Keep Pushing!

You're listening to the Cross Kingdom Sermon of the Week.

We hope you enjoy this message from Justin Carpenter. You go,

all right? Anybody ready to make some sense out of

this season we're in, Well, hopefully I will bring some

clarity or just bring more confusion. We'll see what happens.

So you will not forget this title? Are you already?

I titled this keep pushing? Are you already? Philippians three

eight to twelve. Indeed I count everything as loss because

of the surpassing worth of knowing Christ, Jesus my Lord,

for his sake, I've suffered the loss of all things

and count them as rubbish. This word rubbish if you

look in the Greek, and if you look at some scholars,

they would argue that you would literally translate this crap,

and even more of an emphasis with some of them.

I will spare you that because I don't know that

that would be an appropriate word right now. But literally

he's saying, I count this as rubbish. All everything he

was in the flesh, everything he was in the flesh,

He says, I counted as rubbish in order that I

may gain Christ and be found in him. Not having

a righteousness of my own that comes from the law,

but that which comes through faith in Christ, the righteousness

from God that depends on faith, that I may know

Him and the power of his resurrection, and may share

his sufferings, ready to suffer, yes, becoming like him in

his death, that by any means possible, I may attain

the resurrection from the dead. Not that I've already obtained

this or I'm already perfect, but I press on to

make it my own, because Christ Jesus has made me

his own. Y'all, we are in some of the most

difficult times ever right now, and yet in some ways

we're in the most absolute amazing times. You know, there's

so much adversity in spiritual warfare right now, and everybody

I know has been under pressure, they've had adversity. They

how many of y'all feel like right now you're literally

like it's like you're just pushing against the wall, and

it's like the wall's not going anywhere, and you're having

a difficult time and you keep finding trials and tests

and opposition. We're in transition in the body of Christ

right now. There's so much changing out of that old

wine skin and coming into a new wine skin. And

anytime you're in transition, the increase of spiritual warfare because

you're the most susceptible when you're going from A to

B transition, right, and so you're more seen out in

the open, and that's when you get shot at. And

right now, especially with our region, everything we've gone through

over the last few months, there is real adversity. But

right now the Lord is birthing something in the church.

The Lord is literally birthing a move of God that

we're seeing these little fires pop up, interestingly enough, outside

of the Bible Belt. Here's a good question why since

Charlie kirkda, we're seeing all these churches fill up lines

to get into the churches, but all of this is

happening outside the Bible belt. Why isn't Why aren't we

seeing a greater hunger inside the Bible belt? Why aren't

we seeing more and more fires spark up inside the

Bible belt not just outside? The harvest is happening, y'all,

Are you hungry? Do you have eyes to see with

what the Lord's doing right now? Because the enemy would

absolutely love for us to be so focused on the adversity,

so focused on the resistance, that we stop pushing and

we quit. But he is forming something. He's birthing something

in us right now, individually and corporately, and we have

to keep pushing. Women that are moms, how like when

you're giving birth, towards the end, it is the most

excruciating pain in the world. Correct, I have not experienced that.

I cannot identify with that, but I can identify with

having my hand crushed by my wife towards the end

of that process. And wives, you may have even found

a new tongue that came out during that process. That

would not need interpretation. But it's painful right now because

we're there's a birthing process happening. It's painful and if

you focus on that pain, you're going to lose sight

of what's new, what's coming. If you focus on that pain,

then it's ultimately going to demoralize you because it will

become your teacher rather than the Holy Spirit. God is

moving right now in amazing ways, y'all. You have you

have people in the UK, not just in the East,

but in the UK having dreams and visions and coming

to know the Lord without anybody talking to them. It's

been coined the revival in the UK. But you don't

hear much about that, do you. You hear about the

digital idea though, who can you say that word? I

could sew rabbit trail on that, but we that will

get off course kind of. But when we share and suffering,

we're not just suffering as believers. You're not suffering aimlessly,

are without a purpose. You're actually sharing in the sufferings

of Jesus. And if we can understand that pain as

we're moving into this new place, then we can have

a different perspective on the suffering. And guess what, Just

like all that pain vanishes as soon as that newborn

baby's in front of you, all the pain that we're

going through right now to get into what the Lord

is forming. When when that is fully birthed, guess what

you're gonna go? Man, it was Paul said. Everything I'm

going through is not worth worth comparing to the glory

that's gonna be revealed. You suffer with purpose, You're not suffering. Well,

you can suffer because of stupidity, but let's let's do

it with Let's let's have purpose and are suffering. You

go into the wilderness, either by design or default, and corporately.

