Stephanie Ike - Atmosphere Changers

Greeting's family Pastor Torrey here. I'm excited about this message that you're getting ready to watch. I'm also excited about the countless lives that are being changed by wholeness winning in life from the inside out. In fact, I want you to watch the short testimony. It's gonna bless you, and then that message will be right after it. When the Book of Wholeness launched, I was necessary of brokenness, heart and disappointment that Sandy passed approached about the book, and I was enthusiastic and intrigued to find out what the book was all about. Just on the first reading of the chapters, I was able to get in touch with my emotions, face my fears and insecurities. There's this part that says being made whole requires an authentic encounter with your heart. I was able to get into that and evaluate why am I feeling though I'm feeling. From that moment, I was able to get into this student to find out who is really the person inside me, and the Book of Wholeness of me discover that, and my only aim is continue being full and whole in my everyday living. I encourage you to get the book. It's real resourceful, Thank you Jesus. Let's just go straight into the world as we're standing, and so we're gonna look at one. Kings nineteen from eleven to thirteen. And then it says, then he said, go out and stand on the mountain before the Lord, and behold, the Lord passed by, and a great and strong winds, and the greatst strong wind tour into the mountains and broke the rocks in pieces before the Lord. But the Lord was not in the wind. And after the wind, an earthquake, but the Lord was not in the earthquake, And after the earthquake a fire, but the Lord was not in the fire, and after the fire a still small voice. And so it was when Elijah heard it that he wrapped his face in the mantle and went out and stood in the entrance of the cave. Suddenly a voice came to him and said, what are you doing here, Elijah, Father God, I thank you for this word. I thank you. Lord God, that you are gonna move through this word like only you can. I think you, Holy Spirit, that you are in this house. Father God, have your way, do that which only you can do. When we are gathered in your name, we stand in agreement, Lord God, that. We are here to hear a word from you. I thank you, Lord that I come as your vessel, as your mouthpiece, speak and flow through me to your children. May you speak individually and uniquely to each in every one of them, Holy Spirit, We love you, have your way in Jesus name. Amen, Amen, Amen. So today I'm going to be teaching on Initially I had the message in mind was the title was the simple presence of God, and it's connected to that. But the message I'm going to be speaking on his atmosphere changers. You See, I believe that in this time God is building an army. God is building I've been talking a lot about a revival that is coming into this city and it's going to come through each and every one of you in this house. It's going to come through those that are watching. And God is building up his people and part of that, as worship was going on, I just it's it was so clear the link between the two because God is calling you as an atmosphere changer. And but I'm realizing that too. Recognize that you can change. Any atmosphere you enter. Is to first recognize that the presence of God can be very simple. You see the passage. What we're reading is Elijah, the prophet, had just ran away from a woman named Jezbel who had threatened his life. And when he ran away, now God encounters him. But it's interesting that I just love how God moves because he starts off with earthquake, you know, the windstorm and an earthquake and fire, but he's not in any of those things because the way he's introducing himself is gonna speak to us when we understand Elijah's background, that what the Lord. Was in was this still small. Voice, the thing that could seem insignificant. When you think the Lord is gonna speak to you, you're thinking, like the earth to just open up, the clouds should just like come down a little bit, you know, and you hear someone like Mufassa speaking from the cloud. But it was so simple. It was a still small voice. You see, Elijah had run away from this queen named Jezbel. What happened was Elijah just killed over four hundred prophets of their false God, and this woman was enraged and she swore by her false God that they should kill her if she doesn't kill Elijah. Within twenty four hours of sending him that message. There was a confidence that she had that it terrified Elijah, and he runs away, afraid for his life. And when I read about him running away, it baffles. Me because I'm like, this is the same Elijah who prayed for it to rain. And there was a drought for three and a half years. This is the same Elijah who witnessed the miraculous hand of God through him in a widow and a son and being able to, you know, have them survive of what was less than a meal. Honestly, we see this and I believe it's First King's sixteen and seventeen. This is the same Elijah who raised the same widow's son. From the dead to life. The same Elijah who calls down whose prayer calls down fire from heaven, and he's afraid of the threat of a woman who says, you know, I'm going to kill your life. Not that well, you know, you should be afraid for women from you know what, with some bad people. But this prophet is afraid of her threat even though he just prayed and fire came down from heaven. And I wondered, why did he fear in that moment, and how is it because even when we even if we think about the story. So the story with Jezebel and Elijah, basically Elijah comes to the town. Jezebel was someone who had this agenda to get rid of all the prophets of God. So either she had killed them