Prepared In Active Service - 30th May 2021 - Pastor Joel Taller

do [Music] good morning welcome everyone well it's that time of the week again amen it's sunday we get to come into the presence of god and worship him collectively as a group amen amen isn't god good well good morning to those of you watching online we're so pleased to have you with us we love you we miss you and we look forward to seeing you again soon hey man come on church let's stand to our feet let's begin just to lift up jesus in this place this morning amen father we glorify you oh we welcome you here this morning father we know you have a plan and a purpose for our service this morning father god and we just submit to you oh we lay down our own agendas further and we just look to you father we lift our eyes to you and we glorify you and we say thank you we say have your way have your way have your way have thank you jesus [Music] you are the world of the beginning one with god the lord most high you're hidden glory in creation [Music] what a beautiful name it is what a 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it's all about you jesus when it's all about you jesus [Music] so [Music] oh [Music] is love of my life call them this world to me would change [Music] is [Music] so [Music] nothing else matters but him i said nothing else matters hallelujah lord we worship you we drowned and down with our praise and our celebration and our adoration this morning thank you lord jesus thank you lord jesus you know do you know hell's not intimidated by our programs our little minions but when god gets when there's a bunch of people and god has a people who have their hearts filled with gratitude but nothing else matters but him and they they are people who who who have such a heart filled with praise that they they lack the ability to keep it in and hell's not afraid of you know he's not afraid of our shows and our programs and our conferences he's he's not intimidated of any of that he he's intimidated off a believer who will lift up their loud voice of praise right from their spirit and you got to understand it's not just noise because noise without the anointing is just noise and we're not talking about joshua for the sake of sharing we're talking about lifting up a victory note that's on the inside because you know something greater is he that is in me than he that is in the world i'm not alone he said he would never leave me nor forsake me hallelujah his spirit is ever dwelling on the inside of me his words are richly abiding within and in turn the father is glorified oh the father is glorified and you're much fruit bearing hallelujah so lift up lift up the name of jesus in this place lift up the name of jesus hallelujah lord jesus jesus jesus oh jesus i'll tell you there's an anointing in this place and um it came up in in in prayer this morning and and i want to take you to a scripture that that was quicker in my heart it's in luke's luke 13 16. this is jesus speaking over a woman who was who who was bent over she couldn't straighten herself up because of her sickness of what she carried for 18 years and she was a daughter for abraham a seat of abraham she came you know she was part of the the god's family and and jesus he he said then should not this woman should not this woman the daughter of abraham whom satan has kept bound for 18 years be set free on the sabbath day from what bound her ought not and this came up in my spirit you know we prayed and i was was just preparing my heart for today and in the back room and and it came up in my spirit ought not you be free being a son of god being a daughter of ought not you be set free from that satanic bondage [Music] i i have a have a house i ought not be sleeping under the bridge i have a i have a car i ought not be walking places i ought not i ought to be driving i ought to be sleeping in my bed because i have a bed ought not you be healed because you have you have a healer his name is jehovah rapha your great physician or not you be set free so right now in the name of jesus the anointing to set the captive free be released in the name of jesus there is no name higher than the name of jesus so under the sound of these words the name of jesus be set free be set free right now freedom liberty it flows unhindered like a river the love flow ha thank you lord yes lord we praise you for it thank you for it just thank him you're my great physician lord you're the one who heals me and mends me and cures me you set me free you preserve me you're my great physician oh you heal me oh you meant me you cure me you preserve me for you are my great my great physician oh thank you lord come on right now bones under the sound of the voice of the spirit of god being expressed by you the praiser oh your bones are being put right organs hallelujah being put right in the name of jesus those who are watching via live stream wherever you may be come and receive it right now in the name of jesus glory to god bones bones being put right in jesus name in jesus name in jesus name thank you jesus thank you jesus oh glory lift up your voice for a few minutes here this morning thank you lord thank you lord thank you lord thank you lord thank you lord thank you lord thank you lord hallelujah oh glory thank you lord oh glory to god glory to god glory to god glory to god we praise you we praise you we praise him blood disease god hallelujah blood disease healed in this place in the name of jesus if there is if there's any uh anyone here with the malfunctioning organ we command healing to those places that are not working correctly in the name of jesus be healed be healed in jesus name in jesus name who believes is done in jesus name who believes he's done in jesus name thank you lord thank you lord thank you lord thank you lord come on now thank you lord bone decay healed thank you lord jesus said this he said he said if you ask anything in my name he said i will do it in other words i'll take responsibility for it so everything you pray up to in the name of jesus everything you pray after whatever you pray and ask for in the name of jesus everything you prayed up to in the name of jesus he'll take responsibility what do you mean he will take full responsibility to perform it he would say my name will be everything that i would be if i was there my name would be everything that i would be if i was there when you use my name and my name will do everything that i would do if i was present when you use my name so the same way jesus could say oh it's the father of me he does the work we can say oh jesus is doing the work right now he is christ my healer my redeemer he cures us come on now he preserves us he heals us he mends us oh he come and he protects us he is jehovah rapha the lord god our healer amen our great physician ought not you be healed if you if you have a great physician as soon as i'm healed i'm healed right now i'm healed hallelujah i'm here i'm i call in what isn't here to get here right now in jesus name glory to god thank you father in jesus name and you know what it's because of the anointing it says in isaiah chapter 10 verse 27 it says he says burdens will be removed and yokes torn away from you this is the good good word translation burdens will be removed in that day we're living in that time in the in that in that day hallelujah and and the yolk torn away because you have grown and become fat [Music] one translation is because you've grown so big they call you obese in other words you you there there is no size found in the local um shopping center uh that can fit you some of you don't understand what this is talking about a yoga bondage would be put on a on an ox and it would dictate where the ox goes what direction it goes is big big heavy burden on its shoulder right on its on its neck it would go right on its neck there and the the individual who was working the field would would use that ox to plow the field and um that ox was important because on the neck of the so the yoke was important on the neck of the ox so that it could control the beast and see um we once in sin had an i had a yoke of bondage on our shoulder we we were skinny enough sin and satan told us where to go what to think how to act and he