One Day Revival | Sean Smith | Jan 10, 2021

sure that you watch or listen to the message from this morning where christa smith challenged us are we fans or are we followers come on how many of you were here or you were in greensboro you were in salisbury and you heard that word this morning come on church was that not an amazing word we heard this morning we love this couple we claim and declare that this is their hometown they don't agree with that yet but we just say this is home for you and we love sean and christa smith as i mentioned this morning sean has served on our board of directors since the refuge began 16 years ago and we love when they're here we love when they're with us and they'll be back for launch in may refuge get on your feet would you welcome not only a board member great friend of this house sean smith come on refuge give it up for sean has he come thanks so much you guys do me a favor just remain standing for a moment i'm always amazed at this number one this is a blessing you guys don't take this for granted my wife and i are in california california is one of those states or an extreme lockdown right now this would be virtually impossible right now in california unless you're you know at costco or you're at home hometown depot or not hometown home depot or a hometown buffet one of them too right but the fact that you could come together and we can gather there's something that god does in the plurality of a community of believers number one he guarantees that if two or more gather together there he is in the midst ours is not a world religion you know that we have a relationship with the living god but world religions they meet together but their founder doesn't attend every single meeting like ours does come on now right uh some of them people that they honor and venerate those dudes are long gone but for us to be able to come together and know that jesus is here the the greatest need in our hour and how many of you know if 2020 gave us anything it reminded us that we don't have all the answers it reminded us that no matter how prepared you think you are think about it one moment right you're thinking about perhaps what you're going to do for the summer you're thinking about you know other plans you're going to make and and how this is going to be this great year and all of a sudden man one little virus one one billionth of a yardstick shows up world economy stop a global pause takes place but in the midst of it all i feel like the lord is wanting us to pivot i want to talk to you about that but but i want you to do this just put a hand on the shoulder of the person next to you and i just want you to begin to bless them right now jesus told the disciples they had the power to bless that when they walked into the house they could release a blessing and if the house wasn't worthy they could retract and take a blessing with them this house these people are worth it just bless them right now we are asking oh god the lord you would bless your sons and daughters we're praying god in this meeting lord that you would show up show off the lord that father like honey encouragement lord favor lord breakthroughs would just begin to flow in this gathering we believe that god we didn't gather together just for some natural meeting and hear some sort of talk god we're counting on the king and his kingdom showing up we're counting on signs and wonders the sick being healed cancer leaving bodies lord those that are bound being set free we are banking that there is an impartation for the person whose shoulder that we're placing our hand on that they will walk away from this place the same person they were when they walked in and god we just declare that we have victory over the devil we know that we're here to not only stand ground we're here to take ground and so lord we declare we're on the offense god we are not on the defense and lord we are sure to give you all the glory it is in him we live move and have our being our very next breath is in the father's hands and we thank you jesus you saw fit to give up glory to come forth the greatest rescue mission ever known to mankind called the cross at calvary and a message of redemption we thank you we praise you in jesus name amen come on just point at that person tell them i'm excited but i'm about to get worse go ahead just tell them that right now my man how many of you were i was in the back so i don't know if pastor jay asked you that how many of you were here this morning or watched online my bride she brought the goods oh my god that message that message i'm serious i i didn't know whether i want to just spread out and just weep on my face i i i was just like in this moment where i go man and pastor nathan said something so powerful he says that word will linger and i feel that that that i don't think we should ever be dismissive of any sermon that we ever hear there's always something in it that god wants to speak to us i know sometimes we can be like man so-and-so needed to hear that right so-and-so needed to be there no god saw to it that you were there because you needed to hear that and and i felt like it just was kind of one of those moments where it called you to attention to get your eyes focused on jesus right and and and one of the things that i saw is a lot of people i think in 2020 and my wife eloquently uh literally addressed it they lost sight of jesus and and we got to get our eyes we got to start this year right come on launch we're going to start with our eyes on jesus i don't know about you but i love those 30 for 30 espn does where they kind of give you the backstage story you see these athletes and you see their accomplishments and their accolades and trophies and and plays that drop your jaws but you don't know the struggle behind the scenes you don't know to grind behind the glory and one of the great great privileges of mine seriously is to be on the board but really to be friends with pastor jay and melanie stewart they are truly amazing now this is why i said that behind the scenes i'm convinced and pastor jay and i were talking about this that they make it look so easy because they're so gracious they walk in such a wisdom they love god they love people they love this community they love the body of christ and they walk a real balanced christianity they have seen health come to this house and health come to this region but let me tell you what to pastor in the midst of a pandemic you do not know to grind behind that glory they make it look easy but let me tell you i'm itinerant right so my heroes are pastors and i'm telling you for them to walk that out and pastor nate pastor terry pastor eric man all of them just are phenomenal that the way that they have they have literally modeled that and so i just want you guys to keep them in prayer because you are so blessed to have such phenomenal uh leadership like that pastor derek too pastor derek that dude makes it look good he makes it look good and he looks good okay at the same time how does he do that man oh man uh i'm super excited pastor lisa nelson love you oh my god you're amazing later this month kristen and i are going to be with her and rusty they're some of our closest friends as well and so didn't know she was going to stick around amazing amazing if you got a bible if you will go to 2nd kings chapter seven second kings chapter seven uh yeah oh come on i just had a friend hang out with him he's been one of my longtime friends this brother is amazing his name's kurt and my wife and i we just smile i love kurt with all my heart i don't know if you ever saw that old sitcom called king of queens he's like kevin james on king of queens real life like like legit man and so he used to manage uh big old tires and i would come in and always put that little oil sticker in the upper left corner of my windshield in hopes that at some point in the midst of my busyness i would stop raise my gaze and lock onto that little thing that i needed to be reminded i needed oil every three thousand come on miles because you got to change your oil you can't run on old oil my wife just put one of them little stickers up on your windshield today but what they hope is that you would recognize by looking that that there's a certain action that needs to take place in a certain time i want to talk to you i believe god gives us signs 2020 has been a sign god put a little oil check your oil sticker in the upper right windshield of your car in hopes that in the midst of your busyness you would look up and see the signs and the sign will remind you that a certain action must take place in a certain season so that's my trailer i'm about to drop that but real quickly we've got a couple things i want to give something out we've got our book on revival i am your sign come on somebody in the front row want revival all right we got uh we call it a uh it's kind of like a well what it is is the uh entire e-course on a jump drive and so without pulling it out there's 23 messages on uh it's basically school of prophecy we call it the prophetic activation series how to hear the voice of god how do how does prophecy come how do words of knowledge come how do you begin to become more sensitive to holy spirit praying for the sick prophetic evangelism there's a book on there and