SPEAKER_00: I want to jump into our message this morning.
SPEAKER_00: I'm excited about this message.
SPEAKER_00: Not that I'm excited, not that I'm not excited about the previous one, but I'm excited about this message.
SPEAKER_00: So I hope you're listening.
SPEAKER_00: Last week we began this new topic looking at what is to come in the year 2023.
SPEAKER_00: 2023 is going to be a year of blessing.
SPEAKER_00: Amen.
SPEAKER_00: I'm believing that this year, we as children of God, we're not only going to receive the blessings of the Lord, but watch this.
SPEAKER_00: I believe that this year our eyes are going to be open to the blessings that are already here.
SPEAKER_00: The blessings that we fail to realize and recognize.
SPEAKER_00: We go about our day and we ignore the blessings that God has already provided.
SPEAKER_00: So many times we wait and we wait and we wait on God.
SPEAKER_00: We wait for His presence to show up.
SPEAKER_00: God, I'm just waiting for your presence to show up.
SPEAKER_00: We wait for His power to unfold.
SPEAKER_00: We wait and we wait and we sometimes never experience the blessing that has been prepared for you and I.
SPEAKER_00: Sometimes, unfortunately, we even give up on God.
SPEAKER_00: We've waited too long on God, so we've decided it's time to give up.
SPEAKER_00: This morning I want to tell you that the wait is over.
SPEAKER_00: The wait is over this morning.
SPEAKER_00: God wants to bless you today.
SPEAKER_00: Can I get an amen?
SPEAKER_00: God wants to reveal his blessings to you in a whole new way.
SPEAKER_00: Because the reality of it is, is that God's blessing is already here.
SPEAKER_00: His blessing has already been made available for you.
SPEAKER_00: The problem is, is you just don't see it.
SPEAKER_00: We don't see it.
SPEAKER_00: We can't see it.
SPEAKER_00: We choose not to see it.
SPEAKER_00: And there's a few reasons why we don't see his blessings available to us.
SPEAKER_00: One of the reasons that we don't see his blessings available to us is because we're distracted.
SPEAKER_00: I believe Brother Craig said that yesterday.
SPEAKER_00: So many things going on in our lives that we fail to see the blessings that God.
SPEAKER_00: I don't have this written down, but I wanted to share it.
SPEAKER_00: I was sitting home preparing for the sermon, and I'm like, I gotta get the sermon, I gotta get the sermon.
SPEAKER_00: Meanwhile, I see my baby girl, Emara, crawling on the floor.
SPEAKER_00: She grabs her bottle and starts laying on the floor, sucking her bottle.
SPEAKER_00: And I'm so distracted that I'm missing out on the blessing that's sitting right on the floor drinking her bottle.
SPEAKER_00: So I put my computer aside, I picked up my baby girl, and we just sat there.
SPEAKER_00: You don't realize it.
SPEAKER_00: You don't realize it that we're so distracted, but yet there's blessings literally crawling all around us.
SPEAKER_00: If we would just stop and recognize the blessings that God has for you.
SPEAKER_00: We're too distracted, we're too busy.
SPEAKER_00: How about this?
SPEAKER_00: We don't realize God's blessings because we wish it were more.
SPEAKER_00: We wish it were more, we're discontent.
SPEAKER_00: That's why it was important for us to address our discontentment before we rolled over into this new year.
SPEAKER_00: Because if we're always discontent, if we're always dissatisfied, angry, and anxious, our eyes will continue to stay closed, and we're gonna miss out on some major blessings that God wants to reveal to us.
SPEAKER_00: See, last week we began opening our eyes to these blessings by looking at the story of Moses.
SPEAKER_00: The story of Moses in the book of Exodus, we look at Moses encountering the burning bush.
SPEAKER_00: We only read a segment of the story last week, but we see Moses has his eyes opened where he learns a game-changing blessing as he moves forward under the leadership of the Almighty God.
SPEAKER_00: I want to recount that story just so we're up to speed for where we're going.
