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The livestream, hosted by Pastor Hope Carpenter and featuring multiple speakers, is a one‑night online women’s service that blends worship, personal testimonies, promotional announcements, and biblical teaching. Brooks Armour shares a two‑year‑old testimony about the Come Higher retreat, emphasizing deeper intimacy with God, community, and breakthrough. Kanan Wright testifies to the life‑changing impact of Hope’s Inner Circle mentorship, urging listeners to invest fully in the program. The service includes high‑energy worship chants, prophetic declarations, and a collective call for breakthrough, followed by a detailed exposition of Ephesians 1‑2 that outlines the believer’s identity (chosen, predestinated, sealed), inheritance, and the power that raised Christ, using vivid metaphors of prison, dynamite, and "Now unto Him" to illustrate activating the inner divine power. Hope and Ron Carpenter invite viewers to sign up for upcoming retreats, join Inner Circle, give financially (highlighting a mission trip to Colima, Mexico), and respond to an altar call for salvation. The closing encouragement reinforces living from victory—freedom, being the head not the tail, abundance, and walking in God’s promises—aiming to inspire spiritual growth, community engagement, and financial partnership. The tone is enthusiastic, persuasive, and worshipful, aiming to inspire spiritual growth, community engagement, and financial partnership.
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Hi, I'm Brooks Armour, and I attended Come Higher at Lake Tahoe about 2 years ago. So Come Higher as a retreat is more than just about you going, and, you know, it's great to get closer with God. That's the number one reason that we go, but relationships were built. We had fun. We were able to help each other in ways that we didn't even realize we needed to be helped. You know, it takes you out of your comfort zone and things that you know to a different space and experiencing something you may never have experienced before. When I got to retreat, it was nothing like I thought it would be. I thought, okay, well, we're gonna have some kumbaya quiet time with the Lord because I'm a prayer anyway. So I thought that it would be somewhere along those lines, but I was surprised at what God had in store for me, of course, because we think we know what God has for us, but we don't. At that time, it drove me into a deeper intimate relationship with God that I thought didn't exist. I thought that, you know, well, me and God are on this level, but he always had more for us. And going to this retreat took me spiritually on a different level forever. My life has changed. Mostly what I enjoyed was the intimacy of the safe place of the women there. We were able to develop relationships. It gave us a space to be vulnerable with each other and really, like, pour into each other. You know, the enemy tried to make you think that you're the only one dealing with certain things, but being in that room with those ladies and under Pastor Hope, when she prophesied and prayed and taught us the Word, it brought light to situations that, no, you're not the only one dealing with this. You know, it exposed things that needed to be exposed. Was it tough?
Yes.
Was it uncomfortable? Of course. But it was liberating and it was freeing. It's amazing to still see the miracles that we believed in while we were in that room. It's so awesome 2 years later seeing God work it out in real time. Ladies, for your spiritual health, this is essential for you to go. God is always calling all of us, no matter who you are, to a higher level. He calls us from glory to glory. You're never supposed to stay stagnant in where you are with God. You will never arrive to a place called there, like Pastor Ron says, but you have to make sure that you are listening for God to take you to a different place. And this retreat is essential for your spiritual health. It will help you physically, Physically, also, and emotionally, as a whole being, it is essential for you to sign up. You got this.
Welcome to Hope Nights Online. We are so glad you've joined us for this one-night-only service. But before we jump into service, let us know where you're watching from. Drop your city or location in the chat. We love seeing our Redemption Online family gathering from all over. And while you're in the chat, Do you know someone who could use a little encouragement, a little hope, a simple reminder that they're not alone and that God has more for them? Send them an invite and share this service with someone you know. You never know how one invitation could impact someone's life tonight. Ladies, this one is especially for you. Pastor Hope is inviting you to Come Higher. It's a retreat created to help you break free, Go deeper and soar into the fullness of everything God has for you. Every retreat is unique and every experience is designed to create space for God to move in your life in a very powerful way. There are limited spots available for 2026 and 2027, so don't wait. Save your spot today by clicking the link in the chat and registering. This is an opportunity every woman should prayerfully consider saying yes to. The Lord is calling you higher. Will you answer the call? Are you part of Pastor Hope's Inner Circle mentorship? If not, this could be the moment for you to take that next step. Inner Circle is designed to help create pivotal momentum in your life through weekly motivation, monthly live coaching, and powerful resources to encourage you along your journey. Make the decision today today to stop settling and step into the circle. And when you sign up today, you'll receive a free 30-day trial along with a free copy of Pastor Hope's book, If You Don't Fight, You Don't Win. But don't just take our word for it. Check out this powerful testimony from one of our Inner Circle mentees, Kanan Wright.
Hi, I'm Kanan. So, Inner Circle is an online amazing community that's led by Pastor Hope. where it's just really one-on-one time with her. And I say one-on-one time because I know it's a big community, but you feel like it's just one-on-one in the way that she cares and the way that she delivers things and challenges you. My initial experience, I think I joined out of just support for Pastor Hope. It was kind of like, okay, my leader's starting this new amazing thing, so I'm going to join and I'm going to support her. I quickly realized when I joined that first meeting that this wasn't just going to be something that I support, but it was going to be life-changing for me. I remember sitting there and just crying and weeping because I felt like everything she was saying was like she had been spending the week with me. Inner Circle's changed my life, I think, mostly by making me realize how intentional I need to be with my relationship with God, that it is important to go all in. It's important to go deeper. I think it's changed my relationship and my walk with God in general, and just how I view Him and how I think my spiritual walk needs to be. So my favorite experience with Inner Circle has to be when she talked about goals, the importance of goals, how important it is to have achievable goals and Everyday life, every aspect of your life, being a mom, being a wife, your health and fitness, your mental health. And it's just been really cool because it's changed how I viewed goals. Basically, my whole life is these big extravagant things, and now I use them in everyday life, in every aspect. Inner Circle for me, as silly as it might sound to some, is definitely a self-care kind of thing. To somebody who's on the fence, I would say just do it. Don't overthink it, just do it. But if you're gonna do it, Go all in. Attend the webinars, do the homework, read back the notes, watch back the webinars when you need to. I feel like we spend so much time in our daily lives, even unintentionally, just feeding our flesh, right? I go get coffee, or we have TV subscriptions, and we have radio subscriptions, and we do all these things, gym memberships, we get our nails done. But then for some reason, a lot of times when it comes to things to invest in yourself in spiritual ways and in mentorship, it's like, oh well, I don't have the money. or I don't have the time. I can't put something else on my plate. But the truth is, we make time. We find money for the things that are important to us. So, I would say, if you're on the fence, do it. Go all in. There's nothing better to spend your time and money on than something that's pouring into you, and investing in you, and is impacting your soul. It's absolutely life-changing. So, I would say, just do it. Get off the fence and stop thinking about it.
