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Matthew 4:1-11 NLT 

Premise 

- Contrary to lies told, stories fabricated, and/or motivation exaggerated, sustainability is only found in the word of God. Prayer without the word is communication without language. Worship without the word is never ending love songs without lyrics. And life without the word is living with no oxygen. What sustains the believer is the word of God that is written and spoke from the mouth of God! 

Confession: Your Word is constantly in my mouth. Your Word is constantly on my mind. I am disciplined concerning Your Word and I make every effort to do everything that is written in it. I am constantly learning from Your Word. The more I know, the more I do. My learning turns in to living. Because of that, Your Word teaches me that I am literally making my way prosperous and that I will receive good success! 

Fundamental truths 

1. Sanctification is established and sustained by the word of God. 

John 17:17 NKJV 

2. The word of God is perfect and complete lacking nothing and is the only thing that can change, transform, and revive the soul!

Psalms 19:7 TPT

Psalms 19:7 NLT 

3. The word of God is Truth and should be reverenced as such. This truth will always uproot, attack, and challenge lies. 

Psalms 119:160 NLT 

Scriptural insight. 

1. Part of being led by God is being fed by God. When the Holy spirit leads, the word in you is put to the test. What have you been eating? 

Matthew 4:1 NLT 

2. We live by the word and walk by the word because the word of God whether spoken, read, or applied is the voice of God finding expression in our lives. 

Matthew 4:3-4 NLT 

Deuteronomy 8:3 NLT 

3. Responding with the word is an attribute of the mature. No matter the battle, situation, or circumstance speaking the word of God is the response grounded believers give. 

Matthew 4:5-7 NLT 

Deuteronomy 6:16 NLT

4. Authority kicks in when you know who you are and whose you are! When the enemy gets more annoying, persistent and aggressive what makes the difference is Identity and authority!

Matthew 4:8-10 NLT 

Deuteronomy 6:13 NLT 

5. Reading, studying, applying and reciting the word of God everyday keeps the enemy in his place.

Matthew 4:11 NLT

Ecclesiastes 5:1-7 NLT 

Premise 

⁃ The Lord our God has a track record of keeping every promise and fulfilling every vow He has made. This proven evidence gives us hope to keep faith alive. The question is…..how does heaven respond when we make a vow? 

Confession: Your Word is constantly in my mouth. Your Word is constantly on my mind. I am disciplined concerning Your Word and I make every effort to do everything that is written in it. I am constantly learning from Your Word. The more I know, the more I do. My learning turns in to living. Because of that, Your Word teaches me that I am literally making my way prosperous and that I will receive good success! 

Scriptural Insight 

1. Before speaking ESPECIALLY in the house of God it is imperative to listen, hear, and understand before presenting something to our Holy God. When holy fear is the focus, words become few and strategic all while knowing God is listening and will have an expectation of what was said. 

“As you enter the house of God, keep your ears open and your mouth shut. It is evil to make mindless offerings to God.” 

Ecclesiastes 5:1 NLT 

2. Talk less, listen more. 

“Don’t make rash promises, and don’t be hasty in bringing matters before God. After all, God is in heaven, and you are here on earth. So let your words be few.”

Ecclesiastes 5:2 NLT 

3. Busy isn’t the same as productive and much talk isn’t the same as wisdom. 

“Too much activity gives you restless dreams; too many words make you a fool.” Ecclesiastes 5:3 NLT 

4. Follow through with every promise so that God as well as heaven and earth don’t consider you foolish. 

“When you make a promise to God, don’t delay in following through, for God takes no pleasure in fools. Keep all the promises you make to him.” 

Ecclesiastes 5:4 NLT 

5. Being quiet is free, talking to much can get expensive. How much are you willing to pay? 

“It is better to say nothing than to make a promise and not keep it.” 

Ecclesiastes 5:5 NLT 

6. Careless speech, empty promises, and dead vows all lead to missing the mark. Reneging to your priest invokes the anger of God and presents the chance of losing everything. 

