Faith That Receives or Faith That Creates? A Review of ‘Sunday Service’

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[00:07:14] I want you to know why you sense a greater intensity this morning this fasting has been a centerpiece of our conversation for years now but in all our time together 35 going on 36 years now I have never stepped towards a fast where I have seen and heard I don't know the word is excitement but a
[00:07:53] but throughout the congregation in December I was hearing people and and conversing and I can't wait till the fast gets here I need I need to deal with some issues in my life I need some strongholds broken I need certain
[00:08:10] trajectories interrupted I need my direction reestablished I need some depth in the word Jesus and his part of the issue Jesus says in Matthew chapter six he says praying fasting and giving we know that giving man you start asking folk about
[00:08:32] giving they can get really weird it's a depth issue you start talking about fasting folk can be like oh that's for other churches other people we don't have to do that now that's the old
[00:08:44] old testament that's a depth issue but jesus said fasting and giving and praying in the same so evidently too many times my prayer life that is should be on the level the depth of a fast
[00:09:07] the depth of a give it's for me too shallow and superficial I didn't mean for it to be but if Jesus looks at praying on the same level of fasting and giving I'm probably missing something
[00:09:22] in my prayer life am i getting this across i'm just those are three disciplines all three should be equal pursuance in our life if it requires me to ready myself in a fast and if i'm determined
[00:09:42] to remain in it committed to walk through it then that takes a certain stability and and i've got to have a made-up mind of faith I'm going to stay with this thing until I get to where I know God's
[00:09:56] assigned me in this discipline if I'm going to give not just superficially tipping God but if I'm stepping in a covenant conversation to where gift many of us give offerings but few of us sacrifice so if my giving moves to the level of sacrificing to where something transformative
[00:10:22] is taking place then my prayer life evidently is at a level to equal a deep fast and a deep give this morning your listen this morning your praying and your praise shall be different because you're now praying from a fasted place.
[00:10:47] I have dug out.
[00:10:50] I have tilled the soil of my soul with a fast.
[00:10:55] I have interrupted conversations that have tried to tear me apart and tear me down and cause me to drift and fall into darkness.
[00:11:06] I've dealt with that thing.
[00:11:08] I'm 15 days into it and I'm dealing with a devil.
[00:11:11] So now the emptiness that I have removed stuff from is filled by a deeper prayer.
[00:11:19] How many know that a fasted prayer is different than just, thank you, Lord, for this day.
[00:11:34] Help me with my friends.
[00:11:35] Help me to get there on time.
[00:11:36] You know I'm running late.
[00:11:38] Amen.
[00:11:46] What would happen to my prayer life if I never used the word me, mine?
[00:11:52] only I and it's always in reference to give I praise I were I applaud you I thank you I if my prayers changed to be so focused upon him his throne his word will and way
[00:12:15] you would find you need fewer me's and mine's and we've said this so many times too many times my prayer requests were already addressed at the cross and the empty tomb if my if I ever got to
[00:12:35] that cross and that empty tomb and I started walking and appropriating what's already been provided for I don't go to have to ask him to give something that's in my face how many times do you
[00:12:52] have to ask him for heaven if you're saved then I shouldn't have to ask him all the time for something that's equally included in the blood this morning we're going to kind of conclude our
[00:13:13] conversation from Zion to Zarephath we'll always be referring to it this morning he's there this morning there's a hidden fast but of the widow his fast is amazing but in this story the most important fast is not even referred to as a fast but the woman is willing to step back in her
[00:13:35] starvation step back from her little lack and loss and give she's willing to smell the food cooking and not eat it and so the songs we're going to do every praise and worship time we
[00:13:49] sing should always begin with praise not i need or anything like that so blessed be the name of the lord let me just even look at the songs we've got then whose report will you believe
[00:14:00] if you want to know the efficacy if you want to know the the um the potency of a power if you want to know the threat of your fasted life don't just look at yourself and what God's doing look at
[00:14:18] what the enemy's doing you had any more issue have you had any issues this month it's kind of like pop up and we got a baby girl Juliet huh she did on Facebook okay our little Juliet I called her
[00:14:43] goddaughter last night when i was sending the message i said because of god she's our daughter she's a granddaughter of this house we got baby these babies are our grandchildren this is hope's grandbabies and she's got an issue in in her lymph nodes infection in her lymph nodes but see you're
[00:14:58] going to be praying about that from the fast to play now that you know there's something in here you are standing in unity you are declaring in agreement that baby girl is well and running
[00:15:10] around here like everybody else singing and giving God your glory you've heard of other reports coming in of challenges and let me hurt hurt hurt hurt lymph nodes matter of fact I won't mention but we got another person had lymph node infection I've never even heard of lymph node infection got
[00:15:28] two of them in one week ain't that something who saw you reckon there's anything connected to the I would think so have you noticed in your house that the people you love is driving you a little
[00:15:46] more crazy there's a reason Jesus fasted alone he had enough on his hands with one devil Moses comes down from Sinai and first thing he finds is they're building the golden calf don't don't step back a little bit from from your antagonism you're being upset with the loved ones this is a
[00:16:07] fast baby this is a fast you're dealing with some stuff on the inside and it's stank physically matter of fact you need to take some warm baths get some of them impurities out that you're
[00:16:17] breaking them loose inside your body get some of that stuff get in a sauna somewhere get some of that them toxins out of you that you're breaking up this one whose report you're going to believe
[00:16:26] number three we're going to be singing you keep your promises the woman gonna say that now i know and the fourth one i didn't think about this until later on last night it's not over yeah yeah now
[00:16:44] don't you come up in here all fasted up and shut down in the presence of little don't you do that you better you better lift up that hand give him glory you better shout show the devil
[00:17:00] that your fast matters blessed be the blow blow the trumpet in zion shout to the lord from the the fastest place in the name of the lord to bless your holy name say it again a moment ago

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[00:19:09] this thing is doing tell you something so much happening in the world folk was marching like

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[00:23:21] maniacs burning down buildings supposedly warring against an imaginary genocide and then when you got a real one you get real quiet there's crickets what happened to the 16 500 iranians that have been slaughtered in the hot listen they'd already been hurt take to the hospital hooked up to a
[00:23:48] catheter hooked up to and they walk in and pop them in the head that's what's going on our own country you better be watching i've been telling you better be watching you start putting turkey
[00:24:07] who's the other Qatar not Omar Qatar those two putting them in charge of Gaza and Canada Canada better be real careful cause China's licking its chops for them we're about to step into some some shaky that we've never seen at least in a
[00:24:37] century about to see some shaking internationally militarily diplomatically all a rearranging of world order we don't come in here to put our head in the sand we ain't hiding we keep our head in the cloud he is who he says he is we are who we he says we are
[00:25:08] we have all he says we have we can do all he says we can do if there's ever been a time for the people of god to walk in faith through the breathing word of the lord we said it many
[00:25:21] many months ago that you have the power in your prayers to bring down i got listen i got shoved out of israel this week literally kicked out of israel this week because the concerns that was
[00:25:34] what was going to be happening in iran and it's coming right but you're not going to lose yourself somebody had a great post talked about trump deranged syndrome there's two gives dumasani and then I think Allison there's two kinds one who think that Trump can't do
[00:26:03] anything right and the other that thinks Trump can't do anything wrong you're both crazy see that's what we've been trying to say around this place since 2020 but folk can't get that they had original thoughts since the 60s I got
[00:26:24] one Lord one Savior one baptizer one deliverer one Redeemer and his name ain't Trump. His name ain't Trump. His name is Jesus. One king. One king. I got one king. He'll use

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[00:26:43] anybody, but I got one king. Whose report you gonna believe? Promises. These first words,

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[00:31:40] it is written. She said, I ain't got no bread. I just got a little bit of meal,

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[00:36:40] a little bit of oil and I'm gonna mix it up a bit and I'm gonna eat it my boy's gonna eat it and then you heard of the last supper and then we're both gonna die this morning we're looking at a
[00:37:00] situation where the Lord ministered to her changed it and didn't take too long for the enemy to come again and she picks up her boy and says he's dead what am I supposed to do now both times the prophet

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[00:37:16] it has to basically say it's not over get what you see listen to what you hear it's not over

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[00:37:33] it's not finished it's not ending it's only it's all is in i know it's hard to from final to first but this is a new thing i thought it was over

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[00:37:58] you need to know this and you do just say it just before dawn just before dawn it might be might be the hardest this altar's open

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[00:38:17] you've experienced.
[00:38:18] Come pour out your heart.

