Breaking the Silence

"Breaking the Silence

In this powerful message, Erika-Michelle Best unpacks the weight of silence and the breakthrough that comes when we align our voices with God’s truth. Too often, fear, doubt, and past wounds keep us quiet—but God is calling His people to speak boldly, declare His Word, and step into divine authority.

🔥 Are you holding back what God has placed in you?
🔥 Is silence keeping you from freedom, healing, or purpose?
🔥 It’s time to break the silence and walk in the power of His voice!

Tune in now and be encouraged to rise, speak, and move in faith!

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Chapters

• 0:00 Breaking Down Walls: Deliverance and Healing
• 0:57 Restoration and Empowerment: A Call to Action
• 4:59 The Power of Silence and Its Impact
• 7:53 God's Work in Silence
• 9:59 Preparation Through Silence
• 11:22 Stepping into Our Calling
• 15:08 Breaking the Silence
• 19:15 he Call to Action
• 22:52 Trusting God's Timing
• 26:56 The Importance of Repentance
• 29:47 Embracing the Uncomfortable
• 33:35 The Urgency of the Moment

Transcript

Erika-Michelle Best (00:00)
Thank you, Lord. The heavens are open. We give thanks because you are near. We are so ready for pouring out of your Holy Spirit.

Not just on the few, but on the many. Not just on the ones who get it all the time, but on the ones who are not even sure that they need it. We're thanking you for pouring it out today, Lord.

He is so worthy to be praised. He is so worthy to be praised. He is so worthy to be praised.

come before you tonight with hearts of gratitude and adoration Lord. Y'all there is nothing more precious. than a relationship with the Lord. is, I hold it so dear.

You alone are holy and righteous and worthy of all praise, Lord. You are God, the Alpha and Omega, the beginning and the end. You are King. We thank you for revival, for we know that where your spirit is, there's freedom, there's freedom, there's freedom. Thank you for breathing fresh fire.

fresh fire upon your people. We thank you for the spiritual spark, Lord, that sets our faith on fire. Thank you for calling us higher into your presence, Lord.

We declare, tonight is a night of repentance and breakthrough, restoration and divine realignment with your perfect will. We honor your Jehovah Rafa. Our healer, your word says in Jeremiah 17, 14, heal me, oh Lord, and I shall be healed. Save me and I shall be saved for you are my praise. We thank you for releasing your healing virtue tonight.

healing for broken bodies and wounded hearts and weary spirits and discouraged minds. Every sickness and every affliction, every stronghold must bow in the name of Jesus. By your stripes we declare healing.

Lord, anoint us tonight. We need a fresh oil, a new touch, and a greater portion of your spirit. Strengthen the anointing upon our lives that we may go forth in boldness, casting out fear, breaking chains, and taking names.

Let every spiritual gift be stirred up tonight and let every calling be activated. It's time to activate your calling. The Lord is calling you and you and you and you and back there, you too. Stir up that calling tonight, Lord.

Just as David did in Psalm 9210, you have exalted my horn like that of a wild ox. have been anointed with fresh oil. Pour it out, Lord.

and for those who are standing at the threshold of their destiny, those whom you are calling to step forward tonight. Give them the courage to say yes. Remove hesitation, again, break the chains of fear and silence the lies of the enemy. step out in faith and lay hold of all that you have in store.

Now in the mighty name of Jesus, we take back everything the enemy has stolen. We take back our joy. We take back our peace. We're taking back our children and our families. We're taking back our faith and our health and Lord, our fire for you. No longer will we sit in defeat.

No longer will we allow the enemy to take what belongs to us. We declare what you said in Joel 2.25. I will restore the years that the locust has taken. This is the season of restoration. And Lord, we are declaring the time is now. We refuse to wait another moment, another day, another season. Tonight is the night of deliverance. It's the night of miracles. It's the night of revival.

Holy Spirit have your way, Move among us and consume us with your holy fire. Let your kingdom come and your will be done on earth as it is in heaven. We give you all the honor and glory and all the praise in the matchless name of Jesus Christ. Our Lord and King, we pray, amen,

It is such an honor to be trusted with a word from the Lord. It's scary too, but it is a great honor. I find it truly precious the way the Lord uses a sinner like me, and I'm here to tell you he can use a sinner like you too.

