Don't Forget To Prophesy | Pastor William McDowell

uh so so so hello family welcome welcome welcome we are so glad that you have joined us today we are so excited for what we know the lord is going to do today we know that even on this live stream people have been reporting of what the lord is doing healings and miracles and transformations and the lord is going to visit you right where you are today we are so excited that you're joining us from wherever you're joining us from let us know we know people are not only joining us from the orlando area but from all over the united states in the world please let us know get in that chat bar and let us know where you're joining from also we want to partner with you we know so many things are happening in the world right now there's so many things pulling on our heart let's make sure that we stay connected and that we join with one another let us know if there's anything we can pray with you about go ahead and put it in that chat bar and we will get with you on that and join with you yes and 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from we ask that you enter that space that father you do what only you can do that as we worship together as we hear the word god in these seasons where we need a word from you that god you will touch hearts you will encourage lives god there is so much pain there is so much confusion there are so many things going on lord where we need to understand what you are saying what you are doing so i asked god that you would give us an encounter today let your presence fill these moments god and let us walk away changed forever in jesus name amen time to worship hey deeper family we love you we're so grateful to get another chance to worship with you listen it's obvious that we've had a week but i want you to clear away your heart and set your complete attention on jesus remember that he is our strength and our joy we have the joy of the lord because he always keeps his promises come on let's worship clap your hands oh you people come on let's hang it out yes is who are the pieces oh is in here is oh is is is is uh if you know that you have strength in jesus we continue to keep can you hear it the sound of heaven oh oh oh yes me we want to see we want to see yes so we take on the act of intercession even now and we just cry out for the nations we cry out lord that heaven would come and let him heal the earth heal the land so let's sing this come holy spirit come holy spirit come holy spirit holy spirit holy spirit we need you so last time spirit break out over every city now break our walls down lord holy spirit break out heaven come down jesus we need you here holy spirit we need you here we love you and we recognize your presence that satisfies us and that holds us together thank you jesus that your presence tangibly changes everything around us and so we invite you holy spirit to walk into every room when you walk into the room everything changes darkness starts to tremble at the light that you bring every heart starts burning nothing matters more than just to sit here at your feet when you walk into the room everything changes and darkness starts to tremble at the light that you bring when every heart starts burning and nothing matters more than just to sit here at your feet you love you and we'll never stop can't live without you jesus we love you can't get enough all this is for you jesus is we love you oh we love you me jesus live without you jesus is uh can't live without can't live without you jesus we love you jesus father our hearts are set on you you're the one we're after god we have one desire and that is to dwell in your house because we know that's where you are your presence is among us so this morning that is our heart that is our desire but you've been such a friend you've been such a faithful father you've been so good to us god here in this moment we lavish our love on you one thing i desire only this is i'm laying at your feet close his friend most beautiful most beautiful dearest father closest friend most beautiful most of you give me say one thing one thing i design only this i see here forever his friends you are the dearest can we just say that again is every ounce there's nothing left there's nothing left oh oh oh oh magnify he wants to invade wherever you are just one more time just one more time can you just open up your mouse such a good we father everything we have everything we have day and night and nothing left i'll let it oh what a sweet family i want you to know this this morning that there is a divine invitation from the lord specifically in this moment we were singing dearest father closest friend and i i want you to know this morning that you serve a god who is not distant from where you are he's not removed from your pain he's not removed from what you're feeling he's in the midst of it and he's in the presence of it i want you to to hear this because right now i know that many of us are watching and myself included we're in a moment where we're in pain a moment where we're grieving a moment where we're trying to reconcile what we're seeing and facing and there's moments that we we come into the presence of the lord and we feel like we just got to get past that and just go to praise and go to worship and none of those things are wrong but there are moments where we have to take a moment and say lord this is where i am and i want you to meet me in the midst of it jesus in matthew chapter 5 he's giving his famous sermon on the mountain he's saying a number of things and he begins to talk about the beatitudes saying blessed are this and blessed is that i'm curious when i hear jesus say blessed are they that mourn for they shall be comforted blessed are they that mourn for they shall be comforted if you're like me i read that and i say how could there be blessing associated with mourning how could there be blessing associated with grief how could there be blessing associated with tears the blessing is not the reason that you're mourning the blessing is that when you choose to mourn when you choose to grieve when you choose to be transparent when you choose to bear all before the lord there is a promise that you will be comforted there is a promise that the comforter steps into where you are and that you are never more near the presence of god than when you choose to be vulnerable transparent and open before the lord to say this is where i am this is how i feel and i am choosing not to fake it till i make it i'm not choosing to push past it but i'm choosing to say lord you are the dearest father you are the closest friend i am choosing not just to push past this moment but i am choosing to like a little child lift up my hands and this time it's maybe not in surrender this time maybe it's saying daddy would you pick me up i have a one-year-old son and at this very moment he he can't put sentences together he can't fully articulate what he needs sometimes he just comes to me he pulls on my pant leg or he tugs at my shirt he says nothing but he lifts up his hands and i know what he means and i know what he needs as he lifts up his hands he's saying daddy pick me up and i know if you're watching this morning you feel like me you don't even have the words you don't know what to say but all you know is that you need your father to pick you up and so in this moment right here would you lift your hands right where you are you see i so wish family that we could be together right now and i could give you a hug and you could give me a hug and we could embrace the reality is when we gather together sometimes we can be guilty of faking it we can be guilty of saying all the church things and pushing past the reality of where we are right now in your own home right now wherever you're watching you don't have to fake it you can lift up your hands to your father and say daddy pick me up because there is a blessing in the morning that if you will mourn if you will grieve if you will be transparent in this moment right here the comforter will come and meet you right where you are so right now would you just lift your hands to the lord and say daddy pick me up i need you i don't have the words i don't have the right prayers i don't have the right songs i i don't have the right speech but all i know is god i need you to pick me up right now father i am asking now that you would pick up deeper fellowship church and you would pick up the community that is watching right here right now lord we need you we need you we need you we're not pushing past this we're not pretending like we're okay we're saying this moment we need you and we are asking that you come and meet us right here right now you know what you're we're feeling you know what we're facing you know how our hearts feel you know that we're in pain you know that we're angry we you know that we're confused and we're saying lord we need you right here and lord i am asking right now that the comfort and the peace of the holy spirit be present in the homes of each and every individual watching right now lord i pray that you would pick us up help us to feel your embrace help us to feel your love help us to know that you are present we don't need the presence of anyone else right now we need you would you do that right here right now lord i thank you that we are in the best environment for an outpouring of your spirit because if we're comforted in the midst of our morning that means the comforter has to come and your word says that you would send us the comforter your holy spirit and so lord i thank you that we have never been better positioned for an outpouring of your spirit than right here right now because as we come to you in the place of mourning as we come to you in the place of transparency saying lord this is where we are i thank you that your holy spirit rushes in right now and you begin to meet your people like never before oh lord i thank you that we have never been better positioned for an outpouring of your spirit i thank you that this is the moment where you breathe resurrection life and resurrection power into our nation and into your people i thank you that in this very moment right here right now you come to your people and you meet us right where we are lord i ask now that all those who are watching if they are dealing with sickness in their body but more importantly pain in their heart i pray for the healing power of the lord to be released right now and i pray lord that as we are in the presence of our father you do a work of healing you do a work a restoration in our hearts lord that only you can do lord i'm asking that right now in the homes of your people that they would sense your tangible presence like never before lord you're not just enough to satisfy us you are enough to heal us you are enough to meet us in this moment lord i thank you that you hear the cries of your people when we cry out to you you're not distant you're not far but you meet us right where we are lord i thank you that even when we don't have the words we can reach out like the woman with the issue of blood we can touch the hem of your garment and we can be made whole our speechless it does not affect your power the inability to articulate even our need doesn't affect the fact that when we reach out and grab you virtue leaves you and changes us and so father i pray for the virtue of heaven to permeate every space every home every light and every every heart in this moment and as we reach out to you you make us whole that as we reach out to you you change us lord we believe you are who you say you are we believe that after we've tried everything else you are the only one that