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hey family this is pastor Toure Pastor
Sarah we want to welcome you to this
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one of the things that I absolutely love
about the goodness of God is that the
goodness of God doesn’t care about a
pandemic come on somebody the goodness
of God will run until whatever your
situation is and it will find you and it
will remind you that you are loved that
you were seeing that you are provided
for and protected and I am so grateful
because I don’t know about you when I
start to feel fear or even maybe a
little bit of anxiety then I’m reminded
instantly of the goodness of God my
daughter had on his shirt yesterday
and her shirt said and I was in the
middle of just like I couldn’t figure
out what was happening to me but her
shirt said I ain’t worried about nothing
and it blessed my spirit so much because
it was a reminder to me that even in the
midst of the storm our God has a
strategy come on did you hear Sunday’s
message you got to check it out
I’m so excited I’ve been praying you
know preaching during this time is so
much different than preaching in other
seasons because everything is shifting
and changing in the world so quickly and
so suddenly and so always constantly
asking God to leave our hearts open that
we may feed you the finest food from the
kingdom that you may be nourished and
edified and sent out and to do God’s
work and I believe that that’s exactly
what’s going to happen
I share this word I’m going to be
speaking from John nine I’m gonna start
at verse 35 I really love this text as I
was reading it this time I saw something
a little bit different that really
blessed me and inspired me and hopefully
will do the same for you I’m gonna start
in verse 35 it says Jesus heard that
they had cast him out and when he had
found him just a little bit of context
so Jesus this is when Jesus has healed a
blind man and he took the clay and he
told them in after putting clay on his
eyes to go over to the pool and watch
the clay out and then he would be able
to see well after Jesus has performed
this miracle the Pharisees those are the
group of people who were anti Jesus at
that time because they did not believe
that he was the son of God well the
Pharisees they get really upset and
they’re upset because they want to know
how this man got healed they’re trying
to find some crime to punish on Jesus
and and they have this almost like a
courtroom setting with the man who’s
been healed where they’re asking him who
saved you who who performed this miracle
and he says I don’t know I was blind
when it happened to me and he was gone
after I was healed and so it picks up in
verse 35 it says Jesus heard that they
had cast him out and when he had found
him he said to him do you believe in the
Son of God he answered and said who is
he Lord that I may believe in him and
Jesus said to him you have both seen him
and it is he who was talking with you
then he said Lord I believe and he
worshiped him and Jesus said for
judgment I have come into this world
that those who do not see may see and
that those who see may be made blind
father this is our moment to see what
you see
to take a moment and look at our lives
to look at our world and to receive a
word from you that opens our eyes it is
my prayer that you will do just that
that in this short time that we have
together that you would remove any
distractions any anxieties any worries
just for a minute quiet the household
quiet the car quiet our co-workers God
that we can hear exactly what it is that
you have for us Father I believe that
you are the only one able to take one
word and dissect it and craft it and
mold it until it fits literally the
thousands of people who will receive it
that’s the kind of God we serve so we
turn this over to you and we say have
your way great God that you are in Jesus
name Amen and amen
again I have been studying some of the
effects of the pandemic and how it has
shifted and shaped so much about the way
that we function and I think that one of
the things that we can be universally
grateful for is the internet I don’t
know about you but the Internet is the
unsung hero of this pandemic we have
been able to get so much information on
how we can one prevent this spread how
we can connect with others who are in
need in this time but for me most
importantly the gospel of the kingdom is
able to still spread throughout the
world because of the internet the
Internet has also changed things for a
lot of corporations right so over time
when it was just a tool that we use to
maybe find potential candidates for job
positions it has now become a tool that
literally removes the need to have a a
corporate place of gathering from day to
day right because of the internet even
during this pandemic when we’re not
supposed to be gathered we’re able to
use the internet so that we can continue
to move forward to work remotely right
the Internet has changed our ability to
work remotely in corporations and who
could have known when we first started
this crazy thing called the worldwide
web that eventually it would become the
tool that allowed so many of us to
continue building in spite of
restrictions and regulations and as much
as I would like to say that the Internet
is responsible for this creative notion
of working remotely as I was studying I
