Positioned For A Miracle | Pastor Stephen Chandler

[Music] first Kings chapter 3 verse 3 if you have a say yeah and it says this and Solomon loved the lawyer and Solomon loved the Lord look at your neighbor and ask him do you love oh no no you didn't say yeah you got Satan your preacher voice look I say do you love him do you love him do you love it whoa said how I love Jeanne said oh how I love G sit all [Music] because fairies a name I love to sing your praises sounds like music II I mean if you're gonna sing it myself sing it it is named my single how love Jeeva ah [Music] Eva because Eva and Solomon loved the Lord that's what I was trying to get to walking in the statutes of his father David except that he sacrificed and burned incense at the high places now the king went to give Eon to sacrifice therefore that was the great high place Solomon offered a thousand burnt offerings on that altar a thousand how many how long he was standing not a thousand minutes a thousand burnt offerings how many not ten not a hundred thousand y'all y'all know what a burnt offering is right it's an animal there's a bull a thousand we're talking about a herd a posse I can crowd a Bulls and they were alive they brought one I'm not going to get graphic but there was a certain way that God said to do a sacrifice they would kill the bull they would put it on the altar and they would burn it just think about how long it took to burn the bull they burnt one and when they were finished burning that one they got the second they brought it and they killed it they put it on the altar and then they burnt it then when they finished the second they got how many Bulls in total how long do you think they were there probably 10 days over there for a while so the thousand burnt offerings on that altar at Gibeon the Lord appeared to Solomon in a dream by night and God asked said ask what shall I give watch this what level of worship puts God in a position where you're not asking of him he's asking of you whatever you ask let me ask this again what level of worship puts God in a position where you're not asking him for anything he's asking you whatever you want me to do ask I want to know I don't know about you but I want to know how to put God in a position where he is asking me what I want promising to do it in my life father God were grateful you had a blessing to the reading of your word Jesus name Amen before you sit down high-five to people tell them I want God asked me I want gotta ask me come on come on come on for a miracle can happen for the spirit up you see you have an answer for the spirit of Oh a miracle gonna be now for the Spirit of the Lord is here the evidence is all around for the spirit of he's he ha the villian I always say when it comes to catalysts nights that I'm not gonna preach and it's all I was alive but tonight I really are gonna try my best not to preach because I believe that God wants to impart something to us I was praying over this catalyst night is actually Saturday and prayer was just praying the way that it started it is I started praying over some of the cards that people had written and as I was praying over these different cars and each card had a different miracle that they were believing God to do whether it's health wise or a loved one coming to Christ or or a financial blessing or whatever it may be and I'm praying over these cards on a praying over these cards I heard the Spirit of the Lord speaks to me and I'm telling you at this point I recognize when it's Steven I recognize when it's the enemy and I recognize when it got it was God and this was God and I heard him so tangibly and God said I want to do a miracle in people's lives but there's nowhere for me to put it [Music] he literally said he said there's so many miracles that I want to do in people's lives but there's nowhere in their life for me to place the miracle and he said if you can teach the people how to position themselves to receive a miracle that I will do it in their lives he said they're asking and I want to do it I just have no place to put it here's what I've discovered you don't stumble into miracles you don't trip and fall and bump your head on a miracle miracles don't just happen miracles are not God pursuing us miracles are God's response to our faith you actually have to request a miracle to see it come to pass you actually have to position yourself and one of the things that we may not realize is the miracles are not a response to need just because you have a need doesn't mean that God's gonna perform a miracle and it may sound mean or it may sound callous if God sees that I'm suffering he sees that I'm hurting he sees that I have a need why won't he send a miracle so often atheists and agnostics and different people that are struggling with their faith they would say if God is so good why are there all these needs on the earth and he doesn't meet them can I tell you why because God doesn't respond to need with miracle here's why because it's not God's job to meet needs it's the church's job he said when I put man on the earth and I said take dominion over the earth he said I gave them the supernatural ability to meet the needs on the earth and listen to me if there's a need on this earth that's not met it's not God's fault he said because I've given you everything