Speaker 1: Hey, this is Stephen Ferdick. I'm the pastor of Elevation
Speaker 1: Church and this is our podcast. I wanted to thank
Speaker 1: you for joining us today. Hope this inspires you. Hope
Speaker 1: it builds your faith. Hope it gives you perspective to
Speaker 1: see God is moving in your life. Enjoy the message.
Speaker 1: What I want to say on every location, and I
Speaker 1: want to make sure I say this. The greatest communicator
Speaker 1: on planet Earth is about to stand in this pulpit
Speaker 1: and bring forth the word of God. Thank you Bishop
Speaker 1: for being my true north. Thank you for being my friend.
Speaker 1: Thank you for being a pioneer. Thank you for being
Speaker 1: an example. Preach this word before I turn forty. Eleve
Speaker 1: says sharks, let's welcome on me. Only be it comparable,
Speaker 1: please l cd ejach what's that? If you love Jesus?
Speaker 1: Why Glory said? I said, I have you gotta have
Speaker 1: energy to go to this church. I gotta take Jared Toll,
Speaker 1: Invitamin D and C and E and F and get
Speaker 1: my knees all and everything to pull with y'all. Y'all
Speaker 1: are rowdy? Anybody rowdy for Jesus in this glak Wow? Well,
Speaker 1: thank you for letting me be here on your birthday.
Speaker 1: In the church's fourteenth anniversary, we celebrate you. My lovely
Speaker 1: wife celebrates your stand up honey, show them my deg you.
Speaker 1: The finest grandmama I saw in my life, five kids,
Speaker 1: nine grand kids is still rocketed. She can still twork
Speaker 1: for the Lord and give God a praise. See that
Speaker 1: spirit that was on you jumped on me, cast it out. Well,
Speaker 1: I'm going to do something in the third service that
Speaker 1: we didn't get to do in the first service. And
Speaker 1: this is just part of my way of celebrating. Your
Speaker 1: Pastor texts me at least twice a week, and if
Speaker 1: I preach something really good, he calls me. That's my barometer.
Speaker 1: There are levels. If he doesn't call or text, I
Speaker 1: go into depression. I think I just completely failed. He
Speaker 1: missed about three weeks. I said, what's wrong with you?
Speaker 1: Call me say something. We love you. It's not a
Speaker 1: slage love. It's not a in front of people love.
Speaker 1: It's it's a deep, abiding love. So much of your
Speaker 1: story is like mine. You came up from a small
Speaker 1: town in the rural area in monks Creek. It is
Speaker 1: it ought to be monks Creek, a monk's corner and
Speaker 1: he came out of Monks Corner and then Charlotte. I
Speaker 1: grew up in Charleston, West Mcgod, Virginia, you gotta throw
Speaker 1: the back God in there. You're not a true West Virginia.
Speaker 1: Take me home Country Road to the place I belong
Speaker 1: West Virginia, Mount Marma Tigh Country Road. I just had
Speaker 1: to authenticate that I am a true West Virginia when
Speaker 1: you know all the words to that's all. You are
Speaker 1: from West Virginia. And God sent me to Dallas, Texas,
Speaker 1: and I had whatever happened in my life happened in
Speaker 1: my life, and I just so relate to you in
Speaker 1: so many ways. And I was trying to think of
Speaker 1: something to commemorate because he's always getting me all these
Speaker 1: cool shoes, and I got big feet, you know. So
Speaker 1: he gets me the shoes and then calls me and
Speaker 1: asks me, did I get all my toes in them?
Speaker 1: So I started to get you some cool shoes, but
Speaker 1: I wasn't sure you could get all your toes in them.
Speaker 1: But I do want to make a presentation to you
Speaker 1: that I thought reminded me of you. And this is
Speaker 1: part of my birthday present to you. And I hope
Speaker 1: the right thing is under here, because this is great faith,
Speaker 1: because I didn't get to check behind. So if I
Speaker 1: unveiling and it's the wrong thing, I'm going to cover
Speaker 1: it up. Then for the first time in my intern life,
Speaker 1: I'm going to turn red. Okay, because you, as a
Speaker 1: very young man, did such amazing things that shook the world,
Speaker 1: that transcended denominations and culture and ethnicities and backgrounds and
Speaker 1: politics and generational ideologies. Shook the world in such a
Speaker 1: powerful way. When I think of Bible characters, I thought
Speaker 1: of David. I think you are a giant killer, and
Speaker 1: so I had them get this bronze statue so that
Speaker 1: you could put this somewhere in your life and every
Speaker 1: time you run into something big or feel in anequin
Speaker 1: or wonder can you do it? Brought this David to
Speaker 1: remind you that the head of the giant is under
Speaker 1: your feet. And this is my sermony. You come on
Speaker 1: up close. You've been coming up a while I was preaching.
Speaker 1: Look at it. I paid a lot of money for this.
Speaker 1: Want you I wanted I want you to get the
Speaker 1: impact that everything that roared against you is under you,
Speaker 1: and your sword is grown, and you are good. And
Speaker 1: every time you think of it. I want you to
Speaker 1: tell the Lord to bless me. Will you do that
Speaker 1: for me? I love you. Give it up for him.
Speaker 1: Thank you hug somebody while you're standing there until he
Speaker 1: turned blue. I'm grateful to be here. You can be seated.
Speaker 1: Doctor Andipus. What you're saying, Doctor Andapus runs my new
Speaker 1: Jake's Divinity School, giving up for him. He comes up
Speaker 1: here to make sure that I'm theologically in order and correct,
Speaker 1: and he's running my school for me. Now. I just
Speaker 1: started an online Jake's Divinity School is also online in Dallas,
Speaker 1: and we're proud to announce it. Thank you for being here,
Speaker 1: playing hooky away from church. I'm gonna get you later, amen.
Speaker 1: I'm all through the other service. I kept I was preaching.
Speaker 1: I kept looking at this guy that looked like Mike
Speaker 1: Todd and I said, gosh, looks just like my car.
Speaker 1: And I thought I might text you later and tell
Speaker 1: you that you have a look alike in Charlotte, and
Speaker 1: I found out, No, it's not his twin brother. It's
Speaker 1: really him giving up him and his lovely wife I
Speaker 1: just met. Stand up, take a bow, let's celebrate them. Yeah,
Speaker 1: I appreciation. This is just good. Since you're both here,
Speaker 1: I got a breg. I got both of them preaching
Speaker 1: at my leadership conference right here in Charlotte in April
Speaker 1: thirtieth through May. A second, I'm not worried about no
Speaker 1: devils being nowhere between Steven Ferdick and Mike Todd. All
Speaker 1: the devils have moved down to Charlotte. They're scared to
Speaker 1: be around. Amen. Thank god I've got them. Kean Henderson,
Speaker 1: myself and a whole lot of others invite you to
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Speaker 1: Lord with Denzel Washington, Tyler Period, a whole bunch of people.
Speaker 1: It's going to be absolutely unlike anything you have, whether
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Speaker 1: to him into coming, but what's really cool about him,
Speaker 1: there's a lot of billionaires out He's a born again
Speaker 1: bloodwa wash spirit, feel loves Jesus, and he's going to
Speaker 1: show you how to use your faith to move your finances.
Speaker 1: To the next level, because God's getting ready to pour
Speaker 1: out wealth on these people like we've never seen before,
Speaker 1: so that we can have impact in this present world.
Speaker 1: Shall all a millionaires shout out an idiot. That's what
Speaker 1: I'm talking about. That's what I'm talking about. It's going
Speaker 1: to be good anyway. Thank you Jesus, Thank God, Thank
Speaker 1: God for your life, thank God for this church. Go
Speaker 1: to the Book of Acts, chapter eight, verse one through eight,
Speaker 1: and while you turn into it, I want to tell
Speaker 1: you about my dog Pup. You know, you're not very
Speaker 1: creative when you get a dog and you name him pup.
