Christine Caine : 2020 Is Your Year

[Music] [Applause] [Music] everyone well man what an awesome night already thank you Tarun Joseph there you are yesterday get your name right I did didn't I know don't tell me yes there you are okay I can't even see front row okay hello I'm sorry I can hardly see up yeah I'm waiting for young people to sit down it is such an honor to be here tonight doctor would I was gonna say I love you because I really do you are an awesome man of God and I love doctor wood I've been doing a whole bunch of stuff with the Assemblies for the last few years and I thank God for this man's leadership and what he has done for this movement in this nation I honor you Nick and I love you and respect you so much sir and I am pumped to be speaking tonight for those of you that don't know I I am married to the single most ravishing piece of masculine flesh on planet Earth he is hot and here and taken honey do you want to stand up this is my husband Nick and together we oversee ministry called the a21 campaign where we help to rescue the victims of human trafficking around the world I'm so excited because today we opened our 11th office in our tenth country in the world seeing people rescued and traffic is being put in jail which is awesome and Nick and I are part of the leadership team of a church in Sydney Australia called the Hillsong Church so I know that people know Hillsong music and they get pumped when a chick stands up from Hillsong cause y'all think I'm gonna sing oceans but if I did you would all drown so that's not going to happen it's like there is no blessing I'm not Taylor that's for sure and Nick and I are both ordained ministers with the Assemblies of God in Australia and so I'm with my church family I tweeted today I love being with my Assemblies of God Church family because I figure that I know y'all are Americans and you talk funny this is how the Queen speaks English will I'm from one of the colonies and we're part of the convicts but this is how we speak the Queen's English and so we say awesome it's very dignified we say awesome everyone's so awesome say it again awesome okay now say it like an American just leave that with you and so we say awesome but um so we've been ordained for twenty years I think with the Assemblies in Australia so we're just cousins and I love our movement I really do because we have an opportunity together globally to do what very few movements and denominations can do because they're up there are a lot of us we breed like rabbits and so the fact is that we have the ability to see God do amazing things in our generation so it's always a privilege and an honor to get to speak at a night like this and a night when all the generations are together and when I was sitting on the front row I kind of shifted gears a little bit I'm certainly going to get to what I believe the Holy Spirit put in my heart we don't have a whole lot of time to waste so I'm just gonna dive right in and I pray that you'll track with me in 2000 Mick and I had the awesome privilege of going to the Olympic Games in Sydney yeah I know how that sounds well as if we were competing we were not competing we were in the crowd with a hundred and sixteen thousand people watching watching many events at the Olympic Games and it was stunning to me because it was the largest purpose-built Olympic Stadium in the history of the Olympic Games 116 thousand spectators and there's always that one hundred sixteen thousand spectators and at many of the events there's only eight people running a track race and so there's always proportionately a hundred sixteen thousand people in the grandstands that will be watching a race and only eight that will be running the race and there's always a whole lot more spectators in the grandstands than participators on the playing fields and I think the day is almost over in Christianity where you can have a spectator Christianity and just sit in the grandstands and watch the game that you should be running and we need a whole bunch of people that are in their lane running their race and on course and so what happened was we were and I love all track events I'm a chick so I've got a particular passion for chick events and I really love the women's 4 by 100 meter relay now it was interesting because the American team had the fastest team on paper and you had won the previous nine Olympic Games in the women's 4 by 100 meter relay there was no reason why you shouldn't have won the Sidney one you had a lean mean running machine there was no way you should have lost but what happened coming into the third exchange the American team got a little bit sloppy coming into the exchange zone and because I changed part of what I was going to say during the worship I didn't have a relay baton with me so drummer I took your drumsticks so I'm really sorry and so what happened was as they came into the exchange zone the American team got sloppy and slowed down a little bit and the team from the runner from the Bahamas and the other runner from Jamaica overtook the American team and so instead of getting the gold medal that they should have gotten on paper the American team ended up getting the bronze medal and it was really really a big uproar in Australia no one could believe that the American team got the bronze medal well in 2004 at the Athens Olympic Games again the American team had the opportunity to redeem themselves the women's 4 by 100 meter team again was the fastest team on paper again was the team that had qualified with the fastest time and it should have won but what happened and for those of us that are as old as the dinosaurs that used to watch this some of you weren't even alive then but in 2004 what happened in one of the exchanges as they came into the exchange zone Marion Jones came in she had jumped in the long jump 11 times the day before so she was slightly fatigued so coming into the exchange zone she kind