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Today…….I am asking all my prayer warriors to say a prayer that may help others. So many people are hurting right now. Many are struggling with finances and need jobs. Some are facing foreclosure and don’t even know how they are going to make it from week to week..

Many are lonely. . Many are heartbroken. . Many are facing sickness and health is fading. . Some are dealing with difficult family members. Many have lost HOPE.. Tonight, let us put our prayers and faith together decree and declare breakthrough over our families. Financial miracles WILL take place. Jobs WILL be found. Our Bodies WILL be made whole & sickness WILL flee. Marriages and relationships WILL be restored. Family members WILL find Jesus. Heartbreaks WILL be healed. JOY WILL be restored and HOPE WILL be found. In Jesus Name. Amen!!!!!! Keep God First…….

My text is Matthew four verse one through eleven.
I am in the new King James version.
Jesus has emerged after eighteen years of us not knowing exactly what he was doing or where he was.
He has been baptized by John in chapter three. The heavens have been opened to him.
And the Holy Spirit descended like a dove.
Instead of going right into preaching and right into ministering and healing, And chapter four tells us that he was led up by the spirit into the wilderness to be tempted by the devil.
He had to go through a process before he could be released.
My subject for today is push through.
It tells me that when he had fasted forty days and forty nights afterward he was hungry.
Now, when the tempter came to him, he said, if you are the son of god, command that these stones become bread.
And verse four continues, it says that he answered and said, it is written.
Men shall not live by bread alone, but by every word that proceeds from the mouth of god.
Then the devil to come up into the holy city, set him on the pinnacle of the temple and said to him, if you are the son of god, throw yourself down for it is written.
He shall give his angels charge over you. And in their hands, they shall bear you what?
Bless you dash your foot against the stone.
Circent using the Satan using scripture against the word.
And Jesus said to him, it is written again.
You shall not tempt the lord your god again, the devil took him up on an exceedingly high mountain and showed him all the kingdoms of the world and their glory.
And he said to him, All these things I will give you, if you will fall down and worship me.
Then Jesus said to him away with you, Satan, For it is written, you shall worship the lord your god and him only you shall serve.
Then the devil left him and behold angels came and ministered to him.
Spirit of the living god. I need you. We need you.
God, without you, this life is hard, difficult.
And we often feel oppressed but god with you.
When your spirit abides in us, when your spirit leads us, the impossible becomes possible.
Nerves don’t matter, anxiety don’t matter generational curses don’t matter.
All that matters is that you are with us leading us and guiding us.
And so, god, I am praying that this will be a moment where your presence is visible, where your presence is tangible, where it is undeniable that you have heard their prayer.
That you have looked past their excuses and that you wanna walk with them anyway.
God rest in this place is only you can do, make it intimate, make it personal, make it life changing.
Feed me in the process.
Fill me as you feel them that I may not pour out and leave empty But that I too would leave more full than I came.
Have your way, great God that you are in Jesus’ name. Amen. Hey, man.
I, um, have been looking at different their memes.
I wasn’t gonna say I was studying, but I’m a just be honest. That’s all me on Instagram.
Which in a way is studying.
I saw this graphic on Instagram and in it, it was asking you about different attachment styles.
I don’t know. If anyone has heard of these attachment styles or if they’ve seen some of the same graphics that I’ve seen, But I went from Instagram into Google to further my research.
And in the process of researching, I learned that the theory of attachment styles started in the fifties.
And these theories of attachment style basically studied groups of children.
They took a group of children and their parents, put them in an environment, and then had the parents leave the children.
And what they wanted to study is how the children responded to separation.
They wanted to understand not only how they responded to separation, but also how they how they responded when they were reunited with their parents.
As a result of that, three different attachment styles became evident. The first one was secure attachment.
Children who were securely attached to their parents experienced discomfort when separated.
But when their parents came back into the room, they were easily comforted and were able to assume some sense of normalcy pretty quickly.
Then there was another group, and this group was anxiously attached.
The anxiously attached child, when reunited with their parent, they did receive comfort from their parent, but they also punished them a bit for being gone.
It was almost as if they weren’t well adjusted enough to understand that though I left you, I’ll be right back, and you don’t have to be afraid that I’ll leave again.
And so instead of engaging with health, They also engaged with this sense of punishment because how could you leave me.