SPEAKER_00: In Exodus chapter 3, verse 10, it says, And now come and I will send you to and now come I will send you to Pharaoh, so that you may bring my people, the sons of Israel, out of Egypt.
SPEAKER_00: But Moses said to God, Who am I that I should go to Pharaoh and that I should bring the sons of Israel out of Egypt?
SPEAKER_00: And he said, and this is important, assuredly I will be with you.
SPEAKER_00: Can you say that this morning?
SPEAKER_00: Assuredly, I will be with you.
SPEAKER_00: And this shall be a sign to you that it is I who have sent you.
SPEAKER_00: And when you have brought the people out of Egypt, you shall worship God at this mountain.
SPEAKER_00: Assuredly, I am with you.
SPEAKER_00: Certainly I am with you.
SPEAKER_00: We recounted the beginning of Joshua's journey in leading the Israelites.
SPEAKER_00: God reminds Joshua as they go into the promised land of this in Joshua chapter one.
SPEAKER_00: We're gonna f uh verse five and verse nine.
SPEAKER_00: No one will be able to oppose you all the days of your life.
SPEAKER_00: Just as I have been with Moses, I will be with you.
SPEAKER_00: I will not desert you nor abandon you.
SPEAKER_00: Have I not commanded you, be strong and of good courage.
SPEAKER_00: Do not be terrified nor dismayed, for the Lord your God is with you wherever you go.
SPEAKER_00: The Lord your God is with you wherever you go.
SPEAKER_00: Praise the Lord.
SPEAKER_00: See, the blessing that God has for you this year in 2023 is an assurance of the presence of God.
SPEAKER_00: The presence of God, the presence of God is everywhere that you go, a realization that God is in the room.
SPEAKER_00: God is in the room.
SPEAKER_00: You know what this feels like when you realize that God is in the room.
SPEAKER_00: How many have ever tried to clean their garage before or move around furniture?
SPEAKER_00: You've gone to clean out your garage, move around furniture, and there's a large box or piece of furniture that you cannot move on your own.
SPEAKER_00: You can't lift it yourself, so what do you do?
SPEAKER_00: You try the scoot technique.
SPEAKER_00: You see if you could scoot it.
SPEAKER_00: You can't do it with your arms, so you do the whole hip thing.
SPEAKER_00: The hip technique.
SPEAKER_00: I've done that.
SPEAKER_00: You've tried lifting with your knees, the piece will not budge.
SPEAKER_00: After you've smushed fingers, you've cracked toenails, you've bruised toes, you have a sore back, we finally do what we should have done in the first place.
SPEAKER_00: What is that?
SPEAKER_00: Claudia, I need your help for a minute.
SPEAKER_00: Claudia, can you come here for a second?
SPEAKER_00: We finally uh we we constantly find ourselves in these anxious moments, our bad news moments, too difficult to handle on my own moments.
SPEAKER_00: And what do we need to do?
SPEAKER_00: We need to turn to the right, we need to turn to the left, we need to look up, we need to look down, and we need to realize that we are not alone, but God is in the room.
SPEAKER_00: God is in the room when you're driving in your car.
SPEAKER_00: God is in the room when you're sitting in the doctor's office.
SPEAKER_00: God is in the room in your tough in your toughest moments and in your best of moments.
SPEAKER_00: Now listen, this can work other ways, like we said last week.
SPEAKER_00: When we go to say something snarky to our spouse, and we go to say something hurtful to somebody, God is in the room.
SPEAKER_00: Imagine if before you said that, you looked over and you said, Oh, God's here.
SPEAKER_00: Before you cut somebody off the road and yell out the window, God's in the room.
SPEAKER_00: God is in the room.
SPEAKER_00: See, when you have this awareness of who your God is and his omnipresence, it keeps you accountable to being your very best at all times.
SPEAKER_00: Because you know that somebody's watching you, somebody is resourcing you to live life and life more abundantly.
SPEAKER_00: God is in the room.