can satisfy you are the only one that can heal and you're the only one that can change so lord as we lift our hands to you our voices to you and our hearts to you come and meet us now you are enough for us we thank you for this in jesus name amen family would you reach out and touch the hem of his garment right here right now maybe you don't have the words but even when you don't have the words he sees the desperation of your heart he sees the deliberation of your action in this moment sees the hem of his garment and allow him to make you whole when hope is lost and you find yourself broken when you can't see your way and all your prayers are unspoken you can run to jesus reach out for him he knows oh yes you'll be when you find it hard to see jesus is reach out to me you can rush in jesus reach out for him he knows what you need right here in his prayers oh at the feet of jesus of jesus jesus is is is yes is she is is is is savior you'll be made home from the inside he knows he knows oh every prayer every tear you don't have to say you don't have to say he knows what you need you don't have to say why because he he knows every tear every cry knows what he there's no place like the presence of the lord family i don't know about you but this morning i am reaching pulling clinging to the hem of jesus's garment scripture says that when the woman touched jesus virtue left him jesus was aware of someone placing a demand on what was on the inside of him he recognized the pain and the difficulty of the individual grabbing a hold of him and i know that as you and i grab a hold of him this morning he is aware he is near and we will find what we need in his presence as always we're going to continue our worship this morning through generosity and i want to thank you we want to thank you for your continued generosity before the lord you continue to be such a faithful and generous people and i know the lord sees i know that he rewards and he will continue to bless you for your faithfulness towards him as always we set these moments with the scripture and usually you're accustomed to me reading a passage of scripture today i want to reference a story that you know very well it's found in john chapter 6 1-14 and just for the sake of time i wanna reference it because you know it so well before i do i wanna encourage you to follow the instructions and the prompts on the screen there's three ways that you can give you text to give you can access the giving portal on the deeper app and also on the deeper fellowship website all the instructions are there for you on the screen john chapter 6 we are made aware of a moment where jesus is teaching a multitude of people at least 5 000 men plus women and children and in the midst of this there is a dilemma because the people have stayed to hear jesus teach and now are in need of a natural need which is food it's too late for the disciples to go into town and buy enough food and really there was no place that had the capacity to feed all these people and so jesus asked the disciples what they're going to do and in the midst of trying to figure out a solution they realize that there is somebody within the crowd that has something to offer it was a young boy who had five loaves of bread and two fish and the young boy gives what he has to jesus and we know the story jesus breaks it gives thanks and there's this incredible miracle where there's even leftovers after jesus has provided for all these individuals who have eaten full and have been provided for here's the reality in the crowd there had to have been more than just this young boy who had lunch there had been other people who had something to give but maybe in their desire to look out for themselves or maybe their underestimation of what they had they didn't offer it to the disciples and they didn't offer it to jesus i have to think to myself if i was a young boy i'd be tempted to look out for myself i'd be tempted to keep what i have to say you know what i got to make sure i'm good because i don't really know if i give up what i have if jesus can take this and use it family i i uh get to be honest there's a temptation in the time we're living in right now to say i i don't know if what i can give to jesus he can take it and do the miracle that is needed right now when we look in our nation we look at the world around us there is a temptation to say let me look out for myself let me take care of myself because i don't really know if i give what i have to him if he can take it use it and do the miracle that we need the story is an illustration of childlike faith childlike dependence and god's ability to take the few and the little and to multiply into much and today you have the opportunity through your generosity to maybe place a down payment of the type of love you're going to continue and the type of life you're going to continue to offer jesus which is to say the lord i only have a little but i'm placing your hands and i'm believing that you can take what i have and you can change the multitude with it you can take my love you can take my selflessness you can take my sacrifice you can take my generosity and you could feed the multitudes with it as you've heard me say before everyone that day came to that moment and walked away saying wow what a miracle jesus did for us there was only one person that walked away that day who could say jesus did a miracle through me it was the person who took the risk of selflessness who took the risk of generosity to say jesus i'm going to give you what i have and i'm going to believe that you can take what i have and you can touch the multitude today family i want to invite you to be like the young boy don't be like the multitude don't just look out for yourself i know it's what's easy i know it's what many would say you should do in this moment take your childlike faith trust jesus give him what you have and allow him to feed and change the multitude our world needs the lunch of the little boy our world needs the love of the little boy to give what you have and say i don't know if this will change everything but i know if i give it to jesus he can do more with it than i can so family would you give today with that heart would you give today with that spirit let's trust that jesus can do more with what we have than we can do with what we have god bless you as you give to the church i know physically we have not been together but technology is beautiful though we've been live streaming it hasn't stopped the rivers that flow through youtube and facebook i've seen the instagram posts the clips of worship and the different nuggets we quote though we've never been in this moment in time before we actually have pandemics of influenza wasn't the last or first time we saw mask and as beautiful as the internet and technology is we have documented countless instances of discrimination and unfair treatment where the response has been he should have stopped resisting and i write this to you because the world is responding how i expect them to respond but for some reason the church has seemed to have either changed the channel what turned if all you tell why does it seem that you have turned both cheeks in a blind eye while finding reason to justify the loss of human life why do we only talk about the god of love and yes he indeed is but psalms 89 14 tells me that the foundation of his hope and throne is righteousness and justice deuteronomy 32 and 4 tells me that all his ways or justice well he shouldn't have been there because he's not working construction how is it that we believe the same bible and god is our father yet you seem indifferent as they're killing his sons and his daughters but you will say that you are made in his likeness and his image but your heart in the mirror is not the reflection of his when injustice is being broadcasted in front of you i guess you have the vision of stevie because i'm wondering who who will be the one to stand up and say enough is enough we have to speak up there are four phases of healing and we haven't been able to successfully pass through phase one the hemostasis phase at the onset of injury with an objective to stop the bleeding if you turn the volume up you would hear the innocent blood still screaming phase two is the defensive or inflammatory phase with the objective of destroying bacteria and removing debris but because nothing is being done it's resulted in looting and destruction of property i could get into phase three and in four but i'll park at one and two why because the consistent silence of brothers and sisters to have created injury after injury wound after wound that i alter face to and become defensive praying that you would ask is there something we can do yes there is something you can do fairly simple it may cost you something but your reward reward is eternal what is it that you can do speak up not at a whisper but at a tone where the enemy realizes we've had enough the war against racism is not black and white it's spiritual however there are some things that we can do in the physical that will let hell and the world know where we stand as the body because how can we tell somebody when our body is in denial that our legs don't need our knees to get down before the father to repent for the years of injustice and systems put in place to oppress a specific ethnic group because there's truly one race humans who due to sin have conducted and condone inhumane actions brothers and sisters i would ask that you no longer respond so past because if he in the presence of two or three imagine if we will stand together what a sight we would see why did the unjust judge grant justice to the widow in luke 18 her persistent cry we've been crying the same cry for 400 plus years and you tell us to shut up and sing why is it too uncomfortable for you does this not affect you is someone mistreating my brother i was understood as understood meaning i would defend him no matter the cost what's really important to you your numbers or the message of the cross the amount of money accumulated in the collection plate or him telling you well done face to face are you more concerned with being rejected for speaking out but isn't that what jesus talked about when he said if they reject you remember they rejected me first they've been rejecting me in this nation since the day of my birth and if you're listening to this plea these are not just the words of a young black man who was tired in hurting no see i am your brother a son of the living god searching for his brothers and sisters to stand with him pray with him encourage him love him because even though you and i may have walked and lived two different lives he came for all and i was bought for that same price sincerely your brother in christ hello family we are in a moment where we're not ignoring what's happening around us but instead choosing to embrace it to press into the lord not only hear his heart but to give him ours i just want to remind you that heaven smiles upon your broken worship so pour it out pour it out and jesus knows just how much it cost you so pour it out pour it out cause he is near always near he is near to the brokenhearted and he is here always here pouring out just pour it out and if it's fear that's keeping you from trusting it out pour it out and if it's pride that's keeping you from breaking pour it out pouring out and as you do remember that he is near always me he's near to the broken hearted and he is here always here to pour it out pouring out oh the father's love will never leave you empty he's pouring out he's pouring out so just make rules for all that he is bringing he's pouring