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Double Portion - Pastor Will Roos

Revivall Church Bracknell

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  1. I believe the second month of the year, this month is a month

  2. of the fine double. So get ready for double

  3. blessing. Hallelujah.

  4. Somebody said double blessing. Double blessing.

  5. Yeah, my goodness, double, my goodness.

  6. And yeah. So double this morning.

  7. OK. My usual is 1 coffee every day.

  8. This morning I'm like, OK, Lord, is this for because I really

  9. need a double coffee. So I had two coffees this

  10. morning. OK, I've just, I've just got

  11. facing. I've just, oh, I don't say that,

  12. but I had my 2 coffees. OK, well, normally I just have

  13. one. But with all these late nights

  14. driving back and forth to the conference and all that, some of

  15. us don't just need the usual. Some of us we need a double

  16. espresso. OK, so someone we don't just

  17. need a a normal blessing, OK, we need a double espresso blessing.

  18. So they get ready for a double espresso and waiting.

  19. Are you ready for a double espresso and waiting OK for

  20. those. So I've already had my 2

  21. coffees. I've had brother and so I'm just

  22. like excited this morning. So get ready because I've got my

  23. double espresso. I'm ready for double.

  24. How many of you Are you ready for double today?

  25. OK, so I'm like, Lord, you know what?

  26. Double up the service. Double unwanted double what's

  27. happening in our lives. Double it, double hummus, double

  28. down. I'm like, wow.

  29. And that's what I've just been praying because this morning I

  30. just been praying like Lord, double it, double your harvest.

  31. OK, so double expression. Now let's get right, let's get

  32. ready because I came with the word that will start your

  33. focuses moments when God doesn't just give a blessing, but he

  34. gives a double blessing. He gives AA double portion.

  35. OK, so let's talk about double portion because today's message

  36. is called double portion. OK, Right now somebody say

  37. double portion. OK, so I'm only ready for double

  38. portion today. Wait.

  39. Yeah, we are ready for double portion.

  40. Some hungry people. So that's why we're here today.

  41. We are ready to receive all that heaven has for us when God has

  42. for us. Double portion.

  43. OK, So yes, Lord, give me a double portion.

  44. Come on, say that with me. Give me a double portion, Lord.

  45. Yeah, give me a double portion because we, we have got to, you

  46. know, so cry out to the Lord. Let that be our heart.

  47. We cry out for a double portion because listen, this is not,

  48. it's not a lecture, OK? This is transfer impartation,

  49. OK? Equipping, empowering, right?

  50. And so it's not just a sermon, not just information, it's

  51. revelation, impartation into your lives.

  52. And so it is like a hand over, a hand off.

  53. And I hear the Lord, he's saying that this is the double portion,

  54. hand of moments. Hallelujah.

  55. Are you ready for this somebody? This is a handover, OK?

  56. And so when we say double portion, OK, we are talking

  57. about receiving twice as much as the Lord would give us normally.

  58. Usually, OK, receiving twice as much as what God would give you

  59. normally, what you normally receive.

  60. OK, so get ready for a higher real and next level dimension

  61. because the Bible says God takes us from glory to glory.

  62. So get ready for double glory. And so twice.

  63. So we receive twice as much from God, twice as much wisdom.

  64. OK, twice joy, twice grace. So twice the strength.

  65. OK, twice the favour, twice the great double grace, double glory

  66. 55, twice the inheritance was interesting because I'm the

  67. first born of 6 and my mom, we had six children in South Africa

  68. growing up in Brits outside of Pretoria.

  69. And then I studied in Pretoria and I moved to children.

  70. Now the first born. If you go to twice the

  71. inheritance, the first born would receive double portion.

  72. I'm going to the book of the Deuteronomy.

  73. It's all biblical to receive a double portion.

  74. And so I remember one day, you know, when I was out food

  75. shopping and I saw one of those signs that we all love buy one,

  76. get one free and say, yeah, we, we like a good deal, right?

  77. OK, we'll we'll have a good deal, which is like buy one, get

  78. one free. But God says I have got a better

  79. offer. Not just a little sprinkle, not

  80. a little dag on a top up. Double gracing, double

  81. restoration. Double Porsche.

  82. Come on, Somebody shot double. Yeah, Hallelujah.

  83. Tell your neighbor. Get ready for double Porsche.

  84. Yeah, it's ready for double. Come on, Sonny.

  85. If you are ready for the work today, come on, show double

  86. Porsche. Yeah.

  87. So let's go to go into Second Kings today.

  88. So we're going to read if you're on your Apple online or

  89. something, I'll just give you the scripture here.

  90. I'll also put it up on the screen as usual.

  91. Second Kings chapter 2 and we're going to pick it up verse 9.

    2 Kings 2 chapter mention

  92. And it says when they had crossed, Elijah said to Elijah,

  93. tell me what can I do for you before I'm taken from let me

  94. inherit a double portion. Somebody say double.

  95. Let's just pray quick. Father, we thank you for your

  96. presence in this praise. Lord, speak, let your word come

  97. alive. Let there be breakthrough.

  98. Let every Jordan part, let every burden lift.

  99. And Lord, we declare that today is a double portioned handoff.

  100. In the name of Jesus, we pray, Amen.

  101. Not just this is powerful because Elijah is asking for

  102. something to meet. Let me inherit a double portion.

  103. That's big, don't you? That's not a small prey, OK,

  104. That's not a small. It's not like asking for a nice

  105. moment, not asking for a little encouragement.

  106. He's asking for double. He's asking for something big

  107. and huge for a heavens upgrade. And so Eliza tells him he said

  108. OK, if you see me when I'm taken, it's yours.

  109. If you see me when I'm going, it's yours.

  110. Now, in other words, this isn't just something small, something

  111. like it's not casual. It's not just for Bystone, the

  112. spectators, you know, It is not for people that's half in, half

  113. out, OK? This is for someone who stays

  114. close enough to see it through. Can you say I meant somebody?

  115. And so the Bible says that they were walking, talking, and so

  116. they were going together. And then suddenly a chariot of

  117. fire, horses of fire, a whirlwind, Elijah is taken up.

  118. And so his mantle falls. And the Bible is clear.

  119. It says Elijah saw it. Not sick of her, not through a

  120. rumor, not through somebody's story first hand.

  121. He saw it, OK. And so when Elijah then goes up,

  122. the mantle falls, and Elijah tears his old clothes.

  123. It's like he said, I cannot step into what's next, wearing what's

  124. old, wearing the old habits. The old mind said, OK, what's

  125. old? So then he picks up the mantle,

  126. and then he walks to the Jordan. Now the Jordan is a picture of a

  127. barrier and so I sense maybe in your situation a barrier and I'm

  128. sensing A barrier breaking anointing in this place.

  129. Yeah, get ready for breakthrough because what's that?

  130. I'm sensing A breakthrough, a breaker anointing.

  131. Yeah, that's that's the what I go a breakthrough anointing.

  132. OK, breaking through. And yes, there's Jordan, this

  133. barrier, and you know Elijah, he doesn't stand up and stare at

  134. the barrier. He doesn't stare at this Jordan

  135. and says, oh, no, I guess I'm stuck.

  136. No, he strikes the water and he cries out, where is the God of

  137. Elijah? Boom, the water pass and there

  138. is breakthrough. Somebody said breakthrough,

  139. breakthrough and he breaks through and he crosses over not

  140. into Haitan. He crosses over with double Oh

  141. my God, whoa, Hallelujah my God. He crosses over with financial

  142. with a double portions. Hallelujah.

  143. My God, somebody shot breakthrough.

  144. Because that barrier, maybe it's in the workplace or in your

  145. family situation or finances or health.

