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- 0:00Speaker 1: Hello, Hello, Hello, Hello, and I'm back, y'all. So again,
- 0:04Speaker 1: I want to apologize for this morning, y'all. I totally
- 0:09Speaker 1: did not realize that I was on mute until I
- 0:12Speaker 1: got to the end and I thought about, you know,
- 0:17Speaker 1: maybe somebody needed to hear this message. Maybe somebody needed
- 0:21Speaker 1: to hear what I was sharing, and I was muted
- 0:26Speaker 1: so that they could not hear because normally I checked.
- 0:29Speaker 1: So this thing has been just weighing on me all day.
- 0:33Speaker 1: So I decided I thought about it, and God said,
- 0:38Speaker 1: go ahead, just go and redo it. So I'm here, y'all.
- 0:42Speaker 1: I'm not gonna be on here loan. I just want
- 0:46Speaker 1: to make sure that I am obedient so that this
- 0:48Speaker 1: can be archived, so that this can be available for
- 0:51Speaker 1: somebody that may jump on and need to hear this word. Y'all.
- 0:55Speaker 1: We're day number twenty seven, and maybe I needed to
- 0:59Speaker 1: hear it again so that I can be reminded as well.
- 1:02Speaker 1: But I just wanted to share this with you guys.
- 1:07Speaker 1: And the scripture is coming out of Psalms nineteen and one.
- 1:11Speaker 1: It says, the heavens declare the glory of God, and
- 1:15Speaker 1: the sky above proclaims his handiwork and I'm gonna be quick.
- 1:21Speaker 1: I promise y'all. I'm gonna be quick. I'm gonna be
- 1:23Speaker 1: really quick. I'm probably gonna be shorter than I was
- 1:25Speaker 1: this morning, but I'm gonna be quick, and I'm just
- 1:30Speaker 1: gonna share what God laid in my spirit to share
- 1:32Speaker 1: with you guys on this morning. And that's what I'm
- 1:35Speaker 1: gonna do. So. The title for this lesson is called
- 1:43Speaker 1: Heaven's Declared and again It's Songs nineteen and one. It says,
- 1:47Speaker 1: to Heaven's declare the glory of God, the Skuy's proclaimed
- 1:50Speaker 1: the work of his hands. The backstory of this lesson
- 1:56Speaker 1: is Psalms nineteen is a Joy for Him of the
- 1:59Speaker 1: Praise written by King David, who spent many nights under
- 2:06Speaker 1: the open sky as a shepherd. David was intally acquainted
- 2:10Speaker 1: with the majestics of nature. In his Psalms, he draws
- 2:14Speaker 1: a powerful connection between the gander of creation and the
- 2:19Speaker 1: greatness of its creator. This was This was written in
- 2:24Speaker 1: a time when people spent much of their lives outdoors
- 2:27Speaker 1: under the open sky. They saw the celestial bodies of
- 2:31Speaker 1: a majestic sign of something such so much greater for David,
- 2:36Speaker 1: each sunrise each star in the sky and every cloud
- 2:39Speaker 1: was a living sermon pointing back to the glory, the glory,
- 2:43Speaker 1: the creativity, and the power of God. These verses does
- 2:48Speaker 1: not just speak of beauty, it speaks of communication. Even
- 2:53Speaker 1: within words. Creation proclaims the reality and brilliance of God
- 2:57Speaker 1: to every person, regardless of their language or location. The
- 3:01Speaker 1: universe itself is God's canvas, painted with evidence of his
- 3:06Speaker 1: divine presence and genius. So what I what I gathered
- 3:13Speaker 1: from this chapter, from these this this scripture that was
- 3:19Speaker 1: given me, And I'm gonna give you these three takeaways,
- 3:22Speaker 1: and I'm gonna be gone. I'm telling y'all it's gonna
- 3:24Speaker 1: be quick. So the three takeaways are God's creation is
- 3:30Speaker 1: his testimony. The nature. The nature the natural world is
- 3:35Speaker 1: a continual revelation of God's existence in his glory. There
- 3:39Speaker 1: there's three reference scriptures that I want to share with
- 3:42Speaker 1: you guys, that you can really go and you can
- 3:44Speaker 1: read and you can also reference this and you can
- 3:47Speaker 1: see God's creations as his testimony. So Romes one and
- 3:52Speaker 1: twenty he said, for since the creation of the world,
- 3:55Speaker 1: God's invisible quality, his eternal power, and divine nature has
- 3:59Speaker 1: been clearly seen, being understood from what has been made,
- 4:04Speaker 1: so that with people are without excuse. Paula firms that
- 4:08Speaker 1: the creation itself is God's tangible proof, speaking that every
- 4:12Speaker 1: generation across every nation, and Jove's twelve seventeen and nine
- 4:17Speaker 1: he said, but ask the animals, and they will teach you.
