The Danger of Declaration: When Prayer Becomes Command

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[00:11:19] The day that you have made, we are rejoicing. We are glad in it and we are praising you. We are honoring you. We thank you for this day for you are faithful, you are true, you are loving, and you are kind. So we're honored to come before you and bless you in the precious name of Jesus Christ. So Father, have your way today. Father, minister to your kingdom sons and daughters on today. Father, let your
[00:11:49] will be done on earth as it is in heaven. Father, we praise you today. We thank you in the name of Jesus that we are called according to your purpose. So, Father, we thank you in Jesus' name
[00:12:03] for what you are doing in the lives of each and every one of your kingdom's sons and daughters right here in the state of Florida, right in the United States of America, all across the world,
[00:12:16] in the Middle East, Israel, and Jerusalem. We pray peace and blessings on your church, on your people, and on those whom you've called in the name of Jesus. We honor the name of Jesus because by the name of Jesus, oh God, we know that mountains will be moved. We know that lives will
[00:12:35] be saved. We know, Father God, that people will be healed. We praise you today because you are the God of the morning we thank you right now oh God that you said oh God that your mercies are new
[00:12:49] every morning so we honor you today as your kingdom sons and daughters as we are blessed to be able to be honored by your presence every morning we are blessed to love you and glorify you
[00:13:01] every morning so we thank you oh God that the night season does not have power over your kingdom sons and daughters in the name of Jesus but that the morning that you have called for your kingdom
[00:13:13] sons and daughters brings blessings brings deliverance brings renewal and replenishment it brings healing oh God and it brings a life oh God we thank you oh God for the life of Christ oh God we thank you that in you oh God is life and life more abundantly so we come in agreement
[00:13:33] through prayer oh god that we receive the abundant blessings of god that we receive the abundant life of god father god we refuse to take less oh god but we trust in you oh god we put our hope in you
[00:13:47] oh god have your way today oh god we honor you because you're faithful we honor you because you're true oh god we honor you because you are full of grace and truth oh god so we thank you
[00:13:59] you for your grace and your mercy oh god we thank you that the goodness of the lord oh god is the portion for the kingdom sons and daughters oh god we thank you oh god that because we walk in the
[00:14:11] light oh god we have fellowship one with another so father we praise you right now oh god that the darkness will not overshadow the light of christ that shine within us oh god because christ in us
[00:14:25] is the hope of glory oh god so we your kingdom sons and daughters right here at story life church and paula white ministries every covenant partner oh god every kingdom son and daughter that you've
[00:14:37] called oh god we are called according to your purpose in jesus name we pray amen amen amen

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[00:14:45] praise the lord everybody can we see why you're clapping your hands let's open our mouths and bless the name of jesus hallelujah hallelujah we bless you jesus here for you father hallelujah we're here for you jesus hallelujah glory to your name come on open up your mouth
[00:15:17] we're here for you jesus hallelujah hallelujah hallelujah if you need to close your eyes and Just open your mouths and focus on the Lord Jesus Christ.
[00:15:29] We're here for him this morning.
[00:15:31] We're here to declare his glory.
[00:15:33] There's nobody like him.
[00:15:35] He alone is worthy of praise.
[00:15:37] He alone is worthy of honor.
[00:15:39] He alone is worthy of glory.
[00:15:41] When I think of the goodness of Jesus and everything that he's done for me, my soul begins to cry out.
[00:15:48] Come on, do you have a praise in your soul this morning?
[00:15:50] Why don't you cry out before the Lord?
[00:15:53] Hallelujah, you're worthy, Jesus.

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[00:15:55] your worthy jesus your worthy jesus we just want to say right there the prince of peace

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[00:32:18] jehovah jireh jehovah roth jesus is in the room this he is here the anointing is present and where the anointing is present it destroys every yoke lift your hands right now every battle that you've been fighting every attack over your life your health your destiny your relationships

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[00:32:42] we come fresh oil to fall from heaven now your situation we command oil oil from heaven lord we

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[00:32:52] thank you the anointing destroys the yoke god the anointing destroys the yoke of sickness of depression of anxiety of hopeless god the anointing destroys just one i just want you i just want you

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[00:37:31] I just want you.

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[00:37:43] Because nobody else will.

