Speaker 1: Lord, we thank you for today, Holy Spirit. We ask
Speaker 1: that you come and you root into us what you
Speaker 1: would have rooted into us. Oh God, Lord, I pray
Speaker 1: right now that my lips speak your words, nothing more,
Speaker 1: nothing less. So God Lord, I pray right now that
Speaker 1: you soften our hearts to hear you, to meditate on you,
Speaker 1: to know you, to be one with you in unity
Speaker 1: and grace and holiness. O God, I thank you Lord
Speaker 1: that you are here with us, Holy Spirit. I pray
Speaker 1: right now that you open your word to us in
Speaker 1: a new way. Lord. I pray our eyes be ready
Speaker 1: to see you, our ears ready to hear you. Of God,
Speaker 1: and we give you honor and we give you glory
Speaker 1: in Jesus's mighty name. Amen. Amen, Amen. My sermon title
Speaker 1: today is igniting the season you're in. This is a
Speaker 1: two part I'm gonna speak about the season of the
Speaker 1: church and then the second part of talk about how
Speaker 1: you fit into this season and igniting yourself in the season.
Speaker 1: Ecclesiastes three to one says, to everything there is a season,
Speaker 1: a time for every purpose under Heaven. I believe that
Speaker 1: there have been moves of God throughout time that have
Speaker 1: changed the way people think about God. We've had movements.
Speaker 1: He does things for the generation that he comes for.
Speaker 1: Does that make sense? The way he speaks to us
Speaker 1: and in a generation may be different than he speaks
Speaker 1: to us in the last generation. Does that make sense.
Speaker 1: That's what I'm saying. When I was when I was younger,
Speaker 1: I got a call on my life and I loved
Speaker 1: Benny hen like I loved Benny hen Bro. I would
Speaker 1: watch him. My aunt would have him on TBN, like
Speaker 1: on repeat, I think, and I would just watch him
Speaker 1: and watch him and watch him. And I was like,
Speaker 1: deep inside of me, I thought, that's the call of
Speaker 1: my life. I'm gonna get up there. I'm gonna lay
Speaker 1: hands on people and They're gonna fall out under the
Speaker 1: power of God. That was my vision for my life.
Speaker 1: I felt it, felt it inside of me. Right. I'm
Speaker 1: not saying that can't happen, but I'm saying that's not
Speaker 1: happening right now. But I'm still in the call and
Speaker 1: the will of God. Amen. I remember when I first
Speaker 1: became a Christian and my friend Nina, she's known me
Speaker 1: for twenty years and she can attest to this over
Speaker 1: twenty years, and I would get into the presence of
Speaker 1: the Lord, and gold dust would come over my whole body,
Speaker 1: oil would come from my head. But that's not happening today.
Speaker 1: That was for a time and a season that I
Speaker 1: needed it for. But I'm still walking in the calling
Speaker 1: of God today. Amen, I want to share what I
Speaker 1: believe the season of the church Big Sea Churches in
Speaker 1: twenty nineteen. I had a vision here in January of
Speaker 1: twenty nineteen. COVID hadn't hit yet. They were just kind
Speaker 1: of talking about it, right, And I came into the
Speaker 1: sanctuary and I've seen a hole in the church over
Speaker 1: there on that side, and I've seen all the Christians
Speaker 1: falling into this hole, and I've seen this big tree
Speaker 1: and the tree just goes boo down into the middle
Speaker 1: of it. My first instinct was, well, maybe that wasn't
Speaker 1: from God. So I recreated that vision. I recreated that
Speaker 1: vision that the whole was covered up and a big
Speaker 1: tree came out of it and everybody was flourishing. March
Speaker 1: that same year COVID hits, and I thought, Wow, the
Speaker 1: Lord told me this was going to happen, but I
Speaker 1: didn't want to believe it. Sometimes the Lord gives us
Speaker 1: things that we don't understand. Until later. I learned in
Speaker 1: that moment that I need to be very keen to
Speaker 1: what he's telling me and what he's saying. So fast
Speaker 1: forward to twenty twenty. I asked the Lord, what are
Speaker 1: you doing with the church? God? And all of a sudden,
Speaker 1: I see this dragon coming out of the ground, and
Speaker 1: I see all these church people throwing a rug on it,
Speaker 1: and I hear the Lord say there's coming a time
Speaker 1: when the church can no longer hide the dragon. So
Speaker 1: for five years I've been meditating on this word. What
Speaker 1: does this mean? I asked people. They would try to
Speaker 1: help me, but it didn't click. You know what I'm
Speaker 1: saying like your nowhere knows the Holy Spirit will tell you, no,
Speaker 1: this is it. Fast forward to twenty twenty five. Charlie
Speaker 1: Kirk gets assassinated. We're in the car and I said
Speaker 1: to my husband. I looked at him and I said,
Speaker 1: I feel like, for some reason that this is the
Speaker 1: vision that the Lord has been telling me. All of
Speaker 1: a sudden, I got this click, this is it, this
Speaker 1: is the dragon. So a couple of weeks later, me
Speaker 1: and my husband are going to school. I don't know
Speaker 1: if you guys know, but we attend school and our professor.
