The Flow - Robert Tisdale

declare freedom over your lives declare victory in your spirit declare peace over your marriage go ahead declare it hallelujah go ahead pray with your words right now speak the things that are not as if they are [Music] the hallelujah [Music] hallelujah if you feel a little victory in your spirit shout in the ass thank you jesus thank you jesus praise god praise god [Applause] i'm glad you've come to the house of the lord tonight [Music] [Applause] [Music] [Applause] this is a product of what we believe that god's presence elevates us above our struggles and we celebrate that singular reality with worship and unrestrained praise because god's been good to us better than we deserve for if we were to reap what we deserved our lives would be a shambles but by the grace of god by the mercies that come new every morning to your life you need to celebrate god's goodness over your family a little bit you need to celebrate the redemption that god brought your way because if satan had his way your life would be a mess all of us would be fighting addiction all of us would see our marriage in shambles but god's been good hallelujah [Music] is it all right if i preach a little lena be your neighbor and say this say the flow we need to get in the flow tonight say it one more time say the flow head towards your seats and find your place of worship one last time say it with me say the flow life has a flow a rhythm a timing life is seasonal pulsing alive it's rhythmic and each of you in this room you have a tune to play orchestrated by a divine conductor your music matters your instrument is integral to the success of the song god has designed for poa and if you're not playing your music because you're out of timing out of tune if you're missing your moment you miss the crescendo of god's blessing each and every one of you in this room there is a significance to the role you play you are an intricate part in a symphony that is greater than you you can't see every part you can't play every part but you are a part of some grand design that this conductor called god chose you for purposed you for and established you for and i don't know about you but i feel the crescendo coming it's rising in alexandria the energy the synchronicity do you feel the flow in the spirit [Music] so [Music] that's what's happening right now in the spirit each part is functioning together to play its individual role each unique note of your unique life is being divinely interwoven by one called jesus christ the same orchestra the same instruments the same professional musicians played again but they swapped instruments would you play the next clip the same piece played by the same professionals it's hall of the mountain king same symphony same musicians but they swapped musical instruments listen close my favorite part [Music] that's what happens when you play a role not given to you by god when you assume someone else is anointing in someone else's life when you imitate what god's doing in another person's life rather than let the unique gifting flow out of you you can know your role and play another and it sounds like the second symphony piece you see each person in this room your heart will beat 100 000 times in a day 35 million times in a year and during an average lifetime the human heart will beat more than three billion times each and every minute of every day the adult heart pumps five quarts of blood through the body approximately 2 000 gallons of blood are moved through the body in 24 hours during your lifetime your heart will pump 800 million pints of blood or one million barrels that's enough to fill three super tankers your blood only takes 20 seconds to circulate through the entire vascular system in your body a typical athlete's heart churns out eight gallons of blood per minute hold out your hand and make a fist that's the size of the average heart a fist to a fist and a half your body with that small muscle has five liters or six quarts of blood circulating through the body three times every minute in one day the blood in your body travels an approximate total of twelve thousand miles which is roughly four times the distance across the united states from coast to coast your system of blood vessels and arteries veins and calipillaries is over 60 000 miles long that's enough to go around the world more than twice and even at rest your heart works harder than the average olympic sprinter's leg muscles as they're running the 100 meter dash and none of it functions without a flow your future has a rhythm to it your ministry has a flow just just take your hand and put it right here on your wrist if you would or perhaps put it underneath your jaw bone where you can find your pulse press your thumb in slightly or your two fingers you feel that that's destiny at work that's the flow that coordinates your future that is what's happening in you moving forward hear me closely god's purpose has a heartbeat there is a flow to your future and just as this orchestra could not play effectively the same song on a different instrument you cannot function without the flow of god's spirit guiding your life the power of god's pulse sustains everything that god has assembled together in your life the power let me say it again of the pulse of god's heartbeat controls everything that god put together that's you you see just