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hey family I’m pastor tor a pastor Sara
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word I want you to get with the glory
that’s taking place right now
God is moving yeah you’re gonna see it
you’re gonna see everything that God has
promised you I feel the Spirit of God
something is breaking right now it’s
breaking
it’s breaking in your house it’s
breaking in your circumstances
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hallelujah listen family there are
moments when the Lord says enough is
enough and I believe that someone who’s
watching right now I believe that God is
saying over your circumstances enough is
enough I cannot wait to get into this
word it is gonna bless you and let me
tell you really quickly what my
assignment is today I’ve been praying
and if you’ve been around me or this
movement for any length of time you know
I don’t do sermons but I do prophetic
proclamations that thing that God is
doing that he wants you to know and to
understand and so I believe that God
wants me to both prophesy and to prepare
you for what’s next and oftentimes we
are so consumed with what is now that we
don’t take the opportunity to consider
what is next and that is not thinking
like God thinks God declares the end
from the beginning he plans the end from
the beginning he decrees the end from
the beginning and if we’re going to be
children of God we we have to have a
next mentality and so so I was thinking
that there is a song by this great
musician songwriter JJ Hairston and he’s
got a song and that song is a song that
says there will be glory after this
there’s gonna be glory after this and
and I believe my assignment today my
assignment today is to bring you into
the reality of a coming latter glorion
hear me I’m gonna say it again my
assignment is to bring you into the
reality of a coming and impending letter
glory do me a favor put it in the
comments or or tell somebody who’s next
to you if you’re by yourself talk to
yourself I give you permission to talk
to yourself right now and just type or
say there will be glory after this that
they will come out just do it that there
will be glory after the
or if you want to shorten it you want to
truncate it glory after this just put it
there right now glory after this even as
you’re typing it you’re gonna feel
something lift you’re gonna feel a
breakthrough in your spirit and that’s
my mandate today I believe that God
wants me to begin to push you into the
future to push you out of the moment
that you’re in and beginning to push you
push you push you into the purposes of
God for you because I believe that it’s
it’s time to start thinking about life
after this that’s my title
it’s my subjects my ultimate thought for
today is after this after this after
this and I want to draw your attention
as I was praying about what passage of
Scripture would speak to the moment that
we’re in and would corroborate this
prophetic declaration that there’ll be
glory after this and to really bring us
into the after this mentality the Lord
dropped first Peter chapter 5 and my
spirit beginning at verse 6 we’re going
to read verse 6 3:11 it reads like this
it says therefore humble yourselves
under the mighty hand of God that he may
exalt you in due time casting all your
care upon him for he cares for you be
sober be vigilant because your adversary
the devil walks about like a roaring
lion seeking whom he may devour it says
resist him steadfast in the faith
knowing that the same sufferings are
experienced by your Brotherhood in the
world but may the God of all Grace who
called us to his eternal glory by Christ
Jesus after you have suffered a while
may the god of grace perfect
establish strengthen and settle you to
him be the glory and the Dominion
forever and ever amen
can I pray for you father we thank you
for this moment we thank you for your
word it’s a lamp into our feet it is
enlightened to our path and the
beginning was your word and the Word was
with you and the Word was you and we’re
so grateful that we have this
opportunity to eat this opportunity to
feast this opportunity to experience the
bread of heaven that nourishes us
hallelujah it is the bread of truth that
lets us know God what’s going on in how
to position ourselves father I thank you
for the spirit of wisdom and revelation
and insight knowledge and prophecy I
want to be used by you today unlike ever
before to to announce your plans and to
prepare your people for the awesome
things that you have in store for them
so god I love you I thank you I praise
you I consider it done I thank you for
healing I thank you for victory I thank
you for blessing and breakthrough and we
pray these things in the matchless and
in the mighty name of Jesus amen
hey man god bless you I want to I want
to teach a little bit today after this I
really sense that that now that the
shock of this pandemic prayerfully has
settled in I really believe that now is
a time for us to begin to rise up and to
seek what God knew before this pandemic