Speaker 1: He's on there and he said, Jonathan Kahn, just release something.
Speaker 1: And he said, I think this is so interesting what
Speaker 1: you said, pastor about Charlie Kirk. Just now. He said
Speaker 1: he was assassinated inn orum. The word orum means dragon.
Speaker 1: I thought, I have to look this up because this
Speaker 1: is true. My husband's yelling at me. It's your vision.
Speaker 1: It's your vision, Angela, it's your vision. So I go
Speaker 1: and I'm like any good Christian, I'm not gonna believe
Speaker 1: nobody for nothing. I suggest you do the same. That's
Speaker 1: for free. So I go and I look it up
Speaker 1: in the House of Name city of Orm on the
Speaker 1: House of Names dot com. The name is derived from
Speaker 1: Ormer serpent. So then I look up Google the surname
Speaker 1: Ormy and its variants. Orm is the most prominent English
Speaker 1: name believed to come from the Old Norse Ormer, meaning
Speaker 1: serpent or dragon. The name's journey into English usage can
Speaker 1: be traced back to the Viking Age and the Dane Law,
Speaker 1: the area England heavily settled by Norse invaders. The Norse
Speaker 1: origin theory a personal name. The name Ormer was used
Speaker 1: as a personal name in Old Norse. This tradition was
Speaker 1: common among Vikings, who often took names from powerful animals,
Speaker 1: like the serpent. Orm Revelations twelve seventeen says, so the
Speaker 1: dragon was enraged with the woman, and he went off
Speaker 1: to wage war on the rest of her children. Those
Speaker 1: who keep and obey the commandments of God and have
Speaker 1: the testimony of Jesus? Who are we? Who are we?
Speaker 1: We are those children? We are those that bear the
Speaker 1: testimony of Jesus after us. We're standing in a time
Speaker 1: where we can no longer cover the dragon. We're standing
Speaker 1: in a time where the Lord is saying, hey, wake up, church.
Speaker 1: We're standing in a time where he says, I have
Speaker 1: something for you. You have not been abandoned. So what
Speaker 1: is this season? I believe we have allowed the world
Speaker 1: to tell us what Christians are supposed to look like.
Speaker 1: They have told us what meekness looks like. They've told
Speaker 1: us what humility looks like. Do you know people will
Speaker 1: call this church, cussing us out if we don't give
Speaker 1: them money. This isn't what the church has been given
Speaker 1: the name entitled to entitlement. We are not their entitlement.
Speaker 1: We are freedom, We are righteousness, We are a holiness
Speaker 1: We've allowed them to define what love is. We've allowed
Speaker 1: them to define who God is. Me and my husband.
Speaker 1: Me and my husband, we do marriage counseling. I love it.
Speaker 1: I think I brought tissue I did praise the Lord
Speaker 1: in my pocket. We love it. I don't know why.
