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Is so then now it comes to light. This is a fight. This is a spiritual fight. This is the fight between the gods. This is the fight between Yahweh and the gods. Y' all created God says, okay, I'm gonna let him change your name. I'm gonna let you be a part of the system. But here's what I'm gonna do. I'm gonna make sure that no weapon that is formed against you is gonna prosper. I'm gonna make sure that every enemy that rises up against you, I'm going. Oh, see, here. Here's where you gotta make sure the system don't get in you. Because you think. Because the weapons form is gonna kill me. Form it? Baby, the Bible says you were going to form it. As a matter of fact, aim it at me. You don't have a trigger finger to pull it. I don't care what it looks like. See, he wants the identity he wants. If I can change their name to Shadrach, Meshach and Abednego, I can change their identity. You can change my name, but you can't change my Character. You can't change my integrity. And the problem with some of us is we're too busy waiting for people's approval based off what they call us. No, you have lost your mind. If the people's applause fuel you, their silence will kill you. I love you all. I promise you, I do. I promise you. I love every single one of you. But if you never clap, God is still good. If you never say anything. See, this is me. And I don't say this every. Can I say let this get in your system, in you. You're too busy trying to seek people's approval and you will lose yourself seeking the approval of people who don't even like you. I want them to like me. I don't care about no social comments. Don't like me. That's your problem. I'm gonna unfollow you. I didn't tell you to follow me anyway. As a matter of fact, what you mean you follow me? You going to my house? No, I don't have that many followers, baby. I don't know who following me. And see, what we do is we allow the system now get in us and our system influences us. And now we walk around depressed because we don't have no likes, we don't have no followers, we don't have no friends. Can you imagine if all the people on your social media account actually followed you? For real? For real, for real. I'm not talking about a post that you put that you photoshopped that you may look the way it look. I'm talking about they really, really, really followed you and saw who you really, really, really, really, really. Who you really are. It is amazing to me how we look for the approval of people who are empty. Just as empty as we are. I don't know if you don't like me because you don't like yourself. So now I've taken on the spirit of you because you don't like you. So now you're reflecting on me. So while we in this 10 days of fasting, I'm gonna say this. You better make sure you rolling with people who's on the same diet plan. Okay, okay, okay, okay. I think I'm gonna say that again. You better make sure you rolling with the same people who are on the same diet plan. Because oftentimes in my house it will be a big problem because if we were not fasting together. Listen to me, listen to me. We eat two separate items and if she tell me she fasting, I probably would say, what does that have to do with me. That's God talking to you. He's not talking to me. So I still need my meat. I still need. I need something. Guess this. I'm joking, but I'm serious. Be careful because you don't want to be at the table longing for something that God has pulled you from because you're sitting at the wrong table. And the problem with some of us, and we're too busy looking at other people's plate while God is saying, you should have turned yours down. I want what they have. You don't know what it costs them. I want what they got. God said, that's not a part of your diet plan. So why you rolling with people who are going to help influence your high blood pressure? Pressure when you need. Okay, okay. Oh. So you better be careful who's operating in your diet plan. I think I will. He said talk about it. Here's why I want to talk about it. Because the text says. Here. Here's what I mean by this. The Bible says in verse number eight, Daniel said. Wait, wait. It says. It does not say. The other three boys said it, only said Daniel said it. Which means Daniel said it by himself. But remember, taking captive. There is a group of young men who has been chosen, but only three answer the call. I'm gonna say that again. There's a crowd that's picked out, but inside of the picked out, there's another picked out. But who got picked out, Chose to follow the one who said something that aligned with what God said. Okay, you missed it. I am picked. Sick and tired of people following the crowd because the crowd didn't pick you. You better find yourself in a posture of listening to somebody who looks like they're the pioneer of doing something by themselves. Because Daniel said. Check this out. Hey, hey, bro. I can't eat what y' all eatin'. I can't eat that. Watch this. I can't eat it because it'll defile me. So he gives instructions on what the diagnosis of the meat will do to you, which means everybody else hears what's happening right now. So in other words, I don't want your influence to get into me. I don't want your past to influence me, and it makes my future non existence. Okay, let's have Bible study. The text says he's offering the meat. Well, Pastor, what is the meat? I'm so glad you asked me this. This is the same meat that Nebuchadnezzar that they kill and they sacrifice to the idol God. So this is the same meat that they sacrifice, give it to the idol God, and then try to give it to the children of God. Okay, I'm gonna say that again. So he takes an idol sacrifice and try to give it to the God of our God and say, make your kids eat this. Now, I don't know about you, but I think I'm a pretty good parent. I think I am. My boys may argue