out he's pouring out and always remember that he is and he is here always here so pour it out pour it out another generation we might say what a friend we and one of privileged just remember oh is because we do not care yeah everything to god in prayer there's no better place family to be than in the presence of the lord i know that it would be amazing to be in the presence of one another but the truth of the matter is there's no better place to be in a moment in a season like this than in the presence of the lord and i stand before you today with two roles i stand before you as a pastor and my job is to comfort and protect the sheep the flock of god and i stand before you in a dual assignment of a prophetic voice because god even in this is not silent he's not so i want you to know that they will be both in these next few moments a moment to allow us to process all that is happening around us but we can't stay there only we need to also know god's mind in god's heart concerning this i know that across the body of christ at this moment particularly in this nation there'll be a number of statements and words spoken perhaps some words preached perhaps some frustrations aired whatever it may be but we are going to get through this now i do want to acknowledge the fact that there are people from around the world that are watching at this moment our brothers and sisters in namibia and our brothers and sisters in australia and other nations that are watching at this moment here in america there is a lot going on at the moment and and people are feeling the effects of all that is going on around us and this has a both a uh local and national implication to it but it still has a global implication to it and so i don't want you who are not in america to check out because it does apply to you let's pray and believe god to meet us in a significant way father i thank you that you are here i thank you that you are here in the midst of your people wherever they're watching in their homes in their cars or jobs or some other place i thank you that you are with us always and i thank you that you never leave us and i thank you that your presence surrounds us and i thank you that there is a bomb in gilead i thank you that you are the healer you are the one who binds up the wounds of the broken heart you are near to the brokenhearted and i thank you that even in this moment where your holy spirit provides comfort your holy spirit also provides understanding and direction and so father i pray that as your servant you'd give me the grace to minister in such a way that reflects your heart that causes us to see your heart for us and to feel and know your heart for us i pray for your anointing i pray for your grace i pray for your presence and that you administer to your people in jesus name amen amen amen well family uh as you know uh whenever we come together to read the scripture uh it's become a custom for us we we stand for the reading of the word of the lord and so uh would you join me wherever you are around the world and stand as we read uh the word of the lord and uh it's gonna be good god gives us grace amen i guess i should have turned my ipad to airplane mode because i got pastors all over the country texting me at the moment asking me how i'm doing i'm like you preach let me do my job amen ezekiel chapter 37 verse 15. ezekiel chapter 37 verse 15. it reads this way again a message came to me from the lord son of man take a piece of wood and carve on it these words this represents judah and its allied tribes then take another piece and carve these words on it this represents aphriam in the northern tribes of israel now hold them together in your hand as if they were one piece of wood when your people ask you what your actions mean say to them this is what the sovereign lord says i will take ephraim and the northern tribes and join them to judah i will make them one piece of wood in my hand then hold out the pieces of wood that you have inscribed so that people can see them and give them this message from the sovereign lord i will gather the people of israel from among the nations i will bring them home to their own land from the places which they have been scattered i will unify them into one nation on the mountains of israel one king will rule them all no longer will they be divided into two nations or into two kingdoms they will never again pollute themselves with their idols and vile images and rebellion for i will save them from their sinful apostasy i will cleanse them then they will truly be my people and i will be their god my servant david will be their king and they will have only one shepherd then they will obey my regulations and be careful to keep my decrees they will live in the land i gave to my servant jacob and the land where their ancestors lived they and their children and their grandchildren after them will live there forever generation after generation and my servant david will be their prince forever and i will make a covenant of peace with them and everlasting covenant i will give them their land and increase their numbers and i will put my temple among them forever i will make my home among them i will be their god and they will be my people and when my temple is among them forever the nations will know that i am the lord who makes israel holy you can be seated as we just read the word of the lord we'll endeavor by the spirit of god to make sense of that to you in just a moment as you're probably wondering what does this have to do with anything and i want to tell you that the answer to that question is everything now i want to do this i did not uh give them the the correct um translation that i wanted to use in the back on that one i gave them a new living translation uh but i want to read a couple of verses from that uh from the esv and then i'm going to come back at the end on the same passage on the esb but i want to read this via the esv just a couple of verses here because i want to tie this together so that we understand something otherwise i'm going to have to take 15 extra minutes to give you a historical lesson just because i didn't read a particular translation all right so i don't want to do that to you i want to give you the word of the lord so i'm going to start in uh ezekiel chapter 37 in the esv uh starting at verse 15 again and they're probably trying to scramble to put that up but they'll work with me the word of the lord came to me uh son of man take a stick and write on it for judah and the people of israel associate it with him then take another stick and write on it for joseph the stick of ephraim and the house of israel associated with him and join them one to another into one stick that they may become one in your hand and when your people say to you will you not tell us what you mean by these say to them thus says the lord god behold i am about to take the stick of joseph that is in the hand of ephraim and the tribes of israel associated with him and i will join it with the stick of judah and make them one stick that they may be one in my hand um again we'll believe the lord to give us the grace to tie these things together uh in just a moment i i have to be honest with you family um this has been a a tough season uh i i it wouldn't be hyperbole to say that even with prophetic insight this season has been a lot um i know that we've been preaching prophetically concerning the season and concerning the times that we're in and trying to give us uh prophetic contextualization over the things that we're in uh but just because you have prophetic insight doesn't mean you have to you're exempt from walking through things we still have to walk through things and and if we were to be honest uh with each other and just kind of take a collective moment to sigh and and breathe out for just a second uh we would probably all say uh this has been a lot uh this has been a lot uh a novel virus that ballooned into a global pandemic in this nation alone there are over uh 100 000 deaths uh from the corona virus and it's still climbing the economy has been shut down attempting to reopen but in the midst of that 40 million people having applied for unemployment uh we've been uh in a time of quarantine for over two months uh most of us to be honest just need a hug and we can't even do that then right as it seemed like society would attempt to emerge and dip its toe into the waters of normalcy the after effects of the after the effects of the novel virus we we get hit with seemingly another painfully familiar virus of racism and stereotyping and division and disproportionate violence as if enough wasn't already happening and it's been a tough week here in the united states it's been a tough week i recognize that some of what we are facing around the world are in this nation is not necessarily what we're all facing around the world but but if we were to be honest it's been a tough week at least here uh in the united states it's been a tough week emotionally if we were to be really honest and and to be uh honest with you even as an individual i've gone through a range of emotions um i i went from numb to to tears um thinking i was fine and then back to tears um my initial reaction to certain things actually uh almost um concerned me because of of how numb i was and and and i've watched uh you guys our church family and i've talked to some of you and i've felt your pain um i thought about my mother and my grandparents and some of you who are watching me right now who are the generations ahead of us and wondering what you must be thinking watching this the the the things that you walk through uh in in the 50s and 60s believing that if you were to walk through them that that our generation wouldn't have to see them and and yet here you are watching us seemingly be on this same cycle i i thought about what what that might mean to you there have been there have been several times when i wanted to give hugs and there have been several times when i desperately needed a hug myself um i've been grieved at the state of the nation and frustrated by the empty platitudes of some who are regarded as leaders in the church i've been wounded by the words and the actions of some who call themselves believers i've been encouraged by the sincerity of some really godly people i've been turned off by the lack of adherence to the basic biblical principles by those who are lauded as profound teachers i've been brought to tears clinging to this bible and reading what it says and wondering how people who say that they are god-fearing have seemingly not allowed the loving words on these pages to become their daily reality plainly put this week i've been in pain and i know that many of you are there as well first i didn't want to cry so i didn't then i cried and i couldn't stop then i kept thinking to myself all week long how can i minister to the hurting when i'm hurting i listen to pastor caleb cry on the phone with me this week we cried together i listened to pastor jerry wheat friday night on the prayer call called right after we cried together i listen to matt pastor matt be led by the spirit to wrap his arms around the same community that's wrapped his arms around him and i'm listening to pastor jason give us heaven's perspective as only he can and all of these moments and because of these moments i thought i was okay then i realized that every time i think i'm okay i'm not okay and i think that we are at a moment of truth for a number of us where it's okay to say that we're not okay um and i think that we need a moment um because we're so used to wearing masks in church we're so used to putting on a mask and saying i'm fine