Exceeding Power

Are we ready for the worship of the year? Let's go to the book of Haggai, chapter 2 and verse 20. We have a rule in this house when there is a scripture on the screen. If you understand English, if you can read English, you have to read it with us. Is that okay? And whenever there is a word that is highlighted, you see the highlighted word. You have to read it a little louder. It's true at 10 decibels for that word. Okay, just sharing this stage for those of you who are new here and may not be familiar with how we do things here, make sure to increase. Are you ready? One, two, three, go. Haggai chapter 2 and verse 20. On that same day, December 18th, the Lord sent the second message to Haggai, verse 21, "Tell Zeruba Bill the governor of Judah that I am about to shake the heavens and the earth." You know, when the prophet says, "I am about to," it's a word that is very relative to time. Everybody say time. There is a timing for everything that God does. And the Lord says, "I am about to," which means in this season, in this year, at this particular point of time, I'm about to, I'm right about to do this. There is a sense of urgency. There is a sense of, let's do this quick. Let's hurry into this. Let's quickly reach there. On the Lord is saying, "I'm about to shake heavens and the earth." Which means we have to be ready for that shaking. See, when heavens and earth is shaken, if you are either in heaven or on earth, we will also be shaken. And that is when, if you don't have a steady ground, if you don't have a solid foundation, if you're not rooted well, everybody say, "I need a foundation." And I need a cornerstone. I need a foundation. And I need my cornerstone. Because if you don't have this, when the shaking comes, because the shaking is going to be for the good and the bad. It's going to be for the righteous and the righteous. It is going to be for the spiritual people and also for the not so spiritual people. Lord Jesus, He gave a parable in Matthew chapter 7. He said, "You know, the wise man, he built his house on the rock. And the foolish man, he built his house on the sand. Now, the wind and the rain and the storms, it only fell on the foolish man's house." No, it hit the wise man's house and the foolish man's house. We think that for some reason, because we are children of God, because we are protected, because we are covered, because we are Christians, we will somehow survive the shaking. No, no, no, we won't. This is a season when everything is going to be turned upside down. And that is why it is necessary that we have our rooting in the correct place. We have a foundation. We have a cornerstone. We have the right place to drive our nutrition from. Amen? Somebody say, "I will not be unstable." I will not be shaken like the wind. The last Sunday, Prophet taught us this from Ruben's story. How Ruben was unstable in all his ways. He had lost his pre-eminence. He had lost his position because he touched something that did not belong to him. He was not here for him to take what belonged to his father. He was not for him to establish himself and to take authority and to take power. Whenever a son does that, you see the same thing happening to Absalom. When Absalom, when he wanted to take power, when he wanted to establish himself as the King of Israel, you know what was the advice given to him? Take what belongs to your father. Take his concubines. And as you take them, it will be a sign that now you are the man in charge. So when Ruben touched what did not belong to him, what he was saying is, "Hey, I'm better than my father. I have to take this place." And the warning to those people is that you will be unstable in all your ways. Genesis 49, unstable in all your ways. And then he also taught us about Levi and Simon. I don't know if it was in Dubai or in Mumbai. He touched about Simon and Levi. Was it in Dubai? Yeah, it was in Dubai. It was not in Mumbai. I'm sure there will come to an RNGC. And the thing about Simon and Levi was that they took matters in their own hands. They are like, you know, we, this is injustice. We have to do something about it. And they moved ahead of time. Even though, see, the thing that Simon and Levi did, it may look right in our eyes. Like, you know, have you seen all these more church that people do? Whenever there is a crisis, there is a chaos. Everybody goes out into the streets. And they sometimes start doing very illegal things. And the justification is it is justified because of what is happening right now. And that's exactly what Simon and Levi did. They went on a rampage. And their justification was they mistreated my sister. But because they did that, the Bible says they lost their preeminence too. They lost their position. The reason Judah is the one who got preeminence in the house of Jacob is because he didn't take part in all of this. He stayed. He waited patiently for his time, for his turn. The reason David was exalted, elevated is because he never pushed himself to the forefront. He stayed. He was patient. He did not take his rightful place before the right time. And I pray that today the Lord will fill us with grace to be steady. Because when the shaking comes, when the heavens and earth is shaken, everybody that doesn't have a strong steady footing, you will be turned upside down. Oh, you will lose everything that you thought is yours. You will be taken away. And that is why it is very important in this season that you know who you are. You know that you are as observable. You wait for your time of elevation. You wait for the time when it is given to you. You don't go and grab it. It has to be given to you. You don't go and try to exercise what is right and just and try to do things that God should be doing. Don't fight for yourself. If there is one key that you and I, we have to learn from David's life. It is the fact that we don't fight our own battles. We only fight the Lord's battles. The reason David was a man after God's heart was not because he was perfect. But because he was that desperate to hear what God is saying. He didn't fight any of his battles. There was a man going out cursing him. He's like letting curse. If God has allowed him to curse, who am I to stop him? His son went out to rebel against him. He said, "Let him become the king. I don't mind. I'll leave." He had decided, "I am not going to fight my own battles." And that has to become the culture of this house. You cannot fight your battles. No matter how unfair life is being to you. No matter how bad things are being to you. You are expected to do God's work. And when you do that, the Lord will fight your battles. The Lord will take care of your enemies. The Lord will take care of the ones that alert you. But as soon as you begin to engage and you begin to respond and you begin to react in your flesh, you now stop the Lord from fighting your battles. And so today we need to come back to that place of pre-eminence. Somebody say, "I have pre-eminence. I have stability. I stand on stable ground. And I have patience. You know, to carry power, you need patience. And so the Lord is saying, "You need to grow in patience this year." Amen? Then the Lord says to Haggai, verse 22, "I will overthrow royal thrones and destroy the power of foreign kingdoms. And I will overturn their chariots and their riders. The horses will fall and their riders. They will kill each other." Which means this is a time for overthrowing and overturning. So everything that stands in your way, in the way of your assignments, that thing will be destroyed. Everything that stands in the way of what God wants to do in this nation. I prophesy as a voice of God over this nation. This season, this nation has to experience the revival. And so any voices, any political powers, any economic powers, any billionaires or millionaires or any media houses, that stand in the way of the kingdom of God. I declare you will be overthrown. I declare you will be overturned. I declare your throne will not be there anymore. You shall be destroyed. Because the Lord says this is about time that the things will be shaken all over again. What is steady will no longer be steady. What looks like a long royal authority will no longer have the kind of longevity. They may feel like this is it. But all of a sudden, everybody say all of a sudden. Quickly, with a twinkle of an eye, some throne will fall down. Some powers will be extinguished. Certain candles will be extinguished. I have to say this in a very reverent manner. We may even have to see some funerals this year. Yeah, of some powers, we will see some funerals this year. Why? Because God is about to shake things. I'm not saying this in a irreverent way. I'm saying this in a way. Because I see a candle being extinguished. Which means it's time for certain powers to be shut down. And somebody say I'm ready. Kingdoms are going to be overthrown. Kingdoms are going to be overturned. The riders and the chariots, they're going to be destroyed. And the kingdom of God is coming. And the kingdom of God is being established. Somebody