But in Proverbs.
Speaker A:Look at this.
Speaker A:I'm gonna get my, get this up here in my.
Speaker A:And my digital Bible.
Speaker A:I should be so proud of me.
Speaker A:Proverbs 4, verse 20.
Speaker A:Look at this.
Speaker A:It says, my son, this is very parental advice.
Speaker A:Okay?
Speaker A:My son, give attention to my words.
Speaker A:Incline your ear to my sayings.
Speaker A:It's almost like, lean in, listen in to what the Holy Spirit is saying, to what the Word of God is saying.
Speaker A:When we're talking about meditation today, that moves mountains, you know what?
Speaker A:You don't just.
Speaker A:You don't meditate to a point where you can move a mountain, where you can walk in authority when you can speak the Word and see a situation change.
Speaker A:You don't get to that point by being a casual hero of the Word.
Speaker A:There's a place of meditation, a place of meditation.
Speaker A:It says, do not let these sayings, these words, depart from your eyes, but keep them in the midst of what your heart, in your mind, your will, your emotion.
Speaker A:Meditate on them.
Speaker A:Shut the book and still see on the inside.
Speaker A:He says, why?
Speaker A:Because they are life to those who find them and health to all your flesh.
Speaker A:And meditation of the Word of God, on the promises of God, of healing that Christ has already provided for, you will move the mountain of sickness and disease, or the mountain of desperation and poverty, or anxiety and despair.
Speaker A:It will move those mountains.
Speaker A:Meditating on the Word of God will be life to those who find them and health, physical health to all of your flesh.
Speaker A:There is a physical benefit of meditating on God's Word.
Speaker A:You know, Psalm 107, 20 says, he sent his Word and healed you, delivered you from all your destructions, your pitfalls, your distress, right?
Speaker A:This is, this is the, this is the result of meditation, not being a casual hearer.
Speaker A:Anyone can hear a verse and, you know, repeated passion, parrot fashion.
Speaker A:I'm talking about letting it put down roots, have legs, right?
Speaker A:Put down roots in your heart.
Speaker A:And it says, verse 23, Keep your heart with all diligence, for out of it springs the issues of life, you know, to keep something.
Speaker A:Remember Mary kept the words of Jesus that she didn't understand as well as the ones she did in her heart.
Speaker A:She pondered them, she considered them, she meditated on them, she spoke them out, right?
Speaker A:She declared them, she says, when she was keeping her heart by doing those things for out of it spring the issues of life.
Speaker A:This is talking about the borders of your life, your boundaries.
Speaker A:You know this word, issues, right?
Speaker A:It's talking about borders, outgoings, you know, people without boundaries, good boundaries in their life will find that their heart is unguarded.
Speaker A:An unguarded heart will have no boundaries.
Speaker A:And that means that anything that they hear they'll absorb very quickly, but then quickly it's gone again.
Speaker A:Maybe you've, maybe you've struggled with this, maybe I'm describing you here, but people without good boundaries are people that, that don't operate in self control.
Speaker A:They are living in the realm of their emotions on a, on a daily basis.
Speaker A:So because of that they're, you know, they're very up and down all the time.
Speaker A:There's no stability.
Speaker A:They're very easily moved by, swayed by public opinion.
Speaker A:You know, if they, if they watch a news report, man, they think the world's going to end.
Speaker A:But then if they, if they read something else that's positive, they think, oh, we're on top of the world.
Speaker A:There's, there's no stability there.
Speaker A:There's no, there's no meditation there.
Speaker A:It's just in, out, up, down, all of the time.
Speaker A:People without borders, without boundaries in their life struggle to say no.
Speaker A:They struggle to say no to people.
Speaker A:They struggle to say no to commitments.
Speaker A:They typically over commit themselves.
Speaker A:They overburdened themselves.
Speaker A:They wear themselves out because they can't say no.
Speaker A:They get, then they get physically sick because of it.
Speaker A:Or they give all of, you know, all of their resources away and they struggle because they have nothing left.
