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I Knew God Was Speaking
00:02:23
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| In 2003, all hell begins to come against me. | |
| And everything, and a prophet comes in and he says, You, you. | |
| We've built like one of the largest churches, and it has almost 28,000 members, and television ministries exploding, and you're packing out stadiums. | |
| And he says, You, you, God's going to use you. | |
| He's going to use your beauty. | |
| Of course, I'm a little sassy sometimes. | |
| I said, You better give me more than that, you know. | |
| And he said, You, God's communations. | |
| And all of a sudden, he gives me a word of knowledge of me in a field. | |
| And I know God's speaking to me. | |
| And he says, Everything around you will be shaken, and everything around you will fall. | |
| Oh, my. | |
| He says, But you will remain standing and you will emerge with strength. | |
| Now, everybody's jumping up and they're going, Yay. | |
| I'm not. | |
| No. | |
| Yeah. | |
| We've been there. | |
| We don't need any exactly. | |
| I'm sitting down because I'm like, wait a minute, this is the girl that came out of the trailer. | |
| This is a girl that broke through depression. | |
| This is the girl that broke through bulimia and anorexia and depression and suicide and some generational curse. | |
| This is the girl that spent 12 hours, 13, 14 hours in front of God. | |
| This is the girl that would walk away and deny anything for the cause of Christ and would go on a 21-day fast like it was nothing. | |
| I mean, I love God with all my heart. | |
| I'm like, what do you mean, everything? | |
| So I'm calling a technicality. | |
| Like, how do you send that word back to heaven? | |
| How do you overturn that? | |
| But I knew, just like when I met John, I couldn't explain it. | |
| I couldn't understand it, but I knew that word was from God. | |
| I didn't like it. | |
| I didn't want to receive it, but I knew it was the Holy Spirit. | |
| So what I thought was like a crazy thing, a hard thing, but I'm going to tell you, the biggest blessing in my life is that God loved me enough to reduce me to Christ. | |
| The greatest thing that has ever happened to me is absolute brokenness. | |
| The greatest thing that's ever happened to me is that God loved me enough that anything in my life that did not have eternal value would be shaken. | |
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Obedience Matters
00:06:54
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| So that which would have eternal value would come forth. | |
| And in the spirit, it's called a metathesis. | |
| And in the book of Hebrews, God talks about transition times because we're in days of transition. | |
| That all that which is not of God will be shaken. | |
| Everything that is of religion, everything that is of man's agenda, everything that is any supremacy outside of Christ, that everything that is not founded on the foundation of Jesus Christ, every agenda of our church, every agenda of man, | |
| Every political agenda that is not of God, every economic agenda that is not of God, every self-agenda that is not of God is going to be shaken, because only that which is God is going to remain standing, because God says, this is my time and I will raise up my voices and I will raise up my people. | |
| And just like Esther should have never been chosen out of the 127 providences because she, in the natural, didn't have on all the fancy makeup, she didn't have on all the ornaments, she didn't have on all the attractions of the world, She didn't have the image. | |
| She didn't come from the background. | |
| She didn't have the people of support. | |
| She didn't have anything going for her. | |
| She was an orphan. | |
| She was forgotten. | |
| She was forsaken. | |
| She didn't have the economic behind her. | |
| She didn't have anything, but she had God. | |
| And when she had God, God raised her up. | |
| And let me tell you something. | |
| Vashtai is easy to be replaced because Vashtai, who is married to the king, Vashtai, and this is what people don't recognize. | |
| You say, what is God doing? | |
| Vashtai did not serve purpose. | |
| And because she did not serve purpose, when the king, and it seems, oh, this is silly, but he shouldn't have asked this. | |
| It doesn't matter. | |
| The king asked her to dance. | |
| The king asked her. | |
| But because she could not be obedient to what was asked of the king, because sometimes we think, well, we want to do it and we negotiate with God. | |
| If the king asks you to do something, then you do it. | |
| If the king asks you to stand up and to take your show and to be in support of President Trump, it doesn't matter if people troll you, if people lie about you, if people hate on you, if people leave you, it doesn't matter. | |
| Because if God be for you, then who can be against you? | |
| Because God is looking for someone who will say yes to God's agenda, to the king's agenda. | |
