uh let's go to work let's go to work the book of Acts yeah the book of Acts i just feel like preaching just feel like it book of Acts chapter 12 starting at verse number five i want to read from the NIV version that is the New International Version uh verse number one says "So Peter was in prison." But the church was earnestly praying to God for him but the night before Herod was to bring him to trial Peter was sleep between two soldiers bound with two chains centuries stood guard at the entrance suddenly an angel of the Lord appeared and the light shined in the sail he struck Peter on the side and woke him up "quick get up," he said and the chains fell off of Peter's wrist the angel said unto him "Put on your clothes and your sandals." And Peter did so wrap your cloak around you and follow me and the angel told him Peter followed him out of the prison but he had no idea that what the angel was doing was really happening he thought he was seeing a vision they passed the first and the second guard and they came to an iron gate leading into the city and it opened for them by itself and they went through it when they had walked the length of one street suddenly the angel left him then Peter came to himself and said,"ow I know without a doubt that the Lord has sent his angel to rescue me from Herod's clutches and from everything the Jewish people were hoping would happen." When this had dawned on him he went to the house of Mary the mother of John also called Mark where there were many people gathered and were prayed peter knocked at the outer entrance and a servant named Roa came and answered the door when she recognized Peter's voice she was overjoyed and ran back without opening it and explained "Peter is at the door." Verse 15 "You're out of your mind." They told her when she kept insisting that it was so they said it was his angel verse 16 Peter kept on knocking and when they opened the door they saw was him they were astonished my last voice the last verse Peter men motioned with his hands to them to be quiet and described how the Lord had brought him out of the prison tell James and the other brothers and the sisters about this he said "And he left for another place." I want to talk while I have your attention for the next few moments from this particular subject it's closer than you think it's closer than you think you can take your seats it's closer than you think one of the things that I I have come to realize is that the enemy fights us with one word called patience sailor patience often times we struggle with most of the time i've said it before it's worth saying again we don't fight with how God's going to do it we don't sometimes even fight with why God's going to do it sometimes the fight is when is he going to do it and the truth be told if I can get the band to play but they don't have to because if God would answer the wind we would tear this church up if God would give us a due date of when he going to turn this thing in our favor god that's the that that's the issue of when when when is this going to happen because if I knew when it was going to happen it would ease the anxiety of what's been happening in my life because the problem is the more anxiety I have the more I feel myself worrying about the thing and I find myself dealing with the complexity of worrying and worshiping at the same time i know I'm not talking to the right church i know I'm talking to the wrong people but have you ever found yourself worrying and worshiping at the same time i know you lift your hands but often times you're lifting your hands saying "God please whatever you do when I lift my hands this time please get me out of this." Here's where Peter finds himself because he has gotten himself arrested again peter you in this mess again but catch this y'all this time it's not Peter's fault this is Herod a gripper's fault her gripper is the grandson of Herod the Great harrier found out y'all and I'm I'm I hope I don't lose some of you and please don't log off right about here had a gripper found out that if I kill a Christian he found out when he killed James that the Jewish people of that time applauded that which means he found out that if I kill a Christian they applaud me they love me be careful when the applause fuel you because if the applause fuel you the criticism will kill you woo it's it's it's going to be a little heavy at first because here's the problem herod has a problem not only is he crazy not only is he narcissistic he's fueled by likes and followers uh-oh am I talking about social media are you anxious because are they follow me why don't they like me why won't they follow me back oh can I just slide in their DMs so now here's the problem you're fueled by the applause of people who anxiety is already gone crazy and Herod now is looking for this problem the problem with Herod is he's looking for some more fuel so he says "I've already killed James now let me go capture Peter." And he's captured Peter and all Peter is doing is preaching the gospel let me pause right there for just one second you might find yourself in bondage just for doing the right thing okay okay okay okay the one thing I wish I would have learned when I first got saved if they would have told me "Baby the enemy is coming after you don't Don't no think because you got saved everything's going to be a bed of roses." As a matter of fact the fact when you crossed over to this side you now became a threat to the enemy and he's going to throw everything at you and you're not going to do anything wrong the