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Unmuted: The Spirit Still Speaks Part 3 I Pastor Robert Gay

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  1. [SPEAKER_00]: High Praise Podcasts.

  2. [SPEAKER_00]: Hey everybody, this is Pastor Josh.

  3. [SPEAKER_00]: We'll leave Pastor here at High Praise and I want to thank you for downloading today's podcast.

  4. [SPEAKER_00]: We know that this message is going to encourage and bless you.

  5. [SPEAKER_00]: So I want you to open up your heart and receive with the Lord as for you today.

  6. [SPEAKER_01]: Your Bible says, he killed chapter 36, or you can read the Scriptures on the screen.

  7. [SPEAKER_01]: We're going to be continuing his series, Pastor Joshua began, called Unmuted.

  8. [SPEAKER_01]: I'm going to even know that God is still speaking today.

  9. [SPEAKER_01]: Do you believe that God still has something to say to you today?

  10. [SPEAKER_01]: Do you believe that?

  11. [SPEAKER_01]: Can you tell somebody God's still speaking today?

  12. [SPEAKER_01]: I remember when I first went on staff at Christian International back in 1987, the very first song that I wrote was actually called God Still Speaking Today.

  13. [SPEAKER_01]: And this again back in 1987, this has been almost 40 years ago that I wrote that song and we sang it quite a bit and it's one of Bishop Hammond's favorite songs that we sang all the time.

  14. [SPEAKER_01]: And it was just God still speaking today.

  15. [SPEAKER_01]: God still speaking today through the mouth of his prophets in according to his word, God still speaking today.

  16. [SPEAKER_01]: God still speaking today, very simple chorus, very simple song, we sang it over and over.

  17. [SPEAKER_01]: But you know, there are a lot of people today who feel as though God is deaf and he's mute.

  18. [SPEAKER_01]: And how many of you know that he is neither.

  19. [SPEAKER_01]: He's neither deaf nor is he mute.

  20. [SPEAKER_01]: So he hears us whenever we pray, but also understand that when we pray, he has something to say.

  21. [SPEAKER_01]: And I say that again, when you pray, he has something to say.

  22. [SPEAKER_01]: Can you tell somebody when you pray, he has something to say?

  23. [SPEAKER_01]: See, prayer is not designed to be a monologue.

  24. [SPEAKER_01]: It's designed to be a dialogue.

  25. [SPEAKER_01]: It's designed to be a time whenever we have communion with the Lord and we make our needs known unto the Lord, but at the same time there is an assurance as the Lord begins to speak to us that the need is provided that has taken care of, think about this just for a moment.

  26. [SPEAKER_01]: If you began to talk to me and I did not say a word and you spent five minutes talking to me,

  27. [SPEAKER_01]: I said nothing, didn't even acknowledge your existence or your presence, and then walked off.

  28. [SPEAKER_01]: What would that be considered to most people?

  29. [SPEAKER_01]: Absolutely.

  30. [SPEAKER_01]: It would be considered rude, and hopefully I've never done that to anybody here.

  31. [SPEAKER_01]: But nonetheless, if you did that, did I do that to you, Kyle?

  32. [SPEAKER_01]: I'm just, okay, he went, I don't know, all right, but anyway, but you know, the reality is God's not rude, I mean, you know that even the Holy Spirit's got manners.

  33. [SPEAKER_01]: Right?

  34. [SPEAKER_01]: He's not like the people that whenever they said manners, they thought they said manners, and they ate theirs.

  35. [SPEAKER_01]: Now the Holy Spirit has manners.

  36. [SPEAKER_01]: He does things in a manner only way.

  37. [SPEAKER_01]: You've heard it before.

  38. [SPEAKER_01]: The Holy Spirit is a gentleman.

  39. [SPEAKER_01]: How many of you know, God's not going to force anything on you?

  40. [SPEAKER_01]: He doesn't do things contrary to your will.

  41. [SPEAKER_01]: Right?

  42. [SPEAKER_01]: By the way, let me pause it for just a moment.

  43. [SPEAKER_01]: I know we didn't pray.

  44. [SPEAKER_01]: We prayed extensively last week for our military families in the, whatever's going on over there in the Middle East right now.

  45. [SPEAKER_01]: And I want us to continue to pray for our military, amen.

  46. [SPEAKER_01]: Also pray for innocent civilians that are over there.

  47. [SPEAKER_01]: There are a lot of people that, unfortunately, that end up getting caught in the crawls fires and Kim, we have lived, I know, our reach families there in Israel and by the way, we have their Christians that are scattered throughout all of the Middle East region.

  48. [SPEAKER_01]: And every Middle Eastern country, you know that those are our brothers and sisters and we should pray for them and pray that God will protect them in the midst of the skirmish that is going on, the conflict that is taking place right now.

  49. [SPEAKER_01]: But, you know, God even has something to say in the middle of stuff like that, and we know that He is the Prince of Peace, and we're believing God for peace to reign throughout that region and that everybody who put their weapons down in Jesus' name.

  50. [SPEAKER_01]: Amen.

  51. [SPEAKER_01]: Amen.

  52. [SPEAKER_01]: I mean, a peace is a lot better than war.

  53. [SPEAKER_01]: And by the way, we have military families right now and some of them have even gotten notifications that they could possibly be deployed over to the Middle Eastern region.

  54. [SPEAKER_01]: We want to pray for them.

  55. [SPEAKER_01]: But also, we just want to pray that this thing gets settled very quickly.

  56. [SPEAKER_01]: Can everybody believe with me on that?

  57. [SPEAKER_01]: And let's agree that this thing will be resolved.

  58. [SPEAKER_01]: But anyway, where was I?

  59. [SPEAKER_01]: I was talking about, if I talk to you or you talk to me and then there's no kind of response, then it's considered rude.

  60. [SPEAKER_01]: And the Holy Spirit's a gentleman, he's not rude.

  61. [SPEAKER_01]: And so God, understand whenever we pray, he has something to say, God is always speaking.

  62. [SPEAKER_01]: William Brandham actually said this that heaven is always broadcasting.

  63. [SPEAKER_01]: They know Heavens always broadcasting.

  64. [SPEAKER_01]: They never go offline.

  65. [SPEAKER_01]: They never go off the air.

  66. [SPEAKER_01]: And Heaven always has something to say about you.

  67. [SPEAKER_01]: Has something to say to you.

  68. [SPEAKER_01]: And also has something to say about your situation.

  69. [SPEAKER_01]: Do you know that he is Jehovah Jara.

  70. [SPEAKER_01]: Jehovah Jara doesn't merely mean he's the God who provides.

  71. [SPEAKER_01]: It also means he's the God who sees.

  72. [SPEAKER_01]: Do you know he knows what you're going through right now?

  73. [SPEAKER_01]: I said he knows what you're going through.

  74. [SPEAKER_01]: He knows what gas prices are right now.

  75. [SPEAKER_01]: And how many of you know, he is still Jehovah John Ray and he will still provide for you, regardless of what's happening and taking place, even in the economy or what, because listen, economies have always fluctuated and they always will fluctuate.

