The Truth About Mary | Luke 1:45 | Pastor Walter Bowers Jr. | Chosen City Church

In the spirit of the living God, have your way in this space, touch like only you can, speak like only you can.

Thank you, master, for the deliverance that's in this house.

Thank you, god, for the transformation that's in this house and, oh Lord, we didn't come for ordinary today.

I just pray that you continue to do the extraordinary.

Lord, we'll be careful to give your name all the glory.

Amen, praise For us.

In the powerful and undisputed 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 to God, be the glory.

Amen.

Listen, family, there's a word from the Lord this morning, found in Luke, the first chapter.

We're reading just one verse.

Our objective is clear for us to read the word of God out loud so that you can recall what God said to you throughout the week.

Y'all ready, let's read, ready, set, read.

You are blessed because you believe that the Lord would do what he said.

Amen, amen, Amen.

And I would just like to use as a sermon topic today the truth about Mary.

The truth about Mary.

You may be seated in the presence of our Lord.

Mary, the mother of Jesus, is one of the most important human beings in all of human history.

It would be a mistake for me to say that she is important just for biblical history, because the truth of the matter is is that when God makes a move, it is not just for the believer, it is not just for the believer, it's for Lottie, dottie and everybody, for those that don't even understand that God is moving on their behalf because he loves them.

I want you to know that what God is going to do through you is not just for the people that you like, it's not just for the people that you love, it's not just for the people that go to church.

It's God saying I want to do an impact and it's going to come through the very work of your hands.

I pray that you could receive that early in the sermon.

What's interesting about Mary is that when God gets ready to do this amazing, unique work alike that has never been done before and has not been done since, he elects an individual that most of society would overlook even till today.

The truth of the matter is that she was, uh, not from the right zip code.

She was from, uh, the the hillside, a ghetto, galilee, andan, and she was not from the right zip code.

The truth of the matter is that she was actually what we would refer to as a single mother, because she wasn't even married at the time that God elected her.

Shout out to all of the single moms in the room Get ready, because God is going to use you tremendously.

It's interesting because she didn't have any political connections, she didn't have any money, she didn't have any resources, but when God decides to make a move, he's not looking for those things.

Have y'all ever heard that saying?

I enjoy it that God does not call the equip, but he does what.

He equips the ones that he calls.

And I want to talk to some people in the room and say stop being afraid just because you're not equipped.

God will equip you if you simply give him a yes.

Mary is an interesting figure that God would choose in a time where women were looked at as lesser than we understand historically.

This was the time where women, a woman's worth, was found either in her husband and if she didn't have a husband, it was found in her brother.

It was such an issue that when Jesus came into the earth, he preached about taking care of the widows not because they were in, not not because of their lack of intellect, not because they were in not not because of their lack of intellect, but because society had put a stronghold and wouldn't allow women to be who they were called and equipped and destined to be.

And so he was like man.

Y'all can't put a stronghold on the women and then not take care of them.

But I'm so glad that women represent a group of people that when they're the stronghold and when there is opposition, our God has a way.

Mary is in this posture and I believe that the more that we look at Mary's story year by year, we learn a lot about Mary.

Mary said there are some truths that if you learn about her, that will ultimately be a blessing unto you.

One of the things that we learn from Mary is that how do you get to a pot, a spot in life where God can select you, when you are really not worthy of being selected?

How do you get to that place?

We come to church all the time and we say God is going to select certain people to do certain things.

You said that's good, but how do I get on that list?

Who do I email?

Who do I?

Who do I text.

Who do I tweet?

I mean, what do I what, what?

What?

I line that I know what.

I've given out the government cheese.

But I'm trying to get in the line where God is electing folk to do something supernatural.

How do you get in that line?

Mary says there are some things that I can help you with to get in that line.

One of the things that Mary helps us understand first is posture.

Everybody say posture.

The first thing that we learn about Mary is that Mary's posture allowed her to be used supernaturally by God.

Luke 1, verse 26 and 27 say in the sixth month of Elizabeth's pregnancy, god sent the angel Gabriel to Nazareth, a village in Galilee, to a virgin named Mary.

Luke 1:26

She was engaged to be married to a man named Joseph, a descendant of King David.

Again, everybody say posture, posture.

It had already been declared prophetically that God had a plan for salvation when we failed the test of freedom.

The first prophecy of salvation, of coming through a savior, is actually found in Genesis, the third chapter, around verse 15 and 16.

God had already established a plan for salvation and he talked about the fact that, because this plan was so powerful that he would come to the rescue himself, but he would be born into the earth as a human, but he would have to do it through the seed, through his own seed, because mankind's seed had become corrupt.

Mankind's seed had become corrupt when Adam sinned.

That's why we all fall short, because it's in my nature, that's why the songwriter had it right, for real, he.

He had more theology than y'all give him credit for when he said that my mind is telling me no that, but my body, my body, is telling me, yes, he actually had it right, because there is something in our nature that every time I want to do good, evil is always present.

Can we be real today?

So God says, because of what's in human nature, I have to send a seed that is without blemish, without, without, that has not fallen to be the salvation of the world.

But it has to come through a virgin woman.

Everybody say posture.

What do you mean by that?

What I mean is Mary didn't realize it, but the fact that she was a virgin, the fact that she had not yet known a man, put her in up the right posture to be used by God in a supernatural way.

Had Mary fallen to the temptations of life?

We don't know how old Mary is.

Some have said that she could have been as young as 12.

Others say maybe early 20s.

We don't know how old Mary was, but I can tell you, when I was 19 years old I was nobody's Mary.

I can tell you, when I was 19 years old, that was a dark time for my life.

And so here is this young lady that has more in her than most of us could ever imagine.

But she had to be dealing with the temptations of life, like all of us.

Perhaps when Mr Joseph came home, they're betrothed, they're engaged and he's like, when it's cold outside, girl, who are you holding?

She's like no baby, you play too much.

Go on now.

You know the wedding ain't time for all of that.

And maybe Mary had a moment of temptation.

But aren't you glad that Mary passed the test?

Because the truth of the matter is that I want to talk to some of you all in the room and let you know that the way that you get in the line for God to use you in a supernatural way is that you have to be postured in a way that other people are not postured.

I'm speaking globally.

I'm using Mary's virginity as an example to a bigger issue, if that makes sense.

I'm using just this biblical example to try to help you to ask yourself the question are you in the right posture?

One of the things Mary did not do is she did not conform to the ways of society.

Society would have said now, mary, before you, before you you buy that car, you better take it on a test drive.

They see, some of y'all finished my my sentence before I could even say it, because you ain't trying to buy no car that don't operate.

Amen somebody.

But but mary didn't conform to the ways of the world.

And and again, I'm really not talking about that.

I'm talking about your life.

I'm I'm really trying to get you to say is is there an area in your life the Holy Spirit said there is an area in your life where you are conforming and you're no longer in the posture that God can use you in a supernatural way In this season?

Stop trying to be like everybody else.

Stop trying to do what everybody else does.

God has postured you specifically so he can use you in ways that other people have not been used before.

You're the only one that survived the diagnosis that you survived, and there was a reason for that.

You're the only one that survived the type of abuse that you survived.

There was a reason for that.

We have to be the right people to say you know what?

I want God to use me so bad.

