Sunday Message - Dr. Frank Damazio (October 28, 2018) | Life Bible Church

A privilege of always being here is our honor,

and my wife Sharon's with me this time. Well,

she's been here before, not the last couple times,

maybe even. Great, you know, you have such a

great church, and so much going for you in this

auditorium with the worship and the word and

presence and great heart. I'm still amazed when

I drive out here, where are the people? through

all the wilderness to get here. And then there's

this massive building church, you know. I congratulate

Brad and Jen on their journey with the church.

They're very gifted people. You know, when I

emcee, I can't think of the last time I got to

sing. I just have to, you know, teach. I have

one talent. Brad, he can sing. He can prophesy.

He can preach. He can teach. He can raise money.

He can chop wood. Me, I just, boring word of

God, you know. Brad, if it doesn't go that well,

he just starts singing. And if that doesn't go

well, he starts prophesying. Me? This is it.

If this doesn't go well, there's nothing else.

All right. We have a great God. Where's the brother

from Uganda, the pastor? Where is he at? What's

he doing in the back room? A phone call from

Uganda. Okay, tell him he missed his prophecy.

If he appears like Jesus in the rapture, I might.

All right, that's what I want to do this morning.

We have only so much time. No, no, no, I'm going

to preach now. If I remember him, it'll be at

the end. Bless him in Jesus' name. He gets that

much. All right. It's 11 o 'clock. You're out

of here at noon. Is that right? Okay. Are you

out of here at noon? Does Brad ever go over?

Yes, again. Okay. My disciple. I'm going to quote

a scripture and then we're going to go into some

teaching, some preaching and impartation. And

hopefully I can do something that would affect

you this morning that you took time to be in

church. However you got here, if you're brand

new or if you're not new to the building, but

you're kind of new to the whole thing, you know,

the Holy Spirit and presence and word and people's

passion. And maybe you're putting your life together.

You know, maybe it's spiritual, maybe it's physical,

maybe it's mental, emotional, financial, relational.

There's so many areas of life that we have to

put things together. And you might be on that

journey of just putting things together right

now. And you just kind of put one step in front

of the other and believe in that you can put

your life together, believe in that you will

be blessed because you see so many people here

that are blessed. I'm talking to you. If you

are a person that's been on a journey for a long

time and... You have somehow got stuck. Somehow

you got a little bit into a routine and a rut,

and life is no longer fresh. It's not the life

you expected. Or worse, you have disappointment,

disillusionment, a little bit of cynicism, criticism,

and reaction, resistance to life. It could be

that you have... Physical limitations and other

limitations that have come your way that you

didn't expect. They're surprises. It could be

that the marriage didn't work out and you thought

for sure everything would work out and it didn't

happen. It could be that your children aren't

turning out the way you thought they would. And

so now you're questioning your parenting and

questioning your wisdom and your ability to even

be a great parent. You live under some guilt

and some strain and it's in your mind all the

time. And there could be many, many things in

this room. That would cause a person to think

about life and think about where you are and

think about what you can do about it. I'm going

to go to John 10, and I'm just going to quote

it and build a little bit there, and then we're

going to go into the actual core of the message.

But this is my message this morning, taking your

life to the next level. How do you take your

life to the next level? Now, whether you accept

it or not, believe it or not, or know it or not,

your life has a next level. And that next level

is not a bad level. It's not a level that's going

to beat you up, disappoint you, and you don't

even want to go to the next level because the

next level might be filled with more trial. You've

already had enough trial. Can I just slip in

the seed and the thought that the next level

for you is a great level, a good level, a blessed

level, a favored level, a level that God wants

to put his hand in your life and take you to

another level in your life. Can someone say a

big amen? And so there's a next level. for every

person in this room. In John chapter 10 and verse

John 10 · chapter mention

10, when Jesus was teaching people that really

didn't understand life, and in Jesus' day, he

had different groups of people that he addressed,

and a lot of them had it wrong. The Pharisees

had it wrong, the Sadducees had it wrong, and

even the Jewish synagogue followers had it wrong.

They had piled their whole life with... and other

kinds of laws. They took the Ten Commandments,

made 100 of them. They took the Daily Commandments

and made 400 of them. They were living under

a lot of... unnecessary bondage, unnecessary

limitations, unnecessary guilt. There wasn't

a supernatural realm for them at this point.

There's no temple with a most holy place as in

Tabernacle of the Most Old Testament with the

presence, glory, and power, and voice, and all

that. They didn't experience that. They've had

400 years of deadness. The spiritual piece of

the synagogue is dead. Everything about the religions

is dead. All the Gentile religions, philosophical

religions were dead. And so Jesus really did

enter a wilderness, a wilderness of religion,

a wilderness in the intellectual realm, the emotional

realm, and healing. There was no healing, miracles,

power, supernatural going on anywhere for hundreds

of years. And so when Jesus comes on the scene,

he's dealing with the people that have a very

low -level view of life, a very low -level expectation

that anything can change. If you got a disease

in those days, it was your death warrant. If

you had some kind of a crippleness or limitation,

your life was ruined. If something happened to

you, one of your eyes or one of your hands, and

you couldn't work, your life was ruined. There

was no hope for you to ever have a good life

because there was nothing you could do about

it. There was no other system you could follow.

Even your family might put you out if you were

that person because they couldn't afford you.

