Speaker 1: Everybody stand into your feet now and now.
Speaker 1: Oh, lord, our Christ, it is in the name of the Lord Jesus that we come today, thanking you and praising your name for being our all and all.
Speaker 1: You and praising your name for being our all and all.
Speaker 1: It is.
Speaker 1: In you, lord, we live, we move, we have our being.
Speaker 1: We can do nothing without you, but with you we can do all things.
Speaker 1: Thank you for our last night, thank you for doing for us what we could not do for ourselves.
Speaker 1: You've been good to us and for that we say here spirit of the living God, fall afresh on us, do whatever you want to do in here.
Speaker 1: Destroy every yoke, remove every burden.
Speaker 1: Usher in your glory.
Speaker 1: In the name of the Lord Jesus, father, we bind everything that is not of you, every spirit of the devil.
Speaker 1: We come against the works of the enemy now and we decree and declare you already defeated.
Speaker 1: In the name of Jesus, thank you.
Speaker 1: Now, lord, loose your anointing, lo.
Speaker 1: Loose your anointing.
Speaker 1: In the name of Jesus, take over in this place, throw your weight around, save somebody, deliver somebody, set somebody free.
Speaker 1: In the name of Jesus, I pray now, lord God, that you would sanctify me for your usage.
Speaker 1: Anoint this man of clay.
Speaker 1: I pray now that you would think with my mind, speak with my tongue.
Speaker 1: Let no flesh be on parade, but Jesus, you be exalted and we won't take no credit.
Speaker 1: But we'll.
Speaker 1: But Jesus, you be exalted and we won't take no credit.
Speaker 1: But we'll say to God be the glory for the great things you have done.
Speaker 1: Thank you for being our all in all.
Speaker 1: In the name of the Lord Jesus, amen and amen.
Speaker 1: Can you put your glad hands together now, all over this place, come on clap those hands, oh ye, people shout unto the Lord with voices of triumph.
Speaker 1: For the Lord, our God, is great, and he is great that you be praised, hallelujah.
Speaker 1: I don't know about you, but I was glad when they said unto me let us go into the house of the Lord.
Speaker 1: Will you tell somebody you're in the right place at the right time?
Speaker 1: I don't know what you come to do, but I came to praise his name.
Speaker 1: If you mean it, open your mouth and shout glory, glory, glory, glory.
Speaker 1: If you mean it, open your mouth and shout glory, glory, glory.
Speaker 1: Will you help me thunderously praise the name of our God for this anointed servant of the Lord who serves as senior pastor of this church, pastor Walter Powers.
Speaker 1: Come on, let's praise God for him, pastor Powers.
Speaker 1: And we want to, in like manner, clap our hands thunderously for the first lady of this church, lady Tiffany Powers.
Speaker 1: Come on, let's praise God for her.
Speaker 1: Yes, indeed, and we thank God for his wonderful sons.
Speaker 1: Yes, lord, let's thank God for these boys.
Speaker 1: Amen To all of the officers and members of this wonderful church and, of course, to all of the elders and ministers of the gospel of Jesus Christ.
Speaker 1: To those of you who are visiting here today and I give honor and what a privilege it is to be here with you.
Speaker 1: I want to thank God for also my wife, who is here.
Speaker 1: We just celebrated, in September, 44 years of marriage and I thank God for her.
Speaker 1: Pastor Harriet Porter-Ginwright, and I am also grateful to have my daughter here with us today, elder Anthony Lavorre-Ginwright Amen.
Speaker 1: She is our worship leader at the Gap Church.
Speaker 1: I don't know how she got away today, but she's here and I certainly hope that Gap is covered.
Speaker 1: Amen, amen, god.
Speaker 1: We praise for her and the anointing that's on her life to these very awesome and anointed musicians today.
Speaker 1: We thank God for you.
Speaker 1: Thank God for all of you.
Speaker 1: Let me just say to you that I honor, I honor sincerely Pastor Bowers because he's an unusual man of God who has a heart after God, and you don't know how blessed you are to have this kind of leadership.
Speaker 1: You see, the Bible says God gives us pastors after his heart.
Speaker 1: So, pastor Bowers, there's a heart gift to you from God, because God knew what you needed and he has given you one of his best.
Speaker 1: And since God has given you one of his best, the way you treat him shows God what you think about what he gave you Hallelujah, and so I encourage you to honor this man and this woman of God.
Speaker 1: Do right by them.
Speaker 1: Don't let nobody I don't care who it is Don't let nobody talk negative to you about your man of God.
Speaker 1: God-given leadership is a blessing, but there's another kind of leadership that is a curse, and so I thank God that you are blessed with this kind of gift right here at the Chosen City Church.
Speaker 1: Can you help me thank God again for this man of God?
Speaker 1: The Father's Council, covenant Ministries International.
Speaker 1: We are so privileged and so honored to have Pastor, as well as the Chosen City Church, to be a part of such a powerful and an international fellowship that's doing great work for the kingdom of our God, not only here but abroad as well.
Speaker 1: Not only here but abroad as well, and Pastor Biles is so gifted and so anointed that he certainly will be a great asset to our work, and we're just so elated over him being a part of what God is doing in the earth at this time.
Speaker 1: I brought with us also two of our books.
Speaker 1: I wrote a book some years ago that is called Rise Up, breaking Free into Anointed Living.
Speaker 1: The Lord allowed me to write this book when our ministry was going through transition, was moving from a traditional kind of church into a free-flowing, spirit-filled church, and the Lord allowed me to write this book that helps people to understand the power of flowing in the anointing, and this book will bless you real good, and of course, we have some copies of it out there in the lobby.
Speaker 1: Rise Up, bring it Free and the Anointed Living.
Speaker 1: And I just recently released last month my brand new book that is entitled have you Considered my Servant, jenrite?
Speaker 1: Reverend Jenrite, this book was released after seven years, after I've gone through, went through a tumultuous time in my life, a journey that the Holy Spirit allowed me to go through, because I know it was the Holy Spirit, because if it wasn't for the Holy Spirit, I wouldn't be here today.
Speaker 1: But the Lord would not allow me to release my story publicly until he said so.
Speaker 1: I received invitations all over the country wanting me to come and talk about what I had gone through, but the Spirit said, no, it's not time.
Speaker 1: And so I had to sit on that story for seven years, and 2024 was the seventh year and the Holy Spirit said now it's time to talk, and so I was able to write my story and, of course, nobody can tell your story like you can tell it.
Speaker 1: People can speculate, the media can say all kinds of things about you, but don't let nobody tell your story for you.
Speaker 1: You tell your own story and so I'm telling my own story in that book and, of course, uh, our media team is in the, our media representative is in the lobby of the church and, of course, you can go back after worship and get that.
Speaker 1: Lastly, and thank you, you're going to sit down in just a second.
Speaker 1: Lastly, I don't want you to forget the importance of voting.
Speaker 1: Amen.
Speaker 1: How many of you have already voted?
Speaker 1: I didn't ask you who you voted for.
Speaker 1: I said how many of you have already voted.
Speaker 1: I didn't ask you who you voted for.
Speaker 1: I said how many of you are already wonderful and how many of you are going to vote.
Speaker 1: Amen, amen.
Speaker 1: This is a crucial election and we must exercise our right to vote.
Speaker 1: Our ancestors died, must exercise our right to vote.
Speaker 1: Our ancestors died so that we could have this privilege and for anybody to sit out on this election, something awfully is wrong with them.
Speaker 1: Amen.
Speaker 1: I've heard some people say well, you know, I'm just not going to vote and I'm asking why not.
Speaker 1: It's so important.
Speaker 1: Let's don't take this for granted.
Speaker 1: We have got to make sure that we don't go back, amen, we don't go back.
Speaker 1: Tell somebody we're going forward Now.
Speaker 1: Say what your theme says.
Speaker 1: Say we're going forward Now.
Speaker 1: Say what your theme says.
Speaker 1: Say we're going to possess the land.
Speaker 1: That's right, we're going to possess the land, amen.
Speaker 1: So make sure that you who haven't voted yet get out there and vote, because I believe a change is coming, and a change for the better.
Speaker 1: Hallelujah.
Speaker 1: Now I want to just lift the word that we shared earlier at the 8 am worship, and if you were here at the 8 am worship, I don't want you to get relaxed and think well, I heard it.
Speaker 1: No, you didn't hear it.
Speaker 1: What you're going to hear now?
Speaker 1: Because I believe that there is something else that the Lord wants us to hear and to know, and I feel that there is a shift in this atmosphere, atmosphere that God himself wants to do something in the chosen city church, amongst the chosen city people.
Speaker 1: That is going to blow Charlotte's mind.
Speaker 1: Somebody helped me by saying I know that's right.
