WEBVTT NOTE Podcast: Acts 29 Vancouver Episode: When God Enters! Publishing Date: 2026-03-01T02:04:44-08:00 Podcast URL: https://acts29.ca Episode URL: https://acts29.ca/when-god-enters/ 00:00:00.000 --> 00:00:12.600 I want to thank you for the teaching today. Jacob actually gave me the choice to pick what 00:00:12.600 --> 00:00:17.360 I wanted. So I said, Jacob, you know what, just give me what you want me to teach on. 00:00:17.360 --> 00:00:23.360 And so he gave me Isaiah chapter 35. And he said, speak on Isaiah chapter 35. And even 00:00:23.360 --> 00:00:28.520 when it was Isaiah chapter 35, he said, you know, pick a point or choose what you want 00:00:28.520 --> 00:00:33.560 to teach on. So I was like, it's my first teaching on a Sunday. Might as well do it 00:00:33.560 --> 00:00:37.960 well. You know, something that is comfortable to me is that something that's close to my 00:00:37.960 --> 00:00:42.140 heart. And I really want to do that. And I was actually starting to prepare that way. 00:00:42.140 --> 00:00:48.220 But I kept feeling that God was drifting me back. God was pulling me back to the teachings 00:00:48.220 --> 00:00:53.680 that we have been having in action over the last couple of weeks, which is the presence 00:00:53.680 --> 00:01:01.080 of God, the holiness of God, the arc of the God, the carriers of the arc. And I remember 00:01:01.080 --> 00:01:09.880 my mom telling me every time you feel like God is repeating himself, he's onto something. 00:01:09.880 --> 00:01:17.400 And so this is not my familiar topic. This is not what I want to teach on. But when God 00:01:17.400 --> 00:01:24.080 says something, you might as well do it because God is onto something. And so for me, one 00:01:24.080 --> 00:01:29.460 thing that I was thinking when I was writing this was I've been in Acts 29 for close, 00:01:29.460 --> 00:01:35.600 this is my 10th anniversary. And I think almost four and a half years, we have been waiting 00:01:35.600 --> 00:01:43.380 on a promise since 2021 or so. And the promise is this one thing that God is going to bring 00:01:43.380 --> 00:01:50.420 in a revival, that God is going to move like never before. God is going to touch the hearts 00:01:50.420 --> 00:01:54.820 of the young men and young women. God is going to do ridiculous things that we have never 00:01:54.820 --> 00:02:01.160 seen before, but we're still waiting. It's been four and a half years. And so one part 00:02:01.160 --> 00:02:08.380 of me is like, Father, I know this is you. I know this is you speaking these things. 00:02:08.380 --> 00:02:13.700 I know it is your heart for the city. But on the other side, I'm like, did we miss it 00:02:13.700 --> 00:02:18.420 or did we mishear it? Because what are the odds that we are waiting for four and a half 00:02:18.420 --> 00:02:24.860 years? And so as I was thinking through these things, one thing led to the other. And Kezia 00:02:24.860 --> 00:02:31.320 asked me to show a book to my mother-in-law. And so that book, some of you have probably 00:02:31.320 --> 00:02:35.840 heard of this book. And it's a book where my mom, before I came to Canada, she wrote 00:02:36.040 --> 00:02:42.400 all the promises that were spoken over me. So I think the first note in that starts in 00:02:42.400 --> 00:02:48.640 2006 and it ends in 2019. I think she came back and she wrote extra because I came in 00:02:48.640 --> 00:02:54.000 2015. But when I was reading through those prophecies that were spoken over me, one thing 00:02:54.000 --> 00:02:58.520 that stood out to me is that, man, some of the prophecies that were spoken over me when 00:02:58.520 --> 00:03:05.840 I was in 2006, I was like 12, 14 years old, are some ridiculous prophecies. I could not 00:03:05.840 --> 00:03:12.300 have seen that coming. I was a boy who had no idea what life was going to look like. 00:03:12.300 --> 00:03:17.820 And as I was reading through those words, I saw that God kept prophesying, kept speaking 00:03:17.820 --> 00:03:23.160 things over my life, kept adding to those things. But right now I'm living in a phase 00:03:23.240 --> 00:03:29.440 where he's fulfilling those promises. As I'm speaking right now on this pulpit, he's fulfilling 00:03:29.440 --> 00:03:35.160 a prophecy. The point I'm trying to make is that it does not matter how long I wait. If 00:03:35.160 --> 00:03:42.080 God said something, he will bring it to pass. That is the assurance with which I'm speaking 00:03:42.080 --> 00:03:46.520 right now because I don't care if I've waited for four and a half years right now. I don't 00:03:46.520 --> 00:03:50.640 care whether I have to wait one more year or one and a half more years. I don't care 00:03:50.640 --> 00:03:55.880 because I know if God has spoken something, he will bring to pass. A couple of weeks back, 00:03:55.880 --> 00:04:01.640 Remy was actually saying something that stood out to me during pursuit. You guys are all 00:04:01.640 --> 00:04:07.480 missing pursuit by the way. During pursuit, something Remy spoke really stood out to me. 00:04:07.480 --> 00:04:14.080 He said for us, the problem that we have been with Christians for a while is that the God 00:04:14.080 --> 00:04:20.280 of the Bible is still just the God of the Bible. As in, he's the God of Old Testament, 00:04:20.280 --> 00:04:26.160 he's the God of New Testament, but that's it. He's also the God of the latest Testament, 00:04:26.160 --> 00:04:33.560 which is you and I, guys. The very same God who was speaking things in the past, as I'm speaking 00:04:33.560 --> 00:04:39.800 right now, God is fulfilling promises left, right and center. He's raising dead bodies as we speak. 00:04:39.800 --> 00:04:46.000 He's healing tumors and cancers as we speak. He's setting people free as we speak. He's casting 00:04:46.000 --> 00:04:51.320 out demons as we speak. Just because you and I don't see does not mean he's not doing things. 00:04:51.320 --> 00:04:58.280 Just because you and I don't have the eyes open, that's the reason why I prayed about open our 00:04:58.280 --> 00:05:03.320 eyes because sometimes you're just blind to what is happening just around us. You're so blind to 00:05:03.320 --> 00:05:09.560 the fact that you are moving like crazy and I'm not able to see what you're planning. So this 00:05:09.560 --> 00:05:16.680 teaching, guys, and as I said, for me, I'm sure that God gave me this. I'm sure that I'm delivering 00:05:16.680 --> 00:05:21.440 on behalf of God. So I don't care what you think. I don't care what you, you know, how you feel about 00:05:21.440 --> 00:05:29.600 this, but this is the truth. And one reason I'm, again, when Jacob spoke about this prophecy of a 00:05:29.600 --> 00:05:35.640 revival coming, it was Jacob's prophecy. Like it came out of Jacob. But one thing that happened in 00:05:35.640 --> 00:05:42.840 my life was that it became mine. I had the ability to take it from Jacob. And now when I'm 00:05:42.840 --> 00:05:48.680 speaking, I'm not speaking on behalf of Jacob. I'm speaking on behalf of God who has given the 00:05:48.680 --> 00:05:53.920 conviction in my heart that he is going to do something. And so when you guys are listening, 00:05:53.920 --> 00:05:58.720 you have two choice. One is for, this is the same old thing that we have been hearing, what news 00:05:58.720 --> 00:06:04.760 is going to come. That can be one attitude. Or the second part is, man, God has been saying 00:06:04.760 --> 00:06:10.720 something. But today might be a different day where I cling on to what he's saying. Make sense? 