The God of The Impossible | Pastor Jentezen Franklin

praise the Lord a love Wednesday nights because I don't I just refuse to get all uptight about I work just like you all day long just like you trust me and then all day long one thing after another one issue after another I've been going traveling and when I come back and just stacks up phone calls this and that staff this that this and that so I know I know how you feel sometimes I come in here the last thing um that I feel like I'm able to do is preach because it's just not been a clear schedule day for me right up to the surface a man but God is faithful he's good if we relax love it flow with it you know you already been to church we didn't get nothing else you're stronger and healthier you look better than you did when you came in here praise the Lord feel like God wants somebody to know that he is your provider always has been don't sweat it don't sweat want to go to the Book of Ezekiel chapter 37 for just a few moments tonight Ezekiel chapter 37 and I'll begin reading with verse 1 as I preached to you tonight on the god of the impossible the god of the impossible the hand of the Lord came upon me and brought me out in the Spirit of the Lord and set me down in the midst of the valley it was full of bones then he calls me to pass by them all around and behold there were very many in an open Valley and indeed they were very dry he said to me son of man can these bones live so I answered Oh Lord God you know and again he said to me prophesy to these bones areas a spirit of prophecy here tonight and that's what was just happening in case you're new to this kind of church that's more than just a little chill bump we don't have a chill bump machine around here goose bump we don't have one of those but when the Spirit of God starts leading there's a difference in somebody saying something in the anointing being on that thing and it becomes a prophetic word for your life that it's like how did they hide it why did he say that like that because that's what I need that's the Holy Spirit giving you a prophecy over your impossibility he said to me son of man can these bones live so answered Lord you know and he said to me prophesy to these bones and say to them Oh dry bones hear the word of the Lord thus says the Lord God to these bones surely I will cause breath to enter in you and you shall live I'll put skin on you and bring flesh upon you cover you with skin and put breath in you and you shall live and then you shall know that I am the Lord so I prophesied as I was commanded I prophesied there was a noise suddenly a rattling and the bones came together bone to bone I looked and the seenu's and the flesh came upon them the skin covered them over and there was no breath in them and he said prophesy breath prophesy prophets that prophesy son of man prophesy Son of Man and say to the breath thus says the Lord God will come four winds o breathe and breathe on these slain that they may live so i prophesied as he commanded me and breath came into them they lived stood upon their feet an exceeding great army I want to talk to you about this powerful chapter and miracle and how that we serve the god of the impossible because that is exactly what is being described in this text starts out by saying that he was in the spirit in verse one that that that he brought me to a place the hand of the Lord came on me to do something and he brought me out in the spirit the importance of being in the spirit it it it's it's a different thing when you're in the spirit you see what it really means is to be in step with the Holy Spirit to be in rhythm with the Holy Spirit to be in the spirit is to be in rhythm with him to be in step to be in tune with what God is doing and he's not talking about just an out-of-body experience but we can be in the spirit we can be in whit rhythm with his with his leading and with his voice and in sync one translation said I was in sync with the spirit I was in step with what God was doing another translation said it means to be to be in the spirit means to be inspired John was exiled on the Isle of Patmos in the book of and he said I was in the spirit he was in you know a bad place and a barren place but he got in sync and in the spirit Paul was in a Philippian jail the sewage system of Rome was running through that jail and yet while he was there ankle deep in sewage he said he has raised me up to sit in heavenly places so there is something that can happen to you that regardless of where you are in the natural it's possible that the hand of the Lord can come on you and you can get in the spirit and you you're there but you're not there you're in the world but you're not of the world and then he said the hand of the Lord in verse 1 came upon me that was one of the three or four out of the four prayer requests that the Old Testament character jay-bez had one of the four was that your hand would be upon me it's a powerful thing when the hand of the Lord comes upon you and you get in sync with the Spirit to do something it's important to know why the hand of the Lord is upon you because you can't do everything when the hand of the Lord is upon you you can do what others cannot do when his hand comes on you to do a thing you will be more effective than someone who tries to do it without the hand of the Lord when the hand of the