1 00:00:00,800 --> 00:00:03,800 Speaker 1: Let us pray, and he brought the letter to the 2 00:00:03,880 --> 00:00:07,280 Speaker 1: King of Israel, saying, now when this letter is come 3 00:00:07,360 --> 00:00:11,480 Speaker 1: unto thee, behold, I have therewith sent Nayman, my servant 4 00:00:11,480 --> 00:00:15,000 Speaker 1: to thee, and thou mayst recover him of his leprosy. 5 00:00:16,400 --> 00:00:21,640 Speaker 1: Second Kings five six. Lord, we all long to have 6 00:00:21,680 --> 00:00:25,840 Speaker 1: your healing touch, to have provisions for all our needs 7 00:00:25,880 --> 00:00:29,760 Speaker 1: to come from you. But too often, when I cannot 8 00:00:29,840 --> 00:00:32,600 Speaker 1: see you or think you take too long to answer 9 00:00:32,640 --> 00:00:36,239 Speaker 1: my needs, I turn to other ways or people to 10 00:00:36,320 --> 00:00:41,320 Speaker 1: find healing in answer to my needs. Lord, why do 11 00:00:41,400 --> 00:00:43,720 Speaker 1: you wait so long at times to respond to my 12 00:00:43,840 --> 00:00:48,400 Speaker 1: requests for help? It's difficult when I have emergencies and 13 00:00:49,200 --> 00:00:53,519 Speaker 1: seems like you take your time to answer me. When 14 00:00:53,560 --> 00:00:56,080 Speaker 1: I wait on you, I think I may die or 15 00:00:56,240 --> 00:00:59,640 Speaker 1: fall apart, wander off to a god who will answer 16 00:00:59,640 --> 00:01:04,320 Speaker 1: me more quickly. As I continue to pray and try 17 00:01:04,360 --> 00:01:07,760 Speaker 1: to be patient, I hear your voice speak to my 18 00:01:07,880 --> 00:01:12,160 Speaker 1: heart about what you are doing in my waiting. When 19 00:01:12,200 --> 00:01:15,039 Speaker 1: I read your word, you say that your truth will 20 00:01:15,040 --> 00:01:18,520 Speaker 1: set me free. Does that mean you will heal my 21 00:01:18,640 --> 00:01:22,800 Speaker 1: disease or solve my problems? As I wait on you, 22 00:01:22,840 --> 00:01:26,319 Speaker 1: I feel your presence, and my faith grows to trust 23 00:01:26,400 --> 00:01:32,160 Speaker 1: you as you renew my strength to face life's difficulties. Lord, 24 00:01:32,240 --> 00:01:35,120 Speaker 1: I still long to see your miraculous power. Move on, 25 00:01:35,240 --> 00:01:39,360 Speaker 1: my behalf. I will wait for you as you make 26 00:01:39,440 --> 00:01:44,480 Speaker 1: me patient and I gain internal strength. Bless you, Lord, 27 00:01:44,920 --> 00:01:53,920 Speaker 1: my God, my King in Jesus Name. Amen. Thank you 28 00:01:54,040 --> 00:01:57,760 Speaker 1: for listening to today's daily prayer for more inspiration and 29 00:01:57,920 --> 00:02:01,320 Speaker 1: an incredible message from our feature path. Stay tuned to 30 00:02:01,360 --> 00:02:03,240 Speaker 1: pray dot COM's Sunday service. 31 00:02:11,560 --> 00:02:15,239 Speaker 2: What's up everyone, Michelle Jackson, So glad you're here listen. 32 00:02:15,320 --> 00:02:17,880 Speaker 2: Want to remind you to click the buttons below to 33 00:02:17,960 --> 00:02:21,440 Speaker 2: support this ministry, to share the message with a friend, 34 00:02:21,639 --> 00:02:24,840 Speaker 2: and to follow the platform. Let's get into today's message, 35 00:02:25,840 --> 00:02:28,720 Speaker 2: all right, So we're gonna be the Lord kind of 36 00:02:28,880 --> 00:02:31,120 Speaker 2: downloaded some things to me this week, and we're gonna 37 00:02:31,160 --> 00:02:34,160 Speaker 2: be in Second King's chapter four. So I'm gonna give 38 00:02:34,160 --> 00:02:36,120 Speaker 2: you a minute to get there, but I'm gonna be 39 00:02:36,200 --> 00:02:40,320 Speaker 2: ministering to you from the theme of the power of perseverance. 40 00:02:41,360 --> 00:02:44,960 Speaker 2: The power of perseverance, I believe Second King's Chapter four 41 00:02:45,360 --> 00:02:48,720 Speaker 2: is a prophetic picture of the bride of Christ or 42 00:02:48,760 --> 00:02:52,920 Speaker 2: the Church and Jesus Christ and we're gonna look at 43 00:02:53,160 --> 00:02:57,799 Speaker 2: the story of Elisha, the Double Portion prophet, and the Shuna, 44 00:02:57,880 --> 00:03:02,520 Speaker 2: my woman, and we're gonna look at their encounter and 45 00:03:02,600 --> 00:03:05,680 Speaker 2: what happened here. And we're going to see how the 46 00:03:05,760 --> 00:03:10,320 Speaker 2: Lord stirs us to place a demand upon him in 47 00:03:10,360 --> 00:03:13,360 Speaker 2: this season. I don't believe this is the time to 48 00:03:13,440 --> 00:03:18,640 Speaker 2: shrink back from the promises of God. He's called us 49 00:03:18,680 --> 00:03:20,079 Speaker 2: to be more than conquerors. 50 00:03:20,520 --> 00:03:21,520 Speaker 3: And the new. 51 00:03:21,320 --> 00:03:24,560 Speaker 2: Wine has to go into a new wine skin. And 52 00:03:24,639 --> 00:03:29,079 Speaker 2: so the Lord is working with us in transition. Someone 53 00:03:29,160 --> 00:03:33,840 Speaker 2: say transition. He's working in transition for all of us. 54 00:03:33,880 --> 00:03:36,560 Speaker 2: He's taking us from one point to another. We're all 55 00:03:36,600 --> 00:03:41,160 Speaker 2: in a process, and God is working to perform his 56 00:03:41,520 --> 00:03:46,560 Speaker 2: will and his word. Are you in Second King's Chapter four? Okay, 57 00:03:46,640 --> 00:03:49,400 Speaker 2: we're gonna start reading in verse eight. I'm reading in 58 00:03:49,440 --> 00:03:53,400 Speaker 2: the New Living Translation. Today, we're gonna read quite a 59 00:03:53,480 --> 00:03:59,000 Speaker 2: lengthy portion of scripture. And so here we go. One day, 60 00:03:59,040 --> 00:04:03,520 Speaker 2: Elisha went to the town of Shunam. A wealthy woman 61 00:04:03,600 --> 00:04:06,520 Speaker 2: lived there, and she urged him to come to her 62 00:04:06,560 --> 00:04:11,000 Speaker 2: home for a meal. After that, whenever he passed that way, 63 00:04:11,120 --> 00:04:14,760 Speaker 2: he would stop there for something to eat. She said 64 00:04:14,760 --> 00:04:17,400 Speaker 2: to her husband, I am sure this man who stops 65 00:04:17,440 --> 00:04:20,239 Speaker 2: in from time to time is a holy man of God. 66 00:04:20,600 --> 00:04:23,400 Speaker 2: Let's build a small room for him on the roof 67 00:04:23,480 --> 00:04:26,559 Speaker 2: and furnish it with a bed, a table, a chair, 68 00:04:26,600 --> 00:04:28,880 Speaker 2: and a lamp. Then he will have a place to 69 00:04:28,920 --> 00:04:34,200 Speaker 2: stay whenever he comes by. One day, Elisha returned to Shunim, 70 00:04:34,560 --> 00:04:37,480 Speaker 2: and he went up to this upper room to rest. 71 00:04:37,839 --> 00:04:41,960 Speaker 2: He said to his servant Gehaze, tell the woman from Shunam, 72 00:04:42,200 --> 00:04:45,960 Speaker 2: I want to speak with her. When she appeared, Elisha 73 00:04:46,000 --> 00:04:48,960 Speaker 2: said to Gehze, tell her, we appreciate the kind concern 74 00:04:49,040 --> 00:04:49,720 Speaker 2: you have shown us. 75 00:04:50,000 --> 00:04:51,200 Speaker 3: What can we do for you? 76 00:04:51,760 --> 00:04:54,240 Speaker 2: Can we put in a good word for you to 77 00:04:54,279 --> 00:04:57,919 Speaker 2: the king or to the commander of the army. No, 78 00:04:58,080 --> 00:05:01,320 Speaker 2: she replied, My family takes good God care of me. Later, 79 00:05:01,400 --> 00:05:05,880 Speaker 2: Elisha asked Gehaze what can we do for her. Gehze replied, 80 00:05:05,960 --> 00:05:08,640 Speaker 2: she doesn't have a son and her husband is an 81 00:05:08,640 --> 00:05:12,560 Speaker 2: old man. Call her back again, Elisha told him. When 82 00:05:12,600 --> 00:05:15,880 Speaker 2: the woman returned, Elisha said to her, as she stood 83 00:05:15,960 --> 00:05:19,280 Speaker 2: in the doorway, next year at this time, you'll be 84 00:05:19,360 --> 00:05:22,880 Speaker 2: holding a son in your arms. No, my lord, she cried, 85 00:05:23,160 --> 00:05:27,039 Speaker 2: Oh man of God, don't don't deceive me. And get 86 00:05:27,040 --> 00:05:30,000 Speaker 2: my hopes up like that. But sure enough the woman 87 00:05:30,120 --> 00:05:34,279 Speaker 2: soon became pregnant, and at that time the following year 88 00:05:34,360 --> 00:05:38,800 Speaker 2: she had a son, just as Elisha had said. One day, 89 00:05:39,080 --> 00:05:41,559 Speaker 2: when her child was older, he went out to help 90 00:05:41,600 --> 00:05:45,279 Speaker 2: his father, who was working with the harvesters. Suddenly he 91 00:05:45,360 --> 00:05:49,279 Speaker 2: cried out, my head hurts, my head hurts. His father 92 00:05:49,480 --> 00:05:52,000 Speaker 2: said to one of the servants, carry him home to 93 00:05:52,080 --> 00:05:54,760 Speaker 2: his mother. So the servant took him home, and his 94 00:05:54,880 --> 00:05:59,159 Speaker 2: mother held him on her lap. But around noontime he died. 95 00:06:00,520 --> 00:06:02,599 Speaker 2: He carried him up and laid him on the bed. 96 00:06:02,839 --> 00:06:04,520 Speaker 2: She carried him up and laid him on the bed 97 00:06:04,560 --> 00:06:06,400 Speaker 2: of the Man of God and shut the door and 98 00:06:06,560 --> 00:06:09,359 Speaker 2: left him there. She sent a message to her husband, 99 00:06:09,400 --> 00:06:11,600 Speaker 2: send one of the servants and a donkey, so that 100 00:06:11,640 --> 00:06:14,240 Speaker 2: I can hurry to the Man of God and come 101 00:06:14,320 --> 00:06:17,840 Speaker 2: right back. Why go today, he asked, It is neither 102 00:06:17,920 --> 00:06:20,919 Speaker 2: a new moon festival or a sabbath. But she said 103 00:06:21,320 --> 00:06:23,920 Speaker 2: it will be all right. So she saddled the donkey 104 00:06:24,240 --> 00:06:27,240 Speaker 2: and said to the servant, hurry, don't slow down unless 105 00:06:27,240 --> 00:06:29,640 Speaker 2: I tell you to. As she approached the Man of 106 00:06:29,640 --> 00:06:32,880 Speaker 2: God at Mount Carmel, Elisha saw her in the distance 107 00:06:33,200 --> 00:06:36,480 Speaker 2: he said to Geheze, look, the woman from Shunam is coming. 