"TAKE YOUR LIFE TO THE NEXT LEVEL" By Dr.Frank Damazio

[Music] but without further ado would you stand to your feet and welcome pastor Frank DiMaggio as he comes in shares that this morning thank you thank you may be seated I appreciate the opportunity again to be here heavy are in the team that invited me and I've been coming here off and on for a long time but um undoubtedly there's many of you that have never heard me because church is just that way how many of you have never heard me speak before let me see your hands all right you're in for a treat I just want to have I'm just playing love you guys love the church and thank you for introducing me what's wrong well you're coming up that's once and you let the bottle of water here is that for you oh no I don't want one no anybody else out there one a bottle of water there's one hair thank you for introducing me in the first service you used the word genius this service only the word brilliant so I don't know if the first service message didn't quite land you know I have my wife with me my wife of 42 years and so I'm gonna have her scan he or jitan not some meetings recently in somebody asked her so are you wiped number one or wipe number two because you look so young I mean is that a compliment to me or what I didn't think so and I have one of my good friends this is part of her family deja has been part of our family for a very long time she's up here doing med school it was very hard to let her go she's best friends with all my daughters and my grandkids absolutely adore this girl Cruz asked me when I said I was going to see JJ because you're going to see Dave he's five you're gonna see deja for real and I said yes for real so I had to just send him the video and so I want you to meet Dasia she doesn't want me to do this but I'm gonna do it anyway because I got the microphone so deja I want you to stand and I want all you folks to see who she is give her a hand she's in college right here close to the church doing her med stuff and please take care of her and you know college students feed them feed them if nothing else you know all right it's again great to be here to teach the word I'm gonna go right to it without too much more meandered around but we're going to go to John chapter 10 I'm going to quote John 10 it's not going to come up in a slide but I'm going to talk about John 10 in just a moment and we're going to talk about a specific subject the subject will apply to every single person sitting in the room however you got here whoever you are wherever you're coming from whatever is going on in your life this word would be a good encouraging word for you and I think you would leave the room with something in your heart and in your mind whether you're a person that got somebody just talk to you and they come in the church today or you decided yourself and maybe you're not a church person or you're maybe even away from you God got beat up a little bit got off track for whatever reason whatever might be the situation or you're sitting here today and your life is really out of dead-end or it's at worse than a dead end you're at a dead end and bad things are happening in the dead end and so things are going on in your life you don't like or maybe you feel stuck maybe you feel totally disillusioned with this thing called life that you're supposed to be living right now maybe a true Mary maybe it's your career maybe it's you maybe it's your health and so you come to church and you know there's gonna be worship and prayer and and you know that we're gonna talk some from the Bible and we're gonna try to encourage you and that's what I'm gonna do this morning as we get to the word my word for you this morning is that of John chapter 10 and verse 10 in this chapter is a chapter that most people verse 10 they would recognize I come to give you life life more and Jesus talks about this thing called life but in this chapter the Lord Jesus has already talked about himself being the way the truth and the life and he's trying to get these people to look at life think about life because in that day life was difficult physical problems were horrible the Gentile religions had so many different temples and philosophies none of them came through with what they promised the Jewish religion was back down with not just 10 commandments but 300 commandments and the whole thing had kind of run into a routine of dryness and legalism and so the Jewish people were not on top of the game the Gentile people are disillusioned and there's a lot of persecution and other things going on and on the team comes Jesus and Jesus the Messiah who was not recognized as their Messiah but he's the son of God he's Immanuel God with us and he comes and he's preaching a message to these people that's positive they have only really heard a negative message they've heard of God that distant or God that's mad God that's going to get you for a number of reasons and Commandments that if you break this is what happened it was a religion of consequence and things and Jesus is a brand-new voice that's why he's called the voice in the wilderness because the wilderness was philosophical spiritual and it was in every way a wilderness there in Israel and when Jesus comes on the scene he's the first person in many hundreds of years that brought a positive message a life-changing message with simple message he was a storyteller he was a parable Giver he was a man that that dressed like them it didn't rest like the Pharisees he had everything with different about this Jesus and so when he comes he says now listen I'm gonna talk with you about life and I'm telling you that anybody that tried to bring you life