I'm willing to repent if I'm not in the right posture.

Repent means is a five dollar church word.

It means to turn around.

Somebody say turn around it means I look at my life and I realize God loves me and he he's still using me somewhat, but for him to use me on the level that I, that I desire.

I'm talking to the folks that desire to be used by God, because if you don't desire to be used by your God, then keep on keeping on.

But I'm talking to the folk that say I'm looking for the line where God can use me in ways that's going to change the community, going to use me in ways that's going to change politics.

That's going to use me in ways that's going to change politics.

That's going to use me in ways that's going to change lending practices.

That's going to use me in ways that's going to shift the entire game.

God is saying those type of people need to turn around and make sure you're in the right posture.

What does that mean?

That means that, being in the right posture, I no longer may be able to do what you do.

Being in the right posture, I no longer may be able to do what you do.

Being in the right posture, I may no longer be able to go where you go.

I'm not better than you, but I'm just trying to posture myself for a miracle.

Anybody else in the room say I want to be postured for a miracle.

I want to be postured for a breakthrough.

I'm not going to no longer look at my circumstance or situation as a liability.

I'm going to look at it as a posture.

There's somebody in the room You've been looking at all year of what God and you've been going through as a liability.

But the Holy Ghost just said this you are in the right posture.

Can somebody praise God for that?

Now I'm in the posture for God to do something supernatural.

Mary's posture allowed her to be used supernaturally by God, but then the truth about Mary is that Mary also had to learn that favor doesn't always feel favorable.

Luke 1, verse 28 and 29, gabriel appeared to her.

Luke 1:28

Now Gabriel is a messenger.

He's an angel.

When we see the word angel in the Bible, it literally means messenger, and so when God has a word for you.

Sometimes he will in fact send a messenger, a preacher, a pastor, a prophet, a Sunday school teacher or, whatever the case may be, grandma, who knew the word sometime a messenger.

So he sends this messenger because he does not want her to miss the message.

And what's the message?

He says greetings, favored woman of God.

The Lord is with you.

That sound good, don't it?

What happens is, is that that's what we want to shout?

That's where you wanted me to end the sermon right there.

You want to say the sermon title of the day is I'm favored, won't he do it?

Key me up, chris, and we go home and eat collard greens.

But the reality is you've got to keep on reading in this season.

Somebody said keep on reading.

Angel came to her and told her she was favored, but in verse twenty nine, look at her response.

The verse says that she is confused and disturbed Y'all.

It's one thing to be confused, but to be confused and disturbed, that's a bad day.

Mary tried to think what the angel could mean, and I want to talk to somebody to help you understand why Mary was favored and what it means.

Mary was favored not because of Mary.

She was favored because God elected her.

Can I tell you in this room that you are favored because God elected you.

That's why we go by 1 Peter, 2 and 9, which reminds us that we are what A chosen generation.

We are a royal priesthood.

You are favored because what killed somebody else did not kill you.

You are favored because God allowed you to be here this morning.

You are favored because the best is yet to come, but sometimes the reality is is when we are favored by God, sometimes we won't understand the assignment and when we don't understand the assignment, we run the risk of abandoning the assignment.

Can I talk to some favored people in the room and tell you don't abandon the favor that's on your life because you are confused and disturbed.

What do you mean, pastor Walt?

The reality of being favored by God is that God has elected you to do something that is bigger than you, it is bold, bolder than you, it costs more money than you have, it requires more hookups than you know, it requires doors to be open that you didn't even know existed and it's going to cost you something.

Somebody say favor is going to cost you something.

Yeah, we sing about favor, but they forgot to tell you that it's going to cost you something.

You understand that when God favors your life, everything that you knew about your current climate is about to shift.

When God favors your life, the way that you had your life set up is about to change.

Can I give you a personal example of that?

When I was in the military, I was a captain in the army and I had the potential, just like every other young officer, to continue to grow in the ranks.

Matter of fact, based on my year group, I would have at least been a colonel by now, if not further, had I stayed with that.

But God favored me.

Somebody say favored me.

It was in that moment where God, in my deployment, said that I have something greater for your life, because the definition of favor is really not stuff, it's the fact that I connect to the call that is on my life.

And I was like Mary.

I was confused and disturbed because I had a career path that I had path out.

But somebody said God favored me.

Uh, then I come and I and I decide to to go to law school.

My middle brother is a is an attorney, and we were both in Iraq at the same time.

He worked for the defense intelligence agency and I was a army captain.

You talking about a praying mama and daddy, we over there sending my, my mama, pictures from from from Iraq, talking about turned down for what she said Lord, keep my foolish children they over here taking selfies in a war zone.

But I'm so glad my mama prayed, uh.

But.

But, but my middle brother, he goes, and he goes to law school and he said, hey, man, yeah, you ought to do this next man.

I'm like I'm not thinking about it, but he does it and I can't let the middle brother outdo me.

So I decided to go to, uh, law school as well.

But somebody said God favored me.

What that meant was is that, while this is a good career, this may not be God's career.

Uh-oh, now, favor, don't feel so good, because I saw the check that my brother was getting.

I saw the check that I was able to produce from my own business.

But now that I'm favored God, are you suggesting that I may have to go down before I go up?

Are you suggesting that my life is not my own?

Are you suggesting I may have to give up some stuff?

Are you suggesting that I may have to go through some stuff.

Are you suggesting I may have to ask for an extension and payment of time?

Are you suggesting that I'm going to have to lose some friends time?

Are you suggesting that I'm going to have to lose some friends?

Are you suggesting that when I'm favored, every now and then it does not feel good?

But I want to talk to somebody in the room and let you know, don't quit just because you don't understand the favor that's on your life.

I want to say that one more time Don't quit just because you don't understand the favor that's on your life.

Too many times we don't understand God's process and we quit in the middle of it.

We got to deal with trifling folks.

Y'all used to ever in North Carolina we leave trifling Just call it how you trifling folk.

And in the middle of dealing with trifling people sometimes you want to quit.

But the Lord told me to tell you prophetically don't quit because you are favored.

And sometimes you got to go down a little bit.

It feels like down anyway, don't it?

Can I be real?

Anybody want to be honest.

It feels like down for a minute.

It it feels like down when you feel lonely.

It it feels like down when you're losing money.

But sometimes we have to go down on the way to where God is calling us to be, because sometimes in the middle of it we feel confused and disturbed.

But the Lord is saying don't quit when you don't understand.

Mary's posture allowed her to be used supernaturally by God.

Mary learned that favor doesn't always feel favorable.

But Mary was also advised, because favor doesn't always feel favorable.

Mary was advised not to mismanage the moment.

Luke 1, verse 30 through 33 here's what Gabriel says to her.

Luke 1:30–33

Don't be afraid, mary.

It's because the angel could sense her confusion and disturbing disturbed spirit.

Can I talk to somebody?

Disturbed spirit?

You know what God has called you to do and I need to tell you.

Uh, I want to make that declaration right here.

Don't be afraid.

Can you, can y'all help me today?

I need some other folks with some holy ghost.

I got holy ghost, you got holy ghost.

Can you turn to somebody right now and, just with all the holy ghost you got, just tell them, don't be afraid.

Can you tell them, yes, you ain't got to yell it, because sometimes our holy ghost, they just whisper a little bit.