fact that you now have an assignment by God okay i wish I could talk to somebody who has an assignment and you understand the text the text the text now finds Peter in a particular situation by a crazy person by the name of Herod who is narcissistic who is looking for applause who is looking for fuel and now the problem is here's what's crazy y'all herod does something that I find peculiar that's in the text that's really not written but it's hidden in the text verse number five says that he takes him and that he puts him in prison but if you back up to verse number four verse number four says typically Herod kills people but the Bible says this time he's going to hold until after Passover wait a minute wait a minute wait a minute i may have read said it too fast he says typically he killed James immediately but he going to hold Peter to after Passover wait a minute come here Old Testament if you know what Passover is Exodus chapter 12 is representation if I put the blood on the doorpost when the death angel passed by anything that I would have been subject to now has to pass me by so what the enemy does is he waits until the blood gets on the doorpost okay okay okay so listen so Herod makes the mistake of waiting to Passover so wait Herod you going to wait until I celebrate the blood on the doorpost okay wait a minute devil you going to wait until I fall on my knees to give me the opportunity to pray for my kids wait a minute you're going to wait and see here's why here's why I don't say it anymore i'm not telling you don't say it but I don't say it anymore here's why I don't say the devil should have killed me when he had the chance i don't say that anymore you can keep saying it that's up to you i'm not knocking you for saying it i don't here's what I say you never had the chance [Applause] i may have felt like I wanted to die but when I'm covered by the blood you may have threw something at me cuz no weapon that is formed against me shall prosper now I may have wanted to die because of my anxiety but truth be told when God hand is on me okay okay okay he says "But I'm waiting but I'm waiting to Passover." Okay Harry you have no idea what you're doing so you you're playing in God's hand so you're orchestrating everything God so you're waiting until we celebrate Passover and then the text says "But he puts him in prison." Verse five says "He puts him there and he puts him there overnight." Okay so now I got another problem he puts him there overnight uh for all of you who are mad and you get mad with God because you have night seasons you didn't consider the alternative peter's night seasons saved his life from death if he doesn't have a night season he's killed during the daytime that's right so maybe God is taking you through a night season because you have no idea what the enemy had planned for you the day before and maybe his grace is keeping you for what you call night god call grace okay okay okay okay i know i know this might not be celebrated because we have particular night i'm in the night time wait a minute the text says in verse 5 he's at night in prison who is volunteering to be in prison at night nobody if I said if I did a survey in here online volunteer who want to be president tonight nobody would raise their hand but if I told you it would save your life everybody hand would go up because you considered the alternatives and maybe God is keeping from you the alternative because he wants to know if you can celebrate me even in the night season he wants to know can you learn how to praise me even when there's no light because I am the verse five is he does it he keeps him overnight but here's why I don't want to lo you lose you and the text says "And the church is praying okay let me rephrase that and the church is earnestly praying please don't let me forget that adjective and the church is earnestly praying okay okay okay uh don't judge me church the text says they are praying for somebody that is bound they're not judging him they're praying for him what if I told you God is looking for a church who will stop judging people and who will just pray for people in spite of their situation because it's not your job to be a judge it's your job to be an intercessor i wish I had about 10 people that's online and in here would tell the truth if it was not for my grandmama if it wasn't for my mama baby they didn't judge me they just stood in the gap and I wish I had some people that knew how to stand in the text says all they do is stand in the gap they don't judge what happened church i stop judging people oh my God don't make me cry what happened to a praying church i'm talking to seasoned saints all the way to new saints to new converts what happened to us loving people was loving kindness have I drawn thee what happened to us just as loving people back to life what happened to us helping one another get their self back right with God what happened to us just loving people back to the place to where they should be not condemning them not judging them wait a minute you must have forgot where God brought you from okay okay okay um don't it it's it's funny to me how well I like to have what we call convenient amnesia yeah we We have convenient your your amnesia is convenient it's convenient you think because you dress different way now you forgot where God brought you from okay okay i better not turn this corner like this this is Wednesday Bible study uh you you you you forgot we forgot about prayer meetings we we forgot about it it had not been prayer that brought