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Joseph Prince - Don't Follow Your Heart: Do This Instead

June 9, 2026 | 27:29

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Joseph prince: guard your heart.
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Because out of your heart come the issues,
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The forces of life, amen.
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Guard your heart.
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We guard our children, we guard what they eat,
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We guard what they study, amen?
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We guard our finances.
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We make sure that we guard, so many of you,
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Stock market, you know, what's happening.
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We guard the movements and the fluctuations
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Of the market.
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We guard these things, we guard--
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All the while thinking that these things will guard us.
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Guard us, our financial well-being
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Or our health or whatever.
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But let me tell you this: god is saying
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Where it really, really matters, where you need to guard
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Above all your guarding,
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Guard all these things by all means,
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Guard all these things, but they're all outside.
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God says, actually, the only way you can guard,
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The only thing you can guard, is your heart, amen?
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So you protect your heart. no one should enter there.
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Only the holy spirit, amen?
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Christ in you.
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Don't let anything into your heart.
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With all your guarding, guard your heart.
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If you guard your heart, jesus says,
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"let not your heart be troubled," amen?
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Male announcer: have you ever felt too tired to sleep,
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Too restless to rest?
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In today's message, joseph shares
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How the lord wants to make our hearts lighter,
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Announcer: and now here's pastor joseph prince
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With today's program.
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Joseph prince: i want to share with you something
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That the lord has put on my heart,
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And because of the lack of understanding this
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And watching over this, it's more of a warning today,
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As you can see that the lord cares and loves us,
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And he wants us to flow with him
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And to flow with what he's doing, amen?
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We need to know his ways.
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His ways are not religious.
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So, when people say, "i wanna be religious,"
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Be careful because when they say,
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"i wanna be close to god," yes, but do you have the information?
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Do you have the knowledge that is accurate,
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That's in line with heaven, with what god has for you, amen?
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And one thing that you need to guard is
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In the area of your heart.
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So turn to your bibles right now,
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To proverbs chapter 4.
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Proverbs 4, verse 20: "my son, give attention to my words;
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Incline your ear to my sayings.
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Do not let them depart from your eyes."
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Isn't it interesting, god says,
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"do not let them depart from your eyes"?
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Does that mean that every day you take god's word like that?
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...
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You'll be walking over cats, bumping into lampposts, amen?
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Of course not.
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So "do not let them depart from your eyes" is what?
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Your vision, amen?
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Now, you're saying, "what was the result,
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Pastor prince, of doing this?"
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Keep on reading.
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"keep them in the midst of your heart."
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Notice what you see will go into your heart?
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So, first of all, attend to god's word.
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How do i do that? this is god's medicine bottle.
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How do i do that? all right, i attend to it.
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I incline my ear to god's sayings.
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That's the ear gate. say "ear gate."
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All right, hit somebody and just nudge somebody
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And say "ear gate."
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They say, "huh?"
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If they say "huh?" their ear gate
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Is definitely closed, all right?
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Either the gate is closed or there's something clogged up
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Inside, all right?
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All right, so the next one is "keep them--
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Do not let them depart from your eyes."
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Now, look at somebody and say "eye gate."
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Eye gate, watch your eye gate.
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Your eye gate, what you see, what you hear, what you see.
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And then the next one is
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"keep them in the midst of your heart."
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This is how things enter your heart.
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It is always through your eye gate
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And your ear gate.
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So, god gave me this word for you all: guard your heart.
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Because the next one says-- look at the result.
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If you allow god's word, if you pay attention
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To god's word,
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You incline your ear gate to god's sayings,
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And you open your eye gate to god's word,
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Not any other human word that brings fear and depression.
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And if you do that, god says the result is
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It will drop into your heart.
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That's only then-- and only then "they are life
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To those who find them and health to," how much?
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"all their flesh."
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What a promise.
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When you take god's word like you're taking right now,
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It is health to all your flesh, amen.
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No side effects. oh yeah, there is lah.
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You become--you're filled with joy unspeakable, amen?
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Peace that passes understanding, you can't describe it, amen?
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Praise the lord.