Speaker 1: Help me by saying I know that's right.
Speaker 1: Now I want, I want you to, I want you to, to walk along with me with this message.
Speaker 1: I don't want, as a matter of fact, let's just take inventory just just look around you, just just see who's around you.
Speaker 1: Now I need you to make this declaration Say neighbor, you're sitting next To a worshiper and at any time I'm subject.
Speaker 1: You up front, now Telling you up front, anytime I'm subject to go off.
Speaker 1: Isaiah, chapter 60 and beginning at verse 1.
Speaker 1: Isaiah 60, beginning at verse 1 and concluding at verse 2, hearing the reading of the word of the Lord arise, shine, for your light has come and the glory of the Lord is risen upon you.
Speaker 1: For behold, the darkness shall cover the earth and deep darkness the people.
Speaker 1: But the Lord will arise over you and his glory will be seen upon you.
Speaker 1: Let me hear you say arise, arise, shine, shine, for your light has come and the glory of the Lord is risen upon you.
Speaker 1: I want to preach with your prayers and certainly with the aid of the Holy Spirit.
Speaker 1: I want to talk with your prayers and certainly with the aid of the Holy Spirit.
Speaker 1: I want to talk about excessive favor.
Speaker 1: Now, look your neighbor in the face and repeat after me say neighbor, the preacher is getting ready to talk about excessive favor.
Speaker 1: Neighbor.
Speaker 1: I want you to know that excessive favor is all over you.
Speaker 1: You may be seated in, rise and shine, for your light has come Arise.
Speaker 1: Get up from there, for the glory of the Lord will be seen upon you.
Speaker 1: Excessive favor that word excessive is a wonderful word, for it has been defined as extravagant.
Speaker 1: It is the kind of favor that's over the top, it is extreme, it goes beyond normal limits.
Speaker 1: It goes beyond normal limits and, brothers and sisters, ladies and gentlemen, that is exactly how God is going to unleash blessings over your life.
Speaker 1: For all that we have endured and all that you have survived through, and all that you have survived through, all of the excruciating pain and setbacks and even setups for you.
Speaker 1: Now the ordinary just won't do Some of you, because of what you have gone through, god is getting ready to pay you back.
Speaker 1: Now I am trying to taxi off the runway in these few little sentences that I have spoken from this message.
Speaker 1: It's a good place now to disturb somebody next to you and tell God thank you, lord.
Speaker 1: To know, to know that all of the hell that you done been through, god now is about to reward you with excessive favor.
Speaker 1: I mean this is that it don't make no sense, kind of favor, the kind of favor that is undeniably by the hand of God.
Speaker 1: And I don't know about you, but I'm ready to receive God's extraordinary blessing and excessive favor over my life.
Speaker 1: If you're ready to receive it, I need you to open your mouth and shout excessive favor Now.
Speaker 1: Now, right here in our text now, prophet Isaiah is strengthening the people of God.
Speaker 1: Prior to Isaiah, chapter 60.
Speaker 1: The Israelites had spent years in exile away from their home city of Jerusalem.
Speaker 1: This period was a dark, dreary and tumultuous time for them, but interestingly, their exile was twofold.
Speaker 1: Part of it was due to typically life's challenges and the other was partly due because of their hard-headedness, because of their disobedience to God.
Speaker 1: And to make matters worse, when they were finally free to return to Jerusalem out of exile, their enemies sought to keep them from rebuilding their ruined city and temple.
Speaker 1: Now, isn't that just like the devil?
Speaker 1: Even after God brings you out, the enemy still tries to keep you boxed in and to keep you basic.
Speaker 1: The more you try to recover, the more the enemy tries to knock you off course.
Speaker 1: The more you try to move forward, the more the enemy tries to set you back.
Speaker 1: But aren't you glad to know that God still has the last say concerning you.
Speaker 1: And although he used circumstances and punishment to wake up the Israelites' attention, he sent his prophet to remind his people of the promise still resting over their lives.
Speaker 1: I need to tell you now that God never gives up on a promise.
Speaker 1: If he said it, he will do it.
Speaker 1: If he spoke it, he will bring it.
Speaker 1: It don't matter how long it's been.
Speaker 1: If you just wait on the Lord in his own time, he's going to bring that thing to pass.
Speaker 1: Look at in verse one.
Speaker 1: Look at verse one as Isaiah declares.
Speaker 1: He says arise, shine for the glory of the Lord.
Speaker 1: I like it is upon you, upon you Now.
Speaker 1: The original Hebraic uses of the word glory found in this text refers to favor.
Speaker 1: Somebody shall favor, but hold on.
Speaker 1: This is not just any type of favor.
Speaker 1: It's heavy favor, it's excessive favor.
Speaker 1: Did you get that?
Speaker 1: I say this heavy favor, mm?
Speaker 1: Hmm, it's excessive favor.
Speaker 1: It's the kind of favor that will cause folk to get jealous of you.
Speaker 1: So in a sense, isaiah is saying get up, get visible, for the heavy or excessive favor of the Lord is on you.
Speaker 1: Stop all of your meandering around, stop all of this pity partying.
Speaker 1: Stop feeling sorry for yourself.
Speaker 1: God has drenched you with excessive favor.
Speaker 1: My God, I'm about to shout, but I don't want to scare y'all in here.
Speaker 1: You've been down long enough.
Speaker 1: Get up from there.
Speaker 1: You've been talking yang yang long enough.
Speaker 1: Shut up that foolishness and begin thanking God for what he has already dropped on your life.
Speaker 1: Open your mouth and say yes, lord.
Speaker 1: Yes, I know, I know, I know folk thought they had a handle on you.
Speaker 1: I know folk have made you feel like you're nobody.
Speaker 1: I know folk have laughed at you.
Speaker 1: But it's time for you to shake yourself and stand tall, for God's excessive favor is upon you.
Speaker 1: His hand has been released over your life from the very beginning.
Speaker 1: And you know, as I thought about the Chosen City Church and Pastor Bowers and Lady Tiffany Bowers, I thought about them and after serving, I remember, I remember, I remember him.
Speaker 1: After serving faithfully in others' vineyard, the Lord released him, and he released you five years ago to launch out into the deep waters and establish what is known as the chosen city church.
Speaker 1: Many, no doubt, thought you would fail.
Speaker 1: Some were waiting for you to fail and yeah, I'm bold enough to say it.
Speaker 1: A few were hoping that you failed.
Speaker 1: But God hit somebody and say but God, his excessive favor, has kept you alive and well.
Speaker 1: There's absolutely no way anyone can sit here on this wonderful Sunday morning, quiet, with your mouths on mute.
Speaker 1: Ain't no way in the world you can sit here all serene, with your mouths folded like a pocketbook, when God has been extraordinarily good to you.
Speaker 1: The redeemed of the Lord just ought to say so.
Speaker 1: Somebody in this room ought to open up your mouth and say something Just look, just look.
Speaker 1: Just look how far you've come In five years.
Speaker 1: Don't you get grand now?
Speaker 1: Don't you start acting funny on God now?
Speaker 1: And for God's sake, don't you get selective amnesia Because you didn't get here on your own.
Speaker 1: If it had not been for the Lord who was on your side, where would you be In an uncertain and unlikely season when pastors are walking away from ministry and churches are closing their doors?
Speaker 1: Yet here you are thriving.
Speaker 1: Y'all ain't just merely surviving, you're thriving.
Speaker 1: I'm sitting here looking at y'all, looking at all these sequences.
Speaker 1: I'm sitting here looking at y'all, looking at all these sequences, all of this, all of these wonderful suited up gentlemen in here and these wonderful women that are dressed to the max.
Speaker 1: My God, you are thriving and God is not through with you.
Speaker 1: Yet.
Speaker 1: You know, folk are still trying to figure y'all out.
Speaker 1: They're still wondering where y'all come from, how y'all pop up all of a sudden.
Speaker 1: Just five years and church full of people how did that happen?
Speaker 1: trying to figure you out, they're sitting around peeping around the corner emailing and they are there, they are Facebooking and they're watching you to see how long this thing gonna last.
Speaker 1: Well, I'll tell you it's favor over your life and it's excessive favor, and you don't have to explain it and you don't have to hide it.
Speaker 1: Excessive favor when it's over your life.
Speaker 1: You got to make your soul boast in the Lord.
Speaker 1: You got to just brag on how good God has been and how good God is to Chosen City Church.
Speaker 1: You need to let folk know what God is doing on this side of town and you need to just be a witness for the Lord everywhere you go, inviting people to come and see what the Lord is doing.
Speaker 1: Chosen City Church you've got so much to be thankful for.
Speaker 1: You've got so much to be thankful for.
Speaker 1: Don't y'all realize that you are?