“Don’t let your mouth make you sin. And don’t defend yourself by telling the Temple messenger that the promise you made was a mistake. That would make God angry, and he might wipe out everything you have achieved.” 

Ecclesiastes 5:6 NLT 

7. Holy Fear guards the tongue ensuring that precious and expensive words don’t go to waste. Without it, words lose its value and creates now advantage for you in this life. 

“Talk is cheap, like daydreams and other useless activities. Fear God instead.” Ecclesiastes 5:7 NLT

Matthew 12:33-37 NLT 

Premise 

⁃ There is a holy responsibility for the child of God to carefully consider what is spoken. 

Fundamental truths 

1. The power to control the tongue is your responsibility.  

James 1:26 NLT 

2. You have power to cut and to heal. Which one will you choose? 

Proverbs 12:18 NLT 

3. It is imperative that we learn to surrender the tongue (words) to the Holy Spirit! Both blessing and curses come from the same mouth! 

James 3:7-10 NLT 

4. Your words have the power to help build or tear down and dismantle. 

Ephesians 4:29 NLT 

5. Keeping watch over the tongue is the responsibility of the wise, the foolish use words to get In trouble.

Proverbs 21:23 NLT 

6. Sin flows from many words, we must learn to keep quiet.  

Proverbs 10:19 NLT 

7. Minding your business has never hurt anybody. Mastering your business dismantles the temptation to be in someone else’s.  

1 Thessalonians 4:11-12 NLT 

8. Surrendering to the Lordship of Christ includes the tongue not just the body and mind. 

Psalms 141:3-4 NLT 

Scriptural insight 

1. What you say is born out of who you are! The heart never lies! 

Matthew 12:33-34 NLT 

2. Where is your “treasure”? That’s where is your heart is and where life or death (words) will come from!  

Matthew 12:35 NLT 

Luke 6:45 NLT 

Matthew 6:21 NLT 

3. Learning to be sensitive toward what we speak is born out of submission and righteousness, understanding a day will come when we answer for every word that wasn’t properly submitted to the Lord.  

Matthew 12:36-37 NLT

Genesis 1:1-5 NKJV 

Premise 

⁃ It is what is spoken that makes the difference in destiny. 

Confession: Your Word is constantly in my mouth. Your Word is constantly on my mind. I am disciplined concerning Your Word and I make every effort to do everything that is written in it. I am constantly learning from Your Word. The more I know, the more I do. My learning turns in to living. Because of that, Your Word teaches me that I am literally making my way prosperous and that I will receive good success! 

Fundamental truths 

1. It is the job of angels to carry out words!

Psalms 103:20 NKJV 

Psalms 103:20 NLT 

2. Words have the ability to carry spirit and life. 

John 6:63 NLT 

3. We are kings and priests because of the finished work of the cross. Therefore our words carry POWER. 

Ecclesiastes 8:4 NKJV 

Revelation 5:10 NKJV

4. Justification and condemnation come from words! 

Matthew 12:37 NKJV 

5. Words cause God to remember and your case to be heard! 

Isaiah 43:26 NKJV 

6. God does what we speak!

Numbers 14:28 NKJV 

7. The Lord confirms and brings to pass the words of His servants!  

Isaiah 44:26 NKJV 

Scriptural Insight 

1. A portion of Our likeness is to be creative. We create with words!  

Genesis 1:1 NKJV 

Genesis 1:26 NKJV 

2. Before speaking there must be proper examination to fundamental understanding what you are speaking to, in, and against. God spoke light because He examined the darkness. We speak what should be when it is not so. 

Genesis 1:2 NKJV 

3. God said “let there be” to establish what wasn’t present. Faith allows us to make declarations, confessions, and decrees announcing what should be when it is not.  

Genesis 1:3 NKJV 

4. The words we speak should be good causing division from evil! 

Genesis 1:4 NKJV 

5. Words give identity to what we are speaking to, in, around, and for.  

Genesis 1:5 NKJV

Psalms 115:1-18 TPT 

Premise 

⁃ Our lives should be lived in such a way that our love for God ensures that His name is glorified in every situation, circumstance, and or event. 

