Zoe-Life....Your Words Matter!

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Welcome to A Word in Season with Doug Stringer and friends.

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We share good news and godly wisdom to empower you to be salt and light in every season of

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life.

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This podcast is taken from a March 2020 Cornerstone television interview where Doug shares a prophetic

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word about how the divine life of God connects to what we speak and why words matter.

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This is a prophetic exhortation for us today.

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Now let's join our host, Doug Stringer.

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You have been used to impact so many lives.

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Your genuine love for people and you really were there for them when they called out.

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So thank you for answering that care.

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But you're also very prophetic and God has given you a word for the body of Christ right

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now because it is definitely not time for the body to be asleep.

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But you talk about this Zoe life.

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What does that mean?

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Sure.

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Well let me just preface it with this because just recently I got a message from someone

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I was speaking at a gathering and a woman comes up, stands in line and says, I want

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to thank you.

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I said for what?

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She said, my husband, I was on the way home.

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I told him I heard you speak.

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He goes, Doug Stringer?

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Go back and tell him when I was 14 years old, he led me to the Lord.

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And today he's a worship leader and want to just thank the Lord for what God had done

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to plant a seed in his life.

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And so really everything we do, really Zoe life is about the divine life of God.

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We speak, we represent, we exemplify the kingdom, the life of God into a circumstance of families,

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communities, our nation, our generation.

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It's the life of God and we need a tangible expression of that in all that we do say and

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think to bring glory to the Lord.

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But Zoe, months ago in 2019, I have two prayer times every morning.

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My first is my horizontal prayer time where I just thank the Lord for things, don't ask

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him for anything.

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And I have my earplugs in because I had an early morning meeting and so I wanted to sleep

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in until it was time to get up.

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And I felt like my wife was near me when I was doing my first prayer time and laying

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back and just thanking the Lord.

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With my earplugs I hear Zoe.

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I know the word Zoe really is properly pronounced Zoe, but we all usually say Zoe in our vernacular.

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So I thought my wife was trying to wake me up.

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I pulled my earplugs out and said, what?

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And she wasn't there, but I felt the presence of the Lord.

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Now I know we can get really strange about things like that, but I really felt like the

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Lord says, I really want you to go back into my word and hear what I'm trying to tell you.

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So the next few days I share with my staff and my wife and I felt like the Lord was saying

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it's time because Zoe or Zoe in Genesis and Revelation and all in between means the divine

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life of God, God life.

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And that we live in a time where a lot of things are being spoken and every word spoken

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has authority and power, be it positive or negative, blessing or cursing.

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And I felt like the Lord said it's time to speak my divine life into families, into situations,

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into individuals, even into our generation, into our nation with all the divisiveness.

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Don't speak my life, represent my life and don't speak the things that the father of

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the world would try to present.

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And as I began to process that again, I also went to Ezekiel 37 and Acts 20 because it

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talks about the za'o which comes along with Zoe.

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Za'o is when we have the divine life of God, the Zoe or the Zoe, we have his divine life.

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Now we have his authority in scripture to prophesy or speak into the life of God, which

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is the za'o.

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So we look at Ezekiel 37, the dry bones.

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Well then he says, now I want you to look at those dry bones and I want you to speak

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into it and prophesy the life of God, God life.

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We look at Acts 20 when Eudicus is on the third floor of the building around the word

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of God, listening to the word of God, listening to the apostle and yet he falls asleep into

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a deep slumber and falls off the third story to his death.

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So the apostle goes down and what does he do?

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He speaks the za'o.

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He speaks the life and breath of God back into him.

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And I really felt like the Lord was saying that many times we can be in church, we can

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grow up in the church, we can be around the things of God, we can worship God, talk about

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the things of God, but we go into a deep slumber.

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It's a time, I believe, for the church to awaken from our slumber and get a fresh revelation

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and an anointing of the presence of God so we can speak the life of God and prophesy

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the breath of God into our nation.

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So there were three things with this zoe life that if I want to apply this to my life.

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The first one?

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Pull down strongholds.

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Okay.

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Pull down strongholds or vain imaginations.

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So a lot of lies we listen to out there's a lot of noise pollution.

