WEBVTT 00:00:10.310 --> 00:00:25.829 Sometimes in our church ministry and the call of God on our lives becomes an incredible point in two levels. 00:00:28.710 --> 00:00:42.229 The two levels are this your individual faith, who you are as a person, aligning directly with what God wants to do through your life. 00:00:42.310 --> 00:00:43.670 It's called destiny. 00:00:43.829 --> 00:00:45.270 That's why you're in the church. 00:00:46.070 --> 00:00:47.909 That's why God's brought you here. 00:00:48.229 --> 00:00:54.710 To discover that and to flourish in that and move forward in that. 00:00:56.390 --> 00:01:00.710 Secondly, there is a kind of sense of the corporate. 00:01:01.670 --> 00:01:09.829 So when we're dealing with church, we're not just dealing with our own individual life, we're also dealing with what we call a corporate church together. 00:01:10.310 --> 00:01:11.909 Together we grow. 00:01:12.310 --> 00:01:23.510 Together we're a family, together we play a role and a part in the life of the church that's so necessary and so needed in any given season. 00:01:24.310 --> 00:01:31.750 And there are seasons in the life of the church where you have to be ready and available to step up. 00:01:33.109 --> 00:01:37.349 Do the very distinctives that God has created you to do. 00:02:21.590 --> 00:02:31.030 And the army just facilitat the leaders just facilitating the army to move on, to get better, to grow stronger, to move into a greater level with God. 00:02:32.310 --> 00:02:34.389 So that brings me to my point today. 00:02:34.550 --> 00:02:41.110 I want to talk about breaking free from what we call limitations or ceilings that are in our lives. 00:02:41.909 --> 00:02:43.909 Every single one of us have them. 00:02:44.310 --> 00:02:50.469 Even me as a prophet, as a pastor, teacher who goes and trains and equips people's lives. 00:02:50.710 --> 00:03:01.990 There are certain limitations that are that become ceilings over our life that we are constantly hitting that barrier and we're never breaking through. 00:03:02.069 --> 00:03:04.229 We're never getting to the other side. 00:03:04.710 --> 00:03:23.669 And to do that, it's going to take an unnecessary surrender, it's going to take a lot of things, but the scriptures highlight, I want you to understand this, the scriptures highlight figures in the Bible that were faced with what we call ceilings upon their calling and their life. 00:03:24.469 --> 00:03:34.710 These ceilings that sometimes were they that they experienced became what they call limitations, limits to their faith. 00:03:35.909 --> 00:03:47.189 And when we've got a strong faith, when we've got a faith that is really enduring and strong, our limitations are strong as well. 00:03:48.310 --> 00:04:09.830 So on one hand, we're strong going forward, but on the other hand, we've got greater battles because God wants to limit someone with dynamic faith, wants to limit a church that has incredible power to be anything great for God and wants to limit it, wants to slow it down, wants to withhold it, wants to crush it, wants to hold it in. 00:04:10.310 --> 00:04:20.470 And so with the ability for our lives to capture exactly what that limit is, and then believe God through it and to see God do great work. 00:04:21.269 --> 00:04:26.389 Gideon in the Bible, he was threshing grain in a wine press. 00:04:26.949 --> 00:04:36.149 And when he was threshing grain in a wine press, he was hiding the grain from the Midianites who would come down and steal all the grain. 00:04:36.389 --> 00:04:43.829 And in that moment, God would come and speak to him and say, Oh, great man, a mighty man of valor, a great man of God. 00:04:44.310 --> 00:04:48.550 His utterance to God was this the who me? 00:04:49.430 --> 00:04:51.589 It couldn't be me you're talking to. 00:04:51.750 --> 00:04:53.430 Yes, I'm talking to you. 00:04:54.069 --> 00:04:57.910 I want you to rise up and defeat the Midianites. 00:04:58.230 --> 00:05:06.949 And in an incredible journey, this man goes through in his personal limitations to be what God wants him to be in faith. 00:05:07.189 --> 00:05:09.029 And it's a journey, church. 00:05:09.189 --> 00:05:13.350 It's a battle every single one of us individually are going to go through. 00:05:13.509 --> 00:05:15.990 And as a corporate church, we're going to face some. 00:05:16.149 --> 00:05:17.430 We're going to face some giants. 00:05:17.589 --> 00:05:20.069 We're going to face some people that we're going to have to defeat. 