John Gray - It's Time They Know
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Come on and stand for the reading of the Word. If you have the ability to stand for the reading of the Word, please do. I must share the Word of the Lord with you today. It may be that this is the most important message that I’ve ever preached. I don’t believe it will be long, but it will be impactful. If you are an intercessor and you’re assigned to pray for me, please do so right now, so that I say exactly what the Lord told me to say and how He told me to say it, so that somebody somewhere will get saved.
I want to take a moment, as I look around this church, to tell you how much I love you and how grateful I am for you. Love you too, and I’m grateful for you. You mean the world to me. You may not know it, but your pastor is a fighter, and I will fight for y’all-I mean physically swing for y’all. I would take a bullet for y’all. In times of strange words, I’m grateful that we have a church that is sincere and hungry for the Word of God. I’m grateful for the Love Story Church community, and while I’m preaching, they’re unloading an 18-wheeler full of resources because of your heart. Y’all don’t hear me-planes are flying in to drop off water, and we just happen to be across the street from an airport. You don’t hear me? God put us here for such a time as this. By the way, we got three new chainsaws that were flown in and given to us so we can cut down more trees this week. It’s $3,000 at the lowest to get one tree down. I’m in the wrong profession; I should just be chopping down trees. That’s $9,000, sir! I didn’t ask you to do it-well, I did it anyway. You’re welcome, just in case another storm comes. I took the tree out of here for you.
But if you are skilled with a chainsaw, please let Pastor Charles know. Your executive pastor was out here after the storm with the power gone, and as I was trying to share earlier, they said they were really mean to him on Monday. They said everyone was pretty, and that’s true, but we only asked because we wanted to be a conduit to reach people. Long story short, the Holy Ghost gave me a vision-He said, «Go lay hands on the building.» He told me in my mind, but I was like, «Maybe I’m tripping.» We were driving in the car, and my wife said, «We need to go up to the church. We need to pray.» I was like, «Yeah, yeah, I see.» I knew that, but He had already shown me.
But I was like, «Well, they said at the earliest you’ll get power on Friday.» Friday night, they said, «Watch this.» God said, «What do you say?» Here’s what I did with my dumb self-I came right up here, my wife lifted her hands, and stayed right there. It’s blazing hot. She lifts her hands. I go up to the door, Pastor Robert-the same door we prayed over, the same area where I laid prostrate on the pavement with a few believers when we weren’t sure how it was going to shake down some years ago. I laid my hands on the door. I said, «I want power on this campus by 8:00 tonight.» It was Monday after the storm. I said, «I want power on this campus by 8:00 tonight.» Then I turned around and said, «I speak to the four winds, to the north, south, east, and west-whatever needs to come in the form of resources for there to be power on this campus, I want it to be here. I said, and I want it by 8:00.» We got in the car and left.
At 7:25–actually, that’s where you would normally shout, but don’t, because you didn’t catch it. At 7:25, Heather texted my wife and said, «I think I see a light. Hallelujah!» in The Bishop’s Chapel. Now, here’s the thing: the road that The Bishop’s Chapel is on was still blocked by the downed transformer and the wires and the trees, but the chapel had power. Watch this! And then the executive administration building got power, and then Outreach got power. So I’m shouting, «Oh my God!» Then Pastor Charles called at 7:58 and said, «We got power in Executive Admin and in the Outreach!» I’m shouting! At 8:00 he says, «And the lights just came on in the gym!»
Now, you may not be shouting, but it came on at 8:00, so the electricity had to listen to me because I have authority on this campus. But watch this-there was no power in this building. I said, «Lord, I asked for power.» He said, «I gave you power for what you need. I gave you Executive Admin so you can lead. I gave you a chapel so you can pray. I gave you Outreach so you can serve, and I gave you a gym so you can house. I didn’t give you a sanctuary because I don’t need you to gather; I need you to stay outside. Don’t come in here; stay out there.»
And while we were here on Wednesday, while we were preparing to serve in meetings, I got a call from Bishop Jakes. The man called, and while I’m talking to him, I looked down the hill and saw a light. I said, «Y’all, I think maybe I’m old, but maybe it’s a glare, but I think I see outside of the main sanctuary a light.» Hold on! We go down the hill while we were preparing to serve Thursday and Friday, and then the lights came on in here because God said, «When you got the heart for the people out there, I’ll turn on the lights in here.»
