Sunday Message (1st service) - Pastor Brad Neuschwander (February 22, 2026) | Life Bible Church

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enjoy this week's message. Oh, there is so much

that is just kind of swirling around this morning.

I'm trying to make sure I step right. in what

the Lord wants to do. I sent several sets of

notes, one again this morning while I was in

the prayer room of just something I felt like

the Lord quickened, and then I got something

on the front row, and so I got about three cartridges

for a one -barrel gun here. I'm trying to figure

out what we do this morning. You know, as we're

in the prayer room, the theme was on the anointing,

Pastor Jenny. got up and talked about the anointing.

She talked about the several aspects of the anointing.

And I really do think that this morning, God

is trying to release a message to his people

that you've got to understand. That if you're

going to move in kingdom authority and move in

kingdom power, you're going to have to get used

to operating in an anointing that's in the presence

of your enemies. I'm just talking to you now

just kind of out of what I feel like the Spirit

of God has been talking to me about just speaking.

You know, David prayed. The wonderful prayer

of Psalms 23, the Lord is my shepherd. You know,

he leads me beside still waters. He restores

my soul. All of those things God does. For his

name's sake, he causes me to dwell in green,

rich pastures, the feeding of the word, that

shepherd nature. He restores my soul. He walks

with me through the valley of the shadow of death

where I fear no evil. He knows how to, if I could

just take it off the word death for a second

and just say, yes, he does walk through times

of where we go through deep grief and sorrow

of death is taken a loved one or taken at a time

of departure. But it also, death also represents

times of loss of a vision or loss of something

that you didn't think should have. that God gave

you that all of a sudden now you're having to

mourn and put away. He walks through you with

those valleys. And he leads you to a place called

his table. Yes, it's the communion table. Yes,

it's part of that. But it's the table of the

Lord. It's where all the things of God, his,

who he is. This is the important part because

if you don't, Eat at the table. You anoint my

head with oil, my cup runneth over, but you prepare

a table before me in the presence of my enemies.

So the preparation of the table means that God

sets down things or is willing to lay out things

of his nature, of his character, of his word,

all that is available. It is done now. not in

this wonderful, and sometimes this is how we

think, in a wonderful kind of just pristine meadow

where there's poppies and sunflowers and the

trees are singing and the rocks are kind of just

playing bass and just this place where everything

moves wonderfully under the anointing. God sets

this spread and kind of like, I can't even remember

her name, but like the sound of music in Bavaria.

I come to the table with the sound of Jesus.

You know, sometimes we think that that's the

nature of how God will prepare a table before

us. We forget the next part of the verse, in

the presence of mine enemies. Now, sometimes

it's not just the enemies that have decided to

talk ill about you at work or backstab you to

get a promotion or all of that other type of

stuff. Sometimes it's the enemies of what we

heard today in regard to your healing. He prepares

a table. What does the table have? It has revelation.

It has insight. Because the table always is connected

to the word. The word, come on somebody, the

word sits at the table. When we say we're gonna

fellowship with Jesus, we're gonna commune with

Jesus, the word sits at his table. And at his

table are the things, that's why the Bible says,

oh, taste and see that the Lord is good. And

so there's a reality of eating at the table of

the Lord the things that speak directly to your

enemies. Who are your enemies that are sitting

at the table? David didn't say God's enemies.

Because that's sometimes where we go. Well, the

enemies are the enemies of God and me. No, no,

no, no, no. David said what? He said. You prepare

a table before me in the presence of my enemy.

He made it personal. He understood that there

was things that were coming specifically against

him. He had enemies. Some of them, those enemies

manifested in the flesh. Some of them, they were

in people. Some of them, what we recognize was

an enemy. inside of him or trying to get to him

to not eat the truth of God's word and trust

God's character, his word, or his spirit in that

area. And it's in that place, and it's always

in that place when it says, he prepares a table

before me, and I'm in Psalms 23 for those that

are on the computer. You can put it on the screen

here, and this isn't my note, so just FYI. In

the presence of my enemies, my cup, he anoints

my head with oil, my cup runneth over. And then,

surely and goodness follow me. Surely goodness

and mercy. The three. No, the two. Goodness and

mercy. But I gotta get. Before I can quote goodness

and mercy, I've got to get my cup filled and

running over. A cup running over means there's

no room left in me for anything else but what

comes from him. Can I just exhort you a little

bit this morning? There's no, I mean, I think

you heard it a little bit as we were trying to

highlight some of the healings that have taken

place in the last couple, well, not just the

conference. We've had healings before, healings

after. Why? We're contending for healing. Why?

