Sunday Message (2nd Service) - Pastor Brad Neuschwander (February 15, 2026) | Life Bible Church

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enjoy this week's message. Father, we ask you

now that you would help me begin to release the

word that you have. For your church today. Lord

you love your people. You love this house. And

Lord I'm asking now. By the spirit of the Lord.

That you would breathe. Lord as we dealt. Lord

even at your altar. Where you're breaking things

that hinder. You're breaking off the mind. Of

the prodigal. That constantly reverts back. To

what I did. And the shame. Lord that's done today.

Lord, let a new understanding come. Lord, even

what happened this past weekend for this church.

Lord, help us, guide us, walk us through. Lord,

we would have an understanding of the seasons

and the timing that we're now walking with as

you're leading this church to fulfill your promises

you've made to us. Help us grab them, believe

them, and walk in them. In Jesus Christ's holy

name. Amen. Amen. Would you tell the band they

did a great job this morning? All right. Praise

God. Well, so much to share, and I've got about

half hour to do it here. So I probably won't

get to many of my notes today because I feel

like I need to kind of prophetically, if I can,

begin to move us in. In fact, this call, and

if you would come and just move this. table just

right down here. I'm going to come down and pray.

I mean, and preach just down a little bit to

you. Sometimes when you guys are all scattered

out and it's not very, we got half a service

here as far as least attendance. I want to come

down and get a little closer because I feel like

I'm far away. So we're in our same series called

the Something More Church. And I think it's important

for us to understand that when When we as Life

Bible Church, and I'm just speaking now as family

and as your senior pastor, when... These times

in God come. And especially as we've prepared

our heart to fast and to pray three weeks saying,

God, we want more of you. We want more of your

presence. We want more of your word. We're hungry

and thirsty for you. God doesn't just shine on

those prayers. He doesn't just go, oh, no, you

don't. No, you don't. You say you do, but you

don't. And I'm going to wait until you actually

really do. No, he hears the prayers of his people.

He responds to the faith. And then he brings.

if you will, a grace or a fresh level of bread

to the house. That's the nature of the house

of God is to have fresh bread, bread of his presence,

bread of revelation, bread of insight and understanding.

That's what he brings. And so not just during

the conference, but during the season of the

first year as we set our hearts to... press into

the things of God, God is doing some miraculous

things. Wednesday night, I took about 15, 20

minutes and I kind of just recapped the conference

with the congregation that was here and just

kind of dove into some of the things that took

place and kind of maybe brought some understanding

to a few things. I don't have time to do that

this morning, but what I do want to do is I want

you to understand the importance of what God

is trying to work into this congregation. When

I asked the Lord, this week, Lord, what do you

want to do? What do you want to say? As I was

just wrestling with the Lord of, okay, God, where

do I go from what happened Thursday, Friday,

Saturday, Sunday? What do you want to say? And

I immediately felt like the Lord, I'm getting

a little bit of an echo, David, maybe turn me

down on the monitors back there, brought me to

Exodus chapter 17. Exodus 17. Now, why that's

Exodus 17 · chapter mention

important. I touched a little bit on this and

I went deeper in understanding a certain way

of dealing with the Amalekites. I'm not gonna

deal with that much today on the Amalekites or

who Amalek was or the root of Esau, but I am

gonna deal with... Exodus 17, in the journey

for the something more church. Because I think

you need to understand that when God brings you

from a place through significant breakthroughs

in your journey in Christianity, every time you

get from a place of a high place in God, you

come to another place where you have to allow

the Spirit of God to test you. If you don't allow

that truth of what took place on the mountaintop,

let's say in a high place in God, it isn't in

you if it doesn't stay in the regular journey.