I wonder why the lights came on while I was talking to Bishop, and I believe it’s because honor is the currency of elevation. If you walk in honor, you don’t listen to the noise; you speak life, you pray, and you stay in honor. Never mind, y’all don’t-that’s okay. It’s a man of God- that’s all I got to say about that. Go to Romans 8:18; hurry up because we’re going up the hill. Here’s the thing: if you don’t have a need, don’t leave. Come serve! I’m really tired of people thinking, «Well, I just come to service.» No, no, no, no! We all can do something! You can give out a canned good. You can hand somebody some toilet tissue. I’m going to get me some baby wipes- they are refreshing! I know why babies smile. Go gag! Premium flushable wipes. Hush.
Romans 8:18, I’m reading from the New King James. Let me move quickly, Elder Brian! Stop all that giggling back there! «For I consider that the sufferings of this present age are not worthy to be compared with the glory that shall be revealed in us. For the earnest expectation of the creation eagerly awaits the revealing of the sons of God.» Let me say it again: «For I consider that the sufferings of this present age are not worthy to be compared with the glory that shall be revealed in us. For the earnest expectation of the creation eagerly awaits the revealing of the sons of God.» Verse 20: «For the creation was subjected to futility, not willingly, but because of Him who subjected it in hope. The creation itself also will be delivered from the bondage of corruption into the glorious liberty of the children of God.»
I have to say it because some of y’all don’t understand what’s happening in the earth is actually — not climate change; it’s not carbon emissions; it’s the earth waiting on you to get in position. «For I consider that the sufferings of this present age are not worthy to be compared with the glory that shall be revealed in us. For the earnest expectation of the creation eagerly awaits the revealing of the sons of God.» The created world was subjected to futility; it could not function in its full capacity-not willingly, but because of Him, God, who subjected it in hope because the creation, the earth itself also will be delivered from the bondage of corruption. The earth will be delivered from corruption into the glorious liberty of the children of God. God says the earth will be free when you get free!
Hallelujah! Hallelujah! The title of my message is «It’s Time They Knew.» You’re going to film the whole thing because you know we got it online. You don’t have to mess your elbow up. I want you to find three people and look at them with every level of seriousness in your spirit and say, «It’s time they know.» When you do that, you can be seated. Ask someone near you, «Do you know who you’re sitting next to?» Maybe they don’t know, and you don’t have time to help them. Ask the person on the other side, «Do you know who you’re sitting next to?» Tell them, «I’m a word that God spoke, and since nothing that God spoke can go back to Him void, no matter what the enemy tries, no matter what he hits you with, you are going to complete the assignment that you were created for.» 1, 2, 3, 4, 5-do you know who you’re sitting next to?
I’m not just a word God spoke; I’m a spirit that God breathed! If you have fresh breath, just breathe out! Don’t breathe in anybody’s face because you might be a little tart from all that worship-just breathe out. I’m playing. So first, God spoke, then God breathed. When there was chaos on the earth, in the beginning, God created the heavens and the earth, and the earth was without form and void and darkness was over the face of the deep, and the Spirit of God hovered over the face of the waters, and God said, «Let there be.» That’s why I could tell power and electricity to come back on because I was created in the image of God, so I can speak to something that doesn’t have it, and it has to show up because I’m like my dad! You didn’t hear what I said! I didn’t ask for there to be a power pole and electrical wires. I said, «I want power on this campus,» so whatever needs to show up for that to happen has to happen because I’m walking in the place that He purposed for me, and I’m speaking the words of my Father, «Let there be light!»
Oh, okay, okay, let me go quick! So God spoke, «Let there be light.» God spoke, and for six days-for five days God spoke. On the sixth day, He breathed. Pastor, I don’t know what you mean because you need breath to speak, but that’s because He had to breathe into you for you to breathe back out to Him. Breath is the connection between earth and heaven. It is the ruach, the ruakodesh, the Holy Ghost. It is the Spirit of God on the inside; it’s the seed of God that allows you to speak back to Him what He breathed into you first.
So God spoke for five days, and He created; the result of His words was the created world. The result of His breath was you. Pastor Mike, that’s why I need you on the front row because I think some of our saints just-what He spoke and the universe showed up-stars started shining- but when He breathed, you were the result: a created God Jr. People are scared when I say that. «Well, where did you come from?» You came from God, so you were like God! Some of y’all got kids named after you! God said, «Let us make man in our image, according to our likeness, and let them have dominion. Let them function like me! They got my breath, they got my Spirit, they have my authority. Let them function like me, and I’m going to commune with them so they can get my identity.»
Ma, I’m trying-pray for me, please-because I’ve got a mindset of people who have been lied to to make you think that you are not who you actually are, and that’s why you sit around struggling thinking that your bills have authority when God says authority is in your mouth! The next time you look up in the sky and look at stars and think about how amazing they are, I need you to know that all of the stars in the known observable universe for billions of light-years in every direction were the result of Him speaking. But the only thing that He breathed in was you. He took words to make stars; He took His breath to make you. So, who’s the star? If you’re the star, why are you letting people treat you like you’re common? We’ll come back to this.
