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UNCONDITIONAL SURRENDER | SUNDAY 16TH MARCH | KRISTEN WILLIAMS

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  1. well what an excellent what an excellent

  2. Gathering God bless you

  3. all

  4. um I stalked you actually last week

  5. because um you know like I I uh Aaron

  6. Aaron gave that very strange

  7. introduction

  8. um it's one of the stranger ones I've

  9. had I'm not sure I ever want to send you

  10. a word of knowledge ever

  11. again but um he gave me that strange

  12. word and from the moment that he told me

  13. what was on his radar I knew absolutely

  14. for sure that uh that he and Sarah and

  15. their family would be coming here I knew

  16. it absolutely knew it uh so I was quite

  17. decisive about that but I've been

  18. totally indecisive about what to talk to

  19. you about midweek Aaron said to me hey

  20. can you send the

  21. notes and I was like oh boy good luck

  22. with that so I sent him two sets of

  23. notes uh and um and I but I warned him I

  24. said I may not stick with either of

  25. those

  26. um not not because I'm all over the

  27. place well sometimes I am but not

  28. because I'm all over the place but just

  29. because sometimes I find the Lord will

  30. say to me weeks even sometimes months in

  31. advance at that church that you're

  32. visiting this is what you will speak and

  33. I'm like praise God and other times I

  34. think he likes to remind me of my

  35. Frailty and he likes to keep me on my

  36. toes and says I'll let you

  37. know so here I am and hopefully he let

  38. me

  39. know um uh I want to I want to uh give

  40. honor to my wife who is sitting in the

  41. front row uh it was our 33rd anniversary

  42. yesterday so that's uh that's pretty

  43. good you can you can see the 33 years on

  44. me but you can't see it on her I also

  45. want to honor the mcdows God bless you

  46. fantastic what a what a what a faithful

  47. and excellent work you've done in the

  48. city and during the worship time I also

  49. want to I want to say thank you I you

  50. know like boy talk about a warm welcome

  51. I was getting welcomed by people I knew

  52. and people I didn't know and I I met

  53. Marco who I prayed for and spoken to you

  54. know he'd been at an event I was running

  55. when when he was a teenager and so just

  56. had the most excellent welcome that's a

  57. good sign isn't it um and also is that

  58. young lady Jess who spoke last week here

  59. where's she where are you Jess oh God

  60. bless you Jess I uh I I listened to your

  61. message and I took notes

  62. um and I agree with your pit peeve about

  63. when people pull in front of you or when

  64. you let them in and then you don't they

  65. don't say thank you we were driving home

  66. we went for a walk up near Wei beach

  67. yesterday and my son was driving us home

  68. and and some motorbikes pulled in in

  69. front and they didn't say thank you and

  70. I thought about

  71. you but I also I also thought about this

  72. quote I when I was feeling very

  73. indecisive Jess I almost thought what

  74. I'd do is I'd stand up and i' say rerun

  75. last week

  76. because I thought this quote was

  77. excellent pursuing the secret life with

  78. God calls us to die to ourselves and to

  79. the temptation to make it all about

  80. us oo isn't that an encouragement isn't

  81. that also a bit of a Sharp sword eh

  82. hello all right good very good okay you

  83. ready got your Bibles who's got their

  84. Bibles who actually has a paper Bible

  85. have you got a paper Bible all right

  86. who's got an electronic Bible okay you

  87. get double points for a paper Bible but

  88. anyway

  89. throughout history there have been times

  90. when the evil one the adversary has

  91. targeted particular groups of people in

  92. the days of Moses Pharaoh said kill all

  93. the baby boys you're familiar with this

  94. what was happening was God was raising

  95. up a deliverer for his people and so

  96. pharaoh and the evil that he represented

  97. were threatened by that so he said right

  98. I am going to wipe out this possib

  99. ability of Deliverance for the people of

  100. God before it can get started and he

  101. issued the statement kill all the baby

  102. boys but you know that God intervened

  103. and Pharaoh's plan failed that's good

  104. news isn't it similar thing happened in

  105. the days Around Jesus birth Herod like

  106. the Pharaoh uh before him said kill all

  107. the baby boys he had also heard that a

  108. deliverer this time deliverer capital D

  109. was coming Jesus the son of God who was

  110. going to not just set God's older

  111. Testament people free but was going to

  112. set everyone everywhere who would

  113. believe in him free so like Pharaoh he

  114. set out to kill this young deliverer

  115. with the same challenge kill all the

  116. baby boys but again God intervened and

  117. herod's plan failed praise God

  118. on both occasions the Lord was doing

  119. something powerful something important

  120. and in the case of Jesus something Earth

  121. shattering and

  122. worldwide and the power that was

  123. threatened by Jesus tried to stop it in

  124. its infanticide in with

  125. infanticide now if you look around today

  126. how many of you realize another battle

