Stephanie Ike -Clear the fog

Praise God, you know the Lord. Today's message is titled clear the flog the fog. That I was about to say, the flog the fog. Right, you know, it's fall. You know, I didn't even think of that. It's fall. It's gonna be a little foggy sometimes in the day. Now. The amazing thing well, it's not really amazing, actually disappointing. The crazy thing about fogs is depending on how you know, how heavy it is or just the you know, how dense it is. You know, I'm not into the signs of fogs, but there are times that you can still you know, kind of maneuver your way to see through it. And there are times where it's just you just have to stop your car right or just you know, stay home type of thing. Now in our lives, a foggy season could be, you know, when you know PT recently and pts what we for, you know, those that are here for the first time. Our pastor, Pastor Terray Roberts we call him PT, and so PT shared something recently, you know, even on his Instagram page and he talked about vision right where he talks about and in my own words, since I don't have the Instagram post with me. Basically, what that post was talking about was just how you know, there are times where there's a lot of there could be a lot of confusion in your life, but if you have a vision in that area, if God gives you wisdom in that area, boom, you can see about it. Right. So there are certain things in your life where you you literally need God to speak to you right, where you need God's wisdom and all that. I'm not talking about that, but what I am talking about is things that we have been ignoring in our lives. There are things that we have the ability to just open our eyes to, but we've been ignoring it because we don't even want to entertain the reality of what those things could mean. And that is what this message is on today. You see when I you know, earlier I talked about how God and that we have our meeting times right and for the longest time, like because I'm like, okay, God, you know, there are times I was just like God, you need to help me with waking up at this time because it's just so hard, you know, And there were times that he did, like it was just the weirdest things would happen, like there'll be a knock on my window right at the time. And I lived like every almost every apartment I've lived in, it's always been like the top floor. And top floor doesn't mean like you know, our eyes up, you know, it's like a five story apartment or something. But I talk about that in a sense where no one could climb up or any weird thing like that to reach the window. But at that time, they will just be like bam bam bam bam bam on the window, and I'm like, I wake up and look around and I'm like, okay, all right, Floratina, what it's tam and just weird stuff like I remember one thing I don't like, you know, I only anything that flies I believe should be a bird, and so anything else that's not a bird, no, And so flies are like my uh uh, And people are like, really, aren't you from Africa? You know that? I said, how that being from Africa doesn't mean we just have flies right right around town. And I'm like no, no, no, no, no, mmmm. That's not me. And so there were times that right at that time, a fly like slap myself to wake up. I'm like, really, God, And the moment I get up, the fly has disappeared. And so I say this to say that, you know, really there were times that God was really helping me to get up, and then he stopped doing it and I would wake up. There are certain times I did wake up at the time and then but it was it was not as much, but there were a few times. But it really meant a lot to God for me to show up on time. And so I was just like, okay, you know what's going on. So I started praying about it, right, So I thought what I needed in that area was the wisdom about it. I was like, God, you know, just I just need you know, I need you to help me to get up. I need you to really help me to get up and all this stuff, right, And I'm really praying about this, like you know, I'm crying out to God and all that stuff, and He's just not responding in that area. But he would talk to me about other things, and I was just like, okay, what is going on here? And one morning he said, this is a heart problem. It's a heart matter rather and I was like, what does that mean? So it's my fault that I'm not waking up, But what I understood when I actually paid attention to what I was doing. What I didn't come to terms with which maneuvered into me needing understanding about that moment. But what I didn't come to terms with was it was about my will to wake up at that time, because if there was something else, if I had an important meeting. How many people there are times that you struggle to wake up right, but if something you have been waiting for shows up, you were up an hour before the time you were struggling with And what he showed me, he said, no, this is actually about your will and you are so and what he showed me because now prior to us having this meeting time, there was a time that the Lord told me, he said, if you get up early, if you rise up early every morning, and that's when he showed me the time. If he rise up early every morning, I would show you all that your day has for you. And what he meant by that, you see, there are times where Jesus would say, you know, I only do what I see the Father do. And if you look at Jesus, Jesus was up before anyone and he will go to pray. And Jesus when he started his day, he knew exactly where he needed to go, what he needed to do, what he needed to say exactly, And I thank God because it works. I tell you there are times in the morning when I wake up at that time and I said, God, what are we doing today? Even this day, he showed me praise and worship. What was gonna happen in praise and worship? There are things. Obviously he keeps us a surprise because he's God, right, but he shows you enough to get you by the day, to show you this is the step you need to take. When