All of the known observable universe pales in value to you because you are the express created image of God, and you get to speak back to God and commune with God and talk with God, and God talks with you. Do you know who you are? And now, after last week when we couldn’t gather in this building, God is saying, «Do I have your attention yet? What do I have to do? I gave-I allowed a virus to shut down life as you know it so you could get back to me.» And some of y’all went back to business as usual, so I just gave you a quick glimpse- do you want to go back to this again? These storms are coming-do I have your attention yet? Let me make it real clear: just like, «Well, did God send the hurricane?» No, God didn’t send the hurricane. It’s a result of the earth being corrupted. When God spoke, He spoke systems, so stuff was supposed to function in a certain way. Then He said, «Let man have dominion over everything,» which means the earth has to listen to the sons and daughters of God.
How do I know this? Because I remember being a little boy and watching the weather report of certain storms that were supposed to come to where I grew up in Cincinnati, and my grandmother on 3920 Vine Street would get on her knees and say, «God, turn the storm the other way.» And all of a sudden, they said, «Something strange happened,» and what we said was coming through the city actually blew to the east. It had to because there was somebody with authority speaking. I’m trying to help the Saints. I’m trying to help the Saints! I don’t know what’s going to happen with the election, I don’t know what’s going to happen with the weather-speak to it!
Everybody’s all shocked when Jesus woke up from His sleep and told that storm, «I mean, be still!» And I mean, «Be still right now! Peace, be still!» And it says, and immediately, there was no 30-minute delay! It had to do it right then because He was the Son of God! He had authority in the earth, and the wind and the sea and the waves had to obey Him! Do you understand that you can hit a tree with your car, and that tree’s going to be like, «Who said something?» But your airbags deployed, you’re in a sling, your neck’s over here, you’re looking like you’re in the Thriller video, but something you couldn’t see, the wind, snapped a tree like a toothpick!
But we have the wind of the Holy Ghost. Oh God, please let me preach it with power! You are in the moment that God has been waiting for. What are you going to do with the authority you’ve been given? And why have you been shrinking back? Why haven’t you taken your rightful position? How come people don’t know the authority you carry? Why are you sitting here living average? Why do you dip your head when you see somebody that you think has power? You better lift your head up! What’s wrong with you? Some folk around here still got that colonial mentality. You better lift your head up! You aren’t on a plantation; you’re a child of the King! What’s wrong with you? Walk with some power! Throw your shoulders back! Walk with your head up! Who do you think you are?
That’s the problem-you don’t know who you are! The issue is not, «Does your neighbor know who you are?» The issue is: «Do you know?» It’s time for the church to be the church, not a gathering place for the cool kids. No more false prophets sitting in pulpits and lying to you, tricking you into giving your money so they can get rich! No more false prophets running around with thousand and ten thousand dollar lines lying to you, making you think you can buy a miracle! No more foolish preaching that’s rooted in sensual expression but with no anointing because it’s not the word. Who cares who’s popular? Who cares who’s popping? Who cares who goes viral? Have you served poor people when nobody’s looking? Have you prayed for your labor? Have you prayed for your enemies, or are you just as carnal as the next person?
Yeah, I hope it gets quiet. I hope it stays quiet for the next 15 minutes for all of us to think and contemplate, because more storms are coming! War is not afoot; it is here! If Israel strikes Iran’s nuclear capacity, it is going to bring the entire Muslim nation- two billion-into a conflict that is right now regional, but it’s still multinational. And all of this because Abraham wouldn’t obey God to be with Sarah only. We’re at war now because he visited a tent! Be careful where you sow your seed because every garden is not going to produce what you think. You better let him go; you better let her go; you better move on!
I’m trying to help somebody in here. The children of Ishmael are still at war with the children of Isaac. But you wouldn’t know that if you stopped looking at all of your favorite reality shows and got in your Word. We have a weak, watered-down body of Christ that doesn’t understand the times we’re in because we want to be anesthetized by entertainment! Wake up! Repent, for the kingdom of heaven is at hand! Turn from your wicked ways! Stop sinning! Stop living unholy! Stop being carnal! Stop being racist! Stop being prejudiced! Stop being ugly and mature! Stop being selfish! Let what’s in your hand go so God can give you more!
