Here Is Home Series: 10.04.26 The Drought Is Over | Pastor Bryan Powe

declaring by faith that the drought is over.

Now, I know everybody has a different drought,

but no matter what drought you have, we all have

the same God. And so, um, he's a God that, uh,

that overflows us. And, you know, we started

these last three weeks of our here's home series

and say, God, we gonna get this thing together

before the new year. And so, I'm so excited about

today's message. It's centered just around what

they were singing. You know, what a privilege

we have to carry everything to God in prayer.

And as a church, our prayer lives are in the

grave somewhere. And by the end of this message,

prayerfully, our prayer lives will come out of

that grave and have some glory on it. Go ahead,

go ahead, look at your neighbor. You know I love

you looking for your neighbor. Say, hey neighbor,

I'm declaring greater glory over your prayer

life that um let me say this a believer that

doesn't seek god is a believer that doesn't know

god and so we cannot find ourselves in an alignment

with a god we do not seek in prayer what a privilege

that song is so rich what a privilege we have

to carry everything to god in prayer because

at one point in time you couldn't just take what

you had to God in prayer but what a privilege

due to the life of Jesus the sacrifice of Jesus

that we live beneath an open heaven that heaven's

ears are open to your request that is a privilege

that is an honor that when we speak we have a

God who listens that hears you The heartfelt

fervent prayers of the righteous availeth much

and are dynamic, powerful in their working. And

man, I'm just stirred up about what I know is

going to happen and break out in our lives as

a result of returning back to that. And so if

you would, go me the book of Haggai. I'll get

it right before the end of the year, y 'all.

verse one and we'll go to verse five. I'm reading

the ESV version and it says now therefore thus

says the Lord of hosts consider your ways you

have sown much and have harvested little you

eat but you never have enough you drink but you

never have your fill you clove yourselves but

no one is warm he who earns wages does so so

does so to put them into a bag with holes verse

7 thus says the Lord of hosts consider your ways

what is happening here and we've been studying

the book of Haggai what is happening here you

guys should be able to tell me what's happening

right now but we'll keep we'll get together together

but what is happening right now is the prophet

Haggai had came to the people of Israel at that

time and they didn't realize and they were not

aware of why they were working so much yet not

living a blessed life. Um, they were perplexed,

confused and were unable to connect the dots

of why they were going through what they were

going through. And so Haggai says this simple

thing, consider your ways. And it's amazing sometimes.

And it's one of the greatest attempts of Satan

is he loves to disconnect our present situations

from our kingdom alignment. He really loves for

us to not point towards our kingdom alignment

when it comes to what we are going through naturally.

He wants us to never connect those two dots.

He wants us to look at our lives naturally and

think it has nothing to do with how I'm walking

spiritually. But Haggai said, consider your ways.

Because as it turns out, as believers, the lives

we live is directly connected to the kingdom

pursuit we have. That everything about your life

is the fruit of how you are prioritizing the

kingdom of God. That as you prioritize the kingdom

of God you can expect a life full of glory Because

of your alignment not even your ability Y 'all

gotta rock with me a little harder than that

because that's the blessing. That's that supernatural

effect that it's no longer my education that

determines my altitude because of my alignment

with God's kingdom I have a grace on my life

and so the limitations I once had as a person

without God they are now no longer on my life.