or they were in hiding. And now when Elijah, when the Lord leads Elijah to come back to Israel, he gathers, you know, he tells the people, bring all of Israel to meet me at a certain place, and he gathers the prophets of Balot. He tells them some of you may know this story. He tells them, you know what, why don't we both build an altar? And he's like, we're gonna build an altar. We're gonna both put bulls on the altar. And whoever whoever God answers by fire, that is the true God. And so the altar they build the altar, which is, you know, just a structure where they put their offering on. And so this offering is sacrifices in those times, you know, animal sacrifices to God, and those symbolized, you know, maybe you're you're a symbolizer, like your dedication to God, or where God? When you know, they encounter God in such a powerful way, they would build an altar before God. So they both build this altar the prophet's about. They build their altar. They put the bull on it, and they're crying out and they're calling to this false god bow and Elijah actually starts mocking them. He's like, you know, maybe he's asleep or he took a vacation, and nothing happens, and they're crying out to this false God. And then Elijah, you know, it's his turn, and he says, you know what, why don't you even pour water on mine? They pour water in his three times, and when he prays and calls fire, fire comes down from heaven and consumes the whole thing. So Elijah was moving like a bad man. And then he goes and Jezebel gives him this message swearing by the God who did not even answer the prophets. And Elijah runs away. And I realized that what Jezebel had. Elijah was that she was able because this bow God was a false God. He doesn't speak, that they don't have any relationship or whatnot, but she was able to build her confidence in silence she was able to build her confidence in a God that didn't exist without hearing him. She believed in a God even when she never had a relationship with him. And the advantage that we do have is that we know our God is real. But you see when Elijah, Elijah was so used to the presence of God showing up like being manifested in such a you know, a dramatic way, fire, the clouds shut up, people are being raised from the dead, that I think that he didn't realize that, even when he was being threatened, that he was still standing in the presence of God. Sometimes for us, we only feel energized in prayer when we have goosebumps. We're like, oh, man, I feel God here, Oh Gosh, start saying all the prayers you want to say. You only feel engaged in worship sometimes when you can feel it in your flesh. We are moved when we feel like there is some evidence of the presence of God. But the fact of the matter is that we are always in the presence of God. You see. I love that our first Lady preached the message called the come Up, and she talked about when the angel Gabriel came to Zachariah to tell him to give him a message that you would have a son, and that son will be John the Baptist, who had a pivotal role in the life of our Lord Jesus. And when Zachariah questioned it, he tells her he says, I am Gabriel stand in the presence of God. And it's interesting because he says, I stand in the presence of God, but he's standing in front of Zachariah. And I remember one time I had this experience that I don't even know how to explain it, but that experience made me realize that this is the truth that although while we are standing here, while I'm standing here and speaking to you, I'm also standing in the presence of God. I come from his presence. I'm standing in his presence, and even as I am with you, his presence because we are in the room, his presence is here. That is what we have as children of God. The Word of God says that we are sitted with Christ Jesus in heavenly places. While we are still here. We are there, and even while we are here, he is here because He feels all things. And I'm saying this because from me. I want you to realize that even when you're netflix and chilling, the presence of God is right there. And when we begin, when we are awakened to this reality that God's presence. Is always with me, it changes our level of intimacy with Him because sometimes we confine God to a particular time. Now, it's powerful to create time to be intentional about spending time with God because like any relationship, if you want to see it grow, you have to be intentional about spending devoted time. But it doesn't mean that. You know, my best friend and I, some of our greatest moments is really when we might just be sitting on the couch and we're not even saying anything to each other, that we're able to sit in silence because it's a place where it starts building intimacy with your friends, with your relationships. When that is one of my tests and relationships. If I could sit in silence with you, oh we're going somewhere. If I don't feel the need to have to engage. You in conversation, I'm like, wow, this is beautiful, and this no for real, because sometimes you just be having conversation to just you know, wow, that weather man who something isn't it. But family? When we are able to recognize that even when it seems that God. Is silent, He's still here. And what this does the more that for my testimony, the more that I've been awakened to the fact that everywhere I go God is with me, then I don't need people to supervise me in certain things, like you know, like when you go to the mall and you pick something and then you don't want it no more. You want to drop it somewhere else, and then I'm like, oh God, you'll watch me, aren't you. Huh? Let me let me go put it back somewhere. What this does is the fact that you can go to the store and someone might be going through something, and then