Sunday Morning Live

all right all right all right good morning hey could you go ahead and grab a spot if you're in the back if you're in the back come grab a spot if you're in the front go grab a spot good morning oh my goodness so um it's been such a beautiful morning i mean we just got back into town we were up in northern california where the air quality up there is is so it's really really just breaking my heart what they're living through with the smoke from the fires in fact i was hoping maybe all of us could stand to start the service face north and bless and speak to the land up there talk to the air quality and tell the fires to go and call rain to that region to put these out so would you just declare with me right now that rain will come to northern california to put out the fires we speak to the air quality right now we say smoke clear and let pure oxygen just fresh air be blown into that region from sacramento all the way up to the border of california and oregon we speak to the lungs of the people that are up there and we and we say you will not be damaged by the smoke inhalation we declare respiratory health over the people in that region and we say fires go out now let rain come in let rain come in we declare that rain will flow from the pacific ocean into the valleys of northern california and put these fires out in jesus name amen hey thanks for doing that just is it was i don't want to say heartbreaking but i do want to say that it was just it stirred up empathy and i want to continue to be um obedient to to move in that direction in fact we went up to reading for the week and i have a couple of friends that were up there with me that i want to have them share a testimony of their takeaways and what impacted them at this men at this men's conference that we went to so would you just welcome josh nunn and i don't know where paul is there he is paul teller come up and share a word with us this morning yeah it was so good impactful to say the least at the heart of the whole week was really going after healthy masculinity and how many of us know that we need healthy and whole men right now more than ever right and some of the things that they went through were so good like there's uh you know john eldridge i had the the joy and the honor to get to hear this man's talk and he he describes that there's a war against the heart right now especially in men there's a war against the heart and the problem we're seeing in society as fatherlessness and we're seeing it as a society of men who have lost heart and have no courage right men who have lost a will to take responsibility for their actions and and there is a shift that needs to happen and there's a shift that is happening um and so i think like one of the biggest takeaways i was kind of sharing this in first service was really this this this call for the men to live a life without secrets right because in in every one of our hearts there is a desire to be known and that is part of the key to unlocking courage is we have to be known first and to be known that takes courage right chris valatin defines courage as not the absence of fear but the presence of perseverance right and if we need to if we need to find our heart again men i'm talking all of you if if men we need to find our heart again we need to get courageous and we need to go to the deep places of our soul that are uncomfortable right there were there were men sharing stories about stuff that's happened to them in middle school thoughts they had desires that they went through that that started in middle school bled into high school into college into their marriages and the key is to open up and to live a life without secrets right because when we share those things the shame gets released when we share that testimony in the comfort of of fellow men and fellow brothers and that's what we need to see we need a generation of powerful courageous healthy and whole men and it starts now right and it starts it starts with us being willing to live a life without secrets so i believe there are men in here who are meant to actually be in city council meetings i believe there are men in here that have lost courage and lost heart but are actually born with significance that they're meant to be in parent-teacher conferences they're meant to be leading on school boards they're meant to be taking back authority that's been given to other people and that starts with living a life without secrets it starts with walking with men again encourage right so i'm i'm just going to impart real quick yeah so for men and women right now i released a fresh new boldness of courage and fierceness to live a life without secrets nothing hidden in jesus name i release a fresh grace and a fresh boldness to live a life where i i believe that there are things there is trauma of peoples in people's hearts in this room that is going to be brought to the surface that's going to be brought to mind even as i'm speaking that husbands you're going to you're going to tell things to your wife you've never told them before there is a fresh boldness and grace that also men and women you you are going to start remembering memories that are going to be really painful but i bless you with the courage and the boldness to actually speak it and to bring it up with people that you feel comfortable with with community that we have here i speak boldness that you are going to see a new level of freedom that you're going to be walking and when we bring these things to the light and when we embrace this new lifestyle of living a life without secrets so i bless everyone here with a new courage in jesus name that's so good that's so good man you know um what i got from this conference was so amazing uh being around a bunch of men and um just seeing the level of freedom in this place was amazing and what i what i took from this conference was we can't do it alone you know um and i i've been walking alone for a while in this spiritual journey with with god and you know knowing the things of god that i know and being able to just get a fresh dose of reality and having men come beside me and and being brave about you know our past present and future and just being able to do it together was was um is great it takes a football team it takes an army to be able to transform people around us to transform what's going on in society today transform the world it takes an army of guys and to be able to do it alone is not to do it alone is not is not what we need but we need to just join together and i'm just thinking that you know the men in the church today um you know let's do this let's do it together and um let's get together i'm still walking through it i'm going to be going to a 12 month discipleship program that they have and i'm just going to step out in faith and i'm going to do it and you know i think we're going to do it for our region out here but it's going to be amazing what i took the most what i got the most from this conference was i had an experience that i haven't felt in a long time and that was god just opening me up and and transforming my mind transforming my heart for what's going on today i don't know about you guys but like was saying what was said last service was you know um you know watching the news and these things and everything else i'm i'm watching what's going on and i'm spending more time getting mad and seeing and frustrated what's going on around me rather than standing up and actually doing something about it so it's it's it's it's time to rise up and so this is what happened i just wanted to give you a little detail what happened so there was this one part when we first got to the conference it was um what was his name again yeah todd pierce that's right cowboy man and he was he he brought a horse into an arena and he was talking and he was preaching and he was just talking about being courageous and being a man of god and allowing um god to transform us from the inside out and just being broken and so it was it was about 45 to 50 minutes what took him usually three months to break a horse he did it in 50 minutes and he did it in 50 minutes of of of just showing the love of god and just being able to be vulnerable and open up and willing to be tooken over by god the time he was done breaking the horse i was broken inside my heart was being transformed my mind was being transformed and if that wasn't enough if that wasn't enough at about 500 people he said hey you up there chris ballatin said he came after the horse was breaking broke and chris valatin came up and he said hey you over there up there and larry and i and and and the guys were way up there and he goes you with the um he was so far away that he's you with the bandana i didn't have a bandana on i had a red hat on and he goes he had a word for me and the word was so amazing i was in tears i couldn't stop crying it was so good can i share that