Special Guest Reward Sibanda

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Speaker 1 (00:04):
Welcome to the Rock Family Sermon of the Week.
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Speaker 2 (00:20):
Rock Family.
What's going on?
How are you guys doing thismorning?
Man, listen, first of all,y'all are wild.
Come on somebody.
What's going on?
How you guys doing this morning?
Man, listen, first of all,y'all are wild.
Come on somebody.
You know when you're invitedsomewhere, you know what I'm
saying.
You know, if you were raisedwith common sense, you know to
act right when you get overthere, come on somebody.
But when you're sandwichedbetween two fire hoses you know

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what I'm talking about it's hardto behave when the Spirit of
God shows up in the room.
Come on somebody.
So I just want you all to knowthat when I came here, my
intention was to behave.
But if I don't, though, youknow what I'm talking about.
Me and you know Pastor Scottare, like you know what I'm
saying bosom buddies, so you canblame him for what happened.

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But it is such an honor for meto be here.
I genuinely believe that honoris both the culture and the
currency of the kingdom, so Iwant to begin by just honoring
this house.
It is an honor to be here.
Every single interaction that Ihave had with somebody from the
rock has been an extension ofGod's grace and hospitality.

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Come on somebody, from justPatresa to the conversations
pulling up rolling in, I feltlike this is family.
Come on.
And I truly, truly am thankfuljust for the excellence that is
in this house Now.
Excellence is a byproduct ofthe right culture.
Come on right.
And the two things you willnever see coexist is the orphan

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spirit and excellence.
Come on, somebody.
So whenever you see excellence,it is because that house has
been fathered well.
Come on.
And when I stepped in here, oneof the first things that I
sensed in my spirit and Imentioned it as well to Pastor
Lisa was the fact that there's adeep well here.
And there's a deep well herebecause Pastor Rusty and Pastor

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Lisa gave their lives to dig afoundation to where people can
come and fully expressthemselves in servitude, and
people like me can come underthat and feel welcomed because
this house has been fatheredwell.
So, pastor Rusty and PastorLisa, thank you so much for the
incredible foundation that weget to stand on and we get to

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minister.
Come on, somebody.
Can we just honor them fortheir incredible contribution
and the legacy that they have?
And see the Bible.
God is a God of principle,y'all, and the Bible says that
if you're faithful with little,he makes you ruler over much.
Come on, so, because they werefaithful with little, the Lord

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would then give them right, menand a woman like Pastor Scott
and Pastor Britt, to say, hey,stand on this foundation and be
ruler over much in thisgeneration.
And there are not pastors orvoices more suited to this
generation than them they love.
Well, in that room he says hemay have been the oldest but he

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was the most pastoring andloving.
You know what I'm saying.
Other pastors came up there totake off their hats.
They were taking all those hatsand putting them on themselves
and just loving a generationthat feels orphaned.
So I'm telling you this, let metell you all this, right, let me
tell you this, even if you'rein the campuses.
I'm not even tapping into theprophetic and it's the last
thing I'll say.
Right, and it is as true astruth could be.

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It could almost be canon.
If you go to the Rock, ifyou're a member of the Rock
family, you are in the bestchurch within a two mile radius
of this place.
Come on, beyond that I would belying.
But all I wanted to say is, ifyou guys don't mind, could you
just stand up and help me honoryour pastors, pastor Scott and
Pastor Britt.
Thank you for storing thishouse.

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I love you.
We're going to be riding forlife.
Come on, keep going until theyblush.
Y'all Come on now.
I'm kidding man.
Thank y'all so much for that.
Please stay standing if youdon't mind.
You guys are standing the wholeservice.
No, I'm kidding, but thank you.

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I truly believe the gift of thekingdom is never what we get to
do, but it's who we get to do itwith, because that's what we
take into eternity.
So thank you for inviting me todo life with y'all Now.
The reason I wanted you guys tostay standing is because we're
going to do something.

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The most honorable thing thatwe have is the word of God.
Come on, and I'm in the Southy'all.
One thing about the South thatI love is y'all got sweet tea,
y'all got barbecue, y'all gotthe catering in heaven is going
to come from the south.
Come on somebody.
But what I love the most isthat there are restaurants here
that serve things family style.
I was like, ooh, that is thekingdom.
So here's how I'd love just toread this scripture.
I want us to read it together,like we believe it, like we will

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be doing it for eternity.
And then I'm going to say aquick prayer and then we're
going to jump into theconversation.
Is that cool, all right?
Matthew 17, verse 19 to 21.
At the count of three, I wantus to read it all together,
ready One, two, three.
Then the disciples came to Jesusprivately and said why could we

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not cast it out?
Come on louder.
So Jesus said to them becauseof your unbelief, for I surely I
say to you, if you have faithas a mustard seed, come on
louder, madison.
You will say to this mountain,mustard seed, come on louder,
madison.
You will say to this mountain,move from here to there and it

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will move and nothing will beimpossible for you.
Come on, fayetteville.
However, this kind does not goout except by prayer and fasting
.
Listen, I want to hinge thisconversation in a simple
statement.
Nothing shall be impossible foryou.
And when I look at my Bible,it's in red.

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You know what that means.
That means it's no cap.
Come on somebody.
That means the voice that spokethe world into existence, said
it and that settles it.
Come on somebody.
If anything is impossible withyou, it is not a problem with
the supply, it's not a problemwith the demand is not a problem
with the supply, it's not aproblem with the demand, it's a
problem with the conduit.
And the hope is that today, thisconversation recalibrates us

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into understanding who we areand fully stepping into the
legacy that was given to us,which is a life of the
impossible.
That is your birthright and forthat I want you guys to join me
in thanking the Lord right now.
Father, we just come before andwe bless you and we thank you.
We thank you for the finishedwork of Jesus that enables us to

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live lives of the impossibleand that through our lives and
our existences you can stretchout the scepter of your kingdom.
So we say Holy Spirit, we praythe same prayer that split time
into and changed everything.
And so we say come, holy Spirit.
If you don't mind, could youput your hand over your heart
and I want you to say this Saycome, holy Spirit, come Holy

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Spirit.
Can you say it again?
Can you say it and make itpersonal?
Just say come, holy Spirit.
We thank you, holy Spirit,because when you come,
everything you touch lives.
And so we say come, holy Spirit, because if you don't come,
then nothing else matters, butif you come, then nothing else

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matters.
But if you come, then nothingelse matters.
So come, not ideas, notconcepts, not words, not points,
but the counsel of heaven,finding perfect expression
through this lips of clay,meeting hearts positioned to
receive your word and mix itwith faith so it would bring
great profiting and lives livedin power for your kingdom and

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for your glory.
We say thank you for what youdid at Pentecost, but we even
thank you so much more for whatyou're about to do today in
Jesus' mighty name.
Amen, god bless you guys.
High five the person next toyou and say let's roll and you
may be seated.
So my name is Reward Sabanda.

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Everybody say Sabanda.
Now, pastor Scott had talkedabout how your boy was
originated in the upper room.
That is based in Dallas, texas,but you can probably tell from
the accent and the name thatthat is not a Texas last name.
That is because your boy isoriginally from Zimbabwe, in

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Africa.
Come on somebody.
And one thing I want to tellyou about when Africans
communicate, the first thing isthat I'm a hollaback preacher.
Come on somebody.
Right, the plan is to bring aspecific teaching, but it is
going to come across aspreaching, because the truth
just has this effect on people.

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When it comes through, when itmixes with you, there's a
resonance and somebody says didnot our hearts burn within us?
So there might be a level ofexcitement.
But I don't want you to get itwrong though.
This is not a preaching, it's ateaching.
And what is the fundamentaldifference?
See, whenever we communicatethe word of God, right, the end
game or the outcome is alwaystransformation.

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Everybody say transformation.
Now, when you preach, right, thething or the modality is
transformation throughinspiration.
So I speak to your spirit and Iinspire something in you and
kind of like watching Braveheartor something, you're like, ah,
I'm awake and I can take on theworld, and you kind of run.
That's what preaching does.
It awakens.

