Graveyard Shift | Relentless Church

[Music] this service is changing I'm changing the message because the Holy Ghost is speaking to me and he didn't tell me he didn't Telegraph this message so the devil couldn't hijack it go to mark chapter 5 mark chapter 5 mark chapter 5 reading from the New King James Version put it up on the screen cuz I don't have my Bible with me then they came to the other side of the sea to the country of the gadarenes and when he had come out of the boat immediately there met him out of the tombs a man and what did he have he had what don't miss the unclean part I know we get caught up in the unclean spirit I need you to catch a man with and everybody say and how many is N say it again no say it loud a man with an unclean spirit who had his dwelling among the tombs and no one could find him not even with chains because he had often been bound with shackles and chains and the chains had been pulled apart by him and the shackles broken in pieces neither could anyone tame him and always night and day he was in the mountains and in the tombs crying out and cutting himself with stones but when he saw Jesus from afar he ran and worshipped him and he cried out with a loud voice and said what have I to do with you Jesus son of the Most High God I implore you by God that you do not torment me for jesus said to him come out of that man unclean spirit then he asked him what is your name for some of you you're gonna find out the name of that demon that thing that's been attacking you God is giving you authority to ask what it's name is so you can cast it out by name you've been praying general prayers but you got to get a specific deliverance today I need somebody who will hear what I just said no more general prayers you're not binding up just general demons you're gonna bind up the actual demon you're gonna cast that thing out and it's leaving here in the next 25 minutes I need somebody that has faith to put a praise right there any answered saying my name is legion for we are many and he begged him earnestly that he would not send him out of the country now a large herd of swine was feeding there near the mountains so all the demons so it went from n unclean spirits of multiple demons because there's one devil that's the door there's one devil that's the door that the other ones walk through and if you get the one that's the door you can close off the access point and I hear today that the Lord is closing the door on the devil in your life I wish I had some elders that would intercede I need seven people praying and the Holy Ghost and I need a fire to shift all the way in the back to the front and to the people in relentless online community the demons begged him this is good this is this messes up every scary movie you ever saw the demons begged him in these scary movies you see people begging demons please don't hurt us please don't kill us but in the real world where Jesus reigns demons beg him because demons know who you don't mess with is your shoe up in yourself HaMashiach he's the one that demons are afraid of he's the one that gives devils nightmares that's who serves that's who you serve [Applause] they begged him please don't send us out of the country send us to the swine that we may enter them and at once Jesus gave them permission and the unclean spirits went out and entered the swine there were about two thousand the herd ran violently down the steep place into the sea and drowned in the sea freeze right there I need you to kit they ran down the steep place into the sea and drowned in the sea the demons are symbolic of your enemy they've been chasing you they've been running after you when God freed Israel the army came after them where did they drown I need you to understand God's about to drown your enemies I wish I had 16 more people to catch what I just said you actually do have enemies they don't like you they hate you they hate God they want to see the church fail and they want they don't ever want you to get free they want you to stay in your chains but God is about to drown your enemies so if you were going to give God a hallelujah that would probably be a great place to do it cuz Asha the devil's been coming [Music] so those who fed the swine fled and they told it in the city and the country and they went out to see what it was that had happened and then they came to Jesus and saw the one who had been demon-possessed and had the Legion sitting clothed and in his right mind and they were afraid and I want you to go to the other Scripture I gave you to those in the graphics areas Matthew 8:28 so when Jesus had come to the other side to the country of the gurgles there met him two demon-possessed men coming out of the tombs exceedingly fierce so that no one could pass that way and suddenly they cried out what if we to do with you Jesus son of God have you come here to torment us before the time now a good way off from there there was a herd of many swine feeding so the demons begged him saying if you cast us out permit us to go away into the herd of swine and he said to them go so when they had come out they went into the herd of swine and suddenly the whole herd of swine ran violently down a steep place into the sea and perished in the water this is important it perished in the water now we know that the enemy dies in the water if you've ever been baptized your enemy died in the water and when you got up you rose in victory I don't care what you went in the water