of had slowed down but it would have been fractions of a second nobody could tell but when she was about to pass off the baton to Lauren Williams they had done this exchange thousands of times before Marion Jones comes into the exchange zone Lauren Williams had taken over takin off and she had just started running but you can see it on the replay Marion Jones couldn't get the baton into her hand because she had slowed down and so she eventually got it in to learn Williams's hand but it was outside of the exchange zone and so the American team was disqualified fast forward to the 2008 Beijing Olympics and again the American teen had the fastest team on paper should have won but what happened was in the anchor in the final exchange as they came into the exchange zone they dropped the baton and so the American team who had been winning up until that point was disqualified and so in each of those three Olympics Sydney Athens and Beijing each individual runner was leading their mega the race they were winning the American team was ahead but what we saw by either a sloppy exchange a exchange that was too late or a dropped baton that it didn't matter how quick any one runner was it didn't matter who had the fastest the biggest the most or the best nobody won until everybody crossed that finish line until their final runner crossed the finish line and it was only in the 2012 Olympics in London when each of the three exchanges happened seamlessly that the American team won they had the same equal fastest team in each of the four Olympics but the truth is that you and I are not running some kind of individual sprint you and I are part of an eternal divine relay scripture tells us in Hebrews chapter 12 there then since we are surrounded by so great a cloud of witnesses there is a cloud of witnesses in the grandstand going out to have been alive in 2015 to be able to run with the baton of faith in 2015 to be able to take the gospel to our generation they're cheering us on and they're saying tag you're in church you've got the baton of faith for your generation and it is your responsibility to take the baton of faith to your generation there's no point waiting for anybody else the baton of faith is in our hand this is our time this is our moment but we need strong pastors and leaders then know when to hand the baton of faith off because you can have built the biggest thing in the world but if you hand the baton outside of the spiritual exchange zone we've got to go all the way back and start all over again if you come into the exchange zone and drop the baton we've got to start again there are so many young people I have so many batons of faith I would love to give to a generation of young women or young men for that matter but we got a generation of young people sitting in the exchange zone going I don't like the look of that baton how much are you gonna pay me to carry that baton what are the benefits of me carrying that but no that's not my gift mix that's not my calling that's not my love language that's not my strength finder we write Christian books to excuse Christians from being Christians whatever happened there is only one language it's called die to self nevertheless not my will but thine be done there is only one love language it's the language of submission and obedience to God do you know why I am running with so many batons in my generation because I never sat down and picked which one I was going to get I just started running and then batons were put into my hand we've got a generation that's standing still in the exchange zone wanting to choose what you want to do and so I can't run into an exchange zone and give up a tone to someone standing still I need someone who's prepared to run without the baton for a while until I get the baton into their hand that's what we need that's what we need there's always a moment in that 1.9 second exchange then the whole race hinges on that 1.9 seconds not how fast you run the 99 meters before you get in there it's that 1.9 second 20 meter exchange zone that determines everything and the church capital C globally is in a spiritual exchange zone like I haven't seen since I've been alive we are in a pivotal moment things have shifted you don't need to be a prophet to work that out economically politically socially legislatively morally we're not going back to Kansas life isn't what ever was thank God and this isn't the time for the church to run away and drop the baton and freak out this is not a time for the church to hang on to the baton we're too scared to hand it on in any way this is the moment the church was born for this is the moment that we were called to rise up and be the church and let be the hands of Jesus be the light of Christ to a lost and a broken world we need a courageous generation of leaders that will rise up and pick up the baton of faith and say I will run my race I will finish my course I will fix my eyes on Jesus the author and the finisher of my faith I will not be swayed by the shifting sand that is all going on underneath my feet I set my feet upon the rock I am filled of faith I'm empowered with the Holy Spirit of God I was born for this moment to make a difference in my generation I was born for this moment I'm not running away from a world just greatest moment to shine but we got to remember because young people if you don't remember that others have run before you you may forget that there are still others to come after you and you run very differently with a baton of faith when you know you're part of a relay than if you were doing an individual sprint and in this nation we so exalt the self-made man the self-made woman we're so exalted who's got the biggest who's got the fastest who's got the best big deal big deal and I can say that because I am one of those people big deal if it's not what God has called you to do what God has called you to do is the most important thing that and