The Power of Planning and Change Part 2 | Dr. Myles Munroe

[Music] Thank you for joining us for another power-packed message from Dr. Myles Munroe, provided by Monroe Global Incorporated and Monroe Global.com. We transform followers into leaders and leaders into agents of change. We hope that this message is a blessing to you as you advance your life and discover your purpose.

Now, let's go into the message. Millions of people are going to be watching this session. They live in countries like all of us, with its own challenges. And I want to take you through the introduction of this year. A new year is an opportunity for all of us to look at life from a fresh perspective. I want to connect with what some of those perspectives are.

First of all, a new year allows you to redefine your priorities. What are the important things in your life? Secondly, a new year allows you to define or redefine your purpose. What is your purpose for living? Thirdly, it allows you to take another look at your vision for your life, your personal vision, your family vision, maybe the vision for your company, organization, or your department, and hopefully, the national vision of your country.

Also, a new year gives you an opportunity to reset your goals. Sometimes our goals that were not met in the past need to be refocused and maybe even renewed. Some goals may need to be canceled because they're not relevant anymore. A new year also allows you to forget some things that didn't work or things you cannot change. We call it your past. A new year also allows you to plan a new future.

I want to talk for a few minutes about entering this new year, which is 2013. I am always concerned about understanding. In all your getting, get understanding. So, most of my life, I keep asking God about understanding. And I want to understand the significance of this year. And so, I did some research. And as I told you on the first day of this year, that God is a God of numbers. Numerology is a scriptural component. Every word and every letter in Hebrew has a number attached to it. The number thirteen is attached to some letters in Hebrew that we need to take note of. And I can show you many scriptures, which I will be here next week. Please.

Well, God focuses on the number thirteen. And many people have, from the other kingdom, used thirteen as a negative word, a negative letter, they call it an unlucky number. But if you read scripture, the number thirteen was always attached to the fulfillment of a promise. Well, what does the number, when you convert it from Hebrew inscription, means to us? First of all, it means change. It means change. You remember that twelve in our discussion in our last series, twelve, network completion, remember? So, when you read the number twelve in the Bible, it's always related to completion. I'll give you a few examples. Jesus only chose twelve disciples. That means it was a complete set. But remember, he had to be automatically number thirteen in the group, which I'll talk about later on. Around the throne, there are twenty-four elders, but it says twelve on each side. It's a picture of perfection. Before God, there are twelve gates to the city, which represents perfect control. What comes in, what goes out, is controlled by twelve. Twelve means complete. It means closed. It means finished. So, thirteen is after completion, which means you complete something, now you're starting something new. That's why it's called change. So, thirteen then has the spiritual connotation of starting a fresh. Is that good news? It also means a new phase. That this one is very important. When you look at the power of this Hebrew concept, new phase means not just to change your clothes, but to change the style of your clothes. New phase doesn't mean to change the location of your furniture in the house, but it means to bring in completely new furniture and colors on the wall. Thirteen means that there is a complete change, the phase of your life. Some of you have experienced it already the last few months, where your life took this crazy turn. Are you trying to figure out what happened? Your business failed, you know, your marriage got messed up, you, the kids do dumb things, like, what? And then you say, what am I gonna do now? It's a phase. Thirteen also means in scripture, new dimensions. You would experience things you never did before. Can I prophesy just a couple of people in my Holy Ghost spirit here? Some of you are gonna go to places you ain't never been. New dimension means you see things that you never saw before. You hear things you never heard before. You meet people who you never thought you would be in their class. To me, this shall happen. Thirteen also means starting again. What a blessing to walk into a place where you can say, it didn't work last year, so I'm not gonna forget about it, I'm just gonna start again. This time, let me tell you what I mean by that. Moses tried to set the children of Israel free by himself. You remember that? He picked up a piece of wood and he swung