Saturday Message (Session 3) - Pastor Marc Cargill (September 28, 2013) | Life Bible Church

And so it's a privilege to have Mark Cargill

be with us this morning. I'm gonna let him share.

He's the word of the Lord last night, and even

this morning, he's got a third part of the word

of the Lord. Maybe he'll talk a little bit about

what he shared a little bit last night. Go into

that as well, Mark, so I'm setting you up here.

But anyways, he's a great man of God. Would you

give a life Bible welcome to Pastor Mark Cargill?

Would you just stand and welcome the man of God

as he comes this morning? Thank you so much.

Thanks, buddy. Hey, thank you so much. What an

honor and privilege to be here with you today.

I'm excited about what God is doing here in Life

Bible Church. I don't know about you, but this

is a good time to be a part of what God's doing,

right? And we are delighted to be working in

another field in Gilbert, Arizona. as he said,

moved down there in 2010. And actually, the journey

leading up to that move was about a five -year

journey before we actually moved. Everybody say

process. There's always a process to the promise.

And so that's what we're committing to. And of

course, we're now in another phase of the process.

By the way, you never get out of process. I drove

all that way today to come to hear that. Thank

you so much. You're dismissed. Let's pray, Father.

We just never get out of it, and yet God is so

amazing in the fact that every stage we're in,

He seems to kind of make it unique, glorious,

powerful, amazing, while at the same time challenging,

stretching, and excruciating. You can experience

all of those things. Definitely enjoyed what

God's doing there. I have five children Oldest

is 21 and our youngest is 10 four boys and the

last one was a girl and She works it and owns

it all the way My wife and I Cheryl and I have

been married for 27 years and She's still the

love of my life and I date her every week And

by the way, if you want to keep going to 27 years,

date your wife, guys. What you did to get her

is what you need to do to keep her. So I just

encourage you to do that. That's free. Just enjoy

that later this week. We are excited about what

God is doing here, and I've never been here before,

and it's been a joy and a privilege to be here.

as I was preparing to come and spend time with

you, and pray about what I would say, particularly

in this month, since it's your anniversary month,

12 years, I think you had to give yourself a

hand. I mean, man, look what the Lord has done,

right? God has done some amazing things, and

it's amazing to see what God has done, taking

you from where you began to where you are now,

and we're excited about even what is in store

for you in your future. as I was praying and

just asking, God, what would you say to Life

Bible Church? What would I be able to bring there

that you would want to say to them, encourage

them in this stage of their journey? And God

really gave me almost like a series of messages.

And so I've been preaching each one of those

messages in line as God just began to share with

me what to do and kind of how to... present it

and the whole theme of it is possessing the promises

and on the screen behind me you have the the

shot of that open door in the middle of the field

and I just believe you're in a season where God

is taking you to the next level of your purpose

and God's promise in your life as a church and

how many believe it's also for you personally

there's another there's another level of destiny

and another level of purpose and another level

of God's plan and his fulfillment in your own

personal life that he wants to accomplish and

to work into your life. And so, last night we

talked a little bit about being strong. Talking

about the story of Joshua and how God said to

him to go into the land and possess it. I promised

it to you. In fact, he promised it to Abraham

years and years before. And now Joshua is at

the moment of possessing it. But Joshua didn't

just stand on the banks of the Jordan River and

wait for God to do all the heavy lifting. He

actually had to go in and do something and possess.

the land, possess the promise. And that's what

this series is about. So the first thing that

God says to Joshua is to be strong. He didn't

say, pray more. He didn't say, you know, let's

talk to the army about what you want to do, what's

the strategy to take the land. He didn't go to

all that. The first thing God told him was to

be strong. So last night we just really received

God's call to be strong and that God is going

to strengthen you to do everything that He has

for you to do in your future. And it's going

to require a lot of strength. I have come to

know this, that vision and purpose and promise

all have a price tag assigned to it. You're going

to get a promise and you're going to go, woo

-hoo, yeah, look at that, amazing. I wonder what

this costs. Oh my God. That's the cost of that?

Is there like a promise sale rack anywhere I

could kind of maybe? Go to the Nordstrom Promise

Rack and get that out, you know. You'd like to

have a little cheaper, but there is a price tag

to every promise. And my question to you is,

are you willing to pay the price for the promise

that God has made to you? Are you willing to

do that? Because the promises fulfillment depends

on your willingness to pay the price your ability

to pay the price is Depended on God's strength

coming into you to strengthen you to do what

he's called you to do and to pay the price He

wants you to pay so we talked about last night

And then this morning there is a resistance early

in the first service. There's a resistance the

enemy has heard the promise The enemy was there

when God said This is what I'm going to do, and

this is what I want to do with your life. This

is what I want to do. The day you were born and

God breathed into you the breath of life, the

enemy was also present, crafting and designing

a plan to destroy your life, to ruin your life,

to steal the vision of God for you, to destroy

and kill his purpose for your life. John 10,

10. That's what Jesus said I've come that you

might have life and you might have abundance

and that you really in order to have that you've

got to overcome the evil one and his plan for

you. You've got to overcome every resistance

that's going to be thrown in your path and that

was the first service this morning. Today at

our final time together I want to speak to you

about something that is so critical to your future

as a church and your future as an individual.