realized that the internet didn’t start
this whole notion of working remotely
you guys know this scripture it’s not
unfamiliar it’s Jeremiah one and five
I’m gonna read it word for word it says
before I formed you in the womb I knew
you before you were born I sanctified
you I ordained you a prophet to the
nation so before God formed the Prophet
Jeremiah’s who he’s speaking to in this
moment before God forms him in his
mother’s womb he knew him right before
he was born he said I ordained you he
said I sanctified you and I ordained you
a prophet to the nation’s before you
were born I gave you a job where did
this happen this happened in a realm
that we cannot see there was something
happening in a realm in an environment a
home that we could not see that was
going to affect this new dimension and
so God gave him an assignment before he
was born
God says before I send you down to the
earth I want you to know emphatically
that I am NOT just sending you down here
to experience the pleasures of life
I’m sending you down here because I have
ordained you as a prophet I’m sending
you down here I’m sending you to the
earth so that you can work remotely
that’s something important for us to
realize and for us to recognize that we
are not just here to experience the
world around us
we are here because we are on assignment
you are working remotely you did not
start in this world you started in a
world that this world can’t even
understand you started in the kingdom
you started in the mind of God and when
you started in the mind of God he says
if there’s something I need you to do in
the earth that only you can do I have a
job for you
you’re not just in
that marriage you’re not just working
that job you’re not just raising that
child you’re not just going to that
school you’re working remotely you got
to know this because when fear starts
permeating this world you got to
remember that I’m not of this world I’m
working remotely where I’m from we don’t
even believe in fear I feel that
prophetically for somebody where I’m
from there is no power that fear has
where I’m from there is no strength that
anxiety has over my life so I am here
working remotely and whenever I start to
feel the culture of this world invade my
culture then my assignment is to
recognize where I come from I got to get
reconnected with where I’m from because
I’m starting to forget the culture of my
working environment god help me
sometimes when you’re working from home
right and a lot of us are working from
home now sometimes you start off really
strong right you’re waking up you’re
getting up one time you’re getting fully
clothed and then eventually you start
slipping right I’ll just keep my pajamas
on or oh the kids are messing with me
I’ll do that thing a little bit later
and what happens is the culture of the
home begins to invade your work ethic
that’s the same thing that happens to us
when the culture of this world begins to
invade our heavenly our divine our
kingdom assigned work ethic and if you
are not careful and intentional about
pinpointing when that is happening then
you won’t know what’s going on with you
but I hear God’s saying that even as
you’re listening to this message that
he’s drawing a line in the sand I need
you to recognize that you’ve allowed the
cultural culture of this work
environment that’s down here on the
earth to make you forget how we do
things where we’re from where we’re from
we have Authority where we’re from we
don’t run when everyone else is standing
around where we’re from we we answer to
what’s happening in the world where
we’re from we write books where we’re
from we produce where we’re from we
remember that we are the change that we
want to see in the world where we’re
from we operate differently we think
differently we sleep differently where
we’re from we have
certain level of culture and that
culture needs to invade this world like
never before that culture needs to be
released in this world and it will only
happen for those who recognize I’m here
working remotely I’m on assignment
before I was formed in my mother’s womb
God knew me he ordained me as a prophet
he ordained me as his mouthpiece that’s
why I’m serving that’s why I’m coming up
with ways to serve the community that’s
why I’m coming up with ways to make sure
that the kingdom is spread that’s why I
cannot be silenced I hear that for you I
don’t know who you are but you are going
to allow this thing to silence you and I
hear God’s saying that our ordained you
a prophet that means you are a
mouthpiece for God that means if you do
not release what God is doing in this
season if you don’t release love if you
don’t release hope if you don’t release
faith then it may not be released or not
what if the cure is laid up in your
mouth what if the breakthrough is laid
up in your mouth what if you are the one
who can produce the change that you want
to see in the world you’re tired of
hearing what the news is saying you’re
tired of hearing what everyone else is
saying on social media well what are you
saying with your mouth you are the
Prophet that has been called to speak in
this time you are alive in this season
and industry narration for a reason and
I hear God’s saying that there’s
something that I put in your mouth that
must come out of your mouth that there’s
some joy that needs to come out of your