00:06:10.720 --> 00:06:20.240 Any questions? I know I went on a tangent. Guys, one reason that we have to think of this is 00:06:20.240 --> 00:06:26.800 because regardless of whether you and I believe this and run with this, he will do what he said 00:06:26.800 --> 00:06:32.920 he's going to do. One, because it's not about you and me. It's about a nation. It's about a 00:06:32.920 --> 00:06:41.240 generation. It's about all the young people in the 20s and 30s and 40s going to hell. It matters to 00:06:41.240 --> 00:06:47.200 him. It matters to him. And that's the reason why whether we are on board or not, he'll still do 00:06:47.200 --> 00:06:55.080 what he's supposed to do. He's not going to stop. But he's giving us this invitation. Guys, get on 00:06:55.080 --> 00:07:00.640 board. Guys, prepare. And I'm not coming from a place of like, we are not doing that. I know we 00:07:00.640 --> 00:07:08.240 are. But he's, for the people who are yet to join or for some of us who have been restless in seeing 00:07:08.240 --> 00:07:17.920 this come to pass, this is God just recharging us. This is just God saying, the time is here. The time 00:07:17.920 --> 00:07:22.980 is now. And somebody said that while we were preaching, while we were praying, the time is 00:07:23.820 --> 00:07:33.540 here and the time is now. So if you want a topic for today, it is going to be when God enters. When 00:07:33.540 --> 00:07:45.220 God enters. And I'm just going to teach from Isaiah chapter 35. When God enters. And when I 00:07:45.220 --> 00:07:50.900 teach about this, I might be touching on, you know, when God enters into a city or into a life or into 00:07:50.900 --> 00:07:55.580 a family or into a nation, it does not matter where God enters, because when he enters, it's the 00:07:55.580 --> 00:08:02.860 same. When God enters, the results are the same. So it does not matter in your heart where you want, 00:08:02.860 --> 00:08:08.380 what you want to cling on to today. If you want God to enter into your life, this is probably the 00:08:08.380 --> 00:08:14.740 first time that you're in a church. It's your first time knowing about this God. This teaching is 00:08:14.740 --> 00:08:20.700 perfect for you. Because may God enter into your life, enter into your family, enter into your 00:08:20.700 --> 00:08:28.580 household who have not heard of Yahweh and Yeshua. Enter into your life that, you know, you probably 00:08:28.580 --> 00:08:36.160 heard his name once, but may God do something. So let's go. Isaiah chapter 35, verse 1. 00:08:36.160 --> 00:08:44.760 The desert and the parched land will be glad. The wilderness will rejoice and blossom. Like the 00:08:44.760 --> 00:08:51.880 crocus, it will burst into bloom. It will rejoice greatly and shout for joy. The glory of Lebanon 00:08:51.880 --> 00:09:01.200 will be given to it. The splendor of Carmel and Sharon. Verse 6. Water will gush forth in the 00:09:01.200 --> 00:09:06.360 wilderness and streams in the desert. The burning sand will become a pool. The thirsty ground, 00:09:06.360 --> 00:09:13.880 bubbling springs. In the haunts where jackals once lay, grass and reeds and papyrus will grow. I want 00:09:13.880 --> 00:09:20.000 to read this one more time. The desert and the parched land will be glad. The wilderness will 00:09:20.000 --> 00:09:27.120 rejoice and blossom. Like the crocus, it will burst into bloom. It will rejoice greatly and shout 00:09:27.120 --> 00:09:34.080 for joy. The glory of Lebanon will be given to it. The splendor of Carmel and Sharon. Water will 00:09:34.080 --> 00:09:40.400 gush forth in the wilderness and streams in the desert. The burning sand will become a pool. The 00:09:40.400 --> 00:09:47.760 thirsty ground, bubbling springs. In the haunts where jackals once lay, grass and reed and papyrus 00:09:47.760 --> 00:09:53.880 will grow. I want to read this again because we can just read through this and completely miss 00:09:53.880 --> 00:10:00.040 the point. What God is trying to say is that I am going to do when I enter, I'm going to do 00:10:00.040 --> 00:10:07.840 something ridiculous that it may seem impossible at the moment. It may seem impossible when you 00:10:07.840 --> 00:10:15.760 look around that the state of your city, the state of your life is so different from what God is 00:10:15.760 --> 00:10:23.080 claiming it to be. He's saying that this parched land, how in the world is the burning sand becoming 00:10:23.080 --> 00:10:30.680 a pool? How in the world is the thirsty ground bubbling with springs? How in the world is water 00:10:30.680 --> 00:10:37.320 gushing forth in the wilderness and streams in the desert? It's practically impossible. It's not 00:10:37.320 --> 00:10:44.360 possible. And God is saying when I enter, this is what is going to happen. There is a word in the 00:10:44.360 --> 00:10:51.800 Bible called Ichabod. And the meaning of Ichabod is when glory departs, when God departs. There is 00:10:51.800 --> 00:10:58.920 a verse in Matthew chapter 23, verse 37 and 38. It says, Oh, Jerusalem, Jerusalem, you who killed 00:10:58.920 --> 00:11:05.400 the prophets and stoned those who sent to you, how often I have longed to gather your children 00:11:05.400 --> 00:11:13.520 together. As a hen gathers her chicks under her wings, but you were not willing. Look, your house 00:11:13.520 --> 00:11:21.160 is left to you desolate. It says, look, your house is left to you desolate. And he's speaking to 00:11:21.160 --> 00:11:30.040 Jerusalem. It is his house, but he's saying, look at your house. He's not claiming it to be his 00:11:30.040 --> 00:11:36.600 house anymore. You cannot find God in Jerusalem anymore. This is the meaning of the word Ichabod 00:11:36.600 --> 00:11:43.640 where he is not there. One of the first things when fall happened was the land was cursed. What 00:11:43.640 --> 00:11:50.360 did the land do? But just because God is not present, the place becomes a wilderness. 