Walk With Me - Stephanie Ike

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people whose lives have already been changed by this great work now speaking of great work here comes the word I'm so glad you're here enjoy praise God family I am so excited to be with you on this Sunday and I'm just so touched by what our pastor was able to share with you all you know I it just takes me back honestly to the start of the year and one of the words that God gave me about what this year would represent not even in a personal way but corporately was about embracing the shift and look at where we are today we are seeing how God is Shifting things but the beauty of it is that we see the hand of God we see the goodness of God we see the faithfulness of God in L.A in Dallas what we're seeing is God multiplying his impact because at the end of the day everything we do we do it unto the glory of God and so no matter what you what what you get no matter who you see you're not just seeing a person you're not here because you're you're looking at me or you want to hear the words I have to say you're here because you know that the the anointing of God flows through this house and you that anyone that has been race to step on this stage is going to be surrender to what God has to say and I'm just excited family I'm excited about the possibilities that comes when there is a shift when there is a shift that God has ordained and even today even as we step into the message we're going to talk about that a bit more you know because a lot of times even when you when you hear about things shifting you know if you're looking at it from a Physical Realm then it could leave you wondering and left with uncertainty but we're going to talk about this from a spiritual realm you see as you're taking notes my message today is walk with me and we are going to go on a journey but I want to kick off with a scripture and we're going to pray you see Genesis 6 9 it says this these are the generations of Noah Noah was a righteous man blameless in his generation Noah walked with God Heavenly Father we thank you we thank you for what you're doing in our Movement we thank you for what you're doing in L.A we thank you for what you're doing in Dallas we thank you Lord for what you're doing right now we thank you Lord for what you have always purposed to do even before time that we are seen being manifested in time and so heavenly father I pray that as this word Goes Forth I Surrender myself as your vessel and I pray heavenly father that we would receive that mandate that unction to walk with you in Jesus mighty name amen amen you see family I want to take you on a journey you know many times I've shared just some of my story in how I got to one and how you know the Lord called me into Ministry but I want to take us on a walk down memory lane for just you know just a little bit because I think this moment really requires that you see I remember you know as a kid I encountered the Lord right I encountered the Lord at nine years old and when I encountered the Lord it was in such a supernatural way and I guess it hasn't been anything you know short of Supernatural ever since then but at nine years old I had the advantage of being a child and so even in knowing that I'm a kid it was easy to embrace being a child of God it was easy to embrace coming to God in a childlike manner my I believe for things that I knew I had no ability to do because I wasn't looking for strength in myself I was looking at the strength in my father you know I remember one of the even in my early teenagers I used to play basketball when I was in high school and there was a time that my appendix was so swollen they needed to do surgery but I had embraced this childlike nature it wasn't even a second thought that oh my gosh I didn't get scared you know I mean when I felt the pain because I was I remember we were playing basketball one time I you know I was trying to do this you know little um alley you know jump and whatnot but and I felt this sharp pain and I'm like what is that right and so obviously we had to go to the hospital and all that stuff but when I found out when the doctors told me you know told my mom and you know obviously I heard what was going on there was no fear in me that that still amazes me even when I think back on it there was absolutely no fear because I was like well my dad could take care of this so they gave medication they gave all that stuff they were like hey take this you know and then come in they scheduled the day for the surgery I literally I went home I threw all the meds into the into the toilet and flushed it and I'm like no my dad is going to take care of this and I literally in at home I was like Dad this is what the doctors are saying but I need you to step in I need you to fix this because I don't want to do surgery and it was so like there was it was just pure faith and it was that faith of a child that was not looking for strength in herself but she was looking at the strength in her father you see I encountered the Lord first as father before I knew him as Savior and I thank God I did because I think as a child I really just needed to know the love of a father and the beauty family is that before God even calls you to to to be you know to be a servant in any way he first calls you a son he calls you a daughter so you recognize that everything you do for God flows from this place of love from intimacy but I'm sharing this because as a child I had the advantage of being a child so my Approach To God was very childlike anything he said I should do I did you know going back to my appendix that that was healed