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[00:37:45] The right place is victory.
[00:42:36] It is your day of victory.
[00:42:38] Thank you, praise team.
[00:42:41] Being a steward of God's presence.
[00:42:44] What an anointing this morning.
[00:42:46] I want y'all to get off the stage.
[00:42:48] I want us to keep going.
[00:42:49] I mean, today worship.
[00:42:51] That's where I'm at.
[00:42:54] So be ready.
[00:42:55] What an anointing.
[00:42:56] Let's thank God.
[00:43:07] I'm the God.
[00:43:08] Up here because they're getting a paycheck.
[00:43:10] they're up here because they know that god's presence is what changes lives amen you may be seated in the house of god you may be seated at story life i want to welcome our online viewers
[00:43:22] welcome to story live there's no other place i would rather have you join us this morning live than right here right out of central florida in apopka y'all ready for what god's about to do
[00:43:34] in central florida i believe revival's coming i believe young people are coming back to god i know it may look one way on the internet you start to scroll you start to look at stuff it
[00:43:47] may look like all these mosques are coming up and there are there's truth in that but let me tell you god has a remnant amen and i'm looking at it i'm looking at the beautiful bride i'm looking
[00:44:01] at a remnant. I'm looking at God's people that your best days are ahead of you. You're about to do greater. Greater works will you do because he's empowered you to walk in purpose and destiny.
[00:44:14] Some of y'all just got to get a little bit just mad enough that the devil ever mess with you, okay? Y'all just don't be just taking everything he throws your way. No, no, no. You command
[00:44:25] your day. You command deliverance. You stand in the place of authority and know that you belong to God. And what belongs to God, nothing and no one can touch. You belong to God. Amen.
[00:44:41] He's a faithful, faithful father and a faithful, faithful friend. So thank you for joining us. We have a massive online church. In fact, everybody in the building, just stretch your hand towards the screen we have i don't know if you know how many of hundreds of people watch the streaming
[00:44:56] throughout the day how many people give from online so many people and they're all over the world and we get messages and we get prayer requests and we get testimonies let's just pray over them in the house father we just thank you for every online member god we thank you that
[00:45:12] wherever they are whether they're in their living room in their kitchen and their vehicle that the same anointing that's in this building is reaching them it's touching them it's bringing forth transformation we do declare that 2026 is a year of transformation for our brother and sister on
[00:45:30] the other side of that screen right now every prayer request every heavy burden lord whatever they're walking through so far in 2026 we prophesy you're the lifter of their head so i declare over you where there's been a breaking down that in the name of Jesus there's a lifting of your head
[00:45:49] there's a lifting of your soul there's a lifting of your spirit and that the joy of the Lord is your strength oh come on church do y'all believe that we just prophesy joy joy unspeakable and full
[00:46:01] of glory and we declare miracles over your life your family and your destiny and everybody in agreement says in jesus name amen amen i love being able to pray pray for others you know why
[00:46:19] because we're speaking life we're sowing into the spirit we're sowing into the spirit that pierces beyond the mind sometimes we get stuck in our mind dr john would understand this because he's a neuro he is a neurosurgeon lift your hand dr john if you need your head cut open and worked on just
[00:46:38] he is retired. He is retired, but he's still doing surgeries. So if you need someone, there you go, right? I'm just saying that we love you, Dr. John. We love, we have so many incredible people. It's
[00:46:50] so good to see everybody here. I want to point out, we have special first-time guests. Julia's parents are in the house. Can y'all stand to your feet? Let's give them a big God bless you and a
[00:47:00] big welcome. Thank you for being here. That's my daughter's dear friend. You know, God cares about the little things we prayed God give Asher the best special friends that align from Jesus from heaven and he did that he sent us Julia and she's got a great call she has a sweetest heart and what
[00:47:19] a miracle Julia is in your life and we celebrate that miracle thank you for sharing your daughter with us we love her we love her and and I want to see there any more first-time visitors in the
[00:47:29] house I just want to say a big God bless you or you haven't been here in a while maybe it's been a while since you've been here, just let us know. If that's you after service, I want to come over
[00:47:38] here and say hello to you. So please meet me over here, right over to the right. We want to connect with you. We've been seeing so many new families and new faces, and I'm excited because Pastors
[00:47:49] Brad and Heart and Vision for this year is community and connection. He wants us, we even changed the last Sunday of the month just so we can go outside, weather permitting, which, you know, should we're all Floridians right now even if you didn't grow up here you're used to the five
[00:48:05] second weather change it's raining it's sunny it's winter it's fall whatever right like it's Florida it's Florida I've just come to terms with that and so on the last Sunday of each month we are
[00:48:18] going outside we're going to have some worship we're going to do a small part of a service and then we are going to be hanging out and eating it's going to be like our family community how
[00:48:27] awesome is that? So get the word out. A lot of people don't want to come to church to read their Bible, but they will come for a good meal, Pastor Todd. They will come for some barbecue. I can say
[00:48:38] if I wasn't where I'm at with the Lord, I would be guilty of that. If the barbecue's good, I'm showing up, okay? And I know we got some people that can grill and heal and barbecue.
[00:48:48] Come see me too. We need your talents. We need your talents and giftings to help feed the church.
[00:48:54] amen I love it I love I want to give a shout out to all our volunteers to every person pastor Todd and Anna to all the ladies BJ to all our greeters oh come on let's thank God for for Rachel Foster
[00:49:06] in the back let's thank God who's helping us in our kids church all the moms that are on rotation Joelle who's serving twice a month we got awesome people awesome people that believe in what God
[00:49:18] says about the local church the local church is so big it's so great it's so vast and it's for us to connect our faith with and our heart with us to line our faith and our heart to see God's will
[00:49:31] done in the earth and you and I are a part of that amen we're a part of that well pastor Brad wish he could be here today but he is in Ghana Africa he preached twice already today I want to
[00:49:41] thank God for my awesome husband he's doing incredible and I have some I have two videos the first video I want to show is about the DRC and a little bit about what Pastor Brad is doing
[00:49:53] right now he's with Prophet Gideon Donzo and we adore our dear covenant brother he'll be here who's ready for Unleashed y'all know Unleashed is getting ready to come forth oh come on y'all better mark your calendars we're kicking off I believe it's the 18th it's a Wednesday it's
[00:50:09] normally not on a Wednesday Pastor Paula has the most incredible lineup this year I mean everything from the the speakers in the evening and we can go over the schedule i'm just going over this by
[00:50:19] heart we don't have the announcements anymore just here we go y'all this is it unleashed get ready because prophet gideon will be with us it's going to be amazing jensen franklin apostle maldonado our very own pastor paula white cane my husband pastor brad we're all and then and then i just
[00:50:36] looked down and saw this whole lineup of nfab i mean people from all over the world coming in to pour into us. So y'all get, get excited about Unleashed. Start reposting it, resharing it. Tell
[00:50:49] somebody, let us know how you can serve. We, we need all hands on deck. That's where we showcase our awesome church and what God's doing here locally. And I'm so excited. Of course, G-Paw will be doing worship. I miss, y'all, I miss mom and John. Let's thank God for Pastor Paula White
[00:51:05] Kane. And I call him Pastor John. We love you, mom and John. We wish you could be here today.
[00:51:11] we cover you and your assignment and your destiny they're such great world leaders and man do we have something so rare and I think that's it's it's you got to recognize it because if you don't
[00:51:24] then you'll miss out and I don't want you to miss out on it at least so prophet Gideon Donzo he'll be here he's the overseer too of our church and our dear covenant brother and Brad is preaching
[00:51:33] for his conference right now and then he's staying over at the DRC because he's working on everybody say big impact big impact he's working on big impact i like to look at it like this there's
[00:51:46] levels of impact right now what pastor brad and where he's at it's a level of big big impact so let's play that video of what he gets to help solve in the drc the vitality

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[00:52:26] I know y'all kind of understand that, but what he is working on is to help end severe

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[00:53:06] crisis with children and abuse over in the DRC.
[00:53:10] is a severe issue amen and he's working with so many different there's so many different facets of the DRC and I can't share it all and I can't articulate it all but you just need to know that
[00:53:22] what God has opened up moves nations and there's a real real opportunity and he's acting on it your pastor's doing whatever it takes to see this opportunity through and and he was like telling me
[00:53:33] the other night Rachel's about the children the abuse it's just getting out of hand and so many things that are transpiring over there. And of course the persecuted church, right? In America, we see a little bit of it, but man, so many, I hope y'all pray for the persecuted church. Like
[00:53:49] I wake up so much as an intercessor and I think of the persecuted Christians. Like we, we get comfortable. What are we going to watch online today? Are we going to go to the sporting game
[00:54:00] today? Are we going to show up to church? Well, and I ran the Christians that are meeting are in an underground tunnel. They're meeting because they all hear from God. And if they get caught,
[00:54:10] they're getting beheaded. Like, like we are there. The Bible was banned in hundreds of nations and we got it on our app, right? We got it on our app. I'll never forget. The Holy Spirit spoke to me in
[00:54:20] 2017 and I carry around index cards. I carry around the Bible. I mean, I want to challenge y'all as believers to value the Bible above everything. Like make it front and center. When my kids were little, people would give us all kinds of books and gifts and they would bring
[00:54:36] books to the party. And I love those books and they're avid readers. And I love that they love to read like their daddy. And hey, for my non-avid readers, I'm with you. Look, I got Audible on.
[00:54:45] I got the Bible on and talking to you because there was different seasons where I read a lot more and now I'm like, play the book. Let's keep it moving, right? Because that's where I'm at in
[00:54:54] life. But I wanted my kids to value God's word. So I would teach them, kiss the Bible, love the Bible at age two. Kiss the Bible because I think, you know, we get used to certain things and as a
[00:55:06] Christian, oh yeah, you know, we look at the book, we set it aside, we come on Sunday, we hear the word and that's it. No, no, I want you to have this radical Bible revival. That's my prayer for you
[00:55:18] in 2026. Radical Bible revival that you live, breathe, eat, and sleep God's word. That you put it and deposit it on the inside of you, that you translate that to your children, that it's the
[00:55:31] final say, the final authority. And I promise you when you value that and you have a revelation of that, all things in life start to align and shift because God's word in you produces order. God's
[00:55:44] word is his will. And when you come in alignment, it's order, right? He, you know, we, we understand that God works with chaos. We understand that there's a lot of things there in life, but he
[00:55:55] wants you to come into agreement with his word and you can't do that unless you know it amen so it's not just about a sunday but i i think about the persecuted church and what's happening
[00:56:06] at large and um in a little bit before at the end of service pastor todd's gonna get up here and just share kind of what we've been doing what we've already started doing this year the global
[00:56:15] impact that we have but today is human trafficking awareness day how many are aware that human trafficking is a real thing, that it really happens, okay? How many of y'all know that people literally, like, camp out of Targets and Walmarts and have kidnapped kids and even women? Like, it's
[00:56:33] not just hearsay or fear. This is what's happening in our day and age. I mean, I've had recent situations where you just got to be aware of your surroundings, where I've been followed, where people are looking at my children, and I feel that Holy Ghost, uh-uh, move, move, go. I mean, one time
[00:56:50] I was in Mount Dora and I pulled over, you know, as moms, I was in my minivan.
[00:56:55] The kids were screaming and crying.
[00:56:57] This was a couple of years ago.
[00:56:58] They were much littler.
[00:56:59] And there was just, I was trying to change one of my kids, you know, and they're screaming and crying and you're stressed out.
[00:57:05] Come on, moms.
[00:57:06] You know, dads too.
[00:57:07] You know how this goes.
[00:57:08] And I just was distracted.
[00:57:11] Okay.
[00:57:11] But we just bind destruction over your life and over your children.
[00:57:14] No human error.
[00:57:15] I was distracted.
[00:57:15] And I noticed this car following me.
[00:57:19] and then I pulled into the parking lot because I was trying to focus on the kids and I got out on one side of the vehicle with Nick because he's a boy and we had to use the bathroom, okay?
[00:57:27] We potty trained that way outside all the time, right?
[00:57:29] And we're out there and he's using the restroom and he's like a little, four maybe, couple years ago and all of a sudden this guy, I noticed the car stop and completely turn around and come back into this vacant parking lot where I was.
[00:57:42] Well, all of a sudden the antenna and the alert went off.
[00:57:46] I grabbed Nick in the middle of him using the restroom and I threw him into my vehicle and I slammed that door and I locked my doors and that guy looked at me with a fear on his face and I stretched my hands towards that guy and I started
[00:57:58] praying and he knew I was saying something to him he didn't know what I started praying in tongues I was like somebody don't you touch me or my children and he looked like fear came over him
[00:58:07] and he drove right off but this kind of thing if it's happened to me and if it's happening like it's happening all over the world there there are women who on obt right there's all kinds of
[00:58:20] of situations in arena where they go missing and they never come home it's a real thing what happens there's incredible ministries incredible organizations i'm so grateful for what paula white ministries does in this area i'm so grateful for for the alignment of all organizations that we
[00:58:36] align with that take this seriously and that make a real impact to get the victims and help them transition their life. We know a local ministry lifeboat project. I'll never forget going with Pastor Todd where they're victims, not just women, men. There was a couple men sitting there telling
[00:58:51] their story that were kidnapped and sent overseas, okay? And these are Americans. So today we are highlighting Human Trafficking Awareness Day. We have a video and it goes right into our message with you are valuable. So I want you guys to take a look at this next video. Maybe not.
[00:59:16] let me see if it's not up we can we can do it at the end i'll send it to michelle let me text her she doesn't have it okay that's okay there's a video i'll get it to her we'll play it at the end
[00:59:37] but right now i actually let me see who um you know pastor todd come up here and pray for human trafficking come on we're gonna pray real quick we're gonna be in agreement because i wanted to
[00:59:46] show the video and then pray but we'll show it at the end go ahead let's pray over it pray with me

