Sunday Service: September 5, 2021 11AM

[Music] we prepared [Music] [Music] we prepared [Music] yes lord [Music] do what you want to do [Music] [Music] [Music] we prepare the away [Music] the lord [Music] so so so we make room for you do what you want to do [Music] is [Music] we prepared we prepared [Music] oh we clear out a pathway we clear out a pathway clear out a pathway make way make way the king is coming the king is coming oh we clear out a pathway we clear out a pathway and we make a way make way the king is coming the king is coming king is coming the king is coming my christian [Music] [Music] is coming [Music] [Music] is [Music] [Music] make your heart ready for him [Music] is [Music] is [Music] [Music] oh [Music] [Music] it's time for the sleeper to wake it's time for the old wind to change [Music] it's time for the dead man to rise it's time for the great light to shine i hear the spirits [Music] let honor your people's praise [Music] is [Music] to rise say the king [Applause] glory is [Music] [Music] [Music] open up the window me is [Applause] [Music] glory [Music] i [Applause] [Music] [Music] [Music] let [Music] me [Music] [Music] let the king go oh [Music] hey [Music] oh we let you in lord come on he comes in on our praise he's here now let's not just skip through the rest of service without acknowledging the fact that what we've been singing about and asking for has actually happened he's here [Music] we just sing and you sing in the spirit if you want but just open your mouth and just begin to thank him praise him if you can attach a loose melody to it i challenge you to do so i love you lord there's no one like you god [Music] catherine would you come up here real quick i want you to sing to the lord [Music] [Applause] [Music] foreign [Music] oh the earth that grows for you jesus [Music] jesus [Music] you're so beautiful jesus [Music] you're so beautiful [Music] [Music] we don't have to have words to express the love we have for you it can just be a melody [Music] yeah i am [Music] yeah give us the groan for you jesus our hearts the groans our heart groans for you for you we grow for your glory we grow for your glory [Music] [Music] [Music] your jesus we wanna see your glory [Music] we wanna fall down in this place see your glory [Music] we wanna see your glory fall down fall down in we ways see your glory come on come on come on come on [Music] we want to see it fall [Music] see your glory we wanna hear your glory oh it's tangible we wanna see your glory manifest in this place god manifest in this place god possesses god possesses god we want you to possess us god we want you to possess us god possess our hearts offend our minds so we can get closer to you offend our hearts offend my mind god so we know you so we know you can we sing this one more time we wanna see your glory oh come on we wanna see your glory yeah keep singing it come on declare it in the [Music] your atmosphere yes lord can we just say yes lord now we wait for you lord come and inhabit your people lord healings are erupting around the room scoliosis is being healed right now [Music] i see vision and eyes being cleared up i could be physiologically it could be spiritually that could be with your business god is giving he's releasing clarity into the room right now [Applause] we're almost out of time but can you sing just a little bit lead us to something we can sing our god rings our god rings pour in your kingdom brains over every situation our god reigns our god raised [Music] forever your kingdom reigns [Music] [Music] our god rage [Music] is [Music] foreign [Music] yes you do foreign foreign [Music] yes foreign [Music] come on every voice forever you're keen [Music] come on lift your voice [Music] sing it again [Music] forever come on lift your voice that's what the enemy's been trying to muzzle your mouth come on oh god come on get him off with your praise get him out of your house right now come on get him off of your finances and get him off of your family and get him off of your health declare the lordship of jesus declare the kingdom of heaven come on open your mouth oh [Applause] foreign love him love him [Music] go tell covet that he reigns he reigns he reigns go tell dallas that he reigns he reigns go tell division that he reigns he reigns go tell racism that he rage he rage go tell poverty that he reigns go tell lack that he reigns go tell injustice that he rage hallelujah hallelujah oh thank you jesus what are you doing in this place we thank you that lives are being impacted right now thank you that hunger is being stirred right now thank you that lives are being touched right now and now now right now let the weak say i'm strong oh right now right now right now let the poor say i am rich and now let the bounds say i am free right now right now right now right now right now right now right now hallelujah hallelujah don't you love jesus don't you love jesus why don't you just tell him i love you jesus come on tell him i love you jesus you're the crown jew you're every peace you're the reason why we're here we love you jesus why don't you give god a great shout of praise in adoration [Applause] oh what a wonderful king well my name is tim and i know i'm screaming at you and you don't know me but thank you for loving me anyway i'm the newest member of the family why don't you take a moment before you get to your seat and just greet someone that maybe you didn't come in with all right take a moment and greet someone that you didn't come in with and while they are doing that in the room we want to let you know online that we see you that we love you that we're praying for you that we're so glad that you're rocking with us today we believe that the holy spirit is invading homes and hearts right now right now you can have everything that you need right now in its presence we want to take a moment and welcome back our college students yeah come on give it up give it up we've got ty on monday nights we want to let you college students to know that we missed you while you were gone exploring and having a blast but we are so ready that to have you back and we're so excited that you're back if you're visiting with us for the first time why don't you wave your hands come on let's celebrate those that are here visiting with us for the first time yeah good to see you good to see you don't worry we won't make you stand up and tell us your name and where you're from but we do have a special gift for you out in the lobby we would love for you to visit uh the reception area out in the lobby and even as you're sitting here we would love for you to visit our website we would love you to visit trinitychurch.org forward slash info for the latest information those of you that are online we want you to visit the website as well so that you can get the latest information about what's going on here we are building family we are stewarding revival we are launching reformers a lot is going on right here in the house there's some things that we want to highlight to you today so i'd love for you to take this moment and turn your attentions to the screen hey trinity church chelsea here and these are your weekly announcements are you interested in becoming a community partner well saturday september 11th from 8 a.m to 12 p.m at trinity we will be having a training this training will equip you to be a chaplain in our local schools and businesses if you're interested in more information then visit the table in the rotunda or go to trinitychurch.org info ladies mark your calendars for ladies night september 17th at 7 00 pm you do not want to miss it visit trinitychurch.org info for more information lastly be sure to tune in for pastor