controlled us and let me use this word he dominated our lives we were in bondage but the anointing which is the power of god comes on an individual who's open to god and the anointing is like oil it comes on an individual's life and something happens it makes you fat or what are you talking about it it makes your your neck grow to such an extent coming you get so big that it smashes the yoke of bondage that's on your neck it breaks it off hallelujah because you're so strong there is no size that the devil can make that can fit you because you're anointed hallelujah this is why paul and silas they were they they were bound hand and feet they were they were they were in the middle you know um between some some roman soldiers who were guarding the prison cell and and keeping watch at them but the anointing when they praised and lifted up their voices hallelujah that's how the anointing flow is when you lift up your voice of praise you you access the anointing it came into not only that prison cell but it came onto paul and silas and something happened to their wrists their wrists started growing come on down they started getting fat so much so that it the shackles it didn't fit anymore and they smashed off their wrists and they smashed off their their ankles whoo glory to god who can see the shack just coming he's making me fat i know everyone wants to lose weight nowadays but come on flat is your portion amen fat and flourishing is is coming your way anyone was there enough to receive that i received that in jesus name fat and flourishing in this hour and chains and yeah come on chains smashed off because of the anointing removed of your your life because of the anointing and the connection between you lifting up a praise is key to connecting to the anointing hallelujah the reason why we get hell's attention when we lift up our voice and praise and thanksgiving is because we've got heaven's attention hallelujah we made contact from our heart to his so right now father i thank you that you're making us fat and flourishing you're causing all chains of bondage and wickedness slavery to be removed in the name of jesus and you're taking full responsibility because you said my name i will be when you use my name i i i will do what i would do if i was there when you use my name my name will be what i would be if i was there so in the name of jesus thank you lord you're performing it right now hallelujah lord we trust you we believe you and we will never be the same again in jesus name i said we'll never be the same again because of jesus because of jesus and his finished work it is so good to be free you can walk out of this place free free no fear not scared of people not even scared of spiders creepy crawlings creepy crawlers all the women certain hey man i'm saying i'm saying this for the benefit of my own home amen no no spider fears spider phobias you know in the name of jesus amen well sweet presence of god in this place but go ahead and take your seat but before you do before you do before you do before you do turn around say hello to somebody greet somebody in the matchless name of jesus tell them it's wonderful being in the household of faith amen welcome welcome greetings wonderful senior this morning and you can go ahead and take your seat uh in the presence of the lord hallelujah the devil hasn't got no cuffs that can fit my wrists amen the devil ain't got no cuffs amen praise the lord i want us to do something i want us to pray for israel i know there was a ceasefire on the 21st of may but we ought to always be praying for israel you know in recent days in fact you know on the 10th of course you know we heard about all the stuff that's going on with um the israelis and the palestinians and hamas and everything that's going on and all the rockets and everything else but man we've got a responsibility to um as the blessed people who who are blessed out there who where's the blessed people where's the blessed people there amen well well we are to bless israel um you know the bible says amen and we'll pray take a couple of minutes praying um but the bible says in in um in genesis 12 3 i will bless those who bless you talking about israel amen so this is what blessed people do they meditate on the word of god day and night yeah but they also bless israel i will bless those who bless you and i will curse those who curse you and in you all the families of the earth shall be blessed amen now there is such a thing as spiritual israel and uh we're part of the the family of god amen and what an honor it is to be engrafted into the family and so people you know if they get to arguing with you when you start talking about you know we're redeemed from the curse of the law redeemed from everything that the curse outlines in deuteronomy 28 uh they said well that that applied to and a lot of the abrahamic covenant applied to apply to um jews well i i is one i am one anyone else amen i'm in the family somebody i said i'm in the family anyone else so we're being engrafted in into the olive tree amen we've been brought in and uh so we we owe it to our brothers and sisters in the faith and we need to pray we need to pray for israel has god still got a plan for israel is still got a plan for the middle east you know i've got friends who are out there and and um you know we got i've got a friend i'm thinking of who maybe come and spend some time with us over here in the uk so you'll get to meet him he'll probably minister as well you'll love him but he goes to afghanistan and pakistan and he he preaches in in the middle east and um and uh and i just love that because because i love the fact that people realize that even in the hard places that the gospel will will still work because it it it prevails everywhere because there is no higher power than the power found in the word amen and there is something the first to look forward to and that is the uh the the martyrs crown amen well what is the modest crown somebody who's willing to lay down their life for the gospel amen that awaits those who have been willing to die to themselves let their ego die the the fear of men die their self-preservation die amen and dare to go and do whatever god tells them to do we are the generation guys who are going to go where we're sent and we're we're gonna stay where we're stationed um because we're gonna be found in the right place accidents car accidents motorcycle accidents whatever the case may be the reason for the accidents is people find themselves in the wrong place at the wrong time but we're finding ourselves in the right place at the right time amen so if god sends you to afghanistan in a war zone or the middle east somewhere um on gaza strip to preach the gospel i'm telling you i'm telling you that's the safe that's safer to be than in manchester amen that's the safest place for you to be it's right in the plan of god amen you're protected someone said i live in goshen i live in a place of perpetual protection amen so we gotta bless those who he said i will personally bless those who bless israel and then another verse it says in psalms 122 6 pray for the peace of jerusalem may they prosper who love them once again the blessing is directly connected with those who who love and bless israel amen peace be within her walls we declare in jesus name prosperity be within her palaces in jesus name amen and so that that is that is being declared over israel and also over those who bless and pray for israel so in the name of jesus we thank you for uh the jews thank you for the precious people in israel the the holy land father thank you for for our jewish brothers and sisters all over the world all over the world and the promise is being fulfilled they're they're gathering together again hallelujah from all different parts of the world and lord your your you're protecting the holy land for your plans to be fulfilled and we make a declaration of faith and we say we say prosperity and peace that goes beyond human intellect be found within her walls in the name of jesus we pray over the military for wisdom we pray over the leadership in the name of jesus father we thank you for the blessing that makes rich and adds no sorrow glory to god the favor that that that