that I live a life according to God's desires

and plans for my life. I have disconnected from

this world system and I'm now a part of the kingdom

of God. That's where we get this boldness and

we say I'm in this world but not of this world,

right? Look at Jeremy said, I'm in this world

and I'm not of this world. and so this world

has a system and the kingdom has a system and

Satan loves for you to be so consumed by the

world that you forget how I act in the kingdom

determines how I live in this world I've been

elevated to y 'all y 'all getting excited already

y 'all know we got a long way to go but my god

we are not subject to we don't have to conform

to we don't have to listen to that headlines

To determine our altitude no more because we

have a god who sees us loves us Overlooks all

of the things concerning our lives and says I

love the bible says who is man that you are so

mindful of them You have a god who is mindful

of you thinking about you and you ain't even

thinking about him It's revealing truth I'm so

glad there's a God who thinks about me when I'm

not even thinking about him That's the beauty

of being a child of God And he says he's greater

than a natural father, right? And you know throughout

the day there's times right there's times You

know where I'll be just at my home Amber will

be at school and something will just hit me like

man Brian pray Don't worry Don't be concerned

You get that little notification on your phone

that someone's broken into a school, but you

haven't been able to research which school, so

that Satan tries to attack your mind to think

that something is happening to your child. Here's

the thing, we are not subject to what the world

is subject to, that you have a kingdom, kingdom

relationship, that you can call down heaven from

wherever you are to invade wherever they are,

and you can call angels to mount guard around

your child. that you don't even have to be physically

holding them for them to be held. Y 'all hear

what I'm saying? What a God that I don't even

have to be in proximity to cover and protect

my family. What a God. What a God. What a privilege

we have to carry everything to God in prayer

that as soon as it hits us, we have the ability

to know that heaven hears us. Angels are beside

us and we have the ability to speak and they

go This is what we call a part of your new covenant.

You didn't work for it. You didn't earn it and

you sure don't deserve it We're not gonna talk

about how you don't deserve it. We all know We

already know but what a God so gracious So kind

that he doesn't act like we do Judge our love

based on how we've been loved, you know, the

thing was their lives were in ruin They're walking

around worried about things That they shouldn't

have to worry about because of how is it more

distracting than y 'all than it is to me? I'm

looking at one by way. Everybody's trying to

locate the cell phone. You know I'm saying I'm

having to look past y 'all looking the cell phone

itself and keep on preaching Lord Jesus My little

pause cuz until it turned off y 'all ain't even

gonna look y 'all know y 'all listening and looking

Amen and so They're at this place to where? What

should be working ain't working just to make

it plain and had guys Prophecy and word to them

was consider your ways Why am I saying this?

Because everything we just shout about is true

And so you have to ask yourself, if you are not

experiencing that, what is going on? You have

to consider your ways. I think this is a good

moment. Look at your neighbor again. Say, hey

neighbor, I didn't get a chance to say this when

you was complaining to me earlier in the week.

But now that we in church and there's a grace

available, for me to tell the truth I heard everything

you said but have you considered your ways right

so you got to use the grace that's available

in the sanctuary you were gonna got cussed out

if you would have said that on Wednesday but

on Sunday you could get away with a little more

truth I heard what you said I don't see how you

haven't connected that you causing it but check

this out go with me to Haggai 2 in 19 If you

move in more than one page you going too far.

It said is the seed I think I want to go further

back. Nobody got a cell phone that can ring right

now. I want to go to verse 6 so I'll go way back

put a tab on 19 It says for thus says the Lord

of hosts Yet once more in a little while I will

shake the heavens and the earth and the sea the

dry land and I will shake all the nations so

that the treasures of all the nations shall come

in and I will fill this house with glory says

the Lord of hosts the silver is mine the gold

is mine declares the Lord of hosts the latter

glory of this house shall be greater than the

former says the Lord of hosts and in this place

I will give it peace declares the Lord And so

I wanted you to put a pin here because once you

see the sequence, because this sequence truly

works and stands true in our lives today. What

was spot number one? Things weren't operating

the way they should. And by mean the way they

should, I'm saying not at the rate of your effort,

but at the rate of his glory. That as believers

our lives are should not be living at an even

exchange You shouldn't be living at the level

of your qualifications The evidence that we are

believers of God is that our life supersedes

our qualifications I know God's hands on me because

everything my hands touch is bigger than me.

That's That's the life of a believer. I told

you all the time, you may not be suffering, but

if your life is living one for one, you still

need more glory to come because you should be

in a position that's greater than your education.

You should be living somewhere that's greater

than your ability to afford. You should be driving

something. Everything about your life should

have a level of glory on it. What is that? That's

God's evidence that His hand is on your life.

There should be, your life should not make sense.

And so it's not just about a drought of saying,

I'm missing. It's also a drought of saying my

life is lacking supernatural. Y 'all rocking

with me. Just trying to make sure everybody in

the room is listening. Cause you may not have

no issues, but you also don't have no glory.

