Katherine Ruonala - 18th of October - Wait and Seek, and Look

[Music] [Music] so [Music] [Music] bye [Music] [Music] [Music] [Music] you just start to come and i would just love for you to make the use of our dots we've got up the front here this is for our social distancing worship so why don't you stand to your feet we're gonna yeah we're just gonna get ready to worship god yes so why don't you stand to your feet and come on up the front yes who's excited to come and gather come on i just feel like it's something we can never take for granted that we get together and we get to sing and worship god there's so many parts of our world right now even our nation that does not have the privilege of doing what we're doing in this moment do you know the word of god says that where two or more are gathered in my name there i am in the midst you know there's a special part of communion with god that looks like you and god fellowshipping with him in your secret place but can i just get your expectations up for a minute that when you gather together in the name of jesus with other people there's something significant that's released into a corporate gathering like this yeah so yeah why if you're still coming in um come up the front and grab a space we're just gonna worship god together um man hands up if you hear on friday night was anyone here for yeah man we just had an awesome time of worship and jane led some brilliant stuff and men spoke about the union we have with the father all the time and then aaron just dropped some truth bombs about faith and like walking in maturity and walking above the trials and the things that come against us if you have not heard that message can i can i recommend that you go and have a listen back to it it's just super powerful but man i've been listening i actually started listening back to it again yesterday because i just felt the lawn on it and i just wanted to encourage you like we know that worship moves mountains because we know that faith it's like the faith of god that moves but i just want to encourage you today yeah as you position your heart to worship god that as you lock eyes with a faithful one that's how you move in faith that you can you can say that as you look at jesus today that he is the author and perfecter of your faith and as you worship god as you lock eyes with him he is the author and perfecter of your faith and you're going to see him flow and move out of you yeah so let's just read a scripture for a minute this was a stirring in my spirit today as i was thinking about the the letter that aaron read on friday night from hudson taylor that was talking about man we don't strive for more faith but we look at the faithful one and that's how we operate in faith so this is hebrews 12 it says since we are surrounded by such a great cloud of witnesses and that's the the hall of faith that we read about let us lay aside every weight and every and the sin which clings so closely and let us run with endurance the race that is set for us let us look to jesus the founder and perfecter of our faith he's the author and perfecter of our faith who for the joy set before him endured the cross come on we just pray for a minute let's just lift our hands we're going to engage with the faithful one we're going to see faith move mountains today come on if you've come with an expectation you're going to see the holy spirit flow and do something significant today so god we thank you well we thank you for the privilege of being united with your son jesus while we thank you that jesus that you are the author and perfecter of our faith yes and so god as we gather in the name of jesus god we see mountains move and we say right now mountains be moved in jesus noun mountains of sickness mountains of addiction mountains of disease and afflictions be moved right now in jesus name god we thank you for just the privilege of locking our eyes on the author and perfecter of our faith yeah thank you jesus just take one more minute one if you pray in the spirit why do you just pray in the holy spirit build yourself up in the most holy faith thank you god yes jesus you are the author and perfecter of our faith come on we're not striving for faith we come into your presence and we see things shift and change thank you god thank you jesus [Music] [Music] [Music] you are [Music] now i'm singing [Music] you were calling me [Music] [Music] when my heart is [Music] [Music] is [Music] [Music] you are calling me when i'm without [Music] my strengths my [Music] when the love runs down strength is you are calling me to pray you were calling me you were calling me you know i can sense there's an atmosphere of breakthrough in the room and i believe that we need to be really careful not to miss the opportunities god's giving us now god's been speaking out of isaiah 54 sing o baron you who have not yet born he's saying enlarge your expectations get happy about what you haven't yet seen because your act of praise your act of celebrating allowing your joy to go there and so you've already received it is an act of warfare that accomplishes much so we're going to keep singing this but wherever you are if you want to start doing your little happy dance in faith aim your face at what you've been believing for and start rejoicing for what you haven't yet seen because there is a breakthrough ready for us hallelujah you are calling me [Music] you were calling me [Music] when it's hard [Music] [Music] me you were calling me when my heart is [Music] [Music] you were calling me you were calling me [Music] my strength is bounced [Music] is you is me [Music] you were calling me you were calling me calling me to play you were calling me you were calling me [Music] so [Music] [Music] um [Music] [Music] there is freedom [Music] is there is freedom freedom freedom has a name freedom has a name it's jesus jesus you've broken every chain we will shout the name of jesus freedom has a name freedom has a name it's jesus jesus you've broken every train we will shout the name of jesus we will come back to bondage you paid for liberty you paid for liberty [Music] jesus [Music] it's our state of being it's our state of being freedom is not a feeling it's our state of being it's our state of being i'll sing it out freedom is not a feeling it's our state of being it's our state of being oh yes lord freedom [Music] is is [Music] [Music] [Music] is [Music] [Music] [Music] is [Music] the sound of jesus [Music] [Music] [Music] jesus christ [Music] oh [Music] me [Music] [Applause] jesus it's jesus jesus [Music] one more time me [Music] so [Music] oh my god [Music] so [Music] my jesus [Music] [Music] i am never ceased [Music] [Music] mountains will roar at this [Music] nothing compares to the promise i have here [Music] jesus [Music] please [Music] is [Music] [Music] [Music] oh [Music] is [Music] [Music] is [Music] is [Music] mountains [Music] nothing compares i had to yours [Music] love songs [Music] to your glory [Music] oh [Applause] [Music] mountains [Music] forever [Music] in [Music] oh [Music] [Music] jose the voices [Music] now [Music] jose [Music] oh [Music] yes [Music] let us see [Music] mountains fell down and the seas [Music] i sing for joy at the work of your hands [Music] i [Music] i [Music] angels [Music] [Music] angels [Music] is [Music] angels [Music] is [Music] is [Music] is [Music] [Applause] you were [Applause] [Music] [Applause] [Music] foreign [Music] me [Music] foreign [Music] [Music] foreign [Music] is [Music] [Music] is [Music] oh [Music] [Music] me [Music] oh [Music] see [Music] [Music] seasons [Music] jesus [Music] oh day and night night [Music] you were [Music] to [Applause] [Music] you were [Music] [Music] jesus we love you jesus we love you jesus we love you jesus we love you [Music] we love you lord we love you lord jesus we love you we love you we love you we love you jesus we love you [Music] jesus we love you lord jesus we love you jesus we love you jesus we love you lord we love you we love you we love you we love you we love you you know as we're worshiping [Music] it's just so beautiful the bible tells us seek and you will find cause i'm watching and i'm seeking i got such a sense it was almost like in the book of job where everyone did their talking and everyone sounded smart and then god says now it's my turn and i got such a sense that we are about to come into the place of awe and glory where no one will want to speak because god himself will speak and the wisdom of god will be made manifest so we say yes lord we say yes lord thank you jesus thank you jesus day and night night and day let incense arise [Music] day and night night and day let incense [Music] all day [Applause] [Music] day at night [Music] [Music] you are all [Music] our prophetic voices in the house and the lord's given your word we want to hear what the holy spirit look what psalm 26 8 on my heart oh lord i love the habitation of your house the place where your glory dwells it literally says in hebrew of the tabernacle of your glory i kept hearing the longing of my heart one thing i've asked from the lord that i shall seek and i may dwell in the house of the lord all the days of my life to behold the delightfulness of the lord and to inquire in his tabernacle he's the touch you're looking for i can feel him there's a river of his delightfulness is flowing through this place he's the touch you're looking for thank you jesus [Music] i was reminded this afternoon of worship just confirms carsten's word of psalm 122 1 and david exclaims i rejoiced when they said come let us go to the house of the lord and it's such a privilege to come and be here together today as we know not everyone in this nation can do that right now i was so grateful for that god but i also sensed a rejoicing in the fact that we are the house of the lord and we are the tabernacle of god and i felt him reminding us this week rejoice as you come into my presence rejoice