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[Music] first samuel chapter 13 verse 10 my subject for tonight is the final sale and my text begins and verse 10 saw has been anointed king and this is his first real act as king and this is important for you to understand because i need you to know that when he became king he wasn’t sure of himself and so god has signed a prophet to him named samuel and samuel told him this strategy on how he was going to live from day to day as king and he gave him an instruction to go to a specific location but he said don’t move until I get there and when I get there I’m going to show you what to do now when we find Saul in the text he’s been waiting on God to show up like he said he was going to show up and since y’all church folks now he may not come when you won’t know but he’ll always be there right on time but Saul didn’t know this yet so he made a move because he was under pressure my text begins it says now it happened as soon as he as soon as Saul had finished presenting the burnt offering that Samuel Samuels the Prophet that he was waiting on came and saw went out to meet him that he might greet him and Samuel said what have you done Saul said that when I saw that the people were scattered from me and that you did not come within the days appointed you didn’t come when you said you were going to come and that the Philistines my enemies had started gathering together at Micke nice then I said the Philistines will now come down on me at Gilgal and I have not made supplication to the Lord therefore I felt compelled and offered a burnt offering I did what you were supposed to do had you’ve been here on time and Samuel said to Saul you have done foolishly you have not kept the commandment of the Lord your God God gave you a word and you said that you were going to live by that word and you didn’t keep that word that he commanded you so now the Lord would have established you had you kept the word for now the Lord would have have established your kingdom over Israel forever you could have had it all but now your kingdom shall not continue because the Lord has sought for himself a man after his own heart I’m looking for somebody who won’t be afraid under pressure I’m looking for somebody who will keep my word no matter what’s happening I’m looking for a man who will be after my own heart says the Lord and the Lord has commanded him to be commander over his people because you have not kept what the LORD commanded you father God you have a vision for tonight and to be honest I just want to fall in line with that vision I’ve studied I’ve prayed I have an idea of what you want to do but ultimately I lay it all down at your feet and I say have your way Great God that you are do whatever you see fit in this environment I am your vessel and these are your people so father we ask that you just sit in this room and that you would not just speak to us but that you would speak to the person beside us and in front of us and behind us because I’m not so selfish that I want your glory for myself I want your glory to overflow and I wanted to touch everything connect it to me as a matter of fact God let’s show glory touch the people who wanted to come but couldn’t come God let your glory spread throughout the internet and touch those who were going to be watching this message father let your glory touch those who aren’t even saved yet but are looking for something that they just can’t explain because we got together on at first they might have had a kingdom meeting and said father let your will be done on earth as it is in heaven so we turn this moment over to you no nerves no fear no anxiety just your words your power standing tall on the inside of me in Jesus name Amen amen now you can be seated I don’t know about you but I have had this craziest thing happened to me I’ve had one bad thing one bad experience changed my whole perception and perspective on something that I thought was good one bad thing changed my mind about a whole season a whole person that the whole thing wasn’t bad there was just one bad thing I tell you there’s this restaurant that was buy a house we used to live it and we used to go here all the time I don’t want to say the name because the way my bank account is set up your girl’s not getting sued in 2020 hallelujah we used to go to this restaurant all of the time and this one time we went I got sick as a dog I got home I don’t know what happened I eat here all of the time but this one time I got sick I was vomiting everywhere and then the craziest thing happened people who didn’t even eat the food in my house got sick too so obviously there was some type of virus in the house that had nothing to do with the food but for some reason I never recovered like I haven’t been to that restaurant again because that one bad experience changed my whole perspective on the whole restaurant there is a psychological phenomenon that is called bad is stronger than good this phenomenon suggests that the effects of a bad thing are stronger than the good ones that one bad comment on a fury of many comments carries more weight in gravity than all of the good ones why is it that for some reason we only see things as good or bad and generally the bad thing is what stands out the most it is so challenging to come to a place where we have decided to look at something as not all bad to look back over our childhood as challenging as it was or as difficult as college was as challenging as certain seasons of our life were and not just see them as all bad however if we don’t do this then