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I heard God say take the lead.
I was studying in scripture about moments when God was having transition take place amongst his people, who were the people in those moments who stood up to those moments of transition.
And I was studying this because I believe that as I watched the landscape of the world, the landscape of church that we are experiencing a transition and that no one truly knows how to respond to this transition.
Because some of our ideas are so innovative and so creative that there’s nothing in the industries, nothing in our families that reflect what we are sensing should be next.
And yet that desire is still in us.
So I was studying and I ran across not an unfamiliar text, but it’s David.
David at this point in the text has been anointed King, even though no one saw it coming.
He was anointed. Although he was anointed, he did not move into position just because he was anointed.
And that’s a sermon unto itself just because you’re anointed, doesn’t mean you’re ready for the crown that you’ve been anointed for.
There’s something about a development process and we find David in the middle of his developmental process in first Samuel 17 verse 31.
And my text begins in the new King James version, it says now when the words which David spoke were heard, let me set this up for you.
David wants to run up on Goliath. The, he ain’t fought nobody. You know.
Have you ever had the person who don’t throw hands? What’s up Miami?
How real can we be?
The people who talk the most about hitting some when it’s actually time to roll up the sleeves?
Nowhere to be found.
You gotta watch out for them quiet ones because they, they click, they click, don’t click all the way.
So if everyone’s being quiet, you might wanna move out the way because they don’t fight for.
They grab, they pick up podiums and move. It’s just OK.
They’re like Dean David, what are you doing? Trying to fight somebody?
He says, I’m the man for the job because y’all and um so David speaks the words that he’s ready.
I can go, I can fight this. Goliath.
I know you’re just used to me tending to the sheep, but I can fight Goliath.
Even his brothers who know that he has been anointed.
Don’t believe that he can go into this paddle just because you’re anointed.
It doesn’t mean that people change their minds about you.
Still in this moment, he’s the only one who believes that he’s capable of fighting Goliath.
Now, when the words which David spoke were heard, they reported them to Saul, Saul, his king and he sent for David.
Then David said to Saul, let no man’s heart fail because of him.
Goliath, your servant will go and fight with this Philistine.
And Saul said to David, you were not able to go against this Philistine to fight with him for you are a youth and he a man of war from his youth.
But David said to Saul, your servant used to keep his father’s sheep.
And when a lion or a bear came and took the lamb out of the flock, I went out after it and struck it and delivered the lamb from its mouth.
And when it arose against me, I caught it by its beard and struck it and killed it.
He said, I’m not new to this. Um, what’s that?
And delivered the land from its mouth?
And when it arose against me, I caught it by being, your service has killed both lion and bear in this uncircumcised will be like one of them.
Seeing He has defied the armies of the living God. I love that.
He called it the armies of the living God. He didn’t say that he defied Israel.
He didn’t say that he ran up on our army. The armies of the living God.
David has a keen awareness of whose army this is.
Everyone else has made it about them and whether or not they have what it takes.
But David has a perspective that when Goliath picked this fight, he didn’t just pick it with Israel.
He picked it with the armies of the living God.
He is not a dead God He is a living God.
And when you pick a battle with the army of the living God, the living God will have a response.
Heaven will back up what heaven is trying to do in the earth.
So if you are against, what heaven is trying to do in the earth, beware, David said, the Lord who delivered me from the Paul of the lion, from the paw of the bear, he will deliver me from the hand of the Philistine.
And Saul said to David go and the Lord be with you. Spirit of the living God.
Truly, there is none like you God.
I thank you that this timing for this conference could not be more perfect, delayed in our eyes yet right on time because transition needed to take place so that hunger could be awakened and activation could be realized.
God. I thank you for every purpose.
Every anointing, every dream, every scar and every trauma in this room. God for.
We know that the anointing does not come without cost.
My prayer is that this would be a night of reconciliation.
And when we get to the bottom line, we will see we’re yet anointed to take the lead.
God. Ask for me, ask for no nerves, no fear, no anxiety, just your anointing, taking the lead in this moment.
Have your way. Great God that you are.
And may we experience your glory and may it overflow into our cities into our homes.
And into our lives in Jesus name. I pray. Amen.
So I just pray they already clapping. That’s you Jesus.
Um, a introverts make some noise in here. Are there any introverts in there?
Let me tell y’all something. They take a lot for us to be outside.
The pandemic wasn’t as hard on us as it was on other people outside is open evidently.
And, um, we’re trying to be more active as introverts. We’re trying to go outside more and it’s working sometimes.
