Here Comes Elisha | Dr. Matthew Stevenson

second kings chapter 2 verse 1 and it came to pass when the lord would take up elijah into heaven by whirlwind that elijah went with elisha from gilgal and elijah said unto elisha terry here i pray thee for the lord hath sent me to bethel and elisha said unto him as the lord liveth and as thy soul liveth i will not leave thee so they went down to bethel and the sons of the prophets that were at bethel came forth to elisha and said unto him knoweth thou not that the lord will take away thy master from thy head today and he said yeah i know it hold your peace aka shita i mean sometimes you have tail folk around you just shut up lord have mercy and as and so they came to jericho this is verse five and the sons of the prophets that were at jericho came to elisha and said unto him know us thou that the lord will take away that mess from the head today and he answered yeah i know it hold your peace again and elijah said to him tara here i pray before the lord hath sent me to jordan and as he said as the lord liveth as i so lived i will not leave thee and they too went on go all the way down to verse 14. and he took the mantle screamed the word mantle i said scream the word mantle through your mask say manto and he took the mantle of elijah that fell from him and smote the waters and said where is the lord god of elijah and when he had also smitten the waters they parted hither and thither i love that phrase and elisha went over and when the sons of the prophets which were to view at jericho saw him they said the spirit of elijah doth rest upon elisha and they came to meet him and bowed themselves to the ground before him father help me to preach this in jesus name amen we're talking this morning for about 15 minutes here comes elisha here comes elisha here comes elisha i just want to know if there's anybody in here that's not scared of the double portion here comes elisha here comes elisha we've heard several angles of the story of elijah and light and elisha but not in the light that i'll share today because it's intriguing when we consider the historical context that there was a period of time elder deborah where elijah and elisha were alive at the same time when you hear the story of elijah and elisha you often considered them separately existing but there was a stent of time where they were moving together in the world my god what must it have been like to be alive watching the two of them walk together i can't imagine being around in the world watching elijah do his thing and watching elisha do his thing but the problem is they did it together scream yes and so the the season that the book of kings gives us of divine opportunity of divine succession and migration and forward movement showed the necessity of power partnerships meaning that there was a connection by god that needed to be because of what god was doing in the earth can i give you a word before i go deeper your pace and your progress in this next season will be determined by who and or what you're partnered with the devil hates partnership he loves bondage and some of what you think is partnership is actually slavery partnership is built upon the principle of agreement we're walking together to achieve a thing even in the earth so to fully uh to fully see this in scriptural scope you've got to be reminded of how many times the bible talks about the two uh i'm believing god my goodness tuca and 20 and 22 for the two i'll repeat it i'm believing god in 20 and 22 for the two jesus sent them out two by two maybe you are right where you're supposed to be maybe you are not behind maybe you are not uh out of sync you just need to find your partner and maybe your partner ain't gonna sleep with you we only have a paradigm for romantic partnership but there are different variations of partnership that push the purpose of god and if you're wise if you're shrewd you're not going to be afraid to partner with people who are not like you who don't look like you who don't believe like you put your hand on your chest say i want my partner i want my partner partnership is powerful i'm going to give you my principle because if you don't have a partner you can't get tired if you don't have a partner you can't have a doubt if you don't have a partner you don't you can't even afford a moment of mishap the bible say two is better why don't we believe that we think that one is safer but the bible said two is better and we only say that at weddings but that's sold for every part of your life every peter needs a paul every paul needs a silence every naomi needs a roof i'm challenging you to pray about your partnerships maybe your projects are slowing down because of wrong partnerships the revelation of collaboration is about to break in the earth in a way you've never seen before but it's going to be signs and wonders these are not going to be partnerships that you could prognosticate would be you're not going to be able to say oh yeah i saw that coming no they're coming out the woodwork now you're going to be smart or are you going to act challenged if the lord sends you an investor from alaska are are you going to be biased or are you going to be afraid if the lord sends you money from korea do you think that your destiny is under the leadership of the dollar or do you believe in the power of international business and resource can god partner and prosper you from different places i want my partners in the name of jesus i prophesy your partners into your life your teachers are coming out of hiding your coaches are coming out to caves and god is sending you out two by two now you're going to have to make the decision before i crack into this about whether or not you elijah or elisha because the posture is different scream yes now we're dealing with a whole bunch of principles right now in our culture our laws and our civilization and we're dealing with very very very very very dangerous times and so when you think about where we are brian in chicago and where we are in america i've often asked god if there were a prophet a messenger a voice that you would resuscitate or send to the earth to deal with this stuff going on who would it be i think it's elijah i i i think he would want to send a mantle that wasn't scared of mount carmel i think he would want to send a mantle that would not be timid and that would reveal himself to the powers that be because he had been with god shut up devil we ain't just been isolated we've been with god shut up devil we wasn't just locked up in a room we were crying and getting closer to god shut up devil it hurt but i got closer to god come on anybody in here feel a little closer than you did before elijah had an unusual intimacy with god that was caused by inconvenience listen to me my text reveals that there is an intimacy born in inconvenience when you are inconvenienced you are thrusted into a realm of intimacy when you can't plan it and can't brace for it and can't prepare for it and can't see it coming god pulls you in a little closer now you imagine when you study the story of elijah you often give more credit than you should to jazzy jesse i'm talking to you you give a lot of prayer time to jazzy jesse you give a lot of warnings to jazzy jesse i mentioned to the brothers yesterday how rude is it to say father god in the name of jesus i bind you jezebel if i were god i'd be like you call my phone to talk to that witch you're gonna waste precious time with me to deal with her so jezebel is not i said not scream not ricky she is not a central figure of elijah's story she's a roach she's a gnat we eat jezebel for breakfast in the name of jesus you will never again wrestle in second heaven activity with deities and entities that are beneath you you know why you are seated with god in heavenly places i'm not gonna waste my prayer time talking to witches i'm before the throne of god [Applause] they don't son but it's okay we talked to jezebel in prayer because we don't know what to say to god i'm talking to you so we say father in the name of jesus satan how you change the conversation that quick you start talking to jezebel before you said hallelujah [Applause] the