00:11:52.680 --> 00:11:59.240 And I know Jacob has said so many things about the land. I remember this one story when I think he's 00:11:59.240 --> 00:12:04.760 shared in 2021 or something where he said, when a revival broke out in one of the places, I think 00:12:04.920 --> 00:12:14.440 South America, the land was barely making any crops and any fruits. But when revival broke out, 00:12:14.440 --> 00:12:20.760 people started repenting and God was moving like crazy. And the land reflected what the presence of 00:12:20.760 --> 00:12:29.880 God looked like. The crops became bigger. It's not possible. Apples were this size. Or I don't know, 00:12:29.960 --> 00:12:36.360 I don't go to the grocery store much. Maybe I do, but I don't look at the names. But those things 00:12:36.360 --> 00:12:45.560 got bigger. The point that I'm trying to make is that guys, the effect of God entering 00:12:46.680 --> 00:12:54.920 is ridiculous. You will see it is not going to be a passive, subtle thing. It's going to be 00:12:55.480 --> 00:13:05.320 right on your face. One thing that will happen is that he will reclaim his house. It's not going to 00:13:05.320 --> 00:13:12.200 be your house anymore. It's going to be his house. It's going to be his house. He will dwell in the 00:13:12.200 --> 00:13:17.880 house. He's reclaiming what is his. He's reclaiming what belongs to him. 00:13:17.880 --> 00:13:27.800 I have so many stories that come to my mind. But I want to touch on this story because it's very 00:13:27.800 --> 00:13:32.760 close to my heart. The reason I speak a lot of these things is because some of these stories 00:13:32.760 --> 00:13:41.240 happened in my family. And personal people might know this. My uncle, when I met him, 00:13:41.880 --> 00:13:49.080 he is one of the most meekest people ever. He's one of the most nicest people ever. He's probably 00:13:49.080 --> 00:13:58.200 meeker than Tooney, who is the other meekest man I've seen. But I didn't know that he had a past. 00:13:59.720 --> 00:14:08.040 Apparently, he was wanted by the police. He was a black belt teacher. He used to do drugs and 00:14:08.840 --> 00:14:16.040 he used to drink a lot. He used to go and fight the police. He used to go fight with the people. 00:14:16.760 --> 00:14:24.600 He was on the wanted list. But when I see his past with what I know of him, it's not the same. 00:14:25.320 --> 00:14:29.960 There's a big difference. I'm talking about a drastic difference. If not for my mom, 00:14:29.960 --> 00:14:33.880 I wouldn't know a story like that because that man does not reflect the life that he led. 00:14:34.680 --> 00:14:38.760 There was one thing that happened because he walked into a church with a knife on his side 00:14:38.760 --> 00:14:44.840 and he was sitting. And the preacher said, you have a knife right now. If you surrender your 00:14:44.840 --> 00:14:50.520 knife and your life to God, he will make wonders happen in your life. I have not seen a man with 00:14:50.520 --> 00:14:56.760 such faith in my life. And I know I'm talking about life, because I don't want anybody to 00:14:56.760 --> 00:15:01.400 miss out because it's all about city. I'm talking about this kind of stories multiplied by 100. 00:15:02.200 --> 00:15:08.440 I'm talking about that is what happens when God invades a city. That is what happens when God 00:15:08.440 --> 00:15:13.320 moves like never before. You and I cannot imagine the magnitude of his presence. 00:15:14.440 --> 00:15:17.800 You and I cannot imagine what it will look like because you have not seen, 00:15:19.160 --> 00:15:23.800 you have not seen what God has in store. You have not seen what his plans are. 00:15:24.280 --> 00:15:29.640 So that is the first thing, that he will move. 00:15:31.640 --> 00:15:39.000 When the ark entered the house, Tuni talked about this, of Obed-Edo. It stayed there for three months 00:15:39.880 --> 00:15:46.440 and his house flourished. I'm giving examples of life of a house, of a city, of a nation, 00:15:46.440 --> 00:15:53.480 where God enters and it changes everything. One cool thing about coming from India is that 00:15:53.800 --> 00:16:00.120 I've seen people who were ravaged by the devil. Because there are so many, it's not that Canada 00:16:00.120 --> 00:16:04.520 is all perfect, eh? It's just that the demons are a little more subtle, I guess. But in India, 00:16:04.520 --> 00:16:12.760 it's very, they ravage because they serve other gods and demonic attacks are very visible. 00:16:12.760 --> 00:16:19.800 So I've seen with my eyes how God literally transformed families. I've seen a drunkard family 00:16:20.280 --> 00:16:26.120 who was known for ages, generations and generations of drunkards change like that. 00:16:28.680 --> 00:16:35.560 And that, I'm just painting a picture because I still cannot understand how big God is going to 00:16:35.560 --> 00:16:42.120 do it. But I've seen and because I've seen, I will speak. Because I've seen, I will testify. 00:16:42.120 --> 00:16:47.720 And because I've seen, I will believe. And I hope that this belief is not just mine and in the 00:16:47.720 --> 00:16:52.760 process, you cling on to what God is doing, eh? Second thing that I want to speak, 00:16:54.440 --> 00:17:01.480 strengthen the feeble hands, steady the knees that give way. Say to those with fearful hearts, 00:17:02.120 --> 00:17:09.000 be strong, do not fear. Your God will come. This is from verse three. I'll read it again. Verse three, 00:17:09.000 --> 00:17:15.560 strengthen the feeble hands, steady the knees that give away. Say to those with fearful hearts, 00:17:15.560 --> 00:17:22.760 be strong, do not fear. Your God will come. He will come with vengeance, with divine retribution. 00:17:22.760 --> 00:17:28.120 He will come to save you. They will see the glory of the Lord, the splendor of our God. 00:17:29.400 --> 00:17:33.720 One thing that you have to note in here is that he didn't say, I will strengthen the feeble hands. 00:17:34.360 --> 00:17:40.840 I will steady the knees. I will say to the, he's saying you do this. He's saying you go and 00:17:40.840 --> 00:17:45.720 strengthen the feeble hands. You go steady the knees that give away. You say to those with 00:17:45.720 --> 00:17:51.080 fearful hearts, be strong, do not fear. Your God will come. He will come with vengeance and divine 00:17:51.080 --> 00:17:56.520 retribution. He will come to save you. They will see the glory of the Lord, the splendor of our God. 00:18:01.320 --> 00:18:08.360 It is one thing to pray. It is another thing to do. And I'm not taking away the emphasis on prayer 00:18:08.360 --> 00:18:13.720 because it's the most important thing. But with that, some of us have to do things. 00:18:15.720 --> 00:18:23.320 With that, I wish I can say everybody, but I know that's not the case, but I want that to be the 00:18:23.320 --> 00:18:28.600 case. That everybody gets on board. That everybody does something. That everybody participates in what 00:18:28.600 --> 00:18:33.960 God is doing. That everybody believes what he's saying and goes out. That it's not just prayer 00:18:33.960 --> 00:18:39.640 warriors, but then there are doers and action people because prayer alone, guys, God will do 00:18:39.640 --> 00:18:45.240 things with prayer, but why will he limit just for him to directly approach people when he can do it 00:18:45.240 --> 00:18:50.760 through people? If you read the books of the Bible, he has always done it through people. 00:18:52.040 --> 00:18:57.720 Sometimes the same people that prayed, who did it? Sometimes it's somebody else who prayed, 00:18:57.720 --> 00:19:01.640 but somebody else who did it. So for you and me, it's the same thing. 