you see this right here this is me and this is what god has assembled together i didn't remind my heart to pulse i didn't remind my blood to flow i didn't command it to keep beating but from the crown of my head to the soles of my feet god has assembled me together for a purpose and i must find the note i am to play and if i play the wrong note if i spend too much time playing the wrong instrument you see the common thread in this room that puts us together listen we must have unity being in one place on a sunday night does not guarantee deliverance but according to matthew 18 and 20 where two or three are gathered together in my name the common bond is that we come together in unity to worship jesus christ a crowd does not make a church because you can be in one place and not in one accord to be in one accord is to have one pulse because destiny and the future of your life and disassembly must have one pulse your life your success must beat singularly for as the body is one first corinthians 2 11 20 and have many members and all the members of that body being many listen to me are one body so also is christ for by one spirit are we all baptized into one body whether we be jews or gentiles bond or free we have all been made to drink in one spirit for the body is not one member but many and if the foot shall say because i am not the hand i am not in the body shall i go on in the eye she cannot say to the ear i am not in the body and the ear cannot say to the eye i am not a part of the body where is the hearing where is the seeing you have a distinct role to play in this orchestra god is creating in alexandria the eye cannot say to the hand i have no need of thee nor again the head to the feet i have no need of you we are one body different parts but we must all have the same pulse you can't do your own thing you have to flow with the pulsating energy of god's direction given by the pastors and the man of god you see it feels a little bit misplaced when people miss their timing when they flow out of tune when they play their own songs you see when the pulse drops you pass out you pass away don't let anything interfere with the rhythm of the spirit don't let anything interfere with the rhythm of god's purpose because if you interfere with the pulse you kill the creativity because you got to have rhythm you can have your own rhythm but you're going to have to walk together in rhythm and in sync with the pastor and the leadership of this church if you're going to play the music the right way you got to watch the conductor and you got to play your piece and you gotta play your notes you can't walk with me if you change the rhythm the strength of this assembly is in the rhythm and the consistency of the pulse and the passion there is a season there is a rhythm and everything with god has a rhythm there is a rhythm in this house listen to me you cannot play music if you don't have rhythm you ever you ever worked with someone who thought they could sing because their mama told them they could sing just because your mom tells you you can sing doesn't mean you can sing have you ever been in the car with someone and with the tape on with a cd on with spotify they sound just fine but when the music goes off some of you are thinking about yourselves right now you sound pretty good when the singer's singing but when the music goes off it happened tonight they were singing that song they were singing the lord's prayer i was singing my own version not that i didn't know the lord's prayer i just couldn't get the timing right don't sing hard songs like that bothers me that syncopated beat piano let's play something you ready let's play you thought i was worth saving let's do that yeah there you go since you came into my life that's too high yeah he said that you see that the other musician said that so do it again go you thought i was worth saving do that yeah okay i want you on the piano would you get on the piano and play that and why don't you hop on the bass okay up on the bass all right let's just see what happens yeah let's see what happens okay we're going to do that you thought i was worth saving you ready oh don't worry about the key just play what you feel [Music] okay that's all you got hey you got to play he thought i was worth saving okay you played on the bass why is it different why is it different there's a modicum of experience and talent but it's not disciplined or developed because they're playing something that is not their natural instrument every one of you blessed is the man that walketh not in the council of the ungodly nor standeth in the way of sinners nor sitteth in the sea of the scornful but his delights in the law of the lord and in that law doth he meditate day and night for he should be like a tree planted by the rivers of water that should bring forth his own fruit in his own season every one of you has a role to play and your role is not my role and the piano's role is not the bass player's role and the bass player's role is not the piano's role understand what i'm playing and we can't make the kind of music god wants us to make if we're constantly getting out of rhythm and out of tune we when when i pastored my first church in california have you ever seen the muppets you ever seen that so animal played our drums you know who that is that's a little guy with the chain and the and the spikes