A Call To Gideon!

Joy listening to the Cross Kingdom Sermon of the Week. We hope you enjoy

this message from Justin Carpenter with us, and I've i asked Richard if he

would be willing to come and at hearing a little bit and pray for rain

and put a blessing over the house, and they thankfully said yes to the

invitation. We're honored that y'all are here. Thank you so much for being

here. So last our trip with Cole was like this really crazy whole prophetic

swirl, and I want to kind of that theme with prophetic words and stuff.

I want to try to quickly set up what I'm about to talk on

because this kind of came out of that that trip. So not this past

Thursday, the thursday before we left to take our firstborn off to an internship

in Fort Mill, South Carolina. And it's it's a real spiritual hub there.

I mean, there's Morning Star Ministries, there's the shob Dost Ministries,

Jeremiah Johnson's in that area. You have Moravian Falls, which anybody ever heard

of? Aravian Falls. It's like just a crazy open heaven there. Bobby

Connor has a house there now and anyways, that whole place. So we

we get in Thursday, and we get into Cole's apartment and Bonnie comes and

she brings a dinner for us. It's not low carbs, so I I

broke my carbs and uh, but it tasted amazing. And all of a

sudden, she had pulled this bottle out and it fell over. It was

just standing there and it just fell over and the thing exploded the bottom of

it blew out, and we're like, well, that's weird because that doesn't

happen. And then all of a sudden, a little bit later, now

this isn't necessarily abnormal of you know, coal but heat, because Cole and

Lisa have this anointing for clumsiness and uh and and Cole cool. So Cole

spills sauce all over the countertop in this brand new apartment that they furnished and

everything, and and then something else happened. Then the next morning, I

go down to the gym that they've got, like this new gym, and

I'm I'm my third round. And I go to do a rep on the

leg press and the leg press machine snaps the cable. So I go downstairs

and I give him the I show him the picture. I'm like, yeah,

I'm really sorry. I broke broke your leg press and uh and they,

you know, they said, no big deal. So I go back

upstairs. I get ready and then I'm getting ready and I'm using hair spray.

I know there's not much hair up here, people, but I have

to use a little hairspray to hold this thing in place, you know what

I'm saying. And so and all of a sudden, this little travel hair

bottle goes show flying out of my hands. I'm like, what is going

on. I'm like, I'm ready to go in warfare mode over whatever's going

on with all this stuff. We go downstairs. Lisa and I go back

downstairs. I asked the lady about WiFi and I go, by the way,

I'm the one that broke the lake press. I apologize and she says,

oh, you're the one that brought the snake in. I go,

huh. I said, ma'am, I'm a pastor. I don't bring snakes.

I bring the presence to the Lord. And she started laughing. She

goes, no, as soon as you left, the snake came in.

I was like what. And she shows us this picture where there was a

snake in the fourier. So all this stuff swirling and breaking and shaking up

all around us, and I'm like, well, that's crazy. And so

we leave. We go shopping. I get cold of coffee grinder because y'all

know that's super important, and uh, and I ran out of beans.

I bought some new beans from a good shop there, and I turned the

deal on and I get like halfway through and it literally just breaks. I'm

like, are you kidding me? And so that breaks. Well. Then

fast forward Sunday morning. We're there with with Bonnie and them, and and

Bonnie gives this prophetic word that I want to It's super short, it's under

a minute, but I kind of want to set this up. We'll give

me the mic and Jonathan, we turn this mic up for me when I

hit play. It's it's really important to us that we honor prophetic words.

Okay, and hear this word because it has to do with the body.

If it was just a personal word for me, I wouldn't share it right

now because it's you know, personal, But this is very much a word

that has to do with with the body. Okay. That's on from our

friends from Texas. Here this one, Okay, you want to encourage you.

The Lord gave me a word for you this morning, something that will

probably be very familiar to you. But during worship, I suddenly saw a

picture of you, and the Lord said, it's the breaker annointing that is

around two. And you know what that means. But it comes from Micah.

And so we loose the word of the Lord over you concerning the remnant.

God is raising up in this hour, and it says, I will

surely gather the remnant. I will put them together like sheep of the fold.

So we bless your pastoral ministry in this season. And the Remnant God

is gathering like a flock around you, like a flock in the midst of

their pasture. We prophesy over Kerville and over that region in South Texas and

Texas and East Texas and Knit Texas. We prophesy this pasture shall be green

and nourishing, and the sheep shall fatten, and they shall come into the

fold under the voice of the Shepherd. They shall make a loud noise because

of so many people. The one say, the one, the one who

breaks open, will come up before them. They will break out, pass

through the gate and go out by it, and their king will pass on

before them with the Lord at their head. So we bless you and Lisa

in this season, in your work and your exploits and all that the Lord

has. But the unusual events around you the last forty eight hours were a

sign of the glory that's on you, and it is the breaker anointing.

