This is “The Spirit of the Carpenter.” The enemy would love nothing more than to keep us chained to a spirit of lack and limitation. He comes to hinder and to devour, but the spirit of the Carpenter has come to advocate for us. The resistance, if we allow it, pushes us into our destiny! You are not a failure!
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like you to open them with me please to
the Old Testament book of Zechariah
chapter 1 Zechariah chapter 1 look at
this in verse 17 again proclaimed saying
thus says the Lord of Hosts my cities
shall again
listen spread out through prosperity the
Lord will again comfort Zion or my
people I’ll again choose Jerusalem and
when I raise my eyes and look there were
4 horns he’s having a vision now and I
said to the angel who taught with me
what are these so he answered me these
are the horns that have scattered you to
Israel and Jerusalem then he showed me
four carpenters and I said what are
these coming to do so he said these are
the horns that scattered Judah so that
no one could lift up his head notice
that no one could lift up his head but
the Carpenters are coming to terrify
them and cast out the horns of the
nations that lifted up their horn
against the land of Judah to scattering
he said I am going to prosper and bless
you as a matter of fact he told Joshua
and Joshua 1 in verse 5 that no man will
be able to stand against you all the
days of your life no one will stop you
from doing what I called you to do he
went on to say and you shall have good
success these are Bible words I’ll
prosper you wherever you go wherever the
souls
your feet go I’ll give you good success
I’ll prosper you what God was saying is
you’re going to have good success all
the days of your life you said it to
Josh when he says it to his people and
no man will be able to stand before you
and stop you
every relationship God entered into he
lifted people he built up people he
multiplied their life he increased their
life it’s so important to understand
that God’s dream for you is so much
bigger than what you dreamed for you and
he said I have a promise for you and
here’s the promise you can prosper and
you can have in this life good success
because that matters if you think God’s
not for you and if you think God doesn’t
want you to do well in life and enjoy
your life and have a blessed life you’ll
never see it and it’s so important to
get your thinking right to understand
God said no man standing before you will
be able to stop you if they oppose you
I’ll deal with the opposition but you
have a promise that God can prosper your
life I don’t care what your age is I
don’t care who you are and that you can
have you shall have good success I love
those words I love those words that
they’re in the Bible that’s why in
Zechariah one the sake the text starts
out with God prospering his people
noticing that verse it said that he
prospered them and when he began to
prosper them they begin to spread out
see when God begins to prosper a
person’s life spiritually physically
emotionally when he begins to bless you
in every area that trinkles down to your
finances in every area it begins to
spread you out you begin to go to places
you never dreamed you would go when God
begins to put his favor on someone’s
life it begins to take you beyond
anything you ever imagined you begin to
go to places he spreads notice
prosperity and the blessing of God
begins to spread you out he said I’m
spreading you abroad I’m
spreading you out I’m taking you to
places you never dreamed of I want you a
vision I want you to have a vision
bigger than where you are now what
you’re doing now I have not designed
small things for you I’m going to spread
you out I’m going to take you to places
that you never dreamed you would go and
watch this just as he was spreading his
people out in Zechariah one and
prospering them then he had a vision of
four horns that rose up to oppose and
scatter and defeat the people of God and
notice what their assignment was to sow
oppress and stop God’s people from
realizing the good success the
prosperous journey that God wanted them
to have in life and the Bible said those
four horns the horns in the Bible
represent power these are spiritual
powers or we would call them spirits he
saw in a vision for horns or for spirits
that came to oppress God’s people
stopped them from having a big abundant
blessed life and and the Bible said so
oppress them catch this verse that they
could not listen to this see this mental
picture they could not lift up their
head they were so oppressed that they
walked around like this not looking up
not looking out not confident not
blessed but oppressed and to the point
that no man lifted his head as soon as
God spoke prosperity to them four horns
came to hold them back but then he said
I saw something miraculous in the same
vision I saw four men coming in the
spirit of the carpenter he said I saw
four carpenters now that represents
Jesus because Jesus was the carpenter’s
son Joseph his earthly father was a
carpenter and Jesus worked all of his
life in a carpentry shop a carpenter
it’s somebody who built you
housed or built the apartment you live
in you know what a carpenter is its
somebody who builds notice the spirit
that Jesus comes in the enemy comes to
oppress you so that you can’t even lift
your head up and you go around defeated
and oppress but here comes the spirit of
the carpenter to build you up to raise
you up to lift up your head so that you
will look out and see greater things and
I’m here today to proclaim a word over
your life the Spirit of the carpenter is
going to come on you while you sit under
this message today and the enemy’s tried
to hold you down and suppress and stop
but I see the Spirit of the carpenter
coming to build you up and to raise you
up and listen no man will be able to
stand before you no man living no man
dead no voice in your past no voice in
your future no voice in your present
can’t stop you because the Spirit of the