Do you know who you are? I ask you a question like He yelled at me! Yes, I am, 'cause I’m tired of you walking around here like you don’t know that you are a daughter of a King! I’m fighting against that territorial demon and that spirit over Greenville that wants to subjugate people, and I bind that spirit in the name of Jesus! I wish I had seven people that were fighting with me! There’s a spirit over the region that doesn’t want people to get together. It’s 18,000 churches, and people still don’t speak to each other! How in the world do you have that much Jesus but can’t see Jesus in me? Your white Jesus don’t see this black man; your black Jesus don’t see that white man; your Hispanic Jesus don’t see that Asian man when God created everybody you see! But you’ve got the nerve to be prejudiced against somebody else because of the color of their skin? Are you crazy? What’s wrong with us?
You subject your Jesus to your politics! You think Jesus is voting for the issues that you believe! You think Jesus is a Republican; you think He’s a Democrat! He’s not! He’s Jesus! And you submit your Christianity to your preferred candidate! That’s why people give to churches even if they ain’t preaching nothing, because it makes them feel like they’re actually doing something-they will pay for preachers to lie to them all the way into hell! I don’t care if I got 10 people; if that’s what the Lord told me to say, I’m going to say it! If this place empties out because I preach the truth, then I’ll die a happy man! I am not here to please anybody but the Living God!
I’ve got to preach the Word of God, and I wish I-and I know I have a church that wants to hear the Word of God! I need a 10-second praise break, please! Oh, I said I need a 10-second praise break! Tell somebody, «It’s time they knew!» Bishop and First Lady came from-what’s the name? What’s the city? Snellville, but where’s the church? Albany! They came from Albany, Georgia! He’s a bishop in the Lord’s church, and he said, «Man of God, I’m going to be here twice a month because the Word of the Lord is being preached here!» You have no clue the harvest that’s coming, but you’re here now because God needs you to wake up and get prepared, because there are people out there that in the next two weeks, this place is going to be packed out because of all the craziness that’s going to happen out there! Don’t be looking at them like, «Where you been for the last couple of years?» You were hating, but now you’re here! Don’t do that!
People are hurting; people have been wounded. Just love on them when they walk through the door-no judgment, just love! I said, «No judgment, just love!» Now, I got five points. Let me give them to you real quick. It’s time they knew- all of creation is waiting on the sons of God to be revealed. The scripture says the creation has been groaning with birth pains until now, subjected to futility until the sons and daughters of God get in position. That means some of these storms we can speak away, but you got to get in position. Tell somebody, «Get in position
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Here’s what you didn’t know: everything you’ve been through in your life-ma’am, you right there with this necklace? Right? That’s a nice necklace! Yes, young lady, listen. Let me say something to you-everything you’ve been through, good and bad, all the stuff you thought would disqualify you- all the stuff you thought you weren’t worthy of-everything is now coming to bear for this moment! Everything you’ve been through has prepared you for right now!
I need to say this to everybody. Are you listening to me, sir? Are you listening? Yes, sir. Q, I need you to hear me: everything that you’ve experienced has prepared you for the right now of God. There are people who will only come into the kingdom because you tell them the truth of your story. I was talking to one of the emerging prophetic voices in our house; he went out of town, and everybody’s got things that they walk through and struggle with. Can I get two amens? And I know that’s right!
Here’s the thing: we never talk about that 'cause we want to come in here, shout for like an hour, and then get a message and then go watch football! But the reality is, some of us are in 'cause we need Jesus to keep us from doing some really stupid things. Isn’t it strange that your natural proclivity, your natural affection, you need supernatural power not to do what comes naturally? I said, «Hey, man of God, how you doing?» He said, «Just let me put it like this: I’m glad I didn’t have a car 'cause I would have drove right into some foolishness!»
Nobody else want to say amen 'cause they don’t want nobody to know that you’re one wrong car ride away from messing up, but there’s no judgment there. You need to know your weaknesses before the devil exposes them. Nobody’s going to clap for that! Okay! It’s not, «Does your neighbor know who you are?» Do you know who you are, the good and the bad? Because in this season, the enemy is going to do whatever he can to get you to go toward your natural affections that have not been submitted to God to get you out of position because what he wants to do is make you think you’re not worthy to walk in the position that God gave you!
Hear me: by the power of God, shame will keep you from opening your mouth when God says, «I already provided the blood of my Son to forgive you for your sins; now, get back in position!» I don’t know who you’re near, but you need to shake them and say, «Get in position!» In fact, tell them, «Get back in position!» But I sinned against God! I drank too much! I smoked some weed! I slept with somebody! I lied! Okay, ask the Lord to forgive you and get back in position! I need some help in here! Shake them on their shoulders! Stand up if you have to! What the heck is going on in here? Get in position!
The earth is crying out! You’ve got named storm after named storm keep coming into the Gulf of Mexico, and God’s like, «I’m waiting on somebody with some authority to tell this storm where to go!» And you’re watching the news, and you’re letting the news tell you! And God said, «The news don’t tell you; the news informs you so you can tell it.» I need you to know that earthquakes, signs in the earth- all of this foolishness, forest fires- the earth is saying, «Where are the sons and daughters of God? Where are the intercessors? Where are the prophetic voices? Where are the people that understand who they are and what they carry? Where are you?»