with it died in the water I need somebody to get this as something about in the water they all help me Holy Ghost then those who kept the swine fled and they went into the city and told everything including what happened to the demon-possessed men now I'm reading the account of this story from two different writers one highlights two demon-possessed men the other highlights one it's interesting because you can be stuck with somebody else and still choose to get free even if they don't [Applause] and getting ready to help you you you don't have to wait on somebody else to get free I don't care if it's in your family I don't care if it's a spouse I don't care if it's your friends let them stay stuck it's time for you to get free I feel something breaking in here so I changed the title if you want to hear the message from 8:30 you can go and it's called reset part to caller ID but this the Holy Ghost shifted and the title of this message is graveyard shift graveyard shift stuck can't get free it's not popular to be stuck we mask our stuckness religion tells us don't tell anybody what you struggle with and we know good and well that if you struggle some people will understand your struggle and others will celebrate your struggle and they don't want to keep you in your struggle they don't ever want you not to struggle in fact they like you better when you struggle they liked you better broken they like you when you're stuck because secretly it makes them feel better about themselves isn't that a horrible thing that people are somewhere sitting around thinking about you figuring out ways to bring pain to your life not knowing that scripture says the very hole you're digging I need some people in the balcony to go ahead and just either stand up high-five shout walk up and down the steps but I mean somebody to hear what I said I don't care how much you dig you're not digging for me you digging for you it's one thing to be stuck in the dark but what happens when you stuck in front of folk boy we talked Jesus but let somebody catch you stuck they'll shred you to pieces and so tell and tell you Jesus told him to do it the Bible says it's the glory of God to conceal the matter and when you see brokenness you walk in like Noah sons you walk in backwards that's what God honors but somehow in the church we highlight people's brokenness we highlight their addictions we celebrate their shame as if you don't have a chance at a time coming when you gonna need some grace yourself my name is John Gray and I've been stuck but you a pastor I've been stuck since I was 12 yeah I'm just the only one that has guts to say it had nothing to do with my mama my mama love God serve God live holy walked upright it was in my blood telling us in the blood say it's in the blood there's some stuff in your flesh that even if you tried in your strength you couldn't get free from it was in there when you were born got it from your daddy you got it honest got it from your mama you of cuss somebody smooth out and then speak in tongues you got that from your mama and her mama and make listen it's in your blood you can be one thing at one point in another thing in another point it doesn't make you a hypocrite it makes you human that's real quiet I'm gonna talk to y'all if you could do it without Jesus Jesus wouldn't get the glory and the blood wouldn't matter now shall we continue in sin so that grace may abound certainly not you don't use grace as an extension to see in holiness still matters character still matters integrity still matters but some of us know you can be stuck in it's not your choice because you've tried everything you know to do but you still can't get through is there anybody other than the six people standing up that can be honest to say there are some things that have been in your life that no matter how much you tried you didn't have the strength to get free is there anybody other than pastor DeMarcus my cousin James Becca some of y'all sitting down oh Jesus get him Jesus pastor aventure he was stuck he was not just stuck it's one thing to be stuck but it's not if you're stuck it's where you're stuck the man in mark 5 was stuck in a graveyard a graveyard a graveyard surrounded by ghosts and goblins and ghouls imagine day and night the Bible says day and night stuck oh but I'm glad that there's somebody that works the graveyard shift [Applause] I need you to understand something about the two scriptures that I shared one talks about one man the other talks about two the one that talks about two men does not speak of either of them getting free but mark chapter 5 highlights the one man who ran after Jesus there must be a desperation for you to get free too many people have been casual allowing sin to linger in your life allowing habits to linger in your life so that they become normalized you can never normalize sin you can never allow sin to fester to the point that you say well that's just who I am I guess that's just my cross to bear no your cross to bear is to serve Jesus with your gifts and your calling sin is not a cross to bear sin is what you need to nail to the cross I need some prayer elders sin is what we need to nail to the cross sin is what Jesus died for sin is what the blood is applied to so we don't get the chance to hold on to our sin nurse our sin build our sin raise our sin because the Bible says sinful groan gives birth to death and some of y'all need to come off the graveyard shift and clock in for