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Don't Let Time DECEIVE You, Execute OBEDIENCE to Your VISION & CALLING! | Red Church
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You are not here by mistake. The Spirit of God Almighty is bringing strength to you, and through you. Right now, there's a transitional grace. Some of you are going to begin to discover that there's resources God is going to make available to you through this by way of relationship, by way of avenue, by way of promotion, by way of direction. Because we're in a season where the days are getting shorter. We're getting closer to the end. We're getting closer to a divine occasion for this generation, and you're in it right now. So I'm gonna. I'm gonna go to the board and begin to work through something. And I believe the Spirit of God is gonna speak to you and we're gonna minister. But let me just go over here. This is important. Hallelujah. I hear this in my spirit. How can the Gospel be preached to the ends of the earth if my people are out of joint? There's a grace in this place tonight, an empowerment to receive what is yours. An empowerment to get back not only what was stolen, but with interest. An empowerment to take territory that God has ordained for you. Some of y' all been running in the wrong direction, and you've been toiling in the wrong direction. And the Lord wants to begin to calibrate, recalibrate. You set your compass in the right direction, finding your people, finding your tribe, knowing where you're supposed to go. And I see fulfillment coming to you. Some of you are going to get everything you never knew you wanted. That's the juice in the house tonight. That's the voltage in the house. Praise God. There's some people who prayed some dangerous prayers in this place. I can feel it in the air. And God's going to begin to release it over your life. Let me go into this just for a moment. This is very important. Praise God. I'm going to draw a picture for you of the body of Christ. Okay, here's what we got going on. Okay? When you look at this, you realize it's made up of Ephesians 4, 11. That's the fivefold ministry. It's made up of First Corinthians, chapter 12. And that is the nine manifestational gifts. It's made up of Romans, chapter 12, the seven manifestation motivational gifts. When you look at this, you add them all together. The five, the nine, the seven. You get 21. This is the body of Christ. All of that together combined is the body of Christ. All of our giftings, all of our anointings working together is what God's called us. All to be. But a lot of people are out of joint. They're out of place. They're not knowing where they're called to go. And so here's what I want to say to you. Our lives consist of this, okay? I want you to see something here. Actually, I'm going to do that in the other direction. For us, this is very important. Our lives are very consistent of what God's called us to be and do. So I'm going to go this way with it. Let's say that this represents your purpose. Very quickly. Let's say this represents your vision, your calling. Let's say it represented by a target, okay? You have a purpose to do what God's called you to do. And this never changes in your life. You are called by God. You're called to glorify God with your whole life. And when you begin to know your purpose in the word of God, your foundation, your identity is in him, then God begins to develop in you a vision and a calling. And that vision and that calling begins to grow and burn. And you're looking at it. But I want to say something about this. The vision and the calling gets hit with this thing called time, okay? And that can be months, years, decades. Right? Time. The word of the Lord is, many of you have not grown weary in well doing. And because of that, you're coming to a transitional grace. Some of you have been very weary in well doing. And you're still coming to a transitional grace. And the transitional grace is going to begin to calibrate you towards your vision, towards your calling. Some people are going to begin to relocate. They're going to begin to find where they're supposed to be. They're going to go where they're supposed to go. You're going to get an unction. It may drop on you over the next week, but there's clarity coming for you. Some of you to go right back to exactly what God has you doing. But there's a transitional anointing on you to outgrow some things. Now hang with me. We recognize this purpose starts, we got time, we see all this and you're going along. But the issue is from purpose to vision and calling is what we like to call the mission, okay? And the mission, many times people say, oh, it's linear. It's just like this. And you get there. It's so wonderful. We just go and go. And that's just how it works. I don't know about you, but my mission has looked a lot like this. People say it shouldn't be like that, shouldn't be like that. But you work through a process. The mission takes strategy, it takes Holy Ghost, it takes tribe, it takes tribal alignment to get where you're going. And God's trying to align tribes. He's bringing transitional graces because that's what these are really transitional graces. Moments of transition, moments of recalibrating, moments of life hitting you, crisis, funerals, marriages, moving difficulty, missing God, obeying God, doing what you're called to do. And you go back and forth sometimes. And people that say, no, no, it's just linear, brother, you're a liar. Maybe, maybe you're not a liar, but you recognize something about it. It's supposed to be in the Holy Spirit that way. But we got shrapnel, we got stuff, we got things coming against us. We're working through a life that's a fallen world. And part of this whole thing here we realize the word of God is true. Every man is a liar. God is true. Every man's a liar. But in this mission is the