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hey family I’m pastor touré Pastor Sarah

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know family sometimes it can be

challenging to believe that the goodness

of God is running after us when we find

ourselves in difficult weeks if you’re

like me this has been one of the most

challenging weeks that you’ve maybe had

in a long time I want you to be

encouraged because in this moment I

believe God is going to give you clarity

and perspective and vision on the role

you can play in creating and producing

change and so I want to get right into

the word but I want you to know how this

word was developed I was going through

the go through like we’ve been going

through this weekend and on Saturday I

was just praying and I was having my

devotion time and I was like God I need

you to speak with me I need you to give

me some type of wisdom some level of

insight and he gave me something so

powerful that I knew I had to share it

with you and so I want to get right into

the word if you’re watching it’s not too

late to text

and let them know hey login I believe

this word is gonna help us you know who

your friends are that have been

struggling your family members who have

maybe been struggling and just need to

hear a word from God and I believe that

this is going to be a word that really

sets this all up in position for how

would I operate and show up in this

season so my subject for today’s message

for those of you who like to take notes

is tunnel vision tunnel vision and I’m

going to be speaking from Luke 22 verse

49 through 53 I’m excited about this

word cuz like I said it it really spoke

to me first and I really feel like the

most powerful words are the words that

come to you and then go through you just

a little bit of background at this point

in the text Jesus has gone through the

Last Supper he’s been in the garden and

he has come into a place where it is now

time for him to transition to the Jesus

who heads towards the cross for three

years of his ministry we see him doing

miracles and we see him healing the sick

and preaching and helping the blind to

see but we all knew that there was going

to come this moment in which he would

become the ultimate sacrifice and so I

want to study a little bit what happens

in this moment this is when Judas

betrayed him with a kiss and turns him

over to the Pharisees and the Sanhedrin

Council who will ultimately be

responsible for his persecution and my

text begins in verse 49 it says when

those around him saw what was going to

happen they said to him Lord shall we

strike with the sword and one of them

struck the servant of the high priest

and cut off his right ear gotta get a

little gangster with this some times but

jesus answered and said permit even this

and he touched his ear and healed him

then jesus said to the chief priests

captains of the temple and the elders

who had come to him

have you come out as against a robber

with swords and clubs when I was with

you daily in the temple you did not try

to seize me but this is your hour and

the power of darkness my subject is

tunnel vision and so father I just ask

that you would allow me to see this

moment the way that you see it from

heaven that this would not be about the

cameras and making sure that we’re

connecting with the people on the other

side of the room but that this would

actually be an opportunity for you to

stand in the room where people are

Father I’m asking that you would make

this moment so real and so tangible that

there is no doubt that you have been

with us Father I’m asking you to erase

the distance of technology and that your

glory would sit in the room I feel the

presence of God on this but it would

break strongholds like never before that

it would bring breakthrough father but

it would echo throughout the earth

because the people who are receiving it

are not just here to feel good and to

have their ears tickled but they are

here because you have called them to

change the worlds to let every world

changer that needs to hear and consume

this word remove any distractions walls

barriers or excuses that would keep them

from allowing it to take root and

produce fruit and as for me father no

distractions no nerves no anxiety just

the nimbleness father of thought mind

and speech that your word may flow

through me with ease in Jesus name I

pray amen you know I am like most of you

have found a way to try and create some

level of escape I think between the

pandemic and then the uprising of the

racial and Justices that have existed in

this country for a very long time that I

have been mentally and emotionally

exhausted and one of the ways that my

husband and I like to try and unwind

when we feel like the world is going

cray cray and we can do nothing to stop

it is to just turn on a movie for it

after we pray in worshipping all of

those things we also take a moment to

allow ourselves to be entertained and so

we love movies but sometimes in the

process of picking those movies we

watched so many trailers trying to

determine what type of movie we want to

watch that we just give up on watching

television all together part of the

problem is that I like to watch rom-coms

and feel-good movies and you know I can

do action in adventure but one of the

movie genres that he likes to watch that

I can’t really get with our horror films

you know I don’t play with the devil you

know what I mean like I don’t just like

play with them like well I just want to

watch a movie about his works and how

he’s functioning and stuff so I don’t

really like to watch horror movies

because be scared for what’s real life

is scary why would I want to watch a

movie so that I could be scared it’s not

my jam but every now and then I tried to

