I Lost My Place (Message)

[Music] [Music] Genesis chapter 3 and John chapter 14 just put your finger on John 14 we'll get to that in a few minutes standing for the word I want to preach today I don't know what it's about what about the beginning of the year has got me fixed on talking about being in the right place but I've been talking about Thomas and the disciples out of John 20 20 about being in the right place and I'm still in this thing on place how many know that 2020 is a year of alignment we've talked about this and part of alignment is being in the right place so we're gonna talk about that again this morning in fact I want to preach the sermon today called I lost my place look at somebody and tell them neighbor sometimes I lose my place how many have ever been reading a good book and lost your place how many have ever lost your place in line shopping or something how many have ever been on your phone and people drive around you and you lose your place in the fast food restaurant line that's happened to me last week sometimes we lose our place but I really believe today God wants us to be aligned in 2020 and make sure we're in the right place how many want your family to be in the right place how many want your kids to be in the right place I want us to be in the right place I'm going to talk about this we'll see where we keep going but this is where I'm at today Genesis chapter 3 verse number 1 when you got it say Amen now the serpent was more cunning than any beast of the field which the Lord God had made and he said to the woman has God indeed said you shall not eat of every tree of the garden and the woman said to the serpent we may eat the fruit of the trees of the garden but of the fruit of the tree which is in the middle of the garden God has said you shall not eat it nor shall you touch it lest you die then the serpent said to the woman you will not surely die for God knows that in the day you eat of it your eyes will be open and you'll be like God knowing good and evil so when the woman saw that the tree was good for fruit food that it was pleasant to the eyes and a tree desirable to make one wise she took of its fruit and she ate she also gave it to her husband with her and he ate then the eyes of both of them were opened and they knew that they were naked and they sewed fig leaves together and made themselves coverings and they heard look at the verse eight they heard the sound of the Lord God walking in the garden they heard the sound of the Lord God walking in the garden they heard the sound walking God was coming through the garden in the cool of the day and Adam and his wife hid themselves from the presence of the Lord among the trees of the garden and then the Lord God called to Adam and said Adam where are you Adam where are you I want to preach a few moments today on this thought I lost my place father helped me today to teach and to preach I pray for the anointing and grace the Shepherd to lead to pasture may a spirit of wisdom and revelation come upon us today so that the Word of God comes alive inside every one of us we pray now in Jesus name that the power of the Lord would rest upon this congregation and everything you have decided and desired to do in us originally intended for our lives even if it's lost help us recover it father and everything that we felt like we squandered let us recap Sherman today may a spirit of grace be upon us for everything lost to be restored everything lost to be restored in Jesus name and everybody said amen you be seated in the presence of the Lord so the beginning of the year we've talked about priorities and we've talked about taking inventory of our hearts and what's going on in our hearts making sure we're connected to the right people how many know connection connection to the right people is significant and very important for us in this new year in fact I just want to declare over you that those of you who got the wrong people in your life that drama of relationship drama is like no other drama you can ever deal with anybody know what I'm talking about and I just want to declare over you in 2020 that the relationship drama is coming to an end some of you can't handle any more relationship drama if they're leeches let them go and if you keep finding yourself after you encounter the same people over and over again and they suck the life out of you you need to have a conversation with yourself and tell yourself I can love them I can honor them I can respect them I can I can treat them kindly but I don't have to let them in and rob me of the life Jesus wants to give me so we talked about connections with people we talked about our priorities making sure as we take inventory of our heart that our priorities are in the right place because if God's going to bless us with a new year we can't bring the same pattern in that we've imposed on previous years the only reason 2020 will be different it has nothing to do with the numbers own 20/20 double-double praise God I received that but if I've got the same old tricks and the same old routines and the same old prayer lessness and the same old nasty attitude in 2020 that I had in 2019 I can assure you just because we rode into double-double doesn't mean you're gonna have double joy double blessing if you've got the same old attitude I'm not getting no help but I feel like I'm talking about real things today you and I have to have right priorities making sure that if we want a new year new kind of life in this year we can have it but we got to make adjustments so you got people you got priorities and then we got these things called places and I've been talking about places for the last couple of weeks being in the right place because how many would agree God wants us in the right place often we think of being in the right place as a physical location and it certainly is important that we are physically where God wants us to be how many know it's important you have the right job be in the right city being the right school being the right place in life there is something significant about being in the right physical place but as we will see in this text today God as far more interested in us being in the right spiritual place in fact I believe if you and I are in the right spiritual place it will help us find ourselves in the right physical location God is far more interested in us being in a