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February 27, 2021
ONE GOLIATH AT A TIME
I have not given you a spirit of fear. You have been given a spirit of power, love, and a sound mind. That is all you need to defeat the darkness around you. Arise! Overcome in My Mighty Name!
ONE GOLIATH AT A TIMEThe most notable giant in the Bible is Goliath. Even the word “Goliath” has become a synonym for the word “huge.” How huge was Goliath? Goliath was six cubits and a span.
A cubit is somewhere between 19 and 21 inches, so Goliath was 9-foot-6 at his shortest and well over 11 feet at his tallest. What an intimidator. What a monster.
Goliath was not only big, he was supernatural – a hybrid of half demon, half human. This means he can do things he shouldn’t be able to do and he knows stuff, dark stuff, bad stuff. He’s ungodly, so he loves to kill people and destroy lives. He’s good at it.
Aligned with the evil Philistines, he was keeping the children of Israel from advancing forward. He was single-handedly holding King Saul’s armies at bay. Israel was supposed to wipe out the Philistines. The Philistines were really evil folks who worshipped the false god of perversion and child sacrifice. They kept pushing their way into Jewish society and Samson failed to wipe them out.
Every day, Goliath stood in front of the armies of Israel and taunted them. He threw insults at God Almighty and nobody, not even King Saul, had the guts to take this demonic punk on because they refused to believe the power of their own God.
What is the Goliath in your life? Is it Anger? Jealousy? Depression? Or despair have you down? Is the giant of unemployment, debt, or poverty looming over you? Does fear of failure or the fallout of a divorce have you in its grip? Then, he just ran you out of your Promised Land.
Like David, the scrawny shepherd boy, stand up and say, “Not today! You will not defeat me and you are not bigger than my God who’s reputation I stand for.” Pick up your five smooth stones – your identity and who God says you are – and cast them at the devil’s head.
Do that day after day until you see that you’ve killed him and cut off his head with his own sword. God has called you to be on overcomer, so overcome your giants, one Goliath at a time.
“Your servant has killed both the lion and the bear; this uncircumcised Philistine will be like one of them, seeing he has defied the armies of the living God. The Lord who rescued me from the paw of the lion and the paw of the bear, He will rescue me from the hand of this Philistine.” – 1 Samuel 17:36-37
FROM MY SERMON SERIES MILK AND HONEY
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February 26, 2021
GROWING SMALLER
If you get too puffed-up by your accomplishments, there’s less room for Me. When you decrease, I increase. Let me invade your heart and mind. When you are small, I Am huge.
GROWING SMALLERThe smaller you get, the more God will use you. I had a vision and I saw nine small things in a hand. They looked like marbles. I zoomed in on one and it was the jawbone of a donkey. I zoomed in on another and it was a millstone. I also saw a small army, a left hand, and a tent peg among other small items.
I said, “Lord, I don’t know what these things are.” And I heard the voice of the Lord and He said, “These are the nine small things in the book of Judges, search out the matter.” So, I began to search out the matter in the book of Judges and lo, and behold, there were nine small things that God used to do incredible things.
More astonishing than that, the last part of the vision was this: He said, “Troy, the smaller you get, the greater I will use you.”
The still, small voice of God Almighty is not just the description of the voice of God, it is also the description of the heart able to hear and receive the voice of God.
This is the problem, my friends. Many times, we are just too big and too busy to hear the still, small voice of God Almighty. We think too much of ourselves and we have our own agenda that has nothing to do with the Kingdom whatsoever. We have to be people who know how to get still and small before the Lord if we want to do His will and bear fruit.
“Be still and know that I am God.” – Psalm 46:10
Being small puts you in a posture of dependence. It puts you in a place of humility. It is in your weakness that He is strong! If you quiet your world just a tad, you may be able to hear Him speak. When you learn to really hear His voice, that’s when He can use you. So, grow smaller!
FROM MY SERMON SERIES EXODUS
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HOOKED UP WITH THE WRONG TRIBE
I didn’t create you to be alone – to be an island. I created you for fellowship with people who love and look for Me. Find the people who challenge you to greater revelation of Me. They are your brothers and sisters.
