Faith in the Creator, Not the Created

Have you ever noticed how easily we elevate people and things to positions they were never meant to occupy? David's ancient wisdom in Psalm 146 speaks directly to our modern tendency to create idols out of politicians, pastors, celebrities, careers, and possessions.

In this profound exploration of misplaced faith, we examine the critical distinction between appropriate admiration and inappropriate worship. Just as the Israelites fashioned a golden calf when Moses disappeared up Mount Sinai, we often prefer tangible objects of devotion over an invisible God. But David's powerful reminder rings true across millennia: "Put not your trust in princes, in a son of man, in whom there is no salvation. When his breath departs, he returns to the earth. On that very day his plans perish."

The podcast reveals a fascinating spiritual dynamic at work in our worship. While our spirit naturally inclines toward God, our soul (mind, will, emotions) requires conscious direction. That's why David commands his own soul: "Praise the Lord, O my soul." This isn't automatic—it's intentional. And remarkably, the act of praising God builds our faith internally while developing our confidence externally.

When facing oppression, hunger, imprisonment or any form of suffering, we're offered two divine pathways: either God removes the mountain, or He brings us through it. Both demonstrate His faithfulness. As one powerful revelation states: "The Word will either remove the situation from you and deliver you in that situation, or the Word will incubate you in the situation and deliver you through the situation."

For spiritual leaders, there's a sobering warning about building personal kingdoms to compensate for unresolved trauma or insecurity. No matter our earthly titles, our highest calling remains "servant."

Ready to examine where your trust truly lies? Listen now and discover how to magnify God above your problems, find strength in His eternal promises, and remember that in Christ, "we don't die, we multiply."

Chapters

• 0:00 Welcome to Another Look Podcast
• 9:10 Understanding Idolatry Today
• 18:16 Psalm 146: Put Not Your Trust in Princes
• 22:13 Commanding Your Soul to Praise
• 29:50 God's Justice for the Oppressed
• 34:42 The Word Delivers Through or From

Transcript

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Hey, this is Brother Ken. Welcome back to another Look Podcast. This is the day the Lord has made. We shall rejoice and be glad in it. And it is a beautiful day because we're breathing with the breath of God in our lungs. It's a beautiful day, y'all. It's a really beautiful day. Um, so it's been a while since I've been on, and I want to thank y'all for your prayers. Nothing major happened. It was just me being human and taking a break, but also waiting. There are a lot of things that I could talk about, but I don't want to talk without being led by the Spirit of God. And um, there have been things that He has shared with me that I've been writing down, things I've been sharing in ministry. Um, but you know, sometimes you have to let things massage and and and let them grow in you before you deliver it in public. I believe any type of ministry has to be developed in private before you speak in public about it. So today I want to talk about Psalms 146. And I think it's pretty important, this particular scripture, and I'll read the whole scripture to you, but I think it's really relevant to today. One things uh I see that is alarming to me, and I think is alarming to anyone who has their ears to the heart of God, is there's a lot of uh idolatry happening, not only in America in America, but in the world. And so let's, you know, some may not understand what I mean by idolatry, so let's start by defining what an idol is. An idol by definition, and I'm using the um Oxford Dictionary, is an image or representation of a God used as an object of worse of worship. Again, it's an image or representation of a God used as an object of worship. Um, another definition is a person or thing that is greatly admired, loved, or revered. Um and idolatry is basically um the let me look at my dictionary here. It's the worship of idols. And, you know, I do think sometimes it gets confused because I don't think there's anything wrong with admiration. I don't think there's anything wrong with honoring someone, but I think what people fail to understand is that there's a thin line between admiration and worship. Worship is something that is strictly reserved for the creator, the is reserved for God who created us. Worship is not reserved for anyone else but God, because he is greater than all and greater than anyone. And he's called us to worship. I cannot tell, I mean, just look in your Bible. He calls us to worship, he created us to worship him, not as slaves, but as loving uh beings who love the God who loved us first. But I think sometimes what happens is because we don't see God like we do other people physically, we become like kind of how would it the tribe of Israel did when they were delivered out of the hands of the Egyptians, and they