Keep Climbing

[0:00] So this morning, I'm in the name of the Lord. Praise God. This week, these prayer meetings, it's kind of all coming together. And God is building, there's momentum that's building. There's momentum that's building. Amen.

[0:21] Amen. In this hour, in this church, it's out of the way in our lives. And it's in these moments where we can say, well, they want to be good enough. Or I can, you know, back off a little bit or let off the gas a little bit.

[0:44] Or, you know, miss this or miss that or not attend this. But I'm saying we need everybody. We need everybody that's got a heart for revival. Everybody that's got a heart to see God do something in our church, in your life, in your family's life. We need everyone that has a committed heart.

[1:07] That wants to see these. That wants to see God do a work. Amen. Anybody believe that? Amen. Anybody believe that? Anyways. Hey, God is able. God is able. Before we leave this place, we're all going to be believing this. We're all going to be believing that God is able.

[1:29] Amen. That no matter the odds that are against your life, no matter the odds that are against our church or against us, it's faith over odds. Amen. It's going to be faith over odds. Amen. Praise God.

[1:49] Amen. Let's pray. Father, we love you today. Amen.

[2:21] In this hour, we love you. And we praise you. In Jesus' name. Amen. Amen. Amen. Praise God. Can we get this Spanish word off, please? Thank you.

[2:37] Amen. Anybody ever have a week where just brushing your teeth was a victory? Maybe your coffee wasn't strong enough.

[2:54] Your coffee needed coffee. You know what I'm saying? Your kids weren't ready or your boss was on one. Your money was somewhere.

[3:06] You don't quite know where it went. But you still try to grit your teeth and bear it and get through it. And here's the thing. Life just throws odds at us, doesn't it?

[3:20] Life just throws odds. Like there's not enough time. There's not enough peace. Hello, somebody. Hello. There's not enough strength. There's not enough hope.

[3:31] To even the thought of to get out of bed. It's a challenge. Hello? Come on. Let's be real. And we do have a value.

[3:43] You know, we kind of adopted. And it's still down there. Hey, real people. I'm just going to be real. There's just some days where we don't feel super spiritual. There's some days where we don't feel like getting up and getting the tie on.

[3:56] You know, this morning I had kind of my outfit kind of already laid out. And I left my shirt, my blue shirt, my car. I had an interview this last week.

[4:08] So I left it all in the car. I thought I had it all organized. Well, my kids got in the car. And I didn't notice. But they kind of got everything scattered around. And I sure got dirt on it.

[4:19] Blah, blah, blah. So how to improvise, right? So things just take turns. They go this way and they go that way. Amen? Amen. But here's the good news.

[4:33] Here's the good news for all of us. That God doesn't rely on the perfect dots. You don't need and I don't need perfect dots.

[4:46] Because we serve a God who still makes the way. When it seems like there is no way. God still opens doors and provides opportunities and makes ways when we can't really see the benefit or what God wants to do.

[5:06] So you don't need perfect conditions to have a breakthrough. You don't need perfect conditions. And sometimes we get stuck in that moment. We get stuck in that place of it's got to be perfect.

[5:19] I got to get my life together. I got to get my life together to start going to church. No. You come to church to get your life together. You come to church to find the God who can help you get your life together.

[5:32] I've heard it so many times. Well, I haven't been going to church because my life is still in chaos. I'm trying to get it all fixed and worked out. I don't know what we have done.

[5:43] This is something we need to think about church. I don't know what we've done to make people think that they got to get it together to come to church. Right. I don't know what we have said or done or judged.

[5:54] Come on. Oh, I'm feeling it right now. I don't know what we're doing looking down on people or looking at people and saying. And they feel they need to get it all together and look perfect for them to come to church.

[6:06] This should be a place where anybody in any state, any condition of life can walk into and be to God. Amen. That can put them back together.

[6:17] That can make them whole and make them right. Praise God. And if we have been judging people, if we have been saying things about the way they dress. I want everyone to hear what I'm saying right now.

[6:29] I feel like this is the Holy Ghost. If we have been judging people about how they look, how they sound, if we judge people about how they dress and how they do things, we are wrong.