  127. rages around us it doesn't just Target

  128. young people it targets everybody but it

  129. has a particular targeting of young

  130. people and the evidence is all around us

  131. it's all around

  132. us there's this feeling like these days

  133. like I'm 57 years old I'm the proud

  134. grandfather now of two grandsons and I

  135. want more and more and more as many as

  136. possible grandchildren are addictive and

  137. uh Kelvin was boasting to me earlier

  138. about the fact that he's got five

  139. and I only have

  140. two yeah okay I'll work on

  141. it but even as a 57 year old these days

  142. I spend a lot of my time with young

  143. people it's the strangest thing

  144. sometimes when I get invited you know I

  145. get this invite hey can you come and

  146. speak at this Youth Event I'm like I

  147. almost feel like I need to send them a

  148. selfie you know like you you you you you

  149. realize don't

  150. you we see among our young people we see

  151. self-hatred we see suicidal Tendencies

  152. we see addiction we see depression

  153. despair loneliness fear

  154. hopelessness I saw a statistic out of

  155. the United States they surveyed uh

  156. teenage girls and found that 60% of them

  157. uh described how they feel about their

  158. lives they described using the word

  159. sad young people and children in

  160. particular seem to be the target of the

  161. battle that is Raging but they are not

  162. the only

  163. Target and among our young people

  164. multitudes of them were taken out in

  165. various ways and the ones that are not

  166. taken out live in a tidal wave of the

  167. sphere and hopelessness and

  168. depression go well that's not a very

  169. encouraging start to the message

  170. Christan I thought maybe you'd have

  171. something a bit more upbeat well let's

  172. just

  173. change well no no let's do this before I

  174. change let's do this if the devil is say

  175. for example waging a war on young

  176. people and you hear what I just said it

  177. can look an awful lot like he might be

  178. winning but is he

  179. winning uh down here sitting next to my

  180. wife as a young lady Britney she comes

  181. from a church that I visit regularly in

  182. America and this church is a

  183. particularly interesting Church the

  184. pastors of that church when I first met

  185. them it was uh 13 14 years ago and I was

  186. speaking at a conference and I pulled

  187. them out of the crowd and prophesied

  188. over them cut a long story short now

  189. they've planted this church and this

  190. church is marked by signs wonders

  191. Deliverance salvation and mirac Ires up

  192. along the front of their Church they've

  193. got disused crutches and uh walking

  194. frames and and all sorts of things from

  195. people that have been

  196. healed and so uh not last time not the

  197. time before but the time before that

  198. when I was visiting that church I was

  199. sitting right about where my son Isaac

  200. that's him sitting there in the front

  201. row of whom I'm very proud I was sitting

  202. right about where he was sitting and

  203. over on this side there was a a young

  204. lady and she had about a 10-month-old

  205. little boy

  206. and the grandfather in me was

  207. like and I'm looking at this little boy

  208. and so finally I went over and I started

  209. talking to her about her little boy and

  210. she said this to me she said Jesus has

  211. been good to me and I said tell me about

  212. that she said 18 months ago I was living

  213. on the street addicted to

  214. fentel someone from this church shared

  215. the gospel with me I became a follower

  216. of Jesus now I'm I'm I'm addiction free

  217. I'm in my right mind and I'm raising my

  218. son and so I went back and I sat down

  219. and I was just going wow and I get a tap

  220. on the

  221. shoulder and behind me there's a man who

  222. introduced himself as

  223. Javier Javier looks like he might be a

  224. member of like some sort of drug

  225. cartel right he had a bandan around his

  226. head he had you know the the right sort

  227. of clothing for that line of work as you

  228. might put it and even though we were

  229. sitting inside he had these big thick

  230. wraparound heavyduty sunglasses on and

  231. he tapped me on the

  232. shoulder and he said he said did she

  233. just tell you a bit of her story and I

  234. said yep he said to me Jesus has been

  235. good to me too and I said what happened

  236. and he he lifted up his trousers and

  237. there was a one of those ankle

  238. monitoring bracelets on his

  239. leg and he started telling me how he got

  240. that ankle monitoring bracelet I won't

  241. go into those details it's not really

  242. you know that's his story and um and it

  243. probably doesn't quite fit our

  244. context and so he showed me that and he

  245. told me how Jesus had set him free how

  246. someone had shared the gospel with him

  247. and he'd become a born again Jesus

  248. loving follower of the Son of God and I

  249. was like Wow and I'm just sitting there

  250. like H and then this young man who I

  251. know who's one of the worship leaders he

  252. comes and sits beside me and says hey

  253. Christen how are you and he was puffing

  254. and I said why are you puffing he says I

  255. had to ride my bike'

