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ACAST powers the World's best Podcasts Here's a show that we recommend. I'm Eden Cher. And I'm Brock Ciarlelli. We played best friends on the Middle and became best friends in real life. We're here to rewatch the Middle with all of you. Each week we'll recap an episode with behind the scenes stories, guest interviews, and what we think now, many years later, there's a lot to dive into. So let's get to middling. ACAST helps creators launch, grow and monetize their podcast everywhere acast.com God's given me a message I want to share with you. I'm excited about it. I believe it's going to be a blessing. But this atmosphere has already been a blessing. So we go deeper. I am, in Genesis 12 verses 12 through 19, going to be preaching about Abram, whom will later be named Abraham. And for context, for those of you who are not familiar with this story, Abram is minding his business. He wasn't bothering nobody. We don't know nothing about him. We don't know why God chose him. Him. And for some reason in Genesis 12, God has an encounter with Abram and he says that I'm going to make you a promise. It starts in Genesis 12 and 1 and some of you may have heard it. He says, get out of your country, from your family, from your father's house, to a land I will show you. He gives him all of these promises, and Abram responds to this promise in agreement. He does exist. Exactly what God told him is required in order for him to step into the covenant. I want to focus on verse 12 though, because verse 12 shows us a side of Abram that we don't often speak about. We talk about him being willing to sacrifice his son. We talk about him believing God and it being counted to him as righteousness in Genesis 15. But in Genesis 12, verse 2012, we see something happen with Moses. There's a famine in the land. He gets out of his father's house. God shows him the land that he's going to give to him. And there's A famine in the land that God promised him. And so Abraham goes, I'm going to get out of here until it looks like what you told me it's supposed to look like. I don't know if you've ever been in a situation like that where God makes you a promise. But the promise don't look like what God said he was going to do. So you decide. I'mma move around a little bit until you can figure out, you know, because this don't. This ain't what you said. This ain't what I signed up for. And just sometimes you think God must be busy working on somebody else's stuff. So I'm just gonna wait till he get back to me. Maybe my life is on intermission. So Abram takes matters into his own hands. There's a famine in the land. He goes to Egypt. But he's got this beautiful wife named Sarah. And he tells Sarah, when we get to Egypt, though, I'm gonna need you to lie a little bit. There are no little lies. But I'm gonna need you to lie a little bit. Because when the Egyptians see you, they will say, this is his wife. And they will kill me, but they will let you live. So please say you are my sister, that it may be well with me for your sake. And that I may live because of you. So it was when Abram came into Egypt that the Egyptians saw the woman, that she was very beautiful. The princes of Pharaoh also saw her and commended her to Pharaoh. And the woman was taken to Pharaoh's house. He treated Abram well for her sake. He had sheep, oxen, male donkeys, male and female servants, female donkeys and camels. But the Lord plagued Pharaoh and his house with great plagues because of Sarai and Sarah's Abram's wife. And Pharaoh called Abram and said, what is this you have done to me? Why did you not tell me that she was your wife? Why did you say, she is my sister? I might have taken her as my wife. Now, therefore, here's your wife. Take her. Grab your bags, get your donkeys, get your camels. You ain't got to go home, but you got to get up out of here. How is this the man that God would allow us to call the Father of Faith? My subject is. Make a move. Holy Spirit. I need you. I trust you. I surrender to what you want to do in this room. God. I'm asking for demonstrations of your power that are undeniable. That you would breathe in this room and release your glory, your vision, your Power your strength that our faith would be renewed, that our eyes would be cleared, and that our heart will be steady for the mission that is at hand. God, please settle me into this word. Allow me to release any nerves, any anxieties that I would not make this about me in any way. May I decrease that you may increase. Partner with me, God, that your sons and daughters would be fed and edified and then released to make a move in the earth. We love you, God. In Jesus name, Amen. Amen. Say something nice to somebody as you sit down. Yes. My husband's birthday tomorrow. His birthday tomorrow. Hey. Oh, come on. Thank you. Can y' all love on my man for a minute? My man's birthday tomorrow. It's your birthday tomorrow. There's so much I could say about you, but I will keep it brief so that I may preach and minister the Gospel. But what I will say is that your life has been one of the most beautiful chapters of the Gospel that I have ever read. Your love, your life has made every heart break, every tear I ever cried worth it. And I thank God for the day that you were born. I love you with all of my heart. Happy birthday, baby. Hey. All right, y' all stay focused. We gotta get chicken and waffles after this, okay? Mark 9, verses 21, 24 tell an incredible story of a man who was at the end of his rope. He says, lord, I believe. Help my unbelief. This is the response of a man who's had an encounter with Jesus. But Jesus has challenged him to have faith in an area where he has experienced defeat. Jesus challenges him to have faith. All you need in this moment is to have more faith. If you can have more faith, then anything can happen. But. But this man says to him, it's not that I don't have faith. I have some. But mixed in with my faith is some unbelief. And to be fair, this man has reason to have some unbelief. His son, since birth has been inflicted with a mute spirit. And in addition to having this mute spirit, this spirit, it seizes him, it throws him down. He foams at the mouth, causes him to gnash his teeth, and he becomes rigid. And this has been happening since the boy was born. We can assume that he's gone from doctor to physician, and nobody knows what's happening with this boy. And he finally brings his son to these disciples, these disciples that have been anointed, these disciples who have been dispatched by this man named Jesus. And they are creating healing in other people. And they're casting out devils in other people. But when he brings his son, son to them, he all 12 of them line up and can't nobody do anything with this