Sunday Message (1st service) - Pastor Brad Neuschwander (February 15, 2026) | Life Bible Church

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enjoy this week's message. Incredible God, isn't

he? Can we just thank him? Come on, thank you,

Lord. Incredible Jesus. We love you, Lord. We

thank you for your mercies. We thank you for

your grace. We thank you for your healing and

deliverance. Bless you, Jesus. Wow. Lord, we

stand in awe today. The incredible, amazing presence

of our King. And I'm asking now, Holy Spirit,

that you would accomplish what you want to do

today. Lord, you're touching hearts, you're touching

minds. There's adjustment, there's alignment,

as you said in this room. There's a repositioning.

There's a shift from what we knew to obedience

of what you're saying. And Lord, there's maturity

that's... Ready to come, Lord, that would help

us. Maturity brings fruit. And Lord, it brings

you glory. That's the joy of growing up in God.

That's the joy of learning and allowing your

righteousness and your presence and your holiness,

your love, your grace to flow in us is that it

brings the fruit. Righteousness, peace. It brings

gentleness, kindness, goodness, love, faithfulness,

and self -control. As the scripture says, against

these there is no law or condemnation. This is

what growing in Christ does. It brings the fruit

of your character and your nature. Lord, I'm

asking that for all of us. Maturity means deepening

in our roots. Maturity means saying no to the

flesh and saying yes to the spirit. And we ask

that now in Jesus Christ's holy name. Amen. Amen.

Well, lift up the pedal. There we go. Can you

play the happy birthday song? Happy birthday

to you. I'm gonna need some prayer because that

was not supposed to happen. So just pray for

preservation and protection after service. My

lovely wife's birthday. Also, Alicia Buckland

and Andrew Krupp today. Birthdays today. So happy

birthday, everybody. All right. Amazing. There

they go. That was it. Well. There is so much

that is stirring in my heart. If you came Wednesday

night and you stayed for my Revelation class,

I kind of unpacked some of the conference on

some of the things that... that people had some

questions on. And I'm not going to do that this

morning, just simply because I've already shared

that with the church in that process. But I do

want you to know that this conference I've had,

this past conference, I've had a lot of people

tell me it's the best ever. I've had some people

say, I didn't understand this, I didn't understand

that. And that's okay. Those are... Those are

points, I tried to explain some of them, but

those are points that the Holy Spirit gets to

work on you and say, Lord, show me this in scripture.

Open my eyes. What I appreciate is, and unfortunately,

we wish, Jenny and I talk about it all the time

when we have conferences, that the after the

meeting. times that we get to spend with the

men and women of God that come, sometimes go

two, three hours of just talking about the in

-depth things of God and piecing scriptures together.

And so it would be awesome for me to just kind

of have you in my suit jack pocket and get to

hear some of those conversations. Some, you know,

that you don't want to hear just because of certain

things, because we know people in the body of

Christ and we're trying to kind of adjust things

as things that were teachings and doctrines and

in those kinds of things, comparing them to scripture.

But it is so wonderful to sit with these guys

during a meal and just talk to them about what

the Lord was showing, how they got that in scripture,

the revelation of it. So I just, I appreciate

Jim Hockaday, I appreciate Bishop Tony and Dr.

Hood. And I'm so grateful for... Their lives.

I do want to say. We've already scheduled. 2027

life conference. I kind of. Before they left.

Before I actually take them to the airport. I

make them sign a document. That they will. But

we've got. Jim Hockaday. Bishop Tony. And Tim

Karskadin. Coming in 2027. And so we're looking

forward to that. It's going to be a great. Great

conference. The Lord's going to speak to that.

I want to kind of roll into a subject. We're

going to continue on our, because we're not even

close to a third of the way through, on the series

that we've been talking about, the Something

More Church. And I don't know how long I'll stay

on it, but the Lord has been speaking to me.

