The Soul Body Connection - Episode 2

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Inside. Inside flourishing. Inside prosperity. My will and emotions on the inside. And then you look AT THE OUTSIDE. YOUR OUTSIDE TELLS THE TRUTH about your inside. Download and stay connected with the Changing Your World podcast with Creflo Dollar. Keep the word of God at the forefront of your mind with these powerful and uplifting messages.

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So, let's vow to make it a better place. Let every heart that meets to know your love is here to stay. It's time we live a new life. Let us love shine bright in you. We're saved by His grace, so we embrace Your love today. We are changed. 2 Timothy 1 and 7 says I God hadn't given us a spirit of fear, but of power, of love, watch this, and a sound mind.

You walk in a sound mind. The fruit of a of a prosperous soul, you walk in the soundness of mind. A sound mind. Now, everybody got a sound mind because of all of the stuff that's happened to them, you know? But he says when when you have a prosperous soul, your mind will be sound.

Okay, number four. Your relationship start flourishing because you're not operating from lack, but fullness. Your relationships start flourishing because you're not operating from lack, but fullness. You're not walking around insecure all the time. You're you're you're operating from place of fullness. And then number five, your outer life, when I say your outer life, number five, I'm talking about your health, your provision, your influence, it begins to reflect the wholeness within you.

That's right. Your outer life is a reflection of your inner life. Okay? So, you look at your outer life. Don't be talking about the devil. Your outer life is a reflection of your inner life. So, whatever has happened and whatever is going on on the inner parts will reflect and be seen on the outer parts.

And when your soul begins to prosper, your outer life, your health prospers, your provision prospers, your influence prospers, and uh because all the inside, your soul's prosper. See, we still trying to work out the outside. And you're not going to be successful working out the outside until you work out the inside.

Inside. Inside flourishing. Inside prosperity. My will and emotions on the inside. And then you LOOK AT THE OUTSIDE. YOUR OUTSIDE TELLS THE TRUTH about your inside. JUST LIKE YOUR HARVEST tells the truth about your seed. And we don't want TO DO THAT. OH, YES, BROTHER DOLLAR, I HEAR YOU.

AND YOU STILL DESIRE TO flourish outside while you ignore inside. Ignore your emotions. Ignore your will. Ignore your mind. Ignore a soul that lines up with the finished works of Jesus. A soul that lines up with the gospel of Jesus Christ. So, IT SOUNDS TO ME LIKE COMING TO CHURCH AIN'T GOING TO BE ENOUGH TO TO GET ME WHERE I need to be.

COMING TO CHURCH IS WHERE WHERE you receive something so so you CAN GET BUILT UP. YOU'RE HERE TO GET BUILT UP. I'M GIVING YOU STUFF TO BUILD YOU UP. THEN YOU TAKE THE STUFF I GAVE YOU TO BUILD YOU UP AND YOU GO HOME AND YOU START WORSHIPING GOD WITH THE STUFF that I gave you to build you up.

YOU START APPLYING IT IN YOUR LIFE. YOU start working it in your your getting up life, your everyday life, your going to work life, your relationships and fellowship with folks life. I uh I am not ashamed of how God has made me whole and prospered me. I'M NOT ASHAMED OF IT.

I will never be ashamed of it. WHY? BECAUSE DID YOU KNOW THE BIBLE SAYS IN 1 TIMOTHY, he he gave instructions to rich Christians. Oh, you shocked about that because all I ever hear is what you think about these preachers going around uh uh in in these cars and flying these airplanes and living in these cars.

What? BECAUSE THEY THINK SOMEWHERE IN THE BIBLE THERE'S SOME instruction that says if you're driving this this nice car, downgrade to this. And if you're living in this house, downgrade to that. And if you're doing this, downgrade that. It doesn't exist in the Bible. Nowhere. It doesn't exist in THE BIBLE.

NOWHERE. BUT WHAT DOES exist in the Bible is if you are a rich Christian, here's the character you're supposed to have. And 1 Timothy 6 says if you are rich Christian, make sure that you are not arrogant. Make sure that you understand that the stuff you have have is not your source, but it's resources.