Y'all, we've been robbed for a long time.

We have been robbed of our beliefs. We have been robbed of our morals, our values. And for many years, we have sat idly by and over time, say the past 20ish years, we have slowly gotten quieter and quieter until all hell broke loose on earth. And we allowed the schemes of the devil to take over in our schools, to take over in our courthouses, to take over our screens and our televisions, in our homes, and worst of all, in our hearts.

Young people, you may not know this, but we watched as they started removing God from everything slowly, but surely they started taking him out of prayer in schools and they started taking prayer out of sports. They even removed the Bible in the courtrooms that you put your hand on that says, solemnly swear to tell the truth, the whole truth and nothing but the truth. And literally they sat and removed the whole truth out of the courthouse. They removed the Bible. We watched this happen right before our very eyes and we fell for it. We

Absolutely fell for it and we got quiet and we sat back and slowly but surely we allowed our voices to be hushed.

In our little circles, we may have continued to talk and we found ourselves in maybe what an echo chamber is where you know you're communing with people who believe and are like-minded, but we allowed them to shut us down from publicly sharing the very thing we were put here to share.

we allowed political correctness rule much of the early 2000s. We stopped saying Merry Christmas and started saying Happy Holidays. We stopped saying God bless you and replaced it with sending good vibes. we stopped doing the thing that was natural to us because it might offend somebody.

and the enemy had his way with this silence. But scripture tells us in Genesis 50, 20, what the enemy intended for evil, God will use for good.

And NLT says it like this, you intended to harm me, but God intended it all for good. He brought me to this position so I could save the lives of many. And I'd like to believe that the Lord has used this period of public silence for revelation, for renewal, for strengthening and provision, positioning us to call forth with the authority given to us by the Holy Spirit, deliverance and healing and freedom and victory.

We see throughout the Bible where God uses periods of silence for many things. Silence doesn't mean absence. He often uses silence to test, prepare, or shift his people into a new season. Say, thank you, Lord, for the new season. Much like a teacher is silent during a test, it's not because she's not there, it's because she's observing and paying attention to her students to see their progress.

And again, I am not only thankful for the new season, but also a greater move of God, y'all. feel a greater move of God coming out of this silence.

In Job 2.13, Job and his friends were silent for seven days in his suffering. Would you agree that sometimes silence is the best response when you're deeply suffering? Before you speak, it's hard sometimes to.

move through that, you want to react, the flesh wants to react and respond but sometimes you just got to be quiet. I know the Lord has worked with me on that for quite a few years where he's like, mm-mm, just don't send that. Mm-mm, that's not of me. That is not of me, ma'am. And so it is hard sometimes when you're stressed out and frustrated to want to lash out and vent your anger or whatever, but sometimes being quiet is the most powerful thing that you can do and we'll get there.

God's last words in Malachi before the 400 years of silence between the Old Testament and New Testament. Behold, I will send you Elijah the prophet before the coming of the great and dreadful day of the Lord. With Malachi's death, the voice of God's prophets were silent for 400 years. We see silence before revelation, because see in that time, we were preparing for the revelation of Jesus Christ.

Even in silence, we have to trust God.

God is often working behind the scenes. Silence doesn't mean inactivity. I mean, there's a song about it, right? even when we don't see it, we know you are working, right? It's one of our favorite songs. Zacharias silence. Silence and discipline and preparation.

or a realignment before God restores what was lost. Thank you God for restoring lost things. Some of us have lost some things that the Lord is about to restore. Zechariah was quiet. He didn't believe Gabriel when he told him what was gonna happen. well, me and my wife are kind of old. Are you sure we're gonna have a baby here? And Gabriel was like, well, yeah, I'm sure. But until then, guess what? You're gonna be quiet. So we see where Zechariah was silenced in that moment of disbelief.