Thursday night, I taught in our Freedom Night,

for those of you that come to that, I taught

on When Israel, the church in the wilderness,

came to a place called Rephidim. And Rephidim

is a place that was meant by God, even though

it caused something inside of the people of Israel

to respond. The name Rephidim actually means

a place to spread out. A place to actually...

cause you to move into a place of rest and to

let, if I could say it this way for a guy that

doesn't have any hair, let your hair down just

a little bit from what you've been walking in

to be able to spread out and get more of God

because you've been on a journey. Now, I'm not

going to go into the teaching too much of what

I did Thursday night because I really dealt with

Esau and Amalek and the Amalekites just dealing

with that spirit that's there. But I want you

to understand that sometimes, especially after

big moments in God, you can walk into a place

that you'll either Let your hair down and your

soul down and you'll just be bleh. Because you've

carried angst and you're looking through a filter

of negativity rather than looking at what God

is actually trying to bring you out and begin

to rest in a new grace that's trying to come

upon you. Now it's significant when you understand

that the children of Israel As we see in the

book of Exodus, as they, remember, they went

through the 10 plagues, and I don't have time

to go into it, but if you've never heard this

before, it's very, very important that you understand

this. Every plague that happened was in direct

challenge and defeat of 10 different small G

deities of Egypt. Every plague was a challenge

and a defeat. of what the Egyptians, their magicians,

their occult practicers, believed were the gods

of Egypt. And God destroyed them systematically,

one by one by one. So much so that the last two

plagues... was against the god Ra, which was

the sun god, and then the last one was against

Pharaoh himself, who represented the gods above

all the pantheons of gods, who was the supreme

god, and the Lord took his firstborn. It was

a saying, you have no power at all. He humbled

every, now listen, the magicians and the occult

practitioners could stand and operate in supernatural

powers to the first three signs. Right? They

could do the leprosy. They could do the staff

turning into a serpent. And they could do the

water into the blood. But once they started going

plague four through 10, they even said of themselves,

this is none other than the very finger of God,

destroying the fact that Pharaoh was the ultimate

God. And the pride of Pharaoh, the pride of them

putting their opinions, their values in another

system and another pantheon of gods rather than

the one true living God was shown and it was

to break the children of Israel's understanding

because they had lived in that culture for 400

years. Now listen, we're gonna celebrate the

250th anniversary 1776 here in July. 250 years.

Just think of how much our nation has gone through

and in its process of some great, some not so

great things that we've grown for 250 years in

our processes. Look what we've lost along the

way. That's at 250. The Bible's very clear. that

after Jacob died in the land of Goshen and that

Joseph had him embalmed and Jacob's last statement

to Joseph is, do not leave me here. Why? Jacob

was a prophetic person. He was saying, I'm gonna

pass away and I'm not gonna see all the promises

fulfilled, but don't you leave a shred of me

of what's left. In this place. You carry my bones.

To the place of promise. And that will preach.

I may not see it on this side. But I know the

God who I serve is above time and answers prayers.

And what he said to Abraham is going to come

to pass. I believe that word. I believe what

he told my father. I've met him. I believed how

he sustained me. I believe what he brought back

to me. I've now prophesied over all my children.

Don't you dare leave a remnant of me in this

place. You carry me out of a place called Egypt

and you bring me into the inhabitants. that God

promised me. Now that's, I'm gonna preach this

morning because I can, there is something on

this that we need to understand. This is what

God wanted with the children of Israel. He wanted

them to have something more than the world system

and the occult system. That was intertwined.

Let me say that again. You cannot have a world

system without an occult system. To think that

the world system is without power and without

authority and without the ability to bind is

foolishness. Because the world system and the

occult system operate together. But when God's

system comes and salvation comes and the blood

comes and the water comes and the oil comes,

it breaks the authority of every system that's

got in your mind, got in your body, and got in

your thinking. And the point was to get Egypt

out of Israel. Because now they've had not just

400 years there. Joseph lived there with Jacob.

Then Joseph died and they lived long, I mean,

120 years. He died and then the scripture specifically

says, and then a generation arose that did not

know Jacob or Joseph. And that's when the Pharaohs

said, we have to turn them into slavery. So from

400 years, in essence, they had 300 years that

they were under complete bondage. 100 years between

the generations living, they lived in the land

of Goshen, not realizing how wonderful it was

until the bite of the clamp of that system of

culture, that system of the world, enslaved them,

removed their freedoms, and began to warp their

minds of how they thought. What did they think?

They thought of themselves differently. They

knew their heritage. They knew their culture.