word can i share that one okay and last service had only played three quarters of the way but let me try this here we go you're like a bulldozer in the spirit and you are preparing the way for other people and there's a really tender compassionate man in there and out of the fire out of abandonment rejection you decided to not be bitter or hateful but you decided to be kind and forgiving and the lord says that your pure heart is preparing the way for other people for generations to come and i saw a young men gathering around you know hey you know what would you just stand with me let's just celebrate what god has done through just keep keep going let's give god some glory this morning thank you jesus for what you've done in these men we're believing that that breakthrough is for us also just start to start declaring the glory of god in this place as we stand up and we start worshiping together just keep going keep giving them glory jesus we've come here to love you we've come here we've come here to encounter you and we're believing that we're going to leave here transformed as we encounter your goodness as we encounter your power and we worship you we're believing for transformation in the lives of everyone in this room in jesus name as the spirit wasn't moving over the water spirit come move over us come rest on us come rest on us as the spirit wasn't moving over the water spirit come move over us come rest on us come rest on us i'm here come rest on us i know you're here is oh holy spirit i you you come and do it again open up the gates and have it on in come rest on us come rest on us up the gates come rest on us come rest on us open up is you're all we is worthy of every song we could ever sing worthy of all the praise we could ever bring worthy of every breath we could ever breathe we live for you jesus name above every other name jesus the only one that could ever see worthy of every breath we could ever breathe we live for you oh we live for you there is no one like you there is none beside you open up my eyes in who you are and fill me with your heart and lead me in your life to those me worthy of every song we could ever sing so worthy of all the praise we could ever worthy of every breath we could ever breathe jesus the name above every other name jesus the only one that could worthy of every breath we could ever breathe who you are is who you are and i will build my life upon your love it is and i will put my trust in you it is a and i will up there is who you are oh will not be ashamed there is no one like you there is none beside you open up my eyes and wonder and show me who you are and fill me with your heart and lead me in your love to those we've come to join our song so long before our lives to raise our voice and we've seen your faith hand your mercy without it a thousand generations you are our worthy with heaven through singing life our endless praise we cry jesus is a thousand generations you are worthy is is is lord is is lord bye is is you are worthy lord of all and unto you the slain and risen king we lift our voice so during first service we got into talking about being of good courage brought up joshua 1 when they're coming into the promised land but we also touched on deuteronomy 31 when moses is talking to the to the tribes of israel and he's saying hey there's something transitioning here be strong and be courageous be strong and of good courage be strong and of great courage fear not do not be afraid for the lord your god is with you i feel like it's super important for us to receive the grace that he's offering to us this morning to be of good courage the nation of israel was going through a transition time and they needed to be of good courage at the time knowing that their good father their good god had everything taken care of and they could rest in the truth they could rest in the fact that he's a good god and that he and he was worthy of putting their trust to be of good courage in him and so i just feel like there's a there's a response that's due that's due this morning from us that that he's worthy of us trusting him enough to be courageous this morning despite the transitions and despite the things that are swirling around in the air and the atmosphere of our cities and of our counties our states our nation and in the world that we can be of good courage because he is trustworthy he is trustworthy and he's good and he's for us be of good courage beach chapel be of good courage church of san diego be of good courage and be strong california be of good courage and be strong america be of good courage and be strong my lovely children throughout the world be strong enough good courage for i have overcome the world he has overcome the world and guess what because he has that makes you an overcomer that makes you an overcomer this morning do you believe it do you believe it are calling you to stand up stand up like in second kings when elisha is on his deathbed and he's saying hey strike the arrows with the ground and the guy shoots three and he says hey you should have shot six you should have shot six cause i would have said i would have done way more than what those three arrows would have done and i'm believing there's a grace for us to shoot six arrows into the ground today not just settling for shooting three arrows into the ground that the cloud of witnesses that hebrews 12 talks about the cloud of witnesses is saying shoot six arrows into the ground shoot six arrows be strong be courageous we're with you we're cheering you on we're with you god's with you he's good and guess what we win stand up and start shooting six arrows into the ground sacrifice of praise with strength and courage as we step into singing this song again thousands of generations before us are cheering us on thousands of generations before us are cheering us on in the cloud of witnesses and it's our turn to shoot the arrows into the ground and say you're a good god i will be of good courage i will be of good strength because you're good and you've won you've won the world and you've won my heart six arrows in the ground double portion let's go into that bridge again all of the glory all of the glory it's yours it's yours it's yours it's yours all of the glory all of the glory it's yours it's yours it's yours it's yours all of the glory all of the glory it's yours it's yours it's yours it's yours all of the glory all of the glory it's yours it's yours it's yours it's yours all of the glory all of the glory it's yours it's yours it's yours it's yours all of the glory all of the glory is yours it's yours it's glory yours yours it's yours it's yours it's yours all of the glory all of the glory it's is it's yourself you are worthy worthy generation you are worthy so worthy gone you're worthy of it all i just want to release fire in this place i just want to release fire in this place how do you want fire then get up here get up here however you want fire how do you want fire how many of you want fire fire of god that the fire of god fire of god fire of god fire god fire god speak increase fire of god fire of god fire of god how many want fire fire of god fire of god fire of god thank you jesus increase increase increase increase increased increase but the fire of god burning our bones the fire god burn in our bones we release fire yeah we release fire jesus said it will be baptized in fire there was one who baptized with water but you will baptize with fire fire of god increase increase increase let the increase of your fire burn in our bones let the increase of fire burn in our bones jesus we thank you we thank you for more we thank you for increase we thank you for fire we thank you for increase yes more more jesus more jesus more jesus more fire more fire god we strike three arrows no we strike six we strike six arrows into the ground we strike six arrows in the ground fire good increase increase increase we're destined for increase we're destined for increase father an impartation of your heart impartation the fire of your heart jesus you're worthy of it all everything that you paid for we want to see what you got what you pay for jesus the nations the nation's fire of god increased increase increase yeah jesus more more more yeah be enthroned upon the praises of a thousand generations fire of god fire of god fire of god more increase increase increase stay in this place don't check out don't check out he's doing something being thrown being thrown king jesus being thrown king jesus fire of god fire of god increase increase increase burn in our bones we praise you jesus be enthroned we say yes to what the cloud of witnesses are cheering us on for they're saying we see it can you see it can you see it we say yes we can see it we can see it god burning our bones with the fire of god this morning increase increase increase just engage with this song one more time as we sing it be enthroned