it because prayer changes things prayer prayer is powerful it's is it's is it's not your job it is your prayer that's going to change the trajectory of what it's prayer [Music] [Applause] baby i know you get a nice paycheck but it's prayer that's going to work this thing out prayer that's going to move the mountain prayer is going to deliver your family prayer is going to move the mountain prayer is going to break the yoke prayer is going to bring this thing out prayer is what we need bring back into this nation okay I'm sorry i'm sorry i'm sorry when we earnestly pray when we earnestly pray earnestly pray not earnestly talk not earnestly text when we earnestly pray for those who are bound listen and I'm not judging bound cuz you can be bound in your mind okay you could be sitting in this sanctuary watching us online and be bound with a smile on your face i've been doing this too long to not be fooled by somebody smile how you doing blessed and highly favored if you don't get out here with that if you don't get out with that church colloquialism when the truth be told you know you want to punch a hole in the wall you know you feel like you about to go crazy if you're saying "God I need to send somebody." It's and it's prayer it is prayer and discernment but here's what I love about it it's there's so many examples in this text here's why I say it's closer than you think it's not just the fact that we want to get to Roa cuz in verse number six verse verse number six there's just this this whole transition that happens in verse number six it says "The night before Herod was to bring him to trial peter was sleeping the night The night before hair was to bring in the trials so but before we do that okay it says the night before the night Okay I got a question the night before my questions are generally uh uh for me and God okay God the Bible says the night before now I I celebrated the night time and I thought about the night i saw the grace in the night but I studied I I did this this deep down study that I wanted to make sure I was right about and it's called uh uh uh chaos therapy it's called chaos therapy and I thought chaos therapy is crazy you know I I study like that that's me i study crazy things because I think outside of the box and he says "No son this is chaos therapy." Until I studied what it was and chaos therapy it provides framework uh for thinking about how an individual can find themselves stable in a chaotic situation okay okay okay how an individual can find framework how they find themselves stable in a chaotic situation he said "Son it's right down in verse number six." I said "Where is it?" Cuz I lost it i said "It's in the night." He said "It's not in the night." Watch this it's in the next clause and the Bible says "And Peter was sleep." Wait a minute okay herod said "I'mma kill you." James already killed him i'm sitting in prison at night and Peter decides to go to sleep now I don't know about you i love the Lord with all my heart but I probably would have been like the other church earnestly praying father I don't know what you going to do tonight but I'm going to spend the rest of the night praying about how you going to break me out of this thing but Peter showed me something in chaos therapy he said "Son what you don't know is I didn't have to pray when I had faith." I said "What do you mean?" He said "Pray was communication faith was a belief system." I said "What?" He said "I learned to sleep in front of the enemy." So in other words whatever you do baby you're not going to stop my rest i wish I could talk to anybody up in here that you know people that have tried to stop your rest baby I'm going to sleep tonight i'm going to sleep tomorrow i'm going somebody shout "I'm going to sleep." I'm going to sleep yeah peter I need your help somebody need to shout out that again i'm going to sleep i said I said "Peter I need I need your help." Cuz I didn't understand that he said "Sir it's in the framework." I said What do you mean it's in the framework he said I learned how to go to sleep in chaos i said what that's cold blooded show me where you found that at i need something like that he said "What's this?" He said "Remember me and Jesus was on the boat?" I said "Oh He said "Jesus showed me how to sleep even in the middle of a storm the only thing I did was mimic my daddy my daddy said "This storm can't touch me." And I want to talk to somebody in here baby this storm can't touch me i'm about to go to sleep i don't care what the devil said i'm about to go to sleep okay cuz this Here's what got me this blew my mind not only does he go to sleep he goes to sleep on the enemy's word hey y'all come here there is nowhere in this text where God say he going to deliver him the only word Peter has is from the devil i'mma kill him so Peter has no reaffirming word that Jesus is going to bring him out the only thing he knows is I know the God that I serve is able to do exceeding abundantly the God that I know if he don't bring me out he is able the God that I know and he does allow you to kill me he's still God the God that I know what I'm not going to do is miss my opportunity to sleep okay okay what I'm not going to do is I'm not going to catch this please catch this somebody what I'm not going to do is let the enemy's word make me restless and too many of you have not used chaos therapy and taken the framework of the enemy and wrestling on what he said you going to die in the morning oh really watch me sleep you ain't going to make it till tomorrow really watch me