Week of Awakening | Richard & Libby Gordon | 8.28.2020 | 10 AM

[Music] [Music] [Music] [Music] [Music] [Music] [Music] [Music] [Music] [Music] [Music] [Music] [Music] [Music] so so i was thinking of this scripture this morning read it to you first peter 2 verse 9 and 10. wow and talks about priests and kings how many of us have seen modeled before us with these these awesome leaders and generals who've come to our house and they've uh they've demonstrated what it means to be a priest before us and and yet they're kings too it's like the lord gave me this word like blur they're blurry they're blurry they're like king priest priest king prophet apostle who are they [Music] but you are god's chosen treasure priests who are kings a spiritual nation set apart as god's devoted ones he called you out of darkness to experience his marvelous light and now he claims you as his very own he did this so that you would broadcast his glorious wonders throughout the world for at one time you were not god's people but now you are at one time you knew nothing of god's mercy because you hadn't received it yet but now you are drenched in it [Music] thank you lord thank you lord [Music] by the way i'm grant one of the elders the drenched one [Music] drench him lord [Laughter] we thank you we thank you lord for the drenching we thank you lord we thank you for your mercies they're new every morning darby just talk to you you're the mercies of god are new today what happened yesterday was really cool but what about today [Laughter] thank you lord thank you for this wonderful time and for this wonderful time of worship that we get to be your priests in this house all of us all of us and we're also your kings jesus name go for it brother steve so [Music] pour out your spirit lord pour out your spirit [Music] pour out your spirit lord pour out your spirit spirit spirit like a waterfall like a waterfall like a water there's a deep crying out there's a deep crying out um the sound of your waterfall there's a deep crying out a deep crying out at the sound of your waterfall at the sound of your waterfall so get under the spout where the glory comes out and get drenched get drenched under the spout where the glory comes out and gets soaked sword yeah deep cries out and too deep at the sound of your waterfall [Music] here deep cries out onto deep at the sound of your waterfall cries out and deep at the sand of your waterfall [Music] so i'm launching out into deep deep waters of launching out deep deep waters over my head take it over my head i wanna breathe in the spirit waters [Music] breathe in the waters because deep cries out until deep the sound of your waterfall [Music] let it pour over us [Music] get soaked get soaked get saturated saturated get drenched get drenched [Music] because deep cries out unto deep [Music] cries out onto [Music] come like a sweet refreshing rings pour over us [Music] us come like a sweet refreshing [Music] rain sweet refreshing grain [Music] and pour over us [Music] come again [Music] holy spirit come again come like a mighty rushing wind come like a mighty rushing wind [Music] [Applause] [Music] like a mighty rushing wind come like a man rushing away [Music] oh come again [Music] holy spirit come again giver of truth fountain of life [Music] come in your fire spirit of truth fountain of life calm in your power come in your fire [Music] fire [Music] fire [Music] and baptize us [Music] come baptize us who [Music] come like at all consumed [Music] fire [Music] come baptize us [Music] come again holy spirit come again [Music] come lagging all consuming fire wow come on that's your prayer come like an all consuming [Music] baptize us come baptize us hey come like an all-consuming fire [Music] [Music] come baptize us [Music] come again [Music] come again would you come again like a mighty rushing wind [Music] and awesome tons of fire resting on every man [Music] suddenly it's happening here [Music] it's happening again [Music] the time is now now is the time the time is now now is the time the time is down now is the time the time is now [Music] to come again [Music] [Music] foreign [Music] [Music] [Music] [Music] the time is now [Music] the time is now [Music] so awake awake awake you sleepers the time is now consider this you wake up calm oh i hear the alarm bells of heaven ringing ringing ringing ringing ring it's time it's time it's time it's time all i need is a remnant all i need is [Music] to change the world all i need is oh i've done it before and i'll do it again i've done it before and i'll do it again i've done it before and i don't do it so here again the fire here comes the awesome chunks of fire the awesome tongues of fire resting on everyone [Music] resting [Music] this is a suddenly this is a suddenly you're in a suddenly everything changes all i need is a remnant and i can change the world [Music] if my people who are called by my name will humble their ways and turn from the wicked ways [Music] turn from the brigade ways i'm hearing from heaven [Music] i'm hearing from heaven i'm healing your land [Music] i'm hearing from heaven i'm hearing i'm from heaven i'm healing your land now [Music] i'm breaking down the walls of miscommunication i'm tearing down the fences of events [Music] oh and suddenly both sides will listen and hear what each other [Music] has to say you see the enemies trying to make you deaf so you can't hear the other side the enemy's trying to confuse trying to cause you to be blind but i'm breaking down that wall [Music] i'm tearing down that stronghold cause i found a people [Music] who will contend [Music] i found a remnant just crazy enough to believe to receive my fire [Music] to receive the mandate of heaven [Music] divine orders [Music] just looking for people who listen he that has an ear turn your eyes together look away to the finish line [Music] cause there i'm standing holding out my hand so come press in to the higher calling look away to me cause i'm the writer and the perfecter of your faith [Music] faith can move a mighty mountain faith can calm the trouble see faith can make the desert like a fountain faith can bring you faith in me can move a mighty mountain saving me can calm the trouble see could make the desert like a fountain faith in me brings the dick to me so act like you're victorious put on your crown put on your crown that i've given you put on your robe of righteousness [Music] intense dance dance upon injustice yeah put on your garments holiness [Music] put on your garments put all your garments [Music] up you know the earth could use a little joy [Music] the earth could use a little happiness i'm replacing fear with my love replacing fear with my love overflowing over the put floor your garments your beautiful garments cause the time is now now is the time put on your garments your beautiful garments cause the sign is now now is the time to roll [Music] yourself in righteousness yourself in the holy if you can just hold out your hands in front of you as if you're to receive i saw the lord handing you a sword and putting a robe on you and as you receive this sword you receive the two edges his word declared with your words [Music] and as you receive the robe you receive his covenant promise his covenant promise that he will be with you in the battle [Music] he'll be with you in the fight he will be covering you on your backside and your front side [Music] and then i see and place a crown he says i'm honoring you [Music] i'm honoring you crowning you with honor it's in the bible [Music] so robbing you in righteousness the two-edged sword in your hands to execute vengeance to bind kings with nobles with fetters of iron this privilege and honor has all the saints but it's all about the high praises [Music] it's all about the high praises in the high places so what we need to do right now with our sword our robe and our crown is to release the high praises of god is to release a praise like we've never released before to release a sound like we've never released before to release the praises of god to release the praises of god [Music] from the high places [Music] from the high places come the high [Music] [Applause] praises [Music] let the high praises be upon my mouth [Music] and a two-edged sword hey be in my hand let the high praises god be on my lips [Music] cutting away the darkness [Music] cutting away the darkness [Music] cutting away in the darkness [Music] here they come [Music] here they come [Music] heal [Applause] [Music] and they're not alone and they're not alone [Music] you're dangerous you're dangerous [Music] [Music] and now i see a lot of the lord extending a scepter touching your crown it's the scepter of commission you're being commissioned you're equipped you've been awakened and you're continuing to be awakened but he says the time is [Music] now the time [Music] [Music] [Music] [Applause] feel that commission [Music] [Music] the church is rising rising that sure she's rising rising i hear that rumbling the church is rising rising she's beautiful she's glorious she's victorious the church i is that rumbling wrong the church is rising rising sure [Music] [Applause] come on lift your hands today say lord we receive the commission lord we believe in a holy assignment lord we believe you sent us out with fire lord we believe you sent us out with love love is our a weapon love is a weapon [Music] come all you on is love all you need is love all you need is love love love is all in me come on warriors of love all we need is [Music] love [Music] singing all they need is love come on [Applause] [Music] is all you need [Music] can i say one thing before we move on [Music] i was watching a a was a post of last night the rnc [Music] and as i was watching this i was weeping uh senator rand paul you're familiar with him yeah him and his wife were leaving the the white house to go to their hotel and we're surrounded by uh african-american protesters basically and and so brad paul and his wife had unmasked and the protesters were not wearing masks and they're we're shouting in anger and anger and they're saying say her name say her name referring to brianna taylor writes say her name say her name why won't you say her name right very angry very very angry and and rand paul and his wife are just kind of standing there with the mask on and the police were around them you know trying to keep them but it wasn't like it wasn't violence it was anger and you could sense the anger coming from the protesters and it and i thought to myself what if senator rand paul turned around to one of the protesters and said and this is something that we were not doing and said how can i help you what can i do to help you [Music] right but instead [Music] what can i do what do you need what do you need us to do to help you that whole thing can defuse love can defuse anger because anger ain't going to get it done and actually saying the name of someone is not going to do it either so what if he would have said the name nothing changes but when we say when we listen and i believe god is going to open the ears and i i think i'm saying it i'm saying something about that where god is it's a spirit of deafness that has come and the enemy's using the spirit of deafness to divide because both sides are not listening to each other right and the the more you yell the more you scream the more people just shut it put a wall up to that right and the more that the other side doesn't listen the more people yell so what can i do what do we need to do to help you what do we need to do what can we do i am you know i and that's why i was weeping because i saw this i saw that enemy spirit of deafness and muzzle wow look man if he can just get us to shut up if he can just get us get us to shut up and stop praising he's one right if he can get us to stop loving he's one there's a scripture that says the dead go down into silence right the dead go down into silence it's true so all they need is love [Music] all they need is love [Music] all they need is love love love is all they need hey steve can you uh i i just felt like when you were sharing the lord said let's just express our love language to the lord our our heavenly spirit language can we just sing just for a minute or so sing our language our love language [Laughter] [Music] [Music] a [Music] [Music] day [Music] foreign [Music] [Music] [Music] your love lord over our land your love over