were in the wilderness. And when Moses went up on Mount Sinai, they got restless and they told Aaron, make us a calf so we can worship him. They substitute God with a calf, some physical image as a representation in their mind of God. And I think that we see the same things happening today. We put people up on this pedestal, we revere people that are not God, and almost give them a god-like deity image, so that we can worship them because we'd rather worship something physically we can see, even though we call ourselves Christians, we really exalt a golden calf, whether it is a political figure, whether it is your pastor, whether it is a sports figure or icon, whether it is your boss, whether it could even be things like your job, your career, your house, your material possessions, your money, anything that is given the same deference, the same level of admiration, or greater than God, it's an idol. And I think if we be honest with ourselves, we all have idols in our lives, whether we know it or not, whether we want to realize it or not. Myself included, God's really dealing with me on some of these idols and the idolatry I've had in my life and still have in my life. So the mailman gets mail too. But I want to share this scripture with you. I want to share this passage that David wrote in Psalms 146, and then I'm gonna take time and go through it with you if you don't mind. So let's start at Psalms 146, and I'm reading this from the English Standard Version, so um, hopefully you can keep up with me here. Let me take my peepers off. I have my glasses on, I need to take them off because where I'm reading from is um it's far away. So in Psalms 146, David says this, Praise the Lord, praise the Lord, O my soul. I will praise the Lord as long as I live, I will sing praises to my God while I have my being. Put not your trust in princes, in a son of man, in whom there is no salvation. When his breath departs, he returns to the earth. On that very day his plans perish. Blessed is he whose help is the God of Jacob, whose hope is in the Lord, is in the Lord his God, who made heaven and earth, the sea and all that is in them, who keeps faith forever, who executes justice for the oppressed, who gives food to the hungry, the Lord sets the prisoners free, the Lord opens the eyes of the blind, the Lord lifts up those who are bowed down, the Lord loves the righteous, the Lord watches over the sojourners, he upholds the widow and the fatherless, but the way of the wicked he brings to ruin. The Lord will reign forever, your God, O Zion, to all generations. Praise the Lord. Amen. May the Lord add a blessing to the reading of his word and sanctify these truths within our hearts. So let me I'm gonna be like my boy Trick Williams. Let's talk about it. Let me put my glasses back on now. Alright, so let's start with the first verse. It says, Praise the Lord, praise the Lord, O my soul. So this scripture, King David, commands or makes a demand on his soul. So, what is the soul? The soul contains our mind, our thoughts, our intellect, our conscience. The soul is also where our heart lies. And here David tells his soul to do what? To praise the Lord. It's not his soul telling David, and this is important, David's soul is not telling David to praise the Lord, it's David telling his own soul to praise the Lord. So, what does this tell us alone? This scripture alone tells us that praising God, while natural to our spirit, man, is a conscious effort or conscious effort we must command our soul to do in cooperation with our spirit. In other words, it's natural for our spirit to praise God, but it's not natural for our soul to praise God because when man fell through sin of Adam, our soul became disconnected from our spirit and from God. And so when Christ came and redeemed us from the curse of the law and from the curse of the old covenant, from the old covenant, it re-established that soul connection. But the problem is our soul was already contaminated with sin. And that's why we work out our soul salvation with fear and trembling, because it's a relearning of those things of the spirit and an unlearning of those things that were contaminated within our soul. Now, this same thought that I just spoke about, where we just we command our soul to praise God, we see the same thing in Psalms 103, 1 through 2. David says this, Bless the Lord, O my soul, and all that is within me. Bless his holy name. Bless the Lord, oh my soul, and forget not all his benefits. I will praise the Lord. Okay, I'm sorry. So I'm sorry, that was verse 1 through 2. So again, verse 2 says, Bless the Lord, oh my soul, and forget not all his benefits. So in Psalms 103, 1 through 2, you see David doing the same thing. He's telling his soul to bless the Lord. And not only that, but he's telling all that's within him to bless the holy name of the Lord. Beloved, what it means is you, God has given you the power to command your soul what to do. And as believers, it is our job to command our soul to line up with our spirit and let our spirit drive the ship, our human spirit, because our human spirit is led by the Holy Spirit, and