even began there’s a shift that’s taking
place in my life and and I believe that
God wants it to take place in your life
where where I am moving away from these
sometimes subconscious instability of
uncertainty and I’m moving into this
place where I am beginning to intently
imagine what life post pandemic is
supposed to look like for me I’m
beginning to to stare at where we are
and and to release my imagination about
the future with a an acute curiosity
about the new world that is emerging and
what my place in this new world is gonna
be I’m thinking about life after this
and my imagination has has moved past
the notion of whether or not I will
survive I’m over that I’m over this
survival phase I’m past that because the
Lord has sustained me and if you’re
watching he has sustained you too it
doesn’t mean that I’m going to throw off
being safe and being wise that that’s
not what I’m talking about
that’s just wisdom but but I’m out of
I’m outside of this this subconscious
instability that is created by
uncertainty and because I believe that
God is moving us to into a time where we
need to begin to ponder live after this
I’m moving into this space family where
I am wandering and I’m seeking and I’m
imagining what the reinvention of me is
gonna look like in this new world I feel
the Holy Spirit God did not ordained for
you and I to remain the same he sent
literally a global shaking a global
shaking and the only reason why God
would do a global shaking as if God
wanted to reintroduce you to the world
in which he has placed you in are you
tracking with me if you’re taking notes
write this down because these are some
of the questions that I want you to
ponder
what does the reinvention of me look
like I want you to ask God that you got
what does and I want you to ponder it
what
what does Who am I now I know who I was
before but God Who am I now and I want
to caution you to be very slow to get
into rhythms and familiar disciplines
off the Holy Spirit it is easy now as as
we start moving into a time we’re not
there yet but we will be there soon
where there will be a rolling out of
normalcy it is easy for you and I to to
lock back into rhythms and disciplines
that are familiar but that will be a
grave mistake keep me from frivolous
rhythms keep me from any rhythm I
haven’t thought and prayed it through
it’s a time for us to really seek God’s
face and to understand watch this what
God’s interpretation of me is post
pandemic God saw a different version of
you before he even allowed the pandemic
to come and so there is an expectation
not only does God have an expectation
but all of creation everything in this
universe has an expectation on who you
and I emerge as post pandemic don’t be
so quick to get into it rhythms don’t
don’t be so quick to to jump into
familiar disciplines under the guise
under the notion of getting busy and I’m
not talking about let me just clarify
I’m not talking about stagnation I’m
talking about activation there is a
difference stagnation watch this
stagnation
is doing nothing activation is about
posturing myself for God’s elevation I’m
saying it again stagnation is about
doing nothing activation has to do with
how I posture myself for God’s elevation
because watch this because I understand
that I cannot activate myself but I can
prostrate myself I can lay my heart out
I can I can submit to God I I can come
to this place where I prostrate myself
and totally submit to the Almighty God
who has the whole world in his hand and
that brings us to the text I love this
passage of Scripture and I got to be
honest with you there are things in this
pastor scripture that I had never seen
before and they’re jumping out at me and
so in the text it says therefore
therefore humble yourselves under the
mighty hand of God what is he how is
this relate to the moment that we’re in
here is the truth our entire world has
had to humble ourselves under God’s
mighty hand this pandemic has been
bigger than us
it’s baffled scientists to a certain
degree it is shaken the faith community
in a way that the faith community
arguably has never been shaken in modern
times right and the reality of it is and
we’re praying and many of us have prayed
and said God indeed God will you stop it
and guess what it did not stop and so
what we had to do was we ultimately had
to come to a place where we submitted
ourselves under the mighty hand of God
look at this invitation look at this it
says there’s such an interesting balance
between God’s character and does nature
here it says therefore humble yourselves
under the mighty hand of God it says
that he may exalt you in due time
casting all your care upon him for he
cares for you that it’s it’s this is
this is a crazy a crazy verse a crazy
couple of verses
because here we see power and then
tenderness in the same package it talks
about it speaks to to the sovereignty of
God
it speaks to God being the Almighty so
much so that every knee has to bow and
every tongue has to confess every
government has to submit ultimately to
