Is This God, Or Is This Me? | Jerry Flowers | Sermon Notes — Hello Pastor

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Is This God, Or Is This Me?

Time of Celebration Ministries Church • Aug 23, 2026 • 67 min

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Take this message with you through a journey of Scripture, reflection, and prayer.

Summary

In part 12 of the Voices series, Pastor Jerry Flowers teaches how to discern whether an internal voice or influence is coming from God or from self and the enemy. Hell uses amplified voices and media like a microphone to introduce spiritual confusion, divide our will, and obscure God's truth. By cultivating proximity to God through Scripture, intentional prayer, and continuous praise, believers can silence deception and confidently follow God's voice into their due season.

Themes

Hearing God's VoiceSpiritual DiscernmentSpiritual WarfareThe Power of PraiseBiblical Intelligence

Pastor's Points

1.

When it's God's voice, it gives you an assignment for His glory; when it's your voice, it gives you an assignment for your glory.

2.

When it's God's voice, it can seem impossible; when it's your voice, it traffics in logic, making you take the easiest route.

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When it's God's voice, it will be confirmed repeatedly; when it's your voice, it will be doubted repeatedly.

4.

When it's God's voice, it will serve God and His people; when it's your voice, it will serve you and your desires.

5.

God is never wrong.

Key Points

1.
Due season and spiritual harvest occur when our faithful obedience collides with God's divine timing.
2.
The enemy's primary weapon of spiritual mass destruction is a microphone—amplifying toxic, confusing, and heretical voices in our culture and minds.
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Satan operates through a demonic math equation: adding contradictory voices to subtract clarity, multiply chaos, divide our will from God's, and produce uncertainty.
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Believers often mislabel internal voices, mistaking fear for wisdom, unhealed trauma for personality, or personal desires for God's divine direction.
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Unaddressed emotional pain and bitterness create an open door for conflicting voices to dominate our internal self.
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The enemy selectively quotes and twists Scripture, omitting truths about his ultimate defeat to undermine a believer's spiritual authority.
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Rejoicing functions as a spiritual veto that displaces toxic voices such as despair, sorrow, hopelessness, and fear.
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Recognizing God's voice requires close proximity, and proximity to the Son determines our spiritual temperature and discernment.

Sermon Moments

“The spiritual weapon of mass destruction right now is a microphone, amplifying the voice of the spiritually ignorant and making heresy popular.”

“The devil uses a demonic math equation: add a voice, subtract clarity, multiply chaos, divide your will from the Holy Spirit, which equals uncertainty.”

“Unhealed trauma is not who you are; it is who you became due to who they were and what they did.”

“When pain is in your heart, it permits multiple toxic voices to speak at the microphone of your soul.”

“The enemy selectively quotes Scripture while leaving out the parts that declare his defeat and your authority.”

“Rejoicing is a spiritual weapon that vetoes toxic voices like despair, sorrow, and depression from the microphone of your soul.”

“Hearing God requires proximity, and your proximity to the Son determines your spiritual temperature.”

“It is hard to hear what God has to say when you have already determined what you want Him to say.”

This Week

Spend dedicated, unhurried time in prayer and reading the Bible daily before making decisions, ensuring you consult God first rather than doing second things first.

Audit the voices and media you consume daily, removing podcasts, songs, or influencers that amplify spiritual confusion, lust, or bitterness.

Identify areas where unhealed pain or past trauma has been mislabeled as your personality, and invite the Holy Spirit to heal those root wounds.

Practice immediate praise whenever negative emotions like despair, anxiety, or sadness attempt to take the microphone of your soul.

Test every inner prompt or idea against the whole counsel of Scripture to ensure it aligns with God's word rather than selective or twisted doctrine.

Examine your current goals to ensure your actions seek God's glory and serve others rather than promoting your own platform or desires.

Practice swift obedience when God prompts you to act, avoiding delay or overthinking so you can step into His timing and due season.

Remember This

Discerning God's voice requires intentional proximity to Him, biblical intelligence to spot twisted lies, and active praise to quiet competing voices in our soul.

A Challenge for You

Don't allow your current situation to mute your praise; choose to rejoice today, displace the enemy's noise, and let your desires and will align completely with the Holy Spirit.

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