Speaker 1: Well, we've just had like an overflow weekend. And what
Speaker 1: I love about God is he knows what he's doing.
Speaker 1: Even when I don't know what he's doing. We know
Speaker 1: in part right. And you know what I love about
Speaker 1: the way that God works is, you know, sometimes I
Speaker 1: feel like, yeah, I am a friend of God. Amos
Speaker 1: three seven says God does no secret thing without revealing first,
Speaker 1: revealing it to his friends or servants, the prophets. And
Speaker 1: sometimes I think, oh, you know, God's gonna let me
Speaker 1: know all of the details.
Speaker 2: No, he doesn't do that.
Speaker 1: He gives me a little puzzle piece and I bring
Speaker 1: my peace and I brought my peace this weekend. But
Speaker 1: it was crazy how Dwayne brought his peace, Todd brought
Speaker 1: his peace, Ivan brought his peace, the worship team brought
Speaker 1: their peace, the Parking attendance brought their peace. Like everyone
Speaker 1: brought their peace. And it brought a richer story, a
Speaker 1: bigger picture to the whole thing. And God knew what
Speaker 1: he was doing and it was all from the same puzzle.
Speaker 2: I'm like, high five God, that was amazing. How did
Speaker 2: you do that? That is so cool?
Speaker 1: Like he's sneaky like that, and what it does for
Speaker 1: us as well. Is it keeps us super humble, keeps
Speaker 1: us super humble that, Hey, we don't have it all,
Speaker 1: but we get to partner together to see His kingdom,
Speaker 1: come to see his will be done on earth as
Speaker 1: it is in heaven, and we just get a little
Speaker 1: scratch and sniff about what He's about to do. And
Speaker 1: we're living in that. You guys, remember scratching sniff stickers.
Speaker 1: They still have those. I don't know, you know when
Speaker 1: I was a kid. You know, you scratch them, You're like,
Speaker 1: smells so good, and then you eat the sticker and
Speaker 1: it doesn't taste as good.
Speaker 2: You're like, I'm one of those kids.
Speaker 1: Maybe just maybe it'll taste good, but it tastes kind
Speaker 1: of like soap. It was nasty. Too much information. Hey,
Speaker 1: I'm excited to be with you this morning. And it's
Speaker 1: even more crazy this morning because I believe God is
Speaker 1: doing a continuation and a culmination of what has happened
Speaker 1: at the summit at Judah Arise and and God gave
Speaker 1: me this message before I knew what was going on.
Speaker 2: And and uh and even.
Speaker 1: Jasmine, where did did Jasmine leave the services? She's still here, Jazz, Hey,
Speaker 1: thank you for writing that song. I feel like you
Speaker 1: wrote it for this moment and it is a now
Speaker 1: song for the season. And uh, and you already know
Speaker 1: what I'm going to preach on because you were here
Speaker 1: first service. But it was like we planned this, didn't. Yeah,
Speaker 1: our spirits knew what our minds did not.
Speaker 2: It was awesome.
Speaker 1: And I just believe as well, Pastor Dwayne choosing to
Speaker 1: do communion this morning as well matches up with what
Speaker 1: I believe God is releasing in this season, in this
Speaker 1: Communion revival.
Speaker 2: And if we're not careful.
Speaker 1: We come to the communion meal and we just take
Speaker 1: communion and go, oh, that was nice, and we forget that. Actually,
Speaker 1: what we do at church is the communion feast. What
Speaker 1: we do in worship, what we do in receiving the Word,
Speaker 1: it has an ability to be communion and we can
Speaker 1: feast from a rich meal in everything that we do.
Speaker 1: And I believe there is a shift that is coming
Speaker 1: and that is this new Communion revival. That is this
Speaker 1: new era, this new epoch, this new historical season that's
Speaker 1: been prophesied is what we get to live in all
Speaker 1: the time. And I want to give you some keys
Speaker 1: this morning that will help you in the process because
Speaker 1: sometimes I hear new era or God's doing a new thing,
Speaker 1: and I get really excited because I don't like the
Speaker 1: old thing?