  256. to be here I said why' you have to ride

  257. your bike he says Ah not allowed to

  258. drive because i' I've got a DIY you know

  259. like I got I got convicted for drunk

  260. driving and and he I said oh really he

  261. says yeah that was before Jesus got a

  262. hold of me and so I'm sitting there and

  263. I'm I'm blown away by this over here and

  264. then by have ear behind me and now I'm

  265. sitting next to this young man and after

  266. that trip I I came home and and he had

  267. to he actually had to go to prison he

  268. went to prison for I think 31 or 33 days

  269. and while he was in the prison he led 30

  270. men to Jesus and baptized a whole bunch

  271. of them in a bathtub in the

  272. prison each of those people restored by

  273. Jesus is now a genuine threat to the

  274. adversary a genuine threat to the

  275. bondage and the pain and the addiction

  276. because every one of their testimonies

  277. is the antidote to what people are

  278. living

  279. in so if the devil is Waging War on

  280. all of us but particularly our young

  281. people there must be something he's

  282. worried about hello there must be

  283. something that concerns him there must

  284. be something that the Lord is wanting to

  285. do that the devil is trying to

  286. abort who likes a little bit of

  287. controversy hello just three people who

  288. who likes you like no I need to know the

  289. controversy before I who who who may may

  290. I be a little bit controversial

  291. you're like

  292. the he's sort of

  293. smiling couple of years ago a very

  294. prominent official in our land and I I'm

  295. I'm not here to criticize anybody but a

  296. couple of years ago a very prominent

  297. official in our land couldn't answer a

  298. simple question what is a woman that's

  299. right okay I'm not here to criticize

  300. that person and I'm not here to talk

  301. political affiliations but here was he

  302. couldn't answer the question what is a

  303. woman does God have an answer to that

  304. question and how does he answer

  305. it 1 chronicles 16 uh 2 Chronicles 16:9

    2 Chronicles 16:9

  306. says this the eyes of the Lord range to

  307. and fro throughout the Earth to give

  308. strong support to those whose Hearts

  309. belong completely to

  310. him how does God answer the question

  311. what is a

  312. woman he gets a hold of a

  313. woman willing to surrender her life

  314. fully and wholeheartedly to

  315. him and he fills her with his power he

  316. fills her with hope he fills her with

  317. strength and dignity and purpose he sets

  318. her free from the confusion and the

  319. bondage and the fear and the addiction

  320. and all the Mucky stuff that swirls

  321. around he gets a hold of a young lady

  322. say and he fills her with the Holy

  323. Spirit he sets her free and he turns her

  324. from slavery and fear and worry and

  325. bondage to the opinions of

  326. others into the dignity and hope and

  327. Liberty of walking free and being who

  328. she was created to

  329. be this woman then becomes in our day a

  330. living reflection of John

    John 1:5

  331. 1:5 where it was said of Jesus the light

  332. shines in the darkness and the Darkness

  333. cannot overcome it so all God looks for

  334. is he looks for I I I mentioned a young

  335. woman but it works for every age he

  336. looks for a woman willing to say here is

  337. all of me and he fills that woman with

  338. his presence with his

  339. power and turns her into a light shining

  340. in the darkness and that woman will be a

  341. living Nightmare and a threat to the

  342. purposes of the

  343. devil what is a

  344. man well about 25 years ago it became

  345. very common to belittle men in the

  346. media about 25 years ago in the media it

  347. became very common to make men whether

  348. it was a sitcom or an advertisement to

  349. make men look kind of dumb to make them

  350. look kind of like

  351. buffoons to make them look like they

  352. really weren't in charge of anything

  353. that was going

  354. on and this became very trendy very

  355. popular more

  356. recently we now have terms like toxic

  357. masculinity now I'm not saying that

  358. there isn't a form of masculinity that

  359. can be toxic but this term toxic

  360. masculinity is everywhere it's

  361. proliferating and so now no one seems to

  362. know what a man should

  363. be well I don't want to be too masculine

  364. CU I don't want to be

  365. toxic how does God answer the question

  366. what is a

