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Who Told You That? | Pastor Jesse Jernigan | 7.5.26 (Sermon)

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  1. But I'm going to tell you something. I

  2. feel like preaching this morning.

  3. Anybody ready to receive the word?

  4. >> Listen. I don't know. This message may

  5. not be for anybody else, but I'm fixing

  6. to preach myself happy in this place

  7. because I believe God's going to do

  8. something incredible and something

  9. great. I What What key you in, bro? I

  10. don't even know. A flat. That sounds

  11. like a Holy Ghost key right there. I

  12. like that. Can we just raise our hands

  13. to he all over the house?

  14. Because all my life you have been

  15. faithful.

  16. Oh, all my life you have been so so

  17. good.

  18. With every breath that I am able,

  19. I will sing

  20. of the goodness. Can we raise our hands

  21. to heaven and sing that? I feel the

  22. glory of the Lord in the house. Say,

  23. and all my life you have been faithful.

  24. And all my life you have been so so

  25. good.

  26. Every breath, every breath that I am

  27. made. Come on, shout it. I will sing. I

  28. will sing

  29. of the goodness

  30. of God.

  31. Sing it out.

  32. And all my life you have been faithful.

  33. Come on, anybody feel that way this

  34. morning? Come on, tell him. Say, and all

  35. my life you have been so, so good.

  36. With every breath that I am able,

  37. I will sing.

  38. Come on, feel that in the house. Can we

  39. throw our hands up to the Lord and sing

  40. it one more time? Oh,

  41. in all my life you have.

  42. >> Come on. He hadn't found us yet. All my

  43. life.

  44. All my life you have been so

  45. good. With every presence I

  46. can sing,

  47. >> I will sing.

  48. I will sing.

  49. I will sing. Yes, I will. I will sing

  50. of the good. Can we shout it one more

  51. time? I will sing. I will sing.

  52. I will sing

  53. of the goodness

  54. of God.

  55. Come on. Can we give him a clap? Clap

  56. and shout for his goodness and his

  57. mercy.

  58. Hallelujah.

  59. Come on, grab your Bibles, jump to your

  60. feet if you're not already there. I

  61. promise you, I'm going to read one

  62. scripture and I'm going to let you sit

  63. down and then we're going to see what

  64. the Lord wants to do in our hearts and

  65. our lives. If you're ready for the word,

  66. shout it on.

  67. The Bible says this. Second Timothy

    2 Timothy 1 chapter mention

  68. chapter 1. Sorry I didn't tell you where

  69. I was going. There you go. 2 Timothy

  70. chapter number one verse number 7. And

  71. shall I say this message is hot off the

  72. press. I had a whole another thought

  73. that I have been working on all week

  74. long until about 6:00 this morning. And

  75. the Lord said, "Hold up. Turn around. I

  76. got something better." And I said,

  77. "Great." I said, "You going to have to

  78. give it to me because we're down to

  79. crunch time." And God bless Sister

  80. Wanda. I threw her notes at like 9:50

  81. this morning and said, "Let's just see

  82. what the Lord's going to do." And I

  83. believe God's got a word for somebody in

  84. the house. And like I done said, I'm

  85. going to say it like this. If this ain't

  86. for anybody else, I'm about to preach to

  87. myself. So if I get happy, just excuse

  88. me. Come on. Oh, come on, somebody. I

  89. said, so if I get a little happy this

  90. morning while I preach, just excuse me,

  91. cuz I'm about to praise my way out of

  92. some stuff. So second Timothy chapter

  93. number one verse number seven. When you

  94. get there say I got it.

  95. For God has not given us a spirit of

  96. fear.

  97. For God has not given us a spirit of

  98. fear or timidity

  99. or intimidation.

  100. I we about to give the devil a black eye

  101. because I feel like I feel attention

  102. right now. I feel some of you the

  103. enemy's been trying to intimidate you

  104. out of what God's called you to do. But

  105. I come to declare war on the devil and

  106. say not today, Satan. Not tomorrow,

  107. Satan. Not come on, not in the future,

  108. Satan. I DECLARE GOD HAS NOT GIVEN us a

  109. spirit of intimidation.

  110. But there it is of power. Somebody shout

  111. power.

  112. >> Oh, I feel the holy. I feel the spirit

  113. of Pentecost. But of power. Somebody

  114. shout love.

  115. Somebody shout sound mind.

  116. >> But a power love and a sound mind. So

  117. today I want to preach on this simple

  118. question.

  119. Who told you that? Look at your neighbor

  120. and say, "Who told you that?"

  121. Let's pray. Father, we thank you for

  122. your word. Thank you for your presence.

  123. Thank you for every prayer that has been

  124. released in this house. Now, God, anoint

  125. me, use me, and I'll give you praise. In

  126. Jesus name we pray. And everybody says,

  127. "Amen." And amen. You may be seated in

  128. the presence of the Lord today. As I

  129. start this message, this thought, who

  130. told you that many of you can probably

  131. go back to conversations that you have

  132. had with people that come to you and

  133. give you false information that they

  134. think is true, and you have to turn

  135. around and look at them and say, "Who

  136. told you that?" And for those of us in

  137. the house that would say, "I've never

  138. had that conversation." Listen, the

  139. altar will be open for you later on at

  140. the end of this message

  141. cuz you know there's times in life that

  142. you have stepped back and had to give

  143. people a piece of your mind. But if

  144. we're real honest and and we really lay

  145. it down the line, if we had a better

  146. thought and we're able to undo that or

  147. maybe even take a mulligan for all my

  148. golfers in the house on those

  149. conversations, we probably would retain

  150. that piece of our mind knowing full well

  151. that in the future we're going to need

  152. that peace for what the enemy is coming

  153. against us with. Because here's what I

  154. want us to understand in this house this

  155. morning. That many people have

  156. articulated that their adversary, their

  157. enemy is people. But I've come to

  158. correct that doctrinal theology and that

  159. incorrectness and let you know that

  160. people are not your enemy, baby.

  161. >> Oh, come on, somebody. I I'm going to

  162. say it. Let me say it one more time for

  163. the people that didn't want to clap

  164. because they felt like the enemy sitting

  165. right beside them. I'm going to say

  166. this. The people are not your enemy.

  167. >> Can Can I have a church this morning

  168. that'll get real with pastor and say, "I

  169. believe people are not my enemy. I

  170. believe that God has sent me on

  171. assignment to bring the good news to

  172. people and let them come on. Oh yeah, I

  173. feel it right there. There's some

  174. tension in this moment because people

  175. are looking the way that they want to

  176. look rather than looking the way the

  177. word of God looks. So let's see what the

  178. word of God says. He said this in

  179. Ephesians chapter 6. This was Paul

    Ephesians 6 chapter mention

  180. giving instruction to the church at

  181. Ephesus because they were up against a

  182. huge battle and it was something that

  183. was even in their mind seemed

  184. insurmountable. It seemed like something

  185. they would never be able to come against

  186. OR MAYBE OVERPOWER. BUT HE SAID, "I'VE

  187. GOT SOME FINAL INSTRUCTIONS for you,

  188. church of Ephesus." And he said it like

  189. this in chapter 6 verses 10, 11, 12, and

  190. 13. He said, "Finally, my brethren, be

  191. strong in the Lord and in the power of

  192. his might." Can I look at some people

  193. today and let you know that I know the

  194. enemy has been attacking you and he's

  195. been attacking your family. He's been

  196. attacking your finances. He's been

  197. attacking YOUR MIND AND YOUR BODY. BUT

  198. I'VE GOT SOME GOOD NEWS FOR YOU TODAY.

  199. THE LORD IS SPEAKING TO YOU AND SAYING,

  200. DON'T YOU GET WEARY AND WELLOING, BUT BE

  201. STRONG IN THE Lord and in the power of

  202. his might. HE SAID IT LIKE THIS. PUT ON

  203. THE FULL ARMOR of God that you may be

  204. able to stand against the ws of the

  205. devil. And then HE COMES DOWN TO VERSE

  206. NUMBER 12, which is where we SEE THIS

  207. TODAY. FOR WE DO NOT WRESTLE against

  208. flesh and blood.

