Unshakable Kingdom - Pastor Greg Simas - 5/3/2020

everybody welcome thank you for joining us on our convergence livestream service we're so happy you're joining us this morning please stay tuned and remember to text in on YouTube chat and just say hey everybody connect with each other and just love on one another and encourage people and bless them it's a lot of fun it's a really cool way to get connected with each other even though you're not in the building but you can still connect online live and also join us after the service we have an amazing segment with pastor Greg and Wendy on Instagram and also Facebook live join us and see you there let's enjoy our service just this week I've been focusing on joy and I know last week we were singing a chorus all about joy and it kind of just stuck with me and I feel like in this season the Lord just teaching me to be really intentional with finding joy and every little thing and in every day and to just not let the chaos get ahead of you yeah so father we just thank you for your joy kind of we just actually you would overflow us with joy then you would take away the worry you would take away the chaos you would just overflow some peace gone let your love over in every home right now God in every heart would you just fill us with your joy your never-ending overflowing joy God we rejoice because every day you have made for us every day we can rejoice because you are good and you are faithful we just thank you for the promises over our lives that the promises that you've given us are not dead and they're still alive and you still fulfill them every single day we thank you Jesus you're good amen you are with me what can separate you are for me what can stand against darkness [Music] [Music] Oh no promises [Music] and freedom is [Music] [Music] [Music] you [Music] is your promise your promises you're [Music] Oh I'm standing [Music] [Music] [Music] [Music] [Music] your thoughts you plants for me you're gonna be you my future cuz your promises never fair your promises never 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you so much for joining us online this morning if you are a new visitor if this is your first time viewing online a service from convergence House of Prayer welcome we are so happy you're with us we're so happy that you're getting to connect with us in a time that's really hard to connect with people in general but we would love your information in the link in the description below if they're if you're a new visitor click that link fill out your information we would love to get connected with you to pray for you to get to know you in the best way we possibly can in this season also it'll allow you to keep up to date on all the current events that are happening with convergence house prayer and also you could stay in contact with us and know what's going to be happening in near future we would love for you to fill out those connection cards thank you so much for joining again I've got a couple more announcements for you let's keep them wrong [Music] [Applause] we have an amazing school of ministry here it's called the Silicon Valley school of ministry and if you are interested in joining our school year one registration is now open I'm sure that if you check in the comment section below we have some year one students that are viewing this stream at the same time as you are go look down below and see what those students have to say about our school that they are currently enrolled in year one students have been doing fantastic even in the season of shelter-in-place we've been connecting we've been having guest speakers join on our zoom calls people are still growing we're still encountering the Lord we are still seeing world changers develop into even greater world changers we fully believe in the Silicon Valley being impacted by the kingdom of God so please join with us sign up registration is open [Applause] everybody I know we've been looking forward to the prophetic conference but we're actually rescheduling it we're pushing some of our conferencing back till next year so more information about that is provided in two on our website and also we are fully available here for you to contact us if you want more information regarding that plans and changes around our prophetic conference thank you guys so much for continuing to be in prayer for us and also the greater body of convergence we're contending and walking through this together and though we are sad we know that it is not the end of our prophetic conferences and be looking forward to next year's prophetic conference because we are so you should [Music] [Applause] [Applause] hey Convergys young adults we are still going camping July 15th through the 18th it's 75 bucks we're gonna be getting together with like-minded young adults and loving on Jesus together but in the wilderness my son has been fascinated lately with the sky and he's looking at the moon I have a telescope we're going to places that you can actually see stars like they're actually stars not just a moon in a couple stars get out there with people that love the Lord and also love the green earth that we get to live and thrive in and you guys can enjoy the outdoors together so please sign up there's a link in the description below [Music] in this time the key is prayer if you have any needs that are on your heart or maybe even physical ailments that you're dealing with please submit prayer requests to us online and we would love to partner with you and pray with you contend for you we know that when two or more gathered Jesus is there in our myths so I believe that can happen digitally there's no limitations to what the Holy Spirit can do he can even heal you over a live stream or even through an email