And you’re still sitting here quiet! This is making me angry! God, you’re going to have to help me! No, you don’t have to help me! You are helping me, because what I feel is the righteous indignation of Heaven saying, «I saved you from everything that was supposed to kill you, and all you’ve done is sat on it!» You haven’t told anybody! You haven’t told the truth of what I saved you from 'cause you’re scared to be exposed! Well, go ahead and tell what it is so the devil has nothing to hold over your head! Yes, I used to strip! Yes, I had an abortion! Yes, I did this and that! Yes, I slept with him! Yes, I slept with her! Yes, I slept with them! I still drink, and God is still God!
And I submit myself-all of me, imperfect in all-and if God can get glory out of my life, then I will get in position! Shake seven people! Tell them, «Get in position!» I said shake them! You didn’t shake nobody! That’s a tender embrace! Avent, shake Kelly! 'Til one of them curls fall straight! James, come here! Pastor Mike, come here! Pastor Johnny, come here! Stand behind me quick! We got to move! Tell somebody, «Get in position!»
I’m getting ready to give you five quick points so we can go up here and serve these people. Pastor, watch this.
Here Point number one: Because it’s time they knew-you’ve been hiding in the shadows! It’s time for you to emerge! It’s time for you to be everything God created you to be! It’s time for you to walk in the authority that God gave you! He gave it to you. Point number one, though? They can’t know if you don’t know!
Watch this! Matthew 16:13– walk with me, walk behind me! No matter what, just walk! The Bible says when they came into the region of Caesarea Philippi, Jesus asked and said, «Who do men say that I, the Son of Man, am?» Some say Elijah, some say John the Baptist or one of the prophets. He said, «But who do you say that I am?» Who do you say that I am? Jesus wasn’t asking them to define Him; He was asking them to see if God had revealed to them who He was because sometimes the assignment requires people to know who you are before you can fulfill what you were called to complete! Some of you have not fulfilled your assignment 'cause there are some people in your life that don’t know who you are, so they treat you common when they should be respecting your anointing! They treat you like you’re regular when God has called you to be a high-level prophetic voice, but because you’re surrounded by low-level thinking and low-level living, they treat you like you’re just something off the street! And because they treat you like trash, you treat yourself like trash!
«Who do men say that I am?» I got a function and a calling, but I can’t do it until you know who I am! I know who I am! But there’s an assignment that we have to do; but we can’t do it if you don’t know who I am. And then Peter says, «You are the Christ, the Son of the Living God!» Jesus says, «Now I can move forward, but I needed to know if the people walking with me knew who I was.»
One here, one behind me, and one on the other side-you can’t walk with me if you don’t know who I am! Watch this! And some people can’t walk with me because they know who I am! Did you hear what I said? There are some people that are walking with you because they know who you are! Then there are some people that are walking with you 'cause they just know who you are. You need to know the difference 'cause some people don’t mean you no good!
They just know who you are! So as long as they stay close, they get blessed! You need to check those Judas’s and let them know, «I see you! You got a limited time!» Help me, Holy Ghost! Do you know who I am? Because if you don’t know who I am, you can’t walk with me. But you have to know who you are, so you can’t be waiting for people to define you! Because if you let them define you, then God hasn’t defin- if they don’t define you, and if people define you, they’re going to always keep you here where they can control you!
But when you get the definition of heaven, then only God can speak into you! I need a 10-second praise break, go fast! Thank you!
Point number two: Write this down, Pastor Karti; this is going to bless you. Once you know, you can’t unknow! Hey son, what’s your name? John? What? John? Great! What? Stand up; say it real loud! Baby boy! John! John Greater IV! Are you sure that’s your name? How do you know that’s your name? Because you’re my son, and I call you John. And sometimes I call you IV, and if I’m mad, it’s John Greater IV! Right? But if I discipline you, I discipline you because the Bible says if you are legitimate, you are corrected!
Some of us have gotten whooped by God and thought He hated you. No! If He hated you, He wouldn’t have whooped you at all! Somebody ought to thank God for the whooping you got for the wrong you did, because if He hadn’t whooped you, then that means you’re not a son, you’re not a daughter! But when you’ve got His name, He’s going to make sure you look like Him, walk like Him, talk like Him, function like Him! I need just a little help in this place! He knows his name because I reinforce it every single day! «You are my son.»
If anybody’s got a problem with you, they’re going to have to answer to me! And whatever resources I got, I bring them to the table! I’m trying to help y’all! People better leave you alone 'cause they don’t know who your Daddy is!
