Showdown Etiquette | Touré Roberts

Summary

The Potter's House Podcast – "Showdown Etiquette" | Touré Roberts

Original Air Date: October 12, 2025
Host: The Potter’s House
Speaker: Pastor Touré Roberts

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Episode Overview

This episode centers on the theme of “showdown etiquette”—the spiritual readiness and posture believers must have in seasons where decisive confrontation is necessary. Drawing primarily from the story of Elijah in 1 Kings 17–18, Pastor Touré Roberts teaches how God brings us to critical moments of confrontation, both externally and within, to mature us, bring revival, and unlock personal and generational destinies. Listeners are called to radical consecration, obedience, and boldness, adopting what Pastor Touré terms "showdown etiquette." The message delivers practical strategies for spiritual alignment and obedience and ends in a strong call for action and personal revival.

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Key Discussion Points and Insights

1. The Spiritual Context: Seasons of Showdown

[01:19–06:00]

• Unusual Warfare as a Precursor to Transformation:
  Pastor Touré opens with honesty about intense spiritual warfare preceding and during these messages—he interprets it as a sign of imminent, radical transformation.
  • "When the enemy throws everything at you to the point where you wonder if you're even going to make it through, that's when you know you are on the cusp of something so radically transformational." ([01:55])
• Showdown is a spiritual moment where conflict comes to a head and must be confronted, not avoided.

2. Biblical Foundation—Elijah’s Story

[03:25–46:00]

• Scriptural Reading:
  The episode is rooted in 1 Kings 17:1–11, recalling Elijah confronting King Ahab and being led by God to places of provision.
• God’s Timing vs. Our Readiness:
  Parallels are drawn to Jeremiah and Gideon, showing how God calls people before they feel ready:
  • "There's always going to be a showdown between who God knows you are and who you think you are." ([12:13])
  • "Almost every encounter the Lord had...there was always a conflict between their readiness and God's awareness of their readiness." ([06:39])

3. Defining a “Showdown”

[12:32–16:56]

• A showdown is not just conflict but the climatic moment where opponents must confront each other directly and an outcome is determined through action.
• "There comes a time where enough is too much, and there has to be a confrontation. A showdown is a divinely arranged encounter where we have to stare something in the face." ([14:40])
• Three Types of Showdowns:
  1. Circumstance vs. God’s Sovereignty: God arranges impossible circumstances to reveal His power.
  2. Our Will vs. God’s Will: Illustrated by Jacob wrestling with God; a shift from resisting change to surrender.
     • "He stopped fighting to stay the same after God touched his hip and removed his ability to stand on his own." ([20:19])
  3. You vs. You: Internal, unseen battles where personal growth collides with comfort and long-term habits.
     • "This is one of those showdowns that don't nobody see. This is a wrestling match that happens in your prayer closet." ([22:52])

4. Radical Consecration: Practicing God’s Presence

[32:10–46:45]

• Elijah’s effectiveness came from his deep awareness of standing “before the Lord” at all times, even before kings or enemies.
  • "He says, 'As the Lord God of Israel lives, before whom I stand.' Who said he was standing before the Lord? I thought he was standing before Ahab..." ([34:43])
• Worship does not bring us into God’s presence; it brings us into awareness of omnipresence:
  • "Worship doesn't bring you into the presence of God. It brings you into the awareness. The Lord just is." ([35:37])
• Practices for Radical Consecration:
  • Daily rededicate your life to God, because new mercies require new commitment. ([52:45])
  • Regular repentance, even for unseen faults.
    • "Repent every day. Even if you can't access sin, you know it's there." ([53:00])
  • Reestablish identity, values, and goals in God each day.

5. Identity Warfare & Affirmation

[56:54–59:00]

• The enemy’s prime strategy is identity confusion:
  • "There is always going to be a war of identity. As a man thinks, so is he. Which means that I cannot be or show up beyond who I think I am." ([56:57])
• Create and reference daily “I am” statements based on God’s word over your life to counter negative spiritual attacks.

6. Radical Obedience: Prophecy as Provision

[60:13–68:22]

• Obedience to God’s Word is Not Optional:
  Personal provision is often found in following prophetic instruction.
  • "If I give you a word and you don’t do the word, you may end up in lack. Because there’s provision in my word." ([63:09])
  • "Stop treating prophetic words as optional. It is time for you to get radically obedient. When God gives you a word...get to doing it. Because your provision is in it." ([64:26])
  • Elijah’s survival during drought depended on obeying every word from God.
• Radical obedience enables radical boldness.

7. Radical Boldness: The Outcome of Consecration & Obedience

[68:23–73:01]

• Radical consecration plus radical obedience equals radical boldness.
• Challenge: Settle the question—either God is who he says or he's not. Don’t live “halted between two opinions.”
  • "You have to come to a place where either God is or he ain't. How long...will your life halt between two opinions?" ([68:47])
• Without faith, it’s impossible to please God (Hebrews 11:6). Realignment brings restoration:
  • "Where there is realignment, there will be restoration. Those words that God spoke, you thought were dead—they’re not dead. They were waiting on you." ([74:21])

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Memorable Quotes

• On Readiness and Identity:
  • “There’s always a showdown between who God knows you are and who you think you are.”  ([12:13])
  • "You being you sometimes is about your children, and your children's children, sons and daughters."  ([21:57])
• On Showdowns:
  • “A showdown is a divinely arranged encounter where we have to stare something in the face. I can't sweep it under the rug anymore.” ([16:09])
• On Consecration:
  • “Let me talk about radical consecration. The more time you spend with God, the easier it becomes to stand before God in vital moments.”  ([46:45])
• On Obedience to Prophecy:
  • “If I give you a word and you don't do the word, you may end up in lack. Because there's provision in my word.”  ([63:09])
  • “Stop treating prophetic words as optional. It’s time to get radically obedient. When God gives you a word, get to doing it. Because your provision is in it.” ([64:26])
• On Identity and Boldness:
  • "You will always be in a war of identity, and how you see yourself is the difference between faith to move forward or fear that debilitates." ([58:32])
  • “Radical consecration plus radical obedience equals radical boldness.”  ([32:10])
• On Restoration:
  • “Where there is realignment, there will be restoration...Not just making things right, but making it as if you had it the entire time.” ([74:21–76:22])

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Timestamps for Important Segments

• 01:19–03:21 — Introduction on spiritual warfare and the threshold of transformation
• 03:25–06:00 — 1 Kings 17 reading and Elijah’s initial calling
• 12:13–16:56 — Defining showdowns and their spiritual necessity
• 20:01–22:39 — Wrestling with God’s will versus our desires; generational significance
• 32:10–38:16 — Radical consecration: Standing before God, not circumstances
• 46:45–53:19 — The practical outworking of practicing God’s presence; daily rededication and repentance
• 56:54–58:32 — The war over identity and building "I am" statements
• 60:13–68:22 — The necessity of radical obedience; obedience as the channel for provision
• 68:47–73:01 — Boldness, faith, realignment, and restoration
• 74:21–76:47 — Revival and restoration: God is restoring what seemed lost
• 77:39–92:25 — Call to respond to God (faith action), revival atmosphere, equipping for next steps

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Notable Moments

• [20:33] — “He stopped fighting to stay the same after God touched his hip and removed his ability to stand on his own.”
• [38:22] — “When you show up, God was already there.”
• [62:59–64:29] — The connection between obedience and provision: Elijah is kept alive during famine by obeying God's timely word.
• [76:39] — “You thought you missed it. You thought the window had passed. But I hear God saying I’m going to do the former and the latter in one month at one time.”
• [86:57]–[91:25] — Extended prophetic encouragement teaching how to respond to the Holy Spirit’s nudges and act on prophetic words.

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Actionable Takeaways

1. Daily Commitment: Rededicate and repent daily; align continuously with fresh mercies and guidance.
2. Affirm Identity: Regularly remind yourself of God’s words over your life; battle lies with “I am” statements.
3. Treat Prophecy as Provision: Take prophetic guidance as God’s method for sustaining and advancing you; obedience unlocks resources.
4. Practice Presence: Cultivate an awareness of God’s presence in every challenge; practice seeing God “before you” in all situations.
5. Respond Boldly: Act when God nudges or speaks—faith without action is unprofitable.