And there's a, I've been speaking out of the

book of Joshua last night. It's in first service

this morning, Nehemiah. I'm gonna go back to

Joshua. And I'm gonna talk with you from Joshua

chapter five. As Joshua has now led the people

of Israel over the Jordan River. They have went

into the promised land. And we pick up the story

in Joshua chapter five, verse 10. And it says

this. Now the children of Israel camped in Gilgal

and kept the Passover on the fourteenth day of

the month at twilight on the plains of Jericho.

And they ate of the produce of the land on the

day after the Passover, unleavened bread and

parched grain on the very same day. Verse 12,

I want you to notice what it says. Then the manna

ceased on the day after they had eaten the produce

of the land. And the children of Israel no longer

had manna, but they ate the food of the land

of Canaan that year. I just want to pause for

a moment. We'll continue reading in a minute,

but I just want to say this. A lot of people

like the manna. It's like, oh, yeah, the manna.

If we could just get the manna. Woo! Hallelujah,

the manna. And the man is wonderful. It's an

amazing thing. It's really a miraculous provision

of God and what He wants to do in your life.

It's His supply and a miracle moment. It's Him

coming in. And when you have nothing, He comes

in and supplies it. And it's supernatural. Manna

was a bread that miraculously appeared on the

ground with the dew every morning. And for 40

years, it fed the people of Israel in the wilderness.

There was no place to grow crops. There was no

place to harvest grain. There was no place to

grow a... a vineyard or an olive tree or nothing.

It was just desert and wasteland and they had

nothing to be able to feed themselves and their

nation and their children, their families. They

had nothing. And God supplied supernaturally

from heaven every day the manna. It was the bread

of the wilderness. When they went across the

Jordan River and they entered into their promised

land, they ate of the produce of the land. There

was a grain there. There was vineyards there.

And they began eating that and they took it in.

And when they ate of the food of the land of

promise, the manna ceased. This is the thought

the Lord spoke into my heart. You're in a season

when you no longer need to eat the bread of your

past. But you need to eat the feast of your future.

of the land is your future. Manna is the food

of your past. Manna is what you ate to get to

where you are now. But I believe the days of

Manna are over for you. And the days of eating

from the fruit of the land is now setting in

front of you. You need to eat the feast of your

future. You need to lay hold of what is there.

Let me just say this to you this way. This is

what this message is really all about. Feed on

your future. The promised land is all about what

God had promised them. Now this represents everything

that He has been saying for generations. They

were in the land of Egypt which is the land of

not enough. And God brought them out and brought

them through the wilderness. The wilderness represents

the land of just enough. And now they've crossed

the Jordan River and entered into the promised

land and that's the land of more than enough.

And it's time for you to eat of the land of your

future. To eat from the land of more than enough.

It's time to eat and feast on your future. Skip

the past. Now it's over. It's done. God's done

with that. Let's move on to the new thing that

God wants to do and step into our future. Lift

up our eyes and see what God wants to do next.

And so Joshua chapter 5, moving on into verse

Joshua 5 · chapter mention

13. It came to pass that when Joshua was by Jericho,

that's the first city that they were going to

take, Joshua was by Jericho, he lifted his eyes.

Everybody say, he lifted his eyes. He lifted

his eyes and looked. And behold, a man stood

opposite him with his sword drawn in his hand.

And Joshua went to him and said to him, are you

for us or for our adversaries? And so he, the

angel said, No. Which I think is a hilarious

answer. So Joshua's going, so what's that mean?

No, you're for us? No. No, but as commander of

the army of the Lord I have now come. And Joshua

fell on his face to the earth and worshiped.

and said to him, what does my Lord say to his

servant? Then the commander of the Lord's army

said to Joshua, take your sandal off your foot

for the place where you stand is holy. And Joshua

did so. Going into Joshua 6 verse 1, now Jericho

Joshua 6:1

was securely shut up because of the children

of Israel and none went out and none came in.

And then the Lord said to Joshua. So here Joshua's

saying, Euphorus, and of course, you know, he

says, I'm here to talk to you about some strategy.

We're going to talk about, okay, now we're going

to possess a promise. What is it do I need to

do? What's the first thing the angel says to

him when it starts talking about what to do?

He says, see, see, I have given you, I've given

Jericho into your hand. It's King and the mighty

men of valor. It all starts with our ability

to see. What do you see? What do you see when

you look at your business? What do you see? when

you look at your marriage. What do you see when

you look at the future of your church? What do

you see? The book of Proverbs chapter 29 verse

Proverbs 29:18

18 in the King James Version says this, where

there is no vision, the people will perish. Not

about you, but perish means die. Alright? Churches

die without vision. Marriages die without vision.

Businesses die without vision. Young people die

without vision. I got Mormon kids in my city

who are committing suicide at incredible rates.

Why? Because they have no vision. Oh, they got

a system of religion, but they have no vision.

They've got all these rules they got to keep,

but they have no vision. And I gotta tell you,

I was in youth ministry for years and the rules

never work with ministry and the young people.

Vision works. Give them a reason why they need

to do what they do. Vision is what drives them.

Vision is still what drives you. You can be 80

years old and still sitting in this church today.

And I gotta tell you, if there's a vision that's

burning in your heart for God's purpose for your

life, your eyes will not dim, your strength will

stay strong, and you will be like Caleb of old

who will say, give me my mountain. Because the

power of vision drives this generation. The power

of vision drives God's church. And that's why

the first thing that God says to Joshua as he

gets ready to do what God said for him to do

is he said, I want you to see. I want you to

see. And he didn't say, see Jericho and all of

its big walls. See Jericho and all of its mighty

army. See Jericho and how impregnable it is.