Jesus was silent before his accusers. y'all, how hard can that be? What do you wanna do when somebody's accusing you of something? The thing you wanna do is you wanna stand up and defend yourself, right? You wanna get up and speak your claim. No, I didn't do this and like defend yourself. And Jesus stood silent in front of Pilate and the high priest. I can't imagine how difficult that

that must have been, I know in today's world it would be very difficult to if somebody's up in your face accusing you of something, you gonna stand there and be quiet, No, it's gonna be a little tough. But in that moment, in that moment, silence was power. God is fighting for us and not every battle requires a response. Sometimes silence is our strength.

For a wordy person like me that's very difficult to understand and realize because I like to say all of the words So being quiet and and connecting that with strength is whoo take some effort for me you guys

We must be silent to hear God. In 1 Kings 19, 12, after a great fire came a gentle whisper, a still quiet voice. So we have to quiet ourselves often to be able to hear Him. Sometimes God is talking to us and we're just so busy we can't hear Him. We got so much going on we literally can't hear Him. We don't even stop to take the time to listen for when He is trying to impress upon us something, convict

us in something, communicate with us in some way. We have to quiet ourselves to listen for that whisper.

Joshua and the walls of Jericho were to remain silent, just walking around, walking around, walking around in silence for six days. And on the seventh day, on the seventh day, Joshua said, shout in victory.

When God pauses, be expectant. Sometimes he pauses and just tells us to slow down, but sometimes it comes before a great move of God. Sometimes it comes before the victory.

Silence can be times of preparation and I don't know about you but I'm thankful for the preparation.

Can we let the Lord know tonight that we are ready and willing for what's to come? Is anybody bold enough to say yes to what the Lord has in store in this next season? Can we thank him for the test of silence before the breakthrough that's coming? The enemy thought he had you, but Jesus said, you are mine, bought and paid for.

we see in the Bible where those times of silence were broken. When John the Baptist was born, Zechariah said his name was John and he honored the message that Gabriel sent that he would have a baby and his name would be John. And he broke his silence with praise and prophecy, right? He wasn't upset for the nine months of silence. He wasn't mad at God for any reason,

sometimes we go through some things and I get a little frustrated with the Lord. But I'm here to tell you right now, coming out of 42 days in fasting, I will be coming out like Zacharias with some praise and some shouting for some regular food. For some regular food, okay?

Jesus's first recorded word in Luke 2.49 was I must be about my father's business.

And I wanna encourage us tonight to be about our Heavenly Father's business. We're too busy being about our own business. And that is why we are in the situations we are in. And I am not saying this in any sort of a judgmental way, because I am surely speaking to myself. I can promise you that. But we are too much about the business on earth. It's why we get shaken up when things happen. It's division is

thrust in the middle of us because we're too worried about the world's business and not stopping to take a look at what the Lord says, what God's will is. We have got to be about our Father's business. We have to stop with allowing the enemy to use all of this turmoil against us. And we need to start reminding ourselves that we need to unite, be about the word of God, share the word of God.

instruct in the word of God. Start raising up disciples and prophets and helping others step into their anointing and their calling so that we can have the victory that we know is ours because it tells us so.

If you find yourself shaken up by what you see around you, it's because you're not enough in here, okay? If you are nervous about your financial circumstances, give it to God. If you are concerned about parenting your children, give it to God. If you are concerned about how you're gonna eat tomorrow,

Give it to God. I don't care how big, I don't care how small it is. Give it to God. Don't look at it with a worldly view. Look at it with a spiritual view and start using God's word in your favor.

Start praying that word back to him because one thing is for sure, where the world may fail you, the Lord will honor his word. He is faithful. He will honor his promises. He will not, he cannot lie. So use that word. Use that word to stand on y'all. When I was pregnant with Nala and they kept saying, she is going to die with all the conviction that science could give them. We stood on Luke 850.

didn't know how she was going to survive. I didn't know how it was going to work out. I still don't know how it's gonna work out in the end. But what I can tell you is standing on that scripture, God honored his word. He kept his promise. He kept his promise. Start relying on the word and stop relying on the world. Because the world will fail you every single time. Every time.