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[00:59:55] Father, we are so grateful that you're a God who knows all, sees all, and cares about everything.
[01:00:05] Lord, things that are done in the secret do not escape your eye.
[01:00:14] Father, you tell us in your word that when one member of the body suffers, all the members suffer with it, Father.
[01:00:20] And our hearts hurt, Father.
[01:00:22] You tell us to be people of compassion, to be able to feel what other people feel.
[01:00:27] And so we would ask, Lord, that you would help us today, starting today and every other day to feel, Father, the pain, the hurt, the anguish of these women and men who are being human trafficked across the world, being stripped from their families, being taken from their homes, lives being shattered.
[01:00:52] Father, I would ask God that you, Father, would expose the evil deeds of the enemy.
[01:01:01] Father, I would ask the things that these evil, wicked people are doing would be exposed.
[01:01:10] God, I pray that the church would arise, that the body of Christ would arise, that the people of God would arise and say, enough is enough, Father.
[01:01:19] Lord we know that if your people who are called by your name would do this father we could end human trafficking so father we are grateful for an administration that that values life we pray father God that you would help our leadership in our country to lead the way
[01:01:42] to bring a worldwide coalition, Father, to eradicate this cancer, God, that is eating this world.
[01:01:52] And Father, we pray for those right now who are in the throes of human trafficking.
[01:01:58] Father, I would ask, Lord, that your Holy Spirit would visit them right now, wherever they are at.
[01:02:05] Lord, may your Holy Spirit give them hope.
[01:02:09] Father, I would ask, Lord, that your Holy Spirit would invade their lives, that you would protect them, Father. Lord, I don't know how you would do it, but we know you can do it. Father, if you created the world with just the whisper from
[01:02:24] your mouth, we know, Father God, that you can release them out of this bondage. We pray, Father, for those human traffickers, God. We would ask, Lord, that your Holy Spirit would visit them right now. I pray, God, that through conviction, I pray, God, that through, Lord, harm, whatever it takes,
[01:02:44] God, if you need to shake them, to wake them, you do it, Father God. Lord, I pray that you would bring such a hurt and such a harm on them, God, that they would recognize that there is a God
[01:02:57] that they are offending and that they would release them. So, Father, we say, open up our eyes.
[01:03:05] may we see what you see open up our ears may you father we hear what you hear but most importantly father open up our hearts may we feel what you feel it's in the name of jesus that i pray amen

