It's Time To Raise The Axe Head | 2 Kings 6:1-7 | Pastor Walter Bowers Jr.

God of our weary years, God of our silent tears, God who has helped us along the way.

Thank you, Lord, for your presence in this room.

Thank you, Lord, for how you use the worship and arts ministry.

Thank you, Lord, for the participation of the saints.

Now, God, we need to hear from you.

Speak, O Lord, like only you can.

Heal, like only you can, touch like only you can.

Set free like only you can.

Deliver like only you can.

And oh Lord, when you do it, we will be careful to give your name all of the glory.

We'll give your name all of the honor.

And we'll give your name all the praise.

God, I pray to come against all distractions in the name of Jesus.

No weapon formed against us shall prosper on today.

God, I pray that we listen with spiritual ears, oh Lord.

I pray that our hearts and minds are open.

We offer up unto you, Lord, this worship.

We pray that your spirit will make it excellent.

We give your name the glory, give your name to honor.

It's in the powerful name of Jesus we pray.

Let the people of God say amen, amen, amen.

To God be the glory, to God be the glory, to God be the glory.

Hallelujah.

Hallelujah.

Listen, family, there's a word from the Lord.

But I'm really, really gonna need your help today.

We have been in this series talking about we are covered for greater.

We've been talking about the fact that that means that God has anointed us, Pastor Young, and that because of the anointing, we are covered from any harm that the enemy may bring to us.

And because of the anointing, we are empowered to accomplish the will of God in the earth.

You are anointed to be successful in the place where God has planted you.

So we talked about the anointing, but today is one of those days where we have to be about the anointing.

I need your help.

I need your help.

I need your full participation, your full prayers.

Because God is trying to do something at this service.

He's trying to do something at this service, and we gotta participate.

Because the word teaches us that we can no longer just be hearers of the word, but we have to be what?

Doers of the word.

And I'm here to tell you there's some there's a whole lot of doing that's about to happen in the next few minutes.

The word of the Lord is found in 2 Kings the sixth chapter.

I'm wrapping up what God gave me about the anointing.

2 Kings the 6th chapter, verse 1 through 7.

If you're visiting with us, we're so glad to have you, you family.

Now, one of the things that we love to do is to read the word of God out loud together.

It helps it to stick.

So let's do that.

Ready?

Said, read.

One day the group of prophets came to Elisha and told him, As you can see, this place where we meet with you is too small.

Let's go down to the Jordan River where there are plenty of logs.

There we can build a new place for us to meet.

Alright, he told them, Go ahead.

Please come with us, someone suggested.

I will, he said.

So he went with them.

When they arrived at the Jordan, they began cutting down trees.

But as one of them was cutting a tree, his axe head fell into the river.

Oh, sir, he cried, it was a borrowed axe.

Where did it fall?

The man of God asked.

When he showed him the place, Elisha cut a stick and threw it into the water at that spot.

Then the axe head floated to the surface.

Elisha said, and the man reached out and grabbed it.

And I would just like to use as a sermon today that we're going to preach together under the unction of the Holy Ghost.

It's time to raise the axe head.

Yeah, tell somebody it's time to raise the axe head.

It's time to raise the axe head.

You may be seated in the presence of our Lord.

Second Kings gives us powerful narratives about the move of God in the Old Testament.

And one of the things that we see about the move of God is that God is always in the business of anointing and electing people for amazing tasks.

Elisha is the successor to Elijah.

He has been anointed by God just like you have been anointed by God to do greater.

He's been anointed by God to do greater, but he has some wisdom in him that I don't think we give him enough credit for.

When he realizes that he has been anointed and covered by God for greater, and he realizes that Elijah is about to transition, he realizes that Elijah is about to go and be with God.

Y'all, I told you something last week, and I'll say it again.

This is the season for you to realize who you are in the spirit.

This is the season for you to truly realize who you are in Jesus and be bold and loud about it.

Somebody say, be bold and loud about it.

Now, as a full disclaimer, I'm not talking to y'all who already heads are swollen already.

Not talking to you.

I'm talking to the ones who you've been hiding what God has given you.

I'm talking to the ones that you have a light, but it has been hiding under the bushel, as they would say in the King James language.

The reason is that you need to come to the forefront is because you have something that I don't have.

And today, in the midst of everything that's going on in our community, God is saying it's your time to come to the front of the line.

Somebody needs what you got.

Can you just turn to somebody early and tell them, somebody needs what you got?

Yeah, tell them the truth.

Somebody needs what you offer.

They need what you offer, they need the essence of who you are.

They really need it.

And what and what a reason I'm so proud of the wisdom of Elisha here is because he's bold enough.

Watch this.

He's bold enough to say, I understand that I'm anointed, but I see the size of the assignment.

I cannot do this by myself.

So God give me a double portion.

Yeah.

I need some anointed people in the room that's that's gonna come to the front.

Listen, if you're gonna stay in the back, you don't need double.

Matter of fact, we're gonna take what you got.

But if you're gonna be what God has called you to be and and do what God has called you to do, and you know it's a crazy dream, it's big, it's bigger than you, just go ahead and start telling the Lord right now, I need double.

Yeah, say it out loud.

Say, I need double.

Yeah, I need double.

I'll do it, God, but Lord, I need double.

I I I know I'm gifted, God, but I need a double.

You know, I know I got discernment, but can I have another scoop?

I I don't know about you, but I I Lord, I know I can preach, but if you can just take me to a higher, higher plane, I I need double.

Because I understand the assignment that's before me.

And the Lord blesses him with with double, and we start to see him operate because when God blesses you with double, there's an expectation that he's going you're going to use what he gave you.

I I can't go through everything that he did, but I need you to understand something.

He he as he's operating in double, he he goes out and God starts using him, and that's what's going to happen with you.

As you start to operate in double, God is going to start using you supernaturally.

I pray that you can receive this in Jesus' name.

Elisha goes out, and there was a water issue in Jericho.

The water had become unsafe, it had become unsanitary, it was poison.

And one of the early miracles that he did was that he he healed the the bad water by throwing salt into the spring, making it uh a pond of now living water.

God uses him in an amazing way.

You remember the story of the widow who who was out of oil.

She uh she was in the middle of a drought, she was out of oil, and and she owed a person a great debt.

And when Elisha showed up, he was the answer to the widow's unanswered prayers.

Elisha uh went with this widow and he multiplied what she had until she had more than enough.

Don't you realize the reason that God is anointing and covering you is so that you can meet somebody else's need?

Yeah, your anointing is not really about you, it's so that you could be a blessing to somebody else.

And when you take care of the Lord's business, I assure you He'll take care of yours.