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Conclusion

Touré Roberts compels the listener to embrace the times of confrontation ("showdowns") as God-arranged appointments for spiritual breakthrough, generational blessing, and personal transformation. By developing radical consecration, relentless obedience, and resulting boldness, believers can step into restoration and revival—both for themselves and those connected to their destiny.

“When God speaks, God’s people move.”
If God has given you a word—move. Your showdown is not just about you; it carries the seeds of restoration for generations.”

Transcript

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[Pastor or Preacher]

I want to be a little transparent with you. The level of warfare that I've experienced over this word, it's been very, very, very unusual. Last week, coming into last week, warfare was crazy. Then warfare broke out while I was preaching it. And then as I'm coming into this week, week, we couldn't finish it. And God holds times and seasons and God is brilliant. So he. He knew that there was going to be a part two. Come on, somebody. The devil can't delay God. He wanted us to meditate on that first part a little bit. But the level of warfare has been crazy. Now, let me tell you something. I'm not saying that to make you feel sorry for me. I almost debated about whether or not I would even tell you. Most of the time, I don't even talk about warfare. But the only reason why I felt the release to share it is because I want you to understand what is normal. When you're on the cusp of something. When the enemy throws everything at you to the point where you wonder if you're even going to make it through. That's when you know you are on the precipice. You are on the cusp of something so radically transformational to your life, to the lives of those around you, to the world. Watch this. That it is worthy of such demonic Attention. You haven't even began to move in the spirit spirit until your life is worthy to attract the attention of high level spirits. Congratulations.

[Congregation or Worship Leader]

Let's get into it.

[Pastor or Preacher]

I want to draw your attention really quickly. I know you've been standing for a while. To First Kings chapter 17 we're going to go back last week. We're in First Kings 18. We're talking about showdowns because we are in a season of showdowns. I'm telling you, and I'll recap a little and we'll get into where we're going. Today we looked at Elijah on Mount Carmel and that powerful showdown that God set up. But we're going back in order to go forward. First Kings 17 we'll read the first 11 verses. It says. And Elijah the Tishbite of the inhabitants of Gilead said to Ahab, as the Lord God of Israel lives, before whom I stand, there shall not be dew nor rain these years except except at my word. Then the word of the Lord came to him, came to him, Elijah, saying, get away from here and turn eastward and hide by the brook Cherith, which flows into the Jordan. And it will be that you shall drink from the brook, and I have commanded the ravens to feed you there. So he went and did according to the word of the Lord, for he went and stayed by the brook Cherith, which flows into the Jordan. The ravens brought him bread and meat in the morning, and bread and meat in the evening. And he drank from the book, from the brook. And it happened after a while that the brook dried up because there had been no rain in the land. Then the word of the Lord came to him, saying, arise, go to Zarephath, which belongs to Sidon, and dwell there, for I have commanded a widow there to provide for you. So he arose and went to Zarephath. And when he came to the gate of the city, indeed a woman, a widow, was there gathering sticks. And he called to her and said, please bring me a little water in a cup that I may drink. And as she was going to get it, he called to her and said, please bring me a morsel of bread in your hand. Father, I thank you for the privilege and the honor of carrying your word to your beloved, to your sons and daughters that you love so deeply and passionately that you sent your son Jesus to die to redeem them into fellowship and communion with you. Now God, may the words of my mouth and the meditation of my heart be acceptable in your sight. I thank you, God, for the spirit of wisdom and revelation and Clarity God, I pray that the words that proceed out of my mouth would be for the edifying of your sons and daughters both. Present those watching via live stream. I thank you for the spirit of wisdom, revelation, insight, knowledge, prophecy, full access to the holiest of hovies to bring bread God that will feed us to the full that we would be transformed and equipped. Align for the times that we're living in. I love you God. Get the glory in Jesus name. Amen. Amen. Amen. Please, as you take your seat, greet someone with a blessing. Greet somebody with a blessing. Hallelujah. Thank you, Jesus. Hallelujah. Last week we began our conversation by speaking to the fact that we're in a season of showdowns. And we talked about what that meant and we aligned it with Daniel and one of the things that he said in Daniel, chapter 11 and 32, which speaks to what will happen in the end times. And it talks about how those who know their God are going to be strong and they're going to carry out, they're going to do great things, exploits. So one of the marks and the signs of people who truly know their God in these end times is that they're going to be strong and they're going to accomplish very, very powerful things that will ultimately bring glory to God. And so we're moving into that time where the exploits that are assigned to your life are now due. They are now due. And one of the things that I've learned about God is oftentimes God is ready for us before we are ready for us. Because God, he's a God that determines the end from the beginning. So he's not waiting on us to show up or to be awakened. He is already determined the moments when we are supposed to be watch this ripe for the plucking. Are you hearing me? And so even when we look at this particular showdown that we talked about last weekend with Elijah, Elijah did not initiate that showdown. We learned last week that God initiated the showdown between Elijah and Ahab and ultimately over 850 fold false prophets, which I can tell you right now, you know, Elijah, you know, he looks all courageous and brave and bold and all that kind of stuff. But that was scary because at that time they were killing the prophets. The true prophets were being killed and slaughtered. And Elijah was a true prophet. But God said, now I need you to go and present yourself to Ahab. Because the time was right for God to reveal himself, re reveal himself to the children of Israel, that he was Yahweh, he was the true God. So God Sets up showdowns. Because there are moments where people. Where the world needs to understand that God is God so that it will produce a revival in the land. Revival does not happen on our terms. God knows when. There needs to be a sweeping movement to keep things on schedule. Can I talk to you like this today? So, so. So we're talking about showdowns. And there comes a moment, and there comes a time where you must be you. There are so many. Almost every encounter that the Lord had with someone who was going to do something great, there was always a conflict between their readiness and God's awareness of their readiness. I need to say that better. Let me just give you an example. Jeremiah 1. We love Jeremiah 1, where God tells Jeremiah, before I formed you in the belly, I knew you, and I ordained you, and I sanctified you, and I set you apart. And we think that. That Jeremiah hears that word, Dr. Jill, and then automatically says, yes. And he moves, no, no, no, no, no. Jeremiah immediately follows up with saying, uh, behold, I cannot speak. Study it when you get a chance. He says, behold, I cannot speak. I am a child. This lets us know that God's timing versus our timings are oftentimes very different. And Jeremiah was not the only one with that issue. Gideon had the same issue.

[Congregation or Worship Leader]

It was time.

[Pastor or Preacher]

It was time for the children of God to begin to conquer and dominate their enemies and take back what the enemy had stolen. So he raises up Gideon. He says, gideon, now let me tell you something, Gideon.

[Congregation or Worship Leader]

You are a mighty man of valor.

[Pastor or Preacher]

This is who you are.

[Congregation or Worship Leader]

This is how I see you. I made you. I formed you before I put you in your mother's womb. I know you better than you know.

[Pastor or Preacher]

You, Gideon, you mighty man of valor, is what God says. And Gideon says, hold up. You got the wrong fella. I. I am of all.

[Congregation or Worship Leader]

I'm the least of all.

[Pastor or Preacher]

I'm the least of all the tribes, and I'm the least in the tribe. So there's always going to be. Watch this. A showdown between who God knows you are and who you think you are. And that's the moment that we're standing in now. And so God will oftentimes force it so we don't miss it. So we defined a showdown. Is it okay if I take just a little bit of recap? So we defined the showdown, and I'm going to read it again and you can screenshot it if they still have it. But a showdown is described as a decisive confrontation between two opposing forces. Often. Watch this. When tension has been building and both of Those opposing forces, opposing opinions are compelled to face each other directly. I feel this so strongly. So this is not just conflict. Because oftentimes there is conflict but no confrontation. I almost want to take my time and work that for a minute. There is oftentimes a conflict, showdown, not just conflict. It's about a confrontation because of the conflict. Because we oftentimes live with conflict. Let me make it practical just for a second. We will often say, well, I, I don't. I don't want to be. I, I don't want there to be any conflict. The reason why you're saying that you don't want there to be any conflict, abdicating your responsibility to confront is because of conflict. Well, I don't, I don't want to start it.