  146. Some of you have been staring at it for a long time.

  147. It's been heavy, it's been hard, it has been training, it's been

  148. difficult barrier. But I am here to announce to you

  149. today that barrier is about to break.

  150. Oh, son of my son, Oh my saga he's about.

  151. That's not here. Oh my God, Hallelujah.

  152. I sense the anointing of the Holy Ghost of this place.

  153. That barrier is about to write, Oh my God.

  154. And when it writes, double comes with it.

  155. Oh, Hallelujah. Can you shout Hallelujah,

  156. somebody. Yeah, yeah, yeah.

  157. Double comes with it. Somebody is about to

  158. breakthrough. Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah.

  159. And if you pick it up, OK Oh, OK.

  160. You got to grab this one. Now.

  161. If you pick it up, that anointing.

  162. If you pick it up, I believe God will part what's in front of

  163. you. Come on, somebody.

  164. If you pick it up, God will pass what is in front of you.

  165. You pick up the annoying chain. Come on, the anointing makes a

  166. difference. If you pick up the man.

  167. So you pick up the double and God's going to make a way.

  168. God's going to part what is in front of you.

  169. And I decree and declare that you are crossing over, not

  170. empty. You are crossing over with

  171. double. Wow.

  172. Somebody's about crossing over with double.

  173. You crossing over with a man? Oh, double with authority.

  174. Crossing over with double. Hallelujah.

  175. Come on, somebody say that you are crossing over with double.

  176. I want you to tell your neighbors that you are crossing

  177. over with double. Oh, Hallelujah.

  178. Yeah, yeah, yeah. OK, So your life will never be

  179. the same again. OK.

  180. You will not come out the way you went in.

  181. OK. All right.

  182. Somebody's getting this revelation with a life.

  183. So when he. No, mate, OK, did not have the

  184. double portion. So I just want to say that you

  185. with the way you come in, you will not go out the same way.

  186. You'll not go out into you'll go out double.

  187. Hallelujah. You are coming out with a

  188. mantle. Now let me give you Elijah's

  189. pathway, OK? Because there's three steps, and

  190. I want you to grab all of these three steps, OK?

  191. From where you are to where God is calling you #1 ask big, OK #2

  192. stay close #3 pick up the map, OK?

  193. So ask big, stay close and pick it up.

  194. Stayed with me. Ask big, stay close and take it

  195. up. OK, Because that's the secret

  196. sauce. That's the secret recipe, the

  197. revelation, the keys. OK, I'm giving you today from

  198. the word of God to receiving double Amen.

  199. Because I'm believing God for us for a double portion.

  200. So three steps. Are you ready for these three

  201. steps? What now?

  202. Let's start at the beginning, before the mantle falls, before

  203. the suddenly environment, before the charity of fire, before the

  204. Jordan fart. Let's start there in the

  205. beginning because Elijah asks a question.

  206. Elijah asks a student a question.

  207. OK, tell me, what can I do for you?

  208. So it starts with heaven. Still ask that question because

  209. faith has a voice. Now I want you to see Elijah's

  210. response because Elijah did not play it safe.

  211. Yes, mentor, just pray for me. You know, let me just pray that

  212. a small survival pray. Just help me make life a bit

  213. easier, just to get through things.

  214. Just give me a little blister. No, he asked Beak.

  215. He used that moment, that opportunity to ask Beak to ask

  216. for double. That's asking Beak.

  217. Somebody say double so we both and ask me and I love this about

  218. Jesus because Jesus pulls faith out of people.

  219. Matthew chapter 20 the two blind men said next in the row here in

    Matthew 20 chapter mention

  220. Jesus pass by. Oh and I started not silently.

  221. OK, so it's publical to shout right OK, it's in the Bible.

  222. They shouted, now who tried to silence because religion, dead

  223. religion tries to bring silence like a dead people.

  224. OK, not in the church. The church is alive.

  225. The church, we shout unto Jesus, we cry out because these two

  226. live men, they heard Jesus, Jesus.

  227. No, the moment Jesus is in the place, that's the moment to get

  228. loud. That's the moment to cry out.

  229. That's the moment to ask be with Jesus.

  230. When we cooperated together, this is the opportunity I said

  231. they showed Jesus help us, son of David, have mercy on us.

  232. And the crowd of these people that tried to silence them and

  233. tried to stop and shut them down, but they cried out even

  234. louder. They have the volume louder than

  235. lost the star stars directly, OK, louder than the football,

  236. OK. And they cried out louder.

  237. Nice Jesus and Jesus thought Jesus called it and he says this

  238. this amazing same thing we see this Elijah asked the same which

  239. took to his student and Jesus asked these guys watch this

  240. Matthew 20. Jesus stopped and called them

  241. What do you want for me to do for you?

  242. But you know this is like an obvious question, OK, but but

  243. you see, Jesus wants to pull faith out.

  244. Yeah, these guys did not play inside.

  245. They did not, OK, Gee, you know, just help us to, you know, go

  246. through life. Survival prayers, Small, small

  247. prayer. No, they did not pray something

  248. small. They did not ask for something.

  249. They did not ask. How can I just get me through

  250. this week, through this day? They asked for something big,

  251. they ask for a miracle. They say, let us see.

  252. That means healing, that means a miracle that doesn't, that

  253. cannot do that in their own strength.

  254. This will require a miracle from him.

  255. And these guys are blind. OK, This is asking a big prayer.

  256. Heal us. That's a big ask.

  257. And Jesus performed the miracle and Jesus healed them.

  258. Listen to me, your miracle is under is on the other side of

  259. your big ask your big bold request.

  260. That's right, your miracles on the other side of a face cry

  261. from your heart and cried out putting at the mark and say ask

  262. big a bold request. Can you say I mean somebody Now

  263. let me give you a testimony. A grandmother suddenly used she

  264. had to take care of the little ones, her grandchildren, school

  265. fees, pressure dolls, no extra money and the grandmother had to

  266. take care of his grandchildren and so it would have been very

  267. easy for her to just pray small prayer and like Lord help us

  268. just to get through the week. This helped us to get through

  269. this survival. We'll do our best.

  270. But she didn't. She asked me, she asked God, you

  271. are the God of abundance. You are the creator of entire

  272. news. You are big.

  273. You are more than enough of God. Make a way.

  274. And so she went to the school to pay the school fees and they

  275. they tell her you don't owe anything.

  276. And that's not all. Somebody prepaid the school fees

  277. in advance. Somebody partying in a year and

  278. saying that, come on, somebody give God some price in this

  279. place. Hallelujah.

  280. Yeah. And so that's what I love about

  281. God. The question is not can God do

  282. it? God is all powerful.

  283. God is going to tell you. The question is, are you asking?

  284. Yeah, yeah, that's right. Are you asking Because Elijah

  285. did not ask for scraps. Elijah didn't ask for small

  286. pitch. Elijah asked me.

  287. They ask for double. Somebody say I'm asking big.

  288. Come on, say that I am asking big.

  289. Say it again. I am asking big.

  290. Yeah. And I'm expecting double.

  291. I mean, now that's number one. Ask big now.

  292. Yes. Next step.

  293. OK, Big praise are powerful, but big praise needs to walk close.

  294. OK. So #2 is stay close, right?

  295. Because when we ask, we must stay in position to receive.

  296. So you've asked big, but you've got to stay close in position to

  297. receive that double portion, right?

  298. So #2 is stay close. Now, double comes to people who

  299. stay committed. Right?

  300. Now, this is where a lot of people miss it because double

  301. doesn't just fall on bystanders, spectators, people sitting on

  302. the sidelines watching from a distance.

