Faith Without Religion!

Thank you for ben Lord, I thank you for the message that you've put

on his heart this morning. Lord, I just asked that you would allow

him to be at peace and unpack the fullness of what you've placed on his

heart. Lord, I thank you for what you've done in his life.

I thank you for the gift that he is as a friend and a gift

to the church. And I just asked that you would bless him and his

family richly and that you would just speak through him this morning in Jesus Mighty

name. Amen, Amen, Praise God. Well, thank you guys for

having me. If you were here in first service. Don't judge me,

please, I literally showed up to church today not having a clue what I

was gonna teach on or talk about. Which There is a set of folks

in the Body of Christ that like enjoys that right, I am not among

them. If you ask my wife, man, I am very structured.

Like I am, I have pages of notes. If you tell me I

got thirty minutes to speak in thirty minutes, I will start at the beginning

and I will end with the last sentence. Like it will happen. You

may not get anything out of it. But it's going to happen the structured

Amen. Shake it now, Praise God. So today I don't have a

clue had a title what I'm going to talk about. I just want to

talk about religion for just a second. I had an epiphany or revelation,

if you will, between First Service and Second Service, that there's actually a

lot of folks that actually enjoy religion. And it's true, and it's okay.

If that's you be honest with yourself, that's the only thing that's going

to set you free. But there's actually a lot of folks that enjoy religion.

Say, man, how can you say that? Well, let's think

about what religion does. It gives us rules to live by, right,

So I don't actually have to hear from God. Right if the pastor says,

if a pastor stands up on stage and says, don't drink, it's

against the Bible, I can walk away with that, and I don't have

to hear from the Lord myself. Right. But then there's a problem.

I know a lot of you, if you're religious at all, your brain

just tilted a little bit. You're like, well, we're not supposed to

right, But then you come across John chapter two, where Jesus turns water

into wine at a party and your spirit can't reconcile that because you've already shut

yourself off to the things of God. Okay, what are you saying God's

got for me there? Well, I'm gonna let the Lord talk to you

about that, because a lot of people are gonna be offended, especially Baptists,

when they get to heaven and they have wine. Sound like religion?

M hm. Religion prevents you from becoming the son or daughter that you need

to be. Is all religion bad? See? It's interesting these camps we

get into in our head because you know, right, wrong or indifferent.

The Catholics spread Christianity throughout Europe and Asia. We could argue they did it

terribly. We could they argue they did it very bloodily. But they did

a lot more than most people in an American church today. A lot of

folks in American church can't even share Jesus with their family, let alone somebody

in an another country in another language. Right, So what are you saying

today? I want to take religion. I want to break it apart for

you. I want to crumble a little bit. I want to to help

you see where religion is holding you back in life. We all do it.

We all have it. Look at your neighbor and say, we all

do it. It's interesting, this this sight over here. Like all the

ladies they all said it to each other, and then all the spouses were

like, that's all right, that's all right. I do it to my

wife to trust me. She'll tell you right ben mm hmm, yep mm

hmm. But it's it's interesting these philosophies that we get into that hone and

shape and guide how we believe and think about God. Right, because there's

lots of religion, lots of places, lots of churches to tell you,

you know what, don't drink because Ephesians force says don't be given to it,

which doesn't mean don't drink. It just says don't be given to it.

Right, totally different. But we'll take that and we'll put that flag

in the ground, and we as a church will say, yes, that's

what the Bible says, evenough that's not what it says. But we'll say

that's what the Bible says, and we'll go on live in our lives just

that way. There is anything inherently wrong with that? Is there anything inherently

wrong with that? Inherently No, Let's be honest, Come on, both

of you, Thank you both to the people that agree with me. There's

not anything inherently wrong with that until you stop listening to the Lord. What

do you mean? What do you say? Right? So let's unpack that.

Let's start unraveling that philosophy, because in Timothy we're actually instructed to take

a little wine if your stomach hurts. I love the fact that most of

you are gonna go look in Timothy for where that verse is good. Maybe

the first time you open your Bible this year. I don't know, but

it does. It says that, well, if you're in this religious camp,

but we will not. What are you gonna do with that verse?

