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The Cross (The Doorway Into The Kingdom)

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  9. That was good. Uh good worship.

  10. Huh.

  11. So I want to do something that's going to make

  12. some of you very uncomfortable right now. But we locked

  13. the doors. Everyone's safe. No, Seriously, on a serious note,

  14. I felt like the Lord wanted to break some curses

  15. and that that came on my heart towards the end

  16. of worship. In fact, I'm not gonna say who it

  17. is because I want to I want to protect the person.

  18. But there's there's a female here that is convinced that

  19. you're under a curse of witchcraft because of a lying

  20. spirit and that's the reason why you haven't gotten free

  21. of it. And so I'm not going to ask you

  22. to raise your hand, but I really feel strongly the

  23. Lord wants to break that this morning. The other thing

  24. is I'm gonna ask the Lord for some revelation to

  25. call out some stuff, and I'm just gonna have everybody

  26. stand up at one time after we call a few

  27. things out, and then we're gonna go after them. You're

  28. making my voice really deep. Thus say no, Thus sayth

  29. the frank where's frank at A? So the first one

  30. is you cannot hold any level of intimacy with a

  31. relationship the word of knowledge. In other words, all of

  32. your relationships fall apart very quickly. There's a there's a

  33. there's a connection issue.

  34. So and.

  35. Please don't every every eye, all every head bout, every

  36. eyes closed. So there's the issue of witchcraft, the issue

  37. of relationships falling apart. Like friendships. It's it's almost like

  38. you self sabotage all of your relationships and you can't

  39. figure out why. The third thing is there's a it

  40. feels like a devouring financial curse. Every single time you

  41. start to get ground under your feet, it's taken out

  42. and and it's and it's actually a generational pattern where

  43. you can you can look at it several generations.

  44. Deep h.

  45. If you're wondering what I'm doing, I'm listening.

  46. To the Lord.

  47. Well, I'll have everybody stand here in a minute. I'm

  48. just I'm calling them out, so make it. If it's you,

  49. make a note. M. I just saw a door shut

  50. on all of your family. Not I'm aware of some

  51. stuff with folks, but I specifically you are the black

  52. sheep of your family, Like I just saw this door shut.

  53. None of your family has anything to do with you.

  54. And I know that we go after this one a lot.

  55. But this is addiction and it's generational. The other one

  56. is mental illness and it's generational. M M. I think

  57. this is the last one significant. It's a spirit of fear.

  58. It's significant fear, and I believe it's you have panic

  59. attacks with it. So if that rings true, stand up

  60. whoever whoever that is, and we're gonna and we're gonna

  61. mm hmm. Yeah. So this I just want to call

  62. this out. I just had this impression of the Lord

  63. coming in from the right side of the room like

  64. a whirlwind, and there's going to be healing in a

  65. fresh level of compassion and some betrayal. That's the other one.

  66. You have a hard time. You'd feel like every time

  67. you turn around you're betrayed. All right, if you're around

  68. someone standing up, ask them how to pray and start

  69. praying for them. So remember the word of knowledge is

  70. already out. So now it's healing time. Now it's breakthrough time.

  71. Now it's freedom time. Today's the day it ends. Today's

  72. the day that you get freedom. Today's the day that

  73. your bloodline has changed. Ye. And who is it dealing

  74. with tormenting dreams? Yeah you so, Lord, I thank you

  75. right now for breaking the tormenting dreams. Lord, we come

  76. against the night visitations and we break that right now

  77. in Jesus' name, and Lord, we come against every financial curse,

  78. every demonic assignment of devouring, a betrayal of the night tarores,

  79. of the generational rejection and abandonment. Lord, right now, the

  80. name of Jesus. Come Lord, Come Lord, Come Lord, and Lord,

  81. right now, we just come against generational addiction. In the

  82. name of Jesus. Right now, we break the iniquity of addiction. Lord,

  83. we thank you and the mighty name of Jesus that

  84. you became a curse. So we don't have to be

  85. right now, no more standing up and saying this is

  86. who I am, confessing what you're not. You stand up

  87. and you say you're a son of God, a child

  88. of God. That's your confession. You're a new identity in Christ.

