Stephanie Ike - All is Well

Family, Can you just break the person sitting next I mean standing next to you, and if someone is sitting just pull them out. Beautiful, beautiful, Amen, there's so much love in this room. Amen. Actually you may be see that because we're gonna go through a lot of about twenty eighth versus maybe seventeen. You know, it's so beautiful. The spirit of God is one, you know, some of the things that passed the brand and declared on this all time. But as we were getting ready for prayer, it's really what the Lord has been speaking to me concerning what needs to be you know, released today. You see, it's so interesting. There are times in our lives that we like, you know, all chaos. Everything is just looking crazy, and we feel out of place and we feel confused. And yet when God looks at your life, he's saying peace, he's saying shalom. He's saying you don't even understand that all of this is working for your good. And the only difference between our perspective and God's perspective is the knowledge of who we are. You see, when God looks at you, he knows everything about you. And so every time that he allows an obstacle in front of you. It's because he understands who you are is bigger than that thing. And so today I want to speak on a word. If you're taking notes, the title of my messages all is well, you see, amen? Amen. There was there was an encounter in Second King's chapter four that a certain prophet Elisha had with this shouldn't white woman. That was all that she was described about. She was described based on the city. She came from, a city named Suname, and so this woman was known in the scripture as a wealthy woman. And when the prophet Elishah will come to her city, she would want to prepare food for him. She was just, you know, she will show him hospitality. And so one particular day she tells her husband and she's like, you know what, this is a man of God. We should prepare room for him in our home that when he comes to the city he would have a place to lay his head. So one day the prophet Elisha he's in the city and he goes into this place and normally he's just going there to eat, and he sees that they have prepared room for him, and it's so fascinating when he lays down on the bed all of a sudden, he's so moved by the heart of this woman and all of this she's doing, she's not looking for anything in return. This was out of the goodness of her heart and her reverence for the man of God. And so he calls his servants. He had a servant named Gehazi. He calls his servant. He says, inquire from this woman, what can we do for her? Hazi calls the woman, and the prophet is like, what can I do for you? You know, do you wanman to speak a word on your behalf to the king, to the commander of the armies. And she's like, no, I'm good, you know, I'm living my best life. And the prophet is unsettled in his spirit. He's like, I must do something for this woman. And then his servant tells him. He's like, you know, her husband is old and they have no son. So the servant breaks up this suggestion to him and the prophet immediately it's almost like he discerned in his spirit that a desire for a child has been this woman's desire. And he says to the woman, under the authority of God, he says, by this time next year, you will embrace your son. The woman responds to him and says, do not deceive me. You see, this woman was in a place that it is safe to say that she has encountered several disappointment in her life concerning this matter. Because the truth, family is that God will never force a blessing on you. Everything in your life that God does is because there was agreement on the earth. Because again, God is is not a He doesn't the scripture says that he doesn't show favoritism, but he is a god of principles. When God does something in your life, there was agreement. Maybe it was something your mother prayed for, your father prayed for, your grandmother prayed for. There are times that God will put prayers in your hearts for your grandchildren that you have not met, because He's looking for agreement on the earth with his will. So this woman, it was a desire of her heart. But perhaps it was a desire that she had buried. And she says, you know what, I have tried everything. Maybe she had a couple miscarriages. Maybe there were things that were that stood against the promise of God in her life, and then she began to look at the promise of God as a lie that God, maybe this is maybe I'm thinking about this the wrong way. Maybe you do not desire to give me a son. So when the prophet tells her by this time next year you would embrace a son, the first thing that comes out of her mouth. Do not deceive me, because I feel like I've been deceived for such a long time. You see many of us in this room, their promises that God has declared over you. And because you keep encountering one wall after the next, one disappointment after the next, you began to question that God, did you ever speak to me? Oh? Was this all alive? And what we're gonna look at today is why God allows a position. What is it that God sees when he sees us that he allows us to encounter what we call as disappointment. But God doesn't look at it that way, you see. I'm gonna pick up the scripture from Second Kings four eighteen. Now it says when the child had grown, he went out one day to his father among the reapers, and he said to his father, oh, my head, my head. The father said to his servant, carry him to his mother. And when he had lifted him and brought him to his mother. The child sat on her lap till noon and then died, and she went up and laid him on the bed of the Man of God and shut the door behind him and went out. Then she called to her husband and said, send me one of the servants and one of the donkeys, that I may quickly go to the Man of God and come back again. And he said, why will you go to him today? It is neither new moon nor sabbath. And she said, all is well, you see what is fascinating. We're going to continue reading. First of all, when the husband is asking her, why would you go to the Man of God today? At that time in Israel, it was customary that, you know, when they would inquire the counsel of the prophet, it had to be on a resting day. So the new moon marked the beginning of a new month, or the sabbath, these were resting days, and these were the days known to seek the counsel of the prophet and the father and the husband is asking her. Because she had hid the matter from her husband, she did not tell the husband that actually this concerns the life of our son. He had no clue what was going on. But you see, it was in the wisdom of this woman that she hid the matter, because she concealed it from anything that would be an opposition to her faith. You see sometimes family, in the Book of Proverbs, it tells us that discretion would guard you. There are times that when you're experiencing disappointments, it's not for you to share with people, and you guys engage in what you guys have both you know, experienced disappointment in because what you're doing in that moment is you're finding agreement in the wrong thing because someone else encourages you and say, you know what, maybe that's not what God has for you. Because this woman, this would have been a disappointment that would take her out, But there was something about experiencing that God, this is possible, and if it is possible, I'm not