Speaker 1: Thanks for coming today. I'm so glad you're in the house.
Speaker 1: I'm so glad the Lord is here. He's moving, he's touching.
Speaker 1: If you feel like God did something already this morning
Speaker 1: in your personal life, can you raise your hand wave it.
Speaker 1: Come on. Oh so good, that's like fifty percent past
Speaker 1: your Dane. The Lord is up to something. I mean,
Speaker 1: something's happening. That's good. Oh. It's good to be in
Speaker 1: a church that's alive. It's good to be more than words.
Speaker 1: It's good to be in action. It's good to be
Speaker 1: in a place where you can come in one way
Speaker 1: and get touched and leave another way. Come on. You
Speaker 1: can go all your life to church and hear good
Speaker 1: messages and hear wonderful music and nothing changes. But man,
Speaker 1: when you have a visitation with the Holy Spirit, who
Speaker 1: you were is no longer. I'm so thankful for the
Speaker 1: Holy Spirit. To close your eyes. Holy Spirit, we give
Speaker 1: you permission to do what you want to do for real. God.
Speaker 1: We give you permission to put your hand on your heart. Say,
Speaker 1: Holy Spirit, you have permission touch me, shape me, mold me,
Speaker 1: change me in Jesus' name. Amen. Today I want to
Speaker 1: talk about the God of my past. Next week I'll
Speaker 1: be sharing as well, but I'll be talking about the
Speaker 1: God of my future. Today I want to focus in
Speaker 1: on the God of my past. Recently, more than ever,
Speaker 1: it's just really been reminding me personally of the journey
Speaker 1: he's taken me through and with us. If you heard
Speaker 1: the baby walking out, it's actually my biological sister. She
Speaker 1: means so much to me. She's six years older than me.
Speaker 1: We had a brother in between us. I was sixteen,
Speaker 1: he was eighteen, she was twenty, and he got killed
Speaker 1: in the car accident. And it made her and my
Speaker 1: bond very genuine, real and authentic, and both her and
Speaker 1: I were crying out for the Lord and we wanted
Speaker 1: to experience God. And so we drove three four times
Speaker 1: a week to Lindland, where she now lives, to just
Speaker 1: hear from the Lord, just to be in a place
Speaker 1: where we knew there's hungry people who don't want to
Speaker 1: just church it out. They want to actually know a
Speaker 1: God who's alive, who's powerful, who's real. And I didn't
Speaker 1: know the horizon at that time. So hey, Natalie, you
Speaker 1: come on in, let the people see you. I just
Speaker 1: want to honor her. She's here, good to see she
Speaker 1: just had a baby two months ago, And I just
Speaker 1: want you to know you mean so much to me. Truly.
Speaker 1: I can cry right now just thinking about just the
Speaker 1: history with the Lord and the rich, rich encounters we
Speaker 1: had driving three four times a week out of Tacoma
Speaker 1: through traffic, go place that people just want to see.
Speaker 1: I experienced my first miracles there, heard from the Lord
Speaker 1: the first time there. I encountered his presence, Like listen,
Speaker 1: when you find a people who are hungry, you stay.
Speaker 1: And not only you stay, you plant, and when you plant,
Speaker 1: you produce fruit, like you just got to do it.
Speaker 1: And so the Lord's just taking me on a journey
Speaker 1: and reminding me of all the things he took me from,
Speaker 1: pulled me out of, and brought me to and and
Speaker 1: all this stuff. And this whole last probably month, I've
Speaker 1: just been so emotional and just really encountering God. And
Speaker 1: so today I want to talk about it because I
Speaker 1: feel like God's going to take us on a journey
Speaker 1: today and the things that we will hear today is
Speaker 1: actually going to stick with us and walk with us,
Speaker 1: teach us, guide us as we live our lives in
Speaker 1: Jesus name. So as we do talk today, I ask
Speaker 1: that your heart would be open to the tangible presence
Speaker 1: of God, that you would experience Him. And if you
Speaker 1: feel something changing, shifting, maybe in your heart, maybe you
Speaker 1: feel like the heaviness of God. You might feel a
Speaker 1: fire inside your being. I just don't resist, okay, I
Speaker 1: won't resist speaking, but you don't resist his touch. Okay.
Speaker 1: So if he touches you, or he's moving, you feel
Speaker 1: like shaken, don't resist. Just lean in. Okay, agreed? Cool?
Speaker 1: Open your Bibles if you have him. If you don't,
Speaker 1: it's on the screen. Luke, chapter eight, Oh Jesus, Sweet,
Speaker 1: Sweet Jesus. Luke, chapter eight. One day Jesus told a
Speaker 1: story in the form of a parable to a large
Speaker 1: crowd that had gathered from the many towns to hear him.
Speaker 1: A farmer went to plant his seeds. He scattered it
Speaker 1: across the field. Some seed fell along the footpath, where
Speaker 1: it was stepped on, and the birds ate it. One
Speaker 1: second other seed fell among the rocks, and it began
Speaker 1: to grow. But the plant soon wiltered and died for
Speaker 1: the lack of moisture. Verse seven. Other seed fell among
Speaker 1: the thorns that grew up with it. I'm gonna read
Speaker 1: that again. Some seed fell among the thorns that grew
Speaker 1: up with it and choked out the tender plant. I'm
Speaker 1: going to jump into Jesus explanation, verse eleven. This is
Speaker 1: the meaning of the parable. The seed is the word
Speaker 1: of God, God's word. The seeds that fell on the
Speaker 1: footpath represents those who heard the message only to have
Speaker 1: the devil come and take it away from their hearts
Speaker 1: and prevent them from believing in being saved. The seed
Speaker 1: that fell on the rocky soil represents those who heard
Speaker 1: the message and received it with joy, But since they
Speaker 1: did not have deep roots, they believed for a while,
Speaker 1: and then they fall away when they face temptation. When
Speaker 1: the Lord called my wife and I to Pastor the
Speaker 1: young adults here, he told us to move from where
Speaker 1: we lived and move closer to the church. And in
Speaker 1: our move the house that we moved into the front yard,
Speaker 1: it was anything but a yard. It was a garden
Speaker 1: of weeds. And not only was it a garden of weeds.