right around his neck and that's who our drummer was in california and i say that somewhat in jest we had an amazing drummer but he liked drugs new convert you're starting church you play whoever you got to play and and i won't say his name publicly but he would get on the drums and we'd be playing and we'd be let me illustrate it okay you ready oh i got the wrong people on the wrong instruments okay okay here we go so let's just give me a nice rhythm and when i say now give me a drum roll okay ready go give just give me a rhythm drummer go so we're singing right here you know we're saying thank god for the blood or whatever now one two three go no that ain't no no no you gotta go like okay you ready one two three go [Music] that is exactly what would happen in the middle of a song because it was just something like some neuron misfired for a moment and everyone would look and then you'd go right back to a rhythm because he always marched to the beat of his own rhythm because he couldn't play in step because he couldn't get in sync hear me he could play by himself but we couldn't play with him because we didn't know that he was going to sustain the rhythm have you have you ever tried to play music for someone that can't be a part of the rhythm they just jump in at any time with their own ideas they just do tricks when they don't need to do vocal tricks they play drum solos when drum solos aren't necessary they were good by themselves but you can't accompany them you can't join them because you can't get in sync with them we have drums and a rhythm for a reason because it establishes a beat and if you want to change the beat you got to change the rhythm but listen the drummer can't play his own beat it's got to come from the lead it's got to come from the conductor because one raggedy drummer one bad selfish drummer one rhythm section that plays its own tune will upset the entire orchestra because the drum is driving the pace it's driving the moment and the pulse is the rhythm some of you are trying to live your life without rhythm i've come to tell some of you in the holy ghost hear me clearly you can't do just what you want to do anytime you want to do it you got to get in rhythm with the man of god you got to get in rhythm with the holy ghost because you don't even know when to come in anymore you don't know when to surge in victory and you don't know when to pray and discipline because you're trying to play to your own rhythm you're trying to move to your own beat you have no pulse and no one can fly with you no one can celebrate with you no one can worship with you because you don't know what song they're in you're in your own tune you look nice you have the voice you have the talent you got the hair you got the dress and you even have rhythm but you're on your own flow because your greatness can't fit into the context of other people's greatness you're killing your potential the fact that you can't fit into the rhythm of the people's greatness diminishes the possibility of ever accomplishing your destiny because everything great has a rhythm who i feel the holy ghost right now thoughts have a rhythm music has a rhythm orchestra has a rhythm choir has a rhythm life has a rhythm days have a rhythm knights have a rhythm body has a rhythm everything you encounter has a flow your marriage has a flow rating your kids has a flow your prayer life has a flow your praise and your worship life has a flow because your life is controlled by that rhythm and you can't afford to get out of tune off beat you can't because you will delay the purpose god has established for your life you got to get in the flow because if you don't keep the discipline of the flow in your life you'll miss the miracle that god wants to crescendo in your future so i'm challenging someone right now pick up the pace in the last half of this year get in step with this pastor you get alongside of him and pastor gentry and you get in lock step with him the scripture said how can two walk together unless they agree what god wants to do is a crescendo in the spirit in the last four months at poa and you got to get in rhythm you can't just watch television and be a great musician you got to get in the rhythm of discipline and practice because poor preparation slows down the rhythm and if you do what others do you can have what they have success has a rhythm life has a rhythm god has a rhythm the world has a rhythm the drummers give rhythm poa has a rhythm and the spirit's speaking to some of you get in line get in the rhythm pick up your pace oh pick up your pace listen to me progress is not hindered by environment i rebuke that spirit i've watched people change churches and cities and husbands and wives and never progress because they blame the environment for a lack of productivity protectivity progress is not limited by environment entirely geese made to fly but they can walk on land on water they can swim but on air he can soar because he's not dependent upon the environment to accelerate his progress he can move wherever he is you see cain got mad at abel cain got angry at abel because he couldn't handle the context of the greatness and the blessing upon abel's life and god says why is your countenance fallen what's wrong with you if thou does well will i not receive you also god is saying to cain if you did what abel did you can get