mystery. The mystery is along the journey. The mystery is when you lay hands on somebody, you don't see them recover. And you did the word of God and you're doing what God called you to do. You knew that they love the Lord. Something happened, but it didn't quite unfold. And I want to say to you, the mystery is the word of God is true and something else is broken. We don't adjust our doctrine just because something happens. I don't care if it happens over and over again. It's kind of like the hundredfold, like when we talk about this and people like, I don't believe in the hundredfold. You ever been around the I don't believe crowd? I don't believe in that. Speaking in tongues. I don't believe in healing. I don't believe in prophecy. I don't believe in a spirit filled life. I don't believe in prosperity. I don't believe, I don't believe, I don't believe in the hundredfold. I don't believe, I don't believe, I don't believe. When people get into that whole narrative of I don't believe, I don't believe in that, I don't believe in that. I don't believe in that. Here's the word of the Lord. I like to say to them, don't worry about it, brother. It won't happen to you. You got nothing to worry about. I wouldn't sweat it. I want to be with people who believe God's looking for believers. And when Jesus came and declared war on the devil, it's because he was coming to fight for his kids, his brethren. He was coming to fight for us. And he came as the prototype, showing us what we're supposed to be like. And the body of Christ, through pretty pretty pony preaching and other things, is walking around not knowing we're fully loaded. We're fully loaded. And so much of the body of Christ, because of doctrine, because of only self helps, teaching all the things has really not allowed us to step into the fullness of, of what we're supposed to walk into. Meaning. We've got to learn to exercise our senses, to discern between good and evil. Hebrews 5:14. Those who through reason of use, exercise their senses to discern between good and evil. That is what you begin to employ when the mystery hits your life. In other words, I believe this, but I didn't see it here. Sometimes it's not a mystery, it's just time. A lot of Christians are defeated by time. You know why? Hebrews chapter six talks about those who through faith and patience. Faith and patience. They inherit the promises by imitating those who've gone before them. But you know when a time really hits you with faith and patience and you're like, I have faith and patience means that I stay in my faith the way I first started in. Means you remain consistently the same. You're not changing faith and patience. But there's a third element. It's like the nitrous oxide. It's like when you crack the tank and you're like, well, I guess it's not happening in the time frame I thought everything looks contrary. There's a third element. And it's like you put a mouth guard in with that third element and you go, I guess it's prison rule then. Supernatural prison rules. Faith and patience. And the third one? Endurance. Endurance. Those who through faith and patience. And when time hits them and the mystery seems so, so abstract, you employ endurance. And that's prison rules on the devil. I don't care what you throw at me. I don't care what it feels like, what it looks like. God's word is true. Every man's a liar. I'm standing. The mystery is all around me. Everybody's all confused by the mystery. We don't know what's going on. But you do know what the word of God says when you don't know what to do. Go back to what you do know what to do when you don't understand a thing. Stand on what you do, understand, that's how you defeat the mystery. People take the mystery and they say, you never know what God's going to do. You never know what God's going to do. We do know what God's going to do in his Word. We don't know what people are going to do. Well, God is sovereign, brother. God is sovereign. But the definition of sovereign is wrong the way it's being taught today. I believe that God is sovereign. He's the most supreme powerful being in the world. But the definition where people say God is in control of every little thing that happens is incorrect. He's limited himself to his Word and he empowered his church to be a part of the Great Commission. First, John 4:17 says, as he is, so are we in this world. That means we have a say and a cooperation. Your kingdom comes come on earth as it is in heaven. In other words, we're the free moral agents that bring what is there in the realm of the unseen into the natural. And when we bring it into the natural, we are acting as gatekeepers and spiritual agents that open up the realm of the spirit into the natural. And that is why there's so much difficulty against your life, because you're a gatekeeper. You are the permission for spiritual to be in the natural. You know, God can't just come into the natural and do whatever he wants. You say, how dare you say that. No, God is a spirit, and those that worship him must do so in spirit and in truth. He is celestial. We are terrestrial. Everybody with me. And what that means is when you're walking in the blood of Jesus, you got some very potent rights to do exactly what you're called to do. But the natural is where we lose the battle. In the spirit. You're loaded, you're a weapon. You're weaponized in the Holy Ghost power. But in the natural, our mind, goal and emotions. When the mystery hits us or difficulty hits us, the devil comes with those fiery darts, starts pounding on you and pounding on you and pounding on you. And most Christians go off the rails and they don't attain what God has for them because they think it's all a mystery when you never know what God's going to do. Listen to me, the the word of God is true. But don't let time deceive you. I remember when Heather got really sick. She ended