1 00:00:00,000 --> 00:00:04,440 Welcome to Go Church Beirut. 2 00:00:04,440 --> 00:00:07,800 Your place to love, grow, and go. 3 00:00:07,800 --> 00:00:10,740 Get ready to hear an inspiring message recorded during a Go 4 00:00:10,740 --> 00:00:13,940 Church Beirut gathering. 5 00:00:13,940 --> 00:00:16,040 Go Church, it's so good to be with you. 6 00:00:16,040 --> 00:00:18,920 Can you turn to somebody today and just welcome them to Go 7 00:00:18,920 --> 00:00:20,480 Church? 8 00:00:20,480 --> 00:00:22,560 Let them know how good it is to see them here today 9 00:00:22,560 --> 00:00:24,720 and give them a high five or handshake, 10 00:00:24,720 --> 00:00:26,960 something along that line. 11 00:00:26,960 --> 00:00:29,920 So thankful to be with you all. 12 00:00:29,920 --> 00:00:32,760 Have you here with us? 13 00:00:32,760 --> 00:00:33,920 I love Lebanon. 14 00:00:33,920 --> 00:00:38,160 This is my third time being in this amazing country. 15 00:00:38,160 --> 00:00:39,200 And I love it. 16 00:00:39,200 --> 00:00:42,200 I can't wait to come back till next time. 17 00:00:42,200 --> 00:00:44,040 And honored to be with you here today. 18 00:00:44,040 --> 00:00:45,400 My wife sends her love. 19 00:00:45,400 --> 00:00:47,520 My children send her love. 20 00:00:47,520 --> 00:00:49,440 My wife has been here before, loved it. 21 00:00:49,440 --> 00:00:51,120 My oldest son has been here. 22 00:00:51,120 --> 00:00:52,440 His name is Boston. 23 00:00:52,440 --> 00:00:52,920 He loved it. 24 00:00:52,920 --> 00:00:55,640 In fact, when he left, he said, I want to move there. 25 00:00:55,640 --> 00:00:56,560 And so we'll see. 26 00:00:56,560 --> 00:00:57,720 We'll see what happens there. 27 00:00:57,720 --> 00:00:59,960 But we're honored to be with you here today. 28 00:00:59,960 --> 00:01:00,820 My name is Joel. 29 00:01:00,820 --> 00:01:05,000 I pastor at church in Jackson, Mississippi. 30 00:01:05,000 --> 00:01:08,360 And I've been pastoring there now for 20 years. 31 00:01:08,360 --> 00:01:09,560 I have a heart for missions. 32 00:01:09,560 --> 00:01:12,500 Typically I go to a different nation about two or three 33 00:01:12,500 --> 00:01:13,840 times every year. 34 00:01:13,840 --> 00:01:16,640 I believe that as Christians, we have a chief call 35 00:01:16,640 --> 00:01:18,600 to go into the world. 36 00:01:18,600 --> 00:01:21,780 And it's impossible to get a heart for the world unless you 37 00:01:21,780 --> 00:01:23,520 go into the world to see it. 38 00:01:23,520 --> 00:01:26,240 And I've had the privilege of going all over the world 39 00:01:26,240 --> 00:01:28,160 and just so honored to be there. 40 00:01:28,160 --> 00:01:32,120 But I have found no place better than Lebanon and Beirut. 41 00:01:32,120 --> 00:01:33,680 I love this nation. 42 00:01:33,680 --> 00:01:34,680 I love the people. 43 00:01:34,680 --> 00:01:35,800 I love the food. 44 00:01:35,800 --> 00:01:37,400 And I love Goat Church. 45 00:01:37,400 --> 00:01:42,120 Can we give it up for your pastors and the team here? 46 00:01:42,120 --> 00:01:45,560 I tell you, I am blown away every time 47 00:01:45,560 --> 00:01:48,560 I come by the leadership that God has placed here. 48 00:01:48,560 --> 00:01:51,640 The sense of excellence that is in this place. 49 00:01:51,640 --> 00:01:54,560 The sense of excellence that is in the small group leaders 50 00:01:54,560 --> 00:01:56,360 who lead all across the city. 51 00:01:56,360 --> 00:02:00,080 I believe we're going to see a doubling of that soon. 52 00:02:00,080 --> 00:02:02,360 I really do sense that in my heart. 53 00:02:02,360 --> 00:02:05,120 There's a rapid expansion that's about to take place, 54 00:02:05,120 --> 00:02:06,560 even among leaders. 55 00:02:06,560 --> 00:02:09,800 And so many of you get ready to lead a group. 56 00:02:09,800 --> 00:02:11,080 You're not just attending a group. 57 00:02:11,080 --> 00:02:13,000 You're going to lead a group. 58 00:02:13,000 --> 00:02:15,080 And you're not just going to attend this church. 59 00:02:15,080 --> 00:02:16,960 Be an integral part of this church. 60 00:02:16,960 --> 00:02:19,040 And we're so glad to have you here. 61 00:02:19,040 --> 00:02:22,480 And God's got a plan for you, a plan of ministry. 62 00:02:22,480 --> 00:02:26,360 And I'm super excited to see where this church is going to go. 63 00:02:26,360 --> 00:02:28,120 And not just where this church is going to go, 64 00:02:28,120 --> 00:02:31,520 but where you are going to go in the name of Jesus. 65 00:02:31,520 --> 00:02:34,880 And that's actually what I feel impressed to talk about. 66 00:02:34,880 --> 00:02:37,720 As a pastor, I teach on any given week 67 00:02:37,720 --> 00:02:39,640 about six to eight times. 68 00:02:39,640 --> 00:02:42,040 And so that means writing a lot of different messages 69 00:02:42,040 --> 00:02:44,120 and studying a lot of different material. 70 00:02:44,120 --> 00:02:46,840 And it's tempting when you go to a place to a first time, 71 00:02:46,840 --> 00:02:49,280 you just pull out like your best message. 72 00:02:49,280 --> 00:02:51,600 That went really well. 73 00:02:51,600 --> 00:02:53,680 At the existing place. 74 00:02:53,680 --> 00:02:56,000 And you know, just preach that one. 75 00:02:56,000 --> 00:03:00,520 And I came to the country and yesterday in our session, 76 00:03:00,520 --> 00:03:02,080 the Spirit gave a word. 77 00:03:02,080 --> 00:03:05,600 And I felt impressed to just preach a message on that. 78 00:03:05,600 --> 00:03:08,200 And so I've never preached this message before. 79 00:03:08,200 --> 00:03:10,960 I've never studied along these lines before. 80 00:03:10,960 --> 00:03:12,760 But the whole time I've been in Lebanon, 81 00:03:12,760 --> 00:03:15,280 these things keep coming up to my heart. 82 00:03:15,280 --> 00:03:19,160 So this is the first time anybody has heard this message. 83 00:03:19,160 --> 00:03:21,800 And I'm excited to give it. 84 00:03:21,800 --> 00:03:23,600 But last year I was praying, 85 00:03:23,600 --> 00:03:26,080 how many of you think that's a good idea that we should pray? 86 00:03:26,080 --> 00:03:28,040 We should be a people of prayer. 87 00:03:28,040 --> 00:03:28,880 Amen. 88 00:03:28,880 --> 00:03:30,720 A God's house should be a house of prayer. 89 00:03:30,720 --> 00:03:33,560 And I've been trying to spend more time and prayer 90 00:03:33,560 --> 00:03:36,200 in this season of my life than in any other season. 91 00:03:36,200 --> 00:03:39,400 And I was in like my back porch area, 92 00:03:39,400 --> 00:03:40,680 kind of behind the house, 93 00:03:40,680 --> 00:03:43,880 just praying and worshiping the Lord. 94 00:03:43,880 --> 00:03:47,880 And oftentimes when you sow the seed of talking to God, 95 00:03:47,880 --> 00:03:50,480 you reap the harvest of God talking to you. 96 00:03:52,280 --> 00:03:54,760 And that's the beauty of even what we just did. 97 00:03:54,760 --> 00:03:57,160 It's not just worship unto the Lord, 98 00:03:57,160 --> 00:03:59,040 but it's sowing a seed of affection 99 00:03:59,040 --> 00:04:00,480 and communication to the Lord. 100 00:04:00,480 --> 00:04:02,240 And when you sow that seed of affection 101 00:04:02,240 --> 00:04:03,640 and communication to the Lord, 102 00:04:03,640 --> 00:04:05,840 you often reap the harvest of affection 103 00:04:05,840 --> 00:04:07,840 and communication given to you. 104 00:04:08,680 --> 00:04:11,760 And so out of that, I was just worshiping the Lord 105 00:04:11,760 --> 00:04:15,840 and it came into my heart to have in this year, 106 00:04:15,840 --> 00:04:16,840 a prayer conference. 107 00:04:16,840 --> 00:04:18,720 And we've never done anything like that. 108 00:04:18,720 --> 00:04:22,400 And honestly, like I thought, you know, okay, 109 00:04:22,400 --> 00:04:24,560 in doing that, I'll wait time 110 00:04:24,560 --> 00:04:27,040 because I didn't have the exact time to do it. 111 00:04:27,040 --> 00:04:30,240 But I sensed an urgency to maybe do it 112 00:04:30,240 --> 00:04:31,600 at the start of the year, 113 00:04:31,600 --> 00:04:34,400 but the end of every year for our church is super busy. 114 00:04:34,400 --> 00:04:36,600 We have Christmas and we have giveaways 115 00:04:36,600 --> 00:04:38,840 and we come and give gifts to families 116 00:04:38,840 --> 00:04:41,320 and like have big, big things in the community, 117 00:04:41,320 --> 00:04:43,720 Christmas productions, you know, all those kinds of things. 118 00:04:43,720 --> 00:04:46,640 I'm like, I can't put anything else on my staff. 119 00:04:46,640 --> 00:04:50,400 And anybody who's ever led an organization and has a team, 120 00:04:50,400 --> 00:04:52,920 it's like, you know how much your team can handle. 121 00:04:52,920 --> 00:04:55,000 And it's like, I don't know if I wanna throw like, 122 00:04:55,000 --> 00:04:58,880 hey, in January, we're gonna do a three day prayer conference. 123 00:04:58,880 --> 00:05:00,080 You know, and that kind of thing. 124 00:05:00,080 --> 00:05:01,840 And so like I was hesitant to do it. 125 00:05:01,840 --> 00:05:03,200 And I just thought, well, I'll wait a year, 126 00:05:03,200 --> 00:05:04,680 give him a time to prep. 127 00:05:04,680 --> 00:05:08,200 And our worship pastor, Tabitha Thompson, 128 00:05:08,200 --> 00:05:12,240 who is actually going to be here in Lebanon in August. 129 00:05:12,240 --> 00:05:15,120 Yes, I know Rafi knows her. 130 00:05:15,120 --> 00:05:17,960 So we've got a team that'll be coming here in August as well 131 00:05:17,960 --> 00:05:18,840 from Word of Life. 132 00:05:18,840 --> 00:05:21,680 And man, I tell you, they're just anointed. 