  303. Double falls on people. It comes to people who stay

  304. close, who stay committance. OK, And so when I say stay

  305. close, I don't mean perfect. I mean connected God to his

  306. house, to his work, to your assignment.

  307. Stay close and connected to the people where God has prompted

  308. you. Yeah, that's right.

  309. Stay connected to the brothers and the sisters, the leadership,

  310. the church with God has planted you to stay close and stay

  311. committed where God has prompted you, even when it is

  312. inconvenient. So let me just say this, There

  313. is no perfect church now there's many Bible believing churches.

  314. Praise God. Please ask the Holy Spirit to

  315. take you exactly where God clients you and stay connected,

  316. OK? Stay connected to the leadership

  317. even when it's not easy, even when Constable does not have a

  318. British accent and he's from South Africa, OK.

  319. And he's not all polished, you know, like, you know, he's he's

  320. a bit sort of radical and, you know, different accent and what

  321. But you know, I don't want to go into but stay close to the

  322. leader, that goddess rather than your life.

  323. And we see this with the Bible. Why did the Elijah.

  324. OK, because I want to show you the story between Elijah, his

  325. master, his leader, his mentor and his student.

  326. What happened with Elijah? Elijah in this story he was

  327. tempted 3 times to leave his master.

  328. Oh, I feel that three tests came to him over and over again for

  329. Elijah to leave the disconnect. OK, three places that I'm going

  330. to show you here in the Bible because this is biblical. 3

  331. places for Elijah to disconnect from his leader. 3 exit reps

  332. free of reps OK, And we see this Eventfile, Jericho and Jordan,

  333. those three places we said because that's where Elijah the

  334. leader told the student, stay here, there's an offer, there's

  335. an opportunity there. Stay there free over and over.

  336. He said three times for him to live.

  337. We see the same thing with Jesus.

  338. Remember Jesus, where people live, People were leaving.

  339. OK, now is there anything wrong with Jesus?

  340. OK, because many times, you know, people disconnect and they

  341. blame the leader or the church. Now, OK, was there anything

  342. wrong with Jesus? No.

  343. OK that people leave Jesus. OK, right.

  344. So Jesus turned to his own. I asked the same question.

  345. Elijah fought like his servant. Now Jesus said Jesus, Oh, do you

  346. also want to leave? Yeah, that isn't John chapter 6.

    John 6 chapter mention

  347. OK, Now, when you years ago, when we splanted this church

  348. over 9 years ago, I had guys. I mean, there's one guy he said,

  349. listen, pass the wall. Listen, you don't have to worry.

  350. I'll take a bullet for you. OK.

  351. And then when the bullet started flying, OK, I never saw him

  352. again. I'm like, OK, so talk is James

  353. like, yeah, yeah, when the bullets flow, I'll.

  354. I'll take a bullet for you. You know, when things get really

  355. rough on pressure, when the pressure hit, I'm like, OK, I've

  356. never seen him. And so.

  357. So what I'm just saying is that these three tests for Elijah to

  358. leave, OK, to quit, to give up. But what I love about Elijah,

  359. every time he said no, I will not leave you.

  360. And he said this here at verse 2, I want to show you, but he

  361. answers the same way every time he says here.

  362. But Elijah said as surely as the Lord loves and as you live, I

  363. will not leave you. OK, Hallelujah.

  364. Now I love it because he made a decision that I will not leave,

  365. OK, I will stay committed. I will stay in covenant, stay

  366. closed because that's covenant language.

  367. We talked about covenant, right, Covenant language, that's

  368. commitment language, OK, Staying close, that's not, I'm not

  369. quitting halfway, OK. And so somebody said I will not

  370. quit. Yeah, said again, I will not

  371. quit. Now Elijah had two metals.

  372. The first one was the startup. That was not double motion, OK,

  373. the first one, that's the easy one that was motivating him, you

  374. know kick starting it. But the second one, and this is

  375. where we're talking about today's a double portion and

  376. this is where a lot of people miss it.

  377. Majority of people easy one first, but fine, right.

  378. We are talking, we are going deeper today, OK, because this

  379. is now something because you see a lot of profits around that was

  380. on the mountain spectacular. Who got the actual double

  381. portion And you actually can't read that.

  382. I incredible how many people were actually spared.

  383. How many? And these are prophet

  384. Christians. We're not talking about

  385. Philistines. We're actually spectating,

  386. watching from there. OK, who got the double portion?

  387. Now I want you to show this because the second metal, that's

  388. the one that comes from commitment, staying close.

  389. OK, now here's the thing, because we all know how this

  390. works. Everybody joins the gym in

  391. January and the gym is packed. Everybody in the gym, green

  392. smoothies. We've got our new exercise

  393. workout clear and we are in the gym and people, it's just the

  394. gym is full. I mean, the gym is back January.

  395. Wow, new membership. We're right there.

  396. OK, taking selfish, posting it on Instagram, Facebook, social

  397. media, right there taking selfish on you know, it's it's

  398. it's coming on. You know, the muscles are going

  399. and so taking selfies by the treadmill, it's like training

  400. for the Olympics, you know? And yeah, it's.

  401. But then suddenly February shows up and all of a sudden the

  402. jump's empty. It looks like it's, it's like

  403. that one in the jump. It's like, it's like only a

  404. private members club, Private members in the jump only It's

  405. like what's happened to all the people in February.

  406. The chips empty. OK, Now that's what I want you

  407. to understand about commitment. Because you see, The thing is

  408. motivation that gets you started in January, the motivations that

  409. get you started. But commitment keeps you going.

  410. It keeps us going. And the double portion does not

  411. come to the January crown. The double portion did not come

  412. in Elijah's first mantle moment. He did not receive the double

  413. portion. That was the start him out.

  414. He was working in the field. They got the man and he started.

  415. He said goodbye to his family. Move butter.

  416. That's the start. That's easy.

  417. The second the double portion anointing comes to the February

  418. crowd, it comes to staying committed.

  419. OK, continuing to stay close. Somebody say stay close because

  420. these three stops locations in the Bible.

  421. We see that in the Bible, but these are real seasons that we

  422. all go through in our lives. Every one of us goes through

  423. temptations to leave, to quit, to give up.

  424. Maybe it's in a family or in a work situation.

  425. You, there's those temptations that's coming to quit, to leave,

  426. to throw in the toilet, to give up.

  427. Bethel was the first one and that speaks of uncomfortable,

  428. unclear. You've been crying, but you

  429. haven't seen anything much. The second one is Jerika.

  430. Jerika a talks is a picture of resistance, pressure and

  431. resistance. Big walls, high walls, delay,

  432. opposition. That's the second one.

  433. The third one is the Jordan is a picture of transition.

  434. That is a barrier between where you are and where what's next,

  435. your next level that God has for you.

  436. That is the barrier of Jordan. OK, now here's what I have

  437. learned over the years, and I've seen it many times over years of

  438. ministry just before you get to your break, when you are close

  439. to your breakthrough, and I'm just telling you now, you come

  440. right there by people, the breakthrough, that's when the

  441. temptation gets the latest to give up, to quit.

  442. It gets not because you are weak, but because you are close.

  443. Yeah, yeah, that's it. OK.

  444. And Elijah said I will not leave you.

  445. And I believe God is saying to somebody today, stay close, stay

  446. faithful, stay connected, stay planted, stay connected because

  447. you are closer than you think. Then you say I mean something.

  448. Now maybe you feel discouraged that work and you are thinking,

  449. well, they don't notice me, they don't appreciate me, they don't

  450. pay me enough. And you'll be tempted to work

  451. half full Efrain, half Efrain, working only half excellence.