What difficult for these people. Now, Jesus comes

along. He's talking to these people. And he's

talking about life. And you'll recognize the

scripture where Jesus says, I've come to give

you life. And I've come to give you life differently.

I've come to give you more life, higher life,

better life, overflow life. And anybody that

comes in any other way but me, you're a thief

and a robber. And you don't understand what I'm

saying. But if you would come through me, there's

only one way to get the life. If you would come

through me, there's life for you. And I'm telling

you right now, there's better life. Matter of

fact, I'm telling you, there's more than better.

There's overflow. There's abundant. There's a

life that only you dreamt about. dream about

life, but you put the dream out. But I'm telling

you that I can make your dream come to pass.

I can bring your life to a higher level. I can

bless you no matter what anybody says. I can

bless you no matter how you feel, no matter what

you've gone through, no matter what the circumstance

is, no matter what the limitation is. I'm the

God who blesses. I am a good God. I'm a favorable

God. And I've come to bring you good things into

your life. Now that Is the truth. But they couldn't

handle it. They couldn't grasp it. It's like

someone walking up to you when you're suffering

and everything's going wrong and they'd say,

but the best is yet to come. Well, you know,

how do I know if I'm going to believe in you?

You know, even if he's a good prophet or whatever,

you have so much hurt and so many things that

have happened. But if Jesus says to you, the

best is yet to come, you better lift your head

and say, the best is yet to come. Because that's

exactly what's going to come. It's not just the

good, the best. And I want to prophesy over this

congregational. over every person that is here

in this meeting today. And I'm going to say to

you, thus saith the Lord, the best is yet to

come into your life. The best is yet to come

into your life. The overflow, the good, the powerful,

the supernatural, the life that you have dreamt

about. The life that you have dreamt about. And

you have put the dream away. I'm saying to you,

recapture the dream. Because all things are possible

with the living God. We don't serve a dead God.

We serve a living God. We serve the God of impossibilities.

And God comes and says, I have life for you.

But we try to limit it. And God says, do not

limit what I'm going to do. Because what I'm

going to do is going to be mind -boggling. And

it's going to be so good. People are going to

stare at you and say, how did you get that? How

did you go there? How did you get that? that

blessing and you're going to smile and say, I

have a God who only gives the best and the best

is yet to come. And the best is yet to come for

me and for you. Would you like the best in your

life? It's that revelation of God that our society

needs because we have a lot of messed up people.

We have a lot of broken people. We have a lot

of disillusioned people. We have a lot of people

that have no trust in the scriptures or God himself.

But I'm telling you right now, if you can believe

with me the scriptures, that Jesus says, I come

to bring you life. Come on, shout life. Life.

And then say, overflowing. Overflowing. It's

a life that God wants you to have. Now, this

is the great news. If you don't like the life

you have, You can change it. There's nobody in

this room doomed to die the way you are right

now. It doesn't matter how messed up you are.

The people in Portland are more messed up than

Harrisburg. It doesn't matter how messed up you

are. It doesn't matter how many mistakes you've

made. It doesn't matter how many bad decisions

you're living out. It doesn't matter what everybody

else says to you. I'm telling you right now,

if you will believe my word for your life today

that you can take it to the next level, you can

change your life, you can make a decision, and

you will look back on today and say, there was

a day when I decided my life was not going to

be the life I was going to live. I was going

to change it for a better life, and so I reached

out to a better door, better entrance and I reached

into the future and lo and behold, it's been

the best. God wants you to believe. Now here's

my definition about taking life to your next

level. Taking life to your next level requires

a few things. First slide. Taking life to the

next level requires a breaking out, a letting

go, a stepping up, And allowing things to unfold.

That's one of the hardest. At God's pace, that's

truly difficult for me. Ways and timing. Now

let's look at this. Let's think about it just

for a second. This is my entry into the message

as far as we can get today. But taking your life

to the next level requires you're going to have

to break out. And when you break out, you're

going to have to let go. And when you let go,

you're also going to have to step up. And when

you step up, you're going to have to allow God

to unfold. And when God unfolds, his timetable

is so different than yours, you might try to

put your grubby little hands in it and mess it

up. And so you have to allow God to unfold. You

have to allow God to pace and make the doors

and make the ways and make the timing and make

the supernatural things happen and so that your

life moves to the next level. I'm not talking

about you taking your life to the next level

on your own smarts, your own decisions, your

own plan, your own everything. I'm talking about

you throwing your life into the mighty hands

of God and letting God take you to the next level.

There is a difference. Now. In Revelation chapter

Revelation 4:1

4, verse 1. Revelation chapter 4, verse 1. I'm

Revelation 4:1

a teacher. I understand this is written to the

seven churches of Asia Minor, which were the

seven churches that were key places in those

geographical areas. And I understand John the

Apostle is on the Isle of Patmos and he's...

Writing Revelation. That his open heavens. And

he's writing to the churches. And then he moves

into the realm of prophecy. And he moves into

the realm of the end times. And everything that

should be fulfilled. And you have the seven vials.

The seven trumpets. And all the sevens. And finally

they come. I understand the book of Revelation

is kind of a complicated book. And it's all about

John and what he saw. But Revelation chapter

Revelation 4 · chapter mention

4. I'm going to use this in a personal way. I'm

going to apply it to you. And I'm going to talk

about you being this verse for a moment. I want

you to apply it. To your own life. I want you

to look at it. And I want you to let me exegete

it just a little bit. That is give a little bit

of definition. Because this is your verse. Now

if you're going to put a verse up in your house

somewhere. In your office. Somewhere in your

car. About this message. And you're going to

remember that Frank DiMaggio talked about taking

your life. And the life you dreamt of. And an

overflowing life. And we can go to the next level.