with every now and then, but it's okay. I love them anyway. I'm not giving my kids anything that's defiled. I would not let my kids drink spoiled milk. Why in the world would God allow you to be in a system that will make you eat stuff that will leave you toxic, and you sit there and eat it over and over and over again? Paul, come get them. Pastor, why are you in a system? Why are you around people who are toxic? And all you do is think and jacked up mind every day gonna always be this way. No, you toxic. No, you talk. You ought to start walking in. Let me. Let me. I need to smell who's around me, because this. Okay, My wife, I'mma. I'm gonna throw her under the boat. My wife, she eats with her nose. Some of y' all may do it, too. Like, she gonna smell everything. I'm like, just eat it. She say, nope, not gonna do it. I gotta smell it. My grandson does it. He's two years old. He said. I said, what are you doing? He just smell it. He just. And it hit me one day. Wait a minute, wait a minute. So your nostrils influence your taste buds. So then why can't you smell rotten people around you? God, I. God, I ain't know. They made me no good. What's wrong with your nostrils, baby? What's wrong with discernment? If I had known earlier, maybe. No, if you had smelled earlier, I could have smelled earlier. You did. You know why you didn't? Grandma was smelling for you, Baby. That ain't the one. You better look for another one. Grandmama don't know. Mama don't know yet. Grandmama. Mama know. You know why they know? Cause they got the smell. I smelled that one before, baby. No, he not. No good for you. Okay? I'm walking a rough road right here. I'm helping the young ones right now. Baby, they nostrils work better than yours. I don't care how fine he is. Let me smell you. Come here. Come here. Come here. Next time you go on a date. Hey, you want to go on a date?

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Grandma, I need you to get. Sit right next to my grandmother. Let her smell you. Let your grandma smell me. Yeah, let her smell you. Grandma. What he smell like? Mm. Mm. Baby Jezebel. Just. Okay, Gotta go, gotta go. Hey, your Uber is outside waiting on you. We haven't went out. Yes, we have. You've been proven and tested. I've gone through too much hell. I can't smell nothing else no more, baby. Okay, see, we have to realize God uniquely put us around people. When we can't smell, they smell for us. Like. And here's what I found out. Anytime you smell someone and they don't know they need to be changed, you may be around a baby. Okay, okay, okay, okay. I'm. I don't know how deep I want to go with that because I got it here in my nose. Because you. You're like. You don't smell that, baby. You. You don't. You don't smell that. Yeah. And you walk around here playing with your diaper dragon. Hear me in the spirit. Most of us around here playing with people who don't mean us no good, who need to be changed, and they're waiting on us to change them so they can mess over us again. I'm in a season of my life. You ain't got but one chance to mess over me anytime after that. I ain't changing, kids. I don't have enough wet wipes. I'm sorry. I ain't got enough to clean you. I done went through that season of my life. I ain't warming no more bottles. I ain't changing no more diapers. If you can't get on a diet plan with me, baby. See you later. Okay. See, it's in the text. It's in the text because of 3, there's only 4 agree. I'm not eating it. I'm not eating it. And here's where I find the problem is this is not the first time, lady, that there's been an eating problem. In Genesis, chapter three, Eve has an eating problem. But here's the problem. Here's what I find in Bible study. For years, I fought with Eve about eating the fruit. Until the other day, I got a conviction. I was mad with Eve and Adam. I said, God, I go to heaven. I might have a fighting spirit on me. I might find Adam. Even just Adam, bro, you took us through all of that. You could have corrected that. Man. What you doing? What are we doing? And then I started reading again, and I read it again, and I read chapter 30 again. And God said, I want to show you something. You're too busy worrying about the fruit. And the fruit wasn't the problem. The problem that the enemy was feeding Eve before she ate the fruit. She was eating before she bit. Okay, okay. She's eating before she even engages with the fruit. She is eating the words that is coming out of his mouth when he said, surely God won't make you die. And the first thing the enemy does is to get you to question God with doubt. Surely he won't make you die. And she even says, well, we can touch everything. But I said, no, no, no, no, no, no, no. Watch this. She's still eating instead of walking away. She's still eating. She's still eating. Well, no, because you thought your words the first time was enough. See, you thought you told talking to him was enough. When sometimes you just gotta walk away like, I ain't got no words for you, brother. Delete Paul. See you later. Matter of fact, I don't even have to tell you I'm saved. My walk gonna show you I'm saved. Oh, you tried to ghost me. I didn't try hard enough. Cause you found me. I'm goin again. I'm gone again. It's in the text because Eve has a problem. She's not eating the fruit before she's eating his words. In chapter three, the text says, out of all of a sudden. And here's this we read so fast. She made it. She made it, the Bible says. And when she saw it was good. Wait, how can you come up with something being good if you haven't tasted it? Which means you tasted it in the spirit before you taste it naturally. And the problem with some of us is we're eating the word of the enemy before we even watch the manifestation of the stuff we've been saying out of our mouth. And God is saying, why can't I get no better? Because, baby, who you've been around