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Greeting's family pastor Torey here. I'm excited that you are tuned in. You're getting ready to hear a powerful message. I believe it's going to change your life. And speaking of life changing, my new book Wholeness. It's a bestseller. It's changing so many lives. I pray you've got your hand on it. If you don't, I want you to hear this testimony of what it's. Doing in the life of people just like you. Wholeness has blessed my life tremendously many many different ways, but more specifically in two ways. It's really blessed my life. One in my marriage and the other one was in my business. Both of them were calling me and challenging me to be someone different in a new season, to be better, to be stronger, to be wiser in a new season. And Wholeness helped me to find and see areas that I was struggling with. Specifically, was the opinions of others in both my marriage and in my business. I was struggling and finding solitude and what others were saying about who I was, about my marriage and where my business was going. And it wasn't until I found that as a blind spot that I began to really get outside of who I was used to be, get outside of mediocrity, and star
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Greeting's family pastor Torey here. I'm excited that you are tuned in. You're getting ready to hear a powerful message. I believe it's going to change your life. And speaking of life changing, my new book Wholeness. It's a bestseller. It's changing so many lives. I pray you've got your hand on it. If you don't, I want you to hear this testimony of what it's. Doing in the life of people just like you. Wholeness has blessed my life tremendously many many different ways, but more specifically in two ways. It's really blessed my life. One in my marriage and the other one was in my business. Both of them were calling me and challenging me to be someone different in a new season, to be better, to be stronger, to be wiser in a new season. And Wholeness helped me to find and see areas that I was struggling with. Specifically, was the opinions of others in both my marriage and in my business. I was struggling and finding solitude and what others were saying about who I was, about my marriage and where my business was going. And it wasn't until I found that as a blind spot that I began to really get outside of who I was used to be, get outside of mediocrity, and started walking into wholeness. And so those two areas, and in many areas, it's blessed my life. So I highly encourage you to get this book. Wholeness really isn't a destination into journey, and you'll find that all the areas that you continue to go into your life, that wholeness will be there waiting on you. Get the book. God bless you all. So I wanted to just go right into the world. See, everyone is getting real comfortable sitting down and you're about it stand up. But let's stand up for the reading of the word. Just a few short verses. A lot of people look like they're in tennis shoes like me. Okay, work out. There's some squads or something. But I want to start off in Luke chapter nine, and it says then he called his twelve disciples together and gave them power and authority over all demons and to cure diseases. Now let's jump into Matthew chapter seventeen. And when they had come to the multitude, a man came to him kneeling down to him and saying, Lord, have mercy on my son, for he is an epileptic and suffers severely, for he often falls into the fire and often into the water. So I brought him to your disciples, but they could not cure him. Then Jesus answered and said, Oh, fateless and perverse generation, how long shall I be with you? How long shall I bear with you? Bring him here to me. And Jesus rebuked the demon, and it came out of him, and the child was cured from that very hour. Then the disciples came to Jesus privately and said, why could we not cast it out? So Jesus said to them, because of your unbelief. For assuredly I say to you, if you have faith as a mustard seed, you will say to this mountain, move from here to there, and it will move, and nothing will be impossible for you. However, this kind does not go out except by prayer and fasting. Father, God, have your way move us through this word, Lord Jesus. Amen. Amen. Now it's interesting that on one hand you see where the Lord has called the disciples to him, and he gives them power and authority over all. He didn't say some he said, I'm giving you power and authority over all unclean spirits, over all demons, secure diseases. He gave them power and authority. And then you fast forward through the journey and they encounter a situation that the very thing they have power and authority over they're not able to cast it out. And then they're like, okay, Lord Jesus, why why couldn't we cast it out? And he says, it's because of your unbelief, and then he goes into some other details. Today's message is called activate and to understand we're going to go on a journey with this word, and to see where we're going is first to discuss about power and authority as the discussed in the Bible. You see, when when Jesus said I'm giving you power and authority, these two words mean two separate things because authority is about your it's about your commission. When God gives you an assignment, there is a legal understanding there is you have a legal right to move in that capacity. So when God says that I'm calling you to do this, so he has given you authority, meaning that Heaven can recognize you in that position. So spiritual authority looks like when you have the legal rights to order things to happen. You see. It's just like I'm reminded about the sons of Skeeva. And so the sons of Schever were these brothers who they had seen the Apostle Paul, you know, casting out demons and doing some incredible miracles in the name of Jesus. And so they're watching the Apostle Paul, and they're like, oh, we should do this too, and they go and try to cast out a demon, and the demon speaks to the man that's trying to do this, you know, the deliverance for and he tells them he says, Jesus, I know, Paul, I know who are you? And they beat up this guy. And the thing is that these people never had spiritual authority, because spiritual authority comes from the place when you are submitted to God in the sense where you have given your life, you've