it's not just a little small ebook somebody you know i get it people say send us your email we'll give you an e-book and it's 25 pages no it's a 150-page book a sequel to prophetic evangelism and we have a video that we did for randy clark's ministry on the prophetic ministry of jesus and so this is anyone that wants to seriously be unleashed in the prophetic okay sits right there a great catch too i love that all right we're going to start reading it's no i told you second king seven just hold that thought in luke 12 56 jesus in about 54. he has a group of people with him and he challenges them he says how can you look at the sky you see it's a it's going to be a sunny day tomorrow based on what you see or is going to be a bad weather because you see these clouds and he says how can you see the signs in the sky and know the weather but not understand the signs of the times because understand this they know if it's a fair day you would dress a certain way if you're living come on in seattle in the pacific northwest you know it's going to rain right 90 of the time you're going to dress a certain way you posture and position yourself based on a sign of how the weather will become and jesus rebuked him and said how can you prepare for obviously weather related things in terms of how you dress and how you approach your day and not see the signs of the times and this is just such a profound thing now having said that let me talk to you about times and seasons the lord's been dealing with me about times and seasons and so now actually we're going to go to daniel 2 but we will end up at 2nd kings 7. daniel 2 and verse 21 it says and i love this speaking of god it says he controls the times and the seasons he makes and unmakes kings come on i'm going to amen myself on that that's truth right there or actually i should say i ain't mean daniel he makes and unmakes kings it is he who gives wisdom and understanding he reveals things that are deep in secret he knows what is hidden in darkness and he himself is surrounded by light i praise you and honor you god of my ancestors you have given me wisdom and strength and you have answered my prayer and shown us what to tell the king you got to understand when daniel was writing this prophecy right his people his cause in the natural took a major hit looked like they lost he's in babylonian captivity but in the midst of things looking really bad and as a mentor of mine says sometimes things are so bad it must be god in other words the devil isn't sovereign he isn't powerful enough to bring this thing about there's something in the signs pointing to an aspect that god is at work behind the scenes and that's why he's put the little oil like sticker up on your windshield but it says this and this is the thing that here is daniel about to literally influence a nation he says this of god he controls times and seasons before we go any further whether you're in the risers on the lower level or whether you're watching online you have to understand god is in control number one we can stop preaching right there and just shout run around this place tear up the speaker no we won't tell the speakers but you know i'm like just get pentecostal or something because he's in control right no matter who's in the white house come on god is still on the throne you gotta always remember that no matter how you voted whether your person is in or out god is still on the throne nobody voted him nobody will vote him out you cannot impeach him come on somebody you're not gonna overthrow his office come on you're not gonna bum rush god's white house i mean god's throne right right throne come on because he's god but he says he controls times and season somebody say times and seasons times and seasons are significant because god does specific things in specific seasons in fact the purpose of seasons ecclesiastes says there's a time for everything under the sun is that god establishes times and seasons because within a season he has a purpose right we may have gone into a new year because of december 31st 11 59 right p.m next minute right balls dropping except for this year right people out kissing not not this year you know it was like eerily ghost town in times square anybody watched that right but we believe that because there's a new year all of a sudden all this change goes on and i get it and new year's resolution and all that i get it but you have to understand god doesn't rule his space by clocks and calendars but by purpose and revelation and so just because the clock shifted doesn't mean you're in a new season you're in a new season when you fulfill the purpose that god had for you in oh my in the last season when you walk and get what god wants you to get you don't have to go in a circle no more you can begin to step into some promises that he's got for you he controls times and seasons now daniel 7 25 he although it's separated by five chapters he adds to this revelation in daniel 7 25 speaking now of the devil right of what darkness does says he will speak pompous words against the most high in other words this antichrist or spirit of darkness literally begin to rev reveal its hand by becoming blasphemous by spewing out things against the church against god against the bible how many of you know we're seeing that today [Music] goes on to say he shall persecute the saints of the most high in some translations is translated where down the saints are the most high and i just want to stop and say this i believe there's a demonic assignment of the enemy to wear you down through intimidation it wants to wear you down wear you out take the fight out of you so all of a sudden you just kind of resign yourself to this is how it's going to be sit back get out of a place of contending and fighting for what god has for you or your family or your city or your influence or your children and i'm telling you we need to let the devil know the fight isn't over come on somebody the fight is not over i'm i'm not talking about right now some sort of white house thing i'm talking about in the spirit my eyes is on a nation i believe that god wants to give a nation to his people come on somebody but now here's what i want to get to we read in daniel 2 that god changes times and seasons and now we get to the point in daniel 7 25 where it speaks of the antichrist i already told you he'll speak pompous words against the most high already told you you persecute or wear download saints to the most high now it says he intends to change times and law stop for a second on one side you have god who can change times and seasons and on the other hand you have the spirit of darkness that intends to change times that sounds like a battle line right there that here is god who has control over times and seasons and if you will seasons make up time think of 2021 as a time but there are four seasons in a time so seasons make up a time so here is the enemy intending to change times and law that's a whole other message right there and here's god who has control over time zone let me break it down like this because some of you are looking at me kind of funny but let me just say this times and seasons biblically times and seasons are instruments of divine duration that we're talking about times this season we're not just talking about this particular chronological according to the gregorian calendar this time went this time no no no we're talking about biblical instruments of divine duration persecute excuse me purpose and execution so here is what it is let me break it down times and seasons are effective tools for god to release his strategy i want you to look at times and seasons different and let me ask this question anybody out there have thermostat battles in your home we have had that my wife and i we've got a very great marriage i love this woman like like something fierce can't even tell you how god has blessed me beyond measure can't even it's indiscriminate i'll start to weep seriously but we've had some thermostat battles in our home i'm just gonna say okay like i don't know what it is i don't have a poverty mentality i know what it is i grew up inner city oakland and you get a little west want to get my thumbs right wait let me get the west right there we go there we go west side west side i get a little some people can just do oh i did it it happened without me pulling my finger okay it's something about where i think in the back of my mind like you know when we were recording and she was cold i would take off my jacket and put it on i want her warm but it's something we get in the house and like she'll turn the thermostat a little higher right in the colder months and i'll turn it down a little lower and then all of a sudden i'll go back and find out that it crept back up and then i'll turn it back down and so anybody have thermostat battles there was recently a poll on this and men we need to like be tender and sensitive to our our our incredible women in our lives they they literally wrote an article that the women are losing the thermostat battle truth they did a whole article on this i'm not gonna bore you with the whole deal but what are you getting to sean here's what i'm getting to i'm convinced if you have a thermostat battle on your house there are countless women going to bed like