Stephanie Ike -Seedtime Harvest

So yesterday, you know, the Lord has been has been sounds like it's been a while, right. Recently, the Lord was talking to me about sea time and harvest, and it's almost as though, you know, there's been this ongoing conversation we've been having about seeds and harvest and you know, reeping and all that stuff. But there is we are in an atmosphere of change, you see what is so fascinating about you see, imagine you know, getting a phone call, right, you you went for a job interview, and you're waiting, You're anxious, You're like, okay, you know, I just wanna know when When When do I have a job? When did the job come in? You know, did I get a job? Did I get a job? And you get a phone call or you get an email, and it's like you got it. You're the one we chose, right, you say, listen, you see. But the interesting thing is you believe that you got the job when the phone call came in, right, But in reality, before the call, a decision was made and they chose you. The phone call was just information being communicated to you, But the call was not the time that you got the job. It happened without your knowledge, and so for a lot of us, we don't we're not informed about what's happening with our names on. Yeah, and so you you're anxious and you're you know, fulling and depression and all kinds of things. You're eating, you know, more pieces than you should. You know, some people that's rere listen. Some people gonna be like, you know what I'm talking right, maybe, but on a serious note, But it's simply because you're not even aware that, without your knowledge. That decisions are being made on your behalf. But what's interesting to me because you see a lot of times when it's hard, it's hard sometimes to receive these things because it's like, yeah, yeah, I know, you know, I'm just hoping God would just favor me. You know, I don't know if it's now. And but in God there's a principle behind everything. A lot of times what might look like favor could actually be your harvest when you understand that this favor right and God is so good. You know, if you trust me, if you're in alignment and the place it's called you to, you're gonna experience favor right because in the place he's called you too. But favor a lot of times might not just be because God is trying to do something supernatural. Because you see Jesus said it is finished. Everything is finished. You're not really doing something that is you're not doing something that will cause God to do something new. It's already done. Everything about your life is already completed. But there are certain things that to experience it. There's a posture you must be in, or there are seeds. You have so much your life and the harvest is what we see as this person is just favored. And so when we talk about sea time and harvest, you're gonna understand that the change that is now is not just because you know, God is trying to like you know, Shazam you or something. It's connected to you, that's you, Sam, It's connected to some of the things that you've already been doing. So I want us to look up a scriptures in Genesis. The passage will show up. Look at that A twenty two. Now it says while the earth remains, see time and harvest, cold and heat, winter and summer, and day and night shall not cease. Now let's keep it there. This is so fascinating to me. Now, first of all, when when this scripture will w you know, when this was given, what has happened, what happened in this concept. This was in the time of Noah, you know, the flood had happened, that it was you know, it was a mess, right and God and the prior to this on verse twenty one, I believe it talks about how the Lord said in his heart that he will not curse the earth again be you know, and it was like a a convenant that he made to creation. But what's fascinating and so he's he gives this like, you know, this will never cease any longer. There's not gonna be a flood that's just gonna wipe everybody out. And and he gives this confident. But what's fascinating is even when it talks about sea time and harvest, it wasn't just about the ground that okay, if you sow, you're gonna harvest the This was a confident that he gave to us. That's why the scriptures would also tell you that whatever a man sows, he shall reap. And a lot of times if we take that and we you know, we look at that in a negative way, right, and if you do me evil Guy's gonna get you back right. Sounds like a song, like a sad break up song or something, And so we look at it a lot of times in this negative concept. But I'm not here to talk about any kind of negativity, cause that's not what's on my spirit. What guy, heymen, listen, you know what God is doing is so it's it's gonna blow your mind that there's no room for negativity in this c context of this passage, because you see, for many of you you need to be encouraged to not lose your expectation. You see, for some of you, even though you've been opposed, you're you're beginning to see signs of change in your life. Yes, but for many of you it seems far out of reach. But then again, the passage says, see time and harvest will never cease. So any time you sew you would reap something. But pet said something so and and that that stuck with me. And this was during the I Believe as a church anniversary, and he talked about how you don't always reap where you so right, And this is where we find ourselves in complicated issues or we get frustrated with life. We get frustrated with people, we get sometimes frustrated with God because we sold in a place that produced nothing. For some people, this looks like relationships. You put so much of your heart into someone that didn't have the capacity to love you, and so for years you gave this person so much love, but they couldn't give you anything in return. It might be a workplace. You gave everything you had to this place and nothing came out of it. Think about whatever it is in your life that you feel regret. Towards two, because you see, the feeling of regret always comes from you know what, I put something and it didn't give me anything. But the funny thing about life is that might not be the place of your harvest. You see, God is not a waster, right, Nothing with God can ever be wasted. And so you might have put so much into one place and got nothing in return, and then all of a sudden you find yourself walking into what you You're just like, well, I'm just being favored right e like you know, months later, years later, and all of a sudden things are just happening for you like that. But the funny thing is that although maybe think doors are opening, you're still holding on to regret. Because you fail to recognize that the harvest of what you sow in the place that you might have regret is the favor you're identifying in right now. And so the crazy, the crazy thing about life. We get so frustrated because we don't understand the scriptures talk about how in everything you do, do it as as though it will service unto the Lord and not unto man. And it also tells us that whatever good you do, the Lord will reward it, not man will reward it. God will see time. And harvest is a confirmation that everything you have sown has harvest. If you sowed honor, you will reap honor. If you sow love and it failed you, you will get it back. If you sold your energy, your time, whatever it is, and it seemed like it