miraculously and it wasn't even a shock to me I was like I knew my dad would do this then the older you get you start being consumed about life and what everyone else is doing and their expectations of you that somehow you begin to dull that voice that has been leading you you begin to mute that voice when it's telling you to do something that is not the status quo and he's telling you to do something that your friends are going to say oh that's lame and that's not cool and you're like no God I just want to I want to go this route instead so in my early 20s I found myself in that place I found myself in the place where I didn't feel like God I don't I don't feel like I'm walking with you I feel like you're far from me and not not that you're absent but something feels different it doesn't feel like what it felt like when I was a kid literally and when I say Walking with God it's not even just a feeling it was a knowing because when you are walking with God there is a knowing of safety there is a knowing of protection there is a knowing that he's got you that even in the darkness that he is the light that will see you through there was a knowing that you there's a knowing of his peace in your presence there is a knowing that God no matter where I might find myself I'm good and it doesn't mean that sometimes you may not have uncertainty here and there but even in the midst of the uncertainty the word of God will illuminate the lies of the enemy and so I found myself in a space that I didn't really feel safe internally spiritually something felt off externally everything looked great you would think I was living my best life but internally something wasn't right and so I began to take some time I said Lord I'm going to seek you I'm going to take some time and fasting and in prayer and to seek you now the word of God says something so beautiful family it says that God is a rewarder of those who diligently seek him and what I love about that is that God rewards those you see to reward is that he gives you what you're seeking for now this does not mean that you can come before the presence of God and just ask for anything and he gives it to you but the key word there is also diligently because when you are diligent in what you're seeking God for the Holy Spirit partners with you and begins to remove the weeds of your request because you see sometimes what your spirit is hungry for can be clouded by what your soul is lusting for and so when you are diligent and seeking God that speaks of your persistence that speaks of your consistency in getting before the face of God God I need clarity in your diligence the Holy Spirit partners with you and he begins to clean out the request he gets to the heart of what your your spirit is longing for that is why you know for some of you when you start a fast you might start a fast and you're praying that God I just need a promotion that and that is what you that was your intention going into the fast god I need a promotion at my work and at the end of the fast you're saying God help me to be more of a blessing to the people I see what changed between the beginning of the Fest and the end of the fast it was your diligence because in that diligence the holy spirit says what you're asking for is not really a promotion and he begins to remove the weeds of the request and so when I began fasting and praying initially I was like God you know I I just I need you here I need your presence something feels off where are you I just need to know that you are with me in everything I'm doing and then as I was approaching the end of this fast and I was in prayer the prayer request started changing God who am I what do you require of me who am I supposed to be in this season what is it that you have called me to do you see the prayer requests changed from a place of saying God Walk With Me versus God I want to walk with you what have you called what have you ordained me to do in this season of my life I want to be in alignment with you you see the Bible doesn't say that God walked with Noah but that Noah walked with the Lord and as I began to say that as I began to seek the Lord about that he rewarded with an answer and that was when the Lord now gave me that instruction and he said you know what I want you to walk away from everything I want you to walk away from the business that was thriving I want you to walk away from everything and move to at that time it was in downtown Los Angeles and I'm like God what is in downtown Los Angeles but I did right there was some wisdom in the move because I was able to add some savings that would carry me through you know some months I didn't know how long what was going to happen what it was going to take but I moved I moved in that obedience I said God I'm after whatever it is you know about me I want that and so when the move you know family is asking all kinds of questions they're like Stephanie what are you doing did you leave the business like what are you doing have you are you okay especially coming from a Nigerian family it's like there is no when you do things like that they just label it as are you trying to embrace laziness we don't do that in this house so there was a lot of friction from my family because it did not make sense and then on top of that then the Lord now leads me to this house one day it was on a Sunday and he said I'm going to show you where you need to go and I came to this house and I remember walking through those doors the Lord said so clearly in this place I would raise you up as a minister of the Gospel and when I heard that it it it felt known and foreign all at the same time when I heard that