Wow, what an incredible testimony. Now, it's time to jump into service. We want to invite you I invite you to worship with us. Open your heart and come into agreement with what the Lord wants to do tonight. Get ready, lean in, and let's go!
Maybe you've been wondering, is this all there is? Maybe life hasn't turned out the way you imagined or planned. Maybe you've walked through disappointment, delay, heartbreak, or you're standing in front of a door that has never opened.
Amen.
But what if I told you God has already written your story and it's good? You just haven't gotten to that part yet. There are dreams you haven't dreamt yet, purpose you haven't discovered, promises you haven't seen fulfilled, and doors you haven't walked through yet. Ephesians 3:20 says that God is able to do exceedingly abundantly above all that we could ever ask or think according to his power at work within us. So no matter where you find yourself today. Don't settle with right now. Believe in the promises of God. Don't allow what you see right now to determine what you believe is possible. Your greatest days do not have to be behind you. God is for you. God's plans are yes and amen. But God is calling you higher. There is more purpose, more freedom, more healing, more impact, and more of his presence. You haven't seen everything God has planned for you. If you're not dead, then God's not done. Come expecting, come believing, because with God there is more.
The best is yet to come.
You haven't seen your best day yet. You haven't seen your best day yet. You haven't seen your best day yet.
The best is yet to come.
Our land will be greater. Our land will be greater. Our land will be greater. All that will be greater. All that will be greater. All that will be greater. All that will be greater.
The best is yet to be.
Hey!
Abundantly.
Come on, ladies! Abundantly.
Declare it out! We ask for exceedingly, exceedingly, abundantly, abundantly, above all, above all.
We ask for, we ask for, Exceedingly, abundantly, above all.
We ask for it, exceedingly, abundantly, above all.
We ask for it.
Welcome to Hope Nights, ladies! Come on and join us down at the front to worship. Is anybody expecting for a move of God in this place?
Shout out, ready!
Hey, come on and clap those hands in this place.
Yes, I give you glory for what you brought me through.
Hey!
And now I'm ready for whatever you wanna do.
Hey!
'Cause I'm moving forward to follow And now I'm ready for whatever you want to do.
Can you just say that to him, God?
Say yes, I'm ready for whatever you want to do.
Come on, let's make it real big. Say your presence, your presence is an open door. We want you, Lord.
We want you, Lord.
I never, never God, your presence is an open door. So come now, Lord, like never before. God, we're here for you tonight.
Every season, your grace has been enough.
Can I be The best is yet to come. The cross before me, my hope is hope on things above. Get into you, Jesus. The best, the best is yet to come. Come on, let your faith rise. Your presence is an open door. We want you, Lord. Like never, like never before. God, we're here for you. We're here for you. Your presence is an open door. Come now, Lord. Come now, Lord.
Like never, like never before.
Come on, are you ready tonight?
Exceedingly, abundantly above all that I could ever conceive. Abundantly above all that we ask or think.
I know breakthrough is coming. By faith I see a miracle. My God gave me a promise and it won't stop now. Yeah, I know, I know breakthrough is coming. By faith I see a miracle.
My God made me a promise and it won't stop now.
Say yeah!
Yeah! Say I know! I know!
Breakthrough is coming! By faith, I see a miracle. My God made me a promise and it won't stop now. Say yeah!
Yeah! I know! I know!
Breakthrough is coming! By faith, I see a miracle. Made me a promise and it won't stop now. Come on, do you believe He's the God of the breakthrough in this place? Somebody just needs to put a praise on Him tonight. Come on and praise Him in advance. Praise Him in advance. By faith, we're gonna declare. Say, I know.
I know.
Breakthrough is coming.
By faith, I see a miracle.
My God.
My God. You made me a promise that it won't stop now. Yeah, yeah.
I know.
I know.
Breakthrough is coming. By faith, I see a miracle.
My God made me a promise that it won't stop now.
Come on, lift your voice.
Say, I know.
Say, I know. Come on, that's beautiful. Let your faith rise.
Say, I know.
Hey! Hey!
My faith.
My faith.
My God.
My God.
My God. He is able.
Overcome.
Overcome.
Say, I know a breakthrough.
I know breakthrough is coming. I know breakthrough is coming. My faith, I see a miracle. My God gave me a promise and it won't stop now.
Say, yeah!
Yeah! I know breakthrough is coming. My faith, I see a miracle. My God gave me a promise and it won't stop now. I know breakthrough is coming.
By faith, I see a miracle.
My God made me a promise.
Come on, if you believe it, sing it with everything.
Declare it in the atmosphere.
Say, "Breakthrough!" Hey, I feel faith in the room.
He's a promise keeper.
I know, I know, I know.
My God.
Let it be an anthem in your soul tonight. Say, I know. So right now in the room, I just want you to believe. And declare what your breakthrough is tonight. Go ahead and set it out before you. What are you attaching your faith to? What are you attaching a breakthrough to? Get it in your mind, get it in your mind, get it in your spirit, and begin to speak it out in this place. We don't want to keep moving on. We want to address what we're believing for tonight. What we came for tonight. We're not leaving the same way we came in. We're not going to walk out like we came in.
A breakthrough is here.
A breakthrough is here. A breakthrough is here. A breakthrough is here. Your breakthrough is here. Your breakthrough is here.
Your breakthrough is here. Your breakthrough is here.
'Cause your presence is an open door, and we want you, Lord, like never before.
Yes!
Say, your presence is an open door, so come now, oh. Like never before.
Come on, all over the room, can you just begin to love on him in this place? Come on, as ladies, we're carriers. We carry everything. God's graced us. He's birthed us to give babies. We carry anxiety. We carry depression. We carry fear. We carry the weight of the world. But if you look around, this is a safe place tonight. This is a room full of women who've come to worship and be in the presence of God. So I just encourage you to lay everything you've carried in down at the feet of Jesus and know that the one who you're here to exalt, to seek, to love on, to worship, and be ministered to is right here in our midst. Can you just lift those hands up and just tell them, God, you are more than We lay aside every weight.
We lay aside every weight. We focus on you. When did I start to forget?
Yeah, yeah, yeah.
All of the great things you did. When did I throw away faith for the impossible? And how did I start to believe that you weren't sufficient for me? Why do I talk myself out of seeing miracles? Because I know you are more than able. Who knows that in the room tonight? You are more than able. I've seen it time after time that you are more than able. My Jesus, you are. You are more than able. Who am I to deny what the Lord can do? 'Cause it's easy for you. And now I see all that I have. Oh, I've got my confidence back. Hey, I put my trust in the one who still does miracles.
You do miracles.