  452. OK, now the scripture says in Colossians 323, whatever you do,

  453. work at it with all, not half. Whatever job, whatever company

  454. you're working, we don't do half a job.

  455. Work at it with all your heart as you work it for for the boss

  456. or for the Lord. By the way, what we're doing

  457. here is not for me or any leader, it's for God.

  458. Whatever you do in God's church, whatever you do like to work is

  459. not for, it's for Jesus. The Bible says when you work at

  460. your workplace, and I know what it is.

  461. I worked in Bristol as a registered manager for many,

  462. many years running care homes. I know what night shifts is, I

  463. know what handover is, I know nursery, I know all of that.

  464. I know what is working with excellence because I thank God

  465. we had the highest CTC rating without standing, going over and

  466. above. I know what it is to be in

  467. working in the corporate environment from South Africa to

  468. the UK, working with a high level of excellence, including

  469. ministry. Whatever we do, if it's now,

  470. yeah, or if I'm sitting behind the desk, whatever, I'm working

  471. for the Lord. We are working for the Lord, not

  472. for human masters. So the Lord sees.

  473. So that means that it's not your boss.

  474. That is your source, your company, your business.

  475. The Lord is our source. That's who you source.

  476. The Lord is your source and so garnish ourselves and Psalm 75

  477. talks about that promotion does not come from man.

  478. And yes, it's like, okay, the Bosco promotion is a promotion

  479. does not come from the East or the West promotion.

  480. The Bible says come from God. It comes from the law.

  481. OK, So when you keep on showing up with excellence and you keep

  482. on working in your job with good spirit, with a good attitude,

  483. with excellence, whenever you are working, listen, God sees

  484. it. God sees even when you do what

  485. is right and it's unfair. It seems unfair.

  486. Co workers stress at work. God sees it.

  487. If you do the right thing, He keeps records.

  488. Yeah. OK.

  489. And God knows how to open doors. He knows how to promote you.

  490. Yeah. He knows how to promote you.

  491. Make a way for you that no man can block.

  492. No. When God opens the door, no man

  493. could shut it. Yeah, OK.

  494. No, man, come block. God has got a way of promoting

  495. you because God sees your work and some of you need at this

  496. point, maybe for your home, because staying close, and this

  497. is so important because even in our marriages, staying close

  498. doesn't just mean staying close. Staying married on paper, stay

  499. faithful, stay humble, stay kind, stay with a a soft heart,

  500. even when you could heart, heart in the heart, stay soft, stay

  501. kind. OK, I remember the testimony,

  502. you know, about Mike and Lisa. And so that was sweetheart high

  503. school sweethearts. And so 15 years into the

  504. Murrays, kids, bills, pressure, exhaustion started kicking in

  505. and the romance didn't disappear.

  506. The romance just got buried under a very busy life.

  507. And so Mike stops thinking, well, this is this marriage is

  508. not what I thought it would be. And Lisa, she feels unseen in

  509. his misunderstandings. Now.

  510. It's not one big explosion. This is a slow drift over time.

  511. I guess that moment, well, maybe I should stop trying.

  512. It's just easier to quit and to give up.

  513. But something in him decided, I'm not leaving.

  514. Cheat. I'm not leaving this much.

  515. I'm not leaving this family. And they started doing small

  516. things, fateful things. Scheduled date nights, started

  517. talking real conversations, started praying together even

  518. when it felt awkward. And so they got counsel,

  519. marriage counseling instead of letting pride win.

  520. Now, was it easy? No.

  521. Was it instant? No.

  522. But over time, something healed. Now here's what I love.

  523. Because their marriage didn't just supply.

  524. Their marriage got stronger. Their marriage got sweeter,

  525. deeper, and now they're helping other couples.

  526. That's what commitment does, I mean.

  527. And so it keeps you in position for God to restore what the

  528. enemy tried to drain. Is this OK?

  529. Is this helping somebody? Are you with me?

  530. Can I give you another one? OK, Two soldiers in a battle in

  531. Germany. And these two soldiers, they

  532. they're very close friends. And the battle is fierce.

  533. It's explosions, it's bombs, it's gunfire, chaos everywhere,

  534. just going off around them. And so these soldiers, they,

  535. they then they finally hear the command to retreat.

  536. And so they start running back. And this one soldier noticed and

  537. he realizes my friends was. And so he panicked and he ran to

  538. the officer. And then he just, you know, so I

  539. need permission to go back and find my friend.

  540. And so the officer says, listen, are you crazy?

  541. That will be suicide. You are not going back.

  542. And without missing a beat, he turned back.

  543. He turned around and run back. Anyway.

  544. Minutes later year, he comes back, hobbling with the lifeless

  545. body of his breath. And so this officer, he also, I

  546. said, I told you not to go. You could have been killed, OK?

  547. You could have died. I knew that your friend was

  548. already there. And the soldier said, no, Sir, I

  549. got there just in time. And his last words were I knew

  550. he would come back. Whoa.

  551. I see if we come back, that's commitment.

  552. That's covenant. Oh, come on.

  553. That is staying gross even it costs something.

  554. Covenant. That's what I want people to say

  555. about us. I knew you would not quit.

  556. I knew you would not quit on that match.

  557. I knew you would not quit on that.

  558. I knew you would not quit. I knew you would not quit on

  559. your faith. Now let me ask you, what's the

  560. area that you have been tainted to walk away from?

  561. Where have you been tainted To stop trying, to stop believing,

  562. to stop serving you, stop trying?

  563. Where have you been tainted because God is staying?

  564. State flaps, staplement, stay faithful, keep doing the right

  565. thing, because you cannot see it yet, but up ahead is you cannot

  566. see it yet, but just around the corner you're on the perch.

  567. Up ahead is a breakthrough. Up ahead you cannot see it feels

  568. resistant. Attempted to leave, but hang on

  569. up ahead, said the whole ocean, please not kind of just before

  570. the we go get it. I feel enlightening in this

  571. place. You're still with me, judge.

  572. So we talk about asking big talked about staying close.

  573. OK, now the next one. Let's talk about the last one.

  574. Pick up the mantle. Now in Scripture, the maximum

  575. was a cup. It represents spiritual, it

  576. represents according favor, assignment authority.

  577. OK, now God, when the Mansell when the anointing, that is God

  578. enabling you to do something that you cannot do in your

  579. screen, right? So it's God's grace for what's

  580. next, for the next level. Now let me break it out.

  581. And you said the way you'll remember it and mantle.

  582. OK and cool. That is God's, yes, resting on

  583. the line. Amen.

  584. OK, now there's moments when God will put something within your

  585. reach and it's like an open door or it's like an opportunity.

  586. It's like a business call, phone and e-mail, something that's

  587. within like a match or a prompting of this first

  588. scripture, something that God puts within your reach.

  589. Don't just admire it, Planet. Pick it up.

  590. Yeah, Come on with you. Pick up the opportunity.

  591. Pick up the mantle. OK, That's not opportunity.

  592. Now Elijah is taken up. When Elijah is taken up, the

  593. mantle falls to the ground, right?

  594. So Elijah, he's taken up. He's gone.

  595. But what's the mate? The mantle, Right.

  596. That's the. And Elijah does something that

  597. shifts and changes everything. He picks it up.

  598. Come on, somebody are you getting?

  599. Yes, he picks it up. And he steps into another level,

  600. another world. He steps into his poll.

  601. Big ask. His request becomes realistic.

  602. And there is a transfer. There is an importation, there

  603. is an anointing, there's a tronsters, there is a hand a

  604. handover OK, we know what what handover is after 9 shifts.