They kept operating in the understanding that

they were Hebrews, but they could not seem to

break out of it. And when God began to deliver

his people through his power and through his

word, even though... Every single time there

was a hardening of heart and seemed like resistance

at every level. How many have ever been in something

where you get a word from God and then immediately

find resistance harder than it was in the last

atmosphere? Okay, three of us. The reality is

when God is going to break you out of something,

And he's fixing to do something on your behalf,

which he's always doing. I mean, it's a great

little Southern word. God is always fixing to

do something good. Okay, I mean, we sing about

it. He's moving, he's moving, he's working. Even

when I don't see it, he's moving, he's working.

When he's going to do something, don't be surprised

that the thing that you've been praying for all

of a sudden gets harder. That is a clue. Now,

see. For the majority of Israel, they didn't

clue in to what God was doing with his word and

his leaders of speaking to the thing and bringing

breakthrough. They just got more discouraged.

Why? Because all of a sudden they got less straw.

All of a sudden their world got harder. And they

had already been longing for freedom but didn't

know how to use freedom. And then when it got

harsher and the taskmaster's whip got more sting

to it because they developed a tolerance of living

oppressed, they didn't know what to do. And God

was breaking them out. So you look at the 10

plagues, the last plague, killing the firstborn

of all of Egypt from slave to the Pharaoh's house,

only the blood. Only the blood of the lamb on

the doorpost caused the death angel to pass over.

And then they go to the waters and get us, what

is that? Again, Pharaoh like, what in the world

did we do? Get on your chariots and get after

them. What did God do? Drove the enemy to pursue

after them. See, we don't always think that when

there's victory, We look behind us and when we

see it coming, we get paralyzed in fear. And

God had to keep moving them forward. Pharaoh's

army drowned in the Red Sea. Then they go to

the mountain where God comes down on the mountain

by fire. Just prior to that, what happened? They

went to bitter waters. God had them throw the

tree or the... big beam of tree in the water.

He made it sweet. He revealed his covenant. We

sang about today, healing. God revealed himself

as Jehovah Rapha. Then he revealed himself on

the mountain. The God would display who he was

like a kiln. That the quaking and the shaking

and the fire on the mountain and the voice of

the Lord that would come, that all of God's people

were supposed to hear. And it's at that moment.

that they turned and said, we don't want to hear

his voice. Let somebody else go up before us.

And they moved from a platform of actually being

able for every one of them to encounter the Lord,

to move to a, if I could say this, a caste system

where they would just depend on somebody else's

words. And then they said this, Moses, you go

up and whatever you say, we will do. Lie, lie,

lie, lie, lie. That didn't last only but a few

weeks. And then what did they come? As they came

out of that place where God wanted to actually

reveal his voice, his power, and his authority

to them, they came into a place, into a desert,

into a place called Rephidim. And this is where

Their trust was to actually let down, not let

go. There's a big difference between letting

go and letting down. Letting down in trust means

what? It's a picture of Hebrews chapter four.

It's the rest of faith. It's the place where

you so trust God in who he is. that you can now

cease from striving and put your whole allegiance

on his ability to perform what he said he was

due. And God was taking them from what? From

slavery to now salvation, to water baptism, to

in that principle of healing through a type and

shadow of a cross. to now a place of drinking

sweet waters and to a place of Rephidim, even

though there was no water there, God was already

in the waiting for provision. It was, would they

trust me in rest or would they not let their

spirit relax in God? Would they in their soul

be anxious? And instead of... trusting the spirit

and letting rest come upon them, they let down

in their soul and they begin to puke out complaint.

And what are the words? I'm seeing it in my notes

here. Jenny says she gets mad at me because I

can memorize my page of notes and I can see them

on the one side here. It is contentiousness,

strife, wrangling. chiding, disputing with God.

What was meant to be a place of rest, surrender,

and receiving strength became a place of striving,

contending, wrangling. And now you have to understand

this. Take this first in your heart. It wasn't

just verbally first. Verbally, it came out because

if you read the text in Exodus, and I'm quoting

from Exodus 17 verses one through seven. If you

want to know where we're at in the scriptures,

I'm just looking at that verse right there in

my mind and I'm reading it as I'm talking about

it. They said they immediately turned, they turned

to Moses. How are you doing? Good. Awesome. That

a boy. You did good on the camera today. All

right. I'm telling you, Jane, I'm going to embarrass

you a little bit. I'm just saying, I would have

never come to the front row like that, but there

is a strength and a grace that's on your life

that's attracting something here. I'm just saying.

All right. Welcome to Life Bible Matchmaking.