the will of God
this is how awesome and how magnanimous
God is everybody the great have had to
bow down to God money couldn’t get you
out of this status couldn’t get you out
of this followers on social media
couldn’t get you out of this you there
was no calling card out of this off the
entire world had to bow down and seek
God in a fresh new way so we’re talking
about the the might of God but what’s
interesting is in the midst of the might
in the midst of the sovereignty of God
we also see the tenderness of God look
at it it says humble yourselves in the
de mighty hand of God that he may exalt
you in due time casting all your care
upon him for he cares for you that kind
of blew me away a little bit because it
it expresses all this power yet it also
communicates that God is disposed
towards us as individuals with a deep
concern and care and even an open
invitation for you and I to cast our
cares upon him even the cares that have
to do with what God has allowed to
happen in our world he didn’t do it but
he allowed it I love that humbling
ourselves submitting submitting to the
purposes and the plans of God submitting
watch this to the mystery of God
submitting to the unknown of God
submitting to the unfamiliar submitting
to that God says if you submit I want to
make this plain God says if you submit
if
you if you accept that you submit what I
to what I am doing and do time I’m gonna
exalt you that’s what I mean by
activation right I cannot activate
myself but I can humble myself and if my
humble myself and I come to this place
where I accept what God is doing because
I trust the one who has allowed it to
take place he says I’m gonna activate
you and ultimately I’m gonna elevate you
are you tracking with me but then this
passage of Scripture takes take somewhat
of a turn because in verse eight all of
a sudden the enemy the adversary as that
scripture put put it is brought into the
equation and it almost seems out of
place because this conversation is
between us and God God essentially
saying humble yourself trust me submit
yourself to me and I will lift you up
right humble yourselves under my mighty
hand and I will lift you up and this was
a conversation because the enemy was
nowhere in it the adversary was nowhere
in it and but yet he’s introduced in
verse eight when he says be sober be
vigilant because your adversary the
devil walks about like a roaring lion
seeking whom he may devour and so why is
the adversary brought into what that we
used to say back in the day this is an A
and B conversation see your way out of
it you know anybody know what I’m
talking about and somebody would be
getting in your business and and it’d be
like yeah and you would just say you
probably not old are y’all known about
this but you just say this is an A and B
conversation see your way out of it you
don’t have talking about any way move on
from there but but but so there’s an A
and B conversation and then God brings
the enemy up and I believe that there’s
a reason for that because I believe what
God wants to do in this text and wants
to do in our lives right now is he wants
us to be better educated on who the
adversary of our lives is that word
adversary the word that was translated
average their adversary in that text
when it talks about be sober be vigilant
for your adversary right that word
literally means an A
hone it and not just any opponent but an
opponent in a lawsuit in a lawsuit so
your adversary your enemy the the one
who’s like a roaring lion seeking whom
he may devour is an opponent but he is
as if he is an opponent in a lawsuit
which means that what’s this if you’re
taking notes write this down your
adversary is an arguer of interpretation
you got to get to see how you dis you
your enemy is one who aims to argue
interpretation think about what a lawyer
does when when there’s a lawsuit taking
place you have two attorneys and what
those two attorneys are doing is they’re
aiming to watch this argue their
interpretation of the law on the behalf
of their client that’s what they do
they’re there they both have the
Constitution or whatever the laws of the
state are and they are arguing based on
their interpretation and the judge the
judge the job of the judge is to
decipher and to determine what the
accurate and truthful interpretation is
of the law so the words tells us that
our adversary the only power that the
adversary has over us is he attempts to
to pervert the character and the
intentions of God let me unpack that a
little bit there’s some right now
that believe that God has abandoned them
that God has forsaken them they believe
that God is not with them that God has
not for them how could God be for us if
these challenging and difficult things
have taken place in our life right and
and and the and the enemy exploits that
from the very beginning our adversary
watch this has been an exploiter and a
pervert
of the character of God all the way back
to the beginning you remember remember
when the
got in there with Adam and Eve and and