Your answers don't come from here, children. Chat GPT can't tell you how to walk with the Lord. Chat GPT cannot tell you what he says about you. Chat GPT can't deliver your anointing to you. Chat GPT can't call out the Lord's will. It cannot work for you in that way.

This is good for distraction. This is good for mindless entertainment. This is good for anxiety and depression and to keep you stirred up and miserable and comparing yourself to other things That's what this is good for. Yes, you can work from your phone. You can do school. There is some productivity that can happen with this thing. But I'm here to tell you it's time for us to throw it out.

It's time for us to throw it out and stop succumbing to the pressures that, my kid needs a phone because they need to get in touch with me. No. No. Because we survived.

We had a payphone and if you didn't have a quarter, you was in trouble. We made it. I know I'm dating myself right now, you young folks. It's OK, though. Y'all don't know nothing about no payphones. It's our little pager. But I'm telling y'all with every ounce of me, That thing right there.

is the number one source of disrupting your peace, robbing you of your joy, and taking time away that should be spent right here.

I feel really strongly that the Lord sent me and that actually really scares me to say, you guys, y'all know I'm not a pastor. I didn't go to seminary school. I didn't learn how to do this the proper way. So even to say that I feel strongly that the Lord sent me to tell you is terrifying to me, but I'm here to tell you it's time.

It's time for silence to be broken and it's time for us to rise up. If you haven't been paying attention, you can see it all across social media and sports. Christians are now unafraid to stand and publicly give thanks to the Lord for their gifts and talents. There are social media accounts across many platforms that are dedicated to sharing the word.

God is waking up his spiritual warriors. And if you're paying attention to this and not the world, you can see it.

It's very evident and apparent. He is waking up his spiritual warriors and y'all it is not on accident. He is preparing for something and he needs you to listen and step into your calling. And I promise you if you don't listen, he'll find somebody else. He will find somebody else. So if you want, if you want the fullness and the preciousness of the Lord, step into your calling. I encourage you to say yes.

It feels really good y'all is scary, but it feels really good

The Lord is saying be silent no more. We are entering a season of full restoration and may the Lord give back Job 42, 10 portions.

people who have overcome darkness in their life through the power of Jesus.

We have a fire inside of us that is impossible to extinguish. You gotta get it in here. And young kids, I know y'all may not have been through some things yet that can give you that, that desperation and that longing and that urging for the Lord to just take over your life, take over your tongue, fill you with his spirit. Sometimes it takes a place of desperation to get there. And I'm speaking from experience because that's what happened.

to me, I was in a desperate place, so desperate. And not that I wish this on any of you young people, you don't have to have moments of darkness to receive this, which is why we stand up here week after week to try to encourage you to get in the word and get the fullness of God, because you can get there without the darkness. You can overcome and experience that without it, but.

When that happens, when you have a moment of despair and anguish and fear and insecurity and you don't know what's gonna happen, once the Lord delivers you from that, you have a fire and a light inside of you that is not easily put out. Because you know for yourself not only what the Lord is capable of, but you know that He will.

You know that he will and when you know it like that.

Nobody convince you about otherwise It doesn't matter how many people try to rise up and tell you that's not real. That's fake. That's weird you know for yourself and nobody can rob you of that and That's what you want to fight for Because the world is trying to convince you and confuse you and rob you of that knowledge But when you get it inside of here, it's impossible It's impossible

Psalm 75 10, for God says, will break the strength of the wicked, but I will increase the power of the godly who is ready for that increase tonight.

We never lose because He never fails. And it's time we set our faith on fire and go all in. Pastor West talked not too long ago about what you sell out to, you become.

Young people sell out to Christ.

Who better to sell out to than him?

especially before the world gets its hooks in you.

Children are protected. We know how Jesus feels about the children. He loves the little children. Y'all are protected.

and what us parents are trying to help you understand and help you know. And we try not to scare you, but I just gotta have some real talk today because there is a real enemy that's trying to get its hooks in you.

