Hi, and welcome back to the Word Power
podcast. My name is Michael Duver, and I
am glad you're here.
I My la In my last episode I
talked about a friend named Tom.
He was telling
the story. He wrote it down and I
was thinking about that.
And I remember it. It was back in
2008, and he was giving me this story
again in 2022.
And I remember it. His houses were in
foreclosure,
and
he was behind $20,000
The the banks were gonna foreclose on 4
houses if he didn't come up with 20,000,
and
what happened was I got him He got
I got him on the phone and he
started confessing. I do not want
the money
to bring
my
houses current. To bring
the to bring the notes
current.
And he's he wrote down that it was
2 weeks when his sister called him,
and I remember that it was about it
was about 4 or 5 days. It was
under a week.
So just a little correction there. You can
go back to my last episode and listen
to that.
I gotta tell you this. This is hilarious.
So I do traffic. I I do this
in traffic all the time.
Just yesterday,
I volunteered at this,
facility for 12 hours.
And I'm coming back
to my house. It was 9 o'clock
and there's a tunnel. There's a one lane
tunnel
that I have to go through in order
to get back onto the narrow streets, and
there's really no passing
along these narrow streets to my house.
And so I get to this light before
the tunnel, and there's 2 cars in front
of me. So
I said out loud, I do not want
I'm just by myself in the car. Okay?
I do not want the 2 cars in
front of me to turn to the right
after they get through the tunnel.
Okay. You can go left or right, and
I'm going left.
No joking.
We go through the tunnel. The day turns
green, and the 2 cars just take off
to the right, and I'm off to the
races. I love it.
See we are operating
on a higher principle here than the world,
and we have to talk like God talks.
I'm gonna read you a scripture out of
Isaiah
6550.
I'm gonna Isaiah
6516.
King James
says, that he who blesses himself in the
earth shall bless himself
in the God of truth.
Okay and the amplified
ampc
says so it shall be that he who
invokes a blessing on himself
in the land shall do so by saying.
What I'm doing I have to speak it
out of my mouth. I do not want
those 2 cars to go to the right.
I gotta tell you this. A few months
ago,
I was in Knoxville,
and I'm I'm I was showing a house
on the west side of Knoxville,
and it's like rush hour.
And I'm coming up,
and I'm coming east. I'm coming through there
and then it's like we're 5 highways joined
together. I 7581
And
it the traffic is 4 lanes one way,
each way. Right?
And it was just packed as far as
I could see. And I just started saying
I do not want to get through this
traffic
fast
in Jesus name. I always say in Jesus
name right. And
so because that's that's our power of attorney.
And so
it was it was like I was let
the lord you know the holy spirit he
was he was leading me
and I was going to the left. And
I'd go I'd see an opening there. I'd
go to the right, and it's like I
just
kept on I just kept on going fast,
and I got through the entire city
like really quick. I mean it was I
was laughing on the when I got to
the other side.
So what's going on?
I'm talking like God talks,
okay.
Isaiah 55,
8, 9 and 10, I gotta read you
those.
So verse 8 says this, for my thoughts
are not your thoughts, neither are your ways
my ways, saith the lord.
For as the heavens
are higher than the earth,
so are my ways higher than your ways,
and my thoughts than your thoughts.
For as the rain comes down,
and the snow from heaven, and returneth not
thither,
but waters the earth and makes it bring
forth
and bud
that it may give seed to the sower
and bread to the eater. So shall my
word be that goeth forth out of my
mouth.
It shall not return unto me void,
but it shall accomplish that which I please,
and it shall prosper
in the thing whereto I sent it.
Okay?
I've heard people pray that prayer,
and they they say something, decree is saying
what does it say in Job? Decree a
thing and it shall be established.
And so they're declaring want.
They're declaring poverty.
When they say, lord, we want
we want this son to come back to
church. We want this to happen. We want
that to happen. We want what we want.
We want we want. Okay?
What is that saying?
God knows what they're saying when they say
those things, but all he's hearing is they're
we are impoverished, we're impoverished, we're impoverished.
And then the thing doesn't happen. Right? And
then they go they're getting angry at God
because they're blaming God cause the thing didn't
happen. Why don't you love me?
The problem is
we have been programmed
by this world system
living in this world. We're just hearing what
everybody else talks. And the devil, again, has
deceived
people
into
believing that the word want means desire.
I was here in in town and, there
was like some church revival going on in
the meetings. And and there was this guy
named Bill, an older gentleman. He got my
book. He understood it. And we come out
after the service, and
his tire is flat in the parking lot.
