Editor’s Note: Hi everyone! I’ve had these sermon notes pending for a while and I’ve needed to review/edit them. I didn’t want to hoard this much longer, so I am going to post it in the meantime, and then edit it in stages. Although this is not our standard, it is written in the first person and almost word for word. Nevertheless, I hope you find it useful! – Abby Olurin Dames
In Acts 10:19, Jesus has already ascended to heaven and his disciple Peter is on a mission to go into all of the parts of the world. When we find him in this text, it’s an interesting encounter he is going to have with Cornelius, who is a Gentile, and traditionally, because of Peter being Jewish, he would not have engaged with a gentile. Yet God has given him a commandment to do something outside of his comfort zone. At this particular part in the text, we are about to really have an encounter with Cornelius’ servants who were sent to gather Peter and some of his other friends and go back to Cornelius’ home to witness.
In Acts 10:19, it says while Peter thought about the vision, the spirit said to him- “Behold three men are seeking you. Arise therefore go down and go with them, doubting nothing for I have sent them.” Then Peter went down to the men who had been sent to him from Cornelius and said, “Yes, I am he whom you seek. For what reason have you come?” and they said, “Cornelius, the Centurion who fears God and has a good reputation among all the nations of the Jews has divinely instructed by a Holy Angel to summon you to his house and to hear words from you.
Acts 10:19-22 New King James Version (NKJV)
19 While Peter thought about the vision, the Spirit said to him, “Behold, three men are seeking you. 20 Arise therefore, go down and go with them, doubting nothing; for I have sent them.”
21 Then Peter went down to the men [a]who had been sent to him from Cornelius, and said, “Yes, I am he whom you seek. For what reason have you come?”
22 And they said, “Cornelius the centurion, a just man, one who fears God and has a good reputation among all the nation of the Jews, was divinely instructed by a holy angel to summon you to his house, and to hear words from you.”
Message Title: Headwinds
The subject for today is headwinds.
Headwinds for those of you who are unfamiliar, it is when a plane is taking off and they don’t fly in the direction of the wind, they fly against the wind. As I was preparing for the message I said God, what is this headwinds and he told me that there are people in the church who have been feeling like their life has been this whirlwind, like it’s just one thing after another and I need them to know that when their whirlwind collides with a mighty rushing wind, that at a take-off is inevitable. That I am creating a wind in your life so that when you encounter my spirit, at the exact moment that you do, you’re going to recognize that it was really just propelling you into the promises that I already have over your life. This is the final note- the final check before taking off. The final check before taking off much like where we find Peter and Cornelius in the text.
So Spirit of the Living God, fall in this place, fall in this place and only you can do. It’s not enough for me to just be up here speaking, I need you to stand inside of me. I need less of me and more of you, God. These are your precious people whose lives and purposes depend on hearing from you got this is not about being cute. This is not about being entertained, this about changing and transforming lives. So God I ask that you would consume this place and only you can do that. There would be a wind blowing in this room and as it blows demons will tremble. Oh God, generational curses would be broken. I’m asking that you would do that thing that you do when we are gathered in your name, and we demand that we not leave this place the same. God we need you. We need to hear from you. We need to receive from you. We need to be transformed and covered by you. So God, I submit myself fully to what you have already predetermined this moment to be and I ask that you have your way in Jesus name. Amen.
Recently, I celebrated a birthday and my husband he planned like this big surprise thing. So it was incredible and I no idea what was going on really, you know, some men aren’t really good at surprises like totally but their heart is in the right place. And so I went along with it and to a certain extent, I didn’t know everything that was planned. he took me out to dinner and then he rented this convertible, which I think was less about my birthday and more about him. It’s like that, you know like a convertable. Yeah, sure. Okay, so we’re in the convertible, we’re driving, we’re in San Francisco, and he was like “Baby can I take the top down?” and see he had to ask because you know the way my hair is set up. My hair is a flexible. Sometimes it’s planted like a tree by living waters and then other times it’s removable. It’s all right, we’re family. I know I’m not judged here. So, he didn’t know exactly what was happening in that moment with the hair and he knows that the convertible could cause a bit of an issue and you know, I wanted to be sweet. He’s planned all of this and so I go, “Husband, just yeah sure! We can take the top down”, you know because I wanted to be like his girlfriend. Sometimes you got to be girlfriend, sometimes you got to be a wife, you know, and I wanted to be his girlfriend, you know? Yes, just take the top down and I prayed. Because on that particular day, my hair was not totally removable because I tacked it down in such a way. That’s all right guys. It’s okay. So he takes the top down and as long as we were driving in the direction of the wind, things were fine. It was actually perfect because it would hug.
Then we got lost and he made a U-turn and that’s when I learned about headwinds. Because it was real breezy and for a minute I was enjoying it because the air was rushing through my hair and then I realized, if the air is rushing through your hair- your hair is not on anymore. So that’s not good at all, you know. [It will probably be my last time speaking for a while. That’s all right. Don’t tell Bishop. Kill the live stream.]
So I realized that headwinds-when you are flying, driving, running or swimming in the direction of the wind. It can be problematic because there’s a certain level of resistance when you’re in the wind. There’s a level of resistance when you’re running, you run slower when you’re running against the wind. When you’re swimming, it’s more difficult when you’re against the wind. Literally when you’re in a boat and you are propelling against the wind it slows you down. It’s problematic to be against the wind. The only time that it’s not problematic is when you’re about to take off.
Because there’s something about the conflicting winds coming up against one another, that one thing has to take off. There’s something about the perception we have to have about the wind in the intentionality we have to have when facing the wind that we realize- I’m not running against the wind, I’m not swimming against the wind. I’m covered in such a way that even when wind comes in my direction, all it can do is take me off- to another dimension of who I am, to another level of who God has called me to be. I’m not afraid of the wind because I recognized that I can make the wind work in my favor because I have a wind is stronger than any whirlwind that’s going on in my life and when you’re wind collides with his whirlwind, something has to happen. Something has to take place. I’m not just in this thing on my own. Have you ever realized what it’s like to have backup when you thought you were in something on your own and then you realize out of nowhere that there were people who would be there for you, that God would send people right when you needed them. I thought I was in trouble, I thought that this thing was going to push me back, I thought I was going to take one step forward then 10 steps backward, but then there was a wind that pushed me and propelled me to where I was supposed to be.