- 4:22Speaker 1: Are the birds of the sky, and they will tell
- 4:25Speaker 1: you which of all these does not know that the
- 4:29Speaker 1: hands of the Lord has done this. Even nature itself
- 4:33Speaker 1: is a living witness of the Creator's hand. You can
- 4:37Speaker 1: look at the trees, you can look at just different
- 4:41Speaker 1: little things in nature and the clouds, and you truly
- 4:47Speaker 1: can see God's work. You can see his magic, you
- 4:52Speaker 1: can see his power, you can see all of his goodness.
- 4:57Speaker 1: Also in Isaiah forty and twenty six, it says, lift
- 5:04Speaker 1: up your eyes and look to the heavens who created
- 5:07Speaker 1: all things, He who brings out the starry hosts one
- 5:12Speaker 1: by one and calls forth each of them by name.
- 5:16Speaker 1: Whether you are in a city, a countryside, or surrounded
- 5:19Speaker 1: by mountains or a city park, all of these creations
- 5:24Speaker 1: point to the wisdom, the power, and the intentions of God.
- 5:30Speaker 1: I'm talking about the order, the symmetrical, the beauty, even
- 5:35Speaker 1: the changing of the seasons or God's silent declaration of
- 5:39Speaker 1: who he is. And you are a part of his masterpiece.
- 5:48Speaker 1: If all creation declared God's greatness, why don't you, if
- 5:56Speaker 1: you hear the scripture said the files of the year,
- 6:01Speaker 1: they trust him, that they believe that they are a
- 6:03Speaker 1: part of his masterpiece. So why don't you believe that
- 6:07Speaker 1: you are a part of his masterpiece? So scripture to
- 6:13Speaker 1: back that you are a part of his masterpiece, that
- 6:18Speaker 1: you are a part of his greatness. So in Ephesians
- 6:21Speaker 1: two and ten it said, for we are God's masterpiece,
- 6:24Speaker 1: it's handiwork created in Christ Jesus to do good works
- 6:28Speaker 1: which God prepared in advance for us to do. You
- 6:31Speaker 1: are a work of intentional creativity, made to reflect and
- 6:36Speaker 1: carry out God's purpose. Like we were strategically placed here,
- 6:40Speaker 1: like he tell you right there, Like it's not an accident.
- 6:43Speaker 1: Like everything about you was ordained, Everything about you was
- 6:50Speaker 1: predone in prepared in advance. You were intentionally made to
- 6:57Speaker 1: be creative. You were intentionally made to reflect and carry
- 7:01Speaker 1: out His promise. It says that in Visions two and ten,
- 7:05Speaker 1: and then if you go on down to Sosngs one
- 7:07Speaker 1: thirty nine, thirteen fourteen. It said, for you are created
- 7:11Speaker 1: my intermost being. You knit me together in my mother's womb.
- 7:18Speaker 1: I praise you because I am fearfully and wonderfully made.
- 7:23Speaker 1: You are wonderfully made, uniquely crafted by God. Everybody and
- 7:27Speaker 1: we all have our own uniqueness. There is nothing like
- 7:31Speaker 1: us that is similar or like the next person. He said,
- 7:35Speaker 1: he made us in his likeness, in his image. That
- 7:38Speaker 1: means we're made in a representation of Him. One Peter
- 7:45Speaker 1: two and nine. It said, but you are chosen people.
- 7:49Speaker 1: But you are chosen people, a royal priesthood, a holy nation,
- 7:57Speaker 1: God's special possession, that you may declare the praises of
- 8:02Speaker 1: Him who called you out of the darkness into his
- 8:05Speaker 1: wonderful life. Like you got to declare this over your life.
- 8:09Speaker 1: You got to speak it over your life, like there's
- 8:11Speaker 1: nothing that has happened to you that that was not
- 8:16Speaker 1: part of the plan. Like everything was part of the plan.
- 8:20Speaker 1: He said, you are a chosen people, a royal priesthood.