He doesn't just want you to touch it as though

it belongs to somewhere else. He actually expects

you to carry it. He expects you to carry the

high place moments in your life where God reveals

himself to you, where he all of a sudden shows

you that this is capable in my presence. He doesn't

want you to say, well, that was for then and

somebody else. No, he expects that to get in

your heart. That's what he did in John chapter

six. And he did with Philip at the breaking of

the bread. Remember, Jesus knew what he was gonna

do, but he turned to Philip and he said, Philip,

John six, he said, What are we going to do with

all these people? And Philip looked at the crowds

and he looked at the time of day and he said,

Lord, it's going to take more than 200 denarii.

I mean, two thirds of a year's worth of wages

to feed even this people just a little bit. But

Jesus, and it says in the text, John 6, and Jesus

said this to prove what was in Philip's heart.

And that word means when you walk with the Lord

and you begin to see, Great things of God begin

to break place. There comes other times where

you run into circumstances and you run into places

in your life after a high place moment that you

come to a place that you're either going to trust

God at a new level and be in rest and peace because

you've just now learned from what you walked

in or you're going to just kind of get into a

place and the rut that you've always been, and

I'm going to call it this way, you kind of just

undo your belt and just kind of bleh, and you

just kind of just puke out all the negative emotions

and puke out your frustrations, and you get into

a place where you just kind of let down and get

frustrated with life. Has anybody ever done the

latter? Okay, you don't have to raise your hand.

You don't want to be known for that. Okay, I

get it. I've done that a lot. Meaning, I didn't

recognize the place I was stepping into. Now,

let me just bring you a little history with the

children of Israel. Because the Bible says in

1 Corinthians chapter 10, and you should go back

1 Corinthians 10 · chapter mention

and you should read this because it's very, very

important. 1 Corinthians chapter 10, verses 1

1 Corinthians 10:1–15

through 15. it begins to list what God did with

the children of Israel. It says, our forefathers

all ate the same spiritual food. They all drank

the same spiritual drink. They came out of Egypt.

They went through the waters of the Red Sea,

which is a type of water baptism. They came out

of that to the mountain of the Lord, which is

a type of Holy Spirit encounter. And they all

went to the place where the bitter waters were

and the tree fell in and God revealed himself

as. Jehovah Rapha. And then they came to this

place. And now we're catching you up to Exodus

17. They came to a place called Rephidim. And

Rephidim is important that you understand this.

I'm just going to kind of just preach from what

my notes are in my heart because I got it in

my spirit. And so I'm just going to kind of talk

to you. Rephidim means a place where you are

to spread out. A place where you now recognize

either two things. It was meant to actually bring

you rest and peace and confidence in who was

leading you or Rephidim became what it was to

the children of Israel, renamed place that Moses

named, you came to Massah and Meribah. No, no,

no, Moses, they came to Rephidim. No, they didn't.

They didn't do Rephidim. They did Massah and

Meribah. They were supposed to spread out. They

were supposed to relax. They were supposed to

actually have such confidence in God that coming

to a place that did not have any water did not

affect them at all because they understood who

had been leading them, who had been guiding them,

and they moved now from their own works and fear

and anxiety to a place of trust. It was what

Hebrews says in Hebrews chapter four, it was

supposed to be a place of rest, not rest as in,

oh man, I need to catch up on some sleep, but

rest as in, I don't have to strive. I don't have

to worry. I don't have to make something happen

myself. The God in who's covenanted with me actually

will take care of me. It won't be like what I

thought before. Something has changed. God has

covenanted with me personally. I now have been

brought into his family. You see now, why is

this important for the church today? Here we

are in the New Testament to get this understanding

because if we don't understand what the children

of Israel came out of and what they fought through,

Like the scripture says, and I'm just going to

quote it right from first Corinthians 10. I think

it's right in 15 or 17. It says, and these examples

were written down for those on whom the end of

the ages falls. Meaning God made sure. That we

would understand the story, not just the story,

the historical account, the spiritual truths

that came from getting the mindset of slavery,

the mindset of being bound out of the children

of Israel and how God revealed himself. And he

always brings you to a place where there is a

carryover, where you will now leave your old

behind and you'll begin to walk in the power

of new that he guides you in. He said, those

are written down for us. So that's why he says

they ate the same spiritual food. They drank

the same spiritual drink. And he said, but with

many of them, God was not well pleased. And then

he lists the things that they rose up to play,

which is a play on words of they became immoral,

sexually immoral. They grumbled and complained.