we are all connected we are all part of an eternal divine relay we got to cheer each other on we got to push each other on we've got to encourage each other on we've got to make sure that each other makes it and finishes it and we should not compete against each other we should not compare against each other we should compel and propel each other to run our race and to finish our course that is what God has called us to do that's what he's called us to do there's an eternal divine relay that we are a part of the devil has always wanted to split the generation he's the god we said it earlier of Abraham Isaac and Jacob this is the first time in history in church history that we actually have the three generations that are willing to work together imagine the wisdom of the older generation the resources of my generation and the zeal of the younger generation working together we would checkmate the devil overnight we would just get on with the father's business if we would do that and there are times and seasons and we've got to learn to navigate the spiritual exchange zone there are some batons that we need to hand over there are some [Music] you're building strength building tenacity your building commitment you're building faithfulness you're building loyalty you're building what you need to carry the baton of faith if we learn to honor one another an older generation wouldn't freak out about handing over what they should hand over because they know they would be honored and not disposed of like the world does and a younger generation instead of being arrogant and thinking you know everything about everything maybe somebody knew something before you got here because otherwise there wouldn't be this stuff here just just saying just saying maybe we didn't get it all wrong imagine if we all understood that what we could do and given the context of an eternal divine really in the world in which we live you know I got a smile on my face because while everyone else is freaking out oh my gosh did you see what me translation got past did you see what's happening politically it's not like gods in heaven god oh my god now I am God all three of me I'm having an existential crisis Oh No Oh God what are we going to do Peter did you know they were going to pass that legislation what are we going to do do you think God's freaking out we sing songs about his omniscience omnipotence omnipresence we talked about him being of you forever before after always and yet we don't believe it because we freaked out the minute something shifts politically the minute something shifts economically the minute something shifts socially the minute something shifts legally we all start to freak out we should be the most rock-solid firm secure institution on the planet because we set our feet upon the rock Jesus and His Word the grass withers the flower fades but the word of the Lord will last forever empires rise and empires fall but the King of Kings still prevails he still reigns he still rules he is not freaking out I don't have a church in 2015 that just knew she was just knew who we were and what God has called us to do it's not that we're taken by shock especially those of us that preach and teach the Bible the presupposition of that is the premise the basic premise is that we actually read it if we read it we have nothing to freak out about it's not that God didn't warn us sometimes we act like we're in shock I want you to turn with me to the scripture - Isaiah 54 it's going to be our text for this evening I'm still old-school enough to believe that every word in this book is true Annie and Aaron high 54 sing barren woman you who never bought a child burst into song shout for joy you who were never in labor because more are the children of the desolate woman then of her who has a husband says the Lord enlarge the place of your tent everyone say enlarge stretch your tent curtains wide do not hold back lengthen your cords and strengthen your stakes for you will spread out to the right and to the left your descendants will dispossessed nations and settle in their desolate cities do not be afraid you will not be put to shame do not feed disgrace you will not be humiliated you will forget the shame of your youth and remember no more the reproach of your widowhood for your maker is your husband the Lord Almighty is his name the Holy One of Israel is your Redeemer he is called the God of all the earth the Lord will call you back as if you were a wife deserted and distressed in spirit a wife who married young only to be rejected says you'll says your God for a brief moment I abandoned you but with deep compassion I will bring you back in a surge of anger I hid my face from you for a moment but with everlasting kindness I will have compassion on you says the Lord your Redeemer to me this is like the days of Noah when I swore that the waters of Noah would never again cover the earth so now I have sworn not to be angry with you never to rebuke you again though the mountains be shaken and the hills be removed yet my unfailing love for you will not be shaken nor my covenant of peace be removed says the Lord who has compassion on you afflicted City lashed by storms and not comforted I will rebuild you with stones of turquoise your foundations with lapis lazuli and I will make your battlements of rubies your gates of sparkle Jules and your walls a precious stone or your children will be taught by the Lord and great will be their peace in righteousness you will be established tyranny will be far from you you will have nothing to fear this is what we need to be telling our people terror will be far removed it will not come near you if anyone does attack you it will not be my doing whoever attacks you will surrender to you see it is I who created the blacksmith who fans the coals into flame and forges a weapon fit for its work and it is I who have created the destroyer to wreak havoc no weapon forged