you realize that I'm standing in the presence of God. I'm an atmosphere change. And what that means is that you are a seed of the Kingdom. And then your time on the earth is that God is planting you here to manifest his kingdom. What that means is that any time you're going through any circumstance or difficulty, when you realize that I am not just going through this by myself, that I am in the presence of God. It changes your posture, it changes your attitude. Some of the most powerful prayers are not based on what you said, it's how you said it. Because when you believe something, there are things that you When you believe that no, no, no, this is going to be okay, your posture is different because if you pray from fear, it's almost counterproductive because you're going against the spirit that brings fear, and so your praying from a spirit that knows that spirit that you're praying against, it's almost counterproductive. But when you have a posture. That you say, no, God, I'm with you, I'm standing with you, I'm not afraid of what's in front of me because I know that you are with me, it's a different posture, family, because the power in your words, the power when you're praying about certain things is not just what you said, is when you believe it in your heart, because that's what gives it power. Because if you think about it, how does a mute person pray? How is it that God will answer the prayers of someone who is mute. The power comes from the heart. When I believe what I'm saying, I could change things with my prayers. When I believe. That what is coming against me is not greater than who is in me, I can change things with my prayers. But if I'm praying from fear and anxiety, I am praying in the same spirit of what I'm going against. But this comes when we. Start realizing that I am in the presence of God. It cultivates a deeper level of intimacy with God because you're moving. You know how they have that thing? What would Jesus do? Every moment you're moving in the awareness that God, you're right next to me, you're moving in the awareness that Jesus you're with me. So when that person came up to me, when that car cut me off, if I curse, I'm out, even though I'm twenty miles away from the church, so hopefully it's not a church member. I'm the only one that was there. But when you start moving in this relationship with God, and then you start asking God the simple things, and it comes. And even if you're doing your nails and you know that even in the nail shop, you can have a conversation with God. Oh God, tell me about the people in the nail shop. Holy Spirit, open my eyes. Is there any one you want me to talk to in the nail shop. When we start making every place, every environment, every atmosphere a place for the Holy Spirit to move, this is how we go deeper in relationship with God. This is what builds our love for God. There are some shows. There's a particular show I've been such a fan of. I was telling everyone when the new season was coming out, I was so excited. And then when the season comes out, I'm getting ready to watch it. I got ketlicorn because ketlcorn is better than butter so I got some Keli chord and then I'm like, oh, yes, somebody to watch this show. As I'm going to put the show, the Holy Spirit tells me no. I said, why I've been watching this show my whole life is this is not convenience. And when the Holy Spirit tells me no, and it was not that the all along. You know. Maybe I don't know if Jesus is enjoyed the show too, I don't know. But what happened was that the more I became aware that I mean the presence of God, then he started revealing to me certain things about the show that doesn't glorify him. And I'm not saying the show had to say Jesus no, but there was the message behind the show didn't glorify him, and so it built this. It builds this deeper level of intimacy. I know that I'm in a room full of people that some of you have been asking, like God, I want to move deeper in the in spiritual gifts, and I want to move deeper in the things of God. But there that even starts that it says that pursue love and desire spiritual gifts. And what the Lord is showing me for you and this house and those watching, is that love is the foundation of it. And the deeper you go in your love of God, trust me, you would move in power. So it doesn't come from just saying that God, I want to move in spiritual gifts. It starts with love, because love is what purifies your expectation and your hunger. But God Love. It starts with God. That love. It starts with. This deep intimacy with God, and it comes from recognizing I am always in the presence of God. If Elijah had known that when Jezebel threatened him, he didn't need fire to fall from heaven. In that moment, he didn't need God to tell him that, you know what called the thunder to strike her for saying such things. All he needed to know was that the same God that was with me then is with me now, and Jezebel cannot touch me. Even when it seems that God didn't say anything to him, because you see Elijah being a prophet, all his actions were driven by the word of God. So the fact that he was afraid when Jezebel threatened him, it tells us that in that moment, God was silent, and in the silence of God, I wonder if he felt was the absence of God. But family, I came to. Remind you all that everything in your life, whatever it is in your life that you feel like God, are you just silent on this case? No, there's some things. It's not just about you wanted to receive a word. It's about you knowing who the world is. Because when you know, a lot of times we're in a situation and we're just we're like, God, I need you just show me what is going to happen with this situation. But it's different because when you know who the world