SPEAKER_00: Imagine this.
SPEAKER_00: I want you to close your eyes for a second.
SPEAKER_00: Imagine you're at home and you're reading God's word, and you feel like, I don't understand what they're saying here.
SPEAKER_00: I don't understand what they're talking about.
SPEAKER_00: Could you imagine this?
SPEAKER_00: That God is in the room.
SPEAKER_00: Could you imagine this that the author of the book that you are reading is sitting right next to you and is able to come alongside of you to give you such a deeper understanding of what life is all about past, present, and everlasting.
SPEAKER_00: God is in the room.
SPEAKER_00: Open your eyes this morning.
SPEAKER_00: You need to realize that God is there, and He's equipped you to grow up in Him and to become all that He has created you to be.
SPEAKER_00: The blessing that God has already provided.
SPEAKER_00: This morning I want to talk to you about another blessing that God has given you this year.
SPEAKER_00: And I want to turn back to the story of Moses, the story of Moses, where he's already encountered that burning bush.
SPEAKER_00: And watch what God reveals to Moses that is so important for you and I to understand.
SPEAKER_00: God has already given Moses his mission.
SPEAKER_00: He's already blessed him with the knowledge of his omnipresence, but now Moses is thinking how he is going to take this message to his own people.
SPEAKER_00: And watch what happens here in Exodus 3, 13 through 14.
SPEAKER_00: It says this, then Moses said to God, Behold, I am going to the sons of Israel, and I will say to them, the God of your fathers has sent me to you.
SPEAKER_00: Now they may say to me, What is his name?
SPEAKER_00: Can you say what is his name?
SPEAKER_00: What shall I say to them?
SPEAKER_00: And God said to Moses, I am who I am.
SPEAKER_00: And he said, This is what you shall say to the sons of Israel.
SPEAKER_00: I am that I am.
SPEAKER_00: This part of Moses' conversation reveals Moses' lack of understanding and knowledge of who God is.
SPEAKER_00: It's here that Moses discovers that his God is more than just a fairy tale.
SPEAKER_00: God is more than just a religion.
SPEAKER_00: Moses would have probably heard stories from his mother as a child, but here Moses begins to experience who God truly is.
SPEAKER_00: God reveals to Moses that he is I am.
SPEAKER_00: Say I am this morning.
SPEAKER_00: He is I am.
SPEAKER_00: In this, God reveals himself as the all-self-sufficient, self-sustaining God who was and is and who will always be.
SPEAKER_00: You see, if you look throughout history into the varieties of the cultural gods that are taking place, typically each God is the God of something.
SPEAKER_00: You have the God of the earth, you have the God of water, you have the God of wind, you have the God of love.
SPEAKER_00: And it's here to Moses that the one true God reveals himself as the one and only God.
SPEAKER_00: His existence was not provided through any other means.
SPEAKER_00: His power was not granted to him by something by something or somebody else.
SPEAKER_00: He is the God over everything that you see, everything that you hear, everything that you smell, everything that you think, he is period.
SPEAKER_00: In Deuteronomy it says this, therefore know today and take it to your heart that the Lord, He is God in heaven above and on earth below, there is no other.
SPEAKER_00: This is my name forever, and this is the name for all generations to use to call upon me.
SPEAKER_00: Go and gather the elders of Israel together and say to them, The Lord, the God of your fathers, the God of Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob has appeared to me, saying, I am indeed concerned about you and what has been done to you in Egypt.
SPEAKER_00: So I said, I will bring you out of the oppression of Egypt to the land of the Canaanite, the Hittite, the Amorite, the Perizzite, and the Hivite, and the Jebusite to a land flowing with milk and honey.
SPEAKER_00: God says to Moses, get ready to face the impossible.
SPEAKER_00: And now Shepherd Moses, who's not good at speaking, which we see in Scripture.
SPEAKER_00: Moses has been given the task to lead the Israelites out of Egypt after 400 plus years of bondage, and then take them to a land flowing with milk and honey, who has a bunch of other people living in it already.
