"Destiny Is Inconvenient" - Stephanie Ike

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beautiful today so we're looking that first sample from chapter 13 verse 7 to 14 and so it says and some of the Hebrews crossed over the Jordan to the land of God and Gilead and as for Saul he was still in Gilgal and all the people followed him trembling then he waited seven days according to the time set by Samuel but Samuel did not come to Gilgal and the people were scattered from him so saul said bring a burnt offering and priest peace offerings here to me and he offered the burnt offering now it happened as soon as he had finished presenting the burnt offering that samwell came and soul went out to meet him that he might greet him and someone said what have you done Saul said when I saw that the people were scattered from me and that you did not come within the days appointed and that the Philistines gathered together and McMath then I said the Philistines will now come down on me at Gilgal and I have not made application to the Lord therefore I felt compelled and offered a burnt offering and some well sets us all you have done foolishly you have not kept the commandments of the Lord your God which he commanded you for now the Lord would have established your kingdom over Israel forever but now your kingdom shall not continue the Lord has sought for himself a man after his own heart and the Lord has commanded him to be commander over his people because you have not kept what the LORD commanded you father God I thank you for this word I thank you that as we go into your word Lord God it is your voice they will hear not mine I thank you that you will speak to each and every heart presence I break every spirit of resistance in this house in the name of Jesus Lord God I thank you that you would do only that which you do when your power is in the room Lord God have your way in Jesus name Amen amen you may be seated thank God can we just give a beautiful just like just let's just praise God for our leaders pass it to Ray Robertson pastor First Lady Sarah Jakes Roberts Amen it's always an honor just to be here with you guys so today's message is titled destiny is not convenient it's inconvenient or not convenient but I like inconvenient you see I'll share a little story with you guys so last week we went to the International pastors and Leadership Conference run by Bishop TD jakes it was phenomenal it wasn't Dallas I made just life-changing so the first night we get in there the first session they had on a Wednesday night Bishop had this amazing message called dress for what's next and you guys have to watch it on the bishops village calm I mean all the messages are there so he has this message that's for what's next and in the message he's basically talking about you know stripping off the garments that are holding you from getting to what's next and when I heard that message I there was I felt convicted and so the whole you know after after the message happened like we go up I go back to the hotel room and in my mind I'm like God what garment do I have on what is it that I'm still that I could still be holding on that is costing me or that could cost me what's next the message basically was was was dying too to yourself in a deeper way and the truth of the matter is that I didn't know why I felt convicted I didn't know I was like god this is a blind spot there's something you're trying to show me but I don't see it I don't know what it is the next day that morning the Lord had led in my heart to sew into a game there was a number he gave me to sew into what was happening at the International pastors and Leadership Conference so I purposed in my mind when I hear that number called that I will go make that sew that seed and you know what just a little detour sometimes we think that you know when the parcel would say that you know there are ten people here too so this number sometimes I remember when I used to be that person that oh my god did you really tell him that but the truth is I remember when God revealed to me that no these are numbers that the Holy Spirit inspires them to say because there are people in that room that it is a sacrifice that God is requiring of them and so when so that morning you know we go to the session and I'm you know I'm just ready I'm like okay god I'm waiting to hear the number you know so the morning session passes a lot of things happen I go for the night session and then when I heard him say you know what there are people here and you're supposed to sew this and I just I was so fast with that pen I say that's me that's me so I go up to the altar but as I was walking up to the altar the Lord began to speak to me and he began to show me what my blind spot was and he said that you have not yet embraced being inconvenienced and I was I was at the altar and I'm like God what are you talking about because you know I think I've made a lot of sacrifices I left my family I left my home I've gone where you told me to go I I do what you told me to do you know I'm not understanding what you mean by I have not embraced being inconvenienced and he said no you've embraced being uncomfortable but there's a difference he said you've embraced accepting the unfamiliar but there is a part of you that has a desire for arriving at this place when everything is convenient because you see to be inconvenienced is is when things are not suitable to your needs it's not - your time it's not suitable to your expectations it goes against even your own will a lot of times and when he said that to me I realized that actually I am waiting there there is a desire in my heart for that day when everything just seems convenient just in the Jets going to preach the gospel hallelujah and there's nothing wrong with that but I explained what what he was showing me and I said God and I was at that altar and I cried like a baby because there was so much happening that day and it felt to me like a funeral because he showed me what what the call he has in my life and and what he's leaving me to do that it will cost me everything it will cost me everything to the point that for him to even reveal to me my blind spot it cost me a sacrificial seed that he will not even tell me unless I even sacrifice because what I gave it was it may not be much to some