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I’m gonna be speaking out of Exodus
chapter 14 I’m gonna start in verse 10
and my text says and when if a row drew
near the children of Israel lifted their
eyes and behold the Egyptians marched
after them so they were afraid and the
children of Israel cried out to the Lord
you see the Israelites have left to
Egypt on the promise that God had
something better for them and they
stepped out on faith because they
believe that what God said was going to
actually come to fruition but now that
they have stepped out on faith they see
that the Egyptians are trailing right
behind them and so right now what
they’re standing in doesn’t look like
what God promised them and as they see
the Egyptians coming up against them
they cry out to the Lord and they said
to Moses because there were no graves in
Egypt have you taken us away to die in
the wilderness
why have you so dealt with us to bring
us out of Egypt is this not the word
that we told you in Egypt saying let us
alone that we may serve the Egyptians
for it would have been better for us to
serve the Egyptians than that we should
die in the wilderness and Moses said to
the people do not be afraid stand still
and see the salvation of the Lord
what she will accomplish for you today
not when he’s not gonna accomplish it
next week he doesn’t need ten more years
to do it
he said stand still and see the
salvation of the Lord
that he’s gonna accomplish for you today
for the Egyptians whom you see today you
shall see again no more forever the Lord
will fight for you and you shall hold
your peace and the Lord said to Moses
why do you cry to me tell the children
of Israel to go forward keep moving in
the direction that I said I know the
Egyptians are coming I know the fear is
upon you but keep moving in the
direction that I first declared when I
started this thing he said but lift up
your rod and stretch out your hand over
the sea and divide it and the children
of Israel shall go on dry ground through
the midst of the city 5 God whatever you
want to see happen whatever you want to
say whatever this moment is supposed to
be god I turn it over to you and I say
have your way you know every burden you
know every obstacle you know every trial
represented in this room but you also
know every victory attached to this pain
and so god I am asking that this would
be a moment where you sit in this room
where you would sit down in the depths
of our souls than the depths of our
fears and our insecurities and that
ultimately you would make your throne
God dethrone every fear God dethrones
every sense of anxiety god dethrone
everything that is keeping us from
keeping you in the center of our lives
so that we can no longer be dissuaded
from what you said about us which you
spoke over our lives but we will
locked in and steadfast and what you
said got no room for anxiety no fear
just your strength your power your
anointing standing tall in me
in Jesus name and then I still get
seated there are all of these theories
about if you really want to know a
person and you can look at their
children or if you really want to know a
person you can look at their marriage
you can look at their work but I
personally believe that if you really
want to know a person you should look at
what they order on Amazon I’ll tell you
everything you need to know about
somebody we put y’all’s the Amazon
history up here some of you I would act
like I have never seen that before I
don’t know who that person is that is
fraud I love that though because Amazon
is literally a store where you can get
anything from but it didn’t really start
that way
Amazon started in 94 is simply an online
book store but he knew in the midst of
starting it as an online book store that
ultimately he wanted it to be in
everything store but he realized in
order for it to get to what he had in
mind that there would have to be some
turns of events he’d have to be willing
to change his method to get to what he
had in mind and so the title of this
message for those of you who like to
take notes is turn of events turn of
events and I want to talk about the way
that there are a turn of events in our
lives that if we are not careful will
convince us that God has changed his
mind when in actuality he’s changed his
method
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he is the same today yesterday and
forevermore he doesn’t change his mind
but he does change his method if we
study the Bible we will see ultimately
it is a story of how God has changed his
method time after time to get us to what
he originally had in mind so he start
off in the garden humanity and we are
connected to him that’s what he has in
mind and then we are separated from him
and so the Bible tells the story of all
of these different methods that God uses
to ultimately get us to Jesus in the
Holy Spirit so we can return to what he
had in mind when he created us in the
garden he changes his method started off
the garden then we had the tabernacle of
Moses then we had the tabernacle of
David then we had the temple of Solomon
and then we have Jesus Christ this isn’t
us just coming up with a ways to
experience God this is God placing
something within our heart so that we
can get reconnected to him because at
