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March 15, 2018
RIGHT NOW!
I love it when you seek My presence. I enjoy your company and delight in your pursuit of My word. I am with you wherever you go. Be filled with My Spirit.
RIGHT NOW
When Jesus showed up after His resurrection, He said something startling: “It is a greater benefit to you that I leave.”
Can you imagine what a crazy thing that was to say? The disciples had to be thinking, “How could I possibly be better off if Jesus Christ left me physically?” That’s what I would be thinking.
He said, “Because I will send my Holy Spirit.” And that’s not going to be a “long time ago” thing or a “long time in the future” thing. That’s going to be a “right now” thing.
It is important that you walk in the power of God and have victory in your life, right now.
If you don’t believe Jesus Christ can show up in your life today and change things, you’re going to get caught on a bad day and you’re going to fall out.
King David understood that. That’s why he said this:
“I would have fainted (lost heart, would have given up) unless I had believed that I would live to see the goodness of the Lord in the land of the living. – Psalm 27:13
How did David get through all those difficult times? He lived in a constant awareness that God was with him, right now. David couldn’t make Him do anything, but he was aware that God was good – right now – and that His goodness would show up.
While David was visited by the Holy Spirit, you and I are indwelled by Him – right now, this very second. It’s hard to imagine something better than hanging out with Jesus – God with us – but there is. We are in His constant presence as God in us, right now.
From my sermon series EXODUS
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March 14, 2018
THE BEAST WITHIN
I Am a Life-giving God. Dead and impure things in your life will be pushed out and replaced with pure things and a renewed mind. No more torment only peace of mind.
THE BEAST WITHIN
Knowing I’ve been delivered from a messed up mind, I have a lot of respect for the Demoniac of Gadara, whose story is told in Mark chapter 5 and Luke chapter 8. I even dedicated my book Soul Invasion to this man who, in so many ways, is so like us today.
I have thought a lot about him over the years. I have even stood near the very cliff in Galilee where that famous herd of pigs plunged to its death possessed with the very demonic thoughts and voices that tormented him for years.
Though I don’t know his name, I feel like I know him. Though I never heard him speak, his testimony has preached to me and encouraged me for nearly three decades.
I know there was a time when he lost his battle for his mind, but for the past 2,000 years, he’s had a head full of peace. Only Jesus can do that.
I would pay big bucks to see the befuddled faces who saw him just after his encounter with Jesus. There he was, no longer hurting himself, no longer ashamed, no longer fearful or a menace. He was in the presence of the King and in his right mind. I’m sure jaws dropped in shock and awe at the difference Christ made in him.
I don’t know the names of all the people reading this, but I pray you meet the same Jesus and have the same testimony of having your soul – your mind – not only set right, but focused on things above — the Kingdom.
Today is a good day to access the arsenal Jesus provide to battle and beat the best within. Let Jesus invade your soul and drive the enemy out.
Now the man from whom the demons had departed begged Him that he might be with Him. But Jesus sent him away, saying, “Return to your own house, and tell what great things God has done for you.” And he went his way and proclaimed throughout the whole city what great things Jesus had done for him. – Luke 8:38-39
From my sermon series JESUS UNVEILED
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March 12, 2018
DON’T GO ALONE!
While our journey together is personal, it’s also very public. I made you to share and show My love and My Word with others. I call you a “living epistle.” You are My love story. Testify to Love!
DON’T GO ALONE!
The Lord is interested in your upgrade. He’s intensely interested in you finding and fulfilling your destiny. Why? Because it’s not all about you.
You were born not just to make it, but to make a way for others to make it. All of this increase is not just about you. Promised Land living is a constant awareness of destiny, legacy and leaving a heritage of forward momentum for others to build on.
Like Jesus, we are to be builders and carpenters.
There is an old adage that says, “It is easier to fight for one’s principles than to live up to them.” One day, your life is going to require you to live up to what you’ve fought so hard for.
Life is fighting, pushing, running, overcoming, building, achieving, declaring and pursuing after God. Someday, not too very long from this moment, you will finish your race.
Now don’t start freaking out! You need to know how this works. For you to walk in the power of God, you have to live in the paradox of complete awareness of both your eternity and your short time here.
When you get ready for your big finish, I hope you can be like Paul – able to look back at your fight for forward and say, “Man, I fought a good fight.”