failed you, the harvest is just somewhere else. And so, huh, how many people actually right now you thought about something you regretted? Wow? And how do you still feel about that? If you still regret? H We gotta continue the message that so we need to do. But everything about today, that's what God has me here for that. First of all, we don't need to hold on to regret. We don't need to because there is a harvest for everything that you've done. You see, the amazing thing, the amazing thing about a harvest is when you reap what has what I the you know, you know obviously what when you so accede right and that fruit becomes right, then you can harvest it. And so to reap your receiving the reward from that thing. And what's happening in this time is that we are in a season of revival. And another word for revival is re appearance. And what what what the Lord showed me that I find so intriguing is many things you see when when God speaks to you, when God reveals to you a promise, you see it in your mind's eye, right, it's not it's not you can touch it yet, but you can see it. And so the reappearance of that thing is it it moves from a place of seeing it spiritually to seeing it physically. And so what God is gonna do in this season because God is the lord of the harvest, He's the one that and we're gonna we're gonna go into some scriptures and I'm gonna talk about that. But he's the one that causes things. He appoints the time for when it it's something is ready in your life for you to harvest from. And this is a season when your harvest is now. Yeah, and tell me, trust me, whether you can see it or not, God is about to do some things in your life that would blow you away. You said, I want us to look at two scriptures because a lot of time when we talk about when we talk about you know, see, time we talk about harvest, there's always it's it's always two ways. It's either the place you're sewing into you're gonna harvest it somewhere else, or the place you're sowing into is the place you would harvest, but not at the timing you think mm. And even even before you know there's something I I'm trying to see what guys do here, cause theyre tryna shift this, you know, a whole different wild. But even before we look at this message, I'm I, I don't know what what is going on in the room with relationships, but it's heavy, it's real heavy. And even before we look into that, even before we look into this passages, you know, I'm reminded by a friend of mine. A friend of mine had been in a very toxic relationship. I mean it was not really like talk like it was toxic, you know, not like y I mean, you know it was toxic. Listen. Ah, I don't know how to else explain it. It was toxic. But it was hard for her to come out of it because it's I it was. It was hard. You know. I have not to explain that either. But finally, you know, sh it's just what it is. Listen. Sometimes it's it's a hard thing. But when she had and and she was with a man that had no intention first of all, no intention of one to marry her, but she gave so much love to this man, so much love to this man, no intention, nothing, and then finally, you know, the he I mean left her and then the next like week or two like he's with her friend. I said, what other kind of phrase you got? Oh my gosh, yeah, have ever hm. But the funny thing is that I'm telling you some things are it's you know, it's a little huh right. No, we're not saying we might be a little hat anna. But but the crazy thing was that she had poured so much love into this man, but he didn't have a capacity to love her back. Mm But a few months after that, within a year, she meets this incredible guy who showed her love in the way that she had never experienced in her life. In that same year, they got married. I share this because I don't know what's going on in the room that's making sh You know, if you're if there's if when we start talking about regret, and I don't know how many people might regret a relationship, understand that no love you poured out will not would be returned. It doesn't mean that you are not good enough. He just wasn't the one or she wasn't the one. It's both ways. And so whatever it is that's heavy in your mind, that's not allowing you to just Lord, what else are you tryna speak to me on? What else in this day? Am I allowing this to weigh me down? I walk in and I walk out of church, But I'm not hearing anything because all I wanna hear is about why did he or she do that? But understand, whoever you, even if it's just for one person, God would stop something for you, whoever you are. Ay Man, listen, you know you look good too, that red hair girl, hay and it there's even more people out there. You are good enough. You are more than good enough. Everything you've sewn for some people, you know what, We'll just go how it is going. For some people. There are projects that you have you've poured so much of yourself into, to the point that you even lost money, and it's hard for you to try and and and give yourself to something else because it's like, I gave so much into this project. I gave so much into trying to you know, whatever it took for this thing to happen, and I went negative. But you see, sometimes it's your body of work that would open doors that one thing can do. And so the project in itself might have been a seed. That's get it. And so whatever it is that you feel that you've had loss in, whatever about your life has been tied to loss family, I'm telling you it's never wasted. Sometimes someone could have moved to s You might have even moved to La for acting. But the film you move for, you know, probably spent more than you made from the money you made. You know, and it and it, and it seems that people from back home are calling you a failure. People are just like, why did you even move again? But God is saying no, no, no, no, no. I can touch someone's heart to see, even if it's one minute of that clip and say we want that person. Yeah, understand that family. There are conversations that people are having about you that you don't even know about. But let's look at this passage and when we talk about sea time and harvest, I'm go, I wanna talk about Esther and her co cousin Modecai. You see what is so fascinating about Esther even when we start with her, Esther an offering girl in a time where the king, you know, the king at the time, he had excelled his you know, wife because they were having like this huge feast. Now, the book of Esther, this is something that if you guys, you know this week, I mean it's ten chapters in the book. I would recommend that everyone reads that whole book because I don't wanna go too much into the details, but it's something that you have to even sit with God and read. It's a very powerful it's a very powerful story. So the king is having like this whole feast, right and there are so many people from different provinces. I mean, he is a very power a ruler at the time, and so he called his wife. He sent for his wife to come and show off her, you know, her gold crown and all that stuff. His wife at the time was Queen Vashti. She denied. She's like, you know what, look to listen, I've other things I'm doing. I'm not about to entertain your folks. The king was upset, He's like, how can she deny me all this stuff? You know, He seeks counsel. They tell him, you know, banish her because if other women hear about