[00:38:20] [SPEAKER SPEAKER_06]
[00:38:20] I know it hurts.
[00:38:21] Come praise him.
[00:38:22] Won't be too long.
[00:38:26] Too close and you think you are.
[00:38:49] It's not it.

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[00:53:36] It's just Jesus.
[00:53:39] I say.

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[00:55:20] Trust him.

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[00:55:27] Whatever you're facing in this season of your life that feels so big and it feels so ominous, I'm asking you, do you trust him?
[00:55:42] It's one thing to say you trust him, but do you trust him?
[00:55:46] and if you trust him that i am here by god to tell you it's not over it's not over if you've got just a little bit of oil in your jar it's not over if you've got just a little bit of oil
[00:56:05] in your jar and you know what to do with it it's not over i declare by god it's not over oh sweet Holy Jesus, live your whole life with his word and believe if he said so, it is so.
[00:56:29] I may not see it in this moment.
[00:56:31] And if I don't see it in this moment, I trust him.
[00:56:35] It means it's not over.
[00:56:36] It's not over.
[00:56:40] Oh, God, we need you.
[00:56:43] We need you.
[00:56:46] Forgive us, Lord, for the moments we forget how much we need you.
[00:56:52] You are our breath, our very breath, our oxygen.
[00:56:55] You are our bread.
[00:56:57] you are the quench for our thirst you are the medicine for our minds you are the healer of every disease you are the giver of every good gift oh my god we need you we need you
[00:57:15] and how blessed is the people when we really know that and i think in a fast it becomes that much more real to us, doesn't it? That we need him every hour we need him. I'm so proud of this
[00:57:34] people. I said it Thursday night, but I'm so proud of this people of hope. You have taken this fast so seriously. There are times that we've been on fast and Bishop has taken it so seriously or our
[00:57:48] family or the leaders of this house, but this is a whole other thing, hope. And I'm not saying any of that to shame you if you're here and you're not fasting. I'm telling you, if you're here and
[00:57:58] you're among a fasted people, you're better for it. I thank him. He has been so present. No wonder the warfare is so heavy. I think hope is taking territory. The significance of this fast is so
[00:58:14] great. We're taking territory we know not of yet. Can I tell you, there are kindergartners among this house. I'm just telling you a couple of stories I heard yesterday. Some kindergartners in this house, they get ice cream at school all the time and they're all excited to try the new
[00:58:32] flavors. And the teacher called the parent and said, your son said about ice cream. And before the parent could let the teacher finish, they said, oh, I'm so sorry. I forgot to send the money.
[00:58:43] And they said, no, no, no, no. It's not about you forgetting to send the money. Your child is telling me that he's on a fast for 21 days and he can't have, he's not touching ice cream for three
[00:58:56] weeks. That's the children of this house. My God, start forcing anything upon the children. The children aren't saying that because my mom and daddy won't let me have it. It's I am making a promise to my God and I am fulfill it, fulfilling it. Fourth graders doing the same thing I heard
[00:59:21] yesterday a senior in this house where is she where's is where's isa and isa a senior in this house going on the winter formal and keeping the fast as they sit among their friends grown men and
[00:59:37] women this house that have never fasted before that are sitting with people that don't even begin to understand the fast they think you're weird listen they don't even know how weird they are and how much they need your weird, but keeping this fast. And for some of us, it's harder than
[00:59:52] others because some of us, we don't like any, we like pastor Otis has never touched a vegetable in his life. I gave him some green stuff to put in his drink until I'm not just don't even look
[01:00:03] at what goes in, just drink it. Uh, but I'm just so proud of the people of God in this fast. And I'm telling you, we are taking territory and there is a significance to this fast that lasts far
[01:00:17] beyond these 21 days and beyond what it's so interesting to me. And I say this often, but it's so true. I learned this, the older I get, the more we think we're doing something for God,
[01:00:28] like it's some sacrifice that we're giving to God all the while God is actually doing something for us and he is helping us and welthing us because your health is wealth you know that right you can
[01:00:44] put more money in the bank but you can't get your health back when you run the tires off this thing it ain't coming back and so he's helping us to reset in a way that we'll do a few things
[01:00:55] differently it won't be that we stay on this but we'll maybe think a little more cognitively cognizantly about some things that we're putting in our body I'm just so grateful let me just announce very quickly a couple of things our kingdom education
[01:01:10] they are having a meeting our nursery cruiser and toddler staff are having a meeting on Monday February 2nd and then our preschool teachers Kingdom Ed and airborne are having a meeting on Wednesday February 4th we brag on them
[01:01:24] all the time but there's so much that go on up and down these halls and this leadership team you don't even know all the nights that you're getting ready for bed and they're still on the zoom call ironing out the details and and just
[01:01:38] really planning and creating and being so intentional there's a reason these children are feeling so compelled not under drudgery but just delight to keep this fast one is it's because of what's going on and up and down these halls but
[01:01:52] two is it's what's going on in your house that is a reflection of what's going on there, so I'm so grateful. Also, GSM, our teen ministry, 13 to 18, they're going on a mission trip this summer, and they're going to be meeting with all the students and their parents this
[01:02:10] Thursday evening up in the youth space at 615, so be there here for that if you're interested. And lastly, our Worship and Arts Academy is having observation night in a couple of weeks on February
[01:02:23] 10th and the 12th. Um, it's January. And so every January, because this house is such extravagant givers, this is a house of covenant people that give to God sacrificially covenantally.
[01:02:40] And you know that this is good soil and good sea. Cause you know that when you give unto the Lord in this house, it goes right back out. And so every January, we just stop and take a look at
[01:02:53] some of what we've been able to do by God. And this week is just the video about what you've given internationally. This is just about what you've done beyond our own nation. Next week will
[01:03:08] be what you've done inside the borders of this nation. Both are so compelling. It doesn't make sense that a congregation of this size can give the way you give. I've never, we know a lot of
[01:03:24] ministries. We rub shoulders with a lot of ministers. I've never seen anything like it.
[01:03:30] And I said to Bishop, I said, this is so supernatural. He said, actually, it's not.
[01:03:35] What God does with it is supernatural, but the fact that we're able to give this much is a reflection of the covenant of our people, the priority of our people individually that bring a covenant and a priority corporately, and then we know what to do with it when God puts it in our hand.
[01:03:55] So I want you to take a small, brief look at what you did internationally in 2025.

