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Sunday 3/30 | Dr. Christopher Graham

First Apostolic Church

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  1. Magnify the Lord together today. Oh, there's no other name than

  2. another given among men under heaven whereby we must be saved.

  3. Hallelujah. What a beautiful name.

  4. The name of Jesus. Amen.

  5. Amen. Someone say Amen, Praise God

  6. today. So we are doubly honored this

  7. morning, my son. Every day I get to introduce 2

  8. speakers in one service. Amen.

  9. We are doubly honored today to have Doctor Graham.

  10. Doctor Christopher Graham pastors a man in Oklahoma.

  11. He's a doctor of social work. He has, he's a licensed clinical

  12. social worker. He's the owner and CEO of the

  13. Full Harvest Counseling there in Oklahoma Pastor is a great

  14. church. He has a lovely wife, which I

  15. know he wished was standing right by him right now and two

  16. two handsome young men Amen. We love doctor Graham he's a

  17. great individual. I couldn't even really I

  18. couldn't trace back like where we intersected.

  19. It's like it just kind of there's this seeping together of

  20. the lives and some sort but seeping yes again, prison

  21. ministry is probably has been the the concrete that has sealed

  22. the deal. He's a tremendous, great, great

  23. speaker. We whenever we're all together,

  24. we just have a lot of fun and laughs and family and so on and

  25. so forth. And we're honored to have him

  26. today. AKA he's like GQ of Pentecost.

  27. Brother McCrory told him he likes to look good rather than

  28. be comfortable, so he is GQ, Amen.

  29. So we're thankful today. We honor him.

  30. We do love you, Doctor Graham, please come share your heart.

  31. Minister to us today. Don't you want to hear what the

  32. Lord has to say? Again, Amen.

  33. God bless. Hallelujah.

  34. Can we give the Lord a handclap of praise today?

  35. Yes, Lord Jesus, I, I understand that.

  36. It's only about 11:00 and so typically we're just starting

  37. church. We start around 10:30.

  38. So y'all just buckle up buttercup.

  39. It's going to be all right. I promise.

  40. Mexican food will be waiting and that's always waiting.

  41. Gloria Rios, Hallelujah. Hey, man, I am so thrilled to be

  42. here with you. Can be seated for a moment.

  43. And I just want to give honor to the McGee family.

  44. And it does seem like seeping might not be the best word, but

  45. it is an accurate word because we've just it's been intertwined

  46. for a long time and just kind of knowing and passing and and

  47. y'all, he's your pastor. So you know this.

  48. But like this family is a big deal.

  49. I'm nervous. I mean, for real.

  50. They, I mean, they've been around for a little while and

  51. they're well known, they're well preached and and we were so

  52. thrilled to have them in in Oklahoma not too long ago for a

  53. midwinter conference. And everyone afterwards was

  54. like, man, this was like NYC brother.

  55. And I'm like, yes, challenge accepted.

  56. I mean, just fantastic ministry. And every time he preaches the

  57. word, it always comes with authority.

  58. And his lovely family. I mean, just beautiful,

  59. wonderful, kind people in the McDonald's.

  60. Can't say enough about them. Since the moment we met in

  61. Chillicothe, it's just been like, I don't know, just family.

  62. Like I always feel like an extension, which means yes, we

  63. poke fun at each other, call each other names.

  64. We're not going to do it this morning because y'all are

  65. sanctified, but I want to lose my license.

  66. We are real close to Indiana and that's like praise the Lord, but

  67. God is good. I miss my family.

  68. I love my family. I know they're having good

  69. church in Oklahoma to all the ministry that I've got to meet

  70. and and everyone from the church.

  71. They gave their testimonies. It was fantastic.

  72. It was fantastic, and I'm so honored and humbled to be here.

  73. Humbled. I said it with a hard H.

  74. You can criticize me later. Amen.

  75. If you have your Bible, if you would turn with me to Numbers

    Numbers 14 chapter mention

  76. chapter 14, I would say I'm not going to try and be long, but

  77. then you're going to have this expectation of me.

  78. So I'm just going to try and be appropriate.

  79. All right, Numbers chapter 14, 20.

    Numbers 14 chapter mention

  80. He's long winded. OK, all right, then we are

  81. definitely OK. Praise the Lord.