So we bless you. So y'all, Cross Kingdom has words about touching the

nation's Cross Kingdom has words about being stationed like a train station. We have

all these prophetic words over the years. These are words that we fight with

corporately. These are words that you that you're that you're to pray into.

And one of the biggest dangers we're in in this hour is because of all

the fluff and crap that's been so called prophecy, you begin to despise the

prophetic, You begin to despise the word of the Lord because there's so much

immaturity and so much false stuff. But the reality is, just like Paul

told Timothy says, don't despise prophecies. In fact, we're to use prophecies

to wage warfare. And when we lose that, you can actually ship wreck

your faith, the word says, And so I want to encourage' all.

We're in a very strategic hour a. We're transitioning into I believe that the

beginning of whatever this movement that's been prophesied over our region is going to look

like. And we're here, all of us for a purpose right now,

and we're not just taking up seats. And so I know it's our heart

as a leadership that y'all number one know who you are in him, and

number two you know what he's called you to do. And we lock arms

and we advanced the Kingdom together. That trip finished up with the plane breaking

on our from Dallas to bat We literally the plane was broke. The mechanic

was on there by the way mechanics use computers now, there was no wrenches

or anything. He's in the cockpit and then the pilot gets on thirty five

minutes later and goes, well, the mechanic thinks he fixed the power,

I mean, fix the problem. So we should be on our way.

And the issue was the plane was losing power. I'm like, the mechanic

thinks he fixed it, and I'm like, what power loss? Are we

talking about? Cabin lights? Engines, like, what's going on here?

People? I'm like, Lord, I think I'm done with the sign of

the breaker anointing right now. Can we can we please just get safely from

forty thousand feet back down? And y'all we even got to meet the Jimmy

remember from Tybernacle, the b guy that came on the Mahashian Bonnie's property.

The Lord told him to go to church that Sunday. He'd never been there

in a service, and he showed up and had no clue we were there.

We end up having lunch with him, and I get back to the

apartment and lo and behold, two bees come up out of nowhere and start

swirling all around me. I'm like, the whole trip was just I love

it. It was crazy. So in the midst of all that, finally

laying a long foundation for this detour, I was going to continue with the

clash of the kingdoms. But when I was there praying over Bonnie and them,

they I was praying for the ministry and I'd got i'd the Lord gave

me a vision over some stuff and and and I told her, I was

like, I really believed part of the there's been an attack like on a

Daniel where they created the image and you bowed to the image. Well,

that image was COVID during you know, in the last couple of years,

and people literally crumbled because of fear, the spirit of fear and uh.

And I was talking with Bonnie and Bonnie's like, well, we don't want

cowards, and I'm like, yeah, nope, I'm like we said we

don't want cowards either. As I was mulling over what the Lord had shown

me and I had talked to her about, I clearly heard the Lord say

something that surprised me, and it was there's Gideons and the cowards. And

so what that means, if that's too parabolic for you, is that I

believe wholeheartedly that in the midst of all these people that buckled to fear,

it's our job to find the Gideons and pull them out. Because Gideon wasn't

he wasn't a coward, Okay. And so I just want to talk to

you for a little bit this morning, prophetically on a call a call to

Gideon. Okay. So, Father, I just asked that you would bless

this time, that you'd bless this word and Lord that as we see the

spirit of fear manifesting and trying to grow up into a coward. Lord,

that we would have eyes to see and ears to hear, and that we

would be able to pull people out of fear with your love. Lord,

I thank you that you didn't give us a spirit of fear, but of

love, power and a sound mind. So the definition for fear is an

unpleasant, often strong emotion caused by anticipation or awareness of danger, kind of

like when he says that I think the mechanic thinks he fixed the power,

and you know, there was a temptation to have an emotion other than love

in that moment when the pilot so confidently came on the speaker phone and talk

to us. And fears defined as an emotion or feeling of danger. Every

living being will confront fear no matter who you are, even if you claim

to be fearless, you have to confront fear in your life. A coward,

though, is someone who lacks the courage to face their fears. In

fact, a coward is one who shows disgraceful fear or timidity. The difference

between battling fear and actually being a coward. A coward would be in a

battlefield and they would literally the very first moment shots were fired, they would

run for their lives and leave all the men around them. We unfortunately have

cowards for pastors in America at this moment. Some of them don't have a

backbone, and I pray that that changes. You. Hear whispers right now

of lockdowns and all of this stuff and the fear, and they're trying to

ramp all of that up once again, and we don't know what's going to

happen full right. We know we're in turbulent times, and we know that

scripture says in the last days, people's hearts will fail them for fear.