because i've made a way for you to enter in to the holy s holy of holies and it's my good pleasure even to dwell within you the house of god even within you the house of god the house of my glory and i felt like just even it was this beautiful readjustment of the privilege it is to house god within us to house the father within us and not to take that lightly but just as pastor catherine has said so beautifully even to stand in oar and wonder of who he is and let the spirit of the fear of the lord come in and cause us to recognize and rejoice at the great privilege we have to host god himself god himself among us emmanuel god with us god within us and then god being released through us to the well thank you lord [Music] mary i want to give you some time later because i really want to take notes come on maggie [Music] foreign you have faithfulness on your side you've kept your and eyes will hold to you cause i know your promises are faithful and true remind yourself of all that he has said for you stand upon the rock of his promises and he has never failed before he's never failed before he's never been disappointed thank you lord we bring to remembrance lord all that you've spoken over 2020 this is the fourth quarter lord and i know your word will come to [Music] because you stand on the rock of his promises the wrong of the ages unmoving unshaking unbreakable his faithfulness written on his thigh he's kept you as the apple of his eye he's tapped you under in the cleft of his wing he's given you a song and something to sing he's given you a voice and he wants you to release it so open up your mouth cause he's ready to receive it [Music] and i'm going to ask pastor berry to come in a little while later because i i just really believe he has a word for the church that i want to make sure we really pay attention to but why don't you take a moment and just turn around and wave at somebody or give him an elbow or whatever we want to do and just say it's so good to have you in church today [Music] so worship tonight that was just outstanding thank you jesus so prophetic i had the joy this weekend of being at um a kingdom hope conference and emma turner was leading i think i see you up the back there emma is that you yes emma yes and she was singing so many of the same songs mandy it's just it's the holy spirit just speaking right now hey emma i'm talking about you yes i was just saying how interesting it is how the holy spirit is bringing out the same the same songs the same provocations and you know i really think we need to be listening and having ears to hear what the holy spirit's saying i love that word from carsten i've been meditating on psalm 27 today so just so powerful hallelujah our god is faithful we've had more testimonies of his goodness more testimonies of his miracle working power nothing is impossible for those who believe amen hallelujah we're going to pray our prayer requests together and as you know praise the lord every week around the world people are watching on tv then also ben is live streaming it on my facebook page every sunday morning after it's aired on on television at 10 30 on sunday mornings he airs the program he's done an amazing job but people are watching online every week and we're getting such wonderful responses as people are connecting with jesus people who don't normally even watch christian television have been looking in this season hallelujah because they are looking for hope they're looking for answers hallelujah so we're so grateful for the opportunity to be able to preach the gospel all over the world praise the lord i get to preach the gospel while i'm asleep and they write in frey requests and here's the good news there is no distance in prayer hallelujah and the word sent forth does not return to him void but it accomplishes what it's sent forth to do hallelujah so we're going to pray these prayer requests together i i this we couldn't possibly go through them all but i'd like you in faith to reach your hand out and i want you not to be just polite but i want you to join your faith with me hallelujah actually get me a microphone joseph come on up and you come and pray for these prayer requests for me come on yes you joseph kokali great man of faith hallelujah come on up let's pray that we're just going to pray for this prayer request we want to lead everybody together we're going to agree father thank you jesus just uh speak in tongues with me yes father in jesus name we break sickness over these people we break mental illness over these people in the name of jesus thank you father we just pray for people with heart conditions father thank you for new hearts being given to them for the people who are troubled by demons we break digestive issues in jesus name father thank you for souls coming into the kingdom of god thank you for backslidden people coming back to god in jesus name we believe it father god thank you jesus we just break the power of covetous melbourne in the name of jesus thank you lord may the name of jesus christ be high in that place thank you lord amen jesus name amen thank you [Applause] hallelujah praise the lord we have gloriously wonderful people in our community god is so good you know we also praise god look what i've got here volunteer of the week and you know we are so blessed with the people in our in our church i just i i get overwhelmed at the love that people have for each other and what they do in secret what they do every week consistently without seeking any encouragement without looking for anything for it they do it as unto the lord because they love god and they love this community and today i'm quite excited about this couple that we want to give this to these are one of these are this couple have the most beautiful love story and they have for so many years been so faithful and so consistent and and my heart i know i have been personally blessed because they have interceded and looked after going after things in prayer every week faithfully faithfully faithfully praying for the church serving loving always happy always joyful always faithful i'd love to get murray and larae thompson to come on up today if you would give them a big hand we love this precious cup come on come on come on come on guys we love you so much if you don't know their story it is very beautiful they're too generous oh no it's true and i've watched them in fact they met in the prayer room i saw them fall in love over there when the creation was a prayer room i watched them going oh i'm walking out the way they're looking at each other there i remember it it's true yes it's true and they've been praying and interceding just faithfully ever since we just love them so much i wish i could hug you but gosh we love you yeah with the deepest level of affection i can matter we love you this is a little say thank you but you we uh we honor you and say thank you for your consistent love and faithfulness thank you give him a big round of applause yay it's been a long time how many years now larae and and murray six years married but how long here at church probably nine years yeah right back when we had the pink chairs hallelujah and no air conditioning they are faithful i tell you praise the lord wonderful jesus all right am i doing all the things i am look at that i did my part praise the lord we get to watch a video yes yay ready set go [Music] good evening glory city church and welcome to our sunday service if you're joining us online please feel free to leave a comment or prayer request and our lovely online team will be there to engage with you so my name is zelda and i'm joined by the wonderful elite hey everyone and we'll be doing your sunday announcements so just a quick reminder we are still adhering to the social distancing so if you could leave two seats between you and another household so that someone who you don't live with that would be really great really help us out with our covert safe plan as well as registrations are still essential because of um covert we've had to cap the amount of people that that's allowed in the building and so registration is essential so that you can make sure that you're able to come because unfortunately we've had to turn away from people and we don't want to do that because we love you all and we want you all to be here so elise please tell us what is happening in the life of our church sure so this year we are participating in operation christmas child again so it's a really wonderful way to bless people we send gifts through this program to children all over the world for christmas just to bless them and also to share the heart of god with them and share the gospel so if you would like to be involved in this please talk to katie atkins she is here today so have a chat to her for more information or to get a box to pack that was wonderful also as you would have noticed glory city cafe poured out is open so that they normally open from 3 30 before service so feel free to come in have a coffee or tea hot chocolate they have chives and it's great space for fellowship and all the proceeds get sewn back into our community basically and so that's run by matt and so if you would like to be involved and help out commitment would be once every three weeks please contact matt or dil pasta dillon so yeah awesome um coming up on the 14th of november we have our event taste and fee so this is an event run by the academy it's just a day of encounter and refreshing just being in the presence of god and yeah just wonderfully hosted by our academy team it'll be running from 9 00 am until 10 p.m a bit of a hefty day full of goodness full of glory 13 hours in the prince of the lord count me in this event is free and it's open to absolutely everybody but do make sure that you register online registrations are essential yes but it's free it's free awesome so i do believe we have a bit of a video to watch so if you your eyes should all be