I need somebody that can really testify that you put somebody before you and the thing that you was worried about, God took care of.

Do I got any witnesses in the room?

I'm here to tell you, man and woman of God, if you stop becoming self-centered and start becoming Christ-centered, the Lord declares all your needs will be supplied.

And Elisha, under the power of the anointing, he he does something that is um amazing.

And um he he has this encounter with this uh shunamite um um woman.

And y'all remember the shunamite woman, some of you do.

Um, she was a woman that was was barren.

I I always empathize with the uh Shunammite woman because I just remember when me and my wife went through that, so I could literally see what this woman was going through.

And Elisha, under his anointing, promised her a child.

And the Lord used Elisha's anointing um to grant this woman's uh deepest desire.

And then what was crazy, the moment she got blessed, the moment she had a burden because the Bible says the child died.

What do you do when you have a blessing that suddenly becomes a burden?

I want to remind you that if God gave you a blessing and it's now become a burden, that you serve a God that has the ability to finish what he started.

Elisha is sent back to the woman and and he breathes on the child and he stretches his body across the child, and what the woman thought was dead came back to life.

I need to talk to some of y'all in the room and let you know that there is an anointing on your life, that what somebody thought was dead, it's about to come back alive.

I declare that as a man of God, I declare that in faith in Jesus' name that when you're touch it, it will breathe again.

When you speak to it, it will stand up.

I thought I had some anointed people in the room that realize that the pastor is not the only one that's gifted.

Uh no, I'm a gift, and I just pray for double.

I'm about to go touch it as soon as I get home.

I'm about to send a message before I get out the parking lot because I believe there's a grace on my life to shift some stuff.

Uh do I have any people that's bold enough uh to be what God has called you to be and accept the fact that there's a grace on your life, yeah, to shift some stuff.

Uh men and women of God, uh, I'm here to tell you that's the power of the anointing that God is using you uh to shift some stuff.

Uh and Elisha, now he's going forth uh and he's been used in an amazing way by God, so much so that the Bible talks about that there was this school that was generated.

Not saying that Elisha was the author of the school, but he certainly was one of the chief staff members.

And they call it the school of the prophets.

It was the place where the people that were anointed with prophetic gifts would come in the Old Testament to gleam from one another.

Do y'all not realize that when we come to church on Sunday morning, we should be coming to worship God?

Uh, but there should be some schooling going on.

You know what I'm talking about?

My oil should come here come here, Pastor Young.

Come here, come here, come here, come here.

There should be some schooling going on.

Yeah.

See, this man of God, how long you passed it, man of God?

He passed it 20 years, and even though he ain't the pastor here, when he showed up and we in Bible study and we talk about stuff, my oil is on his oil.

That's some schooling going on.

You see what I'm saying?

See, when he first got here, one of the things that he was, him and his wife was focused on was deliverance ministry.

And at that time, that was not something I was focused on.

But when the Lord shifted me and said, you gotta get into deliverance, there was some schooling going on.

Y'all see what I'm talking about?

You gotta sit by stomach out of your church where they got some all and you got some all, and we can stool one another in the spirit.

Because there's a shift that's about to hit Charlotte, North Carolina.

There's a shift that's about to hit Joseph City, but there's gotta be a whole lot of schooling going on.

Yeah, we gotta we gotta rub up against one another.

We gotta rub elbows with the right people.

Because God is saying there's about to be a shift.

He's about to release new prophetic gifts.

There's a shift, there's new healing gifts in this house.

There's a there's a shift, there's new discerning gifts in this house.

There's a there's a shift, there's new prophetic gifts in this house.

That there's a shift.

You thought it was just a dream.

No, that's a shift that God's showing you stuff he don't see everybody else.

You didn't have the right biblical name for it, but but there's something in you.

You just gotta get in the school.

Somebody say, get in the school.

That's why we talk about you gotta come to Bible study.

That's why we talk about you gotta come to church consistently because you gotta get in the school so that we can school one another.

And they're in this school schooling one another, and they're growing in the spirit.

And then one day, somebody say, one day.

One day, as they are operating in the anointing, we arrive at 2 Kings the 6th chapter, verse 1.

The prophets came to Elisha and they said, Well, this is what happens.

As you can see, the place where we meet with you is too small.

It's a reminder of what happens when we school one another.

There is growth in the spirit realm.

I'm trying to help somebody in the spirit.

Minister True.

He's a barber in the new business.

There's another barber in here.

What happens if there's not competition, but schooling is growth for both parties.

You see what I'm talking about?

There's some people in the mental health profession, they do that for their livelihood and their business.

What happens if they start working in isolation and start working together?

There's growth.

Somebody said there's growth.

Can I tell y'all raw and real?

Um, somebody might not like it, but it's a truth.

Um, one of the things that I observed when I was practicing um law full time is that most of the dynamic black lawyers, and this is not a black or white thing, it's just, I'm just, just y'all know me, just be honest.

Most of the black lawyers in the city of Charlotte are doing amazing things.

Well, watch this real talk, we doing it individually.

I don't think it's a black law firm in Charlotte.

I could be wrong.

I don't think it's a black learning law firm in Charlotte that got more than 20 lawyers working together.

I don't think it's one in Charlotte that maybe, and I praise God for that one if it is.

I don't know.

And we're gonna go pull up.

Again, it's not a black and white thing.

I'm just talking facts.

My white sisters and brothers, some of the white sisters and brothers that I go to school, that I went to school with, I said, say dog, you gonna go out here and do your own thing.

No, me and Schmucky, James, and and Leroy, we about to get together and we about to, you know, do this thing.

And about 300 of them, and the 300 of them together made more than we make apart.

I'm trying to help somebody.

I'm trying to help somebody.

When the prophets came together, look at what the text said.

When the prophets came together and they weren't competing, when the prophets came together and it wasn't who's the best.

When the prophets came together, what happened?

The place that they was in became too small.

I want to prophesy to this house that you are about to rub all with the right people, and the place where you are is about to be too small.

Yeah, I wish y'all could receive that in our house to see it.

Help me, Lord.

The Lord is about to connect you with the right people, and it's about to blow up in Jesus' name.

So they're together now, and because they're working together, the place where they were became too small.

They are anointed and they're doing the Lord's work.

So they say, Let's go down to the Jordan River, where there are plenty of logs.

The Lord is saying to them that because you are anointed, because you are working together, because the place where you are is too small, I'm about to try transition you to the place of plenty.

Did you hear what I said?

Because there is an anointing on your life, there's an embrace on your life, that's why what killed them didn't kill you, because you're still here, and now you are showing up, and now you're rubbing elbows with the right people.

I'm about to take you to the place of plenty.

Somebody say, I'm on the way to plenty.

