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What’s Beneath The Surface?!? 

Joshua 7:12(b)

I will not remain with you any longer unless you destroy the things among you that were set apart for destruction.

If you are hoarding anything that’s not pleasing to the Lord God beneath the surface, it will keep you from receiving your blessings!! Many of us have things hoarded beneath the surface, that’s weighing us down! We often think, just because they’re beneath the surface, no one will know that they’re there. But we serve an omniscience God!! Omnipresent God!! There’s no such thing as a secret, when it comes to the Lord God!! Come on somebody!! The word tells us, that the Lord God is mostly concerned with your heart. He’s mostly concerned with your inner you. Come on here. What type of luggage is your inner you packing? What’s beneath the surface? We are not going to be judged for what’s on the surface (your outer appearance), we will be looked upon for our inner person!! Come on here!! Self examine yourself church. If you have some things that are beneath the surface, that you know will keep you out of the will, it’s time to address those things, so you won’t be held back!!

In the book of Matthew 15:19;

For from the heart come evil thoughts, murder, adultery, all sexual immorality, theft, lying, and slander. The word tells us, that we may indeed have some of these things hidden beneath the surface. Things that we refuse to address, because we think that we are ok. See, we will see the symptoms of these things that aren’t pleasing to the Lord God, but we will refuse to go get the medication that we need. Now in doing this, we are allowing the infection to spread. If we never repent for the things that are indeed beneath the surface, we will sadly be hindered from all the wonderful blessings, that has already been stored up for us!! Look here, you can have your swag on a hundred on the outside, but you inner swag, is negative 100. Come on here!!! What’s beneath the surface?!?

I use to have a car, when I was in college. A car that I never maintained. I mean I never got an oil change or anything. I just use to ride and ride. It looked nice on the outside, but under the hood was terrible! Because I refused to fix what was beneath the surface (under the hood), it started causing me all type of problems. Problems that could’ve been avoided, if only I would’ve addressed the issues, that were beneath the surface!! Hallelujah!! Choosing not to fix the issues that were beneath the surface, caused my reliable source, to stop being my transportation!! Come on here!! The Lord God, is everyone’s reliable transportation, but if we refuse to go beneath our surface, and address the issues, we will no longer be able to be in His presence!

This was a powerful documentary. It sheds light on his behavior as evidence of him experiencing rejection. He did not meet his biological father until 53 years old! When you don't know who your are and who you belong to, you struggle with who you are and where you are going! We place on different masks and long for affirmation from others. We long for the applause if others, however, when the light go out, when the smoke clears, and when the dust settles, we still long for acceptance! We can become private successes, but private failures! I am excited about Kirk's journey of healing of finding his father, yet healing from his mother denial two DNA tests to confirm the legitimizing of his father! We must all heal from our rejection of people, places, things, and situations! Congratulations Mr. Franklin on finding your origin of existence so you can thrive! Congratulations to those that are reading this in your journey to health, wholeness, and wellness!

I want everyone to watch this documentary and respond.

https://youtu.be/49SCqvyZM7Q?si=3lSDyxXmHLL8-ceA

Philippians 4

11 Not that I was ever in need, for I have learned how to be content with whatever I have.
12 I know how to live on almost nothing or with everything. I have learned the secret of living in every situation, whether it is with a full stomach or empty, with plenty or little.

How can I make it through every situation that I may face? in the book of Philippians 4:12(B), Apostle Paul writes, “I have found the secret to living. What is the secret of living in every situation? The answer to that is, being content in the Lord God. When you are content in the Lord God, you have establish the type of faith, that will allow you to make it through whatever you’re facing. When you are content in the Lord God, you have now establish the belief and the trust, that he’s going to always walk with you in the furnace! That he’s always gonna be with you in the den, and that  he’s always going to, protect you from the storms and the floods!   This comes from a place of CONTENTMENT in the Lord God!!

Before we get to the blessings in the Kingdom of God, what really sets us apart is our suffering for Christ! Before we reign, we must suffer. Suffering has become a curse 🤬 word in the Body of Christ! We are delusional to believe that the Kingdom of darkness will allow us to "score" so to speak. The mission statement of the enemy is to steal, kill, and destroy! If you know the mission statement of the enemy, then you should not be surprise! He may offer you the kingdoms of the world, however, he desires your soul in exchange for it! Suffering allows us to become obedient and to come up higher. Christ learned obedience from the things that He suffered. Suffering exposes the motives in our hearts. We must walk in obedience and integrity! In closing, if we suffer with Him, we shall reign with Him!

Future blessings are contingent upon present obedience. Never forget, "Obedience is better than sacrifice."

Ephesians 4:29 Don’t use foul or abusive language. Let everything you say be good and helpful, so that your words will be an encouragement to those who hear them.

The Lord said in his word Power is in the tongue. We can tear down or build up. When we use foul or abusive language it's not the way of the Lord. When Jesus came to show us how to lead by example he never used foul talk. 