and what you've been eating, God says, this is a feeding problem. So in one garden there's a problem, in another garden, God goes to correct it. Jesus now comes up in Matthew chapter four, the rumble in the jungle. He says, man shall not live by bread alone. But every word that proceeds out of the mouth of God. Wait, wait. So then what I say is edible. So when I say I can eat, here's what Jesus does. Jesus now takes authority back from what Adam and Eve dropped. And he says, listen, stop fooling around with the devil, because he'll take you further than you want to go, keep you longer than you want to be kept, leave you wondering than you want to Be out there because you around there talking to him and dancing with him. Baby, keep playing with five. You want to. You're gonna get burned. And I know we living in a day and time now where everybody say this and that. But I still believe. Right is right, wrong is wrong. I don't care. Holiness is still right. Shout me down. Say what you want to say. Sin is still sin. Say what you want to say. I still believe serving God is right. I am not compromising anything. The gospel is the gospel. I'm gonna eat off the word of God. I'm gonna do what he told me to do. I'm gonna try to live right. I'm a line up of what he said. And every time I fall off line, I'm gonna repent and get it back right. I know, I know. This antiquated and old for some people. Pastor, don't take all that. No. Okay. Keep on living. Keep on living. You gonna find God's words to be true. Keep on living. Pastor Sarah said it on Sunday. Repentance is a changing of your mind and God. I changed my mind. It is us need for us to understand that the position that God has us in. God is saying, hey, y', all, a lot of this is up to you. You gotta stand flat footed and tell the devil. Not taking this anymore. I'm not eating what you're serving. I'm not eating what you put on my plate. Catch this. I'm not eating it. Even though I've been taken captive. Because your decision determines your deliverance. Okay, okay. I found this to be interesting. Is that now Daniel says, here's what we're gonna do. Test me for 10 days. Test me for 10 days. Don't go longer than 10. Test me for 10 days. He said, but after 10 days, come back and check us out. I need you to hear this. Daniel says, come back in 10 days and check us out. This has not happened before. This is the expectation that Daniel has that he believed the word of God. That if you come back in 10 days, I'm going to show you what the God we serve can do miraculously that he cannot do for other people. Then catches y' all. And then he does something that I think is absolutely gangster. He says, and compare us. Compare us to the other ones. In other words, I didn't say condemn us. I said compare us. Now let them eat your food. And I'm going to eat the food that God told me to eat. Come back in 10 days. Wait a minute, wait a minute. It started the other day. Come back in 10 days from Monday and see what God has done in my life compared to what he did for those who did not participate. Okay, okay, okay. This is probably going to be a soft shot right here. So I'm going to look over here. This is probably going to be a soft shot. This is probably going to be a real soft shot right here. So don't get mad when God come back ten days from now and there's an oil that's on my life that's not on somebody else's because I chose to participate in the 10 day challenge. Because I chose to participate. But why God gave it to them? Because we participated in it. You have the responsibility. I am so sick and tired of people leaning on God's divinity while neglecting their human responsibility. God said, I'll do it if you move. If you move, I'll do it in your life. He said, at least give me 10 days. It's 365 in a year. You can't give me 10. Why? You don't have the right to get mad at somebody else if you don't know they sacrifice. I will shout all by myself. That's why I don't get mad when God bless me. If you get mad at me, that's your problem because you don't know the sacrifice it took me to get to where I am right now. And if my shouting is bothering you right now, God, I wish I had a praise right about here. If my dancing is bothering you right now, wait till the 10 days is up, baby, because God's about to compare and he's about to show you. Somebody shout. 10 days. 10 days. 10 days. God's going to do it and he's going to do it not because he's God, he's going to do it because you chose to participate. And I want to talk to about 100 people that's in here or a thousand that's online. When you choose to participate and what God has has done in your life, I want to pray now. This is not altar call but I want to pray for anybody who feels as though you going to feel bad because God bless you and he ain't blessed them. I have been delivered from survivor's remorse. I have been absolutely delivered from, from survivors remorse. The only thing I can tell you is if you want to know how God did it for me, I'm going to tell you what he did. Now if you don't practice the principles of how God did it for me, please don't get mad. How he desires to bless me. And I want to talk to anybody that's in here that you're on the cusp of the days, that God is about to multiply in your life and he's about to do something to shift your whole, whole generation. Don't get mad, baby. Walk around happy, be glad, because God's about to do it. As a matter of fact, can we take about 15 seconds and give God praise? Because on the 9th and the 10th day, God's going to do it. Can we take about 10 seconds and give. I'm going to get in the word, but can we take. God's going to do it. Can we take about 10 seconds, 10 seconds for 10 days that God's going to show up? That, that God's going to show out, that God's going to bless it? As a matter of fact, I am declaring that he's going to compare you to somebody else.