But the question is when you recognize, when you have eyes to see and

ears to hear, and you understand what's going on, then it's our duty

to actually run towards that and be the light insult that God has called us

to. It's our duty to pull those people out of fear and actually say,

hey, guess what, God didn't give you a spirit of fear,

but of love power in a sound mind. There's Gideon's hiding in the crowd

of fear, and there's actually if you're taking notes fears mentioned at least four

hundred and thirty seven times in the ESV Bible. There are actually seven types

of fear. You're ready. Fear failure. Anybody had to face that,

every hand should be up. I've had and you've probably had to face fear

of failing more than once. Mark put all three arms up. Fear of

man, anybody dealt with the fear of man, Fear of confrontation with a

human. Fear of creatures here in the woods, and yeah, animals,

lions, tigers and bears. Oh, my, fear of nature. Unravel

the myth that nature answers to no one. The winds and the waves.

In Psalms, you see actually in Psalms a prophetic picture where Jesus prophesies of

calming the storm with the disciples, and it's actually in the Psalms, and

it paints a clear picture of what he did. And professional fishermen were scared

to death of that storm, and he calmed it. And he said,

why do you fear? Fear of the future? Anybody had fear of the

future. I can tell you as a father, taking coal and dropping him

off to Fort Mill, South Carolina was a little nerve wracking for me.

Taking my firstborn and letting him out of the nest was way more intense than

I thought. Fear of death, anybody dealt with fear of death, and

then one of the last ones. Fear of abandonment. Anybody dealt with fear

of abandonment. And the thing is, y'all, these things can be so

intense. This, these different types of fear can be so intense that they're

paralyzing. Anybody ever had a panic attack before. When you're when you're in

the midst of an anxiety attack or a panic attack, you literally feel like

you're dying. Like you may know you're okay right here, but you are

overwhelmed with this feeling that it's all over. Get me here, or I'm

gonna die. I had horrible anxiety and panic attacks for years. That's act

ultimately what led my wife to prophesy to me if I didn't get help.

She was leaving back in two thousand and five. She was gonna take cold

and go to mom's house and let me set in my anxiety. And I'm

telling you all, if you struggle with panic attacks this morning, you don't

have to There is deliverance, but you have to understand it's not your fear.

It's not your anxiety. It's not if you think it is. You're

gonna comfort it, you're gonna you're gonna counsel it, you're gonna pamper it,

you're gonna you're gonna end up victimizing it. That went well, okay,

So here unconquered fear will lead you into becoming a coward. If you

don't deal with fear, you can ultimately end up becoming a coward. The

flip side of this coin, it says that because of lawlessness, the hearts

will what will grow cold. So you have people literally falling apart because of

a spirit of fear, and then you have people literally thinking that the lie

are thinking that the answer to all of this craziness is just to harden your

heart and lose love for the lost. If you are cold hearted, you're

not going to see where the Gideons are among all those other people, because

they're all going to look the same to you, because you're looking with the

natural. That's the lord you should answer that revelation twenty one eight. But

as for the cowardly, the faithless, the detestable, as for murderers,

the sexually and moral sorcerers, idolatres, and all liars. Their portion will

be in the lay that burns with fire and sulfur, which is the second

death. Y'all. What does God think about being a coward? No,

ain't digging it. And what's interesting out of all of those things, out

of murder, sexual or sexual morality, sorcery, idolatry, lying, out

of all of that, it starts out with cowardly. So you what you

fear, you in power, and whatever you focus on you're gonna make room

for. And whatever you make room for, you're gonna have faith to see

it. And right now you have to understand something. All of the media,

political spirit, regardless of sides of the wings, all of those things

are designed to use fear to cripple you, to put you into a passive

state, to make you believe that you are helpless, powerless, and you

have no control over the future of this nation or the future of your family.

And then the government wants to come in and act like the Savior when

it's all bondage. And if you bow to these things, you will absolutely

power. You will be paralyzed in a spirit of fear that ultimately will lead

you to run from the front line and literally leave everyone unprotected. Does this

making sense? Second Timothy one six. For this reason, I remind you

to fan and to flame the gift of God which is in you, through

the laying out of my hands. Fan the flame of the gift of God

which is in you, through the laying on my hands. All right,

So here's Gideon. It starts out. It paints this picture. It says,

for whenever the Israelites planted crops, the Midianites and the Amalekites and the

people of the East would come up against them, they would encamp against them

and devour the produce of the land as far as Gaza. Hey, modern

day, you can't go to work. You can go to work because we

need you, but we don't need you. You stay home. You put

a mask on and shut your mouth and live in fear. Yeah, hiding.