going to allow it to leave my life prematurely. So she tells the husband all as well that word is well literally means shalom, it means peace. So when he's asking her, why are you going to seek the counsel of the prophet, she's basically telling him the reason for my going is not to be troublesome. It's actually very peaceful. She declared over the life of her son, that it's not what it looks like. The beautiful thing family is that this woman kept her eyes on the promise of God. The thing is that when we look at the obstacle you see in the light in the enemy. First we'll talk about why God allows it. But what the enemy does with the obstacle is so that it will serve by the distraction. It's not really an obstacle in God's eye, but if he can make you believe that it is, then it will distract you from the promise of God. This woman, what I love about this woman is that she kept her eyes on what the Word of God revealed to her. What she had, she was able to touch with her own hands, what she knew that she gave birth to. And she said, God, you are not man to lie, and you will not change your mind. She kept her eyes on the promise. You see. The scripture continues and it says then she saddled the donkey and said to her servants, urged the animal on, do not slacken the past for me unless I tell you. So. She set out and came to the Man of God at Mount Carmel. When the man of God saw her coming. He said to Gehazi his servants, look, there is the Shunamite. Run to her to meet her and say to her, it is all well with you, it's all well with your husband, it is all well with the child. And she answered, all is well. She recognized that I will not bring up the matter to someone who cannot solve my issue, because it was the servant. The servants approached her, and she had a mission. You see, when she her seeking the counsel of the prophet was equivalent in this time to seeking the counsel of God. She was not willing to engage in discussions about defeat with people that could not solve her problem. You see, sometimes in life we have to learn that some things are not supposed to be discussed, some things are supposed to be brought before the counsel of God, that it is between you and your father, that it's not about you to have a moment of pouting and having someone to agree with you and comfort you in misery. That there are some things you have to bring directly to the King of kings. When the servant came to this woman, she's like, look, I ain't got time for you all is well. Now. What is beautiful is that it continues, and it says, and when she came to the mountain to the Man of God, she caught hold of his feet and Gahazi the little clockbucker okay, and Gahazi came to push her away, But the Man of God said, leave her alone, for she is in bitter distress. And the Lord has hidden it from me and has not told me. You see, about two weeks ago I talked about the message that it says it is the glory of God that hides the word. When Elisha says the Lord has hidden it from me, the glory of God does not speak that. It's not about it glorifies God to hide something from you. The glory of God are the attributes of God. It is the goodness of God that hides the world. It is the wisdom of God. In this case, it's not that God hid the word from Elisha, but God reveals things as he sees it. If God revealed to Elisha that the boy is dead, that it would mean that God saw the present situation as the end of it. You see, there are many times that it would be our report will come to Jesus and they will say this person is dead, and Jesus would say, they're not dead, but they're sleeping. Because the narrative of God when he looked at the situation of this woman's son, was really all as well. So he hid the matter from Elisha, not because he was hiding it, but the narrative of what Elisha would see was not according to the narrative of God. You say, as we continue reading, the woman approaches Eliza and she says to him, my Lord for a son, did I not say, do not deceive me? You see, it may sound like the woman came to a place of complaints, but she's not really complaining because she's in the presence seeking the counsel of God, and she's coming to the person saying, look, I was okay burying this desire, but you awoken something in me and I'm not willing to let it go. You see, there are times that there's something that you've been after, and all of a sudden you step into a glimpse of it, and then it seems that the door shuts on you, and then we assume that God, maybe this was never for me. But God does not expose you to something to take you back, But you see family, the beautiful thing, and we're gonna go into it. I cannot wait, but I don't want to go ahead of myself. But let me just continue. Actually, so Elisha says to Gehazi in chapter and verse twenty nine. He said to Gehazi, tie up your garment and take my staff in your hand and go. If you meet anyone, do not greet him. And if anyone greets you, do not reply. And lay my staff on the face of the child. Then the mother of the child said, as the Lord lives, and as you yourself live, I will not leave you. So he arose and followed her. Gehazi went on ahead and laid the staff on the face of the child, but there was no sound nor or sign of life. Therefore he returned to meet him and told him the child has not awakened. When Elisha came into the house, he saw the child lying dead on his bed. So he went in and shut the door behind the two of them and prayed to the Lord. Then he went up and lay on the child, put in his mouth and his mouth, his eyes on his eyes, and his hands on his hands, and he stretched himself upon him. The flesh of the child became warm. Then he got up again and walked once back and forth in the house, and went up and stretched himself upon him. The child sneezed seven times, and the child opened it his eyes. You see what I want to teach on today, family, is what Elisha did, because the actions of Elisha speaks to us about how life comes back into the thing that seems like a dead promise. You see. The first thing that Elisha did is that he put his mouth on his mouth. And when I studied this, the word that the Lord kept giving me is that what is your decree? You see, I will just define a decree as the dictionary does, and I'll talk about what it decree looks like. In the Kingdom of God, a decree can be defined as a statement of truth that carries the authority of a court order. You see, in the Kingdom of God, a decree is really when the children of God declare the revealed word of God. The child. The manifestation of the child first came by a decree. It was when Elisha tells the woman that by this time next year you would you would embrace your son. And that was the word of God revealed to this woman. You see, when Jesus spoke to the disciples and the de Typo said, teach us how to pray, one of the things the Lord tells them is that you know when they're praying acts the Father. Your will be done on earth as it is in heaven. That happens when God begins to reveal his words to us and we can decree a thing. The Bible tells us in Job twenty two twenty eight that you shall decree a thing and it shall be established. But the beautiful thing and the challenging thing about a decree is that the decree is not just a statement. It's not a chant that you do when you read the word. The power of a decree is that you believe what you say, because the decree has the power when a