Speaker 1: He was just a puppy and Mama said, what are
Speaker 1: you gonna name him? I said, well, let's call him Pup.
Speaker 1: So he grew to me that high. But we still
Speaker 1: called him Pup and he was nice to us, but
Speaker 1: he would terrorize the community, so we had to keep
Speaker 1: him chained and a little. I lived in a little
Speaker 1: raggedy house on the side of the hill, on the
Speaker 1: backside of a mountain in Charlton, West Virginia, and half
Speaker 1: of the house was on the mountain. Another half was
Speaker 1: supported by four by four posts, and we had him
Speaker 1: tied to the posts on the chain, and we didn't
Speaker 1: know that he could break the chain until one day
Speaker 1: this young man came down there on the bicycle and
Speaker 1: he was moving real fast, you know, on the bicycle,
Speaker 1: and that he's now, he's been in my church, gosh
Speaker 1: forty years now. But at that time, I was just
Speaker 1: a little boy, and we didn't know that Pup could
Speaker 1: break the chain. But Pup showed us that when what
Speaker 1: he wanted in front of him was bigger than what
Speaker 1: was behind him, he broke the chain that held him
Speaker 1: and went to the next level. And I'm believing God
Speaker 1: for everybody in here to do some chain breaking in
Speaker 1: your life. Hey man, any chain breakers in the room,
Speaker 1: tell somebody, tell him I'm a chain breaker. I want
Speaker 1: you to go to the Book of Acts eight, verse one,
Speaker 1: and if you want to make me feel real and home,
Speaker 1: stand for the reading of the word. Just because we
Speaker 1: stood for everybody else, we might as well stand for God.
Speaker 1: Beginning at verse one, I'm going to read eight simple
Speaker 1: verses I will extrapolate from the text. I think I'm
Speaker 1: going to I think I'm going to just use Pup
Speaker 1: as an example and just call it chain breaker. And
Speaker 1: look at him as said I'm a chain breaker. And
Speaker 1: Saul was consenting unto his death. And at that time
Speaker 1: there was a great persecution against the Church which was
Speaker 1: at Jerusalem, and they were all scattered abroad throughout the
Speaker 1: regions of Judea and Samaria, except the apostles and devout
Speaker 1: men carried Step into his burial and made great lamentations
Speaker 1: over him. This is the embryotic stages of the development
Speaker 1: of the church. The church hadn't even really come into
Speaker 1: the realization of who it really was. It had power,
Speaker 1: it had purpose, but it didn't even understand itself fully.
Speaker 1: It didn't have structure or order. As for Saul, he
Speaker 1: made havoc of the church. Saul, who would later become
Speaker 1: converted and be one of the greatest participants of the church,
Speaker 1: had not come into the awareness of who he was.
Speaker 1: So the church, who didn't know who he was, was
Speaker 1: being persecuted by a man who didn't know who he was.
Speaker 1: As for Saul, he made havoc of the church, entering
Speaker 1: into every house and hailing men and women, committing them
Speaker 1: to prison, hauling men and women and committing them unto prison.
Speaker 1: Therefore they were scattered abroad. They were therefore therefore therefore, therefore,
Speaker 1: because of the persecution. Therefore, because of the persecution, they
Speaker 1: were scattered abroad and went everywhere preaching the Gospel. Then Philip,
Speaker 1: then Philip, Then Philip went. Then Philip went down to Samaria,
Speaker 1: to the city of Samaria, and preached Christ unto them.
Speaker 1: And the people with one accord gave heed unto those
Speaker 1: things which Philip spake. Hearing and seeing the miracles which
Speaker 1: he did, they heard what he said, they watched what
Speaker 1: he did. For unclean spirits, crying with a loud voice
Speaker 1: came out of many that were possessed with them, and
Speaker 1: many were taken, many taken with palsy, and that were
Speaker 1: lame were healed, and there was great what joy in
Speaker 1: that city. Chain breakers, Let's pray, Father, in the name
Speaker 1: of Jesus, I pray that your presence and power would
Speaker 1: prevail in this place today, that your glory would emanate
Speaker 1: through the Word of God, that it would touch lives,
Speaker 1: that it wouldn't just touch us, but it would touch
Speaker 1: all that concerns us, all that is around us, all
Speaker 1: that we envelop I pray God that this would be
Speaker 1: the kind of yoke breaking, thirst, quenching, mind, renewing Chain
Speaker 1: breaking word that releases the captives and sets him free,
Speaker 1: that heals the lame that binds up the broken hearted.
Speaker 1: I pray a special prayer for people whose heart has
Speaker 1: been broken today and they bear a pain that no
Speaker 1: medicine can heal. But today, in the name of Jesus,
Speaker 1: I pray that healing would break out in the hearts
Speaker 1: of not only this campus, but every campus that is watching.
Speaker 1: I speak. Healing and deliverance have your way in this
Speaker 1: place in the name of Jesus, we pray, and I
Speaker 1: need everybody with a sound of thunder to shout amen.
Speaker 1: You may be seated in the presence of God. Next
Speaker 1: time you introduce me, bring it down like quite a bit,
Speaker 1: you know, bring the expectation level down. Turn it down
Speaker 1: a little bit. I'd rather you about there and that way.
Speaker 1: If I hit there, I'm up. But if you put
Speaker 1: it up there, I have to leap up like Magic
Speaker 1: Johnson to get there. So pray for me. Somebody shout amen.
Speaker 1: We are in the Book of Acts. It has wrongly
Speaker 1: been called the acts of the Apostles, when in fact,
Speaker 1: with careful ste you will understand it is not so
Speaker 1: much the acts of the Apostles. It is in fact
Speaker 1: the acts of God. It is the acts of God
Speaker 1: through the apostles in the early formation of the Church.
Speaker 1: This book is written by Luke. It is a continuation
Speaker 1: of the Gospel of Luke and initially was not divided.
Speaker 1: Later it was divided from the book, but it continues
Speaker 1: the thoughts of Luke when he says, so, former treaties
Speaker 1: have I made in acts one to one? The former
Speaker 1: treaties have I made? O Theophilus, of all that Jesus
Speaker 1: began both to do and to teach, the indication is
Speaker 1: that Jesus began it, but he is not finished. Of
Speaker 1: all that Jesus began both to do and to teach
Speaker 1: into Samaria Judea in the utmost parts of the earth.
Speaker 1: It is just that the Jesus that is doing it
Speaker 1: now is not doing it through the body he initially
Speaker 1: did it through. But rather than to do it through
Speaker 1: his physical body, he is now doing it through his
Speaker 1: mystical body. But it is still him. There are very
Speaker 1: few occasions that we see the physical body and the
Speaker 1: mystical body in the same place, like we do at
Speaker 1: the Passover. Allow me to share what I mean. At
Speaker 1: the Passover service, you see all aspects of the Body
Speaker 1: of Christ. You see the physical body of Christ, and
Speaker 1: through the bread and the wine, you see the memorial
Speaker 1: body of Christ serving the physical body of Christ is
Speaker 1: serving the memorial body of Christ to the mystical body
Speaker 1: of Christ, who is the Church. And they're all at
Speaker 1: the table together. So the Body of Christ says to
Speaker 1: the Body of Christ, says, take eat, this is my body,
Speaker 1: and we see all three manifestations of one body in
Speaker 1: one place. Had the enemy understood what I just said,
Speaker 1: he would have never crucified the Lord, because when he
Speaker 1: crucified the Lord, he crucified the Lord to get the
Speaker 1: Body of Christ out of the earth. But all the
Speaker 1: Body of Christ did was move from the physical body
Speaker 1: of Christ into the mystical body of Christ so that
Speaker 1: the work of God could continue. And that's who you are.