it’s not just that we miss the good that existed in the bad but we also miss God because if we think it’s all bad then we miss how God got down in the bad thing with us 20:19 may have been challenging but it wasn’t all bad there were moments where God got down in the bed with you seeing you got to know this about the god you serve because you may think that God is only good when he’s blessing you but if we believe that he’s never going to leave us nor forsake us that means that there is no season in our life that he wasn’t in it with us that you served the kind of God that will get down into bed with you he will get down in that addiction with you he will get down in that broken home with you you called it a pre and God mother I call it God getting down into bed with you you call it a church that finally had your sound I call it God getting down in the bed with you not everything was bad and when you grow spiritually you start looking back on certain things that you thought were bad and you say but I see how God sent somebody in the midst of that bad thing so testimony I dare you to just take 10 seconds and let God know that I see how you got done in that bad thing with me it wasn’t all good it wasn’t like I made it out without any scratches but I see how you got down in the bad thing with me I should have been dead I should have been out of my mind but God got down in that bad thing with me I went through the divorce but the divorce didn’t tear me apart cuz he got down in that bad thing with me God you serve a bad guy he gets down in the struggle with you he gets down in the pain with you and so you have to change your narrative on certain experiences in your life so that you don’t just call them bad but you can balance them with the fact that God got done they’re in it with you because God will never let bad have the final say bad can’t have the final say in Genesis 3 and 15 when Eve has eaten from the fruit and the enemy thinks that he’s had the final say over humanity God says I know it looks like you had the final say because she bruised her heel but at the end of the day she’s going to end up bruising your head because bad we’ll never have the final say you’re not in this city because you did everything the right way and you saved your money appropriately you’re not in that marriage because you never made any mistakes you are in the room and the position that you are in because God said bad we’ll never have the final say I will never leave you where your pain I’ll never leave you where your drummer met you I’m not saying that the weapon won’t be formed I’m just saying that it won’t prosper Romans 8 and 28 would put it like this I’m going to make all things work together for your good I’m going to get down in that bad thing with you that’s the only way I can make it work together for your good as if I get down in that thing with you so you got to change your language about what happened because you got to be able to say I see where God got down in that thing with me because when you can say I see where God got down in that thing with me it changes your testimony and Matthew 12 and 34 it says oh you better brood of vipers it says how can you being evil speak good things but this is the important part it says for out of the abundance of the heart the mouth speaks abundant that word abundance in the Greek means leftovers four out of what is left over from the heart the mouth speaks that’s why you have to change your narrative about the bad thing because the bad thing is going to show up in your language and God says I want you to change your perspective on what you have left over because if you have a praise left over after all you went through then praise will be what comes out from out of the left overs is what’s gonna come on out of your mouth that’s why somebody needs to take a minute and have the language change you thought you came to church I came to change the language I came to let you know that it wasn’t all bad I know it wasn’t great but I’m trying to change your perspective on your leftovers cuz the bad has been talking too long and the depression has been talking too long and your history has been talking too long because you’ve been looking at what you’re had leftover and thinking it wasn’t enough but God said if you could get them to change their perspective on what they have left over then it would change their language and if it changes their language then it would change their connections and if it changes their connections vanila change their entire world I feel like being a church girl and here tonight I’m gonna need that to back up off of me but what I’m saying is there is a language that is waiting to be released then on the inside of you and that language says that no weapon that language says that no temple that language says that no fear no anxiety no principality no stronghold can come up against me and tried in the past and it failed and that for me before and I’m still here got a changed my mind about what I have left over cuz my leftovers have the microphone right now and if my leftovers are gonna have the microphone then I’m gonna choose what’s left over have you ever gone to a restaurant and they asked what you want to take home and you say I don’t want to take that I want to take this and I want to take that God says you can choose what should have left over that you can decide up for the glory of God in this place that you can decide what you’re gonna take to the next dimension I’m not taking heartbreak with me you can leave that on the table when I get better this was this