I I felt like I was hearing an identity of myself being revealed but also foreign all at the same time because I'm like there's no history of this with me have you ever felt like that when God gives you a word that feels familiar to you and foreign all at the same time because when it's communicated to you it jumps in your spirit that there is something about this word that speaks to the like the depths of who God has called me to be the depths of who he formed me to be but at the same time this is foreign to my history this is foreign to my life because you see family to walk with the Lord is to walk with truth and when you walk with truth truth is not always truth has to be revealed because truth is first received before it is revealed when you think about Jesus who is the way the truth and the life Jesus had to be received in order to be revealed through the people in order for people to testify of his goodness in order for the power of God to be revealed he had to be received that's why the last time I was with you I talked about how the one thing that caused Jesus to not move in the manner that he desired to was a lack of honor the people did not receive him as Christ and so he could not be revealed as the Christ they could not receive him as a Healer so he could not manifest himself in that way so the truth always has to be first received before it is revealed and what does that look like it is what the Bible talks about that God has placed eternity in our hearts when God gives you a word that administers to you because it speaks to what has always been in your heart and it needed something to activate it and you begin to recognize wait this is actually who I am this is connected to me in some way that I don't even know but God I'm going to trust you as I walk this out and when you receive truth there are instructions that follow in order for it to be revealed in time you see in the moment that the Lord said I'm going to raise you as a minister of the Gospel what was happening is that I was receiving truth it took some time before that was revealed to the public but it first had to be received you see when God is giving you a truth about you receive it and it looks like the season of preparation when God begins to instruct you to do things that it makes no sense to those around you because you're walking in a truth that has not even been revealed to them you're walking in something that nobody understands that this is actually who you are and what you carry you're walking in something that although Heaven has always known Society is blind to and so in that moment the instructions of the Lord was literally and remember this was through a dream and he showed me I want you to serve as an usher in this time and he said I want you you know ushers in the church you know you're passing out you know baskets tissue anything that the people need greeting people you are the people's people right that's how I look at it the ushers are the people's people you serve in any capacity whatever needs to be done you could carry your baby if you have to right and so that was the instruction and I remember he said you know what for the first year never miss a service I want you to keep showing up as I'm saying that some of you are listening to this right now and there's some odd instructions that God has given you and you cannot look around for validation of the word you have to recall what happened in your heart when you received it because it minister to you as this is connected this is out Awakening it is activating something that has always been known even though it is yet still foreign to me but I'm gonna work out what God has said and so I did that I was serving as an usher and then I remember two particular moments that were so just Monumental to me there was a particular day the night before our pastor just came up with a book purpose Awakening and he was having a book signing the next day which would be a Sunday the night before I remember having a dream and he signed a copy of the book and in the dream he said keep moving forward and when I opened the book The Words moving forward jumped it's like you know when a word just comes alive to you and the Lord began to minister through that and he said you're going to write a book called moving forward and I was like oh wait Lord I am in the most stagnant season of my life you want me to do what but eventually I did write the book moving forward but the next day you know I come to church and I'll pass this having the book signing and after the book's signing I remember the holy spirit says I want you to now share with him the dream that you had so at the end of the book signing I approached PT and I was like Peter can I talk to you and he said the first three words that came out of his mouth was walk with me that was a very simple thing because he was literally walking and he just said no walk with me but those words jumped at me and me and I didn't really search it out like why did this have such an impact in me and it was so simple walk with me then you know you fast forward I remember the very first time I had a conversation with our first lady Pastor Sarah literally I remember she was going up the stairs and I knew that I was like okay she had moved you know at the time from Dallas to L.A and I'm like you know what whatever she needs I just felt in my heart like I just want to serve in any capacity whatever she might need I was still a an usher at this time and so I approached her and I was like you know first lady can I speak to you and she said walk with me the same three words walk with me and it jumped at me again and I remember