on the screen so [Music] awesome thank you for the academy i will definitely be there i'll be there as well be a good time so we have one last announcement why a nights are back on this week tuesday on the 20th of october it'd be a wonderful time for our fellowship you know shopping iron sharpens iron as a wire community and so there'll be um worship ministry and getting into the word together and if you'd like to connect and be a part of that you can go on facebook to gcya official or you can contact jane at zero four seven four no i'm just kidding i wouldn't do that but you can email her at j-a-y-n-e at glorycitychurch.com and get any other information that you would need so we love you glory city church enjoy the service and we'll see you next week have a great night good hello hello everyone how are you doing doing well shout out to zelda i thought for sure you were going to give away the number you should have yeah no she should not for sure come on i can't um i was in worship and it was just it's so hard to get up and and talk when you're just in the presence and you're in the atmosphere and you feel like you know what have i got to say when the holy spirit just rocks up in power and you can just feel that so i'm going to talk tonight about a quick offering but also have we got any new visitors here tonight if you're a new visitor here tonight chuck your hand up oh you got anyone so good hey what i'd love us to do as a community is we've got a few new visitors here i'd love us to go crazy i'd love us to give them the biggest shout because we love new people here at glory city church so on the count of three give me the biggest shout ever one two three [Applause] that's what i like to hear welcome to the community you're awesome it's an absolute privilege and honor to have you here tonight but yeah i'm going to talk about offering real quick i was thinking about offering today as i was preparing and i was like god what do i say about offering because you know i don't feel like my mindset towards offering has changed i don't feel like you know i rely on a person on a sunday to you know teach me how to give my offering to god so i was like oh i feel really challenged because i felt this pressure of like you know i've got to you know i've got to go into the word i've got to get this fresh revelation on on why i should give financially to my house and i felt the holy spirit ask me why do you give why do you give and for a moment i couldn't answer him because to be honest i kind of forgot why do i actually give and i felt the holy spirit lead me down this path of actually remembering why did i start to give financially speaking in the first place so i want to take you through why i personally give to this house financially as as a staff member as the person here who leads our amazing youth community i just want to run you through because also i understand that you know i had the privilege of growing up in a christian family where my parents actually taught me you know the values of giving to your local church you know i was also surrounded by amazing mentors and friends who modeled this to me and showed me why this was important so i understand not everyone here maybe has grown up with a framework of why we should actually give to the local church but it was around when i was 17 where i was like you know what i actually want to give my heart to jesus i don't want my life to be my own i want my life to be completely sold out to jesus i want him to be on the throne of my heart i want him to be lord of my life and for me that included my finances it wasn't like god you're the lord of my life but not over my paycheck i wanted to i formed this conviction at 17 years old that if i'm going to make jesus christ if i'm going to make god the lord of my life i'm going to make him the lord of my finances so basically from that point i was like okay how can i practically and consistently do this every week because i also believed and i also conformed this conviction for me personally that if i'm going to give financially i want to give to my local church i want to give to the church that i'm planted in that i'm serving in that i'm involved in i don't want to give to this random ministry that i have no idea about i want to give to where i'm planted because i believe in the house i believe in the church i believe in the people so basically for me if you don't know i love routine i love order so i was like you know what i'm not going to go for these sporadic amounts of money every single week i'm just going to go for 10 every single week it's what i could afford it made sense in my head at the time so i was like i'm just going to do it every single week so for the last five years i've been intentionally when i can afford every single time giving 10 of my paycheck to the church to this house so that's a bit of the framework on on what's actually built my giving and that's really at its essence why i give to the church i give to the church not because they can give anything back to me but because god is lord over my life and he's lord over my finances and i have a conviction that i want to bless the community that i'm in with my finances but i had this phrase come into my mind and i wanted to share the context with you because this frame this this phrase came into my mind and i think it's really important for for us to take home as we share about the offering and the phrase is that the challenge for me isn't to be inspired to give anymore the challenge is having the discipline to remind myself why i'm giving in the first place i'll say it again the challenge for me isn't to be inspired to give any more the challenge for me is to be disciplined to remind myself why i actually decided to give in the first place if you're a mature believer in this house and you're a member of this house it's not my job to inspire you to give it's not my job to get up here and hype you into giving it's our responsibility as believers as members of this house to remind ourselves hey why are we giving why are we giving and i want to encourage you tonight if you don't know why you're giving if you don't have an answer in your heart seek the lord about it go into your bible understand that the pure purest of your being hey why do i actually want to give into this community with my paycheck why do i want to give into this house with my finances and trust me i believe you're actually going to be have a release of freedom over your ability to give to this place because no longer is it going to be dependent on a message or a person or how you've been treated it's going to be completely between you and god but if you have been giving i just want to say thank you and i want to wrap this up in prayer and all the service team guys feel free to start taking that up jesus we thank you for all that you're doing in this house lord we thank you for the people that you've brought to our community god god we just pray right now over every single person's finances here today god that when it comes to money father that we would not be worried that we there would not be pressure god because we know where our provision is our provision is you our king our father god i just speak over anyone right now who's having financial difficulties that in your word it says that you will provide all their needs according to your riches and glory thank you father for providing that right now in jesus name everyone said amen come on awesome well it's my absolute honor and privilege to invite up our very own senior leader she's very dear to me she believes in me so much and it scares me sometimes really but i want to invite her up she's got an amazing word on our heart and i'm sure it's going to bless every single one of you why don't we give her a big clap and be upstanding for pastor catherine [Applause] thank you hallelujah i was talking about you this weekend matt um andrew stags was at this conference where i was and we were we were bragging about how much we love you and how amazing you are so well done before i i jump in and i believe this might be yours there you go before i jump in i actually wanted just to make some room and i don't care how long it takes um i would one really have been excited to hear pastor barry just unpack for us a revelation and a prophetic word that he get he received for our church and our network that i just thought would bless you so much i touched on it a little bit last week but it it i i want you to hear it from him now um barry and joan they are just astonishing people they are lovers of jesus who have led so many people to christ through their walk and have touched and impacted nations he's recognized as an apostle within our network but more so in the nations where they have received the word with joy and been dramatically changed we often don't realize who we have in our midst but heaven will celebrate them far more than we could ever understand would you give a big welcome to pastor barry as he comes and let's i just want to i want to hear this well we love you barry thank you thank you thank you thank you and i want to thank you for those who know i haven't been well for a number of weeks and really appreciate the fact that you prayed and you've um and and the fact that we pray for one another and we really uphold one another take seriously the health and strength and vitality and function of everybody in the body of christ in this church so i want to thank you for that thank you for pastor catherine for really using that prophecy last week and not much as i expected a beautiful message and we were just blessed with that we were sick last week so we couldn't come in but over a quite a period of time i and i want to say that prophetic words come and should come often when we meditate on the word of god and it's our practice to meditate on the word of god yeah and as we meditate on it just taking time listening chewing over the things god is