they're going on an arctic frontier hike in the frozen realm of arendelle that would be frozen let it go let it go let it go and i know it's men okay we're just going to talk about it here is the dude logic okay as these women are having to go to bed with long johns fuzzy socks on thick fleece sweat coats hoodies over long sleeve shirts and pants all because guys it's not our lack of concern let me explain ladies from a husband's perspective this is how dudes think number one you can always put on more clothes when you're cold but you can't take any more clothes off when you're hot how many of you know that excuse doesn't come on ladies come on just tell me that that excuse all right how about number two yes honey i know you're sleeping by the window where it's colder but i need to sleep between you and the door in case an intruder comes in like no ain't no intruder coming to your house cause they would be frozen okay because they're too cold they'd be sneezing right on the way up and it would just freeze in the spot but here is the one that's probably the most common rationale we will save so much money anybody do that one [Music] i want you to think of the thermostat as the ability to control the climate of a nation god controls the thermostat over times and seasons he's the one that decides when to shift the climate over a nation it's not in the devil's hands we read it that god controls times in season god controls the thermostat the devil's gonna lose this thermostat battle he intends to how many of you notice a big difference between controlling something and intending to control something y'all pick that up in the language so the enemy tries to fight for the thermostatic control over a nation the spiritual climate of a people group because the enemy will not win that battle follow me the enemy will not win the thermostat battle because he intends to control times and seasons but god controls the thermostat so because he can't stop the thing that god wants to bring he'll just get you trapped in an old season i'ma step on this side and look at this this group over here if the enemy can't control the new thing that god wants to release in a corporate way then maybe the enemy would just settle with getting you stuck in an old season and then we justify it talking about i just want to get back to normal i believe what god brought us into he doesn't tend to bring us back from i don't know about you but i think we've over glamorized what old church normal was okay it was unfulfilling at best unbiblical or worse it wasn't really all that let's just say what it is i'm looking forward to something new that god wants to do i'm looking forward to the next climate spiritual change that god wants to bring because i'm looking for not normal i'm looking for revival come on somebody yes [Applause] times and seasons times and seasons let me give you five quick truths about seasons number one everything in life is subject to a season that's good news because i mean you know that means winter has a time limit on it right if there was no such thing as everything subject to seasons ecclesiastes 3 there's a time for this time to that time this the enemy might get you stuck in winter let me tell you what uh you may be in a season it's tough but the good news is that season will come to pass come on somewhere along the line god is ordained that seasons will shift and that gets me excited so number one everything in life is subject to a season write it down number two every season has its unique purpose what may have worked what you may have done what may have got you connected to god and i'm not just talking about maybe prayer word worship that that's a given but maybe certain ways in which you approach god may have worked maybe certain ways in which we did church may have worked maybe certain ways in which and i'm speaking of america as a whole are certain ways in which they kind of went after god may have worked in the last season but it may not be working in this season because when there is a shift in the season sometimes there's a shift in terms of god's purposes in how god wants to establish himself in our midst every each season has a unique purpose the third thing each season adds another important dimension to your destiny it's almost like you come to fourth grade you gotta have portable knowledge of what you learn in third grade or you're not gonna do well in fourth grade god expects you that there's things that you got in the last season that you're going to need in this season and god's going to add another important dimension in this season 2021 i i made i recently did a meme little joke uh on instagram and we love to give god recall 2020 and all that but let me tell you something i believe the purposes of god went ahead more than you and i think i i got an amen in this section man i believe that man the devil's worst nightmare is he dealt his worth worse knockout blow but yet in fact it is god behind it all strengthening us and we've always said and prophesied and recorded the scripture everything that can't be shaken will be shaken so that which is unsafe shakable would remain well it's helping y'all and i'm not a big proponent of participation trophies i get it and i i want every kid to i'm going to celebrate every kid but the kid picking his nose and picking caterpillar shouldn't get the same trophy as a kid that made every practice and sweating and trying hard that's just me but let me say that for the record right i wasn't trying to make a statement i believe all of us should get participation trophies from having gone through 2020 and still walking with god i believe you should get a participation trophy for that one you've been through some stuff number four each season varies in length and intensity in terms of what it requires of us let me say that again number four each season varies in length and intensity in what it requires from us some seasons are longer some seasons are shorter some seasons are more intense some seasons are easier and how many of you know nobody saw it as the last season coming right i remember a year ago which we my wife and i we we get a chance to sit with some high-level intercessors and people that are that are prophetically anointed and gifted and at the end of each year they get together and say what is god saying and 2019 obviously got together and there's some some great prophets and someone were in the ballpark how many of you know nobody saw this coming okay what we saw in 2020 because if you would have you would have bought toilet paper you would have bought hand sanitizer and baby wipes and you would be a millionaire come on somebody you'd invested in that nobody saw this coming which leads me to believe maybe god didn't want us to see it coming because our eyes shouldn't be on a crisis it should be on christ in the midst of our crisis because the real crisis is not a virus the real crisis is an ignored master and if you can't see jesus in the storm and you don't know how to get rest there you ain't gonna handle the demon-possessed man on the other side come on somebody [Music] number five and this is a big one come on somebody tell somebody say there's a big one there's a big one each season is a gateway to the next season each season you gotta get out of this season what god meant you to get out of this season before you can go on in the next season and just because the last season was bad doesn't mean this season has to be bad in fact i'm convinced that this is going to be a year of surprises of god doing the suddenlies of god's glory showing up of miracles showing up i believe we needed last year to streamline us to strip us to get us down to the unshakable to all of a sudden get us back on focus on god god shook some laodicean stuff off of us and getting the church back to our first love and i'm excited about what could be happening in our lives now in time the reason why seasons is so important in time of failure can become a success in time a child can become an adult in time the sick could be healed in time their press could be set free in time a nation can have an awakening it's all about times times and seasons somebody say again times and seasons times and seasons now second kings chapter seven i think i said yeah i just said in kings chapter seven i'm simply going to tell you the story for time no let me read this part this is you've got to get this i don't want to do it it says in second kings 7 1 then elijah said hear the word of the lord thus saith the lord tomorrow about this time asea a fine flower shall be sowed for a shekel and two seals of barley for a shekel at the gate of samaria so an officer on whose hand the king lean answered the man of god and said god look if the lord would make windows in heaven could this thing be and he said in fact you shall see it with your eyes but you shall not eat of it here is what happens a prophet prophesies of a dramatic shift in a season and a time he in fact prophesies the impossible the moment now let me give you a backdrop this group called the syrians who were these old testament terrorists they had surrounded god's people some of the survivors huddled into samaria they're behind this wall but this group called the syrians literally are laying siege a siege is a physical sustenance