Breaking the Cycle | Pastor Adam Mesa | Patria Means Family

Praise God.

Thank you all those that consider Patriot your home church

and you partner with us through your generosity. Man Pastor

Kenny's not in here, but if he was, I'd tell

him that was an excellent generosity moment that had a

boy had your brother tearing up for a second, like

I already gave this much, but I was like should

I double down?

That was beautiful? But also you might have saw a

quick little video.

We have an orphanage and Uganda that we just supplied

all for back to school.

Our entire orphanage we support.

Back to school shoes, so they all got brand new

crocs and it was just delivered to them this past

week by one of the missionaries that's there, and so

your generosity helps support that. As our missionaries let us

know what the needs are, we're able to contribute and

fulfill those needs.

And we may not always.

Share with you every project that we do, but we'd

be here all day for service if we always shared

every project that we were involved with. But we do

like to as much as possible be able to show

you what you're giving goes to and an impact. We

can look around and see what God does throughout our campus.

But also it happens all throughout the nations as well.

I'm excited as we are about to jump into the

Word of God. And if you're new here and you

don't know who I am, my name is Adam and

I'm the lead pastor of Patreon. I'm excited to be

able to share with you today. And I know this

is Saturday service, and so I know that tends to

be a little bit more of the quieter service, more

of the reserve service. Okay, and that's okay, but I'm

gonna invite you tonight that usually for service, we receive

right as the word is going forth, we sit down

and we take notes or we take pictures of the

slides on the screens or whatever that is. But we've

intentionally this weekend created space to have a portion at

the end where we also respond. Over this next past

three weeks, starting last week to this week and next week,

we've been breaking down a little bit about who Patria is,

doing a series called Patria means Family and simply simply put,

our name just means family. And we've been sharing for

many people that are new to our church, what our

church values, what our church believes in, what's our mission,

and we've been walking through some growth track steps and

this is just a little bite sized size, a little

bite sized size of our growth track, but also today

our forward experience as well as we've been walking through

what our growth track process is. Kind of like last week,

one of the things we identified is that we're all

part of God's family, that through Jesus, you and I

are given an invitation through the Cross of Christ, through

his death, barrel resurrection, that God is willing to adopt

anyone that would follow his son.

And we saw that last week when.

We shared about a little bit about if we get

adopted into God's house, then the kingdom is his house

and it's his rules. So we're going to continue a

little bit today through our Ephesians chapter three, our normal

verse that we've looked at.

That's our church's verse as our structures.

So if you have a Bible, would you turn briefly

to Ephesians chapter three, And if you don't, today, I'll

have it up on the screen for us as well.

Here at Patriot we stand for the honor of reading

God's word just to give the Lord our full attention.

So if you would join us for a moment this

is what we covered last week. But we're gonna dig

deeper this week, and then we're gonna dig even more

deeper next week. I want you to see what the

Word of God says in Ephesians, chapter three, verse fourteen

to twenty one.

Here's what the scripture says.

For this reason, I bow my means before the Father,

from whom every family that's patriot in heaven and on

earth is named, that according to the riches of His glory,

he might grant you to be strengthened with power through

His Spirit in your inner being, so that Christ may

dwell in.

Your hearts through faith, that you.

Being rooted and grounded in love, may have strength to

comprehend with all the saints, all the saints. What is

the breath and length, and height and depth to know

the love of Christ that surpasses all knowledge?

That you, being filled with all the fullness of God.

Now to Him who is able to do far more,

abundantly more than anything we ask or think, according to

the power at work within us. To Him be the

glory in the Church and in Christ Jesus, throughout all generations,

forever and ever a man, you may be seated.

What I love.

Last week is we covered God's house his rules. But

we'll dig deeper just for a few moments today, because

what we're gonna acknowledge is what happens is.

Verse fourteen and fifteen.

The apostle Paul in the Book of Ephesians makes an

invitation that says, if you are willing to surrender your

life to Christ, then he says, what happens is if

you bow your knees. Bowing our knees is a place

of submission, and it says, I bow my knees before

the Father from whom every family in heaven on earth

is named. In other words, you and I are adopted

by God through submission to the work of Jesus.

But here's what precedes those statements.

What precedes those statements are two powerful things, because a

lot of times when we are adopted into the family

of God, one of the first struggles you and I

will have is our identity.

It's who's am I?