Speaker A:There's no balance.
Speaker A:They're financially in a mess because they don't know how to manage anything.
Speaker A:There's no boundaries with spending income or outgo.
Speaker A:These are people that are unstable in all of their ways.
Speaker A:And that's a problem because it's a symptom of somebody that doesn't have a guarded heart.
Speaker A:They haven't allowed the word of God to, to form the protective layer of their heart.
Speaker A:So the world, the world is messing them over.
Speaker A:And you know, the enemy will take advantage of those kinds of people.
Speaker A:If you can't say no to people, you're probably going to struggle to say no to symptoms.
Speaker A:If you're.
Speaker A:If you can't say no to, you know, to.
Speaker A:To lies from people, you're probably not going to say no to lies from the enemy.
Speaker A:It's the same thing, right?
Speaker A:There's no boundary.
Speaker A:There's no borders.
Speaker A:And we're not called in this life to become spiritual doormats.
Speaker A:We're not.
Speaker A:We're supposed to walk in boldness and authority and love and compassion, and that means no.
Speaker A:You know what?
Speaker A:No is a complete sentence.
Speaker A:We're gonna.
Speaker A:We're gonna get more onto this, okay?
Speaker A:But this is really important, because if you want to be somebody that operates in the authority that you have in Christ, we have to know what God has said.
Speaker A:Y.
Speaker A:And therefore, what we can say no to.
Speaker A:This is a big deal for people.
Speaker A:A really big deal.
Speaker A:Okay?
Speaker A:So this is the.
Speaker A:The issues of the heart.
Speaker A:You know, if you.
Speaker A:If I've just described you, I want you to.
Speaker A:To take heart.
Speaker A:Meditation is your friend.
Speaker A:Meditate on the word of God.
Speaker A:Think on those things.
Speaker A:Go back to Philippians 4.
Speaker A:8.
Speaker A:It'll help you to have good boundaries in your life.
Speaker A:Amen.
Speaker A:It'll help you to.
Speaker A:To.
Speaker A:To.
Speaker A:To structure some things.
Speaker A:One more scripture.
Speaker A:Okay?
Speaker A:Proverbs 23.
Speaker A:Go on over here.
Speaker A:Proverbs 23 and verse 19.
Speaker A:Look at this one.
Speaker A:It says, hear my son and be wise and guide your heart in the way.
Speaker A:You know, your heart needs protection.
Speaker A:It needs to be guarded, and it needs to be guided, you know, to guide.
Speaker A:You know, if you leave your heart to its own devices is.
Speaker A:It's like a child.
Speaker A:You know, in the scripture, it says, train up a child in the way they should go, and they won't depart from it.
Speaker A:Well, if a child has had no training, they don't know what's okay, what's not okay.
Speaker A:They don't know what's safe, what's dangerous.
Speaker A:They don't know who to go, you know, go off with, you know, or.
Speaker A:Or stay with.
Speaker A:They.
Speaker A:They don't know how to.
Speaker A:How to make good choices.
Speaker A:You have to train them in those things.
Speaker A:That's just.
Speaker A:That's just parenting, right?
Speaker A:Because as parents, us, we're older, we're wiser, we've been in the world more.
Speaker A:We have more experience.
Speaker A:We can help them avoid the pitfalls and the mistakes that we made.
Speaker A:That's training.
Speaker A:That's leading our children so that they can avoid danger and walk in prosperity and success.
Speaker A:Be.
Speaker A:Be better humans than we were.
Speaker A:Right?
Speaker A:Be.
Speaker A:Be more prosperous, stronger, more grounded than we were.
Speaker A:They can start on our shoulders and go further than we have.
Speaker A:Every good, healthy parent should want that for their child, right?
Speaker A:And.
Speaker A:But that doesn't help.
Speaker A:That doesn't happen without parenting.
Speaker A:We need to parent our own heart.
Speaker A:We need to lead our own heart, guide our own heart.
Speaker A:That's exactly what that word means.