heading home and I said God why am I so convicted by these words walk with me and the Lord began to speak and the Lord began to show me that I have called you to walk alongside them in Ministry and there are others that are being pulled together because there is a time that is coming that I will cause a shift and have a need for them elsewhere I didn't speak about this I don't even I think honestly maybe there's one key person I can say I've shared this with and this is one of my best friends Fatima because at the time we would always talk with one another and just share the things that God is speaking to us about so we can keep it in prayer but there are things that they're words that when God gives you you can't just talk about it casually because it ha it makes no sense in the time you're in and I was like Lord what does that mean that there is something there is a truth that is yet to be revealed but it is a truth in the Kingdom that there will be a time that there will be a shift required and he said this is the assignment because as you walk with them you are walking with me in obedience we fast forward to today and we hear the words that our pastor shared about what has taken place in L.A and in Dallas and I am so moved by the consistency and the faithfulness of God because you see family this has always been known it was just not yet revealed it has always been marked by the kingdom what is required to happen in the right season and in the right timing it has always been known the evidence that I'm even on this stage should even speak that I walked in here not knowing a single person when I came to this church I had a truth that was received but not revealed and in Walking with the Lord in obedience to the Lord it began to be revealed in the right timing you see I share this story with you because you being connected to this house I have the same question for you what are you or who are you walking with in your life one I want to give you the assurance that when you are walking with God that you should that never have a fear of God will your promises come to pass what the things that you have said would it would it be revealed because you see family there are moments that bring you into a deeper fear of the Lord because you recognize that the kingdom of God really functions like a kingdom that there are things that God has ordained and purposed to happen and all we are called to be is obedient to that call oh we are called to do is say Lord I am willing and to come in a childlike Manner and say God I'm going to trust however you're going to do this thing you see one of the greatest things that I have learned from my pastors is radical obedience to the Lord because it would always have a great harvest and the moment it could feel daunting and the moment it could feel like God what are you doing and the moment it could feel like God this the the this that I'm scared you could even share exactly how you feel like God I I don't I don't know if I could do this but then you are reminded who you are doing it with and who is doing it through you you are reminded that I am I did not just show up with this plan but it has always been in the mind of God and I am walking with him to play it out and what excites me about this family is that when the hand of God is in a thing you can only see the fruit of his Spirit through it there's going to be Great Harvest in Los Angeles there's going to be great harvest in Dallas and the reason being is that we are walking with God we are not here to walk according to the Applause of man we are now here to walk according to the expectations of society a culture but to walk with God you see I was so intrigued by one of the things that that word walk meant one of the translations even in Hebrew because it spoke to being weak is it isn't that so interesting that to walk with God is to be weak with God but not that God is weak but that you are embracing your weakness in order to be in alignment with him and I began to think about Noah he said let's go back to that scripture right in Genesis 6 9 it says Noah was a righteous man blameless in his generation Noah walked to a god Noah was blameless in his generation when you're reading it it sounds sexy Noah was blameless but when you're living it it's not it's it's actually you know it could be very disheartening because to be blameless in his generation if there was no one else like Noah in his time did that meant Noah was really the odd one out you see especially in the times that we're living you know in a social media age where we get dopamine highs based on who liked what that you what you know who shared what and there's insights from every social every social media channel and then you're looking at how many people share that how many people commented how many people liked it we're being fed by the validation from people Noah was a man that was not living out his lust but he was living out the truth of God's word Noah was a man that said I'm not just going to fall for anything I'm going to stand for something I'm Gonna Stand For Truth if you think about Noah in this times he literally embraced the identity of one who says look culture you can cancel me if you want but I will stand for truth I'm not choosing to be like everybody else I'm choosing to be in alignment with what God knows about me Noah was blameless before all in his generation now can we look at our lives and begin to ask ourselves what do we stand for because it is from this posture that we now hear Noah walked with God because in Noah standing for truth and Noah saying I'm not going to be like everyone else can you imagine how he was