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SPEAKER_01: So today I am continuing the sermon, well, part two of the sermon I preached last week.
SPEAKER_01: And the title of that sermon was uh Lord, help my unbelief.
SPEAKER_01: So we got through that and we found out that there were some internal beliefs that we had that are tied to our earthly, our this realm circumstances that block us from believing the word of God.
SPEAKER_01: We broke that down, we kicked the devil out of our life, and now we're walking in freedom.
SPEAKER_01: Can someone say amen?
SPEAKER_01: Hallelujah.
SPEAKER_01: We had breakthrough last week, and I want to say this to you.
SPEAKER_01: I just didn't have breakthrough.
SPEAKER_01: I had great breakthrough.
SPEAKER_01: I know that God is able to do everything I am believing him for because all my life he has been faithful.
SPEAKER_01: That's right.
SPEAKER_01: Hallelujah.
SPEAKER_01: So today I'm going to talk about the power of yes.
SPEAKER_01: I'm going to talk about, you know, we believe, I believe that God can do all things.
SPEAKER_01: I do.
SPEAKER_01: But you see, something happens when I apply faith to what I'm believing.
SPEAKER_01: That's an action, and I step into something great and powerful that I cannot do if all I say is, yeah, I believe.
SPEAKER_01: Because I want you all to know, demons in hell believe God is who he says he is.
SPEAKER_01: And the problem is, He sometimes, they sometimes know more than the church does, the power of Almighty God.
SPEAKER_01: So, church, let's be encouraged.
SPEAKER_01: Amen.
SPEAKER_01: Hallelujah.
SPEAKER_01: So I pray that today, this sermon will change the way you see the power of yes to God.
SPEAKER_01: And so, as I was praying about this, I said, Lord, there are so many people in the word who said yes to you.
SPEAKER_01: And he said, Yeah, but I want you to talk about Ananias.
SPEAKER_01: Not the Ananias and Sapphira, don't get concerned, okay?
SPEAKER_01: But Ananias.
SPEAKER_01: And I want you to listen to this.
SPEAKER_01: This is so good.
SPEAKER_01: And when I and before I read it, I thought, oh, okay.
SPEAKER_01: And then I read this passage and I saw the power of God on what he yes did.
SPEAKER_01: Hallelujah.
SPEAKER_01: Acts chapter 9, and I'm going to begin reading in verse 10.
SPEAKER_01: Now there was a believer in Damascus named Ananias.
SPEAKER_01: The Lord spoke to him in a vision, calling, Ananias.
SPEAKER_01: Yes, Lord, he replied.
SPEAKER_01: The Lord said, Go over to Strait Street to the house of Judas.
SPEAKER_01: When you get there, ask for a man from Tarsus named Saul.
SPEAKER_01: He is praying to me right now.
SPEAKER_01: I have shown him a vision of a man named Ananias coming in and laying hands on him so he can see again.
SPEAKER_01: Don't you love the way God is?
SPEAKER_01: While Saul was praying, God was listening, and he was on the move in Ananias' life, saying, I have need of you.
SPEAKER_01: I have an assignment for you.
SPEAKER_01: You've already said yes, Lord.
SPEAKER_01: He said yes, Lord, long ago.
SPEAKER_01: And so he was ready, sorta, for action.
SPEAKER_01: Let's keep reading.
SPEAKER_01: But Lord, exclaimed Ananias, I've heard many people talk about the terrible things this man has done to the believers in Jerusalem.
SPEAKER_01: And he is authorized by the leading priest to arrest anyone who calls upon your name.
SPEAKER_01: But the Lord said, Go to Saul.
SPEAKER_01: You know, isn't it wonderful what God does?
SPEAKER_01: He doesn't say, I know it's bad.
SPEAKER_01: He doesn't say, Yeah, I know.
SPEAKER_01: Oh, he has been persecuting Christians.
SPEAKER_01: He doesn't say that.
SPEAKER_01: He said, Go.
SPEAKER_01: I want to say something.
SPEAKER_01: This came up in prayer on Thursday night.
SPEAKER_01: And it was good.
SPEAKER_01: I felt a spirit of faith as we were praying.
SPEAKER_01: And I remembered that how much of the church gives an excuse.
SPEAKER_01: And if I don't believe that God really, his hand is on my life, I'll say something like this.
SPEAKER_01: Well, God had a man he wanted to do what he had called what I'm doing, but he said no.
SPEAKER_01: I I kicked that sacred cow out of this house.
SPEAKER_01: And let me tell you why.
SPEAKER_01: God knew when he asked me, I already had yes stirring inside of me.
SPEAKER_01: I told him I was from the South.
SPEAKER_01: Let me talk to you all over here.
SPEAKER_01: Because someone needs to understand where I was coming from.
SPEAKER_01: I told him I'm a woman.
SPEAKER_01: Now, Southern Baptists will tell you all about that.