surrounds them like a shield that you are there their rear god glory glory to god you've got their back hallelujah when all these nations are ganging up around them and the plans of the wicked it will not come to pass until lord everything that you've declared will come to pass in jesus name we declare it hallelujah lord the best days for israel is ahead and the eyes of their their their understanding is being flooded with light the scales have been removed off on the jews in jesus name they shall see and they'll taste to feel goodness and your glory and many who we declare shall come into the kingdom of god and realize that jesus is the messiah he's already he came we've been waiting all this long and and he came he came 2000 years ago that will be their story they come to the realization of the christ the son of the living god we pray it in jesus name and everybody said everybody said amen amen hallelujah you know as it goes and i've ministered on this once before but as it goes with natural israel so it goes with spiritual israel you know we are spiritual israel you're if you're a believer in jesus then hey welcome to the family amen spiritual israel and as it goes with natural israel so it goes with with spiritual and that's not to say that you have to you know go through what every every jew is going through and what israel is going through but but it's telling isn't it the attacks on that small nation israel but don't be caught unawares and don't be surprised if the church of jesus christ will be more and more attacked in this last hour especially those who bless israel um there will be persecution there will be attacks uh but you've got to realize something that there is a hedge of protection that is more uh advanced and more sophisticated than the iron dome amen first thing you've got to say about natural israel is natural israel is protected you've got iran who who and a leader with all of their you know nuclear power you know and all of their weaponry and with a leader who wants to drive israel off the map literally wipe them off the map um you've got israel that is surrounded by by nation after nation if you add all the populations uh together of those nations that would say yeah we we want to control israel it's in the hundreds of millions of people yet you've got what how many people in israel six million and yet they cannot be overcome because god protects israel you got russia and you know all their capabilities you've got you've got china and their war machine and yet they can't remove and control six million strong israel because he who is with is greater than those who are against you hallelujah hallelujah so if natural israel is mindedly protected then i'd declare that i am mightily protected too that the hedge of protection that is so evidently around you and around me cannot be penetrated by any demonic power now you take that for your family you take that for your marriage take that for your finances the devil's not getting through the hedge amen the devil's not getting through my head i've got a hedge of protection according to psalms 91 as it goes with natural israel so it goes with spiritual israel israel is not only protected but they are prosperous prosperous they're surrounded by barren baron nations dry deserted desert-like type nations and yet you've got israel that is flourishing self-sustained so self-sustain they don't import food they're a big exporter why because they're self-sufficient just like those who are in christ jesus are self-sufficient in christ's sufficiency that we don't need to look anywhere else he supplies all of our needs according to his riches in glory by and through christ jesus if he supplies all my needs then where what reason do i have to look anywhere else abraham don't need to look to the the philistines i'm your all in all i'm jehovah jireh the god who sees ahead and provides for you el shaddai the many breasted one i'm god almighty hallelujah you're all sufficiency amen you're all in all never have to look to man to do what i'm calling you to do when i speak it and i tell you and give you an instruction to do it it comes with it comes with the provision it's a pre-packaged blessed assignment hallelujah so you got the prophet isaiah who prophesied in isaiah 35 verse 1 that the desert talking about israel shall rejoice and blossom as the rose do you know that israel is the top flower exporter distributor amen there are flowers why props is coming coming to pass i don't like flowers i like flowers amen biggest export exporter of flowers hallelujah i believe there's a fresh glorious radiant fragrance coming from the body of christ because god is hallelujah causing you to blossom you you step outside and you see especially on a day like this i mean it's glorious just to see the flowers even the dandelions look look awesome even the the the daisies look phenomenal they'll speak to you amen god's creation even a weed will make somebody believe that there is a god but god's not calling you to be weed i mean come on our roses the rose of sharon i mean come on the lily of the valley that's the one who you represent amen it's wonderful you're a flower in god's hand ready to be a blessing to somebody says i'm wholly self-sufficient in christ's sufficiency amen i'm well provided for number three israel is not only it's not only protected prosperous but it but it is passionate i shared a story one time in church of a minister his name is keith bolter he went to israel for a visit with his staff and he took his staff and some of his senior members of the church and they wanted to go to an orthodox synagogue just to just to be there in the presence of the tall torah and the word and just just just check it out and so they went and sure enough there was the rabbi ministering but to their amazement they they were dancing and they were clapping and they were singing and they were jumping and uh keith butler who's a pastor of many people a pentecostal preacher where the faith minister he looked at his staff and said these guys look happier than most pentecostals yet they're waiting for jesus and we we've received christ if they can be this full of happiness and joy and they're waiting for jesus to come and we are in possession of the christ we can step it up in our singing our praising i'll clap in our jump in our dancing our running and and be more exuberant amen we at least ought to be as passionate as the orthodox jews amen so something about you is this you're protected nothing shall come near you and you are prosperous and you are a passionate person i won't mind it one bit if someone just goes whoo i won't mind it won't bed if you lift up your voice amen in church it's awesome it's all it's awesome amen come on a bit more exuberant come on [Music] amen we ought to you know practice the art of being exuberant it's high time for high praise amen amen the higher the praise the deeper the worship because um you know we enter with thanks and get into his course with praise and then we we are in the holy holy place in the inner place when that's the place where we really really experience god and that's during times of worship but we get there through thanks and praise amen and number number four israel is prepared let's say prepared prepared israel take a generation and prepare them for war when you turn 18 it's it's by default you you you are enrolled into training and you're enrolled to serve your nation why you you experience a period of serving training because they realize something we're in a war and so the sooner you realize that as a believer that we're in a war you'll embrace the season of training in active service amen you know you go to the wailing wall my dad's been there my dad keeps on talking about it i think he's been there a couple of times at least but he keeps on telling me about it and he said you've got to go before jesus comes back you got to go you got to go we wanted to go last october last year october but because of kofi and everything we had to cancel the trip but i believe one day we're going to go amen charter a plan and just go amen why not you know um well um you go to the wailing wall you'll see them praying but you know these young 18 year old kids