And make sure that you are generous to other people where they're doing. I KNOW YOU'RE TALKING TO RICH CHRISTIANS CUZ WICKED CHRISTIANS AIN'T THINKING ABOUT Y'ALL. SO, DON'T YOU DARE BE ASHAMED OF YOUR INSIDE PRODUCING ON THE OUTSIDE. SO, WE LOVE PREACHING stuff that gossip is famous for, but it still ain't in the word.

It ain't in the word. Well, you ought to be you need to be like Jesus. Oh, I'm glad you brought that up. Because according to the word, Jesus wasn't poor. What does a poor man need with a treasurer? What? To keep up with his lit? Well, Jesus was poor cuz I remember when when they did he was homeless.

Where you get that from? Oh, you don't know how to read again. Oh, so what happened was Jesus and his disciples went through this village. And they did not like the Jews. Samaritans and Jews had a racial issue. And they would not let him stay. And and and Jesus said foxes have holes in this village.

Birds of the air have a nest in this village, but the son of man has nowhere to lay his head in this village. Keep reading. That's why we're going to the next village. It didn't mean that he was homeless. See we just WE JUST TAKE STUFF THAT SOMEBODY FED US.

AND NOW YOU WALKING AROUND WELL, Jesus was poor. If Jesus was so poor, then probably he wouldn't be able to he would not have been able to afford any kind of nice clothes. But the Bible says his clothes was so nice that it was woven just one one one What do you call them thing?

From from the top to the bottom. Seam, right? It it seam, yeah. And just And And And And And when they when they stripped and got ready to to to to to to to persecute him, the Bible says his clothes was so nice they split them. And they cast lots to see who would get it.

Ain't nobody doing that for no rags. See, if Jesus was poor, then you need to quit your job and move under the bridge so you can be like Jesus. Let me leave alone. Yeah, but he who was rich became poor so that we who are poor might become rich.

Well, why are you still poor? That ain't what he talking about. See, our mind is so zeroed in on the financial piece that we're not understanding that the greatness of what God's trying to do in our life is trying to be us get us to be flourishing and be a whole and prosperous on the inside and what's on the inside works as well on the outside.

Now, I'm not I'm not promising everybody they're going to be a millionaire, but I'm promising you that God will supply all of your needs according to His riches and glory through and by Christ Jesus because you're in a relationship and not a transactional relationship. It's on A RELATION.

YOU WANT JESUS CUZ YOU WANT JESUS. YOU DON'T WANT JESUS BECAUSE OF WHAT HE CAN GIVE YOU. HE'S ALREADY GIVEN YOU ENOUGH. HE SAVED YOU, SANCTIFIED YOU, FILLED WITH YOU WITH THE HOLY GHOST. YOU WANT JESUS CUZ YOU YOU JESUS. HEY, I WANT JESUS CUZ HE WOKE ME UP THIS MORNING.

HEY, I WANT JESUS CUZ HE HEALED ME WHEN I NEEDED TO BE HEALED. HEY, I WANT JESUS CUZ HE SUPPLIED ALL MY NEEDS ACCORDING TO HIS RICHES AND GLORY. HEY, I WANT JESUS CUZ HE GAVE ME PEACE AND I FELL ASLEEP LAST NIGHT. THANK YOU JESUS, I CAN SLEEP 7 OR 8 HOURS.

THAT'S WHY I WANT JESUS. I WANT HIM BECAUSE HE'S GOOD. I DON'T HAVE TO BE GOOD TO GET HIS GOODNESS. I GET HIS GOODNESS CUZ HE ALREADY GOOD. APOLOGIES FOR ALL OF THE SCREAMING. Your outer life, your health, your provision, and your influence begins to reflect the wholeness that's within you.

So, in short, let me put it like this and then I'll get started with the sermon today. According to the New Testament, soul prosperity is the healthy condition of your inner life. According to the New Testament, soul prosperity is the healthy condition of your inner life. It is your mind renewed by truth.

It is your emotions governed by peace. It is your It is It is It is your will aligned with God's grace. And then out of that flows prosperity and wholeness in every other area of your life. That's how that works. That's how that works. Now, I want to deal now with the soul health body connection.

