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Best Bread Ever | Craig Lapenski | Sunday Jan 25th

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  1. It's going to be fun. The name of our message

  2. is best Bread ever. Think about being thirteen and how

  3. you talk about things if you're thirteen, best bread ever,

  4. the best, like incredible. That's the message today. And you're

  5. getting me because we want our pastor the incredible preacher teacher.

  6. To be really, really really.

  7. Recharged for our summit. So I'm helping out a little bit.

  8. So before we get started, we're gonna pray, Lord Jesus

  9. have your way. Don't let a word come out of

  10. my mouth that's not yours. I give my tongue to you,

  11. and I say speak what I can't say, and say

  12. what I can't say. Amen. So we're in the middle

  13. of a fast, and I feel like, as there was

  14. some prophetic declaration and talk about Isaiah the fifty eighth

  15. chapter as the fast was getting started and what the

  16. fast would look like. I believe that fasting and prayer

  17. done a certain way is designed to break off the

  18. yoke of the oppressor. Okay, so the demonic realm, the

  19. thing that brings harm to your life and a problem

  20. to you, to break off the yoke of the.

  21. Oppressor, that's the kind of fast we want to have.

  22. That's the kind of prayer that we want to we

  23. want to.

  24. Involve ourselves in.

  25. And so if the Lord says that that's how you're

  26. supposed to pray, then that's how we're going to pray

  27. because we value what he values, because we're in New

  28. Horizon Church and we really think that whatever he has

  29. to say is the most pre eminent and it's the top,

  30. and we're in that and we're following that. Okay, we

  31. think that's the highest, and so we want to ascribe

  32. to the highest. Okay, if he says that we can

  33. pull heaven down and bring it to earth and this

  34. is how to do it, then I want to figure out, well,

  35. how do we do that? And he says it, that's

  36. where we're going.

  37. So I really thought so last week Pastor.

  38. Dwayne did an awesome job. He brought up Pastor Joel

  39. and he gave an exemp an example, if you will,

  40. of what it is to communicate with God, interact with God.

  41. And one of the things that I really liked is

  42. that one it was extremely personable. Okay, it was intimate,

  43. but number two, he was talking about Hallowed be your name,

  44. like that God is, he's to be revered, He's beautiful,

  45. he's majoric, he's the highest, He's worthy of all praise,

  46. so that we would come into our prayer with first

  47. that being our heart posture that like, he's so worthy

  48. that we have a humility and humbleness to us in

  49. how we approach him. And I think that I think

  50. that sometimes in charismatic churches, I think we could learn

  51. a thing or two if we look at other denominations.

  52. What do I mean if you look at the liturgical branches,

  53. Let's say some of the liturgical branches, like Catholicism, they

  54. have a like they really believe his name is hallowed,

  55. Like they have a reverence for God. There's like a

  56. God's powerful and he's holy, and we need to we

  57. need to approach him from that light if you take

  58. it too far, And I like that because he is.

  59. And if you look back through the New Testament, we

  60. can see like antoniasis firr God like he'll take people

  61. out just for disrespecting him. So like we need to

  62. approach him from that hallowed be your name perspective. And however,

  63. what I really appreciated about what he shared was that

  64. we don't need to be afraid to approach him. He

  65. actually says he loves you. He actually says he wants

  66. to be so intimate with you that he's not the distant,

  67. sovereign God. And he doesn't just do everything he's going

  68. to do because he says he's going to do it.

  69. He actually will listen to our prayers to change things.

  70. He'll actually listen to the plead of a man and

  71. even stave off judgment to a people group. Lot right, Abraham,

  72. God actually doesn't just do everything he wants to do

  73. whenever he wants to do it. He actually partners with humans.

  74. And so he's got this incredible relationship with humanity where

  75. he says, oh my gosh, I love you so much Junior,

  76. that I want to be intimate with you, and you

  77. can say anything to me, you can share anything with me.