Speaker 1: Heavy with excessive favor.
Speaker 1: You ain't got no business walking around here carrying the wrong weight on you.
Speaker 1: Drop all of that depression, the weight of disappointment, the weight of discouragement, the weight of insecurity, the weight of lack, the weight of loneliness, the weight of fear.
Speaker 1: Drop it.
Speaker 1: I said drop it.
Speaker 1: Get heavy in God's glory.
Speaker 1: Let the weight of his glory crush every bit of defeat, because for you average isn't good enough.
Speaker 1: Ordinary favor is too plain, just enough.
Speaker 1: Favor simply will not work for y'all.
Speaker 1: No, you're about to experience God's excessive favor in your life.
Speaker 1: If you believe it, I need you to horrify the enemy right now and lift your hands and shout hallelujah.
Speaker 1: Now, when excessive favor is released upon you, it will cause you first of all to ask big.
Speaker 1: Open your mouth and say I must ask big because excessive favor is on my life.
Speaker 1: Mm-hmm.
Speaker 1: I must ask big.
Speaker 1: Now listen.
Speaker 1: In Joshua, chapter 10, verses verses 12 through 14, we are told that Joshua and his men were fighting against five Amorite kings and their armies.
Speaker 1: It was getting real late in the evening and he knew that he wasn't going to be able to defeat the enemies in the dark Feet the enemies in the dark.
Speaker 1: He could have easily retreated and threw up a white flag and given up, but not Joshua, because he understood that excessive favor was upon him.
Speaker 1: He could hear down in his spirit the words of the Lord that said to him Do not fear them, for I have delivered them into your hand.
Speaker 1: Not a man of them shall stand before you.
Speaker 1: He remembered what God told him at the death of Moses yeah, as I was with Moses, so shall I be with you, and no man will be able to stand up against you.
Speaker 1: Joshua, after hearing that in his spirit, he stood tall, stood tall, drenched in excessive favor, looked up and said Son, stand still over Gibeon and moon in the valley of Ajalon.
Speaker 1: And the Bible declares that the sun stood still and the moon stopped till the people had revenge upon their enemies.
Speaker 1: You ought to read it in Joshua 10 and verse 18.
Speaker 1: The sun stood still and the moon stopped at the asking of Joshua.
Speaker 1: Now there have been a number of views that have been proposed to explain how this event occurred.
Speaker 1: There are some who claims that Joshua used figurative language and described only what Joshua and the Israelites imagined the days seem long.
Speaker 1: And in his excitement he wrote, some say poetically it only seemed like the sun stood still to Joshua because the day was so long.
Speaker 1: That's what they said Then.
Speaker 1: Another view is that Joshua was describing a solar eclipse.
Speaker 1: This view is based on the fact that the Hebrew word for stood still can mean silent.
Speaker 1: Some claim that Joshua wanted to frighten his enemies and diminish the heat of the day by an eclipse.
Speaker 1: That's what they said.
Speaker 1: Then there is the view that claims that Joshua actually prayed for the sun to not shine.
Speaker 1: That is, he prayed for darkness, and the darkness was caused by a hailstorm which lasted for one day.
Speaker 1: That's what they said.
Speaker 1: However, the final view that we believe and stand with is what the Bible declares that the sun stood still and the moon stopped.
Speaker 1: I rest my case, since God is all powerful.
Speaker 1: We rest our case that, because Joshua acts big, god honored his request and stopped the sun and the moon.
Speaker 1: After all, he's God who is able to freeze the laws of physics and still maintain the universe.
Speaker 1: Somebody say he's God.
Speaker 1: Any other view or explanation is very low.
Speaker 1: It's illogical and dishonoring view of an omnipresent, omniscient and self-existing God.
Speaker 1: My God and your God does not need our help to explain away a divine miracle with a humanistic and rationalistic explanation.
Speaker 1: He's God all by himself and he can do what no other power can do.
Speaker 1: People of God, when excessive favor is upon you, instead of getting bogged down and held hostage by that situation, you must do as Joshua ask big and say God.
Speaker 1: I may not see a way, but doctor's report may not look favorable.
Speaker 1: But do as Joshua asked big and declare God.
Speaker 1: I heard what the doctor said, but you have the final say you are still Jehovah Rapha and by your stripes I am already healed.
Speaker 1: You got to ask big.
Speaker 1: My finances may be jacked up from the floor up.
Speaker 1: By the way things are looking, I'll never get out of debt.
Speaker 1: But do as Joshua Ask big and say God, you own everything and it ain't your will for me to be in this jacked up situation.
Speaker 1: I decree and I declare that I'm coming out of this because you are well able to supply all my need according to your riches in glory by Christ Jesus.
Speaker 1: I checked here lately and you are still Jehovah Jireh.
Speaker 1: You are my provider.
Speaker 1: You're still Jehovah El Shaddai.
Speaker 1: You are the all-sufficient God.
Speaker 1: Lift your hands in the room and declare he's able.
Speaker 1: Just think about it.
Speaker 1: How much further we go, how much further we go can go if we really believe excessive favor was upon us.
Speaker 1: Just think about how much more we could do if we would believe and imagine.
Speaker 1: Or what would happen if we dared to ask big, like Joshua, did I mean?
Speaker 1: Ask the Lord to do something out of the ordinary?
Speaker 1: I ain't talking about just for a new car.
Speaker 1: No, I ain't talking about for a new wardrobe.
Speaker 1: No, ask the Lord to do something major.
Speaker 1: Ask the Lord to do something that'll scare you.
Speaker 1: Ask the Lord to do greater in your life.
Speaker 1: Oh, brothers and sisters, we've got to get rid of that defeated mentality and that small thinking.
Speaker 1: God.
Speaker 1: Deliver me from small thinking people.
Speaker 1: My God, they get on my nerve, they hurt me.
Speaker 1: I can't stand to be around them, because small thinking people don't want nothing and don't want you to have nothing.
Speaker 1: Small thinking people are always trying to talk you out of what you know God wants you to have.
Speaker 1: And that's why some of you are limited right now, because you let some zero talk you out of what God wants to do in your life.
Speaker 1: God is ready right now to turn your world upside down with his greatness, but you done let somebody get in your ear.
Speaker 1: Somebody done got in your head and making you think now that you better stay with what you got, you better not get out there too far.
Speaker 1: Nah, that's too much.
Speaker 1: The devil is a liar when God says ask me and I will give you the nations Excessive favor.
Speaker 1: Do y'all not know where you are?
Speaker 1: Doall not know where you are.
Speaker 1: Do you not know what ministry you are in?
Speaker 1: Come here a minute.
Speaker 1: Why do you think God planted you here here?
Speaker 1: Where do you know?
Speaker 1: In five years, people are in a facility like this.
Speaker 1: See, some of y'all done got relaxed now you done got comfortable.
Speaker 1: See, you don't think much of it, but I've come here to help you, to remind you that you are in a prophetic environment.
Speaker 1: You didn't do this on your own.
Speaker 1: This is of the Lord's doing and it's marvelous.
Speaker 1: He put you here so that you could see how big he is.
Speaker 1: And if you can see how big he is, then you can get a glimpse of how big you can become is then you can get a glimpse of how big you can become.
Speaker 1: Hit somebody a high five and tell them I'm going all the way with him.
Speaker 1: Open your mouth and say I'm going to ask him for big things.
Speaker 1: Come on, don't get nervous.
Speaker 1: Say I'm going to ask him for big things.
Speaker 1: Come on, we got to break it up in here because there's some small thinking folk in here but we getting ready to mess them up.
Speaker 1: Open up your mouth.
Speaker 1: Say I'm going to ask him for big things, big things.
Speaker 1: And not only that, but when excessive favor is upon you, it will cause you watch this to dream big.
Speaker 1: When excessive favor is on you, it will cause you to dream big.
Speaker 1: I told the people at 8 o'clock this morning, and it bears me testifying about this once again.
Speaker 1: Over 18 plus years ago, the Holy Spirit led me to take a trip to a place that I had never been before and really had never heard of it.
Speaker 1: It's called Anaheim, california, and the Holy Spirit did not reveal to me why he wanted me to go to Anaheim California.
Speaker 1: He didn't give me, and that's how the Spirit works he doesn't tell you everything at once.
Speaker 1: He just told me to just book the trip and I'll lead you further once you get there.
Speaker 1: I followed suit and I booked the flight, jumped on the plane and landed in.
Speaker 1: Anaheim, california, and to my chagrin, to my surprise, I stayed in a hotel that was in walking distance, brethren, from Disneyland.
Speaker 1: And I said to the Holy Spirit.
Speaker 1: I said now, I know you didn't have me to come 2,113 miles to go to Disneyland to see Mickey Mouse and Minnie.