compromise you know and so I will watch

a scary movie with him as long as it’s

daylight and I have enough room to

really make sure that I’m not going to

sleep on those types of movies and so

when we’re watching these movies I’m

waiting for this particular moment in

the film when I realized that this could

have never happened to me I don’t know

if you’re like me and you watch the

movies and you see people do things that

you know that you would have never done

honey if they did a horror film and I

was in it and I was in some of these

situations that I see people in it would

have been a short film because I’m not

trying to beat up the bad guy until the

bad guy just has a headache I’m trying

to wipe him out I’m trying to help him

go see the judge you know what I mean

like I’m not just trying to make sure

that you’re bruised for a little bit I’m

trying to take you out of the game at

that point in the film I can watch it

because the whole time I’m watching the

movie I’m thinking to myself this would

have never happened to me because I

would have checked homeboy at the very

beginning when he came knocking on the

door I would have never been in this

situation and that is what gives me

peace when watching scary movies there’s

this tunnel vision that I have this

tunnel vision allows me to face the

scary things that are happening in the

movie

because I haven’t

shorts that tunnel vision

it’s the type of tunnel vision that I

seek to have in everyday life some of us

are experts at having tunnel vision when

we’re under pressure you know when we’re

under pressure we can get things done

some of us procrastinate knowing that

when I am under the pressure that comes

with procrastination then I can produce

I want to challenge you for a minute to

not be one of those people who just have

tunnel vision when you’re under pressure

Jesus teaches us as a boy that he has

the type of mental discipline that is

synonymous with tunnel vision by how we

find him when he’s in the temple he’s 12

years old and Mary and Joseph are

looking for him and when they finally

discover him after days of looking for

him they asked him where have you been

what have you been doing and he says

didn’t you know that I had to be about

my father’s business he had tunnel

vision even when he wasn’t under

pressure I don’t want to know who you

are when you’re under pressure I want to

know what type of tunnel vision you have

when you don’t have pressure because

that is who you actually are

some of us pride ourselves on who we can

become under pressure and while there is

something to celebrate in that notion I

am more curious about who you are when

you don’t have pressure some of us can

be honest when we’re under pressure some

of us can perform well when we are under

pressure but those who are truly going

to be who are truly going to be

successful learn how to function when I

am NOT under pressure I still deliver on

the same level there is something to be

said I can remember being a little girl

and my sister and I would get in trouble

and we’re only like 11 months apart and

so I knew if my parents separated us and

started talking to us that the ship was

gonna sink because my sister was going

to tell the truth immediately me you

know I was gonna get there but it was

after a certain level of pressure had

been applied to me but then I came to

this point in my

life in my adulthood where I recognize

that I cannot be the kind of person who

has character under pressure there must

be a moment in your existence when you

decide who I am under pressure is who I

want to be all of the time Who am I when

I am under pressure what are those

attributes that I want to exist even

when I am not experiencing that some of

you right now are only watching this

video because you’re experiencing a

certain level of pressure and I hear God

saying that if I could get you to

connect with me when there is no

pressure than when you are in the

pressure you will have the type of

assurance you need to have tunnel vision

to survive it

I hear God’s saying that now is a time

like never before for us to perfect who

we want to be when there is no pressure

I’ve been seeing so many allies so many

people speaking out about racial

injustice and if I’m honest one of my

biggest concerns and one of my biggest

fears is that when it’s no longer in the

headlines will you still be this type of

person when there is no pressure and I

feel like we have to be willing to ask

ourselves when I am under pressure am i

proud of Who I am in this moment and can

I find a way to be this person

24/7 Jesus he perfects this level of

tunnel vision

tunnel vision without being under

pressure I’m about my father’s business

24/7 my character and my integrity rises

to the level of Honor 24/7 I don’t just

have to be honest when everyone is

accusing me of something when I am

honest all of the time there’s a certain

type of way that I want to show up in

the world and I don’t want life to force

the best out of me all of the time I

want to be digging for the best of me

even when life isn’t putting pressure on

me I want to make my rhythm and my

pattern for existence to be constantly

constantly searching for the best of me

god I don’t want to figure out that I

know how to budget when I’m under

pressure god I don’t want to figure out

that I know how to be patient when I’m

under pressure I want to have the type

of character that is seeking how can I

become better without pressure because

when we have

from pet from pressure we start

acquiescing and we start pulling back

and we start to slack in our discipline

but I hear God saying that you have to

find a way to put pressure on yourself

without life putting pressure on you and

I don’t mean the type of pressure that

gives us mental anxiety I mean the type