the adversary said did God really say
and then he takes it even further and he
says oh no no no no the only reason why
God said that is because watch this in
essence he said because God has an
agenda he says because God knows that if
you do this you will be like him so his
job from the very beginning was to
pervert the intentions and the
characteristic of God because watch this
he is an ardor arguer of interpretation
and he wants to give you a false
interpretation of this season so instead
of building instead of believing that
that greater days are coming instead of
believing that all things are going to
work together for good that you will
begin to pull back and you will begin to
not trust again and you will begin to
not dream again and you will begin to
back up and you will begin to not move
forward are you hearing what I’m saying
but we’re not going to do that because
we’re not ignorant to his devices and
we’re gonna do like the scripture says
we’re gonna be sober and we’re gonna be
vigilant but let’s unpack that even
further I was thinking about the enemy
and I had this thought about the enemy
and let me just tell you something I
don’t even like to I don’t even like to
talk about the enemy however there are
several passages of scripture that says
that that we should not be ignorant of
the enemy’s devices he is I’ll say it
again he is an arguer of interpretation
he wants you to see life to the lens of
death the lens of destruction and and
disparity
he is the agent of calamity but not the
authorizer of it I say often and it’s
it’s kind of a heavy thought but even
the devil is God’s devil and God will
cause anything that takes place in our
life to ultimately ultimately sometimes
beyond anything you’ll ever see in this
life but ultimately it will work
together for our good and so if you’re
taking notes write this down be careful
what you rebuke in this season be
careful what you rebuke in this season
because sometimes you will be rebuking
the plan of God and not knowing you have
to get to a place where you say God not
my will but your will be done because I
recognize that your thoughts are not my
thoughts and your ways are not my ways
they are higher so much higher how you
go about bringing a miracle to pass it’s
not how I would do it have you ever had
God do something for you in a way that
you would never have done it for
yourself you would have never taken that
route to get to that blessing what if
that blessing would have never taken
that route to get to that blessing only
to show up at that blessing through that
route and realize that God’s plan was
actually better than what you were
considering I know I have I want to go
further I want to go further because not
only is he educating us on how that the
adversary works in our lives who
incidentally is a thief and a robber but
he is also teaching us how to fight back
I feel this if we if we go back and we
look at verse 8 it says be sober be
vigilant because your adversary the
devil walks about like a roaring lion
seeking whom he may devour and I love it
and verse 9 he says resist him resist
them and I love it because this is not a
resisting like there’s an onslaught of
an attack coming your way and you just
oh please leave me alone
but this resisting literally means to
forcefully opposed and
I just believe that when you’ve got
thoughts coming your way that that speak
negatively towards you when you’ve got
thoughts coming your way that that try
to make you misinterpret the character
of God so much so that you want to leave
God altogether you have to allow
something to arise in your spirit right
there in that moment where you
forcefully oppose it I feel that that’s
some of you and you’ve got to learn to
cast down imaginations there’s some
under the sound of my voice right now
and and you’re gonna walk through a
season where where the enemy is gonna
throw all of these this false
interpretation of your circumstances at
you but but I’m believing God that
you’re gonna take God at His Word I just
feel this is for you right now I’m just
believing God that you’re gonna resist
that you’re gonna forcefully oppose
these words
and these weapons that are coming at you
God has not finished with you God is
just getting started with you this thing
is not gonna wipe you out
I hear God’s bang humble yourself under
the mighty hand of God and induced visa
he’s gonna insult Jews
if you don’t if you don’t let the enemy
Robbi of your testimony there’s a
passage of Scripture and it says they
overcame by the blood of the Lamb and by
the word of their testimony that means
that overcoming starts one with what
Jesus did but it also is completed by
the words that come out of your mouth I
want you to take about five seconds take
about five fingers and I want you just
to begin type what you’re believing God
for whatever the enemy is saying type
the opposite I feel the Holy Ghost
somebody somebody’s getting ready to get
their fight back you get ready to get
your testimony back this is not unto
death I command you to live right now
