El Elyon

Open your Bibles to Genesis. I believe we're going to start at chapter 14,

Genesis chapter 14, and we're going to read from 17 through 20.

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In Genesis 14, 17 through 20 says, and the king of Sodom went out to meet him

at the valley of Es, that is the king's valley, after his return from the defeat of C,

and the kings who were with them.

Look at verse 18. Then Melchizedek, king of Salem, brought out bread and wine,

and he was the priest of God most high. Say God most high.

And he blessed him and said, blessed be Abram of God most high. Say God most high.

Possessor of heaven and earth. And look at verse 20. and blessed be,

say God most high, who has delivered

your enemies into your hand and gave him a tenth or a tithe of all.

We are in a series talking about the names of God and God reveals different

aspects of who he is through the many names that he uses,

each one with a unique meaning and power, offering us a deeper glimpse of his limitless nature.

And one of the reasons we have started this series under the leadership of the

Holy Spirit is we want to reveal his character and his nature in a fresh new way.

We want you to deepen your relationship with him, to begin to call him by his significant names.

And we want you to be able to experience a deeper prayer life and worship.

When you know him by his various names, you will glow closer to him.

Many people know me by several names. Obviously, my given name is Devon Monzel Alexander, right?

But some people call me D, like you heard Apostle call me. Some people call me Pastor.

Some people call me Pastor Alexander. Different relationships,

right? Some people call me Devo.

Now, if you call me Devo, you have

known me since I was in high school and college. That was the name, Devo.

I don't want none of y'all to call me Devo because that'd take me back to another time, okay?

Devo was another time, another person, all right? When I was in middle school,

they called me Smiley because I smiled all the time.

And I played football and the football coach called me Smiley.

And I didn't want to be called Smiley because I thought I was tough playing football.

But he said, all the time you're smiling and Smiley took off.

And so from seventh and eighth grade, I was known as Smiley.

All those names were the same person, but different people recognized me differently

by the names that I'm associated with.

And we find out that each name of God is like a perfect puzzle piece,

fitting exactly where we're broken.

Feeling what's missing and completing the picture of who we are created to be.

And so we find out in the passage of scripture that we just read that God Most

High is the name we're going to talk about today, which is El Elyon. Say El Elyon.

Now we've talked about El Shaddai, we've talked about Jehovah Jireh last week,

we talked about Adonai, we talked about Jehovah Rapha,

we've talked about Abba, and today we're going to talk about El Elyon and El

Elyon means God most high over it all.

The mighty one most high, he is the possessor of heaven and earth.

And so El Elyon is the most high God who possesses, owns heaven and earth.

He is the one who causes you to be victorious.

And so we understand in the passage we read that Abram was victorious and it

was because of El Elyon, God most high, caused him to be victorious.

And so if you're missing victory in your life, you need to study the name El Elyon.

If you're lacking and being defeated and being under the circumstances and being

pressed down and depressed and anxious and overwhelmed,

I encourage you to study the name of El Elyon, God Most High.

The Most High God, El Elyon, means to go up, to ascend, to climb, and to exalt.

Let me say it again. And El Elyon means to go up, to ascend, to climb, and to exalt.

He is the most high God. And I want you to understand this as well.

El Elyon is the name that Satan coveted the most.

El Elyon is the name that Satan coveted the most.

Take a look at Isaiah 14, and we look through 12 through 14.

Isaiah 14, 12 through 14. How you are fallen from heaven, O Lucifer, son of the morning.

How you are cut down to the ground, you who weakened the nations.

For you have said in your heart, watch this, I will ascend into heaven.

I will exalt my throne above the stars of God.

I will also sit on the mount of the congregation and on the furthest sides of

the north. Verse 14, I will ascend above the heights of the clouds and watch

this, I will be like the most high.

These are five I will statements that Satan said because he coveted this significant

name, this superior name of El Elyon, the Most High God.

He desired to take the place of the Most High.

And I love in this passage of scripture, and if you read 15 through 20,

I won't take the time to read it, but you'll find out what five statements God,

the Most High, said about him. You want to hear the five statements?

He said, you'll be thrown into hell.

