"Open Your Eyes" | Stephanie Ike | Social Dallas

today open up your hearts and get ready to receive what pastor Stephanie has specifically for social dollars it's an on-time word and I'm ready to hear it twice so you better believe I'll be streaming on 6 p.m and watching it again this week okay so can we give it up for pastor Stephanie Round of Applause [Music] [Applause] foreign [Applause] but you know it's morning somewhere in the world so hello social Dallas I am so excited to be with you all amen can we just Praise Jesus in this room amen amen you know it's so crazy you know in life what you think is your weakness God would always use us your strength I was telling Pastor Taylor when God called me into Ministry I wasn't secure because I was like God my voice is very you know sometimes like my brothers used to make for the media like you sound like a kid and I'm like I don't I just that's just how I am and the Lord is like you I'm gonna use that and it always amazes me when it's highlighted and I just want to share this with you that whatever you're looking at as your weakness you need to have a weakness for God to be attracted to you because his strength is made perfect in our weaknesses and so if you're counting yourself out and you're like God I can't do this because the very thing you're saying is your weakness God says how else am I supposed to show my glory if you don't have a couple of those right but I'm just so grateful to be here my husband is here I'm a newlywed [Applause] it's here I'm a product of one Church La it is my home I'm an executive Pastor there my pastors are Pastor to Ray Roberts and Pastor Sarah Jakes Roberts and my pastor that's my spiritual father you know in life there's something he always says and it's my truth that many times you know you may not feel like you got what you wanted but God would always give you what you needed my father was murdered when I was a baby and it's so crazy my father was murdered September 7th my spiritual father was born September 8th and I just know God will always give you what you need and so family let's pray in this house Heavenly Father we thank you we thank you so much for your love we thank you for your goodness we thank you for this moment oh God that it was ordained Before Time and we are just here to live out what you've always wanted for us on this in this moment in this time oh God Holy Spirit I pray that you will glorify Jesus you will not glorify me you will not glorify anyone in this room but you would glorify Jesus Through the words that we speak through our worship through everything that takes place glorify Jesus amen amen you may be seated you know it's so beautiful I was just hearing even doing the offering um and sewing how you guys are looking for a building and even being in this time right you know moving around from building to building and I I I'm so intrigued by that because a couple days ago the Lord just began to give me a word even for this house and he began to show me just the Evangelistic anointing on this house to draw many who were lost and to be found in Christ many who are in darkness into God's light and what you're even though it feels like man we're just going from building and setting up and did this building and that building but what you're doing really circling the city you're putting stake in the ground because at the very same places that maybe people are coming in here you know having a concert having a club or whatever you're saying no we are going to shift the atmosphere of Darkness into the atmosphere of God's light and the Lord began to show me there is going to be such an uplifting there's going to be a favor and the there were three particular areas he mentioned and it was entertainment art and sports and there's going to be this and entertainment even covering music and he is lifting you up not because he's just trying to make you happy but your Rising is connected to a kingdom agenda for the house you see being planted in the house of God is necessary because you recognize that your life serves a bigger picture it's not just for you and your family God has an agenda wherever there is the house of God there is a government of God and he has an agenda for his house and so you're going to start experiencing just what will feel like uncommon favor right you're going to step into rooms you're going to get the part you're going to get the deal but it's not because you're just God God you know you're going to call your friends and be like God just blessed me girl no God is blessing you for his agenda right and so you're going to start drawing people to this house and the Lord began to say to tell the house prepare care for expansion prepare for expansion because it's just gonna hit right and it's not just for the pastors it's for the community whenever you hear about things like church hurt Church hurt is only aimed at the pastors but through the community it's not necessarily something the pastors did it's something they experience within the community so this is a call for everyone to recognize that you are the church right it's not a building you are the church and we're going to go into um something so beautiful today if you're taking notes my message is open your eyes and I'm going to be reading from Acts 26 verse 12 to 18 and a little bit of a back story The Apostle Paul is speaking in this scripture now Paul at the time you know he was known as a man named Saul and you know under the identity of Saul he used to persecute Christians he used to order and vote for Christians to be murdered