point i'm making is we've got to hit a labor race we got to stop magnifying the devil we got to stop giving him the glory we've got to stop acting like demons are more powerful than angels we've got to stop acting like the strategy of darkness is more powerful than the purposes of god is there anybody in 73 59 that still believes that jehovah is the most high god that i deny is still in control of the events and the effects on the earth and even if the devil is busy he still can't break me is there anybody in here that believes in the power of god like you hey justin like you i used to get distracted with studying the book of kings by jezebel but then if you look at it contextually she only got like two chapters and a couple of verses in between y'all play with her all you want if you need somebody to do double dutch with have fun have at it do you want to create prayer programs for her fastings for her coaching products for her enjoy yourself i'm after elisha lift your hands say let the double portion fall in the earth could it be elder jason a real life hero as well that our elisha's are suffering because our elijahs are entangled with jezebel could it be that there are people that have not been appropriately mantled because men are at war with second heaven stuff they don't understand throne room rules you're not ready for that so i saw something that i didn't see before jumba elijah had a test where you know he went through that thing with jezebel but that wasn't his greatest challenge jezebel could not have been elijah's greatest challenge because pastor pam fire came from heaven did you hear what i told you that was no challenge god did that when he got to the mountain the war was accomplished all that man had to do was pray but because of the effects of that battle that war that fight he started to hide i won but i'm hiding fire came but i'm hiding elijah is a biblical template of exhaustion and he gets here and god starts dealing with him and he says elijah where are you and you know the story elijah comes up and he tells elijah one specific thing that is my segway when you've had a war say yes when you've had a battle say yes when something has come after you say yes turn this song so i can make noise we're going to submit with this round [Applause] you must pay attention to your consumption thank you god's instructions to elijah after the war was get up and eat get up and eat get up and eat dirty face and all get up and eat bloody hands and all get up and eat weariness and all get up and eat i'm looking at some of you in the spirit and you ain't been eaten and what i mean by that is that you've been sulking and not eating you've been crying but you ain't been eating talking and ain't eating i wonder how many of us are not on the right path because we're so depleted that we don't have the energy for what's next when you look at somebody say just eat eat eat eat eat you need to eat a little more this is not the season for your diet to remain where it was the the devil has tried to rob you of everything you know to be right real and true you can't afford apostle be help me to go another day without spending at least an hour in the word elder candace they don't like that y'all want to do goku lord have mercy crossword puzzles we've been binge watching for 16 months is there anybody that's going to binge the bible i'm talking about somebody that's going i'm just getting scared of y'all where's my church at is there anybody that's not afraid to lock themselves away and say today it's the book of ruth hey tomorrow is the book of exodus then the next day it's the book of timothy and i don't even need a partner if you join me fine but i'm going to study to show myself approve for what's coming in the next season i've got to eat i've got to eat i love to go to your birthday party but i'd rather eat i love to come to your house warming but i'll hit that cash app i've got to eat i've made the mistake before of abandoning my bible time for you and then when i did that you couldn't even be there for me so we had this problem and at this point i'm sticking with the scriptures i'm going to stay with the bible and i'm going to get back to you when i'm done throw your hands up say eat god tells elijah get up and eat elijah i imagine is like why door dash don't come as fast as they should why uber each said that they won't be available for another couple hours why pastor denise that chipotle ain't turn that rice over that chicken just as dry ease but but when you've been in a war when you've been in a battle that you think is a battle of your life it's dangerous to not change the diet you cannot eat like you were eating before 2020. you cannot study like you were studying before the pandemic you came praying the same way you used to pray and for those of you that's like let me get back to if back to you was that good you wouldn't be where you at now i want to hear somebody say i want something i never seen before a new anointing and a fresh oil a new hunger and a fresh fire a brand new passion and a thirst junebug the problem with the dietary issue is that diets distinguish dietary preferences if we're socially connected elder deborah and and we use the ancient biblical technique of discipleship food is often at the center of it and we arrange ourselves around a meal you may have some things that bother you you might be lactose intolerant i'm gossip intolerant i'm jealousy intolerant i'm rebellion and tolerant in the name of jesus may your appetite may your palate may your belly change right now to go where you're about to grow in jesus name let your hands say i'm eating honey i'm eating honey i'm eating when you're eating you ain't got time to talk about her shoes and why she marry him and who is all these new people you're starving when the scriptures are in you you don't have room for that i imagine after elijah eats god says get up go find your real assignment can i give you wisdom your battle is not your assignment it's your battle your battle is not your calling it's your battle and the point of every battle is to reveal you to you you didn't hear what i just told you dude if the lord allows a war to happen around you it's not because he wants to hurt you it's because there's something about you and or in you that you have not embraced how many of you hey prophetess vicky are rejecting your own strength how many of you are open up how many of you are mad that you're the mature one how many of you are mad that you're the one that repented and do nothing wrong how many of you are angry that you're the one that's calling and you're the one that's showing up and when you have a i'm working in here you don't get the right of reciprocation but this is the season in your life listen to me pastor pam well you can't get mad at your maturity god has decided that your mandate requires a certain level of maturity and if they don't grow up it don't mean you ain't going up you just got to grow mad at my maturity i feel like preaching angry at my maturity bitter with the hand of god making me be the bigger man anybody in here has god ever put his hand on you like i i i i i not you come on lift my hands in the name of jesus reconcile with your level reconcile with your standard reconsider with how god has called you to be psychologically jordy i would have had a temper tantrum weep woman of god weed i would have had a temper tantrum and and i'm gonna give you just because i feel like it an example why i'm not going to that church i much rather go to vegas if i don't get a disease it ain't gonna be before god it's gonna be at the casino you caught no devil you if you ever needed the lord and the presence of god and the healing power of god is now ain't no russian ruler gonna save you let's bust the devil open to the white meat the church of the lord jesus christ is the place where healing flows i just want to be cautious where was that at that boat you full of casino shrimp you weren't cautious at the buffet [Applause] i'm walking in here [Applause] [Music] this pandemic has exposed rebellion it's been there the whole time [Applause] anyway there will come a time in your life i'm going to take