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It's 10 days. I gotta. Okay, I'm sorry. I'm sorry. 10, 10, 10 days. Daniel says, give me 10 days. Give me. Give me 10 days. And the Bible says. And when he come back, he says, they look better and listen. I love the way one verse he said, and they're nourished even more. In other words, I have more strength now. I want to prophesy to somebody today that when this fast is over, God's going to give you more strength to write the book. I want to prophesy to somebody today that when this fast is over, God's going to open some more doors for you. I want to prophesy and declare to somebody in here that when this fast is over, God's going to do. Eyes have not seen, ears have not heard. Neither has it entered? Let me tell you why I'm shouting. Because I know what he just showed me. I know what he just told me because I was too busy shouting that I don't look like them. I was too busy shouting because I'm compared to them. I look better. When the Holy Ghost just hit me. He said, it ain't even about them. You're about to look better than your past. I don't know who that is for today, but God says you won't look like your past in the next 10 days. You gonna look better than you went into it. You won't even look like you've been through anything. God. You gonna give your testimony. They gonna say for real use a lie. You ain't never been through nothing. Girl, if I could tell you the truth, if it had not been for God who was on my side, tell me my heart, where would I be? The Lord didn't hit me, James. It hit me. The Holy Ghost said, it's not about comparing yourself to them. It's about comparing yourself to you. You're going to be a better you. You're going to be a better version of yourself. Because the only way I can give you the blessing for the next season of your life is you got to become a better version of your. Somebody shout better me. Better. Better. Better. Better. Better. Better. Better. Better me. Better. Better me. Okay, I gotta. I gotta say. Say Holy Ghost. I'm gonna say it for somebody. God says it's gonna be sooner than 10 days. It's gonna. I don't hold that for. But God says it's gonna. Gonna be sooner than 10 days. I don't. I don't know who that. It's gonna be sooner. Somebody shout sooner. It's gonna be sooner than 10 days. It's gonna be, it's gonna be sooner. It's gonna be sooner. Eyes have not seen it's gone. It's gonna be sooner. It's gonna be sooner. As a matter of fact, the Bible says as they were moving, they got healed. As I movers to 10 days, somebody's gonna be day one. One, somebody going to be. Day two, I'm starting to look better. Day three, day four, I'm starting to look better. Day five, baby, I'm. Look at me. Somebody shout look at me. I'mma look different tomorrow. I'mma look. I'm going look different tomorrow. I'm going look. I'm going look different. The kicker, lady, the Holy Ghost said the look is not always existentially. Sometimes the look is the look I'mma look different. Okay. Oh, you just missed that shout right there. I'm going to look different. So the next time I think see it, I'm not gonna see it as a mountain anymore. Imma see it as an opportunity to give God praise. The next time I see it, it's gonna be a wall of Jericho. But the next time I see it, it's gonna be a sidewalk. Baby, that I just won't. Don't. Okay. Look at it. Look at it. Look, look, look, look, look. Look at it. Somebody shout, look different. I said, you're gonna look different. I thought it was outside. He said, no, no, no. I'm gonna change your vision yearly. I go to get my eyes checked. Oh, my days right here. And I went to the doctor the other day, and I took my glasses and I said, doc, I just want you to change. But my glasses. He said, I'm sorry, Pastor Don, I can't give you new glasses without doing an examination. I said, no, no, no, no. Just keep the same medicine, same prescription. He said, no, it don't work that way. I said, how does it work? He says, because you've been wearing them so diligently, your vision could have corrected more than you think. So you may not need as much medicine anymore because your vision's been corrected. Oh, I want to talk to somebody today because you've been doing what God told you long enough. The next time I go, my vision gonna be corrected. And I sat in the seat and he said, a, B. I said, B. He said, ach or B. He said, oh, see, it is better because you're seeing different. I don't. You don't know who I'm talking to today. But God said, you're gonna see different after this. Okay. All right. I want to show you something because I'm a biblical teacher, because I believe what the word of God says. The Bible says Daniel is about 16, 17 years old, taking captive as a young man. Remember, we know Daniel fast, but we don't know Daniel's life. Daniel fast is about vegetables and water. Vegetables. Somebody say vegetables and waters. It's not until Daniel, chapter six, that Daniel get tossed in the lion's den. And we shout because God shut the mouth of the lion. And that is true. However, Daniel got tossed in the lion's den because he wouldn't stop praying. Pause right there for just one second. The enemy may be trying to get you to stop praying because you think you're going to get tossed in the lion's den. And I want to talk to Somebody today with the fear of a lion's den, God is saying, just keep on praying. I'll work that out. But, but, but, but, but, but, but, but wait, but wait, but wait. In the midst of him praying, he also fasts. I'm not a doctor. Neither do I play one on tv. But here's what I found