I'm afraid to leave the house. I'm scared to death to leave the

home. And it's not just COVID. It can be anything else. So

if I haven't stepped on your toes yet, give me a couple of minutes.

You were not called to have fear in this hour. You were not

called to bow to the spirit of fear or fear of death. It would

devour the produce of the land as far as Gaza and leave no substenance in

Israel, no sheep or ox or donkey b Now, the Angel the Lord

came and sat under the taribith. By the way, it doesn't say be

in the scriptures. And that was my outline. Now, the Angel the

Lord came and sat under the taribith tree at Ophrah, not Oprah, which

belonged to Joe Ash and I'll be here all day and a baserite, while

his son Gideon was beating out wheat and the wine press to hide from the

Median nights. You have this picture. Israel was given over to their enemy

because they would not repent. They were living in sin as a nation and

would not repent. He's hiding in the wine press threshing wheat because he's scared

to death that the enemy's going to come and take all of his produce,

take everything they have for substenance that they need to live on. Fear of

the future, fear of man. Can you see when we talked about these

seven things, how this issue of fear. Listen, y'all, I know

this isn't super popular to talk about fear because we want to medicate everything all

the time. And I'm not I'm not against hear my heart. I'm not

against doctors, and I get it. I'm not against things. But if

you deal with a spiritual root in a natural way, you're not going to

get spiritual results. Are you with me? So? In other words,

if you're dealing and battling with a spirit of fear, and it's not your

fear, it's a spirit of fear, there's nothing you do naturally that's gonna

get that thing out of your life, except for taking your authority and casting

it out in the name of Jesus. That was good. Okay, bless

y'all. You gotta love me. I'm your pastor. So, And the

Angel of the Lord appeared to Gideon and said to him, the Lord is

with you, al mighty man of Valor. Gideon's like he's like I thought.

I was the only one in this room hiding threshing wheat from the enemy,

and he's looking around, y'all. I can tell you with authority that

it's possible to overcome anxiety and fear because I did it with the Lord.

I had anxiety attacks, I had panic attacks, and I was absolutely miserable

for years if I wasn't doing something and I was just sitting there. I

was so afraid of people. I got a D in speech class my freshman

year at Pensacola Christian College. My first date with Lisa, I literally said

like three words, y'all. I know you're like, I don't believe that.

No, it's the truth. Ask her, and she was like,

man, this guy didn't talk at all. I was paralyzed with the fear

of man, paralyzed with the fear of I mean, I probably had every

distinking type of fear you could think of. Fear of this, fear of

that, fear of abandonment, fear of rejection, fear of man, fear

of public speaking. I like, Lord, you got the wrong person if

you think I'm supposed to be your mouthpiece. And I literally talked myself out

of my calling for a period of time. So what have you allowed fear

to talk you out of that God called you to. Maybe you were supposed

to start a business, but you let the voice of fear say no,

this is the wrong time. You know, the Great Depression, Some of

the greatest corporations came out of that they started in the great depression? Whose

economy are you in? You in the Kingdom of Heaven, God's economy or

the world's. That was a great golf clap, and Gideon said to him,

please, my Lord, if the Lord is with us, then why

has all this happened to us? And where are all these wonderful deeds that

our fathers recounted to us, saying, did not the Lord bring us up

from Egypt? But now the Lord's forsaken us and given us into the hand

of Midian. Gideon's real excited about this call. He's super excited about being

called a man of valor, and he says, please, Lord, how

can I save Israel? Behold, my clan is the weakest in Manassa.

I'm the least in my father's house. And the Lord said to him,

but I will be with you, and you shall strike the Median knights as

one man. Do you understand God doesn't call you to do things that you

can accomplish in your own strength. I don't care how successful you are right

now in the natural. If you're doing everything according to your own strength,

then you're probably not actually doing what God's called you to do. Because God

gets glory when he calls you to do things that you can't accomplish. Are

you all awake? I know how you're smelling the food and you don't want

to quit. I mean, you want to quit, but you gotta put

up with me a couple more minutes. So Gideon, don't leave. Mark,

It's it's almost over. So Gideon went into the house and prepared a

young goat and unloven cakes from an efa of flour. The meat he put

in the basket. The broth he putt in a pot and brought them in

under the tarbith and represent and presented them. And the Angel of God,

which if y'all want to know, this is Jesus pre incarnate, right,

the Angel of the Lord. And it says, take the meat and the

uneloven cakes and put them on this rock and pour the broth over them.