Yeah, that they get to the they get to this place called plenty.

They get to this place called plenty, and when they get to this place called plenty, the Lord is saying that they now they can build a new place.

To me.

Somebody said, I'm headed to plenty, and I'm about to build a new place.

Say it one more time.

I'm headed to plenty and I'm about to build a new place.

Oh, just one more time.

I feel that in the spirit.

I'm headed to plenty, and I'm about to build a new place.

You know why God is taking you to plenty, and you're about to build a new place.

Number one, he's about to do it for his glory.

But again, remember, you gotta move move from where you are because where you are is too small.

And I want to talk to some of y'all and say you're anointed, but the problem is you've been in small places long enough.

You've been surrounded by people with small conversations long enough.

You've been surrounded by people with small gossip long enough.

You've been surrounded by people in everybody's business that that's small talk long enough.

Listen, I give you free liberty.

If you're sitting by somebody in church right now, and every time you come in, they want to tell you about everything that you heard, that's small talk, you need to change seats.

You put that put that finger up.

Y'all remember back at old school church, put that finger up.

You you can tip right now.

We ain't gonna look at them.

We ain't gonna look at them.

You just tip right now because the Lord is saying, I gotta take you to this place, from this place of small, to this place of plenty, so that you can build a new place.

And there are some of you all that you have been stuck in small long enough.

And the Lord is saying he brought you to Chosen City Church to shift you because there's an anointing on your life, there's a grace on your life, but he gotta shift you from small talk, he got to shift you from small business, he got to shift you from small faith, he got to shift you from small moves.

Help me, Holy Ghost.

He says, I'm I wouldn't take you to the place of plenty to do small stuff, I'm taking you to the place of overflow because there is always provision for any vision that comes from the Lord, and the Lord has a vision for your life.

How I know because the book of Jeremiah he said, I knew you before I formed you in my your mother's womb, and I got a plan for you.

You're gonna have to go through some stuff, but I got a plan for you.

You may have to deal with some bondage, but I got a plan for you.

You may have to deal with some losses, but I got a plan for you.

You may have to cry sometime, but I got a plan for you.

You may lose friends in the journey, but I got a plan for you.

You may be misunderstood, but I got a plan for you.

You may lose faith sometimes, but I got a plan for you.

You may struggle sometimes, but I got a plan for you.

What's the plan, God?

I'm about to take you to the place of plenty so that you can build from a posture overflow.

I see God today.

I see him moving in so many of your lives today.

In Jesus' name.

So, so they go to this place of plenty.

But I want you to notice the wisdom of verse three.

Somebody yelled out loud, Elisha.

Come with us.

So he went with them.

Where God is taking you.

You gotta get out of the mentality that you can get there by yourself.

It's a dangerous, and I'm almost saying demonic mentality that you can get to where God is trying to take you by yourself.

If you've made it this far and you think you made it by yourself, you didn't, it was the grace of God.

But what I'm telling you, for the next place that you're going, you need God's grace and you need the right people.

Because they're gonna be able to see some stuff that you can't see.

I thank God for my wife because she sees stuff that I don't see.

See, I got a big mouth.

I talk a lot and stuff.

When I'm talking, I can't see.

So she just be watching.

When we get home, she says, you know, why you running your big mouth again?

Let me tell you what I saw.

Yeah, yeah.

You you ought to have some.

Both of you can't have big mouth.

Somebody, somebody gotta be watching while the other one running their big mouth.

I thank God for the seers in the room.

Because where I'm going, I can't go all by myself.

You this is this concept is overlooked in the Bible, but I need to remind you that this is spiritual warfare.

You need a battle buddy.

All my army folk can tell you that when they taught us when we were in the military, matter of fact, shout out to any military people that know what I'm talking about, throw your hands up.

They you couldn't go anywhere without a battle buddy.

Yeah, you you couldn't go anywhere without uh a battle buddy.

Battle buddies are those individuals that God assigns, and in the mid, when I say the military, uh, they are those individuals that that your commander makes you walk with because if you are not looking out for your back when because you're occupied with something else, your battle buddy is always looking.

Um briefly, I when I 2006, uh I saw the danger of isolation because I need y'all to understand the danger of isolation, because some of y'all uh y'all have taken on the mantra that uh I can do battle by myself.

And you've you've taken on the mantra that you know you know, you just gonna just do it your way and be by yourself.

And I thank God that's how you survive, but you can't thrive like that.

You gotta have faith enough to believe that God is about to send the right person who won't prey on you, who's not gonna be abusive to you, who don't want anything from you but to love you for who you are and to have your back.

When I was in the military in 2006, I'll never forget it.

Uh, we there was a checkpoint that was uh it was manned by the 101st Airborne, and and and the enemy had been watching our tactic, technique, and procedures.

I need all of my military folk to help me preach for about 30 seconds because that we need to help the other folk know what I'm talking about, because y'all know what I'm talking about.

The enemy is always watching in the natural.

Can I tell you your enemy is watching in the spirit?

The enemy sees that God is trying to take you from where you are to the place of plenty, and now he's trying to do whatever he can to make sure you don't get there.

Help me, Holy Ghost.

I remember in 2006 when I was in Iraq, there was this checkpoint man by the 101st Airport, and the enemy was watching our tactics, techniques, and procedures, and they discovered something uh that if you mess with one of us that that that that we would all uh or most of us would would pull up on the other.

In other words, they discovered that if they came to this checkpoint and they shot off a few rounds, that most of the soldiers would go tracing after the shooter and leaving one man behind.

Because the enemy is always watching how you work.

You are anointed, but the enemy's got you figured out.

Help me, Holy Ghost.

What do you do?

So so watch this.

They leave the man behind and and they do this one day.

They shoot at this checkpoint, and a half three-fourths of the soldiers go chasing after the shooter, leaving the other few soldiers back by themselves.

And then the enemy comes with a larger surprise attack.

They're able to kill one of the soldiers on the spot and kidnap the other two soldiers, and when we found them, they had taken their lives.

Summer 2006, and in the after-actions review, trying to figure out how in the world did this enemy force that was not as large as we were, the enemy force that did not have the firepower that we had, the enemy force that didn't have the budget that we have, how did they take some of America's finest soldiers and do what they did?

And y'all know what the conclusion on the report was?

Y'all know what it was, don't it?

What was the conclusion?

It happened because we left a few soldiers behind.

It happened because the commander thought that those few soldiers could hold it down by themselves.

And when the enemy showed up, since they were all by themselves, they were overwhelmed by the attack of the enemy.

I try to talk to somebody right now and say, you can't do this next season by yourself.

You cannot do it, you will be overwhelmed.