out. That when you eat meat, meat gives off an odor that is blended with your skin. Bacteria smells like ammonia to the human nostrils. It is not able to be picked up. But a lion hunts based off what he smells. Is it possible that God tells Daniel to keep fasting and praying because the danger that's coming, I don't need the enemy to smell you. Is it possible you being attacked because of what you smell like? But if you purify yourself, the enemy can't smell value anymore. Is it possible? I wish I had somebody in here. The text says, catch this. He's tossed into the lion's den. Your body gives off an odor that smell. A lion is a carnivore. He hunts for meat. But if I don't smell like it, if I don't smell like it. I wish I had some Bible readers in here. As the deer panteth after the so does my soul. Test this juxtaposition. Daniel does it fast so he doesn't smell like what he's getting ready to get thrown into. Daniel has no idea he's getting ready to get tossed into the lion's den. He's just practicing what he's already done. So I don't smell like it. So wherever you throw me, the enemy can't attack me. So I find myself resting with the enemy because he's really not my enemy. He's my pillow. I'm going to prove it to you. Because the Bible says the king, which is a new one by this time, Fast all night long pulled Daniels out of the lion den. Daniel said, oh, king. And then the same people that convicted Daniel get tossed into the lion den. And because they were not fasting, the lions devoured them. I'm sorry. This is why I need to know who's on the diet plan with me, baby. Because when it's time for me to sleep with lions, I ain't got time to be trying to protect you. Oh, I wish I had somebody up in here. So Psalm says, as the deer panteth after the water brook, so does my soul panteth after thee, O God. That is not David writing because he's being creative. That is an animal's instinct. As the deer panted after the water brook, when the deer is panting, he gets up on his hind leg to find the closest water spring. Not for nourishment, because he know the enemy's coming. And the enemy knows the lion hunts with his smell, but the deer knows. If I can just make it to the water. If I can just make it to a place so I can dip myself. If I can just make it to the place where he can't find me anymore. Oh, he that dwells in the secret place of the most high, God shall abound under the saddle. And that's the problem. You got to find somewhere to hide. The 10 day challenge is absolutely real. And here is why it's real. God is trying to provide shelter for you to hide, and you're too busy trying to eat what you want to eat. And God said, I can't allow that anymore. You cannot eat what you want to eat and want the benefits of not being attacked. That's the equivalent of saying, I'm going to lose this weight, but I'm going to eat what I want to eat. You have to be willing to do something. And I'm reminded that Daniel does something critically that I love. The Bible says he falls asleep in a lion's den. It's a lion's den for the king. It's a hotel for Daniel. So I have to find myself being comfortable being uncomfortable. I have to find myself being comfortable being uncomfortable. Yeah. Are you uncomfortable doing this fast? Sure you are. Guess what? I don't care. Here's why I don't care. Because I know it's gonna happen in 10 days. And I wish I had some other people here and online that, you know what's gonna happen in 10 days? That I'm not gonna smell the same. I'm not gonna look the same. I'm not gonna be in the same crowd. I'm tired of running out the crowd. I'm tired of running out the people. I wish I had at least 10 people in here and 10 online that will praise God, that know the 10 days about up. Now. Yeah. Yeah, it's about up. It's about. Yeah, it's about to change. It's about the shift. It's about to do some things. God is about to blow my mind. Okay, I gotta get to the end of the text. I gotta get to the end of the text in Daniel, chapter one. Oh, I might shout my own stuff right here. I'll let y' all get it, but I ain't get it. Wait a minute. 10 days or less. God, do it in my house. Do it in their house. Blow our mind. Show us something different. Make a way out of no way. Show me you a way maker. Show me you, you're a healer. Show me you're a deliverer. Show me you can tear walls out. Show me you can create doors. Show me you can work. The text says. The text says, dam because of the fast is not given to all of them. The Bible says, but these four, not all of them, but these four get knowledge, understanding, the ability to interpret visions and dreams. Okay, okay, okay, I'm gonna say it again. Because they participated, God moves them into an ecosystem that they didn't even ask to go into. And I want to prophesy to somebody today that God Sundays, when these 10 days are up, I'm about to bless you with something you didn't even pray for. You didn't even ask me for it. And I'm still going to open the door for you. Somebody shout, do it, God. Do it, do it, do it. You shall do it. He shall walk into it. Here it is, Here it is. We're standing. Come on, we're standing. I want to pray. I want to shout. I want to dance. I might want to go crazy up in here. What about want to dance, shout and pray and go. Because there's so much more I want to say, but I know what I want to do because I hear the Holy Ghost. He says he gives them knowledge, he gives them understanding. He gives them the ability to interpret visions and dreams. Here it is. He gives them four different things. He gives them knowledge, he gives