it's all good you know and and you know we enter into a lot of spiritual words and and things like that and i think it's okay uh for us to say uh that we're not okay i will say that the part of me that says i'm okay comes from the internal knowledge of the scriptures and what the answer is i know internally i know in my heart i know in my spirit that this bible this gospel our lord and savior jesus christ is the answer to this that's what makes me say i'm okay the part of me that says that i'm not okay is the part that is screaming don't ignore your wounds if we were to be really honest and i i know you're you're you're not in the room but but i i want to give you a pastoral moment of spiritual catharsis i want to tell you that it's okay if you're not okay if you haven't cried yet don't be afraid to do so i know that that so many of you um you're like i i can't do that i don't it's not even about you don't want people to see you you're afraid of where it may lead you if you opened up that well but but but if you haven't cried i want to say of our body a multi-ethnic multi-racial group of people not everybody feels uh uh at a deep visceral level the same way but the way that god has designed the body to operate is that if one suffers we all suffer together that's the way that he has designed it to operate and so there are some people that that need to actually acknowledge that that that it's it's okay to acknowledge that it hurts um we're so used to putting on masks we're we're we're we're so tough we've been through so much we've carried so much and some of us were told from early age that if we cry that's a sign of weakness we were told never let them see us cry but i want to tell you that in the kingdom weakness is not frowned upon it's actually the place where strength is made perfect that's that's it's okay to say i'm weak right now because that's where his strength is made perfect if you if you haven't had an opportunity to let it out yet um it may not be right this moment i'm not trying to force you into a moment but what i am trying to do is give you permission at some point to let it out you you you need to know that as believers doing that is not a lack of faith it's not a lack of trust in fact this is what the bible tells us i want to give you some some moments here to really embrace what the scripture says and in psalm chapter 56 verse 8. this is what the scripture says it says this you keep track of all my sorrows you have collected all my tears in your bottle and you have recorded each one in your book he sees our tears psalm chapter 6 verse 6 it says this i'm won out from sobbing all night i flood my bed with weeping drenching it with tears my vision is blurred by grief my eyes are worn out because of all my enemies go away all you who do evil for the lord has heard my weeping the lord has heard my plea the lord will answer my prayer the way that the passion renders that it says i'm exhausted and worn out with my weeping i endure weary sleepless nights filled with moaning soaking my pillow with tears my eyes of faith won't focus anymore for sorrow fills my heart there are so many enemies who come against me go away leave me all you troublemakers for the lord has turned to listen to my thunderous cry yes yahweh my healer has heard all my pleading and has taken hold of my prayers and answered them all psalm 39 verse 12 lord listen to all my tender cries hear read my every tear like liquid words that played for your help i feel all alone at times i can strain it to you passing through this life just like those before me lamentations chapter 2 verse 11 i have cried until the tears no longer come my heart is broken my spirit is poured out in agony as i see the desperate plight of my people little children and tiny babies of fainting and dying in the streets family crying is appropriate i understand that in moments like this what we'd love to do is is turn us to joy and gladness and that comes in time but i do want to say to our family that in moments like this crying is actually important we've done it before we've walked through moments like this seemingly before the the catalyst that brought us to this moment is not actually unique in its scope we've actually experienced this quite a bit if we were to be honest we have we've walked through several of these we've hashtagged several of these we've marched several of these we've posted about several of these it comes and comes and comes and comes and so there's a question then family that's before us because if we've done this before why does this one feel different that's the question that everyone keeps asking why why does this one feel different because normally we feel better after a good cry we be honest we we get it out and then we're like all right all right pick myself up and i'm keep going now and we normally feel better after a good cry to be honest with you i thought the same thing this week after my first cry i thought that was it i even texted a couple of my friends and i said i'm better now but i didn't know that i wasn't i haven't fully understand why i've cried and then cried again and then cried again and then cried again i hadn't understood why since the first day i cried about this i've cried every day since i haven't fully understood that until i got into the presence of the lord until i entered into his sanctuary until i began to hear from him because the expectation is at some point i will move on that we will move on i know that truthfully if we're to be really honest and i'm not about to talk to us and air frustrations to people that aren't listening so i understand my responsibility to talk to you but truthfully in a lot of circles there'll be this statement that's made today something that's said today and the expectation is that by tomorrow we'll be over it on socials we'll just go back to posting about whatever we want to post about and it'll be over and it'll be done that's kind of the expectation we've been unable to move on so why haven't we moved on ahmad our berry was shot on video it was disturbing facts coming out after that were even more disturbing and we talked about it amongst friends and nationwide people jogged and posted about it on socials but people didn't take to the streets with a lingering pain it's interesting eric garner said i can't breathe in 2014 and he died and while it sparked outrage it didn't seem to have this level of lingering pain associated with it so why this why this why can't we move on tomorrow will come and we'll be expected to but after the singular social media posts would have been made and people said okay i couldn't stay silent i had to say something but that's the only something they'll say and the expectation is essentially what more do you want me to do family i can tell you that this is exactly what the enemy wants he wants us to get over it and move on but can i make a bold prophetic suggestion to you i believe that the reason why it's lingering is because god doesn't want us to move on is it possible that it is god who hasn't allowed us to move on so quickly is it possible that it is god who has allowed the pain to linger pain is an indication that there is something wrong in the body pain is an indication that there's something wrong in the body and you can only ignore a pain in your body but for so long that's you know when you're afraid or you consider yourself to be tough you ignore pain you keep going but at some point pain screams out to you and it says something is wrong with the body it's a signal to your nervous system that something is going on this is how god designed the body to function there is our natural body and then there is the body of christ and for whatever reason the body of christ has been trying to ignore pain in its body and you cannot continue to ignore pain in your body because at some point the pain will stop you first corinthians chapter 12 says it this way how strange would a body be if it only had one part yes there are many parts but only one body i want to stop right there they're not many bodies of christ there's only one body of christ that i can never say to the hand i don't need you and the head can't say to the feet i don't need you in fact some parts of the body that seem weakest and least important are actually the most necessary and the parts we regard as less honorable are those we clothe with the greatest care so we carefully protect those parts that should not be seen while the more honorable parts do not require the special care so god has put the body together that such that extra honor and care are given to those parts that have less dignity this makes for harmony among the members so that all the members care for each other if one part suffers all parts suffer with it and if one part is honored all parts are glad simply put when one hurts we all hurt part of the disconnect that exists in the body of christ right now is we have a whole bunch of people who are saying i'm sorry that you're hurting that's not what you would say to your toe if it was hurting you don't speak to your foot and say foot i'm sorry that you have some pain today but i got to keep on going no no no we actually tend to it this is not someone else's problem the way that the body was intended to work is that when one part suffers all parts suffer when one part is honored all parts are glad this is not one side of the church's problem this is the church's issue this is the agency in the earth the only one in the earth authorized by god to deal with it cannot turn a blind eye to demonic activity this is the way that god has designed for us to operate we are happy with those who are happy and we weep with those who weep that's what romans 12 15 tells us and you know what's interesting is that the scripture actually gives a place for every season especially for those of us who want to move on so quickly for ecclesiastes chapter three starting with verse one very famous familiar path of the scripture but it says for everything there is a season a time for every activity under heaven a time to be born and a time to die a time to plant and a time to harvest a time to kill and a time to heal a time to tear down and a time to build up a time to cry and a time to laugh a time to grieve and a time to dance and time to scatter stones and a time to gather stone a time to embrace and a time to turn away a time to search and a time to quit searching and time to keep and in time to throw away a time to tear and a time to mend a time to be quiet and a time to speak a time to love and a time to hate a time for war and a time for peace everything has a season the reason why this is very important for us is because i've said this once before uh a while ago but i want to say it again to recondition our hearing because of the way that modern church does things we preach in series and so because we tend to preach in series we basically expect that after four weeks or after four minutes everything should be done and so therefore we don't understand that we're in seasons and seasons last longer than series it's not just something that we preach and message and then after that message we all feel better and then on monday we just it's a new week and the sun is up and and that was last week and so and so your season of crying and your season of weeping should be over and i want you to know that that this season is something that god made room for he he created room for this and there is a reason that is divine why he will not allow us to just get over it and to just move on we've texted one another we've called one another we've cried with one another we've cried on our own we've gone to