Well, brother Ben, are you telling me to drink? No? What

I'm telling you is to listen to the religion in your own head. You

know what we haven't done in religion stand up and say stop eating McDonald's three

times a day. Heart disease is the number one killer of Americans. What

we don't say stop eating McDonald's three times to day? Right, we stand

up on the pulpit and make vain philosophies. Okay, then you're making all

this up. Okay, go to Colastions two verse six. And now,

as you accepted Christ Jesus as your lord, you must continue to follow him.

Let your roots go down into him, and let your lives be built

on him. Then your faith will grow strong in the truth you were taught,

and you will overflow in thankfulness. I said this in first service because

I just I have to pause here. It says, let your roots grow

down into him and let your lives be built on him. Then your faith

will grow strong in the truth you were taught, and you will overflow in

righteousness. Right. No, it says you'll overflow in thankfulness. It says

you'll overflow in thankfulness. That's very specific word, because we get into church

and we get less thankful for the limits on our life we walk into church.

I mean, you see it all the time. I know you guys

have. We'll tell people, hey, man, Lord loves you. He

will take you just as you are. He died for your sins. Come

as you are. Jesus loves you just as you are. And then the

moment you walk into church, all right, now that you hear you gonna

stop dressing like that. You can't drink, it's in scripture. You can't

smoke. It's in scripture. Even though you can't find it, people will

tell you that. There you go, right. You can't smoke, you

can't drink, you can't talk like that, you can't act like that,

you can't dress like that, you can't drive that car. And we wonder

why people turn around and walk right back out. Okay, for all of

you who heard your own thoughts about what I was saying, let me rephrase

myself. I am not telling you to do all those things. There are

some of you who should absolutely not drink because you will destroy your husband or

your wife, your kids, your family, the people around you. You

should not. The bad part is we as a church have put people up

here on stage and in leadership positions who can't distinguish our own sin, our

own problems from what we demand of others. Some of you should not drink,

all right, Let me step on the other side. Some of you

should stop going to McDonald's three times a day. It's not in scripture,

doesn't mean you shouldn't stop doing it, but it's for you. If you

don't walk away from anything else today. I want you to get this one

thing you need to hear from God for yourself. Stop making the people behind

the stage be your Jesus. Open your bible. It is full of amazing

things. Song of Solomon. Look at all, y'all, y'all is he

gonna talk about? No, doesn't make it less amazing. No. Scripture

is full of amazing things. You know, we look at the Bible,

we look at the at the scripture, and we forget that these are just

letters, y'all. These are moments when Jesus was just talking. Not one

time in scripture will you see Jesus turn to his disciples go, hey,

put that bread down, write this down, people. Not one time they

were just sitting there said oh, I'm gonna write that nut right there.

Jesus has said something good. I'm a right down right. Why are there

four different gospels? Have you ever thought about that? They're written to four

different people, four different perspectives. Are any of them wrong? No,

they're not. But you got four different perspectives. You can have somebody stand

on stage and start talking about pick a subject. Let's see, let's do

the prophetic. Just I just got Justin's attention. What what about it?

Let's talk about the prophetic. You'll have a myriad of teachers in the Christian

faith talk about prophecy and the prophetic, how to experience it, how to

handle it right. Proverb says, get wisdom, get knowledge, get understanding

about it right, and that's key. But just because there's two different perspectives

on the same subject, does either one of them make it? Does that

make them wrong? Ask God? We follow men too many times. I'm

gonna say something up here today. I guarantee you that will thump you.

I hope it does. Anyway, you need to go home and ask the

Lord if it applies to you. It may not, it may not,

that's okay. Some parts will speak to some people and some parts will speak

to other people. That's okay. Five years from now could be completely reversed.

And that's okay. Amen, all right, let's keep going. All

right, uh Colautius Chapter two, don't let anyone capture you with empty philosophies

and high sounding nonsense. High sounding nonsense. Think about what that means.