Speaker 1: Your name is not James or Robert or Richard or
Speaker 1: Angela or Shaniqua. No, no, your name. Yeah, I gotta
Speaker 1: cover everybody. This is an equal opportunity to uri say, man,
Speaker 1: somebody that is not really your name, Your name is
Speaker 1: really Christ Jesus. Yes, Because when the Father looks at you,
Speaker 1: he does not see you as an individual. He sees
Speaker 1: you as Jesus Christ, because Christ has covered you in
Speaker 1: such a way that the truth of the miner is.
Speaker 1: When Christ was on the cross, God didn't see his son,
Speaker 1: he saw your sin, and so when he reacted to
Speaker 1: what he saw, and Christ was smitten of God, confused, saying,
Speaker 1: elie lie lama, sabothane, God, my God, why is forsaking me?
Speaker 1: The reason that he felt forsaken is that he was
Speaker 1: covered up with you so that you could be covered
Speaker 1: up with him, so that the life that you now
Speaker 1: live in the flesh, you live by the faith of
Speaker 1: the son of God, who loved himself and gave himself
Speaker 1: a ransom for you. I'll prove it to you, so
Speaker 1: Jesus tells you. When you go to the Father, don't
Speaker 1: use your name because he can't see you. But whatsoever
Speaker 1: you ask the Father in my name, that will I do. So.
Speaker 1: When you come to the Father in the name of Jesus,
Speaker 1: it's only because you look like Jesus, for his blood
Speaker 1: is the propitiation of your sin and has so covered you.
Speaker 1: That's why you can come boldly to the throne of grace.
Speaker 1: You don't have to walk up with your head down,
Speaker 1: ashamed of your sins because your sins were judged on
Speaker 1: the cross. You can come like the beloved Son because
Speaker 1: you are covered with the Beloved Son. And you got
Speaker 1: to remember to use his name to somebody, say say Jesus,
Speaker 1: Say Jesus, Say Jesus, Say Jesus, Say Jesus. When you come,
Speaker 1: say Jesus, because you're wearing Jesus and you're walking in Jesus,
Speaker 1: and you're moving in Jesus, and you're living in Jesus.
Speaker 1: In him. I live in Him, I move in Him.
Speaker 1: I have my being. And the Church is really trying
Speaker 1: to get his hands around this whole notion of who
Speaker 1: they are and understanding themselves because the Holy Spirit has
Speaker 1: fallen on the Day of Pentecosts in Night chapter one,
Speaker 1: verse eight, and they have received this power, this power
Speaker 1: from God which is so amazing and so incomprehensible that
Speaker 1: they will spend the rest of their lives understanding how
Speaker 1: to operate in this new dimension of the spirit. They
Speaker 1: do not have deaconshit they do know how to have
Speaker 1: elders or pastors or apostles that will come with Paul.
Speaker 1: They just have power. But power without structure is a
Speaker 1: dangerous thing. Do you hear what I'm saying. The Holy
Speaker 1: Spirit has fallen with such power in that chapter one,
Speaker 1: and that's chapter two, that whenever there were problems to arise,
Speaker 1: they would all gather in Jerusalem because they were afraid
Speaker 1: to get out of Jerusalem because they didn't feel ready yet.
Speaker 1: Have you ever not felt ready yet? And you knew
Speaker 1: God was going to do some amazing things in your life,
Speaker 1: but you didn't have all your details together, and you
Speaker 1: didn't have everything worked out yet, and you felt like
Speaker 1: destiny was moving faster than revelation was in your life,
Speaker 1: and you were walking by faith and not by sight.
Speaker 1: That was the feeling of the early Jight. So whenever
Speaker 1: we don't know what to do, we hang around what
Speaker 1: we know. And whenever we hang around what we know
Speaker 1: too long, God has to send something to get us
Speaker 1: to move. Because being a christ which they weren't even
Speaker 1: named yet at this point, being a Christian is not
Speaker 1: a monument. It is a movement. It is a movement.
Speaker 1: It is a movement, not a monument. It's not a building.
Speaker 1: It's not a denomination, it's not a doctrine. It's a movement.
Speaker 1: Elevation is not a church. It's a movement. You understand,
Speaker 1: Thank you. It's not about a building. It's not about
Speaker 1: four walls, it's not about where you sit in a building.
Speaker 1: The vision of this church is a movement. That's why
Speaker 1: you call elevation, which means we move, We elevate, we rise,
Speaker 1: we escalate, we move forward. Don't look for us where
Speaker 1: we used to be. Because we are elevation. We will
Speaker 1: move on a brother. We will walk on a brother.
Speaker 1: We will rise on a brother. If the enemy tries
Speaker 1: to attack us, we will rise on the devil. Because
Speaker 1: we are elevation. We are like eagles. We take to
Speaker 1: the air, We rise above the storm. Come on, elevation.
Speaker 1: I'm talking about your church. I'm talking about your church,
Speaker 1: and all of your locations. Make some noise if you're
Speaker 1: getting ready to elevate in this place. The problem is
Speaker 1: fear will make a movement turn into a monument. And
Speaker 1: most of our denominational entanglements just tell us where they
Speaker 1: stopped moving, and we memorialize where God has been, rather
Speaker 1: than to thirsty be where God is. Oh, follow me,
Speaker 1: because I'm going somewhere today. They told me that this
Speaker 1: is the third service, and I heard you all could
Speaker 1: handle it. So I'm gonna drop it like it's hot
Speaker 1: in here. Okay, you ready for this. I'm getting ready
Speaker 1: to set it off in this place. Are you ready
Speaker 1: for me to set it off in this place? I'm
Speaker 1: getting ready to tell you that God has a way
Speaker 1: of shifting things, getting us out of our comfort zone,
Speaker 1: pushing us away from the familiar. He forces us to scatter.
Speaker 1: And that's exactly what this text is all about, because
Speaker 1: in a chapter eight, the church that is trying to
Speaker 1: memorialize where God was is being pushed out of their
Speaker 1: comfort zone by the attack of Saul. Kind of the
Speaker 1: persecution of Saul comes direction. Direction. Persecution. Persecution is direction.
Speaker 1: Sometimes you shout about the doors God opens, but you
Speaker 1: ought to be shouting about the doors God closes. He
Speaker 1: will push you. And what has happened up into the
Speaker 1: first eight ten years of the Early Church They kept
Speaker 1: coming back to the Council at Jerusalem, because, after all,
Speaker 1: Jerusalem is the epicenter of almost every major religion in
Speaker 1: the world today claims its origin and root to go
Speaker 1: back to the city of Jerusalem. That is why the
Speaker 1: Middle East has so much conflict, because they're fighting over territory.
Speaker 1: Because Jerusalem becomes jeruse Adam, the Holy City, the City
Speaker 1: of Peace, the offspring, and the progenitor, of which three
Speaker 1: major religions claim heritage. Yet you must realize that Jesus
Speaker 1: throws us a hint when he was crucified, according to
Speaker 1: the Book of Hebrews outside of the city. Jesus, by
Speaker 1: his crucifixion, is already preaching to us that he's trying
Speaker 1: to escape religion, his order, that he's breaking up Orthodoxy,
Speaker 1: that he refuses to be left into the expected, but
Speaker 1: he's going to move in the unexpected. And so when
Speaker 1: the Book of Hebrew said that he died without the city,
Speaker 1: it means that he escaped the religious order to expose
Speaker 1: who he really was, so that he wouldn't be stuck
Speaker 1: in the prison of religious ideology. That's why some people
Speaker 1: can't handle elevation, because you are unexpected. You're out of
Speaker 1: the box. You break all the rules, you change the game,
Speaker 1: you change the flow, you broke the order. Look at
Speaker 1: you young folks and old folks, and you black folks
Speaker 1: and white folks and brown folks shouting and dancing and
Speaker 1: praising God, elevation and our Now you must understand that
Speaker 1: Christianity was not popular then it didn't even have a
Speaker 1: name yet. It wasn't until they got to Antioch that
Speaker 1: they started to be called Christians. The early Church was
Speaker 1: called the Way, and then later they were called the Believers,
Speaker 1: and eventually Antioch they were called the Church. And so
Speaker 1: this nameless group of Jesus freaks were coming to Jerusalem
Speaker 1: because that's where they had last spotted His glory. Whenever
Speaker 1: there was a dispute, they came back to Jerusalem. Whenever
Speaker 1: there was confusion, they came back to Jerusalem. And they
Speaker 1: kept huddling in Jerusalem. So God sent persecution to shift them.