our land what can we do what can we do share your love lord show us how to share your love lord [Music] thank you jesus thank you jesus [Music] thank you jesus [Music] thank you jesus [Music] [Music] family with a great big heart and a kiss from me to you won't you say you love me too wait a minute now we got to do it in barney's voice i love you you love me we're a happy family with a great big hug and a kiss from me to you won't you say you love me too [Applause] can you say drenched [Laughter] come on now that's that's some higher level barney glory yeah i got my purple shirt on yeah it's so appropriate come on thank you i love i love that i love that it's worship time worship time did you ever think that barney and uh bullwinkle the moose were the same person hey rocky watch me pull a ribbon over the head i love you that's right yeah yeah yeah scary it is it is that's the conspiracy right yeah yeah but down the contrary generational conspiracy yeah yeah that they don't want you to know that that's right that's their narrative i know that's not a narrative that's a fact [Laughter] well hello hey hey winkle this is good this is good this is good oh we'll just take a deep breath we're not going to receive an offering you can just let that go um unless you came prepared to give don't let me hold you back but we do have that we do have the the the bulls out and actually one thing that's that's fun to do is um is to just kind of break all tradition and i know i know we've got the the the electrified fence here but at any at any and they are i know they look clock they are high voltage but if uh if at any time there is a uh something that you want to sow into that's being released um i just encourage you to trade into the revelation um and and it would be fun um actually if you choose to do that go ahead and just limbo under the under a handful of cash like my cash won't fit under the bar it's too big [Laughter] oh my goodness worship this morning yeah come on steve amazing let's give a big thank you to steve listen now make sure that you go and buy all of his albums and then go burn them for all your friends okay so like just pick up all you got your book out there burn them in protest yeah okay we'll take her into portland and burn yourself we'll show them that incense rise you know how does that smell like people put that in your pipe right oh my goodness yeah you got your book out there no i didn't didn't sit in the book uh the book is a sound of head heaven symphony heaven symphony yeah yeah awesome awesome book um is on kindle i think so all right awesome amazon or your website yeah destiny image and yeah amazon and website okay yeah go go to c's website and check out check out that book um worship is a real big deal this year and uh and i'm really sensing that worship's gonna be a real big deal next year i i'm just i'm picking that up wow pastor you're full of revelation you know it's so um if you haven't read that book you're gonna want to read that because it's kind of kind of a big deal okay with this whole worship thing so it ain't going it's not it's not a fad it's not it's not like email it's gonna be around a little while so um that's good hey uh how do you guys enjoy um uh richard and libby gordon last night oh my gosh i almost forgot to greet everyone online let's greet everybody watching online this morning hey guys good to see you awesome hey make sure that you're engaging with this service in the comments and so let us know who you are where you're watching from also uh if you would share this that would be amazing because this is going to be such a powerful session so if you're watching take a second or two and to share this on on facebook and after you share put a little fire emoji there so we can so yeah fire so we can so we can celebrate yeah um man it was so much fun uh again watching uh richard and libby um minister last night man i swear uh uh libby was like a heavenly sniper last night like she just like she just had like she man she just her her cross hairs were just kind of like scanning the it was it was it was amazing i i love the um uh just the fire uh on on libby there's there's just this there's this intense fiery uh passion um but it's absolutely it's absolutely centered in the love of christ um uh libby it's so amazing to see what the lord is doing with you and your incredible family and it's such an honor uh to have you here at sierra bible center as part of our our week of awakening and so i know that god has put something in you we are so excited uh you guys are in for such for such a treat yeah oh my goodness oh my god look at the person next to say oh my goodness oh let's do it guys would you join me in welcoming celebrating what jesus is doing through libby gordon as she comes this morning come on all right guys go ahead just stretch out your hands father we just thank you so much for libby we just thank you for who she is father we just celebrate your goodness at work through her god father we just thank you that this is the day that you have made and we will rejoice and be glad in it and father we pray lord that in this joy atmosphere god lord that libya would just be sling shouted out father lord that you just began to function and thrive in this glory atmosphere where we pray lord that she would minister about eight feet above our heads still larry just pray that there would be like a logic she'd feel like she's just levitating just just flying in that in that glory realm we pray lord that gravity would not be able to keep her down that the laws of this earth would not be able to keep her down the lord that she would function according to the laws of your glory and kingdom today so father we celebrate your awesome and mighty daughter in this place lord in jesus name everybody said amen [Applause] wow rich and i should just join you whenever we can so that we can get darren to pray for us and we can be in the room when stephen leads worship have you ever i don't know if um i've ever worshipped to a song written by the beatles and then barney consecutively before in my life that's powerful and it's deep and rich where is stephen still in the room he doesn't even have to be here can we just thank god for that incredible man of god [Applause] i don't know about you but when a lot of you if this is your home church why don't you just raise your hand beautiful you can look around the room guess you can thank these amazing men and women for preparing the way just keep your hands raised if src is your home and then why don't you just celebrate one another in just a moment i'll tell you why you can lower your hands in a second i just want to make a spectacle of you and have everyone celebrate you we were speaking last night together and celebrating what jesus is doing talking about some really wild and wonderful things and uh over and over again no matter who was conversing in the green room they were saying that this is a house unlike any other that this is a house that hosts the presence of god that has pursued the one thing of jesus relentlessly and there is something so remarkable that all of us are sensing in the spirit and i will tell you that this is not the first time that rich and i have been here we've been here for many many many years been blessed by the hospitality of jeanette can everyone just give it up for this queen of a woman if you know her you love her she's unlike any other and i've got a boys club in the beginning who are loving on jeanette darren and andrea along with this family have cultivated such faithfulness and such a rich history with the lord in fact it goes beyond darren and andrea's legacy gail was a part of it richard spoke last night their father his father's father and every time that we are a part of this house we are aware that jesus loves to align himself with his people and that we have choices we will go into environments and there's people who love the lord and cultivate such a sweet environment but then you're part of a house where you realize you are stepping into a story that has been going on for decades and decades and decades where men and women have made decisions privately difficult decisions decisions of sacrifice have not yielded to fear of man have made decisions to wash dishes of the conference attendees after being a lead pastor and decisions of choosing to go against the grain or not yield to pressures have chosen a way of humility before the lord and before people i want to let you know that src i mean you know this because you're a part of this house but often as a guest when i have someone come into my home and they'll walk in and go oh there's so much peace here or oh i just i'm so whatever it is i just so appreciate what you've created here again it just reminds me and it confirms it solidifies what we've been pressing in for as a family in our own home i want to tell you when we walk into your home every single time we know that we are here yes to sow in and to serve we will pour our lives out for this church for darren and andrea we are behind them 110 but when we come in here we come in here with hearts of humility to receive to be realigned and to be taught and i want to say src you teach my husband and i how to worship god and authenticity and freedom you teach us what it looks like to live a generational line of pursuit of the one thing of jesus when we walk into this church we get hope and passion that irrespective of the culture or the circumstances or what is going on in the globe what it looks like to build a remnant that will stop at nothing to glorify him and give him their full focus and attention i am so grateful rich and i are so grateful for this house and i want to let you know from our house at bethel church to yours we watch your services we listen and lean in as darren shares messages we take our cue i can speak for richie and i we take our cue off of what is what god is doing in this house and often when we're part of something or we're just going along with a family or doing life as normal we can forget the impact we make because we look around i mean it's human nature we look around and we say oh there's x amount of people in the room or this is how i felt today or this is what i experienced in the moment i know you know this but i want to just come in objectively and as a guest and say you are stunning you are radical you are fiercely faithful you are you are a lamp stand powerful powerful you have put a stake in the ground for jesus and we are beyond i mean i i'll even get emotional as i share with you and i am not usually i don't cry very easily i cry when i'm in the lord's presence i'll cry when i'm sad and you'll see that because my whole face blows up and i get puffy anyone one of those kind of criers and i go oh no lord not now um but i want to let i am brought to tears because of the sincerity of your worship and what you have cultivated here i have a word burning on my heart richie and i have been praying in and we are full of fire and we believe god has a deposit for you both last night this morning and this afternoon unlike any other but before i share i want to let you know that i'm a student of this house i want to let you know that we come in here posturing our hearts to receive and learn and we are beyond thankful for you please do not take for granted what you are sacrificing and cultivating and doing day in and day out and please know that it is producing radical fruit that the nations and states and cities and leaders are watching and receiving and learning if you're on the fifth row and that's your special seat and you are sitting in src every sunday and you are uh are faithfully worshiping the lord and you think it's for you or your family or you think you're just doing it for the lord right because that's enough i want to tell you that you are leading worship from the fifth row and you are leading my husband and i as we lean in and receive and watch multiple times through the month and so i want you to know that you are and we know this but you're a phenomenal leader src you're phenomenal leader in the world and darren and andrea we are just so thankful for you apostolic leaders i think this man is a hybrid like any other he moves between the gifts and carries humility and freedom wild man of god we are so grateful can we just thank pastor darren and andrea why don't you stand and just love on this couple here and if you're