It's A Faith Fight | Josh Herring

[Music] praise god first church are you glad to be here today [Music] we're gonna lift the name of jesus and sing praise out loud come on lift your hearts with us today i give you glory for all you brought me through and now i'm ready for whatever you wanna do i'm moving forward to follow after you and now i'm ready for whatever you want to do come on your presence [Music] is your presence is an open door so come now lord i never [Music] your grace has been enough [Music] [Music] my hope on [Music] your presence [Music] your is [Music] is we pray lord come lord jesus is breakthrough is breakthrough is coming and it won't start now does anybody believe that today come on let's just sing it out one more time your presence your own presence is an open door we want you lord [Music] so grateful for your love god so grateful for new mercies that we see every day god we thank you for your blessings god we thank you for hope and peace and joy that we find in you god every situation that we bring to you god that you are there to answer god when we don't see it god we know that you're still working on our behalf so every need that is represented in this place god i ask you to send off your spirit to do a work to bring hope to bring peace god needs a salvation god financial needs god send forth your spirit and your work in this see a place my god maybe a promise and it won't stop now i know i know [Music] [Music] breakthrough i come on somebody come on give him a great praise right now from the bottom of your heart lord jesus we lift you up jesus we magnify your name there's nobody like you jesus does anybody know you've got a promise you've got a promise amen amen amen god bless you thank you for worshiping with us this morning if you're joining us online we thank you so much for being a part of this family too you can be seated for just a moment there is nothing like the presence of almighty god whatever you're facing whatever you're going through there is something about joining with the people of god and lifting up our great savior with a praise that you know he's worthy of one more time can you give him the praise amen amen god bless you thank you so much for being here today thank you for joining us online again we are incredibly incredibly honored that you've taken part of your day to spend time with the people of god in the presence of god we are unbelievably honored to have josh and janae hearing with us here today just believing for great things great things great things and continuing over the course of this summer i know i know that it looks crazy out there and to be quite honest sometimes it feels pretty crazy in here but in the midst of chaos i believe that the god that we serve does his best work in the midst of storms and struggles and chaos and fights because he is the peace speaker he is the waymaker i believe it i believe it and so in the midst of a whole lot that's going wrong and a whole lot of plans being turned upside down and inside out i just know that in the middle of that god's plan has not changed and god's purpose has not changed and we are going to see a revival in the middle of this i believe it i just believe i it want to make you aware of of a couple of things that we are adjusting because of of some of the guidance that has come down from the governor serve day was scheduled for this coming saturday because of the dynamics and the requirements the the public masks and all of these things a lot of the projects that we had planned for serve day uh we were having to postpone and so what we're gonna do is move some serve opportunities out throughout the rest of the summer and moving into the fall we're gonna take once a month and just pursue some of those projects we are not officially doing serve day now let me add to that that if you have a group and you are already planning to do something that you can do by abiding by the guidance that's in place i'm not going to tell you to not be a light in your community so you do whatever you can do to make a difference whether it's serve day or any other day because that's who we are and that's what we're always going to do as a church so we are we are removing serve day as an official sanctioned event from the calendar right now we'll bring that back later in the year but along with shutting that down what i hope is we can step up our desire to be a light and to make an impact in our community is that okay all right so i just challenge you over this week find a way to serve somebody whether it's served day or just an ordinary day because the truth is when you love jesus and you're a part of his family every day is served day every day is a chance to make a difference second thing is you know we've we've talked about a couple of a couple of changes crafting some some new approaches with children's ministry to accommodate social distancing we're gonna ask for one more month to get all of that uh lined out and in place again because of some of the restrictions that have been placed so y'all i've told you from the beginning this has been an unprecedented crazy season and some days i feel like i feel like i'm waking up in the mornings and we're just throwing a dart at the wall to see what it is we're supposed to do today wherever it lands is what the rule is today but in the midst of all of that i want to thank you from the bottom of our heart the whole pastoral leadership team of this church thank you for your flexibility for your sensitivity to to us trying to hear what god is speaking to our church for this season and so i want to invite you to stand with me one more time we're going to move back into a time of worship we give you an opportunity to give if you're in the room and you want to give today you'll be able to do that at the conclusion of service on your way out they'll receive your offering or you can give now online or via text to give or through the app but i just want to say in the midst of all of this that what i have felt through every chaotic moment of this now 16 weeks that we've been kind of leveled and laid low i have felt an undercurrent of faith and hope and belief that god is up to something great and that's not just been from us talking in a staff meeting i've felt that from every conversation that i've had with any one of you thank you for speaking faith into a difficult season and thank you for believing that god has not laid us aside and god has not forgotten thank you for just continually being there