Make the Break

Welcome to Gateway Churches Podcast.

Wherever you're tuning in from, we hope you're encouraged by today's message.

This is my first time speaking in 2022.

And it happens to be here with you.

I don't know if that's significant.

I don't know if God's trying to tell me there's a Texan inside of me.

Y'all.

I don't know if I'm about to get cowboy boots for my birthday this year.

I don't know, but but I am thrilled and I'm honored that it's with you guys.

And I have a word, I believe, from the Holy Spirit for this house.

The first conference at the Gateway Church Family.

A conference that is put there because we want to give God the first.

We want to give him the first of our attention, the first, of our offering, the first, of our devotion, the first, in our love, the first, in our gratitude.

And so we find ourselves at this first conference at a church that is known as not just in name being a gateway, but actually in who you are as a people, have become a gateway for others to find Jesus, for others to find truth, for others to find a way to live a life with Jesus at the center.

And so I felt God arrest me, which I really don't like that he feels he can do that to us, right?

When you just like, you have your plan, and God's like, that's lovely, but that's not my plan.

Like that happens to me all the time.

Like, God, why am I always wrong?

Why do I always have the wrong plan?

I thought this was a really great plan.

But but I was on the way here and I felt God just whisper into my spirit that at this first conference, though it is the last night, that God wants to set you a challenge, church.

He wants to speak into your lives about taking some first steps.

When we say first steps, that term, right?

We think about when a child takes their first steps.

And if you've ever been there with a child or you have a toddler or you're right at that stage, you're the parent and you're watching them, and they're about to make the biggest discovery of their life thus far.

They're about to realize, oh my gosh, I was not designed to do this.

I actually have things that do this.

This is amazing.

And so they begin to like lift their little body up, and you're stood there and you're like, Yeah, you can do it, you can do it.

And you know it's not gonna be pretty, and you know it's gonna be a little awkward, and you know there's gonna be a minute where the step becomes a fall, and you're ready for it, and you're prepared for it, but everything in you is like, this is what you were designed to do.

And so they take a first step, and all of a sudden, a whole new world opens up of possibility, a whole new level of perspective opens up because now they're not on their belly, they're on their feet.

A whole new realm of mischief has opened up because now I have access to things before that were denied to me.

And I just got to thinking just these last two days, as you've been on my mind and you are on God's mind, that when did we stop taking first steps?

Like, when did we think that that only happens because we are a child, as it were, in the natural?

When when there is so much more for us to discover of who our father is that will require us to take a lot more first steps moments with him if we're really gonna discover who he is and his greatness and his majesty and his length and his depth and his width, we're gonna have to take a lot more first steps in our faith and in our trust and in our believing and in our giving and in our receiving and in our expecting.

There's so many more first steps, and just like a parent in the natural, I have this picture of God who is your parent, who is your father going, you can do it.

There is a level beyond the level, there is a step beyond the step, there is new possibilities and new perspectives and new areas for you to get into mischief in the best possible way for my kingdom, and he's encouraging you, and sometimes we just get so stuck.

And if there's ever been a season of stuckness, it has been the last couple of years, and I'm telling you, the enemy has had a little subplot going on where he's tried to get us as the people of God back down to crawling level, and we began to lower our expectations and lower our beliefs and lower our commitments and lower our attendance and lower our faith and lower our giving and lower our prayer life.

We've gone all the way back to the bottom level, and God's like, I did not design you to do life down at this level.

I am asking you to come higher.

There is a call to come higher.

Now, listen, I I I have a treadmill, and you know, I go on my treadmill, but I have to tell you there's a button on my treadmill that I never use.

It is called incline.

I'm like, I don't like that button.

I'm like good on the flat.

This is fine for me.

I don't need to be messing with no incline.

This machine does not need to go up.

Up is not good, flat is better, and so I incline and me don't get along.

And then I just a few weeks ago was in Switzerland.

I know I was suffering in Switzerland.