word is decreed. Fourth, when you're in prayer and you begin to say what the Lord revealed to you, even the enemy cannot oppose it. But the thing is that the power behind it is that you must believe what you're saying. And the only way that you would know that you believe what you're saying is that if it is opposed. When God allows a position, it is not to work against you. It is to test the foundation that you stand on. That do you truly stand on the word of God? You see. What is fascinating is that in that scripture and job and if you're taking notes, write that down Joe twenty two, twenty eight, is that that word decree also means to divide, to destroy, to cut off. When we decree a word that comes from the Lord, then what it does is that it also destroys any power of the enemy against it. But when God brings you to a place of when God allows the enemy to oppose you, this is the most powerful place in life, family, because your most powerful weapon is your knowledge of truth. If you truly know who you are, and you truly know the God you serve, then nothing can ever stand against you. And everything the Lord said to you you would see. You see. One of the things that the Lord taught me, and it really moved me, is that Satan is not afraid of your relationship with God. Satan is not afraid of the presence of God. The only thing that he's afraid of is what happens in the presence of God. You see, the scripture tells us that he even came before the Father they were having a conversation about job. In Revelations twelve eight, it tells us that he lost his place in heaven, and sometimes we think that that means that he was kicked out of heaven never to have access again. But he does have access. He just does not have a position of authority. But the thing about it, family, is that if you are if you are ignorant about who you are, that is where he rules over. The Scripture says that he is the ruler of darkness. You see, Satan was not even afraid to be in the presence of Jesus. Actually, the Holy Spirit led Jesus to meet Satan. And so why in the wisdom of God would he allow, actually not even allow he led his son. Jesus is fastened for forty days, and it's not because he's on a hunger strike. And it's not because you know, he's fasting for power or fasting for Fasting does not change the hand of God. Fasting changes you because you see, when Jesus came on the earth, he did not come on the earth as God. He came on the earth as man. He dealt with the same things that we normally deal with, and that is why it says that we have we can come before someone who can share, who can share in our pain, because you see, the thing about Jesus is that the knowledge of him being the son of God was something he also had to grow in. He had to understand that with I'm really here for a purpose, because he removed the god Head from himself when he came on the earth. And so when the Holy Spirit sends him to the wilderness to be tempted by a satan, what the Lord is really doing is testing his knowledge of the truth, because the only thing that rebuked the devil from his presence was truth. It was not prayer, It was not I bind you. It was that even when you say I bind you or I cast you out, that must come from a knowledge that you know you have authority. You see, one of the things that I learned is that in the spiritual realm, nothing is hidden. They can see. Then even the evil ones can look at someone and know who's really a believer and who's not. If you've ever heard someone share testimony about coming out of the Kingdom of darkness, if they were deep in something that was negative, they will tell you that they could tell who really served God and who did it. That is why even the demons when there was there was a certain the sons of Skiva if you read about this, when they were like, you know what, they saw real children of God casting out demons and they said, hey, let's give it a shot. And they go to them and they're like, you know what in the name of the of the what was in the name of Jesus that Paul preaches or something like that, And it tells us that the demons beat them up because they could see that this people. They actually said to them the names that the people identified. They're like, we know who these people are, but we don't know you. Because in the spiritual realm, nothing is hidden. And so what the Lord is actually allowing when an obstacle comes your way is your knowledge of the truth. That is your most powerful weapon against every opposition. You see, when Elisha put his mouth on the mouth of the boy, it was his confidence that God, you will not speak a word and that word will fail. That I am confident and I believe in the word that you cost me to decree. It was very symbolic. You see, Family, when we deal with a position, the word of God says that life and death is in the power of the tongue. Do you curse the promise because you had a roadblock, or do you look at the road block and say, the Lord will not lie to me that what he said I shall have, it shall be mine. Pastor Brandon said something, he called it a scripture earlier about what David said that I shall see the goodness of God in the Land of the Living. That was a prophetic statement. He was in a place and in a state where everything around him did not look like the goodness of God, and he decreed upon himself that I shall see the goodness of God in the land of the living family. God does not allow a position because a position is bigger than you. Because God wants to build you, you know. Pastor Tae said something wants that we want to build our lives, But God wants to build you. He wants you to have lasting fruit. There is no way that your fruit will last if in a small thing you fall. Jesus was tempted three times by the enemy, and those three times was to make and each time he's asking him, if you are the son of God, if you are the son of God, if you are the son of God. Everything else was just a distraction. It was really to test do you know that you are the son of God? When we're dealing with things in our lives, it's really a test of do you know the authority that you have. One of the things that Jesus said, he said that you can say to this mountain, move or you know what, pick up yourself and throw yourself into the sea, and it will happen to you. But he added to that statement that this will happen if you believe it in your heart and you don't doubt. And so even Jesus understands that if something is in your way, I have given you the power of my word that if you know what my word says, it is law that even principalities and powers must submit to it. But you have to stand on it. And that is where it becomes challenging to believe. You see, even the elements of belief. Belief is not just something we just random spring up. Like God, I just believe that this would turn to, you know, strawberries or something. The Word of God tells us that faith comes by the word, and the faith comes by hearing, and hearing by the word of God, and so the very faith that we need is tapped into when we are aware of what the Lord is saying. You know, one of the things I love so much. There was an interaction that Jesus had with on one of his disciples, Peter. And when he asks Peter, he's like, who the men say that I am? And Peter speaks to him, you know what you are, the son of the Living God. And he says to him, while Peter, flesh and blood has not revealed this