Awakening Your Spirit!

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

We helped you enjoy this message from Justin Carpenter. All right,

thank you you all give her a hand. She always

does good. I wasn't sure we were going to get

out of worship there for a little while. Uh, that

was good. Huh could have stayed down. Who all was

at the LAMB workshop? Who do we have in here?

That was at LAMB? Where's your husband at home? Bro?

You just did a three and a half day workshop.

Come on, Chez, yeah, che I know Chez. Well, he's

not gonna get upset with me. Trust me. I wouldn't

do that if I didn't know him anyway. So Phil

and Jenny Comstock are up front here. They are the

facilitators for the LAMB workshops. We've known y'all for what

ten years somewhere around there, and uh, Lisa and I,

like I said, have done a couple of workshops in

the past. They were amazing. We were going to do

workshops again and so for those of you that were

not able to really want to encourage you to and uh,

we've uh got to host them in our guest house

and hang out and around the fire and break a

little bit of bread and and solve the church's problems

globally through conversations. And I do want to say something

to you too though. During worship, I just saw this

little vision play out where you two were walking from

fire to fire, but they were burned out. There were ashes,

and you all were like on this journey to find

the fire. And then you walked up to the fire

and when you saw the fire, you actually had fire

starters in your hands. So I just want to encourage

you it's not just about finding the fire. You are

fire starters now. So I was sitting with them last

night and I think we went to bed about twelve

thirty in the morning or something like that, and and

somebody asked what I was going to teach on. I said,

I have no clue, as you all know, it's you know,

common for me not to know till the last minute.

So I woke up this morning about seven thirty or so,

I was like, Lord, I kind of really need to

know now though, And and what came on my heart

was the slumbering spirit. It is one of the biggest

issues in the church today right now. I think it's

one of the least understood issues, and I don't think

that it's talked about enough. So you're all ready I

by some of these looks, I can tell some of

you have never even heard of the slumbering spirit. But

you're about to you ready, listen fast? Okay, Father, I

just asked that you would fill my mouth with your words, Lord,

that I would be the clothes that you put on. Lord.

I'm asking that this isn't just another teaching. This isn't

just another teaching that people are like, oh well that

was lousy or that was good, and they walk away unchanged. So,

Holy Spirit, was you come in power? Would you lead us,

guide us and direct us in truth? Lord? You're the

truth in Jesus' name. So what causes the spirit to

fall asleep? Every person is conceived with a wide awake spirit,

but that spirit needs to be kept awake. That happened

the second. That's literally two services that I mean, like

at the exact time. That is awesome. That is the

I mean, you may not think that's awesome, parent, but

that was cool. That is the parent's job. It falls

especially to the father men who's meant to love and

accept the child and encourage them in their identity. This

is who you are, and I value who you are.

I'm not going to force you to become something else.

I don't want to do that. You know, Lisa and

I were extremely careful when we you know, I started

Cross Kingdom Ministries in twenty late twenty thirteen. And by

the way, there's apparently rumors going on that somehow we

are some kind of split from Impact. We're not a

split from Impact. We love Impact, love everybody there. But

the Lord led Lisa and I to leave Impact in

the summer at twenty fourteen, and we didn't do the

church plant of Cross Kingdom until August of sixteen, so

we were long gone. There was no I would never

ever be used of the enemy to cause discord in

the body of Christ or cause division period. I would

never do that. But it was important to us that

was a little side of housekeeping. It was important to

us that we didn't put pressure on our boys. When

I finally was literally wrestled to the floor of my

office and surrendered to pass to do a church plant,

I was very conscious of protecting my wife and protecting

my children and not allowing them to be a casualty

of war in the name of ministry, and that in

the midst of all of that, we never put pressure

on the boys. I honestly didn't care what you thought

about kids because I'm free of myself, which means I'm

free of you in a good way. Y'all understand what

I'm saying. I'm not looking to you to validate me

or tell me who I am. That's Jesus's job. Y'all

with me. Don't be getting offended. We'll go to inner

healing in a minute. But we have a responsibility to

train up a child in the way he should go.

To raise our kids up in the fear of the

Lord right in the ways of God. That's our job.