boy. And he has to be thinking to himself, I must have to suffer with this issue forever. So when Jesus finally comes over to this man and he asked the man what the problem is, he tells him the problem. He says, and I brought him to your disciples, and. And they couldn't do anything. And then he says, so if you can. He's talking to Jesus, and he says to Jesus, if you can do anything, have compassion on us. And some of us who are reading this text and some of us who have relationship with Jesus may be thinking to ourselves, how do you tell Jesus if you can? As if we've never been in a situation before where we haven't questioned ourselves whether or not Jesus. Jesus could do something? It's so easy when we're on the other side of certain situations and certain circumstances, to walk with boldness and faith as if we always knew that Jesus could do it. But if we were to be honest in this room, we would admit that there have been some moments in our lives where we didn't know if Jesus could. I know that makes us a little uncomfortable in church, because we know that our job is to always be faithful and to always be sure of who Jesus is. But to be honest, there are some things I only know now that Jesus can do. Because I was first in a moment where I didn't know he could do that. I didn't know that he could heal my broken heart. I didn't know that he could restore me. I didn't know. But now that I know, now I know that Jesus can do anything. I don't just say that because I heard it in church. You see, God doesn't have grandchildren. And sometimes you don't know until you know for sure. But there are some people in this room who can testify that Jesus can do what literally no other person can do. I didn't know that he could be a lawyer in the courtroom. I thought y' all was just singing that song until I needed someone to help me understand how to navigate a court system. Then I understood that Jesus would quite literally show up in the middle of a doctor's room. I didn't know he could be a doctor in this sick room. But now I know that he can do that. I hear God saying that sometimes I'm walking with you so that you can see what all I can do. I wish you would cast your Cares onto me so that I can show you what all I can do. Let that be a word for somebody in this room. Don't sleep on Jesus. There are some things that he can do that he needs you to go to sleep so that he can get it done. God can't do it because you're in the way. But if you would get out of the way, God will show you while you rest. I can move while you silence. I can defend you while you do you. I can do me. Can't nobody do me like Jesus. Can't nobody take care of my heart like Jesus. I didn't know you could help me raise these children. Children. I didn't know you could help me write this book. I didn't know you could help me get to sleep. I didn't know you could wake me up in the morning. I didn't know that you could help me get through the divorce. I didn't know you could help me rebuild my identity. God can do some things that I did not know he could do. He's not just a Sunday morning kind of God. He's a Monday evening kind of God. He's a late in the midnight hour kind of God. My God can do exceedingly and abundant Abundantly above all that I could ask for. He can do it. He can do it. He can do it. He can do it. He can do it. He can make a way out of nowhere. I seen him do it. He can do it. He can do it. He can make addiction leave your body. I seen him do it. He can help you get your mind on strength. I didn't know he could do it but I know he could do it now. He could back shame up off of me. That's my God. Oh no. My God can do some things. No, no, no. I'm not just one of those people who go to church out of religion. I go to church to give God a praise because God did some things. Did God do anything for you this week that you didn't even know God could do? I mean, wisdom on the spot. I mean provision out of nowhere. My God did that. I didn't know you cared about that. God can do it. God can do it. God did it and God can do it. See, when you get on the other side of God did it, you're no longer afraid when you're in a situation when you don't know whether or not God could do it. Because I know for sure that I didn't know he could do that. So now I'm sitting back waiting to see what he gonna do again. God can when I can't. God can what the pastor couldn't do, what the disciples couldn't do. Me and Jesus got in my prayer closet. And God did what no one else could do. I'm supposed to move on to the next topic, but I feel like somebody needs to first receive in your spirit that you serve a God who's got a can do spirit about him. He's got all power in his hand. He's everywhere all at the same time. That's how he could be in my my house. And he can be in your house. You serve a God who could be here. He can be in Brazil. The same God at the Potter's house. It's the same God in South Africa. I can sit on your problem and sit in your future. And that's why I can tell you I got a feeling everything's going to be all right. Because I know what my God can do. I got a feeling that no weapon formed against you will prosper. Because I got a feeling. Cause I know what my God can do. Some things don't scare me. Cause I know what my God can do. Some things don't puck me out of my position. Cause I know what my God can do. I don't let you just talk to me any kind of way. Because I know what my God can do. You can hold on to your doubt. You can hold on to your fear. My God can do anything that he said he can do. So if he said he going to save it, my God can do it. If he said he's going to do it. I'mma give you 10 seconds to worship a God who can do anything. You can do the impossible. You can make a way out of no way. You can dig me out of this grave. You can set my mind up stroud. I'm gonna give you 10 seconds. God can do it. God can do it. God can do it. God can do it. God can do it. Not by might nor by power, but by my spirit, says God. Yeah, I came to increase somebody's faith. I came to help you get your faith for what God can do. Yeah, it's about five people that's gonna carry this room. Cause they gonna get a breakthrough about what God can do. You gonna be glad you came to church today. Cause when them five people get they breakthrough, it's gonna be overflow in this room. This man, he doesn't know what all Jesus can do. This is not just something that people get emotionalism about. Jesus can quite literally change Your life change the way you think. But this man, he don't know that he believes, but he's got unbelief. And so what Jesus says to him in response to if you can have compassion on us, Jesus says, if you can believe, it's not a matter of whether or not I can. This is going to come down to whether or not you can believe. If you can