  605. I've done the stop right. This is what happened last

  606. night, handing over to the next go changing of the guards.

  607. Right now there's the transfer handover.

  608. Think about because I used to run a lot.

  609. I mean, I one is falling into hurdles.

  610. I did 100. I I want somebody records.

  611. The other day they phoned me like after like 26 years or

  612. something I said finally somebody broke your record at

  613. high school. You know, I'm like, OK, my mom

  614. phoned me actually. He's like somebody finally broke

  615. your record. I've been standing for years,

  616. but what I'm saying is I know what what a relay is because we

  617. we have many of those relays. You know, you've got to get the

  618. bats in that's handout. So think of this as Elijah's

  619. going the largest receiving. So there's this handout because

  620. the entire relay race can be won for lost in the add on.

  621. Gee, that's I'm telling you, this is a this is an intense

  622. moment. This is a glorious moment of a

  623. handoff moment today. I'm just I'm just sensing

  624. something in this because the entire guys would want to lose

  625. in the handoff. So this mantle that falls, this

  626. is like a baton hand over. I fell in this place, my God.

  627. And so the baton listen, and this is the big deal because the

  628. bat that could be right there and I've been in those fun and I

  629. I would sometimes because I had a great stop.

  630. So I would go start and on the straight, I would go and that

  631. bat's in my hand. I just I know, listen, my buddy

  632. and he could run because I would do the first start and then he

  633. would do the back straight. I'd like please grab this back.

  634. You've got to win that medal. I'm telling you, when you watch

  635. celebrity, you see the same thing because they get ready.

  636. That person they cannot stand lying around looking somewhere

  637. else being spectacular. Just they got to be here.

  638. They're going to like just I'm ready for this bad.

  639. Come on and that relay and I'm off and I and I'm right there.

  640. You see, The thing is that relay race that that's it is there.

  641. But here's the thing. Are you going to grab it?

  642. That's the feeling that are for my next.

  643. Break in the race. Are you gonna grab it?

  644. Because I'm giving it to you. Oh, Gee, I feel the anointing.

  645. Are you going to type this? Who's going to pick it up?

  646. Who's going to pick it up because I've cut it?

  647. The anointing is dead. That's not the thing.

  648. The Batson is dead. It's within range.

  649. It's there. Who is going to take it?

  650. Because listen, the majority of people, the prophets reading, a

  651. couple of prophets were sitting spectating once based on a lot

  652. of spectators start looking for somebody.

  653. If it's one somebody, then who's going to grab it because that

  654. anointing is in this place. Oh my God.

  655. God is saying this is a transfer.

  656. This is a handover. This is a hand of a transfer.

  657. This is a new season. I feel it's so strong.

  658. It's yeah, we don't know what's going to happen tomorrow.

  659. Tomorrow's not guaranteed. Elijah was taken like that.

  660. Gone. I've seen my maestro Kara for

  661. *** in South Africa, the biggest, one of the biggest

  662. Duggars to start this church, Kara for *** He saw the property

  663. in South Africa. He said, listen, we granted the

  664. church. I had no money.

  665. He saw this property in Pretoria.

  666. He said listen well I'm wiring the money out and I am funding

  667. the Church of this church now. He drove our nail spray there on

  668. behind a truck and it's a mine lorry and that big mine truck

  669. slammed the rights and it's need what stays behind this anointing

  670. this funds he see in the ground thousands this church souls have

  671. been saved because he's funny. I didn't know we don't know if

  672. we're going to be at all. He's gone like that.

  673. I get the phone call. How not is it Mils fine and my

  674. best friend was taken like that, but I thank God I went on to the

  675. pen mountain. I thank God I said God, I thank

  676. you every power that he gave me. Oh goodness, soft every every

  677. round, but I every round that he gave me from South Africa.

  678. It will not go to us. Not one.

  679. It will go into the funding of the Kingdom of God.

  680. Oh yes, And he was taken and he was young.

  681. I mean, we're talking about taken at the anointing, the

  682. fancy, right? Amen.

  683. Amen. So the question is all because

  684. it's here even now, it's what is it available?

  685. It's not even OK. It is.

  686. Who is going to pick it up? Yeah, because we are here now.

  687. And we thank God for Smith Wiggles.

  688. We thank God for Catherine, thank God for Billy Graham and

  689. Iran. But they're not here.

  690. Yeah. Billy Grant, We can't To be with

  691. the Lord in heaven now we are. Yeah.

  692. Who's going to pick it up? Because mantels don't help

  693. spectators, People from mantels and power carriers, people

  694. that's actually going to take their point in the mantle.

  695. The calling is actually going to do something because that's the

  696. fear of God. Somebody that puts hundreds of

  697. thousands in my hands, say, listen, this money is blood

  698. money. This money is for the Kingdom.

  699. The fear of God. I will not even want to buy

  700. groceries for myself because this is God's money.

  701. This is the church money. I don't date.

  702. I think this is, I've been since the field of God.

  703. And you know, it's like grandpa had a toolbox.

  704. Now the toolbox is not shiny or flashy, OK, but it's full of

  705. tools to fix things, to build things again, provided for

  706. family. But now grandpa died, grandpa's

  707. gone, but his toolbox stayed gone.

  708. And so the toolbox can stay in the garage, just stay there.

  709. And just as a memory or that toolbox can be used, it can be

  710. put to good use. It's legacy.

  711. This is what we're talking about, transfer legacy, OK.

  712. And so when you pick up the toolbox, you don't just remember

  713. what he did. Like you continue what you

  714. started. Yes.

  715. And you use the tools and you continue and you take it further

  716. and deeper and more, and you bolt.

  717. That's the mantle. And so I will ask you again, who

  718. is going to pick it up? Somebody shall.

  719. Yes. Who is going to pick it up?

  720. Who is going to pick it up? Yeah, yeah.

  721. And I heard a dream about you. I love it because every week I

  722. dream. I dream I dream I had a dream.

  723. I see you guys are my dreams. And then in minute I get

  724. immediate. I don't just get a dream, I get

  725. a dream I see you my dream. I immediately I pray on industry

  726. farmers, just like Jesus and Peter, I prayed for you.

  727. But when you are tainted. No, no, Jesus, I'll take a

  728. bullet for you. OK, Peter, close.

  729. OK, you're going to deny me. But listen, I prayed for your

  730. pregnant environment. So we prayed.

  731. Yeah, because everyone goes through a season of temptation

  732. to disconnect. But we pray.

  733. We pray. And some of you had people

  734. praying for you, covering you. Grandmother, my mom, my dad.

  735. Parents praying for you. Leaders break me.

  736. You uncover. They pray.

  737. Do you think we're standing on the golf course and we don't go,

  738. hey, let's go play rugby. I like.

  739. No, no, you don't have a past. Listen, the weight of carrying

  740. this, the responsibility. I'm standing before God, OK?

  741. The souls that God has entrusted to me.

  742. How about your breath? The leaders, the mentors.

  743. So don't miss what they carry, OK?

  744. Pick it up. My heart has been placing

  745. mantels in front of me. Within reach.

  746. These mantels, a mantle of evangelism.

  747. Yeah. That's it.

  748. Yeah. That's mantels.

  749. Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. Mantels, Mantels.

  750. Evangelism. It's right there.

  751. It's with, it's with Enrich. Prophetic mantels.

  752. Mantels. Healing miracles.

  753. Science won the spirit. Mantels for business, wealth,

  754. see within finances. Mantels for generosity.

  755. Mantels to fight the Kingdom. Yeah.

  756. Yeah. Those vessels all right with it.

  757. God's placed them in front of those vessels.

  758. Are there mantels for courage? Mantels for fight?

  759. Yeah. To stop shrinking and start

  760. standing. Yeah.