High sounding nonsense, like when you read a scripture. Sometimes I don't know

if y'all do this. I do this a lot, and I see something

like the high sounding nonsense. I wouldn't pay attention to high sounding nonsense.

It's nonsense. How many y'all would do the same thing, Like three people

are willing to be honest. Okay, we talk about high sounding nonsense.

We could translate that into something that tickles your ears, something that feels good

when you hear it. It could even line up with your flesh. I'll

say, it could even line up with your flesh. I give you an

example. There is a valid thread of Christianity that talks about money. You

get some churches they don't talk about money because people are holding on to it

real tight. And there's a thread of Christianity out there that says God wants

you wealthy, which is really interesting. Right, But you'll have some people

that will build whole churches centered around money. Is that right? I don't

know. Ask God. Deuteronomy chapter eight says it is God that gives you

wealth for the establishment of the covenant. See how we do we automatically We

just are bringing us a clique. But does that take away from the fact

that God wants us prosperous. There's a whole other side. We're swinging the

pendulum the other way that says you are supposed to be street poor, not

have a dime to your name, or else you're a sinner. Those people

are gonna struggle to be in heaven. They don't pave with rock there,

streets are made of gold. Jesus even said to what, I'm gonna go

prepare a house for you. You're not supposed to have anythings. How you're

gonna have a house. See, we get these pendulum swinging. Well,

Ben, just tell me what we're supposed to do. No, that's the

whole point. What's the Holy Spirit telling you look in the mirror and ask

yourself, as money this is the most important thing to you, Then maybe

you shouldn't be worried about money if it's destroying you and tearing you apart.

Well, how do I know? Well, I don't know. We are

really good at kind of sort of hearing God about which church we should go

to. And then somebody says, hmm, I want you to take on

this ministry. Well, I don't know, God to pray about it.

I think over it. We'll see. But then your boss walks in the

next day and says, hey, I got a promotion for you. In

Seattle. Thank you Jesus. That's what I've been waiting on. Right there,

Whoo, I'm out. You will move across country for work. You

won't move tomorrow. For Jesus, Which one are you pursuing? Which one

is more important to you? I don't know. I'm not telling you one

or the other. I want you to ask God. I want you to

look in the mirror. Right, Okay, let's keep going high sounding nonsense

which only three of us actually admit to. That come from human thinking and

from spiritual powers of this world, rather than from Christ. For in Christ

lives all the fullness of God in a human body. So you are complete

through your union with Christ, who is the head over every ruler and authority.

Now, for time's sake, because I want to cover a little more

than I did last service, I'm gonna jump down verse sixteen. Sodle in

anyone condemn you for what you eat or drink, for not celebrating certain holidays,

new moon ceremonies, or sabbaths. I want to stop here for a

second, because this is again we can take scripture out of context, right,

pull it out. Sodol in anyone condemn you for what you eat or

drink. There are Christians that will take this verse, Oh drink whatever I

want. You can't condemn me. Well, when you take that stance,

do you shut the voice of the Lord off in your life? Because maybe

the Lord want to stop because it's killing you and everybody in here who are

ex Baptists first thought alcohol and see I'm talking about coke. I mean,

there's just something wrong with sixty four ounces of coke. And then the dude

at the theater says, for twenty five cent more you can have unlimited refills.

I mean, how much coke? Does a person need? One hundred

and twenty ounces of coke? But see that's not in the Bible, so

you're okay to do that if Jesus Ford says, don't be given to drink.

And now all of a sudden, we're just talking about Jack Daniels.

That's it, Like he ain't talking about and they even may die. Jesus

may diet coke for me. Honestly, he probably did. I mean,

we could argue it could be debated because some of us ain't listening to Jesus

when it comes to our health. But how many of us choose to hear

from God or even allow relationship. See, that's the thing that I want

to get across today. Religion will always replace relationship. Religion will always replace

relationship. We are supposed to be a body knit together. Right? Do

you give people permission in your life? The right people permission in your life

to speak to you in areas that you you can't hear for yourself. It's

proverbs right, surround yourself with a body of counsel. Right? Are you

hearing from God for yourself? That's the whole point. I mean, for

some of us, God is screaming from the rooftop. Three plates at lunchtime

is too much. But very few Americans are hearing that, So what are

we hearing? Right? Don't let anyone who contemn you for what you eat

or drink, or for not celebrating certain holidays or New moon ceremonies or sabbaths,

for these rules are only a shadow of the reality to come, and

Christ himself is that reality. Verse eighteen. Don't let anyone condemn you by

insisting on pious self denial or the worship of angels. I'm gonna stop here.