And he did so. This is awesome. Then the Angel of the Lord

reached out the tip of his staff that was in his hand and touched the

meat and the unloven cakes, and fire sprung up from the rock and consumed

the meat and the unloven cakes, and the Angel the Lord vanished in his

sight. Then Gideon perceived that he was the Angel of the Lord. And

Gideon said, alass oh, Lord God, for now I have seen the

Angel of the Lord face to face. But the Lord said to him,

peace be with you. Do not fear, you shall not die. That's

probably a good word to have, if the Angel of the Lord is in

front of you and full blown manifestation. I think I think you'd probably want

to hear that. I don't know. That's necessarily a bad fear, right,

probably the fear of the Lord. Anyway, So Gideon built an altar

and u and this is how brave Gideon. Listen, y'all, let this

story encourage you. Because Gideon didn't like all of a sudden go like this,

I am a man of feller and gave his smoldering look. Right,

he didn't do that? What did he do? He literally, by night,

take your father's bull and the second bull seven years old, and pull

down the altar of bail that your father has out, and pull down the

astra so and and build an altar to the Lord your God on the top

of the stronghold here was stones laid in due order. Then take a second

bull and offered as a burnt offering so literally, Gideon took ten men of

his servants and did as the Lord had told them, But because he was

too afraid of his family and the men of the town to do it by

day, he did it by night. So what's the difference. Gideon scared

to death, He's he's in the wine press, he's fresh and wheat.

He was like, looking around, who are you talking to? A mighty

man of valor? Going this strength of yours. He's like huh. And

then he's like, all right, guys, here's what we're gonna do tonight,

after everybody's asleep and no one sees us. This is what we're gonna

do. And the Lord you don't see the Lord. You don't see him

rebuking him in that moment. Because Gideon faced his fear, He faced the

fear of man, the fear of the Midian night, or the those dudes

coming against him. Yeah, sorry, Sue. And and even though he

was facing fear, he took steps of obedience with the Lord. Even though

it was at night, not in the day. He took steps of obedience.

So what do you all got to do? What are you fearing in

your life right now? Punch fear in the face and start taking steps forward,

and don't say, oh, I'm fearless. We all well, if

there was ever a time in history with the spirit of fear that's been coming.

Sometimes the Church is more fearful than the lost. Yeah, yepy,

very true. What true? What do you want? Yes, sir,

all right, I'm gonna start laying in this plane. And then Gideon and

all the people were with him rose early and in camp beside the spring of

Herod, and the camp of Midian was north of them, by the hills

of Mora in the valley. The Lord said to Gideon, the people with

you are too many for me to give the Midianites into your hand. Lest

Israel boast over me, saying, my own hand has saved me. And

y'all know the story. There's thirty two that says, proclaiming the ears of

the people, whoever is fearful and trembling, let him return home, hurry

away from Mount Gilead. Then twenty two thousand of the people returned, and

ten thousand were left, So there were thirty two thousand people. And he

says, everyone fearful and trembling, guess what if you don't deal with your

fear and your anxiety. You're gonna disqualify yourself when you're in the moment of

battle and breakthrough because you're gonna leave because of the fear. And the Lord

knows that fear is like kryptonite, and he says, send them home.

We're going to cut them for these are the ones that aren't willing to face

their fear, and and we're going to send him home. And I understand

that he's also saying, hey, there's too many people here, but that's

how he qualified them. If you're fear and trembling, go ahead and go

home. There's an importance of responding to visitations when the Lord gives them,

because you can miss your visitation. God is sovereign. You are not You're

made of the dust of the earth. Let let that sink in, and

says, he says, he remembers that we're made from the dust of the

earth. So when we think we're all big, bad and mighty and amazing

and our gifts are amazing, we're dirt. And I've said this a zillion

times. God is not impressed with the gifts that he gave you. He

didn't go, oh my word, how'd you do that? So he dwindles

them down to ten thousand. This is the part of love. And the

Lord said to Gideon, and the people are still too many. Huh,

Lord, can we keep the ten thousand? I feel a little better at

ten thous. I mean I felt really good at thirty two thousand, Lord,

but now there's only ten thousand left. You think we could, you

know, maybe eased off on the qualifications. Here, take them down to

the water, and I will test them for you there. And any one

of whom I say to you, this one shall go with you shall go

with you. And any one of whom I say to you this one shall

not go with you shall not go. So he brought the people down to

the water, and the Lord said to Gideon, everyone who laps the water

with his tongue as a dog laps, you, shall set by himself.