You will be gauged upon. I want to stay there for a second.

I believe when we see Satan for who he truly is, I believe he's going to be

a little oomph, a oompa-loompa, a minion.

I believe he's going to be so small, and we're going to look and say,

that's the one that caused so much trepidation in my life?

That's the one that made me stay awake at night? That's the one that caused

me to have disunity with other people?

That's the one that caused me to be broke, busted, and disgusted?

We're going to gaze upon him.

Scripture here says that God told him, you will be thrown into hell,

you will be gazed upon, you will be talked about, you will be cast out, and you will be alone.

Now, notice his vision was to be El Elyon, but God gave him his direction.

You will be thrown into hell. You will be gazed upon. You'll be talked about.

You'll be cast out, and you will be alone.

So Satan is not the rival of El Elyon.

Let me say it again. I thought I'd get a better amen than that.

Satan is not the rival of El Elyon.

El Elyon is God alone and no one is even close to him.

Satan is a defeated creation, but El Elyon is the most high God. Somebody say El Elyon.

When Satan exhausts himself in your life, bring El Elyon on the scene.

When you feel like you're being defeated, busted, broke, overwhelmed, cry out to El Elyon.

El Elyon, a possessor of heaven and earth, the most high God,

bring victory into my life in the name of Jesus. Come on, somebody say amen.

What's the highest thing in your life? Fear?

Circumstances? People's opinion?

Lack? Let's place El Elyon above it all. Yes.

Say this out to me. I place El Elyon above all of my life.

Psalms 83, 18 in the New Living Translation. Psalms 83, 18.

Then they will learn that you alone are called the Lord.

That you alone are the most high, supreme over all the earth.

Notice that you will learn that the Most High is supreme over all of the earth.

How do we learn that? By experience, by testing, by going through things.

We will learn that El Elyon is the Most High God. We will learn that no one

and nothing can take his place in your life.

You are not stuck.

You are not small. You are not forgotten. You are not insignificant.

You are a child of El Elyon.

And it's time that we learn who we are in him. we are a child of El Elyon because

El Elyon is supreme above all.

El Elyon is above all kings and he's above all spiritual forces.

No demon, no devil, nothing hiding under your bed, nothing that you are afraid

of. It can withstand the force that El Elyon brings just because of his presence.

There was one particular time I was talking to a pastor friend of mine And and

I was telling him about a demon being cast out in the service and he got really

nervous this pastor for the night He said oh my goodness Uh, what happened?

I said well, we cast the demon out of him He's like, oh, I would have been scared

that that demon would have jumped on me or one of my kids I said wait a minute.

Hold up. Hold up. Hold up. Hold up I said you with LL y'all That demon got no right to come.

I tell them demons too. Do you know who I am?

I'm a child of El Elyon. You better leave me alone before I send you back to

the pit of hell. Come on, somebody.

You got to know who you are because you're with El Elyon and there are no limitations.

When you're with El Elyon.

There's stop thinking so small. El Elyon is with you. Stop thinking so little.

Stop thinking small about yourself.

Start thinking El Elyon's with me, and if he did it before, he'll do it again.

If he did it for Sierra, he'll do it for Ali.

Start thinking that he will do it for me because he's El Elyon.

He isn't held back by any limitations of the world.

The world has limitations. You know that. El Elyon has no limitations.

El Elyon knows how to change policies, change rules for your favor.

El Elyon knows how to get anything to you from anyone, anywhere,

at any time. He's El Elyon.

He's the most high God. Somebody shout amen.

Psalm 57 2. Psalm 57 2. Watch this.

I will cry out to God most high, to God who performs all things for me.

So I'm going to cry out to El Elyon. El Elyon will perform all things,

not some things, not one thing, all things for me.

When fear or chaos comes, remind yourself, El Elyon is still on the throne and

he performs all things for me.

When they tell you you're going to lose your job, El Elyon is still on the throne

and he's going to perform all things for me.

When they tell you you're going to come up short El Elyon is still on the throne

And he's going to perform all things for me Many of you know my story in corporate

America I don't have a college degree,

I did not finish college Those of you that are young people I encourage you

if college is in the plan for your life Find a really good college with Christian

values And go to that college and get your degree But you know you don't have to go to college.