say I receive it. Are you ready for this? You know, if you're standing, stay standing for this one. But when this happens, say it's the Lord. Are you ready? Oh, the verse is there. When this happens, say it's the Lord of Heavens, Amish. You know, when a Bible says Lord of Heavens, Amish, the phrase there is Yahweh's about. Yahweh's about. He's the one who fights your battles. He's not just a shepherd, he's not just a kind, gentle king. He is the Lord of Heavens, Amish. He's the commander, he's the first person, the ones that, the ones that all of heaven responds to. He's the Lord over all of them. And so Yahweh is about. He's saying this. Are you ready to hear what the commander of Heavens, Amish, is saying about you? He says, "I will honor you." Zerubabe. Son of Sheldir, I will honor you. And I will honor you because you are my. When the Lord is about to shake everything, when the Lord is about to overturn and overthrow everything, when there will be destruction on one side, the Lord says you, you will be honored. You will be blessed. You will be elevated. Oh, you will be appointed. You will now also be anointed because of the appointment. Because you are my servant, says the Lord. You do not serve the chariots and the writers. You serve me. You're my servant. Because when that happens, it's time for your elevation. Because it's connected. The destruction of one is also the elevation of another. When a Hamam dies is when a Mordeca replaces him. When a Hamam is demoted is when a Mordeca has to be elevated. And today the Lord is saying this about you. It's time for you to be honored. And the way that we prepare ourselves for that, you know, the reason the word is coming is so that you can prepare yourself for such an honor. Is this the word of the Lord? Is this what I am telling you or is it what God is speaking over you? The Lord is saying, "Can the Lord say a word and it doesn't come to pass?" "Can the Lord give us an instruction and it is not fulfilled?" "Can the Lord give us a blessing and it fails?" "It's not possible." "It's not possible." The Lord says, "I'm going to honor you." Verse 23, continue, "I will make you a signet ring on my finger." "Somebody's I am, the signet ring of the Lord of Yahweh Saba'ud." "And I host power and I host authority." Because when that signet ring is used, everything is possible. When that signet ring is used, it's like the king of kings has signed up on it. So this year you are going to make certain statements. Just casually you may make a statement. But angels will back up that statement. The host of heaven will back up that statement. Why? Because the Lord says, "You are my signet ring." I receive it. And it says, "For I have chosen you." Come on, hug yourself. Because the Lord says, "I have chosen you." You're special. It doesn't matter who doesn't consider you to be worthy or important or significant in of the Lord says, "I have chosen you." Your mind. You don't belong to them. You don't belong to an organization, to a ministry, to a pastor, to a man of God, you belong to me. I have chosen you. Your mind. You're absolutely, completely mine. Please take your seats. (Singing) The book of Ephesians chapter 1 and verse 4. Postal Paul says, "There was a choosing that happened." And it says, "Can I have the verses screen here on the. " Thank you. Ephesians 1 verse 4. He says, "There was something that happened to you even before the world was made, even before the foundation of the world was laid." You want to read it with me? Are you okay to read it with me? Come on, church. Your energy is dipping. Are you still here? Okay. Even before he made the world, God loved us. Hey, wait, wait, wait. Before the world was made, I was not made. But he still loved us. Which means he had the blueprint in his mind. And he chose to love the blueprint. He saw you and I here on the 11th of January, 2020, since even before the world was made. And he looked at us, you know, wearing whatever we are wearing and talking how we are talking and reacting. And the Bible says he loved us even before we did all of this. Even before we said yes to him, he loved us. And what did he do? It says he also shows us he loved. And because of his love, he also began to choose, hand pick, one person at a time. Each of us who are here in the house of God, you are not here because you chose him. You are here because he chose you. Because he loved everybody, but he didn't choose everybody. He called everybody, but he didn't. Because many are called, but few are. Many are taught, but few are chosen. So you and I, if you are here listening to my voice and you are here receiving this word, you are saying yes, that's me. And the Lord says even before the world was made, not only where you loved, but you were chosen. And why did the Lord choose you so that you can, you know, do some ministry? Why did the Lord choose you? Is it because you want to, or you should be a billionaire? What is the call of God over your life? It says he chose us in Christ to be what? To be holy and to be without fault in his eyes. The Lord is saying this is your calling. This is what you and I, we are called to do. If you are praying about your calling, what should I do in life? Here is your answer. This is what you should do in life. Be holy and see, I will tell you how you can be holy. You can be holy as soon as you receive Jesus. When you are receiving this word, as this word comes to you, do you know that the word has a purifying and a cleansing effect on you? So as soon as you say yes to a word, you are being cleansed, you are being made holy, you are being washed. But then the journey begins from Monday to Saturday to not just be holy, now you have got to be without fault. It is one thing to be holy and it is another thing to be without fault, without any blemish, without any stain, without anybody blaming us of wrongdoing. And the Lord says this is what I have called you for. Not just for holiness, the holiness comes because of your relationship with me. Holiness comes because you have received me, my presence, my holy spirit in you, it purifies you, it cleanses you. My word that is being released upon your life, it is like washing your entire body, your soul and your spirit. But then the journey from Monday to Saturday is the journey to preserve that blemishless life, to stay without fault. So that the enemy will not have anything to accuse us of. Because you should understand God will absolutely love us and continue to favor us irrespective of what we have done. But in the kingdom of God, everything works according to a justice scale. And the enemy is standing up there saying, you know, this guy, he doesn't believe in this. He is praying this, but he is doing the opposite. He is the accuser of the brethren. Do you know that is his job title? So all of those, all of us who have the heart or desire to accuse people, let's give him his job. No, let's not take his job. He is doing this is his full time job. Let him do it. The Bible says he is accusing us before the Father. He is constantly accusing us. You know what Jesus is doing? He is covering us before the Father. He is saying it's okay. Give him one more year. This year can we put some extra pesticides? Can we just add a little extra nutrition? Give him another chance. Give him another opportunity. I hope that all of us in this house who are the Zeruba Bales of this generation, you will not be an accuser this year, but you will be a representation of Jesus. When you pray, when you talk to God about your neighbor, don't talk about how bad he is because there is already someone who is doing it. When you talk about your neighbor, when you talk about your brother or sister, say, Lord, can you give him another chance? Lord, help him one more time. Lord, he is as weak as I am. You help me in that season last year. Will you help him one more time? Will you give him grace? Amen. So that when we finish that season, we will not be found with fault, with blemish, with stains. The Lord has called us to be without fault. So this season, the only way that we will truly, confidently be able to exercise power is if we stick to the call of God over our lives, which is to be holy and to be without fault, in his eyes. People will always find something of the other to blame you for, but in his size, if you are faultless, if in his eyes, you are without blame. You know, when Job's friends were very close to him, when they came and surrounded him, everybody found fault in him, everybody said, perhaps you looked at a woman, perhaps you stole from that poor person, perhaps you didn't pay your workers enough. Perhaps you've not been fair to your children, they made all kinds of accusation. But you know God said, you know what was God's testimony? Look at myself and Job. Blameless. Man of integrity. See, what matters is what God says about you. Don't fall to the lies of what people say about you, because people, they have their expectation and their perception of you. They are only able to judge you from their level of maturity. To the extent that God had