to lift somebody up and to speak a word of encouragement and so i want us to one more time right now i want us to pray together and i want us to elevate our faith in this place and just believe that god is going to do something incredible in our hearts and in our lives today and in the days ahead can we pray together right now lord jesus god we thank you that you are near we thank you that you are close and we thank you that you are speaking god you've not forgotten your people you have not forgotten one word of one promise that you have spoken and so today god when we don't know where to turn we don't know what to do we know we can stand on your word and stand on your promise our faith is secure in a great god god so today we invite you do what only you can do do what you are famous for god show yourself strong in the midst of your people we invite you to have your way can you lift up a great shout of praise in this place right now we give you praise oh god we lift you up oh god there's nobody like you jesus there is no fear cause i believe there is no doubt cause i have seen your faithfulness my fortune over and over i have a strength [Music] [Applause] [Music] shut down what you are famous for unleash your power for all to see this shut the up what you are famous for god of exceedingly god of abundantly more than we ask for thee lord you will never fail your name is powerful your words unstoppable all things are possible [Music] lord you will never all things are possible bring troubles do what you are famous for what you are famous for there is no fear cause i believe there is no doubt faithfulness [Music] [Music] oh not my will but yours somebody pray that right now not my will but yourself you know last week in the middle of worship i read you a scripture [Music] about a god who breathed life into a valley of dry bones and from the moment i began to read that scripture i just felt that that was a a perfect picture of what so many of you in this room and so many of you watching online are feeling in your life right now i'm just looking around and everything is stopped and everything is still and everything is broken and everything seems hopeless but can i speak to you today under the anointing of almighty god that we serve a god who specializes in breathing into dead things and bringing life back into it so right now in this place i wish somebody would just begin to speak some life into whatever is dead in your life speaks of life into whatever is broken speaks of life because we serve an almighty god who is moving and is working in the midst of his people so why don't you speak some life into your situation right now say live say live say it again say live thank you jesus thank you jesus god we give you praise we give you praise honor we give you praise o god we speak [Music] [Music] [Music] you [Music] this is the praise make a ten man walk again this is something new [Music] i believe miracle here in this world this is the sound of tribal's rattling [Music] this time the praise makes a dead man walk again again this is [Music] come on anybody believe that today come on anybody believe it we're gonna just speak this out in faith right now [Music] [Music] if there's anything [Applause] [Music] oh this is i don't feel like you're done giving praise yet come on help me you say say i hear the sound i hear the sound look at somebody you just say and i hear the i feel faith rising right now i feel dead situations coming to life right now [Music] hear the word of the lord sailing this is [Applause] oh someone speak life right now [Music] magnify the name of the lord jesus right now all over the building would you lift up your voice and worship the name that's above every other name somebody make the demons hear you you might have a mask on but you still have your voice somebody ought to praise him right now come on paul come on silas lift up your voice in your prison cell and magnify the name of jesus and something will break loose on your view in your living room in your house the glory of the lord will release in your atmosphere somebody worship him somebody exalt him you won't keep my miracle from coming to me no matter how you hinder the atmosphere lucifer god is going to get the last word god will have the final say somebody release some life out of your spirit right now somebody talk in tongues if you've got the holy ghost act like it you've got something alive in you that's greater than every force on planet earth hallelujah oh hallelujah what an atmosphere i feel what a great atmosphere of faith is in this room amen we are living in the last days and jesus is coming soon and that you do not need a prophet to tell you that you can see everything around you aren't you thankful to be part of the church in the last days i'd rather be here than anywhere else i'd rather be in the atmosphere of god than anywhere else in these last times give honor to pastor gurley pastor whaley love them both very very very much and appreciate their vision for revival and give honor to my beautiful wife and my kids for traveling here with me today thankful to be with you looking forward to what god has for this church first timothy chapter 6 and hebrews chapter 10. first timothy chapter 6 verse number 12 and hebrews chapter 10 verses 23 to 25. a man what an atmosphere incredible incredible singing i wish that they'd asked me to sing with them but keep my mic off just so i would feel cool wow first timothy 6 verse 12 somebody say fight the good fight of faith all right say it through the mask so i can hear you pretty loud fight the good fight of faith or six of us lay hold on eternal life whereunto thou are also called and has professed a good profession before many witnesses hebrews chapter 10 verses 23 the 25 let us hold fast the profession of our faith without wavering for he is faithful that promised let us consider one another to provoke unto love and to good works not forsaking the assembling of ourselves together as the manner of some is but exhorting one another and so much the more as you see the day approaching and i want to preach to you this morning from the subject it's a faith fight it's a faith fight and i can feel the atmosphere already coming right now lord jesus have your way in this place take authority and dominion over every spirit human and demonic that would release fear among us i pray in the name of the lord jesus christ you'd give us dominion both here and at home right now over every attack every fear every