00:19:04.040 --> 00:19:11.000 I just don't want to be a prayer, a prayer-er. I want to do more than that. I want to be a doer. 00:19:18.200 --> 00:19:20.920 So many things coming into my... One of the most common excuses 00:19:21.640 --> 00:19:28.360 that I hear when I'm saying this is one, I don't know enough. I'm not ready yet because I am very 00:19:28.440 --> 00:19:37.720 new. And the other reason is because I don't have a PhD like Dr. Tooney. I don't know the word that 00:19:37.720 --> 00:19:42.600 much. And this is the reality. And a lot of people say this. I personally know people who say this. 00:19:42.600 --> 00:19:50.920 I sometimes doubt myself too. And one thing that I want to say is that when God enters the city, 00:19:50.920 --> 00:19:56.120 there's very little that you have to do because he cannot wait until you get your PhD. 00:19:56.920 --> 00:20:01.960 Because he cannot wait till you finish your Bible reading that has started 15 years ago. 00:20:02.600 --> 00:20:08.600 Because he cannot wait until you're done with every verse in the Bible. It's great if you have, 00:20:08.600 --> 00:20:13.080 but you'll find another excuse. You have a question, Rafa? 00:20:15.640 --> 00:20:25.720 Yeah. Too easily we let fear. Absolutely. Absolutely. And so that is... 00:20:26.120 --> 00:20:29.320 I'll share a story that really changed the way I think about this. But 00:20:30.920 --> 00:20:34.680 in India, back in the day, I'm giving a lot of examples from India because that's where I grew 00:20:34.680 --> 00:20:43.720 up, eh? Nothing against Canada. I love Canada. But in India, when I was growing up, my mom used to 00:20:43.720 --> 00:20:50.040 take us everywhere on public transit. There's this huge bus where... And I like to sit in the... Right 00:20:50.440 --> 00:20:57.240 this is the driver's seat. In India, safety is not a concern. So you can sit literally next 00:20:59.080 --> 00:21:04.600 to the bus driver. And you'll see these massive guys. Their forums are like this big. Because 00:21:04.600 --> 00:21:10.280 they'll pull the steer with all their life to turn the bus around. And some of you have probably seen 00:21:10.280 --> 00:21:14.360 it. All you new generation guys, you have no idea what I'm talking about. But I'm just 33. 00:21:14.360 --> 00:21:19.320 If you're older than 33, you probably saw this. But one thing that changed when I went back in 00:21:20.440 --> 00:21:27.560 2018 is that I'm seeing fresh out of school guys who are thinner, way thinner. 00:21:30.920 --> 00:21:36.920 I don't want to say a name, but way thinner, who would just drive the bus with one finger 00:21:36.920 --> 00:21:43.000 and another hand on the phone. Like this. You know what changed? The technology changed. 00:21:43.800 --> 00:21:49.960 There was a power steering that was put in place. The point I'm trying to make is that the driver 00:21:49.960 --> 00:21:54.360 with the same effort that he put back in the day, you don't have to put the same effort because 00:21:54.360 --> 00:22:01.480 God is on the move. You are power driven. It is the power of God that is doing things. It's not 00:22:01.480 --> 00:22:06.920 my preaching guys. I can preach here for all the day. None of you will get anything. But the words 00:22:06.920 --> 00:22:12.520 that I speak, if it is empowered by the Spirit of God, even before I open my mouth, people will 00:22:12.520 --> 00:22:20.440 start to get healed. There is a difference in power driven work that you do on the field. That 00:22:20.440 --> 00:22:25.560 is why I'm saying do not give me excuses. And when I say it's not me, God is asking, 00:22:26.200 --> 00:22:31.960 do not give God your excuses because you'll keep finding excuses one after the other. And he's 00:22:31.960 --> 00:22:38.280 saying, let me empower you. All I need is for you to open your mouth and I'll fill it. This is a 00:22:38.280 --> 00:22:43.640 verse from the Bible and it's probably one of the most misquoted verses because in Pentecostal 00:22:43.640 --> 00:22:47.560 backgrounds in India, that's where I come from. Again, India, right? I know. 00:22:52.040 --> 00:22:56.520 For a difference, let's talk Bahrain. In Pentecostal churches in Bahrain, I'm pretty 00:22:56.520 --> 00:23:02.520 sure every Pentecostal church in that area is the same. This is the words that they use when they 00:23:02.520 --> 00:23:07.080 lay hands upon you and fill you with the power of the Holy Ghost. And what they say is that, 00:23:07.080 --> 00:23:12.920 hey, open your mouth so that you can start speaking in tongues. That's the only time 00:23:12.920 --> 00:23:19.560 I've heard these words. But man, when I was going through this, God told me, you're limiting me so 00:23:19.560 --> 00:23:25.000 much. Open your mouth so that let me fill you with the power of the Ghost so that you can speak, 00:23:25.720 --> 00:23:31.240 not for yourself, but for the people around you. That is the reason why I say even before sometimes 00:23:31.240 --> 00:23:37.720 you open your mouth because God is on the move. You will see healings break out. You will see 00:23:37.720 --> 00:23:44.120 signs, miracles and wonders start to happen. You will see God just flowing because it's not you. 00:23:45.080 --> 00:23:50.600 You are just opening your mouth because you are just there, because you are just there to introduce 00:23:50.600 --> 00:23:59.720 Christ. And it does not matter whether you are one day in Christ. I know I'm making bold statements 00:23:59.720 --> 00:24:04.280 or whether you have been 50 years in Christ. It does not matter if he wants to use it. 00:24:05.080 --> 00:24:09.720 Because as I said, we are talking about revival. We are not talking about any other day. 00:24:10.600 --> 00:24:17.640 The point of a revival is that God wants to do something. His hands are itching. Whether you do 00:24:17.640 --> 00:24:24.120 it or not, he is going to move. So you just being there is only adding to the impact that he's going 00:24:24.120 --> 00:24:30.520 to make. So whether you are one day old or not, that does not make a difference because all God 00:24:30.520 --> 00:24:39.320 is looking for is blood washed people who don't have an excuse. Blood washed people who are just 00:24:39.320 --> 00:24:49.000 willing. One of my favorite stories is about this boy who was 17 years old. He attended a day. His 00:24:49.000 --> 00:24:53.080 name was David. I personally don't know that this happened somewhere else. I know the story, but 00:24:54.120 --> 00:25:01.960 he attended a, I don't know what the right word is, conventions. What is the other word for 00:25:01.960 --> 00:25:08.040 conventions guys? Like where people gather and preach at conferences? No, something with tents. 00:25:09.400 --> 00:25:13.960 What? Crusades guys, come on. Revival meeting. 