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It's a hurling, right thecaruso, the carucma, it's a
hurling of good news, and itencounters, encounters your
heart, and it makes you comealive.
That's what preaching does.
Now, teaching is different,because teaching, the end goal
is still transformation, butteaching is transformation
through information.
That means I give you conceptsand I gave you things that, even

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beyond the music and thegathering of the brethren, if
you apply those principles, theystill work.
Now, why is it important for meto waste this limited resource,
which is the time that we havetogether to build this
foundation.
It's very simple when youlisten to a preacher, you listen
with your spirit, but when youlisten to your teacher, you

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engage your soul.
What is a soul?
Their mind, your will, youremotions and all of those
particular things.
So if you show up and you'rewaiting for a preacher, you will
keep listening with your spiritand you'll miss and you'll be
like when's the guy going to getstarted, right?
So I want you guys to know thatI am here.
Initially, when we had aconversation with Pastor Scott
and we're like, hey, I'd lovefor you to come and just really

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serve our community, we werelike, all right, let's come up
with a plan.
And we came up with a plan andan outline and a sermon.
How many of you guys know thatthe Holy Spirit at the moment
was going ha ha, ha, ha.
Right, because when I sat downwith my friends Daniel and
Sheree, they just told me thatthe Holy Spirit was here last

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week.
I was like, well, there goesthat right.
And so I went back and I justspent time in prayer after lunch
and I was going okay, what doyou want to do?
And I felt like it gave me asimple assignment.
It's simple, but it is not easy.
It's simple because he said, Iwant you to go and remind my
people of who they are, but itis not easy because there is a

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kingdom that is invested eonsand generations in order to
create circumstances around youthat subvert the truth of who
you are, using facts.
What do I mean by that?
It's very simple, see, it is afact that cancer kills, but the
truth is that Jesus heals.

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So whenever the truthencounters the facts, the facts
have to bow to the truth.
So what the enemy will do isaround your life and around your
circumstances.
He will craft a false or pseudonarrative of facts to try and
subvert you from the truth.
And what it is.
What revival is is always anencounter, a recalibrative

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encounter with the spirit oftruth, because when the spirit
of truth speaks to you, all of asudden, anything which is not
truth falls to the side and itawakens who you are, and an
awakened identity can thenstretch out its hands and be the
scepter of God's kingdom in aspace.
Because here's the thing ourlegacy is the impossible but the
fake.
You cannot live a life of theimpossible simply because God

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does not anoint that which hedid not create and call good,
and the only thing that hecreated and called good is the
true you.
And as long as your life isbowed down and submitted to the
facts around you and lettingthose facts determine or decide
who you are, you will alwayslive less than your calling.
But that's why, when he sent usthe holy spirit, the

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manifestation of that holyspirit, it could have been the
spirit of power, could have beenall of these things, but he
said, I will send to you thespirit of truth and when he
comes he will convict.
What is a conviction is when hespeaks to the core of who you
are and he says some things andbased on those things which I
said, you are awakened and thebehavior becomes automatic
Because we do that which wetruly and fundamentally are.

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See, one of my favorite quotesis by a man called Carter G
Woodson.
Now they say he was a civilrights activist.
But what I believe civil rightsactivism is, when spoken with
the right spirit, is just simplythe spirit of prophecy speaking
the truth to power and bringingthe government of God over any
other empire or spirit orphilosophy or system that exalts

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itself above the knowledge ofGod.
And so when people speak with avoice of truth, what happens is
, whether they're tongue-talkingor not, the power of that truth
has the power to pull downempires and strongholds, and
because of that, people can liveunder an umbrella of freedom.
Come on, that is why, when Iwas like I've got those three

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points over here and I've got mychart over here and I'm going
to draw circles and squares overhere, he's like no, I want you
to go and remind my people whothey are and then let my spirit
lead them into what they aresupposed to do.
So here's what Carter G Woodsonsays.
He says if you can control aman's thinking, you do not have

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to worry about his action.
When you determine what a manshall think, you do not have to
concern yourself about what hewill do.
Come on, if you can make a manfeel that he is inferior, you do
not have to compel him toaccept an inferior status, for
he will seek it himself.
Tell him to accept an inferiorstatus, for he will seek it
himself.
If you make a man think that heis justly an outcast, justly

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underline that.
What does that mean?
If you can create systems underpseudo-justice that makes
people think it is just for themto feel that way, or it is just
for them to be sick, or it isjust for them to be depressed,
or because they were abused,then it is just for them to be
depressed, or because they wereabused, then it is just for them
to do all those things.
If you can make them feel theyare justly an outcast, you do

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not have to order him to theback door.
He will go without being told,and if there is no back door,
his very nature will demand one.
So the enemy's greatest strategyover your life, over nations,
over situations andcircumstances, over marriages
and families, is to create asystem of pseudo-justice which

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makes you believe that whateverconsequence is yours.
That's why he'll have youcalling sickness your sickness,
or trauma your trauma, or lackyour lack, or whatever it is.
Because the moment you takeownership, the spirit of truth
that is on the inside of youthen begins to speak.
Because listen, here's thething God saw darkness and he

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spoke with the same voice andthe same spirit into what it was
and it incubated that and itbirthed the reality.
In the same way, what the enemywill do in your life is he will
literally set up all thesefacts and the moment you speak,
in agreement with what, thatparticular thing, the creative
power that is on the inside ofyou, will birth that thing, and
then the rest of the time he isjust holding that thing up as

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the ultimate truth.
That's why the power of thegospel, the first thing that it
does is it tears downstrongholds and arguments.
What are all of those?
Those are things that keep youbound, because when our mind is
free and our hearts are free,then we can step fully into the
calling of what God called us todo.
But the opposite is also true.

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Even though we have been freedand we have perfect freedom in
the life that is ours throughJesus, and we have perfect
freedom in the life that is oursthrough Jesus, if our mind is
still bound, our actions willfollow suit, and the enemy
doesn't have to make us heathensor make us backslide.
He just has to keep uspowerless, because the hope of
the world is us.

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The strategy of God is alwayshis spirit and his purpose in
people.
When Israel we had a problem,when Israel needed a defender
and a deliverer, what he did ishe took the answer, wrapped it
in skin and called it Moses, andhe sent them to a people.
And, in the same way, thereason you exist is because

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there's a context that needs ananswer.
And he took the answer, wrappedit in skin and he sent it and
called it Daniel or Scott orPatresa or whatever it is.
Because, wherever you'resupposed to be, you're supposed
to just let the light of Godshine and find perfect
expression through you.
The call to the impossible issecure cure.

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Our walking it out is dependenton whether we truly believe
that the same God who said letthere be and there was, the same
God who said your sins areforgiven and they were, also has

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something to say about yourmarriage, about your children,
about your job, about your city.
Come on, somebody, and you arethe expression of God's voice
and the expression of God'sgovernment in and over that
situation.
And so the first thing that Iwant to say is to disenfranchise
you of the notion.
See, naming is powerful, right?
I have a friend of mine whoalways has this joke over and
over.
It's gotten old but it'sprofound, that's probably why he

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keeps saying it.
But he says naming is soimportant that if you name an
alligator or a poodle, you loseyour arm.
He says it over and over so ifyou name something, exactly the
first time I heard out of that,look, I was like huh, but that's
what you call Texas wisdom,y'all.
And what he was saying is, ifyou misname something, you will
live under those particularconsequences.

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And I want to speak tosomething which isn't as
dangerous or detrimental, but ithas been the vehicle that has
kept us, as God's people inpowerlessness.
And it is simply thispowerlessness and it is simply
this right Before.
It's the simple fact that, eventhough we are the church, we

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have called ourselves the church, and here's what I mean by that
.
The word church is the wordecclesia, right, and the word
ecclesia, this definition fromStrong's Exhaustive Concordance
is this it's a gathering ofcitizens called out from their
homes into some public place, anassembly in a Christian sense.

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It's an assembly of Christiansgathered for worship in a
religious meeting.
What do I mean by this?
Yes, we are the church, yes, wegather as the church, but that
is more of our sort order thanit is our particular purpose.
So the word ekklesia literallymeant a gathering of citizens,
in the same way that when yousee a group of lions moving
together, it's called a pride.

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Come on somebody.
If you see a group of ladiesrolling together, that's called
a bevy.
Right, there's specific thing.
There's.
A group of this type of animalis called a school or whatever
it is.
So whenever you hear the wordecclesia that was used for the
church, it was the word that wasmeant a gathering of citizens.

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Now, it wasn't until later thatthey were called Christians.
Why?
Because they were exhibitingbehaviors that made them act
like little children.
Come on sonship, the childrenof a specific king, of a
specific savior, of a specificmessiah who was doing things,
and they were like man.
They are so idiosyncratic tohis actions that we will call
them Christians or littleChristians.