up in dialysis for nearly three years. And I know what healing is about. I know what the word of God says for healing. And she was sick. I remember when our little Daughter died in the womb. I remember when our son couldn't speak because he was so autistic, he couldn't communicate. And he shook in the corner with 12 spirits specialists talking to him to try to get him to just look at them in the eyes, much less communicate. And today he works on the media team. I love it. That took about five years of interceding. And Heather's like, I'm not. I'm not having this now. We love autistic kids. We have big time. But we just said, I think there's a better higher way. I'll tell you. They were shocked when all of a sudden he started talking. So were we. Heather's in dialysis nearly three years. Got a miracle kidney transplant. During that time, blood clots in her neck, trying to go to her brain, all these things. And the spirit of the Lord did miracle after miracle. Healed her, healed her, healed her, until she got the miracle transplant. Ended up on all kinds of. Kinds of crazy stuff after that. And the Lord still brought her completely, and I mean completely out of that completely. There's. There's been moments where we got stuff going on. You run into sickness, you run into little things, and there's times we just look at each other and say, so how's this going to go today? Which way? Which way do we want this to go? And you got to contend. But if you're not forfeiting your mind in the word of God, the mystery will. Will join itself with time and lie to you. Now, there is mysteries with the spirit realm. We're eternal beings. You know that, right? You know, that's why we can't even imagine death. And nothing. You ever tried imagining nothing. People like when we die, we just go to nothing, just like before. Well, you can't imagine that. You. And you can't imagine a future of nothing. Most time you shut your eyes and you think of darkness, and that's about the best you can do. You can't imagine nothing. It's because you're not made to have an end. That's why death is so difficult for us. When people die, there's this grieving because it doesn't compute. It doesn't compute. You think, I'll never see them again. But it's more than that. There's something going on with that because we were born from the spirit to live forever. And part of the mystery is we're in a fallen world. We're in the natural. We don't understand eternity that tries to be in the natural all the time. So There's a strange tension between it. But the word of God shows you the pure truth. And so when you walk in the word, you continue to go forward, you continue to multiply. So the mystery is defeated by faith and patience and if need be, prison rules. Now, when you're going down, this, this. This picture, you get to your vision and calling. Now, many times along the way, you know, you're looking at this target. Sometimes people, they. They get a word from God. They find their tribe, they think, this is exactly where I'm headed. But many times when they fire out here, like with fish, faith and vision. Every time they launch into something, they seem to hit over here. Every time, it's like they shoot from here. They're obeying, they're with their tribe, they're in faith. But it always seems to hit here. I gotta tell you, after time, what might be happening is your whole vision might actually be something different than what you thought. Your vision might need an adjustment, where instead of being here, it's actually here. And the Lord is showing you that through gifts, tribe alignment, you actually have a target that's different than you first set out to have. Okay? So the spirit of the Lord's doing that right now. And that comes through transitional graces. You get an adjustment along the way, adjustments along the way. Praise God. If I had it my way, I wouldn't have. I wouldn't have. I wouldn't have had a public ministry. I'd live in the mountains and I would ATV and I'd write books under some pseudo name, Ellen de Dio. And then I'd send them out. I would do that. I'd just hide out, man. I'd be like, leave me alone. I have a German shepherd. I'd run around, Heather'd have her mastiff again. She used to have this big mastiff dog. We. We called it, you know, dump truck. Pigasaurus Rex, the coyote nightmare. Praise God. Love those things. But the Lord wants you to grow. Now, I want to give you one more thing, because some of you are about to get unstuck. Okay? Listen to me. God's about to get you unstuck. There's some praying grandmas that have been slapping the devil around on your behalf. Praying grandmas are the most dangerous people on the face of the earth. They terrorize hell. They terrorize darkness. Praying grandmas, they'll be like, I'll cook you something, honey. I'll take care of you. It's okay. But to the spirits of evil, they're like, you come walking over, you're going limping back. I wrote a new book that's coming out, and I dedicated it to Praying Grandmas. Oh, it's true. But the Lord wants us to begin to walk in the fullness of what he has. He wants you to walk in the fullness of what he has for you. And there's this thing you realize. Matthew, chapter 24, verse 11. Listen to me very carefully. Jesus said in the very end, there would be all these things that happen. Wars, rumors of wars, difficulty, there would be so many challenges. But in that verse, right up leading up to it, it says, and many false prophets would arise. And here's what they do. They would deceive. Many, many. That word deceive in the Greek is very important. It means a lot of things. But one of the primary meanings of the word deceive, it means to cause to wander. And there's a lot of people that are allowing the mystery, false information, too much clutter in their mind, too much listening to the wrong voices, and they're beginning to wander. And instead