[Congregation or Worship Leader]

It's already started.

[Pastor or Preacher]

So you're basically saying because of. Watch this, my personality or my fear of confrontation or my avoidance spirit, then I'm going to tolerate a conflict. Come on, somebody. Because I have a peaceful personality.

[Congregation or Worship Leader]

There ain't no peace.

[Pastor or Preacher]

You're just taking the conflict and bringing it within yourself. So a showdown is when you move to a moment or God moves you to a moment to where enough is enough. Because there does come a time where. Watch this. Enough is too much and as a result of it, there has to be a conflict. Let me give you another definition. Well, I'll finish that. It's not just conflict. It's the climatic moment where talk shucking and jiving. I'll put that. I'm going to add shucking and jiving in there. Maneuvering or posturing ends sober for that. And the outcome must be determined through action. I feel this so strongly. Can't wait to unpack it. A showdown is a divinely arranged encounter where we have to stare something in the face. I can't sweep it under the rug anymore.

[Congregation or Worship Leader]

I can't allow the grace of God.

[Pastor or Preacher]

To cover it up. I feel it so strongly. I can't play with this anymore. I can't make excuses for them or myself anymore. This conflict is conflicting with my calling. Enough is too much. When whatever this controversy or conflict is is beginning to shorten my steps to hinder me or to keep me from what I'm called to.

[Congregation or Worship Leader]

That's too.

[Pastor or Preacher]

Can I take my time and walk it out? So it's when God arranges us and now we have to stare something in the face. And not only that, but we have to bring all of ourselves to the moment and watch God prove his sovereignty on our behalf. I want to talk about a few different Types of showdowns. And then we're going to move on. There's going to be in this season showdowns. One, between the circumstance and God's sovereignty. So in other words, God is going to cause some of us to be placed in circumstances that are not comfortable so that he can show you that he's God even over that circumstance. How will I know that God is a God in and over my circumstance unless there's a showdown? I am explaining to some of you why you are in the middle of the of a battle unlike anything that you've ever seen or faced or experienced before. God wants to show you that even in that he is God. Why are there so many names for God? There are so many names for God because God shows himself that he's God. Over that to I can heal your body, I can provide for you, I can give you peace. That passes all understanding. Are you hearing the words that are.

[Congregation or Worship Leader]

Coming out of my mouth?

[Pastor or Preacher]

And then he just flat out says.

[Congregation or Worship Leader]

Listen, I am that I am. I will be whatever I need to.

[Prophetic or Encouraging Voice]

Be.

[Pastor or Preacher]

In order to prove and to manifest my sovereignty. And so there are showdowns between circumstance and God's sovereignty. Two, there are showdowns between. Here is a tough one. Your will and what God wants. Hey, that was that Jacob wrestling with the Lord moment. That was a showdown between God's will, which ultimately was his identity and what he wanted. I don't have time to unpack that thing. But this was. Watch this. Initially, he was wrestling to stay the same. And God said, no, no, no. It is time for you to move from being Jacob to Israel. I know that your mama and your daddy named you Jacob, but let me tell you something. You didn't start with your mama and your daddy.

[Prophetic or Encouraging Voice]

You.

[Pastor or Preacher]

You started with me. Before I put you in your mother's.

[Congregation or Worship Leader]

Womb, I knew you.

[Pastor or Preacher]

And I'm telling you, when you show up right in the showdown, when you.

[Congregation or Worship Leader]

Get your showdown etiquette together, I'mma change.

[Pastor or Preacher]

Your name and change your life. And if you notice, he stopped fighting to stay the same after God. Come on, somebody. After God touched his hip and remove.

[Congregation or Worship Leader]

His ability to stand on his own.

[Pastor or Preacher]

To talk his way out of it, to slick his way out of it.

[Congregation or Worship Leader]

To maneuver and manipulate his way out of it. When God touched him and he could no longer do that, he stopped fighting.

[Pastor or Preacher]

To stay the same.

[Congregation or Worship Leader]

And he says, oh, wait a minute, I'm holding on to you for dear life and I'm not going to let you go until you bless me, God, I need you.

[Pastor or Preacher]

Showdown was a showdown. And Some of you are in a moment where you have been wrestling between what you want and what God wills. God may be touching your hip.

[Prophetic or Encouraging Voice]

To.

[Pastor or Preacher]

Show you that you can't stand during this time on your own two. You're not even standing. You look, you think you're standing on your own two, but you're not. You're standing on my goodness and my mercy and my grace. But the time is ripe. I need you to be who I created you to be. And I can't hold off any longer because there are a lot of things connected to you being you. You being you oftentimes ain't even about you. You being you sometimes is about your children.

[Congregation or Worship Leader]

And your children's children, sons and daughters.

[Pastor or Preacher]

That haven't even been born yet are connected to you being you. Because God is a multi generational God. The God of Abraham, Isaac and Jacob. I'm thinking generationally so you think it's about you and you're allowing your personality or your desires or what you want or what you feel like you deserve to keep you from leaning into God. And listen, I'm not only trying to bless you, I'm trying to bless through you. Get it together.

[Congregation or Worship Leader]

There's more to you than you think. There's a whole lineage.

[Pastor or Preacher]

Coming up behind you. You gotta be thinking about your great, great, great, great grandchildren.

[Congregation or Worship Leader]

They haven't even been born yet. And they're counting on you to get what it takes to show up to the showdown.

[Pastor or Preacher]

So that God can show off on your behalf. And so there's not only a showdown between circumstance and God's sovereignty. There's not only a showdown between what you want and God's will, but there's also, and this is one of the greatest showdowns. There's also a showdown between you and you. I call it finally facing your giants. Oh, I feel the Holy Ghost so strong. Let me just have some liberty in this house today. This is one of the greatest showdowns ever. Because this is. This is one of those showdowns that don't nobody see. This is a wrestling match that happens in your prayer closet. This is a wrestling match where God's voice about a certain thing in your life gets louder and louder and louder and louder. And he's saying, this can't go. This can't go. This can't go. This is bigger than you. And there's some people under the sound of my voice. And because the time is ripe, God is saying, I need you. We got to talk about this. You're going to have to face it. I know that you have been heavily dependent and relying upon the grace of God. And to a certain degree. And I'm going to say this, and I pray this doesn't cut you too deep, but just enough. Sometimes grace is on assignment. I gotta say this better. Sometimes grace. Sometimes we misuse grace where we think that grace is the black American Express. Or I can do what I want to do, flow how I want to flow, think how I want to think, act the way I want to act, and I'll just pull out this. But even the black has a limit. I don't care how big. Every credit card has a limit. And what we don't recognize about grace is, yes, we thank God for his grace. But grace is in grace. Watches is until you grow. Oh, I wish I could say this better. Grace is there while you are ignorant. Grace, mighty sh. I feel God, I need to say this right. Grace. Maybe if I get a little closer to you, I can say it better.

[Congregation or Worship Leader]

Grace. Grace.

[Pastor or Preacher]

Grace is amazing and it's wonderful. But grace, there's one interpretation of grace, and that one interpretation of grace is. Grace is divine enablement. So it is divine ability. But what happens when. When I'm using grace for something that I can do in my own ability, when I have heard enough, When. When enough hands have been laid, When. When I've been filled with the spirit of God, When I've tasted and seen that the Lord is good, When I've tasted of the powers of the age to come. And I still keep sneaking the candy. It's only candy. It's only a little sugar. Yeah, but God's highlighting it. He's highlighting it because what you can't see is a little leaving. Leaving the whole lump. And so it's a little thing. And you think that it's no thing, but it's a big thing because it's keeping you from everything. And so now I have to have a showdown. Whatever the Holy Spirit is highlighting is exactly what I'm talking about. So there are different types of showdowns. And I started this conversation by saying that we are in a holy moment. It's holy, and it's a moment for God's holy people. We are a royal priesthood, a holy nation. So.