to you, but my Father who is in heaven, and he says, you are Peter. And upon this rock I would build my church. But the rock was not Peter, because Peter is too much of a limited resource for Jesus to build that which is internal. The rock was revelation. God understood that he who carries knowledge carries the power of God. If you carry the knowledge of who you are, and you carry the knowledge of the truth, then nothing in this life can never stop you. That God can build upon your life. And so, family, don't look at what is against you as though God lie to you. Don't look at what is against you as though God deceived you. Every day, in your prayer closet, you write down the things that God revealed to you, and each day in your prayer closet you begin to decree those things. You begin to say, God, I will see your goodness in the land of the Living. I will see the thing that you promised me. I will, I will, I will touch it. God. And even though I have been disappointed and it looks like it's faded away again, But God, I choose to believe in you, and I choose to believe in what you say you see family. The second thing that he did was that he put his eyes on his eyes. You see what I love about this is that you have to ask yourself, how do you see life? Do you see life through your circumstances or do you see life through the word of God. There's someone in the Bible, and I love it so much, the story about David and Goliath. And many of us know that story, but I don't assume that all of us do. But the interesting thing is that Goliath was a giant who was coming against the people, basically golith representing an opposition, and David was the man who went out to say, you know what, I'm gonna take you down. God had already exposed David to so much. God had exposed David to victory. But when David was about to fight Goliath, he said to him, He said that I will strike you and I will have your head. He saw it. He saw the victory before the victory ever happened. He saw the victory before the battlet even started. And he not only did he decree, but he saw the thing. And what he said was exactly how it played out. You see, you have to take note of the things that God exposes you to. Because David had been exposed to battle, he recognized that the same way that God has to victory in smaller battles, that I would win this one as well. You see, what is amazing about Elisha is that the manner in which he performs the actions that he do, he does to perform the miracle was very similar to what his spiritual father did. Prophet Elijah that there was a time where there was a widow who lost her son, and this widow was someone that God send the prophet to her house, and when she lost her son, she's complaining to the prophet and he does something similar. He stretches his body on the child. I don't believe that this coincidence that Elisha does the same thing, because you see, Family, it's about what have you been exposed to. Don't look at the position you're in when God is exposing you, pay attention to what God is exposing you too, because Elisha. At the time, when Elisha started following his spiritual Father, he did not know that God would allow him to walk in the anoint him that he does. But he was able to glean from his spiritual Father. He was able to hear the stories that of the things that he had overcome, and he understood that God, if you would connect me to this man, then his victories would also be my victories. He understood that God, you would connect me to see something that you would allow me to walk into. Everything God exposes you to something that you take note of. He performs this miracle very similar to his spiritual father. Another thing, Family, is that he put his hands on his hands. Now this really moved me because initially, when he hears about what is happening to the boy, he tells his servants, take my staff in your hand and go. And when the servant went, nothing happened. And you have to begin asking yourself, have you put your miracle in the hands of another person, because this had nothing to do with the servants. This is what the miracle came by the decree of Elisha. Yet when the miracle looks a little funny, Eliza tells you, servant, take my staff in your hand and go perform the miracle. And nothing happened. You see, there are certain things that Heaven would only respond to when you put your hand to it. You see, some things in life remain dead in our lives because we took our hands off it. We say, you know what God shows you his vision for you concern in your life. You put the promise of what God wants to bless you with in the hands of an employee, and then all of a sudden you get frustrated when you don't get a raise. You put the lifeblood of your career in the hands of an agent, in the hands of a manager, and you completely back away from it. And God is saying, are you gonna put your hand on the thing that I showed you? Because family, this is where this is what trust looks like. Because sometimes it is our doubts that makes us say, you know what, let this other person handle it. You have to just take just think about when things don't happen in your life, who is the first person you blame. Do you start complaining about what other people did not do, or do you begin to strategize and say, God, show me how to work this thing out. God, show me what needs to happen. You see, delegation is a powerful thing. Everybody should be able to delegate works and assignment, but they should feel your pulse on whatever God has spoken before your life, because at the end of the day, you're the one who has the vision, not them. You're the one that God revealed what he wants to do through you. And so if you don't put your hand on it, it's not about God saying you know what, I'm gonna be a little petty and if you just want to give it to other people, I'm just gonna walk away. It is that God is intentional about things working out according to his will. If you put it in the hand of another person, then it's going to work according to their vision. But if your pulse is on it, if your hand is on it, God, what have you shown me and what do you desire for me to do? Don't just wait and say you know what someone else is not getting the job done. At the end of the day, God put that in your hands. It was until Elisha touched the boy and he placed his hands on his hands that the miracle began to move in the works. And so we have to ask ourselves, God, what have I removed my hands on in the name of being busy, in the name of whatever that is actually a lie. And the truth is that maybe we just lost hope. And God is saying, go back. To that thing. You see what is incredible. My throat is a little drag, but that's not incredible. But what is incredible is that after this, the child sneezes seven times. And so I was looking at what is the purpose of sneezing, because if you're like me, I don't like it. And I've never a checked to know why I sneeze. And so when I was researching, I was like, why do we sneeze? And I found it so fascinating And it talks about how sneeze and actually is healthy for the body because it expels bacteria and viruses from your nasal just from your nose. Basically, let me not use a different long term. And so seven times seven is a number of perfection. It shows that when everything was working together, that it expelled everything that stood against the promise of God. That it wasn't