  367. man the eyes of the Lord range to and

  368. fro throughout the Earth that he might

  369. give strong support to a male heart that

  370. belongs completely to him he gets a hold

  371. of a man he gets a hold of a man who is

  372. fully surrendered to him

  373. he gets a hold of a man willing to say

  374. here is my whole life and he sets him

  375. free from Fear he sets him free from

  376. boredom he sets him free from lust he

  377. sets him free from Pride he sets him

  378. free from addiction and he fills him

  379. with fiery love burning purpose dignity

  380. and

  381. hope turning him into living proof of

  382. the resurrection of Jesus and that

  383. everywhere that man goes like my friends

  384. at that church in America everywhere

  385. that man goes he starts to become the

  386. antidote to the confusion and the pain

  387. and the dysfunction that we see

  388. everywhere around

  389. us Jesus is just looking for people

  390. willing to say here's all of me and he

  391. says right I'll take a hold of that and

  392. I will use you in ways high profile or

  393. low profile in front of people and

  394. behind the

  395. scenes I will use you to establish my

  396. purpose on the earth one person at a

  397. time I'm starting with those directly

  398. around you in my opinion that's what the

  399. enemy fears we got a bunch of younger

  400. ones over this s

  401. side imagine God getting a hold of them

  402. even more imagine every one of them

  403. living fully surrendered filled to

  404. overflowing with the power of the Holy

  405. Spirit imagine them becoming

  406. impervious to the to the plans and the

  407. Ws and the garbage that the enemy pulls

  408. in imagine it being like water off a

  409. duck's back

  410. imagine their eyes filled with light and

  411. hope imagine their hearts filled with

  412. joy imagine them being free from the

  413. fear of trying to that causes people to

  414. try and fit in with everything around

  415. them and they actually are free to be

  416. who God made them to

  417. be it's a really good point Christian

  418. thank you I receive that

  419. Amen in my opinion that's what the devil

  420. fears so what's

  421. next what's the lord's response going to

  422. look like what is ahead of

  423. us I believe two main simple things are

  424. ahead of us do you want to hear them

  425. four people want to hear them do you

  426. want to hear them we doing okay yeah

  427. good good good

  428. okay there are two main things that we

  429. are going to

  430. see among the church and many who will

  431. be added to the church and we are going

  432. to see this even

  433. particularly like on on hyper super

  434. steroids among the young

  435. people firstly The

  436. Towering overwhelming revelation of

  437. Jesus's

  438. King these days I'm in a different

  439. Church often in a different town every

  440. week last week I was in Christ Church

  441. next week I'll be in Nelson this week

  442. I'm here with you find

  443. people different churches have different

  444. emphasis you go into this church and

  445. they might emphasize that you go into

  446. that church and they might emphasize

  447. this all of that is going to start to be

  448. absolutely overwhelmed by The Towering

  449. Revelation as Jesus Christ as the

  450. Undisputed King of the

  451. universe Philippians 2 8- 11 and being

  452. found in appearance as a man he Jesus

  453. humbled himself by becoming obedient to

  454. death even death on a

  455. cross therefore God exalted him to the

  456. highest place and gave him the name that

  457. is above every name that at the name of

  458. Jesus every knee should bow in heaven

  459. and on Earth and under the Earth and

  460. every tongue confess that Jesus Christ

  461. is Lord to the glory of God the Father

  462. end of story every knee shall bow in

  463. heaven in the Heavenly realms on the

  464. earth and even beneath the Earth the

  465. Demonic realm every knee shall bow Jesus

  466. is the Undisputed King look at this

  467. Colossians

    Colossians 2:15

  468. 2:15 having disarmed the powers and the

  469. principalities that's the the the

  470. spiritual forces of evil in the Heavenly

  471. Realms having disarmed the powers and

  472. the principalities he made a public

  473. spectacle of them triumphing over them

  474. at the cross

  475. Hallelujah this is King Jesus we are not

  476. here worshiping a God we picked from a

  477. multi-choice set of options he is not

  478. one of many there are not many Pathways