  76. [SPEAKER_01]: But there is one thing that will never fluctuate and will never change.

  77. [SPEAKER_01]: And that is Jesus who is the same yesterday today and forever.

  78. [SPEAKER_01]: And his promise is sure.

  79. [SPEAKER_01]: He's going to do for you today, how to do it, yeah.

  80. [SPEAKER_01]: Amen?

  81. [SPEAKER_01]: Look at somebody say his promise is short.

  82. [SPEAKER_01]: So in Ezekiel 36, 33 says, this says the Lord got to have a long passage of scripture to read Subair with me as I read it this morning.

  83. [SPEAKER_01]: This says, the Lord got on the day that I cleanse you from all your iniquities.

  84. [SPEAKER_01]: I will also enable you to dwell in the cities and the ruins shall be rebuilt.

  85. [SPEAKER_01]: Everybody shall rebuild.

  86. [SPEAKER_01]: The desolate land shall be tealed instead of lying desolate in the side of all who pass by.

  87. [SPEAKER_01]: So they will say the land that was desolate has become like the garden of Eden.

  88. [SPEAKER_01]: And the wasted desolate and ruined cities are now fortified and inhabited.

  89. [SPEAKER_01]: Then the nations which are left all around shall know that I, the Lord, have rebuilt, everybody say rebuilt the ruined places and planted, shop planted what was desolate and I, the Lord, have spoken it and I will do it.

  90. [SPEAKER_01]: How many of God's going to do exactly what He said that He was going to do?

  91. [SPEAKER_01]: I have some more scripture to read, but I just want to pause here for just a moment.

  92. [SPEAKER_01]: There are some of you that have sensed and felt like you were a desolate city, but I have good news to proclaim to you today.

  93. [SPEAKER_01]: And that is this, God's gonna rebuild, God's going to restore, God's going to repair, God's going to replenish, and you're gonna be better on the other side than what you were before, amen?

  94. [SPEAKER_01]: And so regardless of what you might be looking at right now, God always has something to speak and to say and declare because here's this.

  95. [SPEAKER_01]: And we see it in this passage of scripture.

  96. [SPEAKER_01]: God's intention of speaking something is to finally do it within your life.

  97. [SPEAKER_01]: Whatever God speaks, he desires to do.

  98. [SPEAKER_01]: He's not talking just to hear his voice.

  99. [SPEAKER_01]: He's not speaking just to hear Himself declaring something.

  100. [SPEAKER_01]: He is speaking in order to do something within your life.

  101. [SPEAKER_01]: And He wants us to mix our faith with what He is saying so that we can see it come to pass in the name of Jesus.

  102. [SPEAKER_01]: Ezekiel 37 verse 1, the hand of the Lord came upon me and brought me out in the spirit of the Lord.

    Ezekiel 37:1

  103. [SPEAKER_01]: and set me down in the midst of the valley and it was full of bones.

  104. [SPEAKER_01]: Not a good sight, graveyard.

  105. [SPEAKER_01]: Then he calls me to pass by them all around.

  106. [SPEAKER_01]: He's walking all around the bones.

  107. [SPEAKER_01]: And behold, they were very many in the open valley.

  108. [SPEAKER_01]: And indeed, they were very dry.

  109. [SPEAKER_01]: And he said to me, son of man, can these bones live?

  110. [SPEAKER_01]: So I answered, smart answer, oh Lord God, you alone know, praise the Lord.

  111. [SPEAKER_01]: I mean, sometimes you don't have the answer, but Jesus has the answer.

  112. [SPEAKER_01]: You know, there's sometimes we don't have the answers to questions as to, you know, how things are going to happen, but how many of you know, God's already got to plan to see the fulfillment of His Word and His promise within your life, amen?

  113. [SPEAKER_01]: This says the Lord God to these, uh, back up, sorry, uh, and he's, uh, verse four.

  114. [SPEAKER_01]: Again, he said to me, prophesied about a shout prophesied.

  115. [SPEAKER_01]: Professor of these bones and say to them, oh, drive bones, hear the word of the Lord.

  116. [SPEAKER_01]: This says the Lord, God, to these bones.

  117. [SPEAKER_01]: Surely I will cause breath to enter into you and you shall live, everybody shout out you shall live.

  118. [SPEAKER_01]: Look at somebody and say you shall live.

  119. [SPEAKER_01]: Look at somebody and say your family shall live.

  120. [SPEAKER_01]: Look at somebody and say your spouse is going to live.

  121. [SPEAKER_01]: Look at somebody and say your children's going to live.

  122. [SPEAKER_01]: Look at somebody and say your career, your living.

  123. [SPEAKER_01]: Look at somebody and say your finances are going to live.

  124. [SPEAKER_01]: Tell somebody your health is going to live.

  125. [SPEAKER_01]: Tell them everything about you is going to live in the name of Jesus.

  126. [SPEAKER_01]: Amen.

  127. [SPEAKER_01]: Listen, I believe that God is declaring that over you today, you will live.

  128. [SPEAKER_01]: It may not look like it right now, but God is declared in the middle of the bones, in the middle of the valley.

  129. [SPEAKER_01]: In the middle of all the circumstances that are going, oh, God is saying, Larry, you're going to live.

  130. [SPEAKER_01]: Casey, you're going to live.

  131. [SPEAKER_01]: Casso, you're going to live, raise a Lord.

  132. [SPEAKER_01]: Cindy, you're going to live.

  133. [SPEAKER_01]: Paul, you're going to live, amen?

  134. [SPEAKER_01]: Look at somebody and say it again, you're going to live.

  135. [SPEAKER_01]: Chuck, you're going to live, Hallelujah.

  136. [SPEAKER_01]: I said, you're going to live, Hallelujah.

  137. [SPEAKER_01]: Debbie, you're going to live, Hallelujah.

  138. [SPEAKER_01]: You're going to make it to the other side.

  139. [SPEAKER_01]: The devil is a liar.

  140. [SPEAKER_01]: His pants are on fire.

  141. [SPEAKER_01]: God's word is true.

  142. [SPEAKER_01]: And he's going to do exactly what he said in what he promised.

  143. [SPEAKER_01]: Oh, Hallelujah.

  144. [SPEAKER_01]: I'm sorry, I'm feeling a little pinnacle.

  145. [SPEAKER_01]: I'll still do today.

  146. [SPEAKER_01]: Hallelujah.

  147. [SPEAKER_01]: Amen.

  148. [SPEAKER_01]: Amen.

  149. [SPEAKER_01]: You're going to live?

  150. [SPEAKER_01]: See the devil wants to paint a picture.

  151. [SPEAKER_01]: It's all bad, all bad.

  152. [SPEAKER_01]: You're going to die.

  153. [SPEAKER_01]: You're gloom to spare agony on me, you know?

  154. [SPEAKER_01]: Fuel prices, I don't like the fact that fuel prices just went up 75 cents.

  155. [SPEAKER_01]: I don't like it at all.

  156. [SPEAKER_01]: I was lucky $2.48 a gallon.