nine-year-old young man you know praying with an m16 strapped strapped on them praying but they're armed in prayer they go to the synagogue to listen to the rabbi teach there's a place designated place to to put your m16 to put your rifle you go in with you know there's a guarded some guards there guarding the rifles and then you step in and you listen to the rabbi you dance and you clap and you shout and you you praise the god of abraham isaac and jacob and then when you you get out of the synagogue you pick up your weapon like is we're in a war there's some business to do how many know christianity must go beyond you just getting getting a word from the rabbi amen let me be the rabbi this morning from the teachers it ought to be more than just singing some songs in church we we we need to go out of church not entertained but ready we leave this place having been more vile than we were last week amen willing to get out of our comfort zone and our cool box to to to lift up our praise like david did when he brought the covenant into it into jerusalem yeah we ought to do that be exuberant but we ought to pick up our weapon too and we got weapons of uh uh yeah great mighty weapons the bible says for the pulling down of strongholds amen um saiyan wants to bind men and women you don't even have to have a spirit of discerning to discern that you can you don't have to be a prophet to know that the devil's in the business of of hurting people there's a lot of human people out there but you're being armed you are armed and dangerous amen and we ought to leave places of the corporate gathering where we have an opportunity to say hey god's been good to me this week and i've got this testimony i want to hear a word and there's nothing quite like worshipping together in the corporate environment in the corporate annoying we ought to have that but we ought to go out there ready and prepared for action because we too are raising a generation for war you are prepared when you yield to the word and you are protected so you you have no good reason to fear and you are prosperous so along the way the bullets will be found in the rifles and the food to sustain you and the energy and the vision to see the uh the um the enemy coming to try and annihilate a family you'll see it god god provides you're prosperous to see it all that's provision amen some say i'm protected i'm prosperous and i'm prepared that's a good message amen number four hallelujah that was number four amen what was my point protected prosperous passionate can't can't leave out the passion right passionate and prepared so i'm protected and prosperous i'm passionate and i am prepared amen he i'm passionate because he works both in me to both to will and to do of his good pleasure that's what the bible declares amen i believe our passion levels are going up to serve the kingdom of god amen we're we're we're being enrolled coming by by default they didn't even have a choice it is not that if you turn 18 you don't even have a choice you're enrolled into service you have no choice but god gives you a choice and he's looking for those volunteers amen to enroll hallelujah you know one one of the greatest things you can do for your town your city your street your family is to be someone who prays for your your town your city your family um because because during prayer this morning you know we were we were praying and we made this statement that god comes to prepared places and in second chronicles chapter one verse four it says um hallelujah they can put it on the screen saying chronicles chapter one verse four says the ark of the ark of god as you can see on the screen the arc of god was brought by david um to notice to the place david had what's he say so prepared people since we are prepared prepared people prepare places and it's through prayer that we prepare places amen for god to move and so notice part of david's exuberant worship and praise apparently that was necessary in order for the place he was bringing the ark which represents the presence of god amen to be brought to and to be manifest if you will was necessary his exuberant praise was necessary and one of the best things you can do is is is pray and speak the word over the place that you're found you know one of the things i would ask you to do is to to to pray for your church pray for your pastors pray for the leadership pray for the pastoral care team pray pray for the city because in turn what we're doing is we're preparing places through our prayer you know i could go into an in-depth study on that it's not my message i'll be quick with it but i believe it's in luke chapter 5 versus 17 it says the paragon was present to heal them and and and it leaves a clue why the panel was present because the first part of that verse says that jesus was teaching he was teaching what was he teaching he was teaching the word he was speaking the word and that prepared the place for the power but not only that if you go back one verse you'll see in luke chapter 5 16 that he prayed like he often prayed withdrew himself from the crowd and he prayed what was happening he was making tremendous power available he was preparing that that room that later on four crazy guys got their friend who was paralyzed and you know climbed the roof and scaled the building you know climbed the roof and not to hold through the roof and and dropped that paralyzed friend down to the midst of jesus for the power of god was present to heal but how did the power get there jesus released it how by declaring the word that was full of power amen you know think about it this word is powerful but it's only that power is only wreath when it's proclaimed so jesus is proclaiming and teaching the word hence why there was power present brother bernard amen and the reason why the power was present is because there was combination that he operated in and that was holy ghost holy it was holy ghost power amen it was word and spirit he prayed and he made tremendous power available amen i believe that every service we can get into the place where it's like do you know what power's present so power we're so present that you almost fall over amen do you know i've never fallen off this stage i don't think so i've come close i've come close though it's like i'm half levitating look at that see that i got intercessors everywhere praying for me that i don't fall off the stage and it works you know i never do power present amen and prepared people prepare places amen and prepared people yield to the preparation process hey hey jeremiah chapter one i've got a i've got a message for you this morning this is the message amen jeremiah chapter 1 verses 17 what a beautiful day it is amen to be in the house of the lord i like i you know i like going out to the lake and going into the countryside and you know enjoying myself in days like this oh and we may in fact i'm educating my girls today i'm taking them to the manchester united football museum and we're doing a stadium tour today because um on the back of last night obviously this is for the benefit of phil and many other people who are supporters of man city we'll pray for you later perhaps if god's good and gracious i don't know let's see if his love flow will will reach you i don't know but i'm educating them my girls to show them the real team in the city you know and so we're going to learn about the history and all that stuff so we're going to enjoy our day but i i wouldn't want to be anywhere else than right here right now anyone else amen let's we're getting topped up the lord's speaking to us and he's helping us more is going in then we realize amen in jeremiah chapter 1 verses 17 it says therefore prepare yourself and arise you know people want the elevation they want the rising up but someone's got to yield themselves prepare yourself amen and so like i said before there's repetition but i'll say again god doesn't enroll you automatically into the army of god he looks for volunteers and the place where you the place where you get prepared is in the place of service of course we're in the local church we're talking about the local church uh series and but i think this is fascinating so therefore prepare yourself and arise and speak