- 8:25Speaker 1: That means you should hold your head high. You should
- 8:28Speaker 1: want with with with with with keenness. You are of
- 8:32Speaker 1: a holy nation, God's special possession. You gotta believe it
- 8:40Speaker 1: just as the stars the mountains serve a unique role
- 8:44Speaker 1: in God's creation. So do you your voice, your story, your gift,
- 8:52Speaker 1: even your struggle from from from a mosaic, what, what
- 9:00Speaker 1: ever your struggle is, it is to magnify and to
- 9:04Speaker 1: bring God glory. Don't underestimate your significance, your very life.
- 9:15Speaker 1: It is an act of divine artistry. So number three,
- 9:37Speaker 1: it says, worship is bigger than words. Creation works. God's
- 9:43Speaker 1: without the word, so we can through our lives. And
- 9:48Speaker 1: then there's three scriptures. So the first one is Psalms
- 9:52Speaker 1: one forty eight, one through three, and then seven through thirteen.
- 9:59Speaker 1: It said, raise the Lord. For the heavens, praise him,
- 10:02Speaker 1: the sun, the moon, praise him. All you shining stars,
- 10:06Speaker 1: let them praise the name of the Lord, for it
- 10:10Speaker 1: is his commandment that we are created. All creation praised
- 10:13Speaker 1: simply by existing and fulfilling its purpose. And then if
- 10:17Speaker 1: you go down to Habekka two and two is Habekka
- 10:21Speaker 1: two and twenty it says, but the Lord is in
- 10:25Speaker 1: his holy temple, let all the earth be silent before him.
- 10:30Speaker 1: There's a holy reference in silence, all feel worship. And
- 10:37Speaker 1: then Romans twelve and one it said Therefore, I urge you,
- 10:41Speaker 1: brothers and sisters, in view of God's mercy, to offer
- 10:46Speaker 1: your bodies as a living sacrifice, holy and pleasing to God.
- 10:51Speaker 1: This is your true and proper worship. Our daily lives
- 10:56Speaker 1: and action become expressions of worship. And it's just simply
- 11:01Speaker 1: saying that your worship is not confined to music or words,
- 11:07Speaker 1: but it's revealed in our obedience, our guidance, our gratitude,
- 11:11Speaker 1: our are It is just the acts of kindness, forgiveness, integrity,
- 11:18Speaker 1: becoming a holy worshiper. Like the heavens, your life is
- 11:21Speaker 1: a solid yet powerful testimony of God's goodness and greatness.
- 11:25Speaker 1: Like don't allow people to put you in a box
- 11:28Speaker 1: and think that you gotta be a certain this and that.
- 11:33Speaker 1: But no matter how solid your day may feel, your
- 11:36Speaker 1: life like the sky, it can reveal God's glory. You
- 11:43Speaker 1: can find Him and what He's made. Remember, you are
- 11:48Speaker 1: a part of His design, and it's like life today
- 11:53Speaker 1: to worship resting on that you are a vital part
- 11:56Speaker 1: of the great sympathy of His creation. It's like all
- 12:00Speaker 1: of the instruments make up the orchestra. Your instrument, Your
- 12:05Speaker 1: instrument is needed, So keep shining tomorrow has a new
- 12:09Speaker 1: mercy and a greater revelation revolution revelation in store for you.
- 12:14Speaker 1: He's gonna reveal something else to you. So how now
- 12:17Speaker 1: can you apply what you have heard today? How can
- 12:21Speaker 1: you apply that to your life? How can you activate
- 12:24Speaker 1: that in your life and allow that to be action
- 12:28Speaker 1: in you and to see His word manifest? So now
- 12:32Speaker 1: I'm going to share three things and how you can
- 12:34Speaker 1: apply this to your life, and then I'm gonna go.
- 12:38Speaker 1: So the first thing is, take a moment to encounter
- 12:41Speaker 1: God's presence. Just step outside and just look up, breathe
- 12:47Speaker 1: in the fresh air. I mean you will notice like
- 12:51Speaker 1: you would be. You would see his great creation. You
- 12:55Speaker 1: will see the wonderess of the sky, the clouds, the truth.
