Hi. This is Michael Duver, and welcome back
to the word power podcast.
I'm excited that you're here,
and I'm just getting used to talking into
a mic with nobody in the room. So
I'm gonna pretend I can see you. Visualization
is a big part of, of
of seeing what we have. Believing is seeing,
and actually it's tying in. I'm learning a
lot about visualization
right now.
Godly visualization.
I mean visualization
works,
And so
I made a podcast yesterday, but I filled
it with so many scriptures. It's like,
I just scrapped that recording. So what I'm
gonna do is my aim is to keep
these to 10 minutes a day,
10 minutes max.
So that you can be on your way
and get a little charge from me.
Alright.
The word power,
actually, that thought,
that that title actually came from a scripture
in Hebrews.
It's,
Jesus is, you know, talking about Jesus says,
and express image of his person and upholding
all things by the word of his power,
Not the power of his word,
but the word
of his power. There's a big difference.
As you know,
the,
and I'll remind you again, you know, rep
I repeat myself a lot because just have
to hammer it into some people. But
but in order to break
people's thinking habits, I just have to repeat
myself over and over.
Because what I'm reintroducing
to people
is that the concept that they have been
taught to talk wrong. We've been brainwashed to
talk wrong from childbirth
by using this word want the wrong way.
Okay.
There's a verse in, Hebrews. Right? This is
this this goes to a promise. I mean,
Jesus said we will have whatsoever things we
say. Proverbs 6:2. We are snared by the
words of our mouth, and what I do
is I help people unsnare themselves.
Okay.
And it's by using words as well.
Hebrews Hebrews 41, it says, let us therefore
fear, lest a promise being left us of
entering into his rest.
So what I'm helping to do
is help people get into that rest. Jesus
said, come on to me all you that
labor and heavy laden, and I will give
you rest.
Well,
let's say somebody is out there and they
say, yeah, I want that rest. People go
to church.
It's almost dangerous to go to church without
this revelation in my opinion
because
nowhere else
is pea you know, the pastor saying God
wants you rich. What he actually just said
is God is impoverished
of you being rich,
and the truth is no he's not,
but if you agree with that you're agreeing
to the poverty. See
poverty is a curse.
Jesus said that we can bless or curse,
right, with our mouths.
And so when people say they want something
as I did in the past what God
showed me, okay, before I I I saw
this,
was I saw When I would say I
want something, which is a desire in my
heart, which was outside of my dominion, outside
of my control.
I couldn't just reach over and get a
coffee by saying, you know, I would like
a coffee. I want a coffee. Do you
want a coffee? Yeah. I get I can
reach. I can go over and make a
coffee. I like coffee.
I talk about it a lot.
So things outside of my dominion and authority,
I was cursing myself.
And what I tell people is I say,
when you say you want something, you're actually
creating the obstacles,
roadblocks, and hindrances
to the very thing that your heart desires.
But you cursed yourself by saying you're impoverished
of it. How did I do that? By
saying that you want
it. Want.
Okay.
And again that definition of want.
Right?
Go back to my first episode. I was
a little nervous on that episode. I know
it's like not stuttering, but I'm going a
little bit nervous. Just my just getting used
to this
podcast thing.
But the word want
means to be lacking or missing. Not to
be forthcoming. To be deficient. To come short
of achieving a goal. Okay? Want is like
you're just almost in touch with the thing
that your hearts desire, but you say you
want, and then boom, it's gone. It's out
of your reach. It's gone. You don't get
it. Okay?
So what I teach people is I just
say add.
What does Psalm 23 say? I shall
not want. When when God showed this to
me 31 years ago,
3 different times after this, I
it's like the battle is in our minds.
And I had such a battle. I'm going,
oh, this is wrong. This is wrong. This
is wrong. This is wrong.
And I
just went back, and the holy ghost I
mean, I just kept coming back to Psalm
23.
The Lord is my shepherd. I shall
not
want.
Never heard this in church.
You know the only preacher I went to
Rhema,
oh gosh back in 95,
and Kenneth Hagan was still alive,
And at the Christmas dinner, this is the
only place that I heard
any preacher talk like this.
And at the Christmas dinner, he got all
the students to stand up after dinner and
he got and, you know, follow me and
say this app with me. I do not
want God to provide for I do not
want to do well. I do not want
this, this, this, this. I go on and
I was blown away. And I said to
my other fellow students, I go, are you
hearing this? And they go, yeah.
But they didn't. They weren't hearing it. They
didn't understand what Kenneth Hagen I believe that
Kenneth Hagen saw this.
And so, you know, this is the same
thing at churches. Right? God there these songs,
man. These songs just irritate me. You know,
they they're singing that they want to see
Jesus. They want to lift him up. It's
like, oh, gosh. You guys are, you know,
change the language.
I challenged a,
a musician actually, a musical leader in Colorado
when I lived there. I, he was the
leading lead guy of the church choir.
And I told him
I said, I dare you. I explained this
to him. I said, I dare you. Next
week,
choose words
in choose songs that do not contain the
word want or need.
And he did.
And so I came back. He he actually
came to me after the service. He goes,
man, did you feel that? Like, we went
to a higher level. I go, absolutely.
And so what what did he do the
next week? He went right back to the
same dumb songs. Right?
So
again, I shall not want means I shall
not be impoverished. I shall not lack. I
shall not be deprived of. I shall not
fail at. Okay?
And through these episodes, I'm gonna get so
many testimonies out to you.
