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October 26, 2018
WANT TO UNLEASH AN ARMY OF ANGELS?
Do you not know I have given My angels charge over you? Yes, they are waiting to protect you, but more important, they are awaiting your proclamations and declarations so they can help My plan for your life come to fruition. Let them fly!
CONFESSION, PROCLAMATION AND DECLARATION
If you want your prayers to be effective and line up with God’s will, you need to know the difference between confession, proclamation, and declaration.
Confession is when you verbalize how God cherishes you. Proclamation is when you verbalize what God is doing because you know God cherishes you. Proclamation is all about trusting His nature. Declaration is verbalizing what you know is going to happen.
Did you catch that? Confession is past, proclamation is present, and declaration is future. While God is eternal and sees this all at once, you stand in time and say, “I’m not going to let time beat me up.”
Today, I want you to repeat after me, “I confess my love for Jesus and His love for me this day. I proclaim and I make known that this is my time, this is a new season and a brand new time when I am full of overcoming victory. I declare the Lord will accomplish what concerns me. I will go farther, higher, better, and get there faster than any time before in Jesus’ name. Amen.”
If you just prayed that, you unleashed the angels around you to do God’s will in your life. That’s right. You just sent angels on a mission to help you fulfill your destiny.
The power of life and death is within the tongue. When you learn the power and precision of confession, proclamation and declaration, Father God gets excited. He loves it when you go after upgrade and upgrade in your prayer life will result in an upgrade in faith. That’s life. So, speak life through confession, proclamation, and declaration. Now, that’s power!
The tongue has the power of life and death, and those who love it will eat its fruit. – Proverbs 18:21
FROM MY SERMON SERIES FIRST THINGS
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October 25, 2018
DON’T LET FIRE GO OUT
What I do in your life may be different from what I do in the life of someone else. What is right for you, others may not be ready for. It’s all about a personal relationship with Me through the blood of My Son.
DON’T LET THE FIRE GO OUT
When revival starts, we have to protect it. The supernatural fire comes from heaven, but it’s the job of the priests of the house to keep the fire going and the Bible is clear on this: fire falls on sacrifice.
What is sacrifice? It is selflessness.
The opposite of revival and the Kingdom of Heaven coming to earth is when the Philistines – idol worshippers – get to rule and reign. A Philistine spirit wants us to remember things not worth remembering and to forget what a big deal the presence of God is.
A Philistine spirit wants us to forget the big opportunity we have to walk in the presence of God and to live in fear of our giants. Amen.
If you’re sick and tired of the way things are, you need revival because revival changes things. The dynamics of your family, your financial situation, your marriage – if you want change, you want revival.
A wise man once said “true revival means nothing less than a revolution,” and we can see personal revivals throughout the Word of God. A great example of revival from a supernatural touch is in Isaiah chapter 6.
Isaiah’s having a throne-room experience looking at all the holiness and righteousness. Then, he realizes he is the only one unclean. He exclaims, “Woe is me…” And the Bible says an angel of the Lord takes a hot burning coal off the altar and touches his mouth with it – that’s where sacrifice comes in because the blood of Jesus is on that altar.
Why did the angel put that coal in Isaiah’s mouth? “O taste, and see that the Lord is good.” It’s a personal experience of the Lord Jesus Christ. That’s revival! You can’t explain to someone what ice cream or chocolate tastes like because tasting is a very personal experience.
Taste and see that the Lord is good. How happy is the man who takes refuge in Him! – Psalms 34:8
Let revival begin with you!
FROM MY SERMON SERIES PRAY FOR RAIN – REVIVAL
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October 24, 2018
DO IT UNTO THE LORD
I have set you free to love Me in a radical way. Do not be afraid to get in over your head, because that is the place where I bless you the most. Out of that overflow, you can serve Me with all of your heart.
DO IT UNTO THE LORD
What you put into something is what you will get out of it. It’s up to you whether you’re in love with Jesus or not. Believe me, it’s not up to anybody else.
You have been set free to love Jesus in a radical, crazy, cool way. You become passionate for the Lord Jesus Christ by making yourself get on the front lines. Go to the outreaches, hand food to people, pray with people, take chances on people, give to people who do not have a history of making right choices – put yourself out there.
Why would you give to someone who might turn around and slap you in the face with it? Well, because they might surprise you, and getting to see that is a game-changer. Remember, Jesus gave Judas the money bag knowing he was a thief. He believed the best and got the worst.