[Prophetic or Encouraging Voice]

So.

[Pastor or Preacher]

So. So. So. So what I want to talk about today is Shel. So we are undeniably. Jalen. We are undeniably in a showdown. Undeniably. And since we are in a showdown, we have to be showdown ready. And we have to understand what is the appropriate etiquette for a showdown. And we must look at Elijah. Because I believe that Elijah, as we look at his life, we see a model for proper showdown etiquette. Can I teach today? I prophesied last week, let me be a teacher today. So we begin to talk about Elijah last week. Elijah is extremely fascinating. He shows up on the scene literally out of nowhere. We have no backstory whatsoever as it relates to Elijah. We only have a clue about him. And that is we know that he was a Tishbite from Gilead, right? And so we have to kind of look at Gilead and try to get some idea of what shaped him to know him. Because he pops up on the scene and he is fully mature, he is.

[Congregation or Worship Leader]

Fully ripe, and he is full of authority. He runs up on King Ahab.

[Pastor or Preacher]

And.

[Congregation or Worship Leader]

Says, as the Lord God liveth, this.

[Pastor or Preacher]

Is what's going down. Straight out. We don't see his mentor. We don't see his journey. We don't see his discipleship.

[Congregation or Worship Leader]

We can't trace him.

[Pastor or Preacher]

And yet we can't deny him. Might I insert a thought for consideration? Be careful to quickly disqualify someone who has no resume.

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Because sometimes.

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Sometimes heaven will certify somebody.

[Congregation or Worship Leader]

That you didn't see coming. He shows up on the scene out of nowhere.

[Pastor or Preacher]

Moving differently, talking differently, with a powerful testimony. We can't trace his genealogy.

[Congregation or Worship Leader]

Who, your daddy?

[Pastor or Preacher]

We don't know. We just know that God's hand was on him in a unique way. I feel this prophetically. God is getting ready to take somebody from absolute obscurity.

[Congregation or Worship Leader]

Because I hear the Lord saying, I.

[Pastor or Preacher]

Saw you on the backside of the desert, praying.

[Congregation or Worship Leader]

I saw you not concerned about who.

[Pastor or Preacher]

Liked you or who didn't like you. I saw you prioritizing the things of God, seeking first the kingdom and his righteousness and all other things.

[Congregation or Worship Leader]

I saw you serious about God when everybody else was kind of half serious.

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You were fasting and praying.

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I see you. God says, I saw you.

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When they laughed at you, when they.

[Congregation or Worship Leader]

Told you that you were too spiritual to be effective. God says, I saw you. And I am getting ready to release you into the whole world. To show that even though they might not have chosen you, I chose you. If that's you, give God worship in this house. You weren't trained. Nobody's backing you up. You don't have a big name, you don't have a big following, but you have got a big God. You don't even have the pedigree.

[Pastor or Preacher]

But you have mastered presence. Let me talk about it. Talk about it. So when I think of Elijah, who is Our model. When I think about his mantle, I'm looking at him because I'll be honest with you. If we are in a showdown time, then we have to allow Elijah to mentor us and his life. If you pay close attention, it mentors us. Us, his life. When we look at his mantle. His mantle, in my estimation, was marked by three things. And those three things are actually an equation. Here are the three things. Radical consecration. We're going there. Radical consecration 1. Radical obedience, 2. And radical boldness. Radical consecration. Radical obedience. Radical boldness. Here's the equation. Radical consecration plus radical obedience equals radical boldness. Now let's talk about it. Let's talk about it. Let's talk about radical consecration. We see radical consecration not only in how he lived out his life, but he gives us a clue right there in the first verse, chapter 17. Let's look at it. He says, and Elijah, the Tishbite of the inhabitants of Gilead said to Ahab, as the Lord God of Israel lives, these next four words, before whom I stand, there shall not be dew nor rain these years except at my word. Wait a minute, wait a minute, wait a minute. Who said he was standing before the Lord? I thought he was standing before Ahab. I thought he was standing before Ahab. He goes. He's standing in front of the king. King Ahab, who was looking for him to. He's standing before him. And then he goes and he says, yeah, I standing before you. He says, but what is more important and what is of more consequence is I'm standing in front of the Lord. Wait, wait, wait, wait.

[Prophetic or Encouraging Voice]

That.

[Pastor or Preacher]

That is messing with my perspective. Either you're standing in front of Ahab or you're standing in front of the Lord. How can you be standing in front of Ahab and standing in front of the Lord? And the same time.

[Congregation or Worship Leader]

How?

[Pastor or Preacher]

It's because he had mastered the presence of God. I understand what people are saying when they say, oh, that worship was amazing. It brought us into the presence of God.

[Congregation or Worship Leader]

No, it didn't.

[Pastor or Preacher]

Worship doesn't bring you into the presence of God. It brings you into the awareness. Because the presence God, Come on.

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We know he's omnipresent.

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That means he's everywhere at the same time.

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So worship.

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The worship doesn't bring you into the presence.

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Worship.

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Watch. This heightens your senses and it brings you into an awareness. That's why in the great theophany in Isaiah, chapter six, when Isaiah says, in the year the king Uzziah died, I saw the Lord high and lifted up and his train Filled the temple. And he sees all these beings, and what are they saying? They're saying, holy, holy, holy. The Lord of hosts. Then he says, the whole earth is full of his glory. One of the prophets talks about the glory of the Lord. Oh, I'm sorry. The knowledge of the glory of the Lord covering the whole earth as the waters cover the sea. The knowledge, the awareness. So that means that right now, right now, in this moment, the Lord is present.

[Congregation or Worship Leader]

Before we sang, before we shouted, before we pulled up, before we did anything, it had nothing to do with us. The Lord just is. So what we must do.

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Is get better at practicing the presence.

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Oh, God, help me.

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Can I take my time, walk this thing out a little bit?

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I don't know about you, but I want to get to a place to where.

[Pastor or Preacher]

Yes, I'm standing in front of my enemies.

[Congregation or Worship Leader]

Yes, I'm standing in front of my trouble. Yes, I'm standing in front of the doctor's report. Yes, I'm standing in front of the bill. Yes, I'm standing in front of the judge. Yes, I'm standing in front of the difficulty. Yes, I'm standing in front of whatever I'm standing in front of. But what I'm standing in front of more than anything is the Lord. Because my awareness of the presence of God recolors everything. Why.

[Pastor or Preacher]

Did he have the boldness to.

[Congregation or Worship Leader]

Go and stand in front of someone?

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Watch this.

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Who had the desires and. And the natural means to kill him? Ahab, I'm not standing in front of you. The Lord who sent me to you is right here with me. And if God is for me.

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[Pastor or Preacher]

Kim me against me, we fear too often because we do not have an.

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Awareness like Elijah had in the reality that when you show up, God was already there. When you show up to the meeting, when you show up to the trial, when you show up to the doctor, when you show up to the surgery, when you show up to the arbitration, wherever you show up, God is already there. Are you hearing me? You got to pray. The prayer that Elisha prayed to God for his servants. He said, will you please open his eyes? You know the story. Read it when you get a chance. Read your whole Bible. It's in there. Elijah's servant was all afraid because he saw the natural enemies surrounding him. And Elisha said, oh, God, please open his eyes. Please help him to see that there are more with us than with him. Open his eyes, please. And the Lord opened his eyes, and he realized that he wasn't surrounded. His enemies were surrounded.

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He lived his life Standing before God. Jesus had the same spirit. The reason why Jesus was so bold is because he was standing in the presence of his Father the whole time.

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How do you know?

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PT because the Bible tells me in John, chapter 5, and I believe it's verse 18. Read your whole Bible. You'll find it. But he says, I only do what.

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I see my Father do. In other words, I'm still standing in front of you, but I'm looking at my daddy. I'm in the earth realm, but I'm also in the heavenly realm. And I see my father on the throne, high and lifted up. I'm not afraid of you. I only do what I see my father do. I got a different set of eyes. You're looking at what's in front of you. I'm looking at what's above me.

