Get The Lid Off
Get The Lid Off
Living without limits begins with understanding the transformative principle of walking by faith rather than sight. Too many believers allow their circumstances to dictate their spiritual experience, relying on temporary feelings or situations instead of God's unchanging word. Faith is the only currency that works in heaven, and everything in God's kingdom operates through this principle - from salvation to breakthrough.To remove the lid from our lives, we must make room for God's presence at the highest level, not relegating Him to the basement of our priorities. Like the notable woman in 2 Kings who prepared an upper room for the prophet, we need to elevate God above everything else in our lives. When we do this, we become infectious with His love, carrying a peace that doesn't make sense and a joy that's unexplainable. The goal isn't just personal transformation but becoming so filled with God's presence that we change atmospheres wherever we go.Maintaining this faith-filled lifestyle requires staying connected to God's word and expecting Him to do more in our lives. The Bible remains the most relevant book for life, addressing every situation we'll face. We must resist spiritual complacency and stay hungry for more of God, believing that the best is yet to come. This means taking practical steps of faith that require trusting God beyond what we can see or control, becoming world-changers who affect our environment rather than being affected by it.
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Get the Lid Off Your Life: Walking by Faith, Not by Sight
Have you ever felt like there's more God wants to do in your life, but something seems to be holding you back? Like there's a lid keeping all the potential bottled up inside? Today we're going to explore what it means to remove the limitations we place on God and allow Him to overflow through our lives in powerful ways.
What Does It Mean to Walk by Faith?
The foundation of removing life's limitations starts with understanding a crucial biblical principle: "For we walk by faith and not by sight" (2 Corinthians 5:7). This isn't just a nice saying - it's a transformative way of living that changes everything.
When we walk by faith, we don't look at our circumstances as the final word. Circumstances come and go, but God's word never changes. Too many believers rely on having a good Sunday service to carry them through the week, but we need to be consistent in our walk with God, relying on His word rather than our feelings or situations.
Why Faith Matters More Than Sight
Walking by sight means being limited by what we can see, understand, or control. But faith opens up the realm of the impossible. Without faith, it's impossible to please God (Hebrews 11:6). Everything in the kingdom operates by faith - we're saved by faith, filled with the Holy Spirit by faith, and experience breakthrough by faith.
Faith is the only currency that works in heaven. When we learn to operate in faith rather than being restricted by what we see, we position ourselves for God to do the miraculous in and through our lives.
How Do We Remove the Lid from Our Lives?
David understood this principle when he declared, "Let God arise, let his enemies be scattered" (Psalm 68:1). To let God arise in our lives, we must remove the lids that keep Him contained to small areas of our existence.
Making Room for God's Presence
In 2 Kings 4:10, we read about a notable woman who made an upper room for the prophet. She didn't put God in the basement or back room of her house - she made room for His presence at the highest level. This teaches us that God wants to be elevated above everything else in our lives.
You can't put God in the basement of your life and expect to shine with His fire. He wants to live on top of everything else, to be the most important priority. When we worship and exalt Jesus as Lord of all, we're making room for His presence to overflow.
Becoming Infectious with God's Love
When we remove the lid from our lives, we become infectious in the best way possible. People should encounter something different about us - a peace that doesn't make sense, a joy that's unexplainable, a love that's supernatural.
The goal isn't just personal transformation, but becoming so filled with God's presence that we affect our environment. When we walk into a room, atmospheres should change. Doubt should flee. Peace should come. This is what happens when we're overflowing with the presence of God.
What Happens When We Live Without Limits?
Living without limits doesn't mean being reckless or presumptuous. It means hearing God clearly and stepping out in obedience, even when it seems impossible by natural standards.
God Makes a Way Where There Seems to Be No Way
When God calls us to something that seems impossible, He's not asking us to figure out how to make it happen. He's asking us to trust Him and take the steps of faith He shows us. He will shift people, open doors, and provide resources in ways we never could have imagined.
The key is distinguishing between God's voice and our own ambition. When God speaks, there's an anointing and peace that accompanies His direction. When we try to copy someone else's faith journey without hearing from God ourselves, we can end up in trouble.
Affecting Our World Instead of Being Affected by It
Too often, the world affects us more than we affect it. But when we remove the lid from our lives and walk in faith, we become world-changers. We're not waiting for circumstances to improve - we're believing God to use us to improve circumstances for others.
This generation needs believers who will step up and be the light in dark places, who will bring hope where there's despair, and who will demonstrate God's love in practical ways.
How Can We Maintain This Faith-Filled Lifestyle?
Stay Connected to God's Word
The Bible isn't outdated - it's the most relevant book for life. Everything you'll face in life is addressed in its pages. When we consistently read and meditate on God's word, it builds faith in our hearts and keeps us connected to His voice.
Make reading the Bible a priority, not just checking it on your phone. Let the next generation see you valuing God's word. Write down the date you got saved in the front of your Bible and remind yourself regularly of that transformative moment.
Expect God to Do More
Don't get comfortable with where you are spiritually. God wants to change you from glory to glory, meaning life should be getting better as you grow in Him. The best is yet to come, not just for you personally, but for the church and for what God wants to do through His people.
Stay hungry for more of God. Don't let the fire go out. Keep pressing in, keep believing, keep expecting God to do the impossible.
Life Application
This week, identify one area of your life where you've put a "lid" on what God can do. Maybe it's in your relationships, your career, your ministry, or your personal growth. Ask God to show you what it would look like to remove that limitation and trust Him completely in that area.
Take one practical step of faith this week - something that requires you to trust God beyond what you can see or control. It might be having a conversation you've been avoiding, stepping into a ministry opportunity, or believing God for breakthrough in a situation that seems impossible.
Ask yourself these questions:
Where in my life am I walking by sight instead of faith?
What limitations have I placed on what God can do through me?
How can I make more room for God's presence in my daily life?
What step of faith is God asking me to take this week?
Remember, you may see yourself as ordinary, but with God's anointing on your life, there's an overwhelming flow that can change neighborhoods, schools, workplaces, and businesses. The question isn't whether God is able - it's whether you're willing to remove the lid and let Him work through you without limits.
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Good to be with you guys again this second service. How many here for the second go, boy? There's a few came back. Well, I reckon the early bird gets a worm, so there we go. Anyway, it's good to be here with you for a second service.
You guys are awesome. And how many believe that you're in the right place at the right time today? Yeah, yeah, there's a few of you there. Well, it's my honour, Julia and My great honour to be here serving Pastor Adrian and Norell. And we love these guys.
And I. I was just thinking this morning, actually, I probably met. How many years ago was that? Pastor Adrian? Six years ago. I first met him and he was driving me around.
And like, in all the ministry I've done all over the world, I have never been in a car that bad. And I thought, right then I thought, I like this guy. I'm gonna be a friend of his for life. And here we are, we're back again. I just loved it.
I was praying for the car that we'd get me to wherever I had to go. And now I get him today. It's boring. We're in a brand new car and it's just ordinary, you know, so don't know what's happened there, but it's good. Listen, Julia and I are very ordinary people, really.
And I know Julia delivered a great word for you last night, but we're just ordinary people. But we have an awesome God. And we are here today to testify that God is amazing. And that's why your worship team is brilliant. By the way, that was flipping both services this morning.