  89. The old is gone and all things become new.

  90. Yes, yes, all right, all.

  91. Right, as you all finish up, if I can get

  92. you though, find your seat day at hey, can we

  93. do something? Y'all? Everybody stand up, put your hands out

  94. like it's Christmas, because it's almost Christmas, right, it's Christmas

  95. every day in the kingdom.

  96. M y.

  97. Lord, I just ask right now that you would increase

  98. what you're doing more Lord, more, Lord, h Right now,

  99. you're gonna you're gonna notice you're starting to feel a

  100. heavier weight to your presence on your shoulders and upper chest. Now,

  101. who's feeling that? Damn Jesus. I thank you for your love.

  102. I thank you for your goodness. I thank you for

  103. what you're doing right now. I thank you that we

  104. don't have to be in control. Lord Lord. Right now,

  105. I just ask for afresh and feeling. Lord, I bless

  106. their spirits to awaken from slumber right now. Lord, I

  107. asked that you would release breakthrough angels right now, Lord,

  108. in this moment, that you would release your angels. You're

  109. ministering angels, your breakthrough angels. Lord. We came to encounter

  110. you Lord, we came to be transformed by you. Lord,

  111. Jesus have your way in this house, in this moment. Lord,

  112. For those of you that are feeling constricted or numb,

  113. just take a deep breath. If you're wondering what in

  114. the world are we doing right now, it's called Psalms

  115. forty six. Be still and know that I'm God who's

  116. got a lingering neck problem from an accident. Getter, Lord, getter, healer, Lord,

  117. right now, in Jesus name, I ask, Lord, take the trauma,

  118. take the trauma out of her neck. Lord, I break

  119. the anxiety of even driving, and I break the heaviness

  120. that comes on you. Lord. She came wanting to break through. Today,

  121. she came wanting to break through. And I thank you.

  122. Today's the day, Lord, Today's the day. Yeah, I see you.

  123. Move Now, get out of here. Now in Jesus name,

  124. release her out off and out let her cord. Go

  125. now in Jesus' name, there we go. Thank you, Lord,

  126. Thank you. Lord. You know, I'm convinced that the Lord

  127. always wants to do a whole lot more than what

  128. we're comfortable with. So you say, right now, Jesus have

  129. your way, not my will, but yours mess us up. Yeah,

  130. So I just break mental torment right now, all those

  131. intrusive thoughts that seem to keep coming and you can't. Lord,

  132. I thank you for freedom right now, and I break

  133. the word curses over your mind. Speak peace, speak peace

  134. on Lord. We don't want to leave here the same today.