- 13:00Speaker 1: You might even feel a breathe. And if you breathe in,
- 13:03Speaker 1: you will take in some of his madness. So as
- 13:07Speaker 1: you breed deeply, let your soul connect with the creator
- 13:10Speaker 1: who set it all in motion just for you. Ask him,
- 13:15Speaker 1: what do you want to show me today? You'll be
- 13:18Speaker 1: a mazed at the peace or insight that sweeps in
- 13:22Speaker 1: when you pause for God's wonder Scripturally, if you stand
- 13:31Speaker 1: those songs forty six and ten it said, be still
- 13:33Speaker 1: and know that I'm God. His word is not gonna
- 13:36Speaker 1: return to him. Lord. We have to apply it to
- 13:37Speaker 1: our life. We have to allow it to manifest. So
- 13:41Speaker 1: if we go on down, not only do we have
- 13:45Speaker 1: to allowed to manifest. In Proverbs eighteen and twenty one,
- 13:50Speaker 1: he said He's given us a power of life and death.
- 13:51Speaker 1: So that means that we have the power to speak life.
- 13:53Speaker 1: We have the power to speak death. So when we
- 13:56Speaker 1: learn how to declare and speak declarations into declare things
- 14:00Speaker 1: over our life, then we'll be able to see things manifest.
- 14:04Speaker 1: So declaring God's word in our own life, for example,
- 14:09Speaker 1: you don't have to keep God's goodness to yourself. If
- 14:13Speaker 1: he's done something for you, tell it like the word
- 14:18Speaker 1: say we overcome by the hear and the sharing of
- 14:19Speaker 1: our testimony. So if he's done something in your life,
- 14:26Speaker 1: share it with somebody. We have all these opportunities where
- 14:29Speaker 1: we can be present and we can be a voice.
- 14:34Speaker 1: So we got all these different social media sites, we
- 14:36Speaker 1: got all these friends, we got this just different stuff.
- 14:39Speaker 1: You can go on social media, make a post, make
- 14:41Speaker 1: up something, share something, encouraging, any single act of encouragement
- 14:47Speaker 1: to someone else It multiplies the worship towards God, and
- 14:51Speaker 1: it goes beyond what's on the inside of you. So
- 14:55Speaker 1: be reminded. Let everything that has breath praises the Lord.
- 15:00Speaker 1: He said that the songs one fifty six, so we
- 15:02Speaker 1: should be giving him praise. And then, understanding that you
- 15:10Speaker 1: are at work. You are a a A a work
- 15:18Speaker 1: of you are God's work. So it say I am
- 15:24Speaker 1: God's work of art. Claim your identity. So right now,
- 15:32Speaker 1: wherever you are, you can speak affirmations over yourself as
- 15:38Speaker 1: a heavens declare God's glory. So do you. May your life,
- 15:44Speaker 1: with its beauty and complexity, reflect the handiwork of our
- 15:50Speaker 1: love and creator. Don't just say it once, repeat it
- 15:54Speaker 1: every time doubt or discouragement tries to sneak in. You
- 15:58Speaker 1: gotta be able to speak that I am God's work
- 16:02Speaker 1: of art. I am God's work of art. I am
- 16:05Speaker 1: God's work of art. I am God's work of art.
- 16:09Speaker 1: Let that renew your mind. Let it shape your perspective
- 16:13Speaker 1: every single day, and repeat it over and over and over.
- 16:18Speaker 1: Anytime doubt comes, anytime discouragement comes, speak it. Speak that
- 16:23Speaker 1: thing to yourself. Know that you are fearfully and wonderfully made.
- 16:27Speaker 1: You're made in his image. You are God's work of art.
- 16:33Speaker 1: We are God's masterpiece Ephesians two and ten. Learn that scripture.
- 16:38Speaker 1: Repeat that scripture to yourself. We are God's master piece.
- 16:42Speaker 1: We are God's master piece. Ephesians two and ten. He said,
- 16:45Speaker 1: give us his word, give him his word back to him,
- 16:48Speaker 1: Remind him that you are his masterpiece. So guess what.
- 16:51Speaker 1: He gotta show up for you, But you got to
- 16:54Speaker 1: show up for yourself too. And closing, y'all, I don't
- 17:00Speaker 1: want you to wait for a perfect moment. I don't
- 17:03Speaker 1: want you to wait for a special event or a sign.
- 17:07Speaker 1: God is already speaking and through his creations, through his word,
- 17:12Speaker 1: and even through your own heart. Move on faith today.
- 17:17Speaker 1: Open your eyes, open your mouth, and open your heart.