  761. Those mantels, it's in front of you.

  762. So what have you been living on the ground that God is stood in

  763. within your reach? Because some of you have been

  764. saying, well, I'll do it later. God is saying pick it up now.

  765. Yeah. Somebody said, well, you know,

  766. I'm not ready yet. Somebody said, well, I'm not

  767. well, God's grace will carry you.

  768. Oh, you know, apostle, I don't know if I am the one will

  769. qualify. No, God doesn't.

  770. He calls those that he he don't calls those that's qualified.

  771. And that's what happened in my class.

  772. OK. But he calls he he qualifies.

  773. The one that's called and that's what happened about it was I was

  774. in the book of world and God called me, but I was not

  775. qualified. And that was the big thing to

  776. me. I'm like God, I'm not qualified,

  777. but God said to me, I've called you and I will qualify.

  778. That's so don't think that put you off, especially when I buy

  779. for that job in Bristol at Saint Monica Trust.

  780. I was not qualified for that job.

  781. In fact, my boss, we were working there in Bristol.

  782. My boss, she had, she applied for the same and she had 13

  783. years experience more than me. And so we both applied for the

  784. same job, not without knowing I was not qualified, but I got the

  785. job. My salary went sky high.

  786. We went to the Bahama. I'm like, Oh my goodness, this

  787. is amazing because God promoted me to such a level above my job

  788. by my loss. God said don't worry about the

  789. qualifications. We get you the job and then we

  790. get you qualified. And then I started studying and

  791. I got my degree just now, often my Sports Studies, I've got my

  792. PPQ levels and all of those. So you get out.

  793. So will you pick it up? OK, Because I'm not quitting,

  794. I'm not leaving. I am picking it up.

  795. Somebody say I'm picking it up. Yeah, I'm picking it up.

  796. And when you pick it up, you don't stay the same.

  797. Yeah, come on. Your life don't stay the same.

  798. Thanks, Chef. Yeah.

  799. Yeah. Your whole life, chef.

  800. You step into what God called you to me.

  801. I never knew I'd be Boston like I wanted.

  802. I was trading Olympic athletes. I was training in South Africa.

  803. All they've got. All of it.

  804. I know the top from France where I won't mention names, but all

  805. of their famous target South Africa and Dragon Room.

  806. I knew them. I was a man's dead.

  807. I'll be I was like I'm saying, but USA company offered me it

  808. was all policies Ferrari. It's like listen, I what did you

  809. come and work for me? I said 5000 CDs Yeah listen,

  810. come and sell all these supplements go to every disk in

  811. pharmacy go I want you and the favour of God was started almost

  812. on my life. But what I'm saying is that when

  813. then going to comes on your life.

  814. God will open doors. Your life changes when you pick

  815. it up. When you pick it up.

  816. Yeah, once you pick up the mantle.

  817. Now, I just want to keep this disclaimer because once you pick

  818. up the mantle, life doesn't always get it's Yeah.

  819. And so you're like, OK, you have more.

  820. You step into more, but there's more resistance.

  821. Yeah, you're by God, but there's, you feel more pressure.

  822. That's right. And that doesn't mean you've

  823. missed it. That's a sign that you've done

  824. the right thing on the right track.

  825. Yeah. Yeah.

  826. Plus, can are you with me, somebody?

  827. Yeah. Because that is where trouble

  828. becomes double, because God never wastes trouble.

  829. OK, he uses it. He uses the trouble, but the

  830. figure to qualify you, to strengthen it, to restore you,

  831. to vote you up Hallelujah. And so you need to hear this

  832. because your trouble did not cancel your calling.

  833. Your trouble prove that didn't can cancel.

  834. It's not lights. I'm not funky.

  835. The guy's like, oh, pray for me right now.

  836. I want double for your life, OK? It's like can do you know their

  837. level of lighting this on this mantle, their responsibility.

  838. Zechariah 9 verse 12 says even now I announce that I will

    Zechariah 9:12

  839. restore twice as much to you even now.

  840. I restore double even now while this trouble, even now, while

  841. the paperwork is missed, even now when the tears are still

  842. fresh, even now when the finances are in trouble.

  843. I will restore doubt even now. Wow in the difficult, in the

  844. that's when trouble becomes double blessed.

  845. God restores double even now. Somebody said even now.

  846. So trouble didn't cancel you. OK, it wanna fight you.

  847. So if you've been in a season of trouble, then you've gotta buy.

  848. If you've been in a season of difficult trouble, then get

  849. ready for double double blessing.

  850. Trouble means double. Now when there's trouble, get

  851. ready for your double blessing. OK, come on, somebody say

  852. trouble means double. Double as I617 says, instead of

  853. your shame, you will receive a double motion.

  854. Instead of this guy, you will receive choice inheritance.

  855. And so you will inherit a double.

  856. It's double call. It's I'm I'm in the Bible and

  857. you're the last thing. Joy will be yours.

  858. And so God replaces shame with double.

  859. He replaces the scrapes with rejoicing.

  860. So he brings you out of trouble with double.

  861. Amen. And so now we all want the

  862. double blessing without walking through the trouble first.

  863. Let's just be honest, OK? OK, I get it.

  864. We want the double without the trouble, OK?

  865. We just be honest here. But most of the time they are

  866. connecting the trouble and the double.

  867. The trouble and the double. They come as a package.

  868. OK, OK, it's quiet in this Methodist here that's Reformed.

  869. It's very quiet. OK, but I got to give that this

  870. time I I have to preach the full gospel.

  871. OK, Yes, you can. But the whole one, we got to

  872. preach it in context and show you the whole word of God.

  873. OK, So yes, it's quiet. Maybe not a lot of high means,

  874. but I believe you're stupid this morning.

  875. OK, but so yeah, the calling on your life, and I know it's not

  876. easy to hear, but the calling on your life attracts them.

  877. OK, now show me the level of trouble and show me the level of

  878. quality, OK? And so the enemy thinks that

  879. he's burying you, but God's drafting you.

  880. The enemy thinks he's breaking you, but God is building you.

  881. And so let's look at Job because Job was a good planning on and

  882. God and Job that trouble, he's a phantom in the Bible.

  883. He's a good man Job, but he had trouble.

  884. He'd lost health issues. Christ is confusion.

  885. OK, heartbreak. But yes, what you need to know

  886. is that nothing can happen to you without God's Commission.

  887. And that is amazing. I love that because God's

  888. Commission, he said down with God.

  889. You see, The thing is, the Bible says the enemy had to ask for

  890. permission. He had to ask because God said

  891. down. So that means that God is not

  892. just in control of your life. God is also in control of your

  893. enemy. Yeah, God.

  894. Yeah, God said, God please. And so Joe, what he went

  895. through, we know he went through a lot of trouble.

  896. He received double blessing. The level of trouble he got

  897. double blessing. OK, it says here he received a

  898. double blessing jug 4210. The Lord restored his fortunes

  899. and guided twice as much as he had before.

  900. OK, that's double. And got twice.

  901. Not really. Not just survival.

  902. Double every double blessing. Double.

  903. Sheep, double. Cobbles, double oxy.

  904. Yeah. Double joy, double influence,

  905. double. That's the kind of God we sell.

