Sunday Message (2nd Service) - Dr. Greg Hood (February 8, 2026) | Life Bible Church

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enjoy this week's message. Let's give the Lord

a big hand clap of praise. He's worthy. Come

on, give Him a shout. The Word says... Clap your

hands, all you people, and shout to the Lord

with a voice of triumph. Hallelujah. Glory, glory,

glory. Look at your neighbor and just say, whoa.

Yeah. Y 'all going to be good rednecks before

we're done. I want you to know there's a lot

of places that When we go minister, it's work.

And then there's some places you get to go minister,

it feels like you're home with family. This is

not one of those places, but... No, I'm kidding.

It is very, very, very much. We like Brad and

we love Jenny. There we go. Pastor Grace, I assigned

her this duty. got to get him on a plane right

after the service. So if you have not had a chance

to get one of the books that are out there, there's

about a 20 to 25 minute window. So while he's

preaching, he's not going to be offended if you

go to the bookstore. You go anywhere else, he's

going to be offended. But the reality is that

is going to be open. We've got to be able to

get him what's left over and get him on a plane.

So if you want to do that, the bookstore, Pastor

Grace is out there. Thank you, my friend. We

love Brad. Hallelujah. You know, this is a very

special place to me, and I really do. Thank you,

Tony, for vouching for us. opening this door.

This is a very special place for the Lord in

this region. And this conference that we've just

come out of has been probably one of the best

ones I've ever been a part of as far as even

different streams coming together, creating a

river for Holy Spirit to begin to flow through.

And if you were not at the conference this few

days, shame on you. No, I'm kidding, kind of.

And it was, you know, it wasn't one of these

conferences to where you just come and, you know,

you're being poured into. It was a lot of shifting

and transition going on in individuals' lives,

in the body as a whole. giving greater clarity

of the assignment of house. Amen. And individuals

that are in the house as well. See, we have to

remember that we're a body. Amen. Sometimes we

lose sight of that and there's not a lot of preaching

on that, but we have to remember we are a body

and each of you have a very specific part to

play in the success of this body. Amen? Because

it's not individual assignments. It's a corporate

assignment that God is really, really identifying

so that you can see your city, your region, and

this nation come into the prophetic alignment

that God has for it. Amen? To me, that's very

exciting to know that God has chosen by an act

of his own will to include us in the... Taking

back process of the earth. Hallelujah. We're

not spectators. Amen. We are participators. Glory.

That made me hungry. I thought of sweet taters.

Hallelujah. If we're going to see our children,

our grandchildren live in a land that we have

grown up in, that's the... land of the free and

the home of the brave, a land where they can

speak their mind and have many opportunities

to be wrong and to be right without consequence

other than learning. We have to do our part in

the preserving of this beautiful land that God

has given us. There is no nation on earth like

America. I don't say that because I'm just an

American. I say that because I'm a Southern American.

And we really make this nation great. Y 'all

do too. Every part of this country is so unique.

And we're blinded sometimes because of the goodness

that we have here. Do you realize you live in

the freest nation in the world? We don't know

what it means to be under the hand of communism,

but we're very, very close. We're good at sticking

our head in the sand and saying, well, if I can't

see it, it can't see me. See, one of the problems

with ease is it makes us lazy. We take for granted

those things that we've grew up with. We're in

a generation now that, that many of them just

have had everything they wanted handed to them

for the most part. But the thing, Tony, that

gets me, and it's probably the same with you,

I go to many nations of the world and I have

people without fail in every nation come up to

me and they say, Greg, we are praying for America.

Other people in other nations. Now, for an American,

You know, we're prideful people. Maybe not in

Oregon, but in the South, we really are. We love,

we're prideful people, and we think there's no

nation like America, and there's not. We think

that we've got this and nobody's messing with

us, but they are. Right? They're not coming at

us from the outside trying to get in at the moment.

They're planning it. But what they're doing is

they're trying to eat us alive from the inside

like a cancer. And the world sees it. And the

world is afraid. And they come to me, first time

it happened to me, I think it was probably maybe

six, seven years ago. And I was in Australia.

