"Guard Your Heart With Truth." -Johnny Asevedo

Pastor Johnny shares a word on guarding your heart with the truth of the Word, and not with walls and holding things against people. Enjoy!

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Welcome to the Destiny Church and Throne podcast. We pray this stirs you into a deeper relationship with Jesus and equips you to live a heaven-on-earth lifestyle daily. Enjoy. I want to just share tonight about just some stuff that the Lord has has put on my heart recently that actually has come to light and just talking with people, like you know, both in and outside of the church and those that I know. And like this is something that like over the past few months we have been really, really talking a lot about bearing fruit. So whether it was Sunday morning or Thursday, somehow, somehow, we have always got back to this place of bearing fruit and and and caring, you know, uh these things that we're building and cultivating with the Lord. And just, you know, and and one of the things that was said, and I remember the last Sunday, Sunday before, but it was something that the Lord had given me when I was ministering to these people out of the tennis courts, and it was don't let anything come out of your mouth that's not in your heart. And uh, and I think it's a that's a can we kill these lights, Justin, just turn the house lights on. Glory. And that's been something that has been um just really it's been ringing in my ear over and over. I don't want anything to come out of my heart come out of my mouth that's not in my heart. Amen. Like that's that's we can all agree with that. You know what I mean? Like, I don't want to just go to somebody and like preach the gospel, but there's no gospel here. You know, I don't want to just go and tell somebody about Jesus, but there's no Jesus here, because I think that's just what the the role I've got to fulfill as a believer. And so we've been talking a lot about bearing fruit and living in that place and the cultivation of it and being with Jesus and all these things. And and tonight, like um, I just asked the Lord, Lord, um, I just want to talk about the heart. One of the things that I've been in counseling individuals, talking with individuals, there has been such a deep, deep thing of the heart and allowing God to work on our heart. I was just talking to somebody today, and and you've heard me say this a million times in this house, but I said, this is why God is such a righteous judge, because he knows our heart. Amen. Every area, every secret, every hidden thing, uh, he knows all of that, right? With man, we can play the part. With God, we are unable to do that, right? And and that is number one, there's wisdom in that, because that's the fear of the Lord. You know what I mean? Is that he knows. Um, but there's and there's wisdom in the way that we live out of that. But there, but in our heart, there's so much, I believe, that we have to allow the Lord to deal with and work on so that we can bear the fruit that he's calling us to bear each and every day, right? The other side of bearing the fruit as we continue since day one of this house and even before, uh, is what we're doing with that fruit when we walk outside of these doors. Okay? Trusting God in every way because it goes beyond just what we're doing here or a church event, or come to this event, or come to that event, right? There's not events at your workplace, there's not events at your school, there's not events at Market Basket, there's not events at Walmart, right? And so how are we bearing forth the fruit in relationship? And I believe that we've got to allow God to deal with our hearts. Amen? So that's what we're gonna talk about tonight. Uh, Proverbs 4 23 says to guard your heart above all else, for it determines the course of your life. We could stop there and just talk the rest of the night on Proverbs 4 23. Okay? Here's an example. Has anybody ever come to you and because your heart wasn't guarded or your heart wasn't rooted in him, said something or done something that completely threw off your day? Okay, so just three of us in here. Thank y'all for being real with me. All right. Uh you know what I mean? Like, like, like they've been in that place where they've said something, they've done something, and it threw off your whole day. Like, like, it was just like, oh man, like ah. Well, I believe that that what what the Lord is wanting us to do is not walk in a heart of not walk in a heart that is rooted in man's ideals, but but this heart of flesh that is completely submerged in him that reflects the heart of Christ. Okay? And so it says, guard your heart above all for it determines the course of your life. If your heart is not guarded, if your heart is open to wounds, you've not allowed the Lord to heal those things, then when somebody comes in and they say something wrong, they do something wrong, or maybe they don't have to be doing it wrong, they just do it to where you're like, oh, that didn't sound right, then your entire day is ruined. It is now determined the course