  82. This is going to be comfortable. Numbers 1421 through 24.

  83. I'm sorry, brother, don't kick me out.

  84. But as truly as I live, all the earth shall be filled with the

  85. glory of the Lord, because all those men which have seen my

  86. glory and my miracles, which I did in Egypt and in the

  87. wilderness and have tempted me. Now these 10 times, he's talking

  88. about the 10 spies -2 that had gone in and they've not

  89. hearkened to my voice. They weren't listening to my

  90. voice. They went into the land.

  91. They did all the right work. They look the right way.

  92. They were the mighty men of the tribes.

  93. But they weren't listening to my voice.

  94. Amen. They weren't hearing not just

  95. what I was saying, but they weren't hearing my heart for the

  96. land. Surely they shall not see the

  97. land which I swear unto their fathers talking about a

  98. generation. And it's not even a a generation

  99. that was disobedient. It was a generation that doubted

  100. what God could do. They will not see the land which

  101. I swear unto their fathers, neither shall any of them that

  102. provoked me see it. And here's the kicker.

  103. But my servant Caleb, because he had another spirit with him,

  104. because he had something different on the inside, and he

  105. followed me not just a little bit, but he went to the hard

  106. places, He went to the rough part of town, and he followed me

  107. fully. Him will I bring into the land

  108. wherein to He went, and His seed shall possess it.

  109. I just want to preach for a few moments on a simple idea.

  110. Built different, built different.

  111. Can you lay your Bible down and pray with me and for me?

  112. Lord, I thank you for your anointing, and I thank you for

  113. your presence. God, I ask that Your mercy would

  114. be in this place. Lord, I thank you for your

  115. cleansing power. Jesus, for the authority that

  116. you carry in here. God, I pray that you would pour

  117. out your spirit, Lord, that Your word would be confirmed with

  118. signs and wonders in miracles, in Jesus mighty name.

  119. Can you give the Lord a handclap this morning?

  120. Hallelujah. You may be seated.

  121. Hallelujah. Jesus as Apostolic.

  122. There's just something about us. Y'all Pentecostal.

  123. We OK, All right, just go with me.

  124. I've been, I've been Pentecostal for a minute or two and as

  125. Pentecostals, when you go into, I don't want to offend nobody.

  126. So if I do just tug, tug brother, when you go into a

  127. Baptist Church, it feels different.

  128. I've got some good friends that are Catholic, God bless them all

  129. the things. It's different how many y'all

  130. invited somebody to church that one time and you're like,

  131. there's that Holy Ghost disclaimer.

  132. I just feel like I need to tell you.

  133. I know we met at work. It was a safe place.

  134. It's about to be strange. There's always that disclaimer

  135. because being Apostolic is just a little bit different and, and

  136. I try to wrap my mind, right. What makes us just a little bit

  137. different? And then, and then I was praying

  138. this morning and I was up early. I love waking up early and just

  139. getting in the word and praying, especially when we've done,

  140. we've done prison and I'm exhausted.

  141. I was glad to wake up in the morning.

  142. I was so tired last night, but I woke up this morning and I just

  143. began praying and listening to worship music and, and I'll be

  144. honest with you, I listen to Bethel.

  145. We all right, Everyone's OK. I've, I've, I've been known to

  146. listen to Hillsong a time or two.

  147. Upper room has come across my Spotify playlist and Brandon

  148. Lake a couple of times has just he's made his way into my

  149. worship service. Oh, forgive me, Lord, but

  150. there's something different. Because when they're worshipping

  151. on stage with all the lights and with all the smoke and with all

  152. the perfect sound, and everything is finessed and it

  153. all sounds just the way it's supposed to, and I'm in my hotel

  154. room, face down on the floor, weeping before the presence of

  155. God. I don't know what's different

  156. about us, but I got to tell you that it's the Holy Ghost on the

  157. inside. There's a fire on the inside

  158. that we're not getting around. Some people of the name, it

  159. don't matter what song we're singing.

  160. It doesn't matter where we're at.

  161. When the presence of God moves on an Apostolic, you're either

  162. in or you're out. It's just a little bit different

  163. to be Pentecostal, or at least that's what I hear.

  164. And God is calling us to be a little peculiar, a little

  165. strange, a little unique. It's all right, brother.