Am I the worlds?

Or am I God's?

And so immediately when you say yes to Christ, many

of us will step into a battlefield of the mind,

the battlefield of the soul, that will pull you apart

as you're trying to now identify as a child of God.

It's almost like being born into an impoverished state, and

then all of a sudden, you get adopted into a

house where there's a bed, and you have your own bedroom,

and you have a fridge that you could go in

whenever you want, but instead you choose to sleep on

the floor because you haven't fully received. I'm in a

new place, I'm in a new season, I'm a new creation.

So I love what precedes, because then.

What happens is you will see the apostle Paul will

emphasize two incredible things.

The two incredible things he'll emphasize.

Number one is God's love for you will surpass your

own understanding.

So he says identity trick.

Number one, God's love will surpass what you think love is.

And then he says, and then what will happen Verse

twenty number two. What will happen is God is able

to do far more, abundantly more than anything you ask

or think, according to the power that works within us. So,

in other words, God can love you beyond your comprehension.

And also God can do in your life more than

you could ever ask or think. This immediately speaks to

our identity. But if we ask ourselves, well, how do

I step into Idaniel? How do I walk? Because I

feel like I'm not I feel like I struggle, I

feel like I sin all the time. I feel like

I'm addicted to things. I feel like I have unforgiveness

and areas. I feel like I'm angry about some things.

I'm angry about my mother or father, how I was raised.

I'm upset about the house situation that I'm in, or

the marriage that I'm in, or I'm angry towards God

about the things that happened to me in my childhood

or in my young adult years.

And so how can I walk in this fullness? Well,

that's what we're gonna walk and.

Talk about a little bit today because if you remember

last week, I shared a little bit about how many

of you guys have grown up in different home circumstances

with different house rules, and everybody grew up with different

house rules. Well, I'll share you one of the things

that would be God's house rules. So if you and

I walked into God's house rules, he would actually be

one of the people that said, hey, no shoes in

the house. In fact, God don't even want your socks

on in the house.

How do I know that?

Go to the book of Exodus, when Moses encounters the

burning bush. What's the first thing, Yahweh tells him take

off your sandals. This is holy ground, which means your

toes need to be touching the surface. But what happens

when you and I go in God's house and he says,

and remember when I say house, I'm not just talking

about the four walls of a church building. I'm talking

about his kingdom. I'm talking about being adopted into his family.

And what happens is when you and I walk into

his house and he says, hey, take.

Your shoes off.

Your first instinct is, but what if my feet stink?

Or what if my socks got holes in them? Or

actually I didn't know I was gonna have to take

my shoes off, and I wore two different socks, and

so I don't want to be embarrassed. And a lot

of times when you and I get into the presence

of God, we don't realize that as children of God,

he wants your shoes off.

He wants you and I to get naked with him.

He wants you and I to get real with him

and roll with him with all your junk, all your baggage,

all your pain, all your hardship. But a lot of

times we go, Lord, want I.

Don't want to take my shoes off?

Can I be your child?

And can I can? They're nice, they're Jordans. I just

bottom or their fresh sucks. I promise I only warmed

to that. I just pulled them out the back. Please

let me keep on. I don't want you to see

my toes. I don't want you to see my brokenness.

But if you and I are gonna be true children

of God and we're gonna walk into the identity God

has called us in, that.

We have to take off our shoes.

How many of you guys have ever grown up in

the household that grandma had the plastic coverings over the couches.

Did anyone have grandma like that plastic over the couches.

It's like, man, ain't no one messing up my couch.

In fact, it just went viral last week that a grandma,

after one hundred years old, her kids convinced her, her

great grandchildren convinced her to take the plastic off her couch.

And this is the first time that she sat on

her couch in fifty years without the plastic on, and

if you go and see the video, she is deeply

uncomfortable with sitting on that couch. But she said, hey,

I made it to one hundred. You know it is

what it is. Now, I'll sit on the couch. And

a lot of times what we want to do is

we want to put this plastic covering around us, and

we want to go into the presence of God, and

we want to take our squeaky cleanness and we want

to be able.

To cover ourselves.

But what God's willing to say is he says, I

see the stains beyond the plastic.

I see the brokenness.

You putting a plastic you getting saved, and then going Okay,

now I'm gonna put the plastic on.

No, we have to go through a deep.