of standard maybe that’s what I’m

talking about and I’m using the wrong

word what is your standard when there is

no pressure

what is that bar that you’re reaching

towards when there is no pressure this

is who I am it’s not just who I am when

it gets tough it’s not just who I am

when I’m running out of time this is the

rhythm in which I exist and sometimes

there are moments when I have to

accelerate but I don’t have to go from 0

to 60 because I already live at 45

I feel like spitting some bars for

somebody who’s been waiting for a sign

that it’s time for them to get back in

the game and to stay in the game

consistently instead of waiting on

someone to tag you in I hear God’s

saying that you ought to be anxious for

a moment to say I don’t need anyone to

push me I don’t have to have the job

loss to force me into creativity I want

to learn how to work the job and create

I want to learn how to be the husband

and show up and be a good friend I don’t

want to have to change who I am

depending on the room that I’m in this

is a standard of who I am this is my

character this is my integrity this is

what you can count on when you get me

when you give me you get the same person

who’s here and you get the same person

who’s in my kitchen not just because

it’s something that I know how to turn

on and turn off it’s because this is who

I am and I hear God telling someone to

stop selling a false image of who you

are and to start allowing the authentic

version of who you are to show up in

your friendships to show up in your

relationships and if they walk away let

them because if the only requirement for

them staying forces you to pretend then

you are going to be too busy performing

when you could be activated

you’re gonna be too busy performing when

you could be showing up and changing the

world

I hear that saying you can be a

performer or you can be a world changer

you can be someone who puts on this show

for the gram or you can be somebody who

produces the next gram I hear guys

saying that sometimes you can’t be both

so you got to decide who you’re going to

be in any given moment and you got to be

the same consistently I only do better I

don’t do backwards I only do growth I

don’t shrink even when I pull back it’s

because I believe I’m being shot forward

I am Who I am consistently and that

requires tunnel vision and that requires

the ability to not be distracted by the

things that come in and out of our

worlds and atmospheres and Jesus somehow

he’s able to graduate from this level of

tunnel vision

I love this because it realizes it makes

me realize that Jesus really is the

model not just for how we function in

the world with acute tunnel vision but

for how we show up for other people as

well

because Jesus brings people into his

focus mmm that’s not even in my notes

but I feel that for somebody that

sometimes we are so willing to lay down

our focus to pick up someone else’s

focus not recognizing that part of me

diving into someone else’s focus has to

also do with them recognizing what my

focus is so that there are clear

boundaries for our relationship I don’t

mind picking you up in and helping you

with your with your dreams and your

goals and your purpose but I also want

to bring you into what I’m working on so

you recognize that I’m moving to that

I’m growing too and I don’t want to have

to always silence my growth so that I

can help water someone else there are

some moments when I want you to know

that I’m planting two that I’m dreaming

two and don’t be afraid to bring people

into your process Jesus does this

repeatedly he’s healing people who are

on the side of the road he’s

preaching to the multitude he’s teaching

the disciples but he doesn’t allow what

he’s pouring out to make them forget

what his ultimate vision is and if we

aren’t careful we will let people hijack

our vision because we were too afraid to

open our mouth and let them know where

our tunnel vision was focused Jesus

perfects this ability to have tunnel

vision without pressure some of us are

still working in that area and if you’re

taking notes

this isn’t about guilt or shame but I

want you to start writing down the areas

of your life where you know you need to

have tunnel vision in order to graduate

to the next dimension of who you are I

need to have tunnel vision when it comes

to discipline here I need to have tunnel

vision when it comes to producing my

character to having the level of

integrity that I need in order for me to

show up in relationships as the best

version of myself I need to have tunnel

vision I want to move from this point

but I feel this for somebody it’s not

just gonna happen you’re gonna have to

focus we talked last week about setting

your mind once your mind has been set

you got to have tunnel vision on what

you set your mind towards you’re not

just gonna wake up one day and be the

kind of person that attracts the spouse

that meets your list in your

requirements you’re going to have to

really work towards the level of

communication and transparency that you

want to have in order to have a healthy

relationship you’re not just going to

wake up and know how to run a business

successfully you’ve got to be willing to

start studying and having tunnel vision

and disciplining yourself to turn off

the television and get off social media

so you can write the business plan the

tunnel vision doesn’t just happen it is

intentional and Jesus shows us that it

is intentional and once you graduate

from having tunnel vision without

pressure I want to be honest with you

there’s another level of tunnel vision

that you must be willing to possess and

that tunnel vision is not one that we

fully enjoy but it is one that is

necessary for us to understand because

when we don’t have this level of tunnel