god we've prayed we've gone to sleep we woke up and it was still there why family there is a time for weeping it's a set it's season set moment it's a season it's what the bible calls it a time or a season for weeping but what happens when it won't turn off what happens when we don't just get over it what happens when it just stays there what happens when what you are used to getting over won't leave you what happens when you typically see something on the news it burdens you for a day you cry maybe the next half day you're a little bit down but then you're over it news is still reporting but you're over it people are still protesting but you're over it but what what happens when something happens that you're used to getting over and you don't just get over it perhaps it is saying something to you it's saying i can't allow you to agree and make peace with this as your new normal god does not want us to agree with a lie the reason family while you and i are still crying is because god does not want us to agree with a lie the reason why we still feel the way that we feel is because he does not want us to agree with and make peace with this as our new normal so i sat in the presence of the lord because i wanted to hear because honestly family my thoughts were singular but i wanted to hear god my thoughts were let's have this collective corporate cathartic moment let us process our grief let us acknowledge it um let us allow him to heal us let's sit in his presence and and let him heal us and then we'll come back next week and begin to talk about answers but the lord put something in my spirit that sat there and sat there and sat there and i couldn't get over it and he has something that he wants to say to us because the holy spirit sobered me up real quick he just did and when i say he's sober me quick what i mean is that i cried every day i cried yesterday but when he began to speak something began to shift i was meditating over genesis chapter 37 in the story of josephine it's interesting most of us know this story jacob has joseph in his old age and he favored joseph above all the others joseph had special favor with jacob and because of that he made him a special coat of many colors and he gave it to him and to summarize the story his brothers weren't feeling that at all they were jealous of him they didn't appreciate him and joseph being younger than them maybe not as wise perhaps and the sharing of his dreams begins to have dreams and he has these dreams and he shares him with his brothers and these dreams uh seemed to indicate based on the dream uh and their interpretation they were certainly gonna have to serve him and bow to him and they didn't like it at all and so he had the first dream and we had the second dream he even told jacob and jacob was like man what kind of dream is that are you saying that me and your mother and all your brothers are gonna bow down and serve you he didn't have an interpretation of his dream he was just sharing it but as a result um they they just they did not like joseph and so as a result of not liking joseph they they had had several plans to kill him get rid of him and i want to pick this up in genesis chapter 13 genesis chapter 37 verse 18 just to read it to you because i want you to see something when joseph's brothers saw him coming they recognized him in the distance as he approached they made plans to kill him here comes the dreamer they said come on let's kill him and throw him into one of these systems we can tell our father a wild animal has eaten him then we'll see what becomes of all his dreams but when reuben heard of their scheme he came to joseph's rescue let's not kill him he said why should we shed any blood let's just throw him into this empty cistern here in the wilderness then he'll die without our laying a hand on him reuben was secretly planning to come rescue joseph and return him to his father so when joseph arrived his brothers ripped off the beautiful robe he was wearing then they grabbed him and threw him into the cistern not a cistern was empty there was no water in it then just as they were sitting down to eat they looked up and saw a caravan of camels in the distance coming towards them it was a group of ishmaelite traders taking a load of gum bomb and aromatic resin from gilead down to egypt judah said to his brothers what will we gain by killing our brother we'd have to cover up the crime instead of hurting him let's sell him to those ishmaelite traders after all he is our brother our own flesh and blood and his brothers agreed so that when the ishmaelites who are midianite traitors came by joseph's brothers pulled him out of the cistern and sold him to them for 20 pieces of silver and the traders took him to egypt some time later reuben returned to get joseph out of the cistern when he discovered that joseph was missing he tore his clothes and grieved then he went back to his brothers and lamented the boy is gone what will i do now then the brothers killed a young goat and dipped joseph's robe in its blood they sent the beautiful robe to their father with this message look at what we have found doesn't this road belong to your son their father recognized it immediately yes he said it is my son's robe a wild animal must have eaten him joseph has clearly been torn to pieces then jacob tore his clothes and dressed himself in burlap he mourned deeply for his son for a long time his family all tried to comfort him but he refused to be comforted i will go to my grave mourning for my son he would say and then he would weep now family this verse began to sit with me this passage but specifically i want to read to you verse 33-35 again their father recognized it immediately yes he said it is my son's robe a wild animal must have eaten him joseph has clearly been torn to pieces then jacob tore his clothes and dressed himself in burlap he mourned deeply for his son for a long time his family all tried to comfort him but he refused to be comforted i will go to the grave mourning from my son he would say and then he would weep and i kept thinking about this verse jacob refused to be comforted i kept thinking about it jacob refused to be comforted obviously in pain he kept crying it didn't go away he didn't get over it jacob refused to be comforted and i found it interesting family because jacob was used to pain jacob did not live a pain-free life jacob was used to pain he had the pain of wrestling with his brother in the womb to see who would come out first he had the pain of running from his brother for years because he was afraid that esau would kill him he had the pain of wrestling with god and the lord taking his hip socket out of joint and he walked for the rest of his life with a limp with pain from his encounter he lost his wife during childbirth she when giving birth to the child with her last breath named the boy son of my pain but jacob changed his name the son of my right hand not been on i but benjamin he was used to pain family he had gone through pain before he had gone through pain his entire life but this pain was different after all of these experiences of pain when this thing came he refused to be comforted he wasn't still crying over rachel he wasn't still crying over esau he wasn't still crying over his hip but he was crying over joseph why did this pain last why does the bible say that jacob refused to be comforted because when he heard about this out of all the things that he had been through that had caused pain in his life something about this pain was different something about this pain said that something is not right about this something about this pain said that i'm not supposed to accept this something about this pain said i can't just come to closure and move on something about this pain said i can't just stop crying and finally say that i've come to terms with it i couldn't do that jacob's sons lied to him but he didn't know it and something in him would not allow him to accept what he heard if he had stopped crying it would have meant that he would have accepted what they said as finality we've been crying and if we stop the moment we stop it's like i accept this could it be that your tears are because you don't accept this they were hoping that closure would have caused him to partner with them that was their original intent but it backfired they didn't expect him to weep like that they didn't expect him to not be able to move on joseph was a sin jacob was essentially saying i refuse to make peace with the idea that joseph is gone forever because i saw something special about joseph joseph was a dreamer family god does not show us the future to taunt us he does not give us prophetic insight to prophesy about national and global revival to put a carrot in front of us and put us on a treadmill he does not show us the future to taunt us he shows us the future so that when inevitable opposition comes it doesn't deter us from accepting the divine invitation to meet him in the future he calls us from a finished work so jacob is saying i can't accept the death of joseph because joseph had a dream that would save a nation i will not get over this and accept it as finality i will not just get over this and say this is how it is supposed to be and something about this moment in time in our nation would not allow us to collectively move on and get over it and i want to say to us that to do so would mean that we have accepted it and i believe that the reason for our tears and our inability to articulate why this thing has not gone away and why it has stayed is because god does not want us to accept it god is saying to us i cannot allow you to agree with and make peace with this as your new normal and they're sitting in the presence of the lord the holy spirit spoke to me and shall i dare say sober me with this statement he said it's okay to cry but don't forget to prophesy and i sat with that for a moment and then he got stronger and he said it's okay to cry but make sure you prophesy he didn't let us get over this one so that we would not leave the moment before prophesying to it that is why it is set on us all week and that doesn't mean that it's going to go away after this message and it doesn't mean it's going to go away next week but what it does mean is that there's a reason why he left the pain there he left the pain there because he does not want us to make an agreement that this is it this is exactly what the enemy wants us to do be resigned to the fact that this is it joseph is dead joseph is not dead he did not want us to leave this moment without prophesying to it the enemy would love for us to partner with him in hopelessness but i need you to hear me by the spirit of god i refuse to look a demon in the face as it callously places a knee on the neck without regard for human humanity and coward and agreement that it will somehow never change and this is how it's always going to be i refuse to watch a demon look at a camera and say to the remnant your dreams are over joseph is dead joseph is not dead and that is why we can't stop crying because something on the inside of us says i refuse to partner with and accept that this is going to be reality family the devil is staring at the remnant with the knee on the neck of revival and literally saying you want national revival i give you national chaos i give you riots i give you destruction i give you this information and i give you anarchy the intent is that it breaks us so that the enemy can operate in the shadows with impunity but there is a company of people on the earth being asked a divine question by the sovereign lord and that question is this son of man can these bones