SPEAKER_00: Welcome to the Life Family Church Sermon Podcast.
SPEAKER_00: If this is your first time listening, you can check us out on our website at lifefamily.
SPEAKER_00: Now let's get right to the message.
SPEAKER_01: Hallelujah.
SPEAKER_01: Lord, we thank you, we thank you, we thank you, we thank you for always coming through.
SPEAKER_01: Lord, when it seems impossible, you're the God of the impossible.
SPEAKER_01: You can make a way where there seems to be no way.
SPEAKER_01: You are the way maker.
SPEAKER_01: Lord, I thank you for blessing us.
SPEAKER_01: Lord, increasing our lives, strengthening us, drawing us out of where we were in the pit and bringing us to where we are now is the righteousness of God in Christ Jesus.
SPEAKER_01: Lord, we thank you for the privilege to be called your children.
SPEAKER_01: Lord, I thank you for loving us when we were so unlovely.
SPEAKER_01: When we deserved destruction, you gave us your blessing.
SPEAKER_01: When we deserved hell, you gave us your presence.
SPEAKER_01: And you called us out of darkness into your marvelous light.
SPEAKER_01: Lord, I thank you that we are walking now as children of the light.
SPEAKER_01: We're no longer in darkness any longer, but we're walking according to your word and your presence.
SPEAKER_01: And Lord, as we're here to worship you, we're seeing more clear the goodness of God in the land of the living.
SPEAKER_01: Lord, I thank you that you've blessed us with all things that pertain to life and to godliness.
SPEAKER_01: And Lord, we take hold of those things by faith and we apply them to our lives.
SPEAKER_01: And we thank you, Father, for them.
SPEAKER_01: We're so grateful for your love and your mercy and your grace and your help in time of trouble and time of need.
SPEAKER_01: You truly are a God who is more than enough.
SPEAKER_01: Thank you, Jesus.
SPEAKER_01: I have a quick testimony to give you.
SPEAKER_01: August the 28th of last year, we had the privilege of taking on the position of being the pastors of Life Family Church.
SPEAKER_01: And we were so grateful, so excited, and we were so motivated.
SPEAKER_01: Now it's time to sell our house.
SPEAKER_01: Praise God.
SPEAKER_01: It's time to get rid of this house because we're moving to Illinois.
SPEAKER_01: And I'm going to tell you something.
SPEAKER_01: The grace of God has helped us throughout this process, from day to day to day.
SPEAKER_01: Because we had to pay two house payments, two electric bills, two gas bills, all the above.
SPEAKER_01: My family lived in in Oklahoma for a while, and I live with the with the tippies.
SPEAKER_01: What a blessing you guys were.
SPEAKER_01: I called, glory to God.
SPEAKER_01: I called Miss Terry at work.
SPEAKER_01: I said, I need your help.
SPEAKER_01: I cannot pastor this church in Oklahoma.
SPEAKER_01: I need to be in Illinois.
SPEAKER_01: Will you find a way for me to get there?
SPEAKER_01: She said, Well, you're not staying with me.
SPEAKER_01: I'm just, listen.
SPEAKER_01: No, she didn't say that.
SPEAKER_01: I'm just, I'm just like, she said, Hold on a minute, give me a few moments, and I'll see what I can find out.
SPEAKER_01: And it wasn't, it wasn't long at all at all.
SPEAKER_01: And we got a call.
SPEAKER_01: These folks in our church, the Tippies, they said they'd love to have you come and stay in their house.
SPEAKER_01: And they were so such a blessing to me.
SPEAKER_01: She would call me up to go grab a bite to eat upstairs.
SPEAKER_01: Amen.
SPEAKER_01: We'd have good conversations, just have such a good time.
SPEAKER_01: God used them in a special way.
SPEAKER_01: And it was such a blessing.
SPEAKER_01: Thank you guys.
SPEAKER_01: I love you guys so much.
SPEAKER_01: And we'd become a family.
SPEAKER_01: I become their son.
SPEAKER_01: And I said, Justin, get out of the way.
SPEAKER_01: I'm the beloved son.
SPEAKER_01: I take the birthright.
SPEAKER_01: We had such a good time.
SPEAKER_01: And my family would come off and on throughout the whole process.
SPEAKER_01: And uh man, what how hard was that on my wife and family to come back and forth weekend after weekend to do what they did.
SPEAKER_01: And it has been such an amazing adventure up to this point, and we've seen such tremendous growth.
SPEAKER_01: And I've met some of the greatest people on earth here.
SPEAKER_01: And I just wanted so bad for my wife to get here.
SPEAKER_01: And we finally found a house.
SPEAKER_01: So we purchased it, and we've been kicking and scratching and clawing, living by MasterCard and Discover card, and every card that there is trying to make it here.
SPEAKER_01: And I want to tell you by the grace of God and for the glory of God that our house has officially been sold and that now we are now permanently here, permanently here.
SPEAKER_01: Amen.
SPEAKER_01: We're not going anywhere.
SPEAKER_01: And we like I said, we're so grateful to be here.
SPEAKER_01: We love you guys, and this is our place, these are our people, and I'm anointed as your pastor to lead this church into the future, and what we're gonna do is just gonna be so amazing.
SPEAKER_01: But the same God who supplied all our needs throughout that time where it stretched us, buddy.
SPEAKER_01: You know, we didn't, it's not like we had a ton of money just laying around, we could just throw at two houses, but man, I'm telling you, God came through every month.
SPEAKER_01: Amen.
SPEAKER_01: Glory to God, and he will be the same God for you.
SPEAKER_01: You just have to trust him.
