Sunday Message - Rachel Hickson (October 29, 2017) | Life Bible Church

Well, it is a privilege this morning to welcome

a friend and a guest. I don't know if I can call

you a guest anymore. You're just kind of family.

We sure enjoy having Rachel Hickson and Helen

Azar with us, and they did a fantastic job at

the Women's Conference. So we're going to just,

we held them over a little bit. We want to have

Rachel come and share the word this morning.

Would you give a big Life Bible welcome to Rachel

Hickson as she comes this morning? Thank you.

Well, it is an honour. Thank you, thank you,

thank you. As was said, it was an amazing time

with your girls. We missed a lot of you, especially

the men. I love being on Sunday morning. I have

to say, my favourite. is when we've got the men

and girls together and we're worshipping. Thank

you, worship team. I love that sound of one heart,

one soul, one place, making Jesus look great.

So thank you so much. So I want to come and share

the word with you this morning. I feel really

encouraged because already just being in your

prayer time and just hearing so much about the

release of healing and then just the words that

you brought for our offering about just the seeds

and what we carry and all the way through, God

has tapestried his sound this morning. So I want

you to just... Listen more. You don't have to

listen now. Just listen more because he's been

knocking already. And I've called what I'm going

to talk about this morning, forget and remember.

Can you say that with me today? That's okay.

Let's try more coffee. One, two, three. Forget

and remember. You're most probably thinking I'm

slightly schizophrenic. Make your mind up, girl.

Forget. Or remember, no, forget and remember.

And as I begin to unpack, you will just see what

I'm doing. Sorry, I'm just taking this off because

I forgot one thing. Forget. And it keeps shutting

down on me and saying, shut up talking, girl,

you're done. And I'm saying, no, I need my notes.

But I was walking over the fields with my wonderful

chocolate Labrador dog. And as I was walking,

I just felt Holy Spirit say this. You need to

learn the grace of forgetting correctly and the

art of remembering completely. Just read this

with me one time. One, two, three. You need to

learn the grace of forgetting correctly and the

art of remembering completely. And he said the

reason we need to do this is in order to live

an emotionally healthy life. So I'm going to

unpack what does it mean to remember to forget.

Remember to forget. And God took me to a scripture

in Isaiah 43 verse 25. Now I'm a girl that went

Isaiah 43:25

to church before I was born. I have missionary

parents. I'm a preacher's kid. I've read the

Bible and had the Bible in my world for a very

long time. And, you know, I still am convinced

that God sneaks. scriptures or extra words into

certain verses that you know we know that this

is the authentic word of God but how many of

you discover you read something you think no

that wasn't there last time I read it I'm sure

he snuck something in well I want you to read

this verse with me and I'll tell you what I am

convinced God snuck in my Bible this time in

September 1 2 3 Isaiah 43 25 I I am he who blots

out your transgressions for my own sake, and

I will not remember your sins. I am he who blots

out or forgets your transgressions for my...

own sake. You see, I always thought God was generous

and kind in this verse, and I was reading it,

that this amazing God, God says, I am God, and

I forget your sins for your sake. I always thought

it was about my sake, my need. But right here,

it isn't God saying, I need to action this for

your sake. Actually, I'm Actioning it for my

sake. And as you begin to look at that for my

own name's sake, it actually means that God,

even God states and confesses for the integrity

and the well -being of his personhood. He makes

an active, intentional choice. I will delete.

completely forget eradicate remove all trace

of your transgression I will not remember I have

made an active decision it's not on my grid reference

at all when I look at you and so you see the

intentionality of God and God's decision making,

is also how he wants to school and tutor us.

So then let's read it for me. Rachel, Rachel,

for your own integrity, personalhood, and emotional

well -being, forget the transgressions. The actions,

betrayals, happenstances of people in your world

against you. Make an active, intentional choice

for your own name's sake that Rachel will not

go there. She will not remember those sins. You

see... If we make these active decisions, we

remove the pollutants and the contaminants that

get inside the very well -being, the very center

of our lives, and they become a pool that festers

and pollutes. It's much easier said than done.