so I believe that God is on the move so do not hold back any requests that you have make them known and we would love to contend with you and partner with you through any requests that you have so don't be alone send them in [Music] [Applause] we have amazing ekklesia groups that gather together throughout the Bay Area every month and sometimes bimonthly in this time so if you are wanting to get connected with a small group that you can get to know people we're currently meeting on zoom' which is fantastic people are just connecting so well and really getting into each other's lives and sharing testimonies and praying for one another it is a huge win for us here at convergence right now that our groups are still able to run so please sign up with a group get connected and partner with like-minded believers people that love Jesus just like you and it's it's a fantastic way to get through this season together and also still to grow in community so please connect with our groups there's a link in the description below [Music] [Applause] [Music] in the season hope is contagious he who has the most hope has the most influence I want to encourage you that in this time Jesus has gone through season after season throughout scripture of facing trials and tribulations his key was intimacy with his father so I encourage you that in this time the way that you can get through it the way that you can walk out in victory is to be an intimacy with Jesus through this entire season so I know that I'm hearing these amazing testimonies of people that are being led by the Lord to go through even it almost is like a heart transplant in this season God is on the move he's doing amazing things in my own personal life and I know he's doing amazing things in you please share your testimony there's a link in the description below tell us what God is doing in your own life personally we would love to hear it and celebrate it and also pray into it more for God to increase in your life even more and more so we love you guys so much there is hope and it is Jesus that is our hope [Music] thank you guys so much for continually being faithful through in season and out of season giving it to the Lord is incredibly important it actually shapes our the heavens over us it opens up windows of heaven when we give so that the Lord will pour out abundant blessings so much so that we will not have room enough to receive it that is full Scripture and his word never returns void so in this season though we might be struggling with our economy we do not base our principles off of an earthly economy we base our principles and values in a heavenly and Kingdom economy and in heaven there is no lack our heavenly father owns cattle on thousands and thousands of hills so believe that he sees you and he knows you even right in the smack dab middle of the pandemic he sees you and he provides for you so thank you so much for your faithfulness to him and also your faithfulness to your body so continue to give there's a slide that's coming after this announcement that shows ways you can can continue to give but I believe that through your faithfulness and through your sewing that blessings upon blessings are coming to you and I know that God sees it and trust in this season continue to trust because God is coming through you believe it and we know it we can trust our good Heavenly Father so with that I just want to pray for you father I thank you so much for every member of convergence I thank you for every person who gives for every person who's stretching out even like the Widow's mite and giving their last I thank you Lord that in this season you show faithfulness I thank you that in the season of Plenty you show faithfulness I think that in the season of lack you show faithfulness I know Lord that there is so much need that's going around the body of Christ right now and I thank you God that we can fully trust in your goodness this season so I bless you and I just speak prosperity over your life in your spirit in your personal life and in your finances in Jesus name Amen thank you guys so much for giving [Music] those are all the announcements that I have for you this morning thank you so much for joining me and watching all these announcements and I know you can't really fast forward unless you're watching later but hey thanks so much for joining me and listening and continue to pray with that said here's pastor Drake well good morning everybody yep good morning everybody as I'm here with my amazing I'm walking in front of them my amazing family and again and I think this is our this is our seventh seventh or eighth I can't even remember a week of going online and and I'm so glad that you guys are joining us today again online and I just wanted you guys to know that we we totally you know I love the comments that we're seeing here on on YouTube and it's it's so encouraging thanks for jumping on I'm seeing like Brigitta and I'm seeing cool plunge pool plunge whoever cool plunges and our convergence kids and you know all you guys that are that are jumping online Karen so many of you guys so super encouraging that you guys are online and that you guys are connecting with each other during the service and just encourage each other I just looking at all the worship stuff so so join us on you can have YouTube in your like on your phone just like right there and just just add comments as they roll out and just encouraging people around you that that is awesome so I'm going to close this up site I'm not distracted and that that I can just jump into the to the rest of what I feel like the Lord's laid on my heart I mean in our in our meeting today just prior to you know we kind of gather up Jordan brought a verse that I think is really