So what's the, all right. I told you these last

two weeks gonna be a little different. Just a

little different. That's it. That's it, you know

You know go we call you come out that grave and

you in there on us sleeping on a what they call

that mattress Always mess it up. You got one

of them see Lee. So you got a sleep number You

got a sleep number in a in a grave with a sleep

number Comfortable in the grave. You know what

I'm saying? That thing is temp. You got a temperature

control mattress, you know Sleeping in life,

and I know to sleep is good, but you ain't supposed

to be laying Horizontal in life you're supposed

to be vertical about the Lord's Word So they

start to consider their ways Watch this sequence

what we just read there God then Gives them a

promise. That's what this is He says hey as you

seek me I will cause The latter house to be greater

than the former house that you're not just Seeking

me without knowing the fruit of your seeking

But as we've been saying to every promise There

should be a path and so he keeps saying consider

your ways You are very aware of where you are

You are also aware of what God has promised But

you have not experienced the fruit of what he

promised and he's saying To us like he was saying

to them You don't have a promise problem You

don't have a God problem You have a consideration

problem. You have yet to connect Where you are?

To what you doing? Y 'all all right now, let's

go to verse 19. It says the seed yet in the barn

indeed the vine the fig tree the pomegranate

the olive tree have yielded nothing but from

this day on I will bless you so right so we have

three points that first point stuff ain't where

it's supposed to be had y 'all consider your

ways as they begin to consider their ways God

says promise I'm across the ladder To be greater

than the former About time we get the verse 19.

He said the seed is yet in the barn yet today

I call you blessed. So what happened? So they

started to reprioritize God's way in Between

them verses they considered their ways and realize

we have not putting been putting the kingdom

first At that point they have been putting their

comfort first they've been putting many things

first some of us are putting many things first

and we haven't considered that maybe God is withholding

the rain for you to reconsider your ways and

so they reconsidered their ways and this is where

you see the supernatural whenever you see me

smiling it's a good thing he said the seed is

yet to be planted yet today I call you ladies

and gentlemen see this is what we call supernatural

because what God was telling them although you

haven't even enacted the biblical principle of

seed time and harvest because of your immediate

consideration and immediate reprioritization

I now call a supernatural blessing on you before

the harvest has even arrived from the crops you

are planting to plant but I see your heart is

now fixed on doing what I'm saying should be

prioritized and because of your heart posture

alone you haven't even done the work yet but

your heart is shifted and said you know what

from now on for me in my house We are going to

serve the Lord. We have yet to actually serve

him, but we know a God that judges the hearts

and the intents of men. You come to find out

that there was only 23 days in between the curse

and the blessing. Was less than a month turn

around from their consideration to their overflow

y 'all rocking with me just a little like God

said I see that your heart is in the right place

and I'm the type of God that I don't have to

wait on your natural ability to enact my Supernatural

capabilities. He said the sea is still in the

barn yet today you shall be blessed see God All

knowing he's omnipotent and so he already knows

what you're gonna do before you gonna do it And

so he didn't have to wait for them to do it to

know they was gonna do it because he lives both

in there the request and in the response of it

and So because he knows that they were going

to do it, which they did do it He didn't decide

to wait on them to do it. He decided right now

bless He declared the drought over before the

seed hit the soil. You got to hear this Simply

because with all sincerity said God enough so

not to leave you somewhere Wondering there's

three things that God told us as a church. We

have gotten out of Alignment and today is about

Seeking say hey neighbor. It's time to seek him

first thing about that is The bible tells of

course y 'all know the matthew 6 and 33 to seek

ye first the kingdom of god And his righteousness

and what all these things will be added onto

you What is it talking about? It's talking about

every natural thing you need in life is a by

-product of prioritizing Him. What's the promise?

You ain't got to worry about nothing What's the

pathway? Pray about everything and if we're gonna

be a honest church today We ain't praying about

everything definitely and in most cases a lot

of people they're not even praying with the pure

heart so even the prayers they are praying fall

short and so the power activated through prayer

is also missing because believe it or not not

every prayer is responded to not everything you

say God gonna do he has no obligation to respond

To what you say that doesn't align with his way

none Matter of fact is very clear that Don't

even expect power in your prayer when it's not

first aligned with my way Y 'all alright We already

shot us so we should be able to dive in now Because

here's the truth truth is the fruit of prioritizing

God's way is a life overflowing with this glory

Here's the other truth. The truth is when the

kingdom God is no longer prioritized. I switched

this one up Life grows heavy and peace becomes

distant. I Switched that one up and I was standing

over here and worship. That's what it was coming

in the church They good, but ain't that fast,

right? Don't write Well, you know right now whatever

applies to you one last point before we move

forward that want you to see and it's very simple

very simple just just take Don't let nobody mess

with this. God is always eager to bless you.