Because Jesus Christ paid for it. He paid for

it. And what David was dealing with here Is he

was dealing with the nature of the shepherd.

The Lord is my shepherd. He leads me beside the

still waters. He restores my soul through green

pastures for his name's sake. What was David

dealing with? First he was dealing with his identity

and who God was to him. Right? He's my shepherd.

Everything in that psalm. is about me, me, me.

Now normally, I don't like preaching about me,

me, me, my, my, my. But in this case, it's biblical

that you have to have a me, my relationship with

the shepherd king. The Lord is my. That's the

identity. He's mine. He's mine. He's not just

somebody else's. He's not just. Derek's. He's

not just David's. He's not Artie's. He's not

Julianna's, Anna's. He's not James's. He's not

Carrie's or Troy's or Chelsea's. He's my shepherd.

Lord is my shepherd. Does he walk with me? Does

he feed me? Does he counsel me? Do I trust the

shepherd? The sheep hear my voice. You connect

David to every New Testament scripture about

Jesus being the good shepherd. Do you trust him?

It starts with the trust of the me and the my.

And then it comes to the fact in that beginning

process, he restores your soul. He leads you

to green pastures for his namesake. He leads

you beside still water. First thing he comes

as a shepherd is he doesn't put you in the white

water. He doesn't put you in the rapids. They

come. But he starts the raft off. How many know,

if you've ever been on a river rafting trip,

they don't just put in at the rapids. Right?

They'd like to have some return business. So

they put you in in the still water. They put

you in where things are smooth, where there's

a more placid effect. Jesus leads you beside

still waters. He leads to green pastures. Why?

What's he doing? He's getting you to trust that

this is what it's like when you're with the shepherd.

Because he knows that there's going to be rapids

that come and he knows that you're going to take

a walk through things that have darkness and

valleys and have even death around it that you're

going to have to trust him like you trusted him

when you first met him and put your strength

in the one who took you to pastures, strengthened

you, resolved who your identity is is not what

others have said but who he said. To get you

to the place Where you could come to his table

now in the maturity of your walk with him. Now

this is what I believe the Lord is speaking to

this house. And this is my exhortation to you.

The Lord is speaking. Not that there won't be

green pastures because that's the nature of the

shepherd. He always gives. He's the feeder. We

talk about that in scripture when it says he's

the shepherd. Jesus feeds the sheep. And there's

a principle. Whoever becomes, whatever your title

is, it doesn't matter. If you're a shepherd,

you have to be a feeder. And so Jesus, as the

chief shepherd, is the chief feeder. He feeds

his word. He feeds understanding. illumination,

knowledge. He feeds. And that's where we have

to come. If I was to say, where are we at in

the journey? We talked a little bit last week

about Israel coming out and learning to trust

in the nature of their God. Here it is again.

You have to be willing now to go to his table

once he's moved you past. the wonderful places

in Bavaria with the Julie Andrews, there it is,

the name, of singing and frolicking in mountain

pastures, you gotta be able to trust him now

because as you move as an ambassador, that's

a good word, keep going, an ambassador. What

does an ambassador do? Ambassador brings a message

from another place. As you move now as an ambassador,

you're going to have to learn to get to the table.

Because ambassadors aren't sent to still water

places. Just ask the Goulds. Just ask them. How

wonderful is that place? Well, there's wonderful

people there. But the regimes and the places,

I'm not gonna say the name, the regimes and the

places are not still waters. They're hostile

waters. Ambassadors have to learn to get to the

table in the middle of hostile environments.

Ambassadors have to be able to walk through the

shadow of death. Shadow. Meaning. Not allowing

the shadow to put any substance on them. It's

a shadow. It represents something. Yes, there's

something there. And yes, we understand that

Peter's shadow fell on people where they lined

them up on the sick and put them in the street.