SPEAKER_00: It's impossible.
SPEAKER_00: Yet God blesses Moses with something so powerful.
SPEAKER_00: God blesses Moses with something that will open doors, something that will knock down walls.
SPEAKER_00: God blesses Moses with something that will cause the enemy to run in fear.
SPEAKER_00: The next blessing given to you this morning, this year, is the name of God.
SPEAKER_00: The name of God.
SPEAKER_00: The name of God, talk about your yes, your best year yet.
SPEAKER_00: You have been given the name of God.
SPEAKER_00: I want us to look back at what we just read in verse 15.
SPEAKER_00: It says this, this is my name forever, and this is the name for all generations to use to call upon me.
SPEAKER_00: In the King James Version, it says this, this is my name forever, and this is my memorial unto all generations.
SPEAKER_00: This is my name forever.
SPEAKER_00: The name of God given to Moses was key to Moses' success.
SPEAKER_00: The name of God was key.
SPEAKER_00: Watch what happens here.
SPEAKER_00: If we fast forward a few chapters later, we see that Moses speaks with the Israelites, then makes his first appearance before Pharaoh.
SPEAKER_00: And I want you to watch what unfolds through the next few chapters, if you follow along with me.
SPEAKER_00: In Exodus chapter 5, starting verse 1, it says this, and after Moses and Aaron came and said to Pharaoh, and you have to imagine what's going on here, Pharaoh, the greatest ruler at the time, this is what the Lord the God says, and this is what they're saying to him, let my people go so that they may celebrate a feast to me in the wilderness.
SPEAKER_00: But Pharaoh said, Watch this, who is the Lord that I should obey his voice to let Israel go?
SPEAKER_00: I do not know the Lord, and besides, I will not let Israel go.
SPEAKER_00: Then they said, The God of the Hebrews has met with us.
SPEAKER_00: Please let us go three days' journey into the wilderness so that we may sacrifice to the Lord our God, otherwise he will strike us with the plague or with the sword.
SPEAKER_00: But the king of Egypt said to them, Moses and Aaron, why do you let the people neglect their work?
SPEAKER_00: Get back to your labors.
SPEAKER_00: Listen here, people of God.
SPEAKER_00: Pharaoh did not yet know the God of the Israelites.
SPEAKER_00: Pharaoh said, What?
SPEAKER_00: I don't know your Lord.
SPEAKER_00: I don't know your God.
SPEAKER_00: I don't know who you're talking about.
SPEAKER_00: He even says, Who is the Lord that I should obey his voice?
SPEAKER_00: If we read on, we see that Pharaoh sends Moses and Aaron away and he says, Get those people back to work.
SPEAKER_00: And in fact, I'm gonna have them go grab their straw on their own and make their labor even more.
SPEAKER_00: When Pharaoh asks this question, who is the Lord?
SPEAKER_00: Moses and Aaron responded with something that you and I typically would have come up with.
SPEAKER_00: Moses and Aaron, Pharaoh says, Who is the Lord?
SPEAKER_00: What did Moses and Aaron say?
SPEAKER_00: The God of the Hebrews.
SPEAKER_00: You know what this reminds me of?
SPEAKER_00: When somebody asks us what religion we are.
SPEAKER_00: Right?
SPEAKER_00: What religion are you?
SPEAKER_00: I'm a Christian.
SPEAKER_00: Oh, okay.
SPEAKER_00: Somebody asks you about the most important aspect of your life.
SPEAKER_00: Somebody asks you about something that has shaped and transformed your entire being in your future.
SPEAKER_00: Somebody asks you about something that you have circled your every day in and out about.
SPEAKER_00: Something that you meditate on every day, and your answer is a one phrase, sometimes one-word, vague, nondescriptive answer.
SPEAKER_00: I'm a Christian.
SPEAKER_00: Typically we do this.
SPEAKER_00: Why?