on the leadership team of src in any way shape or form stop clapping right now we're going to clap over you can we celebrate this leadership team our sound men and women cameramen and women those who are administrating and serving wow [Music] wow okay you can be seated it is so good we're going to celebrate we're going to dive deep this morning and we're going to have fun doing it i want to let you know that god is with my friend saying i love this god is the god of leaders god is the god of oak trees but my god is the god of seeds and babies i see some beautiful children over there god doesn't create fathers and mothers and leaders first you know that he creates fragile dependent children on purpose first messy very messy i know that i was recording something for our ministry school this week and i sat down had a beautiful flowing white shirt on and as i began to share the cameraman stopped me where i was i was sitting on a couch and he says um i don't i don't mean to be rude um but it looks like you have some yellow stains on the underneath of both of your sleeves i have a one-year-old and he says um do you perhaps have something that you could change into that could be more appropriate and bless his heart he ble he saved me he saved me and how many of you know that our god is not neat and tidy and our god created he created and chose me in that moment to have a word that was sharp to share to have a cameraman with excellence and precision but he also created my one-year-old who shouts when he's in his high chair and flips his food over and wants to lunge at me and hug me irrespective of what i'm wearing or what i'm about to do and get his delicious steak sliced up and wipe his grease all over my sleeves and there's holiness in both there's the grace of god in both there's the power of god in both i want to let you know as we get around god's word this is my prayer every time i open up his word and i come into his presence god i don't want to enter your presence as a leader i don't want to enter your presence as a pioneer i don't want to enter your presence as a preacher or a teacher or a mother the times are too urgent god what you're doing in our day is so powerful we need you jesus i cannot afford to come to god as an expert i must arrive to his word and in his presence i must spend my days not as a leader but i must spend my days as a messy fragile dependable child and if i enter into his presence and if i connect with him throughout the day in that way guess what i'm going to receive more than someone who postures their heart as a leader because my son doesn't care what i have going on next he says mom i want you now i want your hugs i want to wipe my hands all over your shirt i want your attention there's a demand that he puts on my life and i don't feel claustrophobic about it i don't feel as if there's something wrong in fact it endears me to him and it makes me late for my next meeting it makes me slip in to what i'm about to do next 30 minutes late 10 minutes late five minutes late and you know as i do that i feel the pleasure of the lord because god is showing me and revealing to me heaven invading earth through that child and i want to let you know that this morning throughout the week if you have a sense that there's some kind of disqualification on your life because you're operating at a seed level you're operating with something that hasn't been its full fruit that isn't in full fluition that you see someone ministering and you have heroes of the faith and you're saying god i want to operate at this level i want to see you doing that i want to let you know that god put a seed inside of you not just to produce a tree but he put a seed inside of you because he wants you to depend on him he wants your fragility he wants to protect you he wants to provide for you he wants to demonstrate to you his nature do you know i'm so done with the christianity that wants to demonstrate to god what we can do for him i'm done with the christianity that can demonstrate to the world what we can offer as a radical believer or a pioneer or an apostle i want to demonstrate to the world what a life completely surrendered yielded saying not my will but yours be done i want to yield and i want to surrender to the lord in such a way that they say surely that woman cannot communicate with that level of anointing and power because of her age or because of her experience or because of her accent maybe it's because of her skin color whatever it is i revel in the areas where i need to depend on the lord where he must open a door he must make a way where i am a child in his presence where i am a child before his word when i'm a child throughout my day i delight and i revel in that because i know the more i am a son and a daughter the more i'm going to reveal the mother and the father heart of god people don't need to be mothered by libby gordon they need the comfort and the counsel of the holy spirit people do not need the fathering and the mentorship and the discipleship just of richard gordon they need right now you can see it as steve shared so powerfully in worship politicians are not our answer god will use them in a profound way but we need to we need to offer the world an authentic a real and honest vulnerable dependency on god because if we reveal to the world a model that is untrue and we convince ourselves and we convince other people that once you know god you become your situations get sorted out how many of you here when you became a christian or maybe when you had a moment with god and you accepted your destiny or you felt like you you made peace with the call of god in your life life got tougher things got more crazy how many of you know as we we are seeing god release an awakening on the earth the earth is not saying oh let me make space for that let me quieten down so that god can have his know heaven is coming to earth and when heaven comes to earth my bible demonstrates to me that there is a shaking there is a juxtaposition there is an opposition why because whenever something new comes into something old the old must pass away the old must make space but how many of you know that there will be an opposition there will be a shaking there will be bible says pain tribulation whatever that is but when that happens jesus told us do not be dismayed do not be surprised you can rejoice in that why because we know that god's about to do something powerful and so i want to let you know that your situations don't have to be those of oak trees your situation around you doesn't have to look like the situation of a leader when i read my bible i see that the situation around needs a man or a woman who is a child before the lord the kingdom of god belongs to who pioneers apostles disciples kings no jesus said the kingdom of god belongs to these to the little children he wasn't just making a great speech or trying to kiss a baby to get favor around him he was giving us a kingdom secret and so we're going to open up and i'm going to make this meeting legal in a second and we're going to look in god's word but i want to let you know that if you feel like you are a little child in your marriage because you don't know the next steps you should take if you feel like right now politically and socially you feel a sense of bewilderment or confusion or there's a tendency to pull away because you aren't an expert and you don't have the answer if your destiny is staring you in the face and you say god what you've called me to is too big i can't handle it i don't have what it takes or it's going to require too much of me i want to say well done i want to say the time is now you are right where you need to be why we must live a life where we have to have god we must live a life where we need jesus and what does that look like the seed needs the soil the seed needs the water the sea needs the caretaker the pruner the baby must have the father the mother the caregiver therefore can we just break that this morning to move in signs and wonders to see the miracles of god to release and to step into the destiny that god has over your life you do not have to have it all together yes have integrity in we want man and woman of purity and power yes have the character to sustain the call of god but can we release this completely erroneous decision or or circumstance where our situations need to look like x y and z to allow us to step into your destiny know god loves to show up like only he can god loves to break in where there seems no other way do you see a cloud in the sky the size of a man's hand that is a sign and a symbol that the lord of lightning and thunder the lord of the reigns he is about to ride in and so i want you to ask the lord what is a seed in your life that you discounted you said it's too small it's too fragile it can be squashed if you want to carry on with life as normal you could ignore it and just leave it to the side if it's left without care and and protection if it's left without water you could go on with life as normal i want to tell you that in that if you have faith the size of a seed a mustard seed all that language is set on purpose if you have faith the size of a mustard seed what will he do what is the word of god saying you will move a mountain how big in size is a mustard seed to a mountain we can't get more extreme look for the extremes in your life where do you see something small and fragile i tell you what i've watched the ways of god and i've watched the model of ministry that jesus has laid out for us in the word of god that is the next move of god what you will discount and you will overlook god is a god who sees the heart he looked over all of david's brothers and he chose the one discounted out in the field you know all of this but yet sometimes we don't bring the there and then into the here and now it's that extreme where jesus says be like a little child he wasn't saying just be joyful all the time he didn't he didn't clarify and say just run around and have fun all the time yes do that definitely bringing the kingdom of god and joy and fun that is the way of our heavenly father but a little child is dependable where do you need to depend on god in your life where can you not live without god in your life there is the seed bed there is the next move of god the time is now the time is now and when jesus said you will do greater works than these somehow we think well i will have more confidence and boldness in this area and that will show me that god is going to break through or i will have it all together in this area lying upon line i'll do these 10 steps and then i'll get into the flow of what god wants to do and then i'll release the kingdom of god no god wants to use you in your fragility he wants your dependability the highest level of christian maturity is complete dependence on the lord it is a holy and powerful thing you want to get to the highest level of kingdom leadership be completely dependent on god do not become more capable become more dependable do not become bigger and better become smaller and lower and more fragile for the lord and as he moves and as he whispers and as you see him you will begin to flow because as we become better and we want to operate at the best and become more capable what ends up happening is we can fall into fear of man we can begin to be tempted to there's more at stake god wants you to operate at a level with him where he your connection with him and your dependability and your fragility in his hands is the highest stake and so when someone comes up and there's pressure at work or you feel like there's pressure on your marriage or there's pressure in the church that you're leading right now there's nothing else at stake other than your intimacy and reliance on jesus if you take my connection with my father i'm a child i cannot lead this church if you take my connection and relationship and submission to the holy spirit i cannot have the marriage i have that is the life of the kingdom of god and if you accept it in faith why don't you say amen with me this morning we're going to dive into the book of acts because we are in and i would say as richard said last night in epic time we're in a time of great tribulation and so if there's any book you should be reading right now i'm going to encourage you to read the book of daniel and the book of acts this is a very significant blueprint for us and why i want to say