See Jericho and all of the thousands of men and

women who are ready to kill you. No, he said,

see, I have given Jericho into your hand. That's

what he should see. He should not see his reality.

He should see his destiny. And there's a lot

of people in this room right now who are living

in the limitations of where you are rather than

lifting up your eyes and seeing where God wants

to take you. And you're bound by the reality

of your moment rather than being liberated by

the vision of your future. And I want to encourage

you, come on. Your ability to thrive and grow

and achieve what God wants you to do is found

in the vision that could burn in your heart.

But if you don't have a vision, you're gonna

perish. Your business is gonna perish. Your marriage

is gonna perish. Your children are gonna perish.

We all gotta have a vision that compels and drives

us forward into what God wants us to do for our

life. And in order to receive vision, we've got

to be looking. We've got to be alert. We've got

to be asking. We've got to be seeking. We've

got to be wanting for God to reveal something

to us. We have got to have our eyes open. And

I just have to ask the question, are your eyes

even open? Are you even looking? Because some

of us are like this. I'm too tired. We've been

doing this for a while. Frankly, I'm a little

wore out. So if you don't mind, while you talk

vision, I'm gonna take a nap. Price tag. What

do you see? Here's the big truth behind Proverbs

29 18 where what you see directs directs your

life what you see directs your life it even impacts

whether you're gonna have a life or not and It's

gonna impact whether what kind of life you're

gonna have You see people that have broken thrashed

jacked up lives And they live there and they

stay stuck there is because they have a broken,

jacked up vision for their life. They're so consumed

with what is in their hand, they are not looking

and they need to lift up their eyes and see what

God has for their future. Get your eyes off what

you got in your hand and look what God has in

your future. Abraham, in Genesis 13, This is

what it says about him in Genesis 13, 14 through

17. And the Lord said to Abram after Lot had

separated from him, lift your eyes now and look

from the place where you are. Where are you?

I'm at the place of, I'm maxed out. I don't have

any more to give. I'm stretched to the most.

Where's the place? Mark, I'm at the place of

being struggling with sickness and disease. That's

the place I am. No, Mark, I just had a pink slip

from work. Man, I got two weeks. I got a severance

package. And after that, I don't know what's

going to go on. That's the place I'm in. Mark,

I was just served papers by my wife. I don't

know what to do. Seems like it's over. That's

the place I'm in. The Bible says to lift up your

eyes from the place where you are and look. Northward,

southward, eastward, westward God says, for all

the land which you see, for all the land which

you see, I give to you and your descendants.

What do you see? What kind of church do you see?

Do you see a church? that has a little school

campus here. You know, you're doing all right,

and there's a few services and things. You know,

a few people can't get saved a year. You know,

it's all right. More status quo than anything,

but you know, hey, we're there, and they're friendly,

and music's not bad, and pastor's okay. I'm in

a series at Hope Church called The Church I See.

The church I see. What's the church that you

see? You see, I've come here today to tell you,

the church that I see here, I'm gonna prophesy

here in a few minutes and you're gonna hear some

of the things that I've been seeing about this

church. But the church that I see here is one

full of people. It's one that is all about reaching

souls. Somebody said one time to me, Mark, it's

not about numbers. And I gotta say, well, you

know, it's not that the numbers really matter

to the Lord, but the souls do. The third book

of the Bible is actually called Numbers. And

when Jesus chose His disciples, He didn't chose

a few good men. It says He chose twelve. How

do they know that? Because somebody counted them.

Listen, it is about people. People are the prize

and I see a house that's filled for not just

one location, but other locations I see a church

is thriving with the sound of worship I see people

and young people Gathering together in this house

full of passion and burning with a heart full

of destiny for the plan and purpose of God in

their life I see men and women being raised up

in lead as leaders in this church being equipped

and sent out and doing great things for God I

see all kinds of things here and it's absolutely

mind -blowing. But if you look at what you have

you have in your hand right now, you will never

get to where God wants you to go, and it'll all

be a phantom promise that you'll never experience

because you're always looking at where you are.

You gotta lift up your eyes and see, because

all the land that you can see, if you can see

it, you can do it. If you can't see it, you're

not gonna do it. You've got to see it. So I want

to give you a few lessons about this. I'm speaking

on the subject, lift up your eyes. Because I

believe the word of the Lord of this house is

you need to think bigger. You need to dream bigger.

You need to lift up your eyes. You need to get

your eyes off of what you have been doing. What

you have been doing is your manna. The day of

manna is over. You can't do what you always done

and expect to get something different You need

now to do something new you need to do something

else God is stretching you to believe him for

something more He wants you to go into a new

level. He wants you to take a new inheritance

He wants you to possess a new promise and you

have to be able to see where you're going You

got to lift up your eyes from where you are in

order to go where he wants you to go and so number

one in my Lessons on vision here today is that

you will go where you're looking. Race car drivers

know this. Some of you teenage drivers need to

learn this. Oh she fine, she fine, whoa. Race

car drivers know this. They know as things are

thrown. you know, whirling around and crashing

in the front of them and smoking fire and everything,

they look where they want to go. And believe

it or not, the car goes where you look. No matter

how hard the turn, no matter how hard it is,

race car drivers know, it will go where you're

looking. But you got to be looking there. And

it's amazing to me that all of us, sometimes

we have this tendency where we're like, don't

hit the tree, don't hit the tree, don't hit the

tree, bam, we hit the tree. Because you've been

thinking about the problem in front of you when

you need to be focusing on God's solution instead

You gotta start thinking about that. Oh, this

is too expensive. No, we'll never be able to

do that. We've never done this before Lift up

your eyes too many people aren't looking or they're

looking in the wrong direction. They're distracted.