live again the devil don't be mad at the man i need you to see with the eyes of the spirit and i'm not saying you can't be mad at the man but i need you to understand that for those with spiritual eyes that wasn't just a police officer with his knee on the neck of a man that was a demon with his knee on the neck of revival looking us dead in the face and saying so you want national revival you thought that you would just proclaim something get a prophetic understanding the nation hasn't turned everybody wants to go back to normal and now here you are talking about revival but when you turn on the tv what do you see riots in the streets chaos police cars burning police stations burning anarchy foolishness and you say how can revival come like this and may i suggest the reason for your tears has everything to do with the fact that god refused to allow you to accept this as normal and just move on shaking your head saying the world is crazy can i keep going looking out over a sea of hopelessness and a bleak future with seemingly no glimmer of light god says to his prophetic people can these bones live again ezekiel chapter 37 verse 1-14 the lord took hold of me and i was carried away by the spirit of the lord to a valley filled with bones he led me all around among the bones that covered the valley floor they were scattered everywhere across the ground and were completely dried out then he asked me son of man can these bones become living people again o sovereign lord i replied you alone know the answer to that then he said to me speak a prophetic message to these bones and say dry bones listen to the word of the lord this is what the sovereign lord says look i am going to put breath into you and make you live again i will put flesh and muscles on you and cover you with skin i will breathe into you and you will come to life then you will know that i am the lord so i spoke this message just as he told me suddenly as i spoke there was a rattling there was a rattling noise across all across the valley the bones of each body came together and attached themselves as complete skeletons then as i watched muscles and flesh formed over the bones the skin formed to cover their bodies but they still had no breath in them then he said to me speak a prophetic message to the winds son of man speak a prophetic message and say this is what the sovereign lord says come o breath from the four winds breathe into these dead bodies so that they may live again so i spoke the message as he commanded me and breath came into their bodies they all came to life and stood up on their feet a great army then he said to me son of man these bones represent the people of israel they are saying we have become old dry bones our hope is gone our nation is finished therefore prophesied to them and say this is what the sovereign lord says o my people i will open your graves of exile and cause you to rise again then i will bring you back to the land of israel when this happens o my people you will know that i am the lord i will put my spirit in you and you will live again and return home to your own land then you will know that i the lord have spoken and i have done what i said yes the lord has spoken family hear me often times when you prophesy you are prophesying into a situation that looks nothing like what you are saying we've been prophesying and now we're prophesying into a situation that looks the opposite of what we've been saying and here we are if you turned away from here right now which you shouldn't you turn on the news right now you'll see reports of all sorts of craziness going on right now as i'm preaching in our nation what are you looking at family a valley of dry bones when you see what is happening right now in our nation you are walking over the bones of people who tried in the past to stop what is happening now and they gave their lives for it right now we look across the land and it is important that we prophesy the reason why i got sober really quickly is not because it's not sad that's not it it's not because there's not injustices that's not it it's not because there's not disproportional violence that's not it it's not because there's not institutional racism that's not it it's not because there's not systemic racism that's not it that's that's not that's not why he sobered me those things still exist that's not why he sobered me he sobered me because he showed me that there is a nefarious insidious darkness and demonic activity lurking in the shadows hoping that the prophets will keep their head in the sand this stuff is going on but in the shadows hoping to operate with the level of impunity is a demonic force in our land right now that has long desired to bring this nation to its knees and forever step out a move of god and it is important that in a moment like this i recognize that it hurts i recognize it every one of us or a lot of us have our own personal stories and we could go down the line uh in a collective moment of catharsis saying this happened to me and that happened to me and this happened to me last week and this happened to me last year this happened to me when i was 10 and this happened to me when i was 16 and this happened to me when i was 20 and we could do that and do that and do that and family that's what the enemy wants he wants us to swap stories with each other because he doesn't want anybody to prophesy he doesn't want anybody to have the word of the lord he doesn't want anybody to hear what the lord is saying he doesn't want anybody to be awakened to the fact that we cannot be sleep in this moment i am telling you that the reason why you've been crying is not because you're hurt alone the reason why you've been crying is because something in you said i refuse to accept this as the fate of our nation i refuse to accept this as the fate of our generation i refuse to accept that joseph is dead i refuse to accept that the dream is dead i've been through pain before but i got over it but something intuitively says i'm not going to get over this because something about this is not right so god has to get a people trust me as a pastor i want to wrap my arms around us all if i had to preach this to you yesterday morning i probably would have been up here crying with you and it's not that i haven't cried because i have it's not that i don't feel it because i do it's not because i'm unaware because i am i'm not in a place where i'm aloof and disconnected and overly spiritual and apart from my emotions i'm fully aware of them i'm fully aware of the weight of him but i've understood by the spirit of god that he needs some people he needs somebody to prophesy he needs somebody to speak to a valley of dry bones because one of the things that has sobered me is to hear so many pastors say i don't know what to say let me tell you what to say speak to the bones it's time for some people to prophesy it's time for the remnant are you hearing me it's time for the remnant to become indignant about a knee on the neck of the very thing god showed you are you gonna let a devil look you in the face and say i'm about to kill revival i refuse god was specific with ezekiel the moment that he was in the time that he was in you can play i'm somebody can play the time that he was in was a moment of hopelessness it represented a moment of hopelessness when you start to look at commentaries about ezekiel 37 you'll discover that most commentaries paint the picture of hopelessness so it is in the midst of hopelessness that ezekiel prophesies this is vitally important this was meant something to me because i can tell you that was about my mental state when i saw this thing go down pastor caleb sent me a text on the first day it came out i saw it i saw the video watched it twice watch the video twice then i have a weekly meeting with chris i watched the video closed up my phone and immediately went into my weekly meeting with chris as if i had not seen it the level of trauma that hit me was so much so that my brain decided you've had enough and in order to protect me emotionally it shut down to the point where i could not even feel i wouldn't even call it numb i literally it did not store it in my memory bank my the constant or chronic trauma or what the brain will do when you receive uh trauma after trauma after trauma is it'll say uh-uh no more because this will break you and so literally it it was as if i had not even seen it that's how i felt went into my meeting with chris chris had no idea we were talking going through our normal weekly stuff talking about the ministry and everything else didn't think a thing of it got off that meeting went to go eat lunch with my family went into a meeting with pastor jason we're talking both of us like nothing and not because we had made an internal choice to ignore it it literally hadn't entered us and then pastor caleb sends a text and when he sends the text he's like man i'm just praying for you today so sorry and things any great friend would do but because i was so separated from my my brain had not taken it in i had no idea what he was even referring to so i thought something was wrong with him so i immediately i called him i'm like hey bro what's wrong and i mean he is heavy and broken he's like man i don't know if you saw you know the things that have been taking place and you know my response was family oh that yeah i saw it i thought it's something else but yeah i'm basically numb to it i don't you know kind of said something along the lines of these things happen so much at this point that i just whatever do you know what that is that's the sound of hopelessness when it doesn't hurt anymore that's the sound of hopelessness when you don't feel like anything you do is going to matter anymore that's the sound of hopelessness i got so many texts this week from pastors and friends and i didn't even respond to most of them initially because i didn't even feel like using the emotional energy to be articulate enough to give you a context for years of pain so i'm like i just am not going to respond in fact it's still happening because while i'm preaching to you right now people are still texting me i just turn my phone over pastors we're praying with you we're for you we're standing with you and there's a level of just like what's going to change anything going to change be honest people are like yeah we've seen lots of progress and we've seen some not going to say we haven't i was texting somebody the reality of what it means to live in this skin i live in a nice neighborhood with a gate got a bank loan where i probably would have been redlined you don't know what that is that's part of systemic institutional racism a banking practice by which banks would not lend to certain communities if they lived in certain places or zip codes so that people even if they had good credit and the financial wherewithal had no ability for upward mobility stuck the stuff exists that's not what this message is about it exists but i was telling someone my reality live in a nice neighborhood a nice house gated community i still don't go out at night if i don't have to because there's no guarantee that i'll come home with some of you that's hard for you to hear but for others of you you know that's true i don't go to the grocery store or the gas station or anywhere else after dark because there's no guarantee for me and after a while when you live in that state when you hear about these things what happens hopelessness begins to set into your heart and so now we're in here we're shouting we won't stop until we see it and the devil's like oh yeah let me we're we're in here i've seen the other side there's revival