upon a thousand generations lord of all lord of all a thousand generations you are worthy lord of the all and risen king we lift our voice with heaven singing worldly jesus you're worthy you're so worthy and we just bless you and we declare with our mouths and we trust you we trust you the prince of peace let the peace of god let the peace of god be released in this place in the hearts of your people that we would leave here transformed by the fire by the peace of god in jesus name in jesus name can you just bless these can you bless these people our worship team honor them come on and as you're making your way back to the seat bless the people next to you on their way up just keep declaring increase on what god's doing oh we're working some marital things out up here you know his stuff is always in my way even on this little tiny table but we're glad you're here i'm bornee this is micah we co-pastor here and uh if you're guest with us today newbie we want to welcome you if you're joining us online welcome you're a part of what's going on here through the modern grace of technology yeah we want to uh just kind of share briefly a few things in the way of announcements with you and then we're going to give worship the lord in our giving today um so we'll get right to it with offering okay awesome no with announcements announcements like on another planet right now should i go no this is fun they can watch us process things through yeah good thank you thank you yeah so we want to continue to just let everybody know dude my voice is gone um we want to encourage you to get the app it's free and it's really important for us to just continue to communicate if you want to stay plugged in and know what's happening around here get the app so that you know offerings of classes and all that fun stuff so super easy super simple and if you can't figure it out come see these three up here and they'll help you out go ahead and just wave high yep these are your technological i.t help people all that fun stuff and then also if you're new here um if you bet if this is your first time or you've been here for a couple months and want to connect and get and become known and i encourage you to uh text beach newbie to 94 000. they switched it this week it was bc newbie for forever now it's beach newbie we're just keeping you on your team you totally did making sure if i'm reading the slides yeah it's good you got it you got to keep me on my toes and you did so a couple other things coming up here we have small groups that are starting in september would you give through the details in the fall yeah so there's there's way way a lot way a lot there's a lot way more there's a lot happening as we launch into the fall so um we'll just categorize by saying this is our small group announcement that covers home groups and other small groups so we've got one in carlsbad we've got one in escondido we've got other ones in the works that are coming your way we've got a women's group that meets here every other monday on campus we got men's groups that are already launched that's once a month so small groups like if you need the information on how to plug yourself into any one of those go onto the platforms the the website and the app let me just say in the season that the church is heading toward you need to be a part of a small group let me say that again you need to be a part of a small group it will be a lifeblood to you no matter what comes our way for you to get connected and do all the one another and that can only take place in the context of a small group so get involved in one there and then also in the fall we're launching equipping so there's a whole slew of things that are coming under the umbrella of equipping yeah so that's going to look like starting in september on tuesday nights we're going to go through a course that danny silkwon has created on his platform the life academy people helping people so we all want to help people right sometimes it doesn't sometimes it's kind of hard because we can misunderstand what boundaries look like and whatnot this will equip you to help someone in a healthy way right so i want to encourage you to be a part of that trish wendy and nikki are going to be facilitating that we're excited about offering it for you we also have we're going to continue the bible fast pass on sunday mornings 9 30 during first service and we're going to uh start a new series in september with where's ivy listiak rv are you here will you wave your hand look back at miss ivy listiak yes will you talk about that so ivy's going to be walking us through translating god hearing the voice of the of the lord for yourself and that's a sean bowles series um she's going to be after that for four weeks in september like we said during first service we're going to be offering continuing to offer the child care for elementary and preschool so you literally have no good excuse if if you need to be shored up and here learning how to hear the voice of the lord for yourself we're going to be going after that for four weeks in in second week of september we'll start and then in october we'll be hearing from bill during fast pass and he's going to go after identity and new covenant so no excuse in the equipping department you guys for just getting yourself beefed up right and we're also going to have a ministry team training so the people after service that are up here and they're praying with people and whatnot the amazing people who lead that team are david and donnell free tag over there wave to everybody they're gonna they're gonna have a time of equipping uh people who would like to be part of that team so see them so that you can connect and be part of that training also yeah lastly super excited about this the nursery is reopening everyone the nursery is opening you know it was a rough season with kovid just you know coming back onto campus and rebuilding uh all of our amazing volunteer teams that serve and minister to our children who are our most valuable commodity and i say that again like our legacy is our children and so um i'm super excited that we're reopening the nursery we've got babies coming out everywhere not up here but everywhere else and uh and that's good because that's being obedient to genesis command and be fruitful and multiply so some of you over here need to get busy we have multiplied enough we are good we are multiplied enough but uh the announcement is is that we would love to have uh some additional volunteers to serve once a month as a commitment in there you could bless a weary mom and dad by allowing them to come in and really get some respite in in the service second service and so if you'd like to volunteer in there please come see me today and i'll make sure to get you started and then bless all of you with babies with no sleep and just you know transitioning it gets better they say in wartime like the way they torch their torture their prisoners is by not letting them get to rem sleep yeah and so like maybe having are you saying that's true of torture maybe you should stop you're discouraging so have babies have babies yes you sleep when you're dead that's what i heard i heard that some more uh so we want to continue our giving this our worship and giving this morning and to do that uh we've invited the director of our preschool nikki telechaya to come up so if you were unaware we have a preschool that operates that's open to the community here we have what 55 kids all week long that come in and out all community families um and we want to actually share a testimony and breakthrough and that has to do with our preschool that the lord has blessed this year take it away yes so over on this side of the campus we have a large playground area if you can put up some of the before pictures it was in need of a lot of help it had it was overrun by gophers thank you i keep calling them squirrels gopher it was like caddyshack out there right we called the we called the grass area the ankle breaker area um but as you can see in the pictures we had exposed concrete it just needed a lot of help and so after getting estimates i got um uh invoice for 55 000 to get it done and i presented it to our pastors and in faith they in faith with a smile they let us move forward and we took on that project in the beginning of july so here is the amazing testimony for that these are the after pictures so before before we even got started and broke ground i was gifted a grant from kovid by the state for 14 000. so that was our initial uh money to go into this and then once i made it known what we were doing a family from beach chapel came by and handed me a check for 20 000. and then i opened it up to our preschool families and just everywhere i could possibly think of did videos and families just started to give a thousand here a thousand there i had a single mom who's just newly out on her own and trying to