You are more. You are more than this.
My Jesus, you are. I know you are more than able. More than able. I've said it over and over.
You are.
You are more than able. You are more than able.
You are more than able.
You are more than able.
Say who am I?
Let's sing this right here.
Can you imagine with all of this faith in the room what the Lord can do?
What the Lord can do?
And it's gonna happen.
Just let the waymaker through.
He's gonna move.
He's gonna move. He's gonna move. Can you?
Can you imagine?
Yeah.
What the Lord, what the Lord can do, it's gonna happen. Just like the way he made it through. He's gonna move. He's gonna move. Carry you and I. Take you and I. With all of the things in the room, what the Lord can do, oh, what he can do. It's gonna happen. Just like the way he made it through.
He's gonna move. Anything is possible.
Anything is possible.
Anything is possible.
I know anything is possible.
Anything is possible.
Who am I?
Who am I to deny what the Lord— Come on, lift your faith.
Anything is possible. I know, I know that anything is possible.
Anything is possible. I believe.
Anything is possible.
Who am I to deny what the Lord?
Anything is possible.
I know, I know, I know, I know it. Anything is possible.
I know, I know, I know that anything is possible with you, Jesus. So who am I to deny what the Lord?
Who am I to say?
Who am I to deny?
What the Lord can do. Who am I to deny what the Lord can do?
You are more than able.
Woo-hoo!
You are more than able.
I know.
I know you are, Jesus. You are more than able. Sing it from your heart tonight if you know it. You are more than able. Who am I to deny what the Lord can do?
They know it, you don't know it. I'm not supposed to be up here right now. I'm supposed to be up here a little bit later, but I was sitting over there And I thought, we're sitting here saying, with all this faith and expectancy in the room—
Yes!
Who, who can fathom what the Lord wants to do in you, through you, for you tonight?
And I—
and, and us not give him room to do it.
That's right.
There are people in here, there are women in here who are so desiring to have a baby. You've been struggling. One negative pregnancy test after a negative pregnancy test after a miscarriage after Who are we to tell him that's too impossible?
He created our bodies to birth children.
He's more than able. He's more than able. There are women in here tonight whose marriage you're just wondering, should I just throw in the towel? Should I just file? It's been so long. It's been so many years. Who are we to say when it's the Lord's time? To meet your husband with kindness and love.
Who are we?
We put these timetables and these limits on God. It doesn't matter what the doctor's report says.
What is cancer? What is cancer? It's just a name, and it has to bow to the name of Jesus. What is diabetes tonight? It's just a name, and it has to bow to the name of Jesus tonight. Who can imagine what the Lord wants to do tonight? Come on, you got to get it in your mind. You got to think bigger. You got to get your faith up tonight. You got to think bigger. Nothing is too difficult for him tonight. If you're believing God for something big, I need you to come down here as an act, a declaration. That's me, God. I'm believing you tonight.
Come on down.
Whether it's a baby, a marriage, a health report, a financial Situation. You're believing God for a new job, for a new house, a healing in your body. Come on! He's more than able.
Can you imagine? Can you imagine?
Can you imagine what He wants to do today?
If you'll just make room. If you'll just make room.
Stop down.
What the Lord can do, what the Lord can do. If it's gonna happen, it's gonna happen. Just let the way, let the way. He's gonna move, he's gonna move, he's gonna move. Anything is possible, anything is possible. We praise the God, we prophesy anything is possible.
It's who am I, who am I to desire what the Lord Anything is possible.
Anything is possible. Oh, we agree. We agree that anything is possible. Y'all better get excited. We agree that anything is possible. The world will be wise to deny what the Lord has done. Anything is possible.
Anything is possible.
Anything is possible.
Anything is possible.
Anything is possible. Who am I? Who am I to deny what the Lord say? Who am I? Who am I to deny what the Lord?
Who am I?
Who am I to deny what the Lord can do?
It's it's easy for.
It's easy for you.
It's easy for you.
It's easy for you. It's easy for you.
It's easy for you.
It's easy for you.
It's easy for you.
Yeah, it's not hard. Easy for you, Jesus.
Why is it not hard?
Because that's what he does. That's who he is. He's the waymaker. He's the miracle worker. He's the promise keeper.
It's not hard for God. It's hard for me, but it's not hard for God.
That's why he tells us to cast our care on Get it off your back. Get it off your back and give it to God tonight.
Give it to God tonight.
Come on, I need you just to imagine tonight your situation changing. I need you to imagine it. I need you to imagine yourself whole. I need you to imagine yourself healed. I need you to imagine yourself happy and free and not bound and holding that baby.
Come on, just get your faith up tonight.
Imagine it. Because he said he could do exceedingly abundantly above all that you could ask or imagine. If you can imagine it, he can go beyond it. Come on, you got to get your mind right. I need you to look at your neighbor and say, you get— you got to get your mind right. Tonight, come on! Shift your mind.
Shift your mind. Lord, I don't.
Shift your mind tonight.
Yes, you're not done with me.
Yeah, you're not done with me. Yeah, you're not done with me. There's so much more to the song. Lord, you're not done.
You're not done with me. Yes, you're not done with me.
There's so.
You're not done with me.
There's so much more to the story. You're not done with me yet. You're not done with me yet.
One more time, one more time.
You're not done with me yet. Come on, get that in your spirit tonight. You're not done with me yet.
There's so much more.
There's so much more to the story. Who am I? Who am I to deny what the Lord?
Who am I?
Who am I to deny what the Lord?
Who am I? Who am I to deny what the Lord can do? Somebody shout in the room!
Somebody shout in the Lord! You've got to praise, you've got to praise.
He's worthy.
Jesus, Jesus, Jesus, Jesus, Jesus.
Jesus, Jesus.
Somebody's getting it right now.
Somebody just saw themselves different right now.
Hey! Oh!
Oh, Jesus, Jesus, Jesus, Jesus.
Waymaker, waymaker, that's who you are. And waymaker, yes, he is waymaker.
Waymaker, that's who you are right now, and I believe. Waymaker, we believe.
Waymaker, yes, he is.
We believe.
Waymaker.
That's who you are.
So then listen to the sound of power on my lips. Jesus has broken the curse.
Yes, he has.
He has never lost a battle.
We say.
Who are you, great mountain, that you should not bow low? Jesus defeated the darkness. He has never lost a battle. Sing, we're listening. We're listening to the sound of power on my lips. Jesus has broken He has never lost a battle. Who are you, great mountain? You should not bow low. Jesus defeated the darkness. He has never lost a battle. Who are you, great mountain? You should not bow low. Jesus defeated the darkness. He has never lost a battle.
And he never will, he never will, he never will say. And he never will, he never will say. I know my God will be faithful.