Sometimes we be outside and we like, this is why I be at the house.
Y’all don’t know how to act in public. Some of y’all not all of y’all.
I just want y’all to know when y’all start like just coming up to introverts with a lot of joy that scares us.
We don’t know what to do with that. We need you to be dry when you come to us.
Uh, I learned this weekend though. We were at my dad’s birthday party.
And what I learned is that I am raising an extrovert, which was like, really devastating for me because it just means I’m gonna have to have a lot of parent dates, you know, like where you’re somewhere with a play day pretending like I want to tell you how I learned this.
So we’re at my dad’s birthday party. My dad just turned 65.
And, um, yeah, and, um, he had this birthday party and, you know, like when we do stuff like we’re gonna be out of here in an hour and a half max black people where I’m from.
I don’t know about Florida. Everything is long. This is gonna be a five hour long birthday party.
We have a recession, we have a session we have in, in uh in benediction, all of the things in vacation.
And so I’m at this birthday party, I’m trying to find a wall to cling to my 12 year old daughter says she’s going to go get punched.
I haven’t seen chick for like an hour. Somebody comes up to me.
They’re like, I met your daughter. I was like, how is that even possible? Because you’re 60 and she’s 12.
Like, how did you meet her? So she came up to me and was like, who are you?
What do you do? And I was like, what, where I’m from?
Kids don’t even talk to grown folks like this, this conscious parenting another conference.
But you know, you try to liberate them to like, be free and have thoughts and then they go and talk to grown folks.
He’s in the middle of telling me about my daughter talking about being a marine bio biologist.
And someone was like, oh, I met her too. I was like, what is happening?
They’re like, I knew it was your daughter though because she has your same mannerisms.
I was like, ok, what, like mannerisms because you’ve never really, they said something with the hands.
I was like, it’s not like we sat down and I was like, when you talk, I want you to do this and do that.
Like, she’s stalking me. Like, honestly, like, she’s going out pretending to be me if I were an extrovert, how did you pick up my mannerisms?
And then my mom was like, well, you know, it’s not what you say, it’s what you do that they end up picking up on.
And I was like, that’s why I snatch her like that because you snatch No, she didn’t like that, I guess though that whatever you’re around ultimately gets on you and then it gets in you and then it comes out of you, you’re around it, it gets on you, then it gets in you, then it comes out of you.
This is why they say both perpetrators and victims of domestic violence are more than likely to have experienced it at home before experiencing it.
First hand that happens around you gets on you in you out of you.
Alcohol abuse generally saw it in the house around you on you in you.
So when we say things in scripture like greater is he that is in me than he that is in the world, we really need to qualify it.
I say it all the time. I’m going to create an E bionics version of the Bible.
It’s gonna be a best. Thank you. She said, go ahead.
It’s gonna be a best seller and I’m going to take that scripture in first John and I’m gonna change it to say greater.
Is he that is in you now, then the he that got in you first.
It sounds good when we say that.
But sometimes there is something else in us.
There’s another version in us, there’s another experience and so it has less to do with us believing that greater is he that is in me than he that is in the world.
And more to do with us considering what if that greater that is in me needs to go to war with what’s in me too.
Yes.
What we have to be willing to ask ourselves when we say greater is he that is in me than the other things that got around me on me in me and now out of me.
So which version of me is gonna take the lead?
Something is taking the lead in your life, whether you have been intentional about it or you’ve just been on cruise control.
If you haven’t taken inventory of what was around you on you in you and now coming out of you, then you cannot really qualify whether that around you on you in you out, you came from God or came from your family system or came from your culture and your community and you cannot trust what’s coming out of you unless what’s coming out of you has been filtered by the one who created you.
Because sometimes what comes out of me is a trauma response.
Sometimes what comes out of me is rooted in shame, it’s rooted in fear.
So just because it’s coming out of me doesn’t mean that it needs to stay in me.
But when we say greater is he that is in me.
I want you to know that God is great enough to go to war with what got in you first.
God is great enough to go to war with what’s been in you for a long time.
It doesn’t matter who got there first, it matters who’s going to take the lead.
Now, I came to talk to somebody who’s ready to make a transition.
I came to talk to somebody who says, I’m afraid that I’m going to miss out on what God called me to do in the earth because what keeps coming out of me is not a reflection of, of who I know I can be.
Oh God, I feel like preaching in this place.
Somebody’s got a knowing down on the inside of them that is going to war with what they’ve seen sometimes, you know something but you have no facts for it.
