Vision WKND with Benny & Wendy Perez | 9.3.21

[Music] [Music] [Music] [Music] [Music] [Music] [Music] [Music] [Music] hey good evening everybody [Music] [Music] we is [Music] [Music] come rest on us [Music] [Applause] [Music] [Music] [Applause] do it again [Music] open up [Music] you're here and i know [Music] [Music] me [Music] [Music] we is [Music] [Applause] us [Music] [Music] is [Music] [Music] i'm here [Music] uh [Music] [Applause] [Music] [Applause] [Music] oh [Applause] [Music] [Applause] [Music] come on put those hands together here we go [Music] [Music] a chosen generation to bring my offering i'm calling out for mercy i'm crying out for praise oh god come heal the nations and come change everything let god [Music] my words and declarations shape worlds and destinies you let god [Music] [Applause] [Music] i am a new creation you cannot silence this let god [Applause] [Music] we've got our eyes [Applause] [Music] the fire [Music] is let god let god [Music] [Music] hey come on [Applause] [Music] [Music] but something shifted in the atmosphere up here [Music] let his enemies scatter [Music] [Music] see the tonight says we don't fight with weapons that are made with hands we fight with spiritual weapons we fight enemies in hard places spirits and principalities and powers and how do we fight we fight with praise and we fight that you feel like you can't get a breakthrough i'm here to tell you tonight there's a we serve the god of the breakthrough there's something stirring i'm telling you in the atmosphere tonight if you need a breakthrough i want you to run out of your seat and come to this altar tonight come on right something's gonna shift something's gonna break something's gonna change something's gonna shift something's gonna break something's gonna change i can feel it something's gonna shift something's gonna change something's gonna play tonight something's gonna shift something's gonna break something's gonna change tonight as we worship god [Music] one more time [Music] um [Music] [Music] [Applause] this is [Applause] [Music] this is [Music] is [Music] [Music] if this is [Music] i know that there's a sound in this region that needs to come out it's gotta come out of the church listen the praise in the northwest has been too safe can y'all hear me can you hear me in the back i'm gonna say this again i'm gonna keep saying it hey when i moved up here the lord spoke to me and he said the praise in the northwest is too safe and y'all y'all were in a football stadium and you shouted so loud for a sports team that has showed up on the richter scale i think there's some believers in this region that have a shout on the inside they got a sound i don't think i don't think you heard me i said there's some believers in the northwest [Applause] they got a dance on the inside that needs to come out come on [Music] he may look like [Music] come on [Music] oh [Music] this this is [Applause] how [Music] [Applause] gives a lot of praise [Applause] oh [Music] [Music] it's time for the sleeper [Music] it's [Music] it's time for the great light to shine i hear the spirits [Applause] [Music] [Music] glory [Music] let the kings [Music] it's time for the sleeper to work [Music] [Music] this time [Applause] [Music] please [Music] [Music] [Music] glory yes he's here he's in the room come riding on your people's praise [Music] [Music] [Music] let the light open [Music] up the [Music] up the way [Music] let me [Music] oh [Music] [Applause] [Music] the kids [Music] [Applause] [Music] yes [Music] let the light up [Music] [Applause] let's keep [Music] [Music] hey [Music] [Music] is like a lot of agreement with the lie that you have left me on my own i am not alone i come out of agreement with the worry and the fear i've come to know [Music] let me go you said you wouldn't leave me [Music] oh i can trust your heart [Music] cause i know that you fight for me [Music] you said you wouldn't leave me [Music] your presence is [Music] no [Music] will prosper against me no darkness no [Music] my freedom [Music] my freedom [Music] you [Music] you hide me in the shadows [Music] protected [Music] [Music] no [Music] is [Music] [Music] [Music] [Music] is [Music] protectors [Music] is [Music] you said you wouldn't leave [Music] me your presence is [Music] [Music] that's it all over this room come on just lift those hands just begin to worship him thank him for who he is to you [Music] thank him for who he is to you [Music] [Applause] [Music] you're my healer your savior [Music] you're my fortress you're my strong tower you're my [Music] you're refuge comforter [Music] you're my faithful friend you're my father [Music] [Applause] [Music] i love you [Music] how can i contain this [Music] how can i contain it i cannot contain this [Music] this [Music] all the saints and angels [Music] [Music] you are worthy of love [Music] for from it is [Music] angels [Music] [Music] foreign [Music] [Music] foreign [Music] [Music] [Applause] is [Music] [Music] [Music] come on [Music] jesus [Music] foreign [Music] is [Music] foreign [Music] [Music] hey [Music] come on [Music] [Music] [Music] please [Music] come on would you like to shout out [Applause] [Music] as scripture says this that in the presence of god there is fullness for your life and i just believe this evening by virtue of us gathering under the banner of king jesus as we lift his name high just like isaiah said he said the train of his robe fills the temple which means this regardless of where you're standing tonight all you got to do is reach out and grab the hem of his garment there's a miracle for you this evening there's a resurrection spirit for you this evening there's restoration in your life and your mind and your family for you right where you're at and here's the great news no matter how bad your week has been or how messed up your life has been jesus is no respecter of persons and he said if we ask and if we seek and if we knock the door would be opened unto us and i'm just convinced this evening that as we gather and pray come on there's a sound that's being released that's even shaking the door posts and as the church gathers with expectation god responds with impartation and friend today i don't want you to leave here the same way that you came in for the jesus we serve is here to meet you at the place of your need and so god now we ask that you would release a tidal wave of healing in the atmosphere minds bodies and spirits we thank you that even john says for this reason the son of god was made manifest to dismantle the works of darkness and so we come against darkness and disease and sin and infirmity and demons and darkness in this region and we say over you where the spirit of the lord is there is liberty for those who are in captivity come on fred right now the spirit of heaviness is lifting off your life the spirit of infirmities being broken off of your life come on there's somebody here you're dealing with suicidal thoughts you're dealing with nightmares in the night time and right now by the power of jesus he is he is renewing that mind and re-hanging the images in your brain come on somebody else with a neck injury i feel like you've maybe even had surgery you've had a couple fuses in your neck or your back right now by the power of jesus there's healing coming to your life come on friend we still believe in a jesus who heals paul says it like this the same spirit that raised christ it dwells in you and it strengthens your mortal body and friend today strength can come to an area of sickness so we're gonna break agreement with what the enemy has said over your life and come into agreement with blessing come on with favor with restoration with revival even in your own life so god we receive we receive we receive come on you know what strikes me about the new testament in acts 2 the disciples gathered the spirit of god is poured out the church's birth two chapters later in acts 4 the same disciples gather the bible says they are once again filled with the holy spirit and the bible says the ground shakes beneath them i don't want you to miss out on what god would have for you tonight by operating with the attitude that you've already gotten enough no friend there's something fresh for you today come on there's something fresh and something new that god desires to do in your