to come and tell Job, if you don't pray for your friends, I'm going to kill them. He was the same guys who were accusing Job, where at the mercy of Job, because if Job says, I can't forgive you, or I can't bless you, then these guys are toast tomorrow. Yeah, that's the story. It's because Job prayed, interceded for the guys who accused him, that those guys had some hope, a second chance with God. And today, I hope that you can focus not on the voice of your friends, not on the voice of your own self. How many of you know that your own ideology about yourself is flawed? Sometimes, even before the enemy accuses you, you are the one accusing yourself, because you know everything you've done, you know your thoughts, you know your failures, and you're constantly telling yourself, "Ah, I don't think I can ever get back." That season is gone. I've tried too many times. I have worked too hard, but I can never come back there. And you are telling that to yourself, and sometimes you have to stop blaming yourself, and pursue being blameless in the eyes of God. It doesn't matter what you think about yourself, what really matters is what the Lord thinks about you. Amen. And the Lord, He doesn't just write you off because of a certain mistake. In fact, the book of Isaiah, it says, "Come and reason with me." Come in. Isaiah 1 verse 18, if I'm not wrong. Is it 18? It says, "Come and reason with me." Which means you can go and have a conversation with God. And the Lord says, "If you can reason with me, I'm going to wipe you." Give me that verse, please. Isaiah 118, if you can. Is it 18? Let's read this. It says, "Come now. Let's settle this. Give me another translation. If you can give me ESV or NKJV." Read it with me. Come now, and let us reason together. Everybody is a reason together. Which means God is calling you to sit with Him and argue it out. Have a conversation. Let's settle this. You cannot carry this guilt, this burden to the next year. Let's reason this. Let's have a conversation. It is not like, "Lord forgive me everything." That's not how it works. The Lord is calling us. If you feel like you have certain faults, come. Let's reason this. You bring your arguments, and I will bring mine too. I will tell you what I think. But let's have a conversation. And He says, "Though your sins are like scarlet, they will be as white as snow. Though they are red like crimson, they shall now be like wool." This is God's promise. For everybody who says, "I'm willing to reason." I'm willing to engage. Have a conversation with Him. I'm willing to bring my false, everything that I'm blamed of, every one of my accusations, every one of my wrongdoings, and I'm willing to bring it one by one to the Lord. Every one of the inner voices that I have within me, I'm willing to bring it to the feet of Jesus, and I'm willing to have a conversation about it. I'm willing to expose it. I'm willing to have a heart to heart with God, and I'm willing to have a conversation. So we're going to reason this together, say the Lord. And it doesn't matter how worst your sins are. The Lord says, "I can settle it. All I need is a good conversation." What a good God we serve. This God is not saying, "If you have sinned, please stay outside. Don't sit in the first row." He's saying, "No, you come closer." Close enough for us to have an argument. You know, reasoning is not always just reasoning. Sometimes it becomes an argument. The Lord says, "Let's argue. Let's settle this. Let's have a conversation." Because at the end of this, when you leave the table, you will be white. You will be white as snow, and you will be as clean as wool. Somebody said, "I receive it." Ephesians chapter 2 and verse 4. It says, "God is so rich in mercy." Yeah, give me also the slide, okay. It says, "But God is so rich in mercy, and He loved us so much." Verse 5 says, "Even though we were dead because of our sins, He gave us life when He raised Christ from the dead." Meaning when Jesus rose again, was your born again date. You know, some of you think it's the day of your baptism. When did you receive new life? It was not the day that you got saved. It was not the day that you cried at the altar. You know, I'm not saying all of this is not important. I'm not saying baptism is not important. I'm not saying your reasoning with God is not important. I'm saying that the new life came to you not as a result of your good works. The new life came to you not because you have somehow gotten baptized. The new life did not come to you because you have a church membership. The new life came to you because Jesus rose again. So if Jesus is alive today, you and I, we are alive because that same power is now applicable to us. That same power is now available to us. That same power is now working within us. Somebody said, "I receive it." And it says, "It is only by God's grace." It is not by my good works, but it is only by God's grace that you and I, we have been saved. Let's jump to verse 19 of the same chapter. Ephesians 2 verse 19. He says, "So now you Gentiles, you are no longer strangers and foreigners. Instead you are citizens along with all of God's holy people. You are members of God's family." The Lord is saying, "Hey, I don't know how you see yourself. Do you call yourself a Gentile? Do you call yourself somebody of less importance? They are the pastors. They are the leaders. They are the ones who are full-time serving God. But I'm just an accountant. I'm just nobody. I've only been cleaning the church once in a while. And I'm not as important as they are. But the Lord is saying, "Hey, you're not who you think you are." The Lord is saying, "You're no longer strangers." Look at your neighbor and say, "You're not a stranger." Look at another neighbor and say, "This is scripture. You're not a foreigner." You may not look like a Malayali, but you are still heavenly. Yeah. You know that Malayalam is one of the languages accepted in heaven. They speak Malayalam in heaven. But even if you're not a Malayali, I'm just kidding. Please don't take this personally. The Lord is saying, "You're not a foreigner. You're not a stranger." In this house, it doesn't matter how new you are here. It doesn't matter if you don't know each other's names. It doesn't matter if you don't know each other well enough. The Lord says, "You're part of this family." You're not a foreigner. You're not a stranger. Instead, you are citizens. You have a special other card inside here. You have a special ID card and it is the presence of the Holy Spirit within you. That's the same Holy Spirit within me. And we are all together, God's holy people. And we are members of God's family. Hey, come on somebody. We are not dead in our sins anymore. But God, He raised us. He said us apart. He called us holy. And He's working to make us without fault. And He's put us into a family. He's put us around people. He's put structure around us. You know the thing about singles. No attack on singles, but can I just share this? They can do whatever they want whenever they want, however they want. Nobody's there to judge them, restrict them, put any time limits. Talk to some parents in this house. Who'd like to have a late night? Coffee. You know, they are calculating, okay? If my kids have to go to school at this time, I have to be awake at least at this time. And I have to prepare this by this time. You know, we are making calculations. So we are saying, if I need at least three hours of uninterrupted sleep, then I need to go to bed like by this time. So if by any chance you send a text message to a married guy in the house saying, "Can we go for a late night drive to the airport?" That could be a person who don't have small kids. But if they have small kids, they'll be like, "Brother, we love you." But there are certain restrictions. So when you become part of God's family, you can't just be yourself. You can't just dress however you want. You can't just say, "This is my style. This is me. Take me out." No, that's not how it works. When you're part of God's family, you have to adjust. You cannot talk like everybody else does. You know, now it is a little bit relaxed, I see. But back in the day, when our church had a majority of African brothers and sisters. One of the rules of the house was you cannot talk in non-English languages. I had made it mandatory. I told them, "Guys, you cannot talk in a language that makes them feel like they are not part of the conversation." Yeah, because we are not because I have a problem with your Malayalam. It's because now there is somebody in the family who we have to adjust. We have to change for them to feel them, make them feel welcome, then include it. When you're in a group of five, and one of them don't speak Malayalam, all the four shouldn't. Speak in Malayalam, simple. It's the correction to all the Malayans in the house. Same rule applies. We are part of a family. We cannot make anybody feel excluded. You want to talk, you make your own Malayali group and talk. But when you're with non-Malayalis, you don't talk Malayalam. When you're with people