00:25:16.200 --> 00:25:21.240 Crusades are happening. Seven day crusades. And this guy, for the first time in his life, he's 00:25:21.240 --> 00:25:26.680 knowing about this, this person called Jesus. And for seven days, he keeps hearing about this 00:25:26.680 --> 00:25:31.240 person called Jesus, who was willing to change his life and who is to, who's willing to change 00:25:32.040 --> 00:25:38.520 everything where he enters. And he's like, man, I want this Jesus. So this boy waits after the 00:25:38.520 --> 00:25:44.760 seven days are over and he tries to meet the preacher and he meets the preacher and he says, 00:25:44.760 --> 00:25:49.720 Hey, I want the same feeling that you were talking about. I want the same anointing and filling of 00:25:49.720 --> 00:25:55.960 God that you were talking about. So the preacher lays hands and he prays and this boy, he goes back 00:25:55.960 --> 00:26:04.120 to the village. And as he enters the village, there's a woman who carries a paralyzed or a weak 00:26:04.120 --> 00:26:11.640 kid. The first born of that lady passed away. So this is the second born and that, that kid is also 00:26:11.640 --> 00:26:21.080 sick. And he says, as he entered and as he saw it, the normal thing in the village is that you 00:26:21.080 --> 00:26:26.040 cannot speak to the, to, to a person of the opposite gender and who's older than you. 00:26:27.000 --> 00:26:35.560 But in his heart, he felt this divine love of God that was surpassing everything. He had no choice 00:26:35.640 --> 00:26:42.760 but to step in and he had no choice but to go talk to the lady. He goes and prays and the kid gets 00:26:42.760 --> 00:26:48.040 healed. I'm talking about a person who just heard the word of God, but this is not the end of the 00:26:48.040 --> 00:26:54.840 story. After that, this lady starts talking because you talk because this kid was about to die, but all 00:26:54.840 --> 00:27:01.080 of a sudden there is life in the situation. So she starts talking. The chief of the village now hears 00:27:01.080 --> 00:27:06.520 that there is this boy who just healed a kid. So he says, Hey, get me the boy. 00:27:07.640 --> 00:27:12.120 And the boy walks and meets the chief and he says, I have a crippled daughter. 00:27:13.160 --> 00:27:17.400 Can you heal my daughter? And I know that when I'm saying these things, 00:27:19.640 --> 00:27:23.800 people don't know who is doing this. So they might say, Hey, can you? And it's absolutely 00:27:23.800 --> 00:27:31.240 okay with God. He is not this power hungry, glory hungry God who will be offended if his children 00:27:31.240 --> 00:27:39.960 take the glory for a minute. So going back to the story, so this boy says, yeah, I can come and pray 00:27:39.960 --> 00:27:44.920 because all he has seen is the one time he prayed healing broke out. He was like, you know what? I'll 00:27:44.920 --> 00:27:53.000 pray. So he gets into this hut and it's a dark room and he walks in and he sees this kid 00:27:53.800 --> 00:28:03.640 who is crippled sitting on the floor. And when I say crippled, legs are disfigured. It's crisscross. 00:28:04.600 --> 00:28:12.600 And so he goes in and the only thing he knows is pray. As he prays, he hears bones start to crack. 00:28:13.560 --> 00:28:20.520 As he prays, he feels something is changing. All of a sudden this kid starts to scream 00:28:21.480 --> 00:28:26.520 and starts to rise up because the bones that were crooked are now straight and she can walk. 00:28:29.160 --> 00:28:34.520 And then all of a sudden this man says, Hey, the chief says, Hey, why don't you do a prayer meeting 00:28:34.520 --> 00:28:41.560 in the city, in this village? And he pays for the entire event. The next seven days, this boy 00:28:41.560 --> 00:28:48.280 preaches seven guys, the revival breaks out. I'm talking whom did, whom did I break out through? 00:28:48.280 --> 00:28:54.920 Through a boy who was 17 years old, who heard about Jesus seven days back. What is your excuse? 00:28:56.280 --> 00:29:00.680 Why do you think that revival breaks out through only professional preachers and professional 00:29:00.680 --> 00:29:05.880 pastors? It's not the same. If that's against you and I, we are all done. Only Jacob will qualify. 00:29:11.080 --> 00:29:14.360 The question is, what did he preach for the next seven days? Because he knows nothing about 00:29:14.360 --> 00:29:23.000 this God. Tooni, I see you're laughing. Tooni is itching to preach, but today I'm not giving up to 00:29:23.000 --> 00:29:32.360 Tooni. What did he preach for seven days? When, and that was not the end of the miracle, see? 00:29:32.920 --> 00:29:38.040 Every day when he preached, signs, miracles and wonders would start to break out because God 00:29:38.120 --> 00:29:44.520 was on the move. The boy, all he preached was the seven day teachings that he heard from the other 00:29:44.520 --> 00:29:53.320 preacher. That's all he knew. And most of you have more teaching topics than that. Most of you 00:29:54.120 --> 00:29:57.320 know more about God. Word is stopping you. 00:30:08.120 --> 00:30:13.320 Kezia told me that I have to finish before Tooni usually stops. So I'm looking at the 00:30:13.320 --> 00:30:24.120 clock and I'll try my best. Verse five, we're jumping to the next point. Verse five, 00:30:24.120 --> 00:30:32.440 five. Then will the eyes of the blind be opened and the ears of the deaf unstopped. Then will the 00:30:32.440 --> 00:30:40.840 lame leap like a deer and the mute tongue shout for joy. Once you do this, once you declare who I am, 00:30:40.840 --> 00:30:46.280 then will the eyes of the blind be opened and the ears of the deaf unstopped. Then will the 00:30:46.280 --> 00:30:53.080 lame leap like a deer and the mute tongue shout for joy. Acts 26, verse 18 says, to open their eyes, 00:30:53.720 --> 00:30:58.840 this eyes that was blind, to open their eyes so that they may turn from darkness to light 00:30:59.320 --> 00:31:04.680 and from the power of Satan to God, that they may receive forgiveness of sins and a place 00:31:04.680 --> 00:31:14.200 among those who are sanctified by faith in me. The tongue that was once bound by brokenness and sin 00:31:14.200 --> 00:31:24.120 will now proclaim God. I'm not talking about just a deaf ear opening, just a blind eye opening. 00:31:24.840 --> 00:31:30.200 I'm not just talking about physical healing too. That will happen, guaranteed. But I'm talking 00:31:30.200 --> 00:31:40.440 about the eyes that do not see this God will open. The tongue that is deaf to speak will open. 00:31:41.720 --> 00:31:50.440 The power of God will break out through them. Some of them will do greater works than you ever did. 00:31:51.080 --> 00:31:56.600 The people, let me make that point one more time. Some of you whom you touch will do greater works 00:31:57.080 --> 00:32:05.400 and they are now in the deepest pit, but you will give your hand and you will lift them up and they 00:32:05.400 --> 00:32:11.400 will do bigger things than you could ever imagine. That is the meaning of this. Then will the eyes 00:32:11.400 --> 00:32:17.400 of the blind be opened and the ears of the deaf unstopped. Then will the lame leap like a deer 00:32:17.400 --> 00:32:23.400 unstopped. Then will the lame leap like a deer. Because leaping like a deer is not a normal leap. 00:32:24.120 --> 00:32:30.920 Like a deer. Then the mute tongue shall for joy and the joy is not the joy that you can give. 00:32:31.480 --> 00:32:36.920 It's a joy that will set nations apart. It's a joy that will capture the other hearts. 00:32:40.280 --> 00:32:45.880 And that is why the enemy tries so hard to give you excuses because it's not about you. 00:32:47.640 --> 00:32:50.200 Because you might be raising another Billy Graham, you never know. 00:32:50.840 --> 00:32:55.080 Because you might be the one who will reach out to one man who will touch another 500. 00:32:57.160 --> 00:33:01.880 Because as long as you are the person, the enemy will give you all kinds of excuses. 