make it bring me 25 and can i tell you that that 25 is just as valuable as that 20 000 check because she understood about sewing into the future generations on this campus and so what i'm up here to tell you is it's your turn we have 14 000 left and i believe god's going to do it today and i want to give you a little testimony of paul and i we decided to sew into this project fifteen hundred dollars within what two weeks of that a job paul was working on that was 35 000 turned into a 75 000 job the guy just kept adding he's like i think i want to do this now this now and then in that same week paul's mom came to visit and had a radical encounter with god on this campus and has changed her life forever so i'm just wanting i just want to tell you that be faithful in a little and test god because he will out give you any time so good i love that destined for increase right yeah destined for increase and when we give we get to partner with god to see his excellence established on earth like in the preschool so this is just another way that he's represented with excellence by giving towards something like new grass right dude my voice keeps crashing yeah and i'm drinking i'm drinking all your water and it's not working so i will just say like i i i feel like um there is no um we are in such a unique season for actually exercising our generosity as the church and we're just trying to put testimony after testimony in front of you to encourage you because we actually don't need to beg you for money we actually are living in the abundance that's available in the kingdom and it's our joy to sit back and sign off on a 55 000 project and watch god do what he does best which is send 14 000 grants from the government and provide families that have a heart to sow into next generations and seeing the excellence of god being put on display in a city like encinitas where people look for that do you know what i'm saying there's nothing worse than driving by god's properties around town and seeing them in disrepair do you know what i mean we should be like shining examples of what heaven looks like on earth when it's manifested so um we like to declare things over giving and that's what we're going to do this morning not only are you going to declare over your household and your finances but i want you to attach your faith to the finances and this church as well this is this is your house i want you to believe for more than just yours i want you to believe for this place as well it's like that's what family does right we we contend for increase and breakthrough for each other and so would you go ahead you yes go ahead and stand with us we're going to declare this over ourselves and over the church um if you want to give toward the playground project on all the platforms for giving or if you're doing it old-fashioned and you're grabbing an envelope in one of these boxes here you can find in the giving section a little category list of where to designate your gift so what you're looking for is lighthouse christian preschool and it will go toward that fort what did they say is left 14 000 yeah all right so everyone understood that awesome all right so why don't we just read together and declare over our fan our own finances and over the finances of the church so as we receive today's offering we are believing the lord for jobs and better jobs raises and bonuses benefits sales and commissions favorable settlements estates and inheritances interest and income rebates and returns checks in the mail gifts and surprises finding money debts paid off expenses decrease blessing and increase thank you lord for meeting all of my financial needs that i may have more than enough to give into the kingdom of god and to promote the gospel of jesus christ hallelujah hallelujah all right awesome thank you bless you all all right we've got a few more business items i want to take care of as a house so i'm going to invite zach nunn up because this is zach's last sunday here tell everybody where you're headed off to on what is it tuesday wednesday yeah tuesday i'm going to north carolina for for jesus school you're so fun he's just so smiley right but what are you doing there i so i am going um it's jonathan melissa helser's school that they have on their property there i'm going to basically just be there for two months learning how to be a disciple basically voice crack there too me too micah i could use some water um but it's it's a sort of wrapped up with a bunch of different like creative outlets too like they're kind of focusing on like the we're all like made to be creative like our father as well um so it's i'm just super looking forward to it um there's a lot of anticipation for it too all right so we just want to send him with the blessing of the house we know that god's provided for all of your tuition and all of that right again the abundance of god just praising god for that i know his parents are like yes and amen so lord we just release all the added favor god that you are going to blow zach's socks off with way more than he can even imagine is going to be deposited into his life we're praying for radical life transformation that this would be two months that would mark him as the as the king and the priest that we already know he is lord that it will open up things within him uh that he didn't even know that he was caring for your glory we bless them in jesus name amen amen so good um and i i just think we would be remiss uh this morning if i could just switch gears for a moment uh to not pray for our military servicemen that have lost their lives this this week right out of camp pendleton out here the rest of them that are there the rest of them everywhere really and i want to pray for the church in afghanistan i want to pray for the church beyond afghanistan um i believe that even when we're here and we're releasing through worship that that there is this supernatural supernatural reality that god musters the faith of his people and and apportions it and moves it around the planet to those that need it most the strengths that we carry as the body that it's like life blood that gets dispersed to a finger or toe or or apart that's bruised or hurting or or whatever and he just does that supernaturally so as we release in in our worship and and our stuff like there's just this peace that god is moving us into the church of of god on planet earth it's our time it's our time for us to go i don't mean go i mean for us to go like there's no oh there's there's no um randomness to you being alive on the planet right now because you're an overcomer and he's designed you and wired you for just what's needed for this season of humanity on planet earth to manifest heaven to manifest the power and the love of jesus christ today it's no accident actually so uh father i want to intercede right now on behalf of those families that have lost um loved ones in the line of duty god we cannot even begin to wrap our our brain around the reality for those families right now we pray for the comfort of god to be released the mercy of god to be released on that whole situation we pray for those that are still on duty there lord those family and friends that are concerned and rightfully so lord we pray that you we know you are lord of all we pray for your presence to be so tangible in that place god that the miracles of heaven would flow i thank you for testimonies that i'm reading where there was there's a church in afghanistan of 200 people that exploded into 2500 overnight we know that you are moving your people into something that looks like a first century church experience and we're saying that lord we we want to be as united and ever to remain faithful to intercede for our brothers and sisters around the world lord would you provide the courage that's needed there would you provide the courage that's needed for us lord just in the season that that we're living in god may you be glorified in all and may your kingdom expand on planet earth in jesus name amen so i want to share a few things this morning and i'm not really i wasn't really led to go through a whole passage this morning so much as i just felt like i wanted to share some things some nuggets with us and just bring a word of encouragement today um from how with how the lord's been encouraging me and my spirit um so i i we're gonna throw some verses up here and kind of hop around a bit but i want us to leave here with added measures of hope added measures of courage today that he is not surprised at all about the the state of affairs and i feel like you know we're just we're a people that's learning how to settle into deeper levels of experiencing the peace that passes all understanding there's a place that he's inviting his church to come into and when we get deeper into it we be we begin to understand and realize that if he could if he's for us who could be against us so i came across