it at one of the Egyptians, and they died, and Moses became a fugitive. Why? It wasn't time yet. Forty years later, God came to the same man in the desert and said, "Do you want to do what you tried to do forty years ago?" Of course, he argued because he was a fugitive. And God said, "No, if you go back this time, that boy's at this time." Oh, I felt that one. If you go see if your off time doesn't mean that you're accompanying. Go work. Sometimes you phase over on a job. Sometimes your phase is over in a relationship. But God says, when the right time comes, you will use the same piece of wood against the same situation. But this time, the Lord is on the wood, and He is in the situation, and you're gonna set the people free. Moses' timing was perfect, forty years later. Can I just say that somebody's forty years has arrived in 2013? Some of you'll get that after I'm gone. Everybody say, "Starting again." Tell your neighbors, "Start it again." Come on, say that feeling, "Started again." Tell them, "Whatever stopped, stop it again." And tell them, "This time, it's thirteen." Give God a hand. This is where God's gonna make some changes. The word that truck, that the number thirteen also means to renew something. Renewal. It also implies, and this is the important one, transformation. Thirteen, transformation. This is probably why the world considers the number thirteen as being unlucky, because we don't want nothing to change, so we think it's negative. But God is telling us He's about to transform everything that you thought was said. And that's why you're gonna have to study planning this year. You're gonna have to plan everything you want God to change. Very important. This word thirteen also means in Hebrew, unity. When I studied, did some research on this, the, the Hebrews have a strange concept of God. Matter of fact, they're afraid to even call His name. And the concept they have is God is one. But the number thirteen in Hebrew actually means three-in-one. That's why they landed up three and one. So, one and three in Hebrew means unity. We call it tri-unity or Trinity. So, thirteen is the year when God Himself is going to interfere in your affairs. Hang on. Send no angel this year. Oh dear, the Trinity itself is coming into your business. The unity is going to attract the Trinity. Write that down, please. When you unify with someone else this year, the Trinity is going to get involved in your activity. So, agreement is going to be important in this next phase of your life. Having people to agree with you, when to walk together and agree, God says, "I will be in the midst." I understand. Oh, angel, I'm gonna be there myself. So, it's important to protect yourself against contention, bitterness, anger, having malice and deceit. The people you gotta keep your heart pure this year. You gotta make sure that you are always in fellowship, because that's gonna attract the presence of Jehovah Himself. I'm telling you, God is gonna do something powerful this year. Unity. This way, it also implies closing of a chapter and the opening of a new one. This is good news for most people. If you were broke last year, tell your neighbor, "New chapter." If you couldn't find a job last year, they leave, "New chapter." If somebody divorced you, tell your neighbor, "New chapter." If somebody broke your heart and didn't want to be engaged anymore, tell them, "New chapter." If somebody left you because they didn't know how good you was, say, "No new chapter." Clap, clap, clap like this. A good Mr. Club. If you've been tired of being unmarried, God told me to tell you, it's a new chapter. You better smile now. This is serious business. I'm talking about God is going to open up a new chapter this year. Thirteen, powerful number. It's a powerful number. And so, when we look at thirteen, it means complete change, complete change. Now, this is exciting, but also threatening, because no one loves change. You pray for it and hate it when it comes. So, we got to talk about change a little bit, because it's inevitable. Now, it doesn't matter, it's gonna happen this year. Change happens all the time, but this year is gonna be drastic changes, big ones, massive ones, ones that you never thought was gonna happen. You'll remember this session in a few months, because this is the year that God's gonna gonna upset the cart.

So, in this new experience, I want to make a declaration in this ministry to all of those watching me worldwide: 2013 is now declared the year of change and new beginnings. We receive that. Say, "I received that." This is the year of what? Change and new beginnings. Your frustrations are about to be transformed. People that have been your problem are gonna be shipped somewhere else. What am I talking about? Issues that have been harassing you for the last five years are going to be totally removed from your environment this year. There's going to be change and what? New beginnings. New people coming into your life this year. Deficits will be changed into assets. [Applause] New beginnings.