carpenter is upon you take a praise
break and I’ll keep preaching early so
I’ll speak from my own experience real
quick and I’m not going to preach on for
me in my life and in this ministry those
four horns represented four spirits the
first horn represents the spirit of lack
where you see the enemy would love to
attach to your life at an early age the
spirit of lack the spirit of light is
when you have in your mind there’s not
enough there’s not enough I’ll never go
to college because there’s not enough
and it’s not just money it’s not just
financial things lack of education lack
of love lack of finances lack of joy
lack of confidence lack of self esteem
so that you go around and you can’t even
look anybody in the eye you don’t have
any confidence in yourself it’s a spirit
of lack and intimidation you were
created in the image of God Almighty
they may have said you’re a slow learner
they may have said you’ll never be
anything they may have said you’re just
trashing your parents never did anything
and you’ll never do anything and the
enemy like a like a horn with a spirit
of lack lack of affection lack of love
lack of having a father lack of having a
good influence and environment that you
were raised in but that spirit of lack
is defeated by the spirit of the
carpenter who can come and build you up
and raise you up into who God called you
to be I remember when we were at a time
in this ministry where that spirit of
lack tried to attach itself to me I’ll
never forget it like it’s like it was
yesterday we were in the old building
and we had some great needs and and we’d
started television and we’d used the
same cameras for I think it was close to
15 years it was crazy I walked in their
little studio if you could call it that
that we had and they had all the
equipment and our TV guy at that time
had a roll of duct tape that was
attached to his belt I’m not joking and
the whole time we would be trying to
film a program he knew that before we
could get through something was going to
break it would be a light that were fog
some raggedy little light or are some
some camera cord would break off some
cable on some other camera or something
back there in the machine room back
there would fall to pee was just going
around most of the time while we were
taping I’m trying to do a TV show and
he’s ripping off it he got it down to
and on he’s ripping off duct tape who
you been and I put this light up putting
that camera fixing that cord and observe
and he’s just everything it was
ridiculous and the Lord spoke to me in
my spirit and he said are you tired of
duct tape level
I looked around all our saw was black
and silver duct tape all over the place
and the Lord said you know you get what
you believe me for for as a man thinks
so easy and if it’s what you think I’m
capable of that’s all I’ll ever be able
to do for you but if you believe me I’ll
take you from this level out of gut take
level into exceedingly abundantly above
all that you could ask or even think you
got to get free from the spirit of life
that keeps your hair down I just want to
shout a minute in my space because with
what the Lord has done it’s a debt-free
property we don’t know a penny
those cameras everything in here is dead
free to the glory of God I’m preaching
not just to old people I’m preaching to
young people I’m preaching to
middle-aged people that your God will
supply all your needs he’s a big God and
you’ve got to get free from the spirit
of lack second horn is the horn of
limitation you see if the enemy can’t
get you bound with a spirit of life that
it doesn’t exist and this is all I’ll
ever be and all I’ll ever have then
he’ll come with a spirit of limitation
which says things exist but not for me
oh he’ll do it for Jensen or he’ll do it
for this one or he’ll do it for that one
but not for me there’s a ceiling over my
life a spirit of limitation there’s a
barrier I can go this far but I can’t
get to that next level of success that
next level of the dream that God is
given me large elephants are held in
place by ropes and wood stakes that have
just been driven into the ground with a
hammer and even though these large
elephants are massive and powerful they
are held with a rope tied around
their leg that they could just shake and
the stake would fly off and the Rope
would be freed why do they stay there
bound just because they can feel a
little rope around their ankle key to it
is when they have a elephant that’s born
into captivity they will take that
elephant
they’ll keep well he’s small and they
will put a chain a metal chain a large
chain around his leg and they will take
a cement block that has been put in the
ground and buried that is attached to
that chain and they said what happens
listen to this this is amazing what
happens is after a period of time after
trying and failing and trying and only
going so far and trying oh I hoped but
it didn’t happen
finally something clicks mentally in
that elephant to where he stops trying
because he accepts the fact I’m limited
and I’ll never go further than where I
am right here right now this is exactly
what the enemy wants you to accept he
stops trying to be free every time he
feels that rope on his ankle it reminds
him of a thought that I can’t be free
after a while he stops believing he
stops believing that he can go further
that he can do more and I’m telling you
I’m preaching to people right here right
now and all of our campuses and on
television and around the world I’m
telling you the enemy of our soul that
horn that second horn is the horn of
limitation the truth is the elephant is
bigger the elephant is mightier the
elephant is stronger you are not the
person you were before Jesus came into
your life when Jesus came into your life
he gave you power and you can do all
things through Christ who strengthens
you and don’t you allow
the enemy to place a chain of limitation
on you ever so often you have to push
against the limitations that say you’re