So when we find Peter and Cornelius in the text, God is creating these winds. He’s creating these winds. It doesn’t look like winds. It looks like issues, struggles and problems. It doesn’t look like anything good necessarily is going to come out of it. But God had a divine plan, but in that moment, no one knew what God was up to and man if only we could know. God what are you going to do with this? It looks like a mess. It looks like I’m losing that child, looks like the marriage isn’t going to come out on the other side. It’s not that you don’t trust them. You just wish he could just give you a preview. If you could just give me a hint. If you can just give me, a hint about what’s on the other side of this.
Cornelius is a Roman soldier. He’s a centurion. He has honor and respect within the community and he is God fearing, which sounds like a good thing, but as I was studying, I recognized how difficult it was for him to be God-fearing in Rome at that time. Because at that time, there was idolatry and the Greek gods played a major role in religion. So this idea of having one God and certainly the god of Jewish people at that time seemed a bit like an oxymoron. He was a God-fearing, Roman soldier who would learn to live life on a bubble. He wasn’t quite Roman because he didn’t serve the same guys that the Romans served. But he wasn’t quite Jewish because though he served the Jewish god, he could not be accepted into the Jewish faith but he became comfortable living life in the bubble. Not quite one thing. But I’m not quite the other either. And he was in an environment that was not conducive to what was in his heart, which I know is not like anyone in the room. I know no one in this room has ever been raised in an environment that wasn’t conducive to what God placed in your heart. You’ve never had to work in an environment that wasn’t conducive to what was in your heart. You’ve never had to be in a marriage that wasn’t conducive to what was in your heart. Have you ever had your heart have the passion for one thing but nothing in your environment celebrated it? People from where I am, we don’t go to school, we don’t dream beyond it. So have you ever wanted to be something and become something but not have the support in your environment to really bring that thing out.
Cornelius had learned to live life in a Roman environment serving a Jewish god. He was in the world but not of the world. As he’s really practicing this Jewish faith, and he prays at the same time that the Jewish people pray and he serves, he gives arms and he gives his offering- something happens that happens to all of us when we begin serving God and that is that his prayers and his offerings become come up as a memorial towards God. What sounds like an incredible thing because an angel visits him and tells him that God has seen your work. He has seen what you’ve been doing. He has seen how you stayed loyal, how you stay committed to what he was doing in your life in spite of the fact that no one supported you, in spite of the fact that you didn’t have what everyone else had and God wants you to know that he saw you and you are on his mind. Then something happens that happens to all of us when we are on God’s mind. He has to wait.
An angel of the Lord visits Cornelius and tells him that you are on God’s mind. He gives him a vision. He says to send out your soldiers and to send out a servant to go get Peter because Peter is going to tell you what to do. But there is this space in between the manifestation of what God said and the time that he says it- that is a waiting period that we all find ourselves in.
There is something about that waiting period that determines whether or not we really deserve the thing we’ve been praying for you. See Cornelius could have been satisfied just sitting there and praying and having his own religious routine. But all of a sudden God caused him to want something that he wasn’t even praying for. God put something down in his heart that he wasn’t even praying for which would be fine. Except for once when God puts it in your heart, you just can’t shake it off. And now you have to wait on God to manifest the thing that you’ve been praying for that you didn’t even know that you should want. The waiting game.
I have to be honest, the waiting game bothers me a little bit. Okay, I didn’t want to say that because we are in church and I know we like to act like God sends a word and we are patient and we have faith and we wait for that thing to be manifest but there’s something about the waiting game that makes me insecure. It makes me question myself. It makes me wonder if I have what it takes to actually lay hold of the thing that I’ve been praying for.
The first thing he told me as I was praying for Dallas was that somebody in this room was waiting on something. That they were waiting on something and I said well God, what do you want me to tell him? He said say stay in that same spot, that same heart posture you had when you first received that word. That same faith, that same excitement that you had. He said don’t let the enemy, your insecurities and the rumors and the opinions start making you think that you need to give up on the thing that I told you.
He said, I’m not a man that I should lie and if I said it, it’s going to come to pass and I wish there were a few hundred people in this room who had enough Faith to start telling the enemy- “You can’t have my child. I’m waiting on something. You can’t have my tomorrow. I’m waiting on something.” I dare you to start looking your insecurities into the face and tell them I’m waiting on something. I’m waiting on something. I know what God told me. I know what God promised me. I’m waiting on something. Devil, you can’t have my mind. I’m waiting on something. I wish you and getting so deep down in your spirit that you would start walking around like the thing I told you had already happened because I’m waiting on something.
I’m waiting on something and I’m going to stay hopeful like he told me to and I’m going to keep on praying like he told me to and faithful like he told me to. Kind, peaceful and generous like he told me to because I’m waiting on something. I’m waiting on something. God’s going to give it to me. God’s going to bring it to me. I didn’t even want it until God said I could have it and because he said I could have it, I’m waiting on it. I’m not going to give up. I don’t care what the bank account sats. I don’t care what the bank said and I’m waiting on something. I’m waiting on something. I don’t care what statistics say about it. I’m waiting on something. I’m waiting on it. I’m waiting on it. I’m waiting on it though The Vision Terry (?) Oh, no, I’m waiting on. I’m waiting on something.
I’m coming out on the other side of this restoration as a part of my destiny. I’m waiting on something. That child is going to be saved. My marriage is going to be saved. I’m waiting on something. I’m waiting on it. I’m not giving up my faith can’t dwindle. You gotta tell your fear I’m waiting on something. You got to tell the circumstances I’m waiting on something and what I’m waiting on eyes haven’t seen that’s why man can’t give it to me. That’s why you can’t give me a word and make me feel better because what I’m waiting on can only come from above. I’m waiting on something. I don’t have time to rumors. I don’t have time for gossip. I’m waiting on something you are distraction. I love you. God bless you goodbye, but I’m waiting on something. I’m waiting on something. He promised me and I know he’s not gonna lie. I’m waiting on it. I’m waiting on it. I’m waiting on it.
I’m waiting on it.
I don’t give up on the things. God promised me. I’m waiting on something because when I look back over my life, I recognize that he has a track record of coming through and no he doesn’t always come when I want them to but that usually works out for me anyway because he ends up right on time. So I’m waiting on something. I’m waiting on something. I’m not giving up.
I’m going to start the business. I’m going to write the book. My children are going to be saved. I’m not dreaming. I’m telling you what God told me. If you would start owning the thing I told you like it had already happened, it would give you every weapon you need when people try to start coming up against you. I’m waiting on something. I’m waiting on something and God’s going to give it to me. This is a mindset shift.