Then there was another form of attachment. This was avoided attachment.
When their parents left the room, they seemed to not care and didn’t seem to affect them.
The same thing also happened when their parents came back into the room.
They made no effort to be comforted by them. They made it seem like they were okay.
As a matter fact, these children went out of their way to continue playing with toys as if to let the parent know, I’m going to avoid you so that I don’t have to experience whatever it is I’m not able to communicate or verbalize in this moment.
It has been said.
That these attachment styles that were developed when we are children also show up in our relationships.
That means that when someone doesn’t pick up the phone when you call them, they can’t just be busy.
They gotta be playing you. Who do you think I am?
What do
you think this is? What? You was at work. You had a meeting.
You didn’t see me calling you. You’ve you’ve given me anxious to attach schmidt right now.
I know some of you all don’t do that because you’re so saving the field with the holy ghost.
What you do instead is ignore I’ll never talk to you again. One missed call. That’s it. Boom.
Lose my number. Don’t play with my phone. I got minutes in you trying to waste them.
Now I got take my minutes back from you, avoid you altogether. You didn’t block them on Instagram.
She can’t come over with your friends no more.
I don’t know if it’s true or not that these attachment and styles show up in our adult relationships.
I haven’t done this science, and I am not a doctor.
But one thing I do know is that I have seen these attachment styles at minimum show up in scripture.
Not necessarily in a parental dynamic, but in our relationship with god.
Uh-oh.
The beauty of scripture is that it allows us the opportunity to how god engages with other people.
It gives us an indication of his character.
The way that one person acts in one relationship though the nuances of the relationship may be different.
Ultimately, how they act in one relationship, you can expect them to act similarly and other relationships because their response and relationship is indicative of their character.
So when I’m studying scripture, I’m seeing how god engages with others so I can understand how god engages with me.
When I look at this attachment theory with scripture in mind, I see that in the garden, when Adam and Eve first began their relationship with god, There was a sense of secure attachment.
See, it’s difficult to really understand what it was like to be Adam and Eve because even when Moses saw the face of got his face shown so brightly that he had to cover.
But for Adam and Eve, all they knew was this visible tangible presence of god.
There was no barrier. There was no need for Jesus. There was no church. God created him.
God pulled Eve out of his rip. There was connection there.
It was nothing for god to be walking through the garden and talking to and there was an element of secure attachment.
You see, now we have all of these different issues and blockages in our relationship with god.
So we need to be reminded that he’ll never leave us nor forsake us.
We need to be reminded that even though we don’t see him, he’s working, This is our issue.
This is not the issue that Adam and Eve had because they were securely attached.
So securely attached, are they?
Is that even though god was visible and then invisible, They still knew that he was present, even though they couldn’t see him.
What happened in the garden though, when they experience this separation, this shift in their secure separation happens when god is in one of those invisible moments.
In this invisible moment, though we know he is all present, it’s not always that we understand or see his presence even though it’s there.
And Adam and Eve, well, Eve bless her heart.
Got in trouble because of what happened in those moments where it looks like god is invisible.
In this moment where it looked like god was invisible, the serpent exploited an opening.
When you’re in this room, the devil can’t really get too busy.
There’s too much power in this room, too much anointing in this room.
That’s why you can come into this room depressed and all of a sudden, your body is not even hurting the way that it was hurting before you came into this room because when you come into a room like this, there is so much anointing.
There is so much obvious presence of god that whatever war the enemy is waging on you doesn’t even matter in this room because your plane has been elevated.
What we have to worry about is what happens when we get out of this room.
When we get out of this room and out of this atmosphere and out of this presence, there are opening.
If you look back at your life, at the moments where maybe you made a mistake or you were optimized or you were hurt or you found yourself caught up and sinning.
It wasn’t that you were doing it because you were high in the presence of God.
It wasn’t that it happened because you were full of the word and you were full of the spirit.
It happened because there was an opening. That’s why you gotta be careful when there’s an opening in your life.
You can’t just be disappointed. You gotta know I’m disappointed.
And because I’m disappointed, I’m probably a little bit more open than I should be.
I’m not just going through a heartbreak.
My heartbreak is open, and the enemy is looking to exploit where you are open.
Because if I can find and opening, I can create a separation.
And if I can create a separation, I can change the way you see god, and I can change the way you see you the enemy is looking for an opening.