Speaker 1: I know you didn't send me here to go to an amusement park.
Speaker 1: You know I don't even like going to amusement parks.
Speaker 1: And while checking in that hotel I asked the receptionist there at the desk.
Speaker 1: I said, madam, please tell me what other attractions are here besides Disneyland?
Speaker 1: And she said oh, there's the Crystal Cathedral, which is only 10 minutes away from this hotel.
Speaker 1: Then it dawned on me that the Crystal Cathedral was pastored by the renowned Dr Robert H Shuler, who taught and preached messages of hope in the hearts of hurting people, messages of hope in the hearts of hurting people, and that man grew his ministry by encouraging and equipping folk to live at their God-given potential.
Speaker 1: That church grew by the thousands as Dr Shuler's sermons resonated on possibility thinking within the community.
Speaker 1: On possibility thinking within the community.
Speaker 1: I was struck also by the fact that at that time the Crystal Cathedral was the largest glass church building in the world.
Speaker 1: And I also was struck by the fact that it had one of the largest pipe organs in the world that was in that church.
Speaker 1: And that amused me, because I'm a musician and so I wanted to see it, I wanted to hear it.
Speaker 1: And you see, at that particular time of the Holy Spirit leading me to Anakai in California, god had given me a dream that was beyond me.
Speaker 1: It was a vision that was so phenomenal until I didn't know what to do with it.
Speaker 1: It haunted me.
Speaker 1: As a matter of fact, it was so big until it scared me.
Speaker 1: I went to my room and, after getting settled, I fell prostrate on my face and spent hours upon hours in prayer.
Speaker 1: And while praying, the Holy Spirit said get up tomorrow morning and go to the cathedral and I'll instruct you from there.
Speaker 1: I obeyed and I, upon my arrival, I didn't know how to get in that place, it was so massive.
Speaker 1: I drove around and around my arrival.
Speaker 1: I didn't know how to get in that place.
Speaker 1: It was so massive.
Speaker 1: I drove around and around until I was about to get discouraged and finally I saw a painter with a ladder walking on the parking lot and I stopped him and asked him.
Speaker 1: I said, sir, how do you get in this place.
Speaker 1: And he showed me the welcome center.
Speaker 1: And I went to the welcome center and upon my interest, I met an elderly gentleman who became my tour guide, and that man took me all around that facility and then he took me to a place where he wasn't supposed to take me.
Speaker 1: It was the private prayer tower of Dr Robert Shuler, where he does not allow anybody to go there unless he is present.
Speaker 1: And so this gentleman said to me I feel in my spirit that you might need to visit the prayer tower, that you might need to visit the prayer tower.
Speaker 1: And so he took me there and yonder we go up into the prayer tower and while in that prayer tower I could feel the presence of God in that place.
Speaker 1: I got on my knees at that altar and began to pray and the Holy Spirit began to minister unto me right at that altar.
Speaker 1: And then, after I got up from there, the gentleman took me by the bookstore altar.
Speaker 1: And then, after I got up from there, the gentleman took me by the bookstore and he said I know you got to go, but I want you to come with me by the bookstore.
Speaker 1: And there in the bookstore I came upon a coffee mug with Dr Shuler's favorite and famous quote, and this is what that mug said if you can dream it, you can do it.
Speaker 1: This was Dr Schuller's mantra build a dream and the dream will build you.
Speaker 1: I bought that mug yes, did, and it became a driving force within my life and it remains in me right today.
Speaker 1: If I can dream it, I can do it.
Speaker 1: Well, I just want to talk to a few big dreamers in here that believe that God has given you a dream and that it's a big dream.
Speaker 1: And if you believe that God has given it to you, I just need to kind of stir in that thing right now.
Speaker 1: And I need you to repeat after me If I can dream it, I can do it Now.
Speaker 1: I just want to talk to people with big dreams.
Speaker 1: I don't need to talk to no scared folk and I don't need to talk to nobody who just want to repeat what I'm saying to save face.
Speaker 1: But I'm looking for some big dreamers.
Speaker 1: Where are you Jump to your feet if you're a big dreamers?
Speaker 1: Where are you jump to your feet if you're a big dreamer now?
Speaker 1: This is what I want you to repeat after me say if I can dream it, I can do it.
Speaker 1: Now come on, I want you to point to yourself and say, if I can dream it, I can do it.
Speaker 1: Say my dream is coming to pass.
Speaker 1: Now put a hallelujah on it, right there, you may be seated.
Speaker 1: You may be seated, you may receive it.
Speaker 1: I return home fired up.
Speaker 1: I came back home full of confidence, pastor Bowers.
Speaker 1: I was assured that what the Holy Spirit wanted me to see and hear was affirmation that confirmed that what he had showed me was possible.
Speaker 1: The trip also said to me that when you dream big and when you believe big, expect big, and God will supersize what you're dreaming about.
Speaker 1: What I initially envisioned was supersized after my visit to the Crystal Cathedral.
Speaker 1: And right now.
Speaker 1: Can I tell somebody up in here, up in here, that what you have been praying for is way too small.
Speaker 1: What you're hoping to accomplish is nowhere near to what God has in mind for you.
Speaker 1: I just want to tell you to get ready, because God has supersized your dream.
Speaker 1: He is blowing it up beyond what you have been asking and praying for.
Speaker 1: The word says you haven't seen, you haven't heard, you haven't imagined the amazing and good things that the Lord has in store for those who love him.
Speaker 1: Excessive favor is upon those who love the Lord.
Speaker 1: I said, excessive favor is upon those of you who show enough love the Lord.
Speaker 1: If we are going to see the fullness of our destiny, we have to dream big.
Speaker 1: If you're going to see the fullness of this ministry's next move, you got to expect things to happen for you that may not happen for some of the ministry.
Speaker 1: Don't you apologize?
Speaker 1: No, don't you try to appease nobody.
Speaker 1: Forget that.
Speaker 1: Don't you shy away from it.
Speaker 1: Get over them.
Speaker 1: Don't you waste energy trying to explain?
Speaker 1: It cares, it's your time.
Speaker 1: Open up your mouth, say it's my time.
Speaker 1: Haha, come on.
Speaker 1: Say it's my time and then say it's my turn.
Speaker 1: Some of y'all ain't saying nothing.
Speaker 1: That's why you gonna stay right where you are.
Speaker 1: Say it's my time and it's my turn.
Speaker 1: Open your mouth.
Speaker 1: Say get over me, get over me how, because it's time for me to go in, go in, go in.
Speaker 1: Dr Robert Shuler also said the only place where your dream becomes impossible is in your own thinking.
Speaker 1: Did you hear what I said?
Speaker 1: I said the only place where your dream becomes impossible is in your own thinking.
Speaker 1: As a man or a woman thinketh, so is he.
Speaker 1: Think small and what's going to happen?
Speaker 1: Small will get you.
Speaker 1: Think big, and what will happen?
Speaker 1: Big will get you.
Speaker 1: Think big and what will happen?
Speaker 1: Big will get you.
Speaker 1: If you say to this mountain that's been standing in the way of your dream, be cast into the sea and do not doubt in your heart, but believe the Bible says you will have whatsoever you say.
Speaker 1: God Almighty knows.
Speaker 1: Don't you understand that your next miracle is in your mouth, your next deliverance is in your mouth, your next promotion is in your mouth, your next breakthrough is in your mouth.
Speaker 1: It ain't happening because you ain't saying nothing.
Speaker 1: But the moment you begin to defy the works of the devil, the moment you begin to tell Satan I know what you're trying to do, but you're a liar and the truth is not in you.
Speaker 1: Everything that God promised me I'm going to have it in the name of jesus.
Speaker 1: I'm going to triumph over you and god is going to make this thing happen in my life.
Speaker 1: I need a witness in here today who will declare that god has just supersized my dream.
Speaker 1: God has just broken my dream on another level.
Speaker 1: God has just elevated my dream.
Speaker 1: I see, in the spirit realm, god is supersizing even the dream and the vision of this house.
Speaker 1: Let me tell y'all something Money is not an issue with y'all.
Speaker 1: Glory to God, and if enough of y'all would hook up with this man, god will release such excessive favor on you until whoever is holding the papers on this house will have to release it in your hands, somebody who can feel that.
Speaker 1: just hit somebody and tell them I know that's right.
Speaker 1: Open your mouth and say a release is coming here.
Speaker 1: God has just supersized it.
Speaker 1: Do you not know that God can cause people to go out of their way to be good to you?
Speaker 1: Do you not know that God could shake up the people in such a manner until they have to release everything into your hands?
Speaker 1: I told our church last have to release everything into your hands.
Speaker 1: I told our church last Sunday that we are in the midst of a wealth transfer.
Speaker 1: We are in the midst of a I don't care how.