For I am already being poured out like a drink offering, and the time for my departure is near. I have fought the good fight. I have finished the race. I have kept the faith. Now there is in store for me the crown of righteousness, which the Lord, the righteous Judge, will award to me on that day – and not only to me, but also to all who have longed for His appearing.” – 2 Timothy 4:6-8
Notice how Paul was not only thinking about himself at the end of his life, but “for all who long for the appearing of Jesus.” Jesus is the prize. You have an expected end too – eternity in the presence of Jesus. Don’t go alone!
From my sermon series MILK AND HONEY
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LEGEND IN YOUR OWN MIND?
Your nature is to seek the applause of man as you increase in all areas of your life. I applaud those who allow Me to increase in their life. I am ready to be the fullness in your life. Make room for Me.
LEGEND IN YOUR OWN MIND?
There is something that separates religious people from those who have a true and ongoing encounter with Jesus. They understand that Jesus must increases in their life as they decrease.
For you, that means you are getting small and God is getting big – you are giving Him preeminence in all things. God takes priority not just over your marriage, your finances, job, parenting and every part of your life – it means He takes priority in those things and every part of your life.
Your walk with God is a lifetime of learning how to give Him priority over and in every part of your life. John the Baptist put it this way:
“He must increase, but I must decrease.” – John 3:30
The understanding of “Christ in me” is a promise that I am going to get smaller and smaller, while He gets bigger and bigger. At some point, He will be so enlarged in my life that people are going to see Him, not Troy, and that’s the point!
The promise is that some day, I’m going to supernova and Jesus is going to come busting up out of me in a way that doesn’t leave any trace of me. Until that glorious day, I’m going to be part of His camp, so it’s up to me to get this thing right. It is my job to get small.
How about you? Are you still looking for the spotlight and the praise of men? Do you find ways to look important or drop names of folks you think are impressive?
If you’re a legend in your own mind, stop it! Start bragging on God and what He’s done. The credit is His alone! Only then can God bring you to your destiny so you can truly be used for His purpose and glory.
From my sermon series LORD OF THE HARVEST
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March 10, 2018
RIGHT NOW!
Remember what I have done for you. You have seen Me rescue you, provide for and heal you. You know My power. It is just a real in your life as it was for Moses. Do not doubt. Believe My power is for you, today and every tomorrow.
RIGHT NOW!
You need to be very, very, very careful of the religious spirit of the day that you and I live in. The wrong spirit that says the power of God is way off in the future. The power of God is not here right now.
You see, religious people view the power of God through the telescope of a long, long time ago or long, long time from now. They deny the power of God right now and it causes Jesus to weep.
It breaks His heart. It makes Him think, “Man, I have so many good things for you, and they’re for you. They are for you and you won’t even open the package, you won’t even go there. You won’t cross the line of what is accepted among your peers.”
Listen, it’s not dangerous to know that God will do something great, someday. And by the way, it’s a good thing to believe. I believe that. It’s also not dangerous to believe that God did something great a long time ago.
But it’s very dangerous to believe that God is doing something great today.
You and I, as drop-dead, sold out Jesus freaks, need to separate the “somedays” from “right now.” I want to see the power of God, right now. I don’t want to wait until I die to know Jesus and you shouldn’t either.
I want to know Him. I want to know Him right now. I want to have peace, right now. I want to have transformation, right now. I want to pray for the sick and see the sick healed, right now. Man, I want to see heaven invade earth, right now.
Do you want these things? Do you want them right now, on this earth? Know and have faith that Jesus has power right now, and that same resurrection power lives in you. You are made for such a time as this – right now!
And if the Spirit of him who raised Jesus from the dead is living in you, he who raised Christ from the dead will also give life to your mortal bodies because of his Spirit who lives in you. – Romans 8:11
From my sermon series EXODUS
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March 9, 2018
SUPERNATURAL SAVIOR
There is so much more I have for you. I have gifts of prophecy, healing, discernment and more. Open your heart and mind to the possibilities of more. You are made in my image.
SUPERNATURAL SAVIOR
The book of Daniel is a prophetic book about the sovereignty of God. It’s all about the face of the eagle.
Daniel is so cool. It is the supernatural, prophetic companion to the book of Revelation. The power of God over everything. It’s prophetic. It’s supernatural. It’s mysterious. It’s full of visions–and you have to know Jesus like that.
If you don’t know Him in a powerful way, it’s not enough to study about people who do. You have to know Him as the face of an eagle – the all powerful God of the Universe. You have to know Him in an incredibly powerful way – to personally know Him in His power.
Why? If you know Him in those four powerful ways as written in the Gospels – face of an ox, eagle, man, lion – and backed up by the Old Testament prophets, you can have victory in every single part of my life.