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But the truth of the matter is,when Jesus came, he never came
propagating a religion.
He never came propagating adenomination.
He never came propagating achurch, because the church is
just a gathering.
When he came, he cameproclaiming the kingdom of God,
and so, before we are the churchor a church, what we are is we

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are kingdom people.
So the crux of my conversationis simply this what is the
kingdom?
The kingdom are peoplesubmitted under a king, and in
order for us to know what thosekingdom people do, we have to
become familiar with the traits,the values and the virtues of
the king.
The traits, the values and thevirtues of the king, because

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under a kingship, what happensis the sensitivities and the
proclivities of that particularking become the cultures and the
laws of that kingdom.
That is why it is so importantfor us to stay in the word,
because through the word, webegin to understand the values
and the proclivities and theperspectives of this king and
therefore, when we see thosethings, we're transformed by the

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culture and we begin to act acertain way to where, when we
step into a situation, we'relike this is what my king would
say, this is what this kingwould do, this is how we would
handle these things and, apartfrom that, you do not have a say
, you do not have a perspective.
Because I come from what wasonce a territory Zimbabwe under

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the British kingdom and underBritish rule, and if you ever
say anything which wasinconsistent with the values and
the wishes and the desires ofthe crown, that was what you
call treason, what you calltreason.
So, in the same way, I simplycome to tell you and to remind
you that, before we are anythingelse, we're denizens and

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citizens of this kingdom.
Here's what first Peter 2.9 says.
Let me just drop a fewscriptures for that.
He says but you are a chosengeneration, a royal priesthood.
There it is your royalty,royalty.
Turn to your neighbor and sayI'm royalty, a holy nation, his
own special people.
That you may proclaim thepraise of him who called you out
of darkness into his marvelouslight.

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Look 22 and 29 to 30.
Here's what it says.
And this is once again no cap.
And I bestow unto you a kingdomand what a kingdom Just as my
father bestowed one upon me.
That you may eat and drink atmy table in my kingdom and sit
on thrones judging the 12 tribesof Israel.
See, we see this consistentright.

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God creates us for relationshipfor himself.
We know the journey thathappens.
And then the children of Israel.
He redeems them unto himself asa prototype of a people that
will live under him.
And this is why he did that.
In the book of Exodus, 19, verse3 to 6, this is what he says
and Moses went up to God and theLord called to him from the
mountain, saying Thus you shallsay to the house of Jacob and

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tell the children of Israel youhave seen what I did to the
Egyptians and how I bore you oneagles wings and brought you to
myself.
Now, therefore, if you willindeed obey my voice and keep my
covenant, then you shall be aspecial treasure to me.
Above all people for all theearth is mine and you shall be
to me a what A kingdom ofpriests and a holy nation.

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These are the words which shallspeak to the children of Israel
.
Now, this, right here, presentsa very interesting dynamic,
because he does not take youaway from people, but he says
among people, I will set youapart and higher than people, as
kingdom people.
So you can exist in a culture,you can exist in a context, you

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can exist in a nation, but thevery nature of who you are is
like an ambassador, like theZimbabwean ambassador living in
Washington DC.
You are people that belong toanother kingdom.
Come on somebody.
But then it doesn't just stopthere in Revelation 1, verse 9,
so it bookends our entireexistence to show that this is
truly God's purpose for us.

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And this is is what it says.
It says Jesus Christ, thefaithful witness, the firstborn
from the dead and the ruler overthe kings of the earth, come on
, kings, to him who loved us andwashed us from our sins in his
own blood and has made us whatKings and priests to his God and
father.
To him be glory and dominionforever and ever, amen.

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So he calls them out of bondageand out of Egypt to be kings
and priests.
And in the book of Revelationhe is praised and worshipped
because he redeemed us from sinand slavery and bondage unto
himself so we could be kings andpriests.
And here's the thing.
What is the dynamic thatparticular?

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Why kings and priests?
It's very simple Becausepriests stand before God and
they represent people to God,and then they step out in the
capacity of their kingship andthey extend the scepter of God's
government over things.
What does this look like?
Right, the kingdom that you howmany of you guys, have no
problem believing that in heaventhere's no sickness, that

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nobody's kind of walking aroundwith masks.
Come on, somebody saying, man,we got the vid running around
here.
No, you know what I'm talkingabout.
No, why is that?
Because it's the reality ofthat kingdom.
So, in the exact same way, whensickness threatens, the facts
of sickness threaten your family, threatens, the facts of
sickness threaten your family,you have a right as a king, as a

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priest, first of all, to standin the presence of God and
receive his will and hiswhatever for that particular
situation, and then step intothe authority of your kingship
and bring the government ofheaven over that particular
situation.
That is all a life of theimpossible is.
It's when you step intosituations and you bring the

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government of heaven over that.
What I mean by that is thejurisdiction.
That's all the kingdom is.
It is the jurisdiction.
It is the constitution, rather,of heaven superimposed on the
jurisdiction of earth.
So Jesus can step and look atbread and say Now there is no
lack.
Therefore, I extend the scepterof my kingdom and I bring the

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government of God over theseloaves of fishes and break them
and hand them out, and there's aleftover of how many baskets
today?
Twelve.
What is twelve?
The number of government?
Come on somebody.
That's what we do when there issickness.
We step in and we bring thegovernment of heaven.
What is the government?
It's when you pass the decreeswhich are consistent with the

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ruling of the prevalent power inthat particular situation and
you bring everything else intoalignment.
See, that's why it says forunto us when he's talking about
the manifestation of Jesus.
It says for unto us a child isborn, Come on, that's his
humanity, for unto us a son isgiven.
Child is born, come on, that'shis humanity, for unto us a son
is given.
Sonship, right is something,it's divine.

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You're given a son, right, thechild is born, he's human, but
the sonship is given For unto us.
A child is born and unto us ason is given.
And what is the first thing thatit says?
The government shall be on hisshoulders and, based on that, he
shall be called a wonderfulcounselor.
It means when there's confusionin a specific space, you step
in and you bring the clarity ofthe government of heaven.
Come on, the mighty God.

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It means, with weakness orinfirmity, you can command that
spirit to go and you can stepinto that and you bring the
government of heaven over that.
The government is upon hisshoulders and it shall be called
all of these things.
And then you know what, in themost beautiful twist, come on of
destiny.
And then he says hey, you knowwhat, it's better that I go,
because if I go, what's betterthan one jesus doing incredible

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miracles?
It's nine billion people filledwith the same spirit, without
mitigation, going into thedeepest, darkest corners of the
earth and bringing the kingdomof heaven in and over that
situation.
But you cannot extend a kingdom,you cannot extend kingdom
authority, the scepter of hiskingdom, if you are not

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submitted to the kingship ofJesus.
And you cannot be submitted tothe kingship of Jesus as long as
you think you are still thechurch.
You guys understand what I'msaying, right?
Because the thing is when, aslong as you believe you have the
church, then you're just agroup of people doing something
and you're not different from a,a or whatever is and all these

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other groups that do incrediblework and everything.
But the difference is that whenit's a group of citizens
gathered together, they canenforce the kingdom.
And that's why the king washere last week in visible and
tangible ways.
Why?
Because it was a gathering ofhis citizens.
Come on somebody oh man, thisis the kingdom.

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So, real quick'm going to jumpon two things and I want to talk
about, because every kingdom Ioriginally I'm a Zulu, so in the
Zulu and the Ndebere culturethere's a specific king, right,
there's a kingship still aliveand all those things, and you
can tell who Ndebere's are, asopposed to Shonas or Kosas or
sutus or whatever, because thereare things idiosyncratic about

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the way they speak, see, that'swhy the thing about holiness,
it's never about practicing theway or your best life, whatever
it is.
Holiness is just how kingdompeople speak, in the same way
that in the British speak.
A certain way, there arecertain things that the French
will say that what it is soholiness in our communication is

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just how we kingdom peoplespeak.
Power is just how those peopleare.
Come on, some kingdoms arestronger than other people, why
it's idiosyncratic to who thosespecific people are.
So, when it comes to thiskingdom, right.
If somebody were to ask what isyour kingdom all about?
Right, what is your king allabout?
The foundation If our king hadto run today, it means he would

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run his entire campaign on twothings, and it's Psalms 89,
verse 14.
This is what it says.
It says righteousness andjustice are the foundation of
your throne.
Mercy and truth go before you.
So the foundation if his thronewas a two-legged stool, for

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example, it would stand on twothings, which is righteousness
and justice, and because of that, the extension and the
expression of that is mercy andtruth.
So that means, as kingdompeople, the thing that should
mark you and set you apart isn'twhat you profess, it's not what
you believe, it's not yourorthodoxy.