And we don't have to live in the past. This would

be the scripture that you could maybe take and

post somewhere. And remind you about what I'm

saying. Everyone say after this. John has now

gone through the encountering with Jesus and

after those things, he now begins to give revelation

and vision and begins to write things out. But

the after this, I'm going to apply to your life

and my life that a lot of things that come to

us come after certain situations have happened

in our life. The darkest times are the times

where God speaks next. The things where you go

through that are the hardest and the most disillusioned,

after that, after the darkness, after the hardness,

after the trial, after the fire, after the circumstance,

after you go through brokenness, after you go

through disloyalty and abuse, and after you go

through your best friend walking out or whatever

it might be, I want to say that every one of

us have an after this, and after this, you can

begin to expect something great to happen. And

this is what John is saying. But this is interesting.

When you look at the original language, not to

bore you, but it's interesting that the original

language is so much colorful than the English

language, the Greek language. When he says after

this, it could read like this. Pause. Stop. For

as long as it takes. Because something new is

about to unfold. So within the terminology used

here in this language after this is also the

language saying stop, pause, and expect. Because

this is a break in your timetable. And after

this, I'm drawing a line, and I want you to expect

something new that's going to unfold. And I want

you to begin, and what's the next words in the

verse? I looked. Everyone say, I looked. And

so if you will pause with me, and if you would

kind of shake off stuff, and if you would kind

of bring yourself up into a different realm in

the Holy Spirit, and if you would kind of pause

in the kingdom of God for your own life and take

a deep breath and say, I don't understand all

this stuff. back there I'm not sure I understand

all the stuff down there but I am going to pause

in the spirit I'm going to take a deep breath

I'm going to let go of all the anxiety and the

fear and the disappointment and the criticism

and the resentment and maybe even the bitterness

of what has happened in my life in the past or

the littleness or the limitation or the problem

and I'm going to take a pause I'm going to take

a breath and then I'm going to say and I expect

something good to start happening now And that's

what John is saying. Now I turn and I looked.

I began to focus and I saw a door. Everyone say

a door. So John says, and I saw a door. Now,

I want you, without me having to go through all

the scriptures on this, I just want to say, and

I hope you write it down, have your note taken.

If not, listen to it again, audibly, whatever.

Everybody in this room has a door in front of

you. Every person. The door is significant in

scripture as meaning there's an entry into something

else coming. You have to go to the door to open

that door. That door is an invisible door. It's

a door in the heavenlies. It's a door that exists.

But it's truly the metaphor that Paul used when

he says, and I'm moving ahead and there's a great

effectual door. Open to me, but there are many

adversaries not letting me through the door.

So I need you to pray because this door is so

great. Come on, shout great. This door is so

effectual. I need to go through it. But there's

many adversaries. Now, that is your situation.

That's my situation. There's a great door in

front of me, and that door could mean a lot of

things to everybody in this room, but everybody

has a door in the invisible realm, and that door

represents. Actually, in the original, it's not

the word door. It's the word vault. He says,

so there's a vault ready to open in the heavens

that's filled with mysteries. And it's opening

to you because you're going to move into a new

area of life. And the vault has in it many things

that you cannot even understand because they're

mysteries. But in that vault are all my promises

and prophecies and healing and miracles and words

and everything I'm going to do in your life.

That vault is... full of great things that I'm

going to do with you. That vault is full of strength.

It's full of blessing. It's full of favor. It's

full of faith. It's full of vision. The vault

is overflowing with stuff and your name is on

it. So don't stand on this side of the door.

I want you to push through the door and I want

you to get into your vault and I want you to

see that it's Christmas time for you. That there

is so much. Behind that door. And you're expecting

so little. The sin of most of us is not that

we aim too high. We aim too low and hit it. It's

not that we aim high. It's not that we expect

much. We judge God's nature by our sin. We judge

God's nature by our flaw. We get into life and

we begin to judge ourselves. If we have a flaw,

if we've made a mistake, then we have to limit

our vision because we don't deserve it. It won't

happen now. I don't have the resource. I don't

have the money. I want to just say to you, if

you let me just build faith into you, there's

a door for you, and that door is not... standing

there with angels by it saying, you can't come

in. You're not good enough. You have too much

baggage. You're an embarrassment to the kingdom

of God. You're an embarrassment to heaven. All

of heaven is talking about you right now. And

you're not to go through the door because you

just are a double -minded weak person. That is

only what the devil says. You are not in Christ.

You are whole in Christ. You are the person that's

accepted. And God says, I want you to move through

the door. And the adversaries begin to come with

guilt and shame and knock you down. But you've

got to to press through the door in the mighty

name of Jesus Christ. You got to believe that

the door is not based on your goodness. It is

not based on your perfection. It's not based

on everything you do right. It's based on the

man, Jesus Christ. So when you get to the door

and the adversary starts flooding, you just say,

I'm sorry. I'm sorry about you guys wasting your

time here. I'm going through the door and you

have nothing to do with it. But you know, you're

no good. You're right. And you know, you're nothing

but a big fat liar. You're right. I am. And you

have so many problems. I have more problems than

even hell knows about. I have a lot of problems.