They got the wrong priorities. This is why Jesus

said seek first the kingdom of God. He had to

remind people about this because there's a lot

of things that are popping up asking for your

attention. Let me just put the message on pause

and just ask you a question. Why did you get

your college degree? Why do you have your job?

Why are you going to that job day in and day

out, day in and day out, day in and day out?

Is it to pay your bills? Is that it? Why did

I get my college degree? Some of you are asking

yourself actually even right now. Yeah, that's

a good question. Why did I get that college degree?

It's a yo -slash. Or you could be saying, I'm

not even doing anything related to my college

degree. What was I thinking? I wasted four years,

six years, eight years of my life. You have to

connect vision to all of those things for them

to really matter. If you go to work just to pay

your bills, you're going to work for the wrong

reason. If you go to work so that you can earn

money to take care of your family and sow seed

into the kingdom of God and make that money that

you make there, really matter for eternity? Now

that's a whole nother thing. It's a whole nother

thing. Now you've got vision behind why you work.

Now you've got vision behind why you got that

degree. But it's gotta be vision driven. It cannot

be need based. That's one thing I learned about

leadership and that is that there are a lot of

people with needs. There are needs everywhere.

Everybody's got needs for something. I need this,

I need that, I need this, I need that. You're

even in a place right now where you have needs

and you're going, well, I need this and I need

that. And I have this need and I have that need

and I really would like to because I need and

my needs have needs. Vision helps you get out

of your awareness of all that you need. and steps

you into the world of all God wants to do. When

you live, it's all about me, because it's all

about me. It's all about me, Jesus. I'm coming

back to the heart of worship. It's all about

me. It's all about me, Jesus. All right. If where

you are looking is at you, good morning. And

how are you? And all you think about is you?

Then all you're gonna see at the end of it all

is you. And I gotta tell you, that's a lonely

destiny. You know what I wanna see? I want to

see my kids loving God. I want to see a generation

of young people saved and born again, filled

with purpose, coming to Hope Church and just

pressing into God. I wanna see the nation's largest

university campus touch with the power of the

Holy Spirit. I wanna see God radically touch

the city of Phoenix in a miraculous way. Come

on, let your heart burn with vision for this

area and for Harrisburg and the surrounding regions.

Let your heart get on fire with something bigger

than nine to five, nine to five, nine to five.

So many of us, this is how we walk. And we pray

this prayer, lead me Lord, lead me Lord, lead

me Lord. Meanwhile God is going, hey, just lead

me Lord. And you're looking at your feet because

you're looking at where you are. And it's amazing

how many wandering Christians think they're making

progress when all they're doing. Lead me Lord,

lead me Lord, I want my life to... I want my

life to count, Jesus. I want my life to count.

But my wife is a loser. And my boss is a moron.

And I can't believe my life sucks like this.

But I'm just telling you, just lead me, Lord.

And God's saying, come on, bro, get your eyes

off where you are. And look at the horizon. If

anybody's ever went out hiking anywhere and if

you're gonna make progress, you gotta look where

you're going. Otherwise you'll be wandering around

in the woods. Look where you want to go. Number

two, get outside your tent. Get outside your

tent. Abram was promised by God that he would

have a child. He comes up with plan B. Lots of

you are guilty. Plan B. Because you're tired

of waiting for Plan A. So you come up to those

involved in your story and say, I have an idea.

Listen. Stay focused on what God told you to

do. Stay focused on what his initial vision to

you was. Don't get distracted by Plan B. Don't

let your patience wear thin and for you to come

up with something else. Because in Genesis 15,

Abram comes up with plan B. God comes to him

and says, listen, it's great, you know, okay,

get a kid. Not the one I wanted. And to this

day we have problems in the Middle East because

of that decision. And so, God comes to Abram

and in Genesis 15 verse 5 says, the Lord took

Genesis 15:5

Abram outside and said to him, look up. Everybody

say look up Look up into the sky and count the

stars if you can That's how many descendants

you will have and Abraham believed the Lord and

the Lord counted him as righteous because of

his faith See he took him out the Lord took him

outside took him outside. Where where was he

before? He was inside the tent He was inside

the tent that he made This is what I think I

can do. This is what I think I can live where

I can live This is what I know about I'm comfortable

with this and I'm comfortable with that This

is where I know it's all gonna work. This is

where I know and God says no no no You can't

see What you need to see? staying in here Some

of you have built this tent of your circumstances

and of your thoughts about what you want your

plans It's like the little two -year -old who

draws a little picture of what they think they're

gonna be when they grow up and then they come

to dad and say, daddy, I have a pasture for you.

Oh, let me see it. Here it is. So they grab it.

That's great. Wonderful. What is it? And then

God says, would you like me to show you my? My

picture of your destiny. Oh, yeah. Where is it?

It's outside. Outside where? It's outside the

tent. I don't like going outside the tent. I'm

kind of afraid. Well, you're not going to see

it if you don't come outside the tent. Can I

look out, just peek out the window? No, you have

to come outside. If you will get out of your

comfort zone, your tent, your habits, your limitations

of what you've crafted for yourself and what

you think your life should be like, you would

get out and just begin to lift up your eyes.

You're gonna see something totally mind -blowing

because God's wonderful masterpiece of your destiny

is incredible. It's mind -boggling. It's staggering.

