01/24/2021 | Positioned for the Miraculous | Evg. Chris Green

hallelujah jesus so go ahead and continue to praise the lord together [Music] hallelujah jesus [Music] [Applause] [Music] aren't you thankful that he pulled you out of darkness into his marvelous light [Music] he pulled me out of the myri clay and set my feet on a rock to stay oh he put a song in my heart even praise unto the lord when i think of the goodness of jesus and all that he's done for me i've got to cry out hallelujah i've got a dance i've got a jump i've got to shout you may not understand it but maybe because you forgot what god has done for me you may not be shouting you may have forgotten but i remember i was a sinner i was lost i was confused but the light showed up rejoice not against me oh my enemy for when i fall i shall rise when i sit in darkness the lord is my light oh somebody just dance unto the lord make a joyful noise unto the lord [Applause] [Music] [Music] [Music] [Applause] [Music] [Applause] [Music] praise breaks are never too long [Music] if anything they're not long enough [Music] hallelujah praise breaks are never out of order you know there's one verse of scripture now i'm not preaching from this but it's just a good scripture it's in the bible at the end of a chapter it's the very end it's like the fine print you know state farm insurance is like paul after teaching about the gifts of the spirit he puts it in the fine print at the bottom and let everything be done decently and in order but if i'm just being honest i have yet to be in a church service where we had to say okay bishop you need to come get us back in order here i have yet to be in a service where we've had to say hang on we gotta we gotta go to this verse of scripture here because there's too many running the aisles at the same time you're getting too loud you're worshiping too much we're supposed to be decent and in order we have yet to get to a place where we've had to preach from that verse of scripture [Music] but i know it's in there for a reason because i believe as the lord in these last days joins the letter and the former reign together i believe that one baptistery is not going to be enough [Music] we're going to have to have makeshift baptistries lined up all over the sanctuary we're going to have so many people lined up to get baptized and so many people wanting to receive the holy ghost there will have to be a call to order and say now just hang on for a second we got to go one at a time and keep this in order but we're not there just yet so you don't have to worry about getting out of order when we need bishop to get us in order we'll bring them up here and say hey now hold on a second but we're not there yet so don't ever feel out of place to just keep on worshiping i believe we're in a church you don't need an invitation to worship you don't need an invitation to praise you don't even for me you don't need an invitation to be at this altar you want to come to this altar any time you just come to the altar amen amen i want to read just a verse of scripture before you're seated [Music] let's go to deuteronomy chapter 8 and verse 7. while you're turning there or looking at the screen i'll tell you we did have that happen one time when i was preaching at the southern california district they call it the socal district i was preaching at the so-called district camp meeting day services and you know day services are supposed to be boring and god's you know doesn't show up till night services or something like that and i was like 10 minutes into my sermon and i was so nervous this is my first camp meeting you know i've done i preached some youth camps and i'm preaching a camp meeting and but the jack cunningham is the night speaker and i'm just up there just oh god you know don't say the wrong thing and just 10 minutes into the first sermon all of a sudden i see someone in the corner of my eyes come like running up real fast and stand right here and i note and at the same time i noticed i had been kind of standing on some wires and cords and for just whatever reason i assumed it was a sound guy it was my own insecurity i thought it was oh it must be one of the sound guys coming up here and saying stop standing on the chords you know and i looked over and said i'm sorry am i standing on the chords am i messing up the the sound and he looked at me like what then i realized wait i'm sorry oh do you need something he said i need the holy ghost [Applause] he was literally a drug addict off the streets that one of when one of the pentecostal people were walking from their hotel to the convention center they just witnessed to him and he ended up stumbling in there half high half drunk and he just couldn't contain himself anymore he came running up to that altar 10 minutes into my sermon in a camp meeting day service and everybody just sat there starchy looking like what are we supposed to do now and i was kind of thinking the same thing until i realized what we do in africa and bangladesh and asia and other places they don't have an agenda there they just go and follow the holy ghost and i say well if they can do it over there we can do it here in socal i just walked up there i said if you want the holy ghost then lift up your hands and get the holy ghost and god gave them the gift of the holy ghost right there they took them to the fountain outside and baptized them in jesus name and and i got back to my sermon and it was back to decent and in order deuteronomy 8 and 7 says for the lord your god is bringing you into a good land a land of brooks of water of fountains and springs that flow out of valleys and hills well let that that was a good verse let's keep reading i think it gets even even gooder verse go down to verse 9 it says he's bringing you into a land which you will eat bread without scarcity in other words you're not going to be hungry you're going to eat a lot and everybody