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[01:04:01] For the honor, for the privilege of being a part of this people and this place on Brownsboro.
[01:04:20] And this is who you are all year long.
[01:04:22] You don't give just one day a year, but you give every single day.
[01:04:27] And so now we want to give you a glimpse of what you've done through the nations of the earth in 2025.
[01:04:34] In 2025 alone, you seeded over $12,000 into ministry missions throughout Europe in this place where God's name was so central and now it's being pushed out of conversation.
[01:04:50] You made his name known.
[01:04:52] Hope, I'm sitting in our sanctuary on Brownsboro, but in 2025, you helped build two more churches in northern Nigeria, making that 51 completed churches for our persecuted brothers and sisters, and 52 is under construction right now.
[01:05:12] We build homes for His glory.
[01:05:17] You gave over $12,000 to our persecuted brothers and sisters who are struggling to survive under the weight of horrendous persecution.
[01:05:29] When they are targeted for their faith, the body of Christ comes around them and says, You belong. You matter.
[01:05:41] Hope, you did something that no one else thought was possible.
[01:05:46] You crossed international borders.
[01:05:48] You entered into war zones.
[01:05:51] We, Hope, got to partner to cross over into war-ravaged Syria and cede over $150,000 to help our persecuted brothers and sisters, Christians, Druze.
[01:06:04] We brought food.
[01:06:06] We brought medical supplies.
[01:06:08] When the rest of the world says you are forgotten and you are forsaken. Our God says you are seen, you are known, and you are loved.
[01:06:15] You brought hope to the trenches. Hope, you seeded three hundred and seventy six thousand five hundred dollars into the soil and the soul of Israel. The Jewish people, you fed the hungry, you protected the vulnerable, and you helped Jews from around the world come home to Israel.
[01:06:42] Are you getting this? We are getting to partner with God to make prophecy come true in our lifetime. We are a part of that prophecy coming to life. Hope it feels nearly impossible to compute,
[01:07:01] but in 2025 alone, you seeded over $550,500 into international ministries. We can't begin to imagine the harvest. We can't begin to imagine the bounty of what we have seen,

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[01:07:18] but he alone gets the food. God takes our fishes and multiplies it. By the time he gets finished with it, it's so much more than $550,000 given just to the nations of the earth. Can I say this
[01:07:54] before the girls come to dance. This is important. We're not bragging on us. We're bragging on God.
[01:08:00] And we live in a world that is hostile to the things of God. So this is what I need you to do.
[01:08:06] It's going up on social media today. I need you to share it and comment and brag on what God is doing in there. First of all, for unbelievers who think that the church is irrelevant, that the
[01:08:19] church is, is so far from the solution and they think they've got them. God forgive them. It's the church that takes pennies on the dollar and goes into desperate places and makes the kingdom known and transforms a place time. And again, our government has millions dollars and uses it like
[01:08:36] it's pennies. The church takes pennies and makes it look like it's millions because God's a multiplying God. So for your unbelieving friends, they need to see the church is God's vehicle.
[01:08:47] It's God's instrument in the earth to bring his name known, to be the solution in the earth.
[01:08:52] And then for your Christian friends who say all the church wants is money.
[01:08:59] If you ever hear somebody say that, that's a surefire clue right there that they're not givers.
[01:09:08] We never ask for your money.
[01:09:10] We never even take up an offering in this house.
[01:09:13] It's not even mentioned.
[01:09:15] People are so in covenant with God.
[01:09:16] Their eyes are fixed on God that they come and give it in the glory.
[01:09:19] But somebody that doesn't understand covenant giving makes no difference in the earth, but gets to chime in on everything they think you ought to be doing.
[01:09:28] You have no right to open your mouth.
[01:09:31] If you're not doing something in the earth to bring solutions, to be the answer for Christ, you don't have the capacity.
[01:09:38] You should not have your opinions out there.
[01:09:41] Don't tell us how to do it.
[01:09:42] I'm sorry.
[01:09:43] We can't even come down to listen to you because we're busy doing the work of God.
[01:09:47] so for those who merely attach themselves to a church but they're not in covenant they don't understand the giving power of God and they think it's irrelevant you're teaching a clinic that this is why we're here everything we have belongs to him and when we give it back to him
[01:10:08] and we put him first he takes care of us and all that belongs to us and he does his work in the earth i am so proud to belong to this place called hope worship with the girls as they come to dance

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[01:10:21] you alone deserve all the glory you deserve the glory in worship and i bless your holy name

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[01:11:00] i saw on social media on facebook that pastor kaylin had shared a recording

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[01:16:14] a song from a collection of songs I don't know if they call them albums anymore a project I did more than a decade ago I spent eight months in this tabernacle with no lights on except what I
[01:16:37] had up here recording the tracks they weren't great but you could hear where I was trying to go every one of those songs on that project were written in the valley of the shadow of death
[01:16:59] I do not lie when I tell you, I think it's probably been a decade, 10 years since I've listened to that whole project.
[01:17:15] Matter of fact, one of the songs I did not know.
[01:17:21] I sat there when I listened to the song she was playing, and then I listened to the next one, and then the next one, until I got to the first one on the project.
[01:17:30] I thought, I don't even know this song.
[01:17:32] I have no idea where it's going, what it's going to say, who's going to do what.
[01:17:35] But as I listened to them, I felt called by them to tell you that when we come into this place in just a few days, we will be moving, learning, growing in faithing February.
[01:18:02] that we're going to talk and preach, prophesy about our faith, faith, faith, moving in the direction of God, faith. But this is a song in a fasting time when your belly is hungry, but it also exposes sometimes our hearts that are hungry in ways we didn't know.

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[01:18:38] I so had for our Jesus before your throne and served.