to them all that i have commanded you god will give you the words to say amen do not be dismayed before their faces don't fear their faces unless i dismay you before them and that's something you know there's something about fear that gives room for the enemy and we all not tolerate it one bit in in in in our lives amen so um the lord instructs us prepare prepare yourself prepare yourself well um there was no one that god used mighty in the old testament and in the bible for that matter who didn't yield to this now anyone want to do we'll land somewhere today and it'll be it'll be good and it'll be great in fact and it's going to really really help you and it might not even take long but we'll get there anyone got used in the bible you can see it they yielded they yielded to preparation they yielded to the process of preparation if you are a faith person and you carry a hope you know the stuff ahead you know those things ahead and right now if it landed on your lap you wouldn't be ready for it it would hurt you it would destroy you some people need to grow up in wisdom before god can bless them because if they did get that pay rise or whatever it may be you know they would use it the wrong way they wouldn't be able to handle it often you know when you hear these stories of people winning the lottery and stuff it was more of a curse than a blessing because they were so immature when they won it it ruined them it ruined them but how many know the blessing of the lord makes rich and adds no sorrow so if you're a believer and if you're a faith woman and woman woman of god man of god which which i you are you believe in something you've got to believe in something your faith must have a hope you believe you haven't lived your best days here amen you haven't lived your best days yet so there's things ahead and right now god wants to prepare you who believes that i know the lord's preparing me in this church for some great a mile of marvelous things i don't know why it came out like that but it came out like that marvelous things marvelous things are ahead um but but we must yield to preparation and and you prepare yourself so you think of moses well moses healed he yielded to seasons 40 years in the palace learning how to be somebody 40 years in the backside of the desert learning how to be a nobody and then 40 years learning how and what god can do with somebody who's willing to be a nobody for him amen giving up their life amen as a living sacrifice holy and acceptable to the lord amen sony you're in light of his mercy paul said it's only reasonable it's a it's a it's only reasonable that you would give your life up as a living sacrifice holy unacceptable to the lord it's only your reasonable service amen that's your reasonable service and so you see moses and and then in joshua chapter one they can maybe put it on the screen joshua chapter one uh verses one it says after the death of moses the servant i want you to see how moses is honored notice this i want you to see how moses is honored after he's gone after the death of moses the servant of the lord it came to pass that the lord spoke to joshua what was it say moses my next verse verse two in it says moses my leader moses my deliverer moses my prophet moses ma ma god called him he's my servant before he before he named him by the title he said moses my servant servant what about david david david in the old testament he he prepared himself he yielded to the season of service so that god could raise him prepare yourself then arise do you know what the the service comes before the promotion and you get prepared whilst you serve hallelujah and you can't go straight to the promotion without the preparation it will hurt you and so you know david got promoted because he got prepared and he got prepared because he he served what was he doing he he got prepared while serving his father's sheep hallelujah when a lion when a bear came to attack uh one of the sheep what did he what it is what did he say not my sheep not my sheep there was something in david i'll tell you i'll tell you what it was it was a servant's heart put up the scripture that i gave you guys uh on the screen uh first samuel 17 35 first samuel 17 verse 35. notice what he did he said i went out after it after the lion and after the bear and i struck it is this what you would do and delivered the lamb from its mouth literally one of his lambs that he was anointed to serve was in the mouth grip off a lion and a bear and he grabbed it out of its mouth and when it arose against me so he grabbed it out of his mouth and then it started going after him and what did he do he said he caught it by the beard have you been to chester zoo come on have you been have you seen a lion have you seen we've been up grouse now and uh in canada in vancouver and some some bears up there and you know we've been really close to some bears some grizzly bears and do you know how big these guys are you don't grab a beast like that by it's by its beard something was in him can i tell you what it was he was utterly committed to what he was given to serve even if he if it meant him losing his life he was willing to lose his life for service it's this is powerful who's been blessed this morning amen this is helping me the place to prepare you for greatness is hallelujah serving oh glory to god amen look at this in john's gospel you're ready for some things that jesus said and then we'll find we'll find a place to man call landing strip amen thank you holy spirit it says in john 13 verses 1 i'll read a few verses it says now before the feast of of the passover when jesus knew that his hour had not had come that he would depart from the world to the father notice this let's read it carefully when jesus knew that his hour had come that he would depart from this world to the father having loved his own who were in the world he loved them to the end and and supper being ended the devil having already put it into the heart of judas is scarier simon's son to betray him jesus knowing that the father had given him all things into his hand and that he had come from god and was going to god rose from supper laid down his garments took a towel and girded himself after that he poured water into the basin and began to wash the disciples feet and to wipe them with the towel with which he he was girded so he says here that jesus he had come from god he was going to god but how many know in john 13 it wasn't god time he he had come from god he was going to god but it wasn't god time it was service time in other words there are times where you minister into the lord amen where you praise and worship and prayer and all of that good stuff and it's important that is paramount and very important that will sustain you because um anything that is birthed out of the fiery god must it requires the fire fire god to sustain it amen but notice he laid he laid aside his garments which i believe is it's a picture of he said look uh i'm an anointed i'm i'm an anointed teacher i'm an anointed prophet i'm an anointed apostle i'm an anointed evangelist i'm an anointed pastor but i'll leave i'll lay my garment aside to serve you come on somebody now when you're willing when you're willing to elevate service higher than the title you're a great believer when people talk about me like joe it was talked about moses in joshua chapter one one i don't want people to say joel the pastor i want people to joel the servant what about you mr businessman mr dr so-and-so they built the build of this or there's one word for him there's one word for her servant they served jesus is our picture and our example he is humility personified and he laid aside his garment and said you know what it's time not for god it's not time to do miracles right now it's not time to preach my best message do you know what it's time for it's not it's not time to impress people with what i know it's time for me to serve glory to god and glory to god he laid aside his garments verse 5 says you know you know um he went he went foot level if you if you wanna if you want to serve you need to go foot level you you need to john put it this way john the baptist he said he said i must decrease so that he must he must increase