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are you ready for the word today alright
let’s let’s go to the Bible we are
starting week three of a series of
vision series that we are calling
release everybody shot at me release we
are believing and gathering our faith
around this one word for the entire year
and and this word release um was given
to me by God as I begin to pray and seek
Him and he said three things that he
wanted to do this year he said that this
would be the year that we would be
released from the place of bondage
so whatever bondage you’ve been in this
is the year that we’re believing God is
going to release you from the place of
bondage and not just the place of
bondage we believe that this is the year
that God is gonna release you from the
perspective of bondage because how many
know that it’s one thing to be out of a
place but you can still think like
you’re in the place okay so we want God
to release us from the perspective of
bondage and then we want God to release
us into everybody say into into the
promise of our blessing and and as we
gather our face some of you like well I
haven’t seen it yet we’re only
two-and-a-half weeks into the new year
okay this is the year of release and we
believe that God is about to do
something special as we do this but I
need to break it down because we’ve been
saying release and release and release
and I need to give you really the heart
of it the heart of release is healing
this is the year of healing like like
the only reason that God wants things to
be released from your life and for you
to release things from your life is
because bondage leaves scars that
usually make people stay in a certain
place but God’s saying I want my people
my children I want them healed everybody
say healed that’s physically that’s
emotionally that is spiritually that is
financially God wants you everybody say
healed but he cannot heal you from
something you’re still suffering with
that’s why if you’re you have a disease
or a dis ease they have to find where
the disease is coming from
and they have to rid you of the disease
so that you can be healed they have to
find antibiotics to be able to attack
the very thing that has been coming to
attack you and what God is saying is
some of the things that I’m gonna reveal
and do this year they’re going to be
places that they have hurt you it’s
gonna be places that have been this easy
there’ll be places that you begin to
live with but I’m coming to heal those
areas and so what I’m asking you to do
is not hide the areas that actually need
healing and I know you’ve been the same
way so long that it may seem like what
well maybe I I don’t want to get cut
open maybe I don’t want anybody to see
that part of me
some of y’all have anger and I call you
the Hulk cuz you have anger issues that
only a couple people get to see
everybody think like if somebody would
say do you know baa me like yeah Bob is
so sweet and they wife is like mmm it’s
because there’s areas that we don’t show
everybody that they can come out and
wrong and only you God and a few people
know about it and God saying don’t keep
don’t don’t put that off-limits to me
this year let me heal that area let me
heal the pain let me heal the abuse let
me heal it and so when I looked at this
scripture God gave me a scripture that
that was in Jeremiah chapter 30 verse 17
that spoke to me about God wanting to
release in our life and he said I will
give you back your health I need you to
hear me say this that God says I’m about
to give you back what has been stolen
from you
some of you your innocence was stolen at
a very young age because somebody
perverted your view of something and
maybe molested you or did something
wrong or showed you something God says
I’m about to give you back your health
you don’t even know what it’s like to
look upon a man or look about a woman
and not see the things that have
happened to you but God said I’m about
to give you back your health you don’t
know what it’s like to handle finances
and not think in poverty but God says
I’m about to restore to you the factory
settings of how I made you he said I’m
gonna give you back your hell and I’m
gonna heal your wounds says the Lord
this is what release is all about and I
just wanted I want to hit it at a heart
level this morning is that that release
is not so that we can get something from
God
release your blessings but really
overflow it’s more about release the
thing that will heal me release the
thing that’ll take me from how I am and
how I how I hate to act and how I hate
to respond and this anxiety view that it
seems to up to try to pray and I’ve
tried to fast in and it just seems like
anxiety and depression just stay right
here and at the moment I get free from
it it’s like it’s not gone it’s just
hovering and and like I want to be
release God says that’s what I’m here to
do I’m here to heal you and I’m here to
give you back your health so Pastor Mike
okay I know God’s asking me to do
something as a part of that yep
one of the main definitions of release
is to to let free everybody say let free
and so we’re gonna adapt that a little
bit more and we want God to release we
want to let God free in our life this
year look at the definition of release