How many of you know that's true? And we all

know it, but it's hard to do it. And I believe

God spoke to me that this is a season for the

church to grow up and begin to discover a new

attitude of generosity. And already Pastor Brad

brought it up in concerning our offering. And

sometimes giving forgiveness is far more costly

than giving $10. You see, I've discovered one

thing of life. I'm 57 years old. I have two children.

My son is 31. My daughter is 34. And I have five

grandkids. And so I've done a bit of life, done

a bit of relational life. I've been in the church,

as I said, for a long time. Gordon and I have

pastored. I've been in community life. I've watched

the good, the bad, and the very ugly. How many

of you would say, yeah, I've done a bit of that

too, my world. And I have noted one thing, historical

people usually become hysterical. You know, there

are those moments of meltdown and they usually

are because finally a button's been triggered

and suddenly you go, yeah, I can't believe you're

doing this and you did this and you did that

and you did the other and you did the other and

you go, whoa, bring it on. I didn't know. That

you were so bitter. Have you ever had those moments?

And when it's done to you, it feels utterly unreasonable.

But when we do it, it's actually utterly understandable.

Don't you remember? You forgot. You never did.

You never. Hello. You see. That historical pollutant

often triggers us. But then we end up in this

catch -22 situation. We end up feeling that the

devil says, yeah, but if you just forget, you're

letting them off easy. You're just becoming a

doormat. You're just weak. Be a man. Man up.

Let them know. It's just... Too easy to just

forgive and forget. After all, they should pay

at least something. They should feel mama's wrath.

They betrayed me. They hurt me. Don't they understand?

Don't they have any idea what they did to my

world? And the enemy then says they should pay.

The problem is the price has been paid. Jesus

has paid it in full. We have no right to make

people pay unless we want to pay. And so you

see, the enemy always says, don't let them make

you a doormat. But the greater way is trust.

And what we're wrestling for in that moment is

the trust in the goodness of God who does all

things well, who will. stand on our behalf, who

will cover our humility, who will make the crooked

place seem straight, who will make it right.

And we lean and trust into the goodness of God

rather than our own defense. But that takes huge

courage. And then God said this to me, Rachel.

You need to upgrade in your emotional intelligence.

How many would agree? Most of us need an upgrade

in our emotional intelligence. How many of you

have had a moment, even though 50 -odd, you're

being three? I don't want it. It's not fair.

I can't believe poor little me. And suddenly

you're watching yourself and you're thinking,

I'm about three right now, but I'm not going

to go there. Why do those things trigger? What

is that? I, even I, for my own namesake, blot

out, delete every transgression, every pollutant,

every contaminant. You see, God wants us to remove

those contaminants. We need to realize that unforgiveness

is a luxury we cannot afford. We need to realize

unforgiveness is a luxury we cannot afford. You

see, it pollutes the very essence of who you

are. It makes the sweetest people bitter. It

makes you look at yourself and not like yourself,

but then you're justifying it. How many of you

know what I'm talking about? Once we decide to

remember the wrongs people have done against

us and we catalogue them and keep an account,

we start a negative route or route in our lives.

We start this process that leads us to emotional

self -harming. And you know... You watch maybe,

and in our culture and society today, I live

in Oxford. And my world is a student's, young

professional, young adult's world. My church

is very much a 35 under church. Just because

that's my culture. That's where I live. And I

see the evidence of physical self -harming. But

it never starts on the skin. It starts in the

heart. And for so many of us, we cover it better.

And it doesn't show on our hands. But oh, we've

got it on the inside. that self -harming those

blistering blistered places and unforgiveness

we all the devil fools you yeah hold on to it

or hurt them the thing is it doesn't it lacerates

you it lacerates you and when we make those decisions

to remember what we should forget actually we

hurt ourselves most. And that injustice, bitterness,

rage, resentment, anger, depression, sadness,

weakness, self -pity, all the stuff actually

becomes contaminants. But it takes great courage.

But come on, Oregon people. You're pioneers.