jim and becky's daily devos every monday through thursday at 8 30 a.m they are so worth watching you can watch it on facebook or you can watch it on our instagram at trinity underscore online and that's all for this week so have a great sunday all right thank you chelsea for giving us our announcements this morning but i'm here to receive the lord's tithe and your offering [Music] i was telling the first service that this week i took thursday off so i was kind of doing some stuff around town and and actually tim it's just good to have another tim on staff i mean our name has dropped to like 160 first most popular names in the country so if you're having kids think about the name timothy sorry i'm getting distracted i was down the day off and i was i was driving around town i was heading toward um grapevine and i was going down 360. i i had to take the service road there by six flags because of some construction as i took the service right i looked to my right and there was this place called speeds billiards and games that and i saw it and go oh wow and thought about that in a number of years because when i was a young adult and i was parking cars in north dallas the owner of speeds and billiards and games came in to my french restaurant that i served at every tuesday night i worked on tuesday and friday nights and tuesday nights were not nights where you got a lot of traffic you didn't make a lot of money it was just something you had to do so you could have a weekend night but he would always say i want my car my corvette my silver corvette parked up front and i'd pull the spot make it available for him when you get out of the car every week for the two years that i served there he handed me a 20 bill now that wasn't a time where a tip for parking a car was a dollar or two dollars and somebody gave you a 20 bill it just transformed your night and when i saw speeds billiards and games there that was 40 years ago that i did that job and all i could think about i don't know what goes on inside of his business i don't know if he's even still alive i don't know what his family was like all i know is joe speed was a really generous man and that's the legacy that i remember and i was thinking about it when i was reading through the word this week when the woman came to jesus right before he was about to be crucified and she took a year's worth of salary in a perfume bottle and broke it and poured it out over his feet and jesus said in matthew 26 13 he said every time the gospel is preached from here on the story about this woman's gift her offering will be remembered so the question is when it comes to generosity when it comes to giving what is your legacy what are people saying about you and i i know that trinity church is known as a generous church we give to missions we give into the community the whole thing about reforming that we're getting into and talking about we'll take investment of our finances personally and corporately as a church what are people going to remember you what are they going to say about you what is your life nothing will transform your legacy than how people view you when it comes to your finances and in the kingdom of god your tithe i mean it does so much power for you but when you give above your tithe god transforms it so i love saying i'm from trinity church you know what they say wow you're a generous church we give to missionaries 120 missionaries 30 000 a month because of your generosity we pour into the community with benevolence and helping people that are in need and help feeding the poor back during covet for almost eight months because of your generosity we keep the lights on we keep the staff salaries paid all the things that happen because you're a generous people that's what i wanted to be known about trinity church so this morning there are no ushers during this season we have the buckets if you're giving in-house you can do that you can give online text to give you can give to the trinity app write a check in your envelope and bring it down front if you still are old like me and do that but give generously today let god continue to speak blessing over our church over your families and over your businesses let's pray father we thank you thank you for your faithfulness you've never seen your righteous forsaken or your seed having to beg for bread thank you there were a church that we are planting seeds and we are sowing and we are sending and we're doing the things you called us to do and we do it because we're a people in a generation in this house that we love to give and we thank you in jesus name we pray amen and as you come as you give in the house this morning some guys from the little hallways are coming guys business owners would you come and would you kind of stand here at the front come on guys come on our business owners come on down gonna come stand here at the front again i know you did this in the first service but this this congregation has not yet got to meet you or pray over you this is labor day weekend this weekend we traditionally ask our businesses small businesses that want to come in and and just share what god is doing to their businesses they can do that in the hall when the service is over go out hang out with them check check out what they're doing whether it's roofing cabinets snow cones counseling i mean there's so many things that are there god has blessed these young these men and women with [Music] look at them they represent life wholeness and health [Music] and again i want you all to be active this morning i want you to stand and i want you to stretch your hands out toward these small business owners and we're going to pray over them i know my niece is right in front of me and she is starting her business this week for the first time she purchased her food truck and god i mean i'm just praying over her there are hopes and dreams that represent this so stretch your hands out and i'm going to pray lord thank you for the small businesses in our communities for their hard work the blood the sweat and tears that have gone into these endeavors they have for many these businesses are not just stores or companies they are the they are their very lives and their dreams of their loved ones we pray god you'll guide these business owners provide for their families during a really difficult season that we've gone through the last 18 months we pray that every small business owner will not be overcome by fear but everyone will trust in you they'll gain wisdom and guidance from you we pray that as they do that they'll make wise decisions led by the holy spirit that are best for their families for their community at the right moment at the right time in the bible solomon wrote commit your actions to the lord and your plans will succeed we pray that our small business owners out of this house will follow scripture and they will commit everything to you and you'll bless them with success spiritually emotionally and financially and we pray that the public will see that our business owners operate with integrity and honesty and treat people with kindness compassion and respect god be with our business owners be with their families bless them and keep them in the mighty name of jesus we pray amen amen wow we thank you for these guys we pray prosperity over you health over you you guys have a great day thanks being part of our business fair today guys and pastor becky is coming to bring the word this morning amen thank you tim so good how many of you are sitting out there and you're like i'm a business owner i'm out there i want the blessing of the lord on my life too and we say all of that for you too it's it's um it's fun every year to walk through