blockade that you do not allow food or water in and so people die from the inside out worse than walking up and shooting people is to is the desperation the despair that is left when you're denied food you're a quarantine within a quarantine here and this nation it did this and they're they're selling though we'll talk about it but it's in the chapter earlier they're paying big bucks for donkey brains right i did a little bit of research donkeys don't have big brains very little meat that goes on inside of here if you you understand that if you understand what a donkey is right they're paying money now my grandma's from the south she made hog head cheese but i never ate no donkey here cheese they're paying money for donkey this is this isn't literally an unclean unkosher animal but the desperation is not only am i eating it i'm paying money and big bucks for it number two they're eating doves dung come on somebody if you got a baby you got a kid in your house boo boo come on they eating dub boo boo that stuff you scrape off your windshield right at least we do i'm sure you do when you park underneath the tree they're paying money for that they're eating it they're going down come on the chipotle and save me give me that donkey you know thing and put some dove dropping on this on the side bowl you know this is what they're eating and a man of god in the midst of that but wait let me unfold one and one pack one other frightening development is it two women literally in front of the king because they ate one of their sons and the other mother hid the second son so mothers are turning on their young cannibalism the king gets angry and then all of a sudden a prophet of god says in the midst of your quarantine in the midst of your despair in the midst of literally you in the unthinkable feeling like there's no come back from this a prophet doesn't stand up and say a year from now that man you're going to get great food at a cheaper price and you're paying for bad food he says tomorrow at this time tomorrow at this time he's now acknowledging that there is a god that controls times and seasons that this is a bad season but god is hand god's hand is right now on the thermostat of a climate over his body and he's turning something because he's about to bring where there's been a battle he's about to bring breakthrough let me tell you what this is what i've learned in my life this is spiritual warfare or spirituality 101 a for sean smith hear me when the level and intensity of my battle hits a certain place i recognize it equates to the level and intensity of my blessing on the other side come on i gotta amen here but i really need you to help me i need somebody to get with me and preach this is i some of y'all the level of your battle actually ought to backside or backhandedly encourage you because the level of your battle is in fact an indicator of the level of your blessing and if 2020 was a tough battle let me tell you 2021 could be a breakthrough in the blessing that god's got for you [Applause] here is a prophet and he says tomorrow at this time you'll get the finest food this this had to be unfathomable for anyone to think that we're at a point of cannibalism now we're paying big bucks for unkosher foods and unclean things but tomorrow this time we're going to have man barley we're going to have a sea of this this fine all this good stuff for cheap price and then it says this we read it an officer and who's the uh the king leaned on upon his hand literally leaned upon him so it's like the right-hand man of the king the king was jehoram he was supposed to be a godly king these are god's people the king his leadership compromised right but it wasn't the nation wasn't in the midst of this because so much the king it was because of the king and the people together were unrepentant and all of a sudden the midst of this a chapter earlier the king himself he puts on sock cloths and he repents and all of a sudden the moment he repent then the word of the lord says i'm about to shift everything let me just stop and say something i believe that if you got out of 2020 and i like to be funny but i love to be straight too if you got out of 2020 and you didn't repent for something you missed what the season was all about i know it's not fun to talk about that but i love you enough and i feel comfortable enough to tell you that there ought to have been something you repented of in 2020 there would have been something that you allowed the holy spirit to put his finger on and go this this has got to be dealt with right now we're in an uncovering season and again my wife said and i wholeheartedly agree i never know like it's like in sports to see your teammate go down it hurts you but i've seen the uncovering of people that have hidden stuff and and high-profile ministers that have hidden stuff for a long time and all of a sudden it is the uncovering and i believe before ever there's an uncovering like that there's a private dealing of the lord that says this is the time to deal with that this is not okay anymore you i'm going to deal with that online thing i'm going to deal with that secret text i want to deal with those those business practices that you're not reporting that are not ethical let me tell you what if you got out of 2020 and you didn't repent of something you missed the season because when you repent that's when the season shifts come on somebody when you get right in an area and align yourself with god's presence and purposes that's when the seasons shift see there are people and i'm with them i'm with you i know people that prophesied coronavirus will fall off the planet on pentecost sunday or it will leave here and it will leave there and i trust these prophetic voices still do but something in my spirit said i don't know that there's a date on a calendar i believe it more is about god in heaven he listening a response from his church that when he gets that response from the church the hand of god goes on the thermostat over a globe and he begins to shift a new season how many want the shift into a new season let me tell you what then it begins with what my wife get online if you weren't here the message she brought this morning this is what king jehoram did and now you come out of second king six and the first thing of seven is the word of the lord comes and let me tell you what there has never been a good time to not hear god's voice but there's never been a worse time to not hear god's voice than right now and what happens when you elevate opinions to god's status you get jacked up right that's what happens we got to hear the voice of god so again we're going to review it couldn't have gotten anywhere circumstantially speaking there's a natural disaster combined with an occupying force outside your wall king jehoram and his people have been complacent but now here's his right hand guy listening to the prophetic word so here's what i want to set up what i want to set up is if there was anyone that should have heard the war word and run with it it should have been a guy who was in the king's palace but he says this he says i suppose if god were to throw open the floodgates of heaven this thing could not happen how is that level of cynicism coming out of a guy that is under a king that's reigning god's people he had been privy to something i'm going to back that statement up in a moment but let me let me right now hold tight and begin to go in this holding pattern over this thought here is the word of the lord but about a new season but because this guy is stuck in an old season because a spirit of darkness who can't stop this breakthrough will simply get you trapped in an old season and get you cycling around and so the prophet of god said to him you will see it but you won't partake of it it will be evident to you that you could sit in the house of god and see other people get their breakthrough and not you because you never went to a place of getting on your face before god and saying holy spirit reset my agenda i've developed all these side agendas and other little things i'm after i've been guarding self i've been trying to elevate self and this thing can't be about me come on somebody if we're really gonna be like god wants us to be come on somebody you can't be kind of righteous and kind of ratchet come on somebody you cannot be kind of prophetic and kind of petty come on somebody you can't be talking about i'm getting fiery and i'm getting faded at the same time no you got to make a decision choose you this day whom you will serve if it's god then you need to be all out for god he deserves that he deserves that um somebody tell somebody say amen so here is a guy that should have been sympathetic and if anyone should have been a point of childlike faith to believe it's this guy but he says i suppose if god with open afraid to heaven i'll stop let me just break it down he believed that god could throw up in the floodgates of heaven because he had probably heard the oral transmission in other words the stories told of how god opened the heavens uh during the the time of the wandering and god sent manna right he had to have heard about that but he said i suppose if god will open the floodgates of heaven this couldn't happen now here's what i think he was caught in he's