And it literally says, and the destroyer. destroyed

them. Read it in the New Testament, ESV. And

the destroyer destroyed them. That word destroyer

is the word Apollyon. It's used in Revelation

and it says, and the king of the bottomless pit,

name in Greek is Apollyon. In Hebrew, his name

is Abaddon. It means that they grumbled and complained

and opened a spiritual link up over their lives

that the destroyer had legal right, even though

they were the children of the living God. Now

that was later on in their journey. The first

thing they came into after the plagues, after

the Red Sea, and then after Jesus healed the

waters is this place called Rephidim. Now this

is important because, let me just take you on

a journey. Are you okay with that? Just kind

of just, you and I are gonna move along together

here. What we don't understand about the plagues

is this. is that many people read the story of

the plagues, but they don't know the nation of

Egypt, nor how the culture of the occult was

tied into the world system that was Egypt. Meaning,

how many... have known this fact that there is

a pantheon of gods in Egypt and that each plague

that God decided to show was a direct shot at

one of the Egyptian deities. How many knew that?

Okay, about a third of us. Meaning that every

plague that was done, the water turning to blood,

the gnats, the flies. the boils, the darkness.

The darkness plague was a direct shot at Ra,

the sun god. The killing of the firstborn was

a direct shot at Pharaoh being the God over all

gods of the country and that he alone had life

and power and that God revealed at every level.

There was Newt, there was Hecate. I mean, I could

go down through the 10 deities of the Egyptian

culture of what they worshiped and the Lord as

sovereign God destroyed at every level, Egypt's

trust in their God. That's why Pharaoh, if you'll

get behind it, that's why Pharaoh called the

magicians and the occultists at every confrontation

with Moses and Aaron is that the occultists were

behind the gods that Egypt worshiped. So you

need to understand something right from the very

beginning. When you understand a world system,

you have to understand that the powers of darkness,

The Bible talks about this. The powers of darkness

and occult power operates in a world system.

That's why the Bible says in Ephesians chapter

two, let me quote it. And the gods of this world

rule over the sons and daughters of disobedience.

That's what it says. I'm just quoting it verbatim.

Meaning what? That a world system that elevates

the flesh, that elevates self -will, always has

a cult power to it because that's how the world

stays in power, manipulates through. through

deception and through power. And if you remember

the children of Israel, they were bound in those

first plagues, the magicians of Egypt or the

occult artists, or it's better if you understand

it, those that operated in dark cradle primitive

power could do the first three signs just like

Jehovah did. They modeled leprosy. When Moses

put his hand in his garment, it became leprous.

When he put it back, they could do that. Moses

threw a staff down and it became a serpent. Guess

what? In the presence and the power of their

gods, they threw their staffs down and theirs

became serpents. The only problem was Moses'

staff, that serpent ate their other staffs. So

he gathered his staff. and all of their other

staffs were swallowed up in it. That's a problem.

If you're an occult artist and a sorcerer, to

have your staff swallowed up by someone else's

ought to bring you a big clue. Uh -oh. Then they

went to the Nile, and he turned the water into

blood, and Pharaoh's occult artists Turned the

water into blood. But the fourth plague, when

the dust turned into gnats, they realized and

they said to Pharaoh, they couldn't do through

their magical arts and their chants and their

sorcery. They actually said, this is not capable.

