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hey family i’m pastor toray
pastor sarah we just want to greet you
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i can’t tell you how excited i am to get
into this word i’ve been
praying i’ve been studying
i’ve been praying and studying some more
and i’ve been thinking
and fasting and i just believe that god
has something so special to say to you
and i’m so honored that he chose me
to do it so i’m going to be in matthew
11
i’m going to start in verse 11. it’s not
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my subject for tonight is the element
of surprise the element of surprise and
i am in matthew 11
verse 11. just a little bit of context
john the baptist who baptizes jesus and
is the forerunner of jesus christ
is in prison and he is in prison but
jesus ministry is just beginning
and he’s trying to understand what’s
happening in this season because it
doesn’t seem like when jesus
comes into the room that he should be in
prison it seems like
this is really when ministry should
begin taking off
and so though he baptizes jesus and he
literally hears the voice from heaven
saying this is my
son in whom i’m well pleased when he
finds himself in prison
he begins to question whether or not he
actually heard from god and if jesus was
who
he said he was and so in matthew
11 he has sent his disciples because he
wants to understand
are you the coming one or do we look for
another john the baptist is in prison
and he sends a word
through his disciples to jesus and jesus
response is
you know quite lengthy and informative i
want to dissect his response though to
verse
11. and this is important because
we’ll get into it it’s so many layers to
it that i want to share with you
but verse 11 it begins it says assuredly
i say to you among those born of women
there
has not risen one greater than john the
baptist
but he who is least in the kingdom of
heaven
is greater than he and from the days of
john the baptist
until now the kingdom of heaven suffers
violence
and the violent take it by force for all
the prophets in the law
prophesied until john and if you were
willing to receive it he
is elijah who is to come
he who has ears to hear
let him hear father the only reason why
we’re here
is because we have ears to hear from you
some of us have
stayed up past our bedtime we could be
doing a thousand other things but you
told us we needed to lock into this word
and so father open our ears that we can
hear the word that you’re sending
through this message father not every
word may be for us but there is a word i
feel that there is going to be one word
father
that resonates so deeply in our spirit
that we
take it and it takes root and produces
fruit in our lives father let this be
one of those moments
where we have no choice but to be
changed and transformed
because we heard from you and we were
open to hear from you
so father clear our minds no
distractions
no anxiety no depression no stress
father just in this moment let us have
an intimate encounter with you where you
see past our mask
and that you see our soul and you bring
us back to life
in jesus name i pray amen
i was thinking recently
about how so often in life we
think about what our ultimate objective
is in life and our ultimate objective
usually has a few parameters a few
points in which people say okay that
person has finally
established themselves they finally have
stability there are some markers that
sociologically we believe
are markers of stability and you know
them
they ask you questions like are you
married yet
do you have children did you graduate
these are markers that are supposed to
indicate
whether or not we have stability in our
lives
and i was really thinking about this
because as i was studying about this
concept of stability and what it means
to be
a stable person i realized that
stability is a bit of an illusion
because even when you’re married your
marriage goes through changes right
you start off newlyweds and then maybe
you become
parents maybe someone gets laid off the
context of marriage itself
is supposed to be a place of stability
but anyone who has been
married recognizes that your marriage
itself
may be stable but life is always
changing and transforming around you
and when those changes and
transformations take place
it has the ability to shake your
marriage and so i wonder
if we are doing a disservice to people
by always asking them about these
markers
of stability whether we have our
degrees whether we have children some
kind of way
our success is determined by whether or
not
you’ve managed to build something stable
but as i was saying i really feel like
stability is an
illusion in a world that promises change
so in this moment i want to challenge
your notion of striving for
stability i think this is really
important because we think that there is
a destination in mind
not realizing that destiny is a journey
it is not
a destination you don’t get married and
have the children and all of a sudden
the world is stable
if you get married and have children it
is quite likely that you end up having
even
more instability because you’re managing
so many different
attitudes and emotions so for a moment i
want to relieve you from the pressure of
meeting these
markers that are supposed to determine
where you are in life
and i want to challenge you with a
notion that i think is more important
than
finding stability what’s more important
than
finding stability is finding
adaptability
how well are you able to adapt
that is one of the things that i think
is the greatest marker of whether or not
we can have success in our life is
adaptability
i was studying and i realized that there
are businesses that don’t just take into
account your iq
anymore they don’t just take into
account your eq
your intelligent quotient or your your
emotional quota but what they take into
account now was your
aq your adaptability quotient how well