And he never will. He never will. He never will. He never will.
He never will. He never will.
Say, our great defender. Hey, our strong tower.
I know that he's never lost a battle.
Do you know that tonight? That he's never lost a battle. Say, our great defender. Our great defender.
Our strong tower.
Our strong tower.
He's never lost a battle. He's never lost a battle. No, he's never lost a battle.
Never lost a battle.
Sing, our great defender.
Our great defender. Our strong tower.
Our strong tower. You've never lost a battle.
You've never lost a battle.
He's never lost a battle. All over the room, one more time, sing. Our great defender, our strong tower.
He's never lost, he's never lost a battle.
He's never lost, he's never lost. So we'll listen to the sound. I will rock my hill. Jesus broken earth. He has never lost.
Who are you?
Who are you great? Who are you great?
Who are you great? Say, who are you great now?
Who are you great?
Who are you great? Who are you great? Say, who are you great? Who are you great? Who are you great?
Who are you great? Mountain of depression, you have to go.
Who are you great?
Mountain of anxiety, you have to go.
Who are you great?
Mountain of cancer and sickness, you have to go.
Who are you great?
Mountain of a failed marriage, you have to go.
Who are you great?
Say, who are you great?
Who are you great? Who are you great?
Who are you great?
Who are you great?
Who are you great? You should not bow. You should not bow. Jesus defeated.
Jesus defeated the darkness.
Yeah, he has never lost a battle, and he never will.
Will, and he never will.
Never will.
Sing it tonight. He never will.
And he never will.
Never will.
Because we know our God to be faithful.
And he never will. Never will.
Lord, I know you to be faithful.
Yeah, yeah, yeah. And he never will.
See, I know you to be faithful.
And he never will. He never will.
He never will. He never He never will.
He never will.
He never will.
He never will. He never will.
He never will. He never will.
He never will. Hallelujah!
Who's thankful in the room tonight that there's a new thing coming? It's a brand new day. There's more. Like Pastor Hope has already said, he is able to do exceedingly abundantly above all that we can ask, think, or imagine. This is just the beginning. I prophesy tonight, this is just the beginning. We ain't seen anything yet.
Hallelujah.
Ready for the new thing. Ready for the new thing. So let him turn it in your favor and watch him work it for your good. He's not done with what he started. He's not done until it's good. And let him work it in your favor. And watch him turn it for your good.
Amen.
Amen.
'Cause he is not done with what he started. He's not done until it's good. So have no peace, have no joy, have no love, have no strength, have no hope.
It's a new day. It's a new horizon.
Hello, peace.
Hello, joy. Hello, love.
Hello, strength.
Hello, hope. It's a new horizon.
If you're ready for breakthrough, you can load Open up and just receive. 'Cause what he's pouring out is nothing you've ever seen, you've ever seen. So hello, peace. Hello, joy.
Hello, love.
Hello, strength. Hello, hope. It's a new horizon. Hello, peace. Hello, joy.
Hello, love.
Hello, strength. Hello, hope. It's a new horizon.
It's a new horizon. It's a new horizon.
I'm walking in the better. I'm walking in the better. The old is left and gone. The old is left and gone. It's a new horizon.
Sickness is not my future, you are.
Come on, you know it, sing it out.
Sickness is not my story, you are, you are. See, heartbreak's not my home, you are, you are, Jesus. Death is not the end, you are, you are.
Fear is not my home. Fear is not my home. You are, you are, you are, you are. Sickness is not my storm. You are, you are, you are. Heart breaks not my hope.
Heart breaks not my hope.
Jesus, you are, you are, you are. Oh, death is not the end.
You are, you are.
Say hello, peace.
Hello. Hello, love. Hello, strength.
Hello, hope.
It's a new horizon.
Can't you see the sun coming up?
Hello, peace. Hello, joy. Hello, love. Hello, hello, hello, hello, hello. Hope, it's a new horizon. You say fear is not my—
fear is not my— sing it out. You are, you are, you are. You are Jesus. Sickness is not my storm. You are. You are.
Heartbreak's not my hope.
Jesus, you are. You are. Death is not the end.
Death is not the end.
You are. Come on, one more time.
Lift it up.
Fear is not my fear.
Is not my fear.
You are. You are.
You are. You are. Death is not my soul.
You are, you are, and our heart breaks not. You are, you are, you are, you are.
Death is not the end. You are, you are, you are. Death is not the end. You are, you are.
Death is not the end.
We let you.
You are.
Death is not the end.
You are.
I live to live again. I live to live again.
Death is not the end. You are. You are. Hallelujah!
Somebody shout in the room right now. Wake up, wake up, wake up.
Wake up, wake up, wake up.
Wake up, wake up, wake up. Wake up, wake up, wake up. It's a new day.
Wake up, wake up, wake up. Wake up, wake up, wake up.
Your body said wake up.
Wake up, wake up, wake up.
Time to wake up.
Wake up, wake up, wake up. It's the morning of a new day. Wake up, wake up, wake up. Wake up, wake up. Wake up, wake up, wake up, wake up. Wake up, wake up, wake up. We wake up at it. Wake up, wake up, wake up. Wake up, wake up, wake up.
Have all peace, have all joy, have all love.
Won't you just start waving at it?
Have all strength, have all faith.
Have all peace, have all joy, have all love, have all strength, have all hope. It's a new horizon.
Now why don't you wave goodbye to all that hell, all that trauma, all that disease, All that anxiety, all that frustration, all those money problems, boy bye. Just look at your neighbor and say, boy bye.
Boy bye.
Woo!
Woo!
My spirit is so excited tonight. I just prophesy tonight that you will not leave here like you came, in Jesus' name. We used to sing this old song in church: You won't leave here like you came, in Jesus' name.
Bound, oppressed, tormented, sick, or lame, for the Holy Ghost The Holy Ghost of Acts is still the same, and you won't leave here like you came, in Jesus' name.
Whoo!
He hadn't changed. He hasn't changed. God hasn't moved. He's still on the throne.
He's still on the throne. And I can't move forward in crowd this size without wondering if there's somebody in here who just doesn't know Jesus, who doesn't know the one who did all this for us, for them, for you. You say, I went to church when I was little. My grandma drug me to church, but you know, my life just went a different route. That's okay. All of us has at some time or another.
Right?
None of us are perfect. That's why Jesus had to come. But you— if you are in here tonight and you say, you know, my life's been a mess and I think I might need to get a different perspective and give Jesus a try tonight. If that's you in here, would you just raise your hand? I'm not going to make you do anything. Just raise your hand so we can see you.
Amen.
Yes!
Hey! Woo!