That's why God brought you into a church family because you're not called to do it by yourself.

We can't say stuff like I'm spiritual, I don't need a church.

You keep saying that until the enemy, bush your hair to the white knee.

We ain't judging you, we'll say welcome home.

Because you can't do it by yourself.

You can only get so far by yourself.

But I thought you said you're trying to get to the next place.

I heard your prayers.

I thought you said you're trying to get to the place in God you ain't never been before.

I thought you were trying to get to a place of peace that you hadn't experienced at.

And God said, I'm gonna take you there, but you can't go by yourself.

So I'm gonna ask you a question.

Who is your battle buddy in this season?

Huh?

Who's your battle buddy in this season?

Who are you connected to in this season that you know that you could tell the worst about you and they won't judge you?

Who are you connected to in this season that prays for you when you can't pray for yourself?

I don't know about you, but if you came in to the house of God today with a battle buddy, you ought to just say, I thank you for being my battle buddy.

Yeah, you ought to just rock and shake your battle buddy right now.

And guess what?

If you came in um um um without one, uh, I want to prophesy in the name of Jesus that that God is gonna send the right woman of God, that God is gonna send the right man of God.

The season of loneliness is canceled.

You won't ever be by yourself.

I prophesy this as a man of God that the right people are about to come into your life because he's taking you to the place of plenty, and you can't do it by yourself.

Somebody said, I can't do it by myself.

I thought y'all had a battle, buddy.

You better, you better thank your battle, buddy.

Give just love on you, take about 15 seconds and love on your battle, buddy.

Yeah, right there, where y'all are.

And that was wisdom because they understood, y'all, that they was in a season of expansion.

They understood God had called them to the place of plenty, and they understood that they couldn't go by themselves.

But somebody say, bud.

Oh, every time that we want to do good, evil is always precious.

They're anointed, they've been rubbing shoulders with the right people, they're in a season of prosperity and overflow.

God is taking them down to the place of plenty so they can build a new thing in his name.

But every time I want to do good, evil is always present.

They get to the place of plenty, and when they arrive, the Bible says they begin cutting down the trees.

They begin to do the work.

But as one of them was cutting a tree, that is fell into the river.

Oh sorry, he cried.

It was a borrowed axe.

I need you to understand that you have to see this story for its spiritual application.

Because what happens is that some of you say, What's the big deal about an axe head falling in the river?

You say, couldn't he just go to Lowe's?

Like, I believe they had him tax free reeking in South Carolina yesterday.

Why, why dude just can't go to Lowe's, get another axe head?

Why why he can't go to Amazon?

I guess y'all ain't shopping at Target, so he can't go there.

Why, why, why, why, why, why he just didn't go get another axe head?

From somewhere, some some somewhere else.

And the Lord said to tell chosen city church because you don't understand the value of the axe head.

You don't understand what the axe head represents.

The axe head in this Bible, in this text, represents uh dreams, it represents what he was praying for, it represents joy, it represents peace.

The axe head represents a successful marriage.

The axe head represents a home that's not broken.

The axe head represents everything that you have been praying and asking God to do, uh, and you've been waiting on God to do, and you had hope that God was gonna do it, and then you start doing the work, and then suddenly the axe head falls in the river.

The axe head represents that family member that you've been praying to get back connected to God, and they are still not connected to Him yet, and you're worried about their safety.

The axe head represents a lot.

The axe head represents the child that you've been trying to raise and praying for, but they are still in the wilderness.

The axe head represents a lot.

The axe head represents the business idea that you know came from God, and you walked on faith to do it, but you still to be profitable, and it's about three years in.

I feel the Holy Ghost, the axe head represents a lot.

Ah, the axe head represents the book that you wrote, and the publisher said that it was going to be amazing, but you hadn't seen an amazing check just yet.

The axe head represents a lot.

The axe head represents the prayers that you brought down to the altar, and you said, I'm going to believe God, but I hadn't seen the breakthrough yet.

The axe head represents a lot.

Anybody was here at the beginning of the year when we was talking about breaking barriers, uh, and there were so many of you that God broke some barriers, but there was another crowd.

You said, Pastor, I wish you had kept the board up longer, uh, because my barrier has yet to be broken.

And I thought that this axe head was gonna break the barrier, but I'm still dealing with the barrier of depression, I'm still dealing with the barrier of anxiety, I'm still dealing with the barrier of struggle, the action race represents a lot.

You thought that God was about to do a new thing in your life, uh, you had been waiting on God to do a new thing, and the new thing hadn't happened yet because the act head represents a lot.

And the crazy part is people look at you, then they don't know the value of your act head.

They don't know what's on that axe head, they don't know what you put into that axe head.

And when they see you struggling about an axe head that fell in the river, they say silly stuff to you like, what's the big deal?

They say silly stuff to you like why does it matter?

Because you don't know the value of this axe head.

You don't know what I put into this new chance, you don't know what I put into this new venture, you don't know what I put into this new opportunity.

It was just an axe to you, but to everything it was for me, it was my peace.

Somebody say you don't know the value of my access, and you gotta be careful about what's valuable to you, and the people around you don't value, they don't understand why you always crying about it.

I'm gonna tell you right now, avoid everybody that asks you crazy questions, like why you cry, because they don't know the value of it.

They don't know what they just don't know, and they cannot know unless the Holy Spirit reveals them to reveals it to them.

Don't ask me why I'm crying about it, because you don't know.

You have no idea why this is so valuable to me.

I put everything into this.

You have no idea why I'm you just don't know.

I I put my I put my whole I put everything into this.

I need to talk to somebody in the room.

I just need to get on one person's street that you put everything into it, and not an axe head is in the water, and people don't know why you cry at church every Sunday, they don't know why you pray the way that you pray because you put your axe head and the value associated with.

Every time I want to do good, evil is always present.

The Lord said to tell you right now that the man cried because he understood the value of his axe head, and he understood that it didn't even belong to him.

That some of you, God has given stewardship over the vision, the vision doesn't belong to you.

You're trying to do it, but the children don't belong to you.

Parent, the children don't belong to you, you are a steward over what God created.

What do you do?

I passed to this church, but this church doesn't belong to me.

I'm a steward over what God created.

What do you do when God has made you a steward over something and you can't handle what it is he's called you the steward?

And you feel like it falls in the water.

The Lord says it like this Don't worry, Philippians 4, verse 6 through 7.

Philippians 4:6–7

He said, Prophesy my word to his people.

Don't worry about anything.

I know the economy is shifting and businesses are up and down, but the Lord said to tell you, don't worry about anything.

The Jordan River had high currents, and the Jordan River was often murky, and the Jordan River was dangerous.