But it's also our job to nurture our children's spirits,

and I don't think we really talk about that a

lot when it comes to parenting. So a slumbering spirit

results in the crippling of one's ability to function in

many areas of daily living. Among the consequences of slumbering

in the spirit lack of true conscience, inability to communicate

intimately and to sustain close relationships, inability to worship and

have a fulfilling devotional life, inability to learn from the

past or project into the future, and an inability to

sustain good health. Persons slumbering in spirit are usually unaware

there is so much more depth to life than they're experiencing.

See what, Let me back up for a second. If

being awake is too painful for a child's spirit, it

begins to fall asleep. This can happen when our parents

don't value us, when we are rejected, when we're forced

to be something we aren't. See how you break a

person's spirit is the pressure that you put upon them

to perform or the trauma that they've gone through. People

all of us have experienced rejection in one way or another. Right,

anybody had rejection. Every hand better be up in this

room because I'll be teaching on the lion's spirit next.

But all of us have dealt with rejection. But the

issue is if we allow this wounding to continue in

our life, and we bury our pain and we're miserably victorious.

Are you with me? You ever seen you know? People? Come?

How are you? I'm fine? Can't you see the joy

on my face? But you're slumbering in those areas every

place that you have been wounded that you have not

dealt with your wounding. You are slumbering. You no longer

have an ability to trust, You no longer have an

ability to really feel the abundant life, experience the abund

life because you're sound asleep in that area of your life.

You can hear the word and it falls flat that

you don't understand it. You can be in a place

of worship and everyone is experiencing the presence of the

Lord around you, and yet you feel shut down, numb,

disconnected and don't know, and you don't fully understand what's

going on. This is all fruit of a slumbering spirit.

To communicate intimately or to sustain close friendships, inability to worship,

having a fulfilling devotional life, inability inability to learn from

the past or project in the future, an inability to

sustain good health. Persons slumbering in spirit are usually unaware

that there's so much more life. Jesus said, I came

to give you life, and give it more abundantly. And

how many of us are truly experiencing the abundant life.

How many of us are literally just going through the

motions of life, just looking for the end of the

day so that something else might come. How many of

you are so disconnected from your past that you're not

even experiencing the present because you're so worried and so

busy keeping the past buried. That's potentially miserably victorious. You know,

one of the most misquoted scriptures is forgetting those things

which are behind and pressing on. Paul was not talking

about forgetting the pain and the wounds that you went through.

That's not what he was talking about. Keep it in context.

What he was talking about in that context was everything

he was in the flesh. He said, I forget those

things and I press on to know Jesus. That's my identity.

That's the context of that scripture. And so many people

have used that scripture to deny and suppress and use

it as a guardian lie so they don't have to

go deal with their stuff. But as long as you

don't deal with your stuff, you're going to be sound

asleep and you're going to be living your life at

the expense of others, y'all with me. Slumbering in spirit

can be caused in two ways. Closing the heart and

reaction to poor nurture and childhood causes the personal spirit

to be stunted just as a flower is stunted without

proper nutrients. In adulthood, the personal spirit can fall asleep

through neglect of prayer and devotional life, by withdrawing from

intimacy with others, by falling into repeated sin, and or

by ceasing to participate in the wonders of recreational fun, nature,

art music. Y'all, we have given up the arts and

creativity of the world. You've got luciferian musicians that are

literally doing concerts and opening up portals and setting spells

through their music. Pay attention, wake up. That was a

shameless plug by Elizabeth Rose. You know I'm very unfiltered

in life, so I can relate. That was great. Sinful

reactions to years of neglect or hurt can cause emotional

telessness to develop, protecting the inner person from further hurt

by stifling real feelings, avoiding vulnerability, blocking out tenderness, and

refusing to listen or to be sensitive to the needs

of others. This is often characterized by rugged individualism born

of cynicism, resulting in emotional and inpotent yes impenetrability. Shando,

there we go, all right. Occasionally, even a person without

a sensitive inborn temperament can end up slumbering spiritually. A

naturally sensitive person tends to pick up and carry others

feelings without even trying. There's a danger in burden bearing

because if not properly handled, it can wound your spirit

and drain you of life. But when burdens are properly

carried through intercessory prayer and by being in touch with

refreshment from the Lord, burden bearing is the key to

fullness of life. In the most positive sense. Burden bearers

are those who consciously seek out the hurts of others

in order to transmit those hurts to the Lord for healing.

