Assembly Required | Sarah Jakes Roberts

[Music] in prayer so I'm gonna go to first Kings 17 I'm going to be reading from verse 8 if you're visiting you will recognize that my family is standing it is our custom to stand for the reading of the word so if you're visiting we ask that you would just honor our tradition first King seventeen and eight says then the word of the Lord came to him saying arise and go to Zarephath which belongs to Sidon and dwell there see I have commanded a widow there to provide for you so he arose and went to Zarephath and when he came to the gate of the city indeed a widow was there gathering sticks and he called to her and said please bring me a little water in a cup that I may drink and as she was going to get it he called to her and said please bring me a morsel of bread in your hand so she said as the Lord your God lives I do not have bread only a handful of flour in a bin and a little oil in a jar and see I'm gathering a couple of sticks that I may go in and prepare it for myself and my son that we may eat it and die and Elisha said to her do not fear go and do as you have said but make me a small cake from it first and bring it to me and afterward make some for yourself and your son for thus says the Lord God of Israel the benefi shall not be used nor shall the jar of oil run dry until the day the Lord sends rain on the earth my subject for tonight is assembly required assembly required and so God just have your way in this place and help my feet not to hurt and let my friends get comfortable and sit down so we can have a good time in the name of Jesus amen I don't know if you all know this about me but I quite the handy woman I am a regular Doug Euler HGTV DIY queen and I love ordering things off of the internet and having to put them together it works my husband's last nerve when I do it but I get joy when I think about it when I open up the pack and there's just all of these pieces because I just take a sense of pride in having to put things together the only thing that I didn't realize that I know now that I am a professional handy woman in my head how important it is to not just lay everything out and to read the instructions but to also make sure that I keep the little monkey wrench that usually comes when I'm putting things together that little l-shaped tool because there is a temptation to put the things together and then when I'm finished to throw the tool and the Box away because I reached a certain level of accomplishment the only issue is that when things start getting a little shaky hypothetically because I'm such a professional this never happens to me I'm just sharing it for the sake of this analogy when things start falling apart I don't have the tool that allowed me to put it together in the first place and so I think it is important for us to realize that our lives are very similar to us putting together pieces of furniture we have all of these different pieces of our lives all of these different goals all of these different experiences that have made up who we are but all of those materials are counting on one tool to put it all together and the reality is that we have to keep that tool and maintain that tool and sharpen that tool you just in case we have moments in our life where things begin to get a little shaky and that tool is a word from God I need to come to church because I need to receive a word because when I receive a word it gives me perspective on all of these different pieces of my life that feel like they're falling apart I have all of the materials but the word is what helps give me direction it's what helps me order my steps it helps me understand what is normal resistance for where I am on this level I need a word my whole life is depending on a word and so if God doesn't give me a word then I find myself confused and lost and wondering who I am and what I am because my life is not governed by a word a word that says I have plans for you plans to prosper you and not to harm your word that says no weapon formed against you will prosper if I don't hang on to that word I can get in the middle of a storm and think the storm is going to take me up because I've lost track of my word and I am believing like never before that one of the greatest materials one of the greatest tools for us to keep up with as we pursue purpose is that word that constantly governs every word and every move that we make and so as I dive into this scripture I recognize that Elijah is in a very peculiar time in the text it's important for us to realize chapter 17 the first Kings is the first time that Elijah has even been introduced to us in the Bible which is kind of odd because most of the time when a prophet is introduced we have some lineage connected to him but Elijah would end up becoming one of the greatest prophets in the Bible and when we find him in the text God is assembling the experiences that would allow him to be great because you don't just stumble into this thing there is some assembly required you don't just stumble into a good marriage there is some assembly required you just don't stumble into the industry there is some assembly required you don't just stumble into being an entrepreneur there is some assembly required I got to learn how to budget I have to learn how to communicate I have to change my language for this dimension there is some assembly required and God you gave me the vision I know what I'm working towards but I need the tools for where I am right now because the tools show me how to function with the pieces I currently have and then once you accomplish on a certain level you realize that your purpose your life your relationships often need some tightening up so the assembly never stops I wish that when I bought things off of Amazon or IKEA that I could trust that once I put them together that I would never have any issues with them but if you are like me and you've ever ordered anything on the Internet you put it together knowing this gonna fall apart and you give it six months to a year at least I didn't spend that much money on it because I know based off of the materials that I'm working with that