a couple of uh quotes this last week um by corey ten boom and you know over the years i had studied her in school and of course read her book hiding place and you may know a little bit of her story and she lived through the the nazi regime and she was a dutch writer author actually just as a side note you know i really feel like now more than ever if you don't know your history you're doomed to repeat it and what we're seeing is a whole generation that doesn't know their history um so if i could encourage you to to dive in to that time period dive into the period of the holocaust and back it up a bit and see what was happening there you know when i was a girl in school i used to think to myself like as we were learning all that stuff like where was the church where was the church during that whole time period where the nazis were taking over and how did they suck everybody into that and all of that stuff and i realized that you know how it happened is that the church and and the the culture at large just kept saying okay to little incremental uh restrictions and on on freedoms and and before you know it those little concessions one after another took them in a direction to where they totally lost every freedom they had and everybody was complicit in it because they didn't want to rock the boat so this is a woman that lived through all of that she hid jews in her basement you know the story um she actually took a stand and did things um against the what the cdc and i mean the the the you know the government you know was was mandating at the time and so great respect for this woman and the message is not about her but listen to these couple of quotes she said when a train goes through a tunnel and it gets dark you don't throw away the ticket and jump off you sit still and trust the engineer and this other one by her worry does not empty tomorrow of its sorrow it empties today of its strength and i and i just felt like you know we've been doing messages on you know not worrying and moving out of fear and i just feel like we just need to press in there you know i'm self-confessing it's it's becoming like so important that we pay attention to our spiritual diet right now and we've already known this but what you're feeding yourself what you're allowing in um you know we need to be on guard guarding our hearts guarding our minds so that at no time are we actually releasing any part of our peace because it's a choice actually and we can get so wrapped up in the climate of what's going on and we can be so impressed with the problems of the world that our god becomes less than over here and what we focus on will actually grow what we feed on will grow so pay attention to what you're feeding on because i believe he's he's inviting the church into a time into a season right now where we become so enthralled with the bigness of our god that he's a god of the impossible that we've got testimonies after testimonies upon generations upon upon generations of how he moved his faithfulness to every generation to look at to know that he is in control and that he's a good god and that he's at work but we become so romanticized with the bigness of the world's issues that it demeans our view of god and so we're learning how to stop that we're learning how to stop putting so much into the bigness of all of what the enemy is up to and that actually you guys can be a moment by moment decision that we have to make throughout the week if necessary do you know what i'm saying i find myself recognizing that i'm in this major practice with the lord of of um identifying the moment that i'm being drawn into worry drawn into anxiety drawn into seeing the world's problems as bigger than my god in the moment that it happens so i can identify it i can come out of agreement with it and i can turn my vision i can turn my perspective and instead be intentional about focusing on who my god is and who i am in my god that is a building up of a muscle that we are involved in right now some days we do better than others amen but what we are learning how to become is is the overcomers that that do you know to be an overcomer you have to overcome something you know jesus did not promise you an easy life he promised you an easy yoke so if your yoke right now feels like it's not easy there's some kind of readjustment that's needing to take place and sometimes that needs to happen throughout the day multiple times right so we're beefing that muscle up we're learning how to operate in a in a paper in a place of peace that is unaltered by circumstance and situation we're learning how to live in the prince of peace in a way like never before that we are unmoved so it's easy to kind of overthink things right now and to stir ourselves up into a frenzy over things that we're actually uh you know on the grand scale of it too large for us to try to control you know um we tend to over talk things with friends and family members and and wear them out as well i'm just saying some of you i know um you're wearing me out so i'm just saying we need to be talking about the things of the lord we need to be asking the holy spirit to highlight and show us what he's doing in the midst of all of this it doesn't take a rocket scientist to to call out what the enemy is doing you know um i i saw this quote by um let's see who was it let me look for it i think it was jeremiah johnson just today and it was really good see if i have it just right here the reason why you are so great at identifying issues is because you were born to solve them church let me say it again the reason why you are so great at identifying issues is because you were born to solve them not to talk about them and complain about them so here we are uh i want to read a few passages over us just to remind us of who we are remind us of this these kind of elementary things that we are getting really like strong in right now do you feel yourself getting strong in it okay good you know i i asked the lord like you know i think like 18 months ago or so when we really didn't know what was going on and everybody was trying to figure it out um i asked the lord like what the whole 2020 like what was that all about lord and i really come to this place where i i figured out like before the lord that i feel like that was insight that he's provided to the church so that we can recognize that we can't afford not to meet and that whole thing was about where we're headed next because half of the church was convinced that we didn't need to even though we have direct command do not forsake the gathering of the brethren that actually who we are is called the ecclesia which is the governing assembled body of christ on planet earth you have to be assembled to be the ecclesia so part of our challenge that last year was half of us that didn't feel like we needed to and i feel like the lord is is has allowed us to to kind of navigate through that nastiness to figure out yes we do there's a reason why the underground church meets in china there's a reason why the underground church has met in the first century church because there's power in the gathering of god's people as the governing body on planet earth so there's purpose to all of this there's purpose to you know uh to coming to a place where as the church we recognize that jesus christ through his word instructs us to gather as the people of god but the cdc tells us not to and we just stop what's that about so actually that's not what i want to preach about today but i feel like maybe i should in the next couple weeks but um i want to read philippians 4 over us now let me just so let me just say this one more thing then we'll move on uh this business about i can't believe you know i've seen on the internet or whatever that that the church there's people in the church that are unwilling to love their neighbor by complying with all of this and i want it by complying with a mandate for lo for loving people through getting vaccines and whatever this is just my opinion and i'm going to share it right now because i have a microphone but god is about free will it is actually impossible for you to love and in a real way without being able to operate in free will you cannot mandate love god didn't even mandate it by causing you to be safe going all the way back into the garden with adam and eve he could have said for your safety i'm going to not allow a free choice here adam eve because you might blow it and really hurt yourself he never did that ever he didn't mandate anything because love springs from choice you cannot get caught up in mandating love it's got to be something that you lay down and by the way who are you to say that i'm not loving my neighbor by actually protecting their liberties and freedoms you're you're designing a pecking order there that's saying that this is more important than loving your neighbor than this other thing and i'm saying there's multiple