this, it's gonna give them room to be disrespectful to their husbands. So they exile Queen Vashti. This makes room for the need for a queen. And so they thought about, okay, what should we do and all that stuff, and they're like, you know what, let's gather some virgins and put them and you know, present them to the king and let him select one. Right, I mean that this is a sh the very short version of the story. And so out of those virgins, Esther was one of them that was picked. Now, Esther was raised by her cousin cause her both parents died, so her cousin was Modechai. So they picked Esther. Esther, you know, she's the favor she experiences throughout the whole experience is incredible. She becomes queen. Now. They came a point in Esther's life and we might all know this story. If not, we all know the one line that says, if I perish, I perish. So they came a point in her life where she had to save. In order for her to save her people, which were the Jews, she had to put her life at risk, and she had to present herself to the king and so in you know, in the in the king's chambers, they have like an innerccurd and if you go into the inner court without being called for and he doesn't favor you, he doesn't like, they will have like this golden skeptter thing. You know, it doesn't really matter right now, but but if he doesn't like you know, if if he doesn't favor you when you're there, that you could be killed. Basically, so Esther is afraid and she's like, Okay, you know what I have to do this, this is the only way out. But what Esther needed at the time was that whatever she requested the king would honor and he will do it. So in other words, Esther needed the king to obey her. Now, when we look at the life of Esther now, first of all, so she goes into this, you know, she goes into the palace, favorite, favorite, favored, favorite. The king sees her. He's just like, you know what, Esther, what is it that you want? Anything you want, it's yours. Even half of my kingdom I will give to you. Now when you read this, it's like, man, the favor in Esther's life was incredible. But Esther had a trail of people obeying her needs. But could it have just been about the hand of God in Esther's life or could the seeds she's sown? Could that have factored into what happened? You see, there's a passage and it's in Esther chapter two, and the verses gonna show up twining. Now check this. It says now Esther had not revealed her family, So what's happening here. There's a point that I really wanted to see here. But what's happening here is, you know, there's obviously Modecai had h Modekai, her cousin, had instructed her in certain things, right to certain because she was a Jew, and don't tell people, you're a Jew because you know they're out for us here. Okay, so it says now Esther had not revealed her family and her people, just as Modeki had charged her for. Esther obeyed the command of Modecai as when she was brought up by him. Esther losing her parents, so many things that could have made her a rebel in life, She sold seats of obedience in a cousin she wasn't even raised by, I mean, not even an uncle, a much older man or some sort, by her cousin, and even while she was still queen, she listened to his voice. Could it have been that her obedience to Mothercai sold seeds and what we see as favor. Yes, the hand of God was a Nest's life, no doubt about that. Yes she was born for a time like that. Yes that was her calling. But could her obedience factored into what happened in her life that the favor she experienced, which in reality was people obeying her, came from this place, that the harvest in her life, or the favor in her life was actually her harvest. And so when you think about the things that you've sold into people, whether it's someone needed to uh help somewhere or ride something. How you've honored people, how you've loved on people, how you've given yourself to people. When God is telling you that he's about to turn things in your life around, it's not just you know, to cheer you up. He's also showing you that, No, I'm bringing your seeds to the point of harvest. I've seen everything about you, everything you've done, every time you gave your time to someone. I recorded that because when when things sound random, it's hard to believe. Even though God can do anything at any time because he's God, but a lot of times when things just sound like, Okay, why is God gonna do that? I'm not sure. But when you start understanding that, no, you're also connected in this thing. You see. Now, we look at the life of Mother Kai and this is her cousin, and what we were seeing Mother Kai is because in Esther's life we see where she sold seeds in Motherkai, that she had a harvest in the palace. But Mother Kai was someone who you know, obviously, he's such a faithful guy. He's faithful to his faith. So one day he drops in a conversation and he hears people planning to kill the king, and so he tells Esther. He's like, hey, these are the people that were having this conversation. Let the king know the king. You know, Esther tells the king. They investigate the matter, and you know, the truth comes out that indeed those people were planning to kill the king, so you know they But you see, the interesting thing is that Modeci had just given information that saved the king's life. But at the time he was not honored. Nothing was done for him, no parade, no, I mean, he didn't even see the king that he saved the life. And you see, for many of us, you're in a place that God has called you to and you feel like you're being ignored. And if you're not careful, you're gonna remove yourself from the place God called you to because you want the seed to to harvest when you want it to me. Let me try and say this better. When you're trying to put a time on how people should appreciate you, you're messing up with a divine order assigned to your life. When we understand that everything we do in life is not for man, but it's for God, your walk is different. You're not doing things because it's like it's about validation anymore. You're not doing things because it's like, oh no, my voice has to be heard, says who. When God called you there, did he tell you that your voice needs to be heard? Or he gave you an assignment? Was the assignment connected to people doing what you wanted them to do? You say, I saw this so clearly that for many of us, we are trying to walk out of the promised land or it's not even you know what. You might not even be in there, but you're trying to change the difference. This is the promised land right here. You were like, hey, next thing, you turn around by yourself while complaining that God, when am I gonna get a When is something gonna happen? But you're literally walking away from the place God called you to because you got in your feelings. But God is about to do something. Family, And if you get caught up in how you want things to happen, if you get caught up in you know what, I just feel disrespected, I feel I feel this, I feel that, I feel I feel I feel a bunch of feelings right, nothing based on facts, Because the very thing that you might be against is what God is for in that time. You see, sometimes God would raise a king to put his people in bondage. That doesn't make sense, God, why would you this king looks evil, this king, But actually God anointed him to do the thing that you're