and then peter in verse 4 he said to him you shall never wash my feet jesus and jesus and jesus answered him saying if i don't wash your feet you have no pardon me so what would make some what would make jesus have no part in you committing adultery murdering somebody lying cheating you know you know backbiting or you know what i mean talking all about people stealing what would make jesus have no part of you you not letting jesus literally bless your socks off whoa why is that good it's good alice is good he wants to bless you so much and he wants to serve you you got to let him otherwise he can't have any part of you he wants to serve you so that you learn something what is it that i'm going to learn you're going to learn to serve like he said why so you can go for level 2. i feel like dancing you know once upon a time i could do cartwheel and i would have done one right now if i still had that ability within me it's in there somewhere isn't it bucky i need to practice my garden layer but i won't practice in front of you i'll perfect it and then i'll do it amen but i'm excited my spirit man's doing cartwheels right now amen do you know god wants to bless his socks off so much he really does he really does and john got a revelation of this and he here john's given this revelation because he lived consumed with god's unconditional god's incorruptible immeasurable love that never fails he wasn't caught up on his own performance but he realized do you know what i'm gonna like i'm gonna humble myself and that's it just sounds awesome don't i'm gonna humble myself so that he can bless my socks off in the process in the process i'm gonna do what he does to me if god's being gracious to me when people aren't gracious to people and aren't serving is they have not experienced god's love they haven't experienced it you can tell this is why it is the most mature thing when somebody goes man give it to me toilets need cleaning i'm going to do it we need to serve in the car park let's do it they're showing something not just their willingness they're showing their experience and how um spiritual they really are amen they're showing that they've experienced him they've been taught by the best can't get better than jesus himself hallelujah in 13 chapter 13 verse 12 he said do you understand what i have done to you yeah we know he washed their feet right he washed their feet he's he's serving them he's not saying you know do you understand like how i washed feet we're not talking about hey um do you now understand the art of how to conduct feet washing services i know you know some people do that you know they they they demonstrate it and wash people's feet but jesus wasn't talking about that you know wasn't talking about you know how to wash people's feet he said do you understand this do you understand what i've done he said do you understand this he said i'm i've served i've got down to foot level and then he goes on and says if you know these things he said do you understand serving what why why would we talk week after week after week and continue talk about the local church and serving and your part and you're giving off your supply because jesus is asking the same question today as he asked back then and he's asked and it's this do you understand what i did on earth no not the miracles not the not the garments i wore when i preached and the healings do you do you understand what i did during that fall washing service it wasn't feet washing it was do you he said do you understand serving because if you understand these things he says blessed are you who do them and so the reason why you might not be acting on a word that you can quote is because you don't really know it it's not real or revelation to you but the moment you know it you do it and blessed he said are those who do it and so i i got so gracious and and i love you so much so i'll tell it story there is a blessing that comes when you serve and you serve with all of your heart you give your all into it it's not something just some side thing that you do on a weekend or you know serving your neighbor just you know yeah whatever i'll give her the last you know slice that i would never eat because it's been you know it's a little bit stale but you know she'll never know the difference no you you give the best amen you give the best because because because this matters this matters hallelujah amen no matter where you've been no matter what you've done no matter what titles you've been given because you've worked hard for it studied hard for it you there's never too you can there's nothing bigger than being a servant nothing bigger than being a certain and then in john chapter 12 which took place just a few days before john chapter 13. in verse 2 says there they made him a supper and martha martha did what she martha did what she said you could say this she went through the serving motions she was the one with the apron but if you're serving ends up with a meltdown ends up with you losing your top getting frustrated because so-and-so didn't show up and blah blah blah blah you know and so-and-so is not pulling their way then you're missing something i'll tell you what you're missing you're missing the servant's heart and it's not just i came with the apron no no no if you if you come with the apron and don't bring the heart you've missed them and this is why i'm getting down deep in it in this because um i i want to serve like jesus oh man do you know i am excited because he is coming soon and his reward is with him so i want to pay close attention how i'm serving my wife my children and the church that is being entrusted to me i i want to do the best i can and but i i i don't i don't want to be impressive that's what makes impressive people impressive is they they they serve not trying to be impressive and that makes them impressive you know it's but but people who try and be impressive it's it's uh it's just cringy because it isn't the jesus way jesus wasn't trying to impress them he was doing it from his heart he wasn't just wearing a apron if you're if our service is not willing and obedient and if we're like having emotional meltdowns and you know losing our top after afterwards we're wearing the apron but we're not carrying the heart you know there was a story brother hagin shares when he went from the pastoral office the pastor to going on the street when i say the street traveling ministry the lord said um now begins the first phase of your ministry and that was after 12 years or 13 years pastoring churches and uh and he said lord first phase of ministry he said yeah you you were never called to be a pastor but i i permitted you uh pastoring for these years so that i could train you i put you in a place an opportunity where you could serve people before i could promote you into the first phase of your ministry i think a lot of people haven't even got into the first phase of ministry yet because they haven't embraced the preparation which comes before the first phase and so he was everything was hunky-dory during the times when he was pastoring he had a he had a parsonage the church had a house for him he had no housing bills or all the utilities were paid for money was coming in people were tithers and givers and and so the church was growing and they weren't in debt you know everything was great materially and then the lord said i want you to go on the road so you you now see the picture he has to you know forfeit his salary and he doesn't have any all those extra stuff uh his house went into rental accommodation and he's traveling now going from city to city in the state of texas and he's now behind his payments because money's not coming in like it used to and he goes before the lord and he said lord what's going on i'm not eating the best of the earth yields and he says the lord said to him because you don't qualify that's a low blow what do you mean i don't qualify you you told me to get out of the pastoral office and to hit the road and travel and minister and teach your people faith and that's what i'm doing faithfully i'm doing it i'm being obedient and and the lord said you don't qualify for my best blessings [Music] he said god i i don't understand tell me why don't i