perspectives on that right but when you come to me and say that you're going to mandate me to love my neighbor unbiblical ungodly there's a reason why god established that free choice will i mean he could have created all of us to just be like robots and love him he could have done all kinds of things to keep our safety intact so philippians uh it's it's coming to a place you guys where we're just not gonna be able to hide we're we're not we're not gonna be able to to hide anymore some of us are already staring in the face a very real cost of losing careers to take a stand for protecting our liberties and the freedoms that we enjoy and we'll all sit in a room like this on a sunday morning and hoot and holler and amen sister and all of that but what is it going to look like when 10 of us in here lose our jobs are you going to cough up a fourth of your income to make sure that this family over here survives that i'm i'm saying it's going to cost the church something to take a stand are you ready there's a whole mindset of warfare that we better get our our act together some of us have thought we're on a cruise ship here and we're not we're on a battleship now you can tell me that jesus won it all and he did we fight from victory but guess what we still fight there's still a fight i read on the internet just broke my heart of christian people that are like i don't want to fight a different context or whatever but it was like people that are like i don't i don't want to fight jesus paid at all and it's like hey you know what you're in it whether you want to be or not and it's our time it's our time in the sense of there's been generation after generation that have taken their place on planet earth in the history of humanity to take a stand for godly principles and expanding the kingdom on planet earth and it is our time you are made for this we were made for this are you worried about losing you know your life we'll raise you back don't worry you know i actually think we're moving into a season of whether you like it or not it's going to be signs wonders and miracles the church is meant to thrive and to expand and to grow under persecution we don't invite it but we definitely don't lay down it will cost us something right now to be a people of conviction and if you are like undecided about what's going on and whatever who are the people around you that are carrying the wisdom of heaven it's been amazing to me to watch people even that we've lost in the church in this church here that are like well i listen to you for all my spiritual encouragement and exhortation whatever but over here in politics i'm not going to listen to a word that you have to say i'm not going to process out loud well i actually think it's about social justice we actually had a lady write me into the church an email to say i'm not coming back because i'm going to go find a church that actually goes for social justice and environmental justice and i didn't i couldn't get down with that you met you know when the government said not to and i'm like actually that's actually not the gospel mandate you want to go where your itching ears are fed go ahead i don't answer to you i don't answer to anybody except to the lord and i'm saying that there is coming moments and decisions to be made where you're going to have a choice we're going to have a choice and it's going to cost us something is god into social justice and environmental justice of course he is of course he is but he's into bringing heaven on earth i want to talk about a few things that i think that the church should be about right now not going to seek out social justice and environmental justice although that's important things but let's read this so philippians 4 it's just so good to just release this over the body today rejoice in the lord always i will say it again rejoice let your gentleness be evident to all the lord is near don't be anxious about anything about anything but in every situation in every situation by prayer and petition and with thanksgiving present your request to god and the peace of god which transcends all understanding will guard your hearts and your minds in christ we're such in a place that we need our hearts and our minds guarded you guys there's something of a key in this that we're working out do you want your heart and your mind guarded right now i hope that you do you absolutely need it here's here's a key here's a key of how to get there in every situation with prayer and thanksgiving present your request to god in verse eight finally brothers and sisters whatever is true whatever is noble whatever is right whatever is pure whatever is lovely whatever is admirable if anything is excellent or praiseworthy think about such things why do you think we're doing testimonies every week now we're but being bombarded with the opposite of this now i'm not encouraging you to put your head in the sand and not know what's going on in the world but you need very little of the news to know what's going on you don't need to be following every site and every facebook post and all of that especially when you come to that and you're all mixed up every which way and i'm i'm preaching to the choir like you you have to monitor your your your intake right now because we're not called to meditate on that crap we're we're called to meditate on whatever is praiseworthy i'm saying so that will take some effort on our part especially because i want to meditate on all that junk and i want to know i want to like you know i want i want to get myself all worked up and all stirred up when actually he's inviting me into a place of peace that passes all understanding it looks like something different than that it looks like stopping complaining about everything you see on facebook and actually go do something like what paul was talking about up here join the pta where are you we're too busy and oftentimes we're too busy doing church stuff how ridiculous like you know we want to be salt and light but from over here in the building so it looks like something it looks like it's get like it will cost us more of our free time some more of our money some of our energy verse 9 whatever you have learned or received or heard from me or seen in me put it into practice and the god of peace will be with you the god of peace is with you when god's presence shows up it's to release power in you did you know that so you've been given all authority jesus said i got it all given it to you church but the power is different than the authority right we have all authority but actually learning how to operate in the power of heaven looks like it comes from our encounters in his presence we want to flow in power don't we and so that's why we're after encounters in him that's why worship is so critical and key that's why when micah calls everybody up front and says who wants more fire who wants to encounter the father today we need holy spirit encounters because it's the it's the place that the power gets released to go out and transform a culture right we have verses for that we have bible for that godliness without power is void does that mean godliness is is not what we're after well of course not we want to be godly we want to be holy but if it's disconnected to the power manifested in our lives then it's useless your knowledge about god is useless if it's not connected to the power source of heaven it was in my statement do we understand that how are you doing and manifesting the power of jesus in your life because that's what's going to transform the city it ain't your amazing preaching it's just not it ain't your amazing logic about how the world is going into hell in a handbasket and if we would all just read the book of revelation we would know it is going to come through power that is communicated to god's people and encounters with him that's what we're doing together today we come together to encounter god in the presence of god and his power is communicated his power is released let me skip down here because i want to get right into this i was thinking about matthew 11 and verse 20 and so we you know jesus this is jesus speaking here and jesus had three years of ministry the first year was the year of his inauguration you know he did stuff in that year um year of popularity was his second year and then year of opposition third year of ministry where he started making his way to the cross and uh this this passage is is in that last chunk of his ministry on planet earth and i i felt like the lord highlighted something to me that was hidden in in jesus's rebuke of these cities which i'm going to read to you in a moment there's hidden in there a nugget a promise from from him for us to pay attention to this morning and i found it to be really encouraging after this week so let's just read 11 20. he then began to denounce the cities in which most of his miracles were done because they did not