  135. Thank you, Ord, Thank you, Ord. Lord, I thank you

  136. for healing abandonment right now. Lord, I thank you for

  137. removing the spirit of abandonment and the mighty name of

  138. Jesus right now. Abandonment lift now, abandonment, lift now. In

  139. Jesus' name, were you getting your ears prayed for? Pardon? Oh? Okay, okay,

  140. So Lord, right now, I just asked that you would

  141. open her ears, that you would restore her healing, I

  142. mean her hearing with healing right now. Lord. Any attack

  143. of any death spirit, we rebuke it right now. The

  144. name of Jesus and the part of her heart that

  145. says I don't want to hear anymore. Lord, I asked

  146. that you would bring healing over her heart there. I

  147. don't want to hear another negative thing. So Lord, I

  148. asked that you would pop her ears open Lord, total

  149. restoration right now, right now, And I asked that you

  150. would heal the trauma, specifically from the ambulance ride. Lord

  151. removed the dagger out of her heart. I thank you

  152. for a sound mind, So let your fire or fall, Lord,

  153. in Jesus' name. All right, y'all can be seated if

  154. you would like. This is why it's good to double

  155. dip sometimes. I want to finish up the last few

  156. minutes that we have together talking about the cross, because

  157. crucifixion is the doorway into the kingdom, and it's the

  158. only way. In Luke nine twenty one to twenty four. Well,

  159. it's going to increase. And he strictly warned and commanded

  160. them to tell this to no one, saying, the son

  161. of man must suffer many things, and be rejected by

  162. the elders and chief priests and scribes, and be killed

  163. and be raised the third day. Then he said to

  164. them all, if anyone desires to come after me, let

  165. him deny himself, take up his cross. Sometimes Oh sorry

  166. I wasn't there, take up his cross daily and follow me.

  167. Or whoever desires to save his life will lose it.

  168. But whoever loses his life for my sake will save it.

  169. Every area that you woke up this morning in your

  170. life and you refuse to bear your cross. You just

  171. lost that area. You're guaranteed to not find your life

  172. in that area. So maybe you came in this morning

  173. and three quarters of your life is surrendered and you

  174. feel like you can't figure out why you still got

  175. cycles of defeat. That's because you're trying to preserve your life.

  176. And any time any area of our life we're trying

  177. to preserve it, we're going to end up living our

  178. life at the expense of those around us. It is

  179. a lie from the enemy to say that we can

  180. sin and not hurt people. It's impossible for us to

  181. have personal sin in our life and it not affect

  182. our relationships. Are you with me and we make this

  183. conscious decision every day that we wake up on whether

  184. or not we're going to take up our cross and

  185. follow him. There are some days you might get a

  186. little bit of Jesus and a little bit of me.

  187. What's that bumper sticker? Try Jesus, don't try me. I've

  188. got a magnet atum a refrigerator door. It's it's a

  189. picture of Jesus, and he says, I saw that, but

  190. I still love you. I saw that, but I still

  191. love you. I want to challenge y'all. I know we're

  192. getting towards the end of the year, and we were

  193. actually talking about this in Men's Breakfast about New Year's resolutions,

  194. and nine percent, nine percent of all the people that

  195. make resolutions in the new year stick with it. That's horrible.

  196. Are you with me? Secondly, if you're trying to make

  197. a change in your life because you shouldn't be doing something,

  198. why are you going to wait till January repent for

  199. the Kingdom of Heaven? Is that near? It wasn't that bad.

  200. And just the last year there have been and this

  201. is the top fifty countries in the globe, over three

  202. hundred and eighty million Christians living in places where they

  203. experienced high levels of persecution and discrimination. Four hundred and

  204. seventy six Christians were killed for their faith. We saw

  205. a flag or a marking point with the assassination of

  206. Charlie Kirk. You know, I'm not interested in arguing on

  207. how it happened or who actually did it. The reality

  208. is he was martyred for his faith. Period. At the

  209. end of the day, it's been a while since someone

  210. was actually martyred for their faith. And you may say, well, hey,

  211. you know he was also political. Well, his political view

  212. was grounded because of his faith in Jesus, and that's

  213. where his moral compass came from. And he consistently constantly

  214. talked about Jesus all throughout the campuses, all over the place.

  215. And so we we saw this, this moment that literally

  216. marked the country. That I don't know about you, but

  217. I was surprised at the emotion I had when I

  218. found out there's seven six hundred and seventy nine churches

  219. and other Christian buildings attacked last year, four seven hundred

  220. and forty four believers detained without trial, arrested, sentenced, or imprisoned.

  221. Do you even find Paul where he's riding and he's

  222. in prison. Do you understand it's not like the prisons

  223. in Texas or county jail, like he's in a hole

  224. in the ground. There were times where he was on

  225. house arrest, but when he's writing about the joy of

  226. the Lord, it was no picnic for him. And every

  227. morning he woke up, he was there and chained because

  228. of his faith in Jesus. And I've said this and

  229. will continue to say this, that the increasing of persecution

  230. that starting to ramp up a little bit here is

  231. going to continue to ramp up, and we are going

  232. to have to know who we are and how to

  233. respond now, not years from now. Part of raising up

  234. our children and the ways of God is actually giving

  235. them a solid foundation on the sufferings of Christ. Most

  236. of us can't even handle having our parking spot taken,

  237. being persecuted, call the intercessors Philippians two eight, and being

  238. found in the appearance as a man, he humbled himself.