against. And so when God puts you in a position, every position, there is a place of submission, and that place of submission is your power. Modekai was not honored for anything for what he did. Immediately he had saved the king's life, and nobody seemed to even give him some wine. You know, at least they drank a lot of wine back then. At least give you know, give the guy a bottle something, right, None of that. But let me show you the plans that God had for Modecai. Because a time came, and this is how intentional God is with your life. A time came when Hayman, and Hayman was someone who was pretty important in the in the palace because the king had raised him to a very high position. Now Hayman had been promoted and he, you know, he walks out and obviously because of his position, people are bowing down to him. But Modecai was not in agreement with any of that. So Hayman sees Modekai and he's upset. He's like, how does this guy who who does he think he is to not bow down to me? So Hayman is upset. He goes to the wife, him and his wife. The wife gives him. The wife advises him and tells him, you know what, this is what we should do. We you know, he just has to die, right, he needs to be hung. You know, they planned, everybody planned the place where they were gonna hang him and all that stuff. She tells him, you know what, tomorrow, talk to the king about this and tell the king to hang Modecai. So now Hayman, and this is very funny. The night Hayman is talking to his wife, something happens, and we're gonna see that. Believe it's in esther six. Yes, the verse would also show up. Now this is what happens. The very night when Hayman and his wife are plotting to kill Modekai. They're like, you know, when we have a plan. Tomorrow morning, you're gonna tell the king this information. Look what happens with Modecai. Sid It says that night the king could not sleep, so one was commanded to bring the book of the records of the chronicles, and they were read before the king, and it was found written that Mothercai had told of those are the two people that you know their names are you know not modern that that we're planning to kill the king. So let's just call them Peter and Louis, okay, And so Modecai had told them Peter and Louie, Tim of the King's tim of the king's a and the doorkeepers who had sought to lay hands on king. You know what, aha, that car let's go next. Then the king said, like the point is the message the names coma. We will call him in a high moment. So then the king said, what honor, a dignity has been bestowed on Modecai. Look at this now, God says, this is the time Modeki needs his harvest. If he gave it to him back, then the king has no ties to him anymore. You know, we honored you. Now you're disrespecting my official. Maybe you do have to die, but God saved it. God was patient with that seed, and God said, you know what, I'm gonna just wait for the right time. It would most benefit Modecai. And the king says what honor or dignity has been bestowed on Modecai for this? And the king's servants who attended him said, nothing has been done for him. You see, in the place of nothing being done for you, what are you doing? And what I mean by this is what are you saying? Are you contaminating the very thing you sold? Because imagine if Modecai was upset and starts blaspheming against the king. Do you think any of this would matter? If he went on a rampage about nothing has been done for me and I did this, and I did that, you know what, whatever, I don't even care, and he starts causing all kinds of havoc in the kingdom. How many times, even when we think of, let's be honest, I've been there, how many times is it that something doesn't go your way? And you're so quick to be negative, not just with yourself but amongst people. Now you involve yourself in conversations that is contaminating the very thing that is designed to bless you, making it harder for God to do his work. And that's so when the Lord says, be still, be still and know that I am God, he's like, don't mess this up. Please just dumb mess it up, because there are times, there are times when we look into scriptures, there are things that God can promise a person, but because of something that they do in the process that was never part of the plan, it takes it away from what God intended for them to do. You see, before David came into the picture, but actually gave Saul a promise, the very same promise you see active on David's life. He gave that to Saul. But Saul started doing all kinds of extras. They're like, look, we have to choose somebody else. And so in the place of nothing happening to you, it might be a job and you want a promotion, it might be whatever it is. It might anything that comes to your mind. Anything that the Holy Spirit brings up to you. If God has told you to sit there, stay there and with honor and integrity. Understand that everything I'm doing in this position is not to men, but to God. And don't use that in a in a prideful sense either where it's like I don't really care about you guys, because I'm just serving the Lord. No no, no, no, God is love, okay, Cause sometimes we get things mixed up a little bit, right. God is love, and so you're s you serve, you serve people. When when you when you do things as if you're serving God, is that you are walking in the ways of God, no matter what is coming to you, You're walking in the way of love. You're speaking love, You're be you become that thing. And so let's continue. So it says nothing has been done for him. So verse four now says, so the king said, who is in the court? Look at and you know when God wants to show up, he shows out. And it says, now Hayman had just entered the outer court of the king's palace to suggest that the king hanged Modekai on the gallows that he had prepared for him. Actually, if we can continue, I'm not sure why I put four. I did put four there. I stopped the passage at four. But if we can just continue with a passage, it's gonna take them some time to bring it up because I didn't give it to them. Wait, see what happens in this And I just want us to read it because I'm not sure how many people are gonna go back home, to be honest, but I want us to read this, because what was so powerful about this passage is the king. The king tells Hayman, right, So Hayman comes in. Hayman comes in planning to obviously give his news about how we should hang Monechai. So Hayman comes in and the king says, what should be done for a man the king wants to honor. Hayman is confused. He thinks the king is talking about him, and he's just like, oh my gosh. You know, if someone wants to honor you and they ask you to tell them how, you go all out right. But what Hayman didn't recognize was that he basically set up Modecai, so there was no room for him in this space to say, well, can we hang the guy that you just wanna honor right now? And so let's read it. So it says the king's servant said to him, Hayman is there standing in the court, and the king said, let him come in. Hayman is walking in with a different agenda. But God God had already set the agenda. And so Hayman came in and the king asked him what shall be done for the man whom the king delights to honor? Now? Hayman thought in his heart, whom would the King delight to honor more? Oh my gosh, he was a little you know, m drinking that wine they should have given motherca. Whom