it's not going to go the long haul that I wanted to did you know that what you put together in one season may be deconstructed in another season so that God can give you better materials the next time around this is the tool that he gave you on this level because this is what you are prepared to afford and what you can handle and when he's ready to move you to the next dimension he can't do that until he removes what you put together in the last season oh [Applause] that's a whole word right there that's like a word word y'all why are y'all doubling upwards now what is that about I don't understand petty petty what is that what I'm saying is true though and if you are not careful you will find yourself mourning for the old materials and the old finished products and the old breakthrough when God is trying to give you a new breakthrough and so we go from glory to glory not because we find ourselves constantly having it all together but because we find ourselves in situations where we have to reassemble a life and you know you have to reassemble your life because like Elijah experienced you end up having a drought let me break it down for you so in the beginning of this chapter Elijah announces that there is going to be a drought but he's kind of okay because after he announces that there's going to be a drought he is then told by God to go to a brook where I am going to sustain you so God sends him to this brook where there is water still flowing and he's not concerned about a drought but suddenly the the brook dries so the place that God sent him the place that was supposed to sustain him the place that was supposed to separate him from what everyone else was experienced dried up you see everyone else was worried but he didn't have to worry about that thing and now I have to worry about the very thing that I thought I would never have to worry about and I don't understand God why you would send me somewhere that would eventually dry up I don't I don't understand how you could send me to this Brook how you could send me to this city see this is a word for people who have had things go well and then all of a sudden they looked up and this wasn't exactly the way things started off I feel like my breakthrough has dried up I was doing so good three months ago I was in the word I was focused my heart was happy and now I think I'm almost depressed I don't understand how this Brook has dried up how did I get to a place where I thought I was living in a place of breakthrough and now I feel like I'm struggling again Elijah sat there and he saw the brook dry up because the brook doesn't just dry up quickly it goes from flowing strongly to a slow stream and what I love about Elijah is that he should have I would have started thinking that I it's time for me to move I see this brook is drying up but he stayed there and the place that God sent him even when that place didn't look like what God told him anymore and I realized that part of the reason why he stayed there wasn't just that he was obedient though that is something it was because he wasn't living for a brook he was living for a word and so I can't move from this position to the next position until I get another word because the word stations me here and until I get another word I can't leave otherwise I will be wondering and I'm too old and I've gone through too much to just be wandering so I know it's not looking like what I thought it was gonna be but because I live life governed by a word I can't start putting things together on my own volition I need another word God send me a word God send me your word God send me a word God send me a word God send me a word I won't move until I get a word I won't quit until I get a word god I need a word I need a word that lets me know that when I make this step you're gonna have me because I stepped out on my word before and I failed so god I'm going to stay here even when it's ugly even when it doesn't look like what I thought it would because I'm not living for what I see I'm living for what I can see and so god I don't know what you're doing in the midst of this drought but if you sent me I'm staying because I'm loyal like that because you've been too good to me and you came and got me out of the droughts I created so if I'm gonna drop that you created I know you got me this is the Earth's drought it's not my drought I feel that for somebody that was my mama's drought that's not my trout I know cuz he created a brook for me in the middle of that Drive that should be crazy and out of my mind but for some reason there was a brook in the middle of the drought he created water when everyone else was struggling so I'm waiting I'm waiting for a word one of those words that moves me one of those words that makes fear back off of me one of those words that lets me know you still see me that you got me I'm waiting for a word I'll come to church on a Thursday night at 8 o'clock in Los Angeles because I'm waiting for a word I'll get in my word in the middle of the night cuz I'm waiting on a word I worship when I used to club because I'm looking for a word and this world can't give me the word I'm looking for the world was help me to get hot but I can't do that cuz I'm looking for a word and I can't be so hot that I can't move when he says mom I lived my life by a word I'm waiting I'm waiting I'm waiting the brook is drying up but that's okay Elijah is not moving until he gets the word I'm waiting I'm waiting for a word that helps me make sense of where I am that lets me know that you still see me so Elijah is just sitting by the brook watching it dry up but he's waiting on a word and as we sit here and we watch him wait for this word one of the things that I notice in this text is that when the word is introduced to him that he recognizes that he's not going to die thirsty Oh God see because the problem with the drought is that you're afraid that if I don't get any sustenance if I don't get water if I don't get something that feeds me in the middle of this drought then there is a possibility that I could die thirsty I may die before I'm ever the one who actually breaks the generational curse I