vision it surprises us I want to get

into it so that what I’m saying

makes sense when you graduate from

having tunnel vision without pressure

you get to learn how to have tunnel

vision in darkness there’s a difference

between having tunnel vision without

pressure you get to this place in this

stage in your life where you’re able to

to have the integrity where you’re able

to communicate when you’re able to

apologize when you’re wrong when you’re

able to forgive and to have empathy and

to see things from other people’s

perspectives and for a moment we believe

that that is the destination and then

what happens is once we have fully been

able to ascertain what it means to have

tunnel vision without pressure God says

now I can trust you to have tunnel

vision in darkness I guess I could say

it this way because you perfected tunnel

vision in the world I can trust you with

tunnel vision in dark places you can be

sent into a tunnel you can be graduated

from going to glory – glory to glory it

happens through a tunnel sometimes we

make it seem like you just take these

steps and you enter into glory

but this moment in our in our text is

going to prove to us that Jesus

transition from his human / divinity

into his full divinity happens through

this darkness this hour of darkness as

our text calls in so Jesus goes from

having tunnel vision on the earth to

having to keep that tunnel vision even

in the face of darkness this is the part

of the text that really stood out to me

because I’ve been feeling like we’ve

been in this tunnel I want to believe

that we’re making progress I want to

believe that we’re moving in the

direction that we need to move in but I

cannot deny that there is a level of

darkness that I am experiencing and I

kept asking God why God why does it have

to happen in darkness God why can’t we

all just get along God why can’t people

just under

and I don’t know about you but there

have been moments when I thought that

things were okay and then in an instant

in a day in an in a week things take a

dramatic shift and all of a sudden I was

in my rhythm and I had things together

but now I feel like I’m in a tunnel some

of us are fighting what’s happening in

this nation but others of us are

fighting what’s happening in our home

what’s happening in our mind we have

found ourselves in tunnels and we’ve

been saying to ourself god I thought I

had it all together I thought I was

making progress I thought that I had

finally found the way to show up in the

world with tunnel vision and I was about

my purpose and I was about my wholeness

and I was about my friendships and

qualifying my finances I was doing well

and then I found myself in a tunnel and

I hear God’s saying that the only way to

access that next dimension of glory that

I have for you is if you’re willing to

go into the tone I want to talk to a

minute for a minute to people who are in

tunnels people who are faced with the

darkness of doing things well yeah when

we graduate from doing things well in

the earth we look for some level of

celebration but the truth is when you’re

really about what God is doing in the

earth when you graduate God says I can

trust you to go into dark places

yeah that’s not that’s not those cute

messages that we like to hear but it is

a real message that we need to

understand that when you prove to God

that I keep that you can be trusted

without pressure then what it shows to

him is that I can trust you in darkness

that you have established a rhythm of

who you are and because you have

established that rhythm of who you are I

can send you into dark places without

that darkness getting down on the inside

of you I feel that for somebody you’ve

been facing some things I was talking to

a young woman who was facing cancer and

she says I just have this thing where I

like to make people smile and and I

enjoy connecting with other people can I

get because I can bring them warmth and

I can bring them kind

and that’s why she chose to be a teacher

is because she knew there was a light

that was down on the inside of her that

she felt like was contagious for

children but she didn’t understand why

God had given her cancer or her guy had

allowed for cancer to enter her body and

while I dare not try to explain the ways

of God for I am far too insecure and far

too small to even try to stretch my mind

to understand what God is doing I just

asked her if she was so committed to

letting her light shine even if that

meant her light had to shine in dark

places God helped me to say it the way I

feel it some of us have a light that we

want the world to see but she only want

light to be added to another light

that’s already taking place God says

what really makes light light is lights

ability to show up in darkness and some

of us have been in tunnels for so long

that we don’t understand why we’ve been

in these dark seasons while we’ve been

in these dark moments when we have so

much joy down on the inside of us and so

much peace down on the inside of us and

God said I sent you into the tunnel

because you are the light I sent you

into the tunnel because you carry the

breakthrough I sent you into the tunnel

because I could trust you to allow my

glory to show up even in the middle of

darkness and so now I’m looking at this

situation a little bit differently

because I’m wondering if I’m gonna allow

the darkness to make my lights to come

to darkness or if I am going to stand up

and allow my light to shine even in the

middle of darkness there are some of you

who have been so discouraged that we

have found ourselves in a tunnel season

again I have found myself facing some

things that I don’t want to face again

and I hear God saying that I know it’s

hard that I know it’s dark and that’s