I know you get quiet, but I'm just letting you know you don't you don't have

to go in that kind of debt You don't have to and so I didn't and I didn't I

didn't have a degree and I was working for a massive bank,

Fortune 500 company and I was getting promoted like this boom boom boom I got

promoted three times in two years started out making 28,000 ended up making

over $120,000 in a short period of time and people would come to me and say

who do you know in the company?

Why are you getting promoted? I said, well, I don't know anybody in this company.

No, you know somebody in the company. I said, I promise you I don't.

And then, oh, Kenneth Copeland got you these jobs. Well, no,

no, no, he didn't. How in the world would you say that?

It's somebody you know. How are you getting promoted so much?

And finally it hit me. El Elyon.

I said, El Elyon's promoting me. El Elyon's performing for me.

El Elyon is the one that is causing me to ascend and to climb and to come up.

It's El Elyon in my life. Who? Who? Who? El Elyon. I never heard of El Elyon. He's the most high God.

He's higher than any other God. He can make things happen and perform for me

in ways that nobody else can. Somebody shout El Elyon.

And so watch this. When fear comes or chaos comes, remind yourself El Elyon is still on the throne.

Never say I'm under the circumstances or I'm under the weather.

Don't say that anymore. Why? Why are you under them?

Let El Elyon put you on top of it. Hallelujah.

Stop being under the circumstances. Stop being under the weather and let El

Elyon put you on top of them.

I don't have to figure this out alone. I know El Elyon's got my back.

Hey, man, I don't have to figure this out on my own. El Elyon has my back.

He owns your battles. He owns your future and he owns your breakthrough.

It's not a matter of if El Elyon is going to come through for you.

It's just simply a matter of when.

And all you got to do is just hold on.

Having done all to stand, you just continue to stand, therefore.

You just hold on because El Elyon is coming and he's coming right on time. Somebody shout amen.

Amen. Philippians chapter 2, 9 through 11. Philippians chapter 2, 9 through 11.

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Therefore, God has highly exalted him and given him the name which is above every name,

that at the name of Jesus, every knee should bow of those in heaven and of those

on the earth and of those under the earth,

and that every tongue should confess that Jesus Christ is Lord to the glory of God, the Father.

Now understand, Jesus was given the most high name.

There's no other name that's higher than the name of Jesus.

Cancer is not more formidable than the name of Jesus.

Poverty is not more formidable than the name of Jesus.

Not knowing what to do when you should know what to do is not more formidable

than the name of Jesus. He was given a name that is so high and so exalted that

there is no other name that can compare to his name.

He's not competing with anyone.

Hallelujah. Jesus isn't competing with anyone.

He reigns supreme, above, exalted, high, and lifted up.

Use the name of Jesus any opportunity you get because his name always causes

victory in your life. Somebody shout amen.

His name is the name that demons tremble at the name of Jesus.

Hallelujah. When fear tries to come in your life, you just shout Jesus.

You shout El Elyon and that fear has got to go. That chaos has to leave.

That anxiety has got to flee. You got to know who you are in the name of Jesus.

Hallelujah. I said hallelujah. I said hallelujah.

Glory be to God.

El Elyon is the God who lifts his children higher than any problem they could ever encounter.

Whatever problem you encounter, El Elyon will lift you higher.

Listen to me now. There is nothing that can come upon you that can defeat you.

1 Corinthians 10, 13. There's no temptation, no test that can come upon you.

But God is faithful who will not allow any temptation, any problem,

any test to come upon you and not give you the way of escape so that you may be able to bear it.

So if it comes to you, you can get through it because El Elyon's with you.

Whatever bad news you hear, El Elyon's with you.

He wouldn't even allow it to come to you if you couldn't overcome it.

That's how faithful he is. If you couldn't overcome it, he would say,

nope, nope, nope, don't send that over there.

I'm going to block it right now because they can't overcome it.

But if it comes to you, just know I can overcome this.

Elyon's with me. I can supersede this. I can deliver on the promises of God

by staying with Elyon when this problem comes.