I’m choosing their different leftover the bitterness can’t come I want to see how the restoration happened that’s the only leftover I’m taking cuz the leftovers are going to have the microphone I don’t know if I’m saying that the way that is coming to my spirit but I want you to know your leftovers are going to have the microphone and that’s each 12 and 34 Jesus that’s for out of the abundance four out of the leftovers mouth the mouth that’s the Greek word it means language your language is based on your leftovers you think that you’re just connected with people because you speak the same language God says it’s because you did the same thing with your leftovers but if you want to change your language you gotta be willing to break away from people who did the same old pitiful thing with their leftovers and get into a room with people who took their leftovers and turned it over to God and experienced radical transformation I’m trying to change my language I’m here for the second time this week because I’m trying to change my language I made a commitment in 2020 they get in my word and start coming to church not because I speak the language that’s why I’m here because I’m trying to change my language you got to be around people who speak higher than you you can’t be afraid of being the person in the room with the broken language I speak a little bit of Spanish on Paquito when we go to Mexico though they ask me and I say on Paquita and they say use it anyway use your broken language anyway because when you get in the room where the language is and you use your broken language it’s gonna make you fluid it’s gonna make you fluent that’s why you gotta get around people who speak the language of where you’re headed not where you are because I’m trying to change to my language I’m gonna be fluent in faith I’m gonna be fluid and breakthrough I’m gonna be fluid in my finances I’m not playing around this year I played around too much already I’m ready to take this little bit and turn it into fluency [Music] [Applause] [Music] speak it anyway produce it anyway sing it anyway do it broken do it afraid do it us same what’s that back to beta la don’t know what we came to do throw it anyway I’m not there yet but I’m a shrieking until I become fluent in it I’m not where I’m supposed to be but I’m walking up in this face anyway cuz I must stay here and feel everything that’s in me stretch to become everything I knew it would be [Music] [Applause] somebody has been having it in their mouth for a long time they’ve been having it in their spirit for a long time but because they were afraid they couldn’t speak it consistently and because they were afraid that they couldn’t stay there they didn’t use that little bit at the head but I hear God saying I am the God of all Paquito I am the God of a little bit that if you would be faithful over a few things [Music] [Applause] [Music] all of this happened based off of what you do with your leftovers your leftovers will change your language your leftovers God God how am I seeing my leftovers and how has it changed in my language god I feel abandoned I feel rejected that’s what’s left over how has that change my language god I need something else I need a new story God take me back to what happened so I can see where you were working in the midst of it all so I can leave rejection on the table and I can pick up restoration God show me how you got down in that bad thing with me [Applause] [Music] I’ve gotta change my language sauce greatest mistake was what he did not allow to be his leftovers seesaw was anointed to be king but he didn’t have the heart to be king yet there are people in this room who are anointed but they don’t have the heart for what they’re anointed to do anointed to sync anointed to write anointed for business but I just don’t have the heart for what I’ve been anointed to do God told me to tell you that he knew you didn’t have the heart when he anointed you but that your obedience is what grows your heart Saul was anointed to be king so God gave him a word and if he would have followed that word he would have never lost what God was trying to give him but what he allowed to be his leftovers was the fear of things turning against him he said I was waiting for you to come but my people started leaving and my enemies started pressing in and now I couldn’t hang on to your word any longer I’m going to be honest with you not everyone who starts with us this year has gone in with us this year because Saul was obedient until it was time to be obedient under pressure I feel this prophetically for you I do not know who you are but God is sending you this word before the pressure comes so that you can hang on to this word in the middle of the pressure somebody has signed up for some things that are bigger than them that is going to require more heart than they have capacity for but they are taking a step on their anointing and they’re saying this will be the year that I take this step on what God has given me I don’t have the heart to do it yet but I have the obedience and I’m believing that as I activate the obedience that my father is going to expand my heart that means that somebody’s gonna be producing on another level you’re gonna have to do it under pressure because obedience is easy Saul was obedient to Samuel and all of the chapters leading up to this but this is the one moment where his obedience fails and because it failed when he was under pressure he lost everything God says he’s gonna give you another chance somebody had a thought go across their mind that they had a