This can only be done by the finger of God. And

God began to break the power. of occult powers

that were hiding under the world system, one

after another after another, finally to bring

Pharaoh to his knees to realize that he didn't

have the power of life at all. It was the Lord

who had the power to preserve, and it was only

by the blood of the slain lamb that would come

over the doorpost that would bring liberty from

death, and he alone had the power of life. And

so you got to get that in your heart when you're

traveling through this to understand. Then the

next thing they do, God knew what was in his

own people because they had been in slavery 400

years. Remember what God said to Abraham. Remember

after the smoking oven and the burning torch

at that darkness fell and Moses went into a deep

sleep and God said, Moses. I'm going to fulfill

my promises, but your people will go down into

Egypt 400 years, and then I will bring them out

with a mighty outstretched arm. God was fulfilling

the promise he made to Abraham, and as they went

down, and you know the story, Joseph sold into

slavery, came to rise to second command, brought

down Jacob. Jacob had a revelation. Here, Jacob

sees the faithfulness of his father Abraham.

He believed it. And as he's prophesying over

all of his children before he dies, the Bible

says that he picked up his feet and he drew up

his legs and he gave up his breath. He gave a

prophecy to each of his kids right before he

died about their destiny. And then he looked

at Joseph. He looked at the leader and he says,

grabs him by the hand or grabbed him somewhere

and says, do not leave my bones in this place,

but take every part of me to the place that's

been promised. Now I'm gonna say that's a very

prophetic statement. Because even though Jacob

saw his son again almost returned like a type

and shadow from death, even though he saw now

Manasseh and Ephraim that represents fruitfulness,

and he saw the bounty of what God was going to

do and prophesied over them, he refused to allow

his body to stay in Egypt. Why? He didn't want

to be anywhere in what was called the world.

He wanted everything. Everything of him. Even

when he died. To be put in the promises of God.

Something was inside of him that said. Move me.

Even when I'm gone to be in the place. Of the

Lord or Abraham's bosom. You move my bones. And

you bury me. Of where we have an inheritance.

Now that ought to get down inside of you. That

ought to just preach to your own spirit. Saying

I don't want any. part of my life connected to

the world, the systems of this world, or the

gods of this world. Every part of me in my fight

of faith and even in my dying moments, I want

connected to who God is, his promises, and the

promises to my lineage. Right? Okay. Now you're

tracking with me? We're still on the same page?

Okay. Now they move out of Egypt by the outstretched

hand of God. God moves them. He said, I can take

you a shorter way, but if the people see war

right away, they're going to go back into what

they've already known. Now listen, 400 years.

We're going to celebrate 250 years as a nation

on July 4th, representing the 1776 Declaration

of Independence. We are just 250 years as a nation

this year. They were in slavery 400. Now, okay,

I could concede maybe 80 or 100 years of that

because when Jacob passed and then Joseph passed,

it says in the scriptures in Genesis, and then

a Pharaoh arose in Egypt that did not know Jacob

and did not know Joseph. And he said to the people,

these people have, because they went down 70

and they blossomed. I mean, it was like the spirit

of rabbits came on them and they filled the land

of Goshen, right? And it says, they're gonna

overtake us. And so what did Pharaoh do? From

that point on, once Joseph died, they became

slavery. So there was 300, if you will, out of

the 400 years they were there in the land of

Goshen and where they lived, there was over 300

years of bondage. That culture. of their gods,

that culture of slavery, that loss of freedom,

the demands that they would serve Egypt and live

in Egypt was bred into them and there were generations

that were born that had no idea what freedom

and promised land was. So God had to work it

out of them. He does the 10 plagues, destroying

the deities of the nations. He then brings them

a different way. Pharaoh thought they were, he

kind of came to himself for a moment, thought

that they were lost because they'd not been out

of the land of Egypt for 300 plus years. They

could never venture out. Pharaoh wouldn't even

let them go three days journey to go worship.

That was the big fight. They had never been outside

the borders. I mean, just imagine being bound

in Harrisburg for 300 years. It's a scary thing,

right? Never ventured to Corvallis, never ventured

to Eugene, just stayed within the boundary of

one stoplight. Somebody say, that is slavery,

hallelujah. Okay, so God had to what? He had

to bring them back to a place and he brought

them to the Red Sea. He did it to show his power.