worry every threat every thought of anxiety in the name of the lord jesus we release faith today we trust in you completely that you have the final word and you get the final say in every situation in jesus name amen you may be seated if i can get a little more monitor guys i would appreciate it greatly thank you faith is often termed spiritual vision the bible says we walk by faith and not by sight it's connected to the to seeing it the bible also says now faith is the substance of things hoped for and the evidence of things not seen but a lot of times what we call faith and what we believe that we have faith for is actually hope because faith does not really see it just believes in other words if you're really living in faith you're blind to the outcome that's going to take place you just believe that god will get the last word and god's will will be done if you have what we call faith for something to happen then truly you're living in hope hope gives you an expected end hope gives you something to look forward to when you're hoping for something a lot of times we call it faith and we believe that the outcome is attached to what we're believing for but oftentimes what we call faith is not really faith at all we are really hoping for something to happen that's why it's very dangerous when you attach your faith to a certain outcome for the situation and if god does not do exactly what you're wanting him to do and how you're wanting him to do it then your faith gets damaged because you truly believed that god was going to do this on this day in this way through this process with this person and because he does not answer to you and does not answer to me he did it his way and did something completely different and now my faith is rattled because i thought i had something coming from god the truth is i was living in the dimension of hope and not faith but faith says i do not know if god's going to do it the way i want him to or if he's going to do it at all but i am going to believe that god is still god above everything that i'm dealing with someone ought to get some real faith in the atmosphere i don't control the outcome i just control the faith it's kind of like shadrach when the king said you're going to burn the fire and shatter act said our god is able to deliver us but if he doesn't being known unto you that we're not bowing down in other words i know that he's able i don't know if he's gonna do it but i know i'm attaching my faith to a god that has all power it doesn't matter what he does for me or does not do for me my faith remains in him because if your faith attaches to the outcome if you're praying for someone to live and they're sick and god does not heal them then you go through a valley a wilderness a season of darkness because you had faith for something and god didn't do it and now your faith has been rattled and your faith has been wrecked and if this does god even here is god even real and the voices start coming and if you're listening very much at all they'll start coming like a plague and they'll start coming in waves and before long you're doubting if god even sees you you're doubting if god's even there why because he did not do something that you attached all your faith to faith is the most powerful weapon that you have and satan knows it and that's why if satan ever visits a child of god there's only one thing satan's after and that is the faith in fact jesus told peter satan hath desired to have thee that he might sift thee as weed but i have prayed for you that your faith fail not why because he knew if satan is attacking a human there's only one thing he wants it's the faith come on job curse god and die it's just the faith if i can get the child of god to stop believing in the god that answers the prayers i've taken the future of the child of god away i've taken heaven away i've taken the if he gets your faith he'll get your joy if he gets your faith he'll get your peace if he gets your faith he'll get everything around you because faith is the outer layer of protection that he wants that's why in the armor of god the rest of the armor you wear but you have to hold on to faith and the sword of the spirit you have to hold the shield of faith but to everything else you wear why because it's easier for hell to take your faith you wear truth you put on the your loins for truth you put on the breastplate of righteousness you put on the peace on your feet you put on the helmet of salvation but you hold on to faith it should be it should be harder for the devil to get you out of truth it should be hard for the devil to get you out of righteousness out of peace out of your salvation experience than it is your faith because these are layers that are covered by your faith but your faith blocks that that's why the enemy knows if i take your shield away i get to your salvation experience now you question if you're really forgiven at all boy for the holy ghost now you question if god really did save you now you question am i really forgiving am i really going to heaven now you question why i don't have peace anymore why am i so tormented now you question am i really living righteous i feel so unrighteous is this really truth and you start to question everything because the shield has been stolen and satan knows if i get your faith whether it's in your mind in your health in your finances whatever area you you forfeit your faith in that's the channel i'm going to use to come out and eventually steal everything else let me tell you something special about faith faith transforms into whatever the circumstance demands i want you to write this down in your memory bank faith transforms into whatever the circumstance demands in other words we know that faith is the shield in in the armor of god we also know that faith is a gift of the spirit we also know that faith is a fruit of the spirit we know about the word of faith faith transforms into whatever the situation demands in other words if you're in a season of warfare and the enemy's attacking your home or attacking your mind faith becomes a shield if you're in a season of ministry and you're helping people faith becomes a gift and you release that to others if everything's comfy and cozy in your life then faith becomes a fruit and you're growing in the lord and sometimes if you're in a wilderness faith becomes a word and you have no idea where god is but faith comes into an atmosphere and a word of faith will hit you and bring life why because faith cometh