  479. to many Heavens there is one Heaven

  480. There is one Throne there is one God

  481. there is one way Jesus is the Undisputed

  482. King the church is going to stop dibbly

  483. dabbling and and in this little idea and

  484. this little idea and it's all going to

  485. become back to the central issue of

  486. Jesus as the Undisputed for Everlasting

  487. King all the other distractions and all

  488. the other emphasis are just going to

  489. begin to burn in the fire of this

  490. Revelation the beauty the power the

  491. Majesty the grace the the nothing

  492. compares to Hess of Jesus Christ he is

  493. not one of many he is the only only one

  494. his love his victory his Supremacy his

  495. Mercy his

  496. righteousness and all of this is going

  497. to lead to the second

  498. thing an

  499. overwhelming willingness and desire to

  500. surrender everything to

  501. him the grace to lay everything down at

  502. his feet in total surrender

  503. to not just sing songs like you're the

  504. only thing that

  505. matters but to actually begin to live

  506. this

  507. way to actually begin to go you are the

  508. worthy King how could I withhold

  509. anything from you and your way is better

  510. anyway I got born again out of an

  511. atheist family just before I turned

  512. 18 I got born again into a charismatic

  513. Anglican Church in West

  514. Oakland and we used to go in there on

  515. Sunday

  516. nights and sorry you're on the wrong

  517. side for my story all the young people

  518. were on this

  519. side and all the older people were on

  520. that

  521. side and if you arrived late as a young

  522. person you wound up in the confused

  523. bunch in the

  524. middle and I remember they on this side

  525. of the church they had some stained

  526. glass

  527. windows one was the

  528. cross one was the empty tomb and one was

  529. the Ascension of

  530. Jesus and they used to sing this song

  531. what can I give to you the words went

  532. what can I give to you for the things

  533. that you've done and I sat over

  534. there wondering what had happened to me

  535. boiling my eyes out looking at these

  536. stained glass windows crying my eyes out

  537. going Lord I want to give to you

  538. everything then as a new Christian I

  539. discovered

  540. Petra how many of you remember

  541. Petra to interpret for you Petra was

  542. like a really excellent rock band Back

  543. in the Day Christian rock

  544. band and I bought a Petra

  545. tape

  546. tape tape half of you don't even know

  547. what a CD is anymore tape

  548. and I put it into the stereo in my 1975

  549. Mitsubishi Galant

  550. 1850

  551. Coupe that I had upgraded to a 2 L

  552. engine and gained no performance

  553. whatsoever and I used to drive around

  554. West Oakland and Petra would sing This

  555. Means

  556. War but they also had this song and the

  557. words went I am

  558. available I will go where you say go

  559. I'll stop when you say I should drive

  560. around West Oakland with my oversized

  561. sunglasses that I bought from the

  562. chemist at Blockhouse

  563. Bay Drive around

  564. Oakland weeping and crying and bellowing

  565. out I'm available I'll go where you say

  566. go this revelation of Jesus is going to

  567. lead to an Unstoppable overwhelming

  568. desire to surrender everything to him

  569. we're going to stop singing quote

  570. worship songs that are about

  571. us and we're going to sing songs like

  572. holy holy are you Lord God

  573. Almighty all right let's bring this in

  574. for a landing Aaron's looking

  575. nervous he's

  576. not Revelation 121 1211 sorry says

  577. this and they overcame

  578. him by the blood of the

  579. Lamb the word of their testimony and

  580. they did not love their lives to the

  581. death this was written by a man called

  582. John the Bible refers to him as John the

  583. Beloved everyone say John the

  584. Beloved that only appears in the

  585. writings by

  586. John that's fun isn't it he called

  587. himself John the Beloved and Jesus were

  588. like fair enough put it

  589. in John had been exiled to the island of

  590. Patmos

  591. for the testimony of Jesus and he was

  592. there on the island of

  593. Patmos and he had this crazy encounter

  594. that we know now as the Book of

  595. Revelation he wrote it down and in the

  596. middle of that he wrote down that verse

  597. I just read John saw a future

  598. generation that would overcome the evil

  599. one by the blood of the Lamb that's