it means to allow or enable something or
someone to flow freely from confinement
what areas have you confined God
cuz he’s saying release me good stop
containing me stop putting me in a box
stop making me your Sunday God
stop stop stop putting me in this little
construct that you’ve made of who your
higher power it let me free in your life
and in the words they’re say allow and
enable and that means that you have a
part to play in it when somebody has to
be allowed to do something that means
permission has to be given a funny story
is my daughter Isabella she’s very smart
and she has been around I phones since
she was a very small child and so one of
the things that iPhone has a feature of
is that you can have your phone on but
if you do not have the right access you
can’t get in to the phone to do what
needs to be done and so my daughter so
many times he be like daddy let me see
your phone daddy let me see your phone
daddy let me see your phone and I’ll
give her her phone but she stands there
because she started to realize that she
had to be allowed into my phone and you
used to be she would get my phone and
run away cuz she thought she had access
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she thought like I have it I have the
phone let me go use it but then she got
wise she said those were wasted steps
that that was pointless movement because
if I do not if I have not been allowed
to get into what’s happening I’m gonna
have to come back anyway
some of y’all have been getting a word
from God or saying God you can you you
can flow freely in my life and God says
you got to give me access and what my
daughter does is she looks at the phone
and if there’s a certain screen if it’s
not there I’ll she does she don’t even
say nothing no more she just holds it
back up and she says I need to be
allowed and what I do is I enable her
I allow her to have access to all that
is in my phone the question God’s coming
to you and saying is I’m ready to move
will you give me access will you allow
me will you type in the code to your
heart we will you will you face identify
will you put your face up to this thing
and let me see who you really are not to
counterfeit you enough to counterfeit
you I need your real face and so when I
beginning to look at this I said ok God
you want us to allow you to be free in
our lives at another level he said
that’s all I’ve been asking at what
level will you let me free in your life
and so I begin to look in the Bible and
God took me to this story in John and
this story is about a man who was in a
bondage and God was about to make him
free but but I want us to see what
happens for us to be made free and and
what we need to do I want you to go to
John chapter 9 verse 1 through 7 I’m
gonna read the whole thing and then I’m
gonna preach this word from my heart
because I believe it’s gonna set some
people free in this building the the
title of this is Jesus Hills a man born
blind he says as Jesus was walking along
he saw a man who had been blind from
birth
rabbi his disciples asked him why was
this man born blind was it because of
his own sins or his parents sinned it’s
got to be one of them jesus said it was
not because of the sins of his parents
or his sins
this happened so the power of God could
be seen in him we must quickly carry out
the tasks assigned to us by the one who
sent us the night is coming and then no
one no one can work he said but while I
am here in the world I am the light of
the world then he spit on the ground
made mud with saliva and spread them out
over the blind man’s eyes he told him go
wash yourself in the pool of Siloam
Siloam means sin so the man went and
washed and came back seeing
the title of today’s message as we
talked about release is what if it’s
messy
what if it’s met what if the release God
has for you what if it’s messy what if
it doesn’t fit inside of our perfect
little comfortable box of what we’re
wanting God to do and as I look at this
story I have to start at verse 1 and I’m
gonna give you a few points and I’m just
gonna walk line upon line precept upon
precept on this story and I think some
of its gonna relate to at least a few of
us cuz it wrecked me as I was preparing
for it verse 1 says as Jesus was walking
along he saw a man who had been blind
from birth
write this down point number one I
couldn’t go past it release is the
result of Jesus seeing you not you
seeing him like like this is the thing
that I want everybody to know is the
Bible tells us that Jesus was walking by
it wasn’t even Jesus’s destination to
meet this man it was just the Grace and
the compassion of our God that sees us
in whatever state we’re in and and I
know religion tells you you need to
clean up and you need to see God but
this man I believe the Bible was trying
to give us a very vivid picture this man
was not just spiritually blind he was
physically blind so he couldn’t see
Jesus coming he could not see the answer
he could not see his way out even if he
had eyes he couldn’t see it but God
wanted us to see you could be double
blind and I see you this is the
unmerited undeserved favor and kindness
of God in action and I came to tell
somebody today who feels like you’re in
a blind spot that you can’t see anybody