that cannot understand your language, you have to restrict yourself to the laws of the house. To the rules, you restrict yourself to a culture. You're like, "Hey, it doesn't matter if I am a Malayali." Right now, my blood family is not as important as my spiritual family. Because my flesh is not what determines who I am. My spirit is what determines who I am. In my spirit, I'm part of a family. I'm part of God's family. There are brothers and sisters, God has given me around me. And I have to be sensitive. I have to keep my heart receptive. I have to conduct myself in a way that helps my brother and sister. But, you know, puts them down. Not makes them feel excluded. Nobody in this house should feel excluded this year. And it is not my responsibility, it is your responsibility. Because I'm not here most of the time. You guys are, so you cannot make anybody feel excluded. You cannot let somebody that is coming to a church for the first time feel like, you know, they are here for the first time. People go and welcome them like, you've known them for the last 10 years. You know, talk to them like, you know, they are your family. And just change your language. Use a breath mint before going and talking to people. Yeah. Sometimes it is not the Holy Spirit. Sometimes it is your bad hygiene. And just for one another, you know that we brush our teeth and majority of us. We take our shars and we use our perfumes, not for ourselves, but for someone else. If nobody would judge you, we would use that same perfume. If one person says yes. Why we are, we are part of a family. We change. We work together. Are you ready for the next line? Where is 19? It says together we are, read it with me. We are, this is not the pastel's house. This is not belonging to an organization. Together we are, somebody say his house. Together we are his house, but we are built on the foundation of the apostles and the prophets. But the cornerstone is Christ Jesus. Somebody say I need a foundation. And I need a cornerstone. I need a foundation. I give you glimpse of these words a while ago. Because when the shaking comes, when the overthrowing and the overturning comes, if you are not well rooted, if you are not well founded, if you are not grounded well. Because some people they have a good foundation but no cornerstone. Some people only have the cornerstone but no foundation. But you need both. The cornerstone is what determines the direction of the house. But the foundation is what determines the strength, the longevity, the stability of the house. So you need the cornerstone and you need the foundation. The man of God, he says this church. This is not our house. This doesn't belong to the apostles and the prophets. This is his house. This is his church. We are his family. We are citizens of this kingdom. And yet we are built on this foundation. So when apostles and prophets are given to us, it is so that our foundation can be strong. A foundation can be stable. So that when the season of shaking and turning and overturning and overthrowing and destroying comes, you and I, we will be preserved. Why? Because we have a cornerstone and we have a good foundation. You know, the apostle Paul, he goes on to say in Ephesians 4, verse 11, not only do you have a foundation but you also have gifts, everybody say gifts. How many of you believe that your men of God are gifts to you? Do you believe that they are gifts to you? They are gifts. They are not just somebody that you take for granted. They are gifts. You did not deserve it. See, gifts is not something we can earn. Your wages is what you get in result of your hard work. Your reward is what you get in return of your faith. You know that God also rewards our faith is a rewarder of those who diligently seek. So there are certain things that come to you because of your faith, because of your pursuit, because of your prayer life. But gifts don't come to you because you prayed long enough. Gives just come because he loves you. Do you want to read about the gifts? Say now these are the gifts that Christ he gave to the church. Are you the church? Are you the family? Are you the house? Then the Lord is saying these are the gifts that I have given to you. It is apostles, everybody say apostles are gifts. Prophets, they are gifts. The evangelists, they are the gifts. Sometimes we think evangelists is for the world. No, no, no, they are gifts for the church. It's a blessing to us. They are my gift. I receive them. The reason we honor men of God in this house, people sometimes they are like, you know, we don't understand why they do it like this. Because we know they are my gift. You know, they are a blessing to me. See, how many of you sing happy birthday song? All of us sing. Anybody who feels like there is idolitry. But a lot of you this morning, when I sang the God of Makandiva song, some of you, no, no. You'd have, how can they sing? But happy birthday, they will sing. They will sing all the other songs about you and about your body, you know, all of them they will sing. But they will not sing about a gift that God has given us. Because this is a blessing from the Lord. We rejoice in His provision. We rejoice in the foundation of the prophets and the apostles that the Lord has given us. We are not a church that is trying to be politically correct. No, no. We are not a church that is trying to act very decent. We are a church that is grateful. And that is why we have received so well. Because the more grateful you are, the more you celebrate, the more you receive. The reason this house is an abundance of prophets, apostles, evangelists, pastors, teachers. It is because this is a church that celebrates them, welcomes them, honours these gifts. See, you can say, it also depends on who is giving you the gift. You understand what I am saying? Now, if your ex-girlfriend gave you that gift, you are like, I have to somehow get rid of this. Maybe this is the only phone I have now. But when I get a better phone, I have to get rid of this old phone. Because, you know, of who gave me this gift. So, whoever gave you the gift, you value it in accordance to who gave you the gift. Like, if your grandmother on her deathbed gave you a plastic ring, that cost maybe ten rupees. You will carry it like it is a diamond. You know, there is three-carat diamond in there. You are going to preserve it all throughout your life saying, this is my grandmother's ring. Just a plastic ring. But because of the person who gave you that, it is not the value of what is in your hands, the person who gave you. Who gave you this gift? Does it say? Is it the worst death? Okay, go back to the previous verse. These are the gifts that Christ, the lover of your soul. The bridegroom is giving a gift to his bride. And the bride is saying, no, no, no, I don't want this. I only want you, I don't want this. You know, how insulted the bridegroom will feel. When you say no, no, no, I don't want this ring. But the bridegroom is saying, no, I want to give you this. I want to bless you like this. I want to take care of you like this. I don't want you to try to fend for yourself. When I am gone, I want you to have the right source, the help around you. And here you are saying, no, no, I don't care. I don't want anybody. That's not how it works. Because it's not a man giving you this. If it's a man giving you, then you have the option to pick or choose us. Say yes or no. But it is Jesus who is giving you. When the Lord gives you, you receive it with gratitude. It is not about how great the man of God can prophesy. It's not about, oh, this man of God deep teaching. So we receive him well. No, no. We don't receive or honor a man of God because of the greatness of the anointing upon them. We receive them because of the giver of the gift. The giver, we love the giver. So even if he gives me a man of God who doesn't know singing, sings often all the time, but I'll still receive him. Why? Because my lover give me this gift. And somebody say, prophets, apostles, evangelists, teachers, and pastors, they're all gifts to the church. Okay, let me just go back a few verses above. Okay, Ephesians 4 verse 7. It says, "However, he has given each one of us a special gift through the generosity of Christ." Which means there is nobody in this place who is without this gift. If you say, "I have not identified my man of God." Guess what? It's already there. He is already given. It's not like, you know, it's only applicable for 90% of you. Lots is each one of you. It's everybody included in each one of you. All those that are listening to us live stream, are you included in the each one of you? Every single one of you. It says, because Christ Jesus, he is so generous that he is so particular to make sure every one of his sheep has a shepherd that is going to watch over them. Has a man of God that is going to give an account to him about every one of his sheep. He is very personally involved in your growth and in your blessing and to make sure that you are fruitful. So according to his generosity in Christ, each one of us we have