accepted Jesus in your life, and so now you have spiritual authority to engage in warfare. But having spiritual authority to engage does not mean you would win unless you have power. And so power is also known as virtue, and this virtue is the very word when Jesus went, there's a story about the woman with the issue of blood. When she you know, she was she wanted to be healed, and she's like, you know what if I just believe if I touch his garments, I would be healed. And when she did that, Jesus says, virtue has left me. Power has come out of me. But this power flows by submission. So authority is by commission, is by the assignment that God has given you. Then now Heaven can recognize that you are someone who should be playing in this field. But authority without power is ineffective. And so when Jesus is sending out the disciples, he says, I'm giving you power and authority. But in the passive reread in Matthew, it shows that there is something that is hindering the ability for the power to flow. Because Jesus had already given them power, there was something that stood as a hindrance in order for the demon to be casted out. And I believe that what God is doing in this time, even in this service, is to perfect our faith. You see, Jesus is known as the founder and perfector of our faith. And so in the passage we see where the disciples are trying and they're like, your disciples could not heal this boy. And then Jesus and they ask the Lord and he's like, oh, it's because of unbelief. But what is interesting is that he says it's because of unbelief. But then he's also saying, if you have faith as a mustard seed, you will say to this mountain, move from here to there, and it will move and nothing will be impossible for you. But then on the other hand, he says, however, this kind cannot go out by fasten. It can only go out except by fasten a prayer. So the question is God, which one is it? And I want us to talk about even when it comes to unbelief, will take it peace by peace. So the first thing is that Jesus responds to them and says, it's because of your unbelief. What the Lord has been showing me for this service is just like the disciples. They had received power and authority from God, but they encounter a situation that is not allowing that, and their power is not able to flow from them. And we see that this is a result of unbelief. Is the same way that when you gave your life to Jesus. You received his spirit, but yet your life is not moving in the manner where the spirit of God is flowing through you. You've received the Holy Spirit, you have the fullness of God in you. But then there's so there are circumstances and there's situations in your life that the power of God is not able to flow through you. To answer that problem, Whenever you find yourself in a fearful or doubtful situation, it shows that the power of God is not flowing through you. Whenever you find yourself questioning God and you're like, you know, I don't know what to do, and you find yourself in this place where you're just you. You feel like like the world is against you and you're just You're the victim, and all these things, the power of God is not flowing through you. Because the scripture says that greater is he who is in me than he who is in the world. So when the world looks greater than you, something is off. And so in order for the disciples to move in power. Now, what is fascinating about when Jesus, when that lady would the issue of blood encounter Jesus and she touched his garments, and it talked about how power came out of him. There is a level of submission that I want us to even discussed because you see that miracle did not even require jesus involvement. Normally, Jesus would be would lay hands on people, would speak a word to people. There was a part that he played. But this miracle that took place, he had no part in it. All that happened was a lady touched his garment and power came out of him. And it shows you how submitted he was to God, that he was a vessel, that he did not even have to play a part in it and the power could flow out of him. You see, unbelief deals with uncertainties, fear of God. I don't know how this is going to happen. And in order for us to truly submit to God, the Lord Jesus said that those who worship must worship God in spirit and in truth. It was not like they could worship God in spirit and in truth. He said, no, they must worship God in spirit and in truth. That level of worship is about like bowing down before God. It talks about surrender, but that level of worship comes from a place. In spirit means that you have given your life to Jesus and you are born again into the Kingdom of God. But in truth means that you see God properly. You see God as who he truly is. You see any time you've ever been in like a true worship moment, now I'm talking about worship through music, for instance, it is impossible for you to worship God in that manner and have doubts in the same frame. In the same timeframe. It is impossible to be you know, God, I just honor you, I just praise you, and be thinking about God. I don't know how you're gonna come through. So in that moment of worship, you see God properly. But the problem is the inconsistencies because we take it as a moment of like a like a moment like you're just getting high of who God is and then you jump out of it. It's like when Peter Peter had a revelation of who God is and he's like, oh you, I mean who Jesus is. He's like, you know, you are the son of God and the next moment the devil had access to him. And we have to come to this place because true submission in truth is that God, I recognize you for who you truly are, that before we even go to a place of Because the thing is that the problem we often face is that when we when we encounter situations, we run to friends to complain before we run to God for understanding, and so we begin to empower the wrong spirit. We begin to empower the spirit of fear. But submission, true submission. You cannot submit to someone you don't see properly. And so sometimes we have this idea of submission, but its deception, because true submission comes from the place that God, I see you properly, that I am not inconsistent about your faithfulness. Because if I know who you really are, then I know that you are a faithful God, even when it looks good, even when it doesn't look good, that you are a faithful