Make The Switch

One prayer we are taught to pray is "not my will your will"....

We can look in the scripture and SEE what God's will is.

Large crowds came and brought many people who were paralyzed or blind or lame or unable to talk. They placed them, and many others, in front of Jesus, and he healed them all.

Matthew 15:30 CEV

Make the switch from "if" to "I know"

When it comes to addictions a lot of the time people will say they are willing to bear "that cross" when they are really giving in to their carnal nature.

He suffered and endured great pain for us, but we thought his suffering was punishment from God.    He was wounded and crushed because of our sins; by taking our punishment, he made us completely well.

Isaiah 53:4‭-‬5 CEV

After being in the wilderness for all of those years no one was sick.

He also brought them out with silver and gold, And there  was none feeble among His tribes.

Psalms 105:37 NKJV

Jehovah Rapha

No one wants you as a friend or cares what happens to you. But I will heal your injuries, and you will get well.

Jeremiah 30:17 CEV

Pray from a place of faith and victory. It's difficult to have faith if you don't think it's something God wants to do.

Let us therefore come boldly to the throne of grace, that we may obtain mercy and find grace to help in time of need.

Hebrews 4:16 NKJV

Remind God of what he said.

A man with leprosy came to Jesus and knelt down. He begged, “You have the power to make me well, if only you wanted to.”  Jesus felt sorry for the man. So he put his hand on him and said, “I want to! Now you are well.” At once the man's leprosy disappeared, and he was well.

Mark 1:40‭-‬42 CEV

When you know He is an "I want to God" you'll pray bold prayers

Leprosy was contagious, lepers were supposed to walk around yelling "unclean" so that others won't touch them...but Jesus put his hand on him!

God may use sickness but he doesn't send it.

If you then, being evil, know how to give good gifts to your children, how much more will your Father who is in heaven give good things to those who ask Him!

Matthew 7:11 NKJV

Don't take possession of sickness. It's not yours...there is no sickness in Heaven for the Lord to hand out.

Or do you not know that your body is the temple of the Holy Spirit who  is in you, whom you have from God, and you are not your own? For you were bought at a price; therefore glorify God in your body and in your spirit, which are God’s.

I Corinthians 6:19‭-‬20 NKJV

You are not a sick person trying to get well; you are a well person fighting off sickness. You are not an addicted person, trying to break free; You are a free person fighting addiction.

So ought not this woman, being a daughter of Abraham, whom Satan has bound—think of it—for eighteen years, be loosed from this bond on the Sabbath?”

Luke 13:16 NKJV

She was called a daughter of Abraham because that meant she had special privileges, likewise we are children of the most high God

Lakewood was born out of Pastor John and Mama Dodie's switch as they believed Lisa would be healed from a birth injury. Until then Pastor John believed sickness was the will of God then he read this:

Pray for us; for we are confident that we have a good conscience, in all things desiring to live honorably.

Hebrews 13:18 NKJV

John's sister Mary.

Then Moses went up from the plains of Moab to Mount Nebo, to the top of Pisgah, which is across from Jericho. And the Lord showed him all the land of Gilead as far as Dan,

Deuteronomy 34:1 NKJV

God told moses to climb a mountain to die. You would think that Moses might not have been able to do that at 120 but he was not frail or failing in sight.

Moses was one hundred and twenty years old when he died. His eyes were not dim nor his natural vigor diminished.

Deuteronomy 34:7 NKJV

We can go out still climbing mountains.

-Jeniro on the go!