Speaker 2: Right, anyone ready for a new thing? Yeah?
Speaker 1: We're like, uh, yeah, Lord, how about we do something different?
Speaker 1: How about we do something new? God give us a
Speaker 1: new era? And we get so excited about the word,
Speaker 1: and then we realize I have no idea what that even.
Speaker 2: Means anyone else.
Speaker 1: I think of Abraham himself when God says, hey, go,
Speaker 1: I'm gonna send you to a land, and Abraham's like, well,
Speaker 1: where is it?
Speaker 2: Where am I going? Just go?
Speaker 1: That takes a lot of faith that, it takes a
Speaker 1: lot of courage. I'm like, God, I would like to
Speaker 1: know the details. I would like to know what the
Speaker 1: new era is like, like what what? What are the
Speaker 1: details of the new era? Like what am I supposed
Speaker 1: to do?
Speaker 2: How am I.
Speaker 1: Supposed to act? Like what what's the next step? It's
Speaker 1: like my wife when I try and surprise her with
Speaker 1: a special getaway, she says, no, no, no, no, I
Speaker 1: need to be psychologically prepared. You need to tell me
Speaker 1: what exactly what we're gonna What are we gonna do?
Speaker 2: Baby?
Speaker 1: It's gonna be awesome. It's gonna be new, it's gonna
Speaker 1: be something you never experienced before. No, no, no, no,
Speaker 1: you need a psychologically I'm like, no, babe, I'm not
Speaker 1: doing it.
Speaker 2: Trust me. I don't know if she trusts me fully.
Speaker 1: We just celebrated our twenty eighth year anniversary and I
Speaker 1: surprised her. We we we flew to Nashville and there's
Speaker 1: this really great resort out there and I had a
Speaker 1: bunch of points and uh and so I got this
Speaker 1: great place for free and it's pretty expensive. But but
Speaker 1: I'm I'm like, hey, baby, pack your bathing suit. She's like,
Speaker 1: where are we going, you know, and and pack this
Speaker 1: and pack that. And she's like, well, you need to
Speaker 1: tell me. Come on, I need to know. And I'm like, nope,
Speaker 1: you're just gonna have to trust me on this one.
Speaker 1: And guess what, I think I won some trust.
Speaker 2: I did it. I did a good job. I did
Speaker 2: a good job. She celebrated me.
Speaker 1: But this is us in the body of Christ. Sometimes
Speaker 1: we're like, God, I need more detail than that.
Speaker 2: Anyone. Okay, I was thinking I was at the wrong church.
Speaker 1: Uh No, I I just like, I'm just telling on myself. Maybe,
Speaker 1: but I believe if God has set up strategies in
Speaker 1: the spot of not knowing where he just gives us
Speaker 1: the big overarching picture and we have no details to it.
Speaker 1: He just says I'm doing something new. Maybe he doesn't
Speaker 1: even give us a picture of it. And I want
Speaker 1: to unpack a story this morning that I think is
Speaker 1: going to give us a strategy for this new season,
Speaker 1: a strategy for what it looks like to live in
Speaker 1: a communion revival where we're fixated and we're focused on
Speaker 1: one thing, and it doesn't matter if I'm in abundance
Speaker 1: or lack. It doesn't matter if I know where I'm
Speaker 1: going or I don't know where I'm going. It doesn't
Speaker 1: matter if I've got long hair or no hair. I
Speaker 1: see some of you out there open Heaven, if you
Speaker 1: have your Bibles. We're gonna read a large portion of
Speaker 1: scripture and then I'm gonna unpack it around The idea
Speaker 1: of this season turned with me to Second Chronicles, chapter twenty,
Speaker 1: and I don't know if this is an anchor scripture
Speaker 1: for this house, but it seems like it is with
Speaker 1: Judah Arise and the whole whole message with Jasmine's song,
Speaker 1: and it feels like it's it's it's maybe.
