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Today on the Converged Network, Apostle Michelle Jackson will be
sharing God's heart with you through the Word of God
before she ministers to you. Apostle Michelle serves as Senior
Pastor of Hope Christian Church in Beltsville, Maryland. She's the
founder of the Converged Network, which is home to Harry
Jackson Ministry's Hope Connection and her podcast for Women Life
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in the Overflow. Today's teaching will explore how the Lord
is using people like you and me to build his kingdom,
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by Bishop Harry Jackson while supplies last. Now for today's
message from Apostle Michelle, here we go.
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Hey, everybody, Michelle Jackson here is so glad that you're
with us today. I'm so excited about how the Lord
is moving even this second week of January, and just
how he's beginning to crystallize and clarify for us even
things that he wants to bring forth in this new season.
We're starting We're kicking off twenty one days fasting in
prayer with my church, Hope Christian Church in Beltsville, Maryland,
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and so I would love for you to be a
part of it. You can go on our website, the
Hope Connection dot org and get signed up for daily
DeVos things like that about what is biblical fasting? Like
how do I engage with it? How do I begin
to believe God for boldness in different areas of my life.
I believe it'll be blessing to you, and I would
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love for you to be a part of it. So
you can go to our website, the Hope Connection dot
org and sign up to be a part of the fast,
the Stretch Fast. It's gonna be awesome. I'm highly expecting
about how God's going to move during this time of
corporate fasting. Has we come together in unity and on
one accord. I want to minister to you today on
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this continued theme of vision, the necessity of divine vision
in this season that we've entered into. And i'd love
to minister to you today from Hebrews chapter eleven. I'm
going to be teasing out a few verses that are
compelling to me and I just believe that the Lord
is going to speak to us individually from a rama
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or fresh revelation from the Word of God. Is the
Holy Spirit breathes upon it and it comes alive. The
Word is alive, it's active, it's powerful, dividing between the
soul and the spirit, dividing between the bone and the marrow.
And so I just believe that today we're going to
get a fresh download from the Lord, fresh bread, because
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he is the bread of life. So let's just pray
together and then enter into the Word. So Father, we
just invite you in Holy Spirit. We invite you in
the midst of us. Lord, where two or three are gathered,
you are also in the midst. And so Lord, we
thank you for your hovering presence, your abiding presence, God,
what you brewed over us today, which you begin to
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breathe the breadth of life upon us, so that we
can be all that you called us to be and
do all that you've called us to do, even in
this hour. For your glory. We give you praise for
what you are doing in the name of Jesus Amen.
So Hebrews chapter eleven. I read from the New Living
Translation quite often, and I'm doing that. Today, I'm going
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to be reading Hebrews chapter eleven, a few verses. I'm
going to start in verse one, and it reads. The
scripture reads, faith shows the reality of what we hope for.
It is the evidence of things we cannot see through
their faith. The people in days of old earned a
good reputation by faith. We understand that the entire universe
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was formed at God's command, that what we cannot see
did not come from anything that can can be seen.
Made the Lord at a blessing to the reading of
his word. Right here in these verses, we're seeing that
faith begins to illustrate a reality of what we hope for.
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It begins, our faith begins to see what reality cannot
show because it hasn't been made manifest. And so one
of the keen things, one of the key things that
we have to know that will help us be more
in tune with the Holy Spirit, more in tune with
the Holy Spirit of God in this season, so that
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we have the right perspective, so that we are seeing properly,
is that our faith is not anchored and attached to
natural things, but that we allow ourselves to move into
a dimension of supernatural faith. Through their faith, their belief
in God, their conviction in the character of God, their
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conviction in the Word of God, their belief in the
word of the Angel, in the words of the Holy
Men of God that prophesied to them. The elders, men
and women of God in the scriptures earned a good reputation.
What does that mean. It means that they began to
exemplify the character of people of faith because they held
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on to what was fueling the hope, what was fueling
their faith that was attached to their supernatural God. And
so their faith began to depict a reality that was
beyond their current circumstances because they had a divine vision
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of where God was taking them. And so the Lord
begins to illuminate through the writings of Hebrews, how faith
begins to give us eyes to see what God God
is taking us and bringing us into. We see in
the verses here, verses four and five, we see canaan Abel,
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and we see that by faith, Abel was able to
see what acceptable worship looked like to God. And Enoch
knew how to relate to God out of relationship and friendship.