other than what I'm gonna give you they're a thief and a robber if they don't come through the front door the gate if they try to climb up the wrong way you can't trust them and they're gonna promise you what they can deliver in your life it's not going to be any better well they understood that language so then Jesus comes along and it says now listen I'm gonna bring you life and I'm actually going to bring you a better life I'm gonna bring you a life I'm gonna bring you an overflowing life a life that you could only dream about this is the light that you would dream about but you don't think you can reach but it's a life that maybe is in the back of your mind he says I'm bringing you a life that only you could dream about but I'm the reality maker I don't just promise and don't deliver I am a manual I'm God with us I am the son of God I am the life Giver and if I tell you I'm gonna bring you life I can bring your life if I say I can change your life I can change your life if I tell you I can deliver your life from dysfunctionality and problems I can deliver your life I am the son of God I'm different than anybody else can somebody shout hallelujah however you come into this room and wherever your life is parked right now just stay with me for a little bit and let me preach this message into your spirit I'm talking about taking your life to the next level how do you take your life to the next level everybody here has the next level everybody here has a life that should go to the next level the problem is that life itself beats us up circumstances crush us then we have the devil who add to the circumstance and to the bad things and and then we have a lot of family trees and stuff and baggage that comes along with it's and so when someone says I'm gonna give you life and life more abundant you you can't even hardly imagine what abundant life looks like for you because you've had so much like taken from yours life is so difficult for you or you've experienced so many punches in the faith that it's even hard for you to get up and imagine that you should reach for another life but I'm gonna tell you today that there's a next level for you and that God is still a good God and the devil is still a bad devil and that God still does marvelous wonderful things for people and he's interested in you not just this crowd or any crowd he's interested in you your name you as a person God is right now thinking about you and he's saying to you I have life you I have good light for you I have overflowing light for you I have an abundant life for you I have a life that you've only dreamt about but you're even afraid to go after it but I'm a dream giver I'm going to take that which is ordinary and make it extraordinary I'm gonna take your life of the next level I'm gonna do for you but no one else can do for you I'm gonna open doors that no one else can open I'm gonna close doors no one else can close I'm gonna give you miracles no one else can give because I am your Jesus and I'm the real thing Jesus is a life giver and most of us don't aim too high we aim too low and hit it and so Jesus said I want you to aim higher but I'm afraid I'm afraid my hair's come on Jesus if I aim higher it's gonna be it's gonna be a bummer again I won't be able to hit it the perdition up there I'm just now church's just it's coming I want you to lift your sights I want you to dream bigger I want you to think bigger I want you to believe for yourself I'm not done with you but I have so many problems and so much has happened and I can't even kind of get out of this and I don't know if I want to dream it's so disappointing and and I can just hear God say to you this morning aim high I'll aim with you and we won't hit the low mark we'll hit the high mark because I'm the God that shoots really well at those marks and I live people from the dunghill I live people from these places in life that are really the the Cape of a dull impede a vyd had and other people throughout the bible that didn't really have a lot to offer anybody god takes them to another level because God can and God chooses and God's hand is on your life and so I'm telling you this morning what I had to say to you is good here's my definition now turn your neighbor right now and say I really like this guy okay I feel so much love and acceptance now so much more freedom here's my definition taken life to the next level requires a few things and you have all of these in your hand you you can do everything that I'm talking about this morning it requires what it requires a breaking out it requires a letting go a stepping up and allowing things to unfold that God's pace weight and timing I want you to stare at that definition I want you to think about it I want you to pray with me I want you to in your spirit I want you to get hold of this that God wants you to go to the next level that's not an option you're gonna go to the next level God's going to push you he's gonna pull you he might even dropkick you know you he wants you to go to this next level but you're gonna have to break through break through means you move toward something that you know you need to break through you don't just sit there you move toward it then you have to let go of thing and then you have the step up and when you step up you have to allow God to unfold things unfolding things in your life that God has usually is not easy for us because we want to we want to hurry God up we want to tell god you're late you're not you're not on time I want you to unfold as quickly you know relationship finance business and know God says just let me unfold but God you're so slow you're so slow one of your characteristics is Jehovah