This is important because if I have solidified

in my heart, in my mind that God is always eager

to bless me, then I'm always stirred up about

being aligned with him. But if I think that he's

not eager to bless, I will walk delayed in my

alignment. The reason why we read through that

is because he was eager to bless them. He blessed

them before they start doing the work, because

God is always eager to bless us. What do you

mean, Pastor Brian? The moment you committed

to salvation, he gave you all spiritual blessings

in heavenly places. He gave you the ability to

know that your eternity is secured in heaven.

You didn't do a thing. And he did everything.

Because God is always eager to bless you. I'm

gonna shout that at y 'all neighbor. Say, hey

neighbor, God is always eager to bless you. So

here's home. Has it been about us living with

those truths? And also understanding that God

doesn't like double -minded people. So the first

thing I need to consider is have I declared home

so that that eager God can flow the way he desires

to. Because a double -minded man is unstable

in all his ways. He should not expect to believe

he's received anything from God. And I tell this

to people, if you there, You might as well be

fully committed where your body is located because

there's an eager God who flows according to undivided

people so it's of my benefit that even if I don't

like it, I still remain committed to where my

body is because if there's gonna be a Supernatural

moment in this God is waiting for me to agree.

I'm staying where he gonna bless Well, we try

to say God bless it so I'll stay Baby, that ain't

faith That's manipulation and if we're not careful,

that's exactly what our prayers sound like show

me God So that I can finally commit to where

I am Wait a minute. So you're saying right now.

You don't know if you commit it Because my word

wasn't enough So now you need physical evidence.

When faith is the substance of things hoped for,

the evidence of things not seen. So you're praying

for me to bless what you ain't even committed

to staying in. Ladies and gentlemen, that's a

double -minded person. And then positioning your

prayers as though God has to do what you say

so that you can finally do what he say. The Bible

has never worked like that. The Bible is always

going in the other direction That because of

what I said You now step out in trust in faith

knowing that I'm a promise keeper and I'm eager

to bless those who are aligned with what I desire

So our question isn't God. What should I be doing?

I'll tell you all time. I'll tell you all time

We'd be we'd be waking up in the morning and

be praying all wrong Don't wanna hear it. We

wake up and say God. What do you want me to do?

Wrong. The prayer is, God, what are you doing

that I can be a part of? Because you, you are

doing God. The blessing is out here today. Something's

going to be glorified. The grace is available

today. Right now, God is moving miraculously

somewhere. And if you think you could convince

him to move his somewhere to where you are you

wrong No, you supposed to pray to him So you

where he is not so that he goes where you are?

Because where you are might not be where you

supposed to be and what happens when God starts

blessing places We no longer supposed to be in

we stay around Preach with me. This is himself.

I will and we wake up everyday screaming God

like Our will be your will. It's never been it.

I like him. I like her. God, make it work. Interested.

I like this. I'm comfortable here. These people,

they treat me straight. It goes vice versa. Because

I've been in some seasons where, God, I don't

like them. When did I ask you, Brian? God, change

them. And he's like, I'm trying to change you.

Bit them. I'm using them. To help you sharpen

your ways. I'm trying to tell you I'm trying

to tell you God had given me this beautiful vision

of this thing I'm trying I'm trying I'm trying

to keep this light because this is real and I

ain't trying to get in deeper trouble But hear

me when I say what I'm saying is very real, but

I'm leaving the parties uninvolved God had given

me this beautiful vision bringing people together

the first person I brought in Sued me I was about

his man Boy boy boy boy Just ignorance on overload

Ignite statement after ignorant statement and

it was I know it was chat GP talking cuz you

ain't never put a sentence together like that

and if y 'all don't know there's certain things

I'm all right with and When you know hear what

I'm saying when you know where home is you fight

different They said sue I said go ahead not a

problem for me that thing the prayer first of

all my prayers sounded a lot like a lot of y

'all prayers sounded prayerfully before this

service and they change after this one I said

God get rid of them move them make this seamless

make this easy father may you just give me the

wisdom and all this stuff all this stuff all

this stuff all this stuff I don't know how long

I was on that street it was I ain't gonna lie

to y 'all it wasn't a quick turnaround It took

a long time for me to realize God was shouting

consider your ways y 'all know cuz prayer changes

things The problem is prayer changes everything

God wants to change Prayer doesn't change anything.