of your life. Amen? Right? Why? Because your heart is not guarded. And then what we try to do is we say, well, what I'm gonna do is I'm gonna build walls around my heart because I'm not getting hurt again. Right? Like I got I'm gonna make sure that my heart is guarded and there's infantry all around it. I am not getting burned again, right? Stuff Jesus never said, by the way, okay? He loved in such a way that he knew that he would get burned and backstabbed, but yet he still loved in such a beautiful, beautiful way. But, and so what we try to do is when we try to guard our heart, is we actually set up these walls and infantry men and all these little, all these things in our heart that the moment that we get a whiff of something that has hurt us before, we're out. It has now determined the course of our life. If you go on Facebook, you're gonna see people asking, uh, uh, can somebody point me in the direction of a church that literally meets all of my needs? And not needs like, I need to be, you know, but like, I need to be comfortable, it's gotta be the right music, it's gotta be the right screens, it's got, you know what I mean? Like they just like, I just want the perfect church. And what what tends to happen is in our walk with the Lord, like, we're not allowing him and his word to guard our heart. We as man are guarding our heart, right? And so what you see with people who have been church hurt or whatever it is, they'll hop from church to church to church, they'll never put any roots down, they'll be there, they'll be there, and then something happens that they don't like or they're not getting it the way they want, and they're gone. It now has determined the course of their life because their heart was not guarded. This can happen in your workplace, this can happen with friendships and relationships, is that you're not allowing the word of God, you're not allowing who he is to guard your heart. The thing that should be guarding our heart is the word of God. What does the word of God say about what we are what we are supposed to be bearing in our heart? This is why Jesus said, when he talks about have having anger in your heart for someone, it's just like murdering someone. Right? He takes it a step up. He says, Let me actually show you how how bad the roots of anger are when they're allowed to live in your heart. It's just like murdering someone.

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That's why he even talks about even looking at a woman with lust. How why? Because it's all in that posture of your heart. And so much of who we are comes from the posture of our heart. Amen? Comes from the posture of our heart. Matthew 6, 21, wherever your treasure is, the desires of your heart will also be. So all these things, when you're when we're with Jesus, well, I was just talking, look about this. When we're with Jesus, we've got to allow him to expose every area of our heart. If you go into the prayer closet and you're like, Jesus, I'm perfect. I just want to be in here because I want to just spend time with you. Like, no, it doesn't, it that's not it. Right? He said he doesn't say be perfect, he says be holy, for he is holy. The only way that we can achieve that holiness is through Christ in Christ alone. That's it. Our righteousness is as filthy rags. We can't do this outside of him. We we cannot do this outside of him. We need to be able to position ourselves to receive from him day in and day out so that he can continue to work on our heart. Continue to work on the deep parts, the wounds, the hurts, the non-trust issues, the fears, the stuff that's been plaguing us for years upon years upon years. And then what you begin to see is in your heart the things that sometimes you don't want to give up, those are where your treasures are. When God's like, I want to take this from you, I want to use this, I want to be able to remove this. You're like, no, Lord, like I've got to keep that. That keeps me comfortable. A lot of times people get stuck in relationships because they just are used to having someone there. And they just get stuck in girlfriend after girlfriend, boyfriend after boyfriend, relationship after relationship, and you see this cycle. I'm using this as an example because we were made to be relational people. And so instead of going to God and allowing him to fix those areas of loneliness, they just go to the next partner. And the next partner, and the next partner, and the next partner, and the next over and over. And this happens even with even in individuals, like individuals, maybe it's not that. Maybe it has to do with finances, right? They'll go from job to job to job to job. They don't steward correctly, they they freak out about monies or whatever it may be, because in our heart it is not properly positioned or guarded, and it's now determining our life because it's not baptized and submitted to Jesus. Right? The way that we treat people, the way that we love people, the way that we see people, regardless if they've done the worst of the worst of the worst to us, is gonna determine the course