  906. Garden restores novel. Double for your trouble.

  907. And now come on. Start with me.

  908. Double for my trouble. Yeah.

  909. I've got to restore job. You can restore you.

  910. God gave the job twice. You can see the view.

  911. Double. OK.

  912. And so if you called it a set back, there's actually a setup.

  913. Yeah, I love that. And if you can keep the right

  914. attitude through the trouble, God is saying I'm not just

  915. bringing it out of the trouble, but I'm bringing it out of the

  916. double. Yeah, so if you've had a lot of

  917. trouble in your life, family, Mavericks work, get ready for

  918. dumb. Yes, I sort of tell you how your

  919. story ends. Your season don't end in loss.

  920. Your season ends in 00. My God.

  921. Now, some of you know my story. I shared this with you sometime

  922. but I just want to shave a little bit of Peace of Mind

  923. family with you. So why I watched my mom go

  924. through trouble hard seasons especially back then we were for

  925. rowdy boys and she had a nursery school, coaching and her own

  926. business and through it all she never quit.

  927. Believe it and God bless the not which is a small place just one

  928. God gave her a double blessing with those of you that know the

  929. story. They gave her double because

  930. when she thought the season of bearing children was over.

  931. God surprised that we're double with twins, a boy and a girl

  932. twins double for her trouble. Now Zechariah 912 says, I

  933. promise this very day that I will repay 2 blessings for each

  934. of your troubles. OK, so I declare with you today,

  935. double for your OK, so you shared one tier.

  936. God's about to give you 2 victories.

  937. OK, you lost one job. God is about to open 2 doors.

  938. OK, come on. And so you were the rejected

  939. ones, but God is about to give you double finer.

  940. And so I declare double joy is coming, double strength is

  941. coming, double provision is coming, double health is coming.

  942. OK, double peace is coming, double influence, double

  943. anointing is coming. So this is your double blessing

  944. season. Tell your name and this is your

  945. double season. And so I hear the old saying

  946. that get ready because this house is coming into expansion.

  947. Yeah. Yeah.

  948. Fasting and praying the Word of the World categories.

  949. Wrong. That's church.

  950. It's about the double. Prepare for increase.

  951. Prepare for double. Yeah.

  952. That's why God said release this word because the double motion

  953. is yeah, yeah. OK.

  954. And so just stay with me because we're about to bring this to

  955. full circle where we started with the lives of standing in

  956. transition, changing of the Gods, transfer atmosphere shift.

  957. Remember on that road there were three exit routes, 3 tests, OK?

  958. So the test to give up, test to settle the moment, the

  959. suggestion to disconnect, to leave, OK?

  960. It wasn't an easy road for Elijah.

  961. It wasn't a straight road for Elijah.

  962. It was hard. It was difficult trouble, OK.

  963. But he kept on saying, and this is what I love about Elijah, he

  964. locked in and I don't think Elijah was the easiest man

  965. because that's sometimes where people struggle with a very

  966. strong leader, whether it's was the blockbuster Michelle, any

  967. pastor or any person. It's not always easy because

  968. Elijah this is a guy miracle such one that's pulled out fire

  969. based from it's it's on an easy Rd.

  970. Many extra drugs that came out. Just stay behind when there's

  971. been somebody there, but he locks in.

  972. He kept on saying I will not leave.

  973. I will staple man, I will stay close.

  974. I'm not I'm following, I'm coming, I'm staying connected to

  975. you and that is a man that is covenant that is committed.

  976. They say I am not missing my double motion.

  977. Whenever God has praised you, whatever church, whatever

  978. recognized the leadership connects, stay connected.

  979. That's where your placing is in that like that's how God is a

  980. day God is a day that Elijah and Elijah.

  981. That's how it works. OK, We cannot isolate and do it

  982. alone. We cannot.

  983. That's not biblical. You cannot sit in your mother's

  984. basement when yourself on a possible proper.

  985. Go on Castle Online and Facebook at work.

  986. Where are you connected? Where is your local church?

  987. Who's your pastor? Because we are under authority.

  988. I am under authority. You will never, ever hear me say

  989. anything bad about my leader, which is Doctor Brad.

  990. Tell me ever. I'm brave about Doctor Brad.

  991. I love. I honor him.

  992. I am under authority. That's why I'm operating.

  993. Tender quality. Are you under authority?

  994. That's where you because listen, don't even waste your time

  995. coming for the double portion prayer where there is something

  996. in your heart against the pastor or the leader in your life.

  997. You will not receive a double portion.

  998. If there is something in your heart against the leader that

  999. God has placed that you, you're wasting your time.

  1000. Well, just go find the leader where you're like, OK God, this

  1001. is the one I'll submit. I'll do what you want me to do.

  1002. Follow the leader. It's the Bible.

  1003. I'm just giving you the revelation of a double portion.

  1004. That's Bible church. Yeah.

  1005. So I honour high Leader, which is Doctor Brad.

  1006. You'll never hear me say anything negative about Doctor

  1007. Brad because when he prays for me and he lays hands for me,

  1008. Doctor Brad passing me on our leadership.

  1009. My heart is I don't mind if there's some things that I don't

  1010. like about the accent, for example, or something.

  1011. Maybe. I mean, I the the leader that I

  1012. suspected in Joburg at right back, the pastors like, well,

  1013. this guy's got long hair bandanas, motorbike, real

  1014. African, you know, guy that's come out of the right mobile and

  1015. it's I'm like God, for five years.

  1016. I'll serve that leader. And we were released with a

  1017. double bullshit from something because you look at that time,

  1018. you look at the 1st mantle, 7 years to the second man.

  1019. So it's like God 1-2 years at a church, hop to another church,

  1020. hop to it's like where you're not going to grow because you

  1021. start over again when you're then at the next one jumping up,

  1022. booming around. So we got to stay close.

  1023. We got to stay in the flat. So when God slaughtered you, but

  1024. now you come into this season, I'm not saying you have to now

  1025. stay here. You can receive double portion

  1026. today. Doesn't matter where you've been

  1027. or how you've moved to understand that.

  1028. What I'm saying is stay close connected.

  1029. This is Elijah, he connected with his leader and that's the

  1030. secret. Because before we close, let me

  1031. just give you one more story. I remember watching the movie

  1032. Saving Private Ryan and Captain Miller with his squad.

  1033. They exhausted, they bleeding, they shoots.

  1034. I mean, it's like war going off explosives.

  1035. It's chaos. They're tired, but they're still

  1036. moving forward. 1 mission, go get one man and bring him home.

  1037. 1 mission, one man in the battle.

  1038. The battle is dangerous, it's costly, it's inconvenient in the

  1039. middle of war. But they keep on moving forward.

  1040. That's the mission. Get him, get private, drive,

  1041. bring him home safe. They don't turn back.

  1042. They don't quit. They don't leave.

  1043. They don't settle. Even with every battle going on,

  1044. losing men, they still keep it forward.

  1045. That's the mission. Staying committed.

  1046. Stay together. Captain Miller.

  1047. Come on, guys, we're going to get this.

  1048. We are not going to give up because why?

  1049. Somebody higher up said he's worth.

  1050. That's good, but that's covered. Somebody higher up said this guy

  1051. is worth whatever the cost. We're going to go in there,

  1052. we're going to take some bullets.

  1053. We're going to lose. There's going to be some casual.

  1054. But listen, we're going to gate this Firehouse.

  1055. We're going to bring him home. That's what we do for our

  1056. brothers and our sisters. We go, we pray, we take shots we

  1057. don't get, but we bringing people back home.

  1058. We're getting people this hours once we go, we are staying

  1059. committed and that's what rescue love looks like because they're

  1060. in a rescue mission. Rescue love, rescue.

  1061. It doesn't stop when it gets hard and difficult, OK?

  1062. It keeps on moving forward. That's commitment.

  1063. That's covenant. And so as moving as that story

  1064. is, the gospel is even greater because Jesus did not send a

  1065. squad to come and rescue us. Jesus came himself to come and

  1066. rescue us. The mission was for Jeff to come

  1067. himself, and he stepped into our rock and fallen world.