We're in somewhat of a wilderness transitional period by design,

not by default, because the Lord is forming. He's birthing

something right now, and we don't quite yet see it

because it's not fully formed. It's like a caterpillar going

into a butterfly. There's this metamorphois process that is really

ugly and really nasty, and at one point you're like,

what is this? And then there's silence and it seems

like everything's dying, and then all of a sudden, this

beauty comes from a new creation. Luke Ate forty five

and forty six, Jesus said, who was it that touched me?

When all denied it? Peter said, Master, the crowds surround

you and are pressing in on you. But Jesus said,

someone touched me, for I perceive that power has gone

from me. When was the last time we were in

a crowd pressing into Jesus just saying if I can

just touch them, everything's going to be okay. When was

the last time your holy hunger made your heart ache?

Mark three to nine, Mark three nine and ten. He

told his disciples to have a boat ready for him

because of the crowd, lest they crush him, for he

had healed many so that all who had diseases pressed

around to touch him. In this transition, you're gonna be

you're focused with either focusing on what isn't working outright,

what we have lost, which has been devastating. But we

have to push through. Keep pushing. It's painful, it's a

hard season. People feel like they're having their hind ends

handed to him in so many aspects of their life.

Keep pushing because the pain is worth it. And on

the other side of this, when we a full picture

of what he's giving birth to, all that pain is

gonna diminish in the beauty of the Lord as we

see his glory in his kingdom advance. But right now

it's advancing with violence, and we have got to keep pushing.

If you don't remember anything else I say to you today,

keep pushing when adversity comes. Push. I don't mean make

this thing happen in your own strength. I'm saying that

you set your head like flint and come hell or

high water, you're pressing into Jesus. You're gonna get to him,

You're gonna hold on to him, and you're gonna not

let go Galatians four nineteen says my little children, for

whom I am again in the anguish of childbirth, until

Christ is formed in you, y'all, we are going from

glory to glory, and that little word, too can be

very painful. The moment so glory are amazing, right, the

mountaintop moments. But the two is the valley to the mountaintop,

and that two is actually where your character is built.

Your character is not built on the mountaintop. That's the reprieve,

that's the blessing that is hanging out with the Lord

and Ah getting filled back up. But when you get

down in that valley, that's where the battles are. That's

where you actually see where the enemy is occupying the

territory that is your inheritance. And if you act cowardly

and fearful, then you don't get it. If you murmur

and complain and allow unbelief to speak louder than faith,

then you forfeit your inheritance. And we can't do it

on this watch, not on our watch. There's a war

over this land. There is a war over this region,

spiritual war happening over this land because God has set

this region in his eyesight. There's a target for his kingdom,

and we have got to see this thing fully formed

and birth, no matter what, keep pushing John three three

to eight. Jesus answered him, truly, truly, I say to you,

unless one is born again, he cannot see the kingdom

of God. Nicodemus said to him, how can a man

be born when he is old? Nicodemus is totally thinking

in earthly terms, naturally, and he's like, dude, I'm like

one hundred and some years old, How Jesus, how how

can I be born again when I'm old? And he's

thinking naturally when Jesus is speaking spiritually and how And

part of the problem is Jesus is speaking to us

spiritually more than he is naturally, but we're thinking naturally,

and then we don't get it. He says, can he

enter a second time into his mother's womb and be born?