Cornelius is preparing for an impartation of the Holy Spirit. But before God could do it he had to change his mind. God did not bring you here to find a routine, to find a pattern in to just wake up each day on autopilot. God said that my ability to move in your life the way that I can move in your life means that your faith needs something to work with. Some of you have given up on dreams and visions for your life because you had to wait on it and in the process of waiting going to you felt disqualified for it. And you felt like you weren’t going to be able to handle it, that you aren’t capable of praying or having the very thing that you were praying for. But God said I see something in you that you don’t even see in yourself. So what I need you to do is go back to being the kind of person who would put their faith on crazy dreams, that would put their faith on crazy visions, that were there to start actually believing that no weapon formed against them would prosper.
I’m waiting on something. I’m waiting on something. I’m not giving up. I’m waiting on it. I’m waiting on it and so Cornelius he’s waiting on something. And so the angel of the Lord came to Cornelius and said to send for Peter and in this time that he’s sending for Peter he has to determine who he can trust with the vision. He chooses one soldier and two servants and he says I want you to go and send for Peter and in the process of him waiting, it dawned on me that he couldn’t just choose any servant or any soldier because some people don’t know how to handle your vision.
You know, one of the problems that most of us have, is that we’re so excited to have the vision. That we let anybody handle the vision. We’re so excited to have an idea that we put the idea on Facebook, before God can even manage the idea and then we allow everyone else’s infection to get in on our vision until we’re afraid of actually pursuing the thing God gave us. God told me to tell you that this is a season where we don’t post about it, we pray about it. Because your need to be validated and accepted is going to make you abort the vision. Don’t let other people miscarriage your destiny because they don’t know how to cover you. Because they don’t know how to pour into you, because they don’t know how to esteem you rightly and properly. Don’t let other people mess up what God has given you.
He had to be very selective. A Roman Centurion. He had hundreds of people at his disposal. He could have sent anyone into Samaria to get this word to Peter yet for some reason he only chose a selected few. [Didn’t your Bishop speak about the select few last week?] Perhaps this is just confirmation that some of you are looking to be accepted by hundreds but what you really need to figure out is who are your three. Who are your three?
So when we leave Cornelius in the text, he sent off his two servants and his soldier. His most trusted advisers because the information they were carrying was a bit dangerous. Because this information would require that the Gentiles and the Jews congregate together in a way that was really unheard of and forbidden, even considered unclean. But when God causes you to do something, sometimes you have to go up against systems and mentalities. Sometimes you have to break a few things up. You have to break a few rules to get to what God has called you to do. I’m so glad that we serve a rule-breaking kind of Jesus, that he doesn’t care how people usually get together and how people usually make it to the top. There are some people who usually have to have several degrees to do what God has called you to do and yet he is positioned you. Not because you did everything the right way of it because you had the heart that he could bless with certain opportunities.
So while this is going on with Cornelius, we also have Peter who was living in the place of his last miracle. He’s in Joppa and he doesn’t necessarily know what’s next for him. And so he’s living with the Tanner at the time and he’s living in the place of his last miracle. At this point in the text, he’s already been in Jerusalem. He’s been in Judea. He’s gone into Samaria and Jesus said into all of the earth and so to a certain extent he is checked almost everything off of his list that Jesus said to do. And he does what all of us do when we feel like we’ve made it to a certain point in life. We start living off the high of our last miracle. Living in the place of my last miracle. I just have to say like they’re for a moment because I know what it’s like to live in the place of your last miracle.
In order to get to the next miracle, it requires a certain level of vulnerability and feeling inadequate again, and we don’t always want to face that so we find ourselves living comfortably in the place of our last miracle. Because it hurts to want something again. It hurts to feel inadequate again. Nobody wants to go and really start the business because you don’t have the resources. So why quit the job where you’re comfortable and demanding the job was a miracle within itself. Now God is telling me I need to start a business, but I want to live in the place of my last miracle. I want to live in the place where I feel confident, strong and sure of myself. I want to live in the place of my last miracle. I’m comfortable there. I know who my friends are there. When you start shaking up my life, I start losing friends and start losing people. I want to live in the place of my last miracle. But yet God is not interested in our comfort. In order for us to move from glory to glory to glory, that thing we shout all around the church about, we have to be willing to risk vulnerability. We have to be willing to leave the place of our last miracle and to walk on water.
There are people in this room who are living like Peter. God has given us a decision that we can stay comfortable where we are or we can dare step out of the safety of our last miracle and then to go from being good to great and from great to even better. The problem is that so many of us are so comfortable and so afraid of ruffling feathers that we don’t actually give God room to be God in our life. So church becomes religious and we come to feel good and we come to shout but we don’t actually come to be changed because if we really wanted to be changed, it would require us leaving the place of our last miracle. It would require us to dream again and to hope again and to say I really do want the marriage to be saved and I really do want my heart to be healed. I really do want to be a person of integrity. I really do want to have character but I’m afraid to face the demons that exist down on the inside of me so I would rather live in the place of my last miracle.
And so Peter receives a word from the Lord and when he receives his word from the Lord, it comes in the form of a vision and the vision is of unclean animals coming out of the sky in and as a Jew there were some things that he would and would not eat and in the dream. Jesus says to him, “I want you to kill and eat the animals” and he goes “I can’t do that because there are things in there that are unclean.” But Jesus insist that he does it and it leaves Peter and quite a dilemma because in order for Peter to access the next dimension of the spirit, he too is going to have to change his mind.
What a whirlwind these two men must be in. Because God has caused one of them to want something that he wasn’t even asking for. That he wasn’t even living for and then on the other hand, we have Peter who was going to have to change his mind. It’s not like Peter wasn’t used to doing what God has called him to do. He was, it’s just that in order for him to go to the next level. See that’s the thing about being comfortable living one of these good Christian lives is that you think that you have arrived and then you start pointing your finger at other people and then Jesus, our God sends a word saying I’m not actually finished with you either you don’t have time to go about sweeping around someone else’s porch because I need to make you start to want and hunger for me like never before. You can’t ever get so comfortable with Jesus that you stopped giving him access to places to work in your life.
When’s the last time you said search me? When’s the last time you said I know that you said that you’re going to complete a work in me until that,Jesus Christ, but for some reason I don’t feel like you’re working on me and I don’t want to be so comfortable with where I am in life that I lose what it’s like to receive a touch from the master. When’s the last time you said open up my heart and work on my nasty attitude and show me how to love my husband and show me how to forgive and show me how to dream again. When’s the last time you really said search me? You see we want to come to church and we want to shout but God wants us to come and have our lives change. He wants us to open up our lives in such a way, that our marriages become better. That our children have examples of not just how to volunteer and not just how to get up and go to work but how to be a good person. There’s so much brokenness in this world. We come in here and we look at the platform and we say when are they going to do something, not recognizing that everything that God is going to do was going to be done through those who say things like search me.