really ministered to me it's very simple verse but I think it's in psalm 118 but this is the day the Lord has made and let us rejoice and be glad on it that's super familiar for all of us and it's but it's so profound in the sense of this is the day the Lord has made like he's in control and this is his day and I have a choice I have a choice to rejoice or not rejoice in that and be reminded again that God has everything that controlled this is this is his day and will rejoice and be glad in it so I just say to you rejoice and you can go ahead and turn to someone next to you if you have someone in your family to watch it this turn to them and say rejoice in the Lord this is his day this is his day he's made it he's in control and so we choose to rejoice in that well I do want to before we kind of kick in to the the word this morning I just want you guys thank you for all the birthday greetings I just yep I I just I don't know if I'm painfully saying this or not but I I just left my 50s and I I know that most of you guys like wow really he just left his 50 he's like man maybe I thought he was just leaving his 40s or something so so I just thrown that out there and just just left my my 50s and now I am in the next decade and and so so just just encourage me when you can but all of my grandkids they gave me a special card and and so they're all super cute and they they put all these Daedra this is these this is their works of art and and this is from nehemiah but I just want you to know Nehemiah didn't write this hannah actually interpreted but I just thought I'd just share this with you guys got this last night when we celebrated my birthday which was just yesterday it says I love you bops and you're the the ticklish guy you're the Spanky I you're the funniest guy and I miss you and you're cool and I love you and I miss you and I just I read that I just like I just gave him a hug it just said you know you're amazing Nehemiah and so that was the the lighter side of turning 60 I'll go ahead and just say it turning 60 and so yeah so anyway god is good and I just want you guys to know that he's he's in control and he governs the nations right and so I just want to encourage you guys I just want to bring some words of encouragement and I just want to thank you all for jumping in on the challenge that we did for the last I think 21 days we did and I just want to keep that in front of you I'm just gonna read this this the challenge again to you guys because just because we're in this season does it mean that these are not principles that we we have we got our life with like we run with as we follow the Lord and that is we choose faith over fear worship over worry the Bible over the news responding to the father instead of reacting to the devil trust over anxiety peace the peace of God over panic hope over despair joy over disappointment God's wisdom over human wisdom community over isolation mercy over judgment God's kingdom over human government God's power over men's wisdom life over death and then really I just threw one in this morning God's love over everything God's love over everything that we are carriers we received the love of God okay especially in Romans 5:5 it tells us we've received the Holy Spirit pours the love of God into our heart and with it is the nutrients of heaven that we get to release to those around us so let's be releasers of the love of God and his love conquers all right so so we just were grateful that I just want to keep that in front of you and then during worship the Lord just dropped in I was thinking about the ekklesia I was thinking about you know where we're at and I'm I'm navigating that - you know I'm navigating all the that are taking place not just in America but around the world and I just want to be I just want I was just thinking during worship and we're especially when we were seeing in the song god of revival that was totally fitting because that actually has a lot to do with what I have to share with you guys this morning that he is the god of revival and I was thinking I was just drifted over to Acts chapter 8 and you know we had the outpouring in Acts chapter 2 and this is on the ekklesia that's not on the quote traditional church but the outpouring of the Holy Spirit in Acts chapter 2 and we see the Word of God being preached and we see Souls come in to Jesus we're seeing revival taking place and and in Acts chapter 8 what's in something interesting took place and there was a the church was persecuted and the church was scattered and so let me just read to you these four verses on that day a great persecution now we haven't even faced a great persecution like what what's going on now compared to what has happened let's say in the underground Church of China or whatever it's like we're inconvenienced right now and but and I pray that that's all we actually face in in the coming days that God begins to shift things and I think it's a great you know wake-up call for us and I'll talk about that in a few moments but in that day a great persecution broke out against the church in Jerusalem and all except the apostles were scattered throughout Judea and Samaria godly men buried Stephen and mourned deeply for him but Saul began to destroy the church going from house to house he dragged off both men and women and he put them in prison like that's intense that is intense like the Saul who became the Apostle Paul begins to persecute dragging people out of their houses that's it that's that's persecution and he's beginning to throw people in prison but look at verse 8 I mean verse 4 in Chapter 8 those who had been scattered preach the word wherever they went in the middle of their persecution the gospel was being preached in the middle of I was going to