There is a real enemy that wants to disrupt the power of the anointing that the Lord has called for you There is a real enemy who wants to disrupt the plan that God has for you plans to prosper you and not harm you There is a real enemy kids. We're not just telling you this because we want to be mean parents We're not just blocking things on the phone because we want you to have a miserable life We're not just not allowing you to

certain shows and certain movies because we just, I don't know, want to see you throw a fit for the day. It's not enjoyable for us either, trust me. The reason we are doing it is because we are trying to protect you. We are trying to make sure that the enemy does not get his hooks in you.

I just want you to understand.

that us parents love you so much. We love you so much. And even with as much as we love you, we would lay down our lives for you. We would kill somebody for you.

We would, we love you that much. And even with how much we love you, it still doesn't compare to how much God loves you. It still doesn't compare. Doesn't even come close. You guys are only on loan to us. That's it. We are not.

control of your destiny. We are not in control of what God has for you. He is and our job is to help you stay the path. It's to help guide you. It's to help get you to that point to where you can sell out to Christ and say yes when he calls you. And let me tell you something kids, he's calling y'all and calling y'all now because some adults won't stand up. Y'all are the next generation and he needs you. He needs you. He needs you because y'all are not going to be scared of some of the things that adults are. Y'all are not going to be weary.

So he is going to call you. Let me tell you something Keaton, you may not have to wait till you're 18 or 20 to step on this stage. He may call you at 17. Let me tell you something, Gavin. Let me tell you something. When that anointing sets fire on that voice that you got, boy, you're gonna be unstoppable. Let me tell you.

You guys have got to start understanding our goal is not to make your life miserable, it is to help save you. Save you from yourself because you don't know. You don't know.

And I'll go ahead and talk to some of the more seasoned people.

We have a lot of life on us, okay? And some things we get jaded in, some things we get confused by. We start talking ourselves out of the very thing God is trying to call us into.

The Lord has been calling on somebody, multiple somebodies, and we're not listening. We're not listening. You are.

called and chosen and set apart and irregardless of what life you have had on you and I can speak from 100 % experience because I didn't live a perfect life. I didn't listen to my mama. I didn't live a perfect life. I made many mistakes. I did many things wrong.

There were times I didn't honor my mother or my father. There were times that I went against so many things. And yet still, the Lord chose to use me in some way. So even if you feel like you are too ashamed of what you've done yesterday, last week, last year, last month, it's okay. It's okay, I'm telling you it.

40-ish something years old, it's not too late. So don't feel like just because you maybe have made some mistakes in life that it's too late for the Lord to use you because it is not.

That's right. He's calling you too. And he needs us to step into our anointing and he needs us to be bold and he needs us to speak and loudly because we've got to override We need to be louder than the enemy.

Yes, in a loving way, I get it. I'm not saying go start yelling in the streets and, well, I know, know, street preaching is a thing. No judgment against it at all. That is actually a thing. But.

I'm not saying to get in people's face and yell and death and destruction is upon you. I don't mean it like that, but I very strongly, strongly, strongly feel that the Lord is urging the spiritual warriors to stand up. You've got a gift that he needs to use. And I've said it before and I'll say it again, there's going to come a time where somebody walks through that door and they've got a demon attached to them and somebody needs to be able to recognize it to cast it out. There's gonna be a time that somebody walks in here and they've got some sort of disease

they're gonna need deliverance from and we need the anointing of the Holy Spirit to heal sickness. We have got to get back to Jesus sent the Holy Spirit for those things. Those things are not old. Those things are not old. They are still happening today. And if we want things like that to come through our door, we've got to step into our anointing. Let's prepare ourselves for what the Lord has for us. Let's prepare ourselves for what he's gonna send through that door. Let's prepare ourselves.

We've got to stop sitting idly by. We've got to stop letting our calling pass us by. You have been called. You have been called. You have been called. Step into your calling.

The world teaches us be unapologetically you. I'd like to encourage us to be unapologetically faithful. unafraid to step into the calling God has placed on our life. Step into the fullness of his love. Have the courage to be fishers of men and be a disciple for Christ. We gotta keep praying. We gotta stay obedient. We gotta listen for his whisper.