I want, I think, I want. I'd love it if you

guys would keep reading, but I want I'm gonna hope focus on this for

a second. Don't let anyone condemn you by insisting on pious or religious self

denial. One of the things that I want to bring up. It's just

really heavy on my heart when it comes to healing. The Lord has really

been talking to me about healing, especially when it comes to Cross Kingdom,

and I believe we are gonna change. We need a new brand of Christian

in America. I'm gonna talk about healing for just a second. Can I

have your permission? Can I have your permission? Okay? So this is

just brother talking to you. Okay, when we talk talk about pious self

denial, religious denial, I want you to think about why we see less

miraculous healing today than we did in acts. At least in America, I'll

say, at least in America. I know there are wild things going on

in Africa and other places of the world. Why here. I've grown up

in church, Dad's pastor, and I have heard some things in churches that

really just tested me. You can ask Justin. Justin has really helped me

look inward. Between him and my wife, they've really helped me look inward

on some things in my own life, and I didn't realize how bitter I

was at you. I just man. For a long time, I just

did not like Christians. A lot of the reason was because like what I

would hear people say and what I'd read in the Bible were so different.

Coming back to healing, I have literally heard people say, it is not

God's will to heal you. Now that's really interesting. Yep, I'm gonna

do it. That's what you can you. I'm sorry, y'all, I

love y'all. This just super like. This really bugs me, It really

affects me. Hold on, before we go there, It's not God's will

to heal you. So explain to me. The woman with the issue of

blood. Somebody helped me with this one. I'm open there's correction to be

had. I will take it. Twelve years she suffered with this, spent

all her money on physicians. Right, does anybody remember what happens? She

presses through the crowd and touches the hem of his government. That's it,

that's all it took. She was healed, and Jesus turns around and says,

that wasn't my will. Give it back. So if you believe that

it's not God's will to heal. You explain that for those of you who

don't know the story because you don't have a Bible. He turned and said,

who touched me? Because he felt it? Leave? It's all I

did, and she was healed, So help me with it's not God's will.

See, we we as a church have had pious self denial. How

did that? Y'all ever think about how that stuff comes out? How like?

How does that become a thing easy? Unbelief? Somebody prayed for somebody

and didn't see healing because they had unbelief. So instead of saying, hey,

y'all forgive me, I don't. I just I'm struggling with my belief

in healing. I'm struggling with that internally. Instead, they made a religion

out of it. Well, God must not want you will right, And

man, we are the biggest group of sockers. We were like, yep,

may not. It's just obvious he doesn't love me. Well, what

about God made you sick to teach you something like? I'm glad we are

a little more mature in that. And justice Justin does a great job keeping

us well. Lisa does Justin tries. They do a great job keeping us

straight. But y'all, there's a whole body of believers that hates Christianity because

we do this, hates Christianity. They walk away from it generation after generation.

Well, God wants you sick because he wants you to learn something.

He's teaching you something. Okay, So first of all, the people who

are saying that it can't be true because if that person went to the doctor,

you're being well, yus, why are you trying to get better when

Jesus is trying to teach you something? Think about what we say, and

if he's trying to teach you something, well, Heaven's for's sake, learn

it, get better. Okay, what happens when a baby gets sick?

What's Jesus trying to teach him? Well, it's because of sinning your life

that your child is sick. So God's now a child abuser. Like,

look at the things that we put in our lives that prevent us from believing.

If you would, real quick, go to you go to Martin nine.

Everybody knows this story, but I want to own to highlight something here.