108 00:06:36,920 --> 00:06:39,159 Speaker 2: Run out to meet her and ask her. Is everything 109 00:06:39,200 --> 00:06:42,080 Speaker 2: all right with you, your husband and your child. Yes, 110 00:06:42,240 --> 00:06:46,800 Speaker 2: the woman told Gahze everything is fine. But when she 111 00:06:46,880 --> 00:06:49,039 Speaker 2: came to the Man of God at the mountain, she 112 00:06:49,240 --> 00:06:52,960 Speaker 2: fell to the ground before him and caught hold of 113 00:06:52,960 --> 00:06:56,800 Speaker 2: his feet. Gahze began to push her away, but the 114 00:06:56,839 --> 00:06:58,080 Speaker 2: Man of God said. 115 00:06:57,920 --> 00:06:58,760 Speaker 3: Leave her alone. 116 00:06:58,839 --> 00:07:02,080 Speaker 2: She's deeply troubled, but the Lord has not told me 117 00:07:02,120 --> 00:07:04,920 Speaker 2: what it is. Then she said, did I ask you 118 00:07:05,040 --> 00:07:08,520 Speaker 2: for a son, my Lord, and didn't I say? Don't 119 00:07:08,560 --> 00:07:12,320 Speaker 2: deceive me and get my hopes up dan. Elisha said 120 00:07:12,360 --> 00:07:15,400 Speaker 2: to Gehazy, get ready to travel, take my staff and go. 121 00:07:15,680 --> 00:07:18,960 Speaker 2: Don't talk to anyone along the way. Go quickly and 122 00:07:19,040 --> 00:07:21,960 Speaker 2: lay the staff on the child's face. But the boy's 123 00:07:22,000 --> 00:07:24,720 Speaker 2: mother said, as surely as the Lord lives and you 124 00:07:24,720 --> 00:07:27,880 Speaker 2: yourself live, I won't go home and let you go 125 00:07:28,000 --> 00:07:34,120 Speaker 2: with me. So Elisha returned home, returned with her. Gehze 126 00:07:34,280 --> 00:07:37,800 Speaker 2: hurried on and laid the staff on the child's faith, 127 00:07:38,240 --> 00:07:41,760 Speaker 2: but nothing happened. There was no sign of life. He 128 00:07:41,840 --> 00:07:45,360 Speaker 2: returned to meet Elisha and told him the child is 129 00:07:45,400 --> 00:07:50,680 Speaker 2: still dead. Then Elisha arrived. When Elisha arrived, the child 130 00:07:50,800 --> 00:07:54,640 Speaker 2: was indeed dead, lying there on the prophet's bed. He 131 00:07:54,720 --> 00:07:57,240 Speaker 2: went in alone and shut the door behind him and 132 00:07:57,280 --> 00:08:00,440 Speaker 2: prayed to the Lord as he laid down on the 133 00:08:00,480 --> 00:08:03,360 Speaker 2: child's body, placing his mouth on the child's mouth, his 134 00:08:03,480 --> 00:08:06,880 Speaker 2: eyes on the child's eyes, his hands on the child's hands. 135 00:08:07,080 --> 00:08:09,600 Speaker 2: As he began to stretch out on him, the child's 136 00:08:09,600 --> 00:08:13,080 Speaker 2: body began to warm again. Elisha got up, walked back 137 00:08:13,120 --> 00:08:16,080 Speaker 2: and forth across the room again, and then he stretched 138 00:08:16,160 --> 00:08:20,040 Speaker 2: himself out again. This time the boy sneezed seven times 139 00:08:20,560 --> 00:08:26,640 Speaker 2: and opened his eyes. Then Elisha summon Gehzy. Call the 140 00:08:26,840 --> 00:08:30,640 Speaker 2: child's mother, he said, And when she came in, Elisha said, here, 141 00:08:30,880 --> 00:08:34,400 Speaker 2: take your son. She fell at his feet, bowed before him, 142 00:08:34,480 --> 00:08:37,280 Speaker 2: overwhelmed with gratitude. Then she took her son in her 143 00:08:37,440 --> 00:08:41,760 Speaker 2: arms and carried him downstairs. May the Lord add a 144 00:08:41,800 --> 00:08:47,520 Speaker 2: blessing to the reading of his Holy Word. We're talking 145 00:08:47,600 --> 00:08:53,560 Speaker 2: about the power of perseverance today. A couple things I 146 00:08:53,600 --> 00:08:56,880 Speaker 2: think that we need to talk about this morning is 147 00:08:56,920 --> 00:09:01,640 Speaker 2: that oftentimes in life we are in need of blessings 148 00:09:01,960 --> 00:09:04,920 Speaker 2: or breakthrough that we don't even know what they are. 149 00:09:05,480 --> 00:09:09,400 Speaker 2: Or that God can do them. And in this story 150 00:09:09,440 --> 00:09:12,280 Speaker 2: we see a woman who just wanted to make room 151 00:09:12,320 --> 00:09:16,000 Speaker 2: for the prophet, who just wanted to make room for God, 152 00:09:16,040 --> 00:09:19,200 Speaker 2: who just wanted to honor the man of God and 153 00:09:19,280 --> 00:09:23,240 Speaker 2: to make herself of use and service to God. And 154 00:09:23,320 --> 00:09:26,000 Speaker 2: so as her and her husband took of their own 155 00:09:26,120 --> 00:09:28,840 Speaker 2: finances to build this room and to make room for 156 00:09:28,920 --> 00:09:32,600 Speaker 2: the prophet, to build a habitation for the Prophet, I 157 00:09:32,600 --> 00:09:35,520 Speaker 2: think it's important for us, as New Testament believers to 158 00:09:35,640 --> 00:09:40,160 Speaker 2: recognize that she is us that every time we extend 159 00:09:40,200 --> 00:09:43,680 Speaker 2: ourselves in generosity to make room for the Word of 160 00:09:43,679 --> 00:09:47,280 Speaker 2: God to go forth, or for servants of God to 161 00:09:47,360 --> 00:09:49,760 Speaker 2: have what they need, even the testimony that we heard 162 00:09:49,800 --> 00:09:52,880 Speaker 2: this morning from our sister Yvette, who's doing missions work 163 00:09:52,880 --> 00:09:57,160 Speaker 2: in the Middle East right now, right we allow God 164 00:09:57,280 --> 00:10:00,679 Speaker 2: to begin to meet our needs according to his riches 165 00:10:00,720 --> 00:10:04,040 Speaker 2: in glory. And so in her mind, she tells the Prophet, 166 00:10:04,280 --> 00:10:06,120 Speaker 2: I'm not in need of anything. I don't need a 167 00:10:06,120 --> 00:10:08,680 Speaker 2: good word. My family takes care of me. And yet 168 00:10:08,760 --> 00:10:13,520 Speaker 2: and still they knew that there was a need within her. 169 00:10:14,320 --> 00:10:16,640 Speaker 2: It's the same way that the Father looks at us, 170 00:10:17,200 --> 00:10:21,800 Speaker 2: he sees our needs even when we don't always recognize 171 00:10:21,840 --> 00:10:24,720 Speaker 2: that that's our deepest need, and he has a desire 172 00:10:24,840 --> 00:10:28,680 Speaker 2: to fulfill that. And so the prophet was motivated to 173 00:10:28,880 --> 00:10:32,520 Speaker 2: move at the word of the Lord to bless the 174 00:10:32,600 --> 00:10:36,200 Speaker 2: woman who had blessed him. That is exactly how it 175 00:10:36,280 --> 00:10:38,840 Speaker 2: is for us. When we lend to the poor, we 176 00:10:38,960 --> 00:10:41,760 Speaker 2: lend to the Lord, and it is the Lord who repays. 177 00:10:42,000 --> 00:10:44,840 Speaker 2: It's the Lord who brings the blessing. And so when 178 00:10:44,920 --> 00:10:48,600 Speaker 2: troubles come, guess who we can go to. We can 179 00:10:48,679 --> 00:10:52,679 Speaker 2: go to the Lord because he's the source of those things. 180 00:10:52,720 --> 00:10:56,480 Speaker 2: And so in this story, we're seeing that the woman 181 00:10:56,559 --> 00:10:59,440 Speaker 2: from Shunam was a woman of great faith, but she 182 00:10:59,600 --> 00:11:04,600 Speaker 2: also was a woman of focus. She didn't allow the 183 00:11:04,640 --> 00:11:11,560 Speaker 2: circumstance that happened to be talked about, gossiped about with 184 00:11:11,720 --> 00:11:17,520 Speaker 2: her staff. She stayed immovable in her position of I 185 00:11:17,640 --> 00:11:20,880 Speaker 2: know God brought this blessing, and now I know God 186 00:11:20,960 --> 00:11:25,640 Speaker 2: is the one who will answer and fix it. And 187 00:11:25,720 --> 00:11:29,160 Speaker 2: so I want us to recognize that in this time, 188 00:11:29,360 --> 00:11:32,800 Speaker 2: it's not like we haven't been shaken. It's not like 189 00:11:33,080 --> 00:11:37,200 Speaker 2: we haven't had opportunity to be afraid. Come on, somebody, 190 00:11:37,360 --> 00:11:41,200 Speaker 2: we have. We've had challenges in these last two three years, right, 191 00:11:42,400 --> 00:11:44,880 Speaker 2: there have been forces of darkness that have tried to 192 00:11:44,960 --> 00:11:48,560 Speaker 2: overtake us. And yet and still God has been faithful 193 00:11:48,600 --> 00:11:52,200 Speaker 2: to his word, and He has moved on our behalf 194 00:11:52,280 --> 00:11:56,480 Speaker 2: to bring blessings into our life. Well, what happens when 195 00:11:56,520 --> 00:12:01,000 Speaker 2: that blessing ceases? What happens when and the promise is 196 00:12:01,040 --> 00:12:04,959 Speaker 2: cut off short? What happens when something that was alive 197 00:12:05,040 --> 00:12:08,320 Speaker 2: that was supposed to bring blessing and perpetuity in your 198 00:12:08,360 --> 00:12:10,640 Speaker 2: life all of a sudden it is cut off. Is 199 00:12:10,679 --> 00:12:14,960 Speaker 2: at the end of the story? Well, in this case, 200 00:12:14,960 --> 00:12:17,080 Speaker 2: we're seeing that it's not the end of the story. 