  209. >> Come on. Come on, somebody. I I am not

  210. in competition with THE CHURCH DOWN THE

  211. ROAD. I AM NOT IN competition with the

  212. church COUNTIES OVER. I AM NOT IN

  213. COMPETITION WITH SOMEONE WHO LOOKS LIKE

  214. ME, ACTS LIKE ME, AND PREACHES LIKE ME.

  215. WHAT I AM IS I AM PART OF THE BODY OF

  216. CHRIST. AND IF THEY'RE PART OF THE BODY

  217. OF CHRIST, THEN I NEED EVERY PART

  218. FUNCTIONING TO THE HIGHEST CAPABILITY it

  219. can. BECAUSE WHEN THE BODY'S

  220. FUNCTIONING, THE DEVIL STARTS LOSING.

  221. COME ON. I SAID WHEN THE BODY'S

  222. FUNCTIONING, THE ENEMY STARTS LOSING.

  223. THE KINGDOM OF DARKNESS STARTS GETTING

  224. ON THE RUN. AND I HAVE A FEELING THAT

  225. THERE'S A CHURCH IN THIS LAST DAY

  226. OUTPOURING THAT'S NOT GOING TO CARE WHAT

  227. DENOMINATION SAYS, NOT GOING TO CARE

  228. WHAT TITLES ABOVE THE DOOR, BUT THEY'RE

  229. GOING TO SAY, "ARE WE PART OF THE BODY?

  230. ARE WE MARCHING FORWARD IN UNITY?" IS

  231. THERE ANYBODY THAT WOULD SAY, "I WANT

  232. THE BODY OF CHRIST TO RISE. I WANT THE

  233. ANOINTING TO COME AND THE POWER TO BE ON

  234. DISPLAY.

  235. Because the TRUTH IS IF THE BODY'S

  236. DIVIDED, HEALING WILL NOT BE IN the

  237. house.

  238. >> Come on, somebody. I I just feel I I

  239. feel like I ain't mad at nobody. I'm

  240. just mad at the devil. And you'll find

  241. out why in just a few moments cuz I want

  242. to let you know the enemy has talked us

  243. out of our victory because he's allowed

  244. us to get against each other other. But

  245. in the name of Jesus, we will not have

  246. that in this house. We will operate in

  247. unity. I will pray FOR EVERY PASTOR IN

  248. MY COUNTY. I'LL PRAY FOR EVERY PASTOR IN

  249. MY STATE. I'LL PRAY FOR every pastor in

  250. THIS NATION AND THE WORLD. YOU KNOW WHY?

  251. CUZ I'M NOT WORRIED IF THEY'RE GOING TO

  252. OUTDO ME. I HOPE THEY DO OUTDO ME CUZ I

  253. NEED THE CHURCH TO RISE AND I NEED THE

  254. DEVIL TO LOSE. I NEED PEOPLE TO ESCAPE

  255. HELL AND MAKE IT TO HEAVEN. AND I NEED

  256. MY TEAM TO WIN. COME ON. IS ANYBODY ON

  257. TEAM JESUS THIS MORNING? I DARE YOU TO

  258. GIVE GOD A LITTLE PRAISE. Y'ALL LISTEN.

  259. We're pattaking A LITTLE BIT, BUT I WISH

  260. I HAD SOME FOLK THAT WOULD JUMP TO YOUR

  261. FEET AND GIVE GOD SOME PRAISE FOR THE

  262. CAPITOL C CHURCH THAT'S ABOUT TO RISE IN

  263. THESE LAST DAYS. I DON'T WANT TO MISS

  264. IT.

  265. For we wrestle not against flesh and

  266. blood, but watch this, against

  267. powers,

  268. against principalities and rulers of the

  269. darkness of this age, against spiritual

  270. hosts of wickedness in heavenly places.

  271. We have to understand our battle is not

  272. with people. Our battle is for people.

  273. >> We are battling for their soul. And

  274. understand this. He said this in verse

  275. 13. THEREFORE, TAKE UP THE WHOLE armor

  276. of God that you may to withstand in the

  277. evil day and having done all to stand.

  278. Our enemy isn't flesh and blood. It

  279. isn't people. But our ENEMY IS THE DEVIL

  280. and spiritual wickedness, demonic

  281. activity. AND WATCH THIS. OUR GREATEST

  282. BATTLE IS NEVER WITH PEOPLE. BECAUSE

  283. PAUL REMINDS US of that. That Satan is

  284. our enemy. Not flesh and blood, but

  285. spiritual wickedness, principalities,

  286. all these demonic forces. And many

  287. believers spend their time AND THEIR

  288. LIVES FIGHTING THE WRONG ENEMY BECAUSE

  289. THE enemy has tricked them into thinking

  290. that if he can get them to fight against

  291. other people, THEN THEY'LL NEVER FIGHT

  292. THE SPIRIT THAT'S ACTUALLY BEHIND THE

  293. ATTACK AND WIN IN THE HOUSE OF GOD. BUT

  294. I WANT YOU TO UNDERSTAND, BEFORE WE CAN

  295. HAVE A BATTLE THAT is won, YOU HAVE TO

  296. IDENTIFY who the enemy is. People are

  297. not our enemy AT LIBERTY CULTURE. THEY

  298. ARE OUR ASSIGNMENT and we WILL FOREVER

  299. BATTLE FOR THE SOULS OF MEN and women.

  300. But watch this. We understand this in

  301. partiality now. But when we get to

  302. heaven, we will really understand it was

  303. a spiritual attack.

  304. That it was a spiritual battle the

  305. entire time. AND THE ENEMY IS ALL ABOUT

  306. CONFUSION

  307. because if he can confuse people into

  308. thinking that one way is right when it's

  309. really wrong, you can GO BACK TO

  310. SCRIPTURE. WHAT JESUS SAID, he said when

  311. they believe the light in the when they

  312. believe the darkness in them is actually

  313. light, how gross is that darkness. In

  314. other words, they have fallen INTO

  315. DECEPTION AND DEPRAVITY AND NOW THEY ARE

  316. believing the lie that they have told

  317. theirel AND THEY'RE NOT OPERATING THE

  318. FULL KINGDOM POWER AND ACCOUNTABILITY.

  319. BUT TODAY, I'm calling a church today

  320. and looking at you and saying, "Listen,

  321. we're not going to operate in deception.

  322. WE'RE NOT GOING TO OPERATE FROM DEFEAT.

  323. BUT WE WILL OPERATE from unity and

  324. through breakthrough and through victory

  325. because we're about to see some folk GET

  326. SAVED IN THIS HOUSE THAT YOU NEVER EVEN

  327. THOUGHT WOULD COME IN THE DOOR. BUT

  328. BLESSED be the name of the Lord. I

  329. BELIEVE THERE'S ENOUGH POWER IN THE

  330. GOSPEL TO LET THEM KNOW, I KNOW YOU

  331. WALKED IN BOUND. YOU WALKED IN BROKEN,

  332. BUT LISTEN TO ME, SIR. LISTEN TO ME,

  333. MA'AM. JESUS CHRIST IS THE SAME

  334. YESTERDAY, TODAY, and forever. AND IF HE

  335. SET ME FREE, GUESS WHAT HE CAN DO FOR

  336. YOU? HE CAN SET YOU FREE FROM EVERYTHING

  337. THE ENEMY HAS HAD YOU BOUND WITH. AND

  338. TODAY, WE RISE IN VICTORY THROUGH THE

  339. POWER OF THE GOSPEL.

  340. But we have to understand after

  341. identifying the enemy, we must recognize

  342. where he most often attacks our life.

  343. Because the truth is this morning, every

  344. believer will experience a wilderness

  345. season.

  346. Every believer in here, you say, "Well,

  347. pastor, I was excited when you was

  348. talking about us seeing victory and all

  349. that stuff." Well, watch the process.

  350. Before you can get to victory, you got

  351. to go through the wilderness.

  352. Before you can get to the blessing, you

  353. got to go through some ridicule. Come

  354. on, somebody. Because we understand that

  355. every believer experiences wilderness

  356. seasons. They may look like this. dry

  357. seasons when it comes to our

  358. relationship with the Lord, confusion

  359. seasons, lonely seasons, uncertain

  360. seasons, or seasons of testing. But let

  361. me let me digress just a little bit and

  362. let you understand that it's not a

  363. matter of if you go through seasons of

  364. wilderness times, but it is when you go

  365. through those wilderness seasons that

  366. you've got to know who your God is.