00:05:20.230 --> 00:05:24.949 We're going to have to rise up in faith, and we have to see God do incredible things. 00:05:25.189 --> 00:05:29.750 Some of these things are what they call implemented in unbelief. 00:05:30.629 --> 00:05:33.189 Unbelief and in fear and in doubt. 00:05:33.269 --> 00:05:36.389 And they can restrict a person's potential. 00:05:36.629 --> 00:05:45.670 You know, there are certain trigger points in your life the enemy can touch and get you to shrink back and say, oh, that cannot be me. 00:05:46.629 --> 00:05:57.509 And we're going to have to step up and step through, and we're going to have to invade the call of God upon our lives and bring it into bring it to pass. 00:05:58.949 --> 00:06:07.990 These particular elements act as what we call invisible ceilings that block spiritual progress. 00:06:08.709 --> 00:06:14.949 They're called invisible ceilings that stop spiritual progress. 00:06:18.069 --> 00:06:28.709 They could be our past, could be our family heritage, could be our, could be our personality, who we see ourselves as. 00:06:39.589 --> 00:06:47.269 Healing and the realization of all God's promises need to come to pass in our personal life. 00:06:47.430 --> 00:06:48.949 We need to be getting victory. 00:06:49.189 --> 00:06:51.350 Not coming to church and singing about it. 00:06:51.589 --> 00:06:56.230 No, coming to church with a testimony, look what God's done in my life. 00:06:56.470 --> 00:06:58.790 Look what he's changed in my spirit. 00:06:58.949 --> 00:07:00.389 Look what he's done in me. 00:07:00.550 --> 00:07:07.189 And when we come to church like that, when we begin to start to enter into the worship, it becomes something that's real. 00:07:07.350 --> 00:07:14.470 I'm not just singing in the air of words, it's something that's actually impacting my life right now, and it is real in me. 00:07:15.350 --> 00:07:20.709 When that happens, every believer has what we call a personal journey to walk through. 00:07:20.870 --> 00:07:27.509 And it's important that you understand the role in the corporate church gathering that you're in. 00:07:28.069 --> 00:07:34.629 If you limit your role in the church to, oh, I cannot do that. 00:07:34.949 --> 00:07:42.949 If you limit your role to negativity, oh, I'm gonna leave this church, it's too noisy, and the pastor doesn't smile at me. 00:07:45.029 --> 00:07:51.110 If that's your level in church spirituality, well you'll never rise up and be a conqueror in God. 00:07:51.189 --> 00:07:53.670 You'll never be all that God called you to be. 00:07:53.990 --> 00:08:10.069 See, because the the corporate church has individual characters that have distinct and unique experiences which formulate amazing outcomes for the people we serve and it brings glory to God. 00:08:11.269 --> 00:08:14.230 When you get a breakthrough, it brings glory to God. 00:08:14.389 --> 00:08:20.629 When you get a defeat, it brings not shame, but it brings a disillusionment on the kingdom. 00:08:21.589 --> 00:08:23.750 We've all got to be gaining ground. 00:08:23.910 --> 00:08:27.829 We've all got to be running the race that God has set before us. 00:08:27.990 --> 00:08:33.269 Come on, let's open our Bibles this morning to Mark chapter 2, verse 1 and 2. 00:08:34.069 --> 00:08:35.350 1 to 12. 00:08:35.910 --> 00:08:39.029 Mark chapter 2, verse 1 to 12. 00:08:39.509 --> 00:08:51.190 We hear this story of this uh uh four men that took the uh paralytic to uh what we call Capernaum to see Jesus in the house. 00:08:52.309 --> 00:08:59.750 And again he entered Capernaum, this is verse 1, and after some days it was heard that he was in the house. 00:08:59.990 --> 00:09:10.549 Immediately many gathered together so that there was no room to receive them, not even at near the door, and he preached the word to them. 00:09:11.190 --> 00:09:24.950 Then they came to him bringing a paralytic who was carried by four men, and when they could not come near him because of the crowd, they uncovered the roof where he was. 00:09:25.509 --> 00:09:36.230 So when they had broken through, when they had broken through, they let down the bed on which the paralytic was lying. 00:09:36.629 --> 00:09:43.190 And when Jesus saw their faith, he said to the paralytic, Son, your sins are forgiven you. 00:09:43.830 --> 00:09:52.230 And some of the scribes and some of the Pharisees were reasoning in their hearts, how does this man speak such blasphemy like this? 00:09:53.029 --> 00:09:55.590 Who can forgive sins but God alone? 