Characteristics of A True Leader

You're listening to the Cross Kingdom Sermon of the Week, we hope you enjoy

this message from Justin Carpenter, who I feel like we already had two services,

and somehow I'm supposed to keep saying something. Oh man, I'll tell

you what I don't know about y'all. That Warship show. I was,

Yeah, I was absolutely on my face, balling like a baby down here.

I had tears running up my forehead. I had because my head was

down. I had to make sure I didn't mess my hair up. And

it was tough, y'all, tough. But you know, I had mentioned

to Richard I was reminded of that vision I had eleven years ago, roughly

of the of the field, the field of you know, the titled field

of Dreams, and the Lord said, if you build it, he will

come. And and I was when I was on my face, snotting and

all that beautiful stuff, I was reminded, and I said, Lord,

he said, if I built it, you would come. And that and

that's where our priority is. It's him, Yeah, And every step through

this entire process has been seeking his face, getting his heart, and then

trying to lead from a place of humility, because humility always proceeds hunger,

and every every great leader is humble and hungry, and they don't lose their

hunger, they don't lose their their excitement for what the Lord's doing. Richard

was saying, he was just talking to Randy Clark a couple of days ago,

and Randy was still excited about a healing that he saw. After decades

of seeing God move in Toronto and all over the earth, he was still

excited about a healing. And he's seen tens of thousands of healings. I

think in a time where we are seeing God prune and expose and correct.

And you know, it says, if you stay and take heed lest you

fall. No temptation has ever overtaken a man, but what is common to

him. And so it's super important that we stay in a place of humility

and accountability, and that when people do fall, we don't gloat over their

stumble. We don't gloat over them falling. It says we should weep of

those that weep, and we need to be the first ones to be a

place of healing, a place of restoration, not a place of judgment or

throwing stones or killing. Are wounded. Oh my word, I just want

to for the little bit of remaining time here, I want to talk to

y'all about characteristics of leadership, because I think that the world is crying out

to see a true expression of servant leaderships, of servant leaders where we actually

represent Jesus and not our own agendas, not our own ideas, but we

represent Him to a lost and dying world. And we have been given this

honor and this privilege to be alive at this moment in history. We've been

given this honor to help lead people out of darkness and out of hopelessness,

and out of pain and out of fear, and lead them into the light.

First Peter five one to five says, So I exhort the elders among

you, as a fellow elder and a witness of the sufferings of Christ,

as well as a partaker in the glory that is going to be revealed.

Shepherd the flock of God that is among you, exercise oversight, not under

compulsion, but willingly as God would have you, not for shameful gain,

but eagerly, not domineering over those in your charge, but being examples to

the flock. And when the chief Shepherd appears, you will receive the unfading

crown of glory. RT. Kendall wrote a book called Yesterday's Man, and

he talked about the characteristics and the danger of how easy it is to become

Yesterday's man. Yesterday's man still has a gift, but the anointing is lifted

off of him. And I wonder how many people truly understood that the Lord

the Holy Spirit had left Saul, even though he remained king in the natural

for decades. The kingdom was taken from him because he didn't allow the Lord

to deal with his character issues, his baggage that he was hiding behind when

he was called. And I can promise you that the enemy is a He's

very strategic. He will get you to think that these little things, these

little compromises in your life are little until you get into a place where you

have influence and you could leave a mark. And then he pulls the rope

on what you thought was little. Can I say, what you think is

little on earth is big in heaven, and probably are the very issues that

have kept you from promotion. Likewise, you who are younger, be subject

to the elders. Clothe yourselves all of you with humility toward one another.

For God opposes the proud but gives grace to the humble. Moses was the

most humble man on earth. The interesting thing is he wrote that true story.

But guess what, he was humble because God told him to write that,

and he didn't express false humility. He came into alignment with what God

said about him. So the ultimate expression of humility is actually agreeing with you

your identity in Christ. He doesn't want to leave. I mean, come

on, I have the gift of interpretation. I talk baby. So when

we think about this issue of growing in Christ, maturing in Him, fulfilling

calling, you know, there's always seems to be buzzwords, right Like when

we say the name Jesus, everybody gets excited. But then in a lot

of times when we say the word revival, all of a sudden, it

brings a bigger expression of emotion we talk about like calling and destiny and all

these all these buzzwords in the spirit filled arena, And it is so easy

for us to get away from the simplicity of the gospel what it's all about.