He told God and Job that he was searching the earth to and
for I’m looking for an opening.
I’m looking for somebody who would judge you.
That’s why you to be careful who’s in your life because I gotta make sure you’re not an opening.
Who left the gate open? Who I feel like I’m in war.
I gotta make sure when I start going through warfare, that I’m checking what’s happening in my circle, who’s with standing guard?
Because I can’t let you be an opening because I understand the assignment on my life is so powerful that the enemy will stop at nothing to thwart it.
And if you are an opening I gotta move out
of the way because I know I’m a target.
I know this is not everyone’s message, but there are some people in this room who knows that they a target because you cannot break a generational curse unless you are a target.
You cannot set out to change an industry and not become a target.
You wanna change the world, but you don’t wanna be a target.
And I’m just telling you it is impossible to change anything and not be a target.
And when you are a target, you gotta check all the doors. When you are a target,
you gotta check all of the openings.
Some of us praise god for the doors that he opened.
I praise god for the doors that he closed because some of these doors were openings.
Some of these French were openings. Some of these heartbreaks were opening.
Some of those friends that you love that walked away were actually in the opening.
I thank god that it didn’t work out because I called it loved. You called it an opening.
I called it an opportunity. You called it an opening. I called it a breakthrough.
You called it an open it.
And I’m a cry my tears, but I’m a trust my God because if he didn’t give it to me, it must be that if Peter gave it to me.
It would have crushed me. So I thank you God that you didn’t me everything I was open for.
Cause if you’d have gave me everything I was open for, then I wouldn’t even be here right now.
I wish I had about ten people in this room who didn’t get everything they were open for.
I was open to settle. I was open for breakthrough. I was open. I was so open.
I found myself strung out. I was so open that I should have been in jail. I was so open
that I ended up in jail. I was so open, but my god. My god. My god.
My god closed the opening. My god.
Thank you god that you’re closing doors.
Thank you god that you’re still closing doors. Know everybody wants you to open up.
But, God, I thank you. It might be lonely, but the door is closed.
I may not know what’s next, but I know the door it’s closed.
I may not know what’s coming at behind me, but I know it ain’t nothing that’s gonna chase me out of my position because you quote the door.
There’s something powerful about knowing that the red sea closed.
The moment that they walked on through because god says I know how to shut it down.
God told me right now in this moment, that the thing you’re crying about wasn’t opening.
God told me right now in this moment, the thing that you’re grieving wasn’t open God says that when you get finished crying over
it, and I get finished showing you why you couldn’t work out.
You’ll see that if I have blessed you with that.
You’ll see that if I would’ve gave you that thing, that you could never become this thing.
So you need to pray God.
Even in the midst of you trying to figure out what’s happening, because god said I wouldn’t just hurt you to hurt you.
We have to hear that, though.
Because if we’re honest, we don’t always feel securely attached anymore.
And those moments where there’s a separation from my plan, and his plan, and my will, and his will, I don’t feel it attached anymore.
I feel a little anxiously attached. Like god, I wanna punish you by not worshiping all the way.
I wanna punish you by not serving all the way. I wanna punish you a
little bit because I don’t trust that you’re gonna stay. I wanna be comforted, but I also wanna punish you.
I wanna avoid you altogether. And so we need to be reminded that we can be attached securely to his plan Because if we are not attached securely, we are open.
And the enemy exploits openings.
Send down when just You’re just talking.
Same. Was not the opening.
The sin was not that they were open.
The sin was what they did when they were open.
That’s why when David says search my heart, I don’t really know who I am when I’m open.
Maybe I’m bitter.
Maybe I am hard to be connected, but I don’t really know who I am when I’m open.
And the thing is about being open is that sometimes that stress breaks us open. Sometimes disappointment breaks us open.
We gotta understand those areas in our lives where we experience those separations because when the enemy exploits it, we think often that the problem with what happened with Eve in the garden is when ate from the fruit, and that is not what the problem is.
The problem started, and she told us out of her own mouth in Genesis three, She says the serpent deceived me and then I ate.
The serpent found an opening, and he did not give her a command.
He gave her a thought. I don’t have to tell you to sin.
I don’t have to tell you to betray yourself.
I don’t have to tell you to give up on your destiny.