Brother John the apostle knew that. He knew Jesus as the almighty God – supernatural. It’s evident in the way he starts out his book, the Gospel of John. He says, “In the beginning…” and that brother acts like he’s been on a mountain somewhere with God face to face. And he has.
He didn’t see Him as a king. He didn’t see Him as a servant. He didn’t see him as a man. John saw Him as straight up God. That is the supernatural side of Jesus. You have to know Him in His supernatural power.
You have to be able to say, “My life is a life of miracles. I’ve known the power of God throughout my life. I didn’t just study about other people who know the power of God. I actually knew the power of God.”
Do you know Jesus the way Daniel prophesied about him? Do you know him the way John experienced him? If you don’t, go after that side of God. Go after His prophetic gifts and see Him as the face of an eagle.
In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God. He was with God in the beginning. Through him all things were made; without him nothing was made that has been made. In him was life, and that life was the light of all mankind. – John 1:1-4
From my sermon series JESUS UNVEILED
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March 8, 2018
THE MOST IMPORTANT THING
The days are not only short, they are speeding up. Will you come into My Kingdom alone or will you bring many with you? It is your choice to focus on yourself or on the lost. I desire a great harvest.
THE ONLY THING THAT MATTERS
I want to tell you, the shift that has happened within our nation in the past eight years has been this: We have replaced truth with drama because we have replaced our society with a mob.
In our fallen, chaotic society today, it doesn’t matter who’s right or who’s wrong. What matters is who has the biggest mob and the loudest voices behind them – who has the biggest mouth piece in the media.
I need you, as the body of Christ, to understand what has happened so you know what to participate in and what not to participate in.
The “mob” must be entertained. And there’s no reasoning with the mob. Like a swarm of locusts, mobs will destroy and consume all at their pleasure, and they’re either going to be wiped out or played out until there is nothing left to destroy.
In a society, we do things for the sake of something bigger and there has to be selflessness in a society for the society to work. That’s why we wait in lines without screaming about it, stop at red light without creating problems, and walk our kids to school.
That’s why we stay faithful to our families, comply with the police, celebrate the military and stand for allegiance and our own National Anthem. Selflessness.
There has to be a “big picture” mentality, but if there’s only me, my idea, my way, my opinion, free stuff, I want mine, free stuff, give me, then it turns into a mob. Like I always say, Jesus is isn’t in the mob and you shouldn’t be either.
Gun control, racism, animal rights, abortion, politics, illegal aliens, environmentalism – all of these arguments are going on in our society right now and I can tell you one thing I know for certain – there is a mob on either side of the issue waiting to blind you from what’s really important.
Saving the lost from eternity in hell. Boom! The time is short. We know these are the last days and while I have strong feelings and crazy cool arguments on each of these worldly issues, my time is best spent loving people into eternity. So is yours.
What mob has you ensnared? Let it go and focus on the only thing that matters.
So let’s keep focused on that goal, those of us who want everything God has for us. If any of you have something else in mind, something less than total commitment, God will clear your blurred vision – you’ll see it yet! Now that we’re on the right track, let’s stay on it. Stick with me, friends. Keep track of those you see running this same course, headed for this same goal. – Philippians 3:15-17 MSG
From my sermon series I LOVE MY TRIBE
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March 7, 2018
IT’S UP TO YOU
While I Am your provider, I Am also your equipper. I have given you everything you need to do My will and fulfill your purpose. Only you can make it come to pass. It’s time to move forward.
IT’S UP TO YOU
A land flowing with milk and with honey. What does that mean?
Well, one of those things is a word of empowerment. Our generation thinks that empowerment is, “You give me free stuff.” No, that’s called “slavery,” where you give over your rights as a human being for free stuff. Just ask the Hebrews who refused to go into the Promised Land because the wilderness was familiar.
For the sons of Israel walked forty years in the wilderness, until all the nation, that is, the men of war who came out of Egypt, perished because they did not listen to the voice of the LORD, to whom the LORD had sworn that He would not let them see the land which the LORD had sworn to their fathers to give us, a land flowing with milk and honey. – Joshua 5:6
Also, the mindset that, “I’m willing to be a slave as long as I have a good pharaoh,” is demonic. That’s not for you. Freedom is for you.
Empowerment says this: “You will live in a country where it doesn’t matter if you’re black, white, rich, or poor; you can find a way to go to better your circumstances.” That’s empowerment. It means you will get up off of your blessed assurance and find a way because you are free to do that.
Let’s say I empower you to go to college, I can’t make you get up and go to class or pass your test. I can’t make you stay in school. That’s on you.