Speaker 1: You know when your grass goes bad, it turns yellow. Right,
Speaker 1: me have a weeder there. The grass was so bad, well,
Speaker 1: there was no grass. The weeds were so bad they
Speaker 1: were turning yellow. Okay, it was just it was bad.
Speaker 1: And both my wife and I understood, if we're making
Speaker 1: a move to come and have a residence in this place,
Speaker 1: this has to change. We're not going to come to
Speaker 1: this house with weeds in our front yard. And she,
Speaker 1: like a wise woman, seeing my track record of me,
Speaker 1: saying I can handle it. She said, but you're hiring somebody. Well,
Speaker 1: I said, all right, I did. And you know what
Speaker 1: they did. They came, tore everything up. Come on, ooh,
Speaker 1: they tore everything up. They did the whole rolling whatever
Speaker 1: you do all that stuff. They went, got some top soil,
Speaker 1: they you know, they did their thing. And then they
Speaker 1: did the seeds right, and they said, I did my job,
Speaker 1: now you do yours. You need to water. I said,
Speaker 1: I can do that. I can manage. Why because I
Speaker 1: have this timer you ever heard of them? You don't
Speaker 1: have to do nothing except said it once. And when
Speaker 1: you said it once, Hallelujah, praised the Lord. It's gonna do.
Speaker 1: It's a machine. It's a robot. It's not a human.
Speaker 1: That's not dependable. I'm not going to go there, but
Speaker 1: it does what you ask it to do. And so
Speaker 1: I was out was nuts. About it. I did six am,
Speaker 1: ten am, two pm, six pm, like thirty minutes out
Speaker 1: of time. I that thing was so wet. There was
Speaker 1: nothing dry in that grass. Because I said, you said
Speaker 1: I needed water. I'm gonna water and I don't care
Speaker 1: how much money, but this thing, what once was dead,
Speaker 1: is gonna be alive. It's gonna be green, it's gonna
Speaker 1: be good, and I'm gonna be happy when I come home.
Speaker 1: So I'm watering and this seed. I don't know what
Speaker 1: kind of seed they put in there, because usually it
Speaker 1: takes several weeks. I'm telling you, like seven days, and
Speaker 1: I'm seeing the stuff come through. I'm thinking, huh, that's strange.
Speaker 1: That is super quick. It must be my watering, you know,
Speaker 1: because I just watered the life out of that grass.
Speaker 1: And so as I was watering and then the grass
Speaker 1: is growing day by day, you know, I'm grinning, I'm smiling.
Speaker 1: I'm like, praise the Lord for a wife that told
Speaker 1: me to hire, because this thing would have still been dead.
Speaker 1: All this stuff, and I'm happy. And then I noticed
Speaker 1: as the grass is coming up, I noticed there's several
Speaker 1: weeds and I'm thinking, like, oh, that's just that's minor
Speaker 1: not a big deal. Whatever, It's fine, not a big deal.
Speaker 1: And as I continue to water, I'm seeing more weeds
Speaker 1: and I'm thinking, like, it's just a new grass, you know,
Speaker 1: maybe the weeds from the past or I don't know
Speaker 1: what is really going on, but it's just day by day,
Speaker 1: those weeds are popping out of nowhere. I promise they're like,
Speaker 1: what did you do to my grass? I believe that
Speaker 1: the soil they brought was infested. That's what I think,
Speaker 1: because man, they really took out old weeds, and that
Speaker 1: soil that they brought it. I don't know where they
Speaker 1: bought it. They cheap, that was what happened to You
Speaker 1: never hired anyway. So they brought this soil that was
Speaker 1: infested with weeds, and pretty soon my green grass turned
Speaker 1: into green weeds. And some of us get happy with
Speaker 1: that because at least the weeds are not yellow. Listen,
Speaker 1: I paid money for this grass. I want green grass.
Speaker 1: I don't want green weeds. And so day by day
Speaker 1: I'm living and these weeds are growing and they're multiplying
Speaker 1: as though, like they come out of nowhere, and pretty
Speaker 1: soon the thing I was rejoicing over is the very
Speaker 1: thing that I'm very upset with I was more upset
Speaker 1: with a new grass than I was with the old one,
Speaker 1: because I'm invested. Now I'm there, I'm here. I'm like,
Speaker 1: this is my house. Now I live here, Like this
Speaker 1: is not just a representation to me, this is for
Speaker 1: my enjoyment. I want to take my son and walk
Speaker 1: on the grass, not on weeds. You know what I'm
Speaker 1: talking about. And so finally I got so frustrated. I'm
Speaker 1: my Lord, I'm plucked these weeds out, and so I
Speaker 1: devote one day and it took me like half a day, NonStop.
Speaker 1: I was broken after that experience, non stop on my knees.
Speaker 1: I was so determined. I was so stubborn to see
Speaker 1: my grass green. And I was plucking these weeds. I
Speaker 1: was pulling them out, and I'm telling you, that weed
Speaker 1: that looked this small on the surface, who would have known?
Speaker 1: Those weeds went like this? They went and I was
Speaker 1: pulling and it was like it was like, man, there
Speaker 1: was one that was like a foot and a half long,
Speaker 1: and it was just like connected to something else, and
Speaker 1: I'm like, what in the world I'm pulling that one?