All right. No, I'm messing with you. All right,

so. All right, let me get back up here because

I can just see some staring happening at me.

All right, now I'm messing with you guys. So

think about this for a second. The response was,

Moses, you led us out here. Why do you think

that came out of their soul? We don't. Often

think about this. You did this to us. You did

this to us. Now listen. Prior to God showing

himself with the plagues, Moses came by himself,

in essence, and Aaron, and they were the only

witnesses of the Lord. And therefore, Because

Israel didn't know their God, they were listening

to the messengers and they got upset with the

messengers when the situation got harder and

worse. But when God revealed himself now 10 times,

then when God revealed himself through the waters

of baptism, then when God revealed himself through

healing, and then when God revealed himself through

the mountain, they no longer had the right to

begin to point at Moses and Aaron saying, you

did this to us. Fact is, the cutoff line was

at the mountain where God came down to speak

and reveal himself to all. God gave them the

chance for all of them to turn in their badge

of complaining against men. To encounter him

and have a relationship with him. Here's what

happens. My God, help me, help me. It's the same

in the New Testament. That if you do not embrace

the presence of the Holy Spirit and the anointing,

you get what we talked about in Stephen's message

in Acts 7. You get stiff -necked. Hard hearted.

And you resist the moments in time. That God

wanted to reveal himself to you. And show himself

to be a personal God. Of provision. Of rest.

Of faith. And of strengthening you for the next

stage. And the reason that they came to Rephidim.

And instead of resting in the spirit and spreading

out and enjoying, if you will, a leisurely camp

along the way and trusting God is because they

refused God on the mountain and did not want

to actually engage with holiness and with his

perspective. They wanted to be able to have,

hear me, I know this is getting, I'm kind of

just smacking lime drives here this morning.

They wanted someone else to complain about so

they could keep their own perspective. They weren't

ready to trade it in. Now, why this is so important

is at Rephidim, even in the midst of their complaint

against Moses, It wasn't Moses. Their complaint

was with God. But it's really hard. Please hear

me. There's some revelation being released right

now. There's some people that God is dealing

with right now. It's really hard just to take

the straight truth of saying my complaint is

really with God. We don't want to actually just

put it down in a column and put it in black and

white. We would rather have Little off -ramps.

I mean, have you ever come back from Highway

58 and you're following somebody that hasn't

had a revelation of the speed limit? And you

are behind them and you're thinking, for the

last 12 miles you have seen me. You've seen me

move close. You've seen me flash my lights. You've

seen me praying in tongues, lifting one hand

on the steering wheel over your vehicle. And

then, in all the wisdom of the Oregon Department

of Transportation, they decide to only put 100

yards of passing lane. You have to have a jet

-fueled dragster. To pass on some of these turnouts.

And invariably what happens? They speed up 15

miles an hour. It's like. I have called out more

demonic spirits on that stretch of road. You

foul spirit of driving. Jenny's like. Why do

you, why? Anyways, she just leaves me alone now

after 33 years of marriage. She realizes I'm

not going to change his talking to the vehicle

in front of him. And why did I give that story?

Because what happens is there is a moment that

you have in times where God's spirit comes. that

you have to be ready to make a decision. There

comes points where God comes to change something

in your heart that you didn't see. And you have

to be willing to leave the lane you were in and

you actually have to move in faith and bypass

where you've been to get to where you're supposed

to be. You see, I actually have to be ready to

move out of that lane and to move forward as

fast as I can at that statement. Why? Because

there's only moments where God comes to partner.

Now, it doesn't mean that God can't change me

every day anyway. Yes, that's true. But there

are times, now hear me, I'm speaking prophetically,

there are times of acceleration that are in the

heart of the Father to leapfrog you in front

of what may take years. if you'll be willing

to embrace new mindsets that he's trying to show

you. If you don't, if you don't, you'll stay

behind the person that has no revelation of the

speed limit in the spirit. You'll stay on the

slow journey and the stuff will keep frustrating

you. You have to be willing to let that go. and

to embrace the things of the Spirit. Are you

there? Now, this is so important. At Rephidim,

after they complained against Moses, complained

against him, what did God do? In the midst of

the complaint, in the midst of all of it, God

says, Moses, take your staff, the one that you

held over to the Red Sea. Now listen, he didn't

put his staff in the waters that were bitter

at Marah. God had brought a new revelation. The

cross, it was a picture of the tree, of the cross

going in the water. It was a picture that the

cross provided everything for healing. God would

reveal himself in one of his first covenant names,

Rapha, Jehovah Rapha. He manifested himself as

healing of the waters, healing of the people.