Cleaning process where God can begin to purchase, God can

begin to pay for purifies. But a lot of times

we just say Lord, no, just I'm gonna go as

I am. And then I'm just gonna cover myself up

and I'm gonna I'm gonna I'm gonna say Hallelujah, Amen,

I'm gonna say bless the Lord and I'm gonna put

on fancier clothes when I go to church, but I

don't want to expose or show anyone these stains that

I carry, So I'm a cover it.

What God wants to do is he wants.

Us to just expose ourselves so that God can speak

to your identity. And so what happens is God invites

us into his house. He's not just asking us to

take off our shoes and leave the dirt outside. He's

reminding us that his house has a name, and that

name he gives us has identity. Paul says, for this reason,

I bow my knees before the Father, from every family

in heaven on earth is named. And in other words,

before we talk about what we do, we have to

know who we are. Identity comes before activity, being comes

before doing, and truth comes before opinion. And the first

truth we need to settle deep in our spirit is this.

You and I are children of God. That's where identity begins.

So I want to just share with you for a

moment the truth about identity. The truth about identity means

being named by the Father means your identity is not

man made, it's God given. Your identity is given by

the Lord, which means this. You're not who you're past

says you are. You are not who culture says you are.

You are who God says you are. You're not defined

by a world's label of truth. You're not defined by

a neighbor's label of truth, a family member's label of truth.

You are defined by God's, which is a child.

Tim Keller says this, our identity is not achieved, it's received.

You don't work for identity in God.

You're not a child trying to work up to please

the Father to get his attention.

You have already received his spirit.

You have received his grace, you've received his mercy. The

problem is is we are struggling with that truth because

we're comparing our past life notes with the current life

word of God, and we're seeing that there is some

type of dis imbalance from that God. My pastor's no

way it makes sense with what you could do with me,

and we don't walk in that truth. Before Jesus ever

worked a miracle, the Father said to Jesus, this is

my son whom I'm well pleased. Jesus hadn't done anything yet,

no miracle, no sermon, no ministry. The Father and Jesus's baptism,

they came and he said, this is my son, who

am I'm well pleased. But before Saytan tempted and he

began with if you are God's son, the Father's son.

The first thing the enemy tried to do with Jesus

is prove your identity to me. And he began to

tempt Jesus and try to get Jesus to prove it.

But if you know, Jesus didn't play that game of

having to prove that he was the son of Man

and the son of God. Identity is always the first

thing the enemy attacks. When you and I become children

of God, we become part of the family of God,

like we just read in Ephesians three, and we become.

Adopted in the household of God.

And Philippians chapter three says that you and I our

citizenship is in heaven, it's not here on earth. When

you respond to the call of God in your life,

to respond to the Gospel of Jesus, to believe in

the death, bear and resurrection, you become a citizen, which

means you get kind of like a heavenly passport. Has

anyone here got a passport of some kind? Whether it's

of the United States or another nation. Here's what I

know that's unique about passports is when you go to

another country, especially as an American, in other countries, we

have what's called US embassies in those countries, and in

those countries, like in fact, I've been to Paris before

and I've seen that there's a right on the main

road of the Shamstalyze, there is a large US embassy

and there are American military soldiers guarding in Paris the

US embassy. And what I've been told before when I've

gotten my passport on on other occasions.

They will say this. They will say, if.

You are traveling internationally, not only is this passport for

you to get into the country, it is for you

to get access to our embassies when you are in

other countries, so that you can be represented, so that

you could be protected, and.

So that you could be covered.

Here's some things that US embassies can do in another

nation that you can go to.

It can replace a new passport.

If you lose your passport in another country, the US

embassy can replace it for you, which means you're not

out of luck. You're not like, oh, I gotta live

in this country forever now I lost my passport.

No, it's emergency help.

If you get arrested, if someone commits a crime on you,

if you have a medical emergency, if you need an evacuation,

your US embassy will help you with that. If you

need a lotery or a legal service, you're a US embassy.

Let's just say you do something illegal in another country

and they start coming after you. You have your representation

at your US embassy. You can register your child's birth abroad.

Let's just say you go pregnant somewhere and you have

a baby there. You US Embassy says, hey, let's make

sure your child's still a citizen back home so they

can get back in the country. They serve you in

that way. They have vista questions, Christis safety, They have

death abroad assistance. They have a list of doctors, lawyers,

and translators for you in case you get stuck welfare

checks if family cannot reach you. You see, when you

have a US embassy as a citizen, it means you

have direct access to.