them understanding. He gives them the ability to interpret their visions and dreams. Knowledge is great, but if you don't have understanding of the knowledge, it's like having a gun with no bullets. Understanding is wisdom. So in other words, God is saying, most of us don't have an information problem. We have an execution problem. So he'll give you the wisdom. I mean, he'll give you the knowledge, but you don't know what to do with it. So. So he says, I gave them knowledge and I gave them understanding on how to move, how to move. Now, this may bother somebody right here sometimes you may have to move different. Touch three people and tell them, I gotta move different. I have to move. I gotta move different. I have to move. I have to move different. I have to move different. I have to move different. I have to move different. I have to move different. Because I'm getting ready to see something I've never seen before. I am getting ready to walk into something I never walked into before. God is opening a door that I didn't even know was in existence before. The Bible says he has the ability to interpret visions and dreams. Okay. Okay. Visions is what you see while you awoke. Dreams what you see when you sleep. And sometimes God talk to us more in dreams because we talk too much when we woke. So God waits till you go to sleep and he start talking to you through your dreams, not understanding that your dreams are prophetic. Not understanding that your dreams are aligning with the purpose and the assignment that God is having for your life. But here's what he says to Daniel. I'm gonna put you in the middle of it. And those who have dreams and visions, you're gonna have the ability to interpret them, which means you're gonna have a beeline straight to me. Oh, I wish I had time to finish reading the whole chapter one. Because we talk about the fast, but we don't talk about the life of Daniel. And the text says, I'm done right here. The text says, they have more favor than all the soothsayers, than anyone in the land because they chose to not eat. They went on a fast. You praying for God to do things in your life? God says, I'm waiting on you to do something. You're believing God to do something. The equivalent of what I did for Daniel in the lion's den. That potentially the lions couldn't notice it because they had no idea. Is it possible this is Israel at best, Israel's ideal of the text. Is it possible that the lion saw Daniel at trees and lion don't eat trees. Lion lay next to trees.

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Is it possible that when you do what God called you to do in this fast, you shall be like a tree planted by the rivers? So it doesn't matter who comes to you, who's next to you, the enemy won't come nigh you. It doesn't matter that the enemy's forming against you. Because I've been planted like a tree and the enemy can't see me. And when he can't see me, he can't see my roots. And if he can't see my roots, he can't see my kids. And if he can't see my kids, he can't see what I'm connected to. All because I turned down my plate. So when you talk about fasting, it is meant for the empowerment of you. That it embodies the power that God has given you, that you shall be like a tree planted by the rivers. And I want to talk to some trees in here. I want to talk to those who've been struggling, who've been fighting with the enemy. And you've been thinking God was displeased with you. And God says the attack was a compliment. The attack was a compliment because I allowed it to happen. But I know you got discouraged because you thought I wasn't with you. And God says I was there the entire time. Cause my hand was on you. And if I'm talking to anyone in here, catch this before you move. Because I want everybody to move at the same time. If you don't know Christ and the pardons of your sins, if you don't know, you say, pastor, listen. I hear you talk about this. I hear you saying, listen. And if heaven cracked open right now, I don't know if I'll go to heaven or hell. I don't know. I don't know. Or if you're backsliding, saying, listen, Pastor, you know what? I've missed the mark. I'm changing. I'm repenting, I'm lining back up with God. Or you're simply saying, listen, Pastor, I am so tired right now of fighting. I know God has something better for me, but I'm tired. Do me a favor. If any of that is you, move now. Move. Move now. Move. Don't wait on it. I don't care who you came with. Move to the altar now. Come, come, come, come. Yeah. See, we miss it. Here's what I do it. Here's what I decided to do when. And I see you still coming. I saw this altar as a troubling of the water. How do I get to the water? How do I get here? How did I get here? How do I deal with what I'm dealing with? Pastor, it's a 10 day challenge. And the 10 day challenge was meant to be a metaphor to get you, to grab your attention. But it's a 10 day thing that God wants you to do that he says, I'm going to show you something different. I'm going to show you how to look different. I'm going to show you that as you leave this altar, you're not going to be the same again. Don't conform to the way other people call you. This is what they call me. Don't answer again. This is what they call. I ain't answering anymore. Until you call me by my name. Until you call me by what God called me. And I'm not talking. Hear me? Don't get me confused. I'm not talking about a title. I am not talking. If you think I'm talking about a title, you missed the whole thing of what I'm talking about. I am saying this. The enemy's