chance to be obedient under pressure and they let it go I see you God said I’m gonna give you another chance God says that you’re in this room here in this work because I’m gonna give you another shot at it that this time you’re not gonna let the pressure make you lose your position that this time you’re gonna stand up to it and you’re gonna trust my word God said if all hope was lost you wouldn’t be in this room but I hear God’s saying that I’m going to tell you in advance what you should have known before that I am NOT a man that I shall lie if I sent you a word that I was coming I don’t care who walks the way I don’t care what enemies show up if I told you to do it the way that I told you to do it it doesn’t matter who comes up against you got this I’m gonna show up and I’m gonna give you the next move stay in position even under pressure because saw let pressure have the final staff and because he let pressure have the final say God couldn’t have the final say but God said and the second part of this text I’m going to say this I’m going to close and verse 14 13 Samuel says Saul you have done foolishly you have not kept the commandment you didn’t keep the word of the Lord your God which he commanded you for now the Lord would have established your kingdom over Israel forever but now your kingdom shall not continue because the Lord is searching the Hebrew word there is searching it says sought it and makes it seem past tense but the Lord is searching right now God he’s searching Saul is still in position he’s still King he didn’t just take him off the throne right there immediately but he started searching the moment that saw wasn’t obedient anymore that means that just because you see someone isn’t in position just because you see someone in position doesn’t mean that God isn’t searching I had to get that right because I wanted you to understand that just because somewhere got this there first doesn’t mean that you don’t have a place any longer Gus says don’t be fooled because you see someone in position I’m searching for somebody who would let me have the final say I’m searching for somebody who can withstand the pressure of being who I’ve called them to be I’m searching for somebody who doesn’t mind innovate in creating the new way I’m searching for someone who doesn’t mind doing it in a way that has never been done before because this searching after God’s own heart so one of the people’s approval David wanted what God wanted David was after God’s own heart and because he wanted to cater to the people God said I would rather have someone who caters to what I want to do in the earth then have someone who was going to cater to what people want so let the people be over there for just a minute because when I find that person who is after my own heart I’m going to establish him in such a way that it’s going to show that everything else you were following was a fraud everything else you were following was not the real deal God’s gonna establish you that were established I’m gonna say it the way I wrote it down and then I’m finished playing with child God wanted to establish saw that word established means to set up in a great variety Holy Ghost of applications I wanted to set you up and a great variety of applications I didn’t want to just make you King I wanted the generations that come after you to be anointed – I wanted to set you up in a great variety of applications so now because you couldn’t do it I’m gonna start looking for somebody who is after my own heart so I can give them the thing that you wasted so I can give them the thing that you didn’t see properly so that I can set them up in a great variety of applications I don’t know who you are but I want you to know that you were gonna pick up somebody’s leftovers this season and when you pick them up you’re gonna do with them what they could have never done I saying don’t be picky when it comes to leftovers that there is an anointing in the leftovers I know it’s someone else’s platform I know it’s someone else’s ministry right now but I hear God’s saying I have anointed the leftovers for somebody who will let me have the final step and I’m going to establish them in a way I couldn’t establish the person who had it before that’s somebody’s word don’t allow what you see right now to make you think that your leftovers have no value like God have the final say saw didn’t have the heart for what he was called to do but he was anointed God said I’ll grow your heart if you just be obedient to me I can transform your heart if you’ll just be obedient to me transformation of the heart comes when you’ve seen guys show up time after time again that you have no choice but to trust him but you don’t know how to do that unless you become obedient to him I heard God’s saying Sarah I want to turn some people’s heart towards me because I have some things I need to establish in the earth I can only establish it in people who don’t mind chasing after my heart God what is your heart over this situation I know what my pain says I know what my family said but God what is your heart over this situation I didn’t forgive you because it was easy I forgave you because I’m chasing after God’s heart I didn’t come here because it was easy I came here because I’m chasing after God’s heart nobody knows the struggle that’s connected to who you are they don’t understand that I’m not chasing money I’m not chasing Fame I’m not chasing dollars I’m not chasing likes me I’m chasing after God’s own heart and sometimes I look crazy and sometimes I’m paycheck-to-paycheck you but that’s okay with