actually thinking if god opened the heavens and poured rain it would take a while for us to see this hardened ground broken up we'd plant seeds it would be cultivated it would germinate and then it would grow a crop but it would be a while thereafter before we would actually have fruit and based on that i'm looking at you know the clock we're not going to make it that long to all this stuff happen so what's he doing he's thinking natural processes he's saying god you can send rain but you can't speed up a season we're going to be stuck like this for a while this is the way it's going to be he didn't know how close he was he died with an armed length of a breakthrough because when the moment that the word comes he couldn't lay hold of it and here's what the enemy does the enemy tries to get you cynical you begin to lose faith in the word of god you begin to lose faith in god himself you begin to lose faith in god's mouthpieces because somebody said something it didn't happen hey come on you don't quit going to a doctor because the doctor gave you a misdiagnosis i gave you a drug that you had a bad reaction to right you don't quit going to tennis because they hit a nerve one time in your mouth right you find hopefully a better doctor or better hey i don't go to church as hypocrites well you won't go to a mall there's some hypocrites at that mall it didn't stop you from going to neiman marcus come on somebody smile break if i smile with her brother here is a officer if you will he's a secretary of state and he doesn't believe that god could speed up a season so here is what i want to say about that this is important the royal officer got stuck because here is what he missed and i believe this is so important i want to make sure that i communicate this well is that god and this is what i believe that this next time will be this will be a time of acceleration what the man of god was saying is what normally should take an entire season of you come out of winter you get the rain then you go into spring you get a better rain actually the winter you get cold we get rain and know the cow but most people y'all get snow wherever you're at you get the early spring showers that bring may flowers and then all of a sudden you come to autumn or harvest and so you see this natural progression of seasons but i'm going to speak to you prophetically i believe that 2021 is going to be a year of acceleration i believe the things that took nine years will take nine months i believe the things that took nine months will take nine weeks i believe the things that took nine weeks will take nine days i'm going to prove it it's in the bible you say where that comes from the bible talks about how many you believe we're in the end times come on if you're reading i'm cross-referencing the five o'clock news with book of revelation and daniel we in the last days y'all right the bible talks about this kingdom principle of acceleration when it says the days will come when the plowmen will overtake the reaper as if to say i will accelerate the seasons where the harvest comes quicker than you thought that you're so busy still collecting the harvest season uh harvest of the last season quote unquote that is now backed up to the new person that's trying to make way to plant new stuff it's another way of saying there's a kingdom principle of acceleration there's seasons how many of you had the old tape recorder you know the old tape recorder you push play and it's playing and then it would always eat my tapes up and you try to pull it out and undermine but then you push stop but then you could push play and pause after a while right they got a little more sophisticated you could push play and pause so it's ready to play until you hit the pause and then all of a sudden at least my tape recorder it would go fast for a while just i don't know it was backed up the motor got revved up i kind of feel like it seems as if playing pause will hit at the same time but what if god pulls that off and all of a sudden it begins to go at a more rapid rate there's a bit of a fast forward thing going on i believe that this will be a season write it down of the acceleration of the lord i believe that they're going to be people raised up quicker than what we usually think that it's going to be they're going to be young people that are going to come into fullness quicker than they want i believe that people are going to pray and then like the time between you pray you know it's like obviously with with people having babies you know there there's this point you know where they're pregnant uh you know there's this of conception there's this point where they're pregnant and there's a point of birth and then we have this you know what is it 40 is it 40 week gestation period is that how you say it right nine weeks of pregnancy like what if god could cause something to be conceived in your heart in the area of ministry but instead of it taking this long pregnancy time of carrying it all of a sudden you go from here to here and that's why the bible says can a nation be born in a day what it's saying is is that god has the ability to speed up seasons when we're in position to receive the word of the lord i believe this is going to be a season of acceleration seasons of acceleration now the next thing that i believe is important is that these are going to be times or seasons of the unexpected you don't expect what i'm about to share the backdrop of this story and i'm not going to go too much longer but write it down these are going to be seasons of the unexpected i felt the spirit of lord speak to me and says as unexpected as covet 19 and the coronavirus hit our nation and as contagious as that is was and is i believe that god is going to bring something of the kingdom more contagious than covet more unexpected than covet that will literally impact it's almost as if i again i don't believe that god sent coronavirus i've not met any man of god or woman of god that believes it but i believe that god is sovereign which means he could use what was meant for your harm hello joseph and turn it around for your good come on somebody that's when you sovereign when what was meant to break you down actually builds you up when what was meant to set you back set you off come on somebody this is the god that we serve so i believe there's gonna be a season unexpected this guy who's a real officer let me give you the backdrop real quick and then finish the rest of the story we're going to be done very shortly the reason why i thought man that's kind of harsh because what would happen is within a day a breakthrough would happen and people would stampede as this officer is at a gate he's at the gate of food coming in and tragically he's trampled so just like the prophet said you'll see it he saw the food but the guy perished at the threshold of his breakthrough and why i thought that's kind of harsh but you got to understand what happened one chapter earlier if this guy is the right-hand guy of the king he saw something one chapter earlier one chapter earlier these same syrians would target attacks on samaria and the people of god and this same prophet would send a guy to the king and this this royal officer is in those meetings because he's a royal officer and says hey this is where the king of syria is going to attack you this is where the king to the point where the king of syria this this terroristic nation is saying do we have a snitch in our midst how come every time i plot on the map our strategic war room map of where i'm going to attack this prophet tells the king so this officer is privy to seeing god's accurate word the power of god in fact the power of god to the point where literally elijah in the same group of this king and his right-hand guy brings all these terrorists who are blinded because man elijah basically prayed against what they were doing these guys were blinded then he prayed again so they could see they're seeing the miracles of god but at the thought of a season accelerating and unexpected happening the dude expressed the cynicism of what the last season had in bread within him because that's what the enemy is after and this leads me to the third point is that these times will be times of holy audacity and i believe it's because god wants to bring us back to childlike faith i think what we've seen has been childish but god wants this child like come on somebody when you're biting and devouring one another on facebook and social media that's childish but god wants this child like child like approaches god and believes come on when my mom who went to be with the lord my mom i think one time she saved up money we went to disneyland i grew up in california and by the time i was 18 i went to disneyland one time but i was so glad i'm telling you what my mom told me my mom told me i was going dude i'm trying to get me some mickey mouse ears off the street i'm trying to go ready somebody seriously i'm trying to buy some aftermarket underground knockoff mickey mouse ears why because while mama told me i'm going to disneyland i believed her she's not going to tell me and not bring it about if you believe the word of your mother you believe the word of your spouse your dad a loved one how much more when god who can bring his word to pass and unlike