Jireh and Jehovah slow another characteristic of Jehovah Jireh Jehovah snow a slow is called Jehovah sneaky the names of God he's sneaky he is he's doing things that you can't see he's positioning you he's working for you behind the scenes he he's Coptic things to fall together and if he would show you what he do and you would put your hands into it and mess it up so God says let me unfold this let let it come my way pace yourself trust and so that's what it's all about a way going to the next level means you're gonna let go you're gonna step up now here's a verse revelation 4 verse 1 revelation 4 verse 1 I understand it's written to the you know seven churches in John's own Isle of Patmos and he's heaven revelations and but I want to apply this Scripture I want I want you to actually say out loud with me say this is my Scripture come on say it with me this is my truth for me today and I'm gonna take it my scripture okay now your quiet I'm preaching my scripture means it's written to me and this is something that God is saying to me and here it goes now look at this scripture revelation 4 and verse 1 because we're talking about taking your life to the next level now you can say to your person next to you say to your person next to you we're going to the next level and if you won't come tell you tell your neighbor if you won't come I will drag you we've got to go to the next level you're gonna we're gonna go to the next level and this is how it's going to happen all right Revelation chapter 4 and verse 1 Revelation chapter 4 verse 1 after they stayed out loud with me after this I'm going to exegete that is give you a little behind this team meeting here when the writer says after this it actually means pause for as long as it takes I want you to pause stop because something new is about to break open and I don't want you to miss it and so after this means after whatever has happened whatever has brought you to today whether you're 10 20 30 50 100 years old whatever circumstance in your spirit soul or body whatever had taken place in your finance in your relationship whatever has brought you to today wherever you have come through I want you to stop now after this after this I want you to pause and I want you to gain a new expectation because something new is about to take place and I looked and I saw a what come on I saw a I saw a now let's say it this way and I saw a door and I want you to add for me and I saw a door for me now Jesus says I am the door so if you go through the door that's the beginning but what happens here is that when you come to the door the door in this particular verse and so many other door verses because there's a bunch of them it means new opportunity it actually means not a door that's an English translation of the writers back on the 1500 but actually it's a vault it's a vault and it's a vault filled with mysteries and the mysteries that are behind that door are in that vault that you're entering into our mystery that God has placed in that door with your name on it God has placed mysteries God has placed provisions God has placed surprises God has placed great thing God has placed dreams God has placed careers God has placed businesses God has placed relationship God has placed miracles God has placed healings God has placed open new things God has placed your own personality finding healing dysfunctional days are gonna leave mental bondages are going to leave physical bondages are going to be broken and behind that door is a vault that God had for you and that vault is filled with so many good thing all the rich things of God the rich mercy the rich grace the rich everything it's so filled and you have that door and that door is in front of you and that door is your door and it has your name on it I want you to take your right hand and I want you to kind of just do this do this right here now remember keep your hand there keep your hand the Bible is written about an invisible Kingdom Holy Spirit where you can't see God Jesus although he did come in the flesh all of the prayers being answering moving in the spirit realm and angels and stuff that it's all in the invisible realm and the Apostle Paul says I have an effectual door that's just about ready to open for me but there's many adversaries but in this effectual door at first Corinthians 16 was a church plan and he was moving forward into a new city and he said there's a big door and that door is open and it wasn't a wooden door or an iron door door that he could actually touch you as a door in the realm of the invisible a door that meant if I go through there's opportunity there surprises and there's mysteries I want you to reach into the invisible realm grab a handle of that door and say out loud my door is in front of me it's a good door would good treasure I'm ready for something better something more and I'm reaching to the door and I'm gonna open the door and I'm going to move through this door because it's my door get your hands off my door Deb Oh get your hands off my door adversaries get your hands off my door people of doubt get your hands off my door I'm moving forward you can't stop me my hand of faith it's on my door today it's my game come on give the Lord a shout in the clap right I thought thought it's all gone come on I see a door for you and behind that door is not more affliction and more bummer stuff and more this and more poverty and more hurt marred its functionality and more disillusionment behind the door that God had for you is a great door and those mysteries it's filled with treasure and good things all the benefits of the Lord the promises of God I'm not making this up this is in the scripture God