But the Lord said, Don't worry about anything.

I'm in the Bible, Philippians 4, verse 6 through 7.

Philippians 4:6–7

He said, Instead.

Somebody say, instead.

Instead means that there has gonna be a shift.

That means I have an option.

You have an option to worry, or you have an option to pray.

Don't worry about anything.

Instead, help me, Holy Ghost.

Uh, do I have any instead in the house today?

Ah, I spent too much of last week worrying.

Instead, help me, Holy Ghost.

Every time I feel worried, it's gonna be a prompting to pray.

You may be on the interstate worried about the next appointment, but I heard the Lord say, instead, you may be going to the bank, and it's not looking like you're going to be improved, but instead, you may have to go to a funeral and you're trying to understand why God allowed it to go that way.

Uh instead, you may be going through a season uh where there is sickness in your body, and the doctor report is saying one thing, and just when you are about to get concerned, instead, uh, if I could fill the room with a hundred people that say I have a instead posture that I'm not gonna worry, but instead I'm gonna pray about everything.

Uh I'm gonna pray that God blesses me and that God blesses me real good.

Uh I'm gonna pray for increase.

Uh I'm gonna pray that I'm obedient to his word.

Uh I'm gonna pray that I do what he called me to do.

I'm tired of being afraid, Elder David, instead.

And if we can have a house that's full of people that operate in the instead, oh what power we would be.

There would never be a time instead of talking about what's in the white house instead, instead of what's talking about what's going on in shit instead, instead of talking about what the doctor instead.

I don't know about you for my power, uh, it's in my ability to shift interest, interested, interested, interested.

I feel the glory.

Don't worry about nothing.

Pray about everything.

I pray for your business, I pray over your career, I pray over your concerns, I pray over your future in Jesus' name.

I told y'all I needed y'all's help.

Would y'all pray right there?

Would y'all start praying right now?

Lord have mercy.

What's your axe head?

You better start praying about the axe head.

What is it in your life that is falling down?

God said the crying season is over.

He said, You too anointed to cry every day of your life.

The Bible says this about tears.

Weeping may endure for a night.

That means that it's seasonal.

Weeping may endure for a night.

That means that it comes and it goes.

Weeping may endure for a night.

It means that I'm so glad trouble don't last always.

Weeping may endure for a night.

With the rising on the sun, my friends are with the rising on the sun, my ball, why is it?

Somebody's nice, baby, somebody's nice, baby the big low, of the holy ghost, see the sunrise, I see the sunrise, see the sunrise, see the sun rising, you've been weeping long enough, you've been going around this thing long enough, don't worry about everything.

Weeping may endure for a night, but yes, white family.

Joy Joy Coming in the morning.

Peace.

The Lord says to you, you're weeping because your hoax fell in the river.

The Lord says to you, you're weeping because it all went left.

But he doesn't want you to weep.

He doesn't want you to weep.

So the Lord doesn't want you to weep.

Listen, we are a church that believes in the couch and Christ.

Because the couch helps us to deal with our dysfunction.

But the but Christ touches where the counselor can't reach.

You need both.

It's not a competition.

That's why I'm telling y'all, we gotta stop every I I'm gonna rub shoulders with my counselor to make sure I ain't crazy when I come see y'all.

But there are some places where the Lord will move where medicine has no power.

He he and and the Lord is saying this, and I believe this in my spirit.

That the people that I serve, some of you, if this is your first day, I'm gonna give you a hook to give you a pass today.

But for the people that I serve, you've been crying too much.

I know it.

If you don't like it, your counselor will say they're there.

The past, see, we rub together.

I'm gonna say this and you're gonna feel some type of way, and the counselor help you feel better tomorrow.

But you've been crying too much.

I love you.

We've been here, I ain't gotta play with you.

You hey hey, we I love you.

We in here now, you've been crying too much.

You are you are too anointed to be doing all this doggone crying.

Do you know what it means to be anointed?

It literally means that you have been saturated with the power of the Holy Spirit, and because you have been saturated with the power of the Holy Spirit, what you crying when you can shift it for?

Why are you crying?

Anyone remember when Moses went to God crying about people?

He said, I'm tired of your people, I'm tired of this struggle.

And I came to another sea that I got across.

I'm tired, God.

And I would read Moses crying.

I said, Man, that's real talk right there.

That's real.

That brother crying for real.

Yeah, that's then I read the next verse.

Woman of God, you know what you know what you know what God said to Moses?

Because I thought God was gonna empathize with Moses.

You know what he said to him?

What are you crying to me for?

That's what he said, hurt my little feelings.

God, you must be he said, Moses, what's in your hand?

He said, I'll give you that rod.

Use what I gave you, man.

I'm trying to help somebody.

You've been crying long enough because God has anointed your hands.

You've been crying long enough, God has anointed your feet.

You've been crying long enough, God has anointed your head and your heart.

You have the ability to shift it.

Somebody said you can shift it because you need to understand something.

The text declares that the anointing that's on your life has the ability to raise any axe head.

I need you to understand something.

The man didn't have any reason to be crying about the axe head being in the water.

He didn't.

Hold on, man of God.

I'm gonna slow it down for him real good.

Good Alabama barbecue.

The man of God had no reason to be crying because of the anointing that was on his life.

Elisha said, I'm so glad.

See what happened when you bring the right people with you?

See, for a moment the man forgot that he was a prophet.

For a moment the man forgot that he was anointed.

You see why a battle buddy is so important?

Because when you forget who you are, somebody's gonna remind you of the power that you have.

Notice that Elisha didn't judge him for crying, he just said, Where did it fall?

And I want to help somebody today because there's an axe head that has extreme value.

And the Lord is saying that you gotta raise that axe head today.

There's an axe head that you have to raise today.

And the first thing that we gotta understand is we're gonna raise the axe head today, we gotta know the point where the axe head fell into the water.

Where did it fall?

Somebody say, Where did it fall?

Joe said, unpack it for you, so I will.

Gee Patterson used to say, You won't leave here like you came.

In Jesus' name.

But in order for you to raise the axe head out of the Jordan River, you gotta find the place where it fell in.

If your marriage is not going well, you gotta ask yourself the tough question in this house right now, where did it fall?

Where, where, if your if your business is not doing what it needs to do, you gotta ask yourself that hard question, God, where did it, where did it fall?

If you're not feeling like you are connected in church and doing what God has called you to do in the spirit realm, God, show me where did it, where did it, where did it fall?

Even in your health, in your natural health in your body, if you're not as healthy as God will have you to be, ask yourself, where where where where where did it fall?

You gotta ask yourself that hard question, where did I pick up this bad habit, oh God?

Where did I pick up this proclivity, oh God?