They got fearful. Pharaoh went to kill them.

What happened? God. Commanded Moses to stretch

his staff over the Red Sea. Red Sea parted. They

went over on dry land. And then God caused the

armies, the military power, to come back and

flood. And so Exodus 15 is what? Exodus 15 now,

12 is Passover. 13 and 14 is the journey of the

Red Sea. 15 is Miriam kind of getting her praise

on to Jesus, right? They're dancing with tambourines

and 15 is singing the song of Moses and how the

chariots of Israel and God is a mighty man of

war and he kicked your butt in the Red Sea and

kind of just that kind of the hip hop version

of that song was taking place. Then they start

the journey. And they start the journey out of

the Red Sea and they go to a place called Marah.

Marah means bitter, sour. The waters were bitter.

They couldn't drink it. And so revelation comes.

Well, God had been using Moses' staff all along.

This time he doesn't use Moses' staff. He says,

you put that big dead tree in the water. It was

a symbol of Christ. Soon as the cross hit the

water, what does he say? He revealed himself

as Jehovah. First time he brought another name

other than I am to the children of Israel. I

am now, who was? Jehovah Rapha. I am manifesting.

Who I am, I am healing. And there God said through

his prophets, I will put no longer the diseases

of the people of Israel on you. I am Jehovah

Rapha. I am the God, and that literally says,

I am the God who heals you. That was his next

revelation after water baptism. And as they're

on their way to the mountain, they're on their

way to Exodus 19, to where God would come down.

in fire and in shaking, where God would come

down and want to move them from just having a

representation to now including everyone to come

to the mountain and hear God for themselves.

between 19, which God would reveal himself in

that, they're now at 17. And Exodus 17, one through

seven says this, and they came to a place called

Rephidim. And we say, we look at the meaning

of Rephidim. It means to spread out. It means

to encamp and to allow yourself to be, if you

will, to rest and to receive. But it didn't become

Rephidim to the children of Israel. Why? Because

they weren't aware, now please hear me on this,

they weren't aware of the ground that they were

stepping on was somebody else's that needed to

be redeemed. The ground that they had now come

into was a place that was, quote, owned by the

Amalekites. who are the Amalekites. You're gonna

see this picked up in scripture over and over

and over. And probably this in Exodus is one

of the most key passages to understanding spiritual

warfare, even in the New Testament, even today.

At the end of, I think it's Exodus 17, verse

Exodus 17:15

15, it says, and Israel will have war with Amalek.

generation after generation. What happened between

verse one and verse 17 reveals the story. Israel

came into a place that was meant for them as

their walk with God, the healing with God, the

victory of God, the high place with God, walking

in new ground and new authority. They came into

a place that God wanted to call Rephidim. Moses

had to rename it based on their actions. And

you know what he named the place? He named it

Masa and Meribah. And if you look it up, Meribah

is mentioned twice in the Old Testament. Why?

Now, I'm going to use both of you here. Meribah

represents the first generation that comes out.

This is where, sorry, this is where they grumbled.

Meribah means Place of contending. Place of strife.

Place of wrangling. The root Meribah, Mary, means,

I mean, you think of it, there was Mary Bale

that was a place. Mary means a place of wrangling,

contending, and striving. Masa means what? The

place of testing and proving. What was supposed

to be a place of rest and putting their faith

and trust and spreading out and allowing themselves

to grow in God for what God had just revealed

to them through the journeys they'd been in became

now a place of proving, but unfortunately it

became a place of contention, strife, wrangling.

chiding. And it didn't just happen in the first

generation. When you read your Bible and you

come all the way back around to Numbers, as they

get ready, as most of this generation has passed,

and now we're at the second generation, what

happens in Numbers 14? They come back to the

same place called Meribah and the same atmosphere,

same spirit of the land gets on Moses and he's

disqualified from going into the promised land.