Your home country.

And when you and I receive Jesus and received the

Spirit of God, it's the spirit of God that gives

you direct access to the Kingdom of Heaven and to

the Father.

But a lot of times.

We won't go to the Father, we won't identify our.

Identity as children of God.

So instead we stay in a foreign nation, in a

secular world, in a broken place, in a broken house,

and a broken this and a broken that, and we

just think of ourselves. I'm stuck here, I can't get out.

I lost my passport. You didn't lose your passport. Even

if your faith wanes, even if you find yourself back

in the world, there is always a place to get.

Back to the Father.

You may say, oh, I think I lost God because

I did this last night.

Or I did that a week ago.

You didn't.

All you did for a moment is lose your passport.

But that doesn't prove your citizenship. That just proves your

identity for one moment if someone asks. But you can

always get an access if you're a citizen of Heaven

and you and I have access before God. But here's

what will happen with the last few moments I have

and I'm gonna invite us to respond today. What will

happen is if when we're not living in the identity

that God has placed in our lives. What will happen

is either before this, in the middle of our faith

or you know, wherever our faith is.

The enemy will try to steal your identity.

He'll try to perform an identity thefth on your life.

And so there's the truth that we know of God's identity.

That's truth.

But what wi happen is is the enemy, as we've

seen time and time again. Book of Revelation says he

is the great Serpent, the father of lies is Satan,

will try to lie over your life, to corrupt your identity,

to rob you of your identity. The enemy wins if

he can convince you that you are not a son

and daughter of God.

He has corrupted you.

If you think that you have to earn your relationship

with God, you do not earn it, you receive it.

So what does the enemy try to do? Well, what

the enemy will try to do and we do this

our forward experience and teach us. The enemy will try

to create a sabotage cycle over your life. And here's

what the sabotage cycle looks like. What will happen is

there will be an event in your life. So just

think of an event in your life that's broken you.

That could be an absentee parent, could be something that

happened to you in your childhood. That could be someone

who's robbed you, someone that took something from you, someone

that took your decency in a time in your life,

you yourself.

An event happens to you.

Someone gives you a smoke of of something for the

first time, or a hit of something for the first time,

or a drink of something for the first time. It's

an event. And if something happens to you, But what

happens next a lie? You believe something false about yourself

or about God because of that event.

It locks you into a lie.

With a lie could look like this, Well, I'm only

happy when I'm doing this, I'm only fulfilled when I'm

doing this.

I only have purpose when I'm engaging with this.

I only feel better about myself when I'm cussing like this,

or yelling like this, or hating like this, or gossiping

like this or judging like this. Is it's a lie

that says or it says this, I'm fine, but it's God.

God did this to me, or God should have prevented

this from happening from me. So Therefore, it keeps you

from this lie, keeps you from a relationship with God,

and it keeps you in a sin, in a habit,

in a hated place, in an angry place. Here's the

next thing. Your reaction. Now you respond to it out

of pain or fear. You continue to double down, You

continue to engage more, you continue to isolate more, you

continue to hate more, unforgive more. And your reaction and

then what happens a response You were reinforced the lie,

and the cycle continues.

In other words, when an opportunity.

Comes and God wants to speak identity in your life,

you say no, I'm not worthy of God, or I'm

angry at God. So therefore, when times get hard, I

get back in the cycle. I pick it back up again.

I start doing it again, I start reacting the same way.

And there's a point in your life that he said,

I think I know better. I think I'm sitting in

church and God's word is revealing more. But because it's

a cycle, our response keeps engaging with our brokenness, because

we haven't broken this sabotage. But what God wants to

do when we can recognize our identity in him, is

he wants.

To bring freedom in your life.

He was to bring deliverance in your life. He doesn't

want you walking around with unforgiveness. He doesn't want you

walking around with addiction. He doesn't want you walking around

with pain, hate, torment, regret from past.

What he does not want.

His freedom is available, His mercy is new every single day.

God doesn't want to keep us there. He wants to

give us freedom. And many of us you may see here,

nig You're like, there's some things that I need freedom from,

some things that I Here's what I want to do

because I want us to see what's going on in

our church, whether someone's watching online in the courtyarder cafe.

Here, here's what I want to do. For just a moment.