  239. It became obedient to the point of death, even the

  240. death on the cross, y'all, When we willfully take up

  241. our cross, and when we're being persecuted for righteousness sake,

  242. and we're willing to humble ourselves and take that stand

  243. and remain silent and allow the Lord to vindicate us,

  244. we're actually making room for him to move in our lives,

  245. on our Behabit says, he's actively working on the behalf

  246. of those that wait for him. David. I remember David

  247. and his men. They're going along, and the one dude

  248. is like spitting at him and throwing rocks and his

  249. mighty mender, like you want us to take his head

  250. off and what did David say. He goes, no, leave

  251. him alone. Maybe the Lord will see him cursing me,

  252. and I will be blessed. David said that even in

  253. the Old Covenant, and I think one of the hardest

  254. things in the world is when things aren't going the

  255. way we want them to go, to remain quiet, to

  256. be still and allow the Lord to move. I don't think, y'all.

  257. I was making an emergency cup of coffee during the

  258. transition back there. All the coffee was gone, so I

  259. have a cure rig moment of silence.

  260. Please.

  261. But we had been praying. Some of y'all know, we've

  262. been praying for quite a while for whether or not

  263. to go out to the property with a revival tent.

  264. And we've been praying and praying, and I really started

  265. personally pressing in the last few weeks, asking the Lord

  266. to please give us confirmation. And I shared this first service.

  267. One of the gentlemen in the church here set a

  268. dream to us, and he in the dream, he was

  269. in this revival tent and God was moving. There were

  270. a lot of people in there, and he said it

  271. was up against a big hill, and when he came

  272. out of the tent. He realized he was on ourty.

  273. And so I'm driving down the highway and I go, okay, Lord,

  274. we'll do it. See because I didn't want a tent.

  275. I want I didn't And I was like, if we're

  276. going to have a tent, I want like one of

  277. these fancy high dollar framed in hard walled, you know.

  278. And then we started looking at prices on those things

  279. and hallelujah. And so but I said, okay, Lord, and

  280. in my heart I heard I want to meet you

  281. in the tent. And so we will. In the next

  282. few weeks, Lord willing be announcing a groundbreaking day and

  283. we are going to be securing a tent, and we

  284. will be meeting the Lord and the Revival tent. As

  285. we actually begin to watch the first building begin to

  286. go up, and my microphone popped off. Who's had the

  287. roughest year of your life? This year? Like literally like

  288. you were tested in ways, went through stuff that you

  289. never dreamed you were going to go through. I mean,

  290. I know, as a region, we've all just went through

  291. hallatious stuff. But I believe with all my heart something

  292. amazing is on its way. I believe that we are

  293. seeing just little taste and see that the Lord is good.

  294. And each week we're tasting a little bit more of

  295. his holiness. We're tasting a little bit more of the

  296. fear of the Lord, We're tasting a little bit more

  297. of his goodness. We're beginning to get a little better

  298. rebelation of the Father's heart for us and over this region.

  299. And what it's doing is beginning to spark hope in

  300. the hearts of the people. It's beginning to we're beginning

  301. to see a picture of a reality where the Father's

  302. inviting us in to this amazing story called his kingdom,

  303. and he's inviting each and every one of us. We're

  304. at the train station. The train's about to go, and

  305. you gotta make a choice. So you're going to get

  306. on or get off. But the train's moving. The train's

  307. going to go, and God's gonna move. Remember, we can't

  308. tell the wind where to blow right, the wind blows

  309. where it pleases. But we can get into the direction

  310. of the wind and go with the momentum of His spirit.

  311. We can acknowledge our pain. We can be in the

  312. garden just like Jesus was. He says, Lord, if there's

  313. another way, let this cup.

  314. Go.

  315. Lord, If there's another way to redeem humanity, let it be,

  316. but nevertheless, not my will. And that's exactly how we

  317. need to be, walking in the Kingdom with open hands.