is, then you realize you start to understand his desire and his heart for you, and so you don't just need him to speak, you just know him. And when you know him and you realize you know what, I am, a seed of the Kingdom of God. There's some things that you don't even need to tell me for me to know what your heart is towards this situation. Because if I serve a God that will never leave or forsake me, if I serve a God that will never put me to shame, then I don't need you to reaffirm me. If I'm gonna be victorious in this thing, I. Just need to know who you are. And so no matter. Where we go, we say that, no, I'm standing, I'm in the presence of God. And this is how we change atmospheres. This is why you don't need even if you might be you know, jogging and someone meets you and there something happens and you need to pray for someone on the road, you don't have to go into a thirty minute worship session to pray for them. You're like, oh, let me get in the presence, you know, let me just put some hill song. Oh gosh, no, lie, Sometimes you know, I don't know if I don't know if I should say this or not, if I'm provab this or not. But sometimes on my way. I remember one time this is funny. So I was on my way to church, right, and so I had like Afro beats in the car, you know, like some good Nigerian music, but it's real dancing right some in the car, I'm just like having a blast. And then probably like fifteen minutes close to the church, I was like, oh man, I'm almost at church. I need to put some hillsong. You know, I need to get my mind right. But the song I was listening to it wasn't like bad, you know, but it's like a programming. Then I was like, oh gosh, I need to, you know, put some Oh Jesus, the atmosphere it's changing. And when I did that, the Lord spoke to me said no, I actually enjoyed. The other music too. I said, you know what, that's some good news because your girl is about to jam. And what I started learning is that because if we think that we have to create this pattern to get into the presence, then we miss out on a lot of opportunities to manifest his presence. Because you might just think mad up and jogging I'm just sweating. You know, this is a lot going on right now. I don't think I can pray for you. I don't think I can do this. But when we realize that, no, I'm always in the presence of God, and so everything I do, I do it intentionally. Everywhere I go, I use it as a moment to manifest God. If you were here, what would you do if you are watching me right now, would you be proud of what I'm doing in this very moment. You are walking in God's presence, and that is how you start changing atmospheres. It's interesting Elisha, who would become like the spiritual son of Elijah. There was a moment in Second King's chapter six, and there were these there were people that. Came against Israel, and they. Came with chariots, and they came with horses, and I mean they were armed, and they were ready. Elisha's servants was afraid, and he's like, Master, like, look at the chariots and look at all this that is happening. And Elisha says, and he prays, and he says, God opened his eyes. And when God opened his eyes, he looked and on the mountains were chariots and horses that came from heaven, that the Lord already had them surrounded by his angelic force. You see. The difference was that Elisha, whether he saw it or not, he knew that he was standing in God's presence. And because he's standing in God's presence, it doesn't matter what's coming against him, because the Lord already has his army around him. And so, family, I want to encourage you because as we were gonna go, we're gonna start talking about even a lot of things that deal with the manifestations of the spirit. But before we go into those things in upcoming weeks and prayer and all these powerful things that allow us to move deeper in manifesting God's kingdom, the foundation of it has to start with your knowledge of it. Because the enemy's greatest weapon against you is ignorance. That is his greatest weapon. It's not that he if you don't know who you are, he has the upper hand. If you don't know what you come with, he has the upper hand. I remember one time I was walking. Actually there's two stories. One interesting one. I was with a friend of mine, a really good friend of mine. We were on the train and we're heading home and so the training was like it was I can't even remember what happened, but it was late at and there was this man who was like, you know, he was a bit mental, but it was more than him being mental and the physical something was really off with him. And so he's running around the whole train and he's acting like he was acting like an ape, like doing stuff with his body and hitting the glass and he was like harassing people basically. And so where my friend and I were sitting, and so let's say like this is a. Line right here. Well he's not a line, there's a train, but just imagine like this is where we were sitting, and the man is just running around the whole train. So he's coming closer to us. And then my friend is telling me. She's like, Stephanie, I think we should move. I said, no, we're not moving. I said, wall, She's not going to cross this line. And so he sat down and this man is just running and the moment he gets to where that chair was, he runs back. He runs again. He runs back like he never crossed that path. And when she looked at me, I said, now what is happening? I said, we just have to pray for him. We'll just pray for him where we are, because if I'm not led to go do things, I'm not led to do so sah. If I'm not lead, I ain't trying to get slapped. Okay, I said, where am I gonna just send a prayer to you? You know the word of God? Said, God sends his word, I'm gonna send my word. Okay. So