that go by out there those booths and meet people find out what they're doing like tim says it's dreams and visions and we as a family we get to support one another and pray for one another and believe in the dreams and visions that we each have amen that's what you do for us too jim is um in pennsylvania we have i don't know if you know or not but we have this network we call link and um it's a group of maybe i don't know 30 to 40 pastors they pastor all over um the united states and canada and and they look to jim like a spiritual father and so when they have issues with their board or their elders or um you know dreams and visions how to expand their church how to how to grow in the things of the spirit as well as grow a church they call him and and so that's where he's at he has that powerful message on family revival right and so you know sometimes we want him all to ourselves but when god gives him a word like that how many of you know it's not just for us here at trinity it is for the nation it's for the world and so we bless him and uh let him go but then you know you're here with me right now today or tim or somebody like that so but um i don't know if jim's watching or not he might be preaching right now but i bless you tim jim and um and tim i'm nervous i thought after the first service i wouldn't be so nervous so [Music] i don't know a year and a half ago elizabeth time fook who's a friend of mine she um has a ministry called international young prophets and she gathered up a group of people she called reformers i had never heard that word or term used before except for like martin luther and you know the reformation that kind of thing or the reformers who don't believe in women preachers or something like that i've heard about those guys and so like she's gathering up the reformers and i'm like okay she invited me to go she's like you're a reformer and that was the first time anybody had actually said that over me becky you're a reformer and and when i went to this group this gathering this round table i met these younger men and women and they were really making transformation in their cities and their communities in detroit michigan and and just different places and um as i was listening to them and then they were listening to me and i got to share my story you know i'm like oh my gosh i am a reformer i'm a reformer and so ever since then i've been walking around saying hey i'm a reformer and i'm starting this thing called reformers collective and you want to be a reformer too so that's kind of what i'm here to say is that yeah i'm a reformer and do you want to be a reformer too anybody want to be a reformer so i want to preach to you or speak to you today a little bit about what a reformer is that we learn from the life of joseph and just to see how god would speak to you you know there's always a convergence when i bring a message there's always something that god is bringing a lot of different things together and and tim and brandy just joined our church they moved from california and he was out there in legacy park and he's yeah okay also you got a little cheering fan here he was in legacy park and he saw the four core values and those things are 16 years old like jim got that download from the holy spirit in 2005 you guys marketplace i mean you know the story was was that jim's like i don't know how to lead a church i don't know what to do i just need to you resign and let somebody else lead it and the holy spirit showed up and said if you will take these four core values and build your ministry build trinity church around these four core values i will help you i will be with you i will grow it and it was before we were in this sanctuary or anything like that but you know substance how many of you believe that we are experiencing the presence of the lord now like we've never experienced it in the whole history of trinity church you know at least since we've been here all you have to do is i mean just today the presence of the lord right but monday nights and then tuesday night prayer wednesday night young the youth and uh just heavy presence substance the second one is covenant relationships and the honest-to-goodness that sermon series on family revival is all about covenant covenant relationships where we coven covenant to one another and say i'm going to be with you i'm going to hang it we're going to be in this together we're going to grow together we're going to do whatever we have to do to bring healing to our families church-wise and and natural wise so you know covenant relationships then legacy come on there is a group of young people junior high high schoolers young adults who are like on fire for god our children are you kidding me our children never in the history of my 42 years of ministry mine and jim 42 years we've been pastoring we've never had a staff where we're all on board and believing god for an outpouring of the holy spirit in our nurseries in our preschools in our elementary in our junior high come on you guys in our high school and our young adults in the grown-ups come on you guys let's hear it come on we're going after the presence of god our children our children's ministers are so on fire they've developed curriculum that's going throughout the nation through brazil they're starting worship classes in the afternoons i mean it's crazy what god's doing and so never before so it seems like the right time we've got the staff who are all in for revival and the moving of the holy spirit you know and and um we're believing for the prophet and for the apostle and the pastor teacher evangelists to all come together we're going to see what that that is and there's a gideon's army that's you gideon's army do you know the story about gideon like god called him to be a mighty man of valor and you know defeat the enemy and he started with this large army this large group of people thousands of men and god kept whindling it down down down not that they were bad or that they weren't you know worthy but there was just things that had to be cut away he was just going down down down to the core 300 men that god he wanted all the glory you know and and so you guys have as tim said earlier you've survived man we survived coven we survived a presidential election we survived george floyd and the racial issues that we've had we've survived changing the audio visual come on you guys are still here even though you know it's so bright and light and you're still here we even survived the changing of trinity christian school all of those were hard all of those are one one transition like that could blow you away you know or or move you out but no we have together survived that and god has a core of people here that he's wanting to do something incredible with incredible i'm think i'm thankful that you're here and and then we were commissioned last week by bill hamm and i showed in the first service i'm not going to show it in this service but um last week in this service how many of you were here and you saw that you saw bishop hammond speak over jim and me and saying that we will be an apostle prophet team for the third reformation and we would steward this joshua generation is what he called it but today i want to call it a joseph generation and because i want to talk about joseph and i believe that he is gathering the joseph generations in this place today and i honor you larry sparks from destiny thank you for being here and he wanted to be here because he wants to be a part of wherever there's revival he's going and and then he heard about the reformers and he wants to be a part of that and so let me just give you a definition of what a reformer is okay so what is a reformer