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So that's god's dream, amen, for his people
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To be conformed to the image of jesus christ, amen.
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So, we are battling all this to come to this place.
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You have the vision? all right, so watch this now.
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God says, before it can be life to you
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And health to all your flesh,
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It's gonna go through your eye gate,
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Your ear gate, and then drop where?
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Into your heart. that's the way god ordained it.
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Then it will manifest.
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Now, god didn't say, "i give you health.
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No, take it," right?
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That is the gifts of the spirit operating, amen?
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And god can do that, right, of course.
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But god's norm for all of us is to receive from his word.
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That's why we need to read god's word every day.
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"give us this day our..." not weekly bread,
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Not monthly bread; "daily bread."
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Not just sunday bread, amen, amen?
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Sunday you receive good word, but daily bread, amen?
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So notice, it enters your heart first.
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Okay, but what is the heart?
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That's a big question, because the next verse says,
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"guard your heart."
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Am i right, now?
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What does it say, "guard your heart"?
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Someone talk to me. let's all read together.
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"keep your heart with all diligence."
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Now, this is the new king james, because i studied mine
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In the old king james.
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"guard your heart with all diligence,
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For out of it are the issues of life."
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Can you see it?
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Guard your heart with all diligence.
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And in the hebrew, it is like this.
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The hebrew, "with all diligence" comes first.
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It's like, "with all your guarding--
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With all your guarding, guard your heart.
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Because out of your heart come the issues,
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The forces of life," amen.
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Guard your heart.
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We guard our children, we guard what they eat,
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We guard what they study, amen?
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We guard our finances.
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We make sure that we guard, so many of you,
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Stock market, you know, what's happening.
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We guard the movements and the fluctuations
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Of the market.
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We guard these things, we guard--
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All the while thinking that these things will guard us.
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Guard us, our financial well-being
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Or our health or whatever.
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But let me tell you this: god is saying
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Where it really, really matters, where you need to guard
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Above all your guarding, guard all these things
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By all means, guard all these things,
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But they are all outside.
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God says, actually, the only way you can guard,
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The only thing you can guard, is your heart, amen?
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So you protect your heart.
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No one should enter there, only the holy spirit, amen?
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Christ in you.
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Don't let anything into your heart.
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"so what is the heart, pastor prince?"
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Now, i used--i was taught, all right, that your heart
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Is your spirit, but it's not true.
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As time went on, i realized that even in the greek,
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The words are different for both.
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Spirit is pneuma.
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In hebrew, ruach, right?
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And the word for heart in the greek is kardia, right?
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We use that in english as well: cardiac, cardia.
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Kardia is heart in greek and the greek new testament.
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Old testament in hebrew, heart is lev.
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Lev, which i suspect is where the word for love
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Comes from, amen?
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Lev, lev, l-e-v, lev, okay?
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So, you see the word is different, amen?
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The word for heart and the word for spirit.
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Spirit is ruach.
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So, your heart is not your spirit.
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I know we are tripartite, that means i'm a spirit,
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I live in a soul-- that's my mind--
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And i live in a-- i'm housed in a body.
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I dwell in a body.
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My body is my house, but it's only one body.
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Take care of it. but it's your house.
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Your house is not you.
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You are a spirit.
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Say, "i'm a spirit, i have a soul,
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And i live in a body."
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So where's the heart?
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Where's the heart?
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Spirit connects god with god.
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Soul connects with your surrounding, amen?
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Body, physical, connects with physical,
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And notice, nothing to do with the spirit.
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So, body and soul has nothing to do with the spirit.
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So where's the heart?
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So someone said, "well, to believe the heart
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Is to believe your spirit man."
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I found out that it's not.
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When jesus says, "shall not doubt in his heart,"
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He's not referring to the spirit.
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It's really something that you're about to learn today.
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You ready?
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Sometimes you can understand something better
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Not by its definition-- like "kardia," all right,
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"lev," all right?
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You can actually learn it by what it does, you recognize.
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Like, for example, the wolf and the dog.
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Nighttime, full moon, the dog doesn't howl
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The way a wolf howls.
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It is very eerie, hair raising, spine tingling.