  78. Nothing's off limits.

  79. Let's get tight. So that's the perspective understanding that it's

  80. under the ground of hallowed be thy name. Okay, so

  81. we're starting off with hallowing his name. Then we're approaching

  82. him and if we hop into Matthew six nine through twelve,

  83. six nine through twelve, this then is how you should

  84. pray our Father, Hallowed be your name, your kingdom, come

  85. your will, be done on earth as it is in Heaven.

  86. Give us today our daily bread, and forgive us our debts,

  87. as we have also forgiven our debtors. I'm going to

  88. give you a few scriptures right now. Let's go to

  89. Matthew four four. Jesus answered, it is written, man shall

  90. not live on bread alone, by every word that precedes

  91. or comes out of the mouth of God.

  92. Why am I going to.

  93. Give you three or four scriptures? Because I'm building. I'm

  94. building something to that we can work with. I'm giving

  95. you a foundation. Let's go to Juteronomy eight three. Now,

  96. this is even old Testament. Okay, he humbled you, causing

  97. you to hunger, and then feeding you with manna, which

  98. neither you your nor ancestors had known to teach you

  99. that man does not live on bread alone, but on

  100. every word that comes from the mouth of God. You're

  101. seeing this Old Testament, you're seeing this New Testament. It's everywhere. Well,

  102. why is this? Because if you've got kids and they're

  103. beloved to you, you want to be intimate with them.

  104. You want to be intimate with them. One of the

  105. dangers of this passage of scripture is that so many

  106. people may have recited it or memorized it in their church,

  107. a growth or development where they actually like somebody could

  108. start it and they could just finish it really easily,

  109. and that's wonderful. However, if we only ascend to a

  110. head knowledge of a scripture but it doesn't actually get

  111. like super deep down in our heart, then what happens

  112. is we could actually only experience that scripture and what

  113. it has for us on the surface of it, rather

  114. than it being experiential and transformative. If the Word of

  115. God is living and sharp, it's it can change anything.

  116. It's transformative. Correct, So we have to be careful when

  117. we're looking at the Lord's prayer to not have this

  118. thing become some just like rote thing that loses its

  119. power and loses its significance only because of how we're

  120. interacting with it. Does that make sense like that it

  121. wouldn't be giving the value it's designed to give because

  122. how we perceive it, and if we don't have a

  123. hallow be thy name, we might not perceive it that way.

  124. So I want you to listen to the scripture. This

  125. is a Psalm one one wow, actually it's one through three.

  126. Blessed is the one who does not walk in step

  127. with the wicked, or stand in the way that sinners take,

  128. or sit in the company of mockers. But whose delight

  129. is in the law of the Lord, who meditates on

  130. this law day and night. That person is like a

  131. tree planted by streams of living water that yields its

  132. fruit and dew season. Its leaf does not wither. Whatever

  133. they do prospers. Whatever they do prospers. You'll notice in

  134. the middle of this verse you're going to see he

  135. who meditates on his word day and night. And then

  136. it's a scribe certain things that are appropriate to that

  137. person who's meditating on it day and night. It says

  138. that you'll be like a stream by living water, and

  139. it says that your leaf will not wither.

  140. It'll be green and.

  141. Full, and it'll produce whatever it needs to in the

  142. season it needs to produce it. Okay, we can only

  143. produce fruit if we're abiding in the shelter. In John

  144. fifteen to five, that's not up there. Don't worry about

  145. putting it up. But in John fifteen five he says

  146. that he's the vine, we're the branches that if we

  147. abide in him and he abides in us, that basically

  148. we can produce much fruit, and it says if we

  149. don't do that, it doesn't produce anything. We produce literally nothing,

  150. it's worthless. So this connection, this communion that's abiding, this

  151. in tomacy with the King is the only way to

  152. actually have the kingdom come through the reformers. If New

  153. Horizon is a group of reformers, the reformers bring the kingdom.

  154. But unless we have the King, we can't bring the kingdom.

  155. So this abiding, this being knit to him, this connection

  156. with him, is absolutely essential if we want to see

  157. Heaven come to earth, if we want to see His

  158. will be done on earth as it is in heaven,

  159. it has.