good spiritual place than just being in the right physical place some of us will find find the right physical location if we get our spiritual place in order we want to be in the right spiritual place we want to be in the right physical place and we actually place more emphasis on that sometimes than we do our walk with God how many have ever how many have ever known somebody or talk to somebody and and you could tell we say things like this when we encounter folk who are struggling we say they're not in a good spiritual place because you can't if you can discern when someone's in a bad spiritual place there's not there's no joy there there's this lack of peace there's this this this this idea of turbulence just surrounding their life how many have ever been in that kind of place before personally I have I've been in a bad spiritual place where where I don't feel victory I don't feel like I'm an overcomer I don't feel like I'm gonna make it I don't feel like I'm going through and how many you've ever met somebody that's in a good spiritual place you know it seems like they're on top of the world like everything they touch is just blessed the doors are opening things are happening God is blessing I mean they just have opportunity after opportunity I really believe with all of my heart God intends for all of us to live in a good spiritual place and if we will get in the right spiritual place with God I believe it will impact and influence where we are physically if we get in the right spiritual place it will actually positively influence where we are physically God can align you more clearly when you're walking in the right spiritual place if you're in the right spiritual place it's not hard for you to pick your family up and move to Chattanooga which is what so many people in this room have done there are people sitting all over this church who've come from different cities different states I don't even I didn't even know it was happening but people just just pick up their family move to Chattanooga get a job and become part of this family and you say that's crazy it's only crazy if you're not in the right spiritual place but if you're in the right spiritual place you can understand that a job and a location of living can really be experienced in its fullness if I'm in the right spiritual place I've known people who were in a good spiritual place and move to take less money and be be in a place of more joy than folk who were out of spiritual placement living in a place with a bunch of money coming in and everybody in the house miserable I'm glad for increase but if all you get is increase and don't have the priority of his presence how many know that the physical place will never cause you to be able to escape the misery of being out of place spiritually how many want to be in the right spiritual place in 2020 and that is what is going on here in Genesis chapter 1 and 2 if we want to know what a good spiritual place looks like look no further than Genesis 1 and 2 God's creating things he's preparing things I wish I had time to go into it God actually prepared the earth for man's arrival isn't it amazing that before Adam came God put light in the sky birds in the air grass on come on you put the green in the grass on the ground fish in the water animals roaming the earth herbs and trees and everything man would ever need so that when he created man men didn't have to create the blessing he simply had to steward what was already put there by God the point is this you don't have to walk around your whole life trying to be a producer you walk around your whole life being a steward of what God has already produced some of us are trying to manufacture the blessing when instead we should be stewarding the blessing that God put in place and he set you up look at your neighbor and say neighbor you've been set up into an attorney some of them can't accept that but I want to tell you today you have been set up in twenty twenty blessings you are going to encounter in twenty twenty have already been put in place for you jobs that you're going to get in twenty twenty have already been put in motion for you houses you didn't build the land you didn't buy vineyards you didn't plant stuff you didn't deserve can i just declare over you prophetically that God is up to something even right now why you're sitting up it let me let me rewind and tell you this while you were sleeping last night God stayed up all night long sewing together a quilt a blessing and you think you're just gonna walk into it in twenty twenty and somebody might say oh how lucky oh the devil is a liar this had nothing to do with luck this had to do with a God who loves me so much that he prepared a table before me he's been setting this table all of 2019 oh I feel like blessing somebody in here and telling you he's giving some stuff ready for you so that when you show up at the right place every blessing you need to become everything you've ever been called to be is already gonna be there touch somebody tell them girls up to something for you Genesis 1 & 2 is a picture of what it's supposed to look like God said it up for him so that when Adam showed up everything was in place for Adam to be everything God called him to be it wasn't just the stuff that was in place God actually put this thing called intimacy in place so that when Adam showed up it wasn't just about stewarding regarding and dealing with animals and naming the plants and no it was about walking with God and I recognize I have to rob from my text ahead of time to bring light as to what was going on in Adams relationship with God but if you let me reach over into Genesis 3 verse number 8 I'll take from that eighth verse of the third chapter the the revelation that Adam and God had a divine appointment every day I believe it was called the cool of the day everybody say the cool of the day the cool of the day and if you're taking notes or underlining in your Bible you should circle the word cool of the day because this word cool of the day is the word Ruach it was the time of day when the Spirit came and and and the Spirit breathed and Adam had this relationship with God where the wind would blow and Adam had this intimacy going on with God and they just talked in the breeze of the day god I feel like preaching today can we just get back to where it's not about all the mechanics and it's