And this couple came up to me and they said,

with tears in their eyes, they said, Greg, we...

We're praying for America. We love America. We're

praying for you because we know if you fall,

we fall. If America defaults, we're done. The

rest of the world is done. I literally have had

this happen in every nation that I've been to.

And I begin to, it really messed with me, Brad.

I was like, in an emotional way, I was like.

There are people that are praying for America

from other nations and Americans aren't even

praying for ourselves. We've got to shift this

thing. We've got to move ourselves into a place

to where we're taking a greater responsibility

for our country. And I begin to ask the Father,

how do we do that? What is the... What is the

remedy for America? Now, we all know Jesus, hallelujah.

Yeah, we know that's the remedy. He is the answer.

But how do we get him manifested in our country

in a way that gives him permission through us,

his church, to be able to save and restore America

back to her prophetic assignment? How do we do

that? And as I'm praying into this, I just hear

the Lord saying, I must have a strong church.

I must have a strong people. I must have a prevailing

church. A church that's willing to lay it all

down. See, church has become a safe space. Testing.

This should be the most dangerous place in your

community. People come to church to feel safe.

God forbid Brad say something that offends you.

You're not coming back for six weeks. Not y 'all.

This is your example for the people online. Or

people quit giving. We've come to a place that

we are saying, okay, preacher. I dare you, bless

me if you can. Give me a word to encourage me.

My life's hell. Give me something that I can

hang on to. I don't think you can, but give it

a shot. Now again, not y 'all. I want to make

that very clear. Amen. And what we have done,

we have allowed circumstances and situations.

To be a louder voice and to be a stronger voice

in our life that has derailed us from our assignment.

But we're getting back on track. Am I right?

We're getting back on track and we're going to

see God do this. We're going to be that prevailing

church. I gave a definition of what prevailing

means or to prevail means the other night. I'll

give it to you again this morning. It means to

gain ascendancy through strength and superiority.

Forceful church. A violent church. Amen. The

kingdom of heaven suffers violence and the violent

take it by force. We've had a girly church. A

sissy church. Sometimes a sassy church, but sissy

sassy kind of, you know. We need a masculine

church to begin to arise again. And I believe

that men are coming back into the place of leadership

in the church. Amen. Yeah, go ahead and give

the Lord a big clap for that one. And I just

want to say, ladies, thank you for hanging on.

And keeping this thing in the womb of Holy Spirit

until men halfway lost their retardation and

got back into alignment with what we're supposed

to be doing. Amen. Oh, I just felt that might

have offended somebody. That's all right. You'll

get over it. We're too easily offended. We need

a church that is ascending through strength and

superiority. You can't do that unless you know

you got it. You are superior above every other

force in the earth. You're superior. You're not

competing. There is no competition for a victorious

church. And we are victorious. And the foundation

of that is the death, burial, and resurrection

of our Lord and Savior, Yeshua. Amen. That gives

you superiority. It's not out of your own strength

or our knowledge or our theology or our associations.

It's because of what Yeshua did. He died. He

went into the earth. He rose again after three

days. He walked around the earth for 40 days,

Jerusalem area, telling people about the kingdom.

Acts chapter one, verses one to three, that's

what he did. He was seen by hundreds of people

after his resurrection and hundreds of people

who were dead were seen with him resurrected.

Can you imagine Uncle Sylvester coming knocking

on the door after he's been gone for about 30

years? Probably not looking as good as he did

when he left, but maybe better. Hopefully the

glorified body was better. But the supernatural

act around that, People that had been in the

grave, that had been dead from the time of Adam

to the time of Yeshua's resurrection came out

of Abraham's bosom and walked around Jerusalem.

How much more testimony do we need? Powerful.

Hallelujah. This is the victory. Jesus didn't

just say, I'm coming out of the grave. He's saying,

I'm emptying Abraham's bosom. I'm bringing them

with me. Glory. We have strength through his

resurrection. We have authority and positioning

because of his ascension. Him sitting down at

the right hand of the Father and sending Holy

Spirit to fill us and to live in us. The word

prevail, it also means to use persuasion successfully.