  160. To occur that way.

  161. And so.

  162. I want to tell you a little story.

  163. When I was twenty three, I got radically transformed, and

  164. I grew up in a family or perspective that I

  165. had no biblical training zero. When I got saved, I

  166. did not know the word Sadducee, Pharisee. I did not

  167. know what a gentile was. Those are like really a gentile,

  168. Like that's like super basic.

  169. I did not know what that was.

  170. And so God did something in my heart when I

  171. got saved where I realized boy, I'm on the wrong

  172. page on everything, Like literally every viewpoint I have, it's

  173. on the wrong page, because that's just the situation I

  174. grew up in. And it made me realize, Wow, if

  175. his ways are higher, I need to change my ways

  176. and they need to become his ways. And so he

  177. did this thing in me where he gave me like

  178. the severe hunger for the word, where all of a sudden,

  179. after I got saved, I was like eating it and

  180. meditating on it day and night, like all the time,

  181. like I was just saturating myself in it.

  182. Only because I'm like, I'm screwed up.

  183. My world views are all screwed up, and I need

  184. to figure out what the King's perspectives are. And so

  185. as I began to align myself with him, what ended

  186. up happening is that I I got this understanding of

  187. how critical it was to get my daily bread, that

  188. I need my daily bread, and if I don't get

  189. my daily bread, I'm actually not capable of producing anything

  190. of any value or any fruit. Early in my walk,

  191. I had this like pretty like I'm like on fire

  192. for the Lord. And I went from just depravity to

  193. something else in a very short period of time. And

  194. when this happened, I just was so saturated in the

  195. Word that things were going easily for me. However, sometimes

  196. what can happen in our Christian walk is that we

  197. walk with God and He starts giving you directives, and

  198. he starts giving you a vision, and he starts giving

  199. you a plan, and he starts orchestrating your life and

  200. satisfying the desires of your heart. And next thing, you know,

  201. you're a parent, and you're married and.

  202. All these good things.

  203. It's good to be a husband, Zach right, it's good

  204. to be a father, it's it's it's He can give

  205. you life mission, and you're out fulfilling the life mission.

  206. And in the midst of doing all of this, we

  207. do a lot of doing, and if we're not careful, careful,

  208. we can start doing of our own will without the King.

  209. And every Christian will go through these seasons of He's

  210. He's the most intimate thing ever. We feel Him on

  211. us and in us and speaking through it like we

  212. hear He visits us in the car and we just

  213. weep and cry. Anybody in here experience that that that's

  214. where we want to stay. What happens, though, is we

  215. can get caught up in the doing for him, and

  216. as we do the doing for him, we can actually

  217. forget that he's the doer, and we can start to

  218. do it without him.

  219. And so I'm gonna tell you a brief story.

  220. So there's the I'm there's this morning, I'm up, it's early,

  221. I'm I'm reading my Bible.

  222. The Lord puts.

  223. Somebody, a picture of somebody in my face. The picture

  224. happens to be a patient of mine. Then the Lord

  225. flashes the scripture in front of my face, and so

  226. I go and look up that scripture. And what happens

  227. is later in that week, that person comes into my office.

  228. I'm sitting here and I'm measuring this person, just doing

  229. the thing I'm doing.

  230. And I say to them, I.

  231. Say, you know, this week, the Lord put you in

  232. my mind and he gave me what I think is

  233. a scripture for you. Would you mind if I shared

  234. that with you?

  235. So it's this.

  236. It's the guy that's in front of me is a

  237. big man like big guy, and he says sure, and

  238. I share with him the passage of scripture. And this guy,

  239. this really big, kind of like not emotional guy, starts

  240. weeping violently and goes to the floor by what I

  241. shared with him. Well, the man was a pastor of

  242. a church who was not functioning as a pastor. And

  243. the man so, without getting into that story too far,

  244. the Lord used that scripture that he illuminated to me

  245. that morning to start this man's ministry. The man was

  246. called out according to that scripture, he's not functioning as

  247. a pastor in that day and age. And that was

  248. the scripture that the Lord gave me to share him.