HOOKED UP WITH THE WRONG TRIBEIf it’s in the Bible, but it’s not in your life, there’s a problem. If you see truth in the Bible, but it’s not in the people you’re doing life with, you’ve been hooked up with the wrong people.
You’ve also been hooked up with the wrong tribe if you think something only works in the Bible, but it doesn’t actually work in anybody’s life today. That kind of thinking makes the “Bible” God. The Bible is not God. The Bible is the written testimony of the Lord Jesus Christ. Jesus is God, and the Scriptures testify of Him.
Even though there are some tripped out things in the Bible, when you dig and go after it, you will find these whacked things can actually be in your life and they are awesome!Like the four different creatures that circle the throne.
They have lots of wings, are covered in eyeballs, and have four different faces. While these seraphim can seem alarming and confusing, they are really a great revelation about Jesus. Look at the four faces:
Lion – Jesus as your King, our ruler, the One in control.
Ox – Jesus as your burden-bearer, the greatest selfless servant of all times.
Eagle – The supernatural side of Jesus, God Almighty, all-powerful, eternal, and spirit.
Man – The human side of Jesus, personal, emotional, family. He shares your joys and sorrows.
These are prophetic illustrations of different ways you and I need to see Jesus. I want Jesus in every single area of my life because I refuse to hide certain parts from Him. “Adam, Adam, where are you?” No, that doesn’t work.
At the throne of God we see these four supernatural faces and it all indicates a side of Jesus we need to know to have supernatural victory in this world. In order for you and I to walk in kingdom victory, we need to know Jesus in all four parts of our life – the Kingdom, our service, the human, and supernatural sides of us.
It’s really very simple though, the picture painted in Isaiah and Revelation seems pretty whack. Are these biblical things working in your life? If they aren’t, hook up with this tribe of drop-dead, sold-out seekers. New revelations are awaiting.
FROM MY SERMON SERIES UNVEILED
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Episode 72 – Up Front in the Prophetic
Join me and the good people from Up Front in the Prophetic, Allen and Francine, as we discuss my new book Redeeming Your Timeline and one of my other books Numbers That Preach.
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February 24, 2021
FOLLOWING OF GOING?
I Am the Good Shepherd who has laid down His life for His sheep. Trust in Me with your whole heart. Follow Me. O taste and see that I Am Good.
FOLLOWING OR GOING?So, there are two things going on in your life at the same time and it’s these two words: follow and go. “Well, Pastor Troy, am I following or am I going?” You should be doing both, and you should be doing both at the same time. In one area of your life you’re following, and in another you’re going.
Follow means this: you and I are going to be God-chasers for the rest of our lives. David was amazing at following and going. In Psalms 23, he paints a picture of the Lord being his shepherd–following Him wherever He leads, from green pastures to His house forever.
The mark of maturity is that you are willing to follow Jesus. Even into places you were unwilling to follow Him before. That’s exactly what King Jesus did with Peter even to the end of his life. Jesus said to Peter:
“Very truly I tell you, when you were younger, you dressed yourself and went where you wanted; but when you are old you will stretch out your hands, and someone else will dress you and lead you where you do not want to go.” – John 21:18
He’s talking about spiritual maturity here. He is not talking about feeble old age. You’re following King Jesus into places that there would have been no way you would have gone before. But you’re beginning to trust Him. You are now willing to lay down things that you want because you believe that Jesus wants better for you than even you want for yourself.
Every day, you have the choice to follow and go where the Good Shepherd leads you. Knowing He will never leave you, nor forsake you. Choose today to follow and see how really good His ways are.
“My sheep hear My voice, and I know them, and they follow Me.” – John 10:27
FROM THE SERMON SERIES UPGRADE
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February 23, 2021
FEAR DOESN’T MEAN BE AFRAID
Fear not, little children, it is My good pleasure to show you My awesome Kingdom. There is no suffering, slavery, or sickness. Be in awe of what I have planned for those who love Me and are called according to My purposes.
FEAR DOESN’T MEAN BE AFRAIDWhenever you begin to truly prioritize God, you begin to look at His heart and go after it. The Biblical term for going after God’s heart, putting God first, for loving what God loves, and hating what He hates, is the “fear of the LORD.”