I shared this first service, but I was always an

extremely sensitive child. I remember going into a parking lot

with my mom shopping. I got into the parking lot,

you know, we pulled in, we parked, and I looked

at the store and I begin to bawl and beg

her to not make me go in there. I had

no idea what was going on in my heart. I

just knew I didn't want to go in there, and

it didn't feel good, and I was extremely, extremely emotional

over it. When you have children that are highly sensitive

or burden bearers, you're going to have a tendency to

not know what to do with them. You're going to

think something's wrong with them. And one of the ways

to know if your child is highly sensitive is when

they go into a space. You might be in the

best mood in the world, but then all of a

sudden they go into is that me that's a little uh?

I sound like a giant huh. I am quite tall

in stature. But you can go into a space and

not know why all of a sudden, your mood canmpletely changed.

And if you're not trained to understand your giftings, the

enemy will use them against you. And we've lost so

much inheritance in the church to train people. I mean,

how often have you heard teachings on dreams and visions

and Biblical dream interpretation and what to do with strange

spiritual events that happen in your life? And yet one

third of the Bible's dreams and visions, see, these are areas.

These are ways of God that we have lost that

we have to recover because it's in knowing his ways

that we know him. And that's what Moses said, show

me your ways. And he said that after he saw

the signs and wonders of God, judging the Divine Council

of Egypt, the fallen principalities. But there are those who

never learn to do this. Many do not even learn

to distinguish others feelings from their own. After encountering your

friend who's hiding hurt behind a smile, like the four

litter word of the church, I'm fine. Such a person

can observe that hurt and come away thinking it's his own.

He can think to himself, my friend didn't look hurt,

so these feelings must be coming from me. Baffled at

why he accountably feels this way, he's unable to process

and release the pain. If a child grows up this way,

his spirit's going to fall asleep. Another entire generation of

children may do without close relationships with their dads and

or other primary persons in their lives. This result has

been a failure to receive the nurturing needed to sustain

an awakened personal spirit. And I want to tell you

that one of the biggest blocks when you try to

do inner healing and deliverance ministry with people is because

their spirit is slumbering, They're not receiving, So sometimes you

actually have to address that slumbering spirit first, so then

their spirit opens up and they can actually begin to receive.

Are you all hanging in there? Okay? The consequences we

are seeing today are reflected in divorce rates. More than

half of all marriages fail. Cohabitation without marriage has increased dramatically.

The number of single parent families has skyrocketed. Traditional standards

of morality have severely eroded. Communication on a deep personal

level does not happen when one's spirit is slumbering. Long

term personal relationships cannot be sustained when one's spirit is slumbering.

A true consequence cannot I'm sorry, A true conscience cannot

actively work in one's life to avoid trouble when the

personal spirit is slumbering. Past experiences cannot wisely be remembered

to prevent future mistakes when one's spirit is slumbering. A

close personal relationship with God that will heal woundedness cannot

be developed when one's spirit is slumbering. Do you understand

what is happening? Families are disintegrating and generations of people

with slumbering spirits or raising ensuing generations of slumbering spirits.

The result is the curse of an entire community trying

to live without adequate communication skills, without loving interpersonal relationships,

without truth. Those are excerpts from Awakening the Slumbering Spirit

from John and Paula Sandford. If you all remember the

Elijah House, for those of you that know what that is.

If you're here this morning and you have no inner

desire for spiritual things, and you're the only one that

truly knows that in the depth of your heart, if

that is you, you do not have any spiritual desire

because you have a slumbering spirit. You're sleepwalking Ephesians thirteen

and fourteen. But everything exposed by the light becomes visible,

for it is the light that makes everything visible. This

is why it has said, wake up, oh sleeper, rise

from the dead, and Christ will shine on you. Y'all,

if you haven't been paying attention lately, we're kind of

in deep do do in our country. They literally just

got intel from heat seeking missiles that were smuggled over

the border that we're going to be used to shoot

Trump's plane down. You just had drone missiles being shot

at three warships America, our warships by Iran. A group

in Iran y'all. Everything that can be shaken is being

shaken right now. Our culture is deteriorating faster than ever.

