June 18, 2025 • 50 mins
In this powerful installment of the Men of Valor series, Pastor Josh Hamstra unpacks the true, biblical meaning of faithfulness and how it connects directly to your calling, purpose, and gifts. This isn’t just about showing up or doing the bare minimum—it’s about discovering what God planned for you before you were born and multiplying it for His glory.
Pastor Josh reminds us: you don’t earn your calling; you steward it. Every believer has been given unique spiritual gifts to build up the Church, serve others, and advance God’s kingdom. This message confronts selfishness and fear that cause people to bury their purpose, and it calls you to dig it up, activate it, and multiply what God has placed in your life.
💥 Key Takeaways:
- Faithfulness means multiplication, not just maintenance.
- You have spiritual gifts, given freely by God’s grace.
- Stewarding your gifts uproots selfishness and releases revival.
- The Church is not a place to be served but to be sent—you are the minister.
- Fear buries gifts; faithfulness brings them back to life.
This sermon will equip you to stand firm, step boldly, and live fully in the purpose God designed just for you.
🎧 Listen now and let God stir up everything He’s placed within you!
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All right, you guys, so we aretalking about faithfulness today.
Faithfulness.
And in my preparation for thisand looking through scripture on
what it talks about,faithfulness, what I'm going to try
to do today is to show youguys what the Bible is actually says
about faithfulness.
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Not what Webster's dictionaryhas to say, not what your parents
taught you about faithfulnessor your last church or whoever taught
you, but what the Bibleactually says.
Because I promise you, it's different.
It's different.
It's not the same thing ofwhat you were taught.
And I believe today there'sgonna be revelation that takes place
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as we go through this wordbecause it is alive and active and
sharper than any two edged sword.
All right, you guys, you readyto jump into this?
I'm like out of breath.
I half lost my voice from thefirst sermon and I'm out of breath.
I'm like, whoo.
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It's a good workout being inthis church.
Come on now.
So faithfulness has more to dowith, with your calling, your purpose
and your gifts than what you think.
It's not just about coming ontime to church.
It's not just about being dedicated.
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It's not just about being consistent.
Those things are whatChristians do anyways.
And if you don't do thosethings, check your heart.
Come on now, I'm starting you guys.
I told you, you got to preachwith me today.
Even when it hurts, even whenwe're like, oh shoot, he's talking
to me.
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But faithfulness has so muchto do to what God has actually called
you to do on this earth, inthis season, in this time, and the
giftings that he has given you.
Because every single one ofyou has a purpose.
Every single one of you has a calling.
Do you believe that?
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Let me tell you in Scripture.
Psalm 139, 16.
Psalm 139:16.
It says, you, eyes saw me whenI was formless, which means I wasn't
made yet.
I wasn't even a twinkle in mymother's eye.
Way before you were born, itsays, you saw me.
And all of my days werewritten in your book and planned
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before a single one of them began.
It means way before you wereborn, even when the Lord hovered
over the earth and it was justhim and it was void and dark, he
had your face in his mind andhe said, I'm going to call them,
I'm going to choose them, I'mgoing to give them purpose, and I'm
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going to give them gifting.
Every single one of them andso when we start to look at, wow,
Lord, you actually called me.
I have a purpose on this earththat's more than just working 40
hours or 45 hours a week andcoming home and eating dinner and
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watching Netflix and going tobed and starting all over again the
next day.
I have more calling andpurpose than that.
Yes.
Yes, you do.
And what I love about ourpurpose is that the only way you
can operate in it is in the supernatural.
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There is no possible way tolive your purpose in the natural.
The moment you begin to useit, in the abilities he's given you,
the giftings.
He's giving you your purpose,all those things in the natural.
Guess what?
You're about six months awayfrom burnout.
I'm telling you, I have met somany people, and it's like, pastor
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Josh, I'm exhausted.
I'm so tired.
I can't do this anymore.
I'm like, where does yourstrength come from?
Because what he calls us to dois lift our eyes up and say, my strength
comes from you, Lord Jesus,not from anything I have inside of
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me, because I'm just a broken vessel.
You guys believe that?
And so if he's called us, he'schosen us.
Our face is in his mind.
Let's go to first Peter four.
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First Peter four, 10.
We're gonna do 10 and 11.
First Peter four, 10.
I hope you're taking notes onthis, please, in a book on your phone,
however you can do it, please.
First Peter 4, 10.
It says this.
As each has received a gift.
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Use it to serve one another asgood stewards of God's varied grace.
Let me read this over again,because you could read this and be
like, that's a great verse.
It's like, wait a minute.
It says, as each.
Everyone say, each hasreceived a gift.
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Everyone say gift.
What this is saying is, youknow who the each is?
You.
The church.
As each one has been given a gift.
If you are sitting in thisroom and you call yourself a child
of God, and He is yourheavenly Father, and you've submitted
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your life to him, guess whathe has given you.
Gifts.
Plural.
Every single one.
It doesn't say, as each of youpossibly have received something,
or if he has willed it, maybeI pray that he's given you a gift.
No, it says, as each one has received.
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Received a gift.
Hundred percent of the churchgets a gift.
No one's left out.
It doesn't matter where you'refrom, what color you are, what language
you speak.
If you're a child of God, hehas given you gifts.
And how do you use those gifts?
It says, use it to serve one another.
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Who's one another?
You.
One another is the church.
So he has given each member ofhis bride a gift to serve one another
as good stewards of God'svaried grace.
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So he's given you a gift, andnow he is asking you to steward the
that gift.
What I love about that word,when you break it down into the Greek,
the way that you would say itin Greek is charisma.
Everyone try that.
Try to.
It's like you're getting.
There's phlegm in your throat.
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Charisma.
Charisma.
It's an H.
The way that you say it inEnglish is charisma.
Charisma.
How do you break that word down?
Charis.
And then an ma.
What does charis mean?
Grace.
Grace gift.
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You don't earn it.
It's not like, hey, I've beensaved for 20 years.
Where's my gift?
I've been, hey, Lord, I'vebeen doing this for a while.
What's the deal?
He says, no, you're my child.
And even in your brokenness,even in your sin, even wherever you
are broken, down in the ditch,if you are my child, the Lord says,
I have given you a grace gift.
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Charisma.
Charisma.
Even that word, how Webstersays it is, you're excited.
You have energy.
No, it means that youunderstand that God has given you
a gift and you are now goingto properly steward it.
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And you go from charisma to charismatic.
And so when people are like,is V1 Church a charismatic church?
I'm like, for the last 2,000years, the church has been a charismatic
church.
I don't know any other way to be.
To understand the gifting andoperate in it is to be charismatic.
It doesn't mean to be flamboyant.
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It doesn't mean to have a lotof energy.
It means that the Lord hasgiven you a grace gift that, that
you can access, but you arecalled to steward.
It is a calling to steward thegrace gift in your life.
And I love this because itsays, whoever speaks.
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This is in verse 11.
Whoever speaks as one whospeaks oracles of God, whoever serves
as one who serves by thestrength that God supplies, not what
you supply, not by you doing awhole bunch of stuff, not by you
just conjuring something up in yourself.
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It says, no, it's the strengththat God supplies in.
And this is why, in order thateverything, God may get the glory
through Jesus Christ.
So when we access his strengthand not ours.
Who gets the glory?
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Jesus.
The moment you operate in yourstrength, you get the glory.
And you also get burnt out andfall into sin.
And I see people who live incycles of sin over and over and over
and 20 years, 30 years, 40years, it's like, I've been addicted
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to this.
I get free, I get addicted, Iget free, I get addicted, I get free.
And I'm like, well, what isgoing on?
It's because you're trying toaccess your own strength.
The Lord says, it's not on you.
It's on me and the work thathe's already done.