You've got some welly in you. That means you've

got some guts. Got some... Metal got some willy

in you. You can have that one for free. But you

need to remember to forget. But there's another

level and this word has already come up today

in the worship set several times. You also need

to forget yourself. You see, unforgiveness towards

yourself is self -harming too. It's regret. Say

that word with me. Regret. You see, regret is

a very wicked master. 2 Corinthians 7 verse 10

2 Corinthians 7:10

says this. Read it with me. 2 Corinthians 7 verse

2 Corinthians 7:10

10. God wants us to experience, leads us away

from sin and results in salvation. There is no

regret with that kind of sorrow. You see, the

devil is a manipulator masterly, a master manipulator.

And again, you see, just like the forgiving of

people, you know, the devil begins to say, don't

let them off light, they should pay. With the

regret thing, he says, were you a mean? How many

of you know there was truth in it? And I taught

on this, and if you want to hear it, listen to

the Beyond Measure with the girls thing. Don't

believe the devil, even when he's telling the

truth. You see, there's truthful information.

It's not the spirit of truth, but it's truthful

information that he uses to accuse and bully

and beat you up. Yeah, but you had the affair.

You had the abortion. You cheated on your wife.

You sneak off and watch the porn. You've been

aggressive with your kids. Irresponsible with

the money. You were, you were. And because it's

true, it has a power. And he bullies. And so

we come into the presence of God and we say,

oh God, I am sorry. And the devil says, how sorry?

And he keeps saying, not sorry enough. But the

Bible says, no, there is a journey of repentance.

And that journey starts by coming to Jesus and

saying, I am sorry. And that leads you away from

your sin. As you look to Jesus, he's taking your

hand and he's walking you away from your sin.

And he's walking you in to a brand new redemption,

a brand new life. He's got you on a journey.

The devil wants you stuck. God wants you on a

journey, leaving your sin into redemption, totally

100 % free. There is no regret. Say it with me.

One more time, there is no regret with that kind

of sorrow. God, I'm sorry. I want to leave it

behind. And I believe today, this is my last

time I preach before I go home after three weeks.

I believe today, God brought me here for you,

precious people, because he wants you to get

free, totally free, forever free, never feeling

that bullying. Because there is no regret. It's

time to remember to forget. I want to just explain

forgiveness because sometimes we get messed up

with that. But let's have, this is what God said

to me. It doesn't mean that there wasn't an injustice.

It doesn't mean that there wasn't things that

could have been done better. But forgiveness

is you actually being empowered, not becoming

weak. Forgiveness is you stepping up, not stepping

down. You see, this is what forgiveness is. Forgiveness

does not mean that you're coming into agreement

and alignment with the actions. Next slide, please.

that you agree or come into alignment with the

actions. Forgiveness just means you will not

hold those actions against the person or against

yourself. And you can say to the devil, I know

that wasn't my smartest moment, but it is finished.

Let me go. I forgive myself and I am forgiven.

Forgiveness doesn't mean that you agree and come

into agreement. It just means you have been empowered

by the incredible grace of God to be outrageously

generous and to say to people, I do not hold

it against you. I let you go and I go free to

live my life making Jesus look good. So let's

read this scripture together. Romans chapter

Romans 12:17–20

12, verses 17 to 20. One, two, three. Can you

read it with me? Never pay back evil with more

evil. Do things in such a way that everyone can

see you are honorable. Do all that you can to

live in peace with everyone. How many of you

know everyone's a big word? Everyone. Think of

that someone and now say, help me God. We've

all got a someone in our everyone. Should we

read one? Do all that you can to live at peace

with everyone. Verse 19. Dear friends, never

take revenge. Leave that to the righteous anger

of God. For the scriptures say, I will take revenge.

I will pay them back, says the Lord. God's payback.

I'll let him do that. I wouldn't want to be on

the end of God's payback. Let him. Trust him.

Amen. Instead, if your enemies are hungry, feed

them. If they're thirsty, give them something

to drink. In doing this, you heap burning coals

of shame on their heads. Do not let evil conquer

you, but conquer evil by doing good. Amen. So

just put your hand to heaven and just say, help

me, Jesus. Father, I pray right now. that you

would help us remember to forget. I pray that

you put a grace in us this morning to break power

of regret in our lives and the power of unforgiveness

and really help us come to peace. In Jesus' name.