Point number three, wait- 'cause once you know, you can’t unknow! That’s point number two! That means stop having amnesia when challenges come! You’ve got all the authority in here during service, and you come out here on Monday. «Oh Lord God,» it’s like, «Shut up! You were just in my presence! Now you’re in the real world?»
And you don’t know how to function, which is why God says the church grew from house to house in the breaking of bread! Y’all not hearing me! What did your pastor preach for two weeks before we had to close the doors? That’s right! Church in the church, outside of the normal construct! Then God said, «And today we’ll have an object lesson, so let the storm come through and shut the doors so you had to have church in the wild because He don’t want you getting safe and familiar in here!»
You better know how to bless Him in your car! You better know how to roar in your shower! You better know how to lift Him up in your living room! You better know how to when you know who you are! You can’t unknow it! Tell somebody, «Show me some ID!» ID! Oh, y’all missed that! See, my ID? This is who I am! I’m established! I’ve got authority! The earth is saying, «Will somebody show me their ID?» Oh my! This is such a good word!
The earth and all of this stuff that’s happening is waiting on you to get in position and say, «Peace, be still!» Stop! That’s over! No, that ends! Alright? «Let’s pay bills! Mortgage completely paid off! No, I don’t have tax debt! God has taken care of that!»
I bind that in the name of Jesus! «No! My kids are saved! Don’t come up to me, Pastor, will you pray for my kids? God says, 'I allowed my Son to die for the veil of the curtain to be ripped from top to bottom! ' Yes, it’s good to get somebody to get in agreement if you’ve got low faith, but even if you’ve got faith of a mustard seed, if you open up your mouth, I’ll back you! And stop asking God to save your kids and thinking that what you sold is going to come back! 'Oh, when they get old, they will not depart from it.' You need to thank God my kids are saved-they’re walking in their purpose; they’re walking in authority; my kids have their right mind! That angel dust they took with that weed is going to come out of their system! They’re going to come back to themselves!
Point number three: Stop making yourself small! I said stop making yourself small! People come to church, don’t even take notes, don’t do nothing, and then wonder why you have no power! You didn’t care enough to get this download! Stop using this like a drug! Church is not a drug! You don’t come here to get high for two hours to go back to your regularly scheduled life! You actually get here to get refueled so that you can have power out there!
It don’t matter if you have power in here! Everybody got power in here! Everybody can shout in here! Everybody can wave in here! But can you wave at that mall? Can you wave on that job? Can you praise in them streets? Stop making yourself small! „Well, you know what I’ve been through!“ I don’t care what you’ve been through! Everybody done been through something! Stop using your background as an excuse! „I didn’t have a father!“ Yes, I know my daddy wasn’t there, but I’m a grown man now, and my son needs me! So step up to the plate! Get in prayer! Humble yourself! Do something new! Get some counseling, get some therapy, and grow the heck up!
Uh-oh, I felt it right there! I bind the spirit of excuses! „I’m just depressed!“ No, you ain’t depressed! You just waiting on somebody to feel sorry for your behind! Nobody’s feeling sorry for you! We all going through hell in here! We all waiting on a direct deposit! We all got bills we have to pay! We all be crying at night! We all feel like cussing somebody out! But we have the Holy Ghost!
Yes, sir, I need somebody other than him to tear this whole place up! Did you hear what I said? Look at five people! Tell them, „No more excuses!“ No more excuses! Don’t you come up here after church, after everything I said, and say, „I really appreciate what you said, Pastor!“ Could you pray for? No! I’m not praying for you! I love you; I love you enough to tell you God hears you like He hears me! I have no special connection to God! I know these fake false prophets want you to think they’re the only ones that can get to God! But when Jesus died, God says, „I want to hear from my children
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Uh -oh! This is going to mess somebody up! God just told me to cancel witchcraft assignments! You have no authority over the people of God! Every cursed word I cancel and reverse in the name of Jesus! I send your lie and your witchcraft spell back to you in the name of Jesus! And what you wished on the people of God may it overtake you in your house! I need somebody to go up, up, up, up! And if you have been bewitched by a witch, may God bring you back to your right mind right now! Get that witch out of your phone! Get that witch out of your circle! Get that warlock off your timeline! I need some help in the balcony! I need some help at home! I bind that witchcraft demon! That diving spirit! I bind it in the name of Jesus!
Holy Ghost, sweep through this place power! Pastor AV is moving! She’s moving! The women of God are moving! Elders need to be moving with her wherever the female elders move! Don’t stop, get it, get it! Don’t stop, get it, get it!