The serpent doesn’t even have to tell you to kill yourself.
He just has to give you a thought that world would be better without you winning.
I just have to give you a thought your thought life is more powerful sometimes than even your prayer life because your phone life.
If you don’t get ahold of it real good, then you’ll end up in a situation where the thoughts of the enemy have taken root and produced fruit in your life And then when you recognize that your fault life is under attack, you go into your prayer closet with a different strategy.
God, I don’t need you
to change. I need you to help me get my head together.
And that’s a walk away from the very thing that you called me to because something got in my head.
I gotta be careful. In certain seasons because due in my head oh god.
The one place you cannot be is in head because I’m trying to be transformed in my mind.
If I let you in my head, my mind is so malleable that it turn in the direction of destiny, or it could turn in the direction of destruction.
And all of a sudden, I’ll go from thinking I’m called and anointed.
To thinking that there is no use for my voice in the world.
All of a sudden, I think that I
can do this. But because you got in my head, get out of their head.
Get out of their minds. God, we claim it back. We lay it at the altar.
Sometimes I gotta lay my spirit out. Sometimes I gotta lay my mind out.
My mind is telling me that I’m not fearfully and wonderfully made.
My mind is telling me that the weapons has prospered.
My mind is trying to tell me that there is no use for me.
But Zayden, I rebuke you in the name of Jesus. Saying that I served you in a fiction notice.
We don’t have to wait till the end of a sermon to get to an altar call.
I hear god saying I’ll call out your mind right now.
Wanna talk to somebody whose mind has been playing tricks on you.
I wanna talk to somebody whose mind has been making you think that you are not called and anointed for your destiny, your mind is making you believe that the gift doesn’t matter.
Your mind is making you believe that you cannot pray the generational curse, but I came here to tell you.
Let this mind be in you.
That was also in Christ Jesus. I feel like going to war in this place.
I got on this dress, and I’m trying to be pretty.
But I like going to war with the mind of saying, oh god, baby.
Scripture says that the weapons of our warfare are not carnal.
But they are mighty through god for the pulling down of strongholds.
That word stronghold actually means of fortified arguments.
That means that the weapons of our warfare are not carnal, but they are mighty through god.
Put the pulling down of fortified arguments ever since she was little, they’ve been in your head. That argument
is so fort five, but I came here to tell you. I got a weapon stronger than the argument.
I got a weapon stronger than what they say.
I got a weapon for that. I got a prayer for that.
I got a worship for that.
I got a Jesus for that.
I know what you said about me, but do you know what Jesus did for me?
Jesus said something that a fault can undo. Jesus said something.
See.
Warfare.
Warfare.
Jesus. Jesus. Okay.
Oh god. That’s why the serpent has to get in your head.
Cause if he gets in your head, he can separate you. If he
can separate you from god, he can separate you from you. You don’t even know who you are.
That’s why to attack your mind when you were young.
Cause if I started when you’re young, you may not ever find out who you really are.
But I thank god that he still closed his doors. Because even
though you got me, when I was young, gusses, I’m a the door.
But then I’m a open the door. So I can show them anyway.
I’m a show them with an open door, who they are.
I’m a show you with an open door. What I
think about you? You’re pussing not my thoughts, and I thank God for that. Do ways and not our way.
Alright.
That’s what happens. Right?
The serpent separated them.
The enemy separated you.
With one thought, two thoughts echoed by people who had their own thoughts.
I still got a long way to go, so I don’t Adam and Eve, I’m in the garden and they’ve been separated.
And what they do with this separation is what so many of us do.
They move into and avoid an attachment.
They say to themselves, I’m a just keep pushing through.
I’m a avoid who I should have been I’m gonna avoid what I should have done.
And now I’m a just push through.
What they call pushing through is actually pushing away.
They got their fig leaves.
But when god is walking through the cool of the garden, and he asks, where are you?
It lets us know that they were avoiding having to be in relationship with god, but they were not avoiding being in the place that god put them.
I wish I could say that.
You see, some of you are patting yourself on the back, because you’re still in the vicinity even though you aren’t in position.
I’m attached, but I’m not connected the way I once was.
I’m in the marriage, but I’m not connected the way I’m just pushing through.
In the business, but I’m not connected.
I’m just pushing through, but you’re not pushing through. You’re actually pushing away.