  367. >> You've got to be certain who your God

  368. is. You've got to be certain about what

  369. your calling is and what God's plan is

  370. and his purpose is for your life.

  371. Because if we're uncertain, then the

  372. enemy's voice will be inserted in those

  373. wilderness seasons for you to hear him.

  374. Come on. Because here's what I know. The

  375. enemy rarely speaks when things are

  376. going good.

  377. Oh yeah.

  378. Cuz good luck telling me that things are

  379. going to fall apart.

  380. Come on, somebody.

  381. Good luck TELLING ME THAT WHEN

  382. EVERYTHING'S going my way that hey,

  383. everything's going to fix and crumble.

  384. The enemy, he he knows I ain't

  385. listening. Nothing you got to say.

  386. But let me tell YOU WHERE THE ENEMY DOES

  387. speak and poke his ugly fat nose.

  388. Can I say that again? Ugly fat nose. I

  389. think that's all right. His big ugly fat

  390. nose. He speaks in places of transition

  391. and places of exchange

  392. and in wilderness seasons that we walk

  393. through

  394. because every one of those promote a

  395. certain amount of uncertainty. And he

  396. knows if he's ever going to get your

  397. attention, he's got to speak when you're

  398. not fully certain about where you're

  399. stepping.

  400. Come on.

  401. There's some people in this room that

  402. are right there right now. Pastor, you

  403. say, "I I've been going through that in

  404. my job. I've been going through that in

  405. my family. I've been going through that

  406. in my health, and I'm really unsure of

  407. what's going on. My money doesn't look

  408. like it used to look, and it's

  409. uncertain. I feel like I'm going between

  410. this and that, AND IT FEELS LIKE A

  411. WILDERNESS SEASON. I'VE BEEN WAITING FOR

  412. THE VOICE OF GOD. HE'S NOT SPEAKING. I

  413. HAVEN'T HEARD HIM. AND THERE ARE THINGS

  414. GOING ON THAT I'M UNCERTAIN OF." THE

  415. ENEMY LOVES TO GET IN the middle of

  416. that.

  417. BECAUSE IF HE CAN FIND YOU IN AN

  418. UNCERTAIN PLACE, HE'S got a chance to

  419. convince you that what you have is not

  420. really what you should have. Oh, come

  421. on. HE WANTS TO INSERT HIMSELF INTO A

  422. spot to where he can bring confusion to

  423. your heart. But today, I want to put the

  424. enemy on notice and let you know that

  425. you may be in a wilderness season. You

  426. may be in transition this morning. You

  427. may be in a PLACE OF EXCHANGE. BUT WHAT

  428. I WANT TO TELL YOU IS THAT GOD has not

  429. changed. He is the same yesterday,

  430. today, and forever. His promises have

  431. not LEFT YOUR LIFE. HIS PROMISES ARE YES

  432. AND AMEN. CAN I GET SOME FAITH INSIDE OF

  433. SOMEBODY TODAY AND LET YOU KNOW THAT I

  434. KNOW THE ENEMY'S BEEN WHISPERING OVER

  435. HERE, BUT I'm going to tell you, GREATER

  436. IS HE THAT'S IN YOU THAN HE THAT'S IN

  437. THE WORLD. AND IT'S TIME FOR US TO RISE

  438. UP AGAIN AND SAY, "DEVIL, I DON'T CARE

  439. WHAT YOU GOT TO SAY. I KNOW IN WHOM I

  440. HAVE BELIEVED, AND I AM PERSUADED THAT

  441. he is able." Look at your neighbor. Tell

  442. him, "I'm persuaded."

  443. I know we ain't supposed to tell people

  444. that. We ain't supposed to look over to

  445. our neighbor and all that stuff. That's

  446. against all preaching policy, but maybe

  447. it will wake us up to understand that

  448. the enemy has a plan. The enemy has a

  449. desire and the enemy wants to bring

  450. confusion. But I want you to understand

  451. that even when you're walking through

  452. wilderness seasons. It may not BE

  453. ORCHESTRATED BY GOD. WHAT? OR BY THE

  454. ENEMY HIMSELF, IT MAY be a wilderness

  455. season orchestrated by our father in

  456. heaven. Watch this. Because the

  457. wilderness IS NOT EVIDENCE THAT God has

  458. left you. The wilderness is often where

  459. God prepares you. Come on, somebody. Oh,

  460. can I can I just preach to myself for

  461. just a moment? Y'all just hang tight

  462. over there on that side. Let me get over

  463. here and let me read that one more time

  464. because that's so good. The wilderness

  465. is not evidence that God has left you.

  466. The wilderness is often where God

  467. prepares you. And it prepares us to the

  468. point that he is preparing us and say,

  469. "I know what you're feeling. I know the

  470. pressure is intense. I know what you're

  471. having to walk through. I know the

  472. voices you're having to tune out and all

  473. that stuff. And you say, "Well, I WANT

  474. TO GET TO MY final destination." But God

  475. really knows if you can handle the

  476. wilderness, you can handle the ultimate

  477. purpose he has FOR YOU. SO, HE'S got to

  478. take you through the VALLEY OF THE

  479. SHADOW OF DEATH AND MAKE YOU TO A POINT

  480. WHERE I FEAR NO EVIL BECAUSE I KNOW MY

  481. GOD HAS NEVER LEFT ME. CAN I SPEAK SOME

  482. FAITH TO A MAMA TODAY AND A DADDY TODAY

  483. THAT GOT A DOCTOR'S REPORT? I KNOW IT

  484. LOOKS DIM RIGHT NOW AND YOU MAY BE

  485. WALKING THROUGH A WILDERNESS, BUT LET ME

  486. TELL YOU, GOD HAS NOT LEFT YOU. HE'S NOT

  487. ABANDONED YOU. HE'S RIGHT THERE WITH

  488. YOU. IS ANYBODY BEAR WITNESS WITH WHAT

  489. PASTOR'S PREACHING? I DECLARE IT'S THERE

  490. TO PREPARE YOUR LIFE.

  491. >> THE WILDERNESS EVEN IS NOT THERE TO

  492. DEFEAT YOU, but it's there to strengthen

  493. you for what God has in the next season.

  494. Many times we get right in the middle of

  495. it and we say God why am I having to go

  496. through what I'm going through which is

  497. a legitimate question that we all should

  498. ask because we don't want to just walk

  499. through life and just say whatever

  500. happens happens we want to have

  501. understanding of why God is bringing me

  502. through what I'm going through and he

  503. may not give you full understanding at

  504. the very beginning but what I can tell

  505. you is over time he will reveal his

  506. purposes to you if you remain faithful

  507. to him and he will reveal his ultimate

  508. design for your life but here's the fact

  509. here's what we have to understand Even

  510. through all of that, if I don't have the

  511. full picture or I do, if I'm in an

  512. exchange season, if I'm in a a a season

  513. of wilderness, it doesn't matter. I have

  514. to put my trust IN SOMETHING OR SOMEONE.

  515. AND THE FACT IS TODAY, WE have a choice

  516. to put OUR TRUST IN GOD OR THE ENEMY.

  517. Watch what happened in the garden

  518. whenever when the Lord created all that

  519. set Adam and even order. He said,

  520. "Listen, everything in here is

  521. permissible. Just don't touch the the

  522. tree in the middle.

  523. Don't touch that tree. Can I tell you

  524. that was a place that when they walk by

  525. it, they probably wonder, I wonder why I

  526. can't touch the tree. I want that fruit

  527. looks so good. WHY CAN'T WHY CAN'T AND

  528. THEN guess what happened in the middle

  529. of their exchange?

  530. Someone else's voice entered the

  531. conversation.

  532. Partly because I feel like the enemy

  533. couldn't stand that there were people

  534. that God created that were in complete

  535. and holy fellowship with him and he had

  536. been kicked out of heaven

  537. because every time he saw Adam and Eve,

  538. he realized what he lost.

