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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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