Yes. And you know, you made that and made a lot

of mistakes. And I want you just to take everything

you're saying and go see my lawyer. His name

is Jesus. And he'll talk with you about it. But

I can't. I can't. I can't talk with you. It's

not even legal for me to talk with you. Heaven

told me not to talk with you. I knew this was

coming, so you just have to go see him. And as

far as me, I don't even understand how I get

through this door. I don't even know why God

would let me through the door. But I'm telling

you right now, I'm going through the door. And

behind that door are good things for me and my

family and my family tree and my children and

my children's children. And I'm going to start

a whole new blessing that's going to trickle

down all the way through all of my family trees

because I am the beginning of a door -opening

generation. So what you do is you take your right

hand. And I want you to put it about right there.

I want you to think that what I'm saying has

spiritual significance. And that the door in

scripture is a metaphor, it's a symbol, it's

an analogy because we can understand God by natural

things. Anthropomorphisms. Is it theology that

you understand God because it says the hand of

the Lord and the eyes of the Lord is upon you?

Well, God has no hands and no eyes, but we understand

it because he uses the natural to open up the

spiritual so that we can grasp the truth. There's

a door in front of you right now. I don't care

what the devil says. I want you to put your hand

on the handle right now. Just put your hand on

it. You got your door? Say out loud, in Jesus'

name. Today, my day, I'm moving through the door.

And behind it is the best. I no longer will whine

and make excuses. I'm moving forward. I'm opening

the door. In Jesus' name. Now turn the knob and

throw it open. And say out loud, Shandairama.

Come on. I looked. And I saw a door. That opened.

That opened. Then the voice. Remember, every

door has a voice. Make sure you're listening

to the right one. The voice that had spoken to

me at first, which was the Holy Spirit, the trumpet,

all that, chapter 1, 2, and 3, sounded like a

trumpet said, and this is, I did everything I

did so far just to get to this phrase. Come up

here. And the voice, the trumpet said, Come up

here. Where? Here. Well, where's here? Here is

here. Well, I can't see here because I'm down

here. I know, I want you to come up here. But

if I come up here, what will I find? Just come

up. You can't have what God has for you if you

don't go up. You've got to come up, and I will

show you. Translation I'm using. And I will show

you what must happen. Come on, shout the word

next. And I will show you what must happen. I

will show you what must happen. Because you're

going to come up. You're going to come up. Not.

But. Not. But. So you're going to go up. And

in that realm, there's a place for you to put

your feet. And when you get to that realm, I'm

talking like Pilgrim's Progress, the book, if

you've never read it, the idea of so many symbols

and ideas that are in the spiritual realm, because

you can't understand the spiritual realm unless

you begin to use language that you can understand

and apply it. I believe, and I know you believe,

there is an invisible realm. I believe. In the

invisible realm, things are more real than the

natural realm. And I believe in the invisible

realm, there's everything I need for my visible

realm. So I need to reach. Pull it down. And

I will show you what must happen next. Accept

what is, but don't stay there. Let go of what

was and have faith for what's coming. So as you

move to this realm, you're going to let go of

us. limited expectations and experiences, and

you're going to let your faith move to this next

realm for your life. You're going to begin to

say things when people say, how are you? You're

not going to describe how you are. I have a limp.

I had cancer four years ago. I have a messed

up hip. I have a messed up leg. I don't have

a messed up heart. The cancer never touched my

heart. Hello. And so you can have limitation

diseases and problems. And I hate what I went

through and I hate what I'm going through now.

And I don't like the physical limitation. But

physical limitations are in this realm. I need

to get to the other realm and pull down what

I need for this realm. And this realm is in the

physical. That realm is in the spiritual. I need

to move there in faith. Don't let what you feel

stop you from trying to go there. Don't let it.

Every next level, write this down, every next

level will demand a new you. Your old self can't

go to the new level. So you're going to have

to have a new you. And a new you means you're

going to have to start making some confession.

So when people ask me, how are you? I say to

them, top of the game, living the dream, couldn't

be better. And they always go, oh. You don't

look that way. But I do it with everybody. Why?

Because that's what I want. I'm not going to

say, I'm in pain, live in pain. I limp. I hate

my limp. I have a bad hip. I'm going to the doctors.

I'm doing more x -rays and stuff right now. And

it's really a mess. And I'm so discouraged because

life is so hard. It's not fair because I preached

the gospel for 40 years. And God, of all things,

of all people, of all people in the whole world,

God should favor me because I'm his favorite.

And he should just heal me right now. And I shouldn't

have to suffer. Why should I have to suffer?

It's not fair for God to let me suffer because

the kingdom of God needs me. And so I could have

a... attitude about everything to explain how

I see it, or I could simply say, I need to go

higher. I need to go higher. And I'm in good

company. Paul, he said, now listen, God, would

you remove this thorn in my flesh? It's a limitation,

it's a problem, and I don't like it. First time,

God says, I'm not going to do that. Second time,

oh God, I travel. I go on boats that sink. I

get snake bitten. I float to islands and they

try to kill me. I disciple people who leave me

and my name is carved on a lot of jails. I've

suffered enough. So would you just take this

thorn? Second time, God says, No, I'm not going

to do that. Third time. This is in your Bible.

Three times. The third time. He says, okay, God,

I have a different angle. And I really think

you should listen to my reasoning on this one.