would the King liked to the delights to honor more than me? And let's continue, And Hayman answered the King. For the man whom the King delights to honor, let a royal robe be brought, which the King has worn, and the horse on which the King has ridden, which has a royal crest placed on its head. Then let his robe and her be delivered by hand of one of the King's most noble princes, that he may array the man whom the King delights to honor, Then parade him on horseback. Listen what has happening here, But let me even just read it. Parade him on the horseback through the city square, and proclaim before him, dust shall be done to the hahahs come now and he's ash to the man who with the King delights to honor. Right, So let's go to the verst just because it's a little cut, and let's go to the last verse. Yeah, who the King delights to honor. Then the King said to him and hurry take the robe and horse as you have suggested, and do so for Modekai. Do so for Modekai, the Jew who sits within the king's gates. You see what happened here. It could have been any other person who came in. But if Hayman, after this setup, comes back to the king, it would look as though he's coming from a place of jealousy. His word will not be taken serious without something like this happening, because how do you are sent to honor someone and now you want to present a case for let's kill this person, It will look like well, even though the advice was to say, you know, I think Hayman might be feeling a little jealous, maybe because of what you did for Mother Kai. So God shut every door of access for Hayman's plans to happen by using harvest in his seed in the proper timing. You see. I share this to say because for some of you, you are impatient and it's like, God, I need something to happen now. But if something happens now, you're basically settling. You're settling for what for For ev it's not even up to half of what God pass for you. And God would never he's a good good father. He would never buy his hand cause you to settle. Yeah, family, there's a change coming. I don't know how how how better to tell you this. There is a powerful change coming. And one of the most important things is that you have to know how to create an atmosphere for your testimony. And what I mean by this is, you see, Jesus, there are certain things that Jesus could not do because of the atmosphere. There's a time that you know, ah ah, a child, ah, a girl had died. They called Jesus to the house. They're like, you know what, my my daughter is dead and needs you to raise her or do you know you're your Jesus, you know you can raise it from the dead. He walks into the room and it's it's like a funeral, and he's like, what, like, what is going on here? The atmosphere was not conducive for the testimony they were asking for, and so he l like he had to send everyone out of the room and keep the people that would make it an atmosphere of worship. And so in this time, in this time, we have to be very intentional with our words. We have to be very disciplined with our environments, with our actions. If there is a way, you know the a you know, gossip has its own desire. It's like a it's like, who I just wanna talk about it? Right? He got shut that down all the way down. Listen, because because what you're doing is contaminating your own seed. And so, no matter how people entice you to or swear you to wanna say something against yourself. You think you're talking against someone or against a project, or against the thing, you're actually speaking against yourself. Whenever people want to entice you. In a workplace, if people want to gossip about your boss and whatever, you're not working for men. You're walking for God. And so if the very place that He's caused that person to favor you and you're speaking against them, even if they don't see it, God sees it. You go for an audition, don't speak evil about the person who said no to you when that could be a seed to harvest you somewhere else. The time you spend in that audition room, it matters. You See, if God would say that I know how many I know the hair strands on your how many you know how many hair you got? Right? He knows how many hair strands are on your head. Imagine how detailed he is about you. Imagine how intentional he is about you. Pet said, you are too precious to be random, because that's the fact. It's so heavy on my art to tell you this. You have to be so intentional, so intentional, because right now, you see, you can only receive as much as you You are a container. If you feel yourself with so much junk, it limits the capacity of what God has for you. Jesus is always willing. What are we expecting of him to do something? That's the difference. A lot of times we think about unbelief and and we think that unbelief is what you know, not believing something means it's because it's not there. Unbelief does not change the reality. It changes only changes your reality. When God said He's doing something that is the reality, But can you experience that thing is up to your faith, And so faith brings you into the experience and so firmly when the Lord is saying that this is a time that the things I have spoken to you, you will begin to see, this is a time that I am changing, I am rewriting your story. You see when God gave me this word that was, I was like, okay, you I'll try you know. I was like, okay, let me know think about it. But that night, so this is so interesting. So that night, I'm I'm praying so my mom. Normally I pray my mom at midnight. Ouh my midnight because her time is different in Nigeria. So she called me. So I was like, Mom, you know, I'll call you right back, like, you know, let me there's something that is I'm trying to understand for I'm gonna just call it right back right So she's probably gonna be watching this. And so right there as Claire as day. And this was so interesting to me. The Lord gave me a vision. But and I'll see how all this ties in. He gave me a vision where I saw him. In the vision, I see my mother and she's calling out the name of someone. And when she called out the person's name, she called it out with such like amazement because the lady walked into the room and she was so shocked. She's like, oh my gosh because the woman looked so different and it was like wow. And I was just like, who what is that name? And I was like this name is very I mean, like I'm Nigeriam, but this name is a little complicated, you know. So I write the name the best way I could. And I'm like, Mom, do you know someone with this name? And she's like, yeah, you know, I don't want to say the whole story because the family is connected, you know, some people are here. So she's like, yeah, she knows that that that's one of her close friends basically, and I was like, wow, God is rewriting her story, that what people what people knew her as, is not what they would know her what God is doing in her life right now. And so I was like, can you just let her know, I don't know, just let her know that God is rewriting her story, that things are changing. And so my mom, you know, she calls me later she's like, so this, So we had this conversation in my morning, and so she calls me. She's like, wow, I just told her and another that a pastor had given her the same exact message. And so I was like, Okay, Lauren, if somebody else gave her the message, I mean, it's good to