As I'm sitting here, the Lord dropped a computer in my spirit. Many of us have computers, and are aware of these viruses that attach to our computer, causing them to run slow. I don't know about anyone else, but this is very annoying. Then a question was asked. What causes the viruses to get in? When windows are left open. Come on here. Leaving things open, and letting the wrong things in. Family, we have to protect our GATES. Viruses are getting in through our ear gates, and eye gates. Be careful who and what we let in. 

Proverbs 4
24 Avoid all perverse talk; stay away from corrupt speech.

25 Look straight ahead, and fix your eyes on what lies before you.

1 Peter 5:8 (NLT) Stay Alert! Watch out for your great enemy,the devil. He prowls around like a roaring lion, looking for someone to devour.

We must stay alert. The enemy is looking for a crack so he can knock us off our post. As you all know Jesus is the lion of Judah. The enemies is a counterfeit, that's why the script say he prowls around LIKE a roaring lion, he wants to pretend he has power, but the enemy gets his power from us. Stay Alert!! We don't fight to get the victory, we fight to keep the victory. We are already VICTORIOUS. 

As a child, I remember this place called, Queeny Park. Now at Queeny Park, there was this very high, diving board. Church, this was a giant to me. Every time that we would go to this park, I would look at that giant, and I would hear that thing taunting me. We hear the taunts, of our own personal giants. Your giant may taunt you saying, you’re not smart enough. You don’t deserve anything or anyone good”. The taunts of these giants, if you allow them, will birth fear! Once this happens, your faith will be paralyzed. Now you don’t believe! Now you’re not moving towards your destiny, because you’ve allowed fear to settle. Come on here!! I’m telling you, that thing would taunt me, and this paralyzed my mobility!! Now I’m not talking about it, verbally taunting me. I’m discussing how things taunts us mentally, paralyzing our mobility!! My Lord on today!! Once fear is upon you, you have now moved faith out. It is impossible for faith to live with fear. There is no faith, when fear is present!

Fear is something we birth. It isn’t something, that’s given to us, it’s something that we birth! For the word of the true and living Lord God says, “I didn’t give you a spirit of fear”. The Bible states that, fear isn’t given!! This is good! Fear is something that we nurture mentally, enabling it to grow. Let’s go back to this diving board. I told myself that, the diving board was too high. I told myself that, I wouldn’t be able to conquer this diving board. You see where I’m going with this. I began to plant and nurture fear! Again fear is something that, we birth! As long as fear is alive, faith cannot resurrect!! Faith unlocks the supernatural! Faith is our assurance! Faith pleases the Lord God! None of this will be possible, as long as fear is around! Family, if faith is paralyzed, our victory will be snatched!

1 John 5

4 For every child of God defeats this evil world, and we achieve this victory through our faith.

     Many times, we feel like the Lord is dull of hearing. We believe that He is not hearing us. We also believe that the hand of the Lord is too short to reach us. Although this is not true, we fail to realize that our iniquities has caused these calamities in our lives. Sin disconnects us from our connection, it shortens our reach to God and not the other way around. Because God us holy and no sin glories in His presence, He hides His face from us. Sin not only causes our hearts to be defiled, but also our hands. As evidence of our sin, we don't know what to pray.

     Since our iniquities cause us to become unjust, we fail to pray for justice! Our verdict is guilty and our iniquities have stained our hands with the blood of sin. Sin has caused our words to become poisonous like the viper and has duplicated itself the the reproduction of hatching eggs. Our ways has led us to get trapped in the web of 🕷s. Our evil will not produce garments to cover our iniquities. The web that created silk to be used as garments of praise, will now be used as uncomfortable raiment if burlap and sackcloth because we need to repent.

     However, when we confess our sins unto God, the answering machine of heaven will once again open to our prayers. God's ears will become unstopped and He will reach will pull us out of our den of iniquity. All of our guilty charges will be thrown out. Our lies will turn into truth, our hardened hearts will become that of flesh, the dimness of our eyes will turn into keen eagle eyes, and our darkness will turn into marvelous light!

    The Redeemer called Jesus has now placed His blood on the mercy seat and has declared us "not guilty!" We are made holy because of His righteousness. The Spirit of the Lord is the standard to overpower the tsunami of the flood brought on by Satan. The redemption power of Jesus will provoke us to sing a new song, and His work shall not depart from out mouth. His praise shall continually be in our mouths. Our Redeemer lives in Zion and every cockatrice egg is annihilated and the enemy's head has been crushed! Hallelujah!

How are my people deceived? This is a question, that the Lord God, asked me. As I began to ponder on this, I was given the answer. We are deceived, by listening to the deceptive voices. My Lord on today!! How was Samson deceived by Delilah? Samson listened to her deceptive voice.

Let's continue to protect our ear gates.

Proverbs 4
20 My son, pay attention to what I say; turn your ear to my words.

Acts1:8 But you will receive power when the Holy Spirit comes upon you. And you will be my witness telling people about me everywhere in Jerusalem, throughout Judea, in Samaria, and to the ends of the earth.

When you connect to the power of the Lord God, that's when you will receive the mark of God. When you connect  to the Lord God you will fill the Holy Spirit come upon you. When you connect to the power of God you can walk in a room and people will recognize the mark of the Lord on your life.

It's something about when you are marked by God Favor follows you wherever you go.