what abel got you don't have to kill abel trying to receive what abel has i'll bless you like i blessed abel but you have to make the same sacrifice that abel made to get the fire to fall you can't have the same success abel had unless you're willing to be what abel and do what abel did stop being other people's haters because the favor and the blessing of god is on their life you are wasting your energy in the wrong direction stop blaming other people for what you refuse to fix is that all right i will say it again because it's worth repeating don't blame other people for what you refuse to fix when people refuse to critique themselves analyze themselves evaluate their spiritual progress they lose the things god has purpose for them in their future because they will not change let me tell you if you'll change it'll be easier if you'll change it'll be cheaper and you'll be a lot happier if you get in the rhythm you'll be happier well it's not me i got to be me i got to do what i want to do stop defining yourself by who you used to be you ought to just stop for a minute and listen how you talk to yourself you have convinced yourself that the old you is the only person you have to work with the devil's a liar and the father of every lie listen to me you do not have to work with who you used to be you are a new creature old things are passed away all things are becoming new listen to me clearly stop defining yourself by the failures you used to walk in by the anger you used to live in by the inconsistencies you used to have spiritually define yourself by the pulse and the rhythm of the spirit that's set by the man of god and i don't know about you but i hear a rhythm of breakthrough and victory that's what was trying to happen in this house tonight there was a rhythm in the spirit of rejoicing and celebration and from the back to the front every one of us should have been saying i just feel the pulse of a breakthrough and a dance and a celebration [Applause] touch your neighbor and tell them we're moving up say we're going higher say there's a rhythm in the spirit say something's about to happen let's move somewhere we've never been let's move into a territory of the spirit we've never accessed put the picture of those geese on the in formation on the screen if you would when geese get ready to migrate they don't do it alone they fly in a flock they fly in a formation and when geese fly in a formation there's a structure there's an order and they don't compete with each other they complement each other they complement each other when i count to three each of y'all just play whatever you want to play no matter what song no matter what key just play whatever you want to play you ready one two three go okay i'm good i'm good i'm good that's what disunity sounds like in the ears of god when we're marching to the beat of our own flow that's what it sounds like in heaven's ears it's chaotic it's unstructured it's undisciplined it's broken it's selfish it's driven by agenda and personal motives hear me clearly but when we get in tune when we get in sync it's a sweet smelling savor in the nostrils of god hear me when you get in order and you begin to fly in order hear me very clearly when the geese get in formation they complement each other's effort now the one up front he's got the biggest job come up here pastor mangan the one in the lead come here he's got the hardest job because he's out front facing the most resistance but listen to this for the next goose in the line the resistance has been reduced significantly and he's slightly above and to the right or the left just behind the other wing flapping because the turbulence has been broken the resistance of the air has been broken listen to this and it passes all the way down the line whether it's five or whether it's 500 and the bird behind the lead bird behind the second bird behind the fourth bird they are lifted up slightly by the updraft of the lead bird and it becomes easier for them to fly i am lifted by the flapping of the wings of the person in front of me [Applause] let me tell you something if g.a mangan and laine mangan had to flap their wings this guy doesn't fly as high as he flies and if anthony and mick mangan don't flap their wings gentry and lexi don't fly as high as god wants him to fly because when the lead birds out there flap it in the spirit it makes it easier listen clearly you don't live for god just for you you don't break into new territories just for you you don't pray just for you you're worshiping because you're breaking resistance for the people behind you we're in this thing together we're in this to be a part of god's sympathy because we are unified to one flow one pulse one rhythm if your parents hadn't flapped if your parents hadn't pushed their wings if your parents hadn't prayed you wouldn't be moving as fast as you're moving don't get cocky and think it's you don't get arrogant and think you're successful because you got there by yourself p.o.a we need you to lead i need you to pray like you've never prayed i need you to give like you've never given i need you to worship like you've never worshipped because you're a lead bird you're out in the front breaking the resistance of the adversary setting other churches a little higher a little smoother i'm lifted because who's in front of me i'm lifted because who's beside me i'm