you need for life and for godliness it's not God's job to meet the needs of the earth it's the church's job that's what he empowered us to do so God doesn't respond to need with miracle God God doesn't respond to problems with a miracle how many people know there's a whole lot of problems in the earth a lot of problems that are staying problems God's not responding to those problems there's only one thing that God responds to with a miracle and that's faith you have to understand that faith is the only thing that moves God the Bible says anybody that comes to God must believe that he is and that he is a rewarder that he is a responder that he is a miracle maker for those who diligently seek Him if you are believing God for a miracle in your life it's not gonna happen because you have a problem it's not gonna happen because you have a need it's gonna happen because you extend your faith to God and say God I believe that you are able and that you will respond in cert miracle you ever seen those movies where where they have those helicopters and they're bringing relief efforts of food or whatever it may be and they have them connected to the plane or the helicopter and the people on the ground they make some type of flare or some type of circle or some type of target that they can see from the air of hey drop relief here I believe that God is looking for a church that is looking up to heaven that literally is showing him a sign of drop a miracle right here God if you're looking for a place to drop a blessing if you're looking for a place to move supernaturally I wonder is there anybody in this room that you just have in your mind you just have in your heart God if you're looking for a place to move if you're looking for a place to insert heaven if you're looking for a place to do something that you've never done before insert a miracle right here I wish we were a church that said God if you're looking for a church to move like you've never moved before God if you're looking for a place to break out revival God if you're looking for a place to heal and to move and to speak God if you're looking for a place you can do it right here God if you're looking for a place to do a miracle God look no further you can do it right here love Bishop Garlington he would pray this prayer and ever since I heard him pray this pair of I've been praying this pair I said God whatever you're doing doing here wherever you're moving God move here God whatever you're doing don't do it without me God is looking for a place to drop a miracle and here's what I want I want a pastor a church of people that are expecting miracles in their life I want to Pastor a church of people that are sick and tired with business as usual I want to Pastor a church that has the type of faith that understands that Jesus did not die on the cross for normal for average for UPS been there done that and got the teacher he died on the cross for exceeding and abundantly above all that I can ever ask think or imagine I refuse to be satisfied with average I refuse to be satisfied with good enough I refuse to be satisfied but that's awesome the only thing that will satisfy me is when he opens up the windows of heaven and pour out a blessing that I can't not contain that's what I'm pursuing that's what I'm seeking can I be honest with him my goal is not to build a big church my goal is not to see people come to Christ only my goal is not to get to a place where we say man that we've made it we've arrived my goal is to build a place where day after day after day heaven collides with earth and we see things that we've never seen before a place where revival breaks out of place where it spills out of the doors of the streets and into neighborhoods and houses a place where people don't just get healed at catalyst unhealed on Sunday but after they've been healed they walk out of this house into their house and sick people that didn't even show up to the service are touched by the power of God on their lives I'm not just believing for a place where people walk in and depression falls off of them and suicide falls off of them and discouragement falls off of them I'm believing for a place that after it falls off of you you walk out of those thorns and every single place that you go revival begins to break out I'm believing for a place where it's marked by the handprint of heaven says that as the disciples walked is said that their shadows would heal people I don't need my shadow to heal people I just need miracles to happen where miracles aren't supposed to happen I just need people [Music] not in church in the mall coming up to you saying don't you go don't you go to that destiny Church don't you don't you go to that place I've been meaning to act somebody what must I do to be saved I don't know what church is saying and and I don't know if I'm gonna get there I just want to know what do I need to do to know the Jesus that you know what do I need to do I'm believing for something that are just a little bit weird you talk about weird I went home for about an hour today scarf down some food and came right back down here and I'm walking out of my house this is my house ain't none of y'all know where I live and I don't want y'all to know where I live cuz I need somewhere where I could just be me and not be a pastor and