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[01:03:21] how powerful powerful love that prayer amen amen and and pastor todd is on assignment and he is just god is using him in a great way and he's a part of nfab how many of y'all know what nfab
[01:03:35] National Faith Advisory Board is. It's under the leadership and founding of our pastor, Pastor Paula White-Cain. Amen. Amen. And I just love what God's doing. You know, as Brad and I, you know, a couple of years ago took the church, God had this whole design because he knew
[01:03:53] that mom was in a completely different arena and it's a different season and time for her.
[01:03:58] So I hope y'all pray for Pastor Paula and Pastor John. John's getting ready to go on tour in February. He's got big things he's doing in the kingdom. So I just, I hope you remember to pray
[01:04:08] for your leadership. You know, pastor Brad is your pastor, but pastor Paul being an overseer and who she is in the earth and NFAB. And I hope you understand the impact that it's having on
[01:04:18] nations and, and her in our office in the West wing of the white house y'all and what it does to secure spiritual things in the faith for our future. It's a big deal. It's, it's not about
[01:04:30] politics it's just what god's using as a vessel and a vehicle to preserve christianity in a nation because there's a fight we got to wake up everybody look at your neighbor and say wake up
[01:04:41] wake up we can't play church anymore we can't be cute little christians no we got to get tenacious we got to be bold because the enemy doesn't play fair but god is greater and there's a fight over
[01:04:54] our nation, for values, for morality, for righteousness, to distort what's really true, what's not. And the church, the remnant, that's what I said earlier, the remnant, which is you and I, we are taking our rightful place. And I love it because I see it in my daughter. I see
[01:05:11] it in my son. My daughter at school has been praying. I didn't even know this. We were out on Friday and the teacher told me, Asher didn't tell me this. The teacher said, Rachel, did you
[01:05:20] know that your daughter in prayer time will put on some worship and will prayer time and she lines everybody up this is Asher and she gets apparently they had some oil at the school and she got oil
[01:05:32] and she went and laid hands on the children and the kids in the school and the and the girls her age began to cry and said they've never felt something so real and they felt like it was God
[01:05:44] and and that God is touching their life now come on there's a nine-year-old in her school I mean, that's where I'm seeing the remnant.
[01:05:52] That's where I'm seeing the revival.
[01:05:54] She didn't come tell me that.
[01:05:55] She didn't even tell me.
[01:05:56] I was like, Asher, why didn't you tell me?
[01:05:58] That's amazing.
[01:05:59] But it's amazing what God is going to do.
[01:06:02] And I believe with the next generation and with all of us, I don't care your age, your stage, God has a destiny and a purpose for you.
[01:06:10] You may feel washed up.
[01:06:12] You may feel that you've run your course.
[01:06:15] Oh, no, no, no, no.
[01:06:15] You got a lot of good days ahead of you.
[01:06:17] Amen.
[01:06:18] Man, a lot of good days.
[01:06:20] Let's get right into the word.
[01:06:22] Actually, is the video ready?
[01:06:24] We can do the video while we were on human trafficking.
[01:06:26] And then we, uh, she's got to convert it.
[01:06:30] We'll watch it at the end.
[01:06:31] It's just a little, you know, video about it.
[01:06:33] And of course, a lot of us all know what it is, but there's some incredible ministries out there that that's kind of their sole focus, right?
[01:06:41] And so that's one of the ministries we picked to show the sole focus of that.
[01:06:46] but I love Pastor Brad's heart because he's like, babe, your message has to be on you're valuable, right? And value can be just so interesting in these day and age because we think that it has
[01:07:01] to be performance. We live in a world where we're obsessed with performance, right? From a young age, you're conditioned to what are you going to do? What are you going to produce? How successful are
[01:07:12] you going to be? How useful are you going to be? Right. And, and really value you, you were going to come to a revelation that value doesn't determine your work, but because value, because you're valuable, it will be the catapult that produces a work. Right. So there's two ways to
[01:07:30] look at value. Value is not earned. It's given. Okay. So we're going to get right into the word.
[01:07:35] I want us to look at two different stories in the Bible. We're in the book of Luke today. I am going to start with Luke 15. Open your Bibles with me to Luke 15. All of us in here might know this
[01:07:50] scripture, might know this story. It's a great story. When I was praying and thinking about value and just some foundational truths, I really was led to these two stories in Luke.
[01:08:04] I love the gospels. Y'all ready to read? Let's read. Actually, where did uh minister greg go is he in the house okay let's see get to the get to luke 11 luke 11 we're gonna read the parable of the prodigal son how many y'all know this story do y'all know this
[01:08:28] story it's a great story it is a great story and then get ready because we're gonna go from luke 15 to Luke 10. Okay. So I want y'all to write that down in your notes today. I want y'all to
[01:08:42] write that down in your notes. Uh, Jonah, you want to get up here and read this scripture to everybody. I'm looking for some people to help me read. Why don't you read this from 11 all the way
[01:08:53] down to right here. Go ahead and read to us the word of God. Pastor Rachel, I can't see this.
[01:09:00] I'm sorry. I didn't bring my reading glasses. Okay. Okay. Does anybody have a bigger Bible where he could see? Anybody? I want someone else to read the word. I think that's a good, I think that's a good principle to do, right? Whenever we all read the word together. So Eli,
[01:09:15] I'm going to ask you to come, come on up. You can read it from your phone or you can read it from here. If you can't, if you'd like to use your Bible app, whatever you want to do, Jonah, we're
[01:09:25] going to have those reading glasses next time. Next time. This is, I normally don't do this.
[01:09:32] I just really feel led that we need to have just the reading of the word.
[01:09:36] Papa does this.
[01:09:38] Y'all know Papa does this.
[01:09:39] And I haven't thought of this in so long.
[01:09:41] Okay, go ahead and you can start with 11 and read to us.

[01:09:45] [SPEAKER SPEAKER_06]
[01:09:45] Okay.
[01:09:47] To illustrate the point further, Jesus told them this story.
[01:09:51] A man had two sons.
[01:09:53] The younger son told his father, I want my share of your estate now before you die.
[01:09:58] so his father agreed to divide his wealth between his sons a few days later his younger son packed all his belongings and moved to a distant land and there he wanted he wasted all his money while
[01:10:13] in wild living about at this time the money ran out and a great famine swept over the land and he began to starve he persuaded the local farmer to hire him and the man sent him to the
[01:10:30] fields to feed the pigs the young man became so hungry that even the pods he was feeding the pigs looked good to him but no one gave him anything when he finally came to his senses he said to
[01:10:43] himself at home even the higher servants have food enough to spare and here i am dying of hunger i will go home to my father and say father i have sinned against both heaven and you
[01:10:57] and i am no longer worthy of being called your son please take me as a hired servant so he returned to his home to his father and while he was still a long way off his father saw him coming filled
[01:11:13] with love and compassion he ran to his son embraced him and kissed him his son said to him father i have sinned against both heaven and you and i am no longer worthy to be called your son
[01:11:27] but his father said to the servants quick bring the finest robe in the house and put it on him get a ring for his finger and sandals for his feet and kill the calf we have been fattening
[01:11:41] we must celebrate with a feast for this son of mine that was dead has now returned to life he was lost but now he's found so the party began meanwhile the older was in the field working
[01:11:55] when he returned home he heard the music and dancing in the house and he asked one of the servants what was going on your brother is back he was told and your father has killed the fattened
[01:12:07] calf we are celebrated because of his safe return thank you so much wow thank you eli