A Fresh New Attitude

Pastor Joel at Lakewood Church

1. Your attitude can have a greater impact on your success than your IQ. If you don’ have the right attitude, then you may be stopped from rising higher.
2. Work on the inside.
1. We spend a lot of time and money making sure we look good on the outside
2. nice clothes, a pretty face, and good makeup can’t hide an ugly inside.
1. Pastor Joel had a crush on a pretty girl. When he finally got the nerve to talk to her she had a bad attitude and he never
3. Put on a new attitude
1. Colossians 3:12-14
1. So, chosen by God for this new life of love, dress in the wardrobe God picked out for you: compassion, kindness, humility, quiet strength, discipline. Be even-tempered, content with second place, quick to forgive an offense. Forgive as quickly and completely as the Master forgave you. And regardless of what else you put on, wear love. It’s your basic, all-purpose garment. Never be without it.
2. A resume describes a person’s qualifications but interviews are scheduled to learn about the person’s attitude.
4. You attitude will determine your aptitude.
1. Live nose up
1. The attitude indicator (AI), formerly known as the gyro horizon or artificial horizon, is a flight instrument that informs the pilot of the aircraft orientation relative to Earth's horizon, and gives an immediate indication of the smallest orientation change…Attitude indicators are also used on manned spacecraft and are called Flight Director Attitude Indicators (FDAI), where they indicate the craft's yaw angle (nose left or right), pitch (nose up or down), roll, and orbit relative to a fixed-space inertial reference frame from an Inertial Measurement Unit (IMU).
1. We can all control our attitude.
2. You have to have a good attitude on purpose.
2. Small tweaks can cause a huge difference.
2. Isaiah 61:3
1. To appoint unto them that mourn in Zion, to give unto them beauty for ashes, the oil of joy for mourning, the garment of praise for the spirit of heaviness; that they might be called trees of righteousness, the planting of the LORD, that he might be glorified.
2. If you wear the same clothes everyday you’ll develop an odor and no one will want to be around you. So you have to put on a fresh new attitude daily.
3. Ephesians 4:23
1. You were taught, with regard to your former way of life, to put off your old self, which is being corrupted by its deceitful desires; 23 to be made new in the attitude of your minds; 24 and to put on the new self, created to be like God in true righteousness and holiness.
5. Examples
1. Joseph (Genesis 37)
1. Joseph’s prestigious position, his riches, his relationship with the high level society had corrupted neither his character nor his integrity. He remained faithful to God regardless of the season where he found himself. Either as a privileged son, Potiphar’s slave, a prisoner or the Prime Minister of Egypt, we can recognize this godly man by his blameless attitude. When facing injustice, Joseph demonstrates grace and walks the second mile. Not only, does he reassure his brothers of his good intentions towards them but in addition, he commits himself to take care of their families and lets God be his judge. What was supposed to destroy and discourage Joseph, has actually initiated his journey towards his destiny.
2. Dirty Laundry
1. A young couple moves into a new neighborhood. The next morning while they are eating breakfast, the young woman sees her neighbor hanging the wash outside.“That laundry is not very clean,” she said. “She doesn’t know how to wash correctly. Perhaps she needs better laundry soap.”Her husband looked on, but remained silent.Every time her neighbor would hang her wash to dry, the young woman would make the same comments.About one month later, the woman was surprised to see nice clean wash on the line and said to her husband: “Look, she has learned how to wash correctly. I wonder who taught her this?”The husband said, “I got up early this morning and cleaned our windows.”And so it is with life. What we see when watching others depends on the purity of the window through which we look.
1. Titus 1:15
1. To the pure, all things are pure, but to those who are corrupted and do not believe, nothing is pure. In fact, both their minds and consciences are corrupted.
6. Make up your mind to enjoy this day.
1. Matthew 5:45
1. that you may be children of your Father in heaven. He causes his sun to rise on the evil and the good, and sends rain on the righteous and the unrighteous.
2. Job
1. Job 19:25
1. I know that my redeemer[a] lives,and that in the end he will stand on the earth
3. Eagles
1. Their prey items include waterfowl and small mammals like squirrels, prairie dogs, raccoons and rabbits. Bald eagles are opportunistic predators meaning that in addition to hunting for live prey, they will steal from other animals (primarily from other eagles or smaller fish eating birds) or scavenge on carrion.
2. Isaiah 40:31
1. …but they who wait for the Lord shall renew their strength; they shall mount up with wings like eagles; they shall run and not be weary; they shall walk and not faint.
4. Unclog Your Heart
1. A large clot can partially or completely block the flow of blood through the artery (NHLBI, 2012b). If treatment isn't done immediately after a heart attack, many patients will need to undergo coronary angioplasty or coronary artery bypass graft surgery (CABG) later to improve blood supply to the heart muscle. 
1. Proverbs 4:23
1. Above all else, guard your heart, for everything you do flows from it.