  249. I had no idea, and he just like lost it.

  250. He lost it and that he's like, So he's bawling,

  251. and I'm like, are you okay? And he says to me,

  252. he's like, that's the scripture that was prophesied over me

  253. back in such and such year and started my ministry

  254. and he's not a pastor or currently. It shifted something

  255. for him, Something happened different for him.

  256. And what I'm going to tell you.

  257. Is that we can go through seasons where we have

  258. the right word in season and we have an instructed tongue.

  259. But what can happen is that's all dependent upon our

  260. abiding in the shelter of the most High in the communing.

  261. And I think that if I had not been in

  262. a position where I had put myself that morning in

  263. the word praying that I probably would not have received

  264. or even have known that that was something he needed.

  265. Do you see how important it is for us to

  266. get our daily bread? Like we need our daily bread,

  267. we have to have it.

  268. Listen to this.

  269. I believe this is a prophetic word for this house.

  270. Without the consumption of daily bread, it diminishes our capacity

  271. to yield fruit in the right or appropriate season. Every

  272. season is going to be different from you for you,

  273. but you can't even yield the right fruit in the

  274. right season if you don't have the mana for that day.

  275. You need that manna or otherwise the season may never

  276. even come to pass.

  277. Listen to this. The Lord gave me this equation.

  278. He said, minimal abiding equals minimal fruit equals minimal impact.

  279. Minimal abiding equals minimal fruit equals minimal impact. Not so

  280. for the people of New Horizon Church, not so for

  281. the body of Christ.

  282. I believe that the Lord.

  283. Is trying to say, my reformers know my will, they

  284. know how to operate in intimacy with me. I believe

  285. that this section of the Lord's prayer is so significant

  286. because it's the most volitional part on our end. Volitional

  287. meaning I could do it or I could not do it,

  288. And he ain't gonna make me. He's not gonna force me.

  289. He's not gonna make me do anything. He's a gentleman.

  290. But he's inviting us in.

  291. He loves us. Do you know that when God.

  292. Touches our heart in a crazy powerful way, it almost

  293. always comes in an intimate moment most of the severe,

  294. like those times when he comes and visits you and.

  295. You're just not ever the same after.

  296. It almost always comes in that section of time. It's

  297. in that intimate moment, It's in the intimacy. And so

  298. he's inviting us into this beautiful intimacy.

  299. But it's our choice.

  300. Listen to this. Your life is an extension of your

  301. bread eating. Your life is an extension of your bread eating.

  302. Can I have that first picture put up? Okay? If

  303. you have a battle coming up, if there's a war

  304. to win a battle, if things are getting really hot,

  305. serious and you need a miracle, is this the.

  306. Warrior that you're gonna text you got a race to run?

  307. Even?

  308. Can I have the next picture? Or might you called

  309. Dwayne Wolf and he's got his fatigues on, he's boff.

  310. He's ready to take the devil out. So the the

  311. Lord said to me, he said, much of the church

  312. is spiritually emaciated. Do you know what emaciation means? Have

  313. you ever seen a person that's so hungry there's hardly

  314. anything left of them? I was gonna put up pictures

  315. of emaciated people, but it's disturbing, so I didn't want

  316. to do that. I just picked a really weak looking guy.

  317. So the only way we're going to be able to

  318. wage the war, fight the battles is if the army

  319. is not emaciated. And if the army is not getting

  320. its bread every single day, then the army is going

  321. to be weak. My wife used to run marathons, and

  322. I was with her when she was running the Chicago Marathon.

  323. She did well, and so she qualified for the Boston Marathon.

  324. While she was running the Boston Marathon. She's little, but

  325. she's really tough, and she's small, very small, but kind

  326. of buff, and so she basically was like, hey, will

  327. you train with me? So I'm running a lot at

  328. that time. I'm running with her frequently. And one of

  329. the things that I found is when you run long distances.