Speaker 2: An anthem for this house.
Speaker 1: But I want to unpack it in maybe a way
Speaker 1: we haven't looked at it before.
Speaker 2: And I'll tell you what we are a generation.
Speaker 1: We are a family that is called to the impossible.
Speaker 1: We are called for the impossible. So let's read starting
Speaker 1: in inverse in verse one. After this, the Moabites and Ammonites,
Speaker 1: with some of the Unites, came to wage war against Jehasaphat.
Speaker 1: Some people came and told Jehasaphat, a very vast army
Speaker 1: is coming against you from Edom, from the other side
Speaker 1: of the Dead Sea, that is Ngetti. Alarmed, Jehasaphat resolved
Speaker 1: to inquire of the Lord, and he proclaimed a fast
Speaker 1: for all of Judah. The people of Judah came together
Speaker 1: to seek help from the Lord. Indeed, they came from
Speaker 1: every town in Judah to seek him. Then Jehasaphat stood
Speaker 1: up in the assembly of Judah and Jerusalem at the
Speaker 1: Temple of the Lord in front of the New Courtyard,
Speaker 1: and said, Lord, the God of our ancestors, are you
Speaker 1: not the God who is in heaven? You rule over
Speaker 1: all of the kingdoms of the nations. Power and might
Speaker 1: are in your head hand and no one can withstand you,
Speaker 1: Our God, Did you not drive out the inhabitants of
Speaker 1: this land before your people Israel and give it to
Speaker 1: them forever, to the descendants of Abraham, your friend. They
Speaker 1: have lived in it and have built in it a
Speaker 1: sanctuary for your name, saying, if calamity comes upon us,
Speaker 1: whether by sword of judgment or plague or famine, we
Speaker 1: will stand in your presence before this temple that bears
Speaker 1: your name, and will cry out to you in our distress,
Speaker 1: and you will hear us, and you will save us.
Speaker 2: But now hear the man.
Speaker 1: Of Aman of Moab Mount Seir, whose territory you would
Speaker 1: not allow Israel to invade when they came from Egypt.
Speaker 1: So they turned away from them and did not destroy them.
Speaker 1: See how they are repaying us by coming to drive
Speaker 1: us out of the possession you gave us as an inheritance,
Speaker 1: Our God, Will you not judge them, for we have
Speaker 1: no power to face this fast army that is attacking us.
Speaker 1: We do not know what to do, but our eyes
Speaker 1: are on you. We do not know what to do,
Speaker 1: but our eyes are on you. All the men of Judah,
Speaker 1: with their wives, their children, and their little ones, stood
Speaker 1: there before the Lord. Then the spirit of the Lord
Speaker 1: came on Jehaziel, son of Zachariah, son of bena Ayah,
Speaker 1: the son of all those other guys. I thought I
Speaker 1: had it, and he said, listen, King jeha Safat, and
Speaker 1: all live in Judah and Jerusalem.
Speaker 2: This is what the Lord says to you.
Speaker 1: Do not be afraid, and do not be discouraged because
Speaker 1: of this fast army, for the battle is not yours,
Speaker 1: but God's.
Speaker 2: Tomorrow. March down against them.
Speaker 1: They will be climbing up the path of Zizz and
Speaker 1: you will find them at the end of the gorge
Speaker 1: in the desert of Jerul. You will not have to
Speaker 1: fight this battle. Take up your position, stand firm and
Speaker 1: see the deliverance the Lord will give to you to
Speaker 1: Judah and Jerusalem. Do not be afraid, do not be discouraged.
Speaker 1: Go out to face them, and the Lord will be
Speaker 1: with you.
Speaker 2: And I'm just telling you.
Speaker 1: There are so many spots in the Bible where God
Speaker 1: says I will be with you, and that is the difference.