the morning shift but the truth is misery loves company in the scripture and Matthew has said that there were two demon-possessed men and they were fierce they didn't let anybody pass but then Jesus came into the region and let me tell you something when Jesus shows up it upsets territorial demons when God starts shifting things devil start getting agitated so if you're under attack in any area of your life I'm speaking to spiritual people if you're under attack in any area of your life I can assure you it's because you're moving in the direction of the very thing that God created you to break up there's something in the atmosphere that you call to break up something that you're called to shift that's why it's dark that's why you don't have light that's why people don't like you that's why you feel what you feel this has been a season of isolation for some misunderstanding for others it's been a time when you prayed and God has not answered when you thought he would so you've had to walk blindly which is exactly what he wanted because you've got to walk by faith and not by sight in this season and even the people that you used to ask for wisdom and direction they don't even have anything to say because God has shut off all the other voices because he wants to teach you how to listen to him and him alone because where he's taking you only he's God [Applause] [Music] but even if you suck every now and then breathe you want to get free anybody ever been stuck but you believe God to get free and you got free for a few minutes ever anybody ever been free for a few minutes it's nothing better than getting free when you've been stuck when you've been in bondage but if you're doing it in your own strength what's gonna happen you don't get you're gonna get in bondage again and you know what happens when you go up and down with sin when you're battling with things that you thought you got free from here comes depression I'm gonna come over here here comes depression some people bless their hearts online talking about pastor John talked about suicide I didn't say that I went and got a gun I didn't say I bought pills I said the enemy put thoughts in my mind and people tried to make that like I was out of my mind but here's the truth you can be so hurt and so wounded that you would rather not breathe and go see Jesus because that's a real thing and you know what's funny it wasn't Devils that made me feel that way it was people I feel like preaching [Applause] no one who knows what this is chooses it because all people are waiting on us for you to fail haha you ain't safe what does my failure have to do with the blood of Jesus that's why I need the blood I don't want to go to a church where I don't need the blood [Music] [Applause] who you cuz that's why I don't go to church because there's no that's not why you don't go to church you don't go to church because you don't want to believe in Jesus you don't want to submit and that's on you but one day you gonna face him and your knee will bow and every tongue will confess so do what you want to do but I'm gonna go after Jesus and I needed chains and all [Music] somebody shout graveyard shift somebody's getting ready to get free and you're getting ready to get free once and for all you're a you are literally less than 10 minutes away from a freedom that you couldn't pay for you couldn't buy it if you tried Oh help me Holy Ghost he was stuck and he had chains and many of us have been in church a long time but we still have chains we don't talk about them because it's not popular but so what chains stop running from the reality of the truth say Jesus now people won't forgive you but they can't put you in hell and they can't open the gates of heaven so stop waiting on people and give it to Jesus I wish you'd get free from people date oh Jesus stuck the Bible says that in mark five the man would often tear the chains up and then they would put the people around him would put them back on him did you know some of y'all are stuck because of who you are around something about the break-in here I said you're stuck cuz of who you're around you were fine till they came back you were fine till they showed up you were fine till they called you weren't thinking about that till they text all the sudden your piece was interrupted because somebody brought a spirit people don't just come with a flesh they come with a spirit and you need to ask the Holy Ghost in 2019 what spirit are these people operating in cuz some folk don't need to be in your house in your car and your life on your phone you don't need to befriending them on social media you need to delete them out of your life because they come with a spirit and that spirit is like a virus and it wants to infect everything that you do and if you value your freedom then you will protect your peace [Music] [Applause] pastor Kenny I don't know about the rest of these nice church folk but I've been stuck before tried to get free in my own strength I couldn't do it mama I tried it stuck again oh but Jesus said to the disciples in mark 4 we need to cross over to the other side and as he crossed over he came into the region he step as soon as he stepped on to the land the spirits on them recognized the authority of the one he just stepped on to the land I need you to hear me that Jesus just stepped onto your property not only did he step onto your property he's stepping into your situation and to show you that he's got power he's not even