When did I start operating, stop operating in faith, and when did I start operating in fear?

You gotta ask yourself the hard question.

Everybody in the room gotta ask themselves the hard question, where did it fall?

If you agree with me that there's something that's that you weren't hoping for, looking for, you thought you were on the way to it, and now it's falling in the river.

The hard question is where did it fall?

And I've learned in the spirit realm that some of you it failed when you were a child.

It happened when you were a child.

I've also learned in the spirit realm that sometimes it's not always because of what somebody did to you, it's because of the decision that you made.

Flip Wilson was wrong, the devil didn't make you do it.

You did it.

You like the lips, the hips, and the fingertips, so you did it.

You like that S-Curl in them finger waves, so you did it.

You like how I make you feel on the inside of your veins, so guess what?

You did it.

You like how I felt in your nose, so you did it.

We gotta look at ourselves in the mirror and say, where did it fall in?

Y'all, I want y'all to say it out loud.

Say, Lord, show me where it fell in.

Show me, show me where it fell in.

Show show me where my career fell in.

Show me where the essence of me, we doing this women's conference, finding her.

The only way we're gonna find the women if we discover where they fell in.

Woman of God, where did you when did you lose the essence of who you are?

God almighty.

You gotta fall on your you gotta find a fall-in point.

The Lord says this.

You gotta find the fall-in point.

And he gave us a witness.

Anybody remember Job who lost everything?

Job in the Bible.

He lost as a part of a God using him for his glory.

He lost his health, he lost his wealth, and he lost his family.

And after a while, the helpful hints from his friends they weren't helping anymore.

And he was struggling with why such a good God would allow such a bad thing to happen.

But Job says something in one verse, Job 6, verse 24.

Job 6:24

He says this, and this verse is going to help you to find and raise your axe head.

He says, Teach me, and I will be silent.

Show me where I have been wrong.

Job was trying to discover why he had lost his family.

He was trying to figure out why he lost his wealth.

He had been listening to everybody's opinion about how he got to where he was.

And finally, he said, You know what?

Instead of listening to y'all, I'm gonna listen to him.

I want to talk to somebody in the room and say, Stop listening to everybody, listen to him.

And he says, This is what Job says, teach me.

Some of y'all aren't coachable, some of y'all are not teachable, can't help you.

It's about how you feel.

I was talking to somebody the other day, and I said, Man, what you're going through.

I gave them two things to read.

They received the first thing, and the second one, they like, yeah, no, I ain't gonna do that.

I ain't in no mood for that right now.

I said, That's why, that's why you're gonna it was my friend.

So I I I wouldn't talk to y'all like that, I wouldn't, but that was my friend.

That's that's why your gluteus maximus is gonna stay where you at.

Because you keep going by what you feel like doing.

But when you submit yourself to a real teacher, they're gonna give you instructions that may make you uncomfortable.

They're gonna give you instructions that you don't want to hear.

And then too many of y'all have been going to God saying, I'm gonna do this part, but I don't feel like doing the other.

But when you've been tired long enough and you want that axe head to raise real bad, you'll say, Teach me.

And I'll be silent.

Watch it.

I'll be silent.

He says, When we're trying to hear from God, we gotta silence the noise of social media, we gotta silence the noise of people, we gotta silence our own doubt and fears.

I want to talk to somebody in the room and say, be silent in this season, and he will teach you, teach me, and I'll be silent.

And Job says, Show me, Lord, where I have gone wrong.

I wish I had some people in the room that was bold enough to say it ain't always everybody else's fault.

Show me, God, where I could do better in this situation.

Yeah, yeah, you want to raise the axe hand, teach me, silence me, show me, yeah, yeah.

You want to raise the axe hand today?

Teach me, silence me and show me.

Let's try that one more.

If somebody today says I want to get my joy back, I want to get my family back, I want to get my help, teach me, silence me, and show me, because he can't show you until you close your mouth.

So the man answers Elisha's question: where did it fall?

And then Elisha does something amazing.

He shows Elisha the place.

Watch this.

And when he shows him the place, Elisha does something amazing.

Elisha cuts a stick.

Somebody say he cuts a stick.

Yeah, yeah, yeah, he he cuts a stick.

Now I need you to understand something.

This is what I enjoy about studying the Bible.

I said, okay, I get it.

I'm with you, God.

The axe head represents a lot of things for a lot of us.

Cool.

But you said, God, that the axe head fell in the water, but he did not lose the axe handle.

Y'all walking with me?

Man, y'all ain't walking to me.

Y'all got white collar jobs.

Y'all, y'all ain't know.

Any how many of y'all have actually ever picked up an axe before?

You don't picked up an axe.

Some of y'all.

For those that haven't, listen, a good axe actually has two parts.

It has the handle and it has the head.

I'm gonna do a callus test when we leave this.

You ain't got no calluses on your hands, you don't picked up no axe.

But it got two parts.

Now, the first part, the first part, the axe head fell in the water.

But I said, Lord, why did Elisha have to go make a cut another handle when the man only lost the head?

Y'all walking with me?

Think about it.

There's nothing that God does in the Bible that's by happenstance or coincidence.

If it's in there, you just gotta do the Bible study long enough to figure it out.

And I finally figured it out with the help of the Holy Ghost.

Watch this, Pastor Young, it blew my mind.

Just figured it out last night.

Because I said, I'm gonna skip this part if I can't figure it out, but then the Lord showed me.

Watch this, blew my mind.

Hope it blew your mind.

He said, Elisha had to cut, even though Elisha had to cut a new handle because the old handle was broken.

Listen to this carefully.

The axe head came off of the handle because the handle was broken.

And you just say, let me say it real plain so you can catch it.

If you try to go into this new season of your life, if you try to raise the axe head with the same old doggone handle that got you in trouble in the first place, it's gonna be about 15 more minutes before you back fishing in the Jordan River.

And the reality of it is the problem is that for some of us, we're anointed, we have the power to raise the axe head, but we keep trying to use the same old handle.

Y'all do stuff like instead of getting a new handle, you go and find some some duct tape.

Go find that monkey glue.

And you try to band-aid stuff that needs to be discarded.

I'm trying to help somebody.

Thank you, Pastor Keith.

I'm trying.

The Lord said to tell you like this the axe head never lost its value, but you need to go through the process of getting a new handle.

Somebody say, I need a new handle.

Yeah, you need a new handle.

What God is trying to do in your life, the Lord is trying to do a new thing, which means business owner.

Here it is, business owner.

Can I mess with you?

Because I love you now, and I'm getting older.

You know, it's true.

When you get older, you don't really care as much.

I'm not that old.

I think I'm 45.

I was born in 79.