Because pushing through requires an element of confrontation.
And if you think pushing through is how can I avoid it, or how can I punish it?
Then you never are offered the opportunity to be secure again because you’re pushing away and not through.
And god gave me this message.
Because he told me that we are coming into a point in the earth.
Where we need people who understand the difference between pushing through and pushing away.
God help me.
He showed me that until we’re willing to have a confrontation, with what happened to us when we were separated, that we cannot become secure enough to be in position.
Man.
Everyone talks about how Martha was so busy that she couldn’t serve Jesus.
Well, Martha was busy that she couldn’t receive from Jesus. So busy serving that she couldn’t receive.
They don’t give her enough credit, however, for when her brother was dead, and she was the first one to come up to Jesus.
And she said to him had you been here, my brother would not have died.
She got confrontational with Jesus because is better to be confrontational than to avoid him altogether.
You see, some of
us are in here, not because everything is going the
way we want it to.
We’re in here because I need to have a confrontation because I trusted you. And I wanna understand,
can you bring this thing to life.
I wanna understand what your next plan is for me. Some of us came in here to celebrate.
Others of us came in here to have a confrontation because Martha says I gotta push through what I’m feeling right now so
that I can have a confrontation. With Jesus.
She’s confronting him. Because connection is more important than separation.
And god cannot comfort what you will not confront.
Can’t fix it in the marriage.
I can’t fix it in your mindset. I can’t fix it. And the kids.
If you don’t confront it, I can’t comfort it.
I know you’re insecure, and I know you want everyone to think that you have it all together.
But I’m telling you I cannot comfort it if you are not willing to confront it because that same Jesus told Martha that your brother is going to live.
And she says, no, He’s not alive, but he could have been alive.
I know that you’re still able, and he says, listen, you dropped the gun.
If you just stay in this tension with me, you’ll see. That I have a plan outside of this.
This element of confrontation requires that we push through instead of pushing away no one Got anything done in the Bible without pushing through.
Not avoiding it. Going right up the gut of it. That’s our country.
You gotta go right up the gut of this thing.
You gotta face it head on.
You say greater is he that is in you than he that is in the world.
But if you don’t put that greatness in a position to be greater, then how can you ever understand that greatness is working on your behalf?
You gotta push through. The woman with the issue of blood had to push through.
Blind Barta Mayis had to push through.
There are people in this room who’ve had to push through and push through. It wasn’t that
it was easy, but I pushed my way through. I had to lose a
few friends. I had to have some hard conversations, but I pushed through because I believe that on the other side of my push was a miracle.
I believe that on the other side of my push was god’s presence.
Believe that on the other side of that push was a new revelation of my identity and who I am and god.
I didn’t just get up here. I pushed my way through. Some else may have stroked.
But, god, I’m pushing my way. I’m pressing my way towards the mark.
It’s not easy for me to do it, but I’m pushing.
Not just for what I want.
But what I’m pushing for is connected to god’s presence.
When we find Jesus in the text, he is pushed through.
Jesus. He was twelve years old in the temple.
But Luke tells us that when Mary had Jesus, that he grew in wisdom and stature in favor with god and men, You don’t get wisdom and stature in favor with god and men unless you push through some things.
I have to tell you I find this fascinating because I think we have done such a good job at exalting the divinity of Jesus that we miss out on what makes him our kinsman redeemer.
That he, like you, had to grow with wisdom and stature and favor with god.
And men. He had to push through some immaturity.
Mary had to go back and get them.
He had to push through understanding who he was in the context of the world.
He had to push through eighteen years of something before he could even be used.
He had push through some things.
And yet when we find him in the text, this push is different.
This push is a defining push.
I believe God gave me this message.
Because there is someone, and maybe it’s just me standing at one of the most pivotal pushes in their life.
They’re having to push through in a way that they’ve never had to push through before.
This push is different because if Jesus pushes through this moment, It’s gonna break open a damn.
If Jesus pushes through this moment, it’s gonna establish his ministry.
This is not the same push of a twelve year old boy.
This is a push of a thirty year old man.
This is a push that will determine what or not he can be the savior.
This is the push that will determine whether
or not he’s qualified for the call.
This is the push that will determine if the devil God Adam and Eve will be the devil that got him.
This is the push that will break the generational curse. This is the push. I don’t know who you are.