We gotta be ready when he speaks, because when he says go, we need to go. We need to go. You may not have time. It's the same concept as like, if your kid is about to step out into the street in front of a car, you don't have time to think. When your parent says move, you gotta move. It's the same as the Lord is calling us right now, because when he says it's time, we gotta be ready to go. We gotta be armored.

We gotta be suited up. We gotta position ourselves. Because we gotta fight before us. But fortunately for us, he prepares us for this. But you gotta listen for it. You gotta be prepared for it. And we're gonna have to mount up. And when God says go, we have got to be ready. And if you stay ready, you ain't gotta get ready.

know who in here tonight.

has been confused or unsure of what the Lord has for you. Maybe you're in a time of silence.

But even in the silence, He is working. Even in the silence, He is fighting for you. Even in the silence, there are things that are being positioned for your victory. You have to trust and believe, and it's scary, it's terrifying, because we think we're in control. We think we actually control the outcome of some things. We don't.

So we have to trust in something and it is hard because you can't always see it. And we're such a world of tangible, in our face, instant gratification that we don't have the patience to wait for the answer, even in the silence. And sometimes silence is the answer. Because if God is not.

instructing you to do something, move in some way, to shift in some way, to go a different direction.

or to answer a question, maybe the answer is either no or not right now.

And we have to trust even when it's no or not right now. When a woman is pregnant, we gotta wait 10 months. I don't know why they say nine, y'all, it's 10. We gotta wait 10 months to figure out what's gonna happen. We have to trust and believe the process of the human body. Y'all, that's not science at work, that's God. That's God molding and shaping. He knows the baby before you do.

And we have to trust that entire 10 month process. And we do it, we do it so effortlessly, right? Because it's systematic at this point. women have been having babies for centuries, right? Why are we unable?

to trust Him in 10 months of silence, 10 months of not right now, 10 months of no, 10 months of I'm not in agreement with that, 10 months of that's not my will. We have to be willing to trust and have faith in Him even when we gotta wait and wait with uncertainty.

I'm believing, I'm believing wholeheartedly that somebody in here is, is.

is not paying attention, is not quiet, or they're unsure and concerned, they're worried that the Lord is not listening to them and don't hear them. Yes, he does. He cares about everything when it comes to you. he cares about them hair follicles on your head. He cares about them toenails on your feet. He cares about it all.

Stop giving your cares to worldly things and start giving your cares to Him. And the moment you do that, the moment you do that, you will free yourself. You will free yourself to feel confident and peace and joy to step into the calling that He has for you.

Some of us have run scared for so long that we're comfortable in it. Nothing that comes from the Lord is comfortable. Nothing.

Be willing to get uncomfortable. Be willing to give up some things. Be willing to let some things go. Be willing to repent of some things. Be willing to be silent no more. There are some scary, scary sins that we are all dealing with. Scary. There are some that are so big you feel like you can't come back from. That is a lie from the devil.

And we are praying for the Lord to silence those lies. There is nothing so great that He cannot restore you from.

We have to be willing to number one, admit it. I'm not saying go air all your dirty laundry across social media.

but get into an intimate private conversation because God wants your realness. He wants your brokenness. He wants your despair and your desperation and your confusion. He can't work on the fake you. He has to have the real you. So take time, take time to get into a real intimate and private moment with the Lord and start repenting and giving him these things so that you can open up space in your heart.

for him to replace it with what he has in store for you. If you carry it around all your baggage like this, where is there room for what he's got for you? The world may shame you, that's fine. That's on them and that's between them and the Lord. The Lord doesn't condemn you. He will convict you, so be prepared. Because he might tell you, hey, that's some things you're not supposed to be doing. The Holy Spirit will absolutely convict you.

but with the way we are to prepare right now for the spiritual warfare that is knock, knock, knocking. Matter of fact, it's no longer even knocking, it has kicked the door in. The way we have to prepare, we've got to give up what is holding us back. We've got to give up what the enemy is using against us. Y'all, you ever have somebody try to hold something against you? You're like, ooh, I know this about you. What you gonna do?