  157. [SPEAKER_01]: And with my Walmart discount, I was getting for $2.38 a gallon, right?

  158. [SPEAKER_01]: I like that.

  159. [SPEAKER_01]: Glory to God, right?

  160. [SPEAKER_01]: But you know what?

  161. [SPEAKER_01]: I've never seen the righteous forsaken

  162. [SPEAKER_01]: Amen.

  163. [SPEAKER_01]: I've never seen the righteous forsaken.

  164. [SPEAKER_01]: A lot of times, people get all in a tizzy.

  165. [SPEAKER_01]: And again, we have to look beyond the political debates.

  166. [SPEAKER_01]: We have to look beyond the things that we see in the natural that want to grab our attention.

  167. [SPEAKER_01]: And what we have to do is begin to look beyond that beginning to see if we still serve Jehovah Jara.

  168. [SPEAKER_01]: We have to look beyond that and say, you know, why is what David said, why does a heathen rage and the people do vain things and do crazy things?

  169. [SPEAKER_01]: But I put my hope in the Lord.

  170. [SPEAKER_01]: See, we put our hope in something beyond what man can create.

  171. [SPEAKER_01]: We're not putting our hope in the government's of man.

  172. [SPEAKER_01]: We're not even putting our hope in the military of man.

  173. [SPEAKER_01]: Thank God for our military.

  174. [SPEAKER_01]: Thank God for the United States military.

  175. [SPEAKER_01]: We love our military, absolutely, we pray for them.

  176. [SPEAKER_01]: Yes, we have the, you know, we,

  177. [SPEAKER_01]: We bad, praise Lord.

  178. [SPEAKER_01]: But nonetheless, the military, it's second to none, absolutely.

  179. [SPEAKER_01]: But understand this, listen what David said, some trust in chariots, some in horses.

  180. [SPEAKER_01]: But we will remember the name of the Lord, our God.

  181. [SPEAKER_01]: See, I'm thinking about the name of the Lord.

  182. [SPEAKER_01]: I'm thinking that the name of the Lord is a strong tower, and the righteous run into it, and they are safe.

  183. [SPEAKER_01]: And regardless of what is going on all around me, I am still going to be safe at the end of the day, man.

  184. [SPEAKER_01]: We had to go through that with Chelsea.

  185. [SPEAKER_01]: We never been through as a family, something like that.

  186. [SPEAKER_01]: Somebody trapped in his room.

  187. [SPEAKER_01]: They of course, until you're there.

  188. [SPEAKER_01]: And you know, our reach very, very familiar.

  189. [SPEAKER_01]: Maybe some of the people that have been over in that area when their bombs going off, it's very unsettling.

  190. [SPEAKER_01]: And as unsettling it is for the people that are there, for their family, it's even more unsettling sometimes.

  191. [SPEAKER_01]: Particularly, whenever that's our daughter-in-law, that's our youngest son's wife, the mother of our three Amigos, their three Amigos, and you know, it weighed heavily upon them, and you know, I have to be honest with you, Pastor Micah.

  192. [SPEAKER_01]: He there were some emotional times and there was some emotional crackups and there was some emotional breakdowns And there was sometimes he was crying to us on the telephone because of the the weight of that with his children and him They're feeling like and of course all husbands you want to do something about it right whenever your wife is in trouble What do you want to do you're gonna go run you're gonna go do whatever you've got to do

  193. [SPEAKER_01]: Right, but you're helpless, you can't do anything.

  194. [SPEAKER_01]: Knowing, you know, you just have to pray, you have to put your trust in the Lord.

  195. [SPEAKER_01]: And we walk through that situation.

  196. [SPEAKER_01]: You know, I've walked through situations before and I've always found this out at the end of a day.

  197. [SPEAKER_01]: He is faithful, Hallelujah.

  198. [SPEAKER_01]: And what he declared, he will do within your life.

  199. [SPEAKER_01]: Amen.

  200. [SPEAKER_01]: Look at somebody say, you will live.

  201. [SPEAKER_01]: Verse six, I will put a sin use on you and bring flesh upon you.

  202. [SPEAKER_01]: Cover you with skin and put breath in you and And watch and you will watch.

  203. [SPEAKER_01]: What does it say and you will want you shall live.

  204. [SPEAKER_01]: Where's it now?

  205. [SPEAKER_01]: You shall live shall you shall live?

  206. [SPEAKER_01]: Then you initial know that I am the Lord.

  207. [SPEAKER_01]: So I prophesied as I was commanded.

  208. [SPEAKER_01]: And as I prophesied, there was a noise and suddenly a rattling and the bones came together, a bone to bone.

  209. [SPEAKER_01]: Indeed, as I look, the sinews and the flesh came up, let me say to another wise, another way.

  210. [SPEAKER_01]: As I unmuted myself,

  211. [SPEAKER_01]: He doesn't tell you something, it's not a question, is God saying something.

  212. [SPEAKER_01]: Sometimes the question is, are you willing to unmute yourself and begin to echo what God is saying over your situation?

  213. [SPEAKER_01]: Most of the time what we're wanting to do is make commentary about the mountain rather than speaking to the mountain.

  214. [SPEAKER_01]: We're willing to make commentary about the latest news that just came out, rather than declaring what God has already said about the situation, are you hearing what I'm saying?

  215. [SPEAKER_01]: God calls the church to begin to shift what we're doing.

  216. [SPEAKER_01]: to where we're not those that are reacting to the news headlines and reacting to the things that are going around us, but Lord, we respond to your voice.

  217. [SPEAKER_01]: Lord, take us off mute, calls us to be unmuted and begin to declare the word of the Lord.

  218. [SPEAKER_01]: Can everybody say amen?

  219. [SPEAKER_01]: So I prophesied as I was commanded.

  220. [SPEAKER_01]: I unmuted myself as I was commanded.

  221. [SPEAKER_01]: You know something happens, you don't see here.

  222. [SPEAKER_01]: Nothing happened until he's equal prophesied.

  223. [SPEAKER_01]: You have to understand God doesn't do things in the earth until somebody prays it or speaks it.

  224. [SPEAKER_01]: It requires somebody praying it.

  225. [SPEAKER_01]: It requires somebody here on earth.

  226. [SPEAKER_01]: That's the reason Jesus said, pray this way.

  227. [SPEAKER_01]: Your kingdom come your.

  228. [SPEAKER_01]: We'll be done where, on earth as it is it has to have.

  229. [SPEAKER_01]: See if the will of God was just automatically done that there would be no need for anybody to pray for the will of God to be done.

  230. [SPEAKER_01]: He was saying, you've got to pray things from heaven into the earth.

  231. [SPEAKER_01]: And understand this, God, this is what even says over an aim is surely I will do nothing unless I reveal it to my servants, the prophets.

  232. [SPEAKER_01]: What he's saying is this, before I do things in the earth, the first thing I'm going to do is have somebody a representative of me stand and begin to declare these things declare what I'm saying speak forth what I'm saying see it's not a

  233. [SPEAKER_01]: question as to whether or not God has unmuted himself, Heaven's always speaking.