why I sent you into the room that’s why

I sent you into the industry that’s why

I placed you in that family not because

I wanted you to be afraid of the dark

but because I wanted the dark to be

afraid of you and if you ever mess

around and figure out what it is that

God plays down on the inside of you you

would stop expecting more from the light

than you expect from yourself God say

that you are in the middle of that dark

situation is because you have proven to

me that you can be trusted in tunnels

that you have proven to

that you know how to go through dark

spaces and to come out with even more

awareness of Who I am

I feel like prophesying right now in

this place there’s somebody who’s been

going through a tunnel and you’ve been

thinking to yourself I don’t know how

I’m gonna get out of this I don’t know

how I’m gonna break through and I hear

guys saying that the breakthrough is

down on the inside of you

I feel second Timothy one down in my

spirit right now I feel like God’s

saying I not only did I not give you the

spirit of fear before we even get to

that part about God not giving you the

spirit of fear Paul tells Timothy

something very important Paul tells

Timothy to stir up the gift of God

that’s done on the inside of you and I

feel like that’s the message that

somebody needs to hear in this moment

you have found yourself in a dark space

you have found yourself in the tunnel

but the tunnel doesn’t know who you are

the darkness doesn’t know what God lays

down on the inside of you and I

saying that you need to start the gift

of God up down on the inside of you

stir it up stir up the gift of God that

dad

sorry you got beer in the mix

got anxiety in the mix but you got Holy

Ghost in the mix too and sometimes the

Holy Ghost settles down in the bottom

until you get bold enough to start

stirring up the gift of God I feel like

somebody’s breakthrough is happening

right now on this live stream if that’s

you I want you to set that shoe that’s

you

that’s me I’m stirring up to give to god

I’ve been like prophesied and over this

livestream

allowing too many things

you don’t drop of that gift of God but

stirred-up season I’m trying to start

some things up and let you get in the

channel so I could separate who’s got

the gift of God and who’s gonna let fear

dominate and when they back my people up

in the corner that they will start

stirring up the gift of God until heaven

is released over this place

stir it up stir it up stir it up stir it

up stir it up stir it up stir it up

you’ve been there before you understand

what it means to call on the name of

Jesus you’ve been there before you know

how to walk into a room of confidence

don’t let this tart channel make you

forget who you are

don’t let that start trying to make you

back down I hear God saying that racism

is not bigger than the kingdom I hear

God say that the criminal justice system

is not bigger than the kingdom I hear

God say your depression is not bigger

than the kingdom I wish I had some

people who didn’t might stirring up the

gift of God in the face of darkness I’d

like to see darkness construct this

makes me pull on my Holy Ghost darkness

makes me pull on my anointing

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on the gift of God that’s down on the

inside of me I study differently in the

face of darkness I play differently in

the face of darkness I love differently

in the face of darkness we see more

people connecting now more than ever

before because somebody has been pushed

back in the corner and they have to

decide will I allow the gift of God to

be a start up on the inside of me we’d

love to say that God hasn’t given us the

spirit of fear and that is true but we

have to also remember that the scripture

that comes before that makes a mandate

that we stir up the gift of God God

hasn’t given us the spirit of fear but

you can’t even come to that level of

consciousness unless unless the gift of

God has stirred up down on the inside of

you and that’s why it’s easy to believe

that you have fear that you may not have

a sound mind that you’re losing it that

you’re breaking that you’re forgetting

who you are in the process those are all

thoughts that happen when the gift of

God is and start up on the inside of us

and the enemy’s greatest greatest wish

is that you would forget that there is a

gift of God that’s done on the inside of

you that gift of God was breathed into

your body when he created humanity it

was here when you first took your first

breath and it is with you in every dark

season that you go to all you need is a

little gift of God God says that I got a

surprise and that little gift of God

that I play sound on the inside of you

all you need is a little bit of faith in

me all you need is enough strength to

log on and watch the video all you need

is enough strength to sit here and let

this minister to your spirit let it

bypass your fear let it bypass your

anxiety let it bypass your

Stu says I’m not even talking to you

anymore I’m talking to the gift of God

that’s down on the inside of you I’m not

even talking to your parents I’m not

even talking to your future I’m talking

to the gift of God that’s down on the

inside of you and what I’m saying is

come forth what I’m saying is

breakthrough what I’m saying is change

must be broken what I’m saying is

strongholds gotta come down I’m talking

through the gifts of God

place them on the inside of you to break

everything standing in your way that

says greater is He that is in you than

he that is in the world

I was the racism would I was a good

person would make me start stirring up

my dip I might start writing producing I

might create the night

thou makest earth to give

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don’t make me don’t make me start the