[01:12:17] [SPEAKER SPEAKER_07]
[01:12:17] and it did say that the son the other son got angry did y'all catch that it says oh no on the verse 28 it was right after that but he was angry and refused to go in and his father came out
[01:12:33] and entreated him but he answered his father look these many years i have served you and i never disobeyed your command yet you never gave me a young goat that i might celebrate with my friends
[01:12:43] but when this son of yours come who's devoured your property with prostitutes you killed a fattened calf for him and he said to him son you are always with me and all that is mine is yours
[01:12:53] It was fitting to celebrate, to be glad for your brother was dead and now he's alive.
[01:12:57] He was lost and now he is found.
[01:13:00] What a story in the gospels of the prodigal son.
[01:13:03] I love it because it's a, it's a depiction of value, right?
[01:13:08] Like, like even though there's two sons and he took, he convinced his dad, give me the money now, give me split the property in the Herons now.
[01:13:17] And then he's wasteful with it.
[01:13:19] He's not wise.
[01:13:20] He goes out and he makes a mess of his life.
[01:13:22] He finds himself in a situation where he realizes, I made a big mistake.
[01:13:27] I'm not even going to be able to eat.
[01:13:29] And sometimes in life, we got to get to that place where if it's a mistake we made or mistakes that happened to us, God will isolate us to get us to wake up, right?
[01:13:38] He'll allow that.
[01:13:39] Sometimes isolation will cause us to wake up.
[01:13:42] It's not always a bad thing, but he doesn't want you to stay in isolation.
[01:13:45] Amen?
[01:13:46] He doesn't want you to.
[01:13:47] So then the son realizes everything he spent is at the worst possible time.
[01:13:53] It hit during a famine, right?
[01:13:56] As a severe famine hits the land, he has no money.
[01:13:59] I mean, I felt like that in life.
[01:14:00] When COVID hit, I'm like, are you kidding me?
[01:14:02] My son's two, like life was already stressful, complicated.
[01:14:06] Now COVID, now I gotta deal with COVID.
[01:14:08] Now I gotta put a mask on my two-year-old son flying.
[01:14:11] Oh, y'all remember those days, okay?
[01:14:13] God, grace, grace, grace.
[01:14:15] i mean people were fighting all the time my two-year-old son was taking the mask and throwing it it was just it was wonderful wonderful and you know like at the worst ever anybody ever feel that
[01:14:26] you're trying your best to serve god you're trying your best to give everything you're showing up but then like at the worst possible time things out of your control happen right that's life. COVID happens. Death happens. Change happens. Change is inevitable in life. Growth,
[01:14:45] that's optional. Let me say that again. Change is inevitable in life, but growth through that change is up to you. Are you going to stay stuck? Are you going to stay bitter? Are you going to
[01:14:57] stay in a mindset like the son where he got angry and wouldn't even go in to celebrate us? A lot of us in the church can be like that. Here I am serving on the front row here every Sunday,
[01:15:08] Bible open, taking notes, never miss a prayer meeting, always on time. And my Boaz hasn't showed up yet, but this girl just walks into the church and three months in she's got her Boaz.
[01:15:19] I know none of us think like that, right? But that's, it's interesting because when, when you start to look at performance, comparison comes in and comparison kills promises.
[01:15:33] Comparison kills promises.
[01:15:36] You are not to compare what God has said values you.
[01:15:41] You alone are his son and his daughter.
[01:15:44] Not what you do, it's interesting, because I was looking at a lot of things when it comes to this story, and one of the things that really stuck out to me is identity.
[01:15:55] And really, identity comes before assignment.
[01:16:00] So Genesis 2.15, God placed man in the garden to work it.
[01:16:05] Psalms 103, it was him who made us and we are his.
[01:16:10] Jeremiah 1.5, before I formed you, I knew you.
[01:16:15] So here, all of this, right, is identity becomes before assignment.
[01:16:19] Genesis 1.31, God saw all that he made and it was good.
[01:16:24] There was nothing, even when you look at Jesus, when you look at what God's done, Jesus is a son before he ever did service when you look at his baptism God looked at him and said
[01:16:36] this is my son who I'm well pleased do you know that was before he ever did a miracle did you know that was before he was ever on his assignment no God looked at him and said it was
[01:16:48] good and when your value system gets all jacked up in life because of trauma because of people's brokenness because of people's own words and labels that they put on you you believe that about yourself right well the holy spirit brings his truth and the foundational truths are that
[01:17:08] you are valuable not because of what you do but because of who you are and who you are is a son and daughter of the most high and when you come to that revelation then you can see change begin
[01:17:22] to happen but you cannot compare because comparison kills right here in the story we see the son comparing I served I did all of his works all of everything and he's angry and he then chooses not
[01:17:37] to celebrate his brother and the father says but look this son was once dead and now he's alive he was once lost and now he's found now it's up to you to how you respond and let me tell you
[01:17:49] something about a little something about sowing and reaping okay we believe we're in the book of luke luke says whatever measure you give pressed down shaken together running over shall be given back to you everybody says but goes around comes back around you reap what you sow it's a real
[01:18:04] thing other religions have it in other ways in different proverbs and chinese proverbs it is what it is it's a principle and when you don't celebrate someone else's blessing and victory in your life? I don't want to be, I don't even want to know. I don't even want to know. That's all
[01:18:20] I'll say because God, he looks at our hearts. Amen. He looks at our hearts. So if we're struggling with something, that's okay because your identity was formed before your assignment. I want you to write that down. Okay. Your identity was performed before your assignment. And that's the great
[01:18:38] thing. Even when we looked at Jesus, when I, when I started to look at that, I was like, wow, Jesus was said, God said, this is my son whom I'm well pleased, and he yet had not performed
[01:18:47] one miracle, but God said, this is my son, and I'm pleased just because he's my son.
[01:18:52] And so, this is interesting, Psalms 139, 14, you are fearfully and wonderfully made.
[01:19:00] I love that verse, you are fearfully and wonderfully made.
[01:19:04] It doesn't say you are useful and productively made.
[01:19:09] It doesn't say any of those other things that would value or define your life.
[01:19:13] It says you're fearfully and wonderfully made.
[01:19:15] So what does that mean?
[01:19:17] It is you're being before you're doing.
[01:19:21] And in life with performance, right?
[01:19:24] We think this performance-based faith, this performance-based life.
[01:19:28] Like some of y'all need to realize that you're just as valuable on your sofa as you are on your platform.
[01:19:35] And sometimes it's in the being, not the doing, right?
[01:19:40] and so remember the next story I told you to write down Luke 10 this came to my heart and mind and I'll be going to read it and study it Luke 10 we'll go back to the prodigal son
[01:19:50] uh right here Luke 10 38 Luke 10 38 um here we go Mary and Martha verse 38 now as they went on their way Jesus entered a village and a woman named Martha welcomed him into her house and she
[01:20:07] had a sister called Mary who sat at the Lord's feet and listened to his teaching. But Martha was distracted with much serving. And she went up to him and said, Lord, do you not care that my
[01:20:19] sister has left to serve me alone? Tell me then to help me. And the Lord answered her, Martha, Martha, you are anxious and troubled about many things, but one thing is necessary. Mary has chosen the good portion, which will not be taken away from her. I love this because it was two
[01:20:39] different perspectives under one roof. Mary was serving and I'm sorry, Martha was serving and Mary sat. The being and doing. This was, it wasn't a problem that she was serving, but it was that her
[01:20:52] value was in that. And so she got fixated and stuck on, well, my sister left and she's, I'm only here doing x y and z and then i'm i'm here doing everything and she even asked jesus and i love
[01:21:06] this because jesus he answered her from a place of not of striving but he said your sister has chose the better thing that he says right here mary has chosen the good portion and other other
[01:21:21] message versions and other translations it says that she has chosen presence over productivity presence over productivity and he didn't say it was you know the louder thing it's the busier thing he said no it's the good thing and and he was addressing something in in Martha and what
[01:21:38] he addressed in Martha was anxiety and it was a revelation of what do you value in presence that it isn't this message isn't to stop serving the message is to stop proving okay it's about
[01:21:54] what your value and what defines you as a Christian. And when we think of value, I think of Mary and Martha, the difference between being and doing. And some of us in our own being and
[01:22:07] doing, we even not only can that go both ways with God and I, but it can go that way with our children. We get so busy as moms being, being, I'm sorry, doing, doing, doing that we're not
[01:22:16] being, we're not being present. We're not just being with them and valuable moments that are going to pass you by. And so when you begin to look at God's word and let's go back here to the
[01:22:28] prodigal son, I love this story because restoration comes from understanding value. Everybody say that restoration comes from understanding value. So what happened is the son of the prodigal son has this revelation and realizes I made a mistake. I got to go home to my father's house.
[01:22:48] so when he goes home he he then had restoration he had restoration and it caused value to come into his life and I love it because what does his father's does three things he brings him a robe