SPEAKER_01: There's some of you out there today that you're thinking about stepping out in faith and doing something.
SPEAKER_01: You know, us stepping out from where we were and coming out to here, that was a step of faith.
SPEAKER_01: Any of you who have started a business, you know that's a step of faith.
SPEAKER_01: That's something you have to do, not having any promises other than what you have on the inside, and that's a promise from Almighty God.
SPEAKER_01: That when I step out in faith, I'm gonna accomplish great things for God.
SPEAKER_01: And He is the God who supplies all our needs according to His riches and glory through Christ Jesus.
SPEAKER_01: And that's not only for finances, that's for every area of your life.
SPEAKER_01: We need a friend, God will bring you friends.
SPEAKER_01: We needed friends in Oklahoma, and God brought us these folks.
SPEAKER_01: Dustin and Brittany become Brittany became a great friend of ours.
SPEAKER_01: We've traveled with them, we just have a good time with each other.
SPEAKER_01: If you need a friend, God will bring you friends.
SPEAKER_01: Just make sure you're friendly, right?
SPEAKER_01: Because that's kind of like a biblical precept is be friendly and God will bring you friends.
SPEAKER_01: Amen.
SPEAKER_01: So all of us are blessed of God, and we have a call of God on our life, but it requires us stepping out from where we are and stepping into the promise one step at a time, amen.
SPEAKER_01: And trusting that we serve a God who is more than enough.
SPEAKER_01: Amen.
SPEAKER_01: God bless you.
SPEAKER_01: You can be seated this morning, and um, I would say I'll go ahead and preach, but I think I've already been doing that.
SPEAKER_01: So, you guys, thank you all so much.
SPEAKER_01: Don't we have an amazing worship team?
SPEAKER_01: Amen.
SPEAKER_01: If you're if you have your Bibles this morning, um if you want to, turn over to Acts 10, verse 38.
SPEAKER_01: We'll start there this morning.
SPEAKER_01: I've got a few things to say, and then I'm not gonna be long because I know I can smell the food already.
SPEAKER_01: Can you smell it?
SPEAKER_01: Amen.
SPEAKER_01: So it's kind of like we gotta get out of here.
SPEAKER_01: But don't let the food keep your attention away from the anointing this morning.
SPEAKER_01: God does have something for you.
SPEAKER_01: Acts chapter 10, verse 38.
SPEAKER_01: This is a very popular verse.
SPEAKER_01: A lot of people know this verse, but I want to draw out a few things on this verse.
SPEAKER_01: It says this how God anointed Jesus of Nazareth with the Holy Spirit and with power.
SPEAKER_01: Everybody say power.
SPEAKER_01: Who went about doing good and healing all who were oppressed of the devil, for God was with him.
SPEAKER_01: There's a couple things I want to draw out of this text.
SPEAKER_01: First of all, if someone says to you that Jesus is not God or the Holy Spirit is not God or God is not God, you can take them to this verse and you can say, This is where the Trinity was established.
SPEAKER_01: How God anointed Jesus, the Son of God, with the anointing who went about doing good and healing all that were oppressed to the devil.
SPEAKER_01: He was anointed of what?
SPEAKER_01: The Holy Spirit.
SPEAKER_01: So there was the Trinity in action in this verse.
SPEAKER_01: How God anointed Jesus of Nazareth with the Holy Ghost and with power, who went about doing good.
SPEAKER_01: I want you to focus on that word good.
SPEAKER_01: I want you to put this in your heart and in your minds, and I want you to make sure you put a period where there's been question marks.
SPEAKER_01: God is always good.
SPEAKER_01: Come on, somebody.
SPEAKER_01: I want you to respond to this.
SPEAKER_01: God is always good.
SPEAKER_01: Amen.
SPEAKER_01: Say that again back there, sweetie.
SPEAKER_01: Good.
SPEAKER_01: God is good.
SPEAKER_01: Anything that happens in your life that does not add up to being good is not God.
SPEAKER_01: I want to say it again because I believe the church has been uh duped for too long, thinking that it's God that causes these issues in my life to teach me something.
SPEAKER_01: God doesn't teach you through putting disease on your body.
SPEAKER_01: God doesn't teach you through putting affliction on your body and on your mind.
SPEAKER_01: The love of God, it convicts us, but that conviction is not to condemn us, but to cause us and challenge us to rise up to a newer height, a higher place.
SPEAKER_01: God is, he wants you to come out from where you are and step up to a higher place, but he's not going to condemn you to get you there.
SPEAKER_01: Condemnation brings death.
SPEAKER_01: It does not bring life.
SPEAKER_01: God always brings life.
SPEAKER_01: God is always good, put a period there, and the devil is always bad, put a period there.
SPEAKER_01: Amen.
SPEAKER_01: So Jesus was anointed with the Holy Spirit and with power, and he went about doing what?
SPEAKER_01: Good.
SPEAKER_01: He was represent, he was a representation of the Father here on this earth.
SPEAKER_01: He was the word of God made flesh, and he dwelt among us, and we beheld him, the glory of Almighty God, the only begotten of the Father, full of grace and full of truth.
SPEAKER_01: Glory to God.
SPEAKER_01: So we serve a good God.
SPEAKER_01: You can put a period there.
SPEAKER_01: So if things in your life are not going good, then things in your life are not going God's way.
SPEAKER_01: So who needs to make the adjustment?
SPEAKER_01: Glory to God, hallelujah.
SPEAKER_01: I had you, y'all are excited, y'all are about to shout me down, and then I said something about you being responsible, and it's like, whoa, hold on.
SPEAKER_01: You see, God is not the one that needs to change because he's always good, and his ways are always right, right?