Amen. Now having remembered to forget, we now

need to... Don't forget to remember. Don't forget

to remember. Because you see, there are special

treasures God's given to you and he wants you

to remember correctly. Remember correctly. And

you see, when you walk through a tough season

of life, your memories get skewed. We can often

get very negative. We look at seasons and all

we can see is the real hell hole we went through.

And we can end up with a little bit of a reactionary,

maybe even rebellious cry that goes, where was

God when I needed him? But you see, what has

happened in that process is that our whole emotional

life has been so skewed that we have got focused

on the negative and we've lost the fingerprints

of God. And God, I believe today, wants to take

you back to take you forward in your personal

lives. Some of you right back to childhood. Some

of you back to maybe marriages that didn't work.

Relationships that have fractured. Business partnerships

that got messy. All sorts of things. that just

left their marks negative. And he says, ah, I

want to take you back so that you can remember

correctly. So often we miss the face of God in

times of trouble. Deuteronomy 8 verse 18 says

Deuteronomy 8:18

this. Read it with me. One, two, three. But remember

the Lord your God, for it is he who gives you

the ability to produce wealth and so confirms

his covenant, which he swore to your ancestors

as it is today. Remember, it's actually God that

has given you this incredible power to sort it

all out. If you read the beginning of Deuteronomy

8, they have come through a time of hell. They

have lived in the wilderness. They have felt

everything was stripped, relationally, financially,

intellectually. Everything just felt like, where

is God? And they'd gone through this time. They

couldn't build houses. They couldn't have children.

They'd lost their livestock. They'd lost everything.

And they were crying, God, God, God. But now

they were in a season where they were building

again. And it says, now you have your houses.

You have your wealth. You have your thing. But

please be careful. Don't forget God. And it isn't

just don't forget God now. Don't forget the journey

with God. Don't give the devil all the credit

for the wilderness. Oh, it was hell and this

happened and I was diagnosed with cancer and

my kid failed out of school. We rehearse the

negative journey of the wilderness. But where

was your Jesus? He was the fire above you. He

was the light of the day. He never left you.

never forsake you but the devil has skewed your

understanding and again that puts a bitterness

and it breaks down the trust in your God do you

understand what I'm saying let me just illustrate

it you see as I've been digging in to preach

this word I just had Jesus, just we were talking

and suddenly I went back to my boarding school

years. I'm a missionary kid. And between the

age of nine to 16, I lived over a thousand miles

away from my parents. Saw them for about six

weeks a year. They lived in Mumbai, India. I

lived in the south of India in a boarding school.

It was a religious, tough. difficult atmosphere.

It wasn't the greatest. And when I got into my

age 12, 13, I became the point of wicked bullying.

It was a girls only school and girls can find

nails and words like nothing else. They can be

really mean spirited. And I was on the butt end

of most of the ridicule, the humiliation. My

family were known as one of the prestigious missionary

families that were beginning to see the breakthrough

of the charismatic Holy Spirit moving in India.

This was 1963 to 1978. So it was against a very

conservative God the Father, God the Son, and

God the Holy Stick. I got beaten to death. How

many of you recognize that one? And so here I

am in my little 12 year old and I have got many

memories that are not happy. And as I was walking

over the fields, just ruminating, he's saying,

God, give me a word to preach. Show me. He said,

but Rachel, don't you remember me? And I'm like,

I remember the music room where I got. Hell beaten

out of me. I have memory. And he said, but don't

you remember Miss Hunt and Miss Payne? And I

finally thought, oh, yeah. I mean, we're going

back ancient history, 40 years, 45 years. I'm

thinking Miss Hunt, Miss Payne. Yeah, Miss Hunt

was the math teacher. Miss Payne was my physics

teacher. And thank you, Jesus. I was good at

both. So I learned to score well, do well, and

they both liked me. And they were new to the

school. And looking back with my adult perspective,

I suddenly realized they most probably realized

what was happening to me. But because of the

very legalistic setup of the school, they had

no way to really protect me and help me. But

in their own way, they found a way because they

were young, modern, trendy, and everyone wanted

to be on the good book of Miss Hunt and Miss

Peg. And I was. And Miss Hunt, my math teacher,

suddenly said, I want extra tutorials to you

because I think we could really get you three

into scholarship level papers. So come for tutorials.