of our life. I saw something today by a very, very influential prophet of the Lord. And I saw something, and it's okay to disagree with each other, okay? Like I want to say this first off for the record. Not everybody that disagrees with you is sent from Satan to destroy your identity, okay? Not everybody that that doesn't completely agree with you, or like there, there's there's probably less people worried about you and I than we actually think that there is. Most of the time we're our own biggest hater, you know? And like, but anyway, so there's this very influential prophet of the Lord, and he posted something, and I was like, well, that doesn't really make sense because it was very like me driven. You know, see, it's one of those posts where it's like, if they don't carry the vision with you, they don't got your back. Something like that. It was you know, something along the lines of like, uh, if they're not with you, they're against you, or something, you know, something that like like didn't really register, but that was more profound towards even in a way, kind of kind of saying, Well, that's why I don't trust people. Right? Imagine, imagine, imagine. If Jesus, okay, if Jesus, knowing Judas, knowing Peter, and he was like, okay, this spiritual son of mine and this spiritual son of mine are both gonna reject me, are both gonna throw me under the under the bridge, so to speak. So I can't trust anyone from here on out because I've been hurt too many times. Sometimes we get hurt one time, and we've put up walls to the next thing or the next person that even resembles, smells, or looks like that thing that hurt us before. And Jesus is like, uh, what? You know what I mean? Like, and but but but for us, it makes a lot of sense. For us, because we want to protect who we are. Like, like we don't want no drama, no stress, and all this stuff. Hey, hey, newsflash, go read scripture. There was a lot of drama when Jesus was on the scene. Jesus wasn't this just like, oh, I'm sorry, sir. Yeah, just keep doing what you're doing. I'm a man of peace. He wasn't just this like Dalai Lama that was just like, oh, peace in everybody. No, like when those times come when you read scripture, Jesus popped off. He did it righteously, but he did it as a lion as well. Like it was, it was, and so what you're seeing is like, I we don't, I don't want to just, I don't want to guard my heart from people because I've been hurt. I want to guard my heart from anything that could come in that causes me to treat people differently than Jesus is calling me to. You understand that? That's how I want to guard my heart. So when that person has cursed me out, stabbed me in the back, drugged my name through the mud and everything else, that when I see that person coming out of my heart is love, grace, and mercy. Not, oh, I gotta put on a face now because I'm a Christian and I know what they said about me, and that means that somewhere in my heart, it's not right. Right? And so I want to be able to guard my heart so that what flows out of it to the people around me, so what flows out of it to trials or situations in my life, looks like Jesus. That's why I want to guard my heart. Matthew 12, 34, for out of the abundance of the heart, the mouth speaks. Glory, hallelujah, amen. Out of the abundance, there are things that when when our heart is not right or guarded in the word, we will say things that we want to immediately take back. Or we will say things that we believe is truth because we've said them for so long. But really, what it is, it's not that we've got to change our speech, it's we got to change our heart. I've been around pastors who sat at a lunch table that I had to excuse myself from because for about 30 plus minutes they just kept talking bad about their people. This is a real story. I'd excuse myself from this table because everybody was talking about the people in their like, I was like, man, like this is wild to me. And it didn't just come out of them just talking, that came from somewhere. You ever talk with someone and they say something, and you're like, hmm, that didn't just come out of nowhere. That was somewhere in their heart, right? It didn't just like out of nowhere come about. There was something that was constructed in their heart that caused that to come out. You may hear somebody say something like, Nobody wants to be with me. You may hear somebody say, I'm not good enough for that. All these things are not just stuff that somebody's just saying to say, these are things that are in their heart that it's so abundant with it, it's just coming out. Right? And and and you see, you can see it in church, you can see it in the world around us when there are things that are plaguing our hearts. That's why when people come in and they complain and they complain and they complain and they complain about their situation, and then you ask them, Well, what are you doing to change that? Complaining? I don't know. You know what I mean? Like, you know what I'm saying? Like, but it's it's it's bubbling out, it's coming out of their heart, and then