said amen is your daniel fast over yet ready to eat in which you will lack nothing a land whose stones are iron and out of whose heels you can dig copper when you have eaten and are full everybody say full then you shall bless the lord your god for the good land which he has given you amen i i feel so full right now in my spirit that there's no way i could deliver everything the lord would have for me to say in one service so i think i might stay a little while a few more weeks maybe but i do want to at least begin to deliver my heart to you tonight and talk to you about being positioned for the miraculous being positioned for the miraculous would you just say in jesus name you may be seated in jesus name and so you know the clock has been running since i've grabbed the microphone i will deduct the time that i've already spoken from the remainder of my sermon tonight amen positioned for the miraculous i mentioned a couple of weeks ago i believe it was sunday morning if i recall i preached about the spirit of god and i dealt with the passage of scripture from second timothy in chapter one when paul tries to convince his son in the gospel timothy in his last letter he would ever write giving it to his son in the gospel he did his best to convince timothy that timothy i am persuaded that there is genuine faith in you he says i saw it in your grandmother and in your mother and i know it's in you in his last letter he almost pleaded with exhortation trying to convince timothy to believe himself believe there is faith in you i know you've struggled over the last several months i know i've been quarantined under house arrest for the last seven years and we've not been able to travel together and we've not been able to dine together and do the things we normally do but there's still faith in you and in the next verse he says so timothy it's not enough and i'm paraphrasing but he says it's not enough for me to remember and be persuaded you've got to remember he says so i put you in remembrance to stir up the gift of god that is in you by the laying upon of hands i i was there when you received it i i was a witness i'm a testimony to that i know it's there so timothy remember stir up the gift of god that is already there it's in you the next verse he says because god didn't give you the spirit of fear what had he heard what did he know about his son that would cause him to try to persuade him that he was full of faith to try for him to try to persuade him to remember to stir up the gift of god what what did he hear about his son in the gospel that caused him to deliberate as it were with him to understand that god didn't give him the fear that he was dealing with he must have heard that timothy had been battling some sort of fear anxiety nervousness maybe he was facing persecution of his own and paul said timothy the fear that has been knocking on your door is not from god stir up what is from god because god has given you power love and a sound mind in the next verse and he says be therefore a partaker of the afflictions of the gospel he says don't be ashamed of the testimony of god nor of the fact that i am a prisoner be a partaker of the afflictions of the gospel talking about he says something along the lines of them them being the power of god these afflictions of the gospel which to me afflictions of the gospel seems like such an oxymoron because gospel is supposed to be good news afflictions are bad news he says be a partaker of the afflictions of the gospel the the afflictions of the good news paul often spoke about suffering and if you remember maybe you don't i don't expect you to remember but when i preached i i last a couple weeks ago i i referenced the fact that paul was not initially initially a partaker of afflictions himself for in acts chapter 9 when he was converted to christianity spent a few days with the disciples and immediately began preaching and that same night he heard a rumor that people were trying to kill him and in his first encounter with persecution the same persecution he had been inflicting upon others he knew what he was about to go through if they caught him so he fled he ran but at the end of his life he's saying don't run from the affliction welcome them in absorb them be a partaker of the afflictions somewhere along the way between acts 9 and acts 16 he understood the opportunity of opposition he understood the anointing of affliction he understood the blessing of the storm he talks often times about his sufferings he tells timothy in the same book chapter three he says yea and all that will live godly in christ jesus shall suffer persecution he says to the church in philippi which by the way is where he was jailed in acts 16 was silas after being severely beaten and thrown into the inner dungeon and at midnight he was praying and singing hymns to god converted the jailer converted i know he converted many prisoners he converted the jailer and he converted the entire jailer's house and to that church he wrote in philippians 1 27 for unto you it is given in the behalf of christ not only to believe on him but also to suffer for his sake having the same conflict which you saw in me and now here to be in me going back to this letter to timothy he said to him timothy if we suffer we shall also reign with him if we deny him he will deny us and one of the more famous scriptures on this topic of suffering and affliction paul says to the romans in chapter 8 18 he says for i reckon you know paul was a southerner he said i reckon that the sufferings of this present time are not worthy to be compared with the glory which shall be revealed watch this in us the same place where persecution is inflicted upon us glory is revealed in us it's difficult it's a dif it's a difficult thing obviously to submit to pain i for one haven't have zero pain tolerance i read somewhere that redheads have a higher pain tolerance i don't know if that's