you see this person do this, or when you do that, you know all that stuff. I'm like, okay, cool, right. And so what I came to terms with because you see, in life, we have a natural order, whether we pray or we don't pray, whether we know what we don't know. We wake up, brush our teeth, make some breakfast, we can go to the store, We have things we want to do. Someone calls your phone, Hey, do you want to grab lunchure you go ahead, grab some lunch. What I didn't come to terms with with myself was that I was comfortable with the natural order of my life, that I wasn't too pressed to tap into purpose as much, and I wouldn't. I didn't want to even entertain such a thought that, no, God, my life is yours. No, I'll be up there singing my life is yours. Oh Jesus right. I didn't want to come to I didn't want to come into agreement with that. I said, no, no, no, no, no. But what he showed me, he said, this is a heart matter. You are comfortable. You're not really concerned about if you're living in purpose. And that. So you're not too eager to know what the real you should be doing at this time, because either way you would do something, sleep, maybe watch a show, go out, yeah, do some work, whatever the work you're doing, should you be doing that work? You don't know, you don't care because you're comfortable in it. And when that hit me and I said, okay, okay, hold up, hold up right, And I'm like, what about my life? If I'm comfortable with this life, what about this would actually sustain me? What about this is actually even real? Is this what I want? When there's a part of me that knows that really all I want in this life is to serve God, because by serving God I'm serving me. I'm coming into the fullness of who I truly am. And I had to come to terms that I was living in a fog and until I wanted my purpose as bad as anything, then waking up would not be a problem. And so that became like boom, Okay, Stephanie, this is you. This is not God, This is not about anything trying to make you sleep. This is you. How bad do you want to live in purpose like you say you do? How bad do you want the things that God has shown you about yourself? Or are you comfortable in doing? Okay, there's a natural order to life. So that's that's cool, you know. Fine. I say this because there are things that we are running away from. There are realities about our lives that we are running away from. Because when you're familiar in a place, when even if the lights are off there's a blackout, it wouldn't really affect you as much because you know where things are and so you can still function. But what you don't realize is that you're functioning in darkness. And so as we go into the message, for a lot of you, I mean not even for a lot of you, for a lot of you, right, Now God is going to reveal things in your life that you have just kept like a you know, I'll deal with that later without realizing the dangers of what later means. But for all of you, whatever time of the day, within this service, God is going to reveal to each and every perse what needs to be left at the altar. And so let's go into this passage Jeremiah thirty five. Now it says the word which came to Jeremiah. Now, Jeremiah is a prophet of God, right, is known as a prophet of God. And prophets were I mean they are, and they were doing this, especially even in the in the Old Testament. We're very respected because they were literally, you know, representing God. Because even someone like Jeremiah literally you know, he was speaking, he was representing every word. None of his words ever fell to the ground. Right, so people knew that when Jeremiah spoke, it was almost as if God was the one speaking. So it says the word which came to Jeremiah from the Lord in the days of Jehokim je Haha, Jehokim, the son of Josiah, King of Judah, saying go to the house of the Racabites, speak to them and bring them into the house of the Lord, into one of the chambers, and give and give them wine to drink. Then I took just you know, that sounds like Josephe Jasanya, the son of Jeremiah, the son of Habazen Havazenia. You know what was anaya? Listen, you know, I think it's a fog uh Havazanayah his brothers and all his sons, and the whole house of the Racabites. And I brought them into the house of the Lord, into the chambers of the sons of Hanan, the son of Igadala, the man of God. And so when they said man of God, it was another way for them to say the prophet. So the prophet of God is bringing them to the house of another prophet. It's like a tag team here, right, which was by the chamber of the princess. So right here is just I mean some of the like the temples were like connected to the was like there were neighbors to like the royal house above the chamber of the Missad. And then let's go to the next one. This information is not really relevant to what I want to show you. Then I said before the sons, before the sons of the house of the Racabites. He sat before them bowls full of wine and cups, and I said to them, drink wine. It's interesting here, it says I said to them. Now, when you look at the translation of that word, Jeremiah was actually commanding them to drink wine. And so for Jeremiah to command them to drink wine, it's almost as though they already understood that perhaps God is the one telling us to drink wine. Now, let's continue now, it says, but they said, we will drink no wine for Jonadab, the son of raykab Our father commanded us. Now He's like, look, I know you're commanding me to do this, but I need to explain something to you real quick, he said. He commanded us, saying, you shall drink no wine. You know, your sons, forever, you shall not build a house, so seed, plant a vineyard, no have any of these. But all your days you shall dwell in tents that you may live many days in the land where you are sojourners. So basically, you know what the father was telling, I mean, what the brother was instructing them that the father had told them, and I believe this was to protect