And so I believe there'sfreedom for some of you guys in this
room who've been dealing withsomething for years and years and
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years.
And you're like, I just keepfalling back into it.
Get out of your own strengthand access his strength through the
power of Jesus Christ in theworking of the Holy Spirit.
All right, let me keep moving.
That's a whole sermon, right?
Just in that little section there.
Whoo.
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And so I love when it says,serve one another as good stewards,
because what that's sharingwith us is our giftings are truly
for one another.
They are for each one of us tooperate in, but then to then pray
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for, intercede for, and thinkabout other people.
Truly stewarding the gift ofGod in your life roots out selfishness.
Because what I see a lot in church.
Can I just speak freely?
Is.
Is a bunch of selfish peoplewho are like, my gifting my thing.
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What about me?
And it's like, what if ourmindset can be, hey, I've been praying
for you all week, and I heardfrom the Lord about your family,
and I'm here as a prophet tospeak over your life.
What if all of us.
And that's not just for me todo, that's for all of us to do that.
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Imagine a church where youcome in and 500 people.
I've been praying for you.
I'm here for you.
And it's not, oh, someoneneeds to disciple me.
It's who am I discipling?
Whose calling and purpose am Icalling out?
Because the moment you startto think about other people, you
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begin to live your purpose.
And so when you don't make itabout you, guess what?
God.
God makes it about you.
This is counterintuitive tohow the world operates, because the
world tells you, hey, yougotta take care of you.
You gotta love you.
You gotta love yourself more.
No, we gotta love Jesus more.
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Church.
He never called us to Love ourselves.
He calls us to love oneanother and to love him.
And it's actually the love ofself that will get you into the root
of all other types of evils.
So all these psychiatrists aretelling a bunch of kids to love themselves
more?
No, love Jesus more.
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Suicide is at its highest it'sever been in the history of mankind.
Why?
Because people are tellingtheir kids to love themselves more.
This is the Bible, you guys.
It's Lord Jesus, I want tolove you more.
And the difference is, is whenyou love him more, he begins to tell
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you how much you're worth.
There's a massive differencebetween you loving yourself and you
understanding how much you'reworth, because you're worth dying
for.
You're worth everything.
And if you were the only oneon this earth, Jesus still would
have died for you.
So you are worth everything.
But you're not meant to love yourself.
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Please, if your therapist istelling you to love yourself more,
leave them.
Because what it does is it will.
It literally plants seeds of selfishness.
It's about me.
And it's even.
You can get selfish even aboutyour own calling.
Like, people spend all theirtime, what's my calling?
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What's my purpose?
What's the biggest question Iget more than any other?
And what?
My DMs and Instagram, you openup and there's 99 plus.
And I'm like, oh, my goodness,who are these people?
And it's literally messagesafter, like, pages and pages and
pages.
Pastor Prophet Josh, whothey'll call me, all different things.
Can you just please be prayingfor me?
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I need to know what my purpose is.
You know what your purpose is?
To find other people'spurposes and call it out of them.
I'm telling you guys, there's something.
It's like, what the Lord needsto do in this time and season is
a root out the selfishness inhis bride and say, I am committed
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to you.
And guess what?
When I commit to you, youcommit to me.
And then I come to church andyou're like, pastor Josh, I've been
praying for you all week, andI got a word for.
For you.
Are you receiving this?
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So how do we actually stewardthe gifts?
So we're called.
We're chosen.
We're given gifts.
We're called to steward those gifts.
But how do we actually do it?
Because remember, this sermonis about faithfulness.
I'm helping define whatfaithfulness actually is.
So how do we steward them?
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Let's go to First Corinthians 4.
First Corinthians 4, right?
In verse one, we're just gonnaread one and two.
First Corinthians 4:1, versetwo, it says this.
This is how one should regardus, the church, as servants of Christ
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and stewards of the mysteriesof God.
Now, if it just ended there,it'd be like, man, what a great verse.
We're called the steward.
We're called servants of Christ.
But there's something that hesays here.
This is Apostle Paul speakingto us.
Now, the Church.
In verse two, it says,moreover, it is required.
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Everyone say, required ofstewards that they be found faithful.
It is a requirement.
This isn't Paul saying, hey, Ijust pray that you steward that gift.
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I hope that you do it.
If you're able to get to it,if you have time, try to steward
that gift.
There's few times in the NewTestament where it actually says
requirement or required.
So if you're a Christian,there's something required of you.
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It's like, hey, this isn'tlike, hey, I hope you guys do this.
This is, hey, the Lord isactually saying, it is required of
stewards that they be found faithful.
This is a heavy passagebecause, like, wait a minute, I thought
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we weren't in the law anymore.
This is a covenant of grace.
Of course it's a covenant of grace.
But.
But what this passage issaying is that for you to truly live
how God intended you to livein your purpose, in your calling
as stewards, you mustunderstand what it actually means
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to be found faithful.
So what is faithfulness?
You guys ready to hear?
We're going to go to Matthew25, Matthew 25, verse 14.
We're going to start in 14 andjust read a little bit Matthew 25:14.
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I'm trying to go as fast as I can.
I know we got a bunch ofbrunches and it's Father's Day and.
Yeah, but, man, I'm tellingyou guys, if you could get this inside
of you, I promise you, yourwhole life will change.
Your entire life will change.
Matthew 25:14.
It says this, for it is justlike a man about to go on a journey.
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This is Jesus talking, okay?
This is red letter text.
Jesus write to us.
Matthew's writing it down,transcribing it, and now, 2,000 years
later, we could read it.
And this thing is alive, okay?
It says he called his ownservants and entrusted his possessions
to them.
To one.
He gave five talents, toanother two, and to another one,
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depending on each one's ability.
Then he went on a journey immediately.
The man who had received Five talents.
I just read that.
That just jumped out of me.
It says, immediately.
Immediately.
He's given a gift immediately.
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Not 10 years later, not 15years later, not when you get time
to it, not when it works foryou and your schedule.
And when it goes around yourNetflix and your sports for your
kids, it says, immediately.
The man who had received fivetalents put them together to work
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and earned five more.
In the same way, the man withtwo earned two more.
But the man who had receivedone talent went off, dug a hole in
the ground, and hid hismaster's money.
You see how it says hismasters, the gifts that he has given
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you are his gifts for you.
They're not your gifts,they're his gifts.
This is why he's calling us tosteward it, his master's money.
In verse 19, it says, After along time, the master of those servants
came and settled accounts with them.
The man who had received fivetalents approached, presented five
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more.
So he has five and he gets 10and said, Master, you gave me five
talents.
See, I've earned five more.
Verse 21, it says his mastersaid to him, well done, good and
faithful servant, you were faithful.
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He says it twice, good andfaithful servant, you were faithful.
He's emphasizing something here.
There's an emphasis on faithful.
He says, you were faithfulover a few things.
I will put you in charge ofmany things.
Share your master's joy.
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How does the master Jesus.
This is Jesus here.
He's not only speaking to hisdisciples and people, but the master
in this is Jesus.
How does he definefaithfulness in this story?
In what I believe is at thevery heart of faithfulness, multiplication.
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The way that the Bible definesfaithfulness is you are given a gift.
And the Lord sees how much youcan actually multiply that gift.
You know how you multiply a gift?
You use it.
Do you know how you multiply something?
You impart it.
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Like, how do you multiply something?
And the danger that we're inin the church culture and the society
that we live in is if youmultiplied most Christians, there
wouldn't be more gospel preaching.
There would be more guile.
There would be more peopletalking bad about one another.
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And so my question to you is,if we multiplied you by a hundred
and sent you into Chicago,would Chicago hear about Jesus more?
Or would they hear more gossip?
I'm telling you, guys like this.
This is what at the root ofthis thing is, Lord, if I'm gonna
steward the gift that you havefor me, I.