SPEAKER_00: Because we don't want to ask a we don't want to answer a lot of questions after they ask.
SPEAKER_00: Why do we do this?
SPEAKER_00: Because we're probably trying to hide something.
SPEAKER_00: We don't want to set off any triggers or any alarms.
SPEAKER_00: It's easier if I just keep it.
SPEAKER_00: I'm a Christian.
SPEAKER_00: What do you said this?
SPEAKER_00: You know what it reminds me of?
SPEAKER_00: What do you do for a living?
SPEAKER_00: Oh, I'm a manager.
SPEAKER_00: A manager of what?
SPEAKER_00: What are you talking about?
SPEAKER_00: I'm a manager.
SPEAKER_00: Oh wow.
SPEAKER_00: For what?
SPEAKER_00: For whom?
SPEAKER_00: I'm a manager.
SPEAKER_00: You don't want to tell him what you're a manager of.
SPEAKER_00: In the text, I we read that Moses is struggling with the identity of who God is.
SPEAKER_00: He's struggling with his understanding of who God is.
SPEAKER_00: He either lacks an understanding of who God truly is, or Moses is ashamed or embarrassed by who God is.
SPEAKER_00: And I believe that we find ourselves in the same situation where we cannot confidently proclaim that the God that we serve is the one and only true God.
SPEAKER_00: We're either embarrassed or we truly lack an understanding of who our God is.
SPEAKER_00: Men and women of God, I'm telling you today, it's time to grasp a full understanding of who is in the room with you.
SPEAKER_00: It's time to grasp a full understanding of who God is and what you have been given as a resource for today, for tomorrow, and into eternity.
SPEAKER_00: Moses is obviously disappointed in the outcome of his appearance before Pharaoh.
SPEAKER_00: He says this to God in verse 22.
SPEAKER_00: Then Moses returned to the Lord and said, Lord, why have you brought harm to this people?
SPEAKER_00: Why did you ever send me ever since I came to Pharaoh to speak in your name?
SPEAKER_00: He has done harm to this people, and you have not rescued your people at all.
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SPEAKER_00: We see Moses and his ignorance to who God is.
SPEAKER_00: God has already revealed his name to him, which is, I am who I am.
SPEAKER_00: Yet Moses still trembles in fear.
SPEAKER_00: Moses still doubts what God is able to do.
SPEAKER_00: Watch what God says to Moses, and this is a key thing here.
SPEAKER_00: So I want you to pay attention.
SPEAKER_00: Exodus 6, 1 through 5, it says, Then the Lord said to Moses, Now you shall see what I now you shall see what I will do to Pharaoh.
SPEAKER_00: For under compulsion he will let them go, and under compulsion he will drive them out of this land.
SPEAKER_00: God spoke for spoke further to Moses and said to him, I am the Lord.
SPEAKER_00: And I appeared to Abraham, to Isaac, to Jacob as God Almighty.
SPEAKER_00: Watch this.
SPEAKER_00: But by my name, Lord, I did not make myself known to them.
SPEAKER_00: I also established my covenant with them to give them the land of Canaan, the land in which they have lived as strangers.
SPEAKER_00: Furthermore, I have heard their groaning of the sons of Israel, because the Egyptians are holding them in bondage, and I've remembered my covenant.
SPEAKER_00: God says to Moses that the name of God had not yet been known to the ones who came before him.
SPEAKER_00: God's name had not yet been made known to those that came before him.
SPEAKER_00: God says to Moses, Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob, they knew me as God Almighty, but Moses, you're gonna know my name.
SPEAKER_00: You're gonna know the name of the Lord.
SPEAKER_00: Moses would know who Yahweh was.
SPEAKER_00: Moses would know who Jehovah was.
SPEAKER_00: Moses would be the one to know who Adonai was.
SPEAKER_00: Moses would know who I am.
SPEAKER_00: I am the self-sufficient, everlasting God who was and is to come.
SPEAKER_00: Nobody handed him his power.
SPEAKER_00: But he is in the beginning.