life come on would you just raise your hands all across this room just as a sign of faith as a sign of receiving we say god now by your spirit do your best work in us we avail ourselves unto you we say god the great physician do your best work inside each and every one of us come on we give you permission god to even do the deep work some of the stuff that we don't even want to talk about or want to share with with others sitting around us because we give you permission tonight to do that deep work in us and then through us and we're gonna give you all the praise and you all the glory and you all the honor both now and forever in jesus name come on one more time can we sing i exaltly [Music] every voice come on singing [Music] [Music] [Music] father we thank you for your presence and we declare over this group who's gathered here tonight surely goodness and mercy will follow you the days of your life we come under the canopy of god's abundance in this season we say god by your spirit now do your best work in jesus name amen hey man hey would you take a minute say hi to a neighbor all the way back to your seatbelt thanks so much for joining us for vision weekend [Music] hey friends thank you so much for joining us for vision weekend we wanted to keep you guys updated about what's coming up here at pursuits we will be hosting our membership sunday september 26th if you call pursuit your home church and would like to become a member you can go to our website and fill out our new membership form membership here at pursuit means you are joining yourself to a church family and committing to a healthy spirit-filled life alongside other believers if you have any questions regarding our membership please visit our website thepursuitnw.com do you want to take the next step in your faith through the expression of baptism to sign up text pursuit baptism as one word to 94090 pursuit night is returning this fall september 20 these twice monthly events are hosted here at the church these nights are for those looking for community developing personally and growing spiritually we can't wait to see you for our return of pursuit nights on september 20 from 6 to 7 30 pm you can find out more about all of these events by checking out our new church calendar at the pursuit nw.com calendar and that's all the announcements that we have for you tonight thank you again for joining us here at pursuit stay connected with us throughout the week by following us on social media by searching at the pursuit nw where you can find more resources like sermons ways to become a member or learn about other ministries by going to the pursuitnw.com the pursuit is a place where anything can happen anyone can belong and every person is welcome we are living in the reality of what other people have prayed for there is unfinished business in the northwest and we will live to see revival in our day and reformation in our lifetime [Music] this is a place where families are transformed this is a place where miracles happen this is a place where the presence of god is honored [Music] it has never been more important for every believer to have a church family we are inviting you to call this place your home [Music] the pursuit exists to glorify jesus and in doing so bring people into an encounter with this presence this is a place where the word and the spirit change lives thanks so much for joining us for uh vision weekend this will be an incredible time uh in the presence of god friday night saturday night and then of course three services sunday morning night 10 30 at noon we hope to see you all weekend if you can and we just know god is going to do some incredible things in and through the time that we spend together in the presence of the lord in just a moment we're going to give you an opportunity to give uh at these events we give people an opportunity to sow into what god is doing in the region and by faith help plant good seed and good soil and in doing so see 30 60 100 fold in return so we want to thank you for your giving in just a moment i'm going to invite you for it if you came prepared to give and we've got these giving buckets on stage and we're going to partner together tonight in generosity well we say this to our church family giving here is not by obligation is by invitation we just invite people into generosity we think of it in this context you don't have to give you get to give you don't have to show up but you get to show up and together we'll go build the house of god in a strong fashion here at the northwest so if you get prepared to give watch make your way to the altar at this time let's do this together god bless you in your generosity thanks so much our father who art in heaven hallowed be your name the prayer that jesus teaches his disciples to say begins with this simple concept you can't receive from what you don't honor you see there are heroes who walk amongst us of whom the world was not worthy people who pioneered in this region to make a way where there seemed to be no way and for decades the church in the northwest has benefited from the faithful witness of pastors prophets teachers and leaders those who have laid down their lives for the sake of the gospel we are not in fact self-made instead we stand on the shoulders of those who have come before and this is the responsibility of every generation to leave a spiritual legacy and inheritance for those who will come after the northwest is an epicenter in the coming move of god and it's never been a better time to be a part of the harvest that we have seen this before and friend we are seeing it again this is revival and the best way that we honor the last generation is by making a commitment to run further than them and so run we will that we will run and not grow weary we will soar on weeds like eagles we will walk and not grow faint and we will put our hope in the lord and long after we're gone may the next generation of revivalists say that our ceiling has become their floor awesome hey would you help give a warm pursuit welcome to our friend pastor wendy perez [Applause] thank you thank you thank you thank you now before you see this stand back up it's it is truly our our honor to be here both benny and i to be among friends and family and to see so many of your faces um but you know in a couple of days we're going to get on a plane and we're going to go back to vegas and we love vegas and god has planted us there and that's our home and that's where we pastor and that's where we've pioneered but you have two amazing pastors when you have teams of pastors but you have this amazing couple that lay down their lives each and every day and they are the ones to be honored can we just say thank you to pastor russell and maria come on their whole family for saying yes come on and continuing to say yes day in and day out come on [Applause] okay now you can sit down yeah you can sit down i don't cry unless there's an anointing and there definitely is an anointing but i almost shed a tear to see my dad up there that was so sweet thank you so much for just honoring the legacy that is the northwest um i'm so blessed um for my family but you know i'm so blessed to be married to this incredible man now almost 23 years i look good don't i'm just kidding i'm sorry um 23 years that we've been married and you know i just i honor the work and those of you that were a part of those ministry days and just what was sowed into the ground what was dug up the prayers that were prayed come on that just keep on being answered and being answered and being answered as generation after generation comes to know jesus i mean to have pastors that will pick up that mantle of revival and to not let it die i tell you what benny and i we are so honored to just be here and to partner with you just for a weekend but to stand in prayer with you and believe with you that god isn't finished with the northwest it just takes a people that believe it and say come on god here we are use us amen amen well it's my honor to be here with you if you have a bible won't you grab it we're gonna open up to john chapter 12 john chapter 12. um i bring just greetings from our church in las vegas uh our children bj is our oldest he is 21. those of you that maybe came from when benny was a pastor here in the area you remember that