I was listening to somebody teaching the other day and he was talking about

Martha and Mary. It wasn't that either one was wrong. It was when

Martha was doing what she was doing was wrong. Because we always seem to

like beat up on Martha, like, oh, you dummy, you're supposed

to, you know, worship right now. But she was serving the Lord

doing things, but she was doing it at the wrong time. Does it

make sense if her call to leadership were called to suffer? It's starting grade,

isn't it, John fifteen eighteen. If the world hates you, know

that it has hated me before it hated you. You know, Jesus actually

said, if everybody talks good about you, be careful. That's probably not

good. Listen, if we don't walk in a level of power and authority

that disturbs the principalities and powers, where do you think this persecution comes from.

It's because you're stepping into a realm on the battlefield that the enemy has

had ground, and you say, not on my watch, and then you

begin to partner to bring the kingdom to earth. If you're sitting here today

and you're going, man, I just can't wait to get to Heaven.

I just can't wait for the rapture you have the wrong mindset, because Jesus

died to get into you, to get the Holy Spirit, his spirit into

you. Where do you think the kingdom is. The Kingdom is inside his

spirit, and it's inside of you. Jesus said, the Kingdom is in

you. This is the response we need in this hour as persecution, as

the glory of the Lord begins to express himself even greater, and we begin

as we are pruned and cleaned up, and we begin to carry a greater

expression of who Jesus is. It's going to cause disturbance in the atmosphere.

Your light is going to irritate darkness, Your peace will irritate fear. Have

you have you ever been in a place where you're just you're really anxious and

you feel justified to be anxious and somebody around you at peace, and it

just irritates you, Like do you not understand we're supposed to be nervous right

now? What are you doing? Well? You have full permission. If

you ever see Jesus up there going, Father, what do we do?

What do we do? What do we do? Father? Then you better

get nervous. But the last time I checked, he never got nervous,

just as he is in this world, So are you. Do we really

really understand that exactly how he lived was an invitation to live that exact same

way. Not less. Everybody talks about we've got to get past the Book

of Acts. How about we just get back there first, because I know

about you. Last time I preached and three thousand people came to know the

Lord one day was never. Last time we saw people being added to the

body of Christ daily, at least in Kirk County was what never? Let's

change it. Do you think we got a twist God's arm to save souls?

Okay? And now look this is the I love this. This is

Acts four twenty nine to thirty one. And now Lord, look upon their

threats and grant to your servants to continue to speak your word with all boldness.

Do you know right now, in this morning, in this morning,

in this moment, we are literally seeing anti Semitism exploding in America, the

hatred over Jewish people. Paul said, don't get cocky. If you were

grafted in, you could be cut out. There is no displacement theology.

That's a teaching from Hell. We did not replace the Jews. We were

grafted in. So continue to speak your word with all boldness, while you

stretch out your hand to heal, and signs and wonders are performed through the

name of your Holy Servant, Jesus. And when they prayed, the place

in which they were gathered together was shaken, and they were all filled with

the Holy Spirit. And continue to speak the Word of God with boldness.

Maybe we're not seeing the signs and wonders to the degree that we need to

because we're not focusing enough on the gospel, which is when we preach the

gospel, then signs and wonders followed to validate the good News. They signs

and wonders don't validate you as we follow him. They follow us because we're

following him. He's messing my line up. Okay, Matthew eighteen twelve.

I told you all a few weeks ago, the Lord I saw these pictures

advertised on Facebook. Oh those advertisements. But it's the lost Sheep. The

first picture is Jesus is running after the sheep in the wilderness. The second

one is he's cleaning the mud off the sheep, and the third one he's

holding the sheep and in the background is a wolf that he saved him from

and I have those three pictures up and it continues as I do per ministry

sessions. The Lord continues to speak to people through those three pictures. And

it's been like a month and a half, y'all. We you know.

It says what's true in the natural's true in the spirit and the natural.

It looks like the enemies picked a fight, like the enemy's trying to draw

us into World War III. I want to tell you back in September nineteenth,

I shared the vision with the submarine right on the stage. It was

being staged like it was going to be sunk. A few days ago a

nuclear sub was placed over there and Iran. This past Tuesday night or Tuesday

morning, I had another vision and I saw a vision of a ram in

like a green pastor, and I heard of my heart Daniel, and I

went to Daniel eight and it talks about the king of the mead Media in

Persia, which is modern day Iran. There is absolutely a plan of the

enemy to try to bring us into that. But I want to say something.