[6:42] That is wrong. We need to love people into grace. We need to love people into transformation. We need to love people.

[6:53] Amen. Into transformation. Praise God. We do the invitation. We do the invite. We love them. And God provides the transformation. God does the work in their life.

[7:04] Praise God. Not on my notes, so praise the Lord. But here's the thing. We all want breakthroughs, don't we?

[7:17] Come on. I think we all. Praise God. We all want breakthroughs. Amen. We want our kids saved. We want our, we want peace in our homes.

[7:28] Hallelujah. We want revival in our city. We want revival in our lives. And we want to be used by God. Use me, Lord.

[7:39] Use me. But sometimes the odds feel so stacked against us. They feel so stacked that we stop moving. And we start thinking this.

[7:53] Let me know if you relate to this. We start thinking, I don't know enough. I don't have enough. I'm too far gone. I'm too deep in the sin. I'm of no use.

[8:06] I am not ready. I am not ready. But what if a breakthrough wasn't about how much you have, but about more of your willingness to move?

[8:21] More of your willingness to say, yes, Lord. Here I am. I am going to move. I am going to do something for the kingdom. It's not about having it ready or all together or having it right.

[8:37] It's about saying, Lord, I'm available. I'm willing. So God, use me. God, I'm going to take a step towards you.

[8:48] I'm going to, you know, I'm really trying to get away from using the phrase of when we need to read our Bible. We need to, we need to pray. We need to, oh, that is important.

[8:59] But here's the thing. By the way, we need to get close to God. That's what needs to happen. Right. Because you can read your Bible and pray and not get close to God.

[9:10] We need to get close to God. Right. In our intimacy with God. Amen. Because the closer you get to Him, the more you'll let some things go. The more there's going to be more like Him.

[9:22] The closer to God you get, the more you'll start to take on His nature and His attributes. And some of the things that bother you. You're like, you know what?

[9:32] I'm going to move. I've got a God who's good. I've got a God who's good. I've got a God who's good. I've got a mercy and grace. Hallelujah. So we need to stop trying to do the mechanics of things.

[9:42] And we just need to get close to God. Hallelujah. Come on. Let's get close to God. Hallelujah. God does not move through perfection, but He moves through participation.

[9:56] We need to participate in what God is doing right now and what He wants to do through your life. Amen. Amen. There's a story in the Bible that just helps illustrate this idea of it's going to be faith over odds.

[10:17] It's going to be faith. My faith and my trust, my dependence, my reliance on God over the odds in my life.

[10:29] Over the odds that I'm up against. There's a story in the Scripture that helps illustrate this idea that, you know, a lot of things are going against me and not in my favor.

[10:41] But because God is good and because His character is just and right, I know I can trust Him. I know I can believe in Him. And that if I just start to move, if I just start to take a step forward, if I start to climb, if I start to reach and I start to move and I start to climb this mountain, this cliff, there's going to be a breakthrough.

[11:08] That's going to happen. Amen. I assume you already know the story. It's the story of Jonathan and his armor bearer. One day Jonathan said to his armor bearer, come on, let's go over to where the Philistines have their outpost.

[11:25] But Jonathan did not tell his father what he was doing. You see, Israel is under this oppression by the Philistines. They're outnumbered.

[11:37] The people of God, they are discouraged. They're disarmed. Some are hiding. And the crazy thing is, is that they have no swords.

[11:48] There's only two swords in the entire army of Israel. Two. Yeah, exactly. Why is that? Because the Philistines removed all the blacksmiths in Israel.

[12:05] Okay. Follow this along. Follow along with me. In 1 Samuel 13, it says that there were no blacksmiths in the land of Israel in those days. The Philistines wouldn't allow them.

[12:17] For fear, they would make swords and spears for the Hebrews. So whenever the Israelites needed to sharpen their plowshares, picks, axes, or sickles, they had to take them to a Philistine blacksmith.

[12:30] So on the day of battle, none of the people of Israel had a sword or spear, except for Saul and Jonathan. This is in the Bible. This is in the scriptures. Wow. They took these blacksmiths.