he used to preach about his son named bj so i had no choice in the naming of that child he's 21 years old he's on staff he's a junior high pastor he's doing great our 17 year old daughter just joined bible college for the first year we're only two weeks in praise the lord it's going good so far and then our 14 year old just started high school and i've already talked him into finishing in three years because i'm sick and tired of school people it is exhausting raising children and getting them through school so our daughter bella it was during the pandemic and so you know everything was shut down and she we anyway long story everything was shut down at the moment and so she decided she was just gonna work through the summer might as well just get school done with right and so we get to the very end of the year and she has taken an art class and she is not artistic whatsoever i'm the more of the creative in the family so one night benny comes out of the room and they're in the kitchen i've cleared everything off and i'm doing this beautiful painting it's beautiful it's hanging in our bedroom right now right above our bed and he goes what are you doing and i said benny she's not gonna be an artist okay i'm doing bella's homework she's like wendy you can't do that i was like she's not going to art school she's never going to paint a thing he's like what's the teacher going to say i don't know give her an a she the teacher's probably exhausted too it's been a freaking pandemic you know she got an a anyway so yeah i'm tired of doing kids to school and we're just ready to be done with this anyway that's from our family to yours all right do you have john chapter 12 john chapter 12 beginning in verse 25 i'm reading out of the passion translation i really believe that it probably should have been written by a woman because we as women reserve the right that um if a description could be adequately if you know a situation a person you know a scene could be adequately described in let's say 25 maybe 50 words as women we reserve the right to use 200. and you need to understand that about who we are we like lots and lots of words so i like the passion translation because it uses lots and lots of words john 12 verse 25 says the person who loves his life and pampers himself will miss true life but the one who detaches his life from this world and abandons himself to me will find true life and enjoy it forever if you want to be my disciple this is jesus jesus is saying these words follow me and you will go where i'm going and if you truly follow me as my disciple the father will shower his favor upon your life even though i am torn within and my soul is in turmoil even though i am torn within and my soul is in turmoil does anyone find it odd that the son of god is letting us know for a moment that he is torn within and his soul is in turmoil this is the final week of jesus life he is finally coming to the culmination of his ministry we could say it this way he is coming to finally fulfill the purpose for which he was sent by his father in a week's time he's going to go to the cross for you and me he's going to exchange our unrighteousness for his righteousness he's going to create an opportunity so that you and i could live in relationship with him it's it's beautiful it's magnificent it is wonderful it is horrible it is horrific what he's going to walk through but this is it this is the culmination he's been sent he's been born he's told the parables he set the disciples up he set the stage why for this moment and this is what jesus says even though i am torn within and my soul is in turmoil listen to me jesus is perfect theology that means that jesus lived a sinless perfect life that means that jesus felt emotions and then there for they were perfect emotions sometimes we think when we come into faith that it is a lack of faith to feel emotions but it is not it is a lack of faith to allow those emotions to control you there is nothing wrong with feeling the emotions jesus is bearing his soul even though i will not ask the father to rescue me from this hour of trial for i have come to fulfill my purpose to offer myself to god father i ask that you will bless our time together lord i ask that your word would go down deep in our hearts that it would bear good fruit in our lives in jesus name amen and amen tonight i would like to talk around the idea of what is it unto what is it unto i recently had a very uh revealing life moment uh our son our oldest son bj who's 21 he preached for the first time at youth on a wednesday night it was so good even as his parents we never wanted to raise entitled children so i'm constantly amazed what my children can do uh and he reached so good that uh you know his dad and i go bj you gotta preach this on the weekend like this is just powerful this is wonderful so he just did a really great job and he's just kind of coming into his own it's fun and really cool to see but in this really exciting moment was just one of like the most self reflect aha moments that just kind of make you cringe see now when you have children do i have some parents in the room parents in the room parent give me a little wave they're so exhausted school started again they've been doing homework all night no i'm just kidding um the thing about parenting the interesting one of the interesting aspects of parenting is when you have these um self-revelatory moments as you see your child acting like you and i'm not talking about the good stuff right like there's something when almost and you're like oh that's what my counselor was saying oh i get it now okay and so i had one of these moments uh except unfortunate it was you know on a very large stage because my son gets up to preach this message and uh he gets up and he makes this announcement that he is a procrastinating perfectionist and i'm sitting on the front row going this explains so much about my life right i was like oh my goodness and he began to explain how you're perfectionist but you're a procrastinator and people always think perfectionists do think do everything perfect but that's not true you won't do anything unless you can do it perfect so if you procrastinate long enough you get nothing done right vicious vicious cycle well i have one more thing that i would like to add to this litany of challenges that i have in my life that i've gone to years of counseling and therapy for praise the lord and that is i am a procrastinating perfectionist control freak where's my people at right now come on give me a wave oh there you are i'm also married to another control freak it's really fun so fun so exciting i have to be very careful tonight because he preaches the next four times all right anyway we're controlling about different things thank god right but we're both really controlling people control is a funny thing because control is an illusion right but because we want to be doing something because we feel better if we're doing something we try to control circumstances in our life everybody can tell us like you can't actually control the circumstances and we can know intellectually you cannot control the circumstances in your life but in the control freak's mind the opposite of being in control is being out of control and that is terrifying but the opposite of being in control is not being out of control it's trust jesus says the person who loves his life pampers himself tries to control everything will miss true life but the one who detaches his life from this world abandons himself trusts himself to me will find true life and enjoy it forevermore i grew up in church my parents were pastors that was a really good place to clap but you're a little slow in getting going and thank you thank you not thank you but all praise to the lord of course we just gotta have fun all right we just gotta have fun this is just we're having fun i love growing up in church my parents were pastors and um and the thing i love about christianity is the the the myriad of expressions that is you know uh the the church of jesus you know so we we have anywhere from like liturgical right so very very traditional and lots of mum i never been to one of those churches but that's what i see on tv so right so we have like this we have very very traditional and then we have and we have like more