You wouldn't believe it when you saw it. Get

outside your tent. Number three. You must lift

up your eyes to get your miracle. You must lift

up your eyes to get your miracle. In Acts chapter

Acts 3:1

3 verse 1, there's a lame man, a crippled man,

sitting at the gate, beautiful. And Peter comes

up to him and sees him there. Spirit of the Lord

speaks to him and says, I want to heal that guy.

John is with him and so he comes up to the guy

and he says to him, by the way, the guy's going,

alms, alms, you know, he's looking around for

a handout. Peter comes and the first thing Peter

says to him is, look at us. Look at us. And the

Bible says, and the cripple lifted his eyes and

looked at Peter expecting to receive something.

Even misguided expectation can be honored by

the Lord. That guy thought he was gonna get money

and instead he didn't get any money, but he got

healing. And from that moment on he was able

to work and make all the money that he ever wanted

in his life because he was healed. And a lot

of us think we want this from God when God really

has this from us, but we can't see it because

we're not looking his way. And if we would just

look at him and have some expectation, even misguided

as it may be, he will honor that and he will

help you get out of your place of crippled potential

and step into God's plan and purpose for your

life. Number four, you must lift up your eyes

to fulfill your purpose, because you cannot fulfill

your purpose with your limited perspective of

what you have known and where you are. You have

to lift up your eyes to do what God wants you

to do. Did you know that Jesus Christ, the Son

of God, in John 17, as he was praying, one of

the final things he did, said this in verse one,

Jesus spoke these words. He lifted up His eyes

to heaven. He lifted up His eyes to heaven and

said, Father, the hour has come. Glorify Your

Son that Your Son also may glorify You. Jesus,

the Son of God, even had to lift up His eyes

to heaven so He could get His vision right about...

the moment he's about to endure the days of agony

he's about to endure that night and all the next

day he's going to be horribly treated and brutalized

and crucified for the sins of all the world knowing

that The Father is going to place all that and

in His righteousness turn His back on Him. He's

going to die forsaken. He's going to die alone.

He's going to die naked. And He knows there's

no way on earth I'm going to be able to do that.

I'm God. There's no way I can do that without

lifting up my eyes. And in His moment of prayer,

He lifts up His eyes and says, Father, let me

see. Why is this I'm doing this? In Hebrews 12,

says that Jesus, for the joy set before Him,

endured the cross. What was the joy? What could

possibly Jesus see that would make him joyful

to endure the cross? He lifted up his eyes. I

think when he lifted up his eyes, he saw you.

He saw you forgiven. He saw you free. He saw

you pressing into a divine purpose for your life.

He saw you passionately going after God's plan

He saw you saved cleansed freed from your addiction

Delivered from the demonic oppression set free

from depression and all the different burdens

of your life He saw you with a heart That's burning

with purpose and you are with your eyes alive

with the fire of the Holy Spirit Gazing into

your future not stuck in your past and eating

the manna of the wilderness but driving forward

eating of the the land of your future. Jesus

lifted up His eyes. This last thing, I'm gonna

end with this. God's vision is always bigger

than you think. So what you think you know about

God's plan for this church, it's bigger than

you think. It's bigger than you think. God's

plan for your life? It's bigger than you think.

One of the reasons, by the way, he doesn't show

it all to you at one time, two reasons. Number

one, it'll make you proud. And you go, who do

you mean? Or you'll go, no way. Not in a million

years. I had no way I'm gonna do that. There's

no way I'm gonna nah, nah, nah, no. Told the

phone. No, uh -uh. I ain't doing that. Mm -mm,

mm -mm. Oh, no, you didn't. So, he reveals it

to you a little bit at a time. But Ephesians

3 .20 and 21 says this. Ephesians 3. 20 and 21

says, now to him who is able to do exceedingly,

abundantly, above all you could ask or think

according to the power that works in you by Christ

Jesus, he says, the power that works in us, to

him be glory in the church by Christ Jesus to

all generations forever and ever, amen. See,

God's got a vision and a destiny for this church.

God's got a vision and a plan for you and for

your life. And I see God working and He's raising

up in this moment and in this season a church

that's going to have influence in this region.

It's not a church that's going to be limited

to just the four walls of this place, but it's

going to be a church that's going to have impact

into a radius of a region that is going to be

a glory and an honor to the name of Jesus Christ.

You're gonna be a church that's not gonna be

just limited to one location, but you're gonna

have multiple locations as God stretches you

out. You're gonna be a church that plants churches,

not only in this area, but in the regions beyond

and in the nations of the earth. For God has

put a calling and a mantle upon this church to

be an apostolic place of sending. And He's gonna

raise up and He's gonna send out. And He's gonna

raise up and He's gonna send out. And He's gonna

raise up and He's gonna send out. And there are

gonna be people that are gonna be raised up and

they're gonna stay and build. They're gonna be

raised up and they're gonna stay and build. Because

you can't send out from a weak foundation. It

has to export from a place of strength. And God's

going to cause this house to be a strong place.

He's going to cause the reach of this house and

this church to extend into the regions beyond

and even into the area of Eugene. I saw in my

spirit a great and powerful ministry on the campus

of the university and God's gonna raise up an

outreach into that place and he's gonna cause

students and he's gonna cause athletes and teachers

and faculty to be turned to the gospel of Jesus

Christ and contrary to their education and contrary

to their teaching and contrary to their degree

and contrary to the humanistic cultural impact

of the things they've learned. They're gonna

turn their faith and their eyes to the living

God. And contrary to everything they've ever

known and everything they've ever taught and

everything they've ever been learned, they're

gonna see Jesus and they're gonna turn to him.