SPEAKER_01: But you see, when the Holy Ghost comes in, he doesn't care your age or your gender.
SPEAKER_01: He cares about the yes you already gave him.
SPEAKER_01: So I would give God, I would say, Lord, you know, there there's so-and-so is really good.
SPEAKER_01: And then I would say, Lord, you'll have to tell Steve, he'll never do this.
SPEAKER_01: If you're visiting, that's my husband Steve.
SPEAKER_01: He'll never do this.
SPEAKER_01: And Steve comes in and says, Sandra, as I was mowing the lawn, the Lord spoke to me and said, We're starting a church and you're gonna pastor that church.
SPEAKER_01: And I lifted my hands to the Lord and said, Yes, Lord.
SPEAKER_01: Because the impossible thing is possible with God.
SPEAKER_01: Okay?
SPEAKER_01: So, so all these people that say, I even said Catherine Kuhlman said that.
SPEAKER_01: You know why?
SPEAKER_01: Because she needed to tell people I'm verifiably here, but I wasn't really the one that was called.
SPEAKER_01: Beloved, that is a lie.
SPEAKER_01: That's not true.
SPEAKER_01: I'm not saying Catherine Kuhlman was a liar, Lord.
SPEAKER_01: I'm sorry, I repent for that.
SPEAKER_01: What I'm saying is, we as a church have made people buy into that.
SPEAKER_01: When God called you, he knew there was a yes inside of you.
SPEAKER_01: He knew there was something burning in you you had to do no matter what.
SPEAKER_01: You were going along, minding your own business, praying and loving on Jesus and witnessing to people.
SPEAKER_01: And God said, Okay, that season has moved into this next season.
SPEAKER_01: I'm calling you to say yes again.
SPEAKER_01: Because he knows you're gonna say yes.
SPEAKER_01: He already knows your yes is inside of you.
SPEAKER_01: Oh, hallelujah! And we give all of these excuses, but God knew Ananias was gonna do what he said.
SPEAKER_01: So the Lord said, Go, for Saul is my chosen instrument to take my message to the Gentiles and the kings, as well as to the people of Israel.
SPEAKER_01: And I will show him how much he must suffer for the nation's sake.
SPEAKER_01: So Ananias went and found Saul.
SPEAKER_01: He laid his hands on him and said, Brother Saul, the Lord Jesus who appeared to you on the road has sent me so that you might regain your sight and be filled with the Holy Spirit.
SPEAKER_01: Now listen, you know what I love about this?
SPEAKER_01: The minute God called him to go and lay hands on Saul.
SPEAKER_01: He was a brother.
SPEAKER_01: Brother.
SPEAKER_01: Isn't that beautiful?
SPEAKER_01: Brother.
SPEAKER_01: God called me to lay hands.
SPEAKER_01: Let me tell you something.
SPEAKER_01: We got to get the love of the brethren back in the church.
SPEAKER_01: I want you to know this.
SPEAKER_01: I'm gonna say it, and I'm gonna say it with meaning.
SPEAKER_01: You will not see or hear me talking negative about the church of the living God.
SPEAKER_01: There may be some messes, there may be some sin, but the life of Christ is in the church.
SPEAKER_01: And it always will be.
SPEAKER_01: And I've just decided to get on God's side, and when I hear somebody that's in trouble, I hear of them.
SPEAKER_01: I don't get on Facebook or YouTube or whatever and rant.
SPEAKER_01: I don't waste this pulpit time to talk about people who have fallen.
SPEAKER_01: What do I do?
SPEAKER_01: I get on my knees and cry out to the Lord and say, Lord, heal them, Lord, deliver them, Lord, rescue them.
SPEAKER_01: They're brothers and sisters in Christ.
SPEAKER_01: See that's why we feel like we've got a right to talk about people and gossip in the church.
SPEAKER_01: Well, you you heard what they're doing.
SPEAKER_01: Yeah, I heard it long enough to fall on my face before the Lord and cry out for them to be delivered.
SPEAKER_01: Come on, church.
SPEAKER_01: You you don't need another pastor.
SPEAKER_01: Let me say this to you, and I want you to hear me.
SPEAKER_01: You don't need another pastor with a critical judgmental spirit.
SPEAKER_01: You need a pastor who'll cry out to you in your greatest time of need.
SPEAKER_01: Come on, somebody.
SPEAKER_01: We're talking about Jesus here.
SPEAKER_01: We're not talking about a club that you join and and they out you if you're not good enough.
SPEAKER_01: No, we're talking about the kingdom of God.
SPEAKER_01: He said, I knew you before the foundation of the earth in love.
SPEAKER_01: He knew us not just, yeah, I know about them.
SPEAKER_01: Yeah, I know about them.
SPEAKER_01: No, he knew us in love.
SPEAKER_01: He loved us so much, and when we were saved, he deposited his love within us.
SPEAKER_01: The Bible says that if you don't have the love of the brethren, you don't have the love of the Father.