scrutinized can you imagine first of all Noah building an ark for a flood when they have never seen rain talk about the truth being revealed be being received before it's revealed he is literally building something for a scenario that has never even been seen before never been heard before but it was in his heart he knew what the Lord has spoken to him he knew the encounters that he he had with the Lord and the ones that worked still to come that will give him Direction about what is going to happen because it has already been written in heaven Noah had to embrace being the odd one out but what I learned about Noah when I read this about him is that Noah also embraced being weak he embraced the fact that God I have to my strength is not in me but it is in you when the neighbors are laughing at me when they're making fun of me like look at this crazy man probably talking to his kids talking to his wife like he has literally lost his mind He is building you see the Bible says that though the times were so evil so if you want to think about petticulture I mean think about that times a hundred about what the people were saying to Noah how they mocked him how they made fun of him but Noah embraced being weak he embraced being foolish before the eyes of men because what they didn't understand is that the word of God says that God would use what is considered as the foolish thing to the world to confound the wise he said what you think is foolish is what I would use to reveal my glory and it made me wonder could it be that the reason that Noah was the only one in his generation that was known to be blameless and known to walk with God was actually because Noah was the only one willing to embrace his weakness how many times have we found ourselves there when you're only willing to do the things that you have strengthened when you're only willing to do the things that you have Security in you have comfort in when you're asking God lord meet me in the place of my comfort in the place of my security I don't want to go where I don't know anyone I want to be around the place that I have control I know how to work this thing could it be that Noah was really the only one willing to embrace perpetually being a child that Noah was the only one willing to embrace being a student all the days of his life that he was not just saying that hey I'm only comfortable when I get I'm the one who is the teacher or I'm only comfortable when you know I know how this works no I had never seen rain I don't even think no I could imagine what a flood could look like the Bible actually talks about Noah was building literally according to a vision that God showed him because the Bible says Noah that God told Noah Noah build the ark according to the pattern that I will show you Noah did not even know what an ark looked like but he was willing to embrace weakness he was willing to say God I have no clue I I don't even know what a finished Arc looks like I don't even know what rain looks like I don't even know what it means for us to have a flood but I trust you and I'm Gonna Be A Child In This Moment because you see when you tell a child a story an imagination they don't even know what it looks like I mean hello Santa Claus the tooth fairy now we've made movies about them so we try to give them some some you know some imagery but spoiler alert if you have children around you just you know cover their ears in this moment because we tell them stories that we have never even seen we know anything we know that it doesn't exist but we tell them stories and their imagination is awakened and they're so excited they can't wait they're like Mommy what do we do yeah and you're like oh you know what put some cookies and some milk downstairs and go to bed you see that's why I knew you know we could not have Santa in Nigeria because I would be awake I will be making more cookies waiting for Santa to come and eat this cookie like Santa I laid out all these cookies out here for you where you at Santa right so what I'm sharing with you is that Noah embraced weakness and family if your obedience for God does not bring you to a place of weakness that I want you to question who am I actually being obedient to if I have everything all figured out if the very thing I believe I'm doing for God has me strong it is it is actually revealing my strength then who am I really being obedient to because there will be Seasons where God will bring you back into being a child again there will be times that he will call you out to do things that have always been known to him but is yet to be revealed to the world is even as I was in prayer concerning this the Lord just began to minister to me about where we all are and what is happening in this season of Our Lives we have to be people that stand for the truth of what we have come to know about God what he has put in our hearts to do you may have never seen it you don't even have a reference for it but maybe God gave you a vision God gave you an instruction and as you do the thing the now thing he will lead you to the next day you see your strength no true strength is found in self because what you find in yourself is limited to what you have known the things that you have already conquered but true strength is found in God when you recognize that God I'm going to lean on you I'm gonna trust in you I'm gonna walk with you you see because walking with God's family it's humility it's surrender I actually even want to read you know in second Corinthians from um chapter 12 verse 9 to 10 this was the Apostle Paul speaking now Apostle Paul you know some backstory about him you know in the beginning he did