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[01:24:46] You've heard me time and again marvel at how much Luke into the book of Acts chapter 2.
[01:25:06] It's amazing to me.
[01:25:10] And when the day of Pentecost had fully come, they were all in the upper room.
[01:25:17] and there was a sound like a rushing mighty and it filled where they were sitting and there were like tongues of fire and it fell upon every one of them.
[01:25:27] It shook the place.
[01:25:31] The Bible says that people down at the bottom of the stairs, don't ever let folk at the bottom of the stairs tell you what your Pentecost is supposed to sound like.
[01:25:41] If you're authority, why ain't you up in there?
[01:25:44] Climb the steps and get a victory.
[01:25:46] Get a testimony.
[01:25:49] and there was some noise down here some folks said I think it's too much I've never seen it they were confounded they were confused and they came down found out there was a drama in the feeding program
[01:26:03] it was a racial thing it's a sure sign the spirit of the Lord's moving and then Peter steps forward and says he reaches back to the prophet Joel and he says in the last days
[01:26:17] I will pour out my he goes through all of that said at the end of his preaching 3,000 people were saved and then the body started coming together and they were receiving the Lord's table
[01:26:27] and there were miracles and they were going through the teaching and the church was growing.
[01:26:32] All of that in one chapter.
[01:26:36] Well, I have the same awe and fascination with what happens in 1 Kings that we've been looking at, chapter 17.
[01:26:45] We've been talking about it from the first Sunday in November.
[01:26:54] Now I'm going to read the whole chapter.
[01:26:57] What if I don't like you reading?
[01:27:00] Does this look like the face of concern?
[01:27:02] I never heard of nobody.
[01:27:08] That's why you got what you got and I got what I got.
[01:27:11] Because I know where the word is and what it says.
[01:27:14] Somebody tell me where my glasses is.
[01:27:16] Here they are.
[01:27:17] Why you got me all tore up.
[01:27:18] I can't even find my glasses.
[01:27:25] I want you to see all that's compacted in this extraordinary power filled.
[01:27:36] Elijah, Eliyahu.
[01:27:40] From Tishbe, the Tishbite.
[01:27:43] I'm using, matter of fact, what I did is I'm using the complete Jewish translation, but I've also brought in a couple of others because it actually gives in the Hebrew the name.
[01:27:53] And it'll say they're not going to say the Jewish writers are just going to say Adonai, the Lord.
[01:28:00] They're not going to tell you which Lord, because the name of the Lord is so holy to them, they will not speak it.
[01:28:05] So I'm sharing with you.
[01:28:06] I'm going to some others.
[01:28:07] I want you to know from the original Hebrew.
[01:28:09] What is the name?
[01:28:10] This is specifically the Hebrew God.
[01:28:13] Not just God's or not just the word God.
[01:28:18] He has a name, Eliyahu, an inhabitant of Gilad, said to Ahab, as Yahweh Elohim.
[01:28:36] Yahweh is the specific God of covenant to the people, the Jewish people of Israel.
[01:28:48] He's standing outside of Israel.
[01:28:50] he's standing about eight miles in the moment from where Jezebel was born surrounded by idols to Baal and Asherah pose but he wants you to know and he might as well because his name is Elijah
[01:29:06] which means my God Yahweh an inhabitant of Galal said to Ahab as Yahweh Elohim God the word Elohim just means God our Elohim is Yahweh which we form it into Jehovah our God Elohim is Yahweh the specific
[01:29:31] God of Israel the God of Israel lives watch this he says as Yahweh Elohim the God of Israel lives before whom I stand you're going to see him moving quite a bit but in the moving he stands
[01:29:49] you stand in a moving thing you stand in a flow neither rain nor dew in the years ahead unless i say so now this is what i need you to do if you've got a bible with you right now and
[01:30:14] you have a marker some kind pen but i want you to underline circle the moving words the verbs watch this the first verb you see is the word said this is a wordy chapter it's about talking
[01:30:35] and speaking and saying and declaring and prophesying all coming out the mouth as Yahweh the God what's in verse in verse one said to Ahab I mean the the first verb the first action word
[01:30:52] is said to be any rain or dew in the years unless i say that's another verb that's another wordy spoken said thing unless i say so then the here's another one word of yahweh came to him what did
[01:31:16] it say leave here you're going to see that it's extremely important to know the difference between your leaving time and your living time.
[01:31:27] I live somewhere.
[01:31:29] I leave somewhere.
[01:31:31] Leave here.
[01:31:33] Now, God had already told him that before when he was in Tishbe.
[01:31:36] Get up and leave Tishbe.
[01:31:37] Go to Samaria.
[01:31:38] You get to Samaria, go in there and have this conversation with the king and queen.
[01:31:44] What he says is, leave here.
[01:31:46] Now, what are you talking about?
[01:31:47] I told you to come in here.
[01:31:49] Go up to authority.
[01:31:51] Speak to powers, but don't try to have a conversation listen you got to understand sometimes conversations are highly overrated i mean there's just a lot of things you can talk stuff to death i don't do
[01:32:08] that a lot except on sundays leave now god says get out you done said it don't sit around and see leave here turn to the east and go to the water near the jordan you were to drink from the stream
[01:32:21] watch I have ordered there's a worded thing here going on with a bird an unclean bird I have ordered that's another worded prophetic thing the ravens to feed you where there where there if you don't arrive there you don't eat or drink where you going well I'm just looking for
[01:32:42] some water no you ain't looking for water he done told you where it is I'm looking around see if I can find something to eat there ain't nothing to eat there's a drought droughts create famines
[01:32:51] famines create death but there where i've assigned you then he says so he went and acted according to the word underline that of yahweh he went and say that word loud i gotta know where to go and i gotta
[01:33:11] know how long to stay there according to the lord i'm trying my best at the water verse six the ravens brought him bread and meat in the morning the bread and meat in the evening he drank from
[01:33:23] the stream after a while this is important after a while the stream dried up why because of weather but why the weather because the word it's not going to rain until i say so now understand
[01:33:40] something if the lord wanted that if if the lord wanted a flood in that stream it wouldn't have been a problem if he'd have wanted a thousand birds to keep on coming for ten thousand years
[01:33:50] and bringing it wouldn't have been a problem but i have an assignment if i don't move you son there's a woman down there with her son there's if i don't move you there's a woman down there
[01:33:59] with her generations and zarephath's gonna die so i've got to move you from your comfort zone and it'll become a danger zone until you get to the point that that you'll move when i tell you
[01:34:08] to move i said go somewhere live somewhere okay after a while the string dried up because there was no rain well of course there's no rain then when then then and there the word there's another
[01:34:24] one underline that one please the word of Yahweh the Israel God came to him get up go to Zarephath a village in Sion and live there so you got to find it you got to get there and you and you're
[01:34:42] not going through don't look for a hotel because you ain't visiting you stay in a while you're to live there. I have ordered. There is another worded thing. I've ordered a widow there to provide for you. Now think about this. It's a woman in that time. It's a woman who had a husband
[01:35:03] who is dead. She's living in Zarephath, which is the backyard of Jezebel surrounded by darkness and idolatry. She has a little bit of meal and a little bit of oil. She's going to eat it and
[01:35:17] she's going to die and that's going to be your answer prayer that's your reservoir that's i've been praying for my next well there she is i want you to go there on reaching this i've told her
[01:35:36] listen what just i have ordered a widow to provide for you so he set out went to zarephath and on reaching the gate of the city what you do with gates is huge not only the gates of life and when
[01:35:46] you get to the gate if you don't find a giant there you're lost if there ain't a giant in front of you you were lost but not only is there gates here but there's two gates here and there's two
[01:36:02] right here and the gates of your flesh if you don't know what to do with this gated community of my flesh i won't know what to do with the gates that i that i'm he called out to her first
[01:36:21] thing he said was give me water and we've already done that talked about dominoes how god will seldom him give you the ultimate revelation all at once he gives you a simple request a simple word how
[01:36:33] we respond to the simple word determines if the domino falls and hits the next domino so a more complex demanding invitation is presented by the lord and once you say yes to it then it even more
[01:36:45] and before long you're stepping in exactly on watching that now watch it the reason this is important because didn't elijah just do that i want you to leave tishbe i want you to go to