The principle of empowerment is this: I will remove the obstacles for you to go as far as you want. That’s the Promised Land, and how far you go in the Promised Land is up to you.
See, you can’t blame your failure to live in this blessed place on the sovereignty of God – “It just wasn’t His will for me, or His plan for my life.” Why not? Because we’re under grace and the New Testament promise of Jesus. He says, “Yes” to us. It’s our job to follow that up with an, “Amen!”
Are you experiencing milk and honey in your life? If not, take responsibility. Go after your Kingdom purpose and dream big. You already know your Heavenly Father says, “Yes.”
From my sermon series MILK AND HONEY
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March 6, 2018
STONY, THORNY OR UNPREPARED?
I long to work in your life. Will you allow it? Will you prepare for change and welcome the word I speak into you for your benefit? A great harvest is yours if only you prepare your soul. The work and the glory are both mine.
STONY, THORNY OR UNPREPARED?
When God begins to encourage you to break up the fallow ground – aka partner with Him in new areas of your life – God is sending a word that will change everything.
Whether you welcome it or not, the word is still coming, so you might as well prepare for it. If you don’t, just like in the Parable of the Sower, the Word is going to fall by the wayside because there’s no place for it to grow within you.
Then there’s the rocky ground. What is rocky ground? Neglect and rebellion, where you just harden your heart. Because the soil is shallow, the seed sprang up prematurely but its roots didn’t take hold.
In rocky ground, God speaks a word into your life, and if you don’t remove the rocks of past attitudes or you have a hard heart, you step into something before you’re ready and it kills you. Then, you spend the next couple of years dealing with the collateral damage. There’s a developmental process you don’t allow if you’re rebellious.
The third soil is full of thorns. Thorns are when you make a big deal out of painful things in your life instead of the things God Almighty is trying to change in you. If you have forgiveness issues, anger, addictions, pride or trust issues, and refuse to partner with God to get a harvest, your issues choke out the Word.
The thorns become bigger than the word God Almighty is speaking within your life. They attack the word because you’re partnering with thorns.
Then, Jesus says sometimes the word of God falls on good ground. That’s the kind of thinking that can produce real change, real progress and upgrade in your life. So let me ask you this: can God expect a harvest from you? Check out the soil of your heart. If it’s stony, thorny or unprepared, break it up!
Behold, a sower went out to sow. And it happened, as he sowed, that some seed fell by the wayside; and the birds of the air came and devoured it. Some fell on stony ground where it didn’t have much earth; and immediately it spring up because it has no depth of earth. But when the sun was up, it was scorched, and because it had no root, it withered away. Some seed fell among thorns; and the thorns grew up and choked it, and it yielded no crop. – Mark 4:3-7
From my sermon series LORD OF THE HARVEST
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March 5, 2018
JUSTICE, REDEMPTION AND RESTITUTION
Vengeance is Mine. That means fantasies of revenge for past wrongs or hurts have no place in your thinking. Let me battle for you. I will bring redemption to your wounds and leave you with justice.
JUSTICE, REDEMPTION AND RESTORATION
If you’re talking to snakes, stop it! Why? Because those voices in your head telling you to say this, do that, or turning you paranoid against people who love you are the voice of the enemy himself.
You know what I’m talking about. Those times when you relive past hurts by practicing a conversation you really shouldn’t have. Why am I telling you not to get some of your own back – a little revenge to get even for wrongs committed against you?
Because they don’t belong to you! They belong to God. See, your Father is in charge of handling the people and situations that lay you low. Vengeance belongs to the Lord and He will do battle for you.
Do not take revenge, my dear friends, but leave room for God’s wrath, for it is written: “It is mine to avenge; I will repay,” says the Lord. – Romans 12:19
The Father is uniquely equipped to bring redemption onto the battlefield. Redemption? Yes!
When redemption is applied to the situation, revenge becomes justice! Isn’t that awesome?
Justice is when the poor have opportunity and the widow security. Justice is when the orphan has a name. When past hurts become ministries and outreaches to lift others out of their misery. When Jesus rules, His majesty causes us to become overcomers in places we were once victims. Oh, I like that!
Now, the Bible tells us the devil is a liar and a thief. He loves to steal your job, your security, your relationships, your opportunities, your reputation and your territory for the Lord. If he can take your ministry, your friends or your family, he’s got you on the ropes.
Cry out to your Father, the righteous judge for justice. He can return what the thief stole and bring truth where lies once ruled the day. Let Him fight for you because the reward is justice: restoration – getting back what was taken – and restitution – getting compensation above and beyond the offense!
From my sermon series EXODUS
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