saying that the holy spirit comes with inspiration and he highlights stuff you've never seen before and and in this time and season and the time of revival and through toronto and so on through this church the the atmosphere and the environment lends itself to hearing the voice of god so much easier and is allowed because that is a culture of the church and therefore in our own personal time it allows us to drink in what the holy spirit's saying and releasing and so uh this came and i always get amazed these days because i'm finding so many new things in my bible i've never seen before and i wondered who put them in there because i've been reading it for over 50 years and i thought i didn't see that before yeah and so there's truths there waiting there's treasures to be extracted anyway i can't keep going good uh but i was in zechariah and nine and ten and this particular word came um to me and i sat on a week saying yeah yeah right and okay whatever you know and then catherine sort of pastor catherine basically forced me into sharing it one day on the network zoom and i thought okay and then sharing it again released the riches of it so much more but i trust it will bless you and help you and i believe it's for this church and for the network churches in our community and so in zechariah says and as as for you because of the blood of the covenant with you i will free your prisoners from the waterless pit return o fortress to your fortress prisoners of hope even now i announce that i will restore twice as much to you i will restore twice as much now pastor catherine which is that so many times and it's a theme coming through often and then it says i will bend judah as my bow and fill it with ephraim i will arouse your sons o zion and make you like a warrior's sword then it says the lord then the lord will appear over them or another scripture says lean over them his arrow will flash like lightning now what came out of this was the the issue of the blood of the covenant first of all the blood of jesus christ the blood of the covenant he frees us uh as prisoners of hope and in spite of our situation whatever's going on there is there is a supernatural birthing of hope in us that overrules all situations and and i believe that we are prisoners of hope in the sense of prisoners to jesus because he's the goal he's the focus and he's he has all the answers and so in that there's a release and i think the message says come home my prisoners of hope come home it's time to come home into what you're born for then it says uh and i will restore twice now then again it says i will bend judas a bow and fill it with ephraim now judah means praise and worship and i really believe that god highlighted the fact that judah the church of jesus christ the people of god this fellowship and the network of churches have a culture of honoring worship for god and again this this night how fantastic to join in and just worship and honor and glorify god and get caught up with him and nothing else and he deserves all the glory and the praise and because of that judah is a bow and it says i will bend judah like a bow. i will bend judah there's a there's a launching pad here the the praise and worship the culture of praise and worship has formed a bow for god it's formed a bow for god that is going to launch something and and so and i think of david who says god is my strength and he causes me to bend a bow of bronze now bo bronze takes a lot more strength and power to bend but the arrow flies faster than a wooden bow and it goes straight and and strong and speedy towards the target and then it says i will fill it fill the bow with e frame and e frame means twice fruitful it says back there i will um i will give you twice uh where is it there restore twice as much to you then it says the arrow he will fill the bow with which is our praise and worship when we're worshiping god is bending a bow and he's filling it with an arrow called twice fruitfulness and i believe that god is saying to the church and to the churches in the network that this church is twice fruitful it's not just once fruitful we had two big mango trees down in northern new south wales at the church we had pasta down there and some season it was so full of mangoes the bells were just bending like crazy now if you double that that's that's enormous and so fruitfulness and i see this and he launches the arrow and it says there again coming uh come to this point here and he will appear over us he leans over us and then it says his arrow will flash like lightning and i believe god's got designated targets he's set up and he's put gcc into those tar into the bow and he's shooting to targets he's got targets specifically now that could be one or two people or the whole church together but i see a lot of the word of god deals with together together together in chapter 10 mentions that and he shoots it and i had this picture of of a fireworks show and a rocket shooting not up but the arrow shooting like flashes of lightning violence it's strong it's blistering it's powerful it just you know i don't i can't explain it sound effects help me when i haven't got words but it shoots and it and that the burst of the rocket that we see at fireworks it bursts over the target into the target and kaboom the whole thing sprays with powerful downloads and double fruitfulness is falling all over those that are four and i see that with us i see it with the church i see it with the academy i see it with these things and and then it says over the page it says i will strengthen the house of judah so i believe that's an enlargement it's a greater power it's a great ability it's a a greater strength and it says i will strengthen the house of judah and i will save the house of joseph and restore them because i have compassion the father of ephraim was joseph had two sons after serious trials and pressures in his life and he had one son manasseh and that was the son they called manasseh which meant forgetting the past forgetting the pain and then when he had the e-frame double twice fruitfulness he says god has made me fruitful in the land of my suffering we can be fruitful no matter what goes on it's inevitable no matter what we do it's inevitable that we can be fruitful even in the worst time feeling like a prisoner in a pit so he says i will have compassion on them and then it says and the ephraim mites will become mighty men in their hearts will be glad with wine and then i go back to chapter 9 it says i will rouse you sons of zion over the sons of grief greece and make you like a warrior sword so the arrow becomes a sword it's a sword a bow and an arrow that's got in the hands of god look out folks in the hands of god we are effective and powerful and in the message bible says [Music] men and women now are my sword in my hand you and i are the sword of god walking in the spirit and truth walking in the power of his love we are deadly in his hands hallelujah i just want to bless you with that and give that to you because i think there's so much in that we are twice fruitful and launched like flashes of lightning [Applause] that's why we sing and we dance and we celebrate not just a cultural thing it's something we are doing deliberately realizing this is a powerful form of warfare hallelujah as we worship god pastor barry that was just outstanding thank you so much hallelujah i'm going to give you that mandy if you would that's our prayer request we can make sure we take care of them thank you [Music] hallelujah let's pray father thank you so much lord we declare double fruitfulness we say thank you father lord we ask that you teach us teach us lord and help us to praise teach us and help us to worship you father i thank you lord for your incredible patience for your goodness for your kindness for your mercy give us ears to hear father thank you lord for your holy spirit speaking to us helping us lord we give you our attention we give you our focus and lord we ask that the word lord would produce great fruit in the hearts of the hearers in the name of jesus everybody said amen hallelujah well if you want to turn we've been looking and i'd like to look again today at isaiah 54 if you've got your bibles hallelujah who knows it without thinking what the first line of isaiah 54 is go meg sing o baron you who have not borne break forth into singing and cry aloud that's quite remarkable thing singer baron you who have not borne break forth into singing and cry aloud you who have not laboured with child for more are the children of the desolate than the children of the married woman says the lord enlarge the place of your tent and let them stretch out the curtains of your dwellings do not spare lengthen your cords and strengthen your stakes for you shall expand to the right and to the left and your descendants will inherit the nations and make the desolate cities inhabited do not fear for you will not be ashamed neither be disgraced for you will not be put to shame for you will forget the shame of your youth and you will not remember the reproach of your widowhood for your maker is your husband the lord of hosts is his name and your redeemer is the holy one of israel he is called the god of the whole earth hallelujah it's such an interesting prophetic commandment invitation and it's waiting for us to respond but it's an interesting thought telling a barren woman who is not even married desperately wanting children sing get really happy and begin to cry aloud like you're in labor and celebrate paint the nursery build an extension make more room because you're about to have more children than your married friends in some circles that might seem insensitive like really come on don't get our hopes up we gotta he'll have we haven't even reached the first step yet maybe a boyfriend might help but no you see god is how astonishing god is able to do exceedingly abundantly above and he's able to do it faster