The greater war that's happening is the clash of the kingdoms between darkness and

light. And I think God's picking the fight. What if what if the

Lord's saying, hey, have you considered my body? Kind of like when

you said, have you considered job? What if he actually knows what's inside

of you and you don't, and all you gotta do is come into agreement,

and all of a sudden you unlock a fuller expression of Christ in you.

Gideon. Gideon didn't look grow hot in the beginning, did he?

He was a coward. He's threshing wheat in the wine press, hiding from

the enemy. Well, I got news for you. In twenty twenty,

we saw half the church hiding from the enemy. We saw half the pastors

in America being cowards and hiding from the enemy and taking scripture and pulling it

out of context because they didn't have the flip and backbone to lead in the

moment they were called the lead. But I got news for you. Not

all of them are cowards. God is going to touch some of those men,

and they're going to learn from their mistakes, and he's going to come

to them and say, oh, mighty man of valor, and this next

shaking, this next round, All of a sudden, the leaders rise up

to the full potential of what He's called them to because it's him inside of

them, his strength, his wisdom, his knowledge, his understanding, and

his spirit, not them. I'm gonna take us through a quick little journey

as I land this seven forty seven Acts two, he says, Peter said

to them, repent and be baptized, every one of you, in the

name of Jesus Christ, for the forgiveness of your sins, and you will

receive the gift of the Holy Spirit. For the promise is for you and

for your children, and for all who are afar off, everyone whom the

Lord our God calls to himself living in that dispensation. We have this amazing

opportunity as we preach the gospel, to see people sealed with His Spirit,

to see the baptism of the Holy Spirit, to see the Holy Spirit come

upon the believers, for what the empowerment of ministry. He came into you

for you. He came upon you so you could get off your blessed assurance

and advance the Kingdom in power. He didn't come upon you so we could

impress each other and pull out all our little giftings and say, oh,

look at this, Oh, he's got a higher level of prophecy. Oh,

look over here, these little gifts that we get so impressed with,

they're not little, and they destroy the works of the evil One. So

we need to be in a place to where we can actually see the works

of the evil One destroyed. Acts two forty two to forty seven. They

devoted themselves to the apostles, teaching and the fellowship, to the breaking of

bread and the prayers, and all came upon every soul, and many wonders

and signs were being done through the apostles. And all who believed were together

and had nothing in common. They were always arguing, no, iy didn't

say that, and had all things in common. They were selling their possessions

and belongings and distributing the proceeds to all, and as any had need.

And day by day attending the temple together and breaking bread in their homes.

They received their food with gladness and generous hearts, praising God and having favor

with the people, and the Lord added to their number day by day,

those who were being saved. Do you see this picture before Acts eight,

before the diaspora, the dispersion, because of the persecution, because of the

glory that was resting on the leaders. Before that they were gathering corporately,

and they were gathering in their homes daily. If you're not a part of

one of our connect groups, get involved. There's one hundred and sixty eight

hours a week. This right here you cannot live on. That's two hours

of your life. The kingdom is lifestyle. Get plugged in the relationships that

you will cultivate and build together throughout the week. In coynanea in relationship is

everything because let's face it, the corporate expression is one part of it.

We need it all so that we are a healthy, full body. Okay,

Acts four thirty two to thirty four. Now the number are now the

full number of those who believed were of one heart and soul. And no

one said that any of the things they belonged to him was his own.

But they had everything in common and with great power. The apostles were giving

their testimony to the resurrection of the Lord Jesus, and great grace was upon

them all. You think we need great grace, You think we need more

grace in this hour to be empowered to fulfill what we're called to do.

To you understand, even the gifts are called graces. We didn't earn them.

They were a gift, they were given by grace, and not to

be jealous of it. Says there was not a needy person among them.

We're not We're not in that full expression yet anybody got needs? Is there

any? I mean they're they're I'm not like shaming. I'm saying this is

this is part of an Apostolic church, of getting into that fullness, of

getting into a full expression where He is manifesting his spirit, his presence,

to where we get into a place of prosperity, not name it, claim

it, Not so a Honda, get a Suzuki, but to a place

of true prosperity in the kingdom. Oh Jim Baker, Not the one that

got arrested, the other Jim Baker. He goes prosperities It not not having

to ask your money, to be obedient to God, having enough for what

you're called to, and then having some left over to help others. It

says, he who sows sparingly will reap sparingly. You know what we've done

with the tithe You know what we've done with the whole ten percent thing.