me because when I lay my head down it might be I can say God I did what you told me to do I showed up where you told me to show up me I spoke the words you told me to speak I’m chasing after your heart God your heart will have to I know I left here have the finals and God is [Music] you’re gonna do what Saul couldn’t do god I’m gonna do what my mother couldn’t do I’m gonna do what my father couldn’t do I’m not talking about just getting money cuz they could do that I’m telling my chasing after God’s heart I’m gonna break this off of my family I’m not gonna do it in my own strength I’m not gonna do it in my own power that’s gonna grow my heart because he already gave me the anointing so now all I gotta do is step in in this season of your life it’s the season of transformation and people shout about that because they think it means all my money’s gonna change my car’s gonna change my boo gonna change my marital status gonna change your hearts gonna change you’re gonna come to a place where you say I don’t need everyone to like me I don’t need to fit in everywhere I don’t mind going home when everyone else goes out because I can’t trust myself in certain environment this time I’m gonna go after his heart so that I can be established in a variety of applications I had a vision for my life and my vision had me only established in one certain arena and I started chasing after God’s heart God said I can establish you there are no limits to what I can do I can establish you here and there I can establish meet you in Los Angeles I can establish you in Denver I can establish you all over the world if that’s what you want to do but you gotta keep chasing after my heart I feel like somebody needs to put their running shoes back on that somewhere along the way they lost sight of what they were chasing after but I wanted to have a revival at the beginning of 2020 that we will start chasing after you like never before that we would lay down our selfish ambition that we would lay down the idea of what our life was supposed to be and we would start chasing after God’s mission for our life gotta watch you I want you to have the final step I want to give those who know this word is for them ten seconds to surrender ten seconds to find their running shoes again god I was chasing after you on one arena but I was chasing money in my business and I don’t want to chase money I want to chase after you I don’t want to just be wealthy with no purpose so I need a drinking a drug to go to sleep at night God if I chase after you I’m crazy enough to know that the ins will still meet and I’ll have my piece and now I have my choice I may never be a billionaire and I’m ok with that if that’s what you have declared in heaven I only want what you want from me I only want to do what you want me to do I don’t have to be connected to the people high up I am connected to the Most High there is no God greater than my there is no name more powerful than my name at the sound of his name demons tremble a column a column he is the Anointed One and he anoints those who he can use for his purposes before you were formed in your mother’s womb he anointed you and he knew that life was gonna come and shrink your heart it makes you afraid sometimes but it didn’t shrink your anointing he knew he knew about those scars he knew about those wounds he knew about you being from the least tribe but he’s still anointed you because he said I can grow that heart if that hurt chases after man you’re here you’re in this room you know without a shadow of a doubt it’s time for you to put on your running shoes somebody said I’ve been running for the Lord for a long time I want you to meet me at the Salton I want you to run down to this option somebody’s walking but their spirit is running somebody’s walking but the spirit is running I don’t care if you can only take one step one step is all cottony I’m taking one step in the direction of where I need to be I could stay right here and I could pray and receive the prayer but altar costs responding to altar calls are an act of obedience when you know a word is for you but you stay where you are because you don’t want nobody in your business or I don’t want to get down there and break down and cry because I’m doing everything I can to hold it all together that’s not what this moment is about this moment is not about you this moment is about what God wants to do that on the inside of you and you have to be willing to do what God wants you to do even under pressure that means I may cry when I get down there that means I may have to explain something or not explain something to the person I came with but I will not sit in this room and act like God is not speaking to me I will not sit in this room and act like my heart has it all together and that I’m working in the direction I know I need to be working in I’m coming down to this altar because I need a heart transplant I’m coming down to this altar because I need a touch from God [Music] maybe you’re here and you want to believe you’re still anointed she had some circumstances in your life that made you feel like you lost it but I hear God’s saying I’m giving out second chances but the second chances are for those who respond to my voice got a respond to my voice that’s how we do this relationship thing is you respond to my voice some of us have a one-sided selfish relationship with God God just do what I need you to do I’m not gonna do what you need me to do God said over with that this only works when I get to talk to when I get to lead two guys is there somebody who needs to