I walk out of the door and literally open my door step out and there's a Halloween parade going past my front door all these parents with their kids on their shoulders and they're marching dressed up like goblins and also the guys stuff and I'm just you gotta imagine the shock if you walk out your door and I'm talking about I step here Halloween parade there and like this is weird and it's not it so I open the door this serves that pastor Stephen do I live now you got the wrong wood I said yeah they said do you live here I'm visiting a friend said oh my gosh I've been in your church and I'm trying to get my husband to come he works on Sunday they just started just pushing about what God has done I'm believing for a place where the miracles aren't on Sunday mornings at 9:00 10:45 it's 12:30 I'm believing for a place that every person that calls this place home every day of your life is marked by the fingerprint of God okay can I talk to you like you're my leadership team is that okay can we can we just talk trash for a second not only am i believing God for that but I'll be patient I'm patient I know God's gonna do do something miraculous and amazing tonight I know revival is gonna break out but I'll tell you this he's not gonna do all tonight all that I want him to do and I just know like an axe on a tree like a hand on one of those old Wells Sunday after Sunday after Sunday catalyst after catalyst after catalyst what are you doing what are you doing what are you doing I'm priming the pump I'm priming the pump um I'm digging wells I'm I'm creating a place month after month year after year and I'm telling you I am believing God for something that I have not yet seen and it will break out in Jesus name let me just prophesy God laid on my heart that people are gonna come from other countries all over this world to see what he is doing in this place because what he is doing in this place is not gonna stay in this place but it's literally gonna ricochet throughout this world and this nation and shift the trajectory in the course of the kingdom of God and people are gonna come and say what did you do to make this half and we're gonna say month after month Sunday after Sunday year after year we had a heart of God if you want to do a miracle you can do it in this place it didn't happen after one prayer meeting it didn't happen after one month it didn't happen after one year but as we proceed it's almost like that battering ram if we're just going to hit it one time and hit it again and hit it again at some point these walls will fall down this is miracle okay so so can I teach you how to position yourself for a miracle there's four positions that you need to be in if you're gonna see a miracle from God the first one is this the position of open-handed pursue write that down the position of open-handed and I know hand is what I said but I meant handed pursue in in 1st Samuel chapter 1 verse 10 there was a woman by the name of Hannah and she had no child she was barren by the way can I preach for a second you understand every barren woman in the Bible every woman that was incapable of having children when God finally blessed her or healed her and she was able to have children she never gave birth to a normal child she always gave birth to a father of a nation or a prophet or a healer or a deliverer some of you need to learn to praise God for something that has not yet happened because the only reason it hasn't happened yet is because it's bigger than you thought it was [Music] the only reason it hasn't happened yet is because you're not giving birth to normal you giving birth to a world changer we get so upset because the dreams that we're believing for have not yet happened and God is saying why are you so upset it's because you don't understand the dream is bigger than you know the breakthrough has a bigger implication then you're even praying for the only reason he would make you wait is if it was bigger than you thought it was somebody slap somebody saying I got a prophet inside of me I got a world changer inside of me the miracle inside of me it's bigger than I thought it was Wow [Applause] first ten and she was in bitterness of soul and prayed to the Lord and wept in a you you ain't start praying and so you wept in some anguish now I lay me down to sleep I pray the Lord my soul and anger get you nothing you you ain't even begun and so there's a prayer that doesn't come out of your mouth that comes out of your belly all no church mothers used to pray for their pray for their children their grandchildren that it had turned from God and it wasn't a lord bless them it wasn't it was it wasn't a lord turn them to Jesus it was the Lord take that alcohol in their mouths and turn it bitter make it make him sick God God pray right where they you ain't start praying till you started said with bitter anguish she wept then she made a vow and said O Lord o host if you will indeed look on the affliction of your maidservant and remember me and do not forget your maidservant but we'll give him your maidservant a male child she was specific she said I want a male child because nothing against women but in that sexist society she would have no Specht if she only had a daughter she's a god I'm believing for a male child he said this is what's gonna happen God if you give