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Today. Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. Can't wait to take God's word is your answer. I'm so excited to bring the word to you today. And we're going to start in Psalm 83, verse 12, where it said, who said, let us take to ourselves the houses of God for possession? Houses means pastures, pleasant places, habitations. Well, if you haven't noticed, there has been a fight, a battle in recent years over the house of God. The last few decades. If you look back and happen to be a Christian during the 90s or 80s, you know, it was this, people would, what would Jesus do? And look at that and be reminded it was cool, it was in vogue to be a Christian. And then came the greatest onslaught of demonic attack, that the church would be occupied with the worldly mindset, with the worldly system. This was never God's way. And God's will that the church would embrace the world's ways instead of God's way. God's word is very clear. And I want to talk to you about that today because we're seeing a boomerang effect. We're seeing where there's 22% Bible sales are up, where young men specifically are going to church for the first time, are returning to the house of God. They're coming to their faith. There are a lot of people that really don't understand the word. They don't have what we would call a biblical worldview, but they want to. They know that the things that we've been battling, that taking children as young as 3 years old in Montgomery County, Maryland, that they would see through their education. Thank goodness we got a great Supreme Court victory. They would be exposed to pornography in public school. Kindercare. What is wrong with that kind of wicked and perverse thinking? Or how about where they would mutilate, they call it gender affirming care. Mutilate children 5 years old, 6 years old, 7 years old without parental consent. And I could go on and on, take the man out of the head of the household, destroy him, mock him, make fun of him. Are you kidding? You honor that man. He's the authority. He's the head of the household. If he's saved, if he's not saved and the wife is saved, she can bypass that, but she doesn't rule over him. There's so much that God gets a way of doing things. There's a path. So there are many ways that the world operates and that the kingdom of God operates and are his church, his bride operates because our job, what we do until Jesus Christ comes. Jesus taught on the kingdom more than anything. Only two times did he mention the church, and that was the ecclesia, which really is a secular term about the Roman government. So when you look at that and you see he said, repent, for the kingdom of God is at hand. And he kept teaching these parables on this is what the kingdom is like. This is what the kingdom is like. And so we have to understand, yes, the enemy thought he had us. He'd infiltrated the school system, the universities, he infiltrated homes, social media, on and on. But God had this crazy way of divinely reversing some things. And we don't see the fullness of it yet, but we are seeing where things are changing into this trajectory now. Don't think the battle is over. I want to talk to you about how you transform and how you advance the kingdom during this cultural time. What's going on in the world and how you see these victories. What do you do personally? What does the Bible say? And how do you make that difference? You are chosen to bring change. So the question I have to ask you is, how are you bearing the image of God within the sphere of influence that he's given you? Maybe that's in your home, maybe that's in your neighborhood, maybe that's in your entire community or the nation or the world. Is your dream for your life as big as God's dream is for your life? Have you shortchanged yourself in favor of the comfortable, the familiar, the safe road? You see, many Christians fall into two categories. Thinkers are doers. The thinkers often get hung up on these elaborate teachings with very little application. They never do. They don't advance the kingdom of God. On the other hand, many are activist leaders who want to make a difference in practical ways in their families, city and nation. However, they often fall prey to violation of scriptural principles and an eagerness for a cause. I can recall when I was coming out against some organizations in 2020, and there's still people that will just hit me hard. But I'll say right is right if no one's doing it, and wrong is wrong if everyone's doing it. And I am not ashamed of the gospel, and I don't apologize for standing with God's word, and that's going to be your take. Because in the end, heaven and earth passes away, but the Word shall remain forever. So let's look at this, because if you're in a situation, I really want you to think, don't ever compromise who you are. So if there's this, seems like justice, but everything about that justice organization violates what God says, violates the covenant of marriage, violates that there are only two sexes, violates our children, violates your parental rights, violates everything, violates your religious liberty, your ability to approach God and to worship him freely. When something violates that, you have to make a decision. Do I stand with God and his word, or do I stand with the world and its ways? So the desire of God for us is to be both a thinker and a doer, both a purist and a pragmatist, but not in the way of the world. See James, chapter 2, verse 14 through 25. Read it. Read the whole thing. I'm going to read you a few of says, what if one of my brothers, someone claims to have faith but has no deeds? Can such faith save him? Suppose a brother or sisters without clothes and daily without food. If any one of you says, go in peace, keep warm, well, and be fed, but you don't do anything about their physical needs, what good is it? In the same way, faith by itself is not accompanied by action. It's dead. And someone will say, you have faith, I have deeds. Well, show me your faith without