17% | Dr. Craig Lapenski

Our church is fun, right, Our church is fun. So I don't

I am one hundred percent sure that there is that the Lord is going to

do something here today in the way of sparking something, generating something, creating

something. Pastor Dwayne did a couple series on creative power that were awesome.

If you didn't listen to him, you should have been here in church if

you weren't listen to him. Now, Joe did an awesome job last week,

and it's been kind of a theme here and so when when I was

asked to share, and it's in praise the Lord for Pastor Dwayne. He

just did three days of recover life and health and healing and wholeness to his

voice and rest to him today and we just we love our pastors and we

love our church. And so I considered an honor to even be given an

opportunity to speak. So that being said, I was really pressing into the

Lord and I thought I had a message, and I have one maybe at

some other point, but the Lord completely flipped the gear. And so I'm

going to give you something that I didn't know five days ago was for you.

And so I have been ruminating going through Joshua again again. We did

that during our Daniel fast, and I've just been doing it again and again.

I don't know how many times they've gone back through it. And have

you ever had this thing with the Lord where you're like, you know he's

got something in there for you, Like there's some mystery that he has for

you somewhere, but you don't yet know what that is. And so I

just kept going back in and back in and back in, and I don't

know how many times, maybe four or five times, I've gone back through

the Book of Joshua. And then all of a sudden, I'm listening to

Pastor Dwayne's message and I'm listening to Joe's message, and I'm like, that's

why. So this is I'm gonna give you some scriptures first, and we're

gonna go somewhere. This is Joshua one. Uh, this is gonna be

one through two. First, the Lord said to Joshua, the son of

None, Moses's aid, Moses, my servant is dead. Now, then

you and all these people get ready to cross the Jordan River into the land.

I'm about to give them. This is verse three. I will give

you every place where you set your foot, he says, in the same

sphere, no one will be able to stand up against you all of the

days of your life. So I will be with you. You probably say,

oh, that's familiar, that's in Hebrews thirteen. I will never leave

you, nor forsake you. You're like, oh, that's the Old Testament,

new Testament. It's all over the place. And so keep in mind

that at this exact point in time, the most incredible man of God that

anybody on the planet at that point had been exposed to was Moses. Right,

he led the people out of captivity. He's he. I mean,

he had a face to face with God. He put the commandments on the

stones. I mean, this is not like like this is the biggest guy

in the kingdom at the time. Right. And so here you've got Joshua,

which is his aid. And you know an aid means helper, right,

So Joshua is his helper. And Moses is now dead. And the

Lord speaks to Joshua and he says, after thirty days of the morning,

he says, wake up, get up. The time of mourning is over.

The time of mourning is over. And so the Lord then starts to

give instruction to Joshua, and I was thinking about this, You ever put

yourself in the head in like the the time of that individual, and like

think about what would it be like if I was there? What would it

have been like if if the Lord was doing that with me? And so

just a couple of thoughts that passed in my head were, Man, Joshua

is probably sitting here thinking, I am not qualified, like Moses is dead,

who like I can't lead these people? Are you kidding me? Get

out of here? Right? He's thinking. He's probably thinking, if the

most incredible man of God in that time period couldn't bring a group of people

into the Promised Land, there's zero chance I'm gonna be able to do that.

Right. He's probably sitting there, maybe meditating on the negativity of some

of the tribes, right because originally when they were sent out the tribes to

go look at the Promised Land, you have twelve tribes, and ten of

them came back with a negative report, right, and then there was Joshua

and Caleb. They had a different report. The Lord saying, you know,

they all saw the same thing, correct, They all witnessed with their

eyes the exact same thing. So they saw people with grapes that were so

big that you had to put a pole like on my shoulder to connect with

your shoulder, and we would have to put the grapes in the middle and

carry them as two people because they were so big. They the land was

flowing with milk and honey. They saw this incredible thing, and yet the

people of God were basically kind of like, ah, we can't do that.

What was their response, We're but grasshoppers in the eyes of these people,

right, they were not. They were perceiving themselves as the grasshopper.

Their thought process was the problem, not the promised land nor their enemies.

And so if you look at Joshua and Caleb, scripture says that they had

a different spirit about them. And that's not the purpose that we're not going

to get into that today. But what I will share with you is that

if you were to sit back and look what were the twelve tribes, Those

were the people of God at the time, correct people of God at the

time, and you have seventeen per se of the people of God at the

time actually agreeing with God. Two divided. Where's our math teachers, somebody

helped me here, seventeen percent right two divided by twelve or into twelve.