and killed and it was just all he had this he was committed to an agenda of Darkness of ignorance because he thought what he was doing was the right thing to do and there was a certain time that Paul is taking this journey and the Lord encounters him now in this scripture what I want to highlight about this scripture is that this is a time where we get the most accounts of what happened when Paul encountered God right so in this time he's a prisoner and there are people that hate him they're just hating on the man you know how many people know that when you're doing the god the Lord's walk there are people that just hate on you for no reason right and so people are just hating on him but the reality is that they were coming from an agenda of Darkness so they came together they even made an oath they said we're not going to eat or drink until we kill Paul and when I read that I said listen if people can fast for evil surely we can fast for Revival right surely we can fast for the things of God to hit the city they came together in fasting for a man to be murdered but God obviously you know secured his life but here is the crazy thing because Paul is a prisoner he's being brought before different rulers and kings and they're looking at it like Paul is here to plead his cause because right here he's being brought before another ruler a certain King and he's you know he's there to speak to the king and everyone one else is looking at Paul like you are here to plead your case but Paul is excited when you read the beginning we're not going to go through the whole you know chapter but when you read the beginning Paul is even telling the king that I am happy to stand before you he's not happy just because he wants to plead his case because Paul recognized this was the word of God to me that I would witness of Jesus to the Kings to the Gentiles you see sometimes you have to ask the Lord why am I in the room Paul recognized he wasn't in the room because he was a prisoner of man he was in the room because he was a prisoner of Christ and God needed orchestrated the way that he would be before Kings to testify of Jesus you see whenever you're in a room whether it's a room that feels you know glorious if you think you're there to take a selfie you missed it because God does not expose you by accident when you're in the room you need to start asking the Lord why am I in here you see because people don't carry depression on their faces people don't carry suicidal thoughts it's not written on someone's head people don't carry what they're struggling with on their faces and when you're in a room that you're so moved by whether you're moved for good or for bad because sometimes you might be in a room and you're like God this is a depressing room this is the room that reminds me of my failures this is the room that reminds me of all the things I didn't do maybe you're in this job that you hate and every time you go to that job it just reminds you of how you were defeated and you're like God how could this be but why are you in the room you see many times the only reason we say we're disappointed is that we lack revelation we lack Paul if Paul did not know that God was already using you before Kings he would have been a prisoner who was depressed but Paul was a prisoner on fire for God because he knew why he was in the room maybe that job that you hate God has you there to be a witness unto someone else maybe there is a door he wants to open up for you in that job that wouldn't be opened up elsewhere because God is a god of regions and territories he did not just send you in the time that he did to the family that he did to the city that he did on accident God understands he is the Lord over your life so Paul understood the assignment he knew why he was in the room he says you know what this is going to be a moment to testify and so because of that Paul begins to give an account of what happened when he encountered God to listen to this so he says well that's occupied as I journey to Damascus with authority and commission from the chief priest he's kind of just given a backstory that there were people that gave me authority to do this when he was persecuting Christians right at midday O King along the road I saw a light from Heaven brighter than the sun shining around me and those who journeyed with me and when we all had fallen to the ground I heard a voice speaking to me insane in the Hebrew language Saul Saul why are you persecuting me it is hard for you to kick against the goats so I said who are you Lord and he said I am Jesus whom you are persecuted in but rise and stand to your feet for I have appeared to you for this purpose to make you a minister and a witness both of the things which you have seen and of the things which I am I will yet reveal to you I will deliver you from the Jewish people as well from the Gentiles whom I now send you to open their eyes in order to turn them from Darkness to light and from the the power of Satan to God that they may receive forgiveness of sins and an inheritance among those who are Sanctified by faith in me you see the Lord encounters Paul one of the things that Paul did not put in this account is that after his encounter he literally went blind he was blind for three days while being commissioned to open blind eyes because let's Paul I want you to understand this is not about natural sight this is about spiritual sight and the Lord allowed him to experience what has been his reality that Paul you have been walking in darkness and because you are walking in darkness Satan had authority