[Pastor or Preacher]

It changes.

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It changes the odds.

[Pastor or Preacher]

It changes the landscape. It changes the whole thing. David said in one place in the scripture. I believe it's Psalm 16. Read your whole Bible and you'll find it. He says, I set the Lord always before me. Because he is at my right hand.

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I shall not be moved. He always saw God at his right hand.

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David says, in another place. The Lord is my light and my salvation.

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Whom shall I fear?

[Pastor or Preacher]

The Lord is the strength of my life.

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Of whom shall I be afraid? Even the wicked, my enemies and my foes came upon me to eat up my flesh. They stumbled and fell. Though a host should encamp against me, my heart will not fear. The war should break out against me. In this I will be confident. One thing have I desired of the Lord. That will I seek after.

[Pastor or Preacher]

Look at it.

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That I might dwell in the house of the Lord all the days of my life to behold the beauty of the Lord and to inquire in his temple. In other words, if I keep focused on his presence, if I keep focused on the throne room, I will have boldness. He says this one thing I do. Yes, the weapons will be formed. Yes, the enemy will gather. Yes, the bad news will come up on me. But this one thing I do, I'm going to pursue the presence of God. I'm going to inquire in his temple. Because in his temple I've got weapons. In his temple, I've got deliverance. In his temple I've got healing. In his temple I've got whatever I need to fight the battle that I'm in. If that's your testimony, give God a big a roar, huh? Just let me see it. I just need to see you. I don't know what to do. But my eyes are on you. I'm tired of looking at my problems. I'm tired of looking at what I'm afraid of. I'm tired of looking at that. It's time for me to lift up my eyes unto the hills from which cometh my help. My help coming from the Lord, Maker of heaven and earth. Behold, he will not suffer your foot to be moved. He that keepeth Israel will not slumber nor sleep. The Lord is my keeper. The Lord is the shade upon my right hand. The sun shall not smite me by day, nor the moon by night. The Lord shall keep me from all evil. He shall preserve my soul. The Lord shall preserve my going out and my coming in from this time forward and even forevermore. That's Psalm 121. Showdown, season. Showdown, season.

[Pastor or Preacher]

And you're ready.

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You're ready. You've been equipped. All of your life was preparing you for this moment. You got what it takes. Greater is he who is in you.

[Pastor or Preacher]

He that is in the world.

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I just need to see you.

[Prophetic or Encouraging Voice]

God.

[Congregation or Worship Leader]

I just need to see you. Sometimes.

[Pastor or Preacher]

You got to close your eyes to see God.

[Prophetic or Encouraging Voice]

Oh.

[Pastor or Preacher]

Let me give you some practical. Let me give you some practical. The more. The more time you spend with God, the easier it becomes to stand before God in vital moments. You got to cultivate this. See, I think that when we didn't have Elijah's story, we didn't have his backstory. I think what he was doing was he was perfecting the presence. He was perfecting the Presence so that when his time came to see. See, you can't get ready for the showdown at the showdown. It's too late. Before the showdown comes, you will have needed to have been practicing the Presence. And the more. The more we're almost there, the more. The more that you spend time with him, the easier it becomes. Setting the Lord before you is the ability, the cultivated ability to have a keen awareness of God. See, God changes not. The throne room never changes. It is what it is. The throne room is not adjusted by your trouble. God is not debunked nor dethroned by circumstances that shake you. Are you hearing me? So you have to. When. When your life shakes and our life does shake. But what cannot shake is your vision. No, I got. Even when I get hit, I gotta keep seeing. Even when I get spun around, I gotta keep looking. Even when I'm being drug away by trials, you're not going to draw away my sight. Because as long as I can see him, I'm free. Almost There, almost there. This awareness of God and the throne and ultimately the temperature of heaven. It's fostered by your relationship with God, your relationship not with church. And oh, I am grateful for church and the atmosphere and the community and the gathering place and the connection and the opportunity to come together and do great things together, things that are greater than we can do as individuals. I am so thankful for that. But that is not what I'm talking about. I am talking about your relationship with God. Because it was Elijah's relationship with God that qualified him for massive impact. Can you imagine all of the prophets and the people he bypassed, all the muckety mucks, all the spiritual muckety mucks that God shot him right by. And his only qualification was that he got the presence of God right. Fostered by relationship with God, cultivated the worship. The worship. That's literally what qualified him. I got a little bit more ground to cover because I'm finishing this week. This, this, this, this necessitates. Check this out. It's going to sound crazy, but it's true. Necessitates rededicating your life to God every day. If, according to Lamentations, chapter three, if he gives us new mercies every day, then we ought to give him new rededication every day. Somehow the Lord sees each day as a reset. His mercies are new day by day. Model prayer. Give us this day our daily bread. One of the ways that we practice the presence of God is to literally rededicate your life to God every single day.

[Congregation or Worship Leader]

Every day.

[Pastor or Preacher]

And I'm going to take it a step further just in case you have a pinch of self righteousness. Repent every day.

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Even if you can't access sin, you know it's there.

[Pastor or Preacher]

Just because. Because you can't access it.

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Don'T mean it ain't there. And if for nothing else, just repent for it being in you.

[Pastor or Preacher]

I'm talking about radical consecration. Radical consecration.

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David, create within me a clean heart. Renewal. He would say stuff like, God, search me, test my mind and my heart, and if you find anything in me, he recognize that man's ways are clean in his own eyes.

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We have an unlimited capacity to justify ourselves and our actions.

[Congregation or Worship Leader]

Oh, we can justify them with the best of them.

[Pastor or Preacher]

And what we also must do in that daily rededication process is to also reestablish. Hear me clearly. I'm teaching now. Reestablish. Watch this. Your identity, your values, your goals and your objectives in God.

[Congregation or Worship Leader]

Daily.

[Pastor or Preacher]

Look at the work it takes to have radical consecration. You're like radical. That's too strong a tank. I don't like radical. Radical. Look around.

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Everything in the world right now is radical.

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Everything is radical.

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And now you don't want to be radical. Everything is heightened. Everything is to the extreme.

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Everything.

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So you think that we just get to be just. No, Everything. I. I've got to catch up.

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Watch this.

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To the current of the world and the current of the times is radical.

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[Congregation or Worship Leader]

And the reason why.

[Pastor or Preacher]

And this is important, and I want to take a minute with this. The reason why it is also going to be important to reestablish your identity is because when you're a kingdom person, there is always going to be a war of identity.

[Congregation or Worship Leader]

Oh, you got to get this.

[Pastor or Preacher]

There's always going to be a war over who you are. Why? Because as a man thinks, so is he. Which means that I cannot be or show up beyond who I think I am. You hearing me? So some of you may have to take all of the prophetic words that you have heard. Just give me a little bit more time and I promise I'll button this up real good. You be blessed. You need to take all of the prophetic words that you have received about who you are and you need to put them in a document and read them every single day. Because there will be an assault on who you are. That is the enemy's number one job is to make you think you. You're not who you're not. You're not who you are is to make you think you ain't. Let me use a little broken English. You ain't who you are. He is an ain't devil. And God is a. And am God. He's an ain't devil. You ain't this, you ain't that, you ain't called, you ain't chosen, you ain't anointed, you ain't.

[Congregation or Worship Leader]

That's the enemy.

[Pastor or Preacher]

So I have what I call an I am statement. You have to have an I am.

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Statement and you have to look at it every single day. It is your mirror so you can show up.