true or not i guess there's one way to find out right i don't know they some people say when light hits my hair right it looks a little reddish but i don't know i don't know if that's true or not but but i don't think i'm a genuine redhead but i am not one who enjoys suffering or pain i i'm not the type that when it's raining i smile and look up and say isn't the lord good in fact i think those people are weirdos [Laughter] when somebody stubs their toe and they say thank you jesus i think you are demon possessed must be honest that facing the greatest tragedy of our lives my wife and i over the last few months i i had always thought that going through something like we went through losing a child that there would be a great testimony of those who are close to me who would say man even though he lost his daughter he just kept on believing kept on singing kept on shouting he just kept on praying he was at the church every day in fact he was there earlier he stayed later he was there longer he went deeper but yet the lord revealed to me really what was in my heart through that suffering it revealed that i didn't have the type of faith that i really thought i had that's all right i'm glad to know because now i see the things that i can work on and allow god to develop and shape and i've understood the truth that i really can't fit into his image until he breaks me of my image it's like a square peg trying to fit into a round hole it's just not going to work you've got to break it down and you've got to carve it down and then all of a sudden i can become molded into his image that's why i bring to you the passage from deuteronomy it speaks of their time in the wilderness the israelites of course and in deuteronomy chapter 8 and verse 2. the scripture says and you shall remember what everybody say remember it's difficult to remember the lord in times of suffering and persecution at least i should say it's difficult to remember his goodness it's difficult to remember what he has done and what he's going to do oftentimes we're just stuck on the hope that he's going to do something where is he why hasn't he answered but here concerning their suffering in the wilderness the scripture says and you shall remember the lord your god he led you all the way these 40 years in the wilderness to humble you and test you to know what was in your heart to know what was in your heart if you continue reading watch this this is amazing to me uh in verse three just just keep that little peace in your mind to know what was in your heart verse three he humbled you and allowed you to hunger we're talking about jesus not judas we're talking about our everlasting father here allowing his child to go hungry any good father would not tell their son or their daughter i've got good news for you today you get to go to bed hungry my wife would slap me it's inevitable every every day every night i prophesy it will happen tonight my wife will try to feed my son dinner at the prescribed time of dinner and he'll eat two or three bites and say i'm full i know he's not full he just wants to get up and go play about 30 minutes later time for bed i'm hungry we have tried i'll admit i confess we have tried to break him of this habit by saying well you're hungry you're going a bit hungry but i'm hungry okay just come over here and get a few bites i my wife is is my much better parent than i am so because i we both have done this and and and i caught her do it just a couple nights ago he came down he said time for she said timer but he didn't eat his dinner and she said it's time for it's time for bed and he goes but i'm hungry she's like uh-uh you're going to bed hungry then but i'm hungry just a couple of butt no you going to bed hungry tonight i looked around the corner and she's slipping him some blueberries here hurry eat these real quick walked out like she was all tough no i caught you okay i'm thankful what kind of parent what kind of father would allow their children to hunger he says i allowed you to hunger and fed you with manna which you did not know nor did your fathers know that he might make you know that man shall not live by bread alone but man lives by every word that proceeds from the mouth of the lord see he's saying you can't truly know that your sustenance that your persistence that your tenacity is not in food but in the word of god unless he puts you in a position where you can't eat food and all you have is the word of god watch this this is amazing verse 4 he says your garments did not wear out on you your clothes didn't wear out man that'd be pretty cool nor did your foot swell these 40 years so let me speak it plain he protected the outside but tested the inside he said i allowed you first of all to go into egypt i led you to egypt 430 years bonded slavery persecution affliction and then when it was time to go to the promised land i led you out and into a wilderness because before i could take you in i had to test what was inside of you oh i was taking you to a good land but before we got there i had to test what was inside of you not for me to know but for you to know it's like that sponge may look dry and clean and everything good on the outside you squeeze it and boom you reveal the contents within and sometimes the position that god puts us in is a position of pressure a place of pressure a place a tight place did you know that i believe it's in hosea chapter 5 and 15 if i'm correct that says at the end of the verse it says in their affliction they will seek me early i've mentioned that verse here before and and in their affliction they will seek me early in other words they're going to seek me in an uncomfortable time of day they're going to get out of bed they're going to put themselves in an uncomfortable place get out of their comfort zone when they're in affliction they might hit the snooze a few times when they've got it made in the shade drinking lemonade