Stewarding Transitions - Stephanie Ike

hey greetings family it's pastor toray welcome to the one youtube channel you're getting ready to hear a profound word and i don't want you to miss any profound words make sure to subscribe and set on your notifications so that you can experience all that god has for you let's get into this word it's going to bless you and i'll be back with you at the end as you're taking notes today's message is so in alignment with just the declaration of our worship you know the lord put on my heart to speak on steward in transitions because i believe that not only are we experiencing transitions as a house but you see you're only connected to this ministry because what flows from this ministry also speaks to your life that is why god is very intentional about the places that he positions people and the shepherds that he places over them you see there was a time in scripture when the apostle paul wanted to go preach in the province of asia and the bible said that the holy spirit stopped him at that time because it's god is very intentional because what is flowing through his life is also to minister to the people that he's called to and i believe that for many of us if not all of us if we're not in it right now we're about to experience that place of transition in our lives and so the scripture is isaiah 43 from verse 18 to 19. and i just love the way the message bible translates this and you know sometimes some people don't like the message but it really just hit home you know it says forget about what's happened don't keep going over old history be alert and be present i'm about to do something brand new this is the lord speaking just reading it alone will speak to you you see the lord is saying forget about the old [Applause] because just like even this what as we were worshiping this morning you know kyle was talking about the woman with the issue of blood every day she saw it as a brand new opportunity she didn't allow her past disappointments to plague her now every moment that she was awakened to she said this is a new opportunity for something brand new to happen and the lord is declaring over us i know you've experienced some pain in the past i know maybe you feel like you've been here before and it didn't work out so you're you're moving with one eyes closed one eyes open i bless you with something amazing in your life but your anxiety is not allowing you to enjoy it because you just feel like god i think i've been here before and it didn't work out the last time so i don't want to get my hopes up and now the lord is declaring this over us this was so personal the way the lord just brought this home and he instructed me to minister from this he said forget about what's happened i know you've been hurt i know you've been disappointed i know you felt like you know what god where are you but just like we declared in worship jesus would always show up at the right time [Music] he says don't keep going over old history be alert be present because if you pay attention to what's happening now you will see that it is not the same thing that this is not that he said i'm about to do something brand new it's bursting out don't you see it there it is the lord is speaking and he's performing all at the same time and he says i'm making a road through the desert and rivers in the badlands he's making rivers in the places that water was never supposed to flow he's making rivers in the dry places family let us pray we're going to go into this word heavenly father we thank you we thank you lord god because your word tells us that your mercies are made new every morning that every day is a day that we have never been or seen before we may wake up in the same environment call the same friends have the same things around us but lord spiritually we're in a different place we have never been in this moment before and lord so as your mercies are new every morning there is something new you have for us each and every day lord even right now we repent oh god of treating each day as though it was familiar when each day that we are awakened to is sacred because it's a place of encounter with you to encounter what you have always known before time about our now before we ever walked in it lord jesus as we have come before you we pray for the grace o god to forget about what happened we pray for the grace to let go we pray for to be empowered oh god that we would not be plagued by our past by our hurt but lord we will see that you are doing something new and wherever you send us o god that is where we will go we will not take on the narrative of our experiences we will treat each moment as sacred before you in jesus mighty name amen amen amen family you may be seated you know i just love this whole understanding about transitions right because when you think about transitions you think about change but it's really about evolving right that you're stewarding evolution you're stewarding what god is about to do in your life you know i'll just take you even into a personal story for me you know there's a lot of i'm just experiencing transitions in many ways and one of the ways is you know in relationship right so i'm about to get married pretty soon amen but amen that's love [Applause] oh y'all are so sweet but let's focus on jesus right let's focus on the lord um but i share that you know because you know the fault that the story is to point us to jesus because i didn't realize you know sometimes you don't know the things that trouble you in your heart until the an environment reveals it you know i didn't know my father when i was eight months old he was murdered and a couple weeks back i just started having this bit of anxiety the closer the date is approaching and i couldn't really put a finger on it because you see sometimes you don't even want to go to the depth of what it is you just want to stay in this place of panicking and so i really just had to press and i said god what is going on like where is this anxiety coming from and i realized there was this fear that was unchecked there was this fear of lord my mother you know had a time in her life she was excited about marriage she got married she saw the future of what her life would look like she had plans you know she met my father all that stuff they had kids they made plans of what would happen in you know 10 years down the line 20 years 30 years and then you know abruptly his life was ended and i didn't realize that in prayer i was like god if you're going to do the same thing to me just like nix it right now i don't know if i want to go through that and the lord began to minister to me that you're already placed yourself in an outcome that i have not have not even is not even part of your story that because the history you have concerning marriage ended in tears and laws that you're carrying the baggage into something new and the lord began to show me that even this idea of when we when we carry disappointment is only because we call the season something different from what the lord called it because every experience that we have in life carry carries a purpose and when you don't understand the meaning behind the experience of the season we call it disappointment that god i'm disappointed about this because i never understood the point of it and so when i don't have understanding behind it i see it as a pattern then i look at it as if this happened to my father am i going to experience the same thing and the lord began to speak to me and remind me of the reasons why he took my father and he said i've given you