over you you see I love when the Lord says this right that you will turn them from Darkness to light and from the power of Satan to God how do we turn someone from the power of Satan from the influence of the evil one to God he said it is by opening their eyes now this is so intriguing because even when we go all the way back to Creation in the beginning the Bible tells us that you know the darkness was over the face of the deep and everything was empty and void and before God began to put things in order the first thing he says let there be light and he wasn't talking about the Sun the moon or the Stars this was a spiritual language because he says first of all we need to set order in whose territory this is this territory belongs to the kingdom of heaven let there be light and the Bible says and there was light you see when Jesus talks about himself there are very few words that Jesus shares with people because when he talks about himself you'll see him say things like I am the way the truth I I am the way the truth and the life he will never say we are you know Jesus was not standing with his disciples and said we are the way no he said please he said just so you get it right eye okay there's only one of me and I am the way the truth and the life but then there is something he shares with Humanity because Jesus would also say I am the light of the world and then he will call you the light of the world because every time Jesus will connect his identity to to an expression he is also revealing to you how the enemy is defeated he is also revealing to you the posture in which you overcome that light in itself is a threat I don't even have to say too much I am the light of the world because where there is light Satan has no power you see the Bible calls him the ruler of Darkness in darkness he thrives in darkness he is within his boundaries you see one of the things that Set Me Free from this whole idea that you know the enemy is oppressing me is reality that he has not crossed any boundaries so if he's oppressing me I must be in his kingdom and if he's oppressing Me Maybe I have misconstrued what is happening because maybe the Warframe experiencing is not what he brought it's what I started but if I feel oppressed then I might not be in the right Kingdom and this is what I mean by this you see there is only one instance when God judged angels The Only Angels in hell that are chained and literally are the angels that crossed boundaries in the time of Noah the Bible tells us how you know there were Angels on the you know on the earth and they saw the women and they were like those are some beautiful women right and I was guessing maybe they had no female you know Angels or something and uh maybe they felt deprived maybe they saw people getting together they said where's my companion you know I don't know what happened but they saw the women and they were like they're beautiful we want to you know get to know them a little bit better right and so they had some relations with them and children were born and these were children that were outside of the will of God this was nothing close to the image of God this was this was a hybrid of something that should have never existed and the Bible tells us in second Peter that judgment God released his judgment on those angels and chained them in hell because they crossed a boundary and so if an angel or Angels crossed in a boundary caused them to be in Chains in hell why is Satan Roman free why does the bible tell us that he is just walking you know to and fur on the earth you know he's you know those little scooter bikes he's on one of them just riding right and the Bible is like he is looking for who to devour why is Satan Roman free when their Angels locked up that should tell you that he is still operating within boundaries that the Lord is Lord over everything and so if he is accessing an influence in my life in a way that is not in accordance to the will of God what kingdom am I under you see I have begun to learn that when the enemy wants to attack you sometimes what we think is Warfare is not really Warfare it's what we started we started going into the dark places and he is you know responding like why are you in my territory but true Warfare from the enemy starts with sight it starts with him trying to Blind you because if he can blind you then he has access to you if the enemy can blind your understanding you see spiritual eyes is not what culture calls it they call it the third eye we're not doing that it's not that spiritual eyes is the eyes of your understanding it's when you can receive knowledge and have an understanding of the intent behind the words that is why Whenever there is revelation Revelation is not just about information Revelation is knowledge and understanding you see there's a scripture I love so much is when Jesus is you know given this parable of the sower and he's talking about a man who was sowing and he's throwing seeds in different places on Rocky ground you know on further ground and this is what he says when he explains the parable right in Matthew 13 verse 23 he says but he who received seed on good ground good ground is a further ground the ground that that will that understands the assignment right if I throw seed in you you bring some things up right it's a fertile ground he says that but he who receives seed on good ground is he who hears the word and understands it and in who indeed bears fruit and produces some a hundredfold some 60 and some 30. you see understanding the word is everything because Faith with understanding