believe, all things are possible. To him who believes, that word can comes from a Greek word that means dunami. If it sounds familiar, for those of you who studied the original manuscript, you know that dunamis means power. That word can means dunamis. It means to be able or possible, to be able, may or be of power. What Jesus says to him is, if you have the power to believe, if you have the power to believe, all, all things are possible. Let's let that sink in for a minute. We talk about having faith like it comes easy, like believing is just something you stumble into, which is why we end up losing some people because they think belief should come easy. But this text suggests to us that it takes power to believe. This is a word for someone who's having a hard time just believing that it takes power to believe, that faith is not just a consciousness. It is not just something we possess, that it requires power. If you want to believe differently than everyone in your family has ever believed, you can't just wait for that belief. You're going to have to understand that it is going to take power to believe what God believes about you. It's going to take power to believe differently than everyone in your culture. It's going to take power for you to believe that you are more than what you have gone through. It's going to take power for you to believe that that is not just an idea, that it is a weapon that God will use to destroy a generational curse. It's going to take power for you to believe it. Belief will not come easy. Why will belief not come easy? Because if you believe, all things are possible for him who believes. Why would the enemy make it easy for you to believe? If I make it easy for you to believe, then anything will be possible. So I'm going to make you question what you believe. So it will be hard for you to achieve. Because if you don't believe it, you can't achieve it. You got to believe what God says if you're going to step into what God did, because it's already done in heaven. So when he speaks the word, it's settled in heaven. All you Got to do is believe that what is settled in heaven can show up in the earth. Because faith is the evidence of things unseen. It's going to take power for you to believe this. I don't know what God has called you to do in this season. I don't know how God is transforming the way that you show up in your identity. But I want you to understand that you have to do more than believe. You got to make sure that you have the power required to believe. Because when you have the power necessary to believe, it will change your action. Oh, God, help me. That's why it takes power to believe. Because power is now going to be the modem. It's going to be the engine that God gives you to walk out what you believe. That woman with the issue of blood, she didn't just have faith like the way we had faith. She had the power to believe. That's how she pushed through the crowd, because she had the power to believe that Jesus had something for her. That's why when she touched the hem of his garment, he said, who touched me? They said, there's thousands of people around you. How could you ask who touched me? No, whoever touched me touched me with a different kind of belief. They touched me like they understood who I am and what I could do. She had the power to believe that if I just touched the hem of his garment, she had the power to believe that he was worth pressing through the crowds for. She had the power to believe that what the doctors couldn't do, he could do. She had the power to believe that just because she'd been plagued for years didn't mean she'd have to spend the next few decades with the same issue. She had the power to believe. Oh, you gonna need power to believe for what God's called you to do. You're gonna need push through the crowd power for what God has called you to do. You're gonna need if I could just touch the hem of his garment kind of power. I believe on a different level. My belief is not just some cute little thing that I tuck away whenever I pull it out. My belief has built the life that I live in. My belief is going to build my destiny. My belief is going to break a generational curse. My belief is going to set up generational blessing. And the crazy thing about it is I'm crazy enough to have the power to believe it. Oh, oh. I told you. It's going to be about eight of us who get this and let me tell you, the rest of us going to Live in the overflow of what God does, that there ain't people in this room. Because somebody's gonna get power to believe what God said. Somebody's gonna get power to believe, and it's going to change their actions. And this is why Jesus makes sure the woman knows it was not the touch that did it. Everyone talks about it being the touch. It wasn't the touch that did, was the way you activated your faith. I'm sorry, I feel like preaching, and I didn't feel like preaching since Friday. So if I get happy, y' all just let me get happy. Because I feel like God's building my faith in a different direction. That God's given me the power to believe on some crazy things. I don't know who you are in this room, but nothing in your world suggested you should believe on the level you believe. I hear God saying that that belief didn't even come from you. That God gave you that belief from his spirit because he understood that for what he's called you to do that you're going to need power that doesn't come from this world. You're going to need power that comes from heaven. I'mma put all of heaven's resources behind you. Power. Power. Power. Power. Power. Power. Wonder working Power. Power. Power. Power. Shut up in your bones. Power on every idea. Power on every thought. Power on every word. Power to prophesy. Power to build. Power to destroy the yoke of the enemy. Power to call out principalities. Power to tear down strongholds. Power to break chains. I got power to believe that God's not finished with me. I got power to believe that I have. I haven't seen my best day yet. I got power to believe that he that began to work in me will complete it. Until the day I got power to believe. And I celebrate having power to believe. Because I used to have so much power in my depression. I used to have so much power in my shame that I would never get up here and declare the works of the Lord. Declare. But I messed around and started believing what God believed about me. And it gave me power. Power. Power. Okay, okay. I'm sorry. I had to get that out. So for me, the question is never if God can. Because I know he can. I got power to believe that he can. The question is if God will. It's not whether or not he can. That's why I think what he tells this man is so important. He says, if you can believe, all things are possible. That's real good to