Search me. Show me the power of what you can do with my broken pieces. Show me how I can change my community by being a good husband. Show me how I can show my children how to carry themselves and to educate themselves. Give me the power to believe that I can change this world, my corner of it at least.
Peter so dedicated to this vision that he begins to offer up to Jesus his mind. Offer up to Jesus his mind. I want you to change my mind. I want to be transformed by the renewing of my mind. I feel like the one thing that’s keeping a lot of us from going to the next dimension of who God has called us to be, is we are unwilling to have our mind changed. We hang on to what we think we know with such force and says velocity that God can’t even show you that I can take the very person you’re counting out and that’s why we keep seeing people getting blessed right in front of our eyes, and we’re wondering why is it that I did all of these things and yet you keep blessing them. Because I can’t change your mind the way I can change theirs. I can expose them to things. I can teach them things. I can show them things- you thought you needed the degree, you don’t need any of that if you have me by your side. You thought that you needed the hook up, that you need a connection, but you don’t need any of that if you have me by your side. I can’t change your mind, so I can’t change your world. I can’t change your mind so I can’t change your relationship. I can’t change your mind. So I can’t change your finances. I want a million dollars but I can’t change your mind. So I can’t change that thing you’re praying for you.
Don’t we want God to bless us the way we want him to bless us. Not realizing that often the blessing that he has for us requires that we change our mind on how he does it. And so we end up chasing false ideas of relationships and false ideas of opportunities thinking that God, I want you to bless this man to be my husband. I know that that’s not the man you have for me, but if you would change he said I can’t change your mind. And what I love about him is he’s not going to battle with us. So if he can’t change your mind he’ll watch you. Do it your way. Until he breaks you in such a way. Do I have any people in this room who had to get broken down in such a way that you started saying crazy things like not my will but yours be done. I tried it my way and I lost. I tried to make it happen and my heart was broken even more. It’s not until you get down to that breaking point. You see Peter had been to that kind of breaking point, where he realized that he would do things that were out of his control. His heart would want to do one thing, but it’s mind would want to do another. So he knew what it was like to have to offer your mind to Jesus.
Change my mind. Put you head on your mind. God changed my mind. Changing my mind about what’s possible for people like me. Change my mind about relationships, change my mind about honor and integrity, change my mind until I’m not ashamed anymore, change my mind until I’m not guilty anymore, change my mind, break the strongholds off of my mind got until I’m free again. Stir up the gifts down on the inside of me. Put creativity down in this mind. Show me how to love, show me how to be a good person, change my mind. Take bitterness out of my tongue, change my mind. Help me to control my mouth, change my mind. This isn’t a job for me. This isn’t a job for friendships. This is a job that only you can do, change my mind changed my mind change my mind. I know I’m asking for my world to be changed, but you have to start with my mind, change my mind. Change my mind.
Somebody’s clapping because they realized that was the missing piece to what they needed is. I prayed for everyone else. I prayed for everything else, but I never prayed that you would change my mind. I never prayed that you would change the way I looked at myself. I never prayed that you would actually show me how to love that child, change my mind, change my mind. Help me to not see my past, this failure, change my mind. If you would ever start praying that God would change your mind about your situation, you would see creativity where you would see nothing. Somebody else would take the hand you’ve been dealt and win with it because you can only see it one way, he can’t bless you the way he could but if you would ever start praying change my mind, I’m not seeing it properly. I’m still broken. I’m still bitter that thing happened 10 years ago with something wrong with my mind. Change my mind that I can’t let it go. Change my mind that I can’t be healed. Change my mind.
It’s my mind that is keeping the spirit from moving. It’s my mind because I think the spirit is only reserved for people who do it a certain way. So I live life in this prison not realizing that the jail is in my own mind, change my mind. I want to be home. I want to be healed. You see this isn’t the kind of thing that people shout about because changing your mind takes work. Becoming a better person takes work. Having character takes work. Having integrity takes work. You don’t just wake up with it. It’s a decision you make in your mind. And so while you’re praying that you can look good and while you’re praying that you can get the job, some of us start praying things like change my mind because I know if you change my mind you can change everything else around me. If you change my mind I’ll attract on another level. If you change my mind, I balance my budget on another level. I don’t need any more money. I need to change my mind. I don’t know how to run my money. I don’t need anything else, show me how to change my mind. Change my mind. And strip me from the generational mentalities that have kept my family from pursuing the things of God. Strip me from the generational struggles that have made me search for validation in men and in women and in my finances, in my degrees, change my mind. Potter- change my mind, Potter. The Potter’s house, change my mind.
Though Peter has done very well up until this point. He still was not beyond having to ask God to change his mind. And I love it because when we get to the text and verse 19, this is when we see Cornelius and Peter’s vision colliding for the first time. It was so interesting to me because I thought this is it. This is what Cornelius had seen. This is what he was praying for him and they finally went to go get Peter but I realized that it must have been very tormenting being Cornelius because at this time in the text, I mean, there’s no cell phones and it’s not like the people were calling and updating like I just got to Peter’s house. He was living in this waiting, wondering if what God had given him was actually going to manifest. He’s waiting. He hasn’t heard from them. He just told them this is what the angel of the Lord said to me and he sent them out and then he sat at home and he waited. He waited and it took four days journey. He sat there and he waited and he waited and he waited and what are the thoughts that went through his mind while he waited, I wondered and I questioned. I realized that God was less concerned about the thoughts that were going on in Cornelius’ mind while he was waiting and more concerned with what was going on in Peter’s mind while Cornelius was waiting.
I realized that while you are waiting God is preparing. Well, Cornelius was waiting and God was preparing Peter’s mind to receive the Revelation that would be coming to him. And so when we talk about all things working together, we don’t mean that everything’s working at the same time. We mean that sometimes you’re in seasons of waiting, so that I can prepare the blessing on the other side, so that when you walk in the door, they can receive you properly. Some of you’ve been praying for a husband, there is nothing wrong with you. Your husband’s not ready. And so while you’re sitting there waiting on preparing him to honor the kind of person you’re going to be, some of you are waiting for jobs and industries that don’t even exist yet. But because God has placed it down in your heart, I am creating a need in the industry that I’ve called you to. You’re waiting, but he’s working. You’re waiting but he’s working. I’m working on the Peters. I working on the corporation’s. I’m working on the job, I’m working on the banks, I’m working on the economy. All things are working together, but they’re not always working at the same time. I’m waiting on something. I’m waiting on it. But I’m not waiting in vain. I’m waiting with a good heart and good cheer because I know that God is going ahead of me. And sometimes when God goes ahead of me, it means I have to stand here and wait while the Crooked path is made straight because he just loves me that much. That he’s not going to make me work any harder than I have to. So I wait patiently because I know when he orders my steps honey, I’m going to take him with such confidence that he’s building a road as I walk. I’m waiting on something.