me this miracle that I will give it back to you I will give him to the Lord all the days of his life and no razor shall come upon his head the first place that God places miracles is an open-handed people God if you do this in my life I promise I won't hoard it to myself God if you do this miracle in my life I promise I won't keep it to myself God if you do this miracle in my life god I promise I'm gonna give it back to you if you want to see a miracle in your life you got to figure out how to return that miracle to God because God's not interested in moving supernaturally in things that don't advance his kingdom we talked this morning about that so that what's that miracle can we get practical what's the miracle that you want and how are you gonna give it back to God you can ask for whatever you want you just gotta figure out how to give it back to God God I want to get married great how are you gonna give your marriage back to me how are you going to use that union to bring peace to people god I'm believing for a house great how you gonna give that house back to me my friends growing up would always irritate me because whenever it came to the time to go to somebody's house they all wanted to come to my house I said it miles is dumb my parents are there we can't have any fun there when they asked a friend I said why do you always want to come to my house he said because there's a piece at your house that I don't feel anywhere else this is my friend telling me something about my house died and even recognize he said your house is the only place where I've ever seen two people that actually love each other he said I just like sitting around your parents and watching them love each other cuz I don't get to see that in my parents my house was always the house another house that limit now my house is like that but my parents house was the house where everybody wanted to be and my parents would turn nobody away and I can't tell you how for decades I grew up watching people cry on my parents couch as their counseling them and putting their arms around them how people found freedom in that house how freewill found breakthrough in that house I can't tell you how many Runaways that had been kicked out of their house that had left their parents came and lived us with us for two weeks three weeks three most for most until they can get their lives back I can't tell you how many I mean I choked on Sundays but it was real there was always some random person living in that house if you want to believe God for a house figure out how to give that house back to him if you want a house say God if you bless me with the house I'll make sure that my doors are always open I'll make sure that this is a place of peace and comfort where people that are beaten down by life can come and just sit on the couch and eat all my food and I won't charge them God if you want a miracle you got to figure out how to return it back to God and if you can't figure out how to return it back to God don't expect it god I want a child and God if you give me a child I promise I'll give him back to you and all the days of his life he will worship you how many children does she asks for one she asks for his son you know by the time her story was done she had six kids because God says if you give me the first the rest is blessed sometimes we're nervous about giving God our miracle because we feel like if we give him a miracle we'll never get it back he said don't you understand if you give me that miracle not only am I gonna Moulton not only am I gonna give it back to you but I'll multiply that miracle because anything given to God is not something lost as something planted and something planted always brings a harvest but one seed never brings one harvest one seed always brings a harvest thirty sixty and a hundredfold so God says if you would believe me for a miracle and then sow that miracle back to me you're not just gonna see that miracle you're gonna see that miracle multiplied that's why I made a covenant when we started this church God anything you do in this church we're gonna give it away anything you show us to do as a church God we are gonna have open doors to every other Church and we are gonna help them learn and figure out the easy way everything we learned and figured out the hard way and listen to me it's not because I'm that generous of Pastor and I want to help all these other churches it's because I understand the miracle that God is doing here if I give it back to him I'm gonna see that miracle multiply 30 60 and 100 fold I am generous I'm just not that generous the first thing is the position of open handed pursuit the second position that you need to be in to receiving miracles a position of preparation 2nd Kings chapter 4 I'm not gonna read it for the sake of time but there was a woman that was starving and her children were starving and she came to the Prophet and she said we're starving the Prophet said great you're gonna get a miracle but before you get your miracle go get some jars somebody's they get some jars he wants to do a miracle but he needs some place to put it because God is not interested in wasting this supernatural God is not interested in spilling miracles on the floor he said who in their right mind would pour new wine into old wineskins because everybody knows