what was interesting to me, though, family, was that even though I said it, it actually intrigued me when I saw it. I said, God, you're a bad man. This man never crossed and he will look at us and he will scream, but he will run back. And it almost if you witnessed it, it. Felt like there was a force stopping him from coming close. But this is when you realize, because there is a posture, there is a way you would look and the enemy knows he cannot mess with you. There is a way that you can stand. There is a confidence that you can have, and it's not it's not just be coming from being a Christian. It's coming from being a Christian who knows who they are. Then no matter what comes against you, at some point they're like, you know what, let's just stop trying because she's not budgeting, he's not budget. You see the reasons why. Sometimes for some of you it feels like you've been tested with the same things over and over because the truth of the matter is that the enemy only knows your patterns, the patterns that you show him. So if he knows, we've touched them there and that's how they react, so let's just keep touching them there because we know that we can always get a reaction if we do that to them. And so even though you come to a place you're like, God, I'm just gonna go into fasting this week, or God, you know what, I'm just gonna be mindful of what I say this week. I want to use my words to glorify you. I don't want to use my words against me. You will find yourself. Then when you make you know this, you come to place where you're making decisions to better yourself, like God, I don't want to self sabotage, and all of a sudden, something happens and takes you right back because when you make that agreement, he's like, oh no, we know where to pop them because they still don't know who they really are. And you find yourself back in the same cycle. All he means is the wrong person to call you at the wrong time. You find yourself in the same cycle. But when you know that you are in God's presence, even when that happens. The question now is. God, if you're watching me, how does this speak of you? You know, so I've shared my testimony. Some of you may know it. You know, in college I used to Oh my gosh, I loved you know, partying was like I was like, you know, the chief of the party committee, because I was just you know, you give me. I had a very high tolerance for drinks that were not apposide her, and I would just go crazy. I you know, at some point I actually even struggle with pornography. And what changed me was not was not like what made me stop those things was not how do I put this, It was not just the fact I wanted to please God because I did. What made me stop was when every moment I'll turn on here know things I'm not supposed to be watching, and God would be speaking to me in that time, and I'm like, God, this is the wrong time. Like ah, I'm over here trying to entertain myself and You're trying to tell me about who now I would be in the club and I'm just having a ball. And then he's like, oh, I want you to tell that person her father would be okay. I'm like, God, I got two bottles in my hands, and you want me to walk to somebody and tell them, Oh, Jesus loves you, and your father is gonna be fine. He's gonna survive the surgery. What. And so the more I was aware that, oh my gosh, like you are with me in the club, you're with me in my bedroom, you're with me down the street, that that was what changed me because then I realized, I'm like, God, I don't want to be I don't want to make a fool of you. I don't want to make a fool of your time with me. I don't like I love you. And the fact that you love me so much that you're just there with me and you're entertaining this nonsense. I'm entertaining that is what made me change. And that shifted everything in my life, and it made me go into this deeper place with God that even when I go to whether it's going to the nail shop and I'm like, oh God, what colors are we getting, you know, But that place of intimacy, because remember it was a still small voice. It was a thing that would seem insignificant. And when you can acknowledge God in what seems insignificant, that is where He starts building you. That is where he starts training you. He starts grooming you. But if you put boundaries on God, that God I only know when you speak. If you do this, then you have put a limitation on a God who is in all things. When you can acknowledge Him in every single way, that is where your intimacy grows and it builds and it's sharpened. Thank you Jesus, you are atmosphere changers. But in order to be that, you have to know that you are walking presence of God that everywhere you go, because you're even in that room, the presence of God is in that room. You don't have to the fact of the matter, whether you see it or not, There angels all around this house. Whether you know it or not. Sometimes God may give you the ability, or God might just open your eyes to see it. But the fact is the same. The fact is when you're walking down that alley, God is with you. There is an angel in the car with you when you had that accident, God was with you. And rather than complaining and just you know, trying to lose your head. Be like, God, thank you that you are with me. When you know how to praise God and what the enemy wanted to take victory for God. It's almost like when somebody just wants to go crazy over you, like, oh, let me just bless this child. Let me just give a double portion like he did for job. Because the matter of the fact is, you see one thing that the Lord taught me, and. He was teaching me this, and he was teaching me this. Even through spiritual warfare, because there was a point where there were things that I was like, God, okay, this has been