against you will prevail someone needs to hear that tonight no weapon forged against you will produc not say the weapon will not be forged make no mistake the weapon will be forged but it will not prevail and you will refute every tongue that accuses you this is the heritage of the servants of the Lord and this is their vindication from me declares the Lord a lot of scripture a lot of scripture Isaiah 54 what a hope and what a promise for us in this day it comes obviously right between Isaiah 53 and 55 it does that in Australia just like in America 53 54 55 but it's rocket science I'm smart and so what happens Isaiah 53 he prophesized the atoning work of Jesus that's to come Isaiah 54 speaks of the church that's us and I saw our 55 obviously talks about the last come all you who are thirsty come to the waters and drink talks about a mighty harvest and everything that we're preparing for him the earth right now all the persecution or the darkness or the craziness that's happening on the planet in every realm and every system of society is just getting us ready for the mighty end time harvest that's gonna flock into the church everything is about the harvest that's coming God is preparing us as pastors and leaders for the harvest that is coming God is purifying our churches for the harvest that is coming there and the tears are being separated because of the harvest that is coming this is all in Scripture we have nothing to freak out about we just need to get about the father's business and understand that God says in the midst of the most desolate time of Israel's history he's talking to those in Babylonian captivity in this chapter you know and he's saying to them that the temple is in ruins the city is desolate my people are being persecuted and they're in exile it sounds a little bit like us today he says in the midst of all of that Berenice in the midst of all that that's going on I want my people to begin to sing I want them to begin to prophetically declare and decree the greatness of their God and the fact that God is still in control he's not forsaken them that our weapons been forged but it's not going to prosper and he says in fact that you know what when I Gress qu out of this captivity don't look back to what happened in Exodus in the first Exodus this one's going to be greater this one's gonna be better whether you come out of this I'm gonna do a new thing and it's gonna be entirely different and I believe we are in those days again where God's saying around you it looks like it's dark around you it seems that weapons are being forged against you it looks like the sand has shifted it looks like my people are being persecuted and being dismissed and being marginalized and put off out of the center into the periphery of society but I want to remind you this is our time as the church to begin to sing we might feel like we're barren we might feel like we're not reproducing but he says you better get ready the womb of the church is fertile and she is about to spring forth fruit and she's going to reproduce and she is going to multiply and a mighty harvest is going to come into the church he's preparing us for harvest for harvest those days were not unlike these days to the natural eye it would have seemed ludicrous to prophesy this kind of promise we today like a people in exile or people in captivity and God saying no no no don't pull back I need my leaders to begin to rise up at this time jesus said in matthew 16 i will build my church and the gates of Hell shall not prevail against the Church of the Living God sometimes I feel like I need to come to pastors and remind us Jesus hasn't stopped building what he said he would build it doesn't matter what legislation is passed it doesn't matter what happens politically it doesn't matter what comes out of Hollywood it doesn't matter what happens in the education department it doesn't matter what happens in Wall Street they were never supposed to give answers to the world they were never supposed to do the job of the church it's the church's job to be the church on the earth it's our job and Jesus says I will build my church and I don't care what anybody says or anybody does the Church of Jesus Christ will continue to prevail it is so awesome to be part of building the eternal Church of God I hope to remind you tonight of what we've been called to do and who we are what I call to hide and get our stockpiles and our water supplies and go into the middle of the country just hang on us for and no more I'm just waiting for the rapture hurry up Jesus I'm so scared what on earth and then we sing songs greater II see that is in me and come only spirit I don't want to just be revived there comes a point with we can get revived and be revived and if we just got to keep putting the leaders on life support and keep putting an IV drip and pump up your hearts every week something's really wrong at some point we need to get revived we need to get strengthened we need to get out and get about the father's business and do what we're called to do we got too many leaders on spiritual IV drips we need to actually practice what we preach believe what we preach and begin to go out and do what God has called us to do and so the fact is he says I want to focus on two verses here he says enlarge the place of your tent stretch out your tent curtains and do not hold back lengthen your cords strengthen your stakes for you will spread out to the right and the left your descendants will dispossessed nations and steadily in desolate cities I love how it's written in the message Eugene says it this way Eugene Peterson clear lots of ground for your tents why did I come here I flew in from London two nights ago Nick and I felt so strongly in our heart to say yes to this I wasn't looking for something else to do in summer but if I flew across the world for this reason I so believe in the American assemblies and I so believe that