  600. Jesus on the

  601. cross that's the foundation of

  602. everything that's the door by which we

  603. enter that's the foundation upon which

  604. we

  605. stand he saw that they would overcome by

  606. the blood of the Lamb by the word of

  607. their testimony the effect the change

  608. the the the story of the transforming

  609. work of God that just comes out of every

  610. human life as we walk with him some of

  611. us have dramatic

  612. testimonies some of us feel like we

  613. don't I remember one time my daughter

  614. saying to me after we'd been at a youth

  615. thing that she'd come to me with and and

  616. we'd heard one of these testimonies well

  617. I you I used to do drugs and I used to

  618. do this and I I did that and I did the

  619. other thing and now I'm a Christian and

  620. and she said to me she said dad I don't

  621. really have a

  622. testimony and I talked to her and she

  623. said basically she said I don't really

  624. have a testimony because I haven't got

  625. that sort of a

  626. story she said and her story is

  627. basically she can't remember a day when

  628. she didn't know the

  629. Lord and every parent in the room goes

  630. that's the testimony I want that's the

  631. testimony I want for my children my

  632. grandchildren my great grandchildren if

  633. I Endure come

  634. on the blood of the Lamb the word of

  635. their

  636. testimony and they love not their lives

  637. so much is to shrink back from death

  638. which is not some sort of

  639. cosmic Death

  640. Wish it's a Jesus you are

  641. better I don't love my life as much as

  642. you I I am trusting that even if even if

  643. I lay down my life day by day as a

  644. Living Sacrifice that you'll make the

  645. journey worth it and if there is ever a

  646. time that I would lay down my life

  647. physically in death that you will pick

  648. it up they love not their lives so much

  649. as even to shrink back from Death they

  650. found something more valuable than even

  651. their Earthly

  652. lives they lived Fearless lives of Hope

  653. and purpose and total surrender to Jesus

  654. and in doing so filled by the Holy

  655. Spirit they overcame the the evil one in

  656. the Fulfillment of John's ancient

  657. prophetic

  658. word worship team would you like to

  659. return please thank you Marco and

  660. joy and the rest of you who

  661. unfortunately I don't know your

  662. names you know what's important to

  663. know how you doing by the way are we you

  664. doing all right good good so a few

  665. serious faces out there that's maybe a

  666. good

  667. sign I believe when John wrote that

  668. Revelation 1211 he saw a future

  669. generation not a particular

  670. generation he peered into the

  671. future and he saw that there would come

  672. a generation who would overcome the evil

  673. one by the blood of the Lamb the word of

  674. their testimony and they love not their

  675. lives so much as to shrink back from

  676. Death I don't believe he saw a

  677. particular generation and I'll tell you

  678. why 1 Peter 3:12 as you look forward to

    1 Peter 3:12

  679. the day of God that's the return of

  680. Jesus and speed it's

  681. coming I don't believe the day of the

  682. Lord is fixed I believe the father

  683. knows but I don't believe the day of the

  684. Lord is fixed which sounds like a

  685. contradiction but haven't got time to

  686. try and go into

  687. that I believe that sometimes we are

  688. here and we're just waiting God when

  689. will you send Revival

  690. I'm all about Revival I believe that

  691. there is one more Revival coming and

  692. it's

  693. worldwide I believe there is one more

  694. coming and it doesn't conclude until

  695. Jesus splits the sky and

  696. returns but I think that the Lord is

  697. also

  698. going I'm waiting for

  699. something I'm waiting for this

  700. generation fueled by the overwhelming

  701. revelation of Jesus as the Undisputed

  702. Everlasting King

  703. a generation that will

  704. come and set themselves before him and

  705. say Lord everything that I have

  706. everything that I love everything that I

  707. want everything all my strengths all my

  708. failures all my weaknesses all my hopes

  709. all my fears I put them all at your feet

  710. have all of

  711. me and what a

  712. privilege what a privilege to bring our

  713. lives every day of the remainder of Our

  714. Lives whether we have one more or 15

  715. ,000 more or whatever what a privilege

  716. to bring those and set them at his feet