You're gonna have an impact on that place and

out of that region is gonna come some strong

young leaders Pastor you're gonna experience

an influx in the days that are ahead of young

people Coming out of University and they would

have moved back home They would have gone here

and they would have gone there But somehow for

some reason they want to partner with you as

they would have in that time while training of

being in University They're also gonna be training

here in the church and they're gonna get your

heart for the kingdom They're gonna get your

heart musicians are gonna come to the house You're

going to have a whole host of young people and

young college -age people who are going to come

into this church. You're going to have a, it's

almost like you're going to have so many musicians,

you're going to not want, you don't know what

to do with them all. I wish I had that problem.

Please pray for me. Touch out your hand right

now. You're not gonna know what to do with them

on but God's gonna raise you up. He's gonna give

you the ability to train. He's gonna give you

a strategy on how to do it. He's gonna hook you

up with other people in the body of Christ that

are gonna help him put into the vision of the

house and you are gonna be able to raise up young

men and women who are gonna be world -class musicians

doing world -class ministry in worship in a place

that's a bunch of farmland. But there's gonna

be a song of heaven. in the countryside of this

place. That's gonna come out from this place

and it's gonna touch other places, other regions

and other nations of the world. You're gonna

write songs that are gonna go to other places.

You're gonna write songs that are gonna touch

other lands and other nations. God's gonna put

upon you the menstrual anointing and you're gonna

reach out through music and through the penning

of songs and you're gonna reach other nations

and lands with the recorded music and message

of the worship of the house. God's gonna put

a writing anointing upon you, and you're gonna

write books, and you're gonna experience a release

of a, the pen of a ready writer's gonna just

flow out of you. God's gonna give you a creative

mind to see what to write next, and you're gonna

write materials. And I see young people coming

here, even going for a few years to college,

or maybe before they go to college, they're gonna

come here, and God's gonna raise up a place of

training and ministry in this house, where young

people are gonna come, and even older folks later

in their seasons of life, they're gonna be trained

in an. Institute a Bible Institute here where

they're gonna be equipped and trained for the

work of the ministry Because they can't go out

into the kingdom and they can't go out in the

world Without having an equipping from the Holy

Spirit and from the man and woman of God and

from the house of the Lord They can't go out

without having some kind of equipping taking

place and God's gonna raise up in this place

an Institute a school of some kind of ministry

and training and he's gonna cause those people

to go out and he's gonna cause them to stay he's

gonna cause the house of the Lord to be built

and the of God's gonna come upon you, and you're

gonna know what it is to build a church. A church

that has been a church of your dreams. It's not

a church that's been a church of your past, and

it's not a church that has been a church of your

present, but it's a church that is a church of

something that burns down in here that you cannot

articulate, that you cannot even give words to,

but you know that it burns in your heart like

a fire that cannot be quenched, and God is gonna

cause the Holy Spirit to build a church for His

glory, and you're gonna see it if you would only

lift up You're gonna see it happen if you would

only lift up your eyes. If you would only lift

up your eyes. Pastors and prophets, evangelists,

apostles and teachers are gonna be raised up.

You're gonna be a church who crafts things to

help equip people. I believe that there's going

to be a strong marketplace ministry in this church

where you network together businessmen and women

for the common cause of seeing finances flow

into the kingdom of God to accomplish things

in the kingdom of the Lord. You think that the

challenge presently in front of you is expensive.

I got news for you. You ain't seen nothing yet.

That'll scare the bleep out of you. Well, you

won't see nothing yet. Listen, we don't live

here. We're not building some church based on

fear. We're not building a church based on what

we can feel. I don't feel good about this, pastor.

Well, tell me what you feel. Tell me what you

see, what you believe. If you're gonna tell me

you don't feel good about it, the next thing

I better hear is what do you see out of your

mouth? And it better be impressive to God. Because

God is not the giver of wimpy dreams. He's not

the giver of dreaming mediocrity. He's not the

giver of lame destiny. He's the giver of epic

world changers. He's the giver of a world changing

life. He's the giver of dreams that alters the

things of the earth. Abraham was a real man who

lived in a real time, who lived a real life,

who had a real dream, and he forever changed

the course of this earth. Jesus Christ was a

real man who came from heaven to earth lived

a real life died a real death Resurrected for

real from the grave three days later and our

life is forever changed We still live BC AD in

the 21st century Because of one man who chose

before hours before he went to the cross to lift

up his eyes And say father come on glorify your

purpose in me Come on God. I lifting up my eyes

father Do what you want to do through me He wasn't

whining He wasn't complaining this takes a lot

of my time, you know father This is really stretching

me I'm tired This is gonna be expensive because

if I die who's gonna take care of my mom And

on the cross, he even made provision for that.

In all of the illucidity of his mind in the moment

of agony, he looks down, sees his mom, tells

John, take care of her. I got you. No problem.

God will take care of it. Just lift up your eyes.

Well, I don't know what's next. Lift up your

eyes. Just looking at where you are, you're not

gonna even get a clue of what's next. Lift up

your eyes. But man, it's just, it's where I'm

at is hard. Well lift up your eyes because there's

a solution. Listen, if you are in a place of

brokenness, lift up your eyes. You'll see God's

healing. If you're in a place of addiction, lift

up your eyes and you'll see God's deliverance.