How many of you know Paul told the Corinthians

church to have in a readiness to revenge all

disobedience when your obedience is fulfilled?

Amen. Following Jesus is not for people who have

more space than matter up here. You gotta be

thinkers. You have to be processors. You have

to be people that are strong mentally. Amen.

You may say, Greg, but my wife's not been that.

I mean, my family members are not that way. They're

not strong mentally. Well, God can give you the

mind of Christ. Amen. See, when you lose your

thinking and take on his thinking, there's nothing

you can't do. We heard a little bit of that this

week. Family, we've got to be people that are

able to persuade. Whenever Paul got before, who

was it, Festus? I believe, was it Festus, Tony?

Not the one on gun smoke, the other one. And

he said, you've almost persuaded me. We've got

to be able to form an argument for what we believe

in and what we... Come together to celebrate.

We've got to be able to defend that among the

lost and among the heathen. Do you believe that?

That's why it's important, like Paul told Timothy.

He said, Timothy, study to show yourself approved,

a workman that needed not to be ashamed, rightly

dividing the word of truth. Amen? You've got

to be in the word. You've got to know the word,

learn the word, speak the word, be a people of

the word. Why? It's because kings rule by their

words. Hallelujah. The word prevail also means

to be frequent. You've got to show up. Amen.

You can't stay home and watch Brad preach in

your pajamas drinking hot cider. You need to

show up. Now, if you're in the room, you know

I'm not talking to you, those of you that are

online. Where are you? This is work. This is

not a vacation. This is not a social club. This

is not a country club. This is not a place where

you just come to get spiritually motivated. This

is a place where when we come together, one has

a psalm, one has a hymn, one has a tongue, one

has an interpretation. The gifts of Holy Spirit

are flowing. Commissionings are coming. And when

we leave outside those doors to go to our prospective

places, we are leaving on an assignment. Hallelujah.

We're not leaving weak. We're not leaving feeble.

We're not leaving defeated or depressed. We are

leaving charged up by the Spirit of the Lord,

ready to cause the kingdoms of this world to

become the kingdoms of our God. Woo! It's very

essential that we understand that a prevailing

church is the church that Jesus built. Amen?

It's an enduring church. It's a church that is

anchored in the kingdom. Anchored in the kingdom.

Jesus said in Matthew 16 and 18, he declared

there, I will build my church and the gates of

hell will not prevail. Endurance begins with

an understanding of who we are corporately in

Christ. We're not a fragile institution. My Lord.

If the church had hide, it'd probably be elephant

hide. We're thick skinned and we're tough. Amen.

We're not this weak institution, this fragile

institution that the enemy can come and destroy

at any act of his own will. No, no, no. We are

thick skinned. We are. the manifestation of God's

kingdom authority in the earth. Amen? We have

to be anchored in kingdom identity. Now, when

you go to talk about your identity, you've always

got to keep yourself in check when you're talking

about your identity because there's a lot of

things that come and bombard you to try to convince

you otherwise. Your past begins to creep up and

you begin to believe. What you were is who you

are now. Amen. But if you are born again, if

you are born from above, if you are somebody

that is washed in the blood, literally old things

passed away. Do you believe that? Old things

have passed away and everything has become new.

You are a new creature in Christ. I heard a preacher

say one time, you're a new creep in Christ. Hallelujah.

You're a new creature. You have to continually

remind yourself of who you are, but not just

who you are in Christ, who you are in the body.

My assignment, why? Because you'll see people

up front and you'll say, well, they must be more

successful because they're up front, they're

talking to people, they're getting to do this,

they're getting to do that. Maybe they have more

money or more education or more popularity in

the community than you do. You think that's success.

Family, that's not success. That's a distraction

when it's not meant for you. Amen. Don't strive

to be up here. Strive to be in the middle of

your assignment. Because the fact is, we can't

do what we do if you are not where God created

you to be in the body. Amen. We have one heart.

