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go straight into the word and we’re
gonna pray I’m gonna be reading from a
familiar scripture it’s in John 9 verse
1 to 7 and then we’ll jump to verse 32
and it starts and it says now as Jesus
passed by he saw a man who was blind
from birth and his disciples asked him
saying rabbi who sinned this man or his
parents that he was born blind jesus
answered neither this man nor his
parents sinned but that the works of God
should be revealed in him I must work
the works of him who sent me while it is
day the night is coming when no one can
work as long as I am in the world I am
the light of the world when he had set
these things he spat on the ground and
made clay with the saliva and he
anointed the eyes of the blind mine with
clay and he said to him go wash in the
pool called Siloam which is translated
sent so he went and washed and came back
seeing now we’ll jump to verse 32 and it
says since the world began it has been
unheard of that anyone opened the eyes
of one who was born blind Heavenly
Father we thank you for your word today
we thank you Lord God that you will
speak to each and every listener in a
manner Lord that it speaks right to
their heart right to where they are and
right to where you’re taking them – lord
I thank you that every barrier is broken
right now Lord we thank you that you
would have your way in this house and in
and through the lives of each and
everyone with a listening ear Lord I
submit myself to you it would be you
they hear
in Jesus name Amen family you maybe see
that even as you’re sitting down the
title of my message if you’re taking
notes is there is more just a man I’m at
the right room I’m in the right room
with all this excitement just turn to
the person next you get comfortable and
say there is more I love it he sees
family it’s beautiful because there is
more that God wants to do there is
always more rather the God wants to do
in and through you there is more that
God wants to do on the earth there is
more of his glory that needs to be
revealed there is more of his power that
the world has not yet seen there is more
of who he is that we are yet to discover
and we’re gonna look at this through
this word you see what I love about this
scripture is the language of the text as
it begins it says that as Jesus was
passing by he saw a man who was born
blind and that really struck me because
before this text there’s a passage in
John chapter 4 when it talks about when
Jesus encountered a woman in the city of
Samaria and if you ever read that text
it talks about how when the disciples
spoke about Jesus they said he must go
through Samaria that you would
understand that Jesus understood that he
had an appointment there and so when I
read this I said you know it is
interesting because there are times that
God has an appointment with us and there
are times that we have to set an
appointment with God because when Jesus
was walking he was going on a journey he
did not have an intention to meet this
blind man he was walking he was just
passing by and then he sees a man who
was born blind and it struck me family
because this particular man who was born
blind when they’re having a conversation
and a dialogue about him Jesus said no
it’s not that anyone’s sin is that the
glory of God are the works of God to be
revealed in his life and I wondered
if the works of God to be revealed in
the life of this blind man wouldn’t
there be some intentionality shouldn’t
Jesus be aware shouldn’t he have set an
appointment with this man but the man
was the one in position you see family
there are some things that it’s not
about what God is trying to seasons and
times in your life that God has
appointed but there are some things God
is waiting on your will to fall in
alignment because this man was born
blind blindness was all he ever knew and
so although his blindness was a
disability it was also his comfort and
the story as we’re reading it we’re
reading about a man born blind but we
all live in a realm of blindness because
they’re summing this room as I started
to say God show me the people I’m
speaking to they’re some in this room
that maybe you were born into a home and
in that home it it caused your mindset
to be blind about your reality then
maybe you were born into a home of abuse
you were born into a mindset of
rejection you were born into a mindset
of insecurities you were born into a
mindset of I’m never good enough and the
crazy thing is that that disability
becomes your comfort because to the
blind man he had learned how to live
life blind he wasn’t born seen and then
his eyesight was taken he had learned
how to function as a blind man and the
crazy thing about when we make a
disability comfort is that comfort is a
little tricky because when you seek it
you can recreate it you see if we or if
you know someone invites me and says you
know Stephanie let’s go camping we will
both be out there in the wilderness but
we’re gonna have two different
experiences
because while you’re out there in a tent
I need an RV because campaign and me we
don’t go together okay so if I know that
I will go camping with you but I would
bring the things that make me
comfortable out in the wild here and in
the same way family what is crazy is
that when we are so used to rejection so
abuse to not feeling worthy we recreated
where it doesn’t exist we find ourselves
in situation some of some in this house
and some listen you’re holding