[12:41] They took these blacksmiths, these important, critical blacksmiths away. One man said, this is a clever and effective method of weakening the Israelites. The Philistines had a monopoly on blacksmiths.

[12:54] So the Israelites couldn't make swords or spears. Spiritually speaking, Satan wants dull, unprepared Christians.

[13:05] When you're around sharpeners, you stay ready. When you're isolated, you're edge. You're edge dulls. And the enemy didn't just want to take their weapons.

[13:18] He took their blacksmiths. He removed the ones who sharpens them. Amen. A church without blacksmiths. A church without disciples. A church without a blacksmith.

[13:30] There becomes a church that loses its edge. A church without a blacksmith. In church, we cannot lose our edge. We cannot lose our edge. We cannot dull the doctrine.

[13:40] We cannot dull the word of God. We need to preach it. We need to say it. We need to stay on edge. We need to stay guarded. Amen. Hallelujah.

[13:51] We need to sharpen one another. This is why we need one another. Hallelujah. And we need to allow the voice of another person into our lives.

[14:02] It sharpens us. It keeps us sharp. Amen. Amen. Hallelujah. This is an interesting verse. Verse 2.

[14:13] Meanwhile. 1 Samuel 14 verse 2. Meanwhile. Saul and 600 men were camped on the outskirts of Gibeah.

[14:24] Around the pomegranate tree at Migron. This is crazy. Jonathan is speaking about, you know, going forward.

[14:35] Going forward. And here we have Saul, the leader of this nation, sitting underneath the pomegranate tree. And I thought, that's so crazy.

[14:46] Why would he be there? And why a pomegranate tree? Another thing. And here he's just sitting.

[14:57] He's not praying. He's not calling out to God for deliverance and to protect his people. He's just sitting and not moving. He's just stuck.

[15:10] I'm going to say stuck. Stuck. Anybody know what that feels like? It feels stuck. You feel spiritually stuck. You feel in life just stuck.

[15:22] And where's he sitting? Underneath this pomegranate tree. Near Migron. Which literally means the edge or the precipice.

[15:34] Saul is on the edge of something. And it's kind of where you and I sit sometimes, right? We sit on the precipice of a breakthrough. We sit on the precipice or on the edge of a miracle.

[15:48] But we sit and we wait. And we just sit there. And we're right there.

[15:59] Of a miracle. I want a miracle. I want a breakthrough. Don't you? Hallelujah. Let me hear somebody that wants a breakthrough.

[16:11] Come on. Let me hear somebody that wants a breakthrough in their lives. Hallelujah. Hallelujah. He's on the precipice or on the edge of something powerful. But he won't move.

[16:23] And comfort can keep you close to the battle. But far, far from the breakthrough that God wants for your life. Brother David Bernard said, Proximity to the presence of God does not guarantee participation in his purpose.

[16:39] Just because you're around it. Just because you come to church. Because you sit there. It doesn't mean that. It doesn't guarantee your participation in God's purpose and in God's plan. We've got to be involved in the fight.

[16:50] We've got to be involved in the battle. We've got to be involved in what God is doing. We've got to lift up our hands and raise our voices. Hallelujah. Praise God. Amen. Just like Saul.

[17:04] You can sit under a tree, a fruit tree, and still be spiritually empty, spiritually famished, still starving. But Jonathan, Jonathan is a man of action.

[17:19] A man who trusts and believes in God, faith, inaction. He says in verse 6, Let's go across to the outposts.

[17:30] Of those pagans. Jonathan said, There's armor bearer. Perhaps the Lord will help us. Perhaps. Everyone say perhaps. Perhaps the Lord will help us.

[17:42] For nothing can hinder the Lord. Amen. Nothing. He can win a battle, whether he has many warriors or only a few. The Hebrew word perhaps, here is ule.

[17:53] Maybe. Maybe. Maybe. Hopefully. Or by chance. The Hebrew word perhaps is, again, this word ule, which means maybe, hopefully, or by chance.

[18:05] And perhaps doesn't mean doubt it. It means I trust God's character. Ule means I trust God's character more than I trust my odds.