  717. and say Lord use

  718. me and to do that very

  719. thing if if one or some or all of us

  720. were to do that very thing in this

  721. room I believe it sends a shock

  722. wave through the kingdom of

  723. darkness I don't think they

  724. fear if we come in and we just tick a

  725. religious box and go away going I've

  726. done that for the week praise God

  727. yeah but if we were to drive away walk

  728. away cycle away skateboard away from

  729. here having laid Our Lives before the

  730. Lord and then we do the same thing every

  731. day for the remainder of our

  732. days 2 Chronicles

  733. 169 the eyes of the Lord range to and

  734. fro throughout the

  735. Earth that he might give strong support

  736. to those whose Hearts belong completely

  737. to

  738. him which simply is those who followed

  739. fully in the footsteps of

  740. Jesus who laid down his life for us to

  741. pay the price that we could never have

  742. paid in a thousand lifetimes of trying

  743. so that we could be made right With

  744. God all across the place can I ask you

  745. to close your eyes

  746. please maybe just take a moment to try

  747. to be less aware of the physical

  748. circumstance around

  749. you and maybe more

  750. aware of the

  751. Unseen God who is in the

  752. room maybe if you you're here and this

  753. is all unfamiliar to you you can pray a

  754. simple humble prayer like this Lord if

  755. you are real please show

  756. me there's nothing to lose by praying

  757. that

  758. prayer Holy Spirit I ask that you would

  759. be doing what you love to do even right

  760. now begin to

  761. release the

  762. overwhelming

  763. revelation of Jesus Christ Christ the

  764. Undisputed

  765. King open our eyes to see him Holy

  766. Spirit open our eyes to see his

  767. Mercy his

  768. righteousness his

  769. faithfulness his

  770. everlastingness open our eyes to see

  771. Jesus Grant to us that Spirit of wisdom

  772. and revelation

  773. that we might know him

  774. better and holy spirit I ask also that

  775. you would release Grace in this

  776. room not Grace for a moment of surrender

  777. in a church service but Grace for an

  778. enduring

  779. surrender an enduring surrender to say

  780. Lord my day is yours today and to do

  781. that every day of Our Lives

  782. until we see him face to

  783. face keep your eyes closed just for a

  784. moment in about 30

  785. seconds I'm going to invite you to

  786. stand if you want to say Lord Jesus I

  787. Surrender everything to

  788. you whether you've done it 100 times or

  789. whether this is the first

  790. time in about 20 seconds I'm going going

  791. to invite you to stand and say I'm

  792. standing as evidence that I am

  793. surrendering aresh

  794. today and we're going to pray for

  795. everyone who

  796. stands but I want you to make up your

  797. mind right now whether you're going to

  798. stand or not I don't want you to stand

  799. because three people beside you stood

  800. and I don't want you to sit because

  801. three people beside you

  802. sat make up your mind right now

  803. and if it's the honest decision and

  804. conclusion of your heart to say yes Lord

  805. I want to surrender my life aresh to you

  806. today to offer you myself as a Living

  807. Sacrifice then right now without looking

  808. to see if anyone else does or doesn't

  809. stand would you stand to your feet

  810. position yourself standing not before me

  811. not before even the church around you

  812. imagine yourself standing before the

  813. Lord Here I Am Lord here's All of

  814. Me All my yesterdays all my tomorrows

  815. all my fears all my hopes I give it all

  816. to

  817. you Lord here it is I give it all to

  818. you Holy Spirit I pray that you would

  819. meet every person

  820. standing I pray a double portion on

  821. every young person

  822. standing I pray a double portion on

  823. every young person standing Lord let

  824. there be a double portion of your

  825. anointing and your strength released to

  826. them Holy Spirit I pray that every chain

  827. would be

  828. broken that every bondage would be

  829. broken in the name of Jesus I pray God

  830. that you would ignite fire on the inside

  831. of every person standing a fire of love

  832. for you a fire of Divine Purpose that

  833. will burn hot enough and bright enough

  834. to last for an entire

  835. lifetime I pray holy spirit that even

  836. right here in the middle of the lint

  837. Journey that this church is doing the