00:09:55.909 --> 00:10:10.470 But immediately Jesus perceiving in his spirit, immediately Jesus perceiving in his spirit, so he had a relationship to the spirit, he could hear their thoughts, he could hear the intentions of their heart, right? 00:10:13.990 --> 00:10:27.429 He said to them, Why do you reason about these things in your hearts, which is easier to forgive the paralytic sins, or to say, Arise, take up your bed and walk. 00:10:27.750 --> 00:10:42.070 But that you may know that the Son of God has power on earth to forgive sins, he said to the paralytic, I say to you, arise, take up your bed and go to your house. 00:10:42.309 --> 00:10:59.590 Immediately he rose, took up the bed, and went in the presence of them all, so that they were all amazed, and they glorified God, saying, We had never saw anything quite like this. 00:10:59.990 --> 00:11:01.909 I want you to get the picture here. 00:11:03.590 --> 00:11:11.269 These guys have got a great desire to see their friend uh get completely healed and set free and changed, was their faith. 00:11:11.429 --> 00:11:15.110 If they could get him to Jesus, he could get well. 00:11:16.070 --> 00:11:32.549 When they get to the place after traveling 16 kilometers from Samaria to Capernaum, after traveling in the heat and dust of Jerusalem, when they finally get there with his bed, when they finally get to the place that can't get in the house, but they're undeterred. 00:11:32.950 --> 00:11:41.509 So they put them, the man, up on the ceiling of the house, build a big whopping hole, and then put him down in front of Jesus' feet. 00:11:44.389 --> 00:11:49.190 Some of the ceilings we've got in our lives can be very practical. 00:11:50.710 --> 00:12:05.429 We can see them, but we're too frightened to actually engage with what's necessary to get that ceiling to open the lid so that the blessing can come down and come falling down. 00:12:06.629 --> 00:12:11.669 Sometimes the ceilings that we have got on our lives they need breaking up. 00:12:11.909 --> 00:12:13.909 They need breaking through. 00:12:15.029 --> 00:12:18.549 This was a very real ceiling that these guys had to go through. 00:12:18.710 --> 00:12:28.309 Not just a ceiling of of you know uh of uh motional or or impracticality or or something in them uh in their mindset that they had to go through. 00:12:28.470 --> 00:12:34.389 They had to really break through a person's house to get this guy to the place where he is. 00:12:35.669 --> 00:12:37.909 You can imagine these four men. 00:12:39.590 --> 00:12:41.029 They've got a word from faith. 00:12:41.110 --> 00:12:47.269 If we can get our paralytic friend to Jesus, he will get whole, he will get well, he will get free. 00:12:47.429 --> 00:12:49.429 They had a word of faith. 00:12:50.549 --> 00:12:53.909 Their word of faith transforms into a challenge. 00:12:54.389 --> 00:12:58.549 The first challenge is you're not getting through the door of this house. 00:12:58.870 --> 00:13:03.909 You imagine coming to C3, no one can get through the door because there's so many in here. 00:13:04.149 --> 00:13:08.789 So they're gonna have to thump through the roof to get their friend to the blessing of God. 00:13:08.870 --> 00:13:12.309 They have to do something desperate to get to God. 00:13:12.549 --> 00:13:16.629 See, this is the four men that we have to imitate. 00:13:17.990 --> 00:13:20.070 We have to imitate these four men. 00:13:20.230 --> 00:13:30.629 We have to get to a place where our challenges don't kind of get us to shrink back and fold over and say, oh, well, this can't be possible. 00:13:30.950 --> 00:13:41.269 Our challenges must be something that raise the chest of our chest out and begin to start to say, we've got to fight on, we're gonna win this battle, we're gonna get through here. 00:13:42.629 --> 00:13:48.629 And so what ends up happening as a result of these guys' faith is this guy walks home. 00:13:49.110 --> 00:13:50.470 Come on, church. 00:13:50.710 --> 00:13:53.509 I want you to see it that there's ceilings on our faith. 00:13:53.590 --> 00:14:09.350 When we've got a word from God, when we're gonna push into spaces we've never been in before, and there are places that I have not been to before that I want to go, there are places that we want to really be what God wants us to be, and where God has created us to go to. 00:14:09.590 --> 00:14:17.429 There are challenges for us to meet in the area of our limitations, what we limit ourselves to be. 00:14:17.909 --> 00:14:25.590 What we become is limited instead of invigorated and being a man of God. 00:14:25.990 --> 00:14:28.710 Breaking limits with the word of faith. 