Lord comes upon you what you could not have done by yourself the hand of the Lord begins to make happen when the hand of the Lord is upon you you have protection amen when the hand of the Lord is upon you it upholds you even when you should not have succeeded when the hand of the Lord is upon you you succeed because the hand of the Lord can't fail when it touches something when the hand of the Lord is upon you nobody can do anything about it no weapon formed against you will prosper including your own stupidity Devils can't stop it critics can't stop it it's important it's important to pray a lot like jay-bez did let your hand be upon me I want your hand upon me put your hand upon me more than praying for things and praying for stuff it's important to beg God that your hand would be upon me I won't that that tender touch of God on my life the hand of the Lord is on you for something notice that not everything but for something and we need to pray that we would know what the hand of the Lord is on us to do not on us for just anything we pick or choose in acts 16 and verse 6 it says they were forbidden by the Holy Ghost to preach the gospel in Asia in other words God said I'm withdrawing my hand you want to go do that but I don't want you to do that and I forbid you aren't you glad you've got a Holy Spirit that doesn't just open doors but he closes doors if you don't believe it look up your old girlfriend on Facebook and look at look at what you almost married but the Holy Ghost forbid you somebody all to dance and shout and praise God right there the investment you would have made but the holy ghost took his hand off and said do it and you won't have peace that I give you see Paul was wanting to go everywhere and preach and so he just started heading off into Asia but he I love this the wording of that he was forbidden by the Holy Ghost in other words the Spirit would not allow him to do it we need to understand what it is for the hand of the Lord to come upon you to do a thing because if you get caught up in trying to do everything it becomes a distraction from the thing that the hand of the Lord is upon you to do God is a master Orchestrator and he puts somebody over Asia that he's already raised up and you don't need to feel a burden and feel like you've failed the Lord Paul because you didn't cover Asia I've already got somebody over there I don't need you to be Superman I need you to do what my hand comes on you to do extremely well and and and when you do it it will prosper and stay focused on that somebody else will go to China the hand of the Lord is on you to do one thing don't try to fix everything or you'll miss your one thing acts 16 and verse 9 Paul then when the Holy Ghost forbids him to go to Asia in the same chapter he prays and he gets a vision of a man in Macedonia in in in Greece and he says come and help us and immediately we wind the Holy Spirit told told told him two times don't go to Asia don't go here don't go there and then he turns around and he gets a vision and the Holy Spirit says go here come help us in the vision the man say a calm help us immediately after the vision we Paul said set out to go to Macedonia we set out to go to Macedonia it's important to pray that leadership will have the hand of the Lord on us to know what we are to do because if the leader is not being led by the hand of the Lord it affects the we in the group that's following that leader and you and I'm all you got right now is the path you got all these wonderful pastor but we need to pray for the leadership of the hand of the Lord to do what he wants this church to do in the earth we can't do everything everywhere but we can do what nobody else can do when the hand of the Lord comes upon us to do a thing praise God praise God the Holy Spirit can say don't go here and the Holy Spirit can say go there and he sees that the needs are so great right now in the world I really believe that that we have to know what it is that the hand of the Lord is upon us to do because if the hand of the Lord is on you to do something we can do whatever his hand is upon us to do from right here in these clay hills of Northeast Georgia that can touch the world in profound ways hallelujah we can touch the world if God's hand is on us to do it we have to know what it is that the hand of the Lord is on us to do then notice something else he said when the hand of the Lord came on me when I got him synch with the spirit he set me down in a valley took me to a low place a lot of times you know when the hand of the Lord is upon you seems like when it came on Paul it raised him up to heavenly places when he came on John it carried him to a city called New Jerusalem high up a voice said come up come up here but what happens when the hand of the Lord is on you and rather than taking you to a mountain he sets you down in a valley when I get in the spirit and he allows me to go through the valley and his hand is upon me and and causes me to go through low places it's to make me feel and understand and turn my attention to people like living in the low places because we are so self-centered that if we're not careful we forget about people who live in in low places when we're high and all along the journey God will humble you God will take his hand will come upon you and after winning winning winning winning he'll