SPEAKER_00: He is the Alpha and the Omega, the beginning and the end.
SPEAKER_00: He is the one who formed you in your mother's womb.
SPEAKER_00: He is the one who created every part of who you are.
SPEAKER_00: He knows your in, he knows your outs, he knows your hair, every every hair on the top of your head.
SPEAKER_00: Exodus 8:8, it says this.
SPEAKER_00: From here we see, say therefore to the sons of Israel, I am the Lord, I will bring you out from under the labors of Egypt, and I will rescue you from their bondage.
SPEAKER_00: I will also redeem you with an outstretched arm and with great judgments.
SPEAKER_00: Then I will take you as my people, and I will be your God, and you shall know that I am the Lord your God, who brought you out from under the labors of Egyptians.
SPEAKER_00: I will bring you to the land which I swore to give Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob, and I will give it to you as a possession.
SPEAKER_00: I am the Lord.
SPEAKER_00: From here on out, we see the power of God now unfold.
SPEAKER_00: Aaron's staff turns into a serpent.
SPEAKER_00: The Nile is turned to blood.
SPEAKER_00: Ten plagues in Egypt, including the death of the firstborn in Egypt.
SPEAKER_00: The Lord revealed his name to Moses as he remembered his covenant with Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob, brought them out of Egypt into a land promised to them.
SPEAKER_00: Moses saw and experienced what his fathers had only heard about.
SPEAKER_00: Moses experienced something that his fathers had only dreamt about.
SPEAKER_00: Moses experienced the fullness of what God was able to do.
SPEAKER_00: Moses knew who God was.
SPEAKER_00: In Exodus chapter 8, only a few plagues have come to pass, and the power of God is unfolding before their eyes.
SPEAKER_00: This is the I am.
SPEAKER_00: We see a different attitude in Pharaoh.
SPEAKER_00: Pharaoh, who once originally said, Who is the Lord that I shall obey his voice?
SPEAKER_00: Get back to work.
SPEAKER_00: Exodus 8 8, it says this.
SPEAKER_00: Then Pharaoh called for Moses and said, Plead with the Lord to remove the frogs from me and from my people, and I will let the people go so that they may sacrifice to the Lord.
SPEAKER_00: Pharaoh begged and pleaded.
SPEAKER_00: The one who did not know who the Lord was, oh, he saw who the Lord was.
SPEAKER_00: He couldn't help but experience the power of the Almighty God.
SPEAKER_00: I want to tell you this, people of God, when you truly know the name of God and what it encompasses, what it means, what it describes, the power that the name of God possesses, you are no longer a Christian who just goes to church.
SPEAKER_00: You are a child of the Most High God.
SPEAKER_00: Imagine that.
SPEAKER_00: You are more than a conqueror.
SPEAKER_00: You're more than just a Christian.
SPEAKER_00: And I'm not saying that negatively.
SPEAKER_00: I'm saying that so small of who you really are.
SPEAKER_00: You are beyond, you are a beyond blessed son and daughter who has the Spirit of God dwelling with you, dwelling within you at all times.
SPEAKER_00: You see, the name of God is even more fulfilled when Jesus Christ comes on the scene.
SPEAKER_00: What does Jesus say?
SPEAKER_00: In John 8, 58.
SPEAKER_00: So the Jews said to him, You are not yet 50 years old, and you have seen Abraham.
SPEAKER_00: Jesus said to them, Truly, truly, I say to you, before Abraham was born, I am.
SPEAKER_00: Jesus, the Son of God, God Himself coming to earth to save humanity and bring life for future generations, says this in John 8, 12.
SPEAKER_00: Jesus spoke to them saying, What?
SPEAKER_00: I am the light of the world.
SPEAKER_00: The one who follows me will not walk in darkness, but will have the light of life.
SPEAKER_00: John 14, 6, Jesus said to him, I am the way, the truth, and the life.
SPEAKER_00: No one comes to the Father except through me.