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I cannot keep it for myself.
It is to serve one Another,because I'm a proper steward.
And all of us, he's callingyou today and he's asking you, have
you stewarded the gifts thathe has given you?
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Let that sink in.
Because every single one ofyou has a gift and is called, has
purpose.
And the Lord wants to use youin his church to multiply the thing
that's in you.
And so your team is not yourteam like, in the church.
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It's not like, oh, this is the.
I'm the.
I'm the leader of the ushers.
This thing.
I'm the prayer lead.
This is my team.
No, that's Jesus's team.
The.
That's not even the pastor's team.
That's Jesus's team.
And sometimes we're trying totake ownership of something that
was never meant to be ours inthe first place, and we find our
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identity.
Come on, now.
We end up finding our identityin being a prayer team leader and
not an actual minister of thegospel outside of these walls.
Because the stewards of gifting.
Come on, let me preach to youguys for a minute.
I'm telling you, I'm nottalking about serving in the church.
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Serving in the church is abasic thing that all Christians should
be doing anyways.
It's not like, oh, man, Igotta try to get myself up to just
try to serve in the church.
No, serving the church isliterally like the.
It's the baseline.
It's literally an overflow ofhow you've been living all week.
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Because if you were stewardingthe gift in yourself and stirring
up the gift that God gave you,you would be preaching the gospel
to everyone you see.
You would be the hands andfeet of Jesus to the least of these.
You would be giving food andshelter and money and resources and
your whole life to people.
And on Sunday, you would comein in strength and boldness.
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And you know how the churchactually comes in most of the time
is on their hands and knees.
Like, I finally made it to Sunday.
I need these people.
I finally made it here.
I got no breath left in my lungs.
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Do you know how we're supposedto come in here?
We're supposed to come in hereliterally, like, I'm straight up
Elijah fire, where it's like,we come in with a chariot, and people
are like, oh, my goodness.
They didn't even take a car.
They took a chariot fromheaven up in here.
And you come with boldness andyou're like, I'm here to see the
purposes of God in each andevery one of you.
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I'm here to see the calling ofGod and the giftings ripped out of
your chest and I'll show it toyour face.
Imagine if every single one ofyou lived like that.
And what the church expects isonly the pastors to do that.
Listen, I will do that.
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I always have and I always will.
One of my main purposes isliterally to see the purpose of God
called out of you.
And I will show it to yourface and I will tell you, and I'll
send you texts, text messagesand videos and I'll call you out
on Sunday and every other day.
But here's the thing.
It's not just the pastor's duty.
You all are saints andministers of the gospel, every single
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one of you.
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So a lot of times people like,I need to go, I need to hear from
the pastor.
I'll only talk to the pastor.
You know, many times I'veheard that I'll only talk.
No, no, no, I won't tell you.
I gotta talk to the higher up.
Guess what?
You're all higher up.
Like if we actually understoodwho we are in Christ, that we are
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seated right next to him inthe heavenly places, above principalities,
above the powers.
And we look down on them andsay, demon, get out of Northwest
Indiana.
I don't look up to you.
I look down on you and I say,get out.
Out.
You are a saint.
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You are a priest.
You don't need a title, aposition, you don't need to be ordained.
I'm here to commission everysingle one of you to operate in your
God given callings.
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Man, you guys, thanks forpreaching this with me.
I feel the presence of God isin this room.
I believe that as I've beenspeaking, he's stirring something
inside of you.
I'm telling you, it's like abig pot right now.
And he's like, oh, come on,come on, daughter.
And I'm here and I got aheavenly shovel.
Because some of you guys haveyour talents buried so deep in the
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ground.
Come on, let me preach at youreal quick.
Some of you guys have yourtalents so deep in the ground that
you haven't seen them in 15 years.
And I come here with a shoveland a pickaxe and I will shovel deep
down and call those thingsback up and say, maybe you left it,
but this is the season.
You will see it, operate init, and know that you are called.
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This is what prophets do.
By the way, prophets have shovels.
We're treasure seekers.
I'm a treasure hunter.
Literally, I look at everysingle one of you and I see the purpose
of God in you, and I see howhe wants to use you.
And I see the per.
And it's like, what prophetsdo is we go ahead and we're like,
hey, I've seen it already.
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I've seen what the Lord wantsto do in you.
If you could just see it yourself.
But sometimes you, because ofhow crazy your life is and how nuts
your circumstances are and howmany bills you have and how your
kids are and all these thingsthat I'm like, listen, the Lord has
called you.
He's called you.
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And even in our sin andbrokenness and craziness and hectic
lives and all of those things,he uses us as ministers of the Gospel.
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All right?
So he says, well done, goodand faithful servant.
You were faithful.
You multiplied what you had.
Let me just say one other thing.
I'm sorry that what wasmultiplied to you in your previous
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generations was not love, joy,peace and patience and godliness.
It was sin and suffering andabuse and hurt.
I'm sorry because some of youguys lineage, what was handed down
to you was actually sin.
But when the chain breaker isin the room, I'm telling.
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When the chain breaker is inthe room, you say, listen, it may
have gone down this line, butwhen it got to me, Lord Jesus, for
me and my house, I will servethe Lord.
For me and my house, I willserve the Lord.
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And so many times we look athow our dads were, how our great
grandparents were, and it'slike, listen, I'm telling you, you
are called, you are chosen,you are different than them, and
you break every single line.
Say no.
For me and my house.
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For me in my house.
Come on.
The Holy Spirit's moving you guys.
You feel him moving?
My prayer was that I wouldstir it up enough in this room that
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every single one of you, youwould get off your butts and start
to say, lord Jesus, not any longer.
Not anymore.
I will serve the Lord.
I will minister to the saints.
I will operate in my callingand my gifting.
And what he's called me to do,I will fulfill.
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Come on.
He's called you.
He's called you.
He's called you.
I see it.
I'm looking at a room of abunch of cho.
This is the ecclesia.
I'm looking at the called outones, the chosen ones before the
foundations of the earth.
He said, I will use you inyour generation for your family.
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Can I just preach for another.
Just couple minutes?
So the five makes 10, the twomakes four.
He says the same thing.
To the guy who did two, hesays, well done, good and faithful
servant.
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You were found faithful.
But then he gets to the one.
And this is actually some ofyou guys in this room right now.
And I'm just.
I have to call it out.
What he does is he receivesthat talent immediately.
It says, he goes and he buries it.
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He doesn't lose it.
He keeps it for himself.
And so when the master comesback, he says, master, but I have
the one you gave me.
And what does the master say?
He says, if you knew me, ifyou knew me, the only way to actually
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operate in your purpose, inyour calling, in your giftings.
If is is you have to know.
Know the heart of God.
You have to know the heart ofyour heavenly Father, that he has
good plan for you, that hedoes have a destiny for you.
Because the enemy will lie toyou every day of your life and say,
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oh, no, that's not a good father.
You've lost so much already inyour life.
You got to try to hoard whatyou still have.
And what the Lord says, no,give out your gifts to others.
Give out your gifts to othersand more will be given to you.
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I know I just flew throughthat passage.
But when you look at why hedidn't multiply it, why did he not
multiply?
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Was 100% because of fear.
100% because of fear.
Fear stopped him in his tracks.
And this is how the enemy willstill use fear to this day.
It's like you don't reallyknow God.
You don't really.
Oh, no, you're confused.
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That's not your real purpose.
You think you could do that?
Let the pastors do that?
They're better at talking than you.
That's what the enemy will tell.
I'm here to tell you becausesome of you guys are Moses right
now on the mountain.
You're like, lord, I don't.
I can't speak.
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I don't even know what to do.
And the Lord said, just go.
Because I am who I am.
And if you have, I am with you.
You can do anything andeverything that he's called you to.
And Moses goes.