are you able to adapt
i will tell you how important
adaptability is
if you look back at kindergarten at the
person who you thought would be your
best friend forever
they’re either still your best friend
because they were able to
adapt with you or they are no longer
your best friend because they could not
adapt
what if we’re trying to have stability
when what we really need to be looking
at
is can you adapt with me can you grow
with me
can you move with me can we go from
compton to calabasas can we go
from meeting the president to greeting
the homeless people on the street can
you
adapt or are you only okay if things are
stable
and if you understand them because if
you are only okay when things are stable
then you’re going to be quite upset when
the world does what only the world can
do and that
is change i want to ask that god would
breathe
into your life the ability to adapt when
life changes
to not need something to be a certain
way for so long
that you miss the opportunity to adapt
when we adapt
we learn more about ourselves i didn’t
even know that i could do certain things
until i was placed in an
environment where i realized if i don’t
adapt then i can’t stay here we talk
about your gift making room for you
and bringing you into great people’s
atmospheres and great people’s
environments
but what will keep you in that room is
your ability to adapt
they don’t speak the same language that
they speak where you are from
in certain rooms if you don’t learn to
adapt then you’re going to stand out and
not just for the reasons you think
but because they’re going to say you
must not fit in this room
i know sometimes we talk about standing
out and how important that is
but for a moment i want to challenge
that idea because standing out
is when your gift stands out when your
ability to create stands out
but there are some things in you that
should not stand out when you are in
certain rooms
you got to know how to flow in any room
you got to know how to function no
matter where you are
the way i speak to you at activate la
may be different than the way i speak at
a university it may be different
than the way i speak when i am in
corporate settings but the difference
the substance doesn’t change but my
delivery changes you got to be able to
adapt
or you will be frustrated with life
because you will wonder why doesn’t this
delivery work in the atmosphere that i’m
in
people who learn how to adapt recognize
that my number one role
in life is not to be a master it is to
be a
student the more that i am willing to
learn the more likely i
am to grow because when i go into an
environment i don’t try to own the room
i try to learn the room before i speak
because if i speak and i say something
that disqualifies me from the room i may
never be in the room again
but if i take a minute to learn the
environment how do they speak
how do they dress how do they show up
what is my role here
what is the food chain here what are the
battles that are taking place in this
room
the most important thing you can do when
you have been invited into an
environment that is bigger
or greater than what you think is in you
is not to try and prove that you deserve
to be in there
but to be silent long enough to learn
where you are
and if you are silent long enough to
learn where you are then god will
highlight why you are there
sometimes we are so busy trying to prove
that we deserve to be in the room that
we don’t even know why god
sent me in the room when i am in a room
that i feel disqualified and i don’t
know why i’m here but i know god sent me
i’m silent so god can speak to me god
i’m afraid to use the language that got
me into this room in this room so god
show me how to speak in this room
god show me how to speak in this
business meeting god show me how to
speak
when i’m dealing with this banker when
i’m negotiating this contract
i can’t talk to them like they’re on the
woman evolve podcast and they understand
my slang and my lingo
i have to raise my language for the
environment that i am in i feel that for
somebody
god is calling you to be connected into
some rooms in some environments and
industries that you feel disqualified
for and i hear god saying it’s time to
study
not speak and when you learn to know the
difference you’ll never have to wonder
what to do when
because you studied before you stood up
that’s the most important part of this
the most important part of what happens
here at activate is not when we actually
start
filming this it’s what happens before
this occurs it’s when
the band gets together and rehearses
it’s when i open up my bible and start
studying and i start
seeking god’s face it’s not about what
happens when it’s live
it’s about what happens that makes it go
live i feel that for somebody that
wasn’t even in my point so i know
that god is preparing you i don’t know
who you are but god is preparing you for
the next dimension of where he has taken
you
and you’re wondering why you can’t speak
the way you usually speak and create the
way that you usually create
and i hear god saying that it is because
now is the time for you to be learning
about where i’m taking you
you can’t just move and function the way
that you used to move and function you
got to be able to
adapt adaptability what is your aq
maybe that should be some of the dates
that the questions that we ask on first
dates
what is your aq how have you been able
to
adapt what is your aq and friendships
how have you been able to adapt
businesses right now are challenged with
their ability to adapt with the times
it doesn’t even matter what your product
is if you cannot adapt to the times in
which your consumers can get your
products
your adaptability quotient is
everything and while it is great to have
a high adaptability quotient you’re able
to adjust and adapt
to unexpected changes i i want to read
that
aq is the ability to adjust course
product service and strategy in response