than you might imagine in fact there is a divine acceleration going on right now and for those who are ready and positioned the wave of god is coming and they are going to be propelled faster and further than you've yet experienced hallelujah it's a divine recompense a redemption of the time hallelujah but he says seeing o'barren you who've not born begin to celebrate begin to get happy as though you already have it and i i like to um intentionally even in my room by myself when i'm believing for something i do a happy dance in my room or in the kitchen intentionally and when i'm thinking about oh don't need a breakthrough with that i'm doing my happy dance i believe i believe i believe i believe i believe i please i thank you jesus and i begin to celebrate and thank him for it as though i already have it hallelujah now you might think what are you doing hyping yourself up just be sensible but in fact the kingdom of god is not about being sensible by men's standards it's faith that pleases god and faith is the substance of things hoped for the evidence of things not yet seen this is the evidence thank you i'm so excited that that's happened already in faith in advance celebrating as though you already have it is a powerful weapon of warfare and it empowers you to enlarge your expectation so that you can make room for what god wants to bring god is wanting to do it tells us in ephesians 3 exceedingly abundantly above all you could ask hope or imagine you need to make some room if you actually believe that you need to start enlarging your expectation pastor aaron i had a listen to his message from friday night wow praise the lord if you haven't heard it do yourself a favor but we're speaking about expectation and it's a word i believe the lord is trying to get us to hear and respond to right now he is wanting you to get ready with a joyful anticipation of what god wants to do and he gave this fabulous example he and jesse with basketballs and he was saying if you want to catch a ball you actually have to keep your eye on the ball you have to position yourself ready to catch the thing and in the same way when you've been asking god for his promises when you've been saying thank you jesus god then wants you to position yourself with an expectation to receive and he did this great example that if he's not paying attention the ball's coming and he's missing it missing it missing it missing it because he wasn't paying attention positioning himself keeping his eye on the ball ready to catch it and in the same way god is waiting for us to get ready without expectation to receive the things we have been longing to see sometimes people hope deferred makes a heart sick and and we read about that in scripture people say oh he's not coming again he's been so long i don't think he's ever coming and then bang god wants us to be positioning ourselves ready for what god wants to do and i want to talk a little bit about what that can look like practically for us as we position ourselves isaiah chapter 40 verse 31 who knows what that says hallelujah you have to be a bit louder than that isaiah 40 it's a scripture that we hang in our house and um many people have learned as a memory verse if you haven't great memory verse to memorize isaiah 40 31 anyone those who weighed upon the lord shall renew their strength they shall mound up with wings like eagles they shall run and not be weary they shall walk and not faint now what a magnificent promise those who wait upon the lord shall renew their strength they shall mount up with wings like eagles they'll run and not grow weary they'll walk and not faint even though youths run and faint and they get weary and young men fall those who wait upon the lord regardless of how old they are regardless of how much they're doing if they will wait upon the lord they will renew their strength mound up on wings as eagles but i loved aaron brought out a definition for this word waiting and i was looking at this week i was looking at the different commands of god to wait upon the lord to seek his face to look with expectation to receive to gaze as it says in psalm 27 upon the beauty of the lord all of these words have similar meanings and they are an encouragement for us to expect to procure to apprehend phase intentionally with expectation and those who wait upon the lord shall renew their strength it's actually and this is how aaron put it need to be like hunters waiting for something to come it's an undistracted anticipation posture readiness those who eagerly anticipate expect gaze look with an expectation to receive upon the lord will renew their strength you know when i was first converted i've shared this many times but i was in worship and i just got real with god i said lord it's really hard to sing to somebody i can't see help a lot of people have done that in a in their own way they've said lord if you're really there make yourself real to me but some perhaps have said that perhaps you've even said that lord if you're real then show me but what they've failed to do then is to expect that he will and it becomes like someone throwing basketballs at you because you've asked them to throw a basketball at you but you're not watching so you're not even seeing when we ask god to reveal himself to us to show us something about himself he's there the word of god promises seek and you will find so he's saying yes but with the yes you have to then say right i'm ready here it is i'm i i'm not going to let you go to you bless me i'm here i'm i'm watching i'm not going to be dissuaded like elisha going after elijah i'm not taking my eyes off you i know it's a yes so here it is come on faith begins where the will of god is known we know when you seek him to find him to know him his word tells us exactly it is absolutely the will of god that you find him so you've got the yes the next part for you then is to say right well i'm ready i'm gonna wait and i'm gonna look with an expectation to see i'm going to receive from him hallelujah and that's a posture i've put myself in ever since that day of conversion i've never expected a worship service just to sing just form like singing i'm singing words i love you lord i love you i love you i love you and not actually expecting that the holy spirit is going to give me a fresh revelation of who he is so that i can bring a genuine heart response to a supernatural revelation you see the father is looking for worshipers who worship him in spirit and in truth that is the spirit of truth himself the holy spirit the spirit of the father the spirit of jesus as you ask him to enlighten the eyes of your understanding in the knowledge of him he is ready and waiting every time you come to worship god to give you a revelation a fresh revelation of who he is so that you don't have to just worship blindly i'm singing the songs nice words i agree with the words but not having any connection i don't believe anyone was ever designed to have fellowship with god in a way that they are not aware that he is really right now here with you enjoying your company but it requires us to actually adapt and adopt the posture of waiting with anticipation gazing like a hunter being ready to apprehend ready to grab a hold of ready to to take hold of what god's going to give you so i believe the holy spirit is wanting to do so much more in helping us receive the promises of god and it's through helping you recognize that you have a part to play people might say well come on lord i need to be strengthened and and god will send lots of um encouragements he'll send people but i loved um i loved what aaron said he was quoting my friend james gold and he said if you if you want to hear from god and you don't open your bible it's a bit like having your phone on airplane mode and expecting a phone call and you know it's true god wants to speak to you through the word of god he'll speak to you through people he'll speak to you through nature he'll speak to you in all sorts of ways but if you've prayed lord speak to me encourage me and you're not actively looking for it you will likely miss what is being brought to you so god wants us to become fully aware and fully awake having asked we adopt the posture of face that says right i'm going to have that you see sometimes people deceive themselves into thinking that they are walking the walk of faith because they're able to speak this the talk they're able to know the scripture but their knowledge alone is not enough knowledge without application simply leads to arrogance and a false sense of security but when you know i know these are the promises of god i know that god wants me to have faith and then you actively apply faith right i'm asking this i know it's your will to do it so here i am i'm gonna have it they are the ones that mount up on wings like eagles that run and and don't grow weary walk and not faint they are the ones who receive the strength so when i go and i pray like in ephesians 3 when i start praying lord strengthen me with might by your spirit in my inner being that i may truly come to know together with all the saints christ dwelling in my heart through faith that i being rooted and established in love may be able to comprehend what is the height and the depth and the width and the breath the love of god that passes knowledge that i might be filled up to overflowing with all his fullness i don't just pray it hoping that god might do something i pray it like i am clicking buy on the website on uh to to put it in the cart it's not like on the wish list there i've actually just bang i've just paid for that i'm gonna have it hallelujah this is i i'm i'm having that yes so here i am i'm asking that you'd give me a revelation of your love and i am not leaving until i am experienced that and i know you're not going to tease me you're not going to hold it back for me you said in your presence there's fullness of joy so here's my cup i'm drinking