If you're in a place of sinfulness, lift up your

eyes. You'll see a place of forgiveness. If you're

in a place of bondage, lift up your eyes. You'll

see a place of freedom. If you're in a place

of poverty, lift up your eyes. You'll see God's

riches, but you will never go there. until you

lift up your eyes. God's vision for you and for

this church is bigger than you could ever dream

and ever imagine. But I implore you by the Spirit

of God, lift up your eyes. What I was saying

about men and women in business, you're gonna

gather people who have means. And there are people

in this room who do not have means yet. But you

have a passion for God to use you through generosity.

But now the area of your lack, if you will be

faithful, God will give you more. Faithful. More.

Faithful. More. You'll find yourself in one day

in a place of plenty. You'll have more than enough.

And in that hour, you're gonna be equipped. to

do something eternally significant, greater than

just paying your bills. Now you're going to be

paying for orphanages. Now you're going to be

paying for churches to be built in India. Now

you're going to be paying for people to have

bishops, pastors to have motorcycles in China.

You're going to make an eternal impact with kingdom

partnership. Just lift up your eyes. Everybody

that is in a season where you know you need to

lift up your eyes. Stand to your feet right now.

You say, I want God to help me lift my eyes.

I don't want to be confined by my present reality.

I don't want to be limited by my present consequence

or circumstance of my choices in my lifestyle.

I want to be liberated. I want to experience

the destiny and the purpose and the vision of

God for my life. Friend, it's greater than you

could possibly think. Doesn't matter what kind

of home you came from. Doesn't matter what kind

of rascal your dad was. Doesn't matter what kind

of weirdo your uncle was. Doesn't matter what

kind of problem you have. If you will just lift

up your eyes from the place where you are and

you will begin taking steps of obedience to what

God's calling you to do and what He's calling

you to be, you will live differently and your

life will change. Before I go on any further,

I saw you up here and I remembered. God's got

a plan and a future for you. There's a gathering

anointing upon your life. Jacqueline, there's

a... an amazing generational grace that's filtering

down through your family line. Your great -grandfather,

your grandfather, and even great -great and great

-greater -greater -greater. There's this thing,

and it just begins to pass on. And I'm telling

you that it's upon you, it's even upon your baby

sister. There's an anointing upon you, and you're

going to gather people. There's going to come

a time in your life, and maybe even you've experienced

it to some degree, but you're going to go to

the other nations of the earth. God's going to

use you to impact people with the message of

hope and the message of the gospel. You need

to know that God's hand is on you to call you

into the ministry. You're going to write poetry

and you're going to write music and songs and

there's the anointing of the minstrel upon you

and God's going to use you in a great way. Don't

limit yourself. Don't allow a limitation of youth

to be upon you. Don't allow the limitation of

other people's opinions to confine you. But let

God liberate you to be the woman of God that

He has called you to be. You're going to be a

woman who's going to sing the song of God in

the house of the Lord. Your songs are going to

bring healing. They're going to bring freedom.

They're going to bring liberty. But you're not

just going to be one that's going to have a ministry

of music. I believe you're also going to be a

teacher and minister of the Word. You're going

to walk with authority. You're going to walk

with an anointing. Spirit of Revelation is going

to be upon you. Prophetic touch. It's been upon

your parents. It's going to come upon you. And

at times you're going to prophesy beyond your

years. You're going to prophesy beyond your experience.

People are going to hear it and they're going

to say, Oh, but God has surely revealed Himself

to her. And surely He has opened up His mouth

and spoken into her ear. I want to say unto you

to be bold. To be strong in the Lord and in the

power of His might. Do not let the opinion of

man or your personal insecurity get in the way

of the calling of God for your life. And you

will make a mark on your generation. Many will

call you a mentor and friend. They'll call you

a teacher. They'll call you one who said come

follow me as I follow Christ and it radically

changed their life forever. Give yourself into

these things so that your progress will be evident

to all. Tie yourself into times of prayer and

intercession. Let the burden of prayer be upon

your heart and your life and watch as God begins

to fill you with words and revelation and anointing

and He's going to speak into your heart things

that you never thought you'd be able to even

know or hear from God and He's going to reveal

them to you. Anointing of leadership is upon

you and you're going to walk in roles of leadership

in the house. Do not let the opinion of men limit

you. The only opinion that matters is God's.

Lift up your eyes. You're more than what you

think you are. You can do more than you think

you can. Because the call and the mantle and

the anointing of the Holy Spirit is on you. More

will be said to you in the days that are ahead

for your life. Others will speak the Word of

the Lord to you. God will make even clearer the

things that He wants to do in your life. Your

wonderful treasure to the Lord. I just want to

tell you what I hear the Holy Spirit saying to

me. The Heavenly Father says, I am so proud of

you. Keep doing what you're doing. Press into

what God has for you. How many would say here

today that you have been limited by your past?

You raise your hand and say, Mark, that's me.

I know where I've been, I know where I came from,

my family, my education, my whatever. You could

fill in the blank. My past though, there's some

things there that I have that I know limit me

from doing. Lift up your eyes from your past.