a promise concerning your marriage i've given you a different word concerning your marriage and that is what you will stand on because you see i'm doing something new in your life and literally right after that and i was in prayer and i was really going i didn't realize the weight that this had in my life right afterwards i remember my mom called me she prayed over me just without even knowing anything she was like i just want to bless your marriage and she started to speak life and on of mine did the exact same thing we were on a family prayer call and she was just like you know what i'm the lord just put it on my heart to speak life and i recognize that the lord was revealing look this is not that and you see when the lord began to minister to me about this word and communicating this to you he began to show me something because in the scripture the very last verse in verse 19 it talks about i'm making a road through the desert and rivers in the badlands i'm making rivers in the dry places and the lord began to minister to me about something that really blew my mind because as i was praying for you he began to show me your deserts and your dry lands because you see in our lives a dry land is a place of repeated disappointment the place you feel like god nothing grows here no relationship ever worked i tried so much with this business it never worked this is not the place where things grow and you carry this disappointment into every season of your life there are some of you you're in a relationship right now that god positioned and placed in your life but you're still keeping one eyes open waiting for them to mess up because for you that is your dry land when it comes to the business when it comes to the ideas there are things that the lord has put in your heart but you're so afraid to move on it again because you're like god i have repeated disappointment in this place this very thing is the place that i have just accepted that you're not in the lord began to show me there are women in this place and you're listening and you believe in god even for a child and that is your dry land you're like god we've been trying we've been trying you know what i think we just want to give up because you feel like this is the place that god has purpose that's how you see it not to meet you in and the lord began showing me you see in the when you go all the way like in the old testament right and you study about moses and you study about the israelites when he let them out of captivity into the wilderness the israelites in the wilderness they were in dry land and the reason that they kept complaining and even being so crazy to say like hey it's better we go back and be and be slaves then be in the wilderness to die because they couldn't see where the water would come from they couldn't see they they they couldn't see like where are the trees to get fruit if i'm hungry right now this is a dry land but then there was a moment where the lord would tell you know moses he said strike the rock and water will come out when they looked at the rock they thought it was just a random rock in the desert they said of course this is a desert all we have is rocks and dry land but moses will strike the rock and water will come out of it then another time the lord said speak to the rock even though moses you know was disobedient that's a whole different story but the bible actually reveals to us that what they thought was just a random rock in the desert was actually christ you see there's a scripture i want to read to you and we're going to really just have some fun with this in first corinthians chapter 10 verse 4 it says and this is just now you know giving an insight to what was taking place when the israelites were on their journey and it says and all drank the same spiritual drink for they drank of that spiritual rock that followed them and that rock was christ you see family the israelites would leave one location to the next and the rocks they would see was a reminder of their disappointment because they were looking for the streams but all they saw were the rocks but what they did not realize that the rock that followed them in every season was actually christ that didn't naturally just look like another sign of disappointment where is the water but all along christ was following them in a hidden way he says i'm not going to reveal myself to you as the streams of life but when i would give you an instruction and you will speak i would respond you see what the lord began to parallel this to in your life you think that the place of your disappointment is the place that god has abandoned you but god is saying the place of your disappointment is the place i've been following you because of what i want to do and reveal my glory through you he says the very thing that you feel is a reminder god here we go again i've seen this before and he says what you don't realize is that i'm actually trailing you that i'm following you that you thought this was just another failed relationship you thought it was just another failed investment but i'm waiting to reveal myself to you in my glory you see you thought that the dry place meant that god wasn't there and he's saying no the dry place is actually where i'm going to move next and that is why when the lord began to speak to me that in this time we are in do not think of what happened in the past because if you look at now through the lens of your past you will miss it because when you're stewarding transitions to receive from it is to understand what is taking place and to on to to walk in what the lord has called you to do and why i'm sharing this is because the lord began to show me that many of you and those that haven't you're about to even before the end of the service the holy spirit is going to start ministering to you about the the very areas where you have dealt with the most pain to revisit what you abandoned because he said all along you thought that this was just going to be something dead but you see jesus is the lord over even the death things and so sometimes he waits for it to die he's actually the one following it into his death that he would reveal his glory through it you see earlier we were worshiping about here you go again showing up as friend even lazarus they thought it was the end but you know what happened they came to jesus right they said jesus the one you love is sick that was a weighty statement it's a statement many of us have said in a different way it's a statement that when your mother your auntie that loved one was going through pains you said god how can the person who serves you be dealing with this when they said jesus the one you love is sick they said jesus you've healed strangers you've healed people that you have no clue about they didn't even tell you their first and last name they just said that my servant is at the house and he's you know going through some troubles just send the word and he was he will be healed jesus you've done things for people that you have never even had dinner with but how can the one you love be sick that was not just them trying to say hey jesus they could have just say hey lazarus is going through some things that was a statement that came from pain that how could it be that you have ate with us you have sat with us and we recognize you as lord over everything but the one that you love is sick and you have told us stories about how you have healed strangers it were words that came from a place of deep pain but jesus did not move in the way they wanted him to move and instead he declares