by hearing and hearing by the word are you thankful for your faith because no matter what you're going through it's your faith that will come to the surface to bring you out every time [Applause] [Music] i don't have to have what i want as long as i hold my faith if i do not get what i want but at the end of the battle i still have my faith i've won the battle if i get nothing that i asked for but at the end of the day my hands are raised saying it doesn't matter you're still worthy thank you for loving me thank you for dying for me thank you for rescuing me thank you for saving me then satan is so frustrated because i have won the battle because the battle was never for the outcome the battle was for my the prayer that you want answered so desperately the thing attached to your situation that you have to have god if you do not get it if it does not happen and it starts to affect your worship and it affects your faithfulness it affects your giving it affects everything about then you've lost your faith but if you miss out on everything that's been promised to you but yet you're holding on to god you've won more than you can even fathom and paul said fight the good fight of faith faith is not just a shield it's not just a fruit it's not just a gift it's not just a word faith is a fight and it's so powerful that little statement because there are two fights there fight the good fight and they're completely two different words the first fight is the greek is agonizing which means to contend with an adversary to enter a contest that's what the word fight means but the second fight fight the good fight of faith is not agonizing i it's agone which means the assembly or the arena where the fight takes place i want you to get this if you get nothing else up until the pandemic you could get all kinds of attacks from hell at home and come in here into the assembly on sunday and you could fight for everything that the devil had fought you for all week long you would get payback time you would praise and worship and break through and then go back to the go back home and the enemy would just beat you down all week because this is the assembly this is the arena where you fire that's why let me say this that's why you can't afford to be a statue in the presence of god because this is not a theater this is an arena where there's war going on [Applause] this is the arena where you look hell in the eye and you say i'm sorry but i'm gonna praise god i'm gonna worship god because i'm fighting for something mask or no mask he's worthy of everything that i have he's worthy of everything i can give him now we're not going to shout about this part but what's happening through this pandemic is the arena has shifted to your house [Applause] see before you could just be home and be carnal well i'm gonna get with you you're watching online right now you better keep this on turn this other screen off and i've noticed evangelizing in a lot of churches that during the pandemic some people would say at home they didn't break through like they did in church because the house isn't the arena it's the entertainment place so you can cook and do all kinds of stuff you have to church on the background and listen to a little bit here and though it's quiet listen to a little bit here and there and and then and then the altar call comes and you turn it off or you can switch to another service and and then wonder why when you got back into the house of god why you couldn't feel anything for a couple weeks it's important like he said a few minutes ago if you're flexible in the spirit to understand when the arena shifts and where the arena is and can i tell you more than ever in america the arena is in your house right now and you've got to make up your mind that i'm about to make my house an atmosphere where i fight for my faith if hell doesn't want to mess with you in here but attacks you every day out there it's because they only see you fighting in one arena i feel prophetic anointing on me right now if hell doesn't go near you in this room it's because they fear this assembly they fear this arena but if they're just walking in out of the house it's because somebody has not been fighting at home and what you've got to do is that hell no this house is going to be a house of prayer this house is a house of worship this house is a house of faithfulness [Applause] you want victory beyond sunday you want more than a band-aid once a week to get you through to the next you have to make the home the arena you have to make the home the assembly you have to make your house the place where hell fears to tread how do you do that get you a prayer closet get something stirred up get the word loose in the atmosphere get gospel music or whatever music you like that glorifies god in the atmosphere get something in the atmosphere that lets the enemy know we're not laying down up in here if you come in here you've got to fight on your hands [Music] it's all about your faith it's all about your faith what can you fight for i remember in uh atlanta a few weeks ago a few months ago at brother john's and there was a had two services and on the after the first service i was running back to the back door to get to the car go to the hotel get my wife and kids for the second service and so i was rushing and as i was rushing out this this man grabbed my coat pastor whaley and he did he said hey wait a second i've seen him before he used to live in illinois and he said hey brother josh can you pray for my grandson he's i think he's five or six he's never spoken a word in his life your grandma grandpa mom and a little boy and i went to pray for the little boy and he's just staring at me and he's autistic and he has never spoken and i look at the mom and she is just hopeless because when you're really hopeless you wear it on your face no matter how much you try to smile it just comes out and i could see that she was defeated because she had believed god to do something maybe she put a timeline on it maybe she put a date to it maybe she put a situation and attached her faith to it how it was going to happen it's so dangerous when we try to figure god out and we try to make him do it our way and she was just hopeless and so i went to pray for the boy and i said lord open his mouth that he may speak and i prayed and i prayed everything i could he just stared at me and the longer i prayed the more defeated the mother became and so i shifted my prayer brother garcia from the boy to the mother and