This is really important Martin nine, verse fourteen. When they returned to

the other disciples. They saw large crowds surrounding them, and some teachers of

religious law were arguing with them. Then that sound like the church. We're

fixing to talk about somebody who needs healing, and the church is over there

arguing, y'all. Everything we're fighting today is in scripture, like we just

we keep doing it over and over and over again verse fifteen. When the

crowd saw Jesus, they were overwhelmed with awe and they ran to greet him.

I love, just put yourself in the moment if you can. And

Jesus says, what is all this arguing about Verse seventeen. And one of

the men in the crowd spoke up it said, teacher, I brought my

son to you so that you could heal him. He is possessed by an

evil spirit and won't let him talk. That won't let him talk Verse eighteen.

And whenever the spirit seizes him, it throws him violently to the ground.

Then he foams at the mouth and grinds his teeth and becomes rigid.

So I ask your disciples to cast out the evil spirit, but they couldn't

do it. And Jesus said to them, you faithless people. How long

must I be with you? How long must I put up with you?

Bring the boy to me? Now? A lot of people stop right here,

especially when it comes to healing, and the answer must be I need

more faith. Right, And we even get that all twisted up. Faith

comes by what is heard, right, Nope, faith comes by hearing.

Currently, faith doesn't come by what you heard, comes by hearing. Right.

We even get this twisted up because we stop right here and go,

man, I just gotta build my faith. Okay, Well, here's a

question. Let's just be honest with yourself. What level is your faith at

right now? I mean it's like a four and a half, like a

five point seventy two? Like, what level are you at right now?

And what's enough? There's so many scriptures that cover this subject, right,

If you have faith the size of a see you know that, right.

So if you don't have enough faith, will you got like half a seed?

Like one tenth of one eighth of a seed? Y'all? I want

to take the block of what religion off your brain for a little bit,

think about what we think about. We stop right here, bring the boy

to me? So they brought the boy, But when the evil spirit saw

Jesus. Jesus got nervous, started to doubt God and thought to himself,

what will I do? Now? That's funny, But how many of us

do that the moment somebody comes up for healing? All right, Lord,

they want a limb, you know, if it doesn't happen, it's okay.

It's just the will of God in your life. How many times is

somebody looking for a miracle have to hear that before they never believe? Again?

All right, what did Jesus really say? For those of you who

don't own a bible? So they brought the boy. But when the evil

spirit saw Jesus, it threw the child into a violent convulsion, and he

fell on the ground, writhing and foaming at the mouth. And Jesus says,

how long has this been happening? He asked the boy's father, and

he replied, since he was a little boy. The spirit often throws him

into the fire or into water, trying to kill him. Have mercy on

us and help us if you can now think about this for just a second.

The father brings his son to Jesus to the apostles and says, help

me, if you can, it'll help set up this next verse, because

how many people come to us asking for prayer and healing and those of us

praying hide behind will you didn't have the faith? And here Jesus say is

He says, what do you mean if I can you know? What?

I'm crying? Yeah? And Jesus said, what do you mean if I

can you know? That's the question, y'all? How many y'all believe God

heals? Stand up? You believe God heals? Can you put that up

there? Look around you real quick? The militia said, I'm gonna make

you stay the rest of time. Look around all right, go inside.

I asked them to put this up here. My wife and the Kendricks really

helped me with this. Man, I'm just going all over the place.