And so
so he's out, he's looking all over his
car for a pump and trying to figure
out what I said Bill,
we don't want
a pump to pump up your tire. Well,
no joking. My friend, Leonora,
okay, she goes 2 cars over. This is
within 30 seconds. She goes over and pulls
a pump out of her car.
Now what's interesting,
there was a gentleman standing right beside me,
and he's fluent
in Arabic.
And he goes, wow. That is really interesting.
And I said, yeah. I wrote this book,
you know, 30 odd years ago, whatever.
Well, this is just a a couple years
ago.
And
I explained how the word want is so
misused in the English language.
And he goes, this is really interesting. He
didn't explain. He was fluent in the Arabic
language. And he said, do you know that
there is a word
in the Arabic language,
just like the word want, you know, like
I want a cup of coffee,
okay, that they use. And that word, I
couldn't repeat it to you because I don't
speak Arabic.
But
he said that word is translated
destitution.
And he goes, those people over there,
they are destitute.
Isn't that interesting?
There's there's a couple other languages that I
know that they're using the word while I'm
on that topic. Yo Quiaro Taco Bell. Okay?
That commercial. Quiaro.
I was When I was in Denver, I
had some Spanish friends,
and, the one cousin was from Mexico City.
So we're talking
and I explained in this and she researched
and she said sure enough that the word
Quiero.
She
said quiero
actually means lack.
And I looked into the Spanish Bible in
Psalm 23. It says, not a me falterra.
I shall not want. I shall not be
impoverished.
So what are we doing here when we're
talking like this? I shall not want. Okay.
We're talking like God talks.
I just I just looked up a scripture
on biblehub.com,
and
there are
I I don't know how many
translations of the Bible there are there, but
I've looked through many different translations.
And
the translators
are translating that word want
to mean
desire.
Like in one scripture, I think it was,
you know, Jesus is talking to blind Bartimaeus.
And he said,
in King James, he says, what wilt thou
that I do unto you?
Lord, that I might have my sight.
And another translation,
it says, Jesus said, what do you want
me to do for you?
What do you want me to do for
you? This is how they have
mistranslated.
And that was my question. Do words change
meaning just because we use them differently?
Okay. And the answer I came to was
no.
Jesus said I'm the same yesterday, today, and
forever. I change not. So back to going
through the tunnel,
What was I saying?
I was saying I do not lack, and
I'm not impoverished,
and I'm not deprived of those 2 cars
turning right.
And my angels
picked up on that word
And the thought that I actually had was,
okay, angels go to work. This is this
is what I was thinking. Angels go to
work. And even if the person was gonna
turn left, just have them turn right by
accident.
So you might think that's bad, but they
turned right.
So,
but I'm declaring the end from the beginning.
I love this verse, in Isaiah 46:10. It
says, I'll read I'll read the whole thing.
Actually, I'll start in verse 9. Remember the
former things of old for I am God
and there is none else. I am God
and there is none like me.
Declaring the end from the beginning.
Okay?
And from ancient times, the things that are
not yet done. Say my castle shall stand
and I will do all my pleasure.
And then that relates to actually,
in the new testament,
Romans 4 17.
Right? Where god calls those things which be
not as though they were. He's calling
he's calling it done because before the foundation
of the world, it was already done.
So when I was at the tunnel,
I'm declaring
the end. I'm declaring
that they're turning right.
Alright?
I'm not saying I desire to say I
desire. I'm expressing a desire.
But something I've noticed over these years
is that when I say I do not
want something,
it's like I'm pulling it in because I'm
declaring
the opposite of poverty. What's the opposite of
poverty?
Abundance.
Alright?
So
I I challenge you. Start experimenting with this.
You're out in traffic.
Hey.
Just start. Just start saying, I don't wanna
get through this traffic quick.
Okay?
Now
this is a cool thing. I was down
in a a town called Roan Mountain here
in Tennessee,
and it was a long way. I was
finished,
showing a house,
and I come back,
And I'm I'm headed back to my house.
And there was roughly I was thinking about
this last night. There was roughly about 20
lights, traffic lights.
And I just experimented with this. And I
said out loud,
I do not want
every light to be green
all the way home.
Okay?
I do not want every light to be
green all the way home, and no joking.
Every light was green. Now I did get
to 1,
and it was red. And I slowed down.