repent so what i want us to note in here is that jesus actually has a word to say not only to us as individuals and he does but also to entire cities as well jesus has a word to an entire state california he has a word for our nation right jesus has a word to say to cities and actually in anger jesus we see rebuking these cities beside capernaum um tourism right we're reading this in this passage matthew 11 20 21 23 we even know that in luke 13 jesus says jesus wept over the city of jerusalem because they didn't recognize the time of their visit everybody remember that so jesus is like indicting cities for actually not coming into repentance right and if if jesus expected cities then to uh repent in the first century then he expects cities to repent today as well wouldn't you agree and it was actually though in this very context of reproving cities though that jesus made a statement that unveils the scope of god's redemptive power for us to grab a hold of so listen to his rebuke and also the hidden promise in here matthew 11 21 and he said for if the miracles had occurred in tyre and sidon which occurred in you they would have repented long ago in sackcloth and ashes you see tyre and sidon were gentile cities that were actually known for their debauchery and sin right we all know uh those of you that have read those passages and yet jesus is saying here that his life revealed in power can bring even the vilest of cities places that ought to be destroyed to sackcloth and ashes and repentance the miracles the power of jesus manifested not his teaching not his preaching not his great oratory skills not as feeding of the poor and his social justice and his environmental justice and all of that the power of god manifested on planet earth bring cities to repentance it would have brought tyre and sidon to sackcloth and ashes not my word jesus's and that word miracle's in there is powers so the strategy then to to see our cities to see california to see these places turn back toward god is for us the church to reveal christ's life and power we cannot afford not to how are you doing and revealing christ's life and power all around you it's not going to come through your amazing preaching skill you don't need it there's so much that we kid ourselves and tell ourselves that we need that we're not enough that somehow we're not carrying what we need to to actually transform lives around us and thereby cities states nations the world and i'm telling you guys this season that is on us is this invitation that god is saying come into this place you are carrying the very spirit of the living god the same power the same resurrection power that flowed through the blood and the veins of jesus is in you you have the mind of christ stop telling yourself you don't have enough we're asking the father what are you saying what are you doing we want to see your power manifested in our life it's not just another good sermon it's the source to see things transformed if you want an assignment in the season that's it your job is to manifest christ's life and power we go to all these links to get your identity set we go to all these links in the church to get you equipped to bring you through a class so you can hear the voice of god so you can get trained up in the ministry team so that you can release healing so that you can release encouragement from heaven so that you can operate in the authority and the power of heaven to displace darkness how are you doing it's go time it is go time people are losing their livelihoods people are making decisions to pull their kids out of stuff to to you know i'm just saying it's go time we can't afford to be sitting around in the back row just waiting for the heavens to part and the angel to come with the bugle and like knock you upside the head with some kind like no you have to go after this thing church it is our time you are more than overcomers you're not just an overcomer you're more than overcomer whether you feel like it or not that's what i love about the joshua one night you know have i not commanded you be strong and have good courage even if you don't feel like it because being strong enough of good courage is an act of your will it's like forgiveness you don't have to feel any which way to to to chart a course and direct your will there it's about intentionality and going in that direction are you with me so the revelation of christ living loving and healing the world around us can turn our very worst cities states and nation back toward god it's not going to come from you out pulling down strongholds and focus on the enemy and what the enemy is doing and all of that that's nonsense stop doing that church like you know we're focused on the manifested power of jesus christ flowing through us you know i didn't in the model of jesus you don't see him like spending hours and hours over like you know talking about what the enemy is doing he didn't sacrifice any minute from from what he saw the father doing and what he was hearing the father saying that's where his focus was and that's what he was releasing when are we going to get that and i'm not saying don't know your enemy but i'm saying the difference is feeding into that right today i just got to tell you like our cities are ripe for revival in all of this in the history of mankind stuff like this produce the biggest outpouring the biggest expansion of the kingdom of god on planet earth and we are poised for that this is not a like it is an opportunity let me say it that way this is an opportunity that god is using all of this to position us for the biggest harvest on planet earth ever and we have all the momentum of all the great hosts of witnesses and a legacy of generation after generation of the church that gave it all they gave it all and it's our turn it's our turn i don't know what that's going to look like for you i don't know what that's going to look like for our little local body here or our church body as a region but i do know that that's what we're being called into cities are ripe for revival i i actually think you know some of what hinders people you know to see hearts turn toward him is it lies actually with the church that we've got our own sins of self-righteousness and indifference and unbelief and it's like finally we're waking up we're waking up it's like the church is waking up to recognize that it that we're on we've been hiding out in the fringes and watching these debates go on and everywhere and all that but guess what there is nowhere to hide it's time to take a stand it's time to stand for the kingdom the king of kings and the lord of lords is our allegiance first and foremost and we are people of the king called to expand kingdom on planet earth that's what we're doing as a matter of fact i'll just say it this way most of us are so disgruntled and you know disillusioned with our life the way that we're leading it with all the things that we think are so important anyways it's like what better way to spend your life than expanding the kingdom you're gonna die out there loving jesus and standing for jesus good you are miserable doing your own thing anyway like i said we'll raise you back honestly people without purpose are dead inside you're not a people without purpose you actually have the anecdote to everything and every problem you have the solution to every societal ill we are carrying the solutions of heaven and the lord said if his people would humble themselves and pray and seek his face and if the lord's people would turn from evil are you caught up in waiting for the world to turn from evil that's like an exercise in futility god said if my people the self-righteous the apathetic the unbelieving believers if my people would turn from their wicked ways seek my face pray things would shift and i'm just here to tell you that the future does not belong to the world it belongs to the transformed church of god and planet earth and if you are not convinced of that reality this morning invite the holy spirit to change your mind change your attitude renew your mind and the truth of that the future of the world does not belong to the cabal the future of the world belongs to the transformed church of god on planet earth who has been given all authority stop buying into what you're watching on the news and i can hear somebody in the room say you know but that was then you know sire tied and those you know our cities are so much worse i've heard this so many times what about san francisco what about new york city what about la like these are cities that are beyond god's grace these cities are way worse beyond redemption and i'm just here to say that's so untrue that is so not so because in we see in matthew 11 23 jesus as he continued the rebuke of the cities he said if the miracles had occurred in sodom which occurred in you it would have remained to this day if the miracles had been seen in sodom you