to unanticipated changes in the market
and there are so many of you who have
mastered that you know how to go with
the flow it may take you a little minute
to get started
but when it’s time to show up you can
shift and you can transition you’ve got
a high aq but when i was studying
about the art of war and this is
important because
this text that i’ve presented to you is
ultimately
about war this is a war strategy that
god lets us in on
when i was studying about the art of war
what i recognize is that your
adaptability
is important how you adapt to the
surprises that come with life is
important
but the art of war when you are going to
engage in a battle that will yield
victory what is most important
is that you don’t just adapt to
surprises
but you recognize that you are the
surprise sun tzu who wrote
the art of war says in conflict
direct confrontation will lead to
engagement
and surprise will lead to victory
those who are skilled in producing
surprises will win i feel that for
somebody
those who are skilled in producing
surprises will win
when this message is over i’m going to
give you some tips and some tools on how
to produce surprises
so that you can win but i think it’s
important for us to take a minute and
recognize that your life
is supposed to take life by surprise
when we talk about being the element of
surprise
it’s not just you being able to adapt to
the surprises of life
but it is about you turning the tables
and surprising life
surprising the statistics surprising
what everyone thought you would be
and how everyone thought you would turn
out and how that generational curse
ran into a surprise when it ran into you
adaptability is great but when you start
turning the tables and realizes
that i can adapt to life where i can
force life to adapt to my new normal
that is when we see
the tables begin to turn you are a
strategy in god’s arsenal
he did not send you down here so that
you could have a good time
so that you could sit up and have
stability and never have to fight
and never have to worry god sent you
down here because you
are a strategy when you are a strategy
you will be consumed
by people and things and obstacles and
experiences trying to threaten your
ability to be
potent but i hear god saying that
nothing can diminish the anointing that
i place down on the inside of you
and at any given moment when you get a
revelation
that i still have you here because you
are still a weapon in my arsenal
then you will recognize that you are the
element of surprise that this industry
has been looking for
you are the element of surprise that
your family has been looking for
everyone thought that it wasn’t going to
be you no one thought that you would be
the one who would actually step into
wholeness that you would step into
stability that you would step into
breakthrough
but i hear god saying that you were the
surprise i don’t know who you are
and i don’t know what you’ve gone
through but you feel like because life
has waged war against you
that you can’t do anything back in
return and i hear god saying that the
reason why life has waged war against
you
is because of what god has placed down
on the inside of you
you are the element of surprise
it’s you you’re the one we’ve been
looking for
you’re the one we’ve been waiting for if
that’s you i want you to type it in the
comments that’s me that’s me that’s me
i am an element of surprise you’re gonna
have to start speaking this
even at times when you don’t believe it
because depression needs to know that
you are the element of surprise
that when depression ran up on you when
anxiety ran up on you that there is a
surprise waiting
i feel that so prophetically for
somebody i feel it down in my bones i
feel like jeremiah it’s fire shut up in
my bones
that life came and it took you by
surprise and it made you believe that
you were going to have to
dance to the rhythm of what life was
doing and i hear god saying that you can
change the rhythm at any given moment
that you if you would unleash what god
placed down on the inside of you
then rivers of living water would start
flowing like never before
it’s you you’re the one who’s going to
do it you’re the one who’s going to
preach it
you’re the one who’s going to sing it
you’re the one who’s going to build it
it’s going to be a surprise to everyone
including you
that’s what it is that’s what god has
been saying when god gets finished with
your life
it’s not just going to be a surprise to
everyone around you
it’s going to be a surprise to you god i
didn’t even
know that was in me god i didn’t even
know that you would bless me to do that
i want somebody to say i receive it i
receive it i receive it
i receive your anointing i receive your
identity
god says there’s a version of you you
haven’t even tapped in yet
and when you finally see what i’ve been
holding back
you’re gonna recognize why you had to
wait for it you’re gonna see why you had
to cry for it
it’s you it’s you it’s you it’s you
that’s why i kept you in the city
that’s why i pulled you in closer that’s
why i gave you a mentor when no one else
can get through to you
because you
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you are the element of surprise that
that generational curse has been waiting
for
you are the element of surprise that the
music industry has been waiting for
you are the element of surprise that
ministry has been waiting for
you’re waiting for someone to understand
it baby people don’t understand when
surprises are happening
they just look up and all of a sudden
the atmosphere has shifted
they look up and all of a sudden what
has been produced has changed
it’s because you are going to take them
by surprise i feel that for somebody
i need you to allow that to marinate in
your spirit for a minute
that feels like a sailor moment but i
hear god saying
that i gave you weight that i gave you
strategy that i gave you creativity
and i gave it to you because you are the
element of surprise