I think I said as well. I that
so that I don't have to stop. I
got to 1. I was slowing down and
it turned green. And every every light, even
that light at the tunnel was was green
when I got there. I mean it was,
I going hallelujah,
hallelujah.
Now if you try this,
okay, the devil hates this word. I can
give you that's a whole another topic.
And I've been attacked because of this because
I'm I am exposing
Satan's
tactics
to destroy people's lives. They're declaring poverty.
They don't know it.
And it's creating havoc.
Like I said before, it's when when somebody
says that they want something.
Okay, they'll struggle. They'll go and struggle to
get it.
And they might get it, but it'll be
a struggle. But I I term it like
this, that they're putting roadblocks, hindrances, and obstacles
to the very thing their hearts desires. I'll
give you another example, and then I'll cut
it off for this episode.
Back in Canada after I graduated, just in
the last term
of engineering,
my friends and I were taught at, law
school library there.
And what I did
was well, this is the language we talked.
Where do you wanna live? And I go
on and I said,
I want to go to Calgary.
I mean,
it's sunshine,
skiing.
I love the snow. Right?
And so
what I did was after university,
I went out to Calgary.
And at the time Calgary is called Cowtown,
and it's known
for the the oil patch. Right? All the
oil industries. And I was gonna get an
engineering job at, I was thinking I was
I'm going after an engineering job
in Calgary.
Well, I get out there and there was
a slump in the oil industry.
No
jobs. So I ended up working in, the
hotels
for about 5 months
and had a great time skiing.
But
I didn't get a job
out there in Calgary.
Right? This is one of the memories. Now
at the same time, I'm saying I want
to go to the United States. I'm saying
both of things. Right? Because I wasn't sure
where I'd
like to go. But I'm saying I wanna
go to Calgary. So then
I get fed up out there, and I
call my mom. And I say, hey, mama.
I wanna come back to London
and just work in London.
And so I went back.
Okay? It's not like
there was like a brick wall in front
of me by because I said I want
to go back to London
that I was physically stopped. But this is
what happened. And then at the same time,
I'm saying, ah, forget it. I don't want
to go to I don't want to go
to the states anymore. And then I said,
I want to go back to London. Well,
I went back to London. I could get
in my car and I could drive to
London. And that's what I did. So I'm
back in my house,
my mom's house,
and I'm sitting at the table. This is
the memories that I had. And I saw
this preacher guy that I know. He's had
his magazine,
and he was at a church in Richmond,
Virginia.
So what happened was I said, mom, what's
in Virginia? She goes,
Mike. There's nothing in Virginia. You don't want
to go there.
And I simply said, you're right, mom. I
don't wanna go there. I want to go
to Texas.
K.
Because I knew people down there.
So what happens? So in my mind, I'm
headed to Texas.
But I spoke those words.
So I'm at my aunt's house in Ohio
and then I leave there. And I'm I'm
coming down through Cincinnati and I'm Columbus wherever
and I pop on to I 70 West.
Well, I cross I 75.
Okay. And I looked down there. Yeah. There's
Florida's down there.
And I ran into a actual physical roadblock
on the highway.
The cars were stopped. All the lanes were
stopped.
There was a traffic jam. I had my
engine turned off for 30 minutes. And I
go, man, I gotta move. I gotta go.
So I turned
somehow, I turned around. I got back on
I 75 South, and I'm looking at my
road map. Okay. Didn't have
Google Maps. Oh my gosh. We just had
paper
paper maps, right, back then. So I got
this big map, and I'm thinking, okay. There's
Texas, and I could see I seventy
one going off southwest.
I'm thinking, okay. I'm going there.
And,
you know, because all the time I'm saying
I want to go to Texas. I don't
want to go to Virginia.
And then I get to,
Cincinnati, and I'm going 5 o'clock traffic jam.
I'm gonna oh, there's a roundabout.
So I'm going west. Then I'm going south,
and I've been coming back east. And I
get back on 75. I drove
all day and got nowhere.
Okay?
And that's where using the word want the
wrong way will do to you. And actually,
the proof is in your life already.
The proof is already there.
Because you can ask God to show you
in your past too where you use the
word want, except for getting a coffee. Okay.
I want a coffee out. I got the
coffee. Okay. Mike's wrong.
Right? It's the big things. The things that
are not in your control and not in
your dominion
that you will fight to get if you
start saying you're impoverished.
The next morning, I woke up and I
just felt God speak to me and said
go to Virginia. And I drove all day
and had peace the whole way. That's how
I got to Virginia. Anyways, that's enough for
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