what the end would be he says this will not end in death and even though they experienced and they mourned his death for some time he said i allowed it to get to that place for glory to be revealed you see each and every one of us in this house and our global family your identity is to be a glory carrier and you don't carry things to keep it you carry it to let it flow out of you that is why the bible talks about out of your belly with rivers of living water flow we don't carry things to just keep it within us we see the technology of god in everything he does even in creation a woman is not pregnant to hold keep the child in for the rest of her life at some point and if that baby doesn't want to come out at some point then they would have to actually you know a c-section they said no matter what it takes this baby is coming out because we were not designed to just carry things we were designed to carry that which needs to flow through us that the world will understand who we are and where we come from and when god has caused a season in your life to release his glory there are things that we go through and because we're not understanding why it's happening we mark it as disappointment when god says i am just prepping you to release my glory on the earth you see family as god is going to call you into new seasons in your life and evolving you to transition in ways that you have never imagined just like we prayed during the worship god where you lead is where i'll follow when you take a step i'll take a step with you because i'm not going to look at this through the lens of what i've been through i'm gonna look at this as a new thing in you you see one of the things i love so much about the lord you know first of all before i even go into this scripture i just want you to write this down because this this came so strong this morning and whatever your this is as even as i'm talking to you about what the lord is calling you to do just write down see this with fresh eyes i want you to write that down before before i let that go and just go into a whole different thing see this with fresh eyes see this with fresh eyes and i'm talking about your expectation you see as we talk about transitions we're going to transition amen but there are certain key things that the lord was ministering to me when it came to this message and with the time we have i really want to dive into this you know because before you can steward a thing you have to understand it and there are four key things i want us to talk about when it comes to understanding transitions you see the first thing and you can write this down transitions are markers of growth now what do we mean by this in genesis 1 from verse 1 to 5 it says this in the beginning god created the heavens and the earth the earth was without form and void and darkness was on the face of the deep and the spirit of god was hovering over the face of the waters then god said let there be light and there was light and god saw the light that it was good and god divided the light from the darkness god called the light day and the darkness he called night so evening and the morning were the first day now when we read genesis when you go through creed that the story of creation it's almost as though there is a creation that is happening in the spiritual realm and then we see it manifest in the natural light was older than time actually light created time now why i'm saying this is because spiritually light you know light points to jesus but light also speaks of illumination revelation and so one of the things that the lord has been teaching me is that in the spiritual realm your age is determined by the weight of revelation you carry your maturity in god is not because you turn 60. your maturity in god is not because you turned 80. your maturity in god is based on revelation revelation was what produced the day you see they said that it was the first thing god created or god revealed was light he said let there be light and then after all the stuff he said and he called the light day and he called the darkness night and then it goes into and then the first day and so why i'm sharing this is the reason why a man named david in the bible as a teenager was called by god and anointed by god to be king because god was not a it was not after his age david was a teenage boy but david tapped into a revelation of god that he understood that as long as god is with me i cannot fail in the thing he's called me to do when god was searching for who could be anointed as king he was not searching based on what birthday you just celebrated he was searching based on the weight of revelation you have about him now i'm sharing this because you can never look down on yourself because of age whether young or old you may feel like god i'm you know i'm a teenager or maybe i just you know right here early millennials and you're calling me to do something that is beyond you know where i'm at and he said it's not about your age in the natural in the same way you might feel like god i'm 80. i had there there's no way this can happen i mean i am just trying to i have a an uncle well an uncle you know through my fiance and he's 90 right and he's just a young guy he's just full of life drives and everything he says i'm at the ninth floor of life you know this is where it stops but what i'm sharing with you is that even if your night whether you are 19 or 90 when god is calling you into a transition it has nothing to do with your age in the natural there is something he has recognized that you have a revelation of him in that he wants to establish you in it and so when he understood that a boy a boy a teenage boy named david understood carried the fear of the lord this teenage young boy understood that with god all things are possible if god is with me who can be against me god said i could do something with that it was never about his age and when you're looking at where you are in life never look at your life you see in culture we do things according to age right we you you can't even rent a car until you're a certain age right and then 30 oh my gosh when you're approaching 30 it's like life is ending all of a sudden you start evaluating all your goals and plans of life and then you pass 30 it's just like okay i am one year anniversary from 30. where am i at right and we just start making it we we do too much and then maybe you're approaching 40 you say okay i need to go revisit all the things from 30 and double them all right and then 50s coming up you start stressing out oh my gosh oh my legacy ah then 60 you're like oh lord and you may be thinking about retirement but we learn from pastor roosevelt rest over retirement right but why i'm sharing this with you is that god does not call you into a new phase of life because he's looking at how old you got god can sustain you through anything he is looking you see that's why there are some things that god does not release into our lives until we have a revelation to handle it while you're feeling like god you have forsaken me god where are you and god is saying i am bringing you through a process that will anchor you in a revelation about me because this is what will sustain the promise you see for some of you you may feel like men lord it's been how many years and this very thing i've been believing for it hasn't happened and it's showing up in the time that you least expected it because you feel like god it's past the time and he said it was never about your age in the natural it was about your light in the spirit light is what produces