Speaker 1: It's going to be fun. The name of our message
Speaker 1: is best Bread ever. Think about being thirteen and how
Speaker 1: you talk about things if you're thirteen, best bread ever,
Speaker 1: the best, like incredible. That's the message today. And you're
Speaker 1: getting me because we want our pastor the incredible preacher teacher.
Speaker 2: To be really, really really.
Speaker 1: Recharged for our summit. So I'm helping out a little bit.
Speaker 1: So before we get started, we're gonna pray, Lord Jesus
Speaker 1: have your way. Don't let a word come out of
Speaker 1: my mouth that's not yours. I give my tongue to you,
Speaker 1: and I say speak what I can't say, and say
Speaker 1: what I can't say. Amen. So we're in the middle
Speaker 1: of a fast, and I feel like, as there was
Speaker 1: some prophetic declaration and talk about Isaiah the fifty eighth
Speaker 1: chapter as the fast was getting started and what the
Speaker 1: fast would look like. I believe that fasting and prayer
Speaker 1: done a certain way is designed to break off the
Speaker 1: yoke of the oppressor. Okay, so the demonic realm, the
Speaker 1: thing that brings harm to your life and a problem
Speaker 1: to you, to break off the yoke of the.
Speaker 2: Oppressor, that's the kind of fast we want to have.
Speaker 1: That's the kind of prayer that we want to we
Speaker 1: want to.
Speaker 2: Involve ourselves in.
Speaker 1: And so if the Lord says that that's how you're
Speaker 1: supposed to pray, then that's how we're going to pray
Speaker 1: because we value what he values, because we're in New
Speaker 1: Horizon Church and we really think that whatever he has
Speaker 1: to say is the most pre eminent and it's the top,
Speaker 1: and we're in that and we're following that. Okay, we
Speaker 1: think that's the highest, and so we want to ascribe
Speaker 1: to the highest. Okay, if he says that we can
Speaker 1: pull heaven down and bring it to earth and this
Speaker 1: is how to do it, then I want to figure out, well,
Speaker 1: how do we do that? And he says it, that's
Speaker 1: where we're going.
Speaker 2: So I really thought so last week Pastor.
Speaker 1: Dwayne did an awesome job. He brought up Pastor Joel
Speaker 1: and he gave an exemp an example, if you will,
Speaker 1: of what it is to communicate with God, interact with God.
Speaker 1: And one of the things that I really liked is
Speaker 1: that one it was extremely personable. Okay, it was intimate,
Speaker 1: but number two, he was talking about Hallowed be your name,
Speaker 1: like that God is, he's to be revered, He's beautiful,
Speaker 1: he's majoric, he's the highest, He's worthy of all praise,
Speaker 1: so that we would come into our prayer with first
Speaker 1: that being our heart posture that like, he's so worthy
Speaker 1: that we have a humility and humbleness to us in
Speaker 1: how we approach him. And I think that I think
Speaker 1: that sometimes in charismatic churches, I think we could learn
Speaker 1: a thing or two if we look at other denominations.
Speaker 1: What do I mean if you look at the liturgical branches,
Speaker 1: Let's say some of the liturgical branches, like Catholicism, they
Speaker 1: have a like they really believe his name is hallowed,
Speaker 1: Like they have a reverence for God. There's like a
Speaker 1: God's powerful and he's holy, and we need to we
Speaker 1: need to approach him from that light if you take
Speaker 1: it too far, And I like that because he is.
Speaker 1: And if you look back through the New Testament, we
Speaker 1: can see like antoniasis firr God like he'll take people
Speaker 1: out just for disrespecting him. So like we need to
Speaker 1: approach him from that hallowed be your name perspective. And however,
Speaker 1: what I really appreciated about what he shared was that
Speaker 1: we don't need to be afraid to approach him. He
Speaker 1: actually says he loves you. He actually says he wants
Speaker 1: to be so intimate with you that he's not the distant,
Speaker 1: sovereign God. And he doesn't just do everything he's going
Speaker 1: to do because he says he's going to do it.
Speaker 1: He actually will listen to our prayers to change things.
Speaker 1: He'll actually listen to the plead of a man and
Speaker 1: even stave off judgment to a people group. Lot right, Abraham,
Speaker 1: God actually doesn't just do everything he wants to do
Speaker 1: whenever he wants to do it. He actually partners with humans.
Speaker 1: And so he's got this incredible relationship with humanity where
Speaker 1: he says, oh my gosh, I love you so much Junior,
Speaker 1: that I want to be intimate with you, and you
Speaker 1: can say anything to me, you can share anything with me.
Speaker 2: Nothing's off limits.