Speaker 1: Y'all looking at me strange.
Speaker 1: I'm announcing it in here.
Speaker 1: Not only Gap Church but Chosen City Church is in the midst of a wealth transfer.
Speaker 1: The wealth of the sinner is laid up for the righteous.
Speaker 1: God is able to release everything unto the saints that the saints is asking him for.
Speaker 1: But you got to ask him for it and you got to dream big about it.
Speaker 1: And then you got to ask him for it and you got to dream big about it and then you got to shout on it.
Speaker 1: The wealth transfer is in the atmosphere and I told the people at the gap church.
Speaker 1: I said I know it's in the atmosphere, I know what god is doing.
Speaker 1: And then god sent me a witness to what I was telling them about.
Speaker 1: He took me back and he reminded me.
Speaker 1: He said now I want you to let the people know that I'm in the midst of a wealth transfer and I'm going to show you that I'm doing it right before your very eyes.
Speaker 1: Now some of y'all might know Sister Ruby Freeman and her daughter, wanda Moss of Atlanta, georgia, who were election workers down there in Georgia back in 2021.
Speaker 1: And they were accused by that ruthless Rudy Giuliani of sneaking in ballots in suitcases.
Speaker 1: Giuliani of sneaking in ballots in suitcases and he said they were counting ballots multi-times and tampering with voter machines.
Speaker 1: Y'all remember and, as a result, their lives were threatened and they had to move out of Georgia because they were being harassed, they were being messed with, their lives were upset.
Speaker 1: They were in such a disarrayed manner until they testified before Congress about what was going on with them.
Speaker 1: And then, after they got through with all of that watch this they sued Rudy Giuliani for defamation of character and was awarded $148 million.
Speaker 1: Up your mouth and say wealth transfer, uh-huh.
Speaker 1: He also had to turn around over.
Speaker 1: He had to turn over to them here lately his New York City apartment, 26 luxury watches and a 1980 Mercedes.
Speaker 1: He had to give up a shirt and picture that was signed by Joe DiMaggio and he had to turn over jewelry and money in certain bank accounts.
Speaker 1: And the judge now is contemplating on whether he's going to make him turn over his other properties in other countries.
Speaker 1: Somebody shout wealth transfer.
Speaker 1: Here were women who were just poll workers, ordinary women, but when God is in it, he can take from the wealthy and place in the hands of the righteous.
Speaker 1: Will you just hunt somebody and tell them I feel a wealth transfer coming to me?
Speaker 1: Oh, that was the wrong person.
Speaker 1: That person can't handle it.
Speaker 1: Come on and talk to somebody and tell them I feel a wealth transfer coming to me.
Speaker 1: God is about to turn this thing around.
Speaker 1: God is about to cause wealth to find me.
Speaker 1: He knows where you live, he knows your email, he knows your address, he knows how to get it to you.
Speaker 1: And, lastly, he knows your address, he knows how to get it to you.
Speaker 1: And lastly, lastly, lastly, I want to tell you not only when excessive favor is released upon us, it causes us to ask big, dream big and then watch this expect big.
Speaker 1: You just can't merely ask and dream and not expect.
Speaker 1: That's a waste of time.
Speaker 1: But and not expect, that's a waste of time.
Speaker 1: But I heard them singing.
Speaker 1: I Am expecting Great things.
Speaker 1: Yeah, expect Big.
Speaker 1: In 2 Kings, chapter 6, the king of Syria had made plans to overtake the Israelites.
Speaker 1: However, every time he had made a move, the Israelites were a step ahead of him.
Speaker 1: The enemy king was so upset and the man got frustrated because he could not figure out how in the world could the Israelites outmaneuver him?
Speaker 1: Every time To him they were not smart enough.
Speaker 1: He called his inner circle to his army together and said gentlemen, we've got a problem.
Speaker 1: There's a traitor in our camp and I want to know here and now who it is.
Speaker 1: Who's the spy in here?
Speaker 1: Which one of you is the mole?
Speaker 1: I need you to come clean, because somebody is leaking inside information that no one else has been privy to.
Speaker 1: Alright, I'm going to give you a chance now, because if you don't go to talking, heads are going to begin to roll.
Speaker 1: Who's the snitch?
Speaker 1: One of the king's servants spoke up and said King, it's none of us leaking information, but, sir, there is a prophet in Israel by the name of Elisha.
Speaker 1: I don't know how he does it, but what you whisper to us in secret, this man announces publicly to the Israelites.
Speaker 1: The king says that's it.
Speaker 1: Go and get him and bring him to me.
Speaker 1: Now.
Speaker 1: He now sends a great army of men to surround Elisha's house.
Speaker 1: Now you would think that he would only send maybe a dozen or so men, but the Bible says he sent thousands of troops, horses and chariots all to capture one man who was anointed with excessive favor.
Speaker 1: Why don't you tell somebody?
Speaker 1: The enemy don't know who he's messing with?
Speaker 1: Elisha's assistant, upon his early morning round, saw all of the enemy forces around the house.
Speaker 1: He got nervous and he panicked.
Speaker 1: He runs back into the house and, almost breathless, he tells Elisha about the danger.
Speaker 1: That he says to Elijah sir, there are men surrounding us.
Speaker 1: We don't have nowhere to escape.
Speaker 1: They are going to wipe us out.
Speaker 1: He was in a panic.
Speaker 1: Elijah said to him simmer down, cool yourself off.
Speaker 1: Now Collect yourself.
Speaker 1: Yes, chill out.
Speaker 1: We may be outnumbered, but I ain't worried.
Speaker 1: They may have more weapons, they may have more equipment, they may be more talented, but I have something that's more powerful than all of that.
Speaker 1: What is it?
Speaker 1: It's called excessive favor.
Speaker 1: Hit somebody sitting next to you, tell them that's it.
Speaker 1: That's it, excessive favor.
Speaker 1: I may not have everything that everybody else has, but I have something that's more potent, something that's more powerful.
Speaker 1: It's called excessive favor.
Speaker 1: I expect God to show up in a big way and handle this battle for us.
Speaker 1: You see, elisha knew how to ask big, he knew how to dream big and he knew how to expect big.
Speaker 1: He had seen God open blinded eyes.
Speaker 1: Now he asked big and said God, let my enemies become blind so they don't recognize who I am.
Speaker 1: The Lord honored his big, bold request and slapped blindness on the Syrian army.
Speaker 1: The blinded Syrian leader came and knocked on the door and said we're looking for Elisha.
Speaker 1: Elijah said You're looking for Elisha.
Speaker 1: Well, you're in the wrong city.
Speaker 1: You need to go to Samaria.
Speaker 1: They thanked him.
Speaker 1: Then Elisha said to them listen now to ensure you get to the right place.
Speaker 1: I'll lead you to the man you are in pursuit of.
Speaker 1: I don't want you to get lost, so follow me as I take you to this Elisha.
Speaker 1: Well, elisha led the Syrians right into the hands of the Israelites and once they were surrounded and captured, elisha prayed again and asked the Lord to open their eyes and the Lord did just that.
Speaker 1: Tell your neighbor he's waiting on you to ask him to do something big in your life.
Speaker 1: Open their eyes, and God honored the request of Elijah.
Speaker 1: Brothers and sisters, ladies and gentlemen, you can expect God to do big things when excessive favor is upon your life.
Speaker 1: He will protect us from our enemies.
Speaker 1: I said he'll protect you from your enemies.
Speaker 1: Of those folks who are troubling you have, those folks who have gotten on your last nerve.
Speaker 1: God will handle them on your behalf.
Speaker 1: That he will guide us through dangers seen and unseen.
Speaker 1: I'm looking for a witness in here.
Speaker 1: He will even make us invisible to our enemies.
Speaker 1: The psalmist said it in Psalms 27.
Speaker 1: For him the time of trouble.
Speaker 1: He shall hide me in his pavilion, in the secret place of the Most High.
Speaker 1: Shall he hide me?
Speaker 1: The enemy is trying to find you, but you are hidden.
Speaker 1: The enemy is trying to locate you, but you are hidden.
Speaker 1: We don't have to go around weak and timid and nervous and afraid and intimidated.
Speaker 1: Stop biting your fingernails, stop allowing your nerves to be tore up, stop ducking folk because you are afraid of what they may say and what they may do to you.
Speaker 1: Do you not know who you are.
Speaker 1: You have been anointed with excessive favor.
Speaker 1: I said do you not know who you are?
Speaker 1: You have been anointed with excessive favor.
Speaker 1: I said do you not know who you are?
Speaker 1: You are powerful.
Speaker 1: Behold, I give you power to tread upon the heads of serpents and scorpions and nothing shall by any means harm you.
Speaker 1: Let the witch trigger her nose like bewitched.