And Peter's shadow fell on them because Peter

was walking with someone in the midst of contrary

that his shadow wasn't him. It was the presence

that was on him healed. But when you walk through

the shadow of death, that's a different thing.

Meaning I'm not gonna allow the spirit of darkness

that comes with death. I'm not gonna allow intimidation.

Come on, hear me. I'm not, because that's a shadow.

Intimidation, chaos. is a shadow. I'm prophesying

and speaking to things in the atmosphere even

now. Chaos, destruction, darkness, disunity,

every form of lying, maligning, deception, all

comes from a spirit of death, which is what?

The opposite of life. I'll walk through it. I'm

going to walk through it. I'm not going to allow

that shadow and its substance to land on me.

I'm going to move from Psalm 23 to a quick moment

to Psalm 91. Though it stalks at noonday, it

shall not come upon me. and fall by my side,

I will not fear. I will tread upon the lion and

the cobra. Why? Because my trust is in the Lord.

David understood something. There were a lot

of paths that led him on some dark tree lines

and some deep ravines. But the shadow of death,

I can trust Jesus. He leads me. He guides me.

And even though I walk through the valley, the

valley, the place where it's low, the place where

it's not a mountaintop experience. You see, ambassadors

are called to low places. In the natural, in

the natural, Everybody wants an ambassadorship

because they think it's a high place in the kingdom

of God. Ambassadorship means, no, you get to

take it to the low place. That's the nature of

the opposites of kingdoms. Come on, please hear

me. We talked about this before. Jesus' kingdom

is not a natural kingdom. Everybody wants an

appointment. Oh, send me to this and send me

to that and let me have this attache. diplomatic

immunity. You're a dip. That's for sure. But

in the kingdom of God the only diplomatic immunity

that you have is carrying the presence of the

one that walks with you. And you're not going

to some high place to be seen and to be served

by others, you're going to the low places of

the earth where the poor and the broken and the

needy and those that need a touch of God can

come by the anointing because an ambassador understands

that I've been strengthened by the still waters.

I've learned the shepherd in the green pastures

and now I can come to the table in the midst

of an atmosphere and have... my cup full. And

it will overflow. And it will overflow with the

anointing. And then in the midst of it, goodness

and mercy strike out after me. And it follows

me all the days of my life. And then I will dwell.

In the house of the Lord. Why? Because I've been

dwelling there. When I step into eternity. It

will not be because I've never opened that door.

It's because the door was already open. And I've

been dwelling in an atmosphere of heaven. And

I just step over. Come on. It's not because I

haven't seen it. Come on. Some of you need to

get a revelation today. First Corinthians chapter

two says, no eye has seen, no ear has heard what

God has prepared for those who love him. That

is not in the by and by and in the heaven up

yonder. That is for the now and now for the ambassador.

Why? It says because you can now have the mind

of Christ. It's now. Read the context. I'll be

happy to hear, when the roll is called up yonder,

I'll be there, but I better have heaven down

here. And that is what Jesus came to do. Now

we're transitioning to the written message. Jesus

came to bring what? He came to bring the reality

of his kingdom on the earth. And we've talked

about this. We'll just touch it. He lives to

serve. How did he do that? He constantly ate

at the table of the Lord. He fellowshiped with

his father. So much so, I say what I hear my

father. Says, I do what I see my father do. Meaning

what? There was an atmosphere of fellowship in

the spirit of God. He had to what? His enemies

were all around him, folks. He had to constantly.

That's why he said many times, did he not? When

the disciples went in John Ford to get, I don't

know, maybe some pita bread and some euros because

they were hungry. When they came back, they said,

Jesus, here, eat your sandwich. He goes, I have

food you know not of. And their immediate response

was, who brought him the pastrami gyro? He goes,

no, my food is to do the will of my father. See,

the disciples hadn't learned to eat at the table.

yet. You say, wait a minute, what do you mean?