is power faith without understanding is really when you're it's dead I know we say faith without works is dead but in order for you to have real works you need understanding because you don't sometimes we think that oh man God I need I just need more faith I'm praying that you would increase my faith no the Bible says that we have all been given a Measure of Faith and Jesus literally says that if you have the faith of a mustard seed you will say to the mountain move from here to there and it would move for you and Jesus wasn't mixing his words he wasn't saying he wasn't given a parable he said it like it is he said if you have the faith of a mustard seed a mustard seed is extremely tiny he says that is enough because it's not that you need more faith you need understanding of what you have received you see even as Believers if we would just sit in the presence of God and begin to ask the Lord what does it mean to be your child can you explain that to me what does it mean to truly be your child because if we understood what it means to be a child of the most high God a lot of our worries will just move over because you'll begin to understand like wait my life is in God's hands anything that happens to me high or low he would work it for my good it doesn't mean that your your Humanity might not rise up sometimes where you feel a little you know move but you will get back into position because you will get back into truth your foundation and your core is the truth of what God Said but when you just receive words words words words the enemy is like okay if you don't have understanding let me see how I can snatch it away from you what do I mean by this because we see spiritual blindness it's very practical remember when you first gave your life to Jesus how emotional you were all the words you heard the conviction of your heart he told you so many things right and then all of a sudden for some of you you're like God I'm just I'm gonna walk a celibate lifestyle for you I just feel so convicted in my heart to be celibate and then months go by you meet a good looking person you guys start talking you invite them you show you know you have them meet your pastors your friends you start talking about marriage you go for a prick whatever pre-engagement counseling to break this celibacy I I just I feel the peace of God that he is not against us because we love each other and we are getting married and you meet when you say I have peace on this I just peace of the Lord all over me right but what happened where where did things shift from the first instruction God gave you to this place of compromise with peace and how many areas of Our Lives do we find ourselves compromising with a have you have you guys seen that man who the salt man who just does that right there and you just compromise and say well I got peace on it but you don't recognize that these are the signs of blindness because spiritual blindness is a progressive deviation from truth and Truth is a person truth is not what you're discuss in a group and say we all agree that sounds good truth is a standard truth is Jesus what is his standard for your life and how far did you fall from it with peace on it you're like God I just feel some peace on this you see spiritual blindness is what it looks like when God gives you an instruction and you're so excited about that instruction but along the way you start to alter and modify it according to How It Best Suits You you begin to procrastinate and you don't think anything is wrong because you see the enemy is very subtle he has time so he takes his time you see when the Bible says that you know he his time is short he's he's rushing and all that stuff his time is short in the bigger picture but when it comes to individuals he says oh shall we could wait I got maybe I'm gonna put 20 years on this I'm gonna just watch you I am studying you I'm waiting for a little bit of compromise and consistency because I am after the word of God sometimes not just over your life but over your generation over your legacy over your children spiritual blindness and I began to ask the Lord what is one of the big causes in our generation why is it that we are not still enough to cultivate real relationship in the place of intimacy because you see light is Jesus the Revelation that I'm speaking about is what is cultivated in his presence true conviction happens in his presence because when you are far from the present you are being convicted by things of culture and Society not of the things of the kingdom of God even though you keep showing up you see there is a funny thread with people that they call the Pharisees and the scriptures these were people that literally thought they were following the book even when the Lord that they serve is in front of them they couldn't recognize them they were blind to the god they thought they were doing a favor all their hypocrisy they did not even realize they were hypocrites blindness but it happens progressively it's when you give a little bit here you give in here you give a little bit in there and you're just it is chipping away at your intimacies chipping away at your purities chipping away at your heart and I asked the Lord what is it concerning this generation because you see social this message is so key for what God is doing in this community in this church because when God begins to cause expansion that is a threat to the enemy when God wants to expand a thing when the hand of God wants to just I mean release increase and abundance that is when the enemy is like okay there's influence