  539. >> So he decided, I'm going to step in and

  540. I'm going to bring my voice into the

  541. conversation. Watch this. When you've

  542. already heard God's voice and you know

  543. what he said and somebody comes in and

  544. says something like this, did God really

  545. say,

  546. you don't have to even pray about that,

  547. baby? Come on. Some of y'all look at me

  548. like, what you talking about? If the in

  549. if you know God said you are healed and

  550. somebody comes in and says, I I put this

  551. sickness on you and you're going to be

  552. bound by this for the rest of your life

  553. or your children are never going to get

  554. saved. You look at them and say, who do

  555. you think you are?

  556. >> It's the truth. You have to have a

  557. backbone spiritually to look at the

  558. enemy and recognize that his desire is

  559. to get you to QUESTION WHAT GOD HAS

  560. ALREADY SAID. AND THAT'S why when you

  561. get down to Genesis 3 and verse number

  562. 11, YOU HEAR GOD SAY AFTER THEY'VE

  563. ALREADY PARTAKEN of the fruit from the

  564. tree of the knowledge of good and evil,

  565. the Lord comes in the cool of the day

  566. again and asked them a QUESTION AND

  567. SAID, "WHO TOLD YOU THIS?"

  568. SO GOD IS ASKING THE QUESTION IN THE

  569. garden after they have already eaten and

  570. they knew AND THEY HID. HE SAID, "WHO

  571. TOLD YOU THAT YOU WERE NAKED?" Come on.

  572. THAT WAS THE QUESTION HE ASKED THEM. WHO

  573. TOLD YOU THIS? WHO REVEALED? WHY?

  574. BECAUSE GOD WAS NOT ASKING A QUESTION

  575. BECAUSE HE DIDN'T KNOW THE ANSWER. HE

  576. WAS ASKING THE QUESTION TO GET THEM TO

  577. REVEAL WHO THE ORIGINATOR OF THE

  578. deception really was. SO THEY WOULD

  579. UNDERSTAND GOD DID NOT HAVE IT OUT

  580. AGAINST ME. IT WAS THE SERPENT THAT

  581. WANTED TO DESTROY my life.

  582. You'all tracking with me?

  583. Because here's what I want you to

  584. understand.

  585. The question that we have to grapple

  586. with today is who told you what you

  587. believe?

  588. WHO WHO TOLD YOU WHAT YOU BELIEVE? And

  589. the understanding WOULD BE, WELL, YES,

  590. GOD. UH, YES, PASTOR. I go back to the

  591. word of God, and that's where I put my

  592. full faith and trust. But if we're

  593. really honest, there are a lot of times

  594. we listen to other voices other than

  595. God's word. And I'm not here to point at

  596. you. I'm not here to to to to lay blame

  597. on you. I'm here to say that every one

  598. of us are guilty of that because we are

  599. human beings. But what I'm calling you

  600. out of today is dependence upon other

  601. voices and put our dependence back on

  602. the voice from heaven. His name is Jesus

  603. Christ. AND IF HE'S ALREADY SAID IT,

  604. guess what, BABY? IT IS SETTLED forever

  605. in heaven. And there's nothing the enemy

  606. CAN DO TO STOP WHAT GOD DESIRES TO DO IN

  607. MY LIFE. Understand this that in Matthew

  608. Matthew chapter 4, we see this beautiful

    Matthew 4 chapter mention

  609. picture play out of a of a cadence back

  610. and forth between Jesus and Satan.

  611. Because if you read the very beginning

  612. of that, the Bible says that Jesus was

  613. driven into the wilderness by the

  614. spirit.

  615. It was originated by the spirit of God,

  616. not just so he can prove how powerful he

  617. was, but so that you and I can have

  618. examples of how to fight the enemy

  619. today. Because watch what happened. We

  620. see this uh so many times. We we notice

  621. the temptations and we read over this

  622. and we see what's going on. But I want

  623. you to understand the enemy will always

  624. attack your identity because that is the

  625. quickest way to get your eyes off the

  626. assignment or mission. Because I want

  627. you to understand what he said. Satan

  628. looked at Jesus and said, "If you are

  629. the son of God," now watch JESUS HAD

  630. ALREADY HEARD HIS FATHER SAY JUST A

  631. SHORT TIME BEFORE, "This is my beloved

  632. son in whom I am well pleased." HE SAID

  633. THESE are voices THAT HE'S ALREADY

  634. HEARD, BUT NOW HE'S IN THE WILDERNESS

  635. season and he hears THE ENEMY SAY, "IF

  636. YOU ARE THE SON of God,

  637. >> JESUS ALREADY HEARD HE WAS THE BELOVED

  638. SON." BUT THE DEVIL QUESTION WHAT THE

  639. FATHER HAD ALREADY SETTLED through his

  640. voice.

  641. >> And I want you to understand, the enemy

  642. is going TO QUESTION WHAT GOD HAS

  643. ALREADY SPOKEN AND solidified in your

  644. life.

  645. HE WILL NEVER COME AND COME AGAINST YOUR

  646. LIFE AND THINGS that that that HAVE

  647. ALREADY BEEN OR MAY BE articulated later

  648. on. He will come and HE WILL COMBAT

  649. WHAT'S ALREADY been spoken over your

  650. life. I want you to understand the

  651. enemy's the enemy attacks rather

  652. identity because your identity

  653. determines how effective you are in your

  654. assignment.

  655. If you don't know you're a child of God,

  656. you are going to have a hard time

  657. operating in the kingdom.

  658. Come on, somebody. If you don't know

  659. that God saved you, you're going to have

  660. a hard time praising him when

  661. everything's going wrong. Come on. Isn't

  662. the truth, right? We're we're going to

  663. have a hard time. But the question the

  664. the an the enemy's desire and design is

  665. to rather MAKE US QUESTION WHO WE ARE.

  666. Who we are. He'll be begin questioning

  667. those things. HE BEGIN QUESTIONING

  668. THINGS LIKE WHY ARE YOU EVEN HERE?

  669. BECAUSE IDENTITY AFFECTS your

  670. assignment. Watch this. Satan attacks

  671. your identity because he fears your

  672. assignment.

  673. He's attacking your identity today

  674. BECAUSE HE FEARS WHERE GOD IS TAKING

  675. YOU. AND SO, I'VE GOT TO COME AND land

  676. in THIS MOMENT RIGHT NOW AND LET YOU

  677. KNOW YOUR ASSIGNMENT IS GREATER THAN

  678. EVEN YOU think it is.

  679. >> Oh, come on. I got three people. Come

  680. on. Thank you, brother Dexter, right

  681. there. I feel that in my spirit. Your

  682. assignment is greater than even what you

  683. think it is this morning. You say,

  684. "Well, I just I'm here to exist and warm

  685. a chair." I've got news for you. your

  686. your assignment is not just to warm a

  687. chair. Thank God you are this morning

  688. because that gives me somebody to preach

  689. to. Come on, somebody and somebody to

  690. give the message to. But what I'll tell

  691. you is that is not the full total of

  692. your assignment. Your assignment is to

  693. operate in the kingdom authority that

  694. God gave you and let you know that no

  695. matter what the enemy throws against

  696. your life, greater is he that's in you

  697. than he that's in the world. We will

  698. determine with all of our heart, AS FOR

  699. ME AND MY HOUSE, we will serve the Lord.

  700. We will serve the Lord. Look at your

  701. neighbor. Tell him, "My mind is made

  702. up." Yes, it is. My mind is made up that

  703. I will not give in to what the enemy is

  704. and his desire because of fear that he

  705. tries to project on my life. And notice

  706. I say he tries to project on our life.

  707. The fact is the enemy cannot inflict

  708. fear on you.