and you feel like nobody sees you that
God sees you
he sees you he sees your pain he sees
your frustration he sees your isolation
he sees what you’re going through and
you’ve been trying to somebody please
somebody please somebody please and God
say you ain’t even got to do all that
because before you ever were looking for
me I was looking at you and this is why
we’re here today I don’t care what you
believe in some people in the room and
some people watching I’m an atheist and
I don’t believe in I’m a agnostic you
don’t matter you don’t have to see him
yet he sees you
you don’t gotta believe yet he sees you
think that this moment was not
orchestrated before the foundation of
the utens
you don’t think he saw the molestation
in the problem in the hurt and the pain
you don’t think that he’s so good that
won’t his way somewhere else he sees you
and the problem is so many of us are
convinced that God has forgotten about
us
and that somehow our blindness has made
him blind to us but but I want you to
see God’s grace in its in its explained
in Romans 5:8 where the Bible says but
God demonstrates his own love for us in
this while we were yet sinners Christ
died for us let me give you the remix
the MLT version why we were still blind
he saw us I came to tell you today
wherever you are however you’re hurting
whatever blindness you have whatever
prayer you feel likes not getting
through God sees you in the boardroom he
sees you in the crack house he sees you
laying down in another another’s bed he
sees you struggling through college he
sees you in abuse right now he sees you
you’ve been isolated for a long time I
feel this in my spirit cuz this ain’t
for everybody to get height right now
but somebody was on the edge of losing
hope God sees you somebody just say it
in faith say God sees me don’t say it
again God sees me I know you only have
enough money to make it through this
week but God sees you and I want you to
get the picture of this Jesus is walking
by the blind man doesn’t even know that
Jesus is around him but Jesus takes an
affinity to this man’s element and he
says um yeah disciples we about to take
a take a detour and whatever we were
about to do and look at these raggedy
disciples look what they did now I want
you to see it because this is how some
church people do right here well rabbi
why was this man born blind well why why
are they in that position what why what
why are you always dealing with the same
issue I know I know why they’re sinners
they’re sinners they ain’t close to God
they blind to the truth of who you are
God we love you we worship You it matter
of fact it’s got to be his sins or his
parents since this is generational huh
God why is he blind God because of his
sins or his parents sins and look how
Jesus shuts this whole thing down like
like he shuts this whole thing down like
God shutting down all the naysayers in
your life right now like like like all
the people who don’t understand why
God’s coming to visit your situation and
because you have the faith to believe
this is the year of release that he’s
coming to that situation
watch how he shuts this thing down I
love it he says it was not because of
his sins or his parents sins he said
this happened everybody say this
happened
now I know this messes with a lot of
your theology but we live in a fallen
world and so a lot of times we’re always
trying to figure out why things happen
and did God allow this or they God make
this and all this other stuff I’m you’re
about to see a layer of God’s
sovereignty right in this moment where
he does what he wants when he wants to
but it’s for his glory everybody say
this happened this happened so the power
of God could be seen in him I came to
give you my second point and I could get
stuck here for the next 18 minutes but
your problem is not a punishment
it’s a platform for his power yo I know
y’all didn’t hear me your problem the
sickness the frustration it is not a
punishment it’s a platform for his power
to be seen in your life and there’s been
so many people that have felt like the
problem you’re in right now is a
punishment for God and this happened for
one reason and one reason only because
God knew you could take it and he knew
he was gonna see you through it and he
said I had to choose a vessel that was
fit enough that would get the moment of
cracking they would get down on their
knees and believe that there was a
purpose in this pain that this thing
that I’m going through right now is not
to take me out is to take me in it’s the
thing that God is going to use and so
many of you had chopped your problem up
to a punishment I guess this is a result
of the time I messed up I guess this is
because I didn’t pray enough those are
all eyes of the enemy your current
problem whatever issue you’re going
through right now if you would allow God
free in your life if you would let him
really use it see you’re trying to
protect it God’s trying to use it you’re
trying to you’re trying to keep people
from knowing that it happened and my
Bible says we overcome by the blood of
the Lamb and the words of our testimony
God said stop trying to hide what I’m
using
stop trying to keep secret what I want
to use to make my power be seen but I