i said god revive her faith let her remember the words that she prayed and i began to speak life to her faith why because it doesn't matter how much faith the little boy has if there's an atmosphere of doubt where someone has been crushed and defeated is overriding the little boy's face then something's and so i said god we've got to get her in alignment with the miracle and so i prayed for her and she began to cry and weep and the boy just stared at me and i walked away and i preached a second message and nothing happened but the next day they sent me the video the kid was at school and when they were playing the colors on the screen he began to open his mouth and began to repeat the words he saw on the screen and the next week he told his dad i love you dad and i love you mom can i tell you about a god that if you just get some faith you don't have to attach it to what happens just know he's able god can do any late last night the lord said to me about one o'clock in the morning i will make first church invisible this month in the spirit world i will make them invisible to their enemy i said okay and so i started i was thinking he was going to give me a message and i started researching and looking and and he just say i will hide them i will make them invisible he hadn't even given me the message for this morning yet and so i'm sitting there waiting and he just said that and then he didn't say anything else i waited for a while i didn't think so i went to bed woke up this morning and still waiting on the direction for what to say in this first service and he whispered faith fight i said okay and then he said tell your testimony of this year because here's how i'm going to hide them i said okay when he gave me this message i was driving to a church in georgia to preach and a six-hour drive on a sunday morning early he was whispering this stuff to me as i drove i was trying to research as i drove think the lord was still alive and uh preached it the best i could probably went terrible for all i know but after the message about a week or so later i didn't know what he would i didn't know what he meant by it's a faith fight i know i knew that when janae's pregnant our fourth trial we've had some complications and and the babies almost died and and god has protected him and and everything but i didn't know what he meant by it's a faith fight i just knew that i was going to have a fight and then the fight is never how you picture it and so a week or so later he had us he had us give to a to a preacher he spoke to us to give to a certain preacher and then and then another one and then someone else and someone in the in the church and the church and then someone else and and someone else and before it was like what is going on so every three days i'm about to lose everything let me just wish give this give this give this give that give i'm like okay so at the end of january we had given like thousands of dollars we didn't have to random people we don't even really know them and i'm not even thinking it's a faith fight i'm just doing what the lord's telling me well then february here it comes again this person now that person now this person i'm like is this ever going to stop is this a curse is this god and then march rolls around and everything starts shutting down and i'm like oh you did that because you're going to bless us we were you were testing us i start thanking the lord and he says this person whoa no no no no no no i already did all he said this person okay like this the last person please well then he said the uh i got a i got a text that this that all the evangelists were going to get a certain check from headquarters for the pandemic since they were being cancelled everywhere didn't know what it was and the lord said when you get it give it to this evangelist i'm about to rebuke this voice i'm about to be killed when i do but i'm still going to rebuke it and i don't know i'm just think it's gonna be a little deal and so i call the advantage and say can i get your address the lord told me that whenever this check comes in descendants you know i'm getting one myself i said yeah he said the lord told you i said yeah he said okay this is how much the check's gonna be i know and he'd tell i was like i'm like are you kidding he said nope thank you you're welcome so you know your mind starts trying to figure out a way like to explain why you're not going to obey have you ever done that cain he's in the bible jenna says you should read about hannah so the lord has us do it and we just and that moment after that happened that day in the next 10 days god gave us more than 10 times back almost every day something came in i'm just giving you an exam i'm not trying to i'm just telling what happened with it okay and i was like what's going this is supposed to be the the roughest time for evangelist and the favor of god is here and he said this is how you fight when you do things i can hide you from the enemy in other areas where there should be a decrease i can release and increase boy i feel god's saying something right now god's about to bless this church this month in unexpected ways god's gonna bless this church in unexpected ways because the government and the city and the governor does not control the favor of god [Applause] and so we start preaching and we're traveling and this last couple months we're going everywhere these three kids and fourth one on the way and we are still obeying and we get home monday from ohio and there's a package in our mailbox and it's from some tiny town in the middle of nowhere and not even a name just a last name and an initial and i'm like what and we open it up and it's literally a box loaded with cash and i'm like what in the world and i look the person up i can't find the person i call the pastor he tells me yeah this is this must be a god thing i don't know what to say this person doesn't know me i don't know this person and the lord spoke to me and said here's how you become invisible you fight before hell fights you you swing the sword before they swing back at you and when you do when they're going crazy all around you i've already raised up a shield in front of you and i've come to tell this church no matter what happens this month that god is about to raise a shield he called in front of this church and if you are someone who obeys god god is going to bless you and god's going to strengthen you and god's going to show you victory in the fight that you're worried about preacher