  234. [SPEAKER_01]: The question is this, are you willing to unmute yourself?

  235. [SPEAKER_01]: And instead of echoing what was just said on Fox or NBC or ABC or CBS, are you willing to be the echo of God in the earth and speak what the say at the Lord?

  236. [SPEAKER_01]: What God is declaring over the situation?

  237. [SPEAKER_01]: Amen.

  238. [SPEAKER_01]: Look at somebody say you're gonna unmute yourself.

  239. [SPEAKER_01]: But in fact, some of you may need to mute yourself in some of those areas.

  240. [SPEAKER_01]: Well, right?

  241. [SPEAKER_01]: Because that's what you're always speaking.

  242. [SPEAKER_01]: That's what you're always talking about.

  243. [SPEAKER_01]: That's what you're always saying.

  244. [SPEAKER_01]: We're consumed with things that are going on around us and the political things that are taking place and happening.

  245. [SPEAKER_01]: And again, it changes with every day.

  246. [SPEAKER_01]: And one thing, somebody can say and promise one thing and then tomorrow they go back on their promise.

  247. [SPEAKER_01]: And I don't care who it is.

  248. [SPEAKER_01]: Because they've all done it.

  249. [SPEAKER_01]: I'll just offended everybody right there.

  250. [SPEAKER_01]: That shouldn't be smart enough to realize that.

  251. [SPEAKER_01]: And it's amazing, we're surprised, we're shocked, we shouldn't be surprised, I believe, for 64 years.

  252. [SPEAKER_01]: And I've seen it ever since, I can remember.

  253. [SPEAKER_01]: These are kind of things that go on.

  254. [SPEAKER_01]: So that's the reason you can't get caught up in all of those things.

  255. [SPEAKER_01]: You've got to keep your focus, you've got to keep your eyes, guys, looking under Jesus, the author, and the finisher of our faith, amen?

  256. [SPEAKER_01]: You got to keep your eyes on Jesus, look at somebody

  257. [SPEAKER_01]: or say, I don't get anything out of this.

  258. [SPEAKER_01]: Now sometimes it might be challenging.

  259. [SPEAKER_01]: Sometimes it might be encouraging.

  260. [SPEAKER_01]: But understand this, if you'll take the challenge, then the encouragement will happen within your life.

  261. [SPEAKER_01]: See, a lot of times, people aren't willing to change.

  262. [SPEAKER_01]: You're not willing to allow themselves to be confronted with things that are going on in their life and what they're consumed with.

  263. [SPEAKER_01]: And because of that, because they continue to be consumed with the same things, what ends up happening is they never see the promise fulfilled.

  264. [SPEAKER_01]: You have to look, see, Ezekiel had to look beyond dry bones.

  265. [SPEAKER_01]: He had to begin to speak something different than what he saw.

  266. [SPEAKER_01]: He began to prophesy and declare life when there was nothing but death there, right?

  267. [SPEAKER_01]: So anyway, so I'm a prophesied verse eight.

  268. [SPEAKER_01]: Indeed, as I look at the sins of the flesh, came upon them and the skin covered them over, but there was no breath in them.

  269. [SPEAKER_01]: He said to me, prophesied, unmute yourself again, to the breath, say to the breath, prophesied, son of man, say to the breath, that says the Lord God, come from the four winds, oh, breath, and breathe on these slaying, that they may do what?

  270. [SPEAKER_01]: that they may live.

  271. [SPEAKER_01]: So I prophesied.

  272. [SPEAKER_01]: I am muted myself as he commanded me and breath came into them.

  273. [SPEAKER_01]: And what?

  274. [SPEAKER_01]: Look at somebody and say they lived.

  275. [SPEAKER_01]: Look at somebody and say you're going to live.

  276. [SPEAKER_01]: and stood upon their feet and exceeding great army, then he said to me, send a man, these bones are the whole house of Israel.

  277. [SPEAKER_01]: They indeed say, our bones are dry, our hope is lost, and we ourselves are cut off.

  278. [SPEAKER_01]: Some of you may have been singing that song last week, but I have good news for you.

  279. [SPEAKER_01]: Therefore,

  280. [SPEAKER_01]: prophesied, a new to yourself and say, that says the Lord God, the hold my people, I will open up your graves and cause you to come up from your graves and bring you into the land of Israel.

  281. [SPEAKER_01]: Then you shall know that I am the Lord when I have opened your graves, oh my people and brought you up from your graves.

  282. [SPEAKER_01]: I will put my spirit in you and what?

  283. [SPEAKER_01]: Shout it out.

  284. [SPEAKER_01]: Look at somebody else and shout it out.

  285. [SPEAKER_01]: And I will place you in your own land, then you shall know that either Lord of Spoken it and performed it says the Lord.

  286. [SPEAKER_01]: Hallelujah.

  287. [SPEAKER_01]: Man, I can run around the building, just thinking about this passage of Scripture.

  288. [SPEAKER_01]: because I believe it is applicable to us today.

  289. [SPEAKER_01]: I believe that we see principles at play.

  290. [SPEAKER_01]: Principles actually, example in this passage of scripture.

  291. [SPEAKER_01]: And whenever you read back there in chapter 36, you see a land that is desolate, you see a land that lays waste, you see buildings that are in ruins, and what God says is, I'm gonna rebuild this.

  292. [SPEAKER_01]: I'm going to put it all back together.

  293. [SPEAKER_01]: Good news for you.

  294. [SPEAKER_01]: If you feel like your life is in shambles, God is saying I'm putting it back together.

  295. [SPEAKER_01]: You're going to live, praise God.

  296. [SPEAKER_01]: And so we see the problem are articulated.

  297. [SPEAKER_01]: They're at the end of chapter 36.

  298. [SPEAKER_01]: But then in chapter 36,

  299. [SPEAKER_01]: 37, God gives the answer.

  300. [SPEAKER_01]: And what does He do?

  301. [SPEAKER_01]: He raises up, He takes He's equal out to the valley of dry bones.

  302. [SPEAKER_01]: In the Spirit He takes him out there, and He says, I want you to begin to prophesy to these bones.

  303. [SPEAKER_01]: Here this, the response to destruction and devastation and shambles up, and everything being scattered is God always sins a word.

  304. [SPEAKER_01]: God always sends a word to us.

  305. [SPEAKER_01]: If you think about this in Genesis chapter one, God steps out into the midst of the darkness, and what does He say let there be light?

  306. [SPEAKER_01]: I think it's once again, it's so interesting to note that God's not making commentary on the darkness.

  307. [SPEAKER_01]: He's not saying, wow, it sure is dark out here.

  308. [SPEAKER_01]: Right?

  309. [SPEAKER_01]: And what's very interesting, I mean a little bit ahead of myself, but when you read Genesis chapter one, there are ten times that it says, and God said, and God said, and God said, one of the things we have to realize is, God is always speaking.

  310. [SPEAKER_01]: He comes into the place where there is void.

  311. [SPEAKER_01]: He comes into the place where there is darkness.

  312. [SPEAKER_01]: He comes into the place where there's destruction.