but after you pay some bills that was over 90% of what I had on me and he said that I will not even reveal this to you unless it came by the way of sacrifice because your life is gonna cost you your life and I I was like a child I was I was crying while in my heart I said God please don't let them feel me I'm very close to the altar please just just push the camera away because it was such an emotional time because I realized that at that altar I was killing that desire to arrive to this place where everything is just suitable it fits my time it fits my needs it fits my desires it fits and God says and I remember when I got back to the hotel room that day and I was like wow Lord there is something there was a message here there is something deeper in this and even over the course of the days he started speaking to me about a man we're gonna even we read about soul you see Saul was a man who he had embraced being uncomfortable because when Saul went when Israel desired the king and God said you know what you guys want a king I'm gonna give you a king and they and he gave them salt but but the manner in which so the prophet Samuel he reveals to the prophets mo who he has chosen as king over Israel the prophet Samuel has a you know has an encounter with Saul and this is done at first it was done privately where he anointed Saul and said that saw you are the one that the Lord has chosen as king but this was a private affair and then you fast forward and just read the whole book of 1st Samuel is gonna bless you and you fast forward and now they're in there you know Samuel gathers all the Israelites because he wants to now reveal to the people who the kook God had chosen as king and when it was time to reveal to the people Saul was hiding to the point that God had to reveal to the prophet Samuel where Saul was hiding so they could get him and tell the people that this is the one the Lord has chosen so if Saul is hiding obviously he might have felt inadequate he might have felt like we have no reference for this Israel has never had a king I don't come from a line of kings being a king was something unfamiliar to him but yet he took that call he took that position he embraced what was uncomfortable but in the passage that we read you see that passage was was very symbolic because that the Israelites were in the heat of a battle the Philistines were coming the Philistines came against them with over thirty thousand men and the Israelites had only 3,000 men it's like as someone asking you to use your tithe to pay your whole bills it's like brah you know unless you're doing something else they had 3,000 men to fight over 30,000 men the Israelites were panicking and so they go down to Gilgal and they're like okay we have an instruction the prophets MO had told the King to wait here in Gilgal for seven days so that he will bring a word so that he would do the birth the the burnt offering and the peace offering and now in that time the burnt offering was symbolic too it's almost like a Thanksgiving to God for the for you know delivering them the peace offering was symbolic to surrender to God and but this was an offering that was only that should only be done by a priest and although sama was a prophet he was also a priest he was raised by a priest Eli and so and and was someone that in past passages when something like this happened not only was he coming to do a burnt offering he was coming to give a word from God to give them strategy to let the people know this is the manner in which you're gonna win this battle or to let the people know if God is with them in the battle so they needed some more to get there and so each day that passes by I can only imagine that the people's hearts they're like okay you know what seven days day seven day six day five day four day 3 day 2 day one and soul it's like you know what this is the appointed time and it's funny when you think about the appointed time because sometimes we look at the appointed time that God you told me yourself you know I feel like this is the time I believe that this is the time this is supposed to happen but the appointed time is never when you want it to happen the appointed time is when God says so because it is as it is in heaven so shall it be on earth not as you want it to be on earth that it is in heaven so the appointed time even when it looks like a delay it is not yet the appointed time if it's been if it looks like it's being delayed because God will do things as it is in heaven that is the prayer jesus told his disciples to pray so Shawn is thinking that you know what Samwell told us that this is the appointed time and so if someone is not here we got to do something because in Seoul's mind he's like the people are scattering from me the people are leaving me we don't even have that much men in the first place and now the people want to leave me it was inconvenient it was it was inconvenient to the battle it was inconvenient to his position as king because I can only imagine that when people were leaving him that they were mummering in there they were saying things about him you know what I don't even know why we we desire the king this man does not know what his doing Samuel has abandoned as God has forsaken us and as Saul perhaps was hearing what the people were saying he put himself in a position that he should never have you see I wonder in your life if you're in the place that God has sent you God that the word of God was that Saul should wait in Gilgal but then saul is saying that the Philistines are gonna come upon me in Gilgal so the very same place that God said wait for me looks like the very same place that there they might die have you ever been in a place where God has sent you somewhere God told you go to LA God told you go to this job God told you go to this place and you get there and nothing is working God told you go here and I'm gonna make you a great actor and you've done everything but act because nothing is working God said go here you're gonna be a musician and you've done everything but just only singing in the shower and bills need to be paid and your family is calling you what are you doing with your life and God is not speaking and you're on your knees crying and you're fasting God where are you and he is silent because you see Sam well soul was