it up thank you jesus i receive your joy yeah god and i don't have to wait for some external thing or another vision or something else to to get the assurance that he's going to do it because he's already said that he will and the assurance i have is simply when i open my faith up to take it help me jesus there's other promises like jeremiah 29 11. who knows what that one is someone's got it for i for i know the plans i have for you declares the lord plans to prosper you and not to harm you plans to give you hope and a future then you will call upon me and come and pray to me and i will listen to you you will seek me and find me when you seek me with all your heart now he's not playing games with us here he's not saying let's see how hard you can try if i if i can see that you are trying really really trying then i might do it for you when he's saying seek me with all your heart you will find me what he's saying is that i've already said yes when you with your whole mind will and emotions put your attention on me you will find me because i'm delivering what you've asked here it is it's not about you you know climbing a mountain and fasting 40 nights and 40 days to impress god with that it's about you giving your full attention your mind your will your emotions i am fully expecting right now to receive what you said you said you know the plans you have for me you said lord god seek you and i will find you so here's my attention thank you lord i'm finding you now thank you jesus and you expect to see hallelujah in the book of daniel daniel says i looked and i saw again if you look up that word you can see it's very similar in posturing with an anticipation to procure i am looking with an expectation to see he wasn't looking going is god speaking yeah nah can't say anything he was looking knowing god wanted to speak knowing god had something to say knowing that every time he looked to him he could have confidence that the father was ready to speak hallelujah in the same way you and i by faith now have access to the throne of god it's not some um stirring of the water by an angel and occasionally if you're the first one to get in maybe you'll get a touch from god praise god because of that veil that's been torn we can come boldly before the throne of grace and experience his presence his face his favor hear his voice have a revelation of who he is with an absolute confidence that god will do it for us jeremiah 33 3 who knows that one call to me and i will answer you and show you great and mighty things which you do not know wow how many people knew that as a memory verse how many people this week have called to god in anticipation that he's going to show you something great and mighty that you do not know and waited to take it and have it of course you have [Laughter] you see so often so often we have this invitation in our hand but we forget to respond to it call to me it's not it's not even like do this and this and this and this and then i will he says no just call to me and i will answer you i'll show you great and mighty things that you don't know i'll tell you my secrets i'm gonna talk to you but god's heart for us is that we would believe what he says and we would posture ourselves to receive it to take it hallelujah well thank you lord this idea of of waiting is um sometimes can be difficult in our fast food culture i am patience personified hallelujah i am full of the patience of the lord because without it man i want it now right now yesterday that's my personality if i get an idea like let's do it yesterday praise the lord but when it comes to waiting on the lord we we don't have to expect that it's going to take a long time but we do need to take some time to let him speak it's a little bit like when you're having a conversation with someone you say hey how are you and you you you've said it because you're being polite but you're not really listening to what they're saying and you're already talking over the top of them because you wanted to tell them something has anyone ever done that might have done that sometimes we do that with god we say tell me great mighty things that i don't know but you know [Music] and we don't actually take time to listen believing that he's actually going to speak back and he doesn't test you and make you wait days and days he's ready to speak right then but we need by faith to be ready to take it in and to listen when we come to the word of god we can as we open it up every day i mean morning evening as you as you open up the word of god and you feast on it you can be asking holy spirit please show me where to read help me to hear your voice and read with an expectation that he's going to speak to you that he's going to minister to you and he will without faith it's impossible to please god but i wanted to read this final passage to you if you want to turn with me to the book of hebrews hallelujah and i know our academy students are studying hebrews at the moment hebrews is such a magnificent book and as you go through the book of hebrews as you read hebrews 11 you can see what we affectionately call the hall of faith by faith this one did that by faith this one did that by faith this one did that and he's showing us this is how the walk with the lord looks like this is what it looks like by faith we walk by faith by faith we step forward with him by faith we believe by faith we step out hallelujah and then he says in chapter 12 therefore we also since we are surrounded by so great a cloud of witnesses referring to all those people that we read about in hebrews 11 let us lay aside every weight and the sin which so easily ensnares us and that is run with endurance the race that set before us looking unto jesus the author and finisher of our faith who for the joy that was set before him endured the cross despising the shame and has sat down at the right hand of the throne of god for consider him who endured such hostility from sinners against himself lest you become weary and discouraged in your souls for you have not yet resisted to bloodshed striving against sin god's telling us hey don't give up remember the great heroes of faith that have gone before you and remember now that you living in this new covenant have access to what they would have longed to have access to you are seated with him in heavenly places i it is my good pleasure to give you the kingdom here it is so don't get distracted by weights and discouragements and distractions don't get distracted by sin but feed on him feed on his faithfulness and pursue with anticipation what he is already sending for you to receive ask and you will receive just don't miss out when the delivery comes hallelujah be postured ready expecting the holy spirit to speak to you hallelujah i never want us to come in worship without an expectation to encounter god i never want to have a time alone with the lord and not expect that the holy spirit is going to speak to me it may not be a technicolor open vision it may be a wonderful revelation of jesus as i study the gospels looking expecting as i read about jesus to get to know him better by the power of the holy spirit enlightening me in the knowledge of him i do that sometimes when i read the gospels i'll get a focus and i think okay i'm going to read the gospels this time with with the focus i want to know jesus the person i want to know you talk to me holy spirit help me to know my jesus hallelujah god wants us to enlarge the place of our dwelling to enlarge our capacity to receive he wants us to be waiting in joyful anticipation of what god has already agreed to release to us he wants us to ask with joyful anticipation of his answer with a faith that says i believe thank you lord so daddy today i come to you and i ask you to strengthen me encourage me today lord i pray that a lot and you know what he encourages me a lot i do and i never say it out of a victim mentality oh god please encourage me i say please encourage me god i'm excited how he's going to do it i'm looking every time someone on the phone that day tells me something encouraging i'm like that was something i asked god for for today because i'm looking for it i'm expecting it oh it's a sunny day haha yes thank you that's nice i received that that's a personal encouragement for me i saw that bird you know i love birds thank you jesus bring it on daddy what's your heart expectation god wants to fill you he wants to do more than you've asked for now they i often pray the the jabez prayer oh lord that you would bless me indeed some people get really upset about the idea that you'd be asking god to bless you he loves to do it he encourages you to posture yourself to do it in fact he he prays the lord bless you god wants to bless you but he wants you to be looking at his face so that you can receive what he wants to give you he wants to bless you with revelation he wants to bless you with double recompense he wants to bless you and take you in an accelerated manner into the fullness of the future and the hope that he has for you but unless you start believing it is absolutely the will of god to do that for you you are going to miss out on what the father is looking to unload are you ready we are entering into a season where you are going to see such glorious acceleration as i was in worship tonight i was seeing lots of things because i look with an anticipation of seeing and i saw that i was with the lord and he was showing me the globe actually starting to spin faster and faster and faster and i'm looking and i'm i'm thinking oh that's exciting god and i'm seeing the nations of the earth i'm thinking oh that's great you can take me to the nations looking forward to going to the nations again god thank you very much i'm excited for that and then i saw all these tv screens flashing around in all the different countries and i was like yes and i saw it as an invitation thank you lord you're going to accelerate the spread