[18:18] More than I trust what I can just see with a natural eye. It is not presumption. Hello, somebody. It's not presumption.

[18:29] It's permission. Permission to act in faith without having all the answers. And some of the greatest moves of God start with a perhaps, or with a maybe.

[18:41] Praise God. And I want to talk about now the armor bearer. Everyone say armor bearer. Armor bearer. This man has no name. No name.

[18:54] But he is an example of faithfulness, of loyalty. Everyone say loyalty. Loyalty. Verse 7.

[19:06] He says, the armor bearer says to John, it says, do what you think is best. The armor bearer replied, I am with you completely. Whatever you decide.

[19:18] This man didn't have a name. He didn't even have a sword. But he had a yes. He didn't say, I'm with you if it works.

[19:32] I'm with you. He says, if you climb, I climb. If you go, I'm going to go. You know, our faith, our faith, our determination does affect other people.

[19:45] If we, if we, if we have faith and we trust God, you know, it does affect our brother and sister. Amen. But here's what we need. We need more armor bearers. We need no more armor bearers in the church.

[19:59] Amen. Those that are faithful. Those that are loyal. Those that say yes. Yes. Against all laws. I'm going to go with you. Hallelujah.

[20:09] Church. Here we are. And against all laws. Praise God. We need to be able to say yes to one another. We need to be able to say yes to a pastor. Yes.

[20:20] To the leadership. Yes. Amen. To one another. Hallelujah. Hallelujah. Hallelujah. If you go, I'm going. If you climb, I'm going to climb.

[20:30] All right. Praise God. Praise the Lord. Mm. I'm going to climb. Brother Haney said this. The church, there's a move forward on the gifts of the few, but the faith of the faithful.

[20:46] Amen. We need faithful saints. We need faithful people. I'm talking about all of us that show up, not when it's just convenient, who show up when, when everything's all right or all together, but that show up and says, I make a difference.

[21:02] I make a difference. You make a difference. Journey in the air and say, you make a difference. You make a difference. You make a difference. You make a difference. That's right. Pastor, you make a difference.

[21:19] The kingdom of God, this is, this is, the kingdom of God does not advance through celebrities or celebrity pastors. You know what I'm saying?

[21:33] I'm not going to name names. Sister, no, no, no, no, we don't name names. The king doesn't advance through celebrities or celebrity pastors or celebrity leadership or, you know, who's got, who's wearing fubu and, and Tim, got Tim's on, on the pole.

[21:48] I'm not, not bagging on you, Cash. Don't worry. But it moves with armor bearers and moves with armor bearers that are faithful and show up that says, I'm going to go if you go.

[22:03] Come on, somebody. And I thought this point was so interesting. I want to go back to verse four. Verse four, first Samuel 14, verse four.

[22:20] Now, for them to reach or to get to this outpost, Jonathan and the armor bearer, they had to go through this really kind of sticky situation that says this, to reach the Philistine outpost, Jonathan had to go down between two rocky cliffs that were called Bozes and Sanah.

[22:46] Bozes means shiny, slippery, unstable. Sanah means thorny or painful.

[22:57] The road to breakthrough will always feel unstable at times. Come on. On one side he got pain, on one side he got unstable, but Jonathan kept climbing.

[23:13] And it's through the unstable, it's through the thorny, it's through those situations, amen, where most people stop. Because to get to the breakthrough oftentimes it requires us to push, requires us to keep stepping and keep moving forward, but oftentimes people when they face opposition, they stop.

[23:32] because it's hard, or it's too much work, hallelujah. But these men pressed on, they pressed forward, they went through the unpleasant, they went through the unstable, they went through the rough patches that went around them.

[23:51] Church, I'm here to tell us this morning that if we're going to ever get to our breakthrough, we've got to be able to be mentally strong and move forward through the unstable, the unknowable, the uncertainty.

[24:06] Come on, somebody. Come on. Come on. Push up, push out, and move forward. This is good. I think it's good. God really challenged it in this world.

[24:20] And if we're going to have our revival, if we're going to have our breakthrough, we have got to be willing to push through the unstable in our life, the uncertain, uncertainty that might surround us, the odds that are against us.