It means Jesus knew how to get to the table.

wherever he was at, even when he was at Samaria,

even when he was at a place where nobody wanted

to touch the low of society. She'd been with

five husbands and the man she was with, I mean,

man she was with, that in the Greek means the

man who she was living with. And let me just

break it down to you. Having sexual intercourse

with in an unmarried relationship. Even the Samaritans

didn't even want to be around this lady. And

they couldn't figure out really who God was.

They had been filled with mixture from all the

other nations that have tried to pollute who

they were originally to be in God. And even they

knew. Woo -hoo, witch and woman. They said, like,

hey, we're letting her alone. Let her go to the

well. By herself. Because she is voodoo bad on

anybody else because she's taken a bunch of husbands

from wives. You understand? See, when you get

into the text, you understand the reason she

had to go alone is none of the other women wanted

to walk with her. Why? Because she'd burn that

bridge a time or two. Five. There was some enemies

around. Hell hath no fury, but like a woman scorned.

First hesitations, two six. All right. Okay,

that's not in the Bible. I'm just, that's a joke

for some of you. All right. Now, what are we

talking about here? We're talking about the reality

Jesus went to an environment that did not want

to deal with the lowest of their own low. They

had already brandished her bad mamma jamma. If

there would have been the Samaritan Instagram,

she would have been blocked. She would have had

negative reviews. And Jesus sent the disciples

away partly because I think he needed them to

go away partly because he needed to show them

that in a hostile area, number one, where they

weren't welcome as Jewish men, number two, and

now dealing with something that even their own

people wouldn't deal with, Jesus. whole purpose

in John 4 was to get to the lowest of the low

and to find and meet them with the prophetic

word of the Lord, which is the anointing on the

word. That's what it is, the anointing on the

word. Jesus was filled with the spirit and the

anointing on him. The Bible says without measure.

You and I get measures, but with him, he had

it without measure. The full anointing was on

the word and the first thing that the word did

was the word was anointed to activate, to do

what? To cut right into the soul and spirit of

this gal. Where's your husband? Just, Jesus,

I love it. Notice, he didn't think it was politically

incorrect to get to the center of an issue. He

hadn't been reading in the Samaritan Post. Oh,

there's another divorce she just went through.

He hadn't been reading yet. But when he stood

in front of the woman, Give me a drink. Well,

you're a little brash, aren't you? I'm just bringing

it in a common vernacular. Why are you, a Jew,

talking to me? Jesus, if you knew who it was

that you were talking to, you'd ask me for living

water. Now, that almost sounds, in today's culture,

braggadocious. Can I dare say, and just stay

with me here for a second, can I dare say that

when you begin to walk in the anointing as an

ambassador, there is a fine line between pride,

which is evil, and the confidence of the king

that you've been walking with and know in that

area. Because sometimes the confidence, it's

not an error. The pride, you'll know when pride

is there when there's no humility to serve. This

is what Christians miss all the time. When there's

no humility to serve, it's evident they're walking

in pride. There's no love. There's no humility.

That is not what Jesus operated. He operated

in complete. confidence to be able to say, if

you knew who it was who you were talking to,

you would ask me for something. Now, on the outside,

it looked like it could have been, baby, you

don't know what you're missing. I am the living

water. Everybody wants a drink of what I'm serving.

That is not, that was kind of like the hip hop

translation. That was not, that is not what Jesus

was saying. But he was saying in confidence what?

He was saying, the one who I am, who I've been

called to be, who what I constantly live in and

function as, you have no idea who you're walking

around. And he said it not from arrogance. He

said it because he understood who he was. And

in that prospect, when she then said, well, give

me some of this living water so I don't have

to come to this well. Why? Because it's no fun.

Everybody has left me. There's no social interaction.

I've made a mess of my life and everybody that

I was supposed to do life with has left me alone.

And now I come to the well at the hottest, hottest

part of the day. And you ask me for a drink.

I'm looking to have something that will change

my life. Just give me some of this living water

so I don't have to keep coming back here at this

hour where everybody looks out and says, let

her go. Go out there by yourself. You deserve

that. Then Jesus, in the midst of what's going

on behind the scene, said, where's your husband?

She'd already, see if you don't get in the text,

she'd already just said what the issue was. It

wasn't that she didn't want to just drink, want

to put down her pitcher in the well and get water.