This is the same thing when Jesus says, hey, if

you don't eat my body and drink my blood, you

have no life in you. And all these people start

freaking out. They're like, he's a cannibalist. I knew this

was a cult. And then they all run off. How

many things do we judge that the Lord may have

been in But because we're thinking in earthly terms, we

forfeit being a part of that move. Truly, truly, I

say to you, unless one is born of water and

the Spirit, he cannot enter the Kingdom. That which is

born of flesh is flesh, and that which is born

of spirit of spirit. Do not marvel that I said

to you, you must be born again. The wind blows

where it wishes, and you hear it sound, but you

do not know where it comes from or where it goes.

So it is with everyone who's born of the spirit.

The wind blows where it pleases. Do you understand this

is the language of the Holy Spirit, and your life

being led by the spirit. The wind blows where it desires.

You don't make the wind blow. You don't tell the

wind to blow this way or that way. You adjust

to the wind. And if you're in a sailboat, you

either adjust your sail or you have a very difficult time.

Oh you can do it. There's ways in the sailboat

of coming in and out against the wind and actually

make headway. But that kind of represents your soul. Matthew

five forty three to forty eight. You've heard that it

was said you shall love your neighbor and hate your enemy.

But I say to you, love your enemies and pray

for those who persecute you, so that you may be

sons of your father who's in heaven. For he makes

his son rise on evil and on the good. He

sends rain on the just and the unjust. For if

you love those who love you, what reward do you have?

Do not even the tax collectors do the same. And

if you greet only your brothers, what more are you

doing than others? Do not even the gentiles do the same.

You therefore must be perfect, as your heavenly father is perfect.

I want you to think of the hardest thing you're

going through right now. There are people in here that

are literally grieving the loss of children. This Wednesday we

will do the celebration of life for Eliza Eve in Medina,

for the Clossings. I literally just found out that our

dear friends John and Sarah Roth that took over Rich

Harris's church, lost their thirteen year old thirteen year old

son suddenly on the fifteenth. Y'all, we can't always make

sense of loss. We don't always understand the mysteries of

why something's happen and why some things don't. And when

we earnestly pray and don't get the outcome, we're left

in that tension, and we're left in the tension of choice.

What are we gonna do? Jesus said in this life,

you're gonna have trouble. I don't know about you, but

I wish you would have capitalized that with big bold

red print, right like that. That's one of those scriptures like, yeah,

we will have trouble, But I can tell you this.

I cannot imagine going through all those things and not

knowing the Lord. Thankfully, those folks know the Lord, and

even though words can't fix what they're going through, the

Lord's able to bring healing. He's able to work all

things together for the good and is so good at it.

I might add that some people actually think sometimes he's

the source of the loss when he's not. To understand,

there are things that happen on this earth that the

Lord has nothing to do with. Now, if you're a Calvinist,

you're gonna want to throw tomatoes at me right now.

But I can show you scripture in the Old Covenant

where he says that you are killing people that should

not be killed, and you're keeping alive people that should

not be kept alive. What do you do with that?

I think one of the scariest things for believers is

that the reality of our responsibility over planet Earth he

you behind. You're left behind. You've been left behind. Look

at the person next to you, say you're welcome, but

we're left behind to do what to advance the kingdom? Y'all,

regardless of your how you think all this is going

to end, We're here to occupy until he comes. We're

here to see all the kingdoms of this earth become

the kingdoms of our Lord and his Christ, the Great Commission.

We're here to bring Heaven to Earth because you're seated

with Him in heavenly places. You need to have a

heavenly mindset in order to bring heaven. Otherwise, if you're

thinking earthly like Nicodemus, hey, I can't go back in

my mother's loomb. I'm a little too big, a little

too old. How do you do that? If you're thinking

in earthly terms, then guess what. You'll never advance the

kingdom of Heaven. You won't even be a threat, do

you understand that we spend so much of our time

in the Western Church trying to avoid pain and trying

to avoid resistance. And guess what your inheritance you're in,

what God's called you to resistance is in front of it.

He left giants in the land in the Old Covenant

on purpose, and you can't beat them on your own.

And as you go after these giants that are in

your inheritance, that are literally squatting and the ground that

God's called you to take, you come to the end

of yourself because you realize just how much of your

soul has been ruling when you thought it was your spirit.