Confession: May our lives write beautiful letters of love to the Lord continually. Scribing not only His unconditional love toward us but our unwavering devotion of love to Him. 

Fundamental Truths 

1. God does not share His glory with anyone or anything. 

Isaiah 42:8 NLT 

2. When in Christ both your body and your spirit belong to God therefore the expectation of God is that we glorify Him with all of who we are.

I Corinthians 6:19-20 NKJV 

I Corinthians 10:31 NKJV 

3. Bearing fruit as a lover of God is how God chooses to be glorified. 

John 15:8 NKJV 

Scriptural insight 

1. Because of God’s passion and love for us, He has chosen to glorify Himself in and through our lives. The hard part is….Getting out of His way. 

Psalms 115:1 TPT 

2. Never assume because God hasn’t done what you WANT the way you want, that He will not come through with what you NEED, how you need it. The Lord desires to help, for He is pleased by what He does. Question is, are you? 

Psalms 115:2-3 TPT 

3. We become like what and who we trust in. Therefore choosing to deny self and the temptation to trust in vain objects, fantasies, and facades put us back in position to recognize our true Hero! The glory belongs to HIM, not IT! 

Psalms 115:5-9 TPT

4. Getting LOW (Humility) determines the SCO (Score, final result) God knows where we are, who we are, where we’ve been and what we’ve done, yet His love for us is unfailing and He is interested in how we will choose to LOVE HIM by posturing ourselves in a continuous BOW that makes room for the blessings of the Lord.  

Psalms 115:12-15 TPT 

5. Yes He is in control, but He has given us the responsibility of taking what we have, be it our stories, resources, circumstances, and or positions to glorify Him. 

Psalms 115:16-18 TPT

Ephesians 3:14-19 NLT 

Confession: As a result of Christ dwelling in my heart through faith; I am being rooted and grounded in love, and strengthened to comprehend with all the saints what is the breadth and length and height and depth, and to know Christ’s love which surpasses knowledge, that I may be filled with all the fullness of God. Ephesians 3:17-19 

Premise 

⁃ Considering the truth that The Love of God is immeasurable gives us an understanding that in order to experience the fullness of His love we must journey with Him allowing Him to reveal His love to us more and more through experiential encounters leading to unconditional Love for God and people. May our lives write beautiful letters of love to the Lord continually. Scribing not only His unconditional love toward us but our unwavering devotion of fidelity towards Him. 

Fundamental truths 

1. The love of God is sacrificial. 

John 3:16-17 NLT 

John 15:13 NLT 

2. There is nothing that exists that can separate us from the love of God. 

Romans 8:38-39 NLT

3. God’s love toward us has given us access to be born again. Once we come into salvation we become the children of God. The Lord chose this method Instead of leaving us in our sinful state. 

1 John 3:1 NLT 

4. God’s love cannot be earned. It is a gift simply because of grace!  

Ephesians 2:8-9 NLT 

Mark 1:11 NKJV (Before Jesus performed one recorded miracle the father was pleased) 

5. It is the Holy Spirits job to pour, our job to receive. 

Romans 5:5 NKJV 

Scriptural insight 

1. The transformation that is experienced and explored by every child of God isn’t a work of human intellect or emotion but a work of the Holy spirit that derives from within causing us to constantly experience more because of Gods unlimited resources made available through this dimensional work. This work is done in phases as we grow in God. 

Ephesians 3:16 NLT 

2. It is impossible to experience and express the unconditional love of God without having first allowing Christ to make His home within our hearts. Loving God and people flows from this place of intimacy with Christ Jesus allowing us to remain strong. This love isn’t for a moment but continual.

Ephesians 3:17 NLT 

3. Power to understand is given once The Lord is granted access to our hearts. Only then are we thrusted into dimensions of love that can only be revealed by the spirit of God. 

Ephesians 3:18 NLT 

4. Fulfillment, satisfaction, and power all derive from the love of God that is too vast to understand but available to experience. Walking in love is the key to experiencing more and more of the love of God. 