I think you guys got a bit supercharged on the second service, actually. I like that girl on the base, wherever you are, where are you? She's right down the back there. Okay. Way out of the spit range.
You'll never get your eyes healed anyway, but it is good to be here. And Julia and I, like I say, we're very ordinary people. We've been married for 50, 52 years, man. 52 years we've been hanging out together. And so.
So I recommend to you today the word of God. Okay? And we got born again 48 years ago. We gave our lives to Christ. And that on the 10th of October, 1978, at 10pm at night, Julia and I gave our lives to Christ.
And it's good to remember that because the devil's a liar. And he'll try to steal away the greatest moment of your life if you're not careful. Write it in the front of your Bible. When I got born again. When God totally, radically.
Get it up the right way, Donny. When you got born again. And remind the devil that that was a transformative moment in your life and that God radically changed you then. And I want to tell you it was a shift in our lives. And since then, we've just.
We're still in love and we're loving each other and we're loving the call of God on our lives. And some people sort of get burnt. I don't know how that happens. They get burnt out. I don't know how that happens.
When you got the fire of God burning within, it's like. It's kind of weird. But anyway. And we are still passionate today as we were then. In fact, I might be a little more passionate right now.
And so stay fired up, up and go for God. Amen. And how many got the Bibles? Wave them around. I want to see you wave them around.
Come on, we've got to scare the devil a bit. Wave them around here. There we go. There's a few iPhones, there's a few ipods, there's all sorts of. Yeah, all gadgets hanging up.
But I want to recommend the Bible to you, okay? And the reason I recommend the Bible to you, this is the word of God. I must be sweating. This cord stuck to my back. But anyway, I gotta get the jacket off, baby.
And the Bible, when your grandkids or your kids are watching you read the Bible on your iPhone, they're not sure, you're not checking out your Facebook likes. And I reckon we need to raise a generation that loves the word of God. And our nation's gotta get back to the word of God, okay? And the way we can be the starters of that. This is the most relevant book to life, okay?
Everything you will face. We found that everything we face in life is right here in these pages, okay? There's not one situation that you'll face in life that this cannot help you overcome it, okay? Even in the tragedy of grief, our son tragically killed at age 31. And I want to tell you, without this, Jesus in a leather jacket is what you need in your darkest hour.
The most relevant person you could ever have. People tell me this book's outdated. No, it ain't. He turns up, up just the way we'd look today. And I want to tell you, you need Jesus.
And remember, before Jesus arrived, this was it. He was the Word. And so we need the word of God in our lives. So I'm going to encourage you. Get a Bible, get the real deal, and get off those iPhones and start reading the Word of God.
Amen. It's a bit of a stir for you today. All right? While you're holding those up, come on, you can still hold your iPhone up. I won't condemn you anymore.
Holy Spirit, we thank you for your word this morning as we hold the Word up. We thank you right now for the moving of your power. We thank you, Lord God, that whatever I say, your Anointing be on it. And, Lord, that it penetrate our hearts. God, that we encounter you this morning, that we live different to what we came because of the power of your love and the incredible anointing that's in the service.
In Jesus mighty name. And everybody shouts amen. So I want to bring you a message this morning. I'm simply going to title it, and I've got my little. Here it is.
Okay. Get the lid off your life. Boom. You can't get what's in there out of it until you get the lid off. True.
I'll drink to that.
And. But seriously, I believe God's word to us today would be remove the lid and let God be everything he can. Thank you very much, Katrina. We will use that in a minute. You can bring that up here.
Yeah, I'll use that. I'll do a little bit more of an example than I did in the first service. Okay. Because I sort of couldn't do that in the first service anyway. Hello, online.
Hello to all the services that are watching this. And your name's just totally gone from me. Who's watching?
What are the churches that are watching this? Oh, yeah. Casey still tuned in. Okay. Hello, Casey.
Good to see you there and anyone else from around the world who's watching this. It's so awesome to be online with you today, and I want to challenge you with the word of God to tune in, take notes, and let this change your life. In Jesus name, amen. So we do need to allow God's word to penetrate every fiber of our being so that we leave different to what we can't. And I think if you haven't caught on to that, let's get it this morning in Jesus.
I just got to read to this guy. Just got this text. Okay. I just got this. I've just got to read it to you because it's so fun and.
Hi, Pastor Don. My name is Savannah. I never wanted to know about church or being a Christian because I thought you were all weirdos. However, last Wednesday, a friend invited me to hear you speak, and you so inspired us that I'm now not sure what even happened. But I encountered the God you talked about, and I know now I am different.
I don't think I'll ever be the same again. Something changed in my heart. I'm so hungry for more. I just want to thank you for introducing me to Jesus and for being a vessel that brought the reality of God's love to me. P.S.
if it's okay with you, I'd like to become your friend on Facebook, Savannah. So awesome. And Bill, I think honestly, and the only reason I read you that is because it goes along with my message that what's in us needs to overflow. What in us needs to have an effect on the world around. And if it's not, let's get fired up again in Jesus name.
Amen. So bringing you this message and I'll title it, you know, remove the lid, get the lid off your life and I'll give you a couple of verses that I think that I hope will inspire you and fire you up a little bit. Okay. And the first one's going to come up on your screen any second. Get the.
Oh, I love that. You guys go. Here we go. So everybody can say that together. 2 Corinthians 5, 7 says, for we walk by faith and not by sight.
Okay. Tonight I'm going to share a little bit of my testimony and it will prove that those that verse is one of the most powerful verses you will ever get in your life. Okay. We walk by faith and not by sight. So we don't look at our circumstances.
Amen. Our circumstances. I found that circumstances come and go, but God's word never ever changes. And we need to get his word alive in our life to the degree where it actually ignites a fire within us that we continue burning. Okay.
Because I find that too many people rely on the. If church is good on Sunday, we are good all week. If church is not great on Sunday, we struggle all week. We have got to be very consistent in our walk. Alright?
So we're not reliant on someone else. We're reliant on the word of God. That's why I say let's get this thing happening in our world so that we can rely on this and walk in it in Jesus name. And I think when we start doing that, we start affecting Australia in Jesus name. Okay.
And, and I think we just need to affect our nation in a greater way. I, I, I'm fired up about that stuff. I tell you, like, let's affect the nation in Jesus name and let's make a difference. I'm struggling to find my other verse here. I don't know why that is.
Oh, here come miles off. That's why. Sorry about that. That. Here we go.
Okay. Psalm 68 and verse 1. Psalm 68 and verse 1 want to give you this. It says, let God arise, let his enemies be scattered. Let them also that hate him flee before him.
Okay, so this is David and he's saying that there's something resisting or restricting what God wants to do in our world. Incidentally, when we were singing that song this morning, that the storm, the storm is going to be neutralized at the name of Jesus. Okay? Jesus and I just felt. There's some people here this morning that are in the middle of a storm right now.
You're going through a storm in your life right now. And Jesus stood up in the storm in the boat and he spoke to the storm and he said, peace, be still. And whoever that is right now, going through a storm, and it's pretty radical in your life. I just really felt that on the front row. And I felt God say, from this moment on, something happened in worship and you're going to know peace, be still, and you're going to walk in the peace of God.