know too many of y’all are bougie and
you don’t want nobody to know you’re a
real person
you don’t know what you don’t want
nobody to see your scars you would
rather people think you’re perfect and
live bound than to be free and let all
your business out there and God says
you’re robbing me of my platform you’re
robbing me of my platform see the reason
that I stand up here is because it’s a
platform it’s a raised position I could
speak to you right here but there’s a
lot of people that can’t see it y’all
can’t see me especially all in the back
y’all like oh I wish we had raised
seating even the people online they
can’t see me because I’m not on a
platform God said when you don’t allow
me to flow freely in my life you robbed
me of the opportunity to raise an ugly
situation but put it in a place where
people can see it because when it gets
on a platform then I can do a miracle
that allows my power to be revealed I
need somebody to believe with me
it’s not the problem that’s the problem
it’s the fact that you won’t let God
music the problem is you won’t let him
use your dysfunction you won’t let him
release your marriage problems you will
not let him use the hurt and the pain
and he said you thought this problem was
a punishment this one the bankruptcy
wasn’t to take you out it was for me to
show people the greatest comeback story
in history how I can take on nobody and
bring them from nothing and take them to
so I’m trying to tell you God strength
works perfect in our weed you won’t be
weak you won’t say I need God
I’ve been married 10 years but I still
don’t know how to communicate your pride
keeps you at a place where you won’t
allow God to work in the problem so you
robbed him of the platform to show his
power
and this man sitting right here he
didn’t know even know why he was blind
and something you don’t know why you
were dropped you don’t know why you were
abused you don’t know why the
scholarship didn’t go through you don’t
know why you’ve been married three times
you don’t know I’m sure I’m just trying
to help somebody I’m about to give you
an answer right now you don’t know why
somebody was allowed to plant those
images in your head you don’t know why
you hurt and feel so isolated can I tell
you why that problem came so God’s power
could come that problem was allowed so
that God’s power could be released in
your situation if you would allowing if
you would release that’s why that
happened my problem is his platform for
the rest of the year I want you to say
that my problem is his platform they let
you off the job God you just got a
brand-new platform for your power to be
made big oh my god they found out who I
was God you just got a new platform
dah-dah-dah it is a moment for you to
come on the scene and for your power to
be seen and until as believers we get
that perspective we will allow the enemy
to convince us that the problems of
punishment and then we come in here and
sing songs like good good father but we
don’t believe it in our heart oh come on
you’re a good good father it’s who you
are
so Eli like we sing the song but we
don’t believe it in our heart because
the problem has overtaken our view of
who God is but today like this blind man
who was born like this
God told his disciples like I’m telling
y’all the
was designed for my power to be seen in
this man but what if what what if for a
second that this man took our
disposition and we got so frustrated
with God that when we found out he was
walking by and he wanted to release us
from our bondage and it was time for us
to come into this new thing but we had
this old problem what if we were like
nah I don’t I don’t I don’t want you I
don’t want you to do anything cuz if you
were good father you wouldn’t let me go
through it and if if you were if you
really could heal why did this happen in
the first place and God said and this is
thing this is the thing I need you to
know the reason why is not as important
as what he’s about to do the reason why
it happened that’s what the disciples
were trying to find out why did this
happen and Jesus was trying to say watch
what I’m about to do why did this happen
watch what I’m about to do and look what
he does I just need you to see this he
wanted his power to be released in the
man I came to tell everybody that when
we let God free and so his power can be
released in you he wants to take the
most unlikely person individual and
allow his glory to be seen through you
and so look what he does verse 6 then he
spit on the ground made mud with saliva
and spread the man to spread the mud
over the blind man’s eyes what know now
God’s done a lot of miracles
why would he choose this way to release
me I want you to get the picture the man
wasn’t deaf he just couldn’t see so when
Jesus turns to him and he’s about to
heal him he can’t see what’s about to
happen but I believe he could anticipate
his like oh my god
Jesus is here come on somebody I’m about
to get here what he’s standing there cuz
he’s probably heard of other people and
this is not the first time God’s healed
a blind man you got to realize that God
healed the blind man in Matthew 9 verse
23 and in this blind man he just touched
him and he was healed and then there was
another blind man in mark chapter 10