but in their affliction that's when they will seek me early the word early literally translates in hebrew two to diligently seek early diligence but the the word affliction i looked that up in the hebrew and it literally translated to a tight place of distress i know i've echoed a few of these things but i'm trying to deliver where i feel this church is right now the affliction is a tight place of distress that squeezes you you know what has happened at least over the last several months and i know it didn't just start with the coveted 19 and the shutdown and chaos and everything else but my wife have seen it in the sparse travels that we have maintained over the last several months we have noticed a squeezing in the body of the church squeezing a tight place as if the lord says i led you there and i allowed you to hunger to reveal what was in your heart what we have noticed my wife picked up on it first and we we went to a couple churches where we frequent every year sometimes multiple times a year is many times a year and no getting to know the saints and and the the gifts of that body and the working of that body if you don't mind me using it that way we got to know sort of the the identity the nature of different churches as we go there frequently understanding who specifically are used and what gifts in a body in a church and we've gone to some churches over the last several months and my wife picked up on it she said did you notice how there was tongues but but there was no interpretation in the two or three people that normally give interpretation they were silent they didn't say anything there were several times there was god spoke in tongues but there was no interpretation the people that normally speak it they they went silent because there's a tight place that we're in and we don't know sometimes how to operate in a tight place we don't know how to act sometimes when god is positioning us we've noticed i want to be very careful i don't want to be insensitive at all but i want to i'm speaking to the body tonight for those of you online that may not frequent this church or a member of this church just just bear with us tonight i feel a word for this body here and i feel the lord is taking us into a good land i feel to let you know that as we have traveled some been to some churches we've noticed this squeezing taking place not just in us but in churches around and the interesting thing that when a sponge or when something is squeezed revealing the contents it reveals the good and the bad reveals reveals the bad and the good and it's difficult it's so difficult to discern the good when all of a sudden we're seeing the bad i have seen my wife has seen and again i don't want to be insensitive but we have seen the squeezing of this tight place produce a falling away of believers that we never thought would have fallen away in the lay people in the saints and in the ministry alike ministers have withdrawn ministers have resigned not all ministers but there have been a few that i know who have resigned a couple even backsliding and you're thinking never in a million years would anyone ever assume that they were struggling there's probably somebody that used to sit to your left or to your right your front or your back that you can think my god i haven't seen them since before all of this i haven't seen them in months we need to continue reaching for them here's why because on the flip side of that as we have realized there have been some who have fallen away in that squeezing we've also noticed there have been some that have come to life that have drawn closer to god being used the power of his spirit people and i hate to say this this should never be the case but people that i may have never assumed man that person's really going to be on fire one day maybe in my flesh i would have doubted that but all of a sudden during this squeezing that squeezing has revealed something it has revealed while it's revealed the bad it has revealed the giftings of the body that you didn't realize were there maybe you haven't seen it yet just hold on let god keep squeezing because while he has revealed some of your tendencies and consistencies and weaknesses if you let him keep squeezing the giftings and the purposes and the direction and the calling is going to surface things that have been there all along that you did not know were there as paul said timothy there's faith in you whether you know it or not timothy i know you might have fallen away a little bit i know you might have gotten a little dry and barren and i know you may have lost your joy for a season but i know there's faith in you so stir up the gift of god i mentioned this at wynn's conference but i really feel i really feel for the lord to share this here that for us my wife and i when this whole thing began for us in march of last year everything was shut down and our schedule evaporated like that our evangelistic schedule i remember thinking well now what god what am i going to do and i remember starting to feel that tight place of distress that pressure that god began squeezing on me and the first thing god revealed to me was a weakness of mine that i didn't know was there and that was that my walk with god was mainly motivated by my ministry i didn't realize that until my ministry was gone for a moment when he took away my schedule when he took away my evangelistic travels and my missionaries trips and our crusades overseas and and youth camps or camp meetings and district district functions or whatever it was the things that were on my schedule just evaporated like that and god said now what are you going to pray for you didn't realize that the foundation of your relationship with me had become your ministry until i took it away now what you're going to pray about i found myself going to a prayer room thinking well now what do i say because it was mainly motivated by god bless that revival