  313. [SPEAKER_01]: He comes into the places where there are absolutely no hope in what God does as he releases his word.

  314. [SPEAKER_01]: And it transforms the very atmosphere.

  315. [SPEAKER_01]: My friend,

  316. [SPEAKER_01]: Maybe there's some atmospheres that you're living in right now.

  317. [SPEAKER_01]: I've got good news for you.

  318. [SPEAKER_01]: There's a word that God's releasing over you that'll transform wherever you're at.

  319. [SPEAKER_01]: Maybe your work situation needs a new atmosphere.

  320. [SPEAKER_01]: I've got good news for you.

  321. [SPEAKER_01]: And you know what, you're just one word away from that atmosphere being totally transformed in everybody say amen.

  322. [SPEAKER_01]: Maybe your business seems like it's not growing.

  323. [SPEAKER_01]: Maybe it seems like it's went down.

  324. [SPEAKER_01]: I have some good news for you.

  325. [SPEAKER_01]: I said, God's God a word for you, and one word is going to transform it and bring it back to where it needs to be.

  326. [SPEAKER_01]: Can everybody say amen?

  327. [SPEAKER_01]: Hallelujah.

  328. [SPEAKER_01]: You know, anybody who would have looked at these bones would have said, there is no way these bones can live.

  329. [SPEAKER_01]: There's no ways that they'll ever be alive.

  330. [SPEAKER_01]: I believe that's the reason he's equal whenever he was asked the question.

  331. [SPEAKER_01]: He said, Lord, you alone know God, you only know this.

  332. [SPEAKER_01]: I have no idea.

  333. [SPEAKER_01]: I'm not even going to articulate my opinion at this moment because as it looks to me as I'm walking around dry bones, I don't know if anything can happen to them whatsoever.

  334. [SPEAKER_01]: The bones were dry, the bones were scattered, the bones were lifeless, it was a picture of destruction and devastation.

  335. [SPEAKER_01]: Some have already said there's no way that my present situation could even be restored.

  336. [SPEAKER_01]: This is as Pastor Joshua was ministering even this morning.

  337. [SPEAKER_01]: And the end of worship, this is a word that God is speaking over this church body.

  338. [SPEAKER_01]: And he's going to restore things and make it better than before.

  339. [SPEAKER_01]: Some of you, your marriages need to be restored.

  340. [SPEAKER_01]: Beyond as Pastor Joshua said, a place where you tolerate one another.

  341. [SPEAKER_01]: I mean, no, God did not design Christian marriages to be two people that are just tolerating one another.

  342. [SPEAKER_01]: I'll put up with you, and I'll sing tested and tried.

  343. [SPEAKER_01]: We're all made to wander every day of my life.

  344. [SPEAKER_01]: You know, God designed for a Christian marriage to be a place that is full of bliss, full of joy, full of romance, full of a hunk of hunk of burning love.

  345. [SPEAKER_01]: Yo, please don't shout me down right now, right?

  346. [SPEAKER_01]: God designed the Christian marriage to be a place of fire, right?

  347. [SPEAKER_01]: Where there's passion, and by the way, a lot of times when you say those words, people think, well, you're just talking about sex.

  348. [SPEAKER_01]: No, you could be passionate, passion is something that's beyond just sex, okay?

  349. [SPEAKER_01]: You understand that the act of sexual intercourse, passion means there's a, I wanna be around them.

  350. [SPEAKER_01]: She wanted me to go somewhere last night, and she wouldn't upset with me either, so anyway.

  351. [SPEAKER_01]: But she wanted me to go somewhere, she wanted me to go up to pick up something at, well, I needed to take something to pass her Joshua's house, and they want some food over there, but they're not starving or anything.

  352. [SPEAKER_01]: We just had some leftover, just want to make sure everybody knows.

  353. [SPEAKER_01]: She had only his rare occasion and praise the Lord we cooked at home, but anyway, usually we go to rodeos All right, that's all that's our dining room.

  354. [SPEAKER_01]: Okay, but nonetheless go there today praise the Lord You'll have a great meal at rodeos go down there sometime this week, but anyway, so we took some chicken over there and Anyway, and then I had to go to Walgreens to she needed something picked up there so I went there

  355. [SPEAKER_01]: And the whole time before our left said, you want to go with me?

  356. [SPEAKER_01]: You want to go with me?

  357. [SPEAKER_01]: Nope.

  358. [SPEAKER_01]: You want to go?

  359. [SPEAKER_01]: I said, you want to go?

  360. [SPEAKER_01]: You sure you don't want to go with me?

  361. [SPEAKER_01]: I want you to be with me!

  362. [SPEAKER_01]: See, if you're looking for a reason to get away from your spouse, then something needs to go on with it.

  363. [SPEAKER_01]: Right?

  364. [SPEAKER_01]: Were you passionate about them?

  365. [SPEAKER_01]: I want to be with you.

  366. [SPEAKER_01]: See, go shopping.

  367. [SPEAKER_01]: You know why I go shopping?

  368. [SPEAKER_01]: Right, Linda knows what I'm talking.

  369. [SPEAKER_01]: I saw her and her other daughter, Alicia.

  370. [SPEAKER_01]: The other day, we went down this new store down the street here, and, anyway, my wife went in there that day, racked up all kind of stuff there.

  371. [SPEAKER_01]: I want to see if she could rack up again.

  372. [SPEAKER_01]: So I went,

  373. [SPEAKER_01]: But the reason I'm there, it's not like she said, you better go with me right now.

  374. [SPEAKER_01]: I won't, you don't, are you hearing me?

  375. [SPEAKER_01]: It's not like that.

  376. [SPEAKER_01]: I go because I want to be with her.

  377. [SPEAKER_01]: Okay?

  378. [SPEAKER_01]: I am willing to look at clothes that I have no one.

  379. [SPEAKER_01]: She says, this is look good.

  380. [SPEAKER_01]: I said, anything on you looks good, baby.

  381. [SPEAKER_01]: And because I can't tell, you know, she had me go pick out her clothes, pick out something I would pick out probably the ugliest thing.

  382. [SPEAKER_01]: But if I'd never tried it before and she said, that is terrible.

  383. [SPEAKER_01]: But I go with her, I'm saying all this is, I say there should be some passion.

  384. [SPEAKER_01]: I said all that, this is not a marriage class this morning.

  385. [SPEAKER_01]: I'm just telling you that God wants to restore your marriage.

  386. [SPEAKER_01]: He wants to make it better than what it was before.

  387. [SPEAKER_01]: Because everybody say better than what it was before.

  388. [SPEAKER_01]: And we see this picture of a ruined city, we see this picture of destruction, we see this picture of devastation.

  389. [SPEAKER_01]: And what does God say?

  390. [SPEAKER_01]: God says, I'm gonna cause the city to be rebuilt.

  391. [SPEAKER_01]: I'm gonna cause this place of devastation to be restored.

  392. [SPEAKER_01]: And then in the very next chapter, what he does, is he takes his issue to the Valley of Dry Bones, and he says he's equal, it's time for you to prophesy, it's time for you to unmute yourself.