my time where you're going to be mad at your maturity there's going to come a time in your life where you're going to look at people who pray less than you but they're loved more than you who study less than you and have more money than you this is why you got to come out a comparison i'm almost here [Applause] if you studying this process if you're studying that season if you're investigating that rhythm and that ray you're not committed to your own i bring this up because if elijah i continue to be angry at his assignment elisha wouldn't have fulfilled his the danger of you not obeying god and the danger jamila of you not being in place is your place as catalytic that means that your place creates a place for somebody whose purpose only opens up when you take your next step lift your hands i prophesy your next big step will be blown on by the hand of god your next shift your next change your next transfer is going to open the gate so that others can follow say so it is you got to take a step you got to take a step you got to take a step thank you you got to take a step you got to take a step you got to take a step even if you don't know where you're going you got to take a step even if you don't know who's going with you you got to take a step even if people discourage you you got to take a step even if you don't have all the money you got to take a step if you don't get accepted to the program you got to take a step if it's not the right school you got to take a step you can't fear rejection because you at least got to take a step if you've had a bad season you got to take a step if they tell you you're going to die if you do it still take a step i would much rather die trying than leave regretting i'm talking about taking a step how many you know you get the victory day by day shut up devil we're coming out of anxiety monday's gonna be monday tuesday's gonna be tuesday wednesday's gonna be wednesday and i'm not gonna grieve a whole year again we're gonna take it one step at a time that's for the mature that's for the growing i feel like shouting but i got some more messages don't worry about tomorrow keep your mask on and tell your neighbor don't worry about tomorrow i feel like pre-check now look at somebody say don't worry about tomorrow whoa lord i love you don't worry about tomorrow look behind you say don't worry about oh sweet wonder tell them don't worry about tomorrow do you realize that there's a lot of sickness and disease in people because they're worried about tomorrow do you realize that there are people that are bitter in their soul and their emotions because they're worried about tomorrow do you realize there are people that won't take the right risk because they're worried about tomorrow but i want to hear somebody who knows god is the alpha he is the omega he is the beginning he is the end and he ain't changed at all so he's gonna always do i love your word what he's always done and he's gonna always be who he's always been tomorrow is the large [Applause] [Music] elisha was a hard test we we we animate this so bad that we miss the humanity of elijah my life has been threatened there were 450 men against me that doesn't bless y'all because maybe you don't know what it is to feel outnumbered oh i'm a preacher if i want to you can't shout with me because your enemies are all on your level you can't shout with me because your peers they never turned on you you can't shout with me because you don't know what it is to be anointed listen jordan in front of your brothers you don't know what it means to be selected oh yes even extracting from a learning community that despises your promotion and your discipline what do you do when there's more of them there are of you now if that wasn't a reality preach negro then we wouldn't have to have a reminder that says in the book of romans but if god before us who can be against us it could be 100 you almost lost a preacher it could be 200. i don't care what the numbers are god is for me hit yourself three times and say he's for me he's for me i am not outnumbered i am not overwhelmed for me the real test vana was elisha the real test justin was elisha why noel who wants to pour after they've almost died open up who wants to give after they've been threatened who wants to come off a mountain with fire and blood and raises and daggers and then go to dinner with some neophyte the real challenge was never jezebel it was can i bring my heart back enough to pour again i just poured watch me listen sugar i just poured on caramel i just gave water in a drought i built an altar during a time where i felt like i was the only prophet left everybody around me was blaming me because i'm the one that told ahab that the heavens was going shut now you got kids dying you got families crying people are losing their job and there is no water so i just got off of tick tock at instagram live building this altar and i poured water on the sacrifice lift your hands and this season you've got to give what you ain't got you got to give what you don't feel like you're old you got to release what you feel like it's rare lord have mercy you've got to release and sow and invest what you're scared to give what shall i render to the lord for everything that he's cost me throw your hands and say you can have it all [Applause] elijah gave god his all is not disney elder deborah he is the one the nation is reliant on and here he is taking what the people want and pouring it on the altar taking what the people are complaining about important on the altar jezebel was easy the dogs ate her royal and luxury chewed her bones up but when god said go find elisha and anoint him in your place y'all wasn't mad about that he was mad at jesse but jesse is not more powerful than elisha elisha is proof that jesse will never win if i keep pouring you can't kill me if i keep giving you can't stop me i'm trying to bring your gift back i'm trying to bring your poor back those of you that stopped come on back those of you that quick get in alignment i want to the lord gave me a word of possible only come out to use you in a couple of sundays about chiropractic adjustments all nations i'm about to crack your neck i'ma crack your back about to put your feet in place divine order and divine alignment so you can walk upright so you can move forward so you can run this race with grace go anoint him you hear go anoint him if you are elijah what you hear is go sacrifice again i just poured water now i've got to pour oil in a dangerous season god always positions you to give more than what you did before when you're carnal you think you give less but when you have the mind of the spirit you know the lord lets you fight and conflict and wrestle not with them even within because he wants you to pour more lay hands on yourself because i don't want to touch your head well some of you i might because i see a little something a little rodent's flying around say in the name of jesus i command you to pour more y'all can't even say it like you mean it you said that with such grief and i'mma tell you why when you feel like you've lost you don't want to give but losing it and giving it are not the same things put your hand on your head say in the name of jesus i release the grace to poor more so now i'm going to close this up for those of you that are the elishas because in one season you may be one in another season you may be the other in one season you may be the originator and another season you may be the receptor in one season you may be the predecessor you're getting ready to start a new company you something is happening with you in the world of real estate in a room you've never been into there's a group of caucasian businessmen that are looking at what you've done and what you're doing and there's going to be something that opens up in the state of texas that's going to prosper your family it's going to be a portfolio real estate investment and economic empowerment and you will excel your business teachers it will be that in three years time they'll come to you and ask you how you outpace them because you stay low say so be it what's the last thing i just said oh poor more so when