And as you come to the end of yourself, then

there's a greater, deeper repentance and surrender and trust that

takes place, and then you really allow him to take

that giant down. He didn't put those giants there to

take you out. He put them there for your advancement.

He put him there for your growth. Yo. Maturity has

nothing to do with gift. Maturity has nothing to do

with how many times you fall on the ground, shake,

rattle and roll, speak in tongues, prophesy, cast out demons

has nothing to do with maturity. There's one test, and

that's the fruit of the spirit. That is the evidence

of an abiding life in Jesus. So here's a question.

When people talk about you, hopefully they're talking good about you,

but if somebody says, if your name comes up, do

you ever hear he's one of the kindest people I've

ever met. Oh, she is so loving, he is so patient. Man,

that dude's just good. He's a good person. He's a

good guy. That's the goodness of God. Man, they have

so much self control because that's the character of Jesus.

That's what he exudes, those evidences of an abiding life.

And at the end of the day, God will never

be impressed with a gift that he gets. In fact,

he's not even mad at your immaturity. He doesn't punish immaturity.

He corrects it. He punishes rebellion again wilderness by design

or default, that's kind of our choice. Now, if he

takes you in a dark night of the soul, that's

not necessarily fun, But y'all, at the end of it,

you go into the dark knight of the spirit and

you never leave because that's where true freedom is. That's

where ultimate surrender to his spirit lies when you recognize

that there is nothing you can do of your own

and if he doesn't show up, you're done. We're called

to live on the edge of all of it. We're

called to live literally on the edge of the cliff

and then sometimes jump. Faith is risk. If you're always

calculating your destiny, you're not following Jesus. You're following a formula.

He will call you to do the most craziest things

at times from your perspective, and if you don't have

eyes to see and ears to hear, then you will

absolutely miss it because you're over here trying to avoid pain.

Do you understand we learn way more when we mess

up than we do when we have success. You know,

most millionaires go bankrupt a couple of times and then

they become a millionaire again. Why because in that school

of hard knocks they actually learn how it works and

so they can always make money. I can tell you this,

the law of promotion simple. What you stewart will grow

if you if you if you believe that you're called

to have a massive kingdom business and make a whole

lot of money. But you don't tithe, You're not a giver.

You don't bless people. Why do you think the Lord's

gonna go give you millions of dollars so you can

blow it on yourself. If you're faithful in a little,

you'll be faithful and much. And let me tell you. You

might be in a hard season, you might be financially

strapped right now, and I would I would tell you this, give.

And I don't mean necessarily here that this isn't a

plea to God's got this, but give punch the fear

of lack in the face. That was good justin Romans

eight thirty five. Who shall separate us from the love

of shell tribulation, our distress, our persecution, our famine, our nakedness,

or danger, our sword? Nothing? Nothing? We just sang about

His love? Which I think about a week ago, give

or take, I was inside the church in the spirit

in the night I know where things happen, and it

was like it was pitch black in here, like it

is with all the lights off. And in the encounter,

I was in the church in the spirit, and I've

had that happen one other time. And I was warring

with a spirit over the house and rebuking it. And

then I flew in the encounter, obviously not. I flew

right through that window back and when I went to

fly out the other night in the spirit, those doors

had windows like half lights, like those back doors, and

one of the doors the glass was broken. The enemy

had broken in. And I don't know if y'all have noticed,

but the atmosphere had been really tough for weeks. We've

been fighting and fighting to get back that open heaven.

And so in the natural came in here and was

interceding and asking the Lord to seal the breach and

to post his angels and give us an open heaven again.

And I really feel like things have shifted. Today felt

totally different. I mean, today has been amazing. And I

don't say that like I'm the one that did all that.

I'm just sharing insight Luke eighteen seven and eight. And

will not God give justice to his elect who cry

to him day and night? Will he delay long over them?

I tell you he will give justice to them speedily. Nevertheless,

when the son of Man comes, will he find faith

on the earth. Why do you think Jesus asked this,

What's that make you think? What's that make you wonder about?