But you need to tell them right there, don't.

Don't be afraid, because if I'm afraid I may mismanage the moment gabriel says don't be afraid, for you have found favor with god.

He said it a second time uh, perhaps because she didn't receive it to first time.

And what God will do is he'll reveal just a little bit of the plan to keep you keeping on.

He says, mary, you will conceive and give birth to a son and you will name him Jesus.

He will be very great and will be called son of the most high.

The Lord.

God will give him the throne of his ancestor, david, and he will reign over Israel forever.

His kingdom will never end.

Can I tell you what happens?

We mismanage moments when we start to operate in fear in comparison to operating to what was declared.

I want to talk to somebody and let you know that when I am favored and it means that God has elected me it means that God has called me, it means that God has elected me.

It means that God has called me.

It means that God has decided to use the authority that is within him and his clarion call on my life shall come to pass.

And because I believe it's going to come to pass, because God said it and the word of God is clear, that the word of God as it proceeds from his mouth will never return unto him.

What family?

It will never return unto him, void.

I, I'm so glad I got a bible reading church.

Do y'all know what it means when God's word will not return to him void?

Now, uh, some of you are uh from the other generation where you went down to the uh, to Kmart.

Yeah, it was about the time of Kmart.

You went down to Kmart and you tried to um purchase something and and you wrote a, a check, and they put it in that little system, you know, to see if you had wrote a bad check before, and that cashier gave you that look like.

Now you know you.

Now you know maybe I'm the only one that that been there.

Your check was void because you wrote a check that you know what Couldn't cash, boy, because you wrote a check that you know what Couldn't cash.

But I'm so glad.

I'm so glad that God declared that when I write a check, when it proceeds from my mouth, he said, my word shall not return to me void.

Oh, you ought to get happy.

That means that if God has decreed and declared something over my life, it shall come to pass.

So our mandate, then, is not to mismanage the moment.

The enemy's objective is to make you feel like it's taking God too long.

It make you feel like it's not going to happen for you, and I just want to talk to somebody and say don't mismanage this.

Please.

Don't mismanage this.

God saw you.

God understood your strength and your weaknesses when he called you, so don't let that be an excuse.

God know what you were good at.

He knew what you were bad at before you got in the position.

So stop looking down on yourself.

God knew who was for you and who was against you when he called your name before you were born.

God knew what was in your bank account when he elected you.

God knew all of that, and so all I'm saying is don't mismanage the moment.

Mary helps us.

She said Mary's posture allowed her to be used supernaturally by God.

Mary learned that favor doesn't always feel favorable.

Mary was advised not to mismanage the moment and not to operate in fear.

How did Mary get to the point where she didn't operate in fear?

How did she get to that point where she didn't mismanage moments, that she didn't mismanage movements?

Can I be real?

I'm going on, but, man, I look at my life and some of the biggest regret that I have, pastor Chris, is that I mismanaged moments, and anybody else in the room want to be honest.

I woke up the other day and said, man, while I've never had that check you know that check that we all been praying for when I look at the money that I have brought in in my life, I'd be like man, I mismanaged some moments.

Can we gonna be real?

Can we be real?

And then I look at relationships, sometimes just gonna be honest, we mismanaged some moments, didn't we?

Uh, and, and that's, that's life.

And so god is saying I'm not done with you yet, even though you mismanaged moments in the last season.

He this sermon is not to talk about last season.

He said let's talk about what I'm about to do in 24 and beyond.

He said, nah, nah, nah, it's cool, I knew you was going to mismanage this one.

All I'm declaring is don't mismanage the next one.

Turn to somebody and say don't mismanage the next one.

Stop focusing on last year, start talking about last time.

God is about to give you another opportunity.

God is about to give you another open door.

God is about to send it your way.

I need about 75 people that can receive that by faith and say this time, god, I'm not going to mismanage, it's coming my way.

So the Bible, the Bible helps us to not mismanage moments.

Because Mary watch what Mary learned next.

The truth about Mary is Mary is just like us.

She was susceptible to mismanaging the moment, was susceptible to mismanaging the moment, but look what Mary learned.

Mary learned to live in the foreshadowing of the Holy Spirit.

Mary asked but how can this happen?

I am a virgin.

Mary reminds us of the importance of asking questions, as it relates to your understanding of what God is doing.

It's so critical that we dig a little bit deeper in this season of our life.

She said how can this happen in the natural?

I'm a virgin and an angel replied the Holy Spirit will come upon you and the power of the Most High will overshadow you.

So the baby to be born will be holy and he will be called the Son of God.

There is a Greek word for overshadow that brings me great joy.

It's the verb epikazo.

I'm reading straight from a biblical dictionary, if you will, the best way to describe it, and it says the verb epikazo is used in the New Testament to describe the act of overshadowing or casting a shadow.

It conveys a sense of divine presence or influence, often indicating a protective or powerful covering.

This term is used to describe moments when God's presence is tangibly felt or manifested, often in miraculous or significant events.

Y'all walking with me in miraculous or significant events, y'all walking with me.

Uh, I'm gonna read it one more time, because that was for your understanding and this one is for your celebration.

The verb epikazo is used in the new testament to describe the, an act of overshadowing.

So, in a nutshell, god is covering mary.

And what does it mean it?

It means that m had divine presence.

That means she would feel God's Shekinah glory with her, that she would get up in the morning and know that God was there when people were questioning her call.

She would know that God was there.

She know that God would be influencing her decision making, that God would be influencing her thoughts.

And not only that.

When the enemy would come up against Mary, the text declares that it meant that God's protection would be there.

Somebody in the room is like Mary.

He's overshadowing you, his presence is with you, he's influencing your thoughts, he's ordering your steps.

And I got some good news now you are protected.

Somebody say I am protected.

Don't worry about what they say, don't worry about what they do, don't worry about how they feel, don't worry about social media.

Your calling is protected.

And it's amazing word when we look at epikazo.

The epi suggests that God's presence is upon us, but the kazo talks about a shadowing.

And when I dug a little bit deeper I said I had to look at every time that epikazo was used in the bible.

And I got excited because it says the only time that epikazo is used in the bible to talk about the holy spirit overshadowing somebody's life, it is in a situation where god's immutable plan will come to pass.

Now, what is god's immutable plan?

It means that god's perfect will for a situation shall come to pass.

Now, to understand God's perfect will, you got to understand that God has something that we refer to, to understand God as his permissive will.

Permissive will is why we have stealing and killing and robbing in our community, because God didn't dictate that, but because we are made in his image, but because we are his sons and his daughters, you can do whatever you want to do.

That's why you can leave here today and smoke it in the parking lot if you want to.

You can drink it when you get home.

If you feel like it, you can put it in your nose if that's what your bag is and God has said I ain't got nothing to do to it, but I allow it to happen.

God's permissive will is all right, because some of us smoked it, we drank it, we smelt it, we laid with it, we did all kind of stuff with it and he still blessed our life.

I thought I'd have a crowd in here that don't mind being real.

Today I did what I wanted to do, but God's permissive will kept me when I couldn't keep myself.

But God is saying chosen city, it's time to grow up.

Now Somebody say it's time to grow up.

He said you've gotten to the point in your journey where what he permits ain't good enough.

You don't want to operate in his permissive will anymore.