may die with this addiction and he's watching this drought break up and he recognizes that he's watching the brook dry up and he recognizes that goddess in a word that is going to allow him to move and God sends the word to him and he says to go to Zarephath and go to a place where I have commanded a widow there to provide for you so God goes from providing for Elijah with a brook to a widow which I don't know if you know this or not but that's like a little bit of like a biblical like downgrade like not because she was just a widow but a widow in that society in that time in that culture represented poverty and represented someone who was almost untouchable and so God you gave me a brook that was flowing and now you tell me that the brook has dried up and my next I would be waiting for the ocean cuz you know exceedingly abundantly and glory to glory I would be thinking like alright the brook dried up but that's alright it's our ocean in my future come on somebody glorious I'm a shout over that thing but God takes him from a brook to a widow which doesn't really seem fair but I realized that God had to shake up his thinking in such a way that he couldn't predict how God was going to sustain him I wrote in my notes that God may not use what you had before to sustain you in this reason if you are so intent on God only using what you know then you may miss out on what you need because if Elijah would have thought I just need you to move me to another place where there is a brook then he would have overlooked the possibility of the widow being able to provide for him and so he had to be open to the possibilities that I'm not going to do it the way I did it before so there is a responsibility that we have as believers to release God from the responsibility of being predictable in the season where we ask him to do exceedingly and abundantly above all that we may ask or imagine because I imagine you using Tobruk again I imagine you using a person to heal me because the last time I felt good and secure and confident I was in a relationship and now that I'm pressing in and praying and asking God for healing I'm really looking for a boo and not a healing because I would understand that my healing isn't attached to another person it's actually attached to what you say I gotta find I got to break that thing down for you I thought that my provision was going to come from the industry I thought my provision was going to come from corporate America I didn't realize that I was supposed to be an entrepreneur so here I am looking for another job when I should be learning how to put a business plan together because you don't just take me from Brooke to Brooke you take me from the Brooks to the widow into things that don't even make sense in my mind but that you plan on using to work together for my good I've been looking for the wrong things I've been looking for the wrong intentions I've been looking with the wrong motivations I've been looking for somebody to hand me something not realizing that you already have a plan I'm not going to use conventional wisdom to build your next flow there's a flow with your name on it a further presence of God there's a flow in the earth a spiritual flow there's a currency everywhere you go and God says I'm trying to equip you to build your own flow that you can be occurring that you can be a force in this earth and I can't do that if you're still tied to what I used before and in order for you to find this next flow you have to say God I surrender to whatever this season is supposed to be in my life so that I can access the next dimension of the flow things have been shaky things have been falling apart in your life and you've been thinking it's a sign that you're not on the right track and I hear God's saying that I'm stripping you away so that I can tighten your flow so that you can be potent and you can be powerful so that you can break some things up on the earth and you couldn't do it with ideas and mentalities that was I lead diluting who you were I'm trying to create a new flow I'm trying to create a new flow a new flow for Elijah I'm not going to do it the way I did it before this is a new thing strip yourself away from all of the formulas that you think can predict I'm Who I am and recognize that I came to do a new thing I am a creator I don't have to duplicate anything I've ever done before I spoke a word and the earth came into being a spoken word and the sea separated themselves I spoke a word and cattle were roaming around this earth I am a creator and everything I do will be edgy and authentic and created because that's the kind of god you serve so don't ask me to be predictable and say you want to be edgy if you want to be edgy and safe this isn't the kind of God that you need to serve because in order for you to go from glory to glory glory he breaks you out of your comfort zone he's creating a new flow for Elijah a new way for me to provide for you a new way for me to sustain you a new way for me to show you who I am a new way for you to discover who you are a new way for you to see your talents and giftings this is something new you haven't seen this before I know the year is almost up but is anyone crazy enough to believe that he can still do something new or do you only praise God when the clock strikes 12:00 and that's when you get excited coz you get to start over I hear guys saying we can get it poppin right now what's up what you trying to do la we can do something new right now in this season if you are willing to release yourself from who you have been so you can embrace who I'm calling you to be I'm doing something new eyes haven't seen ears haven't heard neither has it entered into the hearts of men what I plan to do through you and you think because you haven't seen it that it cannot be done and that's why you've been in a situation where you are stuck but I came to deliver a word I didn't come to entertain you I came to let you know that God wants to do something new and that the only thing that is keeping him from doing it is your attachment to what he did in the past [Applause] this is different this is not that this is that