the end of the day we were created in
the image of God and how can you begin
to reflect the image of God unless you
are connected to him because you are
going to reflect whatever you are
connected to I don’t know if you’ve ever
been in the presence of someone who
struggles with fear or they struggle
with insecurity and then you go back
home and you’ve picked up some of those
fears and you’ve picked up some of those
insecurities because we begin to reflect
what we’re connected to but God says is
if I can get them to be connected to me
again if I can get them to be linked up
with me again then they can see
themselves the way that I see them and
so when we find the Israelites in this
text they’re on this journey to get into
positions so that they can be can
connected to God but God has changed his
method and I feel like this is an
important message for some of the people
in this room and in this season because
when God changes his method it is
challenging for us to not believe that
he has changed his mind because his
method has to change because he’s not
predictable and his method changes
because in the process of his method
changing he adds depth and layers to who
you are that you would not have had had
it gone the way that you thought it was
going to go had Amazon just stayed an
online bookstore it would have never
realized the full potential of taking
over Whole Foods of creating physical
bookstores but in the process of their
method being changed they learned what
works and what didn’t work they learned
when the timing was and when the timing
was not there’s something that happens
when God changes his method that changes
your experiences and changes your
exposure and changes your education you
need God to change his method
he can’t be predictable or you’ll be
able to tell the outcome I need you to
change your method you get created when
God changes his method when God changes
his method it changes you but we have to
decide which direction we allow that
change to take place because we must
decide that when God changes his method
that we don’t change our mind set your
mind on things above that setting is an
establishing I’m going to establish my
mind on things above why do I have to
set
mind on things above because if I don’t
set my mind on things above when God
changes his method I will forget what he
had in mind but if I can set my mind on
things above I’m not swayed when he
changes his method cuz my mind is not
set on his method my mind is set on what
he said it on I got to say that until
you get it down in your spirit I’m not
married to the method god I don’t care
how you do it
you can bless me any way you see fit god
I don’t care who you use God I don’t
care what city I’m in god I don’t care
what movie it is god I don’t care what
your job it is all I’m saying is that
you made me a promise and I set my mind
on the promise I’m not married to the
method I’m married to what you had in
mind my mind is set on what you have in
mind so when the method changes I have
to learn to adjust and sometimes I have
to forgive you for changing the method
because God does not alert us when he
changes the method we just look up and
there’s been a turn of events wait a
minute God how is it possible that you
told me what you had in mind and I
started moving according to what you
said you had in mind but now there seems
to be a change of your methods when
Moses goes to free the Israelites there
are 10 plagues and he ultimately
convinces them that they can leave Egypt
and so they are used to God showing up
in a way that says I’ve got your back
I’ve got you covered if you move I’m
gonna move on your behalf anything that
comes against you I’m going to cast down
God has
many ways freed them from their
oppression but yet their oppression is
still trailing behind them have you ever
thought that you were free from
something have you ever thought that you
wouldn’t have to face anything again and
all of a sudden that struggle that you
thought had overcome comes up running up
behind you in the middle of nowhere
right when you were getting your joy
back right when you were getting your
peace back now here comes that same old
devil
now here comes that same old depression
now here comes that same old enemy and
God says I told the enemy where you were
because I wanted to lead them into the
Red Sea there was something about that
enemy get in my notes I see they came to
show out today so Israel is moving in
the direction that God says and then at
the beginning of my text he says to
Moses that they should turn and camp
before this place in Egypt and in
between the sea so I’m headed in one
direction and God says I want you to
turn and the position that I’m gonna
have you turn in means that you’re going
to be sandwiched between Egypt’s
territory and the sea I’m gonna just
break it down because I want you to
understand what’s happening in the text
he puts them in a position where it
looks like they’re gonna lose because he
wants it to be a signal to Egypt that
maybe they’re confused but he tells
Moses before he even leads him into what
looks like a trap that I’m going to use
their pride against them because if
Egypt begins to think that you’re
confused they’re going to think that you
are weaker than
you really are and they won’t realize
