I think god wants somebody to know that you’ve been fighting the 50 men when you should have just been hanging on to the word that god gave you and just tapped into that man of god mentality or that woman of god mentality that if I am who god says I am, then I don’t even have to deal with this.
God is gonna take care of it for me.
I hear god saying that some of you have been fighting the wrong Bible that is not about the cat ins.
It’s not about the systems. It’s not about the corporations.
It’s about whether or not you’re the man or woman of god you’ve been saying you are.
You come into one church you worship, but do you worship when it’s time for confrontation?
Do you worship when the warriors start coming up against you?
Do you worship when all odds are against you and it doesn’t look like you’re gonna make it, can you worship in the face of adversity if you are a man of god?
Then let fire come down from heaven.
If you say I can’t have the job, then let fire come down from heaven and create a new way If you say I gotta move out, then let god open up another door.
If you say this is over, then god is gonna open up another door.
If you say this is the end, god said it’s the beginning, if you say I am a man of god, if you say I am a woman of god, If right now?
If I am a man of god.
You gotta see in verse 9 the it was like the captain was trying to be a little funny when he said, uh, man of god, the king has come.
You’re not my king, he says.
Man of god, the king has said I answered a one man and one man alone.
And if I am a man of god, then your king doesn’t matter.
If I am man of god, then your corporations, your systems, your structures, your nose, your negativity, your rumors, your opinions, they don’t matter If I am a man of god, then no devil in hell has been formed yet.
No weapon could ever prosper against me.
If I am a man of god, then bring your best shot and watch fire rain down from heaven over that situation that’s stopping you.
Watch fire run down from heaven over that obstacle that you think is standing in your way.
Verse 10, then verse 11 says, Then he sent to him another captain in 50.
I’m country where I’m from. They said, you don’t believe fat meat is greasy.
So the king said, okay, you burned up those, but I’m a send another because maybe that was just an off situation.
Maybe you didn’t quite fully something was wrong because surely If I sent a captain in 50 men, they should have came back, but the king’s so insecure, so afraid that his position could be easily taken from him that he sent another captain of 50 with his 50 men, and he answered and said to him, man of god, thus has the king said come down quickly.
So Elijah answered and said to them, if I am a man of god.
Let fire come down from heaven and consume you and your 50 men and the fire of god came down from heaven and consumed him and his fifty men two times in a row.
That means it doesn’t matter how many times the odds have been stacked against you.
That just because god got you through last time, it doesn’t mean that your grace is over, that there’s another opportunity.
That means that you need to let your haters know. Try me if you want to.
But she better get a fire extinguisher because when my god gets finished with me, anything could happen to you touch not the anointed because I just stepped into something.
I just tapped into my anointing, and you can tell me, no, but she better learn to say it nicely because if I didn’t like what happened here, the god who was on my side will go into battle for me Two times the fire of God came down.
Yeah. Just like that.
Just like that. Sin send your best shot just like that.
And verse 13 continues. Again, he’s in a 3rd captain.
A fifty with his fifty men.
And the 3rd captain and fifty went up and came and fell on his knees before Elijah and pleaded with him and said to him, man, of god, please let my life in the life of these fifty servants of yours be precious in your sight.
Somebody’s gonna have to change the way they’re talking to you.
Somebody who was talking to you like you were the tell is gonna have to start speaking to you like you were the head.
Somebody’s gonna have to put some respect on your name.
Somebody’s gonna have to start talking to you like the child of God you are.
People have been sleep on you. They’ve been holding you down.
But I came here tonight to tell you that I have to recognize that you are a child of god.
And because you are a child of god, there’s a certain protocol when you approach me.
There’s a certain protocol when I go after something.
You can tell me no, but you better figure out how to say it.
You’re gonna have to tell people you must not know who I am.
You’re gonna have to forgive people in advance because some people are gonna come up at you and they’re not gonna recognize that they’re not just talking to you, that they’re talking to the god in you.
So you’re gonna have to forgive them in advance for sleeping on you, for telling you that you weren’t gonna make it, for telling you that you weren’t good enough, for telling you you weren’t talented enough.
You’re gonna have to forgive them in advance because god needs you to recognize that the day is gonna come when someone looks at you and sees you.
The day is gonna come when you have relationships that reflect the god and you, not the insecurities around you.
The day is gonna come when your finances start reflecting your giving, the day is gonna come when opportunities are so endless, you have to turn them down, not chase them down, the day is gonna come when your gift begins to make room for you and great people.
The day is coming. The day is coming.
When you start making power moves, god moves.
Some of you have been in this thing on your own trying to create your own strategies and your own plans and I’m here to tell you it’s time for real power moves, not Instagram moves, not moves from likes, not moves from followers.
I mean, Kingdom moves. I mean, light chasing darkness kind of moves.
I mean, the kind of moves where a captain comes up on you and says spare my life Let me be a part of what you’re doing.
How can I serve your vision? What can I do to give to what god is doing inside of you?
The captain says, please let my life.
And the life of these 50 servants of yours be pressures in your site.
Please vouch for me.
You’re gonna have the power to some of you are looking for someone to vouch for you and god isn’t gonna send anyone because he wants you to vouch for someone who looks like you once you’re in the proper position.
That you’re gonna look at someone who was just like you and say, I got you because I know what it’s like to need someone and no one show up.
But first, he’s gotta put the knee down on the inside of you.
He’s gotta put the pain down on the inside of you. So that your purpose can be manifested.
And verse 14 continues it says, look.
This is what the captain said. I love it. He said, look.
The fire has come down from heaven and burned up the first two captains. He said, listen, Linda.
Fire is coming down from heaven.
And then spurned up the first two captains of fifties with their fifties, but let my life now be precious in your side He said, I wanna be on your side.
I wanna be on your team. I see what you’re doing. I see god is doing something in your lives.
God wants me to tell you that what’s happening in your life is gonna be like a magnet.
You’re gonna begin attracting people to you.
You’re gonna be able to attract influence and opportunities to you, and people are gonna be bowing at your feet asking you how that can be precious in your sight.
What can I do to be in your favor?
What can I do to tap into what god is doing in your life?
But let my life now be precious in your sight and verse 15 continues.
It says, and the angel of the lord said to Elijah, go down with him.
Do not be afraid of him.
And so this was very interesting to me because up until that point, we had seen fire coming down from heaven.
I didn’t understand why the angel of the lord would say to Elijah, do not be afraid.
I’m a tell you right now, If I could get fired to come down from heaven, it’s not a whole lot I would be afraid of.
But for some reason, the next power move that Elijah would have to make would require vulnerability.
Because god didn’t want him to start counting on the fire coming down from heaven.
He wanted to know if you could still hear my voice even if I accelerate you, can you still hear my voice even when I show you your potential power moves manifest your potential?
Power moves open up your eyes to things you didn’t even think were possible for you.
Power moves show you that you came here to act, but you really are a producer that you came here to be an assistant god really needed you to run the company that you came here for one thing that you’re not just a waitress, that you’re a director, and I need you to see how much it takes to bring things together that god is gonna use everything for your good, go down with him.
Do not be afraid. Why would he be afraid unless power moves confront your fears?
If the power moves don’t make you begin to question your fears and anxiety, then you’re riding off the high of success of success when you need to be searching for the curities that come with power moves.