And God says, Paul, listen. I'm not going to

take it away. I'm going to teach you how to go

higher. In grace and strength that's not your

own. So my grace is sufficient for you. And I

want you to throw yourself upon that grace. Because

it's in that grace that you're going to do many

more things. That's going to be in my strength.

But if you go in your strength. You will not

do the things I need you to do in my strength.

Because my strength demands that you stop and

get quiet. And write 14 epistles. Paul would

have never stopped. He would have been in every

country planting churches all the way through

his entire life. He would have never stopped.

Geez, I feel like I'm preaching to myself now.

This is kind of a scary analogy going on here

now. Write more books. No, I'm not writing more

books. You want to bet? We would not have the

14 epistles if Paul didn't have jail time. Honestly,

for sure, that's the truth. And it's in those

places that Paul says, I rest in my circumstance

because of the grace of God. I'm at rest. Are

you still struggling? reasoning, arguing, whining,

debating, drawing up your own house plans. And

God says, that's not the house I'm building for

you, but that's the house I need. Now, God, come

on. You need to understand, this is my life.

I need to marry that guy. No, you don't need

to marry that guy. Yes, I do. He's a perfect

match. No, he's a perfect pervert. You have no

idea what you're asking for. Oh, God, I do. He

is so good looking. God says he might be good

looking, but he's dark inside, baby. And I don't

want you going there. Sometimes we write out

what we see. I want that business. God says you're

not going to get that business. I want that business.

And if you don't watch it, you go up to the wrong

place. And you take what's not yours and then

you pay for it for a long time. Relax. Back up

a little bit. Take a deep breath. And say, God's

grace is sufficient for me. And I will let my

resting place be my launching place. Oh, you

should write that down. That should be a bumper

sticker right there. My resting place. should

be my launching place. It's hard to launch somebody

to the next level when they're filled with anxiety

and they're moving so much. You've got to rest.

You've got to stop. You've got to breathe. And

expect great things. Believe that the best is

going to come. But when you go to the next level,

God changes you first. And this is the other

thing, whether I get time to say it or not. You

can't take everybody you want with you to the

next level. Sometimes they can't go. And that's

confusing. The next level is your level. It doesn't

belong to everybody else. Okay, now, I want you

to put down another scripture. We're into the

second introduction scripture. 1 Kings 3 .5.

1 Kings 3, 5. That night, everyone say that night.

And again, let me just use a little bit of a

subjective interpretation here, but let me just

say that it's usually in the night of life that

the best words come. Adversity is a great backdrop

for God's paintings. He uses it. Why? Because

you... Get to the place where you will let him

do what he's going to do. So that night, now,

this is about King Solomon. We've had Saul with

the United Twelve Tribes. We had David, United

Twelve Tribes. Now David thought he was going

to build a temple, but he's not. And his son's

going to now take the kingship of the Twelve

Tribes. Solomon is young. Solomon is going to

do some great things, but he doesn't know what

to do. Solomon does not live in Gibeon. Solomon

goes to Gibeon because the tabernacle at that

point was at Gibeon, and Solomon needed a revelation

of God's voice and presence and impartation because

he didn't know what to do with where he was going

and how he was going to get there, and he was

scared. And so as a young man, he goes to Gibeon,

he camps out, and God comes to him in a dream.

And you have this scripture right here where

it says, the Lord appeared to Solomon in a dream.

And God said, the famous words, only used three

times in the Bible with three different people,

where God says, what can I give you? Only three

times in the scripture. What can I do for you?

Say it. No, no, no, I'm preaching. I didn't want

you to. You are so responsive. It's amazing.

I'm saying, Solomon, say it. Okay, never mind.

So Solomon is this guy getting the dream, and

God says to him, what do you want? Ask. Now,

if a friend said that to you, that's one thing.

Even a rich man, rich woman, that's another thing.

But God, God, who has all power, all wealth,

everything, God says, what do you want? If that

happened to you right now, what would you write

down? Even off the cuff, what would you write

down? So Solomon says, I'll tell you exactly

what I want. God says, tell me. I want you to

give me wisdom that I may lead the people in

and out and protect them. That I might be a shepherd

king for your people. That I might be able to

bring them into the place you want them. But

I don't know how to do it, and I need wisdom.

And God says, now, this is an amazing request.

You didn't ask, and this kind of puts us all

in our place. God says, you didn't ask for wealth.

You didn't ask for honor. You didn't ask for

riches. You didn't ask for your enemy's heads.

You asked for someone else. And that, Solomon,

is why I will make you great. And I will give

you wealth. riches, honor, and I'll take care

of your enemies because your heart is for my

people and my purposes, not yourself. And I can

trust you with my kingdom. Therefore, I'm going

to give you everything that you want. Even though

you're not going after what you want, you're

going after what I want. Now, when God says to

you, what do you want? Your answer should be,

I want to be a helper of others. What do you

want? I want my dream. No, I want to be a helper

of other people's dreams. What do you want? I

want healing. No, I want to bring healing to

other people's lives. What do you want? If you

can somehow bring your asking and this next level

thing that we need to go to as individuals, and

if you can consider asking and pursuing things

that bless other people, not just butter your

bread. It's a good chance that you'll go to a

wide, massive next level because you have the

heart of Jesus. Amen, Frank. Such a wonderful

point. Now, does that mean you don't get what

you want? No. Solomon's still God. All of it.