SPEAKER_01: Glory to God.
SPEAKER_01: Who's gonna have to do the changing?
SPEAKER_01: We do.
SPEAKER_01: We have to make the adjustments in life.
SPEAKER_01: I was thinking the other day, I heard a guy talking about how when when they get in a space shuttle, not the one that was by Jeff Bezos, not that one, but another one that actually made it to the moon.
SPEAKER_01: Um you get in a rocket ship and you go and you start heading towards the moon.
SPEAKER_01: I don't know how you would do the math to know exactly where to go.
SPEAKER_01: But apparently they don't know exactly, so they have to make the adjustments as they go.
SPEAKER_01: They're headed towards the moon, but they have to constantly make the adjustments as they're going, as they're going there.
SPEAKER_01: And that's exactly like us in life.
SPEAKER_01: We are headed towards great things, but we have to constantly make the adjustments in our attitudes, in our relationships, in our church life, in our business life, in our home life, our relationship with our family.
SPEAKER_01: We have to consistently make the adjustments.
SPEAKER_01: We're not all there.
SPEAKER_01: We have to continually make the adjustments necessary to get to the place where we need to be.
SPEAKER_01: And it's not a bad thing.
SPEAKER_01: When God rebukes you, or when God comes to you and says, hey, you're being a knucklehead, you need to straighten up, that's not God being mean to you.
SPEAKER_01: That's God trying to help you, protect you, direct you, and keep you in a place where He can bless you.
SPEAKER_01: He wants you in that place, but we have to consistently make the adjustments necessary.
SPEAKER_01: So everyone in here, I want everybody to raise your hand.
SPEAKER_01: I need to say this with me.
SPEAKER_01: Say, I need to make adjustments in my life.
SPEAKER_01: Amen.
SPEAKER_01: I got 100% altar call.
SPEAKER_01: Do you see that?
SPEAKER_01: What a blessing.
SPEAKER_01: I'm going to tell all my preacher friends that everybody responded.
SPEAKER_01: All right.
SPEAKER_01: But the anointing of God, it does something.
SPEAKER_01: Now I want you to see something here in this verse.
SPEAKER_01: The anointing of God is not to set you up for a position.
SPEAKER_01: Listen, the anointing that comes upon you from God is not so you can have a position.
SPEAKER_01: The anointing of God coming upon you is so that you can serve a purpose.
SPEAKER_01: Say it again because too many people out there get mixed up is they think I'm anointed to be a prophet, I'm anointed to be an evangelist, I'm anointed to be.
SPEAKER_01: No, you're anointed to serve.
SPEAKER_01: God has consecrated you to service.
SPEAKER_01: Each and every one of us are called to serve.
SPEAKER_01: Each and every one of us are anointed anointed of Almighty God to serve, to be a servant, to have a servant's heart, to be willing and ready at a moment's notice to step up to the plate and do exactly what you were designed to do, and that is to win.
SPEAKER_01: And not only that, to help others along the way, to also win this battle.
SPEAKER_01: So God has anointed us.
SPEAKER_01: That word anointing means this to consecrate.
SPEAKER_01: That word consecrate means to set apart.
SPEAKER_01: So God will anoint you to set you apart from everybody else.
SPEAKER_01: You were created to be different than anyone else.
SPEAKER_01: You're not created by Almighty God to be just like somebody else.
SPEAKER_01: You were created to be different.
SPEAKER_01: You're a creation, a creation, a creature that has never been before.
SPEAKER_01: When the anointing of God gets on you, you're able to do things that you were never able to do before.
SPEAKER_01: And no one else can do that like you.
SPEAKER_01: Why?
SPEAKER_01: Because Almighty God will come on you to do something special through your life to bring freedom to those who are held captive.
SPEAKER_01: The anointing is to bring freedom for those who are bruised, those who are battered, those who are hurt, those who are broken, those who are oppressed.
SPEAKER_01: God wants to anoint you.
SPEAKER_01: Anoint you.
SPEAKER_01: You say, Well, I don't know.
SPEAKER_01: I just don't know if I'm called to do it.
SPEAKER_01: No, you're anointed to do it.
SPEAKER_01: There's a difference.
SPEAKER_01: I don't care how called you are, it doesn't matter how pretty you sing.
SPEAKER_01: I told these guys before worship, I said, I don't care if you get up here and mess it all up, as long as when you start blessing the Lord and worshiping the Lord, the oppression that's on people's lives starts to break off.
SPEAKER_01: Amen.
SPEAKER_01: Church doesn't have to be pretty, folks.
SPEAKER_01: It just needs to be, it just needs to be anointed.
SPEAKER_01: My message, my words, they don't have to be perfect, and they're not.
SPEAKER_01: They don't.
SPEAKER_01: They just need to be anointed.
SPEAKER_01: You think Saul, when he became king, knew how to become king?
SPEAKER_01: There was no manual.
SPEAKER_01: Here's how you are king.
SPEAKER_01: Here's how kingship works.
SPEAKER_01: Yes, Saul made a big mistake out of being king.
SPEAKER_01: But he was anointed.
SPEAKER_01: When Samuel came and anointed him, he was anointed to be king.
SPEAKER_01: And if he would have continued listening to God, he would have been king throughout, and his kingdom would have never ended.
SPEAKER_01: But because he disobeyed God, the anointing was taken from him and placed on another, and we call him David, right?
SPEAKER_01: And that anointing came on David.
SPEAKER_01: And David was able to do things that not very many normal people could do.
SPEAKER_01: He was able to kill lions and bears.
SPEAKER_01: He was able to kill a giant.