that I’ve got this sea working on my
behalf God I need there are some
territories that God has ordained you to
break open and it looks like you’ll
drown in those territories and it looks
like you’ll be stuck in those
territories but God has already equipped
you with what you need to divide those
territories so while everyone else
thinks you’re confused and while
everyone else thinks your laws Moses and
God have an insider that it’s going to
look like I’m lost and confused but at
the end of the day you’re going to make
sure that that my enemies recognize that
you set a table before me that there’s
something happening that they cannot see
that you need me to look weaker than I
really am this is not at all what I
wrote in my notes but I feel like
somebody is sandwiched between an enemy
and incy I feel like somebody’s stuck
between what they thought was going to
be freedom but it looks like I’m going
back to who I used to be it looks like
I’m going back to the mindset I used to
have and I hear God’s saying I position
you there for a reason so that it would
look like a loss to everyone else but
ultimately it would be my creativity
breaking some things open I feel like
God wants some
know that that see that is ahead of you
was a box apart open how am I gonna do
what I’m gonna use what’s already in
your hand I’m gonna use what you already
have in your possession
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Moses has this this rod that he doesn’t
fully understand what all it can do but
God says what you have in your hands
that thing that you’re carrying that you
don’t know how to fully I don’t know how
to fully use this thing
I only know I can walk with it I don’t
know what else that can do but I hear
God said I’m gonna show you how to use
that thing you’ve been carrying to do
more than just walk I’m going to show
you how to use that rod and break some
things open I’m going to show you how to
use that gift and break some things open
I must show you how to walk into that
boardroom I will show you how to walk
into that industry and break some things
open I need you to look like you lost it
I need you to look like you’re confused
so that you can break some things open
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cuz I’m gonna show you how to use that
rod and a place where that rod wouldn’t
even make sense
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that rod is helpful in the wilderness
but it doesn’t look like that rod can
work in this scene it seems like that
rod would get drowned in this scene but
God said you are the wilderness where I
send you that rod is going to work where
I place you it’s going to work
I feel God saying prophetically that I
did not lead you into that dream I did
not lead you into that business I did
not lead you into that idea so that you
could drown I sent you in there carrying
a rod a rod that’s going to break some
things open it’s not just a ministry
it’s not just a book it’s not just a
soda
baby that’s arrived and if you ever take
what’s in your hand and stretch it out
all for what’s in front of you
I didn’t change my mind
I just changed my method it’s a turn of
events but it’s all still working in
your favor so you got to get your mind
in my mind God’s mind back in alignment
because if we agree in the same mind
then I can show you how to use what you
have in your hand Moses plays the most
important part in this whole narrative
because if Moses can stay connected to
God
Egypt can be confused and Israel can be
confused but Moses is the one who can
hear what God is really doing and if
Moses can hear what God is really doing
then he can learn how to use what God
has already given them everything you
need God’s already given you when God
first has an encounter with Moses in the
burning bush he says to Moses what is
that in your hand was his rod and he
tells him to throw it down and that rod
turns into a serpent and then he picks
it back up and it turns into a rod again
that same rod that he carried into his
encounter with God would be the rod that
God would use to part the Red Sea this
is perhaps the most meaningful miracle
that Israel would ever witness because
it would show that God could use
anything
he can’t use anything to break over
break open what seemed impossible god I
sit over I don’t know who is in this
room but there are some things that look
impossible for you to break open and
when you look at what you have in your
inventory you don’t have nothing but a
rod that’s only good on land but I’m
going into a sea that looks like it can
take me under and God is saying I’m
gonna make the territory I’m gonna make
the territory Bend until it can become
what your tools can use I gotta say that
the way I see it God says I’m gonna use
what you have and I’m going to show you
how to turn what is ahead of you into
what works for what you have so Moses
and Israel and Egypt and you have been
in a season where it seems like maybe
you stepped out on faith and God changed
his mind and I feel like more than
anything that what God desires is for
you to bring your mind back into
alignment so that you are not moved when
the method changes Israel took their
eyes off of what God said and turned it
to the Egyptians that were coming behind
them and then it changed their language