Speaker A:Here.
Speaker A:We guide our heart in the way it means to show it how to walk straight.
Speaker A:Show your heart how to walk straight, show it, lead it, and call it blessed.
Speaker A:And it means, also means to make, to advance, to go forward, to make progress.
Speaker A:If we want to grow spiritually, we need to be people that meditate in the word daily, make it as.
Speaker A:As it said in the amplified.
Speaker A:Practice those things, practice the meditation on the word of God in daily life.
Speaker A:But also people that guard our heart and lead our heart in the way of truth, that allow the Holy Spirit to bring things back to our remembrance.
Speaker A:The things that we've meditated on.
Speaker A:When trouble and when adversity comes that way, we don't have to be anxious, we don't have to get into fear.
Speaker A:We don't have to look at a symptom or a doctor's report and be like, oh my gosh, I'm gonna die.
Speaker A:No, you shall not die, but you shall live and declare the goodness of God in the land of the living.
Speaker A:When we've been meditating on the word of God and the doctor's report comes back and says something terrible, you say, you know what?
Speaker A:Jesus has already paid.
Speaker A:I'm not going to be moved.
Speaker A:I'm not going to be moved at an evil report.
Speaker A:Report when God has already given me a good report.
Speaker A:You see, there's a difference because what you're meditating on when you're squeezed is going to come out.
Speaker A:It's almost like, you know, a submarine, right?
Speaker A:A submarine, it goes up and down in the water by allowing a pressure change.
Speaker A:You know, they have big tanks and they.
Speaker A:They either increase pressure or decrease pressure.
Speaker A:It.
Speaker A:The skin of the submarine will decide what gets in and what comes out.
Speaker A:And that causes that submarine to rise and fall in the water.
Speaker A:You know, the submarine can't do anything about the water around it.
Speaker A:But the power of the submarine and the direction of that submarine is dependent upon how much of that water pressure gets inside of it.
Speaker A:We can't change our outward circumstances.
Speaker A:We are in the world, not of the world.
Speaker A:But we can change what we allow of that, those circumstances to influence us.
Speaker A:And when we stand against negative circumstances, what is on the inside of us will change those circumstances.
Speaker A:We'll have A counter.
Speaker A:We'll have a counter effect.
Speaker A:Man.
Speaker A:This, this is so important.
Speaker A:The meditation of your heart will move the mountains around you.
Speaker A:Let the word of God penetrate deep in your heart.
Speaker A:Put down roots, get way into your soul.
Speaker A:And the peace of God that surpasses all your faith, all, all of your heart and mind will fill you in.
Speaker A:Christ Jesus.
Speaker A:There's a supernatural peace that is released in you that has a protective and a physical impact on your, on your body.
Speaker A:Super, super important.
Speaker A:So the next time you look at that mountain, you say, hang on a minute.
Speaker A:Mountain, you know, have you met my God?
Speaker A:Mountain, meet my God.
Speaker A:Rather than looking at that mountain saying, oh my gosh, I'm terrified.
Speaker A:It's towering down on me.
Speaker A:It's gonna, it's going to crush me.
Speaker A:It's going to overwhelm me.
Speaker A:I'm so small compared to this big mountain.
Speaker A:You say mountain.
Speaker A:You know what?
Speaker A:I might be small.
Speaker A:Maybe you would be able to crush me.
Speaker A:But let me tell you one, because my God, the God of all peace, will soon crush you beneath my feet.
Speaker A:Amen.
Speaker A:This is supernatural, supernatural power of meditation that will move those mountains.
Speaker A:Well, Father God, I just thank you.
Speaker A:I thank you, Lord, that you have given us, us all of these truths at our disposal.
Speaker A:And Holy Spirit, I just ask you to help us, help us really understand the things that we have heard today.
Speaker A:Bring things back to our remembrance, Holy Spirit, that we have forgotten, that we meditated on maybe a long time ago, that we buried there in the, in the depths, you know, of our memory.