You have gotten to the point where you want to operate in his perfect will.

You see, there are some assignments that we can't deviate from.

The assignment on Mary's life was so great she couldn't mess it up.

She had to do it perfectly in order for it to last generation after generation.

I declare that what God is about to do in your life this time is going to last from generation to generation.

I declare that what God is about to do in your life this time is going to last from generation to generation.

The curse is broken right now, in the name of Jesus.

The stronghold just got snapped right now.

In the name of Jesus, you won't be the only one to start a business.

You won't be the only one to have a successful marriage.

You won't be the only one who can survive.

In the name of Jesus, it just got broken because you decided and I'm gonna operate in this perfect will, because when I operate in his perfect will, I'm not perfect.

But the Bible declares that the steps of a good man are ordered by the Lord.

Do I have any folk in the house that say God, I want you to order my steps?

Mary says if you want to experience a supernatural move of God, all it takes is for you to submit yourself to his perfect will.

Many women of God the truth about Mary.

Mary's posture allowed her to be used supernaturally by God.

Mary learned that favor doesn't always feel favorable.

Mary was advised not to mismanage the moment.

Mary learned to live in the foreshadowing of the Holy Ghost.

Mary next had to learn that because of what God was wanting to do was so great on her life, mary had to learn that she was not alone.

It's amazing, because when God gets ready to do something, god's size in your life it's bigger than you.

There's never been a God-sized move that's been done in isolation.

When God's get ready to do what he's about to do next in this season of your life, it cannot be done alone.

I'm not suggesting that there are not moments where we don't feel lonely, I'm not suggesting there are not moments where it's just me and God in a room, but I'm saying in the totality of it, at the end of the day, the Lord is saying you can't do this by yourself.

So now Mary gets to the point where she realizes that she was not alone.

Mary is surrounded by at least four individuals.

First, she's surrounded by an individual by the name of Zachariah.

Now, what's cool about Zachariah is that Zachariah had an encounter with Gabriel before Mary ever did.

Zachariah was in the temple working and had been praying for his own family and wanted his own increase and wanted his own child and his own wife was barren.

And God sent this same Gabriel to Zachariah and said Zachariah, I got news for you you are about to give birth.

You see, I told y'all that y'all some of y'all miss out on.

Y'all shout at women's conferences when they talk about giving birth, because you already check out.

You said they ain't talking about this pregnancy stuff.

They can't be talking about me, dog, I don't, I don't get down like that because that women's stuff right there.

But I need some men that can get excited in the delivery room.

See, I was shouting for my wife go, baby go.

I can't do what you do, don't want to do what you do, but I am pulling for you from this side of the curtain, baby, because if I peep over there I might pass out.

I want to talk to some fellas in the room.

Zachariah's in the room.

You ought to be just as excited about the birth process.

Do I have any Zachariah's in the room that's excited about the birth process?

Yeah, I see some real fellas in the room that's excited because you is just a part of this thing as she is, because without you it ain't happening.

Captain, you got a zacharias in the room.

Zacharias spoke to gabriel about.

Gabriel spoke to zacharias about what was about to be birth, and the bible says that initially zacharias didn't believe, and so the angel shut Zacharias' mouth and he was mute until it came to pass.

And I want to talk to some people in the room and say the reason that you have become spiritually mute is because you don't believe God at his word.

It's going to come to pass and God is going to do it.

But when we don't believe God, it has an impact on our assignment.

So Mary is surrounded by Zachariah and Zachariah has a testimony that this Gabriel that showed up in your life, he is who he claims to be.

But I'm so glad that the Bible teaches something about witness statements in the Bible.

To make something true in the Old Testament, according to the law, it took at least two witnesses.

Zachariah was a witness that that that that Gabriel was not lying.

He was testifying as it relates to what Mary was going to produce, and then he had his wife Elizabeth.

Elizabeth was the one that was carrying a baby that was prophesied by Gabriel.

It's amazing now that Mary discovers that there are two people in her life that have had the same encounter that she has had, and I want to talk to somebody in the room and let you know that there are two people in your life at least that have had the same encounter that you have.

I'm gonna go bolder than that.

There are these two people in this church that have had the same experience that you had.

Can I heal the church today, as Jesus would allow?

The reason you keep encountering the wounded folk in church?

Because I have to tell you, if you're looking for a church that don't have wounds, that one is up there in the throne room.

You got to cross over to River Jordan to get to that one, but every last rest, all the rest of them, got wounded folk all around you.

They're good people but they're wounded.

And the reason you keep going to church and keep encountering the wounded folk is because God don't want you to have an encounter with your Zachariah and your Elizabeth.

The wounded folk that you encounter in your family, the wounded folk that you encounter in church, the wounded folk that you encounter on your job, are the ones that's going to tell you that you done lost your mind.

They'll be the ones where you go to them and say pray for me.

I had an angel come by and an angel said that I'm going to have a baby.

And they look down and they see that you're pregnant and they say I'm going to have a baby and they look down and they see that you're pregnant and they say I'm going to pray for you, but they go straight to Instagram.

I don't know what these folks be talking about, how she going to come up here talking about she pregnant ain't never been with no man.

If you know, you know those ought to be the ones to tell everybody your business.

And too many times we give up on God because we don't have a conversation with Zachariah and Elizabeth.

We're talking to everybody that got something to say about the dream.

We're talking to everybody that don't believe in the impossible.

We're talking to everybody that got an opinion but they ain't going to move no furniture.

We're talking to everybody that got a commentary but they ain't going to donate no way.

We talking to everybody, but I believe, by faith, that there are two witnesses in the house today.

As a matter of fact, if I was you on my way out the door, I wouldn't leave until I encounter two witnesses that can testify that they had a similar experience.

I need two witnesses now that can testify that there is life after divorce.

I need two witnesses that can testify that the gods will still give birth after the miscarriage.

I need two witnesses that can testify that you can beat that rare form of cancer.

I need two witnesses that can testify that anxiety and depression can be defeated.

I need two witnesses that can testify that you can find love again.

I need two witnesses that can testify that after chapter 7 bankruptcy, god has favored you in the financial realm.

Well, I need some witnesses in the house, because God is saying that you need to be surrounded by some folk that have been through what you've been through and seen a little bit of what you have seen, to encourage you to keep on keeping on.

She's surrounded by Zachariah.

She's surrounded by Elizabeth, but there's somebody else on the scene.

It's that baby that we talked about last week.

Elizabeth was carrying a baby by the name of John, and what's so beautiful about what Elizabeth was carrying?

I said it last week and I think it's worthy of saying it again.

I know that I'm surrounded by the right Zacharias and Elizabeth, because the Bible says that when Elizabeth got into the presence of Mary, that the promise that was inside of her belly started to dance and to jump and to leap for the promise that was inside her cousin's belly.

And I know that I'm around the right people when I can celebrate not necessarily what's in me, but I can celebrate what God is doing in you.

That's why I ain't got to be jealous about what God is doing over there.

I've learned to leap for what God is doing over there.

I've learned to dance for what God is doing over there.

I've learned to dance for what God is doing over there Because I know what he's doing over there.

After a while he's going to do it over here.

I need to check the room now.

I need some people that can celebrate God for what he's doing over there.