00:33:02.600 --> 00:33:09.400 All kinds of excuses. As we were preparing today and I was so sure this is from God, one doubt 00:33:09.400 --> 00:33:16.040 all of a sudden they came to me like, don't this is all you. This bluff is all you. Man the enemy 00:33:16.040 --> 00:33:22.280 is so active. He can fight to withdraw me from giving this to you because this is God's message 00:33:22.280 --> 00:33:28.440 for you. And if he is doing right when I'm about to speak, how much more will he do with you on a 00:33:28.440 --> 00:33:40.680 daily basis? Because whom you set free will set others free. Whom you touch will be the reason 00:33:40.680 --> 00:33:48.120 science miracles and wonders break out in their village. You have no idea. You have no idea. 00:33:48.120 --> 00:33:56.280 It's not about you. And the story I want to share, I'm giving stories because it makes 00:33:57.480 --> 00:34:05.960 imagination a little big. This is a story from Reynard Bonke and I love the guy, but that's on 00:34:05.960 --> 00:34:16.040 the side. One story he shared is that in Nigeria he was speaking the word of God in a park called 00:34:16.040 --> 00:34:24.040 Uhuru Park. And in the park, again it was a conference kind of thing and then people were 00:34:24.040 --> 00:34:31.880 gathered and there was one lady who was coming to see God. And the difference of this lady was that 00:34:31.880 --> 00:34:41.480 she was a divorcee. She had just been kicked out of her house. She had nothing to claim. And so she 00:34:41.480 --> 00:34:48.440 sat through these conferences and one thing that she asked is, God you have given Reynard Bonke 00:34:48.440 --> 00:34:55.080 a million souls. Give me 100. Give me 100 souls. She didn't ask for anything else. She didn't ask 00:34:55.080 --> 00:35:00.280 for a personal redemption. She didn't ask for a new husband. She said, God give me 100 souls. 00:35:02.680 --> 00:35:08.840 Years go by and she couldn't meet Reynard Bonke. So she's like, you know what, I don't know, wait 00:35:08.840 --> 00:35:13.880 till I meet Reynard Bonke so that he can lay hands and give me. And that's not the point here. That's 00:35:13.880 --> 00:35:19.080 because she didn't know better. All she had to do was ask. She would have received then and there. 00:35:19.080 --> 00:35:24.360 But she waited and then she got an opportunity to meet Reynard Bonke. He laid hands and this 00:35:24.360 --> 00:35:29.560 girl got filled with the power of the spirit. She goes back to the village. She says, I'm gonna 00:35:30.120 --> 00:35:37.240 talk to women. I'm going to rent a small house. I'm gonna start teaching them. First day 17 people 00:35:37.240 --> 00:35:43.160 showed up. She said, you know what, I feel like God is telling me to go bigger. She rents a room. 00:35:43.160 --> 00:35:49.400 She rents a banquet hall. She rents an auditorium. People keep flooding. People keep flooding. 00:35:49.400 --> 00:35:55.240 People keep flooding. She rents finally the Uhuru Park where Reynard Bonke once preached. 00:35:55.240 --> 00:35:59.960 And more people gathered to listen to her preaching. The point that I'm trying to make 00:36:00.760 --> 00:36:05.640 is that some of you will touch people who will do greater works than you. 00:36:07.640 --> 00:36:12.760 In that story, he says, I asked God why he chose this lady. 00:36:14.760 --> 00:36:19.240 He could have found so many people who are better than her. She was a divorcee. She was a lady. 00:36:19.240 --> 00:36:23.560 Why did he chose her? There are guys who have gone to Bible schools. They are not going to 00:36:23.560 --> 00:36:27.480 there are guys who have gone to Bible schools and Bible colleges ready to do the ministry. 00:36:28.200 --> 00:36:35.080 Why did he choose her? And God said, I am going to make the broken vessel, the noble vessels. 00:36:36.520 --> 00:36:40.360 And that is why I'm saying none of you are disqualified into joining this. 00:36:40.920 --> 00:36:46.520 None of you have probably been kicked out of the house and is going through a rough time like her. 00:36:46.520 --> 00:36:53.720 But what she asked mattered. She asked for a hundred souls and God gave her plenty and plenty. 00:36:58.120 --> 00:37:01.400 Next point, and a highway will be there. 00:37:03.640 --> 00:37:08.360 This is verse eight, and a highway will be there. It will be called the way of 00:37:08.360 --> 00:37:14.440 holiness. It will be for those who walk on the way. The unclean will not journey on it. Wicked 00:37:14.440 --> 00:37:21.960 fools will not go about on it. One more time, and a highway will be there. It will be called 00:37:21.960 --> 00:37:27.880 the way of holiness. It will be for those who walk on the way. The unclean will not journey on it. 00:37:27.880 --> 00:37:35.480 The wicked fools will not go about on it. One thing I know that Tony specifically spoke on this 00:37:36.680 --> 00:37:43.160 two weeks back. I just want to click on one word. He calls it the highway of holiness. 00:37:43.800 --> 00:37:50.920 He did not call it a side road. He did not call it a single lane road. He said highway. 00:37:53.720 --> 00:38:02.120 Because you won't miss it. This holiness and this road of holiness that he is preparing 00:38:02.120 --> 00:38:08.200 is not just for you and for me. It is a big six lane highway or 12 lane highway 00:38:08.920 --> 00:38:11.160 where there will be many more who will enter. 00:38:13.320 --> 00:38:20.600 There will be high traffic. It's not just for one person or two people. And the point I want to 00:38:20.600 --> 00:38:25.800 keep bringing to you is the question. Don, you're making ridiculous statements. Yes, I am. 00:38:27.000 --> 00:38:33.880 But I am not the one who's doing this. It's God who said something. He will do it. He will do it. 00:38:34.760 --> 00:38:38.520 So there is an urgency that God will put in the people's heart. 00:38:39.160 --> 00:38:44.360 You are not the one who is making this happen. There will be people out of nowhere who will want 00:38:44.360 --> 00:38:50.440 to know more about God. Even without you speaking in their dreams and the visions, God might move 00:38:50.440 --> 00:38:56.520 them. You wouldn't know, but they might need somebody to talk to. They might need somebody 00:38:56.520 --> 00:39:01.160 who is ready. And that's why Remy, when he was on the sea, he said, go to the highways, 00:39:02.120 --> 00:39:09.640 go to the inroads, speak, because at the end of the day, somebody has to give them what they need, 00:39:09.640 --> 00:39:19.800 at least a clue of where to go. With our eyes, we'll see a generation that will desire and hunger 00:39:19.800 --> 00:39:26.200 for holiness. With our eyes, we'll see a generation. This is not what we're seeing now. The world that 00:39:26.280 --> 00:39:32.280 we see, the world that we know, the schools that we see, the workplaces that we see, 00:39:33.720 --> 00:39:40.840 the streets that we see, is not the same. And God is saying, I will change the direction. 00:39:41.400 --> 00:39:49.800 I will put in their hearts a desire and a hunger for holiness. I will give it to them. 00:39:49.800 --> 00:39:59.080 Remy. One thing, as I was writing this, God specifically spoke to me was that, 00:39:59.080 --> 00:40:03.480 now we need to pray for our kids who will go to schools, because 00:40:05.800 --> 00:40:13.160 God can break out a revival in a school. God can use our kids who can be forerunners 00:40:13.880 --> 00:40:21.320 of this, what God is doing, because he wants to touch young men, anybody who is not in their 00:40:21.320 --> 00:40:26.360 masters and under. Let's pray for them later today. Or I don't know whether we'll get the time, but 00:40:26.920 --> 00:40:33.480 pray that they are the ones who will be used to make a difference in schools, because God is on 00:40:33.480 --> 00:40:42.040 the move. That is the generation that the enemy is after. That's the same generation God is after. 