How in the world is the church going to be

the change when we're sleepwalking? How are we going to

be the change when we don't have the spiritual sensitivity

to even know what's going on around us because we're

too busy looking with natural eyes and we can't even

see the spiritual battle. We want to devour each other

because we can't see the spiritual battle. We want to

hold on to unforgiveness and offense because we don't understand

that we're not wrestling against flesh and blood. You think

you're wrestling with the person in front of you because

you are slumbering. These things have to change, y'all. We

have got to understand the times and seasons we're in,

the hour in which we are in, and that there

is an invitation for the remnant to wake up and

rise up. Over and over and over. The Lord said,

stay awake, stay awake, watch and pray. Another word for

watch is stay awake. Jesus talks to the disciples. He's

in the garden. He's literally dripping, sweating blood from the

agony of what's about to take place, and he says,

watch and pray, he leaves, he comes back one hour later.

Could you not watch and pray for one hour? So

I'm not telling you how long you have to pray

each day in your life. I'm not going to be

legalistic about any of that. But if Jesus is correcting

the disciples because they can't hang in there for sixty minutes,

that might be a standard. I'm also not telling you

to sit there and start your watch. Oh I got

sixty minutes, and I am I'm awake, and I am stout.

I'm not saying that, but I'm saying, listen, stay awake.

Jesus says, stay awake. What I tell you? I tell

everyone stay awake because it's a battle, it's a daily battle.

We can begin to slumber by just letting these things slip. Oh,

I don't have time. I'll do that later. Let me

tell you something. When you start prioritizing your relationship with

Jesus too, later, you are already in trouble. Awake, Oh Zion,

clothe yourself with strength, put on garments of splendor, Oh Jerusalem,

the holy City. The uncircumcised, and defile will not enter

you again. Shake off your dust, rise up, sit and throned,

Oh Jerusalem, Free yourself from the chains on your neck,

oh captive daughter of Zion. Isaiah fifty two one and

two for Thessalonians five four and six says, but you,

brothers are not in darkness, so that this day should

surprise you like a thief. You are all sons of

the light and suns of the day. We do not

belong to the night or the darkness. So then let

us not be like others who are asleep, but let

us be alert and self controlled. Y'all. Scripture says sin

is pleasurable for a season. Are you with me? If

sin was not pleasurable, you wouldn't have a problem with

wanting to sin, correct, It would not be a temptation

like I don't know many people that say, man, I'm

so tempted to hit my head against that wall. That

doesn't feel good, does it. But the enemy sin comes

crouching at the door looking for agreement, offering you a

cheap way without relationship, without accountability, without love, to satisfy

your perceived need. And when you give into temptation, which

all temptation is common to us, When you give into temptation,

you're giving into your flesh, and you're automatically going to

be living at the expense of somebody else's life. Your

sin does not just affect you. You all understand there's

original sin Adam, there's imputed sin from the law, and

there's personal sin, your own stuff you do. After you've

stepped into Jesus, it's personal sin. You're no longer a

slave to sin. You're wilfully sinning. You're wilfully yielding yourself

back into slavery, believing some dumb lie from the enemy

that somehow, this time it's going to work. Proverb six

's four, give your eyes no sleep, and your eyelids

no slumber. Nayheum three eighteen. Your shepherds are asleep. You

think we got leaders sound asleep. Look at the carnage

right now on the body of Christ, of leaders biting

the dust. And if you don't think there's some ministers

going down because of p Diddies deal, you are sadly mistaken.

And there are some big names that were involved. What

you do in secret is shouted from the mountaintops. That's

just in case anybody was asleep there. Your shepherds are asleep,

Oh King of Assyria, your noble slumber people are scattered

on the mountains with none to gather them. Isaiah twenty

nine ten says, for the Lord has poured out upon

you a spirit of deep sleep, and has closed your

eyes the prophets and covered your heads the seers. Not

all prophets are seers. All seers are prophets is typically

the rule of thumb. David had profits and seers around him.

I said the first service. One of the seers was

he Man, literally he Man. You know, that was one

of my I loved he Man and masters of the universe.

I had no idea how much witchcraft and everything else

was involved in that. As a kid, because I was

not raised in a spiritual updreaming, up upbringing. What's that

I was slumbering? He Man was the man. I thought, Oh,

I have the poor. There may be a few of

you way too young to even know what I'm talking about.