Amen. That's just for somebody here this morning. That's just a bonus right there. Okay. Let God arise.
So to let God arise, we've got to rip the lid off our lives and let God be everything he can be. Because too often we restrict God by. We keep lids on and we keep in the comfort zone. I love Pastor Trevor because he's, excuse me, he's the man that rearranged your chairs so that you don't know where to sit on a Sunday morning. And I love that guy because we've sometimes just got to rattle the cage a bit and find what's really on the inside.
And so the reality is today that maybe you're sitting in a different seat. And it's called change. All right? And we love change because my Bible says that he's changing us from glory to glory. So life should be getting better.
We should be attaining a level where we become more mature and we grow in God consistently day by day, and we live better lives that shine brighter for him. Because how many know Australia needs some bright light shining with the glory of God. And I believe right now this is your season. In fact, can I say to Connect Church, the best is yet to come. I believe you guys are on the verge of incredible breakthrough and the best is yet to come.
Okay? And you can get excited about it or not, I don't care. But I'm declaring that as a word of God to you today, that the best is yet to come for Connect Church and get ready for what God's going to do in your lives. Amen. We're talking miracles.
We're talking healing, we're talking the power of God is going to explode in this place so that you become so equipped under the anointing of the Holy Ghost that you cause your life to shine in Jesus name. Amen. And it needs to happen. When Julia and I got born again, it was a radical salvation. A guy by the name of George Thomas, who was a disciple of Smith Wigglesworth, if you've ever heard of him, if you haven't, I suggest you find out about him.
He was one of the great apostles of faith in our time. And so Smith Wigglesworth was so fired up that he walked into a coal mine one day and laid hands on a 12 year old George and said, george, you're going to get born again. You're going to travel the world, you're going to see miracles, the dead raised and you're going to see incredible moves of God. And then that man shifted and lived next door to Julia and I, which is pretty exciting. He came down, he was 78, 77, Julia at the time, an elderly man.
And he had us living next door. And so how exciting could that be? So we were the party animals of our street. We, we partied every. And partied well, should I say.
And I still remember, I still remember the night he came over and he invited himself. You love people who invite themselves, don't you? And so he invited himself to our house. We were in the middle of a party and our parties were noisy and I thought he had come maybe to say turn the music down at 76. Sometimes they don't like loud music, even though I do.
But I thought he'd maybe come for that. And we were out of it. I was having fun with a bit of Californian crystal at the time. And so it was a great night. George walked in and he said, I want to speak to you.
And I thought it was going to be about the sound. But he said, do you realize God has a call on your life? And do you realize that God's got a plan for your life? That he wants you to travel the world and preach the gospel? Well, mate, it was the furthest thought from my.
I couldn't even grasp what he was saying, it was so weird. And I thought, man, what the heck, you know, what the heck are you on about? He said, you're going to see the dead raised, you're going to see miracles, you're going to see thousands saved. And then he said, could I pray for you now? Most people I'd ever met, their prayers couldn't fight their way out of a paper bag.
So I thought, what harm could that do? I said, go do your best, mate. Go for it. And he Laid hands on my shoulder. I'll never forget it.
That day, he laid hands on my shoulder, and he began to pray for me. And I had a supernatural encounter with the God of heaven right there in my own home, under the hands and under the anointing of the Holy Ghost on my. And it shifted our lives so radically that our entire neighborhood got saved. Okay? So I want to tell you, there is power.
That's why I say we got to get back to the word of God. There's power in the word of God. It can change. It doesn't just change you. It changes everything about you.
We became so infectious. You thought Covid was infectious. That ain't got nothing on us, man. Covid's scared of me. I've never had Covid yet, and I'll tell you right now, the reason I've never had it is because Covid is terrified of me.
Because when you've got the power of God's word on the inside of you, bigger than any other disease, because we become infectious, you should get around us and you catch something off us, you know, it's like, people should be like, what the heck are you carrying? I was sitting down. I was. I was in a. In a.
A Virgin Airlines. I like Virgin Airlines. I think you guys are blessed to have Virgin Airlines in your country. And they are one of the great. Their lounges of the best lounges.
Just saying. Okay, yeah, just saying. Can I even say it? I think Qantas lounges suck. But anyway.
Careful. And. And. And we don't even know about cricket in New Zealand. Like, that was all.
Like, what. That was just this morning. Where. Where. Rugby.
How did you go.
Anyway, I was sitting down in a Virgin. We'll leave that. Leave that alone. Sitting down a Virgin lounge and in a Virgin Airways lounge. I'm trying to think how I do this.
And here I was. Anyway, I had a glass like this. I was just sitting down, just relaxing and. Oh, and just relaxing. Having a bit of fun.
And. Oh, yeah, I need that glass over here, please. Yeah, I need another bottle now that I'm. Thank you. Thank you.
That's awesome. And here we go. I want you to see this, because this is quite powerful. And so I was like. I had my glass like that.
There we go. That's perfect, actually. And I had another bottle, and it will do this nicely for you this morning. Rip the lid off. Here we go again.
Another example for you.
And then she came along, the hostess. And can I congratulate the hostess department in this church? I think you Guys are some of the best I have seen. We come in these doors, we are so welcomed. I've had more coffees offered me.
In fact, I am, as you can tell, I am caffeined out. Ok? And so you guys, hospitality, I love you. I love the way you serve people. I love the way you welcome people.
And last night I was so encouraged, in fact touched in my spirit when I saw after the meeting last night, people cleaning up this auditorium and getting it ready for a great day today. You know, with that, in fact, give yourselves a big hand clap because there's some awesome people in this church who serve this church. Love you. Anyway, this girl comes along and she's looking at. And of course all the drinks are free in the Virgin Lounge.
So you drink as much as light and they've got the best sparking water in the world. And so I had my glass just sitting there and she came along and she looked at the glass, looked at the bottle and she was going to take it away as they do. And she thought, she looked at my glass and she thought, yeah, that'll work. And she just tipped it up and then it went. Okay, so it all overflowed over my pants.
Okay, so I had water all over me. I had, I was, I was, my pants were soaked actually. And she's like, oh, no, I'm so sorry. And she freaked out. And then she went to run and get towels.
She said, I'll go get a towel. And she went running. And I said, no, no, chill out. I said, it's cool. And so she, she, she kind of like stopped in time and she looked around and I said, you gotta realize, honey, I love the overflow.
And I think. And I'll try and give you the example right here, right now. So here's the overflow for you. Look, it gets around the place. All right, so we need to be like that glass overflowing a little bit.
And I'm going to challenge you this morning. Let's be overflowing with the presence of God.
Just trying to make it a little more balanced so that we affect the world we live in. That day she turned around, she couldn't believe that I was calm about it because most people get upset. And she said, what's different about you? And she began to talk to me. And I said to her, well, it's because I've had an encounter.
And so that will always challenge people, you know, what have you encountered? And so she started asking me this question. I said, I actually encountered a man. His name is Jesus. And he radically changed my life, life.
And I said, now I'm overflowing with his love. And I just love anything to do with the overflow. Well, she starts, next thing she starts shaking. She's like, what's going on? And I said, I don't know.