god says no one is going to understand
it no one is going to get it
until it’s all said and done they’re
going to see why you were moving and
functioning and operating the way that
you were
just wait till god gets finished showing
you this surprise
just wait till god finishes setting the
stage so that you can arrive
just wait until god gets finished
showing the world what he placed down on
the inside of you
but the first thing you got to do is
receive that i am not
random i am not a coincidence that when
god brought me to the earth
he was waiting on the moment for me to
unleash what he placed down on the
inside of me
you better be ready at any given moment
god may yell surprise and it’s going to
be time for you to walk out your destiny
it’s going to be time for you to walk
out that strategy
i hear god saying
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it’s not just going to be a surprise to
them
it’s gonna be a surprise to you
there are things that you don’t even
know you can do yet
you’re counting on one gift to take you
into a room
god says you haven’t even seen the gift
that is gonna offer you breakthrough
you’re counting on one gift to get you
in the city i hear god’s saying
i use one gift to get you in the city so
that i can help you unwrap the actual
gift
that is going to give you the
breakthrough your family has been
waiting for
that’s going to give you the wisdom that
you’ve been waiting on god says keep
working that one gift
but don’t be thinking that that one gift
is the limit that one gift is the
foundation that i’m going to use to get
it started
you’re more than a pretty face you’re
more than just a body
you’re more than just a dancer you’re
more than just a singer
i hear god saying you great generational
curses
i hear god saying that you changed
homelessness i hear that saying that
when you walked into this
place that there was an element of
surprise
that he had been working on the whole
time i feel this word i know this is
your word
i can tell that this is your word cause
i can’t get up off of this point
and this doesn’t have much to do with my
message but it feels like somebody needs
to get this new awareness
down in their mind don’t let the fact
that life took you by surprise
make you forget that you are the
catalyst
of change that we’ve been waiting on
and jesus knows this about himself
jesus knows that he’s god’s strategy
so when you talk about following jesus
it’s not just so that you can be
connected with him
but it’s so that what is in him can come
out of you as well
which means that if jesus functioned as
if he knew he was the element of
surprise
then that’s how you should function too
even when the kingdom is suffering
violence
jesus isn’t worried and he isn’t
discouraged
because he knows that he serves a god of
surprises i’m reminded
of adam and eve in the garden and when
they’re in the garden and the serpent
thinks that he has had the final say
then god steps in in genesis 3 and 15
and he says you almost had this
the final say but i had a surprise
waiting for you
that the woman is going to produce seed
and that seed is going to
bruise your head that sounds like the
element of surprise
i’m reminded of abraham about to
sacrifice isaac
and right when he’s about to sacrifice
him he says you don’t have to do that
and all of a sudden there is a ram
in the bush that sounds like the god of
surprises to me
and right here in this text
right here in this text we’re about to
see how god
uses jesus as the element of surprise
why is this important
because we’re in a season right now
when god wants you to recognize your
identity as the element of surprise
that this war cannot win if you stand up
and be who god has called you to be
that this war cannot win if you take a
moment and breathe
in the transformation that you so
desperately need so that you can breathe
out
the creativity that we have been waiting
for you are
the element of surprise
and so it is no wonder
that john the baptist is a little
confused in this moment
because he has been waiting for this
moment when the element of surprise
pops up and the messiah is finally here
john the baptist he knows that he is the
front runner of jesus he knows he’s the
frontrunner of the messiah
and so he was waiting for this moment
for someone else to come in and help him
to advance the kingdom and establish the
kingdom
but in this moment it doesn’t look like
the kingdom is being established
john is in prison
and jesus jesus hasn’t set it off yet
what do you do when you are the element
of surprise but you are
constricted when you feel restricted
when you feel like you can’t break out i
know i’m the one who’s supposed to do it
i know
that i’ve been called to do it but for
some reason i feel restricted
i feel like i can’t move i feel like i’m
seized in this moment
john the baptist teaches us what we must
do in these moments
when he sends word through his disciples
is this the messiah or is there one to
come
he wants to know if this is god because
if this is god then i’m okay
but if this isn’t god then i know to
look for god in another area
when you feel restricted and you start
to wonder whether or not god is in it at
all
i want you to go back and see if you can
see god anywhere
in your world god if i can see you
anywhere in my world then i know you’re
just working your way to me that’s what
john the baptist knew
if jesus is the messiah if he is who god
says he is
and he is working the way he is supposed
to be working
even though i am in prison and this
prison is not going to be the final say
i won’t be restricted forever if god is
working and he’s working his way to me i
want to say that
the way that i studied it because i
think it’s important for us to recognize
that if i see god working anywhere near
me then god is working his way to me
you may not have the deliverance you’re
looking for yet you may not have the
breakthrough you’re looking for yet