Listen, would you just keep your hand up? And I want somebody to come to you. We're not going to make you come here. We're going to come to you. I want somebody to come to you and just grab you and just love on you and just welcome you into the family tonight. I'm gonna burst your bubble, okay?
Are you ready?
I'm gonna burst your bubble. None of us are perfect. I'm gonna do it again. I'm gonna burst your bubble. We might let you down. But you know, that's why Jesus had to come, is because we couldn't do it. ourselves. We needed a Savior. We needed somebody to go to. We needed a rock that was higher than us. We needed somebody to cast our care on and go to in prayer. We needed that. Church has never been for the perfect people.
Amen.
Ever. It's been for those who need Jesus.
Amen.
We're all on the same journey, but we all have different stories. We all have different stories. We all have different heartaches and traumas and experiences and people. And I've learned in the last 8 years that being from a different part of the nation, even, you experience different things. So we're not here to judge We're here to encourage you. We're here to love you and just lock arms with you and say, come on, let's get on this journey together.
When I'm up, you're down, I'll pick you up, right? When I'm down and you're up, come get me.
So say this prayer. Just say this prayer in your heart. Let's all say it together. Dear Lord Jesus, Dear Lord Jesus, I'm a sinner. I'm a sinner. I'm a hot mess.
I'm a hot mess.
I need you to rescue me. I thank you for the blood you spilled to cover all my sin. I accept that free gift tonight of salvation. I ask you to help me. Help me to be more like you. Help me to just carve away my flesh and to love you with all my heart and my neighbor In Jesus' name, amen.
Woo!
Come on!
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Hey friends, I just want to speak to you for a moment. I am Ron. I'm Hope's husband, and she asked me if I would just come for a moment and speak to you about this opportunity to give. Stay here with me a moment because I do want to tell you there's something about a conference anointing that is special to give into. You know, week by week, month by month, year by year, we bring our tithe and our offering to the Lord. And I'm not saying there's nothing exciting about that. The blessings on my life that God has opened up to me by being a tither are unfathomable. I can't even count them all. But there are many breakthroughs that I had from seed that was sown in conference atmospheres where God was doing something special in the room. God was doing something special in me and Hope, and there was something special planned for us that we were to walk into. And sometimes it was that seed that we would sow that would unlock that. I can't tell you how many times we knew we were in a moment where God was He was telling us to do something giving-wise, and if we obeyed, every time it would open a door to whatever our next was, open a door to a promise that we knew He had given. And I don't know, just in conference atmospheres, I don't know that I can explain it. I don't know that I could biblically explain it away. It's just a conference is a special gathering, and it's almost like it's a special atmosphere to give into. You just saw. a video on what we do in Colima, Mexico. Very honest with you, we are almost at the place where the offerings have taken care of the conference expenses, but we haven't quite had enough of overflow to send to Colima what we want to send. We have our budgeted amount, but we were just hoping for tons of overflow to come in through the Women's Conference offering so we could just bless them, as we are the only consistent giver they have right now. Would you consider something that may be the seed for your breakthrough, but in the natural would be a great blessing to a bunch of kids that probably you will never get to meet till you get to heaven and heaven revealed what your gift has done? I ask you to go to God. I ask you to take this time to ask God, what is the very best seed you could sow? May God do something powerful in your life. And may this gift, may this offering unlock something that you know about, maybe unlock things that you don't even know about. God, would you do it now in Jesus' name? And Lord, I thank you for the overflow to take care of the widows and the orphans as you've commanded us to do in Jesus' name. Thank you for your giving. Enjoy the rest of this conference.
Are you ready for the Word?
Yes!
How many of you believe there is more?
Yes!
How many of you ever felt like, is this all there is? Have you ever said that? Man, is this all there is? Getting up, getting everybody dressed, beating people out of the bed, Cooking breakfast that they don't eat, getting them to school on time, going to a job you hate, knowing you've got laundry to do when you get home. Oh, it's so exhausting. I just depressed you right there, didn't I? And then some of y'all coming home to him with his scratchy feet and his big old belly.
God, is is this all there is?
I have walked through some really crappy seasons in life, and if I believed. That this is all there is, I would have given up. I wouldn't be here tonight. What about you? How many, how many times have you thought, I can't take any more? Yeah, raise your hand, be honest. Yeah, we've all felt it, thought it. But guess what? We got up the next day, right?
Yeah.
And we did it again, and we kept going. And here we are tonight. And here's the thing, here's the promise. I believe and I know in my heart that we have God DNA on the inside of us. That's the voice that's actually screaming, there is more!
It's the God God in me.
It's, it's the Spirit of God. It's the God DNA. I call it divine dissatisfaction.
And it's not sadness.
It's not depression. It's not him. It's the God in you screaming. It's your spirit grieving, wanting to live the victorious life, the kingdom life that you know, that your spirit knows that you are called to.
Have you ever thought of it that way? It's not just life.
It's just not depression. It's just not where you live.
It's, it's not just your job.
It is the God in you. It's the God DNA that is screaming. It's that spirit to spirit trying to get out. And I also believe that it's okay to desire and want more.
Amen.
To want to be better, to want to live better, to want to be on a different economic level, to actually be able to be a blessing than to need a blessing.
I believe that it's okay to want more, to want better.
I was raised in the Pentecostal Holiness Church, P-E-N-N-Y, which I love my heritage and I'm so thankful for the Holy Ghost that I got in my church, but they taught and believed that it was righteous to be poor. How can you help somebody? How can you feed the widows and the orphans if you don't have anything? It's okay to want more, to be better, to live better. But then there's those people who are haters, always criticizing, always critiquing. They're criticizing and critiquing the people that are doing something and moving and shaking and growing and getting better and prospering and building. And those are the people that stay stuck because they can't clap for others.
Don't be that girl. Look at your neighbor and say, don't be that girl. Don't be her.
They speak ill out of their mouth, and then they actually bring curses on themselves because they're jealous and they're a hater. But Ephesians 3:20 says, now to him who Who is able? You need to get that in your spirit. God's able. It's not an ability problem. God hasn't moved. He's still on the throne. Now to him who is able to do what? To do exceedingly abundantly above all that we ask or that we think according to the power power of God that is at work on the inside of me and you. And see, that makes you want to shout. Y'all shouted, y'all clapped, y'all did all that. But if you are familiar with grammar— how many of y'all made great grades in school? I was a C-average student.
How about you?
Okay.
But if you're familiar Yes. With grammar, you know that sentences that start with now or but, it means that it's connected to the theme or the idea that came before it when you were reading it. So to understand Ephesians 3:20 accurately, we got to go to the prior chapters. Are you ready?
Are you ready?
Thank you so much, PJ. I love you. Oh, Eli. Hey, Eli. You're not PJ. Lord, help us to receive this word. Help it to go deep into our heart tonight.