main line you know and and they're like a little bit quieter and then we have just the crazies and that's us right thank you right on cue i'll give you that 20 at the end um and we have all of these different expressions in between now i grew up in a church and this is not uh city church what we were talking about this is a different church before we've moved there and i grew up in this church and when i was young this is my understanding and i'm not saying this is what they were teaching i'm saying in my young mind this was my understanding i thought like i got this down i got it and what what i kind of boiled it down to was as long as i do all the right things say all the right things act all the right ways make all the right decisions i'm just gonna have a happy life right so you don't you know you don't cuss that's a big one you know in those kind of churches you couldn't wear jeans that was also on the list uh we couldn't go to movies that was interesting that my first movie was bambi when i was 12 years old by the way that's a horrible movie to take a child to disturbing okay so didn't obviously go back for quite a while um you couldn't listen to secular music betty and i were watching uh documentary on whitney houston and i was like oh i loved her he's like i know you didn't listen to whitney houston i know how you grew up i said benny i had a radio and i would go like listen young people you don't even know you would go in the closet with the radio and you would take this thing called a tape and you had this record button and you had to press record and play at the same time to record and you would take that radio and you would tune it to that station and you'd make a mix mixtape right in your closet [Applause] that's right little whitney little bobby brown i was quite the rebel obviously as long as you just you know you added it all up and you just were like this good person you just have this nice life that's what i was looking for just act perfect be perfect follow all the rules and just have a nice life i didn't want to uh um be in pain right i didn't want to necessarily again this is my very young you know mindset but it was like i don't want to like disturb any spiritual forces i just wanted to just like just like like why would you go and start praying against the demons just stay away from them you know i guess all these young things in my mind right like i just didn't understand and i just thought like let me just live my nice little life and just have a nice little life that just doesn't rock the boat and it's just nice but unfortunately there's a few constants in life change of course being one of them and the other one is pain so i have this very very transactional mindset and i want to and i know theologically that this transactional mindset wasn't the way that jesus designed our relationship to be it wasn't like i'm just gonna do good so i'm gonna get good i'm just gonna be good and so you'll bless me i'm just gonna make sure to get my tithe in so that the windows of heaven will open like and we just kind of we try to measure all of these things and try to get the formula just right so that we can feel like maybe we're fixing it all up so that we can stay with just a nice life we're never meant to live in a transactional relationship we were always meant to live in a trust relationship what's a trust relationship a trust relationship is simply saying i don't understand every circumstance but i believe you are who you say you are verse 26 if you want to be my disciple follow me this is so tongue-in-cheek he's about ready to go to the cross people like jesus is just plain a big trick on them you will go where i'm going and if you truly follow me as my disciple the father will shower his favor upon your life you know what the truest litmus test whether you have a transactional or a trust relationship with jesus is it's pain it's pain pain gets a really bad rap um we always think of pain as in the negative growing up you know people you know like just like the workout people you know like just those crazies you know they're like i took the pandemic and shredded my body and i'm like wow that's i'll watch you do that that's really neat you know they're like no pain no gain never once have i said that in my life mine is like no pain no pain and i literally spent years of my life trying to escape this pain run away from the pain ignore the pain stuff the pain but just like the constants in life of change the other constant is or one of the others is pain the only thing we do when we run away from painful things in our life is short circuit our growth all growth in our life comes with an element of pain i am so sorry to be the one to burst your pretty little bubble i'm probably not but you know what i'm saying every bit of our growth comes with pain pain is not a negative we think about some of the pains in life whether that's childbirth right obviously it's not fun but we still do it right we still want to have children so we still do it thank god for drugs and that it's 2021 anyway but but it's worth it think about marriage i know we think marriage the two becoming one it's just sex and honeymoon and it's just wonderful but actually the two becoming one well it is for us of course but you know the two becoming one is a very painful process of dying to self and preferring someone else above your own wants needs and desires that's a painful process what about the pain of going into the dark recesses of your soul maybe something was done to you maybe you experienced a circumstance that should never have happened in your life and there's trauma and there's pain and and and there was there was violation of who you are it's a lot it's very painful to go into the dark places to begin to face what happened so that you can bring it out into the light so that you can receive healing the only thing we do is stunt our growth when we run away from pain i remember first of all could i just say that i'm glad that my children are 21 17 and 14 because instagram wasn't around when i was pregnant because i wasn't cute all these cute moms my god the pressure dear god is terrible i remember i'm going in we're gonna you know give birth we've read all these birth books and this and that and whatever and and you know bj comes out and praise god for epidurals and drugs and blah blah blah and if you didn't do it that way god bless you nobody's given us a medal at the end of this we just get a screaming child that we have to just nurse and get up with all night long okay we all got the same thing sorry i like get all my angst my instagram angst out up here but i remember epidural wears off the pain medication is gone the peppy little nurse walks in the room and says all right mommy it's time to get up and do some laps and i'm like i pushed a human out of my body give me more drugs anyway i'm so mad i am so mad it takes a lot to get me mad to be honest but i was so mad i was mad my mom was with me i was so mad i got up everything every everything my brain hurt everything hurt and i'm walking and i'm trying to walk and i'm crying and i'm bawling and hormones are plummeting and you know you name it it's happening and i look at my mom and i said you lied to me you lied to me you never told me it was like this this is hell on earth i'm never doing this again and my compassionate wonderful like superhero mother that you saw on the screen literally literally ends up on all fours laughing on the ground no compassion whatsoever and i mean we have three kids so obviously i did it again there are some things that make the pain worth it you see purpose puts pain in perspective even though i am torn within and my soul is in turmoil i will not ask the father to rescue me from this hour of trial so here's the test it's when you get into a painful circumstance here's the test to know do i have a transactional mindset regarding my relationship with jesus or do i have a trust relationship here it is i'll just tell you what i said i remember laying in the bed at night as the band comes back you know when you're laying there and the tears are coming and then they get in your ears and then you gotta go like this they don't go like way down in there and then your pillow's wet oh god wet pillows are so disgusting we had three beautiful children i got