coming to this territory so how can I dilute the power God if I cannot stop what you're doing maybe I will join them and this is what I mean by that you see one of the issues in our generation is that we are so obsessed by purpose over intimacy we are so obsessed by God can I build a kingdom that I don't even know we are so obsessed with this idea of God what is the thing that you have called me to do without knowing the God who even called you but when we go when we look at what God Said to a man named Jeremiah he literally in Jeremiah 1 5 he said Jeremiah before I formed you in your mother's womb I knew you and before you were born thank you Jesus before you were born I ordained you a prophet to the Nations what is God saying here what came first intimacy Jeremiah before I announce you to your parents before I announced that they were their family was expanding I knew you I had intimacy with you before you were born then I gave you a purpose what does this look like this is a pattern with God because before God announces you you have to be in the secret place purpose is natural it's a natural flow from the secret place it is not what you chase after it reveals itself to you because you're connected to the agenda that it is for you can be chasing a purpose for a kingdom that you are not planted in so the Lord says Jeremiah before there was even the thought of you we knew each other that is why you see people in the Bible like Elijah we have no idea where Elijah came from he just showed up one day and he's speaking to Kings with authority we only know Snippets of the life of Jesus while he was on Earth we know him as a baby then we know him at 12 when he was you know feeling himself then we know him by 30. and it's like yo what happened all these years but then the Bible gives us Clues because when Jesus would be in the temple they would say that this was his custom this was what he usually did that in the hidden place he was building an intimacy because although he was a hundred percent God he was still man and we have to get back to being a generation that is after the heart of God and not just building things that people would applaud because the enemy recognizes there are things he can't stop he can't stop the call of God on your life because the Bible says for everything there is a time and everything there is a season and times the seasons belong to God your life is revealed in times and Seasons you cannot fight the time and season that God has ordained for you in the season that something is supposed to happen it will happen so the enemy recognizes times and Seasons I have nothing to do with that I I can't even stop that but if I can stop it maybe I could join you maybe I could partner with you maybe I could taint the Purity behind what you're building because what happens in the secret place is what you impart in the natural you see it is the reason you might be wondering there someone may say all they said to you God loves you God bless you and you are just so moved you used started weeping and you don't understand how someone it's a word you've always heard it's a word you say yourself to people no God loves you but someone else says it to you and it hits you it breaks you apart because it was not just a word you heard you got invited into their intimacy because you see God carries the the pr the reason we even say the presence of God the glory of God when the glory of God hits a room there is an atmosphere you you can't all of a sudden even if you were thinking about what you were going to have for brunch you are just laid on your face God oh the it's the authority of God enters the room no one needs to tell you when the presence hits because you sense a shift in the atmosphere but what does this tell you about you because you were created in His image you carry an atmosphere and when Satan knows that he cannot stop you he becomes a part of your atmosphere because that is what you are imparting in people without knowing you see there was a man named Moses and the Bible literally says concerning Joshua who was his servant Joshua who was the one that took for you know when the Lord Called Moses home he said Joshua will finish the job but the Bible literally says this about Joshua that Joshua was full of wisdom when Moses laid hands on him you have to understand how can a man lay hands on another man and there is a transfer of wisdom it is the atmosphere that man carried Moses was a man of the presence so he knew that whatever he moved wherever he stepped into a place if he prayed for you he was releasing his atmosphere the enemy could not taint what Moses had to give Joshua but the enemy recognizes if I can stop God raising you up there are people in this room you will not recognize yourself in a year in regards to the influence that God would give you but the enemy knows he cannot stop you from attaining what God has purposed but he could join you if you let him so rather than your influence drawing people to the Lord it begins to draw them into Division and confusion it begins to draw them in the patterns and ways of the enemy you cannot change a culture that you are like God cannot use you to transform darkness and bring people out of Darkness into his life if you join and partake of Darkness while saying God I'm building your kingdom because he anointed you in the secret place but now you are deviating from it we have to get back to the place now we're not just fasting because we want a job we're not just fasting because we want to get married we're not just fasting because we want a child