Shift us.
Change us. Oh God, change us tonight. Rewire our thinking. Help us to see you for who you really are and who we really are in you. In Jesus' name, amen. Amen.
Amen.
So let's go back to chapter 1. We were in Ephesians 3, okay. It's going to be a lot of scripture. I'm not going to make you turn to it. I'm going to highlight it. We're going to read over it. Chapter 1 in Ephesians, Paul is trying to tell us to understand who we already are and what we already possess because we believe to Christ. That whole chapter is him trying to tell you who you already are. Not who you're going to be, but who you already are because of the finished work of Jesus Christ. And it's about identity, purpose, inheritance, and authority. Identity, purpose, inheritance, and authority. Say it with me: identity, purpose, inheritance, and authority. Identity, purpose, inheritance, and authority. inheritance, and authority. Say it again. You're going to be so smart when you leave tonight. Identity, purpose— you're going to say, I know all about Ephesians 1. Identity, purpose, inheritance, and authority. So in verse 3 it says that you have already been blessed. You have already been blessed with all spiritual blessings in heavenly places in Christ. Not that you will be blessed, not that if you act right you will be blessed. It says that you have already been blessed with every spiritual blessing in heavenly places. Say, I'm already blessed.
I'm already blessed.
Say it louder, I'm already blessed.
I'm already blessed.
Say, I've got everything I need. I've got everything I need.
It's just in heaven heavenly places.
Amen.
He's already provided, but it's somewhere that I've got to access it. There's got to be a way. There's got to be a key. There's got to be a combination to get what's there to Bank of America. Do you understand what I'm trying to say here tonight? There's got to be a way to access what's into my chart.
Okay.
So I'm already blessed with every spiritual blessing in heavenly places, already blessed. Nothing I've got to work for, nothing I've got to pay for, nothing I've got to do. It was already done long before I ever got here. I'm already blessed. Say, I'm already blessed. I'm already blessed. And then in verse 5 it says that you are predestined. That means long before you got here there is a finished work that was already available to you, that God has predetermined your steps. He's already got it mapped out. He sat down and finished the story, the book of your life before you ever got here.
You don't beg for it.
It's already done.
You're not good enough to have it.
Christ is our righteousness.
Right?
Right.
So my good life, my blessed life, my benefits are already planned. And God's plans for my life and for your life are Yes.
God, you are so good.
I mean, can you imagine him planning it and you wasn't here, and all the steps that he had to put together, that he had to make happen just to get you here? And you thought you were just a missed birth control pill.
And you thought that you were just an unplanned pregnancy. My God in heaven, he already predestined this good life for you. It don't matter how you got here. God just had to get you here so you could walk out the blessed life, so you could walk out the good life.
Whoo!
That ought to set some of y'all free tonight who've been struggling with how you got here.
That's right. It don't matter how we got here. We got here, and it's a good life.
Yes.
Then he says that you are chosen. You're chosen in him and you're accepted. How many of us struggle every single day? We strive every single day to be picked, to be chosen, for somebody to us, to be accepted in this group and accepted over here.
All that striving—
you're already chosen.
You're already— you made it! If you got here, you're already chosen, right? Before any accomplishment, before any title, before any career, before any degree, degree.
Come on, somebody.
Before any reputation, before any failure, before any divorce, you were chosen.
Amen.
And you didn't choose him.
The Bible says that he chose you. He picked you. He picked you out of the million swimmers and said, that one, I choose Millions! Look at your neighbor and say, you're one in a million, baby. You're one in a million. If you ever wondered, tonight you gotta know that you are one in a million. God chose you. He planned you. He predestined you.
He accepted you.
Whoo!
Whoo!
Y'all better say—
y'all have got me sweating up in this place tonight. I promise we paid the power bill.
Amen.
It don't feel like it, but we did. Then in verses 7 through 10, it says how you were redeemed.
And I don't know if you know the scope of that word.
If you truly have studied it, or you understand understand it, what that word redeemed really means. It really means this: you weren't really worth it, but he paid full price.
That's what it means. It means he bought you back. See, he had planned you first. But then we get here born into sin and we screw it all up. And he said, but I still am going to pay full price because I chose them. That's the one I want.
My God in heaven, you actually should have been on the clearance rack.
You know that, right?
Yes.
At Marshalls. Marshalls is already clearance rack. Then they got another one. That is where we should have been. But you were so valuable that he paid the full price for you. Honey, you are Nordstrom. You're Neiman Marcus.
Whoo!
See, he chose you before the damage was done.
That's right. You've got to get that in that little brain right there. He chose you before the damage was done to you, before your bad choices.
Come on now.
Before all that, he paid full price, not the sale price. And then he says in verses 11 through 14, he says: Now there is an inheritance that I have laid up for you. This is so powerful. He says, therefore now you have obtained an inheritance.
And listen, it's not just about what you've been saved from, but what you've been saved into. Amen.
You've been saved from that family and saved into his family.
My God, my God, my God. You better shout, there's more!
There's more!
There's more!
You might not have earthly parents who's going to leave you anything, but you have an inheritance that is laid up for you. Listen, it's better than any 401.
It's better than any Roth. It's better than any annuity, IUL, bank account, savings account, and a bond. Whatever you've got going on— pension, bond, 401— what you have laid up for you in him is better than any of That's right. Why? Because he is my elder brother now because I've been adopted into the family and I am an heir and a joint heir with Jesus. So whatever is coming to Jesus is coming to me. It's coming to you. You've got an inheritance laid up for you.
Whoo!
Whoo!
Then Paul says, and now we are sealed with the Holy Spirit, who is the guarantee or the down payment.
See, you, you got off good.
You didn't have to pay for none of this. It's a free gift. And all these benefits. Now we are sealed with the Holy Spirit who is our guarantee and our down payment. Then Paul prays in verses 15 through 18. When I was studying for this, y'all, this got me. It broke me for hours and hours. Paul prays. He says, God, open Open their eyes. I've just laid out everything you've done for them, but God, they can't see it.
God, open their eyes. See, Paul—
when we say there is more, Paul is not asking or saying that God's going to give us any more stuff.
Come on!
He's praying that we get a revelation of what we already have! What is already what is already yours. All these benefits that I just laid out for you just in chapter 1. And what is already ours? It's 3 things: the hope of our calling, the riches of inheritance, and the greatness of his power. It's the hope of our calling, the riches of his inheritance, and the greatness of his power. Say it with me: It's the hope of our calling, the riches of his inheritance, and the greatness of his power. The hope of our calling, the good life, the plans that God has for us, the riches of our inheritance, all those benefits that have been laid up for us, and the greatness of his power. He says that same power is at work on the inside of me and you.
Amen.