[01:23:03] which I believe restores your identity he brings him a ring and I wrote down that it's authority and sonship and then he puts shoes on him it says sandals on him and guess what the servants didn't
[01:23:16] wear shoes only sons did so it's a difference between sonship and service and when you begin to really understand from a deep place of value then you begin to operate from the inside out and out the outside in you don't let everything on this earth dictate your emotions your will
[01:23:37] you don't let outside circumstances change and shift who you are no how God made you is fearfully wonderfully made he didn't say you're productive and busy and all of this stuff and that's how i
[01:23:49] made you he said you're fearfully and wonderfully made he made you just as his creation you know it's interesting because on a real fundamental level someone asked me well what is knowing jesus we were in this talk and they were like what is knowing jesus because i said well i would only
[01:24:06] want x y and z my only desire for this group of people is that they would know jesus as their lord and Savior. And they wanted a real answer. And I stopped and I thought about not like a textbook
[01:24:16] answer, not what like, you know, we learned in Sunday school and I, and it came and it's like the Holy Spirit just opened my mouth up and it just came out. I said, knowing Jesus is knowing
[01:24:26] that the depths of your soul, that the very, that how you were made, that there is no ache in your soul anymore because it's only fulfilled by your creator who made you. I said, that's what knowing
[01:24:38] Jesus is. It's knowing that God is with you, no matter what David said, if I make my bed in hell, God, you are with me. And it's that knowing in your soul that Jesus is with you, that you are
[01:24:50] his and that you belong to him. And I like that revelation. Just, it just hit me. There are moments where, yes, you feel like Jesus on the cross, father, father, why have you forsaken me? And
[01:25:01] we've all been there in life. We didn't know this was coming. We didn't see this outcome.
[01:25:06] we didn't you know but it doesn't take God by surprise the things we walk through does not take God by surprise but in those moments is the real knowing that the creator formed you and
[01:25:18] fashioned you with only something he can fulfill in life this is value right here it's it comes only from him ready not your relationships not your job not your social status not your money honey. I know that can be hard for somebody, not none of that. And guess what? All of that in life
[01:25:39] will never satisfy that part in your soul anyway, because that's not God. That's not how he designed it. He created you to be in partnership with him. That's covenant. That's knowing Jesus. That's knowing value. That's understanding whose you are and then who you are. Whose you are gives you the
[01:25:58] revelation of who you are. Then you can walk it out. And I'm here to tell you, I don't care who comes and goes in your life. I don't care who tries to persuade you of faith, of whatever the
[01:26:09] enemy may throw your way. When you have that revelation and you have that foundation, then you can move forward no matter what trial, no matter what test, no matter what storms may come and go, you can move forward because you have your value system down. Amen. I hope that you guys from
[01:26:29] a real deep level understand that you're not what happened to you that God's bringing you out of trauma out of six cycles you might be the one that's rising up in your family and breaking
[01:26:41] that generational curse of adultery that's breaking that generational curse of addiction I believe we got some of those in here we're breaking some generational curses and God's looking to you to stay centered in your value system with him so that not every little thing
[01:26:59] gets you off course not every little thing on the outside moves you that you can look at situations and keep your eyes on Jesus and say my eyes my faith my foundation I'm fortified through the fire
[01:27:13] no matter come what may God you are with me I belong to you and because I belong to you I will walk out the value of who you said I am and when you get that revelation you realize it
[01:27:27] cannot and will not be filled by anything or anyone on this earth I don't care how great your marriage is I don't care how much you love those babies it only can be satisfied by Jesus that's
[01:27:39] what being born again is that's what knowing Christ is that at the end of my life one day you and I we're not promised tomorrow Dr. John we get so fixated on finalities in life and permanence
[01:27:52] this nothing here is permanent nothing here is final only when we exit this life but at the end of my days when I go to transition from one place to the other and all of us in here were
[01:28:04] transitioning from heaven from earth to heaven we came from heaven to earth now we're going back and I believe that because of the foundation of value that nothing and anything else can satisfy because you lock into the core
[01:28:17] of who God's called you to be.
[01:28:19] Not you're doing, but you're being who God's called you to be.
[01:28:23] Not you're doing, but you're being.
[01:28:27] Do you understand?
[01:28:28] I hope that this gives you revelation into the inside of God and for what your value before because you were made not measured.
[01:28:37] There's sonship over service.
[01:28:39] Rest is a part of your identity.
[01:28:42] And then I'm gonna close right here.
[01:28:43] I had so many notes.
[01:28:44] Wow, I got excited.
[01:28:46] I love studying the Bible, amen.
[01:28:48] Pastor Todd, I got excited.
[01:28:49] I had a little bit more time to study and I had fun doing it.
[01:28:54] No wonder Pastor Paula locks herself in the office for hours and just gets in the word, amen.
[01:28:59] But rest is a part of your identity.
[01:29:02] Genesis 2.2, God rested on the seventh day.
[01:29:05] Psalms 46.10, be still and know that I am God.
[01:29:09] Galatians 4.7, you are no longer a slave, but God's child.
[01:29:15] Rest is a part of your identity.
[01:29:17] And I think some of us, we need to go into a place of rest, right?
[01:29:22] We need to operate from a place of rest.
[01:29:24] And when you operate from a place of rest, you're going to see results of great victories in your life because you're not so, oh, all the way up here.
[01:29:31] You're not operating.
[01:29:32] Martha was operating from a place of anxiety.
[01:29:36] And Jesus had to address that.
[01:29:38] Look, there's some real anxiety there.
[01:29:40] You know, in fact, in Jesus' name, I declare everyone who deals with anxiety, depression we break it off of you right now we declare that you are entering to rest that your soul on a deep level that God is uprooting trauma pain every seed that the enemy planted that is not
[01:29:58] of God Matthew 15 13 we command it to be uprooted and we command rest to your soul rest to your body rest to your mind rest to your health rest to your relationships rest and restoration anybody
[01:30:14] in here i believe in god for restoration for a family or a loved one or any type of relationship stand to your feet if you're believing god for we're going to pray right now this is a day
[01:30:23] of sons and daughters this is a moment where jesus is showing up and out in our life God we thank you Lord that you see every person situation here God we thank you that from our
[01:30:39] being and who you created us to be we get to rest in our value that we are a son and a daughter of the most high Lord there's people in our life there's situations where we need rest we've been
[01:30:51] battle weary we've been fighting battles and warfare and we've been on levels that don't even make sense for the realm that we are living and we tap into an area of rest and restoration so
[01:31:03] right now every person under the sound of my voice or online that's believing god for sons and daughters maybe a prodigal son or a prodigal daughter to come home maybe a restoration within a relationship with a father or son or a mother daughter or a broken relationship between a
[01:31:21] brother or sister God whatever it may be we declare restoration now we ask that you would touch the situation that you would touch the mind and the heart and the soul of what needs to come
[01:31:34] together to bring restoration and God we know you're a good good father you're a good good father and we take you at your word today that you are faithful that you are way maker that you
[01:31:45] are stepping in that situation and causing where there was a complete fracture where there was a complete break there's this is the year this is the moment of wholeness of restoration of the promises of God this is the moment this is the moment I declare this right now and Lord we thank
[01:32:05] you that you are moving in the midst of us God you're moving we're going to see miracles that belong to our loved ones our families and God help us to rest help us to understand our value
[01:32:17] of whose we are so we can walk out who we are.
[01:32:22] We thank you, Lord, for your great grace, your great stamina, and your great strength that's moving in our hearts and lives and everybody in agreement.
[01:32:33] And I wanna say one other thing.
[01:32:35] If you're in here, and I don't wanna call you out publicly, but maybe you've struggled with suicide and you don't have to come see me, but the Lord spoke to me about this this morning
[01:32:45] before I ever even got up and I kind of even wasn't thinking about it because I'm in a different place right now.
[01:32:51] But if that's you, come pray with me.
[01:32:54] And if it's you online, we're gonna come against the spirit of suicide right now.
[01:32:57] Father, in the name of Jesus, we come against the spirit of suicide, the spirit of sabotage.
[01:33:03] Oh, come on, open up your mouth and pray.
[01:33:07] We come against it over this church, over our loved ones, over our families.
[01:33:12] We declare suicide.
[01:33:14] You have no place.
[01:33:15] You have no authority.
[01:33:17] we break your power, we break death, hell, and the grave, and we declare long life, long life, long life over your loved ones, over your health, over your mental health. We come against the mental health battle that would attack you in the night hours, and we declare the angels of the
[01:33:34] Lord are a sign in your bedrooms that you will not harm yourself, you will not overdose, you will