SPEAKER_01: How are we going to go to the world with the gospel of the kingdom of God without love?
SPEAKER_01: I don't need another notch on my belt.
SPEAKER_01: I need another soul coming in the kingdom.
SPEAKER_01: I need to sing with the angels every time a soul comes into the kingdom.
SPEAKER_01: Come on, somebody.
SPEAKER_01: The Holy Ghost is moving up here.
SPEAKER_01: I hope he's getting a hold of you right now.
SPEAKER_01: Hallelujah.
SPEAKER_01: Glory to God, hallelujah.
SPEAKER_01: Praise the Lord.
SPEAKER_01: Oh, verse 18.
SPEAKER_01: Instantly something like scales fell off Saul's eyes and he regained his sight.
SPEAKER_01: Then he got up and was baptized.
SPEAKER_01: And he wasn't just water-baptized people, he was baptized in the Holy Ghost.
SPEAKER_01: Come on, somebody.
SPEAKER_01: Hallelujah.
SPEAKER_01: I'm looking for a day when souls are going to be coming into the kingdom.
SPEAKER_01: And when they are put under the water, they're going to come up speaking in another language.
SPEAKER_01: Come on.
SPEAKER_01: Yeah, we're spirit-filled.
SPEAKER_01: I hope that doesn't bother you and make you uncomfortable because we're not denying the power of God in this house.
SPEAKER_01: Amen.
SPEAKER_01: Hallelujah.
SPEAKER_01: I'm going to join, I'm going to join Paul when he said, I am more thankful than any of you all that I speak in tongues.
SPEAKER_01: I'm thankful more than any of you all that I pray in the Holy Ghost.
SPEAKER_01: Because God is praying through me.
SPEAKER_01: And when God prays through me, God's going to answer his own prayer.
SPEAKER_01: Oh, come on.
SPEAKER_01: Somebody needs to get this.
SPEAKER_01: Are y'all hearing that?
SPEAKER_01: When God is praying through me, he's going to answer his own prayer.
SPEAKER_01: Glory to God, hallelujah.
SPEAKER_01: Somebody remind me of that.
SPEAKER_01: Hallelujah.
SPEAKER_01: So a single yes to God changed history.
SPEAKER_01: Are you hearing this?
SPEAKER_01: It shifts our lives from fear to faith.
SPEAKER_01: Isn't that beautiful?
SPEAKER_01: Your yes to God unlocks divine purpose that will bless future generations.
SPEAKER_01: You're sitting here today on assignment.
SPEAKER_01: Do you hear me?
SPEAKER_01: You're here on assignment today because you need to understand your yes mattered to God.
SPEAKER_01: Your yes holds the very power of heaven in it.
SPEAKER_01: Oh, hallelujah.
SPEAKER_01: Praise the Lord.
SPEAKER_01: And Ananias didn't write a book in the Bible.
SPEAKER_01: It isn't recorded of him leading thousands to Jesus.
SPEAKER_01: He didn't have a famous ministry, nor was he numbered with the twelve apostles.
SPEAKER_01: And yet Jesus called him and he said, Yes, Lord.
SPEAKER_01: Oh, hallelujah.
SPEAKER_01: The moment Ananias said yes, he became, listen to this, the conduit for a supernatural miracle.
SPEAKER_01: Oh, hallelujah.
SPEAKER_01: Will you believe with me for a miracle?
SPEAKER_01: Will we say yes together?
SPEAKER_01: Yes.
SPEAKER_01: If you believe with me for a miracle, you'll see a miracle.
SPEAKER_01: Hallelujah.
SPEAKER_01: Thank you, Lord.
SPEAKER_01: You see, his yes carried power to break scales off Saul's eyes, restoring physical vision, and it brought spiritual vision.
SPEAKER_01: Oh, hallelujah.
SPEAKER_01: Through Ananias' touch, he brought healing and the infilling of the Holy Spirit into a broken man's life.
SPEAKER_01: When you think of Saul, and you're not thinking about Paul, you can see a broken man.
SPEAKER_01: But when you begin to talk about the Apostle Paul, it's hard for you to think that this one at one time was a broken man.
SPEAKER_01: Beloved, I want to tell you this.
SPEAKER_01: Every time you say yes to God, there's somebody that will be before you, and they could be the next great person, not to be famous, but to be famous in heaven.
SPEAKER_01: Come on.
SPEAKER_01: I'm not trying to build you up.
SPEAKER_01: I'm not trying.
SPEAKER_01: Amy and Will.
SPEAKER_01: Your altars are going to be full.
SPEAKER_01: Wherever you have a meeting, your altar is always going to be filled.
SPEAKER_01: And people are going to absolute radical change.
SPEAKER_01: Transformation leading to transfiguration.
SPEAKER_01: Hallelujah.
SPEAKER_01: Thank you, Lord.
SPEAKER_01: To some, Ananias may have seemed insignificant, but to God, he was a son who overcame fear.