[01:36:56] samaria i want you to step in there he didn't just do it watch this the word he had for tishbe was not the word he had for ahab god said to him and tishbe get up and leave and go to samaria
[01:37:08] he looked at ahab and jezebel and said there's not going to be any rain that was not the word to give to the ravens there's a certain word for a certain space obedience will reveal your next
[01:37:20] word bring me a little water now that don't sound like a big deal till you realize it's a drought bring me a little water in a container to as she was going it don't even talk about a discussion
[01:37:35] wow it's a drought and i just said i've never met you i don't know your name i don't even know that you're a mother that you have a son i know you're a widow because god told me this i know you're a
[01:37:51] woman i know you're a widow i know where you live i know what you're going through and i also know God has put a word on your life that's the turning point and as she as she's going to obey and to
[01:38:03] bring water as she's going he called out to her the domino hit the next domino give me some water huh okay hey lady yeah she would have never heard the hey lady if she'd have argued with the first
[01:38:20] one she moves towards the water and as he's going he says and would you bring me a little what he says something bring me a piece of bread in your hand she answered this is critical what was the
[01:38:33] answer what was the she answered as yahweh your god lives how much she knew of what was really going on here i don't know but god had put a word on her did she know what he was going to look like
[01:38:46] did she know what to expect he said the bible says that when he stood at the gate he saw the woman had she been waiting at the gate because i don't know but this i do know when he said give me some
[01:38:56] water. She immediately moved. Some of us right now, you're wanting the big miracle, but you're not answering the little mandate. When I first, if I just don't, I ain't in no conversation, bring me water. As she moves, the second word is relief. And as you're going, would you bring me
[01:39:15] something to eat? She answered as your God, not mine. I live over here in Zarephath. We're surrounded by Baalism. As your God lives, I have nothing baked. There is no bread, but I do have
[01:39:31] only, what's the words? I have only a handful of meal in a pot and a little oil in the jug.
[01:39:44] Here I am. Boy, that's a statement. Here, who, what do you make? What's the DNA of your life?
[01:39:51] what's your modus operandi what who are you here i am i got little lack and loss and i'm gonna go cook it for myself and my son your son he never talks to the boy elijah never has a conversation
[01:40:05] with this boy later on even he still don't have conversation with the boy but i'm going to do this for me and my son and after we eat we will die as your god lives there's folk using all kinds
[01:40:22] of religious churchy phrases speaking death over themselves.
[01:40:27] As your God, I've got little lack and loss.
[01:40:33] My son and I are fated to die and it's over.
[01:40:39] Don't even speak faith with the accent of fear.
[01:40:47] I could, I've got it up there, I know, but I want to read it from the page.
[01:40:49] I like to hear them.
[01:40:52] See that up here, I don't do it.
[01:40:53] I probably find a program app somewhere that's got the sound of, right, John?
[01:40:59] That's what I hear the middle of the night sorry when i'm reaching for it after we eat we're going to die elijah said to her don't be afraid go and do what you said but first i want lady i want to i want to
[01:41:23] introduce you to something we're going to move from say say this with me lady this is not my final it's my first i'm gonna eat it but you're not gonna die but it tastes better when you know
[01:41:42] it's not as your last works bring it out to me and what I want you to do is first the television cameras were sitting there we have heard there is a preacher standing outside asking this widow who's I had her husband has she not been
[01:41:57] through enough she has a son as well and the preacher showed up and he said to her would you give me all your money now lady I want you to go do what you said
[01:42:14] you're gonna do you said you're gonna bake something bake something but first First, but first use a little of it, and make a small, look at those two words, little and small loaf of bread, bring it to me.
[01:42:31] I didn't ask for all your stuff.
[01:42:33] Bring a little, because this is about faith being at work.
[01:42:37] Boy, I got too much to say.
[01:42:41] After that, make food for yourself and your son.
[01:42:45] But how am I going to do that?
[01:42:46] For this is what Yahweh, the Lord of Israel, says.
[01:42:50] the pot of meal will not get used up, nor will there fail to be oil in the jug until the day Yahweh sends rain down on the land. She went and she acted according to what Eliyahu had said,
[01:43:08] said, said, said, said. He talked faith. And she, he, and her household had food to eat for a long time, about a thousand meals. The pot of meal did not get used up, nor did there fail to be oil
[01:43:27] in the jug. In fulfillment of the word of Adonai, of Yahweh, spoken by Eliezer, a while later, And the son of the woman whose house it was fell ill.
[01:43:49] Her boy got sick right in the middle of a miracle.
[01:43:53] His illness grew increasingly serious until his breathing stopped.
[01:43:58] And she said to Eliyahu, what do you have against me?
[01:44:04] And I need everybody's attention right now, a thousand percent, because somebody's about to be set free this morning.
[01:44:09] Why not you?
[01:44:10] she said to him what do you have against me my son give me your son he said to her taking him from her lap he carried him into the room upstairs where he was staying because the lord said live
[01:44:52] there and laid him on his own bed and he cried out to the lord and said adonai yahweh my elohim have you brought also this misery on the widow i'm staying with by killing her son
[01:45:08] he stretched the prophet stretched himself out on the child three times three three resurrection three yahweh my god please let this child's soul come back into him yahweh heard the sounding word spoken prophecy verbiage this whole thing is about the child's soul returned he revived
[01:45:39] Elijah took the child brought him down from the upstairs room and to the house and gave him to his mother and Eliehu said see your son is alive the woman replied now I know that you're a man of
[01:45:59] God and that the word of Adonai Yahweh that you speak is the truth now I want to move quickly moving here page after page because I also had the scripture in my notes but I just want to feel it
[01:46:34] in my fingers all right here we go those who take notes take notes those who don't have anything watch it again and take notes this is a story about discerning the word about dwelling in the
[01:46:53] word and it's about doing what the word commands discerning dwelling doing the first verb of the chapter is said verse 2 says the word came again verse 4 says i have spoken to a raven and watch
[01:47:12] this verse five he said now go and live twice he says go live go live at cherith go live at zarephath too many of us lose the blessing of god because we get up and go somewhere else before the
[01:47:31] lord speaks or we refuse to move from the last place he blessed us have you ever been there who this is exactly what happened to the children of israel this is why they roamed for 40 years
[01:47:51] god said get up and go then he said i that land i want you to have that land and they got nervous and they and they looked at what they'd been eating for 40 years and i'm not sure i want to
[01:48:01] too many would rather hold on to the manner we can see than to walk in a word for milk and honey that we can't see how many promotions are dangling out there in front of you unseen because
[01:48:17] you like the certainty you think you have in that you don't know they're getting ready to get rid that job see god was offering you a promotion he was actually offering you an extension because
[01:48:30] that job ain't gonna be here no more many of the battles right now that we're facing are the consequence of not discerning the next of God, but insisting on the now of God until it becomes the
[01:48:45] not of God living off of wormy words. Bible said that if you try to hold on a manna too long, it gets worms. Can I read that again? Because when I was standing right down there and that came to
[01:48:56] me, I was walking through here praying for Juliet and that hit me. Many of the battles right now or the consequence of not discerning what God has said, the next of God, but insisting I like where I am, the now of God,
[01:49:10] until God's moved on and it's not of God.
[01:49:13] And we got upset stomach and our life's all messed up because we're eating worms.
[01:49:18] The getting from God, he's good to me and he's given me something, to keeping of God is a violent, vicious battlefield.
[01:49:26] What he gives and what I'm able to hold on to is a war.
[01:49:31] Some of the most dangerous moments of our life come just after a miracle when we move from blessing to bondage.
[01:49:47] When we move from faith to familiar.
[01:49:53] Where I'm no longer hearing from him, I'm just used to having something from him.
[01:49:59] We can sing and dance when we get on the other side of the Red Sea and celebrate what we witnessed and experienced and saw the enemies get drowned in the Red Sea.
[01:50:12] But then we get miserable and mouthy.
[01:50:16] Admira when the water's bitter.
[01:50:20] When a spiritual wound owns our life, hell never needs another devil to attack us.