you when when we see this now i want to deal with the elisha's in the room i used to be in elisha uh i probably am in some regards and in some ways there are vacancies ben hear me there are vacancies there are vacancies there are vacancies there are anointings this last year and the year before so many generals went home to be with the lord but they didn't take their anointings with them you know why because it wasn't theirs to begin with those anointing hey hey hey those anointings came from earth you think the lord is going to allow some of the greatest preachers in the world to go home and the mantles not linger you you think that who smith wigglesworth is is gone you think that amy mcpherson is dead they're not dead those mantles are in the earth do you think that william j seymour i've been declaring over my life elder deborah every morning i am a son of seymour i never met him but i know azusa is in my belly i'm about to do something crazy in the weirdest places around the world mantos vacancies opportunities and revelatory recruitment is the name of the season something is coming upon the shoulders of the law upon the head of the humble elisha had it hard too you ready for this because how do you elder jason no how do you follow a leader that has the habit of disappearing ej pushed me elijah would disappear all the time they'd be in in starbucks the sons of the prophets kicking the bobos and all of a sudden he'd look up and be at the river he didn't have no uber the hand of the lord will come upon him the hand of the lord will come upon him take a deep breath exhale don't ever follow a leader whose assignment you despise i'm going to crack into this if you can't discern it you shouldn't follow it god told elijah told elijah hey stay here elisha was like what do you mean you keep disappearing every time i try to submit my exams and my homework you get caught up in a trance so what were elisha's tests what qualified him for the double portion i'm going to give you three of them and i'm going to leave you alone until tonight i my baby sister is here and when i say she's here i mean she lives here i am a man but i'm also a brother y'all mess with my sister y'all gonna get that work and the people of the lord said uh we have a problem with pursuit our culture has taught us that to pursue is to be weak to be vulnerable talk to me it's it's degrading would the woman with the issue of blood be healed if she didn't pursue would the blind man have this sight if he didn't learn to pursue take a deep breath you need to be delivered from fear of rejection because your fear of rejections got you stagnated when your next level is moving on and if you don't learn how to pursue you're gonna lose what god wants for you the first test of elijah was pursuit what am i willing to run after what am i willing to walk away from what am i willing to stay and see is pursuing safe now you know what's crazy when what can we be real for a minute okay well whether you say so now hey kevin we don't mind pursuing when it's sexual if you're in the room can i bring some alignment jamila and you on a dating app any of them no shade but you're pursuing why is it that when it comes to impartation when it comes to teaching when it comes to character i'm not scared of you when it comes to growing up i'm not running after nobody i know you lied i saw the app shout hallelujah you know how to pursue you do it well come on let's open it up and it's not just men some of these apps demonically lord have me i think i'm back some of these apps demonically put the pressure on the woman to pursue what in the world have we come to my daughter bet not let me pull out all the way okay i'm sorry i i almost i almost shifted let me come back person pursuit i wish i would find my daughter on her knee trying to ask a man to marry her i need her in her head get off it and if he can't do for you more than what i can leave him where he is you're going from one man to another don't you pursue a bomb you pursue a grow up you leave an emperor and go to a waiter the devil's a liar let that boy grow up y'all don't want to have church today give him to me and i'll let you know when he's ready let daddy work on him you don't do it sorry that's my only bunny trail pursuit there is a biblical revelation of pursuit and because we've been so alienated we've lost the power of pursuit if you want it get it if you see it go after it if it's available to you run for it i want you to know that pursuit perfects character some of the people with the worst character in the world don't know how to go after stuff going after it impacts you even if what you're going after does not receive you it can still change you it can still grow you it can still help you i'm challenging you prophetically to pursue you need i'm talking to you look at somebody say you you're not as intentional as you need to be you want to be a politician where are your law books you want to be a restaurant owner why are you not on tour tasting and investigating pursue pursue here is the opposite of pursuit passivity we are a passive aggressive culture tiara when i tell you the holy ghost of god my wife and my therapist stop me from smacking the saliva out of several people because they were keyboard bandits you know not liking me is one thing but beat me up is another i think if we're gonna do it let's do it don't be passive let's pursue i command the passive grace of habits in your life to die this is the last season in your life that you're going to procrastinate this is the last season in your life where you're going to be starting over all the time i will persue and when i pursue there's only another place to go help me june after i pursued i'm going to overtake after i've overtaken i'm going to recover all see if you don't pursue you can't get your stuff back if you want your stuff back go after it pursue i have a revelation of pursuit i've seen it work in my life i wanted my woman so i pursued it i wanted the anointing on my father so i pursued it i wanted the favor of god so i pursued it we've got to restudy pursuit you let your dysfunctional family tell you not to chase stuff and they ain't got nothing baby i'm about to pursue if i see it on your life if i see it in your world i'm gonna get around it so it can get on me we ain't gotta shake hands or take a picture i just need to be in the atmosphere and pursue what's on it he had the test of pursuit you are about to go through the test of pursuit and people in pain don't pursue people afraid of pressure don't pursue people that have not recovered well don't pursue say yes people mad at a mama don't pursue people mad at their daddy don't pursue they project lord have mercy but they don't pursue baby you was hurt when you got here y'all don't want to hear that you got to pursue when you see things before you and you make your target up and you get your goal there elisha has an anointing of pursuit i'm going to chase it because i want it i'm going after it and i don't care what it does to me i'm going after it pursue it's the principle of rulers you can't say you want a double portion of anything if you don't learn how to pursue i have two other tests but i want to add something there if you will allow if you will indulge prayer is pursuit when you pray a part of what you're doing is pursuing you're not picnicking you're pursuing the principles of the patterns the purposes of god it's a form of pursuit that means if your prayer life is broken your pursuit life has no hope what happened to you that stopped you from pursuing who happened to you that stopped you from pursuing what got in your ear wax stopped you from pursuing you ready what a rumor did you listen to i'm talking to you nappy natalie what table what kickback what social party were you a part of when mugs was bumping their gums and you contributed your version of it although you don't know what you talking about that got in your spirit and stop you from pursuing you didn't get here to learn who was sleeping with who you didn't come here to find out who was mary and who you came here for the anointing you came here for impartation i don't know about you but i'm