Again,
you know, this is for the benefit
as well for the people who bought my
book, so I can be a voice to
encourage them to to keep on talking correctly.
And if you'd like to buy my book,
my website is I shall not want.com.
You can listen to my TV interviews I've
been on with
Dorothy Spalding down in North Augusta, South Carolina,
and you can listen to other testimonies.
So I'm gonna try and keep these under
10 minutes
every time.
So I'm gonna give you a testimony here.
Actually, it might be a couple of testimonies.
I was just up in Canada, and I
had to get a new passport.
And I go to the passport office, and
it was a super long lineup. It was
like a 152
100 people. It was a crazy lineup. And
so I asked the guard, I said, hey.
When's the best time to come?
And he goes well your best time you
should get here at 6 o'clock.
And I had only it was Thursday. I
had to come Friday. I was leaving,
and
so he goes, well, if you get here
at 7 o'clock, it'll just be it'll be
packed already too. And I go, okay. Sounds
good. So the next morning,
I wake up
I wake up at my alarm goes off
at quarter to 6, and I'm just sleeping
there, and it's like 6:30, quarter to 7.
I go, no, man. Is it gonna be
I'm thinking I'm thinking is it gonna be
a long lineup?
So I I just said, I'm just gonna
go. So it's, you know, 10 to 7,
And quarter to 7,
I start, I get in the car and
I said this out loud, and I said
it a few times. I said, I do
not want
there to only be
a few people
at the lineup when I get there.
Okay. So I said it a few times.
I get there at 7:15.
I pull into the parking lot. They write
the the doors open to the passport office
at 8:30.
I get in at about 7:15. There's only
2 cars there,
and there's, like, one lady was at the
front. So I'm in line. I'm the 3rd
person.
Hallelujah. Right? I'm thinking,
wow.
What happened? What happened? How did I do?
Was I in control of the people getting
there? No.
Okay? But my words took over.
Okay? And my angels, like, kept everybody at
home.
I know I don't know how it works,
but it works.
So the doors open at 8:30 and I
get my passport quick. So
that was awesome.
Another event. I was just down at a
big event down in Charlotte, North Carolina
and the desire was there was a main
speaker there and he was he was coming
in, and it was a big event.
And I kept on saying, and I taught
this girl in line, I said, you know,
this is my book I shall not want.
So I kept on my heart's desire was
to get into the bleachers right behind the
speaker.
Right behind the podium.
So I kept on saying, I do not
want to get into the bleachers. I I
do not wanna get into the bleachers. And
then I had friends showing up, and I
said I don't wanna see them either.
Long story short,
I'm in the bleachers. My two friends are
stand are sitting right beside me where all
3 of us are in the bleachers. Right
right behind the main speaker. It was awesome.
Alright. Last testimony for today.
I have a friend Tom
in Richmond, Virginia,
and he's been in real estate.
Known him since, shoot,
1994 just shortly after this after I wrote
the book
and
He's in real estate, and he had 40
42 tenants
back then
in multiple houses that he had.
And what happened was
because of the crash in 2008,
a lot of residents lost their jobs and
couldn't pay them.
So, and then when the Frank Dodd legislation
came in it was harder to get loans
and refinance, and my friend had 15 year
amortization
mortgages on his rentals.
Now he's a Christian,
and what happened, I'm living in Colorado at
this time, 2008,
And Tom calls me up and he's telling
me the story.
And at one point, 4 different banks were
threatening foreclosure
to Tom. To the tune about $20,000 that
he owed, that he was in arrears.
And, you know, he and I'm reading his
testimony
as as he wrote it out.
And he's standing on the word, on the
promises. Right? God, rebuke the devourer for my
sake. You know, you supply all my need
according to your riches and glory by Christ
Jesus.
So what happened with the whole, you know,
the lord led him to give me a
call. So I sat on the phone with
Tom for about an hour explaining again
this
confession
of I shall not want.
Okay?
And immediately
he writes Tom Tom says immediately he realized
the devil had been using his own words
to snare himself.
So he said
he started saying, I do not want to
have all my bills paid and mortgages caught
up
in Jesus name.
I mean, the banks were trying to help
Tom, but they they have to follow their
rules. They're about to floor. And so he
writes, within 2 weeks out of the blue,
again, see this is these are the confessions,
these are the testimonies I get out of
the blue. All of a sudden, the next
day, right?
He his sister calls up
who's living out of town not knowing the
severity of his situation.
If you'd like to borrow it because you're
in real estate and you know what to
do.
She didn't know he was in he was
in
potential foreclosure,
but he bore the money
from her
and cured the notes,
you know, rented the rented the properties back
up, and hallelujah
never foreclosed.
So
so what was he saying? I do not
want,
which means I do not lack,
I'm not deprived of, I'm not gonna fail
at, I'm not
gonna come short of achieving the goal
of having all of his bills
paid and the mortgages caught up.
Right?
I think this is the biggest one of
the biggest deceptions that the devil has sold
the body of Christ and humanity
is to get them to use their own
mouth
against themselves,
cursing themselves with poverty,
then they ended up having poverty, and they
blame it on God. Woah. Why don't you
know? Why don't you help me? Right? Well,
if you talk right,
right? Like one preacher said, if you like
god's results, you gotta talk like god. What
does god say? So, in heaven, there's no
want in heaven.
So thy will be done on earth,
right? As it is in heaven
and so I might be over 10 minutes.
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