God our greatest days are ahead of us and that we need the church in America to rise up you know I've got pastor rich Wilkerson sitting there in the second or third row in the 90s and the 80s he would come to Australia we were all in youth groups see I'm fruit of that ministry and the American assemblies would send missionaries to Australia because we were so heathen and we needed them and so we needed a lot of help less than 1% of our people went to church pastor Benny Perez's sitting here - and I was running Youth alive the Assemblies of God youth movement in our state and he came over and brought such power of the Holy Spirit and such an unleashing of the gifts of the Holy Spirit into a whole movement of young people which you now know as things like United and young and free and Planet shakers and a whole bunch of others things that have come out of Australia they didn't exist and the American assembly sent people to Australia and we all grew up out of that but in only one generation when you mess up the exchange zone we come from Australia now as missionaries here and just start to return at all because that we believe in you somehow now 50 years old next year but I was the kid in the youth group in the 80s and the 90s where this movement so deeply impacted us and now out of Australian look at the wave of revival that is impacted the earth and it does my soul so good to come here and still see ministers like pastor rich Wilkerson there that have carried the baton of faith through oneexchange after another exchange after another exchange after another exchange faithfully and pastor Benny Perez and a whole team of people the deeply impacted our nation so I speak to you as one of us with deep compassion and deep love deep love because if we get this we're one of the largest denominations in this country what we could actually do would be astounding it would be astounding for the sake of the gospel and for the glory of Jesus so he says clear lots of ground for your tents make your tents large spread out think big use plenty of rope drive the tent pegs deep you're going to need lots of elbow room for your growing family you're gonna take over whole nations you're going to resettle abandoned cities I believe that if you're taking notes I want to call this message give me some elbow room you churches need some elbow room have you ever sat on an airplane I fly so much it you know sometimes you could be like it's seat 36d or something and there's like a one-inch armrest but that armrest becomes like a war zone for the flight you just want your little arm on that harness you just give me some elbow room if we're gonna have some elbow room in our churches in our ministries in our lives because it starts with us personally internally the Prophet says I need you to enlarge I need you to enlarge he was speaking obviously to a culture that understood what it was to enlarge the place of your tent if a family was going to grow of you know a man was going to bring in another wife I don't recommend that today but back then or if the woman was gonna have more babies the women would so goatskins and the tent would be enlarged you'd have to put the tent pegs in deeper and stronger because now the tent would be exposed to the elements and to the wind and it would have to be stronger because it's going to be bigger and if we're gonna grow our churches and grow our ministries and have the impact on the earth that God has called us to have in these last days then you know what this is what we need to do we need to be in LA not shrinking fear cripples us fear paralyzes us fear causes us to shrink and yet we all preach that God has not given us a spirit of fear but of love power and a sound mind so wonder in these days where the sand is shifting are you shrinking or your are you enlarging I love that word enlarge it means to make bigger or more extensive to make more room you know late last year I went into my daughter's bedroom my daughter is 13 and she'd been telling me for about six months mummy I need a new bed and I was just thinking yeah yeah yeah sure and then late last year I went into a bedroom and honestly her legs were like hanging out of the bed and she was like her arms were too big I felt like an abusive mother I thought oh my word you know this is she looked really weird because she'd outgrown her bed it looked awkward and odd some of you you've you've outgrown in the spirit if you could see you look like a kid with your legs hanging out and your arms hang it and it just looks odd and God saying you know what it's time to enlarge it's time to enlarge the place of your tent your spiritual anchor for where you are and it looks odd and so the fact is when we need to enlarge and many of us it's been a long time since we've enlarged internally for some of you I'm speaking to you right now about your buildings your facilities your campuses for others I'm talking to you about your state of your heart it's time to make God bigger see God is as big as he ever needs to be to do the job he's given us to do our job is the evangelization of planet Earth before the second coming of Jesus Christ it's no more complex than that in America we've gotten sidetracked with a whole lot of other things when it comes to church it's become such a great business that we've forgotten actually the primary mission of what God has called us to do but all the books and all the CDs and all the tapes and all the teaching series and all the Bible studies and all the curricula we've got more than we've ever had we've got the Bible on every app we've got the Bible in every version we've got more Chris resources that we have had in the history of the Christian Church and the slowest growth we've ever had churches declining and closing something's not working something's not right our hope became came in systems and programs and resources rather than the power of the Holy Spirit the power of the Holy