getting my pursuit back y'all can sleep with whoever you want i'm here for what's on the house the mature know how to say that's not my business [Applause] that's just how things work over there i don't care [Applause] devil i've been called to pursue i've been anointed to pursue and if i don't pursue i can't prosper if i don't pursue somebody's not going to have a miracle if i don't pursue the heavens we'll never open up again if i don't pursue the nation won't see our way for who he really is i've got to pursue my pursuit is dangerous my pursuit is deliberate my pursuit is here forever pastor jamal preached last week and i about smooth ran around here but last time i ran y'all said i lost my mind so i just sat there and back i sat right there part of what he said was god don't want consistent yeses he just want one and let that be the bottom line lift your hands and say my last yes say my last yes say my left hey hey say my last yes i'm not saying it again cause i meant it the last time and it has perpetual impact on everything he tells me to pursue lift your hands and say yes the devil wants your pursuit say preach because i'm not done if you're not pursuing you're in pride pursuit is one of the ways to break the power of pride in your life now you're sitting there like i'm not prideful i follow the rotation i i i came on the schedule i was on the zoom i just didn't have my video on what i'm learning is that people i will son the people who think that they're self-aware are not y'all around diagnosing everybody but yourself and you verifiably crazy and you're looking around meditating everybody else but when you got a pursuit in place you know we're about him them shimmer you're going after the last thing god told you focus hey focus hey rod focus focus focus focus focus focus focus and find something to pursue it will grow you as a man it will grow you as a husband i will lord it will grow you do you think if you don't understand pursuit that if something bad happens to your child that you're going to miraculously develop a pursuit instinct jesus pursued he says hey i will leave the 99 in a minute and i will pursue one that's a focus so then we have another principle elder jasmine maybe we can pursue because of our distractions and sometimes we love our distraction don't think that you don't like your distractions many distractions taste good many distractions look good many distractions seem like the right fit but it could be a distraction nonetheless how do i know if i'm supposed to be focused on what's before me or running away from what's before me how focused are you now say pursue now some of you gonna have to go home and repent because you got so comfortable i had i rebuked a prophet wink for telling me that they didn't want the pandemic to end i've gotten used to being in the house i don't want the church i said who called you who anointed you i know when jesus you're a prophet of jimmy jimmy christos not jesus christ you can't tell me as a prophet of god that you comfortable sitting in the house where there's a falling away from the gospel how dare you but when you're not pursuing you're growing in pride when you're not pursuing you're growing in pride say number two then he had to test a perception perception or perspective dre one of the things that pursuit does is teaches you how to see things it's not about what you see it's about how you're choosing to look at it now admittedly my wife uh if you theresa anybody around you will tell you i'm probably a little pessimistic just a little bit been through a lot give me some grace my wife is optimistic and then got the nerve to have the gift of faith taryn i can't stand it you people with the gift of faith y'all just don't understand life we we be in there binding the devil and they all just believe god you know i'll be like and then you hear a champagne court i'm like okay this is life but but but pursuit listen pursuit protects perspective when people lose i'm talking to the elisha's in the room when people lose pursuit perspective is next the way you see it the way you're looking at it what the angles you're looking at why are you people so infatuated with the negative is it medicating something do you feel more anointed you're a joke when you pursue your perspectives are always checked when you pursue you will go back watch me because this is growing people christianity you fix your own mistakes when you pursue ain't nobody got to tell you now you know you're wrong you would go three feet about i shouldn't have did that that way hey i'm sorry i really that wasn't my heart but if you lose perspective it's because you lost pursuit first so give me perspective now i feel this prophetically in the room some of you men i'm going to say this some of you men are missing out on the real woman i don't open up did you want me to turn my plow i can't do it because you missed a good woman because you wanted to find one and you wanted to find one because you're insecure about yourself you you want an accoutrement i'm working on here you want a crown to make you look unbroken a crown to make you look like you're further in life but when you pursue my god your perspectives are in order don't miss your woman and your help mate looking for somebody who gonna make you feel better about your past marriage lord why am i here jasmine you're not praying baby pray now marriage is not medicine come on let's shout there marriage should not medicate what you've been through i'm getting married because i want to not because i need to i'm walking in here you grown boys i beat up on the women all the time it's your turn using these women wasting their time taking their numbers breaking their feelings ruining their relationships you know darn well you didn't dated everybody she calls to the chief is back grow your tail up and pursue find what you want focus and get rid of everybody else you too grown for a girlfriend [Music] oh yeah i know you want me to turn my plow [Applause] one of my daughters ever come to me let's just go all the way one of my daughters come to me and tell me y'all been engaged two years i'm gonna tell her to leave you make up your mind and pursue she you ain't the only one with a calling why won't you help me you ain't the only one no time to waste pursue y'all mad i don't care jimmy crack corn and i don't care grow up pursue then we have another one i'm almost out your face sorry the test of passions so i've given you a formula for the elisha's in the room you got the test of pursuit the test of perspective but what's going to happen is all of that is going to lead you to what's important to you now if you're pursuing kevin something will become important to you today that you ignored yesterday ask me why your pursuit will determine your priorities can i can i make you mad allow me their emergency is not your responsibility look at here now and their dream for you and got to be your vision people want what's best for you until it impacts them they want what's best for you until it inconveniences them they support you until they lose you but what happens is when you are focused and you know what you're pursuing and why your passions clarify themselves what that means is i know what i'm passionate about the worst people in the world are the board they're the most messy they talk a lot they're phony they take pictures with folk they talk about passions as i'm pursuing if i'm on the recipient end i'm learning new passions maybe i'm not as enthused about lis can i just liberate you don't let the devil beat you up about changing your career don't let the devil beat you up about needing to switch a degree program if your passions are changing change with the passions but whatever you do don't stop pursuing here's a hard one i'm almost out your hair justin and whoever else does hair in here y'all gonna have a lot of edges to fix [Applause] trav get your conditioner ready son because i'm about to snatch him i have never in my life seen more people lose impartation for any other reason than their peers how do you live open up how do you live when you're more mature than the people that are your same age what you don't remember