say a crazy guy well Saul you know who was who was very a Pharisee of Pharisees he was dragging and in the NIV says he was destroying the church they didn't cower to fear they didn't buckle they didn't they didn't they didn't go to a foxhole and hide they were actually scattered but they didn't scatter to conceal their voices to go into hiding the scripture says those who were scattered preached the word wherever they went they preached the word wherever they went that's just more than a house that's wherever they went they preached the word and we have an opportunity in this season to preach the gospel to people maybe it's not like standing on a corner preaching like in in that context but it's but it's you being Jesus to the culture that God has placed you into the setting to the world that he's placed you in and I want to encourage you yeah we can jump online we can go through all the things that people do social media and even those platforms are great platforms in the middle of all this to preach the word and that's where I really just want to encourage you guys we carry a message of hope we carry a message of joy we carry a message of peace we have the one who is the desire of the nation's he's the one that governs the nation's and then this crazy a people go globally taking place I want to encourage you the message that you have inside of you let it go the message that you have inside of you release the gospel message John 3:16 right start there for God so loved the world stet look for opportunities to share your faith in the middle of the in the middle of what's going on right now here in Acts chapter 8 the ekklesia was persecuted but it never shut down the gospel of Jesus the gospel of Jesus which is what they were trying to hammer out right through the persecution the name of Jesus being glorified and released the Risen Messiah they were trying to stamp that out but they couldn't what happened was the persecution actually promoted the gospel of Christ to the then-known world I'm talking about Jerusalem and Judea it's like they went up in Ephesus and Antioch and all the way up into Rome it's like you couldn't shut it down and I've been telling you guys for years now that you might be able to close I mean I said this three years ago you might be able to closed the doors of the church building but you'll never silence the voice of a necklace 'ya ever and so we have this opportunity it's laid out in front of us what are we gonna do with this opportunity how are we gonna pivot and position ourselves to actually release the gospel to people are we even praying that God would give us an opportunity to share our faith to encourage somebody to at least point them to the gospel and I and I just want to encourage you guys that we cannot lose our focus right now it's so important that we keep our focus on Jesus keep our focus on the Gospel message keep our focus and bringing people to the light of who Jesus is in the middle of all the darkness that's surrounding like we have you know people protesting and we have all kinds of things that are taking place and that's saying that one's wrong and one's right I'm just saying that we have we have this higher calling in our heart alive because we live from heaven to earth that okay I'm not saying we don't get involved in these kinds of things what I am saying is that let's make sure that we're bringing Jesus we're bringing the hope he is our hope to the world that's all and I just and I and I want to roll into a few other things but that was just something that the Lord just dropped on my heart in worship and I just really feel feel strong to encourage you guys along those lines I mean guys are world changers you guys are revivalists you guys carry this the holy spirit inside of you that you are baptized with the fire of God and I know that you guys are reaching and you guys are going for it I just want to keep encouraging all of us to do that amen hopefully you guys say Amen in the space where you're at so I just want to lay down a couple a couple things and then hopefully landed first Samuel 17 and that's kind of where I want to close but I just want to bring some reminders to you guys in this season number one is that we need to continue to put our absolute and full trust in the Lord our absolute and full trust in the Lord the verse that we we keep bringing before you and before us is Isaiah 26 verse 3 you will keep him in perfect peace whose mind is stayed on you why because he trusts in you we're gonna have a mind that is steadied we're gonna have the mind of Christ in the middle of the crisis and we're gonna have perfect peace in the middle of the crisis because we trust him we don't trust in the government we don't we don't fully trust what I'm saying we don't fully trust in the government we don't fully trust in our whether it's the mayor's or the governors or or the President or the Vice President or you know global you know leaders and all that our trust has to be anchored in God and God alone so that means like you get up in the morning and you say father I trust you completely help me to anchor myself in trusting you and so I just want to keep that in front of us second chronicles chapter 7 verse 14 says if my people who are called by my name will humble themselves and pray and seek my face and turn from their wicked ways then I will hear from heaven and I will forgive their sin and I will heal their land right now the nations are being shaked we know that and there's been Dave been shaked for like two months now and people are finding out that in a lot of ways what they have built you know for so many seasons is an essence kind of disappeared or has been shaken or kind of like a house of cards things have been in a matter of