pregnant soon after i had a miscarriage got pregnant again had a horrific miscarriage hemorrhaged three blood transfusions weak in the hospital left my body saw my body in the car it was literally hovering above it fast forward a few months my dad graduates on to heaven benny's father has a nine way bypass surgery which he lived through and he's still with us today we're grateful for that sometimes i forget to share that part of the story so it's a little bit awkward sorry we're walking through one of the darkest seasons of our life we're in litigation about ready to lose everything church money house i'm laying in the bed this is how you know i said why god oh look at all the things i've done for you i left my family in washington i moved to vegas we were all in savings cashed everything out all in for the church i've never rebelled never walked away from you i've served you been in your service my whole life i don't deserve this if i would have thought about it in that moment i would have understood that that's my god i don't even believe that of course we don't deserve it we don't deserve any of it we don't deserve salvation we don't deserve righteousness we don't deserve peace we don't deserve eternal life we don't deserve any of it i don't deserve this we can limp through a few painful situations in our lives still having a transactional mindset and somehow either run around them or stuff them so deep inside that we kind of just don't deal with them but we can still maintain this kind of transactional thoughts well if i have a small group and if i become a member and if i serve in kids that's like double points god if i do all these things and we still subtly allow like if someone actually pinned us down we'd be like no we don't believe that but in our heart but eventually there will become a pain so great that we have to face it we only have one of two options that's either turn away find something else to believe in or trust him what is it until you see as a pastor many times the lives of the people the generations the children the young people their lives being touched that's that's enough purpose that's beautiful and that's wonderful often times moments in the anointing we just had a worship night on wednesday night and we just had a heaven touching earth moment and man that that's live for those moments want those moments and often it's enough but we're facing death and loss and litigation and fearing like we were losing everything and what did we even do all of this for for it just to end like this and i just can't even believe and we had a perfect storm what is it unto growing up in a pastor's home we have a couple rules one rule in our house is that we don't talk about negative church stuff in front of our kids until they're old enough to actually be adequ able to adequately emotionally process it they have the rest of their lives to understand that people in the church are human and their humanity is going to show at times they don't need to know that when they're 5 6 7 12. so we don't do that but this time we broke our rule and we're in the car we're driving it was a minivan the other rule is we both can't be down on the same day that's a bad day but we were both down on this day so the kids are in the back and we're having some really good parenting skills and we're like turn on those video games put those headphones on but like all good pks they listened i'm in the front seat and i said benny i don't know i think it's too much i am torn within my soul is in turmoil turmoil i will not ask the father to rescue me from this hour of trial so i've come to fulfill my purpose to offer myself to god i'm torn within my soul is in turmoil driving in that minivan benny i can't do it maybe we're done maybe we go we heal up we start another church we do something different i don't know i can't take this it's too much i can't i can't do it and we're driving along and there's silence in the car he says man windy me either i i think we're done i think i just think it's over i don't know what else to do it's just it must be over and again there's silence in the car purpose puts pain in perspective what is it unto and a little voice from the back seat our little pillow girl man who in the last two weeks has heard the voice of god for the first time at 17 and that never would have been possible if we quit a little five-year-old little bella girl in the back seat says would you do it for me daddy and this week we got a text for the first time god spoke to me nothing changed in that moment except my purpose it wasn't about growing a huge church it wasn't about being instagram famous it wasn't about being an influencer it wasn't about writing that book or having that following or doing this or doing that or growing or no it all boiled down to a five-year-old little girl and it was like yeah i would do anything for you yes if we created a whole church just so our children would love church and love jesus and love the kingdom come on and love other christians and love jesus and want to serve jesus with the rest of their life yes we would do it because purpose puts pain in perspective what is it unto i want to have a trust relationship with him that says god i don't understand everything and in my humanity i want to add up everything i've ever done for you because this doesn't seem fair but at the end of the day god i understand that you are not fair but you are just that means that you are holy and i can trust you i can trust your motives i can trust the direction of my life i can trust the painful situations that i have to walk through knowing that you will be with me every single step of the way even though i walk through the valley of the shadow of death i will fear no evil for you are with me you're wrong and you're sad they comfort me i can't trust you you're a healer jesus your restorer fast forward who could have seen the last two years of our lives but the growth through the pain [Music] 12 or so years ago come on was the same trust that i learned back then come on i'm telling you i passed the test a whole lot better this go round baby i love it i love to look people in the face say oh i know it seems so dark i know it seems easier just to push it aside shove it down try to avoid it look away pretend it doesn't exist but there is a purpose on the other side of what you are walking through i get it when you are in pain it is all-encompassing try stubbing your little teeny baby toe i could come to you and say that is whatever i'm not good with numbers that's benny's you know thing but that's one one percent 1.2 of your body look at all the rest of you that's okay just get over it and you're just gonna punch me in the face because when you're in pain that's all you can see but god sent somebody from vegas that started off in the northwest to come back to tell you here in the northwest to not give up that there is purpose on the other side of your pain he is growing things in you that you have no idea you don't know what the future holds you don't know the people that you're gonna link arms with and they might trip up and fall and you're gonna be like it's okay i've been there too and you're gonna get through it and you're gonna pick up a brother and pick up a sister and be able to walk them through some of the darkest times of their life why because you faced it and you saw purpose beyond the pain i want to pray for you tonight i want to pray for you tonight even as i'm talking maybe you're in pain and if you're honest you've been adding some of those things up in your mind and you're in your heart you're not a bad person you're not a bad christian you're not a shallow christian you're just human and in our humanity we just want to do something we want to control something we want to work it out we just want to fix it right we just want to make it all better but there's times in our lives where we just had to say god this is beyond me i must trust you i must put my faith and hope in you come on and i must just step out in faith and say god you don't got me i think i'm gonna die what do the apostle paul say as a result of all this we thought we were gonna die but as a result of all this we stopped relying on our own strength and started trusting would you close your eyes this evening you're here tonight in pain and