sleep you going to be broke really watch my family prosper you going to be sick really watch me walk in my healing you going to be the tail really watch me be the head see you better learn how to rest in what God has taught you thank you Peter for showing me it all took place in the boat okay the text says all this happened in verse number six come on y'all i'm just in verse number six he says he falls asleep here's the kicker but he's resting in between the enemies and if you do the math if you go back and read verses 1-4 there are 16 guards around him okay there are 16 guards and he's chained okay okay wait a minute wait okay so the enemy is so threatened by you can I pause right there and make my own self shout you ever want to find out how anointed you are find out how many the enemy got against you you ever want to find out what kind of oil you walk in find out how many has come against you baby if ain't never one devil fighting against you you ain't that anointed if you ain't got nobody disliking you you ain't that gifted but the more people that dislike you I must be walking in something i want to talk to somebody in here or online you know you walking [Music] in he said "Catch this get this an indication of my oil is an indication of who you need to guard me cuz you think I'm going to get away." In what life did Herod ever think that Peter was an escape artist why do you think I'm a threat is it possible this is isogetical at best is it possible because of the Jewish people the leaders that were around that's talking in Herod's ear convinced don't let him out do whatever you can to keep him in cuz if you let him out he going to get stronger than you if you let him out he going to be more powerful than you cuz you don't want Oh can I can I say this if you'll ever run across somebody that wants you dead it's because they fear you as a threat okay okay okay okay okay i'm sorry you can have that one for free you can have that one for free here but here's what I'm understand can Can I have this you understand why you want to kill me cuz killing me don't anoint you you think you killing me going to anoint you baby you know what I paid for this you know how much this oil cost me if you got rid of me you couldn't carry this anyway oh I want to talk to somebody today you know God has brought you out of [Applause] some somebody shout "It cost me." They have no idea the price tag it cost you they look at what you wear they look at you driving they have no idea oh God got baby you don't know how much this cost me you don't know the car you don't know the whips you don't know the nights I cried you have no idea the backstabbing the loneliness the checks I had to write the seeds I had to sew the nights I had to believe you have no idea yeah you have no idea you have no idea and now you tell him to make sure I can't escape i'm not even trying to waste my energy trying to escape i'm going to sleep i'm going to sleep verse seven verse seven he says "Watch this not only am I going to sleep and when I go to sleep catch this." The first word in verse 7 says "And suddenly," y'all church online um somebody shout "Suddenly." Suddenly God does not always give you an indication of when he's getting ready to move come on sir because if God if Peter had known suddenly was coming he wouldn't have slept because you would have been expecting waiting on God to move it waiting on God to move it waiting on God to move it patience waiting on God to move it waiting on God to move it wait what if I told you suddenly is not coming until you rest as soon as you lay down suddenly comes suddenly said "I'm waiting on you." Suddenly said "As soon as you go to sleep I'm getting ready to show up." As soon as anxiety sits down suddenly said "I'm getting ready to come." God said "As soon as you rest on what I told you suddenly it's going to [Music] You said you waiting on God suddenly says "I'm waiting on you." Suddenly was there the whole time suddenly saw you get in prison suddenly saw them lock you up suddenly sought to put the chains on suddenly say "I can't do nothing until you go to sleep he says "As soon as you fell into the third realm of sleep the text says "Suddenly an angel showed up." Wait a minute didn't I just tell you in Exodus 12 when the blood is on the doorpost the angel shows up but this time the death angel doesn't show up the deliverance angel shows up okay okay i got to bother this he shows up he says and the Bible says "And a light shows up in the sale." Preachers y'all not got to bother this cuz if a light shows up the light normally wakes people up yeah some light don't wake people up some light is only meant for you okay it's in the text the Bible says when the angel shows up a light shows up then he does this he said he hits him in the side he says "Quickly get up catch this y'all change your position okay y'all you missed it cuz I missed it the first time too the angel says "Get up if I get up I got to change my position but if I change my position the two soldiers next to me could wake up." Not only am I going to wake them up I'm bound by a chain how am I going to get up when I'm bound i'm I'm telling you this might make some of you mad i don't care and I still love you sometimes God will leave you in a state to where you can't question him to get you out of a place until he can put you in a place to where you can look back and say "That was God." Catch it i'mma prove it to you i'mma prove it to you the text says Peter never questioned him he got up he never said "What's going on what