them because they were living in the land that was not their home and perhaps if they started building houses and planting vineyards. So what they're doing is now owning space in a land that does not belong to them. So it's actions like this that could get them kicked out right, And so they're like, look, we have weavery see this instructions, and we're gonna obey this forever. But it's it's interesting because all Jeremiah tells them to do is Okay, I'm commanding you to drink this wine. But they're like, look, they understand that you can just reject that kind of word. And so now they're bringing in like a whole resume of why they can't do it. So it's like, look, he commanded us not to drink wine, to do this, dad, and to do this, and then let's continue. Were following each other, okay, And it says, thus, we have obeyed the voice of Jonahdab, the son of Reycap, our father, in all that he charged us to drink no wine all our days. We are wives, our sons, and our daughters. You see, he said, we have obeyed every single thing that he told us to do, and so we cannot break one of them. And let's continue not to build, we build ourselves houses to dwell in, not to do, nor do we have vineyard, field or seed. But we have dwelt intents and have obeyed and done and don according to all that you know our father commanded us. Now, I would also advise you to read. I don't want to go into the whole Germanica ifive, but write this down. Read this passage. Now, what is powerful about this is that God actually knew that they were going to say no, and he used this as an example to show Jeremiah, and he says, now, look at the Racabites, why wouldn't my own people. Now he was talking about, you know, the Israelites and all that stuff, and he says, why wouldn't my own people obey me like they obey earthly authority? And he said, if these people can be so obedient to their father, but my people would not be obedient to their divine father. So it was almost like a sign for Jeremiah to speak onto the people. God was so pleased with this that even at the end of this passage, the last verse of this chapter, he actually pours, you know, speaks a blessing over the Racabites that for all their days they would never lose, They would never lose a man that would serve God. And so when I studied this passage, you know, I was like wow, because first of all, to obey instruction for that long, To live your life by such an instruction means that you understand that the source of the instruction lived their life in a way that it showed you something or you heard something about it. Their father must have lived a life full of favor before men and God because of the way in which he lived his life, and now they can follow such an instruction. We have a God that when we look at the track record of our lives, each and every thing that He has said to us, not the things we said to ourselves, you know, the things that God said to us, it never failed us. When we say your love never fails, it never failed us. But yet we struggle with obedience. And I talk about obedience because the things that we are afraid to how do I put this, The things that we are afraid to kind of confront somewhere somehow it's also tied to obedience to God and we're gonna go into this because this is it's a very you know, I'm gonna go them make it very plain when we have You see, when obedience to God is not just about one area of our lives. When we say God, I give you everything that let my life glorify you, God is not just looking at what you do. It's it's not just about person to person relation anymore. Because you see, God understands how this society operates, and all this thing just it keeps coming to me. You see, for example, your credits, your your your credit credit, your credit score, right, your credit score speaks of your character to institutions of authority in this country. How do we glorify God outside the walls of the church. We go into somewhere and we'd say, okay, I would like to purchase this I like to buy this house. There's a word that Oh Lord, you see if many of you, God has even given you promises about homes that you would have, about homes that you will purchase because there is something and PT always talks about this, there is something about our lifestyle that becomes a testimony to people about who God is. It's not just when we come to church. It's not how we pray, it's not just when we read the Word and we know scripture. It's how we live in every area of our life. And so if the instant tuition on earth cannot respect you because you would rather go shopping than pay the bills on your credit and for many of us, this is an issue and we ignore it because we can just keep swiping. But but God is showing me, because God showed me that for many, for many of us the promise, there are things that He showed you, even with owning your own properties. And it's beautiful that he's showing this because we are even about to to transition to a place in this even in our building that we're gonna own our own building. We're not gonna We're not We're no longer gonna lease or anything. And as the anointing flows, God is gonna start revealing things to you that it's also our time for those that he's given that word to own your own. But if you carry the promise and say, yes God, Praise God, I'm gonna enter that house. I'm unlocking the house right now. You know, Africans we do this as a sign of faith. I'm stepping in, and you will see that step into the air. You know, Praise be rich you. You're stepping in with all the debts on the cart, and God is saying no, no, no, no no. We have to be disciplined because that is how we obey God, because God will not direct you to just spend carelessly when there are things that have priority in your life that would represent Him properly on the earth. Because it's a testimony to someone that you can walk in and say, oh, how are you? God bless you? Yeah, you know, I would like to file alone for this property. And they look at your