his circumstances says this is going to happen you need to believe him so now here's this rest of the story while they're perishing inside the prophet is prophesied this right-hand guy is not believing although he's been privy to see the power of god blind and unblind men cause them to see has seen literally the accuracy of pinpoint strategic military intel coming to him and now the same guy that god used the same god says this time tomorrow right this thing is going to be over the god couldn't handle his breakthrough i could see my enemies getting hit but i can't see me getting blessed what's wrong with your christianity if you can see that but you can't see this it's all of a sudden over the wall i love this these four lepers become four legends i want some on their keys just to get ready give me about like two minutes and jump up here so you're gonna get on the keys they're four lepers the absolute worst thing in that era was to be a leper you get this white discoloration sore blister it began to turn yellowish it popped and it would become this this like dramatic man gnarly skin cancer there was a scent it was highly contagious way more contagious there wasn't no six feet this distance 50 yards distancing and you couldn't just wear a mask to alert folks you had to yell unclean and clean well what happened is they put these leopards outside the wall and so there was like a leper colony of four people right the other lepers probably are dead because here's what happens lepers the way they ate they didn't have any kind of social system we got government cheese back in the day i was talking to somebody we got that velveeta cheese man makes the best grilled cheese sandwiches in the world all right i was talking to somebody it's hard to cut it and i grabbing a knife to cut it but it makes great grilled cheese sandwiches if you're the four lepers you got scraps thrown over the wall but if you're on the inside of some air and you're eating donkey brains and doves dung how many of you know nothing's going over the walls and so gloriously i love what god does he can raise up the disenfranchised to become a remnant for revival and breakthrough i love a god that has a penchant for using those that others discount i don't even think the devil saw this coming like you may not have saw coronavirus covey coming but the devil doesn't see what's coming and what god is about to do in you i didn't say that right that you may not have seen kobe coming but the devil ain't going to see you coming when god's about to make you the weapon of of destruction against his purposes these guys are sitting around there talking and to make this conversation very short they basically get to we have three options we stay here we die we go in the city we die because we stay here we don't have no food and we got a disease that's taken us out as we speak we go in there there's no food we still have the disease and they will stone us pick up rocks and throw it at us or we can go over to the syrian camp and try to get some food so here's their thing we can remain we can retreat or we can take a risk we can remain where we're at but if we do we die church because we were never meant to hold the fort where'd that thing even come from we're here to advance we're to take tory take territory kingdom of god suffers violent divinely taken by force right you're not here just to get by let the devil make it his goal to get by you're not here to get by you're here to get over come on somebody you're here to take nick ground you're you're about to go kingdom on the devil right you're not trying you're not in survival mentality your revival mentality i'm not trying to just stay safe although obviously i'm gonna stay safe i'm trying to win other people to the lord who will stay saved so devil i'm not just here just about me trying to hold on and hold the fort mentality you cannot remain let me tell you what god is speaking to us through this last season you cannot remain you cannot remain in lukewarmness you cannot remain in shallow kidney pool christianity you cannot remain in pettiness you cannot remain in biases that cut off half the body of christ you cannot remain there you do you die that option is gone bye bye okay bye bye right you can't retreat we can't go back to 2019 church come on we can't even go back to the way we did church five months ago so much has shifted since then quit over glamorizing the past amen i love to read history i've written a book on revival history i love the catherine coleman i love the smith wigglesworth but i don't want to go back to their day because what god has in my day is even greater than what they saw they gave their lives and their prayers so that we could see what we would see i can't retreat this is not a time to retreat this is not a time to love the devil or anything we have got to speak up right if you want everybody to like you you're in a dangerous place somebody when jesus said you'll be hated on account of me come on nobody puts that on a three by five card put it on their bathroom window or quote that as their scripture memorization of the week but what it's saying is that i'm willing to now go to the place of risking something risking something people have written this off anyway you know so many people for so long said if you made your church this way we would come if you'd compromise if you wouldn't preach the word if you would allow this to take place if you wouldn't speak that what the word of god says about same-sex marriages and and gender blending and all that other kind of stuff and you know what churches begin to do it you and i find out the world like this even less when we did that are you hearing me they like this even less when we compromise they didn't respect that [Music] there's something about a believer that stands on the word of god but has a love of god in their heart that's attractive because why holy spirit comes and dwells there the dove can find a resting place when he finds people attached to the word and all of a sudden that's where people have a feeling i don't know what it is i know that what you're teaching is goes against the grain of my cultural indoctrination but something in here tells me i can get free something in here tells me that i don't have to be trapped in what i was that this demon of suicide will get off me this addiction won't have the final say what happened when i was eight years old and 12 years old doesn't have to mark me for the rest of my life there's something about and these dudes took a risk and i love this man i love this god the bible says they arose at twilight there's a word 30 seconds the word that everyone must have in their vocabulary 2021 is liminal and liminal spaces i'm in a liminal space all the time let me give you a great example a airport terminal which i think they should give it a different name that just doesn't sound very exciting before you get on a plane they're calling it terminal okay just me right nobody goes to dfw airport as their final destination you came from some place you're going someplace it's a place in between it's a liminal place it's a threshold literally that's what the word means it's the old has begun to end but the new hasn't fully started and i'm in this point of the momentum of the last season but trying to get my rhythm for the momentum of the the next season that's where we find ourselves in january we're in a liminal space fictitious greek uh mythological right deity fictitious that's the key janus is depicted as having two heads one looking backward one looking forward is where we get the name january january is about looking back over the year and looking forward to what god has in front of us and here's this liminal space you know what liminal means the first group that came up with the term limino were astrologists and they used it to describe literally twilight hour we're not talking about the movie sorry twilight that space before between darkness and daylight right in that twilight now here's the crazy part oh man seconds minutes away these four lepers decide to take a risk and the bible says at twilight at the liminal space they get up and they begin to move towards the terrorists that have all the food that they've collected and and literally excluded an entire group of people from as well as all the other people they've defeated and taken their food and the bible says they arose at midnight you could keep reading in second chapter chapter seven simultaneously within two verses it says and at midnight the syrians heard the sound of a vast army and they thought it was like the canaanites and the egyptians that gathered together and a stark raving terror this this terroristic nation jumps up leaves all the food all the spoils and everything and runs because of a sound and it says at twilight they heard it at this precise liminal space where they chose to take a risk is the same place that god put his hand on the threshold of a season and flipped it these four dudes never even heard the prophecy of what god would do in 24 hours they were on the other side of the wall they didn't even hear the word but in fact they would walk out the word because god is sovereign like that oh at the same time they took their first step it's the same time they heard a multitude in this