about elisha is he was a part of the school of the prophets the sons of the prophets yet when they bullied him they said don't you know that your master is leaving you i thought he was all our teacher but the problem was he wasn't appear to his peers [Applause] there's so many people you one of them that's in pain because they're more mature than their peers and it's dangerous for anybody to impart to you watch me because once they release it to you you take it to them and they got to vote and agree i'm working in here about whether or not that's right or wrong or agrees with their spirit you're not going nowhere till you discern your true peers and the problem with that is your true peers may not be those that's currently around you i can love you xavier they will help me and not be on your level i can care for you and not walk with you i i can pray for you and not partner with you because there's certain things that peers understand purely that those that are not your peers do not understand anybody that convinces you out of your purpose is not up here anybody that deepens your pain is not a peer anybody that does not care enough about your well-being to demand that you're getting out this house and going to sit in the park to get you some vitamin d is not your peer anybody who only calls you when they want some money is not a peer anybody that has a one-sided investment in your dynamic is not up here they're part of the crowd but they're not in covenant elisha had the pain of realizing he had no peers for real i wonder if any of the other peers qualify for the double portion how did elisha qualify he was okay with handling the pain of the pier i began to pray yesterday for a gentleman and a part of the word of the lord came to me vaughn how you doing [Music] don't ever underestimate the pain of a child prodigy i said something and you didn't hear it you have men and women that are born with gifts that are larger than life and and and they don't realize it's a gift until later in life and their prodigies and people use them for that gift they connect to them for that gift they associate with them for that gift they invest in them for that gift but when the gift turns off you've got a whole human being with history and life and views and perspectives that requires effort to love and concern for i'm concerned about y'all that was five and six winning spelling bees you know why you ain't stopped performing you learned that the way to win in life is to be first place but what if you wasn't called to be first place don't be deceived all of you not number one i ministered vicky to this boy who was a child prodigy and i gave him the word of the lord out there and he he was he plays a keyboard and stuff and i'm so sorry that they used you for what you could do you grow up with that it creates defenses in you that prevents intimacy they use you you start preaching at eight and they make you a carnival act so understanding the principle of peers is very important because a lot of you don't really have them you have people around you but the people around you are not always the people for you and there may be people in the same room that's not in your corner peers peers here's the final one placement elisha had the test a placement am i in my right place now that's a question you have to ask yourself nobody else can answer it if you consider the scene you got the prophets of gilgal bethel jordan jericho is probably over there and you got this hundreds of prophets and you got elisha in the midst of them now remember i told you elijah always disappeared so when it came time for him to number one offend elisha because your greatest lessons will be born through your heart's offenses you have to have something offended in you to find out the truth about you this is why jesus said blessed are those that are not offended because of me offense must come you don't like that so um he's in the midst of all of these prophets and elisha elijah says something that triggers elijah what do you want before i go i'm going on assignment elisha says sir i want a double portion of what you are what you've done elijah says okay you've asked a hard thing but if you pay attention if you see me when i go up now this sounds simple but this is coming from the disappearing the disappearing guy looks back and say if you see me when i go up you can have it he was telling them that no matter what they say you concentrate no matter what they discuss you concentrate you focus don't let them pull you out of your place for some of you is not a point of place is a pointed posture why you can be in the right place with an out of order posture if it's about the mantle and if it's about the double portion stay in your place stay in your place and recognize when the devil is trying to seduce you out of it because they're not gonna all have black fingernail polish with witch's horns some of them gonna have pressures on seducing you out of your place stay in your place and the lord will reveal it now the ending of this story is sad it grieves me but it's wisdom for you elisha goes on he receives a double portion in life god does everything he said he was going to do i mean the miracles are fabulous the gifts of the spirit are great he's raising people up but he gets sick if you contextualize his story he left his family to pursue this thing he's pursuing this thing and he gets it but now he don't know what else to pursue some kids some of the bad rockhead kids from all gale garden ain't that a mess let me choose nothing i'm sorry doctor said uh from the low end no oh he'll be real petty from the west side so back right off lake street baby no i'm kidding i'm kidding i'm kidding it's a different kind of danger over there i'm like um i pray for pastor david every day um have them take all of them um uh something happens that's a warning for you tracy it's a warning for you it's a warning some messages you're not supposed to shout at the end some messages you're supposed to go home and rethink about your life some little bald head kids come up to one of the greatest prophets in the bible and they're playing they're they're doing basketball elijah's over on the corner with a cup of tea elisha i'm sorry is over sipping some tea on nika and they look at him and they say oh you bald head you ball head now low key you have to have the right head to be bald head i pray to god i never lose my hair honey i'm gonna be buying every week every toupee i'm bringing it back i'm telling you now my head is just not made for him but there are some men who have the perfect head to shave those with the lapointy things just like bro you need to like you better beijing to stew i'm telling you desperate times call for desperate measures if i ever go bald i'm getting the nearest marker and i'm gonna give myself a lining i don't have the head for it but in the bible ball head was not an insult of aesthetics or cosmetics in the bible if you were considered bald it was because you had no covering no support so the kids looked at him they were not on his level dude i don't think they had ever done any miracles i don't want to knee you in your face thank you um a child comes up to one of the greatest prophets in the old testament and says you bald head and what happened he got triggered the reason he got triggered because the kids were saying what the sons of the prophets were saying the sons of the prophets mocked him for the same thing your covering is leaving you you don't have nobody over you who's teaching you talking to you being with you now so kids started to torment him and elisha had what some of you just barely escaped a nervous breakdown i know you ain't seeing you ain't got to that's why you got to oversee her i saw it for you he had a breakdown how how do you know that he was a prophet of god because somebody who cleaned leprosy by his words you so fine i do it all over again how does somebody who heals leprosy splits waters talks to heavens die of a stomach illness he was in grief he never coped with the fact that he lost it all to pursue something that he saw that left him and people mocked him for it you know the worst part of the story