things because that's why and from the very beginning before anything else could be created he said light reveal yourself because the light again is christ but light speaks to so many things is so layered in god and so god is looking at the light in your life you see there are some circumstances you go through you need to thank god for and not curse them because there are some things that when you look back on you're like man this taught me about the hand of god this showed me that jesus is a healer this showed me that jesus is a provider and when it establishes you in that when god requires something of you that will test where you put your trust in you're like god we're good i've seen you moving one of the things that i thought would take me out and so in transitions you can never judge your transition based on where society said you should be at this time because when you do that you miss it and this is when we start walking ahead of the lord you can never judge something by like okay lord you know culture you know because you know how many people wanted to do forbes 30 under 30. then 40 then you just start increasing you know you're like forbes can you do it 80 under 80. let me build up some time right if you judge it according to culture you would miss alignment with god because there are some seasons that god will bring you through and i'm i'm hearing this so clearly there's some young people in this room and you have been you just feel like you are too young to been through hell and back and you have been wondering god like why is my story so different why did i have to go through all of this why was this the story of my childhood and god is just showing me because he needed you for your generation and in order to equip you with revelation it could only come from the place that you feel scarred you but the lord said it was to equip you you see david that teenage boy who was anointed by god to be king he didn't just understand the ways of god just randomly when you read the language of david he would talk his language was almost in a way where his father didn't have a relationship with him that he was a shepherd boy and even when you when you hear how him and his brothers would have conversations you would see that david was really a loner not because but not by choice but that there was just something that him and the family didn't really see either eye even though he was the shepherd of protecting the sheep but in that place of isolation i could only imagine because look when you're young and you don't have friends your pets become your friends it was not just sheep one through five it was you know josephine terry [Laughter] you start giving all those sheep's names because sometimes when you're reading the word you have to ask the holy spirit can you you know take me to the mindset of what is taking place here when a lion attacked the sheep they were not just attacking that sheep they were attacking david's friend david said oh no not terry you're not gonna get terry now [Applause] so in david's place of isolation god was actually building him in revelation he said david the place of your pain is because i'm gonna have need of you in a few years you don't even know about what is on your life but if you don't go through this you're not gonna have a revelation of me as a keeper because when david had the confidence to say that i wrestled against the lion i wrestled against the bear that came after april right he had the confidence to say that because he survived it but in the moment it is safe to say that he may not have been too sure what would be the outcome and so when the big giant goliath came up he had a history of god's faithfulness so you might be looking at your life and wondering god why did i have to go through all of this god why me i'm seeing so many other people and god is like i have need for you now and there are some things that cannot be released through your life until you have the revelation to sustain it that when you understand me to to when you see me in the light that is required for this to flow then i can release it to you that's why there are some times where even god will just tell you look this is a season of preparation because if i release you too soon this is going to be destroyed i want you to be prepared in the words i've given you i want you to be established you see even when i think of some of the things the way that god has dealt with me before i could ever touch a stage god gave me instructions to serve in the dark in the place that no one could see you just do just behind closed doors right we would be i was i was one of the gatekeepers walking down the aisles you know passing out tissue and all that stuff and beautiful because even when i was preaching i was still passing out tissue i literally remember one time i was gay keeping and walked up to the stage because until the lord released me from it i was not going to release myself you see you have to learn to recognize that every season of your life is ordered by god you cannot let your idea or perception of your anointing or your talent lead you because you might be in a place that you're working as an assistant and you're like god i'm too talented for this but you don't recognize that that is the place where your breakthrough would come from that that is the place that god has assigned you to be connected to someone because in this life at the end of the day we are glory carriers and maybe what god wants to perfect in you is relationship with him because if you just think that life is just about the things that we can acquire you would miss it because in this in the in the kingdom of god we are after territories for the lord it is about dominion for the kingdom of god to have dominion on the earth but if you're only after your you and your family being satisfied and comfortable the enemy has no problem with you you are not a threat to him at all he would actually quicken your success he would say you know what that is when all of a sudden the very place god planted you in people just start showing up like you're too big for this you're you you got too much in you to be staying where you are and you don't realize they are leading you out of the place of your alignment if jesus had the humility to know that he is the son of god and still live a life like the son of a man named joseph a carpenter then what more us who do we think we are to say i'm too anointed for this i'm not doing that i i'm too cold for this who called you and who placed the anointing on your life so no matter where you are family i want you to understand you're either in a season where god wants to perfect your testimony of him in an area or you're in a season that you have caught something in god and as a way of establishing you in it he's transitioning you that you have been saying god you might you are my keeper and now he's calling you out of your familiar place and he wants to establish you in a way that it is only the knowledge of god being your keeper that will keep you there that is the thing that will not cause you to back out too soon and so that is the reason i'm talking about transitions are really markers of growth when the lord is giving you an instruction to move you in any way in your life whether it's out of a job into another one because at the end of the day when it's a trend when it's something from the lord i'm not talking about the things that we try to put ourselves into but when god is the one leading you that means there is a new revelation that has come upon you that there's something