of going down this transitional grace journey where they get to where they're called to be, they. They're just kind of doing this whole number over here. You don't know where they are. And the Lord is calling people out of this. And many times people, they miss their whole calling because they see something bright and shiny over here that looks so amazing. And so they go this way and they say, this is where I want to go. This is what I want to be. And I'm telling you, God is in this season breaking people out of the box, their own ideas, where they're going. You could even say this box is your mind, right? You could say that. But he's breaking you out of that and bringing you back to this high call of God. He's going to get you back in the transitional grace cycle and bring you to where you're called to be. Now, let me share one final thing with you, and this is very important because this is where you are tonight. And this is where the Lord is taking many of you in this process. Okay? This is very important. I want you to listen to me. Isaiah 10:27. We know what it says. The anointing breaks the yoke, right? But listen to me very carefully. This is going to help you right now. And then we're going to. We're going to get into some stuff here. The anointing breaks the yoke. But it says in that scripture that the anointing or the fatness, or you could look at it as the muscularity under the yoke destroys the yoke. But when you look at Isaiah 10:27, it says, the anointing will, first of all, cause the yoke to lift off the shoulder. Secondly, loosen at the neck. And third, completely be destroyed because of the anointing. There's three steps to that. Let me say it again. First of all, it's a. Let me draw a yoke here for you. Let's see. It'll look like a bell. And it's a yoke. Okay. You realize the anointing will cause the yoke to go off your shoulder at 30 fold. You get lighter, you get freer. You start to feel something. You get that fresh breath of God. But many times when people get here, the mystery hits their life and they stay here because they're like, you never know what God's going to do. God's in control. God's in control. You see that online all the time. God's in control. Well, he sure has his place in a mess. Don't shut me down. People like, don't you touch my, you know, Christian bumper stickers. That's my bumper sticker. It's on my car right now. God's in control. Well, God is in control of the things that he says. He's in control of where the Word says it. But he has appointed you to take dominion in this earth. He's chosen to work through the church. Now, could God have done something different? Sure it could. He's God. Could God rule and reign over all this? Yes. But when he releases His Word, he's not going to break his word because all things are held together by the word of his power. And if he were to violate what. What he says over you, the whole world would come unraveled. Does that make sense to you? How about. What is it? Psalm 71, verse 40. Somewhere around there, it talks about, and they limited the Holy One of Israel might be 78, 41, something. My numbers, you realize this. They limited the Holy One of Israel. They can limit. You can limit God. Not because God's not God. Not because God's not all powerful. But God is a God of rules and his own word. He won't break his word because he has integrity. And so if he empowers you to do a thing when we say, well, and God said, go into all the earth and preach the gospel, and you're like, lord, I'm going to just intercede that people get saved. Well, you can pray for laborers in the harvest. You can be obedient. That way. But he said, go into all the earth and preach the gospel. Gospel. In other words, God's not going to go do that. God's not just going to save people. He chooses to work through us. Now, you got to hear this. God is in control of what he has chosen to be in control of. And he's put his word on you, and you are responsible for that. Part of this calling is that, okay? So when God says something in his word that we're supposed to do and we're like, God, you're in control. It's like, actually, I've empowered you in that space. God told you to go lay hands on the sick. He told you to preach the gospel. How will they hear without a preacher? God's in control. No, how will they hear without a preacher? Everybody, okay, this offends me. You should be offended. Praise God. Smile. Everybody will know. It's okay. Now, you recognize this, though? So 30 fold is. You get into this 30 fold, that's where it lifts off the shoulder. Okay? But it's time to go beyond that. First of all, when it goes off the shoulder, many people live there and they're like, I feel free. Jesus set me free. I'm so glad. Jesus set me free. I'm so glad. Jesus set me free. Right? So you get on that road, but you get to that place where people just kind of live there. I'm lighter, I'm happy. But when you go to 60 fold, it loosens. Not just off the shoulder, off the neck, the neck. When you get to the neck, that's 60 fold. What happens at 60 fold? You start being able to move your head around. You can see. You get vision. You get vision. You can start seeing this scenario right here. Okay? You get past the mystery. You get vision. Now you know what you're called to do. Now you know what's going on. You feel lighter. God set you free. You're delivered to some things. You're walking through it, and now you know what God's called you to do. But ultimately, there comes a place where you execute obedience to that vision. You execute through going through the transitional graces. You employ faith and patience. You don't slow down. You lean in to the high call of God. You press forward to the prize. You don't look backwards. That's an unworthy servant that looks backwards. When they put their hand to the plow, you lean in and you go with the calling of God on your