you want me to do God what you want me to do?" He where am I going he just says "Get up." God often time exclude details sometimes God will not give you what you want to hear he only gives you what you need to hear peter the only thing you need to hear get up i don't know who I'm talking to right now but the only thing you need to hear online is get up get up in your mind get up in your house get up in your body get up in that hospital get up in your finances get up okay see okay it's in the text i'm going to show it to you again suddenly it's waiting on you to be sleep the chains are falling are waiting for you to get up the chains can't fall until Bondage says "I want to I want to fall off but I can't fall off until you get up." Here here here's the kicker y'all that I found so anointing peter is in a dark place in a dungeon and God finds him in a dark place i don't know who I'm talking to today but God will find you in a dark place i'm not talking about darkness in prison i'm talking about the darkness of your mind the darkness of unforgiveness the darkness of bitterness the darkness of anger god says "I'll find you right there i know you've been there since 1999 i know you've been there since 2000." He said "I'll find you right there." Come here come here verse number seven and verse number eight are not married to each other jesus listen when he tells her "Get up cuz I want to show you something." He says "Get up." And the chains fall off and the angel says "Put on your clothes." Okay y'all i got a whole lot I want to throw at this put on your clothes put on your sandals wrap your cloak around you which means your clothes are in the prison why are your clothes in the prison with you as though God already knew that he was going to bring you out anyway okay maybe that's not enough for you then I said maybe that's not the case god why did you want him to grab his clothes he says "Catch this because I don't want him to leave here exposed cuz I don't want him to look like where he's been [Music] you're not leaving this church you're not leaving this program in them prison clothes you're not leaving here in that prison mind." Yeah then I asked him this i said "If that's not the case give me another one." He said "Catch this." And I pray this is for everybody in here i said "Why did you tell him to grab his shoes his clothes and everything?" He says "Catch this." He said "Because I didn't want to leave any residue behind of where he had been." Somebody better hear me sometimes when God pulls you out of a place it is not meant for you to go [Applause] back sometimes when it hurts you because they left God did not mean for you to go back when you packed that last time God said "Grab your hat your coat and got to I got to show you something i got to show you something i got to get out of here i got to show you something and in in in verse N he says he says "Get everything and leave." Comes verse N he says "And follow me." I want to make sure y'all have the same shout now he says "And follow me out of here." Now here is where everything changes he says "But he had no idea what the angel was doing." It's right there he says "What the angel was doing?" I had no idea what was going on i thought it was a vision i asked God this question why did you not make Peter aware of what was going on and he took me to a medical terminology called cognitive bias i said "Cognitive bias?" He said "Yes son cognitive bias is not a random error it is rather predictable pattern that people often times do that they make decisions based off their experiences their past behaviors and what they think is going to happen and God is saying "I'm about to do something different." And what I don't need is for him to get in the way of what I'm doing next so I don't need for him to get a cognitive bias and for him to think "Watch this i'm working a random pattern of something I did in the [Applause] P." Okay okay i said "God help me understand this." He says "I did it because I didn't need Peter to get in the way god says "I need you to stop interfering with your deliverance." [Music] Okay okay okay you don't believe it you don't believe it somebody shout "Show me." Show me i can't hear somebody shout "Show me." Show me okay god's trying to show you greatness you're trying to show him grasshoppers [Music] come here numbers 13 he said "We are well able to take every promise you have." And then somebody in the audience somebody in your crew somebody in your circle somebody with cognitive bias that deals with the random pattern of a past behavior says "For we are grasshoppers in our own sight and God said "Are you kidding me are you serious do you know what I'm doing in your life i don't need you to interfere with what I'm trying to do for you and you're messing up because you think you know everything you mean to tell me you mean because your mama went through it you got to go through it because your daddy went through it you have to go through it the devil is a [Music] liar you can be the first one in your family to bring forth wealth generational wealth you can be the first one to break the pattern don't tell me i am sick and tired of people telling me where they come from i'm sick and tired of people telling me how you raised you know what that says to me peter you're in a prison that you don't think God can get you out of what God is saying to me is don't tell me about a pattern tell me about my praise don't tell me about my pattern tell me about a promise don't tell me about what you can't do tell me about who