[24:35] Let me tell you some of you here are against some real odds. I'm not downplaying anything. There's real emotion, there's real challenges in our lives, there's real opposition in our lives.

[24:49] Physically, emotionally, mentally, I hear what's happening, I understand, I see what's happening in our world, and finances, and all that comes with that.

[25:04] And again, we're up against those things, but I'm telling you something, that on the other side, on the other side, if we'll keep pushing through, if we'll keep pressing forward, I'm telling you, in the word of God, in the name of Jesus, there is a breakthrough.

[25:22] God has for your life. Hallelujah. He has for your life. He has for your mind. Hallelujah.

[25:35] Praise God. Hallelujah. Hallelujah. And you're not here for no little reason, you're here on purpose. You're here for a reason. God has placed you, he's planted you here.

[25:47] Amen. You know what I said? He's planted you here. He has planted you here for a reason. Not to uproot yourself and go on to the next thing or go on to the shiny thing.

[26:05] Because that unstableness, that thorniness is wherever you go. It's going to follow you wherever you go. You want to go to that church?

[26:16] You're still going with you. You want to go to that church? You're still going with you and all your problems and all your issues, all the thorniness and all the unstableness. Amen.

[26:28] But all they're showing you mentally is that, you know what, when it gets difficult, I just get up and go. When it gets hard, I just get up and leave. When it gets hard, there's blessing in consistency.

[26:42] There's blessing in commitment. There's blessing in consecration. Amen. Hallelujah. Many times later we'll see where Saul built an altar and it's recorded the first altar he ever built.

[26:55] Amen. If you have not built an altar in your life, you better start right now. Amen. You better build an altar, the altar of sacrifice, the altar of giving, the altar of dedication and commitment.

[27:12] Amen. This is Lord, I'm building this altar, this place where my will come to die. And I say, God, I give my heart to you. I give my trust to you, God.

[27:24] With a feeling of stable, with a feeling of you, God, I'm going to trust in you. Hallelujah. We need to build an altar. Hallelujah.

[27:36] Hallelujah. Some of the biggest breakthroughs come between slippery and thorny. Hallelujah. Hallelujah. But oftentimes it's work.

[27:49] It's just work. It's moving forward. So now we got an armor bearer that's committed. We got Jonathan who has this faith that against odds we're going to move forward.

[28:04] First Samuel 14 and 8 says, all right then. Jonathan told the armor bearer, we will cross over and let them see us.

[28:15] And if they say to us, stay where you are or we'll kill you, then we will stop and not go up to them. But if they say, come on up and fight, then we will go up.

[28:27] That will be the Lord's sign that he will help us defeat them. Verse 11, when the Philistines saw them coming up, they shouted, look, the Hebrews are crawling out of their holes.

[28:39] And the men from the outpost shouted to the come up here and we'll teach you a lesson. come on, climb right behind me. Try to then say to his armor bearer, for the Lord will help us defeat.

[28:53] And then he says in verse 13, so they climbed up using both hands. Picture this, you got these two young men climbing up this cliff. They just passed through unstable and thorny.

[29:05] and they're moving forward with one sword. But right now it's sheathed because they got to use both hands to climb up. So the odds are really against them.

[29:18] But they're going anyways. They climbed using both hands and feet and the Philistines fell before Jonathan and his armor bearer and they killed those who came behind them.

[29:31] He didn't wait for a shout from heaven. He didn't wait for some crazy miraculous sign. He waited for a whisper from the enemy come up and Jonathan knew that that was his cue.

[29:47] See Jonathan's cue wasn't a guarantee but it was an invitation. An invitation into this victory, into this breakthrough. Amen.

[29:58] Anthony Mangin said that revival doesn't come to the comfortable, it comes to the climbers. It comes to the climbers. Hallelujah.

[30:10] And we tell you something, we're on that wall, you're committed. You're climbing up. You ever try to climb something halfway up and go, oh, this wasn't a good idea. AJ goes, there's a long ways down.

[30:23] Well, I might as well just get up there. But revival as Brother Mangin said doesn't come to the comfortable like Saul under the pomegranate tree.