I can be a testimony to somebody that God can make it through.

There was several years ago, probably now 12 years ago, I think it was 2013,

I had gotten attacked in my body.

And still to this day, don't know what it was. I woke up one day and I started,

I had like a stomach ache and I felt like that it was like a 24-hour bug or something.

And then that 24-hour bug went to 48 hours.

Then it went 72 hours. And then next thing I know, I couldn't get out the bed.

And I'm losing a pound a day, a pound a day.

Tanel was saying, that sounds really, really serious.

You know, Tanel knows about all this stuff and I'm losing weight like crazy.

I couldn't, Zayven was young at that age, my son. I couldn't pick him up.

I wasn't strong enough to pick him up. And he was like two years old.

I didn't have the strength. I felt like I was a 200 year old man with no strength.

And I'm laying there saying, what in the world is going on? And I thought, you know what?

God would never even allow this to come to me if I couldn't defeat it.

And so I said, I can defeat this thing or it wouldn't, it couldn't come to me.

The end of my story ain't going to be 20, 32 year old pastor, great start ministry.

Something got all over him. Ain't going to be the end of my story. Amen.

Amen. Ain't going to be there. And so I said, I can defeat this thing.

And it was three weeks, three. And I preached every Sunday. I sat up here.

Steve used to come to my house and pick me up out of bed and carry me to the

church. I would sit down up here and preach and I wouldn't shake anybody's hand.

I didn't know what was going on.

And then they would carry me back to the car. I was just weak,

didn't know what was going on. And one particular guy called me.

This guy's a man of faith. And he said, man, I heard I heard what's going on

with you. And I said, yeah.

Matter of fact, I like what he just said. I need to say this.

He said, I heard what's going on with you.

When you go into something, tell somebody.

I've seen too many people die alone Because they're too prideful To communicate

that I'm going through something Now I didn't say that you got to get on Facebook.

And Instagram and blast it out And let everybody, oh sympathy and pity And somebody

please cry for me I didn't say you got to do all that, somebody feel sorry No, but tell somebody,

And this particular guy, man of faith, he said man, he said,

I know, I hear you're going through something because Stacy had reached out to him.

I wasn't even on the phone or nothing during that time. I was just trying to,

I was just fighting, you know, fighting.

And she had reached out to him and he reached out to me and he said,

and, and, you know, he believed God with me and we got through it.

I woke up one day and just took off running. Like instantly I was healed.

Got out the bed and ran up and down the steps like crazy. I was,

glory to God, I'm running.

Hallelujah. Well, he called me later on. He said, if you would have died,

he said, that would have rocked my faith.

He said, I know who you are. I know what you stand for. If you would have died,

it would have rocked my faith. And it started getting me to think,

people are watching you.

People are looking at, oh no, they're looking at somebody else.

No, they're looking at you.

And they're saying, hey, let me see how they handle this.

Do you know that you are the, you are the only Bible that some people may ever read?

They're watching your life. And so if you quit and you cussing and fussing and

you doing everything else that they doing, you're not a good testimony.

And so he said, man, I would have died. That struck me. I said,

I'm not just fighting for myself.

I'm not just fighting for my family. I'm fighting for the testimony of the Lord Jesus Christ.

Amen. I'm showing the world that El Elyon is God most high.

Somebody say El Elyon. Say God most high.

Now watch this. I want to say some more things to you. El Elyon is the God who

lifts his children higher than any problem.

Look at Ephesians chapter 1, 22 and 23.

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Ephesians chapter 1, 22 and 23. And he put all things under his feet and gave

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him to be the head over all things to the church, which is his body,

the fullness of him who fills all in all.

Notice, he put all things under his feet and gave him to be the head,

Jesus, over all things. And who did he transfer this to?

The church, which is his body.

And so everything is under your feet because all things have been given to Jesus

and he delegated that authority to the church.

You remember in the Great Commission, he says, all authority has been given unto me.

Then he transferred the authority. He said, now you go into all the world and preach the gospel.

He gave delegated authority.

And so El Elyon, Jesus, the Most High, they are one. They're not the same, but they're one.