after your name. He's after your bloodline. And he knows if I get your identity, if I can change your name, if I can change you. Daniel. No, you're not Daniel anymore. Come here. Shadrach, Meshach and. No, no, no, no. Shadrach and Meshach is what you call them. It's not their name. It's not their name. Their name is Hananiah. Michelle. Azariah. My name is Hananiah, which means God is gracious. God is great. That's what you need to call me. My name is Michelle. Michelle. Michelle is God. There is no equal. There is no equal to him. And the problem is you're making your problem equal to God. And I know there's a few more, whether you're online or watching us right now, that the spirit is talking at you and pulling you, and he's pulling you and pulling you, and he's pulling you and he's pulling you. And God is saying, I need you. I need you here. And as the deer panteth after the water brook, so does my soul panteth after thee, O God. So before I start praying, Azariah simply means this. God is my help. And some of you, you're asking for help. Or guess what? The enemy has you so Prideful, you don't want to ask for help, and your help is right here. Your help is when you take the first step toward here. And I want you to come meet me down here at this altar. If you're not ashamed of the gospel, if you're not ashamed of what God can do in your life, in this new season in your life, I want you to come down. I want you to run down here. Yes, I'm talking to you. I'm talking. Yeah, I'm talking to you. My eyes closed, though, so I'm talking to you. I'm talking. I'm talking to you. I'm talking to you. Here's what's funny. Y' all have this parted like the red seas. Y' all come on in close. Y' all come on in close. I just parted like the Red Sea. Like it. I did. I didn't. I was trying to preach this without being so charismatic because I. Because I knew I wanted to teach and I wanted to talk about the importance of the ten day challenge. But I thought it was interesting that God picks a young man in a season where he shouldn't be picked. God picks a young man and a young man. I won't even talk about a young man as being gender. I say, he picks a young man, a young human. And as soon as you start worrying, that's when all the problems end. He says, listen, pick me, God. I'll go. I'll watch this. I'll step out the crowd. I'll be the one. Send me. I'll go. You don't ask anybody else. Now three more hopped on board with him. But that's when things die. Hallelujah. Hallelujah. Lord have mercy. It is God that's saying, I want you to look different. I let God. Let God have his way. No, sir, you can't run. You can't run, you can't hide. Yeah, Daniel, you can't run. You can't hide. God has something special in store for you. And I promise you, if I am prophesying, I'm saying something, this microphone is on. I'm not only talking to him, he now serves as a conduit. Come here. Come here. He now serves as a conduit for the other men he now serves. And I want to talk to. I hear you, Holy Ghost. For every man that's in this house that's discouraged, that feel like the world is crushing you, come meet me at this altar. For every man. Every man. This ain't got to do with salvation. Every man that's in this altar that's in this room that feels weary. Now, this is your moment to be transparent. I don't care if you with your wife, your girlfriend. I don't care who you're here with. Come meet me here at this altar. Now you're asking God for an answer. Hallelujah. Come meet me at this altar. Come meet me at this altar. Come, come, come. If you don't feel it, I'm not talking to you. I just want to talk to every. Every. Every man. Hold this for me, please. Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. I promise you, ladies, I'm coming back to you. I promise you. I just want to talk to the men. Can I talk to the men for just one moment? Because they need some help right now. They need some. I have a feeling the foundation needs some help. I got a feeling the found the foundation needs some help. I got a feeling the foundation needs some help. So here's what I'm do, and I. I want every man to find another man and hug him. Every man find another man and hug him. Find another man and hug him. Find another man and hug him. It is, well, Hallelujah. Hi. To all of the women that's in this room, we need you. To every woman that's in here, we need you that's watching us online, we need you. We need your strength. We need your wisdom. We need more than your wounds. We need your insight. We need your strength. I'm going to say this. And to the women, I pray this makes sense. We even need you. Broken. Watch this. Because even broken crayons still color. We. We need you Broken Pastor. I know, I know. But we need. We need you. We can't make it without you. We need. Pastor, I feel worthless. I don't care what somebody else told you. We need you moving into this new season of our life. So for every seed that's been planted in your life that the enemy tried to lie to you, I claim crop failure. For every bad seed that has been spoken over your life, that if you never heard it or if you heard it from a man, you are chosen. You are beautifully and wonderfully made that God still wants to use you in this season of your life. Stop beating yourself. You are more than a conqueror. Look different. I don't mean look different, just as in cars and houses, I mean look different. So, Father, today we thank you for what our ears have heard. We thank you, God, for what has entered into our spirit. We pray now that the seed takes root, that it produces