Speaker 1: Let the witch doctor do whatever he want to do.
Speaker 1: Let them say they put a hex on you, that they put roots on you.
Speaker 1: But when you're rooted in Jesus, no root by man can harm you.
Speaker 1: When you are steadfast in the Lord, let them have their voodoo sessions, let them have their seances.
Speaker 1: Let them sprinkle their dust around your path.
Speaker 1: What you need to do is walk in the dust and declare everywhere that my feet shall trod.
Speaker 1: God has given me territory.
Speaker 1: Lift your hands and shout glory to God in here.
Speaker 1: Do you not know who you are?
Speaker 1: You have been anointed with excessive favor.
Speaker 1: You are powerful.
Speaker 1: You are deadly.
Speaker 1: You are lethal.
Speaker 1: You are a force to be reckoned with.
Speaker 1: Have I got to your role, yet you are nothing tooned with.
Speaker 1: Have I got to your role, yet you are nothing to play with.
Speaker 1: You have been smeared in the anointing of God.
Speaker 1: You have won the favor of God.
Speaker 1: You have become the object of his affection.
Speaker 1: You are now the apple of his eye.
Speaker 1: He goes out of his way to take care of you.
Speaker 1: When my enemies and my foe came upon me to eat up my flesh, they stumbled and they fell.
Speaker 1: All righty.
Speaker 1: Now keep on lying on me.
Speaker 1: All right, keep on trying to blackball me.
Speaker 1: Go ahead with your crazy self.
Speaker 1: Keep on trying to mess me up.
Speaker 1: But what you don't understand is God is fighting every one of my battles.
Speaker 1: I ain't got to call you out.
Speaker 1: I ain't got to threaten you.
Speaker 1: I ain't got to tell you a piece of my mind.
Speaker 1: But when God raises his hand against you, he'll shut you down in the midst.
Speaker 1: And God has a way of preparing tables before us, even in the presence of our enemies.
Speaker 1: I wonder now is there anybody in here who's got an enemy somewhere?
Speaker 1: I wonder, maybe y'all too, holy, y'all ain't got no enemies.
Speaker 1: But now I'm looking for at least five of y'all.
Speaker 1: Who know for yourself that I got some enemies.
Speaker 1: They're mean, they're nasty, they're jealous.
Speaker 1: They are just off the chain.
Speaker 1: As a matter of fact, I got some in the church.
Speaker 1: I don't care what I do.
Speaker 1: They roll their eyes at me.
Speaker 1: They walk right past me, act like they don't see me, don't even want to speak to me, don't even want to work with me in ministry.
Speaker 1: Y'all ain't saying nothing.
Speaker 1: I'm coming at you, I'm coming at you.
Speaker 1: I'm coming at you, yeah, yeah, they Coming at you.
Speaker 1: Yeah, yeah, they sit up in here.
Speaker 1: Yeah, act as if that I have some dreaded disease.
Speaker 1: When I come in the row, where they are, they begin frowning up their face, they begin turning their heads, acting like they're about to have a stroke because I'm in the row.
Speaker 1: But you might as well get over me, because I'm going to come up in here every time the door opened and I'm going to give God my best praise because you don't know, like I know, what God has done for me.
Speaker 1: God has brought me from death back to life, and you think I'm going to let you to rob me of my joy?
Speaker 1: The devil, and you are a liar.
Speaker 1: I'm going to let you to rob me of my joy, the devil, and you are a liar.
Speaker 1: I'm going to give God a crazy praise because of what he has done for me.
Speaker 1: I'm looking for some praises in this room who know that God brought you out and God took you in.
Speaker 1: I'm looking for somebody who know that you were a mess.
Speaker 1: You know that your stuff was out there.
Speaker 1: You know that you were a mess.
Speaker 1: You know that your stuff was out there.
Speaker 1: You know that you lived a raggedy life.
Speaker 1: You know that you were strung out on drugs.
Speaker 1: You were hooked up on alcohol.
Speaker 1: You were hooked up on painkillers.
Speaker 1: You were a mess, but God rescued you.
Speaker 1: God turned your life around and if nobody else praises him, you ought to jump up and give him a praise, because you could have been dead, but God rescued you.
Speaker 1: I need somebody to shout hallelujah, hallelujah, oh, come on.
Speaker 1: I need you to shout hallelujah, hallelujah.
Speaker 1: Brothers and sisters, ladies and gentlemen, as I rush to this close today, you got to ask big God wants you to have it.
Speaker 1: He longs for you to have it.
Speaker 1: He's waiting on you to turn him loose in your life and he could not do many miracles there because of their unbelief.
Speaker 1: God right now Wants to show some of y'all off In the presence of your enemies.
Speaker 1: Lord God wants To put you on front street and call the very ones who said you would never amount to nothing, to see how good God has been to you.
Speaker 1: You got to ask big.
Speaker 1: You got to dream big you got to expect big, and now some of y'all big dreamers in here, the enemy has turned up the heat on you.
Speaker 1: I've come to announce to you.
Speaker 1: That's why you've been experiencing all of this drama.
Speaker 1: That's why you have been going through.
Speaker 1: That's why, if it ain't one thing, it's another.
Speaker 1: That's why Because you are just about there and the closer you get to your breakthrough is the more the enemy comes against you.
Speaker 1: That's why people now that you never imagined, are saying things, they're doing things against you.
Speaker 1: That's why they're acting crazy on your job.
Speaker 1: That's why they're trying to hold you up from a long-deserved promotion.
Speaker 1: That's why they have put a freeze on your increase.
Speaker 1: That's why things now that you have worked hard for it seems like it has become held up.
Speaker 1: You done put in the work, you've done the homework, you've done everything you know to do and now it seems as if nothing ain't working.
Speaker 1: Well, I just want to tell you don't you run away from what you know God has led you to do.
Speaker 1: It's just a matter of time that God is about to flip the script and he's about to usher you in to where the enemy has tried to keep you out of.
Speaker 1: The enemy knows that if you have the audacity to expect big and if you have the nerves and the gumption to expect big, then if he doesn't stop you, you're going to mess around and what you believe in God for is going to be manifested in your life.
Speaker 1: Hit somebody a high five and tell them it's coming to pass, uh-huh, yeah.
Speaker 1: They that wait upon the Lord shall renew their strength.
Speaker 1: You're going to mount up on the wings of eagles.
Speaker 1: You're going to run upon the wings of eagles.
Speaker 1: You're going to run and not be weary.
Speaker 1: You're going to walk and not faint.
Speaker 1: Wait, I say, upon the Lord.
Speaker 1: It's a big dream and you expect big.
Speaker 1: And grandmama runs in here and testifies and she said you can't hurry God, you just got to wait.
Speaker 1: You got to trust him and give him time, no matter how long it takes.
Speaker 1: He's gone, that you can't hurry, he'll be there.
Speaker 1: You ain't got to worry.
Speaker 1: He may not come when you want him, but he's always On time.
Speaker 1: God Is working this thing On your behalf, because God Is the greatest Power and we shall never be defeated.
Speaker 1: I like what Rich Talbot said.
Speaker 1: He said I shall rise, I shall be, I shall go in victory.
Speaker 1: No weapon formed against me will ever overtake me.
Speaker 1: He said, because God is the greatest power, we shall never be defeated.
Speaker 1: And then he said the devil is a liar.
Speaker 1: God is exalted.
Speaker 1: I'll never be defeated.
Speaker 1: We will never be defeated Because excessive favor Is upon us.
Speaker 1: Now is the time, chosen city, to ask big.
Speaker 1: It's time for y'all to dream big.
Speaker 1: It's time for y'all to expect big.
Speaker 1: Saints, this is your season.
Speaker 1: It's your due season to dream and to believe God that my dream is coming to pass.
Speaker 1: Problems are turning around.
Speaker 1: It's time to arise and shine and give God the glory.
Speaker 1: I said arise and shine and give God the glory.
Speaker 1: Arise and shine and give God the glory.
Speaker 1: Comeise and shine and give God the glory.
Speaker 1: Come on y'all.
Speaker 1: You're not a lightweight.
Speaker 1: Come on here.
Speaker 1: You're not average.
Speaker 1: Come on here.
Speaker 1: You don't get ordinary favor.
Speaker 1: You have been drenched with excessive favor.
Speaker 1: That's why you must dare to ask big, dream big and expect big.
Speaker 1: And when we do, get ready for God to show out in your life, to show out in your life, get ready for breakthroughs, get ready for promotion, get ready for healing, get ready for deliverance, get ready for debt cancellation, get ready for increase, get ready for overflow, get ready for more than enough.
Speaker 1: Get ready for God to do what no other power can do.
Speaker 1: God is in the midst of you.