this is that this is the thing that you've been waiting for this is the thing that you've been praying for this is the thing that you've been fasting for this is why your friends don't connect with you any longer this is why you don't fit in the way that she used to this is why not just anybody can pour into you because I'm creating the new flow this is what you've been feeling Restless this is what you've been wondering who you are because I'm redefining you you're under the mighty hand of God and I have something for you [Applause] [Music] [Applause] so God we repent we changed the way we've been thinking and changed the way we've been seeing this current and present situation that we're in and we ask God that you would strip us from what we think needs to happen so that we can see what you're already doing open our eyes change our minds and give us strength to move forward I just had to get that out because I feel like a place of repentance that I made this thing about me and not about you that I made it about what I wanted to see happen and I never stopped to ask you what you wanted to do I took the materials and I saw the finished picture but I never stopped to read the instructions to say God what am I supposed to do with what you've given me and so God we just ask that you continue to move and that you move us as you move so that I'm not fighting you to be where I want you to be but that I have the maturity and wisdom to go where you say go y'all sit down I'm not finished I'm not gonna do me like y'all been doing me the last few weeks I can't get these notes I don't get every last one of them okay and nobody got time for that y'all be taking over my services listen there's a part of you that I really want you to get that's the only reason why I would do that I know that God gave it to me when Elijah encounters this woman this Widow she's in an interesting situation because she also is assembling something she is assembling the tools that she needs to die she has come down to her very last not recognizing that Elijah is coming and when that partnership occurs that though she was down on her last that partnership is going to create sustainability for her which i think is really important as you all go out into your worlds and environments and relationships and industries because someone who lives their life by a flow can encounter someone who was living life with a different flow but your flow can overcome their flow and create sustainability for them as well there's the woman is gathering tools she needs to live a life that will ultimately lead to death but Elijah is gathering the tools God has ordained to produce life and that is the difference between those of us who are Kingdom and those of us who aren't and this isn't like a shady thing like if you're not Kingdom we don't fool with you as a matter of fact it's quite the opposite because I have come to establish God's presence on the earth in territories where his presence may not otherwise be and in order for me to do that I can't be afraid of encountering flows that don't look like mine because I have enough faith in enough trust and the power of God that works through me that I can go into rooms where everyone is living their life according to what they want to do and it not tamper with my anointing and you got to be real about whether or not you can do that if you can't do that you got to pull yourself out of it because you are too powerful and if you are not powerful enough to go in that room and change the flow then you will drown in someone else's flow but you come to a point where you reach a certain level of maturity where you decide I can go into any room and not lose my core because I've been through too much and I know who God is so god if you send me into the industry I can change that flow I got enough faith and who I am in you not because of who I am but who I am in you but I can spin flat-footed in black churches and white churches and on the street and in target and still declare the work of the Lord because that's the kind of flow I carry and corporate and in church in industries and then not because that's the kind of flow that I carried in any city in any realm and any deal I came to impart something into you and lay this is a confidence that you can only get from God and it's not for everybody it's only for certain people who recognize the power of the connected to God and that it's not just so you can be rich and look good and so that you can overcome the flows of this world I feel the presence of God in this place I came to overflow in the flows of this world so that God would have placed something down on the inside of me that breaks something in the spirit realm darkness will be afraid because my flow just got Unleashed and that's what there's been hail over my mind and that's why I've had issue after issue because they were trying to keep my flow blocked up but God sent a word and the word unblocked my flow I'm flowing in the whole new realm I'm flowing on the whole new level I got this kind of confidence God you've been building up the flow that's what's been happening over the last few weeks over the last six to eight weeks I don't know about you but I've been trying to figure out what God is doing what you're trying to do in this thing and I felt like I just got a word from heaven for somebody crazy enough to believe it that you thought I was killing the flow you didn't know that I was unleashing the flow and a whole new realm there's new territory assigned to your name and you wouldn't be strong enough if I left you where you were so I took you through some things so that when I unleash you you know what to do in the room you know what to do in the meeting you know when to hold your tongue and when to unleash it you know when to spin and win the saving you wouldn't have known that [Applause] [Music] hallelujah I just this is what I want to tell you Elijah tells the woman you've got the right idea you have the flower and you have the oil and you have the sticks the only issue with your plan right now is that you are not expecting the right end there was nothing wrong with the tool she