me. Not just the one thing. You want all things. Oh, if I say this right, it's going to help somebody. Because sometimes we only have faith for that one thing to be possible. So when that one thing doesn't happen, we lose all faith. But if you have real faith, God says all things are possible. That means that he could not answer in the way that you want, but it can still end up good when it's all said and done. I don't need to know whether or not you're going to do it my way. I just need to believe that even if you don't do it my way, you gonna make a way. And I seen too much things not go my way. And I'm here to testify to you that even when things don't go your way, God has a way of making sure they go his way. And can I tell you real quick, like the church girl I am, his way is better than my way. He did more than I would have ever known to do. He made a way I would have known, never known to ask for. His way has always been better than my way. So you gotta have faith not just for your one thing, but for all things to be possible. That even if it doesn't work the way I want it to work, it doesn't mean it won't work. In the end, all things are possible if you can believe not for the thing, but in the one who causes all things to work together. This level of faith where you begin to believe that all things. Things are possible, it requires power. The kind of power that you don't just stumble upon. I believe that in Acts, when Jesus tells the apostles, he says, don't go just yet. I want you to wait here because you're going to receive power from the Holy Ghost. And I grew up and I thought that having power from the Holy Ghost meant that you would learn how to dance. And I got the Holy Ghost, but my feet, it stopped at my ankles or the knees. I don't know where the shout comes from. I thought it was just about speaking in tongues. But when he says, I'm going to give you power so that you can go into all the earth, the power is not just for casting out the devils, though it can do that. It's not just for speaking in tongues, though it can do that. But the Bible tells us in First Corinthians, verses 2, 4 through 5. No, no, no. Oh, that's good, though. First Corinthians 12, verses 7 through 11, that the manifestation of the Spirit, there are nine of them. This means that when you Receive power from the Holy Ghost. Oh God, help me. That it is not just so that you can do the miracles and the wonders. The manifestation of the Spirit is given to each one for the profit of all. Let's talk about the manifestation of the Spirit for one. For to one is given the word of wisdom through the Spirit. The power of the Holy Ghost is not just for casting out devils. It can give you wisdom through the Spirit. Come on somebody. The Holy Spirit doesn't just stop there. Another manifestation of the Spirit is the word of knowledge through the same spirit. Otherwise you will know things that you're not even supposed to know. Because the Holy Spirit told me some of you been filled with the Holy Ghost and you thought because you didn't have the church manifestation that you didn't have that Holy Ghost. But I hear God saying that my Holy Spirit has different manifestations. And depending on what you need in any given moment, I'll give you exactly what you need. I oh, I wish I could say that real good. The manifestation of the Spirit means in one minute I may need wisdom. In another minute I may need a word of knowledge. In another minute I may need my tongues. In another minute I may need miracles. The Spirit can manifest in whatever I need for any given moment. That's why I need the Holy Spirit. I need the Holy Spirit beyond Sunday. I need the Holy Spirit every single day. Because it gives me power and depends on. Depending on what kind of power I need is how the Spirit shows up. But then it says to another faith by the same spirit. You mean to tell me that God doesn't just ask us to believe? He says, I'm going to give you my Holy Spirit and my Holy Spirit will give you faith. Oh, come on, somebody. What you cannot believe in your own strength. What you cannot believe in your own power. Lord, I believe it. Help my unbelief those areas where you have unbelief. My Bible is telling me that the Spirit can have a manifestation that gives you faith. So when we're asking for the Holy Spirit, we got to know exactly what we're asking for in a time in our lives where we need faith to activate in our lives. And we're all out of faith and therefore we think we're all out of options. We have an opportunity to ask the Holy Spirit to manifest through faith. Oh Holy Spirit, I need your wisdom. Oh, I'll be talking to my kids and they'll be talking to me and I'll be saying, holy Spirit, I need your wisdom. Holy Spirit, I need knowledge. God I'm walking into this room, and I don't know who's gonna be in this room. And I. I didn't go to school for what's. Come on, somebody. For someone. God's got something for you to do and you didn't go to school for. Y' all can act like you do greed up in this room, but there are some things God has called you to do that don't have nothing to do with what you went to school for or. Or something you forgot when you were in school, but God keeps calling you anyway. Why would God keep calling you when there's a gap of knowledge? Because God says I can fill in the gap. Why would God keep asking you to do something when you don't have the experience? Because God says, I can give you the wisdom where you did not have experience. I can give you the faith for. For the dream I'm calling you to. God's given you a vision so big that you don't know how to have faith for it. God says, that's all right. I'll give you my faith for the thing that I've called you to do in the earth. That is another manifestation of his spirit. So when God is getting ready to make a move in the earth, he needs people who are willing to activate their faith. He needs people who have the power to believe or know how. To ask the Holy Spirit to give me faith for the thing that is ahead of me. Oh, I'mma let that rest in the room for a minute. To let you have a personal moment of encounter with God where you ask God to give you faith for the thing that is in front of you. To meet you in the area where you have some unbelief. The Holy Spirit says, I want to meet you right there. Can I be that partner? Can I be that leader? Can I be that spouse? Can I? The Holy Spirit says, where you have un Belief, my spirit.
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Your nonprofit's mission is big, but your team is small. That's where Bonterra's Network for Good comes in. It's fundraising software built for organizations like yours. No IT team required, just intuitive tools that help you reach more donors, grow support, and stay organized. With dedicated guidance and proven strategies, you can focus on changing lives instead of chasing spreadsheets. Big impact, less stress. That's Bonterra Network for Good.