So you've got eighty three percent. We're not talking about heathens, We're not

talking about the atheists. You have eighty three percent of the people that are

God's people where he's telling him to do some and he's trying to get him

to walk in something that he has for them. It's flowing with milk and

honey. It's the best thing they've ever seen. And yet there's a lot

of negativity there. There is ten tribes saying we can't do it. We're

grasshoppers in their sight, and God's trying to coax them and he's having trouble.

I'm gonna tell you that I believe that the Body of Christ today,

the big sea church God is trying to awaken. And as far as New

Horizon goes, I'm telling you this is not a seventeen percent church. This

is not a seventeen percent church. God is calling this church and the Body

of Christ to be one hundred percent church. A. I'm all in church

A. Whatever you said, Lord, we're doing it, and nothing is

gonna hold us back. When we hear negativity, we we just I gotta

my ear is closed to that I won't even listen to that. I won't

even partner with that. Somebody tells you you can't do it, and you're

just like, you know what, I think, I'm gonna limit how much

time I spend with you. Right, You're gonna surround yourself with some more

Joshua and Caleb, and you're going to start to get faith filled, and

you're going to start to walk out the plans and promises of God for your

generation. And it's not supposed to be seventeen percent. Every single believer,

every single believer in Jesus has a calling, a vision, a purpose.

God put you here and is putting his anointing on you to accomplish something,

to take ground. It could have been that Joshua was really like discouraged.

Why do I think that's the case. Well, one, they spent how

many years walking around in a desert without occupying forty that's a lot crowd participation,

yes, thank you, so a lot of years. And if they

were in today's church, they might have even said, well, if it

was the Lord's will, we would have been in the Promised Land already.

But you know, these forty years, he just you know, it's just

clearly not his will, and so that's why we're not in the Promised Land.

You better watch out for that. It's all over and you don't want

to partner with that because you're not part of the seventeen percent. So I

believe that God has put a creative spark in every single person that has ever

said yes to him. He's already put it in your heart. He's worth

something in you. And I hear him saying that there's some dormant sparks out

there, that there's some embers that are that are dormant. That like,

maybe the Lord gave you a prophetic word and it was ten years ago or

twelve or fifteen or whatever it was, or maybe it was last week and

you just haven't taken action yet. The timeline is irrelevant. But I believe

that the Lord has put sparks of creative power pastor Dwayne's message, sparks of

creative power in your heart. And when you think about this stuff, it

lights you up. You get energized, you get enthusia. You look like

Dennis up here on the stage right, Like something happens to you when the

Lord does this in you and reminds you even of the thing that it is

that he's moving on you in your heart, in with and so the first

part of my message today is that I believe that the Lord wants to re

earth and re spark some dreams and visions that he put in your heart so

that you can start to put your foot in the Jordan river. I'm telling

you this is how the Lord works. How the Lord works is he never

shows us the end at the beginning. He doesn't do that. What he

does is he gives us a spark, and he gives us instruction, and

the instruction maybe take and puts your foot in the Jordan. And then as

soon as you start doing that, before you did it and you could see

nothing, it looked like nothing is happening. And then you put your foot

in the Jordan, and then all of a sudden, a wall of water

starts to come up, and it pushes all the way back to Adam.

This is symbolic of when Christ comes out of the grave, the rebirth of

the what we're gonna celebrate in two weeks is a symbol of the water coming

back in the wall push back to Adam. It's it's it's this is like

a type do you guys know what I'm talking about. Right, You only

get to see the creative resurrection power of the Lord when you start. It'll

work in her heart, but you really get to see it move when you

put your foot in the Jordan. You gotta take a step, and you're

never gonna get to see what the end's gonna look like unless you get your

foot in the river. When I was a kid, I would go to

my grandma's and my grandma had a wood stove and I would start fires for

my grandma. And she had this thing and it was called a bellows.

It's a two pieces of wood with leather in the middle, and when you

like, basically pump, yeah, Junior's doing it. When you pump it

together, it pushes air out. I would use this thing NonStop, and

it's how you would take when the fire is getting started and you got a

little spark in an ember. It's how you create a roaring inferno in that

fireplace is by using that bellows. And I believe that, prophetically speaking,

that that's what the Lord wants to do here this morning, whether it's for

you in a chair or whether it's you online, I believe that the Lord

prophetically is. He's asking you, though, to grab the bellows and fan

the flame. He doesn't just do everything of his own will and power.