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It is simply this Wheneverthere is darkness, do you stand
on righteousness and justice andextend the scepter of his
kingdom in any situation.
Righteousness and justice arethe foundation of his throne.
See, this has to be theframework.
I remember in 2020, I might getto it here towards the end when

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everything was happeningracially and all of a sudden
they were like hey, you knowwhat I'm saying.
If you are dark-skinned, comeon.
If you have melanin all up init, here's a mic.
Say something, tell us, lead us, or whatever it is.
If there's a shooting, ifthere's an altercation, it's
like what is your commentary?
You now represent the whole.
You know what I'm saying, and Iwas pastoring at the Upper Room

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, which is predominantlyCaucasian and it's younger
people, so they're driven by acause and they want to just
point us in a direction andwe'll just go all of those
things.
And in those particularinstances, it would be so easy
for you to say something becauseyou think it's right and
because you think it's uplifting, but simply because, when I
came into the kingdom, the firstthing, the point of entry that

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it required was my life.
I died so I could live in thiskingdom.
And you know what wasn'tresurrected?
It was my opinion.
Know what wasn't resurrected?
It was my opinion.
My opinion wasn't resurrected.
My stance wasn't resurrected.
My ethnicity wasn't resurrected.
Now, yes, I can express thingsspecifically, but everything

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that I do is an extension of thesimple fact that is the kingdom
.
So people would come to ask meand be like how do we know when
to comment?
How do we know when to saysomething?
How do we know when to saysomething?
How do we know when to use?
I was like it's very simple.
What is the foundation of thekingdom that we represent?
It's righteousness and it isjustice.
So this shooting or thiswhatever thing led us as a
kingdom spokesperson?

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Because my authority is nevermine, my influence is never mine
, my platform is never mine, myvoice is never mine.
My influence is never mine, myplatform is never mine, my voice
is never mine.
So, regardless of what youthink I should say, what Pastor
Scott should say, what thatother person should say,
regardless of all of that, thefirst question is does this
particular situation underminerighteousness?

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I'm about to explain what thatis, and the second thing is has
there been an injustice.
It could be sad, it could betraumatic what's happening, but
if there was not an injusticeperpetrated, I cannot speak on
that.
You know why?
Because if I step outside thecovering of this king and I
begin to speak, then I do nothave his grace, I do not have

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his covering and I do not havehis endorsement, and the enemy
is just praying.
I do something that's stupid.
Come on somebody.
Righteousness and justice arethe foundation of his throne.
So what is righteousness?
Let me just jump into this realquick.
Righteousness is very simple.
It's three aspects.

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There's divine righteousnessand it basically just mandates
that God is objectively andsubjectively righteous.
There is nothing crooked abouthim or in him, or contrary to
him, because he is the verystandard of all things truth.
Come on somebody.

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So he is righteous.
But because he is righteous andhe shed the blood of his son to
redeem me, he calls me by hisname.
Therefore I also am righteous.
That is what you call imputedrighteousness.
Divine righteousness says he isImputed.
Righteousness says, therefore,I am.

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Why is this good news?
Because it means he can trustyou with the nuclear codes of
his kingdom.
Come on somebody, because it'snever about you anyways.
That means it doesn't matterwhat those hands were doing last
night.
The moment you say, father, I'msorry, I missed the mark, he
brings you right into alignment,he cleanses you and then
entrusts you, like the prodigal,with the ring and the scepter

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of his power to do business.
And what that is, and that iswhy you call it the gospel,
because the gospel is good news.
And as long as it is up to you,how many of you all know you
could be as perfect.
Come on somebody as PastorBritt, come on somebody.
But how many?
The rest of us?
We would mess it up.
But if it's not us and ourrighteousness and it's in his
righteousness, in us then it'sgood news because it's like if I

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mess up, I just bring myselfinto alignment and I'm once
again entrusted with the abilityto do this.
So that means that ourChristianity has consistency, as
long as we walk in the lightand we move in the light.
That means I need a communityof kingdom, people like the rock
family that understand that I'mnot perfect.
Therefore I do not have to hide.

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So when I do something, I comeand I confess and I say I did
something misaligned with mykingdom bandit and my
perspective, and they togethersay we don't hold it against you
.
The blood of Jesus covers you.
Now stand up and lead us.
Come on somebody.
That is what it is.
So here's the most beautifulthing.

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Here's what I think the gospelwas.
This is coming from somebody whofor over 25 years, was addicted
to pornography, and I stillremember.
But the irony of it was I wouldstill come to church.
I was born into church.
My parents would whoop us if wedidn't go to church, so I had
to come and I learned to be fakeand all those things.
Until one day somebody just saidthe gospel is good news.
I'm like it doesn't feel likegood news, because I always feel

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condemned and I feel like Ican't hide and everything.
And I was like why do you sayit's good news?
His name was Eric Morgan.
He said it's very simple thegospel is good news because when
you say yes to Jesus ooh,listen to this when you say yes
to Jesus, you don't just get anew future, but you get a new
past.
Oh, come on somebody.

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See, because if the enemycannot keep you from being saved
, then he is going to keep thehooks of your past upon you.
And the moment he says thesethings, it is going to stop.
How many of you have ever triedrunning you know what I'm
saying with hooks on it doesn'twork.
But the moment you're at him hesays you have become a new
creation.
Now I can make reference of whatI used to be, but those things

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don't define me anymore.
I have a new future and I havea new past.
That was the first part of thegospel.
I was like that does sound likebad news.
I can't wait to shed all thecrookedness in my life.
Man, I was as crooked as aghetto tattoo.
Come on, somebody.
I mean, I was all over theplace.
You know what I'm talking about.
But I was like that doesn'thave to define me, because it

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doesn't define me.
I can stand on any stage andsay this is what I was, but
that's what Paul says Say someof you were liars, some of you
were thieves, some of you wereall this, but you have been and
he speaks a new future.
That was the first thing youget.
You don't just get a new future, you get a new past.
But here's another beautifulthing, and this, to me, was what

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changed everything, and it'swhat I'm talking about.
It says when you say yes toJesus, the power of the gospel
is that when you say yes toJesus, you don't get a
relationship with the father,you get his relationship with
the father.
Oh, come on somebody.
Oh, listen to me.
You don't get a relationshipwith your father because, if

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you're anything like me, right,I had this chronic and recurring
malady of always messing upevery good relationship I ever
had.
But that's what happens.
Hurt people, hurt people right.
Broken people will onlymanifest their brokenness.
But what happens is the momentI knew that the good news was
that it was his relationship.
I was like I can't screw it up.

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The father loves the son andwhen we're born again we're
seated in heavenly places inChrist Jesus.
We're in him.
This is what the Bible says.
It says all the promises of Godin him are yes and amen.
That means as long as I am inChrist, because we all know that

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the promises of God and theblessing of God only falls on
people who act righteously.
But Jesus lived the perfect,righteous life, which means that
every good thing and everyblessing was now due to him.
And then he takes us and hesays as long as we're clothed
with Christ Jesus, then everypromise of God over us is yes

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and amen.
And so anytime I mess up, I sayI come back under the blood of
Jesus and I say cleanse me andwash me wider than snow, because
I'm not going to be over herelimping along with sin and
everything.
I've got kingdom work to do.
I've got the impossible tomanifest to a generation so they
can come to a saving knowledgeof who Jesus is.
Therefore, that is what it is,and because of that, sin never

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has to have any dominion over me.
And the most beautiful pictureof this is the story that we see
in the Old Testament.
There was a father who loved aspecific son and because he
loved that son, because that sonwas obedient, he wanted to
bless that son.
And then there was the otherrugrat come on somebody like me
and you and everybody else whowanted that blessing.

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And so the mother came in as avoice of wisdom, says the only
way you will get this blessingfrom your father is if you put
on your older brother.
Come on somebody.
And when you go, the fathersaid ooh, I smell the son of my
favor, even though the voice isthe voice of reward.
When does my son now have anAfrican accent, but he felt it.
So whenever we come before theFather, closed in Jesus, he's

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like hey, I hear you and I hearthat and I see all of that, but
all I smell is Jesus, all I feelis Jesus.
Therefore, he speaks, theblessing, and our simple
responsibility is to keepourselves in alignment with that
.
That's what the book of Johnsays.
Come on, if we walk in thelight, as he is in the light, we
have fellowship with each otherand with him, then the blood of

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Jesus cleanses us from allunrighteousness, and when we are
righteous, then we can extendthe scepter of his kingdom,
because that is the primary legfor his kingdom.
So because of that, it'simputed righteousness he is.
Hence I am.
Therefore I do.
And now we get to what we'retalking about the life of the

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impossible.
Matthew 17, 20 says this Jesussays because of your unbelief,
nothing will be impossible foryou.
Jesus said that you look at thelife of the apostles.
They didn't know whatimpossible was.
You look at the life of Jesus.
He didn't know what impossiblewas.