this and why i'm going to dive into the book of acts is because this gives us a key on how to live a wild supernatural life this morning we talking about greater works everyone say greater works and you would say libby this is a very unconventional way to talk about greater works well actually let us stop talking about where we should be and start talking about where we are now and invite jesus into that in this moment in my situation in my head space you do not need we ministered in that area last night if you missed it you can jump on and watch that but we need to get out of our heads our theology our plans and into his we see here in acts why don't we just start in acts one one let's have some fun act one one to theophilus the lover of god i write to you again my dear friend to give you further details luke also who authored acts wrote the book of luke about the life of our lord jesus and all the things he that he began to do and to teach stop there i could preach that for the rest of my life the book of acts begins with luke saying jesus began to do and to teach why did he say i'm gonna speak to you about everything further details about what jesus began to do and to teach why he's saying that is because he's making a premise he's laying down a platform that jesus began to do and to teach it but still throughout the book of acts in our day jesus is continuing to do and to teach jesus is continuing to do and to teach i want to let you know that in a lot of bibles you will hear the book of acts being referred to a title as the acts of the apostles if you read a lot of uh study guides or or you diving into the word of god you might see acts of the apostles now i love the word of god and i love books i am a study about nature but i also am unafraid to correct the incorrect and i want to tell you that the act of the apostles this is in my opinion everyone say libby's opinion but i think that it's correct and i would argue you can come chat to me afterwards i would say that it is that it is a completely incorrect title for this book of the bible the book of acts is not a list of the acts of the apostles stephen first martyr hands laid on anointed as a deacon to administrate powerfully sees the face of jesus declares forgiveness over those who are persecuting him saul who later is converted and called paul is in his presence was stephen named an apostle did he act this is not the book of the acts of the apostles and i want to say to you church this morning this is not a day simply for the acts of the apostles this is a book of the acts of the holy spirit through every line and page i see through the book of acts i do not see a man or woman who has a great title who does great things for the lord i see a group of men and women who are arguing about theology between jew and gentile i see in the book of acts men and women going on a mission for god and having stylistic issues and sending away the younger minister who is with them and saying you don't suit what i'm ministering in right now i'm going to kick you off my trip and go back and yet god does resurrections through them god heals through them god preaches and pronounces his message with great power and demonstration why because these are the acts of the holy spirit you could say the acts of jesus why because luke on purpose says let me tell you about give you further details about what jesus began to do and to teach he doesn't say let me give you further details about what jesus began to do and to teach and let me also tell you about what these apostles did full stop no he says jesus began it and where is jesus then he was living and moving and speaking through his people by the power of the holy spirit where is jesus right now he is living and breathing and moving by the power of the holy spirit through you and through me if we read the word of god or we look at the book of acts which is imperative to the season we're in and we use it as a blueprint to see what powerful men and women of god did and we say i'm inspired god would you make me like them i promise you now your heavenly father is shouting back at you saying you are just like them you are human you are fragile would you be dependable would you be okay with making mistakes with the intention to worship and follow and pronounce my gospel and kingdom advancing on this earth would you allow me to teach and shape and rebuke and correct and propel and cover and provide by the power of my holy spirit through the finished work of the cross jesus is the hero of the story and when you and i are tempted to see men and women of god as inspirations or a model to attain i'm telling you now this is the ploy of the enemy to discount and disqualify you these were not great acts of the apostles in the book of acts these were the acts of my jesus these were the acts of the holy spirit therefore guess what we're hands laid on you if you if you're at this meeting i'm going to assume some of you might be new to these powerful conferences that darren and the team put on but i'm going to say i'm going to risk a little bit here and say i would assume that every single person has heard about the power that the lord talks about of the laying on of hands he explains it clearly that there's an impartation of power that we needed paul admonishes timothy and he says remember that when what happened on the with the laying on of hands there's power and impartation with the laying on of hands i would assume that everyone here in some way shape or form has had hands laid on them and what happens here is we see in the book of acts we see a powerful move of god we apostles and those who were leading the church through the book of acts in the beginning are pronouncing the gospel with power they are being intoxicated and filled with the holy spirit but then they also become aware of practical needs we need to make sure that everyone has food amongst us we need to administrate the move in the kingdom of god powerful man of god tony kemp was was speaking into my husband and my life last night around kingdom administration and i want to tell you stephen was chosen chosen by the lord and hands were laid on him to administrate to be a deacon noble character filled with the holy spirit i want to let you know this morning have hands been laid on you to be a worship leader have hands been laid on you as people prayed for you to be an incredible wife and mother have hands been laid on you to be a church leader or pastor have you been chosen and called out to be an educator or a teacher i celebrate that i'm excited about that but i want to tell you about a man named stephen he was chosen by god called out hands laid on given a role by men of god filled with the holy spirit and said would you administrate this would you take care of this but jesus so kindly through the power of the holy spirit god our father and his kindness through his word gives us there goes my mask the mask is not the will of the lord this is the will of the lord and in his word he demonstrates to us and gives us insight on how to live a kingdom life he says look at this man hands laid on prophesied given an office given a responsibility but stephen goes beyond that in fact he was one of the most prolific evangelists that we see in the book of acts were hands laid on him to evangelize no to administrate food money to take care of god's people did they lay hands and say we anoint you as a martyr to be one of the first martyrs in this era in this move of god we anoint you do you think for that moment in stephen's life surely god would have warned him surely the leaders around him would have needed to disciple him prepare him call that out in him prophesy that so that he could get ready but in the word of god they do not he has a face-to-face encounter with jesus he sees jesus standing in heavenly places at the right hand of god it says the glory of god he saw jesus to such an extent that those that were watching saw stephen and he looked as if he were an angel how many of you want to carry that glory how many of you want to see the face of jesus in such richness that heaven opens above you and you see the throne room and when people look at you they say that woman that man is glowing like an angel you do not need to be called out in a conference or a meeting as a prophet an apostle you do not need to be called out in a meeting to have face-to-face encounters with god it's given it's done it's his way and i want to let you know yeah you can thank god for that i want to let you know this morning that your assignment is not contained to your title it's not contained to your occupation or your job even as profound and powerful as darren and the team are if they laid hands on you to be the most profound cameraman and src they are releasing an anointing and they are empowering you in that area but guess what these are not the acts of the apostles these are the acts of jesus and the holy spirit and like rich preached last night he will not be contained he will not be boxed by your title he will not be contained by your title as a pastor he will anoint you to speak and minister in the area of government to politicians are you a worship leader in the house this morning god is not contained in your title as worship leader he says actually i've put in you my holy spirit who's anointing you to be an evangelist and as you're in the grocery store you're going to feel the power of the holy spirit come upon you and you're going to walk up to someone you're going to share the good news not because you were trained and hands were laid on so you're an evangelist this is not the acts of the apostles greater works will you do jesus said therefore guess what darren is a powerful picture he's a hybrid of all of the guests he's operating in between as the holy spirit leads this is what god has called us to we need the apostles in our day we need evangelists we need those who are in the office of a teacher and a prophet those are irrefutable it's the blueprint of heaven but let me tell you that is not your exclusive role in the kingdom of god when the holy spirit wants to act guess what the holy spirit's gonna act where jesus wants to make himself known guess what jesus is making himself known and so right now this morning if you have felt like your mind your spirit your body even your faith levels have been contained by hands being laid on you and a title given to you perhaps you were called a educator and you are in our high school system and you're watching right now and and you feel the call of god of your life to be a teacher i'm going to break your box jesus holy spirit's going to break your box this morning that is not just the call of god on your life that is not the highest call on your life that is one of them that god says i'm gonna be kind i tell secrets to my friends i'm gonna let you know one of my secrets this is what you call to be guess what he has more than one secret for you he has more than one call for you he has more than one relationship for you to play in your life he has more than one purpose for you to fulfill he is so big he's so majestic he's so powerful there's an anointing this morning in the room for commissioning he's going to confirm the call of god in your life that you know and you're going to be confident because you know you can depend on him but he's breaking the limitations and he's saying there's more than one commission for you in my kingdom there's more than one miracle for you to see there's more than one encounter for you to release be filled with the holy spirit that word is an ongoing word it means be continually filled with the holy spirit why because you're going to do many things for the kingdom of god you're going to play many roles you're going to impact many people he has a box breaking call of god why jesus said you'll do greater things than these that doesn't mean my one call gets higher and higher and higher it will but it means every single area that the holy spirit wants to move in and jesus wants to make himself known and he's going to qualify you he's going to show up he's going to prepare you he's going to get you ready whether you know it or not whether your pastor knew it or not whether the conference speaker who prophesied over you if you received a word from richie and i or not that is not a limitation it is a blueprint it is a taste of the more of god of all he wants to do and so if you felt