going this far but no father spirit of
lack spirit of limitation then there’s
something in the Bible Paul the Apostle
talked about Satan I tried to go to a
certain place and he said these words
Satan hinders me what does that mean
Satan hindered me he said I win and
Satan hindered me Satan has hindered me
I want Blake to come up here real quick
and when he what he was talking about is
he he said I’m on my way I’m on my
journey I broke through from lack I
broke through from limitation I’m not
going to be held just because nobody in
my family has ever done it I can do it
because God told me I could do it
but then in front of him there was he
said Satan hindered me what does that
mean it’s like you’re moving but you’re
making progress but it’s like it’s it’s
a fight it’s like no let in a little bit
but but but it’s like it’s like I’m
making progress I’m trying to push him
in that hole right there but but it’s
jams and it’s aggravations and it’s
attacks and it’s a struggle all the way
this is how it is with a dream come here
this is how it is with a dream some of
you don’t understand some of you’ve
tried and failed two or three times and
you think you don’t understand why you
sit on that nice cushion see you don’t
have any idea but demons we had to fight
and there were times when I couldn’t get
there that way and I had to roll that
way and I had to go this way and I had
to go and oh no my head’s going down but
here comes the spirit of the carpenter
and you build me up and I push some more
I can go we can do it Church
and if i thrown enough come in Tracy
here it is now so you got you got
hindrance in front of you and then
there’s one other spirit there’s
something behind me the Bible calls it a
devouring spirit and so I’m getting I
took this ground you back up a little
bit I got and I took this ground but
here comes the devourer and what does
the divide this one fights me about my
future this one’s trying to come behind
me and steal what I’ve already won so
I’ve got a hindering spirit in front of
me and a devouring spirit behind me and
just when the enemy thinks he’s gonna
win
Ezekiel said or as a Cariah said I saw
in that same vision just when the head
was down and defeated and it looked like
it was over I saw the spirit of the
carpenter I saw the spirit of the
carpenter come and raise and build up
God’s people and I just come in this
house today to encourage somebody the
devouring spirit that’s behind you he
said I will rebuke the Devourer for your
sake and for the hindering spirit before
you he said no man will be able to stand
before you no spirit of limitation and
sometimes people with their words listen
can build a house of limitation around
you and all of your life because you
were told you couldn’t the house of
their words has completely limited you
in your own mind that you can’t do it
but here comes the spirit of the
carpenter and he says I’m here to build
you up I’m here to raise you up you
shall mount up with wings like eagles
you shall run and not be weary walking
not faint
and I wrote down I felt what I had from
the Lord for this group today number one
the Lord said
that for your trouble you shall have
double just like Joe here’s the second
thing I heard going to F it’s goes off
in your spirit you need to respond to it
the Lord said key people are coming into
your life G people you’re not going to
get there without G people this morning
in the in the first service sitting
right there were Tracy’s at and sitting
right there behind my wife were two key
people that God brought into our lives
and into this ministry when I was
preaching on the invitation one of the
guys jumped up on his feet this morning
threw up his hands he’s real tall and he
was praising God didn’t just hit me
there’s one of those key people because
he started out poor and broke you
wouldn’t believe how poor he was you
should hear his story but now he owns I
think it’s about eight McDonald’s
he owns the franchises the whole thing
and then fitting on the front road with
the guy named Zach Laroy and he started
a little chicken firm a little chicken
shop down the road in Athens just fried
chicken and a piece of bread is how he
started it now it’s Zaxby’s chicken
we’re sitting on it’s sitting on the
front row I’m saying to you you don’t
believe what I’m preaching I know what
I’m talking about God is bringing into
your dream key people from the north
south east and west I want you to
believe the spirit of the carpenters
coming on you
you’re going to do what God but you’re
going to build what God told you to feel
you’re going to rained up what God said
you’re going to raise up the third thing
I heard the Lord say is I will break the
spirit of limitation and I will break
the back whoo I love that I heard in my
spirit the Lord say today if you will
proclaim it I will break the back of the
spirit of failure well I just spoke it
and if you believe it respond and God
Rebecca died I do believe it
hindering spirits will move no man will
stand before you success will come from
the north the South the east and the
West here’s a big one and your head will
be lifted up just because it’s never
been done does it mean you weren’t doing
it no man will be able to stand before
you so I close with this my God will
make you an asset owner a land possessor
a wise investor a kingdom builder
opportunities are coming to you a new
level of success is coming to you key
people key people are coming into your
life I come with the Spirit of the
carpenter some of you came in here but
you’re leaving here because I come with
the spirit of the carpenter Jesus Christ
and I build you up in your face to tell
you that God is going to bless you with
good success if you’ll put him first in
your life well I just want to thank you
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the God who picks us up and restarts our
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temptation in Jesus name Amen and amen
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