score and they're like, God bless you too. Right, you know, let's work on this for many of us. I stay on this, and I'm gonna go into what God really has today. I stay on this because this is a present issue and we can't be so focused on I need to look a certain way, and I need to buy this, and I need to buy that when there are things, there are bills that need to be focused on and no longer ignored. And so we are in a fog of it's okay because it's on credit, and we forget that you have to pay credit. It's not free. The swipe is never free. It goes through, but it's never free. And so for some that is one thing that God has already revealed to you as an area that has to be worked on. That God, Okay, there's a fog in my life in finances, and perhaps is not the prayer. Perhaps is me paying attention to my spending habits, and it's me paying attention to how am I even building my credit? For some and this will help all of us in the long run. Right. But what God also showed me is that there are instructions that He has given us. There are instructions that He has given you, and you're running away from from doing the things He has said. But you're running, and yet you're asking him to help you. And I share the story I did in the beginning because it's not about God helping you to obey him, because you see God, God will never give you an instruction without working within you the will to do it. But you have to accept that will. You have to accept that I am in power to do this thing, and so I'm gonna walk into it. But the reality of why you're running is you're comfortable in a lie. You're comfortable in the idea of what life is about. And if you look at your foundation, clearly, if you look at when the lights come on and the fog disappears, you're literally standing on nothing and you're scared, and you're you're you're you're wondering, like, Okay, God, you know if I do this, I just don't think this is you know, I don't know the people are. It just seems weird. And some of you right now there's a there's someone here. You were not even gonna come today, and the battle in your head has been this is not my life, God, but it's it's actually who He formed you to be. And if you look at what your ident to find as your life, it's actually a lie. If you look closely to it, it's almost like what you're calling your life is a mirage. And the closer you get to that thing, you will find out it's just dust. And you were not even gonna come today. Family. God is calling us higher. God is calling us higher, and he's calling us to deal with our giants. You see, he gave me a dream, and I'm gonna show you how all these things tie up. He gave me a dream and it was I was. Really it hit me this message, actually, this is one of the messages that have moved me in such a way like never in before, because he also showed me the things that I was running from confronting. In this dream, there was a giant. This this showed up from nowhere, and the whole town was in panic. Everyone was in fear, everyone was running around. What I noticed about the giant was that he was not armed, but because of his frame, he was able to take people's He was able to take the mental you know, how do I put this? He took people captive mentally, to the point that he turned the US Army to work for him, people with guns, men groups of men that had weapons to work for a man just based on his frame. Nobody even tried to see, okay, could we actually take this man down? No one, because everyone was in panic and everyone just lived like that. When he showed up, everyone goes hiding. When he left, its back life as normal. But no one wanted to confront the fact that we were all scared. And I was in a dream. I was a ray to. I was one of the first ones to run. And then all of a sudden, the Japanese Army, And this has nothing to do with the US or the Japanese. Was just an example. God was showing the Japanese army and what they represented was a foreign thing fighting for what is what you're supposed to deal with. The Japanese army comes in to fight the giant, but they're using bow and arrows, and I'm like, are this people kidding me? Do they know what generation we are in? And they're they're shooting the bows and arrows from a distance, so it's literally it's just like there's no impact being made. The Giant gets angry that, okay, these people actually trying to, you know, mock me or something. And so now he's about to harm someone. And then I see him about to harm someone, and so I take a knife and I like fly all the way up. I don't know what I was doing, and when I got close to him, I was able to stab him on the arm, and it appeared to be that I struck a vein, and so because of that, he like bled out and that's how he died. But what God showed me is that you cannot fight your obstacles from a distance. You cannot ignore it and expect someone else to do it, that there are certain obstacles that have your name on it because God has empowered you to do it. And what he showed me with that, and I said, Lord, and because I woke up and I was like taking my time to understand the dream, and what kept coming up was David and Goliath. And when I studied it, there were a lot of things that he spoke to me about that and another thing, I want you guys to write down to read this first sam or seventeen because we're going to go into it a little bit, but I'm not going to bring up the scriptures. And so I was like, okay, Lord, David and Goliath was what was the main thing. And I saw that passage in a very new way because you see when Goliath up, or even before that, the Philistines and the Israelites, they're in battle, right, so they come to the battle lines. Goliath rises up and says, look, what are we doing? I am one man. Golad was so confident in himself and he looks at the army of the of the Israelites and he said, okay, you guys, pick a man. And if this is how confident he is, he said, if this man would fight me and kill me, then the Philistines will surrender to the Israelites