has great things for you great things it saw door that opened in the heaven then the voice there's always a voice to comfort the door it seizes the points of condemnation the devil the adversaries understand don't do it you can't do it you can't go through it you don't have an update that's the devil don't listen to his voice listen to the voice of the Holy Spirit I will give you grace I will be with you you can step up you can become the person you want to be you can have the dreams you're dreaming I'm the God who was for you I'm not against you listen to the right voice God is for you then the voice that had spoken to me at first and sounded like a trumpet said okay everybody are you ready I said are you ready what's those three words say come on say it again follow my hand [Applause] now follow my hand no no you cheated you cheated gotta follow my hand now when I do this third piece here you got a pause I want you to shout the word here just a little louder now [Applause] what I'm trying to do is get you to actually see something is very important because God has a here for you that thought of here for someone else it's not there for someone else it's a here here that's here in the supernatural realm around that only God had for you when you land on the here and that invisible realm you land on the beginning of going to the next level so when he says come up there they here for you there's a place there's a there's a recognition of where your feet should land and so that here is very important that here belong to me doesn't belong to you with Mike here and God says I want you to come on now say with me [Music] I'm kind of a noisy preacher aren't Diamandis you know come up here wow what a great thing but sinned enter there's a door there's a place and I will show you what must happen scripture you took my scripture damn me a thousand please rest on your head no I'm just kidding I'm just kidding must happen what's the word come on Church what's the last word what must happen what's must happen you have annexed and your next is powerful it's wonderful it's good it's not the past it's not your fears is that what you're afraid to kind of move forward with and what's going to happen I'm telling you that your neck that is in God that plate that you're going to as you move through that door that God had for you your next beginning today by faith and by Scripture your next is a great neck that's a come up here next it's a good necks it's a it's something that you're going to talk about all week long when people say how are you you're gonna take I went up see if you want to work I want up there where's there here where's here there what's going on with your life next next what next are you leaving [Applause] that was not the next I was after right there all right come on turn to someone around here to take next can you believe I have an ex can you believe it I have a next my next is the best it's I'm moving forward this is this is the wonderful word for me I've had so many get inside had so many disappointments I've had so much stuff you know I've been doubting this and doubting that my dreams have fallen to the ground and I'm not even sure I ever had a dream and then someone comes along but you know what today I'm believing that I'm coming up and I have a next on my next is gonna be unbelievably good and I'm feeling good about this you know what I'm almost ready to be a Christian right here's another scripture for you first Kings 3:5 this Solomon Solomon if you know the history of the Old Testament you have Israel the twelve tribes you have three kings that were over Saul over the twelve David over the twelve Solomon now is going to become the new king over the twelve tribes and at the last king over the twelve because his sons gonna split the kingdom and we're now going to have the house of Israel and the house of Judah that splits into two kingdoms 19 Kings each all because of Solomon the Israel Kings 19 of them evil every single one of them were evil the Judeans only had eight good King and so the prophets prophesied to Judah are Israel house then they had good word bad word because the Kings were so backslidden that's the rest of the history now at the beginning of this is Solomon who's going to be the last king of the United Kingdom but he could have been the king that had the United Kingdom forever there never should have been a split with the kingdom and Solomon is starting as a young man his father David his father has been a mighty man of God his father has established one of the most amazing kingdoms ever his father's one who built the tabernacle of David who brought the Ark of the Covenant up from the house of obed-edom his father was a lover of presence a lover of the spirit a songwriter a man after God's heart a man with a story David with that man Solomon is the man now that is following this man that had built so much and done so much and knew so much and and was in love with God and he was a he was an amazing man the way around now Solomon has to step into his shoes by the word of the Lord because God spoke to David and said Solomon would be the next king so Solomon before he takes the kingdom he doesn't live in Gibeon but he goes to Gibby and why because in give Ian at the tavern Akram the boys from the Ark under glory in the presence and so he knows he needs more wood everybody shout the word more you need more you need more necks you need more hear you need more to go forward but the more that you need to move forward is found in the Holy Spirit in God and you're pressing into the invisible realm and Solomon understood that so he goes to Gibeon and this is a one scripture that night everyone say