waiting for Sam or to hear a word from God what are we gonna do the Philistines are gonna come upon us in the very same place you told us to wait and you have not come there is no word from God about what we ought to do and the Philistines are gonna come and meet us here have you ever felt in the place and everybody is wondering what are you gonna do with your life you you've been here for too long initially you said just give me four months just give me six months just give me one year I believe God is gonna do something you've been here five years and you're not sure what's going on and God is silent and you're like God he said that I can't hear you did I make a mistake that I you know am I still in the right place what do you want me to do and he's giving you dreams about everybody else but yourself what do you do you see even in God's silence there's purpose because when God was saying wait for me here wait I need you to your life has to be inconvenient because you see the waiting was part of God's what was part of his plan to get the glory you see the feeling sign prior to what is happening Jonathan Saul's son had defeated one of the main officers in the Philistine army the news went round even though when they spread the news they said Saul defeated the man and so they were like why you know the Israelites are just doing their thing the Philistines in their anger they gather all these men to say let us go and just finish the Israeli army the Israelites army so the Philistines in their minds they're thinking it's a numbers game oh because it was one-on-one you won okay let's make this army to army the Philistines are thinking that let's get all of these men and we would finish the the soldiers of the Israelites the enemy was thinking numbers and we are children of God we are not to think like the enemy we're supposed to think like God in that moment Saul started thinking like the enemy he's like all the people are scattering from me you see when God is aware of the plans of the enemy because when the enemy is against God's people they're against God and so God is silent for a reason he's silent because the Phylis eyes think that oh they need a big army and God is like you know what I want the army to even be smaller for the Israelites I'm silent for a reason so I actually want the people to scatter from you you see sometimes when God is silent in your life and people start to critique you people start to say to falsely accuse you God is saying oh I'm silent for a reason I want you to know who is really for you I want you to know who's really with you because they are with you not because of what you know or what you can give them a lot of times you you you have all these people around you and they're only around you because of what they can take from you and there are times that God wants you to not know what you're gonna do tomorrow who will still stand by you when it looks confusing who will still stand by you when it looks dark there are times that God needs you to not know who will still believe in what God is doing in you it was all part of God's plan he said I know you don't know what's going and I know you can't hear with a word from me and it seems like you've just been hopping from couch to couch to couch no I need you to be in that place so you know who opened the door for you when you need a place to sleep because where God is taking you he needs real people in your life you see time with weed out people that have agendas so when God is like no I need you to be delayed because the people that have agendas and motives need to be weeded out from this army I need people that will trust me I need people that trust what I'm doing God is always silent for a reason he's not silent because he cannot are you he's not silent because he has forsaken you he's silent because he's actually arming you on another hand when God is silent it's also testing your dependence on him you see imagine if you become it's easy when when we are honest at the stage where we don't believe me we may not have much to say God you know what even if you make me a millionaire if you ask me to give it all away I will child listen you need to be groomed to get to that place you need to know how to give away 10000 before you give away a million God has to groom you God has to know that when I bring you to a place where I set you up if I tell you to give it all away and move to India for six months then you will do it because you have embraced me inconvenience from the very beginning you are that dedicated to me that you're not going to rely on things because family the higher you get up the harder it is to choose God's will and so he has to groom you from the little things he has to groom you this was just that Saul had not been King for that long and already God is like let me get let me can I test your dependence on me we're just waiting just waiting Saul wait a few more days he couldn't do it oh the people are scattering from me so I must do the burnt offering I must do this because we need to do something it's funny why we think we can help God be God you see because the truth of the matter is that when I read this passage as I continue to read it I see Saul had a son named Jonathan and there was something that Jonathan did that I believe was the plan of God from the very beginning one day it talked about how one day Jonathan this is still in them in the midst of the army where Saul has done this and samo giving him a word that the kingdom will be taken away from you but there the fact that there is still a battle to take place and they said one day Jonathan and his armor-bearer now first of all this was a battle that three thousand people were scared to do and Jonathan and his ammo bearer two people he tells us I'm a bear let us go and fight these people and he said that for God cannot be hindered by many or by few he understood something about God that God even if it's only the two of us we can win this battle and he asked God for a sign and God gave him that sign and he went to the camp of the Philistines and the whole purpose was when you read the passage you see that God actually wanted to partner with them because they were not just coming against the people they were coming against the name of God and God caused the Philistines to be in so