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It wants to rest on you. I'll give you faith for this season of your life. I'll give you faith for the next. That I'm calling you to. I'll give you bold Faith, audacious faith, crazy faith, where you don't think it's strange. I hear God saying, I want to say this prophetically, that you don't feel worthy enough to ask something from God, so you can't even ask in faith because you have a worthiness problem. And I hear God saying, just because you don't feel worthy doesn't mean that I don't think that you're worthy. What you think about your worth don't have anything to do with what God thinks about your worth. So can you ask in faith because I already call you worthy. If we are going to do what God has called us to do in the earth, it will require faith. That's the word that God gave me for this group of people. I don't know who you are. I don't know what you have going on. Maybe you're watching online. God told me that this is going to come down to you properly understand, understanding what it means to have faith. And. And too often we have reduced faith to just what we believe. Instead of faith being a verb, faith should have action connected to it. That your faith shouldn't be static or stagnant. Your faith has to know how to make a move. Oh, some of us can't have our faith increased because the faith that we have right now hasn't made a move. God says, I'll multiply your faith when you multiply your steps. If you would take the first step of faith, I'll show you the next step of faith. But you haven't moved because you don't know the full plan. Which means you don't have enough faith for who I am. Because if you really trusted who I am, you would know that I wouldn't just call you into something and leave you there. So you got to make a move. So when God got ready to make a move in the earth in Genesis 12, he gets a man named Abram. And one thing about Abram is that Abram knew how to make a move. Genesis 12 tells us the first thing God tells him is, get out of your father's house, get out of your country, get out of your land to a place that I will show you. Now, wait a minute. That means in order for me to tap into the next part of what God says, going to have to do the first part. He says, I will make you a great nation. He says, I will bless you and I will make your name great, and you shall be a blessing. I will bless those who bless you, and I will curse those who curse you. And in you, all the families of the earth shall be blessed. Here is the promise that God is laying out. But in order to tap into the promise, he has to get out of his country. You're going to have to make a move. And Abram Abraham had enough faith to make a move. And this is who God has decided will be the father of our faith is a man who knew how to make a move. And we all want the blessing of Abraham. But we have to be willing to have the faith of Abraham. I want to have an emphasis on the words that God says in Genesis 12:1 5 to Abram. He says, I will make you a nation. I will make his name great. He didn't say right now in this present condition, that you are a nation. But if you move, I can make you you. Oh, if you move I will make you into what I've promised. I don't know who this word is for, but, baby, it's for me. I tell you, I'll be honest. God says, if you want me to make you, you got to do something that moves in the direction of what I told you. And Abram starts packing things up. Because I don't know where I'm headed, but I. I gotta make a move. I know that I gotta do something with what God told me right now. Instantly, I gotta make a move. Let me tell you something. And he starts gathering people with him. Because when you make a move, it's not just for you. There are some people who will only move when you move. There are some people who will only get breakthrough because you made a move. There are some people who will never see a different life until you make a move. There are some. Some people in your family who won't see different until you make a move. So he starts moving things along. I remember I used. I grew up in church, and we would have these moments where God spoke to somebody and it looks like it happened in here. And they would come and they would put something on the altar. And that was that way of saying, God, I hear you speaking to me, and I want to sew into what you just said. But because I recognize that I just can't sit down on what you told me. I got to make sure that I invest in the word that you gave me. There is something to be said about people who make a move instantly the moment that God speaks to you. The moment that God gives you vision. The moment that God speaks a word that you make a move instantly. You know why? Because it sends hell notice that I'm not just Going to sit on what God told me anymore. Anymore. I'm going to move in the direction of what God said. I don't care if it makes other people uncomfortable. I don't care if it breaks up the way things have always been done in my country. God has made me a promise that if I move that he'll meet me on the move. I don't know who you are, but I hear God saying, you're looking for God. God's waiting for you at the next step. God's waiting for you at the next destination. God says, when I spoke the word, I moved, moved on. I waited for you to reach up to where I am. I see you. I see you. I will put in on that too. I will get in on that too. If God is speaking to you in this moment, it may be unfamiliar, it may be uncommon. But if you're getting ready to make a move, I dare you to grab a seed and put it at the altar as a sign to heaven that I hear what you said to me. And when I leave out of this place, I got seed in the ground on this word. I got see vision in my mind for what you're going to do in my life. And I got the faith to back it up. Abram. Abram starts moving. And when he starts moving, he brings others with him. You can come while I'm speaking. Galatians 3, 79 tells us that in order for us to understand our faith. Oh, God, help me. I'm going to say this. If you're sowing because you know that God's doing something and you get ready to make a move. I hear heaven rejoicing. But I'm going to say something. Even if you sow with your phone, I dare you to come tap your phone on the altar. Just so that we're all in agreement about what's happening here. Just so we're all in agreement about the moves we're about to make. And when you sow your seed, I want you to rejoice as you sow that seed. I want you to start packing up your bags in worship. I want you to start packing up your bags in praise. I want you to stomp