  318. No matter how much revelation you think you have over

  319. your life, your hands are open. You go, Lord, your kingdom, Come,

  320. Your will be done, not mine. I submit, I surrender

  321. my will. Because the reality is, if we're going to

  322. take up our cross daily and follow him, that means

  323. that we're posturing ourself in a place of full submission.

  324. Are you with me, not just doing what he tells

  325. us to do, but actually being submitted and surrendered in

  326. our heart? Because you can do what the Lord tells

  327. you to do and be mad as all get out

  328. and still do what he told you to do right,

  329. miserably victorious. And we've all been there. We've all made

  330. righteous decisions because it was the right thing to do,

  331. but we were mad as she ol in the process.

  332. And the Lord, he says, he doesn't look on the outside,

  333. He looks at the heart. So you may look amazing

  334. doing a good work and everybody praises you for it,

  335. and your heart might be as evil as all get

  336. out inside, because the motive is selfish ambition, and he

  337. is purifying his bride right now. And I do not

  338. believe that he's coming back for a beat up bride.

  339. He's coming back for a bride that knows who she is.

  340. And when he shows up, it's not gonna be us

  341. going get us out of here, Lord, doing rapture practice.

  342. It's gonna be the world saying please get them out

  343. of here. You sound excited about that, but there's things

  344. that are gonna have to come to death, because it's

  345. only where you carry the cross in your life that

  346. you're actually walking in abundant life. Philippians two eight says,

  347. and being found in the appearance as a man, he

  348. humbled himself and became obedient to the point of death,

  349. even the death of the cross. So we wake up

  350. in the morning and we deny our soul's right to

  351. rule over us. We say, Lord, I will walk in

  352. the spirit. My soul will not rule. And sometimes that's

  353. how we wake up. No, No, Lord, Hebrews twelve two.

  354. Looking unto Jesus, the author and finisher of our faith, who,

  355. for the joy that was set before him, endured the cross,

  356. despising the shame, and has set down at the right

  357. hand of the throne of God. What was the joy?

  358. What was he looking? Why did he endure?

  359. Was?

  360. What is that joy that was set before him? First

  361. and foremost, it was ruthless trust and obedience to his father.

  362. Secondly it was you. But make no mistake, obedience to

  363. his Papa was the number one thing that brought him

  364. joy one Corinthians when eighteen. For the message of the

  365. Cross is foolishness to those who are perishing, but to

  366. us who are being saved, that is the power of God.

  367. If you want to see miracle, signs and wonders, then

  368. always lead with the gospel. First, you understand he's confirming

  369. the message. It says, these signs will follow after those

  370. who believe. So you follow him, you chase him. You

  371. preach the eternal Gospel, undefiled, uncompromised, without heresy. You preach

  372. the truth and love, and Heaven will back you. And

  373. we can put a demand on Heaven when we're preaching

  374. the gospel, because those signs will follow after those who believe. Y'all,

  375. every time we gather, God does something supernatural. Every time

  376. somebody gets healed, every time a word of knowledge is released,

  377. every time a healing is released every time somebody gets delivered.

  378. That is confirming the truth of the Gospel of the Kingdom,

  379. and even what we've seen today this morning. This is

  380. the supernatural world, the biblical worldview invading into your natural minds,

  381. and you get an upgrade of who he is and

  382. what he actually longs to do. I think he's way

  383. more excited about moving through us and with us than

  384. we are with him. So many times we miss we

  385. miss visitations because we don't see the invitation. It's too uncomfortable. Lord,

  386. you're asking too much of me. Lord, I don't want

  387. to go on that fast. Don't you know I have

  388. steaks in the freezer are filling the blank. I used

  389. to have a Peanut eminem slight problem. Anybody like Peanut

  390. Eminem's man, I could tear those things up. But now,

  391. at forty eight years old, it just advances the Kingdom

  392. Luke fourteen twenty seven. And whoever does not bear his

  393. cross and come after me cannot be my disciple. Listen,

  394. I don't care how many times you went to the

  395. altar and said a prayer. If you don't have a

  396. life that's been radically changed by Jesus you're not saved.