He wants to stay the same That's the other half

of it that they need more on a t -shirt So I'm

praying all the stuff about ready to throw oil

or anything and everything It ain't doing nothing

intensifying and then God when I finally Stop

trying to impose my want to My desire what I

wanted to see happen. I finally heard heaven

open up and God says take notes They are testing

everything that's missing about what needs to

be structurally sound you get this right and

Everything's set up and safe for everybody to

come. This wasn't free. I'm just one short process.

So I hire an attorney Say if somebody were to

say these same things, what do we need to have

in place? What needed to be this and what needed

to be that and what needed to be this? God was

helping me to protect what he was designing to

never fail. So Man, it was amazing from that

moment. I would just be at random places Ask

people just casual conversations. What do you

do? I'm an entertainment attorney God start putting

people in my path to help me Move forward now

that my heart was open to what he was desiring

to do I could have been in them same places But

with a closed heart because I think somebody

doing me wrong and it's not what God wants But

now that I'm in the location realizing, you know

what? God is a part of what's happening and God

is shaping me in what's happening. So now my

heart is open in the same locations. So now when

they say I'm an intern, an entertainment attorney,

I'm saying to myself, God, you put another person

in the path. Y 'all all right? I'm about to have

to stop rocking because um, put John, first John

five and 14. First of all, give it up for the

worship team. I was trying to understand what

type of worship team coordinates Leopard. What's

that color? Enteal. Boy, I said, y 'all know

y 'all show know how to dress. Y 'all hear me?

I said, Leopard Enteal? That's crazy. Y 'all

saw how coordinated they were? Some y 'all got

a, what? Y 'all got on Leopard too. Y 'all got

the memo? You didn't get the memo. You was in

the spirit. You got the memo though. you got

the memo you got the memo did you get the memo

some y 'all be praying for you put on your outfit

huh anyway i was giving them time to put first

john up there first john five and 14 it's all

right y 'all it's all right to have uh we you

know there it is this is the confidence which

we have before him that if we ask anything What

church he hears us 15 the blood brothers also

wearing red ties and black outfits I thought

I'd do another commercial there it is and if

we know that he hears us in whatever we We know

that we have the request which we have asked

for him in other words that When your prayer

is aligned with God's will The request is granted.

So what is this saying to us? What's the promise?

The promise is a God who says yes. What's the

pathway? A request that's aligned with what he

wants. Y 'all got to hear this. This is really

big because I'm about to, you got to hear this.

This is big. This is big. So, but this is the

foundation to that point. The promise is a God

who says yes. Put it in the ELT NLT. It's a little

Some of y 'all like that NSB got me tripping

pastor go back to 14 It says and we are confident

that he hears us whenever we ask for anything

that Him and since we know he hears us when we

make our requests We also know that he will give

us what we ask for So, what's the promise? God

says yes to prayers. What's the path? What I'm

asking for pleases him. So if the request pleases

him, the answer is what? I'll do this one more

time because I need to say something. So if the

request pleases him, the answer is yes. This

is so important that you see this. Because it

also lets us know there are things we need that

require a request There are things God is waiting

on your requests So he can grant it try to get

you stirred up about praying Because none of

this matters if there aren't things waiting.

He's waiting for us to request What are you saying?

That's right. There are things that God is eager

to do That he's waiting on you to request Because

prayer isn't just me asking God for things. It's

evidence that I'm aligned with him Okay, so prayer

Isn't me asking God for things Prayer is evidence

that I am aligned with him Because anything that

I ask in prayer that pleases him. He says yes,

so it tells me What should I be praying? I should

be praying what's in a line with his will. My

prayer is evidence. I am for y 'all the smart

church. And so prayer is important because it's

physical evidence that my heart and my mind are

aligned with heaven's ways. So it's not just

casual. It's not just an option. It is how I

show others, God, that my heart is where his

is. And so every day I wake up and align my prayers

with his desires. This isn't something I do out

of mere routine. This is something I prioritize.

I cannot expect to have an open heaven while

living an unaligned life. So God, I wake up.