becky the the definition the webster definition or when i googled it it said this is this is what it said it says a reformer is a person who makes change to something in order to improve it is there any reformers here somebody who wants to make a change to something it might be your family it might be your neighborhood it might be your city it might be the government it might be politics it might be business but there's somebody here who sees something that needs change and you're willing to be that person or my definition of a reformer is one who has godly solutions to earthly problems one who receives godly solutions to earthly problems there's a lot of people who are burdened who want to be social justice people but they're trying to do it without the wisdom of god and they're not really making any real lasting change but the men and women of god who get downloads from the holy spirit who has an intimate relationship with god who hears his voice and who walks in obedience and you get downloads on how i had two friends here this morning and they couldn't stay and i'm so sad that they they weren't able to say but farrell was here and she's a beautiful young woman and her and her family moved into south dallas and not like were south dallas no like real south dallas okay like a certain zip code right there by fair fair park and everything and where martin luther king and malcolm x meet that's kind of south dallas her husband and children moved in there and and she was raised as a single mom in oak cliff her father was a very successful businessman who lost it all because of drug addiction and ended up in prison and and so she knows what it's like to uh struggle to see a single mom struggle and then they moved to south dallas and they saw outside their windows the liquor stores and the exchanging of drugs and and the broken families and what that meant and god just gave her this heart to make a transformation in that part of town south dallas she's got a whole kingdom legacy company built around it and holy spirit told her to buy up every empty building that comes available in that zip code area and so through her real estate company god's giving her instruction and education and understanding on how to do it and giving her divine appointments this this um what did she call it the guy who has owned a lot of property slumlord yeah she met this like the biggest slumlord of south dallas who owned all these properties and she would go in with him and see no running water no electricity no plumbing homeless men mental illness people in wheelchairs living in these you know broken down buildings and god's given her a vision for it and now he's giving her favor and giving her instruction on how to bring the change and it's incredible what god's doing through this young woman and then i had my friend alonzo and he's um bought acres of land in the bottoms over by where the the zoo is dallas zoo and building 150 homes right now you know i mean just what god's doing through him around the world in real estate and he's from south oak cliff he graduated from south oak cliff high school and and so i wanted you to meet them but they had to leave after the first service but i'm here to tell you that there are real reformers doing real reform and bringing real reformation into cities and they're spirit-filled believers and they're just doing their thing they're not making a big noise about it they're just doing the stuff they're just making the changes because they see broken things and holy spirits calling to them to those places and i'm here to tell you that's what god wants to do with you that's exactly what god wants to do with you and so we're having a conference uh this is great opportunity for me to plug my first ever reformers collective conference come on october 18th and 19th it's a monday and tuesday and i want you all to come and support me you need to be there and you need to come and support me it's free but bring some friends bring some people that you know that are in business or in real estate or care about foster children or the broken places of the world brings there are a lot of people who want social justice and so bring those people and we're going to introduce them to holy spirit and and tell them how they can really make a change and so we actually have uh you can text the word reformer do we have that yeah we could text the word reformer aren't we cool we can text reformer and that'll take you to the page to register for that conference you're going to want to be here and meet pharaoh and alonzo let's talk about joseph the reformer okay solutions to fix broken things the biggest thing that was broken the only thing that joseph knew that was broken at the time was his family his family was broken i don't know if you know the story of joseph but he is the grandson to abraham abraham was his great-grandfather and then abraham isaac was his grandfather abraham isaac and jacob jacob was his father and so he was born into that legacy into that you know amazing chosen people of god you know that that abrahamic blessing and calling that god was bringing out a people to where he could show his goodness to them and and show how powerful he was and how loving he was and how god the one and true and only god could just make a difference in people's lives and so he was part of that godly heritage of the god of abraham isaac and jacob that's his spiritual heritage in genesis chapter 37 verses 1 and 2 it tells us a little bit about where we find jacob and joseph at this time in genesis 37 1-2 it says jacob lived in the land where his father had stayed the land of canaan these are the family records of jacob this is the account of jacob's family line joseph a young man of 17 was tending the flocks with his brothers the sons of bilhah and the sons of zilpah so joseph's a shepherd and and he was with his brothers his brothers from his father's wives and he brought their father a bad report about them all right so here we have joseph he's he's a shepherd out with his father's mistresses sons okay there's 12 sons the 12 tribes of israel right the 12 sons joseph was number 11 and he's out there with his brothers and it says the young man was working with the sons of bill and zilpah and his father's wives and he brought a bad report about them to his fathers this is what i have to say about that families are messy how many of you say amen and amen families are messy i love the story that god just puts it all out there how many of you would like your family story written in a book that would be read by millions and millions of people throughout all time i mean all not the stuff that everybody sees but the secret stuff the stuff that nobody knows about right the stuff that the conversations that no one hears but you right i mean it's like whoa like how horrible would that be and we see jacob who is joseph's dad he has a story just like your mom and dad had a story and his story impacts his sons jacob was the youngest of twins born to isaac and rebecca and um he was a scoundrel he was a deceiver he was a surplanter he stole his brother's birthright and his brother's blessing and his brother wanted to kill him literally and so jacob runs away to his uncle laban's house and and is gone for years and years and years and there at his uncle laban's house he meets and falls in love with rachel but again i have to tell you that families are messy because jacob ends up with two wives and two mistresses and 12 sons okay but somewhere along the line as jacob is coming to the end of himself and realizing he needs some help he he finds his way back to god he doesn't just find his way back to god's promised land he finds himself back