She didn't want to do it because she'd been isolated,

ostracized. She'd been pushed out of every segment

of society. And she didn't like going alone.

It was just better to live in her house and to

do what she did so that she didn't have to interact

with people. And then Jesus brings it up. He

goes right for her identity. Where's your husband?

I don't have a husband. And then he gets a little

more. Straight with the prophetic. You're right.

You don't have a husband. You've had five husbands.

And the man you're married to now is not your

own. Zing! I mean, she didn't offer that information.

She didn't say, I've kind of tore through the

town. Yeah, I'm not very well liked. There's

some catty Samaritan girls in this town. She

didn't do that. Jesus, by the, think of it, the

word of knowledge and the prophetic word brought

her right down, why this is so important, brought

her right down to where the identity and her

choices that she made brought her. If you don't

see that in John 4, you're missing the whole

context. He brought her down where her choices

kept looping. Not once, not twice, three times

a week. No, four, five, five times. brought her

to the place where the same mistake, same judgment,

same lack of identity, same rejection, but same

appetite of lust, same appetite of needing approval,

same appetite, had wrecked, had wrecked, had

wrecked, had wrecked, had wrecked, and the prophetic

word gets right down into it. And then she was

shocked. I perceive you're a prophet. You think?

And you know what she did then? She tried to

divert the conversation. Well, you Jews worship

on this mountain and our people say we worship

on this mountain. You see, the ambassador had

to be willing to bring and to open through the

anointing. Because his cup was always full of

the areas that she had broken in her mixture

and in her brokenness and in her line of thinking,

he had to be willing to stay there and straighten

it out if she would listen. And then he told

her the truth when she diverted and went to a

religious spirit. He goes, salvation is of the

Jews. That was a, I could take a whole message

on that in regard to he absolutely just sliced

through the reality of thinking there was another

way to God. That another mountain that mirrored

it. Let me say that. See, there was two mountains.

Mount Gerizim, Mount Ebel. There was two places.

There was one group that said this mountain is

as good as this mountain. And Jesus sliced through

and said, what you guys do on that mountain has

nothing to do with salvation. Only this mountain.

Why there's no other mountain but Mount Zion.

He was talking about a place of what he would

now be the answer that why he was born in Jewish

flesh to fulfill. Every bit of the law. Jesus

was living to serve. He had answers. He was prepared

always. Not because he studied always, but because

he was allowing the word of God, which he was,

but in his learning and his understanding and

fellowship with the spirit, which is called what?

What Pastor Jenny dealt with this morning, the

anointing. His cup was full. Why? He was in the

presence of his enemies. And that's what Jesus

does. He lives to serve. And Jesus understood

what true ministry, real ministry is. And I said

it. It's to do the will of him who sent me and

to finish his work. That's where I'm at. I'm

on. If you want to know what message I'm in,

you're probably asking for it. It's the something

more church. John 434. There we go. I knew you

had it back there. Thank you so much. Jesus understood

what real ministry is. What is real ministry?

To do the will of him who sent me. Ambassadors.

What is the food of heaven? To do the will of

who sent me. Ambassadors, what is our assignment?

To bring his kingdom, his will, his word, his

ways on the earth. See, when I say ambassadors,

there should be something inside of you that,

huh! To legislate on the earth the will of heaven.

To move into places where others have had no

success. And by others, I mean worldly programs,

worldly philosophies, and where there's brokenness

and we're coping with a Samaritan understanding

of their mountain. It's time to bring people

to the other mountain. That's why it says in

two places, in two verses, in Isaiah and Micah,

and in the last days they shall stream to the

mountain of the Lord. Why? Because you've touched

the mountain and brought it down and they're

finding out where do I run like you've ran. That's

the ambassador. Grace of the kingdom of God.

First and primary heart of Jesus, who is the

perfect servant of the Father, was to do his

will. How did he do his will? He didn't do it

by philosophy. He did it by anointing. Jesus

has always been doing the will of the Father.

Why? Because he's always... appreciated and stayed

in his presence, never breaking fellowship and

only one time. And that was on the cross when

he cried out, my God, my God, why has thou forsaken

me? And it wasn't because he broke it. It's because

the father put on Christ all of the things that

were on us that broke fellowship with the son.