I feel your sympathy as I said it.

But the thing about Switzerland is if you don't like incline, you're not gonna have the full experience.

And church, if you don't like incline, you're not gonna have the full experience.

Gateway, if you don't like incline, you're not gonna have the full experience.

And in my spirit, I felt God says for your house, for this house, there is a new way, there is new territory, there is new ground, there is new wind, there is new words, there is a new stretch coming, but you're gonna have to be ready for the climb.

You're gonna have to be ready for the climb because God is calling you higher, his ways are higher, his thoughts are higher.

And I know we've had two years of lower, lower, but I'm here to let you know that is not the voice of God.

The voice of God is saying, I don't follow the way of the world.

You follow the way of the word, and my call is higher.

Revelation 2, verse 29 talks about have you got ears to hear?

Revelation 2:29

Do you know that there is some the spirit's blowing windwards?

The message Bible says, windwards through the church.

No, the thing about catching windwards is you have to get higher.

I have a friend, and he built wind turbines, and they cost a lot of money.

And I was like, why would you build those things?

And he kept building it higher and higher and higher, and he began to explain to me I have to get the turbine as high as I can because then I'm away from the distraction and the distortion of the buildings and of all the structures that are getting in the way.

And if I get past those, I can catch the wind, and the wind gives me more power and saves me energy.

And I'm letting you know some of you are doing your life at this level, and you're exhausted, and it's taking all your time and all your effort.

And if you just come higher, you'd catch some wind words which will give you power, which would actually reduce your energy bills, but make your life feel so much better.

There are some wind words, there are some new ways, but we have to climb.

And so I want to encourage you, and I want to challenge you in the time that I have with you about doing just that, about taking some first steps that might look like an incline, taking some first steps that like look like stepping out in a way you haven't before, taking some first steps in trusting and believing so that this year is a year where you have a new perspective.

See, the thing is about God that I discovered in Switzerland when I actually agreed to go up a mountain.

And and when I mean go up a mountain, not in an elevator, there are no elevators, not on an escalator, there are no escalators.

And I know some of you have been doing Christianity looking for elevators, but I'm let here today, you know, they're out of order, they're out of order, and you're gonna have to take the stairs.

And God's gonna want you to take some first steps, and we don't like taking first steps because sometimes when you take first steps in a new area or you step out to do a new thing, you're a little shaky, just like that child, that and you might fall, and it might be embarrassing, and there's nothing like the church to laugh at you when you fall.

But what we've got to get is the heart of God, where we go, I know you might fall, but I'm here for it because I know within you are walks that you've yet to discover.

I know within you are heights that you've yet to explore, and I found this about God that when I got to the top of the mountain, I'm like, oh my gosh.

You'll never guess what?

There's stuff up here that you can't see down there.

Like, how cheeky is God?

He's like, I'm hiding some stuff.

You know, like when a friend comes and they've got toddlers, you're like, everything goes higher, everything, the children and grandkids are coming, everything goes higher, candlesticks higher, glass higher, vase higher, everything goes higher.

Why?

Because you realize they're not yet at the maturity to appreciate the value.

So you have to lift it a little bit higher so that when they mature, they can appreciate it instead of damage it.

So God's asking you to go higher because He wants you to know I have some stuff up there, but your maturity is needed so that when you get it, you understand the purpose of it instead of thinking it's all about the pleasure of it.

But it's not actually about you, it's about me in you.

And at the top of the mountain, suddenly the air was thinner, which means you talk less.

And I found God quite likes that.

Because I can talk a lot.

I found my husband liked it too.

Like, we should go up mountains more often.

You don't say much other than wow.

Some of your marriage is stuck, and you're thinking of quit.

No, just come higher, just be more mature.

Some of you are hurt.

No, just come higher and see that that's human, and I'm God, and you know what?

You are human, and I'm still God, and and some of you are uh disappointed, and some of you are hurt, and some of you are dealing with all kinds of things, and some of you have battles going on, and God's saying, Listen, you're asking me for answers, but I'm not gonna bring them lower.