201 00:12:17,640 --> 00:12:21,040 Speaker 2: And I think right now the Lord is saying to us, 202 00:12:21,120 --> 00:12:23,400 Speaker 2: the church, that this is not the end of the 203 00:12:23,480 --> 00:12:27,280 Speaker 2: story for the church. But it's going to be up 204 00:12:27,320 --> 00:12:31,280 Speaker 2: to us to be like this Shunamite woman, to pursue God, 205 00:12:32,679 --> 00:12:35,280 Speaker 2: to shut out the noise, to shut out the rumors, 206 00:12:35,360 --> 00:12:38,240 Speaker 2: to not let things be noised about, talked about, but 207 00:12:38,360 --> 00:12:41,920 Speaker 2: to pursue him and to get a word from him. 208 00:12:42,679 --> 00:12:47,200 Speaker 2: It's interesting to point out that Elisha asked for the 209 00:12:47,280 --> 00:12:52,440 Speaker 2: double portion from Elijah, and Elijah also raised a child 210 00:12:52,520 --> 00:12:57,080 Speaker 2: from the dead in the same way, And so I 211 00:12:57,120 --> 00:13:00,240 Speaker 2: think for the church in this hour. We've seen many 212 00:13:00,320 --> 00:13:03,080 Speaker 2: generals go home to be with the Lord, and we've 213 00:13:03,080 --> 00:13:08,959 Speaker 2: seen many leaders, myself included, catch the baton. And sometimes 214 00:13:09,000 --> 00:13:12,720 Speaker 2: we're thinking it's just about a mantle not being dropped, 215 00:13:13,440 --> 00:13:16,520 Speaker 2: but it's really about knowing the God of the mantle. 216 00:13:20,200 --> 00:13:24,360 Speaker 2: So Elisha in this moment the demand of the Shunamite 217 00:13:24,440 --> 00:13:28,080 Speaker 2: woman for him to perform a miracle, for him to 218 00:13:28,240 --> 00:13:30,320 Speaker 2: move in his ministry in a way that he had 219 00:13:30,360 --> 00:13:34,720 Speaker 2: never moved to this point, that he had been done before. God, 220 00:13:34,800 --> 00:13:40,000 Speaker 2: can you do this again through my ministry. See, sometimes 221 00:13:40,000 --> 00:13:43,200 Speaker 2: we as Christians, we rehearse the stories and the histories 222 00:13:43,240 --> 00:13:47,160 Speaker 2: of revival and the great preachers, and we forget that 223 00:13:47,280 --> 00:13:50,800 Speaker 2: it's not meant to be a story of great glory. 224 00:13:50,440 --> 00:13:52,000 Speaker 3: That can't happen again. 225 00:13:52,400 --> 00:13:56,440 Speaker 2: But no, it's the story of the resurrected Savior who 226 00:13:56,520 --> 00:14:00,800 Speaker 2: still wants to move in power and authority in might 227 00:14:01,000 --> 00:14:04,720 Speaker 2: in this generation, and he's looking for people who will 228 00:14:04,800 --> 00:14:11,240 Speaker 2: believe and contend and persevere until something happens. 229 00:14:11,280 --> 00:14:14,880 Speaker 3: Hallelujah. And so we see this shun in My woman 230 00:14:15,040 --> 00:14:15,640 Speaker 3: being an. 231 00:14:15,520 --> 00:14:21,880 Speaker 2: Example to us as someone who would persevere, someone who 232 00:14:21,960 --> 00:14:27,400 Speaker 2: would press in, someone who would put a demand. It's 233 00:14:27,440 --> 00:14:33,200 Speaker 2: interesting because demand will catapult you and elevate you where 234 00:14:33,200 --> 00:14:38,200 Speaker 2: simply functioning could not. People when people put a demand 235 00:14:38,240 --> 00:14:41,280 Speaker 2: on you in the workplace, when people put a demand 236 00:14:41,360 --> 00:14:44,320 Speaker 2: on your spiritual gift, when people put a demand on 237 00:14:44,360 --> 00:14:50,280 Speaker 2: your anointing, it presses you past your self conception. It 238 00:14:50,360 --> 00:14:53,960 Speaker 2: requires you to think on a different level. It requires 239 00:14:54,000 --> 00:14:57,720 Speaker 2: you to break out of self concepts of what you 240 00:14:57,880 --> 00:15:01,760 Speaker 2: think you can accomplish and truly depend on the Lord. 241 00:15:02,880 --> 00:15:06,320 Speaker 2: Many of us have backed off on God's assignments for 242 00:15:06,400 --> 00:15:09,280 Speaker 2: our life in the season past because we couldn't see 243 00:15:09,280 --> 00:15:14,200 Speaker 2: ourselves doing certain assignments, because we talked ourselves out of 244 00:15:14,240 --> 00:15:16,920 Speaker 2: what God had for us and we couldn't see that 245 00:15:17,040 --> 00:15:20,640 Speaker 2: it was possible. And see, I'm so grateful that we 246 00:15:20,840 --> 00:15:24,400 Speaker 2: have scriptures and stories that we can look at because 247 00:15:24,400 --> 00:15:27,000 Speaker 2: this woman put a demand on Elisha. 248 00:15:28,040 --> 00:15:30,120 Speaker 3: She put a demand on his mantle. 249 00:15:30,480 --> 00:15:33,200 Speaker 2: She put a demand on him as a prophet to 250 00:15:33,440 --> 00:15:37,480 Speaker 2: walk in the anointing of God. So if you're writing 251 00:15:37,520 --> 00:15:41,920 Speaker 2: notes today, I want you to write down that demand 252 00:15:42,400 --> 00:15:48,880 Speaker 2: is my friend. See, sometimes we think that the demands 253 00:15:48,880 --> 00:15:52,520 Speaker 2: of life, that the demands of others, the demands of issues, 254 00:15:52,800 --> 00:15:56,520 Speaker 2: are actually working against us. The Romans eight twenty eight 255 00:15:56,720 --> 00:16:01,040 Speaker 2: says that all things work together for good. Actually, demand 256 00:16:01,400 --> 00:16:06,360 Speaker 2: is provoking you to get into the spirit. Demand is 257 00:16:06,440 --> 00:16:10,200 Speaker 2: actually provoking you to move beyond your flesh and to 258 00:16:10,280 --> 00:16:14,520 Speaker 2: hear a now word from the Lord. Demand is actually 259 00:16:14,640 --> 00:16:19,320 Speaker 2: working for you to sharpen your spiritual hearing and your discernment, 260 00:16:19,600 --> 00:16:22,680 Speaker 2: to know the time and the season that you are 261 00:16:22,800 --> 00:16:25,360 Speaker 2: living in, so that you can know the perfect will 262 00:16:25,400 --> 00:16:26,200 Speaker 2: of God. 263 00:16:27,200 --> 00:16:28,840 Speaker 3: So demand is working for you. 264 00:16:29,200 --> 00:16:33,440 Speaker 2: It's also interesting to note that Shunam was a town 265 00:16:33,960 --> 00:16:38,880 Speaker 2: in the tribe of Isakar's land, so this was a woman. 266 00:16:38,960 --> 00:16:43,440 Speaker 2: The Shunamite woman was a woman who lived amongst people 267 00:16:43,480 --> 00:16:47,040 Speaker 2: who understood the times and the seasons. And the Word 268 00:16:47,120 --> 00:16:50,880 Speaker 2: tells us that they knew what Israel should do, meaning 269 00:16:50,920 --> 00:16:55,120 Speaker 2: they had high spiritual discernment. And so her desire to 270 00:16:55,240 --> 00:16:59,080 Speaker 2: be near the prophet or to allow the prophet to 271 00:16:59,200 --> 00:17:03,480 Speaker 2: have hospital in her home is literally saying, Okay, God, 272 00:17:03,520 --> 00:17:06,400 Speaker 2: we're gonna make room. So we're gonna be those New 273 00:17:06,440 --> 00:17:09,760 Speaker 2: Testament saints that know the times and the seasons. 274 00:17:09,920 --> 00:17:11,240 Speaker 3: We have to make room not. 275 00:17:11,359 --> 00:17:14,080 Speaker 2: Just for the lugst word of God, the written word 276 00:17:14,119 --> 00:17:15,919 Speaker 2: of God, but we've got to make. 277 00:17:15,880 --> 00:17:17,160 Speaker 3: Room for a ram a word. 278 00:17:19,119 --> 00:17:22,720 Speaker 2: Because when that Rayma word came and she knew that 279 00:17:22,720 --> 00:17:25,280 Speaker 2: that son was coming forth, and she held onto that 280 00:17:25,320 --> 00:17:27,280 Speaker 2: word and then the manifestation came. 281 00:17:27,600 --> 00:17:28,720 Speaker 3: That's what fueled this. 282 00:17:28,800 --> 00:17:33,000 Speaker 2: Perseverance within her because she had a now word from 283 00:17:33,040 --> 00:17:35,840 Speaker 2: God and she knew that God had not given her 284 00:17:35,880 --> 00:17:41,120 Speaker 2: a son want for him to just live and then die. 285 00:17:41,760 --> 00:17:44,600 Speaker 2: In their culture, and it's true for our culture too. 286 00:17:44,880 --> 00:17:47,760 Speaker 2: Having a son is like the best thing that you 287 00:17:47,840 --> 00:17:51,639 Speaker 2: can do, right, the first child, right, the legacy child. 288 00:17:53,720 --> 00:17:58,560 Speaker 2: That's what every family desires. And so God blessed her 289 00:17:58,560 --> 00:18:02,040 Speaker 2: in her posterius. It's not like this now where you 290 00:18:02,080 --> 00:18:04,119 Speaker 2: would lose well, not in the United States where you 291 00:18:04,119 --> 00:18:06,600 Speaker 2: would lose property, where you would lose. 292 00:18:06,440 --> 00:18:07,800 Speaker 3: Standing in the community. 