you're making me nervous you know i'm making you nervous because fear is attached to you fear is attached hell is looking for some place if it can't attach it to you physically let me attach it to your finances because fear is simply faith in the enemy don't go there preacher don't talk about that don't talk about this and don't talk about that i'm boxed in hell's got me right where he wants me i'm gonna tell you anyway whether you like it or not you can have a season of revival in a season of famine you i feel the holy ghost you can have blessings in a season of drought if you don't believe it just go ask isaac who in the season of famine planted seeds and in the same season that everyone else lost everything god gave him a hundredfold harvest because god honors it when you don't look at the environment but you say god i attach my faith to you preacher why are you saying this because some of you god is going to tell you to give and when you give god is doing it not to take from you he's doing it to connect you to something that the government cannot give you that your friends cannot give you that only he can give you [Applause] you want great demonstration you want great answers to prayer you want great miracles you want the things to happen you want to you want to see life fight where you fear give where you withhold release where you hold back and watch god faith is i step out of a boat on the water not knowing if i'm gonna walk or not he never said lord if it's you will i be able to walk on the water he said if it's you bid me come in other words i don't know if i'm gonna sink or swim but i'd rather get closer to jesus in the storm than sit in the boat chilling with the fearful oh i know i'm not i'm not i'm alone on that right now but if you want to sit in the boat and be afraid and hope the storm passes you by then you sit there i'd rather be with god and say no matter what comes my way i know i'm closer to him somebody ought to praise him right now in a pandemic somebody ought to worship him and say god i'm going to reach for you beyond where i'm at as one person told me if you don't have faith financially don't preach faith about anything if you don't really have faith about your finances you really don't have faith at all because god honors faith faith remember is blind if i if i give i don't go up to the lord and say okay god i'm gonna give to i'm driving the cameraman crazy i'm gonna give to pastor waylee because i want god to do something for my family i want this to happen on this date so i'm gonna do that it's that's not how god operates how god operates is you go give something's gonna happen what's gonna happen stop trying to figure out the details because that's not walking by faith that's walking by knowledge and the more you know the less faith you have details will distract you from walking in faith that's why when someone is sick and you have to know all the details it lowers the faith that you pray in oh i'm sick okay instead of praying you say well what is it oh it's cancer oh what stage oh it's stage four oh lord okay let's it's all over your body okay let's pray now you're praying in hope versus you're sick in the name of jesus be healed i don't i don't have to know the details i have to release the faith does that make sense so i walk up to him and when i give to him i have no idea what god's about to do but what just happened in the spirit world was i just gained access to the blessings of god that i have no idea are coming because i obeyed by faith and not by not in other words i do not need to know when it's coming or where it's coming or how it's coming but when you give just know it's coming it is coming god will not hold back when you release it let's stand right now when you oh boy for the holy ghost when you give like that you take the fight from the outcome of the circumstance and now the fight i want you to get this if you get nothing else is now attached to your destiny well i've got to have this because if it's based on your circumstance then you filter the faith through your own worries you got that you filter what god says through your own circumstance but when you don't attach your circumstance to it you say i want this to happen but if it doesn't happen i know i'm attaching myself to something greater because i am releasing what i control and give it up to his control and therefore now he can do things i cannot even fathom oh i feel the holy ghost right now [Applause] something in this atmosphere is so vital if you can attach to it it's saying god let me go blind don't let me have to see everything don't let me have to control everything but god i release it to you right now and when you release it to god like that god says i can do more with that because that is faith because whatsoever is not of faith is sin so if i'm doing stuff in the spirit not by faith i'm actually sinning but if i come in here with no idea how god's going to do it or what god's going to do but i give him my faith now i attach myself to the outcome that god had planned [Applause] for we walk by faith and not by sight i'm going to tell you right now in the holy ghost that in this month out of nowhere blessings are going to appear in mailboxes on front doorsteps through phone calls and through doctor reports out of nowhere miracles are about to appear because you are becoming invisible to what the enemy sees and very visible to what god sees and the only difference is when you're visible to the enemy stuff is taken from you and you never get it packed but when you're visible to god stuff flows to you that you could never gain on [Music] somebody say hide me somebody say hide me lord make my family invisible the family member that's always being attacked come on make them invisible god the one the devil uses the one that's getting attacked glory make them invisible [Music] i thought about her shot of my that's not that's not crazy that's that's bible jesus made himself invisible go read john 8. when they went to pick up rocks he hid himself in the crowd and disappeared moses was hid by his mom and dad until they couldn't hide him in the house so they hit him in a little ark that she made then he was hid in pharaoh's palace then he was hid in a desert and then god released him to come at the enemy and he couldn't stop moses because he had been hidden for 80 years oh man i know this is a giving church i'm i'm aware of my surroundings i'm aware of where i'm preaching [Music] i'm also aware of the spirits of fear