after this god wants to release national and global revival and the devil's like oh yeah watch this right when you think people are getting their attention and they're ready to emerge out of their homes and come back together in a collective massive hug of humanity and say we've missed you let me throw the seed of division on your revival talk and let's see how you get to revival in your silos let me get the body offended at each other let me get him throwing barbs back and forth on social media let me discourage them so much to the point where the silence of some makes you angry the platitudes of others make you angry and the defense of it makes you angrier and so you start to press the unfollow and the unfriend button not because you don't want to see it but because you don't even want to talk to them in real life hopelessness and it is at that moment when god says to ezekiel son of man i know what you're looking at and this is what he did he didn't just take him to a high mountain he took him on a tour he led him all around it and everywhere he looked he saw nothing but death presumably the bodies of those who had been in battles before those who had given their lives in a battle he's stepping over all of it and he in the midst of hopelessness he asked this question son of man can these bones live again and he says god you're the all-powerful one sovereign lord only you know so then he says dry bones hear the word of the lord or listen to the word of the lord i know all you hear right now is i can't breathe but hear the word of the lord i know you keep hearing i can't breathe but hear the word of the lord he is going to breathe new life into you the enemy wants to replay over and over and over i can't breathe but the word of the lord is i'm about to breathe he is about to breathe and then you will know that i am god the first thing he asked ezekiel to do was hear ezekiel didn't speak yet i need you to get it the first thing he asked ezekiel to do was hear i know you keep hearing what they are saying and now it's time to hear what he is saying because you can't speak until you hear and when he speaks and we hear then we have something to say the reason why all of these platitudes seem to be so empty is because you got a whole bunch of people speaking who haven't heard but for those who hear hear the word of the lord everybody's saying i can't breathe i can't breathe i can't breathe for those who hear god he's saying i'm about to breathe something's happening when you prophesy you are prophesying into a situation that doesn't look like what you're speaking but the bible says then i spoke then i spoke and the moment that he spoke there was a sound the enemy is inciting chaos because he knows the sound coming of the rattling of bones i know it looks dead i know it looks hopeless i know what it looks like right now i i don't even know what's happening on on television right now as i'm looking at it it may look like he's winning but there is a sound coming there is a sound coming of the rattling of bones there is a sound coming together as we begin to speak the word of the lord there will be a sound i am telling you you may not see it everywhere but you are about to hear something in the realm of the spirit and the enemy is so afraid of the sound this is one of the reasons why chaos has erupted in the last few days because the initial sound was the church starting to come together people start to say i want to understand i see you i hear you i get it and as soon as that started happening by the very next day chaos began to erupt why was chaos erupting because the enemy was afraid of the sound of the rattling of bones because he knows what happens if they get together what happens if bones start coming together what happens if people start coming together i can't do anything and then the very thing that god said he would do would happen and so what he has to do is he has to start chaos but i want to remind you of who our god is because whenever there's chaos that is the moment when the holy spirit begins to brood over the earth genesis chapter 1 verse 2 the earth was swarmless and empty and darkness covered the deeper the waters what are we talking about we're talking about chaos and the spirit of god was hovering over the face of the waters family i want you to know that it may look like chaos right now but we serve a god who brings order to chaos we serve a god who speaks light into darkness and causes darkness to flee he's just looking for a group of people who will see with different eyes he's looking for a group of people who are willing to prophesy he's looking for a group of people who are willing to lift up their voice and say in the midst of hopelessness in the midst of a valley of dry bones i'm going to hear the word of the lord and after i've heard the word of the lord i'm going to speak the word of the lord and when i speak the word of the lord i'm about to start to hear the rattling of bones there are going to be some connections made in this season that are about to scare the enemy to death he is about to be on the run i know it looks like chaos but the chaos is just providing an atmosphere and an opportunity for the spirit of god to begin to bring order i heard then i spoke then i watched i heard then i spoke then i watched i watched his muscles and flesh began to form over the bones and skin formed to cover their bodies but they still had no breath in them i can't breathe i can't breathe genesis chapter 2 verse 7 then the lord formed the man from the dust of the ground and he breathed the breath of life into the man's nostrils and the man became a living person prophets of god let me tell you why it's important that you speak because the earth right now our nation right now the refrain is i can't breathe i can't breathe i can't breathe i can't breathe but what are we supposed to do son of man prophesy to the wind prophesy to the wind prophesy you know the word when right there translates in the greek uh in the hebrew excuse me to the rua which is the spirit of god it is to say prophesy to the spirit of god to breathe breath into a dead thing i understand that the refrain is i can't breathe but they cannot breathe until you prophesy breath they won't be able to breathe until you prophesy breath they won't be able to breathe until you prophesy breath right now i prophesy to the four winds i prophesy the ruler of god i prophesy the wind of god i prophesy the breath of god oh yeah it's okay to cry but make sure you prophesy when you try up your tears make sure you prophesy wherever you go when you turn on the tv i prophesy the four winds from the east from the west on the north and from the south i prophesy the rule of god i prophesy the breath of god you aren't gonna say i can't breathe much longer because the breath of god is coming into your life hopelessness i guess it's just gonna happen we've waited so long they were old now we've lost some along the way and we're just tired dry bones no family and some of you have waited a long time some of my biggest tears this week have been talking to those who have gone before me people in my mother's generation and when i hear them broken it broke me and i couldn't get over it but then i learned that god doesn't want me to get over it because he never wanted me to accept it he kept me crying because he never wanted me to make peace with it he kept me crying because he never wanted me to be okay with it instead he wanted me to say to them like he said to ezekiel in verse 11 then he said to me son of man these bones represent the people of israel they are saying we have become old dry bones our hope is gone our nation is finished therefore prophesy to them i need you to hear me deacons elders people who have gone before god is about to give you strength he said it's okay to cry but make sure you prophesy make sure you prophesy it's okay to cry i'm not saying it's not okay to cry god told me it's okay to cry but make sure you prophesy make sure you prophesy therefore prophesy to them and say this is what the sovereign lord says oh my people i will open your graves of exile and i will cause you to rise again and i will bring you back and when this happens everyone will know that i'm the lord you are going to rise again you're gonna rise again this devil is not going to choke the life out of the body of christ his knee is about to get up you thought we were just gonna sit here and cry and pet each other's wounds while you operate in the earth unknown and unseen there are prophetic people who see what you're trying and we say no you will not you will not operate in the shadows with impunity you will have to deal with the word of the lord you think that a bunch of people picketing is going to stop no it's going to take some prophetic people who look at their cities and say i prophesy to you dry bones live again i prophesy the breath of god in you i prophesy this will become a mighty army i know you look down right now i know you look defeated right now i know you feel old i know you feel forgotten i know that the battles have worn you out but can these phones live again yes if you prophesy and i'm gonna end here that would be amazing if that's where it stopped but that's why i say you can never say i don't know what to say prophesy this is the hour for the prophets this is the hour for the prophets this is the moment for the true prophets to arise this is a moment for the true prophets to arise there will be a move of god from this it may look worse at first but i hear a sound of the rattling of bones it's just a foretaste of what's coming after this again a message came to me from the lord esv please why was jacob crying over joseph why could jacob not be comforted because of all the other pain he had gone through he got over it but this one he could not get over why because god didn't want him to the word of the lord came to me son of man take a stick and write on it for judah and the people of israel associated with him then take another stick and write on it for joseph the stick of april and all the house of israel associated with him and join them one to another into one stick that they may become one in your hand and when your people say to you will you not tell us what you mean by these say to them thus says the lord god behold i am about to take the stick of joseph that's in the hand of ephraim and the tribes of israel associated with him and i will join with it the stick of judah and make them one stick that they may be one in my hand do you know why we couldn't stop crying do you know why jacob couldn't stop crying because jacob was saying joseph can't be dead because he has to be reunited with his brothers oh i wish the body of christ would get this i don't accept the death of joseph because joseph had a dream that would save a nation but god has a dream that reconciles brothers jacob couldn't stop crying over joseph because god put something in him to say i don't want you to accept separation i don't want you to make peace with this and turn your attention away from joseph joseph is not dead jacob didn't know it but god wouldn't let him stop weeping because he never wanted him he never wanted him to make peace with the idea of no reconciliation when revival happens joseph and judah have to be one stick so you can't allow yourself to stop crying over joseph over the dream over the dreamer because if you stop crying over the dream where the dream dies that's why it hurts because the enemy put his knee on a neck of joseph i know you think it's george but he put his knee on the neck of joseph and he wants to convince you that joseph is dead joseph is not