133 00:05:21,680 --> 00:05:24,960 But anyway, Tabitha, she texts me and she said, 134 00:05:24,960 --> 00:05:28,400 hey, I feel like next year and like in January, 135 00:05:28,400 --> 00:05:31,480 we should be having like an extended set of meetings. 136 00:05:31,480 --> 00:05:34,160 And I'm like, in the mouth of two or three witnesses, 137 00:05:34,160 --> 00:05:36,200 let every word be established. 138 00:05:36,200 --> 00:05:39,760 And I'm like, done, yes, January prayer conference. 139 00:05:39,760 --> 00:05:41,680 And it came into my heart again. 140 00:05:41,680 --> 00:05:43,240 And when I say it came into my heart, 141 00:05:43,240 --> 00:05:45,800 this is oftentimes how God leads us. 142 00:05:45,800 --> 00:05:49,200 It's just something kind of comes into your heart 143 00:05:49,200 --> 00:05:51,040 that there's a desire there. 144 00:05:51,040 --> 00:05:53,960 And if you're born again and walking with the Lord, 145 00:05:53,960 --> 00:05:57,960 oftentimes desire is one of the chief ways God will guide you. 146 00:05:57,960 --> 00:06:01,320 He will give you the desires of your heart. 147 00:06:01,320 --> 00:06:04,160 And so the desire came into my heart 148 00:06:04,160 --> 00:06:06,480 to have a particular minister in. 149 00:06:06,480 --> 00:06:09,320 And so I brought them in and when they got up, 150 00:06:09,320 --> 00:06:11,120 they sat a couple of weeks before that, 151 00:06:11,120 --> 00:06:13,560 they were in a service during the offering time 152 00:06:13,560 --> 00:06:14,560 and announcement time. 153 00:06:14,560 --> 00:06:16,280 And how many of you know God can even talk to you 154 00:06:16,280 --> 00:06:18,000 during the announcement time? 155 00:06:19,120 --> 00:06:22,800 And out of that, she said that it came into her heart, 156 00:06:22,800 --> 00:06:27,800 the word emerge for this year, emerge. 157 00:06:29,800 --> 00:06:32,120 And she said that and a bore witness 158 00:06:32,120 --> 00:06:33,560 on the inside of my heart. 159 00:06:35,080 --> 00:06:37,720 But when I got here to Lebanon, honestly, 160 00:06:37,720 --> 00:06:42,360 it had not been on the forefront of my spiritual thinking 161 00:06:42,360 --> 00:06:43,600 for months. 162 00:06:44,560 --> 00:06:49,080 And I got here yesterday and that word came up 163 00:06:49,080 --> 00:06:52,560 so big in my heart, emerge. 164 00:06:53,480 --> 00:06:58,040 That it is time to emerge. 165 00:06:58,040 --> 00:07:01,600 There were moments in people's lives in scripture 166 00:07:01,600 --> 00:07:04,400 where they were living at one level 167 00:07:04,400 --> 00:07:06,000 and it was very natural. 168 00:07:06,000 --> 00:07:11,000 And there came a time for them to emerge. 169 00:07:11,640 --> 00:07:14,840 Moses on the backside of a desert, just a shepherd 170 00:07:14,840 --> 00:07:16,000 and he's living a good life. 171 00:07:16,000 --> 00:07:17,480 Like it's nothing wrong with the life. 172 00:07:17,480 --> 00:07:18,320 He's enjoying it. 173 00:07:18,320 --> 00:07:21,200 He's married, got some kids, got a father-in-law. 174 00:07:21,200 --> 00:07:25,080 Seems like a good guy, leading cheap. 175 00:07:25,080 --> 00:07:27,320 But a bush was lit up and God told him 176 00:07:27,320 --> 00:07:31,600 it was time for him to emerge. 177 00:07:31,600 --> 00:07:36,240 And every vestige of the old dripped off of Moses 178 00:07:36,240 --> 00:07:38,800 and he stepped up into something brand new. 179 00:07:40,000 --> 00:07:42,960 Like a caterpillar to a butterfly. 180 00:07:44,520 --> 00:07:48,280 Emerging out of it with something new on him. 181 00:07:49,240 --> 00:07:51,120 He emerged. 182 00:07:52,200 --> 00:07:55,640 Joseph, God gives him a dream and he's just a kid. 183 00:07:55,640 --> 00:07:56,920 He's got a coat of many colors, 184 00:07:56,920 --> 00:08:00,080 like feels good to be loved and he's out there dreaming. 185 00:08:00,080 --> 00:08:02,960 And he goes through a series of events 186 00:08:02,960 --> 00:08:06,320 where it seems like his life is going through 187 00:08:06,320 --> 00:08:08,160 something very private. 188 00:08:09,320 --> 00:08:13,240 And he's not seen and he's not heard of. 189 00:08:14,240 --> 00:08:18,720 But there came a time for him to emerge. 190 00:08:18,720 --> 00:08:21,680 And when he emerged, every vestige of the old, 191 00:08:21,680 --> 00:08:24,040 it was like a complete different life. 192 00:08:24,040 --> 00:08:27,080 A fresh anointing came on, so much so. 193 00:08:27,080 --> 00:08:29,360 That when his brother saw him, the Bible says, 194 00:08:29,360 --> 00:08:34,360 he recognized them, but they did not recognize him. 195 00:08:34,680 --> 00:08:37,760 He had become something entirely different. 196 00:08:37,760 --> 00:08:40,400 Entirely different from who they knew him to be. 197 00:08:40,400 --> 00:08:43,240 Did you know God has the power to do that? 198 00:08:43,240 --> 00:08:46,480 To make you something entirely different than what you are. 199 00:08:46,480 --> 00:08:50,960 Like literally a transformation in you. 200 00:08:50,960 --> 00:08:52,720 We see David. 201 00:08:52,720 --> 00:08:55,640 God comes and tells his father 202 00:08:55,640 --> 00:08:58,080 that there is a king in your household. 203 00:08:58,080 --> 00:09:01,520 And Jesse lines up all of his other boys 204 00:09:01,520 --> 00:09:04,240 and believes that there is a king in them 205 00:09:04,240 --> 00:09:08,880 but leaves David on the sidelines out with the sheep. 206 00:09:08,880 --> 00:09:10,280 And he's living this life. 207 00:09:10,280 --> 00:09:12,320 It's a wonderful life of worship 208 00:09:12,320 --> 00:09:15,040 and this great life of just being before God. 209 00:09:15,040 --> 00:09:17,240 He's enjoying it, finding no fault with it. 210 00:09:17,240 --> 00:09:21,080 And he enjoys, like we get the idea that David is like, 211 00:09:21,080 --> 00:09:23,400 not overly hurt that he's not invited 212 00:09:23,400 --> 00:09:25,800 to the king ceremony and all those types of things. 213 00:09:25,800 --> 00:09:27,320 He's just left out there. 214 00:09:27,320 --> 00:09:31,480 Until the time for him to emerge came. 215 00:09:33,040 --> 00:09:35,200 And Samuel said, we will not sit down 216 00:09:36,320 --> 00:09:37,840 until he is brought in. 217 00:09:39,000 --> 00:09:42,360 And when he stepped on the scene, he emerged 218 00:09:42,360 --> 00:09:44,360 and the anointing of God came on him 219 00:09:44,360 --> 00:09:47,120 and he was transformed into another man. 220 00:09:48,160 --> 00:09:51,960 And this young shepherd boy became something entirely 221 00:09:51,960 --> 00:09:52,800 different. 222 00:09:52,800 --> 00:09:56,400 He transformed from a shepherd into a king. 223 00:09:56,400 --> 00:09:58,280 He emerged. 224 00:09:59,560 --> 00:10:03,840 Jesus, for 30 years of his earthly ministry on the earth, 225 00:10:03,840 --> 00:10:06,040 it just seemed like he was a carpenter. 226 00:10:07,200 --> 00:10:09,880 And it just seemed like he was a good guy 227 00:10:09,880 --> 00:10:13,920 but no miracles that we know of came out during that season 228 00:10:14,840 --> 00:10:17,240 until John the Baptist saw him and said, 229 00:10:17,240 --> 00:10:20,240 behold the Lamb of God which takes upon himself 230 00:10:20,240 --> 00:10:21,920 the son of the world. 231 00:10:21,920 --> 00:10:25,200 And in that moment, he emerged 232 00:10:25,200 --> 00:10:27,400 and he came out into something brand new 233 00:10:27,400 --> 00:10:29,120 and the voice of God spoke over him 234 00:10:29,120 --> 00:10:30,680 and said, this is my beloved son 235 00:10:30,680 --> 00:10:31,880 and whom I'm well pleased 236 00:10:31,880 --> 00:10:33,600 and the Holy Spirit came upon him. 237 00:10:33,600 --> 00:10:35,720 And he went into his own hometown 238 00:10:35,720 --> 00:10:37,240 and we'll talk about this later. 239 00:10:37,240 --> 00:10:38,720 He went into his own hometown 240 00:10:38,720 --> 00:10:42,920 and he stepped up into that place 241 00:10:42,920 --> 00:10:45,840 and said, the spirit of the Lord is upon me 242 00:10:45,840 --> 00:10:48,280 for he is anointed me to preach the gospel. 243 00:10:48,280 --> 00:10:49,880 And everyone around him was like, 244 00:10:49,880 --> 00:10:52,080 man, this is not the same guy. 245 00:10:52,080 --> 00:10:56,160 He had emerged into something different. 246 00:10:57,440 --> 00:11:00,600 And I just sent so big in my heart 247 00:11:00,600 --> 00:11:05,600 that Go Church universally is emerging 248 00:11:06,600 --> 00:11:09,280 that there is something coming out of it 249 00:11:09,280 --> 00:11:12,800 where every vestige of the old is passing away 250 00:11:12,800 --> 00:11:16,320 and there is something new that is coming forth. 251 00:11:16,320 --> 00:11:18,480 When you look at the word emerge, 252 00:11:18,480 --> 00:11:20,440 I looked it up this weekend. 253 00:11:20,440 --> 00:11:22,320 When you look at the word emerge, 254 00:11:22,320 --> 00:11:24,480 it means to become visible. 255 00:11:26,080 --> 00:11:27,880 That before it was hidden, 256 00:11:27,880 --> 00:11:30,960 but it was time for it to come out. 257 00:11:30,960 --> 00:11:35,400 Time for it to be seen, to become visible. 258 00:11:35,400 --> 00:11:39,760 The second definition is, is to become prominent. 259 00:11:39,760 --> 00:11:42,240 That when something emerges from the field, 260 00:11:42,240 --> 00:11:44,080 when something steps up from the field, 261 00:11:44,080 --> 00:11:46,440 it becomes a thing of prominence. 262 00:11:46,440 --> 00:11:48,880 It steps up from where it is, 263 00:11:48,880 --> 00:11:50,920 steps up from the pack, 264 00:11:50,920 --> 00:11:52,800 steps up from the place, 265 00:11:52,800 --> 00:11:57,000 and is seen to become prominent. 