deeds, and I will show you my faith by my deeds. You believe there's one God. Even the demons believe that. And then it goes on and it's real harsh, you foolish person. Do you want evidence that faith without deeds is useless? Was not our father Abraham considered righteous for what he did when he offered his son Isaac on the altar? It keeps going. It says, you see, that faith in his actions were working together. It concludes with this. So faith without deeds is dead. So we have to think right, and we have to do right now. When our Christian worldview is big enough to include God in everything we do, even the darkest places will be transformed by truth. I want you to think about that. Is God's worldview ruling your marriage? Is God's worldview ruling your household, your children? Is God's worldview. Directing you in your job is God's worldview. So if you start to apply that in everything, you. You begin to understand there's probably a lot of things in our life that we're doing the world's way. Raising our children, compromising with systems, caving in for the almighty dollar. There's probably a lot of things that we've done that are the world's ways and not God's way. Now, first thing, you're going to have to shake off lethargy in order to fulfill the covenant that God established. Because God says that you partner with him, that he can do nothing in the earth unless someone partners with them. I believe that maybe we are the remnant people that will see the return of the Lord. I don't know. But we have to live like it. You're a remnant people and God is pouring out a spirit upon all the earth. Habakkuk 2:14, that the glory of the knowledge of the Lord will cover the earth as the waters cover the sea. I believe there's a holy boldness coming on you. And you are called to be an ambassador of God, an agent of culture, social change based on a biblical worldview. What does God have to say about it? So first off, Jesus commissioned us to go into the world and transform through the preaching of the good news to all creation. Now, that starts with the reception of understanding who God is that he sent his only begotten God and son. He became our atonement. He died. He took away the penalty of sin. He took away the root of sin. And that sacrifice of being crucified, buried in a borrowed tomb, went to hell, conquered death on the grave, rose again on the third day. On the 40th day, after teaching his disciples even heavier about the kingdom of God, he ascended to the throne, put his blood on the altar and sat down at the right hand side. Now he's praying over you and I making intercession. And then at a time that he doesn't even know, he will come back for his bride and there will be a new heaven and a new earth. That is the crux of it. But is that the whole gospel? Well, let's ask our ourselves. That's the cornerstone of it. Jesus Christ. All things in the Old Testament concealed lead to that New Testament revealed. But the gospel reaches everything, tells us how to conduct ourselves in marriage, tells us how to conduct ourselves in our sex life, tells us what to let into our ears and what not to what we listen to. It tells us how to conduct our business, how to handle our finances, how to be a boss, how to be a follower. It tells us how to raise our children. Every single thing. There are things that are optional. Like if you go to buy a car, God doesn't say, you must buy a red car. That's your preference. It's Not a principle. You can buy gray, green, black, blue, white, whatever turns you on, but the things that are principle, which cover much more. It's the cornerstone of the gospel. The gospel is the good news that Jesus Christ brought forth the kingdom. And that kingdom is what you're living within as a believer in society. So what does that mean? The church, the bride of Jesus Christ, must impact every sect of society. There's some things happening right now in a city that we're all familiar with and there's people that will be there on the ticket and they are straight up socialist Marxism. And that is a total anti God. It is. There is no God. It's 100% against God. They are God and there is no God. Or there is another way. Now, a lot of people go, well, this isn't so bad because I'm going to get free this and free that and free free this and free that. God never said you get anything free except for salvation. I mean, in fact, we'll be judged for our works and works is what we do, remember thinkers and doers. So outside of the gospel, the salvation being free, God giving us his son. It's not like God says God's not a socialist, he's not a Marxist, he's not, oh, you don't. You should never suffer. Suffering is one of our tenets. Suffering is a big part of your Christianity, but it's only for a short season. It's not a whole life. And if it is a whole life, there's eternity, which is forever. So I want you to understand this is important because how do I discern what's right, what's wrong, what's of God, what's not? With all the things bearing down with information just bombarding you, it's pretty easy. Stay more in this than anything else. God's word is your answer. So God promised that if we go forth as image bearers, then signs, wonders would accompany us and confirm his word spoken through us. Mark, chapter 16, verse 15 through 20. So what happens as I reflect the image of God in earth? Maybe I'm the only Daniel in that situation. Maybe I'm the only Esther in that situation, the only Joseph. Maybe you. It's me. We're in a situation where Daniel refused to bow, where Joseph was used to interpret dreams. Well, Esther was raised up for such a time as this. When you're there, what happens is God says when you speak his word and his word goes forth in a community, in an office room, and you don't have to be be fruity or Weird about it, you just walk it out. He said, now signs and wonders will accompany. To confirm the word which was spoken. God will give you a prophetic word. The boss has a liver problem. Now you'll speak the word. Isaiah 53. He was wounded for your transgression, bruised