be a you know, confirmed, but I understood that there was also something else that God was doing with that, and he said that I'm revealing this to you so that the people will know that I am serious about what I am saying. I'm not just saying this in a way for you know. Again, it's it's not just a it's not just a word to you know, feed it like an app, like you know, a a little lunchable or something. You know, this is the this is the real deal. This is the you know, dinner that will last you to a breakfast. Okay, but God is doing something so powerful, family, and I my desire is that no one, no one in this room, no one watching, no one listening, would miss it because your expectation is still tied to the wrong thing. And it's hard, it's very and I get it because it's hard sometimes to imagine yourself in a place you've never been. It's hard sometimes to see yourself in something you've never experienced. You see, when when you when you think of the scriptures and you see how you know, someone who had been blind all their life thirty something years, where do you get the faith to say, I wanna see? Where does that come from? You've been accustomed to that your whole life. What do you even believe that colors would look like. But you see this in the scriptures, and all of a sudden boom, the story is changed. I don't know what your story has been for how many if it's been months, years, But God is doing a new thing. You see. I thought about my friend, the story I shared with you with a relationship, and I thought that, But I said, could it have been that the outpouring of love that she received from from this you know we call the mystery man just showed up? You know? Could it have been because the way he loves this woman, it is so beautiful to me? Could it have been that that rush of that just just the greatness of the love he had for her? Was years of love that she had sown into another man, and the harvest was in this guy. Wow, what will look like a three sixty has been years of what she've sown into other people, years of what you're sewn into your own project. It's funny when they say how someone became a millionaire overnight, but then it's like, no, no, no, you only saw the overnight work. Even when you look at the natural system of things, it takes years of work and then in one moment boom. Everything changes and it's the same in the spirit. Every time you gave someone a smile. God saw that. Every time you pass by someone and you're like, hey, how are you doing, and you meant it you wanted to know. I really wanna know how you are. He took note of that. Every time you gave and you didn't even have He saw that when you were depressed, but you're encouraging somebody else. Yeah, he saw that. There's nothing that is there's nothing hidden under his sight. And so neverything that you were forgotten, never hold on to regret. Let us stand family. You see what what I saw about today is a bit different, and even how things the order of things is gonna be a bit different, because even when we talk about submission, we talk about when God puts you in a place and puts you in a position. What's very powerful about that is, you know, the scriptures always tells you about how the anointing flows from the head up up and the head down, the head up for where you going. But that's not gravity people, Okay, the anointed flows from the head down, right, And so that's why honor is such a big deal with God, not because it's a big deal to him. It's a big deal to him for you because he knows the or the order of things. Yeah that if you disrespect the head, you're literally removing yourself from the flow of the annointing. And so as we're believing and as we're understanding that God is about to do some incredible things in our lives. There are two there are three things, but they're gonna it's gonna happen in a in a way where God wants us first, because we're gonna make a declaration today that indeed, God, you are doing a new thing in my life. We're gonna make that declaration. But before we do that, there are two things we have to pray about, all of us, not you know, and those two things involve this house you see on someday Pity and first Lady announced a new building. They have their eyes on they've seen something that we haven't seen. They've seen something that we want to see. When God says this is a time of revival, he's saying that the thing you see I will cause others to see because you see what she's seeing. The spirit is what you see unless you try and communicate with somebody. But when something happens in the natural, other people can see it. He said, there's a pastor that talks about how I has not seen nor ear heard what God has for the people, for those that love him. But then he says, but you know, because I've revealed it to you by my spirit. But you see, even though He's revealed it to us by you know, by the spirit, we're in a natural world, you know, and we need to see some things. We don't want to die, you know, saying things in the spirit, we want to see them in real life. If you see yourself as a millionaire and the spirit listen, you want to touch the money in real life. Okay, real talk. Because a lot of times, a lot of times, you know, my mom always says that she's like my MoMA is you know, there are things that she's very you know, she's like, she's like, no one should live in dream world, right, don't live in a fantasy. If God is showing you something, seek to know how that thing would manifest, because God shows things for it to manifest. And so so this and this is a time family we're in that we are in a season of manifestation. But this is a house that we have been called to and the anointance flows from the head down. So if we're praying for our lives, oh God just manifested, yes, Batza, but we're not praying for the head. It doesn't make sense because the annoyance doesn't go from here up. And so we're gonna pray about some things. And the first thing is for the new building, that we would see it, we would experience it, we would move into it. Yeah, that what they saw, we will see. And the second thing, we're gonna pray for them, Yeah, because yea, at the same time, God is about to what we're gonna see happen in their lives would also be a a testimony of what God is doing in your life. But every every new level, every new level, is an added responsibility, and we're gonna pray for them. It's good. Yes, some of us, we we know that we pray in our private time, but we're gonna pray collectively. We are one church. We're gonna pray as one people. And lastly, we're gonna declare our for our own lives, gonna declare that God, you are doing something new. And for some of you that came here for the first you know the first day You're like, I'm still testing this church. I'm not sure you are a family. We're all family where one body it doesn't matter for some of you. You're here and you haven't had a personal encounter with God in the in the sense of relationship, and you know, what you've been experiencing has been religion, right because you it that's you. You come because that's what you're supposed to do. There you s you know, Sundays you can go to church. You know, Wednesdays sometimes you know you wanna go to Midwig. That's just what you wanna do. But you're not doing it from a place of relationship with God and God. You see that the beautiful thing in life is