had there was something wrong with the end that she was expecting she was expecting to die so Elijah tells are just real fast let me tell you Elijah tells her that do not fear go and do it do as you have said you've got the right idea but first I want you to switch up the back end and I want you to make a small kick for me and then I want you to bring it to me that means don't look at the cake and try to hold it for yourself bring it to me and then after you bring it to me go back and make something for yourself in your son and listen verse 14 says for thus says the Lord God of Israel the benificial not be used up nor shall the jar of oil run dry until the day the Lord sends rain on the earth so when she got into the kitchen and she started making the cakes her mind had been changed in such a way she was going to make the cakes regardless she was going to build the fire regardless the only difference was that she had a different word that she was working with and when she was working with that word she was no longer expecting death she was expecting multiplication [Applause] I'm expecting two different ends I thought this thing was trying to kill me but I changed my mind about what I'm expecting I changed my mind about what can come from this I thought I was going to be lonely brokenhearted and depressed that's what I was expecting but I got a word that changed what I was expecting to happen in the end now I am expecting that no weapon formed against me will prosper now I am expecting that I'm gonna make it to the other side I changed my expectation about what you can do with these parts I changed I changed my expectation and all God has been trying to do over the last few weeks is get us to change our expectation about what is going to come as a result of this season because as long as I'm flirting with the expectation of death as long as I am flirting with the expectation of brokenness and loneliness and drought and fear and anxiety then I can't begin to expect that God is gonna sustain me he didn't change what she was working with he changed what she was expecting to happen and I don't know about you but I've been pressing in and asking God to not just show me the materials I'm working with but to help me see a glimpse of the expected hint and as I have asked him to give me a glimpse of the expected in things have been coming my way that I didn't even think should be coming my way but those things are assigned to me that I'm one step closer to that expected ends so I can be blinded by what is not working or I could choose to live my life from the position of an expected end which changes how you see droughts because the woman was still in a drought but the drought was not in the woman I can't let what's around me get in me [Music] [Applause] I can't let what's around me get in me and it's starting to get in me I feel it I'm starting to be more afraid I'm starting to be more angry I'm starting to be more hopeless I'm starting to be more depressed the drought is starting to get in me but I came so that I could push it out and the only thing that pushes out the drought is the flow of living water the only thing that pushes out what's trying to press in is a word that decrees and declares who you are in the kingdom of God I am fearfully and wonderfully made God has formed me from my mother's womb he knows me he is ordained he sanctified I'm anointed for this and I'm just not anointed to schedule the way it ends like the woman who thought I'm gonna plan how I'm gonna go out why I know that's for somebody the only thing I have control over right now is how I'm going to end it that's the only thing I feel like I can control it's how I'm going to end it but when she received this word from Elijah he showed her that you still got all of the materials you need to to live and to live not just for a moment four days after days after days but I need you to change your mind about what you have I feel that prophetically for somebody I don't know who you are I got you know he's got you he's got you he sees you and he knows you and I just want to rebuke right now they call me demon bully I want to rebuke right now in the name of Jesus the spirit of torment and depression and anxiety and suicide that would dare make anyone believe that the only thing they have control over is how it's gonna end I rebuke that in the name of Jesus devil we bind you up and we send you back to hell where you came from for we wrestle not against flesh and blood come on somebody I wish I had somebody in this place who recognized it that this is a spiritual thing and I bet you that if about six to seven hundred of us could unleash our flow in this room that darkness could be pushed down can I get somebody who doesn't mind going in on behalf of somebody else just my worship I came for the widow I came for the woman who was on her less depression with my flow because where two or three are gathered in the name of Caesars I believe that hail gets nervous can we send him a notice in this place that you can't have my sister in Christ you cannot have my brother in Christ get off of my daughter get off of my finances get off of my marriage I came to be a part of a greater flow I wish I had about two or three crazy people in this room who would take the roof off of this place I've been too much I've seen his faithfulness and you can't do it I'll do it for you [Music] your worship is war that's your weapon your weapon is worship your weapon is worship your weapon is worship when you leave here you may have to go to counseling you may need some therapy you may need some rehab but worship makes room for you to make the decision to get your life together I'm not saying that we don't have practical I'm saying that what sustains me it's what I do in the spirit realm and then I play that out in the natural realm so worship is my weapon worship is how I'm going to get out of it obedience is how I'm gonna make it to the next dimension I'll humble myself under the God have your way in this place all precious Savior I feel that church girl thing working up on the inside of me but I feel like we just got one more push I feel like