verse 52 and he just spoke the word and
that man was healed so he’s standing
here boy I’m about to see Lord
20/20 thank you God and look what Jesus
does he takes dirt give me some dirt
please he takes he takes dirt yeah
that’ll work
the thing that seems insignificant that
that he’s standing on what did God make
man out of he took the lowest part of
him
the most insignificant part of him he
said yeah that’s that’s enough
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I bet that’s how he acted and I bet
that’s how the people around him acted
do you know how much spit it didn’t say
he put dirt on his eyes it said he put
mud on his eyes he took dirt but had to
put enough spit in it to make mud now I
know some of you are grossed out right
now and this is why the title of my
message is what if your release is messy
what is God see some of y’all
some of y’all would rather it look nice
than be healed some of you would rather
everybody still think good about you
then actually be free from the
pornography addiction some of you would
have some of you would rather smell good
and look good then actually be good and
feel good and gods saying what if the
release I’m about to do in your life is
messy what if it’s gonna take you
actually going aback and apologizing
what if it’s gonna actually take you
going back and admitting you were wrong
what what if what if it’s gonna be so
nasty that I take the the rawest form of
you and mix it with the least part of me
why he keeps spitting somebody ain’t
never gonna pray right there ever again
but D but but do you know what happens
this blind man honestly didn’t have
anything to lose
he had everything the game he had he had
he had nothing to lose by looking
foolish to everybody else cuz he
couldn’t even see how he really looked
anyway and so when we so when we come
here to this point I need you to write
this down
don’t let the method of release keep you
from the miracle of release some of you
guys gonna ask you to go to counseling
all year I don’t need nobody telling me
about myself
don’t let the method of release keep you
from the miracle of release some of you
God’s going to put you in addiction
programs he’s gonna allow you to get in
a small group I don’t need
accountability like that they don’t know
me don’t let the method that God is
trying to release you keep you from the
miracle of your release Wow why would I
leave this high paying job and start
serving in the church cuz God’s trying
to change your character
don’t let the method of release keep you
from the miracle I really and some of
y’all are still so bothered
so bother that that I’m over here
touching on what God chose to use he
could have used he if this wasn’t his
only option but he chose to use it so
his power could be revealed through your
jacked-up situation and this is the
thing that I learned in this story
Brent come here
Brent Brent’s the blind man this is the
blind man something up something I don’t
have the face for this that’s why I
can’t use you but this right here close
your eyes your boy this represents
however God is going to choose to heal
you and at this moment the blind man’s
not stupid after he heard all the spit
he had to know he had to know it was
coming he chose not to run away my
question is at what level are you going
to allow Godfrey in your you can run
away at this point when God says this is
the year of release you can say I don’t
want it or you can say they don’t matter
how you have to do it God if you gotta
expose my pain if you have to go back
and expose something there was a
something last year that happened to me
when I was a young boy that God revealed
to me in a time of prayer and I left
this office in the middle of the day and
I told my wife I said baby I gotta tell
you something she was like what said I
just got to come home and tell you and I
told my wife something I told nobody
else cuz God said for this to be
released you gotta let it out you can’t
keep this to yourself and be like oh
God’s just gonna heal me from the inside
he said that’s not released that’s
that’s holding that still got you in
bondage and every time the enemy would
suggest that and I went to us a baby
this is what happened and I had to walk
this is what Jesus told this man to do
this is nasty messy and really
unnecessary but what he said I want you
to just stay right there Britain look at
verse 7 he told him everybody say go say
it like you mean it go
he said go wash yourself in the pool
of siloam and Cylon means Sint go to
where I’m sending you
what do you mean Passover right might
write this work down right this this
message down God’s asking all of us in
this year of release to walk with mud in
your eyes like like like do it even
though everybody can see that your
miracle is messy right now do it even
though he doesn’t like like I couldn’t
see before and now you put something
else on me can sometimes it feels like
God puts more on us
when we were already in a blind
situation but he said I want you to walk
with it anyway we’re in take a step take
another step now why would God asked him
to walk and go somewhere and didn’t lead
him there you’re blind
I’m blind in this area why wouldn’t you
take me by the hand and walk me there
because God said your deliverance in