gift sometimes you gotta let Hell know

if you keep messing with me I must stir

up the gift i’ma go from being depressed

or stirred up the gift i’ma go from

being anxious to stirring up thinking

don’t make me don’t make me I save my

marriage don’t make me don’t make me I

save my child don’t make me don’t make

me I start being bold as a lion don’t

make me stir up the gift

because there is a God working down on

the inside of me and that God is most

powerful when I remember that he’s in

the tunnel with me somebody’s watching

this message and you’ve been struggling

and I’ve been struggling and I started

getting discouraged and I started

getting angry and I started allowing the

tunnel to convince me that I was going

to be in this tunnel forever that we’re

never going to see justice that we’re

never going to see equality I started

letting the tunnel speak to me and when

I started hearing the tunnel speak

louder than my god I had to rekindle the

fire that word stir it up that that

Timothy is is receiving from Paul that

word sturb means to rekindle gotta God I

feel like it’s working God I feel like

the pain is is getting to me I feel like

the fear is getting to me I feel like

it’s working I feel like the pandemic

might take me out I feel like this

depression might take me out I feel like

I’m gonna lose my mind I feel it working

I feel it working and I hear God saying

you gonna have to rekindle your fire

you’re gonna have to rekindle your fire

how do I rekindle my fighter guy says

you got to throw something in the fire

you got to give me something to work

with

you gotta give me a praise when you

don’t feel like you’re

you got a logo to the video when you

ain’t got no hope you gotta turn on the

washer pieces when it feels like you

don’t wanna hear nothing from God right

now Ghazi did you give me something to

work with I’ll give you my spirit if you

give me a sacrifice I’ll give you my

spirit

you give me your worries I’ll give you

my spirit

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and I got her I got a rekindle this fire

oh god help me

I got a rekindle this fire I gotta be on

fire to do this again you are most

powerful when you are on a fire the

enemy is after our fire this is after

our passion and God says you can’t let

it win go to therapy get the help create

a support group throw something in the

fire we need fire to burn everything

that doesn’t look like God so that

everything that is God can come out as

pure gold does this give me something to

work with now I understand my Jesus is

in the garden and he’s saying God not

your will but my will be done he’s

trying to rekindle his fire because I’m

going to the cross and I’m being

distracted by how I think it’s gonna

feel and how I think it might hurt him

so got me and you gotta have a faceoff

in the garden cuz I got a rekindle this

fire I can’t go to the cross without

fire I can’t face these enemies without

fire you need the fire up the Holy Ghost

I feel like Jeremiah when he said that

the Spirit of the Lord was like fire

shut up in his votes that he had to

release it by any means necessary

then fire gets set up in your bones

again Wow you wanna do a serve why you

wanna do is change Wow you wanna do is

transform them I need the fire I need

the fire especially one digit up on fire

fire fire I dare you to type fire in the

comment section until somebody on the

other side of the globe catches fire you

gotta be careful Oh in fact metal wood

fire

you get next to baby you might burn baby

burn you might burn baby burn

I’m on fire for the Holy Ghost again

fight fire firefighter I just want to

see fire in the chat room I just want to

see fire in the comments-section fire

fire fire fire fire fire fire fire fire

fire fire over your marriage by your

over your finances by your over your

dreams by your over your mind the kind

of fire that makes demons tremble the

kind of fires that big hail back up out

for you the kind of fire that starts

producing gold Jesus it’s so on a fire

in the middle of a dark season that when

Peter cuts off the ear of the high

priest soldier he says permit even this

there are some things that you can let

happen when you are on fire because you

recognize that meat fixing this is a

distraction for what I’m really called

to do you can you can withstand them

talking about you when you’re on a fire

you can withstand the disagreements in

your comment section when you’re on fire

you don’t need people’s validation when

you’re on fire you start saying things

to yourself like permit even this allow

this to even happen because if I start

digging into this it might take away

from my fire you got to protect your

fire Jesus

he’s got this tunnel vision and he’s not

just staring at death anymore

he’s staring at glory I only see glory

now I only see what God wants to do

through me now

I only see who I must become not just so

that I can get on the cross but so that

I can be resurrected permit even this

because when I’m resurrected what I do

on the cross is gonna fix what’s

happening in this moment imagine if we

had that mentality where I didn’t need

to fix this fight because the ultimate

battle that I’m fighting will fix this

fight – why would I argue in my comments

when if I continue to fight the

high-level fight then those arguments in

the comments would be beneath me life is

gonna prove that what I’m saying is true

me being allowing my steps to be ordered

is going to prove what I’m saying is

true so Jesus has this tunnel vision

even in the middle of a tunnel

and Peter Peter got thrust in this

tunnel Jesus knew he knew this moment

was coming he knew that Judas was

betraying him but Peter didn’t know

Peter said here I’ll cut his ear off I

I’ll get them off of you Peter didn’t

understand what this was

sometimes we’re thrust into tunnels

before we have the opportunity to even

stir up the gift of God that’s down on

the inside of us maybe had Peter not

been falling asleep when Jesus was

praying in the garden he would have been

prepared but he wasn’t prepared you’re

watching this video and you were not

prepared to be in this tunnel you

weren’t prepared for the country to be

in this tunnel I wasn’t prepared to be

facing this level of darkness and I

don’t know what to do the Peter Peter’s

not in this tunnel by himself

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Jesus says you understand Who I am and