[01:50:30] when we bring our bitterness that should be our not out my bad when we bring our bitterness to the well we'll that should be never to us what i get for typing it i mean so fast i knew better
[01:50:52] than to do this because my mind gets way out trying i get bored with typing when but i wanted to feel it last night i was just in this really organic thing i wanted to touch the the pages i
[01:51:03] wanted to literally write it down with my on my pad with my and then i wanted to type it i didn't have like i could have talked in the thing and just push push i got no regrets when we bring
[01:51:15] our bitterness to the well we ain't ever gonna like how the water tastes sometime the water wasn't bitter till we got there the same water we cussing out somebody else was thanking god for i said you showed up somebody just left and said i've have gone through hell for i don't even know
[01:51:36] how long I was thirsty and struggling and and warring and contending but God revealed this glorious body of water and I taste and I see that the Lord is good and I'm just dancing my way
[01:51:49] celebrating the goodness of God and in the shadows we come and God just blessed us we just celebrated with a tambourines but we got a little still too much Egypt in us got me out of there but didn't
[01:52:05] get there out of here so when I got to the other side I'm miserable cantankerous arguing and I get to the water that's all I got to drink and I got water over do you know what he just did with water
[01:52:18] in your behalf he split the red season what do you think he could I don't even know if I'm more like this and not you won't because the bitterness you bring determines you ain't never gonna let
[01:52:30] when you bring it with you telling you too many times let me put it on me so you can actually hear what I'm saying because you feel like I'm accusing you too many times I walk up to a blessing
[01:52:51] and miss the goodness of the Lord because of a previous pain I've suffered and so I assume this is an extension of my sorrow so instead of seeing the hand of God I see the hand of a wound
[01:53:09] and brokenness and confusion and chaos and i poisoned the blessing that god put in front of me somebody this morning need to step back from the water just long enough turn your back on it and
[01:53:22] say god forgive me you've been so good to me i was thirsty struggling walking contending battling i'm going back to the water i don't care what it tastes like i'm gonna be grateful i'm gonna be
[01:53:36] thankful i'm gonna put my face all down in the water and say god is so good to me we're either going to walk in discernment or dwell in deception there's folk persons peoples who've lost it all
[01:54:00] denominations businesses families because you didn't know the moving you didn't discern the shiftings of god the next the now the not of god and so when you face the philistines and you go in a battle you just assume because the goodness of god presented you the ark of the
[01:54:28] covenant that you can run back there grab hold of what has worked in the past and run out yonder and you don't know that defeat lies before you because you didn't know you took the box but you
[01:54:40] left the deliverer back in the tent. Samson, he too ran out against the Philistines like he'd always done and thought, I'll fight you. I ain't got no problem. Do you know the anointing? Do you
[01:54:55] know, Samson, that the anointing has left you? A lack of discernment is Harold's secret weapon against us. Many of our own people perish for a lack of knowledge, but would rather perish than to know hear me much of what you need in the coming will flow from your ability to speak
[01:55:28] heavenese in the middle of hell though i make my bed in hell though i walk through the valley of the shadow of death i fear no evil because god was there when i got there he stays while
[01:55:51] i'm standing and when i leave he ain't going nowhere got to move from savior healer deliverer to lord thank god you came down and like myself all of us have sinned and fallen short of the
[01:56:14] glory of god and there's nothing i can do to save myself thank the lord i came to him i learned his name is jesus i learned that his first gift in my life was allowing the holy spirit to convict me
[01:56:29] In other words, put a mirror of the word in front of me to see who I really am, not who I thought I was, not who others said I was, but the word of God is a mirror that shows it's a supernatural MRI, and it shows me.
[01:56:45] But when I get up and walk out, if he's just my Savior, I might get yonder, but I'll never survive here.
[01:56:56] So I'm thankful also that he's Lord.
[01:56:58] Everybody say, my Savior is my healer.
[01:57:03] My Savior is my deliverer.
[01:57:07] All of that is wonderful, but we've got to move to him being Lord.
[01:57:09] How does that happen?
[01:57:11] A word I grew up hearing a lot called sanctification.
[01:57:19] Some of y'all's church didn't talk about it, but let me just tell you.
[01:57:24] I knew a lot of preachers that lost their sanctification preaching on sanctification because they interpreted it to mean you don't go here you don't go there you don't wear this and for god's sake you don't say this and you don't say that and it was a whole fleshy thing
[01:57:40] sanctification is the process of lording the savior over us you saved me my soul has been radically transformed i am a new creature in christ all things have passed away and behold All things have become new
[01:58:03] You've already put heaven in my heart And if Christ should return this morning Or I should breathe my final breath I ain't worried Cause I know where I'm headed But if he don't come today
[01:58:16] And I got to live here tomorrow If being my savior enough I need to be able to know You ain't just ruling my forever But you got my Monday in the palm of your hand
[01:58:29] you got my job you got my family and friends and foes everything that's got my name has got your name because I take my Savior and I put myself under every knee shall bow and every tongue shall confess
[01:58:45] that Jesus is the Savior no that Jesus is the healer no that Jesus is delivered no that Jesus Christ is Lord somebody that knows he alone wears the crown stand to your feet and give him glory you ain't the lord i'm not the lord i don't want nobody
[01:59:07] less than my savior being my lord i don't want nobody less than my savior being my lord what does that really mean well all of us know how it is to insert holy words and add something
[01:59:31] into unholy experiences you'll see it on award shows you'll see it all over the place folk want to put little churchy things on their way to hell they want to sing a hymn you know because that
[01:59:45] look good feel good makes a nice makes a nice post you know i thought he was just a walking talking piece of snake he is but i heard him give glory to god no he used god's name but he didn't
[01:59:59] give God no glory. He never been in the throne room to give you no glory. You're welcome. Watch this. But lording isn't an insertion, but an immersion. It ain't being surrounded. It's being saturated. Hmm. And this is what Elijah knew when he left Cherith. There's a woman, she's married.
[02:00:24] Her husband's dead. She left. She lives in Zarephath, Jezebel's backyard. God's put a word on her for my blessing he gets to the gate and i'll repeat what i've said to you before you when you get to the gate you will not look at what you see you will not listen to what you hear
[02:00:43] you will not touch what you feel this is this is i'm giving you gate theology and if you don't know what to do with this gate you're gonna fail with that gate every time and there she is he saw
[02:01:03] woman gathering sticks because that's what all the other women were doing. Elijah heard the widow speaking death over her life and her son of generations. Why? Because that's what all the other people were doing. There was death in her walk. There was death in her talk. And Elijah
[02:01:20] introduced himself with a request. Would you bring me some water? And in the spirit realm, heaven and hell, the angels and demons both started hearing the dominoes. Would you bring me some water click she moved evidently the word of the Lord working on her that God had said was
[02:01:42] on her was working now in her enough to know Elijah's God who Elijah's God is I'm doing this by your God as your God lives the widow spoke religious faith over her fears as sure as your
[02:01:57] God lives I'm going to die the prophet first said don't be afraid just do what you said you're going to go cook it but bring me a little bit of it first it's astounding you fully expect Elijah
[02:02:12] to know faith you expect him to talk faith because he had already left Tishbe and done exactly what God he had seen the provision at Cherith where God brought him the meat from the raven and brought
[02:02:24] water from you expect him to do for months he had been a witness the front row seat or And he had been sustained traveling from Cherith to Zarephath.
[02:02:34] But to listen to what this Gentile woman said, even in her little lack and loss, to discern the prophet of the Lord.
[02:02:43] I got nothing but devils around me, but I know who you are.
[02:02:45] You're the man of the Lord.
[02:02:47] To discern the prophet of the Lord and the authority of his God and moving so immediately from a drought.
[02:02:54] Elijah didn't talk to the brook.
[02:02:58] Elijah didn't talk to the raven.
[02:03:00] but his ability to engage this widow released a generational faith in her who had suffered so much okay but you don't know what i'm going through no i don't i don't have to know you i don't have