Speaker 1: Let's get tight. So that's the perspective understanding that it's
Speaker 1: under the ground of hallowed be thy name. Okay, so
Speaker 1: we're starting off with hallowing his name. Then we're approaching
Speaker 1: him and if we hop into Matthew six nine through twelve,
Speaker 1: six nine through twelve, this then is how you should
Speaker 1: pray our Father, Hallowed be your name, your kingdom, come
Speaker 1: your will, be done on earth as it is in Heaven.
Speaker 1: Give us today our daily bread, and forgive us our debts,
Speaker 1: as we have also forgiven our debtors. I'm going to
Speaker 1: give you a few scriptures right now. Let's go to
Speaker 1: Matthew four four. Jesus answered, it is written, man shall
Speaker 1: not live on bread alone, by every word that precedes
Speaker 1: or comes out of the mouth of God.
Speaker 2: Why am I going to.
Speaker 1: Give you three or four scriptures? Because I'm building. I'm
Speaker 1: building something to that we can work with. I'm giving
Speaker 1: you a foundation. Let's go to Juteronomy eight three. Now,
Speaker 1: this is even old Testament. Okay, he humbled you, causing
Speaker 1: you to hunger, and then feeding you with manna, which
Speaker 1: neither you your nor ancestors had known to teach you
Speaker 1: that man does not live on bread alone, but on
Speaker 1: every word that comes from the mouth of God. You're
Speaker 1: seeing this Old Testament, you're seeing this New Testament. It's everywhere. Well,
Speaker 1: why is this? Because if you've got kids and they're
Speaker 1: beloved to you, you want to be intimate with them.
Speaker 1: You want to be intimate with them. One of the
Speaker 1: dangers of this passage of scripture is that so many
Speaker 1: people may have recited it or memorized it in their church,
Speaker 1: a growth or development where they actually like somebody could
Speaker 1: start it and they could just finish it really easily,
Speaker 1: and that's wonderful. However, if we only ascend to a
Speaker 1: head knowledge of a scripture but it doesn't actually get
Speaker 1: like super deep down in our heart, then what happens
Speaker 1: is we could actually only experience that scripture and what
Speaker 1: it has for us on the surface of it, rather
Speaker 1: than it being experiential and transformative. If the Word of
Speaker 1: God is living and sharp, it's it can change anything.
Speaker 1: It's transformative. Correct, So we have to be careful when
Speaker 1: we're looking at the Lord's prayer to not have this
Speaker 1: thing become some just like rote thing that loses its
Speaker 1: power and loses its significance only because of how we're
Speaker 1: interacting with it. Does that make sense like that it
Speaker 1: wouldn't be giving the value it's designed to give because
Speaker 1: how we perceive it, and if we don't have a
Speaker 1: hallow be thy name, we might not perceive it that way.
Speaker 1: So I want you to listen to the scripture. This
Speaker 1: is a Psalm one one wow, actually it's one through three.
Speaker 1: Blessed is the one who does not walk in step
Speaker 1: with the wicked, or stand in the way that sinners take,
Speaker 1: or sit in the company of mockers. But whose delight
Speaker 1: is in the law of the Lord, who meditates on
Speaker 1: this law day and night. That person is like a
Speaker 1: tree planted by streams of living water that yields its
Speaker 1: fruit and dew season. Its leaf does not wither. Whatever
Speaker 1: they do prospers. Whatever they do prospers. You'll notice in
Speaker 1: the middle of this verse you're going to see he
Speaker 1: who meditates on his word day and night. And then
Speaker 1: it's a scribe certain things that are appropriate to that
Speaker 1: person who's meditating on it day and night. It says
Speaker 1: that you'll be like a stream by living water, and
Speaker 1: it says that your leaf will not wither.
Speaker 2: It'll be green and.
Speaker 1: Full, and it'll produce whatever it needs to in the
Speaker 1: season it needs to produce it. Okay, we can only
Speaker 1: produce fruit if we're abiding in the shelter. In John
Speaker 1: fifteen to five, that's not up there. Don't worry about
Speaker 1: putting it up. But in John fifteen five he says
Speaker 1: that he's the vine, we're the branches that if we
Speaker 1: abide in him and he abides in us, that basically
Speaker 1: we can produce much fruit, and it says if we
Speaker 1: don't do that, it doesn't produce anything. We produce literally nothing,
Speaker 1: it's worthless. So this connection, this communion that's abiding, this
Speaker 1: in tomacy with the King is the only way to
Speaker 1: actually have the kingdom come through the reformers. If New
Speaker 1: Horizon is a group of reformers, the reformers bring the kingdom.
Speaker 1: But unless we have the King, we can't bring the kingdom.
Speaker 1: So this abiding, this being knit to him, this connection
Speaker 1: with him, is absolutely essential if we want to see
Speaker 1: Heaven come to earth, if we want to see His
Speaker 1: will be done on earth as it is in heaven,
Speaker 1: it has.