I don't think you see, I'm getting older.

You don't care as much.

You care in a different way, right?

You care, you care in a different way.

What I mean is I don't care what comes out of my mouth, but I care about your heart so much.

So let me say it like this, real plain.

10 o'clock scribe will say it real plain.

Business owner, you're gonna stay broke until you get a new handle.

I don't care.

The the the God can bless you with a new client in the morning.

But if you don't, if you don't do business with a new handle, you're gonna be broken by as soon as that client job is done.

The Lord finna give you a new boo.

May not have a six-pack, may have three.

But the new boo is gonna have the same problems if you keep on going into the relationship with the same handle.

The Lord has blessed some of y'all with a new church.

The problem ain't the new church, the problem is you doing ministry with the same handle.

I'm just trying to help somebody.

The axe head has value, but there got to be a change in the handle.

Because the Lord is saying, look, I'm doing a new thing.

And so Elijah is required to fish with a new stick.

And what happens in the text is that Elisha now he he takes the new handle, and the Bible says that he throws it out into the water.

Me and the women of God, I'm here to tell you that what Elijah does is how it helps us understand how we're going to get what we lost from the bottom of the Jordan River and black into our place of promise.

Elijah takes it to the handle and he throws it into the water in a nutshell.

Our faith moves are the equivalent of taking handles and throwing them in the water.

I wish I had about 200 faith walkers that the Spirit of God is spoken to you today, and you know that there is something valuable in your life, but the reality of the situation is that what was valuable is now at the bottom of your Jordan River.

But I'm so glad today that He sent us a prophet by the name of Elisha and said that there's enough anointing on your life that it's time for you to raise the axe head.

Y'all, I wish I had some people that can see themselves in the spirit, and you can see God about to raise your axe head.

Yeah, I can see some joy coming back, yeah, yeah.

I see some peace coming back, yeah, yeah.

I see some hope coming back.

I see some marriages coming back.

I see bubbles arising because the axe head is coming up, yeah.

And what do we need to do to make the axe head come up?

We got to be willing to throw the handle into the water.

Yeah, I wish I had some people that don't mind being crazy with Pastor Walt and taking your Holy Ghost imagination field handle and throwing it in the water.

Yeah, yeah.

I'm throwing the handle, y'all, to somebody's marriage that's been underwater long enough.

I'm throwing the handle at somebody's health that has been diagnosed with cancer.

You've been there long enough.

I'm throwing the handle at somebody's mental health because you've been where you are long enough.

I wish I could get some handle throwers that was crazy enough to believe that if I preach my own sermon and if I throw my own handle, the things are about to shift because you don't understand what Elisha was doing at the moment.

You don't understand the power of a simple house.

Some people in the room, it was just throwing a stick in the water in the room, ha ha ha ha ha! It was Elijah throwing face point of failure I wanna tell somebody the Logia said you need to throw face at your point of failure if I can get a map 17 more people throw face at your point of failure.

The money went down, I'ma throw face I'ma point of fail, yeah.

With my children.

I'm gonna throw faith at my point of failure.

I wish I had some faith walkers.

You're gonna throw faith at your point of failure.

You can't be ashamed now to recognize the fact that you had a failure point.

But the Lord just declared there's no condemnation in Christ Jesus.

I ain't gotta be ashamed of nothing that I've gone through.

I ain't gotta be ashamed of nothing that I'll experience.

Talk about me if you want to.

Scandalize me if you must.

But I ain't got time to think about you.

I gotta throw faith, y'all, at my point of failure.

I gotta go faith, y'all, uh, at the point of failure.

I gotta throw my faith, y'all, uh, at the point where I almost took my life.

I gotta throw my faith, y'all, uh, at the point where it didn't look good.

Lord have mercy.

Uh-huh.

I wish I had some people.

Uh-huh.

It may look crazy to you.

It probably looked crazy to the prophets, uh, but you don't know that I gotta try Jesus.

You don't know.

Uh-huh.

I'm at my wit's end.

Uh-huh.

And if God don't move now, uh, it may be too late for me.

Uh-huh.

So I gotta give all I got unto the Lord.

Are y'all ready to throw faith, y'all, uh, at the point of failure?

And there's something that starts to happen when we throw faith at the fail point, uh, that starts to rise.

Uh-huh.

The text declares that the axe had started to rise.

Help me, Holy Ghost.

Uh huh.

I want to prophesy in this house.

Uh huh.

For those of you who throw the weight of your anointing and the weight of your faith at the failure point, uh-huh.

Well, once we're sunken, uh, it's about to rise.

Uh-huh.

I see it rising.

If you see it rising, uh-huh.

Tell God I see it rising.

Uh huh.

Tell God you see it turning.

Tell God you see it shifting.

Uh huh.

Don't lie to him now.

But if you got faith enough, uh, say, Lord, I see it getting better.

Lord, I see it turning around.

Lord, I see victory.

Lord, I see breakthrough.

Uh-huh.

I walk by faith and not by sight.

I believe in you, God.

I'm expecting great things.

Look, good God Almighty.

Uh-huh.

Somebody say it's rising.

Somebody say it's rising.

Yeah, somebody say it's rising.

Somebody say it's rising.

Somebody say it's rising.

Somebody say it's rising.

Right there.

Somebody say it's rising.

That's prophetic.

It's rising.

Yeah.

It's rising.

It's rising.

Somebody say it's rising.

Yeah.

I told you I need your help now.

Somebody say it's rising.

Yeah.

I need your help real bad.

Say it's rising.

If you ain't got faith for yourself, huh?

Do you got faith for your neighbor?

Tell your neighbor it's rising.

Yeah.

Tell him it's rising.

Yeah.

Tell him it's rising.

Yeah.

Tell them the axe head is coming up.

Tell them it's rising.

Yeah.

Tell him it's rising.

It's rising.

As it rises.

The text says, watch this.

The text says that as it rolls to the top, there's something powerful that has to happen.

As God brings the axe head back to the top.

From the sunken place.

I declare that somebody's coming out of the sunken place.

As the axe head comes out of the sunken place.

Hey, hey, hey, I feel it, Pastor.

Somebody's coming out of the sunken place.

Hey, hey.

He says in verse 7.

I've raised the axe hand for you.

Y'all see verse 7?

There's an instruction in verse 7.

Good God on body.

It ain't enough for you to just raise the axe hand.

The Lord says you gotta be bold enough to grab it.

I need somebody to grab your future.

I need somebody to grab your breakthrough.

I need somebody to grab your deliverance.

I can't be passive about it.

I gotta grab it.

Somebody grab it.

Say I'm grabbing it.

I'm grabbing it.

I'm grabbing it.