I'll put none of the diseases that were on you

from slavery and bondage. I'm Jehovah Rapha.

He didn't have Moses put his staff over that.

Moses' staff was last used out of the 10 plagues

and the last time he used the staff from that

point forward until we get to Rephidim was what?

Over the waters. Stretch your hand over the water.

Because the staff always represented what? The

anointing that was on God's selection of who

he chose. You'll see that all the way through.

Even as we get... In the journey of the generation

that did not go into the promised land and that

stayed with the second generation and we get

to numbers, what do we see in number 16 with

Korah, Dathan, and Abiram? Whose stick or staff

blossomed, not only budded, blossomed and produced

almonds in the presence of the Lord was a threefold

sign of God's selection that Moses had nothing

to do with picking himself. God picked him. And

God anointed him and God set him in the place

of intercessory but yet leading people as a set

man. Now why am I saying that? Because Moses

wasn't looking for places to use his staff. And

I'm thinking as I put myself in the scriptures

going if the revelation of God doing other things

and I'm just now just that's what God used before.

Moses is thinking there's new revelation and

he's just walking in it. Now in the midst of

complaint, in the midst of what God anointed

him to do, he had to do what? God says, now go

take the staff that I've anointed and strike

the rock and let the waters flow. Now this is

not the second time. Now this is amazing passage

of scripture because if you'll understand why

this is so significant. This place called Rephidim

was twice where God led the children of Israel.

This is the first time. Second time is where

Moses struck the rock twice. First time is where

he struck the rock the first time and the revelation,

now please hear me, the revelation came in striking

the rock was in the midst of complaint. In the

midst of grumbling, in the midst of chiding,

in the midst of wrangling and contention of the

soul that should have been a place of rest in

the spirit, God revealed himself as the rock

who would release waters to satisfy thirst. And

he did it not by speaking, but by the staff that

he put in Moses' hand. He did it, and you ready

for this? Through the anointing. That's what

the staff represents. The staff represents the

anointing. It's the anointing that breaks the

yoke, the Bible says. It's the anointing that

causes signs, wonders, and miracles. It's what

we looked at. In Acts chapter two, why it was

so important that everyone received the Holy

Spirit. Why? Because the anointing is not just

going to come upon a few people. It's going to

come and fill you on the inside so that what

God has chosen on you, you can begin to use the

power of God as it walks with you and break out

in the realm of the supernatural. But Moses was

a type and shadow of a leader that would walk

in the power of the anointing and God would.

Use that to say, now strike me, or if you will,

strike me so that what is needed can flow to

the people. Now we know that that striking once

represents. The cross. He already had a definition

of the cross that came to heal the waters, but

the striking represented what? A lot of people

think or commentators believe it was the final

sword to the heart, or not sword, spear to the

heart in Jesus where blood and water flowed.

But in the rock, 1 Corinthians chapter 10 makes

1 Corinthians 10 · chapter mention

a pretty serious statement. He said, As you go

through 1 Corinthians 10, I suggest you read

all the verses, at least one through 15. It says

that as they all went through the plagues and

they all went through the waters and they all

went through the mountain and they all ate the

same bread and drank the same spiritual food,

that the rock that gave them water followed them.

It was from Rephidim that the rock followed the

children of Israel 30 times. eight more years.

Now think of that. That's a New Testament scripture.

The rock at Rephidim is where they had the revelation

that the rock will give water and they had the

revelation setting out from Rephidim that the

rock was going to follow them. That was one of

the reasons when they came back to the place

to learn their lesson again. almost 37 years

later, that Moses ended up failing the test.

The people did too, but Moses failed the test

because he did not discern the atmosphere and

he got upset at the people's response. Because

God has a different standard, hear me, for leaders

than he does the people. He has a standard for

all his people, but leaders are doubly accountable.

And that's why Paul says, and this is where he

gets it, you should not, many of you should not

become teachers for you have a stricter standard.

Why? That's why Moses didn't hollow God in the

eyes of the people. Meaning what? He disobeyed

in the slightest and that disobeying in the slightest

actually removed him from his final promise.