My friends, that’s a really bad translation for a very good, very important principle that needs to be operating in our lives. In western culture, fear means to be afraid. Telling people to be afraid of God is not an accurate picture of who He is, or how He wants us to approach Him.
Fear means that if you’re going to prioritize God, you have to be willing to go after His heart. That’s fearing Him. You need to redial and reset right now because Jesus is perfect theology.
If you see something in Jesus that you don’t believe, you’ve got a belief malfunction. If you don’t believe He can calm the storm, heal the leper, or that His blood paid for your healing, you need to repent and revisit that line of thinking. If you don’t believe He is good, you’re wrong. That does against Jesus’ theology.
You and I are going to fall in love with Jesus all over again. We’re going to go after and prioritize His heart. All the promises that come from “the fear of the Lord” belong to us because we are loving what He loves and hating what He hates.
His heart is my priority. Is it yours?
“Praise the LORD! How blessed is the man who fears the LORD, Who greatly delights in His commandments.” – Psalms 112:1
FROM MY SERMON SERIES FIRST THINGS
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February 22, 2021
NO MATTER HOW SMALL
Anger and offense are some of the enemy’s favorite tools to bring chaos into your life, relationships, and ministry. Forgive and ask for forgiveness often. I desire unity, not chaos. I’ve made you to be one Church.
NO MATTER HOW SMALLGod does not expect you to have a weedless harvest. He just expects a harvest out of your life. The fields in your life – your marriage, family, job, money, and health – do not belong to you. You are a steward of these territories.
Just like that, the harvest does not belong to you either. If you’ve got a field and you’re sick and tired of it because it’s got so many weeds that you want to set it on fire and be done, I have another option for you.
I know from experience that if you can produce even the tiniest harvest in it, the Lord Jesus Christ will show up and He’ll remove all the weeds.
I’ve had relationships with people in my church, close relationships where I couldn’t imagine doing ministry without that person. Then, something small happens – real or imagined – they get offended and BOOM! They’re gone. They never speak to me again and they let everyone know it was my fault.
That’s torching a field. That relationship and the ministry we were working on together went up in flames and they refused to let me fix it. God is never glorified by that.
How do you produce a harvest? You lay down your life in that field. In the times I’ve been able to humble myself and talk it out, the field has been saved. The harvest is may be small, but Jesus always shows up and pulls out the weeds – the issues and idiots that mess things up in the first place.
Selflessness produces a harvest and Jesus is always pruning us. He’s the Lord of the Harvest, so let Him do His job. Give Him a harvest no matter how small.
“Do nothing out of selfish ambition or vain conceit. Rather, in humility, value others above yourselves.” – Philippians 2:3
FROM MY SERMON SERIES LORD OF THE HARVEST
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February 21, 2021
REAL GIANTS
Who will you believe? The One who formed you with a purpose? Or the one who wants to stop you from fulfilling that purpose? The devil is a liar. He stands at My throne day and night accusing you. Don’t believe his words, but listen to Me. I know who you are.
REAL GIANTSNumbers 13:33 tells us what happens to people who do not have skill sets to deal with giants. The Bible says, “the spies of the children of Israel went over into the Promised Land” and “they saw the giants.” Of the 12 spies, 10 were quaking in their sandals.
“There we saw the giants (the descendants of Anak came from the giants); and we were like grasshoppers in our own sight, and so we were in their sight.” – Numbers 13:33
Notice they said, “So we were grasshoppers in our own sight” and “in their sight.” They never said anything about what they looked like in God’s sight. Instead, they took on the identity of the demonic intimidation against them.
A giant is all about convincing you that you’re not who God says you are. He wants you to believe you are who your family, your history, or your haters say you are. Here’s the dill pickle: if you take on their personification, you go back to the wilderness.
When you start believing the lies and listening to the wrong voices, you do not go into the Promised Land. Most people die in the wilderness because they’re scared of giants.
The most notable giant in the Bible is a giant by the name of Goliath. And, even the word “Goliath” has come to mean “huge” to all of us. Well, how huge was Goliath? Goliath was six cubits and a span. People are always arguing he wasn’t actually a giant, but that’s bull. At the lowest estimate, six cubits and a span is 9-feet-6 inches tall.
