HINDSIGHT: LOOKING BACK TO MOVE FORWARD | Part 4 | The Power of a Testimony

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>> That is my traditional Pastor Ben

greeting in case you missed it.

>> You missed it first time.

Oh my goodness.

>> Maybe I just do all the little Pastor

Benisms.

Hey, are you guys thankful for our lead

pastor, Pastor Ben and Sister Jessica?

Amen. [applause]

Such a privilege to serve with him in

ministry. And this is such a great

church. And uh Pastor Ben's kind of

catching his breath this week. I am

Pastor Dan if you're new here. uh one of

the pastors on staff and we're wrapping

up a series called hindsight and so

we're going to look back one last time

and then we're going to keep moving

forward. It is February 1st.

>> Are you excited about that?

>> Because I'm really excited when we can

stop complaining about the cold and

start complaining about how hot it is

again.

>> We'll just go from one season to the

next. But God is good. And um as I was

thinking about hindsight, you know, we

have a windshield in our car that's

quite big. And then there's a rearview

mirror which is quite small. And so I

think, you know, you can't really drive

effectively with your head looking back.

So if you're always looking back at your

kids, um that's dangerous. Don't do

that. But um you know I think it it's

just a good kind of illustration of how

you know we need to look back now and

then just to see what's going on behind

us and see if any of our Grace Summit

brothers and sisters are riding our tail

and about to run us off the road or

anything like that. That's a true story

by the way that has happened. Um but we

need to for the most part be looking

forward but we do need the reference

from what's behind. And so I would like

to uh share with you a message called

the power of a testimony. and it'll be

coming primarily out of Joshua's 4th

chapter. And so if you have a Bible, you

can turn there. It should also be on the

screen behind me. Joshua 4 and beginning

at verse 4. So Joshua called together

the 12 men he had chosen, one from each

of the tribes of Israel. He told them,

"Go into the middle of the Jordan in

front of the ark of the Lord your God.

Each of you must pick up one stone and

carry it on your shoulder. 12 stones in

all, one for each of the 12 tribes of

Israel. We will use these stones to

build a memorial in the future. Your

children will ask you, "What do these

stones mean?" Then you can tell them.

They remind us that the Jordan River

stopped flowing when the ark of the

Lord's covenant went across. These

stones will stand as a memorial among

the people of Israel forever. So the men

did as Joshua commanded them. They took

12 stones from the middle of the Jordan

River, one for each tribe, just as the

Lord had told Joshua. They carried them

to the place where they camped for the

night and constructed the memorial or

the testimony there. Joshua also set up

another pile of 12 stones in the middle

of the Jordan at the place where the

priests who carried the ark of the

covenant were standing. And they are

there to this day. Down to verse 21 now.

Then Joshua said to the Israelites, "In

the future, your children will ask,

"What's up with these stones?"

Then you can tell them, "This is where

the Israelites crossed the Jordan on dry

ground. For the Lord your God dried up

the river right before your eyes. And he

kept it dry till you were all across

just as he did at the Red Sea when he

dried it up until he had crossed over.

He did this so all the nations of the

earth might know that the Lord's hand is

powerful and so you might fear the Lord

your God forever.

This is a really important

time in Israel's history. And I want us

to draw from it the fact that they're

testifying. They are recalling. They're

looking back on their journey. And

they're setting up a memorial, a

permanent testimony of what God had done

in their lives. And I hope to have you

see yourself in this passage as we go

along because all of us are witnesses

regardless of where you're at with

Christ even. And I'll explain that a

little later on. You are a witness. God

could have decided to just write across

the sky, hey, I'm God. I save people and

stuff.

He could have done that and we'd be

like, "Oh, wow. God's speaking directly

to us." But God most often speaks

through other people. And if you look

over your journey, you may realize that

God has sent specific people into your

life at specific times to get his

message to you. That's just how God

works. All of us have a story that's

unfolding in real time and a story that

we can share which will be a blessing to

other people. I want to share with you a

couple of verses about being his

witnesses. Isaiah 43:10.

Isaiah 43:10

The scripture says, "You are my

witnesses, says the Lord, and my servant

whom I have chosen, that you may know

and believe me, and understand that I am

he. Before me there was no God formed,

nor shall there be after me." Isaiah

Isaiah 44:8

44:8.