And I hear God saying that flesh and blood has not revealed that to you, but by my spirit, do you have that knowing?
It’s not about what was around you. I know you don’t have a model for it.
I know it’s not about what’s going popular. I know you don’t have a model for it.
I’m trying to put something down down in your spirit that hasn’t been seen so the earth can see something that’s never been done before.
And you got a knowing that’s down on the inside of you.
And I hear God saying it’s time for you to lean into that knowing.
It’s time for you to lean into that voice. It’s time for that voice to take the lead.
Not your father’s voice, not your mother’s voice, not your friend’s voice. No shade.
I know y’all came here with them.
But if their voice is taking the lead, then you following behind an untrustworthy servant.
But if I dare to allow the Holy Spirit to take the lead, you better watch out who you’re sitting next to because I’m on the move somewhere.
I got somewhere to go. I’m listening for something.
There’s a sound connected to my name, a sound connected to my identity and I’m trying to let it take the lead.
Sometimes I got quiet out the noise because I’m trying to listen to the sound.
I hear God saying that it’s been coming in whispers, but it’s still a sound that you haven’t heard everyone echoing, but it’s still a sound.
The sound says breakthrough sound says if it’s going to be turned upside down, it’s gonna happen through you.
It’s gonna happen through you.
I want that to rest on you for a minute because there’s a weight that you gotta feel for breakthrough.
There’s a glory that you got to rest in so that you can believe when you open your mouth, you can decree a thing and it will be established.
There’s a weight that’s coming to you.
I don’t know who you are in this room and I don’t know what God’s been trying to be on the inside of you.
But I hear God saying that you got to get weighty first.
That’s why coming into rooms like this is so important because you get around the anointing, then the anointing gets on you.
Then it gets in here, then come Sunday, it’s gonna come out of you.
I’m not gonna be the same person I was when I came in this room because I messed around and got around some anointing.
I got around some breakthrough. I got around some faith. I got around some courage.
If I can go to a football game and leave more excited about a football game.
I wonder what can happen when I come into a room and decide to lift up the name of God?
Could it be that I’ll be stood up too.
You came in here with depression but you in the right room, baby, you came in here with anxiety, but you’re in the right room baby because you got around something that’s gonna not just lift you higher, but I’m gonna pull up everything connected to you as well.
When we find David in our text, David has come to a point in his life where he realizes that the spirit of the Lord is upon him and the spirit of the Lord changed his mind about what’s possible.
I wanna talk about when you know you’re anointed.
So often, we want to believe it that if I walk with Jesus, I should be anointed.
But if we were really honest in this room, sometimes we don’t feel that anointed.
I don’t know if I could actually cast out a devil.
I don’t know if I could stand up to war.
I don’t know if I believe anymore that I could lay hands and heal the sick.
I don’t know if I could break this generational curse. I don’t know if I could break through this barrier.
David has been anointed and I think one of the first signs that we see that the anointing is not just on him, but in him is how it has changed his expectation.
I know David is watching the Israelites and the Philistines go to war about who’s gonna actually attack Goliath.
And though he should have no reason to believe that he is equipped for it because he trusts the anointing that is on his life, it has changed his expectation about the outcome of battles.
I wish I could say it the way I hear it in my head.
David has no reason to believe that he can fight Goliath.
But because he has been anointed, he now recognizes that every battle I’ve had up until this moment has qualified me for the moment I am standing in.
You see, he’s not like us in which we think all of the battles I barely survived.
Why would I step into another one?
But David says, if I am anointed to be king and I am not king yet and there is a giant that is coming against my kingdom, then that means this giant cannot succeed.
Because if the giant can’t succeed, then God’s promise can’t succeed.
So my expectation is that this giant must come down.
I want to talk to somebody who has some unfulfilled promise in this room.
And you’ve got giants after giants that you need to slay.
And you’re wondering to yourself was this promise going to be fulfilled with this giant standing in the way?
And I want you to know that the giant is a boogeyman.
If God’s word hasn’t been fulfilled yet, then that giant cannot stand.
God is just looking for someone who will take the lead and say to the giant, you cannot have this territory because this territory has been assigned to me.
I must not have any families in here because when you see a giant coming into your marriage, you see a giant coming into your business and that business doesn’t look like what God said.
You gotta prophesy over your business that you got to stay alive because you haven’t finished developing yet.
You don’t look like what God said. I haven’t stepped into the fullness of my identity yet.
So the giants got to fall.