you realize in this moment that maybe you've been praying some of those prayers this night tonight doesn't make it all better i still had to go home from that minivan i still had to do the hard work of pastoring people i still had to pray for other people that had cancer even though i just buried my dad like i saw the pastor people in there challenges and issues i i mean we started to go back and help lead and guide the staff through it we still had to raise kids we still had things that we had to do tonight doesn't make it all better but it gives you new purpose and new hope and tonight you find yourself and you're just repeating those things about maybe why you don't deserve it and god just wants to lift your head there is there is a purpose there is a vision there is a hope that he wants to place inside your heart tonight and refocus the end game refocus what it is unto maybe what you've been focusing on is just too small maybe god wants you to believe bigger and dream bigger i know you might be in pain right now but god just wants to lift up your head he is the lifter of my head he wants to lift you up he wants you to see further he wants to lift you up on eagles needs he wants you to see farther he wants you to sleep bigger tonight in jesus name if that's you and you find yourself you're in that you're in that place right now right now right now right now that pain is so real it's here right now i want you to stand up right where you are stand up stand up stand up stand up stand up stand up yep just pop up right now pop up right now pop up right now there we go thank you jesus thank you jesus thank you jesus thank you jesus thank you lord yes yeah you can just keep standing up it's okay i sometimes we wait i get it sometimes we're self-conscious we think people are looking at us but honestly they're really not you usually may be thinking about a loved one or they're thinking about a friend or they're thinking about what they're going through and they're focused on jesus tonight there's just a presence of the holy spirit here tonight i think it's just like it's just it's just snapping you out it's like that little voice from the back seat just boom just realigned in a moment just realigned just oh my goodness i never saw it like that before so you're gonna have those moments tonight i've never seen it like that before oh my god jesus jesus jesus holy spirit we ask right now in the name of jesus that you would do what only you can do god you said you draw near to those who are brokenhearted or you are near to them right now holy spirit i pray that you would just come that you would just make yourself available in a very real way tonight i pray that the presence of the holy spirit would just right now would just come and it would just touch you right where you very right where you are some of you will feel like in your heart it's kind of on the inside some of you feel it's like even on your shoulders it's just a warmth that's just surrounding you right now so you just feel like it's like it's in your in your heart and he's just moving and he's shifting some things around so that you're going to be able to have a different perspective and a different understanding it might it's still the same picture but you're seeing it in a new and different way and he's just bringing clarity right now i pray for the eyes of your heart the eyes of your understanding that they would be enlightened right now that it's not your understanding but heavenly understanding the understanding that only comes from jesus to just infuse your heart and your spirit and your soul with purpose right now purpose flood your soul i've never seen it like that before oh my god oh my god right now in jesus name strength and life and hope would you do me a favor i know that you're receiving if you want to stay there you can but for those that would like to come forward would you just come forward because i do think that there's something very significant happening and i know the prayer team is going to come forward i don't know i think some of us need the prayer of agreement right now i think some of us just need the prayer of agreement tonight and we just need someone to just lay their hands on us and just say in the name of jesus in the name of jesus strength peace right now the darkness that has seemed overwhelming it seemed like a cloud that just descends and they can't see and it's like a fog and it seems so unclear where do i go and where do i turn i speak to that cloud in the name of jesus and every demonic force that is coming against you and i say you have to go in the name of jesus that these are children of god they are covered and they are protected and there is no interference that is allowed over their lives right now in jesus name in jesus name god i pray tonight that you would begin deep works of healing of restoration you are the restorer lord you're not the god that just puts things back together but you are a restorer lord you build them back from nothing you are the god of the impossible and you can do the impossible so lord i thank you i thank you for the gifts and the callings i thank you for the talents lord i thank you for the destinies lord i thank you lord for what you have called them to accomplish and fulfill in their lives and the enemy has come and tried to try to make them take a detour or stop or or get caught up in the darkness but in the name of jesus in the name of jesus new life new light purpose and joy in jesus name lord i just pray that the joy would return that the joy the joy of our salvation the joy of our salvation would return that you are a good god lord that you have directed our steps you have guided our paths you are a good god and you have good plans for us lord we thank you for the purposes of god that are on each and every one of these lives lord jesus for the generations that they represent and the enemy wants to get them stuck and we say in the name of jesus in the name of jesus mike what you said pastor mike sorry what you said he said he's the breaker he's the breaker he's breaking through tonight our last name is perez that's it's great that actually means breakthrough i believe that the god of the breakthrough is coming tonight that that that he has had you in a holding pattern you've become so focused and fixated on whatever circumstance has happened but tonight the breaker is coming the breaker is coming and he is breaking you out of that cycle whether it's shame or condemnation or just being overwhelmed or not knowing which way to move but tonight the breaker is coming there is a breakthrough happening in this place right now come on church family can we just can we agree in prayer together right now come on let's just pray for these there is a breakthrough happening there are generations on the other side of this breakthrough in jesus name in jesus name come on lift your hands everywhere are we either sitting or standing come on the holy spirit is here the holy spirit is here holy spirit holy spirit yeah yeah yeah yeah yeah [Music] my [Music] [Music] [Applause] [Music] i will [Music] my [Music] [Music] [Music] i trust [Music] [Music] [Music] i will sing because i trust [Music] [Music] because i trust you i will bring my heart i will lift my soul [Music] i want to hear you louder than everybody else come on you ready here we go [Music] [Music] i will praise before my breakthrough i will praise you till my song becomes my triumph till my song becomes my triumph i will sing because [Music] i'll praise you for my breakthrough until my song becomes my triumph till my songs [Music] my [Music] till my song becomes [Music] oh [Music] till my song becomes [Music] i will sing because [Music] i just got reconnected again with a former youth group member eric little his wife can you guys step into the aisle please step right there in the aisle nothing is by accident sometimes there seems a little chaotic and confusion and [Music] timing and got a good word for you [Music] god says i'll work everything out for my good for your good just in that moment with your eyes closed you and your beautiful wife holy spirit is going to come and hover upon you in every trust tissue every area that you said god i'm not sure god says trust me son trust me in every area connect at a deeper level he loves you he cares