Do not fear nor be afraid. Have I not

told you from that time and declared it?

You are my witnesses. Is there a God

besides me? Indeed, there is no other

rock. I know not one. Acts 18. But you

shall receive power when the Holy Spirit

has come upon you, and you will be

witnesses to me in Jerusalem and in Fort

Wayne and in Judea and Ellen County and

Samaria and Indiana and to the ends of

the earth.

>> Is that how it read?

That was the PD paraphrase.

Acts 26:22, the Apostle Paul said this,

Acts 26:22

"Therefore, having obtained help from

God, to this day I stand witnessing both

to small and great, saying no other

things than those which the prophets and

Moses said would come." The story is the

same for all of us. We are created

beings.

God, we are the the height of his

creation, the climax of all that he

made. If you ever read the the account

of creation, he created and said, "It's

good. It's good. It's good." And when he

created man, he said, "It's very good."

We are in the image of our creator. And

the story is still that we need our

creator. We were created to be in

fellowship him. We were created to

worship him. And this world would love

to pull us in a thousand different

directions to take away from that truth.

But we are witnesses. There is no other

God but him. There is no one that can

change a life like him. He is the one

true God. He always was, he is, and he

always will be. Jesus Christ the same

yesterday, today, and forever. He has

touched my life and knows touched many

of your lives. And we are witnesses. We

are those who will testify of the

awesomeness of God. So I want to unpack

Joshua chapter 4 this way. I'm kind of

Joshua 4 · chapter mention

giving you a road map if you will. There

are three parts to the story. There are

two levels to the story and there are 12

stones in the story each of which which

we will discuss. Three parts to the

story. You see, when they put these

rocks uh as a wi as a testimony on the

other side of Jordan, they were

recalling, they were looking back at all

that God had already done. These are a

people who had started in the land of

bondage. That's the first part. The

first part is the bondage part. The

second part is the wandering part. And

the third part is the promised part.

We're standing on the brink of the

wandering part, stepping into the

promised part. But before they got to

this, they were in bondage just like we

were.

You see, the the uh slavery in Egypt is

typical of us being slaves to sin. If

you know the story, the Israelites went

into Egypt to fulfill a need. There was

only about 70 of them at the time,

basically a family, and they were going

down because there was no food. There

was a great famine in the land and there

was food in Egypt. So they said, "Let's

go down to Egypt and get our needs met."

And over the course of 400 years and

generations, they became in bondage.

They became slaves in that land. And

many of us have tried to fulfill a need

by going, you know, to a place that God

really didn't want us to go in the first

place in order to fulfill an emotional

need, a physical need, uh a need for

affection or affirmation. And so you're

looking for love in all the wrong

places, right? And then after a while,

what met that need in the short term

becomes a place of slavery and you find

yourself stuck and a slave to sin. But

God didn't leave them there. He heard

their cry. He saw their despair and he

sent a man named Moses. Moses is a type

of Jesus.

If you think about it, Moses, they tried

to kill him when he was a baby. They did

the same thing to Jesus. He was born

into a hostile environment. And Moses

had a message, but before he would

deliver that message, he went out into

the wilderness. And he shepherded sheep

all by himself. And God taught him the

principles of shephering. And then he

called him to shepherd his people out of

Egypt. And so he goes back to the land

of bondage, back to Egypt. And Pastor

Moses has a message for them. You don't

have to live this way. You don't have to

stay slaves. There's a way out of this.

And the people for the most part

received that word gladly. People are

excited to hear, "I don't have to stay

this way. I don't have to stay in

bondage. There's a way out." And Jesus

is telling me there's a way out. That's

awesome.

But I want to tell you what I wish

somebody would have told me in that

stage that it's going to get worse

before it gets better.

It it was a strange season because God

was doing miracles

and at the same time their task masters

were treating them worse.

And so they were encouraged that there

was hope that there was a way out but at

the same time they were discouraged

because their circumstances weren't

getting any better. Is this making sense

to anybody? And so it is when we're

hearing the gospel for the first time.