SPEAKER_00: I want to ask you this morning.
SPEAKER_00: I want to ask you this morning, do you really know who the name of God is?
SPEAKER_00: Do you really know the name of your God?
SPEAKER_00: Do you know the name of your God?
SPEAKER_00: Is he truly the Alpha and Omega?
SPEAKER_00: Is he your provider?
SPEAKER_00: Is he your beginning and your end?
SPEAKER_00: Did you do you have an understanding of the name of God and the power that is found therein?
SPEAKER_00: The name of God that is more than words, the name of God that is a supernatural power that can shake the foundations of the world.
SPEAKER_00: How do I know this?
SPEAKER_00: When Jesus was arrested in the garden, what happens?
SPEAKER_00: Do you remember?
SPEAKER_00: They run into the garden to arrest Jesus, and they asked, Is this Jesus the Nazarene?
SPEAKER_00: And Jesus says, What?
SPEAKER_00: I am He.
SPEAKER_00: They fell to the ground.
SPEAKER_00: Gee, John 14 says this, whatever you ask in my name, this I will do, so that the Father may be glorified in the Son.
SPEAKER_00: If you ask me anything in my name, I will do it.
SPEAKER_00: The name of God.
SPEAKER_00: Philippians 2, 10 through 11 says this, so that at the name of Jesus, every knee will bow, every tongue will confess.
SPEAKER_00: Oh, I every I I skipped.
SPEAKER_00: Knee of those who are in heaven and on earth and under the earth, and every tongue will confess that Jesus Christ is Lord to the glory of God the Father.
SPEAKER_00: And I want you to realize that God is in the room.
SPEAKER_00: That was the first blessing of this year already happening, already done.
SPEAKER_00: The second blessing this morning is that you have been given the name of God.
SPEAKER_00: In his name is power, in his name is healing.
SPEAKER_00: In his name, you can break every stronghold.
SPEAKER_00: That his name can call fire down from heaven.
SPEAKER_00: That his name can cause people to fall to the ground because of the power that comes from it.
SPEAKER_00: God, I pray that each and every person here would be able to understand how vast, how deep, how high, how great is your name.
SPEAKER_00: God, and as heirs through your son Jesus Christ, that name is upon us, that name is within us.
SPEAKER_00: We are sons and daughters of the Most High God.
SPEAKER_00: I pray that there would be an awakening here like never before, God, that we would be empowered to realize that you have equipped us with something so special.
SPEAKER_00: Something that for some reason we're ashamed of.
SPEAKER_00: For some reason we can't proclaim it.
SPEAKER_00: For some reason we can't hold our head high and our shoulders back.
SPEAKER_00: God, we thank you for giving us the opportunity to be known as a child of God, to receive all the blessings that your name comes with.
SPEAKER_00: God, that we would be confident in it, that we would be bold, that we would be able to speak to that mountain, and it would be cast into the sea.
SPEAKER_00: God, that we would be able to speak to that situation in your name and it will be done.
SPEAKER_00: The power that is in your name.
SPEAKER_00: God, we thank you for the name of God.
SPEAKER_00: I pray that we could say it boldly when people ask, What's your religion?
SPEAKER_00: I'm a Christian, I'm a child of the most high God.
SPEAKER_00: Every day I open up the word of God and I read more and more about Him.
SPEAKER_00: He's my best friend.
SPEAKER_00: Religion, I have a relationship with my God.
SPEAKER_00: I talk to Him every single day.
SPEAKER_00: So that I could live life more abundantly, so that I could have a blessed hope.
SPEAKER_00: Who is my God?
SPEAKER_00: Oh, he is the I am, He's Jehovah.
SPEAKER_00: My God is the one and only true God.
SPEAKER_00: God, I pray that we would have an awakening, a realization of the blessing that is here this morning.
SPEAKER_00: Continue to fill us with your spirit, fill us with understanding.
SPEAKER_00: God, like never before, that this could be our best year yet.
SPEAKER_00: Full of blessings, God.