Speaker 1: I never thought that I would like marriage counseling, you know,
Speaker 1: especially from what I came from, you know, But I
Speaker 1: love it. One of the things that me and my
Speaker 1: husband are very, very very good at, like very I
Speaker 1: don't I must say, I don't know another couple who
Speaker 1: can communicate as well as we do. So he was
Speaker 1: in prison for five years, for those that don't know,
Speaker 1: and our relationship was not built on physical touch. Our
Speaker 1: relationship was built on communication. So most people they get
Speaker 1: into a relationship, they're hugging and they're kissing, and that's
Speaker 1: where their relationships built from. My physical touch with my
Speaker 1: husband was actually him sitting across a table from me,
Speaker 1: and I got to hold his hand praise the Lord,
Speaker 1: and that was exciting to us. Even when he got
Speaker 1: out of prison, it was weird to hug him because
Speaker 1: it was not the natural right. So we're really good
Speaker 1: at communication. So we figured out that We're really good
Speaker 1: at marriage counseling because we know communication. And one of
Speaker 1: the things that we say to all of our married
Speaker 1: couples is you need to learn how to say what
Speaker 1: did you mean by that? Because sometimes couples get into
Speaker 1: a relationship and the husband says she's just rude and
Speaker 1: she says, no, I'm not. They had two different definitions
Speaker 1: of rude. He's believing that she's rude because she says this,
Speaker 1: and she says, well, that's not rude. When I say that,
Speaker 1: two different definitions of the same word, right, does that
Speaker 1: make sense? Maybe I should do a little seminar on
Speaker 1: communication one day. We have to think about the Bible
Speaker 1: like this. The Bible is one sided. It's not two sided.
Speaker 1: There's only one side to the Bible, and that's God's side.
Speaker 1: The only definition to the Bible is God's definition. He
Speaker 1: allows us to come into to unity with him. But ultimately,
Speaker 1: what he says is what the definition is. If he
Speaker 1: says what love is, that's literally the truth about love
Speaker 1: Ephesians four twenty three through twenty four. And be renewed
Speaker 1: in the spirit of your mind, and that you put
Speaker 1: on the new man, which was created according to God.
Speaker 1: In true righteousness and holiness. Do not think like yourself.
Speaker 1: Do not put definitions on things that do not belong
Speaker 1: to you. Just like those married couples. When he's saying
Speaker 1: she's rude and she's saying she's not. She's the one speaking.
Speaker 1: Her definition of that actually matters. She can change the
Speaker 1: way she talks, but her definition is what matters. What
Speaker 1: do you mean by that? Were you trying to be rude? No?
Speaker 1: I was not trying to be rude. What I meant
Speaker 1: was x Y right. I believe that we are in
Speaker 1: a season of reformation. The way the Lord talks to
Speaker 1: me is that I get a feeling inside of me,
Speaker 1: and I have to translate it into words. Right, So
Speaker 1: I get this feeling and I'm like, I don't I don't.
Speaker 1: I don't know what this means. Like, okay, I don't
Speaker 1: know what I don't understand. And we turn on the
Speaker 1: on the phone one day, my husband had something on
Speaker 1: and a guy starts talking and he gives us definition
Speaker 1: for reformation, and I said, oh my gosh, that's it.
Speaker 1: This is the season of reformation. It emphasized scripture as
Speaker 1: primary teaching. Reformation restores God's people back to his original design.
Speaker 1: When religion, tradition, or corruption has twisted things. We are
Speaker 1: in the seasoned Church of Reformation. It's time to get
Speaker 1: God's definition. Amen. Romans twelve two says, and do not
Speaker 1: be conformed to this world, but be transformed by the
Speaker 1: renewing of your mind, that you may prove that is
Speaker 1: that good and acceptable and perfect will of God. We've
Speaker 1: had many reformers over the years. Our first one is
Speaker 1: Jesus Christ himself last name is not Christ. He is
Speaker 1: an ultimate reformer. He confronted religious hypocrisies, tore down men,
Speaker 1: made traditions, and restored people to the Father's heart. We
Speaker 1: are watching The Chosen, watching the Chosen, and it's the
Speaker 1: new season, right, and and I thought it was the
Speaker 1: coolest thing because I had never thought about this. But
Speaker 1: they're going to the Temple to they're going to the
Speaker 1: Temple to sacrifice, and this is when Jesus comes to
Speaker 1: toss the tables, right, And it was It was weird
Speaker 1: to me because the disciples are just like, oh, yeah,
Speaker 1: you can buy this over there, and you can do
Speaker 1: this and you can do that, like it was normal,
Speaker 1: Like this was what they were supposed to be doing.
Speaker 1: It was normal. To them. You guys, it was normal.