00:40:43.800 --> 00:40:51.160 And so you and I, we have a duty to pray and equip our kids, equip our kids, tell them that 00:40:51.160 --> 00:40:56.600 they can do this, because they might be under confident. They have no idea what the mantle 00:40:56.600 --> 00:41:03.320 that's upon them. They have no idea that this calling is good for them. They have no idea that 00:41:03.320 --> 00:41:11.800 if they lay hands and speak, miracles will break out. They have no idea. Tell them that this is the 00:41:11.800 --> 00:41:19.000 God who is moving and he's inviting these kids out of the babes mouth is what it says in Psalms. 00:41:20.360 --> 00:41:27.560 Out of the mouth of babes will come glory that will drown the enemy, will drown the enemy. 00:41:30.200 --> 00:41:37.400 I want to repeat this. May these verses not be some old tale and you know, some proverbs that 00:41:37.400 --> 00:41:43.640 you use occasionally. May these things come to pass. May these, with your and my eyes, man, 00:41:43.640 --> 00:41:48.760 I want to see this. I want to, before I die, I want to be drenched in the revival. 00:41:49.880 --> 00:41:57.800 But that's a long time. You know what, before I, in 10 years, I don't want to say that's also too 00:41:57.800 --> 00:42:03.560 long. Before I know, I want revival to break out and I want to be in the thick of it, 00:42:03.560 --> 00:42:11.960 because I know this is not, this is not something that my mind just made up. This is not something 00:42:11.960 --> 00:42:19.160 that Jacob just made out of nowhere. This is what God is doing. This is yours to claim. This is 00:42:19.160 --> 00:42:30.680 yours to take and run with. This is yours to move. A few things we need to be aware of as we wait for 00:42:30.680 --> 00:42:37.240 his promise. One thing is that, and again, as I said, it does not matter whether you're one day in 00:42:37.240 --> 00:42:43.080 Christ or 50 years in Christ, the enemy will try to distract you and tell you you're not ready for 00:42:43.080 --> 00:42:51.320 it. There will be a blurring of your calling. Blurring, as in you kind of know it, but you don't 00:42:51.320 --> 00:42:57.000 really, really know it. There will be a blurring of your calling. Blurring, as in you kind of know 00:42:57.000 --> 00:43:01.880 it, but you don't really, really know it. There will be a blurring of the calling that's upon you. 00:43:02.760 --> 00:43:11.400 How many of you know Barack? Barack, not Barack Obama, no, Barack of the Bible. 00:43:13.400 --> 00:43:18.760 Maybe it's Barack, I don't know, B-A-R-K, you know? Okay, that's the whole point that you wouldn't 00:43:18.760 --> 00:43:25.960 know. Let me read Judges Chapter 4 verse 6 to 9. Deborah sent for Barack, son of Abinuam, from 00:43:25.960 --> 00:43:33.960 Kadesh in Naphtali and said to him, the Lord, the God of Israel commands you, go take with you 10,000 00:43:33.960 --> 00:43:40.920 men of Naphtali and Zebulun and lead them to Mount Tabor. I will lead Cicero, the commander of Jabin's 00:43:40.920 --> 00:43:47.080 army, with his chariots and troops to the Kishon River and give him into your hands. 00:43:48.840 --> 00:43:55.160 Barack said to Deborah, if you go with me, I will go, but if you don't go with me, I won't go. 00:43:56.680 --> 00:44:03.480 Certainly, I will go with you, said Deborah, but because of the course you are taking, the honor 00:44:03.480 --> 00:44:08.600 will be, will not be yours, for the Lord will deliver Cicero into the hands of a woman. 00:44:09.400 --> 00:44:17.080 You all know Deborah, right? Otherwise, you have to read the Bible. The other one, the other one 00:44:17.080 --> 00:44:23.080 can be an excuse because the glory was not his. You know why? Because it was his. It was supposed 00:44:23.080 --> 00:44:29.800 to be his, but he missed it. There will be a blurring of the calling that is upon you. The enemy 00:44:29.800 --> 00:44:36.680 will tell you, man, you're not the one that's supposed to do it, or he might just blur the vision. 00:44:36.680 --> 00:44:43.240 One thing that happened to me when I was reading through those prophecies is that I am, 00:44:45.000 --> 00:44:53.000 what I do at Axis-Pininen will not be the end of it. If I die at 80 years and all I do is preach 00:44:53.000 --> 00:44:58.840 to you guys, it will be a waste of my life. Not because you're, that's not the point, but 00:45:00.920 --> 00:45:07.560 because the calling on me, I know. Because the calling that's upon my life, I know. 00:45:10.840 --> 00:45:18.040 Are your eyes blurred to the calling that's upon your life? David, is the calling that's, Daniel, 00:45:18.520 --> 00:45:24.840 man, I messed up your name. God won't. Daniel, the question is, do you know the calling that's 00:45:24.840 --> 00:45:30.520 upon your life? Do you know the calling that's upon your life? Bishop, do you know the calling 00:45:30.520 --> 00:45:35.800 that's upon your life? Or is it blurred? Do you want to go back and listen to what God spoke over 00:45:35.800 --> 00:45:44.520 you years back, even when you were a boy? George, Ashish, and I'm picking people from Pursuit because 00:45:44.520 --> 00:45:50.600 I know them. I know every one of you has a calling that's been blurred sometimes because 00:45:50.600 --> 00:45:56.520 that's what the enemy wants. Because if you know your calling, you won't sit and you won't settle 00:45:56.520 --> 00:46:06.280 for what you have. Second thing, fear of failure. And I spoke about this. What if I am wrong? How 00:46:06.280 --> 00:46:12.360 many times have we not stepped into places? How many times have we not spoken the word that God 00:46:12.360 --> 00:46:21.880 gave us because of one question that was in our mind? What if I'm wrong? What if this is out of 00:46:21.880 --> 00:46:29.000 context? What if this is not what God wants to speak? Fear of failure is not the fear of going 00:46:29.000 --> 00:46:37.080 wrong. It's mostly the fear of failure. And that God is saying, leave it with me. Because of the 00:46:37.080 --> 00:46:44.120 boy who heard about me seven days ago, if I can do it through him, I can do much more through you. 00:46:44.920 --> 00:46:53.560 Now, when I was a growing boy and I was, I think, seven or eight years old, I would jump into 00:46:53.560 --> 00:46:59.640 occasions to lay hands and pray. I'm not like that anymore. You know why? Because I'm scared of failing. 00:47:00.760 --> 00:47:04.680 Back in the day, all I knew was that if I lay hands and pray, God will heal because that's all 00:47:04.680 --> 00:47:11.480 I've seen. Now that's not the case anymore because I've seen failure. And now I'm worried that if I 00:47:11.480 --> 00:47:19.080 lay my hands, my reputation will go. Not that I have any with you, but outside, what if I lay my 00:47:19.080 --> 00:47:28.280 hands and they're like, nothing happened? My fear of failure will drive me from stepping into places, 00:47:28.280 --> 00:47:29.240 opening my mouth. 