266 00:11:57,000 --> 00:11:59,480 And the second, the third definition is, 267 00:12:00,480 --> 00:12:03,360 to recover from a difficult situation, 268 00:12:04,200 --> 00:12:05,680 to come out of it. 269 00:12:05,680 --> 00:12:08,680 And I sense like this church especially 270 00:12:08,680 --> 00:12:10,400 is about to become seen. 271 00:12:10,400 --> 00:12:11,960 It's about to become prominent. 272 00:12:11,960 --> 00:12:13,480 And it's about to help this nation 273 00:12:13,480 --> 00:12:16,160 recover from a difficult situation. 274 00:12:16,160 --> 00:12:17,440 Come on, church. 275 00:12:17,440 --> 00:12:18,280 Come on, church. 276 00:12:18,280 --> 00:12:23,280 Like I really believe it is time for Go Church to emerge. 277 00:12:25,880 --> 00:12:27,960 Universally, but especially this one. 278 00:12:27,960 --> 00:12:29,880 It is time for it to come forth. 279 00:12:29,880 --> 00:12:31,760 It is time for it to come out. 280 00:12:31,760 --> 00:12:35,120 It is time for it to become prominent. 281 00:12:35,120 --> 00:12:37,200 But I sense like this is a season, 282 00:12:37,200 --> 00:12:38,680 not just for Go Church, 283 00:12:38,680 --> 00:12:39,600 because how many of you know, 284 00:12:39,600 --> 00:12:42,320 church is not like a physical place. 285 00:12:42,320 --> 00:12:45,840 Church is a people, it's the called out ones. 286 00:12:45,840 --> 00:12:48,720 That there are people here 287 00:12:48,720 --> 00:12:51,960 that it is time for you to emerge. 288 00:12:51,960 --> 00:12:53,800 There are ministry giftings here. 289 00:12:53,800 --> 00:12:56,440 It's time for you to emerge. 290 00:12:56,440 --> 00:12:58,880 Where you walk in something new. 291 00:12:58,880 --> 00:13:01,080 That you're not who you were before. 292 00:13:02,880 --> 00:13:05,840 And I sense that even for ministers here, 293 00:13:05,840 --> 00:13:10,440 it is time for you to emerge into something new. 294 00:13:11,440 --> 00:13:14,720 That there is more in you than you have been giving us. 295 00:13:14,720 --> 00:13:16,760 It is time for it to come out. 296 00:13:16,760 --> 00:13:19,960 It is time for it to step forth in the earth. 297 00:13:19,960 --> 00:13:21,080 There is more. 298 00:13:22,360 --> 00:13:26,760 Years ago, I was a younger man. 299 00:13:26,760 --> 00:13:29,280 I'm still young, I'm 39. 300 00:13:29,280 --> 00:13:31,240 But anyway, I was a younger man 301 00:13:31,240 --> 00:13:33,440 and I just started pastoring. 302 00:13:34,240 --> 00:13:37,560 And in this process of pastoring, 303 00:13:37,560 --> 00:13:41,360 I got married to my wonderful wife. 304 00:13:41,360 --> 00:13:43,000 She is my better half. 305 00:13:43,000 --> 00:13:44,960 I love her with all my heart. 306 00:13:44,960 --> 00:13:46,840 She makes my liver quiver. 307 00:13:48,120 --> 00:13:51,000 She is perfection in every way. 308 00:13:52,120 --> 00:13:55,760 And anyway, we got married and we moved. 309 00:13:55,760 --> 00:13:57,200 And it was a real God story. 310 00:13:57,200 --> 00:14:01,240 God gave us this home that was to be a hospital 311 00:14:01,240 --> 00:14:02,760 and a refuge for families. 312 00:14:02,760 --> 00:14:05,040 And so we lived in it for 14 years 313 00:14:05,040 --> 00:14:08,680 and multiple families came and lived with us and emerged. 314 00:14:08,680 --> 00:14:11,720 Something new that the old passed away from them 315 00:14:11,720 --> 00:14:13,280 in that house and they came out of it, 316 00:14:13,280 --> 00:14:14,640 something different. 317 00:14:14,640 --> 00:14:15,520 It's a good thing. 318 00:14:16,480 --> 00:14:19,760 But anyway, I went to bed one night 319 00:14:19,760 --> 00:14:22,320 and sometimes God will speak to you in a dream. 320 00:14:22,320 --> 00:14:24,720 Now this has only happened to me on four different occasions. 321 00:14:24,720 --> 00:14:26,880 And how many of you know, not every time you dream, 322 00:14:26,880 --> 00:14:28,400 is it from the Lord? 323 00:14:28,400 --> 00:14:30,280 If it is, the Holy Spirit will let you know 324 00:14:30,280 --> 00:14:32,520 and you'll know a meaning to it. 325 00:14:32,520 --> 00:14:34,680 And I had a spiritual dream. 326 00:14:34,680 --> 00:14:37,160 It was like one of the more vivid things 327 00:14:37,160 --> 00:14:40,100 I've ever had in a spiritual experience. 328 00:14:40,100 --> 00:14:45,100 And I saw me, but it wasn't me. 329 00:14:47,180 --> 00:14:48,740 It was a whole nother man. 330 00:14:50,220 --> 00:14:52,060 It was about 15 years ago. 331 00:14:53,340 --> 00:14:55,420 It was a whole nother man. 332 00:14:55,420 --> 00:14:59,700 It was me, but it wasn't me. 333 00:15:01,020 --> 00:15:02,940 It was a better version of me. 334 00:15:02,940 --> 00:15:07,940 And I was on an airplane and I saw myself the way I looked, 335 00:15:09,940 --> 00:15:11,780 the way I was dressed, 336 00:15:13,060 --> 00:15:15,340 but I saw the anointing on me, 337 00:15:16,500 --> 00:15:19,180 which is the power of God, the office. 338 00:15:19,180 --> 00:15:21,780 There's varying degrees of offices. 339 00:15:21,780 --> 00:15:23,020 You see a lot of pastors. 340 00:15:23,020 --> 00:15:25,340 There's different degrees of pastors. 341 00:15:25,340 --> 00:15:26,500 There's a lot of teachers. 342 00:15:26,500 --> 00:15:28,340 There's different degrees of teachers. 343 00:15:28,340 --> 00:15:29,940 There's different degrees of teachers. 344 00:15:29,940 --> 00:15:31,780 There's different degrees of teachers. 345 00:15:31,780 --> 00:15:33,820 There's different degrees of teaching. 346 00:15:33,820 --> 00:15:36,660 There's apostles, but there's different levels. 347 00:15:36,660 --> 00:15:38,900 There's higher ranks in God. 348 00:15:40,300 --> 00:15:43,340 And same with every ministry gift. 349 00:15:43,340 --> 00:15:48,340 And I was in a higher office, a different place. 350 00:15:48,340 --> 00:15:51,300 There was an authority and an anointing on me 351 00:15:51,300 --> 00:15:55,300 that there was no similarity 352 00:15:55,300 --> 00:15:57,620 to what I was currently operating in. 353 00:15:58,460 --> 00:15:59,540 So different. 354 00:15:59,540 --> 00:16:02,180 And I got up from this seat 355 00:16:02,180 --> 00:16:05,180 and I start walking down this aisle of the plane. 356 00:16:05,180 --> 00:16:07,980 And there's a guy who now is on my staff. 357 00:16:07,980 --> 00:16:10,180 His name is Robert Berry, but at this time, 358 00:16:10,180 --> 00:16:12,340 he was not on my staff. 359 00:16:12,340 --> 00:16:15,340 He was actually living away from the Lord 360 00:16:15,340 --> 00:16:16,660 in a whole other state. 361 00:16:17,460 --> 00:16:20,260 And I came and I saw him and he's sitting there 362 00:16:20,260 --> 00:16:21,580 and he was different. 363 00:16:23,300 --> 00:16:25,580 And I placed my hand on his shoulder 364 00:16:25,580 --> 00:16:27,540 and I began to speak. 365 00:16:27,540 --> 00:16:29,580 And I didn't hear what I said, 366 00:16:29,580 --> 00:16:32,300 but the anointing of God was just flowing out of me 367 00:16:32,300 --> 00:16:33,460 onto him. 368 00:16:33,460 --> 00:16:35,380 And the anointing is always weighty. 369 00:16:35,380 --> 00:16:38,020 When something is anointed, it's weighty. 370 00:16:38,020 --> 00:16:39,020 It's stickable. 371 00:16:39,020 --> 00:16:40,500 It has a stickability to it. 372 00:16:40,500 --> 00:16:41,620 It's a residue. 373 00:16:41,620 --> 00:16:43,660 It just gets on you and it feels good. 374 00:16:44,940 --> 00:16:48,700 It just, it goes in you and stays with you. 375 00:16:48,700 --> 00:16:49,940 Even after the service, 376 00:16:49,940 --> 00:16:53,260 there's just something resonating from the anointing. 377 00:16:53,260 --> 00:16:55,900 And it was greater than anything I had ever seen. 378 00:16:55,900 --> 00:16:58,780 I could just see it like flowing on to him 379 00:16:58,780 --> 00:16:59,980 and sticking to him. 380 00:17:01,780 --> 00:17:04,180 And then the dream was over and I woke up 381 00:17:04,180 --> 00:17:07,180 and I was bawling, like even in my sleep, I was bawling. 382 00:17:07,180 --> 00:17:09,980 And I knew what it was that I was so far from that man 383 00:17:12,380 --> 00:17:14,060 that the man that I was 384 00:17:16,940 --> 00:17:19,020 was not the man that I could be. 385 00:17:21,100 --> 00:17:22,620 And it was one of the greatest gifts 386 00:17:22,620 --> 00:17:26,020 but also a burden that God ever gave me 387 00:17:26,020 --> 00:17:27,900 because I saw who I could be. 388 00:17:29,220 --> 00:17:32,780 If I was all that I could be. 389 00:17:34,420 --> 00:17:38,140 There's a you in you that's better than the you 390 00:17:38,140 --> 00:17:39,580 you've been giving us. 391 00:17:41,660 --> 00:17:43,700 There's a you in you 392 00:17:45,740 --> 00:17:48,340 that is greater than the person you are. 393 00:17:49,340 --> 00:17:51,820 And it is time for that man 394 00:17:51,820 --> 00:17:56,820 and that woman to emerge, to come out of. 395 00:17:58,500 --> 00:18:00,340 Paul wrote this, if you brought your Bibles, 396 00:18:00,340 --> 00:18:03,660 let's go and look at them to Philippians chapter three. 397 00:18:05,180 --> 00:18:08,020 And we'll just explore this out scripturally. 398 00:18:08,860 --> 00:18:10,420 I want you to notice what Paul said. 399 00:18:10,420 --> 00:18:12,500 These are some of my favorite verses, 400 00:18:12,500 --> 00:18:14,740 Philippians three and verse. 401 00:18:14,740 --> 00:18:19,740 Let's start here in 12 Philippians three 12. 