And so she's shaking. Then she starts crying. And this is just sitting in the lounge. This is just having a chill out time. We're not even having a worship service, we're just chilling out and she's crying and she's like, what the heck's going on?
And what it was. You see, the presence of God should overflow out of our lives and infect the environment. You know, when we turn up, atmospheres change in Jesus name. When doubtfully doubt goes in Jesus name. Jesus stood and said, peace be still to the storm.
And we can't half the time cause an environment around us to get conducive to his power operating in that environment. I think it's time we started overflowing with the presence of God and let faith arise in our heart to believe that we're born for such a time as this. And we can change not only our cities, but our towns, our nation in Jesus name. And we can have an effect that actually turns the world upside down like the disciples of old. Is anybody with me this morning?
Because I believe that God wants to impart some faith in here this morning that'll ignite you and set you on fire. Hallelujah. So Psalm David said, let God arise and let his enemies be scattered. And I believe it's time to let God do something in our lives that literally rattles the cage. She ended up giving her life to Christ in that virgin lounge.
Okay? I prayed the sinner's prayer with her right in the virgin lounge. And she became a radically transformed person. I believe that God wants us to be shifted in our environment so we affect our world instead of it affecting us. It's called a spirit of faith.
Okay? So I want to stir you with a spirit of faith and I want to challenge you a little bit about a spirit of faith this morning happening in Jesus name. 2 Corinthians 5, 7, which we just read, says we walk by faith and not by sight. So the reality is that we can lift our sights above the obstacles that are in our way and believe God for the best is yet to come in our lives. Yet in 2 Kings, chapter 4 and verse 10, it speaks about a woman, they call her a notable woman, who made an upper room on top of her house.
The Bible says she wanted to make room for the presence of God. Can I encourage someone? If you want to overflow with God, you've got to make room for him to dwell on the inside. The innkeeper had no room for Jesus to be born. They said, no, we can't accommodate you.
There's a lot of people in life, I find, have not got room for Jesus in their world. It's too busy. It's too happening. It's too this. It's too.
This woman saw the prophet walking by and said, we're gonna make room for God's presence in our house. House. So she rips the lid off her house. You can't put God in the basement. You can't put him in the back room of your life and expect to shine with the fire of God.
You've got to rip the top off everything. God wants to live on top of everything else in your life, he wants to be the most important one. That's why we worship him and that's why we sing. Because we're saying, jesus, you are the Lord of all, and I want to exalt you in my life. I want to worship you as number one.
This woman in 2 Kings, chapter 4 rips the lid off and makes room for God and it ignites a miracle in her life. I'm into miracles. I don't know about you, but I'm into miracles. I believe there are miracles. Like Pastor Adrian said this morning, I believe there are miracles happening in this service this morning because the worship lifted the lid off stuff.
And we've got to be experts at lifting the lid in Jesus name. Let the fire that's within you get a little bit burning so it shines a light wherever you are. Often the case is. And I'll show you this because I think it's important in our lives, but I believe too often we're supposed to be. What does it say in Matthew chapter 5 and verse 13?
Let your light so shine before men see the girl in the Virgin Lounge. She had dealt with, probably men mostly before, who would have got angry at the mishap, would have lost their cool, would have condemned her, would have cast her out even, maybe. But she was surprised that a man found it good news that she spilled water on them. It's different, I tell you. We gotta be different.
I thank God I'm a bit different to most people, let me tell you. I don't know if you've read Craig Groeschel's book, book called Weird, but we should be a little bit different. To what? The world is even a little strange at times because we react differently, because we have the love of God shining out of the inside of us. And I believe even right now, this is.
It's not working. My iPads died on me. And so we're probably not going to do that. Thank you. It was going to be a nice illustration for you.
And I'm sorry I can't give it to you, but maybe next time. Amen. I'm not. Haven't got time to go to Pink. Most of you would know pink.
I'll share it. I'll tell you what. We'll share that story tonight, okay? About pink. Because I, I, I have been a quadriplegic, okay?
You're looking. If you don't believe in miracles today, too late. You're watching one. All right? Because I was a quadriplegic from the neck down.
I've still got a broken neck. I walk here with a broken neck. I'll show you all that tonight, okay? And. But God.
God is. That's why I say we walk by faith and not by sight. I don't want to be looking at my X ray. I want to be looking at the word of God, okay? Because it says, by his stripes, we are healed.
Okay? So that's what we got to focus on, is the word of God. And so in the middle of that. And I'll share the pink story tonight, too, because I met Pink while I was actually, this arm would never work. This arm was still.
I don't know, it just wouldn't work. And I met Pink one day, and God said to me, make that lady a cup of coffee and I'll heal your arm. And so I made her a cup of coffee, even though she didn't really want it at first, but I convinced her she needed a coffee so she would sing better in her next concert. And when I made her the coffee and I prepared it for her, God said, you'll hand it to her with your paralyzed arm? And it came out of the sling.
After being in a sling for nearly a year, it came out of the sling. I picked up the coffee and handed her without spilling a drop. And she said, thank you. And I said, well, it's a miracle coffee because it's the first time the psalms worked in a year. And she said, could you come and tell your story?
So I ended up sharing the gospel with the whole Pink crowd. And so that was just fun to start with. All right? But the reality is that we need to have faith that's overflowing in our lives, okay? The Bible says that without faith, you can do nothing.
Okay? We try to do stuff without faith. I'll get back to my message here. But we try to do stuff without faith, and most of the time it's never going to work because God is a faith God, okay? There's only one currency that works in heaven, and it's called faith.
All right? We're saved by faith. We're filled with the Holy Spirit by faith. Everything we do is by faith. In the kingdom, you're not going to heaven, but by the confession of your.
By the confession of your. Just trying to hear it a little louder there, okay? And so David was very excited about faith. And David consistently challenged us with faith. In Hebrews chapter 11 and verse 6, it said, but without faith, it is impossible to please God, okay?
So, so the reality is to please God, we've got to be faith people that live by faith and understand faith, okay? That's why when we come to the word of God, we ignite the word of God. Listen to this. In Philippians, chapter three, in verse 12, it says, not that I have already attained all this or have already reached my goal, but I press on to take hold of that which Christ Jesus took hold of for me. Okay?
So God's done everything for us. We attain it by stepping into the realm of faith or right? So I'm encouraging you this morning as a people, let's believe God, that the best is yet to come. Not only for our lives, but for our church. See, we, Julia and I, went to auckland, New Zealand, 25 years ago, landed in Albany, and we, God, God challenged us.
A prophet actually spoke a word of us. Go start a church in the city called Albany. So we went to Albany. We started a church in the footy stadium. And that was a big deal.
We went there, Julia, me and our four kids, okay? So that was our crowd first Sunday. We put out an ad, And I think 160 people or something turned up in the rugby stadium on the top level. Looking at the scoreboard was our screen. And we had some pretty radical things happening there.
And a bunch of people turned up the next week. Might I say, though, it was down to 40, okay? So everything that happens on the first day is not necessarily it. However, God blessed us and we began to multiply and grow. Then we needed a building, okay?