SPEAKER_01: He was able to sling a rock.
SPEAKER_01: He was able to do the things that not very many other people could do.
SPEAKER_01: Why?
SPEAKER_01: Because he was anointed.
SPEAKER_01: Anointed.
SPEAKER_01: Jesus said this in Luke chapter 4, verse 18.
SPEAKER_01: He said, The Spirit of the Lord is upon me because he has anointed me to preach the gospel to the poor.
SPEAKER_01: He has sent me to heal the brokenhearted, to proclaim liberty to the captives and recovery of sight to the blind, to set at liberty those who are oppressed, to proclaim the acceptable year of the Lord.
SPEAKER_01: This was Jesus revealing the purpose of his anointing, not the purpose of his personality.
SPEAKER_01: And I don't think that settled too well with those guys.
SPEAKER_01: The religious people don't like it when you're anointed.
SPEAKER_01: They want to shut the anointing up.
SPEAKER_01: Because when a person is anointed, things can get messy, things can get out of control.
SPEAKER_01: People start seeing and running and jumping and shouting.
SPEAKER_01: It just takes the glory away from the religious folks.
SPEAKER_01: But I'm with every one of you all.
SPEAKER_01: I don't care about the religion.
SPEAKER_01: I want to see a relationship with Jesus that's real, that's relational, that's radical, and that when we come into this place, we're not a bunch of religious zealots, but we're people who love the Lord and are willing to do whatever it takes to get in God's presence, stay there and see the anointed break the yoke off people's lives, and people walk out here set free and delivered by the power of Almighty God.
SPEAKER_01: Hallelujah.
SPEAKER_01: Who cares about religion?
SPEAKER_01: Religion has brought nothing but death and destruction into this world.
SPEAKER_01: We're not about religion here, we're about relationship.
SPEAKER_01: We're not about perfection, we're about people.
SPEAKER_01: Amen.
SPEAKER_01: And people come in here, they come in broken, they come in hurt, they come in depressed, distressed.
SPEAKER_01: All the things that David experienced when people came into the cave of Adulum, they were distressed, they were in debt, they were broken, they were hurt, they didn't know where to go or what to do, they were in darkness.
SPEAKER_01: But because of the anointing that was on David's life, he expressed something to them and they got a hold of something that changed their life.
SPEAKER_01: And when they left that cave, they were not only able to fight with one hand, they were able to fight with both hands, tied behind their back.
SPEAKER_01: It didn't matter.
SPEAKER_01: They were warriors for God.
SPEAKER_01: And when the anointing comes on you, you're able to do exceedingly abundantly above all that you could ask or think, according to the power of God that's working on the inside of you.
SPEAKER_01: That is the anointing of God, but it's not there so that we can have a Holy Ghost party and goosebumps and shout and run and dance.
SPEAKER_01: It's there so people can be set free and lives can be changed and hearts can be mended and relationships and marriages can be made whole again.
SPEAKER_01: That's what it does.
SPEAKER_01: It breaks the oppression off of people's lives.
SPEAKER_01: What is oppression?
SPEAKER_01: Oppression is this it's a heaviness.
SPEAKER_01: It's a heaviness on your life.
SPEAKER_01: It's when you feel broken and you feel like you just can't get up, that everything I do is a mess, that I'm just heavy laden, burdened.
SPEAKER_01: If you're in here and you feel burdened, I have good news for you.
SPEAKER_01: Jesus has broke the yoke.
SPEAKER_01: There's no more burden that he can't break.
SPEAKER_01: And he's put an anointing on this church to deliver those who are bruised, to deliver those who are blind, to deliver those who are hurt and are in bondage.
SPEAKER_01: We're here to take off the burdens, to take off the stress, to take off the pain, to remove it off of you and give you a path of freedom.
SPEAKER_01: That's what this church is about.
SPEAKER_01: Family church, we're gonna see the oppressed set free.
SPEAKER_01: Oppression is demonic, it is not good.
SPEAKER_01: So if you're in here today, I'm not saying you're demonic, I'm saying you're oppressed of the devil.
SPEAKER_01: The devil is trying to weigh you down and keep you down because he knows he's got a call on your life and a purpose for you and a plan that if you get a hold of, you're gonna shake hell's gates.
SPEAKER_01: Everyone in here has a purpose and a plan for their life, but we have to pursue it.
SPEAKER_01: So the anointing is there, it's available, it's on us, but we have to pursue it.
SPEAKER_01: We have to be people who are hungry for the presence of God.
SPEAKER_01: We have to be people that we see the value of being anointed so that we can take that anointing and do service with it.
SPEAKER_01: And it's not so that we can be uh necessarily a beautiful church or build a beautiful building and all these things.
SPEAKER_01: Those are great, but what happens is when the anointing gets on you, you start seeing people set free, and this area will be changed and things will happen that we've never seen before.
SPEAKER_01: And God will use you to do it.
SPEAKER_01: Not just the minister, I want to be a part of it, don't leave me out, but he's gonna use you, he's gonna use these teenagers, he's gonna use the children.
SPEAKER_01: They are being taught how to walk in the presence of God.
SPEAKER_01: We're being taught how to operate in the presence of God so that when we walk out of here and we're going about doing our normal things in life, we're going about doing good and healing all that were oppressed of the devil.
SPEAKER_01: It goes on to talk in Acts 10.38 that God was with him.
SPEAKER_01: Do you know that we serve a God that said he will never leave you and he will never forsake you?
SPEAKER_01: We serve a God that said, I will stick closer to you than a brother.
SPEAKER_01: Well, I don't know.
SPEAKER_01: That that verse always confused me.