402 00:18:24,340 --> 00:18:27,260 Not that I have already obtained it 403 00:18:28,460 --> 00:18:30,620 or have already become perfect 404 00:18:32,220 --> 00:18:36,260 but I press on so that I may lay hold of 405 00:18:36,260 --> 00:18:40,780 that for which I also was lay hold of by Christ Jesus. 406 00:18:40,780 --> 00:18:45,060 Now let me teach from this just for a moment. 407 00:18:46,260 --> 00:18:51,260 Notice not that I have already become perfect. 408 00:18:51,340 --> 00:18:52,820 What's he saying there? 409 00:18:52,820 --> 00:18:57,500 He's not talking about being perfect in the fact of no sin. 410 00:18:57,500 --> 00:18:59,020 If anyone had no sin, 411 00:18:59,020 --> 00:19:01,740 it would mean they didn't need a savior. 412 00:19:01,740 --> 00:19:04,460 This word perfect means fully mature. 413 00:19:05,500 --> 00:19:09,180 And Paul said, not that I have become fully mature yet. 414 00:19:09,180 --> 00:19:10,940 Like when we see children, 415 00:19:10,940 --> 00:19:14,220 you see that they have muscles or they have a frame 416 00:19:14,220 --> 00:19:16,180 but they're not fully mature yet. 417 00:19:16,180 --> 00:19:19,700 They haven't fully grown into who they could be. 418 00:19:20,700 --> 00:19:22,580 And over the process of time, 419 00:19:22,580 --> 00:19:24,580 just with the natural order of things, 420 00:19:24,580 --> 00:19:27,500 who they are is transforming. 421 00:19:27,500 --> 00:19:29,740 And people will see my children now and they're like, 422 00:19:29,740 --> 00:19:31,780 you've gotten so big and they're still trying 423 00:19:31,780 --> 00:19:33,220 to pinch their face like they're three, 424 00:19:33,220 --> 00:19:34,380 you know, all those kinds of things. 425 00:19:34,380 --> 00:19:35,660 Cause they're looking at them and they're like, 426 00:19:35,660 --> 00:19:38,420 you have emerged. 427 00:19:38,420 --> 00:19:40,980 You have transformed. 428 00:19:40,980 --> 00:19:45,300 You have become something more than you were. 429 00:19:45,300 --> 00:19:48,180 And Paul is saying spiritually speaking, 430 00:19:48,180 --> 00:19:51,020 I haven't become all that I could be. 431 00:19:52,180 --> 00:19:55,780 There is more of Paul than what you see. 432 00:19:55,780 --> 00:19:58,740 And what I've given the world is good, 433 00:19:58,740 --> 00:20:01,580 but there's still more I could grow into. 434 00:20:01,580 --> 00:20:04,540 There's still more I could emerge into. 435 00:20:04,540 --> 00:20:06,940 There's still more I could offer. 436 00:20:06,940 --> 00:20:08,780 And then he backs that up and saying, 437 00:20:08,780 --> 00:20:11,620 not that I have become fully mature yet, 438 00:20:12,700 --> 00:20:16,740 but he said, I am pressing on to obtain 439 00:20:16,740 --> 00:20:19,660 what I have been obtained for. 440 00:20:19,660 --> 00:20:22,660 And he's saying, Christ Jesus obtained me. 441 00:20:22,660 --> 00:20:23,740 And you know Paul's story, 442 00:20:23,740 --> 00:20:25,980 if you've gone to church or kind of read scripture, 443 00:20:25,980 --> 00:20:28,340 Paul was living outside of the will of God. 444 00:20:28,340 --> 00:20:30,780 And one day the Holy spirit through Jesus 445 00:20:30,780 --> 00:20:34,180 like knocks Paul off of his high horse and shows him, 446 00:20:34,180 --> 00:20:36,020 I am the one you've been persecuting 447 00:20:36,020 --> 00:20:38,660 and begins to call forth his high calling 448 00:20:40,140 --> 00:20:44,660 and the place that he is to emerge to shows him that. 449 00:20:46,020 --> 00:20:49,060 And so out of this, he disrupts Paul's life 450 00:20:49,060 --> 00:20:52,660 and he shows him this moment of who he could be. 451 00:20:52,660 --> 00:20:55,460 He obtained Paul. 452 00:20:55,460 --> 00:20:56,780 And for some of you, 453 00:20:56,780 --> 00:21:00,660 it was easier for Jesus to obtain than others. 454 00:21:00,660 --> 00:21:02,820 My father was a drug addict. 455 00:21:02,820 --> 00:21:05,180 He later started the church, 456 00:21:05,180 --> 00:21:07,060 but his mom would chase him down 457 00:21:07,060 --> 00:21:09,060 and like wherever party he was at 458 00:21:09,060 --> 00:21:10,420 and whatever club he was at, 459 00:21:10,420 --> 00:21:13,860 she would just go and place a Bible on the hood of his car 460 00:21:13,860 --> 00:21:16,220 and let him know, I'm contending for you, 461 00:21:16,220 --> 00:21:19,260 I'm praying for you and you know, those kinds of things. 462 00:21:19,260 --> 00:21:22,380 And finally one day he ran out of money and he came home 463 00:21:22,380 --> 00:21:26,060 and she said, if you're going to be here at this house, 464 00:21:26,060 --> 00:21:27,660 you're going to church with me. 465 00:21:27,660 --> 00:21:30,740 And so she drug him to a meeting of a pastor 466 00:21:30,740 --> 00:21:32,860 by the name of James Robinson. 467 00:21:32,860 --> 00:21:34,620 And she drug him to that meeting 468 00:21:34,620 --> 00:21:37,180 and in that service, the Holy Spirit arrested his heart 469 00:21:37,180 --> 00:21:40,900 and he ran down to the altar and he gave his life to Jesus. 470 00:21:40,900 --> 00:21:42,980 Jesus obtained him. 471 00:21:43,900 --> 00:21:45,420 And how many of you know, Jesus, 472 00:21:45,420 --> 00:21:47,660 and if you haven't had that experience today, 473 00:21:47,660 --> 00:21:48,740 you'll have that opportunity. 474 00:21:48,740 --> 00:21:51,060 You can be obtained by Jesus. 475 00:21:51,060 --> 00:21:54,220 But here what Paul is saying is fascinating. 476 00:21:54,220 --> 00:21:57,100 He's saying that Jesus did not just obtain you 477 00:21:57,100 --> 00:21:58,380 because he loves you. 478 00:22:00,260 --> 00:22:02,900 He says that Jesus obtained me 479 00:22:02,900 --> 00:22:06,500 so that I might obtain some things for him. 480 00:22:07,540 --> 00:22:12,540 That I may obtain that which I have been obtained for. 481 00:22:13,540 --> 00:22:16,540 And he says, I know that there's some things 482 00:22:16,540 --> 00:22:19,980 I need to get for his kingdom, do for his kingdom, 483 00:22:19,980 --> 00:22:21,540 provide for his kingdom, 484 00:22:21,540 --> 00:22:24,100 but I cannot obtain those things 485 00:22:24,100 --> 00:22:29,100 that I have been obtained for until I am fully mature, 486 00:22:29,100 --> 00:22:31,580 until I have been made perfect, 487 00:22:31,580 --> 00:22:35,140 until I've come to a place where spiritually speaking, 488 00:22:35,140 --> 00:22:38,660 I've grown into the man that I could be, 489 00:22:38,660 --> 00:22:42,460 that the boy has died and I've put away childish things 490 00:22:42,460 --> 00:22:46,780 and I have emerged in the fullness of my calling, 491 00:22:46,780 --> 00:22:49,300 in the fullness of who God made me be. 492 00:22:50,420 --> 00:22:53,460 And out of this, he keeps talking and it's powerful. 493 00:22:53,460 --> 00:22:55,380 Like these scriptures we gotta come back to 494 00:22:55,380 --> 00:22:59,500 and may the Holy Spirit just make this your anthem this year. 495 00:22:59,500 --> 00:23:01,580 He said, brethren, in verse 13, 496 00:23:02,540 --> 00:23:06,660 I do not regard myself as having lay hold 497 00:23:06,660 --> 00:23:08,860 of those things yet. 498 00:23:08,860 --> 00:23:10,860 I'm not the man I could be yet 499 00:23:10,860 --> 00:23:12,780 and I have not brought into the kingdom 500 00:23:12,780 --> 00:23:15,220 all that I need to bring into the kingdom yet. 501 00:23:15,220 --> 00:23:16,580 He's saying there is more. 502 00:23:16,580 --> 00:23:19,420 There is more in me than I've given you. 503 00:23:20,500 --> 00:23:23,260 I could be an even greater version of me 504 00:23:23,260 --> 00:23:25,860 than the me you have right now. 505 00:23:25,860 --> 00:23:28,860 And what a difference it would be for this nation. 506 00:23:28,860 --> 00:23:31,620 If all of, and not the nations of the world. 507 00:23:31,620 --> 00:23:34,700 If all of us were fully mature. 508 00:23:34,700 --> 00:23:39,700 If all of us had emerged into who God had called us to be. 509 00:23:39,700 --> 00:23:42,700 But he says, not that I have obtained it yet 510 00:23:42,700 --> 00:23:44,900 or have already become perfect, 511 00:23:44,900 --> 00:23:47,740 but I press on, verse 12, 512 00:23:47,740 --> 00:23:50,180 that I press on so I may lay hold on that 513 00:23:50,180 --> 00:23:51,940 for which I have also been laid hold of 514 00:23:51,940 --> 00:23:53,700 of Christ Jesus, brethren. 515 00:23:53,700 --> 00:23:57,140 I do not regard myself as having laid hold of it yet, 516 00:23:57,140 --> 00:24:01,060 but one thing I do for getting what lies behind me 517 00:24:01,060 --> 00:24:04,260 and reaching forward to what lies ahead, 518 00:24:04,260 --> 00:24:07,580 I press on towards the goal for the prize 519 00:24:07,580 --> 00:24:09,460 of the high calling, 520 00:24:11,020 --> 00:24:15,420 the upward call of God in Christ Jesus. 521 00:24:15,420 --> 00:24:18,940 He says there is a high calling on my life 522 00:24:18,940 --> 00:24:21,580 and I know I have not walked in it yet. 523 00:24:22,860 --> 00:24:25,260 I know that I have not seen it yet. 524 00:24:25,260 --> 00:24:26,860 I have not grasped it yet. 525 00:24:26,860 --> 00:24:28,660 And God laid hold of me. 526 00:24:28,660 --> 00:24:31,700 He knocked me off my high horse, 527 00:24:31,700 --> 00:24:35,100 not just because he loved me and wanted me to worship him. 528 00:24:35,100 --> 00:24:37,460 He did this because there are things 529 00:24:37,460 --> 00:24:41,860 that I am designed by him to bring into his kingdom 530 00:24:41,860 --> 00:24:43,260 to do in the earth. 