  1068. He stepped into our mess, into our pain, into our sin, into our

  1069. difficulties, in our fight and our battle.

  1070. Jesus stepped into our fight and he kept on walking, repeated.

  1071. He kept on walking. Jesus came down.

  1072. Listen, in Gethsemane there was so many temptations to give up

  1073. in said even Jesus itself, like this is rough blood coming out

  1074. in prey. In Gethsemane, the Bible says he

  1075. was really sweeping black. That's temptation to give up.

  1076. Want me to go to the cross? That's hard because he kept on

  1077. walking. They blocked him.

  1078. He kept on walking, they whooped him.

  1079. He kept on walking. They nailed Him on a cross.

  1080. He kept on loving what it was. When the Father looked at your

  1081. life, your future, your eternity, He didn't say they are

  1082. too far gone. He said they are worth it.

  1083. The Father said that you, they are worth permission.

  1084. Whatever the God I got with you, that's what he said, you are

  1085. worth permission. That's what the cross is saying

  1086. on the cross, Jesus, man, that's what he said is that you are

  1087. worth it. You are worth it for him to live

  1088. and die and suffer. You are worth it.

  1089. God. Well, you are worth it.

  1090. So Jesus did not leave him. Jesus stayed limited, did not

  1091. leave him. He stayed limited all the

  1092. whatever the last father I will go after the rescue vision.

  1093. I will say I will go with whatever the bullets, whatever

  1094. the problem, Jesus name and because they refuse to leave you

  1095. because you never leave you. No said refuse to leave you.

  1096. I prophesied over your life that you are now coming into this

  1097. season. You're about to step into a new

  1098. season with strength. You're about to step into a new

  1099. season with my Come on. Let's all stand together.

  1100. Hallelujah. Now, this is a holy moment.

  1101. Church. Are you ready for this moment,

  1102. this holy home? Because something big's about

  1103. your moment. Something used about to take

  1104. place. OK.

  1105. Because I want you to watch this.

  1106. Elijah goes on. Now when Elijah goes up, and

  1107. this is how we're going to the Lord, showing me how we're going

  1108. to do it, OK, the mantle falls down.

  1109. OK, so whenever walked out of your life, whatever walked down,

  1110. it makes room for what's about walking?

  1111. OK, So what even left your life? Whatever left, that doesn't mean

  1112. it's lost. It's a transfer, a larger window

  1113. then went. It comes now.

  1114. So whatever left you doesn't mean it's lost.

  1115. Whatever walked out of your life makes room for what's about to

  1116. walk into your life, for what's about to come to you.

  1117. That's a transfer. That's an importation.

  1118. That's that hand off. OK, so stop calling it wasted

  1119. years. Stop calling it defense.

  1120. Stop calling it failure, OK? Stop calling it a set back.

  1121. It's God setting you up for a hand and transfer.

  1122. God setting you up. OK, that's the transfer.

  1123. And I hear the Spirit saying pick it up again.

  1124. Pick up your friend in line, pick up the man, pick up your

  1125. face again, pick it up again. Somebody OK that joy again,

  1126. Because if you pick it up, God will part what's in front of me.

  1127. And Elijah had to pick it up before the Jordan parted, OK.

  1128. And so the Jordan did not move because Elijah was talented or

  1129. cute or smart. The Jordan moved because Elijah

  1130. carried authority and mantle. This is our holy moment.

  1131. This is a hand off. This is a transfer.

  1132. This is a crossing over moment, OK?

  1133. And so I feel a Jordan premier that is about to break in this

  1134. place, OK, in this room now, something that is stood between

  1135. you and we guard your next level, that diamond, that Jordan

  1136. Maria. OK, so whatever is your Jordan,

  1137. The Lord says pick up the mantle, pick up the annoyance in

  1138. the double portion and I will part that there, right?

  1139. So we all understand what we're going to do right now and Craig

  1140. that when we got you're going to pick up the man.

  1141. So you're going to receive the anointing, right?

  1142. When we lay ahead and receive that.

  1143. And then you believe in that with that anointing, that double

  1144. portion that that's an authority God will pass the Jordan, Yes,

  1145. whatever barrier, whatever barrier that is in your life.

  1146. OK. And so you are not crossing over

  1147. empty handed. You are crossing over today with

  1148. double portion OK with a mantle. So this is the transfer now

  1149. should say this out loud so I will see all that heavenize for

  1150. me. I picked up the mantle.

  1151. I received double even now right now in Jesus mighty name I mean.

  1152. So if you have been tired, worn down, half full and you have a

  1153. Jordan barrier in front of or you have gone through a season

  1154. of trouble and you need double restoration left your hands,

  1155. raise those hands up and open your heart.

  1156. I want to pray, Father, I thank you, Lord, for every question

  1157. here that you are moving right now.

  1158. And Lord, I pray just like you showed me from the word of God.

  1159. Let mantels fall on your people, Let mantels, let coolings,

  1160. anointing return strength come back to bodies.

  1161. Peace rise up in mind. Lord, you said even now I will

  1162. restore double so even now restore marriages, restore

  1163. families, restore confidence. Even now restore finances.

  1164. Even now restore health, Even now restore dreams.

  1165. Yes Lord, we declare, shame is breaking, heaviness is lifting,

  1166. doors opening, and now we receive double.

  1167. EG somebody shout, yes, I'll try and send this out loud.

  1168. Lord, I think up the mantle. I will not quit.

  1169. I will not disconnect. I will not lift half hole.

  1170. I walk in a double portion. Blessing trouble turned into

  1171. double. Even now Carl is restoring me.

  1172. I am crossing over with authority.

  1173. I am crossing over. I'm crossing over.

  1174. Somebody shopping, somebody shop camo.

  1175. Oh my goodness, something is breaking loose in this place.

  1176. Now before we go, I just want to give you an opportunity right

  1177. now. Just an invitation.

  1178. Greatest invitation is Jesus to receive Jesus.

  1179. That's the greatest portion, is Jesus OK?

  1180. And so Jesus came on a rescue mission.

  1181. He gave his life for us so that we can love.

  1182. Now Jesus wants you fully committed.

  1183. He wants you in the race. He wants you connected to this

  1184. house, His people, His word, His assignment.

  1185. Now maybe you, yet you've never made a full decision, a full

  1186. commitment. That's where it starts, a full

  1187. commitment to follow Jesus. He is our leader of Jesus.

  1188. We follow Jesus. And so that's you right now.

  1189. Or maybe you used to walk with God or you drifted and you're

  1190. not where you're supposed to be today.

  1191. It's your mother. And so this is a comeback.

  1192. So that's you. Just lift your hand.

  1193. Anybody. I just want to see if there's

  1194. anybody. Just raise your hand.

  1195. If you say yes fully commit that you walk about to guide for

  1196. commitment. Is anybody else that says yes, I

  1197. just want to make sure that if today's my last day, I see no

  1198. signs. Thank you, thank you.

  1199. Just quick piece of you on this. There's nothing to do shine on

  1200. Boris, just say yes. If today's my last day and I'm

  1201. standing for God. I want to know I've been here

  1202. just want to seal that just say yes, Jesus the Lord just wants

  1203. you to see just acknowledge that because Jesus the Republic shine

  1204. in public. So we acknowledge in the public.

  1205. OK, so is everybody born again. So so let me just try let's just

  1206. try this on clouds of Jesus. I think in my life.

  1207. Look, if my son, let's meet him. I belong to you.

  1208. Amen.