  397. You can't say I know him and then never change.

  398. It's impossible. If you don't bear your cross, then you're

  399. not as disciple. See, we water stuff down. We want

  400. to make everybody feel nice and comfortable as they go

  401. straight to hell. That stuff's got to stop. You have

  402. to stop being afraid to offend people with the gospel

  403. because it's the power of God into salvation. It's what

  404. actually changes a bloodline. And there is no hope outside

  405. of Him, There is no eternal hope. He is the Way,

  406. the truth, and the life, and no one comes unto

  407. the Father except through Him. And you, as a son

  408. and daughter, have a earthly responsibility to preach that eternal

  409. gospel with conviction and with power. You need to understand

  410. power comes when you preach the gospel, and you can

  411. put a demand on heaven and have faith that Jesus

  412. will stretch forth his arm and signs and wonders when

  413. you preach the word, when you speak the truth. Galatians

  414. two twenty says this, I have been crucified with Christ.

  415. It's no longer I who live, but Christ lives in me,

  416. and the life which I now live in the flesh

  417. I live by faith in the Son of God, who

  418. loved me and gave himself for me. Do you understand

  419. the one thing that led Peter to wanting to be

  420. crucified upside down because he said he wasn't worthy to

  421. be crucified the way his Lord was. It had everything

  422. to do with the revelation of his father. You understand,

  423. he says, I want to be known as Father. And

  424. so much of our problems is our unwillingness to submit

  425. our lives, get rid of the orphaned spirit and embrace sonship.

  426. Because if you don't know who you are, you don't

  427. know how to walk in what he's called you to,

  428. because your identity unlocks your destiny. If you're still trying

  429. to get convinced that he is good, it's going to

  430. be difficult to see amazing things. But when you know

  431. he is good and he longs to give good gifts

  432. and he only gives good gifts, that revelation of his

  433. goodness unlocks the miraculous realm. It kills doubt and unbelief,

  434. and you step into a place of faith because you

  435. know he truly is good and he longs to give

  436. you the kingdom. It says it's his good pleasure to

  437. give you the Holy Spirit. So you wake up, you

  438. take up your cross, and you go straight into the impossible,

  439. because that's where you're called to live. You understand you're

  440. not mere humans anymore. You're a brand new creation in Christ.

  441. The old is gone. Behold all things become new. You

  442. have a mandate on your life. Every day you wake

  443. up to see Heaven. Come to this in any place

  444. that you see in your life that doesn't look like

  445. Heaven is an assignment. You didn't even need an angelic

  446. visitation for that. Anything that's in front of you, somebody's

  447. sick in front of you, you don't need any more

  448. revelation to know that you need to be praying for

  449. that person, because there is no sickness in heaven. There's

  450. no lack in heaven. There's no depression in heaven. There's

  451. no addiction in heaven. There's no premature death in heaven.

  452. I was sitting with Troy in Randy Clark a couple

  453. of weeks back, and I said, I don't know if

  454. you want me on your dead raising team. I'm like, oh,

  455. for eight And he goes, And Randy said, he goes.

  456. What matters is you're still praying. If you if you

  457. keep praying, you'll see it. There's something that happens in

  458. our hearts when we continue to go after the things

  459. of God, and we face our unbelief and our doubt

  460. head on, and we keep doing it because he said

  461. it's true, and we get it a conviction inside of

  462. our hearts that say, I will see this and I

  463. will continue to go after this because I know this

  464. is true, and I'm not gonna allow what my natural

  465. eyes see in the natural to tell me what to

  466. believe about him. His word already finished that, and that

  467. is the journey that we're on, kicking unbelief in the face.

  468. Almost had another blooper. Thank you for your mercy, Lord,

  469. it says Acts fourteen twenty two, strengthening the souls of

  470. the disciples, encouraging them to continue in the faith, and

  471. saying that through many tribulations we must enter into the

  472. Kingdom of God. Y'all, why is it we seem so

  473. surprised when a trial comes? Come on? Are you with me? Like?