not about all of the production and it's not about all of the do's and the don'ts and this this this this and the list list list list and can we get back to waking up in the morning and saying God thank you that today I get to look on your face I get to hear your voice I get to experience intimacy oh if sunday is the only time you praise Him you don't know what you're missing out on if sunday is the only time tears roll down your face you don't know what you're missing out on this god we serve can't be an encounter on monday morning too the afternoon winds the in the midnight hour Helaman here he's a God that has this thing called intimacy for me and you I don't serve a cardboard God who can be propped up on a stage who has ears but cannot hear and hands but cannot see and hands but cannot touch I serve a God who sits on the circle of the earth his hands go to and fro he hears the cry of the weak he appeals the cry of the hurting he's the one that woke us up this morning he started me on my way I was built for a relationship with God you were built to talk to him that's why if the only time you hear his voice is on Sunday during worship the week feels like a mess because you were intended to encounter him on more than one day a week this is a lifestyle of intimacy and God built this thing with Adam so that he would walk with Him and to cool the day and hear his voice was the last time it could hurt his voice no no don't don't get squirmy don't leave don't get condemned I don't want you to feel guilty I want you to feel like you're missing something because the greatest joy that a child of God could ever have is the ability to hear the voice of the father speaking and and Adam has this place in fact if you look at the last verse of the second chapter of Genesis the last verse of the second chapter of Genesis says this and Adam and Eve were naked and not ashamed don't get nervous we're not weird here it's what the Bible teaches this was before he sinned and before sin came there was a sense don't miss this there was a place of shamelessness there's a place of this was a place when God created Adam a place in his presence and for his glory God made that place for Adam a place of shamelessness no shame nothing to add nothing to be embarrassed about nothing to be condemned about nothing nothing from my past that can reach up and grab me and pull me back into a season of depression none of that there was no shame and this is profound because the Bible said they were naked and not ashamed the most ashamed I could ever imagine being y'all getting nervous is to be in front of a bunch of people with no clothes on now some of y'all getting real uncomfortable right now but the reason why I make that point is because even with clothes on there's so much sin on some of us that we can't even come to church with a smile on our face because shame has crept into our life and most of the shame we deal with is because of the mistakes the sins the failures of the past and the enemy is always trying to put a cloak of shame on us causing us to work hard to hide who we used to be and when you are afraid that you can hide the mistakes of your past shame is written all over your face we find ourselves sometimes in this place of shame but the place God originally intended for Adam to live was not in a place of shame in fact it was a place of confidence it was a place of Dominion everybody say Dominion Adam had a place of shamelessness Adam had a place of confidence Adam had a place in God of Dominion Dominion is the exercising of the authority you gained through intimacy you said I'm gonna have Dominion not if you're not intimate with God God doesn't share authority with anybody that doesn't have his heart because I could show you time after time in the Old Testament of Kings who rose over the people who did not have the heart of God when you do not have the heart of God and you try to claim the authority of God you will beat the people of God to death have you ever seen this in churches where pastors won't Authority but don't know how to love the people you're not helping nobody in this room right now have you ever seen people in the kingdom who have a title of authority and they exercise their authority but don't demonstrate the heart of God this is why David was the greatest king of Israel not because he had the authority and the scepter to rule but because he was a man after God's own heart it doesn't just mean he was chasing the heart of God it meant he wanted to operate and function with the heart of God you can't have authority over people until you have first come up under subjection and surrender to the heart of the father and you don't get the heart of the father and a distance you gotta be like John the Revelator who got close enough to Jesus to lay his head on the breast of the Lord and hear the heartbeat of God if we're going to have authority to lead people we must first have the heart of God to love people it is illegal to demonstrate authority that you did not get through intimacy this is the right we should play pray for our rulers and leaders in the earth not that they just have authority because there is in third there is Authority given intrinsically in many of the roles in many of them of the leadership roles that that are available on the earth they're going to be leaders and they're going to have authorities simply mother taught oh we should pray for them to know God so that they use the leadership authority God has put in that seat to rule properly over the people okay keep going Adam had a place of shamelessness a place of Dominion and a place of intimacy that's the place God intended for you to now to be a place of intimacy hearing the voice of God just spending time with God can I tell you something the greatest times for me in prayer are not times when I get sermons if the only time we read the Bible is to get a sermon or a Bible study to teach somebody else we are languishing on the inside this is the reason why we have we have so we we can hear in an amazing you hear a good sermon but nobody be changed because if you salt the sermon but didn't seek the spirit see what changes me is what will change you if it doesn't feed me it probably ain't gonna feed you and so many times we want to feed people but we got starving Shepherds and I don't even know why I'm preaching about Shepherds so much because