and they will be slaves to the Israelites. But if I kill him, then you guys will be slaves to us. What shocked me in this is that at the time the king was Saul, and the passage says Saul and the army were greatly afraid. And I said, Saul and the army, isn't he the king, shouldn't he be the one to fight? But he also was afraid. You see, you cannot run away from something when it is coming at you. I didn't say that better. Saul had taken the position of king anything that came against, anything that threatened the Israelites. It was his responsibility. Goliath represented that this is not a group battle, it's not a group match. This is a person to person conflict. And what God showed me is because for many of you, there are obstacles in your life and you're praying about it. You're asking God for help, you're asking all kinds of things, Lord, send me help do this and do that, and you're really you believe your prain from the heart, but there is a fog around you because there is something that if you focus on, if I just confront my fears and make this decision. For some of you, there are decisions that you have to make that deals even with relationships. And you're afraid that if if this thing, if if I say this, something would break here. If I say this, something would it's gonna temper with what I have going on here. Some of you are afraid about travel arrangements, some of you are afraid about decisions even in marriage. But then you know what you're supposed to do something deep down in you because God has already showed you what you're supposed to do, but you don't want to confront or entertain the idea of what's existing that needs to be confronted. And Goliath represents a one man battle. But what I loved about this passage, and this is what God is going to do today. What I love about this passage is that prior to this, God has already anointed David as king. You see, Saul was afraid because Saul when Saul was picked as king in the first place, Saul was never God's choice. Saul was the people's choice. If you know this, when Saul was picked and if you don't know this part of the scripture. Saul was known to be taller than every man in the land. He was like one inch taller. There was something about Saul that was based on his physical attributes. Yet when God chose David, he said that the Lord looks at the heart, not at the physical. So Saul represents everything that the people wanted, because when Saul became king, it was the people that were asking God for a king. It was not what he wanted to give them. Now, Goliath, what Goliath did? The Bible talks about how for forty days and forty nights Goliath was tormenting the people. He would rise up and say all kinds of slanderous words against the people of Israel. Now forty what God has shown me about even what forty represents. One of the things that forty represents is the breaking of a natural order for the divine order to manifest. Now check this right. God has anointed David as king. Saul is the people's king. In order for God's divine order to manifest, an opportunity has to rise up for the anointing on David's life to be activated. The ost was actually the activation of what has taken place in David's life, and so God needed forty during those forty days while that whole thing was going on, it was putting David in a place of preparation for God's divine order in his life to manifest. Now, the obstacle, the thing you're running away from, is the very thing that would activate the Word of God over your life. Now, what God taught me about about this whole conflict situation is that for the past forty days, today in the spirit, there is something at work over each and everyone's life here today and on this day, there is a divine the divine order of God is gonna manifest in your life. I need is Hmmm. It was very powerful to me that the angels that were released on the earth were actually angels. Yes, there were angels released for different activities, but there were angels released over this house and over what would take place on this day in your life. Literally, what I saw in a vision this morning was each and everyone. It was almost as when you stood up and walked out, you were your Everyone's outfit was different, your hair was different, your your tone was Everything about you instantly changed And I was like, God, what is happening, and he said, this is a night of transformation. And I say this, and why I talk, why I started this conversation with obedience, is because we have to leave, we have to come, and we're coming into that. But you have to understand about what you're walking into, because we're not trying to turn back. You see, when you know, do we trust God? Who doesn't trust God? Raise your hand? Okay, just check and we're gonna keep it countable. Okay. When we trust God with our lives, we're saying that God, everything you tell me is gold, and it is my duty to live by your truth and no matter how hard it is. In the first in this passage we read it was a hard thing for the people to come against the word of Jeremiah, but they stood their ground. The Lord showed me that the very things that he has told you, it would be tested, every single thing, even in my life. He showed me that the very time that he has given me, that is our meeting time, that he will cause something to conflict with that very time, and it would be something I desire and it would actually be. And it's not that the God doesn't tempt us, but he will test you and it would show. It would actually be a matter of choice. Would you say, oh, Lord, is just today I really need to go for this, or would you trust me and turn it down because our time matters that much that you would be in the presence of the king, or you want to choose those that are below the king. There are things that God has spoken on your life, and he's gonna it's gonna be tested each and everything, and it's gonna be tested with the reality of a lie or the lie that you think is a reality. And are you