  166. Wear your Converse. It's OK.

  167. It's going to be all right. I know some people you know.

  168. If it's not baroque, don't fix it.

  169. Shoe wing tips. It's I'm going to get there.

  170. Lord Jesus, help us. Dad jokes for days.

  171. Just hang out with me. There has to be something

  172. different on the inside. And when we talk about the story

  173. of Caleb, he was he was simply one of 12 people.

  174. And when Moses and I talked a little bit about this during our

  175. Princess Within conference, but Moses did the politically

  176. correct thing and he invited The Chieftains from every Israeli

  177. tribe. He said, send me your best

  178. people. Send me all the ones that that

  179. look the part that are in leadership, that are licensed

  180. with the right organizations. Hallelujah.

  181. And it ain't that local license. Lord, he said send me all the

  182. best people and he finds doing the right thing and he finds 12

  183. men to go into the land. But there were only two that

  184. came out with the good report. Now everyone else had a good

  185. report. They said it looks nice, it

  186. smells nice, everything is beautiful.

  187. The problem is we ain't never going to win and we all going to

  188. die. Y'all have to.

  189. I've been. Look, I grew up in Michigan, OK?

  190. But then I spent some time down South, so you're just going to

  191. have to get with me when I get a little ghetto.

  192. I'm sorry, OK? And so he said, you got 10

  193. people that are coming back saying everything is exactly how

  194. God promised it, except for we are not strong enough to conquer

  195. the land. We will never survive the

  196. onslaught of trying to get where God called us to be.

  197. We can't expand our territory because the enemy on the other

  198. side of my fight is too great. But Caleb comes along and Caleb

  199. is just built different. There's something different on

  200. the inside of Caleb because Caleb comes along and he says,

  201. y'all don't understand that God, who did all of the stuff that we

  202. saw in Egypt just a few weeks ago, is able to do exceeding and

  203. abundantly above anything that we could even imagine to the foe

  204. that's in front of us. I wish sometimes that we as

  205. Pentecostals would get out of our high horses and get off our

  206. way because God is calling us to expand our territory.

  207. He's calling us to just reach a little bit.

  208. He's calling us to reach our neighbor.

  209. He's calling us to knock our neighbors door, to talk to our

  210. coworkers, to talk to the students at school.

  211. He's calling us to do something a little different.

  212. And we're on the other side saying I can't do that.

  213. Are you one of the 12? Are you one of the two?

  214. And if we're real honest, can I talk about Pentecostals here?

  215. Is that OK? Y'all are great, Y'all are holy.

  216. But some people, some people in Pentecost are too sanctified to

  217. reach the prisoners. Some people in Pentecost, unless

  218. you looking just right and you are wearing the right shoes and

  219. you're wearing the right suit and everything is put together,

  220. you're not going to have a place.

  221. I'm not even talking about Platform Ministries.

  222. I grew up in Northern Michigan and my family, we worked in a

  223. church. We, we were poor as dirt.

  224. We didn't have anything. We had nothing.

  225. All of our food came from the food banks, Oregon WIC, that was

  226. all we ever had. We didn't get really gifts on

  227. birthdays or Christmas or any of that.

  228. We didn't have anything. My dad didn't work and so we

  229. traveled all over Michigan. We lived in Wisconsin and New

  230. Hampshire. I went to 27 different schools

  231. before I dropped out in 9th grade, 27 different schools.

  232. So we didn't understand the comforts of of being the best

  233. looking, the best dressed Pentecostals because everything

  234. we had was hand me down and then hand me around and then it

  235. finally made it to our house. That's all we had.

  236. We had five kids. I was the oldest boy of five

  237. kids and and being the oldest boy and having three brothers, I

  238. never got really anything new. And they definitely didn't

  239. because whatever I got, if I didn't wear it out as a punk

  240. skateboarder, they eventually got.

  241. So I didn't grow up having the the posterity of, you know, that

  242. Pentecostal heritage. We, we, we grew up in church,

  243. mind you, but but you didn't know my family.

  244. You didn't know where we were. You didn't come by our house

  245. because it was a mess. You didn't come by and have food

  246. with us because we didn't hardly have any food for ourselves.