I want to turn to this day. Without you getting

the ability to capture desires that are not of

you and stopping them before I even start walking

towards them Hey God, this is what I'm planning

on doing today When's the last time you presented

your schedule before God before you left the

door with it father not my will Your will be

done. I'm sitting here Asking you as my father

the one who watches over me the one who sets

my paths above any natural thing I could do in

my own strength. Father, if there's anything

here that's not of your will, make it plain to

me. If there's anything here that you don't want

me a part of, make it plain to me. If there's

places I was planning on being for a little while

that you want me to stick along longer, let me

know, Father. I call this playing less. but also

give you the opportunity to mold it, to shift

it. We're living in a world where I cannot afford

to be where I ain't supposed to be. People out

here shooting, people out there, car wrecks all

over the place. There's fear on the airways,

and God has not given me a spirit of fear, but

of love. power, and a sound mind. You know what?

Now that I'm done praying over my schedule, hand

me my child's schedule. Because these are the

classrooms they'll be walking in, and the teachers

they'll be before. Not just my child. Hand me

my wife's schedule. Hand me my husband's schedule.

Hand me my grandma's schedule. Show me, God,

what there will be. I will anoint every place

that their feet will tread before they take a

step into it. Father, surely grace and mercy

shall be with me in my house. I'll plead the

blood of Jesus over everything and every space

we will touch. Heaven will show up before we

even enter the room. God! Bring me the business

plan for the day. Let's anoint that too. God

bring me this ship Let's anoint that too before

our foot leaves this place We will declare the

goodness of God over everything We touch and

no plot or enemy plan from satan will come near

our house as for me in my house We shall serve

the lord. We will walk in peace. We walk in prosperity.

We will have security We will have stability

This is the day you have made and we choose to

rejoice and be exceedingly glad in it God you're

giving us supernatural wisdom beyond our understanding

You're touching each one of us right now turning

any hearts of stone to hearts of flesh God you're

flipping repeat people around they came in with

the evil plan But they will meet good and the

goodness of God will turn it all around I present

this To you calling healing that vision down

before I ever take a step outside of this house

I'm gonna bless everywhere. We go Praying church.

Are we seeking church? Are we truly pleading?

The blood and the promises of god over our life

i'ma tell you the truth and it's okay. We're

not but we need to consider our ways we need

to consider our Because there is a God who is

eager to bless you, yet while the seed is still

in the barn. And I can testify, he's blessed

me so many times when the seed was still in the

barn. I didn't even get going in what the thing

was. But you can never underestimate what God

would do with a heart and a life that's submitted

to him. Never underestimate it. I'm gonna end

right here. I'm gonna have them send it out to

you. But I did, I'ma just say it, but right,

prayer has three functions. Speaking, a listening,

and a being present. When you pray, there's parts

where you speak, there's parts where you listen,

and parts where you're just present. I said what

I had to say. Now I'm listening to what you have

to say. And now I'ma sit, because there may be

something that needs to change. So we speak,

we listen, we enter those gates with thanksgiving.

We enter them courts with praise. Thank you,

God. Prayer aligns our focus. It aligns our hearts

and it postures us. So I wanna leave that moment

with him, trusting that he'll be with me. I wanna

leave that moment having surrendered my grip

on what should be and submitted it to what he

desires it to be. I don't leave that moment.

You know, we all go into a day with a goal at

the end. But the last thing you want to do is

say, God, what is your goal? Church, let me just

say this upfront. This won't happen in the comfort

of your current schedule. It won't. It won't.

And I'm going to say something, because it just

has to be said, that if you're not in a place

where you're willing to put down your comfort

for this, I pray that in the day you're trying

to figure out what's going on, that you remember

this message and consider your ways. I pray that

you never question. the power of prayer the eagerness

of your god to bless you and that there's a hope

in heaven above you those things are all true

but god is not required to do anything that's

not aligned with his way and he gives us an opportunity

every day to make sure we are aligned with him

what privilege what a privilege it is to take

Father God, I pray for your people that are here.

I pray that this word settles deep down in their

souls. I pray that they begin to water this word

and they begin to walk boldly with this word.

I pray that they realize that new life requires

new community, that they bring accountability

into this. I pray that before they leave this

sanctuary, leave this day, that the same way

they would get in a group chat about meeting

at the gym, I'm in one of those, that they get

in a group chat about praying together seeking

you. Are you up yet? Have you prayed yet? May

that become common language amongst your people.