Romans eleven eight. As it is written, God gave them

a spirit of stupor? Is is Christia in here? So

you know? I jokingly talk about a spirit of stupid right?

And Christia raised her hand in one of the court.

I was teaching a class last year or earlier this year,

I don't know, last fall spring, and was it this year? Okay,

I was teaching a class this year. And Christia raises

her hand. She goes, justin, is there really a spirit

of stupid? She goes, I told my sister, did you

know there's a spirit of stupid? And I was like,

I said, no, not really, but this is probably as

close as you can get to it right here. A

spirit of deep sleep, but it says God gave them

a spirit of stupor eyes that would not see and

ears that would not hear. Down to this very day, y'all,

there are things happening right now and planet Earth it's

such an acceleration, I mean acceleration. You can't even keep

up with all of the shakings that are happening. And

I want to encourage y'all. Now, let me clarify this

before I say this. I'm not prophesying in this moment,

but Scripture says the righteous see danger afar off and

they avoid it. I want to encourage you, as you're

able to be prepared for intense shakings, to have cash

on hand, to have some food supply, to have some

things on hand. And again I'm not prophesying right now,

but I am telling you you need to have some

things on hand. There are some shakings that are coming

extremely soon that it would behoove you to just have

some things ready. Okay, if the Lord gives me details,

then I will step into that place and say, hey,

I am prophesying this. The Lord showed me this, but

I'm just saying from a shepherd and just have prudence

in this hour. Listen, y'all, people were there was massive

loss or there was a lot of loss of life

from that hurricane. The Carolinas were so flooded only the

roofs were exposed of the homes. People were breaking glass

to get out of the houses to be for their

lives be saved. You're gonna continue to see record breaking

things in every whether it's governmental, religious, Everything is shaking

right now. Do you understand that Scripture says that when

a nation becomes so corrupt, so in moral, so perverse,

that the land itself says it will spew you out

of its land. It will throw you out like literally

cause you to go. The land itself will That's what

scripture says. I don't care if it's popular, y'all. We

have extremely turbulent times ahead of us, regardless of what

happens in November. So I want you to pray and

seek the Lord, not move in fear, not do stuff

out of fear. But if he says do this, do it.

Doesn't say anything be at peace. But the righteous see

danger afar off and they avoid it. And I want

to tell you that two thousand and eight, The Coming

Perfect Storm was released by John Paul Jackson, and a

lot of that has happened, and I believe wholeheartedly all

of it's going to happen, but we got to reprieve

from some of it. So if you want to know

what I'm talking about there, which is a side note,

go to YouTube. Go look at the Coming Perfect Storm

by John Paul Jackson. Go look at his prophetic headlines,

and you will absolutely see some of the things that

are going to come on the earth. And I've been

really burdened and impressed that some of those things are

upon us in this season. So do with that which

you desire. The Kingdom of Heaven will be like ten

virgins who took their lamps and went to meet the bridegroom.

Five of them were foolish, and five were wise. For

when the foolish took their lamps, they took no oil

with them, but the wires took flasks of oil with

their lamps. As the bridegroom was delayed, they all became

drowsy and slept slumbering spirit. But at midnight there was

a cry. And I want to tell you that we

are fastly approaching the midnight cry. And it's in this

midnight cry that we're going to see the greatest outpouring

ever before he returns. The midnight cry is coming, and

you cannot afford to be found without oil in your lamp.

You cannot afford to be slumbering, he says, over and over,

Stay awake, stay awake, stay awake, come out to meet him.

Then all those virgins rose and trimmed their lamps. And

the foolish said to the wise, give us some of

your oil, for our lamps are going out. But the

wise answered, saying, since there will not be enough for

us and for you, go rather to the dealers and

buy for yourselves. And while they were going to buy,

the bridegroom came, and those who were ready went in

with him to the marriage feast, and the door was shut. Afterward,

the other virgins came also, saying, Lord Lord, open to us.

But he answered, truly, I say to you, I do

not know you. Watch therefore, for you know neither the

day or the hour mark thirteen thirty seven. And what

I say to you, I say to all stay awake.

Matthew twenty four forty two. Therefore, stay awake, for you

do not know what day your Lord is coming, It says,

look up for you reject your redemption? Draws nigh. What

hour is it? What season are you in? And your

personal life? What season? What time is it in the kingdom.

