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What Do The Lonely Do At Christmas? | Luke 2:21-24 ; 36-38 | Pastor Walter Bowers Jr.
In "What Do The Lonely Do At Christmas?", Pastor Walter Bowers Jr. addresses the theme of loneliness, particularly during the Christmas season. He discusses the societal implications of loneliness, referencing a national epidemic declared by the Surgeon General. Through the story of a widow who dedicated her life to worship, he emphasizes the importance of community, fasting, and reconnecting with faith to combat feelings of isolation. Pastor Walt encourages the believers to expect change and to share their stories as a form of evangelism, highlighting the transformative power of faith and connection. In this powerful worship, Pastor Walt emphasizes the transformative power of faith and the concept of 'suddenly' in God's timing. He speaks to the loneliness and struggles faced by many, declaring that God is ready to pick them up and turn their lives around. The message of freedom resonates throughout, as Pastor Walt encourages listeners to walk in their newfound liberation, proclaiming that the mountains in their lives have been moved. He calls for spiritual warfare, urging individuals to intercede for themselves and others, and to release their burdens in prayer. This worship culminates in a powerful declaration of freedom and a reminder that they will not leave unchanged.
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amen to god. Be the glory to god. Be the glory to god. Be the glory. Listen, family, there is something brief that I need to share with you today, because this breakthrough is coming through our worship, but this breakthrough is also coming through some instruction that God gave me to give to you. So I'm going to give you some brief instruction and we're going to give him some more praise, and you're going to be home to that smoked turkey before you know it. Amen, listen, there's a word from the Lord today Luke 2, verse 21-24. And then 36-38. Luke 2nd chapter, verse 21 through 24, and in 36 through 38, luke 2nd chapter, 21 through 24, 36 through 38. This message is instructional. I pray that you can receive it in the spirit that God gave it to me, and I truly believe that it's going to shift some stuff in our lives. Let's read the word of the God together, ready set read. Read the word of the God together, ready set read.
Speaker 1:Eight days later, when the baby was circumcised, he was named Jesus, the name given him by the angel even before he was conceived. Then it was time for their purification offering, as required by the law of Moses after the birth of a child. So his parents took him to Jerusalem to present him to the Lord. The law of the Lord says if a woman's first child is a boy, he must be dedicated to the Lord. So they offered the sacrifice required in the law of the Lord either a pair of turtle doves or two young pigeons.
Speaker 1:Anna, a prophet, was also there in the temple. She was the daughter of Phanuel from the tribe of Asher, and she was very old. Her husband died when they had been married only seven years. Then she lived as a widow to the age of 84. She lived as a widow to the age of 84. She never left the temple but stayed there day and night, worshiping God with fasting and prayer. She came along just as Simeon was talking with Mary and Joseph and she began praising God. She talked about the child to everyone who had been waiting expectantly for God to rescue Jerusalem.
Speaker 1:And I would just like to use as a subject today, as the Holy Spirit would allow, what do the lonely do at Christmas? You may be seated in the presence of our Lord. Anybody remember that old song? By the emotions it says tis the season to be jolly, but how can I be when I have no body? You will tide. Carol doesn't make it better, knowing that we won't be together. A silent night. I know it's going to be joy to the world, but it's sad for me. Why? What do the lonely do at Christmas? Y'all know it. Then the friend goes oh what? What do they do? What do they do at Christmas time? Well, I raised this song because we have to deal with a serious issue, and I try to deal with it in a serious matter, but also in a lighthearted matter, because my family, my sisters and my brothers, we have a problem in our society.
Speaker 1:Last year, the United States Surgeon General, dr Vivek Murthy, declared a national loneliness and social isolation epidemic throughout the country. He declared that there are so many people that are dealing with loneliness and social isolation as a matter of fact, they say one out of every two adults. It's to the point that we have to treat it like a health crisis, just like we did with the pandemic, he said, because half of the United States is dealing with loneliness. He said it's impacting our physical health, our mental well-being, along with our social health. I like how he describes loneliness.
Speaker 1:He says loneliness is like a hunger or a thirst. He said it's a feeling that we experience when something we're lacking for survival is missing from our life. Can I pull the room? How many of you all feel that there is something that you are lacking for survival that is missing from your life? I'm not talking Amen. Thank you for being honest, because I'm telling you it is through our testimony and our honesty with the Lord that he will see us through. So I'm asking it again, and you don't have to be ashamed, you're in a safe house how many of us feel like there's something that is lacking in our life? Or, if it's not in your life, you've got a family member or a classmate or somebody that you know is lacking in our life. Or, if it's not in your life, you've got a family member or a classmate or somebody that you know is lacking something and it makes them feel lonely. And he says that if we respond to it quickly, it goes away. But just like hunger or thirst, when it persists for a long time, that's when it develops into worry. I've come to you as a man of God today because I'm concerned, because loneliness has been existing for a long time in the body of Christ.
Speaker 1:He goes on to say that loneliness is a subjective feeling, and I would agree to that, because what make make you feel lonely may not make me feel lonely, but that's why you can't talk sideways and tell me to just get over it, because you don't know what I'm going through. Loneliness is a subjective feeling and it means that, because you are so uniquely made, what it's going to take to sustain you may look a little bit different than what it takes to sustain someone else. He goes on to talk about the fact that we have been seeing a decline in organizations that used to bring us together, like rec leagues and service organizations and faith organizations. That's why, at Chosen City, we're bringing our sports back. We ran two basketball leagues and we we're going to run softball and we're going to run volleyball, because I understand the need for a community. I'm competitive, I'm going to win me a ship at some point, but we didn't do so good the last time we was out there. But it ain't really about the championship, it's really about having a community. He says that there's a decline in people even participating in sporting events. There's a decline in people participating in service organizations and there is even a decline in people participating in their faith structure. What do the lonely do at Christmas.
Speaker 1:Well, the emotions didn't give us an answer. They raised an amazing question, but the song cut off too quick. If you're from my era when this came, well, this is even before me. I was born in 79. This came out in 73. Were y'all still eight tracking back then, or was y'all on tapes by then? Maybe you was on tapes by then.
Speaker 1:Well, I flipped to the other side of the tape and I couldn't find the answer. But I got some good news. The answer that the emotions could not give, I found it in the gospel of our Lord and Savior, jesus Christ. I need you to understand. The answer that I'm giving to you today is a gospel answer. It's not to suggest that there are not other answers and other self-help books, but I believe that this gospel answer, elder David, is going to be able to break through some stuff that the self-help book couldn't break through. I believe that this gospel answer is going to be able to break through some stuff that the YouTube video that you looked at when you were dealing with loneliness. It was good, but it had a partial solution.