If Pots Could Talk

Nick Nilson @ Lakewood Church

Isaiah 64:8-12

Still, God, you are our Father.    We’re the clay and you’re our potter:    All of us are what you made us.Don’t be too angry with us, O God.    Don’t keep a permanent account of wrongdoing.    Keep in mind, please, we are your people—all of us.Your holy cities are all ghost towns:    Zion’s a ghost town,    Jerusalem’s a field of weeds.Our holy and beautiful Temple,    which our ancestors filled with your praises,Was burned down by fire,    all our lovely parks and gardens in ruins.In the face of all this,    are you going to sit there unmoved, God?Aren’t you going to say something?    Haven’t you made us miserable long enough?

1 Potters shapes us all and designs us for different purposes.
All pots start from clay, but before their condition could change, their position had to change.
We come to Jesus as we are.

Comfort is overrated. The potter presses you, molds you and wedges thing out of your life. It's not always comfortable. Sometimes you feel like you're spinning out of control. Don't fight against everything that makes you uncomfortable God may be using those things to shape you.

Drink the water. Ephesians 5:26: hat He might sanctify and cleanse her with the washing of water by the word. Always respond with the Word.

Comparison Kills. Don't spend your time wishing that you were like another pot. The potter made me and I'm a masterpiece just as I am.

Romans 9:21-33 Who in the world do you think you are to second-guess God? Do you for one moment suppose any of us knows enough to call God into question? Clay doesn’t talk back to the fingers that mold it, saying, “Why did you shape me like this?” Isn’t it obvious that a potter has a perfect right to shape one lump of clay into a vase for holding flowers and another into a pot for cooking beans? If God needs one style of pottery especially designed to show his angry displeasure and another style carefully crafted to show his glorious goodness, isn’t that all right? Either or both happens to Jews, but it also happens to the other people.

A vase is pretty but when it's time to eat you'll hope that there's a pot for beans. Imagine a house without a garbage can.

Galatians 5:25-26 Since this is the kind of life we have chosen, the life of the Spirit, let us make sure that we do not just hold it as an idea in our heads or a sentiment in our hearts, but work out its implications in every detail of our lives. That means we will not compare ourselves with each other as if one of us were better and another worse. We have far more interesting things to do with our lives. Each of us is an original.

Philippians 1:6 And I am certain that God, who began the good work within you, will continue his work until it is finally finished on the day when Christ Jesus returns.

Ephesians 2:10 For we are His workmanship, created in Christ Jesus for good works, which God prepared beforehand that we should walk in them.

The clay's job is to stay on the wheel.

Pastor Craig's Exhortation
God can use whatever you have in your hand.
It's not what you have in your hand but whose hand is working in your life.


Exodus 4:1-5
Moses objected, “They won’t trust me. They won’t listen to a word I say. They’re going to say, ‘God? Appear to him? Hardly!’”2 So God said, “What’s that in your hand?”“A staff.”3 “Throw it on the ground.” He threw it. It became a snake; Moses jumped back—fast!4-5 God said to Moses, “Reach out and grab it by the tail.” He reached out and grabbed it—and he was holding his staff again. “That’s so they will trust that God appeared to you, the God of their fathers, the God of Abraham, the God of Isaac, and the God of Jacob.”

Exodus 17:6-7
God said to Moses, “Go on out ahead of the people, taking with you some of the elders of Israel. Take the staff you used to strike the Nile. And go. I’m going to be present before you there on the rock at Horeb. You are to strike the rock. Water will gush out of it and the people will drink.”6-7 Moses did what he said, with the elders of Israel right there watching. He named the place Massah (Testing-Place) and Meribah (Quarreling) because of the quarreling of the Israelites and because of their testing of God when they said, “Is God here with us, or not?”

Faithful in Routine

Faithful in Routine

There are times in our lives when we feel like we’re going around in circles. Be faithful when nothing new is happening. It’s easy to be our best when were getting good breaks. When you’re faithful in the routine something is happening that you can see. Your spiritual muscles are being developed. When God can trust you to be faithful in average days then you will exceptional days. Sometimes we’re frustrated because we know that we have more in us. You may be dealing with something mediocre