We have two lungs. We have 10 digits. Some have,

you know, on your hands and then your feet, you

got 10, so that's 20. Some have 24. But that's

a whole other sermon. Why did Paul liken us to

a body? Because we are all individual members.

We are very particularly created by God to fulfill

a certain assignment to make this body work.

And we need it all. We don't need it diseased.

We don't need parts removed. We need to see everybody

in their place in a prevailing church, an apostolic

church, on an assignment to change the territory

that God has given them. Everybody finds themselves

in their place. Look at your neighbor today and

say, you're important, we need you. Amen. Now

say it to the person next to you like you really

mean it this time. Hallelujah. He said the gates

of Hades will not prevail. Here's another aspect

of a prevailing church, a church that's apostolic

in its function and assignment. We're rooted

in unshakable faith. Amen. Jim preached one of

the best messages I've ever heard on faith the

other night. It was amazing. It was amazing.

Hallelujah. We have to be rooted in unshakable

faith. In the book of Hebrews chapter 12 and

Hebrews 12 · chapter mention

verse 28. Hebrews chapter 12 and verse 28. I'm

Hebrews 12 · chapter mention

going to read it to you out of the New American

Standard. Actually, I want to back up to verse

25. It says, see to it that you do not refuse

him who is speaking. For if those did not escape

when they refused him who warned them from earth,

much less will they escape who turn away from

him who warns from heaven. Verse 26, it says

that his voice shook the earth then, but now

he has promised saying, yet once more I will

shake not only the earth, but also the heavens.

He's saying, I'm going to shake the seen realm

and the unseen realm. Amen. And then he said

in verse 27, this expression yet once more, the

notes removing those things which can be shaken

as of created things so that those things which

cannot be shaken may remain. Verse 28. Therefore,

since we receive a kingdom which cannot be shaken,

let us show gratitude. By which we may offer

to God an acceptable service with reverence and

awe for our God is a consuming fire. He gave

us a clue here about the shaking. He said everything

in the seen and unseen realm are getting ready

to be shook. A whole lot of shaking going on.

Hallelujah. Jerry Lee might have been a prophet.

Some of you youngers have no idea what I'm talking

about. But he said, I'm going to shake it all.

Now is coming a time. We're in that day. I believe

we're in the day that everything we can see and

things we can't see are being shaken. And he

said, but be encouraged, be of good cheer because

I've given you a kingdom that cannot be shaken.

And Paul said here, the shaking's going on all

around me. I'm in a kingdom that cannot be shaken.

What is my stability in this? It's gratitude.

It's gratitude. Thank you, Lord. The Lord spoke

to me last year. He said, Greg, one of the most

powerful weapons my church is going to have in

2026 is a spirit and heart of thankfulness and

gratitude. Woo, hallelujah. I can be thankful.

I can show gratitude and I can mean it with all

of my heart. Lord, there's a lot of shaking going

on. People are being shook, shook, shook, shook.

Thank you, Lord, it's them and not me. Hallelujah.

Right? Lord, just bring them into your kingdom.

Let them not be all shook up either. We have

to have a heart of gratitude. That means you

can't complain. Hallelujah. Well, I'm just, you

know, I'm just stating the reality. No, it's

not. It's not the reality. Amen. Next time you

get ready to complain, don't. Amen. Just don't.

Amen. Yeah, next time that knothead you married,

God gave her to you. Oh, hallelujah. I'm going

straight to the airport after this. Don't complain.

Speak life. Speak life. Amen. Speak life. Somebody

say speak life. Why? Because gratitude causes

where we are, the environment that we're in to

be unshakable. Hallelujah. Here's another one.