Speaker 1: It just keeps going, and the Lord has showing me
Speaker 1: the things on the surface that may seem minor have
Speaker 1: very deep impacts into the soil. How many of us
Speaker 1: know when Jesus talking about the soil is talking about
Speaker 1: your heart. Yeah, and the things that seem normal, or
Speaker 1: my grass isn't as bad as theirs, or all these
Speaker 1: things are getting kind of out of hand. Tall, Let
Speaker 1: me just mow over them and level it out, blend
Speaker 1: it in. Sometimes what you blend in multiplies, and the
Speaker 1: challenge when it multiplies, it begins to cover you. And
Speaker 1: I are called to cover the earth with the glory
Speaker 1: of God. But what are we covering our hearts with?
Speaker 1: It's making sense. I gotta get my ladder. Some of
Speaker 1: us don't understand. He's been raptured. I'm kidding. I don't
Speaker 1: got a ladder. I got something else. I brought you, guys,
Speaker 1: something because I feel like some of you don't understand.
Speaker 1: I brought my two friends. Hello, Lord help us. Last
Speaker 1: night for what ungodly reason, the Lord told me. I'm
Speaker 1: just kidding. Forgive what I just said. But the Lord
Speaker 1: told me at eleven at night last night, go outside
Speaker 1: and pluck a weed. My grass still has weeds. By
Speaker 1: the way, I spent half a day. But I plucked
Speaker 1: all those weeds and they keep coming back. Restore Life.
Speaker 1: It's a maintenance thing to make sure we're restored, redeemed.
Speaker 1: If you haven't been in Restore Live, you need to
Speaker 1: do it. If you haven't done KSC, you need to
Speaker 1: do it. If you haven't been a youth Minisuy, you
Speaker 1: gotta go. I'm telling you gotta stay connected, you gotta be. Oh,
Speaker 1: Lord help us. So last night at eleven PM, there's
Speaker 1: cars driving by, and I just went and I'm plucking weeds, okay,
Speaker 1: and I'm thinking, I really wonder what they're thinking. This
Speaker 1: crazy guy at eleven pm is sitting there in this
Speaker 1: grass plucking weeds. But I'll plucked this weed yep, last night,
Speaker 1: and for some some odd reason, I brought it in
Speaker 1: to the house. It was, it was muddy, brought it in,
Speaker 1: took it under the sink, washed its little leaves here,
Speaker 1: made it look I don't even know what this is,
Speaker 1: and I don't care, so don't tell me. But I
Speaker 1: washed its little leaves, made sure it look pretty, all
Speaker 1: that stuff. And then for some I feel on holy reason,
Speaker 1: the Lord put a thing of water and put the
Speaker 1: weed in the water. Why would I do that? Why
Speaker 1: would I allow this double to flourish? But sometimes we
Speaker 1: do work. We add soil to it. Soon this will
Speaker 1: this thing will dry out soon and fade. But that
Speaker 1: soil keeps it really fertilized. And sometimes instead of plucking it,
Speaker 1: we just we just kind of shorten it, We manage it,
Speaker 1: We make it seem relevant to who we are. Well,
Speaker 1: this is just the way I am. Well, you don't
Speaker 1: understand how I was raised. You don't know what they
Speaker 1: did to me. You don't know how that made me feel. Well,
Speaker 1: you don't understand this runs in my family line. Well, well,
Speaker 1: if you would have been through what I've been through,
Speaker 1: if you would have known how messed up life has been,
Speaker 1: you would understand why I have so many weeds. I understand.
Speaker 1: Maybe I don't, but I know one thing. He's a
Speaker 1: wheed puller. Hey pulls weeds. And you give every reason
Speaker 1: for your weeds. Why not give every reason for him
Speaker 1: to pull them? So I want to just draw attention
Speaker 1: to this. So many times we try to fix ourselves
Speaker 1: and try to pluck the weeds, and what we do
Speaker 1: is we just take off what's on the surface because
Speaker 1: it's bugging us and it's in our face and it's
Speaker 1: hurting us. It's harming us, it's harming the people around us,
Speaker 1: and so we just break off the top, thinking I've
Speaker 1: done it. I look a lot better now, it's managed, angers, managed,
Speaker 1: under control. Everything's okay. Oh lord, anybody know what this is?
Speaker 1: Try again? Anybody else, and something else? Anybody else. I'll
Speaker 1: tell you what this is, and please take a good
Speaker 1: look at this. This has a gender, it's a heat.
Speaker 1: His name is Holy Spirit. You need to see this.
Speaker 1: This is very, very important. Many times you and I
Speaker 1: want to better our lives, manage our difficulties, live for
Speaker 1: the king, tight end with demons. I know it's hard,
Speaker 1: but we avoid Holy Spirit because we know when he
Speaker 1: comes it hurts, and when he comes he actually changes things.
Speaker 1: I was so upset that I had to take this
Speaker 1: thing to my house, this little demon. I put it
Speaker 1: in the water. I left it outside my door. I
Speaker 1: was like, you will not breathe the same air I breathe,
Speaker 1: but this thing. I slept with it, and no, I'm kidding,
Speaker 1: I just sleep with it. But I'll put this thing
Speaker 1: on my dining table. I said, Holy Spirit, you're with me.