Speaker 1: Jehasafat bowed down with his face to the ground, and
Speaker 1: all the people of Judah and Jerusalem, Jerusalem fell down
Speaker 1: in worship before the Lord. Then some of the Levites,
Speaker 1: the Coathites, and the Korah heights stood up and praised
Speaker 1: the Lord, the God of Israel, in a very loud voice.
Speaker 1: Early in the morning, they left for the desert of Tacoah.
Speaker 1: As they set out, Jehasaphat stood and said, listen to me,
Speaker 1: Judah and people of Jerusalem. Have faith in the Lord
Speaker 1: your God, and you will be upheld. Have faith in
Speaker 1: his prophets, and you will be successful. After consulting the people,
Speaker 1: Jehasaphat pointed men to sing to the Lord and to
Speaker 1: praise him in the splendor of his holiness. As they
Speaker 1: went out at the head of the army, saying, give
Speaker 1: thanks to the Lord for his life endures forever. As
Speaker 1: they began to sing and praise, the Lord, set ambushes
Speaker 1: against the men of Aman Moab and Mount Syr who
Speaker 1: were invading Judah, and they were defeated the Ammonites. The
Speaker 1: Moabites rose up against the men of Mount Seir to
Speaker 1: destroy and annihilate them, and after they slaughtered the men
Speaker 1: of Sir, they helped to destroy one another. When the
Speaker 1: men of Judah came to the place that overlooks the
Speaker 1: desert and looked towards the vast army, they saw only
Speaker 1: dead bodies lying on the ground. No one had escaped.
Speaker 1: So Jehasafat and his men went down to carry off
Speaker 1: their plunder. And they found among them a great amount
Speaker 1: of equipment, clothing, and also articles of value, more than
Speaker 1: they could take away. And here's a great one. There
Speaker 1: was so much plunder it took three days to collect it.
Speaker 1: And on the fourth day they assembled in the Valley
Speaker 1: of Berika, where they praised the Lord. This is why
Speaker 1: they call the Valley of Berika. They call it that
Speaker 1: to this day. Then, led by Jehasaphat, all the men
Speaker 1: of Judah Jerusalem returned joyfully to Jerusalem, for the Lord
Speaker 1: had given them cause to rejoice over their enemies. They
Speaker 1: entered Jerusalem and went to the Temple of the Lord
Speaker 1: with harps, liars and trumpets, And the fear of God
Speaker 1: came on all the surrounding kingdoms when they heard how
Speaker 1: the Lord had fought against the enemies of Israel, and
Speaker 1: the kingdom of Jehosaphat was at peace for his God
Speaker 1: had given him rest on every side.
Speaker 2: Wow.
Speaker 1: Yeah, we can give God praise for the testimony of
Speaker 1: his goodness. What an incredible story. But this is not
Speaker 1: just an incredible story for way back then. This is
Speaker 1: a mandate for the season we are stepping into. And
Speaker 1: I believe that God has called us to face impossible situations,
Speaker 1: to face down impossible enemies. And there is a strategy
Speaker 1: inside this story that I think will help us step
Speaker 1: into communion with Him, that gives us victory in every situation,
Speaker 1: that gives us breakthrough in every situation, that causes us
Speaker 1: to live as a generation of overcomers, of a generation
Speaker 1: who will be known as the ones who defeat the impossible,
Speaker 1: that we will actually raise our children on the bread
Speaker 1: of the impossible. They will feast on him possibilities so
Speaker 1: much so that the impossibilities they feed they face are
Speaker 1: so much greater than what we ever face. And they
Speaker 1: will look at it and laugh. It's kind of like
Speaker 1: how Caleb and Joshua they said, Hey, hey, these will
Speaker 1: be to us our daily bread. The giants in the land.
Speaker 1: We're gonna feast on impossibilities. And this is what God
Speaker 1: is opening up to us. Let's start in verse three.