that night God does his best work in the dark and sometimes the dark is not physical dark it's emotional mental spiritual circumstantial we can't say we don't know where we are we don't know where we're going we don't understand at all anybody in this room be right now in a night time a dark time an emotional time a mental time a spiritual time where you can't see everything you don't know what's going on and you're in your dark this word is for you and they're in Gibeon God appeared God appeared God appeared God appeared to Solomon in a dream this dream is a real dream is not just a sleep dream it's a word dream and God said to him what can I give you what can I give you I want to ask you a question this morning I want you to write it down I want you to think with me for a moment God come into you and God saying to you whoever you are and God says what can I do for you what can I give you what would you write down if you have time I'd like you to write something down right now if it's on your heart in your mind and you're dreaming about something you're wanting something a new open door and it's in your mind if God came to you and said you know what do you want I'll give it to you I'm God Almighty I'm miles el shaddai el el owe him jehovah jireh provider i mean there's nothing outside my reach my power I can create I can make I can make something out of nothing I can supply I can open you know I'm God and so I'm saying to you what do you want and and why would you aim so low if you know my personality if you know my power you know who I am you know my attributes and you know that I'm a creator in that and that I'm a lover of you and and your soul and I want to do something in your life don't aim too low well Solomon goes through in the end he says what he wants and that's a message in itself which I don't have time to get into but there God speak Tim and says so that's what you want Solomon asked for wisdom he didn't ask for his enemy's head he didn't ask for wealth I didn't ask for riches he didn't ask for and God says are you sure are you sure you're not gonna ask me to kill your enemies no you're not gonna ask for wealth no richest treasure no more authority no what do you want I want wisdom I want to know how to go in and out of life I want to know how to do this right because I watch my father and I watch other people I need the wisdom and and so God says to him because you ask the right thing all that this is this is an important thing and it's another stream of thought but you can hear me and you can put it into your seatback spirit and you can remember this wisdom is what you pursue if you want treasure you don't pursue treasure to get treasure you pursue wisdom to get treasure and the beginning of wisdom is the fear of the Lord so if you fear the Lord which is a deep respect and an awe of his principles his word and his baggage did he have a fear of the Lord in you and you honor the Lord the Lord says those who honor me this is in your Bible by the way it says it those who honor me I will honor them and those who dishonor me I will dishonor them and so there is a principle of the scripture in that getting here in Gibeon Chapman's going to learn it that he's going to ask to God but he's going to ask for the really the sacred thing that he should be asking for is wisdom how do I do this God show me help me don't let me live in the flesh live in my own culture live in the values of my culture out here and what everybody else wants I want to walk in the wisdom of God and Lord of you will show me I will live a better life and I will do it and God says you got it I'm gonna give you wealth and honor and riches anyway because you asked for the right thing and I'm gonna make sure you go in and out and you solve this now I want you to take down these four thing when you move to the next level there's four words that you need to have down next he's a next level next miracle next door those four phrases I want you to look at it and I want you to think with me these are all Bible words if you're going to take your life to the next level it means you're going to have to change seasons seasons are not determined by man's timetable they're determined by the sovereignty of God and so a season could be long short it can be a year three years three months you don't know but you have to enter a season knowing that God's going to do something different in that season every season has levels and you have to get through the level that you're on in order to go to the next level and every level will necessitate a new miracle and new miracles opens new doors that helped you to fulfill everything in that new season before you start the cycle over again to enter into another season that has more levels that has more miracles and has more doors and our whole life is built on this so you enter in God says I'm going to take you to a new season well that's a word and I want you to I want you to obey the level you're on well I I I want to be in a season of wealth and I want to experience provision of God God to use me as a real Giver in the house and I'm gonna give thousands to God I'm that kind of a person god I'm I'm moving into a season where you're gonna provide for me and I'm gonna give thousands of dollars to the kingdom of God I'll have church planting and and children and I'm I tell you what I'm gonna be one of your best givers God says is that right that's right be able to go to the next robot yes I'll go to the next level what do you have in your pocket $35 give it oh I'm going to laugh but when I get the thousands I will press it in some just go teacher teaching admissions and giving you know all the children to get