- 17:22Speaker 1: Make this day one that you will remember, not just
- 17:25Speaker 1: another routine day, but a day that you will encounter
- 17:29Speaker 1: God afresh and let him shine through you. Remember God
- 17:34Speaker 1: is present. Now, step outside, speak up and stand tall
- 17:40Speaker 1: as His creation because you are fearfully and wonderfully made
- 17:43Speaker 1: in His image. Today is today for you to declare
- 17:47Speaker 1: His glory and receive his love. Act now and watch
- 17:52Speaker 1: God make this ordinary moment extraordinary for you. I promise you.
- 17:59Speaker 1: I promise you carry this truth with you tomorrow. It's
- 18:04Speaker 1: not promised, but God's presence is guaranteed. Right now, don't
- 18:10Speaker 1: delay walking your worship today. Walking your worship today, y'all,
- 18:16Speaker 1: as we close this week and we remember all the
- 18:21Speaker 1: things that we've seen, you may not be able to
- 18:24Speaker 1: see the full picture that is ahead of you. But
- 18:31Speaker 1: one you know that the one who painted the heavens,
- 18:35Speaker 1: informed the depths of the earth, he also created you.
- 18:40Speaker 1: He also created you. So when doubt creeping or the
- 18:46Speaker 1: weight of the unknown begins to press heavy on your soul,
- 18:50Speaker 1: lift your eyes. Let every shimmering star, every cloud, every
- 18:59Speaker 1: tree be a silent testimony that you are not alone.
- 19:04Speaker 1: That God sees you, He knows you, and He has
- 19:07Speaker 1: called you by name. Wherever your eyes see emptiness, his
- 19:13Speaker 1: present feels the gap with hope, promise, and unshakeable love.
- 19:18Speaker 1: You are not invisible, You're not forsaken in God's story.
- 19:22Speaker 1: You are cherished. You are chosen, and you are purposely
- 19:26Speaker 1: woven in His masterpiece. I hope that you have a
- 19:30Speaker 1: great rest of your day. I hope that your weekend
- 19:34Speaker 1: is blessed beyond what you can see in the natural.
- 19:36Speaker 1: Y'all will be back here tomorrow, day number twenty eight.
- 19:40Speaker 1: I hope that there's something that I have shared with
- 19:42Speaker 1: you guys that will be a blessing again, y'all. We
- 19:45Speaker 1: did this this morning. I apologize that I did not
- 19:49Speaker 1: have my volume on. I did not check. Y'all know,
- 19:53Speaker 1: I do podcasting, so last night I muted my line
- 19:56Speaker 1: because I didn't want my noise to be in the
- 19:58Speaker 1: podcast noise in the podcast, so I muted myself and
- 20:04Speaker 1: I looked at it before I went live this morning,
- 20:07Speaker 1: but I didn't do nothing about it, y'all. I saw it,
- 20:10Speaker 1: and I said I'm gonna get it, and I didn't
- 20:13Speaker 1: and I didn't catch it until the very end. But
- 20:16Speaker 1: that thing wrestled with me today and I said, let
- 20:19Speaker 1: me come back and share this because somebody may need
- 20:22Speaker 1: it to hear this. And that was not on TikTok
- 20:26Speaker 1: that did not get to hear it. That may have
- 20:28Speaker 1: been somebody on Facebook, somebody on YouTube, somebody on Twitch,
- 20:31Speaker 1: somebody on kick that needed to hear this message. So
- 20:35Speaker 1: I wanted to make sure that I was obedient, and
- 20:37Speaker 1: I came back and I shared this message. So I
- 20:40Speaker 1: hope that someone is blessed by this. I hope that
- 20:42Speaker 1: you have a great rest of your afternoon and that
- 20:45Speaker 1: you have a great weekend. For those that will be
- 20:48Speaker 1: here tomorrow, I'll see you tomorrow. But I'll be jumping
- 20:51Speaker 1: back on in a little while so I can conclude
- 20:55Speaker 1: our twenty one day visibility challenge. I'm gonna go ahead
- 20:59Speaker 1: and participate again today, so we will be concluding the
- 21:02Speaker 1: visibility challenge for today. Y'all. It's been alone twenty one days,
- 21:09Speaker 1: but hey, God is sheet good. We yet press. Thank
- 21:12Speaker 1: you guys, and I will see y'all tomorrow. I'll see
- 21:15Speaker 1: y'all tomorrow.