You see, the children of Israel were not understanding

what they were walking into. I want to say this

to us. This is maybe my whole message for the

church this morning. Because it's maybe more

for a life Bible understanding here. When we

go through high moments in God, When the prophetic

is activated, God begins to speak and give assignments

to the church. And if you didn't hear the word

of the Lord, basically one of the main theme

of the word of the Lord over this last weekend

was this is a governmental house. Meaning what?

It's a regional apostolic house that has a mandate

to take kingdom authority and extend it in the

territory. Now we've known that. That's been

prophesied over here before, but for the Lord

to keep saying it over and over means one of

two things. One, we're not getting it. Kind of

like the McFly moment. McFly, are you getting

this? This is to be a governmental house. This

is to be a house of authority. This is to be

where people actually operate in kingdom power,

in love, in grace, but understand they have authority

to push territory and to take territory for the

king. Either we didn't understand it or what?

Or that there's been great pushback. and we only

allow it to settle on us for a little while,

we didn't actually tie it down into our heart

and say, this is who I am. And this is who God

called me to be. There's something that happens.

You can, like this, I can put on my blazer here.

And I've seen Jenny do this time after time,

where she'll say, give me your coat, and she'll

just wear it like this. I'm cold. And she'll

just, well, most of the time now she's hot. But

back just a few years ago, she was cold. Okay?

And she would wear the coat like this. Now, if

we needed to go anywhere fast, right, and we

would just run, what would happen? The coat would

fall off. There's a difference between putting

something over your shoulders and putting something

on. And the minute I put something on, now I

can run and it's gonna move with me. It ain't

going anywhere. Okay? Why is that important?

That's what a prophetic word's supposed to do.

It moves to just, it's not just meant to be something

that just comes on you. It's meant to be something

that you actually put on. Now you would say,

well, show me that in scripture. I'm glad you

asked. When Elijah came down from hearing God

again and being recommissioned, the Bible says

that he went down to anoint Elisha. And Elisha

was plowing in the back with 12 oxen. teams of

two. And he was in the back of the line as a

son, as the 12th pair, sucking up, well, listen,

I'm a farmer's kid. If you're plowing with the

12th set of oxen, you have got a bird's eye view

of 11 other back end of two horses. And that

is not a, it's like, and you are all day, there

is, Pooping and belching out the other end. All

day long. You're eating dirt and you're in horse

dung. And the prophet comes to the son who's

in the last of the 12 and just walks by Elisha

and throws his mantle on him. And then says,

sorry, at least you got hair. Let me help you

there. Man, that feels good. Let me try that

again. Yeah, there you go, there you go. And

Elijah says, wait a minute, wait a minute. And

Elijah turned around. This is a whole nother

message. I don't have time to preach this. What

have I done to you? Well, let me first say goodbye.

Elijah just kept walking. Elisha had to do something

at that moment. Either it would have just been

a moment of, okay, that's my future. No, he stood

up. He killed the oxen. cut up the yoke that

he was on, used it for burnt offering and wood,

burnt those cattle, and then put on the mantle

of Elijah so that he could begin to operate in

the things of the Spirit. And he began to be

trained by the new destiny rather than just have

something touch him and go back to what he was

doing. That was the problem with King Saul. When

the prophet Samuel, I'm giving you another scripture

you asked. When the prophet Samuel anointed Saul,

what did they do when all of a sudden it came

time, the enemies came to fighting? Where did

they find Saul? Back at his dad's house farming.