Speaker 1: We've been acting like this is normal. But Jesus is
Speaker 1: coming in and tossing temple tables and saying this is
Speaker 1: not the normal. This is not what we're supposed to
Speaker 1: be doing. Matthew eleven thirty says, for my yoke is
Speaker 1: easy and my burden is light. The Pharisees were putting
Speaker 1: laws on people that were not what God had attended.
Speaker 1: And the Sadducees they didn't even believe in anything miracle, signs, wonders, resurrection.
Speaker 1: They did not believe in resurrection. So when Jesus came
Speaker 1: on the scene, this this verse here, I know we
Speaker 1: always use that, you know, like, okay, I can carry,
Speaker 1: I can carry whatever the Lord's given me. But you
Speaker 1: know what he's actually doing. He's reforming the church. This
Speaker 1: is a verse of reformation. This is him saying, what
Speaker 1: I have for you, my theology, who I am and
Speaker 1: who the God, who God of Heaven is, is different
Speaker 1: than the than the things that they've been putting on you.
Speaker 1: He's our first reformer. Martin Luther. Can I get a
Speaker 1: picture of Martin Luther? Isn't he handsome? Wow? Maiden? Yes,
Speaker 1: Frank made in God's image. He sparked the Protestant Reformation
Speaker 1: by calling out church corruption and teaching that salvationists by
Speaker 1: faith alone, through grace alone, and Christ alone. The Catholic
Speaker 1: Church we're selling prayers to people to get their loved
Speaker 1: ones out of purgatory. And he said, that's not how
Speaker 1: we get to Christ. This isn't right. Your guys are
Speaker 1: being corrupt. So he put his ninety five thesis on
Speaker 1: the door of the church. We still feel that today
Speaker 1: a reformer. William Seymour, can you put that picture of
Speaker 1: nineteen hundreds? Can you put up William Seymour? Please? There
Speaker 1: we go. He's the leader of the Suzu Street Revival
Speaker 1: in nineteen oh six, which birth the modern panicle. He
Speaker 1: restored the baptism of the Holy Spirit, gifts of the Spirit,
Speaker 1: and racial unity to the church. When it had left
Speaker 1: the church. He came and he said, ah ah ah,
Speaker 1: this is what God meant by this, this is what
Speaker 1: we need. He sparked global spirit filled revival that still
Speaker 1: impacts millions today. I'm running out of time, so I'm
Speaker 1: running fast. There's a lot of stories I'd like to
Speaker 1: tell you about all these people, but I'm just gonna
Speaker 1: go okay. Mariah Woodworth's utter. She was known as the
Speaker 1: Grandmother of Pentecost and my favorite woman of old time.
Speaker 1: She held powerful healing and evangelistic meetings in the late
Speaker 1: eighteen hundreds to nineteen hundreds. People often fell under the
Speaker 1: power of the Holy Spirit. Her focus brought the supernatural
Speaker 1: power of God into everyday church life, breaking through religious formalities.
Speaker 1: She paved the way for the pentecost and Charismatic movements.
Speaker 1: This woman had six children who died, and she still
Speaker 1: ran hard for the Lord. She still didn't change her mind.
Speaker 1: She couldn't even read. In her book, it says that
Speaker 1: she couldn't read, and she told the Lord, I can't
Speaker 1: do your will because I can't even read. And he
Speaker 1: put the Bible on the wall for her and she
Speaker 1: could then read, still running after the Lord. Amy Simple McPherson.
Speaker 1: She was an evangelist and founder of the Four Square Church.
Speaker 1: This woman eighteen ninety to nineteen forty four. She also
Speaker 1: called Mariah Woodworth Utter. Her a spiritual mother. She brought
Speaker 1: drama into the churches, not bad drama, as my husband said.
Speaker 1: She did illustrated sermons. She was one of the first
Speaker 1: women to be on radio speaking about Jesus. She had
Speaker 1: large crusades. She broke barriers for women in ministry, embraced
Speaker 1: modern tools for evangelism, and preached Jesus as savior, healer,
Speaker 1: baptizer in the Holy Spirit, and coming King. She was
Speaker 1: one of the most influential female evangelists of the twentieth century.
Speaker 1: I remember Catherine Cooman saying, she said, the only reason
Speaker 1: why the Lord sent me was because a man wouldn't
Speaker 1: do it. Are you ready, Church? It's time for reformation.