your healing is gonna be a process and
that’s why I said this is the year of
release not the moment of release not
the time and some of us will rather be
clean than have a messy miracle and he
said go brick wall
he didn’t tell him how to get there he
just said go go go to the place I’m
sending you stop and he told him to wash
off pull the mud off your eyes and I
want you to see something at this moment
Brinks pulling off things that he didn’t
put there but he’s pulling off
what God meant to heal him there peso
Mike what are you saying
many of the miracles that God is about
to do he’s not gonna do without you he
touched you he put his DNA on you he
sent you but the last part of the
release the pins on you going
go to counselling go to a B group go say
I’m sorry go ask for forgiveness you you
want the healing right you want to see
go so many people want to see you want
to stay stay the way you are stay right
where you are stay with the attitude you
have and God is saying the opposite
everybody shot at me go shot at me go go
and he said when you wash off when you
do what I say when you participate in
the journey of release he said you’re
gonna turn around Brent turn around oh I
bet the first person that he was able to
see after he was sent to go wash off was
Jesus and I want you to think about what
happens at this moment he does not tear
that Jesus spit on the mud does not care
that he was on his way somewhere else
does not care
he just knows that something happened
that hasn’t happen one time in his whole
life
is he was blind but now he can see I
came to tell you today
write this down it’s a little long but
the rawest version of you that’s dirty
mixed with the least part of Jesus his
spit can release you from what you’ve
always been this is an eternal picture
today I didn’t want you to jump in
holler and scream and yell I just wanted
to ask you a question what if the
release is messy
will you still allow God free
what if you have to tell your wife
something that you’ve been holding back
for 10 years will you let God free what
if you have to go back and apologize to
a boss who you accidentally got fired
because you actually stole the money out
of the register well god that was so
long ago he said what if this is messy
what if there’s consequences I know
church people don’t want to hear nothing
about this but what if there’s
consequences for the action you did but
you want it so bad but you’re gonna get
free what if it hurts what if it’s not
convenient will you steal let God free
in your life the reason I’m bringing
this to you today
you got begin to speak to me that this
is the year of release but it’s only at
the level we let him I want to pray for
every person in this room because I
believe in this last seven days of us
praying and fasting this is gonna be
more about us allowing God to do what
he’s been wanting to do in our lives
and it’s cause some of its gone sir let
me be let me be let me y’all see why
nobody’s talking right now
and everybody’s real cuz all of us have
areas in our life that we were blind in
that we couldn’t see God in and he sees
you and he says I got the remedy but
what if it’s messy father I’m asking you
I feel God doing work on people’s hearts
right now I’m asking you Father God to
let us trust you even if what you’re
about to do in our life is messy even if
we don’t see how it’s going to work and
how you’re gonna reconcile it and how
you’re gonna bring it back together I’m
asking you right now for us not to be so
concerned with the method method of
release that we miss the miracle of
release expose whatever you need to
expose God bring to light you said you
were the light of the world so bring the
light to our situation and show us the
areas father God that are broken in us
show us the places in our relationships
in our marriage in our thought process
father God that have us all messed up
and we’ve been bound by but father today
we want to be released so I thank you
that we’ll be ones that won’t fight you
if you decide to do it in a messy way I
pray for every marriage right now I feel
this right now in the name I pray for
every marriage father as you begin to
allow healing to flow in marriages I
thank you that you will divinely bring
bring alignment to people’s lives and
marriages right now I’m praying for
every person who was abused I’m praying
for every person who’s walking through a
hard season I’m praying for every parent
who felt like they neglected their
children or were neglected father as you
begin to dig deep in the inside of us
father as we begin to get exposed to
some things father God that we even
forgot were there I’m thanking you
father God that you’re not doing this as
a punishment father you’re trying to get
a platform and father God we’re saying
you can use our life you can use our
story you can use our mistakes you can
use our pain because if we can ever get
the perspective that you are trying to
use our problem as a platform for your
power we could see miracles happen in
our life so god today we’re committed to
our release somebody say I’m committed
to my release come on just say it one
more time I’m committed
from my release in Jesus name Amen
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