I am i'm the God that starts a generation i'm the God that okay okay [Music] okay y'all oh I got so much more I want to talk about he says "Listen you get in the way." Peter said "I had no idea what was going on." Yeah yeah peter said "I I I had no idea what was going on." I want to declare to some of you today you're about to head into a season god's about to bless you so good you have no idea what's going on i'm walking in the season i have no idea what's going on every time I turn around blessings is hitting my house i have but what I'm not going to do I'm not going to tell God I'm a grasshopper what I'm not going to do is get in my own way of what God's trying to bless me with i dare you to touch everybody you can and tell him "It just hit your house it just hit your house it just hit your house it just It just It doesn't Yeah yeah yeah [Applause] don't tell me about your current condition don't tell me about your [Music] situation what if what if cuz I like to do this when I'm reading scripture i like to play what if every now and then i just like to play what if what if what if God had allowed Peter to have a conversation with the angel and he started asking the angel "How we going to get past this first guard how we going to get past this second guard how we going to get past this iron gate?" Okay you missed it what I I like to play what if when I'm reading scripture uh what if how we going to get past this first god how we going to get past the second go see I missed the first time too i missed second time too what see catch this catch this what if God kept Peter silent because if he had talked during the time of motion he would have woke the enemy up sometimes you better learn how to move in silence so you don't wake the snake up you better learn how to move in silence so you don't wake the enemy up you better learn how to move in silence so the snake don't get up baby this is my deliverance i'm moving in i'm not saying [Music] [Applause] up okay I told you I play what if what if so I say so I learned to move in silence i learn move in silence season saints ain't talking to y'all cuz real G's moving silence like lasagna so we like say it again spell it again don't worry about it you then I said okay so I know how you got past the soldiers i know you how you got past snakes you got to learn how to move silence then the text says you come to an iron gate oh then I say how you going to move iron gate the text says the iron gate opens by itself so I I play what if I say so if he had been open if he had been up Peter naturally would have tried to push the gate hey I beat that let me see if I can do this what if What if What if he had got past all of that and wasn't strong enough to push the gate open by itself so now you're in the middle of a deliverance and you think God brought you this far to leave you have you ever been in the middle of deliverance and say "God have you brought me this far to leave me?" And here's what God is saying god is saying "Be quiet and keep your hands off of it." [Applause] Cuz when you're quiet and keep your hands off of it you'll find doors will swing open see we want to run the rotor and the praise and that's good but I want to get before we get to Roa cuz there's so much happen before we get to Ro and the text says when they get down the street the text says Peter comes to himself wait a minute when he gets the street he comes to himself he He comes to And then he realizes wait a minute god brought me out of this i want to prophesy to somebody today you're about to have one of them moments i want to prophesy to somebody today you're about to have one of those moments or you realize "Wait a minute." Put it in the comments wait a minute i just he says "Wait a minute." This is everything that Herod was going to plan to do that's not all it says it says "And the Jewish people were hoping would happen." Put verse 11 on the screen just in case think I made it up i didn't make it up it's in the Bible verse number 11 says "And the last clause says and they God rescued me from her clutches and from everything the Jewish people were hoping would happen which means there were people hoping you wouldn't make it [Applause] shh don't tell nobody don't tell nobody it's people hoping you ain't going to make it but can I tell you something god's about to do the opposite god is about to do the opposite they thought you were going to die god said you going to live they thought you were going to be broke god said I'm about to make you wealthy they thought you were going to be in bondage god said I'm about to make you free you're about to come to yourself and everything they thought going to happen but but but but I but but I got to but I but I got to mess with you i got to mess with you cuz remember remember we are praying church we're interceding cuz remember I got to mess with you all of this is happening while the church is praying which means there is motion in one place while prayer is happening in another place which means there's prayer happening over here but motion happening over here so you may not see it happening yet but baby to everybody that's been praying just because you don't see motion that don't mean God ain't moving i want to declare to somebody today God is moving [Music] [Applause] [Music] okay here's what's important here's important the text says Peter now if you ask me I'm Peter i'm out of there i'm Can I keep it 100 i'm out i'm gone i'm out of prison i'm out of here peter does something that's peculiar peter goes to the church peter