And I felt God say, get a building. I went to the local pastors meeting when I arrived, and I went along and sat down with them and I said, listen, God sent us here to plant a church. And we're pretty excited about that. And they said, well, you'll be lucky if you last five years. Every other pastor who's come here five years and they're gone.
This is a tough town. Every town seems to be a tough town. And this is a tough town and you won't last. And I said, well, I dare to defy that because we're putting our trust in Jesus. And he sent us here to do something great, to change a generation in Jesus name and to make an altar here in the middle of the city.
City. And so we believed God. And anyway, five years, or a little more than five, about seven years into it, I was. We were challenged. We couldn't fit in any longer.
A bit like you guys. And so I'm walking down the street and I said to God, I'm praying, God, I need a building. Which building will it be? And I started interpreting my own tongue. And he said, why don't you look at that one?
And then I looked over and on the corner block There was a 2 1/2 acre block with 10,000 square meters of four buildings on it. And I felt God say to me, get it, get the dirt, get the dirt, get the dirt. So we were gonna purchase this piece of dirt. I felt in my heart right there. And I said, God, why is it.
He said, I want an altar that's gonna be confirmed for me for generations in the middle of the city, just like you've got here. This is not just. This is not a building. People tell me, well, the church is just a building. No, it's not.
This is an altar where people come and enc of the presence of God and their lives are changed forever. And generationally, it goes on. It's never just about now. See, I think we get so stuck on some of the crazy thinking around churches where we think the building's just a building and we're the people of God. But you remember Abraham built an altar.
Eighty years later, his great grandson Jacob comes along. He's messed up, and he ends up in the same place. And God's presence is still dwelling where he built an altar 80 years before. And he has an encounter with God that night. And he said, surely the presence of the Lord was in this place.
And you can feel the presence of God here this morning. God's not going to leave. This is going to be a generational thing that your grandchildren will end up in here. Your great grandchildren will end up in here. We got to believe that God is doing something fantastic in Our time that it's not.
If you're waiting at the Hallelujah bus stop ready to get out of here, let me put an alarm bell off for you today and say, get out of the bus stop and get ready to change your world in Jesus name name. Because too many people waiting for the return of Christ and not fired up about what we can change right now. We can deliver people, set them free. I've just been in Vietnam, Communist Vietnam, where we've had revival meetings. 5,000 people coming out to these meetings.
We've had ambulances turning up with dead people in them. And the ambulances don't take them to the hospital, they bring them to our meeting because they know that it's in the presence of God that people can get healed and restored. And we need to believe God that we're going to have nations that will be that on fire for God. Don't get too excited. It's going to happen, I promise you.
We get excited about the presence of God. So anyway, I went in and I inquired about the building. We ended up making an offer on this building. It was 8.6 million. Which, which kind of.
It didn't even seem to bother me. 8.6 million. Apparently it's a lot of money because when I went back to my board, they said, don, what planet are you on? We've got 176,000 in the bank. 8.6 million, we can't do it.
They said, we'll show you a building that we could buy. And they took me to a little building that you could probably have the kids church in. And they said, this is the kind of thing we can afford. And it was worth 2.5 million. And when I was in there looking at it, the Holy Spirit said, go for it.
You're on your own. And I thought, that's terrible. The last building I was looking at, I felt that he was with me, me, because it was a bit of a. Lift the lid on your face and do something a little bit out of the box. So I said to them, no, we can't do it.
I went back to the other building. The Holy Spirit said, I'll be with you in this journey. So we went to the banks. Every bank turned us down. This is how tough it is sometimes making decisions of faith.
Every bank turned. There's 10 banks in New Zealand. They all said, no, it'll never work. Never work. We're not giving you money.
We know what happens with churches. You guys split and it goes crazy. So we're not giving you which is a terrible testimony on the church. Let's change that in our generation. Let's change it.
Let's make the church the greatest light on earth. Thought you'd get more excited about that. Let's make the church the greatest example on earth, okay? Because it's sad when you hear the secular world saying those sort of reports about the church. And now they call us their greatest example of churches in New Zealand because the way we've mastered the debt.
But anyway, here's the deal that we ended up purchasing that building for 8.6 million. Every bank turned us down. I went back, they had a new bank manager. Thank you, God. God will shift people out of the way to get someone in the way that can make a way where there was no way, because he's the God of the impossible, remember?
And so brought in a new bank manager. I went and sat down with her. She said, don, if you can raise a million dollars in four weeks. Weeks, I'll give you sick. We wouldn't need.
We had already raised a million in the church. She said to me, raise one more million cash and I will give you 6.8 million. So I went, man, if I'd met Pastor Adrian, then it would have been made if you got a spare. I've just heard you've taken an offering up for your church. What about a loan of a million bucks?
And who knows what he would have said? He would have felt a generous spirit. Come on. And probably given it to me, okay. And anyway.
Anyway. But so anyone who spoke to me, it's like, have you got a million? We need a million in four weeks, we need a million. And I felt that God had confirmed this in our lives because he was the one who said, get the dirt. So a guy rang me up to sell me a new mobile phone.
And he rang me up, he said, don, I've got a new mobile phone that we're going to sell you. And I said, no, I don't need a phone. I need a million dollars. He said, strange you should ask. He said, I was just talking to a person that would have had a million dollars.
And I said, could you give me his name? And he said, well, why not? So he gave me his number and I phoned the dude up and I phoned him up and I said, mate, we need a million dollars. Any chance that you'd like to give it to a great venture? We're going to change New Zealand.
We're going to see thousands of young people come to Christ. I know you'd love to invest in that kind of a thing. And he went, beep, beep, beep, beep, beep, beep, beep, bang. And that was the end of that phone call. I phoned him another nine times.
Just to keep the story short, this morning I phoned him about another eight, eight, nine times. On the, on the ninth phone call, he said, if you ever call me again about this, I'm going to report it as a. Some sort of a phone call, harassing phone call, which is not good for your faith. It's not good when you're believing God that this is your sole key. Here we are on the 11th hour.
Here we are on the 11th hour. The bank had said to us and the lawyer had said, on Friday you must set. And of course, I'd gone in with pure faith, bowled a few walls out of the building. We'd already set it up, we'd already had a meeting there. We're ready to go and here we are, we got no money.
And then the miracle happened that, that Friday I said to my team, we're not going to freak out. Let's go out for dinner. I rang my lawyer and I said, listen, the money's been a little slow coming in. But I said, by Monday the money will be here. Can you give us an extension from Friday to Monday?
He said to me, I'll tell you what do you on. We'll give you to Monday at 4 o' clock to have the money. I said, thank you very much. I spoke to my team, I said, let's go party. God's got this.
And we went out, we partied that night. Julia and I went home, we prayed all night. That night I had a vision. I'd never met the guy on the end of the phone. I'd sent him our vision, I'd sent him pictures of the building, I'd sent him our faith statement, I'd sent him everything.
But I'd never met him. And that night in a vision, I saw this guy come walking across the room to me and he had a gray beard, he had gray hair, long gray hair. And he came walking across the room and he said, I'm giving you this million dollars because I believe that God has got you with this building you're buying. Seven o', clock, eight o' clock the next morning, I get a phone call. First time he's ever called me.