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And there's not a single clause, addendum or caveat or
amendment which says thatdoesn't apply to us.
As a matter of fact, jesus whodid the most impossible things
turned around and he said and hesimply said, the works that I
do not, the same works will youdo?
What did he say?

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Ooh, come on somebody.
What's greater than the worksJesus did?
We see a little bit in the bookof Acts Come on, you,
overachieving kingdom man.
If he raised 100 people, peopleI can raise 200.
My belief system is the limit.
It's an invitation to thatwhich is uniquely yours faith is

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the substance of the impossible.
See, in that particularscripture I didn't put it on
there, but just really touchingon it real quick and he it says
if you say from here, move fromthere, it will move and nothing
will be impossible for you.
However, this kind does not goout except through prayer and
fasting.
Now I do it as separateteaching.
I don't have time to do this,but we've been raised within the

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church to think that this kindmeant this kind of demon.
But in that particularconversation, jesus shifts.
They come and say why could wenot cast the demon out?
The subject was the demon.
What was the subject?
The demon.
Then Jesus said it's because ofyour unbelief.
And right there he shifts thesubject to their unbelief.
He says it's because of yourunbelief, that's why you

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couldn't do it.
And then he goes on to say allthose things that, if you
believe, you can say to thismountain, be those things.
That if you believe you can sayto this mountain, be cast, and
it will do this and everythingand nothing will be impossible
to you.
To who?
To him who believes.
Because we know that faith isthe substance that heaven uses
to craft the things that wedesire.
There's not a single time wheresomebody had faith and jesus
said, ah, you can't have it.

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Or heaven said you can't haveit.
Anytime we have the right kindof faith, heaven has always
responded to it.
Be it to you according to yourfaith.
We see it over and over.
The substance that heaven usesto craft the things that we
desire is faith.
What is faith?
It's a strong.
It's a strong conviction thatthose specific things will

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happen.
What is the thing thatundermines faith?
It's unbelief.
So if I don't believe it, theBible says I'm double-minded.
Therefore I cannot get thethings that I ask for.
And what is unbelief?
It's when the things that yousee undermine the things that
you know to be true.
It's the same faith, sorry,it's the same.
Truth and facts dichotomy Sorry, it's the same truth and facts
dichotomy.
The truth is I know this personcan live.

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The facts are he's been dead.
Whatever I see rigor mortis, Isee green and everything and
it's like whatever it is.
So then that undermines ourfaith and what Jesus was saying
prayer and fasting.
This kind of unbelief, not thiskind of demon, does not go out
except through prayer andfasting.
Right, real quick to touch onit.

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Is this important, see?
Because as long as you thinkhe's talking about the demon,
you will come into a works-basedmindset, to where you think I
need to pray more so I can castout specific types of demons.
Like it's the boss in a, in avideo game, towards like I
didn't get enough xps and Igotta come back to this.
And then you begin to think andthe enemy will plant doubt and
say, well, you couldn't castthat out because you didn't get
enough XP's and I got to comeback to this.
And then you begin to think andthe enemy will plant doubt and
say, well, you couldn't castthat out because you didn't pray
enough.
And when you haven't prayedenough, you'll be like don't
even touch that demon, becausethis is that kind, as long as

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you believe that theology.
All the enemy has to do is justpoint to random demons and be
like bro.
That's that kind the kind thatyou have See.
But we believe this because it'sconsistent with number one
superhero philosophy.
All of us know as superheroeslike the more you do this, the
more powerful you get.
That language of come out isalso consistent right with the

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philosophy of exorcism, rightcome out issues forth and
everything.
But what he was talking aboutis simply this unbelief.
This unbelief does not come outexcept through prayer and
fasting.
What is fasting?
Every single time we see theBible talk about fasting, it
says when I humbled my soul withfasting, fasting humbles the
soul.
What is the soul?

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Man is spirit.
Soul and body.
The spirit is that part of usthat comes from Jesus.
Is it okay if I teach for justa second?
It's eternal.
That's what we are.
The soul is the center of yourself-consciousness, it's your
mind, it's your will, it's youremotion, it's all of those
things.
So when you look at a situation, your mind is the one that says

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you can't do that.
You've seen the facts, you'veseen all of those things and
because of that it comes intoascendancy of your spirit.
So you can't pray the prayer offaith, because the prayer of
faith is when your spiritconnects with the spirit of
heaven and speaks what'spossible, but your mind will
come and tell you it'simpossible.
And the moment it does, yourmind comes into a place of
ascendancy and you can't praythe prayer of faith and there's
a disconnect.
Therefore, you don't get thosethings.

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But when you fast, the Biblesays I humbled my soul with
fasting.
David says over and over, inthat particular culture, every
time the operative word forfasting was humbling, humbling
oneself.
So what does it do?
It humbles your mind, your will, your emotions, the things that
you know about, so that yourspirit's in a place of
ascendancy and your spirit hasno problem praying and declaring

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the things which are impossible, because it comes from a realm
where the impossible is the veryair they breathe.
So this is why, when people goand extended fast, they'll say
stuff like I can hear Godclearly.
Why?
Because the voices in your headare now humbled and submitted
and the voice of the spirit isthe loudest.
That's why when people say whenI was fasting, I prayed and I
got this, there's nothingmagical about fasting.

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What it did is it just raninterference to the voice of
unbelief and then from there youcan pray the prayer of faith
and see our potency right.
And here's another thing, realquick, just to prove it wasn't a
demon, and then I'll move on,pastor Scott, I promise, but
then to prove that it wasn't.
This is simply this Demons donot listen to us because we are

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powerful.
They listen to us because theyknow the authority.
So it's got nothing.
You can't build authority.
He gives you his authority andbased on that authority you can
speak to any demon in hell andit is submitted because it's
under your feet.
The word for authority is theword exousia, right.

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But then when you pray yougenerate something called
dunamis, like where you getdynamo or whatever it is.
That's why it says buildingyourself up in your most holy
faith, praying in the holyspirit.
So when you pray in the holyspirit, you build yourself up
and that is the power, theexpress power, that makes
miracles possible.
Demons don't respond to dunamis.

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Demons respond to authority,and authority is entrusted to us
.
But dunamis we have to build upourselves.
So it couldn't have meantprayer is how you get over
demons.
You see what I'm saying, becausethen that was essentially
talking about dunamis.
So I want you to know this, andI feel like there was an
emphasis on this particularthing, simply because I want you

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to understand.
It's not how much you've prayedor not, it's simply this If you
are aware of the fact, that'sall the enemy and demons need to
see, do you know that you're ason of the king?
Do you know that royal bloodruns in your veins?
If you know they can sense thatparticular authority, and
whether you sinned yesterday orwhether you haven't prayed,

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whatever it is, you can extendthe scepter of his authority in
that particular instance.
So faith is a substance of theimpossible.
And then the second one isjustice, and I just want to take
a few seconds to talk aboutthis.
I love Acts 10, verse 38.

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How God anointed Jesus ofNazareth, with the Holy Ghost
and with power, who went aboutdoing good and healing all who
were oppressed of the devil, forGod was with him.
That is justice.
Justice is an affront on theorder, on the divine order of
God, and when you step into anysituation which is misaligned

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and misrepresentative of the Godwho created all things in his
image and according to hislikeness and call them good,
then when you extend your handand bring the scepter of God's
kingdom that is called justice.
Now, there are differentiterations of justice.
There's different iterations ofjustice and I think the most

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pressing one if I have thepermission to go here, pastor
Scott is when it comes to civiljustice.
We know this because wenavigate this within the
American context.
Now, with all humility right,because I really respect this
platform in this house I want toexplain something about this

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whole thing.
That's kind of going on, butbefore I do, I need to ask you,
as kingdom people, not to listenwith your scars or your skin.
See, if you're black in thisroom, I want you to listen to me
, not with your scars.
And if you're white, I want youto listen to me, not with your
skin, but I want you to listento me, not with your scars.
And if you're white, I want youto listen to me, not with your
skin, but I want you to listento me with your spirit, because,

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whether scar or skin, everybodyhas enough justification to
stick to what they essentiallybelieve.
But the truest metric to howyou approach issues of justice
is always a spirit submitted tothe lordship of jesus.
See, this is the most importantthing.
This is what gives the churchnot just an edge when it comes

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to social justice conversation,but a mandate, simply because
the world doesn't have that sameradar of the god that made
everything in his image, thedivine government of what it is.
So because of that, the enemywill try to isolate you into a
camp and to shut you up fromspeaking, whereas you are the
only voice that matters, simplybecause you have a third faculty