And all the others goes, ha ha, you're on thing.

But I loved it because every time I walked in,

there was the hugest chocolate cake and tea and

every treat we never got. And God knew to get

through that wilderness, a girl needs chocolate

cake. And I suddenly thought, I used to love

my tutorials because we didn't actually do a

lot of maths, but we did a lot of just fun and

talking and things. And I suddenly thought, oh,

this is that. Hello, this is that. And then Miss

Paint used to take me out. for special outings

because at weekends you had to get a weekend

pass. You weren't allowed out the school gates.

But somehow Miss Payne always managed to manoeuvre

it that I got to be on her team to go out with

her, to do something special, go for lunch, et

cetera, et cetera. And I suddenly felt the goodness

of God in a land that had been hell. Come on,

God wants to wake up memories for you. Don't

let the devil say he won. God has never left

you, never failed you. And today God wants you

to remember correctly, even though those seasons

that were very hard. Is that good? Can we do

it? You see, I believe I've been sent here today

to stir up your memories. To stir up your memories.

And sometimes, you see, we're frightened of doing

that. But God has asked me to come here to you

in Life Bible Church and in this incredible auditorium

and this incredible gift of God that he's given

you in this facility, in this land, and in your

relationships. And he says, come on, stir it

up. Stir it up. It is a time to remember. All

through scripture, there are these constant sort

of background theme that says, come on, remember

God. Do not forget. Rehearse the story. Put a

legacy. I believe that this house is a tri -generational

house of legacy. That God is going to put something

on the grandparents and on the parents and on

the children. individually, but simultaneously.

It will be together upon all. It doesn't just

have to be a baton passed and released, but simultaneously.

And even watching Pastor Brad sing with his daughter,

Jennifer, as I watched that corporate anointing

of worship upon them both, something in me said,

God's modeling. As it is, it will be upon the

house. And come on, fathers and sons, fathers

and daughters, mothers and sons, mothers and

daughters. Don't just... Let's push them out.

Stay with them because God's going to do something.

God wants to stir up your memories. Psalm 77.

If you read this Psalm, it's a psalm of David,

obviously. And as you read it, this is David.

Having a bit of a meltdown and then checking

himself. A Rachel version of this psalm would

go something like this. Oh God, I am fed up.

I am sick and tired. I feel overwhelmed. Life

is just hard. Where are you? I'm on my bed. I'm

groaning. I am not getting up for church. I'm

not doing anything. I'm staying right here. It's

duvet day, pity party. I'm fed up. And in the

middle of him telling God he's had a... enough,

suddenly we get verse three and it goes, but

when I remember God, I moan. And then I meditate

and then my soul faints. And it isn't the fainting

of, oh, knew I should give up. It's that, oh,

fainting of, oh, you're breathing on me, God.

You're breathing on me. And then he goes on and

he said, but God, don't try and just. Talk to

me and smooth me up. No, God. Look, let me have

a talk. All these people are after my back. My

back is raw. They're talking about me. They've

humiliated me. They've been at me. Come on, God.

I have got a case. Don't just make me be nice.

The Rachel version of Psalm 77. And then he goes

on and it says, yeah, but let me remember to

sing. Let me remember to worship and sing. And

suddenly when you begin to sing of him, you can't

be so cross and mean. And David loses it again

and says, oh, wow, God, you are amazing. And

then he wakes up in the middle of the night and

he's remembering all the things he wished he

had said to all these people who are really annoying

and irritating. And then he says, yeah, but even

in the night. My heart can't help but go back

to you. And I felt that God wants to get hold

of some of your night times because the devil

comes in in your night times. You have learned

to hold him in your conscious mind in your day

times. You've learned how to address all those

sneaky thoughts in the day time. But it's the

night time when you're a little bit more out

of it. Through your dream life, through your

subconscious. And it's in that time you begin

to rehearse and hear the psalmist learns the

key. No, in the night time. I will. I will remember

my God. I will rehearse his good deeds. I will

declare what he's done. I am not going to let

the devil steal my night times. Come on, is there

an amen in the house? Don't let him accuse you,

bully you in the night times. Often when we're

being through a hard time, we are scared of memories.