about one thing or the other. You see, Family, what I learned studying this word is because everything stems from your revelation of the word of God concerning you, and I began to understand that it is not half the battle, or rather it's not half the battle. About the words concerning your life or the knowledge of the truth is not half the battle. It is the full battle. Everything the enemy is after is your mind. You say, there's a scripture that talks to us about, you know, the weapons of our warfare is not carnal, but my God for the pulling down of strongholds. Right after that, it talks about casting down imaginations. Everything is dealing with your mind. If the enemy can control what you know about yourself, then he can control what happens to you. And all the Lord is saying is that if you begin to tap into the knowledge of who you are, you would be the one in the position of power. Everything that happens to you, Family, is not even when it seems to be against you, it's really not. God wants to strengthen you you see something amazing that happened. That is important to note is that after Elishah stretches himself on the boy, the scripture tells us in verse thirty five that he got up again and walked back and forth in the house and went up and stretched himself again on the child. You see, some of you in this house might feel like, oh, some of you listening, and you might feel like, you know what all you're saying, I've done that, I've given it my all. I've believed in God with everything I have and still nothing hah. And God is saying, go back to it again, because it's not about the interesting thing. The truth is just the truth. The truth can never change from being the truth. And so if I'm looking at this water, it doesn't matter how many times someone tells me it's coca cola, it would always be water. And so what all that God is looking for is that just agree that no matter how many times there's a position against what this looks like, if you just stand flat footed and agree that this would always be water, that the promise of my life would always be the promise of over my life. And the Lord is saying, then you will see what I have said. You have to give yourself the opportunity to dream again, to believe again, to know that God. Even though it seems like this did not work in my life, I will stand on the truth. One thing I always say is that I would rather look like a fool believe in God then look wise in front of people, letting go of the word of God, because it's only His word that is valid in my life and family. This is what God wants us to understand, because if you grasp a hold of this, you would recognize that nothing that truly it's not just a scripture that we say that no weapon formed against me shall prosper. You would begin to live in that reality because it's only when something is tested that you would know that it's true. You see, there is a scripture and I want to share that with you. It's in Jeremiah twelve five, and it says, if you have run with the footmen and they have tired you out, then how can you compete with horses? If you fall down in the land of peace, how will you do in the thicket of the Jordan. All of this is saying that God wants you to have lasting fruit. He doesn't want you to just be temporarily satisfied with something good in your life. He wants your fruit to be lasting. You see when Jesus defeated the enemy and get semony, that moment where he's wrestling Lord, if it is your will, let this I mean, if it, let this cup pass before me. But you know what, not your will, not my will, bar yours be done. His ability to overcome the enemy and get semony is started when he was in the wilderness. His ability to conquer him then gave him the strength to conquer him when it mattered the most, when it dealt with him going on to the cross. If God does not build you up in the small things, when the big challenges come, you will not make it. And so when He's taken his time with you, the forty days that our Lord Jesus was fasting was to build himself up in the truth of who he is. It was to build himself up that when people would call him belsible, when people will say that you are the son of demons, he will not be moved because he understood who his father was and he understood what he was operating in. You see their life, and there are things that the Lord will call you to do, and you will be misunderstood. And if you don't know what it looks like to live or the approval only of God, then you would be seeking the approval of men, and they would lead you to the place that is not your destiny. So when God begins to mold you, and when God begins to shape you, accept it the season that God is testing the word you stand on. Accept it. Don't look at it like God. I'm just you know. Don't try to outdo the process or manipulate your way out of it. It does not work. It does not work when you know that you're in a process of becoming accepted, because that is the one thing that will cause your fruit to last on this earth. That is the one thing that will cause the assignment on your life to be stepfast. Then, no matter what comes against you, that you will not waiver and you will not shake because there are things that will stand up against you. There are things that will challenge you. They will challenge the world over your life. They will challenge what God said to you. They will challenge your identity in Him. But if you know that God, you have put me through the proven ground and that I have come forth as gold. Then that is all that matters to me. You see, family, the word that God gave me simply is to tell you to believe again, believe again. In prayer. It was that scripture that Job mentioned that kept coming to me. He says that the Lord knows the way that I take, and when he has tried me, that I will come forth as pure gold. And the loss that it's showing me that many of you have been tested and tried, and that this is your season to come out as pure gold. But you have to believe again the very thing that you walked away from. That you have to revisit that thing and go back to it, because you would see God move on your behalf. I kept seeing that the things that have great disappointment being broken. Over your life. You see when Elisha, when the child sneezed and his eyes opened and he gave the child back to his mother. I can't even imagine what it felt like for her in that moment, because in that moment, disappointment, the power of disappointment was truly broken over her life. And it all happened because she dared to believe again that she was not going to allow disappointment defeat her when she had seen what God can do. God exposed you to taste the promise to show you what he can do, and all this saying is believe again. In prayer, I kept seeing there are several things that the Lord high lighted to me, and there are many things that I'm sure would cover that, but there were just specific things. And one how to do with pregnancy. I saw many who have had miscarriages and maybe like this woman, You're like, God, I don't even want this anymore. I don't want to try try for this anymore. And the Lord is just saying, believe again, Believe again, because the child that I would put in your womb would shake the nation, and you just have to believe again. There are people I saw and you had come out of. There were relationships and you felt like this relationship was going to