293 00:18:07,840 --> 00:18:10,480 Speaker 2: But had she not produced an air, had she not 294 00:18:10,600 --> 00:18:15,760 Speaker 2: produced a son, her promises of the next phase of 295 00:18:15,800 --> 00:18:19,200 Speaker 2: her life, had her husband actually died, would have been 296 00:18:19,240 --> 00:18:22,200 Speaker 2: cut off. The same thing was true for Ruth. God 297 00:18:22,240 --> 00:18:27,040 Speaker 2: redeemed Ruth and allowed Boaz to give her a son, 298 00:18:27,600 --> 00:18:30,360 Speaker 2: and then she was able to live at the station 299 00:18:30,600 --> 00:18:33,919 Speaker 2: to which God had intended for her because she was 300 00:18:34,000 --> 00:18:37,199 Speaker 2: able to bear a child. What am I saying God 301 00:18:37,600 --> 00:18:40,960 Speaker 2: is depositing in his church and gifts that are not 302 00:18:41,119 --> 00:18:44,280 Speaker 2: just for this time, but they're meant to be legacy. 303 00:18:44,560 --> 00:18:48,159 Speaker 2: They're meant to be signposts for a future generation that 304 00:18:48,240 --> 00:18:51,160 Speaker 2: there's a true and a living God that still remains 305 00:18:51,160 --> 00:18:53,880 Speaker 2: in the earth realm. And I wish I had two 306 00:18:53,960 --> 00:18:57,320 Speaker 2: or three people in here that were willing to persevere 307 00:18:57,760 --> 00:19:00,680 Speaker 2: in this time to ensure that the tree that God 308 00:19:00,800 --> 00:19:06,960 Speaker 2: has will not be cut off. And so, like I 309 00:19:07,080 --> 00:19:12,680 Speaker 2: was saying to you, sometimes the demands, the visions, the 310 00:19:12,720 --> 00:19:16,920 Speaker 2: ideas that even our spiritual leaders will have for us, 311 00:19:17,200 --> 00:19:21,639 Speaker 2: the vision that God has for us, sometimes we can't 312 00:19:21,680 --> 00:19:23,960 Speaker 2: see it. And so we have to ask the Lord 313 00:19:24,200 --> 00:19:27,200 Speaker 2: to open the eyes of our understanding that our. 314 00:19:27,119 --> 00:19:29,360 Speaker 3: Mind might be enlightened, that me may. 315 00:19:29,280 --> 00:19:32,239 Speaker 2: Understand His perfect will for our lives, so that we 316 00:19:32,320 --> 00:19:37,679 Speaker 2: don't talk ourselves out of God's appointment. Because demand is 317 00:19:37,800 --> 00:19:41,720 Speaker 2: actually going to cause you to move to another dimension. 318 00:19:42,000 --> 00:19:44,719 Speaker 2: It's going to cause you to move to realms that 319 00:19:44,800 --> 00:19:48,920 Speaker 2: you didn't even think you could go to, because God's 320 00:19:49,240 --> 00:19:52,800 Speaker 2: given destiny is not based upon your concept. 321 00:19:53,560 --> 00:19:55,359 Speaker 3: Oh, come on, somebody. 322 00:19:55,840 --> 00:20:01,159 Speaker 2: He is the author of this whole universe. His ways 323 00:20:01,200 --> 00:20:04,600 Speaker 2: are higher than your ways. Neither are his thoughts your thoughts. 324 00:20:04,800 --> 00:20:08,520 Speaker 2: You haven't even begun to even scratch the surface of 325 00:20:08,560 --> 00:20:11,399 Speaker 2: what God has for you. And if you will limit 326 00:20:11,480 --> 00:20:15,000 Speaker 2: Him by your fear, you will miss your opportunity and 327 00:20:15,040 --> 00:20:18,280 Speaker 2: you'll be wondering why you're sitting on the sideline and 328 00:20:18,359 --> 00:20:21,920 Speaker 2: why life seems to be passing you by. But Gon 329 00:20:22,080 --> 00:20:25,320 Speaker 2: has a plan and it is a now time for 330 00:20:25,440 --> 00:20:28,639 Speaker 2: you to begin to do what God has called you 331 00:20:28,720 --> 00:20:33,840 Speaker 2: to do, and no longer shrink back. See in the story, 332 00:20:34,080 --> 00:20:39,200 Speaker 2: Elisha thought he could download and he could what delegate 333 00:20:39,880 --> 00:20:47,640 Speaker 2: his assignment. He said, Okay, take my staff, go lay 334 00:20:47,640 --> 00:20:50,159 Speaker 2: it on the child, and that's how this miracle is 335 00:20:50,200 --> 00:20:51,680 Speaker 2: gonna get done. 336 00:20:52,880 --> 00:20:55,080 Speaker 3: But the Lord required a stretch in him. 337 00:20:57,400 --> 00:21:00,520 Speaker 2: The Lord required him to do something that he had 338 00:21:00,560 --> 00:21:04,080 Speaker 2: heard about but had not ever operated in. I don't 339 00:21:04,119 --> 00:21:06,919 Speaker 2: know who I'm preaching to today, but I came to 340 00:21:06,960 --> 00:21:12,359 Speaker 2: stir someone up today, to get off the sideline, to 341 00:21:12,480 --> 00:21:16,360 Speaker 2: not just believe in the story of Mama's Jesus Christ, 342 00:21:16,760 --> 00:21:21,120 Speaker 2: Daddy's Jesus Christ, Jesus Christ, of your youth, of your 343 00:21:21,400 --> 00:21:25,520 Speaker 2: pastoring in the beginning, but to make a demand upon 344 00:21:25,600 --> 00:21:29,200 Speaker 2: yourself to move in the anointing of God for today, 345 00:21:29,440 --> 00:21:33,040 Speaker 2: that he has an assignment for today, that there's fresh annoying, 346 00:21:33,280 --> 00:21:36,080 Speaker 2: that there's fresh fire for you to walk in today. 347 00:21:38,560 --> 00:21:41,520 Speaker 3: Elisha had to stretch himself in. 348 00:21:41,400 --> 00:21:48,160 Speaker 2: Response to the persevering faith of the Shunamite woman. Wow, 349 00:21:48,800 --> 00:21:52,639 Speaker 2: and see, we have a better covenant now, and we 350 00:21:52,760 --> 00:21:57,439 Speaker 2: have a high priest whose name is Jesus Christ. And 351 00:21:57,520 --> 00:22:01,040 Speaker 2: how much more would he stretch himself tell to move 352 00:22:01,080 --> 00:22:03,760 Speaker 2: on our behalf if we pursued. 353 00:22:03,400 --> 00:22:05,720 Speaker 3: Him like the Shunamite woman, who. 354 00:22:05,600 --> 00:22:11,359 Speaker 2: Would not let amy representative who had no power represent him. 355 00:22:12,920 --> 00:22:18,280 Speaker 3: Ah, but we pursued his throne. We pursued his. 356 00:22:18,400 --> 00:22:23,760 Speaker 2: Face until something happened, until dead things came to life. 357 00:22:24,359 --> 00:22:31,359 Speaker 2: The Bible declares that Jesus is the resurrection in the life. 358 00:22:31,600 --> 00:22:34,080 Speaker 3: Oh this is good. 359 00:22:35,040 --> 00:22:41,600 Speaker 2: And so here we are, and we're seeing a picture 360 00:22:41,680 --> 00:22:48,520 Speaker 2: of the church. We're seeing the Shunamite woman who laid 361 00:22:48,760 --> 00:22:49,840 Speaker 2: at the feet. 362 00:22:49,600 --> 00:22:54,119 Speaker 3: Of the Man of God, who took her concern. 363 00:22:55,119 --> 00:22:59,280 Speaker 2: Not to those who held no power, who held no anointing, 364 00:22:59,480 --> 00:23:02,679 Speaker 2: who held no grace, who had no authority, But she 365 00:23:02,880 --> 00:23:08,360 Speaker 2: took them to the Man of God and provoked his 366 00:23:08,560 --> 00:23:15,879 Speaker 2: response to operate in the miraculous power of God. I 367 00:23:15,920 --> 00:23:19,040 Speaker 2: don't know about you, but when I read these stories, 368 00:23:20,840 --> 00:23:24,840 Speaker 2: I begin to think about us, and I begin to 369 00:23:24,960 --> 00:23:28,840 Speaker 2: think about the challenges that we face, and I begin 370 00:23:28,920 --> 00:23:34,399 Speaker 2: to think about how narratives have changed in society, how 371 00:23:34,480 --> 00:23:39,160 Speaker 2: when we hear certain diagnoses, when we hear certain problems, 372 00:23:39,600 --> 00:23:42,159 Speaker 2: we are quickly and readily. 373 00:23:41,760 --> 00:23:45,200 Speaker 3: Willing to answer these challenges. 374 00:23:44,600 --> 00:23:50,119 Speaker 2: Of life with the world's answer that it's impossible, that 375 00:23:50,240 --> 00:23:54,359 Speaker 2: healing can't come, that this is the end. And I 376 00:23:54,600 --> 00:23:58,320 Speaker 2: wonder what would happen if we were just radical believers. 377 00:24:00,000 --> 00:24:03,639 Speaker 2: He began to stand on the word of God and 378 00:24:03,760 --> 00:24:07,480 Speaker 2: took the problem to the feet of the Master, took 379 00:24:07,560 --> 00:24:12,360 Speaker 2: the problem, took the depression, took the diagnosis, took the addiction, 380 00:24:12,880 --> 00:24:17,680 Speaker 2: took the broken marriage, took the wayward children, took them 381 00:24:17,800 --> 00:24:21,560 Speaker 2: to the feet of the Jesus to the Father, and 382 00:24:21,640 --> 00:24:24,920 Speaker 2: began to pour out our laments, and began to pour 383 00:24:25,040 --> 00:24:30,520 Speaker 2: out our discouragement, began to pour out our brokenness. What 384 00:24:30,600 --> 00:24:34,199 Speaker 2: would happen? Well, the Bible tells us what happened in 385 00:24:34,280 --> 00:24:38,320 Speaker 2: Luke eighteen. Because there was a blind man on the roadside. 386 00:24:38,440 --> 00:24:42,520 Speaker 2: His name was Bartimaeus, and when Jesus was walking by, 387 00:24:43,600 --> 00:24:47,080 Speaker 2: he began to cry out with a loud voice, sign 388 00:24:47,200 --> 00:24:51,199 Speaker 2: of David, have mercy on me, and people began to 389 00:24:51,280 --> 00:24:56,040 Speaker 2: tell him be quiet, sh be quiet, No, be quiet. 