God. And so that is a place Jesus there was nothing that altered his view of the Father. He was submitted to the point that even without his own without his own engagement, God could still use him to heal somebody unbelief, unbelief from the fear of not knowing. Oh God, what is gonna happen? Oh? Is this gonna be the case of not knowing how things are gonna turn out because the circumstance you're encountering is new to you. But when you know your God, when you know who God is, and when you you see David said something that I love. He says that he talks about meditating on the law of God. In Psalms one, they talk about that the person who that everything they do with prosper is the one who meditates on God's law day and night. But meditation is not just you know. Sometimes we think that meditation is reciting the same thing over, But meditation is building on what you know. Meditation means that if okay, I know that God is faithful, then in my quiet time, I want to build on that. I want to remember how God has been faithful to me. I want to study how God has been faithful to other people. It's building on what you know, so you're not just left with one thing that can be shaken away. So when they say that God, I would meditate on your law day and night, it means that in the morning, I'm building in the night, I'm building on my revelation of You. And this is what brings us to this place of submission where no matter the circumstance that we face, we don't waver in who God is to us. We don't waver. I love what our first Lady preached on Sunday when she talked about serving through disappointments, because I can serve and I'm disappointed, because the disappointed is the feeling of being disappointed is in my flesh, but in my spirit, I know that God is for me. So this is one level. This is one level when the Jesus revealing to them this is because of your unbelief. But I'm gonna discuss the other part in a way that might seem very new for some. Because this the way God revealed this to me. It shocked me too. I was like, God, are you sureing that's what you're telling me? So now can we go to that passage when it talks about because of your unbelief? But I want you guys to see something now He says that Jesus said to them because of your unbelief. For assuredly, I say to you, if you have faith as a mustard seed, you will say to this mountain, move from here to there, and it will move, and nothing will be impossible for you. Something about this is interesting because the situation that they're facing is dealing with a spiritual problem. Jesus talks about because of your unbelief. Then he shifts and says, if you have faith as a mustard seed, you will say to this mountain, move and it will move from here to them. Now theologists believe that Jesus is talking about an actual mountain. So Jesus moves from a spiritual thing and now he's talking about a natural thing. It's almost like there's a shift in conversations. You see, Jesus had limited time on the earth, and I believe that every opportunity that he could teach he took it. When you read the parables, there are messages that are layered in a message, and so on one hand, they're asking, Lord, how is it that we couldn't cast out a demon? Now Jesus is talking about a mountain, and then it goes on to say the next verse, however, this kind does not go out except by prayer and fasting. You see, family, for the longest time, when I read this kind does not go out except by except by prayer and fasting, I thought Jesus was talking about the spiritual issue. I thought he was saying that in order for this kind of problem to be casted out, it cannot be casted out except by prayer and fasting. But the issue that we read about is talking about someone whose son was epileptic as the result of a demonic possession, a demonic oppression. But but people going through eleptic epilepsy in that time that was a result of a demonic spirit. This was not the first case of Jesus healing such such a thing. This was not his first encounter with someone who was epileptic due to a demonic spirit. And when he's saying and if it was about the spirit, I would think that Jesus would give us more details about the spirit, because we've seen case in the Bible where things look more much worse than this case. When you see a man who was inhabited by thousands of demons, to the point that when he said who are you, he said, my name is Legion, for we are many, I would think that that is this kind. And it's known that the disciples, they must have been casting out spirits already, So what is it about this kind? If there was something about this particular case, we should have some more information about this spirit. And then I started and this was today. I'm like, God, what is it. There's something that you're trying to show me here? What is this kind referring to? When it came to the spiritual problem, Jesus says, this is because of your unbelief. You already have the power, You already have the authority. But in order to move in submission, in order to move in the power your authority is to believe in the one who gave it to you, to believe in him fully. That is one case. Now, if you have faith as a mustard seed, you will say to this mountain, move from here today, and it would move. Nothing will be impossible for you. But however, this kind and family, I just want you to think about this. Could it be that when Jesus is saying this kind only goes out except by prayer and fasting, is that there is a kind of faith that when he says that if you have faith the size of a mustard seed. Now it's not about size, because we see that when there was a time where Jesus was in a boat and the boat, you know, there was all that there was a windstorm and all this stuff, and the boat is sinking and his disciples are panicking, and Jesus is like, oh, you of little faith, and it was not a good thing. So it's not if you have little faith, because he tells the disciples, oh, you of little faith, why are you so afraid? Now when we think about the mustard seed, there are two things I want us to talk about, because when we think about the mustard seed, a lot of times when Jesus is talking about the Kingdom of God, he would refer it as a seed. And the beautiful thing about a seed is that a seed has to be planted in you, a seed has to take root in you. Because the mustard seed was a seed that was viewed as just