we're not just fasting and we don't realize what we're doing because we sprinkle God in it we say God please just bless me with this God please just do this for me the Bible sets a standard it says if you seek first the kingdom of God everything else you desire will follow now it doesn't mean that you can seek other things and you will get them if you if you seek hard after it but what is God after God is after the purity of your impact so he says seek first my kingdom don't get so caught up in what you want to build for me God could care less about what you built for him if your heart is contaminated he could care less about what you do for him if your heart is not pure that is why Jesus there were people that came to Jesus they literally said Lord look at all the things we did for you we casted out demons in your name we healed people in your name we built things Lord in your name you would think that he will be so moved he said well because you have to understand the weight of what they're saying that they want people for Christ but Jesus looks at them he says get away from me I never knew you I didn't need you to do any of that I was never after what you could do for me I was always after your heart and you cannot be contaminated in the heart and say you're building for my kingdom that is the vision that is why you see when when God cannot get himself involved when things look look warm when there is a mixture of Good and Evil because it takes us all the way to the garden and the agenda of the enemy from the start the tree that he wanted them to eat from was a tree that was corrupted it has some good but it has some evil and why was it not just the tree of evil there was the tree of you know what there was a tree there of Life everlasting life but then the enemy re from the very beginning the strategy and the F the enemy was always revealed he says no eat of the tree of good and Evil because while you're doing what is good what is evil is hidden from your eyes because you're like you know what God I'm a I'm gonna grab this mic I'm going to preach of the Gospel people are going to get saved people are going to get healed but I'm gonna go back home to my bondage [Music] back home to my issues I'm going to go back home to my hatred you see even Jesus said that if you hit your brother you are living in darkness and that your eyes have been blinded by that Darkness but we're just like God I'm going to worship I'm going to talk about you when I get that award I'm gonna tell them look at this right here the award I'm gonna pick it up and say I just want to First give Glory unto God the head of my life but then this turns into a different kind of bottle and then I'm out doing things with people that I'm supposed to be witnessing to they're like man you're just like us and there is no conviction because you don't carry an atmosphere that speaks of the glory of God and while you think you're doing good you're blinded that evil is corrupted in your good you see the Bible says reveals a mystery about Satan it says that he comes as an angel of Light Satan is not he is a he is a Master of Disguise he doesn't want you to know he is evil would not come as an angel of Light it is deception you see Jesus came and redeemed us Jesus came in and gave us life Jesus came and gave us access back to the tree of life that it is possible to live a life with a pure heart that you can build for the kingdom with Purity in the walls of what you're building you can build for the kingdom and not have to be compromised we have to recognize God doesn't need what you're building he even said if you don't praise me the rocks will praise me I need you to do what you think I need you to do I'm after your hearts I'm after your heart because if I don't have your heart then the enemy will join you in what you're building God says I'm after your heart you say I want you if you've never read the story of Elijah and Elisha I want you to read it because something so intriguing happened Elijah the Lord was calling him home and Elisha was going to be his successor and when Elijah was about to be taken up first of all I just prayed the Lord just you know takes me up I pray he just text me and my husband up together so we don't miss each other and the children will be fine they don't follow missing report or anything they'll see us leaving but but later later like 100 years old right but Elijah is about to be taken up by the Lord and God does it with style he sends chariots can you imagine the the sky's opening chariots are coming you know this beautiful stuff and Elisha Elijah ax Elisha he said what would you have me do for you what do you want from me and Elisha is like man a double portion of your anointing in other words Elijah goes straight to the language of purpose he said if there's anything you'll do for me man just purpose right here a double portion of your anointing and Elijah says what you have asked of me is a hard thing and he says this but if you see me when I am taken up then you will have it what did Elijah mean by this he says Elisha you're asking me for purpose but purpose comes after purity and man does not know the heart God sees the heart of man so what you're asking me I can give you because I'm not the one that weighs the intentions of your heart he says but if God would allow you to see this intimate moment of me being taken into heaven then you will have it because that means he has weighed your heart in the balance and he says what you're asking me of you are worthy of it Elisha starts a purpose Elijah responds with intimacy