gonna speak to you first he's gonna speak to the demon that's been attacking you and the reason why he's coming for the devil first is because even though you were stuck with chains there was something in you even with your chains that you still worshipped has anybody ever worshiped with chains has anybody ever worshiped through addiction anybody ever worship through brokenness anybody ever worship while blind anybody ever worship and it didn't make sense you didn't feel like worshiping but you did it anyway where are those people let me help you to understand that if you had the heart to worship when it didn't make sense Jesus has the authority and he has the heart to come and see about you and he's gonna make sense of the things that made no sense in your life the Bible says that when the man who was demon-possessed now we know there were two in the book of Matthew but in mark there's only one why because it's only important to talk about the one that ran towards him I don't know what the other one did pastor Mariah when we know that at least one of them said this might be the only chance I get to get free from this graveyard nobody else will come check on us we out here by ourselves in the tome sitting in the graveyard I need something to shift well since you won't agree with me to get free maybe if I get to him it's about a power or two a matter is established the Bible says when the man saw Jesus from afar he ran and worshipped him he fell down on his face he went from worship to demons how you go from one extreme to the other unless you still have two natures there are people who are unspiritual who think because you're still battling between two natures that you're not saved that's a lie the regenerated man must become mature in spiritual things by feeding on the Word of God consistent prayer life and by community by staying in community with like-minded individuals that's why I come into church matters that's why small groups matters that's why circle groups matter that's why getting with the right people talking about Jesus matters you can't hang with carnal people in this season you can't hang with fleshy people in this season you can't hang with gossipers in this season I know it sounds juicy and it feels real good but the devil just wants to get you distracted and for you to miss your purpose you need to get to Jesus let me hurry he ran and he worshiped and the part of him that had not yet been regenerated said whatever I to do with you Jesus there's always a part of us that loves Jesus and there's that other part that says I want nothing to do with that nobody will say Amen because that's the part of your flesh that you still haven't submitted to God and if there's something in your flesh that you haven't given to God I'm imploring you whether you're here or online give it to Jesus he wants it today he wants that thing that you've been holding on to today because freedom is not a concept freedom is a man and his name is Jesus and he'll take your chains and he'll give you freedom and he'll do it free of charge that's the power of the blood he says whatever I to do with you Jesus Jesus said come out of him come on out of there matter of fact before you come out tell me your name see because once you identify a thing by name then what that does is it establishes boundaries when you know when somebody's calling your phone and it says no caller ID I don't answer those because I don't know who you are you got my number but if I see your name and I don't want to talk since I know that that's you calling I don't have to answer it but if you keep calling I could just block you the reason why Jesus said what's your name is because he wanted to set a parameter around this man that he was about to free so when that devil tried to come back he couldn't get in I want you to know that God is about to give you the name of the thing that's been holding you hostage then he's gonna bind it and he's gonna put a hedge of protection around you so that no matter where you go and what you do it can't get in I need you to hear me when I hear this and I heard that this really blew my mind I heard pastor Keyon Henderson say this he said there's a difference between a a hedge and a fence because a fence is a fixed position but a hedge goes where you go and I need you to know that God has put a hedge around you that once he frees you no matter where you go you're gonna stay free even around the people that want to stay in bondage it won't affect you because your deliverance will be real you about to get free and stay free I'm trying to help somebody in here and the very change that you got free from you I don't want you to throw them away I want you to show people Jesus said come out of the man unclean spirit what's your name legion for we are many you know what that means passenger Marcus I got a lot of stuff going on I don't have just one issue I got a lot of issues what's the name of any many I know you won't say it but some of us here and some of us online are dealing with a lot of things some of it we chose some of it we did and other stuff we inherited but whether you chose it or inherited it it's leaving out of here right now I said it's leaving out of here right now Jesus step into the region it was the graveyard shift say the graveyard shift most people don't like the graveyard shift because it's not everybody's not there it's dark is scary but this is what I love about Jesus he will come to you in your