liminal space when you're in transition the decisions you make for god could begin and start a movement god puts the mic to their feet god's got an amplification system that man will blow it will it'll put bump in your trunk right reference back when people have these big speakers in their trunk when you're a teenager god puts the microphone underneath and one little dragged foot of a leper man sounds like there's this force multiplication of childlike faith when god has put his hand and i'm telling you right now it's time don't revisit old comfort zones it's time to take a risk i i believe in the rest of the story they get to the other side this is my vivid imagination there's a 100 foot salad bar with sandwiches they're eating kinder's barbecue come on somebody they're eating popeye's classic we got some in and out come on we got some chick-fil-a chick-fil-a come on we got it all there these dudes are eating they put on the bling they got gold teeth they got bling everywhere they got crowns i mean they taking selfies doing insta stories come on these dudes and in the midst of it one of the lepers says to the other we're not doing right i love what the good news translation says it says because this is a day of good news and these four lepers watch this [Music] that were rejected by the people in the wall they were ostracized they could have easily have been angered they could have easily have been offended and unforgiving they didn't even give us straps scraps they didn't visit us they didn't talk about us right they mocked us even if they saw you they began to throw stones nobody cared there was no handouts to them outside of throwing some food over the wall by your loved ones yet these four guys did the most heroic thing when hebrews 11 says they put foreign armies to flight these are some of the four guys these four guys are some of the people talking about these same four guys drag themselves back across that same desert and they tell one of the other leaders in the nation that we got the food long story short they send horses and chair and bring their food back and meanwhile here is our old friend the officer they said i suppose if god were thrown before games of heaven it couldn't happen and he's at the gate when they announced food is here and tragically the stampede what is it there's two things going on number one i believe that there's gonna be massive breakthroughs that are about to take place i believe the enemy's gonna give up treasures out of darkness i've already seen some would call it covet conversions i'm not to give kovit the the credit it's jesus convergence in the midst of a covid if you want to say that but i've seen so many people i just came from a church grew from 150 to 1200 not just online virtual he said behind's in the seats he used another word not the bad bad word he said butts i think we can say butts butts in the seat he says we got 1200 people they grew in six months by what would that be a thousand fifty people because they simply kept their doors open but what it was is that everyone else thought this season man how we're going to make it how we're going to make it and this guy says no how we're going to reach him during the season and all of a sudden god says i can put my hand on the thermostat what he did for that church he's doing for you god's hands is right now on the thermostat to shift the season i'm going to be ready for the shift the enemy has tried to hold this back but there's a shift some of you right now have been told by a doctor that you're supposed to have this disease forever and god has got his hand on right now a time and a season clock and he's about to shift it and he's saying tonight you're going to say man moses said to these fellow hebrew that some of them that's all they knew was egyptian bondages their people have been in four centuries of bondage and moses said to them those egyptians you've seen before you will see no more and they're thinking how's that gonna happen they're running through the parted red sea like we are and all of a sudden moses lifts up the rod and the red seat drowns pharaoh's army and you begin to realize god throughout history puts his hands on the thermostat to shift because of his purposes in his times by your heads jesus lord ah there's so many places i feel like you take me with these thoughts [Music] but i feel like the thing tonight that rises up above everything is don't get trapped in an old season respond with childlike faith be ready to repent of the things of the last season that god is highlighting and dealt with and be with risk takers because really you're either going to be an undertaker or a risk taker though people back there there were if you will and samir at that time were shoveling dead bodies because people were dying but four lepers said we're not gonna be undertakers we're gonna be risk takers and if you'll leave comfort zones the barrier to your blessing is broken the breach is crossed and all of a sudden like stepping in front of target with those motion detectors that open the door you begin to realize doors of favor will begin to open and why that whole passage of second king seven was about the faithfulness of god yes it was about the word of the lord that can change your season in an instant 24 hours like the prophet said they were paying little money for great food but also second king seven is about bringing bread to the hungry it's about bringing the american church to a missional moment where america that is starved spiritually speaking that they need a gospel they need to know that there is a king of glory and lord i just pray god right now as we're going to do ministry i pray god to you to begin to allow a burning to take place isaiah talks about a spirit of burning and matthew henry refers to it some of it referred to it as judgment but matthew henry referred to it as a spirit of burning he says it's an anointing that makes one zealously affected in a good work it's an anointing that makes one zealously affected that lord you can bring a spirit of burning where our hearts begin to burn that lord we're going to have our lamps burning because we got oil as my bride brought the words today this morning father i pray to god that you would ignite our hearts i pray blow the dust off i break discouragement off your people right now i break hopelessness off your people right now i break this thing where we're afraid to really go after something because we think it's not the season who said it's not the season i break off of us literally the the the chorus of false voices and false narratives and false agendas that attempt to fill our ear god lord they call it news but is either bad news or fake news god we're gonna go for the good news me just say one more thing and we will finish this prayer i know the world has cancelled culture and we're very familiar with that right now in a moment facebook or twitter or whatever instagram i've seen it happen to ministry and friends of mine they could shut down your account like that and what it is in the past where governments did that we're seeing now that there's a media that has this socialistic censorship that we have this canceled culture but can i say something the kingdom is one of redemptive cultures christians hear me i'm seeing christians take on the cancer culture of a fallen world around them we're not about cancer culture we're in redemptive culture and that's got to be our mindset you can't just shut it off because you don't like what the folks did at the white house or you liked what their folks did in the white house you didn't like with other folks that was trying to stop them or reported it with them people whatever side you're on you got to get out of this censorship you see you can't demonize folks that are on the other side are different to you because if you do you end up fighting folks you're calling to free somewhere along the line the four lepers have to say no they didn't treat us right we have every every logistical reason in the natural to be bitter but one thing we are calling our destiny is to help those folks we don't help them we miss our moment in history they make it because they walk back across that desert because they didn't have cancer culture they canceled me i'll cancel them no they have redemptive culture and god is turning i believe a thermostat knob over churches that say i won't maintain a redemptive mindset a redemptive culture i'm not going to imbibe the canceled culture of the world around me i'm not just going to write all folks and say them people that group that side that party because you and i both know it's not about the donkey it's not about the elephant it's about the lion of the tribe of judah this thing is bigger than democrats or republicans it's about kingdom it's about us bringing redemptive culture into earth and i voted i voted responsibly i voted biblically i i don't have to tell you who i voted for my the people close to me know i voted for that is even important because at the end of the day i voiced my choice for the king of glory i voice voiced my choice for the one that came and died heads bound in ice clothes you're here right now or you're watching online and you've not given your life to christ i said it differently before but i'll say it this way there's