I'm gonna ask you to come higher, I'm gonna ask you to climb.

This is a year of incline for you because there is something far greater if you'll just take some steps, some first steps.

We have to deal with the things, therefore, that are holding us back.

And I think oftentimes we don't know what that is, right?

It reminds me of the time, and I was reminded of this story literally on the way here.

Um, and I felt God say, Remember that time when you did this to your husband?

It's like, God, why would you remind me of that?

But but there was a time when we were away and we were camping and we had our kids and they were smaller.

So we had a bicycle, and the bicycle had one of those, you know, like carriages to put your little kid in.

And so my husband had the responsibility of cycling the smallest one up the hill back to where he went.

So I didn't tell my husband, but I just decided that what we needed was a lot of logs, because that night we should do a fire.

Well, at the back of the carriage that the child rode in was like a pocket that you couldn't actually see.

So I didn't tell my husband, didn't think to pass on the information, and I piled like 20 logs in the back of that carriage.

And so we set off, you know, back to the campground, and we're all doing good on the flat, we're all together on the flat.

We get to the top, and I'm unpacking.

I'm like, where did Steve go?

Like, literally, where did Steve go?

Well, it was about 40 minutes later, and my husband appeared, and he was not feeling Jesus in that moment.

He was not a happy boy.

And he's like, Really?

Really?

You failed to tell me there were 20 logs in the back of the child carrier?

I was like, honestly, I didn't think it was a problem.

No, not a problem until we needed to go higher.

And I feel that's what the enemy does.

He like stacks logs, offenses, regrets, shame.

He like just stuffs them in the back.

And so that we're good on the flat.

But when God starts to call you higher, you're like, why can't I get there?

Why why why is it so hard?

And you're like, I don't understand why everyone's passing me because I want to, but what you didn't realize is you've got all this stuff in the back, and you're gonna have to make a decision.

Do you want the logs or do you want to get to the top?

And if you want to get to the top, we're gonna have to lose some logs.

So, guess what I didn't get?

Logs.

In the Bible, there's a story.

It's actually a story of two different people, and they just needed to lose some stuff.

And I actually don't think that to them they realized that it had become something that was holding them back.

But as you begin to read the story and you begin to think about what it represents, you begin to see that the freedom could only come when they began to break some stuff in their life.

And I want to say to you, some of the best breakthrough in 2022 is gonna require something breaking in you.

We all know the story of the alabaster jar.

The Bible tells us actually about two different accounts of two women that both had a jar, and and those jars were significant.

And just for the next few moments, I want to help you take some new steps, some first steps, but you're gonna have to learn how to break some jars, lose some logs, so that you can come up higher into finer air in 2022.

See, the jar, the alabaster jar that we read about, that we have all heard stories about, was more significant than maybe you realize.

Because those jars were given to a girl when she got close to the age of being ready to be betrothed in marriage.

The family would give her a jar, and the jar was filled with precious ointment, with a perfume, with a fragrance that was expensive, it was costly.

And the idea was we are now giving this to you because we have an expectation that at this season of your life you will find someone to now move on and do life with, and you will become, therefore, someone that will provide children and legacy for our family.

And so the alabaster ja represented an expectation and also a hope for a future.

And therefore, when the girl took it, she would hold it, knowing this is something I shouldn't hold on to because this has to be broken at that point, because it represents my family saying, Thank you for taking me as your wife.

This is a dowry, this is a this is a sign of our gratitude.

So when we find these stories in the Bible of these two women that have an alabaster jar, you have to understand that that means that the jar that should have by now been broken is still sat on a shelf.

One of the jars is the jar of Mary, who is the sister of Lazarus, that we know from reading all those Bible stories, and she clearly was without a husband, and we know that she had this alabaster jar on the shelf in the cupboard, as it were, at her home.