When Jesus first speaks to us, be it

through people or pastors or however he

gets word to you and you hear the

message and it's exciting, but I'm just

telling you, it can get worse before it

gets better because your your this the

slaver, the one who has you in bondage,

is not willing to just let you go. He's

going to fight for you. So, of course,

things are going to get worse before

they get better. But if you hang in

there, my friend, he will get you out.

if you hang in there and you take steps

of faith. And so Moses says, "Okay,

we're about to leave. We're getting out

of this place and I want you to do

something. We're gonna we're going to

kill a lamb, each household, and then

you're going to take the blood and

you're going to put it over your

doorpost." And they said, "Well, that's

kind of a weird thing to do, Moses, but

we'll do it." They were stepping in

faith and they did what they didn't even

understand. And God made a way for them

to leave. And Pharaoh finally says,

"Fine, go." And they're like, "Woo,

we're out of here." And so they're

marching, but there's one last major

obstacle called the Red Sea. And so they

come up to this impassible body of

water. And then they look behind them,

and the Egyptians had changed their mind

and were chasing them down. And and so

the people start freaking out. And of

course, they go to Pastor Moses and they

say, "Pastor Moses, dude, what are we

doing here? This is this is not going to

end well. You ran us right into a dead

end and we're about to be killed.

And Moses says, "Stand still and see the

salvation of your God." The Egyptians

you see today, you're never going to see

him again. And Pastor Moses puts his

staff to the water and the Red Sea parts

and there was a way out where there was

no way before. And the people come out

on dry ground. And the Egyptians try to

follow, but God takes the waters and and

collapses them and drowns all the

enemies. And so the Israelites are out.

Isn't it exciting when you not only hear

there's a way out, but you take a step

of faith and you find yourself not in

bondage anymore?

They were out of Egypt,

but there was a problem.

Egypt wasn't out of them quite yet. This

is characteristic of the wandering part.

And if you can see yourself in this

story yet, this is the part where you're

not you're not in you're not a a slave

to sin anymore, but you're kind of just

going in circles.

The wandering part is characterized by

idolatry and bad attitudes and

complaining. Y'all don't know nothing

about any of that.

But if you know somebody, you can apply

this to them going in circles like,

"Yeah, I'm not in Egypt anymore, but I

still have a slave mentality. I'm still

in a bondage mentality. I still don't

walk in the promises of God." And here's

the interesting thing. God is providing

for them. They have mana every day. mana

cookies and mana cakes and mana pies and

mana mana shakes and protein shakes I

suppose and whatever else and God is

also making sure that their clothes

don't wear out their sandals think about

it for 40 years don't wear out some of

you are like hey I get that I got

clothes in my

closet that are that old

and you know if you hang on to them long

enough they'll come back in style right

you've learned

So God is providing for them, but

they're just kind of going in circles.

They're really not reaching the place

God had called them to reach. The

journey from Egypt to the land of

promise should have only taken about 14

days. It takes them 40 years. I wonder

what God could have done in a couple of

weeks in your life that you have spent

decades

dealing with and never truly getting

victory.

That's not a statement of condemnation,

just one of examination. Like I've been

in that place. Many of us would would

affirm we've been in that place where

I'm not in Egypt anymore, but I'm kind

of just in a cycle, stuck in a cycle in

between where God brought me from and

where I'm supposed to be. But can I tell

you Deuteronomy 6:23 says he brought us

Deuteronomy 6:23

out to bring us in.

So the wandering part is temporary. You

weren't meant to stay there.

And again, this is Israel just looking

back on their story. And they finally

come to another body of water as they

look at the land of promise and it's

called the Jordan River. And once again,

God parts the waters for them to get

from the the wandering part to the

promises part. And it's there that they

pause and look back at their story and

say, "We're going to leave a testimony

here of how God how far God has already

brought us."

So those are three parts. Can I say this

about the promises part? It's not the

problem free land.

It's the promise. It's it's uh the

promised land is not the problem free

land.

Just because you're going into the

promises of God doesn't mean all your

problems go away. In fact, they would

face Jericho first, which was a

fortified city, and and they would march

around it in faith, and the walls would

come down and they'd get victory. But

the very next city called Ai, they were

defeated and there was battle after

battle after battle because the promised

land, the problem is it's a land that

flows with milk and honey, but it's also

inhabited by enemies. There were

Jebusites and Ammonites and and uh all

kinds of otherites living there that

they had to fight to take the promise

that God had said they could have.

Did you know you were in a battle?

Nobody told you this was going to be a

cakewalk, did they?