  474. There are always those moments like for another one, Lord,

  475. have you not been with me over the last few months?

  476. And what's he say? The testing of your faith. It's

  477. the testing of your faith. It's the purifying and the

  478. motives of your heart. It's the transformation so that you

  479. actually look like Jesus. Do you understand, y'all? You want

  480. to know what ads willis for your life be transformed

  481. into the image of Christ to fulfill the Great Commission.

  482. You understand that the Great Commission is an assignment for

  483. every single one of you. It's not just for the pastor.

  484. It's not just for the evangelist or the prophet or

  485. the teacher. It's for all of us. And I want

  486. to challenge y'all now more than ever. Look for the harvest.

  487. Look for the harvest. There's fires popping all over the place.

  488. I don't know about you, but I'm not okay to hear.

  489. Ken's Church has thirty five hundred salvations this year. I

  490. don't know about you, but that provoked me to jealousy

  491. when he said that I want to see us see

  492. hundreds of people come to know the Lord. And it

  493. doesn't even matter if they end up here. What matters

  494. is they end up in the Kingdom. Are you with me?

  495. But that happens because you get a group of people

  496. that lay down their lives that take up their cross

  497. daily and pursue the Lord. The one thing that's going

  498. to give you longevity and perseverance in this planet in

  499. the days ahead is your love for Jesus. It's that

  500. first love that's going to give you the perseverance that

  501. you need in the days ahead. You don't want to

  502. shipwreck your faith, then stay on your knees. You don't

  503. want to shipwreck your faith. Get in the word because

  504. word and prayer are vital. It is vital, absolutely vital.

  505. How you gonna know if he's even taught what you're

  506. hearing from him is accurate if you're not testing it

  507. against his word and spend time being quiet and listening

  508. to him speak. I promise you all he wants to

  509. talk to you. Stop fussing because you're not getting your way.

  510. Look to him and thank him for unanswered prayer, because

  511. if he answered some of your prayers right now, he

  512. would have to turn around and judge you for what

  513. he just gave you because you don't have the maturity

  514. to steward it. And that's not a good father. I

  515. heard this illustration. What if every single prayer you prayed

  516. that was according to his will comes in an acorn.

  517. Form comes with an acorn, and you keep pursuing, You,

  518. keep praying until it gets planted and turns into a tree.

  519. I'm telling you the bolls in heaven of prayers. Some

  520. of y'all just need to throw a few more prayers

  521. to tip that over back onto the earth. He says,

  522. keep asking, keep knocking, keep seeking. Why, because he's a

  523. rewarder of those who diligently seek after him. You're not

  524. so much twisting his arm to give you what you want,

  525. but in the process of pursuing him, he's conforming you

  526. into the image of his son. And then he is

  527. justified to give you that because you'll have the character

  528. to steward it. Some of y'all think he said no,

  529. when all he did was say wait, And then you

  530. get ticked off and pack up your legos. Why don't

  531. we need that? And all of a sudden, now it's

  532. your will who cares about his? How's that working out?

  533. Don't answer? All right, I'm gonna land the plane safely,

  534. safe safely, pilots very safely, although if I have a parachute,

  535. we can just drop it anyways, right, don't get scared.

  536. One Peter four, one, and two. Since therefore Christ suffered

  537. in the flesh, arm yourselves with the same way of thinking.

  538. For whoever has suffered in the flesh has ceased from sin,

  539. so as to live for the rest of the time

  540. in the flesh. No longer for human passions, but for

  541. the will of God. Let's stand one Peter four. My

  542. wife is letting me know there's a remind Okay, now

  543. the prayer team come, Not that we haven't had lots

  544. of prayer already, but there may be a couple of

  545. you that are like, oh man, I should have gotten prayer.