resentments against people that you felt
rejected you but that was not their
truth but you recreated a mindset
whether it did not exist because if
although you didn’t realize what you’re
doing you’re living in your comfort that
is also your disability if you were
accustomed to always knowing how to
point the finger to blame somebody else
subconsciously you will find yourself
putting yourself in positions that limit
who you truly are just so you can point
the finger and say it’s their fault I’m
not doing what I’m supposed to be doing
because if you think about it if you are
in a position that you complain more
than you’re grateful for
sometimes it could be a change of
perspective but sometimes is that you
have put yourself in a position that you
know limits you but it’s to continue
what is comfortable to you which is
still your disability many of us live in
this realm of blindness and I studied I
said God if you’re gonna this man if
he’s supposed to be blind from birth so
that the works of God can be revealed
through him what does that mean for us
you see there’s a scripture in the book
of Ephesians and it talks about that we
are God’s workmanship we are the works
of God and there comes a point where we
have to desire that there is more to my
life than what I’ve always known
and when we come to that place to say
Lord everything I’ve known I’m willing
to let it go for who you say I am then
the works of God begins to be revealed
because the works of God is who he
created you to be in reality and in
truth but to each and every one of us we
have a blindness to who we truly are and
we have to go through this journey of
coming to this place that says I know
that all my life this has been my
experience all my life I have worked
this one gift all my life have been
accustomed to this one thing but it
comes a place where you start feeling
like you’re not settled in that thing
that you felt all your life you are
preparing yourself for because God
starts speaking to your heart and he
says there is more but God will never
force himself on you and that is why in
the scripture it was not about God’s
appointment with men but was about man’s
appointment with God that when you come
to the place where you say God I am
willing to walk away from everything
I’ve known for the Lord that is
accessible in you because you see family
for every new blessing there is a
beginning and that beginning makes you a
child because when the blind man begins
to see it’s different all along he
learns how to navigate through life
through the memory of touch but when he
begins to see he has to navigate through
the memory of visuals and that is not an
easy thing actually it’s very
challenging for them and so he is
letting go of everything he’s ever known
to live as a child and until we get to
that point that says god I’m willing to
tap into the more connected to my life
at the cost of a change in my income at
the cost of a change in my relationships
and the cost of a change in my speech at
the cost of a change in my city I want
to know who you say
because in the same way that this blind
man has to readjust when he begins to
see to a new level of life in a new
level of experience is the same thing
with us because when God brings us to
this place of Moore we have to let go of
the memory of our experience of the
memory of God’s Word because you see
this blind man what is fascinating is
that he comes in the presence of Jesus
he’s touched by Jesus and that’s not
where his miracle came from and there’s
so many accounts in the Bible of people
that Jesus touched and instantly they
were healed there are accounts of people
that touch Jesus I mean the lady there’s
a lady of the story that you know those
this woman 12 years she had a bleeding
problem
she didn’t even touch his body she
touched His garment and she was healed
but this blind man he he is in the
presence of Jesus he is touched by him
and that’s not where his miracle came
from his miracle came from obedience to
an instruction you see there are times
in our lives family that in the place of
prayer and fasting and consecration that
miracles can happen it’s true there are
stories in the Bible just like a man
named Peter when he was in prison and
that Bible talks about how the church
was praying for him and as a result of
their prayers and angel was sent by the
Lord to open the prison gates but
there’s another time in scripture where
a woman named Esther and her people the
lives of a nation was in her hands and
she had the people praying and fasting
but the miracle did not come and angel
did not come because she was praying and
fasting to solve the problem in the
place of prayer and fasting God gave her
strategy and God gave her wisdom and so
family what the Lord said that speaking
to me is that in the place of your
prayer and fasting that he is giving you
a word and your obedience to that word
is what begins to birth the supernatural
because there’s things that God is
calling you to that you have never
stepped into before you see the
scripture when we read verse 32 it says
that never has it been heard that a man
opened the eyes of one born blind we
always talk about you know what God I
want to be a recipient of the never been
seen never been heard but in order for
us to qualify for that we also have to
say God I’m willing to take a new form
that if I’m gonna be a recipient of what
has never happened if I want to be a
recipient of your power on the earth of
what the earth has never seen then I’m