How many of you, go ahead and put your hands

down. How many of you here, and in the moment,

in the now, you see where you are now, and it's

been pretty consuming because you're busy. You're

going life's a million miles an hour and where

you are consumes all your attention. To think

about lifting your eyes is just like, I don't

want to hit a tree. But you know that it's just

you need to lift up your eyes because there's

something God wants you to do more than where

you're at. What you got in your hand isn't what

it's all about. God has more for you. You got

it? And as I was preaching today meant something

was leaping in your heart. I got to lift up my

eyes. If that's you, raise your hand. I'm in

my moment right now, and I think it's limiting

me. I want God to help me break out of where

I am. I've been looking at my feet, but I've

found I'm wandering in circles. Oh, I'm going

somewhere, but I'm going nowhere. A lot of motion,

but no movement. No progress. Everybody that

raised their hands today, past or present, if

you want to lift up your eyes in this place,

you want to see something. for your own personal

life, for your business, your marriage, or even

for this house, for this church. God, help me

see it. Help me see what you see. That's you,

raise your hand. Come on, everybody in this place,

raise your hand. Father, right now we lift up

our eyes. We refuse to now gaze on our past.

We will not eat the manna of our past and of

another time. We are gonna step in and eat the

fruit of the land of our future. And we're going

to lift up our eyes and we're going to see what

it is that you want us to see. Holy Spirit, let

a spirit of revelation come upon every person

here to get us out of our ruts and out of our

rituals and out of our routines and out of our

now. And get us thinking about what you can do

through us in our future and in our destiny.

In Jesus' name. Help us now to see what you see.

Help us now to do what you've called us to do.

Help us to be who you've called us to be. And

not limited by what our perception is or what

others think of us, but only gauged by what you

say we are to be and what we can do. I lift my

eyes. Say that. Now. To you, O Lord. Show me

what you want me to do. Now listen, that's a

dangerous prayer to pray. You asked for it, just

remember that. But I got good news for you. God

only does good things. So it's gonna be good

for you. This couple, young man with the red

hair and blonde girlfriend, wife, I don't know

what the deal is there. There's a real grace

on your life for leading. And I see God's called

you for influence in the kingdom of God. And

the two of you are going to be mentors to young

married people. And God's going to work in your

lives and cause a testimony of God's goodness

to come out of your union. He's going to bless

you and He's going to bless children out of your

home. And He's going to give you the testimony

of God to help people navigate through difficult

waters. A man and a woman who's going to help

develop young leaders and people in this house.

God's going to give you favor in the marketplace.

He's going to open doors of opportunity for you.

He's going to set things in front of you that

you would have never dreamed possible. Because

you are a man that is willing to take a risk

and believe God. Don't lose that, man. Don't

lose that. You'll believe God. You will see God

do amazing things in your life. You'll look back

20 years from now and you'll go, I can't believe

what God's done. There was a young lady standing

up here in worship, right here, right in front

of me. Is she in this room? Where are you? Yeah,

there you are. What's your name? Christine? If

I was a real prophet I'd know that, but anyway.

No, it's a prophet joke, sorry. Christine, there's

an anointing and a calling of God upon your life.

You're going to have a great fruitfulness in

your life as God works through you. Stay surrendered

to Him and let God teach and train you. You're

in a time where God's wanting to train you and

equip you and let you have a teachable spirit.

But I want to say many of the same things that

I said to her, not all of them, but that there's

a grace of leadership upon you. And God's raising

you up and you've been beating in your heart

with a desire for the things of the kingdom and

the things of ministry. That has not been an

accident, neither has it if. The fantasies of

a young girl. But it is the dream of heaven that

God has placed in your heart. And you're to passionately

pursue it with all your heart, soul, mind and

strength. And as you do, God will give unto you

the things that have been dreams into your heart.

And you know what they are. And you know exactly

what I'm talking about. You've been a dreamer.

And there have been... You've been afraid to

say what some of the things are that you have

had in your heart, because they're pretty big.

And I got to tell you, they are from the Lord.

And they are not the vain imaginations of a willowy

eyed girl dreaming of cool stuff to do. No, they're

from the Lord and God has spoken into your heart

of what He wants to do and what He wants to accomplish

in your life. How many here are students at Oregon?

How many here are students or you have some kind

of a role? in ministry there or anything like

that. Raise your hand. Anybody in here like that?

Just keep your hand up. Father, I pray for supernatural

strategy to come to them. Open their eyes to

see what they need to do. I pray for open doors

in the name of Jesus on that campus. Oh, there

has been a resistance, a wall of steel. that

has been at your face at almost at every turn.

And it's like plowing in stone trying to get

this thing broken open. But I'm telling you,

I believe this is the year of the Lord's favor.

I just sense in my spirit a quaking in the earth.

The cracking of that stone is beginning to...

And underneath that stone is a fertile soil like

you've never seen in your life. And God is going

to crack that... Stony, ground open, and He's

going to cause the ministry of this house to

go into that like seed and grain. There's going

to be a planting of the Lord there. It's going

to be like oaks of righteousness. And a testimony

of God is going to be on the campus of Oregon.

You're going to see it. You're going to have

a strategic part in it. Partner up with some

other folks that also have influence there. Partner

up with them. Let God begin to use the threefold

cord to bind you together. You're going to have

a uniqueness of your own, but I believe there's

a partnership grace that God wants to develop

to bring the fruitfulness that he wants to see.

Right? Hallelujah. Hallelujah. Come on, everybody,

lift your hands. Now, Father, we believe. Come

on, say it with me. I believe. I believe you're

building your church. And the gates of hell will

not prevail. I'm a man or a woman, whatever it

applies to you. Say it. I'm a man of destiny.

And I will fulfill my destiny in God. Because

today, I choose to lift up my eyes and see the

plan and purpose of God. In Jesus' name, Amen.

Come on, give the Lord a clap. I'll tell them,

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