I’m going to stay here for a minute because we’ve got some giants in this room and I’m glad you brought your giant with you because there’s something I want you to know about your giant.
Your giant cannot overrule God’s promise. Your giant has no more power than what your fear gives it.
David says, I expect for this giant to fall because this giant is standing in the way of my promise.
And if God is not a man that he shall lie, then this giant is lying on what it can do.
This lion can’t take out this giant can’t take out my life unless I sit back and let it.
Oh man, I feel like fighting in this room now because I feel like somebody’s got to get their fire back.
I feel like somebody’s got to start believing again that if the giant is standing in my way, it’s because the giants got my name on it.
It’s because I’m the only one who can take it out if you can see the giant and the giants who’s sizing up a giant in Miami.
I didn’t know that we came to Miami to go to war.
I met Jesus in Miami and Jesus said, I’ll back you up if you throw your slingshot, I met Jesus in Miami and Jesus said, if you run up on it, I run up on it too.
I’ll send some angels to back you up. I’m looking for somebody who will take the lead.
I’m looking for somebody who will say, not my marriage, not my city, not my community.
I’ll take the lead because no one else will do it.
The giants lying on my promise, the giants trying to scare me out of position and it is bigger than me.
It’s not bigger than me and my God.
It’s not bigger than the promise that God has ordained since before I took my first breath.
So my job then is to surrender in such a way that I trust the promise with so much faith that I don’t let the visibility of the giant take away my faith.
How do we get to this place where the anointing takes the lead?
When we find David in this text?
He’s finally at that place and he’s only there because the GT has appeared.
Some of you will not get in position until the giant appears. That’s why the giant is in your life.
You want to wait until you’re comfortable, you want to wait until you’re confident.
And I hear God saying no, what you really need to feel is a threat against that anointing because if you feel a threat against anointing, it will change the way you pray for that child.
If you feel a threat against that, anointing, it’ll change the way you cover that city. The threat is over.
The anointing it is not over you.
You didn’t do anything that big and bad that somebody is worried about you.
It’s about the anointing connected to your name. It is about the people that only you can save.
It is about the people who will only listen to you.
You are anointed to go into places where they will never come here but you are here because there is an assignment over your name.
And if you don’t do it, it cannot be done.
I’m trying to let somebody know that it’s time for us to take the city for real.
It’s time for us to change the world for real and we’re not going to do it because Don Shari did it because Rich did it because Sarah Jake Roberts did it.
It’s only to happen because you finally decide to take the lead that what’s happening in you starts coming out of you and it starts shaking up.
Don’t be surprised when it starts shaking up things in your world because you’re not the same quiet person you used to be.
But you’re walking with a different level of authority and a different level of faith.
Some people prefer you when you’re afraid of the same giant they’re afraid of.
But there are some people who will be inspired that you got up anyway.
That you said my five smooth stones are enough. I’m talking about the next generation that’s watching.
I’m talking about the generation ahead of you that said if they could do it, maybe I’m not too old to do it.
What’s that? V y’all just came to party or did y’all come to change the world?
Y’all just came to look good or did y’all come to take territory?
I don’t know about you, but it’s been too long and I’ve watched Fear take the lead for too long.
And I want to talk to an uncircumcised Philistine and say, do you know who my God is?
Do you know that I went through hell and came out on the other side with worship?
Do you know that the enemy already took its best shot at?
And I’m still here, still breathing, still ready to go to war, still ready to declare the works of the Lord.
I still believe in miracles, signs and wonders. I still believe he’s a chain breaker.
I still believe that he can heal the sick.
I still believe that every knee shall bow and every tongue shall confess. You want to talk about COVID.
I want to talk about the name that is above all names. It’s bigger than depression. It’s bigger than suicide.
Do you know who my God is? Who’s gonna take the lead?
Yeah.
If you don’t do it, it won’t get done if you don’t forgive, if you don’t write the book.
If you don’t build the business, if you don’t serve the problem with social media is that we see so many other people doing the thing that we think we should be doing.
So we think it’s done. What if I told you they just got it started, but it’s gonna take all of us to finish it.
What if I told you that you don’t have to have the skill set.
You don’t have to have the education. You don’t even have to have the armor.
All you need is the anointing. The anointing of God will destroy the yoke.
David understands his assignment and he understands that he has been preparing for this moment his entire life and he doesn’t need anyone else to believe in him to do it.
There’s a desperation because he’s been so full of the spirit by now that what he wants more than anything is to release it into the earth.
You see the truth is that whether intentionally or unintentionally, we’re all releasing something into the earth.