SPEAKER_01: I'm like, I I don't know.
SPEAKER_01: I I mean, don't get me wrong, I love my brother, but but I'm just saying, like an example of oppression.
SPEAKER_01: Um one day me and my brother were out fighting and fussing and doing what brothers do.
SPEAKER_01: I'm talking, I'm not talking about like last year.
SPEAKER_01: I mean, we were kids, younger than we're we're children's church age.
SPEAKER_01: And do y'all remember the days where you could run on gravel with no shoes on?
SPEAKER_01: Some of y'all are like, I still do that.
SPEAKER_01: I can't do that anymore.
SPEAKER_01: I think after a certain weight limit, it like hurts bad.
SPEAKER_01: But but as a kid, I remember I could run on rocks.
SPEAKER_01: How many of y'all could do that?
SPEAKER_01: You just run, it didn't matter.
SPEAKER_01: You could run on rock, it didn't matter.
SPEAKER_01: What?
unknown: Sandbirds.
SPEAKER_01: Oh, we didn't have that in Tennessee.
SPEAKER_01: Stop interrupting me, Sharon.
SPEAKER_01: I'm just playing.
SPEAKER_01: But we didn't, you know, me and my brother would get in rest and fights, and I would, he he loved cowboy and Indians and stuff, and we had all these little uh like figures and action figures, right?
SPEAKER_01: And we he'd get all this village set up, and I would wait till he wasn't looking, and I would just blow in like a mighty rushing wind and knock them all over and mess up his camp.
SPEAKER_01: And uh and he'd do the same thing to me.
SPEAKER_01: We just brothers, right?
SPEAKER_01: Brothers just fight.
SPEAKER_01: Do I have any brothers in here that would say amen?
SPEAKER_01: Okay, I'm the only one that fights.
SPEAKER_01: All right.
SPEAKER_01: So me and my brother fought all the time.
SPEAKER_01: And uh one time we got into it, and uh my brother was bigger than me.
SPEAKER_01: He was a couple years older than me, so he held me down on the ground.
SPEAKER_01: This is so mean.
SPEAKER_01: I shouldn't say this, but it's so true.
SPEAKER_01: I just this is what oppression's like, though.
SPEAKER_01: He held me on the ground and I couldn't move.
SPEAKER_01: I couldn't do anything.
SPEAKER_01: He was bigger than me, stronger than me, and I couldn't do anything.
SPEAKER_01: I'm just held captive at his will.
SPEAKER_01: And he started doing something to me that was so nasty.
SPEAKER_01: He started spitting.
SPEAKER_01: And I have to finish now, baby.
SPEAKER_01: My brother, he had drunk orange juice.
SPEAKER_01: But he but he started spitting, and it would get this close to my nose, and then it would suck it back up.
SPEAKER_01: And I think a lot of the church is in that position right now.
SPEAKER_01: I really do.
SPEAKER_01: I see the church a lot of times they're being held down, and the devil's just spitting on their face and then sucking it back up, and I just laughing at them.
SPEAKER_01: And I got so mad.
SPEAKER_01: I started shaking around and just fighting everything I could do to get out of that hold.
SPEAKER_01: And when I did, his spit didn't suck back up and went right down my face.
SPEAKER_01: And I just got so tired of it.
SPEAKER_01: I went to swinging, fighting, hitting.
SPEAKER_01: Didn't matter.
SPEAKER_01: I just blanked out and just started going to war.
SPEAKER_01: And that's exactly what the church needs to do to the devil is when he's holding you down, we need to get serious about it.
SPEAKER_01: When he's holding you captive by disease, or he's holding you captive by depression, or he's holding you captive by some sort of an ailment in your life.
SPEAKER_01: You need to get serious about it and recognize the anointing when it's present and get that thing off of your life because it's not of God, it's of the devil, and that is oppression that can be broken off of your life.
SPEAKER_01: Amen.
SPEAKER_01: We need to get serious about the things of God, and we need to go after the devil like he's trying to kill my loved one because he is.
SPEAKER_01: Amen.
SPEAKER_01: The devil comes to steal, kill, and to destroy.
SPEAKER_01: But Jesus came to break the yoke, he came to give us life and life abundant.
SPEAKER_01: Amen.
SPEAKER_01: And I want to go in just a little deeper because I want to bring out something here that I think will help you.
SPEAKER_01: I talked about David and how he was anointed of Samuel.
SPEAKER_01: Samuel took the horn and just poured it over his head, and the anointed came on him, and he was separated to be king of Israel.
SPEAKER_01: But just because he was anointed didn't mean it was easy.
SPEAKER_01: Just because you're anointed to lead worship doesn't mean it's going to be easy.
SPEAKER_01: You still have to be prepared.
SPEAKER_01: Preparation time is not wasted time, but it will redeem your time.
SPEAKER_01: It will buy it back.
SPEAKER_01: But preparation, as you prepare yourself and as the anointing is present, when preparation time meets anointing, there's power released.
SPEAKER_01: So don't ever think I'm just going to be anointed and I don't have to study the word, I don't have to pray, I don't have to worship, I don't have to come to church, I don't have to do anything.
SPEAKER_01: I'm just anointed.
SPEAKER_01: No, you're not anointed just to sit there like a knot on a log.
SPEAKER_01: You're anointed to serve, you're anointed to prepare yourself for the battle.
SPEAKER_01: The horses prepare for battle, but victory belongs to the Lord.
SPEAKER_01: You have to prepare yourself, but understand this when victory is present, that's the Lord's doing.
SPEAKER_01: He gets the glory, he gets the honor.
SPEAKER_01: Amen.