We've pimped it and we've taught people it's like a lotto ticket. If you

just give ten percent, you can sit back and not steward the other ninety

And somehow some massive check's gonna come to your mailbox. That's stupid. We're

called to be Why Stewart's that means you give unto the Lord, But you

also stewart the rest of it too. If you eat all your seed,

what are you going to sew? He ain't sewing Jack Orji acts five.

I'm taking through a quick little journey here. We've got ten minutes left.

And when they had called in the apostles, they beat them, charged them

not to speak in the name of Jesus, and let them go. Then

they left the presence of the council, rejoicing that they were counted worthy to

suffer dishonor for the name. Why have I been pressing this issue of us

getting ready in the body of Christ, the clash of the kingdoms? Why

have I been talking about the armor of God and us recognizing the reality the

armor is Jesus. Because we have days ahead of us that aren't going to

be real easy. They're going to be glorious for the Church. They're going

to be absolutely glorious. But from the world's standpoint, they're going to be

turbulent. When it says hearts, the hearts of men will fail them for

fear that paints a uh, that that paradox in the Kingdom that we see

so much. That's why right now, when God is shaking things in our

life, we need to we need to open our hands and say, Lord,

shake out everything that is not of you. Because anything that can be

shaken will be shaken. But the Kingdom cannot be shaken. The character of

Christ cannot be shaken. So as we step into a place of maturation in

Him, and he's the hope of glory, then we don't have to be

shaken by the shakings and the birth pains that are upon us, that are

increasing in intensity and coming closer together. This is the hour that the body

of Christ needs to awaken from slumber and take its rightful place and begin to

move forward with the Kingdom of Heaven and watch the culture of the Kingdom transform

the culture of this earth. So it says they left the presence of the

council rejoicing they were kind of worthy to suffer dishonor for the name, and

every day in the temple and from house to house. They did not cease

teaching and preaching that the Christ is Jesus. Do we have a love for

each other that actually compels us to be with each other the other one hundred

and sixty six hours? Or do we prioritize our own kingdom and then fit

the body of Christ into that as it's convenient. Y'all with me? Okay,

I know I'm hammering a bunch of scripture out of Acts, but this

is what we have this morning, Acts six. Now, in these days,

when the disciples were increasing in number, a complaint by the Hellenists.

These that should have been your first warning. The Hellenists a rose against the

Hebrews because their widows were being neglected in the daily distribution. And the twelve

summoned the full number of the disciples and said, it's not right that we

should give up preaching the word of God part of me to serve tables.

Therefore, brothers, pick out from among you seven men of good repute,

full of the spirit and of wisdom, whom we will appoint to this duty.

But we will devote ourselves to prayer into the ministry of the Word.

The apostles understood where their lane was where their priority was. And that right

there is a picture of deacons, seven men of good repute, full of

the spirit and of wisdom. You think God's standards what our standard is?

All the time these guys were full of the spirit of God, and they

were waiters. The son of Man did not come to be served, but

to serve and offer his life a ransom for many. All right, I'm

getting close. And Saul approved of his execution. This was Stephen, because

remember Stephen, his face shone like an angel, and he was killed first

martyr, and he was doing signs and wonders too. So guess what everybody

gets to do the stuff, as Wimber would say. And Saul approved of

his execution. And there arose on that day a great persecution against the Church

in Jerusalem, and they were all scattered throughout the regions of Judah Samaria except

the apostles. Devout men buried Stephen and made a great lamentation over him.

But Saul was ravaging the church and entering house after house. He dragged off

men and women and committed them to prison. Acts eight. This was the

great dispersion, And it says in Acts eighty four. Now those who were

scattered, went about preaching the word, and all of a sudden, an

ancient terrorist Saul is on the road to Damascus. That'd be like the leader

of Hamas. Y'all understand this Saul. And Saul thought he was doing God

justice by killing the church house to house murdering, and he thought he was

on God's side. I have a question for you. Sons of Ishmael right

now, think they're on God's side and they actually need somebody with a backbone

to step into a place in their life to give them the gospel. But

that means we can't value our own life more than anything else. So Saul

gets saved. In axt nine Acts ten, Peter has a vision and gentiles

are welcomed into the body of Christ. Do you know they went back to

Antioch in response to an outpouring over the gentiles. And then they need a

doctrine to find out what in the world's going on because all these dogs are

getting Holy spirit, and the Jews are like, what is going on Peter.