I have someone on the screen, and if you pull

your smartphone out, if you like to engage with me,

you can.

Here's what I want to do right now, is you

could do one of two things.

You can either scan that QR code up in the

top left hand corner, or you can go to slide

oh dot com and then I want you to type

that number in. If you scan the QR code, it'll

take you straight in. If you'd go to slideo dot com.

Type the number, then it'll get you in. And I

just want you there. You see already people answering what

what do you need freedom from? And I just want

to see You're gonna see it's live happening. You're gonna

see people participating right now. And what happens is is

people are jumping in.

I want you to.

I want you to just keep going, keep typing it

in and what happens You're gonna we're gonna start seeing

our community what do people need freedom from?

And there's a bit typing You're gonna start to see

it come in and what happens is share it. And

I mean you could get deep with us.

I mean you could put put pornography, put smoking, put

like you can get real. You there may be something

a molestation that's happened to you. Are you said I

want freedom from a sexual moment? Like you, you can

be honest with us and continue to put that in

because we believe in the.

Realness of God.

Were wanna take our shoes off, We'll say God, this

is my feet, this is me. And what you're gonna

see is you're gonna see on the top is you're

gonna see the commonality of everyone in this room, everyone

participating in the courtyard of what we're responding with. So

you're gonna see people eleven people need freedom from anger.

Thirteen people need freedom from anger. Nine people need free

ten people need freedom from stress. Five, six people need

freedom from the past. Five people need freedom from worry.

Five people need freedom from people. They want to move

on an island or whatever that is.

I'll join you.

Freedom from fear, self doubt, anxiety, anger, fifteen. You see

what happens is is we begin to engage, we can

start to identify what it is that I need freedom from.

And what happens is is as we identify, we'll see

in a few moments, as we continue to add and

you'll see, Look how many people that participate. We've almost

two hundred people that have already participated and already on

here past traumas, worry, the idea of failing in my marriage.

There's imposter syndrome. We need free How many of you

guys can agree? Two hundred people engaging?

We need freedom? Right, we need freedom? Why do we

stay in it? Let me show you this.

Here's some core lies we believe, some core lies we

believe is this I'm not enough. I'll always be alone,

I'll never be free. God can use others, but not me.

We believe these things all the time. Neil Anderson says

it like this. When we believe lies about ourselves, we

live lies about ourselves. When we believe these lies, we

live them out. How can I break this sabotage cycle?

According to God's word and according to God's spirit, I'm

gonna make it as simple as I can with these

few moments.

Then I'm gonna invite us to respond.

If you're looking and you want to go God, I'm

ready to go into freedom. I want to take steps

of freedom. Then I'm gonna encourage us to respond in

just a few moments. But how do I break this

sabotage cycle? Here's the first thing I gotta do. The

first thing I gotta do is I gotta confess the

name out loud. Well, guess what I already helped y'

all do that Step one's done.

You shared with us.

You confessed it that Sometimes that is the heart. The

first step is the hardest thing to do, and you

didn't even know that.

You just did it right now. You confessed it. So

that's the first thing.

Name it out loud, anger, unforgiveness, addiction, stress, people, fear,

self doubt. You got shared it with us, and so

you've confessed it. The next thing you do is you

break the cycle. You refuse to rehearse it. I gotta

stop repeating themselves over me. I gotta stop. Every time

I get stress or times get hard, I go back

to living in that moment. I gotta stop rehearsing it

in my head. I gotta stop rehearsing that moment that

brought me to this in my head.

The next thing is believe or receive the truth. There

we go.

It must be a typo, but that's okay. Receive the truth.

Replace it with God's word. What does God's word say?

So here's where you do a little bit of homework.

If you're dealing with anger, go into God's word and

start to learn about anger.

Start to learn how God can heal anger.

If you're stress, go into God's word and learn about it.

Learn about stress. How can I overcome stress? If it's fear,

how do I start to read God's word and start

to confess that. In two thousand and eight, when Pastor

Diego got stage four cancer, one of the things he

did first because he needed God's healing. He would recite

two hundred healing verses every single day because what he

wasn't doing is he wasn't necessarily naming and claiming it.

What he was doing is throughout his day when pain

would hit, he would say, Oh, did the cancer get

me now? Or did this happen now? Or does this

happen now? So, as he's reciting healing versus, what he's

saying is, I'm not gonna allow the rehearsal of my

fear to happen in my head. I'm gonna allow God's

word to be the loudest voice that I'm a child

of God that through Jesus stripes, I'm healed. And so

what you're not doing is acting like there's some type of.