  330. There's this pain that you initially have in the first

  331. mile to three or four or whatever, and then there's

  332. this point that you can get to where you just

  333. like it all goes away and you get into a groove.

  334. You get into a place there's like an ease to

  335. it where all of a sudden, then ten, twelve, fifteen

  336. miles can go by and those ones aren't hard.

  337. It was the first one or two or three.

  338. Those of you who've done something like a physical competition,

  339. this is how they work. There's this point where you

  340. push through and you get in your zone. Okay, the

  341. zone in Christianity is getting your manna every day. The

  342. zone in Christianity is eating your bread every day. If

  343. you ain't getting your bread every day, you are not

  344. going to be able to run that marathon. You're not

  345. going to be able to run that race. You're not

  346. going to be able to bring that victory. You will

  347. not have it because you are not rightfully equipped and trained,

  348. because you didn't get your food you need for the day. Spiritually,

  349. I believe this is a prophetic word for this house. Spiritually,

  350. we need to have this groove life. We need to

  351. have this anointing. I'm using the word groove because you

  352. people can like they make belts and whatever, but people

  353. know what that is. What I'm talking about is there's

  354. a place in God. There's an intimacy in him, there's

  355. an anointing in him where if you stay in that gear,

  356. I'm telling you you can get ten times more done

  357. than anybody else, and it'll be easy. You'll have a

  358. grace on whatever you put your hand to.

  359. But we got to stick in that gear.

  360. That gear is tied to this getting our bread. Listen

  361. to this. This is Malachi four two. But for you

  362. who revere my name, the Sun of righteousness will rise

  363. with healing in its rays, and you will go out

  364. and frolic like well fed calves. The Son of Righteousness

  365. is all over you with healing, and you're stepping out

  366. of your stall like a well fed calf. That's the anointing,

  367. that's the groove, that's the intimacy. Isaiah fifty eight to eleven.

  368. The Lord will guide you always. He will satisfy your

  369. needs in a sun scorched land, and will strengthen your frame.

  370. You will be like well a well watered garden, like

  371. a spring whose waters never fail. Your frame strengthened. You're

  372. a well watered garden. Are you getting where I'm going

  373. with this? There's a sustenance in the Lord that he brings,

  374. and he brings it through the bread daily, which is

  375. the Lord's prayer.

  376. And if we just come at.

  377. It from a head knowledge perspective, we may be missing

  378. the treasure in it. God's This is a word, God's

  379. prophetic declarations over and through you, hinge on your hiding

  380. and abiding time in Him, His prophetic declarations over you

  381. and through you, hinge on your hiding and abiding in Him.

  382. Joe preached on this the other.

  383. Day, But yesterday's manna it won't work for today. It's

  384. going to get stinky, smelly and rotten. Do you know

  385. you can't eat the other day's mana, except the only

  386. day you can eat the man is on the day

  387. it came. It's the same thing with the word. It's

  388. the same thing with our Bible study time. It's the

  389. same thing with prayer. It's the same thing with our

  390. worship time. You have to have it daily otherwise you

  391. can bear no good thing. And yesterday's won't do for today.

  392. Even if you had three days last week where you're.

  393. Like, oh, the Lord was on fire.

  394. He touched me, what about today? Yesterday's Mana isn't good

  395. enough for today. I believe that. I believe that New

  396. Horizon Church is a church where everybody is going to

  397. be communing so well with the King and receiving daily

  398. revelation and manna that we're going to bring the Kingdom

  399. come to Heaven, from heaven to earth because of how

  400. we function in our daily walk with mana, your daily refreshment.