Just like that, you have to let your heart be broken. Consistently put yourself in the position to acknowledge that Jesus is the answer. Become committed to Him all over again. Fall in love with the Lord in a whole new way.
“Give, and it will be given to you: good measure, pressed down, shaken together, and running over will be put into your bosom. For with the same measure that you use, it will be measured back to you.” – Luke 6:38
Refuse to be the person sitting around griping about everything. Instead, get up off your seat, pull up your big boy pants, and get to work. Allow your heart to be broken before the Lord because He cannot resist a broken and contrite spirit.
Everything you do, do it for the glory of the Lord.
FROM MY AWESOME SERMON SERIES EPIC
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October 23, 2018
PLAYING HIDE AND SEEK?
My love for you surpasses knowledge. Know how good I Am and will not withhold any good thing from you. Nothing will ever separate you from My love. Walk in confidence that I have made you righteous and loved.
PLAYING HIDE AND SEEK?
God longs for you to know how much He loves you. For you to know Him. Adam knew God in a way few after him did. Too many times we respond to God as Adam did in the garden – running and hiding from Him and His great love.
God Almighty came to Adam and told him about the two trees that he wasn’t to mess with. Why would God give him choices? Because He has an agenda to reward us and He can’t reward us if we don’t have choices. He can only reward us in the context of choices. So, God tells Adam what he’ll walk in according to his choices. But the snake came and said, “Did God really say that?”
That’s a snake, and a snake will cause you to run away from God. I love when God says, “Where you, Adam? We’re always supposed to meet here and have our daily meeting. It’s going to be awesome. Adam, where are you?” He wasn’t asking this because He didn’t know where Adam was. He was asking because Adam didn’t know.
We are not much different than Adam. We also are not sure if God is for us. So we make the choice. Instead of running to His voice, we hide. Instead of believing what God says about Himself and about who we are in Christ, we listen to snakes and the lies of the in-a-me.
“The thief does not come except to steal, and to kill and to destroy. I have come that they may have life, and that they may have it more abundantly.”—John 10:10
The choice to receive that abundant life if ours. Every time we choose to listen to God and follow Him we are choosing life and His rewards. Also, every time we choose to listen to the enemies lies he robs us of what is rightfully ours in Christ Jesus.
“You shall know the truth and the truth will set you free.” –John 8:32
Jesus is the truth. He knows all the truth about you and loves you with an everlasting, crazy love.
FROM MY SERMON SERIES SERVOLUTION
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October 22, 2018
WHERE ARE YOU?
I Am a God who sees the big picture. You may not know where you are called to be, but I do. Partner with the Holy Spirit and listen for My direction. I will align you for your assignment. Stop fighting me.
THE ARRIVAL OF REVIVAL
In Isaiah 6, Isaiah had a vision where he realized he was unclean. He is a bit embarrassed and claims “woe is me.” Just a few lines later, God Almighty asks who will go to tell the world how awesome He is and Isaiah, despite being the only mess in heaven, grabs the opportunity.
“Here, I am, send me!” – Isaiah 6:8
He goes from “woe” to “go” – from “woe is me,” to “send me.” What happened? Revival happened. Personal transformation. A personal revolution caused him to change everything.
People begin to live out assignment in revival. When you do not fight the battles you are assigned to fight, you end up fighting battles you have no grace for. When you refuse to be the person God has called you to be, when you refuse to stand in the place God has called you to, you end up in places where you get beat up.
So, part of assignment is alignment. When revival comes, alignment and assignment happen. You can be married and be out of alignment with your spouse. You can have kids and be out of alignment with them. Because you’re out of alignment, the power of God is not flowing through that.
Because you’re not in alignment with the right people, you suddenly become in alignment with the wrong people, then all kinds of problems happen. You and I have to guard our hearts and make sure we are in alignment for assignment.
If you’re not sure where you are meant to be, ask God. He’ll be more than happy to guide you where He needs you.
Are you feeling a bit like the prodigal son these days? Get in alignment. Surrender to God Almighty and He will make your assignment clear. Trust His plan for you and revival will happen. He’s waiting with open arms.
FROM MY SERMON SERIES PRAY FOR RAIN – REVIVAL
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October 21, 2018
LEAVE THE WEEDS ALONE
Did you know there are people I can only reach with My love and forgiveness through you? It’s true. Our connection makes you a conduit for My love and salvation. Don’t burn bridges with people who have hurt or disappointed you. Let My redemption flow through you for a harvest of hope.