Speaker 1: Oh sweet, Holy spirits could I get a tishoe. Please,
Speaker 1: oh Lord, please help us, I said, Holy Spirit, I
Speaker 1: want everything that you have from me. And we avoid
Speaker 1: Holy Spirit so many times because when he comes, something
Speaker 1: has to shift, something has to change. And so we
Speaker 1: have these weeds. Let me do this so we can
Speaker 1: all see. We have these weeds under the surface, and
Speaker 1: on the surface it looks like it's not that big
Speaker 1: of a deal. It's not doing much. It's not harming
Speaker 1: us too much. It's only affecting us personally, not necessarily
Speaker 1: the people around us. And so what we do is
Speaker 1: we learn to live with the very thing he paid
Speaker 1: a price to remove. And so watch what happens when
Speaker 1: the sweet Holy Spirit comes and you give him access
Speaker 1: to your heart, if it's truly your heart, he goes,
Speaker 1: he exposes the area of mass impact, and he goes
Speaker 1: and he gets it by the root. And when he
Speaker 1: gets it by the root, or you can feel it,
Speaker 1: it's starting to hurt. Oh, he's talking you about your anger.
Speaker 1: He's talking about things you've been holding onto because your
Speaker 1: dad had it. He's talking about the stuff that you've
Speaker 1: just been okay with because the people around you've been
Speaker 1: living that way. But Mom, I'm telling you when you
Speaker 1: yield to the Holy Spirit and what he'd paid a
Speaker 1: price for, and you let him grab those roots, and
Speaker 1: then he begins to apply that pressure, and that downward
Speaker 1: pressure just hurts. And it hurts because it's affecting the
Speaker 1: way you think and the way you feel, and the
Speaker 1: way you imagine and what you desire in life. And
Speaker 1: when he's taking that by the root and he puts
Speaker 1: that downward pressure, you feel that. You feel that and
Speaker 1: it hurts. And I'll tell you what, It doesn't necessarily
Speaker 1: hurt so bad. It hurts so good. But we run
Speaker 1: from the hurt because we know when the Lord removes
Speaker 1: the weed out of our life, it leaves a pain,
Speaker 1: It leaves an emptiness. How many of us know that
Speaker 1: when the emptiness is not filled, the demon that left
Speaker 1: it's coming for seven more. And so many times we
Speaker 1: avoid the Holy Spirit because we don't fill the place
Speaker 1: that God removed. And we know that if we haven't removed,
Speaker 1: something worse is coming our way. But I'm here to
Speaker 1: tell you if we give way to this Holy Spirit,
Speaker 1: if we allow the Holy Spirit to make the most
Speaker 1: impact in us, not only to weed us out, but
Speaker 1: to also fill us deep. Oh sweet heaven is gonna explode.
Speaker 1: I'm gonna leave this right here because it's very instrumental
Speaker 1: to where we're headed today. These need to go where
Speaker 1: they belong. Beneath your feet out left to dry, no nourishment,
Speaker 1: no water, no hesitation. You are son, daughter of the
Speaker 1: most high God. Your true identity is a living one,
Speaker 1: not in those around you, not your life experiences. If
Speaker 1: you're in here, you have not done restored life. You
Speaker 1: need to do restore life. You just need to. You
Speaker 1: need to know what the devil has, what kind of roots,
Speaker 1: PA's away, how many steps, how many different roots, twelve doors,
Speaker 1: There's so many different tools that we have accessible to
Speaker 1: the godly ones, that they may grow, that they may flourish.
Speaker 1: But we're sitting here. I'm okay with my little life.
Speaker 1: I have enough money to get by. I have some friends.
Speaker 1: Maybe yes, maybe no, I'm okay. Just because everything seems
Speaker 1: chill and we're comfortable. We don't know the comforter because
Speaker 1: we're comfortable. We don't know the provider because we feel
Speaker 1: like we can provide. We don't know the one who
Speaker 1: says yes to the mountain moving because we're okay. We
Speaker 1: learn to live with our mountains. Okay, beneath the feet.
Speaker 1: Please remember this. Please Revelations, if you can, please, please
Speaker 1: go there. If not, it's on the screen. I'm gonna
Speaker 1: read in the Nalty. On the screen is going to
Speaker 1: be NKJV, just because I want to get to that
Speaker 1: one here in a second. But Revelations, chapter two, verse two, Jesus,
Speaker 1: Jesus speaks to the church, and I don't know how
Speaker 1: to say the right way, says there's no ficia, not that. Okay,
Speaker 1: I'll just say Ephesian Church. I'll keep it simple for
Speaker 1: all those who are language bothered by what I just said.
Speaker 1: Jesus speaks to the Ephesian Church. And this is the
Speaker 1: church that actually, if you remember, they had a mass revival,
Speaker 1: thousands and thousands being safe, witch doctors throwing their throwing
Speaker 1: their books into the fired, revival, repentance, transformation, healing, deliverance,
Speaker 1: so many things are having. This church is on fire.
Speaker 1: And in this verse Jesus talking to that church, okay,
Speaker 1: and he says, I know your works. I'm gonna read
Speaker 1: in the Enalty just because it makes more sense to
Speaker 1: my mind. He says, I know all the things that
Speaker 1: you do. I've seen your hard work and your patient endurance.
Speaker 1: I know that you do not tolerate evil people. You
Speaker 1: have examined the claims of those who say that their
Speaker 1: apostles but are not. You have discovered that they are liars.
Speaker 1: You have patiently suffered for me without quitting. But I
Speaker 1: have this complaint against you. How does the KHVC next verse? Nevertheless,
Speaker 1: I have this against you. Listen before we go on,
Speaker 1: you need to know something when the Holy Spirit, when
Speaker 1: the God of the universe presents something to you that
Speaker 1: he has a complaint with. This is your response right here?
Speaker 1: Not this? This why? Because the Lord disciplines those he
Speaker 1: when there's a discipline factor coming into your life. Oh
Speaker 1: my God, I can feel it. That's his love. That's
Speaker 1: the best thing for you. When he's telling you you
Speaker 1: need to stop with this addiction. Oh my God, that's
Speaker 1: his mercy. That's the divine love of God in your
Speaker 1: current reality, giving you the opportunity to be free. Man.