God was willing to deal with the people and have

a little more grace with the people than he was

with the leaders. Let me say that again. We don't

hear this often in church, but it's biblically

and it can be proven over and over. God has more

grace with people that are not in leadership

than he does with people in leadership. Why?

Because he's gonna hold leadership accountable

for what they teach, what they hear and say that

God is saying. And it is, they are going to be

judged according to not only how they live their

life like everyone else lived their life, but

now how they led and how they modeled and how

they led people in faith to mature in the process

of growing. That's why God wouldn't let Moses

in is because after 38 years of interceding and

pleading and getting God's grace for the people

and seeing it, at the end, he snapped. Why? Because

he had a grudge in his heart toward them. And

he went back to, oh man, if I could just, I know

it's a complicated passage, but just hear me.

Rephidim was the place where you either let out

your faith and your trust in God or you let out

what was in your soul. 38 years later, Moses

came into the same atmosphere and got stuck by

letting out his soul. And if you're called to

be a leader and God's operating in leadership

with you, you have a responsibility. Now here's

the great news. You're all leaders. You're called

to lead. If you're single, you're called to lead

your life with the Holy Spirit in partnership.

If you're married. You're leading as heirs of

grace together. If you have a family, you're

a leader. If you have a life group, you're a

leader. If on and on and on and on, you're in

what? As Jethro, Moses' father -in -law said,

there are captains of tens, of fifties, of hundreds

and thousands. There is dimensions to leadership

and there are capacity to leadership. But he

was saying this, at least one in 10 in the old

covenant had a responsibility of leading. In

the new covenant, once now you have the Holy

Spirit, you're all responsible for having a position

of leadership. Thank you, preacher. Keep going.

You're doing all right. You're doing all right.

Now, why is this important? Because the Lord,

as the rock, is always releasing water in new

places. The journey of 1 Corinthians 10 is referencing,

going back into the Bible, every station where

they camped. Every station where they camped,

the rock released water. You say, well, it's

the same water. No, it's not. Every place you're

in, that water satisfies something different.

Did it come from Jesus, the rock that followed

them? Absolutely. And it wasn't just a little.

It was enough to take care of, well, the Bible

says that 600 ,000 plus men came out of Egypt.

That means at the minimum, there was 2 .4 to

2 .5, if you count two, three people for every

man, a wife and two children. And we know. that

there were more than two children in some of

those families. On average, 2 million, 2 .5 million

people coming out into the desert that the rock

moved with them. It's like they would turn around.

It's like, there it is, and it's flowing. Every

time it would flow, it would bring a satisfaction

to the new place you're in. It's a picture. of

our Christian life that the word of God is constantly

speaking and it is constantly bringing a satisfying

of thirst in your heart wherever you're at. The

issue with people was what happened to the Israelites?

They began to loathe the manna and they took

advantage of the water. And when they loathed

the manna and they took advantage of not appreciating

God's fresh water and fresh manna every day in

provision, what did they do? They began to despise

the leaders. And it began to be a circular, like

a mixing pot that just stirred the turmoil and

the tension. And it was over very foolish things

when you think about it. It was all the craving.

You know what it says? If you boil it down, it

was all the craving of the soul. Soulish opinions,

soulish mindsets, soulish arguments that meant

nothing but actually distracted them from actually

being grateful and seeing what God was doing

in fresh revelation and fresh provision every

time they moved. They didn't move until God realized

he got in them in that journey what they needed

to get. And then they moved. That's why the Bible

says sometimes they camp just for a day and sometimes

they stayed in one place for a year. Why? They

had to get what God was trying to get through

that atmosphere in their heart. You say, why

is pastor preaching a message for three quarters

of a year? Not because I just think this is great

and you're going to eat it. Because God keeps

speaking and got it yet. Get it into them. And

then I have the responsibility. God, they're

going to stone me. Why not just a five week series

like everybody else? Did I tell you to build

a church like everybody else? No. I told you

what I wanted here. And this is what I want.

Now, there comes a point in this process as we're

looking at the children of Israel of going, okay,

God, you've got to bring a revelation. And then,

and I can't go into it because of time. Oh, Lord,

I can't go into it because of time. So I need

a piano player quickly. Thank you. Birthday girl,

thank you. What happened after they let their

soul down in Exodus 17 was this. The people that

belonged to that territory began to take from

them. God had brought them into the territory

to do what? Because anytime God does something,

And you'll find it later when you look at the

names that Moses gave the place in Exodus, I

believe it's verse seven. And he named the place

Masa and Meribah. One means to prove and to test.