about you it's so beautiful how god works that your revelation of him connects you to a revelation of you that when you understand him to be a keeper a healer a provider then god says okay i can trust you with the next dimension of you because what is going to reveal you you will need to know i will provide it's going to take you through some situations that are going to be very challenging you're going to feel sometimes i got i don't even know i'm going to lay my head but when you realize i am your keeper that would reveal who you are in the season you see when i look back on some of the things i had to go through when it was only the knowledge that god is my keeper that is what made me keep showing up in the place that others thought was obscurity it caused me to keep showing up because for me it wasn't just about like serving or volunteering it was that the lord said walk away from everything y'all heard pastor rose message i quit that was my life the lord said now you quit quit from everything you know and only do what i tell you it was extremely challenging but what i had known in god to be my keeper is what revealed my identity in that season and so when you come into a revelation maybe all of a sudden you know you've been studying about god as my healer and then some form of infirmity hit or maybe some a loved one in your family is going through something and you are required to move out there whatever it may look like but what you don't realize is that there is an anointing that wants to break out of you to reveal that the same spirit that is within you is the same spirit that raised jesus from the dead that you have that you will begin to recognize that lord i can begin to pray for people and see you move in ways and then all of a sudden god will start calling you into new dimensions of your identity because of what you have seen in him and so don't despise wherever you are in life because light is what matures you revelation of who god is is what matures you and when god sees that you have caught a glimpse of him he begins to transition you into the next phase of your life you see because at the end of the day if we don't have the lord it is not the excitement of next that keeps you there because excitement is fleeting you get so excited and then you jump into a thing and all you see is responsibility it's the excitement is actually it's what happened you know ahead of time you're like oh that is so exciting and then you jump in it's not everybody else is applauding but you only see responsibility burden burden burden burden burden he said go ahead clap now but this is all looks like pain so it is your knowledge of god that anchors you the second thing families are writing this down fear is a demonic strategy of spiritual warfare now when i say this i'm not talking about the fear that is healthy for you right you know if you're afraid in a situation and things like that it gives you strategy about how to exit i'm not talking about the fear of the lord which is a reverence for god i'm talking about the fear that cripples you the fear that torments you at night the type of fear when you're meditating on negative outcomes of things that will net not even purpose by god to happen this type of fear and there's a scripture i want you to write down ii corinthians chapter 10 from verse 3 to 5. it says this for though we walk in the flesh we do not war according to the flesh for the weapons of our warfare are not carnal but mighty in god for pulling down strongholds casting down arguments and every high thing that exalts itself against the knowledge of god bringing every thought into captivity to the obedience of christ now this was so intriguing when the lord highlighted this because the apostle paul is the one speaking and he's talking about warfare and he's talking about our weapons and what they are used for and he says the weapons of our warfare is to cast down arguments every high thing that exalts itself against the knowledge of god and bringing every thought into captivity and this was so intriguing to me because if this is how we win the battle then that means when we let it go unchecked is this also how we lose the battle and i was trying to understand this it just kept being highlighted that god what is it about this text that the weapons of our warfare is to cast down every high thing and this is talking about in the mind exalts itself against the knowledge of god that thing that is tormenting you that you're meditating on and without you realizing you are worshiping you see job said something and and job is a book that we always like to skip because when you read it it becomes true you say god not me everything else but this one you know that was me for a very long time i would just see the book of job i said oh next you know next chapter next book matter of fact right but job said something you know if you've never read the book of job job went through i mean just things that nobody wants to go through right but job said this what i always feared has happened to me and what i dreaded has come true this is job verse um chapter 3 verse 25. he said what i have always and why is it that that was important for us to know and why is it that job who had this fear i mean first of all i'm trying to think about it joke how do you create this type of fear who is sitting down at home just thinking oh my gosh i'm so panicked anxiety that god is just gonna come wipe out my whole family just give me swords of my body my wife is not gonna want me anymore like the extent of what happened to job how do you sit down and imagine that in your life and then the lord began to reveal something because paul said how we win the battle is casting down things that were planted not by the lord he said we have to cast down every high thing that exalts itself above the knowledge of god and whatever exalts itself the only person that has that personality is satan you would not be i love one thing our pastor said he said when did you start becoming against your own self so paul and you have to understand the person speaking paul was an apostle who said that he is one that god has entrusted with the mysteries of god and so when he spoke about things he was not just speaking randomly he was trying to give us an insight to a mystery he said the things that you fear and that are created in your mind it's not even coming from you and the reason why the enemy is planting it hoping that it would be left unchecked is because your thought life spiritually attracts things to you now how many people have you ever had a dream if and if this is you just not if you've had a dream i'll finish the sentence but if this is you just put your hands up i want to see something have you ever had a dream that you're in a place you've never been before in the natural you're seeing people you've never seen in the natural but you know where you are and who they are even by name show of hand look at that look at that and why is that because even in your dream life because spiritually there's communication through thought you see sometimes that's why you're when you're even like you know you're thinking somebody calls you you're like oh my gosh girl i was just thinking about you and it happens a lot of times because in the natural god has given us words right if i want to call someone i just call you by name and you know that i'm calling you and if i say your name then you're like hey i'm right here then maybe you might approach me but spiritually what you meditate on what you worship is what you're attracting and so the