limited in any way shape or form maybe you've never felt that before and as i'm preaching you've thought oh my word i have contained myself to being a home group leader and like stephen hands were laid on and i was anointed to be an administrator perhaps you're in the church or you're behind the camera right now and you feel like this is the one area god's called you to and you're anointed for this and you've realized that you're being limited by your mind your belief system your expectation i want to let you know i'm going to give you a warning god's about to break your box god's about to show up and demonstrate himself in a power i feel the commissioning of the lord this morning his spirit is here to open your mind to get you ready because what god is about to do on the earth is an awakening that means you were sleeping in some areas you needed to be woken up and so god's gonna spirit to spirit he's gonna touch your mind open it up he's gonna begin to move in your spirit man and say stop containing my expression of the kingdom in the one line you think you're called to stop containing my expression of the kingdom of god i can feel his presence stop containing my expression of who i am in who you think you ought to be in this moment more more more more more more more that's what god is saying over his church this morning more more more more more quickly i want you to stand right now if you feel like you have been limiting the more of god over your life perhaps you feel like i just need to be faithful in this one area i'm just called to this and god is saying do you think you're an administrator stephen you are going to have the honor of being one of the first martyrs included in a book called the acts of the holy spirit do you think that you are simply one who deals with food and finances you're about to be one of the most prolific evangelists the world has ever seen jesus wants out he wants out he wants out do you think that you are supposed to take good care of the things that are in front of you and that is your lot in life jesus saying i have that for you and i have a throne room encounter i have a face to face moment for you [Applause] and your life you don't know this this is why i opened with this src your life is just like stephen's you think you are living and moving up to here and god is saying do you know the forgiveness src that you release over your community do you know the decision to choose jesus instead of offense src is commissioning and prophesying over souls and turning them into polls jesus wants to do more thank you holy spirit so we just release your you can look at me i'm going to look back at you i got nothing else to give you other than jesus close your eyes if you can jesus we welcome you to break boxes again this morning and loosen your people right now we just say by the power of the holy spirit we break limitations in this room this morning father i thank you for loose men and women who are just like your spirit who move like the winds of god we don't know where they came from or where they're going they're not limited or contained they are moved they are operating in the acts of the holy spirit thank you god some of you are going to experience great power i just see the lord moving on hands this morning if you use your hands in any way shape or form for your employment or your occupation i just want you to extend them to the lord right now he's touching men and women who use their hands and put them to work thank you god for your power you're breaking boxes you're breaking boxes you're breaking boxes you're breaking boxes thank you god so i say in the name of jesus i break the limitations and false boxes that have been placed on you in jesus name in jesus name i speak to the stevens in the room who were called deacons by others but heaven says you're an evangelist heaven says you're a martyr heaven says that you were born for face-to-face encounters and i release right now in jesus name over you a repentance on behalf of the church for preaching a limited expression of the kingdom of god where you've been boxed by the church and you've been said this is who you are play this role we actually are you a worship leader don't talk to us about society we just want you to sing i break that right now over those who are anointed and called to use their voice you are not just supposed to sing a good song to the lord you are supposed to sing a song to the lord and speak into society and shift culture right now in jesus name i just prophesy over our educators in the room and i say you are not just meant to teach math and science there's an anointing on you to bring revelation high revelation from the word of god there's an anointing on you to lead god's people both in society and in the church i just feel an anointing over our people who are on audio and visual work if you're an audio or visual work media if you're involved in the the realm of media cameraman and sound made in this morning you can prepare to get hit by the lord and if that's you just extend your hands right now just lift your hands up to the lord if you're involved in media you're involved in audio visual thank you jesus if you're around them you can you don't have to touch anyone right now but you can just extend your hands then right now i just feel the fire of god is about to come upon you and anoint you yes for that area but i hear the lord saying that someone is speaking into your spirit more more more more more i break the box that has been placed on you that you're this and not that i hear the lord saying over you right now that he is the both and god you don't get science and instead of theology i hear god saying you don't get the realm of media at the expense of your intimacy and at the expense of moving in the glory of god he is the both and god we just release the fire of god over you right now we say more more more more more thank you jesus shake us up shake us up hey hey hey just even where you are why don't you just release a joyful repentance to the lord and and you can just say something like this i said it this morning jesus you don't have to say this after me say it in your own words but jesus i repent i repent for limiting what you can do through my life i repent for holding on to what other people have said or even what you've told me we see in part and so god i invite you to do more than the part you've shown me i expect you to do more than the secrets you've shared with me i i make room and i will obey you beyond what my title my call my designation is always given jesus we want it all we want it all if i have some stevens in the room this morning why don't you give the lord a shout if you feel that call of god on your life i do too we can do that again if you feel the lord anointing and saying you are a model of stephen you were called to do this but you're going to do this and that you're the both and man or woman of god i want you to give the lord a shout right now if you can beautiful if you are able to you can sit but if you feel to stand remember i told you last night my husband and i used a little bit of wild at the end we really felt the commissioning of the lord which is going to come up and we're going to begin to pray specifically over thank you god for your spirit if you read the word of god and you look at paul and you're focused on the magnificence and the bravery of paul i'm going to tell you you've missed jesus paul moved an error murder he thought he was following god with his whole heart as soul obeying and being radical for god but he missed it but god in his grace chose him used him powerfully jesus is the hero of the story david was a man after god's own heart again completely fallible fragile dependable on the lord david i'm not in awe when i see david slay goliath i'm in awe of god who sets up a fragile fallible man and says that man that man i will use to slay giants my god is my hero my god is magnificent you will see moses and as he led the people out of egypt the bible does not limit us from knowing his doubts his fears his shortcomings why because moses is not the hero of the story god is the hero of that story as i read the new testament may you have fresh eyes to see that this man or this woman is not the hero of the story jesus is the hero of the story and his magnificence released the holy spirit and guess what we become like him i get to move as a young woman who grew up not knowing the lord who grew up in abusive chaotic situations who was disqualified in every way as a third grader i used to have to sit on my educators lap at their desk because i had such performance anxiety as a seven or eight year old as a nine-year-old from the brokenness that i grew up in and the insecurity to do a worksheet i would weep and weep and weep and tell my teacher i think i'm gonna let you down if i don't do my worksheet well the fragility the brokenness the night terrors that i would go through the insecurities that silenced me i want you to think of the moments that you are disqualified or you feel take you out and then i want you to read the word of god again and see that no man or woman is the hero of the kingdom story jesus is the hero of the story and if jesus is the hero of my story guess what you are qualified you will be enough you will have everything you need and ephesians 3 he will do immeasurably more than you can ask or imagine that's why i can do this kingdom journey that's why if i'm offended or hurt or i feel broken or people around me aren't enough i can keep going i don't give up on the church i don't have to criticize or distance myself why jesus is the hero of my story and he never fails he never lets me down jesus did not get invited into your life do you know when we say that and we share our testimonies and we say and i invited jesus into my life a beautiful sentiment but god says to me libby i did not enter into your life your life is far too small for me i can't fit in your life your beliefs your limitations your shortcomings your humanity i chose you and i brought you into my life jesus is saying to you this morning do you know i brought you into my supernaturally infused life and when i am in the life of jesus guess what i can translocate i can see the dead raised i can see healings take place i can speak and utter things i have no business knowing i can live a life that's not just amazing and flashy and powerful and cause people to be in awe but guess what's more important and a greater expression of the kingdom of god his government knows no end i live an unstoppable life many can be amazing we see in the book of acts magicians and those who do powerful acts and but guess what their power came to an end they had a limit you are the limitless ones in jesus jesus is saying i didn't jump into your life you have a limit you have an expiry date the call of god on your life will be fragile in your own hands but guess what it's not in your hands it's in mine you are in the hands of the lord therefore i will not fear i will not shake i don't need to worry because jesus hasn't fitted into my paradigm and if he is jump out get into his if jesus you feel is being contained by his mind jump out get into his mind and there we flow we see in the book of acts this powerful model for today where we see when god wants to change and shift guess what we don't wait for a pronouncement from a political leader when jesus wants to change and shift things we don't wait for some man or woman to make a great post or preach a great message when i see jesus wants to show a demonstration of kingdom power and i see the kingdom advance when i read this powerful infallible powerful i want to say it again unstoppable model that jesus has laid before me guess what angels show up on assignment the holy spirit speaks god shatters and when they argue the apostles get together and when they argue and say surely the gentiles another culture another race group if you will surely they can't be included they have they don't have our history they don't know god like we know god we're his favorite we're his chosen ones i have a heart for honor and purity and my expression they don't express my connection with god the way i do guess what won the argument not wise and persuasive words a demonstration of the spirit's power paul went to them and said i want to report to you this is what the holy spirit did with the gentiles they reported to them this is what