they it's like it's just it's they're speaking it because it's so abundant. Because their heart is not guarded, their heart is not wrapped around the truth of the scripture, and because of that, they find themselves constantly, it's just coming out. You can tell a lot about where someone's heart is when you just have some small conversation with them, especially a stranger. I've talked with people and I know they just wanted me to know that they were rich. Well, I have this car and I have this house, and I bought this, and I have this, and I bought this, and then we bought 17 boats, and then I'm like, all right, man, I get it. You got commas in your bank account. You know what I'm saying? Like, I get it. And everything was about that. I've talked with people who before I even knew them. So, so what I do as a chaplain for hospice, I meet new people all the time. And I have to go into a room, and it's just me and them, and I spend anywhere from 30 to an hour with them. Strangers, people like people I don't know. But within the first visit, within usually the first seven minutes, I can tell what's most important to these individuals. It doesn't have to be a long car. Like within the first seven minutes, I can already tell you what is most important to these people. Think about this. If somebody has a moment with you in your day-to-day, let's say you're in Walmart. The line's long, there's 300 people online, and there's only one little person that's doing the checkout. Right? Beep. And you're just like, oh man, surely they got more people working here. We've all been there. We've all been there, right? Surely there's more people working here. What am I doing? Oh my gosh. Walmart, you gotta get your act together. What are my taxes paying for, right? Like everything under the sun. And then and then just say, just, just and so your heart, because you've been actually, the Lord has been wanting to deal with you on like patience, and the Lord's been wanting to deal with you on timing, and the Lord's been wanting to deal with you on trusting him. Stuff starts bubbling out because you start getting impatient. And then you get impatient, and the next thing you know, you're not just impatient anymore now, now you're starting to get a little agitated. And now you're not just agitated, well, now you're kind of getting a little upset because you're not getting your way. And so what happens is it starts coming out of your mouth, and you start looking at the person behind you like, man, oh my gosh, you would think nobody bothered, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah. And then this person's like, okay. And then and then and then think about this, think about this, think about this, think this. And then you're just going off because it's coming out, and your heart hasn't been in that place of as a believer. I'm talking about believers here. I'm not just talking about a random person. I'm talking about sons and daughters. I'm just I want to disciple and teach sons and daughters, Christians, believers. And they're sitting and then they're at this and they're there and they're just complaining, and oh, Walmart this, and they got the oldest lady here, and oh my gosh, I can't believe this. Oh, blah, blah, blah. Complaints, complaints, complaints. And then, like, all of a sudden, think about if the person two rows ahead are like, hey, aren't you one of the leaders at So and So Church? Bro, that'd be tough, dude. Oh, that'd be so tough. I'd be like, oh, yeah, you know what I mean? Like, I repent, you know what I'm saying? Like, like, like, think about this. Like, sometimes we think that we can just get away with things because nobody calls it out. Where's the Holy Spirit and conviction in our hearts? Right? I don't need somebody to call me out when I know that my heart is wrong. I should, as a believer, I should not need that. As a believer, I should be able to lean into the Holy Spirit because I've been guarding my heart so that the moment that I do something that is outside of him or something that I'm not supposed or called to do, I don't need someone to accountability check me. I just need to lean into the Holy Spirit for him to correct me. Because my heart is with him, my heart is guarded. Thank you, Lord. Um, just a few more. So think about like daily, your heart, what's most important to you. I'm gonna piggyback off just a small conversation me and Blake had a moment ago. We talked about just little distractions. See, we could put ourselves in a position or a place where we're like, yeah, I love Jesus, I go to church, but he's still not the most important thing in my life. And if you were to sit with the Lord, and sometimes people don't like to sit in a secret place with God, because he will show you things in your heart that you then have to come face to face with. You feel me? Like, like, like, and sometimes if our heart is not guarded by the truth in the word, we will feel that as shame, and the enemy will make sure that we feel that as shame. When he's a good father. When I come into my kiddos' rooms to discipline them