May we give the same fervency that we do to our

natural goals, to our spiritual life. May we

not take this and hide it in our little cubby

But may we be bold and say I've considered my

ways help me brother Help me sister. I need to

go where I haven't been and rarely do people

get to another level by themselves May we be

just as radical about prioritizing his kingdom

God showed me something and it broke my heart.

We have to be serious about this God showed me

said we are witnessing the last generation of

praying grandmamas. Because these mamas don't

know how to pray. And whatever one generation

neglects, the next forgives. And so if we don't

get this generation of mamas serious about prayer,

these testimonies of us hearing that it was a

grandmama standing in the gap, they will cease

to exist. And so I had Miss Melissa opened up

the service because that's a praying mama. I

asked Pastor Deborah to come up. She's a praying

mama. And if there's any mamas in here and you

want to be stirred up, future mamas, babies mamas,

y 'all know mamas, mamas, all the mamas. I want

you to come up front. Pastor Deborah is going

to lay hands on you and we're going to believe

in faith that the same power and fervency she

has on prayer comes upon your life, because we

cannot have a generation of mamas who don't know

how to pray, because we will have a generation

of wild boys who have no covering. So I want

my mamas to come on up, mamas, babies, mamas,

mamas, drama, anything, everything. Mama, Pastor

Debra's gonna lay hands on you. We gonna turn

this city upside down. And if you know a mama

that ain't in the room, tell them there's something

I got to tell you because we will not be a statistic.

We will not be the church that neglected prayer.

We will not be the mamas that let a generational

beautiful thing die. No, no, no. We call in that

prayer, them praying grandmamas out the grave.

Pastor Deborah, you can start praying. May the

fire of my altar never burn out. Make me a house

of prayer. May the fire of the altar never burn

out. May the fire of my altar never burn out.

May the fire of my altar never burn out. Make

me a house of prayer. May the fire of my altar

never burn out. May the fire of my altar never

burn out. May the fire on my altar never burn

out. Make me a house of prayer. May the fire

on my altar never burn out. May the fire on my

altar never burn out. May the fire on my altar

never burn out. Make me a house of prayer. May

the fire of my altar never burn out May the fire

of my altar never burn out May the fire of my

altar never burn out May the fire of my altar

never burn out May the fire of my altar never

burn out May the fire of my altar never burn

out to receive some communion when you walked

in today as a tradition every first Sunday of

the month we take communion as a church to being

remembrance of the sacrifice of Jesus, the life

he lived, the sacrifice he made, and the new

covenant that we have. And so, I want you to

take the bread. It represents the body of Jesus.

We eat this in remembrance that he was beaten,

ridiculed, mocked, put to shame. We do this because

Satan will try to tell you that somehow, someway,

you are due punishment because of what you've

done. But we know it's not that no one got punished.

Jesus took on the punishment. And so we eat this

in remembrance of the punishment he took in place

of us. It's called substitutionary atonement.

It means that someone took the penalty you deserved.

So we eat this in remembering him. You can eat

this at this time. This represents the blood

of Jesus. A covenant cannot be ratified or put

into action. where there's no blood shed. So

they previously used to shed lambs and goats,

but Jesus came as the final sacrifice, the holy

lamb of God. And so when they pierced his side

while he was on that cross, they were unaware

that they were sealing this new covenant that

we now live in. As his blood came out of his

body, the covenant was ratified that we now,

are forgiven of our sins. We now live underneath

an open heaven. Our eternity has been sealed.

All spiritual blessings aren't earned, they're

given. The grace of God is upon you. You have

unearned, undeserved, unmerited favor everywhere

you go because of the blood that was shed. So

we drink this in remembrance of that covenant.

You can drink it at this time. Now if anybody's

here, You're not saved. You haven't received

Jesus Christ as your personal Lord and Savior.

We would love to introduce you to Jesus Simple

thing I'm gonna ask you to do in this moment

is to say this prayer along with me The Bible

says if you confess with your mouth and believe

in your heart that Jesus died and rose again

You shall be saved. It's a confession and a belief

that leads to salvation. We're gonna say it together

but Father God, I thank you for your son Jesus

I believe He died and he rose again. And when

he rose again, he rose with my forgiveness, my

redemption. I'm now justified. I've been set

apart. Woo! I'm the light of this world. Heaven

is my home. I now have a good work with my name

on it. If you said that prayer for the first

time, church, let's celebrate those who said

that prayer for the first time. You are saved.