Miracle drug on the verse.

What you're saying is you're saying God, as loud as

my pain may be, God's word can be louder because

God's word is actually transformative.

It can change what do we do. We receive the truth.

And then the last thing is you step into your

identity in Christ, you walk it out daily. You respond

to God in worship, You respond to God in praise

just tonight. If you're looking for God for freedom from something,

I just want to encourage you goard to the Lord tonight,

laying in your bed and say, God, thank you for

freeing me from blank you praise God. You don't, you don't,

You don't become a skeptic of God and say, oh,

let me wake up tomorrow and see if someone makes

me mad, to see if I'm free from anger.

No, you gotta walk it out.

In fact, God may give you opportunities to get angry

to see if it's been sealed. You know that may happen,

or the enemy may try to throw a hell Mary.

And what we gotta do is we gotta we gotta

walk in it. And just because you get angry once

again doesn't mean that God hasn't delivered you. If it

means that you are in the process of God, of

his healing, of your saying dification, I want to encourage

you to walk in it. I'll close with this. In

the louver there once stood a huge painting. It was

called Checkmate by Frederick August Wrights. It showed kind of the.

Do we have a picture of it?

You guys got the picture?

Can we can we put up so on the left

it shows it shows the that's supposed to be like

the devil, and he's smirking, and the guy on the

right he's stressed. And the painter kind of did it

as as a trick because at first glance, what appears

is there's a checkmate. So he labeled the painting checkmate,

and there's a grimace of the devil looking at the

man that he just checkmated in, but there's an angel

in the background peering over the man's shoulder. It was

kind of like a trick painting. He never told people

what the actual meaning was. You look at it and

you go, oh, the satan. The devil checkmated this man.

He overcame him in some type of way, and so

people for many years thought it was like a story

that the man lost the game with the devil.

But one day a master chess player was.

In the louver and he looked at the board and

he noticed that the appearance was a checkmate, but actually

there was still one move on the table for the man,

and what appeared to be a checkmate. What the painter

was trying to say is if you pay attention enough,

you'll see that the young man still has one more

move to make, and the next move that's set up

is a checkmate against the devil.

Because he had one more move. And I just want

to encourage you.

There's times in your life where you think the devil's

got you, you think Satan one, you think the enemy

has got one.

Over your head. But there's always one more move. There's

always one more move. God's always got one more move.

Satan will never checkmate you because we serve a God,

and we serve a king named Jesus that sits.

At the right hand of the and he intercedes for you.

There's still one more move. Are you willing to make

the move? Are you willing to make the move?

Because you can identify that you need freedom, But are

you willing to make the move? Are you willing to

confess it and say, God, I need freedom from this.

I need freedom from an adultery. I need freedom from pain,

I need freedom from addiction, I need freedom from habit

I need freedom from fear, I need freedom from anger.

Whatever it is, are you willing to make the move.

There's a lot of times our pride will be like.

Don't make the move, don't do that, just sit there,

just be defeated.

It's easier that way, it's more comfortable that way.

You can make more excuses in that position.

What happens is if you will step into God's healing,

then what will happen is you will see the freedom

that God has intended for a child of his Roman

Chapter eight says, therefore there is now no condemnation for

those that are in Christ, Jesus that the law of

the spirit, the law is death, but the spirit is life.

There's no condemnation for those that are in Christ.

Jesus.

There is no place for you to feel condemned. If

you are a child of God. Take your shoes off

before God and show them, show him your brokenness, show

him your pain, and I'll tell you this, He is

willing to heal it. If we will kneel before God

and say, Jesus, I receive your healing. I confess it today,

and I won't let the enemy steal my identity any longer.

Today you have an opportunity to go to the embassy

of Heaven and say, God, my identity has been stolen,

but I want it back, and I'm here to ask

for it back, and I'm here to walk with you

So would you guys join me for a moment, and

would you stand for just a second. We got plenty

of time. We're gonna leave here together, plenty of time.

We made the message shorter so that we could just respond.

I'm gonna ask the worship team to come on up here.