Speaker 2: To occur that way.
Speaker 1: And so.
Speaker 2: I want to tell you a little story.
Speaker 1: When I was twenty three, I got radically transformed, and
Speaker 1: I grew up in a family or perspective that I
Speaker 1: had no biblical training zero. When I got saved, I
Speaker 1: did not know the word Sadducee, Pharisee. I did not
Speaker 1: know what a gentile was. Those are like really a gentile,
Speaker 1: Like that's like super basic.
Speaker 2: I did not know what that was.
Speaker 1: And so God did something in my heart when I
Speaker 1: got saved where I realized boy, I'm on the wrong
Speaker 1: page on everything, Like literally every viewpoint I have, it's
Speaker 1: on the wrong page, because that's just the situation I
Speaker 1: grew up in. And it made me realize, Wow, if
Speaker 1: his ways are higher, I need to change my ways
Speaker 1: and they need to become his ways. And so he
Speaker 1: did this thing in me where he gave me like
Speaker 1: the severe hunger for the word, where all of a sudden,
Speaker 1: after I got saved, I was like eating it and
Speaker 1: meditating on it day and night, like all the time,
Speaker 1: like I was just saturating myself in it.
Speaker 2: Only because I'm like, I'm screwed up.
Speaker 1: My world views are all screwed up, and I need
Speaker 1: to figure out what the King's perspectives are. And so
Speaker 1: as I began to align myself with him, what ended
Speaker 1: up happening is that I I got this understanding of
Speaker 1: how critical it was to get my daily bread, that
Speaker 1: I need my daily bread, and if I don't get
Speaker 1: my daily bread, I'm actually not capable of producing anything
Speaker 1: of any value or any fruit. Early in my walk,
Speaker 1: I had this like pretty like I'm like on fire
Speaker 1: for the Lord. And I went from just depravity to
Speaker 1: something else in a very short period of time. And
Speaker 1: when this happened, I just was so saturated in the
Speaker 1: Word that things were going easily for me. However, sometimes
Speaker 1: what can happen in our Christian walk is that we
Speaker 1: walk with God and He starts giving you directives, and
Speaker 1: he starts giving you a vision, and he starts giving
Speaker 1: you a plan, and he starts orchestrating your life and
Speaker 1: satisfying the desires of your heart. And next thing, you know,
Speaker 1: you're a parent, and you're married and.
Speaker 2: All these good things.
Speaker 1: It's good to be a husband, Zach right, it's good
Speaker 1: to be a father, it's it's it's He can give
Speaker 1: you life mission, and you're out fulfilling the life mission.
Speaker 1: And in the midst of doing all of this, we
Speaker 1: do a lot of doing, and if we're not careful, careful,
Speaker 1: we can start doing of our own will without the King.
Speaker 1: And every Christian will go through these seasons of He's
Speaker 1: He's the most intimate thing ever. We feel Him on
Speaker 1: us and in us and speaking through it like we
Speaker 1: hear He visits us in the car and we just
Speaker 1: weep and cry. Anybody in here experience that that that's
Speaker 1: where we want to stay. What happens, though, is we
Speaker 1: can get caught up in the doing for him, and
Speaker 1: as we do the doing for him, we can actually
Speaker 1: forget that he's the doer, and we can start to
Speaker 1: do it without him.
Speaker 2: And so I'm gonna tell you a brief story.
Speaker 1: So there's the I'm there's this morning, I'm up, it's early,
Speaker 1: I'm I'm reading my Bible.
Speaker 2: The Lord puts.
Speaker 1: Somebody, a picture of somebody in my face. The picture
Speaker 1: happens to be a patient of mine. Then the Lord
Speaker 1: flashes the scripture in front of my face, and so
Speaker 1: I go and look up that scripture. And what happens
Speaker 1: is later in that week, that person comes into my office.
Speaker 1: I'm sitting here and I'm measuring this person, just doing
Speaker 1: the thing I'm doing.
Speaker 2: And I say to them, I.
Speaker 1: Say, you know, this week, the Lord put you in
Speaker 1: my mind and he gave me what I think is
Speaker 1: a scripture for you. Would you mind if I shared
Speaker 1: that with you?
Speaker 2: So it's this.
Speaker 1: It's the guy that's in front of me is a
Speaker 1: big man like big guy, and he says sure, and
Speaker 1: I share with him the passage of scripture. And this guy,
Speaker 1: this really big, kind of like not emotional guy, starts
Speaker 1: weeping violently and goes to the floor by what I
Speaker 1: shared with him. Well, the man was a pastor of
Speaker 1: a church who was not functioning as a pastor. And
Speaker 1: the man so, without getting into that story too far,
Speaker 1: the Lord used that scripture that he illuminated to me
Speaker 1: that morning to start this man's ministry. The man was
Speaker 1: called out according to that scripture, he's not functioning as
Speaker 1: a pastor in that day and age. And that was
Speaker 1: the scripture that the Lord gave me to share him.