he said I can't even do that I don't I don't have the authority to do that because God has to weigh out your heart where is your heart in this do you want this to show off or do you want it because your heart is pure before God do you want this because you're like God I'm not I'm not doing this is not about man this is about your kingdom being established you see when God hides you it's his Mercy over you when you feel that maybe you just feel like God I'm so anointed I'm so talented I'm so this I'm so that and nobody sees me it is the mercy of God when he hides you because you have to understand the bigger picture because when God hides you he's establishing you he's making you have roots in him when he hides you it is a place of intimacy and it's a place of intimacy that is cultivated in a way that you will not depart from it the same thing the Bible says about children train a child in the way that they should go so when there are older they will not depart from it it is the language of God to train you and equip you in his presence in the secret place because in that place you have understanding you are equipped so that when God launches you and the enemy tries to Blind your understanding you're like oh no I I'm strong in this thing with God you can't shake me up because he is after you being effective for the kingdom he is not after you growing in wealth he's not after you being happy about the things you have he's after your impact it has always been about impact because the language of kingdom is a language of territory it's about who can win the territory I'm from Nigeria at the point we were colonized by the British right they looked at our country and they saw territory they said we need that territory Kingdom has the language of territory that they don't care about what you're doing in it it's about who has the territory so what God wants to do with your life is to equip you is to empower you in him because you can only be fruitful in God you don't want to miss it out there you don't want to be the product of the tree of the knowledge of Good and Evil you don't want your Works to be contaminated while you're thinking I'm building the kingdom but you're building something else you want to let it come from a place of Purity and this is the charge that God gave me for this house to get back to your first love get back to your first love get back to the heart of God when you when God has your heart man there is nothing he would withhold from you when God has your heart he will do Mighty things through you when God has the purity of your heart Purity is the reason that God anointed a teenager to be king his name is was David a teenager God didn't care about his age when God has your heart it like you don't even understand the kind of favor you would have to be in rooms you have no business being in is who God Called to be the king of our nation because of his heart God said I could trust him to not pervert what I'm building I could trust him [Music] get back to your first love social this is a message for you to write on your hearts this is a message for you to marinate on because God is building something in this community and God is building something in your lives and you don't want to make room for the enemy to make sin and blend in with it you don't want to make room for him to join you in what you're building for the kingdom get back to that secret place that nothing will distract you and nothing will pervert the purity of what God is doing in you and through you because it's going to be beautiful family I'm telling you I cannot wait for what a year from now would look like for this house and the testimonies that will come out of this house and the what God is going to do in the Nations as a result of the call of God on this house and his people so I want you to stand up with me we're going to pray [Music] thank you Jesus thank you Lord thank you Lord thank you Lord thank you Lord thank you Jesus thank you Jesus thank you Jesus thank you Lord I just want us to do something you know and I want you to just take it as an act of change a Act of you know repentance in the Bible it literally means to you know turn the other way you're walking in the wrong direction and God says turn the other way walk in the right direction right that there's something that transforms in you you see the heart of God will never be to condemn you it would never be to shame you but it is to illuminate your path you want to know if you're standing in the right or and the wrong you want to know God where am I in alignment with you [Music] God God is for you he is after you and he doesn't want you to miss it he doesn't want you to miss it if you've been compromising in your life I want you to examine where did that come from and the peace that you feel who gave it to you is that the true peace that comes from the Lord or is that the world peace because Jesus will use the language and say the peace that I give you so there is peace that could come from other places [Music] but where you are experiencing compromise in your life it is a sign of blindness because it's Progressive [Music] it's Progressive and if you're in the house and you're saying God I know that was for me and I want to get back to my first love I've been so distracted and depressed and anxious about who am I what is my purpose in you that I've missed what it's always been about it's always been about Jesus it's always been about relationship with him and he reveals to you what he's called you to do out of that place it's not backwards I just want you