I need you to know who you are! Open your mouth! God says I’m waiting on you! I see three people in the first fifth row up in the balcony, the one in the middle, she’s scratching her right ear, the one on the other side got brown ATT, T-yeah, I saw you! Get that wax out of there! But the three of y’all need to start praying because God just decided He’s going to give y’all seven-seven levels of favor-oh Lord! Seven times blessing-not just double, not triple, not quadruple, not quintuple, not sextuple, but septuple! Seven levels of favor coming over your life right now in the name of Jesus, and anybody in your area that believes God with you is going to hit them too!
I need somebody over here to hear me by the Spirit of God! God told you to sow and you didn’t move! God says this is your other chance to do what I told you! God says if you’re faithful to do and give what I told you to give, I’m going to bring it back, and I’m going to pay off that bill that you can’t pay! Now I know I heard God; that’s for the person that was like, «I’m not sure if I’m-» I don’t-you better do what He said! I said we’re binding witchcraft assignments in here!
Uh -oh! The Lord said three generations of deep-rooted addiction has just been taken off your life! Your grandmother was an alcoholic, your mama was an alcoholic, and you’ve been struggling! God says, «I just took that off of you!» Somebody needs to thank God! Three levels of three-generation addiction has just been lifted off your life!
Who’s the young lady in here that’s been battling with depression and you said, «God, if you don’t speak, I’mma end my life»? Where are you? Wave your hand! Watch this-God just lifted that depression off your life! Off your shoulders! God says, «I’m sending the flood, a flood of blessing, an overflow of favor!»
I wish I had some help over there to thank God for what-you keep praying for me, Pastor Mike! Something just shifted in here! I don’t know who this is for! Stop making yourself small! God called you to move! God called you to be greater! God called you to be big! God called you to walk in authority! God said stop whispering and start shouting! Stop sitting there wondering and start declaring! God said when you get home, declare everything in this house is debt-free! Everything in this house is coming under the subjection of the Holy Ghost! Depression can’t stay here! Debt can’t stay here! Fear can’t stay here! Shame can’t stay here! Doubt can’t stay here! Fear can’t stay here!
Are you praying for me? I need you to, Pastor James! Something just shifted for this area right here in the people online! God says, «Hear Me! God says there’s a sound that I’m requiring of the saints in this area right here!» He said there’s a sound; it is a sound of desperation and a sound of faith! That means it’s not — a sound that elevates and says, «God, I know who you are!» It needs to come from right in there! It is! And as you start shouting unashamedly, it’s going to go and hit the whole house! I said there’s a sound that is supposed to rise up in here!
Chris, what’s your baby’s name? Huh? Mason? Ain’t that funny? Because you have to be a mason in order to lay foundations! A mason is someone who is a master of bricks! And I literally saw God put a small little cloak on his shoulders! That’s why I ask what his name is! He’s anointed to build the Lord’s church! Church! And upon this rock, I’ll build my church! Build my church! Mason is going to help build what will be the foundation for the second coming of the Lord Jesus Christ!
That’s why you didn’t know he was coming! His wife had the baby and didn’t know she-she went into labor and didn’t even know she was pregnant! Because the baby was in her side! I need you to know you’re about to give birth to something that was hidden! And God hid it so the enemy wouldn’t kill it! I need somebody to praise God in here! It’s time they knew! Stop hiding in the shadows! Stop making yourself small!
They can’t know if you don’t know! And once you know who you are, you can’t unknow it! Walk in your identity! Walk in your purpose! Walk in your destiny! Take your hands out your pockets and lift your hands in the air!
Number three: Stop making yourself small! You’re sitting around people that want you to be less than who God made you-get rid of them people! Watch this! This is going to mess you up! Number four: Get comfortable with your calling! Some like, «No, it couldn’t be me! Not me, Lord!» The Lord has said, «I-» If I–I don’t say it again, you need to get comfortable with your calling! I need you to look at somebody like you shocked and be like, «It is you!» No, you didn’t have enough shock on your face! Turn around to somebody else 'cause you playing in my face!
Oh my God! It is you! I be at the gas station, people be like, «Are you who I think you are?» I say, «Who you think I am?» I’m me! But who do you? «Aren’t you that preacher?» Yeah. Where’s all your security? I ain’t got no security! They got angels, so play with me if you want to! It’s an angel right on this roof! Tear this whole gas station straight down to the ground 'cause I ain’t dying for nobody! Let a bullet come; He’ll stop that bullet with His wing!
You don’t know who you’re messing with! When you’re comfortable in your calling, you have humility, you have grace, you have kindness for other people! When you really know who you are, you don’t walk in pride; you walk in humility! If you want to know somebody who don’t know who they are, look at the people that got 75 armor bearers! All this security! Don’t nobody trying to kill you! You don’t even preach good enough to offend no demons! Don’t nobody want you! You’re doing that 'cause you want people to think you’re something!