The good news then is this, that when we look at this, we need to understand change. Now, make a note of this. Everything will change. Everything will be changing. Number two, change is our greatest challenge because the change in the world is moving so fast, we cannot keep up with it. I, I was watching the news this week, and they were talking about the new telephone that just came out by a company, and the four was out for five months, and then the news reporter says, "But the next version of it has already arrived." Which means in five months, your phone you just bought, its history. I'll never forget the day I walked into an appliance electronics store in the United States. I just bought a computer, and I, something went wrong with that. I couldn't find a plug. And I tried to go buy the plug. The computer was ten months old. The guys said, "We don't make them anymore. Isn't gonna buy a universal plug?" I couldn't believe it. But now it's down to five months. That's how fast you're gonna have to be able to respond to change. In other words, here's the bottom line: We must decide the change we desire. If I was to give you the word of instructions from the Lord for you this year, it would be this right here: You will have to decide the change that you want. Change is coming in any event, so you're gonna have to decide what that change will be in your life. This is why you cannot sit watching the game anymore. Spectators will be destroyed by change. Observers will be obliterated by change. Doing nothing is no longer an option. You're gonna have to get involved in your life, in your environment, and what happens in your life. No longer is it gonna work this year where you sit down and say, "Let me see what happens." That's going to destroy you. You're gonna have to be responsible for deciding, "This is what's going to happen in my life." I'm talking to you prophetically. I promise you, if you sit by and just watch life, life will change your life in a way you're gonna regret. If you don't do something this year with your life, you're gonna regret it next year. I put it to you, and this is my heart: When changes that you want to see happen, are planned, you control life. Write this statement down: What changes would produce the quality of life we desire and desire as God's creation? In other words, what changes do you desire? In line that, what God wants for your life. I have made some simple decisions for my life this year. There's some things I determined must change, and I lined them up with the Word of God, and they are in God's light. These things will happen in my life, and I'm gonna plan every single order of them. Ladies and gentlemen, if you don't plan, life will plan your life for you this year.

I want to recommend three things that I call the promise. This is the promise for 2013 from the Lord for the millions watching this program. And I'm speaking to you in Freeport and Grand Bahama. I'm speaking to you out there in Idaho who wrote me. I'm speaking to you in Canada who said you'd be watching. I'm talking to you there in Iran, yes, you wrote me. I got your letter, believe me. Friends, there are three things you and I have to understand this year, and I call them the promise of change. Here's number one: Providential change. The Holy Spirit spoke to me and says, "I am going to initiate providential change." What does providential change? Listen, friends, there are, there are different types of changes. There's natural change, which happens because of time. You grow old, things die. These are natural changes. Then there are changes that are as a result of that change. For example, when trees die, they give off gases. The gas has changed the composition of the gas structure in the community and in the environment. When an animal dies, including a human, they give off a lot of gases. That gases change the composition in our air. When a plant dies, it gives off a whole lot of strange gases that change our lives. That's natural creative change. Then there's change that are imposed upon our environment. Change where you drive your car, you emit carbon dioxide, which depletes the ozone layer, which increases the amount of gamma rays and ultraviolet rays come from the sun, which heats up the earth, which is causing the changes in our environment and causing things to happen ain't supposed to happen, like winter taking place in places or summer or heat or earthquakes or tsunamis in places where they never were, because we are affecting the environment with change. There's change is gonna happen to you internally. Your heart used to be one year younger. Your arteries used to be one year less clogged up. You can't even see the change in your body. You wonder why someone suddenly falls out. That was taking place a long time, gradually. You keep eating mustard and mayonnaise and, hmm, I better stop talking about food. Get all this potato salad for ten years and start wearing it on your hip. Change happens all the time on yourself. Your chest used to be under your chin, my brother. Now it's above your thigh. Don't look at anybody, just keep looking at me. Change.