  401. If you don't have refreshment daily, you got a problem.

  402. He said. You're like a stream planted by You're like

  403. a tree planted by streams of living water. The Lord

  404. gave me a picture, and the picture he gave me

  405. was that the church needs a reignition, or it needs

  406. a infusion of chlorophyll. Do you know what chlorophyll is?

  407. Chlorophyll's the stuff that makes leaves green. If the leaf

  408. loses its chlorophyll, it's greenness. What happens it withers and dies?

  409. Does it produce the thing that it was designed to

  410. produce and do season? It doesn't. So I really feel

  411. like the Lord's using this fasting season to reignite our hearts.

  412. To intimacy with him. And I don't believe he's calling

  413. it to be for this three weeks twenty one day.

  414. I believe that the Lord is asking us to reorient

  415. our lives, to redirect our schedules, to actually restructure how

  416. you live your life. That every morning you would wake

  417. with that desire that would say, I need his word

  418. in my tongue. I need the de word in season.

  419. I need my energy, I need my sustenance. The Lord

  420. said to me, we can't take possession of our promised

  421. lands if we aren't partaking in receiving our daily bread.

  422. You can't run a car without gas.

  423. It needs fuel, and our bread is the fuel for life.

  424. The only way we're going to produce the kingdom is

  425. if we're possessing the king. The only way we're going

  426. to produce the kingdom is if we're possess possessing the King.

  427. I need to be done in five minutes. How many

  428. minutes do I have? Five? Okay? Okay, oh yeah, no, no,

  429. we're watching the Seahawks, Go Hawks. Okay.

  430. Do you know not all.

  431. Prayer produces the same outcomes, Not all prayer. You could

  432. pray a prayer and not have it produce the right outcome,

  433. because if there's no expectancy, there's no faith. And without faith,

  434. if you don't have expectancy coupled with faith, it's really

  435. not even faith at all. And if you're praying without faith,

  436. you're probably not going to receive much. Then we'd be

  437. an unstable man expecting he should receive nothing. We have

  438. to pray with pitbull tonacity. We have to pray with

  439. like a yeah, like like the Seahawks are going to do,

  440. like the defense on the Seahawks.

  441. That like that what they're going to do today.

  442. That's how you got to pray, okay.

  443. And that's how we have to approach the spiritual realm.

  444. And even the Lord's prayer, the Lord's prayer can be

  445. can be approached in an aggressive way where you're saying,

  446. you're Heaven came down to Earth and repossess and repopulate

  447. all those demonic strategies and things that are here. We

  448. want them all taken out, and we want Heaven down.

  449. You can pray aggressively and pray the Lord's prayer Matthew

  450. six point twelve in an amplified Bible. So a couple

  451. on these scriptures, it might say something up there on

  452. the screen like NLT. It's not enalty this. I'm giving

  453. you an amplified but I don't think we have that

  454. in the system. So but it's programmed in right.

  455. So this is what it says.

  456. It says, and forgive our debts as we have forgiven

  457. our debtors. But listen to this, letting go of both

  458. the wrong and the resentment. Letting go of both the

  459. wrong and the resentment. That's what forgiveness is. This is

  460. it out of a passion translation in Matthew six, forgive

  461. us our wrongs we have done as we ourselves. Release forgiveness,

  462. the release of forgiveness to those who've wronged us. What's

  463. the significance of this? The significance of this comes in

  464. the next chapter. In the next couple verses go to

  465. Matthew six fourteen fifteen. For if you forgive others their trespasses,

  466. their reckless and willful sins, your heavenly Father will also

  467. forgive you.

  468. But if you do not forgive.

  469. Others nurturing your heart with anger, and the result that

  470. it interferes with your relationship with God, then your Father

  471. will not forgive your trespasses. So why is it so

  472. significant to release it, because if we're harboring bitterness and

  473. resentment in our heart towards another, then what happens is

  474. when we're trying to be intimate with the King, it

  475. interferes with the intimacy.

  476. We can't be as intimate.

  477. It's like a cog in there messing up the intimacy.

  478. I have a family member that I love really a lot,

  479. and over a long period of time, I realize something.