moments seems like seems like and so but God is our anchor God is our builder gods our restorer and for us we need to continue to seek his face and we need to time to pull back and hear the voice of the Lord time to pull back and in this reset kind of this holy reset make sure our hearts are right we've been saying that and we want to continue to say that this is our window to make sure that we have our hearts lit up with the presence and the fire of God that burns away all chaff all the stuff that shouldn't be there we just want to present ourselves to the Lord and so we want our dependents to be fully up in God and I believe that revival is on the way and I want to visit that in a moment I'm getting ahead of myself in 1633 this is out of the passion translation again and everything I taught you is so that the peace which is in me will be in you and will give you great confidence as you rest we'll give you the peace of God will give you great confidence as you rest in him for in this unbelieving world you will experience trouble and sorrows but you must be courageous you and I must be courageous for Jesus has conquered the world I just want to encourage you guys encourage you guys again Jesus has conquered the world and we our responsibility is from that revelation that understanding we need to be strong and courageous we need to stand up and be strong and courageous and release the glory and power of God the life of Christ to other people so let's continue to put our full trust in him secondly it says because that's number one we can actually you know apply Philippians chapter 4 6 & 7 be anxious for nothing but we need to but do not be anxious about anything but in everything every situation by prayer and petition with Thanksgiving present your requests to God all right so as we trust him as we put our full trust in him there's a supernatural exchange because really anxiety is misplaced worship anxiety is a thief anxiety is somebody you do not want to let into your home or into your heart so as I trust the Lord with all my heart then the love of God the peace of God fills my heart and I'm telling you when the peace of God fills your heart there's no room for anxiety and so I really feel as we do the one trusting him then the anxiety will leave and if anxiety is they're letting saya t be an indicator to pray does that make to pray so when anxiety comes in then that's your indicator it's like okay I got to get in the presence of the Lord because that should not be there so let's not be anxious for anything I know that's kind of a wild statement but that is Scripture and that's something that we can stand on right so seek first the kingdom of God and then in Matthew 6:33 and then Matthew 6:34 says therefore do not worry so we seek the kingdom and from that place verse 33 comes before verse 34 so we seek the kingdom and from that place then Jesus says therefore don't worry therefore don't worry because he's got it in control right Jesus has it in control alright I'll say it again Jesus has it in control the third thing is or the second thing is it is the third thing stay in God's economy we are in like I said last week we are in an unshakable Kingdom you guys can go ahead and say it and shakable kingdom Hebrews 12:28 therefore since we are receiving a kingdom that cannot be shaken the nations right now are being shaken but his kingdom isn't you might be feeling like Europe you're standing on a like like a like an earthquake you know like what's going on but his kingdom is unshaken it's it's solid it's sturdy it's secure so I just want to remind you keep your feet planted firmly in the kingdom of God in his economy so into his economy because he's the one who has it all in control God's not broke he will take care of you he will take care of me he'll take care of us and then the next point here beware of the leaven of the Pharisees inherited I know I hid this a couple weeks ago but mark chapter 8 in that story that Jesus has taken the he's taken a trip across the lake and he makes this statement the disciples had forgotten to bring bread really there was one piece of bread a loaf of bread in the boat except for one look that they had and then verse 15 jesus says be careful jesus warned them watch out for the yeast of the Pharisees which is the religious spirit and that of Herod which is the political spirit I just want to encourage us all that we cannot be be swept away with all the things that are happening around us and that we have to keep our focus like Jesus is saying make sure that we don't don't let the leaven of you know religion I'll just say that but all that I mean even like the banter sometimes we have in comments and all that we have to be careful that we're loving each other that we're encouraging each other that we're strengthening each other and I would say that we're praying for each other and that's that's a consistent thing maybe you're having you know these comments back and forth on Facebook or wherever wherever it is Instagram whatever but but make sure that you're praying for each other so just be careful that we don't get trapped in losing our kingdom focus by moving here and then of course the political spirit like that's everywhere right we can't turn left or the right you could be watching your favorite news channel or whatever or your Twitter feeds or whatever and I'm just saying that you we just have to be careful careful that we keep the Kingdom focus number one and that we don't let the leaven remember the leaven is in yeast and expands through the whole the whole you know the dough of the that creates the bread we can't let that expand and grow in our heart for the sake of losing the kingdom you know I'm saying the focus of what Jesus has called us to