Speaker 1: I want to talk to everybody who's been persecuted and
Speaker 1: you've been thinking it was the devil. If it was
Speaker 1: the devil, God used him, because God will often use
Speaker 1: the devil to shift you from one dimension to the
Speaker 1: next dimension. That's why we glory and tribulation. Anybody can
Speaker 1: glory when things are going well, but real believers glory
Speaker 1: and tribulation. Oh. I appreciate all of you that are
Speaker 1: praising God because everything's going right, But the real praise
Speaker 1: go to the people where all hell is breaking loose
Speaker 1: and you're still praising God anyway, because God is shifting
Speaker 1: you through persecution. And the Bible says that God sent
Speaker 1: persecution to Jerusalem to scatter the church out of its
Speaker 1: comfort zone, to make them move to the next dimension,
Speaker 1: to get them out of Monk's corner or creek or whatever.
Speaker 1: You see. God has a way of ordering your steps
Speaker 1: in such a way that sometimes you have to pack
Speaker 1: your bags and flee your comfort zone to find your destiny.
Speaker 1: And that's what we're reading in the Book of Acts
Speaker 1: and the Bible, carefully, cautiously, almost as a footnote. And
Speaker 1: sir said, Philip went down to Samaria. Now, let's talk
Speaker 1: about Samaria. It is not happenstance, said Philip would scattered
Speaker 1: to Samaria. God has unfinished business in Samaria. The Gospel
Speaker 1: of Saint John declares that Jesus sat by the well,
Speaker 1: a well, sitting on a well. I waited for that
Speaker 1: to seek in in. Yes, Jesus is jacob'swell, Israel's well,
Speaker 1: and he's sitting on Jacob's well, and he's waiting for
Speaker 1: this one loose woman, this woman I called her a
Speaker 1: loose woman. I called her loose. Forgive me, I mean,
Speaker 1: maybe you don't like that. But she had had five
Speaker 1: husbands in a society that forbid that kind of caring on.
Speaker 1: She had five husbands and a situation. You know, some
Speaker 1: of us get into these situations. It's not here, who
Speaker 1: is it. He's not exactly with friends. So she had
Speaker 1: five husbands and a friend. She came down to the will,
Speaker 1: having been married five times and was living with a
Speaker 1: man on the sixth time, and came down to the
Speaker 1: will and met the seventh man. And when she met
Speaker 1: the seventh man, the search was over, because he quenched
Speaker 1: the thirsting of her soul and set her free and
Speaker 1: liberated her and gave her the victory. And you will
Speaker 1: remember that it was not her thirst that initiated the conversation.
Speaker 1: But if you will and back in the Gospel of
Speaker 1: Saint John, you will find out that what provoked the
Speaker 1: initial conversation was not her thirst, because she expected her
Speaker 1: thirst to be quenched by the well that he was
Speaker 1: sitting on. But what started the conversation is his thirst,
Speaker 1: he says, woman, I thirst. She did not know. She
Speaker 1: thought she was a tramp. But the tramp was a
Speaker 1: thirst quencher misapplied and misallocated, I will admit. But the
Speaker 1: reason that she was always able to get somebody. Is
Speaker 1: that there was something in this woman that was designed
Speaker 1: to be a thirst quencher. She just had not found
Speaker 1: the right thirst to quench. You missed that. Yeah, sometimes
Speaker 1: it has to be the right man to bring out
Speaker 1: in you what's really down inside of you. And none
Speaker 1: of those other men could really bring it out in
Speaker 1: the first place. But when she got to the Seventh Man,
Speaker 1: the seventh Man and showed her why she was the
Speaker 1: way she was, she was a thirst squincher. You see.
Speaker 1: She thirsted for water. He thirsted for her because she
Speaker 1: was going to be the vessel that set it off.
Speaker 1: You will remember that we don't know her name. We
Speaker 1: don't know whether she's Helen or Jane. We just know
Speaker 1: that she is a woman from Samaria, and God needed
Speaker 1: something to be planted in Samaria so that there would
Speaker 1: be something to harvest in Samaria. No seed, no harvest.
Speaker 1: So the woman at the well was the seed. And
Speaker 1: Philip goes down to collect the harvests. Are you with
Speaker 1: me so far? Come on? They told me you was
Speaker 1: really smart in the third service, so I could drop
Speaker 1: it in here. You can handle it. The woman at
Speaker 1: the well was the seed. Now Philip goes down to
Speaker 1: Samaria to collect the harvests. I want you to get
Speaker 1: that in your spirit one. I want you to get
Speaker 1: that some of the things that are wrong and you
Speaker 1: are only wrong because you haven't met the right man,
Speaker 1: that there is a reason that you are the way
Speaker 1: you are. And when you get the right piece of
Speaker 1: the puzzle in the right place, everything will make sense.
Speaker 1: If you were crossword puzzles, you'll understand that you can't
Speaker 1: cram the right piece into the wrong place. And some
Speaker 1: of you have been crammed into all kinds of places
Speaker 1: that you didn't really fit. But when you find Jesus,
Speaker 1: you will find out why you are shaped the way
Speaker 1: you shape, and you fall into place anyway. So says
Speaker 1: the story that the woman who was at the well,
Speaker 1: she dropped her water pots look at her shifting occupation.
Speaker 1: She dropped her water punch and went running into the
Speaker 1: city to tell all the men. Yeah, baby, tell all
Speaker 1: the men. Since she knew all the men, she had
Speaker 1: influence with the men, She had access to the men.
Speaker 1: So the woman told all the men, the men to
Speaker 1: come see a man. She said, let me show you
Speaker 1: what a real man is. So after church, I want
Speaker 1: you to call all your exes and say, don't do that,
Speaker 1: don't do that. This teaser, I'm just teasing. I'm just teasing.
Speaker 1: I don't want to have to get you out of jail.
Speaker 1: Just be cool, just illustration. Okay, she says, come see
Speaker 1: a real man who told me all things I had
Speaker 1: ever done. And the men came out to see. Imagine
Speaker 1: a that's a genic society. Means they don't respect women.
Speaker 1: That God would use that which they do not respect
Speaker 1: to bring him respect. And the women sowed the seed,
Speaker 1: and the women sowed the seed, and the women sowed
Speaker 1: the seed. And the women sow the seed, and the
Speaker 1: women sowed the seed. I want to start a revolution
Speaker 1: with every woman in this room. Come out of the shadows,
Speaker 1: come out of the corner, come out of the background.
Speaker 1: Stop feeling sorry for yourself in spite of all of
Speaker 1: your mistakes. God it's going to use you to set
Speaker 1: it off. I need some sisters that can set it
Speaker 1: off in this place. Yeah yeah, yeah, yeah yeah yeah
Speaker 1: yeah yeah yeah yeah. Now, Now everybody in here that's
Speaker 1: a woman is a woman. But then they're amongst the women.