00:14:30.230 --> 00:14:32.470 Breaking limits with the word of faith. 00:14:32.789 --> 00:14:43.350 Breaking limitations through scripture involves meditating on God's promises to dismantle spiritual and physical and mental barriers. 00:14:43.590 --> 00:14:44.870 We dismantle them. 00:14:45.029 --> 00:14:52.470 What Pastor Debbie was doing this morning when she got up and began to start to, I didn't, I don't, I said to myself, I don't need to preach here. 00:14:52.549 --> 00:14:54.549 I'm just going to give an all the call after that. 00:14:54.710 --> 00:14:56.309 I don't need to preach here. 00:14:57.350 --> 00:15:13.909 Because the level of faith that was released in that, in the what we call landing the worship this morning, the level of faith, the prayer of the level of faith was so good, so strong, if you would capture that, you'll all come into something increasingly incredible. 00:15:14.470 --> 00:15:21.509 It was not just prophetic, it was outstanding in the fact that it was declaring exactly where we can be. 00:15:21.830 --> 00:15:26.070 Not where we are now, but where we can be and where we can go. 00:15:27.190 --> 00:15:44.950 And sometimes, you know, uh the Bible provides what we call powerful verses and practical prayers designed to shift mindsets and overcome adversity, empowering you to move beyond self-imposed boundaries. 00:15:45.190 --> 00:15:47.029 What's a self-imposed boundary? 00:15:47.190 --> 00:15:49.350 This far and no further, Pastor. 00:15:50.309 --> 00:15:55.909 I'll come to Friday night's prayer meeting, but I won't come to the small group because I'm tired. 00:15:57.029 --> 00:16:03.509 I'll give 50 ring it this week, Pastor, but next week I can't give 50 ring it because it's too difficult. 00:16:04.389 --> 00:16:21.830 As soon as we say we can't, as soon as we put a limit, as soon as we put a ceiling on what we think and what our mindset is, we stop the flow of what God wants to do in our life individually, and that individuality has an impact on the corporate. 00:16:22.149 --> 00:16:24.149 Together we've got to grow through. 00:16:24.389 --> 00:16:25.990 We've got to grow through together. 00:16:26.070 --> 00:16:28.629 We've got to be what God entitled us to be together. 00:16:28.710 --> 00:16:31.509 We're a family that God's put together. 00:16:31.750 --> 00:16:35.350 And we need to grow through what we call past obstacles. 00:16:35.669 --> 00:16:40.470 Well, the church I was in before, they stole all my tithes. 00:16:41.110 --> 00:16:42.789 Don't expect that here. 00:16:44.070 --> 00:16:48.070 What your experience was there, it's not what you're going to experience here. 00:16:49.429 --> 00:16:58.470 And so what we do is we carry all of this disappointment, we carry all of this stuff in our lives, and God says, I want to, I want to clean that out. 00:16:58.710 --> 00:17:08.150 I want to get all of that out of you so that you can carry a greater, a greater weight, a greater call for God and go together with this ministry. 00:17:09.509 --> 00:17:15.509 We need to recognize the existence of these ceilings and we need to break free from them. 00:17:16.789 --> 00:17:24.630 Our trust and our faith in God's word uh promises must return to the forefront of our salvation. 00:17:25.829 --> 00:17:26.950 God, you can. 00:17:27.910 --> 00:17:29.109 God, you will. 00:17:29.670 --> 00:17:31.269 God, you're going to. 00:17:31.589 --> 00:17:44.710 No matter what my circumstances say, no matter what my battles are around my life, no matter what whirlwind is going on in me, God, you have decreed it, you have declared it, you have said it. 00:17:44.869 --> 00:17:51.750 1 John 5, 4, and it said, This is the victory that overcomes the world, even our faith. 00:17:51.910 --> 00:17:53.750 So it's governed on you. 00:17:54.869 --> 00:17:59.750 A place, a church of faith, a church that believes God. 00:18:00.069 --> 00:18:09.509 Not a church that just attends and watches what God does, no, a church that engages and understands what God does and acts accordingly in faith. 00:18:09.829 --> 00:18:14.309 Deuterometry, chapter 4, verse, uh verse, uh chapter 20, verse 4. 00:18:14.470 --> 00:18:16.390 Thank you, worship team, this morning. 00:18:16.549 --> 00:18:27.109 For the Lord your God is he who goes out with you to fight for you against your enemies and to give you the victory. 