and how we supposed to live our lives in God because it can take over I mean I can't tell you like how many times I had to I just gotta I gotta shut the laptop right now or I got I got trimmed my phone off right now I got it I got a pray right now like I'm just being honest we just can't let that take over and so we have to we have to be super intentional about beware - beware of the leaven of the Pharisees in the hair in Herod and then lastly we're called to bring wisdom or solutions into this global battle that we're in this global thing that's going on remember I talked out of number 16 and I just want to reiterate that like there is chaos there was pandemonium there was sickness there was panic and the Lord you know Moses goes ahead and says - he tells Aaron he says you know grab the sensor you know grab you know the coals grab the incense light the fire and run into the plague and when Aaron ran into the plague then the plague stopped and I just want to encourage you guys along those lines that that we need to be number one thing that we need to be doing is praying I know that you hear about prayer all the time we talk about prayer all the time but are we are we extending our prayer are we are we just talking about it or we're actually engaging intentionally in this are we praying in the spirit like are we flipping on the latest because everything keeps changing all the time we're grabbing a dial and we're listening to a radio station or whatever or are we taking we're taking some of that back and we're praying in the spirit we're praying for our brothers and sisters we're asking God strength to empower we're asking for wisdom to be dropped in we're asking for encounters for our leaders that are above us that God would invade their dream life that God would have it there were people who would have a supernatural encounter like Saul did you know on the road and God just the light of God came and spoke to him transformed his life are we are we making those kinds of declarations in the middle of all this and and then also when we spoke out of X's 14 when Moses was standing before the the Red Sea and we we hit like what is you know Aaron had the sensor right he had the calls he had the incense you Moses had his staff it it was David had you know David had a pouch and he had five stones like whatever it is that God has equipped you with he's giving you an anointing for are you activating whatever you have in your hand whatever God has given you and to to be bold about that and to release that to the people that God has you know put around you whether this family or whether it's people colleagues that you're working with and maybe you're online you're on zoom you're talking to other people across the world and I just want to encourage you like ask the Lord to provide an opportunity for you to share the goodness of God with the gifts God has given you and that's the one thing that's beautiful about the body of Christ the body of Christ is so equipped with so many gifts and it's a joy to be serving as a senior leader and see all the gifts like we have a house that has you guys have amazing anointings and amazing gifts and I just want to encourage you again utilize those gifts let's be sensitive and look for these God opportunities that are in front of us whether that's even if you have to go to the grocery store like looking four ways as you carry peace as you carry joy as you carry hope in the middle of all this that you are distributors of that reality and use what God some of you are writers some of you are painters some of you are gifted in so many different ways ask the Lord how can I use what you have given me to advance your kingdom in this season for them some of you who are photographers you might want to begin to you know like take pictures and post it on social media and maybe throw a scripture and underneath it like use that there's so many ways that we could advance the kingdom of God in the season that we're in people are so open right now to receive the gospel which really kind of brings me down to kind of like my conclusion I can't believe it I got a clock in front of me but my conclusion and that is that you know revival is messy like revival of if you look through history you know you're gonna see that that it's almost like when you birth you know I don't understand this as a man but as a woman you know when they go into childbirth and they deliver it's like even though it's sterile in the room it's it's it's messy in the content in that context and and right now what we're seeing is an experiencing is messy you know we don't we there's uncertainty we don't know what's really true and what's really not true we have this report we have that report now you might have a conviction of what you think is true but there's differences of opinions that are going on in and I just want you to know that the Lord sees all of that and the Lord is still advancing his kingdom and I and I want to encourage you guys that I believe I mean I have more of a conviction about this now than I did say six weeks ago that just because we're going through this and just because you know we're in quarantine or you know shelter-in-place or whatever that revival God's Spirit is not quarantined and definitely the things that God has said to us is not quarantined the the words that God has spoken to you is not quarantine the words that God has spoken over this house is not quarantined and if we we have to be intentional intentional about believing those words and I I know that I said I think was in February the end of February or or March I said that you know I felt like Alf you're in the service and we had it I just felt like there's a wave of revival that's beginning to take place had no idea what