they stepped out on faith they stepped
out in belief that the promised land was
available to them but the moment they
stopped looking at that word and stop
looking at that vision
that God had set before them it made the
Egyptians appear greater than they
actually were but there was a reason
that God gave them the vision before he
gave them the struggle God gave you the
vision before you encountered the
struggle because the vision is a weapon
when the struggle comes upon you because
if you can remember what God had in mind
you won’t be moved by the circumstances
that are around you you fight the vision
you fight this struggle with the vision
I must say that again until you get that
down in your soul because somebody has
been fighting the wrong devils and
you’ve been fighting with the wrong
tools and you think it’s about the
industry and you think it’s about the
Egyptians and you think it’s about a
marriage and you think it’s about your
finances the fight is over your vision
because if I can get you to change your
vision then I can make your struggles
seem bigger than what it really is but
if you would dare start fighting that
vision with that strutting that struggle
with that vision then God can show you
what he really has in mind God gave me a
vision about who I can become God gave
me a vision about what I can do in the
earth so I know it didn’t work out the
way I wanted it to but that’s alright
because I still got my vision that’s
okay because I’m fighting that struggle
with this vision because God is not a
man that he should lie and the vision
maybe tarrying but I’m a weight on it
because God did not give me that vision
to let me down
and God did not give me that vision to
torment me and to haunt me God said that
I would be the one who could break that
generational curse God said that I would
be the one that teaches my family how to
do business on a different level God
told me that he gave me a vision I
didn’t even want the vision until God
gave it to me Israel wasn’t trying to be
free they were fine being in captivity
but God gave them a vision that made
them question their captivity and there
are some people in this room who didn’t
even know that they were held captive
until God gave them a vision that
changed their thinking and because she
gave me that vision that made me change
my mind
I can’t go back I just gotta fight this
struggle with that vision and I wanted
you to know that that vision is stronger
than that struggle I swear I mean that
because that vision has God’s
endorsement on it that vision has God’s
power on it that vision has God’s
provision on it that vision has God’s
favor on it I came here to tell you to
get back to the vision I know he changed
his method on you I know we broke your
heart a little bit in the process I know
you got a little bit disappointed but I
came here to tell you to get back on
your square baby we got a game to fight
out here we got a kingdom to establish
and I can’t do it just by myself I need
some warriors to activate couple an
activator
I need my warriors to get back in
position hell you may have had me for a
minute but I’m taking my mind back
I’m taking my vision back I’m stirring
up a gift of God that’s not only inside
of me
it’s time to start writing again it’s
time to start producing again it’s time
to start creating your own stuff I don’t
need nobody to do it for me I’ll do it
by myself
it’s time for you to get back to the
person who he gave the promise to
because the vision changes you and if
you allow the fear and anxiety to make
you shrink then you are no longer the
person he gave the promise to I didn’t
give my promise to that version of who
you were I gave that promise to a vision
of you who believes my word who trusted
that I was the one who could show up for
you who trusted that I was the one who
could part the Red Sea who trusted that
I had the Promised Land and you got to
get back to that version of you so that
he can show you how to use what you have
because you’ve already got what you need
you just don’t know how to use it and he
says to Moses he says Moses take the
ride your ride take your ride the thing
that is already within your possession
and put it in your hand
he didn’t say go find a ride he didn’t
say wait for somebody to hand you
something but use the resources that you
currently have
to divide the red see that looks like it
could drown you to divide that obstacle
to break that up in a way that makes you
realize that when you take what you have
and turn it over to what he has in mind
that he does the supernatural on your
behalf
God says I know what it’s gonna take to
part the Red Sea because I created the
Red Sea I know what it’s gonna take for
Pharaoh to back up off of you because
I’m the one who said they were after you
because I wanted him to know that once
you get finished chasing after them I’m
gonna take this same sea that I divided
for them and close it so that this
Pharaoh this enemy that you see today
you will see no more and I just want
somebody to know that when God gets
finished changing his method on you but
it’s gonna stop every enemy in its track
but it’s gonna make the industry look at
you different but it’s gonna make the
community look at you different because
I don’t know what method that is that
God used on them but it shifted not just