that new wine expands and old wineskins are brittle and when I give you this miracle and it multiplies if you put it into something old it will break and be wasted so before you receive a miracle you need to find something to put it in go get you some jars where does should I get the jars from get him from your neighbors says she went and she got some jars it says when she got the jaws she began to pour the oil in the miracle started pouring it says as soon as she ran out of jars the miracle stopped the greatest tragedy ever is that the miracle was not supposed to stop the problem is she grabbed too few jars if she had more jars there would have been more miracles if you want to see a miracle you have to prepare for that miracle by grabbing something that God can pour it into what's the jar the jar is wisdom to contain your miracle can I make it practical God's not going to send you a financial blessing if you don't know how to be a good steward of money he's just not he's not gonna give you a million dollars if he knows that you don't have the wisdom to steward the million dollars he ain't gonna give you ten dollars so if I'm believing for a financial miracle you know where you need to be you need to be in the financial Connect room I'm not just preaching this is my life I was probably the only single brother that was listening to more marriage podcasts and reading more marriage books and watching marriage messages and going to marriage conferences that's weird are you single at a marriage conference cuz I'm getting me some jars I'm getting me some wisdom on how not to mess up the miracle for when it comes wrestle y'all can sit around and pray for your miracle and wait for it to come I'm actually go get something to put the miracle in if whatever miracle you were believing for happened tonight would you have a place to put it faith is God I'm so sure you're gonna do it and I'm gonna go get me a jar so that you can put it in God i'ma look at that empty jar I'm gonna speak to that job a prophesied to that jar and God one day you're gonna fill that jar y'all know my supernatural quote right it ain't weird if it's only weird if it doesn't work there's this story of this woman at this church in South Korea the largest church in the world and and she heard a pastor preach a message like this and she was single and she was believing God for a husband so she went out she bought herself a suit it's only weird if it doesn't work bought herself a suit she hung that suit in the closet she told somebody I have a suit in my closet it was she that suits for the husband that God's gonna send me he's gonna send him so I'm gonna make sure that when he sends him I can dress him nice I'm gonna make sure that he has something to wear when it's only weird if it doesn't work the next year came around and the same pastor who had preached that message that built her faith came as she walked up not by herself but with her husband next door wearing the suit that she had bought him and said here's the miracle because I got something for God to fill it and he filled it listen to me is only weird it doesn't work and I'm not telling you to go tell everybody you bought a suit if you do that keep that to yourself I'm not gonna lie to you there's some weird things that your pastor does by faith to believe God's gonna fill some and I ain't telling none of y'all just in case they don't happen because y'all gonna think I'm crazy but if it doesn't happen y'all go like man he's a man of faith no I gave God something of Phil can I be practical do you have a system to maintain the miracle that you're believing God for God I'm believing that you're gonna expand my business by how much she didn't pray for a child she prayed for a male child God I'm believing for 60% growth next year okay do you have the systems to manage it do you have the staffing to manage it do you have the protocols to manage it you just go ahead and get the jar ready and watch him fill it the position of preparation the third thing is this the position of obedience Luke chapter 17 verse 14 and they came to Jesus said can you heal us and he said so when he saw them he said to them go show yourself to the priest and so it was that as they went somebody say as they went I call that on your way miracles some miracles God performs and some miracles God send you know it's so weird the last sick people that came to Jesus he laid hands on him and I bet because he laid hands on those people these guys were expecting him to do the same thing not understanding that he only parted the Red Sea once and when he parted the Red Sea and Moses took his staff over when he parted the Jordan River they had to step in first God says even if it looks like the same miracle it's never gonna come in the same way this miracle is only going to happen when you do what I told you to do I'm the pastor gets a little ornery at the end of the night some of you your miracles not gonna come through prayer and fasting your miracle is not gonna come through dancing around in your room name and claim it you could buy a suit all you want that ain't gonna happen for some of you your miracles not gonna come until you do what he told you to do it's amazing how we could pray ourselves out of what God told us to do my parents would always tell me this right before