circling your yard and circling your home it's ananias and sapphira don't do that you need this you need that and they lose everything but give me a cornelius that says god everything is yours everything is yours and you'll see revival break out in that house that no one could imagine i'll close with this we've been giving and my wife's entire family isn't even in the truth and most of their family is catholic and a month or so ago pastor whaley her uncle who's more like a cousin 42 years old died in westlake texas and they asked us to do the funeral we've been locked down in florida for a month and a half two months and we drove out of florida 15 hours to do this funeral and we get to the place and everybody is drinking and everyone is just in the world [Music] and we're there all week and it was just so discouraging and we get ready to go to the funeral on the last day we're there and we walk in the funeral home and everyone's got masks on and janae's grandma which she's the mother of the the man that died she's on the front row she's the she's the hardcore catholic of the family die hard and she's sitting there your son's ashes are right over here [Music] 42 years old and they tell me before the funeral that when he was 14 he got the holy ghost in a pentecostal church was baptized in jesus name lived a horrible life in and out of prison gangs but right before he went to the hospital he started repenting every day for god to forgive him of all the stuff looked at his mom before went to the hospital and said mom if i don't come out i've repented of everything went to the hospital and died two days into the hospital and so when i got up to preach the funeral pastor whaley i just said i put george reyes in the hands of a god who filled him with his spirit washed away his sins and then forgave him at the end i said i'm not putting him in the hands of the enemy the hands of my thoughts the hands of his past i'm putting him in the hands of god i got done with a message and sat down a room full of catholic people and all of a sudden his mom janae's grandma who janae's been praying for her family for years [Music] she said oh oh hallelujah hallelujah and that was the last thing she said in english as god filled her with the gift of the holy ghost on the front row of the funeral home then before long she began to speak in tongues several minutes she fell over on the chair speaking in tongues pastor when she when her when she was speaking in tongues the family gathered around her and her daughter janae's aunt when she touched her mother raised her hand and god filled her with the gift of the holy ghost i dismissed that catholic funeral three times [Music] but nobody would leave out of aurocho because in the pandemic the glory had entered because there was a fight going on in the spirit world and somebody was holding on saying god save my family [Music] one of the family walked up afterwards and said i used to have one man today wife kids grandkids big old family said i used to have that spirit he said are you going to preach in texas anytime soon i said yeah i'm coming to houston in july he said i'm going to try to get my family all of us there because we want that holy ghost we want that he looked at all we they said yes we want that we want that we want that spirit of god i'm telling you right now i don't know what's going on in this city what's about to happen to you but you hold on to your faith because god is about to make you invisible and don't you hide in fear but you live in faith and you release everything to god and god's gonna bless you who has a genuine need right now a genuine need now i'm going to open the altar but you don't have to you don't have to come up if you want to you can't but i want if you want to come up here come on up there's plenty of room just make sure you stay apart from people but if you want to come up here but i just want you to vocalize i've got a need [Music] whether you're in the front the back the balcony anywhere okay and i'm gonna tell you what the lord said give and it shall be given unto you good measure pressed down shaking together and running over some men given to your bosom the same measure that you meet with all shall be measured to you again i know it's not a normal first service service for revival but this is not a normal time i had planned to preach an atmosphere's message for the last couple weeks here but god just kept saying not yet [Music] i don't know how you give here if you if there's something you can put on the screen that they do that please watching online do what you've got to do but i tell you in the holy ghost that when you give the lord will raise up a shield and the spirit of isaac is going to come upon several of you where god blesses and you can't even figure out how he's blessing why he's blessing and you're gonna feel undeserving of the blessing that's called god making you invisible to the enemy so the prayer faith that i pray [Music] is not for your need to happen and manifest the way you want it to [Music] but i pray a will of god prayer right now for you because if i can attach you to the will of god you're gonna have more answered prayers than you've ever dreamed thy kingdom come thy will be done first church maryland as it is in heaven and whatsoever is bound in heaven god i pray you would find it in this city and whatever is loosed in heaven i'd pray you'd lose it and i'm going to say this right now what's ever on whatever is on your mind god for every family in this church whatever is on your mind for every person whatever is on your mind for every situation right now god i pray after this altar call and after the giving that there be a release from heaven of what is on your mind for your thoughts are above my thoughts and your ways are above my ways and you're able to do exceeding abundantly above all i ask or even faith before we sing every head bowed every eye closed i want you to ask god give me a spirit of giving give me a spirit of giving right now god give me a giving spirit this is how i fight my back i feel the holy ghost this is how i brother hernandez was my mentor for 20 years eli hernandez he preached in this church several times he said this he said this he taught this everywhere he said anytime the devil's attacking you the quickest way to get the devil away from you is to pull out your wallet he said because god rebukes the devourer when you give unless it's if it's you rebuking him it's a warfare but when you give you become