goes to the house that's praying peter go wait a minute so Peter don't know they're praying for him but the answer is going to prayer i don't think you heard me you didn't hear me the answer is responding to prayer prayer isn't praying out loud in the middle of the street prayer is in the house with the door closed but the answer here is prayer in the spirit realm okay I got to get out of here i got to get out of here and the text says Peter gets to the house y'all catch this he don't knock on the door and you read it he knocks on the gate the gate that leads to the door now I I wish I had time to really unpack this because Roa comes and hears Peter uhhuh hear me roa is a female young servant the word servant that really means slave she's a female she's young and she's a slave catch this and the servant hears the knock the people that's praying don't hear the knock the only people that hears the knock is the people that's serving catch this there's nothing wrong with praying we need prayers but we need servers too and we don't get our roles confused catch this this going to mess you up please don't sign off yet y'all don't run don't run cuz the text says "Roda goes and hears Peter's voice she doesn't open the door she doesn't open the gate as a matter of fact we don't even know what Peter says to Roa i don't know if she said "Hey it's me." The only thing we know is she runs away happy okay catch this the text says she's overjoyed she doesn't see his face she just hears his voice she gets happy because she hears his voice maybe you don't hear me her joy gets erupted because all she heard was his voice we're living in a day and time now where people want to see God move by his face but baby all I want to hear i don't have to see you move just tell me you in my vicinity oh just tell me you something y'all she don't see him but she hear him catch this and the door is closed but Peter's still talking roa runs inside and say "Hey y'all can I make this Ebonic?" Hey y'all peter out there peter out there peter out there verse 15 they said "Man you done lost your mind you crazy you lost your mind you crazy." Let me help some of y'all don't you ever lose opportunity to hear God's message because you concentrate on the messenger god will send a qualified answer to a unqualified person remember I told you she's a female she's young and she's a servant slave she's not supposed to have this type of information but God uses her why because she hears the voice she hears the voice but here's why I want us i think here's where I want to park and hover right here one second do watch this there's this function happening inside you crazy he ain't out there they say it's an angel now you start reasoning with stuff that don't make sense you might be hearing something but it ain't him you just don't know so now you start reading my message but here here's where I want to park i think I want to park right here but the text said "But Peter keeps on knocking hear me in spite of the dysfunction that's happening Peter is still knocking in spite of the dysfunction that you're living in Jesus is still knocking in spite of what you did last night let me park right here but in spite of stuff that we have done I didn't say y'all we inclusive of me he's still knocking he says "I'm not leaving this door until you open it." You know what I found out reading this text and we standing you know what I found out the devil does not care about you praying he He let you pray the devil did not stop them from praying he did not cause confusion when they were praying he don't He doesn't want you to stop praying he doesn't want you to open the door because if you open the door the answers are closer than you [Applause] think you you I want to I want to do a I want to do an altar call but I want to do an altter call uniquely around verse number 17 do me a favor verse 17 on the on the screen um the last the last 17 says this but I want to do it from the the last clause of verse it says "Tell James and his brothers and his sisters about this." He said it um right here it says "And then he left for another place." Cuz this he didn't stay there when God brings you out don't stay there and I'm I don't and I don't mean topography your address i mean whatever you're in don't stay there god brought you out of that thing don't stay there so here's what I want to do i want to I want to be absolutely honest with you there have been some areas of my life that I absolutely struggle with and I struggle with staying there or moving and I needed God to help me how do I move beyond this area of my life that I'm struggling with so here's what I want you to do not it's closer than you think because you want stuff it's closer than you think because you want deliverance if you're strugg and and I don't hear me when I say this you can struggle with something and it's not sinful nature hear me when I say you you could be struggling with shopping i said that to make you laugh people oh they struggling they sing they going to hell i I I get so sick remember we're not judging praying all right if there's a struggle that you're dealing with and you don't want to go back to that place do me a favor meet me at this altar i don't care what that is i don't care what it is there's nobody here that's going to judge you i don't care if it's sinful not sinful by nature whatever it is there there's a struggle you want to get better but you're struggling at getting better you want to be a better husband but you're struggling at it you want to be a better wife but