you need to get connected to where god
is moving because i want to be wherever
he
is and if i am wherever he is even if i
don’t have my breakthrough i know i’m
positioned properly
that’s why we talked last week about
repentance because you cannot be
where god is moving unless you are
positioned properly and john the baptist
sends word
because he wants to know is jesus being
affected
at being the messiah i didn’t give this
scripture to them but when
the disciples come to john the baptist
and they ask him whether or not he is
the messiah what he says to him is very
simple
he says the blind see and the lame walk
the lepers are cleansed and the deaf
hear the dead are raised up
and the poor have the gospel preached to
them he doesn’t say yes i am the messiah
what he says instead
is check my results sometimes you can’t
understand if someone is who they are
or who they say they are supposed to be
or who they are purporting themselves to
be
when you don’t know whether or not they
are who they are purporting themselves
to be
then check their results my bible says
that you’ll know a tree by the fruit
that it bears jesus says if you really
want to test me check my results
you cannot let your environment
determine whether or not you are
effective i feel that for somebody
your environment may be lying on you you
may be more
effective at doing what you have been
called to do than you would ever really
imagine
because you are waiting on the
environment to change
and i hear god saying that environment
may not change but your effectiveness
could be working anyway
john the baptist thought that when jesus
came that his environment would shift
and his environment would change and
when the environment doesn’t change he
doesn’t get upset
he just starts asking god am i still
being effective
if i’m being effective even if the
environment doesn’t change then i know
the environment will have no choice
but to come into alignment with what god
is doing
and i feel that for you you’ve been
sweating you’ve been slaving you’ve been
working you’ve been
creating and your environment hasn’t
changed and you’re beginning to question
whether or not i’m being effective at
all
god i heard a word from you but my
environment hasn’t changed
i hear god saying close your eyes to
your environment
close your eyes to what is around you
and instead
recognize that you can be effective even
when the environment doesn’t look like a
reflection of the work that you’re
putting in
and john the baptist recognizes that if
god
is working and jesus is working then he
is being effective in who
he was called to be and so when we find
jesus in this text
in verse 11 he says assuredly i say to
you among those born of women there has
not risen one greater
than john the baptist this is important
because he honors
who john the baptist is he honors
that john the baptist paved the way for
him to be standing in the moment that he
is in
but he also makes his separation
because jesus and john had different
responsibilities
john was supposed to be the front runner
but the front runner can only take you
but so far
there comes a point when he has to
surpass the front runner and this is
what we’re looking at in this moment
it’s time for jesus to surpass the front
runner
and part of him surpassing the front
runner is drawing a line in the sand
between the distinctions of
jesus and john john’s primary function
was to prepare his people for the
messiah by having them repent we read in
our scriptures all the time john
john the baptist says repent for the
kingdom of heaven is at hand
repent repent repent his job was to make
room
you got to make room because the messiah
is coming
you got to end that relationship because
the messiah is coming
you have to address that depression
because the messiah is coming who is the
messiah the anointed one
you’re going to have an encounter with
the anointed one and when you have an
encounter with the anointed one you
don’t want to be distracted by anything
that wasn’t the anointed one the
antichrist the
anti-anointing can be functioning in
your life
and then when you repent you come into
an alignment with the anointed one
john’s responsibility was to help them
make room
to help them come into alignment with
what god is doing and what god is saying
but jesus jesus has a different
responsibility
jesus responsibility is to equip those
who have made
room to take territory this is where we
get into you being
the element of surprise is that when you
make room
like we did last week when you make room
like sunday
like pt called us to on sunday it’s not
just so that you can live with this
space
but god allows you to make room down on
the inside of you so that he can give
you
strategy and creativity and wisdom for
the territory assigned to your name
you want territory but you haven’t made
room
i hear god saying that you’re going to
be bound everywhere
until you decide to take territory and
make room for god
if you’re bound in one area you’re going
to be bound in every area i wish i could
say that
the way that i hear it in my mind but
it’s not just one thing
that’s keeping you bound that one thing
keeps you completely bound
it’s not just the relationship that god
can’t bring you into purpose until
you’re in the right relationship
god can’t bring you into purpose until
you have wholeness
it’s not just the job god can’t bring
you into the awareness of who he has
called you to be
until you step into the position you
know you’re supposed to be
in you think that you’re just bound in
one area and i hear god saying that one
area is dictating
every area and why is that important
because you are an
element of surprise and the element of
surprise is not just called to be a
surprise
he’s called to take territory you were
called to take territory
and god says i need you to clear out
this space that’s in you
so that you can take territory somebody
has been called
to take territory in this season i hear
god saying that you’re taking territory