He's asking for a partnership, just like he did with the twelve tribes.

And this house is a house of one hundred percent of you said it,

Lord, we'll do it, and we're going to see your kingdom come.

That's this fear it on this house. And I'm going to tell you that

I believe that there's there. I know that there's at least one person in

here, because this is not what I was going to present today. And

so there's somebody in here where the Lord is trying. He's remind you,

like the Holy Spirit right now is working on your heart and he's bringing to

your remembrance stuff that he already put in you. And you're like having you

can't even hear me right now, You're just like having this remembrance of that

thing. And the person laid hands on you, and you had this thing

happening in your heart, and then Monday happened and your car broke down and

you got fired, and you know, your kids had problems, and what

happened is there's this spark that's there there's an ember and it didn't get fanned.

I think it happens a lot in the body of Christ. And the

Lord's here to remind you. He wants you to fan your flame. He

wants you to get your bellows out, and he wants you to create an

inferno if you will, and the inferno will light you up. It's not

just for his kingdom, it's for your own benefit, in conjunction with one

another. So this is what happens. The Lord puts something in the heart,

and here's what happens in almost every case. And this is why.

And I'm gonna I'm gonna give you the verse. This is why. In

verse nine it says, do not be terrified, do not be discouraged,

for the Lord, your God will be with you wherever you go. I

believe the Lord is speaking this word directly to him because he knows that discouragement

has been trying to keep his heart down, because he's thinking, well,

we just spent forty years in the desert, and if the guy above me

can't do it, who am I. Here's what the amplified Bibles. I

didn't give this to you. So this is what the amplified Bible says,

do not be dismayed, dismayed or intimidated. This is this is the Passion

translation. It says, do not yield to fear or be discouraged. That's

the same one nine through two other translations. I believe that that here this

morning, the Lord is trying to reignite fan into flame, but he won't

do it on his own. He's asking us, me and you to get

on board and partner with the thing that he's already been speaking deep in your

soul and your spirit and in your heart, that you know he has for

you. It may be it may be that the Lord prompted and brought to

the memory of Joshua. This is what I think. I don't know this

is the case, but it may be that Deuteronomy twenty eight to seven came

to Joshua's mind, where the Lord said, I will grant the enemies who

rise up against you to be defeated before you. They will come from you

in one or come at you from one direction, and flee in seven.

I actually think that it's very likely that in this season of discouragement, where

he's thinking I can't do it, that the Lord is like giving him Deuteronomy

twenty eight and saying, no, you watch, the enemy is going to

flee from you in seven directions. And I think it's prophetic for us today.

This is the battle every believer will face. Every believer, you will

face this battle between It's the contradiction of the call of God and the spark

of God on your life and in your heart, and the thing that lights

you up, and the world's system against you, your own mind against you,

past experience that didn't work out that way forty years Romana desert the guy

that's bigger than you, and he couldn't do it. Moses right, I'm

telling you this is the Christian walk. You're going to face this. But

the Lord is saying to you, I never leave you, I never forsake

you. I am with you. Called you to be an all in one

hundred percent, not no seventeen percent, a one hundred percent on fire spiritual

spark that you're fanning the flame with with your bellows. And the Lord is

causing you to walk into your promised land. And he doesn't step by step

put your foot in the Jordan. So I was driving in my car and

the on I think it was Wednesday morning, and I thought I was gonna

say something else, and I actually have a message that I have, but

it's not this and so and the Lord. This doesn't happen to me every

day, but it was like the Lord came and got in my car,

and it was so significant that it it it just it causes me to weep.

When the Lord visits me, I weep. And it was so significant,

like I'm like having trouble driving and I'm trying to like get you know,

clean my eyes out, and and I was like looking like, Lord,

what's going on here? And he told me, he said, you've

got a message. I want to rebirth and re spark the creative power that

I put in my people. And then and then he said to me,

he said, it's like two part of POxy. And I thought, Lord,

you're going to make me sound like a fool. Two part of POxy.

What the Heck's that? Two part of POxy involves two liquids that you

put together. When you put two liquids together, there is a chemical reaction.

This is what's happening. A nucleophilic attack on the A mean nitrogen on

the terminal carbon of the epoxy, and there's a chemical interaction that happens,

and when this chemical interaction happens, you don't have two liquids anymore. You

have a solid. This is what happens in the life of us the believer,

when we're born again and he deposits his spark in us, and then

we agree that we're gonna walk in communion with him. We're gonna walk in

common union. We're gonna hook up with him. We're gonna let him be

our guide, our comforter, our counselor we're gonna be We're gonna it's now

no longer us who live, but him who lives within us. We're just

gonna like forget about us altogether. We're just gonna become one with him.