of the gospel through the media all through the nations yay thank you daddy i'll celebrate that these are just things that the lord is wanting to say all the time about you and your life and your future but if you won't look with a joyful anticipation of receiving what he wants to speak to you you'll often miss what god wants to say if you look and you'll keep looking god will keep showing hallelujah father we say thank you for your word you are faithful and true holy spirit i just asked that you would release a joyful anticipation of your blessing of your good lord i thank you lord your will is revealed to us and lord i'm asking holy spirit that you would help your people to walk in a dynamic and real relationship with you in the name of jesus i was singing in tongues this week at um at the conference that we were at emma and afterwards a lady came up to me and she said i was hearing the interpretation of the tongue you were singing and you were singing with this there was this great urgency in your voice show them lord show them your face show them your face i was like oh god that's so awesome because it's the cry of his spirit he wants you to see he wants your relationship with god to be so real that you'll be smiling and people will be asking what are you smiling about because you've got this awareness he walks at me he talks with me i'm never alone he's my ever-present health in time of need hallelujah we're going to pray for some people in just a few minutes and then we're going to take communion together but before we do that i never like to leave a service without making an opportunity for people to come to christ whether you're watching online or whether you're here in the building and god's desire is to have relationship with us he wants everyone to have eternal life the bible makes it clear that he desires none should perish god isn't a a meanie up in heaven wanting to punish everybody he desires that no one should have to be punished desires no one should have to go to hell and so he made a way the only one who could fulfill the law the penalty of sin the only one who could do it came he humbled himself as a man lived a sinless life suffered and died and was buried went to hell and rose again as the conquering king so that you and i could receive the gift of grace the gift of redemption so that we would not have to bear the penalty of our sin if we would look to him and say god i need a savior have mercy on me i receive your gift of forgiveness your gift of salvation and anyone who would believe on jesus christ as the son of god who takes away the sin of the world who would receive him as savior and lord would never have to suffer eternal punishment but instead would have everlasting life with the god who will make no mention of your past sins who makes you a brand new creation as though you never sinned and give you a new heart it's salvation it's called being born again but it requires a response from us to say yes lord i want that he's a good god he made you in his image and in his image it means that you have a choice he's not going to force you into relationship because that wouldn't be love but he urges you invites you come my daughter my son come i love you i've done everything that needs to be done you don't have to be ashamed i've taken your shame let me give you mercy let me give you forgiveness but you won't receive that unless you acknowledge you have need of it i have need of forgiveness i have sinned god have mercy all have sinned and fallen short of the glory of god here's my sin i give it to you have mercy on me i receive your mercy your forgiveness your eternal life come into my life and make me new on the inside if you're here today or you're watching online and you know in your heart you need to make that choice i want to pray for you right now if that's you would you just wave your hand at me i'd love to pray with you is there anyone here that says yes today's the day i want to make the choice to receive jesus as my savior as my lord let me see your hand or if you're watching online please let us know if that's you we'd love to be able to pray with you we'd love to be able to help you in your new walk with jesus you know i believe that as in these days when we're seeing so much going on there's a lot of talk and a lot of fuss about all the things and the events going on in the earth christ has died christ has risen and christ will come again hallelujah others christ has died christ has risen in christ will come again amen hallelujah but you know what as we see the day approaching we don't have to get all caught up and worried about stuff we just have to stay on mission and the mission is to love god love people preach the gospel not be afraid rejoice and again i say rejoice and walk in the fellowship that we have with the one who loves us more than life to glorify god and enjoy him forever amen the mission doesn't change but if we understood if we understood eternity we'd be sharing the gospel more than we are if you knew he was coming back tomorrow what would you be doing tonight i believe god is giving us fresh eyes to see that our lives are like breaths and if we understood the value of eternity if we understood how much he loves people we'd be sharing the good news with them amen god bless you i'm going to ask pastor mark to come and we're going to pray for a few people hallelujah praise the lord hallelujah carson do you want to come to let's pray ned do you want to come help me i love meg meg williamson she's a delight thank you jesus how great is our god sing with me how great is our god all we'll see how great how great is our god lord you're faithful you're so faithful father to see there's someone here that you've been you've been having a skin condition that's been very um very uncomfortable itchy i want to pray for you who's sad i just want to want to pray for you who's that person all right few of you right now just put your hands on your skin if you wherever you want to i just believe the holy spirit is right now in the name of jesus touching and bringing supernatural peace i speak the name of jesus over you and i declare healing to your skin right now in the name of jesus be healed hallelujah amen hallelujah it's very violence can i pray for you stand up where you are i saw a um a plateau specifically a sort of plateau above cape town and i saw a jet take off from the top of the plateau i feel like you have shifted from one season to something high and free and beautiful but i feel the law is going to take you higher i saw this complex thing i don't even know how to describe is all this stuff files and computers and things stacked up together i also just take it all and just turn into something really simple i feel like there's a freedom coming i see the the ability to hear the voice of god in intimacy growing deeply for you in this season right now let's speak release from complications release from all the traffic in your mind right now in the name of jesus and increase over intimacy over the fresh oil over your life joy like you've not known for many years but god never restores back to normal he always gives double he always brings increase i thank you for terry this very season is the is the turning point the way he changes where things he turns the corner freedom joy increase in jesus name thank you for hey man awesome um i want to ps that really quick terry sorry can you stand up one more time i had a word for you before carsten called you out and as i saw it's totally in line with that i saw a rubik's cube with just one more click before it all lined up and so what and then i felt him say what may have felt like a setback is a promotion wrapped up in the final piece coming together and so we just want to bless you and then i just saw encounters with god over your life terry uh particularly just in your time with him at night time i just see encounters opening up in a whole new way for you so we just bless you in jesus name we bless you we bless you we bless you yeah thank you god come on beloved raise your expectations he died for so much more than just salvation this is not a season of survival we are moving into his revival you know i was like um with the lord this morning and he just kept singing you can count on me like one two three i'll be there and i know that's a secular song but i'm just gonna read the lyrics for you if you ever find yourself stuck in the middle of the sea i sail the world to find you if you ever find yourself lost in the dark and you can't see i'll be the light to guide you you can count on me like one two three and i'll be there if you're tossing and you're turning and you just can't fall asleep i'll sing a song beside you and if you ever forget how much you really mean to me every day i will remind you for you can count on me like one two three and i'll be there did you know they were the lyrics either did i god speaks like pastor catherine was saying through so many things and i felt the lord just wanted to remind you that the song you wake up with tomorrow morning is a gift from him that he wants you to cherish and just just chew on all day and all night because you can count on him to always be faithful with a living word for you amen she and i we're both music teachers we're both music and drama teachers it's actually amazing by profession and um and god speaks through song all the time my life is a musical as you know hallelujah and i had a song today too try to remember the kind of september when grass was green and grain was yellow try to remember and if you remember follow and i could remember i knew the holy spirit was speaking to me try to remember the truth about what i say about you try to remember the promises i've put in your heart and as you remember don't just remember it wistfully remember and follow and those ones that have felt stuck in trying to hear god i believe the lord is saying try to remember the last