But here's what the Holy Spirit said to tell you, my friend: He's gonna perform providential change. What is providential change? Write this down: Providential change is God's will in life, initiated change Himself. God's will in your life, initiated change, which means God is going to interrupt the changes that are changing with His own changes. That means heaven will impose itself on earth without your permission this year. God says, "Start a prayer that you prayed years ago. I'm gonna finally come to earth with answers." Things you've been interceding for for years. This is the year that the veil is turned over and poured on earth. You know, I was thinking this morning about Daniel. Daniel prayed once and he went to bed. But twenty-one days, the angel that had the answer was struggling to get it to earth. And twenty-one days later, the angel came and gave the answer to Daniel. Twenty-one days. And the angel says, "The first day you prayed, I was dispatched by the heavenly Father, but twenty-one days, here I am. I had to fight through some struggles." He says, "The evil one was trying to stop the answer." I got good news, and I prophesy, and if she has received this, the prayers you've been praying for ten years, five years, three years, God said this year, the angel has arrived on earth. This is gonna be divine change in your life. Do you receive that? I receive. Number four, providential change means the invisible will invade the visible. Things you cannot see, I'm gonna start taking place in your life. You're gonna find things just happening that you had no credit for. Divine interference. Hallelujah. Anybody ready for that? This year, it also means, number five, supernatural will impose on the natural. God says, "Have you done all that you can do? Back off." Can I say it again? God said this year, "Do everything you can do, and then back off." Why? I'm about to take over where you left off. There's gonna be supernatural interference in earth change. This is gonna be the year of massive testimonies of things you cannot explain. [Applause] Say, "La." Number two: Divine beginnings. God says, "This will be the year of divine beginning." What do we mean? He says, "This would be the year of divine beginnings because, number one, God Himself will birth new ideas in you." You're gonna be sitting in a place anywhere, and suddenly there's gonna be a divine deposit in your mind of an idea that is gonna work. He's gonna bring me, make me smile thinking about it. He's gonna bring solutions to problems you've been trying to solve for fifty years in fifty seconds. He's gonna bring changes in your capacity to conceive divine ideas. Number two, God says, "Heaven will give birth to earthly exploits." That means people who are walking in the kingdom of God all over the world, they're gonna end up developing products and ideas. They're gonna develop businesses and investments and inventions that are going to change the world, like Steven Jobs did. Get ready for God to come into your experience and give you some divine insight to bring complete exploits. This is where many of God's people are gonna no longer be employees. You're gonna become the employer. Hey, boys exploits. The Bible says, "They that know their God shall do great exploits." That means some of your gonna go into global business. You're gonna be find yourself in foreign countries doing business with people you never knew was possible, and God's gonna cause you to become so impactful that you're gonna be the one to set the tone for the values in that country. I'm beside myself. Number three, He says, "The supernatural will start changes in the natural without man's permission." There are some people who think they control things. "If you want a job, you got to come through me, 'cause I'm gonna kill that one tonight. You want a promotion, you'll do it if I say so." Diana says, "I'll kill that one tonight." Not always. Cars going to interfere in situations that you will not be responsible for. Supernatural studying of new environments. The natural without man's into, if permission will be invaded by this supernatural. I am so excited about God. You know, Daniel, what a man. Daniel says, "Look, you know, I just work here. I'm guessing Secretary of State, that's all. But don't fool with me." And the king says, "You know, I want you to worship my idol." Diana says, "You know, understand, I can't do that." And the king said, "Do you know much power I have?" You're gonna hear that often this year. "You know much power I have." Late Jim, I am so afraid. I told you I was afraid of this year. This year is going to be so dangerous because people are gonna drop dead. Supernatural interference. I warn the wicked, "You will be like a flower. You can be here today and gone tomorrow if you touch God's anointed." Things. I'm not number people. Only forgot about businesses and positions and authorities and churches. God is gonna wipe out people this year who interfere in His stop. Tell your neighbors, "Stay on track." Supernatural interference, change. He's gonna change things by invading them supernaturally. Some of you are gonna go to a bank and find money on your account, and it's going to be legitimate without explanation. Somebody gonna wake up in the morning, and the lump that was there for twenty years, gone. Why? God came into bed, interfere to the lump. God's gonna change your husband in one night. He'll wake up figuring things out. You go to no salvation stuff, just 'cause I'm a supernaturally fix the brother up. All tell me, God can't do it. Your wife is gonna turn into a queen in one night. I know she's a problem to you for a long time, but one morning she gonna say, "Hey, I love you. What do you want me to do? Anything here's your breakfast." She gonna be transformed by supernatural interference. Anybody ready for God to bring divine change? I'm beside myself. [Applause] Without permission. God says, "That means you even forgot the prayer you prayed, and God's gonna answer the prayer you forgot you prayed." Give God a hand for answered prayer. Come on, give my loud shout in this place. This is the year of supernatural invading the natural without man's permission. I got a feeling you about to be transformed in your workplace, in your business, in your family, in your relationships. I don't know. There's something on top of me telling me that God is about to change everything. This first month will be the beginning of change in your life.