you understand what this is you just

don’t know how to respond some of us

I’m most confused because we don’t know

how to respond I understand what’s

happening I know why the marriage fell

apart I know why the kids are acting

crazy I understand how I got here I just

don’t know how to respond and Jesus says

I’m going to get in that tunnel with you

you got threats in this tunnel but I’m

gonna teach you even in the middle of

the tunnel how to respond some of you

you’re watching you’re speaking out for

the first time and and you know you have

to you just don’t know how you’re

supposed to respond I hear you guys

saying if you keep following Jesus he’ll

teach you how to respond if you keep

following Jesus while you’re going

through this brokenness he’ll teach you

how to respond Jesus is saying I didn’t

just send you into this tunnel by

yourself I will always send a teacher to

help you in the middle of your tunnel if

you’ve got a teacher that’s helping you

in the middle of this tunnel I want you

to take a minute and celebrate them to

thank God that when you didn’t know how

to stir up the gift of God down on the

inside of you that he sent you a teacher

that taught you how to do it

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and so Peter and Jesus are in this

tunnel and while they’re in this tunnel

Jesus says something that is so peculiar

to me and it really stood out in my mind

I’m almost finished I promise when Jesus

is talking to the Pharisees and the

sanhedrin’s and all of those who have

come out against him he says something

to them about how they came at him it

was actually a little gangster which I

love about my Jesus he says to them when

I was with you every day in the temple

you never came at me this way in verse

53 I’m going to read it the way New King

James Version says it so that I do not

open eyes this text it says when I was

with you daily in the temple when I was

with you shooting in the gym every day

in the temple you never tried to come up

on me no ok no no no when I was with you

daily in the temple you did not try to

seize me but this is your hour and the

power of darkness

Jesus says that darkness will have an

hour how is it that Jesus the only

begotten Son of God

could confirm what we have been thinking

and that’s what I realized this season

has been for our country this centuries

long season is evidence that darkness

will have an hour I need you to know

that because as long as you are trying

to avoid darkness and as long as you

think darkness has no power you will be

caught off guard when it occurs but in

this text Jesus tells us that darkness

has an hour what do I do with that what

do I do with the fact that I am going to

face darkness that darkness is going to

have seasons in my life pastor tell me

what is my response to that supposed to

be

and I want you to be reminded of what

Jesus does in this moment he recognizes

that there are moments when darkness

must have an hour so that glory can have

an eternity that is perspective on the

tunnel that is vision for the tunnel

that there are some things that you’re

going to go through that are going to

feel dark and they’re going to feel

lonely and they’re going to feel

isolating and I cannot protect you from

that darkness must have an hour in all

of our lives but darkness only has an

hour it doesn’t have your eternity and

Jesus says the only way that I can

access this next dimension of glory is

if I allow darkness to have this season

there is glory connected to your name

and darkness is a sign that you are in

the right direction to manifest that

glory I honestly think the most powerful

thing that I see Jesus doing in this

text is that he’s still performing

miracles when underseas they’re seizing

him and yet he heals the ear of that

soldier that servant that came at him

because even when you’re going through

darkness you don’t let have to let

darkness change who you are

don’t let darkness change who you are it

may mean you have to move it may mean

that you have to readjust the way that

you function but there is a core of who

you are on the inside of you I know how

to perform miracles even when under

pressure I know how to show up even when

under pressure I am Who I am whether I

am under pressure or not under pressure

and I’ve been practicing it long enough

that I will not allow darkness to take

away from my purpose and so Jesus

continues to manifest God’s anointing on

his life even when he’s under seas each

of you watching this video your

anointing your anointing may be

different from my anointing and I feel

this for you you’re weeping right now

while even watching this video my heart

is breaking with you I know that you’re

tired of being in this darkness and in

retaliation to God because he allowed

this season to happen you have stopped

releasing your anointing you don’t do it

with this same heart you don’t do it

with the same passion because you’re

angry with God that you’re in this dark

season and I hear God saying that the

thing that is gonna help you get out of

this tunnel the thing that is gonna

light the way as you go through this

tunnel is not what someone else pours

into you it’s in what you release after

that pouring

that means you can receive all the word

that you can take but if you don’t

release your anointing how that

anointing transformed your gift if you

don’t release that anointing then your

light may not shine bright enough to get

you out of this tunnel that means you

still may have to produce it you still

may have to create it it may be modified

it may not be on the level that you have

desired but I hear God’s saying that you

are retaliating against him because of

the darkest hour that you’ve ever faced

and God says you’re in that darkness not

because I wanted this for you this was

never God’s original intention for

Humanity I didn’t want you to face

darkness that’s why he told Adam and Eve

don’t eat from that tree but now that