enemy knows the way that i can get legal grounds in your life let me plant my agenda and this is why you have to be a guard over your mind you can't just let things sit and ponder that has nothing to do with the knowledge of what god has spoken to you about your life job said the very thing i have feared if you've never studied job study his life that is not something you sit down thinking will happen to you it is not something you just imagine what happened to you it was planted in his mind and he cultivated that fear he attracted something towards him and that is why even can you imagine for god to tell satan have you seen my servant job because there are certain things that give the enemy even legal grounds there was something i shared with you all some time ago that satan is yet to cross a boundary because the only time that angels crossed a boundary was what we saw in the days of noah when the angels slept with the with the daughters of man and god recognized no this you crossed the boundary and those are the only angels we hear in the bible that are chained in hell as a result of what they did god cast judgment on them immediately but then satan the bible tells that he is roaming the earth but why is that because he is yet to cross a boundary so whatever he does is either given permission by the lord or by us and how do we give him permission many ways that's why the bible even says something like this it says do not let your anger do not let the sun go down on your anger because then you will give the enemy a foothold but why does he say that it's not that you being hot you know i'm bothered you know the enemy is like who you know i'm gonna dance with you because to let the sun go down on your anger means that you have entertained the thoughts of pride and you have cultivated it you have said to yourself i'm not gonna forgive that person how dare you who do you think you are and what you don't realize that you're doing is that you're attracting the spirit behind that thought so the lord says do not let the sun go down on your anger if not you give the enemy a place in your life it's not about being angry it's about what keeps you in the place of anger and that is pride and ego and selfish ambition and so i'm sharing this with you because when you recognize that fear is not something that you just play with that you set a guard on your mind lord this is not your voice it is the same way that we hear we hear the lord even through our thoughts right you might be driving i don't know time the lord is telling you to do something so when the enemy wants to plant seeds of discouragement seeds of doubt do not entertain that because what you don't realize that you're doing is that you are drawing you're saying that yes i'm inviting you yes come on in it is meditation it is worship what happens when we worship god the bible says that he sits on the praises of his people when we worship god isn't it when you worship god all of a sudden you're like wow i sense the presence of god in this place because when you worship god you're awake into his presence and there is a lifestyle of worship that brings you into what the bible calls the shekinah glory of god it is that although god is everywhere he manifests himself in a way that is unique to your experience but i'm sharing this because if worshipping god reveals his presence then worshipping that negative thought because anything you meditate on is worship then when you're worshipping this outcome that is never supposed to be in the will of god then you are drawing that to your life you see we have to be giants in the lord again we're not here as a ministry we just we don't want to just inspire you for the day then you're looking for the next high you're not meant to just walk out of a church and the next day you're like i need another word to just to get me through there are things that establish you in god guard your mind guard your mind don't allow things to just to just marinate and and be cultivated that have no roots in god right the third thing family as you're writing this down the in between is holy ground now what do i mean by this exodus 3 5 it says this and this is when the lord is talking to a man named moses now moses this was a place of encounter if you know the story of moses um it is such an interesting story you know he was raised up as a hebrew boy in the palace even though the his own people the israelites were being tortured at slaves and all this stuff right if you don't know the story watch prince of egypt but exodus 3 5 god encounters moses in the place of moses where he has settled in life he has run away from egypt he's like i don't want to save anybody he's in a place where he has a family and he has settled in life he's in the wilderness he's walking around he knows the area he is in and all that good stuff and the lord is about to encounter him to transition him he's about to encounter him that moses i know you're comfortable here but i'm calling you i'm calling you to reveal you because i've called you as one to bring deliverance right i'm calling you to reveal who you are in this time and you're going to deliver my people but in this place of encounter the bible says then the lord said to him do not draw near this place because what happened is that moses saw a bush that was on fire that was burning but not consumed and so it intrigued him and when he drew near a voice came out of the bush right and it says do not draw near this place take your sandals off your feet for the place where you stand is holy ground and one of the things that the lord ministered to me about this moment you see you only keep your shoes on when you know where you're going when you're on a journey that you're confident enough of course your shoes are on the lord looks at moses and he says because it was not just about you know because if it was about that moses what you're wearing is just it's not holy he would have said moses look i naked you came into this world i need you to take off everything and draw near to me because even your garment smells like you know your sheep i don't know if y'all got that she she smells like sheep okay and uh let's not stutter um but he tells him sheep chad i said she he said take your sandals off your feet y'all need to be saved and then she be all it is sheep but basically let's go back to the word it's about jesus but he tells moses right take your sandals off your feet because the place you are standing on this holy ground and the lord wanted me to say this to you we are so beyond the time but the lord wanted me to say this to you recognize that where you are right now is holy ground you have never been here before you may have a history of moments that looks like where you are but you have never been here before you have never been in the type of relationship you are in right now you have never had the type of business partners you have right now the idea is that the strategy god has given you for the business you have never had this type of strategy before you have never worked with these types of people before do not bring the weight of your past into the now god is doing a new thing you may have memories of what a transition like this has been but this is not that god is doing a new thing in and through your life and what does that mean when you recognize that you're an in-between phase of god calling you out of something but has not fully established you in the new thing you seek the face of god you need instructions from god you see what keeps you like i said is revelation and the deeper