Speaker 1: This is strategy for us. Alarmed, jehasaphat Re resolved to
Speaker 1: inquire of the Lord and proclaim a fast for all
Speaker 1: of Judah. Has there ever been a situation in your
Speaker 1: life where you've been surprised by adversity? Has there ever
Speaker 1: been a situation where God has called you to something
Speaker 1: and it seems impossible? Like my bank account doesn't match
Speaker 1: the words you just gave me, right, Uh, the situation,
Speaker 1: my community, my network doesn't match the situation that you
Speaker 1: just called me to.
Speaker 2: This is this is crazy? God. I thought you promised
Speaker 2: me this job and now everyone's against me in this job?
Speaker 2: What is the deal? God? How do I even? How
Speaker 2: do I even face this?
Speaker 1: And I love a jehosaphat resolve, and I think this
Speaker 1: needs to be the position of us as the church.
Speaker 2: I'm going to inquire of the Lord. I'm going to
Speaker 2: start first.
Speaker 1: By turning away from the situation and turning towards the
Speaker 1: one who has all the answers.
Speaker 2: And maybe, just maybe I need to call a fast.
Speaker 1: Maybe, just maybe it's a season to actually say no
Speaker 1: to listening to other voices. And like I said last night,
Speaker 1: maybe it's time to do something crazy. Do a fast, right,
Speaker 1: actually fast not just from something, but feast on something else.
Speaker 1: It is time to set our affection on God alone.
Speaker 1: I'm going to inquire of the Lord, and I'm going
Speaker 1: to silence every other voice that is opposition that actually
Speaker 1: makes my problem bigger, that exalts the problem over God, and.
Speaker 2: I'm going to feast on him. I don't know if
Speaker 2: you're getting this. We we'll keep trying.
Speaker 1: Towards the end of verse six, power and might are
Speaker 1: in your hand, and no one can withstand you. Verse seven,
Speaker 1: it goes on to say, you know, you gave this
Speaker 1: land to us, and the descendants of Abraham, your friend.
Speaker 1: And it's like, hey, remember your friend over here were
Speaker 1: your friends. You gave this to us, What are they
Speaker 1: doing here? In verse nine, we will stand in your
Speaker 1: presence before the temple that bears your name, and we
Speaker 1: will cry out to you in our distress, and you
Speaker 1: will hear, and you will save us. What's happening is
Speaker 1: they're saying, I'm gonna inquire of the Lord. I've got
Speaker 1: a situation here that's impossible. I cannot face this. I'm
Speaker 1: gonna inquire the Lord. I'm gonna silence voices. I'm gonna
Speaker 1: feast on you God, and I'm gonna remind myself of
Speaker 1: your ways and your goodness. This is called adoration and gratitude. See,
Speaker 1: I had a dream some years ago. Bill Johnson and
Speaker 1: I were driving down this country road and he said
Speaker 1: to me, he said, Ben, do you want to know
Speaker 1: a secret?
Speaker 2: And I said sure.
Speaker 1: He said, did you know that many people are one
Speaker 1: measure of gratitude away from their breakthrough? They're literally one
Speaker 1: measure of gratitude away from their healing. And I have
Speaker 1: seen in meetings NonStop wherever I brought that up, when
Speaker 1: people put gratitude on their lips, breakthrough begin to happen.
Speaker 1: I've seen hundreds of people healed just by putting thankfulness
Speaker 1: on their lips.
Speaker 2: No one laid hands on them.
Speaker 1: They just started to exalt God and have gratitude for
Speaker 1: what he has done. See, this is the remembrance I'm
Speaker 1: remembering God's goodness. The power of the testimony is so important.
Speaker 1: You may say, but Ben, I don't have a testimony.
Speaker 1: You know what I do when I don't have a testimony,
Speaker 1: I feast on someone else's. Why Because I'm part of
Speaker 1: the body of Christ and their testimony is my testimony.
Speaker 1: They're part of my I'm part of the family of God.