But I believe God wants you to take hold of your

memories and he wants you to begin to rehearse

your God stories. In fact, one of the girls at

Beyond Measure told the story of the lineage

of her different family lines who'd gone through

very tough times but had made an active choice

but God. And there are... those moments where

we have to just begin to rehearse the God story

and not let the devil write his line. You see,

there is a God story carried in your DNA. There

is a God graciousness and kindness and he wants

to stir it up. I believe there are many family

lines like my line. My parents were the first

ones to come to Jesus. So we thought, having

now done a little bit of research, I find out

my great -grandmother got born again in the Welsh

Revival. And she, at the age of 42, married to

a very alcoholic husband who was a minor, who,

as far as we know, never really turned to Jesus,

became an incredible woman of prayer for her

five children, one of them my granddad. And her

13 grandchildren that were present at that time,

one of them my father, and she targeted them

with prayer, died, never knowing whether any

of them ever made any shift to God. But at the

age of 30, my dad came to Jesus quite supernaturally,

just before the Billy Graham 1954 London mission.

Because... A little triplet group of prayers

wrote on their cards and began to victimize my

dad in prayer. And the hellhounds of heaven got

hold of him and he got born again before they

ever had the opportunity of taking him to the

London mission. Come on, VIP cards. That changed

the legacy of our destiny as a family. So my

dad came to Jesus. His mum and dad came to Jesus.

His three children, myself, Rachel, Duncan and

David all love Jesus. I've got two kids. Duncan's

got three. David's got two. Seven grandchildren

all love Jesus. I've now got five grandchildren

and already I had Leela ring me up from Australia,

eight years old, granny. You know what you were

talking about, that you can really know God loves

you. She was going through all sorts of emotional

insecurities at school. And she was reacting

appropriately for an eight -year -old, but not

the best for life. And I said, you don't have

to be spiteful. You can be gracious. Yeah, but

granny, I said, come on, Leela. We always go

in the opposite. I can't, but I... I said, but

she's, I don't know. So she phones me up. She

said, I was in worship. She said, and something

came on me. And in her own way, she describes

an encounter with the love of God who came upon

her, flowed upon her, flowed in her, and how

she was filled to overwhelming with the warmth

and the sense of a daddy who loves her. She says,

I know my daddy loves me. I understand it now,

granny. I've got him inside me. And when I feel

scared, I have my special language that Jesus

and I can talk and no one can understand. And

we've got our secret world. Come on, generation

to generation to generation. 2 Timothy chapter...

Now I made myself cry. Helen will rescue me.

Thank you, sweetheart. She always knows how crying

has the deal. The Kleenex ready. 2 Timothy 1,

5 -7. Can you read it with me? 1, 2, 3. I am

reminded of your sincere faith, a faith that

dwelt first in your grandmother Lois and your

mother Eunice, and now I am sure dwells in you.

as well for this reason I remind you to fan into

flame the gift of God which is in you through

the laying on of hands for God gave us a spirit

not of fear but of power and of love and of self

-control As I was praying over that this morning,

God just said something to me. Again, he snuck

it in there. And I know it's there. He said,

so often when you read that scripture, you're

excited about, God did not give me a spirit of

fear, intimidation, anxiety, but God gave me

a spirit of love and power. We sort of forget

this self -control. We're excited about love.

We're excited about power. What about... That

one. Awkward one. Self -control one. You see,

what is self -control? It is that intentional

decision to align my life, wrestle it, to do

what's right, to control my emotional intelligence.

Self -control. We love the love. We love the

power. We don't like so much. Is that true? It's

true for me. So God wants you to rehearse your

God's story. So I want to wake up some of the

prophetic. that I believe is upon you by the

laying on of hands. It's like the Holy Spirit

has put his hand upon you individually and upon

your house. I want to go a little bit wider.

What does God want to do in the Northwest at

this time? It was really interesting. I think

it was Pastor Brad, but someone said about just

loosing the cap. Loosing the cap, releasing the

cap. And so I want you to listen to this word

and I will give the transcripts to you for your

prayer team and others. But Johnny Enloe had

a word for the Pacific Northwest and it includes

you, Oregon, Washington, on October the 5th,

2013. And he said, as I was in Tacoma, Washington

recently, the Lord spoke to my spirit and I perceived

this region of Washington. Washington, Oregon.