Likewise, everyone who kneels down to drink. And the number of those who

lapped, putting their hands to their mouths, was three hundred men. So

what is the picture here? Out of ten thousand, three hundred of them

went like this because they were keeping their eye in front of them for their

enemy, whereas the other nine thousand and something were like this, and they

took their eyes off the battle line. Only three hundred were trained and ready

for battle. So, as you know the story, all of a sudden,

a few more people went home and with the three hundred men who lapped,

I will save you who if you thought getting was fighting fear with thirty

two thousand people, and then twenty, and then he's got ten thousand,

and now the Lord's like, yeah, he got three hundred. Go in

this mighty valor, this might of your son. Does that sound like an

impossible situation? It is. That's the whole point. It is impossible.

It is absolutely impossible unless the Lord was with them and fought with them.

Stop allowing fear to keep you paralyzed and not moving in your life because you

don't want to give up the imaginary control of your life. You're not in

control, y'all. The only reason you're here right now and breathing is because

he has not done with you yet. Are you with me? Okay?

So I love this. If you battle fear, this is such an amazing

story because Getton, he's down to three hundred men. He's probably physically trembling

from the fear. Oh are you sure there's only three hundred and one of

us. Lord, what happened, you know? And I can only imagine

the intercessory whining. So the people took their provision in their hands and their

trumpets, and he sent all the rest of Israel, every man to his

tent, but retained the three hundred, and the camp Amidian was below him

in the valley. That same night, the Lord said to him, Arise,

go down against the camp, for I have given it into your hand.

But if you are afraid to go down, go down to the camp

with Pira, your servant, and you show here what they say, and

afterwards your hands shall be strengthened to go down against the camp. Then he

went down with Pira and his servants, and the outpost, the army men,

the armed men who were at the camp, and the Midianites and the

Amalekites and all the people the east lay along the valleys like locusts and abundance.

And he's got three hundred men and they're they're they're covering the lands like

locusts. That means they're all over the place. He's got three hundred.

A natural military plan would have been, let's keep the thirty two thousand right.

And when Gideon came, behold the man was telling a dream to his

comrad, and he said, behold, I dreamed a dream. And behold,

a cake of barley bread tumbled into the camp of Midian and came to

the tent and struck it so that it fell, and turned it upside down,

so that the tent lay flat. Now this is what I love.

That's his dream. A cake of barley bread rolls down the hill flattens the

tents. And the comrade answered, this is no other than the sword of

Gideon, the son of Joash, a man of Israel. God has given

it into his hand Midian and the camp. And as soon as Gideon heard

the telling of the dream and its interpretation, he worshiped, and he returned

to the camp of Israel and said, arise, the Lord has given the

host of Median into your hand. Now, why in the world would a

loaf of barley bread rolling down a hill laying tents out flat be interpreted like

that? Remember what Gideon was doing in the wine press, he was threshing

wheat, he was making bread. So obviously they had to have some understanding,

more than likely, without reading too much into the text, that he

was probably known for that, and that dream language made total sense. Pay

attention to your dreams because when they're from God, he's going to use languages

or language and symbols that are familiar to you. I was just dove hunting

a couple days ago with a gentleman, Roger Sykes. And every time he

has dreams with turkeys, and his dream the turkeys represent business deals. Now,

if you if you had a dream and you had turkeys in it,

that probably wouldn't represent the same thing. But for him, that's the way

the Lord speaks to him. And every time though it's been a prophetic dream

when he has turkeys, let's talk turkey, which, by the way,

Richard Holcombe can do a turkey sound where he literally calls turkey in with just

his mouth and sounds just like a turkey. True story, So don't forget

then he'd Gideon is doing the fleece and he's make it wet and everything else

dry, and he's and he's working through all of these these modes of where

strongholds of fear were in his life. But because he surrendered and was willing

to deal with the fears that had been allowed into his life, God was

gracious with him and worked with him and said, hey, if you're still

fearful, go down and listen. You will be encouraged. And he used

a dream to encourage him to say, Okay, we're taking the land.

David's mighty men and Samuel didn't look very mighty when they first showed up,

did they? All who were indebted, all who were embittered? All?

I mean, this description is brilliant, right, And I could only imagine

Dave and David going, oh they I don't remember what that word means,

but it's Hebrew. So what is the Lord calling you to face better?

Yet? Who's in your life that you know is drowning and fear? And

he's called you to help them out. He's called you to lock arms with

them and say, hey, let's go do this together. He didn't.

He didn't call us to have a spirit of fear in this hour. Listen.

We are living in unprecedented times. We I mean, if you want

to lower your anxiety, turn all the news off that that that would be

a good start for you. It says wars and rumors of wars and and

Ethnol will rise up against against Ethnos, race against race, all these things

are seeing, all these the perplexity of nations, and all these issues happening

right now, y'all, we're the ones with the answers. It's called Jesus,

the God of the universe, who is literally the creator of everything.