Speaker 1:Why do I believe that the gospel has the answer to loneliness and despair and pain and things of that nature, because I read in the gospel that who the son sets free is free. Indeed, the son has the ability to do what no other power can do. And because God understood what you were be on the day and he understood what some of your family would be on the day, he gave us a witness. God always gives us a witness so that we can understand what he is doing. And the witness that he gave us today is a woman of God by the name of Anna. Everybody say Anna. Anna is interesting because the text tells us a lot about her. She was married at a young age, which was customary for young girls at that time. Probably like Mary, she was probably late teens or very early 20s, but most likely late teens, when she got married and she was married for seven years and after seven years she lost her spouse and the Bible tells us that she lived to 84. So if she got married at 18 and she was still 84 and didn't have anybody because we don't see any mention of any children, we don't see any mention of any other people in her life and she was married at 18, and she was a widow seven years later and now she's 84.
Speaker 1:That's a long time to be by yourself. That's a long time to have nobody to hold you at night. That's a long time not to have nobody to tell you that it's going to get better. That's a long time not to be able to go out on a date night with somebody and everybody else around you is celebrating and everybody else around you is celebrating a good thing and you're looking up wondering has God forgotten about me? I wish I had some real witnesses in the room that could testify that. I've seen God do it for other folk and I'm glad for what God has done over there. But I wonder, god, when you are going to do it for me?
Speaker 1:The thing about loneliness is is what's crazy is you say oh pastor, this sermon is not for me because I got my boo thing sitting right here, so I'm good you missed it already. Because the reality is that you can deal with loneliness in a crowded room. You can be lonely in a good marriage. You can be lonely at a good church. I wish I had some real folk. You thank God that he sent you to chosen city and it's been a blessing to your life, but if you wanted to be real. Today you say I still feel lonely. Yeah, you, you thank God for the spouse that that God has blessed you with. But if you're gonna be honest, you'll say, sometimes I I still feel uh lonely.
Speaker 1:Uh, I could tell you that I met a young pastor, uh, that was just starting out in a, in a church plant family and, um, he was like man, I want to talk to you because I see the great things that God is doing through you at this church. And he said what is one of the things that you would tell me? And I say, say, bro, I'm going to tell you. I'm not going to get into the standards and all that. We can talk about that later, but I'll tell you that sometimes his work gets lonely. And he said, oh, I need to pray for you. I said, hold on, man, you ain't got to pull out the oil just yet. I'm just trying to be real with you and help you to understand that you can be around good people doing good things and still feel all by yourself.
Speaker 1:It's kind of like people can see part of what you are dealing with but nobody really really understands what you're going through. Y'all know what I'm talking about now, even your lovely spouse. They love you and they want to support you, but they don't know. They just don't know. I can imagine my lovely wife. She has to feel lonely sometimes because what she does as a mother and what she does for the child care facility in here, I really sometimes can't relate to what she's going through. I try to do the best I can but because I can't relate, certainly sometimes that has to make her feel lonely. On the flip side, I tell her about church to a certain degree. I don't tell her everything because I want her to come back, but because I go through stuff that nobody can understand. Sometimes it makes you feel lonely and the gospel says I give you Anna to help you to deal with your loneliness. Married at approximately 18, seven good years of marriage and now between that age of about 25, approximately to, we know, 84, that's a long time to be by yourself. I find it interesting because what the Bible tells us is that Anna is from the tribe of Asher.
Speaker 1:The children of Israel were separated into 12 tribes they were the sons of Jacob into 12 tribes. They were the sons of Jacob. Jacob was the individual that produced the 12 tribes of Israel, and of the 12 tribes we say that 10 of them are lost because we have no historical reference to what happened to them. That's why you'll see groups raise up today, like the Hebrew Israelites, who proclaim to be one of the lost tribes of Israel. That's why you'll see groups raise up today, like the Hebrew Israelites who proclaim to be one of the lost tribes of Israel. That's why you'll have there's even a group of British Israelites who declare that they are also the lost tribe of Israel, because we have no historical account as it relates to what happened to this tribe. So it's interesting that our witness comes from a tribe of people that are considered historically lost. And I look at that from an application perspective to say that sometimes, when I feel lonely, in reality I'm lost. That's why it's so important for us to not wrestle and stay in loneliness, because after a while you'll find yourself lost. But more I find that Asher was the eighth son of Jacob. Everybody say eight. He was the eighth son of Jacob and meaning that was the eighth tribe of Israel. And if you look at the text, there is something that happens here on the eighth day after Jesus was born. On the eighth day after Jesus was born, they took him to the temple where he was circumcised and he was given the name that was declared to him, which means Yahweh saves. Now it's interesting that this woman is from this lost tribe and from this, the eighth tribe, and on the eighth day that Jesus comes in, she has an encounter with the Lord that's about to change everything for her life.
Speaker 1:Now, I'm not a numerologist, which means that I don't go through the Bible looking for numbers trying to win the lottery. I'm not a numerologist. I don't go through the Bible looking for numbers to try to find meaning for our life. But if you study the Bible long enough, you have to admit that numbers mean something. And, matter of fact, y'all know that seven is the number of what Completion. Oh, I knew I had me a Bible studying crowd. And if you know that seven is the number of completion, then you have to know that when we see the number eight, it means what New beginnings.
Speaker 1:Good God, almighty, we got some preachers up in this joint today. May I declare and decree in your life, if you can receive this by faith, that as God moved in Anna's life on the eighth day through a descendant from the eighth tribe, it was representing the fact that there was a new beginning for Anna and I have come to decree and declare that if you can receive this by faith, if you have been dealing with loneliness and despair, I got some good news, family that God is about to give you a new beginning on today. I wish I had some people that could receive that to say my God doesn't work in happenstance, my God doesn't work in coincidence. You ought to give God some glory if you can receive the fact that there's about to be a new beginning for you and all the other names pass away. Loneliness you got to pass now. Disease, you got to pass now. Anxiety you got to fly past now because all the other names fade away, because there's a new beginning in the house, but chosen city church.
Speaker 1:I believe that there is a new beginning for those who have been feeling lonely. There's a brief word that God gave me. He said be free from loneliness. Be free from loneliness this acronym will bless you today. It's a gospel response to to loneliness, which may look different from what your doctor prescribes for loneliness, but it's not in contradiction, it's just different. Somebody say it's just different. Here's what the Lord says to us that if we're going to be free from loneliness through his witness by the name of Anna. The first thing that we have to do is fast. Everybody say fast. Look at verse 37 today. Verse 37, what you'll notice is it says that Anna spent a lot of time fasting and praying to the Lord.