time you had a rhema word from him remember it and follow it because it's an invitation into the next thing hallelujah father we say thank you jill i want to pray for you can you stand up darling yeah we love you jill father i thank you for jill jill i just believe the holy spirit is giving you fresh vision and dove's eyes like blinkers that are on the side to go after what he has said and the lord says it's a season of refreshing and delight for you for she who refreshes others will herself be refreshed and the lord says there's refreshing and seeking his face that this is a season where you will seek and find and rejoice and sing for i see the lord saying that even dreams that you've had things you have longed for for your family you're going to see the season of fulfillment for and you'll say i i dreamt about this like daydreaming about it this is and you'll feel like you're one who is walking in a dream for the lord delights to do it he delights in the prosperity of his saints he delights to fulfill what he has promised to you so father we say thank you for jill in jesus name amen amen i'm just getting the word hiccups is anyone particularly over here actually been having an issue with hiccups like really regularly getting hiccups you've been dubbed in by your friend can i pray for you you don't have to come down but if you stand i'll just pray for you let's believe there won't be another hiccup why don't we stretch our hands out towards her father we just bless our sister right now hiccups we command you to leave and don't come back whatever needs restoring be restored right now the power of god come upon you in jesus name we say be healed amen bless you and chloe can you stand for me just really quick i saw a picture of a cash register hovering right over your head uh and it and it like it you know when it goes ding and it slides open and it was packed with cash and i just saw you just reaching in and just grabbing whatever you needed anytime and i just felt like the lord wanted to say don't do it for the money whatever that means don't do it for the money do it because of what's in your heart to do from the lord and he'll provide everything you need and are you just really a financial word over your life specifically i just want to bless you with that and and i and then i actually just see the word industry and yeah whatever it is in your heart is bigger than you're currently seeing as well and so if there's anything capping you on a mindset level particularly anything financial just to release that to him and i just feel like as you do that innovation is going to drop into your spirit as we bless you chloe we love it all that you do in our house and in your business and your endeavors so you know sometimes you can feel your spirit expectation for somebody it's just their time something's gonna shift for him hey i closed my eyes before and i was just resting in the holy spirit and i saw this picture of um if you ever seen farmland from really high altitude it's like all these little squares on the ground who's seen that you're in a big plane especially flying over like the central parts of the united states [Laughter] soon in jesus name so i saw all these squares everywhere and some of them had wheat that had risen up and it was golden which i learned last year means it's ready for a harvest i felt like god was saying if two things for people if you're believing for somebody specific in your life to get saved and you feel like it's it's harvest time you feel like you're almost a point of desperation to see the shift in their life someone specific i know we could all stand up for this but you've got someone you've been carrying and it's time for it to shift i want you to stand up because we're going to pray for them salvation okay one other group of people and then either your career or your business and you're waiting it's like you're waiting for that last signature or that last thing to shift so the money can come through you're waiting for harvest you need you just need to you've been waiting and waiting and waiting like a promise and you've been doing all the stuff you needed to shift it's your career or your business that financial shift if that's you stand up as well father god we release harvest right now in the name of jesus every soul now is the time of hope now is the time now is the time we've waited you've sowed you've plowed you've watered now it's a time shift in jesus name thank you father we call them in to the kingdom right now in the name of jesus we claim your souls for the kingdom for jesus christ right now in the name of jesus this week's shift thank you father we remove the blinders from their eyes that the enemy is placed there see the glory of god in the face of christ this week in the name of jesus shift shift shift shift and i felt as i was praying this shift a minute ago that for the people that are believing for financial breakthrough for business things to shift i saw um something like a uh um a window in the heavens that was facing down i saw it like break and money began to pour out and i feel like this week you're gonna see the the signs like a waterfall it starts with a trickle but then it starts to gush out it's gonna break through this week it's gonna break out this week thank you father in jesus name amen i want you to to write into us with the testimonies to both of those when they come this week thank you guys i really appreciate that we're going to take our communion together hallelujah now when we understand uh this incredible gift we have to ask and receive with with absolute assurance he's going to do what we're asking i want to encourage you that the gift of faith that god is stirring in the hearts of people the wonderful revelation that he's given mustn't be squandered god when you start to ask in faith you start to realize wow there's so many things i could ask for now i would encourage you as a church if you'd be praying and asking the lord for god to make a way for these restrictions to no longer be necessary hallelujah and that they would be removed because i am over turning people away at the door and we we need to see we need to see a shift hallelujah but we need to pray not just sit back and be passive about it like there's people they need to be in church we know we know the circumstances the suicide rates the mental health the church jesus christ and the body of christ have the answer and we need everyone everywhere hearing it hallelujah so you need to be praying hallelujah i want you also to be praying for our election that god will bring in godly people and and bring in laws that will help us to be able to get the good news out hallelujah so but we're going to take our communion together hallelujah this cracker you have in front of you it's pierced and it's broken just like the body of jesus was pierced it was broken but as you just hold it in your hand i'd encourage you to put your burdens on him the bible says cast your cares on him because he cares for you he cares for you about everything he didn't create you to carry worries and concerns and and things i want you to take a moment i want you to load this bread up for surely he bore your sorrows the chastisement of our peace was upon him i want you to put your worries your concerns your sickness your whatever it is that you're concerned about i want you to to lay it on him right now in faith take a moment thank you father surely you bore our sorrows lord thank you lord that we cast our cares on you because you care for us thank you jesus let's eat together hooray hooray hooray that's legitimate worship because i'm genuinely getting happy about what god's done hooray yay thank you jesus thank you lord that you heard and have to bear that weight hooray hooray i'm happy anyway praise the lord you can be too i'm gonna take the cup the cup of the new covenant in the blood of the lamb the perfect one the passover lamb jesus christ and he was not just covering your sins because his blood was better than any lamb or bull or goat it not only covers it takes it away and gives you a new heart and you makes you a new creation his mercies are new every morning and he's made us brand new in the blood of his covenant pastor barry read it today because of the blood of his covenant he's going to restore hope and devil for our trouble hallelujah because of the blood of his covenant i am not guilty hallelujah and because of the blood of his covenant as i repent i receive the mercy of god hallelujah clean holy righteous yay as he is reckon yourself dead indeed to sin and alive to god in christ as he is what's he like he's love he is patience personified his kindness personified that's that's who i am now because of your blood jesus thank you you've made me kind and wise and clean and free and joyful and happy and peaceful oh i just pieced myself happy hallelujah you're allowed to get happy too this is like this is not serious this is delightfully gloriously wonderfully amazing let's drink together in thanksgiving hey hooray yes jesus thank you lord thank you lord for your mercy he is so faithful are you happy i am bursting with joy because my god is faithful and true hallelujah you can pass your cups to the edge and if you like and i speak a blessing over you now don't do this out of ritual do it because i know i have what i say hallelujah so you're ready to catch it the lord bless you and keep you make his face shine on you and be gracious to you the lord lift up his countenance upon you and give you continuous peace in jesus name god bless you all beloved i love you we will see you next week have a a week filled with joy and hope and eager anticipation of good hallelujah [Applause] [Music] done [Music] [Music] so [Music] [Applause] [Music] [Music] [Applause] [Music] so [Music] [Applause] [Music] [Applause] [Music] so [Music] [Applause] [Music] so [Applause] 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