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As yourself each and every single day. There will always be. You will always be in a war of identity and, and, and the reason why this is important is because how you see yourself or how you identify yourself is the difference between faith to move forward or fear. That debilitates. Gotta catch it. If you see yourself right, it gives you faith to move forward. If you buy into the enemy's lie, it will put you in this place of debilitating fear. Makes you stuck. Fear is unprofitable. Oh, I feel it. If fear could help you in some way, I would encourage you to fear. There is literally zero advantage to debilitating fear. I'm not talking about caution and wisdom. It's not what I'm talking about. I'm talking about straight out fear. That makes you question yourself, that makes you doubt, and it keeps you from moving. That is of the enemy. That's why it is arguably some argue that it is said either fear not or be not discouraged or somewhere that. That 365 times in the Bible. A lot of scholars believe 365 times in the Scripture, we are encouraged not to fear. That means that there is not a day in your life that fear will help you in any way whatsoever.

[Congregation or Worship Leader]

Fight against it every day of your.

[Pastor or Preacher]

Life, because fear will never help you. I'm almost there. It's radical consecration. Number two is radical obedience. Now, I'm going to say this, and I've just got to. I can't even do it the way I wrote it. So let me just say this. If you look at his life.

[Congregation or Worship Leader]

Because.

[Pastor or Preacher]

He perfected the presence of God, set the Lord before him. This means that he was always in the current or the flow of God's word. Stay with me. Stay with me. That means that the word of the Lord was always accessible to him.

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Oh, no, no, no.

[Pastor or Preacher]

There are benefits to this thing.

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There are benefits.

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That.

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That means that if I set the Lord in front of me, then his word, that man can't live without his.

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Word, which is a lamp unto my.

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Feet and a light unto my path. His word, which was in the beginning with God. His word.

[Pastor or Preacher]

Watch this. Is always present. Watch this. That means that I am never without his word. Now with his word comes responsibility because his word. Watch this Will not profit you. I'm in Hebrews. Will not profit you if it's not mixed with. With faith.

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So I've got the profitable word, the.

[Pastor or Preacher]

Engrafted word which is able to.

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To save my soul, to bless me, to move me from place to place. But it will not profit me unless I obey it.

[Pastor or Preacher]

Now, this is important. This is a word. If you don't get nothing else. Get this. The Lord began to speak to me about prophecy and prophetic words and obeying God when He gives you a word. And sometimes we look at prophecy and we look at prophetic words. Watch this as optional.

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We look at them as if we. We do them.

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If we sow into them.

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If we.

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Embrace them, then these are. Watch this. I'll call them bonus blessings.

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Optional.

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I got my life, you know, but. And I get this prophetic word. And you know, I can do it or not do it because I am being sustained.

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But the Lord taught me.

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He says, no, no, no, no, you're missing it.

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If I give you a word and you don't do the word, you may end up in lack.

[Pastor or Preacher]

Because there's provision in my word. Just turn to somebody and tell them prophecy is provision. This is important.

[Congregation or Worship Leader]

How do you know? Because right there in the text, there is a word from God, from God to Elijah to tell Ahab that there's getting ready to be a drought. But Elijah wasn't worried about it because he had a connection to the Word. And so the Word told Elijah to go down to the brook. If Elijah thought that the prophetic word was optional and didn't go and do it, he would have starved to death. Are you hearing me? He said, go and do this. This was not optional. This was provisional. And some of you might be in a place of lack. Not because God hasn't did it, but you haven't done what he called you to. I feel the Lord. You haven't done what he called you to do. You haven't gone where he told you to go. You say, well, PT That That's a coincidence.

[Pastor or Preacher]

You know, that was just a coincidence.

[Prophetic or Encouraging Voice]

Really.

[Congregation or Worship Leader]

Well, then, right after that, the brook dried up. It was never about the brook. It was about the word. The brook dries up. God says, no problemo. I've got Provision for you. And that provision is in my word. Go to Zarephath. There is a widow who was there who is going to feed you. So the Lord wanted me to tell you that you've got to obey the prophecy. The Bible says in 2nd Chronicles 20 and 20, believe in the Lord and you shall be established. But believe in the prophet and you will prosper. Stop treating prophetic words as optional. It is time for you to get radically obedient. When God gives you a word, when he gives you an instruction, when he tells you to do something, get to doing it. Because your provision is in it. If he tells you to move to Dallas, Texas, because there's an anointing, Anointing in this place. There's a word in this place, in this environment. You think you're safe where you are, but you are not safe, baby. Oh, I feel the Holy Ghost. If he tells you to move to Ghana, if he tells you to move to Australia, if he tells you to move to Tokyo, wherever the prophetic leads you, God will feed you. It's not optional. It's not optional. Radical boldness.

[Pastor or Preacher]

Radical consecration.

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Radical obedience. The steps a good man are ordered by the Lord. In every step, there is provision. Every time you obey, provision shows up. And we are in a time right.

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Now, we are in a time where.

[Congregation or Worship Leader]

You better covet that prophetic word. When the prophetic word comes out and it says this week, something crazy is going to happen. If you feel it in your shundo, if there's a witness in your shuto, you better get ready. Get ready. Get ready. Put some seed in the ground, put some feet to that and move. Hallelujah. That. That is the blessing of prophecy. And hear me clearly. We're getting ready to come into a season and a moment where there's going to be a drought in prophecy. Why? Because God is unfair. No, he's got too many unfulfilled prophetic words out there. Go back to the word. Radical obedience. Radical obedience. Elijah moved in. Radical, radical obedience.

[Pastor or Preacher]

Radical consecration. Put him in the position to receive word, stay connected to the Word. And he developed this life rhythm of setting the Lord before him and the consecrated lifestyle that kept the Word flowing in his life. He couldn't wait for a word because.

[Congregation or Worship Leader]

He knew that all he had to.

[Pastor or Preacher]

Do was obey that word and he would find provision. Even when there was a famine in the land. Watch this. He never experienced the harmful effects of the famine. Even when the brook dried up, God had a prepared place for him. But if he didn't live a consecrated life. And he wasn't committed to radical obedience. He would have starved. He would have died of thirst and starved. And that produced radical boldness. Let me say this. As a begin to land you have to come to a place where either God is or he ain't. How long, Imarisha? The showdown. The showdown between God is or he's not. How long, Imara? How long will your life halt between two opinions? Your life, because your life speaks. How you move, speaks. And your lack of movement speaks even more loudly. How long You. You have to get to a point. Family, hear me clearly and I beseech you by the mercies of God, to win this showdown today. You we all must make up our minds. Either he is or he's not. I'm thinking about Hebrews chapter 11 and 6. It's interesting. It talks about. It starts off by talking about Enoch. Hebrews. It starts in five. Watch this. And it's interesting. Talks about Enoch because he. Enoch and Elijah had the same exit. They had a very similar exit. They didn't die. They were taken. And it's interesting that in the context of believing that God is Enoch is mentioned Hebrews 11:5. By faith, Enoch was taken away so that he did not see death. Same thing with Elijah. Remember the chariot. And was not found because God had taken him. But before he was taken, he had this testimony that he pleased God. How did he please God By. But without faith, it is impossible to please him. For he who comes to God must believe that he.

[Congregation or Worship Leader]

That he is. And not only that, that he is a rewarder of those who diligently seek him.

[Pastor or Preacher]

We got to settle this today. Radical consecration, radical obedience and radical boldness. The radical boldness will come as a result of your radical consecration. The word coming to you, your radical obedience. And you will boldly. He who comes to God must believe that he is and that he is a rewarder to those who deal it. I'm not wishing God will reward me.

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I'm thanking him.

[Pastor or Preacher]

Last thing I want to say, last thing was studying this out and I was praying God said that you us showing up to the showdown appropriately.

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You look the same.

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[Pastor or Preacher]

Is Going to Create Revival we saw it last week when Elijah showed up to the showdown. Hallelujah. When he showed up to the showdown, did his part, had his showdown etiquette together. God revealed his power and his might by the fire coming down and consuming the altar. The people around him said, the Lord, he is God. The Lord he is God. And there was revival. In that moment I thought about this. The Lord started talking to me about what happens when revival happens. And revival is about alignment. It's about watch this realignment. And what God told me to tell you was where there is realignment, there will be restoration. There are some who There is a conviction by the Holy Spirit to go back to those words that God spoke that you thought were dead. They're not dead. They were waiting on you. And he brought Joel 2 into my spirit and Joel 2, beginning in around verse 25 or 23, he talks about you've seen it. He talks about how he's going to restore the years that the locusts have eaten. And he names up all these different types of insects that attacked you, you in various seasons, a variety of things that have been eating away at the words that God has spoken to you. But now that you are in alignment, the Lord told me that restoration is coming back to you. Not just making things right, but making.