  838. Journey of of denying

  839. themselves the Journey of stepping back

  840. from the Indulgence of the world around

  841. us I pray that you would meet them right

  842. now right here in the midst of that with

  843. fresh fire in the Holy

  844. Spirit Lord I give you all of

  845. me here is my heart here is my mind here

  846. are my hands here are my feet I give you

  847. all of me in Jesus

  848. name come on only you can make an

  849. offering of you to the

  850. Lord I can offer me you have to offer

  851. you

  852. spirit of God spirit of

  853. God spirit of

  854. God confusion and self-hatred broken in

  855. Jesus name I

  856. pray demonic assignments of

  857. fear broken in the name of Jesus God

  858. you've not given us a spirit of fear but

  859. of love power and a soundness of mind

  860. mind let there be an impartation of Hope

  861. in the name of Jesus let there be an

  862. impartation of Hope in the name of

  863. Jesus father we thank you we love you we

  864. want more of you

  865. we want the grace to give you more of

  866. us lord it's our privilege to give you

  867. our

  868. lives what a delight to surrender back

  869. to you the thing that you gave us

  870. what a privilege it is that I can bring

  871. this and no one else can bring it and I

  872. give it to

  873. you now just stay exactly as you are

  874. Church open your eyes in in a moment uh

  875. we're going to have some more worship as

  876. uh joy and the team lead us and maybe

  877. we'll have an opportunity to come and be

  878. on this really large altar today and and

  879. and pray for those who want to just a

  880. couple of things I want to say to a

  881. couple of people sorry Jess I know I've

  882. already picked on you um and you

  883. probably know this already but just as a

  884. word of confirmation you're going to

  885. have to do more of that there's a real

  886. anointing of God on you that's more than

  887. the anointing to be articulate it was

  888. actually as I was listening it's the

  889. anointing that enables his words to

  890. somehow be intertwined in your

  891. words and so I want to encourage I want

  892. to encourage you with that message of

  893. the secret place I want to encourage you

  894. in the secret place but I also believe

  895. that you are going to be sent on

  896. assignment to various places with a word

  897. from God some of those assignments will

  898. be here in what I assume is your home

  899. church but you will also you'll go out

  900. from time to time and you'll take other

  901. people with you all right so you are you

  902. have got a a a call on your life and a

  903. Grace on you to uh to to preach the word

  904. of God okay and I believe many people

  905. are going to know the Lord because of

  906. the way that you have conducted yourself

  907. with him God bless you

  908. Jess um you

  909. there I see I see this picture of

  910. concrete foundations being poured you

  911. know like when they build a house and

  912. they they mark it out and they pour the

  913. concrete I see

  914. foundations and to me whenever I see

  915. something like that it's it speaks about

  916. um Ephesians 2:20 which says Apostles

    Ephesians 2:20

  917. and Prophets are the foundation with

  918. Jesus is the Chief Cornerstone know and

  919. what I see is I see the Cornerstone of

  920. Jesus in your life and I see foundations

  921. being laid that many many others are

  922. going to stand on all right

  923. it's it's an Apostolic call all right

  924. that's what I see on you an Apostolic

  925. call so just just hold your hands out

  926. Lord I pray that you would release to

  927. him even more a couple of your young

  928. ones stick your hands on his shoulders

  929. there Lord release to him more of your

  930. presence in the name of Jesus more of

  931. your presence in the name of Jesus more

  932. Lord Lord in Jesus name thank you Lord

  933. that he would uh that he would follow in

  934. that Apostolic tradition that

  935. foundations would be laid and many

  936. others would stand on them in the name

  937. of

  938. Jesus and I thank you Lord for that

  939. Cornerstone being so established in his

  940. life that he will never deviate even 5%

  941. away from

  942. it thank you Lord thank you Lord thank

  943. you

  944. Lord thank you Lord

  945. well I'd like us to have an O

  946. opportunity to pray for people and maybe

  947. do some worship but I think you should

  948. give some instructions cuz I don't know

  949. how we're going to do that