I don't have to send my notes but there's some pastors in here or maybe you're watching me on livestream this morning or later I don't know I want to tell you right now Shepherd if you don't have a strong flock you got to feed yourself and if you will feed yourself the Spirit will feed them every time you open your mouth say Amen family the Spirit of God blew like a breeze in the garden and Adam that God had intimacy and you know the story I'm not going to rehearse this I taught it many times Eve so watch this the last verse of the second chapter of Genesis says there was no shame among them next verse now there was a serpent there was no shame how many know that's a good place to me now that was a serpent and the serpent started talking how many know you got issues when the serpent starts talking I don't know what it sounded like but I know this the voice of the serpent can feed it competed for the place in Adam where the voice of God had previously been heard you and I have to be very careful that the ears that we have given to hear the voice of the spirit are not surrendered to the voice of the serpent because your identity and remember what happens in Matthew chapter four I know I feel like I'm all over the place but let me just flow with this a minute identity is given in your ability to hear the voice of God this is my beloved son in whom there is in whom I am well-pleased right Jesus gets his identity from hearing the voice of who the father but the very next verse after he comes up out of the water in the baptism he hears the voice of God God said this is my beloved Son in whom I am well pleased and the very next verse says and he went into the wilderness led by the spirit and Satan says if you are the son of God Satan is always challenging the identity and the place that God has put you in and given to you I want you to be in a good spiritual place God wants you to be in a good spiritual place but there is an adversary who has made it his intent to rob you and to take you out of the good place and move you from a place of intimacy of Dominion a place of shamelessness and he wants to do whatever he can to move you from that place into a place of deception and destruction and you know the story there in a place of shamelessness next verse now the serpent now the serpent and he beguiled the woman she takes the fruit we all then blame it on Eve but how many know Adam should have been there to intercept what was going on between the snake and the woman anyway where is the man are you bashing in I'm not matching anybody I'm telling I'm here to tell you today we all shared in responsibility of the fall Jesus is the one that came to lift us up amen so she shares this with Adam they fall and they their eyes are opened and they know that they're naked and so they go and they find leaves and they sew them together and they come this is a picture of religion shameful man trying to sow leaves together to cover his failure I'm not even gonna talk about all of the different leaves we sew together to hide our shame it's amazing though what we will argue over all of it is about trying to cover shame and we castigate and we and we and we remove ourselves from people who believe a little different than us and we criticize them because of their leaves and we got our own leaves were hiding behind the reality of it is all that religious garbage fails in hiding and covering the sin we have committed at the end of the day I don't give one rip about your Creed and I'm thankful for it all and I'm thankful for for that identification and clarification regarding where we stand biblically and theologically but at the end of the day I don't care where you come from and what denomination you like at the end of the day the blood the blood the blood of Jesus is the only thing that can cover any race said say their church no forgetting the 90 day revival up in the baptism a man got the pool said baptize me in the name of Jesus I said I'll baptize you the name of the Father the Son who is Jesus and the Holy Ghost he said no I'm oneness I said Jack this is our baptism pool we're gonna baptize in the name of the Father the Son and the Holy Ghost and if you want somebody else to baptize you take yourself right out of this baptism prove on somebody else you said pastor why do you say that because I'm not gonna argue with you over theological semantics when at the end of the day the only reason you got in the pool is because when you and me were a rat team stuck in sin Jesus is the one that came to rescue us and bring us out let's stop arguing well what camp are you a part of are you a part of the faith camp I'm certainly not a part of the doubt camp are you a part of the Jesus camp I'm certainly not a part of Mohammed's camp there is one camp I'm gonna plant my flag head father son Holy Ghost crucified buried risen coming again that's my camp glory to the Living God somebody give Him praise [Applause] well there we go I got to get there the Bible says Adam lost that place God came into the garden at the time of day when the Breen started blowing and the voice of God could be heard and Adam could not be found in that place God was talking just like he always had but man was not not there to hear his voice the talking God who has something to say he's just looking for someone to hear him and he can't find anybody in the garden who wants to hear his voice Adam where are ya can I suggest to you Adam didn't get asked that question by God because God couldn't find him it's not like God lost Adam Adam what would I do with you sometimes Devon is downstairs and the kids are upstairs and we say a couple of times Jeremiah Isaiah and nobody responds and she gets a little louder y'all don't get louder we get louder I say come down here it's not like we lost him we're trying to get his attention cuz we're trying to go out the door it's time to leave but he's about to miss his appointment and doesn't know he's about to miss his appointment so we're trying to say where are you at not so we can find him but so that we can get him to see you about to miss this thing when God said Adam where are you it wasn't because God lost Adam or didn't know where Adam was he was trying to get Adam to see you are not in the place you were in Genesis - you were here - Adam we walked together in a shameless place we walked together in a place of Dominion we