Speaker 1: I had no idea, and he just like lost it.
Speaker 1: He lost it and that he's like, So he's bawling,
Speaker 1: and I'm like, are you okay? And he says to me,
Speaker 1: he's like, that's the scripture that was prophesied over me
Speaker 1: back in such and such year and started my ministry
Speaker 1: and he's not a pastor or currently. It shifted something
Speaker 1: for him, Something happened different for him.
Speaker 2: And what I'm going to tell you.
Speaker 1: Is that we can go through seasons where we have
Speaker 1: the right word in season and we have an instructed tongue.
Speaker 1: But what can happen is that's all dependent upon our
Speaker 1: abiding in the shelter of the most High in the communing.
Speaker 1: And I think that if I had not been in
Speaker 1: a position where I had put myself that morning in
Speaker 1: the word praying that I probably would not have received
Speaker 1: or even have known that that was something he needed.
Speaker 1: Do you see how important it is for us to
Speaker 1: get our daily bread? Like we need our daily bread,
Speaker 1: we have to have it.
Speaker 2: Listen to this.
Speaker 1: I believe this is a prophetic word for this house.
Speaker 1: Without the consumption of daily bread, it diminishes our capacity
Speaker 1: to yield fruit in the right or appropriate season. Every
Speaker 1: season is going to be different from you for you,
Speaker 1: but you can't even yield the right fruit in the
Speaker 1: right season if you don't have the mana for that day.
Speaker 1: You need that manna or otherwise the season may never
Speaker 1: even come to pass.
Speaker 2: Listen to this. The Lord gave me this equation.
Speaker 1: He said, minimal abiding equals minimal fruit equals minimal impact.
Speaker 1: Minimal abiding equals minimal fruit equals minimal impact. Not so
Speaker 1: for the people of New Horizon Church, not so for
Speaker 1: the body of Christ.
Speaker 2: I believe that the Lord.
Speaker 1: Is trying to say, my reformers know my will, they
Speaker 1: know how to operate in intimacy with me. I believe
Speaker 1: that this section of the Lord's prayer is so significant
Speaker 1: because it's the most volitional part on our end. Volitional
Speaker 1: meaning I could do it or I could not do it,
Speaker 1: And he ain't gonna make me. He's not gonna force me.
Speaker 1: He's not gonna make me do anything. He's a gentleman.
Speaker 1: But he's inviting us in.
Speaker 2: He loves us. Do you know that when God.
Speaker 1: Touches our heart in a crazy powerful way, it almost
Speaker 1: always comes in an intimate moment most of the severe,
Speaker 1: like those times when he comes and visits you and.
Speaker 2: You're just not ever the same after.
Speaker 1: It almost always comes in that section of time. It's
Speaker 1: in that intimate moment, It's in the intimacy. And so
Speaker 1: he's inviting us into this beautiful intimacy.
Speaker 2: But it's our choice.
Speaker 1: Listen to this. Your life is an extension of your
Speaker 1: bread eating. Your life is an extension of your bread eating.
Speaker 1: Can I have that first picture put up? Okay? If
Speaker 1: you have a battle coming up, if there's a war
Speaker 1: to win a battle, if things are getting really hot,
Speaker 1: serious and you need a miracle, is this the.
Speaker 2: Warrior that you're gonna text you got a race to run?
Speaker 1: Even?
Speaker 2: Can I have the next picture? Or might you called
Speaker 2: Dwayne Wolf and he's got his fatigues on, he's boff.
Speaker 1: He's ready to take the devil out. So the the
Speaker 1: Lord said to me, he said, much of the church
Speaker 1: is spiritually emaciated. Do you know what emaciation means? Have
Speaker 1: you ever seen a person that's so hungry there's hardly
Speaker 1: anything left of them? I was gonna put up pictures
Speaker 1: of emaciated people, but it's disturbing, so I didn't want
Speaker 1: to do that. I just picked a really weak looking guy.
Speaker 1: So the only way we're going to be able to
Speaker 1: wage the war, fight the battles is if the army
Speaker 1: is not emaciated. And if the army is not getting
Speaker 1: its bread every single day, then the army is going
Speaker 1: to be weak. My wife used to run marathons, and
Speaker 1: I was with her when she was running the Chicago Marathon.
Speaker 1: She did well, and so she qualified for the Boston Marathon.