I'm grabbing everything that God got for me.

Say I'm grabbing it.

I'm grabbing it.

I'm grabbing my happiness.

I'm grabbing my restoration.

I'm grabbing it.

I'm grabbing it.

I'm grabbing it.

I'll tell you this and we're done.

The man grabs the axe here.

And if you read the text, they shift and go back to ministry.

This is important.

Because you need to understand why God took them through this process.

He raised the axe hair.

He restores the axe.

Because there was more work for them to do.

And I'm here to tell you as a man of God, I know you're about to see victory.

Because there is more work for you to do.

God does not restore people to put them where they were.

He restores them to take them higher than they've ever been.

And the Lord is about to restore you.

Thank God for the restoration that's coming in this house today.

But you just gotta be faithful enough to grab it.

Oh my god, there's a imitation that's about to be on the floor.

That's gonna allow some of you to grab your action.

How do I grab the action?

How is your relationship with God today?

Is your relationship where he would have it to be?

How is your relationship with God today?

How you can make it a church.

How is your relationship with God today?

How is your relationship with God today?

You just gotta grab it.

I just gotta grab it.

I just gotta grab what I need.

I can't even grab it.

Because the Lord says it is to a song.

He says faithfulness of God.

He says this.

The song says, I'm reaping the harvest.

God promised me.

It's personal.

Taking back everything.

Somebody say everything.

I'm taking back everything that he stole from me.

And I rejoice, not tomorrow, but I rejoice when.

Today, you know why?

Because I shall recover it all.

I need some people that say I didn't come to church to be cute.

I came to recover it all.

I came to get my stuff back.

I came to get my peace back.

I came to recover it all.

Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah.

The altar is open.

We're gonna sing this song.

If you need to come to this altar, for some coming to the altar, that's like you throwing your stick in the water.

You just come to the altar.

You just pray to God.

Whatever you need to do, recover, recover.

For some of you coming to the altar, that's your grab.

That's your recovery move.

Hallelujah.

Show faithful.

Faithful, faithful, faithful, faithful.

Recover, come grab it, come grab it, come grab it, come grab it, come grab it.

So feature Shake back will say I'm back.

Oh yeah.

I shall recover.

I shall be covering.

I shall rejoice.

I shall recover it.

Sing holy.

Holy holy.

Holy is our God.

Sing holy.

Sing holy.

Sing holy.

Holy.

Holy.

Holy is our God.

Holy single.

Sing holy.

Holy shit.

Just grab it.

Just grab it.

Just grab it.

I'm a reappear.

And I'm taking back that button.

And I rejoice.

Today.

I shall rebuy the shall we join.

Oh, Saint Jesus.

Jesus.

Jesus is our God.

Saint Jesus.

Jesus.

Jesus is I got King Saka.

Saint Jesus.

Jesus.

Jesus is I got King Star God.

Oh, Saint Jesus.

Jesus.

Jesus is I got in our God.

And I'm taking back that.

Stay right now.

Say that I'm reaping.

I'm breathing the heart and stop.

We're gonna stay down for a minute, loud.

Everybody, everybody, I'm repeating, I'm reaping the harvest up, and I'm taking back what the right down, stay right down.

I'm reaping the All the ladies in the room, I need to hear on this episode.

All the ladies in the room, here we go, ladies.

Every last one of you, here we go, here we go.

Yeah, yeah, yeah.

Take that button, again, ladies, come on.

I'm reaping the harvest up.

Yeah, come on, come on.

Every lady in the room, every lady in the room.

One more time, ladies, one more time, ladies.

Come on.

I'm reaping the harvest.

Oh yeah, oh yeah.

Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah.

Take back one today.

Oh my god.

Oh my god.

I'm reaping the harvest, I promise.

Take back one today.

Fellas, fellas, fellas, fellas, fellas.

Here we go, fellas.

I'm reaping the harvest, I promise.

Every man in the room, take back what the devil stole from me.

Come on, fellas, come on, fellas.

I'm reaping the harvest, God promise me.

No music, God what the devil's come on, fellas, come on, fellas.

I'm reaping the harvest, God promised me.

Take back what the devil stole from me.

I'm reaping the harvest, God promised me.

Take back what the devil, everybody, everybody.

I'm reaping the harvest, God promises.

I'm reaping my promise, God promises.

And I'm taking take back what the devil stole back with the take with the devils, you can have my take back with the devil, I'm taking back what the devil I'm taking back with the devil.

I'm taking back back with the devil.

I'm taking back back with the devil.

I'm taking back with the devil.

I'm taking back back with the devil.

And I rejoice I rejoice Put your hands together.

Rejoice in the Lord always.

And again, I say rejoice.

Thanks be unto God who always causes us to triumph.

And I rejoice.

Thanks be unto God who gives us the victory.

We can rejoice today.

And I rejoice And I rejoice, and I rejoice, and I rejoice, and I rejoice For I shall recover it all.

Why don't you give our great God a shout of praise?

I feel the glory in the room.

I feel the glory in the room.

Hallelujah.

I feel the glory in the room.

I see the axe head rising.

I feel the glory in the room.

You just got it back.

I feel the glory in the room.

Somebody at the altar, the Lord said, You just got it back.

You just got it back.

You just got it back.

You just got it back.

I feel the glory in the room.

I feel the glory in the room.

You just got it back.

We walk by faith and not by sight.

I feel the glory in the room.

You just got it back.

You just got it back.

You just got it back.

You just got it back.

Hey.

Hey.

Hey.

I'm sorry.

My X had been underwater a long time.

My X had been underwater a long time.

I'm sorry, I gotta praise you.

Somebody axe has been underwater a long time.

We're going out from here.

I think it's for you.

Hey, listen, family.

We can do two things under this throw of the Holy Ghost.

We ain't even gotta slow it down.

Some of you get it back, you need a church home.

I want you to be unashamed.

Throw both of your hands in the aisle as a posture of surrender to God.

And come give God a yes.

We celebrate.

Some of you may be in the aisle.

Come on, y'all.

Let's celebrate some people.

Walk with them.

I believe in God for greater today in Jesus' name.

You needed a church home, and the Lord just spoke to you.

Calm down the aisle.

Just give them a yes.

Say, my answer will be yes.

Welcome them to the family.

Y'all reel, welcome to the family.

Y'all make the environment welcome and the people will respond.

Y'all welcome them to the family.

Say, welcome to the family.

They getting it back.

Say, welcome to the family.

Say welcome to the family.

Say, welcome home, fam.

Welcome them to the family.

Check on your neighbor and say, hey, you got a church on check on them, check on them right there when they are.

Yeah, right there.

When the devil says no.

Say welcome to the family.