The issue is we have not recognized or seen what we already are and what we already possess. We don't recognize all the work that's already been done through the death, the burial, the resurrection of Jesus for me, for you, right? We have all these benefits, all this power, and we walk around depressed and sick and addicted, full of anxiety, needing a drink.
Come on, y'all.
Come on.
We have all these benefits available to us, but we can't see it. We can't see It's kind of like— you ever heard of Elon Musk?
Yes.
It's kind of like being Elon Musk's daughter, and he gave you the PIN number to his bank account, and you can't remember it.
That's what we're walking around like.
Come on.
Because all the benefits that he's already provided for us, and we live such a low level, such a low level, not knowing who we are in him.
Not cocky, but confident knowing who we are and what he's done for us and what are our rights as kingdom citizens.
Then verses 19 through 23 says— Paul finishes with this. He says, this same power, this same power that raised Jesus from the dead from the dead. Can you just imagine that? That same power that raised Jesus from the dead is working on the inside of me and you. Bum, bum, bum, bum, bum, bum, bum, dum, dum, dum.
I got the power.
When I got a revelation of this scripture, I've just been walking around all, "I got the power." You got the power to see miracles in your body, in your.
marriage, in your money, in your mind.
You've got that power, the same power that raised Jesus from the dead.
You might be looking at a bad doctor's report.
You might be looking at a dead marriage, but you still got the power that raises dead things back to life if you could just see it. If you could just see it. recognize it!
Whoo!
Ephesians 1:1 describes this power. It says, it's far, it's far above, far above all principalities and power and might and dominion Listen, Jesus isn't barely above Satan. It's not just God and Satan's God Jr.
Ephesians 1:1 says, he is far above every principality, and every power, and every might, and every dominion, And every name that tries to be a name, he said, it's got to bow because he's got the power.
And he said that same power is working and living on the inside of me and you. And that's the life we're called to. That's the more. That's the more life that we are called to. It's not— it's not called to a bigger house, a bigger car, a bigger bank account.
It's the power of God on the inside of us that shifts things and moves things and elevates things and brings things down to a low place and makes it bow.
The same power that raised Jesus from the dead is on the inside of me. It's on the inside of you. So Ephesians 1 says we're blessed We're chosen, we're adopted, we're accepted, we're redeemed.
Somebody better shout about right now.
We're forgiven. We're forgiven.
We've been given an inheritance. We are sealed, and we are empowered.
All that in Ephesians 1. So before you can fully understand the more of God, you have got to get a revelation revelation of who God says that you already are. Because once you know it, you will not settle for a life that doesn't look like it. Once you see it, once you know it, you will fight everything that gets in your That would try to keep you from living in your joy and living in your peace and seeing who you are in Christ and operating in your inheritance. Come on, somebody!
Amen.
God help us.
God help us see tonight. I need you to lay hands on your eyes right now and say, God, you've got to help me see.
You've got to help me see what you've already done for me.
Praise God.
Now lay your hands on your neighbor and say, God, help them see.
Help them see tonight. Help them see. Ephesians 2 is all about transformation. Now Ephesians 1 tells us everything that's our right, everything he's already done for us that we should be living in and operating in. But then we look at ourselves and say, ugh, I've got issues. I've got some problems.
Right?
Because we are naturally— we're born into what? We're born into sin.
Yes.
So we have to be reborn. So that is our transformation. Ephesians 2 is all about transformations. It's who we were without Christ, what God did for us through Christ, and who we now become in Christ. Let me say it again: who we were without Christ, what God did for us through Christ, and who we are now becoming—
In Christ.
Y'all got it. Y'all got it. How many of us were a hot mess when God found us?
us.
Say, I knew she was talking to you. Tell your neighbor, say, I knew it. I knew it.
She'd been on my toes all night, but now she's talking to you.
Ephesians 2:1-5 says— it describes how we were dead in our sin and trespasses, but God—
Amen.
How we were dead in our sin and our trespasses, but God made us alive in him. We were lost, but God—
we were spiritually dead, but But God. Come on. We could not rescue ourselves, but God. Somebody just needs to shout, I'm a but God kind of girl. I shouldn't be here tonight, but God. I shouldn't still be married, but God. I shouldn't be in my sane mind tonight, but God. God!
Woo!
Jesus! Grace met me. Grace met you. But he never intended to leave us where he found us. Shout, there is more!
There is more! It's a transformation. Look at your neighbor and say, she's talking about the transformation. Then he says, we were raised Raised with him, but we are also seated with him. He raised you, but then he seated you.
Verse—
chapter 2, verse 6 says: He hath raised us up together, and made us— I don't think that is asking your permission. That's right.
He said, he has raised us up together and made us sit together in heavenly places in Christ Jesus.
But see, we go through this life and our situation and our circumstance makes us feel behind. and defeated, and that maybe we've done too much, or maybe that life's not going to ever get any better.
But Paul here is urging you to take a look at your spiritual position.
Amen.
See, we don't fight for victory.
You've already won.
But you do fight from a position of victory.
You don't fight for it, you fight from it.
Amen.
The Bible never said you wouldn't have any trials or tribulation. Matter of fact, it promised that you would. It said, in this world you will have tribulation. That word literally translates stress, the squeeze, anxiety, pressure. In this world you will have it, but you got to push past it to get to your victory.
Yes!
How can I preach it?
Because I lived it. Because I have lived it. He's urging us to understand our spiritual position. We live from victory, that he's already won.
Not that you've got to fight to win.
He's already won it.
Shout, I win!
I win!
Say, I'm a winner!
I'm a winner! Winner, winner, chicken chicken dinner.
That's what you tell the devil. I'm a winner, punk.
Winner, winner, chicken dinner. And then cock your head and walk on with your bad self knowing who you are in Christ.
Amen.
Right?
But if you don't know your benefits, You don't know that he has raised you and seated you and positioned you, then you will walk around in this life under your circumstances.
Yeah, yeah, yeah.
Mmm.
You better get back in your right place tonight. You better get back in your right place.
You better You better get in your seat tonight. You are raised and you are seated with him in heavenly places.
We are saved by grace, not of works, but we are saved for good works.
Come on, y'all.
We are not saved by works, but we are saved for works. You need to be doing something. You can't just sit in your room and sing Kumbaya. Faith without— Works.
It don't work.
And then verses 14 through 18 says we are not just reconciled to him. Y'all, this part's so important. Y'all got to hear it. Some of y'all don't want to hear this part. Some of y'all who like to say, it's just me and Jesus. I don't need no friends. I don't need no church. I don't need to be in no life group. It's just me and Jesus. I'd be a great Christian if it wasn't for people. You ain't going to like this part, but it's the Word. He did not just reconcile you to him. But God's plan intended that he would break down every wall that separated you from others.