390 00:24:56,200 --> 00:24:59,160 Speaker 2: And the more that people told him to be silent, 391 00:24:59,400 --> 00:25:02,159 Speaker 2: the more he he began to cry out, and his 392 00:25:02,440 --> 00:25:07,520 Speaker 2: cry began to provoke something in the Savior. And I 393 00:25:07,840 --> 00:25:12,119 Speaker 2: just came to remind you that desperation is a sound 394 00:25:12,200 --> 00:25:19,440 Speaker 2: that unlocks Heaven, and so in this woman, in this 395 00:25:19,560 --> 00:25:22,560 Speaker 2: Shunamite woman, was that same cry of desperation. 396 00:25:22,760 --> 00:25:23,040 Speaker 3: God. 397 00:25:23,080 --> 00:25:26,440 Speaker 2: If you don't move God, if you don't do this, God, 398 00:25:26,480 --> 00:25:28,040 Speaker 2: if you don't begin. 399 00:25:28,160 --> 00:25:30,480 Speaker 3: To move by your power God. 400 00:25:30,320 --> 00:25:33,840 Speaker 2: If you don't step in, nothing will change. I just 401 00:25:33,960 --> 00:25:36,960 Speaker 2: want to encourage you that it's okay to be a. 402 00:25:36,880 --> 00:25:37,920 Speaker 3: Little bit desperate. 403 00:25:38,520 --> 00:25:42,080 Speaker 2: Oh, if you would just be desperate, you might qualify. 404 00:25:42,440 --> 00:25:48,040 Speaker 2: You might qualify for a miracle. Hallelujah. My Nana used 405 00:25:48,080 --> 00:25:51,119 Speaker 2: to say that when we get strong in our own eyes, 406 00:25:51,160 --> 00:25:53,639 Speaker 2: and we get strong in our own opinion of what 407 00:25:53,760 --> 00:25:57,960 Speaker 2: we can do, we disqualify ourselves from the miracle working 408 00:25:58,119 --> 00:26:01,760 Speaker 2: power of God, because in our weakness, He is strong. 409 00:26:03,960 --> 00:26:10,760 Speaker 2: In our brokenness, he is made perfect. Hallelujah. So it's 410 00:26:10,840 --> 00:26:15,679 Speaker 2: important that we learn how to be desperate. Come on, 411 00:26:17,119 --> 00:26:20,200 Speaker 2: what's it sound like to be desperate to seek God 412 00:26:20,760 --> 00:26:25,040 Speaker 2: move in your life? What is that sound within you 413 00:26:25,440 --> 00:26:33,960 Speaker 2: then unlocks heaven. It's within you, It's in your belly. 414 00:26:34,920 --> 00:26:39,200 Speaker 2: And so it was that sound and that spiritual cry 415 00:26:40,400 --> 00:26:44,040 Speaker 2: that caused Elisha to be able to move. 416 00:26:45,520 --> 00:26:47,679 Speaker 3: In a dimension that he had never moved. 417 00:26:49,840 --> 00:26:57,960 Speaker 2: Wow, we've all faced incredible adversities in the past and 418 00:26:58,080 --> 00:27:01,119 Speaker 2: at present. There may be some mountains in your life 419 00:27:01,119 --> 00:27:06,200 Speaker 2: that are looming in the future. But if you would 420 00:27:06,240 --> 00:27:07,879 Speaker 2: just get in the spirit. 421 00:27:09,600 --> 00:27:10,400 Speaker 3: See naturally. 422 00:27:10,520 --> 00:27:15,440 Speaker 2: There will always be obstacles, there will always be challenges, 423 00:27:15,520 --> 00:27:23,080 Speaker 2: there will always be dare I say, drama. But one 424 00:27:23,119 --> 00:27:28,720 Speaker 2: thing is true for the reality of the believer, that 425 00:27:29,000 --> 00:27:33,560 Speaker 2: what God is orchestrating in the spirit, no challenge can 426 00:27:33,680 --> 00:27:42,679 Speaker 2: stop it, no demon in hell can block it. And 427 00:27:42,760 --> 00:27:46,960 Speaker 2: my Bible says that all authority in heaven was given 428 00:27:47,040 --> 00:27:52,840 Speaker 2: to Jesus, that at that name, every foul spirit on 429 00:27:53,000 --> 00:27:57,000 Speaker 2: this earth and every spirit under the earth must be 430 00:27:57,080 --> 00:27:59,919 Speaker 2: subject to the lordship of Jesus Christ. 431 00:28:02,440 --> 00:28:04,400 Speaker 3: And if we truly believe that we. 432 00:28:04,320 --> 00:28:08,920 Speaker 2: Are joint airs with him, why would we not make 433 00:28:08,960 --> 00:28:14,000 Speaker 2: a demand, Why would we not make a demand on 434 00:28:14,080 --> 00:28:18,399 Speaker 2: him who is able, and so today I came to 435 00:28:18,560 --> 00:28:23,359 Speaker 2: encourage you with the word of perseverance. Perseverance is defined 436 00:28:23,880 --> 00:28:33,119 Speaker 2: as persistence in doing something despite difficulty or delay. In 437 00:28:33,240 --> 00:28:40,400 Speaker 2: achieving success, persistence is defined perseverance is defined as persistence 438 00:28:40,480 --> 00:28:49,560 Speaker 2: in doing something despite difficulty or delay in achieving success. 439 00:28:53,040 --> 00:29:00,360 Speaker 2: Perseverance will check your motives. Sometimes the reason we are 440 00:29:00,840 --> 00:29:04,560 Speaker 2: involved in certain ventures, or even the reason we allow 441 00:29:05,440 --> 00:29:09,120 Speaker 2: certain relationships to be in our life is because. 442 00:29:08,840 --> 00:29:12,080 Speaker 3: Of what it looks like. Because it looks like, smells like, 443 00:29:12,200 --> 00:29:13,200 Speaker 3: sounds like success. 444 00:29:13,280 --> 00:29:16,800 Speaker 2: It looks like smells like prosperity, it looks like sounds 445 00:29:16,880 --> 00:29:23,640 Speaker 2: like a good idea. But often times when delays hit, 446 00:29:23,800 --> 00:29:27,120 Speaker 2: those relationships are fair weather friends. 447 00:29:29,600 --> 00:29:30,080 Speaker 3: I don't know. 448 00:29:30,120 --> 00:29:32,560 Speaker 2: If you're over twelve in this room, you should know 449 00:29:32,600 --> 00:29:36,080 Speaker 2: what I'm talking about. There have been people that have 450 00:29:36,160 --> 00:29:39,720 Speaker 2: come into our lives that weren't able to stand the 451 00:29:39,760 --> 00:29:43,120 Speaker 2: winds of adversity. The Bible says that a brother was 452 00:29:43,200 --> 00:29:47,720 Speaker 2: built for adversity, that true friendships are built in adversity. 453 00:29:48,200 --> 00:29:53,560 Speaker 2: And so we know that perseverance is a skill and 454 00:29:53,640 --> 00:29:58,320 Speaker 2: a spiritual skill that we develop over time. You can't 455 00:29:58,400 --> 00:30:01,840 Speaker 2: have perseverance if you have and had to persevere through anything. 456 00:30:03,720 --> 00:30:06,640 Speaker 3: You can't be an overcomer have courage unless. 457 00:30:06,360 --> 00:30:09,720 Speaker 2: You've had to face some times that made you breathe 458 00:30:09,800 --> 00:30:13,479 Speaker 2: deep and swallow hard and you know, pull up your 459 00:30:13,480 --> 00:30:14,400 Speaker 2: big girl draws. 460 00:30:18,240 --> 00:30:18,520 Speaker 3: Come on. 461 00:30:19,000 --> 00:30:22,959 Speaker 2: So in life, we know that the rainfalls on the 462 00:30:23,080 --> 00:30:26,680 Speaker 2: just and the unjust alike. But the difference is that 463 00:30:27,240 --> 00:30:33,080 Speaker 2: we have something on the inside of us that's incorruptible. 464 00:30:33,160 --> 00:30:35,400 Speaker 3: Something that is of the Kingdom of God. 465 00:30:37,320 --> 00:30:42,080 Speaker 2: And so that is where our perseverance comes from as 466 00:30:42,200 --> 00:30:49,520 Speaker 2: New Testament believers, and even death has been conquered, so 467 00:30:50,040 --> 00:30:53,120 Speaker 2: right now, even in the time in which we live, 468 00:30:53,520 --> 00:30:56,360 Speaker 2: part of the fear that has gotten on us, that's 469 00:30:56,480 --> 00:31:03,640 Speaker 2: contaminated us, is the fear of death. But the Bible says, death, 470 00:31:03,680 --> 00:31:07,880 Speaker 2: where is your sting, crave? Where is your victory? And 471 00:31:07,920 --> 00:31:09,600 Speaker 2: that's not just for a funeral? 