| And so what it was, it doesn't matter if you understand the instruction of the king. | |
| It doesn't matter. | |
| It matters if you are obedient. | |
| Because God, Vashtai could be replaced because she wouldn't serve purpose. | |
| So God finds this young girl Esther, whose name literally means myrtle tree. | |
| Myrtle trees come from the bottom. | |
| It means you've come from bottom places. | |
| You've overlooked. | |
| It means God will raise you up from the pit. | |
| He'll raise you up from the bottom. | |
| Her name also, she has white blossoms because out of the bottom place, it means that God will purify you and God will bring his holiness because you have died so that he can live. | |
| And what people don't recognize, because we're more impressed with a Saul anointing than a David anointing, because we're more impressed with what looks right than what is right. | |
| And so therefore, we choose things that we think should sound right, should act right according. | |
| And they even say about our prayer. | |
| Well, he's not presidential. | |
| Thank goodness. | |
| And I mean that with all due respect because in other words, he's not a polished politician. | |
| In other words, he's authentically, whether people like it or not, has been raised up by God because God says that he raises up and places all people in places of authority. | |
| It is God that raises up a king. | |
| It is God that sets one down. | |
| And so when you fight against the plan of God, you're fighting against the hand of God. | |
| And therefore, you go, well, how can that be? | |
| I don't know. | |
| I understand the guy don't understand. | |
| And so there are many different reasons that God puts people in place. | |
| Now, I have my personal opinion about that that I'm sure we'll get to. | |
| You said, what is God doing? | |
| God's doing transition. | |
| God's doing transition. | |
| So he's raising up Esther's who understand you've been raised up for such a time as this, which means you have the power for such a time as this, for such a time literally means that you have the ability to strike, to punish, to defeat every demonic foe because you are serving purpose, the intention of God. | |
| And that's why Esther was put in place because God said, I've got to be quiet. | |
| God said, God said, when Esther gets in place, Mordecai, who represents the Holy Spirit, comes to him and says, okay, enlargement and deliverance is coming to the Israelites. | |
| So that's a prophetic word to you. | |
| America, body of Christ, hear this. | |
| Enlargement and deliverance is coming. | |
| It is coming. | |
| That is the word. | |
| Enlargement. | |
| There is an awakening that is going to come globally. | |
| So you say, why me? | |
| See, I thought it was my way. | |
| Now, God used the media because that's how President Trump reached out to me over 16 years ago. | |
| But God says, I'm going to shake everything. | |
| Yes. | |
| And you're going to see that it's nothing to do with you, Paula. | |
| It's everything to do with me. | |
| And this time, when you emerge with strength, you'll know it's in him that I live and I move and I have my being. | |
| So therefore, therefore, listen, when you do that, because I think we're from the same tribe. | |
| I know the system. | |
| I know the system really well. | |
| I understand. | |
| Listen, I know how to do TV blindsided. | |
| I can close my eyes now, just like you, Pastor Jim. | |
| But we don't do it by the world's ways. | |
| We don't do it by the system because we do it by the Spirit of God now. | |
| That we are not afraid or intimidated or trying to fit in or trying to be popular. | |
| We are being purposeful because we are doing what thus saith the Lord because we want to hear God say well done. | |
| So enlargement and deliverance is coming to God's people. | |
| But then he turns around and says, He says, but will you be the carrier of it? | |
| Yes. | |
| Because it's coming. | |
| But if you don't do this, he says, then destruction will come to you and your father's house. | |
| In other words, God is going to bring enlargement. | |
| God is going to bring deliverance. | |
| But the question is, will you be a part of it? | |
| Will you get in the game? | |
| Will you pray? | |
| Will you use your acts of faith? | |
| Will you be a world changer and a history maker? | |
| Will you make a difference? | |
| Or will you sit back on the sidelines and be a spectator? | |
| Because God says in the book of Hebrews, there are those that draw nigh and there are those that draw back. | |
| And the ones that draw back, they were the same as the ones that provoked him to anger in the day when he brought the children out of Egypt. | |
| But he said, go possess. | |
| He wasn't saying, do you want to possess? | |
| He said, go possess. | |
| We were not sent into this earth to fit in or just to, we weren't just sit here to be a part. | |
| We were sent here to take over. | |
| Are you listening? | |