SPEAKER_01: And by faith carried a message from God to the one who would become the great missionary, the great church planter, the apostle who wrote 13 books in the New Testament.
SPEAKER_01: Can you imagine that?
SPEAKER_01: People are in heaven and they said, Ananias, I heard about you.
SPEAKER_01: He said, Yeah, yeah.
SPEAKER_01: Most important thing I ever did was I went and laid hands on Saul.
SPEAKER_01: He became Paul.
SPEAKER_01: He was filled with the Holy Ghost, and the rest is history.
SPEAKER_01: Come on.
SPEAKER_01: That's pretty awesome, okay?
SPEAKER_01: When Jesus sees him, he says, Well done, good and faithful servant, the same way he'll say it to the apostle Paul.
SPEAKER_01: Hallelujah.
SPEAKER_01: Thank you, Lord.
SPEAKER_01: Think of it this way.
SPEAKER_01: One night Ananias was praying and listening to the Lord.
SPEAKER_01: He was listening for him to speak to him.
SPEAKER_01: Do you take time to listen for God to speak to you?
SPEAKER_01: There may be someone out there or someone across the aisle who needs a word from God and you're carrying it.
SPEAKER_01: Are you all hearing?
SPEAKER_01: And so Ananias was listening for the voice of the Lord.
SPEAKER_01: Hallelujah.
SPEAKER_01: And he was given an assignment that would change the world.
SPEAKER_01: He was given an assignment that would change the world.
SPEAKER_01: Wow.
SPEAKER_01: He was given an assignment that would change the world.
SPEAKER_01: We've had people come to summit.
SPEAKER_01: We've had people deploy to ministry.
SPEAKER_01: We've had people who have left.
SPEAKER_01: But beloved, I want you to know, every one of them, we are believing that there is a mighty power of God working in them because we believe in deploying people out to the world.
SPEAKER_01: Come on.
SPEAKER_01: Hallelujah.
SPEAKER_01: The only purpose of the church is to equip the saints for the work of ministry.
SPEAKER_01: It is not to build a big crowd so we can have bragging rites, it is to equip the church for the work of ministry.
SPEAKER_01: Beloved, before Jesus comes, he will have what he died for.
SPEAKER_01: Oh, hallelujah.
SPEAKER_01: Glory to God, hallelujah.
SPEAKER_01: Do y'all feel the Holy Ghost?
SPEAKER_01: Ananias' hidden obedience had a global, permanent impact on church history.
SPEAKER_01: Saying no, however, is safe and easy.
SPEAKER_01: Oh Lord.
SPEAKER_01: Go to someone else.
SPEAKER_01: I don't know what that's like.
SPEAKER_01: Hear me say this.
SPEAKER_01: I don't know, I know how I wrestled in my spirit.
SPEAKER_01: But it was always to get my brain aligned with my spirit, man.
SPEAKER_01: Yes, Lord.
SPEAKER_01: Hallelujah.
SPEAKER_01: Thank you, Lord.
SPEAKER_01: Beloved, this is beyond believing.
SPEAKER_01: This is God's faith that He put in you.
SPEAKER_01: Do you realize you've got God's faith inside of you?
SPEAKER_01: What in the world could you do when you're packing, you're carrying God's faith?
SPEAKER_01: What in the world could you do?
SPEAKER_01: What has God called you to do?
SPEAKER_01: Listen to this.
SPEAKER_01: Galatians 2 and 20 said, I am crucified with Christ.
SPEAKER_01: Nevertheless I live.
SPEAKER_01: I died.
SPEAKER_01: I died with Christ.
SPEAKER_01: Nevertheless, I live.
SPEAKER_01: Come on.
SPEAKER_01: But Christ lives in me.
SPEAKER_01: And the life which I now live in the flesh, I live by the faith of the Son of God who loved me and gave himself up for me.
SPEAKER_01: Jesus came and he gave himself up for me.
SPEAKER_01: He poured out every drop of heaven's blood for me so that I could carry the faith of the Son of God and I could do the works that Jesus did.
SPEAKER_01: Because Jesus said, Greater works than these shall ye do, because I go to the Father.
SPEAKER_01: And whatever you ask the Father in my name, He will do it for you.
SPEAKER_01: How many of y'all believe that?
SPEAKER_01: How many of y'all believe that if you ask the Lord something according to His word, He will do it for you?
SPEAKER_01: Well, I don't know if I'm I I used to hear people years ago when I was young.
SPEAKER_01: I really don't know if I'm praying according to God's will.
SPEAKER_01: Well, there's just one way to find out.
SPEAKER_01: Get in the Word, the Word will tell you.
SPEAKER_01: See, people say, Well, I don't.
SPEAKER_01: Know if I hear from God.
SPEAKER_01: Do you know what I was telling the Lord that?
SPEAKER_01: I said, Lord, all my time in ministry for many, many years, I've heard people say, Well, I don't hear from God like you do.