you cannot avoid darkness I’m gonna give

you the power to unleash my glory even

in darkness I hear guys saying if you

start sowing your gift in the darkness

to start sowing your talents in the

darkness that it’s going to rekindle

that fire and that fire is going to

reveal God’s glory I want to pray with

you you know that it’s been hard for you

to have the type of tunnel vision

that allows you to show up with

confidence this is not me coming down on

you I’m testifying

I too was struggling God where are you

in the midst of this God how could you

allow this to happen I have some

questions for God but as I was studying

as I was praying and I was just asking

God to show me reveal where you are in

the midst of this I started filling my

Holy Ghost stirring and when I thought

the Holy Spirit stirring I felt equipped

to wage war with what was standing in

front of me I felt equipped that there

is a better tomorrow that awaits us I

felt empowered that there was glory on

the other side of this but I couldn’t

get that when I started thinking on the

level of this earth I guess maybe that’s

why last week we had to set our mind so

maybe what happened in my prayer time is

I’ve just rained my mind in I want to

talk to you I want to pray with you

because I believe that God’s gonna give

you back your tunnel vision if that’s

you I just want you to put that’s me

that’s me that’s me that’s me I want to

make sure that this prayer hits you

exactly where you are I want you to be

represented when I pray this is the

closest thing that we can get to an

altar call virtually so if you’re

watching this I want you to send me some

type of smoke signal that you want your

house represented in this prayer by this

is me it’s me it’s me it’s me it’s me I

lost focus on who you are I lost focus

on how I can change the world I lost

focus on how I can show up in this

family that’s me that’s me that’s me

because I’m gonna pray that you would

become like Peter and that you would

become teachable in the tunnel that you

would become teachable in this moment

when you need it the most I remember in

the Old Testament they talked about how

we’ve never gone this way before so we

have to be careful we’ve never gone this

way before talking to the children of

Israel you’ve never been this way before

you’ve never faced this level of

Darkness you’re like Peter you don’t

understand how you’re supposed to

respond and I hear God’s saying I’m

going to teach you how to show up be

patient with yourself and be patient

with me you’re not in this on your own

father man there truly is no plan like

the plan that you have for our lives and

we’re constantly declaring things like

you made a way and that your goodness

runs after us but father in some moments

it feels like we don’t know where you

are and yet we call you our way maker we

call you our miracle worker we say that

you are our provider we say that you are

our healer but the only way we can find

out that this is true is if we find

ourselves in dark moments so what I’m

saying father is that we want to know

you better father every household every

comment represented in this chat section

every person responding that’s me father

we want to have a radical encounter with

you where we recognize that your power

to meet us in those tunnels is still

working and still available and so

father we make room for you and we exit

you with narrow our vision down

not to the fear that exists in this

tunnel but to the gift of God that

you’ve placed that on the inside of us

father I’m praying that you would

highlight the gifts of the people who

are connecting to this message right now

you didn’t even know kindness was a gift

but is a gift of God you didn’t know

patience was a gift but it is a gift

from God you didn’t know that you could

show up and change the world with one

smile one thought one idea serving in

the way that you serve it is a gift from

God you may not be able to sing but you

may not be able to write you may not be

able to produce but that doesn’t mean

you don’t have a gift probably highlight

the gift of God that you have given to

each and every last one of the people

connecting with this prayer and farther

acts that you would not just highlight

that gift but that you would feel that

gift with the power of the Holy Ghost

that right now in this moment father if

this is your word if this is your prayer

I want you to lift your arms lift your

hands like you’re receiving something

father we receive your spirit father we

receive your glory

father we receive your ability to

rekindle the fire that’s down on the

inside of us father i baptize them right

now in the name of Jesus and with the

power of the Holy Ghost father i baptize

them in the power of the Holy Ghost

until the Britch depression has to stay

in the water until disease has to stay

in the water until anxiety has to stay

in the water God I’m asking that your

presence would begin sweeping their

rooms sweeping their offices sweeping

their cars wherever they’re watching

father your spirit knows how to reach

them your spirit knows how to touch them

father let your spirit touch them and

let it overflow we repent father for

losing sight of who we are to be we

repent father for allowing fear to

dictate our minds we repent we repeat

for not trusting you we repent for

putting more faith in ourselves than we

did in you Father forgive us of our sins

forgive us of our shortcomings forgive

us for giving up when you were still

working

and we exit you would fill us with your

spirit so that we can regain our

position by the wherever you say to go

we’ll go wherever you send us we’ll stay

wherever you position us we’ll be

planted and it will not be by our

strength nor will it be by our power

Father but it will be by your Spirit we

receive your spirit in every single way

in Jesus name I pray amen

I want you to type a man’s seal this

word seal this prayer amen amen amen

amen

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