Some of us, we open our mouth and we release our doubt, we release our fear, we released our insecurity.
But I heard God say when I was praying that there’s another transition taking place in the earth.
And for the last few years, fear has been taken.
The lead, restlessness, weary, despair has been taking the lead.
I’m not talking about in the news, I’m talking about in your soul.
Our disappointment it’s been taking the lead and I heard God say that something miraculous could happen this weekend if we got in a room that was anointed that it would begin to go to war with whatever has been taking the lead over that.
Anointing what happens with David is so powerful that it changes the whole tone of Israel.
Israel that was so afraid of the Philistines. Israel that knew for sure they were defeated.
One person took the lead and it changed a nation.
We’re gathered in this room today.
I felt like God was telling me that some of you have lost your fire.
I’m almost done. I’m going to pray that some of you have lost your fire that some of you don’t see yourself as anointed as you once were or maybe you don’t feel anointed at all.
And I want you to understand that the anointing that God gave you was deposited into your life long before that Jeremiah one and five, it says before I formed you in your mother’s womb.
I knew you before I formed you in your mother’s room. We were one.
You were anointed before you took your first breath.
You were anointed before they hurt you.
You were anointed after they left, you were anointed when you got the job and anointed when you filed bankruptcy.
Life has this way of making us feel that some kind of way I can lose the anointing.
No, you lose focus on the anointing.
And when you lose, focus on the anointing, you lose strategy that allows you to bring out the anointing.
But this weekend we have gathered so that you can get your focus back on what really matters so that you can get your hope back and feel equipped again to not just have a great conference and come back next year, but to be a conference next year, to not just shake things up for a little while, but to shake things up in a way that the generations feel it.
I’m not talking about a game. I’m talking about what Jesus came to do in the earth.
He said, if you do this right?
If you wait from my spirit, my spirit will get in you and it will give you power, it will give you power to go into places you’ve never been, it will give you power to speak words that you never thought you could say the power of God is falling again, but it’s not just going to fall on the people who sit back and wait for it to come to them.
The power of God is going to fall on those who are chasing after it over those who are running after it over those who understand God.
If you give it to me, I’m going to make sure your will not my will be done.
God, I know it’s not your will for me to feel this way forever.
I know, it’s not your will for this generational curse to rip up my family.
So God power, I’ll destroy it. God. If power, I’ll make sure you get the glory God.
If you give me power, I fighting with everything that’s in me.
Give me power, I’ll give you a breakthrough. Me give you my slingshot power.
I’ve changed the industry. I write marriage.
I pray kick down every barrier has that. Yeah.
Mountain. You because you did it.
Now I’m found I once was blind but now I see, I see now that it will only happen through me.
So God let it be me.
God, let it be me and let it be the person beside me and let it be the person in front of me and behind me.
God make us an army. God.
The world needs to know that there is good news that you don’t have to put yourself on clearance that Lus doesn’t have to have the final say that you can still be restored, that the abortion can be erased, that you can still walk around.
Yeah. Molested with the abandonment issues, domestic violence.
I hear God saying I can make it like it never happened.
But you got to let the anointing take the lead.
I can make it like they but you got to let the anointing, take the take, need somebody to wanna do with my life today.
What do you wanna do with my gift today?
If you give me one.
I want it to be a reflection of every glory.
Yeah.
Glory, glory, glory, glory, glory, glory, restore my hunger for glory, restore my heart that longs for glory.
Somebody’s just been walking around looking for confirmation that everyone’s going to disappoint you.
I hear God saying, you’re hungry for disappointment, you’re hungry for rejection.
And it’s been taking the lead for too long.
But tonight we’re going to your appetite and no with that you if I Yeah.
Right for real, I want to show a generation that a so spirit of the living God alive in this moment alive.
When David was going toward that same God that took a little boy who tended to sheep, can take a little girl who grew up in West Virginia who thought she would never minister anything because of her broken past and would allow her to stand before these your great people got the foolishness that you choose to do.
God. There’s a few more foolish souls in this room and God, we’re hungry for some more wisdom on how we can take our ruins and turn them into the no.
So is and make glory, make and go Children because it’s not.
There’s a nation inside Ma in of Jesus and a big cut of fruit kind of fruit.
Be the kind of fruit that makes the world hungry for you to take the lead.
Your kingdom come, your will be done on earth as it is in heaven, your kingdom come, your will be done on is in heaven your king, your will be done.
Jesus name. I pray. Let’s go at Miami.