a little you know, troubling now. But he taught me something. He said, even if you wake up and you see something you don't like, if if some random spirit you see something he said in that moment, praise me. Say Jesus, I thank you that you know what your word says. That you have prepared a table for me in the presence of my enemies. And so even if I'm. Seeing something I don't want to see, it's because they're watching the table. You're prepared for me when you know how to flip it, when you know how to flip things for the glory of God. When you say that you know what this accident happened. God, I thank you. That you are with me. You did this because you're just you have better plans for me. You saved my life. When you know how to see God in every single moment, in every single thing, there's someone in this house. The Lord was showing me to revealed you to me that it's almost as there are times when you panic because you don't even know what you're gonna eat, or you don't even know. It's like even when you leave the church, it's almost like you serve in the house or something like that, and you're just it's it's almost like you're at the mercy of is there going to be food in the House of God and not? And when he showed me, it almost made me chuckle, even though it's not funny. He said, No, I'm actually. Grooming them and fasting. He said, because that's not what you're going through. You're someone who prays constantly for the things of God. And he said, I'm actually. Disciplining them because I've called them to be someone who is disciplined in fasting and prayer and so and if you know this, this person you're in this house. If you know this, it's almost like the every day it's like a certain time of the day you don't eat. You don't choose it, but it's almost like a certain time frame you find yourself just not eating, and you think it's an issue, and God says, no, Actually, I'm training you. When you know how to praise God and everything, you will see God in everything, the presence of God. I am standing in the presence of God. And this is how we shift atmospheres. Then, no matter what is taking place, I'm standing in the presence of God. You hear someone that say God, I thank you. There was someone I saw that was going through something recently and it actually made me give God glory. And this was someone close to me. I said, God, wow, because you're actually gonna use this to show your power. I said, Oh, God, this is gonna be so cool. And I remember sometimes I would be like, God, why is this happening to her? Like why that well, especially when it's like it's close to you, And I was like, no, God, You're gonna use. This to show your power. God. I thank you when you raise his name up. Oh no, wait, because when you. Glorify God, what you're doing is that you're almost put in a mandate for Him to show himself when you know how to glorify him that even once the check didn't come through. Oh God, I thank you because you just have greater plans for me. When you know how to praise God in everything, you will see Him in everything. You are an atmosphere changer. And that is the word told me. What the word he brought me here with is that to understand his simple presence, to understand that He's always with you. And then he showed me that actually. This is what makes you an atmosphere changer when you know and every single. Thing God is with you. And true story, this might seem very really funny, but we all do it. Then when I would like, if I'm taking a shower or something, I'm like, God, I hope your eyes are closed. Okay, that wasnt necessary, But but the fact is, it's this awareness that even in the shower, God, I can be talking to you, I can start praying in the shower, I start saying it. I would just because I'm like God, you are with me everywhere. David even talked about this that way, can I hide from your presence? Family, in everything when you're going home, Because you all these things, Whenever a word comes, you will be tested on the word. Someone caught you off. Remember Jesus is with me in this car right now. Someone says something rude to you, don't be so quick to want to fire back. Don't be so quick to want to prove your point. If if someone does something offensive to you, just say no, Lord, you were my avenger. I don't need to fight this battle. You will fight it for me everywhere you go. Use it as a moment to manifest his kingdom. Use it as a moment to show his love, to show his goodness, to show his mercy, unless you are led otherwise and otherwise will still be in the parameters of his. Love when you do that. Family, there's a way that the Holy Spirit can use you. That is the answer to what many of you have been praying for. That God, I want you to use me mightily for your kingdom. But it starts with love. It starts with you. It starts with your relationship with God going deeper. It starts with the things. It starts with the simple things. It starts with the small things. God was not in the earthquake, he was not in the fire, he was not in the windstorm, even though He's used those things to communicate his presence. But he says, I am also in the still small voice. And if you can start there with me, you would see me in the fire. You would see me in the earthquake, and you will see me in the windstorm. You will talk to the wind and tell it to be still like Jesus, and it will be still because Jesus could see God in the still small voice. Don't be afraid, family, whatever is coming against you, do not be afraid. Recognize I am in I am standing in the presence of God. What can come against the presence of God. That's how I look at life these days now, No matter what is coming against me, I said, God, I thank you that you're going to use this to teach me something. I don't