much confusion that they started killing themselves you see when you're in that place that you don't know and you're not sure what is going on when the enemy is after you you are a word from God he's not just attacking you he's attacking the God in you and so God is like no no no no I'm not I'm not trying to rush this process I want to have the glory in your life because this is actually about my name this is about what I'm doing on the earth but Samuel I mean Saul was not ready to be inconvenience this is a thing that that that in that position it could literally whatever decision you make if it's like God you know what I've been it this whole thing you sent me out here and it's not working I'm going home but going home or quitting will cost you everything on the other side of your sacrifice and then you become bitter and and you become entitled because you feel like God owes you something but all the longer was trying to get you to what he was calling you to you see I watched I watched an interview where Tyler Perry was on TBN and he was interviewed by dr. Juanita Bynum and it was such a beautiful interview because he talked about how when he first started his plays he was like I knew that I had a word from God and the first play he did he planned it so that he planted in a way that he had an expectation for 1,200 people to show up at this play so imagine the the financing the staff in all of that and he's excited because he's like child God gave me a word and when the play happened 30 people came and he's like God what is this because it caught he now money is gone he does the play again it fails he does it again and again and again and it's failing to the point that his job is his job told him they're like we're not gonna give you any more time off for you to do your place either you you work here or you quit and he's like you know what I just know God gave me a word is gonna happen he quits his job the place still keep failing to the point now he has to beg he's literally talking about begging money from his uncles and his aunts to give him twenty dollars here and thirty dollars here just to eat and the whole time his he's asking God like God how am I gonna get through these bills how am I gonna get through this and he says God says nothing every time he asks god god how am I gonna do this he didn't hear a thing over and over and over again it kept failing failing failing and it didn't mean that God didn't give him a word but you see what we look at as failure if God doesn't look at it like that we call it failure he's not calling it failure he's calling it grooming we're like oh man this thing didn't work out God is like oh they are right on schedule look at that okay look look at his child and it reached the point where we're in his fin and they had called him to do this show for the house of booze and he's like I'm not doing it you know what god I'm tired and someone is like no dude this show and he's like okay I'm gonna do the show and that day and all the conditions just were it was just weird I mean it was cold outside the heater and the place was broken so it's like you know what this is just not gonna work and he wasn't I believe he was in the greenroom or he was in the dressing room and he was like God like why like why are you not talking to me how am I supposed to get through my bills how come every time I bring this up you're not talking to me and he's like I don't want to do this anymore and he talked about that in that moment God spoke and told him I am God you stop when I say stop and from that day and he tells him look outside and there was a line around the building and from that day this it was such amazing interview from that day he talked about how each and every play became successful and God revealed to him that I was proving you I was proving you I needed to make sure I could trust you when I take you to where I've planned for you to go you have you're not a failure you haven't failed family all along God is building your team you don't even know it goddess goddess goddess strengthening your ability to be dependent on him because at the end of the day the Word of God says that our lives are hidden in Christ so this is not a better control thing God does not need to control you he's trying to get you to who you really are your truth the real you is in Christ and so to discover that person this has to die because the the desires that we have and what is convenient to us is what we've been accustomed to by society it's not based on the truth of God's Word concerning our lives so God is never trying to control you or make you some kind of puppet jesus said that he who loses his life for my sake will find it it's two different lives he's talking about he who loses the life that he has known on the earth will find the life that I knew when I put him in your mother's womb this is about truth and so Saul did not know how to embrace being inconvenienced but embracing being inconvenienced is the answer that you've been looking for it is the it is the step it is the step it is the it is a place when you're like you know what I embraced this thing I'm not gonna run from it I'm telling you that God would take you to a place to establish you because that was the plan all along for Saul's life but if God has stablished him in rebellion I believe that that would have opened a spiritual door of a stronghold of rebellion because if God established Saul's Kingdom over Israel forever that would have meant that God's initial plan was for our Savior to come to Saul's lineage that's really what it means that I would that he went when once mo told him that what have you done the Lord would have established you he would have established your kingdom in Israel forever meaning that the Savior our Savior was supposed to come through Saul's lineage but if he did that in rebellion then who knows that maybe at the appointed time for Jesus to come that Mary would just don't be a stronghold of rebellion and Mary's like II know L feel like it you know I I'm over here trying to get married okay but when we look at the language of David David was a man who had a heart for God David would do anything that God even in his wrong when he realized that he's wrong he's like God search my heart give me a clean heart David opened the door where it's