mouth that there’s some peace that needs
to come out of your mouth oh but I’m not
a prayer warrior yes you are a prayer
warrior you just haven’t released your
sound yet I hear guys saying you don’t
know who you are in the kingdom until
you have been backed against the wall
when you get back against the wall we
will begin to see what God is play
on the inside of you I hear God saying
you’re our prophet you are not broken
you are not insecure you do not battle
with anxiety I hear that saying before
any of that
we’re a profit you are a profit
before they walked away you are a
prophet when the world
Rockman when the room is empty you
when you work from home
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you are a prophet report the teenage
pregnancy before you became anything
you are a prophet you are a prophet you
are a prophet you are a mouthpiece for
God and God is looking to release his
voice in this earth he’s looking to
combat the negative to the negativity
that is in this world and I hear guys
saying that only my prophets only my
prophets can release my voice only those
who are connected to me only those who
are pressing in to hear what I’m saying
only those who are creating an
environment where I can sit in the room
those are my prophets and I’m looking
for my prophets I’m praying right now I
don’t know who you are but I’m praying
that God will begin to raise you up not
so that the world can see you not so
that the world can celebrate you was so
that your prophetic gifting your ability
to release God’s sound may be unleashed
like never before and maybe is
and Timmy and maybe it took a divorce
and maybe it says you have to go
hell for you to finally decide I will
not
silence rocks we’re gonna cry now
right
I can do what
I am a prophet I am a prophet
what are you prophesy again
– Anita you are just beginning the world
is not going through hell the world is
getting ready for
goddess calling us
like then are you
are you ready to carry this weight
are you ready to stand up to this thing
are you ready to square up by ordains
you a prophet and now we’re about to see
who’s a prophet who can prophesy in the
middle of the storm who can speak who
can have a prophetic utterance who
recognizes that I am NOT powerful
because of what I’ve done but because of
what I’ve seen but because I am a
prophet I was ordained before I came
into this world and I believe that as
you find a ways to bring unity into this
humanity into this world and into this
country that it’s not just a good idea
that it is a God idea and we have to
recognize what is a good idea versus a
God idea that when you’re helping
someone navigate through their anxiety
and through their fear that it’s not
just you being a supportive friend is
you being a prophet when you tell
someone you’re going to be okay I dare
you to add heavens resources to the
words that are coming out of your mouth
when you say it you may be unsure but
when you say lit with heavens resources
it’s just things in the atmosphere I am
Telling You that we’re gonna make it to
the other side of this I’m telling you
we’re gonna be stronger as a result of
what we’ve gone through
I’m telling you that more people that
want to know God that has ever known him
before I’m not saying it as their shakes
Roberts I’m
the girl who was formed before she even
came into this world the Prophet the
Prophet says were coming out on the
other side of this and so our job and
our role now is to recognize that our
best bet is to work the way Jesus worked
Jesus was God working remotely Jesus was
God wrapped in flesh God says in the New
Testament my spirit needs to invade the
earth and because my spirit needs to
invade the earth
I’m going to take this young virgin
ghrelin I’m going to impregnate her with
my spirit and when she gets pregnant
with my spirit my Holy Spirit is going
to invade the earth I don’t know who you
are but I feel like you’ve been
wondering what’s happening and I hear
God’s saying that’s that’s my spirit
invading the earth when God’s Spirit
invades the earth you got to understand
what happens when God’s Spirit invades
the earth that pushes back fear when
God’s Spirit invades the earth it pushes
back to Monica pression when God’s
Spirit invades earth there are some
things that cannot live any longer God
says the spirit may not be able to
change what happened to you but it can
take what happened to you and get it out
of your spirit when you get filled with
the Holy Spirit then there
some things that cannot stay in you any
longer you may need to go to rehab but
what you may need to do first is did
filled with the spirit you may need to
break up with the person but you can’t
do it on your own you don’t need the
Holy Spirit for this thing I hear God’s
saying that I’m coming for another round
of my sphere
I allow my spirit to invade earth who or
at least my glory
Oh mice to work remotely brought the
King of Kings why the Lord of
let his spirit
my spirit my spirit my spirit my spirit
my spirit they need my spirit in the
hospital they need my spirit at the
grocery store my spirit my sweat who
will carry the Spirit of the Lord it’s
gotta invade Earth every time you see
fear you wanna have an answer
why should you have an answer because
you carry the Spirit of God so Jesus
Jesus recognizes that there’s work to do
in Earth and so he doesn’t just spend
the time on the earth releasing the