on the devil's head a little bit. Because somebody's getting out of they stuck place. Somebody's getting out of their old way of thinking. I'm gonna make a move in my mind. I'm gonna make a move in my soul. I'm getting ready to make a move for my family. And I'm bringing it to generation with Me, I'm going to establish something different for my family. I'm going to establish something different for my community. I'm getting ready to make a faith move. I'm getting ready to make a generational move. I'm getting ready to do something that establishes what God said in my life. God's not going to have to fight with me any longer. I'm moving in the direction of purpose. I'm moving in the direction of destiny. Can't nobody make this move but you. But God says if you do it, the blessing of Abraham will be upon your life. I will bless those who bless you. I will curse those who curse you. I will make you a blessing and you will be blessed. You will be blessed when you you come, you'll be blessed when you go. You'll be blessed in the city and you'll be blessed in the field. Demons will tremble when you wake up in the morning. Glory, glory, glory, glory, glory, glory, glory, glory, glory, glory. The kingdom is going to move again. The kingdom's going to be established again. Heaven's gonna be great. Cause we got more souls on the way. Oh, God. Okay, okay. Hallelujah. Hallelujah. I hear God saying it's time for you to stand. Stop sitting. And it's time for you to start moving. It's time for you to stop thinking. And it's time for you to start moving. Okay, okay. Okay. Hallelujah. Oh, thank you, Jesus. I'm trying to get back into the message, but I'm sorry. I feel hell moving off of somebody. I'm sorry. It's time for me to get back in the message, but I feel somebody's faith being made stronger. And when your faith starts getting made stronger, I feel like somebody's marriage is moving. Like somebody's mind is moving, like somebody's peace is moving. I hear God saying that when you started moving, that heaven's resources started moving and moving with you. You sit next to a mover and a shaker. You sit next to somebody who been through hell and back. And now it's time for them to start moving with power and authority. Somebody. Okay, Faith. Okay, Brunus, please stop with the drums because it sound like war music. And when we start talking about making a move, it makes me start to believe that somebody gonna go to war with the enemy. It makes me believe. Okay. Oh. Oh. Uh, oh. Okay, okay, okay. Listen. You may be wondering what's happening in this room. When principalities and powers start coming under the authority of what God wants to do in the earth. Our spirit Starts rejoicing in ways we can't even fully understand. Because the path is clear. I hear this prophetically. What was standing in your way from making a move? I hear God saying that the path is clear. I hear God saying that no weapon formed against you will prosper. And you about to make a move. Cause the coast is clear. You got to make a move. Cause no devil in hell can stand in your way any longer. I hear God saying, I was waiting on you to get faith. Because if you get faith, you can say that this mountain move. Mountain. Get out of my way. Mountain of depression. Get out of my way. Mountain of shame. Get out of my way. Mountain of ego. Get out of my way. Mountain of addiction. Get out of my way. Okay. All right. I've been trying to figure out, of all the people for God to make the Father of many nations, of all the people for God to make the Father of our faith, what is it that Abram had? God showed me, particularly in this text that I chose, is that all Abram had was a willingness to make a move. Even risking making the wrong move.
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Because if we're honest, some of us won't make a move because we feel like if I make a move, I've got to do it perfectly. And because I've never seen it done before, I would rather not do it at all than to make a move and get it wrong. But if you make only the right moves, when you arrive to the destination, you will say that it was your work that got you there. But the covenant is not about work. The covenant is about faith. He wants the ending testimony to be this. That it wasn't your work that made the difference. It was your faith that made the difference. So Abram goes to Egypt, and he lies to Pharaoh. This is not a perfect man who did everything well. This was a man who was willing to learn along the way. This is a man who was willing to make a move and have that move corrected, guided to go back to the drawing board and to try again. Because faith is not about perfection. Faith is about movement. And I don't know who you are in this room. But I need you to understand that I believe our intentional God chose Abram with great intentionality. So that if you ever just really got into this word, you would see that his journey was not perfect, that he didn't do everything well. But his imperfections did not change God's promise. And when he messed up, he learned and he tried again. And God created a nation out of Abram. And when he created this nation out of Abram, he says, I'm going to have a blessing for all of your descendants. And if you don't know that being a descendant of Abram is not biological, I'm about. I'm getting ready. Close. To be a descendant of Abram is by faith. Galatians 3 says it better than I can. Galatians 3 says this about us being descendants of Abram says, this is how we know we are children of God. Therefore, know that only those who are of faith are sons of Abraham. Hold on, hold on. Let's not skip past that. That it wasn't about biology. It wasn't about DNA. It wasn't about you being born into his family. It was about you having the faith of Abraham. Those who are of faith are sons of Abraham. And then it continues, it says, and the scripture foreseeing that God would justify the Gentiles by faith. Hold on. Because God says about Abram's family who would become the Hebrew children and going to become Israel. He says to them that you will be my chosen people, a holy nation. And if we aren't careful, if we just stay in the Old Testament, we will think that it is just the children of Israel who God has selected as his holy nation. But Jesus left the gate open. Jesus said what would have just been reserved for the children of Abraham biologically. Now you can be grafted in if you have faith. And if you have faith like Abraham's faith, all of those things that I said about Abram can apply to your life too. That means I will bless those who bless you. I will curse those who curse you. All you got to do is make a move. I'll take care of the rest. So this is my word to you. Don't let disappointment, don't let fear, not even your own mistakes, keep