received a special gift. Here is a side note, verse 8. It says, "There is why the scriptures say, when he ascended to the heights, everybody says, ascended." Which means there was a point at which he went from ground zero to ground ten. He ascended. He went from one level to the next level. Jesus, we are talking about, who gave this gift to us? Jesus, right? It says, "When he ascended to the heights, he led a crowd of captives." Which means he didn't go all by himself. He took a group of people who were in captivity. He led them. He went ahead of them. And what did he do next? Then he gave gifts to his people. That is the gifts that we read about. The prophets, the apostles, the pastors, the teachers, the evangelists. Meaning when Jesus ascended, he gave gifts. So I was very interested to see, because it says, the scriptures say, "This is why the scriptures say, so I was very interested to see, what did the scriptures say? Where did the scriptures really say this? You want to read that? This is in Psalm 68 and verse 17 and 18. Read it with me. Surrounded by, I hope you are getting a glimpse of the resurrection of Jesus. Okay, this is prophesied way before Jesus rose again. It was prophesied and returned down by the Psalmist. And he says, "Surrounded by unnumbered thousands of chariots, the Lord came from Mount Sinai into his sanctuary." Meaning he ascended from Mount Sinai. Mount Sinai is here on the earth. He says, "From here he ascended into his sanctuary and he didn't go alone. He was surrounded." You know, that's something about the Lord Jesus. Isn't it amazing that he never made any of his entrances alone? Even when he comes back, he's not going to come alone. He's going to be surrounded. And when he has finished his task, when he has completed his work here on the earth and he's headed to heaven, he's surrounded with all the testimony reports. You know, this weekend, I'm going to LA and I'll be surrounded by all your testimonies. You know, I'm not going alone. I'm going with certain testimonies, certain gifts, certain, you know, evidences of what God is doing, what God has done around me. And every time I go to meet my man of God, I don't go alone. I carry you with me. See, in the natural, Mary only saw Jesus. But Jesus was not alone. The Bible says he was surrounded. Surrounded by unnumbered chariots. That's how he ascended from Mount Sinai into his sanctuary. Ready to read verse 18? Okay, when you ascended to the heights, you led a crowd of captives. You remember this verse? This was Apostle Paul quoted to say this is Christ who was ascended to the heights. He led the crowd of captives with him in unnumbered chariots. And he says, and you received gifts even from those who rebelled against you. And now the Lord God will live among us there. Question, did he give gifts or did he receive gifts? What did we read in Ephesians? He gave. But when a Apostle Paul is quoting an Old Testament verse, is he miscooting it? Is he saying, you know, I think the time for receiving is done, I think it's only time to. Because when the author wrote this prophetically in the Old Testament, he said, when there is ascension, when somebody is going to the next level, he is also going to receive. So any time we come to God and we think it's only about receiving, but there is no giving. There is no orna. That's incomplete transaction. This is a church where we know the value of our giving. Because we receive from the Lord and we receive gifts from the Lord, not because we give, but we receive from the Lord because of his love towards us. But Bible says, when he ascends, not only does he give, but he also receives, not only from people that love him, even from people that rebel against him. He says, he receives gifts, even from them. You know, this is very normal for in ancient history, if you read or if you watch movies, when a king comes back from a battle, okay. When he comes back into his own domain, he is going to come sit on his throne and everybody in his kingdom, they are going to bring him gifts. They will bring gifts of honor. They will come and serve him. They will be like, wow, what a mighty victory. And they will all come and hail the king and they will bring gifts. Not because the king needs it, but because the king has done something so worthy of your gifts. And then the king is not saying, wow, amazing, let me enjoy all your gifts. But the king will also take all the plunder that he has captured and he will be like, okay, I also have a gift for you. Let me also bless you because this wickly that I achieved, it is not for me, it is for you guys. So let me also bless you. So the king will also start giving gifts in return. So when Jesus ascended, there is not just giving of gifts, there is also receiving of gifts. So this morning, can I encourage you to give to the Lord? This season, the Lord is going to increase our capacity to give. The Lord is going to allow us to give from our time, from our resources, from our abilities, everything. And the Lord is going to help us to give even sacrificially. See, sometimes what we think, what we give may be very tiny, very little compared to the glory or the riches of the king, but it is still something that the king appreciates and receives. Even if it comes from somebody who was rebelling against me before, when he gives me a gift, when he brings me an offering, when he brings me worship, that is something that I respect. There is respect for that in heaven. So this God, he is not just a giver of gifts, he is also a receiver of gifts. Hallelujah. So what is it that the Lord wants from you? What is it that you can give to him? That is a better question. How can you give yourself to him a little more this season? Any giving that is not sacrificial. It is still giving, but it is not worship, but when that giving enters the zone of sacrifice, meaning you have to lose something else to do this. See, when if you do ministry in your free time, that is not sacrifice. But let's say because you are doing ministry, you lost a particular business. You lost that time, you could have spent with your children at home. You lost the precious time that you could have worked out in the gym, building your body up. You lost certain parts of you because you were giving that time to the Lord. Then that giving becomes sacrificial and that kind of giving is what is worship. See, you can still give even when it is not sacrificial. Not all giving has to be sacrificial. But there is a kind of giving which is sacrificial in nature. And for that reason, I really appreciate some of the people that serve in this house. You can take your seats. You know, I have been thinking, as pastors, we get to take our Mondays off, not all of us, but those who are able to, we are able to take our Mondays off. But I have studied some of you who work from Monday to Friday and then you are here on a Friday night. And then again, you are here on a Saturday. You are serving the house, cleaning, you know, getting the house ready. You are, you know, helping, setting it up for Sunday. And on a Sunday, you are back in church to receive the word, to celebrate. And there are times when I have wondered, when do you get time to take your kids out for a basketball game? When do you get time to go shopping with your family? And I am talking to the married people in the house. I am talking to the ones that are working a 9 to 5 job from Monday to Friday and still committed to the house on a Saturday and Sunday. That's, that's sacrificial. That's not normal. That is sacrificial. See as pastors, we can, we can decide to take a Sunday, Monday off. We can decide to take a Tuesday off. We can decide to take relapse here or there. But some of you, the way that you've been serving the house, that is sacrificial in nature. And may the Lord see your giving. May the Lord acknowledge your giving. Your giving is, is noticed in heaven. Now having said that, all the single people in the house, can I give you an advice? You have to make sure that, that you give the married people a little bit of rest on Saturday mornings. Let them take their kids out for a game. Let them, you know, if you see, especially fathers and mothers coming and serving in the house tell them, you know what? Why, why didn't you take this day off? This is the only day off from work. Why didn't you take this day off? If it's worship team, it's different. But don't make them clean and we have, we have in-nove number of singles in the house, right? Come on, talk to me. In-nove amount of young people in the house. So can we, can we help them? Can we say, you know what? We thank you for your service the last five days. The last whole year, we've been watching you. You've been doing a good job. So let me do it this year. We will take your job. You take care of your house. You go, spend some time with your family. But some of them, they'll still come and give. That's, that's their equation with God, you know, and because that's something that they're not doing it for this church. They're doing it for their generations. Because