that is the part of our three, we're our triune part that is supposed to have full control. Again, triune meaning we are a spirit being that God put inside of a body and he breathed life into us, and we became a living soul. So we have three parts: we have our spirit, we have our soul, we have our body. The spirit, which is the most important part of who we are, is what causes us to draw closer to God, to draw into God. Now, if you're not born again, your spirit, you're spiritually dead. Your soul is alive, your body's alive, but you're spiritually dead. That's why being born again, meaning being born of the spirit. Your spirit is made alive in Christ. Let's go to verse 2. It says, I will praise the Lord as long as I live. I will sing praises to my God while I have my being. So in this verse, David demonstrates his commitment to praising the Lord is not a short-term act, but a long-term life commitment. His praise is not based on whether things are good or bad. In other words, his praise is not situational, his praise is not based on how he feels. See, here David makes it clear, his intent is to praise God while he has breath in his body that he intends to sing unto the Lord while he continues to exist. Because here's what David knows He knows, he knew from his times of solitude when he tended to the sheep, that his praise built his faith internally and his confidence in the Lord externally. I'm gonna repeat that again. See, in his private time of praising God, David learned this truth that his praise also built his faith in the Lord internally while building his confidence in the Lord externally. David found that the most precious truth that most of us fail to understand, praising the Lord builds up our faith in the Lord. Praising the Lord builds up our faith in the Lord. You don't praise someone you don't believe in. And so when you begin to praise the Lord, it actually builds up your trust, your faith, your confidence in God's ability to do what he said he would do, and to be who he said he is. That's why it says, I am that I am. The question is not whether he believes he is what he is, the question is, do you believe I am is what I am is? Verse 3 says this put not your trust in princes, in a son of man in whom there is no salvation. And now when we see this word trust, it actually is referring to faith. So what is faith? According to Hebrews 11:1, faith is the substance of things hoped for, it is the evidence of things not seen. See, faith originates, beloved, and emanates from God. It is given to us as a means of exchange for us to obtain his promises. So, how does that work? I give God my faith in him, believing he will provide the outcome of what I am trusting him to provide or do. But I also understand that because God is sovereign, he decides the outcome. And I must understand that whatever I ask of him must be in alignment with his word. God is the one that provides the response that works out for my good. And so that's a hard concept for people to understand. Because we were groomed, we were taught that we can name it and claim it. And don't get me wrong, beloved, there's some truth to that. But the thing is, we by taking this position of naming it and claiming it, we got so focused on the it rather than the one who produces it, the one who created it. We got so used to looking at the hand of God for what we want instead of looking at the heart of God for who he is and what he wants. See, here's the thing. Let's just say, for example, I'm believing God for a house for my family, and maybe I have four kids, a wife, and I we need a house, and I'm putting my faith in that and I'm putting it towards God. Well, here's the thing: instead of saying, Lord, can you give me a house? Because again, then my focus is on the house, my focus should be on Lord, what do you want us to have? What do you want? Do you want us to have a house? Do you want, do you want what kind of house do you want us to have? In other words, I want to search the heart of God to see if this is in alignment with his will. Because maybe he may say, No, I don't want you to have a house right now, even though I may not like that answer, it may, it's all for my good because maybe he knows something, actually, not maybe, he knows what's down the road that I don't know. Maybe whatever it is that's down the road, if I get a house right now, I can't keep it, it'll go into foreclosure. So he has a waiting season of building us up, building us in our faith, building us up in our trust so that we don't make the house our idol. There it is, but we make God our object of affection, so that we're not making the things that he gives us and uses them to replace him in our lives. Hmm. I won't go any further than that, but let's go on. This verse, verse 3, makes it plain that we cannot, and this is important, we cannot put our trust or our faith in princes or leaders or an individual because they cannot save us. Now, it doesn't mean we distrust everyone or anyone, but it does mean our faith, which is spiritual, is the exclusive property of God and is exclusively intended to be given and placed in