[30:35] Which represented blessing and fruitfulness and growth and revival. You see, Saul had a form of godliness, but he had denied the power thereof.

[30:47] He had a form of spirituality. He tried to mask his inefficiencies and his lack of spirituality by having an ephod near him, you know, a spiritual leader, God's presence near him.

[31:03] And he also tried to be under a representation of growth and blessing of his life. But the truthfulness is that Saul had an empty heart. He had a heart that was empty.

[31:15] He had no fruit in his life. And he tried to mask it by being near those things. But truthfully, his heart was far from God. Amen. So that's not where revival lies, having a form of spirituality, saying amen at the right time, shouting at the right time, dancing at the right time, screaming at the right time.

[31:39] Hallelujah. Having a form of godliness. But on the inside, you're spiritually dying. Come on. Hallelujah. Faith climbs, but fear camps.

[31:53] Faith, like Jonathan the hour bearer, they climb, but fear and a form of godliness, they camp, like Saul camps. I don't want to be like Jonathan.

[32:05] I don't want to be like the hour bearer. I want to climb, hallelujah, to that revival, to that breakthrough. 1 Samuel 14, verse 14 says, and they killed about 20 men in all.

[32:18] And their bodies were scattered over about half an acre. And then suddenly, everyone say suddenly, suddenly panic broke out in the Philistine army, both in the camp and in the field, including even the outposts and raiding parades or parties.

[32:35] And just then an earthquake struck and everybody was terrified. and they started to kill each other. They just started hacking and swinging their swords.

[32:46] And they started to kill one another. You see, the earth didn't shake when the army moved. It didn't shake when Saul sat.

[32:59] It shook when two men dared to climb. They said, perhaps, perhaps the Lord will deliver us. Perhaps Lord will help us get through to this.

[33:12] Amen. I'm confident that God's going to help me. I'm confident that God's going to move on our behalf. Amen. The earth shook. Heaven moves.

[33:22] Amen. When two men are committed and have faith that God is able. Hallelujah. So when you move in faith, heaven starts shaking the ground.

[33:34] Heaven starts to move. Hallelujah. Praise God. Praise the Lord. Some of us, some of us, hear what I'm saying?

[33:55] Some of us have been sitting under that pomegranate tree too long. Some of us have been sitting under that pomegranate tree for way too long.

[34:08] stuck. Having that form. We're so used to that someday it's going to happen.

[34:19] So you said that someday there's going to be a breakthrough. Someday God's going to move on my behalf. Someday I'm just going to sit under this pomegranate tree.

[34:36] Someday I'm going to commit someday commit to pomegranate pomegranate pomegranate that represents blessing and fruitfulness and favor.

[34:58] Someday I'm going to commit. Someday I'm going to commit to showing up on Sundays. Someday I'm going to commit myself to be faithful.

[35:09] Amen. Someday I'm going to commit to living for God. Someday I'm going to commit to leading my family, to leading my wife. Someday I'm going to commit to leading my children to God.

[35:21] Someday my breakthrough is going to happen. Someday I'm just going to sit here and wait. But what if your breakthrough isn't in the waiting but in the climbing?

[35:33] What if your breakthrough was not in the sitting and the waiting and having that form of godliness but it was in the climbing? And that's the thing. When they climbed that, they scaled that cliff, there's cuts, there's scars, there's things that are happening to their body and it's not easy.

[35:51] The climb is not easy, church. The climb is not easy. The walk is not easy but I'm going to tell you something. It's better than staying stuck. It's better than staying under that tree.

[36:02] Amen. It's better than staying under that form of godliness. Hallelujah. It's better than staying underneath that tree and say well I kind of I have it all together. I look okay, I look alright but really on the inside we're barren.

[36:17] Come on somebody. Let's be real. Breakthrough doesn't wait for perfect odds. It's just it waits on the willingness for someone to move.

[36:29] And perhaps that is exactly what you and I need to do. stop sitting in that pew. Stop sitting in that place where you're at, where you're stuck.

[36:43] Maybe you feel stuck this morning. Maybe God's waiting for you to move. You know what the first best move is?