But I wanted to let you know that this is the push that’s gonna define your family.
This is the push that is gonna define how you connect and how you engage this
It’s push. Oh, god.
Adam and Eve, are in the garden with the serpent in Genesis.
Jesus is in the wilderness with Satan and Matthew.
From the outside looking in the scene probably looks the same.
But before Jesus could step into his call, he had to fight a devil that wasn’t even his own.
Because he had to let the devil know that you cannot use the same trick on me that you used on them.
I’m not gonna let you in my head. Some of you are not even fighting your own devil.
Some of you are fighting the devil of those who came before you.
But I hear god’s hand, you had to fight them now so that when I release you, that devil would know as you took your first step.
That this is not the same kind of woman. This is not the same kind of man.
I gotta use something different because I’m not gonna the same thing that took them out.
It’s not the same.
You can’t step into destiny until you pass the test of defeating a devil that don’t even belong to you.
You cannot step into destiny until you pass the test of recognizing what this is.
This is not a out to. This is about devils that were here before you.
But maybe when they ran into you, they ran into a prop.
Gift.
When Satan when Satan ran up on Jesus, Jesus was armed because he already knew the devil’s tricks.
He already knew he wanted in his head. He already he knew he wanted him to stop.
You better study that generational curse. You wanna break. If you don’t
study it, you don’t
know where the openings are.
You know?
Jesus, the good Jewish boy that he was.
Understood what happened in the garden.
So before he could launch his ministry, he had to defeat.
The devil that was there before he said, yes. Oh, god.
You’re right.
There have been devils waiting for you to get in position. You are right.
Oh, hell is breaking loose.
I’ve been waiting for you to
get here, said the devil.
But the devil didn’t know I was waiting to get here too.
I was
I was to get here too. I bet it my word.
I bet it my prayer.
I was
I’ve been waiting for this
because the weapons of my war there are not carnal, but they are
I was waiting. I fasted for this.
I prayed for this.
I was waiting on you.
I got a word before I got here that you are on the way.
I was
I was waiting.
We almost done. We gotta go.
Jesus is waiting on me. I passed it for
this. I prayed for this.
I already know what you do, but I already know who I am.
He didn’t just run up on the devil. He had the holy ghost.
How could the son of god need the holy spirit to follow on him?
Because even the son of god needed the spirit
of god
to fall on him because the devil he had to fight
was gonna require everything he had.
And things he didn’t even know he had.
Okay.
So what we see In this text, is the serpent Satan the devil in Jesus having an exchange of words.
Unlike the woman who tried to reason with the devil.
Jesus lets him talk his talk.
But every time he gave a word, Jesus gave a better word.
I hate to sound like
a church mother because I’m not there yet.
I got twenty more years to my church air.
But I’m telling you the most powerful thing about this book is when you run out of words, this book has a better word.
When you don’t know what to say back to those thoughts, this book has a better word.
It’s one thing to hear a scripture. It’s another thing to proclaim a scripture over your life.
It is the same power that raised Jesus from the and between these pages.
So when I can’t say nothing at all, I get me a word.
I’m verbally and wonderfully made.
No weapon formed against me will prosper.
I’ve never seen the righteous forsaken, nor that seed begging for bread. Though, he’s slating it.
Yet shall
I trust in him? Who is the king of glory? The Lord god’s strong and mighty.
Hey.
We about to take the roof off this place.
We about to take the roof off this place. Somebody backed a kid in
Jesus. Okay. Tell you this.
The devil.
The devil tries three things. I’m about to close.
We’re going home. He tries three things.
When trying to tempt Jesus, she tries to exploit the area where he’s hungry.
Said, if you are the son of god, turn this stone into bread.
You gotta know where you’re hungry.
Your hunger is an opening.
Hungry for attention. That’s an opening. Hungry for affirmation.
That’s an opening. The sin isn’t being open.
The sin is not knowing where you are open because if you don’t know where you are open, you may act from that openness.
Jesus doesn’t say I’m not hungry.
He doesn’t act like it’s not there. No. I am hungry. I am lonely.
Did think I’d have someone by now. I did think that the business would have worked out.
I did think that I’d be in a better position. I’m not gonna act like I’m not hungry.
But men shall not live by bread alone.