You sitting by up there, I bet you won't talk to him right now and say what is God doing in your life?

What are you expecting God to do?

What are you believing God for?

I can't fix it, but I can celebrate God because I heard God say he's about to do it.

I wish I had some preachers in the house.

Everybody in the house today is a preacher.

Turn to the there that is sitting right next to you.

Ask him what is God doing?

Because we're about to celebrate what God is doing over there.

We're about to get excited about what God is doing over there.

I'm about to leap for what God is doing over there.

I'm about to leap for what God is doing over there.

I'm about to leap for what God is doing at Union Church in Concord.

I'm a leap for what God is doing for Elevation Church around the way.

I'm a leap for what God is doing for the church around the corner.

I'm a leap for what God is doing at Good Shepherd Church.

I'm a leap for what God is doing at Kingdom Fellowship, ame.

I'm a leap for what God is doing at Kingdom Fellowship AME.

I'm a leap for what God is doing at the Potter's House.

I'm a leap for what God is doing in the life of Bishop SY Young, because after a while, somebody say, after a while, after a while, the same God that's moving over there, good God, almighty.

I'm a leap for the person that just bought a house.

I'm a leap for the person that just got married.

Can somebody say after a while, good God Almighty, I'm a leap for what you're doing in your children's life, haha.

So what are you doing in your children life?

Haha?

I'm a leap, haha, that your child got out of prison, haha.

But somebody say, after a while, haha, good God, almighty.

Haha.

I need some folks that can leap haha for what God is doing over there, cause in about five minutes, haha, he's about to do it here.

Haha, somebody say he's about to do it here.

He's about to do it here.

He's about to do it here.

Good God, almighty, men and women of God, listen now let's not keep it too long.

I want you to remember this and we're going out of our way.

Mary's posture allowed her to be used supernaturally by God.

Okay, mary learned that favor doesn't always feel favorable.

Mary was advised not to mismanage the moments.

Mary learned to live in the foreshadowing of the Holy Ghost and Mary learned that she was not alone.

And the last thing that I'm gonna leave you with family and I believe it's the most important thing, the last thing that I'm going to leave you with family, and I believe it's the most important thing, the last thing that I'm going to leave you with family is the evidence of whether or not you've received the word that I've had to say today.

The last thing about Mary is the truth of the matter is that it took some time for Mary to accept what God was trying to do in her life.

I want to talk to somebody in the room and help you to understand that.

It took some time but after a while Mary embraced that it was going to happen.

I want to talk to somebody right now and say I know it has been taking you some time, but the Lord has brought you here today because he's saying that it's in time for you to embrace that it's about to happen.

It's one thing for me to decree and to declare, but it's a whole nother conversation when you actually embrace it.

And that's the problem today.

We want declaration but we don't want to embrace what was declared.

We want miracle signs and wonders but we won't do what God has said we got to do.

Because when I embrace God's word, I'm going to be obedient to what he said.

When I embrace what God has declared for my life, my schedule is going to shift.

When I embrace what God has declared for my life, my schedule is going to shift.

When I embrace what God got for my life, all of a sudden I'm going to do life different.

Look at Mary as Elizabeth began to prophesy to her own cousin.

I wish I had some people in the room that don't wait to get to church to prophesy.

You'll prophesy to your cousin.

You'll prophesy to your cousin.

You'll prophesy to your brothers.

You'll prophesy to your spouse.

Elizabeth didn't prophesy to her cousin.

She said hey, cuz I want to tell you something.

In verse 45, that's a cousin prophesying to another cousin.

She said, hey, cuz you are blessed because you believed that the Lord, god, would do what he said.

Ooh-wee Mary.

You're not blessed because you married the right man.

You're not blessed because you did life the right way.

You're not blessed because of who you are, mary.

You are blessed simply because you believed.

Now some people in the room that want to be blessed and God is saying I have no problem blessing you.

I'm just waiting on you to believe, because I know you don't believe when your actions speak louder than your words.

What was Mary's action, y'all, that put the world on notice that she embraced what God had declared over her life?

That was one thing that Mary did.

Mary went into a posture of worship.

Listen, I'm here to tell you something.

The moment that you embrace that there's a call on your life, you can't help but to have a spontaneous moment of worship.

You may not have Chris, marcus, brandon or Brandon, but it'll be you and the Holy Ghost.

I ain't going to lie to you.

When I was in Iraq, y'all and I embraced the call on my life.

We lived in these little cans when we was deployed.

I was in there all by myself.

But I remember having a Donnie McCurkin DVD and it was his live worship from London.

Some of y'all have heard it before.

That was my jam when I was in Iraq and the moment I embraced that there was a call on my life, I didn't watch Andy Griffith that night.

I didn't watch Smallville that night.

I didn't watch the other little movies I had.

That night I turned on my Donnie McCurkin because I had to go into worship.

Because the true reality is the moment you embrace that there has been a shift in the atmosphere and there is a greater assignment on your life, you'll stop whatever you're doing.

You might pull over on the side of the road, you might pull over in aisle seven in the grocery store, because the moment you realize that God sees you, you're going to have a sudden worship attack.

Do I have any witnesses in the room?

Maybe I'm the only one in the room that's been there when I saw God see me.

That's what will bring worship out.

When I saw God saw me Little old me down here.

Little old me, that messed up Little old me that made bad choices.

When I saw God see me, when nobody else could see me, worship broke out right there in our rack.

Oh, I wonder what would happen if I could get 300 people in this room to see God see you and for you to embrace the assignment that's on your life.

We'll have a worship like we never had before, because it won't be about the sound, it'll be about the fact that you just had an encounter.

Now watch Mary.

Now, when Mary has an encounter, look at what she says in the Bible.

She suddenly doesn't stop.

She stops talking to Elizabeth, she stops talking to Zachariah, she stops talking to baby John.

Because when I have an encounter with God, I got to talk to the one that saw me when I couldn't see myself.

Mary declared oh, how my soul praises the Lord, how my spirit rejoices in God, my Savior Mary.

Why do you praise like you do, mary?

Why you cry like you cry, mary?

Why you wave your hand, mary?

Why you tap your feet?

Verse 48 gives us an answer, for he took notice of his lowly servant and from now on, all generations will call me blessed.

I know what they called you last year, but I heard the Lord say the next time they call your name, they're going to only be able to call you blessed.

They may not like it that you're blessed, but they're going to have to acknowledge that you're blessed.

They're going to have to acknowledge that God saw you when nobody else saw you.

Mary goes on now because my God, mary, has a theology.

She says for the mighty one is holy.

He has done great things for me.

I need some people in the room that don't mind worshiping God Simply because he is God, that don't mind worshiping God, not for his stuff, but simply because he's set aside from all the craziness of this world.

She said you ought to worship him now because he is holy.

And she said I'm worshiping like this, but it's because he's done great things for me.

He brought me out of Galilee all the way down to Jerusalem to give birth to the Savior of the world.

He's done great things for me and I wish I could pull the room and I need about 85 of y'all that can testify.

When you look back over your life and everything that he's brought you over, when you look back over your life and everything that he's brought you through, when you look back over your life and the stuff he's brought you through.

When you look back over your life and the stuff that you survived the last 30 days, surely, surely, surely, he's worthy of our praise.

That's what Mary said.