472 00:31:14,440 --> 00:31:17,960 Speaker 3: Come on. So there are things in. 473 00:31:17,880 --> 00:31:22,240 Speaker 2: Our life that will stop us from persevering to receive 474 00:31:22,720 --> 00:31:27,280 Speaker 2: the miracle of resurrection life if we are not careful 475 00:31:28,400 --> 00:31:33,080 Speaker 2: to persevere, to push past what we're thinking, to push 476 00:31:33,200 --> 00:31:36,959 Speaker 2: past and break agreement with how the world is thinking 477 00:31:37,040 --> 00:31:41,040 Speaker 2: about our situation. Come on, Your marriage can never be 478 00:31:41,160 --> 00:31:49,080 Speaker 2: restored after infidelity. That's what the world says. Come on, 479 00:31:49,160 --> 00:31:54,960 Speaker 2: you'll never recover from that situation. That's what the world says. 480 00:31:55,000 --> 00:31:58,840 Speaker 2: But Jesus came that we would have life and life 481 00:31:58,840 --> 00:32:02,440 Speaker 2: more abundantly. He came to break every chain. He came 482 00:32:02,480 --> 00:32:05,600 Speaker 2: to destroy every yoke. And this is not hype. So 483 00:32:05,840 --> 00:32:07,960 Speaker 2: if you're in a place where this is just hype 484 00:32:07,960 --> 00:32:12,280 Speaker 2: to you, I need you to get into faith, to 485 00:32:12,400 --> 00:32:15,680 Speaker 2: begin to start believing that what the Word of God 486 00:32:15,760 --> 00:32:20,000 Speaker 2: declares is actually true, and shake off some toubt, shake 487 00:32:20,040 --> 00:32:23,560 Speaker 2: off some discouragement, shake off some things that have happened 488 00:32:23,560 --> 00:32:24,240 Speaker 2: in the past. 489 00:32:24,440 --> 00:32:26,840 Speaker 3: Come on, let the Holy Ghost pour in the oil 490 00:32:26,920 --> 00:32:27,680 Speaker 3: and the wine. 491 00:32:28,080 --> 00:32:31,320 Speaker 2: Heal some of the wounds that have been, you know, 492 00:32:31,400 --> 00:32:34,920 Speaker 2: stifling in there, so that we can begin to believe 493 00:32:35,000 --> 00:32:38,280 Speaker 2: that what the Word of God says is actually true 494 00:32:38,480 --> 00:32:43,280 Speaker 2: and what he said he actually intends to perform. How 495 00:32:43,320 --> 00:32:46,920 Speaker 2: else are we gonna persevere, How else are we gonna 496 00:32:46,920 --> 00:32:50,840 Speaker 2: overcome unless we truly believe the word of God, not 497 00:32:51,000 --> 00:32:53,960 Speaker 2: based on our self concept, not based on what we 498 00:32:54,080 --> 00:33:02,040 Speaker 2: saw in the past, but what He's spoken. And so 499 00:33:02,160 --> 00:33:05,480 Speaker 2: it blesses me that the assume of my woman, she 500 00:33:05,640 --> 00:33:10,200 Speaker 2: received her child back, and she was able to move 501 00:33:10,240 --> 00:33:16,280 Speaker 2: forward in her life with her legacy because she persisted 502 00:33:16,800 --> 00:33:22,840 Speaker 2: in believing that God was able. Turned to Hebrews eleven. 503 00:33:28,440 --> 00:33:37,960 Speaker 2: Because you can't persevere without faith, and it's a mindset, 504 00:33:39,360 --> 00:33:52,880 Speaker 2: and it's a lifestyle, and it's a choice. 505 00:33:53,160 --> 00:33:54,320 Speaker 3: Turned to verse eleven. 506 00:34:00,920 --> 00:34:03,600 Speaker 2: It was by faith that even Sarah was able to 507 00:34:03,720 --> 00:34:07,640 Speaker 2: have a child, though she was barren and was too old. 508 00:34:07,760 --> 00:34:09,600 Speaker 3: She believed that God would keep. 509 00:34:09,440 --> 00:34:14,799 Speaker 2: His promise, and so a whole nation came from this 510 00:34:14,840 --> 00:34:18,440 Speaker 2: one man who was good as dead, a nation with 511 00:34:18,560 --> 00:34:22,200 Speaker 2: so many people, like the stars in the sky and 512 00:34:22,320 --> 00:34:27,120 Speaker 2: the sand on the seashore, there was no way to 513 00:34:27,800 --> 00:34:35,080 Speaker 2: count them. Hold on, I'm going to read it to 514 00:34:35,120 --> 00:34:46,520 Speaker 2: you in another translation. By faith, Sarah herself also received 515 00:34:46,560 --> 00:34:50,200 Speaker 2: strength to conceive seed, and she bore a child when 516 00:34:50,239 --> 00:34:53,480 Speaker 2: she was past the age because she judged him faithful 517 00:34:53,960 --> 00:35:03,160 Speaker 2: who had promised. Sarah's faith embraced God's miracle power to 518 00:35:03,280 --> 00:35:06,520 Speaker 2: conceive even though she was barren and past the age 519 00:35:06,520 --> 00:35:09,960 Speaker 2: of child bearing, for the authority of her faith rested 520 00:35:10,000 --> 00:35:14,000 Speaker 2: in the one who made the promise, and she tapped 521 00:35:14,120 --> 00:35:23,680 Speaker 2: into his faithfulness. Because of faith, Also, Sarah received I'm sorry. 522 00:35:24,040 --> 00:35:28,040 Speaker 2: Because of faith, Sarah herself received physical power to conceive 523 00:35:28,120 --> 00:35:31,719 Speaker 2: a child, even when she was passed long past the 524 00:35:31,760 --> 00:35:36,120 Speaker 2: age for it, because she considered God, who had given 525 00:35:36,160 --> 00:35:41,040 Speaker 2: her the promise, to be reliable and trustworthy and true 526 00:35:41,160 --> 00:35:47,840 Speaker 2: to his word. So this morning we're talking about God's 527 00:35:47,920 --> 00:35:51,880 Speaker 2: keeping power to the things he's already given us, to 528 00:35:51,960 --> 00:35:55,719 Speaker 2: the promises he's already fulfilled, and we're just string I'm 529 00:35:55,760 --> 00:35:59,520 Speaker 2: stirring your faith today to believe that the enemy would 530 00:35:59,600 --> 00:36:03,160 Speaker 2: love to say steal that from you. He would love 531 00:36:03,239 --> 00:36:06,359 Speaker 2: to cause it to come to an end early for 532 00:36:06,480 --> 00:36:10,719 Speaker 2: you not to receive the fullness of what God has 533 00:36:11,000 --> 00:36:17,239 Speaker 2: planned for you. And so I'm awakening you to the 534 00:36:17,680 --> 00:36:24,279 Speaker 2: proposition that even if the weapon forms, even if it 535 00:36:24,600 --> 00:36:28,319 Speaker 2: looks like it is cut off, and even if it 536 00:36:28,440 --> 00:36:33,400 Speaker 2: looks like it's past dead, would you judge him faithful 537 00:36:33,640 --> 00:36:40,280 Speaker 2: who has promised. Would you cause yourself to stir yourself 538 00:36:40,440 --> 00:36:45,359 Speaker 2: up and say he's reliable, He's trustworthy. I'm going to persevere, 539 00:36:45,600 --> 00:36:48,480 Speaker 2: I'm going to pursue, I'm gonna overtake. I'm going to 540 00:36:48,560 --> 00:36:52,799 Speaker 2: recover that which has been stolen from me. This is 541 00:36:52,880 --> 00:36:56,480 Speaker 2: the position that the Church of the Lord Jesus Christ 542 00:36:56,840 --> 00:37:01,040 Speaker 2: has to find herself in in this hour. We are 543 00:37:01,080 --> 00:37:04,560 Speaker 2: in the decade of pay, the decade of declaration, but 544 00:37:04,600 --> 00:37:09,960 Speaker 2: we are also in a decade of warfare. And what 545 00:37:10,080 --> 00:37:12,520 Speaker 2: I want you to know is that the enemy of 546 00:37:12,560 --> 00:37:16,000 Speaker 2: our souls, he's like a roaring lion. He does not 547 00:37:16,320 --> 00:37:21,279 Speaker 2: fight fair, and he is seeking those he can do 548 00:37:21,600 --> 00:37:25,799 Speaker 2: hour and guess what. He goes to the courts of 549 00:37:25,840 --> 00:37:29,120 Speaker 2: heaven to accuse the saints every day. He never quits 550 00:37:29,120 --> 00:37:33,520 Speaker 2: his job. So it's up to you to just determine 551 00:37:33,680 --> 00:37:40,680 Speaker 2: that you're not gonna be weak, apathetic and walk in 552 00:37:40,760 --> 00:37:52,120 Speaker 2: less than your inheritance. It's time. It's time. It's time 553 00:37:52,320 --> 00:37:56,040 Speaker 2: for the Church to walk in her full calling and 554 00:37:56,160 --> 00:38:00,719 Speaker 2: her full power and her full anointing. But that determines 555 00:38:00,960 --> 00:38:05,279 Speaker 2: that's determined by us. Each and every single one of 556 00:38:05,360 --> 00:38:09,480 Speaker 2: us built the church. The church is not a building. 557 00:38:10,640 --> 00:38:14,879 Speaker 2: The Church is a living, breathing organisms built up by 558 00:38:14,960 --> 00:38:18,320 Speaker 2: living stones, You and I who are being built into 559 00:38:18,400 --> 00:38:22,440 Speaker 2: a living testimony, a living temple. And so the moment 560 00:38:22,520 --> 00:38:25,239 Speaker 2: that we think the church is going to prevail and 561 00:38:25,360 --> 00:38:29,000 Speaker 2: we don't have to try to prevail, we are deceived. 562 00:38:30,680 --> 00:38:34,640 Speaker 2: So I came to shake you today. I came to 563 00:38:34,760 --> 00:38:40,720 Speaker 2: wake you up. I came to provoke you to move 564 00:38:40,920 --> 00:38:45,200 Speaker 2: out of the place of passivity into the place of perseverance. 565 00:38:46,400 --> 00:38:51,239 Speaker 2: That there's power available to you by Almighty God. There's 566 00:38:51,320 --> 00:38:55,880 Speaker 2: authority available to you by Almighty God. He already paid 567 00:38:55,920 --> 00:38:58,760 Speaker 2: the price for you to have it on Calvary. All 568 00:38:58,800 --> 00:39:01,640 Speaker 2: you've got to do is move beyond your flesh, move 569 00:39:01,760 --> 00:39:05,279 Speaker 2: beyond yourself, and step into the place of God's appointment 570 00:39:05,320 --> 00:39:09,640 Speaker 2: and assignment for you. Hell cannot stop what God has started, 571 00:39:09,840 --> 00:39:12,560 Speaker 2: and it's time for us to begin to believe what 572 00:39:12,600 --> 00:39:19,080 Speaker 2: God has said. Come on, it's time. It's time. It's 573 00:39:19,120 --> 00:39:27,440 Speaker 2: not for another time. The time is actually now. See 574 00:39:27,520 --> 00:39:32,919 Speaker 2: you know, those who don't understand the time will tell 575 00:39:32,920 --> 00:39:34,960 Speaker 2: you that there's time for you to get it right. 576 00:39:36,200 --> 00:39:39,200 Speaker 2: There's time for you to think about it. There's time 577 00:39:39,280 --> 00:39:43,239 Speaker 2: for you to do your swat analysis. And while that's 578 00:39:43,239 --> 00:39:46,440 Speaker 2: a good plan for business, I want to tell you 579 00:39:46,520 --> 00:39:54,839 Speaker 2: that the hour is short. Swat analysis strengths, weaknesses, opportunities, 580 00:39:54,880 --> 00:40:02,880 Speaker 2: and threats. Hallelujah. Don't have time for all that. We 581 00:40:02,920 --> 00:40:04,680 Speaker 2: don't have time for all that. When it comes to 582 00:40:04,719 --> 00:40:08,200 Speaker 2: your spiritual walk, He's looking for those who'll be obedient. 