he took what was on him to the grave he never gave us his real potential what was on elijah came upon elisha but because elisha was traumatized he was like i'm not doing what i was taught to do even though it was done for me i'm not gonna do it i'm gonna take this to the grave i learned my lesson so he fell asleep in death they happened to be trifling at the cemetery so there was a set of bones from a dead man under the grave plot when elisha went down to be buried the bones of that man came alive because you don't take mantles to the grave something had to come upon a dead man because a living one was too offended to receive that's the gruesome part of the story are you going to grow or are you going to take it to the grave and if you take it to the grave will you invest in dirt and rock and pebbles what took prayer and fasting to build is it worth it it's not so you get to choose what side of the spectrum you're going to be for some of you in the context of your family this is so for a lot of you you are the elijah you were the first you opened it you built it you grew it you grew it you showed them how to finish school and how to pursue you were the first to get married or to to do it you were that guy for others of you you were partnered with or students of the one or the gal that did it the matriarch the patriarch the leader or whatever you on the recipient in those of you that are on either side have different risks elijah's risks is this elijah's risk is this are you going to let jezebel keep you away from elijah that's his temptation i'm so mad hurt broken offended hey girl wounded that i'm not poor i'm chilling i'm about to go on a cruise i'm not going to do it i'm looking in the face of people that's fighting the temptation to stop pouring not another offering not another song not another meeting i don't want no mo zooms but you're watching tutorials and your makeup still ain't right [Applause] the real truth is you scared to pour because you're tired of losing but pouring is not losing if god calls you to poor you have no loss sacrifice does not put you in a disadvantage it positions you for god to be everything you gave if i give it god's got to be it if i sow it in obedience to him he's got to be the one that makes sure i get what he told me to do but i'm not going to compromise obedience for accolades and i'm not going to allow your feelings about my obedience to impact my obedience your next level of obedience will offend people it will but it need be so it need be some so that's the test of the elijah all right so if you are an elijah in the room you definitely won i'm praying for you charlie you pray for me and i'm praying for you you are a different species of all nation's woman i'mma leave alone but but but you if you are the elijah you got to look at what did i just go through and how has it impacted me if my money ain't where i needed to be is it impacting how i used to sow and am i calling that wisdom although it's really fear that's elijah elisha's is this am i tired of being talked about by those around me that are not on my same level am i tired of being traumatized am i tired of of being bullied for my consistency hey in prayer and my consistency and my faithfulness is my faithfulness funny to them do they call me stupid because i'm faithful do they call me dumb or do they say i drank the kool-aid because i'm faithful that's the temptation that the elisha has to have the warning though is if you don't figure this stuff out you're going to the grave with what's on you and we're not going to ever really receive it we're not going to receive it stop crying stop it stop it that boy was absalom he didn't have your heart to begin with he tried to plant a whole church under your nose because you believed in him and trusted him but the lord knew it from the day he came you were just so desperate for help that you didn't look at his heart stop mourning move into the future a different city calleth you a different area called with you you've got to go you've got to go and you'll know that as you go your money changes what's going on with this problem with this property will change it's not been the devil you've been calling resistance what's actually revelation god's been talking to you through your hardship let that boy go you have to discern where you are okay let me pray for you and my prayer is going to be before you get full of these sandwiches for your focus what is the lord saying to you don't lose your focus come here you are not a reproach and as long as i'm alive and you will allow i will prevent the curses the words the accusations of those that despise you from taking root in your life you're a whole son more than a man and you will never again be reproached in that way as long as you pursue i bless you with every spiritual blessing you lack nothing and you have everything you need for the future i bless you how many you know the devil can't curse you stop being scared you can't select what type of leader you've been called by god to be the pressure that's on you is from god re it has nothing to do with work nothing to do with your family and and and you think that you just need rest rest rest rest rest no you need focus god's going to make you repent for hating your gift of generosity god called you to be a giver now people have used it but vengeance is mine saith god don't change who you are because of what they did open up you owe the lord's sermons you owe the lord alter works you owe the lord fasting in prayer take your eyes off of people's lack of gratitude and put it on the call of god and he will reward you focus i'm gonna pray and my prayer is gonna be for you to focus more now than ever before in your life concentrate whatever god's got planned for your double portion year 2022 repeat after me 2022 is my double portion year you don't believe that say 2022 is my double portion year now so that means from now to then focus and when you find yourself getting distracted give yourself 30 minutes and pull yourself way back in i got an attitude i'm irritable i'm annoyed or here's one thing you need to say the counselors in the room will agree admit when you're confused it's okay to say i don't know what i feel don't feel the pressure to have an answer i don't really know but find something because if you don't you never focus and the future is for the focus lift your hands i want you to open your heart lord only you know where each of these people are in their lives only you know your purpose and your plan for them only you see their risings and their going downs you design them oh god and you schedule them for this moment and this time if you had no purpose for them you wouldn't keep protecting them if you had no reason for them you wouldn't keep their mind you still have purpose plans and paces for everybody in the room now lord god we lift our hearts to you as a sweet offering every kind of heart the heart that's a mess the heart that's shaken the heart that's afraid the heart that's nervous the heart that is timid the heart that's disobedient every heart in the room is lifted to the oh god and as we put our hearts before you we're asking that you would put them in your hands and do what you want to do to them and i'm asking that you would impart such a concentration that every book that was supposed to be written is finished that every company that was supposed to be established is established that every marriage and every family that was supposed to come to be finds a closure for the coming days that every man in the room who's had a hard time keeping his word because of the distractions of his heart that a new realm of integrity comes upon him every woman that's frustrated because they want to help a visionless head or a man that doesn't know what next step to take wherever we are lacking help us to focus oh god you're so kind to us wash us from the residue of this dumb pandemic hey hey hey hey hey hey clean us oh god oh lift your hands there whatever oh take the residue off of us come on receive whatever it did to our minds under hey whatever happened in our hearts whatever took place in our views our thoughts the impact of it in the name