that you know what we're not gonna be rebellious in this language and it's interesting it's so funny because even when we think about the location Gilgal that very location is so symbolic because you see the name Gilgal came from let's even open to Joshua I believe it's five versus nine you see it says okay then the Lord said to Joshua the day I have wrote Oh this day I have rolled away the reproach of Egypt from you therefore the name of the place is called gilga to this day now what is happening is this during this time the Israelites had crossed the Jordan River to walk into this is when they were preparing to come into the Promised Land because now they have come to a place where you know that the children that were born to the the people that left slavery now God had given them an instruction God had given Joshua and instruction to circumcise all the males because though they were born in the I mean their fathers all died in the wilderness unfortunately because of their stubbornness and so the children of those that came out of slavery God tells just what circumcise all the men and circumcision was very it was symbolic - almost like a purification a purification and a sign of God's covenant this is a sign that the promise I gave your ancestors the promise I gave you that you would inherit the promised land it is coming - it's it's manifesting in front of you so circumcision in the Old Testament is likened to the purpose of water baptism today and so God says that the moment that Joshua had circumcise all the males God gives him this word that this day I have rolled away reproach of Egypt from you he said I know that your ancestors I know that you came from slavery but I'm you're walking into the Promised Land even if you had the mentality that maybe we will just be stuck in the wilderness you are not slaves anymore you are free you are walking into a place of abundance Guil God was so symbolic it was a place that God rolled away reproach rode away rode away accusations rode away insecurities inadequacies God wants to establish you this was a place that God purposed to establish Saul the place that God is telling you wait a little longer it's the place he wants to establish you God sees the shame you see when God is saying that I am rolling away the reproach that means I saw the reproach you're wondering God do you see me do you see what I'm going to do you see the people accusing me do you see what people are saying about me do you see that it looks like I'm confused do you see what is happening God sees it and before the problem claimed he had a solution and he's saying that if you will wait a little longer there is a place that I have purposed to establish you and in that place you will forget all the nonsense that you've experienced you forget the pain you'll forget the shame you'll forget all of that because I have a place to establish you and the only thing that you would take away from the place of your reproach is the purpose behind it because although the Israelites were slaves in Egypt it was still part of God's purpose to gather them together and so God is saying I know what you've been through I know what people are saying about you I know it looks confusing I'm gonna roll the reproach of poverty I'm gonna roll the reproach of inadequacy I'm gonna roll the reproach of an assault victim I'm gonna roll the reproach I know what you have been through I see you and I have a plan to establish you if you would wait on me but waiting is inconvenient because we're people that we want answers now God when is this happening is this happening now God had a plan all along and I came here to encourage you that God has a plan for your life you are not in this by yourself but where he where he desires to take you you have to have a life that is dead to your own will because God is not taking you to Heights for you to just relax there is work to do up there the same way there is work to do here and Jesus is the perfect example when we look at the life of Jesus on earth it was not convenient at all coming to die on the cross like it was not convenient but on the other side of that was glory on the underside of that was increased on the other side of that he was given a name higher above every other name God wants to make your name great what are we willing to die to our own will to die to our own agendas to say God I want to be inconvenience for you will I want to be inconvenience for your purpose I want to I want to be the kind of person that I can say yes that if you tell me that you know what just moved to this place and and because there are people you want me to touch there there's there's a purpose you have that it's not about things it's not about who's with me who leaves me because you will never forsake me jesus is our example we don't have to do burnt offerings or peace offerings we have the cross and the Word of God now tells us take up your cross and follow me because the cross represents death to self the cross represents death to agendas Jesus had a will but then he tells us I did not come to do my will I came to do my father's will because in his father's will is his truth are we willing to say I want to be inconvenienced for Jesus I want to be inconvenience for his purpose I want to be inconvenience for the truth because you see when the Bible says that the Spirit is willing but the flesh is weak it is that the spirit the spirit knows the truth the spirit knows what who you really are the spirit is always willing but the flesh wants to keep you down the flesh is perishing but God has a plan for your life and being inconvenienced is just part of it it's not a negative thing that's what I learned that day that's what I learned that went when it because the emotions was not just was not just to the point of like oh god this would never be the case the emotions was like wow how didn't I see this all along why was it that I was holding on to this idea of this day when everything just seems convenient no no that's not part of the plan it has never been part of the plan and when we embrace this as our new normal that when we go through circumstances when we go through the valley when we go through the things that look like the shadow of death we know that God is with us we know that no God you have a purpose there is a purpose