in the entertainment industry
you’re going to take territory for your
family that wholeness is going to be in
your family
that breakthrough is going to be a part
of your family how is it going to happen
it’s going to happen because one day i
woke up and i realized that if i didn’t
clean out the junk that was in me
then i couldn’t lay hold of the
blessings that were for me
and i don’t know about you but i wake up
every morning trying to take territory
there’s an old song they used to sing
when i was in church and they say i’m
going into the enemy’s camp
and i’m going to take back what he stole
from me you know what he’s taken back
he’s taken back the territory
that god had originally assigned to them
the enemy has been taking territory in
your life for too long
the enemy has been taking territory in
your mind for too long
and i hear god saying that you have the
power and ability
to take that territory back and it
starts with a spiritual awakening
and so i want to prophesy over everyone
watching this video right now
that you would come into a place where
you get bold
and you get empowered and you start
running into the enemy’s camp
and you start taking back what he stole
from you you thought you were gonna take
my heart
you thought you were gonna take my mind
you thought you were gonna take my
talent
you thought you were gonna take my child
well surprise devil you got another
thing coming
i am a strategy in god’s arsenal and you
can’t take anything from me
that god won’t give me the power to take
back
i want to say that again the enemy
cannot take anything from you
that god will not give you the power to
take back your
innocence can be taken back your power
can be taken back
i want you to make a list of everything
the enemy ever took from you
and i want you to know that it is not
gone forever
it’s just waiting for you to recognize
that he gave you
power that he gave you authority so that
you can take it back
take it back take it back take it back
take it back
i’m taking back my mind i’m taking back
my joy
i’m taking back my gift i’m taking back
my talent
i’m taking it back i’m taking it back
i’m taking it back hell can’t have my
child
hell can’t have my marriage hell can’t
have me any longer
i’m coming back with the offenses i’m
coming back like i got
nothing left to lose i hear god saying
this is for somebody that the enemy took
it from the wrong person
that he messed around and left you with
nothing to lose
that he messed around and left you with
nothing else to give up
and because you’ve got nothing else to
give up you fight a little bit
differently
you ought to see somebody who’s fighting
like they got nothing to lose
they fight like they don’t care whether
they live or die when you fight somebody
who don’t care whether they live or die
it shakes things up some of you have
faced death
and i hear y’all saying you faced death
and death had to back up off of you
you better start taking back what hell
took from you
take it back i’m taking it back
i’m taking it back i’m taking it back
i’m taking it back i’m taking it back
i’m taking it back
fear tried to take my faith weapons
tried to take my wisdom
i’m taking it back i’m taking it back
i’m taking it back the divorce tried to
take my
joy the power of god is working down on
the inside of me
not just so that i could smile through
the pain but so that i could
now when i walk through hell’s gate i’m
coming back
for everything you took from my mama and
everything you took from my father
you’re gonna have to see me cause i
survived for more than this
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i survived for more than this
and when you get bold enough to walk up
on the devil
the kingdom suffers violence and the
violence take it by
force how we gonna get the kingdom back
unless we’re willing to get a little
violent unless we’re willing to kick
down the gates of hell
and say cancer’s got to get off of their
body coronavirus has to get out of my
country
i speak to doctors everywhere father
give them
insight and wisdom to lift this disease
off of people
i’m tired of hearing about what hell is
doing
i wish i had some heaven that would
stand up and say
i am the element of surprise i pray this
thing out of this nation
i pray this thing out of this world
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oh yeah oh yeah
i hear god saying it’s time for somebody
to start fighting again it’s time for
somebody to start warring again
it’s time for somebody to recognize that
you are
you are the element of surprise
and it’s time for you to stop sitting
back
and letting this thing happen in your
marriage and happen in your family
and happen to your finances and happen
to your country
you are the element of surprise
and you have been called to take
territory
we repent we make room and then we take
territory
we take territory that has been marked
by depression that has been marked by
shame
my innocence my my purity my confidence
somebody took it from me somebody
stripped it from me i hear god saying it
doesn’t have to be gone forever
that believe it or not but i hope you
believe it
that i can help you to take back
everything that has ever been taken
from you but you got to stop
waiting on somebody else to do it
waiting on someone else to fix you
waiting on someone else to heal you
waiting on someone else to be your
miracle
when i get married then i’ll be whole
when i get the job then i’ll be okay i
hear god saying you’re putting too much
weight on other people
when i put weight on you
you’re putting too much weight on what
you need other people to do in your life
how you need other people to show up
when i put weight
on you i put weight on you
i put victory on you i put power on you
i put anointing on you
i put strategy on you i put wisdom on
you i put creativity on you
stop waiting on someone else to be your
hero and grab your own cape
you are the element of surprise