like you know, insignificant because it's so tiny. But then when you plant it and when it takes root, it becomes bigger than most trees that you will see. But then he says, this kind can only come out by prayer and fast and this kind it only goes out, It only goes out except by prayer and fasting. And what is fascinating about when he says by prayer and fast in family, is that in that time Jesus had been questioned about why his disciples do not fast, and this is in Matthew chapter nine. They asked him a question, why is it that your disciples don't fast? And he told them that how is it that the wedding guests would mourn while the bridegroom is still with them? And he says, it's when I leave that they would fast. So fasting he's not talking to them about a present need of fasting, and fasting cannot be the answer to the demonic problem when he expected them to solve it. So there is a different thing that God is talking about here because he was not even requiring his disciples to fast. But if he says that this can only come by prayer and fasting, and if fasting is connected to when Jesus would leave, we know that when he would leave, that is when God will send his spirit. There is something else being spoken here, you see, Family, I believe that we are in a time that the things that God is gonna call you to do, it's gonna require And I'm not just talking about the spirit of God because you have the spirit of God, but moving by the spirit of God, because in the Bible, I believe it's in first Corinthians, chapter twelve. It talks about the gifts of the spirits, also known as manifestations of the spirit. And one of the things that we rarely talk about is the manifestation of faith. And the manifestation of faith is when God gives you his faith, and his faith is perfect. Now we see that when we look at the manifestations of the spirit, there are so many things. There is the manifestation of knowledge, wisdom, healing, speaking in different tongues, interpretation of tongues, discerning of spirits. And we see how that the body can move in. I mean, even when the day of Pentacoast happened and the Spirit came down, we see that the people began speaking in different tongues. We see where the people were moving in, you know, in knowledge and wisdom. But they were also moving in a different kind of faith, because there was a boldness that they started to walk in that it was even noticed that, Wow, these people are moving in a different level. And I believe that God is bringing us to a place and to a time that His Spirit will fill us up in a new way. He said, this kind does not go out except by prayer and fasting. You see prayer is that place of intimacy with God. These bold things, they represent dependency on God. Prayer sometimes when we when you find yourself going days without really making time to spend with God. I think I believe it was I can't remember who said this, but I held on to it, and they talked about it as spiritual arrogance. Because prayer reveals your dependency that God, I need you, I need to understand this. I need to commit this thing to You, and prayer can be done. There are three there for me. I mean prayer. There's so many levels of prayer, but there are three ways that I can I always see prayer because one, prayer can be conversational. It can be the place of conversing with God where you can share with God about what's going on God, not just even talking to him, but making time to hear God, what are you also saying about this issue. Prayer can be prophetic where you begin to you can use the word of God and start declaring things over your life, where you hold onto God's word that God, by your word, I live, I move, I have my being. So if your word says that I will spend time to study your word and even speak over my life, Speak over my family, speak over my city. From your word, And in this place that we are dependent on God, this is the time that I'm building intimacy with you. This is the time that I'm building I'm knowing you better, to know myself better. This is the time that I'm building up my spirits. And when you see that level of dependency on God, then your prayer becomes authoritative. The Bible talks about that whatever you bind on earth will be bound in heaven, and whatever you loose on earth will be loose in heaven. Now this heaven is not talking about where the throne of God is, but there are levels to heaven. There's revelations. There was a time when a sudden man was caught up to heaven and he talked about being in the third Heaven. Now I don't know how many heavens they are, but the devil is not in hell, unfortunately, the devil. The devil is still in a realm in heaven, but not where the throne of God is. And so when the Bible talks about whatever you loose on earth would be loose in heaven, this is when your prayer becomes authoritative. But this is from a place of dependency on God. When your partnered with the Holy Spirit to start declaring things to be, when you start loosing things to be, it's a partnership with God. And fasting is what creates capacity. You see in those days fasting when fast than was really focused on food because you know, they didn't have any pop tarts or things they could put in the microwave. So when they would cook, it took so much time to cook cook. It was like an event. And so fasting away from food meant that you would give more time, you would devote more time to seek God, that you don't need to spend time trying to catch a cow. Kill the cow wasch the cow all Now we just gotta pup the chicken in the microwave chicken nuggets. Two minutes boom. They had to catch the chicken, clean the chicken. It was like a holy event. So when fast thing was focused on food is because that way it faster. Because sometimes we find ourselves, you know, fasting, but we're just watching trying to watch the clock go by. Oh my gosh, when is the time I just need to eat? That's starvation, okay, Because fast thing without seeking God is a diet or you're just doing a you're volunteering yourself to starve. Because these people, they were they would use that time to seek the face of God. And it's in the place when we seek God's face that we increase our capacity to be filled by His spirit. I believe in this passage Jesus is having two different conversations he's revealing to them because if this kind can only come out by what they were not even able to do