life. And you build yourself up in your most holy faith. And you eventually will get to the Point you can no longer be contained. You will outgrow your containment. It goes from 30 to 60 to a hundredfold. And at a hundredfold is total breakthrough. That's where the yoke breaks and it can no longer stay with you and it falls to the ground and it's useless to never be used again. It can't even come back to you. Then you break out. And that comes through overcoming time, the mystery, not knowing God's in control. You start overcoming all this stuff and the Lord will begin to reposition you. And many of you here right now are in this exact journey. And it takes the body of Christ, the 21 gift spectrum. You know, wherever you are, whether your ministry is helps and serving or prophecy or governing or any of the things, okay? And we all have a mix of these. You find your gifting by standing with your tribe. Okay? You find your people, you're gonna find your gifting, you're gonna find your purpose, you're gonna find all these things. You find that in these three segments of scripture, there's a combination of them. Whatever it is that God has for you, you find that, but you find it by getting with the right people. When you find your people, you'll find your calling. You'll find, find your gifting, your purpose, you can find without any of it, because that's between you and the Holy Spirit. But when you find your tribe, you'll find your gifting and your calling. And then what you do is you don't let the mystery, the mission, all the ups and downs of the grace transitions talk you out of this vision and calling. And if you stay the course thirty, sixty, hundredfold, you will get here and break the yoke. And everything you never knew you wanted is waiting for you. That's what God has for you. He wants to deliver you from this present evil age. Some of you, oh, it's gonna be offensive for some people. Some of you are called to be rich. I'm talking stupid rich. I'm talking. It's embarrassing. People like, I don't know if I like that. It's like, stay broke, stay there. That's a big difference between, hey, God's called me to be rich rich, and so I can spend it on my natural desires and lusts in this life. No, that's not why you're called to be rich. You're called to be rich to get the gospel around the world, to establish his covenant around the earth. It's a Christ centered, a Jesus centered unction. And people say, I don't know If I believe that, I didn't ask you. I really didn't. Because I don't care. I agree with that, baby. That's good preaching. Amen. That's what the Holy Ghost does with me sometimes after the meetings. He's like, that's a good meeting. You say that, Jay Z? I think so. Now, you gotta understand something. God's saying he wants you to break through. Now, there's been a lot of abuses in every. Any different kind of message we hear. But you gotta stay in the word of God and with faith, with faith on these things. Faith for healing, faith for your destiny. You know, so many people are walking around miserable. They're like, the U2 song. I still haven't found what I'm looking for. I was in a business conference one time, man, and they told me, get up there, Joseph. A secular business conference. It wasn't a bunch of Christians, right? I'm in this business conference and they just said, hey, you need to get up there. And if you would. Would you just pray? Would you just pray? I said, absolutely, I'll pray. And they just said, just take three minutes. And I'm very respectful when I'm in a house. So I get up there to pray. I get up there and the Holy Ghost jumps on me. And I'm trying to obey Bishop. I'm trying to obey. I'm standing there and I'm like, okay, they want this. No. Like, not a lot of Christians here. A bunch of heathens. And the Holy Spirit runs up next to me. He's like, hey, see that guy on the third row? Like, yeah, you tell him I brought him here, not the universe. And I was like, really? You want me to say that? He's like, right? Now, I remember just in my mind, looking over at the organizers, it's like, oh, Jesus. And so I got real divorce, demonstrative. I was like, and amen, sir. You know. I said, sir, God says he brought you here tonight, not the universe. And I'm thinking, stage left, exit. Get out of here. This dude, man, he's like, ah. I was like, oh. You know, he. He jumps up and I'm like, and if you don't receive Jesus, you're going to hell. Prophetic evangelism. So he jumps up and he ran to the altar. He somehow knew to do that. I didn't even call him down. He's like, ah. He just comes running down. He'd been in a bar across the way at this event, and he's getting plowed. And he told his wife or Girlfriend or something that he was coming with. He said, if they bring up God in that place, I'm not having anything to do with it. I don't believe in God. I believe in the universe. That was awesome. So he's there? Yeah, he's there crying out to God, get saved. As I do that in the back, another lady screams out, ah. I'm thinking, I'm gonna leave the meeting. You know, this guy's down here repenting. I'm like, you need to repent. And then a lady over there screams out and said, I don't know what's happening. And I'm like, lady, nobody knows what's happening. And she's back there, she jumps up and she said, years and years ago, I had a surgery that went wrong on my body and my back, and I've been in pain ever since. And when that man on the platform said that thing to that man, all the pain left my body. What's happening to me? Yeah, yeah. Oh. Oh, Bishop. When that happened, I'm looking at that and suddenly. Oh, man. Bishop. So that the organizer, she started to come up to the front. The organizers are like, they didn't know what to do. So they went and got her and started bringing her forward. And all of a sudden, I turned into Benny Hinn. What's going on with you there, lady? What's going