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You can tell by what it does that it is not a dog.
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It's a wolf.
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Looks like, but it's not.
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So, sometimes you can know something by what it does.
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What does a heart do?
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By that, you know your heart. and god says what?
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Guard your...
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"with all your guarding, guard your heart."
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If you guard your heart, jesus says,
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"let not your heart be troubled."
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"let not your heart be troubled."
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He didn't say, "guard your family,
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Guard your finances, guard your health,
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Guard everything outside."
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No, he says, "if you guard your heart,
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I will guard everything outside."
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Your part, your only part, is don't allow your heart
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To get troubled.
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You hear bad news, uh-uh, quote that verse
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Under your breath: "let not your heart be troubled."
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Guard your heart, guard your heart, amen?
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So the lord told me: "tell the people,
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'guard their heart.'"
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So what--how--what is the characteristic
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Of the heart?
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How can i recognize this part is my heart?
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So let's look at the bible.
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Let's go to the very beginning, genesis chapter 6.
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We have it here.
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"and god saw that the wickedness of man
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Was great in the earth, and that every imagination
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Of the thoughts of his heart was only evil continually,"
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And that's the reason god brought the flood, okay?
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Here you see that "god saw the wickedness of man
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Was great in the earth,
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And that every imagination of the thoughts of his heart."
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Why didn't he just say, "and every evil thought
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In his heart"?
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That will suffice. shorter.
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It says: "every imagination of the thoughts of his heart."
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And the word "imagination"-- remember this word--
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I put this in your spirit, amen?
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This word here, of course, in the--it's in hebrew
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Because it's in the old testament.
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The word "imagination" is the word "yeser."
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Say "yeser."
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Very easy to remember, associate with something you know.
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Yes, sir, right?
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Yes, sir.
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Yes, sir, right? yeser.
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Now, this is noun. yeser in the hebrew is a noun.
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Only god can see the heart.
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And god saw that the heart, the imaginations in the heart
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Was evil and god knew, as a matter of time,
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It will manifest outside.
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Already they were doing all kinds of wickedness.
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The bible says, if you read later on,
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It says that it repented the lord to see the--
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It make the lord feel sad,
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Grieve the lord, to see men wicked.
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Wickedness was corrupt, was rampant
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Throughout the earth.
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Only god found noah and his family, right?
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But where did it start from? the heart.
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The imagine of the heart, and god already saw the heart.
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Are you listening, people?
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And the word is what? imagination?
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Yeser, the imagination. watch this.
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Yeser is used again when noah built the ark,
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After the flood, and for the first time,
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The bible says-- use this expression:
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"god says, 'i smell sweet perfume.'"
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Let's look at the verse.
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"and the lord smelled a soothing aroma."
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Why? it reminds him of jesus.
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That sacrifice reminds him of his son.
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Every time you remind god of his son,
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Then that's what worship is,
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And then god smells a soothing aroma.
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"then the lord said in his heart,
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'i will never again curse the ground for man's sake,
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Although the imagination, yeser, of man's heart
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Is evil from his youth; nor will i again destroy
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Every living thing as i have done,'"
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Although the imagination of man's heart
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Is only evil continually.
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And this word is yeser.
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Notice, god will say, "man's heart is evil enough."
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We understand.
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We can understand that, right?
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But god put this word--
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"the imagination of man's heart," the yeser.
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Now you say, "pastor prince, why talk about that?"
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Remember ephesians 1?
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Look at ephesians 1--
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The prayer i told you all to pray last year?
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Paul says, "i keep asking that the god
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Of our lord jesus christ, the glorious father,
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May give you the spirit of wisdom and revelation,
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So that you may know him."
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How does the spirit of wisdom and revelation operate?
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How many want the spirit of wisdom and revelation?
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Amen, amen.
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Don't forget god gave wisdom to a young man called solomon,
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And he became the wealthiest man
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That ever lived, and still up to date,
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Wealthier than even elon musk, amen?
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If you look at considering all the inflation rates
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And all that, he's the richest man.
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All that he received from god is wisdom.
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And there are five things that wisdom gives you, right?