We have to understand the times and seasons. And you

are not gonna understand the times and seasons if you're slumbering,

because you're not gonna have the spiritual sensitivity to hear

him or know what in the world is going on

around you. Okay, I'm gonna start landing, you know. He said.

It's interesting when Jesus was in the garden praying, he

said that the spirit is willing, but the flesh is weak.

And he said, watch and pray that you don't enter

into temptation. Watch and pray that you don't enter into temptation.

So what is the spiritual key there? The spiritual key

is this, whatever area in your life you're getting your

hind in handed to you a temptation, The answer is

to stay awake and pray, and you will strengthen your

spirit to such a degree that that temptation disappears. And

had the disciples stayed awake, watched and prayed for those

three hours, yes, Jesus still would have been handed over.

But what epic exploits for the kingdom would have happened

with the disciples had they not failed and slept? So

how to awaken a slumbering spirit? Escaping the trap of

a slumbering spirit doesn't happen because of a personal a

person's mental stamina, or their decision to suddenly start obeying

all the rules from this day forward, I'm gonna do

what I'm supposed to do, no matter what. No. A

slumbering spirit needs two basic things. Two basic things to

be loved to life and to do fun things that enjoys.

A slumbering spirit needs to be loved to life. Ideally,

healthy parents raise healthy children, and the spirit doesn't even

drift into slumber in any area. If a person's spirit

is slumbering. It needs what it didn't receive during childhood.

It needs to be loved to life. If the parents

can't do it. If the parents can't do this for

whatever reason, then the church needs to do it. All

of us need good, strong, healthy friendships with people who

are patient and won't give up on us. Do you

know what it does to restore hope and to someone

When you say I see you, I believe in you,

don't quit, I believe in you. Keep going. That crushing

that they've been living under all of a sudden begins

to get lighter and lighter, and they begin to experience life. Y'all,

we've given up the arts and the entertainment. We've given

up so much to the world because we've been sound asleep.

Do you know right now Beyonce went into country music.

Why do you think she did that? Because the occult

wants to infiltrate country music and that was an intentional

battle plan. Do you know the enemy has a battle

plan for your life? Do you have one? I promise

I'm landing. A slumbering spirit needs to do fun things

like what hanging out with friends, going on hikes, bicycling,

spending time out in nature, reading great books, listening to music,

writing poetry, painting, fixing up old cars or jeeps, having

deep conversations with friends. If your spirit is slumbering, regularly

doing at least one thing it enjoys can start to

wake it back up, and then maybe, just maybe you

can actually begin to dream with God again, rather than

living under the weight of the ashes of the past

failures and the crushed dreams. Legalism says, I don't need

to do things I enjoy. I'm powerful and strong without

enjoyment er. But legalism is actually one of the biggest

reasons a person's spirit falls asleep in the first place.

And when you start mixing law and grace, it's a

counterfeit spirituality, it's a counterfeit gospel. You may look good,

you may perform well, but you're going to be crushed

under the weight of that legalism. Grace and truth came

through Jesus. Don't mix it. His blood speaks a better word,

all right. So what does an awakening spirit look like?

As our spirit begins to shake off its slumber, here

are two things that can happen. First, we begin to

notice the beauty around us. The beautiful things seem more real.

Isn't interesting for those of you that have experienced inner

healing and deliverance. How when you get these significant breakthroughs

in the core of who God made you to be,

all of a sudden, everything is lighter, Like everything is

brighter and lighter around you, and you're like, everything's brighter.

That's because your spirit is light. And where you put

a bushel over it, where you were slumbering, that bushel

is removed, and now you're a son or daughter of

light who's actually brighting, brighting, burning, brighter. That's those two

words together at once, if you're wondering. Second, we will

become more sensitive to how we're hurting other people. In

other words, you're actually gonna care. You're not going to

live your life at the expense of other people and

tell them to go gps, go pound sand. In the past,

we might not have noticed how our actions affected them.

You actually might start having a better marriage because you're

laying your life down for your spouse because all of

a sudden, now you have the sensitivity to realize that

you are being a butt head. That's Greek. Waking up

is a choice. Y'all waking up a slumbering spirit comes

down to our choice. Do we want to be healed

in this area? Do we want to come alive again?