And then the other woman that we read about in Luke 7, she is someone that we don't even know the name of, but we also know she still had a jar and were told she had a very sinful life.

And I want you to understand that what often happens in life is we begin to collect jars.

They're like they're like things that we expected to happen, like hopes that were waiting for something to happen, like like generosity that would be the result of something else happening, like giving or tithing that will happen when I get the promotion, like a commitment that I'm gonna make to the house of God once the people of God prove to me they're worth it.

Like I'm gonna go and join a small group once everybody measures up to my standard of small group material.

Like I'll really fully give myself into that marriage when I fully feel he's met my scorecard.

Like, like I'll release forgiveness when that person shows me they deserve my forgiveness.

Like I'll let go of the issue when I feel I've had my side of the issue heard.

I don't know what your jar is, but can I tell you?

We begin to bottle stuff.

We begin to say to ourselves, I'm just holding that back until that happens.

I'm just holding my honor back until I feel honored.

I'm just holding my commitment back until I feel the same commitment.

And and slowly but surely we start to collect jars.

So these women, they had jars on their shelf, and the jar said, Well, you can't break this because you've not met the guy.

You can't you can't let what's in it flow from it until that moment happens.

And so what was meant for anointing had become an ornament.

And I think so much in the church, and so many times we've held back what actually God wants us to let go of.

Because in our minds, somebody told us it has to be a certain way.

And some of you have bottled up thanksgiving and bottled up joy and bottled up generosity and bottled up commitment and bottled up peace, and I don't know what you're waiting for, and I'm not sure 2022 is gonna give you what you're waiting for.

So the best thing I can tell you, if God is calling you higher and this has become a log in the back of your life, maybe, just maybe, God is trying to tell you it is time to smash some jars.

I almost called Pastor Rob and said, Could you get a plate for everybody that is in the building or at home and online?

Because we're gonna have a plate smashing ceremony at the end of the service, because I just feel in my spirit that the first thing that some of you need to do in the first of the year is to smash some stuff that you cannot take any further into your future because it is holding you back in a way that God wants to release you.

But just like these two women, the jar had to go on a journey, so does yours.

So we read in the Bible that these two women that have these jars have to go on a very different journey.

And so when we turn to the story of Mary and Herjah that we find in John 12, it reads this way it says, Jesus entered Bethany where Lazarus so recently raised from the dead was living.

Just think about that.

Lazarus and his sisters invited Jesus to dinner at their home.

Martha served.

Lazarus was one of those sitting at the table with them.

Think about that.

And then he just says this completely out of context.

Mary goes and gets a jar.

You know what?

I feel maybe just maybe something was going on along the lines.

She had to go on a journey.

Past familiarity.

Because there's just some jars that we will never smash while ever we are so familiar with the things that actually we've begun to take for granted that actually, if we thought about it for more than a second, we would realize, my goodness, why am I holding something back for a man when I have at the table the one who will give me more than any human ever could, and I have a jar on my shelf for some guy who love you, man, but he's not gonna be Jesus all the time.

Hello, you know what I'm saying?

And think about it, she's in a house.

Jesus, who's just been going around telling them in different ways what's about to happen.

Jesus is in her house at the table.

Meanwhile, Lazarus, who just let us know a few days earlier was dead.

Side note.

Like not like, you know, not having a nap on the sofa, like dead.

And it says, Jesus and Judas are just chilling at the table.

And I just wonder if she was walking past the table.

Like she's done so many other times because Jesus had been at that table.

And she's walking past the table, and she just thought she's like Jesus.

There's no one that will ever do for us what Jesus is about to do for us.

There is no one that can love like this man, there's no one that can point us to truth like the one that's point to the truth.

There's no one that shows up like he has shown up.

There's no one that is like him, and I have a jar with oil on my shelf.

For what?

And I think she went in that pantry.

She was like, I'm saving this, and there's the savior.

I'm holding this, and there's the one that holds me.

I'm keeping this like it's some precious thing when the most precious thing that I could ever be given is right here.