Speaker 1: While she was running the Boston Marathon. She's little, but
Speaker 1: she's really tough, and she's small, very small, but kind
Speaker 1: of buff, and so she basically was like, hey, will
Speaker 1: you train with me? So I'm running a lot at
Speaker 1: that time. I'm running with her frequently. And one of
Speaker 1: the things that I found is when you run long distances.
Speaker 1: There's this pain that you initially have in the first
Speaker 1: mile to three or four or whatever, and then there's
Speaker 1: this point that you can get to where you just
Speaker 1: like it all goes away and you get into a groove.
Speaker 1: You get into a place there's like an ease to
Speaker 1: it where all of a sudden, then ten, twelve, fifteen
Speaker 1: miles can go by and those ones aren't hard.
Speaker 2: It was the first one or two or three.
Speaker 1: Those of you who've done something like a physical competition,
Speaker 1: this is how they work. There's this point where you
Speaker 1: push through and you get in your zone. Okay, the
Speaker 1: zone in Christianity is getting your manna every day. The
Speaker 1: zone in Christianity is eating your bread every day. If
Speaker 1: you ain't getting your bread every day, you are not
Speaker 1: going to be able to run that marathon. You're not
Speaker 1: going to be able to run that race. You're not
Speaker 1: going to be able to bring that victory. You will
Speaker 1: not have it because you are not rightfully equipped and trained,
Speaker 1: because you didn't get your food you need for the day. Spiritually,
Speaker 1: I believe this is a prophetic word for this house. Spiritually,
Speaker 1: we need to have this groove life. We need to
Speaker 1: have this anointing. I'm using the word groove because you
Speaker 1: people can like they make belts and whatever, but people
Speaker 1: know what that is. What I'm talking about is there's
Speaker 1: a place in God. There's an intimacy in him, there's
Speaker 1: an anointing in him where if you stay in that gear,
Speaker 1: I'm telling you you can get ten times more done
Speaker 1: than anybody else, and it'll be easy. You'll have a
Speaker 1: grace on whatever you put your hand to.
Speaker 2: But we got to stick in that gear.
Speaker 1: That gear is tied to this getting our bread. Listen
Speaker 1: to this. This is Malachi four two. But for you
Speaker 1: who revere my name, the Sun of righteousness will rise
Speaker 1: with healing in its rays, and you will go out
Speaker 1: and frolic like well fed calves. The Son of Righteousness
Speaker 1: is all over you with healing, and you're stepping out
Speaker 1: of your stall like a well fed calf. That's the anointing,
Speaker 1: that's the groove, that's the intimacy. Isaiah fifty eight to eleven.
Speaker 1: The Lord will guide you always. He will satisfy your
Speaker 1: needs in a sun scorched land, and will strengthen your frame.
Speaker 1: You will be like well a well watered garden, like
Speaker 1: a spring whose waters never fail. Your frame strengthened. You're
Speaker 1: a well watered garden. Are you getting where I'm going
Speaker 1: with this? There's a sustenance in the Lord that he brings,
Speaker 1: and he brings it through the bread daily, which is
Speaker 1: the Lord's prayer.
Speaker 2: And if we just come at.
Speaker 1: It from a head knowledge perspective, we may be missing
Speaker 1: the treasure in it. God's This is a word, God's
Speaker 1: prophetic declarations over and through you, hinge on your hiding
Speaker 1: and abiding time in Him, His prophetic declarations over you
Speaker 1: and through you, hinge on your hiding and abiding in Him.
Speaker 2: Joe preached on this the other.
Speaker 1: Day, But yesterday's manna it won't work for today. It's
Speaker 1: going to get stinky, smelly and rotten. Do you know
Speaker 1: you can't eat the other day's mana, except the only
Speaker 1: day you can eat the man is on the day
Speaker 1: it came. It's the same thing with the word. It's
Speaker 1: the same thing with our Bible study time. It's the
Speaker 1: same thing with prayer. It's the same thing with our
Speaker 1: worship time. You have to have it daily otherwise you
Speaker 1: can bear no good thing. And yesterday's won't do for today.
Speaker 1: Even if you had three days last week where you're.
Speaker 2: Like, oh, the Lord was on fire.
Speaker 1: He touched me, what about today? Yesterday's Mana isn't good
Speaker 1: enough for today. I believe that. I believe that New
Speaker 1: Horizon Church is a church where everybody is going to
Speaker 1: be communing so well with the King and receiving daily
Speaker 1: revelation and manna that we're going to bring the Kingdom
Speaker 1: come to Heaven, from heaven to earth because of how
Speaker 1: we function in our daily walk with mana, your daily refreshment.
Speaker 1: If you don't have refreshment daily, you got a problem.