I’m waiting on it. I feel some oil on that Mama. I’m waiting on something. I’m waiting and he’s working. Who’s working? He’s working on my side, on my behalf. This battle is not mine, it’s the Lord. I’m waiting and he’s working. He’s working. I wonder what God is working on in a room this size. I wonder how many children are going to be saved in a room this size. I wonder how many blessings, I wonder how many mortgages are being prepared right now. I wonder how many offices are being prepared right now. I wonder how many college admission letters are being worked on right now. I’m waiting but he’s working. I’m waiting but he’s working. He doesn’t want my hands to get dirty with certain things. I’m waiting on something.
I’m waiting and I know what’s going to happen because I’ve had to wait before. And something happens to me when I’m waiting. I think the Bible says you get stronger. Those that wait shall renew the strength. I’m waiting on something. I’m getting stronger because the reality that when I arrive to the place where God has called me, I’m going to need a certain level of strength that I don’t have right now. So while I’m waiting he’s showing me how to be strong during the waiting game, but he’s also preparing the work so that when I get there, I know how to handle it. I’m waiting.
I’m waiting on it.
I feel the spirit of God touching dry places. I feel the spirit of God backing fear away. I feel the spirit of God renewing somebody’s strength. Somebody just got a second wind. Somebody just realized that no weapon formed against them, it’s really not going to prosper. I’m just waiting on something. That’s what I was going to give up. But now I realize I’m just waiting while he’s working and he’s working things out for me. He’s working it out.
Because if I gave it to you right now, you may not be able to handle it. But by time you get finished waiting on it, you’re going to be so grateful to have it- that you’re going to honor it and you’re going to take care of it and you’re going to treat people well and you’re going to speak to people well and you’re going to reach back and bring somebody else into it because you waited so long for it. I’m so glad that he’s not an instant gratification kind of Jesus. I’m so glad that he makes us wait because when we wait, we cherish it. When we wait, we don’t just give it away. We don’t just put it on the auction. We don’t just live any kind of way because I waited on this. Have you ever got a house after you thought you were never going to be in the house and people is leaving dishes out and you had to tell you know, how long I waited to live in this house. You know, how long I waited to get in this marriage, you know how long I waited to get this job. I’m going to show up on time. I’m going to be there and I’m going to give my best because I waited on this blessing and I’m going to honor the God who gave it to me by taking care of it like I wouldn’t have it unless I waited for it. Like I wouldn’t have it unless he gave it to me.
He’s working. He’s working and you are waiting, and he’s working, you’re waiting. He’s working.
Then this text, I received such divine revelation about how we’re supposed to move when the spirit breathes on us. Verse 19 says it says while Peter thought about the vision he still trying to figure out what this vision is with the animals, the spirit said to him, “Behold three men are seeking you.” Peter still trying to figure out what’s going on, when all of a sudden the spirit speaks. What I love is that Peter immediately stops thinking so that he can receive what the spirit was saying. What’s problematic with a lot of us is that when the spirit speaks, we think it’s a debate. We think it’s an argument. We can’t drop the weapons of our own thoughts long enough to really receive the spirit. So we can’t even get the impartation that we’re looking for if you’re taking notes or if this is something that you want to remember, I’m going to challenge you to stop speaking when the spirit speaks. Stop combating the spirit with the questions of how and when and who’s going to do it and how am I going to get there. All of a sudden the spirit speaks and it doesn’t matter what Peter is thinking anymore, all that matters is that brings his mind and his thoughts into alignment with what the spirit is saying in that moment.
That’s so pivotal for us to remember because we are in a culture of distraction, where you watch TV and hold your phone. Where you text and you’re on the phone at the same time and you’re texting and driving and I see that the enemy’s greatest weapon is not as Halloweenish as we make it seem. It is in the fact that we are so easily distracted that we can’t even fully receive when the spirit is speaking. Have you ever driven in the car and turned the radio off just for a minute because it’s just too much. I wonder how many of us has missed what the spirit was saying because we were so busy being distracted by the battles that exist within our own mind.
Peter serves as such a role model if you will at this point in the text because his thoughts are interrupted by the spirit and immediately he falls into obedience. Verse 20 continues. It says the spirit tells him arise therefore go down and go with them doubting nothing for I have sent them. He had to tell them not just to go down because some of us go down but we go down doubting. Some of us connect with what God is doing but we go down so suspicious that our hearts not open to what he can really do in that moment. He doesn’t just tell them to go to he says go down and doubt nothing.
There is somebody in this room who has been doubting what the spirit said to them, who have been charging god with the same crimes of every lover and every mistake that you’ve ever had in your life. And the spirit of God said stop doubting what I said I’m going to do in your life and start actively engaging with your life like you know that what I said is going to happen, that you are covered, that no weapon formed against you will prosper. So what if you lose the job? I got a better job for you. So what if you lost the car, I’ll give you a better. Car stop doubting me that I would break you and leave you broken. He said I’m not that kind of person. I’m not going to do you like everyone else did you if I promise you this thing, has God ever promised you something. Can I just get a witness for somebody who’s struggling that when God promised you something, you can take that cheque to the bank because when God says he’s going to do it, he comes through like no one you’ve ever seen come through before. He comes through and crazy kind of ways. He comes through in his Shenanigans when he gets finished. No doubt. Stop doubting.
Stop doubting. You are going to be okay. You’re going to come out on the other side. Stop doubting it. I’m creating a wind around you. I’m creating a wind around you because I know that when your wind collides with my wind, that you’re going to take off into the next dimension, but you got to feel a little dizzy first. When I create this wind you start feeling a little dizzy, but it’s just a headwind because when these winds collide they set a sound from heaven like a mighty rushing wind. It is coming into your situation. It’s coming into your despair. It’s coming into your disappointment. A mighty rushing wind rushing, rushing, rushing. I’m on my way. I’m on my way. I’m not taking my time. I’m right on time. I’m rushing to your situation. I’m rushing to your child. I’m rushing. I’m rushing.
A mighty, mighty rushing wind.