I'm gonna invite us as we begin to worship, I

want you to take a step towards freedom. So for everyone,

that may look like something different. Some of you may

want to come to the all and lay down or

put your hands up. Some of you, guys may just

want to lift your hands in your seat and sing

with us. But there are special occasions where God's word

will come and cover you.

And then it's time.

For us to respond, not just to receive, to respond,

say God, I need freedom.

And what you will see is there's a story and

acts where when.

Two of the disciples were in prison that began to

worship and the chains began to fail and the.

Prison gate opened. When you and I begin.

To worship, the chains can fall down, the prison doors

can open, You can walk in freedom. Are you willing

to worship God? Are you willing to submit to God

and say God, this is what I need today.

I respond, I've been broken, I've been hurt. I need freedom.

Confess what that is and allow God to work on

your heart.

The team's going to lead us in worship. Let's sing together.

Let's allow God to work on us together. And if

you'd like to come to the altar, you're more than

welcome to come.

Let's worship yea father. Here we are the aartar, surrendering all.

Father, here we are at the altar, surrendering all. Are

you hurting and broke in with it? Overwhelmed by the

way of the said Jesus, Sister Carley, have you come

to the end of yourself?

Do your thirst for drink from the well?

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house is built. Sign house was still time. I'm gonna

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fair found day shan say because Christ is my fur found,

lifted up, because Christ is my fat, because Christ is my.

And I'm no longer a slave to fear, for I

am a child.

Of God.

I am no longer a slave to fear, for I

a child of God. Sing that I'm no longer saying

I'm no longer.

Right Godred Sons and Daughters of God.

Gun. There are things in this life.

There are often beyond our control, beyond our understanding. But

as your word says, your love is available. Your love

is available more than we could ever understand. The height

or depth. Your grace is exceeding more than we could

ever understand. You can do far more abundantly anything that

we could ever ask for. God, you can multiply any moment.

God so Lord, we pray that in this moment, you

would multiply freedom, you would multiply healing.

God.

I pray people will walk in deliverance in this room today,

Father God, and I pray Lord, they will be no

longer bound by fear, no longer bound by addiction, no

longer bound by pain, no longer bound by a past God.

But they will fully walk in the wholeness and the

calling of God on their life. Lord, that Christ would

be the foundation of our soil today. Lord, that we

will fully surrender to Jesus as King, and we will

fully follow him with our whole heart, soul and strength. God,

we thank you for your deliverance today. Lord, and I

pray if there's anyone in this room, anyone in the courtyard,

in the cafe, who's never confessed Jesus Christ as their

Lord and savior, I would never want to take it

for granted that everyone in this room has given their

life to Christ. I just want to invite you today,

if you are ready to take the step of faith

by surrendering your life to Jesus Christ, to confessing him

as your Lord and savior and believing that His death

and resurrection is for you walking away from your sins

and your past to fe surrender to God that I

want to invite everyone to say this with me. This

confession is not the thing that saves you. All we're

doing is affirming what the spirit of God is already

at work.

In your life right now.

Could we say this together, Dear Lord Jesus, in this moment,

I repent to my sins. I fully embrace you as

my Lord and Savior. I believe in my heart that

you died on the cross and you rose three days later.

I choose to follow you for the rest of.

My days, for I am a child of God in

Jesus' name.

Amen, Could we give God glory for what the Lord

would do in this room today if you responded to

that prayer today we want to come alongside of you.

And so before you leave, if you'd like to know

what's next in your walk with Jesus, you could go

to ww dot grow dot Faith.

We would love to walk with you, get you a

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Additionally, if anyone's here and you just need some more

moments of prayer over your life than our elders, deacons

and prayer team, they'll be up here in the front.

Please. If you feel like the spirit of God is

stirring you.

To receive more or to respond to more, then our

team will be up here and they would be happy

to pray over your life.

I'll pray for us one more time. We'll be dismissed.

Lord, Thank you for today, God settle in our hearts,

the healing that took place and the freedom that would

take place today. Lord, I pray that you would cause

people that if they haven't gone to growth track yet,

to discover more of their purpose. Lord, if they haven't

gone to forward, Lord, may they look into the future

as we do forward together. This right here is just

one moment of a four week moment that we do

in forward.

God.

So I pray Lord that more people will step not

only to healing, but also understanding their identity in Christ.

Today, God, we thank you for this in Jesus' name. Amen,

God bless you. Family. Will either see on Wednesday or

next Sunday.