  709. Fear is a spirit.

  710. And if the Holy Spirit lives on the

  711. inside of me, and he does, when the

  712. spirit of fear tries to visit my life,

  713. the Holy Spirit will rise up and say,

  714. "Wait a second. We're not going down

  715. that road." Oh, come on, somebody. I

  716. refuse to go down that road. I refuse to

  717. let the spirit of fear come and get on

  718. my life because my mind is made up. I'm

  719. not going to take something that God

  720. didn't give to me. Oh, I feel the Holy

  721. Spirit right there. I refuse to receive

  722. anything from the enemy that God did not

  723. give to me in the first place. My mind

  724. is made up that if GOD DIDN'T GIVE IT TO

  725. ME, I REFUSE IT. If God didn't give me

  726. the spirit of fear, I REFUSE IT. BUT

  727. WHAT I WILL RECEIVE is the spirit of

  728. joy, the spirit of peace, the spirit OF

  729. ADOPTION, AND I'LL CRY ABA father in

  730. every situation AND KNOW THAT IF GOD PUT

  731. ME HERE, THEN GOD WILL BRING ME THROUGH.

  732. IF I'M RIGHT IN THE MIDDLE OF A

  733. WILDERNESS SEASON, GOD WILL NOT FAIL ME.

  734. NOW, CAN I GET A WITNESS IN THE HOUSE?

  735. HOW MANY SAY, "I KNOW GOD DID IT BEFORE.

  736. AND IF GOD DID IT BEFORE, I CAN TRUST

  737. HIS WORD. I CAN TRUST HIS VOICE. I CAN

  738. TRUST HIS PROMISE. HE WILL DO IT AGAIN."

  739. 1 2 3. GIVE HIM praise in the house.

  740. WE'VE GOT TO FOLLOW THE EXAMPLE OF

  741. JESUS. AND WHAT WAS THE EXAMPLE OF Jesus

  742. in Matthew 4:es 1-1? You go back, read

  743. it yourself, but every time the enemy

  744. brought him a temptation, what did Jesus

  745. do? He said, "Satan, it is written."

  746. >> Come on. You say, "Well, he was the

  747. word." Yes, he was the word and he could

  748. have just put his hand up and put a stop

  749. TO ALL OF IT. BUT AGAIN, it wasn't just

  750. about him getting victory. IT WAS SO IN

  751. 2026 ON THE SECOND HALF OF THIS YEAR

  752. that he I can stand here and LOOK AT YOU

  753. AND SAY, "IF JESUS OVERCAME, BABY, THEN

  754. YOU AND I CAN OVERCOME THE SAME WAY BY

  755. LOOKING AT THE ENEMY AND SAYING, "IT IS

  756. WRITTEN, SATAN. I'VE GOT POWER OVER THE

  757. DEVIL. I'VE GOT POWER OVER DEMONIC

  758. FORCES BECAUSE OF WHO LIVES ON THE

  759. inside of me. Somebody holler, "It is

  760. written."

  761. >> Oh, you got to shout a little louder.

  762. Say, "It is written."

  763. >> Because watch this. Feelings don't do

  764. not defeat intimidation. Opinions do not

  765. defeat intimidation. WILLPOWER, AS

  766. STRONG AS you are, will not defeat

  767. intimidation. The only thing that will

  768. break intimidation and defeat it is THE

  769. WORD OF GOD OVER YOUR LIFE AND ACTIVE.

  770. Because watch this. THE WORD OF GOD IS

  771. POWERFUL AND it is sharper than any

  772. two-edged sword. Meaning this, IT CUTS

  773. GOING IN and it cuts coming out. THE

  774. ENEMY THINKS IT HURT THE FIRST TIME, BUT

  775. WAIT TILL I PULL IT BACK AND THROW

  776. ANOTHER DART AT HIM. COME ON. I DECLARE

  777. I'M GOING TO SPEAK THE WORD OVER MY

  778. FAMILY. I'M GOING TO SPEAK BLESSING OVER

  779. MY FAMILY. I'M GOING TO SPEAK BLESSING

  780. OVER MY CHURCH. WE WILL EXPERIENCE

  781. REVIVAL INSIDE OF LIBERTY CULTURE CHURCH

  782. LIKE WE'VE NEVER SEEN BEFORE. I JUST

  783. NEED A COUPLE HUNDRED PEOPLE TO GET WITH

  784. YOUR PASTOR AND SAY IT IS WRITTEN. IT IS

  785. PROMISED. WE WILL RECEIVE IT IN JESUS

  786. NAME. 1 2 3 give him praise in the

  787. house.

  788. Is my heart is this is that we will

  789. understand the power that is in the word

  790. of God to defeat the spirit of fear and

  791. intimidation off of our life. Because

  792. watch this. Not only when he said, "It

  793. is written," did it bring victory to the

  794. life of Christ in the middle of the

  795. wilderness by breaking intimidation, but

  796. ultimately gave you and I victory

  797. through the pattern that Jesus set

  798. forth. Because understand, the battle

  799. did not end when Jesus defeated the

  800. devil. Then the battle still remains

  801. today. Each one of us are tied up in the

  802. battle and the enemy will try to trick

  803. our minds into thinking that his lies

  804. and the intimidation and the voice of

  805. others may be true and may be may

  806. override what God has spoken over our

  807. life. Because watch this, the enemy

  808. still whispers. His lies sound like

  809. this. You are not enough. You're

  810. disqualified because of what you've

  811. done. You're too broken to BE USED BY

  812. GOD. YOU'LL NEVER RECOVER FROM what the

  813. enemy has DONE AGAINST YOU. GOD can't

  814. use you. You're alone. Nobody's with

  815. you. EVERYBODY'S LEFT YOU. HE SAID,

  816. "YOU'LL BE DEFEATED." This is the voice

  817. of the enemy. And these voices may come

  818. from people. They can come from

  819. circumstances OF LIFE. THEY CAN COME

  820. FROM THE CULTURE OUTSIDE OF THIS

  821. BUILDING. THEY CAN COME FROM MEMORIES.

  822. AND THEY CAN COME FROM FEAR. BUT I'VE

  823. GOT GOOD NEWS THIS MORNING. NONE of

  824. these voices outrank THE VOICE OF GOD IN

  825. OUR LIFE. OH MY GOD. GOD HAS ALREADY

  826. AFFIRMED. GOD HAS ALREADY CALLED YOU.

  827. AND GOD HAS ALREADY EQUIPPED YOU. So I

  828. declare TO YOU, DON'T ALLOW THE ENEMY TO

  829. REWRITE WHAT GOD HAS ALREADY WRITTEN ON

  830. YOUR HEART AND IN YOUR LIFE AND FOR YOUR

  831. FUTURE. I DECLARE TO YOU, THE DEVIL IS A

  832. LIAR. I REFUSE TO LET SATAN REWRITE WHAT

  833. GOD PUT IN MY HEART. I WISH I HAD SOME

  834. FOLK THAT WOULD PRAISE HIM FOR THE FACT

  835. THAT GOD'S BEEN FAITHFUL BEFORE. HE'LL

  836. BE FAITHFUL AGAIN.

  837. He'll be faithful again. Now watch this.

  838. And I'm almost done.

  839. Get my get my musicians up here. Help me

  840. out. You stay right there. But everybody

  841. else get up here. Let's go. Timothy was

  842. instructed by Paul himself. And watch

  843. this. Paul wasn't sitting on the beach

  844. sipping his virgin pina colada. Can I

  845. get a witness?

  846. Many people think that Paul was sitting

  847. in his office at his house with all

  848. kinds of great things and he was pinning

  849. these words down to Timothy. But the

  850. fact is Paul was writing this letter

  851. while he was in prison. He was shackled

  852. not to possess. He was telling Timothy,

  853. young Timothy, not to possess a spirit

  854. of timidity or fear or intimidation that

  855. the enemy desires to give him, but to

  856. literally stand in power, love, AND

  857. SOUND MIND. NOW, WHY WOULD PAUL WRITE

  858. THIS LETTER TO Timothy in this season of

  859. his life, knowing that he was in prison

  860. himself? HE KNEW THAT TIMOTHY WAS NOT

  861. DEALING WITH JUST A casual enemy that

  862. was coming against his heart. And that's

  863. why this spirit, this scripture began to

  864. speak to my heart this morning because I

  865. understand for the assignment and the

  866. purpose that God has for Liberty

  867. Culture. WE'RE NOT JUST FACING a casual

  868. enemy in this house.

  869. >> All right, I got about five people with

  870. me. I'm going to say this again. How

  871. many believe we're not facing a casual

  872. enemy?

  873. >> All right, I got 50%. We're going to try

  874. it one more time. Yes, I am waiting for

  875. a response on this one. How many believe

  876. we're not facing a casual enemy in this

  877. house?