It's either you're gonna keep going forward or by your will, you're going to turn around and take off the clothes that He put on you. Family. I don't know what your fog is, but you do and no matter how hard it is, no matter how hard it may seem, rather to make that phone call, to send that email, to make that decision to cut things out, to cut down on certain things, because you understand priority that is connected to your vision. You see, there's a passage that talks about don't you know that all things are yours? And what it means is that literally all things are yours because you belong to God and He's in charge of everything, but not everything should be accessed by you. Certain things have certain timings. Yes, you might, you might want there's someone there's there's a car that you want, But if you're honest with yourself, that car is gonna put you in such a great depth. And you're almost using faith, but you know you're aligned to yourself to say that, no, no, no no no, you know God, God got me. I'm gonna buy this car, but it's not. It's not and and your and the the the mindset. You see, God always looks at the original thought behind the thing, and the original thought what I mean by that is what is motivating you to do that, And a lot of times it's layered by other things that brings you to a place of I'm just believing that God's hand is on my life and by him I can do all things. And I'm gonna get this car, but the motivating thought is this car would make me look like this kind of person. So in reality, you're doing it for people. And it's not that God cannot give you that car. There's someone in particularly I'm talking to and you know who you are. It's not that God cannot give you that car, but the truth of the matter is that it's not for now because there are other things that he wants you to to do with your budget. And if you put money in what it's not supposed to be, you're removing it from what can actually take you further. There's someone here, and I know it seems like I'm just bouncing all over the place, but I'm gonna bring it all together because for everything I say, it's for somebody, there's someone here. And God has given you such a powerful voice. Wow, you don't believe in what it could do, and for you in particular, at some point, as I'm speaking, you need to run to this altar who you don't believe in what that voice could do, and you're hiding and you're finding excuses to say, God, it's not time. Oh my gosh, God, it's not time. It's not time. You know, I just don't think I'm ready. I don't think it's this. And God is saying you just need to run. And God is saying, thank you, Jesus, thank you, Jesus. And if there's more of you, because there's something with music, God has given you such a powerful voice, you don't believe in it. You're afraid to move forward with it. And he's telling me to do something that I'm gonna do it, but you're gonna find out why. I'm gonna be stolen for a little bit. And your fear, your fear with this thing is that you believe that. First of all, you don't really believe in your voice. You don't really believe in yourself like that. And for some of you, no, let's not, we not to stay. But you know now and the fear that you have is some of you. The fear that you have is I don't want this to be tainted. And God says, look around you. I have opened doors in a way that you don't even need a label to do what I've called you to do. And he says that the songs, now there's some that even have some and you're here and there are some of your songwriters. While there's an annointing in this house for music right now, there are songwriters and the songs that God has given you, it's songs that come from your heart. The way these songs move you, it's something like never before. You see, the fear that you have right now is gonna be broken because you see, you know when when I always talk about, you know, being a singer, right, but I'm more of a. Like a. You know, a vocal coach to my puppy for my papa got virus because his barkin is like a falsetto you know. I don't know if that's a thing. Ah, but what I'm gonna do in this very moment, because this is a sign for you. When you sing the songs that God has given you, it is literally gonna shake the atmosphere. The anointing that He's that is coming on your life. It's literally to change atmospheres. And you're so focused on how do you sound that you don't understand that the power. Yes, you have a beautiful voice, but the power is actually in the anointing. And so you compare your voice to other people because you're like, oh, it's not you know, it just it doesn't sound like the next person. And God is saying, the power is not in it's it's not even in the voice. It's in the anointing on your life. And so it's not gonna be about you, It's gonna be about Him. And for some of your your your hesitation is because what the songs that God has given you they don't say, God, you're not singing, Oh Jesus, Oh, yes, you know. But what you are singing is gonna communicate His power. And why I. Say this is that when you sing songs that come from the heart, you don't even need a microphone. People will feel the power of it. There is a song I love and I'm gonna sing it because the Lord is good and I don't need a disclaimer or my puppy to back me up. I will sing that song without the mic. Maybe I do need a mind to project the anointing. But. I could sing it without a mic and not be ashamed if I went auto a soprano, because it's about this is a song of my heart. This is the song where this is because literally it is my heart song to God. Each and every day of my life, I say, God, prepare me to contain You. And in order for me to do that, I have to be pure and holy. You have to try me that you know that I'm true. And even in the testing, Lord, even when it hurts that don't you slay me, I will trust you because at the end, Lord, with thanksgiving, I would praise you because at that point in my life I know that I can contain you. And so