Ephesians 3:19 NLT

Psalms 116:1-19 TPT 

Premise 

⁃ May our lives write beautiful letters of love to the Lord continually, scribing not only His unconditional love towards us but our never ending devotion of fidelity to Him. 

Fundamental truths 

1. The love of God was gifted to us long before we had the opportunity to love Him. 

1 John 4:19 TPT 

2. Proof of our Love for God is seen in how we express love for people. 

1 John 4:20-21 TPT

3. One of God’s major love languages is obedience  

John 14:21 TPT 

John 14:15 NLT 

John 14:15 TPT 

1 John 2:5-6 TPT 

Scriptural insight 

1. Love for God is born out of a deep conviction that The Lord hears, responds, and answers us when we call. Fidelity is pledged when commitment from God is seen and understood. The letter of our life should state singleminded dedication to God because of love for Him. 

Psalms 116:1-2 TPT 

2. Salvation demands a response from the saved to the victor. This response is seen and felt through God first choosing to love us before we learned to love Him, Indicating that His love letter has been written while ours is still being recorded. 

Psalms 116:3-5 TPT

3. Love for God is translated, expressed, and experienced through our ability to trust, believe, and have faith in God no matter the situation or circumstance. Those whose lives scream love for God consistently rest in the fact that God loves us too much to turn His back on us. 

Psalms 116:6-7 TPT 

4. Faithfulness is a love language of God that is proven when the odds are stacked against us. Strength is then given to those whose love for God has not wavered but remains firm choosing to walk with Christ in righteousness. This kind of love expresses more action than emotion and pleases our Lord and King. 

Psalms 116:8-11 TPT 

5. Fulfilling our promises to God demonstrates a love that He cannot deny simply because it reminds Him of the Love He once demonstrated. We can’t pay Him back but we can strive to please Him through our love for Him. 

Psalms 116:12-14 TPT 

6. Sometimes brokenness before God look like a life being broken up, disarrayed and rearranged. This is done to those He loves…  

Psalms 116:16-17 TPT

7. Your love for God should be evident before those who also claim to love Him. If God is the only one who experiences your love then you may not be loving Him, but self. 

Psalms 116:18-19 TPT 

Conclusion 

Love God, Love People

Focus Scripture: Matthew 2:13-23 NKJV

I' m On My Way (A bold declaration to the future)

Premise
⁃ The fact that you have made it through the turmoil and wars of harsh
harassment, destruction devices, and destiny derailers proves that there is still more for you on
the other side of the battle. Surviving attacks, hardships, unfavorable circumstances and even
shocking realities has set you up for the biggest moments of your life and it begins right now!

Prophetic Insights

1. The assassination attempt on your life did not prevail because God sent forth His
angels to not only guard you but guide you to the place of your divine protection.

“Now when they had departed, behold, an angel of the Lord appeared to Joseph in a dream,
saying, “Arise, take the young Child and His mother, flee to Egypt, and stay there until I bring
you word; for Herod will seek the young Child to destroy Him.””
Matthew 2:13 NKJV

2. The attacks on your life have been sent to kill the impact of your life, but because
you survived you are about to thrive!

“Then Herod, when he saw that he was deceived by the wise men, was exceedingly angry; and
he sent forth and put to death all the male children who were in Bethlehem and in all its districts,
from two years old and under, according to the time which he had determined from the wise
men.”
Matthew 2:16 NKJV

3. The assassination attempt is being reversed!

“Now when Herod was dead, behold, an angel of the Lord appeared in a dream to Joseph in
Egypt,”
Matthew 2:19 NKJV

4. Because you survived you are headed to your place of impact!

“Then he arose, took the young Child and His mother, and came into the land of Israel. But
when he heard that Archelaus was reigning over Judea instead of his father Herod, he was
afraid to go there. And being warned by God in a dream, he turned aside into the region of
Galilee. And he came and dwelt in a city called Nazareth, that it might be fulfilled which was
spoken by the prophets, “He shall be called a Nazarene.””
Matthew 2:21-23 NKJV