His first book he wrote was Proverbs, then Song

of Solomon. And then Ecclesiastes. Ecclesiastes

is a horrible book. I taught it in college for

years and hated teaching it every time. I would

say to the students, I do believe in biblical

inspiration, but I think this one could be in

doubt. It was a joke. Solomon wrote Ecclesiastes

because everything was vanity, vexation of spirit.

Everything under the sun was worthless. Life

was worthless. You live and you earn and you

gather, and then someone else takes it. All your

friends leave you. All your wives turn their

back on you. He had, of course, when you have

700 of them, there's a good chance a few will.

And so you have all of Solomon's. He just lets

it out. And it's horrible stuff about a man who

took the center that was God, And put himself.

That's Ecclesiastes. Proverbs. Is this scripture

right here. Where he said. Give me wisdom God.

And he wrote Proverbs. At the beginning of his

reign. And wow. What a man. What a book. What

a perspective. What. I mean we could live. If

we only had the book of Proverbs. We would live

a great life. But he didn't stay in Proverbs.

He went to Ecclesiastes. My exhortation to you

as we go to the next level, don't end up in Ecclesiastes.

Don't end up cynical. Don't end up unbelieving.

Don't end up not praying for the tick because,

well, God hasn't healed the tick before. My spouse

died. My kid died. My friend died. And, you know,

I don't know. I'm not going to pray for the tick.

And then you fold your arms. And then you see

these young people up here worshiping. And you

say to yourself, but wait until they hit real

life. They won't be so happy camper up there.

They'll have to go through stuff. And then they'll

learn that life is not just what Brad says all

the time. You know, expect good. Go for good.

God will help you. Well, God didn't help me.

Well, there's a reason God's not helping you

right now. You're filled with unbelief. You're

filled with sin. and you're a person that will

not even expect anything good to happen. God

cannot even attack you, tackle you, and pin you

down and bless you. You would still fight with

him. I would say give up. Trade in that Ecclesiastes

mindset for a Proverbs mindset. Trade it in.

Doesn't matter how old you are. Trade it in.

Go to the next level. Say, well, you know, I'm

in my 70s. How do I? Have you ever Googled? Someone

say yes. Have you ever Googled something like

this? What did famous people accomplish after

they were 70? It'll blow your mind. Then Google.

what did famous people accomplish after they

were 80? And you'll be shocked again to understand

that some of our most famous people didn't do

their famous stuff until they were in their 70s.

You're never too old to do great things. So please,

don't just kind of semi -retire and go chew red

tobacco somewhere. Is there such a thing as red

tobacco? There you go. Word of knowledge right

there. Don't. Don't live your life out doing

nothing. Don't. Don't. Don't. If you have more

money than you need, don't keep saving it. You're

not going to live long enough to spend it. Give

it away. Go on a mission trip. Give it to the

Uganda pastor who missed his prophecy. Find some

young people and put them through school. Find

a single parent and help them. Don't just live

your life with... Go up. Go up. Next slide. Every

time you say, okay, I'm going to go up. Remember,

what I'm trying to say here is that you will

have, next slide, is the slide that has seasons,

levels. Yeah, go ahead and put them all up. Because

I'm so far behind, it doesn't matter. Okay. Every

category of errors in your life as you move has

these four things. You have a season, and a season

can be God's seasons and timetables are not like

ours. So when God said to you, I want you to

go visit your uncle over the mountain. His name

is Laban. And you will be there a few days. And

then you will return. Why? Because Jacob had

ticked off his brother Esau. And the one thing

you don't ever want to do is tick off a good

hunter. If you're going to tick off somebody,

tick off a chess player, a checker player, you

know, a songwriter, a restaurant owner. But don't

tick off a hunter. Now Esau is the hunter of

all hunters. He can kill things, and he had proven

it. And Jacob knew, hey, I'm in trouble because

I stole the birthright. I stole it from him.

He's going to be ticked off. When he comes back,

he's going to kill me. His mother says, you are

absolutely right. He is a hunter, and he is going

to kill you. So this is what you do. I want you

to go over the mountain. I want you to visit

my brother Laban, and he will keep you. And in

a few days, you will return, and we will solve

this thing with your brother. How long? Was he

at Laban's? Oh, 14 years. So when God says, in

a few days, I'm going to bring this about in

your life, you're thinking, hallelujah, it's

about time. God says, but it's my days. So a

season can mean a week, a year, a decade. It's

not guaranteed it's going to be fast. Why? Because

in the season, there's levels. And every level

you have to go to to achieve what needs to be

done in that season. And the kicker is you can't

skip a level. So if you skip a level, you start

over again. That's why some people are in the

same season for a long, long time. They don't

learn. achieve. They don't take it. They don't

change. They don't, and they go like Israel did

for 40 years around the mountain, around the

mountain, around the mountain, around the mountain,

because they had never grasped what they had

to change. Be very careful. When God deals with

you about something, don't shrug it off. Take

care of it and move ahead. If he talks with you

about anything, take care of it and move ahead.

If you had a little nudge and the Holy Spirit

said, write the letter, ask them to forgive you.

I'm not going to do that. I don't like them.

I never did like them. It was their fault all

this happened. They have always been really crummy

people. And they took advantage of me. And I'm

not writing them a letter. They should be writing

me a letter all the time while you're worshiping.

Oh, Jesus. No. Jesus. Going on in our spirit.

If God deals with you to forgive, do it and move

on. If God wants you to reconcile with someone,

do it and move on. Go to the next level. Every

level has miracles. No, not next slide. There's

a difference between next level, next slide.