on something or call something out of a way they've been living, I don't do it to shame them. I do it to bring about correction to help them to grow to be better individuals. Because right now it might be, well, they're not listening about this, but later as they grow, what does that look like against authority? Right? And so if your heart is not in that place, what you begin to see over and over and over again is that you you've got to allow those little things, you've got to go to Jesus and allow him to show you your heart where maybe little things are bigger than you actually think that they are. Sometimes we excuse our our comforts in sin or our comforts and fleshly living by it's not a big deal. Oh, it's not a big deal. But it is a big deal. And the reason it is a big deal is because if we were to take it to the Lord, he would say, I want you to stop that. But for us, we just hold tightly to it's not a big deal. And so we don't run to him and allow him to heal or show us our hearts because we know that we know, that we know as as believers, that if we bring this to him, he will say, I actually need you to remove that. So there's a lot of times where when we even go to him, there will be an exposure of what our treasure really is. And sometimes those little small distractions, those little things, they build up, and over time, what you begin to start to see is that just like the scripture tells us, as the little foxes, the small foxes that spoil the vine, it is those little things that begin to distract and tear us away from the Lord. And our heart is not guarded. If you look at any kind of like war movie or anything like that, like you know, they're always like looking for the enemy's weakness or the opponent's weakness. Where's the the crack in the wall? Right? Where where can we sneak into or anything like that? Like, like, you know, these movies, and and and and what you and this is, I believe, like this is the enemy. He's looking for these cracks. He's looking for these little things. Right? Like, like most addiction does not start the first day. Most addictions does not start the second, third, or fourth day. These addictions are these, well, it's just one day. I know for me personally, Johnny, my alcoholism and drug use addiction did not happen on a random one Saturday. It was Saturday, then it was next Friday, then it was next Friday and Saturday, then it was next Friday, Saturday, and Sunday morning. Then it was next Friday morning, Friday night, Saturday morning, Saturday. Night, Sunday morning, Sunday night. Then it was a little bit of Monday going to work. Then it was, I was okay at work Monday, and now it's a Tuesday. Right? It's this continuation. Why? Because in my heart, I'm like, everything's fine. And it was the thing one after another, one after another, one after another, one after another, those little things of me thinking there's no problem here to where I was a full-out alcoholic and drug addict. And we ask ourselves in moments, even while we're with the Lord, how did I get here? The way that we got there is our hearts were not guarded, and so it determined the direction of our life. If you've never allowed God to deal with offenses or with you not feeling good enough, then the moment someone corrects or talks to you in a different tone, immediately the course of your day is ruined. Or the course of your moment is ruined. Why? Because your heart is not guarded. You've not allowed the Lord to come in and heal the areas of your heart where He needs to heal. And so your heart is not comp it's not aligned with the Word of God, and you're living out of flesh in your heart. And when you live out of flesh in your heart, that's gonna just begin to more and more birth sin. Because that's what the flesh births. It doesn't birth righteousness. So, all right, thank you, Lord. You guys follow me on this? Hallelujah. Glory to the Lamb. All right, thank you. So uh uh two more things. I want I want to talk about the heart, the heart, the heart, the heart, as far as like our daily living and what we are pouring out. So if we are to guard our hearts to determine the direction and the path of our life, what we need to do is we need to understand how we can get to a place to where our heart is being healed. Okay, there are wounds, and and and I've talked about this before. There's a message I preached years ago, and it was called um like no more scabs or something like that. I think that's what it was called. Um, this is gonna sound gross to a lot of people, but whenever I get a cut, I love picking the scab. All right, whatever, sue me. But it was this message long ago, and I'm just thinking about it right now, so I'm trusting the Holy Spirit. But if you have a cut, even a deep wound, a surgical wound, anything like that, over time the scar is still there. But the scab is no longer there. Okay? I've got a really big cut on my leg. I jumped off of a, I was I was little, I was like maybe eight. And I jumped off of a jungle gym. I was pretending like I was the Undertaker. Me and a guy were wrestling, and I was the