The soul body connection. You need to know the will of God for your life. So, when things are not working like this, then you need to examine what you're doing. What you doing? THAT'S THE DEVIL THAT MADE ME SICK. It might be you. Now, regardless of what's going on, Jesus can heal you.

But, why he keep healing you and you keep going back? You're leaving the wisdom in the sickness. You You're leaving the wisdom behind. ALL THREE OF THOSE PHYSICAL ATTACKS ON MY body came as a result of one thing. The common denominator was stress. I should have been CASTING A LOT MORE CARE OVER ON HIM.

BUT, I kept a lot of it on me. And I LET THE CHURCH FOLK RENT SPACE IN MY MIND. I DON'T DO that no more. I love you. I ain't mad with you, but I have got me some boundaries up so I can finish what God called me to do.

I ain't got TIME TO BE FOOLING AROUND ALL THAT. I AIN'T RESPONDING TO ALL I AIN'T DOING ALL THAT because that's the stuff that tried to take me out. Stress raising cortisol levels raising high blood pressure. And I got the nerve to say the devil? BECAUSE I LIKE ICE CREAM?

NOW, YOU DO YOU. I'M GOING TO FINISH THIS AND YOU DO YOU. GO BACK, GET YOUR ICE CREAM, GET YOUR SOUL FOOD FULL OF GREASE AND DO ALL THAT. THAT'S DO YOU, BUT I'M GOING TO AT LEAST TELL YOU AND THEN you do whatever you want to do.

I'm tired of this blaming the devil and not accepting responsibility for how you govern your life on a day-to-day basis. It's going to be quiet in here tonight, ain't it? There is a link between our souls. That's why they call it That's why we call it soul food.

Soul food. My My older sister cook a pot of yams that's out of this world. Cat cook Kathy cook some yams. And then one day I had an opportunity to see what was in it. More white sugar I ever seen. I got to be more careful. And man, I don't forget if it was half his dad or mom used to cook some biscuits.

And then I realized what they I didn't even know they used You had to use lard to cook biscuits? And my soul wanted that sugar. That's what I'm talking about right now. AND YOUR SOUL smelling biscuits right now. There ain't no biscuits nowhere. Your soul smelling biscuits. COLLARD GREENS WITH HAM HOCKS.

THAT'S what I'm talking ABOUT. HALLELUJAH. NOW, YOU DO YOU. DO WHAT YOU WANT TO DO CUZ YOU'RE NOT GOING TO YOU'RE NOT GOING TO YOU'RE YOU'RE GOING TO DO WHAT YOU WANT TO DO ANYWAY. I REALIZE THAT. I KNOW YOU HAVE TWO THINGS I ALREADY KNOW. YOU'RE GOING TO DO WHAT YOU WANT TO DO.

SO, WE ALREADY KNOW THAT. SO, HEAR ME. JUST LISTEN. TEAR OUT OF YOUR NOTEBOOK WHEN YOU WHEN I dismiss. There's a link between our souls and our bodies. To the extent our souls our soul our soul itself prospers, to that same extent our body is healed. So, my healing and my and my body and my health is going to be related to my soul.

Traumas and stresses from the past can hurt your health. Traumas and stresses from the past can hurt can can can mess your health up. And I'm even talking to people who think, well, you know, I'm healthy. I take all the vitamins in the world, but you stressed out.

Your your your cortisol's high. YOU THEM VITAMINS AIN'T DOING NOTHING for you. Ain't doing nothing for you cuz your your cells are so closed. IT AIN'T GETTING IN THERE. YOU AIN'T GETTING NOTHING. YOU AIN'T GOT NO PEACE. You think it's cuz you exercise and take all of the right stuff and take 100 pills a day that you healthy and you don't sleep until after 1:00.

That's bad. And and and and you and you got stressed out. And every time somebody say something your approval addiction cause you to take that same stress home with you and you YOU DON'T UNDERSTAND HOW HOW HOW HOW awesome it is to be able to have peace. I don't like I DON'T LIKE TO LEAVE STUFF IN CONVERSATIONS NO MORE.