[01:33:40] [SPEAKER SPEAKER_05]
[01:33:40] not pick up a gun. We rebuke the devil of suicide over a generation. Oh, come on. Now extend that to a generation. God, cover a generation that's not wanting to live today, that's wanting to
[01:33:54] abort their babies, that's at a place where they don't know what to do. God, show up for them right

[01:34:00] [SPEAKER SPEAKER_07]
[01:34:00] now. We're these angels, and I want to say right now, over America, we cancel suicide over pastors.
[01:34:12] we cancel suicide over pastors great leaders great great pastors in the body of Christ y'all pray right now we cancel suicide we block demonic headlines that say we lost such and such pastors in America that will not be our portion in 2026 God cover the body of Christ oh come on y'all pray
[01:34:36] we pray for churches in Texas we pray for churches in Minnesota we pray for churches in Oklahoma oh come on we pray for churches in California open up your mouth this is where you and I we got to do our part
[01:34:50] we open up our mouth begin to pray over different states begin to pray over the state where you're from or your mom's from God I pray over Chicago where my mama was born where my mama was raised
[01:35:02] we pray for the body of Christ in Chicago. Oh, come on. We pray for the body of Christ in Mississippi, in Tennessee. Come on, church. We pray right now over the 50 United States of America. And we declare that the church
[01:35:17] is going to grow strong, that they're not going to shut its doors, that it's not going to cower to culture pressure, that they won't compromise. God, raise up world leaders. God, we cover our children. I lift up Asher and Nicholas. I thank you that Julia is a world leader for the kingdom.
[01:35:36] I thank you that Asher and Nicholas are going to be used mightily. Oh, come on. Call out your grandbabies. Call out your children. God, we thank you. Your hand is moving mightily in the land.
[01:35:46] We're going to see revival. God, we thank you for what you're getting ready to do at Storyline.
[01:35:51] We thank you. We're getting ready to see this place packed out with young people.
[01:35:55] we thank you God that unleashed is going to propel us into a revival we thank you God in this moment but we're hungry we're desperate for you God we've got to have you we've got to have your presence
[01:36:08] God we've got to have it in the church we've got to have it oh God so that the enemy cannot win Lord we declare we know we win it's already done and we just get to enforce it we just get to take
[01:36:24] the authority and enforce it. And Lord, we thank you right now. And another group of people I want to pray over is healing in your physical body. If there's healing right now over your physical body,
[01:36:36] if you've been in a battle over your physical body, just put your hands on your body.
[01:36:40] We declare the healing balm of Gilead. We declare back pain. We declare cervical cancer. We declare all forms of cancer go. We pray over Ariel right now who got the report, who's in the hospital.
[01:36:54] We cover J.D., Ariel, her boys, her destiny, and the assignment.
[01:36:58] We declare healing in her back.
[01:37:00] Oh, come on, y'all, pray.
[01:37:01] We rebuke the attack of the enemy that would want to cause a fall, to cause a situation this year where you would be injured.
[01:37:10] We cover you in the blood of Jesus.
[01:37:12] We cover you, and we declare healing is your portion.
[01:37:15] We speak strength over Pastor Paula, strength over her physical body, strength over pastor brad strength over his physical body to carry out the assignment in africa oh come on y'all pray for pastor brad we cover pastor brad mind body soul and spirit
[01:37:34] we thank you for who he is in the earth we thank you god for what you're doing in him and through him come on begin to keep praying keep praying lord we thank you for healing we thank you for
[01:37:46] healing and we thank you for miracles and we believe that we believe in your miracle working power in Jesus mighty matchless name and the church say amen amen I'm excited because we're here and God is with us amen I'm excited give me two minutes give me two minutes because we're
[01:38:20] going to go into giving give me two minutes y'all can stand sit whatever you want to do I need two minutes I want pastor Todd to come up and then I need my friends to come while we're
[01:38:29] giving they're going to share a testimony we're going to share some good things that God is doing right we get to give it's a privilege it's a privilege to sow into the kingdom it's a privilege
[01:38:41] to be a part of what God's doing in the earth it's a privilege that we're part of a local church that does feedings every other Monday. We just did a feeding on Monday, hundreds of cars wrapped around
[01:38:53] the building, people coming in from all over. We did this. We are doing so many amazing things.
[01:39:00] Pastor Todd, come on up. Tell us what our local church is a part of right now. What are some of the trips you've got coming? Where have you been? Share with everyone. Thank you. And let's give

[01:39:09] [SPEAKER SPEAKER_08]
[01:39:09] Pastor Rachel a hand. Okay. Thank you for bringing the word. Very good. Very good. You know, I think it's important that we rehearse the goodness of God in the land of the living the Bible says right
[01:39:21] and we do that before we give because it's important for you to know where your money is being used and and how your the money that God has entrusted to you to give through the church
[01:39:36] is impacting people Pastor Rachel talked about what's happening here locally and everything starts locally amen and Pastor Paula talks about you you had to go over the mission field to go to the mission field.
[01:39:49] In the mission field, we have South Apopka, we have Ocoee, we have Pine Hills, we have all this area right here. And every other week, we are distributing almost 75,000 pounds up to 100,000 pounds of food every month
[01:40:08] to this area, this locale. So give yourself a hand for that, because that's amazing.
[01:40:14] And I need you to be praying, because remember the food box program we did?
[01:40:18] remember that we're millions we had over 30 million pounds of food distributed from this location here well be praying it's coming all right we're gonna make it we're gonna we're gonna call it into it into being as is it is amen but you know we're also listen we're still in
[01:40:41] jamaica helping the hurting there the rest of the world's gone on we haven't they're hurting they need help and so continue to pray for the people of jamaica that were just devastated by the hurricane where you are in israel yes you're in israel you're an end of zur you're in that
[01:41:00] moshav that's three miles from an active war zone you're bringing help and healing and hope to the jewish people in the gaza envelope so how do we do that well because of your giving and
[01:41:15] because of Story Life and Paula White Ministries and National Faith Advisory Board teaming up with our incredible organization called City Serve Israel, you all are giving childhood trauma through a sports center that you've helped develop three miles from an active war zone.
[01:41:34] You're doing that. You're in Nigeria. Pastor Brad is in the DRC right now. You're there because you give because you give you're able to take your representatives a pastor brad a pastor paula myself others we go in his name and we go in your name amen thank you so much

[01:41:59] [SPEAKER SPEAKER_07]
[01:41:59] thank you pastor god amazing amazing so there's going to be a couple ways to give you can see online we want to thank all of our online givers and you can see right here storylifechurch.com
[01:42:11] you can give through the church app we have a cash app we have paypal plenty of ways to give and we believe that as you sow into the kingdom guess what it's of eternal value it's of it's
[01:42:24] what brings forth eternity because giving is the seed that can go into the future for future generations it's accredited to your account how you live your life and it affects your children and they're children's children.
[01:42:38] So you have to have that mindset.
[01:42:40] It's far beyond you and our window of opportunity on this earth, right?
[01:42:45] The years that we're here on this earth, it goes beyond that.
[01:42:49] And so when you have that eternal perspective of covenant that we operate out of principle, and when we operate out of principle, we receive God's promises.
[01:42:57] And I promise you, you can never outgive God.
[01:43:00] There are blessings in your life that are far beyond money, far beyond any open door that you could ask God, does things that only he can do. And that is the understanding of the eternal value. And when you
[01:43:13] give to the house of God, amen. So let's stand to our feet. Let's get ready to give. And I'm going to ask my beautiful sister to come testify. I'm going to pray over your giving, bring it to
[01:43:24] the altar. God, we thank you for the opportunity to give, to operate out of covenant. Lord bless every giver online and in the house we declare great breakthrough great victories and wholeness over their life in every area lord you see every need every seed and we thank you for supernatural
[01:43:44] miracles as they release this and as they tie their faith to it we come into agreement for it in jesus name amen get up here get up here as they continue to give get up here let's share
[01:44:04] what the lord has done tell everybody your name and what you went through try to do it in two minutes but it's it's an awesome thing what god's done we got a testimony we're gonna close on a
[01:44:15] high note okay and then we're gonna be dismissed let's share what god's done praise the lord