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Length of days, riches, honor, pleasure, peace.
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Don't forget that.
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And this is found in the book of proverbs, amen.
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And this is what people want. praise the lord.
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Wisdom gives you that, the spirit of wisdom.
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When you ask god for the-- for wisdom
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And the spirit of wisdom operate,
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And paul is saying, pray for this every day.
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Pray, pray, pray.
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Paul says, "i pray this prayer for you,
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That the spirit of wisdom and revelation operate."
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How does it operate?
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I'll put it like this: "i pray that the eyes of your heart."
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Your heart have eyes.
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Your heart have eyes.
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The eyes of your heart speaks of what?
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Vision, imagination.
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So we have-- we are seeing something here.
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When you say, "guard your heart,"
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Guard your imagination.
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And that's why when jesus says things like
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"whoever looks on a woman to lust after her
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Has already committed adultery with her."
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It's already act. imagination is the act.
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But what do you think the guy is thinking of?
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The guy is thinking in words, "i am committing adultery
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With this woman"?
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No, it's imagination.
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And to jesus, imagination is the deed.
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But you see, imagination is out there--
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You know, it's like something, "it's not real.
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You know, it's just in my mind. i'm just imagining it."
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No, with god, imagination is creative.
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Let me prove that to you.
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I told you yeser, right?
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The word for imagination? yeser?
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Guess where it first appeared.
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It didn't appear as imagination.
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Same hebrew word, same spelling.
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I've been showing you the noun of the word "yeser."
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What--you wanna see the verb, when god use it as a verb?
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Yeser, same spelling, yeser?
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You know when it appeared?
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In genesis 2, verse 7: "the lord god formed
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Man of the dust of the ground, and breathed into his nostrils
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The breath of life; and man became a living being."
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Which part of this is yeser?
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God formed man and breathed into his nostrils the breath of life.
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Which one is naser--yeser?
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Form, formed, form.
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Form, my friend, is something--
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In fact, the word here in the hebrew means
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To squeeze into shape, like a play-doh, right?
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Literally, the action is a verb.
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The verb form of all the nouns that i gave you just now
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From noah's story, right, all that's noun,
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Yeser, noun, in noun, and this one is in verb.
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And it's--notice that it is something
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To do with creating, formulating.
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So imagination, my friend, to god, is creative.
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Long before we have a crowd of this size in our church,
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I had a dream.
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When our church was small, i saw all of you
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♪ and i love you before i--♪♪
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You know the song?--
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"i met you." i saw you all in my vision.
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And the best time to practice all this godly imaginations
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And powerful imaginations and positive imaginations
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Is during time of prayer.
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So one of the best exciting prayers like this,
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You pray and see what the holy spirit brings up
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To you, and you pray.
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You walk the floor.
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You walk somewhere in the park or whatever.
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You say, "father,
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[speaking in tongues]
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Thank you, father. i'm praying for my son."
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As you pray for your son, be alert to the pictures
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That come up.
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That's how the holy spirit speaks.
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And that's why the bible says:
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"in the last days, it shall come to pass,
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I will pour my spirit upon all flesh,
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And your young men shall see visions,
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And your old men shall dream dreams."
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What is dream?
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Dream is visions when you are sleeping,
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When your physical eyes are closed.
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Vision is when your physical eyes
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Are open.
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They both are pictures. god speaks through pictures.
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But we are so much in our minds
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We think in terms of words.
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When god said, "meditate on my word,"
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We meditate on the word literally,
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And that's fine, but god has pictures.
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God's word is--the bible is chock-full of pictures.
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Even in psalms talking about meditation,
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He tells you, "you shall be like a tree
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Planted by the rivers of water."
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You can see a lot of water, not just one water,
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Or one river, "rivers of water
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That bringeth forth his fruit in his season.
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His leaves shall not wither."
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Can you see it? "his leaves shall not wither."
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No brown leaves, amen. all green leaves.
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"his leaves shall not wither." there's no such tree.
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This animal doesn't exist on planet earth,
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But it's god's vision for you.
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You're gonna live a supernatural life,
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Supernaturally, perennially green, amen.