So he never died, He just was caught up and
then in verse six, Hebrews eleven tells us that it's
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impossible to please God without faith, and that anyone who
wants to come to him must first believe that God
exists and that he rewards those who sincerely seek him.
Other versions of the Bible say that diligently seek him,
that He is a rewarder of those who diligently seek him.
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So I think it's important for us as people of faith,
and even as we're pursuing in God's perspective, even as
we're pursuing him, to know God, what's important to you?
I want to partner with you in this season, and
what's on your heart? What's important to you? What areas
do you want to see turned and changed in society?
What areas can I pray into? And I joined Jesus
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the Great Intercessor at the right hand of the Father.
How do I partner with you and what's on your
heart versus everything being about us? Right, even as we
do that, I believe that we've got to move to
another level of faith, another level of faith that pleases God,
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another level of faith that begins to believe beyond the
natural and begins to move in the supernatural, out of
obedience to the word of God, out of obedience to
the prompting of Holy Spirit. Last year of twenty twenty two,
the Lord began to pull on my shirt coat. I
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don't know how you want to say it, but I
just felt this tugging in the spirit, like a tugging
on your jack, your your suit jacket, or your your
the sleeve of your coat, that I was just being
tugged to begin to steady. Certain subjects, tugged and pushed
to begin to develop in certain areas of my life.
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And as I began to lean into those places by
the prompting of the Holy Spirit, there became there came
a demand months later for those things that I resourced
myself to begin to pursue and know and move in.
And so I share that with you today because those
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kinds of actions, to move based on what you see
supernaturally takes audacious faith, It takes courageous faith. And by
faith the elders received a good report. It was by
faith that Abraham left his father's house and went to
the land that God was going to show him in
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order for God to establish his covenant with him. The
Lord began to talk about the Covenant. But it wasn't
until Abraham stepped out in faith and began to move
on what God had said, that he established his covenant
and that he gave him the son Isaac, the son
through which all his descendants would be counted for. And
so God is looking for those in this season, not
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just those who he can give a vision to, but
those who will hotly pursue the word of the Lord
and step out and begin to move in the direction
of God's leading in order for him to be able
to fulfill what He's spoken. And so I just want
to encourage you today that you have everything that you
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need in order to be able to respond to what
God has said. See, the enemy comes in to steal,
to kill, and destroy John ten ten. That's my foundation
scriptures of my life. But Jesus came to give us
life and life more abundantly, life in the overflow. And
so we know that in times of the shift, in
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times where divine vision is needed in order to propel
our movement, our forward movement in the spirit to another dimension,
the enemy comes in to tell us what it's not,
to tell us to speak those falsehoods, to try to
get us to come into agreement with him for limitation,
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to come into agreement with him over strife, to come
into agreement with him over the things that would come
against the unity, that would bring the commanded blessing, to
come into places of unbelief, that would abort the mission
for which God has placed us in position for such
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a time as this. And so I just want to
encourage you today that even as you allow the Lord
to breathe upon your vision so that you're able to
see from his perspective, that you begin to move in
a new dimension of supernatural faith, Faith that responds in
obedience to the word of the Lord. Faith that begins
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to move from a place of conviction, Faith that begins
to see what is happening beyond what's in the natural.
To keep your eyes on Jesus, not on the circumstances
of what's happening, not because we don't live in a
natural world, but because we submit to a government and
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an authority that supersedes the natural authority and can begin
to bring resurrection life even into dead places and dry places,
and cause things to begin to shift and happen. Come on.
He's a miracle working God. When the people began to
follow a joshuab into the promised land. The Lord God
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began to deliver them by supernatural means. Come on, he
delivered them with a shout of victory. He delivered them
as they marched around Jericho seven times out of obedience
over those days, and then the walls came crashing down.
He delivered them through the weapon of a supernatural shout.