  247. You didn't really want to spend time with our family.

  248. And so why on earth would God call me?

  249. How could God ever use me in my lifetime?

  250. And I had this idea in my mind. And again, y'all are good

  251. wholesome people. You reach everybody, God bless

  252. you. But I went to some churches

  253. where we were constantly the outcasts.

  254. And I'm telling you that everything that I had to get in

  255. this world, I've had to fight for.

  256. Nothing ever comes easy. But there is a generation that

  257. is being raised right now that has no idea how to stand their

  258. ground. The moment that it ain't easy,

  259. you're not in it. I wish, I wish there was a

  260. generation like Caleb that was built just a little different.

  261. You can be seated. You can be seated.

  262. Caleb was no young buck. He wasn't a spring chicken when

  263. he went out to spy the land. He was already 40 years old.

  264. Some of y'all older than 40 are like he was still a spring

  265. chicken brother. And I would say yes ma'am, you

  266. are right. He was drafted when he was 40.

  267. He was the odd man out. He was a little bit older, he

  268. was a little bit seasoned, and and yet he was strong enough and

  269. had the tenacity enough to go into the enemy's land and to spy

  270. it out. And that man that the fire and

  271. zeal inside of Caleb was that he wasn't just going to go to the

  272. best areas. The Bible says that Caleb

  273. received the land that he went into, but Caleb went into Horeb

  274. and Horeb was the worst of the worst.

  275. I tend to think that the other 10 spies only went to the land

  276. because the Bible says that they came back with grapes on stage.

  277. So they went to the places very likely that it was beautiful,

  278. that it was a lush. It was the right side of the

  279. tracks. It looked good.

  280. I dare say that they went to someone else's church to do

  281. outreach. They're just, I'm going to, I'm

  282. going to hang out right here. Just bear with me.

  283. But Caleb, Caleb wasn't trying to look for the easy way.

  284. Caleb went into Horeb. And I tend to think that it was

  285. Caleb and Joshua that came back and gave the report that there

  286. are giants in the land. But Caleb's mentality wasn't

  287. such that he said there are giants in the land and so we

  288. ought not go in. I think Caleb presented the

  289. report to the other spies to say y'all better watch out.

  290. Look what God is about to do. I think Caleb had enough zeal

  291. and fire inside of him that he said.

  292. I saw God destroy all of Egypt. Their economy was plundered.

  293. I watched God himself with his divine hand destroy every single

  294. deity of Egypt by their own voice.

  295. I've saw God keep us for 40 days and 40 years.

  296. I've watched his God time after time intervened.

  297. I think Caleb presented the report to the others just to say

  298. y'all better watch what God is going to do for the children of

  299. Israel. He understood that God was going

  300. to do and was able to do anything that they could imagine

  301. because there was a promise. There was a promise.

  302. And so Caleb, when everyone else is doubting, Caleb is the one

  303. that is standing strong and he is standing stalwart and

  304. steadfast, and he is the one that is fighting that we go in.

  305. But some time passes, about 40 years, give or take, because

  306. their doubt overcame them. They didn't know and didn't

  307. believe what God was able to do, what he could do.

  308. And so their doubt overtook them and they wander in the

  309. wilderness for 40 years. Are we all right, everyone?

  310. OK. And finally they make it back to

  311. the land of Canaan, and here they are standing on the banks

  312. of the Jordan River, and the most powerful thing happens.

  313. And I'm going to say it's the most powerful thing because in

  314. all of this story, the most incredible thing to me is that

  315. Caleb didn't get the senior pastor role.

  316. He didn't get the top leadership role.

  317. No one appoints Caleb to anything.

  318. Actually, all we understood was that Caleb is promised because

  319. God. God said because his heart was

  320. wholly towards me, because he did and heard my voice and then

  321. followed through with everything that I was speaking to his

  322. heart. He said I'm going to leave him

  323. alive and he's going to have an inheritance, not his family like

  324. every everyone else from his generation.

  325. It was their families going to inherit.

  326. But Caleb was unique because Caleb himself was going to

  327. inherit and then Caleb's family was going to inherit after

  328. Caleb. But Caleb is old and dusty, open

  329. and offend an 85 year old. I'll leave my license when I

  330. Caleb, by the time he reaches the banks of Jordan, is 85 years

  331. old, 85 years old. He's not the man in charge and

  332. you would think he has seniority.

  333. Everybody else would. Then you would think that they

  334. would be looking to him as like the main dude.