spirit from himself he gathers some
disciples because he recognizes I need
to be a recruiter too because it’s not
enough to just carry God’s Spirit we got
to be able to recruit some people too
and Jesus is the ultimate recruiter and
when he realizes that there’s going to
be work for all of us to do he starts
off on this mission and he starts
recruiting the disciples follow me and
I’m going to make you fishers of men
follow me follow me I want you to be a
recruiter I want you to be a recruiter
because there are some other people who
need to work remotely we need to remind
them that they are in this world but
they are not of this world and they will
only do it if they see someone else
functioning in their purpose and so he
starts recruiting and at this point in
my text Jesus has recruited his
disciples but he’s about to recruit an
unsuspecting blind man a blind man who
doesn’t beg to be healed like blind
bartimaeus but a man who someone else
points out the disciples point out to
Jesus and they say to Jesus what sin did
this man’s parents do that he ended up
blind and John nine and three it says
jesus answered them and said neither
this man nor his parents sinned but that
the works of God should be revealed in
him then Jesus says I must work the
works of him who sent me while it is day
the night is coming when no one can work
Jesus tells us in this text that this
man is here so that work can be done in
him the miracle that is about to be
performed has nothing to do with what
the man wanted and everything to do with
the work that had to be produced from
him because God is on assignment and
because God is on assignment he uses
this unsuspecting man he uses this man
who had no idea that he was about to be
caught out and placed on this spotlight
Jesus is working remotely I want to read
it to you the way I studied it you know
how I do because Jesus is recruiting and
Jesus is recruiting not with miracles
the way I studied it I thought that when
Jesus performed the miracle on the blind
man that he did that so that he could
recruit him into the kingdom and I was
wrong because had that been the case as
soon as the man was healed he would have
automatically been following Jesus but
he had something more important to do
improve to this man it was important for
him to prove to this man that I have
performed this miracle so that you can
see you are still set apart I’m gonna
break it down for you this man was born
blind blind was all he knew and when
you’re born with any type of dysfunction
whether it’s a handicap that can be seen
or a brokenness on the inside you always
feel different and this miracle that
Jesus performs is the one thing that is
keeping him from being like everyone
else I’m going to give you this miracle
and now you will become like everyone
else that is what we believe when we
pray for miracles sometimes we’re
praying for miracles because we think
the miracle is going to make us like
someone else the miracle is going to
level the playing field the miracle is
going to help us to be like all of these
other people we have seen but check this
Jesus gives this blind man the miracle
and the man still doesn’t fit in what is
we’re praying that God would give us a
miracle and we’re wondering why God gave
us the miracle and we still feel
different and we still feel awkward and
it didn’t do for us what we thought it
was going to do I got the degree but I
still don’t feel fulfilled I got the
marriage but I still don’t have my
purpose I have the money in the bank but
I still don’t feel like I’m making a
change in the world what happens when
God gives you a miracle and it still
makes you feel empty I believe this as I
was reading this text and I was studying
that the miracle was never meant to make
the men like everyone else the miracle
was there to prove to him that I can
bless you but you will still be set
apart and that is a word for someone to
recognize in this season that you’re
praying that God will make you like
everyone else
and God has given you some of the
desires of your heart
so you still feel left out you still
feel cast out I hear God saying the
miracle wasn’t broken it’s your
perception of what the miracle was
supposed to do the miracle was never
supposed to make you more like them it
was supposed to make you more like me it
was supposed to make you more like the
guy who gave you the miracle in the
first place it was supposed to make you
curious I hear I feel God on that the
miracle is supposed to make you curious
not fit in the miracle is not so that
you can be like everyone else
the miracle is not so you can be
validated the miracle is not so everyone
can see that you were right all along
the miracle is so that you can draw
closer to him I don’t know about you but
God has given me some miracles in my
life that I felt so unworthy of God how
could you give this thing to a girl like
me how could you give this influence to
a girl like me I didn’t go to school for
it I don’t know how to do it eloquently
but I hear God
saying the miracle was never about you
and everything to do with creating a
hunger that you would become desperate
for the man behind the miracles I felt
like that’s the whole message within
itself when we become desperate for the
man behind the miracles you will never
have to wonder if another miracle is on
the way
because I am connected with the ultimate