to god he has a powerful encounter with god that changes everything about him he has this incredible vision he wrestles with god god changes his name from jacob to israel and he becomes the father of the jewish people really israel you know it's incredible but what happens is what happens sometimes to some of us life gets in the way and hard things happen and life just has a way of stealing the passion right sometimes we le we lose the fervor we lose the passion and we lose the zeal that we once had how many of you have memories of an encounter with holy spirit you know i have memories and i like to talk about it when i used to do triathlons and i used to run i mean people still today ask are you still running are you running any marathons are you doing triathlons and and i have to say uh no that was like seven years ago eight years ago but i can tell you about them let me talk to you about them i'll tell you about my training and and how what it was like but see that's a memory it's not impacting who i am today that's just what i used to be right and so jacob has a used to inc be encounter with the holy spirit and how many of you understand that the purpose of revival is to renew the fires of god to bring back to life the dead things and some of us have dead testimonies we've lost the passion we've lost the fervor we've lost the purpose of god for our lives and we're just kind of going through the motions even in church and things like that and that's kind of where jacob had where we find jacob at this jacob loses his passion for god and what he'd lose is also is his ability to have spiritual impact on his family so if no other reason that's enough reason to desire and hunger for a new encounter with holy spirit so that you can once again have passion not just for god but have influence in in your family so jacob's lost his passion his fervor his sons are all messed up but there's one right it just takes one how many of you just say it just takes one i'm the one [Laughter] jacob has 12 sons but all god needed was one son to say i'm going to step up pick me pick me to renew the fire of god in my generation in my heritage in my legacy so joseph is son number 11 he's the first born to jacob's true love rachel he's the love child and that kind of says something to us because his brothers are not from a love relationship it's more out of duty and they represent in my mind that 11 brothers represent people who might have a relationship with god on the fact that they do the duty thing they come to church they sit in church they sing the worship songs but they don't have the fire they don't have the passion they don't meet with him secretly and hear his voice one-on-one and have relationship with him and yet we see joseph he's he's made of something different he is marked say marked joseph was marked for a different story he's marked to have purpose to continue the god people the god god's chosen people you know as a teenager um i had this encounter with holy spirit was that when i was in seventh grade i've shared that so many times with you guys it was such a marked time in my life so much so that i was willing to lay everything down for jesus and i started a bus ministry and it really took all my saturdays from junior high and high school people say were you were you in sports no you know did you do this at school no what did you do i had a bus ministry my whole junior high in high school that's what i could tell you i had a bus ministry i didn't have a whole lot of friends i didn't have a whole lot of social activity or social life i had a bus ministry and so we would go every saturday somebody i'd get somebody to drive me down to the projects in cleveland and i go knocking on the doors door-to-door on the projects in cleveland and i say hey we have a bus ministry and we would like to take your kids for you know three hours how about that would you be okay with us if we came and picked your kids up and we'd take them to sunday school and then we'll bring them back home and we'll feed him breakfast and they all said yes of course you know and so we built this bus ministry and and the the thing that i remember most about that was not so much that i just wanted them to come to church to learn about jesus but on my way home after we would take them back and i would walk home on those sundays i would literally be weeping and heaving in in just compassion for their life situation i wanted them to have homes i wanted them to have jobs i wanted their families to be healed and so even at that moment do you understand that i was marked as a reformer because i had such compassion for the broken lives of these people and so then you kind of you know go forward from that to where we're at now but this this is something that i had forgotten about that i was reminded as i was studying this um when i was about ninth grade tenth grade um we had a pretty good youth group at our church in parma ohio there was probably maybe 50 or 60 kids in that youth group and maybe a hundred on some good nights you know special nights and events but there was a moment when our youth leader decided that he didn't want to live for jesus any longer that he was tired of faking it he was tired of playing the church game and he was no longer going to serve god and live for god and and he was walking away from the church and walking away from god and when he did that about three-fourths of our youth group went with him including my sister and the pastor's son eddie who she ended up marrying she she moved in with him and lived with him and and for about the next four years up to ten years from four to ten years these young people got into drugs and living together and and you know sex and they just went crazy wild because they were just tired of playing church and they didn't see the power they didn't see the love they didn't see what we promised it was it wasn't happening and so they got disillusioned and they walked away and so here i am left with about 10 other kids all the weird ones so it's becky in her 10 as a 9th grader and those years of high school was the loneliest years of my life because church had been everything to me i didn't have participation in school i wasn't cool i wasn't you know anything like that and and the church was everything but here all of these people had walked away from god and and so for the next four years it became a very lonely time for me and um yet during those years god marked me god god marked my life and i wouldn't want that for anybody i'm not saying that that has to happen but i have to tell you there are times in your life when god strips everything away from you and that's what happened with with joseph you know he was trying to stand when no one else around him was standing right and that brings us to some lessons that we need to learn from him it says in genesis 37 verses 3 and 4 now israel or jacob loved joseph more than his other sons because joseph was a son born to him in his old age and he made a robe of many colors for him and when his brothers saw that their father loved him more than all his brothers they hated him and could not bring themselves to speak peaceably to him can i tell you something about favor favor is not fair and god does not care i'm telling you there is an opportunity for you to live in the favor of god it doesn't matter who you are what you look like what you've done what you've been through it doesn't matter i'm just telling you here today for no other reason i'm here to tell you that god's favor is looking for you god is looking for someone to show his favor on and you might say somebody else is more qualified somebody else joseph had 11 brothers older than him that