look at it anymore as like, oh, the enemy is attacking me. No, so that even when I see things, even if I'm seeing something in the spiritual room that I don't like, I'm like God, Oh, I thank you that you're teaching me the strategy of the enemy. I look at it differently and I'm like, oh God, what is that? What is the name of that one? So we know how to deal with it? And because and the enemy actually gets frustrated from that, because he thinks he's sending you something to scare you. And I'm just like, Oh God, who's that? Who's this guy right here? Hello? And they literally when you praise God, I'm telling you from me the way they scatter because they know they didn't have victory. Know who you are in God. When something even challenges you in the natural, know who you are. Oh God, I thank you. I want you to do a challenge, a thirty day challenge. You can even start with three days and just some three consecutive days every three three days until you get to thirty three. Okay. I want you to challenge yourself to say, you know what, I'm just gonna thank God and everything, no matter what I want to say. And I'm telling you, watch how it will change and transform your life. And watch how you will begin to hear God in a clearer, in a more definite manner. Some of you that there's a way that you're just like, God, I feel like I'm not hearing you. But watch how when you can incorporate a spirit of gratitude, he will begin to reveal like. Oh, so you see me, Oh you see me here? And all of a sudden, he starts revealing that he's actually there. You start hearing him better. But it starts with recognizing that even when I don't hear you, you're actually still there. When you respect his presence in silence, you would see it in the noise, you would see it in a loud and demonstrative way. You would see it in power, because all of it is still the power of God. Family, stand with me. Thank you, Jesus, Thank you, Jesus, Thank you, Jesus, Thank you. Lord. The Lord is raised in an army. He's raised in an army, and he's calling you as an atmosphere changer because of where he's also sending you. The rooms he's gonna send you to, and what is going to be so beautiful that the things that would move people would not move you because you're like, no, no, no, I'm standing in the presence of God. I come from a different place. I'm here as a seed to manifest the Kingdom. So I cannot be moved by things that is not moving the Kingdom. When you see situations that don't look like God, you know that I can pray about this in boldness because I am in the presence of God. And so if I'm in the presence of God, that means what's around me has to look like Heaven. There is a. Different when you remove yourself from the equation, when you stop thinking of you know, I just I'm not even sure if I know how to pray. I'm not even sure if I'm doing the right thing. Am I supposed to hold your hand or your head? No? When you realize that this is because I'm in the presence of God, I can speak things that are not as though they are because I'm in the presence of God. I'm an atmosphere changer because I'm in the presence of God. I'm not an atmosphere changer because of myself or anything like that. I'm an atmosphere changer because I'm in His presence. Thank you Lord, Thank you Jesus. Speak to that thing that has been coming against you as though you know who you are. Now, speak to it as though you're like, oh, no, no, no, I come from the throne. I come from the throne room. So why my father, the king, he is the head. Why should I be dealing with something beneath me unless God is using it to train me? And in that I thank you Lord, job said, though he slay me, yet shall I trust him? God? I just thank you that even this very situation I don't understand. But because I am in your presence, you are using it for my good. Change your language, start to recognize that. No, God, God, you are in this too. Earlier today was almost like something tried to challenge me in this word. I got a phone call this It was like probably at around noon, and the phone call it brought me to tears because that was. My natural reaction. But while in that moment, I said, but God, you're with me. Oh, We're gonna do this together. And it turned from so someone crying to laughing. I say, Oh God, I'm gonna know you deeper even through this. Oh God, this is gonna be an exciting journey that we can share together. God, I'm interested about what you're gonna teach me on this process. In a second, because. In that moment, he allowed me there is a time. There are things that would bring out emotions from you. It's natural. It's natural. But in that moment, from tears, it turned to joy because I say, God, I'm not in this by myself. I'm not in this by myself, and somebody needs to know that. I feel your heart right now, that you're going through something and you feel like you're in it alone and you think the only victory is when you come out of it, and the victory is why you're in it knowing. That God is with you. Thank you Lord, family. If you're in this house and you're saying that God, I want to honor you in everything. I want to make a commitment to see you in everything. I don't want to just recognize you when I have goosebumps. I don't want to just recognize you when when it's evident, like wow, did you see the power of God move. I want to recognize you even when it doesn't look like you're dare, even when. It looks insignificant. The still Small Voice was not just about the voice of God. It was about how God moves. It was not just about that. Oh, God communicates, and you know you have to be still and you have to be calm, and you know meditation. It was not just about that. It was to show you that sometimes you're looking for the noise. You're looking. You're like, oh