The prevailing church, the apostolic church must

be a people that are committed to the apostolic

mission. The mission, the assignment, the apostolic

assignment, not the pastoral assignment, but

the apostolic assignment. Acts chapter one in

verse eight says, but you shall receive dunamis

power. when Holy Spirit comes upon you and you

will be my witnesses. He's saying here that if

you are filled with Holy Spirit, you are moving

in your assignment, you will be able to be someone

who gives a firsthand account at the manifestations

of God and his faithfulness to what he's called

you to do. We don't go around saying anymore,

Lord, do, do, do, Lord, do, Lord, do, Lord. around

telling people, look what the Lord has done.

Look what the Lord has done. Well, I don't see

it. Yeah, but he's done it in his word. And that

word will become alive. It'll come alive when

you begin to speak it into your city, your region,

and your nation. Amen. A prevailing church, a

church that advances strong is a church that

stays on assignment. You know, we have a lot

of churches, so -called churches in America,

that, you know, they're trying to be everything

to everybody. Yeah. They got all kind of fun

stuff going on and not much supernatural stuff.

I'd rather be supernatural. Amen. You know, they

try to do a lot of things to get people in. that

seem to be, I'm gonna be gone soon, so here you

go. It seems to be compromising. Well, we gotta

meet them where we are. No, you don't. You gotta

meet them with the power of the Holy Ghost. Revival

doesn't come through marketing. Revival comes

through signs and wonders and miracles. Amen?

You don't build a church by pizza parties and

carnivals and bike giveaways and this and that

and that and this. You do it by the Holy Ghost.

Signs and wonders and miracles. Now, do those

other things. You can do those things, but if

that's all that you're doing, trying to get butts

in the seats, you're missing the point. It's

not about how many we get in. It's about how

many we send out. Amen. It's about changing the

culture, activating you, commissioning you, and

deploying you into your assignment. Hallelujah.

The next one I would say that would be characteristic

of a prevailing church or an apostolic church

would be those that are empowered by Holy Spirit.

Ephesians chapter 3 and verse 16. Let's look

Ephesians 3 · chapter mention

at that, Ephesians chapter three and verse 16.

Paul is saying to the church, he said that he,

Father, would grant you according to the riches

of his glory to be strengthened with power through

his spirit in the inner man. Oh, hallelujah,

strengthened. We talked about the definition

of prevailing a while ago was to be strengthened,

to be strong. Amen. So this is part of God's

plan for you is that you carry strength or weight.

This word power here again is the word dunamis.

It means power, might, strength, ability, mighty

power, miracles, miraculous power, wealth. I

want to challenge you today. I'm praying that

God will put sick people in front of you this

week. Yeah. And don't just look at them and say,

well, bless your heart. I'm going to pray for

you. No, say, this is what that redneck was talking

about. This is an opportunity for the power of

God, the dunamis of God to flow through me. Just

try it out. Amen. I break the spirit of timidity

off of you. Hallelujah. And the boldness of the

Holy Ghost in you begin to say, all right, they

don't know me. I don't know them. So we're going

to try it. They'll probably never, ever see me

again. So if it works, praise God. If it doesn't

work, I'm still in the clear and just try it.

Try it. Amen. I'm praying this week. God puts

demon possessed people in front of you. And you

can't find Pastor Brad's phone number. Here,

talk to my pastor. Talk to my apostle here. Get

delivered. No. You cast that devil out. Amen.

You cast that devil. The Bible says in Mark 16,

to those that believe, they shall cast out devils.

Here's the redneck translation. You shall evade.

Evict squatters who are demonic out of the earth,

the vessels of God. Some of y 'all been evicted.

Y 'all know what the process is. Not y 'all,

those online. It's easy. Amen. Look for opportunities.

Look for opportunities. Pray for the sick to

cast out devils. Oh Lord, we're praying that

God will use you to raise the dead. See, the

only problem with that, somebody's got to die.

I want to be on the raising part, not the dying

part. Hallelujah. Strength and wealth. That means

that when he strengthens you with the power through

his spirit and the inner man, that he is bringing

everything you need for your assignment. So don't

look at what you don't have. Look at what you

do have. Amen? And if what you do have is not

enough to meet what you need, you might need

to make what you do have a seed. It shifted,

Brad. I'm sorry, it just shifted in the room.