Speaker 1: God is getting ready to take you all to places you've never been.
Speaker 1: God is getting ready to enlarge your territory.
Speaker 1: God is fighting on your behalf, on your behalf.
Speaker 1: You just be still and see the salvation of the Lord.
Speaker 1: And I believe I said I believe if enough of y'all would hook up together and begin to for big things.
Speaker 1: Eyes have not seen, ears have not heard, neither have it entered the hearts of men the great thing that God is going to release in your life.
Speaker 1: God has loosed in this house excessive favor.
Speaker 1: It's all over you.
Speaker 1: All you need to do is open your mouth and begin to declare God, I believe God, I receive God.
Speaker 1: I give you glory in advance for what I know you are about to do.
Speaker 1: Let me tell you something, what you got to do.
Speaker 1: When excessive favor is on your life, you gotta mix the favor with your praise, because when praises go up, blessing will come down.
Speaker 1: You've got to mix your praise with what you believe, and your praise is not based on somebody else's praise.
Speaker 1: Your praise is not based on what the musicians are doing.
Speaker 1: Your praise is not based on the praise team.
Speaker 1: Your praise is not based on what you know.
Speaker 1: When I think of the goodness of Jesus and all he's done for me, my soul, my soul, christ, hallelujah, I thank God for saving me.
Speaker 1: When I begin to think of where he brought me from and where he's taking me to, I got to break out and give him praise.
Speaker 1: He inhabits the praises of his people.
Speaker 1: He inhabits the hallelujahs of his people.
Speaker 1: He inhabits the glory to God of his people.
Speaker 1: I've got to praise him for what I know he's going to do.
Speaker 1: Praise God, from whom all blessings flow.
Speaker 1: Praise him all creatures here below.
Speaker 1: Praise him above.
Speaker 1: Ye heavenly hosts.
Speaker 1: Praise Father, son and Holy Ghost.
Speaker 1: I love to praise the name of Jesus because he's my rock, he's my shelter, he's my deliverer.
Speaker 1: In him will I trust.
Speaker 1: Praise the name of Jesus.
Speaker 1: I love to praise his name, praise him.
Speaker 1: Praise him.
Speaker 1: Jesus, blessed Savior.
Speaker 1: He's worthy I said he's worthy to be praised From the rising of the sun to the going down of the same.
Speaker 1: He's worthy.
Speaker 1: Jesus is worthy.
Speaker 1: He's worthy to be praised.
Speaker 1: I, I, I, I, I, I love to praise his name.
Speaker 1: If you praise him, you won't lose your mind.
Speaker 1: If you praise him, your nerves will settle down.
Speaker 1: If you praise him, peace will come.
Speaker 1: If you pray them, joy will come.
Speaker 1: If you pray them, glory will come.
Speaker 1: If you pray them, he'll make a way out of nowhere.
Speaker 1: I, I love to pray them.
Speaker 1: I'm looking for somebody.
Speaker 1: Is there anybody here who loved my deal?
Speaker 1: Is there anybody here who loved my lord?
Speaker 1: I want to know if you love the Lord.
Speaker 1: Well, well, well, well, well, well, well.
Speaker 1: If you are not afraid, I need you to jump up and give God a praise Right where you are.
Speaker 1: Mess the devil up, run the devil crazy, get him off your mind.
Speaker 1: Give god a praise right where your heart.
Speaker 1: Tell your neighbor I'm believing god for something big and I'm gonna praise until I get it.
Speaker 1: I'm a prayin' until I get it.
Speaker 1: It's coming, it's coming Praise.
Speaker 1: I said praise.
Speaker 1: I said give him praise, give him glory, give him honor.
Speaker 1: It's your time, it's your season.
Speaker 1: God is going to release it in your life.
Speaker 1: Throw your hands up, throw your head back and shout yes, shout, yes, shout, yes.
Speaker 1: Hey.
Speaker 1: Hallelujah, hallelujah, hallelujah, hallelujah.
Speaker 1: I need you to tell at least three people I'm going to praise them until I get it.
Speaker 1: Go ahead and tell them.
Speaker 1: I'm going to praise them till I get it and you ain't gonna stop me from praising them.
Speaker 1: You ain't gonna shut me up.
Speaker 1: You ain't gonna put no nook over my mouth.
Speaker 1: You ain't gonna muzzle me.
Speaker 1: I got a right to praise him.
Speaker 1: Come on somebody.
Speaker 1: I got a right to praise him.
Speaker 1: Come on somebody.
Speaker 1: I got a right to praise him.
Speaker 1: The Lord is looking For a church that will dare Believe him totally, for what looks impossible.
Speaker 1: He said as far as your eyes can see, I've given you the land.
Speaker 1: He didn't say I've loaned you the land.
Speaker 1: He said I have given you Some.
Speaker 1: Some people still don't believe that God is a giver, because some of us are so used to taking.
Speaker 1: But our God is a giver.
Speaker 1: He can supernaturally cause things to happen in your life that you will have to scratch your head and wonder my God, how did that happen?
Speaker 1: That's the kind of God we serve people, and where you all are, I speak to you prophetically in this room.
Speaker 1: This chosen city church has been chosen for such a time as this, to show forth God's glory in the earth.
Speaker 1: God has brought you into this place, into this space, to do damage to the enemy's territory.
Speaker 1: Do not and I emphasize, do not compromise who you are with the culture, with the culture.
Speaker 1: Do not allow yourselves to acquiesce to political opinions.
Speaker 1: Do not allow yourself to be jammed up and your witness to go silent because you don't want to rock the boat.
Speaker 1: Rock the boat and don't get nervous over where you are.
Speaker 1: This facility, god said it's yours.
Speaker 1: It's yours.
Speaker 1: It's yours Everything that you need, pastor.
Speaker 1: The Spirit of the Lord says I've already done it, see, and some people may not, can get this, and I understand it's okay.
Speaker 1: But those of you who are spiritual minded and who understand the moves of God, you understand that God does things unconventionally.
Speaker 1: When you think you got him figured out, he'll go in a whole different direction that you never imagined.
Speaker 1: God is in the midst and all he wants from you is your obedience.
Speaker 1: All he wants you to do is follow the vision that God has given this man, whether you understand it or not.
Speaker 1: Just follow.
Speaker 1: Are y'all hearing me?
Speaker 1: Just follow, because he gives hisall hearing me.
Speaker 1: Just follow Because he gives his vision to his set leader.
Speaker 1: You are not a visionary for this church.
Speaker 1: He's the visionary and as God leads him and you follow, you're going to possess the land and you're going to see big things happen.
Speaker 1: People are going to come from different places to study y'all to see if what they heard is really true.
Speaker 1: They ain't gonna believe it that in this short span of time, god has blessed you excessively with his favor.
Speaker 1: There are going to be people that God is going to sin in this house that's coming here not looking for any titles.
Speaker 1: They don't even want to be seen, but God has already touched their hearts and they're coming here with millions.
Speaker 1: I speak it as I hear it.
Speaker 1: Glory to God.
Speaker 1: I don't say nothing unless I hear it in the spirit realm.
Speaker 1: And if I be a prophet of God, you're going to see supernatural interventions.
Speaker 1: That's going to happen in this ministry and this man is going to stand to this pulpit and begin to announce what has happened this week, what has happened next week, what has happened so far.
Speaker 1: He's going to be coming here because every time he announces one thing, god's going to hit him with something.
Speaker 1: Every time he announces one thing, god's gonna hit him with something else.
Speaker 1: And why is he doing it?
Speaker 1: To prove to you that God is in control of this ministry.
Speaker 1: Hallelujah, if you believe it, clap your hands and give God praise right where you are.
Speaker 1: I feel in my spirit to pray for every leader in this house today.
Speaker 1: If you don't mind, every person that's a leader in this house.
Speaker 1: Make your way to this altar quickly, will you please Every person, every person that's a leader, every person that's in ministry in this house.
Speaker 1: Make your way to this altar quickly, will you please every person, every person that's a leader, every person that's in ministry in this house.
Speaker 1: It doesn't matter what ministry you're in.
Speaker 1: If you're in ministry, come wherever you are, come.
Speaker 1: I want to pray with you.
Speaker 1: I want to pray for you because something great is about to happen within this ministry, hallelujah.
Speaker 1: And as a leader, you've got to be on board, you've got to be on one accord come, come, come, hallelujah, come hallelujah.
Speaker 1: The Lord is about to, he's about to shift some things.
Speaker 1: You're going to come in to see that everything that has been prophesied shall come to pass.
Speaker 1: Can I tell some of you in here right now get over what used to be.
Speaker 1: This is a new day.
Speaker 1: This ministry is on a different trajectory.
Speaker 1: Don't hold this ministry hostage with a traditional mindset, because new wine can't go into old wineskins.