  480. I would have a conversation with them again and again

  481. and again, and every conversation ends up coming back to negativity,

  482. very heavy negativity, And every conversation will end up bringing

  483. up somebody and how they're upset with that somebody, and

  484. they're going to tell you the story of the thing

  485. that happened ten twenty thirty years ago. And it's with

  486. every conversation, and it happens again and again and again,

  487. and it doesn't really matter the conversation, it will all

  488. go that direction. It will always go back to negativity,

  489. and it will always go back to somebody having wronged them,

  490. harmed them, brought harm to them, or their perception of

  491. somebody having wronged them, even.

  492. If it wasn't wrong, but it's just their offense.

  493. And what I realized is that there's actually something happening

  494. spiritually here. The thing that's happening is there's actually a

  495. spirit that's at work controlling their heart and their mind.

  496. It's called a spirit of bitterness.

  497. And that spirit is like drinking poison and they're waiting

  498. for it to harm everybody else in their life, except

  499. it's only killing them. And so what I'm sharing this

  500. morning is that if we don't forgive and let go

  501. of the bitterness, the resentment whoever wronged us, we're inhibiting

  502. the King of Glory coming in and shedding his love

  503. in our heart. And I don't know about you, but

  504. I want all the love God wants to give me.

  505. I want all every bit of love that he wants

  506. to give me. I want it all.

  507. I want every bit of it. I don't want to.

  508. Miss any tiny iota of it. And so if this

  509. is in my heart, then I need to get rid

  510. of it. And sometimes we don't even realize that's happened

  511. to us. Years ago. I years ago I realized there

  512. was somebody who had they'd done one thing and another

  513. thing and another thing to kind of try and bring

  514. me harm. And what ended up occurring is that every

  515. time their name would come up, I'd have an interaction.

  516. I just have this like feeling.

  517. Eh, because I realized, I'm like and then I'm like, oh,

  518. this happens every time I think about the person. Every

  519. time their name comes up, no matter what someone else

  520. could be talking, they bring up that person and I'd

  521. be like, eh, you know, and I'm like, what is that. Oh,

  522. that's actually an unforgiveness. That's a lack of me releasing

  523. the offense. That's a lack of me shedding the forgiveness

  524. to give back.

  525. To them, and I'm harboring it.

  526. And I realized what it was, and I'm like, I'm

  527. not gonna harbor that bitterness and resentment.

  528. I'm gonna forgive.

  529. And so I'm cleaning my house spiritually out right, and

  530. I'm like, oh, I feel a lot better already. But

  531. then I realized I don't just need to clean my

  532. spiritual house out. What I actually have to do is

  533. go back and fill it up with the kingdom. So

  534. I started actually realizing my way to overcome this bitterness

  535. and resentment was actually to start to pray blessing every

  536. time I thought of the individual. Every single time I

  537. thought of them, I would just say, Lord, bless this individual,

  538. and I would just start praying blessing on him every time,

  539. every time, every time. And you know what happened. Eventually

  540. all those went away. I had no resentment, no bitterness

  541. like any angst in my heart, all gone. And after

  542. ten years of doing that, this individual came to me

  543. and said, please forgive me for how I treated you

  544. early in our relationship. I perceived you as a threat.

  545. I was trying to bring harm to you. The Lord

  546. restored this person's, this man's relationship and mine, and we're

  547. pretty good today. I'm telling you, this is so common

  548. in Christianity. Do you know everybody's offended at everything. A

  549. spirit of bitterness is all over people everywhere. This is

  550. the most common thing you see. And what I don't

  551. want is for New Horizon Church to have any hindrance

  552. in our capacity to just receive all of God's love,

  553. to receive all of his mercy, to receive all of

  554. his wisdom, to be able to be used of him.

  555. And I don't want there to be any of that

  556. at all in us, in our hearts and in our minds,

  557. because He wants to come in and show his good

  558. nature to you. He wants to tackle you with his love.