take you to a low place just to reconnect you to how people still feel just like you felt when you were low and you didn't know how in the world you were gonna get out and they need to hear from somebody who has been taken high this is how God did it for me there are people in the world who spend their entire life in low places it's like the Spirit of God says to all of us who are so blessed look into this valley look into these low places look into Haiti look into the the disaster that's happening in the in the south side of Chicago 50 and 60 young people dying every weekend and we just go on nobody says nothing these are the low places these are real people dying in our streets in this city under bridges in this city in prison in this city dying in rest homes forgotten no family there in low places in this city in in poverty like we can't even imagine in this city people totally strung out on drugs someone tonight is in a low place within five mile radius of this church maybe drinking themselves to death for the last time and we'll go into eternity the Spirit of God doesn't just want to take you to high places sometimes the Spirit of God wants to make you sensitive about the valleys and the low places that people are in the the the the pain of that that I see sometimes in this church this beautiful church that you're so generous but when I go to Orange County and I preach out there and they bring every Sunday night a busload of girls they trust us now they didn't do this at first they would bring just a handful but now the we we you and I we paid for a whole a whole Center for sex trafficking and we pay the salary of the workers own in that ministry that get girls off of loss off of the streets of Los Angeles on top of that wait a minute just I'm not doing it for that I just want you to listen a minute on top of that we took on another project I think it was a year ago maybe a year and a half ago and we we took vet women who had served in the United States veterans you know in the services and now they were out of the service and what most people don't understand is sometimes they find themselves in the transition place once they come out of the service and bottom line the mayor of Los Angeles said to Matthew Barnett and then Matthew Barnett called me and then I turned to you but but he said our number one problem in Los Angeles right now with homeless people the biggest demographic that is growing in is veteran women we need somewhere to put women who have served the United States Armed Forces they're homeless and they're living on Skid Row in Los Angeles which have you never seen that place if you've never been down there if you've never rode through the streets that is called Skid Row in Los Angeles it it blows your mind you know I found myself last week when I was in Washington and we were walking the streets DC and and I just kept seeing the homeless people and I just kept seeing the homeless people and it's almost like you're cold to it you're indifferent to it and on and we can all say well they're there because they chose to be and all of that and I understand personal responsibility but does it really matter if you're hurting didn't we all mess up do we all really want to go down that road if we get what we deserve because should we be as blessed as we are come on let's just be honest and so we built that home he had a little place there and you you gave he renovated the whole thing it costs three hundred fifty thousand and then we said we had extra money come in and we said well we'll just we'll just furnish it to and we furnished it and there's 40 women in that place and that beautiful 40 women forty women that were homeless that were homeless but what touches me on Sunday nights a lot of times is out there that that that little bus will pull up it's a big bus like a big school bus it says on big words dream Center and those girls that have been trafficked raped abused god only knows what they've been through they'll get off and they'll come in those services and they'll come in hard but they keep bringing them and they always come almost the first time when you preach I don't ever worry about I never get under pressure about altar calls out there because there's so many heathens all you got to do is just throw the net out and you catch on I mean here in the Bible Belt it's a little bit harder but out there I mean honestly I could say Jesus Jesus died and rose again anybody want to get saved and your sins be forgiven and go to heaven and they'll run to the honor they don't know who David and Goliath are and they don't know who they don't know they've never hurt you can't say turn to the book of Mark they're like what is that where is it where would I go to get it they don't know and I don't know what I'm trying to say but I feel like the hand of Lord has to come upon us to do some things that can make a difference in the low places and when you go and see that it robbed you of your right to complain it'll rob you of your right to feel sorry for yourself look into the low places what would it be like if your biggest battle was your place where you're located you could be as smart as somebody else but you're just in the wrong place you have just as much potential as everybody else but you're just in the wrong place and you can't never get a break there are people who are