Peter answers. He answers the men and he says, “I’m the one you seek. For what reason have you come?” In verse 22, they said, “Cornelius, the Centurion adjustment. I told you all about him. The one who fears God and has a good reputation among all the nations of the Jews.” He had to say that because he knew that the fact that he was a Roman Centurion could have made him a bit problematic, but they had to let him know his resume. There are people who are going to know how to represent you well in this season. There are people who are going to go ahead of you and when they talk about you, they’re not going to give a list of your mistakes and a list of things that you did wrong. This is a word for somebody and I’m going to get back to the this text- God is sending people into your life who see you properly. God is sending people into your life who see you properly. They understand that eyes that were stacked against you yet they see how you were loyal through it all. How you still tried to maintain a good heart through it all. He’s sending people who see you properly. Oh, you don’t know someone, oh she’s a woman of God. I know you can trust her with opportunity. He’s sending people who see you properly and who can represent you properly, who aren’t going to let people talk about you in a way that is negative.
You are going to have to stop talking about them because that’s not the version of them that I know. You may have known them from back then but let me tell you about the person I know now. People who see you properly and I dare you to hold a memorial service for the people who refuse to see what God has done in your life. If you cannot see how he has changed me, how he is transformed me and molded me that I’m not the same person you used to know then you are going to have to watch me walk out of your life because I will not be held to your memory, while God is trying to show me my destiny. I will not be held to your memory while God is trying to show me my destiny. I can’t appease both of us, so one of us are going to have to go and I choose him over you.
Him over you.
You got to see me properly. The worst thing that can happen is for God to clear your vision because when you start to see yourself properly, you’re not going to start giving yourself away to anybody who said you have pretty eyes and that you’re smart. Anybody could have pretty eyes and smart. Do you see what God has done in my life. Do you see how he is protected me and preserves me? Do you see my crown?
Do you see my crown? I’m a part of a royal priesthood. You can’t just treat me any kind of way. You can talk to me any kind of way. God said the only thing keeping those people from being in your life is you don’t see your own crown. But if you want start looking in the mirror and squaring your shoulders like yeah, I went through that but I came out on the other side. I got survivor’s skin. These aren’t scars, these are memories to who I used to be and how I came out on the other side. I dare you to start seeing yourself properly so you can attract the right kind of people who can protect you when the world starts rising up against you. You don’t need no whole army of them so you can stop trying to campaign for friendships. All you need is a strong three. All you need is a strong one down on the inside of you and it won’t matter what anybody else says about you because when you know who you are and you know, ‘whose’ you are, it doesn’t matter what anyone else says.
He raised up a standard. I’m not better than anyone, I just don’t have to accept anything. I’m not better than anyone, I just don’t have to settle, I just don’t have to put myself on clearance so that you can still access a Nene from who I used to be. No, I don’t have to do that anymore. I love you and she’s still down in me, but I have grown and if you cannot accept my growth and there’s not even room for me. If I have to shrink to stay connected to you, then you need to grow up or we need to let this thing go. Oh, that was too persona. But I just thought that somebody needed to know, that when you grow, you got to have people who know how to grow too because otherwise it’s going to sever the relationship. I wish I had some growing kind of people in my life. God, I want some people who know how to grow. I know I need some people know how to take lemons and turn them into lemonade. I need some ‘started-from-the-bottom’, ‘now-we-here’ kind of people, who know how to hustle, who know how to work for it, who don’t mind changing and saying, I’m sorry. I need some humble people in my life. I need some people who aren’t interested in arrogance or what’s in your bank account but what’s down in your soul is more important.
So God, while you are changing my mind, change the mind of everybody connected to me? Make the people who want for me, start saying things like, “I don’t want to call her. She’s not fun anymore”. Help them to say that God. Let them say that and help me not be wounded when they say it, because if they can’t connect to where I’m going then we might as well end right now. Only you know the plans you have for me and if they don’t fit in that plan, let it end right now. If you can’t change your mind about me, then change your path and let it be separated still covered under blood just not connected to me. You still have access to the throne just not connected to me because I’m in a season where I can’t handle distractions. I’m in a season where you either got to be for me or against me, and I don’t really know what side you are going to choose but this on the bubble thing, where we kind of friends, but we not friends, where you can talk about me and not treat me well, and I just learned how to recover. No, I can’t do that. That’s not for me no more.
I changed my mind. See that is what’s dangerous about asking God to change your mind, as it starts kicking up dust in your life because all of a sudden people preferred you when you were ignorant. You preferred me when I was drunk and high and out of my mind. You preferred me when I was just take anything and you could lie to me and cheat on me and say you going to borrow money and never give it back. You liked me better, but when I started saying no, when I started setting up boundaries all of a sudden we got issues. Well God bless you. I’m glad it’s over because I’m not going to shrink to make you more comfortable. Yeah, I’m glad you don’t like it. I’m glad you wondering what’s going on with me. It is something going on with me. I didn’t figure it out who I am. I didn’t figure out that the promises of the Lord are real. I know I’m glad, I’m glad we got an issue because I knew this was going to happen the moment I started treating myself like I was a part of something that’s bigger than shenanigans and foolishness and statistics.
Some people prefer you to walk with your head held down because they don’t have to look you in the eyes, but when you start acting like, “No. If you’re going to be in my life, you’re going to have to come correct.” I’m sorry, I’m a little Hood. You going to have to come correct? That means that no lies. No shenanigans. Don’t treat me like you treated everyone else. You’re going to have to take time and invest in me and let me tell you I promise you something, it’s a good investment baby. Because when you invest in me, your life gets better. When you invest in me, you increase. Do you know who I am? I’m not just living life on my own. I’m living life for a King and when you invest in me you invest in a kingdom and you become a part of royalty. So if you want to be a part of my life, we don’t walk around any kind of way, no we are part of a kingdom. We don’t let weapons prosper. We don’t let lives prosper. He goes the battle for us. That’s the kind of God I serve. And if you can’t connect with that, then it’s better that it’s over anyway. Because at the end of the day, more than I want anything, I want this spirit to have full liberty to move in my life, withholding nothing from him. You can have anything you want to have, you can do anything you want to do because I trust you more than I trust myself.
So if someone walks away from me, I’m okay with that because I know that you wouldn’t lead me somewhere with someone who was going to sabotage the destiny you have for me. So if I have to say goodbye and hurt for a little while, then I will rejoice in the long run because I know you would not subtract unless you were going to multiply. Not just add, not just add that’s too simple for God. You will not subtract unless you were going to multiply. Multiplication by His Spirit.
Multiplication.