[Congregation or Worship Leader]

It as if you had it the entire time. I feel it so strongly for somebody you thought you missed it. You thought the window had passed. But I hear God saying I'm going to do the former and the latter.

[Pastor or Preacher]

In one month at one time.

[Congregation or Worship Leader]

Because.

[Pastor or Preacher]

You'Ve come into alignment. And we are alive right now. We are alive right now for revival and for restoration. I want to pray for some people today. I'd like everybody to stand if you could. If you don't have to leave, don't leave. Now I know why the enemy's been fighting me so hard. I literally see future is unlocked I get it now. I'm telling you, I'll be, I'll be straight up with you, Bishop. It's been hell. It's been hell.

[Prophetic or Encouraging Voice]

Before he prays, I just want to deliver this word. Some of you are Christians, young Christians, you don't understand, understand how the Spirit moves. He's preaching about a drought while we're in a drought. And the word of the Lord comes saying that I will give you direction to show you the place to go, that the drought won't affect you. This is real important. You see, all of these people, especially these saints, has been around a long time, coming to the altar and sowing a seed. It's not about us having a need. They're attaching their faith to the word of God. When, when, when somebody does something like this and it's uncoerced and people start moving like that and you get a unction and a fix and two and a might oughta, and that word is for me. You need to move on that word right there. You, you need to move on that word right then. You need to move. And I'm trying to teach you how to be led by the Spirit. You have the spirit, but until somebody teaches you how to be led by it, it's nudging you, but you don't know what to do with it. And before he prays for people, if you got a nudge, nudge while he was preaching that word, God said, I'm going to direct you around the dry places and I'm going to set you in a place where your provisions are going to met and they're going to be met sometimes by people who don't even look like they got it. But because you are my child, I'm going to make it happen for you. Now if the Holy Ghost touch you, if it pushed you, if, if it tugged at your soul and you didn't know what it was and you thought it was just a jump or just to shout. You need to attach your seed to that word, attach your seat to the word. And what I'm trying to do is teach you how to, how to receive the word of God. I don't care if you give that on your phone, you just tap your phone down. I'm to trying, trying to show you how to receive a divine word from God. When God gives you a rhema, you gotta act on that word. You gotta. That's what he's preaching about. The word was not mixed with faith in them that heard it. Now I'm trying to show you because it's not that you're rebellious, is that you didn't come from a background that was spirit led. If the spirit was pushing you for direction, if you've been living with threats, if you've been dealing with enemies, if you've been dealing with worry, if you've been dealing with stress, and God just gave you a word like that, I want you to attach your seed to that word right now. I want you to take it. What you doing? You. You're giving the seed, but what you saying? That word is mine. I'm swapping seeds. You gave me your seed. Receive. I'll give you mine. I'm swapping with you right now. I'm swapping with you because I know one word from you is better than the cattle on a thousand hill. Show me whose house to go to. Show me what brook to stand in. Show me what I'm gonna do next. Show me how to make a way. And I'm gonna give you a minute. He's calling for prayer, but I didn't want you to miss this opportunity. If the Holy Ghost. I don't care if you're in the balcony. I don't care if you're in the back. I don't care if you're on a walker. If the Holy Ghost nudge, you come through the crowd like the woman with the issue of blood and attach yourself to that seat, that anointed seat from God. When you see people moving on that seed who are seasoned and been in the way for 50 years, we don't move easily. When you see your elders move, you get in that flow. You respond to that. When you see women of God like Dr. James responding to the word and coming out, you know that's a word from God. And you, you're getting ready to inherit the kingdom. And I want to make sure that you know how to move in the spirit. Move in the spirit. No, we're not selling T shirts. No, we don't have no sweatshirts outside. You gonna do this through the spirit? The spirit of God draws you. The spirit. The Bible is you. Yes, Lord. The Lord said, the spirit of the Lord compels you. If the spirit of the Lord is compelling you. Can I take just a minute? If the spirit of the Lord is compelling you, that means you need to come. That's why you got the Holy Ghost. That's why you're led by the Holy Ghost. That's why you're filled with the Holy Ghost. Glory to God. If you're watching online and the spirit of the Lord Come compel you. I don't care who's writing what. I don't care who's making fun. I don't care what they say. You respond to that word. We're swapping seeds. My seed for your seed. Deep calling on the deep. Sewing and reaping seed. Time and harvest. I receive that seed. If I'm talking to you, you move. I don't care if you're in Tuscaloosa. I don't care if you in Detroit. I don't care if you're in Birmingham. I don't care if you're in Africa. I don't care if you speak Swahili. I don't care if you're watching from Brazil. If you heard that word and something in your belly started moving, you obey that word. Right now I gotta get out of the way because I'll never get in nobody's way. But I want to give you a second to begin to understand how the spirit provokes you. The Bible said when Mary came to Elizabeth House and they greeted each other her baby, leave. When a word comes that makes your baby leave, your dream comes to life. Your dream comes to life. And God said, I'm gonna direct you. I'm gonna direct you. I'm gonna direct. And it's gonna be like it ain't a famine. Holly. I'm gonna take you into a realm that defies the forecast of the the times. I'm gonna cause you to win where other people are failing. This shall be a sign unto you, saith the Lord God. And I want you to begin to know what the spirit of God is saying. I want a thousand people to lift your hand and just start talking in tongues. Just start praying in the Spirit. Just start yielding to the Holy Ghost. We must be a Holy Ghost church. We gotta have a Holy Ghost church. We can't just have a Baptist, a Methodistic Catholic, a Presbyterian Apostolic. We must have a Holy Ghost Church. With the Holy Ghost move. When the Holy Ghost moves, I move. If he's not moving, I'm not moving. I'm moving with the Holy Ghost. For as many as are led by the Spirit, they are the sons of God. Come on, talk to your daddy. Talk to your daddy. Talk to your daddy. Daddy's gonna give me direction. Daddy's gonna tell me when to move. Daddy's gonna tell me where to go. I getting out the way. I'm getting out the way. But I couldn't miss that opportunity to give you a quick class on how to know when the Spirit is moving in A place he has manifest in your belly. And he expects you to respond. He expects you to move. He expects you to change. He expects you to walk. He expects you to run. He expects you to respond. When God speaks, God's people move somebody. Give it 30 seconds of crazy praise. 30 seconds of crazy pray. Crazy pray, Delirious praise, spontaneous praise. Praise like you know that God's gonna take care of you and your children and your grandchildren and your seed from this day forward. Give him a praise right now. A praise. A praise right now. In the name of Jesus. In the name of Jesus, Hurry up if you're coming. Because he getting ready to pray for these souls. Hurry up if you're coming. Hurry up if you're coming. Hurry up if you're coming. You ain't got time to go fleece the Lord and ask him to rain on the sidewalk. When God nudges you, you move you online. If he nudges you, you move, you respond. This is how you build a Holy Ghost Church. And if we build this church like a Holy Ghost Church, and you're getting worried like that, and you're responding like that, God said, I'll give it to you. Press down, shaken together, running over. I'll cause men to give to your bosom. I'll cause people who don't like you to give to your Booker. He didn't even have a relationship with the widow, but God caused her to be a source of blessing. God will show you who to call. He'll show you where to go. He'll show you what job to take. It's coming. It's coming. It's coming. It's coming. It's coming. It's coming. It's coming. It's coming. It's coming. One of you brothers, help that elderly woman down the step. One of you brothers out there in the wife, help that lady down and see. Yeah, help her down the step. Come on, come on, come on, come on. It's important. If it's important enough for her to come staggering down these steps to get in this world. When you see old folks move, we know something. You don't get to be old being stupid. When you see old folks move, don't sit back and look.

[Congregation or Worship Leader]

Boo, boo, boo, boo.