  393. [SPEAKER_01]: You see, because listen, the solution, here this, the solution to your problems, to the solution to your devastation, the solution to your destruction isn't necessarily just hearing the word, but it's unmuting yourself and beginning to decree and prophesy the word over your family, over your situation, over your circumstance, amen?

  394. [SPEAKER_01]: Because the bones don't come together until somebody begins to declare it and begin to prophesied.

  395. [SPEAKER_01]: Some of you, I'm seeing it right now.

  396. [SPEAKER_01]: You've got to get into your house and you might have to walk in the living room and say, I declare it the name of Jesus that every one of my children are serving the Lord.

  397. [SPEAKER_01]: I declare that every spirit of rebellion is cast now.

  398. [SPEAKER_01]: I declare that every hurt is healed in the name of Jesus.

  399. [SPEAKER_01]: I speak life where there was death.

  400. [SPEAKER_01]: I speak a new passion and zeal for my kids.

  401. [SPEAKER_01]: He even be stirred hallelujah, man.

  402. [SPEAKER_01]: And I declare that every bill is paid.

  403. [SPEAKER_01]: I declare release of raises.

  404. [SPEAKER_01]: I declare the release of business.

  405. [SPEAKER_01]: I declare better jobs.

  406. [SPEAKER_01]: I declare Lord God increase in salary in the name of Jesus.

  407. [SPEAKER_01]: Lord, I thank you for stretching my dollar.

  408. [SPEAKER_01]: Hallelujah.

  409. [SPEAKER_01]: I thank you, Lord, for supernatural deals.

  410. [SPEAKER_01]: You know, I'll tell you sometimes a supernatural deal is worth more than just a raise, right?

  411. [SPEAKER_01]: Right?

  412. [SPEAKER_01]: Is anybody ever got a supernatural deal?

  413. [SPEAKER_01]: You know what I'm talking about?

  414. [SPEAKER_01]: Like, blow your mind, deal.

  415. [SPEAKER_01]: I remember whenever we purchased our land, and we went into, we live and layered by you and it's a gated community.

  416. [SPEAKER_01]: And not that we did this early wanted to live behind the gate or anything, but it just happens to be a gated community.

  417. [SPEAKER_01]: We drove in there and never driven in there whatsoever.

  418. [SPEAKER_01]: And we saw this piece of property that was sitting there.

  419. [SPEAKER_01]: And we called,

  420. [SPEAKER_01]: It was Cindy, we called Cindy because we had to get the gate code just to be able to get in there.

  421. [SPEAKER_01]: I think she gave it to us.

  422. [SPEAKER_01]: Okay, so somebody else, okay, I don't remember it's been a long time ago.

  423. [SPEAKER_01]: Tint, yeah, at least a decade ago.

  424. [SPEAKER_01]: But make a long story short.

  425. [SPEAKER_01]: We were able to purchase a lot right on the water.

  426. [SPEAKER_01]: Okay, almost a full acre lot, right on the water.

  427. [SPEAKER_01]: For $25,000, but everybody say supernatural deal.

  428. [SPEAKER_01]: I mean, you that live here, you know what waterfront property costs.

  429. [SPEAKER_01]: And it doesn't cost $25,000.

  430. [SPEAKER_01]: If you get a $25,000 lot, it's about five foot wide.

  431. [SPEAKER_01]: Right?

  432. [SPEAKER_01]: You've got to space, all you've got is the easement to walk back there to the water, and that's it.

  433. [SPEAKER_01]: You can't build a house, you might be able to put a cot there, but you can't do anything else, right?

  434. [SPEAKER_01]: But it was a supernatural deal.

  435. [SPEAKER_01]: Okay, the lot by itself, just by itself right now, with itself for well over a hundred thousand dollars.

  436. [SPEAKER_01]: So I'm telling you that a supernatural deal is sometimes better even than more money.

  437. [SPEAKER_01]: And by the way, God has ways of stretching your money.

  438. [SPEAKER_01]: Supernatural things happening within your life.

  439. [SPEAKER_01]: I just feel that by the Holy Spirit.

  440. [SPEAKER_01]: There's some of you getting to get your faith out and get ready because there's some supernatural things about the transpire.

  441. [SPEAKER_01]: There's some things that are about to take place.

  442. [SPEAKER_01]: Oh, here's the word of the Lord.

  443. [SPEAKER_01]: There's some things about to take place that are going to blow your mind.

  444. [SPEAKER_01]: Lord, I release it now in the name of Jesus Lord, throughout this congregation throughout this sanctuary.

  445. [SPEAKER_01]: Lord, we break off and we bind every spirit of unbelief now in the name of Jesus.

  446. [SPEAKER_01]: Lord, let faith arise to apprehend and embrace every promise that you are declaring in the mighty name of Jesus, amen?

  447. [SPEAKER_01]: Everybody says supernatural increase.

  448. [SPEAKER_01]: You know what supernatural increase is?

  449. [SPEAKER_01]: It's an increase, it's not natural.

  450. [SPEAKER_01]: It's beyond the natural bind.

  451. [SPEAKER_01]: It doesn't make sense.

  452. [SPEAKER_01]: Can't figure out where to come from.

  453. [SPEAKER_01]: I don't care where it comes from.

  454. [SPEAKER_01]: I said it for many, many years, many years, I've said it over this church.

  455. [SPEAKER_01]: I said, I don't care if God has to use red eyeball ravens flying in here with $100 bills in their mouth.

  456. [SPEAKER_01]: God is going to pay for what he orders.

  457. [SPEAKER_01]: God ordered this church and God is going to pay for it and God is going to meet every need.

  458. [SPEAKER_01]: Now, we haven't seen any red eyeball ravens, but some of you may have been the red eyeball ravens, Hallelujah.

  459. [SPEAKER_01]: I mean, no, there are other people that God will raise up in your life to be the Red Eye Ball Ravens.

  460. [SPEAKER_01]: There will be those, and there will be situations that will arise.

  461. [SPEAKER_01]: Where God will bring forth provision and blessing to you.

  462. [SPEAKER_01]: What are you saying, pastor, I'm saying this.

  463. [SPEAKER_01]: Don't be afraid right now in the midst of the situation.

  464. [SPEAKER_01]: God is still on the throne.

  465. [SPEAKER_01]: He's still Jehovah Jaira.

  466. [SPEAKER_01]: He's still going to meet all your need according to his riches in glory.

  467. [SPEAKER_01]: You just need to begin to prophesy and declare it.

  468. [SPEAKER_01]: You need to unmute yourself and begin to speak the promise of God rather than the doctrines of fear and the doctrines of unbelief.

  469. [SPEAKER_01]: Start speaking out what God has already said, amen?

  470. [SPEAKER_01]: So in the middle of devastation, you know, getting anything.

  471. [SPEAKER_01]: In the middle of devastation, restoration begins with us prophesying, declaring the Word of Lord, that's one of the reasons we prophesied in this church.

  472. [SPEAKER_01]: Now, we listen, we're sensitive to the Holy Spirit and what Holy Spirit is saying, but understand this, you, God does it make us prophesied.