Speaker 1: You got to say to the Lord Lord, wash me, I rid myself of everything that was.
Speaker 1: And now I understand that this is a different hour.
Speaker 1: This is a new season of ministry.
Speaker 1: I'm not bringing my old mindsets, my old wineskins.
Speaker 1: I'm not trying to hold this man of God hostage to do things my way, because it's not about me, it's all about God.
Speaker 1: Because, may I tell you, as leaders, in order for this ministry to continue to excel, you have got to be willing to change your thinking, hallelujah.
Speaker 1: You've got to be willing to make changes and not be angry about it.
Speaker 1: And you cannot say you're with it and when you leave here, you're on the phone or having conferences with others discussing how disgruntled you are.
Speaker 1: Because, let me tell you something, every word that comes out of your mouth will come up again, and God will hold you in judgment of what you say.
Speaker 1: Sure, we have opinions, but we can discuss things without falling out Of what you say.
Speaker 1: Sure, we have opinions, but we can discuss things without falling out.
Speaker 1: Glory to God.
Speaker 1: And when you do so, god will bless you To do even greater.
Speaker 1: Will you bow your heads, father, in the name of Jesus, I want to thank you for these precious leaders, these men and women that you have connected to the Chosen City Church, thereby connected to Pastor Walter Bowers and his wife.
Speaker 1: I ask now, lord, that you would so anoint these leaders With excessive favor that would cause them, oh God, to ask for big things, to dream for big things and expect big things to happen.
Speaker 1: I pray, god, that you would take the limitations off of their minds that you would cause them, oh God, to launch out into the deep, that you would cause faith to come alive in them, lord God, that they would move not even knowing where they're going, but they would trust you enough to know that if you said it through the man of God, then they believe it and they will see the results thereof.
Speaker 1: Thank you.
Speaker 1: Right now I pray for the hearts of every leader around this altar.
Speaker 1: I pray, god, that there be no iniquity in the heart, that there be nothing, lord God, let there be no deceit, let there be no hypocrisy, let there be nothing, lord God, let there be no deceit, let there be no hypocrisy, let there be no jealousy, let there be no envy, let there be no strife.
Speaker 1: I pray, god, that there will be peace, there will be joy, there will be love.
Speaker 1: Lord, in the Holy Ghost, in the name of Jesus, I pray that you will consecrate these leaders to your service.
Speaker 1: In the name of Jesus, do in them what needs to be done, lord, god.
Speaker 1: I pray that there will be unity amongst them, that there will be such unity, father, that whatever directions that they are given, they will carry them out to the letter and you will get the glory out of their lives.
Speaker 1: I thank you right now, lord.
Speaker 1: I pray that you, oh God, will cause Leaders To walk away from those who Sow seeds of discord, those, lord, who always got something extra to say cause them to shut them down.
Speaker 1: Cause them, oh God.
Speaker 1: Cause them, oh God, to be bold enough to speak truth to them and love them just the same.
Speaker 1: In the name of Jesus, let there be no division amongst them.
Speaker 1: In the name of Jesus, thank you.
Speaker 1: Now, father, I'm asking you to temper some of these emotions, some of these leaders who have just become so emotional about everything, I pray.
Speaker 1: Some of these leaders who have become so personal about everything.
Speaker 1: They take everything personal, but, god, I pray, help them to know that it's bigger than them, that it's about ministry and not them.
Speaker 1: In Jesus name, I thank you now.
Speaker 1: I thank you now.
Speaker 1: I come against the spirit of witchcraft, that spirit of control, that spirit of intimidation.
Speaker 1: I come against that spirit right now, father, and I pray, in the name of Jesus, that that spirit be ushered out of here.
Speaker 1: Right now, in the name of, we bind the spirit of witchcraft.
Speaker 1: We come against that Jezebel spirit.
Speaker 1: In the name of Jesus, get out of here, loose here.
Speaker 1: In the name of Jesus, I thank you now and I pray that your anointing would take over this house.
Speaker 1: Sweep Holy Spirit all over this house.
Speaker 1: Let your glory be all over this house.
Speaker 1: Don't let this house be a house that's quiet.
Speaker 1: Don't let this house be a house that's so serene.
Speaker 1: Don't let this house become a house that be so sophisticated until they forget about how good you've been to them.
Speaker 1: But I pray, let this be a house that will give you glory, that will give you honor, that will give you praise in the name of Jesus and it is so.
Speaker 1: I pray signs, wonders and miracles will be within this ministry, that people will come here one way but they'll leave another.
Speaker 1: My god, thank you.
Speaker 1: Let miracles begin happening right before their very eyes.
Speaker 1: In the name of Jesus, and I thank you.
Speaker 1: Now open the windows of heaven, calls blessings to come on this house that there won't be room enough to receive and rebuke the devourer for this ministry's sake.
Speaker 1: In Jesus name, and I thank you, I pray for that leader now that's dealing with some health challenges.
Speaker 1: It's been quietly kept, but today I speak healing in that whole glory, glory, glory.
Speaker 1: I speak healing in the name of Jesus, healing in your body in the name of Jesus.
Speaker 1: Glory be to God.
Speaker 1: Sickness got to go In the name of Jesus by his stripes.
Speaker 1: You are healed now In Jesus' name and I thank you and I praise your name.
Speaker 1: Now, lord, I relinquish this mic, but I pray your covering over Pastor Walter Bowers, a man who is destined to please you, a man who loves you with his whole heart, a man who wants only the best for Chosen City Church.
Speaker 1: For Chosen City Church, lord, I pray that everything that he has asked you for, I'm asking you to double it.
Speaker 1: You told us we can ask.
Speaker 1: You said we have not because we ask not.
Speaker 1: And so, god, I pray in the name of Jesus, that you will double the anointing in his life.
Speaker 1: God, I pray that you would even double his prayer life, that you, oh God, would double his fasting life.
Speaker 1: God, I pray that you would call the Holy Ghost To be so powerful in his life that you would use him to lay hands on the sick, and they will recover.
Speaker 1: That you would use him lay hands on the sick and they will recover.
Speaker 1: That you will use him to speak a prophetic word and it will come to pass.
Speaker 1: God, enlarge his territory For your name's sake.
Speaker 1: In the name of Jesus, I pray, god that as you touch him, touch his wife, cover Lady Bowers, use Lady Bowers for your glory.
Speaker 1: In the name of Jesus, I pray, god, that you will continue To raise her up.
Speaker 1: My God, cause the gift that you have put in her To come full circle.
Speaker 1: In the name of Jesus and I thank you now that it's already done In the name of Jesus, cover his sons, anoint them in their youth.
Speaker 1: In the name of Jesus, and I thank you now and I praise you now, I give you glory.
Speaker 1: Now Lift your hands at this altar and begin opening up your mouth and give God praise, right where you are.
Speaker 1: You got to say something.
Speaker 1: You got to say God praise, right where you are.
Speaker 1: You got to say something.
Speaker 1: You got to say something right where you are Glory, glory.
Speaker 1: Glory, right where you are, thank the Lord, right where you are.
Speaker 1: Glory to God, hallelujah, yes, lord.
Speaker 1: Come on leaders.
Speaker 1: Get in, praise leaders.
Speaker 1: Come on, leaders.
Speaker 1: It starts with you.
Speaker 1: You set the agenda for praise.
Speaker 1: It starts with the leaders.
Speaker 1: Glory to God, hallelujah, hallelujah.
Speaker 1: Bless the name of Jesus.
Speaker 1: He's worthy to be praised.
Speaker 1: Now, leaders, I just want you to lift your hands right where you are and I want you to make this declaration out of your own mouth Repeat after me Father, I thank you in Jesus' name for planting me in the Chosen City Church.
Speaker 1: Father, you planted me here so I cannot uproot myself.
Speaker 1: I'm here to make a difference.
Speaker 1: I'm here as a submitted leader under my set leader.
Speaker 1: I will not get ahead of him, I will not go around him, but I submit to him and I work along with him.
Speaker 1: Whatever he directs me to do, I'll do it in Jesus name.
Speaker 1: Whatever he says out of his mouth.
Speaker 1: I will respect it in the name of Jesus.
Speaker 1: Together we shall possess the land.
Speaker 1: Together, we shall do big things for the kingdom of God.
Speaker 1: This, this is my declaration, this is my vow and I stand behind it.
Speaker 1: Now, clap your hands in the joy of the Lord.
Speaker 1: You've made a vow and you can't take it back.
Speaker 1: In Jesus' name, hallelujah, hallelujah, hallelujah, praise his name, hallelujah.
Speaker 1: Glory to to God, glory to God.
Speaker 1: Come on and receive your leader.
Speaker 1: Receive your leader.