should have been in line for the favor but god saw joseph because joseph was willing to take a stand for god and say i'm different i'm not going to bow down but the other thing about favor is not only is it not fair but it has a purpose to it favor is for a purpose god's love and his favor on our life is for us to do something great for him and at that moment at that time in my life my purpose was bus ministry so the purpose for you at this time might be just to be faithful to serve hospitality or to go and be a mom and for foster kids or maybe to go with jay dan into the prisons i mean there are so many places for us to go for me here was for me to go into cedar hill high school for 15 years to do a bible study that no one came to do you understand what i'm saying to you but there is an open door there's a place for god to use you and god use that favor on my life to bring so many opportunities and now in the wnba as a chaplain there do you understand what i'm trying to say to you it's not doing something big and great and grand it's just being faithful to where god sends you to where there's one hurting person there's one person who needs so it's for a purpose favor revival this is what what i wrote down revival rekindles intimacy and fervor for god reformers come out of that intimacy and fire to go into the world to be light and salt and who say and do this your kingdom come your will be done here in this place even as it is in heaven all right let me let's just go real quickly here at the process of a reformer the process of a reformer from the life of joseph number one the first thing is we see the intimacy we've already talked about that but the heart of a reformer operates from the foundation of love the heart of reformer operates from intimacy with god to be a reformer you have to know the voice of god to be a reformer you have to hear i mean like not big profound things but if you had met pharaoh and alonso who was here first service what god told me was to go to a place called bon-ton farms have any of you heard of that it's in dallas it's this little hole in the wall and this man named darren from frisco heard god say i want you to go to the poorest of the poor place in dallas which was bon-ton and i want you to do a bible study and he was obedient to the lord to do that and he went to bon-ton and he had these men and they couldn't get jobs they were coming out of prison they had no jobs or employment they were very sickly and he realized that they were so sick because there was no fresh fruits or vegetables for them to eat all that there was were little corner stores or it's called food deserts have you heard of that food deserts it would take them over an hour on the bus to go to a grocery store where there was actually fruits and vegetables and so none of these families had fruits and vegetables so he began to plant some some vegetables here's this man from frisco comes to bon-ton and he plants a garden there's no running water so they have to go into the they houses some house there and they have to fill up these baby pools and they carry the water to these plants anyway six years later you guys there's acres of the most beautiful organic garden you've ever seen in your life in bon tan there's a restaurant there there's a coffee shop there uh homes for for habitat for humanity have come in and built hundreds of homes around that place and it's the most amazing thing and it's right here why have we not heard about it why have we not been there so one day cindy jacob's like i want to go to bon tan farms you want to go with me and i'm like yes i've been wanting to go and so we go and when we go we meet these incredible people that are there do you understand you just go you just go go to the grocery store you go to the school you go to the hospital you go to the icu waiting room you can go anywhere there's so many places to go right i went to bon town farms and i met these incredible people who are literally changing south dallas so that's what god does but it comes through intimacy it comes through learning to hear god's voice and being obedient to go so it's not anything big profound it's just being obedient to go i love this scripture in matthew matthew chapter 9 verses 35 through 38 it says then jesus went about all the cities and villages teaching in their synagogues preaching the gospel of the kingdom and healing every sickness and every disease among the people that's pretty amazing right i mean that's what jesus is supposed to do he teaches he preaches he heals he raises people from the dead he casts out demons right but then verse verse 36 listen to this but when he saw the multitudes he was say it with me moved with compassion for them because they were weary and scattered like sheep having no shepherd then he said to his disciples the harvest truly is plentiful but the laborers are few i don't know does that impact you like it did me i mean jesus was doing all the jesus stuff he was preaching and teaching and healing and raising people from the dead and casting out demons he says but then [Music] he saw broken people he saw broken things and the bible says that he was moved with compassion intimacy with jesus moves us to have compassion and literally jesus whole strategy of ministry changed he's like oh man the harvest is so big there's so many broken things there's so many broken people pray pray for laborers pray for reformers pray that there will be men and women who will rise up and see and be moved with compassion into the broken places of the world that's his plan and it hasn't changed he sent them out two by two into the into the neighborhoods into the world ah it's through intimacy it's through intimacy with jesus that we're moved with compassion the second thing is not only is it about intimacy but the second thing is about the coat we need a coach reformers carry authority that disperses the enemy and darkness from every sphere of influence reformers carry authority they carry power they carry the ability to bring change into broken places the coat the coat was the coat of many colors right and there's seven colors in the rainbow you all know roy roygbiv right red orange yellow green blue indigo and violet seven colors on this mantel on this coat it just made me as i was setting it made me think of what isaiah chapter 11 says about the spirit of the lord will rest on him the spirit of wisdom and understanding the spirit of counsel the spirit of power the spirit of knowledge the spirit of the fear of the lord these are what we need to bring solutions to bring godly solutions to earth's problems we need the spirit of the living god that's why jesus said i have to go away because if i don't go away i can't send the holy spirit you need the holy spirit you need the holy spirit and i'm going to baptize you with the holy spirit not just so you can speak in tongues but then you can get downloads of wisdom and instruction and power and mites i believe that this coat represents the mantle of the holy spirit the definition for mantle is an important role or responsibility that passes from one person to another that's what i do when i feel the holy spirit me and laura whoa i have been filled with the holy spirit since i was a little girl and i never understood it had purpose it has a purpose it's to compel you into the world with power and wisdom and might to change the broken places in the chain broken things so yes be filled with the holy spirit it's a mantle the code is the holy spirit i love this verse uh in luke 24 39 behold i send the promise of my father upon you but terry in the city of jerusalem until you are endued with power from on high but listen to this version that i