harvest, that the anointing rests upon our life, God, that we continue to destroy the yokes of the enemy. For every man that's here that needs encouragement, for every woman that's here that feels like that nobody sees her in her broken state. God, we thank you that she still colors. We thank you that the man can still be used. We thank you that the anointing is still on our life now. God, for those who are watching us online, for those who are in this building, I thank you, God, that this ten day challenge, this ten day fasting is simply symbolic that we're about to operate and move into a new season of our life. God, we thank you that we're going to look better. We thank you that we won't look like what we used to be. We thank you that, God, we now become a walking testimony for you. And every seed that fell on good ground, let it produce a hundredfold harvest. And God, we thank you for delivering us from people who are no longer assigned to our future. We thank you for delivering us from every person that's no longer assigned to our future. And God, give us strength to walk away. Give us strength to keep moving. Give us strength to trust you, God. Give my brother strength to get up. Give my women strength to continue to move and do what you call for her to do now. Strengthen us and keep us. We're choosing you to today at salvation. We're choosing to make it right now. We're choosing God to align. But God, this now is the water being stirred up. That this is the brook that we've decided to dip in. And he that dwells in the secret place of the most High shall abide under the shadow of the Almighty. I will say, he is my refuge, he is my fortress, he is my keeper. And God, I thank you and God, we leave this altar, we leave this building, we leave this service, we leave today. We're not having the same mindset, declaring, believing that before 10 days are up, you're going to perform a miracle. And today we give you the praise, the glory and honor. In Jesus name we pray. Somebody shout hallelujah. Somebody give him praise because it's already done. Somebody give him praise because it's already done. Somebody give him praise. Cause it's already done. Somebody give him praise. Cause I'm walking into it. Listen, while you're making your way back to your seat, I want to do something. It is absolutely essential that we don't take this moment for granted. You're here online. Don't log off just yet because this now becomes one of the most pivotal times. It's not just an offering. It is us offering ourselves. I want to. I want to do something that's typically, we talk about tithe and offering, but I want you to give sacrificially today. They don't ask me to do this, but I just feel the Holy Ghost. I follow the leading of the Holy Ghost. I don't know what I know. Give your regular tithe. Give you a regular tithe. That's what you're supposed to do. But whatever you were planning to do, whatever you're desiring to do, I'm going to ask you to stretch it. I'm going to going to ask you to stretch it. And everybody that can, that's online, I want you to give $100 to give $100 seed offering. I just heard the Holy Ghost say, give the $100. We're going to give ours. I just heard it. I'm going to stretch you now. If you're tithing and your offering supersedes that $100, you add another hundred dollars on top of that. But I just heard God said, make sure it's $100. If you're saying, Pastor, I just don't have $100 to give. Get as close to it as you can. Get as close to it as you can. I just sense what I sense. I believe what I believe. I believe that just like in Daniel chapter six, because Daniel chose to fast and pray. Watch this. It got rid of the smell. It got rid of what we like to call the scent of the meat. So now the enemy can't hunt you down. If you're in need of a tithing offering envelope, our PMT will serve you. Just simply raise your hand when ways to giving is online. You can scan the QR code, you can text to give. I just. I know what I hear God saying now. I've done my assignment. My assignment is complete. So now you don't have an information problem. You have an execution problem where you decide to pastor. This all I have. Listen, I'm not. I'm gonna tell you this. I'm not gonna say that's all you have. I'm gonna say that's just the start of what you have. So let this seed now be the start of what you have. If we're ready to give, Come on, jump up on. Jump up on our feet. If we're ready to give, we're ready to give. Father, we thank you for every seed that's being prepared to give. We thank you, God, for the word that was given on today. Let it be a fertilizer. Let Let it be a water unto the seeds for those that are give, let them give them according to your will, according to the assignment that you placed on their life. Now God, stretch them even more. Show them that you are the God of more than enough. But God most of all, even if you don't show them that you're the God of more than enough, we already know that you're the God of more than enough. Now God do we serve today seed as a sacrificial giving not just for ourselves, but our children. Children, let this seed stretch into the next generation of our seed giving that God that by this time next year I can add two more zeros to the end of it and it will be done according to your will. That I'm a giver and I'll continue to be a giver. I'm a tither and I'll continue to be a tither. As we continue to surrender our will to yours, we give you the praise, the glory and honor. In Jesus name we pray. Amen. Amen.

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