Spirit to bring change and growth but you can only do that because we don't need to be spiritual weirdos and Froot Loops we don't need to be weird Christians ought to be the most relevant people on the earth not the most weird people on the planet rolling on the floor spitting and frothing isn't going to get many one saved at all we ought to have such wisdom like the sons of vesica who understood their times and knew what to do sometimes the church hasn't even understood her times and the rest of the time she's understood a time it hasn't had a clue what to do for the first time we perhaps can get those things right we can understand our times and we can know what we ought to do and the empowerment and the strength of the Holy Spirit enables us not to be super weird but to make the supernatural profoundly natural to be able to move in our communities and see transformation have words of wisdom and knowledge and see signs and wonders and miracles but not by being culturally irrelevant it makes you highly relevant and so that's how we've grown eleven offices around the world where every major government in countries that are bankrupt and bankrupting the planet come to us because the Holy Spirit gives us such wisdom and such discernment it's because of him so my deal here is he says you need to enlarge the place of your tent you need to enlarge make more room God is as big as he's ever gonna be his omnipotence omniscience omnipresent we all know that but the God of the universe is made big or small in the hearts of his people so how BIG's your heart because your hearts going to determine the size of your church the size of your ministry and the influence and the impact of your life simple as that simple as that because your heart is even either making God big or small in your church or in your community and a big heart has a lot of room for God and so some of us need to spring clean our hearts because our heart is too full of us and there's no room for God I wonder what your heart full of where are your affections where are your distractions what's going on in your heart because that determines how much the Holy Spirit can flow those of us that are married what's happening in your marriages husbands how are you treating your wives what does your husband need to move to the top of the roof so you can get away from your nagging and whinging but I wonder what's going cuz these are not days to be playing games as leaders God separating sifting is happening wheat and tares are coming apart and there is sifting and sifting amongst leaders and the fact is that our hearts you eluded to it and you talk about love Ted our bitterness and our fence where are we in the body of Christ arrogance chauvinism sexism racism greed lust Envy why some people had a problem in the early years of me showing a 21 DVDs on Sunday morning because if you've got your own issues with pornography or adultery or fornication you don't want me talking about that stuff in your church and there comes a time where we got to just deal with the stuff in our heart where our own pride and our own arrogance and our own lack of repentance is stopping a generation coming through it's not because God doesn't want it it's because of the stuff going on in our own heart and our own selfish ambition and our own jealousy and rather than getting behind what God's already doing we want to compete with it and the reason why it's such a holy silence in this room right now is because we're talking to all of us me included and if we would dare allow the Holy Spirit to start in our own hearts husbands if some of us repented to our wives for what's happening behind closed doors and you're in very serious and high leadership positions the way you speak to her the way you treat her wives some of you how you are with your husbands the adultery the fornication the single people just messing around with stuff that we don't like to talk to because we think because we're in a grace dispensation it means there's an we don't have to be holy how on earth anyone has ever thought grace excludes holiness I have no idea because the Bible doesn't the Apostle Paul never did I have no idea and then we wonder why there's no power and we think if I just pray in tongues more that's not going to help you get your tongue out of a mouth that's not your husbands and wives that might help you that might help you I almost can't believe I said that myself don't worry [Applause] I'm walking over this way because dr. Woods in the front room truth is truth the issue is what's going on in our heart look I was abused for 12 years I was left in a hospital unnamed an unwanted my heart was so full of shame my heart was so full of guilt my heart was so full of condemnation my heart was so full of brokenness so much anger so much unforgiveness so much bitterness that's what happens when you sexually abused by 4 men for 12 years that's what happens when your birth certificate says unnamed and you left abandoned in a hospital that's what happens so it wasn't that God didn't want to do things through my life I could have had a hundred prophetic words but I was limiting what God could do through my life until I allowed the Holy Spirit to go into those deep dark places of my life where I had locked God out of the place where we enlarged God is in our heart and when our heart is enlarged we're not threatened or insecure by whose coming and we want to hand a healthy heart wants to hand the baton on to the right people because your heart is healthy and you want the baton of faith to go from one generation to the next you want it to happen young people a healthy heart that's full of godly ambition but not a selfish ambition and not pride and not arrogance and not lust and not greed you're willing to run without a baton until the baton comes into your hand because you feel so privileged and honored that God would even choose you to run in a race and to be able