have i am going to send you what my father has promised you but stay in the city until you have been clothed with power you stay you stay in your secret place you stay in that place of god's presence until you are clothed with power and then you will see your schools transformed and then you will see businesses transformed and then you will see god show up in his power and his might and the ecclesia in the places of our society and so we need the intimate love right and we need the coat of the holy spirit and the third thing is the dreams i love these dreams you guys and god's given me such fresh revelation about them in genesis 37 beginning 5-7 it says now joseph had a dream and he told it to his brothers and they hated him even the more so he said to them please hear this dream which i have dreamed hey there were there we were binding sheets in the field then behold my sheaf arose and also stood upright and indeed your sheaves stood all around and bowed down to my sheaf and the brothers hated them all the more and but as i was looking at that dream i'm like jesus what are what are you really saying what does this dream really mean i mean yeah we know that the brothers are going to come and they'll bow down to joseph when they come for the food and everything but this is what i felt like the holy spirit said to me about this dream joseph knew that he had to stand up joseph knew that there was he was marked by god and that in the midst of everyone bowing down he had to stand up i'm telling you reformers stand up when everybody else bows down is there a joseph generation now of young men and women of older men and women who will stand up when everybody else is bowing down and so we see joseph he's standing up and everybody else is bowing down god's calling us to stand up stand straight the brothers they lacked vision they lacked purpose they bowed but joseph he's so confident come on he's so arrogant and confident in his calling that he it's like no i'm not gonna bow down there's a calling of god i'm marked and i'm not gonna play small i'm not gonna play my life small i'm going to be all that god has created me to be romans 8 19 says that for the creation eagerly waits for anticipation for god's sons to be revealed or for god's sons to stand up is there anybody in this place who says i feel the power of god i feel the presence of god i want to stand at this time in this place and bring change to the broken places of the world the second dream is so is even better i love it in genesis 37 9 it says ah look i have dreamed another dream like it wasn't enough that he his brothers hated him all the more joseph has gone so far past caring what his brothers think or even what his father thinks he's gone so far past it he's like on a whole nother level you guys and he says look i have dreamed another dream and this time the sun the moon and the eleven stars bowed down to me and this time jacob the dad says what are you saying boy what do you say you're saying that me and your mother and your brothers are all going to bow down to you but this is what i as i was looking at this this is what i came to me you know at first we think just the same thing that jacob that you know it's just they're going to bow down to him but when i looked at it again i'm i'm thinking it means more it means that um the dream is really an indictment on the family their lack of vision and their destiny listen to this they just like you were made to shine the sun the moon the stars what's their purpose to shine to bring lie to the darkness god created them to shine and bring light to the darkness and they weren't doing that and they were bowing down and joseph is just like i was made to shine i'm made to bring forth a light so joseph's light life was convicting right it was convicting to everyone around him and it was also inspiring joseph reformers will bring light to dark places they will literally go into the darkest of the darkest places in society and they will let their light shine and bring transformation to those places that's what our true reformer does and so we see the dreams you have a do you have a dream do you have a dream over your life you need to dream over your life and in your dream you need to be the one standing up you need to be the one shining the light to go into the darkest places i love this isaiah 16 verse one this needs to be our theme verse okay arise stand up shine in the dark places for your light has come and the glory of the lord is risen upon you oh my gosh do you understand when we're singing in worship and we're talking about the glory open up the windows let the light in come on that's a reformer song open up the windows god let your light in i want to shine for you i want to shine in the dark places that's what you were created to do that's what your purpose is right and so what do we have to have we have to have intimacy where we hear the voice of the lord and we have compassion on the broken things we have to have a coach we have to be full of the holy spirit the code of the holy spirit to give us the wisdom and the revelation and the instruction and we have to have dreams over our life we have to stand up and we have to shine and we don't play small with your life anymore come on i mean i was talking to my brother this past week and he's retired on a beach in sarasota and i was thinking i don't want to do a conference i don't want to do hard things i don't want to have to figure out a website and and do all this i want to go to the beach in sarasota i mean that that's what i my flesh wants to do but there's this young girl who stood for jesus during her 7th grade 8th grade 9th grade 10th grade 11th grade 12th grade this is my time this is my time to shine and to stand is there anybody else anybody else who'll say becky this is my time come on stand up let's just get the lord praise this is my time [Applause] [Music] use us oh god if you can use anything god as soon as joseph declared his dreams as soon he used as soon as he used his voice and set his dreams he set into motion something that nobody could stop no enemy of darkness no human being nobody could stop what god started the moment that joseph declared that he would be a reformer that he would stand up when everybody else was bowing down and the impact the fourth thing what was the impact the impact was that his brothers all 11 of his brothers came into their full destiny at the very end after he was sold into slavery after he became a servant and potter for his house and ended up in prison and he became the man god exalted him to the second place of the known civilization god used his reforming to bring healing to his family all 11 of us brothers became all that god created them to be we talk about the tribe of judah his brother judah was a scoundrel he was a mess but god restored to him his calling for praise and worship and on and on and on and the other thing it says it says that when they told jacob all that joseph had said to them and when he saw the wagons that joseph had sent to transform transport him it says listen to this the spirit of their father jacob revived earlier i said that revival brings out reformers but maybe maybe reformers give birth to revival [Applause] we're waiting for this awesome move of god and we're waiting for something to happen that we don't even know what to do to go and do something but maybe if we wind and did something and brought some healing and some miracle power then that would usher in the revival of the lord [Applause] let's not get it twisted people were called and anointed and empowered to change the world amen amen let's worship the lord and then come back and i want to commission you it to be