who they could become but how I viewed
them when it looked like their back was
against the wall God showed me that he
would tear the wall down not my notes
but I do believe that the principle of
this message is for those of us who have
been frustrated and disappointed because
it feels like the method has changed and
if I’m honest god I wanted it to happen
a certain way I was expecting for the
method to be a little bit smoother than
it was honestly I thought that my
hardest battle would be stepping out on
faith and so I only had enough faith to
step out on faith because I thought the
blessing would come the moment that I
did it but God said you were looking for
the outcome and I was trying to raise
the nation and because I’m trying to
raise the nation through you I’ve got to
show you who all I came and what all I
can do so I had to change the methods so
that you understand the fullness of what
you get when you get me I had Israel
just walked out of Egypt and right into
the Promised Land they would have
thought they would have not realized the
fullness of what they got when they
stepped out on God’s Word but because
God changed the method on them several
times then they recognized the fullness
of what they got I got a way Maker
I got a miracle worker I got a promise
keeper
I got a healer I got a provider and I
would have never known that unless he
changed his method and so I want to give
somebody 10 seconds to praise God for
the fact that he shame
just meant it god I thank you that you
changed your method because I know you
better than I would have known you
before had she just done what I thought
you were gonna do the way that you did
it I would have never started that own
business I would have never found myself
on my knees calling on the name of God I
would have never met that friend I would
have never met that husband but she
changed her method on me shouldn’t have
even been in this city but she changed
her method she shouldn’t have even had
that job but she changed your method and
when you changed your method you changed
me and when you changed me I became
better I became wiser I became stronger
I lost some things along the way but I
gained more of who I was and I gained
more knowledge about who you are
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I want to have a moment of Prayer for
those of you who almost need to forgive
God for changing his method this is a
personal thing to admit to but it is a
real thing and the reason why I think it
is necessary for us to admit our
disappointment is because when we don’t
address it it becomes a blockage and we
don’t receive the fullness of who God is
and the fullness of what he can do with
what we have left but he changed his
method on you I thought it was supposed
to be acting I thought it was supposed
to be singing I thought it was supposed
to be easier by now I should have been
that millionaire by now I should have
been discovered by now because what you
told me you had in mind doesn’t look
like where I am and if I’m honest I’m
beefing we got a little bit and I want
to get back in position to a place where
I trust that he hasn’t changed his mind
even when he has changed his method and
so there are some things in my heart
that I need to release because I know
they’re keeping me from seeing the
fullness of who I am in him if that’s
you I want you to come God God changed
his method
God said I would be happily married I’m
going through a divorce how is that
possible God said that child would be
saved it seemed like that child is going
through more hell than I could have ever
imagined God how how is that what you
had in mind this doesn’t look like what
you had in mind
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god I know what you said god I was
supposed to be this I was supposed to be
that and there has been a turn of events
that has made me question whether or not
I should have even started this in the
first place God to my pride get me into
this
God was this my ego I thought it was you
but this turn of events looks like so
much hell I can’t even imagine that it
started with you how could it be that
this happened who says I didn’t I didn’t
change my mind I changed my method so
get back in alignment with me so you can
see how I’m going to do it now because
when we become disconnected from God
because of how he changes his method
then we rob ourselves from any access to
even getting to what God said because
now I can’t hear him anymore
he can’t call the shots in my life
anymore because I’m so upset I don’t
trust him like I used to trust him I
don’t believe him like I used to believe
him there’s somebody in this room and
you’re charging God with what someone
else did and because someone else
disappointed you because someone else
failed you now you don’t even trust God
God says I didn’t have nothing to do
with that that was brokenness that was
their brokenness but what I’m telling
you is I can even heal what they broke
on the inside of you don’t hold me to
their actions I’m bigger than that I’m
better than that
and it was important that Israel got
back into position and that they trusted
that Moses still had a word for them
because it would be through that word
that the Red Sea was parted I trust God
I trust them I really do I trust them