you go in that the more anchored you are you cannot guide your life by what you see other people do especially in the social media generation and culture just because your gift is similar to someone else's gift doesn't mean your path is similar so just because you see them using their gift in this way doesn't mean that is the way god has called you to use your gift so when you're in the in between it is holy ground that is when you start to seek the lord you go in prayer you go and fasting god i'm not gonna treat this moment lightly there's something new you want to do with me and i want to understand what is it how would you call me to move you see i truly believe that we are in a season where we're not just going to talk about the god that we have read or the god that we have heard other people talk about but we're going to talk about the god that we have met you're going to move in life with a conviction of what your assignment is in god not just waking up and say god i want to do something grand for you so i see this person doing this you know what i want to do that too take some time in prayer god you're calling me out of something and you're calling me into something new god what is this what does this mean in my life who are you calling me to be you see even personally i'm i'm living that out right now because the lord convicted me he says stephanie you've never been where you are now you've never been here before this marriage you've never experienced it you need to take time in prayer to hear from me the purpose of this union he didn't just give me someone just so i could be like hey you know me and bae you know and kava you know no and even though that would be that you know that's nice but there's a purpose behind it everything serves a kingdom agenda and so when you're in a place of transition god what is the assignment for this what are you calling me into what does this relationship symbolize right this is how we become just i mean not even i don't even want to use the word warriors for christ because he's the one fighting the battle but this is how we become giants for the lord that your presence begins to move things because god can trust you right and the lasting family we're gonna pray is to recognize and this is something that it is so simple to us but yet we are so challenged by it but you have to recognize that change will always beget change change produces change when your life is changing there are things around you that changes right and you cannot take offense to what are par what are the things that the some of the things you have to mourn in life right when god is shifting you not everyone is can shift with you when god is shifting you sometimes there are relationships in your life that don't move forward with you there are things in your atmosphere they can move forward with you and you cannot take offense to it because taking offense to it is to be ignorant of the season you're in you have to embrace that this is going to produce more change in my life it's not just one area of my life changing i am opening myself up for my environment to look completely different and god you will have your way you can't take offense to the people that may leave and you can't take offense to the things that god will shift to pull you away from others because sometimes we're either offended at people or we're offended at god and this actually limits the potential of what god wants to do in a season change always produces change and when we embrace that reality the journey is much smoother and we can see the hand of god through everything he's doing family stand with me thank you lord thank you lord thank you lord you see i'm so excited for what god is doing in this house i'm so excited for what god is doing in and through each and every one of you because as the spirit of the lord was showing me you all i could see was literally i mean the best way i could i could describe it is when we talk about butterflies right and how they go through this stage of being in the cocoon and and the whole metamorphosis and you know they go from caterpillars to literally how do you go from crawling to heaven wings right and that was the imagery that god kept showing me and that when when you're a caterpillar you're like you're living your best life you know how to get from point a to point b and you think you're moving with speed right you're just like check me out caterpillar having no clue that within you is the potential to fly that there are wings within you but something has to you have to go through this transitional period for that to be revealed and what i want to assure you of is that as you embrace how god is going to shift your life as you embrace as god is going to mold and move your life in whatever direction that he desires and he doesn't desire it from being like a puppet master because god is god alone there's nothing we can do to make him more god or less god he desires it for our good he desires it so that the truth of our lives will be revealed and so whatever that looks like the lord is like you have no idea the potential that is actually in you and as you embrace the manner and the vehicle i've called i've ordained to use to reveal you it is going to shock you it is going to blow you beyond your greatest expectations of what you thought you could do but it begins with surrender whenever you want to start having when you look at some of the ways that god is shifting you and you're just like oh lord think about what you know in god that is the reason he could trust you with it now there are things that he has recognized that okay you have laid the foundation of trust so i can trust you with this pain i can trust you with this burden that is why that scripture there's a scripture we love to we love to speak on as a ministry right when it talks about how when god says for i know the plans i have for you plans to prosper you and not to harm you to give you a future and a hope but the people he's talking to they were going through a transition they were actually going into captivity you'll be like now god what in the world i'm about to go into captivity and you're telling me that hey guys on your way to captivity just know i have plans to prosper you because he was given them he's like look you there's a trust you've already established so i can also trust you with this change in your life because it's going to reveal something in you that is going to show you that you were always more than where you were a family we have to trust the hand of god and the move of god don't be in a rush to do things that the lord has not called you to do and don't be in a rush to complain about the ways that he's calling you we have to trust him now if you know that you're in this house and you're like god that is me i'm in transition right now and i'm fighting it i'm wrestling with it matter of fact i'm even wondering like are you sure it's me you're you're thinking about your age and you're like god it can be me and god is like everything you've been through in life has prepared you for this moment and god is back not only he's not banking on you like god is somewhere in the corner praying like please please god says no i know what's in you it will carry you it will carry you through there are things that will flame that fire but it will carry you through i want to reveal to the world my glory through your life i have been with you every disappointment was the rock following you he said you thought this was just a place to mark a desert but christ is actually in the midst of it