we just got one more word that will unleash the floodgates our city's over our generation and the one [Music] [Applause] [Applause] they say as young folks don't know how to press in because we get tired so we don't ever get to really see the fullness of what God can do but something happens when we don't let our emotions dictate our praise or our emotions to dictate our worship somebody was on the brink of suicide in this room but they got a new word somebody was on the brink of anything at all but they got a new word somebody was about to give up on that play but they got a new word somebody was about to walk away from the very thing that was going to heal him but they got a new word that's what God does when he sits in the room and so we worship you in this place because somebody else needs breakthrough because somebody else needs to hear from you God I need you over my creativity God I need you over my business God I need you over my marriage god I need you over my children God I need you I need you I need you I need you I need you I need you I need you I can't make a decision without you I can't move unless you say go I need you I need you I need you [Music] [Music] hallelujah hallelujah I just want to feel the presence sit in this room [Music] god I repent God I changed my mind god I need you again God I lost my power I lost my faith [Music] this is this is activate LA and in order to be activated you have to be both inspired and empowered I'm thinking about the book of Acts when they were looking for someone to help take the ministry forward and they found this guy named Stephen and there were two things that marked Stephen that got the Apostles attention it says that he was a man full of faith and full of the Holy Ghost those two things I feel the Spirit of God those two things everything that the pastor Sarah is saying about taking territory and about going into new flows and new streams all of that requires faith and the Holy Ghost and I sense that some in this room the reason why you're frustrated is because you're trying to do it without the Holy Spirit you're trying to do it in your own strength to trying to do it out of inspiration and motivation but you need the Holy Spirit of God are you tracking with me and it's so important is so important that Jesus said don't even try to go out there and do anything until you get it if you study the book of Acts in Acts chapter one Jesus came and he inspired it he said hey you know wonderful things are gonna take place but I need you to tarry I need you to wait in Jerusalem until you receive the promise of the Father and it said that and when that happens in verse 8 he says and when that happens then you shall receive power when the Holy Spirit overtakes you and so you're going to need not just inspiration not just motivation but you're gonna need the power of God to activate you for purpose and so so we've come to this moment in the service and you know we're gonna receive our tithes and our offerings in a second but but we're at a moment now I really think that God wants to take it over the edge are you tracking with me I feel the Spirit of God he wants to take it over the edge so that you're not out there fighting with your own weapons but God wants to resource you with power unlike ever before unlike anything else you've ever experienced because these things that you're gonna run up on in this town in this world and this time will require the Spirit of the Living God are you tracking with me not by might not by power but by my spirit says God and so as we're sitting there I just want you know I'm gonna give you a little bit more so in the book of Acts the disciples were moving about and they were doing their thing and they came across some other disciples and they they had the right intentions they were doing good things they were preaching God's the gospel you know they were believers but Paul noticed something about them and he looks at them and he says wow man is it's wonderful what you're doing but then he says have you received the Holy Spirit since you believed in other words he said where where you are is cool where you are is fine but but I'm telling you there's something missing there's a missing link and this thing that's missing you're gonna need I'm telling you right now you don't need the power of God you're gonna need more than inspiration you're gonna need more than faith you are going to need the power of God pastor talked about the rivers of living water out of your belly will flow rivers of living water I'm not talking about being weird I'm not talking about being crazy I'm not talking about you know you just won't be one of those crazy Christians but I am talking about being an activated Christian I am talking about being full of the Spirit of God divine resource so if you're here and you say God I want to be filled with the Holy Spirit I recognize Jesus said that I would be in a holding pattern until I got power that's what the disciples were in they were in a holding pattern Jesus said don't go nowhere because you're gonna be in a battle that you're not equipped to fight you can't fight this battle with inspiration you can't fight this battle with motivation you can't even fight this battle with faith alone you have to be full of faith and the Holy Ghost and when you're full of the Holy Ghost it makes you full of faith because you've no greater is He Who is in you than he who is in the world so if you're here when you say pastor I want to be filled with the Holy Spirit I want you to come and meet me here at this altar right now and I need my leaders to come up behind we're gonna pray for you tonight you're gonna need that family you're gonna need that overflowing knowing that you're gonna need that thing that runs out as interesting pastor the brook had a flow and that flow ran out but the widow woman that flow just continued and it just continued and it just continued and the Holy Spirit will be everything that you need Wow that's the missing link I feel that for you so how do I receive the Holy Spirit how does it happen first of all I have to believe I have to believe the gospel I have to believe