Speaker 1: You have testimonies. Stop saying you don't have them. I've
Speaker 1: got a feast when sometimes what we do is we
Speaker 1: allow other people's testimonies to actually depress us. Not not
Speaker 1: you guys, just telling I'm Ben Armstrong. Sometimes I hear
Speaker 1: their testimonies and the first thing I do is, though
Speaker 1: you've never done it for me?
Speaker 2: Well, God, what about me? Do you even care about me?
Speaker 2: Do you see me? Over here? Seems like everyone on
Speaker 2: Instagram is getting their breakthrough. I got nothing.
Speaker 1: My air conditioner doesn't even work, Like, what the heck?
Speaker 1: That doesn't feel like overflow? You just paid off that
Speaker 1: guy's house. My septic doesn't.
Speaker 2: Work a little too close to home right ever? Had
Speaker 2: those six situations happen?
Speaker 1: And what we do with the testimony is we depress ourselves,
Speaker 1: not knowing that the testimony is actually supposed to enrich you.
Speaker 1: It's the testimony of Jesus Christ.
Speaker 2: That prophesies in your life.
Speaker 1: And they're making this praise and adoration and the remembrance
Speaker 1: of a testimony an adoration to God. And they're lifting
Speaker 1: their spirits up and they're seeing how big their God is.
Speaker 1: They're magnifying him instead of the molehill of the army
Speaker 1: that's against them.
Speaker 2: And I love this because it's at.
Speaker 1: This point we come to verse twelve, and at the
Speaker 1: end of verse twelve it says, we don't know what
Speaker 1: to do, but our eyes are upon you.
Speaker 2: Wow.
Speaker 1: Wow, I don't know about you, but you're facing things
Speaker 1: in your life. I can almost guarantee it where you
Speaker 1: don't know what to do. And the whole goal of
Speaker 1: the enemy is to keep your eyes off him and
Speaker 1: your eyes on Satan. This is what Pastor was talking
Speaker 1: about yesterday at the conference. And if you weren't there,
Speaker 1: you need to get the videos.
Speaker 2: It's worth it. Charge extra. Listen.
Speaker 1: They're resourcing you. It's worth investing in your life. You're
Speaker 1: investing in not just you, but.
Speaker 2: Your whole family.
Speaker 1: And they said, God, we don't know what to do,
Speaker 1: but we're not going to look at the enemy.
Speaker 2: Our eyes are on you.
Speaker 1: And then it goes on and thirteen. All of the
Speaker 1: men of Judah, with their wives, their children, and their
Speaker 1: little ones, stood before the Lord. It is a mandate
Speaker 1: that generationally we would face the impossible, and we wouldn't
Speaker 1: stare the impossible down. We'd stare in the eyes of
Speaker 1: Jesus Christ, and we would stand in his presence as
Speaker 1: a family. That the men the wives, the children, and
Speaker 1: even the little ones. Your kids are never too young
Speaker 1: to be exposed to the presence of God. Sweetheart, you
Speaker 1: were called to the impossible. You're a giant killer. This
Speaker 1: is your mandate. This is what your family carries.
Speaker 2: You do this, you live this way, and your focus
Speaker 2: isn't on the problem. Your focus is on Jesus.
Speaker 1: And as we focus on Him, as we expose our
Speaker 1: children to the presence of God, Almighty God, we bring
Speaker 1: them in worship. You know, there is no junior Holy Spirit.
Speaker 1: That's what we always say. We expect encounters with God.
Speaker 1: And as a matter of fact, sometimes our kids are
Speaker 1: having greater encounters than we are. Why Because you're looking
Speaker 1: at problems, they're looking at God. They take Him at
Speaker 1: his word, and at that moment, all of a sudden,
Speaker 1: something shifts and the prophet of the Lord makes a
Speaker 1: declaration over them and says, you.