[Prophetic or Encouraging Voice]

You the one got the future. You the one got destiny. You the one got 50 more years. You the one that gotta hear what God is saying. That was a word from God. It was prophetic. It was a anointed, it was timely. And you don't just get that and just walk out the Door and eat and belt and walk away. The devil is a lie. He said, the day you hear my voice, harden not your heart. I break every hard spirit. I break every stubborn spirit. I break every carnal spirit. I break every nightclub spirit. I break every gossiping spirit. That hardness of your heart is stopping you from it raining. God said it's gonna rain. He's gonna let it rain in here. Let it rain on your children. Let it rain. I'm sorry, I don't never do this, but I'm trying to teach you how to know when God is talking. You gotta know when God is talking to you. You got to know when God is talking to you. That message fits some stuff you were going through right now. If that message was for you, raise your hands and thank God for his word. Thank God for his word. Thank God for His word. Thank God for his word. He did his job. Make sure you do yours. Thank God for His word. Thank God for his word. Thank God for your obedience to the word. Thank you. Thank God that you will move when God says move. If the woman with issue of blood hadn't moved, she'd have bled to death. If blind body mass hadn't cried, he'd have lived the rest of his life blind. If the lame man hadn't reached out, he'd have been lame the rest of his life. You gotta do something. You gotta take action. You gotta move. You gotta move. I feel a stirring, Pastor Turbo. I feel stirring in the Holy Ghost. Somebody who knows how to praise God. I mean, old school praise God. Somebody who knows how to give God glory. Just give God glory. I don't care what you got on. I don't care what you look like. I don't care whether you off beat or offbeat. Somebody who recognize the anointing is in this place. React to the Holy Ghost. React to the Holy Ghost.

[Congregation or Worship Leader]

React to the Holy Ghost.

[Prophetic or Encouraging Voice]

I know you got a degree, but react to the Holy Ghost. I know you a doctor, but react to the Holy Ghost. I know you're important, but react to the Holy Ghost. For the just shall live by faith. You just got a minute. You just got a minute. You got a minute. You got a minute. You got a minute? I'm gonna turn the mic over. You got a minute. You got a minute. You better run. You better run. Obedience, it's better than sacrifice. Obedience is better than sacrifice. If you felt a tug. You gotta run. You gotta run. You gotta run. It's getting late in the evening and the sun is going down. Time is winding up. Pollution is all in the water. It's all in the air. Chaos is everywhere. It's getting late in the evening. It's no time for us to wander around and just have church. We need to have an encounter with the Holy Ghost. And I gotta teach you, when the Holy Ghost speaks to you, it's not going to be words. It's going to be an auction. Just an auction. Just a quickening, just a push, just a nudge. You know how you meet people and God will give you a nudge. That's the Holy Ghost down inside of you. And I'm trying to teach you how to know when to move in the Holy Ghost. Hallelujah. Anybody else? Anybody else? I'm through. I'm through. What is more important than the seeds you sow? It's the education I'm trying to give you how to receive a word like that require. A word like that requires a response. The Bible said. He said, let there be light and there was life and it was good. Every time God speaks, something happens. Something happened to you. Something happened to you. Something happened to you. You. If you know something happened to you, praise God right now. Praise him.

[Congregation or Worship Leader]

Praise God.

[Prophetic or Encouraging Voice]

Sam.

[Pastor or Preacher]

Hallelujah.

[Prophetic or Encouraging Voice]

Jesus. Jesus.

[Pastor or Preacher]

This is revival. It's what it feels like. Bishop talked about an unction.

[Prophetic or Encouraging Voice]

Thank you, Jesus.

[Pastor or Preacher]

If you're here and you are ready to enter into a relationship with Jesus, who is undeniably present and who is touching you, whether you're here or watching, it's time to get in the boat. This. This is an ark. It's interesting that the vessel that Noah was called to build for the purpose of saving humanity is the same word that's used to describe that which would carry the presence of God. So there's a connection between the presence of God, which we are all feeling, and the ark of salvation. And so if you're here and you have never opened up your heart to Jesus, but you feel the presence of God, perhaps in a way that is more resonant than you ever had in your life. This is not normal. Although I believe it is our new floor. I do believe it's our new floor. But this is an unusual grace for unusual times. So if you are here and you have never opened up your heart, you just need to surrender to Jesus and welcome him into your life. I want you to come and meet me here at this altar. And if you're watching via livestream, I want you to put it right there in the feed. I receive Jesus. Just. Just do that. If that's you, I want you to come I want you to come. This. This is holy. It's holy. And thank you. Thank you, Bishop, for. For teaching us how to respond, how to respond. And he gave some to be apostles and some prophets and some evangelists and some pastors and teachers. But the equipping of the saints, we need it all to be the body, and we need you all. I'm going to pray in a moment. There have been revivals in history. Be honest with you. There's always the wrestling between dismissing and just sitting here all day in his presence. And we will probably do something along the lines of 24 hours at some point. I sense it's coming. Prayer and fasting, I sense that's coming. But there's always the wrestling between just letting us sit. There have been movements that started with a service and you looked up and four months passed by seriously marked by salvations, healing, signs, all that. So we have to be open to whatever, literally. But I do want you to go back to your spheres of impact and your spheres of influence. And you take this fire and you take this clarity and you go do business in the name of the Lord. Dust off the old prophecies, dust off the words. Watch this. That maybe hope deferred made your heart sick or whatever. Maybe it took so long you forgot about it and you have espoused new words and forgot about those words. There is a connection between your provision and your prophecy. So you don't get to pick and choose. Are you tracking with me? Restoration is here. This is going to be a crazy week. We heard this is going to be a crazy week because I feel like. Like we got adjusted today. I know how good it feels. I want you to repeat after me. In honor of those who I believe gave their hearts to the Lord for the first time, let's all say together. Heavenly Father, we. We thank you for your love. We feel it. Thank you for speaking to us. We receive it. Thank you for Jesus. Thank you for making him who knew no sin. All of mine, all of my mistakes, all of my brokenness, all of my hurt, all of my pain, all of my rebellion, you placed in his body, nailed it to the cross and put it to death. And just as he was raised up on the third day, free and victorious, because I am in him. I'm free, too. Holy Spirit, fill me to the overflow that I might have the mind of Christ, that I might perceive your instructions and walk in obedience. Lord, today I commit to a new level of consecration, to a new level of obedience. If you speak it, I'll Move in it. I thank you for boldness to be who you've called me to be. Lord, bring to my remembrance things you've spoken to me, instructions you have given to me, promises that you've made that I might be realigned, that I might experience restoration. God, use me as a sign to who you are now. God, I thank you for your presence in every showdown I face. I love you, Lord. In Jesus name, amen. Amen. Amen. Amen. Amen. Hallelujah. Quickly. This is a movement. We are more than a church. We truly are movement. And when you see the generations coming together the way you've seen that Malachi prophesied about that Malachi 4 said, before the Lord comes back, well, first of all, he talked about the spirit of Elijah and some say it's John the Baptist and that all works and everything, but we're talking about Elijah. But he also says that the hearts of the fathers will turn to the hearts of the children and the hearts of the children. In other words, there's going to be this collaboration between generations. We're seeing it. And a fresh outpouring. We're seeing it. This is a movement. If you say, you know what, I want the potter's house to be my house, first of all. It already is. But you want to draw near to this movement and even get involved and serve. There are pastors to my left. You can see them after service. If you have to leave, you don't have time to do that. There's a QR code on the screen. We want to connect, connect with you. We want to draw you in. We are one family. Love you so much. We're going to have walk it out Wednesday night. This Wednesday, as a man thinks, is Thursday. If you have not registered or if you have some male, some man in your life that you believe needs to be there, take care of his registration, tell him about it. We're going to have a powerful time together. May the Lord bless and keep you. May make his face to shine upon you and be gracious towards you. May he lift his up countenance over you and grant you shalom. Shalom in Jesus name. God bless you. I love you too, brother. God bless you.

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[Pastor or Preacher]

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