1. David
1. Anointed to be the king then sent back to the shepherd’s fields for months then sent into may unfair situations.
2. Your anointing will supersede what you're doing right now.
3. David didn’t slack off
1. He showed what he was made of even when no one was watching.
2. Ordinary days of being his best led him to the thrown
3. You won’t see promotion if you aren’t being your best where you are now.
2. Heroes of the Faith
1. Most of their life was routine.
2. There will be more ordinary days than there are exciting days.
1. Learn to enjoy the ordinary days.
2. You’ll be miserable if you’re sitting around waiting for the next big thing
3. Psalm 118:24
1. This is the day the Lord has made;We will rejoice and be glad in it.
3. God uses the circumstances to change us
1. Stop waiting for the circumstances to change
4. God is the Potter
1. Isaiah 64:98
1. Yet you, LORD, are our Father. We are the clay, you are the potter; we are all the work of your hand.
2. Potter’s Wheel
1. A device with a rotating horizontal disk upon which clay is molded by a potter.
2. Like that clay we are being formed from a lump of clay to a beautiful vase
3. The spinning is working for my good.
4. Sometimes it seems like things are spinning out of control but it will work to my advantage.
1. Romans 8:28— And we know that in all things God works for the good of those who love him, who[a] have been called according to his purpose.
5. City of Jericho
1. Joshua 6
6. God has explosive blessings.
1. Psalm 18:29—In your strength I can crush an army; with my God I can scale any wall.
2. Psalm 110:1—The Lord said to my Lord,[a] “Sit in the place of honor at my right hand until I humble your enemies,    making them a footstool under your feet.”
7. Don’t Negative Talk
1. You can do the right thing with the wrong attitude
8. Indian Migrant Example
1. Traveled to the US to go to Bible College
1. Tried to mow lawns for money with no luck
2. Ate out of dumpsters
3. Finally got a job at the Bible School
4. Forced to leave the school when he fell in love with a white student
5. Married the lady graduated from someone else
6. Ended up being the president of that very school
2. Obstacles
1. Circumstances put him at a disadvantage
2. Lost his promised support
9. Sometimes you’ll be overlooked.
1. Abilities will be unnoticed
2. If you’re not faithful when you’re hidden
1. Exodus 2:1-2—Now a man of the tribe of Levi married a Levite woman, and she became pregnant and gave birth to a son. When she saw that he was a fine child, she hid him for three months.
3. Exodus 2:3—But when she could hide him no longer, she got a papyrus basket for him and coated it with tar and pitch. Then she placed the child in it and put it among the reeds along the bank of the Nile.
1. Moses went from being hidden to being noticed by the most influential family in the area.
10. Jesus Changes Water Into Wine
1. They ran out of wine
2. Jesus told them to fill six stone water jars (30 gallons each) with water
1. The Ordinary: Pumping Water
2. It would have been easy to have faith if as they were filling the jars it immediately turned into wine.
3. You may be believing for wine but all you see is water.

Prayer Exhortation

Let's Be Believers and Not Doubters

• 2017 is My year of Yes
• Psalms 112:4
• When darkness overtakes the godly, light will come bursting in. They are generous, compassionate, and righteous.
• Don't use your faith in reverse. It takes just as much energy to believe as it does to be negative.

Victoria’s Exhortation

Keep Your Heart free from offense.

1. You start to spend your energy on things that don’t matter. Don’t take the bait.
1. Everyone will be offended.As long as you’re here offense will come. Someone is going to say something that we don’t understand. It’s one thing when it’s the people around you but now people not even in your life can offend you since everyones opinion can go public.
2. Offense is Bait
1. skandalon: a stick for bait (of a trap), generally a snare, a stumbling block, an offense
1. Original Word: σκάνδαλον, ου, τό
2. Part of Speech: Noun, Neuter
3. Transliteration: skandalon
4. Phonetic Spelling: (skan'-dal-on)
5. Short Definition: a snare, stumbling-block
1. Definition: a snare, stumbling-block, cause for error.
2. Don’t Swallow it
1. Spending all of our time directing what people say is a waste of time.
3. You have to learn to drop it and let it go. 
4. Carpet Spot Remover
1. The longer a spot stays there the harder it takes to get it off.
2. It’s the same way with offense.
5. Scripture References
1. Proverbs 19:11
1. Sensible people control their temper they earn respect by overlooking wrongs.
2. 1 Peter 2:23
1. When they hurled their insults at him, he did not retaliate; when he suffered, he made no threats. Instead, he entrusted himself to him who judges justly.
1. Jesus knew that other people’s opinions don’t have to affect you.
6. Jesus slipped through the fingers of offense.
1. Luke 4:28-30 28 
1. When they heard this, the people in the synagogue were furious. 29 Jumping up, they mobbed him and forced him to the edge of the hill on which the town was built. They intended to push him over the cliff, 30 but he passed right through the crowd and went on his way.
1. 2 Timothy 4:14
1. Alexander the coppersmith did me much harm, but the Lord will judge him for what he has done.
2. IF you ever feel that yucky feeling of offense in your mouth spit it out.