I got a whoopin delayed obedience is disobedience Steven did I tell you to wash the dishes you did and I'm about to know you about to get a whoopin because when I told you to wash the dishes that's when I wanted you to wash the dishes now it's too late bad we about to get a whoopin your life flashing before your eyes and trying all this psychobabble on you get it over with there are some things that God has told us to do and it's because it's awkward or uncomfortable or out of our comfort zone it requires a level of trust that we've never given him before we're hesitating and we're not stepping out in obedience and God is saying some miracles only happen when you do what I told you to do did I tell you to get baptized then get baptized did I tell you to tithe then time did I tell you to join the church and I tell you to serve that I tell you to apologize to that person and I tell you to love them even though they're not loving you back that I tell to leave that job did I tell you to get out of that relationship did I tell you to do this I tell you today your miracle is connected to your obedience and I'm telling you if you're not seeing God move in your life go back to the last thing he told you to do and figure out if you did it or not because if you did it there's a miracle that's connected to it and if you're not do not pass go do not collect 200 there until you make up in your mind I'm gonna do what he told me to do then the last thing is this the position of extravagant worship 1st Kings chapter 3 verse 4 Solomon offered a thousand burnt offerings on that altar Solomon offered a thousand one translation says choice bulls you know the choice bullets I'm not a horse race or anything like that I don't care about it at all but I do know enough to know that there's three you know major races the Kentucky Derby the Preakness and the Belmont and everybody wants to win those races but believe it or not the money that you win for winning that race is nothing in compared to the money that you make after that race you win the race you get two million dollars or whatever after taxes and dividing it up between the trainer and jockey and the owner and all that other kind of stuff you know you don't make a lot of money but where you make the money is after you've won that race now you can breed that horse and it's like a quarter million dollars to a million dollars to breed with a winning horse just one time you somebody's out made one day I'm gonna get me any like horse breeding or something like that I don't know where my miracles won't come from I'm just gonna get me a job you've got an opportunity to do a miracle in my life when they said choice bulls they didn't mean random bulls they meant breeding bulls these were the Bulls that they would use to breed the entire herd and it was common practice for a king to sacrifice one bull when he was ordained King Solomon said if one is normal I want to do a Olsson because I never want my sacrifice to God I never want my worship to God to be average or normal boo David said this I will never offer God something that does not cost me I want to make sure that it costs me I want to make sure that it hurts because I want God to know how valuable he is to me Solomon got rid sacrificed unto God 1,000 of his most valuable bulls and God came up to him and said what can I do you for let me just ask you Solomon anything you ask here on earth I will do it for you listen to me unusual worship gets unusual responses from heaven unusual sacrifice gets unusual miracles from God and here's what I've discovered worship is not just my song worship is not just my dance and God doesn't want your both no pun intended I can't help myself sorry it's not very godly he said no I don't want to Bowl I want you will you lay your life down as a living sacrifice holy and acceptable to God which in light of the cross is only your reasonable active with then you will be able to attest to the good the pleasing the perfect will of God was God what he wants to sacrifice what's the sacrifice he wants he wants you he wants your life can I preach it I want your college days I don't want you to drop out of school don't leave here in Java high school but I want you to say god these four years in college they belong to you I returned them to you God why everybody else is excited to get out of their parents house and have as much fun as they possibly can God my four years in school is not gonna be based on me having fun my four years in school is gonna be based on my life being an act of worship unto you and I'm gonna spend every waking moment that I have outside of studying and figuring out how I can be used by you to advance the kingdom of God that's a living sacrifice god I'm waiting on my spouse and until I get my spouse God the time I would spend serving them I'm gonna use that time serving you god I got a little bit more time than most people so I'm gonna use my time to build your house I remember I was talking to one of my pastors when I was single I said pastor Carlos I'm tired and I'm working 60 70 80 hours a week I need a break he said you need a break keep working it long that's how you stay holy you ain't gonna get in trouble if you're tired I'm telling you unusual levels of sacrifice unusual levels of surrender to God brings unusual levels