By the way, Peter's vision had nothing to do with food. So

when scripture says that he made all foods clean, and all your food is

cleaned by prayer, the word of God, and all of that. That's

fine, that's in context. His vision had everything to do with stop calling

them unclean, because they're a part of the family. He says, Abraham

will be the father of many nations, not just Jewish, but of Gentile

Two. And I want to tell you a mystery that ten lost tribes that

were scattered abroad and then literally disintegrated through bloodlines or being brought back through gentile

blood. One new man got quiet. Selah almost done. Now, those

who were scattered because of the persecution that arose over Stephen traveled as far as

Phoenicia and Cyprus and Antioch, speaking the words to no one except Jews.

And then all of a sudden, in Acts, fifteen buscles and the elders

were gathered together to consider the matter. For it seemed good to the Holy

Spirit and to us to lay on to lay on you, meaning gentiles,

no greater burden than these requirements. That you abstain from what has been sacrificed

to idols, and from blood, and from what has been strangled, and

from sexual and morality. If you keep yourselves from these, you will do

well. That was the ultimate doctrine that was set upon the Gentiles when they

were fighting whether or not they needed to be circumcised. Do you know how

easy it is to come under a religious spirit in the New Covenant, And

all of a sudden, because you start observing certain things, you start feeling

better about yourself and you begin to puff up with pride. Do you know

how many different types of religious spirits there are in every denomination, including the

Charismatic movement. Remember, the ultimate definition of a religious spirit is using God's

word to execute your own will. He will make you feel spit spiritual when

you live like hell. I'm going to wrap it up with this. And

He gave the apostles, the prophets, the evangelists, the shepherds, and

the teachers to equip the saints for the work of ministry, for building up

the body of Christ, until we all attain to the unity of the faith,

of the knowledge of the Son of God, to a mature manhood,

to the measure of the stature of the fullness of Christ, so that we

may no longer be children tossed to and fro by the waves, and carried

about by every wind of doctrine, by human cunning, by craftiness, and

deceitful schemes, rather speaking the truth and love. We are to grow up

in every way into Him who is the Head, into Christ, for whom

the whole body joined and held together by every joint with which it is equipped,

when each part is working properly. This is the equipping of the saints.

This is the fivefold gifting that has been put there to help see that

accomplished. Make the body grow so that it builds itself up in pride,

no, in love. You know what's amazing. There was zero social media

twenty twenty three years ago, and yet God seemed how to find people in

the wilderness, get their numbers, and change the world. Does God need

your help? No. The name apostles mentioned seventy eight times in the New

Covenant, the name Prophets mentioned one hundred and forty nine times. The word

evangelist appears three times, and only one of them is named in all of

the New Covenant. The word pass is actually a Latin word, and it's

been properly translated as shepherd in the EESV, and it appears one time in

the New Testament. The name teachers mentioned sixty two times in the New Covenant.

So do we understand the reality of these gifts. And whether you want

to argue the fifold ministry or offices or gifts, people argue back and forth

on that. The reality is we need to see a full expression of the

fivefold. We need to see leaders actually rise up in maturity and accountability.

Do you know the three main things for elders? It's I'm going to give

you three d's that you should be able to remember. Elders are responsible for

direction, for doctrine, and for discipline of the church. That's eldership in

a nutshell. Now, when do we ever see correction done? Not much,

And unfortunately, when we do see it done, it's usually in extreme

situations that exploded. But what if you had a healthy eldership team and there

was a healthy accountability which means not just abstaining from sin, but actually holding

you accountable for what you're called to do, because it's both, and then

championing each other into the place of God's destiny over your life, whether you

want to do it or not. So what is our mission? Because y'all,

it starts out with Jesus says this. If anyone wants to follow me,

let him take up his cross daily and follow me. What did he

just tell you? Son? Daughter, I'm gonna call you to do stuff

that hurts. I'm gonna call you to do things you don't want to do.

I'm gonna call you to to love people you don't want to love.

I'm going to call you to forgive people you don't want to forgive. I'm

going to call you to preach the good news of the Gospel. The people

you want to see go to Hell, and that's the reality. Finally,

last thing, one minute passed. I was close. So what is CK's

mission. It's to heal, equip, and release God's people into their destiny

for the transformation of their families, communities, and culture. It's healing the

broken heart, equipping the saints, and releasing the body. And our vision

for Kerr County is to become an Apostolic training center for the kingdom transformation of

family, community, and culture. It's for us to be a full expression

of a modern day Antioch where we actually see the Fivefold eventually coming in and

out and being here raising up leaders in the Fivefold, raising up people to

go out and expand the Kingdom to the ends of the earth. This is

what we're here for this is the calling. And make no mistake, y'all,

we were not the first ones offered this, and Richard can attest to

that. But we said yes. And it's up to us to stay humble,

teachable, and hungry and stuart what's been given to us so that it's

not passed by us. We say yes, and whatever's got to die in

us can die because we want to see the fullness of what God has for

this region. And that's my heart. I wake up and I want to

know that I'm in line with him. Period. Graham Cook prophesied over rich

Harris, my mentor before he even had a church, and he says,

I see you pastoring and doing all this thing and equipping and the prophetic and

gave him this. He was the only one. He prophisied over an eight

hundred people in a conference and he goes, some will come and some will

go. But don't worry. You can't keep what God doesn't give you.