And he called me up and he said, I don't know what it is about your God, but today I'm flying to Auckland and I'm going to Meet you in the Kingsgate Hotel and I'm going to hand you that million dollars because God has dealt with me. Last night I went to the Kingsgate Hotel. The next day, took one of my accountants with me. We went along there and we get into the hotel for you. He comes walking across the room and here's the exact guy I saw in the vision.
He comes walking toward me. He's got a million dollar check in his hand. As he hands me the check. And we clasp hands and I say, thank you very much, sir, and God bless you. He falls to the ground, starts crying and has a total radical encounter with God.
Becomes born again and gets baptized in the Holy Ghost there. And then became one of my best friends in life and who actually promoted a TV series we did, and a whole lot of evangelism throughout New Zealand and gave us a million dollars. A few weeks after that, a single mom walked up to me and she said, here's a single mother. I just want you to hear that. Walks up to me and she says, here's 750,000 toward this vision that I know my children and my grandchildren will be in this vision.
And I want to get behind what God's doing in this place. We purchased the building and I just want to say to you today that you guys are awesome and what you have done in this place and what you're believing for in this place. Let me speak to this side, see if you're more excited than the other side. But I believe right now I want to say this to you. Get ready for what God's about to do, for what you gave for the expansion of this building.
You're sort of onto it. What about this side? Get ready. Get ready for what God's about to do, with what you have given toward this building. Let's try the middle.
Get ready for what God's about to do. Because I believe, yeah, God's about to release a spirit of faith on this place that is going to unlock the power of God all over your campuses and in everything you are doing. So I want to encourage you today, with God, all things are possible. Now. It doesn't mean that we just go out and.
Willie, one guy came to me and he sat down, sat down in my office and he said, wow, Don, he said, you know, I sort of look at you and I thought, you're just an ordinary pastor. And he said, so if you can do this deal, anybody can do it. He went and tried the same thing without the hand of God on it and lost the very Building he already had through a mismanaged deal. I want to tell you when you hear God, and this is why I say, let's go to the word of God, because God will tune in your life and unlock supernatural faith on your life, okay? And I believe today that the old guy who led me to Christ, he became my discipler, he became my mentor.
And one of the things he would consistently say to me was, don, you have caught faith. You've caught a spirit of faith. I couldn't teach you that, but you caught it hanging around with me. I was there on his deathbed, actually, not on it beside him. And when he died, I was like, God, I want to receive an impartation.
He's not going to the grave and taking this with him. And I reached out and grabbed his hand and put it on my head and I said, man, I just received the anointing that's on your life to go into my future in Jesus name. He was the guy that would say this to me, don, it's better caught than it is taught. You can't teach it. He said, don, you can never live in the smoke because you were born into the fire.
And we need a little bit more of the fire of God coming on our lives so that we literally shift and change the world we live in. I believe today that there are evangelists in this crowd. There are church planters in this crowd. I believe there are buildings in this crowd for the kingdom. I believe right now there's finance in this church to unlock an anointed revival in your city in Jesus name.
So I want to stir your faith today. Let's not put the lid on where we are and get comfortable with it. Let's lift the lid off again and let's open up whatever God can do with our lives lives, because the best is yet to come. In Jesus name, Amen. Amen.
I want to close today and I want to pray for you and I want to believe God for that spirit to be imparted in this place today, okay? So as we pray, I want to challenge you and stir your faith today that you may see yourself just an ordinary person in the kingdom. But with God's anointing on you, there is an overwhelming flow that's about to come out of your heart that will change neighborhoods, change schools, change workplaces, and change businesses. And I believe that. I believe it with all my heart.
We've seen that in a huge way in Vietnam, where we've brought young men, and instead of just starting churches, we've sponsored Young men into starting businesses. And it's taking off. I want to tell you, it's taking off to such a degree now that there are many business models in Vietnam right now that are sponsoring our church plants. We planted, I think, 100 churches in Vietnam to this date. And I want to tell you right now, God is looking for people who will step out in faith and believe with God all things are possible.
And I want to tell you right now I love what you're doing with your campuses. And I want to say there's more. There's more. Get ready for what God wants to do in your lives. In Jesus name, why don't you?
If you want to. In fact, now let me pray first. Just bow your heads and close your eyes. Father, I thank you for every person here. I thank you for the love of God on them this morning.
I thank you for the power of God that's in this place. And I thank you in Jesus name, Lord, for the men and women here, that maybe the fire's gone out, maybe God, they've become disconnected to your love and your passion and your joy and your enthusiasm. And God, I pray today that there would be a revival right here in the name of Jesus. Lord. Lord, revive our hearts, revive our spirits, revive our lives.
Lord God, let us be instruments in your hand that literally ignite our neighborhoods, our schools, and our workplaces in Jesus name. So, Lord, I pray right now. Let your mighty power saturate every part of this meeting. And, friend, if you're here today and maybe you say to me, don, I don't know this God you're talking about. I don't have a relationship with Christ like you're talking about.
I don't know God in there. I don't know his word. I don't know his love in my life. I don't know the freedom of forgiveness. Then I'm going to ask you just real quick this morning, if that's you, just lift your hand real quick and I want to include you in a prayer.
Can you do that? Whoever that is right now, Don, I need to make a commitment today. I need to surrender my life to Christ. If that's you. Let me see here.
Just give me a wave right here. Yeah. God bless you, man. God bless you. Who else is there today?
Yeah, thank you so much. You can put your hand down again. Who else is there today, Don? That's me. I need to make that sort of a commitment with my.
Yeah, thank you. Thank you. Thank you. You can put that hand down, ma'. Am.
God bless you right down the back there. God bless you, sir. God bless you. That's awesome. Who else is there right now?
As I just look around this building, friend, I'm not right. God bless you. Right down the back. God bless you. Right there, sir.
God bless you, ma'. Am. Right down there. Thank you, Jesus. Thank you, Jesus.
Is there anyone, everybody else right now before I close this altar? Friend, God bless you. God bless you. That's so awesome. So awesome.
Right down there. God bless you. That's awesome, guys. Thank you. Thank you, God.
I want to tell you, you're living in the most exciting age. The world's dark out there, but God wants you to be a light that shines for him. And you can be that today. And friend, I want to tell you, if you're distant from God, if you're disconnected to God, then today you can give, reconnected to his incredible love. Is there one more person today that would say, man, that's me, Don.
I need to get my life reconnected to God. Yeah, God bless you. God bless you, honey. That's awesome. That's awesome.
Yeah, God bless you. Hands going up. Why don't we stand to our feet? My time's up.
The love of God's all over this place. And I'll tell you one thing that I have discerned in this church is that these guys have the love of God. It's not about, let's do some sort of technical sort of ministry. It's about, we're in love with Jesus and he is the ultimate one that can change your life. There's nothing much else that works, friend.
We can have three points in a poem. We can have the flashest lights in the universe. But I want to encounter the love of a holy God who can change my heart and change my life. And so those of you who lifted your hands this morning, here's what I'm going to do. I'm going to invite you.
In fact, I believe there's an encounter here for you. I believe there's a miracle here. You're going out different to what you came in. In fact, let me pray for you. In fact, let's the whole church, can you join me in this prayer?