in the silence there is purpose in each and everything that you're doing in my life are we willing to be inconvenienced rise with me thank you Jesus thank you Jesus I want us to take a moment eyes closed head bowed I want us to take a moment and think about the thing think about the thing that even now Holy Spirit I thank you that you will bring things to their mind what is it that you have been holding on to that God this needs to happen now that this is for some people this is a word literally of life and death because for a son you were on the verge of walking away you are literally on the verge of walking away and you're like god I don't know if I can do this anymore but it's funny because the moment saw sacrificed did what he was not supposed to do Samwell showed up you are at the brink of it and you don't even know you were right there you don't even know it and God sent me today with this word to encourage you to stay strong to encourage you to say that this is your normal no one is frustrated when they think they have to brush their teeth because it's their normal unless you have a hygiene problem this this is our new normal that yeah I may not be away it's not it might not be always easy but I trust God I trust what God is doing in my life I trust I trust that he's for me he's not against me he is for me he is for me he is for you so I want you that as the Holy Spirit is bringing to mind what is the thing that you're holding on to that God is saying just lay that the altar just let it go just let it go just let it go that it this is not you holding on to this is actually a deception of the enemy it's a deception of the enemy to think that no everything is supposed to be this way this is this is what society has taught us but we live by the kingdom we are in the world but we are not of the world so we have to go back to our roots and our roots is in his word our roots is he showed us how how to live and that is through His Son Jesus if you're here and you're like you know what I want to be inconvenienced for Jesus just raise up your hand and we're gonna seal this in prayer there god I know I don't want to keep holding on to my agendas I don't want to hold on to my to my thoughts and my will and my way you see something it's interesting the scripture talks about how stubborn s how stubbornness is is almost like into idolatry because stubbornness as idolatry because you are you are holding on to your mindset and your will you have raised it higher than the purpose of God and so it's like you are you are you're worshiping your idea over God our lives are hidden in Christ Jesus who I really am yes hallelujah child let the people know who I really am it's in him it's in his word it's in his way it's in his leading I am not by myself even when you're silent God I trust you I trust you just raise your hand then we're gonna pray father god I thank you that you see each and every one in this house you know them Lord and as we come before you were saying that god we don't want to hold on to our ways of doing things anymore yes we moved yes we we did the things that were unfamiliar to us but lorica we're also saying that we're ready to be inconvenience for the truth yes it may not be comfortable staying with strangers and not knowing where to go and not knowing where to turn but God we would recognize that even when your silence your favor is with us that we're asking God where are you you were in the person who gave us $20 you are in the person who open their house you are in the person Lord God we're wondering God where are you where is the thing that you promised me but you have been there all along but you're speaking to a different language you're speaking through the actions of people to say that I see you no matter what you've been through you still you're still surviving you're still here for someone you're like you know what I don't even have anyone that opened a house for me and it's almost like God is showing me you but then something there was a there was a homeless shelter that opened the door for you and there are so many people that were supposed to get in but you were able to get in and I'm here to tell you that is the favor of God it doesn't matter how it comes it is the favor of God it is God's favor that you're still here is God's favor that that you're still breathing that you're still alive the Word of God even talks about how the enemy comes to steal kill and destroy but you are still living it is the favor of God you're like you know what I feel like I have been suicidal but you're here it is the favor of God you've lost people in your life and they're things that you may not understand but God has a purpose that is greater than our understanding can we trust him so that we may be inconvenienced by his word God I'm gonna trust you you have a plan to establish me this is not just this is not just like oh you're you're you're playing games with me no you have a plan to establish me and because your blessings do not come with sorrow you're taking your time with me god I'm gonna be grateful in the midst of not knowing I'm gonna be grateful when it looks like the very place she sent me to is the very place that the enemy wants to make a mockery of me but Jesus you made a mockery of him on the cross and I'm gonna stand by what you did on the cross god I thank you that you are rolling away the reproach you're rolling away the insecurities you're rolling away the inadequacies you're rolling away everything every stronghold that rises against the knowledge of God over your children's lives Lord God you have a plan that rolls in a way that it would not even be it would not even be in their memory anymore you're rolling away poverty you're rolling it all away father god I thank you that this house right now is our Gilgal and you are meeting here Lord God to say that I am rolling away from you everything that has tried to hold you back I'm rolling it away thank you lord have your way in Jesus name Amen amen hey my friend I pray that that message blessed your life it blessed me for sure I want to also encourage you to pick up wholeness winning in life from the inside out this book is going to change your life god bless you I'll see you next time

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Published: Fri Apr 27 2018