SPEAKER_01: And I said, Lord, you're no respecter of persons.
SPEAKER_01: We're part of the body of Christ.
SPEAKER_01: They hear from you.
SPEAKER_01: What's the problem?
SPEAKER_01: He said, they haven't regenerated their brain.
SPEAKER_01: I said, How are we gonna do that, Lord?
SPEAKER_01: He said, get in the word and just read it.
SPEAKER_01: Don't study it, just read it.
SPEAKER_01: And I will create a miracle in your mind.
SPEAKER_01: And you will be able to hear me clearly.
SPEAKER_01: But you don't know what all I've been through.
SPEAKER_01: I used to, when I worked with people coming out of drug addiction, they would say to me, Pastor Sandra, I can't memorize scripture.
SPEAKER_01: I said, Yeah, you can.
SPEAKER_01: They said, No, I promise you, I can't.
SPEAKER_01: I said, Yeah, you can.
SPEAKER_01: No, I can't.
SPEAKER_01: I said, Here's what I want you to do.
SPEAKER_01: You open your Bible and you read that scripture and you read it out loud.
SPEAKER_01: You read it out loud.
SPEAKER_01: Faith, beloved, is in my mouth and in my heart.
SPEAKER_01: This is the word of faith that I preach.
SPEAKER_01: It's first in my mouth.
SPEAKER_01: And I said, keep on reading it and you will find that it'll be yours.
SPEAKER_01: They'd come and they'd say, It worked.
SPEAKER_01: It worked.
SPEAKER_01: And they'd start quoting scripture.
SPEAKER_01: Yeah, it worked.
SPEAKER_01: You know why?
SPEAKER_01: Knowing the word goes beyond your intellect.
SPEAKER_01: Okay, I'm gonna say that to all you really smart people.
SPEAKER_01: You know, the brainiacs in school that would read the material, skim over the material, make an A.
SPEAKER_01: Well, in the kingdom of God, we're on the same playing field.
SPEAKER_01: Come on, girl, go ahead and clap for that one.
SPEAKER_01: Because God does something in your mind by the word of God.
SPEAKER_01: Come on.
SPEAKER_01: This supernatural faith, the faith of the Son of God, is placed in you upon salvation.
SPEAKER_01: It empowers you to do things beyond your capacity.
SPEAKER_01: Come on, church.
SPEAKER_01: Beyond your capacity.
SPEAKER_01: Someone needs to hear that.
SPEAKER_01: Well, you know, I'm not anointed enough.
SPEAKER_01: Okay.
SPEAKER_01: You see, God has written a better story for your life.
SPEAKER_01: That's good news.
SPEAKER_01: God has written a better story for your life.
SPEAKER_00: Thank you, Lord.
SPEAKER_01: You think, God, I pretty much got it taken care of.
SPEAKER_01: I'm good.
SPEAKER_01: Beloved, I want you to know without God, you're not.
SPEAKER_01: You may think you're good, but you're not.
SPEAKER_01: You're playing the game the devil has placed in your mind.
SPEAKER_01: I'm good.
SPEAKER_01: I don't need God.
SPEAKER_01: I'm good.
SPEAKER_01: Beloved, let me tell you, you'll come to a point in your life where you'll cry after God and know you need him more than anything else.
SPEAKER_01: Amen.
SPEAKER_01: Hallelujah.
SPEAKER_01: Praise the Lord.
SPEAKER_01: In heaven.
SPEAKER_01: The same well done that was given to the Apostle Paul is made available to you and to me.
SPEAKER_01: Listen to this.
SPEAKER_01: Isaiah 55.
SPEAKER_01: I'm going to read 3 and 8 and 9.
SPEAKER_01: Come to me, you.
SPEAKER_01: I'm sorry.
SPEAKER_01: Come to me with your ears wide open.
SPEAKER_01: Listen, and you will find life.
SPEAKER_01: I'll make an everlasting covenant with you.
SPEAKER_01: I will give you all of the unfailing love I promised David.
SPEAKER_01: Listen to this.
SPEAKER_01: My thoughts are nothing like your thoughts.
SPEAKER_01: Do you hear that?
SPEAKER_01: My ways are higher than your ways, and my thoughts higher than your thoughts.
SPEAKER_01: Listen, God's plan for your life is far greater, much higher than you could imagine on your own.
SPEAKER_01: I was having this conversation with the Lord, and I said, Lord, can I give you a hint on how I'd like you to do this?
SPEAKER_01: And you know what he said to me?
SPEAKER_01: No.
SPEAKER_01: Because you know, I I used to come up with some really great ideas.
SPEAKER_01: And then I found out that God doesn't do my great ideas.
SPEAKER_01: Come on.
SPEAKER_01: He does his will for every person sitting here today.
SPEAKER_01: Do you realize he's working his will out for you right now?
SPEAKER_01: And if I tried to guess what it was, it wouldn't be as high as what he says it's gonna be.