SPEAKER_01: So your anointing is not for your popularity.
SPEAKER_01: Your anointing is for a purpose.
SPEAKER_01: 2 Corinthians 5 17 says this, therefore, if anyone is in Christ, he's a new creation.
SPEAKER_01: Old things have passed away.
SPEAKER_01: Behold.
SPEAKER_01: That word, behold, when you hear that word behold in the Bible, you you could say it like this.
SPEAKER_01: Behold! That's exactly how you can say that word.
SPEAKER_01: Behold, all things have become new.
SPEAKER_01: Everybody say all things.
SPEAKER_01: Everything's new.
SPEAKER_01: We are not improved versions of our old life.
SPEAKER_01: God did not come to improve your old life.
SPEAKER_01: God did not come to uh just remodel something that was old.
SPEAKER_01: He came to wipe it out completely, kill it, put it in the ground, bury it, it's gone.
SPEAKER_01: The new man comes up.
SPEAKER_01: There's something new he wants to do in your life.
SPEAKER_01: And it comes through you getting a revelation that I'm no longer the old man, but now I'm new in Christ.
SPEAKER_01: 1 John 2.20 says this, but you have, everybody I say, I have.
SPEAKER_01: I have an anointed for an anointing from the Holy One, and I know all things.
SPEAKER_01: Did you know that when the anointing comes on you, you can be smarter, more equipped, more intelligent than what you were before the anointing came upon you?
SPEAKER_01: Did you realize that I can't do some of the things I do up here?
SPEAKER_01: That naturally speaking, when I was a young child, I was very shy and bashful.
SPEAKER_01: But when the anointing comes on a person, they can get bold.
SPEAKER_01: You can do things that you thought you'd never be able to do when you're anointed.
SPEAKER_01: When you are anointed of God, you can know all things.
SPEAKER_01: God will reveal things to you that you need to know to be able to accomplish the things He set forth for you to accomplish.
SPEAKER_01: So don't ever say, I'm just not, I'm just not able.
SPEAKER_01: No.
SPEAKER_01: You're more than able.
SPEAKER_01: You're more than a conqueror.
SPEAKER_01: You're more than an overcomer.
SPEAKER_01: You're not just able, you're more than that.
SPEAKER_01: Amen.
SPEAKER_01: 2 Corinthians 1 2, 21 and 22 says this.
SPEAKER_01: Now he who establishes us with you in Christ and has anointed us is God, who also has sealed us and given us the Spirit in our hearts as a guarantee.
SPEAKER_01: God Himself has anointed, established, and sealed believers by His Spirit.
SPEAKER_01: Which God has prepared beforehand that we should walk in them.
SPEAKER_01: That word workmanship in the Greek is the word poema.
SPEAKER_01: That is where we get the word poem.
SPEAKER_01: So this word workmanship here says, for we are, this is the Greek, for we are his poem, created in Christ Jesus for good works, which God prepared beforehand that we should walk in them.
SPEAKER_01: So understanding that and understanding the Greek word poema and how we are his workmanship created in Christ Jesus, that says that I'm a new creature in Christ and He created you as a poem.
SPEAKER_01: I don't know anybody in here that loves poems, but there's probably a few in here that likes to read poetry.
SPEAKER_01: But it's taking words and making them beautiful and fitting and forming them so that it brings forth a story and reveals something beautiful about the thing that they're trying to explain.
SPEAKER_01: I don't even know how that's probably the worst explanation ever.
SPEAKER_01: But poetry is something that is supposed to be beautiful.
SPEAKER_01: And God placed you into this world as a beautiful poem that is supposed to be used of him to speak something beautiful over this world.
SPEAKER_01: You are his workmanship created in Christ Jesus unto good works.
SPEAKER_01: So never think of yourself as I'm a nobody.
SPEAKER_01: Never think of yourself, well, I'm just not beautiful.
SPEAKER_01: I'm just not able, I'm not qualified, I'm not as smart as this person, or I'm not capable to do this.
SPEAKER_01: When the anointing comes on you, he can put something on you that nobody else could take, or nobody else could ever do.
SPEAKER_01: You're able because he is able.
SPEAKER_01: Amen.
SPEAKER_01: God wants to use you to do great things on this earth.
SPEAKER_01: And this morning I woke up and I saw I saw this pretty clear.
SPEAKER_01: Is the anointing has to be drawn out.
SPEAKER_01: First of all, you have to desire it.
SPEAKER_01: You have to want to be anointed.
SPEAKER_01: God will not just place his anointing on someone who doesn't desire it, who doesn't care about it, who treats it too flippantly, who cares less.
SPEAKER_01: God puts his anointing on those who draw it out, who want it, who will pursue it, who desires to be used of God.
SPEAKER_01: You might say, well, God's never used me for anything.
SPEAKER_01: Well, you have to desire to be used of God.
SPEAKER_01: You have to want to be used of God.
SPEAKER_01: And then you have to prepare yourself to be used of God.
SPEAKER_01: And just like someone who goes up to a well or a pump and starts to use that lever to start drawing that water to the surface.
SPEAKER_01: That's exactly how we should do with the anointing.
SPEAKER_01: Is we have to take the handle and start to draw out the anointing, start to pump it out.
SPEAKER_01: And when that water starts to pour out, that water can bring life, help, and healing to people's lives.
SPEAKER_01: But you have to be the one to get out and start to draw it out.
SPEAKER_01: Start to move, start to read the word, start to prepare your heart for service.
SPEAKER_01: God wants to use you for great things, but do you want to be used of God?