It makes me wonder what percentage of genuine faith. When

he comes will be on the earth. We don't know

when he's coming, y'all, so just take a deep breath.

I know everybody thought Rashishana that I forgot what day

that was, that we were zapping out of here. But

the moment somebody lays claim to a date, you can

guarantee we're not going any where. It's in the Bible.

But he's forming something in you. Maybe there's an area

of your life you've been stiff arming him out of

rebellion and fear. Maybe you're scared to death that if

you surrender that part of your life, you're not really

sure if he's gonna show up or what's gonna happen, y'all.

In twenty thirteen, I launched the Cross Kingdom School of Ministry.

I was gonna have six instructors. I was going to

launch this school, was going to be amazing and do

itinerant ministry full time. And yes it was, oh I remember,

and all of a sudden, one by one, the instructors disappeared,

and all of a sudden, launch day comes March of

twenty fourteen, and there was one instructor in one course

dreams and visions, and that's how I launched the school.

You want to talk about being so convinced that all

those pieces were going to happen right then and there,

I mean, totally convinced everything looked like it doors open.

I flew to Denver and signed a license agreement with

Rich and I was just like, and I wasn't pushing.

I mean, things are opening, and then all of a sudden,

the school launches, and I mean it went over like

a fart in a spacesuit, and I was sorry. I

hadn't used that one in a while. Just making sure

y'all are paying attention and you're welcome. Now I know

y'all are listening. So the point is, things don't always

work out the way you're convinced they're going to. Y'all.

We can have we can have insight and revelation to

our destiny. But I can promise you and I can

tell you from every person I'm friends with, leadership wise,

it doesn't work out the way you think it's going

to work out. So we have to hold loosely to

our destiny. I'm forty eight years old, it is now

twenty twenty five, and next year I'm just now starting

to do itinerant ministry. I actually had invitations and I'm

going to preach conferences. Hello, it's twenty twenty five, and

I was like, I will be an itinerant minister in

twenty fourteen. Yeah, No, that didn't work out. Well, God

had a different idea. But I can tell you all

the pieces that I've seen are happening, but they don't

look the way I thought they were going to look.

Trust him when he's birthing something in you, trust him

that he knows how to form the clay better than

you do, and that he's good. And when he's putting

pressure to bring the image of Jesus into your life,

stop complaining. Thank him for molding you. Because as hard

as it is, if Paul who I don't know if

besides job, Paul went through the wringer and he says,

I don't that none of this suffering is worthy to

be considered compared to the glory that's going to be revealed.

So I want to challenge you, in the midst of adversity,

in the midst of keep pushing and trust him and

hold your destiny with open hands. Not my will but

your will, Lord, Keep pushing as you keep pushing, as

you trust him in this process, it's gonna be worth it. Y'all.

You have one one shot at advancing the Kingdom on Earth.

That's it. And we don't know what tomorrow brings. We're

not promised tomorrow. We're promised today. So when you hear

his voice and he says, hey, I want you to

go to the post office, well, I don't have any mail.

The wind blows where it pleases. Are you going to

go to the post office? Slow? Yes? Slow obedience is

nothing more than cloaked rebellion. Yeah. The definition of perseverance

and the famous words of the pilots that are in here,

I will begin to descend to give you more oxygen.

The definition of perseverance means continued effort to do or

achieve something despite difficulties, failure or opposition, the action or

condition or an instance of persevering, steadfastness, perseverance. Jesus said

to him who endures to the end, Are there things

you're not willing to endure? Think about it right now

in your heart with the Lord. Are there things you're

not willing to endure? Because that may be the area

that takes you out. Don't deal with it. When I

was at Streams a couple of weeks ago, Bonnie was

so worried about me because she could feel the weight

and the burdens. Yeah, we can't. We're not called to

carry the weight. Jesus said, come to me. Do you

understand the times that were in the weight could kill

you because of the intensity of the birth pains. Just

like in the natural, mothers can die in child bearing,

we can end up being taken out spiritually when God's

forming things because we choose to not surrender and go

through the process with him. The Hebrew word sarah or

sarrah means in short definition, can tend to persist, exert oneself, persevere.