It It's not a cakewalk. This is

spiritual warfare. This is taking

ground. This is making progress. And And

you may lose a battle here and there,

but a war is won through a series of

battles. And you may lose one, but you

may win a few. And God intends to get

you all the way to where he's trying to

get you. So don't lose heart if there's

a little resistance. That actually can

be a good sign that you're on the right

track.

>> So there are three parts. There are also

two levels.

Did you notice in the story that there

was a a memorial built on the other side

of the Jordan River inside of the

promised land? And Joshua also went back

into the middle of the Jordan and set up

another pile of 12 stones.

There were two piles. One would be

covered by the waters when the waters

came back together. And I believe there

are two levels to every testimony. The

surface part and the deep part. I want

to share with you just a little of my

story. I was relinquished at birth by a

16-year-old girl.

My mother was far too young to raise me.

And so I was put into foster care

briefly and then I was adopted into a

home where I didn't look like anybody. I

still don't look like anybody. That

hasn't changed. They were different

nationality. Uh they they were different

personalities and I never felt like I

fit into that household. Not not only

that, but the household was highly

dysfunctional.

My mother in the adoptive household was

a raging alcoholic. She was extremely

abusive. And my my earliest childhood

memories are of my parents fighting each

other constantly.

I remember so many nights laying in bed

and hearing the screaming and my brother

and sister and I pleading stop fighting.

And it was just a daily occurrence and

glass would be breaking and they'd be

just hated each other.

And my mother was extremely abusive, as

I mentioned. And when my dad wasn't

around, she would take out her anger on

us, particularly me. At 10 years old, I

was brought into the judge's chambers of

the divorce court, and I pulled up the

back of my shirt to show him the welts

on my back because my mother had beat me

with the buckle end of a belt that had

cut my skin right open.

I don't remember any love in that house.

I don't remember being told I was loved.

I don't remember hugs. I don't remember

affection. It was chaos. I have one of

my friends that lived down the street

that was coming uh to see if I could

come out and play. Back in the day,

that's what we used to do

to today. They slide into your DM and

see if you're available. But back then,

you literally had to go and knock on the

door and say, "Hey, you want to come out

and play?"

But my friend said that halfway down the

street before he even got to my house,

he heard the screaming and the yelling

and he turned around. He's like, "I

don't want any part of that."

And that's what I lived in every day.

And early early on when I was just a

little boy, I remember feeling just dark

spirits

just like hating life as even a little

boy. like like just it's hard to

describe but just despair and sorrow and

sadness and depression that evolved into

suicidal ideiation that is fixating on

wanting to die.

Y'all are quiet in here.

I made it heavy, didn't I?

But

in that dark place,

which then evolved to drug use and

serious anger issues and legal problems

and all that comes along with with that

kind of disposition,

God met me.

He met me in the midst of the deepest,

darkest depression I'd ever been in.

Listen, for I think 12 years, I thought

daily about taking my own life daily.

And I would plot and plan and think of

how I could do it. And three times I

tried and a couple of times I almost

succeeded.

And it was in that darkness that Jesus

called me into his marvelous light.

That's my story.

Now, you could look at my life and and

see the surface things,

the drugs and the alcohol and the fact

that I'm actually trustworthy now and I

won't steal from you,

which is different than I used to be.

But the deep things

I don't share all that often and you

wouldn't even know it. That's why you

have to be careful about judging people

based on what you see. You have no idea

what their true testimony is, what their

story is. You look at the rough edges

and you judge them for it, but you have

no idea how far they've come, where

Jesus found them.

You truly cannot judge a book by its

cover. So those are the levels in my

story,

deep things and surface things.

Now, why is that powerful?

I remember when God delivered me from so

much of that. I remember thinking,

"Okay, God, I'm I'm in I'm all in now.

I'm in it for you. I'm going to serve

you the rest of my life. There's no

going back. But what on earth did I go

through all of that for? And what good

is it to you now?" And around that time

when I was contemplating such things, I

remember getting a a phone call from a

panic-stricken father whose daughter had

just tried to take her own life. and he

said, "Would you please talk to my

daughter?" And of all people that could

have gotten the phone call, it was me.

And I was able to speak life into this

girl and and and I could tell that it

was getting through because I had been

where she is, where she was. And I was

able to speak hope and life into her

soul. And then I hung up the phone and I

remember thinking, "Okay, my testimony

is powerful. It may not be the same as

yours, but it's powerful."