on, right? What is happening? Steve, Steve, no, no, no, no, no. Standing up again. You know what I'm saying? We love Pastor Be Benny. Amen. Thank you, Jesus. We went from that three minute prayer to one person gets saved, another gets miraculously healed. We're not trying to have a healing ministry. It just happens to us all the time. Healing, like, hunts us down. I'm like the Mr. Rogers of prophecy, guys. I'm trying to minister to people. You know, Bishop Allen be like, I mean, power. And I'm like, hey, bless you. And I need an upgrade. Bishop. We're with Prophet Brian Gibson. He's like, man, I need my sweat rag. And he's. He'll come around. He's like, Z points at him. I sweat on him. You know, Prophet Brian's amazing. One of the scariest, most accurate prophets. I know. He slap you right off your chair and you'll love it. Love that man of God. Yeah. I walk around, I'm just like, you know, hey, bless you. Bless you. You know, try to work it out. I try to get demonstrative. I'm just not very good at it. Okay, thank you for making my point, but I've been In this place. And we did that prayer. This guy comes running up, the lady comes running up. And all of a sudden we ended up ministering to like 1, 2, 3 in the morning to these people from a three minute prayer. And these kind of things happen over and over and over again. But I gotta tell you, it's because I personally avoid the mystery. I stay in line with the word of God. Maybe I'm just too dumb to not do something else, to do something else, but I just stay in line with the word of God. And the Lord's saying this to you this evening? He is. He's saying that you are in a transitional grace and there's things he has for you in the realm of the spirit right now. Right now. Things that some of your generational lineage has been in the tree too long and you haven't kicked the tree yet. That's why I had the firstborns, the middle children and the youngest stand up. I had him do it because all of you have this calling from God and there's been labels and ideas and the Lord wants to get something into your life, into your life. I'm a firstborn. There's a different voltage on firstborns. You feel responsible for everybody. Gotta fix everything. You take your shoulder stuff and you know. I was 13 years old, I had an encounter with the Lord Jesus. So powerful. I saw my brother's leg grow out, get healed, saw a number of things, had visions, had trances, didn't know what was going on in my life since I was 9 till 13. And at the age of 13, I got so radically saved, encountered Jesus. I come from a ranching family. My upbringing was the TV show Yellowstone. I'm not joking. I remember my dad running out of the house with shaving cream on his face and a shotgun. Good times. I didn't know what was going on. I was like, what's happening? Oh, it's just Tuesday. Remember one time I got in a fight on the school bus and two guys beat me up really bad. I was like in elementary school, they were like in older high school and they knocked me around. Two guys just pounded on me, man, pounded on me. And I, I gave him my best gabe. I tried. I was like, I'm going to leave a mark on you. I came at him like a spider monkey. It just didn't work very well. I was just small. So I'm all beat up and bruised up. I'm like, I'll get you there. And our bus was like the wild West. You had to be on the bus. When you. You grew up on a wild west bus, a lot of the guys are like, you just dealt with things different back then, you know? Yeah, a little bit of. Yeah. Education. But I had this happen, and I come home and I'm really beat up. And my dad, who was not with my mom at the time, and he went ahead and decided, you know what? I don't like it when people hit on my kid. So he went over to this guy's house, knocked on the door, didn't grab the kids, grabbed the dad, drug him in the yard, beat him half to death. Don't ever touch my boy again. That's pretty cool. I mean, you gotta admit, that's pretty cool. So When I was 13, I received Jesus so dramatically, and I come from this farm ranch scenario, and I stepped into it, and I was given a choice by my dad. You will either. You will either follow this thing you call Jesus, or you're staying, but you can't have both. And if you follow this thing called Jesus, you're out. We cut you out of all of it. You're gone. And he meant it, man. I was having a dramatic time at 13, and I said, I'm following Jesus. And, yeah, now, thank God I had an awesome grandpa. My grandpa was awesome Bishop Ellen. He's so funny. He's ridiculous. And I was able to be around them. So I love. I do really well with older folks. And my grandpa, we went to Bible school together. He's a multimillionaire. Really crazy humor. I loved it. So if you think I'm a little warped in my humor, you can blame my grandfather. But I went through all that and the spirit of the Lord was with me. And, you know, I went to go see my dad. And this isn't to be a downer. I'm actually really good. I'm very healthy. I've had a great family. I spirit, Lord spoke to me, and I'm saying this for a reason, but I went to go see my dad before he passed because he just wanted nothing to do with us or me or anything. And I went to go see him and I went to talk to him, to go witness to him and talk about it. And here's somebody that had, you know, really hurt my mom, done terrible things and super violent, all that kind of stuff. And I walked in to go see him in this office he was in, and it had been years and years. So I'm like, you know, this is only so many years back. I'm a full adult. I got kids, got the stuff. Go to see him. I'll tell you guys, I had a flash come over me, Alan, when I saw him, because he's like, what are you doing here? I was like, I came to see you. I figured we should try to, you know, forget all the religious stuff. Let's just at least talk. And he looked at me and he said, you're not