for you the presence of god is going to come and touch both of you in every significant way in about three seconds i don't know about the manifestation that's up to god but ready one two three boom all over you boom hit you again boom issues falling off fear is falling off phobias beginning to leave increase of god's presence in a very powerful way in every area of your life in the mighty name of jesus touching you right then right there yeah yeah yeah yeah yeah come on can you just wave your hands towards seven just a little bit just go a few more minutes [Music] this young lady what's your name danielle come here come up on the stage you were here leading worship leaned over to my wife and i said she's pretty incredible because you learn to sing through the night you learn to to worship in the dark you learn to worship in pain you learn to worship when when nothing seemed like it was going well you know what's so amazing about you i know worship leaders we we lead worship we lead you into worship but i watched you and i go i don't even think she knows we're here i think the real worship leader is i'm going to go to the throne room i invite you to come with me because we're not careful we can get into performance i think we need to be great musicians i think we need to practice i think we need to make sure we're you know all the techniques i don't really understand but but what i love about pursuit worship here is that we're saying hey we're going to go to a throne room we want to invite you to come with us because you can't take somebody where you've never been you can't take somebody where you've never been people ask me how can you do what you do i go well you gotta you gotta go where i've been if you if you touch the room i've been in then you can see what i could see i'm not anything special i'm not that i don't have a phd i not like like pastor's getting i do have a phd preaching healing and deliverance it's taking him a few years but it's taking me 35 to get my phd yeah yeah it's true amen right but i'm going to pray for you because what the future holds i don't here's the scripture i get for you eye has not seen ear has not heard neither has it entered into your heart all that god has prepared for you all that god has prepared for you so just lift your hands right here stretch your hands out towards her come here wendy that's what's going to happen power god's going to touch you you were made for this you were made for this you were made for this oh i wish i could sing [Music] so much more [Music] and so much more and so much more [Music] you were made to fly [Music] made [Music] me [Music] [Music] you were made for this you were made for [Applause] [Music] for this you were made for this [Music] [Applause] [Music] [Applause] [Music] foreign [Applause] [Music] yes [Music] [Music] [Music] [Music] holy spirit you are welcome [Music] [Music] your glory god is [Music] holy spirit [Music] god is [Music] is [Music] [Music] this will be a precursor what i'm going to say tonight tomorrow i don't know if i'm going to preach the same message all four serve i might preach maybe four different messages tomorrow sorry on saturday i can't escape the fact that every time i come back i sense the same thing this is a fact that you could check this yourself but over snohomish county there is what they call a convergence zone in the weather pattern it's truth i'm not making this stuff up it's not over king county it's not over olympia it's over snohomish county is a convergence zone there is an opening yeah come on there is something i don't fully understand first natural than the spiritual and could it be not only is the homeless county but you happen to be in snohomish of snohomish county i don't underst i don't think you understand the prophetic significance of what god is really doing you only understand the prophetic significance when you go further down the road and you look back then you say oh that's what god was doing but can you see with the prophetic with prophetic eyes can you trust your pastor can you trust what god is doing that friend you are part of a revival listen to me don't talk to you about revival i lived in one for six years all these people running around taught my revival my arrival and i sit out i don't talk about it i've lived it and we're in one in las vegas right now but listen to me you are not here tonight by accident it's a friday night and look at how many people are in church on a friday night coming after god i'm here not to bring something because it's already here i'm not here because i'm the old guy let's just honor him i'm not that old yet so yeah how old are you my wife's 45. how old are you my wife's 45. how old are you my wife's 45. you're so interested find me on wikipedia oh i'm not there what i'm here is to validate and to say yes and amen i don't know if you know this but i'm a i think i'm an overseer outside elder so we're family you got a crazy mexican i know you don't have very many of them but that's what i am but can i tell you you are part of something i'm going to say this because i believe it's true historic you know russell i want to say this to you history is going to be kind to you because you're going to write it you're going to write history they're going to be naysayers dismissors people that say oh what's he trying to do oh really now look at his hair look at his clothes you know what's so cool about you and i and i just want to just say this to you publicly you're not afraid to keep stepping out of the box you're not afraid you're not afraid you may not like but but i'm not really interested in what you like i want to see what he likes thank god for a leader that refuses to stay in a box dad refuses [Applause] come here for a second where's your wife is your wife still here i know we're going a little bit late but it's friday night there's nothing else to do with snohomish don't hate me there's nothing else to do listen to me nobody's making plans to take a vacation in snohomish don't hate me i i lived in marysville with one water tower and during christmas we had a little parade and we stood around the water tower and they lit it oh and i said oh my god where am i i remember calling home what are you doing son they lit a water tower and we're staring at it i want to come home but in the most secluded never heard of a place called marysville got catapulted a young guy unknown not from a pastor's home i wasn't looking for fame i was looking for singing events i was just looking to do the will of god and god would do that people say why did he use you i said i don't know ask him when you get to heaven don't know what was it like it's i don't know it's hard to explain what was it like little family what was it like what was it like when you see 800 plus sometimes a thousand kids in the summer and they're cramming in demon possessed kids being set free drugs being thrown on the platform condom altar calls us condoms are flying like frisbees don't be offended go until 10 o'clock 11 o'clock at night on wednesday nights i said if you if you're driving out you feel boom boom it could be a junior high or fell out in the power of the parking lot that's what they did they laughed that's why como news came king news came and they filmed live live put up their trucks live no no and that's why they were filming when i'm praying for the sick and the cameraman says this is a bunch and he said a bunch of words that are not christian and i would say them but it'll offend some of you i was just going to quote him and then god started healing the sick and the guy started shaking on the camera he's never saw miracles take place in front of his face before that's why they put us on the front page of the seattle times baby and they had revival in marysville see i want to quit talking about history i want to make it this is your time listen to me pursue northwest this is your time this is your time to take what god did and what was my ceiling what was our ceiling come on is now your floor we live for revival in the day but reformation in our lifetime just hold hands again lord just just i just want to give you a simple word but i think it's profound whitney will you join me i feel like the lord just says son because you're willing to take on things that other people won't take on you're