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So first and foremost we have to get back into God's word so we know how to pull down

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the lies or the vain imaginations that exalts stuff against the knowledge of God.

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So we need God's mind, God's heart and to do that we need to stay in his word.

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And the second thing is that we also need, well we also besides speaking the zoe life,

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we need to fix our gaze on the Lord.

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You know when you think of an eagle he has kind of two eyelids, right?

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So when he needs to be strengthened to get above the storm clouds, he actually gets above

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by fixing his gaze on the brightness of the sun.

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We as Christians need to get above the gaze of the storms of life and fix our gaze on

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the brightness of the sun, the sun of God.

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And I believe it's time to fix our gaze, get our perspective right so that we can then

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thirdly speak life into every situation.

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Individuals are going through struggles into our families, speaking the life of God over

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our marriages, speaking the life of God over our children, speaking the life of God over

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our nation because the church is so divided because of the political divisiveness.

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We need to start speaking the life of God back in so the church is awakened and the

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heart is awakened to change the soul of a nation.

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Yes.

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We need to tackle these Ten Commandments.

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Are they still applicable for today and what is this with covetousness that God has revealed

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to you?

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Well you know that really covetousness, the Tenth Commandment, I believe there's a lot

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of pain and tragedy because we haven't really honored the Ten Commandments.

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And I'm not talking about a legalistic representation of the letter of the law.

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We're free from the letter but when you love someone you desire to walk in relationship.

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So the Tenth Commandment, thou shalt not covet, don't covet your wife or your neighbor's wife

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or anything about your neighbor.

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And I think so often because of the lust of power, the lust of the eye, the lust of the

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flesh we have caused so much damage and pain not just in our own lives but in those that

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we begin to covet.

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So I think it's time for us to get back to the place of not leaving a string of tragedy

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but getting back to the place of God's perspective, God's heart, a renewed consecration, need

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time with vertical worship.

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So the presence of God brings us, as it says in Isaiah 60, rise, shine for the glory of

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the Lord has come, has risen upon us.

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We need to get back to the presence of God that dispels all darkness because He's an

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equalizer where we're in the presence of a Holy God.

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Yes, I just feel the Holy Spirit, He is all over you, He's flowing out of you and I would

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love for you to just release that anointing to those viewers that are watching because

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now is the time we've got to wake up.

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Well Father in the name of Jesus, I just want to take the authority you give us according

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to your word, character, nature and spirit to look at each and everyone right now that

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is watching this program, those that they will even have influence over.

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And I want to speak the Zoe, the Zoe life of God.

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God I speak your divine life because your word, character, nature and spirit are in

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agreement.

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We thank you Lord that there's nothing too difficult for you and that when things and

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circumstances come we can keep our perspective to look beyond our storms that we're going

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through and fix our gaze and our eyes on the promises of God that are yes and amen.

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God you have a future of good and not of evil for those who seek after you.

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I thank you Lord right now as I speak into the lives of those who are going through marriage

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struggles, going through physical ailments or even like me a few years ago going through

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lymphoma cancer, stage four cancer.

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God I speak into that because you've given us by your divine life the Zoe of God, you've

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given us the Zao, the ability to speak into life, into people, into marriages, into circumstances

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and I speak that over the church as a whole that we have individual heart awakening for

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a corporate church awakening to impact the soul of our nation and impact this generation

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because there's nothing, nothing, nothing that is too difficult for you.

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All kingdoms authorities are made to through for and by you.

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God I think they rest upon your shoulders and I thank you that your authority comes

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into your people that dispels all darkness and brings healing, salvation, deliverance,

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freedom and liberty Lord.

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Your word says in Galatians 5 stand fast therefore in the liberty where Christ has set us free

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and be no longer entangled in the yokes of bondage.

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God I thank you that we're free, we're free, we're free, we're liberated because you're

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the master of breakthroughs so I thank you Lord right now over every individual watching,

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every marriage, every situation, every circumstance that there's nothing too difficult for you.

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I speak into our hearts God, I speak into lives and I prophesy the breath of God into

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those impossible situations in Jesus name, in Jesus name amen and amen.

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