be your world, and there was something about how the person made you feel and all that great stuff, and it didn't work out. But you see, there was a time where you never even believed that something like that could exist, and God said that just exposed you to it so that you can change your narrative and walk yourself out of dysfunctionality. But believe again, you see when it came to your business and when it came to your finances, there are things that you know that the word of God was on that You're just like God. You gave me this word to start it, and things happened to not work out the way that you planned. Go back to it. Put your hand on it again. The things that you believed about your life as a kid growing up, the things that the Lord revealed to you. If you can see it still, you would walk in it. That is the power of sight. Not the sight that what control your I see here, but sight that by faith, what you can see in your mind's eye. Imagination is a powerful thing when you can allow yourself to imagine according to what the Lord showed you. Because the first place that you would that, the first place that manifestation happens is in your mind. When you can see yourself there, you would walk in it. And so all of this family is that take a moment to think about the things that you have walked away from. Take a moment to think about the things that, even in the presence of God, you worship and you praise, and you're like God, I love you, but this one thing I've buried, and I'm okay burying it. You see, this woman loved the Lord. Everything she did for the prophet Elisha was not because she wanted anything. She just did it out of her love for God. But yet in her love for God, she had buried a deep desire of her heart. It was too painful to think of the idea of being disappointed. That she was like, you know what, I would rather live with this dead than open myself up to the possibility of being disappointed. She had let it go. But then the Lord understood that no prayer that you have ever prayed is forgotten, nothing that you've ever spoken out of your mouth is not seen by me. But I would answer it at the appointed time. You see, God awoken something in this woman, and it was my prayer that God would use this message to awaken what has been dead in you, to awaken the things that you let go of, the things that you knew without a doubt. There was once upon a time that you knew without a doubt that this was what God was gonna do, and you just let it go. You started, you know, embracing excuses, and your relationship with God made you feel comfortable, like, you know what, it's not a big deal. That's how this woman felt. It's not a big deal. I really don't want it, but she did, and God saw that it was in our heart. But it was just too painful for her to think about being disappointment or looking like a fool. And for some of us, that's what we struggle with. Lord. I don't want to embarrass myself again. I don't want to look foolish again. I don't want to go after something. And then again it becomes everyone knows that. Okay, here you go again with another idea. It's not about people. It's about your knowledge of the truth that God has revealed over your life. And if you can hold on to that, if you can hold on to what God said, family, you will see it. You would see it and you would walk in it. Stand with me. I believe that as we were worshiping earlier, there was such a freedom in this house. There was such a freedom in worship and freedom and just knowing God you can do anything. But that understanding and what we connected to in that moment was not just to stay there. It was not to come out of it and go back to the place of your doubt. It was not to come out of it and go back to the place of your anxiety. It was not to come out of it and believe God for other areas, but not that one area that has been buried. And so if you know that you are in this house and there were things that you have buried because of disappointment, because of shame, because you didn't want to sound or look foolish before people, it's not about that, even the obstacles that you felt like God, maybe this is just not supposed to work out. It's not about that either, if God allows it. Just think about Jesus. The Holy Spirit led him to the wilderness to be tempted by the enemy. That's literally what the Word of God says. It didn't say that Jesus went to the wilderness for a branch and the enemy randomly, you know, just walked in and said, Wow, Jesus, happy to see you here. It was an appointed meeting that was ordained by God. Because God also understood that if my son would be effective on the earth, he must know who he is. And it's the same for each and every one of us. If you must be effective with the assignment over your life. You must know who you are. You must know the God that you serve, and you must know who you are in Him. And that is why the most powerful moments family, it's what you do in the presence of God. It's not just about being in the presence of God. Is engaging the presence of God. God, speak to me, worshiping God. How does this minister to me? Don't just say words on the screen. Allow the words to speak to your spirit. God. What does this mean for me? What does it mean when I say you're a miracle worker? Lord, show me yourself. Don't just say it and then when you're in need of a miracle you forget it. Become the words that you speak before the Lord, and in this presence engage him. Lord revealed to me the things about my life. And what you begin to do is that you build on it. You build on it. Imagine before Jesus went into the wilderness, the voice of the Lord came and said, this is my son, and who I am well pleased. But it took forty days to be established in that word, forty days to be established in it. He builds on that word. When God reveals something about your life, no matter how crazy it may sound to people, because remember, this is the Jesus that they saw. We know him to be the Lord, but in his time, there were people around him that it's like, you know, isn't this the carpenter, isn't this Mary's boy? Like we know when they get birth to you and all of a sudden you the Lord. They're like, you fixed my chair just about a week ago, and you get baptized and your brand new. You know, there was an interesting scripture and I want you to just write this down and you can. I don't know where it is, but you can evangelist Google. When Jesus returned to his hometown, the Bible tells us that the people were offended by him. They were offended at the like it was his boldness and the authenticity of his true nature. And they were offended because they're like, Jesus, we know you. You probably wanted to save people about this thing about you being the Lord. But we saw you as a baby. We saw when you were not partly trained yet and you were just you know, a low loose with a goose. But they had memories of him as a kid. They're like, I mean, we saw you having lunch with your mother. We saw you learning how your father's business. How is it all of a sudden you are the Lord? It sounded ridiculous, and so God needed to separate him, separating from any voice that could ever taint him. He had to hide him in the wilderness and give him time to build a the revelation that is his truth. And so when God gives you a word, family, don't be too quick to want to share the word with everybody, yet take time to believe