Speaker 1: There's a revival coming, believe, and the revival is the
Speaker 1: Communion revival. What does that mean to me? What do
Speaker 1: I think the Lord is saying in that? He's saying
Speaker 1: that there's a unity coming to the Church like never
Speaker 1: seen before, where we will walk beside Him and in
Speaker 1: him and through him, we will have a mind of Christ.
Speaker 1: The Lord wants us more closer to him than anything
Speaker 1: in the whole world. That's why he died on the cross.
Speaker 1: He gave us that blood so his bride could be
Speaker 1: with him. And the craziest thing is he wants to
Speaker 1: partner with us. There's nothing he will do on earth
Speaker 1: without the partnership of his bride. He loves us that much.
Speaker 1: It's unbelievable to me. The King of Kings and the
Speaker 1: Lord of Lords wants to be so close to me
Speaker 1: that he wants to be in me through around me.
Speaker 1: It's time to listen to him. It's time to listen
Speaker 1: to his definition, his definitions of what the Word is saying.
Speaker 1: If this is the season God has called his church too,
Speaker 1: then the next question is how do you personally step
Speaker 1: into it? Because New Horizon Church cannot walk in the
Speaker 1: season if the people aren't ignited to carry it. We
Speaker 1: are just one church of many of the big sea.
Speaker 1: He has called you for this reason and this purpose today.
Speaker 1: And I know it's a cliche or we've turned it
Speaker 1: into a cliche, but it's not really, because it's still
Speaker 1: the word of God. But you were born for such
Speaker 1: a time as this verb sixteen nine says. A man's
Speaker 1: heart plans his ways, but the Lord directs his steps.
Speaker 1: I want to run through a quick story, real quick.
Speaker 1: Don't even put the verses up. But there's Obadiah. Elijah
Speaker 1: goes to Obadiah and Ahab's the worst king in the
Speaker 1: whole world. It says in the Bible he was the
Speaker 1: worst king ever. So Elijah goes to Obadiah, and Obadiah says,
Speaker 1: it's okay, Elijah. I hid all the prophets in a cave,
Speaker 1: so Elijah has to defeat Jezebel an Ahab on his own.
Speaker 1: The prophets were hidden out in a cave. How much
Speaker 1: faster would Jezebel and a have been overturned if those
Speaker 1: prophets were doing what they were called to do in
Speaker 1: that hour? Yes, they were still called prophets, but they
Speaker 1: were not moving Intoday. It's your turn. You're up to bat.
Speaker 1: I know everybody's calling is different. I had a ministry
Speaker 1: meeting with a couple and they said, do you even
Speaker 1: want this ministry? And part of New Horizon our mission
Speaker 1: is glorifying God and restoring people. I said, does this
Speaker 1: ministry fit under glorifying God and restoring people? That person
Speaker 1: said yes. I said, then we want it. Are you
Speaker 1: walking under the mission of the Lord today? Then we
Speaker 1: want it. He wants your yes today, not from the few,
Speaker 1: not from the past, but today. What is your call today?
Speaker 1: How are you walking today? What are you doing today?
Speaker 1: What is it that He wants from you today? Because
Speaker 1: you were born for such a time as this. Stop
Speaker 1: looking at your future calling, Stop looking at your past calling,
Speaker 1: and start walking today, because this is where he wants you.
Speaker 1: This is where he's guiding you, this is where he's
Speaker 1: keeping you. This is where he's going to flourish you
Speaker 1: and Jesus this mighty name. Amen, hallelujah Matthew sixteen two
Speaker 1: through three. He answered and said to them, when it
Speaker 1: is evening, you say it will be fair weather, for
Speaker 1: the sky is red, keep going, and in the morning
Speaker 1: it will be foul weather today, for the sky is
Speaker 1: red and threatening. Hypocrites. You know how to discern the
Speaker 1: face of the sky, but you cannot discern the signs
Speaker 1: of the times, the signs of today. Stop looking this
Speaker 1: way and stop looking that way. Let's start looking at
Speaker 1: what he's got us doing today. What is this? The
Speaker 1: season of reformation, the season of communion, revival, the season
Speaker 1: that the dragon will now no longer be covered up,
Speaker 1: The season where we will discern what the Lord is saying.