Do you know that 20% of our young

people, 20% of kids high school age have

seriously contemplated suicide,

20% of them and something like 9.7% have

actually attempted it.

Boys are far more likely to succeed at

atteming

suicide, but girls are three times more

likely to try it.

I don't know if you knew these things.

In the LGBTQ

community and the same demographic, the

the percentage jumps to 40% that have

seriously considered taking their own

life. For those that consider themselves

transgender or non-bionary, it jumps to

50%.

This is the world we live in

and we can try to approach it from a

hundred different angles, but I'm here

to tell you that a testimony is

powerful. There is power in a testimony

of somebody that God has pulled out of

that kind of darkness and can shed light

and we as people relate with other

people and God can use that. So the

testimony is powerful. Leaving that

particular subject aside, I think of a

couple other uh well, one other example

that I'd like to share with you. I was

at a water park one time with some

buddies of mine. And you know, we had

been going on these slides for a while

and I was kind of tired of it. And um I

was kind of over the whole water park

thing cuz I'm cool like that. And so I

told I told them I was like, you know,

you guys go ahead. I know you want to do

that that one again, but I'm just going

to hang out here at the bottom and I'll

wait for you. And so they went and did

the ride and and I'm waiting to see them

come down the slide and and there was a

young lady next to me with a

walkie-talkie on who worked at the park

and her job it was to make sure

everybody was safely getting off of the

ride.

And somehow a conversation ensued and

she began to just open up about the fact

that she was living uh with a boy who

had who had all kinds of weird religious

beliefs and practices, witchcraft and

all kinds of strange things. And can I

tell you, I began to testify to her and

inside of 10 minutes I was praying with

that girl to receive Christ right there

at the end of the water park ride.

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And it was one of the most powerful

moments that I ever remember because I

watched the glory of God hit her face

and she literally transformed in front

of me. You could just see that that

light had shined into darkness and Jesus

had come into her soul. My buddies got

done with the ride. I introduced them to

her and we went on our way. But she,

like a little puppy dog, followed us

around.

We we just kept going through the park

and and looking back and she just kept

following us and following us and at one

point I looked back and she was

following us and her boss was following

her scratching his head wondering what

in the world has happened to my

employee. It's the power of a testimony.

There was a gentleman I wasn't going to

share this to backtrack a little bit but

I will. There was a gentleman that uh

had tried to take his life with a

firearm and the gun jammed. and he

pulled the trigger, a loaded gun, and it

didn't go off. It didn't discharge. And

so, he's like, "I know God's trying to

get a hold of me." And I began to

witness to him and testify to him of my

story. And somehow the Holy Spirit was

speaking through me. And you know how

when the Holy Spirit's on you and you're

just kind of happy and joyful and

smiling and you don't even really

realize it. That must have been

happening because while I was still

talking, he just stopped and he said,

"That right there. That and I was like,

what?" He said, "That's what I want.

That's what I want. What I see in you is

what I want.

The power of a testimony.

It's not just some boring story. It's

the very power of God. So, we talked

about the three parts and two levels.

Let's talk now about 12 stones.

There were 12 stones. And that number is

not uh insignificant.

Jacob,

who was later called Israel, had 12

sons. The 12 sons became the 12 tribes

of Israel.

Of these tribes, there were 12 men sent

into the promised land for the first

time to gain information, to do recon,

and come back and give a report. The

high priest had a breastplate with 12

stones on it. If we move, well, Elijah,

let me mention him too. He built an

altar challenging the prophets of Baal

with 12 stones.

As we move into the New Testament, we

find Jesus at the age of 12 teaching the

teachers in the temple.

We find at the feeding of the 5000, 12

basketfuls of leftovers.

We find 12 disciples that Jesus

handpicked

in the book of Revelation. There was the

tree of life had 12 fruits.

Jesus heal went to heal a 12-year-old

girl. And on the way to heal her, a

woman with an issue of blood for 12

years stopped him and touched the hem of

his garment and got her healing. 12

biblically means completeness or

wholeness.

So the testimony that was placed there

was was the completeness. All the pieces

were there of what God was trying to do.

Now I ask you a question. Were the

Israelites that came out of Egypt and

through the wilderness and set foot in

the promised land, were they perfect?

Are you perfect?