it, because sometimes we have to be honest. The reason we were too quick to tell somebody is because their approval makes us feel like it's true. So we tell someone like, oh my God, you will not believe the dream that I had. Joseph, you will not believe it. But it's almost like you're waiting for them. If you read the story of Joseph, why does he keep telling his brothers about his dreams if it's clear that they don't that it actually offends them. Could it be that Joseph was looking for some kind of validation that I already know you guys don't like me. But maybe if you hear my dream and you hear what God wants to do with my life. Maybe you would have a different level of respect for me, Maybe you will not just see me as this little kid who doesn't know his way. Why did Joseph keep saying that? I don't think it's because Joseph just wanted to He was so innocent. It was not that he was trying to have his brothers intimidated by the revelation of God. But what if he did not even believe it? And what if he was just looking for who is gonna Who's gonna give me approval? Sometimes we're too quick to share things because we need somebody to say, Wow, I see that on you. I believe the Lord will do that with you. And then you're like, Oho, why such a blessing? Glory to God. Now, when God gives you a word. Sit with it. You see. Studying for this world was so heavy on my heart, even to deliver. It was so heavy on my heart because I understood that this is the one area that if we are not bolden, that if we don't spend time with God to build upon. Who he said as we are. It does not matter how many times you speak in tongues. It does not matter how long you pray the enemy would show up, and that is when he can steal, kill, and destroy, because he can only steal what your eyes are not on. And the only reason your eyes will not be on it is because you don't even know it. Belongs to you. And so family, be committed, Be committed to your identity. Be committed when God begins to show you things about yourself. When there's a word of God that goes forth and it resonates with you, spend time in God's presence. Lord, show me, show me what you're telling me. Let me be confident in this and teach me how to walk it out. Teach me how to walk it out that when our position comes, I would know that without a doubt, God is going to. Do this thing. Oh God is so good. You seem so interesting. There's a project, there's a project I'm working on, and there was there's something in particular that needs to happen in the project, and it just seemed like everything it just seemed so impossible. Basically, it just seemed like, nah, that may not happen. And every time I go before the Lord, he shows me again, this is my will. And I remember one day I was about going to bed, and the Lord so I have a different place in my home where I I just it's for me. It's a designated area that I just spent with God. And I could pray anywhere in my house, but there's just a specific spot and for me, just my intentionality. And so one day I was going to bed and I was about to lay in the bed and the Lord says to me, he's like sleeping my presence tonight. And so I was like, okay, So I took my pillow and I went upstairs and I just laid on the floor and I fell asleep right there in the place that I pray. And that night I woke up and I knew that I had a dream, but I forgot the dream. And I was like, if I had a dream in such a critical time, I need to know what the dream is. And so I go in a prayer and I'm like, God, reveal to me. And this was it was a prayer that the Holy Spirit just laid on my heart and I said, God revealed to me the mysteries of my destiny. Reveal it to me, God, And immediately it was like the dream just hit me. And in the dream, God unfolds to me how distance was supposed to happen, and I said, Okay, Lord, this is what this is your word, and so it didn't matter at the opposition that kept coming, and I'm like, God, no, no, no. And there were so many times that we were tempted to change it, and I'm like, no, we can't do that because this is the word of God. It will happen the way that he said is going to happen. And so there there were moments that change in it would also seem like a great thing. But sometimes family great can be the enemy of extraordinary. It can be the enemy of the supernatural thing that God wants to do in your life. And so I said, God, we're not changing. I was speaking to the team. I'm like, we're not changing that. This is just what it is, this is what's gonna be. And so now all of us are holding on to that thing. But the amazing thing is that all of a sudden things are happening the way God showed me that this is how it will begin to unfold. And so I'm beginning to look at that as Okay, that's a sign. That's a sign even though we have not seen the thing yet, I'm seeing the signs that lead up to it. And so family, while am I sharing this. When you're in the presence of God, and when you're seeking God, God, build me in your word, Build me in your word over my life. God will begin to show you signs that and you would understand that. Okay, if this happened in that stage, then definitely God is still in the move of doing what he said he will do. In my life. And you can stand wrong in the word of God. And so family, if you are in this house, you're listening, you can tap into this. If you're committed to believing again, if you're committed to holding on to the Word of God over your life, meet me at this altar. Let us prayer. Amen, Thank you Jesus, Thank you, Jesus, Thank you Jesus. God has great plans for each and every one of you. I saw it. It was just so evident to me. You've been tested and you've been tried. If you go back to that thing again, what you would encounter is not disappointment. It would be the good God. But you have to go it. And the revelation of all is well. You see, Shaloma is the portion of the children of God. Peace, is your portion. All is actually well, it doesn't look as crazy as you think it is. I know, it just looks like okay, God, you know. I just keep hidden the wall over and over again, and God is just looking at you like, oh, son, daughter, just believe, Just be steadfast, Just know that my word would never fail in your life. And be patient. We're built on right now, instant gratification. That's what we want. God do it in my life right now. And God is saying that the blessings of the Lord, they make it rich and add no sorrow. When God speaks a thing, When God gives you a thing, he's not just giving you something for you to enjoy for the now. He's given you something that will would multiply and last in your life. His first words, his first commandments to Adam and Eve is be fruitful and multiply. It was not just about kids, It was about everything you do in your life. This is the pattern, be fruitful and multiply. When I bless you with something, take that thing and be fruitful and multiply. And God knows that the only way that your fruit will last is if you know that it is your fruit. If you know that what God placed in your hands is what he would back up with everything that he is. You see, the word of God is the most potent thing. And that is why a decree, the same way that in the natural that we see the decree as an order, as a court order, a decree is literally the power of God. Nothing can can oppose what God says. Nothing. And so what looks like a position is not a position, because