not really know the Lord he was actually persecuting Christians he would give the order for Christians to be killed because he believed that was the right thing that you know the right thing to do and then all of a sudden he encounters God and there's such a supernatural way you know at first he goes blind you know and the Lord speaks to him that why are you persecuting me right and he has this incredible encounter with the Lord and out of that encounter you know obviously he regains his sight he recognizes that God has called him to actually Minister the gospel and to lead many into the faith now this was such a posture of weakness because the Apostle Paul was known to literally I mean not in a direct way but he was executing Christians and now you're saying you are now speaking life into them and you want to speak to the world about Jesus even as a Believer people still feared him because they're like we don't really know his intentions right now it wasn't him walking with the Lord was to embrace his weakness Lord I thought I knew the truth but I didn't and I've been known to be something that your word has called me out of now I'm walking in what you've always known about me so you know there was a time that the Apostle Paul began praying to the Lord about a thorn in his flesh the Bible doesn't identify what that thorn is but he was asking the Lord you know what can you deliver me from this Thorn several times he asked the Lord deliver me from this Stone I believe it was three times and I'm about to read what the Lord responds saying and even as I read this what I love so much about the Lord is that he he didn't respond in the way that you would think oh yes I got you you know what here it's all gone because our life is not meant to come from our strength if the Lord removed the thorn then the Apostle Paul would feel like okay all right I got this I'm good now Lord but hear what the Lord says but he God said to me which is the Apostle Paul my grace is sufficient for you now what is the grace of God the empowerment of the Holy Spirit and this empowerment comes when you are connected to the Holy Spirit he says my grace is sufficient for you as long as you stay connected to me Paul you're going to be all right he says for my power is made perfect in weakness therefore I will boast more gladly of my weakness now this is the Apostle Paul speaking he says therefore I would actually boast more gladly of my weakness so that the power of Christ May rest upon me for the sake of Christ then I am content with weakness insults hardships persecutions and calamities for when I am weak then I am strong have we limited our Yes to God because we are looking for strength rather than embracing our weakness have we set just misaligned parameters to our yes because we're waiting for God to give us the word that excites us that we're like oh God I'm good at that oh say less God say less or are we willing to embrace what actually brings our weakness to the surface that we can surrender and lean on the power of the holy spirit to guide us through family this is a time in our community this is a season when the Lord is saying walk with me don't walk with your expectations of what life should be don't walk with how the people applaud you don't walk with any of that don't walk with culture don't walk with Society walk with the Lord listen when he calls on you answer when he says I have need for you in a place move on it when he tells you to build what you have never seen begin to lay the foundation and begin to ask the lord lord how would you have me do this partner with the Holy Spirit in everything that concerns your life partner with God because if you're reliant on strength you have not seen anything close to harvest but when you put that Reliance on the strength of God not what you have the ability to do but how God is leading you you see when I was praying for you the Lord began to show me that for many of you he's he's even leading you things are also very practical and in your mind you're like it's just not the time God I want to do this later you know some of you is calling to invest in in I just kept seeing several types of Investments one was property one was certain businesses and you don't even have you're trying to do it based on your timing and God is like I've already seen when this would have a harvest for you to use for certain things that I will call you to do there was one particular thing that really was intriguing to me and I know I have to say this because even even when I saw it I'm like truly this has not been revealed I don't know what kind of show that would be but the Lord even showed me that there's someone listening to this message and you are there is a there is a there's an idea for an animation that it has to do with roaches is this first of all I mean even me saying this is like I do not like bugs right the closest movie to bugs and bees a bug life that I could stand but literally the Lord showed me this animation and it had to do with roaches but he's given you the vision for it and even though you have received it you're not moving on it because you don't understand how this applies to anything but you see when you move on what God says it is preparation not just for you but the things that are called to you that when it's revealed everything is set in motion I don't know what God has called you to walk in in this season I don't know the instructions that he has given you but what I'm here to do is to charge you to walk with God to walk with the Lord don't be in your mess asking God to bless it don't be in the place of your comfort asking God to meet you there you see