  335. Caleb, though, sits back and he waits for all these young bucks

  336. to come up and do their thing. And they did like, like my baby

  337. brothers tried to do because I was the oldest boy, had three

  338. baby brothers, And so I got to choose my room first.

  339. I'm sorry, Brother Mack. He is not the oldest boy.

  340. And they just got the leftover rooms.

  341. You know, Caleb. Caleb didn't do that.

  342. Caleb waited for every other piece of land to be parsed out,

  343. and he understood that no one was going to choose Horeb.

  344. Nobody was like, oh, please, I hope, I hope I get the land with

  345. the biggest, meanest giants. Please, Lord, Caleb knew no one

  346. was going to take the land that he was promised.

  347. And so Caleb goes up to to Joshua and he says to Joshua, he

  348. says, you Remember Me, right? He said, I know I'm a little old

  349. right now, but you look at me, dude.

  350. I still have all of the strength that I had when I was 40 years

  351. old. He said.

  352. God hasn't let a bit of strength leave me.

  353. Now I don't know if that was true.

  354. It sure sounded good. I don't know if he actually had

  355. because just the laws of entropy say that as a thing ages, it

  356. will degrade and deteriorate, right?

  357. You that new car smell only last for about 3 weeks, right?

  358. And then it never comes back because as things age, they

  359. degrade. And that's just a normal part of

  360. living. But something inside of Caleb

  361. never degraded. There was a fire inside of Caleb

  362. that never went out. And so when Caleb approaches

  363. Joshua, he doesn't just say, look how strong I am.

  364. He said, no bro, you don't understand.

  365. Look how strong the God is. That was inside of me.

  366. There's something different inside of me.

  367. And the promises of a generation ago.

  368. I'm choosing to accept them right now.

  369. The revival that was promised a generation ago, I'm choosing to

  370. take it right now. The property that was chosen and

  371. then generation ago, I'm taking it now.

  372. Here's the craziest part of this whole story.

  373. I'm going to wrap it up because I know Mexican food, glory,

  374. Jesus name Caleb comes up to Joshua and says God promised me

  375. the land, Moses promised me the land and I'm going to take that

  376. land. Will you give me permission to

  377. go in? Come on church.

  378. We would have we would have been so in in some churches, not this

  379. church. Y'all are fantastic.

  380. But in some churches if if if you're not the one in charge,

  381. you don't have a voice. I've talked to pastors that have

  382. a board. It's not really a board.

  383. I've talked to pastors that you can want to be in ministry, but

  384. unless you have the right pedigree, you're never going to

  385. see that fulfilled. I know that doesn't happen here,

  386. but I've seen it happen in other churches.

  387. Joshua had a different heart. He had a different approach.

  388. And he gives the land of of Hebron too.

  389. Caleb the Kennesite from the tribe of Judah.

  390. Caleb his Mama was Chefina. Caleb was not necessarily from

  391. Jacob's line. Caleb was different.

  392. Caleb was literally built different because Caleb, his

  393. whole tribe, though it rested in Judah, was actually from Esau

  394. and was grafted in. He he wasn't actually of Israel,

  395. but he was of promise. And so not having the right

  396. pedigree, not having the right experience or not having the

  397. right family history yet Joshua, the man of God said you can have

  398. everything that you're asking for because the God that goes

  399. before you is going to work it all out.

  400. Joshua understood. He had an experience with an

  401. Angel that said you're going to take the land.

  402. And Caleb is the only one. Story after story.

  403. Let me just let me bring it home here.

  404. Story after story of the Philistines, of the Amalekites,

  405. of the Hittites, of the Amorites, of the Parasites.

  406. I had to read this name 47 different times.

  407. You never hear stories of the Anakims even in history.

  408. I, I, I tried to find what, what, who were these people?

  409. Who were these sons of Anok that lived in the place that Caleb

  410. was trying to take? And there's no recorded history

  411. of them besides the encounter that they had with the people of

  412. God. Caleb had it inside of himself,

  413. built just a little bit different that if God has called

  414. me to take the land, then I'm going to take it all the way.

  415. And if God has called me to destroy all of the idols and to

  416. cut down all of the things that might oppose his will, if he's

  417. called me to a greater holiness, if he's called me to a greater

  418. standard, then I'm not going to stand in His way.