  559. He wants to shed it abroad on your heart, and

  560. I don't want to inhibit that. So as we're closing,

  561. if you're here, I believe so there's going to be.

  562. There's two camps here, one of which I believe that

  563. the Lord is calling this church not to a season

  564. of a twenty one day fast. I believe the Lord

  565. is calling this church for this lifestyle to be your

  566. yearly lifestyle. I believe the Lord is calling this church.

  567. I believe he's talking to you and saying to you,

  568. you need to restructure your entire life around Him being

  569. first place and giving him your first heart's access every

  570. day that there, This would be the thing that this

  571. church is called to, because intimacy comes when we do this,

  572. and when we do this, then you get to see

  573. His spirit on you, flowing through you to bring the kingdom.

  574. And if your reformers we need the spirit flowing to

  575. bring the kingdom, I'm gonna have you stand with me.

  576. We're just gonna prophetically declare Lord as New Horizon Church.

  577. We declare right now that as a church we will

  578. partner with you restructuring our schedules, You restructuring our time,

  579. You being.

  580. The first place one.

  581. We sang a song earlier about has he he's holy.

  582. He's holy means he's beautiful. If he's beautiful, why would

  583. we not want to give him the first place of

  584. our day. He's worthy of that, If he's beautiful, we

  585. want to be with the beautiful one. Right And so

  586. I declare that right now, new horizon, we are agreeing with,

  587. We are partnering with this intimacy, this first place love,

  588. this our hearts.

  589. Being burned again for him, for his kingdom, for his ways.

  590. And we just say, there's nothing in us that is

  591. obstructing that.

  592. Or hindering that. But we agree with it, we partner

  593. with it.

  594. We just declare that this is our lifestyle. This is

  595. not something that's for a short period of time. Will

  596. I believe the Lord's prophetically saying twenty twenty six is

  597. the year that you are going to shift.

  598. How you function.

  599. With the king, and this will change every single year after,

  600. Like this is the most quintessential element.

  601. Of our existence as a human, that he.

  602. Would, even he created the heavens and the earth, that

  603. he would call us into intimacy is so amazing. It's

  604. so beautiful that he would even cast his eye on

  605. us like this.

  606. It's it blows our minds.

  607. We say we agree with this, we partner with this,

  608. we accept it, we receive it.

  609. We say we will walk.

  610. This out this year in twenty twenty six, and this

  611. will be our lifestyle from.

  612. This time forward. Those of you who are here.

  613. If you if in your heart you feel like there's

  614. when I was talking about bittering or harboring bitterness or resentment.

  615. If you feel like like something like kind of pricked

  616. you or got in your ear or tapped you on

  617. the shoulder, I'm going to have the Destiny Team come up,

  618. and I want you to come up and get prayed for.

  619. I want you to get prayed for that you would

  620. receive freedom from any demonic realm ministering spirits that are

  621. trying to bring harm to you. Destiny Team, if you

  622. could come.

  623. Up that are trying to bring harm to you, and we're.

  624. Gonna break this off of you, we're gonna agree with

  625. your release. If you've done this before and you need more,

  626. I think you probably should be doing Restored.

  627. Life, because deliverance ministry.

  628. Is the key to break off the yoke of the

  629. oppressor in your life. So as we close and the

  630. band's playing, come up. If you know something's touched you.

  631. I want you to come up and be prayed for.

  632. If you happen to be one of those four people

  633. that was in the room that raised your hand earlier

  634. and said yes to Jesus' as we as Zach gave

  635. an invitation to come and to know him as your

  636. savior and your king, I want you to come up

  637. and I want you to be prayed for. Okay, bless

  638. you Church. We're gonna finish this thing out strong. We've

  639. got the summit coming next week and we're just getting

  640. warmed up. We're gonna participate with God's further advancement of

  641. his kingdom. And we say our hearts are open, willing,

  642. and receptive in the name of Jesus