to take a step a a prophetic act if you will and just wherever you're sitting just come as close to the altar as you can and we're gonna pray thank you Lord thank you Lord in moments like this you know we often get mindful of who's looking at us we often get mindful of uh what what are they going to think about us but I would say this to you your freedom in God is more important than being validated by the person sitting or standing next to you because what I'm asking you to do right now is also about the posture of your heart what do I really care about do I care about my walk with God or do I care about what the people around me are gonna think freedom is liberating and when your heart is in that space of God it's you it's you I desire it's you my heart is after I could care less about what the person next to me thinks about where I've been in my life and I'm saying this because the Lord is also showing me there's some of you and your leaders and you're so mindful right now like man I don't want people thinking that I was just you know wilding out here no it's personal it's personal only you know the places in your heart you're saying God I need to repent I need to turn back to you I need to I need to change my ways I've been obsessed about the wrong thing I need to repent and maybe some of you the Lord is calling you into a fast not for anything but for him for his presence not for your list not for the things you want him to bless but for his presence you see when you are a friend of God he looks out for you Moses a friend of God people were talking about Moses Moses did not even know what was being said about him God can you imagine when God just steps in to defend you when he like it it is it was such a beautiful picture God is literally like how dare they talk about my friend Moses he took it personal and he goes and the Lord shows up in a very you know lordy fashion and he gave an illness and it wasn't that you know God is just judging people and making people sick no it was just a sign of his judgment like Moses I got your back man I got you and Moses is the one saying God no please heal her heal her don't do that don't do that when you're a friend of God there are things you don't even have to worry about when you are focused on Jesus he will tell you things to come Abraham another friend of God where's the positive for a second please there's something I just keeps sensing the Lord that wants to hear your shout and your cry out no music no music no music no music because the Lord is listening to you he is listening to what has taken place even in your heart he's listening to that there are things you don't even have to utter that when you are a friend of God a shift in your posture God is already he is looking what is taking place thank you Jesus In This Moment don't hold back whatever is in your heart right now to the Lord he is listening to you he is listening to you thank you Lord there is such a safe space in this atmosphere for you to let yourself go before him thank you Lord thank you Lord thank you Lord thank you Lord thank you Jesus the presence of God is in this place [Music] thank you Lord thank you Lord Holy Spirit move like only you can friends of God friends of God friends of God that's what God is after he's after friendship with you he's after friendship with you because in that posture of friendship family you don't have to worry in that posture of friendship even when you have a down moment the spirit of the Lord begins to speak to you begins to minister to you as a friend would a friend of God let us be pursuers of his presence of intimacy and we will see Revival across our Nations true Revival thank you Lord thank you Lord thank you Lord Heavenly Father we have come before you and we're not asking of anything except you Moses said if your presence doesn't go with us do not send me there is nothing to build outside of your presence Lord I pray that everyone in this room and everyone listening a global family everywhere that you will begin to weigh the intentions of our hearts behind everything that we do that we surrender everything at your feet that Lord we don't want to go another step if you are not going with us Lord we thank you that we are going to be intentional to cultivate intimacy with you we're going to be intentional God we are going to be intentional Lord everywhere we have compromised we repent and we're coming back to you turning our hearts back to you to say Lord give me understanding give me Revelation and insight behind this thing you told me to do because Lord I don't want to miss it in you and it's okay to say God I have questions because he is the answer [Music] you can't be the word if you don't have things to say he has something to give to you but come before him and say God I don't I don't know I have this knowledge but I don't have understanding Holy Spirit teach me teach me why this is the way you want me to follow teach me give me insight so that I can stand that even when attack comes Lord I will stand that the enemy will not be so easy to sway me but I will stand and represent you Lord we thank you for what you're doing in this house and over the lives of your sons and daughters Lord you're saying to me you have heard their cry you have heard their cry and all you desire is intimacy in that place there will be understanding everything you are searching for is in the presence of God thank you Jesus Lord we love you have your way in Jesus mighty name amen amen [Applause]

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Published: Mon Oct 10 2022