Speaker 1: So please, whenever God comes with conviction through a friend
Speaker 1: and worship, through the sermon, through a something experience where
Speaker 1: you hear it, you feel it, you know it, lean in,
Speaker 1: don't resist, he said to them, But I have this
Speaker 1: complaint against you. You don't love me or each other
Speaker 1: the way you did that first. How does it say
Speaker 1: you have left go back? You have left your first love. See,
Speaker 1: Jesus never just reveals something that you're not only to
Speaker 1: leave you there. He gives you a way out. How
Speaker 1: many you know that's true. He gives you a solution.
Speaker 1: He gives you something that you can cling on, to
Speaker 1: grab on, to believe and contend. For the next verse,
Speaker 1: I want you to catch this and very carefully listen.
Speaker 1: Remember therefore from where say this? Remember from when you remember?
Speaker 1: You're here right now, we're all living in this room,
Speaker 1: right here, in this present time. But when you remember
Speaker 1: what you're doing in the natural, you're remembering from where
Speaker 1: here or here here, any place, But you're remembering in
Speaker 1: the present. From is the distance and where is the position?
Speaker 1: And Jesus says to them, remember from where you have fallen.
Speaker 1: What is he saying. He's saying, remember who I called
Speaker 1: you to be, Remember that first love. And he said
Speaker 1: to them, repent and do the works you've done at first.
Speaker 1: What's he saying? He is saying that who you are
Speaker 1: is that very person you are when you believed, when
Speaker 1: you would spend callless hours with the Lord when nothing
Speaker 1: else mattered to you. That's who you are in the Lord.
Speaker 1: Remember that, so watch this. What Jesus is revealing to
Speaker 1: us is that remembering gives a plot or a place,
Speaker 1: or paves the way for repentance. When you're in the
Speaker 1: natural and you're subdued by the world around you, and
Speaker 1: the Lord says, remember, he's actually given you opportunity to repent.
Speaker 1: Repent doesn't just mean feel bad. Repent means you're repenting
Speaker 1: from But so many of us repent from evil, But
Speaker 1: we don't repent to God. We repent from evil to
Speaker 1: live ordinary lives. But when you repent from evil, you
Speaker 1: must go to God. You must repent to God. When
Speaker 1: you change one way, you gotta go the other. If
Speaker 1: you're stuck in the middle, you'll be spit out. Sorry, guys,
Speaker 1: he's just been messing me up real bad lately. Remembering
Speaker 1: also gives way to recreating testimony when pull back up.
Speaker 1: Thank you bad. Remember therefore, from where you have fallen, repent.
Speaker 1: When you re you almost invoke you. You take in
Speaker 1: the supernatural, a time that you're not living in anymore.
Speaker 1: We're not living in that past. First eleven anymore. But
Speaker 1: when you take that from the current position you're in
Speaker 1: and you take a few steps this way, and you remember,
Speaker 1: you're bringing to the surface something out of your past
Speaker 1: that was divine, real, authentic and powerful, and bring it
Speaker 1: into the natural here and now, what's God saying is
Speaker 1: he's saying that the testimonial what happened here lives on.
Speaker 1: It lives on, and it speaks through the generations. It
Speaker 1: speaks through time, and what you've done there still has
Speaker 1: an effect today. I want to show you this actually
Speaker 1: in a different place in the Hebrews chapter eleven, verse
Speaker 1: let's see here well verse verse four. I want you
Speaker 1: to watch this carefully. It was by faith that Abel
Speaker 1: brought a more acceptable offering to God than can did.
Speaker 1: Abel's offering gave evidence that he was a righteous man,
Speaker 1: and God showed his approval of his gifts. Watch this,
Speaker 1: watch this part. Although Abel is a long dead, pay attention,
Speaker 1: he still speaks. He still speaks to us today by
Speaker 1: his example of faith. What's God's saying faith lives outside time.
Speaker 1: Faith Hebrews chapter eleven, verse one is the substance of
Speaker 1: things hope for three things us forever, Faith, hope, and love.
Speaker 1: The greatest is love, So we diminished the other two
Speaker 1: saying well, just just folks, all, no, listen. Faith works
Speaker 1: through love. But also faith is the evidence of things
Speaker 1: hope for So faith, hope, and love they're all just
Speaker 1: intertwined like father, father, son, holy spirit. You can't get away.
Speaker 1: It's not just diminishing them. They have equal eternal value.
Speaker 1: So when you're in faith and you do something in faith,
Speaker 1: it's like a substance. It's like hovering, and when you
Speaker 1: tap into it, you're tapping into something everyone has access to. You. See,
Speaker 1: my wife and I share a bank account. Okay, we
Speaker 1: two cards. I make the deposits, she does the withdraws.
Speaker 1: It's that simple. Okay, I'm kidding. In all reality, we
Speaker 1: have a bank account, and if I draw or if
Speaker 1: she draws, it doesn't matter. If she draws one thousand
Speaker 1: dollars and she says I want to do this, she's
Speaker 1: using our bank account. If I draw one hundred thousand
Speaker 1: dollars and I want to do this, then it's our
Speaker 1: bank account. It's our thing. It's our substance that we have,
Speaker 1: and we understand it. See, faith works like that. When
Speaker 1: somebody does something great or powerful, we elevate them. We say, wow,
Speaker 1: your faith is great, amazing, and we elevate them and
Speaker 1: diminish us, and we don't realize we're called in the
Speaker 1: same faith. They're using the same thing we're using when
Speaker 1: we say we believe in Jesus, except they're believing for more. See,
Speaker 1: your belief is not your faith. Belief is internal. It's
Speaker 1: something that you're believing on the inside that continuously needs
Speaker 1: to be transformed. Faith is wholly, divine, eternal, unblemish. We
Speaker 1: go from faith to faith because we row in our
Speaker 1: understanding of faith. Faith doesn't have wrong faith. You can
Speaker 1: have wrong beliefs, but faith is faith. When you tap
Speaker 1: into faith, God honors faith and moves on this earth.