Your Destiny Is Calling

Pastor Joel @ Lakewood Church

1. God calls you what you are before you become it.
1. Genesis 17:5
1. No longer will you be called Abram; your name will be Abraham, for I have made you a father of many nations.
1. Abraham had no children
2. Abraham’s wife was passed traditional childbearing years.
2. 1 Samuel 13:14
1. But now thy kingdom shall not continue: the Lord hath sought him a man after his own heart, and the Lord hath commanded him to be captain over his people, because thou hast not kept that which the Lord commanded thee.
1. God told Samuel that he found a man after his own heart talking about the TEENAGER David.
2. God calls things that are not as if they already were.
2. There are promises that God has spoken over me.
1. Psalm 37:4
1. Delight yourself also in the Lord, and He will give you the desires and secret petitions of your heart.
1. The secret petitions of my heart are whispers from God telling me what I will become.
2. When God speaks something he is looking for someone who will agree with Him.
1. Human nature says when I see it I’ll believe it but faith says I’ll believe it until I see it.
2. When the odds are against me God calls me successful, prosperous, and the head!
3. God doesn’t call you what you are, he calls you what you will become.
1. John Osteen
1. Had to drop out of high school to help his parents on the farm. At 17 he accepted Christ, the first person in his family. He had a desire to become a pastor. He let the seed take root and started telling people that he was a Pastor. Even his family told him that all he could do is pick cotton.
1. Don’t count on your friends and family to cheer you on.
2. When you hear your destiny calling, that’s between you and God.
3. Don't be moved by who’s not cheering me on.
2. Me and God are a majority.
1. His promises are not dependent on anyone but me. 
2. Don’t talk yourself out of your blessings with your doubts
3. Zechariah
1. An angel appeared to Zechariah saying that he’d have a child. He was old and his wife Elizabeth was barren. Zechariah was doubtful
2. Luke 1:18-20
1. Zechariah said to the angel, “How can I be sure this will happen? I’m an old man now, and my wife is also well along in years.” Then the angel said, “I am Gabriel! I stand in the very presence of God. It was he who sent me to bring you this good news! But now, since you didn’t believe what I said, you will be silent and unable to speak until the child is born. For my words will certainly be fulfilled at the proper time.”
1. When you’ve been a certain way for a long time it’s hard to believe that you can be anything else.
2. Situations are only temporary.
3. God silenced Zechariah so he wouldn’t talk himself out of his victory.
1. Do yourself a favor and zip it up.
4. Don’t let people put labels on you
1. Luke 1:57-65
1. …They wanted to name him Zechariah, after his father. But Elizabeth said, “No! His name is John!” “What?” they exclaimed. “There is no one in all your family by that name.” So they used gestures to ask the baby’s father what he wanted to name him. He motioned for a writing tablet, and to everyone’s surprise he wrote, “His name is John.” Instantly Zechariah could speak again, and he began praising God.
1. Friends and Family came up with the best name. Sometimes well meaning people will try to “name your baby”. They will call you average, addicted, and other negative terms when your father has already called you something else. No one has the authority to name your future.
2. God changed Sarai’s name to Sarah so she’d know that she was a princess, a child of the Most High God!
5. Let go of Doubts and Latch on to His Promises
1. Sarah
1. Genesis 18:9-15
1. Then one of them said, “I will return to you about this time next year, and your wife, Sarah, will have a son!”Sarah was listening to this conversation from the tent. Abraham and Sarah were both very old by this time, and Sarah was long past the age of having children. So she laughed silently to herself and said, “How could a worn-out woman like me enjoy such pleasure, especially when my master—my husband—is also so old?”13 Then the Lord said to Abraham, “Why did Sarah laugh? Why did she say, ‘Can an old woman like me have a baby?’ Is anything too hard for the Lord? I will return about this time next year, and Sarah will have a son.”Sarah was afraid, so she denied it, saying, “I didn’t laugh.”But the Lord said, “No, you did laugh.”
1. Instead of latching on to a promise we are doubtful. Sarah laughed when she heard God’s promise of children.
2. God wouldn’t have given you a promise if he didn’t expect to bring it to pass.
2. Cheryl Prewitt Salem
1. The local milkman told a 5-year old Cheryl Prewitt that she would be Miss America one day. And so she was.Cheryl Prewitt walked the runway to become Miss America 1980, despite poverty, sexual abuse, a horrific car crash that resulted in a physical handicap and over 100 stitches in her face at age 11, and subsequent accident and fall that put a total of 200 stitches in her face by age 20 which have never been touched with plastic surgery. Prewitt was the first Miss America to have a platform, something she said the pageant now encouraged for all contestants. "I stood for God and country and putting the two back together."Ms. Prewitt entered - and lost - pageants for 5 years before winning the crown that would take her to Atlantic City. She won the Miss Starkville and Miss Mississippi titles in 1979, culminating in Miss America 1980.
6. Get Rid of the “Say Nots”
1. Jeremiah 1:5-7
1. “I knew you before I formed you in your mother’s womb.    Before you were born I set you apart    and appointed you as my prophet to the nations.”  “O Sovereign Lord,” I said, “I can’t speak for you! I’m too young!” The Lord replied, “Don’t say, ‘I’m too young,’ for you must go wherever I send you and say whatever I tell you. 8 And don’t be afraid of the people, for I will be with you and will protect you. I, the Lord, have spoken!” 9 Then the Lord reached out and touched my mouth and said,
1. It’s easy to come up with excuses.
2. God has already taken my circumstances into account.