Why is this jar still on the shelf?

This jar must be broken at his feet.

And church, I have to tell you, we get so familiar.

We just stroll on in the building.

It's just gateway, just church.

Just worship.

I did this last year.

The feelings become who we follow.

I don't know where you've allowed your feelings to take you in this last season.

But they will not take you to the place that your faith wants to take you.

And sometimes we have to realize that there's things in our life that we are holding on to that if we would just break the jar, something inside us would break.

We would suddenly realize, man, the aroma is so powerful.

It's not supposed to be bottled forever.

And there's never a better moment than when Jesus is in the room, when you're at his feet, when you realize his goodness, to let it go.

And some of you, you need to let it go in your worship and in your gratitude.

You need to take new steps in your expression of love for him.

Some of you need to run back to the house of God because you've become so familiar with it.

And now, online church, and I love you if you're watching online, but you need community and you need a home and you need family and you need belonging because that's the steps it takes.

Sometimes those steps feel shaky, and sometimes those steps feel like, I'm not sure, but I'm telling you, the enemy wants us to jar up our praise, jar up our worship, jar up our gratitude, jar up our offering, jar up.

And Jesus is right there.

And we're like, well, maybe I'll worship.

Maybe I won't.

Maybe I'll give my heart.

Maybe I won't.

You have an opportunity to go on a journey and collect all the jazz.

You know, the Bible says that he's not gonna pour new wine.

You want some new wine.

He just smashed some jazz.

Second woman.

In Luke Seven, she had to go on a journey.

She heard Jesus was in town.

She'd heard about him.

She didn't feel she deserved to meet him.

She knew who she was, she knew the life she led.

She was frightened to take any steps near a building where anyone would profess to be religious because she knew when she got near, she would not be welcomed.

In fact, she would be judged and humiliated.

And maybe that's what's happened to you.

Maybe you've stayed away.

Maybe you've held back.

Maybe you felt I can't step into the things of God.

I can't climb higher because you don't know what I've done.

And maybe when she looked at the jar on her shelf, it reminded her of all the ways that she'd wasted her life on men that had promised her one thing and then never gave her what they said they would give her.

Maybe the jar represented disappointment and shame.

Maybe it represented a life that she felt that she should have had but never had.

And maybe you have held some things back for the same reasons in your story.

But it says in Luke 7 that this woman who was in the town, who'd lived a sinful life, she heard that Jesus was at the Pharisees' house.

And so she got her alabaster jar.

And something inside her said, I am going to where he is.

And let me tell you, she had to take that jar and walk past the streets where she had walked.

She had to take that jar and go past the door of the man that said, I love you, and then used her.

She had to go past the places where she knew that they knew her for what she had done.

She had to go past all the places with a jar in her hand.

But she said to herself, This time, this day, I am not gonna live like I lived before.

My jar will not be left on my shelf.

If he is who they say he is, I'm gonna break this jar at his feet because his feet are not like any other man's feet.

And when I break this jar, something inside me will break.

And I care what shame's kept you or situations kept you, but I'm telling you, this is a year to take some steps, to take some first steps, to walk in a way that maybe you've never walked before with your jar.

Now, when you go on the journey with your jar, side note, you'll have your jar, you'll have a journey, but thirdly, there'll be a jury.

There always is.

So when Mary carries a jar to Jesus and begins to break her jar, guess who speaks up?

Judas.

Judas goes, Why?

Hello?

Wasn't this oil sold and money given to the poor?

It would have easily brought 300 silver pieces.

He said this not because he cared two cents about the poor, but because he was a thief.

And he was in charge of their common funds and also embezzled them.

Hello.

When you break your jar, the jury will show up because your generosity will re will reveal some people's lack of generosity.

Your integrity, your truth, your freedom will make some people uncomfortable.

That's the thing about steps.

Sometimes when you take them, you don't understand that some people are gonna feel stepped on.

So Judas, all of a sudden, at the sign of extravagance, begins to get extra.