Y'all. We don't own each other. We don't own you. You don't

own us. The Lord owns us. So it's our responsibility to love,

equip and release you into the fullness of what God's called you to do.

And so we're moving forward. Not everything in your heart will necessarily have its

expression inside across kingdom, and that's not bad. So if you come to

us and there's something you have a fire to do, and we meet as

an eldership and we're like, yeah, that's awesome, we bless you in

that, but it's not exactly what we're called to in our lane. Please

don't pick up your legos and go home. Understand, this is the Kingdom

of Heaven. We are one body, one Lord, one faith, one

baptism, and one Father of all, who is in all and through all.

We are one body. Denomination means to divide. We don't do denominations

here. We do the kingdom. All right, let's stand Wayne. Could

I get you on the keyboard, sir, and whoever has said yes to

the prayer teams, if I could get you to come forward. I'm excited.

I don't about y'all, but I'm excited for what the Lord's doing.

I am. I am tickled pink when his presence comes so thick that you

cannot stand, and I enjoy eating the concrete under his presence and crying like

a baby. It's good for the soul. So I as I close us

in prayer, if you have not dealt with everything that the Holy Spirit's been

dealing with you on this morning, please come forward for prayer. If not,

as we close in prayer, y'all are released. You're blessed. I

bless your families. Richard, could you could you do the blessing? Can

I get you to come back up and do the blessing. We're gonna We're

gonna close with a blessing that that that I've heard Richard do a lot over

the years. Can can you grab them? Who has the mic? Oh?

Here it is okay, m wow. You're loved, You're loved,

You're loved. You're loved. You're loved. You're loved, you loved.

You're loved beyond your ability to comprehend. As you saw your baby the first

day it was born, and you said, what a beautiful baby. God

is saying that to you right now, out of your heartaches, out of

your rejection, out of everything that's not worked in your life, God is

saying you're loved, you're loved. Just say that person around you, you're

loved, You're loved, You're loved with a love beyond comprehension. Your loved

beyond your ability to receive all of it. You're loved to the very deep

and depths inside of you. Your loved God loves you. God is love.

And as we take into our body the scripture that he quoted that I've

loved so much and nobody was in need. If you see in need,

help somebody. It's not complicated. It's not complicated, it's not rocket sons.

Just do something for someone else, and you'll be surprised that God will

do something for you. Because see, out of you will flow rivers of

life, flow rivers of life. You'll be grounded in the love of God.

You'll be ground it says in scripture, you'll be grounded and rooted in

the love of God. Grounded and rooted in the love of God. So

I want to get I want to give a blessed sing to you, but

more than anything, a blessing to me. And this has been a part

of my life for a long time. Yeah, because see, it doesn't

come from a person. It comes from the Holy Spirit. If you allow

it to permonate in your bodies, and you don't have to look so good

everybody all the time. We're trying so hard and impress other people around us.

Just fall on your face and let God work through you. As the

love of a mother to a child. You can do that. You can

help someone in the neighborhood that no one loves. You can love them.

So receive the blessing in the name of Jesus. In the name of Jesus

Christ, I bless you with the promise to God, which are yea and

amen. Be blessed with supernatural strength to turn your eyes from evil and worthless

things instead. May you behold the wonderful things that God has planning for you.

I bless your ears to hear, your eyes to see, and your

spirit to understand the wonders of our God. May your hands and your feet

be ever outstretched to help those in need. God's grace be upon your home.

May God give you success and prosperity in your places of labor. May

God give you spiritual strength to overcome the evil one and to avoid temptation.

God's grace be upon you to fulfill your dreams and your visions. The Lord

bless you and keep you. The Lord make his face to shine upon you

and give you grace and peace. May His goodness and his mercy follow you

all the days of your life. And I bless you, I bless you,

I bless you, I bless you Jesus Name Amen. Thank you for

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