Amen.
I am sweating.
It's not just about me and God are good.
Are you and her good.
He didn't just reconcile us to him, he reconciled us to one another. Different races, different pasts, different backgrounds, different cultures, different stories, but we're one family in Christ where many are Become.
Become.
That's why I love this church so much. We not just trying to get you good with God. That's why we trying to get you in a life group, to tick you off, to make her just grate your nerves so you can work out your salvation, so you can work on your fruit.
Then he says— y'all, we're just reading the Word. We're just breaking down the Word tonight. Then he says, you are no longer strangers and foreigners, but you are fellow citizens in the household of faith. Is that not what Pastor's been preaching?
Yes.
We were strangers, but now we're citizens. And it wasn't enough that we were just a citizen. Then he said, I want to make you a family. That's why people say, well, I don't have to go to church to be saved.
Well, don't—
you ain't going to have a family. What's going to happen when you're sick and in the hospital? I bet you're going to be calling the church.
I bet you're going to be calling the elders. You don't like it till you need it.
Amen.
So let's recap Ephesians 2.
We were dead, now we're alive. We were lost, now we're saved. We were under judgment, we got mercy.
We were far away and he brought us near.
We were separated, now we're reconciled.
We were strangers, now we're We are family.
We were alone and now we are built together. There is so much more, so much more than the life that grace rescued you from. There is a life that grace has called you into. That is the more of God. And now here we are, Ephesians 3. I had to say all that to say this. Ephesians 3. Here we are, and I can see Paul. He wrote this. He was writing this in a prison. He was talking about and extolling and praising all the benefits and the goodness of God while he was chained to a prison. Now, it ain't prison like we know today. They don't get 3 square meals and the internet.
Okay.
We're talking about you've got to poop and eat and all the things. Look, rat would have took me out. One would have took— I'd have had a heart attack and went on. It would have been over. Done. But he's sitting there in those conditions and had been writing this. And I can just see him when he got to Ephesians and he said, now. Now unto him, he's saying all that to say.
Now we got to stop and thank him just a minute. Now unto him who is able. Now unto him who is able.
You might be.
Looking at a bad situation tonight, but you gotta see. You gotta see who you really are and what He's done for you. You gotta say now unto Him who is able, who is able.
He was just reflecting on all. benefits of God. Can you imagine him sitting in that prison in a terrible situation, but all he could think about was the goodness of God in his life? He was in a jail cell. I can just see him. He was thinking about how God had already predestined his win.
But his situation didn't look like he was winning. But he knew the God he served. He knew that, that if, that if he's not dead, God's not done yet. That he knew the God he served was going to get him out of this situation. Amen.
Wow.
Oh my God.
How he was naturally not a fit.
How he was born on the wrong side of town, but God chose him to be his disciple and to watch him in real life do these miracles.
And how much it cost the Lord to redeem him. He wasn't on sale, discounted rate, but the full price. And after thinking about all that, he's sitting there. He's written chapter 1. He's written chapter 2. And now he's at chapter 3, and his mind is blown.
His mind— faith has just—
I could just feel it because Did you feel it?
Talking about chapter 1, chapter 2? His mind was blown, and he's got faith rising on the inside of him.
Listen, he could have had a pity party sitting there. Well, if it wasn't for Jesus, I wouldn't be here anyway. How many times have we forgotten our benefits?
Oh.
And got in our own pity party and forgot where we were seated and placed so that we could be up high, so that we could get a different perspective and see it in God's view, that it's not over yet. See, when you're in the middle of it and you're in the right here looking at it, it looks like That's all there is. But when he tells you to come up higher and get a different perspective— see, when you come up higher, you don't just see the situation you're in.
You see all this over here to here, and you can see all the way over here.
That's why he says he's raised you and he seated you right here with him.
God, why did all this have to happen to me? How can God allow this?
Why is this taking so...? Not remembering that if I suffer with Him, He said I'll reign with Him.
Amen.
Or the part where he says, you're going to have to pick up your own cross and follow me. Every day's not going to be rainbows and butterflies, but it's not over till it's good, because he's got a good plan for you that he already predestined. You just hadn't got to that part yet.
Woo!
Now unto him who is able. I know he was talking to himself. He said, now unto him who is able to do exceedingly, abundantly above all that I can ask or think.
Not according to my knowledge, not according to my degrees, not according to my last name or my account.
He said, but according to the power of God that has been deposited, the seed, the DNA of God that is on the inside of me and you, according to the power that's at work in me. Somebody shout, there is more!
There is more!
There's more to this life I'm living. Have you ever seen Yes.
Have you ever seen a movie— if you're Pentecostal, you weren't allowed to watch them— but have you ever seen a movie where dynamite just goes off and it blows up the building and bodies are going everywhere and legs are over here and the whole building collapses and they'll throw a grenade in and somebody's head goes over there and their heart's over here. I know, I know, it's too much. It's too much. But I'm trying to let you see. I'm trying to help you see it happens quick. Things start shifting quick. Things move.
The entire structure changes.
It becomes something completely different when power— when power hits it.
And that is what that word, according to the power, that is dunamis, according to the dynamite shifting, changing, rearranging power that is at work on the inside of you.
That's the kind of power that's sitting on this inside of you that you have not activated because we are still low-level thinking. We are looking at our situation and our circumstance. We, we forgot where we're supposed to be seated. It's available, but are your eyes open? Can you see it? Can you believe it? Can you push through the pain of what's going on around you to operate in the power that's on the inside of you. Can you see it?
Now unto him.
I've been saying it week now. Something comes up in my life, something comes up, a roadblock, something comes up with my kids, my grandkids. Now unto him. I'm not looking at it. I know it's there, but I'm looking past it because I see with a different perspective. Now unto him who is able to do exceedingly abundantly above Above all that I could ever ask or think, not according to me or my knowledge, but according to the power that's at work on the inside of me.
There is a bigger life than you are living right now. There's more power that you could be operating in right now. There's more joy. There's more peace.
There's more freedom. You're above and not beneath.
beneath.
You are the head and not the tail.
You're supposed to be the lender. Who can see it? Who wants it? Who's ready to live it? Say it with me today.
God is able.
God is able.
Look at your neighbor and Prophesy.
Say to them, you're going to be walking out differently.
You're going to start living differently.
Your marriage is going to look different.
Your bank account's going to look different. Your body's going to look different. Your mind's going to look different. Your attitude is going to look different. You have been raised with him tonight. Now unto him.
There is more.
Oh, shout, there is more.
Woo!
There is more! Exceedingly, abundantly above all that we ask or think.
Exceedingly, abundantly above all that we ask or think. Exceedingly, abundantly above all that we ask or think. If you enjoy.
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