God, in the Lord. Now, our human trust, which is a soullish thing, can be shared or given to those who we've discerned to be worthy of it. What's the difference, Brother Ken? I don't get it. So when I have faith, because remember what faith is, faith is the substance of things hoped for, the evidence of things not seen. So whatever substance I'm hoping for, that is only something, substance is given by the one who created the substance. The things not seen. In other words, when we talk about things not seen, we're talking about things in the spiritual, because in and I can't remember scripture says that we believe that whatever we see was was originated from things we don't see. See, in the beginning was the word, and the word was God, and the word was with God, and the word created everything. In other words, the word was taking things from uh invisible and bringing it into the visible. When we have faith, we are believing for things we don't see. In other words, things that are invisible but yet are visible in the spirit realm. But here's the thing: our faith must be not in the things that are in the invisible, but the God who is dwelling in the invisible, the God who is unseen, yet seen in our spirit. Because whatever he decides, whatever the outcome is that he calls for, it is always for our good. That's why it says in Romans 8, all things work together for the good of those who love the Lord and are called according to his purpose. Hmm. Let that marinate for a few. Verse 4. When his breath departs, this is referring to the Son of Man. And then when I say Son of Man, it's not referring to Jesus, the Son of Man, it's referring to regular mankind. It says, when his breath departs, he returns to the earth. On that very day, his plans perish. And this is telling you the very reason why you cannot put your trust in people or in princes or in leaders or in anyone in terms of giving them your heart fully or giving them your faith. Because the reality is that we can't put our trust or faith in them because they're not eternal, they're temporary. I don't care who it is, you may have the greatest pastor, you may have the greatest spouse, you may have the greatest children, whoever you admire, admire them as admiration is great. But if you take what is reserved for God, which is faith, and place it in them, you're gonna always wind up disappointed because eventually they'll they won't be here. And then the question is who are you and what do you do when you don't have that idol in front of you? What do you do? What happens is people look for another thing or person to worship. That's why people church hop. People go from church to church to church because they raise up an idol, and when that idol crashes down and burns on them, they look for another idol to raise up. When all along all you had to do is reserve that faith in your worship for the one who cannot fall, for the one who cannot fade, and the one who cannot fail. Ooh, Jesus. Verse 5. I'm gonna go on because that one. Ooh, I felt that one in my shana. Verse five says this blessed is he whose help is the God of Jacob, whose hope is in the Lord his God. Help here is the focused word here. The this word help implies that as followers of Christ, we will experience difficulties. Help in this scripture infers that we will, as believers and followers of Christ, will experience hardships and difficulties. However, beloved, in this passage, David said we are blessed. Well, how? How can I consider myself blessed when I'm getting hit with all this bad stuff happening to me and around me? We'll see that answer in verse 6 through 10. So let's get into verse 6. It says, Who made heaven and earth? And this is again referring to the Lord, who made heaven and earth, the sea, and all that is in them, who keeps faith forever. So here's an important thing. This scripture shows us the very thing we tend to lose when we go through difficult situations, we tend to lose perspective. How does this situation compare to the God of the universe? Think about it, you may be going through some hardship, but if you look at the big picture, in other words, if you don't magnify the situation and you look up and you look at the bigger picture, you are a child of the God who made the heavens and the earth. You are a child of the God who made the sea and all things in the heavens and the sea. What is your problem in comparison to that God? Exodus Exodus 15 11 says it like this Who is like you, O Lord, among the gods? Who is like you, majestic in holiness, awesome and glorious deeds, doing wonders? But no one is like him. Psalms 113, 3 through 5 says it like this: From the rising of the sun to its setting, the name of the Lord is to be praised. The Lord is high above all nations and his glory above the heavens. Who is like the Lord our God who is seated on high? Beloved, what does your problem compare to the God you serve? The God who sits high in the heavens, high above all the nations, his glory above the heavens. Who is what is your problem in relation to or in comparison to the Lord who's seated high, who is majestic in holiness, awesome