for your iniquity. The chastisement of our peace is upon him. And with his stripes you are healed of that liver disaster. They'll be like, how in the world? Well, you either asked them or you got a prophetic revelation. You see, what happens then is you're chosen to create kingdom culture. You're advancing the kingdom. And Jesus prayed for his disciples and all who would follow. He did not ask the Father to take us out of the world. But in John 17, 14, 18, he said, Father, protect them from the evil one through the truth of the Word. Look what he's saying. Lies are going to come. Deception is going to come. In the last days, many are going to fall away being lovers of themselves. They're going to be misguided, they're going to be seared in their mind. There'll be many reprobate. Such a sad state of condition. He said, but I'm not asking you to take them out. Protect them in this through the Word. How do I get protected through the word? Psalm 24:1 6. The earth belongs to the Lord and everything in it and all who live in it. So when we choose to separate the sacred from the secular, stating that our Christianity is only a private religious system rather than a real relationship with God through His Son Jesus, which holds a biblical worldview, then we miss out. We're in this world, not of this world. And God says, I want to use you. He says, I'm looking to and fro for somebody that will stand in the gap. I mean, it goes on and on where God partners with people and nothing's done in this earth without him partnering with someone because he gave man dominion. So we miss out on great blessings and more than anything, on the harvest. The cross of Christ has very vast cultural implications. Let's look at a few in these last few moments when the kingdom of God is proclaimed through humanity. That's you and I living as a Christian, working as a Christian, acting like a Christian, talking like a Christian, and being a real Christian. It's so powerful because it evokes what's already metaphysically existed in the hearts of all people. It evokes our purpose and our destiny. We look at this in Ecclesiastes 6, chapter 3, verse 11. He's made everything beautiful in its time. He's also planted eternity in men's hearts and minds. A divinely implanted sense of a purpose working through the ages, which nothing under the sun but God alone can satisfy yet so that man cannot find out what God has done from the beginning to the end. Do you understand how great that is? You see, when you encounter encounter someone, they encounter you. The eternity which you now have revelation of that you didn't come from your mom and dad, you didn't come from Mississippi, you came from God and had to clock into purpose. What happens there is it encounters someone, eternity's in them, and it's almost like it sets it off. Now, they might understand it, they might not, but that's where progress some plant, some water, some, you know, reap it. We all have different assignments, but at the end of the day, the church should be the epicenter for all society. Meaning the bride of Christ, God's church. I'm talking universal, not like, oh, my church on the corner is going to be the biggest, best church in the world. Maybe it will, maybe it won't. But what matters is it playing the role in the part that God assigned. The world should be coming to us, the church, the bride of Christ. For ideas on caring for creation for the poor, business development, science, prison reform, parenting, education, environment, foreign affairs, religious liberty. So when people say, paula, how do you stand in this? You've got your foot in the local church you serve at the highest level in this nation. How do you do that? Simple. Really simple. Simple. I've been forged and formed for it for 40 years. I didn't seek it, didn't ask for it, but God planted me for a purpose, just like he has you. And you have to believe that, that where you are. God wants to use you. See, politicians and governors and presidents and kings and leaders and CEOs should seek advice from the Bride Church on public policy, policy, on revitalizing communities, on transforming lives, on the homeless, on life from the womb to the tomb, on dependent programs for people who are trapped, how to move people into true freedom. You see, we have the answers and this is vitally important. Did you know that when there is a faith based program that it is usually 88% and above successful? When there is no faith, no God at all in secular, the best of secular programs, 20% and lower successful. What's the difference in that almost 70% margin? Because we have to lead by facts and evidence. The difference is real, simple. God's in one. Think about the same thing. Science is now coming out with. When you pray, you add 10 years to your life. I could have told you that 40 years ago, before science started saying it. When you pray, there's a difference in your brain. You feel better. No kidding. You see, we are the influencers of culture. And if you don't do it, if you stay silent and don't put your light on the top of that hill so all men can see, how dark is it going to be? Many people believe that the first of the Holy Spirit spirit on the earth was on the day of Pentecost. But that's just not true. Let's go to Genesis, chapter one. I think about it. I thought, I want to read this. In the beginning, God created the heaven and the earth. And the earth was without form and void. And darkness was upon the face of the deep. And the Spirit of God moved upon the face of the waters. And God saw the light, that it was good. And God said. And God said, now what happened there? What happened? The Holy Spirit was activated in darkness, void, absolute nothingness. If you're called by God to be an artist, you should expect the Holy Spirit to smile and move on you while you're painting a canvas, not just when you're praying or worshiping in church. If you're called by God to be a business person, you should be smiling when you execute and close that deal. Because you are a culture bearer. What you're