Not only is he worthy because of the favor, he's worthy because of his mercy.

Now, favor is what I get.

That's unmerited.

It's a gift that I didn't deserve.

But Mary started to shout.

Mary must have been Pentecostal.

Mary started to shout.

Perhaps she had a little apostolic in her.

Mary started to shout.

Maybe she was Baptist and had three points and a poem.

I don't quite know.

But she started to shout about the mercy of the Lord.

Now, you may not understand mercy.

Mercy is the fact that I did do the crime.

Mercy is the fact that I did in fact cheat.

Mercy is the fact that I did in fact lie.

Mercy is the fact that I didn't take care of my family.

Mercy is the fact that I didn't take care of my family.

But God, in the midst of my mess up, he has rescued my life.

So I have some people in the room that say I messed up, but he rescued my life.

I did the crime, but Jesus did the time.

Do I have any witnesses in the house that can celebrate God for his goodness and his mercy, and Mary goes into a praise speech.

She begins to talk about how marvelous her God has been.

And that's what I want us to do, family to think about every mountain that he's brought us over, for every trial he brought us through, for every blessing.

We say hallelujah For this God.

We give you praise.

Now wait a minute y'all, I want y'all to observe Mary's praise because it's going to help some of y'all to pray Now.

Mary is praising for a child that has not yet been born.

Mary is praising before he would heal the blind.

Mary is praising Jesus before he would ever walk on water.

Mary is praising Jesus before he healed the woman with the issue of blood.

Mary is praising Jesus before he brings Lazarus with the issue of blood.

Mary is praising Jesus before he brings Lazarus out of the grave.

Mary is praising Jesus before he saved the life of a thief on the cross.

Mary is praising Jesus before he calls his disciples.

Mary is praising Jesus before he preaches in the temple.

Mary is praising Jesus before he does any miracle signs and wonders, because Mary said I'm trying to help the people at Chosen City Church to understand the moment that I embraced that God had a call on my life.

The moment that I embraced that God had a call on my life.

The moment that I embraced that, since God said it, it was going to come to pass.

I didn't have to wait on him to be born.

I didn't have to wait on him to walk on water.

I have gotten to the place of my worship that I worship on expectation.

While he was in my womb I knew one day he'd rescue me, so I can praise off of that.

While I was waiting for him to be delivered, I know one day he'd forgive me, so I can praise off of that.

I need some people in the room.

You need to embrace what God has said and the evidence that you embraced it Is found in your worship.

Not found in the fact that it's fixed, not found in the fact that it's worked out, but you're found in the fact that it's been decreed and declared.

So I need some people in the room to understand.

It's been decreed and declared your life is about to get better.

It's been decreed and declared there's going to be a shift in your finances.

It's been decreed and declared there's going to be a shift in your finances.

It's been decreed and declared your family going to come back together.

It's been decreed and declared.

Don't worry about the legal proceeding.

It's been decreed and declared.

God has heard your cry.

The challenge is everybody can't receive it.

But for those that can receive it, everybody can receive it.

But for those that can receive it, the evidence is your worship, and I need everybody in the room that, even though you ain't seen it yet, your worship will be evidence that you're getting ready for it.

Your worship will be evidence that you believe in God for it.

Your worship will be evidence that you're getting ready for a miracle.

I got to change my schedule.

Now I'm getting ready for a miracle.

I got to change my schedule.

Now I'm getting ready for a miracle.

I got to call you back.

I'm getting ready for a breakthrough.

I can't go to every party.

My God is about to show up.

Excuse me now.

I ain't trying to be funny.

I'm making room for what I pray for.

I ain't trying to be cute, but I'm just getting ready because it's about to come to pass and I wish I had about 17 workers that don't mind worshiping because you're about to get ready.

You're in the right place.

You're just like me.

I'm going to praise him when you don't understand it.

I'm going to praise him when you talk about me.

I'm going to praise him when it don't make sense to you.

I'm going to praise him when you talk about me.

I'm a praise him when it don't make sense to you.

I'm a praise him when it's never been done before.

I wish I had some praises in the house.

I'm a praise him because I got expectations.

I'm a praise him in this season of expectations.

I came to church today expecting somebody's miracle.

I came to church today expecting somebody's miracle.

I came to church today expecting somebody's deliverance.

I came to church today watching a marriage come back together.

I came to church today watching God shake it up.

Now, if God has spoken to you, I need you to be a witness.

You ain't never stood up before, you ain't never got it out before, but if you know, like I know, then you can see what I see and you feel God is moving in your situation.

I dare you to be bold.

I dare you to meet me right here.

I dare you to be bold.

I dare you to meet me right here If God has spoke to the situation and you feel like it's about to turn around.

If God has spoke to the situation, you and you feel like it's about to turn around.

If God has spoke to the situation, you praise it in the voice first.

I bet you want to be bold.

I bet you want to high-five the preacher.

I want to declare it that if you're bold, he'll worship you.

I want to declare it if he's bold, he's going to shift it.

If you're bold, he's going to change it.

If you're bold, he's going to deliver you.

If you bold, he gonna flip you.

I bet you won't be bold.

I'm looking for bold saints.

I bet you won't be bold.

I bet you won't be bold.

I'm no longer a saint and now I gotta walk bold.

I gotta walk in pregnant and they gonna look at me crazy.

I don't care if you don't understand, but I gotta be bold.

Do I got some bold folk in the room?

I don't care if you don't see it, I gotta be bold.

I gotta walk my walk.

I gotta talk my talk.

I gotta dance my dance.

I gotta pray my prayer Because God is doing it.

I wish I had some help in here.

God is doing it.

Ooh wee.

God is doing it.

God is doing it.

God is doing it.

God is doing it.

You thought I'm talking about tomorrow.

I just spoke to the Lord.

I said I'm doing it in the sanctuary, I'm doing it right now.

He said all they got to do is pray in the light of the air and pray.

I bet you won't be bold.

I bet you won't be bold.

I bet you won't be bold.

I bet you won't be bold.

I bet you won't be bold.

I bet you won't be bold.

I bet you won't be bold.

I bet you won't be bold.

I'm from the 90s.

They used to say I bet you won't get crunk, but crunk couldn't stay.

In my family they used to say I bet you won't get crunk, but crunk was temporary.

But if I go to the phone room bold, my whole life will change.

I bet you won't be bold.

I bet you won't be bold.

I bet you won't praise God.

I bet you won't be bold.

I bet y'all won't believe God for a miracle right now.

I bet you won't believe bold.

I bet y'all won't believe God for a miracle right now.

I bet you won't believe God for a breakthrough right now.

Oh, not tomorrow.

God we bold.

We've come to the throne of grace with expectation.

We bold.

We've come to the throne of grace looking for a miracle.

We bold Now all of the bold sites in the room.

I'm going to give you about 30 seconds to talk to God boldly about whatever it is that you need Him to do.

I'm going to give you about 30 seconds to talk to God boldly about whatever it is you need Him to do.

You hear what I said we ain't playing with it.

Sometimes boldness is on our knees.

Sometimes you're bending down in your chair, but we're coming bold right now.

Yeah, we're coming bold.

Hallelujah, Hallelujah, hallelujah.

Chris and Marcus, y'all shift them to a worshipful place and then we'll celebrate.