lifted by my ability to be great in the midst of other people's greatness because i'm in the flow come stand in front of me pastor stand right there ryan you come stand right here slightly behind just off to his right right there and when he moves you're moving and here i come just sliding into the formation not trying to do my own thing just feeling after what he's feeling after whatever he does you do it yeah whatever he does there you go we're just we're just seeking after what god's doing yeah there you go when he dips we dip when he turns we turn when he worships we worship yeah that's what we do whatever he does that's what we do why because he's got the flow of the spirit the pulse the rhythm and if i'm gonna be productive he makes me greater he gives me lift listen to this and i'll give you a scientific fact when the birds geese fly in formation it reduces the energy level of the following birds by two-thirds stand up here don't stop flapping when he's flopping it takes me two-thirds less energy to flat behind him yeah so don't let me i i will tell you i'll preach on what he just did that's why god ordained the levitical priesthood to have parameters on how long it lasted because he can't keep leading the clock at some point that bird gets tired so let me tell you what happens when the lead bird gets tired when the lead goose gets tired he slips out of formation falls back toward the middle toward the back of the pack and another goose slides right up into the v and takes the weather he can't do it by himself he can't baptize them all by himself he can't pray them all through he can't lead every service he can't praise his way through every battle you got to be up there flapping with him [Applause] there's got to be somebody [Applause] listen so by reducing the energy of the birds behind you by two-thirds we can fly 70 percent farther no wonder they migrate all down the eastern seaboard from way up north in canada way down into florida because they have an ability to go 70 farther because that lead bird is breaking the resistance of the air and in comes another bird and when it grows a little weird i go just let me help it we'll do another 16 week revival just let me help you pastor let me fly alongside with you let me buck the wind in the spirit world for a little while let me fight with you i wish somebody would decide some of you men you've been letting the ladies in your family buck the spiritual resistance too long it's time you shifted and said honey let me pray a little while don't mess with me tonight devil i feel a little power of the holy ghost about to break loose in this house can i tell you something your slothfulness slows down the formation it hinders the rhythm it stops the blessing the disconnect the attitude the lack of prayer the worship it limits the flock's ability it's so much easier when you don't try to live for god in isolation jesus sent him out two by twos he put him in groups of 70. he put him in groups of 12. he never sent anyone on their own because in order to be together you got to have that pulse you got to get in that rhythm and if we're going to do what god wants us to do in this end time you must have the rhythm of the man of god success of this church is predicated on rhythm you can't let people that aren't flying set the pace for your life let me say it again you can't let people that aren't flying set the pace for your life quit listening to people that are land dwellers quit listening to people that are too afraid to fly on their own don't let your past dictate your future let me tell you what happens let me tell you what happens when a bird gets wounded when one of those geese gets wounded or he grows too tired to continue in the formation he drops down to the ground but is programmed in the dna of those birds they never let one go to the ground alone and when one flies to the ground two or three more birds break formation and fly to the ground with them and they wait till the bird recovers or passes away and if the bird recovers they watch for another flock migrating south and they join another flock if there's not another flock to join they create a small v and try to catch up with their own flock because they never leave a wounded goose behind i i just wish this church has symbolized it in this movement for a long time but but i just wish you'd slide up along somebody and say i know you little wounded we're not gonna fly without you we're gonna make sure you're healed and we gonna get you right in the middle of the rhythm of what god has why don't you just grab somebody by the hand right now and just stand to your feet and let your praise rise [Applause] some of you need to break some rhythm with some people that aren't flying with you you can't allow your royalty to old friends and old traditions and old rituals keep you on the ground take the risk of criticism and get with the flow of the spirit the birds are teaching us we don't have to lose the people we love we just have to restore them we just have to heal them and get them back in the pulse and the rhythm of god's spirit you ready to be a little crazy get out your wings with me right now and everybody just flap them a little bit just get your wings out and fly a little bit with me right now i know it seems a little crazy come on why don't you just fly into the supernatural that's been the pulse