the rounders is how many of you kids if you had $100 you would give it to missionary how many of you have you had $10 you how many of you he had $1 you can have it everybody God took one little boy she said she's trying to it what's wrong what happened I have a dollar easy to cheer invisible nothings [Applause] easy to cheer faith nothing's easy to say I will and I'll do God says you want to go to the next level yes do I do start tithing oh I think I'll go back one level start praying well I do pray when I'm God I don't hear you your levels take you to the place where you need a miracle if you're in a place where you never have to have a miracle you're not in a new season seasons mean you're faced with miracles God if you don't provide here it's not going to happen God said that's exactly right you're gonna need a miracle yes I need a miracle you know how to get one I don't know how to get one then you better find out I get one because you're gonna need a miracle to get there every level has new miracles and every level demands a new you the old you won't take you through the new level so you have to change you in order to get through the door update they get to the next level you have to have a new mindset renew your spirit renew your declaration renew your prayer life all that has to happen now when you go to the next level and you have a new door I'm gonna give you now one scripture I have 12 but you're going to get one that way on I can be invited back 11 more times gate I'm gonna give you biblical just biblical phrases from Scripture the biblical phrase says I'm gonna give you we're given to people now listen to me given to people who were going to the next level given the people who were taken a step up given the people who were going out of the norm these are the scriptures that go with them so I'm not making this up I'm not just preaching some kind of a good peppy sermon I'm just using these scriptures to say okay come on let's start with this and make sure we're on the same page how many of you have decided you will go to the next level wait way that may let me see your hands alright how many of you have decided you will go to the next season come on wait and you need new miracles and you will do whatever it takes to get there good good okay here's one thing here is just one cuz you know faith is Rihanna oh god oh god oh god I will go anywhere anywhere anywhere East Bay not East Bay God I will do anything hey we need someone to help with the children's ministry children have demonic problems i I don't do kids okay alright God says I want to go to the next level you're saying yes okay got it my life didn't mean anything I got it okay here's your scripture Hebrews 11 verse 8 here's the phrase not knowing where you were going oh no no I don't like that I don't like that I want to go but I want to know where I'm going okay then you don't get to go Hebrews 11 and verse 8 not knowing where you were going by faith everyone say faith there is no other way to get to the next level Abraham obeyed everyone say obeyed again faith without obedience is empty it's easy to say yet yet yet yet yet sensing God's with now step up no no no no no no no you gotta obey when he was called to go out to a place what place to receive an inheritance and he went out not knowing where the place was not knowing where he was going his mind is troubled his family is super troubled so where you going aid out how far far what's a life don't know how would you know when you get there guess I don't know well why are you leaving here because here is no longer mine here hello here is no longer my here and if I want to have the inheritance and supposed to get I have to go there and I can't go there if I stay here and I'm gonna go there but there's no GPS there's no map there's no anything I'm just gonna go out and I'm going to I guess I guess I'm just gonna have to trust God that were on going is good so he went out not knowing where he was going how many of you want to go to the next level I want my wife to go to the next level okay here's another phrase keep moving forward the righteous keep moving forward you got to keep moving forward you can't stop and whine make excuses blame and bite everybody you got to keep moving forward and you got to become clean hands with stronger stronger hands you got to keep moving forward here's another one that was job 79 here's another one I could preach each one of these like you know full script read but I have a plane to catch number three forget what happened in the past whoa whoa this is a tough one isaiah 43:18 do not clean two events at the pastor dwell on what happened so long ago I want you to watch for the new thing I'm going to do it's happening already but you're looking the wrong direction I've already started something new but you can't see because you keep looking back you keep looking over you keep you keep looking the wrong way have you ever had a child where you had to turn their head look over here well sometimes that's God turning you rock no lock no I'm afraid it's gonna be bad it's not bad how do you know it's not bad cuz I'm God are you sure that turns I want you to understand that you need to turn your head at the right direction and see the new you need to let go you need to break through you need to have a spirit of faith you need to allow God get a trust you got to step up you got to open that door you got to believe that today I've seated you with the ability to go to the next level if you would just put your hand on the door come on can I hear an amen all right how many of you learned something today [Applause] [Music]

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