worst moment and he will do his best work he is not afraid of the graveyard shift he's not afraid of your brokenness he's not intimidated by the things you and I have done he loves you so much that he will step into your region he's just looking for somebody that can worship the Bible says this man ran with his chains can you worship even with chains you got me thank you alright just let me sweat it out from here on out you don't even got to come back no more I'm almost done what if the Lord changed your chains to jewelry [Applause] [Music] [Applause] what if he turns your change in the jewelry what if he gave you necklaces and people ask you where you get that necklace from and you tell them what God delivered you from what if you didn't just have one necklace what if you had to change I dare you to give God a to change pranks [Applause] when people ask you what is that you say oh this this is the thing that had me hostage for 20 years and then God freed me and instead of throwing it away I made a necklace so I can let the devil know you had me broken but now I find beauty and the thing that had me broken I'm not ashamed of my past because God has healed he has delivered he has set me free is there anybody that want God to turn your chains into jewelry [Applause] I want God to turn some of y'all chains into a four finger ring so people can see the goodness of Mercy to deliverance and the grace of God I need God to do something in your life I need God to shift that thing it's the graveyard shift from death to life from brokenness to wholeness from sadness to joy is there anybody that knows you just stepped into the graveyard shift and Jesus is shifting everything in your life and the chains that held you hostage have to let you go [Music] some of y'all getting ready to get free and some of y'all saying Lord it took you too long he said no no I knew what I was doing I had to allow you to gain strength or endurance and I also had to leave the chains on long enough for you to get rid of the people that would never for you in the first place do you understand your chains are symbolic of got how God is going to use you what you go through is indicative of what you're called to I gave an illustration earlier in the first service about being drafted you need to understand that when you have chains and when you have brokenness things that are generational and you overcome them it's not just for you as for your whole squad that's God making you the leader of a team making you a leader of a community making you a leader of a nation don't be a shame that you were stuck in a mess or stuck in in crack or stuck in a lifestyle God freed you and et gave you a microphone when he freed you we overcome by the blood of the Lamb and the word of our testimony don't hide your change slop show chains I love the fact that the Lord allowed certain amounts of change to stay so that people could pass me by that didn't mean me no good all you saw was my brokenness but God knew where he was taking me there are certain people that I wish would have been in relationship with me but they didn't see me they saw either my limitations or my failures or my my my insecurities or maybe they saw my potential and didn't want to speak into it but it doesn't matter because God still don't get his will accomplished in my life tell somebody you getting drafted tell somebody else you getting drafted pastor Ave I'm almost done with this message but I had to encourage somebody because they didn't realize how come God didn't choose me first don't worry about who's the first round draft choice don't worry about the people that moved first or got there before you or got chosen before you it doesn't matter what anybody else was doing or how God allowed other people's lives stop comparing your life to other people I got a buddy of mine pastor to Marcus names Russell Wilson he plays for the Seattle Seahawks he's the best quarterback by volume in the lead look at all the metrics he's the best most consistent most durable all of that you know when he was picked number 75 third round 74 team's passed on him he don't want one Super Bowl went to another one best quarterback nobody saw him coming little smile school North Carolina State then he went to Wisconsin little smile they didn't even see they say he's short they say he doesn't have this that in the third but he gets the job done I love the fact that God has been hiding many of you in plain sight and people have underestimated your value but God is about to draft you get you free and that is about to use you to change the world and everybody that passed you over is gonna be sick to their stomach that they ever doubted that you could do it that you could make it that you can walk in it that you can speak to it because pot is free you from your place it's the graveyard shift and that means somebody to clock out and give him good I said I need somebody to clock out and give him blue I need somebody to set it off in here boom the Sun is set free is free indeed every demon in Hell gotta get out of here every devil in your life has to get out of here every devil in your family's gotta get out of here every addiction every purse I need somebody to pray with me in the Holy Ghost there is a praise that gives you free from your chain [Applause] [Music] I feel the Holy Ghost I said the Spirit of God is here [Music] crap this chain grab that chain no matter what I do you pull it towards you see Myra pastor Byron