in that time, that means he's expecting them to steal, encounter situations that he expects them to solve, but they don't have the ability to if they're not fasting. It was two different things, because what is interesting is that when Jesus had given them in Luke chapter nine, when he gave them authority and power, this was the authority and power that he was operating with on the earth. This was it was still it was still a bit limited because this was the power that he was under. And that's why when he resurrected after the crucifixion, and when he resurrected, he's telling them now that authority and power has been given onto me, Now go out in all the earth, because now he's talking about the spirit will come upon you. There is two conversations family. There are places that God is gonna send you in. And you need a perfect faith because when God gives you his faith, it's not shaken, it's not little faith. There's no room for unbelief. It gives you crazy ideas that, oh, I can really do this thing when God partners with you, when the Spirit of God. And it's sad because it's almost as though the Holy Spirit is the out of the Godhead. He seems to be the most neglected because we go about our lives and the areas where we feel like, oh, I got this, I have the wisdom for this. You know what God, and we're doing it in the name of God. But we're still depending on our abilities. But what the Lord showed me is that where he's taking us to there is a there is a new level, there is a new realm, and it's not gonna be by our power. It's not gonna be by our might. It is gonna be by the spirit. And you have the spirit, but you have to activate His power. And it's not just to pray and fast, as the action of praying and fasting is to come in praying and fasten that God. I want this, I want to know you better. God, I want you to fill me up. It's interesting in the Book of Acts we see where the apostles were filled up with the spirit. When Jesus told them to wait. He tells them wait in jerusale and for the spirit to come upon you. But then you fast forward. And there was a situation in Acts chapter four, and this is for just those taking notes. There's a situation in Acts chapter four where they're being challenged and there were believers who said, let us pray for boldness. And when they prayed for boldness, it talked about how they were filled with the Holy Spirit. But out of those people were people that were already filled with the Holy Spirit. So they were filled again with the Holy Spirit. And then they talked and they revealed that, and they walked in boldness to continue what they were already doing. And what does this mean? Does it mean that if you have the spirit you need the spirit again? No, because when you have this spirit, how what areas of your lives has he felled? And what areas of your lives is he yet to feel? What parts of your character is he in? How surrendered. Are you to the spirit of God even when it comes to your wisdom, when it comes to your ability to go in the room. Are you going in the room just saying that you know what I'm kind of, you know I'm learned in this area so I can handle it. Or are you seeking the face of God that God I might encounter something that I might not even know of. I need your wisdom, I need your insight. Jesus, God has taken us to a place. Family, there are doors that He's gonna open for you. And these are doors that would be specific to your assignment. These are doors that would be very specific to the purpose that he puts you on the earth. And he's not opening those doors for you to take selfies. He's opening those doors for you, for you to have authority and to move in His power, because it is when you move in the power of God that causes Heaven to come to earth. And he's opening doors. He's opening doors for change to happen. But this cannot be done unless we are we have a we're diligent in always seeking God and always seeking the face of God and what the Lord showed me today. Because I'm also aware that I'm in a room full of people, and even some of those watching that there are some of you who have been in this place I'm talking about. There are some of you who have been in the place where you're just like God. I want more of you, God, I want you to fill me up. You're here on a Thursday night, and I believe that's because that's your testimony, because there's so many things that you could be doing on a Thursday night. But you said, you know what, I'm coming to the House of God, And what the Lord showed me is that for many you're gonna there's gonna be an anointing that comes upon you. And even though nobody touched you, you're gonna you're gonna feel oil on your forehead because it's gonna be a sign that God is coming in partnership with you in a new way, that there is a new level that God is taking you by his spirit. This is a level of partnership. This is a level not just not just moving in obedience to God, because that is so key, but if it's moving in obedience to God with the awareness of the Spirit of God in you, that God, even when it's hard for me, I know I can call on the spirit of God that give me boldness to do this thing. When you go into certain rooms, sometimes you might think you're in a room for the purpose that you went there in initially. But you could go into a room and God will give you knowledge, because the manifestation of knowledge is when God shares his knowledge with you. So why when you see someone prophesy, for example, is because they have tapped into the knowledge of God about a person. God is gonna send you in rooms that you think you're going there for your for your job position, but He's sending you there for your spiritual position. And in order to move in that spiritual capacity is to move sharing the knowledge of God. When the Holy Spirit begins to reveal to you, I need you to speak to this person about this. I remember that there was a meeting I went for and it was it was a very serious meeting. And the whole time God is revealing details to me about the person's family. And I'm like, Lord, first of all, I don't know if there are believers or not. And if I say the wrong thing, you know, I might just be out of this room. And he said, you think you're in the room for business I sent you here for kingdom and both would work together. But you have to know that the places that God is gonna give you physical authority is