Jerusalem, Judea, Samaria and into all the world multiplication, multiplication. What we see in this text is the spirit being multiplied into all the world. What is most powerful is that same spirit that was resting on Peter and multiplied into Cornelius found its way onto 6777 West Case Boulevard and is being multiplied in this room right now, and I just want you to know that somewhere demons are trembling because your spirit just got multiplied. I came in one way, I was broken, I was depressed, I wasn’t feeling like myself and all of a sudden the spirit multiplied down on the inside of me and now I feel like I can dream again and now I feel like I can live again and now I have faith and hope again. Something just got multiplied down on the inside of me.
There are people in this room who have been dying to know that they could still be touched. They’ve been wondering if they were just falling into existence or if the spirit could still reach them. Some, successful like Peter, others just starting off like Cornelius, but all of them in need of a touch. The kind of touch that multiplies.
I want to have a moment at the altar- for people who have been needing for the spirit to be multiplied down on the inside of them. You’ve been living in a whirlwind. It seems like things are coming at you from every single direction, but there was something about this message that made you believe that maybe God is just multiplying the wind around me, so that I could take off into my destiny with more comfort and more security than ever before. If you don’t have to go, please don’t go but somebody is about to hit the runway and they’re going to take off like they’ve never been able to before. They’re going to have the right mindset to be who God has called them to be like never before. What’s taking place at this altar is multiplication. Because you see one person but I see households. You see one thing but I see businesses, organizations and nonprofits. Somebody is been waiting for a touch from the spirit. Not just to feel good but I mean this spirit of God. The spirit of God, that thing that touches you so deep down on the inside that you said, “Man, I’m still alive down there! Man, I still have hope down there.”
There’s something taking place in this room and at this part of ‘X’, this would be the most pivotal because it would be the moment in which the spirit of God would not just be reserved for the Jews any longer, but it would be multiplied into all the Earth. So that people like you and I could have an opportunity thousands of years later. To access that same spirit, same multiply on the inside of me.
The first thing that Peter and Cornelius both had to do was offer their mind. I know earlier we touched our minds and we pray that God would change our mind, but some of us have things buried and shackled around our minds that have been there for generations after generations. We have inherited mindsets that hold us down. I want you to come to the altar too. Because you cannot be filled with the spirit and still full of other things too and if the spirit is going to be multiplied in your life, you’re going to have to clear the room and give them access.
You’re going to have to clear the room and give them access. To the parts of your mind that talk bad about yourself. You got one side that says you can do it, you can be all things through Christ and then you have the other side that says, “Yeah, if you wouldn’t have gone through that divorce, if you wouldn’t have had that issue, if you wouldn’t have been molested, if you wouldn’t have been raped or maybe you could have because all of those things happen to you, you don’t have access. So you need God to change your mind because I want to be free.
I want to be free. I want to live in Liberty. I want to be my own cheerleader, but I need you to change my mind. Somebody is sitting in there, thinking to themselves, I’m just going to receive the altar call right here from my seat because I don’t really know if I’m ready to make that declaration and I don’t know what’s on the other side of it. I dare you to serve notice on the enemy that you cannot have my mind any longer. I am not at battle within myself any longer, who the sun sets free is free indeed and he will give you power and authority to arrest every thought that tries to reserve itself over the knowledge of God. Thoughts have been exalting themselves. In your mind, God sends a word in an insecurity exalts itself over the word and now you worship your fear with the same ferocity that you worship your faith. But God said that ends now, I’m going to give you the power to overcome those fears, those thoughts, those examples that exist in your mind of all of the people who didn’t make it, you’re going to lose it out of your mind so that you can lay hold of what I have for you. You are a glory carrier.
Do you know that you carry the glory of God? Your breath was evidence to me that you are a glory carrier. When you walk in the room, darkness ought to move back, when you walk in the room darkness ought to move back in your marriage and your finances. The devourer has to move back because you serve a multiplying kind of God. And he wants to do something with the hearts of the people in this room. I want you to lift your hands and begin to worship.
To really begin to worship. Because I can bring you to the throne but only you can access it for yourself. I can tell you my testimony, I can tell you what he gave me but only you can access it for yourself. I promise you there’s something about opening your mouth and welcoming God. There’s Something about making room for him down on the inside of you.
Holy Spirit, I need you. Holy Spirit fill me. Holy Spirit, you were there when they hurt me, you were there when they touched me, you were there when they broke me, you were there when they closed the prison cell, you were there. You were there. You know exactly what I’ve gone through. God show me how to deal with this mess. Show me how to handle this wind. Show me, show me, show me. A mighty rushing wind. I want you to create a whirlwind of praise or whirlwind of worship down in your mind right now because when we welcome the spirit of God, things are going to take off like never before. Your destiny is going to take off like you couldn’t even imagine, but you have to give them something to work with. The brain doesn’t just take off because the wind comes in its direction. The airplane knows how to create enough wind that when it matches with the wind things begin to shift in their life. And worship creates the wind. Worship creates a wind.
God I need you. I need you. I need you. That’s Point Blank [period]. I need you.
I’ve been depressed. I’ve been struggling. I think I might even be suicidal. I’ve been ready to give up. God, I need you. I need you. A fresh outpouring of your spirit. I can’t stay on this level any longer. I can’t be the way that I’ve been any longer. I need something new. I want to be excited about life again. I want to be excited about what you’re doing in the Earth again. I used to be so on fire, but now it just feels like work. God, I need you to light a fire down in my soul. God, I need to understand who I am and what I’m capable of. God, I need you every hour, every single day.
Heavenly Father, these are your people. You know every struggle represented at this altar. Every pain represented at this halter. And only you can consume them in such a way that all things begin working together for their good. Father, I ask on behalf of every soul that you would begin shifting things in the atmosphere right now, that you would begin shifting things in this circumstance right now. Oh God, that you would give them the proper mindset on how to see the obstacle they’re up against right now. That they would begin to recognize that you did not bring them to this point to leave them but that there is divine insight and power down on the inside of them to overcome any giant that is ahead of them.
So I decree and declare right now in the name of Jesus that victory is available to them right now, that victory, that overcoming power is available to them like never before that. You did not leave them nor forsake them but that you were teaching them the blessing in waiting. But while they’ve been waiting you’ve been working. Oh God and I asked for supernatural increase right now in the name of Jesus. Supernatural increase that they would receive multiplication of your spirit. Oh God, that joy would return to the households. Oh God! that humanity would return in their lives. Supernatural increase oh God!. No weapon formed against them shall prosper.