  878. And listen, I'm not here TO PRAISE THE

  879. ENEMY, BUT I'M HERE TO bring awareness

  880. to you and wake you up to the fact that

  881. we are in a battle for this region. WE

  882. ARE IN A BATTLE FOR THIS COMMUNITY. And

  883. if we DON'T STEP UP NOW, THEN WE MAY

  884. LOSE THE OPPORTUNITY to have another

  885. generation experience Pentecost. I

  886. believe at youth camp, it's about to

  887. break bad in that place. AND WE'RE ABOUT

  888. TO see some young people full OF THE

  889. HOLY GHOST. THEY'RE GOING TO TASTE AND

  890. SEE THAT GOD IS GOOD. I JUST NEED SOME

  891. FOLK TO PROPHESY WITH ME AND SAY, "FILL

  892. THEM WITH THE HOLY GHOST.

  893. FILL them with the Holy Ghost." My heart

  894. is this that just like Timothy was

  895. receiving instructions from Paul, I want

  896. to give instructions to each one of us

  897. in this house today as a spiritual

  898. father. The fact is that Timothy was not

  899. facing a casual enemy, but Timothy was

  900. he was facing intimidation from false

  901. teachers inside of Ephesus. He was

  902. facing the pressure from persecution

  903. from the world around him for standing

  904. for righteousness. He was even facing

  905. the emotional weight of Paul's

  906. imprisonment and absence. He was facing

  907. THE SUFFERING OF FOR THE GOSPEL KNOWING

  908. THAT THIS PRESSURE was intense that

  909. every time he opened HIS MOUTH THAT NOT

  910. EVERYBODY was going to like what Timothy

  911. had to say.

  912. Come on, somebody. He he he was facing

  913. this opposition, not a casual enemy of

  914. insecurity in his own leadership and

  915. saying, "Am I really good enough to

  916. stand here and lead this great church in

  917. Ephesus, he was even facing the

  918. possibility of fear and intimidation

  919. because of his younger age that he had."

  920. And I want you to understand that even

  921. while Timothy is under this pressure,

  922. PAUL DID NOT WRITE BACK TO HIM AND SAY,

  923. "OH, TIMOTHY, I'm so sorry you're facing

  924. this."

  925. Even though it probably would have been

  926. nice for Timothy to open a letter and

  927. say, "Son, I just want you to know I

  928. love you so much.

  929. You're doing such a great job.

  930. YOU'RE YOU'RE YOU'RE SO YOU'RE SO

  931. WONDERFUL, TIMOTHY. Matter of fact, I

  932. got the transcript from your last series

  933. of messages and I'm going to repreach

  934. them right here in the prison."

  935. TIMOTHY PROBABLY WOULD HAVE LOVED THE

  936. LITTLE AFFIRMATION, a little

  937. encouragement that morning, BUT THAT'S

  938. NOT WHAT HAPPENED WHEN HE WHEN HE OPENED

  939. THAT. PAUL DIDN'T SAY, "I UNDERSTAND

  940. WHAT YOU'RE GOING THROUGH." NO. PAUL'S

  941. ANSWER WAS, "STIR UP THE GIFT OF GOD

  942. THAT'S IN YOU." OH, come on. Oh my God.

  943. I I just I I'm going to Can I just

  944. preach right here for somebody in the

  945. room and let you know that Paul didn't

  946. TELL HIM I UNDERSTAND. HE SAID, "STIR UP

  947. THE GIFT OF GOD." HE SAID, "FAN INTO

  948. FLAME WHAT WAS PUT INSIDE OF YOU BY THE

  949. laying on of my hands." HE SAID, "GOD

  950. HAS NOT GIVEN YOU THE SPIRIT OF FEAR,

  951. but of power, love, AND SOUND MIND. AND

  952. I'VE come to look at you today AND SAY,

  953. "I'M PRAYING FOR YOU. I'M BELIEVING FOR

  954. YOU." BUT I'M NOT HERE TO SAY, "OH, WOE

  955. IS US." BUT I'M HERE TO TELL YOU IN THE

  956. NAME OF JESUS, LIBERTY CULTURE, STIR UP

  957. THE GIFT OF GOD THAT'S WITHIN YOU. COME

  958. ON. WE GOT TO STIR UP PENTECOST ONE MORE

  959. TIME AND SAY, "I DECLARE THAT THE ENEMY

  960. MAY TRY TO TALK ME OUT OF IT, BUT I'M

  961. GOING TO STIR IT UP. I'M GOING TO STIR

  962. UP MY PRAISE. I'M GOING TO STIR UP MY

  963. WORSHIP. I'M GOING TO STIR UP EVERY PART

  964. OF MY LIFE. IF IT'S IN ME, STIR IT UP

  965. TODAY THROUGH HIS POWER AND his grace.

  966. Now, HE SAID, "STIR UP THE GIFT THAT'S

  967. IN YOU." Look at your neighbor, say,

  968. "Stir it up." Oh, I feel the Holy Spirit

  969. in this house this morning because I

  970. believe something's about to shift in

  971. this room. If y'all give me seven more

  972. minutes, I will be done. I'll get out

  973. your way and let you go eat lunch today.

  974. But I'm going to tell you, God did not

  975. call us in here to say, "Woe is us." And

  976. oh my God, what are we going to do? Oh

  977. no, no. The enemy may be attacking your

  978. life as a family. The enemy may be

  979. attacking YOUR MIND. HE MAY EVEN ATTACK

  980. YOUR PHYSICAL BODY, YOUR FINANCES, YOUR

  981. BUSINESS. BUT I'VE come to tell you,

  982. STIR UP THE GIFT THAT PUT IT IN PLACE IN

  983. THE FIRST PLACE. STIR UP THE GIFT OF

  984. GOD. F INTO FLAME EVERYTHING GOD HAS FOR

  985. YOU. YOU'RE NOT CALLED TO HAVE A SPIRIT

  986. OF FEAR, BUT OF POWER AND LOVE AND A

  987. SOUND MIND.

  988. Now look at your neighbor and tell them,

  989. "Stir it up.

  990. Stir it up. Stir it up. And here's what

  991. I want you to understand. Many times we

  992. have allowed the intimidation of the

  993. enemy to smother the gifts in our life

  994. because we are afraid what other people

  995. are going to say.

  996. We're afraid how other people are going

  997. to react. We're afraid whether people

  998. are going to receive us or not. Can I be

  999. real? We're afraid people are going to

  1000. look at us like we're crazy. All right.

  1001. All right. I'll be honest with you. Can

  1002. I just be real? They already think

  1003. you're crazy for going to this church

  1004. anyway. So, you might as well be crazy.

  1005. Come on. Do I have any crazy folk in the

  1006. house that'll get crazy with pastor?

  1007. Matter of fact, that that next little

  1008. slide right there, I want you I want you

  1009. to put that up. Don't don't let the

  1010. enemy or don't allow the intimidation to

  1011. smother God's gift inside of you. I

  1012. refuse to let the enemy smother the gift

  1013. inside of me as your pastor because I

  1014. believe you have family, you have

  1015. friends, you have people that you

  1016. haven't even come in contact with yet

  1017. that are bound by the enemy and in the

  1018. name of Jesus in this next season. We're

  1019. about to see them set free by the power

  1020. of God. I will never forget, brother

  1021. Keith, when you gave your testimony up

  1022. here and said you tried everything the

  1023. world had to offer and listen, you never

  1024. found anything that would satisfy like

  1025. Jesus. That is THE HEART OF YOUR PASTOR

  1026. TODAY. THAT IS WHAT I BELIEVE IS ABOUT

  1027. to happen IN THIS HOUSE. IT'S NOT GOING

  1028. TO THE ENEMY IS NOT GOING TO SATISFY.

  1029. BUT I BELIEVE IF THEY COME IN AND WE

  1030. INTRODUCE THEM TO THE NAME THAT'S ABOVE

  1031. EVERY NAME, THAT IN THE NAME OF JESUS,

  1032. THAT GIFT WILL NOT BE SMOTHERED. AND

  1033. WE'RE GOING TO SEE THEM COME TO THE

  1034. SAVING KNOWLEDGE OF JESUS CHRIST.

  1035. And I believe this. I still believe in

  1036. laying on hands of people and seeing

  1037. them healed of sickness.