That’s real intimidation. That’s a real living monster. While we today don’t generally deal with giants because David and his mighty men killed them all, we have monsters of doubt and fear in our heads that are just as intimidating and just as real.
But here’s something else that’s real: God Almighty made you to be more than a conqueror. That means you’re more than Goliath! You have more promise, more power, and more potential than that nine-foot goon and God is looking for you to realize it. Once you realize it, you can start slaying some enemies and move into your Promised Land.
The truth is, you are who God says you are. You are not who you or the enemy say you are. Whose voice do you hear?
FROM MY SERMON SERIES MILK AND HONEY
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ICEPOCALYPSE NOW!
SUNDAY, FEB. 21, 2021 – ICEPOCALYPSE NOW!
Pastor Troy Brewer
OpenDoor Church, Burleson, Texas
ICEPOCALYPSE NOW – OUR RESPONSE TO THE DEEP
FREEZE OF FEB. 2021
UNITY: stability in chaos; answering evil with the goodness of
God
16 Core Values of OpenDoor
No. 1: Unity makes us a conduit for God’s power
Unity For Christ
1 Corinthians 1:10 ESV
I appeal to you, brothers, by the name of our Lord Jesus Christ,
that all of you agree, and that there be no divisions among you,
but that you be united in the same mind and the same
judgment.
Ephesians 4:13 ESV
Until we all attain to the unity of the faith and of the knowledge
of the Son of God, to mature manhood, to the measure of the
stature of the fullness of Christ
Psalm 133:1
Behold, how good and pleasant it is when brothers dwell in
unity!
2 John 1:9 ESV
Everyone who goes on ahead and does not abide in the
teaching of Christ, does not have God. Whoever abides in the
teaching has both the Father and the Son.
Colossians 3:14
And above all these put on love, which binds everything
together in perfect harmony.
The last prayer Jesus prayed in the garden was for us—His
body—to be unified and to be one even as He and the Father
are both One.
Answer evil with the goodness of God.
You answer tragedy and chaos with a unified front and fearless
demonstration of freedom, redemption and the power of God.
When God’s people get unified, the world sees the goodness of
God, the heart of King Jesus and the power of the Holy Spirit.
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February 20, 2021
ARE YOU STANDING?
Wait upon Me. Seek My face. Believe nothing is impossible for Me. Be overwhelmed by My presence not by your situation. To you has been given permission to stand in My presence.
ARE YOU STANDING?In this Christian walk, we’re either following, going, or we’re standing. What’s standing all about? Standing is when you don’t know what else to do. You just know who God is and you’re not going to back off from that.
There are times when you cannot map the hand of God, but you’re still responsible for mapping out His heart. You do not know how to pray and why your prayer didn’t work. You did your part and it didn’t work. Now, are you thinking of bailing on God?
Well, I am never bailing on God. Never. If all else fails, I’m just going to stand here and wait for God Almighty to show up, because He will show up. He always shows up; that’s what He does.
So, you have these three different areas in your life: you’re following, you’re going, and you’re standing, all at the same time.
In the wilderness, signs, miracles, and wonders go before the people. In the New Testament, signs, miracles, and wonders follow the people. It’s a paradigm shift. It’s the same God, just an upgrade in relationship. You will never be able to stand until you can see how awesome God is.
“Do not be afraid. Stand and see the salvation of the LORD….” – Exodus 14:13
That’s what Moses tells the people of Israel, right before He parted the Red Sea. Standing is not always easy. Wanting to run could be tempting. Standing and trusting in God is what’s needed. Waiting upon our loving heavenly Father will be my choice. I know His heart toward me and it is good!
King Jehoshaphat was faced with overwhelming armies coming against Israel. He had no idea what to do. This was God’s word to him:
“You will not need to fight in this battle. Position yourselves, stand still and see the salvation of the Lord, who is with you, O Judah and Jerusalem! Do not fear or be dismayed, for the Lord is with you.” – 2 Chronicles 20:17
Believe and know how amazing He is in whatever situation you are facing. Today, if you know God has you in this place of standing, know that He is with you.
FROM MY SERMON SERIES UPGRADE
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