in glorious deeds, and does wonders. See, when you compare your problem to God who made all this, it is small, meaning your problem is small. See, it's not about the greatness of your problem, it's not about the greatness of your giant, but it's really about the greatness of our God. That's why if you magnify him in the midst of what you're going through, your problems will begin to fade, in your view. Verse 7. I pray you got what I just said. Verse 7, who executes justice for the oppressed, who gives food to the hungry, the Lord sets the prisoners free. Listen, if you are oppressed because of injustice or oppressive regimes or systems, God is the supreme arbiter of justice. And by oppressed it means to be burdened by an abuse of power or authority. And listen, I know we're in America, a lot of people say, yeah, we're oppressed in America, and that is true. There is oppression. I mean, there is a racist, uh, institutionalized racism in America that clearly oppresses people who don't fit into the standard bearers of those who have the privilege. And again, this is not meaning to get into a race debate, but let's you can't be ignorant of that. There's also a class system, a caste system in America that has the haves and have-nots. Regardless of your race, there are people who are oppressed because they are put into a caste system. But this is the bigger thing. You could focus on that, though it exists, it's a fact, it is absolutely a fact in America, and it's worse than most other countries. But though though that is a fact, the reality is no one is greater than God. No system, no matter how oppressive it is, is greater than God. God is the arbiter, He is the one who rules over all things, He brings down regimes, He brings down systems, He brings down caste systems, He brings it all down. So there is no caste system, there is no institutionalized racist racism that is greater than God, that God can't bring down. If you suffer because of injustice, place your faith in the Lord of justice, He will execute justice for you. In Isaiah 30, 18, he says this therefore the Lord waits to be gracious to you, and therefore he exalts himself to show mercy to you. For the Lord is a God of justice. Blessed are all those who wait for him. So that even tells you that sometimes to receive justice you have to wait on the Lord. Why? I don't know. But sometimes while you wait, he builds you up in your holy faith. John 6.48 says this. John 6.48 through 51, I am the bread of life. Your fathers ate the manna in the wilderness and they died. This is the bread that comes down from heaven, so that one may eat of it and not die. I am the living bread that came down from heaven. If anyone eats of this bread, he will live forever. And the bread that I will give for the the bread that I will give for the life of the world is my flesh. See, if you're hungry, God will feed you. But he first feeds you by giving you his word. I won't get into that. I want you to think about what I just said. See, there's bread that's natural, but it's temporary. But then there's the bread of life. He is the living bread. See, manna, like he was saying in the verse this verse. You eat it and it'll be temporary, and those who ate it, they ate it and they died. And it came down from heaven. But Jesus came to be the eternal bread for us. That if you eat of him, that's why even when you take communion, he says, do this in remembrance of me. Because you're you're remembering the Lord's sacrifice, his death, and his life, so that you may have life. By honoring him in this, by when I say this by communion, it honors what he did for us. It's honoring the living bread that came down from heaven. Let's get in the verse, the other verses 8 through 10. So eight and 8 through 10 says this the Lord opens the eyes of the blind. The Lord lifts up those who are bowed down. The Lord loves the righteous. The Lord watches over the sojourners, sojourners meaning the foreigners, the strangers in a strange land. He upholds the widow and the fatherless, but the way of the wicked he brings to ruin. The Lord will reign forever. Your God, Ozion, to all generations. Praise the Lord. So, what I want to say about this, I want to make sure you understand. First of all, that God is mindful of any of you who are suffering. He is not ignorant of your suffering. Whether you're a victim of injustice, if you're hungry, if you're incarcerated, blind, bowed down, whether you're a stranger in a strange land, if you're widowed, you lose if you lost your parents or family members. He's not ignorant of what you're going through. But with the godly perspective, you must see beyond what you're going through and decide to make a conscious effort to push past the present situations and press into the presence of the Lord. Beloved, you have to lift him up above your situations and circumstances, magnifying him more than your problems. Where does it say that, Brother Ken? Look at Psalms 30. Psalms 34, 2 through 4. It says, My soul makes his boast in the Lord. Let the humble hear and be glad. Oh, magnify the Lord with me, and let us exalt his name together. I