Speaker 1: He said. You're like a stream planted by You're like
Speaker 1: a tree planted by streams of living water. The Lord
Speaker 1: gave me a picture, and the picture he gave me
Speaker 1: was that the church needs a reignition, or it needs
Speaker 1: a infusion of chlorophyll. Do you know what chlorophyll is?
Speaker 1: Chlorophyll's the stuff that makes leaves green. If the leaf
Speaker 1: loses its chlorophyll, it's greenness. What happens it withers and dies?
Speaker 1: Does it produce the thing that it was designed to
Speaker 1: produce and do season? It doesn't. So I really feel
Speaker 1: like the Lord's using this fasting season to reignite our hearts.
Speaker 1: To intimacy with him. And I don't believe he's calling
Speaker 1: it to be for this three weeks twenty one day.
Speaker 1: I believe that the Lord is asking us to reorient
Speaker 1: our lives, to redirect our schedules, to actually restructure how
Speaker 1: you live your life. That every morning you would wake
Speaker 1: with that desire that would say, I need his word
Speaker 1: in my tongue. I need the de word in season.
Speaker 1: I need my energy, I need my sustenance. The Lord
Speaker 1: said to me, we can't take possession of our promised
Speaker 1: lands if we aren't partaking in receiving our daily bread.
Speaker 2: You can't run a car without gas.
Speaker 1: It needs fuel, and our bread is the fuel for life.
Speaker 1: The only way we're going to produce the kingdom is
Speaker 1: if we're possessing the king. The only way we're going
Speaker 1: to produce the kingdom is if we're possess possessing the King.
Speaker 1: I need to be done in five minutes. How many
Speaker 1: minutes do I have? Five? Okay? Okay, oh yeah, no, no,
Speaker 1: we're watching the Seahawks, Go Hawks. Okay.
Speaker 2: Do you know not all.
Speaker 1: Prayer produces the same outcomes, Not all prayer. You could
Speaker 1: pray a prayer and not have it produce the right outcome,
Speaker 1: because if there's no expectancy, there's no faith. And without faith,
Speaker 1: if you don't have expectancy coupled with faith, it's really
Speaker 1: not even faith at all. And if you're praying without faith,
Speaker 1: you're probably not going to receive much. Then we'd be
Speaker 1: an unstable man expecting he should receive nothing. We have
Speaker 1: to pray with pitbull tonacity. We have to pray with
Speaker 1: like a yeah, like like the Seahawks are going to do,
Speaker 1: like the defense on the Seahawks.
Speaker 2: That like that what they're going to do today.
Speaker 1: That's how you got to pray, okay.
Speaker 2: And that's how we have to approach the spiritual realm.
Speaker 1: And even the Lord's prayer, the Lord's prayer can be
Speaker 1: can be approached in an aggressive way where you're saying,
Speaker 1: you're Heaven came down to Earth and repossess and repopulate
Speaker 1: all those demonic strategies and things that are here. We
Speaker 1: want them all taken out, and we want Heaven down.
Speaker 1: You can pray aggressively and pray the Lord's prayer Matthew
Speaker 1: six point twelve in an amplified Bible. So a couple
Speaker 1: on these scriptures, it might say something up there on
Speaker 1: the screen like NLT. It's not enalty this. I'm giving
Speaker 1: you an amplified but I don't think we have that
Speaker 1: in the system. So but it's programmed in right.
Speaker 2: So this is what it says.
Speaker 1: It says, and forgive our debts as we have forgiven
Speaker 1: our debtors. But listen to this, letting go of both
Speaker 1: the wrong and the resentment. Letting go of both the
Speaker 1: wrong and the resentment. That's what forgiveness is. This is
Speaker 1: it out of a passion translation in Matthew six, forgive
Speaker 1: us our wrongs we have done as we ourselves. Release forgiveness,
Speaker 1: the release of forgiveness to those who've wronged us. What's
Speaker 1: the significance of this? The significance of this comes in
Speaker 1: the next chapter. In the next couple verses go to
Speaker 1: Matthew six fourteen fifteen. For if you forgive others their trespasses,
Speaker 1: their reckless and willful sins, your heavenly Father will also
Speaker 1: forgive you.
Speaker 2: But if you do not forgive.
Speaker 1: Others nurturing your heart with anger, and the result that
Speaker 1: it interferes with your relationship with God, then your Father
Speaker 1: will not forgive your trespasses. So why is it so
Speaker 1: significant to release it, because if we're harboring bitterness and
Speaker 1: resentment in our heart towards another, then what happens is
Speaker 1: when we're trying to be intimate with the King, it
Speaker 1: interferes with the intimacy.
Speaker 2: We can't be as intimate.
Speaker 1: It's like a cog in there messing up the intimacy.
Speaker 1: I have a family member that I love really a lot,
Speaker 1: and over a long period of time, I realize something.