Speaker 1: There are real women there. There there are women. I'm
Speaker 1: not talking to all you women who never did anything,
Speaker 1: and never smoked anything, and never drink anything, and never
Speaker 1: went anywhere and never been in a club. And even
Speaker 1: by the way, i've any Christian that's wonderful. I'm not
Speaker 1: against you. I'm proud of you. I'll celebrate you. But
Speaker 1: there's a reason that some of these broken women that
Speaker 1: were called into the kingdom. Because you're courageous, because you're bold,
Speaker 1: because you say what you think and let the chips
Speaker 1: fall where they may. I want to raise up some
Speaker 1: sassy sisters in this room that can make some knowing.
Speaker 1: Let me hear the sassy sisters set it off. God,
Speaker 1: I think he's about to use what was working against
Speaker 1: you to work for you. He's getting ready to take
Speaker 1: you to the next level. So this is a water
Speaker 1: pot dropping moment, leaving the lesser for the greater, leaving
Speaker 1: the form of the latter. She now runs into the
Speaker 1: city and says, come see a man. She planted a seed.
Speaker 1: No wonder Jesus waited for her. He said, I must
Speaker 1: need go to Samaria. I have to go to Samaria.
Speaker 1: And then didn't go to Samaria. He just met the
Speaker 1: woman from Samaria. He met the woman from Samaria because
Speaker 1: all he had to go to Samaria for was to
Speaker 1: find a woman who was bold enough to set it
Speaker 1: off in that city, and she planted a seed. Fast forward,
Speaker 1: we had not heard anything else out of Samaria since
Speaker 1: this one wild radical woman has started a little revival
Speaker 1: meeting that caused the men to see the prophets. Fast
Speaker 1: forward to Acts chapter eight, when persecution of rose in Jerusalem.
Speaker 1: All of a sudden it got so nasty. Saul was
Speaker 1: killing and imprisoning so many believers that Philip says, I'm
Speaker 1: going to guess what Samaria? Because God had unfinished business
Speaker 1: in Samaria. Something had been planted in Samaria. Time had passed,
Speaker 1: and now Philip goes to Samaria. The only problem with
Speaker 1: Samaria is that Simon the Sorcerer had set up a
Speaker 1: camp in Samaria and begin to afflict the city. See,
Speaker 1: any time the enemy knows that God is going to
Speaker 1: do something great in your life, in your city, in
Speaker 1: your church, he will always send Simon the Sorcerer to
Speaker 1: counteract what God is doing in your life. What I'm
Speaker 1: trying to get you to see is the reason you're
Speaker 1: under attack is because God has started something in your life.
Speaker 1: And anytime the enemy sends wheat he will always plan tear.
Speaker 1: Y'all still with me, You're good, you all right? Breathe in,
Speaker 1: breathe out, Shout Holladelujah, because something is about to happen
Speaker 1: in Samaria. Samaria is up under attack by Simon the Sorcerer.
Speaker 1: Now I'm getting ready to go in for the kill.
Speaker 1: Simon has taken over the region, and convince him that
Speaker 1: he is some wonder. Simon has taken over the region.
Speaker 1: Now let me show you something about Satanic attack. The
Speaker 1: enemy likes to take over territories, what the Bible calls principalities.
Speaker 1: They rule over regions, over cities, over And the enemy
Speaker 1: has set himself up in Samaria trying to stop the
Speaker 1: power of God from prevailing in the city and against
Speaker 1: all of these forces that have ensnared the city. God
Speaker 1: sins Philip Clorida, God God, since Philip watches, I want
Speaker 1: to go deeper. The enemy is over a region. He
Speaker 1: sets up territories. That's why we call him principalities. He
Speaker 1: takes over regions. The spiritual warfare that exists over Charlotte
Speaker 1: is different from the spiritual warfare that exists over Tulsa,
Speaker 1: is different from the spiritual warfare that exist over Chicago.
Speaker 1: That's why you can't use a Charlotte weapon against a
Speaker 1: lago spirits. You have to understand the warfare that exists
Speaker 1: over your city. You remember when Jesus went to the
Speaker 1: man who was with demons in Gatherines, and when he
Speaker 1: finally cast out the demons, the demons said to Jesus,
Speaker 1: suffer us not to leave the region. We've done so
Speaker 1: much work in this territory. We don't mind if we
Speaker 1: have to change vessels, but don't let us leave the region.
Speaker 1: There's demonic warfare that takes over areas, and certain areas
Speaker 1: are given over to certain types of perversities. There are
Speaker 1: demonic warfares that are over certain families, and certain warfares
Speaker 1: have taken over certain families. Grandma got pregnant out of where,
Speaker 1: Mama got pregnant out of water, and now my daughter
Speaker 1: comes in the house and tells me she's pregnant. That's
Speaker 1: a spirit instead of brain over the territory. My daddy
Speaker 1: was an alcoholic and I'm a drug adday, and now
Speaker 1: my son has started getting high. That's a regional territorial
Speaker 1: principality that didn't want to let the Johnsons go that
Speaker 1: didn't want to let the Wilsons go, that didn't want
Speaker 1: to let the Richardsons grow. I know you can't say anything,
Speaker 1: but there are certain things that run in your family. Yeah,
Speaker 1: and you can say. You can look at your sister's
Speaker 1: acting just like your auntie, and your auntie's talking just
Speaker 1: like your grandmama, and all of them got the same spirit.
Speaker 1: And you want to break the chain. Oh my god,
Speaker 1: Oh my god, I feel something. I feel something. I
Speaker 1: feel something, I feel something, I feel something. Touch your
Speaker 1: neighbor and say break the chain. Yeah, that's why God
Speaker 1: save you, to break the chain. That's why Pastor baptize you,
Speaker 1: to break the chain, to bury who you used to
Speaker 1: be so you could rise up into who you're gonna be.
Speaker 1: He baptized you to break the chain that was holding
Speaker 1: you down in your life. Look at your nigh and say,
Speaker 1: I'm a break this chain. My uncle committed suicide, my
Speaker 1: cousin committed suicide, my brother committed suicide. I feel the
Speaker 1: spirit of suicide, but I'm going to break the chain.
Speaker 1: Look at your neighbor and say, break the chain. You
Speaker 1: don't even know what kind of chain it is, but
Speaker 1: everybody in the room has got a chain that's got
Speaker 1: a break in order for them to be free. They're
Speaker 1: a chain that has to break in order for them
Speaker 1: to be delivered. Shout, yes, somebody, I'll show you another chain.
Speaker 1: Abraham got to Jerrar, and when he got there, he
Speaker 1: lied and told the king that his wife was his sister. Okay,
Speaker 1: at the time that Abraham told the lie about Sarah,
Speaker 1: Isaac wasn't even born yet. Fast forward, here comes Isaac
Speaker 1: with his wife. Tells the same lie that his father to. Oh,
Speaker 1: a lie that he never even heard. But there was
Speaker 1: a chain between Abraham and I say so that the
Speaker 1: chain was there, and the same lie was there, and
Speaker 1: the same struggle was there. But something is about die.
Speaker 1: Then let me go deeper. It used to be when
Speaker 1: you went to the doctor, the doctor only examine you.
Speaker 1: Now when you go to the doctor, he wants to know.
Speaker 1: Did your grandmother have heart trouble? Did your grandfather have
Speaker 1: high blood pressure? Did your grandfather have diabetes? Did your
Speaker 1: father die diabetes? Why does it matter what my grandmother had?
Speaker 1: She's dead. I'll tell you what matters. There's a chain
Speaker 1: link between you and your grandmother. There's a chain link
Speaker 1: in the health of your body. In the wealth of
Speaker 1: your mind, in the way you handle emotions. There's a
Speaker 1: chain between the two. If Grandma was prone to depression
Speaker 1: and Mama was prone to depression, and now you're sitting
Speaker 1: up here, you couldn't feel it, But now twenty three
Speaker 1: years starting to feel the press. That's not your depression.