He not only sees his staffcoming to a snake, he sees nine other
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miracles happen.
He parts the sea.
He sees God come down on Mount Sinai.
He sees literally just byMoses saying, lord, I'm willing,
Lord, I'll be faithful.
This is what faithfulness is,church, for you to say, the Lord
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call me, and I will multiplywhat he has given me in front of
everybody, and I will pour outand I Will give, give out.
And like a drink offering tothe church, I will pour myself out
for it.
You guys receive that becausethis is.
I'm telling you guys, if we could.
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If we could lock into this.
And 100% of you, not just onSunday morning, but every day of
your life, you're texting,calling each other.
I got.
The Lord has placed plans for you.
Come over to my house.
I want to lay hands on you.
I'm going to pray for you.
We're going to see the giftingand the calling, the charisma that
he's given you, the grace,gifting come alive in you.
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And I don't care how long ittakes to shovel it out of the ground.
I am committed to shovel andshovel and shovel until that thing
comes alive inside of you.
That's what the church existsto do.
It's like, what.
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We're all here.
We said yes.
If you're.
You could be a million otherplaces right now.
You could be sitting in your garage.
You could be in your basementright now watching something that
you shouldn't.
But you said, no, I'm gonnacome here and I'm gonna.
And it's like, there'ssomething about you guys hunger in
this room.
And I'm saying it just forthis service.
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There's something about thehunger in this room.
The Lord's like, I see you.
I see you.
And I.
And I literally smell a sweetincense going to heaven.
And we are turning the head ofGod right now to look down on his
people.
And he's saying, I see you.
I see your sacrifice.
I see your gift.
And it is pleasing and it isholy to the almighty God.
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God.
And he has a gift for you today.
I believe there's many of youtoday that are like, I have no clue
what my calling is.
I don't know what the Lord putme on this earth to do.
I don't know exact.
You've come to the right place.
You're in the right buildingright now.
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If you're like, man, I've beenalive for 40 years.
50 years, 70 years, 80 years.
I don't care how old you are.
The enemy will still tell youthat you don't have a purpose.
You don't have a calling.
You don't have a destiny.
I'm here to shut the devil'smouth today and say, not in my house,
not in this church, man.
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Y' all.
You guys are preaching with.
I feel.
It's like I feel a withdrawalright now.
It's like there's a hunger inthis room.
And it's not a withdrawal from me.
It's a withdrawal from the spirit.
You're like, lord, give me more.
Give me more.
Give me more.
I want that gift, Lord,because it's gifts, plural.
People are like, what's your gift?
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I'm like, every one of them.
I want to use whatever you gotfor me, Lord.
I want them all.
And I'm gonna knock on thatdoor until I have them all.
Because the Bible says,earnestly seek and ask and knock
at the door.
And he will answer for thosewho ask, you just have to ask.
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Alright, I got done with like50% of this sermon, but let me.
Can we just minister for aminute, ma' am?
I feel the presence of God inthis room.
I feel his presence in this room.
I feel he's urging you.
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It's like.
I feel like a holy agitation.
There's like an agitation.
He's agitating you right now.
He's like, come on, you buriedthat talent.
You buried it.
It's time to dig it up.
And your parents told you youcouldn't do it.
Your boss told you youcouldn't do it.
I'm here as a man of God andas a pastor and a prophet that the
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Lord has called you to useyour gifting that he has given you.
And I come with the authoritythat he has given me through Jesus
Christ by the power of theHoly Spirit to call it out.
In previous seasons, you haddemons cast out of you.
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In this season, you're gettingyour calling ripped out of your chest
and shown to your face.
Come on.
This is a different season for you.
This is a different season for you.
This isn't last year.
This isn't five years ago.
This isn't 10 years ago.
The Lord says, today I willpour my spirit out on my people.
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Today I will pour out my spirit.
All right, can you guys get toyour feet?
Can you guys stand up for meall around this in eight, in a two
as well.
I feel such an urgency.
I feel an urgency from the spirit.
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Come on, let him speak to you.
Let the.
Let the Holy Spirit speak toyou in this moment.
Let him speak to you.
This is what we asked for.
This is what we cried out for.
Not to hear my voice, but tohear his voice.
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Come on.
What?
What some of you guys.
The Lord spoke to you inprevious seasons of your life how
he was going to use you, howhe was going to work through you.
And because of differentsituations in your life.
I saw trauma, I saw hurt, Isaw abuse, I saw neglect.
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I saw sin.
I saw all these differentthings that kind of came for some
of you guys.
Maybe not all of those things.
Maybe it's one of thosethings, and you left that thing on
the ground.
And the Lord says, it's timeto pick it back up.
It's time to pick it up.
Some of you guys, I'm tellingyou, are gonna get activated in the
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spirit, and your life is nevergonna be the same after today.
In 20 years from now, you'regonna say on this date, on Father's
Day, the Lord did something inme and through me, and he spoke to
me and he awoken something in me.
We got to stir up the gifts.
Like Paul says to Timothy.
He says, stir up the gift.
So that means it's eitherdormant or it's alive, but it's not
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gone.
Your gift may be dormant rightnow, and the Lord is.
He's stirring something up.
He's stirring something up.
So, Lord Jesus, Lord, we prayto you.
We cry out to you, Lord.
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Every gift that we've dropped,every talent that we've buried, Lord,
you are requiring of us to bestewards, Lord.
We don't want to be cast outlike the one who buried it.
Lo.
We want more.
We want more, Jesus.
We want more.
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Could you guys just close youreyes for just a minute?
Just everyone in the room,close your eyes.
If that's you.
If you're just.
I'm not gonna have you comeforward or anything, but if that's
you, and you're like, I don'tknow what my true calling is, or
I've buried my.
My calling.
I've buried my gifting, and Ihave to re.
Dig this up.
Or you're like, Lord Jesus,what am I actually called to do?
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I want you to just raise yourhand in this room.
Come on.
There's hands everywhere.
Come on.
This is a sign to the Lord.
This is you saying, lord, Ilift my hand up to the.
To the heavens.
I lift my hand up to you, Lord.
It's been buried for too long.
It's been buried for far toolong, Jesus.
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So, Lord Jesus, I pray forevery single person in this room,
Lord.
We cry out with our handsraised, Lord.
We say, jesus, Jesus, Jesus.
It's only by your power.
It's only by your might, Lord,sorry that we have not stewarded
the gifts that you have givenus, Lord.
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Sorry, Lord, that we haveburied some of the things that you've
called us to come to light.
But, Father, today I bringthat thing back out to life.
I bring it into the Light andsay, lord Jesus, activate me in my
calling.
Activate me and my giftings.
Lord Jesus, I am a minister ofthe gospel.
I am a saint who is called and chosen.
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Lord Jesus, we are chosen by you.
So, Father, I pray that youwould activate every single gift
in the name of Jesus.
Lord, activate every singlegift in the name of Jesus.
All right, you could lower your.
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Your hands.
The last thing we're gonnasing for just a minute.
When we're singing mountain beraised or valley be raised, up mountain
be lowered, I believe thatthere's some things in front of you
guys that seems absolutely impossible.
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Like you need the hand of Godto move.
You need the hand.
I see it.
I've been.
As I've been preaching, I'vebeen seeing some of you guys, and
it's like, there are Jerichowalls in front of you.
There is a mountain in frontof you, and you're like, I have no
clue how this thing's gonna move.
I have no clue how the Lord'sactually gonna do it.
Maybe you do have faith, butI'm here to tell you the Lord is
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stirring something and doingsomething right now.
I believe faith is a gift from God.
It's one of the gifts that he gives.
Praise God.
It's not just hearing the wordof God, but it's also a gift that
he gives his people.
And I believe that you'releaving this building and this room
today saying, lord, I knowthat you will heal me.