00:47:33.960 --> 00:47:40.840 Biscinus of the world will choke the time out of you so that you cannot concentrate on your calling. 00:47:41.720 --> 00:47:47.560 As you are closer to your calling, more things will be added to you by the world. And these are 00:47:47.560 --> 00:47:53.000 good things. Maybe you deserve those things. Maybe that is how the projectory of your life is because 00:47:53.000 --> 00:47:59.880 more things will be added. But one thing that can happen is that the enemy can use those things to 00:47:59.880 --> 00:48:07.560 choke the time and the priority out of you. What you were built for, you won't get there because 00:48:07.560 --> 00:48:13.960 you'll be distracted or you'll take time. You'll keep wasting time. And by the time you step into 00:48:13.960 --> 00:48:21.880 I am ready, you're getting your hours speed. If you have one. You guys are not laughing. So what 00:48:21.880 --> 00:48:26.760 I'm supposed to do? You probably don't have our RRS piece. I don't know. Okay. 00:48:31.960 --> 00:48:38.040 Dullness of the heart and dullness from the enemy. One thing that can happen is because you're 00:48:38.040 --> 00:48:45.320 waiting. It can be just another promise. Just one of those promises that God spoke. Just one of those 00:48:45.320 --> 00:48:51.560 things that can be added to the 30 other promises that have not been fulfilled yet. There is a chance 00:48:52.520 --> 00:48:58.840 that the enemy will dull your heart and your mind. Think about this Abraham and Sarah. 00:49:00.920 --> 00:49:05.800 You know this story well enough. But sometimes I think did Abraham not tell Sarah what was happening? 00:49:06.520 --> 00:49:13.160 I mean, they must have talked because God told Abraham, hey, through you, I'll raise a generation. 00:49:13.160 --> 00:49:18.520 And then Sarah tells him, hey, I'm not worried. I won't have a child. So why don't you take Hagar? 00:49:19.240 --> 00:49:20.440 I'm like, didn't you guys talk? 00:49:24.360 --> 00:49:26.440 Sometimes your faith, 00:49:29.400 --> 00:49:37.400 if you don't protect it, somebody else can come and damage it. Abraham knew for a fact, but he 00:49:37.480 --> 00:49:47.560 fell for it because the faith was not Sarah's because she did not catch on to it. Because 00:49:48.360 --> 00:49:56.440 later even God comes to Mamre and he tells her, hey, you will have a child. And she laughs off. 00:49:57.000 --> 00:50:02.760 Sometimes some people won't just get it. And that's okay. It should not take away from the faith that 00:50:02.760 --> 00:50:07.800 you have, that God has deposited inside of you. The person sitting next to you may not get it 00:50:07.800 --> 00:50:16.760 today, but that should not stop you from what God wants to give you. Tuneet, do you want to join me 00:50:16.760 --> 00:50:22.200 and rest of the worship team? The reason I stopped early is because I felt like God was saying, hey, 00:50:22.200 --> 00:50:31.960 tonight I want you to spend time. Join me guys. And before we spend some time in worship, hey, 00:50:32.760 --> 00:50:38.280 it's up to Tuneet. I'm not the responsible one. Tuneet can take an hour. I don't know. Usually he does. 00:50:39.800 --> 00:50:49.400 But in this time, it's not about what I've spoken. It's not about what you've heard. 00:50:50.040 --> 00:50:58.520 It's about your heart and God's heart. And there are two questions that God asked me to do today. 00:50:59.080 --> 00:51:06.040 One is, I think Jacob spoke about this, but a rededication of yourself to God. 00:51:07.080 --> 00:51:15.640 That's the first thing. Second thing, if you don't have a calling yet, he's asking, can you 00:51:17.800 --> 00:51:27.640 ask of me? Can you ask of me what you want? Can you ask of me a hundred souls? 00:51:28.520 --> 00:51:34.680 It's because you don't ask. It's because you don't need it. And so right now, as you're spending time 00:51:34.680 --> 00:51:40.600 in worship, hey, I want some of you have never gone through this process. I have a calling to step up 00:51:40.600 --> 00:51:46.360 and be like, Abba, what is my calling? It's not just meant for people who are upon the pulpit, 00:51:47.080 --> 00:51:53.240 because majority of the work will be happening through you who is listening. Some of you have 00:51:53.240 --> 00:52:04.200 blurred your calling. You have lost what you had. And he's saying tonight, by the power of God, 00:52:05.000 --> 00:52:11.560 I will reignite things in your life. For some of you, you may think I am never the guy for this. 00:52:11.560 --> 00:52:19.080 And God is saying, come and ask and see what I can do. So for some of us, all it takes 00:52:20.040 --> 00:52:26.920 is to submit, surrender, rededicate. For some of you, it will be the fresh start of your life, 00:52:27.560 --> 00:52:34.520 not for yourself, but for what God is calling you to do. So regardless of whether, guys, you 00:52:37.400 --> 00:52:44.280 how much you know about Jesus or not, all you have to know is that he is willing to work through you. 00:52:44.440 --> 00:52:48.440 You don't have to know Genesis to Revelation, 00:52:49.720 --> 00:52:53.080 because God is looking for a willing person 00:52:54.680 --> 00:53:02.280 who will step up and answer the call, who will step up and say, Abba, here I am. Use me. 00:53:06.840 --> 00:53:11.720 So Father, I've been obedient to you. I come to you because you said, 00:53:12.120 --> 00:53:16.840 this is what you'll do today. And this is what I've done. I've spoken what you've given me. 00:53:17.880 --> 00:53:23.160 Now it is up to you, Abba. I pray there are hungry hearts. If there are hungry hearts in this room, 00:53:23.160 --> 00:53:30.360 you will fill them, not for their sake. I pray, Abba, if there are people who are listening to 00:53:30.360 --> 00:53:35.560 these, some of these stories and thinking, I will never see this because I don't have what it takes. 00:53:35.560 --> 00:53:40.920 Abba, I pray that you give them the calling. You give them a fresh mantle. You give them 00:53:40.920 --> 00:53:47.720 a fresh anointing. You give them the fresh taste of heaven. I pray about that. They will experience 00:53:47.720 --> 00:53:52.840 you like never before. Some of them will break out into tongues. Some of them will be healed 00:53:52.840 --> 00:53:58.120 because it's the power of God that will invade this place. Abba, I pray as Thuny sings and the 00:53:58.120 --> 00:54:04.360 worship team sings, I pray about that you move, that some of the hearts here Abba will be fresh 00:54:04.360 --> 00:54:09.080 and fertile to take what you have deposited tonight. I pray about that some of the people who are 00:54:09.080 --> 00:54:13.880 standing on the verge will jump into the thick. I pray about that some of the people who are in 00:54:13.880 --> 00:54:19.800 the outskirts will choose to be in the highway. I pray about that some of them who have not made 00:54:19.800 --> 00:54:35.000 the decision to follow you will choose to follow you. Today is the day. Nick, you said it. Today is 00:54:35.000 --> 00:54:44.280 the day. Abba, I leave the room open to you. Come and do what only you can do. 00:54:45.320 --> 00:54:50.360 Come and do only what you can do. In your precious name Jesus I pray. Amen.