and the awesome thing is it is the Holy Spirit that taps you and gets you to believe in other words you cannot believe without the engagement of the Holy Spirit so you're already halfway there but there is another level there is another level oh god there's another level the holy ghost wants to change your personality the Holy Ghost will make you bow the Holy Ghost will allow you to operate in in Gibson and miracles and signs and wonders you'll have visions and power and influence and there will be something very different about you you need we need the Holy Ghost there might be some here you say I have the Holy Spirit but but if I'm honest I've been feeling weak you need a fresh touch I want you to come as well so how do you receive it it's believing Lord I believe how do you receive it well in that account in Scripture where when the Apostle Paul came across those believers who had good intentions but no power good intentions but no power when you have good intentions and no power you have to hear the same message over and over and over again it almost becomes like a drug because I've got the message but I don't have power that allows me to walk out the message with victory and so Paul he sees him and he's like wow this is you know you guys are wonderful people I'm really you know he he wasn't putting them down he was encouraged by the fact that they believed but he also knew for the journey that they were called to that we're going to need something a little more and so the Bible says that they pray and they laid hands on them Ilario but we don't have to be to the airport until we got time now tell you I'll be honest with you when I received the Holy Spirit for the first time nobody laid hands on me I just was hungry I was desperate and sometimes when what God is doing in your life he doesn't want anybody to touch you he wants to touch you because because you might get something that you with me I was just I was I was full disclosure full transparency I was just I was on the couch praying I was seeking God and and maybe it's because I didn't have anybody around me with enough anointing and enough grace to facilitate where I was headed and so I'm on the couch I'm kneeling down I'm praying and all of a sudden the Spirit of God came upon me and my life has never been the same again there was another moment that just came to me though there's another moment yeah I think this was actually the first moment that second moment was it had to do with me speaking in tongues but there was another moment I didn't plan on going here there was a moment when I sought out God and I said God are really I'm tired of living in disobedience and it wasn't even that there was this one thing that I was doing it wasn't that it was just my heart was not completely surrendered to God so it wasn't one thing it was just I wasn't his and I remember in 2007 months I sought the face of the Lord and in that seventh month I felt like the Lord said you sought me and now you found me you heard my voice you know my voice there's some people in there right now you know the voice of the Lord you've been hearing it you've been coming you cannot escape the voice of the Lord everywhere you turn whether it's social media whether it's it's your here or wherever you cannot escape the voice of the Lord and now you have matured enough to recognize his voice that's where I was and there was this moment where God was like you sought me and now you found me what are you going to do and so I was facing in my own direction it was a direction where where I was the master of my destiny and I was the master of my fate I'm facing in this direction and God is speaking to me in my ear and in that moment I had to make a decision am I gonna continue to be my own master and do my own thing or am I going to yield to that voice that's talking to me and so literally it was this that voice that was talking to me he was no longer talking to the side of my face I turned to him I turned my face and my direction to the voice that was talking to me and I surrendered to God and in that moment is when I got filled with the Holy Spirit it was a decision of the heart that says God you are the Lord and I am going to worship you I'm going to submit to you and I'm going to live for you and in that moment God filled me with the Holy Spirit and it was marked by first of all power and it was power for me to not do things that were part of my natural habit there was some things that were not worthy of me that I could not stop doing are you tracking with me there was some things that I knew weren't right but but those things were stronger than me because I was trying to fight those things out of my flesh and not out of the power of God I was trying to fight it out a willpower and willpower was not working willpower became won't power are you tracking with me and in that moment when I turned to him and I said God I am yours I got filled with the Spirit of God two things two notable things happen one was I have power and all of a sudden victory over that thing that I wanted to stop doing but I couldn't do you know Paul says the things that I want to do I don't do and the things that I don't want to do those things I do who will deliver me from the body of this death and then later on in chapter 8 that's Romans sevens in Romans chapter 8 he starts talking about how the the power of the Holy Spirit of what gave him the victory to no longer walk in the flesh but to walk in the spirit so something happened in the spirit that allowed him to do what he wanted to do and not be bound by what he could not stop doing that was the first thing I got power and isn't that what Jesus said you shall receive power when the Holy Spirit comes upon you and the second thing that happened to me was my spirit came alive and all of a sudden I became a man of Revelation all of a sudden when I when I would open up the scriptures it was no longer these crazy obscure words on the page but but I can see God breathing and talking to me and speaking to me the Word of God came alive to me and divine resources the gifts of the Spirit and revelation and insight and knowledge and