certain giving, it cannot be rewarded by a church. It is rewarded ten generations later, thousand generations later. Your children will experience the reward with certain things that the fathers and mothers have soared into the house of God. You may, you may not be able to connect this to that. But just, just watch their children. They don't even have to serve God. But just watch their trajectory. Oh my God, they will be blessed without reason to be blessed because their father and mother, they gave sacrificial to the house of God. So, so can I invite you in the season to give to the Lord, given the house, if there are opportunities to serve outside the house, serve outside, serve God's people. Don't make life all about you and your family, and your children, and your future, and your business, and your career, and your investments, and just make it all about you. Now, give to the Lord. The Bible says, he who gives to the poor, lends to the Lord. Have you read that verse in the Bible? When you give to the poor, you lending to the Lord, which means it's something that will come back with interest. Can you imagine lending money to God? Can you help me get that verse? He who gives to the poor, provokes, says, so, you know, this year we are going to up our efforts of our charity. You know, his new year's charity, we are going to the next level this year. I'm not saying that if you give to his new year's charity, you are giving to poverty. Just that this is the group of people that we want to reach and help. There are people who cannot take care of their own medical bills. There are people who cannot afford to send their kids to school, to college, especially men of God, women of God, they are serving him. There are people that cannot take care of their basic expenses, like their living expenses. You know, as a church, we want to take care of them. Are you ready? Let's read this. Give me problems. What was that verse? 19 and verse 17. He says, he who has pity on the poor, who does he lend to? He lends to the Lord. Wow. Somebody say, wow. I just let that scripture, you know, soak into your heart. Let it just go deep into your heart. He who has pity, he who has compassion. He is not doing it for that guy. Please don't do it for him. Say, Lord, this is an advanced being. I'm lending it to the Lord. I'm giving it to the Lord. Amen. So, so we studied how when the Lord Jesus ascends, not only does he give, but he also receives. So this is not just a church that is beneficiaries of God's grace, but this is also a church that also gives towards God's grace. We give towards his work. We give towards his children. We give towards his purposes and his plans here on the earth. And we work hard. And what kind of gifts? It says in Ephesians 4-11. Now, these are the gifts that Christ gave to the church. The apostles, the prophets, the evangelists, the pastors, the teachers. You know, these are the ones that God is using in the church. And this is my firm belief about our church here, is that the Lord will raise a lot of you as one of these categories of ministers. And you may or may not have that title already, but you're already called into one of these places. You are called. There is a grace that is already upon you. You cannot be in my environment and not be connected to this. No, it's not possible. You cannot be receiving from me and not be already functioning in one of the five full callings. You cannot be. It's already in your DNA. It's already there. It's just a matter of time that you manifested because you're under the covering of this house. You know, I'm running a school called the School of Shepherds. For those of you who are interested, you can come join it. February 5th, 6th and 7th. There is a three day school. You'll have to take an off from your work if you want to come for it. But it's three full days morning to evening. Even if you don't come to the school, you shouldn't miss the Friday night on February 6th. That's going to be a special service with all of our guests that are coming. But if you want to also be part of the school, you can register for it. You can touch me or touch one of our leaders. We'll give you the information. It's a school that I'm doing specifically to train the apostles, the prophets, the pastors, the teachers, the evangelists. The reason I call it School of Shepherds is because my heart is primarily for Shepherds, for pastors. My heart is to plan churches. If you feel that at some point you want to be used by the Lord, I'm not looking at those who are saying, "Oh, the angel came and told me I'll be a pastor." It doesn't have to be you have a voice or a word or anything like that. I just told you you are in my environment. You have to be an extension of what I carry. So if you feel that you would like to be used by the Lord in planting churches serving in the church, can this ministry that I'm training people up for, it is not for people outside the church? My ministry primarily is to help and equip and build the church. So if you'd like to be trained and if you'd like to be mentored, there'll be a lot of Q&A time. So you can write to me after today's service, I'll give you the links and the details or maybe I can even put it on the channel after the service so that you can maybe register for it. And it's a paid registration, it's not like our other services, it's paid, maybe expensive. But if you'd like to come and if you'd like to register, you're welcome to register and you're welcome to join for that. The purpose is to mentor the next generation of pastors, teachers, evangelists, prophets and apostles. What do they do? What are they supposed to do? Let's read in verse 12, it says their responsibility, pastors, they have a responsibility, prophets, they have a responsibility, what is their responsibility? It is true, equip God's people to do His work and to build up the church, which is the body of Christ. Wow, it says that their job is to equip and their job is to build whom the church, to build the church. Equip God's people who are inside the church to do the work of God, to do the work of Christ. You know, when you come to church, you're being equipped everywhere that is coming to you and giving you weapons into your hands, weapons. Last Sunday, some of you already told me that when you were in that service and when dad laid hands on me, I had a crazy encounter. But the number of people that came to me and said, has that happened to you, the same thing happened to me? I was like, the number of people and these are not just people who are part of our church, people from other church, you know, so many people that I met, they said something was happening to us, has that was happening to you. Can I tell you what happened to me? It's crazy. You know, I saw that movie, what is that movie? Star Trek, you know, there is a guy, the full white Amagai, what is his name? Stormtrooper, right? Am I right that the full, if you can get me an image, I'll tell you, like he's fully covered with that white Amari. You know, so I saw a man come like that and I saw him take off his helmet and put it on me. And one by one, he's taking out his own amari, it was so heavy, multiple times I tried getting off. I just felt like this was so heavy, I just couldn't, I didn't have the capacity to even carry it. And this morning, I'm doing the same thing to you. This morning, the Lord is saying, I'm, I'm equipping my people, I'm building them up, I'm giving them weapons, I'm giving them amari. This year you will be a mighty warrior, this year you will be invincible, this year you will be covered, this year the enemy cannot stab you from behind. Because you are covered on the front and you're covered on the back, this year there will be no stain on you. There will be no blemish on you, there will be nothing that will hinder you, that will stop you from receiving what God has ordained. There is something, something that is written with your name. And the Lord is saying that will come to you, that will come to you, that there is yours, you're being built up together, you're being equipped right now. As you receive this word, you're being equipped to be part of this family, to function as part of the body of Christ. You may take your seats and say it's verse 13, this will continue, this equipping will continue. Meaning this is not finishing this morning, this will continue, this will be a continuous process. That is why it doesn't matter if you've received a specific impartition at a specific point of time, because it's a continual process. You cannot just say I received it, I'll let me now run with it, no no no, you have to keep coming back to continue to receive more equipping and more building up. It says you will continue till we all come to such unity, everybody's a unity. You know why we have one voice teaching here, every week, it's because we want a church that is united. And there is where we are very serious and particular as to who we allow to preach on the stage. Because we see, are they in alignment, are they one with my father? One reason I trust Pasad