because He's sending you there because of your spiritual authority. And in order to move in that capacity is to move with the Holy Spirit. I need your wisdom, God, I need your knowledge God in certain situations that the things that He's gonna lead you to do will be sound so crazy that you're like, God, I need your faith. When God resurrects someone from the dead who had faith for that the person is dead, how does the dead person how? How does the how does the dead person's faith speak to God to resurrect me? If it's not God's faith that wakens them up? There is a partnership family that God is calling us to to. It's it's a new it's a different level of walking with his spirit. It's a different level of walking with His spirit. It's a level that we're not just looking at the natural blessing, but we're going in the rooms God. How can I how can I be your servants in this room? How can I partner with you? What is it you want me to do? What is it? Because family, there is there is gonna be a move of God so powerful in this city. You see when people come to Los Angeles, it's known that people come here to see, you know, Hollywood and celebrity. But we serve the King of Kings, and we are coming into a time now. Listen, We're coming into a time that this city would not be known for the celebrities people want to meet, that this city would be known for the place people come to see Jesus. And it's going to be. It's gonna be a very different move of God because it's a move of God that is going to come through the people that they worship, and the people they worship are saying, no, worship God, Worship God. They're gonna talk about their encounters with Jesus and family. God is gonna position you in places and in rooms, and it's not gonna it's not just gonna be for the reason you think you're there in the natural, But you're gonna be You're You're gonna be a living word. You're gonna walk into rooms and manifest God's kingdom in those rooms, and people are gonna come to God in radical ways. But this is gonna be by the spirit of God, and I believe God is just calling us to a time that we are more dependent on Him, not just by word, not just by Okay, God, when you give me a word, I'm gonna do it, but we are even seeking him. The Bible talks about when you draw near to God, God will draw near to you. So there are things that you could be limited in if you're only waiting for God to touch you. But it's like, no, God, I'm gonna draw near to you. I wanna be filled with more of you. Family, rise with me. Something is about to happen here. If you're in this house and you're saying that you have an expectation that God, I want you to fill me up anew. God, I want to. I am seeking you. I want to I want a fresh anointing from you. I want to move, not just in my power. I don't want to move in my power. I don't want to move in my mind. I want to move by your spirit. If that is your testimony, just lifts up your hands that God. I know I've been praying. I've been praying to get into the room. But getting into the room is not for what you're gonna give me. Natural authority for it's what you have given me spiritual authority and power to overcome the people you're calling me to lead to your kingdom. Thank you, Jesus, Thank you Jesus. Family. I want you to take a moment in prayer. God is about to do something here. Take a moment in prayer. You see, this is when you start thinking beyond yourself. This is when you start thinking beyond your circumstances. This is when you start praying for your city. This is when you start praying for your church. When you start praying beyond yourself. I believe that even in this message, it's an elevation of where God is taking you. We are very used to things that concern just us and God say no, this my kingdom, my kingdom on earth as it is in heaven. This is beyond us. Family, that when you are in your prayer clauset, you're you're saying that God expose even the people behind sexual trafficking. You start praying things beyond you. If you're like God, I want to be partner with your spirit for what you're doing on the earth. There is gonna be a move of God, and not just in Los Angeles. It's there is there's gonna be what what we will call as a revival. But but it's it's not because sometimes when people hear revival, it seems like a temporary move of God. But this is going to shift the world. And if you're saying that God, I want to be partner with with your spirit, just lift up your hands, speak to your Father and tell him what is in your heart. Thank you, Jesus, Thank you, Jesus, Thank you, Jesus, Thank you, Jesus, Lord God, I thank you that we are in a room with willing hearts. We are in a room with willing hearts. Till thank you, Jesus, Father God, begin to anoint your people. This is not gonna be an anointing of even what man is even touching them. Lord God begins to touch your people. Thank you, Jesus, Thank you, Jesus. There is gonna be a move of God. It's gonna be almost like what we knew in the Bible as a mighty Russian wind, when the spirit of God came in the sound of a mighty Russian wind. Yes God, Yes God. Every angel and assignments in this house, every angel and assignment for those that are watching, begin to touch God's people begin to touch God's people. Holy Spirit, may you have your way. Fill your children now in the name of Jesus. Fill your children now, in the name of Jesus. Feel your children now when the name of Jesus. Yeah, kindabo saf from my left to my right, feel your children now, when the name of Jesus, for some release the ability for them to speak in new tongues, that you would empower that the very prayer that they have been asking that Lord, I want to speak in new tongues. I thank you that even now, Holy Spirit, even now, Holy Spirit, you will release their tongues in the name of Jesus. Thank you Lord. I declare and I decree a move of God in this city, a move of God that has never been seen before. And I thank you Lord that you are empowering those in this house right now in the name of Jesus, that every year, every year that is listening to this word, there is no distance in the realm of the Spirit. I thank you, Lord that you are touching them now in Jesus' name, Holy Spirit, as they are coming to you saying that they're available for the Master's youth. Fill them up in a new way. Fill them up in a new way. Lord, fill them up in a new way. Lord Jesus, it's