Speaker 1: That's your grandma's depression. Trying to hook of a link
Speaker 1: between who you are and who they were. But I
Speaker 1: came to serve notice on the devil. The devil is
Speaker 1: a liar. You've rained terror over the city long enough,
Speaker 1: you've recabit long enough, You've held us in bond is
Speaker 1: long enough. I'm not gonna let my daddy's devil defeat me.
Speaker 1: Oh hell no, there's gonnakay. I've chained the break in
Speaker 1: this place today. I don't know who I'm preaching to,
Speaker 1: and I don't know who God sent me here for,
Speaker 1: but something is about to break in your life like
Speaker 1: it never broke before. And I command the spirit of
Speaker 1: release to happen in this place. I need about sixty
Speaker 1: seconds of crazy and craze in this place. Yeah yeah,
Speaker 1: yeah yeah. Praise him, Praise him, praise him, praise him,
Speaker 1: praise him, praise him in defiance. Praise him with that intude,
Speaker 1: praising with convintion, Praise him with tenacity, praising like your
Speaker 1: main business, Praising like your life depends on it. Praise
Speaker 1: him like you're going to repeal suicide. Craizy, like you're
Speaker 1: coming out of depression, crazy, like you're coming out of promisecurity, crazy,
Speaker 1: like you're coming out of pornogal fa, crazy, like you're
Speaker 1: coming out of adg ur. Praise him crazy, praising. I
Speaker 1: will not leave mamausband, I will not abuse my wife,
Speaker 1: I will not beat my child. I'm going to praise
Speaker 1: the change shign out. The reason you couldn't stay in
Speaker 1: Monk's Corner is because you had a devil to fight,
Speaker 1: and everything God did to get you ready was to
Speaker 1: get you to come into an area where the enemy
Speaker 1: had set up camp in a region, and he was
Speaker 1: preparing you in Monk's Corner, getting you ready for what
Speaker 1: he was going to do down in Charlotte, so the
Speaker 1: yokes could be broken over the lives of the people
Speaker 1: who have been praying and said, I gotta be free,
Speaker 1: I gotta be delivered, and I gotta be whold. And
Speaker 1: the reason there's such an annoying in this church, and
Speaker 1: there's such praise in this church, and there's such deliverance
Speaker 1: in this church. Is because when you got in here,
Speaker 1: something broke in your life. If I got a witness
Speaker 1: anywhere in the house, make some noise like your lost shimne.
Speaker 1: So the text sense the Philip went down to Samri.
Speaker 1: It's not like he went strolling down to Samaria, you know,
Speaker 1: rather that at all. He didn't come to head a
Speaker 1: cup of tea. You know, he didn't come down there
Speaker 1: because he wanted to ride the fairies field in Samaria.
Speaker 1: He was on a mission. When God puts somebody on
Speaker 1: a mission, hell gets nervous. When God puts a man
Speaker 1: on a mission, demons begin to troumble. They start trying
Speaker 1: to stop the man from getting to where he's trying
Speaker 1: to go. Let me prove it to you. When Jesus
Speaker 1: got ready to go to deliver the man who was
Speaker 1: bound in the tomb of Gathererines, on his way to
Speaker 1: the area, a storm arose out of nowhere, and the
Speaker 1: Bible said that the whole ship began to rock and reel.
Speaker 1: And the Bible says that Jesus was asleep in the
Speaker 1: bottom of the boat, and Peter began to be a
Speaker 1: friend that the whole thing was gonna capsize. Why do
Speaker 1: you think that the storm broke out. The storm broke
Speaker 1: out because the devil knew that Jesus was on his
Speaker 1: way to deliver the man that was found by the
Speaker 1: demonic influencer. And I and I said, Oh, I feel
Speaker 1: like preaching. Oh I feel something in this way. Your
Speaker 1: neighbors say, you came to the right service. Jesus sees
Speaker 1: I's Jesus, I's Jesu. I' chees I changed, I stee
Speaker 1: that's Jesus, Jesus, I Jesu. I's changed. I's cheese. That's Jesus, Jesus. Jesus, Jesus. Jesus.
Speaker 1: Jesus is down in the bottom of the boat, and
Speaker 1: he's resting, and he's resting up because there's gonna be
Speaker 1: a fight. He's resting up because he knows when he
Speaker 1: gets to the destination, he's got a devil to fight.
Speaker 1: In fact, he's got several devils to fight. He's got
Speaker 1: legions of the devils to fight, and he's got to
Speaker 1: fight them by himself. And so the Bible said he
Speaker 1: was down in the bottom of the boat. Jesus was
Speaker 1: sleeping the bottom of the boat. Jesus was sleeping at
Speaker 1: the bottom of the boat. Jesus was sleeping in the
Speaker 1: bottom of the boat. Jesus will sleeping in the bottom
Speaker 1: of the boat. Jesus was sleeping the bottom of the
Speaker 1: moat in the middle of a hurricane. What kind of
Speaker 1: Jesus can sleep in the middle of a storm And
Speaker 1: the whole boat is rocking and relling, and the boat
Speaker 1: is filling with water, and neither the winds nor the
Speaker 1: rains had interrupted his rests. Y'all didn't get in it.
Speaker 1: The winds you were blowing, the lightning was flashing, the
Speaker 1: thunder was erupting out of nowhere, and water was filling
Speaker 1: up the boat so bad that Peter was afraid the
Speaker 1: boat was gonna go underwater. And Jesus was in the
Speaker 1: hinder parts of the ship. He had to be wet
Speaker 1: This is not the carnival cruise line. He had to
Speaker 1: be wetted. And the wind was blowing and the boat
Speaker 1: was rocked, and none of that woke up Jesus. But
Speaker 1: when one of his believers called him, can I go
Speaker 1: off with I want you to know that you got
Speaker 1: the power, so wake up Jesus. Why nobody else can
Speaker 1: did you hide, Lord, that seven people would say just
Speaker 1: say say something, Say something. That's why whenever you get depressed,
Speaker 1: that devil don't want you to say nothing. Whenever you're
Speaker 1: going through a test, that devil don't want you to
Speaker 1: say nothing. Whenever you're in great temptation, that devil don't
Speaker 1: want you to say nothing. Whenever your marriage is in trouble,
Speaker 1: that never don't want you to say nothing. Because Hell
Speaker 1: knows that the power of life and death is in
Speaker 1: your tongue. And if you open up your mouth, you
Speaker 1: can wake up Jesus. Like nobody else can waken Jesus.
Speaker 1: The wind can't waken him, the waves can't wake him,
Speaker 1: the storm can't waken up. But I dare you know?
Speaker 1: Do you think that Peter's voice had more decibel impact
Speaker 1: than thunder or light? With nobody else but Jesus. He
Speaker 1: can hear your faintest crime. He can hear a tear
Speaker 1: slide over the bridge of your nose at three o'clock
Speaker 1: in the morning. God is so in tune with you,
Speaker 1: while nothing else can break his rest. If you get
Speaker 1: in trouble, when you are at disease, your disease will
Speaker 1: wake him up. By the way, half of your diseases
Speaker 1: are coming from your disease. I speak to every nervous, upset, restless,
Speaker 1: frustrated condition that you have said nothing about that's coming
Speaker 1: out in illnesses and stress and touched and insomnia and
Speaker 1: eating disorders. God's gonna give you a breakthrough today. You're
Speaker 1: not eating because you're hungry. You're not up because you're
Speaker 1: not tired of You're up because you're at this ease.