and not die the Spirit of God
resurrection power is fattening you
right now God is getting ready to move
in your life
ain’t nobody plan I didn’t come here to
play with you
I came to break a yoke off of your life
I came to get your testimony in fact I
came to rebuke me ever starett
no more can he lie no more can he
falsely interpret what God is doing in
this season I hear the Lord saying your
ladder it’s gonna be greater than your
former if you believe it it got a shout
of praise yes I’m tired of the adversary
tired of the adversary what’s this
walking about like a roaring lion he
ain’t even a real lion he’s faking his
war is fake I feel the Spirit of God but
the real lion
the Lion of the tribe of Judah is
roaring over your circumstances
Oh Oh God he’s gonna take everything
let’s try mistake you pop your God the
Lion of the tribe of Judah has Lord
you right now and you are getting ready
to come out of this thing with great
spoil I’m coming out
come on right there in the comments put
on coming out I’m coming out but I’ve
been ward over yes I’ve been ward over
the real lion has roared over my life
has brought over my circumstances oh yes
he has
oh yes he is he ain’t even a real life a
fake life a counterfeit line a bow lion
a bow lion I feel the Holy Ghost your
phone is a full lion and if you would
ever get a revelation that crater is he
who was in you if you would ever get a
revelation of that and start walking in
something different I believe that God
has ordained signs and wonders
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right out of your mouth resist resist
steadfast in the faith hallelujah
resist don’t nobody bring me no bad news
I’m going with don’t nobody bring me no
bad news for God says for I know the
plans I have for you plans to prosper
you and not to harm you to give you a
future and hope you’re not alive right
now by luck feel the Holy Spirit you’re
not watching this right now because you
barely made it you’re standing in the
deliverance of God right now sometimes
deliverance isn’t loud sometimes
deliverance isn’t boisterous sometimes
deliverance is just deliverance you’re
hearing this right now because you’re a
part of the latter glory there will be
glory after this I gotta move through
this there will be glory after this
there will be glory after this yeah he
says resist steadfastness in the faith
stay in the posture of faith stay in the
posture of faith so much to cover and he
says today he says that was seen verse 9
he says resist him steadfast in the
faith stay in the posture of faith and
then he says knowing that the same
sufferings are experienced by your
Brotherhood in the world knowing that
has to do with a mature discipline
consciousness are you checking with me
the way that you fight back is is having
a mature disciplined consciousness God
said that he hasn’t given us a spirit of
fear but of love power and a sound mind
that word sound literally means a
disciplined mind not a a mind that just
does whatever not a rebellious mind not
a runaway mind but a disciplined mind he
says he says knowing he says knowing
that has to do with
mine what you think what you meditate on
what your consciousness is he says
knowing watch this essentially he’s
saying knowing that this is normal
he’s very systems steadfast if they
watch this
knowing that the same sufferings are
experienced by your Brotherhood in the
world because a lot of times what the
liar will do why right the the arguer of
interpretation what he would do is he
would say you’re all by yourself you’re
cursed things are never gonna turn God
if God were with me how can this be not
realizing that that it is normal for
great people to experience great pain it
is normal for great people to experience
great struggle oh I can’t wait to keep
going and so so let me let me keep
moving I can touch on that all day but
but we got some ground to cover
and so so after he says resist him hold
steady in the faith have him a toward
mentality it says in verse 10 it says
but made the God of all Grace who called
us to his eternal glory by Jesus Christ
watch this well first of all listen up
right there may the God of all Grace who
called us to his eternal glory by Jesus
Christ did you hear that he says that
made the god of grace who has called us
to something and what God has called us
to through Christ his eternal glory I
feel the Holy Spirit I don’t even think
that our world and our culture really
truly understands what glory is we think
glory has to do with with physical
things I’ve seen wonderful thing I’ve
seen glorious quote unquote homes I’ve
seen glorious jewelry I’ve seen glorious
artwork I’ve seen glorious automobiles
and glory saying glorious looking people
but that is temporary glory
well God is talking about his eternal
glory glory that doesn’t fade because
the same car that you’re salivating over
today you’ll be trying to trade in in
four years the same house that you will
cut your right arm off to live in today
you live in it for a while and continue
to grow and you’ll be trying to sell it