this is my heart song and I'm not afraid to sing it. And God is saying, if I who, he didn't give what your gut? Listen, what are you afraid of? What are you afraid of? God wants you to do what he's called you to do. The opportunity's gonna come for you. You're gonna create your own opportunities. Don't be afraid of being judged because it might not say Jesus. And don't be afraid of being judged because it does say Jesus. And you're not you know, you're like God. I don't want to be another gospel singer. No, you're gonna change lives. However, he calls you because he called you, and it's the anointing that breaks the yoke. And write do you know the song I sang? What song? Do you know any song? Any young christ your gospel song or no song gospel? You know? Black smile sing that God wants to hear your voice right now, right now because I think you just hold my hand. Come it is. Just don't sing future okay? Just any song? Oh you know girlfriend? Know the song i'm'a be your i'm'a be your back up. Just sing this right now, right now, break it off your life. You just sing it. Smile, smile, smile. You want a six smile, you're six moles. You're smiling. Right now. A patunity and opportunity is coming to you very very soon. And if you can break your fear right now, you would say yes, you would say it. Don't worry, smile. Who knows I'm smiling by Tasha Cobs. I know it. We gonna sing with your girl, because look, what you're doing is gonna break so many people free right now, cause there's so many things that people are afraid to do in this house. And the Lord knows that you are afraid. But he says, I am with you. I am with you, and that's why he singled you out this very second. And as you do this, you're gonna break change because it's the anointing that breaks to you. You know what's smile? Is it? You know what? I don't know? We're gonna see smile. Thank you Jesus, here's my worship. Look this way now, facing the world. I just know of course you're right. Take joy comet amen, can you as an that's enjoy. Make it your twiling place. I wanna put a smile on your face, said mine. Heart to you. I present my lie to you. Here's my world. Shun me about, here's my life. Long smile, here's my worst ship. Smart, Yeah, here's my life, Lord. Smart, stay shift. She don't even need a tea shop. People. Did you see when she put her hand up? I said, Oh, God is here. He's with each and every one of you, every one and here. We have nothing to fear. We have nothing to fear who you are. There is transformation happening right now, right now, right now. That fear was this the first time you ever sang in front of people? Look at that? Thank you Jesus. You see. There a lot of times where we can be so used to doing something in private, but the breakthrough is in just Lord, okay, I'll go in front of the people. And that's a scary thing. It's scary, but you do it the first time, You're gonna do it the second time, you're gonna do it the third time, and each time you're gonna know that God is with me and each And when I started speaking, I never I start. My first speaking was in this house. Before then it was my other dog who used to listen to me preach, and I was and each time, I tell you, like, I would come here and I would slay. You know. But then I go home and I'm just like, oh, God, I just boh. I don't know what I'm sending them not. I don't know what I'm sending them. I don't know if it's heaven, because it would it would mess with my mind. I'm like, what did I even say? You know? But each time I became more confident in the God that is with me each and every time. And so I'm not saying that you're just gonna be like, you know, Superman, But each time as you go and say accept the new, like the new clothing that God has put on you, each time you do that, you're gonna say, God, I'm giving, I'm standing to know that you were with me. And you will see that each and every time, and it is gonna grow your confidence in God because you see, God is doing such a new thing in this generation, and a lot of it too, is gonna come through music, and there are new sounds that need to be heard. You see. When we talk about I'm gonna make this short because we need to, you know, close when we look at Goliath, if no one rose up, if David decided not to fight him, because David was actually the one anointed to defeat Goliath. Goliath was supposed to fight the one who is the king of Israel. And that's why Saul was afraid. There was no empowerment for him to do that. It was not his battle, even though he was the king at the time. But the anointed king was David. And if David decided not to kill Goliath, it would have been horrible if someone else was just like if Saul ended up volunteering himself out of no other options, he would have been killed, and each and every one of them would be slaves. And people will be crying out to God that God is this, and God is that, and God is this. And God said, I created a man to handle this problem. But he said, no, your assignments. There are lives on the line because of what God put in you. God did not form you and put you on earth just to add another person. If you see, you know, go to places like India. There's a lot of people there, so lot. It's a lot of people in the world. I love, you know, shout out to everywhere in the world. But there's so many people so that we don't technically you know, even the government is trying to do control population control. It's crazy, that's how many people there are. So God is not forming you and creating you without intention. Every time he puts someone in the womb, he said, before I formed you, I knew you. And for God to know you, that means there is something about you that is needed in the world he's putting. You in. And a lot of times, a lot of times we have this fear or we think that if we don't do it, God can give it to somebody else. But God did not create somebody else that is you. And that is why the scripture says the gifts of God are also are without repentance, meaning