The third one is transformation, because this year is gonna be transformation, the year of major transformation. Now, this is not easy, because transformation can be very threatening, because the human spirit loves the familiar. That's why you get a plan. Here's what this means. Number one, it means the spiritual and the natural will have a metamorphosis. Metamorphosis means not adjustments, total change. Do you get what I'm talking about? Transformation doesn't mean you are just things, it means complete change. The word we use to describe a caterpillar becoming a butterfly is the word metamorphosis. God said, "This is the year for that." That means some of you are gonna have a complete transformation in your life. You had expected. Some folks won't even recognize you at the end of the year, not even physically. You gonna change. Hmm. You were weighing 280. By the end of the year, 140. I mean, permanently. Y'all better receive that. Far side, I received that in the name of Jesus. You receive that for is the Lord. Egg by the transformation. Yeah, that means your sickness will be transformed. More than just into feeling better, when you can be completely healed, not affecting a piece of the transformation. Your blood is gonna become a healing agent to other people. I'm gonna confess that transformation is on the way to your life. Say, "Amen." I want you to go to work every day expecting not to be there. Oh, Lord, have mercy. Hey, by the transformation. Go to work to do your work, but don't expect to be there at the end of the year. So, thoughts about not just to adjust your position, he's about that. Shh. Open. Can I put it this way? In some cases, the people that you work for will end up working for you at the end of this year. That was a transformation. You who had not enough this year, gonna have too much at the end of the year. This year is going to be transformation, not adjustment. This is what God's Word says. Write this down. He says, "Conditions will change." The conditions in which you work, under which you married, and we go to school, under who you relate to, the condition that when they treat you, cause it. Hold on, hold on. I'm gonna change everything. You realize that the same Nebuchadnezzar who threw Daniel in the lion's den was the same Nebuchadnezzar three days later who said, "Everybody shall worship the God of Daniel." I prophesy, someone in your workplace is gonna be totally transformed. You're gonna blow your mind, 'cause God can interfere with that situation all by himself. There can be a lot of funerals this year. People who think they are God. Now, I'm promising negative. You know, I'm telling you, God ain't gonna just them. You can remove them. Change is your year. Number three, He says, "Environments will change." Number four, He says, "The culture of your country will go through a change." This is the year that God is going to transform cultures. That means there'll be national revivals in countries. Things that meant forgot, they're gonna remember. They're gonna dig up the old stones they bear, and they're gonna bring them back into the set of the marketplace and say, "We will serve God again." I believe that God is gonna remove ungodliness instantly, but gradually, and He's gonna raise up supernaturally righteous women and men who will be in positions of power, who will change the culture of the nation. If you believe that, shout, "Amen." Receive it. Every country. God is gonna interfere in. [Applause] But you got to plan. You have to plan. Ladies and gentlemen, the last one is providential change. Providential change is in the scripture. I want you to remember the scripture. It's in Isaiah. Isaiah said, God is speaking to him. The voice of God. Read it with me. It says, "See, I am doing a new thing." And then God stops. Exclamation. In other words, think about that for a minute. First, I, I'm doing a new thing. Next statement, "Now it springs up. We do not know it." He's saying, it's possible for me to do something new and you missed it. The next statement, "Do you not perceive it?" I'm gonna do some things so differently, and people who are not in tune wouldn't even see it. This year, I want you to be very sensitive to change in your life, change in your environment, and don't be panicky about change. Expect it. Then thought says, "I am making a way in a place where they ain't supposed to be no way." Oh boy, some of y'all got that. God said, "Look, ain't supposed to be no road in a wilderness, but you're gonna wake up one morning, and there's this beautifully paved road." We're supposed to be nothing. Anybody ready for that? Kind of life? He's, "I'm gonna open up a way where there's no way." I'm gonna change the environment. I'm gonna change the conditions instantly in a place where they ain't supposed to happen. This year, every time someone tells you that never happened, smile. You believe that. You applied for that job. You believe you can get that. Just smile at him. Whoo-hoo. This is the year of natural process. He's gonna do something right in the middle of nowhere. Bomb. Anybody ready for