sought the Lord and He answered me and delivered me from all my fears. Can I read that again? See, I know we like to sing the song I sought the Lord and you heard. The answer, and it's a beautiful song. But here's the scripture. My soul makes us boast in the Lord. Let the humble hear and be glad. Oh, magnify the Lord with me, and let us exalt his name together. I sought the Lord, and he answered me and delivered me from all my fears. Psalms 121, verses 1, King James Version says it like this I will lift up mine eyes unto the hills from whence cometh my help. Beloved, when you experience hard times, don't lift up the problem. Lift up the word of God. Because in Matthew 24, 35 it says this heaven and earth shall pass away, but my words shall not pass away. See, his word will stand. When you don't know what to do, lift up his word, because his word is eternal. His word will bring down the problem. And even if he doesn't bring down the problem, he will bring you through the problem. See, the word will do one of two things, beloved. This is Revelation. Listen to me now. Listen to this. The word will do one of two things. It will either remove the situation from you and deliver you in that situation because he will remove the situation, or the word will incubate you in the situation and deliver you through the situation. Either the mountain will be cast into the sea, or you will be brought through the mountain. Jesus, Jesus, Jesus. Thank you, Lord. Let me share this scripture that God showed me. We talked about and it sums up verses eight through nine and ten. Remember, verses eight talks about how he opens up the eyes of the blind, he lifts up those who are bowed down, he loves the righteous. It also says he watches over the sojourners, he upholds the widow, father's, but the way of the wicked brings to ruin. So here's what it says in Deuteronomy 10, chapter 10, verses 12 through 22. And I pray this nation would hear what God was saying. Especially, we like to I love how this in America we love to take the Ten Commandments and use it as a rule of law, but we forget about grace in the New Testament. But also, if you want to stay in the Old Testament, look at Deuteronomy 10, 12 through 22. And it says, And now, Israel, what does your Lord your God require of you? But to fear the Lord your God, to walk in all his ways, to love him, to serve the Lord your God with all your heart and with all your soul, and to keep the commandments and statutes of the Lord, which I'm commanding you today for your good. Behold, to the Lord your God belong heaven and the heaven of heavens, the earth with all that is in it. Yet the Lord set his heart I'm sorry, it's verse 15, yet the Lord set his heart and love on your fathers, and chose their offspring after them. You above all peoples as you are this day. Circumcise therefore the foreskin of your heart, and be no longer stubborn. For the Lord your God is God of gods and the Lord of Lords, the great, the mighty, and the awesome God, who is not partial and takes no bribe. He executes justice for the fatherless and the widow, and loves loves the sojourner, the foreigner, giving him food and clothing. Verse 19, love the sojourner, therefore, for you were sojourners in the land of Egypt. You shall fear the Lord your God, you shall serve him and hold fast to him, and be and by his name you shall swear. Verse 21. He is your praise. He is your God who has done for you these great and terrifying things that your eyes have seen. Your fathers went down to Egypt 70 persons, and now the Lord your God has made you as numerous as the stars of heaven. Listen to me. There's so much you can take from this scripture. But think about this. Especially in this last verse. Verse 21 and 22 says, He is your praise. He it's not that God just commands you to praise. When you give praise to the Lord, he embodies it because he is your praise. Because why? Because he's your God. And this is the thing, verse 22. It says, Your fathers went down to each of 70 persons, and now the Lord your God has made you as numerous as the stars of heaven. In other words, while they were getting oppressed and being beaten and being held down for 400 years, God was multiplying them in the midst of all the oppression. See, here's the thing that is a common trait among believers and followers' request. The harder the challenge, the more the oppression, the greater we multiply. Like baby's kids, we don't die, we multiply. You try to curse us, we will grow. You try to stop us, we will multiply. You try to extinguish us, we will grow. When they in the first century church, the first church, the more they prosecuted the church, the more the gospel spread. The more they killed the saints, the first early day saints, the more they killed them, the more others rose up, declaring the gospel of Jesus Christ. You can't stop the kingdom of heaven. You cannot stop the kingdom of God. You cannot. And let me say this, and I'm gonna probably end on this note. We have to be careful, especially as those who of us who are leaders in the body of Christ, or those of us who have a title or have something, be