Speaker 1: But your belief system needs to align to this faith.
Speaker 1: So watch this. Abel did something way back, back, back,
Speaker 1: back back. Do you guys know how old they like?
Speaker 1: We're talking about Adam Eve Abel's that's not like your
Speaker 1: grandpa or your great grandpa or George Washington and somebody
Speaker 1: we know of recent We're talking about the beginning, the beginning,
Speaker 1: like back, and somebody did something there that speaks through
Speaker 1: every generation until we're here in this room. And by
Speaker 1: faith by accessing this substance. God shows us that we
Speaker 1: all have access to that testimony because he's still speaking.
Speaker 1: Who come on, God, faith loses its voice. That means
Speaker 1: anything you do in faith has the power today as
Speaker 1: it did yesterday and it will tomorrow. You know, a
Speaker 1: testimony in and of itself. When you say, oh, I
Speaker 1: have a testimony, you're not saying, oh, look, I just
Speaker 1: had an experience way back here and I want to
Speaker 1: share about how amazing was. No. What you're doing when
Speaker 1: you invoke on it, when you speak about something God's
Speaker 1: done there, what you're declaring in today is that the
Speaker 1: God that did that yesterday, it's alive today transforming me,
Speaker 1: has the power to keep doing what it's been doing.
Speaker 1: That's why when we were going through infertility, I had
Speaker 1: so many people saying, listen, I heard about this one
Speaker 1: guy and they were dealing with the same stuff, but
Speaker 1: they believed and God did this and they're life. Now.
Speaker 1: I'll go over here, somebody listen, this female was dealing
Speaker 1: with that, but God showed up for her. And what
Speaker 1: are they doing. They're stirring up my belief to believe
Speaker 1: and have the faith of these people so I can
Speaker 1: enter in and see the transformation of my life. There's something
Speaker 1: that's promised to you and I Jason, where you at?
Speaker 1: Please help me something that's promised to you and I. Oh, Lord, okay,
Speaker 1: I'll do that. Jason. Don't play yet, but be ready.
Speaker 1: Holy Spirit help If you're in this room and you
Speaker 1: need to give your life to the Lord, your heart's
Speaker 1: burning right now deep inside and you just need a surrender.
Speaker 1: Just would you come up quickly? I know this is
Speaker 1: random of the ordain, but I just sense like the
Speaker 1: Lord is tugging on your heart and you need to come.
Speaker 1: You need a surrender. I'll wait. I won't wait long.
Speaker 1: If you're not obedient, that's fine. But if you are
Speaker 1: and the Lord's doing this to you, just come up
Speaker 1: and join me right here. I want to pray with you.
Speaker 1: The church wants to pray, but it's like your heart's
Speaker 1: burning and you know that this is your moment. You
Speaker 1: just need the Lord and you need to surrender your
Speaker 1: life to the Lord. I'll wait for a little bit longer.
Speaker 1: We should just pray real quick. Father, I thank you
Speaker 1: for each individual that's here. God, we just surrender to
Speaker 1: your heart right now. I ask that you would just
Speaker 1: give them the courage to step out of their comfort zone,
Speaker 1: to allow the weeds to be unplucked in their life. God,
Speaker 1: I thank you for each individual that's here for the
Speaker 1: transformation their life. Thank you God, Thank you Lord. It
Speaker 1: could be somebody online, but I feel like there's a
Speaker 1: few in this room. I don't know. I just feel
Speaker 1: I'm just gonna make that it's very important. I'm not
Speaker 1: This isn't a show. God's touching you and he's showing
Speaker 1: up in his mercy. Just do it. Stare anybody in
Speaker 1: here that would say, this is my time to surrender
Speaker 1: to the Lord. It's not gonna be weird. It's gonna
Speaker 1: be the best thing that ever happened to you. It's okay.
Speaker 1: Everything could look natural on the surface. So we got
Speaker 1: want anybody else, anybody else? Come on up here? Man,
Speaker 1: let me stand right here, right here, my man, you
Speaker 1: can face me, face me. Is there anybody else you're
Speaker 1: coming up to? Come on, man, anybody else. I'll wait
Speaker 1: a little bit longer. This is this is more important
Speaker 1: than anything else for real. Anybody else? Give you ten
Speaker 1: more seconds? Thank you? Come on, It's gotta be hell.
Speaker 1: He's one more. Who are you? Don't resist? It's not
Speaker 1: worth it. You'll be found in resistance the rest of
Speaker 1: your life. It's not worth it. Just just just lean in.
Speaker 1: It's okay, it's okay, precious, thank you. Okay. Pastor GWayne,
Speaker 1: can I have some elders, Pastor Frank Angela, would you
Speaker 1: call him real quick, this very very important Holy Spirit,
Speaker 1: Just would you stand real quick pray over them. Father.
Speaker 1: I thank you for what you're doing right here in
Speaker 1: this moment. If you're in here and you still know
Speaker 1: that you got to be up here, given to just
Speaker 1: come as we're praying. Father, I thank you that you're
Speaker 1: doing what you're doing best. God. I thank you for
Speaker 1: radical transformation. God. I thank you right now God that
Speaker 1: there's a transformation that's coming for the rest of their lives. God.
Speaker 1: And I thank you that nothing in the past will
Speaker 1: have a hold on them. And God, I thank you
Speaker 1: for what you're doing right here, right now will have
Speaker 1: eternal impact. God. Not thank you for healing them, touching them,
Speaker 1: changing them, delivering them. And I thank you that right
Speaker 1: now you're marking them God for the rest of their lives.