I felt the air go out. Well, you know, I've been

trying to save this for a long time. I've been

wanting to do this for a long time. Maybe it's

a long time because God's been saying, I give

seed to the sower. And I've got to release what's

in my hand so he can release what's in his hand.

See, God likes picking on us that way. He'll

give us a seed and we think it's part of the

solution. It is if you allow it to remain a seed.

Testing one, two. Hallelujah. So I just speak

and decree strength and wisdom over you today

that the things that you're holding on to that

you need to sow, God is going to give you wisdom

and revelation in how to sow so that you can

reap. And wealth will fill your house. Amen?

Hallelujah. The next one. The last one. is that

to be a prevailing church, an apostolic house,

we have to stay focused on the eternal perspective

of heaven. Amen? We can't lose focus of the eternal

perspective of heaven. 2 Corinthians 4, 17 and

18. Let me just pull the whole, I want to read

another verse out of there. I'm getting used

to these electronic things. Verse 16, I want

to go there. Therefore, we do not lose heart.

Look at somebody and say, don't lose heart. But

through our outer man, although our outer man

is decaying, yet our inner man is being renewed

day by day. For monetary light afflictions. is

producing for us an eternal weight of glory far

beyond comparison. While we look at the things

which are seen, but at the things which are not

seen. For the things which are seen are temporal,

but the things which are not seen are eternal.

What is the eternal? perspective of heaven. It

is the kingdom. God taking everything over in

the earth through you, his sons and daughters.

The eternal perspective is not going to heaven,

but getting heaven into earth. Amen. The eternal

perspective is not us being little babies floating

around on clouds, playing harps, naked, all that

stuff. No, that's not it. That's an ugly sight.

That's Dante's inferno. His eternal perspective

is to cause every demonic entity that rebelled

against him to be put under the foot of his sons

and daughters. That's big. Amen? So our goal

is not to get people to heaven, but to get people

in the kingdom so we can get heaven into the

earth. And yes, you do get to go to heaven if

you die before he returns. You do get to go to

heaven, but you're coming back with him. Amen?

Unless you believe in the third coming, which,

hallelujah, we won't get into eschatology today.

So to be a prevailing church, to be a church

that is apostolic in its DNA, in the nature of

who it is, You've gotta be anchored in kingdom

identity. You've gotta understand that God has

given you an unshakable faith and be rooted in

that. You've gotta be committed to the apostolic

mission, empowered by the Holy Spirit, and focused

on the eternal perspective. I see it. I see it,

Brad. I see it in here today. I see it over this

house, through this house. I see it. Like it

has just been rolled out. And all you have to

do is begin to walk on what he's rolled out before

you. If you're willing to work. And the Bible

actually tells you to work while it is day. Amen.

I know that's an ugly four letter word. But if

we will be obedient to work. To labor. To go

after the harvest, which is not only souls, it's

territories. To go after the things that God

has given you, your peace will strengthen others

that are going after their peace. And when we

start bringing all of these pieces together,

we'll have a nation that honors God. The Bible

says in the book of Psalms, blessed is the nation

whose God is the Lord. Not blessed is the church,

blessed is the nation whose God is the Lord.

And I'm believing that America very quickly is

coming back into the place to where we're saying

the righteous are ruling and the wicked are in

Guantanamo. Hallelujah. Oh, wait a minute. That

was a misquote. Half of that was scripture. Half

of that was my heart. We're getting it back.

Because there are people like you that are recognizing

the call of God. The assignment of being an apostolic

people. Carrying apostolic DNA. And being the

tip of the spear. This is something this house

is going to begin to be known for is being the

tip of the spear. That's the bloodiest part of

the spear. Amen. It's a little gory on a Super

Bowl Sunday, but that's all right. The Seahawks

will win. Half of y 'all didn't like that. I

did see some Patriot jerseys in the first service,

and I thought, oh, the rebellious have arrived.