I want you to join me right across this house. Say, jesus, I thank you. Come on, we can do better than that. Jesus, I want to thank you today for loving me, for giving your life for me, for leaving heaven, coming to earth because I was so important to you. And today I make a decision and I leave my past behind and I Ask forgiveness for the sin in my life.
But, God, I want to be connected to you. So I open my heart up today and I receive you as Lord and Savior. I'm not putting you in the back room. I want you to have the front room of my life. Making room for you, Jesus.
So thank you for saving me, delivering me, and setting me free. Devil, you've no longer got any power over my life or my future because I belong to Jesus. Hallelujah. Amen. Now here's what I'm going to do.
I'm going to invite you today. You prayed that prayer with me. You may have lifted your hand or you may not have, but I'm going to invite you today whether you did lift your hand or not, but God, that's me. I'm going to invite you to come to the front. I want to pray with you today.
Is that okay? So come on, give them a huge hand clap. The people that lifted their hand, people are coming. God bless you as you come. God bless you.
I want to come down and shake your hand, actually. God bless you. Yeah, as you come. God bless you. God bless you, young man here.
God bless you, sir. Privileged to meet you, man. Privilege to me. Look at these young men. I tell you what, that's flipping exciting to me right there.
God bless you guys. God bless you, ma'. Am. It's a privilege to be with you today. God bless you, sir.
God bless you, ma'. Am. So awesome, man. I'm so excited to see all these young men up here today. I tell you, so young.
You know how exciting that is? You know, the Bible's pretty clear. It says the man out of his place causes the woman to be displaced, the children misplaced, and God ultimately replaced in our society. And I believe, man, God bless you, sir. It's a privilege to pray with you today.
God bless you, man. Boy, this little honey here. God bless you, gorgeous young lady. What's your name? Estelle.
Sorry? Estelle. Estelle. How long you had this, that name for Estelle? Since I was born.
Since you were born? Was that about how many years ago? 10. 10 years ago. I was nearly gonna say 12.
You're pretty tall for your age, girl, and pretty awesome. Estelle, you're an awesome young woman. I want to tell you right now, God's got an incredible call on your life. Just as a young girl of 10, I want to tell you, get ready for you're going to start hearing God's voice. God's going to speak to you and you, and you're going to Be very, very in tune with God's plan for your life.
Is that cool? God bless you, Estelle. So cool to meet you. And mum, God bless you. Privileged to meet you.
God bless you, sir. What an honor, man. And God bless you, ma'. Am. And God bless the little baby.
God bless the baby. Lord, who didn't I say hi to today? Right down this end. I missed a whole bunch of people over here. God bless you, ma'.
Am. God bless you. God bless this young man right here, man. God bless you, buddy. Good to meet you today.
I want to tell you, man. Get ready, get ready. What's your name, buddy? Chris. Get ready, Chris.
I'll tell you what, God's love's all over you today, mate. I tell you what, God. In fact, God's about to re steer the direction of your life. In fact, you give God the steering wheel today. Get ready for everything to go well in your life, mate.
God bless you. And ma', am, God bless you. It's a privilege to pray with you today. Over here. Let me sneak through.
Whom I missed? Nobody, I've just. You're the last one. God bless you, honey. What's your name?
Sonia. Thank you, God, for Sonia. Thank you for this awesome woman today as she stands here. I pray that this would be a supernatural turning point in her life. I pray right now, Lord God, that there would be a Lord even.
I just see right now a transformation taking place in your thinking, in your mind and in your heart heart today. And you're going out of here different to what you came. So, Lord, I pray for every person standing on this altar today. I thank you for them. I thank you for the heart they have for the things of God.
Get ready for it, sir. Get ready for it. God, I thank you right now in Jesus name I pronounce miracles over your lives. I pronounce that this is the day of new beginnings. In Jesus name I thank you, Lord, for my brother here.
I want to tell you maybe, man. Boy, it's. It's. It's all take one step forward from where you are. Actually, sir, is.
Is. Is. Are you married? Is she here? Which one?
Oh, she's still back there. Okay. Sir, I want to tell you as you took that stand forward today. God says you're going to shake some stuff off today and you're going to be different to what you ever were before. Because God said you're leaving that behind and you're going on to a whole new venture in Jesus name.
Get rid of for that, mate. This young guy here, I'LL tell you what, when I first met you, when I came in here today, I felt that God has an incredible. It's like you have the ability of an entrepreneurial anointing on you to do some stuff that's going to unlock finances in the kingdom, man. And I want to tell you, get ready for it. I pronounce it over you today and I thank you, God for a spirit of faith on this young guy.
Even as George prophesied over me many years ago, God, that I would rise up, that I would not be a man who just staggers through life, but I would walk with an anointing on my life and I would carry the presence of God wherever I turn up. I thank you for my brother and I thank you for the call of God on him right now. Blessing on this guy too. You take a bit of that, man. Catch it.
In Jesus name, Father, as I pray for these guys right now, I release. Oh, here it comes right now. Spirit of God on every one of them, these families, men and women, homes, children, I declare today be a brand new day in your life. I declare that what God started today will never stop, man. Never stop.
What God's starting in your life, sir, will never stop. In Jesus name, thank you for this couple, Lord, I believe even right now, boy, I'll tell you what it's like. God's putting a canopy over your lives, over your marriage, over your home, and get ready for the love of God to be expanded in that place. In Jesus name, sister, I want to tell you anything that was broken in your past. God says, I'll tell you what, I'm going to unlock heaven over you today and the storms that have tried to ricochet and pull you off course.
God said, I'm speaking peace to the storms and I'm speaking love over your life. In Jesus name. Bless this brother. Lord, I thank you for the miracle today, for the miracle on this woman. God, I thank you for her today.
And I thank you for a miracle in her circumstances. In fact, God says, don't look at the circumstances any longer. You're going to look to my word. And God says, faith comes by hearing, not having heard. And when you hear my word, I'm going to unlock hope in your life.
In Jesus name. Thank you for this, brother. Lord, I speak a miracle over your world right now. In Jesus name. Thank you for this, sister.
Lord, thank you for your hand upon her right now. In fact, I tell you right now, even as you stand here today, there's a miracle happening, happening in your physical body. God says I'm a miracle of the physical realm and I release that. I don't know what your need is right there. But I tell you what, get ready the reports that you've had.
God says I'm reversing the report in Jesus name. Thank you, Father. Thank you for this, sister. Thank you for the power of God on it today. In Jesus name.
Thank you for this young man, Lord. Even as I met him before, I feel God, that you're going to do something radical. That stuff that's hit hindered is gone. In Jesus name that this is a new day for you sir. And it's a privilege to pray for him.
God and I thank you for his life. Thank you for this woman, Lord. Thank you for the hand of God that's on her right now. In Jesus name. In Jesus name.
Boy, I'll tell you what God just said. God says it's gone. I've broken it. God says it's brand new. From this moment on, In Jesus name, it's gone.
There, there, there, there, there. The peace of God. Peace of God that passes understanding. Thank you Lord. Thank you for this miracle.
Thank you for miracles all over this altar. In Jesus name. Thank you Lord. Come on, let's give God one big praise right there for the miracles that are happening on this altar.