Listen if that's you whether you're here in person

or online Let us know the decision you made if

you're online write us inboxes if you're in person

Meet us in the first room on the left as you

leave and we'll be glad to tell you more about

what your Decision to follow Jesus means a man

Also at this time we're gonna receive today's

offering y 'all know here at reveal the truth

ministries We believe in one type of giver a

cheerful giver whose heart is in their giving.

What does that mean, Pastor Brian? That means

that you and God had a conversation about what

you are to give, and in obedience to what he

says, you respond. The Bible tells us we are

not to be forced, coerced, or manipulated into

giving, so we take no parts in that. That is

something you and God have a conversation about,

and in response to what he says, you sow. We

talked about it last week, that sowing is telling

God my heart. Is with you the bible says where

your treasure is your heart is also so it's not

a financial thing It's a posture thing that says

god i'm down with the bo god And so that's what

we sow And I can tell everybody god is not forcing

you to do anything that is not in your heart

to do amen And so you guys may sow at this time

And as you are sowing there's two um Announcements

don't don't put that music on y 'all keep doing

what y 'all doing. You know i'm saying my god

Y 'all see me flowing and y 'all gonna change

the music. You don't say Appreciate it though.

They're just cute to do it whenever these announcements

come up. So they didn't do the wrong thing but

uh Because then y 'all be like y 'all keep messing

passed up. No, they not I'm getting in the way

of what they are trained to do. But anyway There's

an announcement Why are we showing this to you

for your prayers we have been planning our Bahamas

missing strip and this is going to be the biggest

one we've embarked on yet. And so our vision

is always to extend what is happening in our

house to the world. And so what we are planning

to do, check this out y 'all, y 'all ready to

hear something amazing? We're planning to bring

our Christmas production that we do here, there.

And so the beautiful part about it is, They have

the same heart for creativity and art that we

have. And so we're planning on joining forces

with them. And so they'll be playing some parts.

We'll be playing some parts. It'll be a united,

soul -winning effort. We also write, Big Brother

Thaddeus has taken over the joy given here in

Tampa, Florida, but we do the joy given down

in the Bahamas now. So we'll be giving away hundreds

of gifts to kids in the community. It's just

amazing. We'll visit foster homes. We'll visit

Boys prisons and we visit girls prisons. Um,

it's ministry. It's creativity. It's everything.

It's a lot I was telling this yesterday in the

gym. There's a that go to there's a quarter wall

My dad's coat says um, I will not quit therefore

I cannot be defeated but the one immediately

to the right says stop complaining about a full

plate when you ask God to eat and So we're a

ministry that we don't complain about what God

is having us to do We think of from having a

full plate and so there's a graphic right i never

saw it did y 'all see it not yet but that being

said something else has happened i want y 'all

pray about um tomorrow um man the outreach that

god has given us of the creative collective of

reaching artists here in the city um we do it

in seasons and so tomorrow starts the fresh season

of us inviting creatives every evening to our

church to show them how they can use their gift

of creativity to advance the kingdom of God and

so we started by doing this one night a week

we're officially going to four nights a week

um it's amazing we did something yesterday that

has never happened in the city of Tampa y 'all

here it is we actually hosted a Christian movie

premiere here at the church One of the creatives

that are part of the creative collective they

believe God has called them to shoot films about

faith And so last night in our performance house,

they showed that film You guys can stand to your

feet and we'll be dismissing y 'all enjoy church

today And so next week we'll conclude the here's

home series We talked about getting in alignment

prioritizing the kingdom in three areas sewing

seeking and next week I'm afraid to say it because

y 'all might not show up. But I'm going to say

it. Just be ready. We're going to talk about

serving. Those are three areas. When you ever

wonder, God, what's going on in my life, consider

your ways. See your ways. But now what to him?

That is able. Y 'all give it up for the mamas.

That went to him. That is able to keep you from

falling and to present you faultless. before

the presence of his glory with exceeding joy

to the only wise God our savior be glory in majesty

dominion in power boy satan ain't got a chance