willing to take a new form I’m willing
to be clay in your hands I’m willing to
be a child again you see this blind man
is such a fascinating story because he
is in the presence of the Lord and what
he receives is a word and there are
words that God has been putting in your
hearts there are things that in his
presence even right here in this house
as you listen to this word there are
things that the Holy Spirit is gonna
bring to your memory and the Holy Spirit
is gonna charge you to do but it’s up to
you to be obedient you see that in that
the important thing that happens in this
scripture is even what Jesus instructs
him to do Jesus tells them go and wash
in the pool called Siloam
but when he says it the blind man knew
exactly where to go it was not that the
blind man said to the disciples you know
can you guys leave me there I’ve never
heard of that place before he knew
exactly where it was and it seemed as
though it wasn’t an unfamiliar place for
people to be you know taking a shower or
isn’t or so you know I don’t know about
the hygiene of the pool but that’s
what’s happening back in the day but the
thin family is that the instruction was
common
it wasn’t something supernatural that
you know will go to this city and wait
five minutes then the clouds will open
and the pool will be created then step
in wiggle a little bit you know it was a
very common instruction and you see we
have to recognize that sometimes we
cannot overlook what sounds like an
ordinary instruction because when it is
Jesus that is speaking it changes the
nature of the outcome because when we
decide to do things on our own
the outcome is our responsibility but
when God gives you a word the outcome is
his responsibility and so we have to
learn that the instruction may sound
ordinary it may sound ordinary when God
tells you to write that book it may
sound ordinary when God tells you to
write the song it may sound older when
God says to start the business because
everybody else starts a business but
when the word comes from God then he is
responsible for the outcome in your life
and you have to stop looking at what
sounds ordinary to make ordinary results
Jesus gave this man an ordinary
instruction but because it came from him
the outcome was his responsibility you
cannot look at the things and
instructions God has given you go to
that audition
it sounds ordinary but when God is the
one speaking to you then it’s not about
you trying to create an outcome or
manipulate the system God is saying that
if I said it I will back it up
and so the more of this blind man him
stoppin into the more of who God calls
him to be it came in him obeying the
instructions of what sounded ordinary
you see family for some of you you’ve
been in this place and you’ve been
struggling about God what’s next for my
life and God says next is more and what
that may mean and what that may mean to
some in this house is that more would
look like what you have never done
before that you may have been accustomed
to you know what I just want to make
some beats and God says what I have
given you a voice and even though I’m
calling you as a producer but I’m also
calling you as a singer that is for
somebody there are people in this house
and you are so used to the lane that you
have been on and God is saying that I
know that you’re used to this lame but
I’m calling you into something else
because the blind man has been used to
blindness but God says but there is an
appointment for you to see but I need
you to be willing to agree with what I
already have for you you cannot limit
yourself to the labels that you have
been accustomed to and you cannot limit
yourself to the titles that you know
because your truth exists not in your
knowledge but it exists in God and in
this service in your heart the Holy
Spirit is holding a mirror and he’s
speaking to you about things that you
felt like God I have never done this
before and he says don’t worry about
that let me hold your hand in this
process are we willing to be a child
again are we willing to learn things
like for the very first time because
sometimes your knowledge is your
disability
because even though it’s been positive
everyone has supported and encouraged
this one thing in your life and God says
but there is still more that I’m doing
with your life and so your knowledge of
yourself has actually been the thing
that is working against you and so we
have to come to a place and we say God
the reason I don’t feel settled is
because there’s something else that is
tugging on my heart and to answer the
question of what is that tug that tug is
God saying there is more I want to do
with you on the earth
I want to reveal my glory the way that I
reveal what I has not seen and ear has
not heard is when we both come in
partnership to do what we have not seen
and we have not heard but God has put it
in our spirit and so family that is the
word God brought me to tell you that we
can be in this place of battling with
God but I’ve never done this before but
God this just sounds like an ordinary
thing the reason why some of you have
been delaying is because you’re looking
at it like what everybody else does this
everybody else has is in fashion
everybody else is in business everybody
else is in music everybody else is
trying to go back and get their masters
everybody else has done this God why is
this the thing on my heart and God says
when I’m the one giving you the
instruction I am responsible for the