walked together in a place of intimacy but now you have taken what was forbidden and the serpent has shamed you and instead of being in that place you're not in that place anymore you lost your place and I'm wrapping up but somebody in this room today has lost their place 2020 is gonna be the same kind of year if you're not careful if you don't take an intentional matter about making an intentional matter 2020 can be the same kind of year every other year has been in your life a year of misery because you know there is a place available there is a place set for you but you're just not willing to do what you got to do to get back to their place how many want to know today how to get back to that place and how many can help me praise God today before we leave how many can help me praise today that some people are gonna get back to a good place in God you say past I've been in this messed-up place for a long time yeah but you made a good decision you put your drawers on and came to church this morning and before you leave this house I want to tell you God is about to give you a quick download if you hear his voice I don't care how long you've wandered out of place somebody's about to find their place and get back in place and the joy of the Lord is gonna be your strength if you believe it give God a praise all over the church I said give God a praise all over the church we need to praise God today there's some people who are out of place are getting ready to get their place back in Jesus Christ all right so let me give this to you and I'm going to be done if if you want me to give you this you're gonna have to be willing to look at a text that you are traditionally used to hearing at a Funeral see I killed the whole thing how do I do this I killed the whole thing but it's true John 14 open your Bible John 14 open your Bible okay how many got John 14 Adam where are you Adam where are you you lost your place you're not where you were in an amazing that humanity has a way of losing its place in God I don't know about y'all but how many can mess it up pretty quick some of you are like Oh give me till June by June I'll have something messed up but how many like last week second week of the year I'm already struggling with my place it's true humanity has a way of losing its place rather quickly it's not just Adam John 14 is about to show us how easy it was for a man named Peter look at this look at this now we often read John 14 verses one through three at funerals let not your heart be troubled he believed in God believe also me and my father's house are many mansions if it were not so I would have told you I go to prepare a place for you if I go to prepare a place for you I will come again and receive you unto myself that where I am there you may be also we all cry at the funeral whoo praise God for heaven how many heard it like that before I preached it like that and I certainly believed that the scripture this particular text is wrong enough to encourage and comfort those who are afflicted in a time of loss so first of all let me help you understand I'm not bashing anybody who has imported that understanding from this text but I want to go back and look at the original intent of the text now John chapter 14 verse 1 I just quoted it for you but let me read it to you so you check and you put that thank you letting out your heart beats and a funeral don't lie you go to Hill forlán come on have you ever heard it in a funeral let not your heart be troubled you believe in go Kay we heard it at a funeral why because we believe this text is teaching us God or Jesus went away to prepare heaven for us and I certainly believe he did that how many believe he did that but in order to understand the context of this scripture you have to the versus previous because when Jesus spoke this and John wrote this this was not in chapter and verse form it was a letter we put chapters and verses to it later to help us divide and to study and to and to analyze the text and to and to organize the text but but can you go back is it possible to go back to the last two verses of John 13 everybody say John 13 all right let me set this up I'm gonna give this to you and I'm gonna be done John 13 Peter said to him Lord why can I not follow you now I will lay down my life for your sake next verse jesus answered him and said you will lay down your life for my sake most assuredly I say to you the rooster shall not crow till you have denied me three times now wait a minute Jesus just prophesied Peter's failure Jesus just looked at Peter Peter said I'm gonna go with you all the way to the end I'm gonna keep my place Jesus says three times before the rooster starts making a noise you'll deny me why is this significant because he also looked at the same man and said Peter Satan desired to have you that he may sift you as wheat Satan wants to shake you so violently that he disconnects you from faith in Christ he wants to put you through the wringer he wants to challenge your faith to the extent that he disconnects you from your faith in Jesus and when when Jesus looks at Peter and says you're gonna deny me three times he's literally telling Peter you are going to jeopardize your place you are good Peter come on Matthew 16 thou art Peter and upon this rock I'll build my church and the gates of Hell shall not prevail Peter had a place in Christ how many gets this stuff nobody else gets he gets the spirit of wisdom and revelation and Jesus looks at Peter and says flesh and blood has not revealed this unto you but my father which is in heaven and I will say unto you Pete you're a Peter upon this rock I'll build my church and the gates of Hell shall not prevail against the revelation you've given Peter had a place in Christ but John chapter 14 Jesus looked at Peter and says you're gonna to not be three times the next verse John 14:1 look at the next verse read this in context but let not your heart be troubled Peter you got a place in me Peter I've got a purpose for you Peter we're gonna live in a good spiritual place I'm gonna take care of you but Peter you're gonna fail me you're gonna deny me three times when he said that Peters heart like yours and mine was overcome with fear why who wants to hear I'm gonna deny the Lord three times who wants to hear you're gonna have failure who wants to hear you're gonna make a mess of it who wants to hear you're