Y'all shift them to a worshipful place.

That's it, because now, they being bold, they being bold, now your boldness is warfare.

I can't play this church thing no more.

I got to be bold.

I'm imperfect, but I'm bold.

If you couldn't make it to the altar, you can kneel at your seat.

If you're bold enough, you can kneel at your seat.

If you're bold enough, you can kneel at your seat.

If you're bold enough, you can kneel at your seat.

If you're bold enough, you can get to the altar.

You can kneel in the hallway.

If you're on social media, you can stop where you are.

His glory is here.

His glory is here.

His glory is here.

I feel him in the room.

I feel the glory of the Lord.

There's a song that just simply declares here comes the glory of the Lord, sweeping in the room.

He's sweeping in the room.

I believe he's sweeping in the homes at home.

This is a season of expectation.

This is a season of expectation.

This is a season of boldness.

It's a season of crying out to God.

It's a season for us to say, god, we need you like never before.

Yeah, yeah, thank you, jesus.

Lord, we are boldly here this time.

We thank you for the covering.

Yeah, here comes the glory of the Lord.

Yeah, hallelujah, here comes the glory of the Lord.

That means that God is entering your situation.

He's sweeping in the room.

The room is your heart, the room is your mind.

He's sweeping in the room.

The room is your heart, the room is your mind.

He's sweeping in the room.

And when the glory sweeps in old stuff got to come out, when the glory sweeps in trash has to come out, when the glory sweeps in proclivities have to leave, here comes the glory of the Lord.

Here comes the glory of the Lord, sweeping, sweeping, sweeping from the Lord, sweeping in the room, sweeping in the room.

Here comes the glory of the Lord into your heart.

Here comes the glory of the Lord into your marriage.

Here comes the glory of the Lord into your mind and he sweeps, he sweeps.

Hey, thank you for the sweeps.

Sweep through here, god, sweep through here, god Please, god, please, god.

Sweep through here, god, sweep through the pulpit first, god.

Sweep through me, god, sweep through me, god, so I don't be a distraction.

Sweep through my family.

Sweep through, swe, god, so I don't be a distraction.

Sweep through my family.

Sweep through, sweep in the room, sweep in the room.

Here comes the glory, sweeping, sweeping, sweeping, sweeping.

Sweep us out, god, sweep us out, god, sweep us out, god, sweep us out, god, I'm tired of doubting you, god.

I'm tired of struggling.

God, I'm tired of doubting you, god.

I'm tired of struggling, god, I'm tired of being frustrated.

God, sweep, lord, sweep, god, sweep, sweep, sweep, sweep, sweep, sweep, sweep, sweep, sweep, sweep, sweep, sweep, sweep, sweep, god.

When you find anything that's not like you, god, sweep it out, god and feel those boys.

God, sweep it out, god Until I think differently.

Sweep it out, god until I'm healed from what hurt me.

Sweep it out, god, until we learn to operate as a team.

Sweep it out, god, until we become who you called us to be.

Sweep in the room.

Sweep in the room.

Sweep in the room, yes, yes, as the Holy Spirit is sweeping in the room, speak to him.

God, listen, for some of you all that are being obedient, the Holy Spirit is now speaking to you in fresh ways and I want to let you know.

It's not too late.

You have nothing to fear.

You've tried everything.

I dare you to be humble enough to bow before the Lord.

You ain't got to make it to the altar, just bow your head, just bow before the Lord.

Now, god, they are bowing and they are being obedient.

You show yourself mighty.

You speak to your children.

God, you speak to your children.

You speak to your children.

Yeah, he's speaking to you now.

Now, you just need to be obedient.

Write it down whatever the Lord is saying to you when you leave, before you leave, write it down.

Write it down.

He's speaking.

He's speaking.

Write it down.

Write it down.

Write a date.

Write the time.

Write it down.

Yeah, yeah, yeah, the glory is sweeping.

Yeah, write it down.

Write it down, write it down.

He's speaking about all of it.

He's speaking about all of it.

Thank you, lord.

Oh, that's his sweet spirit.

I need my intercessors to come against all distractions right now, in the name of Jesus.

God trying to speak to somebody and the enemy wants to distract them.

We won't be distracted by smart devices.

We won't be distracted by people moving.

We won't be distracted right now because somebody's life is on the line.

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

All the people that work in evangelism, y'all start praying for souls.

Salvation, y'all start praying for souls.

Yeah, women's ministry cover the women.

Men's ministry cover the men.

Somebody in the scene for our youth ministry?

Be specific in these prayers.

Pastor Keith, if you're in the room, I want you to start interceding out loud for the finances of the church and the church's people.

Start interceding in that area.

Just start praying.

Yeah, just pray, praying, yeah, just pray out loud.

If I call you to pray, I want you to pray out loud.

I want you to pray out loud.

Minister Linda, I want you to start praying for marriages right now, in the name of Jesus.

I want you to start praying for them.

Hallelujah, hallelujah.

Sister Brianna, I want you to start praying for all young adults in the room.

Yeah, just start praying out loud.

Just start praying out loud.

Start praying out loud.

Elder Jay, I want you to start praying for all of the singles in the room.

Just start praying out loud.

Just start praying out loud.

Deacon S Bailey, if you're still here, or, if not, deacon Kim Bailey Jones.

Start praying for all the seniors in the room.

Just start praying.

Start praying.

Deacon Aaron Galloway.

Start praying for healing, because your family knows healing in a supernatural way.

So you start interceding.

Stand up, put the media stuff down, just start praying for people's healing.

His family knows healing in a supernatural way.

See, you stand up, put the media stuff down, just start praying for people's healing.

His family knows healing in a supernatural way.

Start what you're doing and just pray for that.

That's what the glory sweeping through looks like.

Yeah, yeah, y'all pray out loud now.

Y'all pray out loud.

But all the other ministers in the room there are so many categories and stuff Y'all start praying as the Holy Spirit gives you utterance.

Pastor Young, pray for deliverance.

Pray as the Holy Spirit gives you utterance.

It's sweet in here, see, sometimes the Spirit is calm.

See, y'all feel what I feel.

I feel a sweet spirit.

I feel a sweet spirit.

I feel a sweet spirit.

I feel a sweet spirit.

I feel a sweet spirit.

I need somebody I need about ten of y'all to start praying for unity.

See, we don't know each other as good as we need to.

We got to be unified.

I need folks that have been wishing that we'd be more unified to start praying for unity in the body Unity.

Somebody just start declaring for unity in the body Unity.

Somebody just start declaring unity yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah.

I'm going to pray this prayer and then I'm going to extend the invitation and we're going to be out of here.

God, it's on my heart to pray for a filling of the Holy Spirit.

We believe, father, god, that the Bible teaches that when we get saved, that is the work of the Holy Spirit, and if we don't have the Holy Spirit, we're not saved.

So I pray for salvation and the work of the Holy Spirit, and if we don't have the Holy Spirit, we're not saved.

So I pray for salvation and the work of the Holy Spirit in salvation.

But, god, we got to be filled.

We got to be filled to the point that we operate in your perfect will.

Mary was filled with the Holy Ghost.

So I'm praying that you fill those that have a desire to be filled in their head, in their heart, in their mind.

No religious talk, but a real feeling.

God.

Fill us, god.