00:18:27.670 --> 00:18:29.109 Did you understand this? 00:18:29.349 --> 00:18:32.150 He didn't say, Oh, I'm gonna go and just do it for you. 00:18:32.230 --> 00:18:43.990 No, I'm gonna be standing right next to you when you go on and when you go through whatever you're gonna do, and you're gonna see a victory because you're my son, because you're my daughter, because you are you are mine. 00:18:44.470 --> 00:18:45.589 That's the God I've got. 00:18:45.750 --> 00:18:46.630 I've got a partner. 00:18:47.910 --> 00:19:02.710 He's not necessarily gonna go and do something before me, but he can, and he does, and he makes a way where there is no way, and he opens the door before me, and he goes before me at times, but at times what he wants me to do is walk with him. 00:19:03.430 --> 00:19:15.910 Walk with him, not behind him, not around him, walk with God, and when we do, we start to see God do fundamentally great things because you become the responsibility. 00:19:16.309 --> 00:19:17.829 You become responsible. 00:19:17.990 --> 00:19:19.910 Too many people in church are like this. 00:19:20.069 --> 00:19:31.190 They don't want to pray for five minutes, they don't want to give any tithes, they don't want to come to any extra events, they don't want to come to the men's meeting, the men's camp. 00:19:31.829 --> 00:19:33.430 Get signed up now. 00:19:34.069 --> 00:19:39.109 You want an encounter, get your name down because it's gonna be fantastic. 00:19:39.349 --> 00:19:45.430 Our first camp was, our first men's camp's gonna be just as good, gonna be outstanding. 00:19:47.430 --> 00:19:51.430 But sometimes God can't answer that because you've got a limit. 00:19:51.589 --> 00:19:54.470 That's your limit, that's all you're going to do. 00:19:54.710 --> 00:20:02.630 Oh, well, Pastor, I'm getting older and uh oh, Pastor, I've got, oh, I've got, oh we understand that. 00:20:02.950 --> 00:20:08.789 We understand it, but you have to take responsibility, not say, oh, the church's got to do this for me. 00:20:09.029 --> 00:20:10.390 Pastor's got to do that. 00:20:10.549 --> 00:20:11.670 This one's got to do this. 00:20:11.829 --> 00:20:13.349 God, you're gonna do this for me. 00:20:13.589 --> 00:20:15.750 No, I am available, God. 00:20:16.069 --> 00:20:16.950 Use me. 00:20:17.190 --> 00:20:19.910 I'll do for you what you want me to do. 00:20:20.150 --> 00:20:24.230 Empower me, anoint me, send me forth on your behalf. 00:20:24.630 --> 00:20:26.150 Only believe. 00:20:26.470 --> 00:20:38.150 All resistance, intimidation, fear get turned around once you begin to step out of your self-imposed barrier. 00:20:38.789 --> 00:20:41.029 I think I will give more this week. 00:20:41.269 --> 00:20:43.670 I think I will go to the pre-meeting more. 00:20:43.990 --> 00:20:48.869 I think I will begin to start to step into the service of the church. 00:20:49.029 --> 00:20:50.470 I will step out and start. 00:20:50.869 --> 00:20:53.589 As soon as you step up, God steps up with you. 00:20:53.910 --> 00:20:59.109 And he looks after your life, your life gets turned around, your life gets shaped, your life gets changed. 00:20:59.349 --> 00:21:00.630 It's amazing. 00:21:02.710 --> 00:21:15.910 See, when we step up our faith and trust God, don't withdraw, but hold fast and don't waver. 00:21:17.509 --> 00:21:19.509 Hold fast and don't waver. 00:21:20.390 --> 00:21:24.470 Too many people say, Oh, well, I served the drinks last week. 00:21:24.630 --> 00:21:25.269 Oh, great. 00:21:25.349 --> 00:21:28.710 I'm not, and I haven't served them now for four months. 00:21:30.230 --> 00:21:31.910 That's not consistency. 00:21:33.029 --> 00:21:41.589 We need to hang in there, stay in there, do there, be there, accomplish there, and then God will take us to another place over here. 00:21:42.549 --> 00:21:44.549 But we need to stay in there. 00:21:44.789 --> 00:21:47.990 We need to identify what we call our personal limit barrier. 00:21:48.230 --> 00:21:50.390 Do you know you have a personal limit barrier? 00:21:50.710 --> 00:21:52.069 Do you know you have one? 00:21:52.390 --> 00:21:53.509 I've got them. 00:21:53.910 --> 00:21:56.470 I was praying about them before I left this morning. 00:21:56.630 --> 00:21:59.190 I was praying about them before I left Australia. 00:21:59.430 --> 00:22:01.670 I've got a personal limit barrier. 00:22:01.990 --> 00:22:04.230 And I don't want to live on that edge. 00:22:04.470 --> 00:22:08.549 I want to live on the edge of what God wants to do with no limits. 00:22:09.029 --> 00:22:09.349 We need 00:22:10.309 --> 00:22:14.470 To rely on what we call divine strength. 