  419. And Caleb, Caleb is the only one of all of the Israelites that

  420. destroyed them, completely eradicated them from history.

  421. No record of the people that Caleb fought.

  422. Musicians, if you want to come on up, Caleb was built

  423. different. Caleb was built in a unique way

  424. preceded just another moment. Just bear with me.

  425. Caleb had a different encounter with the presence of God.

  426. Caleb had an understanding that if I ever get back to the shores

  427. of Jordan, if I ever get access to my children, if I ever get

  428. access to my grandchildren, if I ever get to speak to this

  429. generation, then I'm going to make sure that everything that

  430. would have blocked us from our promise is torn out completely.

  431. There has to be a SO inside of the Apostolic Church that says

  432. I'm going to tear down every idol.

  433. Caleb was there on the battlefields, on the frontline,

  434. by choice. He was taking his territory by

  435. choice. Caleb had something different

  436. inside of him. I don't want to have just an

  437. accidental encounter with an angel's wing.

  438. I want to have the spirit of a living God inside of me.

  439. Amen. I want to have the presence of

  440. God inside of me. But I'm gonna need you to give

  441. me something high because I'm feeling real good right now.

  442. Can we stand today? I want to tell you that the

  443. presence of God living in you, it's not just something that we

  444. talk about. It's not just I don't want you

  445. to think that I'm just preaching Holy Ghost cliches.

  446. The spirit of a living God. They called him Elohim is inside

  447. of you. They called him Jehovah Rapha,

  448. He's inside of you. They called him Jehovah Shalom.

  449. He's inside of you. They called him Jehovah Nisi.

  450. He's inside of you. This one true living God is

  451. dwelling on the inside of man. You become a temple Jesus,

  452. Jesus, Jesus. He's waiting for somebody to act

  453. just a little bit different. He's waiting for somebody to

  454. step out and be different in your community, to be different

  455. in your school, to be different at your job.

  456. When other people are, when other people are going out

  457. drinking, you're the one that say no, I don't even need that.

  458. When other people are going for smoke breaks.

  459. It's you that's standing there saying, you know what?

  460. I don't need that right now because my God has made me a

  461. temple and it's spirit dwells inside of me.

  462. Don't you know that? I've been bloodborne again.

  463. I've been washed and sanctified. I've been delivered.

  464. I wish somebody, I wish somebody understood that you're a one God

  465. Apostolic. Don't talk it.

  466. Holy, rolling, born again, heaven, not believer.

  467. Jesus, Jesus, Jesus. Zephaniah 317 says, The Lord,

  468. thy God in the midst of thee is mighty.

  469. He will save, and he will rejoice over thee with joy.

  470. He will rest in his love, and he will joy over thee with singing,

  471. with singing. Understand some of us as

  472. Christians, some Christians, the song that Jesus sings over them

  473. is Jesus loves me. This I know for the Bible tells

  474. me so. Some people it's Father Abraham

  475. and many sons because you have all the right history, you have

  476. the right pedigree, and that's fantastic.

  477. And some people are singing, I'm sold out and the presence of God

  478. is right there and you got a little church bump in you.

  479. But here's what I want. I want God to sing Wild Thing.

  480. I want to be just a little bit different.

  481. I don't want to fit in the status quo.

  482. I don't want to have church as usual.

  483. I want the Spirit of God inside of me and throwing out of me.

  484. Can I tell a story? Am I right?

  485. Can I tell a story? Princess within conference.

  486. Awesome, fantastic. But I'm going to be real honest,

  487. it was tight. Everything was amazing.

  488. The preaching was incredible, the music was amazing, the

  489. testimonies were top notch, but it was tight and I just I felt

  490. it even from the first day. I'm like God, break something in

  491. here, break something in here. And, and it was the last person,

  492. the last person that was getting prayer.

  493. Sister Wendy brought her up to a couple of us and I, I just

  494. happened to be annoyingly and uncomfortably right in the front

  495. and she brought this lady, this older lady up and said the

  496. chaplains asked us if we'll pray for her.

  497. She has liver cancer. They've used all of their

  498. resources inside that facility and there's nothing that they

  499. can do for her. There's nothing else that they

  500. can do. They're trying to get other

  501. things, but it doesn't look like it's going to happen.