And when we become one with him, that here, here's what happens.

When the epoxy comes together those two chemical the two different chemicals, it becomes

a solid. And that solid is resistant to chemical attack. It's actually quite

so. It's quite resistant to damage or harm to it. The enemy can't

do a squat to you when you are a two part epoxy and bound to

him. It's it's it's the lord's laughing at the enemy. So how do

you how do you walk in your promised land. The answer is you got

to take steps. And as I was in the car, the Lord spoke

to me and he said, the key to seeing your promised land is your

shepherding. You're stewarding of the anointing of God, of the Holy Spirit in

your life. I'm gonna tell you I feel fortunate because I've got a bunch

of friends in this house who do a great job of stewarding the anointing of

God. There's examples here for us. And I'm also going to tell you

that when it comes to stewarding the anointing of God, it's going to come

in contradiction to what culture may look like. That you may see maybe the

thing that becomes most important to you is hearing from him. Maybe you just

want to stay where he is and maybe like entertaining, like it just kind

of like loses its luster, maybe like even a vacation, like after a

few days, you're like, yeah, I mean, I like some sunshine.

But man, Lord, I just really want you Holy Spirit. I

just really want to walk with you. Lord, I just really want to

abide in the was that you. Pastor Dwayne Psalomon ninety one, This morning,

first Service somebody was talking about sign abiding in the shelter of the Most

High, resting in the shadow of His wings, Like like, there's there's

something that when it gets a hold of you, you don't even really give

a rip about what kind of car you drive, and like the house you

live in, and and people might not even understand if you have a nice

car house, they might think that that moves you. And it's like,

no, huhuh No. Do you know it's the Lord's desire that you be

prospered in all things? Third John two Dearly Loved, I wish you'd prosper

in all things being hell just you're just soul prospers. What does that say,

soul prosper? Do you know that God's desire is for us to develop

enough character in Him that the blessing of God doesn't crush us? Do you

know that you can't even you can't even walk out your promised land without the

anointing of God and the blessing of God on your life. And it was

not designed to crush you. But we have to have enough foundations spiritually to

be able to even handle it. What is the key to walking in the

anointing of God and not letting it depart from you. That's anyhow. I

will not let the law of the Lord depart from me. I will meditate

on it day and night. Right. This is all over Psalm one,

on Proverbs three six, Deuteronomy twenty eight. Obey the voice of the Lord

your God. Careful to obey always put before you this day, and he'll

command his blessing upon you. Those are the sorry, none of those are

in the notes. Here's the ticket. I think that this morning the Lord

is calling some of us into transparency with him. You cannot steward the anointing

of God and the blessing of God. You cannot steward it without transparency.

If you think you're going to do something one way one day and hide something,

I'm just telling you he can't work with that. I know in my

own personal life he can't work with it. He just wants like us to

be like dialed in with him. Confess your sin to one another, and

he'll forgive you and cleanse you of all unrighteousness. I'm telling you, if

there is a horizontal issue or a with a man you and man, or

a vertical issue, as far as your transparency with God, I believe this

is something he's desiring to fix today because you need the You need the the

anointing of God to walk out your promised land. And you can't have the

anointing of God unless you and Him are succinct in alignment. And it doesn't

matter what you do. If you're a sculptor, how do you even see

I have a yeah, how do you even see the thing that's going to

get sculpted in a block of marble? That's the anointing of God. If

you're a stay at home mom, how are you going to raise your kids

up to walk with the Lord and exemplify the fruits of the spirit. Unless

you're in communion with the King. You can only give what you have,

So if you don't have it, you can't give it. So it doesn't

matter if you're a stay at home mom, It doesn't matter if you run

a business. It doesn't matter if you're a sculptor or a painter. You

need the anointing of God in your life and you can't actually even function well

as a Christian without that. So the Lord told me go to Hebrew seven.

I was in the car. I tried to look at it while I

was in the car and don't do so I needed. I'm gonna read a

couple of scriptures. This is Joshua seven twelve. That is why the Israelites

cannot stand against their enemies. They turn their backs and run because they have

been made libel to destruction. This you're reading here, it says devoted destruction.

I'm reading it out of an NIV. It says libel to destruction.