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I know that you will move the mountain.
I know, Father.
And without a shadow of adoubt, I have faith for the impossible.
So this is what I want to do.
Can we sing that part?
They were ready.
Come on.
So what is in front of youright now if you got to come to the
front and say, lord Jesus, I'mhere, and I'm petitioning you, and
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I'm bringing him up to heaven.
And, Lord, I will bring everysingle impossible thing to the throne.
And say, lord Jesus, have your way.
Move every mountain.
Raise every single valley inthe name of.
Of Jesus.
So worship him today.
Worship him today.
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Sam.
All right, you guys, so we aretalking about faithfulness today.
Faithfulness.
And in my preparation for thisand looking through scripture on
what it talks about,faithfulness, what I'm going to try
to do today is to show youguys what the Bible is actually says
about faithfulness.
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Not what Webster's dictionaryhas to say, not what your parents
taught you about faithfulnessor your last church or whoever taught
you, but what the Bibleactually says.
Because I promise you, it's different.
It's different.
It's not the same thing ofwhat you were taught.
And I believe today there'sgonna be revelation that takes place
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as we go through this wordbecause it is alive and active and
sharper than any two edged sword.
All right, you guys, you readyto jump into this?
I'm like out of breath.
I half lost my voice from thefirst sermon and I'm out of breath.
I'm like, whoo.
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It's a good workout being inthis church.
Come on now.
So faithfulness has more to dowith, with your calling, your purpose
and your gifts than what you think.
It's not just about coming ontime to church.
It's not just about being dedicated.
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It's not just about being consistent.
Those things are whatChristians do anyways.
And if you don't do thosethings, check your heart.
Come on now, I'm starting you guys.
I told you, you got to preachwith me today.
Even when it hurts, even whenwe're like, oh shoot, he's talking
to me.
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But faithfulness has so muchto do to what God has actually called
you to do on this earth, inthis season, in this time, and the
giftings that he has given you.
Because every single one ofyou has a purpose.
Every single one of you has a calling.
Do you believe that?
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Let me tell you in Scripture.
Psalm 139, 16.
Psalm 139:16.
It says, you, eyes saw me whenI was formless, which means I wasn't
made yet.
I wasn't even a twinkle in mymother's eye.
Way before you were born, itsays, you saw me.
And all of my days werewritten in your book and planned
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before a single one of them began.
It means way before you wereborn, even when the Lord hovered
over the earth and it was justhim and it was void and dark, he
had your face in his mind andhe said, I'm going to call them,
I'm going to choose them, I'mgoing to give them purpose, and I'm
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going to give them gifting.
Every single one of them andso when we start to look at, wow,
Lord, you actually called me.
I have a purpose on this earththat's more than just working 40
hours or 45 hours a week andcoming home and eating dinner and
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watching Netflix and going tobed and starting all over again the
next day.
I have more calling andpurpose than that.
Yes.
Yes, you do.
And what I love about ourpurpose is that the only way you
can operate in it is in the supernatural.
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There is no possible way tolive your purpose in the natural.
The moment you begin to useit, in the abilities he's given you,
the giftings.
He's giving you your purpose,all those things in the natural.
Guess what?
You're about six months awayfrom burnout.
I'm telling you, I have met somany people, and it's like, pastor
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Josh, I'm exhausted.
I'm so tired.
I can't do this anymore.
I'm like, where does yourstrength come from?
Because what he calls us to dois lift our eyes up and say, my strength
comes from you, Lord Jesus,not from anything I have inside of
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me, because I'm just a broken vessel.
You guys believe that?
And so if he's called us, he'schosen us.
Our face is in his mind.
Let's go to first Peter four.
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First Peter four, 10.
We're gonna do 10 and 11.
First Peter four, 10.
I hope you're taking notes onthis, please, in a book on your phone,
however you can do it, please.
First Peter 4, 10.
It says this.
As each has received a gift.
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Use it to serve one another asgood stewards of God's varied grace.
Let me read this over again,because you could read this and be
like, that's a great verse.
It's like, wait a minute.
It says, as each.
Everyone say, each hasreceived a gift.
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Everyone say gift.
What this is saying is, youknow who the each is?
You.
The church.
As each one has been given a gift.
If you are sitting in thisroom and you call yourself a child
of God, and He is yourheavenly Father, and you've submitted
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your life to him, guess whathe has given you.
Gifts.
Plural.
Every single one.
It doesn't say, as each of youpossibly have received something,
or if he has willed it, maybeI pray that he's given you a gift.
No, it says, as each one has received.
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Received a gift.
Hundred percent of the churchgets a gift.
No one's left out.
It doesn't matter where you'refrom, what color you are, what language
you speak.
If you're a child of God, hehas given you gifts.
And how do you use those gifts?
It says, use it to serve one another.
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Who's one another?
You.
One another is the church.
So he has given each member ofhis bride a gift to serve one another
as good stewards of God'svaried grace.
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So he's given you a gift, andnow he is asking you to steward the
that gift.
What I love about that word,when you break it down into the Greek,
the way that you would say itin Greek is charisma.
Everyone try that.
Try to.
It's like you're getting.
There's phlegm in your throat.
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Charisma.
Charisma.
It's an H.
The way that you say it inEnglish is charisma.
Charisma.
How do you break that word down?
Charis.
And then an ma.
What does charis mean?
Grace.
Grace gift.
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You don't earn it.
It's not like, hey, I've beensaved for 20 years.
Where's my gift?
I've been, hey, Lord, I'vebeen doing this for a while.
What's the deal?
He says, no, you're my child.
And even in your brokenness,even in your sin, even wherever you
are broken, down in the ditch,if you are my child, the Lord says,
I have given you a grace gift.
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Charisma.
Charisma.
Even that word, how Webstersays it is, you're excited.
You have energy.
No, it means that youunderstand that God has given you
a gift and you are now goingto properly steward it.
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And you go from charisma to charismatic.
And so when people are like,is V1 Church a charismatic church?
I'm like, for the last 2,000years, the church has been a charismatic
church.
I don't know any other way to be.
To understand the gifting andoperate in it is to be charismatic.
It doesn't mean to be flamboyant.
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It doesn't mean to have a lotof energy.
It means that the Lord hasgiven you a grace gift that, that
you can access, but you arecalled to steward.
It is a calling to steward thegrace gift in your life.
And I love this because itsays, whoever speaks.
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This is in verse 11.
Whoever speaks as one whospeaks oracles of God, whoever serves
as one who serves by thestrength that God supplies, not what
you supply, not by you doing awhole bunch of stuff, not by you
just conjuring something up in yourself.
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It says, no, it's the strengththat God supplies in.
And this is why, in order thateverything, God may get the glory
through Jesus Christ.
So when we access his strengthand not ours.
Who gets the glory?
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Jesus.
The moment you operate in yourstrength, you get the glory.
And you also get burnt out andfall into sin.
And I see people who live incycles of sin over and over and over
and 20 years, 30 years, 40years, it's like, I've been addicted
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to this.
I get free, I get addicted, Iget free, I get addicted, I get free.
And I'm like, well, what isgoing on?
It's because you're trying toaccess your own strength.
The Lord says, it's not on you.
It's on me and the work thathe's already done.
And so I believe there'sfreedom for some of you guys in this
room who've been dealing withsomething for years and years and
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years.
And you're like, I just keepfalling back into it.
Get out of your own strengthand access his strength through the
power of Jesus Christ in theworking of the Holy Spirit.
All right, let me keep moving.
That's a whole sermon, right?
Just in that little section there.
Whoo.
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And so I love when it says,serve one another as good stewards,
because what that's sharingwith us is our giftings are truly
for one another.
They are for each one of us tooperate in, but then to then pray
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for, intercede for, and thinkabout other people.
Truly stewarding the gift ofGod in your life roots out selfishness.