that east wind and there's nothing wrong with that prayer but when that becomes my main prayer and my only prayer god says i don't want that i just want you but as i remained in that position that position of pressure god began to reveal some other things and reveal some things some giftings and a faith some things some good things that i did not realize were there as well i remember starting a a journey that i would pray early because the scripture says in their affliction they will seek me early and i've told a piece of this but just hang with me for those of you that haven't heard i remember beginning a journey a 40-day journey to pray early in the morning and i remember reading the definition of that word early and it said to diligently seek me early and it reminded me of the scripture in the hebrews where it says that without faith it is impossible to please god but it goes on towards the end of that chapter that says that he that believeth in me he that cometh to me must believe that he is and that he is a rewarder of them that diligently seek him he rewards those who diligently seek him and i remember praying and and on on day one i remember going up this mountain in oregon driving up this not hiking or riding a donkey going driving up this mountain early about 4 35 in the morning and i got up there and i was praying and and uh uh brother josh herring called me and he said chris i got a word from god for you i said what is it he said when god gives you a dream and you see a bus it will represent ministry and i've told a portion of this but i remember five days later after he told me you will see a bus and a dream and that bus will represent ministry and then five days later i'm speaking to my grandmother who tells me she says i need you to help me pray about this dream god gave me and she said i was sitting on a bus and and she goes along with the dream and then all of a sudden god gives me the interpretation which was started by the understanding that josh had given me that the bus would represent ministry and through that god gave me every detail of that dream and i was able to minister to my grandmother say grandma the bus is your ministry and the reason why the bus didn't stop in your dream at your prescribed stop when you thought you were supposed to get off is because when papaw died back in 2011 you thought your ministry was over but god said your ministry's not over it's going to change but it's going to keep on going i said in her dream she got anxious and nervous and afraid that she wasn't able to get off the stop where she was supposed to get off she thought that because her husband had died that she couldn't she's no longer a pastor's wife anymore so what is she going to do with her life my ministry must be over god said no no no no i've got years of ministry left for you i said and grandma when you got so afraid that the bus didn't stop and so you went to yell at the bus driver and the bus driver wasn't there i said that's because a man ain't driving your bus scripture said no man has seen god at any time and it is the spirit of god that is driving that bus and i said and grandma remember in your dream you felt that urge to look over to your left and you saw that man and you felt that that desperation to tell him to read acts 2 38 i said the reason why you felt that is because you think that now that you're not a pastor's wife anymore and you can't do what you used to do and you can't you can't disciple all these these people anymore and you you can't plant the seed and water the seed and nurture the seed and watch it grow that your ministry doesn't mean anything anymore and you feel insecure because all you can do is plant the seed i said but the lord told me to tell you that when you get off this bus someone else is going to get on that bus and they're going to pray him through to the holy ghost someone else will get on that man's bus and baptize him in the name of jesus i said you just do the best with what god has given you to do and i said grandma in your dream when you got off the bus and and you saw that big building and you heard that lady calling your name from a distance and you turned around and you were so confused what's going on i said that was the lord saying when your ministry does come to an end and i allow you to get off this bus there will be somebody calling your name for your name has been written in the lamb's book of life [Applause] i have never interpreted a dream and please don't line up to tell me your dreams tonight i have never once in my life interpreted a dream i can't even make sense of my own dreams and now all of a sudden god squeezes something out of me and says you didn't know that was there you see we want the position it's okay nod your head you don't have to say man just just give me a little yeah i do want the position man i want the promotion yeah i do want to be called and labeled this because the position gives me affirmation and makes me feel like i'm doing good but why was it why was it that god gave pharaoh the position and moses the promise he stripped moses of his position 40 years later here's a promise in that in exodus chapter 9 god speaks to pharaoh and says pharaoh you think you're in charge of all this he says let me let me show you behind the scenes pharaoh he says i raised you up in fact he says y'all might remember this from a couple weeks ago he says pharaoh i could have sent a pestilence into your nation pestilence hebrew defined as a fatal epidemic or disease pharaoh i could have sneezed on your nation and given you all some worse than a coronavirus i could have given you all such a disease he said but here's the problem it would have killed you and moses is over there sitting like would that be pretty good to me wouldn't mind that we're trying to get out of here i don't care what happens to them and god says but i didn't want to kill you he said i raised you up oh