you from moving in faith. That you have to be willing to posture your heart to hear a word from God. And some of us want the big words about what our purpose is going to be. That part I'll make your name great. That word, great. Really? It means honorable. I'll give you an honorable name. We Hear name, grade. And we're like, oh, I'm gonna be famous in your family for your integrity. What does it matter to be famous in the world if you're not known for your honor and integrity in your house? I want my name to be great. So that when my great, great, great, great, great grandchildren hear about Sam, that they hear about a woman of God and a woman who had faith, y' all gonna forget about me. It's gonna be somebody else. And y' all gonna be hooting and hollering when they are preaching. But if I do this right, my name will be great for my babies. If I do this right, my name will have honor and integrity. Can I. I will make your name great. And you know why? That he's lying. In Genesis 12, he said, I'm gonna make your name great. When it's all said and done, they'll think more about how you were willing to sacrifice your son than the moment you were willing to trade your wife. I'll make your name great. Where your mistakes don't define you. I'll make your name great. Where your missteps aren't the only thing people know about you. I'll make your name great. Great. Where even if no one else in your family had a good name, I'll set you apart. I'll make your name great. He says, I'll bless you. I will bless you. I will look at you and I'll see the God in you. I will bless you and I will make you a blessing. Because it's one thing to be blessed, it's another thing to be a blessing. And you don't have to work for this. You don't have to hustle for this. You don't even have to do everything perfectly for this, because you have been justified by faith. If you can get the faith part worked out, God says I can do everything else. So what does it look like for you at this time in your life to have faith that has been activated? What does it look like for you in this season of your life to have faith that allows you to make some moves that get you out of your comfort zone, that get you out of your way of thinking, that makes you bold enough to create the business plan? What does it look like for you? I don't know what it looks like for you, but I do know that it is going to require you to have the power to believe. And that's what faith is. It's having the power to believe. And some of you need the power to believe again. I know it's been hard. I know. We're living in a time of great uncertainty. And you would be crazy if you didn't get still in uncertainty. But you cannot be frozen forever. Faith to move again after grief. Faith to move again after success. Come on, somebody. Sometimes you experience so much success that you don't know if you can do it again. So you don't try again. Faith to believe that God can really heal you. Faith to believe that he's not finished with you. The harvest is plentiful, but the laborers are few. Some of us have people. We got fish we need to catch. We got people who need to understand what we know about God. That even in the midst of darkness that we found a light that will be with you always. Some people need to know what we know about Jesus. But because we know too much about ourselves, we can't share what we know about Jesus. But we overcame by the blood of the lamb and the word of our testimony, and we got people we need to see. Family. God told me that it's time for you to see your faith as a verb. It's not a noun. It's not a thing. Faith is an action word. So your assignment this week is how can I put my faith in action? Well, some of you put seed at the altar. Your faith is already moving. Ask God as you walking out at dawn. I wouldn't even wait until you get in the car. I would start asking God right now. Where does my faith need to make a move? Let's pray that. I'm gonna close this out in a minute, but can we pray that? And while they're praying, if you're in this room and you want to know who Jesus is, that's the move that you need to make. Jesus, I want to know who you are. If you're not already at this altar, I want to invite you down to the altar. Because getting to know Jesus is the greatest move you can ever make. That when we receive Jesus, what we receive from Jesus and friendship, what we receive from Jesus in salvation, what we receive from Jesus by walking with him, by talking with him, it gives us everything, everything we need to make those moves. Maybe you're in this room and you've been away from church for a long time. Maybe you're watching online. We got prayer warriors standing by to pray with you. I dare you to make a move and let somebody in. Let him in. The King of Kings and the Lord of Lords. You're never too far gone. You haven't done too much. You haven't said Too much to experience the power and the love of Jesus. And as you're coming down, you making your moves, but the rest of us are praying into what moves we need to make that will reflect our trust in you. That will reflect that we heard from you. That will reflect that we're willing to move even in uncertainty. That we will be like the father of our faith. Come on. That. Come and pray. Hey, family. God bless you. God bless you. Generational blessings on you and your babies. In Jesus name. In Jesus name. I see you. Hey, brother. Holy Spirit, we welcome your presence. We welcome your peace. We welcome our family into our bloodline. Can you help me? Thank God for those who are joining our brothers and sisters. God bless you. Thank you. God bless you. God bless you. Okay, I'll wait. Listen, I love a last call. If it's five or ten or just one more of you. Is there one who wants to give their life to Jesus? That's the best move you want to make. I'll wait for you. Come on, baby. I see you. We will wait for you. We will rejoice with you. Can we rejoice like heaven is rejoicing? Come on, you're in this room. Don't be shy. All of us had to make this decision at one point. We welcome you. We're grateful for you. God's got plans for you. Plans for to prosper you and not to harm you. To give you a future and a hope. I see you, sis, coming from upstairs. Hallelujah. Welcome home. Welcome home. Our house is your house. Our house is your house. Welcome, welcome, welcome. Come on. I'm waiting. I know y' all gotta go, but I'm waiting. I'll stay here. I'll pray with you. Come on, somebody. In Jesus name. Hallelujah for your freedom, for your breakthrough, for God stirring up the gift of God that's on the inside of you. Being filled with the Holy Spirit in a fresh way. I hear God saying, I'm going to heal you. I'm going to empower you. I'm going to break every curse that's ever been spoken over you. And