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for discerning these things,and that is your spirit.
See, the most dangerous thingabout movements and moments and
everything like we saw in 2020,is simply this that there are
some people who, if you listenwith your skin or if you listen
with your scars, what willhappen is there are some people
or groups or philosophies whichthe sentiment will be so sound

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and so close to your kingdomvalues that, if you don't use
discernment, you can say, insolidarity with this sentiment,
don't use discernment.
You can say, in solidarity withthis sentiment, I stand with
this people.
So the sentiment may be sound,but the spirit is off, and so
you find yourself aligning witha specific thing and later on,
you're now in trouble becauseyou have spoken up and used the

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platform of God's kingdom tospeak up for something, and then
you understand that it was justthe sentiment.
But the spirit behind that thingis division.
The spirit behind that thing isto take.
The spirit behind that thing isto steal.
The spirit behind that thing isto subvert authority.
And now, all of a sudden, youhave lost credibility because

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you sided with this particularthing.
See, this was what was sobeautiful about Jesus.
Jesus existed in the mostpolitically charged climate in
that particular thing.
See, this was what was sobeautiful about Jesus Jesus
existed in the most politicallycharged climate in that
particular thing.
So they were constantly tryingto bring Jesus to their side.
Jesus, what do you say?
These people here say this.
And these people say here, saythis.
What do you say?
And you know what Jesus did.
He was neither left or right,but he always dragged them to

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the radical middle, because,well, that's where the kingdom
is.
See, in our day and age, if youdraw a line, you draw a crowd.
If I stand here and say I'mdrawing this line, this is what
it looks like a crowd of peoplewill follow you.
And it's so easy for you tothink because you have the
endorsement of a specific crowd.
You have the endorsement ofheaven.
Come on, but what the kingdomsays is it's's both and it's

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this and that, and so we listenwith our spirit, because when we
listen with our spirit, thesentiment, the true sentiment,
will always line up and comewith that.
So the first thing that you dois reject every false dichotomy
and say the my metric is thisWas justice violated?
Was what happened between thisperson and this person an

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injustice?
If so, I not only have aresponsibility, but I have the
authority to speak into it.
If not, even though it seemscut and dry to everybody else, I
don't have the authority tospeak into it, because I am not
the king of my kingdom.
And then the second thing isrighteousness.
Does it undermine thisalignment that everybody's made

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in the imago dei?
If it does, then I can't touchit.
You see what I'm saying, and but, but at the same time, though,
um, in the, in the time I I haveleft, I just want to explain
this because, just as I wasspending time with prayer, I

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remembered something which wasan indictment that people said
in 2020 over black people inAmerica, and it was simply this
whenever they were rioting anddoing all of these things, a
narrative kept coming out, andit was simply this that violence
is the language of thedisenfranchised, that expressive
outrage is the language of thedisenfranchised, that expressive
outrage is the language ofpeople who feel like they cannot

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articulate themselves.
And this may be a.
I'll show this video.
It may be a little humoroustake, but I want us to take this
perspective.
And then I want to explain this.
But I saw this video and I wasreminded of this particular
thing and I feel like it.
It.
It it perfectly illustrates whythere's always such a

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discrepancy between black peopleand white people and us
understanding things on the samelevel.
And my authority to speak onthis, by the way, is not just
kingdom, it's what I call thethird sibling perspective.
Here's what I mean by that.
So so there's 12 of us.
Same mom, same dad.
Come on somebody.
Right, sorry, there's 13 of us.
I have 12 siblings.

(55:30):
Now, what I learned very earlyenough is sometimes sibling
number seven had an issue withsibling number three and they
would duke it out Come onsomebody.
But the thing is, whenever theytook it out and they would break
the TV, whether you were in thebeef or you were not in the
beef, nobody got to watch TV,come on.
So, whether you were directlyinvolved or not, you had the

(55:50):
responsibility to be like hey,take that foolishness out there,
because in here.
So if you live in America,whether you're white or whether
you're black, or if you'reIndian or brown or whatever it
is, whatever happens betweenthis primary right, the duality
and the binary aspect of thesegroups, affects everybody.
So therefore, if you don't feellike you have that authority,

(56:13):
you can step up as a third cityand be like hey, whatever you're
doing affects me.
Therefore, this is what I speakof.
So my perspective before thekingdom perspective and the
authority to speak into thiscomes from that.
Whatever happens affects me andit affects you as well.
But to explain it, check outthis video and then I'm going to
say a few more things and we'lljump into it.

Speaker 3 (56:36):
It's just, there's all this pressure, you know, and
sometimes it feels like it'sright up on me and I can just
feel it like literally feel itin my head, and it's relentless
and I don't know if it's goingto stop.
I mean, that's the thing thatscares me the most, is that I
don't know if it's ever going tostop.

(56:57):
Yeah Well, you do have a nailin your head.
It is not about the nail, areyou sure?
Because I mean I'll bet if wegot that out of there.
Stop trying to fix it.

Speaker 2 (57:13):
No, I'm not trying to fix it.
I'm just pointing out thatmaybe the nail is causing you
always do this.

Speaker 3 (57:19):
You always try to fix things, when what I really need
is for you to just listen.
See, I don't think that is whatyou need.
I think what you need is to getthe nail out.
See, you're not even listeningnow.
Okay, fine, I will listen.
Fine, it's just, sometimes it'slike there's this achy, I don't
know what it is, and I'm notsleeping very well at all and

(57:42):
all my sweaters are snagged Imean all of them.
That sounds really hard, it is.
Thank you, ow, come on, if youwould just Don't.

Speaker 2 (58:01):
How many I was seeing that and Try to see things my
way.
How many.
I was seeing that and I waslike, oh my gosh.
First of all, every man in thishouse, right, how many of you
guys know it is about the nail?
Come on, if you're a man, it isabout the nail right.
And every woman in this houseknows for a fact that it's not
about the nail right Every woman.

(58:24):
So both sides are right.
It's like it's not about thenail, because if I pull out this
nail that you're talking about,then there's a hole and I don't
know if you can plug this hole.
You haven't even taken out thetrash and it's all about all
these other things.
And this guy over here is likeyou just said your sweater's all
snagged.
I promise you, if we take thisout, we'll deal with the rest of
it.

(58:45):
But we understand, becauseeverybody has a sense of truth.
Whenever you know there'svalidity to your perspective,
right, there can be emotionaltrauma assigned to that
particular thing.
So what I saw when I steppedinto the American context was
simply this that every time Ilistened to people from the
white perspective and because Iwas from Africa, they were not

(59:06):
shy in saying it, because whatthe enemy has brought to a lot
of white America is guilt.
So they feel like they can'treally have that conversation.
And what guilt does is italways silences, right?
And with my black brothers fromthis kind of side it's like
there's just a lot of anger andoutrage, and justifiably so.
So because of that, it willalways take somebody from a

(59:30):
contra perspective, of a contranarrative to at least bring
enough clarity to say well, itis about both the nail and it's
not really about the nail.
What I mean by that is, everysingle time I would sit down at
tables with my white brothersand have those conversations,
they would always bring out thefacts.
And the facts were true.
If they would just pullthemselves up by their

(59:53):
bootstraps, if they would stopdoing this, if they would apply
themselves.
Here here are the stats.
To me it is as clear as day andthey're right.
It's the facts.
But here's something that mostpeople don't understand, and
sometimes even my black brothersand sisters, is the simple fact
that what happened to blackAmerica was not political, it

(01:00:20):
was spiritual.
See, it was the enemy that setup a specific system.
Here's what I mean by that theblack American.
First of all, we'll come backto what I'm saying about this.
Pastor Scott, can I take just alittle time to kind of unpack
it?
Is that okay if I just unpackthis for a little bit?

(01:00:42):
See, here's where I, when I gotthis revelation from the holy
spirit, the empathy and thesympathy and the love of god for
black america flooded my heartmore than anything and I was
like I have actually sided withthe enemy in accusing my
brothers of something thatwasn't political, it wasn't

(01:01:05):
social, it was straight evilfrom the pits of hell.
See, when black people werebrought here from America, the
first thing that the enemy tookaway I'm not even going to talk
about is the colon.
This was the enemy from thepits of hell.
The first thing that he tookaway was their name, their
identity from the pits of hell.
The first thing that he tookaway was their name, their

(01:01:27):
identity.
Let me tell you how powerfulidentity is and, consequently,
how tragic this is.
That means that the blackperson who was born in America
does not have a context to wheretheir very identity is theirs
as well, is theirs as well,because their last name itself
is a reminder of the fact thatthey were property.