Speaker 1:I want to tell you right now, if you could receive this, that if you're a person that's dealing with loneliness or some other type of thing that you're trying to break from, the Lord is saying that you need to go into a season of fasting, and truth of the matter is it would be best if you do it before the year is over. I'm not telling you to miss out on the family meal, but I am telling you. You've been struggling too long and the Lord said tell them to fast, because what happens is when you are dealing with loneliness or you need something real bad, just be honest with you you get desperate. We all get desperate. You don't want to admit it because desperation sounds like a weak word, but it's just a natural response. If I, if my body gets thirsty, it's going to become desperate for water and start drinking the water within me until there is nothing left. If my body gets hungry, the body will literally start eating itself until they can do no more. So, in the spirit realm, when you get thirsty, when you get hungry, there comes a place of desperation. So you need to fast. So why do I need to fast?
Speaker 1:I need to fast because what fasting does is renews my bond with God. I need some of some of you to understand that the truth of the matter is that the answer to your loneliness, the answer to your despair, is that you just need to renew your bond with Christ. You need to renew your bond with Christ because what has happened is in the midst of despair, in the midst of looking for something. You're just like everybody else in the room. You've been looking for love in all the wrong places, and every last one of us is guilty of that in some capacity. Whether you've been looking for love in a new career, you've been looking in the wrong place. Whether you've been looking for fulfillment in what you're trying to do, you've been looking in the wrong place. Fasting gets us in alignment with God so we can get connected to him. And also, when we fast, listen to this it makes sure that you don't get what you've been looking for. I'm going to say that again.
Speaker 1:So you came to church and they told you that you're going to get what you've been looking for if you give your life to the Lord. I came to tell you something opposite. Today, fasting is going to make sure that you don't get what you've been looking for. Can I help you to understand that when your body is, your mind or your soul or your spirit is desperate for something, you start looking for it. Oh, make no mistake, the enemy is going to make sure that you find it. The enemy knows your make and your model and he's going to make sure, fellas, that you find it. The enemy knows your make and your model and he gonna make sure, fellas, that you find it. Ladies, he knows that you like the six-pack and the Timbs and he'll make sure that you find it. When there's desperation in your life, the enemy is gonna make sure that you find whatever you've been looking for. He'll send you to a new job and you thought that was God opening the door, but it was really the enemy just putting you to a new job. And you thought that was God opening the door, but it was really the enemy just putting you in a place that's going to look like it's getting better for you, and when it doesn't work out, it's going to take you to a darker space than you've ever been in your life.
Speaker 1:So the Lord is saying that to make sure that you make the right destiny decision. He said there's a season for some of you to go into fasting. Fasting is going to renew your bond with God and make sure that you don't get what you've been looking for, but get what God has in store for you. There are too many of us in the room that feel like we know what's best for us, including myself. Too many times we think we know we can diagnose our own problems, we can fix our own fights. And the Lord is saying if you go into a season of fasting and surrender to me, I'll give you a strategy. If you go into a season of fasting and surrender to me, I will protect you from people that mean you no good and make sure I posture you from people that mean you're no good and make sure I posture you around people that are assigned to your purpose. If you go into a season of fasting, you are going to get revelation from God about unanswered questions that have been plaguing your family from the last generation, but he's waiting on you to go into a posture of fasting.
Speaker 1:I understand fasting not just because of Anna. I understand fasting because there was this time where Jesus' disciples encountered an individual that was demon-possessed. He had all type of issues within him and up until this point, the disciples were feeling good about themselves. They had been a part of being able to work some miracles, but they came upon something that they could not handle. That was your 2024. You came upon something that you just could not handle. You, you had done some good things in 2023, but here comes this mountain that you couldn't handle.
Speaker 1:Then and when, when they couldn't uh, when they couldn't cast the demon out of the boy, the boy's parents didn't give up on church. Side point don't give up on church just because it doesn't happen. Don't miss the benediction. You might leave just too soon.
Speaker 1:When it didn't happen with the disciples, they left the disciples and they went to Jesus and they get in the front of Jesus and Jesus said how much longer must I deal with this faithless generation? Jesus brings the boy, jesus tells them to bring the boy to him and Jesus heals the boy and the disciples are glad. But they got questions. They said Jesus. How couldn't we do it this time? And he says something to them that is found in some versions of the text. It says listen, it says that if you have the faith the size of a mustard seed, he says that you can speak to any mountain and declare to that mountain it's time for you to move, to uproot, to go from where you are to where you need to be.
Speaker 1:I need y'all to talk to some mountains today, like you, some real folks. You need to learn to talk to the mountain and say mountain, you ain't got to go home, but you got to get up out of here. I don't know what mountain you came in here with, but I wish I had some people that didn't mind talking to mountains. Now you say, pastor, I've talked to the mountain before and it keeps showing up. I talked to the mountain before I rolled over and he was still there. I talked to the mountain before and they still were trying to get the money at the end of the month. I talked to the mountain before and they would talk about evicting me. I talked to the mountain before and I was still sick. I talked to the mountain before and I was still sick. I've talked to the mountain before and I was still depressed. I talked to the mountain before and it had not moved.
Speaker 1:But God said through his son this type of mountain moving only comes one way. Yeah, y'all got it. This type of mountain moving only comes by prayer and fasting. And I want to talk to you who have been really dealing with this mountain. Whatever the mountain is I see the mountain, but there are so many different mountains in here beyond loneliness, god says that this time you need to go into spiritual warfare before the year is over, because this mountain will be moved, but it's going to come by prayer and fasting.
Speaker 1:Anna spent her time fasting and fasting and praying because she was dealing with the mountain of being a lonely woman in a world where women weren't recognized, where her identity was tied to the man that was in her life, and if she didn didn't have a man, it was tied to a son, and if she didn't have a man or a son, she was just out there, and so she had to pray and to fast because society was against her. She had to pray and fast because she could find no help. I don't want to talk to somebody in the room you got a lot against you, but this mountain will move by prayer and fasting. But not only must we fast. The next thing that we have to do is reconnect If we're going to be free from loneliness and free from despair. Everybody say reconnect. Look at verse 37 carefully. Verse 37 tells us about the life that she lived. Although she was a widow, she never left the temple but stayed there day and night. I want to focus on that. Anna, being a prophet, was also a temple worker. She would spend her time taking care of the ordinances in the temple. When people came into the temple because they came to give or came to worship, she would make sure that their affairs were in order. Anna spent her life as a servant of the Most High God.