gonna file bankruptcy lose your stuff and your family's gonna fall apart you're gonna lose everything who wants to hear that nobody and when those words come into Peters hearing like you and me it calls fear like Adam and Eve it causes fear and we live our life thinking I lost my place I'm gonna I'm gonna ruin my place in God but the answer for anybody who has lost their place is released out of the mouth of Jesus in the next few verses right here in John chapter 14 he does he establishes the fact Peter you're gonna deny me three times but don't let your heart be overcome with fear believe in God believe also in me watch this watch this in my father's house are many mansions if it were not so what I would have told you I go to prepare a place of Jesus and you lost your place you're gonna lose your place it's gonna fill up you don't have a place and because of sin the devil is gonna take your place but I'm getting ready to go somewhere Peter I'm getting ready to go up a hill called Calvary Peter I'm gonna carry a cross for you Peter suffer for you Peter I'm gonna bleed for your sin Peter watch this don't miss it and I'm gonna create a house that's called my father's house it's gonna be a place for the family to come back home and I'm gonna put a room in that house for you and even though you're gonna make a mess if you just come back home I've got a place in the house god help me today that is got your name on it Peter I feel like I'm about to help somebody in here right now do you know what the word there are two words here I got to teach this in the Greek is so powerful two places in John 14 it's the only two places in the entire Bible the Greek word is used mone mo in E writing down if you take your notes where did my I pad yo did I bring it down it's John chapter 14 verse 2 in John chapter 14 verse 23 pretty sure yes 4:14 verse 2 and 14 23 I know this is a little bit of a break but you got to catch this ever say everyone say mone not money say mone okay I love it with you okay watch I go to prepare a place in my father's house there it is are many mansions everyone say mansions okay so we've talked about I got a mansion just over the hilltop but the word mansion in the Greek is the word mone it literally means an available abiding place so it's like this whenever I go stay somewhere and I need a hotel Chris calls ahead of time most the time at the Marriott and he says we need one room and Marriott says I have a Monet for you I have an available room that if you will put your name on the reservation it's available I don't know if you don't get to that place but it is available it's a place that is available you have to make up your mind if you're going to make a reservation for it when Jesus said I go to prepare in my father's house are many mansions don't miss it he said in my father's house are many available abiding places in other words there's no shortage of room in the hotel if you'll just make your reservation God meant a way to provide an available place for you to a bad but some of you don't understand in order to stay in the place you got to say that's my place and when you say it's my place it moves from monae don't miss this to topos when is topos Greek Pio Pio s it's the other word used for place in my father's house are many available rooms if it were not so I would have told you I go to prepare your topos he is reinforcing what he just said I went to build a house called the father's house and I made many available rooms and one of those rooms is your topos it's your place captured somebody but the only way you're gonna get to live in it is for you to say I'm tired of staying in this place and I'm getting ready to move to my place which is why Paul said in Ephesians 5 give no place to the devil in other words some of you gotta say you know what the devil stole my reservation in the father's house for the last somebody is getting ready to put their name on a reservation thank God than the place he created for you in his kingdom still it's available it's available but you've got to make a reservation for it and you know how Peter did that because he denied the Lord just like Jesus said three times and it looked like Peter was gonna be a has-been and a nobody but Jesus showed up on the side of a lake one day and said to the fisherman then with that fishing Jesus is now resurrected Peter left his discipleship role and went back to a fisherman he's in the water fishing and Jesus is on the land and he said hey y'all catch anything nope cast it on the other side they cast it on the other side and holding a hundred and fifty-three fish and when the net almost break broke Peter said that is the Lord you say what's the point the point is this he didn't of Jesus or judgment of God in His goodness the goodness of the Lord [Music] am i making sense Peter came back to the shore Jesus sat down with him three times bran I'm through he sits down by Jesus at the fire Jesus says to Peter do you love me you know I love you do you love me you know I love you do you love me you know I love me what's the point the restoration of Peter was as deep as Peter sinned Peter denied the Lord three times Jesus asked him the same question three times because any time you fall the grace of God is greater than the sin and the restoration of Jesus is as deep as the failure itself some of you need to hear me today you lost your place you lost your place I don't know what this back did you I don't know what got you of course I don't know what pulled you away from the voice of God but you lost your place stand with me and today in the month of January or the first part of the year find yourself saying I just want to get back to that place and place where I heard his voice that place where I could drive down the road fill his presence cities place the purpose place and joy I know this message ain't for everybody but it's for a lot of us I feel like the little one me tell you something [Music] and your place still has your name on it how about now yes oh god ain't through with you yet somebody asked me one time what's the difference between Judas and Peter was Judas sin any more heinous than Peter cinn no there's only one difference between Judas and Peter in my opinion Judas took his life before he found out Jesus still had a place for him some of you've been wondering why am I still here I feel the Lord you're still here