of g oh something's about to hit you god's about to give you some ministry to reverse the impact lord whatever happened every heart in the room i make intercession as the priest of this house for every heart in this room that received back to back blows back to back breaks concerning this last several seasons lord god those that are afraid of transition and those who are afraid of change and those that fear that you're about to call them into a hard thing wow even those that fear stepping up to the plate those that fear having to be as mature as you call them to be those that are afraid to sacrifice their popularity because of the new thing you're doing in them oh god sanctify us now those that fear pressure those that battle in their mind and in their intellect and in their relationships will you bring them into a season of peace long enough to focus lord your people are so tired all over america they've been crying out for rest and relief they're tired of the cycles and the seasons and feeling like it's more of the same all the time but this people and this place right here in chapel we lift our hands and confess that our times are in your head only you can reverse what's going on in the head only you can reverse hey what's going on in the heart only you can reverse only you can undo only you can bind and rebuke and break the consistent passionate feverish pursuit of the devil against us you can cause the blood to stop it so we want healing come on and receive we want restoration and restitution and rejuvenation we don't want nothing recycled we want something brand new in our lives grant us my god the capacity to obey whatever you're about to do next give us the capacity for what's next stretch us out now like luke 2 52 how the boy jesus grew in stature because god was with him he'll bless o god to know that you're with us you are still emanuel you will not leave and you will not forsake your growing us you're growing us you're growing us and you're growing us you're growing us you're growing us by grace through faith you're growing us by the word of god you're growing us by the spirit of wisdom you're growing us through counsel up you're growing us through understanding you're growing us to research growing us through investigation growing us through exposure growing us by worship growing us here by prayer growing us up with brand new friends growing up with a new lion into growing us in a different atmosphere growing us with new information new insights you are growing us and we say yes we refuse to take it to the grave we refuse to take it to the grave lift your hands and follow me we refuse to take it to the grave devil my potential does not belong to you hey i'm not taking it to the grave my mandate don't belong to you i'm not taking it to the grave you can't use my gifts for your good it is unto the glory of god i'm not taking this to the grave we went through too much lift your hands and worship right here we cried too much suffered too much to take it to the grave the grave cannot have what's on my life the grave cannot have what's in my belly i don't care how old i am how young i am who came and who left i'm not taking this thing to the grave hey that's so i want my potential i want to see my potential i want to see my potential at everything every missed opportunity every missed moment if you're god if you're gracious if you're mercy and do it forever can you bring lost moments back again give us another chance you control time you control jesus if anybody can do it you can but i don't want to take what's in me to the grace lift your hands and worship as hard as you can right here no no no no no as hard as you can [Music] it's too quiet [Music] don't take it to the grave rachel don't do it there's too much in you you're gonna keep up come on come on worship worship worship worship know y'all if you mean this for real lift your hands and surrender what's in you to the lord the grave wants it the grave wants it the grave is trying to claim what's in your life by impartation the grave is trying to take what god put in you for your assignment worship it worship him worship him he is the giver of gifts he is a giver of gifts he is a giver of gifts he is the giver of gifts he is the giver of every good and perfect gift don't you take it to the grave now worship him based upon how bad you need him shake yourself shake yourself you can't have it he saved me for this he raised me for this he anointed my head for this i studied for this bastard for this i obeyed for this i pray for this [Music] [Music] i'm not taking one assignment to the day i'm not taking one mandate to the grave the tomb will not take my anointing the tomb cannot have my assignment oh come on you've been passive go ahead and pursue the giver of the guilt [Music] wow fire head fire fire fire fire don't take it to the grave fire fire fire make it be it fire fire fed into flames painted into flame i said pan it into plank stir up the gift of god stir up the gift of god stir up the gift of god i prophesy that the sleeping giant in you is waking up stir the gift of god praises that praise rulers that build and develop kings and governors and those at war don't take it to the grave oh oh hey lift that up as these minstrels play a yoke is being destroyed over your life [Music] ah oh don't take it to the grid don't you check into the grave don't you take it to guard the gift guard the gift guard the gift guard the gift guard the gift hey hey hey guard that gift card to give hey god the gift protect the assignment by all costs by all costs by any means necessary i will guard the gift hey hey hey hey something trying to hit you are you fighting it something trying to land on you guard the gift guard the gift guard the gift wow got the gift i said gardner gift garden to gift garden garden and grow it grow it and garden garden and growing two cups guard it get grow it i can grow it back then garden garden and then grow it but don't take it to the grave don't take it to the grave don't take it [Music] every hand lifted every eye closed [Music] i want to know how many more yeses you're going to have to give god that's soberly maturely just give him one last one [Music] let's let's covenant that he'll never again have to ask me to say yes let's agree that our last yes is still intact lift those hands lord whatever you want it's your way it's your way it's your way it's your way it's your way it's your way it's your way right there it's your way your way your way if you're sitting next to your spouse grab their hand right now it's your way it's your way it's your way hold hands grab them tightly it's your way it's your way it's your way it's your way it's your way and i offer no resistance to the will of god we yield as a people as a family to everything you're saying and doing [Music] [Music] [Music] you're saying something new you're saying something next and we say yes say yes if you mean that and you still trust him [Music] lift up a confident praise watch this and make your soul boast on his faithfulness to you come on let's do it right here you've been faithful you've been faithful oh i don't hear no boasting you've been faithful come on brag on them brag on the man you've been faithful you healed me of my diseases delivered me from my sins you made provision every single time you never let what should have happened actually happen come on let your soul vote for a minute i brag on you you're a big god you're good you're great you're full of splendor you do no wrong you make no mistakes and we find no fault in you we love you we love you but we trust you hey with our tomorrow we trust do your homework and do your homework in the heart and i'll be here next week and we're going to plow through this every day in prayer we're going to take this and let the lord break up follow ground so that we have ears to hear now unto him that is able to keep us from falling and to present us faultless before the lord god with exceeding great joy to him be our blessings and honor dominion and power both now and forever everybody say so it is i'll see you tonight in prayer bye

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