Then he mentions visions. I'm going to mention

the cities, Seattle, Tacoma, Spokane, Portland,

and the Canadian cities of Vancouver, Abbotsford,

Kelowna, and all the areas making up the towns

and villages between. There is a new wind and

a breath of God blowing over you. This region

is pregnant with destiny. There has been a generational

buildup, but now it is ready to be manifested.

released and I saw the Pacific Northwest poised

as a drinks can with the pull tab in the hand

of God. Take the lid off and this will open up.

this region and then resource the whole nation

with a fresh wind of healing. I had the privilege

of being in your prayer room before and all the

words were about healing, healing, healing. But

I want to expand your thinking of healing. I

don't believe that the outflow of the healing

we're seeing is merely going to be people out

of wheelchairs or cancers healed. I really believe

that God is on a mission to do incredible mental

health healing, emotional healing, healing and

restoration of family lines and reconciliation.

So I don't want you to downsize that word healing.

Let the pull tab come back and let it flow with

every type of healing. And the Northwest was

poised as a pull tab to open up the nation to

fresh winds of healing. It was not just the US

side, but also the Canadian side. And I believe

the spirit of... Elijah is ready to be blown

and the angelic realm is present and very active

over this region with literally millions of newly

released angels carrying healing in their wings.

This region historically has been a place of

great healing ministries and movements but this

new wind is bringing something different and

something beyond physical healing. This region

will now release An evidence of healing that

heals people, families, cities. Oaks of righteousness

will arise from this area carrying these new

fresh leaves of healing. And the spirit of Elijah

will turn the hearts of their sons to their fathers

and the hearts of fathers to their sons. And

there will be a great connectedness within families.

New revelation will come upon you to understand

dynamics, to heal families. enter the secret

place of people's emotional wounds and find dysfunctionality,

brokenness, coming strong once again. This will

not just be a movement with healing revelation,

but it will be a movement of healing information,

training, discipleship. Do you want it? Do you

think it could be true? You see, God wants to

rehearse a God story over you. And then I saw

great swirls of creativity over this whole region

of the Pacific Northwest. There is a new wave

coming that will impact society. You see, I believe

what God wants you to rehearse, what you need

to remember to forget, but do not forget to remember,

is God is a God of a new thing and a new day

and a new way at this time. And I don't think

it's going to be so church -centric as community

-centric. There will be new ways of doing things

that would explode all over this region. How

many of you want to stir up a creative memory?

There will be new trends that start from this

place and begin to go national and even global.

There will be new ways of doing music and worship,

new fashions and fashion trends, new technologies,

new church models, new eateries, coffee houses.

You'd have thought Pacific Northwest had done

enough with coffee. New ways of doing business.

There is something about this creativity that's

connected to the generational flow. And this

is because it is to serve a new community heart

and connectiveness and will bring social healing

in vast measures for the sake of America. Let

it be. Let it be. Come on, God, stir it up. How

many of you can say, yeah, I can remember a few

words like this before? And even in the prayer

time, it was like, healing, healing. Sean Boltz

on the 4th of June. There is an undercurrent

of power in the Northwest and it is about to

explode. With signs and wonders, healings and

power. Everything that can be shaken will be

shaken in Washington, Idaho, Oregon and even

into Canada. There is a release of power that

will come and explode over the nation. This word

is for the whole Northwest area. Shake the can

and pull it. Shake the can and pull it. Shake

the can, God. Everything that can be shaken will

be shaken. No wonder it looks a mess. But I believe

it's time to create memories. I want you to be

intentional. Don't only remember to forget, but

please don't. forget to remember. Create memories.

There will be a new spirit of creativity. Mark

the land and leave some landmarks. Create some

memories. And this is the final scripture I want

to leave with you. And I felt this very strongly.

Joshua chapter 4 verses 6 to 7. God wants you

Joshua 4:6–7

to create memories and he wants you to begin

to write them down, not forget them, rehearse

them. And just like Joshua, read it with me.