  546. Who's excited about a revival tap? I'm actually getting a

  547. little excited about it. I really am. You know, the

  548. Shavdas started out in a tent, and I've got a buddy,

  549. Roger Sykes. He was there during that time, and they

  550. actually had a glory cloud appear in the tent, and

  551. you could see lightnings in the cloud, and you had

  552. tons of testimonies of people that were there and experienced

  553. the glory. Sounds pretty It doesn't sound like a bad Sunday,

  554. you know what I'm saying. I've seen one cloud. I'm

  555. ready to see it again. So Father, we thank you, Lord.

  556. We thank you that you're good. We thank you that

  557. you love us. We thank you that you proved your love,

  558. and while we were yet sinners, you died for us. Lord. Lord,

  559. I asked that you would continue to put hope, infuse

  560. us with hope. Lord, that we would begin to like

  561. Sean said, did anybody see the sunrise, that we would

  562. have our childlike faith restored our sense of wonder and

  563. awe of who you are and your creation, that we

  564. would once again begin to knock the ashes of the

  565. past off of us and begin to dream with you, Lord,

  566. what do you see over this region? What do you

  567. want to do in this region? What do you want

  568. to do through us? What do you want to do

  569. through us today? Lord? What do you want to do

  570. through us when with us tomorrow? Lord? We want the harvest.

  571. We want the harvest. Lord, And I pray that there

  572. would be an a company of people that get more

  573. excited about the name of Jesus Lord than the word revival.

  574. Because you are revival. Lord, revival is in us, because

  575. you are revival. It is in you. You revive the dead,

  576. you awaken the sleeper. So Lord, right now, in this moment,

  577. in the areas of our lives that we have been slumbering.

  578. Would you blow on us and awaken our spirits. Awaken

  579. our spirits, Lord, that the breath of God come and

  580. awaken our spirits. Blow over us.

  581. Lord.

  582. The wind blows where it pleases, and we're asking for

  583. it to continue to blow our direction to bring glory

  584. and honor to the name of the Lord Jesus Christ. Amen.

  585. If you all need prayer, come on upwise okay?

  586. In one announcements, Yeah, two quick announcements. The pop up

  587. shop with all the clothing and shoes this next week.

  588. It's going to be open Tuesday through Friday, nine to three.

  589. If anyone in our community is in need, you can

  590. go and shop. Shop for your whole entire family.

  591. If you have.

  592. Friends or neighbors that are in need, please let them

  593. know to come. A flood victims also can come. Anything

  594. that's left after that is going to be donated, so

  595. please come and get it. So right next door is O'Reilly's,

  596. the old Mexican restaurant. Next to O'Reilly's is where the

  597. pop up shop is. So please go shop get what

  598. you need. Last thing, Alex she's not here yet, but

  599. she was asking if she could get a few really

  600. strong men to help her with moving some set stuff around.

  601. So if any of you will stay for that, weick.

  602. There's actually a third if you know somebody in need.

  603. This Wednesday, December tenth, at eleven o'clock to one o'clock,

  604. Mercy Chefs will have their hot meals and their Christmas

  605. boxes and Cross Kingdom put a hundred hb gift cards

  606. in one hundred of those boxes, and the gift cards

  607. are fifty bucks. So like we want to make sure

  608. anybody in our community is aware of that because you know,

  609. it's why supplies last but Wednesday. So if you know

  610. somebody that's really hurting, please let them know. And that's

  611. just right up here where they do the drive through

  612. for the meals with the big signs no at the

  613. Mercy Chefs. Oh which way am I point? Yeah? Yeah,

  614. that way, yeah, yeah, right across from City West. Bless y'all.

  615. If you need prayer, please come forward.

  616. Well.

  617. I trust that you were blessed by the Lord today

  618. and we look forward to seeing you online next Sunday.

  619. In the meantime, if you would like to learn more

  620. about us, about our School of Ministry or other resources,

  621. or you would like to sow into Cross Kingdom ministries

  622. and help us further the Gospel to the ends of

  623. the earth, simply go to Cross Kingdom dot org. We'll

  624. see y'all next week.