to hold the baton of faith one time in your generation you would feel slow on it so what's going on in your heart I need to move on and say it maybe one thing that's on my notes I wonder what you are magnifying and I wonder what you're making bigger what are you making bigger that offense that hurt let me just put this up could you guys just put that image up on the screen just for a second it's just a this is not rocket science what are you seeing up on that screen it's it's a black dot but the truth is there's a whole lot more white space than there is black dot and some of you while your church isn't growing while your marriage isn't moving forward while you're having a frustration your life is because you are making the black dots of your life bigger than God the whitespace there's a whole lot more God than there is black top and you're making that offense that hurt what that pastor did what that church did what that other person did to you you are making that thing that happened in your church bigger than the god of your church when we learn to make what God did for us bigger than what anyone did to us then we would begin to see change and transformation in our churches we've got to make God bigger let's be a people that makes God bigger let me move on he says stretch and the band could come up he says stretch and thats word stretch means to be made capable of being made longer or wider without tearing or breaking I'm here to tell you pastors and leaders you got more stretch in you there's more in you some of you you think I'm going to snap and we've sold out to a gospel of apathy and complacency because we're not willing to embrace the stretch you know when I snapped my ACL I went and had surgery and they did a hamstring graft and my PT during my recovery process he came in he said Christine you can have a total recovery or a partial recovery your recovery can be slow or your recovery can be fast it is entirely up to you and then he said these words the degree to which you are willing to embrace the pain is the degree to which you will recover and for some of us as leaders God saying will you embrace the pain of the stretch so that I can grow you and do what I want to do through you and what you've done is stopped stretching and when you get older if you don't keep stretching then you're limited in terms of how far you will go and God saying to his church come on I need you to stretch there's more in you you need to get out of your comfort zone and you need to take risks and you need to begin to stretch and to stretch and embrace the pain yes it will be painful to bring change and transformation but if you embrace the stretch your church will blow up and God will do exceedingly abundantly above and beyond anything that you could ever ask or think according to the power that works in you you must embrace the stretch this more in you this more in you I don't care how old you are caleb was 85 he said I'm as young now as I was then now give me this mountain that's my inheritance I am NOT cashing in my 401k and retiring there is no such word as retirement in the Bible we just refire for the kingdom of God that's all we do we continue to stretch enlarge the place of your turn stretch our race through it lengthen and that would lengthen I just want to tell you what it means some of us we need to stretch past our fears stretch past our insecurities and stress stretch past our comfort zone and what happens is we need to lengthen to make or become longer some of you you've you can see you've got a lot more capacity but you're just not willing to undo the belt buckle and become a bit longer some of you you need to just you got the belt buckle tied up to that notch in there and God saying come on lengthen it lengthen it increase in enlarge your circle it's time to lengthen do not hold back scripture says do not hold back I don't know where you're at and I don't know what's happened but if you were hurt tonight it's time to bounce back if you were betrayed it's trying to bet to trust again some of you if you've held back someone betrayed you someone hurt you you can't be in ministry for more than five minutes without that's happening but it's been 20 years and you've held back you're holding back reproducing the generations and you holding back trusting someone else and you're holding back empowering someone but if you were disappointed it's time to hope again if you were overlooked it's time to try again if you've failed it's time to get up again if you're offended it's time to forgive if you were used it's time to serve again if you lost something it's time to reach out for a brand new thing don't hold your affection back don't hold your loyalty back don't hold your commitment but don't hold your honor back don't hold your faithfulness back don't hold your prayers back don't all just steadfastness back don't hold your faith back don't hold your hook back don't hold your love back don't hold back the hour is urgent final thing it's time to strengthen this is really it this is it strengthen you know the act of becoming strong this year earlier on in January hunter side turned 49 next month you can send presents it's on the 23rd of September and so I turned 49 and I made a decision I want this next half I've got a 13 year old daughter I've got a 9 year old daughter so I want the next 40 to be stronger shove the Lord Terry then my first 30 so when to start getting fit I went to a gym they did a body fat test I was thirty point eight percent body fat I was like in the Xtreme zone I didn't look much different it's amazing how you can look so good on the outside but you're full of fat that you're just carrying around spiritually so I had to go on an intensive program of eating and doing weights and I've gotten a lot to look I can I've gotten a lot stronger [Music] [Applause] I would keep going but I don't want to show off and so I'd strengthen some of us it's time