Speaker 1:The Lord is saying that for some of you all who have a mountain or dealing with loneliness, that you have to get reconnected to the church in the way that it's supposed to be. It's one thing to come, but it's a whole other thing to be connected. If you have been here, I gave 8 o'clock a little bit more grace than I give y'all. So eight o'clock it was a year, it just shifted for y'all. If you've been here six months and you hadn't connected. The plan of God is going forth anyway. We are blessed, people are being baptized, people are being saved, the church is going. So it's not one of those situations that, if you don't, it's not going to happen. Because God has this way of saying I'll make the rocks cry out if nobody else will. It's just that if you don't, you're going to continue to stay where you are. It's not about you being a blessing to the church, it's about you being what God has purposed you to be.
Speaker 1:And if you've been here six months and you hadn't connected, I'm trying to help you to see what God wants to do in your life, because you never thought that connecting with church could be your cure to loneliness. You never thought just walking in your assignment, god is going to speak to you because when you connect to the church, you connect to his people. And in this people group you just never know where your blessing might come. You never know where that next business opportunity might come. You just never know. You now, for real, you got to be careful because everybody ain't straight. Some folk crooked amen somebody, but that's why you got to be filled with the holy ghost, even in the church. Shoot I. I shake some of y'all hands from a distance. You know what I'm saying Because I ain't crazy. I understand. But I'm just telling you, under the power of the Holy Ghost, if you get connected, god is going to put you in the right posture to get everything that you need. Don't? Y'all know my testimony by now? I'm just like many of y'all.
Speaker 1:I used to have a VIP membership in several clubs in Fort Hood Texas, but I didn't find my wife in a club in Fort Hood Texas. I had some good money as an officer in the military. I used to travel the world, but I didn't find my wife traveling the world. I found my wife when I said all right, god, I'm going to start playing with it. Oh to thee I surrender. I'm going to start playing with it. I with it. Oh to thee I surrender. I'm going to stop playing with it. I'm going to show up and I'm going to hold the door open. I'm going to stop playing with it. I'm going to show up and read the scripture. I'm going to stop playing with it. I'm going to do what I've been called to do.
Speaker 1:And one day I was at church on a Sunday morning doing what God called me to do and I saw this little ballerina looking girl twirling around in the front and I said hey, doc, who was that? He said she's one of the dance members. He looked at me. I said, doc, I'm a sniper now. I promise you, I clap one, shot, one kill. I ain't going to be shooting all around the church, I'm pretty good at my shot. But I found her. You know why? Because I was connected to the body, doing the work of the church. I saw a little ballerina girl twirling around. I want to talk to somebody in the room. You're trying to do something in your business. When you're connected to the church, that business opportunity is right here in this room.
Speaker 1:Because I believe, by faith, everything we need is in the house. I believe, by faith, when we get connected and do what God has called us to do, everything that we need is in the house. Anna spent her days doing work in the temple and, true for the matter, she was doing that work and this is not a message of being unbalanced. This is the best message of being purposeful and being connected. I tell you it's a gospel message. She fasted and she prayed and she had a connection to the church, y'all, even when I lost my going through a career change first military.
Speaker 1:I came out of military, had a job here right off of Weston House Boulevard 2007. And it just wasn't a good fit. And I was not married at the time, I didn't have any kids, and I just told my dad. My dad said you ain't happy Boy, what's wrong with you? I said I ain't feeling this one dad. He said well, you know, they say it take a couple jobs coming out of the military. That's a word for somebody who just came out of the military. It's going to take a couple jobs, you all right, it's going to take some time. And they said he said but I got you. That's all I need Parents, sometimes all your child need to. What my dad said, that meant the world. It meant that I didn't have to stay being miserable where I was. I could take some risks because I knew my daddy had me. You know what I'm saying. Hey, dad, you get the light bill this week because you said you got me. You know what I'm saying.
Speaker 1:So when I did that, I connected to the church because I was new in ministry and I just used to walk with my pastor. At that time, in that season of unemployment. Yeah, I was applying for jobs, but I was connected. It's spiritual. I'm trying to tell you that in that moment of staying connected to my pastor at the time and just showing up at the church in the middle of the week, what God started doing he started opening doors, he started doing stuff, he started making ways. Stuff that I didn't even apply for started coming my way because I was connected, I wasn't isolated. I was connected and I'm trying to talk to some of y'all in the room and say get connected, stop being isolated, get connected and watch God open the door. Show up sometime just to show up, watch God open the door. That's my testimony that when I was going through, I stayed connected and God made a way out of no way. But not only are we going to be free from loneliness and free from despair, must we fast, must we reconnect? We must also expect. Everybody say expect. We look at verse 37 again. Look at it carefully.
Speaker 1:One of the things that it says about her as she was doing her service in the temple. She wasn't just serving, she stayed there worshiping all night and all day. How do you get to a posture real talk where you get to the point where you worship all night and all day. The only way you get to a place family where you can worship all night and all day, it's beyond you do it just because it's in the Bible, because just because it's in the Bible does not mean it's in you. It's beyond doing it just out of tradition and routine, because after a while, tradition and routine kind of fades away. The only way that you can stay in a posture of worship when things don't look good, when you're dealing with loneliness, when you're dealing with life issues, is that the only way that you can stay in a posture of worship when things don't look good, when you're dealing with loneliness, when you're dealing with life issues, is that the only way that you can deal with a posture of worship is when you come into the house of God expecting something?
Speaker 1:I quickly learned that Anna was able to stay in this posture of worship because she was expecting God to show her something and reveal something, and so she stayed in this posture by night and by day. And I want to talk to some of y'all and rejoice and restore your expectation. 2024 stole some of y'all's expectation. You got to come into the house of God expecting something. As a pastor, every time I come in here, I expect God to move. I don't know if this gonna be the Sunday where God opens somebody's blind eyes, but I'm expecting God to move. At the 8 o'clock service I asked them to write down on social media what they were expecting and one woman of God said Pastor, I just want God to help me in dealing with cancer. And when I come into the house of God, I expect God to move. When somebody's dealing with cancer, I expect God to move when somebody's dealing with cancer. That was the weakest unexpected clap that I've ever heard in my life. You clap like that because y'all must have forgot that God moved like that. I got some witnesses in the room. I need every cancer survivor in the room that they gave you a bad prognosis to stand up right here where y'all are. I mean, how many of them in here? All my cancer survivors in the room? You're surrounded by witnesses. You're surrounded by witnesses. You're surrounded by witnesses. So when I come into worship, I expect God to move. They told Elder Colleen that her she couldn't sing no more. Didn't y'all see her singing a couple of Sundays ago? When I come into worship, I expect God to move.