is symbolic of the Holy Ghost sometimes you get free and because you don't know how to live in freedom you go looking for your leeks and onions you go looking like the children in Israel for the thing that's familiar but it's bondage ed because he loves you he keeps pulling that chain he keeps pulling it in and no matter how much you try to hold on he loves you too much he says I'm not letting you go back pull it and sometimes it's a tug-of-war anybody ever had a tug-of-war with God God I don't want to let her go I don't want to let him go I don't want to let that thing go I want to hold on to it and God says let it go and the moment you let it go I got something better I got something with purpose I got something with destiny but you can pick grace gray yeah where is your speed grave where is your victory I need somebody to give god of graveyard yes pray [Applause] [Music] I need you to give him 20 second [Music] [Applause] [Music] [Applause] [Music] I will not be held hostage to my graveyard moment you can text about it tweet about it write about it but I ain't there no more I said I ain't there no more if you want to go visit it you can but I'm not there no more and neither are you whom the Sun sets free is free indeed all you need is somebody that are worship with you in your chains and at midnight Paul and Silas prayed and sang praises to God and the prisoners heard it and immediately the foundation of the prison was vacant [Music] [Applause] we're loose all you need to do is find one person on your road that will worship God with you [Applause] I just need one I just need one I just need one that will worship God with me will you find what will you find one find one [Applause] [Music] all it takes is one [Music] all it takes is one hey all it takes is one [Music] Jesus specializes in the graveyard shift parlor silence were praying and singing praises to God they were as good as dead Jordan I said they were as good as dead if if they solved the morning they were out of here but it's something about praising at night turn these lights off turn them off turn em off can you praise him when there is no light can you praise Him in the dark can you praise Him what it makes no sense can you praise him at midnight and at midnight put the phone down Paul and Silas prayed and sang praises to God and the prisoners heard them and immediately the foundations of the prison there it is drummer was shaken see when you can worship at night when you can worship in Chains something begins to shift something begins to move something begins to happen something begins to stir something begins to shift and the Bible says as they worship something broke in their favor let there be light [Applause] [Music] let's happy light [Applause] let there be light I don't say things like this there are a number of people who have sewn into the word I heard the Lord say there's some people that you need to sew into this word I read in 1st chronicles 21 when David was at ordinance threshing floor he said I want to buy it from you full price orna said no I'll give it to you you're the king he said no I got a purchase in from me because I will not render unto God that which cost me nothing there is a seed that breaks the back of the destroyer and if that's the Lord speaking to you then be obedient if not then you stay in worship y'all know me well enough to know I don't say things like that but there are some people that need to sow into this work don't stop with staying in warfare mode I don't want to go soft and tender I want to stay in warfare mode that's the problem we always want to get out of it we need to stay in it we need to stay to that devil that's cold we need to stay till we know we're free we need to stay till we know the cancer is gone we need to stay till we see the x-ray on the kidney we need to stay until the anointing oil has made a difference we need to stay in warfare mode I'm not leaving [Music] Kuzma near i'm not fighting for me I'm fighting for my son for my daughter I'm not worshiping for me I'm worshiping for who's coming behind me I'm not worshipping for me I'm worshiping for my grandchildren I'm not worshipping for me I'm worshipping from my great-grandchildren they may never know me but may my worship echo for generations [Music] my son you asked me these questions said daddy when I'm 50 how old will you be and I said oh he said daddy when I'm 80 how old will you be I said I'll be with Jesus I need him to know that my body might be with Jesus but my worship is gonna stay in the earth I need you to understand there are certain things that God wants you to speak out of your mouth that linger in the earth my grandmother is named Davis y'all never met her she died when I was 19 but she was a woman of God and she prophesied the very things that I'm walking out right now she'd be over a hundred years old and it's strange to see prayers she was praying in 1983 come to pass in 2018 and she wrote it down like she saw it coming and I need somebody in here to worship like you see it see it for your son see it for your partner see it for your family see it for your future keep it in the grave long enough get up out of that gray that's just shoulders up where your head you go forward no devil in hell can hold you hostage preach the word live the word walk the word meet what God has told you to be [Music]

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Length: 46min 46sec (2806 seconds)

Published: Sat Feb 02 2019