You understand when God says persevere, he's not telling you

part of me, to persevere in your own strength. When

he says persevere, it's through his strength. I can do

all things through Christ, who strengthens me. See, we keep

thinking that somehow, like when I say keep pushing. Yes,

there is an effort on your part. Ask any woman

who's given birth to a child, there's some legit effort, right,

I mean, I literally I still may have bones out

of joint from Lisa when she was holding my hand,

you know what I'm saying. And but persistence, We're gonna

get to the other side. We're gonna see what the

Lord is forming, and it's gonna be beautiful. Anybody realized,

there's some things you were doing in the past season

that aren't working now like they like they're things that

they're just not working now, But they were then. That's

because we were going into a new wine skin. And

you understand the wine skin part is this. They didn't

throw away old wine skins. They would repurpose them. They

would take old wine skins when they got really dry

and brittle, and they would soak them in the water,

which is what spirit his word, and then they would

soak them in oil, and then they would be renewed.

What has to happen is the old wine skin is

you're you're the way of thinking that you had. You

gotta be renewed in the spirit of your mind in

order to step into the new wine skin. And you

gotta be pliable and soft so that when he fills

you up with that new wine, you're not rigid, legalistic

and controlling, otherwise you will pop. Right. I got one witness, Hebaccic.

I love a bacchic. He says, I'll take my stand

at the watch post and station myself on my tower,

on the tower, and look out to see what he

will say to me and what I will answer concerning

my complaint. Lord, this is a bunch of garbage. Do

you not see what's going on here? This is called

intercessory whining people, and some of us are really good

at it. I think I got an A plus at

times in my watch post complaining to the Lord. But

it's sanctified. And the Lord answered me, Write the vision,

make it plain on tablets so he may run who

reads it? For? Still? The vision awaits. It's a pointed time.

It hastens to the end. It will not lie. If

it seems slow, wait for it. It will surely come.

It will not delay. Behold, his soul is puffed up.

It is not upright within him. But the righteous shall

live by somebody else's faith. No, that's not what it says.

But the righteous shall live by faith. Faith equals risk.

How much risk is in your life right now? How

much of your life if the Lord didn't show up,

would just stop? Are you pressing the envelope with the impossible?

Because all things are possible with God. How much supernatural

life is in your life right now? How many things

happen in your life that only God can explain? Or

can you say, well, this is happening because of this,

and I did this, and I did this, and I

have plan A, B, C, D, E F and if

that doesn't work, I have more plans. There is no

plan B be with him. It's either you follow the

wind or you don't. Because the wind blows where it pleases. Okay,

Without deep roots, we will always fall away when tribulation

or testing comes. Because the roots represent your character, which

is developed through maturity. This is one Corinthians thirteen in

the Amplified And I'm going to close with this. Love

endures with patience and serenity. Love is kind and thoughtful.

It is not jealous or envious. Love does not brag.

It is not proud or arrogant. It is not rude.

It is not self seeking. It is not provoked, nor

overly sensitive and easily angered. It does not take into

account a wrong endured. It does not rejoice it injustice,

but rejoices with the truth when right and truth prevail.

Love bears all things, regardless of what comes believes all things,

looking for the best in each one, hopes all things,

remaining steadfast during difficult times, endures all things without weakening.

Love never fails, It never fades nor ends. But as

for prophecies, they will pass away. As for tongues, they

will cease. As for the gift of special knowledge, it

will pass away. Faith, hope, and love. But the greatest

of these is love. So here's a question. How patient

are you? Do you have serenity in your life? Are

you kind? Are you thoughtful? Do you have jealousy or envy? Remember,

jealousy is the fear that someone will take what you have,

and envy is wanting what they have. Do you brag?

Are you proud? Are you arrogant? Does the world know

how good you are because of your own words? Are

you rude and self seeking? Do you provoke easily? Are

you overly sensitive and angered easily? If you are, there's

probably rejection unresolved inside your heart. Bear all things regardless

of what will come. Do you believe all things? Or

do you rebut rebuke? Rebuke first and ask questions later.