Speaker 1:One of our partners gave me the name of a woman of God that I never met before. She has some illness in her life right now and apparently they said that she only has yet but a short few days to live. They encouraged her to come to church today, but she said it was not that she was against church, she wanted to spend the last days that she has with her children, and every last one of us can understand that. So what's the responsibility of church when people can't come to the church? Our responsibility is to go to the people. We about to go to the people. How are we going to go to the people? Because, well, by faith, I've never met this lady, but I'm going to call her by name. Her name is Jessica Angelano. So everybody say Jessica Angelano. Y'all say it like you mean it, jessica Angelano. Jessica couldn't make it today, but God bless you that you could. Jessica, you're going to be spending next year with your family, but the diagnosis that Jessica got is that her time has come to an end, and I wonder if I got some real people in the room that really operate in expectancy, who can call on the name of Jesus on the behalf of Jessica and say God, you still able. I expect you to move.
Speaker 1:Hezekiah got a bad report too. Hezekiah got a report from the prophet that his life was over. But Hezekiah turned his face to the wall and he began to cry out to his God. He cried so much that his cry broke through the atmosphere and made it to the throne room. And when God heard Isaiah's cry I mean when he heard Hezekiah's cry he tapped Hezekiah on the shoulder and said go back and tell him you got 15 more years. I wish I had some people that heard oh my God, give at least 15 more years. You give them all. But we declare at least 15 more years Because we're coming to the house of God with expectation, because that's what it looks like and that's how you come to worship day in and day out, to be free from the strongholds of this thing called life. We've got to fast, we've got to reconnect, we've got to expect. And here it is. We have to become evangelists. It's the last thing that I have for you.
Speaker 1:When Anna saw and heard the conversation between Simeon, mary and Joseph, she began to get excited. They weren't even talking to her, but she was able to see what she had been praying for. It's my prayer, family, that God will allow you to see what you've been praying for and it'll be so obvious to you when you see it. It'll be so obvious to you when you hear it that you start to give God some praise. Can you imagine Simeon, mary and Joseph saying now what's she shouting about? Say you don't know what I have been praying for. You don't know what I have been praying for. You don't know what I've been waiting on. I just saw what I have been hoping for. I just heard the word that I had just been waiting on and had to stop everything that I was doing to give my God some glory. I wish I had some people in the room that could receive by faith that if you fast and if you reconnect and if you expect God is going to show you some stuff before the year is out and you ain't going to be able to help, but to give God some glory like you've never given to him before. But family is not enough just to be able to give him some glory. You have to become the evangelists.
Speaker 1:There's something that psychology says about being an evangelist that ties to the gospel. The gospel is that when I evangelize I share the good news. But psychology helps us understand in the natural what happens to us when we share the good news of what God has done in our life. Evangelism is sharing the good news of Jesus Christ, his birth, his life, his death, his resurrection and his return. That's the good news. Anna said that she told everybody, everybody, everybody, everybody, everybody, everybody. It's like going to Home Depot with Deacon Rainey I can't even go get a hammer because Deacon Rainey is going to invite everybody to Chosen City Church. It's like walking in the mall with Lucinda Elder. Lucinda I can't do it because she's been and told everybody the gospel, because they got a spirit within them that wants to tell everybody about what God has done in their life. But listen, can I tie that to the psychology of what happens?
Speaker 1:Psychology helps us to understand this about your story. There is something that you have gone through, there is something that you are going through and you got to be able to tell your story along with his story. Every time you tell your story to someone else who cares, it turns off the body's stress responses. Did you know that by sharing your testimony you'll start to feel better? First of all, you're no longer ashamed because you own your own story, you own your own narrative. You can tell somebody yeah, I used to be an alcoholic. Yes, I was addicted to drugs. Yes, pornography did have me. Yes, I was an abuser. Yes, I was dealing to drugs. Yes, pornography did have me. Yes, I was an abuser. Yes, I was dealing with anger. Yes, I was responsible for birthing a toxic relationship. Yes, I was not the best father. Yes, I was not the best mother. Yes, I was not the best husband. Yes, I was not the best wife.
Speaker 1:What happens is, as I tell my story, in the natural, science sees that my toxic stress hormones, like cortisol. They start to go down and I get to a place where my body starts to relax. It turns off the body's bad hormones. But in the natural, the body goes into a self-repair format and suddenly, all of a sudden, I don't need some of the medicines that I used to have because my blood pressure has gone down. I don't need some of the medicines that I used to have because I'm no longer depressed or in anxiety or in fear about what I've gone through, because I realize, as I tell my story, my story is one that I'm truthful about.
Speaker 1:I ended up in the valley. My story is one that I'm truthful about, that I made some decisions that impacted my destiny. My story is one and I tell the truth about. I made some decisions that had a negative impact on my destiny. My story is one and I tell the truth about I made some decisions that had a negative impact on my children. My story is one and I tell the truth about. I, too, wrestle with loneliness. My story is one and I tell the truth about. I, too, deal with sadness. My story is one and I tell the truth about Sometimes I have sleepless nights. My story is one and I tell the truth about Sometimes I have sleepless nights. My story is one and I tell the truth about Sometimes I don't trust God like I should. My story is one and I tell the truth about. Sometimes I wonder has God forgotten about me? My story is one and I tell the truth about. I know what it feels like for people to turn their back on me. My story is one and I tell the truth about. Every now and then I feel like I'm all alone in this world.
Speaker 1:I wish I had some witnesses that don't mind telling your real story, chris. Do we have any witnesses in the house? Chris, you got to be a witness. You better wake up over there, chris. Man of God, I know what God has done in your life. Isn't there a story that you have where God has brought you out of some stuff that nobody else can bring you out of? Brandon, I know that you are a witness, that there was a time in your life where you were the most misunderstood person in the room. Do I have any other witnesses out here that don't mind testifying that?
Speaker 1:I'm going to tell my real story.
Speaker 1:It got real ugly for me. I'm going to tell my real story. It got real dark for me. I'm going to tell my real story. It was filled with suicidal ideation. I'm going to tell my real story. I thought about walking out on my family. I'm going to tell my real story. I thought about walking out on my family. I'm going to tell my real story. I thought about giving up on God, but all of a sudden there came a but. I want to help you to understand. That may be your real story, but I want you to understand.