Speaker 1: But God is about to give you some peace today. Somebody,
Speaker 1: hollow piece, Geezus woke up. Jeezus woke up, rose to
Speaker 1: the bower of the ship, in the middle of the
Speaker 1: winds and the waves. He opened his mouth and cleared
Speaker 1: his throat, wiped the sleep out of his eyes, and
Speaker 1: the Bible says he rebuilt the winds and the waves
Speaker 1: and sad peace, peace, be still, Wait a minute, let's
Speaker 1: roll it back. He rebuts, the winds and the waves rebuilt.
Speaker 1: You don't rebuke winds and waves. You might stop winds
Speaker 1: and waves, you might arrest winds and waves. You don't
Speaker 1: rebuke winds and waves. You rebuilt spirits. I came to
Speaker 1: tell you there's a spirit behind your storm. There's a
Speaker 1: spirit behind your distress. There's a spirit behind your dysfunction.
Speaker 1: There's a spirit behind me the problem with your child.
Speaker 1: That child doesn't need no more of retland, they don't
Speaker 1: need no more meditation, they don't need to be some
Speaker 1: kind of their head. There's a spirit that's after your child.
Speaker 1: You could put away half of that man, and I said,
Speaker 1: had rebuilt that spirit. The idle said, he rebuilt the
Speaker 1: winds and the waves. And when the winds and the
Speaker 1: waves heard the voice of the master who made them,
Speaker 1: he overruled the spirit that sent them, and the winds
Speaker 1: got slain in the spirit, and the waves lay prostrate
Speaker 1: in the floor. And there was a great calm in
Speaker 1: the tempest of the sea. And they sailed on without incident.
Speaker 1: Because God always gets to the core of a situation.
Speaker 1: Watch me, we pray about the symptoms of a situation.
Speaker 1: You ask God to fix the symptom. But God is
Speaker 1: after the court of the situation. Who am I helping today?
Speaker 1: This same God is the God that sent Philip to
Speaker 1: Samaria to take back the region. This is not just
Speaker 1: about you. God wants to take back the region. He
Speaker 1: wants to take back the neighborhood. He wants to take
Speaker 1: back your bloodline. And the reason the enemy is fighting
Speaker 1: you so hard is not just you. It's your daughter
Speaker 1: and your son and your grandchildren that are at stake
Speaker 1: because God wants to take back the territory. I feel
Speaker 1: the kind of power that will release suits inner rationally,
Speaker 1: that will break the me. You don't quotever your minding,
Speaker 1: over your spelling. I need some real praisers. I don't
Speaker 1: mean no cute crazers. I mean some real praisers. Somebody
Speaker 1: who will praising for your daughter, had praised him for
Speaker 1: your son, had praised them for your children, had praised
Speaker 1: them for your sister's children. I want to give you
Speaker 1: thirty minutes to praise him like you're expecting Jesus to
Speaker 1: show up in the room right now. Off in your mouth,
Speaker 1: to move your hands, to move your feet, move your knees,
Speaker 1: or move your nibs. To move your eyes some your eyes,
Speaker 1: move your jaws, make sometime. Let everything that have broath
Speaker 1: prazy preacher. For years, For years, Pump stayed under the house.
Speaker 1: You're with me. He would run out in the bar
Speaker 1: and the chain would pull him back. He would run
Speaker 1: out of the bar, and the chain would pull him back.
Speaker 1: Somebody would drive off in the car. He'd run up there,
Speaker 1: and the chain would pull him back. And because it
Speaker 1: had pulled him back so many times, we thought the
Speaker 1: chain was stronger than the dog. Somebody has tried to
Speaker 1: go forward, but every time you tried to go forward,
Speaker 1: the chain would pull your back. You're made of New
Speaker 1: Year's resolusen, but the chain would pull you back. And
Speaker 1: you're starting to think that the chain is stronger than you.
Speaker 1: But one day I saw something in front of him
Speaker 1: that was stronger than what was behind him. And when
Speaker 1: he ran out in the chain trying to pull him,
Speaker 1: he snarled and said, not this time. Somebody said, not
Speaker 1: this time. You can't have my daughter. You can't to
Speaker 1: have my son, you can't have my marriage, you can't
Speaker 1: to have my life. To clown you something in this room.
Speaker 1: I'm gonna pray them till my daughter gets to live
Speaker 1: in her. I'm gonna pray them her till my son
Speaker 1: comes home. I'm gonna pray them till my marriage is here.
Speaker 1: Lift your boys, lose some mine, she have, y'all gonna well, blassy.
Speaker 1: When Philip got to some barrier. He turned the city
Speaker 1: upside down. Since you're all standing, I can't tell you
Speaker 1: to stand, so turn around in a circle. God is
Speaker 1: getting ready to turn things upside down in your life.
Speaker 1: He's getting ready to shake things up. Everything that was
Speaker 1: tied up, It's about to break loose in your life.
Speaker 1: My God, wait a minute before I'm praising for what
Speaker 1: he's about to do. I want to praise him for
Speaker 1: the persecutioner that brought me the way I am. If
Speaker 1: I had to have been hated like that, if I
Speaker 1: had to have been an attack like that, if I
Speaker 1: had to cry it out like that, I wouldn't have
Speaker 1: had the power taibody of the Holy Ghost. Something it's
Speaker 1: about it's a snap. I didn't come to preach in
Speaker 1: this last service. I came to bring a prophetic utterance
Speaker 1: in this last service. Something is about to snap in
Speaker 1: your life. Something that's been pulling you back for years
Speaker 1: is about to snap in your life. You've been praising
Speaker 1: God over top of pain, but the pain is about
Speaker 1: to snap in your life. I don't know who I'm
Speaker 1: preaching to, but something is about to snap in your life,
Speaker 1: and you're gonna thank God for the trouble that push
Speaker 1: you over the edge because it has driven you to
Speaker 1: a breaking point, and something is about to break loose
Speaker 1: in your life. If I'm preaching to you, how as
Speaker 1: a boy, when Philip came to Samaria, there was demonic influence,
Speaker 1: There was possessions, and the Bible said, there was sickness,
Speaker 1: and there was disease. And God sent one man against
Speaker 1: a city of trouble. Stop pastoring this church and pasted
Speaker 1: the city. This is not about a church, It's about
Speaker 1: a city. It's about a city. And every satellite church
Speaker 1: is a cell. And I came to activate every cell
Speaker 1: in every city that's watching me online. There's a reason
Speaker 1: that a cell has been planted in your area, because
Speaker 1: God is about to activate you like a terrorist, to
Speaker 1: go into the enemy's camp and take back what he
Speaker 1: stole from you. Every thing that the devil stole is
Speaker 1: coming back. I don't know who I'm preaching to, and
Speaker 1: I better stop, because I feel my old preacher standing
Speaker 1: up inside of me. And what I feel right now
Speaker 1: ain't even in style no more. But I feel the
Speaker 1: power of the Holy culture, the kind of power that
Speaker 1: resurrected Jesus up out of the grave. Somebody in this
Speaker 1: room throw your hands up a shot shot. I want
Speaker 1: you to understand every city, every area, every neighborhood you're in,
Speaker 1: every place God puts you to work. He did not
Speaker 1: send you there to make money. He sent you there
Speaker 1: as a witness in that area, to turn that area
Speaker 1: inside out. God to give you money anywhere He told
Speaker 1: his disciples money ain't nothing. I'll put your money in
Speaker 1: a fish's mouth for money is not your problem. You're
Speaker 1: not there to make money. You are assignment. And when
Speaker 1: this service is over, I'm going to release you to
Speaker 1: go in the places you've never call her and see
Speaker 1: the power of God move like it's never moved before.
Speaker 1: Lay hands on the sister next to you and the
Speaker 1: brother next to you, and say you're ready. Get ready,
Speaker 1: Get ready. God is getting ready to take you somewhere.