00:22:15.349 --> 00:22:16.869 What's divine strength? 00:22:17.109 --> 00:22:18.789 Let go and allow God. 00:22:19.509 --> 00:22:25.029 Give God the permission to move your position. 00:22:25.990 --> 00:22:34.630 Come on, give God the permission to move your position to the one He has in mind for you. 00:22:36.150 --> 00:22:38.230 Come on, the one that God has in mind for you. 00:22:38.309 --> 00:22:45.750 Not the one you think, not what you thought you would be, but the one that God thinks that you that you're going to be. 00:22:46.470 --> 00:22:49.190 Pastor Jim, I'm going to take you back to Korea. 00:22:49.430 --> 00:22:50.549 Thank you, God. 00:22:51.029 --> 00:22:52.069 That's a word for me. 00:22:52.230 --> 00:22:52.710 Thank you, God. 00:22:52.789 --> 00:22:59.509 It's a limit barrier that I've been wrestling with for five, six years since Korea closed the doors. 00:22:59.829 --> 00:23:01.190 But I'm going back. 00:23:01.750 --> 00:23:03.029 God's going to open the doors. 00:23:03.109 --> 00:23:04.390 That limit's going to get broken. 00:23:04.549 --> 00:23:08.549 I'm going to go back there again and be what God told me to be. 00:23:08.869 --> 00:23:14.630 See, we need to honestly give permission to God to move our position. 00:23:14.789 --> 00:23:17.829 Our position most of the time is negative. 00:23:18.230 --> 00:23:20.789 Our position most of the time is limiting. 00:23:20.950 --> 00:23:23.829 Our position is most of the time unbelief. 00:23:24.069 --> 00:23:38.309 But when I step into belief, when I step into the extraordinary, the most unimaginable that God can do, then I am triggering what God intended my life to become and to be. 00:23:38.470 --> 00:23:40.309 My mindset gets changed. 00:23:40.549 --> 00:23:45.589 I can do all things through Christ who gives me the strength. 00:23:45.829 --> 00:23:48.069 I can be what God called me to be. 00:23:48.309 --> 00:23:57.190 Come on, church, I don't want to just preach to myself this morning, but God wants to use your life and give you an opportunity to expand the kingdom of God. 00:23:57.829 --> 00:23:59.670 That's why it put you in the church. 00:23:59.829 --> 00:24:01.829 He didn't put you in the church to be a sitter. 00:24:02.069 --> 00:24:07.910 He didn't put you in the church just to think and just to sit there and say, oh, church was great, Mabel, this morning. 00:24:07.990 --> 00:24:08.789 It was fantastic. 00:24:08.869 --> 00:24:09.910 I should say, Carol. 00:24:10.069 --> 00:24:11.349 The church was great, Carol. 00:24:11.430 --> 00:24:12.230 This morning was great. 00:24:12.630 --> 00:24:12.869 Good. 00:24:12.950 --> 00:24:13.430 What happened? 00:24:13.509 --> 00:24:18.630 Oh well, you know, we scratched our noses and uh lift our heads. 00:24:18.789 --> 00:24:19.349 Oh, great. 00:24:19.430 --> 00:24:22.309 Well, what what spectacular happened this morning? 00:24:22.549 --> 00:24:30.789 Well, Pastor Debbie got up, gave a word of faith, gave a word of prophecy, broke down a barrier, a limitation in our church. 00:24:31.029 --> 00:24:33.190 And now we're going to see it come to pass. 00:24:33.589 --> 00:24:37.910 See, this is a blessing into the eternal legacy of God's kingdom. 00:24:38.150 --> 00:24:43.349 In and through what we call our personal activity, our church, to develop our faith. 00:24:43.589 --> 00:24:46.869 Faith is interesting, faith is challenging. 00:24:47.109 --> 00:24:54.470 And unless you're prepared to walk in faith, you'll always remain just one step outside of God's goodness. 00:24:56.230 --> 00:24:58.150 Did you give an offering by faith this morning? 00:25:00.309 --> 00:25:02.150 Or did you give the normal offering? 00:25:03.430 --> 00:25:03.670 Come on. 00:25:04.230 --> 00:25:05.430 Was it a faith offering? 00:25:06.470 --> 00:25:09.589 No, it was a consistent offering, maybe not a faith one. 00:25:11.190 --> 00:25:14.549 And when we walk into church, we're here to give whatever God wants us to give. 00:25:14.630 --> 00:25:15.430 Are we open to it? 00:25:15.509 --> 00:25:18.230 Or we've already made our mind up that's our faith limit. 00:25:18.710 --> 00:25:21.109 That's where we're going to stay, that's what we're going to do. 00:25:22.470 --> 00:25:34.309 Our movements in our early days of C3 Church, the movements of the early days of the C three church, and I was there the first time Kenneth Copeland came to Australia. 00:25:34.390 --> 00:25:37.910 I was invited by the C3 movement in Australia. 