of miracles in your life and why are you so young why are you pastoring the church why is God doing what he's doing through this church because when I was in college and everybody else was on Route one at thirsty turtle getting drunk I was in my dorm room lonely worshiping God believing and praying for revival to take place I'm not saying that to brag I'm saying that to say whenever you make a sacrifice there is a miracle that is attached to that sacrifice he throws open the windows of heaven and pour is out a blessing that you cannot contain when's the last time you did something for God that required you to stop doing something for yourself when's the last time you did something for God that was actually an inconvenience for you that's where miracles happen that's a place where God is able to say I want to do something in your life because you didn't just meet expectations but you exceeded expectations I want to do in your life exceeding and abundantly above all you could ever ask think or imagine somebody say Amen so how many people in here you can do with a miracle in your life [Applause] it's 806 we're supposed to end this thing at 8 o'clock I'm gonna land this plane in a second but I want to do something really practical if you if you don't have someone right with by now you just don't love Jesus because you should've written that whole thing down put your phone out pull the notepad out something I got your pens and all that kind of stuff pull something out to write down something with for this one day I need you to indulge me I need a hundred percent participation if you don't have a pen you have a paper you have a phone steal one from your neighbor say hey kid can you write this down for me I made everybody with something in your hand ready to write if you already say ready I'm gonna give you 30 seconds somebody said almost well wait for you will wait for you because it's a holy moment the worship team y'all probably want to write too so i'ma let y'all right y'all go right now you got your phone how you do that hey hey hey I ain't playin for these people I'm gettin my miracle you go ahead write that down and he I mean Keys stop drums are done I know that's right yeah we don't need no music worship or your home here's what I want you to write down write down the miracle you're believing God for and in here nobody else needs to see this so write the real miracle don't write don't write that super spiritual one God my miracle I want to know you like I've never known you before no no I don't do that don't do that don't do that you want a house right a house you want a spouse right a spouse if you want your body your business to go to the next level business to next level if you want a child right a child if you want a relationship restore it right a relationship whatever you want right now write it down write it down oh I hear the Spirit of the Lord saying be greedy don't just write down one write down like two or three come on yeah yeah yeah I mean if you're gonna ask you might as well ask right I mean it if you gonna do it you might as well do it like let's not waste his time he ain't dying across from one miracle [Laughter] thank Derek we can't get a cord out of you you wrote it down and this may be something you have to do when you go home in your quiet time sometimes the times after times like these are the most sacred times and here what here's here's what I want you to do now that you've wrapped you've written that miracle down I don't want you to ask God for it I want you to wrestle with yourself for it what what do I mean I mean I need you to pray over that miracle until you've made up in your heart God if you do it I'll give it back to you because some of us want things from God but if we'd be honest we have no intention there giving it back to him so paste that miracle somewhere next to your bed put it on your phone make your screensaver take your boo off and put that miracle on just put it a place where you going to see it and start wrestling with that thing God if you do it I'll give it back you start wrestling with that thing and beginning to ask yourself am I prepared to receive this miracle begin to think in a practical way if this miracle would have happened how is my life gonna have to change I'll probably need to be more disciplined I'll probably need more wisdom in this area I probably can't be a novice at this or that begin to prepare as if the miracle was coming tomorrow wrestle with that thing until you make up in your mind no matter what if he tells me to do I'm gonna obey God when you speak I will obey I'm not going to hesitate I'm not going back up you say cut it i'ma cut it you say go i'ma go you say forgive them and forgive whatever you say God I'm gonna do it in my heart let me always with you that's the one that makes my heart flutter a little bit well I got anything you say I do and then finally wrestle with that thing until you make up in your mind I'm gonna pursue God in the way and that inconveniences me I'm not gonna offer him one one bull worship I'm gonna offer him a thousand I'm not going halfway I'm not going over we were talking and talking to our leadership team DLA and I told them here's what you need to do you need to figure out what normal isn't you need to double it because leaders don't do normal you