[02:03:20] to meet you to know you if i'm walking in by discernment i can see what's on folk i better see what's on folk you don't want a pastor to know we wouldn't be here with no 35 years without
[02:03:41] to some folk coming and going and hugging and kissing and you the best and you the most awesome and i never seen anybody and i'm thanking you and i'm taking your cake home and i'm taking i'm taking
[02:03:53] all your compliments and all that kind of stuff but i ain't taking it too serious you need to know this watch this because this is huge to me you don't have enough for a meal but just enough
[02:04:11] for a miracle. If I don't slap the devil off, he just requires all. I thank you. I'm going to just sit there and let, I'm going to marinate while you're saying, I can sit right here while you
[02:04:39] yawn. I don't have what it, I don't have enough to be a blessing. Lord, you know how $550,000 went out beyond this. Well, you ought to take care of your neighbors. You ought to take care
[02:04:55] you that's next week bring your sassy self next week i'm gonna tell you something else 43 percent of every dollar that comes in here goes directly to ministries outside this building now that's what you do that's how you respond but somebody never give a dime you may tell what this
[02:05:41] was how'd you do with that other see i i know how to celebrate angels and i know how to deal with devil if you don't walk by discernment you may not know the difference yes that's right i'm gonna
[02:06:04] just tear here for a second 2020 it all hit the fan we lost a hundred people i stood right in that spot i can remember certain things i can tell you where we did eucharist the body and blood i can
[02:06:19] tell you i stood right there and i said to you if half of you i could lose half of you today and it wouldn't change the giving one bit remember that and a hundred left you know how much money
[02:06:33] they took with them? None. You know what happened to the people that stayed? Giving went up 55%.
[02:06:44] Listen, if they were holding you a lot sooner, I didn't know they were your problem. I didn't know they were shutting you down. All this time, if you'll get rid of that row right there, I'm
[02:07:10] going to write a, just tell a brother, man. Here is she, Ms. Martin over here. She's our business administrator. She chases banks, finding out where the best interest rates are. You've made thousands and thousands of dollars that goes out just because she moved it to a bank that had more
[02:07:45] interest. Got on our credit card accounts and found out there was benefits I didn't know anything about that saved so much money. My God in heaven, I feel good telling you this stuff and celebrating it. Much of the money, 43%, you know where the rest of it is? It's sitting right
[02:08:16] now because I see some things this church needs. That's why we paid cash for that building across the street that's used for nothing but our feeding program. I didn't come to you. I didn't take up an offering. We didn't sell no chickens. We're going to sell some chickens so we can
[02:08:38] buy a blessing. No, we didn't either. Our covenant people, we didn't take up no offering. They just kept walking up here, putting stuff on there. And so we counted it and put it in the bank.
[02:08:52] And then when that building came, we bought that thing. And I'm still waiting for that and beside it. That's what that money doing in the bank. Cause I need a bigger feeding program. People's gonna be getting hungrier more people's gonna be getting hungry all right I'll move on but it sure
[02:09:15] was good what I was saying oh yeah well don't that first line just get a devil a black eye I heard him fall off of me behind me you are gonna have enough for even a meal you'll never have enough
[02:09:35] to be the blessing you will never have enough to be the blessing God's assigned to your living little somebody or somebody over little is when God is in it labor not for wealth or fame
[02:09:59] there's a crown and you can win it don't act like you ain't been to church if you go now see if you had known that song you wouldn't have been having the problem you didn't know this you thought you
[02:10:14] had to have a lot of money. No, you just got to have a lot of faith. He don't require much.
[02:10:25] We'll talk about that next week. The five loaves and fish. That ain't nothing for the boy. You wouldn't even be happy with five loaves and fishes, Lucas. It don't require much. It just requires all. Generosity and generations flow together. Okay, I'll move on. Here we go. Supernatural
[02:10:54] people. You know what? Mina sent this to me this morning. I didn't even see it. I said this in it was this day in 17 nine years ago this first line right here and it was going right in this
[02:11:07] supernatural people are sustained supernaturally the moment we lose that uniqueness we lose it all i didn't know nine years later i was but nine years later i grabbed it and then i also said this that i've been saying to you for a while when we walk in the supernatural what's natural to god
[02:11:26] becomes natural to us because the baseline of the blessed life is the word of God.
[02:11:32] And this is the crux. I got a rusty boy. You got to move, son. This is the crux of the whole thing for us. The greatest miracle wasn't bringing food to the prophet. He blessed him, but that wasn't
[02:11:42] the big thing. The big thing was taking the time, pushing back from the table through it all. She didn't eat. It was the hidden fast. But there's another person entirely immersed in this drama, the widow's son. We don't know his mama's name. We don't know his name. Some Jewish commentators
[02:11:58] say it was Jonah, but I'm not getting stuck. In fact, we didn't even know the boy existed until Elijah got to the gate. The boy's nowhere in the conversation. Elijah wasn't talking to him, but his mama had been talking to him and covering him up with words of death. There's no telling
[02:12:16] how many children she had actually birthed. But by this time, there's only one left and she's speaking death over him might not kill the widow but he comes through the word window she opened when she spoke the curse of death into her generations there's a principle of warfare
[02:12:40] here when the enemy can't stop a miracle from being born it goes into murder mode it'll do everything in its power to kill it there was a moses being born but there was a pharaoh there
[02:12:56] was a Jesus being born but there was a Herod there was a Lazarus being raised but there were religionists there's a church being born but there was Rome once this family's blessed the meal the
[02:13:08] oil are not exhausted they've got plenty to eat all of a sudden this boy dies right in the middle of a miracle verse 17 again said a while later the son of the woman died watch this this is huge
[02:13:21] because you can get disillusioned you can lose your faith what you can be standing in the middle of answered prayer and lose your generation put that up there for me no the next but one before
[02:13:41] that you can be standing thank you you can be standing in the middle of answered prayer i'm not hungry that's your famine not mine that's your drought not mine that's your recession not mine i got plenty to eat i got a word from the lord i got plenty to eat what happened your boy's
[02:13:59] dead upstairs the battles being waged against your mind and your mouth they go together out of the abundance the mouth the widow had spoken and acted in profound faith earlier but if we're not continuously feeding our mind with the breathing word of God if we don't hear our own
[02:14:27] lips confess that word if we don't have someone of faith to agree with that word the enemy gains access she said to Eliehu this is this is where it gets real I need this is where I really need
[02:14:43] your attention she said did you come all the way from Cherith did you come all the way here just to expose my sinful past and kill my boy.
[02:15:04] She had every right to feel grief.
[02:15:07] My boy's dead. It breaks my heart.
[02:15:09] But for some reason, she's tormented not by grief, but guilt.
[02:15:16] Now, I grew up in ministry, so I've seen folk fall in caskets and cry over mom and daddy because you loved them more than anybody else.
[02:15:24] No, you didn't. You never went to see them.
[02:15:27] And the one who went to see them is sitting there on the front row real quiet they ain't got no regrets they ain't feeling no guilt the reason you all falling in there making a scene in front of everybody because you want there and now you need everybody you need to
[02:15:40] present a line and have nice little bow and package that he was a good son she was a good no you won't you were absentee you were missing in action but i'm i'm i'm the enemy comes
[02:15:59] at you at your most vulnerable moments with memories or anything else that makes you feel responsible how much famine is in your faith she was not simply in a famine the famine was in her
[02:16:13] now hear this give me and the reason i'm being adam is because this is huge there are some of you in this room right now you have gotten no closer to god than your sense of guilt allows
[02:16:34] did you fail okay yeah all of sin okay what's the name i have no no idea what your sin was know what mine is is a lot of them not all of them i don't remember all of them because i was lit
[02:16:47] but i'm pretty sure it wasn't good by the time i got up throwing up looking at folk i could tell it'd been a bad night you made some huge mistakes like all of us you asked the lord to forgive you