This is the core connections that are connection codes, emotion, will and I

want to do this because it drags the honesty out of me when it comes

to healing. I am angry at the church personally because we have lied to

each other. We have absolutely lied about the things of God. God heals,

period period. If you don't see healing, I'm in. If we

don't see healing in our life, it is our fault. It is not

God's there. I'll say it to you. It's our fault. Jesus was

beat unrecognizably so that you could be healed. I am not saying this to

condemn you. I am not. He's got to hear in my heart,

I'm not. But I am saying, listen to the spirit. Listen to

what he says to you. He wants to walk you through it. I

am angry at the church for lying to believers. I am. I feel

a shame about it because I have been a party to it. I feel

guilty because there are people that have wanted me to pray for them, and

because of my unbelief, I did not. I'm hurt because I know people

walked away with something less than what God wanted for them. I'm sad because

we keep believing this lie is a body of Christ. We keep telling ourselves

this. I often feel lonely when it comes to healing because I have this

thing raging in me that says God wants you well. And I see people

walking in with a wheelchair and the power of God to heal them. Since

inside me, since inside you, I'm afraid I'll be the first person you've

probably ever heard on stand on stage, you say it. I'm afraid that

I'm gonna lay my hands on somebody and they won't see healing, so I

don't do it. Please forgive me. But I have joy because in confessing

this to you, I want to do it. I said, I want

to do it. I want to do what God says. I want to

see people healed. I want to stop being a church of religion that makes

excuses for why we don't do things. I have joy over Cross Kingdom and

where we're going. I'm gonna do it. I am angry that the women

of God hold the church together, where all a minute have this cry anointing

back justin. I feel ashamed that we as men are so worried about how

we're going to be seen that we don't move. That you have to be

called to the front to praise God, and you wonder why your kids won't.

I feel guilty because I've done it myself. I have been a terrible

Christian. I have been a bad father, but I have repented. I'm

afraid that you guys are gonna hear me is judging, and I'm not judging

you. I'm pleading. I'm calling out to you to really think about the

things of God. I don't want to be lonely at the front of the

altar anymore. And I'm not just talking about up here at praise and worship.

I'm talking about when Justin stands behind the drums as our pastor God,

thank you Justin for carrying the load man, and he says pray for one

another, and all the women get ups around each other. I'm not I'm

not. Yeah, I am. I'm calling you out. Sorry. I

tried to make that softer, but I don't want to make it softer.

Y'all just got to forgive me or repent one of the two. I'm sad.

I'm sad that as a generation, the men of faith aren't standing and

we've allowed these vain philosophies of men to poison the scripture. If you,

guys, don't know that you have an eldership team and a leadership team here

that loves you and they will absolutely be honest with you, So be careful

you ask for hurt. I have been hurt. I have been hurt by

religion, often given to me by men who they themselves would not admit what

was in their own heart. I have joy because even if it's two more

of you, even if it's one of you, there's a man in here

that's hearing me right now. It's gonna change. It's gonna do something different,

and I'm excited about it. You and I are gonna talk about that

later. I'm a little annoyed to Jesus right now that he made me do

that. Thank you, brother. And I can tell him that me and

him have a relationship. He loves me. I'm his favorite. John said,

it's so can I let's keep reading Mark nine. I can't even see

this now, Amen's ooh, I got there. I'm laying in the plane,

all right. I really can't see this now, all right? What

do you mean if I can? Jesus asked, anything is possible if a

person believes Verse twenty four. The father instantly cried, I do believe,

but help me with my unbelief. This is so powerful, you guys,

you know how powerful it is. It's so powerful. The devil has done

a great job silencing the church because we don't talk about unbelief. That's not

mature of you. You're supposed to have faith. You can't unbelieve. Are

you safe? You heathen? Here's an example, he brought his son.

He had enough faith to bring his son. Then he walked up to Jesus.

Man, I tell you what this dude, Bless his heart. He

walks up to Jesus and says, I do have faith, but help me

with my unbelief. We come here and we can't even look another brother in

the face and go justin. I believe for healing, but I'm struggling with

unbelief. We can't even say it to each other. He says, Lord,

I believe, but help me with my unbelief. That was the key

in this story that set his son free. Well then why do you say

that, because it's the turning point. It was a turning point. His

son is on the ground phone me and he is standing there, a broken

father watching his son, and he looks God in the face and says,

I do believe, but please help me with my unbelief because he's my son.

And Jesus man, that's all I need. I got it. You

know, it's a similar story. Ja IRUs, his name's Jis. I'm

blanking. I'm a fog. At the moment Jesus goes to his house,

his daughter is dying. Don't know the story Okay, give me the dad's

name. It is right. Oh, I do ask some Jesus in me.

All right. So he goes to his house daughter's dying, and he

looks at the people in the room and says, hey, she says asleep.