coming, it's coming, it's coming, it's coming. Thank you Lord, that someone even begins to fill oil on their heads. Thank you, Jesus, Thank you, Jesus. Thank you Jesus. Every head bowed and ice clothes. Thank you, Jesus. Speak to your God. Something is about to happen in this house. The Lord is setting you free. The Lord is setting you loose. Right now. There are some that there is a desire even for there were addictive behaviors, and it's being broken in this moment. Thank you, Jesus. Thank you Jesus. Because they cannot be committed to an addiction and committed to you at the same time. Holy Spirit, have your way, have your way. God, Fill them up afresh, Lord, God, fill them upper fresh, Lord, Jesus. Feel them up a fresh Lord, God, feel them up a fresh Lord, God. As your angels are going to every seat, Lord, God, touch them in a new way. I thank you Lord that mantles are being released in this house. I thank you Lord that you are positioning them. You were shifting your Thank you Jesus, You're moving them to your positions. Thank you Lord, Thank you Lord. Have your way, Jesus, have your way, Jesus. I thank you Lord, that those that have been praying to speak in new tongues, that you're filling them up even now. With that we you're manifesting through them in that way, those that need your faith, Lord God, you are moving through them in a new way. There is a new partnership with the Holy Spirit that is taking place in this house. Holy Spirit, we thank you, We thank you for meeting us here. We thank you for meeting us in this house. Thank you, Jesus, Thank you Jesus. And you don't even have to some You're speaking even in new tongues right now. There's no need to be ashamed or afraid. Thank you, Jesus, Thank you, Jesus. Move Lord, move Lord only as you can. We are seeking your spirit, Father, We are seeking a new feeling of your spirit. Lord, Jesus. Thank you Lord, Thank you Lord, Thank you Lord, Thank you. Jesus, Thank you, Jesus, Thank you Jesus. Just lift up your hands, fadther God. We worship you every heart that is seeking you, Lord God. I thank you, Lord God, that you are feeling them up refreshed in the name of Jesus. I thank you Lord that you are touching them in a new way that some already have this. There are things that they have been they thought they couldn't do, and all of a sudden there is a boldness that is coming upon them and they're saying that, no, God, I can do that too. Thank you Jesus, Thank you Jesus. Shaka family, I want you to take this moment serious. Don't look at who's next to you, don't look at what they're saying, what they're doing. There is a personal there's something personal God has for you in this moment. There is something God, personal God has for you in this moment. There are some that things are being released where things have been held up for too long, and there is a release that is happening even now. There is a release that is happening even now because there is the awareness that the opening of that door. It's not just for you to have a natural authority. It's for you to exercise your spiritual authority and power that has been given to you. Leo, thank you Jesus. Thank God. We wait on you. We wait on you. Speak now. In this place. And move nice. In this space. We wait on you. We weigh on you. Speak speak now and move nice, move now. Freeways on you wee way, don't you speak? Speak? Wait? Wait on you, wait you will you wait on you. What you have been waiting for has been answered. What you have been waiting for has been answered. Thank you Jesus, Thank you Jesus. Wow. There are angels being sent out on your behalf, the cry of your heart to God. You see, this is a Thursday night, and I believe these nights are very different and very special because there is a different hunger in this room, and there has been a cry of your heart to God, and your cry has been answered. The areas in your life that you did not know how to tackle it, how to go about it. But the Lord is giving you, He's clothing you with himself. There is a new level of authority you're going to walk in. As you begin to pray, even outside of yourself, You're gonna see things happen on the earth for many What has been what what is hindering what is supposed to be given to you in the natural, is that you're not exercising your spiritual authority. And in this moment, I want us to take a moment in prayer the things that you that that seems to have been held up. The Bible says what you bind on earth shall be bound in Heaven, and what you lose shall be loose what has been held up because we are not moving in the release of our power. As God has met us in this house, I want you to take a moment in prayer and begin to lose the things that you have been waiting on. You see, believers, speak what is not as though it is Begin to use your words. Heaven wants to hear what you have to say. You see, sometimes we don't what you don't do in your private place. I believe that God is allowing this to even be a corporate gathering of prayer because you would start to repeat what you have done here in your house. Use your words and speak into manifestation the things that God has shown you and it seems like it has been held up, and use your words to begin to declare that God, I thank you for the release. I loose it now in the earth in the name of Jesus. If there is a hand that is holding it back, if there is any evil influence behind what is mine, I loose it now in the name of Jesus. Family, pray, and by you saying out the very thing, it needs to be caught in the air because someone else will remembered that. Oh my, I heard that, and now I see it. Do not be worried about what you're it is there is. This is an atmosphere where what you're saying is being taken up. Whatever has been held back with your name on it, release it now in prayer, and. Then sul e us say. Thank you Lord, Thank you Lord. That you hear our prayers. Thank you Lord. You see for some in this house. You haven't done this in a long time. It's always been almost excuses, but it was actually an attack. And this today seems very unusual. And I'm s and you know it's taking longer than I planned. But God cares for all individually and collectively. And some you haven't done this in a while, and yet it seems like God, what is it that? Why does it? Why does it feel like I'm hindered? And God is saying, exercise your spiritual authority, exercise