  473. [SPEAKER_01]: You understand what I mean by that?

  474. [SPEAKER_01]: God does it make you do anything.

  475. [SPEAKER_01]: You have to yield to what the Holy Spirit desires.

  476. [SPEAKER_01]: And you know what we've chosen to yield to what the Holy Spirit desires to do.

  477. [SPEAKER_01]: We've made a choice to yield to what God desires to speak in this church.

  478. [SPEAKER_01]: Why?

  479. [SPEAKER_01]: Because somebody needs to hear it because that's going to be the answer to their problem.

  480. [SPEAKER_01]: It's going to be the answer to their devastation.

  481. [SPEAKER_01]: It's going to be the answer to their destruction.

  482. [SPEAKER_01]: So God raises up his EQ and he says he's equal to start prophesying.

  483. [SPEAKER_01]: Start prophesying, you know, whenever the land and the things around you begin to feel as though things are crumbling down and they're being destroyed, it's time to prophesy.

  484. [SPEAKER_01]: Look at somebody and say you shall live.

  485. [SPEAKER_01]: God's a restoreer.

  486. [SPEAKER_01]: He's a life giver, and that's the reason he wants to speak something in the midst of your situation.

  487. [SPEAKER_01]: So God takes his equal to the place of death, and he commands him to speak life.

  488. [SPEAKER_01]: Again, he doesn't make commentary on the bones.

  489. [SPEAKER_01]: Wow, these bones sure are dry.

  490. [SPEAKER_01]: He didn't attempt to analyze what had happened.

  491. [SPEAKER_01]: He didn't try to even put the bones back together.

  492. [SPEAKER_01]: That'd be a picture of trying to orchestrate things in the flesh.

  493. [SPEAKER_01]: He didn't try to even calculate the ages of the bones.

  494. [SPEAKER_01]: Ezekiel could have attempted all sorts of things to figure it out.

  495. [SPEAKER_01]: And that's really what happens many times with us as believers.

  496. [SPEAKER_01]: We try to analyze, we try to figure out what we can do.

  497. [SPEAKER_01]: But you want many times it's not what you can do other than just believe him and begin to prophesy and declare the word of the Lord.

  498. [SPEAKER_01]: Get everybody say amen.

  499. [SPEAKER_01]: See the Lord told him prophesy life, I remember many years ago, 1987.

  500. [SPEAKER_01]: This has literally been 39 years ago in October and we went through a season of transition.

  501. [SPEAKER_01]: You ever been there?

  502. [SPEAKER_01]: You go through transition, and you don't know which way's up down, you go, I'm trying to figure everything out right now.

  503. [SPEAKER_01]: Nothing makes sense.

  504. [SPEAKER_01]: And all of the dynamics that made sense yesterday, no longer makes sense of things, and the rules, so to speak, that you had for yesterday, no longer apply, you're not a different season.

  505. [SPEAKER_01]: And we were going through that transition, going into a different season.

  506. [SPEAKER_01]: And we went to a church to quote-unquote try out.

  507. [SPEAKER_01]: I'm going to try to abbreviate this testimony, you know?

  508. [SPEAKER_01]: And we didn't end up getting the job.

  509. [SPEAKER_01]: It was a great, it was actually at Faith Assembly down in Orlando.

  510. [SPEAKER_01]: Now it was a very, very large assembly, God church.

  511. [SPEAKER_01]: And we didn't get the job.

  512. [SPEAKER_01]: And that was all because,

  513. [SPEAKER_01]: of some things that some leaders or a leader, I should say, had said about us, that was not even true.

  514. [SPEAKER_01]: Is anybody ever been lied about, you've been lied about, and have you ever felt like, you know, when people lie, I mean, it turns trying to prove that you didn't do what they said that you did, it's one of the most difficult things to do.

  515. [SPEAKER_01]: That's the reason our justice system is based upon you are innocent until proven guilty.

  516. [SPEAKER_01]: You want to prove that you didn't do something, but anyway.

  517. [SPEAKER_01]: So he said some things about me.

  518. [SPEAKER_01]: They just absolutely were not truths.

  519. [SPEAKER_01]: I mean, in fact, he had told me personally to my face.

  520. [SPEAKER_01]: Some things that were totally contrary to that.

  521. [SPEAKER_01]: But how many of the gods still orders your steps?

  522. [SPEAKER_01]: And even when ever it seemed like things happened, it doesn't make sense.

  523. [SPEAKER_01]: I mean, I was really counting on this, you know, and at the time we were living with my mother and my father.

  524. [SPEAKER_01]: Of course, my dad found out about it.

  525. [SPEAKER_01]: He was very upset, not with me.

  526. [SPEAKER_01]: But with this particular individual, and he was ready to go visit him with a baseball bat.

  527. [SPEAKER_01]: Okay.

  528. [SPEAKER_01]: Now, no, no, no, you all have never, this before my dad got sanctified.

  529. [SPEAKER_01]: Okay.

  530. [SPEAKER_01]: Now, he's sanctified now.

  531. [SPEAKER_01]: He, but I mean, he was ready to go, he was ready to go visit him with a baseball bat.

  532. [SPEAKER_01]: That is no light, told me.

  533. [SPEAKER_01]: He told me that's exactly what he told me.

  534. [SPEAKER_01]: I'm going to go visit him with my Louisville slugger.

  535. [SPEAKER_01]: Where my aluminum, and I think in aluminum bat, actually.

  536. [SPEAKER_01]: And anyway,

  537. [SPEAKER_01]: And so, because he was upset about it, you know, when somebody does something to you, it's one thing, but when they do something to your children, then that's a whole other thing, right?

  538. [SPEAKER_01]: And so, anyway, I said, we're just gonna believe God, I don't know, I don't know what's going to happen, and God's supernaturally opened up this opportunity for us to go lead worship at Christian international.

  539. [SPEAKER_01]: And I thought everybody there was crazy.

  540. [SPEAKER_01]: I thought that they were weird.

  541. [SPEAKER_01]: I thought they were strange.

  542. [SPEAKER_01]: Flakey, fruit, fruity, nuts.

  543. [SPEAKER_01]: flakes, fruits, and nuts.

  544. [SPEAKER_01]: It's been anyway and we went out there for a Friday night school of the Holy Spirit and it was a lady that was ministering.

  545. [SPEAKER_01]: Her name was Jan Painter and that time Pastor Joshua, he just turned two years old.

  546. [SPEAKER_01]: Now remember he sat there in the service with us and this prophet is after she got through ministries, she

  547. [SPEAKER_01]: And this is what she prophesied.

  548. [SPEAKER_01]: She said, you want a God's today, guys, and you've got to give out of what God's doing today.

  549. [SPEAKER_01]: And she started prophesying about future ministry, but then on top of that, she actually prophesied.

  550. [SPEAKER_01]: This is back in 1987.

  551. [SPEAKER_01]: I see a house on the water.

  552. [SPEAKER_01]: 1987.

  553. [SPEAKER_01]: I see this house on the waters.