Undertaker was my guy back then. He used to do this move where he would climb on the top ropes and he would come down with a clothesline. Like that's that's a move he did. He would walk on the ropes. Anyway, I was doing it, and I slipped and there was a screw, right? And it ripped me open, you can still see it, all the way up. It was wide open, bro. I mean like wide open. I'm running back home, my skin's flapping in the wind. Like I'm like, mom, mom, dad, like I mean, bleeding, it's so bad. There's like a trail of blood, it's just flapping in the wind, my little, my little skin leg. But now, let's say this a week after that happened, if I was to bump it on something, it would reopen, bleed. But now, years and years later, the scar remains. However, it's not reopening, it will not reopen. There's hurts and there's wounds, and there are things that people have done, that we have walked through, that we ourselves have brought upon ourselves. There are wounds in our heart. There are hurts in our heart. And I'm telling you this now. Jesus can heal any wound you've ever had, regardless if you did it to yourself or somebody did it to you. Jesus can heal it. And the beautiful thing about Jesus healing it is it's a scar. You remember what he did, and it now becomes a testimony. And that testimony guards your heart, and now it can also determine the course of your life. Because when maybe there was once a wound in my heart of somebody doing something to me or financial loss or something crazy that really, really hit me hard, now there's a testimony of where he came in and healed it and fixed it. So when I'm met with something that could have been a wound again, I now live in that testimony because my heart is guarded with the truth. When your heart is guarded with the truth, when lies try to infiltrate, even when they try to pick at those wounds, it's no, there's no longer any accessibility for the enemy to come in. He may try, but your heart is guarded with the truth, and you're able to recognize the lie as soon as it shows its face. Because your heart is guarded. You have been with him and you've allowed him to work on your heart. We can't, getting another partner is not going to heal your heart. Getting a better job with a bigger paycheck is not going to heal your heart. Getting your needs met in these different areas because you're controlling it and you're able to do it yourself, that's not going to heal those things. It's only a matter of time before it bursts wide open again. We have to allow Jesus to bring about healing, and that healing comes from us building a relationship, being in the secret place with him. Jesus will never lead you into a season. Karen and I were talking about this today. He will never lead you into a season that causes you to run from the secret place with him. I will never put my children in a position that causes them to run away from their father. He wants to bring you into this place to where he is healing your heart, to where as your heart is healed, you are no longer treating people through your wounds, through your scars. You're no longer treating people through your distrust. You're no longer treating people through the way that they treated you. And we sometimes guard our hearts and we hope and we're like, Jesus, never again. I'm not letting any of those people in ever again. And to us, that sounds like great wisdom, but it's not loving like he loves. His love is like, it changes, like it makes us rethink what love truly is. He loves those that beat him. He loves those that took apart his back and ripped it wide open. He loves and he will welcome them and he would do it all over again. This is how good he is, and this is what he can do in our hearts. It doesn't matter what was said, what was done, how they did it, how they betrayed you, how you yourself betrayed you, what you did, how you did it, the amount of whatever you did is how you did it. Jesus can bring about healing to what begins to flow out of your heart is more of him. Where your heart is guarded, not walls that are put up to be like, I hope it doesn't happen again. But where your heart is guarded with the truth. The truth. And so um that's what I wanted to share with us tonight. And and we have to remember God is is such a God of the heart. We know that. We see it scripturally. Remember with with David, it's not a man that looks at the outward appearance, but a man that looks at the heart. This this is this is who he is. This is who he is. And I'll say, like, as we walk with him, he will expose and he will show us areas in our heart. We then have to make a choice. I said this again, I'm gonna say it again. The foundation of free will is choice. And so as he exposes, we will be met with a choice of do we want to lay those things down and guard our hearts with the truth with what he is saying about that thing? Because there's a way that seems right to a man, but that way only leads to death. I I want him, I want his heart, I want to display, exemplify, live in, even when no one's watching, his heart. I want to respond here his way