we we have a habit you know for one of the things I believe in that I have most likely said this in the past Jesus knows how to meet you anywhere but he's not going to skip you there so you can't even expect for him to stay in the place that he knows is beneath you and so you can't just stay in the place of comfort and just say God well you know what I just want you to bless here meet me here and we've made it a habit then we get mad at God when something doesn't work and we're like God how could you but you never consulted him in the beginning you just asked him to meet you in the place of comfort rather than actually being diligent in what you're seeking in him so you can actually find out what is it that my soul what is it that my spirit is really after because what gave us life is his breath and what keeps us in the Rhythm of Life what gives us the sense of being alive is walking in his purpose it is walking with him that's why even the the there's the series Walking Dead but I think that is reality because many times when you are outside of the very thing God has called you to do it's like a Walking Dead you're there but you're not there it's like a shell of you and then when you encounter God everything just it's almost like there's color in a black and white room that you've been living in this world that is black and white and your encounter with the Lord and your willingness to say yes to the things that seem hard all of a sudden gives color where it was once dull and so first of all I want to say to you if you do not know the Lord that is where we begin everything all of creation everything known and unknown scene and yet to be seen everything was formed by his word he is the beginning he is everything in between we call him the Alpha and Omega the beginning and the end and everything in between if you do not know the Lord that is where it starts it is being connected to the source of your life not knowing the Lord can you imagine having an electronic device and if the electronic device runs out of battery and it dies on you it doesn't mean it's broken if you're touching an electronic device that is out of battery and because it's not responding to you does not communicate that it's broken it doesn't mean it's not functioning all it needs to do is to get plugged into a source and it's the right cable and it needs a charge but if you look at it and you're like it's not responding to me it's not responding to me what is wrong with this thing and you deem it broken [Music] you miss out on the fact that this is a perfectly good electronic device it just needs to be plugged in life outside of Jesus is like an electronic device without a charge and deemed useless not recognizing all it needed was to be connected to a source if you don't know the Lord maybe you're watching this just because you're looking for something to give you some type of inspiration or high for the day to keep you going into another day that is not how it works in the Kingdom we're not just trying to get by into another day we live with an assurance we live with a certainty we live with a confidence that God is with me God got me and whatever I've been called to do with the time that my life is not in the hands of whatever might be happening in the world my life is in the hands of God you live with a sense of clarity a sense of purpose you live with peace Jesus says that the peace that I give you the world cannot give you it is a peace that surpasses all understanding that when everything in in in life seems to be going haywire you are at peace within yourself why it is because of that presence of the Prince of Peace himself if you don't know Jesus it starts there nothing I'm saying matters if you don't start there because that awakens you to the truth that awakens you to the reality of who you really are you haven't met you yet there are things about you that even even things that you have done certain instructions God has given you you don't even know what is about to be revealed until it's time but I want to First speak to those that want to know Jesus and I want to accept them as their lord and savior if that is you right now in the chat I just want you to put Jesus that's me Jesus that's me you want to accept the Lord as your personal Lord and Savior we're going to pray now if you're listening to this message and you are convicted by what you have given your yes to and how you he you know you you you almost like the way you give your yes right the the conditions for your yes and if you know that I was speaking to you that your yes has become based on where your strength is realized where your strength is discovered where your strength is revealed but God is requiring a yes from you that is calling you to be weak it's calling you to be a child again it's saying that hey people might not get it some people might not even it hasn't come into their hearts the way it came into yours people might scrutinize you but that's why you also have to have discernment in who you share what with now above anything definitely weigh out the word to know that it came from the Lord but when you have Clarity that this instruction came from the Lord and the only reason that it scares you is because it reveals your weakness that is how God operates because to walk with him is to be weak it is to say God you're calling me into a space that I do not know about even though it's known to me spiritually it is foreign to me naturally I don't have the resources I don't have the the right relationships I don't I don't even have the education for this [Music] but look at the beauty of God the holy spirit is everything when you