willing to fight against the establishment somebody's told me within the church not just outside the church you're willing to go against tradition you're willing to take criticism you're willing to be misunderstood you're willing to say god all i need to know god is if you're saying it and if you say it then we will go god gave you the right woman the right wife because one will put a thousand two will put ten thousand to flight and in the next three years the next 36 months there's going to be an incredible acceleration in every area there's going to be acceleration in the church the growth locations there's going to be acceleration of influence there's going to be acceleration of platform the lord says i know you're not asking for it thus i could trust you with it but you have not even begun to scratch the surface there's books in you guys media in you guys there's a new voice in you and both of you and i'm telling you the next 36 months the next three years got his assembly the team i don't know if you called pastor michael but i'll call him pastor michael known him since he was maybe 14 15 got saved in my meetings i discipled that guy in my house in arlington that's true i'm not making this stuff up other preachers lie a thousand people are saved there's only two people in the meeting bro by faith yeah that's your problem stretch your hands out this is a divine moment significant moment vision weekend this is so good god says i brought you out like i did abraham out of the tent and he says look up count if you can count the stars if you can so shall be your descendants i'm telling he's gonna do something you can't even count he's gonna blow on you he's gonna blow on the ministry he's gonna do something i'm telling you i just sense this and i feel you have this so lord we stretch our hands the first night of vision weekend people's pain god is coming into perspective god we trust you we're not transactional god you look for a man and woman you can trust you found him jesus [Music] one more time let's sing it come on [Music] this place [Music] [Music] come on let's open that convergence zone come on let's open it up even wider let's open up even wider with our praise and our worship [Music] [Music] is [Music] [Music] right before right before we wrap up who has physical heart issues heart palpitations you've been having heart difficulties if that's you can you step into the aisle really quick god wants to heal heart issues heart heart issues could be some hard stuff can you just step into the aisle i keep getting this word to step into the aisles okay we want to pray there's some people there over here want to pray if you see somebody in the aisles can you stretch your hands out to them lord we pray and we command healing with every heart palpitation god heart arrhythmia father we declare healing right now we command healing in that heart we say be healed in jesus name right now be healed who's the people that are suffering with migraine headaches you suffer with migraines can you wave your hand can you wave can you step into the aisles please you you suffer with migraines step in the eye we're gonna have some people prayer people around you step in the aisles if you deal with migraine headaches the lord is i'm telling you god's there's a healing we're not waiting till saturday night my wife preached an amazing message what an altar call with an amazing moment but there's just a touch of god just just go a little bit longer like i said there's nothing to do in snohomish chick-fil-a don't close till 10. i'm hitting that next i think i'm kidding number three twelve pack large fry two barbecue and three ketchups keep doing that brenda i'm not listening to you i'm married to her not you you keep cutting out all you want i'm me that's why i'm me i'm me i want to be me don't tame the lion okay those people that have the the headaches come on let's lay hands on them command healing and we command those migraines come on to be to leave those people's bodies right now we command it right now be healed right now we command the healing to to be released right now in the name of jesus you'll be healed you'll be made whole now in jesus name the believers shall lay hands on the sick and they shall recover so we believe hey brenda grab a hold of your husband's hand i want you guys to look at me if i like this thank you thank you for eric thank you he's a man of god thank you for his life thank you for the purpose you put in his heart thank you lord god that lord he's he's built for adventure he doesn't want to just be normal just settle with just a regular life it's a god-given thing inside of you let me tell you something i don't know you very well but the time we spent together i want to tell you something i respect you i honor you and you're a man of god and while i declare over him every plan and purpose that you have destined for him and for her and for that incredible boy that they're raising i thank you lord god he's going to be a father like no other and god is giving what he's never even received himself fully and god i thank you right now for that i thank you for the grace that's on him and i lay my hands on him god i thank you jesus i thank you jesus such a heart of a father i've got a good word for you what you feel for your son it pales in comparison for what god the father feels for you towards you that you have a good heavenly father that loves you and is proud of you and he says this tell him you're my beloved son he says in whom i'm well pleased just because of who you are not what you do i pray for them as a couple god you have ordained them to be together i thank you lord god for their ministry thank you for their life god i thank you they have been traveling lord god i pray and when they meet people or god those people when they leave and i can say i don't know about that couple but they were an amazing couple give them words of encouragement lord i thank you right now in the name of jesus i thank you father visitations in the night dreams and visions greater grace on them the mighty name of jesus come on i've known you since you were a girl now you've turned into an incredible woman strong god i pray let her prophesy use her boldness god i pray in the name of jesus let these hands be hands of healing hands of hope let him grab broken women's hands and and god just by her presence and by the the anointing on her god that she sees things come back to life in people i pray in the name of jesus god because she know what it is she knows what it is to worship through the pain but lost this and she's still here god because of your grace just blow on both of them one two three holy spirit [Music] you're all we [Music] come on tell her [Music] [Music] you is [Music] [Music] is [Music] [Music] [Music] see [Music] [Music] yes [Music] well let me pray for you in in closing this evening and thank you for joining us on this friday night we know there's a lot of places you could be and we appreciate you joining us here we send so sincerely that god is doing something special and significant in this region and you and i are a part of it together let me pray for you and then just remind you tomorrow night we'll be back here 6 p.m doors open at 5 30. pastor benny's going to be preaching i know he has a word for this house a prophetic word for this house i'd encourage you to be here and then sunday morning of course 9 10 30 and noon we're going to rally as well come on let's pray father we love you god we honor you and we thank you for the gift of your presence that you don't have to show up but every time we ask you do god i thank you that as your glory and as your presence fills this room it impacts us in ways that words can't even describe and so god we make a decision today to trust you with what we can't see to trust you with what we don't know to choose to worship in the midst of a lot of things that we don't understand and god we declare over this house and over this region to the increase of your kingdom and your government and your peace there will be no end come on we pray these things in the mighty name of jesus and all god's people said hey ben hi ben hey thanks so much for joining us we'll be back here tomorrow night look forward to seeing you god bless you

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