prom? [Applause] There's no road in the wilderness. I've been to many of them. I've been to the Sinai. I've been to the Judea. There's no road there. God says, "You ain't seen nothing yet. I'ma build a highway where there's no construction material." You feel lost in the morning, they can be a sign, "Go this way." You feel abandoned in the morning, there can be all kind of folks showing up, said, "We will help you." You feel like you don't know what you're doing. In the morning, you wake up one morning, all of a sudden, everybody telling you, "Here's what to do. Here's what to do. Here to do." You get out of your problem, and you feel like you don't know which way to go. You can suddenly realize, "I know exactly where to go." This is gonna be the year where God's gonna raise up a highway where they ain't supposed to be no roads. But look at the last part: "And I will create streams in the desert where there's a wasteland." Listen, there's no water in the desert, but He says, "I'm gonna change things supernaturally." Where they tell you, "You cannot pay that mortgage off." God says, "Watch this." Tell somebody, "Watch this." No, I better go of me now. And the Holy Spirit here, they gonna say, "You are trapped in this arrangement for twenty years." Cousin, hey, not this year. Anybody ready for a stream in the desert? I say you're ready. First ribbon. Come on, use your faith. Just say, "Lord, I receive that right now." Oh, hallelujah. I receive water out where there's no water. Change instantly. That's the change God I was talking about this year. My friends, in Freeport, God says, "I am going to turn Freeport around without their legislation. I'm gonna intervene, intervene in that situation. I'm gonna change economies by divine investments." You're gonna find always it was peanut oil. Who put it that way? There can be gas depots in the back of your yard. They gotta pay you permission to come and dig in your yard. Y'all got any feet anywhere here? Oh, I've got the secret riches of darkness in the earth, hidden away. And tell this year, there's gonna be some discoveries that nobody knew was there. This year, tell God, "Let me be one of them." Give Him thanks. Submit this Bushman for a second. I think you should pay here. Lord, I received that. Streams in the desert. We think we know where our revenue streams come from, but God says, "I will create streams in places where it's supposed to come from." I'm just talking about water. He said, "Them to talk about any kind of stream." It was a revenue stream. You gonna stop receiving financial blessing for places you never thought possible. People are gonna come into your life and hook up to you. All of a sudden, you go catching, catching, catching. A gargle say, anybody read for some streams in the desert? Come on, just something. Nada. I want to go, but hey, stop crying. Morning is over. This is the day of streams in a desert place. Everybody said, "Change." Cause, "Go change it." Start again. Stop again. Stop again. Start again. This is the year. Start again. The Lord is with you. Start again. Start again. You've been trying all in hospitals. Enough. This time, start again as if you ain't started before. Start all over again. Now, this time, it's going to work. Who am I talking to? Start again. Let me show you this before me. Brick. Write this down. The only thing that is guaranteed in time and life is change. The two things you have that you can depend on in life is change and time. Everybody gotta face those two. Your days are passing whether you like it or not. So, how you use them is up to you. And things are gonna change your life whether you like it or not. And how you manage those changes is obtain those. Two. All of us are equal. Therefore, the key to life is how do you handle change? Chances 8, verse 22 says, "As long as the earth remains, there will be one." See, time. How this time, cold time, heat time, summer time, I'll be rid of time. There'll be day time, then they're gonna be night time. These will never cease. God has prophesied unto you. So, maybe the last year was a night. [Applause] Someone's a nightmare. But God says, "Night is not a permanent condition. Your day is dawning." Someone grabbed a prophecy right here. It was a horrible last year, but God says, "The sun is just peeking over your life." This time, there's gonna be daylight all year. Some of you feel like you're cold. Oh, last year. God says, "That are the heat is about to roll into your life. You're about to feel wound all year." In other words, nothing remains the same. Daniel 2:20 says, "Praise the name of the Lord forever and ever. Wisdom and power are His. He, He not the government. He not the politicians. He, He changes seasons." That's why it's important to understand prophetic words, because the prophetic word tells you your weather condition. Today, I'm your weatherman. And my credit told me to tell you, you want rainy seasons and there were storms last year. Some of you made sure the hurricanes of life and the mountains fell upon you, and there were earthquakes in your marriages, and they're all kind