god said this is what the angel released this is where i went on assignment under the power of god the power of jesus wins the argument not our wisdom not our strategy not simply our messages or our posts can i say this morning church let's stop waiting for a great man or woman of god to tell us what to think or to do you have access to the holy spirit that knows all things and wants to do all things let's get back to the foundations we're angels and we we minister with the spirit of god and we interact and make room and expect angels to open prison gates and as we pray angels knock on our door and show up by an assignment really when they went to the door and they were praying they didn't think someone had been released from prison they thought it was an angel because that was their normal everyday life easier to believe the angelic were at the door then someone got out of this sticky situation this is the life that god has called us to when we operate at that level let me tell you jesus can't come into your life you have to enter into his you must live the kingdom life that he has planned for you not that you plan for yourself we can't invite jesus he's not on the menu holy spirit isn't one of the things in the mix he has to be all in all otherwise our faith expires our message is limited and how we operate will go in and out of culture and in and out of relevance but if we move in jesus story and we demonstrate the power of the holy spirit and we operate with heavenly beings we live a jesus life guess what we always have the answer that's needed and instead of wherever i preach this is what a british bishop once said and i love it he talked about tea i'm gonna use coffee for america and he said why whenever i preach is coffee served after the meeting but whenever paul preached a riot broke out what message are we preaching and when i see the gospel preached in the book of acts it was not the method that caused a right or offense do you know often i notice as my husband and i pastor in our ministry school that often the way people preach the gospel is so offensive and people are stirred up and there's offence taken but when i note it when i watch what's actually taking place i see that actually it's the method the way they ministered that caused offence or riots or stirred things up can i tell you let's get back to jesus's story that it's our message that is spoken with such power it's our life that so is that is so wrapped up in who his story is that economic systems get shaken and brought to their knees not because of offense offense cannot change economic systems you know who can jesus you know who can his message and his story spoken in his power and so we must go back to the beginning i'm going to share one last thing with you and we just got into the beginning of acts but that's okay acts two as they we enter in to this new age we see a powerful pronouncement we see peter standing up and announcing to the men and women who are around what's going on and this is what he says he speaks from are you guys okay you're doing good okay if you get into a headspace where you're logically trying to track with me you're going to miss what god's doing his power is here his commissioning is here so as i'm speaking as rich comes up and ministers in a moment if you try and track with us you're going to miss what god's doing i'm just talking to host something in the room i'm just speaking into areas to open up faith and opportunity and doors and windows in the spirit so that god can come in and do something and so if you need to close your eyes and receive or whatever you feel like you need to do do business with god he's got something so powerful for you this morning in acts 2 verse 17 this is what he will do in the last days everyone say last days anyone who tells you that this is the last days is technically right and it's the beginning of the last days but they're completely wrong biblically the last days began jesus died he was resurrected he ascended therefore we entered in to a time peter's saying right now this is what's going on right now guess what the last days have been going on since peter spoke even before then and so if you're saying oh i you know i hope the church is ready guess what the church is very ready it's been doing very well for two thousand plus years okay and so this is the model for the last days everyone get excited this is what god is giving us the secret this is what i'm gonna do in the last days i will pour out my spirit on the chosen few who will do powerful work no false libya you're a heretic i will pour out my spirit on everyone i will cause your sons and daughters to prophesy your young men will see visions and your old men will experience dreams from god the holy spirit will come upon all my servants men and women alike and they will prophesy i will reveal startling signs and wonders in the sky above mighty miracles on the earth below blood and fire and pillars of clouds will appear for the sun will be turned to dark and the moon blood red before that great and awesome appearance of the day of the lord but everyone say with me everyone who calls on the name of the lord will be saved in this moment peter is giving us this blueprint for a kingdom life what he's essentially saying if i would give you i used to be an english teacher oh in 2008 and i love words and so and i i would always offer my students a summary here's libby's summary of this powerful excerpt this prophecy from joel that peter's highlighting the holy spirit god through the power of the holy spirit is about to use whoever he wants whenever he wants peter is announcing to everyone yes you knew god in this way you knew him using these people you knew him expressing the kingdom advancement in this expression but let me let you know let me give you a heads up what's about to happen jesus through the power of the holy spirit is about to use whoever he wants whenever he wants and so i want you to know again that the way god treated israel yes caused we saw favor we saw almost in a sense if israel would be a person it would be this is god's favorite have you ever heard a minister say oh you're god's favorite and then i say well god aren't we all your favorite how does this work i want to let you know that god does in his power that's another message for another time choose men and woman for great exploits come upon them with power and use them but they on don't take the monopoly of the move of god and what he wants to do they are signs and wonders signposts and billboards of what god wants to do with all joel tells us acts 2 17 the holy spirit will use whoever he wants whenever he wants therefore if i see god using src with power i don't go i wish i wish god could do that with me god do you think you could do that with me god i beg you to do that with me god you're using tony kemp and such power i see the way he operates with the angelic and people are healed do you know that this man of god is a blueprint and a signpost to the world of what is possible when you fully surrender and yield to god and his call over your life when god uses one he's not saying the other is excluded if you want to exclude yourself sure you can be but let's have fun let's adventure with jesus let's present for more what god wants to do with one he wants to do with all and so israel was meant to be a blueprint of god's heart we see in psalms a picture of that the islands the nations but yet they had only known god in this way at this hour through these men and god is ushering in a new season and he's saying by my spirit i will use whoever i want whenever i want and so this is what we know in the kingdom of god old men and young men in god's kingdom ageism is eliminated god will use and come upon with power the old and the young church can we get rid of this idea that if you're young and you're freshly saved you're about to be used in power if you've been walking with god for 60 years and you have been faithful and you feel like god i'm nearing the end of the call on my life i need to sow into the next generation or i need to start slowing down heaven is saying over you joel your prophecy he's speaking the words of joel he's speaking acts 2 17 he's saying young men and old men dreams or visions they from god god is on our young men god is on equally same power same spirit he's on our old we must for the kingdom of god to be fully expressed we must have the full picture of the bride of christ and so that means young stand by side old not old simply laying down and pouring into and championing young people let's express the kingdom of god and say the holy spirit is upon those who are older in age what can i surrender what can i serve how can i lay down my life there is something on their life that i need that i must be expressed and i can see needs to be facilitated in unity the lord commands a blessing unity doesn't mean i just agree with your theo theology or we center around beliefs unity means i stand back when i need to and i step forward when he's called me to and so young people make room step back when god is using and moving with our older generation older generation this gets preached to you all the time so i'm not saying this again but it's that equal thing step back make room when god's on younger but it must be both it's a to and fro it's the unity and the power of the holy spirit if you are older in here and you feel comfortable with this why don't you stand for us and if you're around them you can extend your hands you decide what it means to be older in years whatever you want to define that as and this is in human years we know that you are limitless in the spirit so we're talking about older years i want you to extend your hands right now to these men and women and we say in jesus name we break off of you that spirit of ageism that has said your days are over your years are numbered and that you must make room for the younger generation you don't have what it takes you're not relevant we break that off in jesus name and we thank you god for a great move and wind of power over the older generation that will begin to stand up and take their rightful place in the church and in our nation around the globe and we say we need you we need you we need you we need you and we say god would you release dreams would you release significant information that we don't have access to by the power of your holy spirit and we speak a word of radical honor over you you are so needed for this hour and if you sit back and if you make way so to speak and you feel that's the the high point of the call of god in your life right now i just hear the lord saying it's grieving his heart he has you on assignment you are needed the time is urgent you are called right now right now right now right now and so i want to stand in the gap and just say in jesus name i repent on behalf of a narrative that's come from the global church and from a younger generation that is discounted and disqualified our older generation and i want to say in jesus name i speak the more of god over you i speak radical encounters i speak a wild move of god coming from your lips and through your hands i see god moving with great signs and wonders and power through your hands discipleship and mentorship is needed fathering and mothering is needed but this is not the exclusive call on your life more more more more in jesus name in jesus name we break disqualification thank you jesus greater adventures on store great adventures on store amen amen in acts 2 17. we're going to skip through this he uses whoever he wants wherever he wants whenever he wants we begin to see two other areas get broken with great power we see sexism in the church gets broken in acts 2 17 we see that he says it your my spirit will fall on men and women i want to speak to our men right now if you felt like this is a woman's age you felt like this is an age of feminism or empowerment of woman and i need to get out of the way and just support the woman around me because god's on them i would say great idea that's good god loves woman but i would say if you're taking that as your exclusive role and you've resigned and limited yourself to that we are missing out on the expression of god we need men and women standing shoulder to shoulder side by side ministering by the power of the holy spirit i say to those i minister to and those i pastor i know that i can never take the