No, I'm kidding. I'm kidding. I'm kidding. My

prayer over you, Life Bible Church, is that you

would receive and feel the weightiness of what

God's doing. This is heavy. It's heavy. But it's

necessary. And he never puts anything on his

body that they cannot bear. You were designed

to carry this weight, this glory into the state

of Oregon. There will be other congregations

planted from here, Brad, in the state of Oregon.

And they will be apostolic centers, apostolic

hubs like this one that will be outpost of this

house throughout the state of Oregon. And it

will also go into Washington and into Canada.

Also in California, my condolences, but also

in the California. You're going to watch God

give you, my Lord, I see 500 miles north to south

from this place. that God's going to give this

house to steward. As you're faithful with the

little, he'll cause you to be masters over much.

And some of you sitting in here today and some

of them in the first service are going to be

those that God raises up and trains and sends

to man and to steward these other apostolic hubs

in other parts of this state, Washington, and

the northern part of California. Stand up with

me if you don't mind. Just link arms with somebody.

Link arms with them. Father, my prayer today

over Life Bible is that they come shoulder to

shoulder and arm to arm for the assignment that

you've given them. Father, again, I prayed this

last night, but I'm praying again today. This

is so important, Lord. Allow them to see clearer

than they've ever seen. Just like Elisha said

to you, Father, open Gehazi's eyes that he may

see there's more for us than against us. Lord,

do that for this house and this leadership. Father,

do that today. Father, that they may see there's

more for them than against them. And this is

a fixed fight. Open their ears so they could

hear. clearer than they've ever heard. Father,

I pray today that this prevailing church here,

this apostolic house here, Father, that there

is a supernatural strength coming into them for

this assignment. They will not grow weary in

well -doing. They will walk and they will not

faint. Father, Give us the sobering understanding

of not only what we are called to do, but what

you're going to reap through us. You pick them,

Lord, to bring an everlasting change. I hear

the Lord saying today that you need to pray.

Let me say it a different way. Part of your assignment,

your prayer assignment, is to pray the northern

border of our country is closed to anything that

would be an adversary to our nation. It's part

of your prayer assignment. So Father, we do that

today, Lord. We just seal that border up. And

we declare that the enemy will not be able to

cross the border in any capacity. Any adversary,

anything coming to do harm to our nation from

the northern border. Father, we declare today

it will not cross our border. We say today, Lord.

that your angels are encamped around that boundary

and you yourself are being a wall of fire round

about us. I see fire angels being released to

the northern border. Father, I thank you, Lord,

today that we're moving into a place in this

house to where, Father, we're not requesting

things as much as we are agreeing and decreeing

and declaring what we're hearing that you want.

Father, there's an increase of five -fold gifts

in this house. There's an increase of five -fold

gifts in this house for preparation of deployment.

Now, you got to understand something about deployment.

You don't just go. You're sent. There's power

in being sent. So when you go, you go, you're

on your own. But when you're sent, you carry

the DNA, the blessing and the authority of the

house from which you're sent. That's a double

portion. And so Father, I thank you as these

gifts are emerging in this house that they will

stay set until they are sent. They will grow

and mature and when they're recognized, Father,

and they are being sent, Lord, they will be sent

with a double portion. Give us the ability to,

as we said last night, Lord, morph from sheep

to lions. And let there be a roar that comes

out of this house, Lord, that shakes the ground

in three states. Not only the northern border,

Brad, but I'm seeing something here is that I

see ships off the west coast. And part of the

apostolic authority that God is giving this house

is going to be able to keep the enemy's ships.

their watercrafts, even submarines, away from

our borders, away from our nation. You say, Greg,

what's going on? Why do you want to prophesy

like that? Because there's coming a day that

will happen, that will try, but it will be the

church that keeps them at bay. Amen? Not to scare

you, but to equip you and to prepare you how

to pray. Brad, could you bring your leadership

up here and just have them stand here in the

front? Hallelujah. I'm going to ask Bishop Tony

to come up here with me too. If I could have

all the elders and staff, please. Sure. And any

department heads, if you're over an area of ministry

that you happen to be in here, elders, staff,

department heads. Come on. Come on. Deanna, I

can't see. Take the oak. Place the oak right

here. There you go. Department heads. Nathan.