of this sunday move into the supernatural move into another manifestation of faith now grab somebody by the hand and tell them this right now so i'm not leaving you behind come on tell them say right now i'm not letting you drop out of the flock let's get in the rhythm let's get in the rhythm right now let's get in the flow of the spirit right now when i count to three you raise your voice and let the holy spirit begin to pray let's move into the rhythm of the holy ghost for a moment you ready you got somebody's hand you're ready to fly with this flock somewhere you ready one two three this is somebody's season to fly this is somebody's season to join a rhythm and a flow in the spirit to take you where you've never been it's time to migrate out of your past if you feel a little lift in the spirit give god a praise right now if you feel a little left in the holy ghost give god a shout right now [Applause] if you need a miracle in the house put your hand in the air can i tell you how to get a miracle get in the flow we wait for the miracles to come to us let's get in the flow of the spirit right now let's get in the movement of the spirit let's get in sync with the pastor what would happen if when he said worship every single person in the house worshipped what would happen if he said say in the name of jesus if every one of us discarded our distractions and said in the name of jesus what would happen right now in this house if you took the hand of your neighbor and you prayed a prayer of faith what would happen if every single person participated in that moment of faith what would shift in this flock why don't you do it right now reach over to someone and when i count to three i want you to say in the name of jesus be lifted in the name of jesus be free when i count to three i want you to say it and i want you to mean it with authority and dominion right now you ready one two three in the name of jesus fly in the name of jesus soar in the name of jesus be healed in the name of jesus find your victory in the name of jesus be loosed in the name of jesus come on god holds the compass of your destiny come on there you go there you go poa get in the rhythm let it rise let it rise [Applause] let it rise [Applause] let's keep pressing what would happen if the person you take by the hand when i count to three you just danced a little every person in the room did a leap did a dance did a spin did a jig y'all getting uncomfortable now see pastor i was okay flapping my wings but i don't know if i can do a little dance one two [Applause] three come on getting the rhythm getting the flow oh there you go don't just laugh don't just watch jig a little dance a little put your praise on for a moment [Applause] now while you're doing that say in the name of jesus i come against every demonic resistance every spiritual battle [Applause] every confrontation and every limitation i take authority over it right now i take dominion over it in the holy ghost right now come on go ahead move a little in faith move a little in dominion right now you say does it really work that way pastor it's just unity we're flying as a flock right now we're going 71 farther [Applause] when i count to three you shout hallelujah at the top of your voice and don't stop shouting it with one shout it over and over one two three somebody's about to receive a miracle right now somebody's about to receive a healing right now somebody's around to see the deliverance right now in the name of jesus in the name of jesus in the name of jesus [Applause] if you need a breakthrough hurry to this altar right now and don't let anybody come alone there ought to be two or three people grabbing somebody and saying come on i'm not letting you come alone you're not going to get a breakthrough alone you're not falling wounded alone you're not slipping out of the movement of the spirit alone does anyone else feel it about your church that there's a pulse of breakthrough that there's a flow of deliverance that there's a power of the spirit weaving its way that the conductors having each of us play are single notes unified into a beautiful symphony anybody feel it play your role pray your prayers dance your dance sing your songs oh yeah all over this house coming in unity right now yeah just keep coming we're coming all over this house everyone's coming right now move out of the pew come toward the front everybody's putting their hand on someone in front of them so it's just like an unbroken chain of connections across this house [Music] oh yeah that's it that's it that's it come on keep coming they're still coming they're still coming right now everybody's touching someone else nobody's by themselves right now everyone's connecting to someone else right now in the name of jesus by the authority of the holy ghost in me by the dominion and the power of the name by the sovereignty of the word oh yeah and by the power of our togetherness and unity i release healing and deliverance i release victory i release the miraculous i release spirit and feeling i release breakthroughs in your body peace in your marriage recovery oh yeah go ahead pray and pray and pray and pray it come on somebody you're touching someone you're declaring healing you're declaring deliverance you're declaring breakthrough you're declaring order you

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