The other means a place of struggle and contention.

What they didn't realize is that as God's people,

as we do, we walk on certain ground in the spirit

for God to begin to test as we move into the

promises that he has for us as a church, because

the prophets have been speaking. We're getting

prophetic words of what God has for this house,

ministries, what we're supposed to do, right?

That's happening. God's been speaking all along

our 24 -year journey, which means that we're

walking ground where God just doesn't He gives

it to us, but he's got to make sure that we've

actually got it in our heart. That's why he said

to Joshua, remember, be strong and courageous.

Every place the sole of your foot shall tread,

I will give to you. But guess what? They had

to actually take it as well and they had to keep

it. Part of walking in the spirit is you have

to be willing to keep the ground that God gave

you so you can steward that ground to go into

the next level. If you don't steward the ground,

you'll lose behind you what was pivotal to actually

keep you in your next stage. And that's what

the Amalekites do. The Amalekites were part of

that old territory that God brought Israel in

to break the spirit of getting stuff ripped out

of them. What did Amalek, when they let their

soul out, what did Amalek do? He tacked from

behind the weak, the feeble. And then he faced

off against Israel. Why? That's when the strength

of the soul is facing the spirit of God. And

we have to decide, am I going to yield to the

things of the spirit or am I going to keep what

I think should be done or is right or my opinion

or my thought? Oftentimes. We run into atmospheres

after growing, and especially after high mountaintop

experiences, we come off of a conference of all

that God said, all that God does, all that God

reveals, and now there comes a time of testing

right after. How many felt a little backlash

immediately after the conference that things

got a little, it's like it was so good, and then

it's like somebody just turned the lights off.

All of a sudden, I had to fight through an atmosphere

and not go back to the old way of thinking. Like

for those that receive healing, let me just make

it practical. They had to what? Believe that

God touched them and began to confess. Not just

in the presence of the Holy Spirit, the atmosphere,

everybody's faith that's in the room. Now by

themselves in their own bedroom, they had to

fight the thoughts and they had to say, no, I'm

keeping my healing. I'm going to contend for

my healing. That's a Rephidim moment. That's

a Rephidim. If I brought the whole service down

to that, that's what I'm talking about. I'm talking

about or a new mindset where God begins to reveal.

Am I gravitating towards stiff neck, stubborn

will, or am I actually allowing the spirit of

God to move me into a place of rest and confidence

and trust that what he said he is going to do

and I'm going to partner with him. And I can

trust what I see the fruits around me. of God's

people and this family and the leadership team.

Why? I see the evidence of it and I'm not gonna

allow the ticky -tack things just to make me

go undone. Are you there? Can I pray with you

this morning? Okay. Thank you. Can we have a

more bolder prayer thing? Yeah. There we go.

Father, in Jesus' name. Whoever's the MC can

come on up. Father, in Jesus' name, I thank you

this morning. Lord, as we kind of trying to sum

up the conference in a different way, Lord, I

thank you for the scriptures that are written.

Lord, I quote 1 Corinthians chapter 10. It says,

1 Corinthians 10 · chapter mention

these things were written. For us on whom the

end of the ages have fallen. Lord you brought

these things to remind us. That these stories

are not stories. They are accounts of truth.

And that same spirit that they walked into. We

can walk into and defeat. We don't have to allow

ourselves to keep wandering. And coming back

to the same place over and over. I'm asking this

morning. As your word is declared. of the blood,

of the water, and of the oil is here to cause

us to go over, cause us to bring us into a new

place. That's what it means. Lord, let the Rephidim,

the place that we're at right now, in the Spirit,

the place where we spread out. And recognize

the goodness of God. And allow the rest of the

spirit of God. To say our God is faithful. He's

revealed again his purposes. And we take that

strength and courage. Into our heart in this

moment. For the next stages and steps in the

journey. That is what I pray. Over every family.

Over every person. Over every heart and mind.

In this church. In Jesus holy name. And everybody

said. Amen. God bless you. Lastly, if you are

in need of prayer send us a text message at 541

-625 -1365. We would love to pray with you.