[01:44:20] [SPEAKER SPEAKER_00]
[01:44:20] hallelujah church daniel you need to come here with me god is awesome hallelujah to god be the glory. I want to extend a calvary greetings to Mama Paula, my pastors, elders of this church, and the Surrey Life family. I am indeed blessed to be here. Since joining this church eight years
[01:44:46] ago, I became a full member five years when we brought my little son, David. I'm sure a lot of us know David. He has a critical medical condition called hemophilia. It's a bleeding disorder.
[01:44:59] so that brought us here and we have to be traveling from jamaica to here and i decided to come full time five years ago so my minor son daniel travels with me all the time and he's here
[01:45:14] so while we're here we decided to his 10 years visa was going to expire so we told him to um go to Jamaica. Before then, God did wonders in my life. I must say, it has been a favor
[01:45:29] of God that I finished my PhD in July. I defended. Thank you. Adam Murray was there and a lot of Sister Novelet, Ashley, a lot of persons were there to grace me on my defense. It was
[01:45:47] unprecedented favor my professor said they've never seen an outcome like that before neither the presentation it was outstanding they were speechless nothing was done so um when the devil saw that they decided to struck four days later daniel went to jamaica to renew his visa
[01:46:07] not only was he denied the visa for him to return back to to the state was cancelled i was struck I was devastated.
[01:46:19] You know, the only thing I could do was pray.
[01:46:22] I called on my church.
[01:46:24] I called on elders, a lot of persons.
[01:46:27] But Pastor Brad was so compassionate.
[01:46:31] Daniel kept saying to me, call my pastor.
[01:46:34] Call my pastor.
[01:46:35] And I came to him.
[01:46:36] And when I told him, he was compassionate.
[01:46:40] Pastor Todd, Pastor Rachel.
[01:46:43] Pastor Rachel, they took it as if it was theirs.
[01:46:45] you know pastor Todd the escalator the matters but God wanted to do it in his own way that will bring glory and honor to his name alone and shame to the devil you know even while Daniel
[01:47:00] was there without parents pastor Eli was calling him so that he doesn't slide into depression that was my greatest fear and that helped him kept him pastor Brad was writing him You know, Pastor Brad is not a good one with phone, and he was writing Daniel, and trust me, prayers were going on, Ed and Marie, people were praying.
[01:47:26] People, I went into fasting, decided to, you know, exclude myself and just decide to go into prayer.
[01:47:35] I was in a 70 days fasting, and the Lord was speaking.
[01:47:39] I realized he was talking, and I decided to do a student visa for him.
[01:47:43] went to Jamaica. I told Pastor Brad, went to Jamaica. The officer said, I have never done this before. This has never been done here before. But the Lord gave me a word. In Luke 21 15 said,
[01:47:57] I have given you a mouth and a word that not even your adversary will be able to contradict or resist. And that was it. As I was talking, I was giving evidence. When he asked a question,
[01:48:09] And I give five.
[01:48:10] I give with evidence.
[01:48:11] He said, no, this is too much.
[01:48:13] I can't do, nothing else can be done here.
[01:48:15] I'm giving him the visa.
[01:48:16] That was what he did.
[01:48:17] God did wonders.
[01:48:22] I'm only giving two minutes.
[01:48:24] That's the reason I had to cut it.
[01:48:25] It's just too much.
[01:48:27] But what am I here for?
[01:48:28] I can't keep this to myself because it is unprecedented.
[01:48:33] I want somebody here to know that there is God on this altar.
[01:48:37] Don't come here to look for Pastor Brad or whoever you're looking for.
[01:48:40] don't look at what people are saying people told me they're going to shoot me dead in this church but i thank god my son and i chose to be here we are grateful god is walking on this altar
[01:48:53] god is using our pastors they are anointed trust me i want to say a big thank you to asha as young as that young vessel she's burning for the lord she never stopped praying whenever she
[01:49:10] sees me she tells me danny is coming home and she'll pray with me the oil on that little girl's head may the god the oil of god upon her may he never run dry in the name of jesus pastor eli i
[01:49:27] want to say thank you for keep calling danny and not making danny to fall into depression adam marie thank you sister novlet ashley sister lizzie sister sister alice and husband pastor chris pastor sister bj sister cj i want to say thank you to as many that went into prayer
[01:49:49] a lot of persons never knew sister lloyd and family i see you a lot of people didn't know But I thought Daniel traveled.
[01:49:58] This is what happened to my son.
[01:50:00] Pastor Todd.
[01:50:03] I am.

[01:50:06] [SPEAKER SPEAKER_01]
[01:50:06] Thank you.
[01:50:07] Thank you, Pastor Todd.
[01:50:12] He calls me nonstop.
[01:50:14] Just to update me.
[01:50:16] He went everywhere.
[01:50:18] He pulled.

[01:50:19] [SPEAKER SPEAKER_00]
[01:50:19] He pulled down mountains.
[01:50:21] These pastors here, they are something.
[01:50:24] Pastor Rachel.
[01:50:25] You said, no, I'm a mother.
[01:50:28] This cannot be happening.
[01:50:29] he has to return home because this is where he belonged and it's happened she went into prayer this is a powerful woman of God I don't know what you know about her she's wonders that new water
[01:50:41] comes up from her mouth is powerful church I say thank you I am humbled and I don't take this for

[01:50:48] [SPEAKER SPEAKER_07]
[01:50:48] granted thank you we love you what a celebration we honor God wow what a wonderful note to end on She said someone said they're going to shoot her if she comes to this church.
[01:51:12] I just want to publicly declare, y'all don't want to come up here with a gun.
[01:51:15] We got tons of people packing.
[01:51:17] We got incredible security guards, and they do know how to aim, okay?
[01:51:22] So we pray, and then we use wisdom.
[01:51:25] We are fully locked, loaded.
[01:51:26] In fact, we increased our security for our children.
[01:51:30] Pastor Brad said we're increasing our security for our children, and I'm grateful for all of our security that serve in the house.
[01:51:38] say amen. Before we do our benediction, I want to encourage everyone in the house to do something for me today. I want you to go to PaulaWhite.org forward slash unleashed. Okay. And I want you to
[01:51:51] register. Can y'all do that? Because we know you're coming. We know that you're going to be here with us, but we may not have it as a number in the system. And we're working so hard. Pastor Paula
[01:52:03] and the team, they're working so hard on special events. I mean, y'all got to go check out the calendar at PaulaWhite.org forward slash unleash. We're getting ready to have worship nights, a yard event. We're doing communion on the yard. Like amazing things are about to happen. And so I want
[01:52:19] you guys to be ready for that. And we need a head count. So it's super easy. Just it's free registration. Go online, PaulaWhite.org forward slash unleash and just let us know your name and how many are coming. Can y'all do that for me today? We're going to see God do some incredible
[01:52:37] things. I'm just so excited about what is happening in 2026. Let's say this together. Y'all ready?
[01:52:44] Jeremiah 29 11. For I know the story I have for you, a life of a hope and a future in Jesus' name.
[01:52:54] I love you, church family. Have a wonderful week.