that you might not know God as savior, but that doesn't mean you don't know him. See, when I first encountered God, I encountered him as a father. Before I could ever understand the the Cross, I just was like, he's really cool. He's funny. God what God healed me? Even before I knew it. I i I had any comprehension of the blood of Jesus. I was saved because it was it's on a cool lit you know, a children's church about oh yeah, the blood of Jesus. But I didn't know what I was doing. I was just having fun. But he but it was a relationship as father. And then I knew him as Savior. And so for some of you, you just know him as God, God of you know y, all kinds of things, you knew him as God. But what God showed me is that because it has not become real that you have exposed yourself to. And what He showed me was, you know, the the palm reading, palm reading, terra cat like cards and all kinds of things that you've exposed yourself to and before we go into prayer as one of their things that we have to break off. And so it's a it's very specific because of you haven't encountered God in relationship. You've exposed yourself to things that are not Him because you're y. You know him as God, but He wants to come into your life as savior, as friend, as father. And you're here tonight because you desire that. You might not know how to articulate it, but that's what you desire. Sometimes it's it's the the the idea of the cross is to understand it's like, okay, so God, you came, and you know you died for us. You came as Jesus, You went on the cross, you shed your blood. But the word of God says that whoever seeks wisdom should ask, and he will make things known to you. He will give to you as long as you don't die. If you believe in say God, because you see, when we aks God questions, but we still have our own understanding, we're not really asking him a question. Because to aks something you have to open yourself to what he has to say. Yeah, you have to let go of what you know for what he was gonna speak. And so when you open your heart tonight, just open your eyes and say, God, I wanna understand you as father, as savior, as friend. And if you're here tonight palm re eating and terror cards, you know you've exposed yourself to that. Come down. It's nothing to be shy about. Thank you Jesus, Thank you Jesus. He would do it for one, he would do it for one. Thank you Jesus. Hm, if you're here tonight, you don't know God as your savior, come down. If you're willing to open your heart and say God, I want to understand this, not based on my concept or anything. I want to understand. I want to have a relationship with you. It's nothing to nothing to be shy about. It's nothing to you're in this room right now because you know, yes, this might have just been another because there's one more person. You know that. And the funny thing is that when you even look at these, you know, dancing deers, you look at it and you're and it fascinates you. Thank you Jesus, h thank you Lisa. We're gonna pray and everyone just say a prayer. God, God is gonna do it because we're gonna pray as one. But before we do that, we have to be one, right, we have to be one. So everyone as we pray, because we're gonna all pray together. But before we start praying, speak a blessing over their lives right now. Thank you God for your daughters. Thank you God for what you're doing in their lives. As they have come before you, Lord, to know you as savior, to know you as father, to know you as a friend, that you will reveal yourself unto them. In the name of Jesus, Lord God, I thank you that any thing that they have been exposed to is being broken off right now. In the name of Jesus, we declare, Lord God, your blessings over them. Fill them up with your love. Lord God, reveal to them because nothing you we do is just it's just based on like where we're not just compelled. There's some puppets, but you will reveal to them your ways. You will reveal to them your truths. Lord God. I thank you Lord for what you're doing in their lives right now. Thank you, Holy Spirit. Thank you, Holy Spirit. Thank you Lord, because you're filling them up with you. You are filling them up with you, Lord Jesus. The steps that. They have made down here, Lord God. Is for you, is to know you in all of you. Mar God. I thank you Lord, Repeat after me, Lord Jesus, Jesus. I thank you for my life. Thank you to my life. I thank you for. Dyingald across from me. Coming to be my senior. You be my friend, to you being my father, I am yours and you are mine. Amen. Amen. Now we're all gonna pray. It needs to be my fraind partners. But let's all get in groups. Let's all get in groups because there is power in that unity, and we're gonna express it. Just getting a group of four, getting a group of five, We're gonna be a group career. Come on, please God, Thank you Jesus, Thank you Jesus. And so the first thing we're gonna pray about family, We're going to pray for this building. We're gonna pray for this new building that we would see it too and we would experience it too, and God's hand will be all over it. Everything that we have sown in here would be harvested there. And we're gonna pray for such a smooth process. Everything about it is just gonna be the favor of God. Let us pray. Let us everybody, everybody pray. Okay, thank you Jesus. Thank you for this new building, Oh God. We thank you Lord. Then as they have. Seen it, for the God that they will. See it too, We thank you that your hands upon it. We thank you Lord, that we are going to walk into what we're gonna experience it. We're gonna. We thank you Lord that as it was spoken on Sunday, as the message was declared that your son wants it. He said that I am not ashamed to say that I want this name, Lord God. We are not ashamed to say that we wanted to in the name of Jesus. We wanted to in the name of Jesus. We want to see it. Lord. We thank you Lord. Because it is done. We thank you what Because it is done, Lord God, this is going to be a testimony that we are all partake us up in the name of Jesus. We thank you are because you are doing a great and mighty thing, Lord God, that we would see the fruit of our words in this moment. We will see of our prayers in this moment, Lord Jesus. We thank you Lord that it is done, and it is so. We thank you Lord. We thank you Lord, have your way in Jesus' name. Thank you Lord, Thank you Jesus. Now let us pray for our leaders. Let us pray for pity. Let us pray for first Lady. Let us pray for their family. Let us pray for the the new thing that God is also doing in their lives. Thank you, Jesus, Mother God. We thank you, Lord God that you have appointed. Lord God, lead us that have your heart, Lead us that have a heart for your people. Lord God, we know that as they pour out, Lord God each and every week, Lord God, even the things they do behind the scenes that we do not even know. Lord God, that you will continue to pour into them. Lord God, that every new level you're opening for them. Lord, that you will send them help in the name of Jesus. That in every need they have, Lord God, that you will cause people to obey their needs in the name of Jesus. Lord God, that they would that there would be a flow of ease in Jesus' name, that the that the responsibilities nor God in the new level of lor God would move and ease. In the name of Jesus. We thank you for your family's Lord