That's funny. I think that's funny. Whoever is

doing the slides, where are they? That's doing

the slides. They're out in the parking lot somewhere,

aren't they? Well, bless you for doing my slides

and putting up with me. If you make another mistake,

God will kill you right there. No, thank you

very much. You've been actually right on it.

I'm kind of hard to follow because I play around

so much, but I don't care. No apologies, you

know. All right, come on. Church, how many of

you are getting something out of this? Okay,

read these four words, phrases with me. Everyone

say, next season. Next season. Next level. Next

level. Next miracle. Next miracle. Next door.

Next door. Every level has to have miracles.

All the miracles open new doors. New doors put

you into a new season. And you do this in a kind

of a circular moving like the Zika wheel within

the wheel. This is a moving with the core principles

and the wheel begins to move. Something happens

when you need a miracle. You know, you don't

need miracles if you're not going anywhere. You

need miracles when you're on the move. You need

miracles like the apostles and Jesus. They were

doing ministry. They were on the move. They were

just out on the hill saying, okay, this is a

good place for us just to stop right here because

we're going to do a miracle here. What kind of

a miracle? It's going to be a loaves and fishes

miracle. We're just going to have to wait for

it. It might take a while, but the people will

come and we'll do a miracle. They didn't have

any plan for the miracle. The circumstance demanded

a miracle. And if you're into moving, you'll

have circumstances where God will say, I'm going

to supply for you to go to college. Oh, I don't

have any money. And I don't have any grants.

I don't have anything. But I want to be a doctor.

And I want to move ahead. Well, you've got to

move ahead. Come up here. What do I do? You've

got to go forward. How do I go forward? I want

you to go see the people in charge of the grants.

Go knock on their door. But they won't see me.

I don't even have an appointment. And I'm not

even qualified. And so finally, you obey. Why?

You want to go to the next season, next level,

next door, but you need a miracle, but you don't

think the miracle is going to come, and now you're

discouraged. And you go there, and you say, I'm

here to see so -and -so, but I don't have an

appointment. Well, it's okay. Just a second.

Let me ask. Yeah, she'll see you. She'll see

me. Yeah. So you go in and say, you know, I'm

just here because I can't even tell you why I'm

here, but I'm here, and I do need a grant. What

kind of a grant do you need? Well, I need a grant

to pay my entire... Bill, I don't have any money

at all. You don't have any money? You know, just

a second. Yeah, yeah, yeah. You know, I have

three grants that I have to give out by tomorrow.

And all three of these have to go to people.

How much money does your parents make? They don't

make very much money. Are they helping you? No.

That's fantastic because if they were helping

you, I couldn't give it to you. And do you have

anybody else helping you? No. All the things

you were critical about and mad about and whining

about is now going to work for your good as God's

going to do a miracle for you that nobody else

can do. And all of a sudden this person says

to you, so you have no help. And your parents

have no money, and nobody's doing anything, and

you're here, and you have no appointment, and

I have to use these up by tomorrow. Wow, it's

amazing that you got to my door today, and you're

thinking, that's because I'm a mighty faith person.

I went through this door. And when you tell the

testimony, it will be, and God spoke to me, and

I went. And I knew God was going to open that

door. And when I knocked on that door, I knocked

hard on that door. And I looked her in the eye,

and I said, God has sent me here. None of that

happened, but you can say that. You don't get

a miracle staying where you are. Knock on doors.

Move forward. Press. Ask. Believe. Go. No miracle

happens with stay. Go. You don't know what's

in that office. Go. You don't know what the bank

will say. Well, there's no reason the bank would

give me money for my business. You don't know

that they have. Well, I got to give away. Two

business monies, and who are you? What business

are you starting? Do you have any help? You have

no money? And you have a bad track record? Yeah,

I kind of, you know, I listened to my wife, and

she made me spend some money. And, you know,

we bought the wrong house, and you can blame

whatever. But it could be, well, I've got to

give two bank loans to people who made mistakes.

Oh, well, that's me. Yes, I made many mistakes,

actually. Well, we only need two mistakes. Okay,

I have two big ones. You have no idea what God

has in store for you if you never knock on the

door. If you never knock on the door. I want

to get married. I want to get married. I want

to get married. Well, then date somebody. No,

I'm waiting for God to bring them. Put on some

lipstick and date them. Don't stay in the prayer

room. Get out. Beautiful young woman. Just recently.

She is in another church. She went to this different

church. And she saw this guy lead in worship.

And she liked him. And she's like 21. Beautiful.

And didn't have any guys in her church that she

felt were her match. So she said to her dad.

Dad. You know the guy that led worship tonight?

He says, no, I don't know him. She says, well,

I want him to take me out. Dad says, what are

you talking about? I want to have a date with

him. You don't even know him. She says, I know

I don't know him. That's why I want to have a

date. She ended up doing something unusual. And

I'm not saying this is the will of God for you.

But it is a person that says, I need a miracle.

I'm going to knock on the door and move him forward.

She emailed the guy. Said, I was in the service.