prophecy and all of the full measure of God began to be my portion and I haven't looked back since and I haven't been the same since and that's the person that you're seeing now who is completely different from the person that you would have met 18 years ago because I had an encounter with the Holy Spirit I had been in church since I was nine years old this was different that's what this had nothing to do with belief it had to do with power are you tracking with me and that's what we're offering tonight I probably can't lay hands on all of you but imma lay hands on every single one of you that I can until the Lord tells me to quit and if you don't get hands laid on you I do not personally believe it's a requirement I believe that if you surrender to God and you open up your heart to God and you say God and you ask him god give me the Holy Spirit I don't want to do this by myself I need your power I need your spirit I need your grace you told the disciples don't go until they get it and I believe that you have it for me and it's not dependent upon another man if I don't get to you you just claim you just receive it right there in the atmosphere are you tracking with me so I just want you to miss beginning the worship God and I want to pray for you you're gonna receive something I'm gonna impart something to you you're gonna get something and you're gonna be established some of you have been tossed to and fro and God's gonna establish you [Music] and y'all just flow with me you're doing a great job tonight can we honor and celebrate this this worship team in this band I want to pray for you I just want you to begin to pray and worship and then we're gonna give amen [Applause] [Music] [Music] [Music] [Music] [Music] [Music] [Music] [Music] [Music] [Applause] [Music] [Music] [Music] [Music] [Applause] oh come on God is real God is real and you shall receive power when the Holy Spirit comes upon you come on let's worship come on let's worship let's watch it I'm not going into the battle in my own strength I'm going in the battle with the name which is above all names come on come on this is real we're not playing games this is not positive thinking this is the power of God loose in our lives to do great things come on worship God with me come on come on come on come on come on yes [Music] thank you Jesus [Music] the real thing the real [Music] how the heck do you want it how bad do you want it where my hungry people at where my husband people laugh hungry people where my hungry people you want the power of God in your life for real I'm tired of being wishy-washy in one day out the next day [Music] bad bad bad how bad do you want it [Music] start again it's not a game [Music] it's not a game so in acts 1 and 8 it says you will receive power when the Holy Spirit comes upon if you study that word in the Greek it doesn't read come upon it means when the Holy Spirit overcomes you overcomes soon overcomes ooh watch this overcomes you did you catch it it's greater than you he is greater than you you need the Holy Spirit to overcome you so that he can move through your life that's what's up that's what you see when you see Pastor Sarah she's flying gorgeous and anointed but you know what's up underneath all of that if you take all that off you know what's up under there the Holy Ghost what's up under there its power that thing that jesus said don't even do nothing without it that's what's underneath there and anybody can have it come on where you need to get hands laid on you I'll miss my flight if I have to laying hands on you who's hungry if you're hungry run up here just run up here if you're hungry right now I want to see the hungry people I want to see the hungry people save it where the hungry people come on come on receive it receive it we say that with signet receiving [Music] receive it yeah yeah yeah what's sickening [Music] [Music] [Music] [Applause] God's looking for some hungry people [Applause] we're sealing [Applause] [Music] [Applause] God wants to touch you [Music] Christina [Music] what's in it receive [Music] [Applause] [Music] [Applause] [Music] we want more of you God we want more of you we want to be full of faith and the Holy Ghost will come on up on Halloween you might want a regular ghost I want the Holy Ghost and Fire [Music] [Music] [Music] [Music] let me tell you something we're big on fashion we like to look fashionable we're in the culture we understand it we do business in the culture all that's wonderful but up underneath it it's the Holy Spirit are you tracking with me would it go anywhere when rooms with some of the most influential people in the world and we don't change in the room in fact it is the Holy Ghost that got us in the room are you tracking with me don't ever get it twisted it's about power it's about power whoo it's about power thank you Jesus he loves you family is from the moment that we planted this church unto now it has been my commitment to God and my personal deal with God that I would never leave the people that he sends me ill-equipped for life are you tracking with me he told me it's gonna be hard and you're gonna have to go through some things but I said I just can't I'm a spiritual father I'm a natural father I'm a spiritual father I will never leave you ill equipped you need the Holy Spirit every day and to be filled with the Holy Spirit every day for everything that's the difference that's the difference so lord I just want to seal this this moment of impartation thank you Jesus for your presence thank you for your word that gives us so much instruction on how to be everything that you called us to be I thank you for the lives that are forever changed in this moment they're full of faith and full of the Holy Spirit I thank you for the lives that are being reordered right now the steps that are being reordered I thank you for the hunger and the thirst for God that is in this building right now and you said blessed are those who hunger and thirst after righteousness for they shall be filled be filled be filled till this moment in Jesus name amen [Music]

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Published: Fri Oct 26 2018