I’m not talking about a temporary glory
people don’t understand many don’t
understand what glory truly is I’m
talking about an eternal glory the glory
that you and I watch this were created
to reflect
there will be glory after this I’m
announcing glory that speaks to your
divine worth is coming to you I feel it
and when God gets finished with you this
is prophetic for somebody when God gets
finished with you your shine will be
unmistakable I feel God it’s gonna be
unmistakable because watch this one
thing about the glory of God
it can’t be hidden it can’t be hidden
God is about to put a shine on you from
suffering to shine but let’s talk about
suffering it’s almost done here talk
about suffering now first of all if I
would have named this message suffering
you would have just went right on to the
next sermon you know now you can just
everybody sermons are just lined up
right there you just go right to the
next because no one wants to talk about
suffering and I understand that but let
me give you a different interpretation
of suffering and perhaps even the
purpose of suffering that were to suffer
is an interesting word because the Greek
word that was translated suffer
particularly in that text there was his
literally means passion passion or to
feel to feel or passion and so it really
speaks to the outcome of suffering
suffering has an end but what suffering
produces is glorious right because
suffering is never about destroying you
it is about destroying what’s not you so
that you can feel Oh God
you can feel and be passionate about
what the real you was created for
there’s a connection between suffering
and the discovery of purpose because
suffering going through things like
we’re all going through going through
things strips away the things that
actually don’t matter without some
it is very difficult for you and I to
decipher what is valuable versus what is
it what does matter versus what does it
matter and so since we have a difficult
time interpreting what is valuable then
God comes in and he shakes things and he
shows the futility of what is not worth
our energy and when that happens what he
says we feel because we are numbed by
what does it matter yeah catch what I’m
saying we live our lives family hear me
all of us are guilty of living our lives
numb by the things that don’t matter
which keeps us from feeling what we need
to feel and ultimately having the
passion for the things that you and I
were created to produce to pursue and to
create so so that’s why some of you in
this season right now child the passions
are coming back you you you you’re
because these things got removed from
you you’re thinking about other things
now it’s crazy because the suffering was
designed to cause the anesthesia to wear
off so that you can feel again and be
passionate again and maybe to be
passionate for the first time son
daughter you are a world changer you
more than getting a job you’re more than
finding a spouse you’re more than buying
your first home you’re more than
becoming the first millionaire in your
family you’re more than being the next
female multi billionaire you’re more
than that all those things are wonderful
but baby that’s temporary glory
you’re more than that and you will never
be more free you will never feel more
fulfilled and free than when you’re
walking in what you were created watch
this to feel for which what you were
created to feel because when you get
there that’s when all of heaven starts
backing you up
I feel the Holocaust that that’s when
heaven stands up and applause we we
talked about the great cloud of
witnesses that’s when the great cloud of
witnesses begin to cheer you more and
more because you have stumbled your way
into what you were created for are we
tracking so that pass that says but may
the God of all grace all grace all grace
grace is divine enablement divine
ability God is the God of all grace
that’s why he can make your latter
greater he’s the God of all grace that’s
why he can work a miracle in your life
right now he’s the God of all grace
whatever grace you need God’s got for
you he’s the God of all grace he says
who called us to eternal glory by Christ
Jesus watch this this God of all grace
says that he’s going to perfect you
establish you strengthen you and settle
you you’re saying pastor you missed
something
no I didn’t I’m telling you what he’s
gonna do but I am gonna tell you what
you have or had to walk through to get
there he says what this God of all grace
is gonna do is he’s going to perfection
that means to mature you to stretch you
maybe we’ll talk about it secondly he
says he’s going to establish you that’s
just to we’ll get into that to establish
you to strengthen you and to settle you
but not before he suffer for a little
while it’s speaking to the cycle of the
storm
every storm has a cycle the storm is
designed to do those four things to
perfect you to establish you to
strengthen you to settle you let’s talk
about perfecting you to perfect you is
to
what or you and often times to be