because I have seen him time after time
after time I swear I’ve seen it take my
ideas and taking my plans and blow him
to pieces and then put together
something that I never even thought that
I could have done I thought I had to go
through the wilderness I didn’t think I
could part a Red Sea but God showed me
that if you listen to what I said the
impossible becomes possible with me I’ve
seen them show up in my life too many
times to turn around and give up now
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and sometimes he positions us in such a
way that the only option is to trust him
or to go back into captivity if Israel
had not trusted God then the Egyptians
would have caught them and they would
have gone back to who they used to be
and I feel like those of you who have
been feeling stuck and stagnant are
really just in a position where you have
to choose you have to choose I can
either trust God or I can go back to who
I used to be but I will declare and
decree that right now in the name of
Jesus that enemy that you see today you
will see no more forever you will see no
more forever because you’re gonna step
into a new level of trusting God where
you’re gonna realize that I have the
victory over every enemy that has been
haunting me
and taunting me and chasing me down I
gotta trust God lift your hands father
God
father we trust you and we haven’t
always trusted you because God afore
honest there have been some things that
have happened in our life that has made
us believe that you were not the safe
place that you are and we realize now
God that because you make all things
work together and because your ways are
not our ways and your thoughts are not
our thoughts that you were calling us
higher in moments where we just want it
to be met where we were and so god I
believe that as these hands are lifted
over this altar that you are raising us
higher in the spirit realm that you are
raising us above the disappointment that
you are raising us above those fears and
above those anxieties that God you are
lifting us out of the circumstance that
is there to define us and you are
helping us to set our mind on those
things that are above God I’m asking
right now in the name of Jesus that
there would be a relocation that takes
place at this altar if you’re not at
this altar and you know that you need to
be here I want you to get as close as
you can cuz we’re about to pack up the
moving trucks and we’re being relocated
I’m taking my mind back and I’m setting
it on the things that are above I see
you coming
I see hell get nervous I see the
Egyptians getting scared
I see that enemy chasing you down God
I’m moving my mind I’m not gonna stay
and the mindset that she would failed me
because you are not a failure I’m not
gonna stay in the mindset that I am a
failure because you have said that I’m
more than a conqueror I changed my mind
hell I changed my mind depression I
changed my mind suicide I am who God
says I am I can do what God says I can
do I’m gonna write the book anyway I’m
gonna help the family anyway I don’t
know how I’m gonna do it but I’m gonna
take my ride and I’m gonna divide
whatever stands in my way
so God I’m asking that you would reveal
what is already in their possession God
brings it to their mind right now God
you’ve already given them an idea for a
script God you’ve already put them in
the mind of a mentor God reveal what is
already in their hands that you can use
to separate and divide this see that is
ahead of them God may they never ever
second-guess what you have given them
and where you have called them when it
looks like they could fail because they
will live in the constant consciousness
that God has not changed his mind that
in spite of their flaws in spite of
their second-guessing and spotted their
fears and insecurities that you still
think they’re fearfully and wonderfully
made that the only reason why you still
have them on this earth is because they
are an agent of change and so god we
receive that identity we lay hold of it
right now and whenever a thought would
wage war against this knowledge and make
us believe that we were better off
without that vision of the promised land
that we were better off without that
freedom coming god I ask that you would
remind them that you would send them a
messenger that you would send them a
word that says you are exactly where I
need you to be trust me
walk with me allow me to guide you
because I see a vision of yourself that
far exceeds what you currently see
repeat after me Heavenly Father thank
you for opening my eyes to who you said
I could be
I’m sorry that there have been moments
where I didn’t believe it I get back in
position I’ve changed my mind
I trust you even when I don’t know the
method you’re going to use I trust what
you have in mind
so transform my mind to reflects your
mind so that I am not moved by the
method because I’m committed to the
messenger thank you for Jesus may the
mind that is in Christ also be in me a
mind of victory a mind of overcoming a
mind of submission to your wheel and a
mind of freedom over every darkness
every fear every pain and every
insecurity I receive his mind I received
that truth in Jesus name Amen
can you celebrate with me
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you