00:25:42.390 --> 00:25:47.750 We went to their building to watch Kenneth Copeland for the first time. 00:25:48.950 --> 00:25:52.630 And the church stood up and they introduced an album called War. 00:25:53.589 --> 00:25:55.349 Their first ever worship album. 00:25:57.269 --> 00:25:59.430 And the opening song was this. 00:26:03.670 --> 00:26:10.150 Each step by faith to live by faith. 00:26:10.390 --> 00:26:15.190 I put my trust in the Sorry, I can't sing again frog. 00:26:16.470 --> 00:26:21.269 Every step I take is a step I faith. 00:26:22.069 --> 00:26:25.910 No weapon formed against me shall prosper. 00:26:27.509 --> 00:26:32.230 Every prayer I make is a prayer I fear. 00:26:32.789 --> 00:26:37.109 And if God be for me, who can be against me? 00:26:37.269 --> 00:26:39.109 I could drum it, but I cannot sing it. 00:26:39.190 --> 00:26:40.069 Sorry, I'm a frog. 00:26:40.150 --> 00:26:41.509 But but but we tried. 00:26:42.950 --> 00:26:45.430 And that song would escalate and go around the world. 00:26:46.309 --> 00:26:49.109 Begin to start to lift people that weren't on weren't in faith. 00:26:49.509 --> 00:26:52.390 Would add to the Copeland ministry, because Kenneth was there too. 00:26:52.549 --> 00:26:56.950 It was an amazing period in the C3 movement. 00:26:58.150 --> 00:26:59.750 Our foundation of faith. 00:27:02.230 --> 00:27:03.670 Speak on God's behalf. 00:27:05.349 --> 00:27:07.670 Pastor Debbie, thank you. 00:27:08.630 --> 00:27:10.309 Speaking on God's behalf this morning. 00:27:10.630 --> 00:27:12.069 I was released sitting there. 00:27:12.309 --> 00:27:14.869 It was an amazing, amazing moment. 00:27:15.349 --> 00:27:16.789 Thank you, Pastor Clarence. 00:27:17.509 --> 00:27:19.190 For your message on faithfulness. 00:27:19.750 --> 00:27:20.789 I was touched by it. 00:27:21.349 --> 00:27:23.750 Staying faithful to what God has put in your hands. 00:27:24.470 --> 00:27:25.269 Keeping at it. 00:27:26.549 --> 00:27:37.029 Realigning with our foundations, grounded and rooted in Revelation, continues to be the well which we draw from. 00:27:37.990 --> 00:27:40.150 Continues to be the well which we draw from. 00:27:41.750 --> 00:27:43.990 You need to prophesy over your doubts. 00:27:45.349 --> 00:27:47.750 You need to prophesy over your negativity. 00:27:47.990 --> 00:27:50.150 You need to prophesy over your limit. 00:27:50.390 --> 00:27:53.750 You need to prophesy over the ceilings that are over your life. 00:27:53.910 --> 00:27:56.069 You need to prophesy over these things. 00:27:56.390 --> 00:27:57.430 Over your doubt. 00:27:57.589 --> 00:28:01.269 You know over the prophet Elisha, and I want to finish on this this morning. 00:28:02.069 --> 00:28:17.109 The prophet Elisha prophesied to a desperate king's officer within 24 hours that a devastating fam in the besieged city of Samaria will end. 00:28:18.390 --> 00:28:19.349 Listen to this. 00:28:19.509 --> 00:28:27.509 The city of Samaria was invaded by the Amorites, uh Am Amonite Ammonites. 00:28:27.750 --> 00:28:28.630 Ah, not that. 00:28:30.630 --> 00:28:32.069 It was invaded by them. 00:28:32.309 --> 00:28:35.109 They were shut in, nothing came in, nothing came out. 00:28:37.269 --> 00:28:47.829 And the prophet stands up to the king and his servant, and the king's leaning on his servant's shoulder, and he prophesies over him in 2 Kings chapter 7, verse 2, you'll get this. 00:28:49.349 --> 00:29:03.269 The officer on whose arm the king was leaning said to the man of God, Look, even if the Lord should open up the floodgates of the heavens, could this happen? 00:29:05.029 --> 00:29:11.750 You will see it with your own eyes, answered Elisha, but you will not eat any of it. 00:29:13.589 --> 00:29:23.750 And has he prophesied there were four lame guys outside the city, didn't get any food, couldn't come in, couldn't come out. 00:29:25.269 --> 00:29:28.869 Lame, I mean they had some sort of disease. 00:29:30.789 --> 00:29:38.470 And they thought, if we go to our enemy's camp, we'll either get killed or fed. 00:29:38.869 --> 00:29:40.230 So let's go. 00:29:40.869 --> 00:29:45.750 So they went to the enemy's camp, and when they got to the enemy's camp, it was deserted. 00:29:46.390 --> 00:29:48.230 The tents were completely deserted. 00:29:48.390 --> 00:29:54.549 These four guys, complete poor, walked into a tent with gold and silver and everything like that. 00:29:54.789 --> 00:30:02.230 Said, grabbed as much as they could, went out to the desert, dug a hole and put it in. 00:30:03.190 --> 00:30:05.990 Then went back to the tents again, still deserted. 