and not just fake it till I make it. You know what I mean? Like I don't want to just like, oh, you got a lot of peace. I saw the way you handled that situation, but inside I'm like, remember like Joe Pesci in Home Alone? Yeah. I ain't trying to be Joe Pesci in Home Alone. Like I really want the love that I showed that person in public that backstabbed, betrayed, said the wrong thing, cussed me out. I want that to actually be to start here first and not be like, oh, I gotta do the right thing. Everybody's watching. Hulk smash inside. Like I want to be able to bear the fruit of my heart guarded by the truth so that it directs the course of my life in every way. You have to sit, you have to be with him. You must be with him, beloved. You must sit with him, you must turn things off, you must go away with him, you must spend time with him, you must meet with him, you must be with him. Show him your heart. Let him let him see what he already knows. Let him work on it. Let him work on it. Let the thing be gouged out that needs to be gouged out. Let him work on your heart. He wants to. And he's got a really good plan to heal us. A really good plan to heal our hearts for his glory. Amen. So, Lord, um, it's everybody right now just place your hand on your heart. Thank you, Lord. Thank you, Jesus. Thank you, Lord. Thank you that we no longer have hearts of stone. I just want to live out of the abundance of truth, Lord. I want to love like you loved. I want to treat and treat and see people the way you did. I don't want to just make up theology to um defend myself. I don't want to just like roll with thoughts and and and put up walls that that protect me. I want to be guarded by the truth. But I thank you that we can run to you and you can expose and you can break down and you can deliver, Lord. It's not that you just expose for the sake of exposing, Lord. You deliver, you set free, you take away, you break. You don't just point stuff out just to point it out. Thank you. Thank you, Lord, that you're not just a God that just points out problems, Lord. But before there's a problem, you already had a solution, so I thank you for it. So Lord, keep us running to you in the secret place. Keep us running to you to show to show us to show us our heart, Lord. Show us our heart. We want our heart to be like yours. Walked out like yours. To love like yours, to trust like yours, to show grace and mercy like yours. I don't want Johnny's heart. I don't want to protect myself because somebody burned me two weeks ago. I don't want to harbor unforgiveness because that person did too many bad things to me. Thank you, Jesus. I don't want to just say things because it seems like the right thing to say that makes me and keeps me comfortable. Thank you for the Holy Spirit that is the comforter. I don't I'm not the comforter. I don't have to be the comforter. Holy Spirit, you are. So I just thank you for that, Lord. Thank you for every heart that's here tonight as well, Lord. Keep drawing them into the secret place. Beloved, I encourage you, run there, run there, run there daily, day in, day out, daily, day in, day out. Thank you, Lord. And I just pray blessings over this family in Jesus' name. Amen. Oh, yeah.

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I would like to share a testimony of what God did for me. Several months ago, I developed a lump and under my arm, and it was getting so big that I could feel it, it was visible, I could see it. I went and I had a test, and they kind of blew it off, so they did a um ultrasound, and that the the lump measured like 12 centimeters big, and um they just kind of wrote it off. But I I had read something that kind of put fear on me, and I thought I don't need fear because God's always never failed to heal me. So I came down to destiny here and I was visit uh visiting that night, and Pastor Karen came up to me and she asked me if there was anything that she could pray for me for. And I said, Yes, I have this lump. I shouldn't have allowed fear to get me, but I would like to be prayed for for it. So she prayed for me, and I knew immediately on the way home I started feeling different. And I told my husband, I said, This thing has shrunk. I'm not in the pain that I was in for months with this thing. I know this thing has shrunk. So I decided I was gonna go to a specialist. And the specialist walked in and she said, I don't know why they would never not biopsy a spot that's 12 centimeters big. But she said, I'm gonna go ahead and check you out. And she looked at me and she shook her head and she said, I don't see no spot that's 12 centimeters big. She said it may be the size of a pea. So she said, What we're gonna do is we're gonna set you up for some more intense tests, and we're gonna prove that thing is gone. So I know that the Lord touched me. I know that he's the healer and he's my deliverer. And I just give God the glory for people who will stand out and let God use their hands to touch people and to heal people. And I just give God the glory for what he's done through her and what he's done in my life.