a reformer [Applause] [Music] so [Music] and i will build my life upon your love it is a firm foundation and i will put my trust [Music] it is a firm foundation and i will put [Music] yes [Music] and i will put oh [Music] who you are with your heart [Music] and i will put all my trust in and you will not be shaken when i'm moving [Music] [Music] is [Music] [Music] is yours or i'm standing yes [Music] ah [Music] hello [Music] [Music] [Applause] [Music] just for you here we are lord just for you here we are lord [Music] standing on [Music] so i'll stand with arms high and heart abandoned in all of the one who gave it all yes i'll stand my soul lord to you surrendered all i am he is yours [Music] i am is yours every part [Music] there is [Music] show me who you are and fill me with your heart [Music] lead us with your love [Music] give me eyes of compassion [Music] a reformer's compassion [Music] [Music] i wanna see the way you see not just broken places but places that can be made new [Music] just like you did with me [Music] you saw a broken place and said i can make that new again [Music] we don't want to be a bunch of people who walk around and point fingers at broken things and complain and complain [Music] but be the kind of people that will invest in properties and souls and regions with our money and with our prayers and with our words [Music] sole entrepreneurs [Music] sole investors [Music] we don't see lack we only see room to grow so from that place let's sing it again holy you are holy there is no one like open up my eyes and wonder and show me who you are and fill me with your heart and leave me in your love to those [Music] come on to be led means you have to go it's not just being led in a feeling [Music] so last week bishop hammond said that there had always been a calling on mine in jim's life from the time that we were born even before we were ever born there was a calling but last week was a commissioning it was a commissioning into bringing the apostolic prophetic into the third reformation whatever the heck that means i don't know but i know that things are different now than they were before last sunday and i wanted this to be a commissioning for those of you who said becky i don't know what a reformer looks like i don't even know would you put those seven spheres of of influence that um that's been taught so many years now but uh there's you know that bill bride and lauren cunningham came together back in the 70s for lunch one day and they both had had a dream and a vision that if they could impact these spheres of influence of every nation that they could literally disciple a whole nation for god and and so gosh that was back in the 70s and we talked about them a lot of different people have written about them but um these just represent the seven spheres of influence of any nation you could go into and if you can impact these spheres of influence you can change a nation so you might not know what area yet god is calling you to all you know is that you want to be chosen you want to be picked and so i want to commission reformers if you feel like god is speaking to your heart today and said today's your day you're a joseph and you're a reformer you don't know what you're going to reform yet but you know you want to be a reformer i want you to come forward and for this commissioning come on come forward and and push just as close to the to me as possible let's fill in this place for those of you who who feel in your spirit you know the holy spirit is working in you and you want to do something for god you want to bring a change you want the holy spirit to have his way to have his purpose come on and fill up right here in the middle right here come on up here and fill in this place right now gosh when you say you're a reformer even the songs sound different right even the songs have different purpose and perspective in them everything we say you're gonna read your bible and you're gonna say wow i never i never saw that before jesus said i have to go away because you need the holy spirit to do what you were called to do to do what you were created to do you need the holy spirit and oh my gosh i've been pentecostal all my life and i never understood the purpose of the holy spirit you guys is to be a reformer to go into the world with wisdom and understanding and revelation on how to be a god counselor how to be a god plumber how to be a god architect or a god accountant [Music] so here if you are here today and you want to be commissioned as a reformer i want you to repeat after me today i declare god's greatness in my life to bring his solutions to the earth [Music] to bring his solutions to my family to bring his solutions to whatever sphere of society he takes me i make myself available to carry the compassion of god to a hurting world father i just pray right now you've called us and today lord jesus we commission we commission these friends these men and women as reformers to bring god's solutions to broken places in our society we commit to finding intimacy with you to learning your voice to hearing your voice to being obedient when you tell us to go someplace to have lunch or to go to a grocery store to go to panera to go father two of certain coffee shop because we don't know that you've already appointed god appointments god appointments to our lives and so we trust you in the intimacy lord to learn your voice and father i just declare right now and i commission these reformers that they are clothed with the holy spirit and they have everything they need they have everything they need to bring godly solutions and godly change to the broken places that you're going to give them dreams and visions downloads by the holy spirit how to be light how to be salt how to stand up and i just decree and declare that good things are going to come to them that you're going to open up doors that seem impossible to be open father god and you're going to lead them and guide them into places and strategies [Music] some of us to the one and some of us to the many and i just commission you in the name of jesus to be a reformer endowed with the holy spirit to bring god's solutions to earth's problems in jesus name and jesus said can we just praise him can we just thank him can we just say thank you father for picking me thank you god for using me thank you god thank you god i don't know what it's going to look like but i trust you i trust you i trust you hallelujah hallelujah hallelujah so what do you do next you sign up for the conference i know it's it seems manipulative but i did not plan it this way but literally october 18th and 19th it's a monday and tuesday i have probably 40 of the most amazing men and women who are bringing change to all these spheres of society and they're going to come and share their stories with you i have a man who has a download of the holy spirit of wisdom he's going to teach you how to think of solutions how to get solutions from the holy spirit how to be solutionaries how many of you want to be solutions people with solutions right he's going to show us that we have another young woman who god's given her a gift to help people find their people find their purpose you might not know exactly where you're supposed to go but she's going to help you to learn how to hear god's voice and so all of these things on october 18th and 19th right here at trinity church so would you come take a vacation bring people with you let's change the world for jesus amen amen the lord bless you and keep you and cause his face to shine upon you and give you grace and peace now and forevermore amen amen amen god bless you thank you

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