was gonna happen I just felt it in my spirit and then I God gave me that during worship and then the very next song that the worship team sang was god of revival and I knew right away as like okay uh you know you know when the Lord speaking to you right so I knew right away there was a witness in my spirit I just don't jump up and just say you know revival revival revival and I really feel like there is a someone said you know there's a global pandemic I do believe there's a global awakening that's take that's taking place and the word that the Lord gave me and gave us say that doesn't go away because of what's happening today in fact it might be more clearer now than ever in this context so I just want to encourage you guys that in the middle of all this yeah it it does look like it's messy and all that kind of stuff but it says in Isaiah 54 7 no weapon used against this will prosper but it doesn't say that weapons will not be used against us weapons will be used against us but the weapons that are used against us will not prosper will not prosper so whatever the enemy is throwing at us with other weapons he's using against us those weapons will not prosper and let's take let's take with joy that word right that God is sending revival and let that sink in in the middle of this quote calamity that we're facing this global calamity that we're facing god of revival is coming so we have to stay on point we have to keep our focus we have to continue to believe we have to we have to pray we have to have faith we have to have hope springing up inside of us we have to have the love of God flowing out of us and we have to have the love of God pointed toward each other this is not a time for the church to divide this is not a time especially the ecclesia to divide this is a time for us to rally together and be unified around what God is saying and what God is doing responding to the Father and responding to the word and so I would encourage you guys that I believe that it is coming and the political spirit will only divide us the political spirit will be divisive all to say it that way the political spirit will be divisive but the Holy Spirit will unify us and the more were filled with the Holy Spirit the more that will actually love each other through it and the more that we're going to actually love the world and bring the gospel to the world because the Lord's doing something amazing on the earth amazing on the earth so here it is see they're gonna be survival we have to make a decision survival or revival it's gonna be either survival or are we gonna are we gonna try and move into survival mode or we're gonna be in revival mode and one of the things I challenged our staff was that how long can we you know we don't want to ignore the issues right we don't want to we don't want it we're not putting our head in the sand not at all but we we understand that God is a full control of what's going on and if God said revival is coming and the wave is building then how far can we take revival in the season that we're in how far can we take revival in the season that we are currently in bringing heaven to earth the things that we talked about being salt and being light and I want to encourage you that this this has been a massive disruption in a lot of ways it's been a massive disruption but and we can we can complain and crawl in and and all this and I just want us to make sure that we're we're thinking about this how can I use this moment to advance the kingdom of God and bring revival like I said before you can close the doors of a church you'll never silence the voice of the ecclesia never and I want to encourage you all of us are part of a bigger picture of what God is doing in the earth and part of that is making sure we're asking the right questions and so I am I'm kind of okay initially I just went whoa what is happening I think most of us dislike what's happening is and then now we're kind of recalibrating and been recalibrating and now it's like okay for some of us they're in there just in survival mode I'm talking about the hearts are in survival mode right but we have to move from this survival mode I don't want to be insensitive but we also have to be in this place where how far how far how high can we take this way partnering with the Lord in revival for me and for you for all of us and get around people who are going to encourage you in a revival movement get around people who are seeing the grace in the mercy of God in the middle get around people who are wanting to still bring healing and deliverance and salvation to people in the middle of this I'm telling you right now people are more open to the gospel then in any other time and so we have an opportunity we have a window of opportunity to step into the fullness and it's not to this is not to just this is not to say that oh my oh my goodness what's taking place right now is shutting down the move of God no no no no I think it's actually quite the opposite so we have to just make sure we're focused this is one big this is one big word of encouragement today is what it is we just want to make sure we're focused we want to make sure you know we have the armor of God on right Ephesians chapter 6 we got the belt of truth we've got the breastplate of righteousness like we have the helmet of salvation we have the sword of the Spirit and we're advancing against the against the enemy and we are we are seeing victory we are seeing breakthroughs we're are seeing these kinds of things not just in the in the like the the healing of the medicine and all that I'm not talking about that I'm talking about in the spirit and I just want to keep your hopes high I want you to just be encouraged I want us to be trusting in the Lord with all of our