531 00:24:43,260 --> 00:24:46,700 And he said, I am working on becoming that man. 532 00:24:46,700 --> 00:24:49,500 And the thing that I am doing is I am letting go 533 00:24:49,500 --> 00:24:51,900 what is behind me and I'm reaching towards 534 00:24:51,900 --> 00:24:53,740 what is out in front of me. 535 00:24:53,740 --> 00:24:56,300 So that I might become that perfect man, 536 00:24:56,300 --> 00:24:59,300 that mature man, that fully developed man, 537 00:25:00,580 --> 00:25:03,220 because there is a high calling for me yet. 538 00:25:04,380 --> 00:25:07,940 There is still something more 539 00:25:09,700 --> 00:25:10,780 that I could be. 540 00:25:12,380 --> 00:25:14,460 And I just sense for so many of you, 541 00:25:14,460 --> 00:25:17,220 there is still something more 542 00:25:18,900 --> 00:25:20,740 that you could be. 543 00:25:20,740 --> 00:25:22,740 And you could be for this family, 544 00:25:22,740 --> 00:25:24,620 that you could be for this church, 545 00:25:24,620 --> 00:25:26,380 that you could be for your nation, 546 00:25:26,380 --> 00:25:28,140 that you could be for your ministry. 547 00:25:28,140 --> 00:25:30,820 There is still something more 548 00:25:30,820 --> 00:25:33,180 that you could bring to each other 549 00:25:33,180 --> 00:25:34,900 and bring to this place. 550 00:25:34,900 --> 00:25:37,020 There's a greater you in you 551 00:25:37,020 --> 00:25:39,180 than the you we've seen up to this point. 552 00:25:40,100 --> 00:25:41,980 Paul wrote to Timothy and he said, 553 00:25:41,980 --> 00:25:44,780 Timothy, there are some things that you were born with, 554 00:25:44,780 --> 00:25:47,660 but there were some other things that were put into you 555 00:25:47,660 --> 00:25:49,660 through hands that were laid on you. 556 00:25:49,660 --> 00:25:53,540 And he said, you have not given yourself to those things. 557 00:25:53,540 --> 00:25:55,940 You have let those things lie dormant. 558 00:25:55,940 --> 00:25:58,900 And he said, I want you to give yourself to those things. 559 00:25:58,900 --> 00:25:59,740 Why? 560 00:25:59,740 --> 00:26:03,580 He said so that your profiting may appear unto all. 561 00:26:03,580 --> 00:26:04,540 What's he telling Timothy? 562 00:26:04,540 --> 00:26:06,740 Timothy, there's a you in you 563 00:26:06,740 --> 00:26:08,700 that's greater than the you you've been bringing 564 00:26:08,700 --> 00:26:10,660 to this church. 565 00:26:10,660 --> 00:26:12,860 There's a you in you, Timothy, 566 00:26:12,860 --> 00:26:15,580 that if you fully gave yourself over 567 00:26:15,580 --> 00:26:17,580 to what God has placed in you 568 00:26:17,580 --> 00:26:21,220 and the you that is in you emerged for the world 569 00:26:21,220 --> 00:26:24,300 and you stepped up into that high calling 570 00:26:24,300 --> 00:26:27,060 and you stepped up into that place, 571 00:26:28,860 --> 00:26:31,500 you could give something entirely different to your nation 572 00:26:31,500 --> 00:26:33,740 and something entirely different to the world. 573 00:26:33,740 --> 00:26:38,580 You could obtain that which you were designed to obtain. 574 00:26:40,780 --> 00:26:42,100 And I think in all of us, 575 00:26:42,100 --> 00:26:43,140 there's something in that, 576 00:26:43,140 --> 00:26:45,580 even if you've never had a dream and seen it, 577 00:26:45,580 --> 00:26:47,780 there's something all of us that knows that. 578 00:26:48,900 --> 00:26:50,540 There's something all of us that knows 579 00:26:50,540 --> 00:26:52,700 there's a greater version of me. 580 00:26:52,700 --> 00:26:55,300 And we often wonder like, how do I bring that out? 581 00:26:55,300 --> 00:26:58,020 Like how do I give that to the world? 582 00:26:58,020 --> 00:27:01,060 That some of our greatest regrets in life know 583 00:27:01,060 --> 00:27:04,260 that when we left a service, there was more. 584 00:27:04,260 --> 00:27:06,380 That when we left a place, there was more. 585 00:27:06,380 --> 00:27:08,940 That when we even we left a conversation with our wife, 586 00:27:08,940 --> 00:27:10,380 or we interacted with our kids, 587 00:27:10,380 --> 00:27:13,260 like I could have been more there. 588 00:27:13,260 --> 00:27:15,820 How do we bring forth that out? 589 00:27:15,820 --> 00:27:18,700 Everything that God made in the earth 590 00:27:18,700 --> 00:27:22,320 was designed by him to become more than it is. 591 00:27:23,700 --> 00:27:24,820 Everything. 592 00:27:24,820 --> 00:27:27,220 God made a tree in the tree, 593 00:27:27,220 --> 00:27:30,660 a man can get its hands on it and make a chair. 594 00:27:30,660 --> 00:27:32,460 God made gold out of gold. 595 00:27:32,460 --> 00:27:34,380 A man or a woman could get their hand on it 596 00:27:34,380 --> 00:27:35,500 and make it a ring. 597 00:27:35,500 --> 00:27:36,660 God made a rose. 598 00:27:36,660 --> 00:27:39,740 Out of the rose could come a perfume or a fragrance. 599 00:27:40,580 --> 00:27:42,420 Everything that God put on the earth 600 00:27:42,420 --> 00:27:46,860 was designed to become more than it is. 601 00:27:46,860 --> 00:27:49,060 The stone was designed to build roads 602 00:27:49,060 --> 00:27:51,580 and could make concrete that could make a building. 603 00:27:51,580 --> 00:27:53,380 That in the building, people could have things 604 00:27:53,380 --> 00:27:55,660 in the building that were made out of more stone. 605 00:27:55,660 --> 00:27:58,900 Could have tile in their showers or whatever it may be. 606 00:27:58,900 --> 00:28:01,260 Because everything that God made within it 607 00:28:01,260 --> 00:28:03,980 has a hidden potential that is only released 608 00:28:03,980 --> 00:28:06,300 when it's in the hand of a designer, 609 00:28:06,300 --> 00:28:08,700 a hand in the creator. 610 00:28:08,700 --> 00:28:12,180 But the only thing that we cannot develop 611 00:28:12,180 --> 00:28:14,980 the way it needs to be developed is ourselves. 612 00:28:14,980 --> 00:28:17,220 Everything else that God made, 613 00:28:17,220 --> 00:28:20,980 he gave us dominion over the works of his hands, 614 00:28:20,980 --> 00:28:22,820 which means our hands can take it 615 00:28:22,820 --> 00:28:25,460 and make it into something it was called to be. 616 00:28:27,060 --> 00:28:30,900 But the only thing your hand cannot change is you. 617 00:28:32,060 --> 00:28:36,020 It is not by works or any of the works of ourselves 618 00:28:36,020 --> 00:28:38,060 that we could ever be fully mature 619 00:28:38,060 --> 00:28:40,020 or step in our high callings. 620 00:28:40,020 --> 00:28:42,260 There's only one hand that can release you and me 621 00:28:42,260 --> 00:28:44,100 into the people God has called us to be. 622 00:28:44,100 --> 00:28:45,620 And you know whose hand it is? 623 00:28:46,980 --> 00:28:48,180 It's the Lord's. 624 00:28:50,340 --> 00:28:52,500 And this is why God doesn't need your perfection. 625 00:28:52,500 --> 00:28:53,780 And thank God for it. 626 00:28:53,780 --> 00:28:55,700 He doesn't need your perfection. 627 00:28:55,700 --> 00:28:57,180 He needs your surrender. 628 00:28:57,940 --> 00:29:01,100 Where you allow his hand to come into your life 629 00:29:01,100 --> 00:29:03,660 and begin to make you who you were called to be. 630 00:29:03,660 --> 00:29:07,020 And it will not be found in times of just goofing off 631 00:29:07,020 --> 00:29:08,300 and giving an entertainment. 632 00:29:08,300 --> 00:29:11,340 It will not be found in times of just coasting through life 633 00:29:11,340 --> 00:29:12,900 and not being with the Lord. 634 00:29:12,900 --> 00:29:15,340 It will be found in those times of surrender. 635 00:29:15,340 --> 00:29:17,620 For Joseph, you know who was found? 636 00:29:17,620 --> 00:29:18,900 In a pit. 637 00:29:18,900 --> 00:29:20,820 It was found in a prison. 638 00:29:20,820 --> 00:29:24,180 God found Joseph there and made him fully mature. 639 00:29:24,180 --> 00:29:26,820 And when he was ready, he emerged. 640 00:29:26,820 --> 00:29:28,900 For Jesus, it was in the wilderness. 641 00:29:28,900 --> 00:29:31,020 In the wilderness, he spent time with God 642 00:29:31,020 --> 00:29:34,660 resisting the enemy, giving himself over to the Lord's hand. 643 00:29:34,660 --> 00:29:37,220 And it was time he emerged. 644 00:29:37,220 --> 00:29:38,980 For Moses, it was a burning bush 645 00:29:38,980 --> 00:29:40,660 where he took off the shoes of his feet 646 00:29:40,660 --> 00:29:41,900 because he made a decision. 647 00:29:41,900 --> 00:29:44,460 I am standing on holy ground. 648 00:29:44,460 --> 00:29:47,660 I'm not bringing the world into God's presence. 649 00:29:47,660 --> 00:29:49,380 And when he took off the world, 650 00:29:49,380 --> 00:29:51,220 took off the sandals on his feet, 651 00:29:51,220 --> 00:29:54,980 he emerged something different from time with God. 652 00:29:56,100 --> 00:29:59,260 For David, he emerged from the wilderness. 653 00:29:59,260 --> 00:30:01,140 A repentant man, 654 00:30:01,140 --> 00:30:04,420 emerged from the wilderness with a forgiving heart of Saul. 655 00:30:05,700 --> 00:30:07,220 And all that Saul did to him 656 00:30:07,220 --> 00:30:09,700 in the work of the Lord was fully accomplished. 657 00:30:09,700 --> 00:30:12,420 He emerged as king. 658 00:30:13,700 --> 00:30:16,620 The emerging does not happen without time in God's hand. 659 00:30:16,620 --> 00:30:17,460 And for many of you, 660 00:30:17,460 --> 00:30:20,540 that's exactly what's been going on in this season. 661 00:30:20,540 --> 00:30:22,780 You have faced a season of uncertainty. 662 00:30:22,780 --> 00:30:26,060 You have faced a season of just things changing in the earth. 663 00:30:26,060 --> 00:30:28,060 The whole world has with COVID. 