That's one of my bottos and deliverance. Looking for the

best in each one, Hope all things. How's your endurance?

Are you weakening? Remember that? Well? Some of you may not.

But there's a song with the will Will the real shim?

Apparently I'm just gonna start talking in tongues up here

in a second, Will the real shims? Will the real

slim shady? Please stand up? Man? My tongue is getting

all twisted up. I've bet yeah. I think it's time

for us as believers, real believers, to stand up. I

think it's time for us to be as known for

our character as we are a gift. I think it's

time for us to be known more for our love

than what we're opposed of. When the Lord, when you're

not when the Lord? When your name is brought up

in conversations, is it about how great your kindness is?

Your goodness, your gentleness, your faithfulness, your self control? Are

those the things that are being brought up? I don't

know about you, but I hope at some point that,

at least in some circles, if my name is brought up,

that the character of Jesus is seen, and that it's

an attribute, and people see Jesus send me streebeck, stop it,

And that's what we should long for. Y'all, we're being

conformed into the image of Jesus, not our own. Let's

stand mister Micah, where are you at? Hey? Michael? Will you?

Can you hop on the keys for anybody? Y'all? Uh?

Before before we change the room and set up for

the pot, look, and if you didn't bring food, we

forgive you. It's okay. You can still stay and have

fun with us, just play them. But before we do that,

I just want to spend a couple of minutes. There's

a million things that could pop in your head right

now of resistance, and if the prayer team could come up,

there's a million things that could pop in your head

that could be an excuse for you to stop pushing,

to stop believing, to stop persevering, to give into the

adversity that's been happening. But you were born for this hour.

You were created by the Lord to be here at

this very moment in history. You're not a mistake. It's

not a mistake you're here this morning. It's not a

mistake that you live in this region and the Lord

is forming something very beautiful over this region. And I

want to tell you that the fight will be won

and we will see the fullness of what the Lord's

called this region to become. And there's an invitation. The

train is leaving the station, and that train is a

move of God and destiny for this region. And he's

calling you. The wind is blowing this morning. The question

is are we really going to lay our lives down

and follow where he's blowing? What's he asking you to

give up today to exchange? I promise you whatever you've

been holding on to that he's asking you to let

go of, to have an exchange. It's so worth it.

Whatever pacifier you've been using of the flow, it's worth

giving up because you're going to find life. You're going

to find abundant life in that surrender. Repentance is beautiful

because it clears the slate. You show up with empty

hands and say, Lord, fill me. I'm telling you it's

worth us to keep pushing, to keep seeing the Kingdom advance,

to believe and know that the Lord is forming, birthing

something beautiful in our lives and in this region. And

there's been a ton of loss and a ton of

pain that only he can heal. We can't heal it,

but he is healing. We are recovering and his goodness

is flowing. If you're hiding this morning, stop come into

the light. Stop hiding. If you don't know where in

the world you're going to spend eternity, Anybody up front

can show you how to surrender your life and truly

trust the Lord Jesus and he'll transform you from the

inside out. If you're battling addiction, today's a day of

your freedom. Stop confessing what you are not and start

declaring what He says you are. So, Father, I thank

you for your love. Lord, I thank you for your goodness.

I thank you for your beauty. I thank you that

we can give you our ashes and receive your beauty.

I thank you that we can give you the spirit

of heaviness and have a mantle of praise. Lord, Holy Spirit,

would you blow in this direction? Would you blow over

this room right now? Lord? Would you cause your ministering

spirits to be released in this moment and begin to

minister to the people. Would you begin, Lord, to bring

healing where healing is needed. Would you bring peace where

chaos has reigned? Would you bring joy instead of sorrow?

Would you bring freedom instead of addiction? Would you bring

freedom to migrains this morning? Lord, would you remove my mind?

Would you remove night terrors from those that have been

waking up in a sweat and in anxiety? Would you

stop the night visitations from the unclean spirits? Lord, confirm

your word.

Now, bring the power of your kingdom and give us

the grace to not act like mirror men and women,

but sons and daughters.

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