outcome family stand with me
thank you lord thank you lord thank you
Jesus thank you Jesus thank you Jesus
Heavenly Father have your way
family for a moment I just want you to
close your eyes because this is the part
where the holy sprit is gonna take over
in your hearts because there are
questions that you have been asking
yourself and there are talents that you
have never shared with anyone else and
God is saying I’m calling that they now
have your way God have your way God
you see there’s some in this room and
for so long you’ve struggled with
worthiness and what you’ve not
recognized is that because it felt like
it was all Union people looking down on
you people bypassing you that was your
interpretation of your experience and
without recognizing you keep putting
yourself in positions where people you
are allowing people to do that to you
and then you you you come out of it and
you’re like but why is this person
treating me like this
but in reality you are allowing them to
treat you like that and what you’re not
recognizing is that that your disability
became the comp your place of comfort
that the reason you don’t speak up that
the reason you’re giving your body to
people that are telling you I want
nothing more from you and yet your
translation is that one day they will
get it
it’s because your comfort is also your
disability and the Lord is saying it
doesn’t have to continue like that
because the truth is that you desire
more you’re like God I want to know
trust I want to know love I want to know
truth I want to know honesty I want to
know loyalty I want to know these things
but God says then you have to call a
disability a disability you cannot you
cannot keep functioning in your in the
pattern that you’re used to while you’re
asking for more you have to be in
position this blind man was in position
because if he was not where he was when
Jesus saw him Jesus would have kept
passing on by and Sabine position means
when everything about you isn’t a
that your thoughts and agreement with
your actions your desires are in
agreement with your actions that you’re
not saying one thing and doing another
and family it’s supposed to be
challenging don’t don’t don’t
embrace the lie that because God is
doing a new thing is supposed to come
with ease no it’s supposed to be
challenging because if you ever study
when a blind man is able to see it is
very difficult for him I’ll do it’s a
blessing because he gets to see colors
and he’s like oh my gosh I’ve never seen
this before oh this is the person I’ve
been speaking to but it’s difficult
because his memory of everything about
you and everything about the city was
through touch and so he can be in a city
he’s always been and feel lost so it’s
not that it’s gonna be easy for you to
walk into the more it’s going to be
challenging and that is why we have to
come before God and say God I want to be
a child again and a child is humble
enough to say I don’t know my left from
my right that God I’m in a new position
and I don’t know how to walk about this
thing but I’m looking to you that you
can lead me in a new territory whatever
has been in a place where you feel
unsettled this is not the space or the
time but you’re like oh that sounds good
no but that will be my testimony because
in this space the Holy Spirit is here to
empower you to make the decisions that
would reveal the works of God in your
life we are all living in a realm of
blindness and when we recognize that
that God and may see physically but I’m
blind to the reality of who I really am
when we acknowledge that God I am blind
to that I am like the blind man but God
I want to see I want to see what you see
about me I want to know what you know
about me I don’t want to just live in
one dimension of my identity I want all
the layers of my life to be unveiled on
the earth while I have breath in me and
so family as the Holy Spirit ministers
to your heart if you know I’m talking to
you and you know that that is the prayer
of your heart that God I want to tap
into the more for my life I want you to
meet me at this altar thank you Jesus
thank you Jesus thank you Jesus
Heavenly Father have your way have your
way have you away oh god there’s someone
in this house I’m not gonna put you on
the spot but you might be on the spot in
your room and you want to sing you want
to sing you want to think you want to
sing again and that is the thing that
you’ve been battling when the Lord says
release your voice even now release your
voice now stop holding it in release
your voice you can have your eyes closed
you can be bended knee you can stand you
can do whatever but the Lord says I want
to hear what I put in you you want to
sing and I just want us for a moment
because what you’re gonna do is actually
what God is doing in our hearts and I
just want everyone
a moment just to be still you want to
sing and God says I want to hear it I
want to hear it
family just join in the worship just
join in worship on cigar what just
happened in this house it’s even bigger
than what I could ever explain because
as you released what God said I put it
in you and I wanted out your sound broke
down everything that was limiting other
people in this house and the Lord said
in that same way because right now he
used you as an instrument of his glory
it sounded like an orchestra in this
house and the Lord is telling me that in
the same way that you released your
sound fears and though you said I don’t
care how this sounds we could all be