You're going to say something to me? You You pray about what you're going TO SAY CUZ I AIN'T TAKING IT HOME WITH ME. I ain't going home talking about what I should have said and what I could have said. You know how we how we how we go home and we we we nurse it, then we rehearse it instead of dispersing it.

I ain't doing all that, man. I I got to subdue when I get home. So, I'm going to say it right then so I ain't got to think about it no more. I ain't doing that. I got to SLEEP AND I AIN'T GOING TO BE STANDING UP AT AT at 1:00 in the morning because I have rent space in my mind TO YOUR DRAMA.

WELL, YOU'RE A PASTOR. YOU'RE SUPPOSED TO LISTEN. WHERE DID THAT IN THE BIBLE? I AIN'T LISTENING TO NONE OF THAT. YOU HAVE THE SAME ACCESS TO GOD THROUGH PRAYER AS I HAVE. I'M NOT TAKING ALL YOUR STUFF ON MY SHOULDER CUZ I'M THE PASTOR. THAT'S ALL RIGHT, LET'S look at this connection.

Go to Proverbs chapter 16 verse 24. We got to deal with the traumas and the stresses from the past because the traumas and the stresses can hurt your health. Homelessness is traumatic. Being rejected by a father you never met is traumatic. Regardless if you've been trained to say, "Ain't nothing wrong with me."

No. See, you don't miss him until you go to school and see everybody else's dad and you wonder, "Well, where where am I? Well, what I do?" Proverbs 16:24 says this, "Pleasant words are as a honeycomb, sweet to the soul and health to the bones." Pleasant words impact your soul and your bones.

Wow. The prosperous soul body connection. When your soul is at peace and flourishing, it can positively affect your physical health. He says, "I I I pray that you prosper and be in health." And I'm telling you when when when when you have peace, peace begins to flourish in your life.

It affects your physical body. Look at Proverbs 17:22. Proverbs 17:22. He says in verse 22, "A merry heart doth good like medicine." A merry heart DOTH GOOD GOOD LIKE MEDICINE. YOU HAVE BEEN AROUND PEOPLE WHO HAPPY AND FULL OF JOY? YOU FEEL BETTER, don't you? YOU HAVE BEEN AROUND FOLKS WHO WHO WHO WHO OPPOSITE?

BROKEN SPIRIT. ALWAYS GOT ISSUES. HEY, HOW YOU DOING TODAY? WELL, LET me tell you. Hang that phone up and higher the anointing of block. You got TO LEARN HOW TO DEAL WITH THESE HUMANS in this earth as you go through this human experience. You got to speak I have to speak the truth while I'm preaching to you because I love you.

So so I want you to listen to this now. In Proverbs 17:22, this shows how our emotions and your mental state can impact your health. Prosper your soul by focusing on things like gratitude. Being grateful. Don't focus on the fact that the big thing didn't happen. When the when the expected thing didn't happen, focus on the stuff that's already happened.

All right, they turned your loan down, so you can't GET THE HOUSE. FATHER, I AM GRATEFUL for the I I got a place to stay, Lord. Thank you, Lord, that I got a place to stay. I GOT LORD, I got curtains. GO GO AROUND THE HOUSE AND JUST START thanking God for all the stuff you got that you didn't used to have.

There's something that happens when contentment plus godliness comes together. But complaining wants to enter so you can remain the same. And then at the same time, it affects your emotions. Now all of a sudden you don't you What's wrong with you? Insecurity and all those stuff is all coming in to try to impact your health.

So start using gratitude. Right thinking. Use that. Feasting on the grace of God. Forgiveness. Forgiveness. You, when you walk around in unforgiveness, are being controlled by the person you have an alt against. They don't forgot about it. You still walking around in unforgiveness. Buppie's. You still walking around in unforgiveness.

You still walking around rehearsing it, nursing it, what I should have said, what I'm going to say it. What? And they in Miami somewhere drinking a pina colada. Ain't even ain't even thought about you. Ain't even doing that. Well, I tell you what, I don't I I don't I don't I don't really I don't really agree with with Pastor Dollar.

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