Speaker 1:The power of an evangelist is to tell your real ugly story and use a conjecture by the name of, but Even though you had left me for dead, but Even though you had given up on me, but Even though it didn't look like it was going to work out. But Do I have any but witnesses in the room that can testify? My story is ugly. But you said it was too late. But that's what the evangelist does. You tell your story that if it had not been for the Lord, god, on your side, tell me where would I be. I need some people now who have overcome divorce to tell the people what your family was saying about you. Go tell them what your family said. And just when you was about to believe them, what showed up and said hold on a little while longer.
Speaker 1:I need some entrepreneurs in the room. You were just about to give up on the business, you were just about to throw in the towel and just when you was about to do that, but suddenly I declare that into the life of every entrepreneur in the room that Lord, god, just said suddenly it's going to happen for you Because when it happens for you it'll be a part of your story. I need some lonely people in the room. You were feeling like God forgot about you. I just got a word from the Lord that. But suddenly God is about to give you what you need. But suddenly loneliness is about to give you what you need. But suddenly loneliness is about to leave you. But suddenly, pastor Walt, how do you know that God is going to show up like that? I'm from the old church. Well, we used to have old songs. We used to talk about being down in lonely places and our God, he leaps down. He picked me up. I wish I had some folks from the old church or some people with a relevant testimony, am.
Speaker 2:I, the only one in the room that knows what it feels like to be down and left for dead.
Speaker 1:Am I the only one in the room that knows what it feels like for everybody to give up on you? Am I the only one in the room to know what it feels like for everybody to give up on you? Am I the only one in the room to know what it feels like to be the last one with a dream? When you feel like that and you're about to let go, you're about to throw in the power our God. He'll reach down and come to tell the new church what we learned in the old church. What did y'all learn about God? When he reaches down in the valley, he'll reach down. And when he reaches down family, tell your neighbor what God does next. When he reaches down y'all, he'll pick you up. I can tell there's a pickup that just hit this house. You've been down in that stuff long enough, but the Holy Spirit is in the room. Thank you, holy Ghost. Have your way, holy Ghost.
Speaker 2:Pick us up till we walk better.
Speaker 1:Pick us up till we love better. Pick us up till we give better. Pick us up till we have more vision. I just heard the Lord say I just heard the Lord say I just picked about 23 of y'all up what the Lord will do.
Speaker 2:Not only will he reach down, he'll pick you up.
Speaker 1:And when he picks you up to make sure you don't go the same way, tell him finally the next thing that he does.
Speaker 2:After he picks you up, what does he do next?
Speaker 1:he turns you all around. I wish I had the folk in the room that could get excited about a God. Not only will he pick me up.
Speaker 2:He's going to turn you all around.
Speaker 1:I just heard the Lord say I just turned around about 10 men. You ain't going back to that, no more. I just heard the Lord say he just picked up ten women. It's about to get better for you. He'll pick you up, he'll turn you around, because God has said to the day of new beginnings I'm about to do a new thing in your life. I've picked you up now. I've turned you around, but what is something else that he does? You're all from the old church or not? I need everybody from the old church. He'll pick us up, he'll turn us around, but there's something else that he does and it happens in your feet.
Speaker 2:He'll pick you up, he'll turn you around and he'll plant your feet on solid ground.
Speaker 1:No more shaky relationships, no more shaky situations, no more shaky businesses, no more shaky church people.
Speaker 2:He's about to pick you up. Turn you around, place your feet On solid ground. My hope is built.
Speaker 1:In nothing less but Jesus' blood.
Speaker 2:And the righteousness. Oh Christ, the solid rock I stand. All other ground Is sinking sand.
Speaker 1:I just heard the Lord say Colton City, you free now.
Speaker 2:Colton City, you free now.
Speaker 1:The mountain just got moved, did y'all?
Speaker 2:hear what I said. You free now.
Speaker 1:The mountain just got moved. That's your Christmas gift from the Lord. As a man of God, I declare my faith that the mountain just got moved. Whatever mountain you came in here with, I believe in my spirit that God just said the mountain just got moved. You're free now. You just got to walk in your freedom. You're free now. God has just made a new door. You're free now. Go home and fast. You're free now. Make sure you get reconnected. You're free now. Worship with expectation. You're free now. Go ahead and evangelize and tell the story when you're free.
Speaker 1:There ought to be a declaration. I need every free person in the room, everybody that can receive at the mountain just got moved. Everybody that can receive that the mountain just got moved. Everybody that can receive that the mountain just got moved. Everybody that can receive that the mountain just got moved. Everybody that can receive that the mountain just got moved. Unless you have a real mountain, you don't know what I'm talking about. Everybody that can receive that the kidney issue just got fixed. Everybody that can receive the kidney issue just got fixed. Everybody that can receive that God is about to resolve the issue that has been plaguing you since 2020. I wish everybody in the room to receive that.
Speaker 1:The mountain just moved, it's your Christmas gift, it's from the Holy One. He said you fast, you reconnect, you expect and you evangelize. The mountain just got moved and the mountain just got moved. He said you fast, you reconnect, you expect and you evangelize. The mountain just got moved and the mountain just got moved. And the mountain just got moved. The worship ought to match the movement. And the mountain just got moved. The worship ought to Master Boomer, there's a song that we sing in the old church at Symphony of the Class I'm free. Praise the Lord, I'm free, I'm no longer bound.
Speaker 1:No, more chains holding me my soul is resting and it's just a blessing. Hallelujah, I'm free. I'm going to recite it one more time when they get to the top, so you can catch it, and you're going to sing it, and when you get free you ought to show God some sign. I'm going to sing it until about 50 people to get free. It goes like this Before we sing it, listen to the words. It's just simple. It's simple I'm free. And then it says this Praise the Lord, y'all got it. And then it says no longer bound. That means loneliness and anxiety. Don't have me. No more, no more chains, no more chains, no more chains. And then it said my soul is resting. And then it said it's just a blessing. And then that celebration said praise the Lord, praise the Lord, praise the Lord, hallelujah, hallelujah. I think y'all ready to sing it, like some free people who got their microphone. Pastor Al, you gonna help us, I am free.
Speaker 2:Sing it like you mean it. Y'all sing it with me. Praise the Lord, I'm free, no longer bound, no longer bound, no more chains, no more chains, no more chains, no more chains, no more chains. Soul.
Speaker 1:Come out and get Pastor Chris or Mike.
Speaker 2:And get Elder.
Speaker 1:Colleen or Mike Keep singing Al. I even see 50 people get free. We're going home on this. Y'all gonna sing it. We're gonna sing it together. Y'all sing it with me.
Speaker 2:Y'all sing it with me. Come on, we're gonna sing it like we mean it no longer bound.