Speaker 1: I thank you Joy is coming back God. I thank
Speaker 1: your revivals hitting their hearts. I thank you for the
Speaker 1: fire of God, changing them, burning everything else that doesn't
Speaker 1: belong and God, I thank you as they're giving and
Speaker 1: surrendering to you God, that there's something happening that will
Speaker 1: just reflect on their countenance in Jesus name, Oh precious
Speaker 1: Holy Spirit. Amen. Okay, quickly rush back to your seats.
Speaker 1: We're almost done. But this is so precious. I just
Speaker 1: couldn't go on. I couldn't go on. Come up with again. Yes,
Speaker 1: So if you were here at the end when we're
Speaker 1: not going to have Destiny team, would you come back
Speaker 1: up and let somebody pray with you? Okay, it's so
Speaker 1: precious Jesus, I feel that way to where is crying?
Speaker 1: If you have kids in the back, should go get them?
Speaker 1: Leave the department back there. It's just gonna Can we
Speaker 1: do like another seven to ten minutes? Is that? Okay?
Speaker 1: We just we gotta. I had to. The Lord just
Speaker 1: said we had to do that before we go to
Speaker 1: where we're headed. Right now? Okay, oh Lord, Okay, when
Speaker 1: you're walking this life of faith, sometimes you enter a
Speaker 1: situation that it's too big to handle and it's too overwhelming,
Speaker 1: and the you've tried exhausted all your abilities and faith
Speaker 1: and you've prayed every prayer you could pray, and you've
Speaker 1: tried so hard, but there's this thing that sits in
Speaker 1: front of you, and it's it's a big old mountain,
Speaker 1: and instead of you looking down on it, it's looking
Speaker 1: down at you, and it's tormenting your beliefs and understanding,
Speaker 1: and it's everything you think you know about faith. It's
Speaker 1: kind of laughing at it. And you got this mountain
Speaker 1: in front of you. And so many times we were
Speaker 1: stuck in a place where we know we have to
Speaker 1: get across to the other side of the mountain, but
Speaker 1: it's just in front of us, and we can't. We
Speaker 1: can't seem to get there. We just don't know how.
Speaker 1: And so many times we get stuck in this gaze
Speaker 1: at the mountain. And the longer you look at a mountain,
Speaker 1: the bigger it gets. The longer you look at your hopelessness,
Speaker 1: the hope you get, the longer you look at that
Speaker 1: depressive spirit, the more depressed you get, The longer you
Speaker 1: think about how broke you are, the more broke you are,
Speaker 1: because that affects everything inside too. So the longer you're
Speaker 1: sitting there with your mountain of issues, the bigger it gets,
Speaker 1: and the Lord he wants to take you to a
Speaker 1: place of breakthrough. And so when you stand in front
Speaker 1: of the mountain, the Lord in his mercy says, why
Speaker 1: don't you take a step back. And when you take
Speaker 1: a few steps back, you begin to revisit your past.
Speaker 1: When you revisit your past, what do you find? You find?
Speaker 1: Oh God, I remember there was a mountain of infertility.
Speaker 1: I remember I couldn't have kids. But God, you made
Speaker 1: away and I went through. And then you take a
Speaker 1: few more steps back, and then you remember, Oh God,
Speaker 1: I remember I was depressed and suicide had its hand
Speaker 1: around my throat and I was gonna die. I knew
Speaker 1: I was gonna finish it. But Lord, the light of
Speaker 1: God came and showing into my life, and I went
Speaker 1: right through that mountain. And you take a few steps back,
Speaker 1: and you remember God. I remember I was so broke
Speaker 1: I couldn't afford my next rent payment, and I just prayed, Lord,
Speaker 1: would you provide? And God, you gave me that idea,
Speaker 1: You gave me that opportunity. You connected me with the
Speaker 1: right people, You shine your light into me. You take
Speaker 1: a few steps back. God, I remember when my marriage
Speaker 1: was on the brink of divorce. I remember when nothing
Speaker 1: seemed hopeful. I remember when I was so broken, so alone.
Speaker 1: But God, you came and you redeemed my life. You
Speaker 1: redeemed my mind, You redeemed everything about me. You take
Speaker 1: a few steps back, God, I remember when I was
Speaker 1: stuck in pornography, addicted to that game, addicted to that vibe,
Speaker 1: addicted to that drug. I remember, God, but you came
Speaker 1: and you broke out of me. You uprooted this evil
Speaker 1: out of me. I remember when I was so hungry
Speaker 1: Jesus that all I wanted to do was burned for you.
Speaker 1: I stayed until the late of the night. I prayed
Speaker 1: till I couldn't pray no more. I remember. And then
Speaker 1: all of a sudden, as you're pulling back and your
Speaker 1: memory and you're walking back on memory lane, you're walking
Speaker 1: back with the Lord, not revisiting your failures, but revisiting
Speaker 1: his glorious success. His majesty has transformation, and you see
Speaker 1: it all and you're actually getting pulled back, and then
Speaker 1: the Lord releases you, and you're walking to this cloud
Speaker 1: of witnesses to the life of faith, and like David,
Speaker 1: all those in the face of the life. All those armies,
Speaker 1: the Israeli army was shaking in their armor. But David
Speaker 1: came just just broke the jaw of the lion, just
Speaker 1: killed and slain the bear taking its sheep. And David comes,
Speaker 1: He's like, oh, I have this victory in the Lord.
Speaker 1: The anointing is on me. This break through, this break through,
Speaker 1: this breakthrough, this breakthrough, you going, You're walking through this
Speaker 1: and the God of your past ushers in a new reality.