Speaker 1: I would have a conversation with them again and again
Speaker 1: and again, and every conversation ends up coming back to negativity,
Speaker 1: very heavy negativity, And every conversation will end up bringing
Speaker 1: up somebody and how they're upset with that somebody, and
Speaker 1: they're going to tell you the story of the thing
Speaker 1: that happened ten twenty thirty years ago. And it's with
Speaker 1: every conversation, and it happens again and again and again,
Speaker 1: and it doesn't really matter the conversation, it will all
Speaker 1: go that direction. It will always go back to negativity,
Speaker 1: and it will always go back to somebody having wronged them,
Speaker 1: harmed them, brought harm to them, or their perception of
Speaker 1: somebody having wronged them, even.
Speaker 2: If it wasn't wrong, but it's just their offense.
Speaker 1: And what I realized is that there's actually something happening
Speaker 1: spiritually here. The thing that's happening is there's actually a
Speaker 1: spirit that's at work controlling their heart and their mind.
Speaker 2: It's called a spirit of bitterness.
Speaker 1: And that spirit is like drinking poison and they're waiting
Speaker 1: for it to harm everybody else in their life, except
Speaker 1: it's only killing them. And so what I'm sharing this
Speaker 1: morning is that if we don't forgive and let go
Speaker 1: of the bitterness, the resentment whoever wronged us, we're inhibiting
Speaker 1: the King of Glory coming in and shedding his love
Speaker 1: in our heart. And I don't know about you, but
Speaker 1: I want all the love God wants to give me.
Speaker 1: I want all every bit of love that he wants
Speaker 1: to give me. I want it all.
Speaker 2: I want every bit of it. I don't want to.
Speaker 1: Miss any tiny iota of it. And so if this
Speaker 1: is in my heart, then I need to get rid
Speaker 1: of it. And sometimes we don't even realize that's happened
Speaker 1: to us. Years ago. I years ago I realized there
Speaker 1: was somebody who had they'd done one thing and another
Speaker 1: thing and another thing to kind of try and bring
Speaker 1: me harm. And what ended up occurring is that every
Speaker 1: time their name would come up, I'd have an interaction.
Speaker 2: I just have this like feeling.
Speaker 1: Eh, because I realized, I'm like and then I'm like, oh,
Speaker 1: this happens every time I think about the person. Every
Speaker 1: time their name comes up, no matter what someone else
Speaker 1: could be talking, they bring up that person and I'd
Speaker 1: be like, eh, you know, and I'm like, what is that. Oh,
Speaker 1: that's actually an unforgiveness. That's a lack of me releasing
Speaker 1: the offense. That's a lack of me shedding the forgiveness
Speaker 1: to give back.
Speaker 2: To them, and I'm harboring it.
Speaker 1: And I realized what it was, and I'm like, I'm
Speaker 1: not gonna harbor that bitterness and resentment.
Speaker 2: I'm gonna forgive.
Speaker 1: And so I'm cleaning my house spiritually out right, and
Speaker 1: I'm like, oh, I feel a lot better already. But
Speaker 1: then I realized I don't just need to clean my
Speaker 1: spiritual house out. What I actually have to do is
Speaker 1: go back and fill it up with the kingdom. So
Speaker 1: I started actually realizing my way to overcome this bitterness
Speaker 1: and resentment was actually to start to pray blessing every
Speaker 1: time I thought of the individual. Every single time I
Speaker 1: thought of them, I would just say, Lord, bless this individual,
Speaker 1: and I would just start praying blessing on him every time,
Speaker 1: every time, every time. And you know what happened. Eventually
Speaker 1: all those went away. I had no resentment, no bitterness
Speaker 1: like any angst in my heart, all gone. And after
Speaker 1: ten years of doing that, this individual came to me
Speaker 1: and said, please forgive me for how I treated you
Speaker 1: early in our relationship. I perceived you as a threat.
Speaker 1: I was trying to bring harm to you. The Lord
Speaker 1: restored this person's, this man's relationship and mine, and we're
Speaker 1: pretty good today. I'm telling you, this is so common
Speaker 1: in Christianity. Do you know everybody's offended at everything. A
Speaker 1: spirit of bitterness is all over people everywhere. This is
Speaker 1: the most common thing you see. And what I don't
Speaker 1: want is for New Horizon Church to have any hindrance
Speaker 1: in our capacity to just receive all of God's love,
Speaker 1: to receive all of his mercy, to receive all of
Speaker 1: his wisdom, to be able to be used of him.
Speaker 1: And I don't want there to be any of that
Speaker 1: at all in us, in our hearts and in our minds,
Speaker 1: because He wants to come in and show his good
Speaker 1: nature to you. He wants to tackle you with his love.