Ain’t it funny that you need security, but Jesus just had 12 dudes-regular dudes! And couldn’t none of them really fight? Peter was! Now th-Peter was crazy! I love Peter! You need one Peter, just one person that’ll cut an ear off-just one person that’ll cuss you out!
But Jesus, while they were trying to kill Him, He just slipped through the crowd! You better read your Bible: He was comfortable with His calling! When you’re comfortable, you don’t apologize for the anointing you carry! When you’re comfortable in your calling, you don’t apologize for what God asked you to say! Listen! If you have a prophetic anointing, you have the anointing to offend! Prophets are here to offend you so that you can repent!
I don’t want no sweet prophet telling me I’m going to get another house! I don’t need another house! I need deliverance!
I’ll get comfortable with your calling! Put your calling on and walk around! Get familiar with it! Number five, and I’m closing-stand up! Number five: Get familiar with your favor! 40% increase coming to your house, Sarah! 40%! 40%! Yep-40% increase coming to your house! I said 40%! You were sitting there serving in Asheville and didn’t know that God said that was the last piece! You were serving and sewing to people that couldn’t respond. God says unlock 40% increase!
So, I don’t know what your household is, but just go ahead and thank Him 'cause 40 more, 40% more is coming! And watch this, God says, and that’s only the beginning! Somebody tell somebody, «Your favor looks good on you!» It really looks good on you!
Here’s what’s funny because they have favor and you have favor-you don’t need to covet their favor because their favor fits their assignment! So, I’m not lusting after your favor; I have my own! You need to get familiar with your favor! That means you need to know how that favor operates, and you need to operate with wisdom in that favor! That means you need to know what to say when you walk into the bank! Ask the Holy Spirit, «Tell me who to talk to in this building! Tell me where to go! What to do? God, give me wisdom and strategy on how I’m to navigate this!» Because I am a son of God; I’m a daughter of God! And the earth is waiting on me to get in position so I can do what I was created to do!
Are you ready, Love Story Church? I said, are you ready? On your mark, get set, worship! It’s alright! Pastor, have you keep worshiping! While y’all looking at her, don’t do that Baptist Church thing; she alright, she ain’t going nowhere! She’s just worshiping! Matter of fact, worship with her! Let it become like a worship bomb-like a worship bomb just went off in here! I know the service is long, but you know what? We didn’t have one last week together, and we’re getting ready to go up this hill, and we’re going to bless people! And you are one of the people that’s going to be blessed! You need to come up to this campus! If you need groceries, diapers, wipes, water, canned goods, and some hot food, put your wallet away, but lift your hands up and thank God that because of the goodness of Love Story Church and the goodness of God over Love Story Church, you can go up the hill and do what the Bible says: come by milk, by bread, without price!
About now, the 18-wheeler is finished unpacking! Go up there and get some water! Some of y’all ain’t got no water! Go get you some water! You’ve been drinking out the sink? Go get you some bottled water! Act fancy! Put it in the refrigerator; put it in the ice, and just sit back! Thank God for your water! The loss of electricity was a chapter; this is the story-the provision of God! God, seal this Word in the name of Jesus! I declare that the people of God lack nothing! I said the people of God lack nothing! God, I want to thank You for volunteers on these cameras-all of these wonderful beautiful camera operators! All of the-hey, Stacy! Stacy done came back! He done had back surgery and almost lost his life, but he’s back on the soundboard! We love you, Stacy! He had heart surgery as well, but he had spine too! Stacy had a lot going on-devil been trying to kill you for a long time! You know why? Because you’re in charge of making sure the sound of the house-y’all don’t hear me!
The enemy will try to take you out because of your position! Some of you are like, «Why does the devil keep messing with me?» Because he knows who you are, and apparently, you don’t! But when you know who you are, you expect attack! But because you expect attack, the Holy Ghost has already given you strategy to neutralize the attack of the enemy! Do you know who you are? Because I know who I am! I am a son of God, and I take my rightful position! Another storm is coming this week-it starts tonight!
Love Story, get in position! We serve this region! We serve Asheville, Western North Carolina, Upstate, and Greenville! We’re going to keep serving! We serve when there are no cameras! We’ve been serving when there were no cameras!
Father, in the name of Jesus, seal this word and get the glory! In Jesus' name, amen! Somebody in here wants to join this church or you need to get saved! Listen to me real clear! Come to this altar! You only got 18 seconds! Nobody’s playing with you! You know the Lord has called you to be a part of this house! He called you to become co-laborers! This is now time for those who the Lord is saying come and be a part of this Love Story family! If that’s you, join me at the altar!