583 00:40:08,400 --> 00:40:12,120 Speaker 3: He's looking for those who are available who'll say yes. 584 00:40:14,320 --> 00:40:16,879 Speaker 2: And so there are many of us we're getting ready 585 00:40:16,880 --> 00:40:18,839 Speaker 2: to pray, but there are many of us who've had 586 00:40:18,960 --> 00:40:25,440 Speaker 2: internal indigestion and consternation, and we've been wrestling within ourselves, 587 00:40:25,600 --> 00:40:28,520 Speaker 2: and we've been wrestling with what God has been wanting 588 00:40:28,520 --> 00:40:30,640 Speaker 2: to do and what He's been wanting to accomplish in 589 00:40:30,680 --> 00:40:34,200 Speaker 2: our lives. And I've been encouraging you over the last 590 00:40:34,200 --> 00:40:38,680 Speaker 2: several weeks to say yes, that it's time to say yes, 591 00:40:39,280 --> 00:40:41,680 Speaker 2: that it's time to say yes to the plan of 592 00:40:41,719 --> 00:40:45,200 Speaker 2: God for your life, and then begin to move into 593 00:40:45,320 --> 00:40:49,200 Speaker 2: this place of warring in the spirit and not giving 594 00:40:49,400 --> 00:40:53,000 Speaker 2: up because this is where we are as a potty. 595 00:40:53,719 --> 00:40:55,960 Speaker 2: I'm trying to get us all on the pace of heaven, 596 00:40:56,560 --> 00:40:59,520 Speaker 2: trying to get us all on the pace of how God's. 597 00:40:59,239 --> 00:41:00,360 Speaker 3: Moving in this season. 598 00:41:01,080 --> 00:41:04,560 Speaker 2: And if we're going to stay under this canopy of 599 00:41:04,760 --> 00:41:08,719 Speaker 2: miraculous blessing, of this canopy of provision, then we've got 600 00:41:08,719 --> 00:41:12,040 Speaker 2: to move when God says move, Come on. It might 601 00:41:12,120 --> 00:41:14,279 Speaker 2: not be when it's convenient for you. It may not 602 00:41:14,400 --> 00:41:16,600 Speaker 2: be when you thought it should happen. It may not 603 00:41:16,719 --> 00:41:19,600 Speaker 2: happen in the order of which you thought it may 604 00:41:19,600 --> 00:41:21,439 Speaker 2: not have happened the way history. 605 00:41:21,120 --> 00:41:22,320 Speaker 3: Said it was gonna happen. 606 00:41:22,600 --> 00:41:25,640 Speaker 2: But God is moving at this time, and it's time 607 00:41:25,680 --> 00:41:28,239 Speaker 2: for you to hear God for yourself and for you 608 00:41:28,320 --> 00:41:31,680 Speaker 2: to say, yes, God, I'm moving forward. I'm moving forward 609 00:41:31,680 --> 00:41:34,400 Speaker 2: into the fullness. I'm moving into the fullness of what. 610 00:41:34,320 --> 00:41:35,040 Speaker 3: You have for me. 611 00:41:36,480 --> 00:41:39,080 Speaker 2: And I'm not going to allow any assignment from the 612 00:41:39,239 --> 00:41:42,120 Speaker 2: devil to cut anything off before it's time. 613 00:41:48,400 --> 00:41:49,280 Speaker 3: This is serious. 614 00:41:56,400 --> 00:42:00,520 Speaker 2: This is serious because in a former time, we had 615 00:42:00,600 --> 00:42:03,760 Speaker 2: time for you to figure this out. Now the Lord's 616 00:42:03,840 --> 00:42:06,600 Speaker 2: just looking for those who will do it do it 617 00:42:06,680 --> 00:42:09,839 Speaker 2: his way, and that's why there's been such a big 618 00:42:09,880 --> 00:42:10,960 Speaker 2: shift of influence. 619 00:42:11,080 --> 00:42:12,120 Speaker 3: And people who you. 620 00:42:12,040 --> 00:42:15,080 Speaker 2: Didn't know just come on the scene and you're like, WHOA, 621 00:42:15,360 --> 00:42:16,440 Speaker 2: where did they come from? 622 00:42:16,680 --> 00:42:17,880 Speaker 3: WHOA? They just obeyed. 623 00:42:19,440 --> 00:42:23,239 Speaker 2: They just said God, you you chose me, You picked me, 624 00:42:23,520 --> 00:42:25,840 Speaker 2: and I'm gonna say yes to whatever it is that 625 00:42:25,920 --> 00:42:33,040 Speaker 2: you need me to do because I'm your bond servant. 626 00:42:36,239 --> 00:42:44,200 Speaker 2: So just bow your head right where you are and 627 00:42:44,320 --> 00:43:00,960 Speaker 2: let's just examine our hearts today. Father, we thank you 628 00:43:03,640 --> 00:43:07,560 Speaker 2: that your promises are yes and amen, and that you 629 00:43:07,719 --> 00:43:12,000 Speaker 2: are looking for partners. And even though you could do 630 00:43:12,320 --> 00:43:17,120 Speaker 2: everything on your own Yet, and still you choose us, 631 00:43:17,640 --> 00:43:22,800 Speaker 2: who are frail, who have limited capacity, who have limited understanding, 632 00:43:22,920 --> 00:43:26,560 Speaker 2: to be your partners, to be the conduits by which 633 00:43:26,600 --> 00:43:31,000 Speaker 2: you reach others, to be the manifestation of the promise 634 00:43:31,120 --> 00:43:34,800 Speaker 2: and the power of God in the earth. And so today, Lord, 635 00:43:35,120 --> 00:43:39,000 Speaker 2: I'm praying for everyone connected to this house. I'm praying 636 00:43:39,000 --> 00:43:41,600 Speaker 2: for everyone who is under the sound of my voice 637 00:43:41,600 --> 00:43:42,320 Speaker 2: in this time. 638 00:43:42,440 --> 00:43:46,480 Speaker 3: God, I'm praying for a fresh touch. Lord. I'm praying 639 00:43:46,520 --> 00:43:49,319 Speaker 3: that you would enlighten the eyes of their understanding. 640 00:43:49,400 --> 00:43:52,719 Speaker 2: God, not to see how big the mountain is, but God, 641 00:43:52,800 --> 00:43:55,440 Speaker 2: to see how great you are and the purpose for 642 00:43:55,520 --> 00:43:56,520 Speaker 2: which you've called them for. 643 00:43:56,640 --> 00:43:58,719 Speaker 3: In this time, Father, I thank you. 644 00:43:59,320 --> 00:44:02,799 Speaker 2: I thank you today that there's something that has been 645 00:44:02,880 --> 00:44:04,560 Speaker 2: unlocked in their spirit. 646 00:44:04,640 --> 00:44:04,879 Speaker 3: Man. 647 00:44:04,920 --> 00:44:08,760 Speaker 2: Today, I thank you that today is a line of demarcation. 648 00:44:08,920 --> 00:44:11,120 Speaker 3: God, I thank you that today. 649 00:44:10,800 --> 00:44:14,120 Speaker 2: We have a clear choice to move forward into those 650 00:44:14,120 --> 00:44:16,799 Speaker 2: things that you've called us into. God, I thank you 651 00:44:17,040 --> 00:44:20,000 Speaker 2: that today is a clarion call, that today is a 652 00:44:20,520 --> 00:44:23,440 Speaker 2: yes moment. And God, I thank you that you're giving 653 00:44:23,520 --> 00:44:27,480 Speaker 2: us the opportunity again to say yes to your will 654 00:44:27,680 --> 00:44:33,440 Speaker 2: without reservation. Hallelujah, hallelujah to your name. Lord, that you 655 00:44:33,600 --> 00:44:37,600 Speaker 2: love us so much that you're slow. You're slow, and 656 00:44:37,640 --> 00:44:41,399 Speaker 2: you're always offering us that opportunity to repent and get 657 00:44:41,440 --> 00:44:45,279 Speaker 2: in position. So God, we thank you today for alignment 658 00:44:45,600 --> 00:44:49,240 Speaker 2: to not just our will, but we just declare, right now, 659 00:44:49,440 --> 00:44:52,720 Speaker 2: let your kingdom come, let your will be done. God, 660 00:44:53,040 --> 00:44:57,800 Speaker 2: we place our agenda on the altar today, concepts places 661 00:44:57,800 --> 00:45:00,560 Speaker 2: where we felt failure and even in the past, where 662 00:45:00,600 --> 00:45:03,959 Speaker 2: we've said no, where there's been a clear opportunity, where 663 00:45:04,000 --> 00:45:06,799 Speaker 2: you've called a name to us, where you've told us 664 00:45:06,800 --> 00:45:09,279 Speaker 2: to sew, where you've told us to go, where you 665 00:45:09,440 --> 00:45:11,919 Speaker 2: told us, yes, you'll be here and you'll serve here. 666 00:45:12,040 --> 00:45:15,440 Speaker 2: And we've had a bad attitude and we've complained. And God, 667 00:45:15,480 --> 00:45:18,320 Speaker 2: we just repent right now in the name of Jesus, 668 00:45:18,600 --> 00:45:21,360 Speaker 2: and we say God, we thank you that you chose 669 00:45:21,440 --> 00:45:25,080 Speaker 2: us for such a time as this. Now, God, we're available. 670 00:45:25,360 --> 00:45:28,360 Speaker 2: We say yes to your will, we say yes to 671 00:45:28,480 --> 00:45:31,719 Speaker 2: your way. And God, I thank you for this prophetic 672 00:45:31,840 --> 00:45:35,160 Speaker 2: picture of this Shoona my woman. God, I thank you 673 00:45:35,480 --> 00:45:37,960 Speaker 2: that she was one who was not willing to let 674 00:45:37,960 --> 00:45:40,800 Speaker 2: her son's life be cut off, but she was one 675 00:45:41,000 --> 00:45:45,240 Speaker 2: who pursued you and recovered all and so now God, 676 00:45:45,520 --> 00:45:50,040 Speaker 2: I pray resurrection life over every dead situation, over every 677 00:45:50,120 --> 00:45:55,080 Speaker 2: broken marriage, over every way we'd child, over every broken identity, 678 00:45:55,360 --> 00:45:57,280 Speaker 2: over every confused mind. 679 00:45:57,640 --> 00:45:59,800 Speaker 3: I cancel the assignment. 