Everything exists inside of him. He chose to dwell inside of you. All

knowledge, all wisdom, everything is inside of Jesus, and he is inside

of you. You don't have to have the intellectual capacity. All you got

to do is develop a listening ear and an eye that sees, and a

heart that is humble, and he can do anything he wants through you.

What's the definition of insanity? Keep doing the same thing over and over and

expecting a different result. What are you doing over and over and over that's

actually motivated by fear in your life? Right now? And if we actually

allow him to rip that fear out and replace it with love and confidence and

faith and hope and him, then you'll actually have the the hutzpah to go

forward and try something different. Now, can y'all hand out the communion?

Then after that we're gonna have Richard come and pray and bless everybody. And

then after that we're gonna feast. Yes please, yeah, oh yes,

men next Saturday men's breakfast. Thank you for the reminder. Eight eight o'clock

right eight am. M Hey, if you, if you are experiencing piercing

pain in your back right now, anybody who who's who's experiencing a pain in

their back, understand that that's actually fear coming against you and anybody else.

If you're experiencing that pain in your back, that's actually fear piercing into your

back, and the Lord's going to deliver you. So Father, I just

thank you right now for a release. We just say in unison that the

spirit of fear has to pull its hooks out of minds and hearts right now.

In the name of Jesus and Father, I ask for an a baptism

of love, of power and peace to flood their souls right now, in

the Mighty name of Jesus. Ma'am in the back next to the scrugs that

just handed the plate. Yes, what's your first name? Ramita? Juanita,

Juanita. Okay, when you came in earlier this morning before worship started,

I saw an angel with you and I was asking the Lord about it.

He's assigned an angel to you in this season, I see you going

into uncertainty. You're gonna be facing some issues that you gotta make decisions on,

and the angels with you assigned to you to help you and protect you

during this season. It it literally was like eight foot tall. Yeah,

so Psalms ninety one. Yeah, because there's a mark on your life.

The Lord's actually going to use you to change some serious bloodline issues. And

I even believe there's a there's been a call of ministry on your bloodline,

and there's been ministers in your bloodline, and I see a call to missions

over your life. Yeah? Is that? Am I tracking? Okay?

And I believe the Lord oooh, I believe the Lord would what would want

me to say? That your heart for the children blessed is his heart.

You're going to see creative miracles on the mission field, specifically with orphans and

young children. There's three nations, three doors that will quickly open to you

when when it comes. So don't be afraid because that big o eight foot

tall angels with you bless you? Does that make sense? Okay? Awesome?

Oh? That okay? Who let's do communion. I'm getting jacked up

here. So Father, will you let us be like the three hundred.

Will you let us be like the three hundred. Father, strengthen us in

this hour to not back down, to not give in, Lord, but

to keep charging forward, to see your kingdom come and your will be done,

Lord, in this earth in this hour, or that we would go

from glory to glory, strength to strength, and that we would readiate the

light and the song you called us to bed. Father, I thank you

that you were willing to reconcile us back to yourself in Christ. I thank

you, Father, that you were willing to give us your only son,

so that we would not perish lost and in sin, Lord Jesus, I

thank you for your broken body, Lord, that was bruised and beaten beyond

recognition. Lord, by your stripes, we are healed. And Lord,

we examine ourselves right now in this moment, and we examine our hearts.

Lord. And I asked that you would show us, Lord, if there's

anything we need to confess in this moment to you, Lord, because what

we've done to the least of them, we've done unto you, Lord,

that we would observe your body with the fear of the Lord. And so

Lord right now. I asked that as we partake of the body and the

blood of Jesus, that emotional healing, that physical healing would come, Lord,

because there's healing in the intellement. Father, thank you for choosing us

to be alive in this hour, at this very moment in history. Lord.

Lord, we say yes and amen to all that's in your heart,

what you want, what you long to do in this region and with us.

Lord. So we receive your body, Lord, right now. And

I received the strength of Samson to get this. I'm gonna foil off this

one. I think super glued on. Believe all right, Thank you.

I think my hair grew out. Okay, Lord, thank you for your

blood. Father, I thank you. The gifts and callings are irrevocable.

Lord, I thank you for the land of our anointing. I thank you

for your blood that was shed, which is the cup of the New Covenant.