of destructive forces, for tsunamis with your children, and your business collapse. But I got a new report for you this year. The report is blue skies. Talk about blue sky from now on. Chord changes. [Music] [Applause] What kind of legislated plants? Y'all got to improve the economy? Are the banks lending? Is there money shortage? Is the, is the index unstable? Is the Dow Jones rising or falling? Is there no confidence in the, in the economy? I've never, I've never been causes. Look, y'all don't decide what happens. He changes the seasons. With next line, He sets up politicians. I'm about to show it all by myself. See, y'all know understand. Don't say him. People gonna get fired fast. [Applause] People gonna lose fast. One morning, you wake up, next morning, you're gone. You better listen to me, folks. Your seat already changed overnight. Ah, Sigma is gonna be exposed instantly. There are some people doing evil. Don't worry. Put them. I promise you. Just go to work and smile. Live. But God's gonna invade that place intentionally and expose them instantly, and they'll be gone immediately, and you'll still be standing. Give God a praise. He says, "I set up kings." Lord, have mercy. Let me tell you something. If the Lord sets you up, you better stay tight with God, because sometimes when we get set up, we think it's us. My genius, my intelligence, my pre-no promotion, my campaign. Agasi, you better watch yourself. I'ma set you down instantly. But this year, God ain't goin' to no process. Pound down. Anybody ready to give God a chance to keep you lifted up? The Bible says the proud understand, fool. God despises them. But the humble and the lowly, He promotes them. And they probably want to get promoted. Stay tight with God this year. I set up kings, and I want to depose them. Ladies and gentlemen, you gotta watch many people for my God. I'm talking about preachers. I'm talking about prophets. I'm talking about evangelists. I'm talking to pastors. I'm talking to politicians. I'm talking about CEOs who take they own the company. Y'all better go to me here. The supervisor thing they control your life. Cars and don't worry. Put that. I'm gonna depose people. He says, "Some of you came here discouraged this morning." A guard is telling you, "Don't worry about the rest of the year. Hook up with the message. Stay under the anointing and say, Lord, let it go. Instead of change, I'm, I'm ready for change." And watch God move. Every obstacle that's been broke in your life, God says, "I'm gonna set him up and I'm gonna set him down. I'm gonna promote and oppose. I'm gonna lift up and put down." This is the God we serve. How can you be afraid of 2013 if you serve a God who can set him up, let's set him down? Let me just say this before we go. I, I guess the people talk sometime. I get afraid for them. I'm like, how can that place and talk like that? They talk as if they, they own the world. Listen to me carefully. Those watching on TV, you better watch yourself. In pain time, we say, "Don't smell yourself." [Applause] Matter of fact, when you start smelling yourself, means that you are that stink. [Applause] The people walking around, I'm talking with all kind of people, you know, religious leaders, political leaders, social leaders. They want to know if they can be here forever. Be dead in a day. This year, God ain't taking no prisoners. Can I say it again? God ain't taking no prisoners. It's over. If I say change, that's gonna bring changes. Lord, P. Sometimes you say that. Okay. God says, "Summer, you're gonna get promoted, not because somebody moved, they die." [Applause] A competition is gonna be deceased. Well, just move. God says, "I'm gonna depose." That means they never gonna bother you again. [Applause] I'm so glad I'm a kingdom since. Anybody glad your kingdom citizen? Hallelujah. My son, or you're waiting and quietness is gonna be exposed loudly. God's gonna bless you publicly. Those who oppose you, God's gonna make them a shame publicly. I'm prophesying into somebody, because at this Yama, depose people, not oppose them. Depot's, stripped them. People walking on high horses is gonna be walking on feet. I'll leave it alone, please. People talking loud, don't be whispering here. Hi, hair can be born. No, don't speak to you. They can say hello to everybody afterwards. It was a change. See, your change. God bless you, ma'am. Feel that mind on your. Give me. Let me tell you something. You, if you stay under God's anointing, you are gonna become the talked about, not the despised. Change. I want you to see this. The only thing permanent is change. So, change is the only thing that can give you guarantee because it's constant. Everything is affected by it, and it's inevitable. So, what you need to do is to make sure that you understand the principle of it. Change will happen to everyone. This year is gonna be massive. And listen to this one: Change is the principle of life. Anything that's alive that God created is changing. But this year, you can decide what change you will be. If you don't know the Lord as your Savior, you better get