[02:17:16] guess what he did in fact he cast it into the sea of forgetfulness if he comes right now or you pass this moment, nothing you've ever done is going to stop that movement. I'm not talking about an
[02:17:30] objective reality. I'm talking about a subjective pain and anguish, but I've got these memories and your feelings are real, but they're not true. Either God can forgive and did, or he can't and didn't and so if I'm still wrestling with my past it's not because he missed it it's because I have
[02:17:58] empowered my emotions and my thinking more than his word how many children had this woman burst how many had been sacrificed on the altar of idolatry I have no idea how easy was it for
[02:18:24] hell to make her believe that she's responsible for the death of her son in the house now right now as the shepherd of your soul i'm coming i'm looking into as many eyes as i possibly can
[02:18:43] give me time because i'm coming to you speaking so that's failed him i'm speaking to your life that's made horrific decisions with dire consequences but I'm speaking to those who've called upon the name of the Lord and said God I'm sorry I mean I'm really sorry
[02:19:18] please forgive me cast it as far as the east is from the west it was a devil kind of day and I gave in to what he said and I know now just beginning to know now
[02:19:33] how wrong I was please God forgive me how many of you believe God is God enough to do what he said he can children who sin you have an advocate with the father whosoever believeth in him should
[02:20:09] not perish but have everlasting life and until we realize that so many of our personal attacks are actually hell's attempts to thwart a generational word he doesn't mind the widow living living but kill the
[02:20:25] boy so it doesn't go generationally faith believes the right thing fear believes the wrong thing healing is where heaven interrupts deliverance is where heaven interrupts miracles is where heaven interrupts but we're more than conquerors through Christ Jesus so we are occupiers a miracle is an
[02:20:45] interception is an interruption but a blessing is a lifestyle that's much more dangerous against hell we discern the miracle but we dwell in the blessing I thank God for healing I thank him more when I don't need it I thank God for deliverance but I thank him more when I don't need it I thank
[02:21:04] God for miracles, but I thank him more that I don't need it, that I live and breathe and have my being in the yes and amen of God. We got to learn the difference between getting a miracle
[02:21:27] and living the miracleized life. The most strategic and significant manifestation of heaven on earth is when we, like God, say a thing to see a thing. Give me your water. Give me your bread.
[02:21:43] give me your death. You'll remember Jairus' daughter. First thing he did, what Jesus did when he went to Jairus' house, he kicked everybody out whose sound was contrary to a resurrection.
[02:21:58] They had mourners who were actually paid money to come make sounds of lamentation, to play musical instruments, to sing songs, to moan and groan in a sound that was entirely conducive to little lack and loss. But Jesus came in and said, this doesn't make sense.
[02:22:16] your sound is contrary to what I'm about to do. So he kicked them out. And then the Bible said he had 12 disciples, but it didn't take all of them. He took Peter, James, and John. If they
[02:22:33] don't believe in your resurrection, don't carry them to the grave. Don't walk in a cemetery if they don't believe God's word in your life. Got to Jairus house. He got rid of the noisers. He got
[02:22:50] rid of the sounders took peter james and john elijah took the son the bible says got the boy the son and moved him like jesus did with jairus family moved the boy in a different atmosphere
[02:23:09] than assumptions he removed the boy from the drought and the death and carried him to a resurrection room upstairs the upper room and he fell on him three times for resurrection watch this her son is the first resurrection recorded in your bible her first response to the resurrection
[02:23:29] was now i know you're a man of god and what were you thinking when you went and ate breakfast this morning what were you thinking when there was still oil what were you thinking when the meal
[02:23:43] multiplied who was that in what was his word then the enemy she said now i know watch this this is important. The enemy comes after your knowing. I don't live by what I think. I live by what I know.
[02:24:00] I didn't say I understand. I didn't say I comprehend. Don't ever make your knowing prisoner to what you understand. I know it's God. I know God created. Did you see him? No, but I know it.
[02:24:14] Can you comprehend it? Absolutely not. And he's coming after your knowing that you can have a final meal of fate become a first meal of faith and you don't know who he is now the lord intends for you to live to dwell in anointed absurdities we've got to know how to
[02:24:37] feed the miracle jesus told jairus when he raised the daughter give her something to eat now ain't that silly really stop and think about that ain't that a little bit kind of silly you just raised a
[02:24:48] girl who was dead. She ain't dead no more. And if you're going to bring her back, can you not bring her back with a full belly? Like we're about to step into some kind of crisis because she ain't
[02:25:02] had breakfast. You just raised her from the dead. I know what I did, but I need you to feed her.
[02:25:10] I need you to see what I did in her. I need you to, part of your testimony is standing by the stove and stirring it up and putting it in her bowl and putting it in her mouth. I need you to
[02:25:20] feed the miracle because the enemy will come when she lays down and goes to sleep and closes her house mama you're gonna walk over there and just listen is she still breathing i won't know i was
[02:25:29] she may not be here i wonder if she's gone you just fed her lazarus come forth oh stinky self come out there with that big old mummified bible said he'd been dead four years and four days
[02:25:45] before you had long done four days and they said don't don't go don't take the stone away he stinks Jesus said take me to your smelly places take me to the places that smell that nobody else wants to see
[02:26:01] and you're a little bit ashamed of you're a little bit take me to that place and when it comes when your miracle comes walking he still got Jesus said take all them bandages off of him
[02:26:09] well ain't that kind of dumb really because if you're going to raise him from the dead and hell couldn't hold him why them band-aids a problem because I want you mama I want you to be part of
[02:26:27] I don't want you to just see him when somebody else unwraps him I want you it's part of your knowing this is my last statement it wasn't enough that the widow and her son went from final meal
[02:26:55] to first meal we've got to dwell in the bread I am the bread and the oil the Holy Spirit now my target right now is very clear to me I'm sorry for whatever has made you feel responsible for your situation right now.
[02:27:24] And you may have done some things like all of us and created some drama and complicated, I get all that.
[02:27:32] But in this service alone, you've had plenty of opportunity to pray and get that stuff settled.
[02:27:37] I didn't say your guilt feelings are gone.
[02:27:41] But the objective reality of your guilt doesn't exist.
[02:27:45] So I need you to hear me.
[02:27:52] whatever the name of your greatest pain is right now your greatest sorrow brokenness I don't even know what your word is but I need you to know that God is not using your past failure
[02:28:13] to beat the hell out of you he doesn't need to beat the hell out of you they beat it out of Jesus so you wouldn't buy his stripes you're healed devil make you feel like you got something that god took off of you and don't you
[02:28:46] let the devil make you feel that you don't have what god has covered you in lost my boy because i i killed my other little babies i laid him on a sacrificial system i'm the one that did it and now
[02:29:08] my boy my living boys now I'm sorry that's that's real pain but what you did back then is not killing I will not let you leave this place carrying a guilt you don't own you are the lord
[02:29:38] of us not simply the savior healer deliverer you are the lord of us you alone wear the crown you carry the scepter you sit upon the throne now you you be God to them God my
[02:29:55] God that's the one I couldn't remember God my God be God and rain I refuse to carry anything less than what Jesus died for not only is there meal and oil in my pantry but there's oxygen and heartbeat and life and deliverance I come against
[02:30:29] every spirit of darkness in your family your son your daughter I come against the spirit of suicide I come against the spirit of God has not given us the spirit the spirit of fear I come against the spirit of fear the spirit of guilt
[02:30:47] the spirit of anxiety the spirit of depression i didn't say there's i'm talking i'm talking demonic stuff now i'm i come against in jesus name through the blood every depressing thought every anxiety that robs your sleep i come against dissension i come against contention
[02:31:10] i come against confusion and bewilderment you can't get out to bed you can't eat you can't keep a job. You can't get along. In the name of Jesus, not only are you the Savior, you are the
[02:31:25] Lord. And this is what we got to say about it. Bishop, you preach so long. I know I'm going to preach as long as I got to preach to get the devil off of you. The body and blood. Is that the truth?

[02:32:16] [SPEAKER SPEAKER_07]
[02:32:16] Bless you.