SPEAKER_01: The Bible says in Romans 12, 1, and verse 2 as well, says, I beseech you, brethren, by the mercies of God, that you present your bodies a living sacrifice, holy and acceptable unto God, which is your reasonable service.
SPEAKER_01: And be not conformed to this world, but be ye transformed by the renewing of your mind, that you may prove, that you may prove, that you may prove what is that good, acceptable, and holy purpose of God in your life.
SPEAKER_01: Do you know if you're a person in here and you want to know what is God called me to do?
SPEAKER_01: Can I can I tell you what God's called you to do?
SPEAKER_01: He's called you to figure it out.
SPEAKER_01: I'm called to draw it out.
SPEAKER_01: I'm called to get anointed of God, to stay in that place of anointing, and to allow the Spirit of God to use me every day so that I can see the goodness of God bestowed upon people.
SPEAKER_01: Let's all stand up today.
SPEAKER_01: When I was eighteen years old, I was so hungry for God.
SPEAKER_01: There was a small revival going on in our youth group.
SPEAKER_01: We put on a youth revival for the community, and we started having teenagers from all over start coming, and then we had a worship band come and start leading worship in it.
SPEAKER_01: We started seeing God move and do some awesome things.
SPEAKER_01: And I remember as a young kid, I was so hungry for the things of God.
SPEAKER_01: And I was searching and I was dreaming, and I was dreaming big.
SPEAKER_01: I was like, I'm gonna go all over the world.
SPEAKER_01: I'm gonna preach the gospel.
SPEAKER_01: I'm gonna see people healed, delivered, we're gonna cast out devils, we're gonna raise the dead, we're gonna see all these things.
SPEAKER_01: Praise the Lord.
SPEAKER_01: I'm just hungry for God.
SPEAKER_01: I don't care what it takes.
SPEAKER_01: God, I'm so desperate for you.
SPEAKER_01: I want your presence in my life.
SPEAKER_01: And I had no clue of all the things that I would later grow up and know.
SPEAKER_01: But all I knew at that moment in my life was I loved God and I wanted his presence in my life, and I wanted to go after God with everything I had.
SPEAKER_01: I heard about the stories.
SPEAKER_01: I heard about the stories of people coming out of wheelchairs and people coming out of deathbeds and cancer being ripped out of people's lives and people being delivered and set free and blinded eyes open, and the shadow of Peter walking by the community, and people are standing out there, and just his shadow walking by healed them.
SPEAKER_01: I heard of all these stories, and I'm like, God, I'm ready for that.
SPEAKER_01: That's what I want.
SPEAKER_01: That's what I desire.
SPEAKER_01: I am not gonna be satisfied until I see it.
SPEAKER_01: And I think God has put me in the perfect place to do it.
SPEAKER_01: And I believe He's given me the perfect people to see this happen.
SPEAKER_01: That Life Family Church, we're gonna be the church that even the shadow, when people drive by this church, will heal the oppressed.
SPEAKER_01: And when people drive by, they'll sense there's something different about that place, and I want to see what it is.
SPEAKER_01: And I know that God's anointed every one of you all to carry out the purpose of this church.
SPEAKER_01: We're not gonna do it alone.
SPEAKER_01: We're gonna join hands with the people around us, and we're gonna walk step by step, faith to faith, righteousness to righteousness.
SPEAKER_01: We're gonna see those who are hurt, delivered.
SPEAKER_01: The oppression is gonna be broken off this community, and the light of the glory of God is gonna shine down on this church, and we're gonna be a beacon of light throughout this community, and this region will be different because of it.
SPEAKER_01: And he's gonna use you to do it.
SPEAKER_01: Whether you like it or not, I'll just say.
SPEAKER_01: But God loves you all, and he's given us an opportunity, a window, a window of opportunity.
SPEAKER_01: Don't allow that window to be closed in your life.
SPEAKER_01: When God opens up a window in your life, seize every opportunity he gives you.
SPEAKER_01: Walk through that window, crawl through that window, bust out that window, do whatever you gotta do to get to where God wants you.
SPEAKER_01: It's not enough to just have a normal life.
SPEAKER_01: We're not normal people, we're peculiar people.
SPEAKER_01: We're called to be different.
SPEAKER_01: Amen.
SPEAKER_01: Let's all bow our heads.
SPEAKER_01: Father, in the name of Jesus, Lord, we thank you for this church.
SPEAKER_01: Lord, I thank you for Life Family Church.
SPEAKER_01: I thank you for those who are here today.
SPEAKER_01: Lord, I thank you that you've anointed us.
SPEAKER_01: That we have an anointing of you.
SPEAKER_01: If we desire it, we can draw it out.
SPEAKER_01: Lord, I thank you that we are anointed for service.
SPEAKER_01: We're anointed not to be the same, but to be different.
SPEAKER_01: Lord, I thank you that we're a church who is different than all the other churches.
SPEAKER_01: We're hungry for your presence.
SPEAKER_01: Lord, I thank you that no matter what it takes, we're going to draw out that anointing that you've given us.
SPEAKER_01: And we're going to walk in that anointing and we're going to see the results because of it.
SPEAKER_01: In the name of Jesus.
SPEAKER_01: If you're in here today and you don't know Jesus Christ as your Lord and Savior, and you would like to have a no-so experience where you've received Jesus to be your Lord, I would ask that you step out from where you are and you'd come up here to the front.
SPEAKER_01: I want to pray with you.
SPEAKER_01: I want to join hands with you and I want to pray with you and lead you to Jesus.
SPEAKER_01: So if you're in here today and you don't know Jesus, this is how eternity works, is to know Him.
SPEAKER_01: This is what life eternal is, is to know Him.