They're one. And they are one saying, I'm giving all of this authority of supreme El Elyon being.

You're with me. I'm with you. Now you get in the earth and you put everything under your feet.

You heard me? I said you put everything under your feet.

That headache that keeps coming. That's not that's not on top of my head.

It's under my feet. And now you drink more water. Okay, drink some water.

All right, you're probably dehydrated too, okay?

That actually happened one particular time. This man came for a prayer line,

and I was praying, and he said he had a headache.

And I laid hands on the headache, and when I took my hands off,

the Lord said, tell him to drink more water.

And I said, the Lord just told me to drink more water. He said,

I hadn't been drinking enough water. I said, that's why you got the headache, amen?

I said, amen, amen. And so, what am I saying?

I'm saying everything is under your feet. You need to start walking around when

these bad news come. You know what?

It's under my feet. It's under my feet.

You heard that song? It's my feet. It's under my feet. Y'all don't know that one?

Satan is under my feet. Wayne, I know you know that one. Look what the Lord

has done. That's the same thing. Okay, okay, okay.

He healed my body. He touched my mind.

He saved me just in time. Oh, I'm gone to praise his name y'all never heard

that one each day is just the same Come on and praise him.

Look what the Lord has done glory to God hallelujah.

He's under my feet. Say that. He's under my feet.

See, some of y'all scared of the problems. You're scared of Satan. You're scared of lack.

He's under your feet.

I have a reminder on my phone that I got it going every day to remind me. And it says this.

Don't be afraid to let the bank account go to zero.

I remind myself that every day. Why? Why? What?

Because the money's not my source. God is my source. Amen.

El Elyon, Jehovah Jireh, El Shaddai.

He's the one that's my source. The money's not my source.

So I'm all in. If the bank account goes to zero, that just means I'm all in.

Are you listening to me today? I'm all in.

I'm depending on the Lord to take care of me. I'm not resting on that dollar

amount I'm all in Somebody say I'm all in,

Glory to God I'm all in So that reminds me Because sometimes we get a little

nervous And we get in a new location A new building And we're talking big money

in order to do this And the devil tells me Y'all going to fall flat on your face,

That's right And I get this reminder El Elyon said don't be afraid to let the bank account go to zero.

Amen. Amen. Y'all know what I'm talking about.

Sometimes you get so nervous you'll be at the stoplight looking at your bank app.

You're on your bank app like is that money still in there? And then 3,

4, 17 times a day you checking that bank app.

No, tell yourself I ain't even afraid if the bank account go to zero.

El Elyon is still with me. Amen.

Back in the day when it was ATM I used to go to ATM all the time Remember you

said it get your balance you get your balance printed out. I don't know. What's my balance?

You know, and I go five times a day.

I don't know why cuz I was broke and I was scared I Was terrified but El Elyon

is with me somebody say El Elyon.

Ephesians 2 6 watch this Ephesians 2 6 and he raised us up together and,

So not only is El Elyon up and high and lifted up, he raised us up.

I said he raised us up together and made us, watch this, work very hard and sweat together.

No, he raised us up together and made us sit. That's not a place of authority

and position, glory to God.

Sit together. I'm sitting down. Amen. He made us sit together in the heavenly places.

This is our position in, not in and of yourself, in Christ Jesus.

You got to be in Christ Jesus. And he raised us up together,

made us sit together. You are seated together with El Elyon, high and above all.

Do you have a name that needs to be put under your feet?

Whatever that name is, put it under your feet because you've been raised up and seated together.

It's time for you to see yourself sitting with Christ, looking down at everything

that is beneath your feet.

The lack, look down at you, serve a God that owns a cattle on a thousand hills.

Come on, somebody. You have access to excess.

Oh, glory to God access to excess glory. Hallelujah.

Thank you, Jesus. I said, thank you, Jesus.

Psalms 91.1. Are you with me? Psalms 91.1. Watch this.

He who dwells in the secret place of the most high shall abide under the shadow

of the almighty. Notice the secret place of El Elyon.

Shall abide under the shadow of El Shaddai. So he's showing you the different

aspects of his nature and his character, El Elyon and El Shaddai in the same verse.