Speaker 1:Now. This song is going to heaven. You're not singing to your neighbor, my soul is resting. You're going to heaven. You're not singing to your neighbor, my soul is resting. You're singing to God. It's a declaration for your own life. Now I want the music to stay at that level, but I want y'all's volume to go up. Everybody in here sing it. Y'all got it. Run it back again to go up. Everybody in here sing it. Y'all got it. Run it back again. Everybody in here. Everybody in here sing it. Y'all sing it like you mean it, like you're free. You're no longer lonely, you're no longer in despair. I'm free. No chains. No chains, my soul is resting.
Speaker 2:And it's just a blessing. Praise the Lord. Run it back one more time. Praise the Lord, hallelujah, I'm free. Run it back. Cast an hour like God healed everything in your body.
Speaker 1:Run'm free, I am free.
Speaker 2:Praise the Lord, I'm free, no longer bound, no more chains holding me, my soul is resting and it's just a blessing. Praise the Lord, hallelujah, I'm free. Come on now you sing it like you're free. Sing it like you're free. Sing it. Sing it, I am free. Praise the Lord, I'm free, no longer bound, no more chains holding me, my soul is resting. Oh, and it's just a blessing. Oh, praise the Lord, hallelujah, I'm free.
Speaker 1:Now, this time without music. Listen. Here's an invitation. Listen as everybody keeps singing softly. There's somebody in the house of God. Your freedom is going to come with you being obedient. You don't have a church home. You need to get connected to a church. It's time for you to grow. It's time for you to be who God has called you to be. For some of you, you've never made a confession of faith that you believe that Jesus Christ is the Son of God, that he died and that he shall for our sins and shall soon return and been baptized.
Speaker 2:You've never been baptized, or?
Speaker 1:didn't understand it at the time when it happened. If God is speaking to you, hallelujah, hallelujah, somebody just move. Thank you for opening the floodgates. Now y'all keep singing. You know how sometimes I ask y'all to check on your people. The way you're going to check on them this time is by worshiping you. Just keep lifting that up to Jesus right now and people will respond to the gospel. Just keep lifting that up. Keep lifting that up. Everybody, every voice, every voice. Keep lifting it up Now, as they're lifting that up and the Holy Spirit is speaking to you about freedom and liberty and being connected. Come on right here in the aisle. We want to meet you.
Speaker 1:Listen to that, listen to that run it back because somebody about to respond. Run it back, come on, come on, come on respond. Give God a yes no longer bound, no longer bound my soul is resting. My soul is rest, yeah set an atmosphere of a deliverance it's just a blessing.
Speaker 1:God bless you, bishop, let's celebrate God. God bless you, sir. God bless you. God bless you, woman of God. God bless you. Come on, come on, y'all. Run it back one more time to somebody's life that's on the line. Sing it like you want somebody to be saved and set free. Sing it like God has set you free.
Speaker 2:Come on, come on, come on.
Speaker 1:Man of God, come meet me in the aisle. Ain't nothing to be ashamed of. Woman of God, there's breath for your soul in this place. Sing it like you mean it. You're going to need this through this holiday season.
Speaker 2:Come on. Thank you, god, I am free. Thank you, god. Praise the Lord, I'm free, no longer bound, no more chains holding me. My soul is resting, it's just a blessing. Praise the Lord, hallelujah.
Speaker 1:I'm free. Listen, family. I'm going to ask everyone that can to join me at this altar, Everyone that can join me at the altar, Everyone that can join me at the altar, everyone that can join me at the altar. It's prayer time. Meet me right here at this altar. Meet me right here at this altar, also praying for Reverend Shakey to rush his father to the hospital. Just got that message a few seconds ago. He's able. Yeah, he's able.
Speaker 1:When you come to this altar today by faith, the challenge of this altar today is for you to fight for yourself and fight for your family by surrendering unto the lord. That which means you no good. That's the challenge of the altar today. It's for you to go to war spiritual warfare for your own mind, for your own soul, for your own children, for your own family, for your own future, for your community, for the church. That's the challenge today. Come to this altar and fight with everything within you to leave it in God's hands. That's the fight of the altar today. And I promise you, if you leave it with the Lord, I promise you, I promise you he's going to fix it In His way and in His time, but I promise you he's going to fix it In his way and in his time, but I assure you that he's going to fix it better than we could. So I want you to think right now about what it is that you want to lay before the Lord.
Speaker 1:Some of you may be down here on behalf of somebody else, interceding on behalf of somebody else. That's a beautiful thing. You need more intercessors that say, hey, I'm okay today, but I want to come down on behalf of somebody else, interceding on behalf of somebody else, that's a beautiful thing. You need more intercessors that say, hey, I'm okay today, but I want to come down on behalf of somebody else. And guess what? You can also intercede for somebody else and pray for yourself. You could do it. You could do it. So I want you to do that today. Yeah, yeah, yeah, there's a release. There's a release right there. There's a release right, that's what we're there. There's a release right there. That's what we're here for. That's it. That's God's gift to you today A release, yep, yep, yep, yep, yep, y'all ready, y'all ready.
Speaker 1:I don't want to just pray, I want to fight. I want to fight. I want to fight. I want to fight for your peace. I want to fight for your joy. I want to fight for your happiness. I want to fight for your future. I need all the intercessors in the room to fight with me now. We fighting, we fighting, we fighting, we fighting.
Speaker 1:Father, in the name of Jesus, we thank you so much for this opportunity to be at this altar. God, it's a privilege to come to this altar. Well, god, we come to the altar today in a posture of spiritual warfare, which means that we've come to fight against everything that's happening in our lives that is not like you, everything that continues to happen in our lives that impacts your perfect will for us. We didn't come to play today, god. We came to fight. God, you told us the best posture for us to fight was from a bended knee, because our strength is found in our knees, god, just like the ox who carries the load. But when the load gets heavy, you'll bend down, god, to get the ox who carries the load, but when the load gets heavy, you'll bend down, god, to get up under it. We're bending down right now, father, god, to get under whatever has been heavy upon us.
Speaker 1:God, we have come for war, obviously not warring against you, oh God, but warring against the things that are going on in our lives. You know what's going on in the hearts and head of your people. You see the tears. You see where they are. You see everything that's happening. But we've come for war. We've come for war today. We've come. We didn't come to play with it, god. We've come for war, god. Right now they are decreeing and declaring, god, how they need you to move, however they need you to move, god. They are speaking it right now. We ain't come to play with it, god. We've come for war. We've come for war. We've come for war right now, in the name of Jesus. We've been handling this stuff long and we refuse to take this stuff back to 2024. We have come for war.