under God's wisdom right now. If you play in religion, you're gonna get in trouble. You better get into the kingdom of God, get under God's government, under God's jurisdiction, get under God's laws, get under God's culture. The protection is in the kingdom. The Bible says, "A thousand will fall at your right hand and ten thousand will fall at your left, but it won't come near your house, know your life." In other words, you will survive in the middle of a storm if you are under God's jurisdiction. I want to read a verse description before we close, and this one is important for us all year. It's found in the book, in the book of Ecclesiastes. I want you to turn to this verse because this year, our theme is a challenging one. It has to do with getting involved in society, and I need you to read this with me as to why it's important. Don't miss our next session. Ecclesiastes, chapter nine, verse thirteen: "It says Solomon is speaking, and Solomon is a politician. He's a king. It's important to understand what he's saying." Politician Solomon. Solomon says, "I saw also under the sun this example of wisdom that greatly impressed me. There was once a small country, city, town, with only a few people, like the Bahamas, and a powerful king came against that city, surrounded it, and built huge siege works against it." That means that there were schemes to destroy the city. There were plans to destroy the country. Ecclesiastes 9, verse 15: "There lived in that city a poor man." What kind of man? A poor man. His wisdom could save the city. That means the man had the knowledge to save the country, but no one listened to him nor remembered that poor man." Ladies and gentlemen, this is a very important verse. When you don't have clout, it doesn't matter what you know. Nobody remembered that poor man. He had the wisdom, the knowledge to save the country, but because people don't listen to people in that state, the state of poverty, the city was destroyed. Next verse. "So I said to myself, wisdom is better than strength, true. But the poor man's wisdom is despised." The word despised means ignored. Notice every time he refers to the man, he put the word "poor" next to it, because it ain't a man that was the problem, it was his status in that culture. Money was influenced. If you ain't got no influence, you can't save your own country, even though what you know could save the country. His words were not heeded. Now, verse seventeen: "This is God's word to us. The quiet words of a wise man are to be heeded." Let me say, should be heard louder than the shouts of fools. I'm gonna say this again: The quiet wisdom of a wise man should be learned. It should be louder than the shouts of a ruler of fools. Come on, Bahamians, cautious. If you keep quiet, the fool will be ruling you. Don't need a lot of foolish people for the country to be destroyed. You know, they just need to be loud. It says, "Who makes the loudest noise is perceived to be the most powerful." And it's not true. But it says, "For you to be heard, you must not be poor." When I say poor, don't miss next week. But poverty is not really just about money. You can be poor in influence, poor in positioning, to affect a situation, poor in relationships where no one knows you, so they can't even get your information. Here's the point: Any nation where the righteous are silent, the wicked will rule. But I ain't going out to vote. Listen to me. Listen to your pastor. If you don't go, somebody going. And the wicked are in power. The righteous more. That's in the same chapter. But when the righteous are empowered, the people rejoice. It says in the Bible, last verse, "Wisdom is better than weapons of war." True. But one sinner can destroy the whole country. See, than your Bible, the wisdom is good. It only takes one sinner shouting loud enough to destroy your children's children, to mess up your culture to the point where your little girl, your grandchild, don't know what marriage is no more, because you are so holy and quiet. [Applause] Five percent of the population of our country, they say, is almost sexual. Five percent. That means ninety-five percent are straight. So why we debate in certain things? Because you're silent. They stay screaming loud. I want you to know that this year, I am getting a strange inclination to have what we call a straight parade. [Applause] This isn't away. There's my wife. She's a woman. Now, you're clapping, clapping. Are you with me? Silent no more. Wise man, wisdom could save the city, but because he was poor, no one heard it. Missing, and the city was destroyed. This is our assignment. We're gonna transform our society by taking leadership in every area of our country. I won't let you know that Mouse Monroe, you know, hasn't gotten involved in too many things the last thirty years. Days over now. First thing tomorrow morning, open the newspaper. Here we are. It's begun. God bless you. Thank you very much. Have a good day. Mr. Meeting, I gotta go. Come on, give our praise. This is our time to change the country.

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