my son. I don't know you. And I was like, huh? And then I had this rush come over me because I'm seeing my mom with her jaw wired shut and stuff. And this rush came over me. I thought, I'm gonna kill, man. It came over me, and I was like, whoo. I'm looking at him, and he's looking at me with anger. And repeated exactly what he told me when I was 13. I don't know why I'm telling everybody this. This is important. And I'm looking at him, and I suddenly thought, I'm gonna do this. The sheriffs are coming to get me, and I'm okay with it. And I, like, had that come on me for a minute, just a second. I was like, oh, we're gonna dance right here. And all of a sudden, I engaged to go do that. And I started to feel it come up in me. And the Holy Spirit's like, son, Son, what are you doing? What are you doing? I love you. I love you. And he started talking to me, and it was almost like, you can do this. It's going to cost you way more than you realize, and it's going to cost your family and all this. Don't do it. Don't do it. And I said, lord, I'm yours to command. And I stood down, but I'm seeing him, like, pummel my mom, all that stuff, right? And so I'm there, and I'm like, wow, I didn't know I had that in the tank. That was pretty special. Extra special. So I'm looking at that, and all of a sudden I step back and I said, hey, I love you. I'm not mad at you. I'm not even going to say I forgive you, because that's degrading to you. I'm just gonna say I understand, and I love you so much, and I hope you find Jesus. And he said to me, get out. Okay. But I have to say to you, following Jesus, I was so secure in that moment. And I didn't feel, like, rejected or like an outcast. I didn't feel like any of that. I've never felt like an orphan. I've never Felt any of that. I had my grandpa. That's one thing God did give me, my grandpa. My grandpa was so ridiculous. He's so funny. On his deathbed, he pretended he was dead. When I came up to him, I've got like Clint Eastwood for one father figure. My grandpa's like, woo. You know, he's laying on the bed and I come up to my grandpa and I'm like, grandpa, Grandpa. And he's like, ha. I was like, oh. He's like, I got you, I got you. It's like I thought grandpa had passed. He used to take a log and replace it with the roast in the oven and blame my grandma. What did you do? What did you do? I went to Bible school with him. Oh, everything was funny. His mother was like a really worrying person and I knew my great grandma and he was always taking care of her. And I'd be around him while he's taking care of his mother. Mother. And she'd always be negative about stuff. He'd be like, why? Why you like this? You know? And she'd say, everything's a joke to Eugenie because his name was Gene. Everything's a joke. And so I just want to say something to you. God, wherever you've been, is going to begin to liberate you and break you through. And I gotta say to you, there's something in my legacy and calling that has to do with land, properties, things that God's called me to walk in. And there's a season coming for that. And I believe it's going to be for the gospel all over the country. I have it in my spirit. And the Lord's saying, hold on, you know, you're in this right now. Don't look at this, keep walking. I'm gonna redeem some things. And there's a reason in my life, and this is for you. There's a reason in my life. Over and over again. I've had ridiculous supernatural favor, ridiculous supernatural favor. Things that just don't make sense that just happen. But I believe anyone who gives up houses, lands, mothers, brothers and family will now, in this time, everybody say this time, receive a hundred times as much. I believe in the hundredfold. You have a hundredfold coming to you. If you give up, you go up, hey, it's only forever. Jesus is Lord. Now, many of you here this evening, there is a transitional grace on you. There's a transitional grace in some of you visiting. There's a transitional grace on many of you that found yourself in this meeting and didn't think you were going to be here. But I'm telling you right now, there are things being unlocked in your heart and your mind, and it's super supernatural. It's supernatural. I can see it in the spirit right now. It's super natural. It's beginning to unlock. You're going from 30 to 60 to 100. You're going to completely destroy the yoke of containment. I don't care where you come from, where you've been, what your history is, who came against you, who lied about you, who rejected you, what began to happen in your life, the Lord is saying over you right now, it's over. I am calling you higher. Jesus is saying to many people tonight, let the dead bury the dead. You come follow me. You come follow me. You can follow me. You can follow me. You can follow the Lord God Almighty. You can follow the Lord. You do what he's called you to do. Greater is he that is in you. It's time to break through. It's time to break through. It's time to live. It's time to receive transitional grace. Transitional breakthrough. Right now, right now, right now. So lift up your hands. Right now. Lift up your hands. Come on, lift up your hands. All over this room. Transitional grace means you're going to receive it, your future, with an action. You know, it was the prophet that came to the old king Joash, and when he came to him, or the king came to the prophet, and the prophet looks at him and began to say, fire an arrow out the window. Helped him do it prophetically. But then when it came time for the king to strike the ground himself, he went short on it, struck the ground three times. Prophet got angry, said, you should have done it five or six times. And the Lord's saying to you, there's a faith act, there's a transaction, there's a spiritual act of faith that's gonna break you out. It's time to cut through the mystery. It's time to get to the other