SPEAKER_01: Oh, come on.
SPEAKER_01: You got greatness inside of you.
SPEAKER_01: You got greatness inside of you, and it is from God.
SPEAKER_01: Hallelujah.
SPEAKER_01: Praise the Lord.
SPEAKER_01: How many of y'all believe that?
SPEAKER_01: Listen to this.
SPEAKER_01: 1 Corinthians 2, 9 and 10 says, No eye has seen, no ear has heard, and no mind has imagined what God has prepared for those who love him.
SPEAKER_01: But it was to us that God revealed these things by his spirit.
SPEAKER_01: Aren't you thankful for the Holy Spirit?
SPEAKER_01: For his spirit searches out everything and shows us God's deep secrets.
SPEAKER_01: He shows us God's deep secrets.
SPEAKER_01: He shows you and I, sons and daughters of God.
SPEAKER_01: He shows us God's deep secrets.
SPEAKER_01: Listen, this yes stirred Abraham to leave his home for a land he did not know.
SPEAKER_01: Come on.
SPEAKER_01: This yes to God empowered Moses to speak to Pharaoh.
SPEAKER_01: Let my people go.
SPEAKER_01: Even with a stutter.
SPEAKER_01: Come on.
SPEAKER_01: Pastor, you don't know all of my, you don't know the problems I'm having.
SPEAKER_01: I don't care to know the problems.
SPEAKER_01: God knows, and He still can move through you.
SPEAKER_01: Hallelujah.
SPEAKER_01: Joshua and Caleb said yes to God's promise of a land flowing with milk and honey, while others saw nothing but giants.
SPEAKER_01: Come on.
SPEAKER_01: Get out of your mind what you think you can do and allow God to show you what He wants to do through you.
SPEAKER_01: Hallelujah.
SPEAKER_01: I'm talking about the church today.
SPEAKER_01: Hallelujah.
SPEAKER_01: Beloved, your yes has power.
SPEAKER_01: God's not looking for talent, He's listening for your yes.
SPEAKER_01: Hallelujah.
SPEAKER_01: Your yes activates divine provision.
SPEAKER_01: Now see, I needed to hear this.
SPEAKER_01: When God spoke this, I said, I need to hear that, Lord.
SPEAKER_01: I'm gonna meditate on that.
SPEAKER_01: I'm gonna think on that because I said yes.
SPEAKER_01: Now I am believing for supernatural provision.
SPEAKER_01: Anyone here with me?
SPEAKER_01: Okay, praise the Lord.
SPEAKER_01: So listen, God never calls you to a place that he does not sustain you.
SPEAKER_01: Oh, hallelujah.
SPEAKER_01: God will call you to live in divine faith for his provision.
SPEAKER_01: Okay.
SPEAKER_01: I needed to hear him say this to me.
SPEAKER_01: I told you I would pay for what I start.
SPEAKER_01: I would bring divine provision.
SPEAKER_01: Can you agree with me on that?
SPEAKER_01: Hallelujah.
SPEAKER_01: Praise the Lord.
SPEAKER_01: 2 Corinthians 9, 8 and 10 says, and God will generously provide all your need.
SPEAKER_01: Then you will always have everything you need and plenty left over to share with others.
SPEAKER_01: Are you kidding?
SPEAKER_01: That's called abundance.
SPEAKER_01: That's called abundance, okay?
SPEAKER_01: We have enough, we have so much that we're gonna have to start sharing with other people.
SPEAKER_01: Come on.
SPEAKER_01: Oh, how I'd love to see the church get that way.
SPEAKER_01: I'd love to see individuals in the church say, God has blessed me so much, I just gotta start blessing people.
SPEAKER_01: I just gotta start giving to people.
SPEAKER_01: I have so much, I gotta give it away.
SPEAKER_01: And you know what we do?
SPEAKER_01: We look around and we say, Lord, send a wealthy business man who's lost to my church.
SPEAKER_01: I promise I'm gonna lead him to, I'll grab his head and I'll lead him to you, and he'll give money.
SPEAKER_01: I had a friend who was the pastor of a church where there were several millionaires.
SPEAKER_01: He said this to me.
SPEAKER_01: He said, Do you think that church gets along on the money of those millionaires?
SPEAKER_01: I said, Why yes.
SPEAKER_01: He said, Well, you're wrong.
SPEAKER_01: He says, It's the people that get up and go to work every day, who work these little jobs, who know what God has done for them, who love God with all their heart.
SPEAKER_01: He said, the ones that are millionaires, they want to come in and control your church so it can make them feel good and make you begging them for money.
SPEAKER_01: I'm telling you, church, quit looking any other place but up.
SPEAKER_01: And my God will supply all my needs according to his riches in glory in Christ Jesus.
SPEAKER_01: Hallelujah.
SPEAKER_01: Thank you, Lord.
SPEAKER_01: You see, their good deeds will be remembered forever, is what the word says.