Jesus. If we could put this slide up here. Jesus

never bypassed the little day -to -day things

for the big cross experience. If he'd have done

that, he'd have never met with the woman at the

well. I can't go and be seen among these Samaritans.

I mean, where's my green room and where's my

two people that guard me? If you want to go to

a spiritual influencer, you go right on ahead.

But I want to get to the one who actually is

king and yet walks like a shepherd and allows

anointing to flow from his garments and anyone

who touched him was made whole. You see, there's

a big difference. Ambassadors that want to be

influencers in the world. Ambassadors are actually

people who carry the anointing that want to be

touched in the kingdom. Come on. It's a big deal.

Now, I'm not going to name names, but you get

it. Jesus' perspective of being a servant embraced

all ranges of sacrifice. Because Jesus embraced

the will of the Father primarily, pleasing the

Father was more important than individual sacrifices.

Let me say that again. Pleasing the Father has

to become more important than what it costs you.

Because it will cost you. Because that's what

keeps people from being ambassadors. What keeps

people from being ambassadors is sacrifice. Sacrifice

means I have to be willing to give something

away that others seem to have no problem keeping.

It's a big deal. I'm going to give time when

others take it for themselves. I'm going to get

in the trenches when other people walk on the

side of the road. I'm going to give finances.

Why? Because it's his kingdom on the earth and

he loves his church. And this is how he perpetuates

his kingdom through seed money and through seeding

of people. And that costs me. And my desire is

to be more pleasing to him than what I could

do with some of the other stuff. That's why Jesus

could say in Hebrews, thank you for coming up.

You're doing good. That's why Jesus could say

in 10, Hebrews 10, five and seven says this,

sacrifices and offerings you did not desire.

Now listen, before you think he's talking about

something internal, no, he's talking about external.

Because the sacrifice in the Old Testament was

always external. You brought whatever it was,

whether it was a grain offering, whether it was

a drink offering, whether it was a bullock or

a goat or a ram, you brought it. to someone else,

and they took it from there. In the New Testament,

sacrifice comes from here, the inside. The heart

is what has to sacrifice. See, in the Old Testament,

you could do all of the external without giving

your heart. Why? Because it was an outward, now

God didn't want it to be outward only. He wanted

it to be mingled with faith and he wanted it

to change their heart. But the issue was what?

He promised of a day when he would take out the

heart of stone, which is what? External stone

hardness. And he would do what? He would write

on the inside of your heart and now put it on

the inside. That's why Jesus said in his own

way to disciples, he said, when they asked him,

I read it this morning in the gospel of Mark,

explain to us what you mean by nothing from the

outside can defile. He said, the things from

the outside cannot defile you from the inside.

It's what comes out of the heart, out of the

mouth and the heart that defiles you. That's

why Jesus was constantly chiding the religious

and saying, you are whitewashed tombs. Why? You

are ceremonially unclean on the inside. You're

painting a white picture as though you're holy.

On the inside, there is the crypt of death operating.

Defilement and rottenness and decay. So as Jesus

is serving, As he's speaking to you and I as

ambassadors and what it means to really carry

the anointing. You see, let me tell you something.

This is the big deal. And we're getting close

and I gotta land the plane here. You can be saved

and not operate in the anointing. You can accept

Jesus as your Lord and Savior. You can confess

him as Christ and generally you will. absolutely

make it to heaven. The Bible says all who call

on the name of the Lord will be saved. But your

reward will be radically different than somebody

who chooses to walk in the anointing because

walking in the anointing means that you've been

willing to yield every part of your life that

the king puts a finger on, that you've surrendered

to his lordship and now his will is more important

to you than your own. And that's why Jesus had

the disciples pray the prayer. Pray your kingdom

come. Pray your will be done. The focus was in

me as it is in heaven. That I would what? That

I would embrace. That's why he was telling the

disciples. So when they saw him pray, remember

the context. When they saw him pray, it was different

than other prayers. That they had seen. Why was

it different? Because other prayers were praying

for things that they could do outside of their

heart. Jesus was praying prayers that could only

be done with a heart of complete dependence and

surrender. That's why Paul picks this up when

he's talking about his gospel in Romans. And

I'm finishing here just quoting some more scriptures.