Now all across this auditorium. I need to get off here and hand it back to Pastor Adrian. And incidentally, God, thank you for this awesome worship team. I reckon you guys are going to crack something in here tonight. Are you worship leading tonight?
Who is? She's not here. But I reckon you guys are going to crack something tonight. And I'll tell you what's going to crack in the spirit realm. And God says there's an anointing on you guys.
That your voices carry something. Don't ever think you're just singing. What your voices are carrying is unlocking stuff in the spirit realm. Trained your hands for warrior. I know you've got two Nords there where one Nord is.
They reckon the presence of the Lord is no wonder. It's good in this place. But God says, I've trained your hands for war and your fingers for battle. Enemies are coming down. Lift your hands right across this place.
You want an impartation of a spirit of faith before I go. There's a spirit of faith here, a super faith, supernatural spirit of faith. And I'm going to impart that right now. So while your hands are lifted, I want you to make this your prayer. Say, lord, I receive an impartation Today of a spirit of faith that unlocks the supernatural.
So today I will take hold of your word and apply your word to above my circumstances. In Jesus name, I receive an anointing that breaks the yoke and releases faith for the kingdom of God to expand in Jesus name. Amen. I just got to get to one guy right here. I'll tell you what, just as we were praying that spirit of the faith.
Is this your wife beside you? Sorry, fiance. Okay, step out here right now if you would, both of you, because I believe right now, I believe God said you caught something this morning, you've caught something in the atmosphere. And God says going to expand in your life. And God get ready.
God says, get ready for supernatural miracles, things that you are like, how could that possibly be? God says, I'm going to unlock it. And it's going to be the words of your mouth that unlock it because God says your confession is about to go to a new level. Thank you God for the anointing on the two of them. Thank you God for the Holy Ghost power that's going to be unlocked in their lives.
And right now, in fact, I'll tell you what, get ready for what God's about to plant through you. God's about to raise up, raise up sons and daughters in the kingdom and plant stuff that's going to release the anointing of God and bring revival in Jesus name. So we declare that over your life in the name of Jesus, everybody shout it. Thank you, Pastorak.
Whoo. Well, thank you, Pastor Don.
So tonight, so I felt the Holy Spirit just put something, just say something into my heart. We're not going to mess around tonight, right? So I want you to come, but I want you to come ready to press into God because this is what's going to happen. We're going to celebrate 10 years, right? And we'll remember and say thank you God.
But then we're going to be believing God for an impartation for the next 10 years and saying, God, come on, you're just getting started. And I want hungry people here. I don't to want, want us to just come and go and I'm going to take half an hour to get into worship or I'm just going to come half baked, right? I'm coming ready to press in, ready for God. I've got the word this morning.
We're ready, God. And I'm hungry. And you wait. If you come hungry, you wait and see what God will do. God's going to move.
Pastor Don's going to speak. But then we're going to have. We're going to have. This is what's going to happen. We're going to have an extended time of ministry.
We're going to have prophetic ministry. And I'm going to invite you to come and prophesy over our church, over our lives, over people. And you watch what God does. Things are going to be broken tonight. Things are going to be smashed, aren't they?
Because that's the call that God's had and that's why we wanted you guys to come, because I said that God loves this people. He loves you guys, he loves our church. And he wants to take you further than we are now. He wants to take me further. I've got an impartation today and I want to keep going.
I don't want to stop what God's doing. So I don't care that we won the first test of the ashes, right? Or the formula one's on this afternoon, right? I'm hungry for God, right? I don't care.
You might be a bit tired. I'm hungry for God. I'm going to be in the house of God tonight and he's going to move, I promise you. Anyway, that's the stirring I got. So I want to invite.
We want to say thank you to pass it on. Why don't we give him a great hand?
You might if you'd like to. You know, we've brought them over from New Zealand and we want to bless them as they go back for the impartation they're bringing to us. Pastor Julia last night just brought her heart and sharing from authenticity and the heart of God and being a real, you know, losing your son and going through all the things you've gone through and that touched my heart. It touched our hearts. Pastor Don, today, if you'd like to say.
We want to. I want to bless you guys in your ministry, in your lives as they go out. Then you can do that. You can give online and just put guest ministry. Pastor Don, Pastor Julia, and we'll make sure that we add that to what we're giving to them for this weekend to just be a love offering to them.
So that'll be a blessing. Well, it's good. Hey. It's good. Hey.
I feel like I need one more prayer from Pastor Don to just impart. Come on, just. Who would like to just go out with a prayer? Because the presence of God is in this place. So come on, why don't you just close your eyes?
You want to lift your Hands to the Lord, because he's not finished. He's just continuing, continuing. Hungry hearts God fills. So, hey, we could seriously go on here for quite a while. I'll tell you what, there's a real and awesome presence of God in here.
Never ever underestimate that. Can I just say to you, never ever underestimate the presence of God. Like sometimes we take it, we can take it just so lightly. But I want you to let God rest on you right now. I just want you to let God rest on you.
Okay? There's people going out of here to some, some troubling situations, difficult situations in your life. And I believe the Holy Spirit said to me that you're going to go home and you're going to dissolve the situation and bring a God answer to it, a God answer. Okay? So get ready for that to happen.
Holy Spirit, I thank you right now for the power and the anointing of the Holy Ghost that's in this place. I see right now, God, I see families getting so I see prodigals. I, I mate, I'm seriously feeling if you've got a prodigal son or a prodigal daughter, invite them tonight. I reckon it's miracle time for your church. And I'm going to say I see prodigals just as I, as Pastor Adrian said, come up and pray again.
I saw prodigals coming in the doors and getting back on track with what God's doing. So right now, I agree with every parent here. Wherever there's a prodigal son, a prodigal daughter, someone who's lost. I pray right now for supernatural impartation on your life that would carry an anointing today. I pray that you go out of here today with your faith on a new level, that you believe that even though they said it can't happen, that you believe God.
And if you believe God, all things are possible to him that believe. So we say with our mouth, God, we expect the power and the anointing of the Holy Spirit to break shackles on our children, on their lives, on their futures, in Jesus name. For some business people here today, there's a spirit of faith that you're catching right now. And I want to tell you God's about to unlock another level of success and victory in your business because you glorified him. And I speak it over your life today and I declare it in Jesus name that an entrepreneurial anointing will get a hold of you and stir your faith that God is able to do all things through the power and anointing of his word in Jesus name.
I love you. God bless you. Amen.
God. Yeah, perfect. All right. We're going to finish the service. But I'm going to.
God still wants the an in part. There's something God wants to do in some people and say, we're going to finish the service. You can go. We're going to have everything going on. But if you say, I'd like to come forward, I just want the Lord to come and touch me.
I want some prayer. I'm going to have this altar open and Pastor Julia and Pastor Don are just going to spend the next 10 minutes or so just pray, praying for some people, imparting. And I just think God's still not finished, you know. And Jesus, I had that on my heart. Jesus didn't let anyone go until he administered to everyone.
And if you would like that and you say, God, I need you to speak to me. God, I need something from you. I want you to come forward as we finish the service. Thank you. God bless you.
We'll be back at five o' clock tonight. And God loves you. We love you. You. Let's see God move.
Hey, God bless.
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