  502. And so the chaplain asked if we would pray for her and Sister

  503. Wendy. And I know it was all of her

  504. face. She said, can you pray that God

  505. heals her liver? And in my heart, I wanted to do,

  506. I'm just going to be real honest.

  507. Every part of me, Brother McGee was like, boy, you better spit

  508. in tongues. You know I'm talking about that

  509. shake, that old liver right out of her.

  510. That was the very first thought that I had, was be obedient to

  511. the chaplain and do what Sister Wendy just asked you to do and

  512. speak life over this lady. And then something else just

  513. triggered inside of me. I was driving down or up here

  514. from McAlester, OK. I passed through Saint Louis.

  515. And there was a family that I've never met before.

  516. And their baby was in the hospital.

  517. He was dying. He didn't have kidneys and his

  518. he had no bladder. He was born with that.

  519. And he lived for a month and a half.

  520. And they were like, this is his last days.

  521. We didn't even expect to have him.

  522. And so they're like, Brother Graham, can you please go pray?

  523. And I said, absolutely, I'm going to make my way through

  524. Saint Louis. It's an awful city.

  525. It is what it is. And I'm going to go pray with

  526. this family that I have no idea who they are.

  527. And so I, I go into the hospital and I walk in and I'm, you know,

  528. Holy Ghost sanctified, anointed from the Lord.

  529. And I walk in and I said, my name is Pastor Graham and I, I

  530. just, I'm here to pray with you. And would you mind if I

  531. interrupt? And of course, all the family is

  532. there and there and, and I said, can I just pray?

  533. And, and there was like, there was a sense of urgency inside of

  534. me, but there was also a discomfort that overspoke the

  535. voice of urgency. I'm just being real honest with

  536. you. And so I did the Apostolic

  537. thing. Oh, and I prayed and I grabbed

  538. that mama's hands and I spoke in tongues.

  539. And I wept over that baby that died just six hours later.

  540. And when I got into my truck, I felt the presence of the Lord

  541. say, yeah, what did she want you to pray for?

  542. And then, of course, well, Lord, I'm such a failure.

  543. Look what I did wrong. God, give me another chance to

  544. just ask somebody what you want them to do.

  545. So Sister Wendy brings this lady in front of me, the end of the

  546. Princess Within conference. It says, pray for a liver.

  547. And my first reaction was thwarted but by the presence of

  548. God. And in that moment, I just

  549. looked at her and I said, what do you want God to do for you?

  550. I know, I knew. They want to see a miracle.

  551. They want to report that her liver is completely whole.

  552. And she just looked at me with just such old sweet eyes.

  553. And she said, I just want to wake up in the morning and

  554. smile. And my heart broke.

  555. We talked a little bit longer and I said it sounds like what

  556. you're really wanting God to do is just give you peace.

  557. Then I asked her. I said, do you believe that God

  558. can heal your liver? She said no, I don't think he

  559. can. So the prayer that I prayed over

  560. her with all Apostolic authority was according to your faith, be

  561. it unto you. And after we prayed the presence

  562. of God was there. I said, you use the word for

  563. yourself, for your body. That is nothing but waste.

  564. I said, you know God doesn't see you like that.

  565. Then I began to tell her story after story of people I know

  566. personally that were healed of cancer.

  567. I know them personally. I've seen it.

  568. I've seen broken joints come back into place, bones restored,

  569. paralyzed woman came into my office and within 4 sessions was

  570. walking. I've seen God do incredible

  571. things. And I just told her at the end

  572. of our conversation, we will pray for you, but I will pray

  573. that God increases your faith. So my question for this church,

  574. if you can bow your heads, really, what do you want God to

  575. do for you? What territory did he put in

  576. front of you that only you can walk through with your eyes?

  577. What field is in front of you that doesn't look like a

  578. peaceful place, but looks like it might be inhabited by giants?

  579. For everyone in this building, the question is what are you

  580. going to fight for? Because it might just be that

  581. your experience with the giants in front of you becomes your

  582. origin story. It might be that the most

  583. difficult season in front of you is actually where your ministry

  584. comes from. It might be that He's called you

  585. to deeper levels and deeper places, but you're afraid of the

  586. enemy on the other side. These altars are open.