and out of that pain glory would be revealed so family if you know you're in transition i want you to meet me at this altar we're gonna pray thank you jesus thank you lord thank you lord thank you lord thank you jesus thank you jesus just get as close to the altar as you can thank you lord thank you lord as close as you can there is some a little bit of room in the front thank you lord and family if you're in this house and you want to give your life to jesus you know you walked in here and you're just like you know i just want to see what this gotham is about but he has convicted your heart and you want to make him lord and savior not you know adding him with other things in your life but you want to make him your lord and your savior i want you to just raise your hand in this room we want to see you we want to celebrate you thank you jesus thank you lord i want you to do like a loud raise look at that i see you in the back i see you i see you thank you lord family can we celebrate those that are saying yes to jesus we see you thank you lord thank you lord have your way god have your way have your way have your way it's your season man it's your season and we just have to see it through the lens of god because when you see it through the lens of god when you're looking at it through the lens of culture through the lens of expectation it could look like disappointment but when you see it through the lens of god it just empowers you it lights a fire in you because you recognize that if god calls you equipped that is exactly who you are no matter it might feel that it might feel uncomfortable because at the end of the day you see we're not the call of god in our lives is not marked by the comfort of our lives and this is where we sometimes miss it we think that what we call success is comfort and so when i am experiencing discomfort then this must not be the thing god has called me to do but let's talk about jesus right i mean his whole call was very upsetting the very thing he was called to do brought him to a moment where he is praying and the tears and not even the tears sweat droplets of blood can you imagine the type of stress that he was in but at the end of the day he said not my will but yours be done so you cannot mark that because you're in a place of transition and it feels uncomfortable that you begin to question god i don't even know if i heard properly yes you did and you received three to five confirmations afterwards and you wrote them all down in your journal you called your friends and said wow god told me to move to los angeles and then i was walking down the street and someone just looked at me and said l.a right and then because things got hard you said you know it's looking like mississippi it's just and you start questioning you say i don't even know if god ever spoke to me but he did and he had several confirmations connected to the thing he told you to do but because of god challenge and you're now questioning god i just need a word from you and then this is the worst part we do this and we think we're in humility we're like god if you just give me a word i would know that you said i should be here and he already did that with five backing up confirmations and so the reason that in moments like that you may not receive something else is because he doesn't want to make confirmation you're high because he's like no revisit what i've already said sometimes your deliverance is in your journals it's in the prayers that you wrote down that you need to go back and see the things that you and the lord discussed and you're like wait i am tripping we've been here before lord you are with me and you will see me through this thank you jesus family just lift up your hand before the lord [Music] heavenly father we thank you [Music] thank you lord for what you are doing in and through our lives oh god we thank you lord that you are with us that you gave us this promise that never would you leave us or forsake us and lord i'm seeing some out there on the side of it they have followed you they have gone to the place you have sent them and they may feel rough lord god but these are just seasons these are seasons and every season has something its purpose to birth and so lord we will trust you with what you have placed within us because you have purpose that out of us your glory would come through that place of pain lord i thank you that you're rewriting the story there is restoration all around this room that place of pain that place we said we would never visit again god i'm done there you said no i was the one all along i was following you because out of this my glory would be revealed heavenly father we thank you lord jesus we thank you lord for your sons and daughters we thank you lord that there are things that you have entrusted in their hands you have entrusted their identity the revealing of layers of what you have always known about them to be revealed in the seasons that they're in i thank you lord that we will see our scars differently we will see them oh god as moments of encounters with you that the very scars that we have we will remember what was revealed to us about you through it that lord no matter where i am high or low you are with me you will keep me you will guide me you will provide for me there are some of you in this room and you're remembering when you were homeless you didn't have a place to go but then all of a sudden there were people that began to open up their homes to you and some of you you're presently there right now but don't look at the discomfort look at the hand of god that has touched a few one two three people to say whatever you need i got you whatever you need i got you that is the sound of grace upon your life [Music] that is the sound of the mercies of god upon your life that i am with you in this hard place i'm hearing some of you where you feel like god i can barely have a meal for the day and he said but you had a meal i provided i kept you i'm keeping you aren't i this is just a season this is just a season and in the end every season of your life will reveal glory so jesus we thank you we worship you o god that out of everything we have experienced the world will see your glory our community will see your glory our environment will see your glory and your glory speaks to your greatness it speaks to your power it speaks to your love it speaks to the fact that there is no one else like you that people would begin to wonder who is this god that you serve who is a god that could make the impossible possible who is a god that could cause things to rise out of nothing who is this god who is a god that will call you out of the place of obscurity into the place of prominence who is this god heavenly father [Music] everything that we are we surrender before you everything that we are just as we declared where you lead we will follow and whatever you call us out of and into lord we continue to say yes this transition will end in glory and heavenly father for everyone who has said lord i want to make you my personal lord and savior we thank you for their lives oh god and if that's you just repeat after me and just say heavenly father thank you thank you for this moment of encounter lord jesus i believe that you are the son of god that on the cross you put my sins to death and when you were raised up i was raised up with you i confess with my mouth that you are my lord and savior make my heart your home in jesus name amen family can we praise god in this house hallelujah hallelujah

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