need to figure out what averages and you need to double it because leaders don't do average listen to me not only do leaders not do average but pursuers of God don't do average you know make up in your mind god I'm gonna pursue you at the level that is inconvenient to my plans and my goals and my aspirations and I'll tell you right now it's gonna take you a while to wrestle to that place but when you've wrestled to that place of God if you give it to me I'll give it right back God if you tell me I'll obey God I promise you that as you speak to me god I'm gonna do what you told me to do I'm gonna prepare for it and I'm gonna pursue you at an uncomfortable level when you've done that then turn your faith to God and believe that he is gonna do that miracle in your life and do not free Lent until you see it come to pass hop up on your feet where's your team you guys can come now hopefully you've already written down your miracles I don't know why I'm feeling very Pentecostal we need a little bit of prophetic performance baby go get you whatever you wrote on with us your phone we bout to be weird up in here it's only weird if it don't work whatever you wrote on that piece of paper that phone at pan or whatever it may be just get it in your hand right where you are just hold that thing in front of you and just close your eyes before I pray over that miracle I want to give you just 30 seconds and I think I'll put timeframe I'll give you some time just take a moment and surrender that desire to God man I'm here all leading you any even get to write my own miracle down I'll do this after come on now you you you hear the Spirit of God speaking to you even to this moment just take a moment tell them God if you give this to me I'll give it right back God if you do this in my life I promise you I'm gonna use it for your glory come on someone's you need to tell God God if you do this in my life I promise I won't take the credit I won't tell people I did this God I'll tell him it was you not if you do this every time somebody asks me God I'm a point to you God if you provide that house I promise it's gonna be a house of peace for people it's gonna be a refuge for those who are hurting and come and hide it come on ask him say God give me practical ways to prepare God's gonna be gonna tell you to do some things to get your life in order get your business in order get your money in order to get your relationships in order begin to prepare for that miracle as if it was coming tomorrow you can't waste as much time as you're wasting right now if you're gonna see that mirror you can't be as disorganized as you are right now if you're gonna see that you can't be as undisciplined as you are right now if you're gonna see that prepare as if it was coming tomorrow just make a decision right now before he asks you to do anything difficult say god when you speak I will obey come on say it from your heart say God when you speak I won't hesitate I will obey finally say God I'm a pursue you at a point that's uncomfortable for me God I'm gonna pursue you at a point that's inconvenient for me God if one is average I'm a come at you a thousand times where you are hold that prayer up father God I pray over every single miracle in this house some people are believing for children some people are believing for a spouse some people are believing for a financial increase God some people are believing that you're gonna bring them in a full-time ministry God some people are believing God for so many different things and God as a church we are believing for a miracle in this house God we're praying not as individuals but as a body there God that you're gonna break out a revival in this church God that miracles are gonna break out God that signs and wonders are gonna follow us every single day of our lives and God in this a moment God we promise God when you do those miracles in our life God we won't hold them to ourselves but God we will return them unto you we will plant them in the kingdom of God we will use them to give you glory all the days of our life God we say even now God that we're gonna prepare for the miracle as if it is coming to us tomorrow God we pray even now we decree and declare God that when you speak we will obey God in this moment we say we will pursue you God we're gonna pursue at a level that is inconvenient we're we're gonna pursue you at a level that is uncomfortable we're making a decision tonight to lay our lives down to lay our dreams down to lay our ambitions down some of you have to take a moment and you need to crucify those thoughts and those goals and those dreams that you've held up higher than your pursuit of God you need to begin a wrestle in your heart and say God if that dream never comes to pass I'll still pursue you God if this doesn't happen and that doesn't happen God in this moment I lay my life down as a living sacrifice holy and acceptable this is my act of worship say this with me say gah all that I am I give unto you say God all that I am I give unto you do with me as you please and father God we thank you that all your promises are yesterday man and God you will move supernaturally in our lives the mighty name of Jesus we pray amen

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Length: 55min 49sec (3349 seconds)

Published: Tue Oct 30 2018