SPEAKER_01: It's not just to go to heaven, although thank God we get to go to heaven when we die, but it's to know Jesus.
SPEAKER_01: So if you're in here and you don't know Jesus as your Lord and Savior, just make your way up here.
SPEAKER_01: I want to pray with you.
SPEAKER_01: Hallelujah.
SPEAKER_01: Amen.
SPEAKER_01: Alright.
SPEAKER_01: If you're in here today and you have oppression in your life, now you don't, you didn't hear me say you're you're possessed, but if you have oppression in your life and you feel like I just can't shake it, and you need someone with the anointing on their life to lay hands on you and to deliver you out of that oppression, then step out from where you are and come up here.
SPEAKER_01: I want to pray and lay hands on you and cast out that oppression in your life in Jesus' name.
SPEAKER_01: Now you did not hear me say that you had a demon, but I will say the demons are trying to control your life and it needs to be broken off of you.
SPEAKER_01: So if you're in here and that's you, I would love to pray with you.
SPEAKER_01: I'm not here to, you know, to make you look bad.
SPEAKER_01: This is nothing to do with that.
SPEAKER_01: This is all to do with we want you free.
SPEAKER_01: This church wants you free.
SPEAKER_01: We want you delivered in Jesus' name.
SPEAKER_01: Can I have a couple ushers, please?
SPEAKER_01: Thank you, Jesus.
SPEAKER_01: You could be in love with Jesus with all your heart, and still there could be something in your life trying to oppress you.
SPEAKER_01: Oppression is a heaviness, guys.
SPEAKER_01: It's a heaviness that you just can't shake.
SPEAKER_01: You need someone to agree with you.
SPEAKER_01: If that's you, and you need to be delivered from oppression.
SPEAKER_01: Make your way up.
SPEAKER_01: Alright.
SPEAKER_01: In the name of Jesus, we're breaking off oppression in Jesus' name.
SPEAKER_01: Alright.
SPEAKER_01: It's the anointing that destroys the yoke.
SPEAKER_01: You know that.
SPEAKER_01: The anointing destroys the yoke.
SPEAKER_01: It's not a man.
SPEAKER_01: It's the anointing.
SPEAKER_01: It's the anointing of Almighty God.
SPEAKER_01: Hallelujah.
SPEAKER_01: Thank you, Jesus.
SPEAKER_01: Amen.
SPEAKER_01: So I'm going to lay hands on you and pray.
SPEAKER_01: Father, in the name of Jesus, we break that yoke of oppression off of her life in the name of Jesus.
SPEAKER_01: She's free.
SPEAKER_01: Satan, take your hands off of her in Jesus' name.
SPEAKER_01: She's free in Jesus' name.
SPEAKER_01: No more oppression in Jesus' name.
SPEAKER_01: Come here.
SPEAKER_01: In Jesus' name, Lord, I thank you that that oppression has been broken off of him in the name of Jesus.
SPEAKER_01: We release your anointing in his life in Jesus' name.
SPEAKER_01: Oppression be broken off of him in Jesus' name.
SPEAKER_01: We thank you, Father, that it's the anointing that destroys the yoke, and that we're walking free.
SPEAKER_01: And the calling of God on your life is going to be released for service for Almighty God.
SPEAKER_01: You're going to see great, great, great things in Jesus' name.
SPEAKER_01: In Jesus' name.
SPEAKER_01: Walking free, walking free, walking free in Jesus' name.
SPEAKER_01: In Jesus' name.
SPEAKER_01: Hallelujah.
SPEAKER_01: Thank you, Jesus.
SPEAKER_01: Bless you.
SPEAKER_01: Thank you, Jesus.
SPEAKER_01: Let's all just lift our hands and just thank God for his presence.
SPEAKER_01: Lord, we love you.
SPEAKER_01: We thank you so much for your goodness and your mercy and your grace.
SPEAKER_01: Lord, we thank you for this church and how we're seeing lives changed.
SPEAKER_01: Father, I thank you for your goodness.
SPEAKER_01: You're always good.
SPEAKER_01: You're always good in Jesus' name.
SPEAKER_01: Hallelujah.
SPEAKER_01: Thank you, Jesus.
SPEAKER_01: Thank you, Lord.
SPEAKER_01: Thank you, Jesus.
SPEAKER_01: In this atmosphere of prayer, any oppression that has been brought over from anything from your past, anything that you carried into your future, I want you right now to just release it to God.
SPEAKER_01: Whatever it is that you've held on to so tightly that's just causing so much pain and turmoil in your mind, I want you to just release those things right now.
SPEAKER_01: In the name of Jesus, just release them.
SPEAKER_01: The words that have been spoken over you to curse your life, to say that you're not capable, you're stupid, you're you're unable, you're just an idiot, all those things that have been spoken over your life in the name of Jesus, the anointing destroys them.
SPEAKER_01: That you're more than able because of God's presence on your life.
SPEAKER_01: You are not destroyed, you are not defeated, you are free in Jesus' name.
SPEAKER_01: In Jesus' name.
SPEAKER_01: Do you receive that this morning?
SPEAKER_01: Lord, we thank you.
SPEAKER_01: We thank you that we are made free.
SPEAKER_01: And we can walk in that kind of freedom.
SPEAKER_01: And we thank you, Father, for the anointing of God that breaks the yoke.
SPEAKER_01: In Jesus' name.
SPEAKER_01: And it sets us up for service.
SPEAKER_01: Hallelujah.
SPEAKER_01: Amen.
SPEAKER_00: Thanks for listening.
SPEAKER_00: We hope that this message helps you draw closer to God as you walk out your faith.
SPEAKER_00: We'll see you next week.