00:30:06.150 --> 00:30:10.630 Went into another tent, grabbed that, went out and dug another hole and put it in there too. 00:30:10.789 --> 00:30:14.069 They were just securing their uh livelihood. 00:30:15.750 --> 00:30:22.390 God had given these four lepers, the whole camp, into these four lepers' hands. 00:30:23.509 --> 00:30:28.630 This is when Elisha was prophesying to the king and to the servant. 00:30:30.150 --> 00:30:34.789 Then the four lepers said, Maybe uh this is the wrong thing we're doing. 00:30:35.910 --> 00:30:36.950 Oh yeah. 00:30:37.750 --> 00:30:44.789 Maybe what we should do is we should go back to the city and let them know that the camp is deserted. 00:30:46.950 --> 00:30:51.029 They went back, told the camp they were deserted. 00:30:51.269 --> 00:30:54.789 The king stands up and says, Oh, they're just hiding in the bush. 00:30:55.029 --> 00:30:55.829 No, they're not. 00:30:55.990 --> 00:30:56.789 We've got this. 00:30:56.869 --> 00:31:01.509 Oh, and so they showed the king the things they got immediately. 00:31:01.670 --> 00:31:07.910 They're selling grain, they're selling all sorts of vestry and everything at the temple gate. 00:31:08.390 --> 00:31:13.029 The prophecy that Elijah prophesied came to pass. 00:31:14.789 --> 00:31:24.630 When every single thing around it looked silly, even the guard said, even if the God opens the heavens, it couldn't happen. 00:31:24.950 --> 00:31:25.589 It did. 00:31:27.190 --> 00:31:29.349 You've got to prophesy to your doubt. 00:31:29.750 --> 00:31:36.230 You've got to prophesy to your limitation, you've got to prophesy to your faith, just like Pastor Debbie did this morning. 00:31:36.390 --> 00:31:38.630 We prophesy that we're going to get a building. 00:31:38.789 --> 00:31:40.630 It's coming, it's coming. 00:31:40.950 --> 00:31:45.750 It may take God some preparation to get it there, but it's already been answered. 00:31:45.910 --> 00:31:46.950 It's already there. 00:31:47.190 --> 00:31:54.869 Behind the scenes of your prophecy, God is working behind the scenes of your prophecy to make it work out for your good. 00:31:55.109 --> 00:31:56.950 To make it work out for your good. 00:31:57.190 --> 00:32:06.789 Prophesy, church, prophesy into the void, prophesy into the limitation, prophesy over your circumstances, and God will come. 00:32:07.029 --> 00:32:08.710 He will do his word. 00:32:08.950 --> 00:32:13.829 Sometimes in our own lives, we have got to speak the word of God. 00:32:13.990 --> 00:32:29.670 Whether it be in a prophetic statement, whether it be just out of the mouth of our own mouth, or whether it be just through a prayer, whether it be just through an utterance, or if we speak this dynamic word of God over every situation, it must come to pass. 00:32:29.910 --> 00:32:34.630 This is living, active, sharper than any two-edged sword. 00:32:34.950 --> 00:32:38.069 It accomplishes what it said it would accomplish. 00:32:38.470 --> 00:32:43.190 God did not give us a dead word, he gave us a living word. 00:32:43.670 --> 00:32:45.349 A living, vibrant word. 00:32:46.630 --> 00:32:47.910 The greatest days. 00:32:49.109 --> 00:32:53.670 The greatest days in this church are still in front of it. 00:32:54.710 --> 00:32:58.309 You're not halfway there, you're not quarterway there. 00:32:58.630 --> 00:33:01.990 There are years ahead of you that are just just outstanding. 00:33:02.150 --> 00:33:05.190 They're just amazing for this church's ministry. 00:33:05.589 --> 00:33:07.269 So we need to rise up. 00:33:07.509 --> 00:33:09.269 We need to conquer the giants. 00:33:09.509 --> 00:33:13.269 We need to stand with this couple here, and we need to declare with them. 00:33:13.430 --> 00:33:17.349 When they declare something, we need to stand and say the yes and the amen. 00:33:17.750 --> 00:33:34.309 Let it happen, and then allow God to bless our lives abundantly, fruitfully, beyond a shadow of a doubt, so that we can give more, that we can flourish, that we can pour into the work of God and leave a legacy in the years to come for the kingdom of God. 00:33:35.509 --> 00:33:36.549 Leave a legacy. 00:33:37.589 --> 00:33:38.630 Leave a legacy. 00:33:44.390 --> 00:33:47.670 Do not be afraid when you're facing a limitation test. 00:33:48.390 --> 00:33:50.309 Do not be discouraged. 00:33:50.710 --> 00:33:54.309 Because the Lord your God is with you. 00:33:54.869 --> 00:33:58.390 Wherever you go, He is with you. 00:33:58.630 --> 00:33:59.750 Let's stand to our first.