You were leading worship. And I thought to myself,

be great if we could have a cup of coffee. He

got the email. I talked to him. Now, if I was

him, I would have emailed back and said, can

you attach a picture? She, smart girl, had already

attached a picture. And she's a pretty little

thing. And so he looks at the email, looks at

the picture, as any prayed up, spirit -filled

young man would do. Copy? What harm could copy

do? Yeah. Yeah, I'd have a cup of coffee with

you. Let's meet at the... you know, Starbucks

place and they had a cup of coffee and now it's

more cups. And actually, they'll probably get

married. The relationship is moving along so

wonderful. What I'm saying is, it's hard to steer

a parked car. You've got to move. Whether it's

starting a business. Or going to college? Or

finding someone that you would like to have a

relationship with? I don't mean you have to be

weird and stalk the guy, you know? Come up and

as he, you know, you're taking pictures everywhere,

you show up at the store, you show up at his

car. That would be weird, you know? So don't

be a stalker. My wife got me that way, but don't

do that. Jackie? I like you. I like you. Why

are you on the platform now? Because I was asked

to come. You're going to interrupt my sermon.

I know it. I know it. Now, she is talented. And

she's good looking. Anointed. God help Brad buy

more guns. Okay, I didn't. I'd have to just say

I got as far as I needed to go with you. I do

have 12 points. Like I always do, you know. But

I think our impartation today was to encourage

you. Come on, say amen. It was to stretch you

out of your place to say, I'm going up. I'm going

forward. I'm moving. Letting go and stepping

up have to be one of the same steps. You've got

to let go, but you've got to step up. Now step

up. In every area of your life, God has better

life for you. Step up. Step up. Okay, come. I'll

give you your prophecy. What is your name? My

name is Julius. From Uganda? Yes. What town?

Masaka. Oh, sure. I know where that's at. I know

where that's at. We have a church in Uganda.

What city is ours in? Kampala. Kampala. You go

to Kampala sometimes? Yes. Yeah. We have a great

church there. All right. Brad, come help me.

I'm going to... Seriously, I felt to pray for

you. to you prophetically that those that are

against you will not stop you that there's a

huge amount of resistance that has mounted up

like a mountain against you but the Lord says

I am going to remove mountains I'm going to level

your way and your path pathway it's going to

have provisions that others would say he is exactly

the man he said he was you're going to gather

leaders and you're going to have a prophetic

effect on pastors and there will be an outpouring

from your spirit a vision and faith for their

towns and their cities and God's going to increase

you as a leader, and you in the fruitfulness

of church growth and planting. You're not to

worry about finance because God had some surprises

coming your way. He's going to bring in the monies

for buildings and lands, staff and peoples, and

you're going to find an open heavens. There will

be miracles in your place. God has only just

begun. To move through you. You're a mighty man

of God. There's mighty things going to happen.

We bless you with the grace of God. We bless

you with fresh oil. We bless you with fresh anointing.

From the top of your head to the bottom of your

feet. And a hedge around you to protect you from

all demonic powers. And all the powers that come

to resist you. That will be leveled. And you

will be like a person that's catapulted forward.

You will move forward like you're thinking now

in one year. One year will be like one day. And

five years will be like one month. You will move

ahead. And God will make a way where there is

no way. Surely, says the Spirit of the Lord,

I'm going to increase your voice. I'm going to

cause your voice to be lifted up like a trumpet.

I'm going to cause even the words of your mouth

to begin to break through places where it seemed

like walls were built. Surely, says the Spirit

of grace, I'm going to begin to move upon your

spirit and words of grace and anointing are going

to begin to flow out of your mouth. I'm going

to begin to break the sound barrier, says the

Spirit of the Lord. I'm coming to release a boom

in the voice, says the Spirit of the Lord. And

when you open your mouth, you will see and hear

what I will do even now, says the Spirit of the

Lord. There's a prophetic anointing coming to

overflow even now. That which has been a small

trickle will begin to go out another thousand

cubits, says the Lord. I'm bringing a new level

of the river and the anointing even now to your

spirit. And I'm going to cause a new line of

measure to go out from your life. Spirit of the

Lord. I'm going to cause a fresh anointing to

catch and to come alongside. The voice of the

Lord thunders. The voice of the Lord causes new

birth. The voice of the Lord brings in new destinies.

Surely, says the Lord, this is your appointed

time. Do not fear, but walk in the new mantle

and the grace that I put upon you. to their feet

heaven has risen up heaven has heard the worship

from one man musicians God we need the singers

God says I'm about to flood them to your door

they're gonna come ready and there's gonna be

an anointing and a DNA and the spirit of the

living God that is in you that you have encountered

on your face that heaven is gonna visit in the

place of worship Be established where we say

yes and amen. Let them come to pass quickly now

in Jesus' name. Everybody said amen. Come on,

tell Julius we're proud of him. Frank, what an

amazing word. Appreciate the impartation. Hallelujah.

Praise God. If we could have the prayer ministry

healing team, just those that come and pray at

the end of service. If you need a touch in your

body when I dismiss this morning, you need prayer.

For anything, body, soul. We want them just to

begin moving now and come to my left. If you

do that, I may receive this morning. That's so

good. What a great teacher, preacher. Amazing.

Father, we thank you today. Lord, we thank you

for that grace gift that Paul said I... I desire

to be with you that I might impart to you. Lord,

today we receive an impartation. Today we receive

a gift from heaven. Lord, that word encouraged

to come up to the next level. Lord, we'd want

to stay at the level where we've been. Move us

forward. Move us up. Can we say that together?

Move us up. One more time. Move us up. In Jesus'

name. Amen. Amen. God bless you. Don't forget

your children. Have a great... Be patient with

one another. The parking lot's full out there.

Thank you for being here. We'll see you. Come

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