LEAVE IT FOR JESUS
The collateral damage that happens to your friends and family when you don’t lay down your life and you make things all about “me,” “myself,” and “I” is terrible. I call this burning a field or burning a bridge. It’s when you destroy a relationship because of your selfishness and drama.
I have been guilty of that myself and I’m sorry. I have purposed in my heart over these last several years that I’m not going to be a field burner anymore. I have a lot of fields that have weeds in them – weeds are dysfunctional relationships – but I’ve learned not to pull them up or to put a match to them. Why?
Because I can still lay down my life for that person and give Jesus a harvest from it. Someday, maybe soon, Jesus is going to show up and He’s not going to yell at me because of the weeds in the field. He’s going to give me a crown because of the harvest that’s in it. That is the hope of the Lord Jesus Christ.
There are times when it appears your fields are nothing but weeds. There are times you need to seek Godly counsel and get an outsider opinion of your progress. You and I are sometimes too hard on ourselves and set our standards too high. We want perfection in our fields – especially when we’re dealing with family and kids.
Know this: we will not achieve perfection until the day of Christ’s return. This means there will always be weeds in our relationships and tares, or stickers, in our lives. Just like a field of wheat has patches of nettles and wild oats, there is still enough grain on that ground to warrant a harvest. We don’t destroy the harvest to kill the weeds.
Think of Jesus as a big John Deere combine. He threshes the wheat and separates out the grain from the wild oats, no matter how many there are. So, don’t strike a match. Be selfless in your relationships and let Jesus take care of the people you struggle with. Pray for them. Love on them. See them as the prisoners of war to the enemy that they are. Don’t burn that field. Leave those weeds for Jesus.
Do nothing from rivalry or conceit, but in humility count others more significant than yourselves. Let each of you look not only to his own interests, but also to the interests of others. Have this mind among yourselves, which is yours in Christ Jesus… – Philippians 2:2-3
FROM MY SERMON SERIES LORD OF THE HARVEST
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October 20, 2018
DON’T MISS GOD’S TA-DAA MOMENT
You long to know and be known. So do I. I know you even better than you know yourself. Seek Me and you will find Me. I Am a personal God who wants to be found and known by you.
TA-DAAAA!
The book of Revelation – or the book of Apocalypse – gives me so much hope. When I say that, most people say, “Pastor! How can you say that? The apocalypse is the worst thing that could ever happen.”
You really need to understand what apocalypse means, and it is not total calamity, death, and destruction. Apocalypse simply means “the unveiling.” It’s the thing you’ve really needed to see and you finally get to see it. It means, “Ta-daaa!’
The revelation or apocalypse of Jesus Christ – the unveiling of Jesus Christ to John – was incredible and the first four chapters of Revelation are just off-the-chain stupid cool. Why? Because first and foremost, Revelation is a book of Majesty.
Majesty is how Jesus rules and reigns over a situation. It’s when He has dominion and gets to be the King. What I’m getting to here is, you and I need a personal apocalypse of Jesus. We need those “Ta-da” moments each and every day, and we need to not rest until we get one.
The worst thing that could happen is not an apocalypse, but the lack of an apocalypse. Missing it or never going after it is truly a calamity. Does Jesus rule and reign in your thoughts and actions? Does He have dominion over your marriage, your family, your work, finances, and ministry?
Get into His presence and don’t leave until He says, “Ta-da!”
For now, we see in a mirror dimly but then face to face. Now I know in part; then I shall know fully, even as I have been fully known. – 1 Corinthians 13:12
FROM MY SERMON SERIES FIRST THINGS
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October 19, 2018
ARE YOU AN OVERCOMER?
I have called you to walk in victorious power given through My death and resurrection. Don’t be afraid to show your scars. Allow Me to make you a trophy of grace in the area where you were once defeated.
OVERCOME IT
God wants you to value His voice above all others, no matter how loud the other voices may be. This is not to make light of the horrible things you may have experienced in your life. This is learning to place more worth on your destiny than on your history.
Here’s what’s real: where sin does abound, grace does much more abound. In other words, you are not meant to barely survive the terrible things in this life. You are meant to overcome those things.
Because the Holy Spirit lives in your heart, the vengeance of the Lord should be operating through you. You are not called to be a survivor. You are called to be an overcomer.
The difference is this. Survivors have open wounds. Overcomers have scars.
Not only are you called to be an overcomer, you are also called to be a warrior. Warriors do not hide their scars because they are not ashamed of their them. A warrior will tell you, “I’ve been through something, but I won in that place.”