(01:01:51):
And then the second thing iseven any sort of validation.
If you say, hey, just go tocollege and get all those
accolades and everything, eventhe sense of validation through
the path of knowledge, it'sstill a white institution that
says you are worthy because youare now doctor, so and so that

(01:02:14):
language.
Here's something that my fathertaught me and is true within
the Ubuntu context you can nevertruly lament in the language of
your oppressors.
You can never truly lament inthe language of your oppressors.
So, whatever happens, when Icome and I run into something
racial at work or with the cops,or I have brushes which I've
had because I grew up in Dallaswell, not grew up, but I was in

(01:02:35):
Dallas when I first came thereand everything.
So I've seen racism wearing thebadge of authority.
I've seen that and I'veexperienced it.
Do you know what the differencebetween me and it was?
When I got home, I couldcompletely decontextualize
myself from that so I could stepinto my Zulu identity and
process that particular thing.

(01:02:56):
The black American does not havethat.
He does not have a contracontext for him to step outside
and look at it from an objectivelens.
And how many of you guys knowthat you can never really deal
with anything while you're inthe same mindset and the same
state and the same reality thatcreated it.
So the entire world can speakto black America and say why

(01:03:20):
won't you get over it?
It's been all this time andit's all of this.
But we all know that for you tostart healing, you have to step
away and decontextualizeyourself from the trauma and
have a conversation that seesthat thing as anything other
than yourself.
But everything that happens tothe black American happens
within his kitchen.

(01:03:40):
He has to use the tools thatwere taught to him in this same
institution.
He has to use the name that wasgiven, which still reminds him
of this particular thing, tonavigate this particular problem
.
So for the black American, it'snot about it's the nail, it's

(01:04:01):
everything about the nail.
My entire existence is the nail.
I don't have the luxury ofstepping into any other context
apart from the nail and evenjust saying this, even when we
talk about that like the blackAmerican thing, do you know that
even the categorization theblack American and I say black

(01:04:22):
American, this doesn't even havea category?
That is germane to who they are?
See, if you're white, you havethe luxury of just calling
yourself.
I'm American.
Actually, very few people referto themselves as Caucasian
American.
I don't have to qualify myselfwhen I step into places I'm
African.
Descriptors call Asian peopleAsian American.

(01:04:46):
There are very few people thatwalk around saying I'm Asian
American, they're Asian.
Even Mexicans are Mexican.
You see what I'm saying.
There's a context.
But when you look at this right, so, for example, the
terminology African Americanitself is not a true
categorization.
African American itself is nota true categorization Because

(01:05:09):
the African aspect of it is thequalifier and the American
aspect.
Let me give you an example.
So I was born in Africa.
20 years, 21 years, I livedthere.
It was formed there.
I'm an African through andthrough.
I speak the language.
I have all the idiosyncrasies,you know.
When they ask me to preach, Igo longer and I apologize for
that right.
Everything African, I embody it.
I am the walking stereotype ofbeing African.

(01:05:30):
So if I go to Zimbabwe today,right, my brother lives in
Africa.
You see what I'm saying.
So if I go and I stand there andPastor Scott is talking about
this and he says something likehey, yeah, no, I'm talking to
the African right, and somebodysays which African, he can say I

(01:05:53):
mean the American Africanbecause I was naturalized here.
So the American aspect of it isa descriptor of the type of
American, of the African that Iam.
Does that make sense?
Which African?
The American one, the one whowears cut-off pants, and the
ones and everything that's asAmerican as you get.
That's a descriptor.

(01:06:13):
Now you flip it right, but youcan't even really say right, the
African American, becausethat's also a descriptor.
So if my brothers and sistershave never been to Africa,
there's nothing idiosyncraticabout Africa and who they are.
So if they were to standbetween a white American and a
black American, you can't evensay that.
If you have to distinguishwhich one, you see what I'm

(01:06:35):
saying you cannot say theAfrican American, even though
they're both American becausethey've never been to Africa.
So not only do they have, dothey not have an identity
context to process what'shappening.
They do not have aninstitutional context to process

(01:06:57):
what's happening, and even thevery classification of who they
are speaks to the simple factthat they are orphans in a
nation where they look ateverything that they helped to
build themselves and they can'tgo to Africa and reclaim land
because we won't let them.
So they essentially you know.
You see what I'm talking about.

(01:07:17):
I'm just being real, guys.
I know it's lighthearted, butI'm just so.
There's not a single contextwhere the black American or the
African American what I don'teven know what to call them will
ever be a majority.
They'd never have a sense oftheir homeland, because if they
had identity, then they couldtrace it to a homeland.

(01:07:38):
But that was taken away.
And I say all that to say.
What's happening is simply thatmelanated America is grieving
and you all know that wholething, like the different levels
of grief and everything.
There's denial and there's painand we're seeing a lot of
manifestation of that pain.
But even beyond that, there aremultiple other levels and I

(01:08:02):
feel like the rest of the worldand even white America is at a
place where it's like okay, canI just write a check and be done
with it?
And melanated America is going.
They're like can I just write acheck?
What's your name?
Melanated America is likethat's the problem.
I don't even know what my nameis.
If I were to write this name onthis check that you want to

(01:08:23):
cash, you want to fix it withyour wallet.
I don't even know who I am.
So I'm lamenting a lostidentity in a borrowed context.
Therefore, you cannot tell meslavery is 20, 30, 40, 50, 60,
70.
It could be 300 years.
As long as there's not a placefor them to process the trauma,
apart from who they are, thatwill never be done.

(01:08:46):
But here's the beautiful thing,here's why the gospel is the
only hope.
When it comes to this racialconversation.
I'm not mitigating yourcultural expression.
I'm not mitigating any of that.
I am simply saying that, in hisdivine wisdom, the first

(01:09:09):
prerequisite that God gave forcoming into the kingdom was that
you check in your identity atthe door.
Fractured, whole, privileged,non-privileged, you are called
unto a death and resurrectedwith a new name and a new
lineage.

(01:09:29):
See, that's why the Bible saysthe name of the Lord is a strong
tower, because that is the onlyplace for melanated America to
process the trauma that they'reessentially going through.
And once he gives you His name,then he can redeem everything
about you.
Then, when you step into whatyou call the culture, it's not a

(01:09:49):
culture that is tied to thetrauma and the systems of the
enemy.
It's me fully expressing theway I move and the way I dance
and the way I cook and all thethings that we love about
melanated America when it findsits pure expression.
But when we do that absent ofthe trauma of the orphan spirit,
then it can truly be somethingthat melanated America can then

(01:10:12):
hand on to their children andtheir children's children.
So the answer to process whatthis particular thing looks like
is the power of the kingdom.
We have a new king, we have anew identity.
Whether it's neither Jew norGreek, nor male nor female, nor
African nor white, american itis.

(01:10:32):
And from there we rise up askingdom people with the
responsibility to live in thesupernatural and we step into
situations and we can speakidentity to other black people,
then we can speak identity towhite people.
Come on, and that's the powerof what that looks like.
Can I get the uh, the bandbehind me real quick, um, and we

(01:10:57):
can just kind of uh, worshipwith that and so, going into
that, uh, if we go back to thatscripture, psalms 89, verse 14,
this is what it saysRighteousness and justice are
the foundation of your throne.

(01:11:19):
Mercy and truth go before.
You See, 92 times in the NewTestament the word dikaiosune is
used for righteousness and oncefor justice.
So this, the word forrighteousness and justice, is
the same word.

(01:11:39):
91 times it's used asrighteousness and once as
justice.
Why is that?
Why the disproportion?
It's very simple when weunderstand, when we understand
the power of our right standingwith God, that we're now named

(01:12:02):
by him and his divine power hasgiven us everything that we need
for life and godliness, and howthe same spirit that he
anointed Jesus Christ ofNazareth with, who went about
doing good and healing all, wereoppressed because God was with
him.
One of the most profoundscriptures is when Jesus had to

(01:12:25):
step into, when he washed thedisciples' feet.
It says this is how thatparticular pericope of scripture
starts.
It says in Jesusesus, knowingwho he was, knowing that he came
from and he was going to thefather that's identity motivated

(01:12:45):
by love.
Then he took the feet ofeverybody, the disobedient, his
betrayers, the doubters andeverything.
He girded himself and he servedthem, knowing that it came from
God and went to God.
Identity, righteousness heknelt down and they washed their

(01:13:09):
feet.
Justice you cannot have justicewithout righteousness and any
philosophy that calls forjustice without righteousness is
an extension of the evil one.
And the responsibility and thechallenge for every single one
of us today, as we go onPentecost, as we go into this,

(01:13:29):
is simply this If you don't mind, could you just stand up with
me?
It's simply this You're made inthe image of God.
There is not a single thingthat he withheld from you.
If Jesus did it, you have aresponsibility to do it bigger
and better.