Fill us God.

Some were filled but they got empty because of life.

But fill us God.

If you fill us God, everything else will take care of itself.

I pray right now in the name of Jesus.

I pray for an Acts 2, pentecost type feeling for everybody, under the sound of my voice.

I pray for a fresh wind.

God, I want to be filled.

God, I want to be made over.

I want to be filled.

God, I want to be transformed as a father.

I want to be transformed as a husband.

I want to be transformed as a pastor.

I want to be transformed as a community leader.

I want to be transformed as a pastor.

I want to be transformed as a community leader.

I want to be filled.

I don't want to do it permissively, I want to do it perfectly.

I pray that every educator in this room is filled, every business owner is filled.

God, I pray every husband, every wife, every single person, every child.

I pray for a fresh feeling.

God, fill us, god Till we walk out of here with power.

Fill us, god, until the people we encounter after we leave here are going to say something got a hope to you today and they got filled with the Holy Ghost.

Fill God until they have power.

Fill God until they have joy.

Fill God until they have peace.

Fill God until there's restoration.

Fill God until there's restoration.

Feel God until there's healing.

Feel God until we hear your voice like never before.

Fill us up, god, until there is overflow.

We want to run over, we want to run over, we want to run over.

Shift us right there, chris.

Fill us up, god until I overflow.

Fill me up, god.

Shift us right there.

Fill us up, god till I overflow.

Feel me up, god.

Shift us right there.

There you go, marcus.

Fill us up right there.

Brandi, fill me up till I overflow.

I want to run over.

Change that music right there.

Fill me up till I overflow.

That's it right there Now, under the overflow.

Under the overflow, I need some people to give God a yes today, under the overflow of the Holy Spirit.

If you don't have a church home, we always leave with that, because you can't do this thing by yourself.

If you don't have a church home.

True, come, stand with me, man of God.

I'm so proud of this young brother.

He's one of a few deacons in training that'll be starting soon.

If you don't have a church home, under the overflow, under the feeling, allow the Holy Spirit to guide you to this church family, walk with me in true right here in the aisle.

If you need to rededicate your life to God now, the overflow is here.

But somebody sitting next to you may need help.

So ask the person next to you do you have a church home?

Ask them, have you been baptized?

Ask, ask them have they been in confession of faith?

Ask them if they need to re-dedicate their life.

The overflow is here and I know there's some souls that need to get God's hand.

Hallelujah, the overflow is here.

The overflow is here.

Somebody needs to get God's hand.

Let's celebrate God right here.

Hallelujah, hallelujah.

The overflow is here.

The overflow is here.

Somebody need to come down again.

Let's celebrate God right here.

Hallelujah, hallelujah, hallelujah.

God is already moving.

She just opened the door for the next folks to come on.

I need some of my elders on that side to come back.

Come on, come on, come on and somebody else Check on the person next to you From the overflow.

Give God a yes From the overflow.

Give God a yes From the overflow.

You've been doing life by yourself long enough.

You need a home and a church home to celebrate God, hallelujah.

Come on, y'all, let's lift up a sound.

People are giving God a yes.

Come on from the overflow, give God a yes.

It's the overflow that's going to give you the power to give God a yes today.

Come on from the overflow, from the overflow, from the overflow.

Give God a yes today.

Yeah, everybody.

Come on from the overflow, from the overflow.

Give god a yesterday.

Yeah, everybody.

From the overflow.

Somebody.

Give god a yes from the overflow, overflow.

Thank you for the call that's on his life.

Touch him, touch his water, use him.

God.

Might of God.

Your hand has been on him for a long time.

Let him know how much you care about his God.

Use him in a great way From the overflow.

Somebody just gave God a yes.

Y'all celebrate.

We didn't come for no one.

I'm not trying to keep you long on purpose, but, from the overflow, give God a yes From the overflow.

Give God a yes From the overflow.

Give God a yes From the overflow.

Give God a yes.

God bless you, man.

God bless you, sir, from the overflow.

Give God a yes From the overflow.

Give God a yes.

Let there be a shame on every fear.

Everything before you, everything before you.

Yeah, come on from the overflow, from the overflow, from the overflow, from the overflow.

Give God a yes.

Give God a yes From the overflow, from the overflow, from the overflow, from the overflow, from the overflow.

Yeah, hallelujah.

This is how we're going home today.

This is how we're going home today.

I'm going to pray.

They're going to minister for just a little bit longer, because some of you may need to alter, some of you may need to give God a yes, but I'm about to give us our benediction and then whatever happens next is between you and the Holy Ghost.

Can we celebrate what God has already started today, but he ain't done.

He ain't done.

Can we also celebrate God for the several new partners online, that partner today, but he's not done?

I'm going to pray.

I'm going to try to teach you something you may or may not believe.

There are sometimes moves of God that are hard to put into words and I told y'all earlier don't mismanage the moment.

I'm not interested in keeping you here any longer than we need to, because that's why we get a bit addiction.

But my, my objective is that you won't leave here like it came.

So if you need about 30 more seconds when I give this prayer, but you and God, it's a moment, it's a move.

The Holy Spirit is moving in this space.

I know the presence of the Holy Ghost and these other people can testify.

They feel God's presence.

So when God is moving like this, this is your opportunity for a breakthrough.

It's an opportunity for you to get it.

Don't let the enemy rush you out.

Don't let distractions, don't let this, that and the other.

This ain't ordinary worship.

This is God answering our prayer for an extraordinary day.

I'm going to pray and then Brandon's going to give us one more selection, and it's the Holy Spirit.

I need all of my elders to come down here who are not.

Some of them are in the back and deacons that are not on duty back there.

I want y'all to just be here.

You ain't got to bother anybody.

You just stand here on duty in case somebody comes to the altar, in case somebody says I need to get a church home.

I need to get a church home.

I need to get baptized, whatever may happen in the overflow, whatever may happen in the after party.

I want y'all to just be right here.

Y'all come right now.

Y'all just stand right here and y'all look at them so they know y'all, y'all just stand here and wait on them, because what happened in now is between them and God.

But I want them to know that y'all ready for them if they decide to move.

Father, in the name of Jesus, we thank you for this day.

We thank you for this worship.

Now, god, as we shift into this little moment of overflow, some people will be transitioning home filled with the Holy Ghost.

Some people will need to stay for a minute.

Whatever's happening, god, I pray that you're with us.

I pray that this week is powerful.

I pray that we finish some stuff this week.

I pray that we get some rest this week.

I pray that we hear from you this week.

I pray that you move this week.

God, I thank you for the souls that responded and I thank you because I believe in the spirit that there are a few more.

God, we're careful today to give your name all the glory, give your name all the honor, give your name all the praise for what's in the powerful and undisputed name of jesus, we pray.

Let the people of god say together amen, amen, amen.

You are officially dismissed to god.

Be the glory to god.

Be the glory to god.

Be the glory.

Now, brandy, just I don't care what it is, whatever's on your heart, just give them about a good two minutes of that and I believe, by faith, somebody else gonna get their life to the Lord.

As you're ministering, because you're going to hear from God and you're going to sing whatever you hear from God, and when you sing that and the praise tape back you up, somebody else going to give their life to the Lord.

May God bless you.

May God keep you.

God bless, go in peace, amen.