you will walk with power, boldness and authority. In the name of Jesus. I hear God saying, it'll be as if it never happened. In the name of Jesus, I decree and declare right now. Angels dispatched over you and a hedge of protection around you. You're worth it. You're still worth it. And you'll always be worth it. In Jesus name. Okay? Hallelujah. God, we thank you. We thank you for Jesus. Thank you for Making him who had no sin, all of our weakness, all of our sin, all of our limitations. You placed in his body and nailed it to the cross and you put it to death. And when he was raised up free and victorious, because we're in him, we were raised up to. To so, God, we receive the gift of Jesus in this moment and the layers and dimensions of what it means to walk with Jesus. We thank you that he is the seed of Abraham. He is the covenant fulfilled. And because we are in him, we have an opportunity to partake of that blessing. Father, those who are at this altar are making a bold declaration that they are ready to make a move in the direction of their purpose and destiny. That they're ready to activate their faith in a way that perhaps they've never done or haven't done in a long time. God, I'm praying that as your word says, that your spirit would fall on them, that it would consume them, that they would be filled with the Holy Ghost like never before. And as they are filled with the spirit, God, I thank you that the manifestation of the spirit spirit will show up in their lives. That you will give them wisdom, that you will give them knowledge, that you will give them faith that they need to activate this next stage of their lives. God, we're here not because we're perfect and not because we're sure that the next move will be the move that sets everything off. But we know that even in us making a move, that we give you something to work with. And so, God, here they are giving you something to work, work with. I speak against the spirit of fear. For God has not given us the spirit of fear, but of power, love, and a sound mind. I speak a sound mind over these, my brothers and sisters, that they will not be tossed to and fro, but that they would be anchored in their faith and love of who you are and God as you root and ground them in your love. I thank you that they're going to produce fruit. Fruit that no one else in their family could have produced. Oh, God, man, I don't know exactly which individual this is, but you've given them a mandate that is going to require them to do something that they've never seen anyone do before. They need your faith to. To do it. They can't do it in their own strength. So pour out your spirit in this room, great God that you are. Pour out your spirit until there's overflow. Pour out your spirit until there's courage. Pour out your spirit, God. Pour out your spirit until tongues Hit this room. Pour out your spirit until healing hits this room. Pour out your spirit Spirit until creativity hits this room. Pour out your spirit until peace hits this room. Pour out your spirit until hope hits this room. Pour out your spirit until love hits this room. Pour out your spirit God. Until they move in the direction of their destiny. Pour out your spirit until chains are broken. Pour out your spirit until principalities are destroyed. Pour out your spirit until everything that the enemy meant against them has been rebuked and destroyed. Destroyed in the name of Jesus. Pour out your spirit until marriages are healed. Pour out your spirit until bodies are cured. Pour out your spirit until minds are renewed. Pour out your spirit until they have a hunger for righteousness. Pour out your spirit until families are restored. Pour out your spirit until minds are made new. Pour out your spirit and do that which only you can do. I plead the blood of Jesus over them. In the name of Jesus, I decree and declare. Declare that everywhere their foot treads, you'll give it to them. God, I hear you saying, get ready, get ready, get ready, get ready, get ready. Everywhere the souls of your feet tread, God says I'm going to give it to you. I rebuke the spirit of rejection. I rebuke the spirit of fear. They will walk with power and authority and entitlement because they are a king's kid and the blessing of Abraham is upon them. Blessings. Curse those who bless them. Curse those who curse them. Make them into a blessing. Make them into a nation. Make their name great God. All because they decided to make a move. God, they made their move. I know that you'll make yours. I said what you told me to say. I did what you told me to do. God, I offer these your sons and daughters into your safe keeping. In your safe hands. Draw them closer to you. Love on them as only you can do. Let this just be the beginning of the things that you'll whisper to them. May they unpack it for days to to come so that this word takes fruit and produces fruit. In Jesus name I pray. Amen. Amen. Can you say amen with me? Amen Just seals. I just feel this. If you're in this room and you're looking for a church, church home, we would love to pastor you. Not just me, but all of our incredible pastors would love to love on you. You can meet them down here on the left. I'm going to. I'm going to say the benediction and we're going to get out of here. But if you're looking for a church home A place of community and fellowship. The Potter's House is an incredible church that God is continuing to make over and over and over again. If this is your church, can you just testify to what God does in this place? And let me tell you something. For everything that God has done, I believe that we're just getting started and that God's going to continue to show us his plans for this church. And we know that you're a part of them. You can meet us down here at the left. Listen, family, we're going to go. I feel this. I feel like we're supposed to seal this in worship. And I know some of you may have to go and I'm going to give you time to do that. But I just feel like there's something to be said about the message coming to an end, but your communion with God going deeper and deeper. And when we worship, worship draws us in deeper and deeper. And before you go out into this world, before you go out into this week, I don't know what awaits you. I don't know what mountains will dare stand, stand in your way. But I know that if we have faith, the kind of faith that Abraham talks about, that we can say to that mountain, I will not be stopped. And you must move and that mountain will get out of your way. If you just said to yourself, lord, I believe, but help my unbelief. I believe that worshiping is going to add another layer of faith in this room. So, family, can we worship for a moment before we head out?
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