Testimony Services Facilitated by Dr. Paul

Pastor Joel declared this as a year of acceleration. God wants to take you further and faster than you saying that God will open up doors of opportunity that will thrust me ahead. While believing, you have to do a few things

• Do your part.
• Get financial counseling and tithe.
• If you're volunteering and planted in the house of the Lord believe that you're going to flourish.
• Sometimes you have to pack your bags on faith.
• Dream Big

Ruby and Jose

Celebrated their 7th year anniversary. They struggled with their finances for the entire time until this year. After struggling and living pay check to pay check they decided they needed to change. So they reached out to the financial ministry and started tithing. Jose is now paid more money and he works less. They have a savings account. On June 6th the family took their very first family vacation to Colorado.

What am I expecting God for?

The Huertas

George worked in Heating and Air Conditioning for 15 years and he thought that is what he would do forever. Ruby prayed for the Lord to show them their purpose. One day George was playing around in the kitchen and his wife asked him what he was doing. George replied that he was making Mexican Gumbo. Super Bowl 2014, they saw a commercial announcing the Quest for Texas Best contest, which offers cash prizes and the opportunity to get small-batch, Texas-made food products on H-E-B store shelves. The couple entered the H-E-B contest and wound up among 25 finalists. They didn't win, but their Texas spin on traditional gumbo left enough of an impression with the grocery giant, that the company set them up with a co-packer to handle mass production, packaging and other major steps. George has since rededicated his life to Christ.

Kerry Smalls

Married with 8 kids. Worked in the railroad for 35 years. Been going to Lakewood for 12 years. 9 years ago he took his 2 year old to Kidslife but they were full so he had to take his two year old to service. Distracted by the antics of this 2 year old, he thought  “they really need more volunteers because he I can’t focus on the service”.  He decided to volunteer and has served with the 3-year-olds since then. His job transferred him to Chicago, and he flies back to Houston EVERY Friday to serve in Kidslife! He said that his move didn't change his calling, it just changed his commute. His daughter serves alongside him and his other kids are looking into ways to get involved. Several men at his job have started serving at their churches due to his example.

Brandon and Nana Funk

Dreaming to own a new home. So they started saving money and decided to sow into the acceleration ministry. They found a home that was above their budget but they saved it anyway. Meanwhile, they found other houses and were rejected. One day Brandon just decided to pack. Nana asked him what he was doing, and he said that he was "packing on faith" They prayed Amos 9:13 and in a few months that house they saved dropped 30%, well within their budget and they were able to move in with instant equity. Get your expectations up!

Amos 9:13

“The time will come,” says the Lord,“when the grain and grapes will grow faster    than they can be harvested.Then the terraced vineyards on the hills of Israel    will drip with sweet wine!