role of a father in your life because i'm not i love my femininity i used to think feminine he was fragile and i i remember when i first became a christian i would ask god why have you made me a woman you've put this desire in me to lead and our theology and the church i was in at the time made it so and i just loved jesus so i was learning and i thought as a woman the highest role that i can play my husband would try break this box over me all the time i would resist and i would say my highest role would be whispering in his ear i remember chatting with him in the car and he said babe i really want to see you empowered how can we do this perhaps when i get invited and i'm ministering you could whisper in my ear what you feel the lord doing because god's on you in this hour and then i'll release what you feel that was at the time and this is more than 10 years ago that was what we thought the greatest expression would be this man is so empowering and has spoken such life over me i was sabotaging my own life and we begin to see a blueprint in the word of god that the holy spirit doesn't say falls more to the left or to the right doesn't fall more to the men or the woman he doesn't form more in the older or the younger generation the holy spirit i'll say it again will fall and use whoever he wants whenever he wants however he wants and so we need you men and women side by side and we see this glorious glorious promise and command from god babe if you're ready you can come up but we see the power of god showing us that now is a time where jew and gentile are shoulder to shoulder we see this as a powerful time where men and women of different ethnicities and cultures are shoulder to shoulder we see by the power of the holy spirit on assignment by angels philip runs after an ethiopian eunuch a castrated black male and by the power of the holy spirit in a desert i mean you can't get more removed the lord takes philip up and sends him out to run after this man in the desert and he runs after him and he's opening up the scriptures the ethiopian eunuch and philip runs after him god is running after every nation every culture every ethnicity it's not just now that we suddenly look diverse the word of god is diverse and radical he will use whoever he wants whenever he wants however he wants god in his power is showing us a great demonstration and we see there the ethiopian eunuch gets touched by the power of god in such a way that he says how must i be baptized before even cornelius house an ethiopian eunuch a black castrated male surrenders to jesus outside of so to speak the the jewish restrictions of the day that looked this way and did that and and did this and holy spirit says in acts 2 17 i will use whoever i want whenever i want however i want and that man powerful man comes into the kingdom of god before cornelius house a man outside of the fold comes in and is under the favor the favoritism if you will the covering of god and begins a whole new era to this day we see in ethiopia one of the largest churches in the world one of the only nations in africa to never be colonized and i would argue why history tells us that queen candace of the day when colonizers would come up to the nation would ride up i mean black panther has nothing on the bible and she would and the truth of god and she would ride up to those opposing on and the back of an elephant with boldness and courage we see the queen of sheba this is all around all of north east africa was ethiopia at the time and we see the kingdom identity infiltrating into a powerful black nation who does not yield to any colonizers or anyone who wants to enslave i want to tell you that the kingdom of god is one that will use whoever however wherever and the holy spirit is so intentional he's demonstrating in the book of acts there is no limit no cultural limit no racial limit no gender limit no age limit greater things will you do just stand with me for a moment when philip runs after the ethiopian eunuch the eunuch the bible tells us had been to the temple where god's people had been where the movement of god was taking place and yet he never interacted with the early church who were hanging out outside the temple it was once he had left the conference so to speak it was when once the ethiopian eunuch was back on his way confused still opening up the scriptures how many of you leave a conference or a meeting you say god i didn't get fully what i came for i didn't get the word i needed or the explanation i needed when i was with the body of believers i didn't get the breakthrough i needed god shows us the holy spirit is out of your box he will use whoever he wants wherever he wants however he wants you can be in a desert going back to your country to your nation you're watching right now you feel out you feel excluded you didn't get what you needed when you met with god's people holy spirit is running after you holy spirit is chasing you down and i have a suspicion he's doing the unexpected he's doing the irrational in our mind he's moving in a way we don't expect it's not at the temple it's not where the gathering of believers is you're in a desert you're driving back home you're on your way back home you're still opening up the word of god still opening the que asking the questions and yet by the power of the holy spirit directed by the voice of god on angelic assignment philip runs after the ethiopian unit god wants to make a spectacle of you god wants to make a spectacle of his pursuit and commitment to you if you get what you needed where you expect to get it if you get what you needed in the way you expect to get it how many of you know that you leave that place with the same faith the same expectations the same hope levels the same assumptions of god but if god works out of your box if he does a greater work if the holy spirit moves in a way that you don't expect with whoever he wants whenever he wants however he wants if he meets you in the desert your hope levels break forth your faith levels increase your expectation of his faithfulness and kindness get completely open wide and everyone watching you begins to see the miracles the mandate the majesty of god god wants to find you in the desert he wants to chase you down and so just close your eyes right now there's a commissioning there's a commissioning in the room this morning disqualification falling off a touch from holy spirit just like the philip in the ethiopian eunuch he's going to meet you in an unexpected highly demonstrative magnificent way my limitless god my limitless god is enveloping his limitless people thank you god thank you god wise words will tickle the mind and passion will move the heart but it's the spirit of the lord that will change a man and so spirit of god you are so here my wife is a poster child for this uh we are upbringing um if you knew our history if you knew would in no ways qualify us to be here but god it's so spirit of god i pray that you would start to hover over the voids of our lives right now and you would start to vibrate and shake over the voids of where we disqualified ourselves and where we'd said oh this is my lotto this is god i pray that you'd start to hover over that right now and we ask that you would speak a word of commissioning that would create destiny and it would create future and some will receive words publicly but you need a word from the christ so god over the voids of disqualification of the voids of your life right now jesus we invite you to speak a word and i invite dry land to be raised up [Music] i declare there's going to be a commissioning of new ground happening from today is any commissioning of new ground happening today in your life where you haven't traded your feet on certain lands in your family we said no i won't go into that conversation i won't um i won't go into that that breach that relationship there's a new ground that the lord's raising up in ministry the lord is where there's been a void in certain areas the lord is lifting up new ground and he's gonna be a commissioning from today on the first time i came to this conference there were three uh individuals that came to me and said when you came two years ago to seattle you came into the meeting one of them is here nick is here and he said we received the prophetic word and from that day our lives were absolutely changed i believe that there is a commissioning of the lord in this place for dry land to be lifted up in your life and and for new things for your for your feet to tread on new things i believe it's going to be in the family unit i see daughters and i see sons getting totally changed and turned around and i see people coming here and you hear for yourself but the lord's heart is for your family and i see daughters and sons i see like dry land getting raised up beneath the feet of daughters and sons biological daughters and sons and if that's you just in faith just raise your hands i see dry land getting raised up and i see daughters and sons there like biological daughters and sons their lives turning and i see pastors getting commissioned i see like identity falling on business leaders that are like eight years old nine years old and coming from a moment where god's starting to give you a glimpse of like oh this is the destiny plan for my creation that you've even birthed and there's something of innovation in this region this and there's fresh ideas that will create wealth and i see dry land getting created where there's been wealth that has been almost taken in this last season i see like dry land getting lifted up and i see people trading on dry on new land and i see wealth creation and ideas and innovations sparking and i see the lord investing courage into you right now and see the lord investing solutions into you right [Music] now see the pain of the load and his hand [Music] whatever you actually it's not even a pencil it's going to be a pain because it's going to make a lasting mark and i see a title a word a promise that he's given you that you thought would be the high point of god on your life and i see the father in his kindness coming in and he's crossing it out not to take it away but i see him instead some of you he's writing more others of you he's riding over your life holy spirit some of you he's writing over your life the finished work of the cross he's writing john 14 12 and greater things will you do is a unique commissioning in the room this morning where he's redefining what he's called you to he's opening up we we pray that we sing that we read it open wide the gates open wide the gates that the king of glory may come and i hear the father speaking into your spirit your story your legacy your family line your church your nation and he's saying open wide the gates expect more from me this morning you have a reason to have faith for more from me this morning even the prophetic words on your life are a limit to what i can do even the promises you have been given and commissioned are a limit to what i can do i hear i just see him rewriting stories rewriting stories you are the ones who carry the acts of the holy spirit you are the ones who carry the acts of jesus and just raise your hands right now if you're able to there's a moment years ago when i came onto staff at bethel church and i had every reason i was the youngest pastor on our team and there's many other reasons why i felt disqualified and as a picture of the heart of god he didn't think this at the time but i remember just keep your hands raised thank you god for a new wind to begin to blow into lives where dust is settled on calls and commissions your wind your grace your love right now is is unsettling in the healthiest safest of ways you're opening it up opening up opening up new weights we just speak right now to the gates of lives and family lines open wide open wide open wide i'm just prophesying right now to your children and your children's children and we say over you open wide open wide open wide open wide new expressions of the kingdom greater expressions of the kingdom more than you can ask or imagine more than you can ask or imagine some of you even now god's touching your imagination you shut it down over years and years in the name of purity or or containing and and the lord is touching your imagination right now and he's saying there is where i want to birth the next move of god there is where i want to show you my glory and my