  1038. And I am crazy enough to believe that

  1039. God's fixing to heal some folk in this

  1040. house.

  1041. I I believe this. Um where where's

  1042. Johnny's mom? Where you at? Oh, sorry.

  1043. There you are. Right there. Johnny's mom

  1044. and dad. Both of y'all here. I want both

  1045. of y'all to stand to your feet right

  1046. now. I want both of you to raise your

  1047. hands to heaven. They've been getting

  1048. doctor's reports saying things over

  1049. Johnny that his lungs are not going to

  1050. uh continue to develop and they're going

  1051. to stay right where they're at or even

  1052. progress and get worse. But how many you

  1053. love Johnny? Come on. Some of you that

  1054. know Johnny. Y'all love our Johnny. But

  1055. I declare in the name of Jesus, raise

  1056. those hands. If there's somebody close

  1057. to them, lay hands on them in the name

  1058. of Jesus. I declare over Johnny's body,

  1059. Lord, if you created it right there, I

  1060. believe that you can I believe you can

  1061. do something in his body right now. I

  1062. believe you could take the lungs that

  1063. are not developed and the lungs that are

  1064. trying to dissect or decrease, God. And

  1065. I declare that you will increase his

  1066. capacity. I declare, Lord, it will never

  1067. affect him. I declare that transplant

  1068. will never be a word that has to cross

  1069. our lips or be on paper, God. I declare

  1070. that in the name of Jesus, THERE IS

  1071. NOTHING too hard for you. And we stand

  1072. in agreement TODAY THAT YOU ARE ABLE TO

  1073. DO EXCEEDINGLY ABUNDANTLY ABOVE ALL THAT

  1074. WE CAN ASK, THINK, or expect. And I

  1075. believe in the NAME OF JESUS THAT YOU'RE

  1076. ABLE TO TOUCH HIM. GOD, RELEASE THE GIFT

  1077. OF HEALING. RELEASE THE POWER OF

  1078. HEALING. GOD, I BELIEVE IT'S a

  1079. children's bread. And we SPEAK IT NOW

  1080. WHILE HE'S IN HIS CHURCH. HEAL HIS BODY

  1081. IN JESUS NAME. IF YOU BELIEVE IT, GIVE

  1082. GOD PRAISE IN THE HOUSE FOR HIS HEALING

  1083. POWER.

  1084. OH, COME ON. CAN WE JUMP TO OUR FEET AND

  1085. GIVE GOD PRAISE FOR HIS HEALING POWER?

  1086. I'M CRAZY ENOUGH TO BELIEVE THAT GOD CAN

  1087. DO IT.

  1088. HALLELUJAH.

  1089. NOW,

  1090. in the name of Jesus, I'm going to say

  1091. this. Who told you

  1092. what? WHO TOLD YOU WHAT to believe?

  1093. WHO TOLD YOU THAT YOUR EYES SHOULD BE

  1094. OPEN? WHO WHO TOLD YOU THAT? And I begin

  1095. to think about what the Holy Spirit

  1096. would speak over our hearts and our

  1097. lives and the example of Jesus. And

  1098. watch this. Your assignment is greater

  1099. than your fear.

  1100. Your assignment is greater than your

  1101. fear. God did not give you a spirit that

  1102. backs down from the assignment he gave

  1103. you. Jesus broke through in the

  1104. wilderness. Watch this. Timothy broke

  1105. through in Ephesus. The church has

  1106. broken through on Pentecost. And guess

  1107. what? Now you and your family will break

  1108. through in Jesus' name. Come on. Your

  1109. breakthrough is coming. Your healing is

  1110. coming. Come on. Your deliverance IS

  1111. COMING. A WAY IS GOING TO BE MADE. YOUR

  1112. PURPOSE IS GOING TO BE revealed through

  1113. his power. God never gives assignments

  1114. without giving grace. He never calls

  1115. people he hasn't already provided a way

  1116. for.

  1117. That is reassurance to my heart because

  1118. then

  1119. I go to the voice that I want to listen

  1120. to. And what voice is that, pastor?

  1121. That's this word.

  1122. So, can I just take you to the voice God

  1123. gave me this morning? Let's go to

  1124. Colossians chapter number two if you

  1125. would. Maybe we got that. I don't know

  1126. if we got it or not. If not, I can look

  1127. it up real fast. Colossians. Oh, there

  1128. it is. Colossians chapter number two.

  1129. It's in the Passion translation. So,

  1130. just bear with me. It's a little more

  1131. lengthy, a little more descriptive, but

  1132. it said he canled out every legal

  1133. violation we had on our record and the

  1134. old arrest warrant that stood to indict

  1135. us. I don't know about you, but I'm

  1136. thankful for that right there. How many

  1137. thankful that God canled everything the

  1138. enemy said over your life? Oh my God. He

  1139. erased it all. Our sins, our stained

  1140. soul, he deleted IT ALL AND THEY CANNOT

  1141. be retrie. OH MY GOD. I SAID THEY CANNOT

  1142. BE RETRIEVED. YOU AIN'T GOT TO WORRY

  1143. ABOUT NOBODY digging up your past BABY

  1144. BECAUSE IN THE NAME OF JESUS, THEY

  1145. CANNOT BE FOUND. EVERYTHING WE ONCE WERE

  1146. IN ADAM HAS BEEN PLACED ONTO HIS CROSS

  1147. AND NOW PERMANENTLY THERE AS A PUBLIC

  1148. DISPLAY of cancellation. NOW FLIP OVER

  1149. TO THE NEXT ONE. THEN JESUS MADE A

  1150. PUBLIC SPECTACLE OF ALL POWERS AND

  1151. PRINCIPALITIES OF DARKNESS, STRIPPING

  1152. AWAY FROM THEM EVERY WEAPON AND ALL

  1153. THEIR SPIRITUAL AUTHORITY AND POWER TO

  1154. ACCUSE US. AND BY THE POWER OF THE

  1155. CROSS, JESUS LED THEM AROUND AS

  1156. PRISONERS. IN A PROCESSION OF TRIUMPH,

  1157. HE WAS NOT THEIR PRISONER. THEY WERE

  1158. HIS. IN THE NAME OF JESUS, I DON'T CARE

  1159. WHO TOLD YOU. I'VE GOT GOD'S WORD ON IT.

  1160. YOU ARE VICTORIOUS THIS MORNING. 1 2 3.

  1161. GIVE HIM PRAISE IN THE HOUSE.

  1162. You are victorious.

  1163. The devil, believe it or not,

  1164. has dis has been disarmed at Calvary.

  1165. He does not have the power

  1166. to induce fear or pain on your life.

  1167. Come on, somebody.

  1168. Why do you think he had to approach the

  1169. throne and ask for permission to touch

  1170. Job?

  1171. Because he didn't have the power.

  1172. And guess what? He still doesn't have

  1173. the power. Come, anybody thankful for

  1174. that today? Can we give God praise? Come

  1175. on. I I believe I believe in praising.

  1176. YOUR VICTORY MAY BE IN YOUR NEXT PRAISE,

  1177. BABY. I say you say, "Well, I'M

  1178. UNCOMFORTABLE PRAISING." IT'S TIME TO

  1179. GET COMFORTABLE BECAUSE JESUS IS ABOUT

  1180. TO RETURN AND WE GOING TO BE PRAISING

  1181. FOR ETERNITY. COME ON AND PRAISE HIM,

  1182. CHILD OF GOD. WE HAVE THE VICTORY.

  1183. Jesus did and still is leading the devil

  1184. around in a procession of triumph.

  1185. And if he declared with some of his last

  1186. words, "Greater work shall you do than

  1187. this because I go to my father, then

  1188. guess what? I got the devil on a leash

  1189. this morning and I'm parading him around

  1190. saying, "Look at what the Lord defeated

  1191. in my life." Come on. I'm parading

  1192. around cancer today and saying, "Look

  1193. what the look." Woo! Come on. I feel the

  1194. Holy Ghost IN THIS HOUSE. SOME of you

  1195. need to parade the enemy right out OF

  1196. THIS PLACE THIS MORNING AND SAY, "I KNOW

  1197. THAT I HAD HEART DISEASE BEFORE. I HAD

  1198. HIGH BLOOD PRESSURE BEFORE, BUT LOOK

  1199. WHAT THE LORD HAS DONE. I KNOW MY FAMILY

  1200. WAS LOST, BUT I'M LEADING AROUND THE

  1201. ENEMY AND SAYING, "PUT HIM TO SHAME

  1202. TODAY. I'VE GOT VICTORY OVER THE ENEMY."

  1203. CAN WE GIVE HIM A VICTORY PRAISE IN THE

  1204. HOUSE FOR THE FACT THAT WE'RE LEADING

  1205. AROUND the enemy?

  1206. So I say, who told you that?

  1207. WHO TOLD YOU YOUR KIDS were not going to

  1208. get saved?