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Forever young, hallelujah.
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Green, "his leaves shall not wither,
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And whatsoever he doeth shall prosper whatsoever."
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So can you see it? can you see it?
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When you go to work and you see yourself,
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I'm all green, amen.
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I'm healthy, always healthy, always young, i'm strong.
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I see myself like a tree planted.
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Planted means i didn't plant myself.
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"planted," passive.
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Someone planted me, the lord, hallelujah.
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By where?
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The rivers of water, and i don't care
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If it's famine time in the world.
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I don't care if the world says not enough, amen.
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It's time of inflation and hyperinflation,
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Whatever it is.
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I know that i'm not planted where the world is planted.
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I'm in the world but out of the world.
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I'm planted by the rivers!
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[congregation applauding]
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And whatsoever, i love that.
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God does not exaggerate.
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God's word is truth.
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When god says whatever he does prospers.
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Even my mistakes.
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Whatever is whatever.
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Imagine going to work, meditating on that word.
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But what are you meditating? words?
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No, you are seeing!
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And you are saying, "i'm that woman,"
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"i'm that man."
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By the time you arrive at work, whoa,
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You don't have that--you have a presentation or whatever,
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You don't have that fear.
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"whatever i do prospers."
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And you repeat that word. "whatever i do prospers.
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I'm like a tree planted, cared for,"
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Not a tree growing wild by itself.
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Doesn't say a tree growing wild, amen.
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Planted means someone care enough to plant it.
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Are you with me so far?
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So to god, when god formed, yeser, man,
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And he used the word "yeser" for imagination,
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He's saying, yeser creates, it forms your life!
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And that's why jesus said in matthew 12:
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"out of the abundance of your heart,
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The mouth speaks."
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You know, we teach about be careful what you say, amen?
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What you say is what you get, amen?
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That's how you get saved, right?
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You get saved by saying, "if you confess with your mouth
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And you believe in your heart,"
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Right, "jesus christ is lord,
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And you believe god raised him from the dead,
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You shall be saved.
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With the heart, man believes unto righteousness,
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And with the mouth--"
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So, it's always heart, mouth; mouth, heart; heart, mouth;
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Heart, mouth; heart, mouth, okay?
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But which one comes first?
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Jesus says your heart.
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"out of the abundance of the heart, the mouth speaks."
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It is not by talking a lot about god's word,
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And then you hope you'll fill your heart.
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No, you fill your heart by spending time in the word,
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By reading, by filling your imagination,
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And that's why when you're not feeling well,
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Spend a lot of time in healing scriptures.
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Joseph prince: the lord bless you and your families
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With the blessings of deuteronomy 28.
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Above all the guarding, and keep your heart and mind
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Through christ jesus, in jesus's name, amen.
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While stocks last.
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Female: in 2016 my daughter was pregnant
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And she delivered early, 23 weeks, and she had to stay
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In the nicu for four months.
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A time came where we received a call from the hospital.
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She had three different bacterial infections
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And double pneumonia.
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Her numbers were between, like, in the high 30s and 40s.
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They're supposed to be, like, 85.
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There wasn't much hope.
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So it had been, like, at least ten years
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Since my life being transformed through the teaching
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And through pastor prince's ministry.
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I know god wants me healed.
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I know he wants my family healed.
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My husband and i were praying.
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We received holy communion,
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Because we receive holy communion often.
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By the time we got to the hospital,
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She was in the 70s, so while we're waiting,
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Literally, we're watching the numbers go higher and higher.
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We're just standing, believing god.
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By the time the doctor came, she was in the 90s.
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Right now she is healthy and strong,
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And we are grateful for receiving
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A gospel that leaves no room for doubt.
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We're standing on god's word.
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It's not just that jesus can do it, but he's willing,
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And i knew he was willing to heal my granddaughter.
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He's faithful and i'm just grateful for the gospel.
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Male: "i want to ask you this important question.
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What does success look like to you?
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Why is this important?
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Because whether you--"
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For a fresh word from the lord.
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Joseph Prince - Don't Follow Your Heart: Do This Instead

June 9, 2026 | 27:29

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