you’ve got this and it starts with
coming into alignment with god
that i am not random and i don’t just
have to
sit back and take anything
god has called me to wreak havoc
to wreak heaven on hell
and if i don’t unleash what’s in me
if i don’t take this territory
then my family may never see anything
different
that my community may never see anything
different
so i’m here to take my position
and jesus jesus takes his position
and he says what john did was great
there is no one like him but what i have
been called to do
if you become a part of this
then even the least of you those who do
the least will be greater than what even
john the baptist did
god isn’t even calling you to do the
most he says if you would just do the
least amount of work
in the kingdom of heaven the things that
no one else would do the things that no
one thinks are important
if you would do the least of those
things then you will be greater
than the prophet john the baptist
and it comes down to being par a part of
his kingdom
and recognizing that you are his
strategy
i want to give you four things keep you
can keep playing i’m closing
four things four things that’s going to
help you be an element of surprise
the first thing is never stop looking
for god to show up
when life begins to change when life
begins to
shift it shifts our focus and it makes
us start focusing on
fear and outcomes and economies and
work and money and finances legitimate
things
but i hear god saying never stop looking
for me to show up that i am an
element of surprise to they say 18
months to four years for a vaccine i say
my i serve a god
of surprises they said the economy may
be
worse than it has been through the great
depression i hear god saying
that i am a god of surprises i’m looking
for god to show up
i hear what they’re saying but even when
i hear what they’re saying i’m still
looking for god to show up
never stop looking for god to show up
god i don’t trust just what man says
i’m waiting for you to show me where you
are in the midst of this never stop
looking
number two surrender to the
unpredictable
john was forced to surrender to the
unpredictable
that doesn’t mean we don’t question it
he questions jesus god
what what is this but when he recognizes
that this isn’t going to happen in the
way that i thought it would be
i’m all right with that i’ve got to
learn to surrender to the unpredictable
because once you’ve done everything you
can
all you can do is wait and see what god
has planned
god i did everything i could and the
outcome was still unpredictable
so now i just have to sit back and see
what you have planned
number three i think this is the most
important
my third point this is how we prepare
ourselves to be an element of surprise
the third one is next is here
here h-e-a ear not h-e-r-e
here and i chose that because
jesus says at the end of this text he
who has ears to hear
let him hear not everyone is going to
have an ear to hear this
but those who understand what i’m saying
understand that next starts with what
you hear
that’s why we got to make room we can’t
afford to be tossed to and fro by what’s
happening in that part of our life
and that part of our spirit that we know
we need to rectify
i need to clear the channel so i can
hear from god
i need to lay down my will so i can hear
from god
i need to accept the unacceptable and
accept the unpredictable because i need
to hear from god
i gotta hear what god is doing next and
i can’t do it if i’m still listening to
what was
this is what i wanted but now i’m ready
for next so speak lord
your servant is listening and the last
one
the last one is seized is not the end
jesus says the kingdom suffers violence
and the violent take it by force the
kingdom is under attack
the kingdom is under seas
but we know how this story ends
seized is not the end friend
you’re watching this video and you’ve
been feeling seized
and you’ve been thinking this is how
it’s going to end
i’m going to end lonely i’m going to end
weak i’m going to end
tired i’m going to end abandon i’m going
to end this is how it ends
i hear god saying seized is not the end
that just because you have
discouragement the presence of
discouragement
is not the absence of victory the
presence
of discouragement is that the absence of
victory
which means that you can be discouraged
in victory still be in your atmosphere
at the same time and so you got to know
that what i’m feeling right now is
natural on the way to victory
because in order to be an element of
surprise it means that your opponent has
to think that they’re winning
they have to think that they’re in the
lead
until god flips it and god switches it
and when god switches it
then that seize is not going to be the
end
i want to pray with you man
i feel like as i was preaching this
message
that somebody’s passion to take
territory was awakened again
and you started thinking to yourself
all of these areas in your life in your
family and your culture
that could benefit from god breathing on
it
god i wish you would breathe on that
generational bitterness i wish you would
breathe
breathe on that promiscuity i wish you
would breathe on that father
i need you to breathe on that i want to
take territory for every ailment that
you can lay
there is an opposite to that ailment and
we want to take territory from that
ailment from that opposition
so that we can lay hold of that good and
perfect gift connected to it
i want you to recognize there is a good
and perfect gift
connected to every curse there is a
blessing for every curse
and in order to do it you got to take
the territory that the curse has taken
you got to take the territory that that
brokenness has taken
you got to take that territory you can’t
ask that territory
would you please come over here and stop
making us bitter would you please come
over here
and stop breaking our hearts would you
please come over here and stop making us
live paycheck to paycheck please pretty
please whenever you get a chance no