doing right now is influencing society. And you're called for these transitional times. And what I want you to understand is your interconnectedness to your life and his church. There's not a separation. You don't have his church in your life. As image bearers, we're directly to influence our portion of the earth and do what God taught us through the prayer in Luke, chapter 11, verse 2 and 3. Let it be fulfilled. As you speak the words of this prayer out loud, really listen to it. And let's conclude with this. Our Father in heaven, hallowed be your name. Your kingdom come, your will be done on earth as it is in heaven. So what that means is that when I'm praying, I'm superimposing the will, the supreme intention, the intention. That's what will is. It means what God has already decided and determined. The supreme intention of God into the earth. I'm superimposing in heaven. It's two different words in. In the earth, what's already been established in place, in position, and everything else in heaven. So God's already made up his mind. All I have to do is align with it which shows me through His Word, I have to think like that and then I have to start carrying it out in prayer and then I start carrying it out in actions. That's what we do. The church begins to train and equip believers. Then when we equip and train them with what God has to say, which is a biblical worldview, then we're discipling them whatever vocation they're called in. Not just to stand behind a pulpit because we must not only bless you, more importantly, we have to build you. And that's my desire. My desire is we really come in covenant because you have a job to do for Jesus. So the question is, are you carrying out your purpose? Are you impacting your sphere of influence? Are you doing it to the glory of God and are you doing it through His Word? If you say pa I don't know, then let's pray, let's make a covenant. Because these are times that are exciting. God's going to promote, he's going to open doors, he's going to bless you with end time wealth transference. He's going to. But he doesn't just do that for everyone. He does that for those that are positioned to carry out, to think like him and to do the actions. So what I'd like to do. Can I teach all this to you in 28 minutes? No way. But go to paulawhite.org Father God, I pray right now that every veil would be removed from my friend, that every limitation of fear or insecurity, low self esteem would be broken off you right now in Jesus name and the confidence of the Lord that you carry a great purpose would come. I decree this and I declare it in Jesus mighty name be blessed.
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God is the same yesterday, today and forevermore. Hebrews 13:8 give and it will be given to you. Good measure, pressed down, shaken together, running over will be put into your lap. Luke 6:38 if God is speaking to you to be a blessing and sow a generous ministry gift into the fertile soil of Paula White Ministries, call the toll free number, go to the website, write the PO box or simply text PWM to the number on your screen right now from your smartphone. Your generous support will help millions of people through this ministry, including reaching the world with the priceless gift of the Gospel of Jesus Christ, transforming lives, healing hearts and winning souls. And every day through this television program and the live preaching ministry of Paula White, Cain and Jonathan Cain, our feeding outreach is providing food, clothing, household furniture and goods to those in need in the Local community and around the nation. Our emergency relief efforts working with other ministries, providing rapid response with food and relief supplies to victims of tragic fires in Hawaii and la, floods in Texas and North Carolina Carolina plus going into prisons, ministering in the streets and making a difference in communities. Thank you and God Bless you. Because of the faithful support and prayers of ministry partners and friends, we are able to transform lives, heal hearts and win souls worldwide every single day through the outreaches of Paula Wife Ministries. Our global Gospel outreach reaching hundreds of millions of people online and the daily Paula Today television program broadcasted in potentially 190 countries. Our massive food and household outreaches distributing truckloads of food weekly totaling over 29 million pounds of food in the last four years and millions of dollars in new household furniture to those in need. Our disaster relief efforts delivering multiple tractor trailer truckloads and hurricane disaster relief. Helping to bring hope and rebuild communities. Community transformation Adopting places like the hurricane ravaged town of Chimney Rock, N.C. rebuilding complexes, restoring and mobilizing over 3,000 volunteers to bring donations, love and support to help resurrect and rebuild the community as well as help rebuild a Moshe Av in Israel destroyed in the October 7 massacre. Impactful outreach events like our annual Back to School Bash, Thanksgiving Table in the Wilderness and Children's Christmas Outreach positively impacting thousands every year. Prison ministry and revival Going into prisons and sharing the Gospel. Advocacy for Biblical values Spearheading, organizing, educating and activating church leaders to bring back biblical values in America through the National Faith Advisory Board and the annual National Faith Summit. Making a Difference at Our Borders Connecting together hundreds of pastors with local, state and national leaders with the U.S. border Patrol who educate and inform them on the process and challenges faced on the border as well as blessing the families of fallen Border Patrol agents through Operation Border Blessing. And we have so much more to do this 2025. Your much needed prayers and support help sustain and expand these vital ministries, bringing hope, restoration and the transformative power of the Gospel to those millions in need. Thank you.
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