Speaker A:But Holy Spirit, thank you that you can bring stuff back to our remembrance.
Speaker A:Help us to remember the Word.
Speaker A:It was the Word that you sent to heal us.
Speaker A:Help us to remember the Word when we come into challenging times, when there's times of difficulty, times of duress, when we're under pressure.
Speaker A:Thank you Lord, that we have the victory in all things, that you lead us in all victory.
Speaker A:You cause us to triumph.
Speaker A:You cause us to be above our circumstances and not beneath them.
Speaker A:Thank you Lord, that you give us power in our tongue, the power of life and death, to bring life into dead things and to.
Speaker A:To call them things that be not as though they are.
Speaker A:Thank you Lord, that you give us power and authority over every lying work of the enemy, over sickness and disease.
Speaker A:And right now, in Jesus name, we command every symptom to leave your body.
Speaker A:We command pain and anxiety and fear and depression.
Speaker A:Get out.
Speaker A:Right now, in Jesus name we speak strength back into your mortal flesh.
Speaker A:Wholeness into your bones, life and vitality back into every organ.
Speaker A:In the name of Jesus.
Speaker A:Thank you Lord, that you have given us victory over sickness.
Speaker A:Their sickness doesn't belong to us anymore.
Speaker A:That we are the healed of the Lord.
Speaker A:There is strength right now coming back to people's limbs.
Speaker A:In Jesus name, I command nerves to come back feeling to be switched back on.
Speaker A:Thank you, Jesus.
Speaker A:Sensitivity to be turned back up again.
Speaker A:Numbness to get out right now.
Speaker A:Thank you Lord, for there's functionality coming back.
Speaker A:Thank you, Lord, for new abilities, for new stability, for new mobility.
Speaker A:In Jesus name, thank you.
Speaker A:There's vitreous membranes that are being made whole right now.
Speaker B:Thank you.
Speaker B:Thank you, Lord.
Speaker A:Right now, every pain, every ache, every burden be lifted.
Speaker A:Be gone.
Speaker A:In Jesus name we command pain in the knees and the hips.
Speaker A:Colleen, leave right now.
Speaker A:Thank you, Jesus.
Speaker A:COPD symptoms.
Speaker A:Donna, leave right now.
Speaker A:Lungs open up, healing come back to your breathing.
Speaker A:Right now, we command that disease process that started in your body to stop, stop.
Speaker B:Thank you, Jesus.
Speaker B:Thank you, Lord.
Speaker A:Jane and David say that Kylie prayed for bone spurs to disappear a few weeks ago.
Speaker A:And I just realized a week or so ago that mine is gone.
Speaker A:Hallelujah.
Speaker A:You know, that bone spur didn't belong to you anyway.
Speaker A:That's a great rapport, great testimony.
Speaker A:Thank you, Jesus.
Speaker A:I thank you, Lord, that you're removing from us things that don't belong.
Speaker A:Yeah, there's a removal process, there's an eviction process that's happening right now.
Speaker A:Thank you, Jesus.
Speaker A:That these things don't, these diseases, these labels, they don't belong to us.
Speaker A:They don't belong to us.
Speaker A:There's a foreign body that I see that's been.
Speaker A:And I don't know where this came from.
Speaker A:It could be shrapnel.
Speaker A:I see little bits of metal, actually fragments that have become embedded in somebody's.
Speaker A:In the flesh, they've become embedded.
Speaker A:And it's almost like it would be more dangerous to remove those fragments, those particles than it would be to leave it there, but you don't want it there.
Speaker A:Right now we command those fragments, those embedded foreign bodies to be removed, dissolved, obliterated, in Jesus name.
Speaker B:Thank you, Lord.
Speaker A:We command strength where there is, where there is a pins and plates right now, we come on, complete healing, complete healing.
Speaker A:Where there has been things that are fused shut.
Speaker A:I see a spine that has been fused and there is no mobility there.
Speaker A:Right now.
Speaker A:We command that fusion to become mobile again.