if it would never leave you, there is something to you that is needed for people. God does not just take a gift and give it to someone else. What he could do is removed. It is not removed because you can't not remove their awareness, but it's to kind of shut you from the awareness of that thing any longer, or shot you from the awareness of other things in you. Because if you cannot do anything with what he gave you, Why should he make you aware of other things? And that is why a lot of people die not even knowing who they were. What you have. If you do not do it, lives are artstake, and that is why the scripture also says that you will be judged for your deeds, because by your deeds it shows did you live a life according to what according to who you are? You see an an a dog. The deeds of a dog are according to the instinct and the nature of a dog. A dog would never act like a cat when God has called you, I would just use animals for now, not that you're a dog or a cat. You know, it could be a dog person or a cat person or something. Nobody cares alright, ready loves you. But if you're a dog, right and you're acting like a cat, God is gonna be like, what is this? What are you doing? People need protection? Man as a dog, and you're acting like a cat, sleeping, doing the latter and jumping on things. You know, and God is like, you need to protect. You need to stand guard and bark when somebody's crossing the gate or something like that. Whatever dogs and my dog sleeps, I don't know. Sometimes he acts like a cat. But what I'm saying, family, is that what God has put in you it is not a joke and should not be treated like a joke. Stop being afraid. I said this to myself too. I said, God, things that I've been afraid about too. And I'm like, I thought, we just dealt with fear. But there are things he showed me that I was afraid to confront in my life. And I said, God, I'm gonna live and not be afraid anymore. And I could sing if I want, well, if you tell me to, cause really I don't want to. I'm singing and shower though, But whatever you tell me to do, I know you're with me. So it doesn't matter. Are we together. God loves your family. Let us pray, Let us all rise up. God is here. God is here. God is here, Wow, And he desires that we live a lifestyle of praise. Be very mindful of of how you speak. You see when we when we were worshiping, it was such a powerful thing. This morning I heard I heard the Lord say that heaven. I wrote it down because I want to share this with you, sirih here trying to be an obstacle the Lord's house. I heard the Lord say, Heaven has contracted your praises as an offering. And what that meant? And I was like, Heaven, you know what's up with that? And what that meant is you see, a contract is two ways. When someone gives you a contract and they said, you know, so he says, Heaven has contracted your praises as an offering, so that your praise will be an offering. Then something else is being poured out because when something when this happens, there's always a return. A contract is never one way? How this why should I sign it? And what he showed me is that the transformation taking place in this house. And that's why, literally, even when it came to healing and the families of people, the baby, the parents or uncle, the families of people, and even people in this house that are being healed without even your knowledge of it, without no one touching you, without you even being prayed for in this moment, what that meant is that as you praised him, that as that offering went up to him. When I saw what I saw in the dream, the foot of the Lord step into this house, it was that as the praises go up to me that I am here and God is always here. But he made it visible. He stepped in in a different way and he said, I'm stepping into your situations. How you spoke about the things that were going wrong in your life. Change your language about it. Praise God. Stop talking about woe is me? Say thank you God, this is I am free, This is final, this is done. I am going to challenge the things that have been I have been running away from. And I thank you for streatening me. I thank you for bringing this to my attention. Do not use your words to speak against yourself, because you're going against the contract. The contract is your praise will be an offering to me. And as you do that, I am stepping into the situations of your life. There is transformation taking place in this house. Thank you, Lord Jesus for your word. Thank you Lord for touching each and every single one in this house. Thank you Lord for breaking chains, Lord God for breaking fear. Lord God that no longer are we going to be afraid of stepping out and saying, you know what, God, you gave me something. I thank you for your daughter who sang, because for her to even come to the altar. She knows what she has, and she it was a sign that says, Lord, I am ready, even though I don't feel like it, even though I don't want to even be ready, I am ready, and she showed that. Lord. I thank you for the opportunities that are coming to each and every one here. I thank you Lord for the courage that you're giving your children. I thank you that you have created systems that they don't even need labels. I thank you that they would always know that it is the anointing in everyone's life here, that it is not just about the skill or the talent, but that it is the anointing on their life that would break the yoke. That there will be no spirit of comparison here. I thank you Lord that everything that walked into this house is left here, and everything that is not of you is left at this all to Lord, because you know how to handle it, Lord, and you are taking it captive, never to return again. In the name of Jesus, Thank you Lord for your children. Thank you Lord for this house. Thank you Lord for pity and first Lady Sarah. Thank you Lord for their amazing and incredible leadership over this house. Lord God Thank you Lord, have your way in Jesus' name. Amen.