664 00:30:28,060 --> 00:30:31,580 All over the world, it's been a season of seed time. 665 00:30:31,580 --> 00:30:35,500 A season where God is trying to get something out of you 666 00:30:35,500 --> 00:30:38,060 to let it get a root established in the earth, 667 00:30:38,060 --> 00:30:40,460 where something is changing in you. 668 00:30:40,460 --> 00:30:43,460 And seed time, something is changing in you. 669 00:30:43,460 --> 00:30:46,580 And harvest time, something is changing for you. 670 00:30:47,340 --> 00:30:49,940 And you've been going through a time of seed time 671 00:30:49,940 --> 00:30:51,780 where you feel a rumbling in you 672 00:30:51,780 --> 00:30:55,180 and a stirring in you that there is more. 673 00:30:55,180 --> 00:30:59,740 And it's been brought about to bring a time of surrender, 674 00:30:59,740 --> 00:31:01,540 a time of dedication, 675 00:31:01,540 --> 00:31:05,420 a time where you give yourself over to the Lord. 676 00:31:05,420 --> 00:31:08,180 And out of that, you can sense that work of the Spirit, 677 00:31:08,180 --> 00:31:11,140 even in your own heart, just a time of transition, 678 00:31:11,140 --> 00:31:14,300 a time of change, a time where old things, 679 00:31:14,300 --> 00:31:15,460 this one thing Paul said, 680 00:31:15,460 --> 00:31:17,300 I let go of what is behind me. 681 00:31:17,300 --> 00:31:19,500 It's been a season of letting go. 682 00:31:20,140 --> 00:31:23,220 A season of like having something in the past 683 00:31:23,220 --> 00:31:25,100 that you know is to remain in the past 684 00:31:25,100 --> 00:31:27,460 and not in the present and you let it go. 685 00:31:27,460 --> 00:31:29,580 And you sense a stirring to reach forward. 686 00:31:29,580 --> 00:31:30,420 What is that? 687 00:31:30,420 --> 00:31:32,460 It's the work of the Spirit in your own heart. 688 00:31:32,460 --> 00:31:33,780 Why? 689 00:31:33,780 --> 00:31:36,780 Because there's designed by God for an emergence 690 00:31:36,780 --> 00:31:38,780 and that's what this season is. 691 00:31:39,780 --> 00:31:43,020 It's a season of emerging different 692 00:31:43,020 --> 00:31:46,620 where every vestige of the old has passed away. 693 00:31:47,620 --> 00:31:50,060 I was in a meeting in Louisiana. 694 00:31:51,060 --> 00:31:53,060 And some of you were actually in that meeting 695 00:31:53,060 --> 00:31:55,420 and someone got up and gave this statement. 696 00:31:55,420 --> 00:31:57,100 It's been something that's just been, 697 00:31:57,100 --> 00:31:58,620 oh, it's just stirring in me. 698 00:31:58,620 --> 00:32:00,260 And I sense that even for now, 699 00:32:00,260 --> 00:32:02,580 and it was talking about Jacob. 700 00:32:02,580 --> 00:32:06,180 And it said that Jacob could not be Jacob any longer. 701 00:32:07,060 --> 00:32:09,100 There came a time in Jacob's life 702 00:32:09,100 --> 00:32:11,980 where Jacob could not be Jacob any longer. 703 00:32:11,980 --> 00:32:13,380 And he knew it. 704 00:32:13,380 --> 00:32:15,060 That I am not the man I could be. 705 00:32:15,060 --> 00:32:17,860 Jacob, his name meant deceiver, swindler. 706 00:32:17,860 --> 00:32:20,180 And he knew to continue in his journey. 707 00:32:20,180 --> 00:32:23,100 He couldn't be the man he needed to be. 708 00:32:23,100 --> 00:32:23,940 And so what did he do? 709 00:32:23,940 --> 00:32:25,820 He set up a moment at Bethel, 710 00:32:25,820 --> 00:32:27,220 a meeting place with God. 711 00:32:27,220 --> 00:32:28,580 He got out of here, 712 00:32:28,580 --> 00:32:30,340 a meeting place with God. 713 00:32:30,340 --> 00:32:33,180 He got out of his hands and God in God's. 714 00:32:33,180 --> 00:32:34,980 And he set up a meeting at Bethel 715 00:32:34,980 --> 00:32:36,820 and God came down and wrestled with him. 716 00:32:36,820 --> 00:32:40,860 He said, I will not let you go until you bless me. 717 00:32:40,860 --> 00:32:43,620 I will not let you go until you bless me. 718 00:32:43,620 --> 00:32:45,700 And you know how God blessed him? 719 00:32:45,700 --> 00:32:47,500 Didn't give him a new house or a new car. 720 00:32:47,500 --> 00:32:49,620 You know how God blessed him? 721 00:32:49,620 --> 00:32:50,620 He changed him. 722 00:32:52,820 --> 00:32:53,820 He changed him. 723 00:32:53,820 --> 00:32:58,820 Jacob could not be Jacob any longer. 724 00:33:00,180 --> 00:33:03,260 And there are things in you that cannot be any longer. 725 00:33:03,260 --> 00:33:05,980 There's identities you've held about yourself 726 00:33:05,980 --> 00:33:08,540 that cannot be on you any longer. 727 00:33:08,540 --> 00:33:10,580 There are labels that your parents put on you 728 00:33:10,580 --> 00:33:12,420 that were not correct labels. 729 00:33:12,420 --> 00:33:15,500 And God has been trying to strip those labels off of you. 730 00:33:15,500 --> 00:33:18,020 There are limitations that the world 731 00:33:18,020 --> 00:33:20,580 and maybe even family members put on you, 732 00:33:20,580 --> 00:33:24,100 but those limitations cannot be there any longer. 733 00:33:24,100 --> 00:33:28,100 The disciples could not see five loaves and two fish, 734 00:33:28,100 --> 00:33:31,340 anything out of it coming more. 735 00:33:31,340 --> 00:33:32,620 So they're looking at it and it's like, 736 00:33:32,620 --> 00:33:34,180 what is this among so many? 737 00:33:34,180 --> 00:33:36,460 And that's what so many of you have had done to you. 738 00:33:36,460 --> 00:33:38,260 They're looking at you and you're looking at yourself. 739 00:33:38,260 --> 00:33:39,180 And it's like, but what is this 740 00:33:39,180 --> 00:33:41,860 compared to the destiny I have? 741 00:33:41,860 --> 00:33:43,300 Compared to the need that is there 742 00:33:43,300 --> 00:33:45,820 and you're lightly esteeming who you are. 743 00:33:45,820 --> 00:33:47,460 And God says, stop. 744 00:33:47,460 --> 00:33:50,820 You've been five loaves and two fish long enough. 745 00:33:50,820 --> 00:33:53,100 Get in my hand, let me break you. 746 00:33:54,620 --> 00:33:56,740 Get in my hand, let me change you. 747 00:33:56,740 --> 00:34:00,260 Get in my hand and after I break you, let me bless you. 748 00:34:00,260 --> 00:34:01,940 And you will be multiplied 749 00:34:01,940 --> 00:34:04,020 and you will feed many in Jesus' name. 750 00:34:04,020 --> 00:34:06,700 You cannot be who you are any longer. 751 00:34:06,700 --> 00:34:08,980 There is a breaking and there is a blessing 752 00:34:08,980 --> 00:34:11,540 and there is you becoming more. 753 00:34:13,300 --> 00:34:15,540 And that's what God has been doing in this season. 754 00:34:15,540 --> 00:34:19,140 So they can not strange that which has concerns you. 755 00:34:19,140 --> 00:34:21,180 They can not strange what you've walked through 756 00:34:21,180 --> 00:34:22,780 as an individual and what you've walked through 757 00:34:22,780 --> 00:34:23,860 as a family. 758 00:34:23,860 --> 00:34:26,820 It is a breaking down to the core 759 00:34:26,820 --> 00:34:28,940 where you are fully surrendered before God, 760 00:34:28,940 --> 00:34:31,300 fully placed in his hand. 761 00:34:34,660 --> 00:34:35,780 There's been the breaking 762 00:34:35,780 --> 00:34:37,780 and now there's coming the blessing. 763 00:34:38,660 --> 00:34:41,900 When that five loaves and two fish emerges 764 00:34:41,900 --> 00:34:45,140 into something that is literally feeding the Lord. 765 00:34:45,140 --> 00:34:47,220 Eating the whole group. 766 00:34:54,980 --> 00:34:58,100 Jacob cannot be Jacob any longer. 767 00:34:59,420 --> 00:35:04,420 He must emerge into something different. 768 00:35:09,540 --> 00:35:12,260 And for so many of you, that's what you've done. 769 00:35:12,260 --> 00:35:14,740 And maybe there's others that you still feel, 770 00:35:14,740 --> 00:35:16,460 no, there's still a breaking Pastor Joe. 771 00:35:16,460 --> 00:35:19,260 Good, let the Father finish the work. 772 00:35:20,700 --> 00:35:22,140 Let the Father finish the work. 773 00:35:22,140 --> 00:35:26,020 Stay in his hand until you sense a breaking. 774 00:35:29,620 --> 00:35:31,620 In my own life, I still sense that, 775 00:35:31,620 --> 00:35:33,660 that there are things that are breaking. 776 00:35:33,660 --> 00:35:35,700 I was preaching at a place, not my church, 777 00:35:35,700 --> 00:35:37,940 but I was preaching at a different place. 778 00:35:37,940 --> 00:35:39,460 And I felt different. 779 00:35:39,460 --> 00:35:41,180 You can feel the anointing on you 780 00:35:41,180 --> 00:35:43,180 when it's there and when it's not. 781 00:35:43,180 --> 00:35:45,380 And you can feel it in different dimensions. 782 00:35:45,380 --> 00:35:47,780 It's fascinating how it works sometimes. 783 00:35:48,660 --> 00:35:51,500 But out of that, I could feel something different. 784 00:35:54,540 --> 00:35:56,500 And a guy came down to me after service. 785 00:35:56,500 --> 00:35:58,940 He said, while you were preaching, I had a vision. 786 00:36:00,540 --> 00:36:02,380 And he said, when you went and stood over here, 787 00:36:02,380 --> 00:36:04,860 it was like you changed into a whole nother man. 788 00:36:06,060 --> 00:36:07,940 And then you came back to the center 789 00:36:07,940 --> 00:36:10,420 and you changed back to who you were. 790 00:36:10,420 --> 00:36:12,260 And then you went and walked over here 791 00:36:12,260 --> 00:36:14,940 and you changed into a whole nother man. 792 00:36:14,940 --> 00:36:16,220 And then you walked back there 793 00:36:16,220 --> 00:36:17,980 and you changed into who you were. 794 00:36:18,940 --> 00:36:22,460 He's like, who you were over there was a better version 795 00:36:22,460 --> 00:36:24,580 of who you were over here. 796 00:36:24,580 --> 00:36:27,060 And God says you're in the middle of change. 