And I'm like, what are you talking about? What's libel to destruction?

Mean? Lord, this is Joshua seven twelve. You cannot stand against your

enemy until you remove it. So in Joshua seven twenty and twenty one,

you guys might know this story. The Lord says to Aikin. It is

true. The Lord's working on Aikin's heart. This is Aikin's response, since

Joshua seven twenty twenty one, it is true. I have sinned against the

Lord, the God of Israel. This is what I have done. When

I saw the plunder and a beautiful robe from Babylonia, two hundred shekels of

silver, a bar of gold weighing fifty shekels, I coveted them and I

took them. They're hidden in the ground inside my tent with the silver underneath.

So I'm not here. I'm here. This is an encouraging word.

What I'm here to tell you, though, is that if we got something

hidden in our heart, we rob the Lord of something you can't get into

the promised Land. The people weren't moving into the Promised Land until the sin

was uncovered. They brought it into the open. They repented. But here's

this is how good our loving God is towards you and me. If you

don't think he loves you, and this is even old Testament, come on,

so listen to what he does. The Lord said to Joshua. Immediately

after they cleansed, they got the stuff they stole from the Lord. They

pulled it out from underneath the cop you got it brought into Lord. Confess,

Lord, please forgive me. This is what they did. The Lord

immediately goes out and says to Joshua, do not be afraid, do not

be discouraged. Take the whole army with you. Go up. This is

Joshua eight one. Thank you. I'm so sorry. In the back.

Take the whole army with you. Go up and attack ai, for I

have delivered into your hands the King of Ai, his people, his city,

and his land. What happened immediately after they realigned with God. He

gave the enemy of the land into their hands. The Lord says, don't

be afraid or don't be discouraged, like four times in Joshua one. He

keeps doing it all throughout the book at Joshua, and every time after there's

a cleansing of the Lord, he reaffirms them with this. What did Joshua

do? They set up an altar two actually, and guess where they were?

Twin mountains on the Jordan. What's the Jordan symbolize the crossing over the

putting your foot in the water. It symbolized the original act they took where

the Lord did his work. And he sets up on two mountains. And

I'm gonna condense this. He sets up on two mountains, he puts all

the people on him, creates an altar, and they renew their covenant with

the Lord. This is his heart towards us, Like, I mean,

how cool is that even when we miss it, he's right there just to

say, yeah, let's start again, no problem, I got your back.

And now I'm gonna tell you, don't don't be afraid don't be discouraged.

This is your next instruction on how to route the enemy. Do you

realize how much he loves us? Okay, So they're fleeing on the road.

They end up dealing with the five Amorite Kings. I preached a little

bit on this kind of many preached three weeks ago. And what does the

Lord do. He destroys their plan of attack by destroying them with large hailstones.

Five kings. They set up a trap for the Israelites, and the

Lord thrashes them with huge hailstones, and it took out so many of them

of them that it caused way more destruction than the swords of the Israelites.

Your weapons not enough. You need the anointing of God in your life.

Okay, So I'm going to read you something short. You guys can start.

Thank you. Here's what it says. Right after all this happens,

this is Joshua eleven fifteen, as the Lord commanded his servant Moses. So

Moses commanded Joshua, and it says, and Joshua did it, he left

nothing undone. Of all that the Lord had commanded Moses, nothing was left

undone. So the visions the dreams. The everything that the Lord wanted for

his people, it all got done. There wasn't any of it that didn't

come to pass. The Lord is looking for us to say yes to his

spark, to put our foot in the Jordan, to cleanse and get rid

of whatever is hindering transparency with him, and then he's right there to give

the next instruction. This is what it says. It says at the end

of Joshua that Joshua lived to be one hundred and ten years old, and

it says that under Joshua's reign all of Israel was in peace. How many

years had they not had peace? A lot? How about Egypt? How

about desert? Right? And it actually says that the land had rest,

people had rest. This reminds me of the earth groaning and travailing for you,

for the sons and daughters of God to take their promised lands. Because

the reality is that God doesn't do this on his own. He partners with

people, and it's only to our yes will he move in our life.

And so we got to agree with him. And what I would share with

you, what I would share with you is that I think there is a

Joshua anointing or calling on this church, and it would be that things would

look different because you were occupying your promised land. If everybody is functioning in

the land that they're supposed to be in and the way that they're supposed to

be in it, the kingdom is advancing forcefully, and the demonic realm is

suffering violence. The Kingdom of God is advancing. When you're advancing, the

earth is waiting for it. And we just gotta say, yes, Lord,

I agree. I'm not a seventeen percenter I'm one hundred percenter Destiny team.