to strengthen you haven't picked up anything that's been heavy for a long time you're just cruising but the hour is too urgent the fight it's just gonna get hotter if you think what's happened is all that's happened you haven't been reading your Bible so we need leaders that are stronger believe that I've got some strength and can carry some weight but some of you you've come here tonight and you think we say I can't I could not lift up a five-pound weight man I've been beat up Chris I'm barely making it I can enlarge I can't strengthen I can't lengthen I can't stop holding back the scripture tells us in Isaiah 40 28 to 31 that there was a wait upon the Lord that's what this conference is all about showing you there'll be a spiritual exchange he's for mine showing you their strength we'll mount up on wings like eagles we will run and not grow weary we will walk and not faint I wonder if you've just been walking around as a leader this is just too hard this is just too much it's all just taking me out because the enemy has forged a weapon a weapon against our marriages and weapon against family look what's happening in this nation he's forged a weapon and a lot of us are feeling like wow it's just been too much but the Lord says if you wait on him and you tap into his strengths and you put your active hope and confidence in him he will cause you to flourish he will cause you to revive he will miraculously restore and heal he will do what we can't do he will do it in our churches so many of you been trying to run without the empowerment of the Holy Spirit and you didn't I'm not talking about just speaking in tongues I'm talking about truly truly being filled fully on an ongoing daily basis people go how do you do it Chris 11 officers you've just launched prepare hundreds of thousands of women all the preaching all the teaching for churches in Eastern Europe I don't feel that we started dr. Woods as Chris you're always pumped like always pumped up with the Holy Ghost because those are weighed upon the Lord and do everything you know to do naturally in terms of fear fitness and health and good relationships but tonight this week I wonder whether you would come to him and allow him to do a divine spiritual exchange your weakness for his strength because the people who trust in their God shall become strong in their faith we're gonna be able to stand against and contend with our spiritual enemies we'll gain victory over sin and advance the kingdom of God I wonder whether what it comes down to pastors and leaders is whether we as pastors and leaders need to trust God again you've been trying but you can [Music] trying to make more room for him in your heart but you can't and it seems like there's no victory over sin or offense or greed or lust or envy or fornication or jealousy or guile insecurity fear doubt I'm believing in this next 20-30 minutes of ministry that the Holy Spirit will do what only he can do well we would truly trust him to deal with those areas of our heart so that we can run and carry the baton of faith with strength with confidence with vigor with zeal with passion with integrity with righteousness I wonder if we can leave a whole lot stronger than coming when we came we could trust God Church why because there's no problem that God cannot solve in this room tonight there is not one promise that God's given you that it's too hard for him to fulfill there is not one prayer that is too small for God to answer there's not one disease in this room not physical or emotional that God cannot heal there is not one heart that God cannot mend there is not one relationship that God cannot restore there is not one person that God cannot save there is no chaos from which God cannot bring peace there is no pain that God cannot redeem there is no sin that God cannot forgive there is no bondage that God cannot break there is no need that God cannot mean there is no enemy that God cannot defeat there is no Mountain that God cannot move there is nothing my God cannot do and because there is nothing how God cannot do I can do o things through Christ Jesus who strengthens it is his strength it is his fight it is his power it is his spirit it is the divine enablement from the Spirit of Almighty God that will enable us to run our rage to finish our course to not drop the baton of faith and to not hand [Music] starts without repentance it starts with their own acknowledgment about needing fear so I'm not gonna drag it how cuz I'm talking to pastors and leaders tonight and if we have to coerce each other then we're wasting our time so quite simply if for you the Holy Spirit has spoken to you and you say you know what god I want to wait upon you I've got faith to believe that a divine supernatural exchange can happen and God can do what we couldn't do and he can begin a process and we can see miracles signs and wonders in this place tonight it starts in us it starts in us that's where it all starts so if that's you I want you to stand up I want you to stand up and if you're able I want you to dare to even come forward to this altar and you're gonna do business with God it's gonna start with us night number one we're not going to wait to night number three or four I can't make room in your heart for God only you can but I'm believing in the power of the Holy Spirit is in this place to bring healing some of you have been struggling with addictions and struggling with issues in your marriage and you need a miracle you need a miracle from God get a miracle from God in your church your leadership teams but it starts with you tonight it's all about you you can clog up this place we're gonna have an old-school Holy Ghost revival meeting I'll school you cry out to God you and God [Music] come on we're leaders you don't need anyone to do this for you [Music] Oh

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Length: 55min 15sec (3315 seconds)

Published: Wed Jan 01 2020