heart and I want us to believe God for what he's going to do let me just kind of let me just close with I never got the First Samuel that's okay I'm just gonna get the First Samuel next time anyway yeah I will I'll get the First Samuel I promise I've been saying that well yeah I exist yeah next time I'll get the first see well let me just share something with you guys that's really really small but I think it's really significant people would think it's small but it's really significant you know one of our students at the school of ministry I just received this from one of our our our small group leaders and it's about what their family did in the middle of all this right shelter in place and all that and and so as a family I don't want to give her name but anyway as a family I didn't ask for permission but like it says here the text says her and her family ministered to her neighbors a few weeks back by having everyone come outside and sing and her dad play prayed on the megaphone that's a unique way of doing ministry in your neighborhood then this week she baked cookies and felt led to take them to her neighbor his wife later shared that he was struggling with depression and he loves to bake and had no crave and had been craving cookies but didn't have the energy because he was depressed I don't know if it had to do with the pandemic whatever it was going on lost it I don't know we don't know but didn't have the energy to bake when he received those cookies he started crying and it helped him and he felt super blessed as a result [Music] IFS not massive like you preached to 5,000 people and they got saved it was somebody who loved Jesus who felt prompted by the Holy Spirit to bring cookies to a door not knowing that this man loved the bake was thinking about cookies was in this place of depression he did a simple thing by just offering cookies in the name of Jesus and you change a life that's revival that's the opportunity that's in front of us and as we wrap up today I just want to I just want to encourage you let's look for ways to bring the kingdom jesus says if you if you just take a a cup of cold water and you offer it in my name I'm telling you the the anointing is all over that the Holy Spirit is all over that and we reach people one by one one by one so who can you encourage this week who can you reach out to this week who has a late buzz who is it that the Lord has laid on your heart for this week can you write a text can you send an email can you grab your phone and make a call what about that ant what about that uncle what about what about that co-worker what this is what I'm talking about yeah obviously there's wider things and there's broader things but this is what we get to bring so let's be like let's trust God with all of our heart like let's not be in panic mode is to have the joy the lord welling up inside of us but let's let's advance the kingdom let's ride this growing wave of revival that he's sending to our nation and I want you to be a part of it I want to be a part of it and God will give a strategy he'll give a strategy but let's do the small things in the name of Jesus and I'm telling you the reward or the return on that is massive is massive I want to encourage you with that today I want to pray and I just want to close today Father thank you for because you're the God who is he was absolutely in control and that you are you govern the nation's and we are the light and we bring the light we are salt we are the things that you have you've called us and declared who who we are and so lord I pray that this week maybe it's making some cookies and giving it to our neighbor maybe it's sending a text maybe it's the it's the small things done in great love anointed by the Holy Spirit that changes the world and so Lord I just release people to this Lord I pray for anybody that's viewing us that you're you're troubled you're worried you're stressed you're you're anxious and I just say peace to you in the name of Jesus peace to you in the name of Jesus lord I pray that you would fill them with your love the perfect love of God Lord God I pray that is the peace of God that goes beyond all understanding Lord let it be their anchor let it be their anger today Lord those who need healing we just released healing in the name of Jesus if there are those who need to get right with God they need to turn back to the Lord I say just just ask him to forgive you repent and just turn and just say Jesus I need you in my life I need your leadership I I need the person of Christ in my life and I I accept you I rededicate my life - if the some of you has never given your heart to Jesus now is the time to give your heart to the Lord say Jesus come into my life changed me I want to be like you I repent of all my sin come into my heart it's as simple as that this is our holy reset you guys this is our time to get deep an intimacy with Jesus changing our heart so we can change the world so we can change the world father I just pray that you would protect your people this week I pray Lord God that you would keep him safe but at the same time may we look for ways to bring the kingdom of God to the world in the name of Jesus amen amen see you guys praying for you miss you guys a ton and we'll see you guys next week god bless you so much for joining us today it's been a fantastic service around 12:30 pastor Reagan when you're going to be going live and sharing with you guys on there it's gonna be a cool setting much more relaxed and like easy for you to connect you'll be able to text and ask some questions possibly but please view online it's gonna be a lot of fun I will see you guys next week you [Music]

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Published: Sun May 03 2020