Speaker A:In Jesus name.
Speaker B:Thank you, Lord.
Speaker A:Thank you, Lord, that you're bringing ability back to us to, to move, to bend, to stretch, to touch our toes, to raise I see somebody getting the ability to raise their arms again.
Speaker B:Thank you Lord.
Speaker A:We claim that we receive that the ability to raise up limbs again, to bring a knee up into a, into a standing position, to raise a limb, to bend and stretch your ankle, to grasp things with your hands.
Speaker A:Thank you Lord.
Speaker A:We're getting new abilities back into our body again.
Speaker A:Yeah, I agree with that.
Speaker A:We command nodules to be removed.
Speaker A:Nodules be removed.
Speaker A:Endometriosis be removed.
Speaker A:Lesions be removed.
Speaker A:Mississippi be removed in Jesus name.
Speaker B:Thank you Lord.
Speaker A:Tooth decay.
Speaker A:I see somebody has a rot in their tooth right now.
Speaker A:We command decay to be removed from you in Jesus name.
Speaker B:Thank you Lord.
Speaker A:Yeah, easy birth.
Speaker A:I see this people.
Speaker A:Pregnancy issues of pregnancy.
Speaker A:Right now we command and safe delivery of full term babies in Jesus name.
Speaker B:Thank you.
Speaker A:Nothing missing, nothing broken.
Speaker A:Everywhere it should be.
Speaker B:Thank you lord.
Speaker A:We command 10 little fingers, 10 little toes.
Speaker B:Thank you Lord.
Speaker A:Easy breathing.
Speaker A:There's an opening up right now of airways, lungs that have been immature developing.
Speaker A:Somebody's had a scar tissue in their lungs.
Speaker A:Right now I see new healthy pink flesh being, replacing the scar tissue.
Speaker B:Thank you.
Speaker A:Somebody's had a scarring on the inside of their esophagus.
Speaker A:I see something where I think somebody has swallowed something as well.
Speaker A:There may be a bleach or something caustic that they.
Speaker A:It's called.
Speaker A:Anyway, there's burns on the inside of the esophagus right now.
Speaker A:We command those burns to heal.
Speaker A:We command that new flesh to be restored to return to burn victims in Jesus name, even if their acid burns.
Speaker A:Right now.
Speaker A:We command that that acid to go back down to where it's supposed to be and stop coming out and burning the flesh.
Speaker A:In Jesus name.
Speaker B:Thank you.
Speaker A:There's muscles that are becoming tight again.
Speaker A:Muscles I sphincter muscles particularly, but there's muscles that, that have become very flaccid right now.
Speaker A:We command elasticity to be returned to those muscles.
Speaker A:Muscles function again.
Speaker A:Somebody's getting a swallow reflux again.
Speaker A:The ability to swallow properly without aspirating.
Speaker A:Coming back to you in Jesus name.
Speaker B:Thank you Lord.
Speaker B:Thank you Lord.
Speaker A:Somebody's had a problem with swelling inside of the mouth at the back of the mouth.
Speaker A:There's been different structures of the throat and the, the inside of the mouth that has swollen and almost swollen clothes.
Speaker A:That's.
Speaker A:That can affect all kinds of different things.
Speaker A:It can be quite scary.
Speaker A:Right now we command that inflammation, that swelling to go right back down.
Speaker A:Those reactions to stop.
Speaker A:In Jesus name.
Speaker B:Thank you Lord.
Speaker A:We command that diverticulitis to get out in Jesus Name.
Speaker A:Thank you, Lord.
Speaker B:Thank you, Lord.
Speaker A:Yeah.
Speaker A:We command that burning sensation in your leg.
Speaker A:Justine, to leave right now.
Speaker A:Leave.
Speaker A:Get out of there.
Speaker A:Shinob fluri.
Speaker A:Right now.
Speaker A:We command the nerves in your face to come back to life.
Speaker A:We command the muscles in your face, all of the nerves and the muscles to be put back into place again.