But by every word that proceeds out of the mouth of god, I don’t have to pretend that I am not in order to still be who I am. I wish I could Next thing he does.
As he tries to tempt him through his curiosity.
He says, throw yourself from this building.
So that we can see whether or not the word is true that his angels will uphold you.
Jesus says, It is written that I shall not tempt the lord thy god.
Your curiosity
is not the place for the random expenditure of your power.
Oh, god.
Jesus recognized that his power was not to be used frivolously.
It was not for me to just throw out and throw around.
That’s the problem with so many of us our power has become so common that it has no power at all now.
But when you recognize that your power has an assignment, I can’t just use these words to tear someone down and build them up because I understand the power of life
and death is in my tongue.
I don’t just use my power frivolously. Can you make
a room for my anointing in this friendship? Can you
make a room for who I’m called to be in God? Cause I can’t have the random expenditure
of my power. Last thing.
That he tempts Jesus with is acceleration.
He says, if you bow down and worship me, I’ll give you all the kingdoms of the world.
He’s gonna be the king of kings.
So he’s not really tempting him with something that he won’t already have access to.
What he is tempting him with is to accelerate the process by skipping the pain.
What if I told you?
There is not an easier way out.
It costs what it costs.
And if he has your name on it, Even if you are in pain, it doesn’t strip your name off of it.
Oh, I wish I could say that better.
Don’t let acceleration tempt you into abusing your worship.
You see, he was engaging with Satan, and speaking of better word, until Satan tried to get him to abuse his worship.
It’s one thing for me to abuse my power.
It is another thing for me to abuse my worship where I start worshiping where I’m gonna be.
Instead of the god who’s gonna be with me every step of the way.
You can have a lot of things.
The enemy has stolen time. The enemy has stolen my thoughts. The enemy has stolen my confidence.
The enemy has stolen my esteem.
But the one thing the enemy cannot have is my worship. I used to worship my pain.
I used to worship my shame. But every think changed in my life.
Why I said I shall not worship anyone, but the lord, my god. And he didn’t just change his worship.
He used his power to rebuke the enemy.
It would be powerful if I rebuked him on your behalf, but there is something more powerful.
About you getting in control of your own life and saying, get away from me, Satan.
I rebuke you in the name of Jesus. You not have my worship. You cannot have my praise.
You cannot have my mind. You cannot have my heart.
He had to push through.
He had to push through there.
To get it done, he had to push through to make the difference. But once he pushed through,
when he finally got down to the end, the final push is the push that made all of the difference.
And Jesus said to him, away with you, Satan. For it is written, you shall worship the lord.
You’ll guide him only you shall serve.
When he said away with you, Satan, my Bible tells me that the devil left him immediately.
You see, you’ve been into the devil for too long.
We already get what he’s trying to do. Yes, we get it.
Yes, you all big and Yes, we know you came to kill steal and destroy.
Yes, I’m sitting at a funeral for the life I thought I would have, but I’m not gonna keep high with the devil.
Sleeping with the enemy was a movie, baby.
The most okay.
We really gotta go. The most powerful thing.
To me, the most powerful thing about this message was that Jesus demonstrated for us.
What it requires to push through, that which stands in the way.
But it’s not just I don’t wanna say experiencing breakthrough.
But The pushes that will allow for everything connected to us that we see and cannot see.
God helped me to say this properly.
On the other side of this push, There were twelve disciples.
On the other side of this push, There were five thousand hungry people on the other side of this push.
I’m sorry. This is my work because I’m one of those crazy people who believe that on the other side of my push, that there’s a space that god has called me to occupy, that only I can occupy.
And we see Jesus pushing again similarly at the garden of just just sending me because at that push, He’s headed towards the cross.
This is another pivotal push. Because in this push once he’s on the cross, and he’s resurrected.
The Holy Spirit comes. And that Holy Spirit is now available to us.
I don’t know who you are.
But I want you to understand that maybe just maybe what you have been experiencing as resistance.
Maybe that thing that you’re trying to push away from is actually the thing you need to confront.
And in pushing through this thing, Perhaps what you need to understand is that it’s not about you feeling strong when you push.
It’s not about you feeling capable or able.
It’s about you understanding that when you open yourself up for the spirit of god, to fall on you and in you that that resistance has an expiration date.
And it is important that you push through it.