Do what you will, right? You're not gonna stand by and let somebody hold something against you. You're gonna fight. Y'all stop letting the enemy use your transgressions against you. It is a foothold that he's got and he's got his foot right there. And then just when you think you're ready to let it go, that enemy comes in. They shame to you. Look at them. They're looking at you. They know what you did last night. Look at them. They know it. They know it. Start meddling.

That's not of God. There is nothing and it doesn't matter. I don't care if you're six years old tonight and I don't care if you, how old is the oldest person in here? You ain't gotta call it out. I'm just saying 60 something. I don't care how old you are. It is never too late. It is never too late to repent and give up some past transgressions. It's never too late. We've gotta let it go though. We've gotta let it go.

Y'all, this altar's open. And in a minute, we're gonna give an opportunity for you to lay it all down at the Lord's feet. Lay it all down. Be willing to not walk out of that door the same way you walked in. Refuse. Absolutely refuse to walk out the way you walked in.

Lord, even in the silence, we trust you. Strengthen our faith tonight, Lord. Prepare our hearts, prepare our hearts. And when you say the time is now, we will declare, we will shout and we will take back what is ours. We take back our joy, we take back our peace. We take back our family in Jesus' name.

Lord, we are stepping out in faith and reclaiming what has been stolen and we surrender our waiting season. to you, Lord. And we step into restoration. Your word says in Isaiah 40, 31, but those who trust in the Lord will find new strength. They will soar high on wings like eagles.

They will run and not grow weary. They will walk out and not faint. We are trusting in you tonight, Lord. We are trusting in you in the season of turnaround. This season of turnaround is the season of the take back. And that restoration is at our feet.

whether you believe the time is near or not, whether you believe the time, the end time is gonna happen in our lifetime or not. It really doesn't matter.

because we're closer to it today than we've ever been before. And we'll be closer to it tomorrow than we've ever been before. We'll be closer to it next month and next year than we've ever been before. And there is gonna come a time, there is gonna come a time where it's too late to repent. It's too late to accept as your Lord and Savior. There is going to come a time where it is too late to do an about face. And I am encouraging you tonight to not let this opportunity pass you by.

It could be tomorrow. It could be two hours from now. It could be in April. Why chance it? Why wait to give the Lord your sins? Why wait to ask for forgiveness for those sins? I am urging you, this altar is open. I am urging you. am imploring you. Do not.

leave this place without letting go of some of the things that are holding you back, are holding you hostage, that are holding you down.

John the Baptist came in saying repent of your sins. Jesus' first public proclamation was repent of your sins. All throughout the Old Testament and the New Testament we hear where they say repent of your sins. Repenting is a very important part of your salvation. Repent and repent daily. Ask the Lord to examine your heart tonight.

to forgive you for the known and the unknown. Because y'all, there are some sins in our life that we're not even aware of.

Do not be afraid.

Give him praise, give him praise. Don't let the stones cry out for you. We have a voice. Let's use it.

My prayer warriors, if you can partner up with a young person and declare victory over their life tonight.

Let's pour into these kids tonight. Let's show the enemy who he's messing with. Let's show him we won't lay down and let him have our children.

We're believing tonight, We're thanking you for victory. We're thanking you for broken stronghold.

Thank for breaking the chains, Lord. We thank you for a renewing Lord. Fill our hearts with your spirit tonight, Lord God. If you are new here and you have never been filled with the Holy Spirit, right now is your opportunity. You may not understand what it's like being a part of a spirit land and a spirit-filled church.

This is what it looks like.

I'm telling y'all don't let those stones cry out for you. Don't let the stones cry out. Feel the presence of the spirit and receive it. Receive it. God is a gentleman, he's not gonna force it on you. Say yes to it tonight.

Say yes to the Holy Spirit tonight. Make a bold declaration that you say, yes, Lord, I'm ready. I will let you use me, Lord. Ask the Lord to strengthen your calling. Some of y'all need your calling to be revealed to you. Ask the Lord to reveal your calling to you. And then once it's revealed, ask him to strengthen it.

People are not walking out today the same as they walked in.

Thank you, Jesus.

Thank you Jesus. Let your spirit fall Lord, let your spirit fall. Have your way, have your way, have your way.

Hey there Journey