Speaker 1: God is getting ready to use you somewhere. God is
Speaker 1: getting ready to release you somewhere. I feel the annoyedy
Speaker 1: you of the Holy Ghost in this place. I'm gonna
Speaker 1: take my seat, but I feel a spirit of release
Speaker 1: coming in this place. Right now. Behold, I give you
Speaker 1: power over the head, and then power all of your problems,
Speaker 1: power all your fear, power over your situation. I'm tied
Speaker 1: of counseling her what we ought to test out to
Speaker 1: get back down, Get out of my mind, Get out
Speaker 1: of my benny, get out of my body, get out
Speaker 1: of my sphearhead, open your mouth and het out for
Speaker 1: your to seven people and tell them you're a chain breaker.
Speaker 1: You're a chain breaker. You're chain breaker. You're a chain breaker.
Speaker 1: Something getting ready to break in your house, break in
Speaker 1: your ministry, break in your body, break in your inner chat,
Speaker 1: break in your mind. Get you're ready for you to break?
Speaker 1: Shout out the God. When Filling hit Samaria with his ministry,
Speaker 1: he revolutionized the city so much so that Simon the
Speaker 1: Sorcerer wanted what he had. Get ready for the people
Speaker 1: who once hated you to want what you have. There's
Speaker 1: a reason you couldn't win them. There's a reason nothing
Speaker 1: you did could please him. There's a reason they couldn't
Speaker 1: accept you. God meant for you to be alone and
Speaker 1: lonely and walk by yourself, because He never meant for
Speaker 1: you to become them. He meant for them to become you.
Speaker 1: And you have finally reached the season that those who
Speaker 1: once fought you are now going to seek you. And
Speaker 1: you've got to be healed enough and feel safe enough
Speaker 1: to let people in that you've been scared of, because
Speaker 1: God is going to use you to minister to people
Speaker 1: who maligned you, and you've got to know who you
Speaker 1: are well enough to be ready to receive them, because
Speaker 1: you're bigger than that. You're bigger than that. What's this church?
Speaker 1: The last verse of the text says that when Philip
Speaker 1: hit Samaria, he rebuked the devils, he healed the diseases,
Speaker 1: and there was great joy. Not in the church in
Speaker 1: the city. You have not been sent to churches, but regions.
Speaker 1: So when the region is in crisis, you must speak
Speaker 1: because your vision cannot be contained by walls or campuses.
Speaker 1: The Bible said, the kingdoms of this world have become
Speaker 1: the kingdoms of our God and of his Christ. This
Speaker 1: is about kingdoms. Now something is about to shift. It.
Speaker 1: Something is about to shift. Oh Lord, something is about
Speaker 1: Something is about to shift. Can you feel it? Can
Speaker 1: you feel it? Can you feel it? How many are glad?
Speaker 1: You're in this service right now on every campus everywhere.
Speaker 1: This word is being streamed everywhere you're watching on Facebook
Speaker 1: live and everywhere else. A chain is about to break
Speaker 1: off of your life like it has never broken before.
Speaker 1: Take your city, Take your region, think the region, Take
Speaker 1: your region. You gotta get out of thinking your vision
Speaker 1: fits within the topography of your walls. You're bigger than that.
Speaker 1: You must speak to regions a Shia. You must speak
Speaker 1: to territories. You must speak to areas that are desperate
Speaker 1: to hear your voice beyond your walls. These are not
Speaker 1: your congregations. These are your disciples, and everywhere you send them.
Speaker 1: The people God gave you are not your destination. They
Speaker 1: are your transportation to go into all the world and
Speaker 1: all the world's systems. And there is a shift coming
Speaker 1: in this place. And I can feel it from the
Speaker 1: crown of my head to the souls of my feet.
Speaker 1: Some of you, you're in that family to turn that
Speaker 1: family upside down. And you don't have to argue, and
Speaker 1: you don't have to fight, and you don't have to
Speaker 1: be super deep or super spiritual. All you have to
Speaker 1: do is just let the glory of the love of
Speaker 1: God flow out of you in such a way. You're
Speaker 1: not gonna have to approach them. They're gonna approach you
Speaker 1: to see what it is you've got that gave you
Speaker 1: that kind of peace and all I need to do
Speaker 1: is break the link that yet connects you to a
Speaker 1: family or a region that is dysfunctional, that's trying to
Speaker 1: hold your neck back from the next dimension. You are
Speaker 1: not fighting with your devil. It's your mama's devil and
Speaker 1: your grandmama's devil, and your grandfather's devil, and the devil
Speaker 1: of your family, and the devil of your region. And
Speaker 1: the mentality from where you grew up and where you
Speaker 1: came from, say that the set of a principality. And
Speaker 1: because you are straining the chain, he does not want
Speaker 1: to let you go because if you get loose. If
Speaker 1: I'm not talking about playing church and putting on games
Speaker 1: and play, but if you actually get loose everything connected
Speaker 1: to you, it's going to be loose. By the power
Speaker 1: of God. Join hands. When somebody leaving no one in touch,
Speaker 1: pop pop that chain like it was a popsicle stick.
Speaker 1: And when it pops, he started running. I'm gonna count
Speaker 1: to three. And when I get to three, everything physically
Speaker 1: ailments in your body, afflictions that have attacked your health,
Speaker 1: every mental and emotional disorder, every nervous condition, every bipolar,
Speaker 1: every neurotic, every distressed, every anger, everything, that has ever
Speaker 1: held you. I'm believing God, it's going to break loose.
Speaker 1: The storm cannot stop you. Greiter is he that is
Speaker 1: in you than he that's in the world. Squeeze that
Speaker 1: hand you're holding. The enemy doesn't want her to have peace.
Speaker 1: He doesn't want him to have peace because they are
Speaker 1: a chain breaker. Somebody slipped back from the first service
Speaker 1: to be in the second service. Something just told you
Speaker 1: to stay there. God's got something else for you. You're
Speaker 1: in the right place at the right time. We're getting
Speaker 1: ready to pop something in this place. Hollylujah. If your
Speaker 1: on line getting ready for it to pop, it's going
Speaker 1: to pop. The thing you're fighting is not yours. It's
Speaker 1: passed through your family and your bloodline. But today it's
Speaker 1: gonna pop. It's in your way. It's in your way
Speaker 1: of your destiny. It's in your way of your future.
Speaker 1: It's in the way of your prophecy. Squeeze that ham
Speaker 1: family dysfunctions. Getting ready to pop in this place. Oh,
Speaker 1: this is a big service. I'm not talking about the people.
Speaker 1: I'm talking about the glory. It's getting ready to pop
Speaker 1: in this place. Some of you came out of regions
Speaker 1: with attitudes and dispositions, and every now and then you
Speaker 1: act like where you came from. But squeeze that hand.
Speaker 1: The chain is about to pop. What are you ready
Speaker 1: for it? Do you believe that God is bigger than
Speaker 1: anything that ever held you, that ever had you tied up?
Speaker 1: Do you believe that He's great than anything you've been
Speaker 1: feeling in your body, in your mind, and your soul
Speaker 1: and your spirit. Do you believe it? Do you believe it?
Speaker 1: Do you believe it? Do you believe it? Do you
Speaker 1: believe it? Do you believe it? Teld Do you believe
Speaker 1: that no women from that that you shall be able
Speaker 1: to prosper? And every tongue that rises against your God
Speaker 1: will condemn? Do you believe that this is today that
Speaker 1: the Lord hath made and you're gonna get a release
Speaker 1: today that's gonna be on you the rest of your life.
Speaker 1: It's gonna get in the car with you, He's gonna
Speaker 1: get in the house with you. It's going to work
Speaker 1: with you. When I get to three, I want you
Speaker 1: to shot like you lost up. Thank you for joining us.
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