never been a good time to be without jesus but there's never been a worse time to be without jesus than right now you have no idea but you may close your eyes to the thing you need to see the most there's so many people going why that religious thing that christian thing i just came because someone brought me here as a friend of mine we said you have that i was kidnapped and drug here look on your face i know that look right but you don't know that friend wasn't just trying to get you to join some sort of club or some sort of group that friend was actually pulling the ultimate intervention because there comes a moment and this is something i'm very familiar with where you could look at someone in an eye and let them know you love them and they love you and you don't know that's the last time you'll see them you know i believe it's ecclesiastes that says that a funeral is better than a party it's in one of the more newer translations they put it like that some i think they put it that a time of mourning is or better than time of feasting but it's basically saying a funeral is better than a party why because the rite of ecclesiastes says at the funeral you begin to consider the mortality and end of your days 2020 god blessed us by taking us out of the party mindset of 2019 and he allowed us to recognize our days are numbered life is precious you don't tomorrow isn't promised to you or me but there's one thing that i can lock down now as it relates to my future because i don't know what will happen to me tomorrow the next day the week after that really alone next year but i do know this i can cancel judgment by jesus canceling that judgment by saying yes to christ you can ensure heaven i used to witness to muslims and so i'm just i don't know if this is pc or not i'm just telling you i witnessed a muslim on college campuses and i'd witnessed them and they would be so angry at me because i told them that i knew where i was going when i died and they believed that it's a long short of it but essentially good deeds are in your right hand bad knees in your left whatever weighs the most that's where you end up going you do all these things and you hope at the end it's accepted and the bottom line is the truth is for that precious young man that i witnessed to and myself our works are filthy rags they'll never get us there he's casting our faith on the one whose works were good enough who is the righteous one jesus and if anyone would die for you right give their life for you that love is unbeatable right there jesus laid down his life if you're here right now you say sean i'm not right with god i don't know if i were to die where i'd go i need jesus i need to give my life to the lord or i need to come back to god if that's you wherever you're at right now slip your hand up right now would you just slip it up say sean pray for me i need to give my life to christ i need to come back to the lord i've been prodigal whatever it is if that's you right now slip your hand up anybody like that right now just slip it up yes god bless you anybody else i think i saw yep see one hand amen anybody else that would pray this is awesome i love that yeah second hand amen amen amen nothing to be ashamed about nothing to be shy about in fact you're the heroes tonight because you're already surrendered you're responding in childlike faith god's hand is on the thermostat of the climate of your next season it's shifting right now it's shifting right now anybody else the response when god issues a word is not that of skepticism we learn it from this passage you you'll perish right at the threshold of your breakthrough but if you'll just say yeah god i believe it anybody else would join these two hands i saw so guy yeah third hand amen amen i see three hands two guys in the gal anyone else two girls and a guy excuse me anyone else [Music] awesome oh i love the young ones i love the young ones what is it about young kids they just another young one they've not been hardened so when opportunities given surrender to christ it's natural maybe that's why god brought a little kid out he said unless you become as one of these anyone else that would join these three that i saw lift their hand or anyone else before i'm gonna count the young people five i'm account for little ones anyone else amen let's pray together all they say this would be found let's pray say lord jesus come on come on referee let's say this together they say lord jesus i confess you it's lord of my life i believe in my heart god raised you from the dead i thank you jesus you died for me you love me lord i repent i turn away from attitudes and actions selfishness and pride any other thing that would separate me from you i thank you tonight that you love me you've forgiven me that i am come on say it i am a child of god and i have victory over the enemy and i will serve you all my days in jesus name amen i'm going to ask my wife to come on up here put your hand over your heart we're gonna flow and pray but i i feel like i got to do this father i pray god right now just close your eyes too i pray god you would shift us out of survival it's so easy to carry the survival mentality the fearful mentality of what was ingrained in us in 2020 but we say god no no father shift it father we pray that you would cause us to be literally possessed with a spirit of burning holy audacity i pray a new faith a childlike faith on us i pray we would step away from comfort zones i pray we will not partner with fear or anxiety i pray god that literally this guy part of it was the fear of the last season another part of it was allowing this intellectual gray matter to call the shots father we renounce god you're not calling us to commit intellectual suicide but you are calling us to subject our intellect to the mind of christ the word of the lord can come and it may be illogical it may be irrational but father the the the law the knowledge excuse me the tree of the knowledge of good and evil was the wrong tree in the garden it's the wrong tree now we choose to eat from the tree of life from the word of god we say your word is true so i pray god right now i i and again this is the phraseology i i pray for those that have had faith slippage over this last season i pray god that you begin to literally reboot them in the area of their looking unto jesus the often perfecter of their faith i pray joy comes back come on weeping may endure for a night but then there's a shift in the season joy comes in the morning time i pray god there's a time in a season's god you control it and so lord we declare breakthrough tonight and i pray a spirit of revival i pray a hunger to let folks know about jesus i was talking to a friend of mine that was involved with some churches in iran and some radical revivals that are taking place and i got convicted and i just said god i gotta get back to witnessing people on the streets man you see all these people in mass and i kind of almost took a temporary outside of my neighbors and i just go oh my god no lord this is about declaring the gospel and it's time it's a day of good news and we got to declare it so father i pray for holy holy boldness holy compassion holy holy lord just sense that god is with us and if god is forced to be against us finally i just want to ask if there's anyone in it i'm not even asking you to respond in a sense of lifting your hand or letting me know but right now if there's something that god's putting his hand on in the area of cynicism in the area of skepticism that maybe you're a little hurt or hardened in this last season i just believe the lord is lovingly saying give that to me would you just do it right now just take a moment before we move any further and give him the skepticism cynicism you can't take that with you in this next season because what god's going to do is going to be glorious i believe we're going to see literally miracles we're going to see this this next season i i'm going to speak to you it's always about this so it's funny to say it but it's going to be harvest it's going to be this time tomorrow god is going to allow the fruits to develop and the harvest to to flow in a way that you thought would take this long do not say four more months and then come to harvest hold lift up your eyes the fields are white as snow lord the harvest is now so lord we just give you the cynicism come lord right now we give it to you we give this skepticism unbelief the hurt the disappointment the hope deferred that made the heart sick those that have been on delay so long that they've developed the worst kind of sickness worse than than corona or covet is heart sickness it it blocks so much more than what we would think the natural virus would lord we declare what comes off the throne is more powerful than what comes out of rouhan or whatever that place is called we declare what comes from the mouth of the lord is greater than anything that could come off the mouth of a person that doesn't have a mask on it's reading a temperature we declare god the kingdom is greater amen worship team if you just sing a song and we're if you can remain we want to begin to step out and flow are y'all still here tonight come on all right amen amen come on

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Published: Mon Jan 11 2021