God, I want to see you in this way, in a way that is loud, and it shows everybody that, oh, yeah, you're sure, you know, certainly you're a child of God. But God is saying that sometimes I'm not even in that. Sometimes I'm in the thing. You might be overlooking the simple presence. A lot of times he's in the simple things. He's in the things that may seem insignificant. The wisdom of men is foolishness to God. If you're here and you're saying, God, I'm gonna make a commitment to see you in all things, to see you in all things, just raise your. Hand with me. I'm gonna make a commitment with my words, with my life, with my everyday activity, to know that you are there with me. Because when I know that I am with the Lord, when I know that I am in the presence of God, I'm more mindful about the things above. I'm more mindful. My mind is not about you know, who offended me or who did me wrong? Oh No, how can I show God's love? Who is that person, by the way, in the moment that it happened, God, can you show me what happened to them to do that to me? God? How can I pray for them? Because this is still. Someone who was created in your image. Where were they broken that they thought it was okay to do that to another person? I am fighting the wrong battle when I'm fighting with a broken person, because I'm not even fighting with the real you. What happened to you that you thought it was okay to do that. Rather than fighting you, whether than wanting to curse you out, rather than wanting to prove a point in that moment? God, who are they? Who are they? Who are they really? In your sight? And how can I pray them into their destiny? I am in the presence of God. You see why the Bible says pursue the per desire love, or pursue love and desire spiritual gifts, Because when the Holy Spirit manifests in however way it chooses to manifest, it's not for our ego. It's for the people. It's not to say that, Wow, you know, did you just hear me say that word? Give a round of applause for me. No, it's for the people. The Bible talks about how Jesus would have compassion on the people and heal they're sick. But this starts in God's presence. God, who is this person? When you're more committed to pray for people, you're gonna hear God a lot more. When you're more committed that someone hurts you and you say, God, what happened here? You start hearing the voice of God in you fresh ways. Because your heart is for his people. You want to move in power, love Jesus, love his people. Move like you know that he's watching your every step, the things that you do when no one sees it, he does, act like you. Know that He is right there with you. Thank you, Lord, Thank you Lord. We're making a commitment to you that we're gonna see you in all things. We're gonna know you in all things. Even when it seems like, oh God, why is this happening? No no, no, no no, when we realize oh no, I'm always gonna come before God with prayer, with petition, and with thankfulness. I'm gonna be grateful God. I just thank you for this moment. I thank you for this thing that seems against me, because you are for me. Oh, it's gonna be beautiful. Family, You're gonna move in a joy that that cannot be it cannot be be faked. It's a joy that will come from your spirit. And people will be confused that why are you. So happy, because it's not it's coming from your spirit. It's coming from a knowing that I'm gonna be fine. I'm gonna be okay. A lot of times people want to know what's wrong, what's wrong, But when you know you're in the presence of God, you're like, no, I'm. Really okay because He's with me. Family, just raise your hand up to heaven and bow your hands. Lord, I thank you for your children. I thank you Father for what you're doing in this room, that you're bringing us to the place of awareness that we are in your presence and that we are atmosphere changers. Thank you Jesus. We will be mindful of how we use our words, will be mindful of the things we say, the things we do. Because we're in your presence. God. I thank you that for those that thought that it's been a struggle, but they would change their perspective. To knowing that no God is with me. If anyone told Job that what happened to him was the result of your doing. It would seem crazy, but we are in your presence, and wherever we go, Lord, we would be mindful that we are in your presence. Raise us, Lord, groom us, shape us, mold us. We are clay and you are the potter. We thank you for who you are, who are forming us to become who you are calling us to be. To be mature in our love, to be mature in our patience and how we see people, to look through the. Lens of your perspective. Thank you Lord, that for some they're releasing offense right now, that many they're releasing unforgiveness right now because they've been fighting the wrong battle. Thank you Jesus. Thank you Jesus. That you're having your way. You're touching each and every heart. Holy Spirit. I thank you. MM. You're touching every mind. You're renewing their minds. Father God, we. Worship you, Thank you Lord. Thank you Lord. God is ministering to many of you right now. Thank you Lord. Thank you Lord. Have your way God. Wow, Thank you Jesus, perfected Lord, sealing in their hearts and in their minds. We're not gonna be ignorant of who we are. We're gonna stand strong and firming our identity. We're gonna come before you in boldness, Lord, not from fear, not from anxiety, not from worry. But that we would know that. You are for us, that we come from the presence we are in the presence, we are moving, presence. Of our Lord and Savior, Jesus. For you are in us. And we submit to you, Lord, that we will be vessels to make your kingdom known on the earth. Have your way, Father, in Jesus' name. Amen, Amen, Amen, Thank you Lord,