singing a different song but the Lord
hears the worship of our hearts and he
says it the same way that you released
your sound that he will put you on
platforms and that you release that
sound that you will see the glory of God
everything on the earth and family what
we were recipients of in this moment you
see it’s amazing that when we pray
because we are praying in sync with the
word of God the Bible explains to us how
angels move on God’s Word when music
began to rise up to God it was in sync
with the heart of God
and as they released the song yours
might not be music but there were angels
commissioned for your life
because what what is happening in this
house is that we are functioning as one
body and as your sound was raised up
your sound is being released and it’s
the sound of a book it’s the sound of a
business it is the sound of whatever God
has put in your heart
I see where angels were being released
uncle on assignment of our kind of our
sake thank you Jesus thank you Jesus
thank you Jesus thank you Jesus coming
it is bigger than I can explain but I
want you to understand that you just
stepped in to where Earth becomes no
more and heaven and earth becomes one in
the name of Jesus
Heavenly Father we bless you we bless
your name Almighty God there are moments
that we wonder if we are worthy of but
there are moments that as we have come
for an appointment with you you
establish an appointment with us
I want the sound of worship to release
all over this house because whether you
know it or not there are things that is
working right now on your behalf how
Lord we thank you
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we thank you Jesus
we thank you Jesus we thank you Jesus
this is so beautiful family if there’s
something you will keep with you then
keep this word in your hearts the
instruction might be ordinary but
because it came from the presence of God
the outcome is not the it’s not even the
responsibility of your resources it’s
not the responsibility of your
relationships it’s not the
responsibility of the quality you use to
do it because some of you are struggling
with the quality I don’t know why I’m
speaking to your your your struggle has
been God this is not how I want it done
but God says if you just do it then I
would back it up Lord we thank you oh
Jesus
oh Jesus God was to get the glory our
first lady preached a powerful message
called foolish glory and she talked
about how God will use the foolish
things to reveal his power on the earth
the instruction is gonna some ordinary
family but if you move on it if you
quiet out the noise of everybody else’s
doing this and you tap into the voice
that said it to you you see that was
that there was a situation in the Bible
and it was Jesus and counsel with a man
named Peter his disciple and Peter was
in the boat and he was fishing
and he kept throwing his net and he
caught nothing but then Jesus tells him
throw that net again and Peter had been
there for a while so he has scanned the
area of his boats but because the word
came from Jesus
when he threw that net again it was so
much that he could barely carry it
you see you don’t have to wait for like
an audible voice to speak to you because
God speaks in so many ways sometimes it
speaks to an impression unknowing and
there are things that as you have been
coming into the house of God there are
things that every time you walk up from
the house of God or any time you rise up
and you spend time with God there are
things that are impressed on your heart
and God said that is my word to you and
if you will just silence the noise of
what everyone else is doing and focus
that I’m the one who told you to do it
then you would see what you have not
seen on the earth family just lift your
hands in prayer with me heavily father
we thank you for your word we thank you
for who you are we thank you for your
love my god
lord have your way
I want that song to just rise up this is
how I fight my bad as I hear you sing in
it
I hear you thinking that you don’t even
know how prophetic that is oh my god
Lord we thank you we thank you Jesus we
thank you Jesus because we are
surrounded by these thoughts and these
words that are lies and are not speaking
to our truths and you said I am
surrounding everything that you think is
surrounding you Heavenly Father we
submit to you and in this moment that we
come before you we say Lord God that we
would praise you in the midst of it all
we would praise you when we’re confuse
we will praise you when thoughts that
come against us try to creep in we would
praise you because we recognize who
spoke to us and so Lord we say have your
way in this house and I thank you for
the testimonies that will come as a
result of the obedience of your people
the supernatural will be seen and we
would boldly say that what God did in my
life never have I heard it never have I
seen it but God put it in my heart
Heavenly Father have your way if it’s
crazy enough then maybe is joy
maybe that’s God speaking to you if it
sounds crazy that you’re like this is
way too crazy for me then just think
about it if it’s crazy for me
it’s amazing for God Lord we worship You
Heavenly Father we seal this moment we
seal this moment we seal this moment in
your name and we say have your way have
your way Lord God give us those
instructions it’s simple but you would
do it Lord oh Jesus
let’s release the sound of worship in
this house
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