Speaker 1: The season when we will get into him and we
Speaker 1: will walk out our callings. Amen, don't define your calling
Speaker 1: by your preferences. Your calling is not about what you
Speaker 1: think it should look like. It's about what it looks
Speaker 1: like to the Lord, let his vision lead, not your
Speaker 1: assumptions or expectations. My assumption would be that I was
Speaker 1: up here like Benny Hen and you all be going
Speaker 1: boo woo. That's my assumption, that's my determination, that's my idea. Instead,
Speaker 1: the Lord has me up here yelling at you, not
Speaker 1: really this teasing. I love you all very much. You're
Speaker 1: my favorite. Does what I'm doing right now fit the
Speaker 1: season God has placed the church in. If the answer
Speaker 1: is no, you're not walking and you're calling. If the
Speaker 1: answer is yes, and then stop looking backwards, stop looking ahead,
Speaker 1: and keep walking. Fulness today is how you reach where
Speaker 1: God is taking you tomorrow. Ask the Lord his real thoughts,
Speaker 1: his definition of your calling. Ask him, am I actually
Speaker 1: walking and doing what you asked me to do. We
Speaker 1: had a prophetic word over us, and I think I've
Speaker 1: said this before, but if you've heard this before, I'm sorry,
Speaker 1: but it's a great analogy. We had a me and
Speaker 1: my husband had a prophetic word over us that we
Speaker 1: would be leaders of leaders. In my imagination, I thought
Speaker 1: I would be standing on a stage and there'd be
Speaker 1: all these leaders in front of us, and we would
Speaker 1: be leading the charge. It didn't look anything like it
Speaker 1: does today, and I am so blessed that it doesn't,
Speaker 1: because the Lord knew exactly where I was supposed to be,
Speaker 1: when I was supposed to be here. He made me
Speaker 1: for such a time as this. No matter you're calling.
Speaker 1: If you are born in the time, in this time,
Speaker 1: you were called to be a reformer, it may look
Speaker 1: different for all of us, just like it looked different
Speaker 1: for each reformer I mentioned. But you are called. The
Speaker 1: Lord knit you the color of skin, even the color
Speaker 1: of skin you are. I am white, blonde, blue eyed
Speaker 1: for a reason. The way you dress, the way you talk,
Speaker 1: so you can reach those that I can't reach. We
Speaker 1: are reaching people that nobody else can can reach in
Speaker 1: this hour, in this minute. Amen. Martin Luther was a
Speaker 1: reformer for his time. William Seymour was a reformer for
Speaker 1: his time. Amy Simple McPherson was a reformer for her time.
Speaker 1: Mariah Woodworth utter reformer for her time, Kenneth Santiago reformer
Speaker 1: for his time, Karen Connolly reformer for her time, Amaya
Speaker 1: Cook reformer for her time, Tony Batress reformer for his time,
Speaker 1: Morgan Dupey reformer for her time, Terry Wright reformer for
Speaker 1: his time, Chelsea Weflin reformer for her time. Michael Davis
Speaker 1: is a reformer for his time, and you are a
Speaker 1: reformer for your time. It's time to mobilize church, get
Speaker 1: up and start moving. It's time to get out of
Speaker 1: the caves. It's time to get to work. Stop looking
Speaker 1: behind and stop looking to the future. It's time to
Speaker 1: see the perspective of the Lord. Know the season you're in,
Speaker 1: and define it as the Lord defines it. Amen, Lord,
Speaker 1: we thank you for today. We thank you that you
Speaker 1: have called us. We thank you, Oh God, Holy Spirit.
Speaker 1: We pray that you lead and you guide us every day.
Speaker 1: Make our hearts soft to you, give us strength and understanding.
Speaker 1: Let us see things from your perspective. Let us see
Speaker 1: how you see us. Lord. I pray for those who
Speaker 1: are struggling right now. Lord, lead and guide. Lord. I
Speaker 1: pray for wisdom, Pray for your love, your teaching, your lord,
Speaker 1: your hope. Oh God, we thank you for this, our Lord.
Speaker 1: We thank you God that we were standing right where
Speaker 1: we're supposed to be and the season that you have
Speaker 1: called the church to Lord, and we were all born
Speaker 1: for such a time as this, and Jesus Mighty name, Amen,