No. But God, he who began a good work in

you will complete it until the day of

Christ. Furthermore, God looks at you as

perfected already.

By him, Jesus, he has perfected forever

those who are being made holy. So though

you're a work in progress, you are also

complete in him.

Is this making sense? Your testimony is

a bunch of pieces that God sees as a

complete picture already. But the but

the the detriment is we may begin to

think we don't have what it takes. Our

life isn't perfect. We got too much

baggage. We have too many issues to

truly have a testimony. But I would

submit to you at any stage you have a

testimony. Even if you're not a Christ

follower in this moment,

even if you're still in the bondage part

and you have not been set free from the

bondage of sin, you still have heard a

message of hope. And God has done

miracles and signs and wonders to get

your attention. And maybe you came to

church today just because somebody

promised you a free lunch or that there

were donuts or something. But but God

has already been speaking to you. Even

if you haven't made your mind up yet, if

you're in the wandering part, you may

feel stuck. You may feel like you're

going in circles, but you still have a

story. It's not finished yet. You may

not be where you want to be yet, but

neither are you where you used to be. Do

y'all remember Charlie Brown?

It's it's awesome how like he he came

out in the 50s and people I asked the

young people this morning they know who

Charlie Brown is.

Charlie Brown is the epitome of a

defeated mentality.

Do you remember when he and his friends

were trick-or-treating

and they went to house after house after

house and and after each house they'd

gather and see what they got. And some

kids were like, "I got money." And

another would say, 'I got cookies and I

got candy. And Charlie' be like, I got a

rock.

And that happened again and again and

again. And so all the other kids are

getting this this stash of good stuff.

Oh, look at that. Just happens to be a

Jolly Rancher sitting there.

>> Thanks, Lord. We'll leave that for

somebody. But Charlie's just like, I got

a rock. I got a rock. And pretty soon

he's got a bag full of rocks.

Maybe that's what you feel like your

life is. Like you've been to house after

house, relationship after relationship,

church after church, and you've been

hurt and injured and betrayed. And it

feels like a weight. And it feels like

you were damaged. And it feels like

you're broken now. And you're dragging

what you consider baggage.

But could I tell you, it's not your

baggage. It's your testimony.

These stones represent my journey.

And I'm not perfect, but God sees me as

perfect. And God is still working on me.

And so, in spite of my imperfections, I

can still reach into that bag and and

pull out a a story of what God has done

in my life.

It's not your baggage.

It's your testimony. [music]

It's your story,

but it's God's glory.

I wish to God I hadn't gone through the

things I'd gone through.

But if I'm honest with you, as

hard-headed and stubborn and arrogant as

I was, I would have never come to a

place of surrender to Christ had I not

been through what I've been through. Had

I not got desperate.

And so those broken things

become blessings.

And I will spend my life telling anyone

who will listen

how great God is.

And one last thing,

the stones

didn't speak.

People saw the stones and asked

questions.

What do these stones mean?

You have the stuff. You have the touches

of God on your life that will make

people inquire.

What's up with those stones?

Well, let me tell you what's up with

that stone of residual bitterness and

anger that you brought out of Egypt.

Yeah, I know it looks bad, but let me

tell you where God brought me from.

As the worship team comes today, um I'm

just going to tell you there will be

prayer teams on either side of this

platform

in position to pray with anyone that

would like prayer.

But friends,

you have a story.

You have a testimony. No matter what

stage you're in,

even if you're not a Christian yet, I

hope you can accept and understand what

I'm saying, God's still been touching

your life and you have a testimony to

share.

And if you're struggling, I know there

were some people in the first service

that resonated with some of those deep

things that we're really good at

concealing. I want you to know we love

you. That we will stand with you and

pray with you and walk with you and

testify to you that God will bring you

through this.

It's not the end. Let's pray. Father, I

thank you for the opportunity to speak

truth to your people, to testify

of your goodness,

of your power to transform a life. And I

pray that people would be strengthened

and encouraged because of it, Lord. That

they

would run after you with everything

within them. I come against every devil,

every demon, every lie. I come against

everything that would hinder any one of

my brothers and sisters here in this

room watching online. I I come against

anything that would hinder them from

getting to you. In the name of Jesus, I

take authority over the atmosphere. May

a way be straight where they can get to

you and experience you

and be more than overcomers

in the mighty name of Jesus. Amen.

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