your spiritual power. Where He's taking you. Where He's taking you is not just for the natural. It's for what he sent you to do there in the spiritual room. You see when Jesus said that you will say to this mountain, move and be moved. Even though he's speaking to something in the natural, the power behind the mountain moving is spiritual. And so you're gonna be able to shift things on the earth. You're gonna be able to influence the earth for God's glory. And the power behind that is not your education. It's by the spirit of God. And we need to be people. We need to be people that come back to our roots, and that is the place of submission and surrender and dependency on God. We cannot go about our days and we don't even have time to spend with God. What life are we living when the very ability to get in the door is not by your strength. And God wants to meet people in the rooms he's sending you to. He wants to meet people in those rooms. It's not just because of you. It's not just to bless you. It's not just to do that. God blessed Abraham so that through Abraham generations will be blessed. Family. We have to be people of prayer. We have to be people that go beyond ourselves the spirit of God is in this house. The spirit of God is in this house. And their issues that that they have taken to warfare on your behalf. And there are things that are gonna be released to you and i' and this is gonna serve as a reminder because for some of you, things are gonna happen in your life after today that would dramatically change your life. But but this is not so that we can act like you see. No, oh my gosh, let's, you know, stunt a little. This is so that we can move in God's power. There is a plan for this city. There is a plan that has been decreed by Heaven for this city that God is getting his people back. Thank you Jesus. What has been held up is being released. What has been held up is being released in Jesus' name. Thank you, Lord, Thank you Lord, Thank you, Lord. Father God. We just steal this in your name. We thank you that you met us here, Lord God. We thank you that you're calling us to a higher place. You're calling us to a place that not just to think of ourselves, but to think of what you're doing in this in this place, in our cities, in our communities. For those watching online. God is is your You have a huge role to play in your city, in your community, in the in the streets and the places that God is taking you to. We are sent to reveal God's kingdom, and we're not gonna move in unbelief because we're gonna build on what we know about God and we're gonna move in a new level with His spirit. So Father God, have. Your way, have your way, Lord, Jesus. I thank you that what happened in this house where you did Lord, that it would be revealed in the natural. They will see what happened here in the natural. Have your way, Lord, Wow, thank you Jesus. It's hard to end when you feel God's presence, and these are tears of joy because there's some in this room and I need to I need to move on. But there's some in this room, and there's some watching, and it's feel it's it's felt hard. It's felt hard because it seems like things it's not even that you you missed the opportunity because you weren't prepared, but it seems like it seems like things have been taken from you. And the thing is that there are times where God allows a thing to happen. And there are times where God has given you the authority to detect detect what happens. And so when we get caught up in this place that we don't move in the power that we have, and there's something in your spirit that is telling you something is wrong, and you're like, but God, I believe you're gonna do it. And God is like, no, I gave you the authority so you can do it. I've given you the authority to access it, even in the spiritual realm. And so there are times that you feel like something is telling you like something is wrong, something is wrong. And for some in this room, you've been telling your friends and they're just like, no, just wait on God, just wait on God. But something in your spirit is telling you that something about this situation is wrong. And I'm happy because this what God is doing in this room. For some of you, your prayer life is being activated again and you're gonna see, You're gonna you're gonna have dominion from the place of prayer. And just as you released even now when you when you are praying and saying God, the things that I believe have been held up and I'm gonna lose it. Even now you see some of you your angels were waiting on you to give them command because they recognize your legal rights to but you, but it's you will just you know, wake up, and then when it's time to prayer, like, oh Jesus, you go back to bed, and it's an attack because the attack is on your power. When it feels like, oh, you know what, I'm just gonna struggle with this area, and you don't understand that, no, I'm actually blocking the flow of power. When you entertain things that you know it's not of God, and you call it a struggle, but if you're honest, it's not because you desire it and you're just like, oh, you know, God, it's all good and all well. But then what you don't realize is that you're blocking the flow of power to be released from you. And so then it seems like you're praying and nothing is happening because you're blocking the flow. But when you come to the place of dependency, you're not just gonna stand up for one minute in your room and say, oh, God have your way. No, you're going to stay there and begin to decree things to happen. God. I thank you that you have met us here, and I thank you for what it's about to take place in their lives. I thank you, Lord God, that you are in this place. You see each of them. Lord, you know each of their needs. And today was a reminder that you have already given them your spirit. You have already given them power, You have already given them authority. Now it's to submit to it so it can flow through them. Prayer and fast and for some God is even calling you into a fast. And the problem is that you didn't understand what fastening was about, Boy, was to increase your capacity for more of God. Thank you, Jesus, Lord, have your way in the hearts of your people. Have you in their minds sealed this word? And I thank you that they would see this word in Jesus name. Family, Do I have any cheerful givers? Eight