qualify he said you're obedient you're a billion obedient but you're not willing you're not willing you're wearing the apron but you forgot the heart oh man but but but if you get your heart right right now just just align it and get willing real quick then you'll be willing and obedient and according to isaiah chapter 1 verse 19 you'll eat the best that this earth yields so he got his his heart right and and he took that before the lord and the lord the lord got him willing it just takes one slight adjustment he said he it just just a few seconds just got his heart right lord i repent i'm sorry for for not being willing i've been complaining murmuring i've been uh fussing with you know how difficult it is and frustrated by the way things have been going you know paul the apostle he wrote to those in corinth and he said listen pay close attention to the children of israel and their journey from from being out of captivity and on their way to the promised land and he said watch it watch watch watch it i put it in there for your admonition that you would not complain and murmur and and be frustrated like them because they were discouraged the bible says by the way things were going and do you know what that opened the door for and it's in the new testament it tells us it's in the new testament for our benefit to learn from what did it give access to those snakes came in because of complaining and many many died that god always has a plan because he's gracious hallelujah he told moses hey get a poll put a make a bro bronze serpent put it on the pole and lift it up and whoever looks upon the bronze serpent who keeps their gaze steady on the bronze serpent shall live they won't die it's a picture of jesus jesus according to john's gospel the third chapter you know it talks about that just like moses lifted up a bronze serpent on the pole so the son of man jesus had to be lifted up so that he became a curse so that we could become coming out blessed healed and anyone who looks shall live look and live that's our old song right luck and live luck and live hallelujah and so here with this is such a such a such a beaut beautiful beautiful thing and uh in uh hallelujah i haven't got time to get into this but matthew's gospel 20 verse 25 jesus called them saying saying this is matthew 20 verse 25 jesus called them saying you know that the princes of the gentiles exercise dominion over them and they are are great and they are great exercise authority upon them it'd be good if we had this in the uh new king james it just reads it better uh but but it shall not be so among you in other words he says there's world leaders who have authorities how many knows one thing to have authority but then to abuse your position of authority and lord yourself over people what is he saying you can lead with the wrong heart you can lead with the wrong heart but it shall not be so among you this is what he's saying um but whoever will be great among you let him be your minister and whoever will be chief among you chief let him be your servant you know greatness is waiting for everybody in this room and you know what it is it's found in service oh it's founded so it's found in service if you went back and i've got time to go there i see the time it's already 11 30. but if you go back to john's gospel john 12 3 it says the servant's heart you know is revealed there because you s you see what mary did which is a direct contrast to what martha did martha was busy doing all kinds of stuff but but mary she got a very expensive um jar of oil you know scholars commentaries will say i think the amplified says it's a it's a year's salary so whatever a year's salary is you know figure it out everyone's yearly salary is different you know if i say one figure offend some people say another figure's going to offend some other people so a year's salary a lot of money and she just pulls it do you know as a true servant someone who carries not just the apron but the heart that they're more interested in serving than saving because they realize something serving is sowing and when you sow you don't get what you sowed you get way more than what you sowed gloria press down shaken together running over what's going to who who's good the lord will serve you the lord will promote you the lord will elevate you the lord will honor you which is give you the advantage the key is found here you know what the blessing isn't a mystery not a mystery at all he's looking for doers to do the word hallelujah yet it shall be not so among you to lead and serve with the wrong heart the wrong spirit we don't exercise how many no we don't exercise our authority over anybody if there's any leader in this place where we're controlling people manipulating people dominating people it's the wrong spirit it's not from the lord we don't dominate and have authority over people who do we have authority over devils devils and demons and sickness and disease and and poverty we have authority over those things amen hallelujah and whoever desires to be first among you let him be your slave better you desire the verse before says you want to you want to be great he who desires to be great let him be what what's he say let him be oh glory god i got so much to share it's all in my heart i gotta release it next week oh man it's gonna be good there's a lot in there praise the lord is the lord speaking is there much ahead are you protected to embrace it are you provided and aided and to go ahead and do it come on anyone you because you're protected you're provided and you're passionate about it nothing help happens without enthusiasm and and what else you're you're getting prepared where where where are you going to prepare inactive service i shall prepare myself and then i shall arise come on now god promote david because he got prepared he promoted him because he got prepared and he got prepared servant so much so that man nothing could pull him away from the place that god had set for him to serve a lion i think most in this room if we were honest if you were set over a flock of sheep um to guard them and a lion came and a bear came and it had one of the i mean there was there was a hundred there right there was a hundred and one of them just one of them was in the lion's mouth um would we would we chase the lion and grab the sheep out of the lion's mouth and then when it came after us we just grabbed it by the by the scruff of the neck in other words it's going to take a spirit of faith to serve it's going to take boldness to serve it's not a little thing people undermine the ministry of helps you know bible refers to various different ministry gifts in the body of christ one of them one of which is the ministry of helps and um but they undermine that well i'm not and i've had it before uh graduates of of kenneth hagin school rhema and this is just a minority not majority it's a great school and uh and uh praise the lord um and and they've come and said well i i'm not gonna i can't serve are you kidding me i can't help people so you know like with administration and paper and serving at the door i'm anointed i've been to kenneth hagin school i'm like i'm i'm a do you know what god's set me aside to be a prophet you know but it all starts with service you can't get higher than servant can't get higher what was paul he was a prophet you could say he was an evangelist good case to you could make a good case that paul the apostle was an evangelist he was an apostle anointed by god a great teacher and yet in romans chapter one verse one oh the first thing he puts on his cv is i paul a bond servant so you see mary serving you see jesus serving and you see paul the apostle servant hallelujah there's some pretty important people in the body of christ amen that's what he was and if you're not willing to lay down your garment by jesus did to serve at foot level then you don't qualify you don't qualify and god will you you'll just frustrate the plan of god not that god hasn't got a plan for you he has and he really wants you to see it but he's blessed you he's protected you he's put a passion in you but you've got to be prepared for this amen and so uh i would say this go before the lord and say lord uh all right action