greatness i'm going to ride in on your imagination because your logic is too small a thing there i'm going to ride in on your dreams and visions all of those things it's we're at rest so that we don't limit him we welcome in you god to ride out some of you about to get taken up into trances take it up take it up taken up taking up your logic has been limiting him your body your experience has been limiting him we welcome in we welcome in the god of dreams and visions dreams and visions the god who does more than our imagination greater things greater things greater things i feel the kindness of god in the room when i first came on to staff our lead pastor bill johnson he would be in the room and when i came in to serve or to attend a meeting it was a season for it was nearly three to six months and whenever i was in the room if i was at the back or near the front or on the side he would be looking around the room and when he saw me he would catch my eye and he would move from wherever he was to the back to the side wherever i was and he would make a you'd be on a mission he was probably just doing life as normal he didn't know how profound this was and he would walk up to me and he would take my face and his hands and he would say to me libby i'm so glad you're here i'm so thankful you're here i'm so thankful you're a part of this we need you and then he's a man of few words and that would be it and he would go on his way and he did this every single sunday if he was in our school of ministry where i was pastoring and leading he would do it every once a week everywhere if i wasn't in the meeting he would find my office when he was when he was ministering in our school and he would go to my office my interns were there he would say is libby around where is she and all he would say take my face in his hands and say i'm so glad you're here i'm so thankful you're here we need you and he didn't know that oh he probably did he's gracious he knew probably that i needed that and i needed the voice of the father and sometimes commissioning we think will be shake rattle and roll other times the most profound commissioning i've ever received and i feel that presence of god i feel that heart of the father here is by his kindness and his love where he simply just like pastor bill would he would take the father wants to take your face in his hands and he wants to look at you eye to eye he wants to say i see all of who you are not surprised not taken aback he wants to look at you in the eye and say more more more for your life more for your expectations more for your family more for your faith more for your church more for your call more for your destiny wants to take your face in his hands right now and he wants to speak greater things into your spirit greater things into your body greater things greater things i feel the commissioning of god but it's there's only i can probably count on my hands the time i've been in a room where i've experienced this he comes with kindness he comes with safety and he comes with his father's heart and he says you don't need to be the hero of the story right now my son and my daughter i'm the hero of the story follow me jump into what i'm doing i'll take you the road you won't fail or falter with me i have what it takes you don't need to have what it takes i have what it takes now come and he breathes on your life and you're commissioned you have a new life you have new faith you have new strength you have new hope this is how god's showing up this morning he's commissioning you this morning thank you god some of you are going to feel this exceptional peace come upon you just a remarkable peace that's what happens when he commissions you not when you strive and try and make it happen greater works how he's the hero of the story by the power of the holy spirit he does it and jesus is saying i tell you this timeless truth the person who follows me in faith believing in me will do the same mighty miracles that i do and even greater miracles than these because i go to be with my father for i will do whatever you ask me to do how many of you know you have to be a child for a father or a mother to say that to you and i will do whatever you ask me to do when you ask in my name you have the family name and that is how the son will show what the father is really like and bring glory to him ask me anything in my name and i'll do it for you we're going to end with this i want you to put a prayer on your lips right now i want you to begin as a child dependable a seed a baby whatever that picture needs to be for your full dependence full surrender on him you're at the full mercy of the father full mercy of the father i want you to begin to put on your lips a prayer a hope a dream that is beyond what you think you're capable of beyond what you think your family line deserves to have or to hold in your generation and the generations to come i want you to begin to put bold prayers on your lips right now the kindness of god when he comes like a father he says to my kids all things are possible all things are possible let's partner with him right now we must ask we must ask our father because he longs to fulfill he longs to meet you he longs to do greater things by the power of the holy spirit so begin just right now even if it's for 10 seconds out loud we're going to be bold sons and daughters not my will but yours be done not wise and persuasive words but a move and a demonstration of power begin to put on your lips something or many things by the power of the holy spirit is going to spark them right now that you think are impossible that you think are greater greater greater than what jesus modeled greater than you deserve greater than you could hope for right now there's phillips in the room and there's ethiopian eunuchs in the room and god wants to show you he's going to go to great lengths to fulfill great lengths to meet you and them some and then some not just your life but your nation not just a eunuch a man in authority a servant but an entire nation taken for jesus just begin to put those impossible things on your lips right now according to john 14 12 if you ask in my name it will be done i sense the doings of jesus in the room the doings the activity of the holy spirit in the room let's begin to ask loud loud loud just begin to put on your lips 10 seconds if you're watching at home wherever you are take a bold risk audibly loudly begin to ask him for greater things thank you god commissioning through partnerships sons and daughters partnering with the heavenly father men and women on assignment filled with the power of the holy spirit there's commissioning for partnership with jesus thank you god thank you god thank you god okay for another 10 seconds take those prayers and double them increase them if you're asking god for something impossible ask him for something even more impossible right now there's windows that open up of real grace we if we press in and we begin to partner with what god's doing we see instant we see radical miracles boldly put on your lips double it double it right now even more even more radical even greater things [Music] me okay and just for a moment longer if you know the person and you're able to you can place your hand on them if you don't know them you're just extending your hands in the end the person on the left and the right of you so if you know them and there's permission then you link hands with them if you don't you just extend your hands god's no respect of time or place we learned that last night and then i want you to begin to pray what you prayed for your own life your own family line i want you to begin to release greater works over them right now begin to pray dangerous risky prayers over their life right now commission them commission them commission them commission them according to acts 217 he will use whoever he wants whenever he wants however he wants begin to pray for impossible things right now god's here to partner with his sons and daughters if you ask anything in my name take a risk what is that anything you want them to see what's that anything you want their nation that their community their church their family to see bold reckless to logic impossible greater things begin to pray the greater things if your children are around you lay hands on them right now begin to pray impossible greater things over them right now thank you god increase the risk increase the boldness increase the demand and the anointing increase the demand sons and daughters right now asking radical radical radical radical things of their father thank you god pray like there's nothing that disqualifies them because there is nothing in jesus pray as if all things are possible because it's possible through the power of the holy spirit just for a moment longer [Music] um [Music] yeah yeah yeah [Music] hey i am [Music] oh here i am i am [Music] i [Music] i [Music] me [Music] i am [Music] oh [Music] all you waves and all you breakers crashing over me breaking over all you waves all you breakers crashing over [Music] [Applause] hey [Music] i am [Music] jesus [Music] such a sweet presence [Music] such a sweet prison presence [Music] when i was young and the lord are dreamt of days like this where the presence of god would come and it would be normal so thankful that you hear jesus and it's not just us and our words [Music] oh he's awakening things inside of you you're feeling like almost your your skin moving [Music] oh [Music] open up all your doors and all your gates open up all your doors and all your gates let the king of glory rush in who is this king of glory god i pray the gates of hearts would start to open afresh king of glory would rush in and commission [Music] uh [Music] oh [Music] and they just softly just start to just pride in tongues [Music] um oh jeez i dreamt of days like this when i was younger [Music] that your glory would rest and it wouldn't be the once often a year but it would be the normal [Music] that i wouldn't be on the chosen preacher but it'd be on every person you're not a tease it's true you really came for all [Music] [Music] [Music] oh jesus [Music] and open your hands i do this not as a religious act but to position you to receive a gift [Music] god i pray for a pioneer spirit spirit of like john the baptist to rest on people to take new ground to take new ground not to stay in the position they're in right now but to take new ground thank you for a spirit of elijah there would be a pioneering spirit that would come upon people i thank you for the anointing of the cross they would come on upon people [Music] god i pray that they'll experience jesus in the most beautiful way an awakening would start to happen in their heart not for just moments but as like as they leave as they in their beds as they're in their rooms as they're with their kids and their families or god an awakening pray for waves of your glory to break over and to crash over god [Music] we so adore you jesus [Music] um [Music] [Music] so adore you jesus [Music] so [Music] [Music] [Music] so lord jesus we honor the seed that you've given us we honor the seeds that you've given us lord and we promise to nourish them we promise to cultivate them we promise to guard and protect them we promise to plant them and we promise to live into that promise that you've given us lord yeah yeah we so honor richard and libby gordon and the life that they are pouring out for those to see and just would you guys just show some appreciation and love just for what god has has done and is doing through the gordons and uh we just we bless you guys we are so grateful for you and we're so thankful that you guys have come and poured out uh here at src um man how many of you guys got some amazing things from the lord just now yeah yeah yeah yeah me too me too there's just no limit to what he wants to do in us and through us so so good so good well hey uh you guys we're gonna we're gonna break uh now and we'll be back uh the doors will be open at 1 30. there will be a podcast here it's going to be awesome you want to come check it out you don't want to miss it it's going to be awesome it's going to be at two o'clock in here so definitely come on out but god bless you guys you can grab your stuff as you go there's still um some product in the bookstore and all that good stuff so bless you guys [Music] you

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