matured you and I must be stretched
because there is who we think we are and
then there is who God knows we are there
is our perceived capacity and then there
is our actual capacity and none of us
get to our actual capacity without being
stretched it’s interesting I was having
a conversation with my son the other day
and he mentioned to me that this
quarantine season was beginning to get
on his nerves real good and I say you
know what you’re right you know it’s
certainly around my nerves too I said
but let’s talk about let’s talk about
what’s going on and essentially what we
walked away with that from walked away
from that width was that he was feeling
and sensing the limitation right I said
well let’s talk about the limitation
well I can’t go anywhere and and you
know I can’t move I can’t move the way
that I normally move I said okay there
is a limitation I said what the
limitation is is only a physical
limitation I said and you are more than
a physical being and so so what I did we
we worked this exercise where we
identified the limitation and then we
thought about now if I’m only limited
physically and I’m more than a physical
being I am a spiritual being right
I am a mental being I am an emotional
being if I am limited here that doesn’t
mean that I have to be limited
everywhere and so so I said I’m limited
physically which is outwardly but maybe
God allowed me to be limited outwardly
so that he can expand me inwardly no I
feel it right there
because sometimes what I’ve learned is
that oftentimes God will restrict you in
one dimension to stimulate growth in
another dimension and so God might be
looking at us and and and we think we’re
good because we got the outside worked
out
but God is looking at us understanding
who we need to be in order to fulfill
our highest purpose and our highest
calling so he says let me restrict you
outwardly because I need to develop you
inwardly because you think you’re okay
because the outer world is telling you
okay but you were actually
underdeveloped inside I feel that what
what if God was allowing some of these
physical restrictions to expand us
spiritually emotionally mentally
question what are you doing now to
enhance and to expand the most valuable
part of who you are which is who you are
inwardly what are you doing
okay so so you know I can’t go anywhere
what book are you reading well I can’t I
can’t get in the car and go anywhere how
much time are you spending in the
presence of God what are you doing in
the area that has not been restricted
and I believe that the reason why God
allowed the physical restriction is
because he desired spiritual expansion
are you tracking with me so after after
we go through this process this is the
cycle of the storm he’s going to mature
us he’s going to stretch us and then it
says I’m gonna establish you now how are
you and I established we’re established
when we surrender to the process when we
surrender to the process
what was once a stretch becomes your new
normal
see see you’re gonna find yourself in
this cycle and the good news is we’re
coming out of this cycle right I can’t
be established until I surrender until I
humble myself under the mighty hand of
God till I surrender and say God not my
will but your will be done I will be who
you say I am and that’s how you you get
established but then there’s another
level
after you get established it says I’m
gonna perfect you the Lord the God of
all grace is gonna is gonna perfect you
he’s gonna establish you and then it’s
is gonna strengthen you what is that
like it’s after you’re stretched it’s
after you submit yourself to the
stretching and allow God to establish
new normals in your life there’s gonna
come a season where your confidence is
gonna come back where your sense of
victory
returns because you used to believe for
awesome things pre-pandemic and I
believe the adversary argued a different
interpretation of what was going on and
some of you got stuck and lost in to
survive mode but I believe that that
there’s a strength thing that’s coming
back to you oh I feel God your fight is
coming back your sense of victory is
coming back your confidence is coming
back and you’re gonna believe watch this
not for the things you used to believe
God for but you’re gonna believe for
even greater things because God’s gonna
strengthen you with his own strength and
then lastly he says after I perfect you
after I establish you after I allow
strength to arise in you God says I must
settle you you know I was thinking the
same God that allows the valley is the
one who settles on the mountaintop
that the same God that allows the valley
if God allowed a valley to take place in
your life and your family in this
country in this world you don’t think
that God can allow you to be positioned
on the mountaintop God’s gonna settle
you I’m thinking about no as I was
meditating on that last thought I was
thinking about Noah and how Noah built
the ark you all know it your reign for
40 days and 40 nights and I think that
maybe sometimes we overlooked the fact