invisible and god steps up and rebukes the thing that's messing with your oh i feel the holy ghost right now and i speak to every devouring whether it's in someone's house watching online somebody's marriage somebody's mine somebody's health somebody's bank account that i speak that every child of god and their family attached to this church and their assets and their health would become invisible to the enemy in the name of jesus christ i want you to tell god i'll do whatever you tell me to do everybody from the front to the back tell them i'll do whatever you tell me to do i'll give what you tell me to give i'll do what you tell me to do i'm sure i'm pretty sure if i pass the mic around everybody in here could testify every giver would testify that when you gave god brought it back to you he said prove me and see if i do not open up the windows of heaven and pour you out a blessing you don't have room enough to contain whatever god told you to do is what you're going to do right now on your phone at your house whatever they're gonna sing the song and no matter what is surrounding you no matter what's threatening you boy for the holy ghost no matter what's coming against your mind when you begin to obey god there will be a shield raised above your house and above your family that says this house is off limits this family is invisible as of now in the name of jesus somebody obey the holy ghost right now and do what the lord said to do this is how i find my battles this is how i find my back here invisible go in stealth this is but i'm surrounded by you it may look like i'm surrounded this is the lord is saying when you give you're basically making room for me you're pushing what you think you need out of the way and you're creating space you're creating space for me to fill it in the way that i can and you will not regret what you release [Music] for what you release is just a seed [Music] and when you release it i will water it but what i raise up in place of it is far greater than what you ever released [Music] preachers we're not shouting exactly it's quiet because we're going invisible the enemy is losing sight of the givers right now the enemy is losing sight of the givers right now [Music] elijah said god blind the enemy and he did you know why elisha could do that he knew about giving he would take water in a drought instead of drinking it for his own thirst he would dump it on the hands of the man of god he would dump it on the hands of elijah the water would just go right through his hands and hit the ground looked like a waste [Music] but it wasn't a waste it was a connection to dominion the lies you could have later judas says it's a waste the spirit of judas says that's a waste alabaster box breaking omen releasing all that perfume in the atmosphere thousands of dollars worth of perfume that was so priceless and judas says that's a waste and the bible said satan entered into judas why because he became visible he said giving is a waste and satan said i see him now [Music] oh shakota but jesus said this woman what she did wherever the gospel is preached she will be mentioned in other words satan can see judas but i can see the giver and for the rest of the history of time i will always have her on my mind they're gonna sing it again go back to your pews your need is in the hands of god give unto the lord and watch what the lord does in your family we're surrounded by a do what the hostility said to do let there be great great great demonstration in the spirit world behind the scenes right now it's invisible hell can't see it the blessing of the lord oh thank god obey god obey god this [Music] the mighty is of god and he might exalt you in due time oh this is this is how i find my battles this is is from the very bottom of your heart right now with a grateful praise on your lips can we take just a minute and lift up our great god one more time right now just receive the word that's been spoken to your heart today jesus we praise you we magnify your name we lift you up oh god and we look to you god we proclaim that you reign over every situation over every fear of our every doubt god you are more than enough and you are faithful and you are good so we magnify your name lord jesus we magnify your name lord jesus amen i'm gonna sing it one more time this is how i fight my battles this is [Music] [Music] this is [Music] i wish right now right where you are would you just stretch out a hand someone brother hearing let's pray right now for him and for his family lord jesus i pray right now that you would move as only you can move oh god god that you administer to their hearts god that you administer to their spirits to their bodies god give strength and rest god i pray a financial blessing god that already has been poured out but god greater things even greater god but what he has declared by faith today that he's already put into action god that pressed down shaken together and running over god you would bring into his life a blessing that they cannot contain god i thank you for the word that you have spoken into our hearts and into our church for this season today god we receive it and we claim it god we believe that you are up to something great you are up to something awesome god so we receive and we respond we put it into action god what you have spoken god we receive it into our hearts and we claim your will and your purpose and your plan will be accomplished in us and through us by the mighty powerful name of jesus christ we speak that it is done we speak that it is done one more time giving praise right now if you receive it we receive it oh god thank you jesus thank you for being here today thank you for responding to the word that you've heard declared and we just believe that in this season of revival that god is going to do something incredible in every heart and life of every family gathered in here today and watching online we believe it we receive it we declare it victory is ours revival is ours if you believe that one last time will you lift up a praise lift up a shout lord jesus we thank you jesus we thank you victory is ours god bless you thank you for being here today i want to challenge you if you're in the room or you're watching online to share this stream there is no 11 15 service today we are restreaming this service so share it with somebody god bless you thank you for being here have a wonderful wonderful sunday afternoon [Music] [Music] now

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