be down here but they’re telling themselves is it’s too crowded and there’s too many people and I’m not exactly sure that I’m gonna be here next week so I’m not gonna come down there like one of them church folks ciao we don’t care if you respond to God’s voice God will do the rest we don’t keep no role on who came this week and who didn’t come the week after that all we do is release what God has given us and we trust him to do the race I’m gonna ask our incredible spiritual covering to pray the altar prayer I want you to know more than anything this is not just a word for when things are good this is a word for when things get bad – I want you to bookmark this word I want you to save it and I want you to remember that you serve a God who gets down into bed with you I don’t know what this year holds for you somebody’s got anxiety because it can be tricky starting something new and I don’t know what’s going to happen and I don’t know how it’s going to shake out I hear guys saying don’t worry about that I’ll get down into bed with you I’ll get down in the pain with you but most of all I won’t let bad have the final say hey would you pray awesome have we heard from the Lord tonight in an incredible way so grateful in your heart ministry will then Asil this word in prayer there’s a passage that came to mind I cannot tell you the value of a pure heart it is everything the Bible says that God the eyes of the Lord go to and fro throughout the whole earth that you referenced it searching for those whose hearts are perfect towards him and so you could pursue this and you could pursue that but I’m telling you if you get a pure heart you have everything so how do I get a pure heart you’ve already done it you you’re responded to the altar call and you’re here and I want to tell you I want to show you a promise in God’s word about what he will do for you it’s an Ezekiel 36 beginning at verse 26 he says I will give you a new heart and put a new spirit within you I will take the heart of stone out of your flesh and give you a heart of flesh a tender heart I will put my spirit within you and cause you to walk in my statutes and you will keep my judgments and do them in other words it’s going to happen this is not just something that you want this is something that God wants for you and he’s going to give you a pure heart and a clean heart and along with the clean heart comes this thing called the key of David and you can study this in Isaiah 22 22 it’s the key of David and you know what the key of David does it opens doors that no man can shut and it shuts doors that no man can open it is a new dimension of favori anybody want God’s favor on their lives well you can pull out your keys and open doors that no man can shut and shut doors that no man can open that’s what’s getting ready to happen to you cup your hands right now father we thank you for this rich word we receive it every single bit of it you’ve ministered to our hearts and our minds at an incredible way and God you promised you promised that as we seek you you would give us a new heart Lord we thank you that if we had any saw tendencies in us you are pulling that out right now and you’re gonna give us the heart of King David demand was after your own heart the man that you established even messiah for his lineage and legacy your word declares that you would give us a new heart so right now god we’re receiving a new heart we’re saying god we want you more than anything we want to do your will God if you tell us to go to Timbuktu we’ll go tomorrow we want that type of heart and so as we have our our hands cupped up to receive I pray that your spirit would fall you said not only will I give you a new heart but you’re gonna put your spirit upon them and so I pray tonight God that the Spirit of God would just fall and rest and then it would not just fall upon us but it would fall in us that we will be renewed from the inside out and God in order for you to fill us we have to be empty of everything God that’s unlike you so in this moment right now God even in that passage you said that you’re going to take the stony heart out I pray that you would move to this crowd right now those who watch it via livestream I pray God that there would be literally a heart transplant that would take place right now here in this heart God the things that happen and now we have those leftover things and some of those leftovers have heart in our hearts we thank you that you’re changing our perspective right now that that that did not kill us just made us stronger just made us wiser just made us more pure so take those things out give us a new heart and a new spirit seal this we decree that we will leave out of here better and we receive the key of David right now and we will once we leave here open doors that no man can show things that have been closed up to us now because our hearts are right because our hearts are aligned our gonna open and those things that we did not have the authority to close Oh hallelujah those things that would just show up in our lives and cause havoc and wreak havoc in our lives because we did not have the authority to hoes we thank you that with this key it will be closed I thank you God that that there’s some things being swallowed up right now in the wake of what you’re doing in our lives and will never be the same again seal this in the hearts and in the minds of these your sons and daughters in Jesus name Amen if you receive that give God a praise just receive it right now thanks the nose [Music] [Music]
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