careful not to raise up your own kingdoms to compensate for your uh mental insufficiencies. In other words, there are some of us who may have unresolved childhood traumas, whether you feel rejected when you were a kid, or whether you felt like you know you never belonged. So some of us literally have raised up little fraternities and sororities within our own lives of people who are friends or people we raise up these cliques, you know, these many cliques or many churches within the church to compensate for things that we never got healed from. I see it all the time. I used to do it myself. I'm not I'm not I'm not ashamed of saying that. I didn't know it at the time. But yeah, if you don't ever find sufficiency in your relationship with Christ, you will begin to establish kingdoms within your own little life. Whether it's uh mentoring or whether it's friendships, and nothing wrong with friendships, but they should never become places of admiration where God is you you make yourself to be equivalent to God, whether you realize it or not. Be careful. Be careful you're not raising up kingdoms. Because here's the thing He He being God is our praise. He is the one who will the kingdom, he is the king of the kingdom, not us. We are servants. That's why, no matter what our titles may be in this life, the best title is servant. He won't call you bishop, he will not call you pastor, he will not call you elder, he will not call you deacon, he will not call you any other title but servant. Well done, thy good and faithful servant. So, beloved, I pray this word was a blessing to you. I pray you listen to what's being said through the word of God. Ignore the vessel that's delivering it. I'm not important. It's what the word of God is saying that's important. I pray you receive this with a heart of flesh, a heart that is humble, a heart that is open to receive the word of God. And like like uh it said in Deuteronomy 10, roll away that stony heart. Let your heart be circumcised to receive the word of God and not have a stony heart. I pray this word was a blessing to you. If it was, let us know. You can hit us up on our email page, ALP, Trinity1 at gmail.com. You can get us on our IG page or our Facebook page, or you can DM us on our page on Facebook or IG. Um, or you can email us on our pod patch, pod page, or on our website on uh bus crowd. Amen. May you have a blessed week and may you have a blessed life. The best of your days are just ahead of you. In Jesus' name, amen. Love ya. According to Romans 10, 9 and 10, it says if you confess with your mouth Jesus is Lord, and believe in your heart that God raised him from the dead, you will be saved. One believes with the heart, resulting in righteousness, and one confesses with the mouth, resulting in salvation. So if you believe, I want you to repeat these words after me. Dear Heavenly Father, I come to you in the name of Jesus Christ. Your word says, Whosoever shall call on the name of the Lord shall be saved. And that's in Acts 2.21. I'm calling on you, and I come surrendering my life and my will to you. I pray and ask Jesus to come into my heart and be Lord over my life. If you confess with your mouth the Lord Jesus and believe in your heart that God raised him from the dead, you will be saved. For with the heart, one believes unto righteousness, and with your mouth I make confession unto salvation. I do that now. I confess that Jesus is Lord of my life, and I believe in my heart that God raised him from the dead. I ask you, Holy Spirit, to come make your home inside of me and live in me. I confess all of my sins to you, Lord, and ask for forgiveness for them right now in the name of Jesus. I receive you, Jesus, as my Lord and Savior. I thank you, God, that I am now reborn and a new creation. I am a Christian, a child of Almighty God, and a child of the one true King. I have salvation and I am saved. Thank you, Jesus. Lord, you also said in your word, Lord, if you then, being evil, know how to give good gifts to your children, how much more will your heavenly father give the Holy Spirit to those who ask him, according to your word in Luke 11 13. I'm also asking you to infill me with the Holy Spirit. Holy Spirit, rise up as I pray. Holy Spirit, rise up within me as I praise God. I fully expect to receive a supernatural prayer language and speak in that language as you give me the utterance, according to your word in Acts 2.4. In Jesus' name, amen. So be it. Congratulations. If you prayed this prayer, then you were born again and now have eternal life in Christ Jesus. All of your sins are now forgiven, and the Holy Spirit now lives inside of you. The word of God says that everyone in heaven rejoices at your salvation, according to Luke 15, 7 and 10. So right now, heaven is having a party because of your decision, and God has a huge smile on his face. If you prayed this prayer, please email us at alptrinity1 at gmail.com so we can hear your testimony, pray for you, and send you a gift from this ministry. God bless you, and remember this always, Jesus loves you.

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Amen.