  587. He was in the world. The world was made by him, and

  588. the world knew him not, and he came unto his own.

  589. His own didn't receive him, but as many as received him.

  590. Those are the people that receive power.

  591. But what are you and I going to do with the power that God gave

  592. us? If the living God is inside of

  593. you, if you are full of the Holy Spirit, if God is working in you

  594. and through you, what are you willing to be used for?

  595. I guarantee it's going to be uncomfortable.

  596. I guarantee it's going to be a stretch of the imagination.

  597. I guarantee it's going to push you in the lands that you were

  598. not expecting. But I can also guarantee that

  599. your children and your grandchildren are going to have

  600. an inheritance tense. Jesus, Jesus, Jesus, Jesus,

  601. Jesus, have your way, God, Jesus, have your way.

  602. God help us to be built different.

  603. Lord God help us to be built different.

  604. Jesus, God, I pray that you would put a fire in his heel

  605. inside of me, Lord God, that presses out into every corner of

  606. my field. Lord God, help me to reach my

  607. community. Jesus, Jesus name, come on

  608. church, if you're full of the Holy Ghost, I want you to pray

  609. in tongues. I want you to weep in the

  610. presence of a living God. I want you to claim some

  611. territory today that the enemy has told you you don't have

  612. access to anymore. Jesus, Jesus name Jesus name.

  613. Jesus name Jesus name Jesus, I thank you for the anointing,

  614. God. Jesus, pour out your spirit.

  615. God, Lord, pour out your presence.

  616. God, pour out your anointing. Lord Hallelujah.

  617. Hallelujah, Jesus. Hallelujah, Hallelujah.

  618. Come on church. Press in just a little bit.

  619. Press in just a little bit further.

  620. Jesus draws closer to your spirit, God.

  621. Lord, I pray for your anointing, God.

  622. I pray for your presence, God. Lord, I thank you, Jesus for

  623. your spirit and authority. God, I thank you, Lord, for the

  624. calling on their lives. Lord, I thank you God for your

  625. holiness. God, Hallelujah.

  626. Jesus, I thank you God for what you're doing right now.

  627. Lord Jesus name pour not your spirit, God your way right now.

  628. Lord Jesus name in Jesus name, Jesus name.

  629. Come on church, let's pray for a little while.

  630. Begin to speak the name of your children.

  631. Now begin to speak the name of your grandchildren.

  632. Now it's time to take back the land.

  633. Jesus, Jesus, Jesus, I'm taking back the land.

  634. I'm taking back the property. God, I'm taking back my

  635. inheritance. God, I'm taking back the

  636. generation. Jesus, break up generational

  637. curses right now. Lord Jesus name, pour out your

  638. spirit God. Lord God, I'm an empty best to

  639. before you. God, I pour myself out before

  640. you. Hallelujah.

  641. Hallelujah. Jesus, Jesus, Jesus.

  642. Jesus. Jesus.

  643. Jesus. Jesus.

  644. Jesus. Jesus.

  645. Jesus. Jesus.

  646. Jesus, Jesus. Jesus, Jesus, Jesus, Jesus,

  647. Jesus, Jesus, Jesus, Jesus. I just feel the Spirit of the

  648. Lord saying right now you will live and you will not die.

  649. I've sent angels before you to go before you to tear through

  650. the land that's in front of you. Every obstacle will be torn down

  651. and laid waste. Every burden will be set aside.

  652. I will carry you through the land.

  653. I will carry you too. A resting place.

  654. Jesus. Jesus.

  655. Oh, I give myself to you, Lord. I empty myself to you, Lord

  656. Jesus. God.

  657. Yes, God. Jesus.

  658. My city, Jesus, I give you, all of me, I surrend Jesus.

  659. Jesus, I recall on your name, Lord.

  660. Recall on your name, Lord. I recall on your name, Jesus.

  661. Jesus. I won't hold anything back,

  662. Lord. I don't won't hold anything

  663. back, Lord. I don't won't hold anything

  664. back, Lord. God.

  665. Take my past and use it for your glory, God.

  666. Take my history and use it for ministry, Lord.

  667. God. Take everything that I have,

  668. Lord, and use it for your glory, God.

  669. I give myself to you, Lord Jesus.

  670. I give myself to you, Lord. Yes, God.

  671. I thank you, Lord. Yeah.