797 00:36:30,460 --> 00:36:31,300 And you know what? 798 00:36:31,300 --> 00:36:32,140 He's right. 799 00:36:33,140 --> 00:36:35,220 I'm in the middle still of that season 800 00:36:35,220 --> 00:36:37,780 where something is emerging in me. 801 00:36:37,780 --> 00:36:40,060 And I know what it is. 802 00:36:40,060 --> 00:36:42,380 And it's just time spent with him 803 00:36:42,380 --> 00:36:44,420 where he breaks certain things in you 804 00:36:44,420 --> 00:36:46,660 and washes certain things off of you. 805 00:36:46,660 --> 00:36:50,860 There are things by his grace you are letting go of. 806 00:36:50,860 --> 00:36:54,020 And some of these things, they're not sins, they're weights. 807 00:36:54,020 --> 00:36:56,020 Because there's a difference between weights and sins. 808 00:36:56,020 --> 00:36:59,860 And Hebrews 12, Paul said that I have to let go 809 00:36:59,860 --> 00:37:02,940 of certain things to run my race and finish my course. 810 00:37:02,940 --> 00:37:06,380 And the spirit of God will help you let go of sins, 811 00:37:06,380 --> 00:37:09,300 but the Holy Spirit will also help you let go of weights. 812 00:37:09,300 --> 00:37:12,020 And weights sometimes are limitations 813 00:37:12,020 --> 00:37:14,380 that the world has put on you. 814 00:37:14,380 --> 00:37:17,700 Weights are sometimes the labels that a mom put on you 815 00:37:17,700 --> 00:37:19,260 at six, seven, eight years old 816 00:37:19,260 --> 00:37:21,140 that you didn't even know was there. 817 00:37:21,140 --> 00:37:23,300 The Holy Spirit shows you like you're thinking 818 00:37:23,300 --> 00:37:26,660 so little of yourself because of this weight 819 00:37:26,660 --> 00:37:28,340 that is holding you down. 820 00:37:28,340 --> 00:37:32,220 And the spirit of God begins to rename you 821 00:37:32,220 --> 00:37:34,620 and begin to give you confidence in that area. 822 00:37:34,620 --> 00:37:36,260 And you begin dropping those weights 823 00:37:36,260 --> 00:37:40,220 and you drop those limitations because these things, 824 00:37:40,220 --> 00:37:41,060 they trip us up. 825 00:37:41,060 --> 00:37:44,660 You remember in Matthew 25, he gave a parable 826 00:37:44,660 --> 00:37:47,180 where he gave one five talents, another one two, 827 00:37:47,180 --> 00:37:48,540 and another one one. 828 00:37:48,540 --> 00:37:50,540 And the guy who had the one talent, 829 00:37:50,540 --> 00:37:53,260 he didn't do anything with what God gave him. 830 00:37:53,260 --> 00:37:55,220 He didn't mature it, he didn't grow it. 831 00:37:55,220 --> 00:37:58,900 Nothing emerged out of his one talent. 832 00:37:58,900 --> 00:38:00,500 And when the Lord came to him and said, 833 00:38:00,500 --> 00:38:02,940 why did nothing emerge or come out of this? 834 00:38:02,940 --> 00:38:07,940 You know what he said, I was afraid. 835 00:38:11,300 --> 00:38:13,500 You know what ultimately he was afraid of? 836 00:38:14,860 --> 00:38:16,460 That he wouldn't be enough. 837 00:38:19,940 --> 00:38:23,900 The guy who had two talents, such a boldness to step up. 838 00:38:23,900 --> 00:38:27,860 This will grow, this will be good, this will win. 839 00:38:27,860 --> 00:38:31,500 Such a courage to step up into that guy with five talents. 840 00:38:31,500 --> 00:38:35,220 Step up, arose to that place. 841 00:38:36,140 --> 00:38:37,620 Step into that place. 842 00:38:37,620 --> 00:38:40,820 Such confidence to take what God had given him 843 00:38:40,820 --> 00:38:42,820 that it could turn into something more. 844 00:38:42,820 --> 00:38:44,980 But the guy with one said, I was afraid. 845 00:38:44,980 --> 00:38:46,420 And he said, I looked at other people 846 00:38:46,420 --> 00:38:49,060 and it just looks like it happened so easy for them 847 00:38:49,060 --> 00:38:50,860 that they reap where they have not sown 848 00:38:50,860 --> 00:38:52,820 and they plan and they get a harvest. 849 00:38:52,820 --> 00:38:55,140 And all of these things, they just come so easy. 850 00:38:55,140 --> 00:38:56,420 And some of you, you've done that. 851 00:38:56,420 --> 00:38:57,260 You've looked at other people. 852 00:38:57,260 --> 00:38:59,140 It's like it's so easy for them. 853 00:38:59,140 --> 00:39:01,220 It's just so easy for them to walk in that. 854 00:39:01,220 --> 00:39:03,180 It's just so easy for them to have provision. 855 00:39:03,180 --> 00:39:04,740 It's just so easy for them to sing. 856 00:39:04,740 --> 00:39:06,940 It's just so easy for them to be anointed. 857 00:39:06,940 --> 00:39:09,860 And God is like, you are neglecting to see 858 00:39:09,860 --> 00:39:13,180 what is actually in you. 859 00:39:13,180 --> 00:39:15,420 And you're not taking that step up 860 00:39:15,420 --> 00:39:19,460 because you feel the fear of not being enough. 861 00:39:19,460 --> 00:39:21,540 And in every one of these instances 862 00:39:21,540 --> 00:39:23,700 with men and women that God did the work in, 863 00:39:23,700 --> 00:39:26,300 you know what, they had that same fear. 864 00:39:26,300 --> 00:39:28,860 When God called Moses, it's like, I can't do this. 865 00:39:28,860 --> 00:39:30,700 I can't step up into that. 866 00:39:30,700 --> 00:39:33,380 And so even after God had finished the perfect, 867 00:39:33,380 --> 00:39:35,940 and he was mature, ready for the race, 868 00:39:35,940 --> 00:39:39,780 he still had to step up into that emergence, 869 00:39:39,780 --> 00:39:42,100 step up into that call. 870 00:39:42,100 --> 00:39:43,660 That's what Paul was saying to Timothy. 871 00:39:43,660 --> 00:39:47,020 It's like, Timothy, the prophecies are already in you, man. 872 00:39:47,020 --> 00:39:49,300 Hands have already been laid on you. 873 00:39:49,300 --> 00:39:51,180 You are more than what you've given us. 874 00:39:51,180 --> 00:39:54,620 Step up into that place. 875 00:39:54,620 --> 00:39:56,740 Jesus had that moment in Luke four. 876 00:39:56,740 --> 00:39:58,900 We were talking about it the other day. 877 00:39:58,900 --> 00:40:00,380 I never seen it in this light, 878 00:40:00,380 --> 00:40:02,220 but when he comes in Luke four and says, 879 00:40:02,220 --> 00:40:04,220 the spirit of the Lord is upon me, 880 00:40:04,220 --> 00:40:06,820 for he has anointed me to preach the gospel to the, 881 00:40:06,820 --> 00:40:09,260 and he starts listing all these things. 882 00:40:09,260 --> 00:40:10,900 You know what he's doing? 883 00:40:10,900 --> 00:40:15,420 He's stepping up into that place. 884 00:40:15,420 --> 00:40:17,860 And he's saying, let me tell you who I am. 885 00:40:19,220 --> 00:40:20,420 And somebody says, well, Pastor Joel, 886 00:40:20,420 --> 00:40:22,100 I don't want to get into pride. 887 00:40:22,100 --> 00:40:24,460 Stop calling it pride. 888 00:40:24,460 --> 00:40:27,860 Paul said in Romans 13, I magnify my office. 889 00:40:27,860 --> 00:40:30,940 God has made me the apostle to the Gentiles. 890 00:40:30,940 --> 00:40:31,780 What's he saying? 891 00:40:31,780 --> 00:40:32,740 I know who I am. 892 00:40:32,740 --> 00:40:34,820 They came to John and they said, are you this? 893 00:40:34,820 --> 00:40:35,660 Are you this? 894 00:40:35,660 --> 00:40:38,420 He's like, no, I am the one who goes before the Lord. 895 00:40:38,420 --> 00:40:40,380 I am the voice who prepares the way. 896 00:40:40,380 --> 00:40:42,500 He was confident in who he was. 897 00:40:42,500 --> 00:40:45,380 He emerged into his calling. 898 00:40:45,380 --> 00:40:48,260 Jesus said, the spirit of the Lord is upon me. 899 00:40:48,260 --> 00:40:51,740 He stepped up into that place without that fear 900 00:40:51,740 --> 00:40:52,580 and without that shame. 901 00:40:52,580 --> 00:40:54,420 He knew who he was. 902 00:40:54,420 --> 00:40:57,700 And sometimes to step up into the place where you are, 903 00:40:57,700 --> 00:40:59,740 you got to let go of the place that you were. 904 00:40:59,740 --> 00:41:02,500 That can't be your identity anymore. 905 00:41:02,500 --> 00:41:05,500 And sometimes that's very dangerous to lose that identity 906 00:41:05,500 --> 00:41:08,180 because you feel like you're losing a part of yourself. 907 00:41:08,180 --> 00:41:10,500 But until you let go of what you were, 908 00:41:10,500 --> 00:41:12,900 you can't step up into who you are 909 00:41:13,780 --> 00:41:16,580 and to step up into your high calling. 910 00:41:16,580 --> 00:41:19,900 And for so many of you, it is time for that emergence 911 00:41:19,900 --> 00:41:27,900 and you've got to have that boldness to take that step. 912 00:41:29,380 --> 00:41:35,020 You've got to have that courage to step up into that office. 913 00:41:35,020 --> 00:41:37,580 You've got to have the courage that when you are fully mature 914 00:41:37,580 --> 00:41:43,980 and you're ready to step up into that place. 915 00:41:43,980 --> 00:41:46,140 And for so many of you, by the end of this year, 916 00:41:46,140 --> 00:41:48,420 you've got to step up. 917 00:41:48,420 --> 00:41:49,860 And somebody says, what does that look like? 918 00:41:49,860 --> 00:41:56,700 Let God finish the breaking, but then let Him bless you. 919 00:41:56,700 --> 00:41:57,700 For some of you, you think, 920 00:41:57,700 --> 00:41:59,580 well, I just want to stay on the sidelines 921 00:41:59,580 --> 00:42:00,500 and just be humble. 922 00:42:00,500 --> 00:42:02,380 And God's like, you're not being humble. 923 00:42:02,380 --> 00:42:07,100 You're being irresponsible. 