Speaker 1: He wants to shed it abroad on your heart, and
Speaker 1: I don't want to inhibit that. So as we're closing,
Speaker 1: if you're here, I believe so there's going to be.
Speaker 1: There's two camps here, one of which I believe that
Speaker 1: the Lord is calling this church not to a season
Speaker 1: of a twenty one day fast. I believe the Lord
Speaker 1: is calling this church for this lifestyle to be your
Speaker 1: yearly lifestyle. I believe the Lord is calling this church.
Speaker 1: I believe he's talking to you and saying to you,
Speaker 1: you need to restructure your entire life around Him being
Speaker 1: first place and giving him your first heart's access every
Speaker 1: day that there, This would be the thing that this
Speaker 1: church is called to, because intimacy comes when we do this,
Speaker 1: and when we do this, then you get to see
Speaker 1: His spirit on you, flowing through you to bring the kingdom.
Speaker 1: And if your reformers we need the spirit flowing to
Speaker 1: bring the kingdom, I'm gonna have you stand with me.
Speaker 1: We're just gonna prophetically declare Lord as New Horizon Church.
Speaker 1: We declare right now that as a church we will
Speaker 1: partner with you restructuring our schedules, You restructuring our time,
Speaker 1: You being.
Speaker 2: The first place one.
Speaker 1: We sang a song earlier about has he he's holy.
Speaker 1: He's holy means he's beautiful. If he's beautiful, why would
Speaker 1: we not want to give him the first place of
Speaker 1: our day. He's worthy of that, If he's beautiful, we
Speaker 1: want to be with the beautiful one. Right And so
Speaker 1: I declare that right now, new horizon, we are agreeing with,
Speaker 1: We are partnering with this intimacy, this first place love,
Speaker 1: this our hearts.
Speaker 2: Being burned again for him, for his kingdom, for his ways.
Speaker 1: And we just say, there's nothing in us that is
Speaker 1: obstructing that.
Speaker 2: Or hindering that. But we agree with it, we partner
Speaker 2: with it.
Speaker 1: We just declare that this is our lifestyle. This is
Speaker 1: not something that's for a short period of time. Will
Speaker 1: I believe the Lord's prophetically saying twenty twenty six is
Speaker 1: the year that you are going to shift.
Speaker 2: How you function.
Speaker 3: With the king, and this will change every single year after,
Speaker 3: Like this is the most quintessential element.
Speaker 2: Of our existence as a human, that he.
Speaker 1: Would, even he created the heavens and the earth, that
Speaker 1: he would call us into intimacy is so amazing. It's
Speaker 1: so beautiful that he would even cast his eye on
Speaker 1: us like this.
Speaker 2: It's it blows our minds.
Speaker 1: We say we agree with this, we partner with this,
Speaker 1: we accept it, we receive it.
Speaker 2: We say we will walk.
Speaker 1: This out this year in twenty twenty six, and this
Speaker 1: will be our lifestyle from.
Speaker 2: This time forward. Those of you who are here.
Speaker 1: If you if in your heart you feel like there's
Speaker 1: when I was talking about bittering or harboring bitterness or resentment.
Speaker 1: If you feel like like something like kind of pricked
Speaker 1: you or got in your ear or tapped you on
Speaker 1: the shoulder, I'm going to have the Destiny Team come up,
Speaker 1: and I want you to come up and get prayed for.
Speaker 1: I want you to get prayed for that you would
Speaker 1: receive freedom from any demonic realm ministering spirits that are
Speaker 1: trying to bring harm to you. Destiny Team, if you
Speaker 1: could come.
Speaker 2: Up that are trying to bring harm to you, and we're.
Speaker 1: Gonna break this off of you, we're gonna agree with
Speaker 1: your release. If you've done this before and you need more,
Speaker 1: I think you probably should be doing Restored.
Speaker 2: Life, because deliverance ministry.
Speaker 1: Is the key to break off the yoke of the
Speaker 1: oppressor in your life. So as we close and the
Speaker 1: band's playing, come up. If you know something's touched you.
Speaker 1: I want you to come up and be prayed for.
Speaker 1: If you happen to be one of those four people
Speaker 1: that was in the room that raised your hand earlier
Speaker 1: and said yes to Jesus' as we as Zach gave
Speaker 1: an invitation to come and to know him as your
Speaker 1: savior and your king, I want you to come up
Speaker 1: and I want you to be prayed for. Okay, bless
Speaker 1: you Church. We're gonna finish this thing out strong. We've
Speaker 1: got the summit coming next week and we're just getting
Speaker 1: warmed up. We're gonna participate with God's further advancement of
Speaker 1: his kingdom. And we say our hearts are open, willing,
Speaker 1: and receptive in the name of Jesus