And what happens y'all remember the story. They started ridiculing him, and

so he boots them all out of their house. I don't see Jesus with

as the whim be I got my little sheep. He boots them out of

the house. You know that took some effort because they were like my house,

you like really? And then what happens? Unbelief is gone. Oh

see there it is again. You can look up a thousand sermons on faith,

try to find one on unbeliefs. It's poisoning us. So let's bring

the circle all the way down. Wheels are touching concrete, right Bill,

that's right, amen, wheels are touching the concrete. You need to hear

from God for yourself. There are things he is going to tell you that

he will not tell anybody else. You know how I know that because if

he is going to tell everybody else, you wouldn't need relationship with him.

There are things that he will hold close to his chest just for you.

I pray you're not one of those people that never gets it. And we're

all in. We're all walking towards like guys. Don't please, don't feel

condemned by what I'm saying at all at all, but know that my heart

is for you. You used to listen to Kenneth hagen A lot of you

probably don't even know who he is. Yeah, amen, Kenneth Hagen Man.

One of the things that he used to always say that he used to

see is poisoning the church is we have removed the ability for Christians to hear

God's voice for themselves. It's one of the most important things he used to

preach on all the time. One of his biggest sermons was the Holy Spirit.

I think it's a three part series about talking to you. And that's

why I say we like our religion because most of us, honestly, we

don't want to have a conversation with Jesus because that would require something of us.

It would if I have a relationship with Jesus and Jesus is nudging me

saying, hey, stop drinking sixty four ounce sodas. But I don't wanna

tell me to go to Tanzania and preach, and I'll do it. But

I'm taking coke with me. Amen. All right, some people are getting

set free. Guys. The most important thing is that you hear from Jesus

yourself. He wants a relationship with you, with you. He just want

to hear about you through your pastor Amen. I can't first they had no

idea what I was gonna talk about. I hope y'all did. All right,

y'all get anything? Amen? So someone asks for the prayer team to

show up. If y'all don't mind coming forward, if you're on a parent

team, I'm gonna ask you guys out there as hervest today based on what

you heard me say today, if you want prayer today, even if you're

struggling with your unbelief, to come get prayer for step up. If you

right now are in a place where you are struggling to hear the voice of

God for your own life and want that to change, will you stand up?

Amen? So justin if you don't mind, you got a crowd of

people here that want to hear God's voice, will you pray over them?

Father? I just ask right now, by the power of your spirit,

Lord, that you would illuminate the blocks. What every person that's standing saying,

I feel blocked in this moment from hearing. So Jesus, would you

lift the blocks? Would you highlight in their spirit? Right now, Lord,

give them truth. Jesus, you said, my sheep, hear my

voice, the voice of a stranger, they will not follow. And the

testimony of or the testimony of Jesus, the testimony of prophecy. The testimony

of Jesus is the spirit of prophecy. If I can get that scripture out,

so Lord, we can all hear. So, Father, right now,

would you enlarge their spiritual ears? Would you enlarge their spiritual eyes?

Would you knock the callouses off of their soul and sharpen their spiritual senses in

this moment, Lord, Hebrews, you told us in Hebrews to exercise our

spiritual senses. So Lord, increase right now in this moment their ability to

hear. And Lord, let them hear what they may not want to hear.

Yeah, because with the measure we hear, how we hear determines how

much more we get to hear. So fill them this morning, Lord,

and right now, with the authority that I walk in and the gifting that

you've placed in me. Lord, I just release that perveetic grace over the

house right now to hear in Jesus' name, who felt a shift in their

spirit just now? Yeah? Did you feel that shift? So receive It's

like an air drop. Receive the air drop. You just got prophetic grace

to hear clearer from him. You're not in charge of what he says,

but you're responsible for what he tells you now and Lord, I just pray

that this would truly be a prophetic community. Lord, that you would just

continue to pour out your spirit with dreams and visions, prophecy visitations. Lord,

but get a angelic visitation will mess you up? Lord, would you

release some of those in Jesus Mighty name. Thank you for listening. For

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