Jesus Christ came back in His glorified body. He could look like anything He wanted to, but He kept His scars. He says, “Look at My scars. Check out my scars. They are My credentials that I’m a bad motor-scooter. I slapped death in the face for you all.”
Why would He do this? Because He’s an overcomer. Your scars prove that you are an overcomer, whereas your open wounds prove that you are a victim. Jesus wants you to get healed. Overcome it.
Then he said to Thomas, “Put your finger here, and see my hands; and put out your hand and place it in my side. Do not disbelieve, but believe.” Thomas answered him, “My Lord and my God!” – John 20:27-28
FROM MY AWESOME SERMON SERIES EPIC
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October 18, 2018
IS GOD ASKING TOO MUCH?
My love for you is so strong. I long to spend time with you. Invite me in – I’ll come. I ask nothing more than you believe. It blesses my heart to hear you praise My name.
YOUR PERSONAL REVIVAL
When Moses did his first miracle in Egypt and turned the water into blood a revival broke out. Then 1,470 years later, another revival happened when Jesus turned the water into wine.
Revival is when God shows up and everybody gets with His program. It’s when heaven invades earth. Revival is when people, things, or even a generation is directly affected by the presence of God.
Sometimes, it’s an experience – a personal encounter with God Almighty. Now, this happens at different levels all the time, but revival is when it all gets concentrated. We need revival both personally and corporately as the body of Christ.
“True revival,” says a brother by the name of Del Fehsenfeld Jr., “is that divine moment when God bursts upon the scene and displays His glory.” What is His glory? It’s His visible awesomeness.
His glory is evident when we begin to live according to the reality of the life we have in Christ. It’s when everything that was dead starts to come alive because Christ is resurrected from the dead. The Psalmist really knew what he was saying when he wrote the following:
“Restore us, O Lord God of hosts! Let your face shine, that we may be saved!” – Psalm 80:19
“Will you not revive us again, that your people may rejoice in you?” – Psalm 85:6
When we value the presence of God, we begin to rejoice in Him. The reason so many Christians have to be kick-started to worship God is because they do not yet have a high value for His presence.
You have to learn what a big deal it is to get into the presence of God, how incredible it is. It is such a privilege to enter into His presence. If all you have to do to cooperate is raise your hands and cry out to Him, that’s not asking too much. It just step one in your personal revival.
FROM MY SERMON SERIES PRAY FOR RAIN – REVIVAL
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October 17, 2018
CELEBRATING WITH GOD?
I have made you to be more than conquerors. All I have promised I will perform. Stand in My love and grace this day knowing I Am for you and I Am in you to accomplish all I have for you.
CELEBRATING WITH GOD?
I want to be known of God. I know that God knows me. But I want to be known of God and known in heaven as somebody who cooperates with the Holy Spirit and with heaven. I want to be known as one who obeys God rather than men – who serves men instead of wanting to be served.
“Therefore, since we are surrounded by such a great cloud of witnesses, let us throw off everything that hinders and the sin that so easily entangles, and let us run with perseverance the race marked out for us…”—Hebrews 12:1
The author of Hebrew’s is saying, “Since heaven is rooting for you, believes and is trusting in you, you might as well do away with the things that are keeping you from running this race to the fullest.” It’s an amazing thing to know that heaven is rooting for us. It’s a sense of accountability because heaven believes in us! God is trusting us with stuff – Kingdom stuff.
Jesus didn’t care if He was celebrated on earth. He really and truly didn’t. He knew He was celebrated in heaven. He heard the Father say,
“This is My beloved Son, in whom I am well pleased.”—Matthew 3:11
He heard the Father say that, then immediately the devil began to test Him and say, “If you are the Son of God, turn that stone into bread, jump off this cliff…” The devil was actually coming against the Word the Father had spoken to Him.
Guys, if you have prophetic words over your life, you haven’t been talking to snakes again, have you? Because the enemy will always ask you, “Did God really say that? Did he really mean it? Are you sure?” He doesn’t want that word to come true.
God’s word is full of promises. Over and over again, God has demonstrated His love for us and shown us the victory we already have in Christ. Let’s you and I not become sidelined by the voice of the enemy – that snake lies. You and I are going to run the race marked out for us, knowing that all of heaven is cheering us on and celebrating our awesome finish.
Looking unto Jesus, the author and finisher of our faith,” – Hebrews 12:2
FROM MY SERMON SERIES SERVOLUTION
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