  554. [SPEAKER_01]: She also talked about a mother-in-law suite.

  555. [SPEAKER_01]: I reviewed that, but anyway, she said,

  556. [SPEAKER_01]: Oh, yeah, this is between stream.

  557. [SPEAKER_01]: She really did.

  558. [SPEAKER_01]: That's not true.

  559. [SPEAKER_01]: But she said, this how?

  560. [SPEAKER_01]: I see this.

  561. [SPEAKER_01]: How soon the water?

  562. [SPEAKER_01]: His ministry got, God's got great plans for you.

  563. [SPEAKER_01]: I said, all that to say this, at the moment time, I felt like dry bones.

  564. [SPEAKER_01]: At the moment of time, I felt like every bone I had was scattered.

  565. [SPEAKER_01]: I felt as though there was no hope.

  566. [SPEAKER_01]: I felt like that what this leader had spoken over me was going to follow me all the days of my life that I'd never be able to escape what this individual said.

  567. [SPEAKER_01]: And here there's, if you're in that situation, I've got good news for you.

  568. [SPEAKER_01]: All you need is one word from heaven.

  569. [SPEAKER_01]: And God will turn the whole situation around.

  570. [SPEAKER_01]: Wanting it up happening on the other side of it.

  571. [SPEAKER_01]: They're, we took that, that's back whenever they gave you the prophetic words on cassette tapes.

  572. [SPEAKER_01]: If anybody even knows what that is anymore.

  573. [SPEAKER_01]: But we had a cassette tape and I had a really nice car because I had a cassette player in the car.

  574. [SPEAKER_01]: I mean, you were uptown Saturday night if you had a,

  575. [SPEAKER_01]: to set the car, and it was an hour drive back to mom and daddy's, and I think that word was maybe five minutes long.

  576. [SPEAKER_01]: Let me tell you, we listened to that word at least a dozen times, and we put it in there and we listened to it, and then we taught it in that great, in that great, and you know what, I got a second wind.

  577. [SPEAKER_01]: I felt like my bones came back together.

  578. [SPEAKER_01]: The bones that were scattered all of a sudden, whoa, my bones have just come back together.

  579. [SPEAKER_01]: And I felt like, oh, I feel some strength coming back in me right now.

  580. [SPEAKER_01]: The word of the Lord is doing something on the inside of me.

  581. [SPEAKER_01]: The word of the Lord is putting things back together.

  582. [SPEAKER_01]: You know why?

  583. [SPEAKER_01]: Because somebody had unmuted themselves and spoke the word of the Lord over my life.

  584. [SPEAKER_01]: Don't ever underestimate what's happening whenever you prophesize and you declare the word of the Lord over somebody.

  585. [SPEAKER_01]: It transforms.

  586. [SPEAKER_01]: It changes.

  587. [SPEAKER_01]: praise the Lord about a month and a half later I was on staff there.

  588. [SPEAKER_01]: Within another year, things began to take place supernaturally.

  589. [SPEAKER_01]: I'm telling our income more than tripled Hallelujah.

  590. [SPEAKER_01]: We saw God do supernatural things.

  591. [SPEAKER_01]: I was being asked to lead worship on an integrity album, and I could be here just telling you all the different things that took place.

  592. [SPEAKER_01]: Listen.

  593. [SPEAKER_01]: All that you need is a word from the Lord.

  594. [SPEAKER_01]: All you need is a word from heaven.

  595. [SPEAKER_01]: And one word from God will transform your situation.

  596. [SPEAKER_01]: If you will embrace it, if you will believe it, and if you will say, yes, Lord, let it be.

  597. [SPEAKER_01]: be unto me, according to your word.

  598. [SPEAKER_01]: Hear this, if one word can cause a woman who had never had sexual relationships with a man to conceive and have a child.

  599. [SPEAKER_01]: Don't you know that one word from heaven will transform your situation and turn it around.

  600. [SPEAKER_01]: Hallelujah.

  601. [SPEAKER_01]: Can you give God a praise for it this morning?

  602. [SPEAKER_01]: Hallelujah.

  603. [SPEAKER_01]: Listen, in closing, don't get frustrated when you're, when you're placed in adverse environment.

  604. [SPEAKER_01]: Think about this.

  605. [SPEAKER_01]: God tells you, Zeke, your prophesy life where death is all around you.

  606. [SPEAKER_01]: See, sometimes God will place you in a place of adversity.

  607. [SPEAKER_01]: Why?

  608. [SPEAKER_01]: It's not the test you.

  609. [SPEAKER_01]: It's so that you can unmute yourself and start speaking life where there's death all around you.

  610. [SPEAKER_01]: Because here this, you're anointing and your gift is always made for the place of its antithesis.

  611. [SPEAKER_01]: In other words, what you hear this?

  612. [SPEAKER_01]: See, restoration, a word of restoration, is meant for those who are in destruction.

  613. [SPEAKER_01]: A word of healing is meant for those who are in sickness and disease.

  614. [SPEAKER_01]: A word of blessing and prosperity is meant for those who have nothing, who are living in lack and living in poverty.

  615. [SPEAKER_01]: So God will sometimes take you to places

  616. [SPEAKER_01]: where it seems like it's terrible and everything around you's just falling apart.

  617. [SPEAKER_01]: Why does he take you there?

  618. [SPEAKER_01]: It's because he wants you to unmute yourself.

  619. [SPEAKER_01]: You need to become the Ezekiel in the situation.

  620. [SPEAKER_01]: You need to start speaking and declaring the word of a Lord because it will transform the situation every time.

  621. [SPEAKER_01]: Can everybody say amen?

  622. [SPEAKER_01]: See, we have to begin to echo what God's saying, not echo what NBC say.

  623. [SPEAKER_01]: We have to begin to echo what the Lord, what the Seth the Lord is, and what God is declaring, not what Fox is saying, or CNN, or ABC, or CBS, or your favorite TikTok personality, or your favorite YouTube,

  624. [SPEAKER_01]: The influencer or whoever it might be, it's so often we get into a place where we're echoing what everybody else is saying and we forget about what God's saying.

  625. [SPEAKER_01]: Hear this, the word of your friend cannot transform your situation, but the word of the Lord has the power to change and transform every situation every time.

  626. [SPEAKER_01]: Hallelujah.

  627. [SPEAKER_01]: Amen.

  628. [SPEAKER_01]: I believe that the Lord is calling us today.

  629. [SPEAKER_01]: just like he stepped out in the middle of darkness and said, let there be light.

  630. [SPEAKER_01]: The Lord's warning us to step out into the midst of destruction and all the crazy stuff that's going on.

  631. [SPEAKER_01]: And we need to begin to say, let there be peace.

  632. [SPEAKER_01]: Amen.

  633. [SPEAKER_01]: I said, we need to begin to declare, let there be peace.

  634. [SPEAKER_01]: I said, we need to begin to declare, let there be light.

  635. [SPEAKER_01]: We need to begin to declare, let there be life.

  636. [SPEAKER_01]: We need to begin to declare, you shall live.

  637. [SPEAKER_01]: Tell somebody, you shall live.

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