that that it took a storm to produce the
rain we just think that this was just a
you know a joyful ride you know that
he’s in there and they’re two-by-two and
he’s with his family in the Anna was in
like a oh hey will in the boat wouldn’t
know it wasn’t like that it was a storm
and guess where the ark landed after the
storm
on a mountaintop I feel that the same
God the same God who ordained your
Valley has our day in your mountain when
God settles you what does it mean to be
settled what is he going to settle you
in he’s gonna settle you in into the new
he’s gonna settle you into the latter
glory and a full cycle of painful
confusing terrorizing promotion it’s
coming to your house I wanna pray for
you my assignment today is to get you
ready for life after this there will be
glory after this and I believe that God
wanted me to release this prophetic word
to you so that you’ll begin to look past
the moment that you’re in and you will
begin to prepare yourself for all the
things that are in store I want to pray
for you
I want to pray for you if you feel like
this word was for you and you’re gonna
humble yourself under God’s mighty hand
so that after you’ve suffered a while
after our country suffered a while after
our world has suffered a while he will
perfect you he will establish you
he was strengthen you and settle you if
you say I received that right there
right there in the comments they passed
our receiving I received but I receive
that God’s gonna is gonna perfect me
he’s gonna mature me he’s gonna stretch
me I receive it I receive it I receive
it he’s gonna establish me I receive it
I receive it I receive it right now I
feel broken but he’s gonna establish me
I receive it I receive it I receive it
he’s gonna strengthen me right now I
feel a little weak but God’s gonna
strengthen me he’s gonna strip to me I
receive it I receive it I receive it I
receive it I receive it he’s gonna
scrape to me he’s gonna strengthen me I
receive it I receive it I receive it I
receive it I receive it he’s gonna
strengthen me he’s going to saddle me
I’ve got a mountain I’ve got a mountain
there’s a mountain with my name on it
I’m not gonna be in the valley always
the same God who ordained the valley is
the God who ordained my mountains
weeping may endure for a night but joy
will come in the morning if you receive
it just put right there I receive I
receive it now there’s some who are
watching some who are watching and all
of this transpired as it relates to you
I’m talking about you and God I’m not
you and God not talk about your pain I’m
not talking about your fear I’m not
talking about what’s happening where I’m
telling you and God all this happened to
get you to Jesus all this happened to
get you to God hmm the father is
Almighty so mighty that the whole world
has to to humble ourselves under his
mighty hand
but then that same God says cast all
your cares upon me I care for you and
there will never be a second where God
doesn’t care for you
so if you’re here and you say I want to
embrace the love of God that was
perfectly demonstrated in the face of
Jesus I just want you to right there say
I opened my heart over my heart you feel
the warmth of the Father’s love peace
that passes all in the all understanding
has nothing to do with the season
there’s something happening in you in
you outwardly challenges but somehow
inwardly peace that’s him let him in
let’s say I receive I receive I receive
your love father I receive your gift
Jesus I receive your strength Holy
Spirit somebody it’s time for you to
come home
you’ve been calloused by life
you’ve been numbed by things that don’t
matter and I sense that this is coming
up I sense that even there’s been an
addiction that you know that you need to
deal with and and it’s been hurting you
and it’s it’s been numbing you and you
haven’t even been able to feel and if
you’re honest it’s messing with your
relationships if you’re honest and you
don’t like who you’re becoming you’re
there I see you I feel you God is
telling me that it’s you and God is
saying
I want to take that but the only way
that I can take it is if you offer it to
me I feel you I feel your hurt I feel
your pain right now you want to cry I
sense it I see you i bill you you want
to cry and God is saying let it go and
let me and there’s a part of you that
feels like man if I let this go I’m
gonna be empty and I hear God saying no
I’m gonna feel you and I’m gonna feel
you in a way that that thing nor any
other thing
could have made you feel if that’s you
just say that’s me pastor and our prayer
our prayer ministries ministers and
pastors and prayer people gonna pray
with you say that’s me pastor just put
I’ll let it go just put on let it go
right there it’s but I let it go I let
it go I let it go I let it go I let it
go
God’s gonna take it now you know what
he’s gonna do he’s gonna perfect you
he’s gonna establish you he’s gonna
strengthen you and he’s gonna settle you
in the new version of you I love you
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