Yeah. Keeney. Good. Hallelujah. He had to convince

some of y 'all to come. He let you up here, brother.

That's amazing, man. That's amazing. I did that

for you, Brad. I want you to stretch your hands

towards him and I'm going to pray over him. I

want Tony to pray over you too. And then I want,

when we're done, we're just gonna walk and just

touch you and bless you. And then I want Apostle

Brad to begin to speak over you the, help me

explain this, Lord. The ability to wear the heart

of a pioneer. Foragers. Those that are able to

cut away. New paths for people to walk in. You

are a people that are going to forge new paths

in the spirit and in the natural. You will not

walk the path of other churches that they beat

down. But you will forge new paths as pioneers

and cause a new way to be made where there is

no new way. to be made amen that means creativity

is going to begin to surge in this house revelation

is going to begin to surge in this house amen

wisdom how to implement strategy because of the

apostolic anointing is going to begin to surge

in this house and the ability to find direction

because of the prophetic anointing is going into

a new new level is beginning to be pioneered

in this house. So Lord, I bless the leadership.

I bless Brad and Jen and their leadership, Father,

on these different levels. And we declare today,

Lord God, that they are going to hold up their

arms as they move forward in clearing a way,

clearing a new path. They'll have a deeper heart

of a servant. And you'll use them, Lord, to begin

to birth and to establish this new path. New

path, new path, new path. I bind every self -serving

thing that would try to creep up in us. And I

say, Lord, we submit our hearts to you. And we

submit our hearts to the leadership. We submit

our hearts to the vision and the assignment.

And Father, by the help of Holy Spirit, we will

see this thing done. And I'm hearing the Lord

say over the next two years, there will be so

much measurable change and progress made that

will open up the heavens over this state. And

you'll begin to see even... Seats of government

changed. And you'll be able to rejoice and say,

we have a righteous majority. From your county

level all the way to the state level. Salem is

being saved. I'm going to pray in the Holy Spirit.

You don't need to understand what I'm saying

because I'm not talking to you. Thank you Father.

In Jesus name. I heard the Lord say that I am

depositing within you, says the Lord, the essential

things that you need for the assignment. I'm

saying to you today by my spirit, says the Lord,

that I am leveling you up. I am bringing you

into a new place. And I will begin to cause you

to enhance one another, says the Lord. I will

cause the leadership of this house to live. in

a continual state of conception and birthing.

Conception and birthing. Conception and birthing.

Conception and birthing, says the Lord. For I

have set you in a season of multiplication. A

season of multiplication in every area. that

has to do with your assignment, especially wealth.

For if I not sit over this house, you will be

a war chest. You will be a place where I distribute

my wealth from, says the Lord. Well, you've stepped

into that place and I'm moving you into a place

of great favor to where you will become a magnet

for wealth. I am releasing the millions upon

millions upon millions into this house, even

in this day, says the Lord. Watch, watch, watch.

I will cause you to move this way and that way.

It'll be quickened sometimes, it'll be slow in

other times, but you will begin to march to the

beat of the drum of the armies of heaven. You

will begin to see me, says the Lord. You will

begin to partner with me, says the Lord, and

my angels in a way you've not yet done. So watch

me as I begin to perform these essential things

in you. And watch me, says God, as I begin to

bring you into a place of oneness that you've

not walked in yet before. I'm causing my family

to come together to rule with me in this region

in a very new way, says God. So, Lord, we just

decree that. It's done. And as we just walk down

and touch them, Lord, your word says lay hands

on them. They'll be activated. And so, Lord,

today as we do this and Apostle Brad prays over

them and this congregation, Father God, there

is... a, what I see in the spirit, there is a

walking across a threshold and God locking a

door behind you where you don't go back that

way. And he's moving you through many, many rooms.

Many are coming. So Lord, we release that today.

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