you take territory you don’t ask hell
for permission
you go into hell and you tell hell i
have authority through jesus christ
and i came to take a generational curse
and turn it into a generational blessing
i came to come in here and get back my
family’s strength and get back my
family’s power
i came for all of the broken little
girls and all of the broken little boys
who thought no one would love them i
came to take territory back
and as you were watching this message
you felt to yourself for the first time
in a long time maybe
the first time in forever
that i want to take territory again
i want to pray for you that god would
bring you into alignment
with what he’s doing and what he’s
saying and what he’s speaking
so that you will never have to take
territory by yourself again
positive thoughts don’t do this
affirmations don’t need
do this you need the power of the holy
ghost to take territory from hell
you need the power of the holy ghost to
run up on depression
you need the power of the holy ghost to
break a disease
you can’t positive think your way out of
this that positive thinking is cute
but it can only take you so far there
comes a point where you need something
that is greater than anything you read
about on instagram
you need the power of the holy ghost
working down on the inside of you
you need rivers of living water flowing
from you
you need to be able to tap into the
source on your own when i come and get a
word it’s confirmation
for what i already received in my own
prayer closet
because i know who god is i am in
relationship with him
through the holy spirit and so i’m going
to ask that god will
pour out his spirit father god you want
to do it
i hear god saying he’s ready and he’s
willing
if you’re open i want you to type it in
the comments type it in
the chat room i’m open i’m open i’m open
i’m open i’m open
if you can i want you to lift your hands
like you’re receiving something
i want you to lift your hands like
you’re receiving breakthrough
like you’re receiving the power of god
because i feel like god’s saying
the windows of heaven are open and i’m
pouring out my spirit
i hear god saying that it’s not a slow
drip that you’ve been functioning off a
slow drip of the holy spirit
just enough to get you by day by day and
i hear god saying i’m in
overflow baby and i’m pouring out my
spirit for people who have
room open up your hands the power of god
is coming to you right where you are
the spirit of god doesn’t care about
technology or distance
the spirit of god can meet you exactly
where you are
and i dare you to start making room for
him
spirit of the living god pour out your
spirit oh god
pour out your spirit on all flesh the
flesh that says i’m weak
the flesh that says i’m desperate the
flesh that says i’m depressed
pour out your spirit on me oh god let it
flow let it flow let it flow
let it flow let it flow let it flow
father give them power
for them wisdom father give them
strategy
that can only come from your spirit
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father we repent for making this about
us
when it’s really about you we repent for
trying to meet man’s markers on where we
should be in life
and how we should be functioning when we
should have just asked you father
who are we in any given season father
we come into alignment with who you say
we are
and we repent father and rebuke anything
in
us that is trying to make us believe
anything
other than who you say we are father
we’ve sinned we’ve fallen
short we haven’t been perfect
and so father the first thing we have to
do is acknowledge the distance
between where we are and who you are
god you’re so great god you’re so mighty
father there is truly no one like you
father
you are our healer you are our redeemer
we lift your name on high
father there is truly no one else like
you father
you are the one who created the universe
you put air in our lungs father we honor
you
and we acknowledge that it is an honor
to be connected to
anything you were doing so father let us
be
like the person in this text and say
father if i could just do
one thing in your kingdom you don’t have
to make me a great name no one has to
know
that i was the one who was behind it all
i just want to serve what you’re doing
in the earth father
because when i serve what you’re doing i
take territory from the enemy
and the enemy has taken too much from me
so when i serve you i want to take
something back from him
father make us content with being the
least in the kingdom
recognizing that it makes us even
greater than anything in the world
father nothing this world can offer us
can satisfy us
and so we just ask for the satisfaction
that can come
from being connected to you father i
feel this so strongly
someone’s finally receiving peace
someone’s finally recognizing that they
had their priorities wrong
you’re helping us re-prioritize our life
father bless
them bless their minds father bless
their passion father bless their gifts
and their talents made them
may they use them for your kingdom and
may when they use them father
may it chip away and take
back everything that the enemy tried to
do to damage them
father i prophesy restoration and
redemption
that you will restore us back to who we
were when you formed us in our mother’s
womb
that nothing we have had to adapt to
or adjust to will define us
but what will define us in this moment
father
is how we allowed ourselves to be used
for your kingdom
seal this word god allow it to take root
allow it to produce fruit allow it to
forever
change the way we think and the way we
show up in the world
and father when we have those moments as
humans do
when our pride and our ego try to make
us think that it’s about
us may we be reminded
that you jesus are the center of it all
and if we can keep our eyes focused on
you
then nothing can stand in our way of
having the peace that surpasses all
understanding
in jesus name i pray amen
you