Can I have you come up. I have a feeling that there could

be somebody in here tonight, well afternoon, this afternoon where you could be

somewhere in one of these three situations. Number One, you could be somebody

who the Lord has put a spark in your heart and you know that he

called you to do something. You've got a call on your life and you

actually already even know what that is. And it could be that he's been

working his spirit on you like while we've been here. And if that's you,

I want you to come up and I want you to agree and have

them agree with you in prayer over you taking your promised land in territory.

Okay, if that's not you, And if you're just sitting here and you're

thinking, well, I actually have been starting to walk out my promised land,

but I've been having trouble occupying it. I seem to have some attack

against me. Well, the thing that makes you resilient against the chemical attack

and the two part epoxy is your union with him. And if there's something

in your heart that you need to come and confess, you need to get

right with him, come up and have somebody pray with you, because you

know what. The minute you do that, do you know what he wants

to do. He wants to put his anointing right back on you again.

He says, I'm never gonna leave you, I'm never gonna forsake you.

He doesn't even condemn us. I mean, come on, this is not

that hard. He did the hard part. We got the easy part.

And maybe you're in here and you're in the middle of your promised land and

you're just doing awesome and maybe your enemies are being routed before you. That's

great. So for you continue to be strong and very courageous, do not

fear, continue to put the enemy under your foot, under your foot.

If you're in here right now and there's been something here that spoke to your

heart, We're gonna dim the lights, I think a little bit. I

want you to come up, I want you to get prayed for. I'm

just gonna have a couple of declarations over you here as we finish up,

because I believe that the Lord is called this church to be a church of

people who are absolutely using their bellows to fan the flame of God, and

who are taking the creative spark and power that he's already put in you.

And he's just flaming it up. He's flaming it up. And I just

think that the Lord has got a mountain for you to take. I think

he's got a plan for you that is better than you know. But you

got to get out of your chair, and you got to put your foot

in the Jordan, and you got to start taking ground. And if you're

here right now, and you'd say, oh, you know, but I'm

having trouble and I don't think I can deal with the enemy against me.

The Lord is saying, like he did to Joshua and Aiken, come just

confess it before me. Bring it out in the open, bring transparency.

And when transparency comes, then what happens is we're back online again, and

I put my deposit of my anointing and blessing right back on your life.

It's right back on you again, and then you have the power to be

able to walk out promised land experience. I just declare this house is a

house of people that take and move with God. They're in step with Him

there in concert with him. They hear him well, and they just walk

out the plans of God. They just are obedient to his voice, to

his spirit, to his nature. I even declare that this group of people

is being built up like that, these are spiritual titans, that there's so

much strength and foundation and character in them that they can actually not just walk

into the Promised Land, they can actually stay in it. They can stay

in their promised land because they're at a place of communion with the most High

that allows for them to deal with the attack of the enemy and to have

that strong, strong resiliency where the enemy can do nothing to them. Online,

we bless you, We thank you for being with us today, those

of you who are here. If you need somebody to come pray with you

do that, Lord Jesus, we just lift you up. We thank you

for the creative spark that you have put. We thank you for the creative

spark that you have put in each person who's in this room. We thank

you for your your leading and guiding and directing. We thank you that you're

rebirthing dreams in here this morning. Yeah, we thank you for rebirthing dreams

in here this morning and reigniting our hearts. We just thank you that you've

been so gracious to us that you would even like let an ember sit there

for years, Lord, that you would just come and you would blow on

it. Lord, we just asked for the blowing the wind of God,

the power of God, the blowing of God, the bellows of God,

on the spark of God, the creative power of God on this congregation.

That this ca congregation would be ones that are sent out. They would just

be ground taking. The enemy would flee before them. We just declare that

this is a church where the enemy can do nothing against them like that,

that the enemy is thwarted and runs away from them in seven different directions.

And we thank you, Lord, that your hand of protection is on them.

We thank you that they're resistant to attack, Lord, like the epoxy

is. And we give you praise for it. Right now in the name

of Jesus. We just thank you that your hand in your presence is on

our church, and we give you praise that you never leave us, you

never forsake us, and you are there to partner with us, to tell

us where to put our foot and how to get it in the river.

And we say, yes, we agree, and we partner with you,

Lord, in the name of Jesus.