you're struggling at it you want to be a better employee but you're struggling at it how do I get past this struggle see what I love about this text is that sometimes the revelations what we get out of the text learning to move in silence learning of what the ecosystem to have snakes come out to us cuz the truth be told um you're closer than you think in what God is doing in your life peter make a conscious decision he says "I'm not going back that way i'm not going back i'm and whatever that thing is is that that's what is and that's what I'm not going back to." And and that's why my made my opening statement this we're not judging anybody do me a favor cuz I feel like being funny i don't want to be too serious in this altter call find somebody to pull and say "I'm not going to judge you i'm not going to judge you." Now I'm not going to judge you i'm not going to judge you i'm not going to judge you cuz we're all here for some reason we all here because we want to get better at something we're all here because we have a desire to be better i want to be better my heart's desire is to be better and I am going to be better at it but here's what I have to do sometimes if I can be honest with you sometimes I got to get me out of the way can I be me can I tell you the worst enemy me me 100 me i get I me is in the way soon as I got I get together mess up and catch this and as soon as God forgive me catch this me have a problem forgiving me mhm do you know God has forgiven me for something that I have yet to forgive myself for god says "Why are you walking around with unforgiveness of your own self?" Boy I forgave you for that 20 years ago you walking around with condemnation of your own self of stuff I don't even remember so catch this so then I learned how to sleep i learned how to rest yes and when I learned how to rest suddenly showed up when I learned how to rest suddenly just showed up and I found myself suddenly living in a level of life that I've dreamed of living because I learned how to sit down and say you know what i'm not worrying about that anymore and I sense this in my spirit and online there's people worrying about something you need to stop worrying about i don't know why I just picked that up in my spirit who am I talking to stop worrying about that yeah stop worrying i just Yeah stop whatever stop worrying about that it's going to be all right let it go as what he said "Stop worrying about that it's going to be all right." As a matter of fact it's already all right suddenly as soon as you rest suddenly you're not going to cry about that anymore don't worry about it it's done it's done that is done no more cognitive bias god's going to break the pattern god's going to break the pattern financially god's going to break the pattern new increase god's going to break the pattern and if I'm talking out loud I'm talking to more than just her yes so it's not just her I'm talking to father I thank you for every person that's on this altar for everybody that's watching online God we thank you for everyone who's been worrying that needs to let it go we declare financial increase in the name of Jesus now God anoint us from the crown of our head to the sole of our feet god we get rid of worry we thank you for blessing us to be a blessing to others now strengthen us and keep us in the name of Jesus now God let your oil rest like never before in the name of Jesus i declare a special oil on the woman of God in the name of Jesus let fresh oil flow in the name above every name satan the Lord rebukes you and the blood of Jesus is against you increase increase breakthrough increase in the name of Jesus and we declare it [Music] [Music] who are [Music] fresh on your [Music] life i got to stop i got to stop i got to stop i got to stop i got to stop i got to stop i got to stop [Music] father I pray for everybody in this circle father let an anointing in the name of Jesus let it fall fresh let it fall fresh let it fall fresh oil fresh oil fresh oil God fresh oil give them revelation give them anointing breakthrough in the name of Jesus crush strongholds anoint them from the crown of their head to the soul of their feet online in the pews let it be so in the name of Jesus now father we give you the praise the glory and honor in Jesus name we pray amen amen yeah yeah yeah yeah yeah i am it's who I am it's who I am is who I am you're a good [Music] cook do me a favor as we're leaving i want to make sure I pray a benediction and if you could if you could stop that's fine if you're not that's fine too i want to make sure I pray but not only do I pray Father as we leave this place but never your presence station your angels around us and keep us anoint us from the crown of our head to the sole of our feet Father and if there is one in here today who have decided to deliver and give their life to you let them not leave here today God without making their way here to acknowledge it and God if there's one that decides to join with us Lord God we pray today that the special anointing will rest upon their life that they join this community of believers as we continue to strengthen and grow now God we bind the hands of the enemy protection from any hurt harm or danger satan the Lord rebukes you and the blood of Jesus is against you we rebuke all bodily injuries tickets accidents anything that's outside of the will of God let your anointing flow until we meet again we give you the praise the glory and the honor in Jesus' name we pray amen amen amen god bless you i love you i'll see you Sunday [Music]