source I want to know more about the man
behind the miracle I want to know more
about the man who made a way out of
knowing God how is it that you let that
kid come through in the middle of this
work God how is it that you allowed me
to meet this person when I was out here
randomly and I hear God saying you’re
calling it a miracle but you won’t have
breakthrough hmm you won’t have
breakthrough until you become curious
about the man behind the miracle the
blind man should have been having the
days of his life I once was blind but
now I see but now I’m on trial and I’m
in adversity god this isn’t what my
miracle was supposed to look like yes
sir that’s exactly what your miracle was
supposed to look like but you won’t know
how to handle the miracle unless you
stay connected with the
I hear guys saying you won’t lose this
time
look like a miracle that you’re gonna
lose one
but I hear God saying you will never
have do this prophetically for somebody
you will never have to worry
knowing that to have you
there is a man behind the mirror
man’s legacy
think that is standing in your way
by the miracle
the man behind the miracle and he wants
you to know who he is
and he wants you to recognize that I’m
out here recruiting people who can work
remotely I’m not just recruiting people
who can work miracles
people who can work miracles I want to
know who can stay connected to their
boss in spite of the bonuses
got if you don’t give me a bonus God if
I don’t never get a raise but I can stay
connected
that connected
oh my goal is to stay connected my goal
is to keep my head above water I can’t
watch the news all day I can’t just get
up and eat all the snacks I gotta do
something that awakens what God place
down on the in spite of me cuz there’s a
God in heaven waiting on me and it’s way
know somebody will recognize that so I’m
not on vacation
make sure my hitter does the work
that Living God that
or notice that you had your last day
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we’re not on vacation we still working
and the kind of work we do cannot be
banned and the kind of work we do cannot
be stopped and the kind of work we do
will invade earth and it will invade
every illness you don’t know who my boss
is if you know who my boss was you won’t
even talk to me the way you’ve been
talking to me you better learn to
unleash your mouth on fear this fear
doesn’t know who your boss this anxiety
doesn’t know who your boss is
you got a boss and you’re working
remotely and everything that happens in
the earth is happening for those who are
called the sons of God to come forth the
enemy is not after your finances he is
not after your relationships he’s trying
to make you quit your job that word sin
and the Greek as her Mattia means to
miss the mark missed the mark the mark
of what the mark of my job assignment
the job of what God has called me to do
and who he’s called me to become the
enemy is after your job you were sent
from heaven to work remotely and if you
allow the chaos and the disappointment
and disaster of this world
to keep you from working to keep you
from producing to keep you from staying
connected to God and you lose you may be
comfortable for a minute calling that
person you may be comfortable for a
minute in that bottle you may be
comfortable for a minute drinking that
thing but I’m telling you when it’s all
said and done it’s all making you miss
miss the mark this is not the season to
miss the mark this is not the season to
not be on your square this is not the
season to be distracted now like a
never-before we got to go harder than
we’ve ever gone before
we
to do it if no one comes we got to do it
if no one sees it because it’s a part of
my job assignment it’s a part of why I’m
here this world can’t tell you when the
world is going to end stop reading the
articles stop looking at the
conspiracies no man knows the day nor
the hour but God sinks you down here
because he says you need to be alive in
this day and in this hour and my
question to you is are you doing the
work of your father and have you removed
anything that keeps you from doing that
work Jesus and my text is eye-to-eye
with the man he healed and the man
doesn’t even recognize that he’s talking
to Jesus the Messiah because he’s so
wrapped up and confused and lost with
what happened in the process of his
miracle that God is standing right in
front of him and he doesn’t even realize
it and Decatur’s seeing God when he’s
right in front of you and this text it
stands to reason that the kid is singing
God is to acknowledge what he’s already
done because Jesus doesn’t tell him I am
the one who healed you he doesn’t
explain who he is
all he says is that you have already
seen any heat and are talking to the Son
of God right now in this moment he
triggers something in his mind that
makes him acknowledge that Jesus has
been there all along what if Jesus has
been here all along but because we were
focused on certain things and focused on
headlines and focused on relationships
and focused on our hustle that we missed
the fact that he had already done a
miracle in our life we just didn’t know
it was him so we’re wondering where is
God in the midst of this God where are
you and I hear guys saying you don’t
even see that I’ve been here all along
that even as you’re watching this
message right now that it is a sign that