sejo and Anu so much is because I know, you know, it's not that they are visiting Canada to be with my father, but I know they are one with my father. Everybody that we have here on this stage, they are in alignment with us. We don't have multiple voices, it could be me, it could be Pasad sejo, it could be someone else, one of our pastors, you know what, you're not hearing them, you're hearing the voice. You say the voice behind the voice, you're hearing somebody who is in alignment. Why we are all working towards one is, we are trying to bring you to a place of such unity, not in division, not you do you, me do me. No, no, no, we have to be one, one vision, we need to have one language, one perspective, and that happens by the giving of gifts like pastors, teachers, prophets. Apostles, evangelists, when they teach you, when they build you up, you all come, what does it say, this will continue until we all come to such unity, everybody say unity. So this year we pursue unity, this year we will run after oneness, this year we will get rid of everything that is divisive. You know, one of the curses on Simon and Levi, the angry guys, is that you will be divided and you will scatter. But there is no angry people in this house, because anger, when it is on the wrong things, without, you know, no matter how just you may feel, when you slam the door or you are like slamming the table, you may think that you are just in doing what you are doing, but that is not from the Lord. The Lord says there will be division when that happens. To the ones, to the simons and the Levi's, God said, you will be divided and you will be scattered. But you and I, who are patient, everybody say patient, we will not be divided, but we will be united, because we are receptive to the word. I speak this over marriages, may you be united this year. Every anger that is killing marriages, every lack of patience that is destroying marriages. In Jesus name I speak, patience, return and oneness, return and unity be restored in the name of Jesus. Every home, unity be restored in Jesus name. You will receive this in Jesus name. The next line, it says this will continue until we all have such faith, such unity in our faith, everybody say faith. Which means we are not just with, you know, just happy, united, but we are united over something. There is certain things, you know, faith is what we are constantly believing and confessing and declaring. So our unity has to also, got to do with what we are confessing every day. It's not just what we believe inside, but it is about what we speak with our mouth. So the Lord is bringing us to a place of great faith this year. So our men of God, when they come teach us, the purpose of their teaching is so that we can grow in our faith. See the reason we are faith statements are in different places is because some of us we have grown, some of us we are still stuck. We are still doubting, we are still questioning, everybody got a job, why did I not get a job? Everybody got married, why did I not get married? Everybody got a blessing, why did I not get blessed? No, no, no. This year our faith has to be one. We have to talk one language. When somebody is blessed, you don't say, "Ah, you know, why is only he blind?" No, no, I am blessed. If my sister got married, "Hey, I will rejoice like it is my own wedding." If my brother got promoted, I will celebrate like it is my own blessing, my own promotion, why? Because that is my faith. That is what I believe. I am one and I have grown in my faith. The next one it says that they grow in the knowledge of God's Son. Not only are we going to grow in unity, not only in faith. The next slide it says to grow in the knowledge of God's Son. Each of us, this year, we cannot just grow in scriptural knowledge or intellectual knowledge. You and I, we are called to grow in the knowledge of Jesus. To know Him, oh, you know why we worship? To know Him, oh. You know why we pray? To know Him, oh. You know why we pass you God? Why we spend hours at the altar on a Friday night? To know Him, oh. You know the four hours are going to become five hours soon? Why? To know Him? Well, we are not satisfied with yesterday's four hours of knowing. Now we want to push it. Now we want to make it five hours. To why? So that we can know Him, oh. We can push a little closer. Go a little deeper. You say so that we will be mature, the next slide. So that we will be? Everybody say mature. You know the Lord gave a mighty vision to a prophet on a cross over night. He said, I see a mature bride. I see a bride that is a giant in the Spirit. I see a bride that has reached such a stature that it can hold power. And I speak that upon our church here, you and I, we will be a mature bride. Not just oneness, not just faith, not only knowledge of God's Son, but we will also be mature. We will not be tossed around with every wind and wave. No, we will be a mature bride. Mature in the Lord. You know what will be a measuring Lord? It says measuring, measuring everybody's a measuring. So this is a year to measure ourselves. Okay? We keep comparing. You say, hey, last time you said the same thing. You have not grown. No, no, no. If your confessions, complains, problems, your counseling issues are the same as what we experienced last year. Then the measuring Lord says you are on the same level, but this year we are going to measure. And we are going to grow every time we measure. Every time we compare. We don't compare with someone else. We compare it with ourselves. We don't compare ourselves with that brother. We we compare ourselves with our own selves. Not from last year. Can I make it a little more personal? Let's compare ourselves weak by weak. This Sunday when you are in church you need to compare from last week to this week as your prayer life grown. From last week to this week as your unity grown. Your faith, your knowledge in God's Son has your maturity. Have you become more mature? Have you been acting more mature or more mature? Have you been talking the same language like last week or have you become more mature this week? So we have to keep measuring our growth. Everybody say measuring. It says up to the full, everybody say it full and complete. The Lord is calling His bride to a full and a complete revelation. This year some of your journeys will reach a place of complete peace. Is it even possible on this side of eternity? The Lord says that's why He gave pastors. That's why He gave prophets. That's why He gave us evangelists and teachers so that you and I we can reach a place of fullness and completeness on this side of eternity. You know when we reject pastors we are rejecting fullness and completeness but when we receive them when we receive what is being taught to us, guess where we reach. Not just maturity because you can be mature and yet not be full. You can be growing and still not be complete. The Lord is saying we will reach full. Full. Come on loudly full. Full. Come on this church will be full. Oh we will reach a season of fullness. Oh we will mature and we will become complete. That is our portion this year. There is our destiny and it says our standard to the full and complete standard. A standard is not a church. A standard is not a man of God. A standard is Christ Jesus Himself. To the full and the complete measure of becoming like Jesus, the standard of Jesus Christ. Till we reach there. Till we reach there. Till we reach there. That is our ultimate goal. Efficiency 525. I'm going to finish now. Since for husbands this means love your wife's justice Christ loved the church and he loved the church so much that he gave up his life for her. A lot of modern marriage teachers they misinterpret this verse to think that the Bible is saying husbands you love your wife so much you are willing to die to obey your wife. To listen to whatever your wife says no no that's not what it says. You want to read what the verse says. This is what the wife's verse says. We should never take a verse out of context. If you take it out of context we are thinking okay husband just keep dying. No let's read what it says is verse 20 says it is to make her holy and clean and wash her by the cleansing of God's word. Meaning in other words the reason Jesus died for the church is so that he can make her like himself. He was not so that Jesus can sit and listen to all of the bright stentrums. We understand there's two different things. The purpose of a husband laying down his life for his wife is so that he can make her more and more like himself. It says to make her holy and to make her clean and how are we made holy and clean in the church. How are we made holy and clean by the washing of what when we took communion. The reason we read so many scriptures here the reason I keep highlighting and make you repeat it over and over again is some places you have to scrub multiple times. It doesn't go the first time you put this soap it doesn't go. It keeps scrubbing you know and sometimes my media team have complaints saying pastor you are repeating it too many times. Very