[36:57] Is to make an altar. Is to make an altar. and to present yourself as a living sacrifice. Hallelujah.

[37:11] Jesus. Oh God. God. God. A living sacrifice. Hallelujah.

[37:23] Jesus. Some of us may have representation of an altar but no sacrifice. No representation of a place of where we give to God.

[37:37] But truly there's no fire there. There's no sacrifice given. Hallelujah. But as Paul wrote, we need to present our bodies as a living sacrifice.

[37:51] Hallelujah. That means our physical bodies, our minds, our thoughts, our actions, our emotions, our presenting to you.

[38:02] I'm laying them down to you, Lord. Hallelujah. And the great news for all of us is that he's able. He's able to do it.

[38:15] Hallelujah. He's a God that forgives. He's a God of mercy. He's a God of grace. but this is your bozes and sanaa moment slippery on one side thorny on the other side but you're still climbing you're still climbing you're still moving forward you don't have all the answers and you may just have one sword one friend and one perhaps or one maybe and the only thing that stands as J.T. Pew once said the only thing that stands between a man and his revival or his breakthrough is movement maybe you just need to move move to that altar move to that place of sacrifice so I want to invite you to come if you're ready to climb to come if you're tired of sitting and waiting to come if you've got a maybe and a willing heart because here's the deal church we're doing this we're moving forward we're having revival do we have any armor bearers this morning do we have any

[39:56] Jonathan's here this morning hallelujah that in spite of the thorniness of life and in spite of the unstable happiness of life God I'm trusting in you God I'm trusting in you and my revival my breakthrough is just on the other side of that amen let's all stand this morning holy holy you know, having a form of what would look like having it all together or a form of godliness.

[41:05] I want power. I want the power of the Holy Ghost working in my life like never before. I want the power of the Holy Ghost moving in my life like never before.

[41:17] But you know what that takes? Submission. Submission. Submission to the word of God. Submission to the will of God. Hallelujah.

[41:30] That means faithfulness. That means consistency. That means if you fall, you get back up again. There's an old song that says, you know, we fall down when we get up.

[41:45] We fall down when we get up. For a saint, God is a sinner who fell there. But don't matter.

[41:57] If you've fallen down this week, God, don't sit back up. If you've fallen down this year, get back up.

[42:08] Lord, I pray that you will forgive us our sins. Jesus is faithful to forgive us of our sins.

[42:22] And to cleanse us from all unrighteousness. If you need forgiveness, it's here this morning. If you need forgiveness, it's here this morning.

[42:32] If you need direction, it's here this morning. If you need purpose, it's here this morning. If you need hope, it's here this morning.

[42:44] Hallelujah. I want to open these altars. If you want to make your chair an altar, I want to invite you to go ahead and lay your body on the way of the Lord.

[42:56] I trust you. I'm ready to climb, Lord. I'm ready to climb, God. I'm ready to climb, Lord Jesus.

[43:09] I'm tired of sitting and waiting, God. I'm ready for that breakthrough in my life. Come on. Hallelujah. Hallelujah, Jesus.

[43:23] That's it. Let's pray. Let's begin to pray. If you see somebody in your prayer, go to them and pray with them. If you see somebody who needs to pray, I invite you to go and pray with them.

[43:36] Hallelujah. Hallelujah. Hallelujah, Jesus. Hallelujah. Hallelujah. Hallelujah. Hallelujah.

[43:51] Hallelujah. It's in your person. It's right in your heart. We don't care. God, we love you, Lord.

[44:08] God, we love you, Lord. I want you, Lord. God, I'm going to be faithful. God, we need faith right now. Jesus. I love you right now. Lord, we love you.

[44:18] Let's touch our hearts. Let's pray. Let's pray. Let's pray. Let's pray. Let's pray. Let's pray. Oh Ah

[45:25] Hallelujah, hallelujah, hallelujah, hallelujah. Yes, Lord, yes, Lord, yes, Lord.

[45:39] We are calling on your name this morning, Lord. We are calling on you today, Lord. Hallelujah, hallelujah, hallelujah, hallelujah.

[45:56] Hallelujah, hallelujah, hallelujah. Yes, Lord.

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