God, cover their their children for the God. For into their children, Father God, we come and get every attack of the enemy, Lord God, to rob them of their testimony. We thank you Lord that you are establishing them, Father God in higher levels. Lord God. We thank you for what you're doing for the God. We thank you Lord that you are opening doors. Lord God. They didn't even seek for You're opening doors. Lo God, they didn't even look for Lord. We thank you for the God that new doors of opportunity, then new doors, not God, to declare your glory new doors. Lot God. To testify of your goodness. Lord God. We thank you for the God, that you will continue to fill them up. Lord Jesus, that everything they touch, Lord God will be blessed. And and they of Jesus, we thank you Lord that everything they everywhere they step into, and everything they say, Lord, that this is this. I have a desire for this, that it would be given onto them in the name of Jesus. And we thank you Lord for the new thing. We thank you Lord for the new thing. Have your way for the God, have your way for the God. Strengthen them in every way for the God. Build them in every way for the God. In Jesus. Thank you Lord. Now, each and everyone, declare over your own life, thank God for your life. Thank God for the new thing He's doing in your life. Thank God. Declare that Lord, you are doing a new thing in my life. And I receive it in the name of Jesus. I receive it in the name of Jesus. Speak to doors that you want to be opened, speak to doors that you have been waiting to be open. And thank God. I trust your time. I trust your time. I received everything I will be expected in the name of Jesus. Thank you Lord, I declare doors be open over my life. I declare the Lord God that we are moving forward, Lord God, that we are moving into what You've paid Lord God with thank you Lord Jesus, that as one body, that we are moving into the new in the name of Jesus, that you are turning things around over our lives. Thank you Jesus, Thank you Jesus. You are listening to the words of your children. Thank you Jesus, Thank you Jesus. Everyone should declare over their life. Speak a word over your life. If you don't have the word, say Lord, I declare the you've faith in my life in the name of Jesus. Thank you Lord, Thank you Lord. Every mouth, every mouth should speak, every mouth should speak, every mouth speak over your life. Speak over your life. Then God for the new thing he is doing, praising before you see it, raising before you see it. Thank you Jesus, Thank you Jesus. We are walking into it. We are walking into it. It is harvest time. We are walking into it. Thank you Lord, Thank you Lord, Thank you Lord, Thank you Lord. Those on live stream speak over your life, those watching speak over your life. Thank you Lord, Thank you Lord, Thank you Jesus. Thus, thank you Lord, that your will is being rebuild to many of your children. Thank you Lord, that wen there has been confusion, that will be clarity. Thank you, Thank you Lord, Thank you Lord. You've seen many of the things that you spoke over your life. God is showing whether there would be clarity in areas that places that because at the end of the day, you know, God knows how we are. He knows that there are times where we need confirmation of what am I doing? Am I sure I should be here? He doesn't expect you to be robotic, you know, like yep, standing on the promise. You know, sometimes you need to remind of what you're standing on. And God is going to give you that. It's going to give you clarity where you have been, You've been battling a lot with confusion. Like God, I'm not sure did you even tell me this? That has been some of your prayers because it's not that you don't want to obey the voice of God, but you don't know if it was God who told you and gonna give you clarity about what he said, and maybe you know what you said. It's gonna give you clarity. God loves your family. Some of you they are gonna be phone calls and emails about positions that you've been waiting for because you did not get the position when they called you, it was already decided. But for some of you, the information you've been waiting to receive, it's going to become communicated to you. Thank you Lord. And for some you know, there's a new place literally you're in and you're trying to understand how to navigate in that space. But then the Lord is saying, it's not it's your Your ability to move is not based on your your ability. So you've been doubting yourself should I even be here because I don't fit the way I am. My skill is not I'm not skilled for this. But you know what's so fascinating about God is that he can even give you the spirit for the skill for that thing. So your ability to navigate it's not based on you, it's based on your intimacy with him. From the place of intimacy, He's going to put you in positions that you're gonna be like, ah, but he's going to show you. He's going to show you. So if you've been doubting yourself and you're like, I don't think I should be here, He says, no, no, no, I look at the history of the people got called. It was never because of what they knew how to do. It was because of who they were connected to. So for some of you, that right there, if your answer, thank you Jesus, thank you Lord. Let's just let's just listen. Oh my gosh, I just played that song. Oh thank you Loyd. Yeah, yes God, Yes, God. And the words of that song is that God is able to do just what he said. You're gonna do. Don't give up on God because he will never give up on you. He will never give up on you. As you spoke over yourself and with their things, that you're gonna see confirmation on as we spoke about this house, we will see that new building, we will see our leaders in doing some incredible things, and we're gonna all be celebrating each other. Ah, Father, God, we thank you, We thank you for this moment in your presence. We thank you Lord for the new thing that is happening. Lord. Even in this moment, for some people, it's even been hard to pray, it's been hard to even speak over their lives. But you orday this moment that each and everyone, even if they didn't have the words, they should say something because you're listening. You always do. And so I thank you Lord that weather has been confusion. You are bringing clarity. That you are restoring, Lord, God, their joy because of the word that you're giving them. I thank you Lord that they would know. They would know that, they know that, they know that there is never a time to have regret, because everything there's a cycle, seats and harvest always. We might not harvest where we sow, but we will harvest. I thank you that they would know this in the very depths of their heart. I thank you Lord that everything that we have held on too in the form of regret, is laid on this oltar Lord, never to be picked back up again. We trust in you, Lord, We trust in you before we run and say something, we will seek your direction. We will seek your leading in all things. Lord. We desire to walk as you walked in love. Thank you, Lord for building us, for the sensitivity that you've poured in us, for the increase in that. Lord, continue to have your way in and through our lives. We are yours and you are ours. Thank you Jesus. We see everything that has been spoken Lorgan. In your name. We thank you Lord, because it is finished. It is good. Th