Because once you recognize that you can push through hell and come out on the other side, Hail cannot taunt you any longer.
I don’t know what pushing looks like for you.
Maybe it is going to therapy. Maybe it is taking care of your health.
I don’t know what pushing is for you.
Maybe it is finally assessing that business and determining what strategy needs to be in place.
I don’t know what you need to push through.
But what I do know is this, is that you cannot push Without the wind of the Holy Ghost.
And as I prepare, to send you out, to push you out, I wanna give you thirty seconds.
Of reclaiming your worship. Thirty seconds.
I’m not allowing your trouble to be what you worship.
And I know you don’t think you worship your trouble. It’s not like you’re like, oh, god.
You know, my, oh, lord. I thank you so much for my trouble or trouble trouble not that it’s when you put your trouble, your concern, your worry above what God can do.
Abusing your worship is when you spend more time focusing on what’s going wrong than you do on who can make all things new.
What you’ll know it’s You’ll know you’re abusing your worship when your focus is shifted more towards what’s happening on this level than trusting that god is working it out on this level.
I don’t know who you are in this room, but if you have been restricted by fear, You have been traumatized by your past.
You cannot see beyond the generational devils in your family.
Maybe you’re spending too much time focusing on it.
So much so that it has created a throne in your life.
And when fear says you can’t, you don’t.
And when Shane says you won’t, you don’t.
The thoughts that keep you from creating the thoughts that keep you from innovating, the thoughts that are keeping you from healing, thinking that it’s too late.
Thinking that it doesn’t matter.
If you are obedient to those things, you cannot be obedient to god too.
And we don’t know what the outcome will be, but we can’t know who our god is.
And I just wanna offer somebody who’s been in this whirlwind of Worshiping negative thoughts, worshiping, thoughts that the enemy has planted worshiping, shame and regret worshiping inadequacy, worshiping doubts so much so that you are paralyzed and cannot move.
I just want you to begin lifting your heart towards the lord.
Some of you may not even know what that looks like.
But it can be as simple as God, I need you.
God is so good.
That you can say stuff like God, if you don’t even have to be sure.
You don’t even have to be sure.
God, if if you see me, if you hear me, god says I’ll meet you right where you are.
Seek and you will find knocking our answer.
You can knock and not be sure that he’s even in the room, because you finally came to a place where you’re seeking god says I’ll show you where I am in the midst of it all.
God, I need you. God. I worship you. God.
God, I do believe you are the creator of all things.
I just don’t know what you’re creating out of this.
God, I do believe that you are able to do exceedingly and abundantly.
God, I believe, believe that you are a miracle worker. God, I
believe that you are a way maker. God, I believe that you are the great I am.
God, I’m sorry that
I’ve been putting other gods before you. God, I’m sorry that I’ve been worshiping this circumstance. God didn’t hurt me.
I ain’t gonna lie. God, I don’t feel attached to you.
The way that I once did, I’m afraid that you’ll me, but not giving me the thing that I need.
God, I’m afraid that if I actually come into alignment, that you’ll ask me for something that I don’t feel qualified idea to give, but I wanna be securely attached again.
I wanna trust you in every season. I wanna trust you when
you say, yes, I wanna trust you when you say no.
I wanna trust you when the door is open. I wanna trust you when the door is closed.
I wanna trust that my days ahead. A great than the days that are behind.
God, I wanna trust that if they walked away, I didn’t need them.
God, I wanna trust that you can do something with these broken pieces.
God, I wanna trust that whether in marriage works or doesn’t work that you’re never gonna leave me or not forsake me.
God, I’m gonna trust that you’ll be with me in the fire.
God, I’m gonna trust that cancer is not the end. I’m gonna trust that you’ll use me.
Anywhere you place me, I’m gonna trust that if I make a difference at this job, that it’ll make a difference for someone else coming up behind me.
God I trust that you’re gonna give strength to my body.
I trust that this thing is not gonna take me out. I trust that cancer is gonna after flee.
I trust that generational curses are gonna break.
I trust that the way the glory that’s on my shoulder is not gonna dry up here.
I don’t know who you are, but I hear god saying you’re not gonna try up here.
You’ve been through too much. If you were gonna try Yep. I would’ve tucked you up.
But if you are still here, I still got a wind to blowing your lungs.
I still got wind.
Still got wind to blow in your lungs.