dead it's a metaphor for the dream the dream is not dead the dreamer is not dead it's gonna meet you in the future so don't let society tell you it's time to move on don't let people tell you when it's time to stop crying do you know when it's time to stop crying when you start prophesying wow yes uh um so so uh uh for the spirit of the lord says the army of protesters will be changed to an army of prophets those who have raised up their voice crying for change the spirit of the lord says i will change them to an army of prophets i will show them my perspective and i will give them my word and which shall course through the streets which was once fire that has burned buildings or will now course through the streets will be fire that burns hearts for the spirit of the lord says the protesters will become prophets for the lord says what it was in their hearts as indignation i will change into righteous indignation always once simply anger will become passion to see my will and my purpose is accomplished in the earth the lord says i will place even my servants and my preachers among them and you will begin to see rattle conversions even on the streets you will begin to see street baptisms you will begin to see street salvations for i could not get them in the church but i will send my prophets my pastors my preachers those with my heart into the streets and you will begin to see the streets change you'll begin to see a unification you'll begin to see the sticks come together and you'll begin to see the brokenness healed as i send my prophets into the streets for the prophets will overrun the protesters the prophets will overrun the protesters and what you see now you will see no longer as my prophets begin to prophesize as the spirit of god oh you thought pentecost would happen in the four walls but pentecost is about to str to go through the streets you thought the wind would stir in the house of god but the wind is about to go through the street says the spirit of god for the spirit of god says i have taken my wind to those who refuse to pretend i have reserved my wind for those who will prophesy but i have taken my win from those who pretend those who pretend they will not see what i have promised but for those who will prophesy to the reality that they see i have reserved my win for them so lord we speak to the four winds again and we say breathe on our nation breathe in our cities breathe upon the dry bones breathe upon the lifeless situations breathe wind of god now breathe breathe breathe breathe breathe breathe may the wind of god permeate every street so so spirit of the lord says i am about to expose potiphar's wife i am out exposed the one who has had an evil plot to defame the name and the character of joseph i am about to expose potiphar's wife in the nation that out of jealousy and envy has sought to destroy and defame the integrity and the character of the one that i have appointed and the spirit of god says i will expose them and this time when i expose them they will receive the treatment that they decided they would give to the one they defamed they will not go free and they will not escape says the spirit of god i will deal with those who are spreading the lies i will their ability to spread the lies i will destroy their ability to spread the lies they have spoken about joseph with evil in their heart i will expose them and they shall no longer speak about the dreamer not only will i expose them but i will elevate the platform for the dreamers i will elevate the platform for those i have placed my dream in i see a moment happening where the josephs who have been oppressed and suppressed now rise to a place where they are given a voice a platform to share the dream that god has placed in their heart like never before josephs are going to ascend i see it in the political realm i see it in the entertainment realm i see it in the justice realm i see it in the business realm i even see an athletic realm where there is going to be someone who has never held this specific position almost like a commissioner or a governor is going to hold a position there and there shall be a change says the spirit of god because the josephs are about to arise but they will arise because the prophets have prophesied lord we say let it be so according to your word we refuse to accept anything that disagrees with the testimony of jesus for the testimony of jesus is the spirit of prophecy and because you rose from the dead because you did not stay in the grave we refuse to look at hopelessness and death and we refuse to partner with it we stand with the testimony of jesus we stand with your character your nature and your track record whenever you step into death death no longer existed resurrection power breath was breathed into the moment and what was dead arose and lived and so we agree with your testimony jesus we are not at a loss for words as to what to prophesy because we know your testimony your testimony was you died were buried but you rose again your testimony is that when the widow from nain was on her way to bury her son you touched the casket and you spoke breathe your testimony is that when they told jairus not to bother the master you came to the house and said do not be afraid for she shall live your testimony is that when lazarus was was dead for four days you said lazarus come forth your testimony is resurrection your testimony is life your testimony is divine reversal yes your testimony is life and so we agree with your testimony and we speak your testimony your word your track record over our nation we spread your record your track record over our cities we speak your word your testimony over our lives we agree with your testimony in fact your testimony is a prophecy for every age to come we know what to look forward to because of what you have done it's okay to cry but don't forget to prophesy don't forget to prophesy in the last moment i uh said that the testimony of jesus is the spirit of prophecy if you're watching right now oh something's happening right now i i can't tell you i'm trembling under the way i i don't know what's happening right now but there's something taking place right now it's happening specifically in a certain city god is moving in a significant way thank you lord i feel the rattling of my body because the rattling of the bones is coming together even right now the testimony of jesus is the spirit of prophecy if you're watching and you have not yet given your life to christ you are like the dry bones you are dead spiritually the wages of sin is death and that's how you've been living your life you are deaf and you may be looking at your own life and it looks like a pile of dry bones it looks hopeless you've tried everything you could you've done everything you could but the reality is you're standing here and you're looking like ezekiel and you're saying i don't know how this is going to change but i want you to know the testimony of jesus is the spirit of prophecy and i'm prophesying to you right now and jesus was prophesying to you 2 000 years ago when he hung on the cross was buried in a border man's tomb and when he rose from the dead he was prophesying to you that no matter where you were in your sin in your mess in your condition there is a chance to live again because he lived again and the same spirit that raised christ from the dead has the power to live on the inside of you but you must believe in who jesus is and what he has done we are not made right with god by anything that we do but we're made right with god by placing our faith in jesus christ placing our faith in what christ has done is what gives us the capacity by his spirit to live a new life not just here on this earth but in eternal life with our savior forever so if you are in need of the forgiveness of your sin you want to give your life to jesus you want to be born again you want to live again today is the day to place your faith in jesus christ and say these dry bones they're going to live jesus asked a question to his disciples and he said who who do men say that i am and they gave him all sorts of answers some say elijah moses jeremiah one of the prophets and he looked at peter and said who do you say that i am peter said you are the christ son of the living god reality is is that if you've not placed your faith in jesus jesus is asking you right now who do you say that i am who do you say that i am am i just a guy that you've heard about am i just a good good man that you read about in a book am i just the person that your grandmother talked to you about or am i the christ am i the savior am i the one that was died that died buried and rose again for your life if he is that if he is the savior of the world the perfect one the righteous one today is a day to place your faith in him and here's the reality that when you place your faith in him and you believe who he is and what he's done you have the opportunity to receive everlasting life eternal life he will breathe upon you again so you want to place your faith in jesus on the count of three i just want you to make a commitment to lay down your life to surrender to jesus you're placing your faith in him and i just want you to say these three words i believe in jesus those four words i believe in jesus on the count of three if this is you you need to place your faith in jesus you know you are a sinner you know it not even anyone has to tell you i don't have to tell you even what you've done you know your conscience convicts you you know you're a sinner you know you need to give your life to jesus right now is the moment jesus will breathe new life into you one two three say i believe in jesus i believe in jesus you're making a public profession with your mouth you're confessing what's already you believed in your heart you're believing that jesus christ is lord you're giving your life to him if you've made that commitment today to enter into covenant relationship with jesus to follow him for the rest of your life we want to congratulate you new life is being breathed into you right now by the power of his spirit you're going to live differently and we want to congratulate you we want to love on you so if you made this decision you made this commitment we want you to type in the comments hashtag i met jesus i met jesus and we want our moderators to be able to communicate with you congratulate you we want to welcome you into the family of god you are the down payment of dry bones that are coming back to life you are the first fruits of the global awakening that we are going to see we want you to know that he's breathing new life into you right now family we've come to the end of our time together in this moment but it's very possible that as you maybe click the end of the stream you might have to go into your house and begin to prophesy to some things in your house it's very possible that you might have to go into your prayer closet and begin to prophesy to some things that you've been seeing as you've seen all service we haven't ignored the pain we haven't ignored the reality it's okay to cry don't forget to prophesy don't forget to prophesy don't forget to declare the word of the lord hear what heaven is sight speak what heaven is saying and that watch how heaven responds hear what heaven is saying speak what heaven is saying and then watch how heaven responds thank you for joining us this morning we pray that you're encouraged carry this message deep in your heart let it sink deep into you it's okay to cry but don't forget to prophesy we love you god bless you thank you for joining us today you

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