Speaker 1: And then all of a sudden, this mountain that was big,
Speaker 1: it's just a hill. It's just a hill. And then
Speaker 1: you say, you take the authority given to you by Christ, saying,
Speaker 1: if any of you shall say to this mountain, may
Speaker 1: you be uprooted, May you be uprooted. This is what
Speaker 1: all of our mountains look like. This is what they
Speaker 1: look like. It's inward issues. Many times, it's outward issues.
Speaker 1: It's things that we necessarily can't do. But when we
Speaker 1: take the authority of Christ and we say, may you
Speaker 1: be uprooted and thrown into the sea, God will move
Speaker 1: heaven and earth. When you enter into that faith, you
Speaker 1: may be here. And you're saying to yourself, well, I
Speaker 1: don't have necessarily that walk of faith. I don't have
Speaker 1: anything to lean back on. I don't have that walk
Speaker 1: with the Lord that some others may have. I don't
Speaker 1: have those stories, those victories, those life changing, life touching
Speaker 1: moments that I could say, God, I know you in
Speaker 1: my life. Listen carefully. Faith doesn't belong to anyone. It's
Speaker 1: something we all have an opportunity to enter into. So
Speaker 1: if I walk to journey, you have direct access to
Speaker 1: that because that faith necessarily wasn't mine. My belief just
Speaker 1: a line to it. You will have direct access to
Speaker 1: the victory in every testimony you've ever heard. This is
Speaker 1: why we share testimonies. I'm gonna share one story and
Speaker 1: we'll end with this one. It's a story that you
Speaker 1: need to remember. If that's you in this room and
Speaker 1: you might say I can't really find anything in my past,
Speaker 1: I want to introduce you to a woman in the
Speaker 1: scriptures by the name of Reyhab. Rehab, remember the name.
Speaker 1: Rehab lived in a city named Jericho. And when Rehab
Speaker 1: lived in Jericho, the Israelite nation was closing in. You see,
Speaker 1: when God pulled the Israelite nation out of Egypt, out
Speaker 1: of their bondage, out of their slavery. He split the
Speaker 1: Red Sea, and the whole nation walked on dry ground,
Speaker 1: on the river bed, on the seabed, they all walked
Speaker 1: on dry ground. Okay, forty years later, please listen to
Speaker 1: the intensity of this. Forty years later, the Israelite nation
Speaker 1: is at the door of Jericho. After that moment of
Speaker 1: walking on the dry ground, the Israelite nation comes to
Speaker 1: the door of Jericho. They sent two spies into Jericho.
Speaker 1: And this woman, she was a prostitute. Ray Hab. She
Speaker 1: welcomed these spies and hid them. And she said, we
Speaker 1: all heard what your God did, how he caused you
Speaker 1: to walk on dry ground. Forty years later, and we're
Speaker 1: all been terrified forty years. They're living in fear. But
Speaker 1: I know your God is the real god. Rayhab said,
Speaker 1: what did Rehab do? She is depicted in Hebrews chapter
Speaker 1: eleven in the Hall of Faith. There's Rehab in there too.
Speaker 1: And she said, the things that I heard forty years ago,
Speaker 1: I believed in them. And she entered into the same
Speaker 1: faith as the Israelite nation. She had to be. She
Speaker 1: couldn't be killed. There's no way God can harm her.
Speaker 1: She couldn't. Lot was pulled out because he was in
Speaker 1: the faith. God honors those that are in the faith,
Speaker 1: so Rahab couldn't fall under the judgment of God because
Speaker 1: she entered into something divine. Do you understand what I'm saying.
Speaker 1: If you're in this room and you're like, I don't
Speaker 1: have a history, listen, you do. His name is Jesus
Speaker 1: and it's found in everything everything you read in this thing,
Speaker 1: it's all yours. Would you stand to your feet? Oooh Jesus.
Speaker 1: I don't know what he's reminding you of today, but
Speaker 1: this is what he wants to do. Right now, I'm
Speaker 1: gonna ask the Destiny Team would you quickly come up
Speaker 1: and Destiny Team, we're over time. If your kids are here,
Speaker 1: that's great because nobody's in a hurry really to go
Speaker 1: unless you really gotta go get him. But listen, don't
Speaker 1: let this moment buy Nothing is more important than your
Speaker 1: encounter with this sweet, precious, hot Holy Spirit. So the
Speaker 1: Destiny Team will serve as praying with you through whatever
Speaker 1: you need to pray through. But I'm gonna ask you
Speaker 1: this one time, and I want the Holy Spirit. Would
Speaker 1: you take over? After this? I'm gonna depart the stage,
Speaker 1: but stay as long as you need to. Even if
Speaker 1: all the Destiny team has to go, they'll turn on
Speaker 1: some music, but don't walk away from the encounter that
Speaker 1: is life transforming. I'm gonna ask you this question this morning.
Speaker 1: What is the Holy Spirit reminding you of? With every
Speaker 1: eye closed? Father, I thank you for touching us deeply,
Speaker 1: for touching us, changing us, molding us, shaping us, breaking us. God,
Speaker 1: we yield to the potter, and we say, where you
Speaker 1: are your clay. This morning, I asked that you break
Speaker 1: what needs to be broken, heal what needs to be healed,
Speaker 1: delivered what needs to be delivered, Cast out every devil
Speaker 1: this morning, God, we want to be a free, spotless
Speaker 1: bride in Jesus' name. God, we want to encounter the
Speaker 1: goodness of God this morning. We want to experience the
Speaker 1: fullness of God. This morning. We want to know the
Speaker 1: power of which we were saved from and the power
Speaker 1: of which we are saved for. In Jesus' name, So
Speaker 1: as we pray, I asked that you would respond in
Speaker 1: Jesus' name,