Because what I see a lot in church.
Can I just speak freely?
Is.
Is a bunch of selfish peoplewho are like, my gifting my thing.
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What about me?
And it's like, what if ourmindset can be, hey, I've been praying
for you all week, and I heardfrom the Lord about your family,
and I'm here as a prophet tospeak over your life.
What if all of us.
And that's not just for me todo, that's for all of us to do that.
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Imagine a church where youcome in and 500 people.
I've been praying for you.
I'm here for you.
And it's not, oh, someoneneeds to disciple me.
It's who am I discipling?
Whose calling and purpose am Icalling out?
Because the moment you startto think about other people, you
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begin to live your purpose.
And so when you don't make itabout you, guess what?
God.
God makes it about you.
This is counterintuitive tohow the world operates, because the
world tells you, hey, yougotta take care of you.
You gotta love you.
You gotta love yourself more.
No, we gotta love Jesus more.
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Church.
He never called us to Love ourselves.
He calls us to love oneanother and to love him.
And it's actually the love ofself that will get you into the root
of all other types of evils.
So all these psychiatrists aretelling a bunch of kids to love themselves
more?
No, love Jesus more.
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Suicide is at its highest it'sever been in the history of mankind.
Why?
Because people are tellingtheir kids to love themselves more.
This is the Bible, you guys.
It's Lord Jesus, I want tolove you more.
And the difference is, is whenyou love him more, he begins to tell
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you how much you're worth.
There's a massive differencebetween you loving yourself and you
understanding how much you'reworth, because you're worth dying
for.
You're worth everything.
And if you were the only oneon this earth, Jesus still would
have died for you.
So you are worth everything.
But you're not meant to love yourself.
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Please, if your therapist istelling you to love yourself more,
leave them.
Because what it does is it will.
It literally plants seeds of selfishness.
It's about me.
And it's even.
You can get selfish even aboutyour own calling.
Like, people spend all theirtime, what's my calling?
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What's my purpose?
What's the biggest question Iget more than any other?
And what?
My DMs and Instagram, you openup and there's 99 plus.
And I'm like, oh, my goodness,who are these people?
And it's literally messagesafter, like, pages and pages and
pages.
Pastor Prophet Josh, whothey'll call me, all different things.
Can you just please be prayingfor me?
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I need to know what my purpose is.
You know what your purpose is?
To find other people'spurposes and call it out of them.
I'm telling you guys, there's something.
It's like, what the Lord needsto do in this time and season is
a root out the selfishness inhis bride and say, I am committed
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to you.
And guess what?
When I commit to you, youcommit to me.
And then I come to church andyou're like, pastor Josh, I've been
praying for you all week, andI got a word for.
For you.
Are you receiving this?
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So how do we actually stewardthe gifts?
So we're called.
We're chosen.
We're given gifts.
We're called to steward those gifts.
But how do we actually do it?
Because remember, this sermonis about faithfulness.
I'm helping define whatfaithfulness actually is.
So how do we steward them?
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Let's go to First Corinthians 4.
First Corinthians 4, right?
In verse one, we're just gonnaread one and two.
First Corinthians 4:1, versetwo, it says this.
This is how one should regardus, the church, as servants of Christ
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and stewards of the mysteriesof God.
Now, if it just ended there,it'd be like, man, what a great verse.
We're called the steward.
We're called servants of Christ.
But there's something that hesays here.
This is Apostle Paul speakingto us.
Now, the Church.
In verse two, it says,moreover, it is required.
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Everyone say, required ofstewards that they be found faithful.
It is a requirement.
This isn't Paul saying, hey, Ijust pray that you steward that gift.
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I hope that you do it.
If you're able to get to it,if you have time, try to steward
that gift.
There's few times in the NewTestament where it actually says
requirement or required.
So if you're a Christian,there's something required of you.
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It's like, hey, this isn'tlike, hey, I hope you guys do this.
This is, hey, the Lord isactually saying, it is required of
stewards that they be found faithful.
This is a heavy passagebecause, like, wait a minute, I thought
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we weren't in the law anymore.
This is a covenant of grace.
Of course it's a covenant of grace.
But.
But what this passage issaying is that for you to truly live
how God intended you to livein your purpose, in your calling
as stewards, you mustunderstand what it actually means
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to be found faithful.
So what is faithfulness?
You guys ready to hear?
We're going to go to Matthew25, Matthew 25, verse 14.
We're going to start in 14 andjust read a little bit Matthew 25:14.
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I'm trying to go as fast as I can.
I know we got a bunch ofbrunches and it's Father's Day and.
Yeah, but, man, I'm tellingyou guys, if you could get this inside
of you, I promise you, yourwhole life will change.
Your entire life will change.
Matthew 25:14.
It says this, for it is justlike a man about to go on a journey.
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This is Jesus talking, okay?
This is red letter text.
Jesus write to us.
Matthew's writing it down,transcribing it, and now, 2,000 years
later, we could read it.
And this thing is alive, okay?
It says he called his ownservants and entrusted his possessions
to them.
To one.
He gave five talents, toanother two, and to another one,
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depending on each one's ability.
Then he went on a journey immediately.
The man who had received Five talents.
I just read that.
That just jumped out of me.
It says, immediately.
Immediately.
He's given a gift immediately.
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Not 10 years later, not 15years later, not when you get time
to it, not when it works foryou and your schedule.
And when it goes around yourNetflix and your sports for your
kids, it says, immediately.
The man who had received fivetalents put them together to work
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and earned five more.
In the same way, the man withtwo earned two more.
But the man who had receivedone talent went off, dug a hole in
the ground, and hid hismaster's money.
You see how it says hismasters, the gifts that he has given
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you are his gifts for you.
They're not your gifts,they're his gifts.
This is why he's calling us tosteward it, his master's money.
In verse 19, it says, After along time, the master of those servants
came and settled accounts with them.
The man who had received fivetalents approached, presented five
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more.
So he has five and he gets 10and said, Master, you gave me five
talents.
See, I've earned five more.
Verse 21, it says his mastersaid to him, well done, good and
faithful servant, you were faithful.
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He says it twice, good andfaithful servant, you were faithful.
He's emphasizing something here.
There's an emphasis on faithful.
He says, you were faithfulover a few things.
I will put you in charge ofmany things.
Share your master's joy.
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How does the master Jesus.
This is Jesus here.
He's not only speaking to hisdisciples and people, but the master
in this is Jesus.
How does he definefaithfulness in this story?
In what I believe is at thevery heart of faithfulness, multiplication.
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The way that the Bible definesfaithfulness is you are given a gift.
And the Lord sees how much youcan actually multiply that gift.
You know how you multiply a gift?
You use it.
Do you know how you multiply something?
You impart it.
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Like, how do you multiply something?
And the danger that we're inin the church culture and the society
that we live in is if youmultiplied most Christians, there
wouldn't be more gospel preaching.
There would be more guile.
There would be more peopletalking bad about one another.
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And so my question to you is,if we multiplied you by a hundred
and sent you into Chicago,would Chicago hear about Jesus more?
Or would they hear more gossip?
I'm telling you, guys like this.
This is what at the root ofthis thing is, Lord, if I'm gonna
steward the gift that you havefor me, I.
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I cannot keep it for myself.
It is to serve one Another,because I'm a proper steward.
And all of us, he's callingyou today and he's asking you, have
you stewarded the gifts thathe has given you?
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Let that sink in.
Because every single one ofyou has a gift and is called, has
purpose.
And the Lord wants to use youin his church to multiply the thing
that's in you.
And so your team is not yourteam like, in the church.
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It's not like, oh, this is the.
I'm the.
I'm the leader of the ushers.
This thing.
I'm the prayer lead.
This is my team.
No, that's Jesus's team.
The.