because God still has a place for you I know the plans I have for you and I know just what to go and when you can't see what tomorrow holds and yesterday Esther God says I know the plans I have for you I know the plan to have for you God says I know just what you go when you can't see what tomorrow holds and yes the day God says I know [Music] the plans I had for you he has hope for tomorrow joy for your sunroom strength for everything you go through somebody needs to know there's hope for tomorrow joy for your sorrow strength for everything you go through God's a snare song for tomorrow Jah for your sorrow strength for everything you go through God says I know the plantain [Music] if you're in this room today and I'm talking to you I'm talking to people who are in church you love God but you just need to get back in a good place Jesus went to Calvary to prepare a place for you he rose from the dead to prepare a place for you I do believe he's coming back one day to take us to heaven but I don't believe we got to go through hell living out a place while we're on our way lichens got some of you believing you'll never have a place again but the devil is alive it's bowed eyes closed pastor you're preaching to me I need to make your reservation for my room I need to get back in my place oh yes thank you lord I wrote these notes down while your head is bowed and eyes are closed I wrote these in my notes I said there's nothing Adam lost in the garden Jesus didn't reclaim my Calvary there's nothing Adam did in the garden that Jesus did not undo and Calvary if the original intent was for us to live in shameless intimacy and a place of Dominion if that was the original intent before sin came in Genesis 2 then I declare everything Jesus died to do was to repair that original intent that God had for him and his people you're in this room and you say today pastor you're talking to me and in January of 2020 I need to get back in the right place and I want you to frame with me today if I'm talking to you lift your hand right now yep if your hand is up where it should be I want you to get out of your seat come to the altar right now no shame none no shame no what I gonna think about me well they go say about me who cares this is the year come on sweetheart this is the year where it comes together I'm getting back in the right place they're coming from everywhere I want you just to come right now I'm not gonna leave like I came and I'm not living another year in my life out of place come on some of you can't find the right job can't find the right house can't find the right city yeah all that's gonna get lined up when you get in the right place come on out of your seat right now there's some people right now I don't live in this place anymore no we live in this place God bless you for coming family god bless you work on all their front Oh way across the front somebody lift up thanks and praise to God although this room right now come on let's just bless it for a moment let's just break up don't just clap I want us to lift up praise lift up worship to the God who will help us get back on track and recover and be straight jesus paid it off Jesus paid it off he built the place he created the available spot for you in the kingdom hilter's come help me pastors come help me I want you to stretch your hands toward this altar I want you to pray for these brothers and sisters like you wish somebody would pray for you the day you came to an altar call like this and just leaving the moment to get your heart right I'm a I'm authorized to tell you right now I don't care how long you've been running from him today's a day to say I'm getting back in the right place priorities are shifting and my eyes are getting refocused on spiritual hearts getting refocused on the things of God [Music] you're in this room and you won't God to align your life in the physical with the spiritual grace that he's wanting to pour out and I just really felt like as they pray here that I'm supposed to pray over some people in this room today who would say pastor Kevin I need some things in my physical location to line up with my spiritual location if that's even you're out there would you lift your hand I just need God to get in my my business and just align some things lift your hand if I'm talking to you if there's somebody near you with their hand up right now would you gently just lay your hand on their shoulder can we pray one for another although this from there praying in the altar and I'm praying for you right there and your neighbors gonna pray with you god I just thank you in this year this new year this new beginning this 2020 January of 2020 this year of alignment this year of vision that you are bringing somebody's somebody's receiving this now you're bringing your people into a place of alignment and I declare over their lives right now father God that you are going to see to it that their feet are in the right place that their steps are ordered FAT God in the next 14 days in this month of January I just I just call into their life alignment shuffling reordering do what you got to do I'm in the right place every one of them that lifted their hands God they know that something needs alignment I pray God your spirit has come and put your finger on that thing and just began to deal with it and work with it today lord I thank you Holy Spirit that it's not too late for them to get in the right place they're not going to waste their life in fact their life is not wasted everything they experienced everything that they endured everything that they survived if they learn to anything in that season it is not a waste and I declare over them right now that the torment of the enemy's voice telling them that they'll never get back to that place that lie is broken now Jesus if you will restore Peter you will restore every one of us who want to be in the right place lift your hands and take them all over this room right now the Lord is just bringing a grace of alignment and a grace of blessings I feel like there's a family in this room this morning and I don't mean just a husband and a wife but I really believe I'm seeing like kids and grandkids and everybody connected has been through a real season of it's like hell on earth and you're out of place and your entire family needs to be restored it's like a unit it's like I know what I'm saying god I pray