El Elyon is a place of shelter.

You can rest when you dwell under the shadow of El Elyon.

His presence is a refuge, not just a throne, a refuge. huge.

I remember this years ago, I don't watch scary movies, okay?

You do what you want to do, but don't come to me and ask me to get a demon off

you because you've been watching these scary movies, all right?

It's because you're watching those scary movies. That's why the demon's on you, all right?

I mean, one plus two equals three, okay? I don't watch scary movies because

I ain't got... I'm trying to... I'm pressing in for some uncharted territory.

I'm trying to go places that we have never gone before, amen?

I ain't got time to be fighting these little demons over here because I watched

a scary movie. I don't have time.

I can't sleep at night and anxious and mind going crazy and I'm seeing things.

No, I don't have time for that. But I did one day. I watched a scary movie.

I was young. And parents, you know, they didn't watch, but I snuck somehow.

Rachel, don't do this. Teenagers, don't do this.

Zayven, don't do this. I snuck, for real, I snuck, and I said,

I'm gonna watch this movie.

And I mean, this movie scared me. I mean.

I couldn't sleep. I was struggling. I thought something was under the bed. I was convinced.

And I wouldn't look under there because the clown face was going to look back at me.

I said, oh, Lord. And I was a teenager. And finally, I'm like 14.

I run to my parents' room.

And they're like, get out of our room. What time is it? Go to bed.

And I'm like, I'm scared.

And they were like, what you scared of? I'm like, I'm sorry.

I watched this scary movie, and I'm scared.

Man, they kicked me out of that room so fast. You better get back in there.

You know better than watch that movie. Get on out of here.

We love you, but get on out of here. But why did I run to them?

Because they were a place of protection, shelter.

I knew they loved me. I knew they would cover me and guard me.

And if that clown under the bed was going to come out, I knew they would fight for me. Amen.

Shelter, shelter. When we run to El Elyon, Psalms 91 said that we would be hidden,

because he will protect us.

I don't have to figure life out alone. I can run to El Elyon,

the most high God, the one that can do anything.

And not only can he do anything, This is the most important part.

He's willing to do it for you.

Not only is he able, he's willing and able.

I would rather serve a God who was unable yet willing,

than to serve a God who was unwilling yet able.

Did you hear that? I would rather serve a God who is willing and able,

and he's willing and he is able to do it for you.

Say for me, whatever it is, whatever it is that you need.

Matter of fact, just close your eyes for a second. There are a lot of needs

in the house, a lot of needs online, a lot of needs in the podcast right now.

Say this, El Elyon is willing to do it for me.

Now say your name, for Devon.

Now, look at me. Look at me. He's willing and he's able, whatever it is that

you need, he's willing and able to do it for you.

I don't have to figure this out on my own.

I don't have to be alone, struggling in life, trying to get it done.

All I've got to do is trust in the Most High God, El Elyon, and he'll do it.

He'll do it for you and for me. He's El Elyon. There's no problem too big.

There's no obstacle too large. There's no deficit too great.

There's no relationship too far gone.

There's no pain that cannot be stopped now because of the most high God.

He is El Elyon. And I want to invite you right now to surrender.

Surrender. Just take a moment to just surrender.

Stop trying to control everything.

And just simply surrender it to him.

Sometimes we feel like it can't be done or that God can't do it because we can't do it.

We feel like, well, I can't do it. Well, that means El Elyon can't do it.

No, no, no, no. Surrender unto him.

And let him carry the care for you. Lay down all of your burdens.

All of your burdens. Lay it down. All of your worries. All of your fear.

All of your pride. All of your concern. Lay it down.

And when you have laid it down I want you to stand to your feet lay it down,

I lay it down I'll stand to your feet once you've laid it down I stand to my feet,

I lay down my burdens how do I do that pastor I just say I lay it down I give

it to you all all of it I give to you I turn it over to you I lay it down,

Now close your eyes and say this boldly. El Elyon.

El Elyon. El Elyon.

Reigns over this.

Over your family, over your health, over your finances, over your calling, over your future.

El Elyon reigns over this. This is how you experience true life.