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When the three enemies came against King Jehosaphat in second
Chronicles twenty, he delivered them by sending you to first,
sending praise ahead of the people. And so what am
I saying. I am saying to you today that I
believe as you allow the Lord to breathe upon your
vision so that you're beginning to see things from his perspective,
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and then as you allow your faith to rise to
a new dimension, supernatural dimension, I believe that the Lord
is going to cause you to do uncommon things, just
like he's done throughout all scripture, to bring you into
a new capacity for victory and to possess your promised
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land and to possess your possessions. Come on, it's time
for us to begin to rule and to reign in
the authority of Christ even in this time. And so
come on, let's earn a good reputation as a result
of our faith. Let's earn a good reputation in this
time for pursuing all and receiving all that God has
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promised to be the signpost, to be a sign and
a wonder that there is a God and that he's
still keeping his promises and that he's still keeping covenant.
Come on, we will not reach perfection without them. But
we know that the Lord is asking us to run
our race with fervancy, to run our race with passion,
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to run our race and keep our eyes on Jesus,
who is the initiator and the perfector of our faith.
And I believe that even as we allow ourselves to
allow Him to cause us to see things from His
perspective and not be so earth bound, that we're gonna
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move in a new level of supernatural faith. You know,
sometimes the obstacles that arise in our life, it's to
cause us to recognize that we need to move in
another dimension of faith. You know, sometimes when the Lord
begins to allow mountains to appear, it's to activate a
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mountain moving faith. See, many of us we get overwhelmed
and we get anxious because the problem seems large, or
the mountain of debt seems large, or the money that
we need to get started on the new project that
the Lord has called us to is so much. But
I believe that when mountains appear, it's to bring an
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activation and an impartation from the Holy Spirit to cause
you to move and a mountain moving faith so that
He can show forth himself through his son or his
daughter who is assigned to this mountain. And so I
want to pray with you today because I believe that
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the Lord is releasing to us in this season, not
just insight for the sake of insight, but for us
to be able to move in a supernatural faith that
causes mountains to be removed, that causes mountains to be
made low, that the hindrances that caused barrenness and lack
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even for generations before us, would be broken, so that
there can be a gusher, if I can use that word,
a tsunami, an overcoming wave of the glory of God
through his Church like never before. Because there were those
who were willing to contend, that were willing to stand
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up even in their faith, to believe that God who
promised is faithful and that he would give supernatural insight
and wisdom to overthrow kingdoms of darkness, just like he
did in the past, overthrow in justices, just like he
did all throughout scripture, just like he did for the
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Hebrew Boys, just like he did for Daniel, that even
in our generation, by faith and through divine insight, God
can be made glorified. Let's pray together, Father, in the
name of Jesus, I thank you for everyone today who's
joining the broadcast. God, I thank you that you are
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anointing your people afresh. God, I thank you for a
fresh wind. I thank you for a fresh wind of
the Holy Spirit being upon their life even in this time.
And Lord, I thank you that you're giving us keen insight.
You're giving us discernment even in this time to know what.
Thus saith the Lord to know the times and the
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season of our life. And Lord, I thank you that
you're propelling us, even from your perspective, into a higher
level of supernatural faith. God, we want to please you,
and we know that without faith it is impossible to
please you, and that we must believe that you are
who you say you are, and that you are a
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God who rewards those who diligently seek You. So Lord,
I thank you that it's from the place of prayer
and the posture of prayer that we receive in sight.
It's from the place of intimacy and relationship that you
begin to download your secrets. God, I thank you that
in this season, God, you're taking us, You're upgrading us
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in our intimacy and relationship with you, that we would
be those who you can trust with your secret Scott
and Lord, we thank you that from that place we
will move in supernatural mountain moving earth shaking yoke destroying faith.
Oh God, I thank you that you are causing men
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and women of God to arise in this hour that
will shake the nations for your glory. Oh God, we
cry out today for that gusher, for that tsunami wave
of your presence, of your glory hitting the United States,
hitting every nation around the world. Oh God, we cry
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out today for revival and reform. Lord, we thank you
that you're bringing forth a church, a remnant that is
full of faith to move mountains. And we give you
glory and we give you praise for all you are doing.
In the name of Jesus. We pray and we believe. Amen.
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