intentional because someone one scrub it doesn't go. So I have to keep saying you know yes you are not a foreigner you are not a stranger. You are chosen your special why the Lord Jesus he is making you this year is a year for us to become full and complete. The men of God when they come and they teach you when they come and preach to you when they bring you a prophetic word. Guess what's happening you're being cleansed. How are you being purified? You're being washed. It says to make her holy and clean washed by the cleansing of God's word. Verse 27 he says he did this to present her his bride to himself meaning the bride her ultimate goal in life is to be acceptable to his to the bridegroom not in her own standards but our ultimate goal in life is not how good we are performing. Our standard is our bridegroom how acceptable are we to him if you're not acceptable to him it doesn't matter how intelligent we are. It doesn't matter how much money we have it doesn't matter how much anointing we have if he doesn't find us appealing or acceptable. The whole purpose of husbands dying to their selves to cater to their wives is so that the wife can be presented to himself in a manner that is acceptable to him. The wife is not meant to be presented to the pastor or to the church no the wife's purpose primary purpose a bride's primary purpose is to be blessing to her groom if she has failed in that she has failed in everything else. So as a church if you failed in our presentation to the Lord Jesus oh my God we failed everywhere else so this is a year when the bride gets ready that's why we sang that song. Where is 27 he says he did this to present her. This isn't her to himself as a glorious church come on lift your hands and say I am that glorious church. This morning I may not look like it but we are that glorious church because what has happened over the last two hours is that you've been cleansed you've been washed you've been purified you've been set apart and now you look glorious in the Lord's eyes. You're ready for your bridegroom you're ready to receive him and receive from him as a glorious church come on read it with me without a spot without a you will have no spot you will have no wrinkle and you will have no blemish instead she will be holy. Do you remember why God called us efficient one for why did God call us to be holy and without for but how is it accomplished it's because it's accomplished by Jesus dying for us and giving us new life and then when he ascended he gave us gifts. This gives what do they do they teach us the word and what happens when the word comes cleanses us we are prepared to become a bride to a bride so glorious so mature so full so complete that when she raises her hand it's a hand with the sector of power it's a hand with authority it says now instead she will be holy and without fault you and I that is our portion this year we will be holy and we will be without for one more time let's read efficient 320 okay are you ready efficient 320 and it's like give me the next slide. Now all glory to God who is able through his mighty power at work within us this is not a power that comes from the man of God because I have the word in me because I have the seed in me this is a power that works within me it's there already inside of me there is a power that is already locked up within me now all glory to God who is able to do through his mighty power at work within us which means from when you go out of here the power is still working every time you speak in tongues the power is being activated every time you choose to obey the word and instead of being the world the power is being activated every time you choose to be the bride of Jesus instead of being a self centered person the power is being activated every time you submit to the voice to that foundation to the gifts that the Lord has sent to you the power is being activated the power that is already at work within us now all glory to God who is able through his mighty power at work within us to accomplish infinitely everybody say infinitely more than what we might ask or think give me the BSB version the next slide it says now to him who is able to do do come on I give you a rule to read the bold letters how do we read it okay let's go now to him who is able to do immeasurably more than all that we could ask or imagine according to his power that is at work within us it says another version CSB version it says now to him who is able to do above and beyond somebody say we serve and above and beyond God this year the Lord is about to blow your expectations he is going to do so much above and beyond your prayers he is going to exceed our expectations we may have a measure but he is going to do immeasurably more yes we version are you ready for this now to him who is able to do far more abundantly come on stretch your hands and say abundance is mine with this season I receive abundance I receive abundantly more than what I have even asked more than what I have thought more than what I have desired more than what I have prayed more than what has been prophesied over me abundantly more than any of that that is the mighty power are worked within me hey come on let's read NKJV are you ready for this now to him who is able to do exceedingly abundantly above all that we ask or sing according everybody say according to the power to the power that works in us I am a host of power I am a host of authority don't mess with me tell the enemy don't mess with me if you mess with me you you cannot live in Bangalore anymore yeah if you mess with me you cannot be in my environment anymore yeah the only way you you can sustain or survive as long as you don't trouble me because there is exceedingly abundantly far and beyond the capacity within me is is beyond what I have done the last year what I am going to do this year just wait and watch why because we are that mature bride of Christ who is grown to the full and complete measure to the standard of Christ exceedingly abundantly we ask God to come on dance we ask God to exceedingly abundantly we ask God to exceedingly abundantly we ask God to exceedingly abundantly above all that are you ready to give to the Lord are you ready to give to the Lord this morning this morning because there was a teaching on giving I'm asking you to give this morning okay because this Jesus is ready to receive gifts from us he's ready to receive our offerings he's ready to receive our tides our our love our worship some of our giving has to be sacrificial this morning if you if you're if you have that overflow that push in your spirit then become sacrificial in your giving to the Lord because this Jesus when he ascends to the heights he also receives and he also gives so this morning we are engaging in the ministry of giving to the Lord Lord bless your people as they give come on Church exceedingly we ask God to exceedingly abundantly above all that we ask God to exceedingly abundantly we ask God to exceedingly abundantly above all that we ask God to exceedingly abundantly above all that tell you neighbor exceedingly abundantly above all that you've asked God to exceedingly abundantly above all that we ask God to exceedingly abundantly above all that we ask God to exceedingly abundantly above all that we say yes to you come and move we say yes to you come and move we say yes to you come and move we say yes to you come and move we say yes to you come and move we say yes to you Jesus come and move we say yes to you exceedingly abundantly above all that we ask God to exceedingly abundantly above all that we ask God to exceedingly abundantly above all that we ask God to exceedingly abundantly above all that we ask God to exceedingly abundantly above all that we ask God to exceedingly abundantly above all that come and lift your hands and say I am I am the zero-bubble read it with me come on read it with faith believe it with all your heart and let's stand on this word for the entire year okay come on one two three go I am the zero-bubble in my generation I am chosen elevated appointed and anointed for such a time as this I have three eminence I stand on stable ground and I will stay patient I am positioned in the strive of Judah a family of Jesus lovers among the nations come on I am the signet ring of Yahweh sabahat and I have become a host to authority and power and I carry the sector of power and I will rule in the midst of my enemies together as the engineer and his family we are the glorious somebody say glorious right of Christ we are built on the foundation of apostles and prophets with Christ Jesus our cornerstone we have been cleansed and purified by the preaching the teaching and the prophetic ministry of God's way so we stand in holiness and splendor without sport without rink and without blemish now all glory to God who is able through his mighty power at work within us to accomplish exceedingly abundantly immeasurably infinitely more than we would ask or think glory to him in the church in Christ Jesus through all generations forever and ever and ever (upbeat music)