Because the enemy does not want what is in that jar to come out in the year ahead, he does not want that marriage to have a different aroma, he does not want the peace to be in your house, he does not want prosperity in your life, he does not want freedom in those areas, he wants it to stay in the jar so the jury gets real vocal.

Why are you going to church?

Why are you giving them your money?

Why are you turning up at first conference?

What are you doing around all those people?

What's wrong with you?

Come back down, get lower.

Don't you know that's where it's going on?

I don't want to be part of what's going on lower.

I don't want to hold back because you're gonna be exposed.

I'm sorry if my freedom is revealing inside of you a control issue.

I'm sorry if my trust is revealing inside of you a mistrust.

I'm sorry if my generosity is revealing inside of you a stinginess.

I'm sorry, but I can't anymore keep it in the jar because I'm frightened of a Judas or for this woman.

She was frightened of the Pharisees or those that said, Jesus, if you only knew.

Church, every campus, those online, so many of you have run away, stayed away, because you feel to yourself the voice will be loud that says, if you only knew, Jesus is like, I know.

Because here's the thing when you get past the jury, you get to Jesus.

And when you get to Jesus and you break your jar, Jesus begins to speak.

And he says, Do you not see?

Do you not see this woman?

I came into your house and you did not give me any water for my feet, but she wept my hair, my feet with her tears and wiped them with her hair.

You did not give me a kiss, but this woman from the time I entered has not stopped kissing my feet.

You did not put oil on my head, but she has poured perfume on my feet.

Therefore, I tell you, her many sins are being forgiven, as her great love has shown.

Whoever has been forgiven, little loves little.

And Jesus goes on to say, Don't you know that what happened in this moment will be remembered?

Will be talked about?

We're talking about it now in 2022, but we would not be talking about it if the jar was still on the shelf.

And your story in 2022 does not have to be a repeat of 2020 or 2021.

But the difference is not in often what God is gonna do.

The difference is are you going to come higher?

Are you gonna bring the jar to the feet of Jesus?

Are you gonna allow some things to break within you?

This is a year where your breakthrough might cost you a breaking, but the breaking changes the aroma.

Are you tired of the stink in your marriage?

Are you tired of the stink in your parenting?

Are you tired of the stink in the things that you're doing that you think you're ashamed and feel so bad about, but you keep doing them anyway?

Are you tired of the stink of the addiction?

I'm letting you know the aroma changes when we start to break some jars, when we start to give God our first, our best, when we start to come up higher, when we start to commit deeper, when we start to serve longer, when we start to sound stronger.

And I'm telling you, we're not made to crawl.

You were meant, my friend, to climb.

And there are new heights, gateway, and there are new levels, and there's a new wind, and there's a new wineskin, and there's a new way, and there's a new heart, and there's all these things that God has, but I'm telling you, some things have to be smashed.

That's between you and God.

So I'm gonna ask on every single campus, online and in the room here, who's ready to smash some stuff?

Who's ready this year to say, old wineskin is gone.

I'm not holding back, I'm not, I'm not.

Some of you need to tell someone I love you, you've held it back.

Some of you need to say, I'm sorry, you've held it back.

Some of you need to get on your knees in worship and say, God, I want to pour out my worship.

I don't want to be a stingy worshiper anymore.

Some of you need to write a tithe check and say, I am in, all in.

Some of you need to begin to get back to that place.

And yes, you might feel shaky, but I'm telling you, God is there like a father going, take the step, take the step, take the step, take the step.

New heights, new levels, but you got to take the step.

So if you are willing to take a step on this last night of the first conference, if you're saying 2022 is gonna be my breakthrough, and I'm willing to smash some stuff, then I want you to stand to your feet here in the room, at every campus, online, in your kitchen, in your bathroom, in your bedroom, the presence of God is wherever you are willing to meet with him.

And I want us if you're saying, God, there's something I know, and I'm a little scared about it, but God, I am not gonna allow what is meant for anointing to stay as an ornament anymore.