plowing, and they had to get the one who was

anointed king over that high place where everything

was supposed to change, and Saul reverted back

to something that was familiar, something of

his soul. Now, I know I'm about out of time,

so I need my beautiful 50th year bride. Love

you. Okay. All right, now. So in that reality,

what are we talking about? We're talking about

when God comes and brings you to a high place,

you have a choice. Are you just gonna allow the

word to touch you in that atmosphere? Or are

you gonna allow that word that you're gonna fit

it on over your life and you're gonna put it

on and say, that's who I am. That's the tribe

I've been born into. That's the house I've been

planted. And those are the prophetic words that

need to come and be fulfilled over my life. That

I am going to extend territory. That I am going

to be one who is a kingdom ambassador and I'm

gonna live in the presence and I'm gonna get

rid of things that hinder me from actually communicating

with the Lord and being obedient to how he wants

to use my life every day because that's what

he's asked of me. I'll put it this way and you

can relate. How many have traveled Highway 58

and tried to pass somebody that did not have

a revelation of the speed limit? You can be behind

that person for 12 miles. Why? There's a section

in the brilliance of the Oregon Department of

Transportation. Having no turnout spots. And

then when they do, it's as short as three Yugos.

I mean, literally, you have to be on the person

and ready to jam lanes. And then they invariably

speed up 15 miles an hour right before they get

there. You know, and when Jenny's driving with

me, she's like, she's learned. I talk to them.

What are you doing? Get out of the way. Get over.

Get over. Now listen, the reason I'm telling

this story is because you only have a moment

when you see that passing lane one mile ahead.

You have to position yourself because of the

shortness of that little time frame. You have

to be willing to leave the lane you were in,

pick up the speed that you were traveling in,

and move at all costs to... pass and to forward

yourself in and to leapfrog in front where you're

going to be. You miss that window, guess what?

You're stuck behind the person that doesn't have

the revelation for another journey of who knows

how long. I'm using that example of in the spirit.

We've come to a place. where God's trying to

move you out of your lane and move you into something

that's greater and further to get actually past

where you've been stuck. You have to be willing.

You have to be willing to say, I'm not going

to yield to the old opinions, the old wrangling

of words, the things of how, how just nitpicky

things, striving, contending. And turn your place

of actually what was supposed to be a spreading

out and a growing and a trust in God only to

come back and to have you just let your soul

out and you partnered with the spirit and the

atmosphere. And instead of having a Rephidim

moment where you'd gather yourself and grow in

God, you end up having a Masa and a Meribah moment

where you now had to circle back to the rock

and it took 30 some odd years to get you back

to the same place. Let me tell you something.

I've watched Christians. I've been saved almost

50 years. And in Christian ministry now, full

time, 32 and a half years. I've watched people

that I've seen stuck for 30 years. God has to

bring them back to the place because they have

to be willing to change lanes and to partner

with the now moment of what he's doing to break

them ahead. That's where we're at as a church.

There is a passing lane that's right now. And

it means what? It's a fresh revelation. It doesn't

mean we, we're not leaving the Bible and we're

not contending for anything that isn't in there.

This is about leaving the stubbornness of our

will and our heart and ticky -tack issues on

how things were done yesterday and other denominations

and other upbringings. And I'm getting that out

of me to say, here I am, move me forward. I want

to go in the things of God and I don't want to

be hindered. How many would say, I could receive

that and that was for me this morning? Can I

pray for you? Just keep your hands lifted as

Tiff comes. Come on, maybe just stand and lift

your hands before the Lord. We're in a great

moment right now. Holy Spirit, we thank you.

We thank you. Lord, we feel and see and have

heard the passing lane is coming now. And Lord,

we don't hang back. We're not gonna be timid.

And Lord, we're not going to stay stuck. We are

going to take our moment. That means we're going

to be led by the Spirit. That means our wineskin

of understanding is not calcified. We choose

the life of the Holy Spirit and we choose to

be redirected and catapulted into the timing

that you have for this place. Let the Spirit

of God move us forward. Let my life bring fruit

to you for glory. that which was prophesied this

morning, alignment, obedience, and maturity.

Let it come, the fruit for your glory and for

your kingdom in Jesus' holy name. And everybody

said, amen. Come on, hallelujah. Amen, amen.

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