time action time show me where lord do i need to serve and i'm not gonna wait another week or two weeks or four months i'm gonna put it i'm gonna put it right now not just in the context of the church that's part of it absolutely that's part of it you know it's not just about putting on a badge and putting on an apron it's it's letting the heart of god be expressed through you come on come on the masters who just been wearing the badge and the and the apron and frustrated everyone else you know let let's let's serve with the apron and with the heart but but let's let's get the apron on as well but it's not just here it's outside of here come on somebody serving our parents honoring what a concept let's go back to honoring mom and dad when was the last time you called your parents and just said you are such a blessing to me i just want to honor you you know buy him a watch well it's not my birthday you don't have to be your birthday for me to bless you do something for them do something for somebody honor somebody serve your generation help somebody a neighbor you know who needs a better word donald you know nowadays the grass is growing super quick you know you've got to get out there every 10 days go around with your lawnmower and say hey listen can i cut your grass can i wash your car can i do something for you you may think well that's beyond me don't you know who i am i'm a businessman i drive this type of car what do you mean get my hands dirty i i have people to do that for me what a concept why don't you just say do you know i'm gonna do that for somebody else brother hagin you would have all these famous preachers flying in with their private jets and stuff and i've got nothing against private jets you know it's just metal stuck to get together it's a machine that people make to get places i mean um but anyway um we are against a lack of stewardship oh yeah because every pound and pence has an assignment attached to it and we're against waste but god's lavish and he's got surplus amen but people would fly in from all over the place to listen to kenneth e hagin the school which we went to they would fly in from afar just to sit in the classroom people and yet i saw this time where brother hagin he's on his hands and knees helping somebody find their keys and people say oh brother hagin no no you don't have to he said i want to help let me help this was a humility god may need you to go foot level to serve your generation but you know what greatness awaits those who are willing to go foot level i know it's being kind of like a sobering type of message today you know the tone of my voice is being the same throughout and yeah but but i feel like i'm like i i feel like i'm getting like how do i phrase this schooled by the holy spirit amen it's getting in father i want to thank you for your word that is getting in i want to thank you for your goodness that is so evident you know you've been so good to each and every one of us even just now you know we have breath in our lungs because of you your loving kindness is better than life and if it wasn't for you we were sir we would certainly not be here so we take nothing for granted hallelujah we take nothing for granted and we pray father that we would be excellent stewards of those lives that you brought into our life people that you brought into our lives amen that we would expect nothing but appreciate everything that anyone ever does for us but lord we will look for opportunities and we ask you this week holy spir we ask you this week that you would show us and help us to not miss the opportunities to be a blessing to people hallelujah that when we would see it we will be obedient and willing to do it when we see the opportunities to do do something we will take the opportunities we won't let it pass us by no we will act like you oh glory to god we put aside our ego we put our side our titles we put aside our uh even the annoyance that we have for ministry to serve because there's nothing greater than that in jesus name we pray this and everybody said amen and amen who's who's taking that seriously this week when you're going to listen when the lord says this person that person do this do that and you'll do it there is great prosperity that follows that amen let's all be upstanding we can worship him one more time before we leave this place and enjoy our day amen and have a good time outside enjoying the weather the lord's up to something someone say the greatest days is up ahead i expect great days what was that song um andre when we were in america in the comment down ministers conference did i go with you you yeah that's right i went with pastor joseph you guys went great things do you know how he goes you're a singer i don't know i know your wife's worship see can you sing that song what is that song great crazy yeah [Music] [Music] sing this but know this the holy spirit is moving on our hearts [Music] he's preparing us for these great things i'm expecting great things great things i'm expecting great days expecting great things things i'm expecting great things i'm expecting great things [Music] i'm expecting great things expecting crazy yes we are expecting great things greatly [Music] oh [Music] [Applause] [Music] [Music] me [Music] i'm expecting baby yes i am i'm expecting great things yes we are i'm expecting great things [Music] [Music] things i'm expecting great things [Music] [Applause] [Music] me [Music] [Applause] [Music] [Applause] [Music] i'm expecting great things crazy let's declare it one more time i'm [Music] we're expecting [Music] yes we [Music] respecting great things great things we're expecting [Music] [Music] is [Music] things expecting great things in their lives this morning amen amen it's awesome um to be in the presence of the lord with you guys this morning both in the building and online there is no separation when we're worshiping god when we're in his presence hallelujah amen amen i'm just as pastor touched upon being of service it sounds so simple and yet it's like groundbreaking stuff isn't it because you know the world doesn't expect selflessness to be someone's natural state but do we operate beyond the natural in the house of the lord do we up are we beyond the natural yes we are amen and so it's great to be reminded of that every now and again and it's great to just remember to incorporate that into who we are and have it as a constant state of being hallelujah amen find any sermons that you've missed or just want to catch up on on the spotify page under faith life center and um or on the website archives and while you're there find out anything else that you want to know about and we just want to thank you for your faithful giving continually and it's a blessing to have faith-filled sowers in the house amen you can plant your seed in the building at the back towards the giving hub there or you can do it online and if you haven't already but you would like to it's really easy to set up a direct debit so feel free to do that as well we serve a good good god amen glory be to god hallelujah and we just continue to be invested in the next generation and so it's important that we provide them with a space where they can um find the god in them where they can build on the foundations and then just have a space to do that so don't forget to tune um them into their zoom classes you can find the link on the weekly newsletter or on the website as well and get them hooked up to that so make sure to log in today at 4pm amen amen and don't forget to book your seats for next week very excited to have you all with us again and to see your beautiful faces if you're watching online and would like to be in the building a grabacy and come and join us down here and it'll be amazing to see you all next week hallelujah amen um it's been wonderful to have you all with us this morning both online and in the building and just as we close let us pray surely goodness and mercy shall follow us all the days of our lives and we shall dwell in the house of the lord forever and ever amen amen treat yourselves to a tea and coffee enjoy the beautiful weather and have a great black holiday weekend everyone [Music] you

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