(01:13:49):
You have the tools, you havethe context, you have the church
community.
The Spirit of God was given toyou without mitigation.
If you're not living in thepower of the Holy Spirit and
stepping into situations andextending the scepter of His
kingdom and His righteousness asa son and a daughter of the

(01:14:10):
King, you're living below yourpotential.
You're living below yourpotential.
See, one of the most beautiful,most tragic scriptures, I
believe, is romans 8, and thisis what it says says creation is
groaning because it is waitingfor the manifestation of sons,

(01:14:31):
because only a son can speak toa tornado and say peace, be
still.
The world is waiting for yourmanifestation.
Thank you Jesus, thank you,holy Spirit.

(01:14:56):
Here's what I'm sensing in myspirit and I, just before I call
Pastor Scott up, I just want touse this as a, as a moment of
encounter, and it's simply.
I'm just reminded of that song,it's just playing in my spirit
over and over Wherever.
Wherever that river goes, itbrings life.
Whatever dead thing it touches,it brings life to that

(01:15:18):
particular thing.
So you're about to be releasedinto your week with power, but I
feel like there are some hurtplaces, there are some dead
places, there are some erroneousbeliefs, things that just need
the alignment and the power ofGod, the river of God, to just
touch and bring alignment intothat.
So here's what I'd love for usto do.

(01:15:40):
If you don't mind, can you justput your hand out in front of
you as a matter of fact, ifyou're in this place and you're
like okay, I hear what you'resaying, but I really need a
touch from God today.
I really need the Lord to bringalignment into areas of my life
so I can take the power of thiskingdom and step through those
doors and into the mission fieldof my life.

(01:16:02):
If you're in this room and youwant the Lord to powerfully
touch you, can you just come upto the front.
Thank you Jesus, thank youJesus, thank you Father, thank

(01:16:24):
you Jesus.
And as you come down here,whatever you're comfortable with
, whether it's on your knees,whether you're standing,
whatever it is but let me tellyou this what's happening right
now is the same thing thathappened with the prodigal, when
the father, when the moment heoriented himself to head back
towards the father, the fatherran towards him with only one

(01:16:47):
report I'm restoring the ring ofyour authority.
I'm covering you and yoursituation with my righteousness.
I'm putting the beautiful shoesof the good news to wherever
you go.
You'll proclaim the good newsto people and I'm spending more
than you ever lost to throw aparty to make you feel welcomed

(01:17:11):
in this place.
So you're stepping out of yourseat and coming up here.
The Lord has those instrumentsof restoration to declare over
you right now.
So just begin to speak to himright now.
Just, whatever that situationis, just use your voice to just
hand it over completely to himand I'll say a quick prayer and

(01:17:34):
then I'll ask Pastor Scott tocome up, because only a father
can then speak restoration overyou and over your situation and
over everything that is.
After I say my quick prayer and,if you're a part of the
pastoral team or the prayer team, just begin to walk and just
lay hands on them and stand withyour brothers and sisters.
I thought this was going to endwith a bang and I was ready for

(01:17:58):
it, but I feel like the Lordwants to do something deeper.
So just kind of come up hereand if you're the pastoral team,
stand with them.
If you're still coming, find aspot and just say, father, I
give you everything, I give youeverything, I give you that
situation.
I give you Before I give youthat situation, I give you
before I can walk in the powerand the expression and the

(01:18:19):
dunamis of God.
The crooked places have to bemade straight.
The rough places have to bemade smooth.
That which is crippled has tobe strengthened, and that's what
the Lord is doing to yourbrothers and sisters.
If you're in this room right now, can you stretch out your hand
towards them?
Because we're a kingdom, we'refamily.
There's no spectators.
Just begin to speak.
Whatever it is that is manifestin your life, what I mean by.

(01:18:42):
If you're walking in victory,just speak victory over them.
If you're walking inoverwhelming peace, just speak
peace over them.
Just begin to speak theintention of God over your
brothers and sisters.
Open your mouth right now.
Thank you Father, thank youFather, thank you Jesus.
So, lord, I just come beforeyou and I thank you that

(01:19:04):
wherever your river goes, itbrings life.
So I thank you that there is nodead space in their hearts and
in their lives that is left Dead, father.
So I just come before yourthrone, holy Spirit, and I pray
that.
Do what only you can do overthem and over their lives.
In Jesus' name, give himeverything right now.

(01:19:28):
Continue to speak with him.
I love the worship team to justtake some time to just even
lead us in that song aboutwherever the Spirit comes, it
brings life and afterwards, ifit's okay, I love the worship
team to just take some time tojust even lead us in that song.
But wherever the Spirit comes,it brings life.
And afterwards, if it's okay,with Pastor Scott, he will just
pray a blessing over you guysand release you in the power,
the covering of the Holy Spirit,to go live your lives with
power.

Speaker 4 (01:19:49):
Heavenly Father, we love you.
Today, god, we pray for yourincreased anointing on the life
of the believer today.
Oh, god, for those who are insearch, who are hungry, who are
desperate, who are looking fortransformation today, God, I
thank you that you have met ushere today.
God, I bless those that arehere in the altar, those that
are crying out, god, for a freshinfilling of the power of God

(01:20:12):
and the spirit of God, god, thatthey may be able to walk out in
the true authority that youhave placed on their life.
God, I thank you for truebelief to continue to anchor, to
dig deep into the hearts of menand women today, god, as
they're here, hungry, desperateto make sense of what to do next
.
God, I pray for yoursupernatural touch.

(01:20:32):
God, for those that are brokenin this altar today, god, we
cover them in Jesus' name.
God, we thank you for yourmiraculous work, and those that
are broken in body.
Today, god, we stand inagreement.
Today, we lend our faith God.
We ask you, lord, to meet us inour place of unbelief.
God, we lay that before youtoday, god, and we ask you to

(01:20:55):
fix our unbelief.
God, forgive us where we havegotten complacent.
Forgive us for being complacent, that we've used our trauma to
hide behind what you paid for onthe cross.

(01:21:17):
God, we've lifted up ourproblems to supersede who you
are as our deliverer, as ourhealer, as our God, as our
Savior.
God, we ask you, help usreposition our hearts into God,

(01:21:38):
into your kingdom, God.
We thank you today, god, forwhat you're doing in the altars.
I thank you for what you'redoing in this room.
I thank you that the deepconviction of the Holy Spirit
that comes up, who confronts ourflesh and lays it before you.
We thank you today.
We give you authority.
We give you access.
We give you authority, we giveyou access.
We give you God.
We renounce those things we'vemade partnerships with.

(01:22:02):
We renounce what we've madepartnerships our offense, our
hurt, our frustration.
We renounce that in Jesus' name.
We replace that with kingdomlanguage, kingdom power, kingdom
authority.
We replace that with kingdomlanguage, kingdom power, kingdom
authority.
God, we thank you that, as werealign ourselves, it will

(01:22:23):
manifest itself in what we do,in what we do, in what we do,
god, we thank you today.
As we realign our heart, as werealign our spirit to your
kingdom purpose, god, it willrealign who we are, the way we
think, the way we operate, thewhat we do.
God, we thank you today.

(01:22:43):
We thank you for your touch.
God, I bless this congregationtoday.
We pray over them.
Thank you for your grace.
We thank you for your strength.
We thank you for what awaits usthis week, god.
God, I thank you that tonightmany will have the best sleep
they've ever had.
Tonight, just having guilt andshame and confusion taken off of

(01:23:04):
their life.
Today, they're gonna have thebest sleep they've ever had.
They're gonna have the bestwork week they've ever had.
God, we thank you for thesethings.
Today, god, we ask you to bewith us.
God, be with us.
God Be with us.
God, as we step out, god, thisauthority, as we step out this
relationship with you, as westep out this healing that you

(01:23:24):
are bringing to our mind, ourbody, our spirit.
God, we thank you today.
God, help us, help us, help usto lock in, tune in, to being
led by the Spirit.
God, you have called us,separated us.
We are not where the world hasdefined us to be, but we are

(01:23:44):
submitted to the Lordship ofJesus Christ.
We reposition our lives, ourhearts, our emotions, our scars,
our weaknesses.
They're all yours.
We trust you to empower us intothis future.
We bless you today.

(01:24:05):
We bless, we bless you today,we honor you today.
We give you glory In Jesus'name.
Everyone said Amen, come on.
Everyone said come on.
Everyone said amen, amen, amen,amen we hope and pray.

Speaker 1 (01:24:23):
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