924 00:42:07,100 --> 00:42:09,540 What did you do with what I gave you? 925 00:42:09,540 --> 00:42:12,020 Well, I didn't want to fail and I let them do it. 926 00:42:12,020 --> 00:42:15,500 I just went kind of buried it. 927 00:42:15,500 --> 00:42:17,740 And I was like, no, I gave it to you to use 928 00:42:17,740 --> 00:42:19,540 and I gave it to you because they need it. 929 00:42:19,540 --> 00:42:21,300 You're not being humble. 930 00:42:21,300 --> 00:42:22,860 You're being fearful. 931 00:42:22,860 --> 00:42:25,900 You're being irresponsible. 932 00:42:25,900 --> 00:42:32,340 Step up, emerge. 933 00:42:32,340 --> 00:42:34,900 And so I just pray by the spirit of God 934 00:42:34,900 --> 00:42:39,660 that God just arrest who you are on the inside of you. 935 00:42:39,660 --> 00:42:42,820 And you just make a decision that the old you, it is dead, 936 00:42:42,820 --> 00:42:43,900 it is over. 937 00:42:43,900 --> 00:42:46,460 I let go of those things that are behind me 938 00:42:46,460 --> 00:42:49,180 and I'm pressing forward to what is out in front of me. 939 00:42:49,180 --> 00:42:51,860 I'm not going to be limited by my past anymore. 940 00:42:51,860 --> 00:42:54,340 The only thing that limits me is the promise of God 941 00:42:54,340 --> 00:42:57,180 that He has made me and I'm going to walk in each 942 00:42:57,180 --> 00:43:00,900 and every one of those promises be all that I can be 943 00:43:00,900 --> 00:43:05,700 and walk in the fullness of who God has made me to be. 944 00:43:05,700 --> 00:43:12,620 In Jesus' name, amen. 945 00:43:12,620 --> 00:43:19,500 It's time for you to emerge, church. 946 00:43:19,500 --> 00:43:21,940 Amen. 947 00:43:21,940 --> 00:43:25,020 Hey, church. 948 00:43:25,020 --> 00:43:29,260 Thank you so much for your patience 949 00:43:29,260 --> 00:43:33,100 and just for your time of letting the Lord work 950 00:43:33,100 --> 00:43:35,780 in the lives of people. 951 00:43:35,780 --> 00:43:39,500 And let's just have a moment, every about, every I closed. 952 00:43:39,500 --> 00:43:41,700 If you're here today and just feel like there's something 953 00:43:41,700 --> 00:43:45,620 in me that needs to emerge, there's something in me 954 00:43:45,620 --> 00:43:46,780 that needs to change. 955 00:43:46,780 --> 00:43:49,860 There's something in me that's ready to come out, 956 00:43:49,860 --> 00:43:53,060 a past that needs to be let go of, 957 00:43:53,060 --> 00:43:54,980 a newness that needs to start. 958 00:43:54,980 --> 00:43:56,780 Every head is bowed, every eye is closed. 959 00:43:56,780 --> 00:43:59,820 But if that's you, just lift up your hands. 960 00:43:59,820 --> 00:44:00,820 No one's looking at this. 961 00:44:00,820 --> 00:44:04,500 It's just something that ain't in so many. 962 00:44:04,500 --> 00:44:16,500 Father, in the name of Jesus, the blood of Jesus wash you. 963 00:44:16,500 --> 00:44:29,220 Every bit of the past off you emerge into who you've been 964 00:44:29,220 --> 00:44:33,980 designed to be, emerge into who you've been called to be. 965 00:44:33,980 --> 00:44:39,380 In the name of Jesus, step up into your true identity. 966 00:44:39,380 --> 00:44:43,420 Step up into who God has called you to be. 967 00:44:43,420 --> 00:44:48,900 Walk in that maturity, walk in that perfection. 968 00:44:48,900 --> 00:44:55,940 Be carried by his grace, be transformed by his hand. 969 00:44:55,940 --> 00:45:00,780 And from this point forward, you be never the same. 970 00:45:00,780 --> 00:45:07,780 Never the same in Jesus' name. 971 00:45:07,780 --> 00:45:10,780 Amen and amen. 972 00:45:10,780 --> 00:45:13,780 Hallelujah. 973 00:45:13,780 --> 00:45:16,780 Amen. 974 00:45:16,780 --> 00:45:20,780 I was praying for you this morning and I just saw you. 975 00:45:20,780 --> 00:45:25,780 And we were talking about last night of how the light called fire 976 00:45:25,780 --> 00:45:29,780 and looked like fake glory, you know, that kind of thing. 977 00:45:29,780 --> 00:45:36,780 But I saw like a glory coming out of you that was like the real thing. 978 00:45:36,780 --> 00:45:40,780 And people just under it. 979 00:45:40,780 --> 00:45:44,780 And I just sense like you are worthy of that. 980 00:45:44,780 --> 00:45:47,780 You are worthy for that to come out of you. 981 00:45:47,780 --> 00:45:54,780 And operating in that sense of worthiness is like a valve that's when it's open 982 00:45:54,780 --> 00:45:59,780 and operating in that sense of worthiness releases it. 983 00:45:59,780 --> 00:46:02,780 And that it's not something out here that brings it. 984 00:46:02,780 --> 00:46:08,780 It's something in there that like when that valve just shifts into worthiness. 985 00:46:08,780 --> 00:46:12,780 That Jesus has made you worthy to release that in the earth. 986 00:46:12,780 --> 00:46:17,780 That you've seen measures and dimensions of it, but there is so much more. 987 00:46:17,780 --> 00:46:23,780 And it's that one little shift of like I am worthy of it because Jesus has made me worthy 988 00:46:23,780 --> 00:46:28,780 and Jesus has put it in me and that's enough. 989 00:46:28,780 --> 00:46:32,780 But I thank God for what he has put in you. 990 00:46:32,780 --> 00:46:38,780 And it will be released in Jesus name and the name of Jesus. 991 00:46:38,780 --> 00:46:43,780 Love you, brother. 992 00:46:43,780 --> 00:46:49,780 Thank you, Lord Jesus. 993 00:46:49,780 --> 00:46:54,780 And I just say for you like you've been tried in fire and I don't know your full story, 994 00:46:54,780 --> 00:47:02,780 but I just see like this try to fire, but it has outcome like this pure vessel that is strong. 995 00:47:02,780 --> 00:47:07,780 That the impurity has been burned out of it by a fire. 996 00:47:07,780 --> 00:47:16,780 And out of that it has produced a spiritual strength and it's operated in prayer and operated in prophecy. 997 00:47:16,780 --> 00:47:27,780 But those things are getting bigger and taking that authority in that place and prayer and ruling with that strength and tearing down principalities and changing things, 998 00:47:27,780 --> 00:47:37,780 but also teaching prophetically, teaching under the inspiration of the spirit and teaching and leading with that and operating in the prophetic. 999 00:47:37,780 --> 00:47:49,780 And I want that come out of you for that strength has been refined and what man meant for evil God worked for good and put a strength in you that will not bow. 1000 00:47:49,780 --> 00:47:54,780 It will not bend, but it is a weapon in the hand of the Lord. 1001 00:47:54,780 --> 00:48:03,780 Amen. And then he is using you and the fullness of how he's using you is just beginning in Jesus name and the name of Jesus. 1002 00:48:03,780 --> 00:48:11,780 And I know I said a little bit this yesterday, I just see new people all around you, just new people and like what you were just operating in. 1003 00:48:11,780 --> 00:48:19,780 Yes, yes, yes, walk in that, be bold in that and you have been, but that's that's good. 1004 00:48:19,780 --> 00:48:22,780 That's good. That's the Lord walk in that, but it'll bring. 1005 00:48:22,780 --> 00:48:32,780 I just see new people, new people, new faces, just new things all around you and leaders all around you a multiplication of them and they are your people. 1006 00:48:32,780 --> 00:48:43,780 They are your people all around you and it's it's healthy and strong and just a multiplication of you in Jesus name. 1007 00:48:43,780 --> 00:48:48,780 Amen. Amen. Amen. Amen. Amen. Amen. 1008 00:48:48,780 --> 00:48:53,780 You come here. 1009 00:48:53,780 --> 00:49:04,780 You remind me so much of Peter like quick to step out and just quick to open your mouth. It's a good thing. It's not a bad thing. 1010 00:49:04,780 --> 00:49:08,780 But like Peter, there's a Simon and a Peter in you. 1011 00:49:08,780 --> 00:49:19,780 And out of that, you've sent some of those things that sometimes Simon manifests and sometimes Peter manifests and it's like, which one will you be today? 1012 00:49:19,780 --> 00:49:23,780 What the Lord says you are Peter. 1013 00:49:23,780 --> 00:49:26,780 That is who you are. 1014 00:49:26,780 --> 00:49:32,780 And you are a rock who is strong in Jesus and strong in God. 1015 00:49:32,780 --> 00:49:35,780 So let the Lord build on you. 1016 00:49:35,780 --> 00:49:43,780 Let the Father claim you name you and all those other labels of man. Let it just fall off of you. 1017 00:49:43,780 --> 00:49:54,780 You are Peter and upon this the Lord will build something in his kingdom and out of this the Lord will bring forth something mighty. 1018 00:49:54,780 --> 00:50:07,780 Father, we thank you for your strength, for your anointing. 1019 00:50:07,780 --> 00:50:18,780 Amen. 1020 00:50:18,780 --> 00:50:30,780 You are the rock. Rock in Jesus name. 1021 00:50:30,780 --> 00:50:38,780 Fishermen of men in Jesus name. 1022 00:50:38,780 --> 00:50:41,780 Thank you Lord Jesus. 1023 00:50:41,780 --> 00:50:45,780 Hallelujah. 1024 00:50:45,780 --> 00:50:48,780 Father, we bless you. 1025 00:50:48,780 --> 00:50:51,780 You're so wonderful. 1026 00:50:51,780 --> 00:50:56,780 You're so wonderful Lord Jesus. 1027 00:50:56,780 --> 00:51:01,780 We bless you. 1028 00:51:01,780 --> 00:51:07,780 In Jesus name. 1029 00:51:07,780 --> 00:51:11,780 Thank you for joining us at Go Church Beirut. 1030 00:51:11,780 --> 00:51:21,780 Go Church Beirut exists so that everyone can experience the unconditional love of God, grow in his love and go with his love to their world. 1031 00:51:21,780 --> 00:51:27,780 Stay connected with all that is happening at Go Church. Follow us on social media at Go Church Beirut. 1032 00:51:27,780 --> 00:51:53,780 And if no one told you yet today, we love you and expect God's best for you.