God has been here all along that God
says I will never leave you nor forsake
you I’m gonna find a way to make sure
the word gets to you so Jesus has this
encounter with the blind man and he says
something so pivotal if you’re taking
notes this is the part that I really
want you to write down to hold in your
heart and never forget he has this back
and forth with the blind men and he says
to the blind men do you believe in the
Son of God and he doesn’t even know that
he’s had an encounter with God he just
knows that he had an encounter with the
man who was working remotely and Jesus
answers to him and says you have both
seen him and it is he who was talking
with you now and then he says Lord I
believe and he began to worship when the
blind man begins to worship there is a
divine exchange that happens when God
removes the blindness out of his spirit
god help me the man was blind physically
but it wasn’t until God removed his
blindness spiritually that he was able
to worship Him there are so many things
that keep us from seeing spiritually
disappointments heartbreaks life just
not going the way that we wanted to we
can become so blind spiritually that
literally we could be in the presence of
God and not even recognize it because we
have become so desensitized to the
presence but Jesus speaks this word and
it brings that man into remembrance and
he says Lord I believe but your belief
has to have an action attached to it it
says Lord I believe and he began to
worship if you really believe in this
season like never before there’s got to
be some action attached to it
you can’t just worship when it’s
convenient you got a worship every time
it’s brought back to your remembrance
what you believe I believe that word
believe when you break it down I was
get down while studying earlier it means
I have been persuaded Lord I’ve been
persuaded that is to bend you all along
I’ve been persuaded that when I was
blind you opened my eyes god I’ve been
persuaded that I even though I felt like
I was in that house by myself that you
kept making a way out of no way my my
parents couldn’t do it for me my
siblings didn’t fully understand me
but Father I am persuaded that you saw
me because now you’re using everything
that the enemy meant for evil and you’re
turning it for my good so lord I am
persuaded I want to be recruited I want
to work for you like never before and
the only response when you have been
recruited is to worship because you
recognized that God would use a fool
like me God you’ve been in my life all
this time and I just needed to accept
that you were there I needed to see that
you were there but you waited for me you
were patient Jesus didn’t get upset with
the blind man he didn’t get frustrated
with the blind man but he sat there and
he waited until he finally had the
Epiphany that it had been him all along
and this is the moment where we see that
Jesus didn’t just recruit disciples but
he recruited people who were willing to
wait and see that it was him maybe
you’re watching this message and you’ve
been thinking that some things were god
I want you to know that God is willing
to wait until you see him perhaps this
is your moment where you finally get to
have an encounter with God and you get
to say father I thought the job was just
because I knew the friend but I know
there is someone more qualified than me
but there was that you father I survived
after the heartbreak father I had to
bury my parents but I still found a way
to have joy again and I thought maybe it
was because I did XYZ but father I
really think it was you it’s been you
all this time
along your goodness was running after me
that I was running into the arms of this
person and that person and I thought
this person could heal me and I thought
that relationship would make me better
and that check would fulfill me but now
I realized that the only thing I needed
was you so Lord I’ve been persuaded I do
believe as my husband said that the
kingdom has an opportunity like never
before if you didn’t hear strategy in
the storm you got to watch that message
I believe like never before that the
kingdom has an opportunity to recruit
but we cannot just recruit with with
smooth words we have to be willing to
recruit with evidence personal evidence
that makes a person open up at their
eyes and say you are not where you are
because you’ve done everything the right
way or because everything worked out
perfectly there are people who had the
same formula the same background the
same family setting and they never got
out of there and they ended up in jail
and they ended up lost and broken you
had this opportunity not because you did
everything the right way but because
there was someone who was working things
that you couldn’t see my prayer is that
God would open your eyes not just to
opportunities but that he would open
your eyes spiritually that even in the
midst of this chaos that you would wake
up every morning and you would say wow
God that was you that opened my eyes
that you would look at the doctors and
the nurses who are there in the
hospitals and you would say that kind of
strength to stand up in this adversity
God that kind of strength can only come
from you got more strength and more
peace to them that you would begin to
see that he can even move in the midst
of the pandemic that he can move in the