Speaker 1:We have come for war because you told us, if we come to the throne, you told us to come boldly. You told us to come with expectation and, god, I'm expecting you to move at this altar right now. I'm expecting you to move at this altar in ways that people have never seen you move before. I'm expecting God that I understand that for some it'll be a longer process, but I'm also expecting you to move into suddenly, right now, for some people that they'll get home, god, and it'll be worked out. They'll get home and it'll be done. They'll get home, god, and you will have already made a way. They'll get home, god, and you will have already fixed it so much so they'll laugh, god, and say what was I worried about, god, today?
Speaker 1:They're gonna lay it down and they're not gonna pick it up again, in the name of Jesus. They're gonna lay it down and they're not gonna pick it up again. They're laying it down at your feet right now, god. They're laying it down right now. They're laying it down right now. They're laying it down right now. They're laying it down right now. They're laying down right now.
Speaker 1:Somebody just asked should they kneel? The answer is yes. If that was your question to God, find your spot to kneel. Lay it down right now. Lay it down right now. God will honor your posture of worship. Lay it down right now. We've come for war. We didn't come to play with it today. Lay it down right now. Lay it down right now. You and God are having a conversation. The Lord said lay it down right now, god.
Speaker 1:We lift up Reverend Shank's father right now, even as he is on the way to the hospital. We lift him up right now, in the name of Jesus, god, I lift up Sister Vaughn, who just had a hip surgery. She's in pain. We declare she's going to sleep good tonight. I lift up the people that are at this altar. This altar, they are laying it down right now. God, they will not pick it up again. We in a fight, we in a fight and we're gonna win the fight today, oh Lord. We're gonna win the fight today, oh Lord. I see victory in the room. I see victory at the altar. I see victory in the room. I see victory in the altar. I see victory in the room. I see victory in the altar.
Speaker 1:God, you've heard the prayers and prayers of your people. You know what they need. Show yourself mighty, god. Show yourself strong. Show yourself mighty, god. Heal, set free and deliver, god. I ask that your Holy Spirit, your Shekinah glory, would fill our heart and our mind until we are liberated from what has held us back, until we are liberated that what has held us captive.
Speaker 1:God, take the pain away. There are so many people dealing with grief, god, and we don't understand. But, god, if you'll just take the pain away, god, speak to that grieving mother. Speak to that grieving aunt. Speak to that grieving father. Speak to that grieving uncle. Take the pain away, oh God, speak to that grieving cousin. Speak right now. Move in this place. Move in this place.
Speaker 1:We come for war. We decree and declare that we shall experience the joy of the Lord before we leave this place. I speak joy in every heart and every soul. I speak joy. I speak liberation for all that can receive it by faith. Thank you, god, for giving us the gift of freedom. We declare that we are free.
Speaker 1:Chosen city, the Lord said declare with our mouths that we are free. If you came with a burden, the Lord said declare with your mouth that you are free. If you came with a burden, the Lord said declare with your mouth that you are free. If you came with a burden, the Lord said declare with your mouth that we are free. If your family has a burden. Declare for your family that your family is free.
Speaker 1:If your mother is going through something, intercede for your mother. Intercede for the mothers in the room right now, god, we intercede for every mother in the room and every mother virtually. We intercede on the behalf of the mothers in the room. God, you carry a heavy weight. We come before you on behalf of every mother in the room, every desiring mother in the room. I pray, father God, that they'll be able to birth in accordance with your will. I come on behalf of every father in the room. Let us be the men that you've called us to be, every father and every man that has a desire to be a father. We come in the name of Jesus. I've seen you move that way. Have your way in this place. We've come for warfare. We ain't come to play with it. No more playing God Forever, remounting God.
Speaker 2:Forever remounting God Father.
Speaker 1:Father God, as we prepare to leave this place, but never your presence loose, loose, loose, loose, loose, loose, loose, loose, loose, loose, loose, loose, loose.
Speaker 1:Musicians. If you could give me about 30 seconds of silence right there. Man of God, thank you, loose. Since Wednesday, he's been giving me simple words like release and loose. Since Wednesday, release loose, release loose, release loose. The Lord is here, thank you. He said we can just release and loose, be loose. Just release and loose, be loose. Let it go right here. Loose, loose, let it go. Cry if you need to cry, ye, yell if you need to yell, just release loose. You're too wound up. The Lord said you're too wound up, release loose. Drop your shoulders down. Release loose, loose yourself. Take a deep breath in and breathe it out. Take a deep breath in and just breathe it out. You loosen yourself from it, release yourself, just loose yourself from it. Take your hands off of out. You loosen yourself from it, release yourself, just loose yourself from it. Take your hands off of it, release yourself, loose yourself from it. Release yourself, loose yourself from it. It's alright, it's okay, it's okay, it's okay. That's the sound of people getting loosed and free from it, sound of people getting loosed and free from it.
Speaker 1:Right now, family, we, we about to go, but don't be afraid of silence. Too many times the people of God are afraid of silence. Don't be afraid of silence. We came for war and sometimes might be silent, so God can move. Thank you, god, release right there. Help my sister, help my sister, help my sister right now. Help my sister. Help my sister. Help my sister right now. Help my sister. Thank you, god, release. It's going to be the best Christmas you ever had. In Jesus name, yeah, in Jesus name, in Jesus name, it's alright. No burdens, no stress. Release, loose. Now, if you're still releasing and still loose, and keep doing that. But if you believe that God has moved in a situation and it's okay if you're still waiting, but if you believe that God has moved in a situation, just worship and we're going home, just give him some glory, just worship him. Right, we're going home.
Speaker 2:Just give him some glory, just worship him right there.
Speaker 1:Thank you, thank you, thank you. Yeah, he's still moving. I'm going to pray and give us our benediction, but for those that just need for God to work, you ain't got nothing but time. Father, I thank you for what you've done today. I thank you for the move of God today. God, I already go ahead of those that will listen and go into a posture of fasting. I thank you for those that are going to fast and speak to them. Holy Ghost, speak like only you can give them divine wisdom and divine strategy and divine instruction, divine protection and divine resources. I thank you for those that are about to reconnect. I thank you for the expectation that I feel in this room. I thank you for the testimonies that will be a part of our evangelistic expression. God, as we prepare to leave this place with never your presence, we don't leave here like we came in Jesus' name Bound, depressed, sick or lame. We won't leave here like we came in Jesus' name.
Speaker 1:God, I love you, you, I praise you, give your name all the glory, honor and praise let the people of God say together amen, amen, amen. You are dismissed in the favor of the Lord. May God bless you, may God keep you. May heaven smile upon you. God bless and go in peace.
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