church hey y'all just stay quiet over there stay down stay humble stay meek stay low here you go enemy let me lift you up for a moment let me give you the position let me promote you ever been frustrated when the ungodly prosper it's okay do we have any honest pentecostals here tonight if i'm putting you to sleep we'll get the guitar up here and we'll all sing and shout and go home you ever been frustrated because you prayed and fasted but you got fired and they got promoted well it is in the bible did you know that jeremiah he laments about the prosperity of the wicked did you know that and i'm just going to paraphrase and skim through this very quickly in psalm 73 from the new living translation verse 1 it says god is good to israel to those whose hearts are pure but as for me i almost lost my footing i almost fell i almost slipped he says my feet were slipping and i was almost gone for i envied the proud when i saw them prosper despite their wickedness they seem to live such painless lives their bodies are so healthy and strong they don't have troubles like other people i'm reading the bible psalm 73 and 5. they don't have troubles like other people they're not plagued with problems like everyone else they wear pride like a jewel necklace and clothe themselves with cruelty watch this the bible not my notes so don't get mad at me he says these fat cats have everything their hearts could ever wish for i know you ain't angelic apostolics never said that but you may have felt it bunch of fat cats they got everything they want man i got a rental car yesterday side note i got a rental car yesterday you know it's so funny because you don't appreciate a car that just starts up like that until you got a car that you're just sitting there thinking in jesus name in jesus name you don't appreciate a car that automatically starts up with a push button until you call triple a and they say uh sorry but you've already used up all of your aaa access for the year find help yourself i think all right well help us lord i think these fat cats driving in their cars they just start all the time he goes on and says they scoff and speak only evil in their pride they seek to crush others verse nine they boast against the very heavens and their words strut throughout the earth and so the people are dismayed and confused drinking in all their words what does god know they ask does the most high even know what's happening no you've never thought that before it got real quiet right there verse 12. look at these wicked people enjoying a life of ease while their riches multiply did i keep my heart pure for nothing did i keep myself innocent for no reason i get nothing but trouble all day long every morning brings me pain still reading the bible if i had really spoken this way to others i would have been a traitor to your people verse 16. so i tried to understand why the wicked prosper but what a difficult task it is here it is verse 17. then i went into your sanctuary i was frustrated because the prideful got their promotion in position then i decided to get positioned when i don't get a position i'll let you position me i went into your sanctuary oh god and i finally understood the destiny of the wicked truly you put them on a slippery path and send them sliding over the cliff to destruction in an instant they're destroyed completely slip swept away by tears when you arise oh lord you will laugh at their silly ideas as a person laughs at dreams in the morning watch this verse 21 then i realized that my heart was bitter and i was torn up inside when i was frustrated because of the process i realized that it was ah i realized that it wasn't the pastor picking on me i realized it was conviction that you were put in my heart just last week preached a pastoral installation on his first service as a pastor he gets a phone call or a text message not even a phone call anymore a text message sorry pastor but didn't really like the things you had to say today i don't know if we'll be coming back first service pastor welcome to ministry a little bit later he calls them after praying and crying calls them with passion and love says what can i do what did i say i'm sorry and they said you know what pastor we prayed when we got home and we realized it wasn't you it was god convicting us this writer said i realized it wasn't god's problem it was my problem i realized my heart was bitter and i was torn up inside i was foolish and arrogant ignorant i must have seemed like a senseless animal to you yet i oh jesus i'm about to throw a few yet i still belong to you you hold my right hand you guide me with your counsel leading me to your glorious destiny whom have i in heaven but you i desire you more than anything on earth my health may fail my spirit may grow weak but god remains the strength of my heart he is mine forever watch this watch this next verse the prosper the wicked might prosper but those who desert him will perish for you destroy those who abandon you but as for me how good it is to be near god i have made the sovereign lord my shelter and i will tell everyone the wonderful things you do [Applause] i may not get the position but god put me in position in your presence [Applause] let me show you and i feel the touch of prophecy in this place right now he said in deuteronomy 8 i led you through the wilderness i let you hunger i took care of the outside i'm so sorry but we got to see it we got to renovate it outside here this is the outside of the church oh we're inside but this is the building man god you protected the outside it's gotten even better but you tested the inside it goes on in verse 7 and says for the lord your god is bringing you into a good land a land of brooks of water of fountains and springs that flow out of valleys and hills verse 9 a land in which you will eat bread without scarcity in which you will lack nothing a land whose stones are iron out of whose hills