side of time. Time is filled with unbelief sometimes. And God's taking this. Lift up your hands. Lift them up. Right now, right now, right now. The mystery of God. The mystery of God is turning into understanding. Understanding is coming. Revelation. Knowledge is coming. Revelation. Wisdom. And the spirit of Jesus is upon you. Jesus, I invite you right into their experience right now, right now. Right into their experience right now. God's beginning to do it. God's beginning to do a new thing in your life. It's actually the fullness of time for many of you. Do not grow weary and well doing, for in due season you will reap if you don't faint. I wanted to say a very special thank you to our partners. Partners thank you. Whether you've been a partner with us since the very beginning, the early days, or whether you've recently become a part of our partner family, I want to just simply thank you. Because of you we're able to do so many things that we could never have accomplished without you, without working with us together. We're so grateful for you and from the very bottom of our hearts we wanted to say thank you to you and we pray for you every day and we stand with you and we're believing God is going to do magnificent things through this partner family in the coming days. As a matter of fact, I have a promise from the Holy Spirit about it now. If you want to become part of our partner family or you're even on the fence about it thinking about it, I would encourage you to do so today by going to josephz.com or you can text the keyword give to 719-259-0029. Your partnership helps us advance the gospel and it helps us fulfill the commission God's given us to raise up a million to reach a billion that's lives a million clear eyed, clear minded reformers to go win a billion. A million for a billion. And we know we can do it with your help. I believe with your help we can can impact the world and we're looking forward to stepping into this at a greater capacity than ever before. I just want to say thank you and invite you to the family by going to JosephZ.com today. Spiritual darkness is not simply meant to be pushed back and held at bay. Rather it is meant to be punished. That's why I just wrote this brand new book called Punishing the Darkness. Spiritual Warfare that works. You know the thing people don't get many times is that God calls you to win every time he calls you to results based believing. And when it comes to the powers of darkness that are trying to take over this world, mutilate our children, run this world into the clutches of the devil, God has called you, his believers to stand up and punish these forces. And by your faith, when you read this book, it's going to give you effectiveness and the horsepower to push back, even punish the darkness. And it talks about breaking cycles of anxiety, offense, fear, spiritual fatigue, things where it's warfare in the mind, witchcraft, all the things that is happening in the culture. And you've got to recognize that God wants you to rise up and begin to destroy those things of darkness that are trying to destroy, destroy your family and you. Even on a bad day. You are anointed to be the very best there is. I hope you get this book, Punishing the Darkness, Spiritual Warfare that works@josephz.com today. The prayers of the righteous that have come forward in 2020. The prayers of the righteous in America. The way we've cried out to God. I heard the spirit of the Lord say, I'm going to finish what I started. And when we walk these things through, there's one more round he's bringing and it's going to be revival. It's going to be awakening. It's going to be all these things. I actually believe we're stepping into the precipice of a great awakening. The minute I said yes to Jesus was the minute I attained all of life and godliness and righteousness and wholeness. It all belongs to me. I attain it the moment I say yes. Jesus to you. Just as you are saved, so are you healed. He paid for it all. When you place a draw and a demand on your covenant and you place a draw in a demand on the word of God, that's when faith begins to arise on the inside and nothing will stop you. Nothing. For I am raising up an equipped warrior class group of intercessors. I see mantles for intercession coming on people that they will stand up and begin to go to war in their home, in their living room and begin to stand against principalities and power powers. I see them doing this. The Lord's going to begin to assign you to pray, to intercede, to break yolks off, leaders, to break them off. Those around you to be gossip busters. I declare breakthrough. I declare breakthrough. I declare breakthrough in your hearts. I declare breakthrough in your minds. I declare breakthrough in your household. I declare breakthrough in your bodies. I declare breakthrough in your relationship. Right now. By the blood of Jesus, because it's your covenant. It's your covenant right? And anything else is illegal. Thank you. Right now, in the mighty name of Jesus, right now, even on a bad day, you're anointed to be the very best there is. God has called you. A man or woman with a revelation from God Almighty is not at the mercy of a culture going mad. We're going red in the blood of Jesus. Jesus is Lord. If you have not received Jesus as your Savior and your Lord, I want to invite you to experience new life in him. Pray this with me right now, Lord I repent of my sin and receive you as my Savior and Lord. I exchange my life for your life. Cleanse me of all my sin and make me completely new. I thank you that my sins are forgiven and removed. Thank you Lord that Satan no longer has any rights to me. I promise that I will serve you as my Lord for the rest of my life. Amen. If you just prayed the prayer of salvation with us, would you please let us know by going to josephz.com saved we would love to connect with you.