You know, David.

All his life, he's like, God, I want it to look this way.

This is what I think it's gonna look like.

I'm gonna build that house, I'm gonna do that thing.

I fought my battles, like that's that's kind of what God's like, hey, plot twist, plan change.

You know, at that point, he had the opportunity to go, okay, I must have my jar.

This is my jar.

I'm just gonna put my jar over here.

Let's just see how Solomon does.

When you're ready, Lord, I'm here, and I'll bring back my wisdom, and I'll bring my provision and I'll show you how to do it right.

That was an option.

You know what David said?

He's gonna take some first steps.

I'm gonna be really shaky, and I'm gonna wish I could take him for him.

But God told me that this is his plan, and we're gonna go higher.

So, you know what I'm gonna do instead of holding my jar?

You know what David did?

He smashed his jar.

You know what that looked like?

He called all his mates.

Hey mates, I'm gonna need your woodman, woodman, I'm gonna need your metal workers, I'm gonna need you to bring a few boats over, I'm gonna need a few craftsmen, because my son, he's awesome, but he has no clue how to do the handiwork.

So we're all gonna help him out.

And you know what David did?

He just got busy breaking his jar.

Here's a jar of connection, here's a jar of network, here's a jar of possibility, here's a jar of provision.

Which is why when Solomon stood before God and God's like, son, what do you need?

He's like, Dad took care of that, dad took care of that, dad took care of that, so uh uh my first step?

Oh, I just need wisdom.

Right?

But when we hold back, when we hold back, we leave a whole nother set of people taking their first steps to have to re find everything we already found.

Because we're all holding on to our jars like it's my jar, but it's my jar, and I want it to go this way before I let my jar out.

I'm letting you know we've gotta change the aroma.

We're gonna change the aroma in the church and the aroma in your world and the aroma in your marriage.

We've gotta start breaking some stuff.

Breaking some stuff.

Woo!

New wine! Needs new wine skins.

So if you're up for it, raise your hands.

God, we stand in your presence.

On the last evening of the first conference, when God, you've spoken to us from the life of Job.

You've spoken to us from the life of those that handled Moses and Pharaoh.

You've spoken to us about our pain.

And now, God, you're speaking to us about our steps.

God, you're inviting us to come higher.

You're asking us to let some things go so that something new can grow.

You're telling us that there are windwards.

You're telling there's that new ground.

You're telling there's a higher call.

And God, your ways are higher.

And so, God, we don't ask you to come lower.

Oh no, God, we say we're up for a card.

Show us the stuff that's higher.

Show us the new perspective, God, we break our jars.

What we have held back, I pray we would lay it first at your feet.

I pray we put you back first.

We bring you our first and our best in every area.

Whatever the job looks like, whether it's in our marriage or in our business or in our finances or in our dreaming or in our planning.

God, I pray for this house.

That is a gateway, that is a house of legacy, that is a house of birth.

God, I pray for fresh fire, for fresh win, for new anointing, for an aroma to rise up.

The people will say, like it was said of that woman, this oil, this fragrance, anointed the one that was anointed to go and pay the ultimate price.

That what we do here will speak for generations for those to come.

Let the aroma, let the atmosphere shift.

God, we will not let the world's fragrance rest on us.

We'll become those who are jawbreakers at the feet of Jesus.

Thank you, God.

The Spirit of God is moving.

He's speaking to some of you about such particular situations.

He's talking to some of you about coming back to the house of God, recommitting, giving again, worshipping afresh, your marriage, your children, your dreams.

And I'm letting you know right now on every campus, as we release this back to the campuses, there's gonna be someone that is gonna guide you to now take another step, to smash that jar, to come and get prayer, to agree in that moment, to mark this moment at the end of this conference by doing something significant.

So as I say amen here in the room, in the room where you are, let God now begin to carry on ministering to you.

Oh, God's people said.

Amen.

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