Speaker A:We command that reaction to stop that virus, whatever it was that caused that problem to get on out, to die, to be gone.
Speaker A:I speak peace over the nerves in your face.
Speaker A:Strength into your muscles.
Speaker A:Coordination.
Speaker A:In Jesus name.
Speaker B:Thank you, Lord.
Speaker A:Averna says her sister has diverticulitis.
Speaker A:Right now we command new healthy flesh to grow in that intestine.
Speaker A:In Jesus name.
Speaker A:Yeah.
Speaker A:We command spinal stenosis to be reversed.
Speaker A:Right now.
Speaker A:Degenerate discs be made whole again.
Speaker A:We command regeneration.
Speaker A:Regeneration in the.
Speaker A:In the back.
Speaker A:Regeneration in the mobility of the spine.
Speaker A:In Jesus name, the right amount of spacing between your vertebrae.
Speaker A:No more twisting.
Speaker A:No more scoliosis.
Speaker A:In Jesus name.
Speaker A:Straighten up, spine.
Speaker A:Straighten up.
Speaker A:In Jesus name.
Speaker B:Thank you, Lord.
Speaker A:Yeah.
Speaker A:Maria.
Speaker A:We speak.
Speaker A:We speak over your baby.
Speaker A:We command that brain to develop normally.
Speaker A:In the name of Jesus.
Speaker A:Thank you, Lord, for new neurological pathways being created.
Speaker A:In your child.
Speaker A:In Jesus name.
Speaker B:Thank you.
Speaker B:Yeah.
Speaker A:Amen.
Speaker A:Dissolve.
Speaker A:Stones in the kidneys dissolve.
Speaker A:Right now.
Speaker A:Somebody's blood pressure is coming down, by the way.
Speaker A:It's almost like the piece that's surpassing all understanding.
Speaker A:You took that to be your cardia, your heart and your mind.
Speaker A:There it is right there.
Speaker A:There's a protective power coming over your heart.
Speaker A:Your blood pressure is coming down.
Speaker A:In Jesus name, we command those.
Speaker A:Those blood, those valves, those heart valves to open up and blood to flow only in the right direction.
Speaker A:Oh, come on.
Speaker A:One Way Jesus.
Speaker A:It's my grandson's favorite song.
Speaker A:One Way Jesus.
Speaker A:Right now.
Speaker A:We command that blood to flow where it's supposed to go.
Speaker A:We command varicose veins to leave and blood to stop pooling in parts of the body.
Speaker A:Somebody's having a problem with blood pooling and it's causing you to faint.
Speaker A:Right now, we command that to be reversed.
Speaker A:We command your circulation, your oxygenation to be normalized.
Speaker A:In Jesus name.
Speaker B:Thank you, Lord.
Speaker A:We command myopathy to stop.
Speaker A:Thank you, Jesus.
Speaker A:Dyspraxia to stop.
Speaker A:Stenosis to stop.
Speaker A:Arterial stenosis.
Speaker A:Scleroderma.
Speaker A:Stop.
Speaker A:In Jesus name.
Speaker A:Get out right now.
Speaker B:Thank you, Lord.
Speaker A:Lord, we believe.
Speaker A:Tinnitus ringing.
Speaker A:Stop right now.
Speaker A:In the name of Jesus.
Speaker A:Thank.
Speaker A:If somebody has shooting pains in their feet, right through the arch of their feet to their toes.
Speaker A:Right now.
Speaker A:We just Command that to stop playing off brassii.
Speaker A:To stop right now.
Speaker B:Thank you, Lord.
Speaker B:Thank you.
Speaker A:Maggie says that's me.
Speaker A:I need a new sphincter muscle.
Speaker A:You've got it.
Speaker A:You've got it.
Speaker A:Amen.
Speaker A:Thank you, Jesus.
Speaker A:You know, the power of God is being released right now going through your body, going through your brain, going through every nerve in your body.
Speaker A:In Jesus name.
Speaker B:Thank you, Lord.