SPEAKER_01: Verse 10 for God is the one who provides seed for the farmer and then bread to eat.
SPEAKER_01: In the same way he will provide and increase your resources and produce a great harvest of generosity in you.
SPEAKER_01: Your yes breaks the power of fear.
SPEAKER_01: Do you hear me?
SPEAKER_01: Your yes breaks the power of fear.
SPEAKER_01: If you're struggling with fear, say yes to God.
SPEAKER_01: And he'll break that power of fear in your life.
SPEAKER_01: Oh, hallelujah.
SPEAKER_01: Saying yes to God will always require you to step out of your comfort zone.
SPEAKER_01: Have you noticed how God doesn't say, honey, I just want you to go over there and sit and just lift up a little prayer.
SPEAKER_01: Everything's gonna be fine.
SPEAKER_01: That's why.
SPEAKER_01: And you'd say, okay, yeah, I can do that for sure.
SPEAKER_01: No.
SPEAKER_01: He says, You see that woman over there, I want you to get down, I want you to go over there and I want you to lay hands on her because she's gonna be healed this very selfsame hour.
SPEAKER_01: Come on.
SPEAKER_01: And then we go, uh uh, Lord, look, you could have have Brenda back there go do it because she prays loud.
SPEAKER_01: Do you all know that the louder you pray, the higher it gets?
SPEAKER_01: Well, that's what I believe about Brenda in comparison to my prayer.
SPEAKER_01: I say, Lord, this is this, I'm coming to you and I'm asking you to do this in the name of Jesus.
SPEAKER_01: Next.
SPEAKER_01: I do.
SPEAKER_01: See, we have comparison in our life, don't we?
SPEAKER_01: We feel like we got to be like everybody else.
SPEAKER_01: I want to tell you something.
SPEAKER_01: The anointing is on my quick prayer, like it's on a long prayer.
SPEAKER_01: My come on.
SPEAKER_01: You don't have to, and you know what we're doing?
SPEAKER_01: We're measuring ourselves up with each other.
SPEAKER_01: Listen, I would love, I'd say, Lord, I why didn't you make me like that?
SPEAKER_01: And he said, Because I made you like you.
SPEAKER_01: Quit comparing yourself.
SPEAKER_01: The anointing of the Lord is on you now, the way you are.
SPEAKER_01: Hallelujah.
SPEAKER_01: Thank you, Lord.
SPEAKER_01: Beloved, courage is not the absence of fear, but the knowledge that God is greater than your fear.
SPEAKER_01: Oh, hallelujah.
SPEAKER_01: He said, God said to the Israelites, to Joshua, be strong and courageous.
SPEAKER_01: For I'm taking you in to possess that land.
SPEAKER_01: And Joshua, here's the beauty: Joshua had spent time with the Lord in the tent of meetings while Moses was out doing the affairs of what he had to get done.
SPEAKER_01: Joshua was staying in there learning from God how he moves.
SPEAKER_01: And when God says, take them in, take them into the land, he said, Yes, Lord.
SPEAKER_01: I've spent my life preparing for this.
SPEAKER_01: Come on.
SPEAKER_01: You see, beloved, some of you have spent your life preparing for what you're getting ready to walk into.
SPEAKER_01: Come on, somebody say yes.
SPEAKER_01: The next ministry assignment is going to be what God has prepared you for for years.
SPEAKER_01: Can somebody say thank you, Lord?
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SPEAKER_01: Hallelujah, hallelujah.
SPEAKER_01: You see, your yes to God empowers you with divine authority.
SPEAKER_01: Divine authority given to us by God Himself.
SPEAKER_01: From the moment you say yes to God, you no longer walk into situations as a victim, but you walk in as an ambassador for Christ.
SPEAKER_01: Come on.
SPEAKER_01: I don't come on my own.
SPEAKER_01: I come in the name of the Lord Jesus Christ.
SPEAKER_01: Come on, church, say amen.
SPEAKER_01: That's me.
SPEAKER_01: Hallelujah.
SPEAKER_01: Luke 10 and 19 says, Look, I have given you authority over all the power of the enemy, and you can walk among snakes and scorpions and crush them.
SPEAKER_01: Nothing will injure you.
SPEAKER_01: I am not promoting snake handling.
SPEAKER_01: I'm telling you, you got authority over them.
SPEAKER_01: And every snake that comes in your house at night that uses that tongue to lie to you.
SPEAKER_01: You got authority.
SPEAKER_01: You get up out of that bed.
SPEAKER_01: Don't lay there and just say, Oh, what am I going to do?
SPEAKER_01: It's getting bad.
SPEAKER_01: You get up, you walk to your door, and you say, Get out of my house.
SPEAKER_01: You're trespassing.
SPEAKER_01: I'm a daughter, I'm a son of a living God.
SPEAKER_01: You have no place here.
SPEAKER_01: You have no ground here.