I rebuke and bind every demon in hell that is prepared to plot and plan for their life. I rebuke it right now in the name of Jesus and I declare Angels dispatched to their homes. Oh God! Angels dispatched to their cars. Angels dispatched everywhere they go and that the Glory of God would be hovering over them like a cloud. Oh God, that you would protect them as only you can do. Heavenly Father breathe. Breathe. Oh God. Breathe. Breathe Oh God, that way that only you can do and so we receive your spirit. We receive it into our dark places. We receive it into our dry places. We receive it into our brokenness, we receive it into our success, we receive it into our achievements. We want your spirit over anything. We receiving- make room in our hearts Oh God, make room in our hearts. Let there be a flood of your spirit everywhere. Oh God, I wish somebody would press in a little bit further to make room. God, we need you.
We need you.
We need you to change our mind. Forgive us God, for thinking that we had it when we didn’t. For thinking that we were okay, when we weren’t. Meet us right where we are- in transparency, in vulnerability, in authenticity that you would meet us right where we are and that you would not leave us the same. Do not pacify our dysfunction and don’t bring people in our life who will do the same, instead God call us up, call us high. Oh God, call us higher. Oh God that you would elevate our perspective and elevate our thinking that we can become all that you have called us to be and I thank you God because we have received this word and because we were in this room or watching on the livestream, then this word must have been for us. So we receive it and we say, “Have your way. Have your way God. Make us sensitive that you may have your way in our lives”. That this would not just be a moment that took place at the altar but that there would be seed in the ground, in Jesus name. Amen.
Amen.
Can we begin to rejoice? Can we just to begin to rejoice. Somebody put seed in the ground. Listen, nobody knows. Nobody knows what this moment meant to you like you. But I want you to put seed in the ground, you changed your mind, you offered your mind, you offered your soul. But if I, professional Ministry technicians could get ready, I want to put seed in the ground right here in this moment. I want to harvest on this moment. So those of us who recognized putting seed in the ground, know that when we put seed in the ground when the spirit is moving that it multiplies in our life.
I want you to gather your seed very quickly. Because I don’t want this moment to pass and just go back to the order of service. I don’t want us to just pack up in our cars and go back to the way things were. But I’m going to put a seed in the ground to mark the spot. This is the spot where God touched me. This is the spot where I received a word. This is a spot where I felt like I could make it to the other side. This is home. And if we don’t mark where home is, we can lose it in discouragement and disappointment.
This is the spot. This is the spot. When my wind, my whirlwind match with his mighty rushing wind, this is the spot where I felt like I could overcome because you have to recognize that the enemy is going to come for your word. He’s going to come for your breakthrough, but he’s not going to realize that I put seed in the ground. If you’re watching online, I want to invite you into this moment. You’re a part of this family, too. You were part of this breakthrough and seed must go in the ground. This is what I want to harvest on. This is what I want my children to be able to access this spirit of God. Does anybody want their children’s children’s children to be able to access the spirit of God? The only reason why I’m standing here is because there has been seed in the ground.
Somebody was praying, somebody was sowing, somebody was covering, so that when my whirlwind collided with his wind I would know who I am. I wouldn’t know who I am. A living testimony of what happens when you sow into the spirit, that you reap a harvest that that you can’t even fully quantify. Anybody who was here 20 years ago knows it, Sarah Jakes Robert should not be the one who’s up on stage talking about the glory of God, but when God decides to do something in your life, it doesn’t matter what the criteria of man has, when God gets ready to move in your life all that matters is that somebody is willing. And he’s changed my life. He’s changed my life. Has he changed your life? Our professional ministry technicians are in the altar and they’re preparing for those who want to be a part of this moment.
Cornelius was giving in the text. He wasn’t given because he wanted something. I can’t promise you this is going to be your seed and then all of a sudden you’re going to get a phone call and have 10 million dollars. I’m not selling you on God. I’m telling you I’m sowing and sowing and then when God gets ready, you receive a harvest that you didn’t even have room enough to receive.
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You mark the spot as we were preparing to move and transition to Denver, we said God, “How will we know?” and there was this incredible message that took place at megafest and we sowed a seed in that moment because we knew that there would be warfare against us going but we wanted to tell warfare we got seed in the ground. No weapon formed against us will prosper. I know what God told me. I remember it. And so we gave a sacrificial seed. I want to remember that I put seed in the ground because I know that when those weapons start coming my way that I’ve got something. I’ve got something to fight it with.
I’m not sure how they collect it. Mom, how do we collect it? They pass it to the left. If you pass it to the left as my father would say, watch your seed to make sure that it makes it all the way down to the left. And once you get to the end, would you please stand. We trust you. We love you and God honors you. But just watch to see if your seed gets in the ground. Pass it all the way down to the left and if you’re on the left, would you please stand and if you are standing, stand with praise, stand with worship, you are carrying somebody’s destiny in your hand. You got somebody’s prayer request. Somebody’s hoping to be healed from cancer. Somebody’s hoping to actually write a book. I wish you would begin to offer up that seed like, you know, somebody’s life is depending on it. If you don’t see them waving your seat properly you jump up and you wave your seed yourself because this seed matters to me. I’m believing in God. I’m waiting on something.
I’m waiting on something. That’s seed means something to me. That seed is a promise and I’m waiting. I’m waiting. Lift up somebody’s destiny like God. You are able to do exceedingly abundantly above all that they may ask or think. Take that seed and multiply it. It’s not too late to get in on this all from their seed going into the ground. This seed going into this moment and we’re going to put it in the ground knowing that God is not a man who shall lie. He wouldn’t stir up the gifts and stir up the word on the inside of us then return it to us boy. Lift that seed as high as your arm can go. As high as you can go. Heavenly Father, something beyond words took place in this room. I can’t even quantify it. I can’t explain it. But what I know is that I want this to be my new normal. This hunger that I have for you, this desperation for your spirit. I want this to be my new normal.
So Heavenly Father, I offer you this seed and I say do that thing that you do when people give with surrendered hearts. Place it in the ground, Oh God and when you bring it back let there be fruit upon fruit, upon fruit. God thank you! Not just in the terms of finances, but I need my children to have fruit from this seed. I need my job to have fruit from this seed. I need the politics of this nation to have fruit from the seed. I’m not just sowing selfishly. I’m sowing into your kingdom because I know that if I seek the kingdom first, that all other things will be added to me so God here is my seed. Cover it, nourish it, protected it. This is my dream. This is my child. This is my marriage. This is the blessing that you have given me that I almost gave up on but because of this word, I put it back in the ground. I covered with your love and with your blood and I said, let it Prosper. Let it be covered in your anointing in Jesus name. Amen.
Truly, I have been blessed, received a change of mind, thanks pastor Sarah Jakes
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