Speaker A:Lord, we believe and we receive.
Speaker A:Amen.
Speaker A:New veins.
Speaker A:You got it.
Speaker B:Thank you, Lord.
Speaker A:You know what?
Speaker A:When you meditate, you can start to see what the Lord is doing.
Speaker A:When you speak, you can start to see decay in the teeth drying up, strength coming back to the bones, organs coming back to normal shape and size again.
Speaker A:You can start to see blood pressure coming down.
Speaker A:You'll start to see it.
Speaker A:Tumors.
Speaker A:We curse those tumors and we command them to shrivel up.
Speaker A:Die right now.
Speaker A:Tumors die in John's head right now.
Speaker A:Both of them gone.
Speaker A:We can find all of those symptoms to leave.
Speaker A:Swelling in the forehead.
Speaker A:Leave right now everything that is swollen that is putting pressure that is inflamed right now.
Speaker A:We command them to go down, back to normal size, that pressure to stop.
Speaker B:Thank you, Lord.
Speaker A:Brain healthy development.
Speaker A:Brain damage.
Speaker A:Leave in Jesus name.
Speaker A:Hiatus, hernia.
Speaker A:Go back the way you came from.
Speaker B:Thank you, Lord.
Speaker A:You know what, Vernon?
Speaker A:I believe you got those new.
Speaker A:You got those new lungs.
Speaker B:Thank you, Lord.
Speaker B:Thank you, Lord.
Speaker A:Perfect.
Speaker A:Perfect.
Speaker A:That's what I see.
Speaker A:This.
Speaker A:This word.
Speaker A:Perfect.
Speaker A:You know, when our daughter Hannah was healed, she was healed of a digestive autoimmune disease.
Speaker A:But when we took her back to the hospital and they ran all the tests, you know, she had a blood.
Speaker A:Blood disease.
Speaker A:She was missing a clotting factor in her blood.
Speaker A:And only one in about a million million people have it.
Speaker A:And they tested and they couldn't find that either.
Speaker A:You see, when the power of God's working in your body, the power.
Speaker A:God doesn't just touch one piece.
Speaker A:The power goes working all through your body.
Speaker A:It's not like a pinball machine where the power of God comes into your body and it bounces off bits here and there and misses some and hits some.
Speaker A:No, the power of God.
Speaker A:Remember, it surpasses your heart and mind.
Speaker A:It fills you with peace.
Speaker A:This is supernatural.
Speaker A:The power of God is already on the inside of you.
Speaker A:The power for healing is already on the inside of you.
Speaker A:Thank you, Jesus.
Speaker A:Lord, we believe and we receive every good and perfect thing you have for us in Jesus name.
Speaker B:Thank you, Lord.
Speaker A:Amen.
Speaker A:Man, that was.
Speaker A:That was powerful.
Speaker B:Thank you, Lord.
Speaker A:Well, you Know what I believe?
Speaker A:I'm believing the testimony.
Speaker A:We've already asked in.
Speaker A:Testimony's come in there already.
Speaker A:But if you got a test me, you know what?
Speaker A:Check yourself.
Speaker A:Go check yourself.
Speaker A:Go.
Speaker A:Move.
Speaker A:Go.
Speaker A:Bend.
Speaker A:Go.
Speaker A:Stretch.
Speaker A:Go do something that you couldn't do.
Speaker A:Check yourself.
Speaker A:You can put it in the comments.
Speaker A:You can email us in as well.
Speaker A:You can also phone us on our phone line.
Speaker A: -: Speaker A:We have prayer ministers ready to take your call.
Speaker A:Amen.
Speaker A:But one of the ways that you can really get into meditation.
Speaker A:Let me just give you something really practical here.
Speaker A:We're talking about meditation that moves mountain.
Speaker A:You know, I would encourage you.
Speaker A:Power Academy is a huge resource for this.
Speaker A:It's going to help you do Power Academy lesson every day.
Speaker A:I'm telling you, it's free.
Speaker A:It's our free online Bible school.