read the Old Testament you would even learn how the Holy Spirit gave people the wisdom to be Builders the wisdom and the skill set to build they never knew what that looked like however God is going to move you in this season because you see family the oil flows the Bible talks about how the oil flows from the head down what you see God doing with our senior pastors with Pastor Toure with Pastor sir Jax Roberts is what is happening through this movement there are some hard yeses that we're called to give there's shifts happening it is received before it's revealed and the instruction God has given you is to prepare you for when it will be revealed and if you know that you needed that word just put in the chat that's me that's me you see that is literally me as well because sometimes when you find yourself as a child again it's an interesting place to be especially when in the natural you're used to adults and you're like God I pay bills okay I pay taxes you know I should have a say in this matter but God does his best work when we come before him like a child God does his best work when we embrace our weakness I'm not talking about embracing your weakness to live from it no no no just like God said to Paul my grace is sufficient for you Paul what does that mean as long as you're connected to me that is where you find strength it is a place that brings us to a deeper level of reverence for God a deeper level of surrender to the Holy Spirit we're not just living out you know in foolish Behavior because there is someone we answer to we're not living life for the Applause of people but to know that the father is pleased with us this is what Walking with God is about and so I want to pray for you I want to pray that as the Lord is giving us this unction this call to walk with him that we are saying yes and family is going to be amazing because anything the hand of God is on is connected to Great Harvest Great Harvest for the kingdom Great Harvest for the communities Great Harvest for our cities Great Harvest globally it is connected to Great Harvest the safest place to be in is in the will of God the most fruitful place to be in is in the will of God anything that you could think of that is a good thing is found in the will of God but we have to be patient and we have to trust him and we have to follow him heavenly father I thank you I thank you Lord for your love for us I thank you love for your goodness I thank you Lord that you are a god who holds times and seasons in your hand they belong to you everything that we see is literally just an unfolding of what you have always known even now I'm thinking about all the craziness happening in our world but this is also an unfolding a revealing of the truth that we even find in the Book of Revelations Heavenly Father we come before you to say God whatever you will call us to do whatever you would have us do we say yes if it means that we're gonna be a child all over again then we say yes with joy Lord God because we don't only want to do the things that we find ourselves we find our strength in but we want to see your strength revealed through our lives and so Lord I pray that you would have your way with us wherever you are I want you to just if you can just lift your hands up maybe you can only lift one up whatever it is but I just want you to lift your hands up before the Lord as a posture of surrender God we surrender we're not trying to do this thing called life through the lens of our own wisdom or our understanding but we want to do it by your strength and by your empowerment so God have your way and Lord I pray for those who are saying yes to Jesus in this moment to receive him to know you in spirit and in truth I thank you Jesus that on the cross the cross didn't take your life but on the cross you actually put to death sin and everything that is attached to which shame and and all of his negativity you put that to death you took anything that could keep us captive and you'd put it in captivity I thank you Lord that in you they will find Freedom in you the very things that they have struggled with for many years of their life they would find breakthrough because Lord your grace is sufficient and I thank you that as they say yes to you and yes to you alone in this manner to see you in your rightful place and to reverence you as holy that Lord you would have encounters with them you would reveal yourself to them and I thank you Lord Jesus because we are welcoming them into the family we are welcoming them into the journey that is literally starts with the best decision they could ever make in their life and that is to know you and so family I am excited for what God is doing in your life I am excited for your decision your yes today to say Jesus Come into my heart and make my heart your home and wherever you are I just want you to repeat that after me Lord Jesus I believe that you are the son of God come into my heart and make my heart your home I believe that on the cross you put my sins to death and when you Rose up I rose up with you with victory with power with identity with love knowing that I am in family of God hallelujah hallelujah family I'm so grateful for what God is doing right now wherever you are I'm just so grateful because I know that the holy spirit is making himself so evident in your life and family as a community we are going to thrive because God is with us and so we love you and we're so we're I mean honestly this is going to be some exciting times and so family buckle up we love you God bless you

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Length: 58min 8sec (3488 seconds)

Published: Mon Aug 22 2022