living in low places tonight and I love the fact that God said to a prophet can these bones live and God he looks back at God and he says a political answer thou knowest Lord I don't want to take a stand either way and the Lord said prophesy speak to these bones speak because you serve the god of the impossible and nothing happens in the spirit world to you open your mouth and you speak life you speak life to your dreams you speak life to your call you speak life to your children you speak life to your body you speak life to your children's destiny you speak life to the dry bones you speak life to the low places you speak life you don't speak death you don't speak complain you don't speak disappointment you don't speak let down you don't speak you really hurt me you speak life and when you begin to speak life then things start to live because the power of death and life are in our tongue and he said I'm looking for people who will become life speakers I'm looking for people who go into the impossible load places of people's lives and not encourage them in their depression and not tell them you're right it is bad and I agree with you you have every right to wallow in your self-pity but we need people who will be anointed with the hand of the Lord upon them to speak life and say in the name of Jesus I know it's been bad but you are coming out and God does have a destiny and you are going to make it and you're about to turn the corner on your miracle and I know you had a setback and I know you messed up but God's not through with you yet what am i doing I'm speaking like I'm prophesied that the Sun is going to shine again that goodness is gonna happen again that plenty will be your place again headed to a wealthy place again in every way and emotionally spiritually financially he's talking you through the fire wealthy place somebody put your hands together and give him praise if you believe come on come on praise him right now speak life speak life speak life you serve the god of the impossible speak life like praise God let's just lift our hands and worship Jesus glory to God hallelujah Lord let your hand be on us come on raise your hand or just let your hand be on me and let the Holy Ghost forbid me to not miss with anything that your hand is not only to do to not be with anybody that your hand has not been on me to be with I want every distraction removed out of my life and you can forbid me to be with anybody or go anywhere you want to give the Holy Ghost permission and you're opening up to divine direction the moment you do it he can for b2 and he can release you and I hear the Lord saying my hand is gonna pull you out of some situations and release you into some news for all the Elven other own things that the enemy tried to destroy you with clap your hands a feel the hand upon me to do something right then I speak right the speed lies to the alcohol I speak life to the drug addict I speak life to the manic-depressive I to people who have done all you can do and you feel like you I speak life too he's the God and his hand is coming upon you to do what others cannot do when the hand of the Lord is upon you to do something they can't do nothing about [Music] halleloo how'd it look well I feel the Lord in this place how many of you feel the hand of the Lord coming on you when his hand comes on you you're not bashful about it when his hand comes on you you're filled with courage and confidence to do exactly what he tells you to do and you got that eagle eye a vision that will not be distracted the hand of the Lord is upon you church and the Lord is upon me and it's upon you it's upon us upon you these senses its own here the hand of the Lord is on my life say that the hand of the Lord is on my life you understand that I can't limit you if the hand of the Lord's on you I know you work for the church and all of that and I guess I'm technically I'm your boss but if God's hand comes on you to do a thing do you actually think that I could stop you from doing the thing that God has called you to do to reach people in the love places and when his hands on you to do it there will be the blessing of the leadership we don't have our own thing going on here I'm just telling you that's how we keep waiting on somebody to give us a break somebody to give us a chance you let the hand of the Lord come on you and he'll raise you up he'll raise you up they'll just have to watch you because when the hand of the Lord is on you to do a thing and he's on you to raise a godly family berries the hand of for your permission the hand of the Lord so so quit licking your wounds talking about where you messed up that's just learning congratulations but now the hand of the Lord in this service comes upon you not to live in yesterday but to move to your greatest days of victories and success you've ever experienced your life there there it is that's that prophecy that's that only God can make green [Music] lift your hands and crazy that he's still he steals gonna do something in your days that will make people stand in wonder [Music] how many of you want the hand of the Lord how many of you want to speak life [Music] I love that verse in the Bible about Samuel that said that when he spoke not one of his words failed to the ground and such a prophetic anointing on his on his words because the hand of the Lord was on