680 00:45:59,360 --> 00:46:02,239 Speaker 2: Of the Inn in the name of Jesus that has 681 00:46:02,320 --> 00:46:06,680 Speaker 2: come to bring confusion and distraction and hindrance. And I'll 682 00:46:06,680 --> 00:46:09,959 Speaker 2: plead the blood that speaks a better word. And I'll 683 00:46:10,000 --> 00:46:14,160 Speaker 2: lose the host of heaven today to begin to break chains, 684 00:46:14,360 --> 00:46:17,720 Speaker 2: to bring breakthrough in the name of Jesus. And God, 685 00:46:17,760 --> 00:46:21,200 Speaker 2: we thank you. Come on, somebody give him thanks right now, 686 00:46:22,880 --> 00:46:27,160 Speaker 2: give him glory right now, right where you are. God, 687 00:46:27,200 --> 00:46:32,600 Speaker 2: we thank you that you've chosen us. God, we thank 688 00:46:32,680 --> 00:46:35,879 Speaker 2: you that there's not another company of people that need 689 00:46:35,960 --> 00:46:36,799 Speaker 2: our assignment. 690 00:46:37,080 --> 00:46:38,200 Speaker 3: We're stepping on in. 691 00:46:38,520 --> 00:46:42,000 Speaker 2: We're saying yes, God, We're saying we're willing to be 692 00:46:42,160 --> 00:46:45,200 Speaker 2: your voice, to be your vessel. Come on and send 693 00:46:45,239 --> 00:46:47,879 Speaker 2: to your feet in this place. Come on and lift 694 00:46:48,000 --> 00:46:52,840 Speaker 2: up a prayer. Come on, release your spirit language right now, 695 00:46:53,080 --> 00:46:55,920 Speaker 2: I feel heaven shay Kate Aboshaha. 696 00:46:58,320 --> 00:47:00,120 Speaker 3: Strength is being released. 697 00:46:59,760 --> 00:47:03,840 Speaker 2: Right now to be able to stand, come on to 698 00:47:03,960 --> 00:47:08,080 Speaker 2: persevere and having done all, be able to stand and 699 00:47:08,120 --> 00:47:12,600 Speaker 2: be counted. Said today boshakha, Oh God, we thank you 700 00:47:13,239 --> 00:47:18,040 Speaker 2: that we we're standing on your word. We're not standing 701 00:47:18,040 --> 00:47:22,120 Speaker 2: on our authority. We're not standing because we can stand, 702 00:47:22,360 --> 00:47:25,680 Speaker 2: but we're standing because you won all and now we 703 00:47:25,719 --> 00:47:28,280 Speaker 2: can stand in the power of your mind. 704 00:47:28,600 --> 00:47:32,080 Speaker 3: Come on and lean in. Come on, give twenty two. 705 00:47:32,000 --> 00:47:35,800 Speaker 2: Minutes in tongues right now, pray in the hole egos. 706 00:47:39,560 --> 00:47:43,359 Speaker 2: Come on, something's beginning to shift in your spirit. Man. 707 00:47:43,360 --> 00:47:46,440 Speaker 2: There's a download from heaven for this hour. 708 00:47:46,880 --> 00:47:48,920 Speaker 3: Receive it by faith right now. 709 00:47:51,160 --> 00:47:54,000 Speaker 2: You're gonna need it for what is coming head today. 710 00:47:54,040 --> 00:47:55,760 Speaker 3: Boshah kn't tedy. 711 00:47:55,640 --> 00:48:00,560 Speaker 2: Bo sana mahaya, Lord, I thank you that you are Jehovahira. 712 00:48:00,880 --> 00:48:03,680 Speaker 2: You see our need and prevent in advance and you 713 00:48:03,880 --> 00:48:08,160 Speaker 2: make provision. So right now we receive the deposit from 714 00:48:08,200 --> 00:48:12,520 Speaker 2: heaven today for what's coming because you're equipping us in 715 00:48:12,640 --> 00:48:16,440 Speaker 2: the spirit. You're equipping us in our inner man, and 716 00:48:16,480 --> 00:48:22,000 Speaker 2: we thank you God. Shed posa. Come on, you just 717 00:48:22,120 --> 00:48:27,040 Speaker 2: praying the Holy goos. Let that river flow. Hey, halla Asanda. 718 00:48:29,600 --> 00:48:32,440 Speaker 2: If you don't have a prayer language, you can begin 719 00:48:32,520 --> 00:48:34,080 Speaker 2: to pray in English. 720 00:48:33,840 --> 00:48:36,520 Speaker 3: And just say God, I thank you, I thank you 721 00:48:36,600 --> 00:48:37,319 Speaker 3: God that. 722 00:48:37,360 --> 00:48:39,839 Speaker 2: You've called me to be more than a conqueror. 723 00:48:39,880 --> 00:48:40,600 Speaker 3: Through Christ. 724 00:48:40,800 --> 00:48:44,320 Speaker 2: I thank you that you've given me authority to root 725 00:48:44,320 --> 00:48:47,760 Speaker 2: out and to pluck up and to pull down strongholds 726 00:48:47,880 --> 00:48:50,359 Speaker 2: out of God. I thank you that you've called me 727 00:48:50,680 --> 00:48:53,480 Speaker 2: to be more, to be more. And so now I 728 00:48:53,760 --> 00:48:58,279 Speaker 2: just release my agenda, I release my ideas of what 729 00:48:58,320 --> 00:49:01,920 Speaker 2: that was gonna look like, and I place myself in position. 730 00:49:02,360 --> 00:49:06,640 Speaker 2: I place myself as available unto you God, because your 731 00:49:06,680 --> 00:49:09,520 Speaker 2: ways are higher than my ways. Oh, your thoughts are 732 00:49:09,600 --> 00:49:12,759 Speaker 2: higher than my thoughts. And Father, I thank you that 733 00:49:12,880 --> 00:49:16,120 Speaker 2: there's more that you have for your son. There's more 734 00:49:16,239 --> 00:49:18,720 Speaker 2: that you have for your daughter. There's more. 735 00:49:18,880 --> 00:49:19,160 Speaker 3: God. 736 00:49:19,440 --> 00:49:22,200 Speaker 2: I thank you that I don't have to live limited 737 00:49:22,320 --> 00:49:26,160 Speaker 2: to my mentality. But God, you have destined me to 738 00:49:26,280 --> 00:49:28,759 Speaker 2: live in a punt in life. And so today I 739 00:49:28,880 --> 00:49:32,759 Speaker 2: place myself in the river of God. I place myself 740 00:49:33,040 --> 00:49:35,840 Speaker 2: in the river of God to receive all that you 741 00:49:36,000 --> 00:49:39,160 Speaker 2: have for me by the power of the Holy Spirit. 742 00:49:39,400 --> 00:49:42,840 Speaker 2: Come on, just begin to release your prayer. Come on 743 00:49:42,920 --> 00:50:04,520 Speaker 2: and release your spiritual language. Right now, Father, we thank you, 744 00:50:07,880 --> 00:50:11,600 Speaker 2: We thank you for an opportunity to judge you properly. 745 00:50:13,880 --> 00:50:16,680 Speaker 2: Even as the Word declared that Sarah. 746 00:50:16,360 --> 00:50:19,200 Speaker 3: Judged you faithful. 747 00:50:18,440 --> 00:50:23,040 Speaker 2: God, we repent right now for judging you, for blaming 748 00:50:23,160 --> 00:50:26,680 Speaker 2: you for disappointments. Come on and do business with Cod 749 00:50:26,800 --> 00:50:32,239 Speaker 2: right now and release that hindrance in your life. Come 750 00:50:32,280 --> 00:50:35,080 Speaker 2: on and repent for those times where you blame God, 751 00:50:35,360 --> 00:50:38,759 Speaker 2: where you've made him responsible for the negative things, for 752 00:50:38,920 --> 00:50:42,879 Speaker 2: the pain, where it's blocked you from receiving what God has. 753 00:50:42,960 --> 00:50:46,280 Speaker 3: Come on and do business with him right now. God, 754 00:50:46,360 --> 00:50:47,280 Speaker 3: we thank you. 755 00:50:48,280 --> 00:50:51,160 Speaker 2: That first John one nine is our portion that if 756 00:50:51,239 --> 00:50:54,120 Speaker 2: we confess our sins, you are faithful and just to 757 00:50:54,160 --> 00:50:58,319 Speaker 2: cleanse us and forgive us from all unrighteousness. And so God, 758 00:50:58,360 --> 00:51:01,360 Speaker 2: we repent this morning for every time where we have 759 00:51:01,480 --> 00:51:04,640 Speaker 2: judged you as unrighteous, where we have thought in our 760 00:51:04,719 --> 00:51:07,520 Speaker 2: mind and in our heart that you might let us down, 761 00:51:07,760 --> 00:51:10,640 Speaker 2: that you might be unfaithful to your word. God, we 762 00:51:10,760 --> 00:51:14,759 Speaker 2: let it coded. Hey, we repent, We turn. We decide 763 00:51:14,960 --> 00:51:19,320 Speaker 2: within ourselves to chudge you faithful, to chut you trustworthy. 764 00:51:19,560 --> 00:51:22,160 Speaker 2: Oh God, we thank you that you are worthy of 765 00:51:22,200 --> 00:51:25,480 Speaker 2: our trust, that you are worthy of our praise. 766 00:51:25,719 --> 00:51:30,319 Speaker 3: You are worthy of our whole heart. Come on, you 767 00:51:30,360 --> 00:51:32,600 Speaker 3: do business with him. There are many of. 768 00:51:32,600 --> 00:51:35,040 Speaker 2: Us today that need to just say, God, I return 769 00:51:35,120 --> 00:51:38,200 Speaker 2: to my first love, I return to my first love. 770 00:51:44,360 --> 00:51:46,480 Speaker 2: Come on, then, your neighbor doesn't have to hear you, 771 00:51:47,120 --> 00:51:53,360 Speaker 2: but Heaven needs to hear you. Hindrances are gonna fall 772 00:51:53,400 --> 00:51:54,240 Speaker 2: as you repent. 773 00:51:56,160 --> 00:51:58,600 Speaker 3: The weight of God's gloria is gonna fall on you 774 00:51:58,680 --> 00:52:05,000 Speaker 3: as you let go. Come on and receive forgiveness from 775 00:52:05,080 --> 00:52:14,920 Speaker 3: the Master. Thank you, Jesus, Thank you. 776 00:52:15,000 --> 00:52:17,680 Speaker 2: Jesus that you love us too much to let us 777 00:52:17,680 --> 00:52:19,080 Speaker 2: stay the same, and. 778 00:52:19,040 --> 00:52:22,719 Speaker 3: So you give us opportunity to get it right. 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