Romans 12, one and two. Brothers, I now beseech

you. That word beseech is the strongest. It is

an implorement. It actually means grabbing somebody

by the shirt collar and say, I implore you to

give yourself as a holy sacrifice unto God. That's

what he was saying. Brothers, I beseech you by

the mercies of God that you give yourselves,

your bodies, as a living sacrifice. Notice, took

it from the outside of where most people want

to do their faith and now imploring every Christian,

say, come, get this, your ambassadorship, your

kingdom of God's kingdom. I just want to keep

hitting right here. The kingdom of God wants

it to come through you. Now present yourselves

as a living sacrifice, holy and acceptable to

God. This is your reasonable. In the spirit,

as an ambassador, that's reasonable. In and over

the top, that's the normal. That's the normal.

This is your reasonable service of worship. Why?

Because it isn't the outside. I'm putting me

and all of me before him and saying, not my will,

but your will. Can I pray for you this morning?

In fact, if you're here this morning, would you

maybe just bow your head out of respect for others?

If you want to, close your eyes and let's just

focus for a moment. Father, in Jesus' name. Lord,

right now, you know every heart that's in this

place. And God, I'm asking that you are doing

a work. Holy Spirit, you're bringing an anointing

that destroys yokes. Yokes that come from our

identity that's wrong. Yokes that come from the

choices. That were wrong. Yokes that come from

cycles of sin. That have kept us bound. Yokes

that come from disease. And sickness. Yokes that

come from things. That we partnered with wrong

thinking. Standing on a wrong mountain. Offering

up things that were outside of us. And today

we're asking. That your anointing would come.

And break the yoke that's been on us. Of slavery.

To actually be who you've called us to be. Ambassadors.

Of the kingdom of God. Caring. Love. Grace. And

faith. Walking in humility. But walking in the

full power. Of the Holy Spirit. And word. And

everything that emanates. From that. From your

Holy Word. And your spirit that's true. Being

able to walk into any. circumstance, in any low

spot or high spot and being able to release because

the cup is full and overflowing. If you're here

this morning, first of all, and you don't know

this Jesus in whom I know and whom many in this

room know who's not only forgiven us of sin but

has come to walk with us, talk with us and Bring

us into fellowship. Lord. If they don't know

you, I am asking now by the spirit of the living

God, I'm asking for the Holy Spirit to begin

to draw those now in this room. If you've never

asked Jesus Christ to forgive you of your sin,

to open the door to salvation and a relationship

with God, he's the only way, he's the only truth

because he's the only life. If that's you this

morning, would you say, and right now before

I'm not gonna have you. Think about it. I've

got to have you respond to what the Spirit of

God is saying. If that's you, would you just

lift your hand and say, I need prayer. I need

him. I want this Jesus in who you're talking

about. Just lift your hand high so I can see

it. Thank you. Chris, thank you. Who else? Thank

you. Come on. He brought you here today to hear

a message. If it's in the back, I'd like to have

my team just... Go and sit. Someone with Chris.

Thank you, Chris. Someone there. Anyone else?

Yeah, Nathan. Come on. To the rest of us in this

room, I want you to pray. Pray with them, guys,

if you would. The rest of us in this room as

I'm finishing at the bell here. Father, we pray

for that transforming grace to come now from

heaven. That would turn us from being outside

Christians. To inside Christians. Lord. Recognizing

that the sacrifices. Those that ascend to the

hill of the Lord. Are those with clean hands

and a pure heart. Those that have surrendered

to the will of God. Those that want fellowship

with the Lord. Those that are willing to die

to self. So that they can actually live in the

will of their father. Lord let that anointing

come on this house. Come on these people, breaking

every other yoke that tries to bind them. And

Lord, putting on your yoke that says, my yoke

is easy and my burden is light. Why? Because

it's life. It's full of the anointing. The burden

of the Lord, the yoke of the Lord is his anointing.

Let it come on our life. In Jesus Christ's holy

name. thank you for taking the time to listen

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