you can dig copper when you have eaten and are full then you shall bless the lord your god for the god for the good land which he has given you go to verse 11 real quick beware that you do not forget the lord remember at the beginning remember it said but now it says beware that you do not forget the lord your god by not keeping his commandments his words his judgments and his statutes which i commanded you today verse 12 lest when you have eaten and are full and have built beautiful houses and dwell in them and when your herds and your flocks multiply and your silver and your gold are multiplied and all that you have is somebody say it multiplied now you you can you write me off but you haven't yet bishop i feel the lord has positioned this church for an exponential revival and harvest of growth where god's not going to add he's going to multiply here's the problem real quick this is why we must remember what god has done verse 12 it says lest lest when you have eaten and are full see there's one thing that can destroy us and that's the lust of the flesh but there's another thing and that's the lust of the flesh we all have a lust of the flesh the lust of the flesh is this when he brings me into that land i forget where he brought me from i feel like the lord has brought me here tonight to let you know that he has positioned you for such a time as this i reiterate in verse 13 he says because when your herds and your flocks multiply your silver and gold multiply and all you have is multiplied your heart is lifted up and you forget the lord your god who brought you out of the land of egypt from the house of bondage who led you through that great and terrible witness wilderness and which were fiery serpents and scorpions and thirsty land where there was no water who brought you water for you out of the flinty rock who fed you in the wilderness with manna with which your fathers did not know that he might humble you that he might test you to do you good in the end then you say in your heart my power and the might of my hand have gained me this wealth i speak as humbly as i can to let you know we have gone through hell together we have weathered the storm together and under the unction of the holy ghost i tell you we are at the end now we're here multiplying is about to take place in this church very quickly in psalm 66 and 10 it says for thou god has proved us see this is our prayer now you proved us you tested us we're ready we're battle tested we're ready somebody say we're ready thou has tried us as silver has tried thou brought us us into the net notice he captured us he arrested us thou latest affliction upon our loins don't blame the devil god knew exactly what he was doing you god laid affliction a tight place upon us here it is verse 12 thou has caused men to ride over our heads you ready eastwind we went through the fire and through the water but thou broughtest us out into a wealthy place [Applause] ah jesus i thought i was going to start with this but i come to a close with the prophetic word of the lord this church has gone through the fire you have gone through the flood you have gone through the storm you have marched through the valley it was not the devil it was not the world it was not government god was leading you through the wilderness so that when we get into the good land when he positions us for the miraculous we will remember it was the lord just for a moment lift up your hands and pray in the holy ghost i see a squeezing happening right here i see the lord squeezing out giftings and callings i see the lord bringing to the surface an anointing that you didn't realize was there i see a multiplication of harvest i see the latter rain in the form of rain coming together seven times seven times greater i see it i see it in my spirit i hear the sound of an abundance of rain i hear the sound of an abundance of rain i feel an anointing rising i feel a calling rising i feel a faith rising i feel it it's here you are positioned it's time to go forward i feel it i feel it to i feel it in the holy ghost it's here you're ready you're ready huh you're ready you're [Applause] ready [Music] [Applause] foreign [Applause] your prophetic anointing is here tonight release it into our spirit lord forgive me forgive me for running from the affliction forgive me for avoiding the pain but here i am squeeze it out of me bring it to the surface what you have prepared [Applause] hey everybody stop praying for just a moment keep your eyes closed and just let the lord minister right now for them for a moment come on just let the lord minister to you for a moment here hang on just one second as your eyes are closed i want you to just open your heart right now [Music] um god has brought you into a tight place the spirit of insecurity and condemnation would withdraw you from his presence and his purpose because you would say but i didn't do what i should have done i didn't do what i should have done in that time of affliction that's why i was transparent tonight and told you when we went through our affliction i didn't handle it the way i assumed i would have as a man of god enemy would want to rob me what the lord has prepared for me with condemnation and fear saying you didn't handle that the way you should have you didn't live it the way you've been preaching it but the devil is a liar scripture says when our heart condemns us god is greater than our heart and knows all things he knows the battle you have been facing he knows the depression he knows the distress he knows the pressure he knows and i feel under the unction of god's spirit you're in a window of grace right now you're in a window of grace right now where the lord says i understand i understand i understand i understand that's why i rode myself in flesh i was tried on every side i was tempted i was afflicted i was persecuted just like you so that i could understand and that you could trust my