SPEAKER_01: This is holy ground.
SPEAKER_01: It belongs to God.
SPEAKER_01: As for me and my house, we'll serve the Lord.
SPEAKER_01: You don't have any place here.
SPEAKER_01: So get out in Jesus' mighty name.
SPEAKER_01: Hallelujah.
SPEAKER_01: Praise the Lord.
SPEAKER_01: Your yes brings clear discernment.
SPEAKER_01: Thank you, Lord.
SPEAKER_01: Clear discernment.
SPEAKER_01: When you commit to saying yes before you know the details, or all that it's going to require from you.
SPEAKER_01: God unlocks supernatural discernment.
SPEAKER_01: Y'all hearing that?
SPEAKER_01: Supernatural discernment.
SPEAKER_01: And gives you peace in times of chaos.
SPEAKER_01: Have you ever heard see God's already unlocked discernment for you?
SPEAKER_01: He already has.
SPEAKER_01: If you said yes, you've got discernment.
SPEAKER_01: You know what we do?
SPEAKER_01: Well, God is at you.
SPEAKER_01: You ever gone someplace and somebody's talking about the Lord and you're thinking, I don't know.
SPEAKER_01: That word they're given is mixed with other stuff.
SPEAKER_01: There's a little mixture there.
SPEAKER_01: And you know what we do as a church?
SPEAKER_01: Lord, I repent.
SPEAKER_01: I am so critical and judgmental.
SPEAKER_01: Let me tell you something.
SPEAKER_01: Quit opening the door and throwing out the discernment God has given you.
SPEAKER_01: Understand that He puts in your knower what He needs you to know.
SPEAKER_01: Come on, somebody.
SPEAKER_01: Say, yes, Lord, I receive.
SPEAKER_01: Glory to God.
SPEAKER_01: This power will protect you from deception and it will give you the power of knowing.
SPEAKER_01: Hallelujah.
SPEAKER_01: When others are falling apart, you'll stand strong in the Lord.
SPEAKER_01: Hallelujah.
SPEAKER_01: Your obedience to say yes is the exact key required to unlock the miracle someone else is desperately praying for.
SPEAKER_01: Do y'all hear that?
SPEAKER_01: Glory to God.
SPEAKER_01: So let me ask you, what are you afraid of?
SPEAKER_01: The Church of the Living God.
SPEAKER_01: Isn't that a beautiful title?
SPEAKER_01: Church of the Living God.
SPEAKER_01: Give me three minutes.
SPEAKER_01: Church of the Living God, what are you afraid of?
SPEAKER_01: What are you afraid of?
SPEAKER_01: What person?
SPEAKER_01: What situation is God telling you to face that you're currently running in fear from?
SPEAKER_01: What is it?
SPEAKER_01: If God spoke a radical command to you this afternoon, would you immediately respond with yes, Lord?
SPEAKER_01: You're in a restaurant.
SPEAKER_01: You've ordered your favorite thing from that restaurant.
SPEAKER_01: Everybody's laughing and having a good time.
SPEAKER_01: You're with family and friends.
SPEAKER_01: It's the best.
SPEAKER_01: It's the best time.
SPEAKER_01: And God, you look up and God says, You see that person.
SPEAKER_01: Yeah, Lord, I do.
SPEAKER_01: I have a word for him.
SPEAKER_01: Would you go and give the word?
SPEAKER_01: Now, some of you I know well, you jump up and run before you even heard what it was, knowing that the minute you opened your mouth, he would give it to you, okay?
SPEAKER_01: I know you.
SPEAKER_01: I know you, Kathy and Terry.
SPEAKER_01: I know you.
SPEAKER_01: These crazy people.
SPEAKER_01: They're out looking.
SPEAKER_01: Who's next, Lord?
SPEAKER_01: Who's next?
SPEAKER_01: Oh, that the church would have a quick yes like that.
SPEAKER_01: Come on.
SPEAKER_01: Hallelujah.
SPEAKER_01: Beloved, today, when you stand up and step out and say yes to God, the scales are going to fall.
SPEAKER_01: Chains will break.
SPEAKER_01: And history will change.
SPEAKER_01: Are you believing for that?
SPEAKER_01: Or did you just come today because it's what you do on Sunday?
SPEAKER_01: Now, I know that most people who just go to church on Sunday because it's what you do don't come here.
SPEAKER_01: Because when you come here on Sunday, you're getting an assignment.
SPEAKER_01: When you come here on Wednesday morning for prayer, you get an assignment.
SPEAKER_01: When you come for Thursday night prayer, you get an assignment.
SPEAKER_01: When you come Saturday night here, you get an assignment.
SPEAKER_01: When you come to Wednesday night like Bible study, you're getting an assignment.
SPEAKER_01: Okay, it can wear you out if you're not prepared to say yes.
SPEAKER_01: But if you're prepared to say yes, get out of the way, devil.
SPEAKER_01: Come on.