Speaker 2: Know what, you don't have to fight this, This is
Speaker 2: not your battle. The battle actually belongs to the Lord.
Speaker 2: And now they get pumped and they do something that
Speaker 2: I think is again a mandate of this new era.
Speaker 2: It's called worship.
Speaker 1: There is going to be a worship movement that rises
Speaker 1: up that all it does is focus and magnify God,
Speaker 1: and people will run to him because of that level
Speaker 1: of worship. They begin to worship and praise with a
Speaker 1: very loud voice verse nineteen.
Speaker 2: And then they go out.
Speaker 1: And Jehosaphat verse twenty one appointed men to sing to
Speaker 1: the Lord and to praise him in the splendor of
Speaker 1: his holiness.
Speaker 2: Gosh, have we done that?
Speaker 1: Have we praised him in the splendor of his awe
Speaker 1: of his set of partner He is.
Speaker 2: Not like us, He is so huge.
Speaker 1: If we would just begin to exalt the vastness of him,
Speaker 1: What happens in that exaltation, what happens in that praise,
Speaker 1: What happens in that worship is we begin to have
Speaker 1: eyes to see more of who he is, and how
Speaker 1: set apart he is, how holy he is, how majestic
Speaker 1: he is, how splendid he is. And when we see
Speaker 1: that man, it's like, Wow, what what else is there?
Speaker 1: I feel invincible?
Speaker 2: Yeah? Why?
Speaker 1: Because He's invincible and we've raised him up above all
Speaker 1: of those things. Give thanks to the Lord for his
Speaker 1: love endures forever. Gratitude again, is such a valued commodity
Speaker 1: in the kingdom. Gratitude adjusts our heart and opens the
Speaker 1: way for God to move in our life. So they
Speaker 1: do this, and as they go out and worship, God
Speaker 1: fights the battle for.
Speaker 2: Them, and the enemies turn on each other.
Speaker 1: I don't know how God's going to fix the issue.
Speaker 2: I don't know how He's going to do some things.
Speaker 1: In my life that he's promised that he's declared over me.
Speaker 1: I just need to step out in faith, and I
Speaker 1: need to keep my eyes on him. I need to
Speaker 1: feast on his presence. I need to have a level
Speaker 1: of adoration and gratitude that says God. I don't know
Speaker 1: what to do, but my eyes are on you, and
Speaker 1: I need to train that. My daughter's facing a situation.
Speaker 1: She's actually stepping into a season of real breakthrough and
Speaker 1: and and and she she just purchased her second and
Speaker 1: third house and and she's like, Okay, we're we're stepping
Speaker 1: into this in faith, but then there's closing costs.
Speaker 2: I don't know what to do, she says, Dad, what
Speaker 2: do I do?
Speaker 1: I said, I don't know what to do, but you
Speaker 1: need to keep focused on him. This is a breakthrough season.
Speaker 1: You're gonna take land you have. You have set this
Speaker 1: apart in your heart to do and we're gonna get breakthrough.
Speaker 1: You're gonna get breakthrough. And and here's what happens chapter
Speaker 1: twenty verse twenty five. There was so much plunder that
Speaker 1: it took three days to collect it. Oh my goodness,
Speaker 1: that's chapter twenty verse twenty five.
Speaker 2: What did we just step into? Twenty twenty five?
Speaker 1: And we're about to step into the triple blessing anointing
Speaker 1: of God.
Speaker 2: We're about to plunder the enemy, and it's going to
Speaker 2: be so much plunder.
Speaker 1: I actually believe this is not actually just speaking of
Speaker 1: three days.
Speaker 2: I think this is three years of plunder.
Speaker 1: I think this is starting in twenty twenty five, twenty
Speaker 1: twenty six, twenty twenty seven is going to be plunder
Speaker 1: the likes of which the church has never seen before,
Speaker 1: the likes of which you're families never seen before, the
Speaker 1: likes of which you individually have never seen before.
Speaker 2: But it's not because we did something other than communion.