grace some of you don't trust his grace you don't trust his grace that's why paul who killed christians he could write that the lord spoke to him and said no paul i will not take you out of that position i will not take you out of that pressure i will not take you out of that affliction but my grace is sufficient my great my grace is enough for you in this time of affliction for my strength is made perfect you know what the original translation says my strength works best in your weakness i positioned you revealing your weaknesses so that my strength could begin to operate in this church this church is about to enter in fact i say it i rep i i i want to say that again this church has entered an unprecedented time we're already here and i'm not talking about covid i'm not talking about bad news i'm not talking about sickness death chaos riots none of that i'm talking about in the heavenlies this church has just entered into an unprecedented time this church is about to host a crusade in the month of march unlike this church here in palm bay or this city or this region has ever seen before but i speak a word to this church that what takes place in march i believe it's march 19th will not be an event it is now our new identity for when events are done and over with we regress to who we used to be but what takes place in that month of march that crusade and that harvest of souls and not just the harvest of lost souls but the empowerment of the saints that's you the releasing of the body that's you he's going to walk us into a new identity where we will never go back to who we used to be i feel the lord urging somebody maybe this church as a whole saying don't go back and don't stay here don't go back don't stay here go forward would you lift up your hands right now and just begin to pray in the holy ghost that says for me in my house i will go forward i will go forward in the holy ghost i will go forward in the holy ghost i'm through preaching i'm through ministering why doesn't somebody come to this altar and praise the lord for a moment come on why don't you come to this altar and say lord i declare i declare i declare a prophetic anointing to move us forward in the holy ghost we will never be the same but we will be positioned for the miraculous [Music] [Applause] can you see it as you're praying i don't want anybody to stop but i want you to hear this instruction it's time we've got to do something different we can't just pray and go home pray and go home pray and go home no as we pray here tonight we have got to allow god to give us a vision in our mind that blows my imagination i'm not trying to i have slowed i'm not trying to hype nobody up i'm trying to tell you in the holy ghost where this church is right now as you pray tonight however long you want to pray when your hands are lifted your eyes are closed i want you to allow god to restore his vision in you [Music] to these singers these musicians our ministers can you imagine putting your fingers to the keyboard and immediately an anointing coming from you where people start speaking in tongues for the very first time as you singers begin to sing the words that we sing every week these songs unto the lord all of a sudden chains are broken addictions are broken people are delivered and set free can you um can you imagine right now in your faith i'm talking to you saints i'm talking to you woman of god i'm talking to you man of god can you imagine [Music] can you imagine a sunday where you don't sit in the same chair and go to the same spot at the altar and go home no but you just start walking around this church and your shadow is cast on somebody and people are healed and delivered instantly can you imagine our pastor brother myers coming to this pulpit grabbing the microphone and all of a sudden an anointing from the lord begins to move where yokes are destroyed [Music] prisons are open where people who didn't even think they would come to church they sit on the back row with a made up mind i'm not going to go to the altar but as pastor just begins to deliver the word of god [Music] lives are transformed people receive conviction to give their lives wholeheartedly unto the lord can you imagine taking that fire and that anointing with you as you leave these church services going to chick-fil-a or wendy's or wawa and walking in and somebody's saying my god there's something about you what is on you there's a glow about you there's som [Music] john the baptist you got to forgive me you're dismissed john the baptist said i indeed baptize you with waters unto repentance but there's somebody who else who's coming there's somebody else who's coming who i'm not even worthy to touch his shoes he will baptize you with the holy ghost and fire there are a lot of people including myself i've been filled with the holy ghost lacking the fire how do you know if you've got the holy ghost and fire when someone's on fire they can't stay silent when someone's on fire they can't stand still they can't stay seated oh and by the way when someone's on fire everybody else notices it when someone's on fire i'm drawn to that you can feel it i can feel that fire i can feel it on you can you imagine being baptized with the fire of the holy ghost that when you go into the world people say i feel something there's something different about you [Applause] to lift up your hands and by the authority of the word of god and by the power of the name of jesus i release the fire of the holy ghost upon your soul [Music] now [Music] foreign [Music] oh come on this is your time this is your chance this is your opportunity somebody let the fire fall let the fire fall let the glory fall let the holy ghost consume my soul [Music] [Applause] [Music] [Applause] oh

Channel: Eastwind Pentecostal Church of Palm Bay, Florida

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Length: 71min 23sec (4283 seconds)

Published: Mon Jan 25 2021