Lord. I thank you that we are forgiven of all of our sin

and healed of all of our diseases, Lord, because of the suffering servant,

because you were willing to empty yourself and take our place. So Lord,

we take this cup, and we do this in remembrance of you,

until you return and we do this in your kingdom with you, Lord,

thank you for your blood. Guys. To have one last thing to add

is she's still here. Yeah, one last thing. I heard that that

there's been a spirit of poverty that's been assigned to your bloodline. In fact,

I think it's actually stopped some of the things from happening that we're that

we're planned and that is being broken in the name of Jesus. And so

provision follows assignment, and there's an abundance of provision at atch to the good

works you're called to walk in, and you're gonna walk in a favor and

an abundance that your bloodline has never seen before. Yeah, okay, y'all,

bless you. So a couple of things. If you're on the prayer

team, come up. Richard's gonna come up and he's gonna pray for rain

hallelujah, and he's gonna bless the house. If you're as signed to be

back there to start doing food, that's great. And then once he's done,

if you need prayer, come up. Otherwise, we need some really

strong men to help start setting tables up. Okay, love, y'all,

you gotta put up with me, Mike, this would be a little awkward.

There you go. We need to bless our leaders. We need to

pray for our leaders. They don't operate by themselves. They operate letterly in

God's kingdom, and they need prayer, they need support. So I want

y'all put your hands out towards them right now, and I want you to

bless him. And I want to hear it. I want to hear it

like you're at a football game and you're winning in the last second. Loud.

I want to hear it with no micromone. Bless bless bless him,

louder, louder, louder, louder, louder, Mother more more, I

want to hear it. Blessings, blessing, blessing, blessing, abundance,

overflow, overflow. I want you to see overflow, Thanks overflow. While

you have your hands up, look up into the sky. Say Lord,

you have promised the early rains, the latter rains. We have not got

them. Bring him now, in the name of Jesus, release some Lord,

the water that you've stored up in the heavens. Let it flow now

up on our labs. Said forth the rain now, Lord on this land.

We are an army. We have rights. We demand our rights of

rain to come to day in Jesus name, Come now while we pray in

Jesus name. In the name of Jesus, we'd brakt this curse of this

draft over our land. In the name of Jesus, we'd rack it according

to the word of God and the power of God. We have a right

and we demand our right in the name of Jesus. Let the rains fall

now, in the name of Jesus. Thank you Lord, Thank you Lord.

Carla, come you count, run, get up here fast, come

over, say real quick, what happened last time? I right with you.

He was probably the first man that's ever held me and rocked me like

a baby. And tell him what you always wanted to be held by dad

and be rocked like a baby. What did unday and when did un pay

you? When I rocked you? That I was only the second person you've

ever rocked? No, my special girl? Did all love team? You

were perfect? Say it to him. He told me that I was special

and that I was perfect, and that he loved me and you were the

perfect gowner for me, and that I was his perfect daughter. And one

hate. You prayed and wanted all your life. You've heard Dad to caring

love me and the boy. Yeah, and to say that See, we

carry inside of us literally the spirit and the power of God to release it

to the lay atend, to break the curses over people's life. Some of

you've had curses over your life. Some have never received a blessing. When

God touched my life, the first thing he said was go to your father

and huggy. I said, well that my dad was like John Wayne kind

of you know. He broke his hand and go to the doctor, broke

his back, drove himself to the doctor and his true he never whimpered.

They never whine. But we did not hug, and we didn't say we

loved each other. And God told me point blank, he said two things,

one thing about my brother and his bloodline to break it. And I

went and told my brother, and I hated to do that, And then

I really hated to go hug my daddy. I just did not feel natural.

I mean, can y'all identify with that? It just it didn't feel

natural. I fought it for two weeks. I finally went down to hug

my daddy and I said daddy, I love you, And he looked at

me and he says, I love you. He had never said that before.

Men that grew up. He was born nineteen eleven, went through to

depression. He didn't whine, he didn't cry. He worked all the time.

He was never on poverty steps. He was never in a food life.

He worked part of the time for fifty cents a day and a cot

fifty cents a day because he could find work to do. See, you

can find if you look. So if you feel that you've never been blessed,

I want you to say in your mind, like Carla did, I

want this in my life that I feel loved? And she God loved so

rich your hand right now or stand up everyone, just hold your hands out.

This is not my blessing. This is God's blessing. This is something

that God has given to y'all. This is something God wants to smear upon

you. A blessing is like taking paint and smearing it all over your body,

all over everything, everything. Okay, In the name of Jesus Christ,

I bless you what the promises of God, which your 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 planned for you.

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

your spirit to understand, the wonders of our God. May your hands in

your feet be ever outstretched to help those. Indeed, God's grace be upon

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

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

God's grace be upon you to fulfill your dreams and all of 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 in his

mercy follow you all the days of your life. And I'll bless you.

I bless you, I bless you, I bless you in Jesus Name.

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