guys know the story about sodom amazingly when when jesus is manifested in power jesus said even sodom could find repentance you guys you want to change things we got to manifest the power of heaven we got to manifest the life blood of jesus christ and all we do and all we say you want to take a stand for this and that whatever fine do it but do it in the spirit of jesus christ if you can't do it in the spirit of jesus christ don't do it and you know i've heard all those comparisons of la new york to sodom before you've heard it california i've had family you know not let me nobody you know um so you guys know my family um friends people i really you know um we're in relationship with that have thrown in the towel on california you've heard it you know like i'm out it's it's unredeemable you know it's so bad in california and i hear this constantly and i'm like fine you think that great you know i'll concede these cities are stay to see in hell but now let the church show them heaven that's our job you know yes they've seen all of that what what the devil's playground can look like but it's our job to actually release heaven on earth let's show them what heaven manifest looks like in a city in a state i'm so unwilling to concede territory you know i think about joshua and the promise that god had given to them about the land the land was amazing flowing with milk i kind of have this mind's eye view of like a waterfall it's milk um milk and honey and and a land that's awesome and amazing but do you know like they had the promise but they actually had to go in there and take it they actually had to go in there and take it sometimes taking it looked like marching around walls and blowing horns sometimes it looked like doing battle but they still had to go and they had to take the ground and joshua's told every place you put your foot is yours not only do you need to take the ground but then you need to occupy it you need to fill it that territory that you take you actually have to fill it and i love this it out of isaiah of the increase of his government and of his peace there will be no end from the establishment of kingdom on planet earth scripture tells us that of the increase the incremental increase of his government and of his peace there will be no end i don't know what your eschatology your end times theology is like but it is becoming so much more important for us whatever little details and nuances that you find in there if it's not filled with hope of a strong bride on planet earth and kingdom expanding because you see a verse like that it's hard to reconcile with an end times theology that says that we're just hanging on and everything's getting worse and worse and worse and worse and worse and we actually have been convinced to make death our savior and not jesus that this season that we're in it's becoming super important for us to realize that the increase of his government is what we're experiencing and of his peace that means there's more right now than there was in 22 2020 that means that the kingdom is bigger than it was in 2020. getting stronger not weaker that's who we are it needs to look like something it doesn't look like just not making any waves and hoping that all of this goes away are you filled with hope today i love psalm 94 14. the lord will not reject his people he will not abandon his special possession did you know that that's you today are not just a plural people of god you are his special possession and his promise after promise after promise over you specifically is that he's with you and he's for you and he will never leave you church man it's a time that we better own that we better settle that issue once and for all are you like struggling with all of that put it to bed put it to rest once and for all because that's his promise that's his word and we're like overcoming this whole rotten paradigm that that we are instilled with in our culture that tries to convince us that we are too small and insignificant to to to see anything change and i'll i'll tell you the the thing that god used to actually highlight that for me this week because i'm a science you know science fiction sci-fi nerd i like all of those movies and especially time travel me and my father-in-law jim back there we like time travel movies right um and here's the thing with that is like something god highlighted to me is that when people talk about traveling to the past in these movies they worry about radically changing the present by doing something small and insignificant right in the past you all know what i'm talking about and uh and that's so true but but barely anyone in the present really thinks that they can radically change the future by doing something small and insignificant why is that why are we so apt to believe in a stupid science fiction movie that the littlest thing that we do can have a ripple effect in the negative but over here when we've got the very life blood and power of jesus christ manifest in me i totally discount what i bring to the table i discount the reality that a a word fitly spoken a stand that i could take would have a ripple effect for good that i can't even fathom i can't even fathom how it will affect way beyond my little sphere of influence lord would you remove those paradigms those hindrances from off of us were so ignorant that they're even that they're even filtering things like that for us father we pray for ourselves i'll just invite you to stand this morning i want to declare a rest before i close i just want to lend some courage this morning you know one of the jobs of the priesthood in the old testament was to keep the fire stoked never let the fire go out that's what we do here together we keep stoking that fire we keep stirring that flame we keep fanning that flame and the flame is the hope of god that is the anchor of our soul it's more it's worth more than anything right now and so i release over your people god and and i release over your people today of filling up to over capacity that like a a cup or a vessel like we lord would you just not only fill us to the brim but fill us to overflow and the hope that we have in you it's tangible it it looks like something day by day it's very practical it's the anchor of our soul god we need your grace we need the grace that you've set aside for us for today not to borrow worries for tomorrow god i'm releasing in your people today an awareness and an understanding and an agreement with heaven of who we are and you that you've called us to display something of the powers of the living god in us the miraculous that it's the power of jesus christ living in us that will transform cities that will transform california and we declare that we will do it we declare that we want to see the transformation of our city the transformation of our state the transformation of our nation god and that you're giving us insight on how to do it father we pray for our own muscle building god that wherever we find ourselves at in an honest self-assessment god if we need an infusion of the power of heaven that we just start taking risks lord we want to spend time meditating on uh seeing what you're doing and hearing what you're saying we want to have our eyes so locked locked and fixated on you father that it just flows through us like a channel from heaven and out of jeremiah 17 we declare we trust in god and we have confidence in him we are planted by the water like a tree that sends out its roots by the stream we are flourishing in god's presence we do not fear are not anxious not overwhelmed when heat comes or trouble but our leaves are green they will not wither or dry up there are not worries no fear in the year of a drought or covet and our fruit will never fail we will reach our purpose we will accelerate and receive rest in god's watering by the stream from his throne room it's who you are in jesus name amen such a good word right that's a word that will bring some alignment for sure hey we have a couple of things that i'd like to just say uh before we close out in the morning we have a prayer team that meets together and we got some words of knowledge that i want to read off to you so if this is you we have a prayer team up here they'd love to go after it with you um let's see here i have a little bit of a tough time reading this person's handwriting but um back pain or liver problems we'd love for you to come up we believe god's healing back pain and liver problems my goodness i think a doctor wrote this healing uh is okay unforgiveness um and then a renewed grace and passion for boldness um if that's uh something that you're you're wanting to see stoked just more boldness in your life come up we'd like to bless you with that um but we hope you have an amazing week have an amazing day go and bring the kingdom in power amen hey bless you all have a good one you

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