  1209. WHO TOLD YOU YOUR MIND WAS NOT GOING TO

  1210. REGULATE?

  1211. WHO TOLD YOU THAT YOUR MONEY WAS NEVER

  1212. going to get right again? WHO TOLD YOU

  1213. YOUR marriage was going to crumble? Come

  1214. on. Who told you that?

  1215. So, I've got a prophetic feeling in my

  1216. spirit that when you ask that question

  1217. that I believe the Lord is going to

  1218. reveal something in your heart and in

  1219. your life and in your future and let you

  1220. see with clear eyes today where the

  1221. enemy's deception has always been and

  1222. declare over your life that I refuse to

  1223. go the way that the enemy wants me to

  1224. go. I refuse to go down like everybody

  1225. else went down. I will not go down WITH

  1226. A SHIP, BUT I WILL RISE AND SAY,

  1227. "Blessed is he who comes in the name of

  1228. the Lord. Greater is he that's in me

  1229. than he that's IN THE WORLD." OH, COME

  1230. ON. I AM BLESSED AND HIGHLY FAVORED.

  1231. OPEN UP YOUR DOORS AND SWING WIDE, YOU

  1232. HEAVENLY GAZE, AND LET THE king of glory

  1233. come in. So today, I say over your life

  1234. that the enemy has said a lot of things

  1235. to you in your wilderness season.

  1236. The truth is that if we approach this

  1237. from a carnal mindset or a mind mind

  1238. state, if we approached his voice with

  1239. carnality,

  1240. that we are very subject to believe what

  1241. he would say over our life. But today,

  1242. I'm asking you to come to a higher level

  1243. and not look at this thing through

  1244. carnal eyes, but look at this thing

  1245. through spirit eyes.

  1246. Who told you that? Guess what? If it's

  1247. leading to defeat, if it's leading to

  1248. sickness, if it's leading to brokenness,

  1249. if it's leading to divorce, the only

  1250. person that could tell me that is the

  1251. devil. But if it's leading to life and

  1252. blessing, come on, somebody and

  1253. abundance and grace that I choose to

  1254. believe the voice of the Lord today over

  1255. my life. And I will not listen to the

  1256. voice of the enemy. So all over this

  1257. house, every head bowed, every eye

  1258. closed, the voice that I choose to

  1259. listen to is the voice of God's word.

  1260. So today, we do not retreat. We don't

  1261. surrender.

  1262. We will not live intimidated.

  1263. And we do not allow fear to determine

  1264. our future. We are walking through this

  1265. wilderness season declaring we aren't

  1266. the enemy's prisoner. He is our

  1267. prisoner. Oh.

  1268. Oh. Can we raise our hands and thank God

  1269. for his power? Thank God for his

  1270. goodness. Thank God for his grace. Oh, I

  1271. declare it in the name of Jesus. I

  1272. declare in the name of Jesus that this

  1273. will not be the end. This will be the

  1274. beginning of something beautiful and

  1275. powerful. This will be the beginning of

  1276. something great and something amazing. I

  1277. declare in the name of Jesus, your

  1278. family's not going down. Your children

  1279. are not going down. Your health will not

  1280. fail you. I declare in the name of

  1281. Jesus, your money will turn around, sir.

  1282. Your money will turn around, ma'am. Your

  1283. children will not be lost. I declare to

  1284. you sir man that they will serve the

  1285. Lord. Put them on the altar. TRUST HIM

  1286. WITH THE HANDS OF GOD AND HE WILL TURN

  1287. THINGS AROUND when nobody else can do

  1288. it. So father in the name of Jesus in

  1289. this moment

  1290. who told us that the enemy tried to lie

  1291. to me. The enemy tried to put me in a

  1292. wilderness season and defeat me. But I

  1293. choose to say, "It is written."

  1294. Oh, it is written, "You shall worship

  1295. the Lord your God, and him only shall

  1296. you serve." I've got the enemy on a

  1297. leash today, parading him around, making

  1298. a show of him openly through the power

  1299. and grace and might of God. If you're in

  1300. this place

  1301. today and you say, "Pastor, I've been

  1302. walking through a wilderness season and

  1303. I need strength to make it through and

  1304. to see the expected end that God has for

  1305. me. I don't want to give up in it. I've

  1306. been hearing the voice of the enemy, but

  1307. yet I've already heard God's voice and I

  1308. I'm I'm having to distinguish between

  1309. the two. You're I'm right there with you

  1310. right now. And so I want to tell you,

  1311. you're not by yourself. But in this

  1312. moment, I implore you, hear the word of

  1313. the Lord that he has a plan for your

  1314. life. He has a purpose. He is not giving

  1315. up on you. And he has a plan. But today,

  1316. in exchange, in this moment of

  1317. transition, in this moment where the

  1318. enemy is speaking to you in the

  1319. wilderness, do not lend your ears to

  1320. him, but lend your ears to the heavenly

  1321. father who has a plan and purpose for

  1322. your life. Today, you can walk out of

  1323. here knowing that you're on the right

  1324. path, that you're in the right place,

  1325. that you're where God wants you to be,

  1326. but you've got to be willing to say yes

  1327. to the voice of the father and no to the

  1328. voice of the enemy. So, if you're in

  1329. this house, you say, "Pastor, I'm in

  1330. that wilderness season. I'm in that

  1331. place of exchange, that place of

  1332. transition. I need God to speak to me

  1333. one more time. I need to hear his voice

  1334. one more time." If that's you, and you

  1335. say, "I need you to pray for me." Just

  1336. raise your hand and say, "Pastor, pray

  1337. for me today." Come on. I see hands

  1338. going up all over this house. Hands

  1339. going up all over this house. My God, I

  1340. feel the Holy Spirit in this moment. I

  1341. want my prayer team to be prepared for

  1342. those that raise their hand cuz we're

  1343. going to go for broke. If you got to

  1344. leave, I I bless you in Jesus name. But

  1345. there's some in here that need some

  1346. breakthrough. Can I tell you Jesus had

  1347. breakthrough and today you're about to

  1348. have breakthrough, too. And I don't want

  1349. you to leave here without receiving that

  1350. breakthrough. If you raised your hand

  1351. and you say, "Pastor, I need help in

  1352. this wilderness season." I'm going to

  1353. tell you there's help right here at this

  1354. altar. So, without further ado, I'm

  1355. going to ask you to be brave. And if you

  1356. have to do it by yourself, do it by

  1357. yourself. Step out. Come to this altar

  1358. right now. You ready? 1 2 3. Come on.

  1359. Come on. With hands raised. Come to this

  1360. altar. I want my team to be ready. My

  1361. team to be ready to pray. I believe

  1362. God's about to break some folk through

  1363. right now. I believe he's going to do

  1364. it. When they come, you lay hands on

  1365. them. I believe that we're going to see

  1366. it. The gift of God is about to be

  1367. stirred up. What made us want to quit in

  1368. the first place? The wilderness season

  1369. that has wore us out. I DECLARE IT WILL

  1370. NOT be our demise. But in the name of

  1371. Jesus, we will stand. We will stand. WE

  1372. WILL NOT GIVE UP. WHO TOLD YOU THAT? I

  1373. DON'T CHOOSE TO BELIEVE THE VOICE OF THE

  1374. ENEMY, BUT I WILL BELIEVE THE REPORT of

  1375. the Lord. I WILL CHOOSE TO BELIEVE THE

  1376. REPORT of the Lord. HALLELUJAH.

  1377. In the name In the name of Jesus. In the

  1378. name of Jesus. IN THE NAME OF JESUS.

  1379. HALLELUJAH. HALLELUJAH.