an Apollo him said the dogs with Wagner tails of bark if he told three did y'all read it said there's over would the dogs would run away if when he spoke they could hear something in his voice hallelu I want demons to do that I speak life I speak life to every situation represented in this room and online I speak like oh the enemy would love for you to get weary in well-doing it back up now right when you're on the brink of some of the greatest things [Applause] but I hear the Lord saying speak like I speak life to you I speak encouragement to you I speak destiny back into your soul the hand of the Lord is upon you to do this thing so strengthen yourself and encourage yourself and get up out of that place a bit down and stand back up the is upon you to do this thing the spirit our and what he starts who has you will be completed completely Lord you sense this is a word and season for your life tonight you want the hand of the Lord for the thing not everything anything you want to do but I won't V thing at the hand of the Lord wants to come upon me for I want you to get out here in this altar just come and lift your hands spend a little time praying in the Holy Ghost worshiping Jesus exalting him horrified him take some time don't you want the hand of the Lord to come on don't you want the hand of the Lord to come on [Music] [Music] great [Music] [Music] [Music] [Music] yeah [Music] [Music] Hey [Music] they there [Music] [Applause] Oh [Music] [Music] is your friend [Music] see [Music] [Music] great I know the night won't last signature everybody sing [Music] my heart will sing your praise again give us words Jesus you're still enough keep me within your love me [Music] [Music] where singing one more I see you you know the mountain how's this and he'll do it [Music] grace come I want us to close with that that declaration of fear bound whatever the rest is of it is but I just feel like there's power in that song fear bad I'm not asking you I'm commanding a sphere is a spirit make you question everything you do won't even allow your gift to operate your intuition to be free to make a good choice because you dominated by fear right now I'll release you from fear [Applause] in the name of Jesus [Music] praise God I felt like there's power in unity tonight we raised our hands together corporately Donal do things cuz there's so many worship at him right now let's just declare this over our lives over our country over our nation over our world [Music] do [Music] [Music] [Music] [Applause] [Applause] [Music] yeah [Applause] [Music] [Applause] you believe Jesus changes everything praise God [Music] bones are living tonight praise the name of Jesus hallelujah boy it feels good in here Laurie to God say this the hand of the Lord is upon me to do some things that only I can do God chose me I'm a chosen vessel and I'm gonna do the thing that his hand is on me to do he's forbidden me to be involved with everything and everybody but he's releasing me into the thing his hand is upon me to do and I will be unstoppable when the hand of the Lord is upon me to do it praise God do you receive it y'all want to go home it feels good in here doesn't hallelujah glory to God glory to God Laurie - God you leave when you want to hallelujah praise God praise God praise God praise God praise God Lord's move in church the Lord is moving since Calvin [Music] [Music] tell somebody near you something good is coming [Music] things he's forbidden but he's releasing something time you say yes sir to your wheel into [Music] [Applause] [Music] you feel like singing some what you feel like saying [Music] the - just read this list shake it hey hurry - brother encourage the system you're freezing [Music] we we met today about the storm of course we've got a church in Spartanburg and they're saying that South Carolina could could be pretty majorly hit and we just gone on and decided to try to be as proactive as we could we got with a great organization in God's pit crew and we are getting five truckloads because that's what last crisis like that you gave enough to get five truckloads of water and essentials the beautiful thing about this ministry God's is they don't just go in with a bunch of stuff but they're going with like chainsaws and they go in with they know exactly what to do in these situations and the things that people need the most even the stuff that they spray when when a house has been flooded you wouldn't believe the detail that this ministry that we like to partner with so we've gone on him by faith cause that's our heart is to be ready and to help people right so Sunday will probably take an offering in all of our campuses to to help people in need will find churches down there and funnel the resources to and but you know I pray that it turns around but either way will not be shaken and we're gonna be a part of the solution right here in free temple we love you all may the Lord bless you and keep you make his face shine on you be gracious unto you lift up his countenance upon you give you peace and may the hand of the Lord be upon you and may you speak life wherever you go love you all have a great week everybody we'll see you Sunday yes [Music] [Music] [Music] [Music] [Applause] [Music] [Music]

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Length: 53min 8sec (3188 seconds)

Published: Thu Sep 13 2018