even the enemy cannot stand against the word of God. And that is why the Bible calls him a thief, because he cannot change what God said. He can't, but he could try to steal it from you. The word of God does not call the enemy you know what's it called? You know, somebody that can change the will of God. God does not change his mind concerning you, not at all, not at all. And he knows that the thing that the enemy is most afraid of is you knowing who you are, that is the thing that he is most afraid of. I have seen children that because of how they were raised in this confidence of who they are in God. I have seen kids pray for people and demons begin to flee. And it's because they have the knowledge. I know who my God is when I was about I think I was twelve or thirteen, and I remember my cause I was playing basketball and I was, you know, playing basketball in high school. I know high school here is different. There's like junior high and high school, but for us, everything is high school. So I was playing basketball, and I remember every time I would jump like my append like I didn't even know it was my appendix. There was just this heavy pain in my body. And so we go to the hospital and the doctors were like, man, we don't even know how this is happening. Like your appendix is so swollen that's about to like bust open basically, and they're like, we have to schedule you for surgery. But you see, in those moments, there was a confidence I had in God that nothing could shake me. I was like, no, I'm not doing that. And so they gave me this pills and my mom is like okay. They tell my mom that you need to take this many times and all that stuff and all that stuff, and we go home. And there was just because of this confidence I knew about God as a kid, and I was like, Lord, first of all, I don't know what's worse my penguins being swollen or the medical system in my country at the time, we're getting better and better. I was like, God, I can't go out like this. I'm not going to die in the hospital. And I go home, I throw the pills and the I flush the pills and I was like, God, you got this. Like it was not even the big thing. It's not like I was like, oh, we'in the name Jesus. I was just like, God, you got this, like I am not. I'm like, Dad, you got this. I'm not dealing with this. So when it was time, it was time to schedule the surgery, so my mom was like, okay, you know, we got to go to the hospital. And she's like, you know, have you been because my mom she just thought I was taking the pills. I said, oh, and I flashed that a long time ago, and I was like I'm fine, Like I don't feel any pain, nothing like that. And so we go to the hospital and when they're like doing their little you know, push and all that stuff, the doctor was shocked and he's like, I don't know what happened, but it's like back to normal. And for me, it was not even like a shock. For me, I was just like yeah, my dad did that. There was such a confidence. The reason the enemy likes to attack us as children is because he understands as children we believe easily, and so he's like, if I can get you as a child to begin to doubt yourself, then maybe I will have the upper hand in this fight. And that is why a lot of times our biggest battle is we face it as kids. We face it as kids, and we're wondering, like God, like, why would this happen? And for the enemy, he's just like, if I can get you too, if I can sow a seed of doubt in you as a baby, as a kid, then just maybe I can have your mind. But God would always come through and then we have to start on learning so that we can become all that he says that we are. Wow, take some time family tonight, even start tonight. Write down, open a journal if you don't have one, just buy you know they have those notebooks nine nine cents, buys a notepad something, and just begin to write the words that God has spoken over you. Begin to meditate on it. God, who am I? Before the heart break, before the molestation, before the rape, before you know, before the disease, before the loss of a loved one, before the death of my parent. Lord, who am I? Before I allow the circumstance of life to start trying to give me a false image. Lord, you show me who I am, and I want to build on that and teach me how to build on that person. Teach me. Lord. There is no sweeter thing to the ears of God than saying teach me. Because the Holy Spirit is a teacher. He will begin to guide you and show you things. It's a beautiful thing. Family, Thank you Jesus. And if you're here, you're listening, and you want the voice of God. In your life. Maybe you stumbled in here on accident. You're watching on accident, and you're like, you know, I'm involved in all kinds of things. The one thing I will tell you is that relationship with Jesus is real. It's none ideas, not good vibes, It's real. He will speak to you. He will show you things about your future. Your future is in his hands. He knows things about you that you don't even know about yourself. And so if you want that voice to be engaged in your life and you want to walk with that voice and you want to know him, please come down. To the altar. Thank you, Thank you, Lord, Thank you, Lord, Thank you Lord. Family. They just bow our heads and prayer. Heavenly Father, we. Thank you, We thank you that your sweet presence has filled this room. And all we can do is just come before you and say, God, we are open. Lord, we love you, and we know that your eyes are upon us, and your eyes are upon everything that we have buried. Lord, you know everything about us. You know the worst that we prayed when we were confident in what you can do. And yes, things happen in life and we started losing our confidence and our boldness and the things that we were so certain that God, you were gonna do it. But this is a moment where you're showing us that we can believe again. We can believe. Again, and that disappointments does not have the power to defeat us, because Lord, you are strengning us in your word. You are building us in who you say we are. And so, Holy Spirit, teach us you are the great teacher. Teach us your ways and teach us who we are in you, like Gideon, reveal to us our true identity. We may think we're timid, but you look at us and say, mighty man, mighty woman of valor, redefine kd abashity, erect a true mirror before us, Oh God, that we would begin to identify and walk in the truth of who we are, and may we build on it with you. I thank you that as your children begin to write in their journals, that you would even bring things from You will bring things that they have buried long to the point that they have even forgotten that. That was a desire. You would bring it to the surface. And I thank you Lord for the miracles that would happen in this room, the miracles that would happen from those that are listening. Lord, you showed me that for those that have been believing for a child and that they just buried it, I. Just saw pregnancies. And so I thank you Lord that indeed, according to your word, there's gonna be many, many deliveries that we're going to celebrate by this time next year. I thank you for healing, Oh God. I thank you for open doors. Oh God. I thank you that you are breathing life into what once seemed as a dead promise. It is to your glory. Thank you Jesus. Have your way, Oh God, have your way, show yourself to your people in Jesus' name. Amen Amen, Amen fal