Have our hearts start beating again. No one can force

us to wake up, but we can be invited to life.

That is why our relationships are so important. We need

to put ourselves in environments that welcome us and invite

us out of slumber and into the light of Jesus. Awake,

Oh sleeper, awake. There's beauty all around you, and you

will be able to see it when your heart is

beating again. If the prayer teams will come up, if

I can get my highly anointed keyboard player. Now I

want to do something. I did this first service, and

I know it's one eleven. Hey, come on, you prophetic people.

It's one eleven one one one happens twice a day,

So I want to Are you muted? Nope? Okay, I

want to invite you to come forward if you're recognizing

your slumbering in places so as you feel. If that's you,

come forward and where I'm going to do a corporate

prayer to awaken your spirit. H m hm. This makes

sense to any of y'all. Y'all have a quiet m

m hm hm m m m you burden bears. If

you're loaded down with weight right now, you're gonna be

slumbering in that area. Trust me, been there, I had

to deal with that more than once. Mhm hm. So

I'm gonna I'm gonna do a corporate prayer for Ai

akening your spirit, and then for those of you that

would like some more prayer of the prayer teams here,

and then also for those of you that are gonna

help set up for the luncheon, we'll start doing that

as well. If you have children, don't forget there's somewhere

on this property, and don't forget them. Do not fall asleep,

So Father, Lord, so many of us have had a

lack of nurture, Lord, growing up in so many areas,

and half of marriages don't last, and so many of

us have grown up and broken homes, raised by grandparents,

or raised by uncles or aunts or relatives, or maybe

even grown up in an orphanage. And there's been a

lack of nurture. Lord, there's been a crushing of this,

there's been a slumber of our spirit to try to

avoid all the pain, Lord, So Father, right now in

the mighty name of Jesus, by the power of your spirit. Lord,

I speak to their spirits right now, and I say

to each of your spirits, wake up. In Jesus' name.

I say to each of your spirits, a rise and shine,

and let the light of the Lord revive you. I

say to your spirits, rise up and rule over your

souls and your bodies. I say to your spirit that

it is safe to be seen. And Father, I asked

that you would lift the crushing of spirit. Lord, a

broken spirit, who can bear so holy spirit? In Jesus' name,

would you just begin to wash through right now, Lord,

and begin to bring healing over the broken spirit. Arise

and shine, A rise and shine, Wake up, revive, wake up, slumber.

Go in Jesus' name now, every slumbering spirit and the

name of Jesus, right now, release off of them. In

Jesus' name. Lord, fill them afresh today. Lord, fill them afresh.

Lift the burdens, Lord, lift the false responsibility, lift the

crushing of their spirit, lift the hopelessness, and revive them

this morning. Lord. Revive them this morning. Lord, in your light,

we see light with you as the fountain of life.

You are the living water. And I asked, Lord that

you would pour that living water into their spirits right now, Lord,

areas that they've been battling with sin to give up. Lord,

love them back to life, Awaken them to life, Awaken

them to the reality of Christ in them the hope

of glory. Lord. Would you just double what you're doing

right now? Lord, would you just come in, wave after

wave after wave, intensifying your presence and your light and

your love and life, that they would begin to see

the beauty of your creation, that they would begin to

experience joy, that they would begin to experience joy. Wake

up in Jesus' name. Lord, I asked that you would

touch them where they're carrying the weight of other people's burdens. Lord,

and I say, to every weight, to every burden, to

every false responsibility, lift in Jesus' Nameft in Jesus' name. Lord,

where their spirit has been turned inward, curled up and

hiding in a corner, Lord, meet them in those corners

right now, Meet them curled up in those corners, Jesus,

and bring them out. Bring them out, Lord, waken them,

Awaken them, Lord, Awaken sleepers, Awaken sleepers. Jesus. I thank

you for the abundant life. I thank you for fresh oil. Lord,

I thank you for oil in our lamps, lamps, and

I thank you that your mercies, your mercies are new

every morning. Lord. So what I say are what Jesus said.

I say right now, stay awake, Church. This is not

an hour to slumber. This is the time to wake

up and take your rightful places in the kingdom and

charge hell with a water pistol in Jesus' name. Bless y'all.

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