And we will use these stones to build a memorial.

And in the future, your children will ask you,

what do these stones mean? Then you can tell

them, they remind us. Dot, dot, dot, dot. You

need stones that trip you up when you got your

head down and you're feeling angry and fed up.

And suddenly you think, oh yeah, there's that

stone. I remember. I remember. Because every

one of you have got a stone. That word of God

in your life. So remember to forget, but please

don't forget to remember. Worship team, if you

can come. And I wonder if you'd just stand with

me as we come to a close this morning. Jesus

has been speaking to us all day. And he wants

you to mark the day. Don't forget to remember.

In England, it is fall back day. But we were

just saying to each other, God's been mean to

us this year. We lost our hour in bed in the

UK and we lost our hour in bed in the USA. We

lost it all together. So in England, it is fall

back weekend. But as we stand in the presence

of God, before you run out and do life and do

coffee and do friends, take a moment to do God.

Mark this moment. And there are some of you where

the wicked devil all your life has made you carry

a rucksack of regret. But today, Precious Holy

Spirit, send a crazy English speaking woman with

weird English to come and shake it up. Some of

you need to just remember God. So I'm going to

make a space right in front of me, immediate

in front of me. If you just know, actually in

all the hell of life, I lost my face of God.

Maybe you've known God, you gave your life to

God a long time ago. But if you're really honest,

standing in the presence of God now, you just

know, my life isn't in the best place with God.

I need to shift and take hold where I let go.

If that's you, I'm going to invite you to come

right here in the front of the stage. Maybe you've

never let go of your life and taken hold of God.

Now is a great day. You might say, but Rachel,

that's a bit scary. I don't know how to do it.

It's okay. We'll have prayer team. We'll have

people with you. You're not going to be alone.

But I'm asking you to leave where you've stood

for many years. Some of you need to leave where

you've just been marginalized and make a decision

today. I need God back in my life. And I'm going

to mark it today. So I'm going to ask you to

come into the center. There's others of you who

need to remember to forget. And before you go

running out, I want to give you a moment where

you could just be in the presence of God and

say, okay, God, I am walking. Remember, I am

walking out of sin towards my redemption and

there is no regret. Repentance. And you know

the devil has played and messed with you with

regret. And often it's people of real integrity.

Because the devil slams you and says, yeah, but

you did it. You say, yeah, I know. Hands up.

Take it. And the devil's messed with you all

these years. But today, your walk of faith is

to say, it's done. It's finished. There is no

more regret. It's nailed. It's finished. If that's

you, I'm going to give you this left -hand side.

If you're saying... Oh, help me, Jesus. I want

everything. Don't worry. Just choose wherever.

It doesn't really matter. And then I was going

to open this side and just say, if you know there's

a sense that you've just forgotten God in the

journey, it's just got harder. You're saying,

stir it up in my heart, Lord. Stir up. Activate

the prophetic. Let me see your face again. God,

it's just felt very negative. But oh, there's

a mishunt and there's a mispain in my life too.

And it's good news. Oh God, I just want you to

wake it up. Help me. Then I'm just going to give

you this side. And if you want all three, really

doesn't matter. But if you just know I need to

press into God. Don't stress. Just press. Come

to Jesus. You ready to move? Just come. Prayer

team, if you could be ready to help, that would

be awesome. Come press into God this morning.

Worship team, thank you. Just press in. Leave

that regret. No regret, no regret, no regret.

We'll make this a regret side. We'll make this

a Jesus place. And we'll make this a prophetic

place. Stir it up in my heart, Lord. I've lost

your face. I need to know you. You want Jesus,

stand right here in the front. Thank you. You

know where you need to come. you press into God

I won't be able to pray for you all individually

this is your time to press into him because the

presence of God is going to come on you he's

going to help you he's going to restore you all

that regret all the accusation all the bullying

of the enemy don't believe the devil anymore

even if he seems to be telling the truth he's

a liar He's holding the wrong things on your

life. Just press it and say, it is finished.

I'm letting it go. You have no right on my life

anymore. And prayer team, ministry team, just

move amongst. Help them stir it up. Help them

leave it at the cross. or contacting Life Bible

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