That's not even the pastor's team.
That's Jesus's team.
And sometimes we're trying totake ownership of something that
was never meant to be ours inthe first place, and we find our
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identity.
Come on, now.
We end up finding our identityin being a prayer team leader and
not an actual minister of thegospel outside of these walls.
Because the stewards of gifting.
Come on, let me preach to youguys for a minute.
I'm telling you, I'm nottalking about serving in the church.
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Serving in the church is abasic thing that all Christians should
be doing anyways.
It's not like, oh, man, Igotta try to get myself up to just
try to serve in the church.
No, serving the church isliterally like the.
It's the baseline.
It's literally an overflow ofhow you've been living all week.
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Because if you were stewardingthe gift in yourself and stirring
up the gift that God gave you,you would be preaching the gospel
to everyone you see.
You would be the hands andfeet of Jesus to the least of these.
You would be giving food andshelter and money and resources and
your whole life to people.
And on Sunday, you would comein in strength and boldness.
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And you know how the churchactually comes in most of the time
is on their hands and knees.
Like, I finally made it to Sunday.
I need these people.
I finally made it here.
I got no breath left in my lungs.
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Do you know how we're supposedto come in here?
We're supposed to come in hereliterally, like, I'm straight up
Elijah fire, where it's like,we come in with a chariot, and people
are like, oh, my goodness.
They didn't even take a car.
They took a chariot fromheaven up in here.
And you come with boldness andyou're like, I'm here to see the
purposes of God in each andevery one of you.
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I'm here to see the calling ofGod and the giftings ripped out of
your chest and I'll show it toyour face.
Imagine if every single one ofyou lived like that.
And what the church expects isonly the pastors to do that.
Listen, I will do that.
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I always have and I always will.
One of my main purposes isliterally to see the purpose of God
called out of you.
And I will show it to yourface and I will tell you, and I'll
send you texts, text messagesand videos and I'll call you out
on Sunday and every other day.
But here's the thing.
It's not just the pastor's duty.
You all are saints andministers of the gospel, every single
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one of you.
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So a lot of times people like,I need to go, I need to hear from
the pastor.
I'll only talk to the pastor.
You know, many times I'veheard that I'll only talk.
No, no, no, I won't tell you.
I gotta talk to the higher up.
Guess what?
You're all higher up.
Like if we actually understoodwho we are in Christ, that we are
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seated right next to him inthe heavenly places, above principalities,
above the powers.
And we look down on them andsay, demon, get out of Northwest
Indiana.
I don't look up to you.
I look down on you and I say,get out.
Out.
You are a saint.
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You are a priest.
You don't need a title, aposition, you don't need to be ordained.
I'm here to commission everysingle one of you to operate in your
God given callings.
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Man, you guys, thanks forpreaching this with me.
I feel the presence of God isin this room.
I believe that as I've beenspeaking, he's stirring something
inside of you.
I'm telling you, it's like abig pot right now.
And he's like, oh, come on,come on, daughter.
And I'm here and I got aheavenly shovel.
Because some of you guys haveyour talents buried so deep in the
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ground.
Come on, let me preach at youreal quick.
Some of you guys have yourtalents so deep in the ground that
you haven't seen them in 15 years.
And I come here with a shoveland a pickaxe and I will shovel deep
down and call those thingsback up and say, maybe you left it,
but this is the season.
You will see it, operate init, and know that you are called.
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This is what prophets do.
By the way, prophets have shovels.
We're treasure seekers.
I'm a treasure hunter.
Literally, I look at everysingle one of you and I see the purpose
of God in you, and I see howhe wants to use you.
And I see the per.
And it's like, what prophetsdo is we go ahead and we're like,
hey, I've seen it already.
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I've seen what the Lord wantsto do in you.
If you could just see it yourself.
But sometimes you, because ofhow crazy your life is and how nuts
your circumstances are and howmany bills you have and how your
kids are and all these thingsthat I'm like, listen, the Lord has
called you.
He's called you.
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And even in our sin andbrokenness and craziness and hectic
lives and all of those things,he uses us as ministers of the Gospel.
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All right?
So he says, well done, goodand faithful servant.
You were faithful.
You multiplied what you had.
Let me just say one other thing.
I'm sorry that what wasmultiplied to you in your previous
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generations was not love, joy,peace and patience and godliness.
It was sin and suffering andabuse and hurt.
I'm sorry because some of youguys lineage, what was handed down
to you was actually sin.
But when the chain breaker isin the room, I'm telling.
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When the chain breaker is inthe room, you say, listen, it may
have gone down this line, butwhen it got to me, Lord Jesus, for
me and my house, I will servethe Lord.
For me and my house, I willserve the Lord.
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And so many times we look athow our dads were, how our great
grandparents were, and it'slike, listen, I'm telling you, you
are called, you are chosen,you are different than them, and
you break every single line.
Say no.
For me and my house.
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For me in my house.
Come on.
The Holy Spirit's moving you guys.
You feel him moving?
My prayer was that I wouldstir it up enough in this room that
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every single one of you, youwould get off your butts and start
to say, lord Jesus, not any longer.
Not anymore.
I will serve the Lord.
I will minister to the saints.
I will operate in my callingand my gifting.
And what he's called me to do,I will fulfill.
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Come on.
He's called you.
He's called you.
He's called you.
I see it.
I'm looking at a room of abunch of cho.
This is the ecclesia.
I'm looking at the called outones, the chosen ones before the
foundations of the earth.
He said, I will use you inyour generation for your family.
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Can I just preach for another.
Just couple minutes?
So the five makes 10, the twomakes four.
He says the same thing.
To the guy who did two, hesays, well done, good and faithful
servant.
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You were found faithful.
But then he gets to the one.
And this is actually some ofyou guys in this room right now.
And I'm just.
I have to call it out.
What he does is he receivesthat talent immediately.
It says, he goes and he buries it.
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He doesn't lose it.
He keeps it for himself.
And so when the master comesback, he says, master, but I have
the one you gave me.
And what does the master say?
He says, if you knew me, ifyou knew me, the only way to actually
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operate in your purpose, inyour calling, in your giftings.
If is is you have to know.
Know the heart of God.
You have to know the heart ofyour heavenly Father, that he has
good plan for you, that hedoes have a destiny for you.
Because the enemy will lie toyou every day of your life and say,
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oh, no, that's not a good father.
You've lost so much already inyour life.
You got to try to hoard whatyou still have.
And what the Lord says, no,give out your gifts to others.
Give out your gifts to othersand more will be given to you.
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I know I just flew throughthat passage.
But when you look at why hedidn't multiply it, why did he not
multiply?
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Was 100% because of fear.
100% because of fear.
Fear stopped him in his tracks.
And this is how the enemy willstill use fear to this day.
It's like you don't reallyknow God.
You don't really.
Oh, no, you're confused.
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That's not your real purpose.
You think you could do that?
Let the pastors do that?
They're better at talking than you.
That's what the enemy will tell.
I'm here to tell you becausesome of you guys are Moses right
now on the mountain.
You're like, lord, I don't.
I can't speak.
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I don't even know what to do.
And the Lord said, just go.
Because I am who I am.
And if you have, I am with you.
You can do anything andeverything that he's called you to.
And Moses goes.
He not only sees his staffcoming to a snake, he sees nine other
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miracles happen.
He parts the sea.
He sees God come down on Mount Sinai.
He sees literally just byMoses saying, lord, I'm willing,
Lord, I'll be faithful.
This is what faithfulness is,church, for you to say, the Lord
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call me, and I will multiplywhat he has given me in front of
everybody, and I will pour outand I Will give, give out.
And like a drink offering tothe church, I will pour myself out
for it.
You guys receive that becausethis is.
I'm telling you guys, if we could.
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If we could lock into this.