Speaker A:You just need an email to sign up.
Speaker A:You can do that anywhere in the world.
Speaker A:Anywhere in the world.
Speaker A:If you want to go to Bible school that will help you with your meditation, you can get on there.
Speaker A:Power Academy, our team will put a link up there as well to make it easy for you.
Speaker A:But you can become a student of the word and then see your meditation move mountains.
Speaker A:Right?
Speaker A:This is, this is going to be huge.
Speaker A:Let me just say this, thank you to our partners and friends.
Speaker A:You're awesome.
Speaker A:You make these live streams work.
Speaker A:You make our tele bridging programs go all over the world reaching millions of people.
Speaker A:You make Power Academy.
Speaker A:You know, partners of Teradez Ministries make Power Academy free because they pay for it for you.
Speaker A:Right?
Speaker A:They're giving, makes that available at no charge to people that otherwise wouldn't be able to afford it.
Speaker A:So Power Academy is partnering, supported 100.
Speaker A:So thank a partner.
Speaker A:If you're a student, thank a partner.
Speaker A:Amen.
Speaker A:And we just, we just want to, we're so thankful.
Speaker A:We actually have a partner meet and greet that's coming up in August.
Speaker A:So if you're a partner in the region, you'll be hearing about that pretty soon.
Speaker A:We like to try and meet as many of our partners as we can, especially when we go to events.
Speaker A:So if you attend one of our events, make sure you come up, say hi, we'll take a selfie.
Speaker A:It'll be fun, right?
Speaker A:We love to, to hug on your, love on you and thank you personally.
Speaker A:If you're not a partner but you'd like to become one.
Speaker A:If you, if you just encouraged today by the things that you hear and you want to be a part of the Terrades family and, and the ministry that's going on here.
Speaker A:You know the only digital giving help us to reach people in the country through live stream.
Speaker A:It goes all over the world and supports benevolent projects as well.
Speaker A:Right.
Speaker A:So we have I think 150 families that we're supporting on a monthly basis.
Speaker A:Orphans, people living in the poorest nations on earth.
Speaker A:Amen.
Speaker A:And we, we're supporting them with clothing and food, housing and education, clean water.
Speaker A:Right.
Speaker A:These are pretty practical things.
Speaker A:So if you'd like to be a part of the territory's family and what we do, then make sure that you sign up to be a partner.
Speaker A:We need, we need more partners.
Speaker A:You know, the more partners that we have, the more that we can.
Speaker A:More people that we can help.
Speaker A:And so, and they have a link there.
Speaker A:The, the team will put up.
Speaker A:I think it's like terrydose.com forward slash give.
Speaker A:You can, you can become a regular monthly partner on there.
Speaker A:You can also make a one time donation on there as well.
Speaker A:Amen.
Speaker A:But I think that, I think that was all of my announcements.
Speaker A:I think I've got through everything today.
Speaker A:Amen.
Speaker A:Listen, if you still need ministry, our phone lines are open and make sure you take advantage of that.
Speaker A:We see great testimonies.
Speaker A:We love to hear your testimonies.
Speaker A:If nothing else, phone them up and tell them your testimony.
Speaker A:We love to hear from you.
Speaker A:Amen.
Speaker A:Well, we love you.
Speaker A:Until next time, you know, Tuesday, Tuesday is the next time.
Speaker A:By the way, Ash is going to be back at 1pm Mountain Time on Tuesday with business.
Speaker A:Supernaturally, he's anointed to pray for your prosperity.
Speaker A:And until then though, have a fabulous weekend.
Speaker A:We love you and we'll see you again real soon.
Speaker A:Thanks for joining.
Speaker A:I hope you enjoyed today's episode of Power Hour.
Speaker A:If you'd like to join me live and submit your prayer requests in the chat, make sure to tune in every Thursday at 1pm Mountain Time on YouTube and Facebook.
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Speaker A:Now if you are believing for healing and would like to receive prayer, we have ministers standing by.
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