midst of a broken home that God doesn’t
need a perfect setting you want that God
says I can
in and out of brokenness I can move in
and out of shattered pieces and if you
don’t believe me then just talk to
someone I recruited and they’ll show you
that I didn’t have to wait for their
lives to be perfect that all I needed
them to do was be willing to believe and
this is when Jesus tells us he says in
the last verse of my text he says for
judgment I have come into this world
that word judgment isn’t judgment like
we’re used to seeing it means
distinguish that Jesus came into the
world for there to be distinguishment
the distinguishment between those who do
not see but may see and those who see
but may be blind I love this because
that means that God is looking for
people who are blind so that he can show
them how to see and those who think that
they see everything you know everything
that they’re actually blind our perfect
position as a believer is recognizing as
much as I do see right now I know that
there’s still parts of my life still
parts of my world still parts of my
destiny that I am blind to so father I
believe and I trust you not because of
what I see but because of what I don’t
see and it is what I don’t see that will
ultimately allow me to become closer and
closer to you you’re listening to this
message and you want God to open your
eyes you thought the relationship would
do it you thought the job would do it
you thought the degree would do it but
there are parts of you that still feel
cast out right this blind man gets cast
out from the Pharisees because he needed
to see you’re not like them either
that’s how you’ve been feeling you’ve
been feeling like man I’m not like this
group and I’m not like that group and
I’m not like them over there I’m not
like them down there God Who am I liking
says I’m glad that you finally asked now
I can open your eyes I want to pray with
you my prayer is that we would not come
out of however long this season is going
to last and still be blind but that we
would come out of this season with our
eyes more open than ever before to what
God has been saying and doing all along
God all along you’ve been telling me I
need to spend more time with the kids
God all along you’ve been telling me
that my priorities are wrong God all
along you’ve been saying these things
and I ignore these things and now I have
no other fact but to look at exactly
where I am and what’s around me and make
a decision God wants you to open your
eyes spiritually before he does anything
else that you can see so I want to pray
with you I want you to do something
crazy right as I’m praying I want you to
close your eyes and as you’re closing
your eyes I feel the Spirit of God
opening your spirit there’s something
powerful I just thought about that
there’s something powerful in prayer
when we close our eyes because it forces
us to be sensitive and now that we’re
sensitive we can sense things that maybe
we couldn’t have seen had we just been
looking with our eyes I wonder what God
wants to show you that you cannot see
because you’ve been looking at it
physically maybe God just wants you to
close your eyes for a minute Spirit of
God
we’re closing our physical eyes and
giving you permission to open our
spiritual eyes father we recognize that
we are not here to just have a vacation
and enjoy life and be fulfilled but we
are here because you sent us on a
mission Father awaken our hearts to what
that mission is awaken our souls and
awaken our spirit that we would not live
in this world selfishly but that we
would wake up hungry to do your work
that we would wake up hungry like Jesus
determined to do the work of our Father
recognizing that there’s gonna come a
day when no work can be done we may not
be here forever we may not be in this
city forever we may not be in this job
forever so father what is it that you
want me to do in this season that I am
he in here for God Jesus knew that there
was something else waiting for him
outside of the moment but he was so in
tune with what needed to be done in the
moment that he wasn’t looking to escape
he was looking to fulfill the word that
needed to be manifested in that moment I
hear guys saying
same is true for you I have worked for
you to do in this moment that only you
can do so by the open our eyes to who we
must become and what we must do in order
to regain our position working remotely
for You Father forgive us we repent for
making life just about us we repent
father we Exeter would help us to change
our mind Father for for allowing things
to let us miss the mark
the addiction made us miss the mark the
relationship made us miss the mark but
you are so gracious that you will take
everything that happened to us and wipe
it clear and snow you’re gonna make it
work together so far for our good that
we will look back and say God I don’t
know how you did it but you have made a
believer out of me father help us to not
just receive our position and to
manifest it in our lives but to do it
with such fierceness and such power that
we end up recruiting more and more
people for your kingdom we receive this
word allow it to take root and produce
fruit in our lives father that the
generations may be blessed as a result
of what just took place inside of us in
Jesus name and then activate we love you
so much
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