And 100% of you, not just onSunday morning, but every day of
your life, you're texting,calling each other.
I got.
The Lord has placed plans for you.
Come over to my house.
I want to lay hands on you.
I'm going to pray for you.
We're going to see the giftingand the calling, the charisma that
he's given you, the grace,gifting come alive in you.
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And I don't care how long ittakes to shovel it out of the ground.
I am committed to shovel andshovel and shovel until that thing
comes alive inside of you.
That's what the church existsto do.
It's like, what.
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We're all here.
We said yes.
If you're.
You could be a million otherplaces right now.
You could be sitting in your garage.
You could be in your basementright now watching something that
you shouldn't.
But you said, no, I'm gonnacome here and I'm gonna.
And it's like, there'ssomething about you guys hunger in
this room.
And I'm saying it just forthis service.
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There's something about thehunger in this room.
The Lord's like, I see you.
I see you.
And I.
And I literally smell a sweetincense going to heaven.
And we are turning the head ofGod right now to look down on his
people.
And he's saying, I see you.
I see your sacrifice.
I see your gift.
And it is pleasing and it isholy to the almighty God.
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God.
And he has a gift for you today.
I believe there's many of youtoday that are like, I have no clue
what my calling is.
I don't know what the Lord putme on this earth to do.
I don't know exact.
You've come to the right place.
You're in the right buildingright now.
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If you're like, man, I've beenalive for 40 years.
50 years, 70 years, 80 years.
I don't care how old you are.
The enemy will still tell youthat you don't have a purpose.
You don't have a calling.
You don't have a destiny.
I'm here to shut the devil'smouth today and say, not in my house,
not in this church, man.
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Y' all.
You guys are preaching with.
I feel.
It's like I feel a withdrawalright now.
It's like there's a hunger inthis room.
And it's not a withdrawal from me.
It's a withdrawal from the spirit.
You're like, lord, give me more.
Give me more.
Give me more.
I want that gift, Lord,because it's gifts, plural.
People are like, what's your gift?
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I'm like, every one of them.
I want to use whatever you gotfor me, Lord.
I want them all.
And I'm gonna knock on thatdoor until I have them all.
Because the Bible says,earnestly seek and ask and knock
at the door.
And he will answer for thosewho ask, you just have to ask.
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Alright, I got done with like50% of this sermon, but let me.
Can we just minister for aminute, ma' am?
I feel the presence of God inthis room.
I feel his presence in this room.
I feel he's urging you.
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It's like.
I feel like a holy agitation.
There's like an agitation.
He's agitating you right now.
He's like, come on, you buriedthat talent.
You buried it.
It's time to dig it up.
And your parents told you youcouldn't do it.
Your boss told you youcouldn't do it.
I'm here as a man of God andas a pastor and a prophet that the
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Lord has called you to useyour gifting that he has given you.
And I come with the authoritythat he has given me through Jesus
Christ by the power of theHoly Spirit to call it out.
In previous seasons, you haddemons cast out of you.
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In this season, you're gettingyour calling ripped out of your chest
and shown to your face.
Come on.
This is a different season for you.
This is a different season for you.
This isn't last year.
This isn't five years ago.
This isn't 10 years ago.
The Lord says, today I willpour my spirit out on my people.
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Today I will pour out my spirit.
All right, can you guys get toyour feet?
Can you guys stand up for meall around this in eight, in a two
as well.
I feel such an urgency.
I feel an urgency from the spirit.
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Come on, let him speak to you.
Let the.
Let the Holy Spirit speak toyou in this moment.
Let him speak to you.
This is what we asked for.
This is what we cried out for.
Not to hear my voice, but tohear his voice.
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Come on.
What?
What some of you guys.
The Lord spoke to you inprevious seasons of your life how
he was going to use you, howhe was going to work through you.
And because of differentsituations in your life.
I saw trauma, I saw hurt, Isaw abuse, I saw neglect.
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I saw sin.
I saw all these differentthings that kind of came for some
of you guys.
Maybe not all of those things.
Maybe it's one of thosethings, and you left that thing on
the ground.
And the Lord says, it's timeto pick it back up.
It's time to pick it up.
Some of you guys, I'm tellingyou, are gonna get activated in the
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spirit, and your life is nevergonna be the same after today.
In 20 years from now, you'regonna say on this date, on Father's
Day, the Lord did something inme and through me, and he spoke to
me and he awoken something in me.
We got to stir up the gifts.
Like Paul says to Timothy.
He says, stir up the gift.
So that means it's eitherdormant or it's alive, but it's not
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gone.
Your gift may be dormant rightnow, and the Lord is.
He's stirring something up.
He's stirring something up.
So, Lord Jesus, Lord, we prayto you.
We cry out to you, Lord.
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Every gift that we've dropped,every talent that we've buried, Lord,
you are requiring of us to bestewards, Lord.
We don't want to be cast outlike the one who buried it.
Lo.
We want more.
We want more, Jesus.
We want more.
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Could you guys just close youreyes for just a minute?
Just everyone in the room,close your eyes.
If that's you.
If you're just.
I'm not gonna have you comeforward or anything, but if that's
you, and you're like, I don'tknow what my true calling is, or
I've buried my.
My calling.
I've buried my gifting, and Ihave to re.
Dig this up.
Or you're like, Lord Jesus,what am I actually called to do?
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I want you to just raise yourhand in this room.
Come on.
There's hands everywhere.
Come on.
This is a sign to the Lord.
This is you saying, lord, Ilift my hand up to the.
To the heavens.
I lift my hand up to you, Lord.
It's been buried for too long.
It's been buried for far toolong, Jesus.
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So, Lord Jesus, I pray forevery single person in this room,
Lord.
We cry out with our handsraised, Lord.
We say, jesus, Jesus, Jesus.
It's only by your power.
It's only by your might, Lord,sorry that we have not stewarded
the gifts that you have givenus, Lord.
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Sorry, Lord, that we haveburied some of the things that you've
called us to come to light.
But, Father, today I bringthat thing back out to life.
I bring it into the Light andsay, lord Jesus, activate me in my
calling.
Activate me and my giftings.
Lord Jesus, I am a minister ofthe gospel.
I am a saint who is called and chosen.
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Lord Jesus, we are chosen by you.
So, Father, I pray that youwould activate every single gift
in the name of Jesus.
Lord, activate every singlegift in the name of Jesus.
All right, you could lower your.
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Your hands.
The last thing we're gonnasing for just a minute.
When we're singing mountain beraised or valley be raised, up mountain
be lowered, I believe thatthere's some things in front of you
guys that seems absolutely impossible.
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Like you need the hand of Godto move.
You need the hand.
I see it.
I've been.
As I've been preaching, I'vebeen seeing some of you guys, and
it's like, there are Jerichowalls in front of you.
There is a mountain in frontof you, and you're like, I have no
clue how this thing's gonna move.
I have no clue how the Lord'sactually gonna do it.
Maybe you do have faith, butI'm here to tell you the Lord is
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stirring something and doingsomething right now.
I believe faith is a gift from God.
It's one of the gifts that he gives.
Praise God.
It's not just hearing the wordof God, but it's also a gift that
he gives his people.
And I believe that you'releaving this building and this room
today saying, lord, I knowthat you will heal me.
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I know that you will move the mountain.
I know, Father.
And without a shadow of adoubt, I have faith for the impossible.
So this is what I want to do.
Can we sing that part?
They were ready.
Come on.
So what is in front of youright now if you got to come to the
front and say, lord Jesus, I'mhere, and I'm petitioning you, and
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I'm bringing him up to heaven.
And, Lord, I will bring everysingle impossible thing to the throne.
And say, lord Jesus, have your way.
Move every mountain.
Raise every single valley inthe name of.
Of Jesus.
So worship him today.
Worship him today.
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Sam.
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