No one can stop God from blessing you (except you)

Since the devil cannot prevent God from blessing you, his

only alternative is to put you in a state of

spiritual siege, so that you cannot access the blessing that

God has freely given you. Sometimes we are starving not

because of something that God did not supply, but because

of something He supplied that we cannot cease. When the

enemy puts you in a state of unbelief, it.

Blocks you from your own blessing.

And King Jehoram had the wrong people around him at

this time. We saw it in the text the Officer

verse two. On whose arm the king was leaning side

note for all the students, be careful who you lean on.

He was leaning on a man who would not believe,

who would not connect to.

The prophecy by faith.

And when you lean on people who insist on dragging

you into their dysfunctional way of thinking. This might be

only for five people, but sometimes something you lean on

in one season that props you up can paralyze you

in the next season. And sometimes we build in our

lives support systems that are unable to accommodate the weight

of what God is speaking to us. So be real

careful who you lean on, ask somebody, can I lean

on you? Because see, I don't want to get in

the middle of a famine and be leaning on someone

who doesn't have faith for the life that I'm trying

to live. I can't just be surrounded by people who

refuse to believe that better days are ahead and that

greater things are in store. So sometimes I have to

restrict access, and I can't just be around anybody, and

I can't just listen to anything, and I cannot believe

everything I see, and I certainly cannot believe everything I think.

So sometimes I've got to shut it down, and sometimes

I got to mute some people.

And sometimes I got to spend.

Some time in the presence of God because my signal

to noise ratio has caused me to miss the provision

of God, because I'm leaning on the wrong people and

listening to the wrong voices. This is the word of

the Lord. I'm not saying be mean to people. Just

don't lean on them. Lean on the everlasting arms, lean

on the promises of God.

Build your house.

On a solid foundation, not the shifting sands of people's opinions.

And the man on whose arm the king lean said,

could this happen. Look how Elisha responded, He said, you

will see it with your own eyes, but you ain't

getting none of it.

That's a new new international version, new new.

I was just thinking how sad that was that it

was a day of deliverance and the top advisor to

the king starved to death. As a matter of fact,

he didn't even get the chance to start, because look

when the people went into the enemy's camp and plundered

the enemy's camp in accordance with the word of the lord.

Verse seventeen says, now the king had put the officer

on whose arm he leaned, in charge of the gate. Question,

who have you put in charge of your gates? What

regulates your thoughts, what regulates your belief, what regulates your

self image? Look, he put the man in charge of

the gate. There's a lot of revelation in this message.

I'm gonna give you all of it I can, but

you will need to lean into this message because sometimes

you have put a past experience in charge of the

gate to your future. Listen, and when you let your

past experience regulate access to your future, you will always

be stuck in a stage of life that can no

longer accommodate.

What God is speaking in this season not gonna happen.

But what if I had listened to him, we wouldn't

get to hang out today. What if I had listened.

To him, I would have built me a little white

church with some little white people, and it'd be about fifty.

Of us, and we would.

Just preach to the choir, and we wouldn't change anything,

and we wouldn't touch anything, and we wouldn't have Epham

watching all over the world. The devil is a liar

is happening, and it's gonna happen, win or without you.

You might as well get in on it, because he's

hear it preaching. My watch off my wrists.

Some somebody says, happening, And what a horrible thing for

it to be happening right in front of you, But

you don't experience it. The man on whose arm the

king leaned stood in the gate, and while the people

were running to the victory, the Bible says they trampled

him in the gateway.

He died in the gate of what was possible. Y'all

give me a minute. I don't really know what to do.

It's a little tube touch.

Somebody say, get out of the gate. Tell twelve people

so I can have it. My love, Tom, Come on,

twelve people, get out of the gate. You' oh nobody coming.

To help me either. Oh no, I don't need you

at b and do this myself.

I started week one. I was saying, get back in

the gate. But I heard the Lord saying, this time,

get out of the gate.

I said, what is it?

He said, make a move. You hear all this teaching, you,

hear all this excitement.

Ah, that's good, but you got to get started. And

he died in the gateway. He blocked his own breakthrough.

He saw it, but he did not experience it because

he would not believe it. It is our unbelief that

blocks our blessing, not others. Some of us we block

ourselves by.

Blaming others, and so we.

Stay locked in prisons of offense and we miss blessings

because we would rather blame somebody else than believe God. See,

let me preach this. You cannot believe believe God and

blame them at the same time. You can't believe God

and blame others. Either you believe that what people meant

for evil, God means for good, or you don't. If

you believe God. It means there's nothing life can do

to you. There's nothing people can throw at you. There's

nothing that can say about you, think about you, or

lock you out of that will keep you from receiving

what God is a sign to your life. So here's

the announcement, Elisha. You can have your breakthrough or you

can have your blame, but you can't have both. When

the king came to Elisha, he said, this is God's

fault that we're in this famine. It wasn't the Lord's fault.

It was the fault of the leader. And sometimes we

will not lead our own lives and take initiative for

our own repentance. So we block our blessings. Boys, do

you hear me? We block our own blessings, not the devil,

our disbelief.

God's going to do it. The other day, a great

man of God was encouraging me.

Great man of God, if you made a list of

the top five people in.

The world, he would be, in my opinion, somewhere in

the top ten. But I respect him so much. Now

why I respect him?

He has longevity and ministry, and he was introducing me

to speak. He had invited me to speak, and he

got up to introduce me, and the things he was

saying about me, they were so nice and encouraging, I

thought he was talking about someone else. It was a

kind of introduction where he wasn't just speaking like he

wrote a book or he pastor to church. He was

saying things that he saw in me and how God

had called me and our.

Ministry and.

A voice to the generation, a bridge to reconciliation. Just

thinks that while he was saying them, at the same

time that he was affirming me, watch this, there was

another There was another voice, not.

On the stage, but inside my soul. You ever had

this happen, Like somebody is trying.

To affirm you, trying to love you, trying to validate you,

but you cannot receive that because.

Your gates are blocked.

There is something in the way called you that will

not allow you to receive the love that God is

trying to give you through someone else. And while he

was saying these things about me, it's almost like the

more he said good about me, the worse I felt,

because what I thought is he.

Doesn't know me. The problem with you is you've got

too much.

Dirt on yourself, and the problem with you is you

think you know yourself better than God does. The moment

the revelation hits your life that the only one who

knows you completely is the same one who loves you unconditionally.

You will be unstoppable in the Kingdom of God. And

while He was sitting there affirming me and saying things

about me, the devil that will, slithering serpent that came

crawling up the eve talking about that, God really say

he was placing limitations. It was my own limitation. Is

hard for you to take on giants when you see.

Yourself as a grasshopper.

It is hard for you to come out of a

famine when you are living in the depths of your

own frustration. And even when I preach, sometimes some of

you play me off and hold me off and cross

your arms and close your heart and you lean back,

and it is your way of shutting the gates. But

you are missing the miracle because you feel unworthy. But

God never predicated his blessing on your worthiness.

Perfection is not the price.

Of admission to the Kingdom of God, nor to the

great works and mighty things that He has called.

You to do in the earth.

I feel annoyed to tell you today, affection has never

stopped God from blessing anybody. The only thing that blocks

your blessing is unbelieved. But I tell you to shout

right now, loud enough where that devil.

Can hear you. I believe I am the righteousness of God.

I needs all this shout. My voice is tire shut.

I believe. Hey, thanks for watching.

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