Speaker 2: That's what it is.
Speaker 1: I'm focused on him, I'm focused on his presence, I'm
Speaker 1: focused on his goodness. I choose to worship him above
Speaker 1: anything else. And here's what happened on the fourth day,
Speaker 1: right after the plunder. What did they do they worshiped again.
Speaker 2: Here's the deal.
Speaker 1: I worship in lack, and I worship in an abundance.
Speaker 1: I worship when I'm facing enemies, and I'm worshiping when
Speaker 1: I'm sitting in peace. Because what's it about. It's about
Speaker 1: worshiping anyway. It's about being fixed on Him no matter what.
Speaker 1: This is what enforces the kingdom, and you were called
Speaker 1: to this. I'm going to invite the worship team to come,
Speaker 1: and I want you guys to just stand up for
Speaker 1: a moment. In First Samuel, chapter seventeen, we see a
Speaker 1: story of a young man, and I think I hear
Speaker 1: a story of a whole family.
Speaker 2: Here. You've got.
Speaker 1: A guy named David, and he's got brothers, right, and
Speaker 1: his brothers are in the army, the army of God,
Speaker 1: who were actually called to defeat giants. But something happened
Speaker 1: to those brothers who were trained in warfare to defeat
Speaker 1: giants because they came under a fear narrative. The giant
Speaker 1: Goliath came out and taunted the armies of Israel for
Speaker 1: forty days. And guess what, the problem got really big,
Speaker 1: and it took a little cheese boy, Che's delivery boy
Speaker 1: David was coming with milk and cheese, right, He's come
Speaker 1: to deliver it to his brother.
Speaker 2: She's delivery boy who was sitting out in the woods
Speaker 2: with his sheep playing a harp ring. But what they
Speaker 2: didn't know was this young man had lived in communion,
Speaker 2: that this.
Speaker 1: Young man was feasting on a voice that no one
Speaker 1: else was hearing. And when he shows up, he says, hey,
Speaker 1: how dare you? You uncircumcised philistine? Defy the armies of
Speaker 1: the living God. Now I'm gonna feed you to birds
Speaker 1: and worms, your dead meat.
Speaker 2: I was made to destroy the impossible things. How do
Speaker 2: I know that?
Speaker 1: Because I've been feasting on the God who defeated all
Speaker 1: of it. And I don't listen to the noise that
Speaker 1: Satan is making, and I don't make the problem bigger.
Speaker 1: I make the solution my main focus. And I'm telling you, church,
Speaker 1: we are a church of worship. We are a church
Speaker 1: that feasts on the wine of His goodness. We are
Speaker 1: a church that receives the full gift of himself, Jesus Christ, himself.
Speaker 3: I don't go to God to get victory. I go
Speaker 3: to God to get God. And because I have him,
Speaker 3: just like giddy.
Speaker 2: The Lord is with you. Therefore you are a mighty warrior.
Speaker 1: It's because of your relationship that the outflow of your
Speaker 1: life looks crazy, looks amazing, looks incredible, and it testifies
Speaker 1: to the world of the very same relationship that they're
Speaker 1: hungry for. They're not just hungry for victory, they're hungry
Speaker 1: for God himself. And we're gonna worship as a church.
Speaker 1: And it was such an amazing deal. Judah, arise f.
Speaker 2: That's a message.
Speaker 1: You knew my message. Oh it's not My message, is
Speaker 1: God's message to us. But we're gonna end our time
Speaker 1: together and we're gonna step.
Speaker 2: Into a new era.
Speaker 1: Of the normals of the testimony of Jesus Christ in
Speaker 1: this story that prophesies the future we step into. These
Speaker 1: are behaviors, These are habits that we can implement in
Speaker 1: ourself and our family and our communities. And as we
Speaker 1: do this, I guarantee you we're gonna see victory like
Speaker 1: we have never seen before.
Speaker 2: Let's worship Him together.