for that family today that they'll not give up and quit spirit of the Living God I pray in Jesus name you'll restore that whole family [Music] what the enemy intended for evil bring a great victory from it God Jesus fact this person almost left a few minutes ago this family almost left you're still here I was about to close shop and pray and send you home maybe you not gonna move I don't know but I'm I'm gonna give this family whoever it is an opportunity to come to this altar right now I just want to cover you in prayer and bless you today before you leave if you're in this room and you'd say pastor Kevin I need to get back to my place there there's a humbling that's coming it's already happened you're just gonna hum beliar heart and I'm telling you God's gonna restore this family I see God bringing chains off this family and bringing it healing they're here I don't know even know where they are I mean know who I'm talking about but God's going to restore somebody this morning a whole family unit whole family [Music] trying to release you if you gotta go I understand but if you're that family and you want prayer before I Benedict this message and this time together today if I'm talking to you and your family needs restoration and you stayed I want to pray for you get out of your seat come stand with me right now no shame none this restoration is going to happen I want to pray for the Lord to put some stuff back together I want to pray for the Lord to put some stuff back together if I'm talking to you come [Music] yeah it's gonna happen god bless you for coming god bless you for coming family I want people just to lift their hands and praise God just praise Him because his presence is gonna change the situation come right here come come come stand with me I'll just go bless you no shame there's no shame and we don't even go get into what happened in line I don't even have to know the details I know that God said to him he's gonna restore some families that the enemy trying to destroy this is a year of restoration and a year of the Lord putting some stuff back together pray pray pray church all over the place just lift your voice come on lift your but we're not here to spectate look about who's coming somebody needs God to move on their behalf right now Kenya can I fire some people to join me in prayer thank you Lord for putting these families back together healing and grace if you don't know what to pray pray for healing and grace just the blanket this altar and everybody that just moved into it right now Holy Spirit I thank you Holy Spirit I thank you come on we're gonna pray we're gonna pray right here we're gonna pray right here just lift your voice a little out of church the Lord is wanting to heal Satan tried to shake some families Saints in charge of shakes and Families but God is restoring families this morning in the mighty name of Jesus in the mighty name of Jesus in Jesus name I pray right now God you put these precious lives back together uh-huh uh-huh you still have a place you still have a place Holy Ghost you still have a place this place is an old place because this is a place created when you were a child it feels like you got all track a little bit the serpent deceived but it ain't over and it ain't too late and I bless your life with restoration this morning and the Lord's putting like this dress on you young lady is a symbol of new righteousness coming on your life today and I'll see God restoring innocence and restoring joy and yeah in innocence that's what I keep hearing the enemy's trying to shame you but today is not shame on you and shame off of you hope bow loose this family bless everything connected to this family guard or you would do father I thank you for this family 2020s a year of restoration for this house and I declared to the enemy that was a sign to destroy it you did not win your plan is broken now and the grace of God is prevailing in this house Jesus god I thank you for this young man I don't know his story but I know you have a place for him I break all the shame and all of the guilt and everything the enemy's tried to bury him in off his life right now in fact I hear the Spirit of God saying Kevin you tell him he's not a mistake you tell him my plan over him is still yes and a man if I know the thoughts I have for you says the Spirit of the Lord thoughts of peace and not evil thoughts to bring you a hope and a future I'm reached down today says the Spirit of the Lord and I rescue you from the pit from the God who is your God and father watching over you and I have kept you alive says the spirit of grace because I have a place for you God I bless this young man now to know your love and not your judgment hope for his future in fact this whole thing is coming off this house right now the lid is big tore off writing down a pronounced blessing and grace over this house right now I rebuke the enemy in the name of Jesus loose this is the shattering God prophesied at the beginning of service the young is broken now by the power of God the yoke is broken now loser Oh Oh God loose money it's a freedom that's reaching down in your soul and cutting every tire and loosen you from everything in the past it's broken it will not prosper or prevail somebody lift up praise all over this world right now Oh God Oh God we bless you I know you gotta go you gotta go we love you but I need everybody we're gonna stay to lift up a prize right now lift up a prize right now the god of restoration is in this role we bless you Lord bless this house bless this house bless this house restore it align it put it all the way back together last week the scars no more pain the shop I stopped by by tsiyon you got some scars that's where the healing came father I bless your people all over this room to be in a good place spiritually in 2020 I'm asking you Father in Jesus name keep us from distractions keep us from losing our focus let us keep our place in you in the name of Jesus we pray and everybody said I love your Wednesday night don't miss it you'll be Reverend we still got people praying in the altar god bless you walk in the peace of the Lord and the blessing of God this week thank you God for your press [Music] [Applause] [Music]

Channel: Redemption to the Nations Church

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Length: 65min 39sec (3939 seconds)

Published: Tue Jan 14 2020