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one church is such an incredible
community I don’t take it lightly even
though I’ve honored to be a member here
that you would trust me with this
platform so I think you’re not honor you
the priest of this house thank you my
topic for tonight is going to be power
moves because I believe that we’re ready
to start making moves moves that don’t
always make sense to those around us
moves that shake up systems and shake up
structures but because of that power I
was talking about earlier that we’re
ready to get ahead of the curve we’ve
been prophetically just speaking about
God equipping us to go into rooms and to
go into meetings and places where we
really shouldn’t have any business we
don’t have the degrees we don’t have the
experience but for some reason God has
aligned us in this season to start
making power moves and so as I was
preparing for my message I found
something in second Kings 2 that I think
if you would allow me to submit for your
consideration God may have a word now as
I have fell through the lattice of his
Upper Room in Samaria and was injured so
he sent messages and said to them go
inquire of baal-zebub
the god of Ekron whether I shall recover
from this injury before we moved to
verse 3 I want to tell you how odd it is
that the king of Israel would be
inquiring of a false God about his
healing you see because he he already
knows who God is but for some reason his
brokenness had him looking at other gods
I wanted to judge I really really did
because judging is like my thing
– I’m wrong with anything but then I
realized the times in my life when my
brokenness had me looking for false gods
instead of going to the God who I knew
could really fix me you see there are
times in life when we become so broken
that we want to find a God we can touch
as opposed to trusting a God we cannot
see and these guys they come in all
different shapes and sizes and sometimes
you find them at the club and sometimes
you find them at the workplace but one
way or another we find false gods to
help us cope with brokenness and so now
the kingdom Israel in verse 2 of this
text is looking for a false God and
verse 3 continues and it says but the
angel of the Lord said to Elisha at the
same time that one person was looking
for a false God another person was
having an encounter with the real God
that’s important for you to recognize
because you’ll think that everyone is
moving at the same pace as you but in
reality some people are moving but they
aren’t going anywhere you can’t confuse
busyness with productivity because some
of us have full calendars and it looks
like we’re making power moves but really
all right but the angel of the Lord said
to Elijah the Tishbite
arise go up to meet the messengers of
the king of Samaria and say to them is
it because there is no God in Israel
that you are going to inquire of
Beelzebub the god of Ekron something for
you to recognize about power moves is
that power moves is going to create
confrontation elijah continues it says
now therefore thus says the Lord you
shall not come down from the bed to
which you have gone up but you shall
surely die
so Elisha departed so Elisha has an
encounter with the angel of the Lord the
angel of the law
it says I want you to go down and meet a
group of messengers and when you meet
them if you go back to verse three
because I want to say it verbatim he
says I want you to tell them is it
because there is no God in Israel I want
you to confront the fact that they’re
searching for all of the wrong things if
your power moves don’t cause
confrontation they may not be power
moves at all you see because God’s going
to put you in the types of positions
where you begin to make moves that break
up systems and structures and the
good-old-boy clubs and networks and
where you have to know someone to get in
the room he’s going to break all of that
stuff up when he gives you the word that
he’s giving you that’s why it’s
important for you to know that you’ve
got a word from God because when that
confrontation comes you may be twisted
into thinking that you should back up
when really God is calling you to go
forward and verse four it continues
verse five rather says Elijah departed
and this is where things get really good
because they go back to the king and
they tell the king and then when the
messengers returned to him he said to
them why have you come back because I
had sent you to go do something and he
knew that what he sent them to do should
have taken a bit longer than it did in
verse six continues and they said look
here dog on the way to the road that you
were told us to go we ran into a man and
men came up to meet us and he said to us
go return to the king who sent you how
is it that Elijah had more authority in
that moment than the king who had
directed them to do something in the
first place I hear God’s saying that
he’s going to give you the type of
authority that changes the tide that
he’s going to give you the type of
authority where people shouldn’t be
listening to you but for some reason
they’re sitting at your feet soaking up
wisdom you got to make sure you’re ready
when it’s time to make power moves
because when you have power moves you
have in
fluence influence over the way other
people think that’s why you got to be
careful who you give your power to
because when you recognize the power
that’s working on the inside of you
there are going to be people drawn to
your light who don’t know how to respect
it there’s going to be people drawn to
your light who don’t know how to honor
it so they said to him a man came up to
meet us and said to us go return to the
king who sent you and say to him thus
says the Lord is it because there is no
God in Israel that you are sending to
inquire of baal-zebub the God of Ekron
therefore you shall not come down from
the bed to which you have gone up but
you shall surely die his messengers are
telling him I know you were wondering if
you were going to make it out of this
thing and we got a word from the Lord
that says evidently the way that fall
was set up it’s not looking good for you
and verse 7 continues then he said to
them what kind of man was it who is this
who came up to meet you who broke up my
system and told you these words what
kind of man is it who who found a way to
my messengers what kind of man was it
that broke up what I was trying to do
what kind of person is it that went into
the audition for one extra role and came
out with the starring role what kind of
man is it that went into a business
meeting for one thing and came out ready
to own the company you got to start
expanding your mind in such a way that
people start asking what kind of man is
it that you just had an encounter with
what kind of woman is it if you aren’t
in an atmosphere and people don’t leave
talking about you then you left nothing
in the room that’s good or bad this
isn’t the kind of season where we can
afford to just be flies on the wall
we’ve got to leave some type of
impression in the room that makes people
say what kind of person was that I just
an encounter with what was that I just
experienced what kind of man was it who
came up to meet you and told you these
words and verse 8 continues it says so
they answered him a hairy man wearing a
leather belt around his waist I tried to
find something so deep and spiritual
about this part but I guess my antenna
wasn’t working that well because I’m not
sure what his passion had to do with it
but I will say that he just had a little
bit of information about who he was but
instantly he knew it was Elijah the
Tishbite just a little bit of
information a hairy man wearing a
leather belt around his waist but could
it be that his reputation had preceded
him that so many people were talking
about what he was doing that when he
walked into a room he needed no
introduction I wonder if we could begin
to start doing the type of work that
when we walk into a room we don’t even
have to introduce ourselves because our
work has gone ahead of us our spirit has
gone ahead of us our connections have
gone ahead of us and so we get to come
in and they have to introduce themselves
to us because you already know what it
is and verse 9 continues then the King
sent him to a captain then the king sent
to him a captain of fifty with his fifty
men so the King was so insecure about
the word he received that he started
sending people after Elijah the prophet
it’s important for you to recognize this
because I need you to recognize that
what you’re about to do what God has for
you when you step into alignment when
you finally get into the proper position
that it’s going to create insecurities
and other people and out of their
insecurities they’re going to start
sending
other rumors or distractions to chase
you down because they’re trying to scare
you out of alignment they’re trying to
make you feel that loneliness is not
worth the cost of destiny they’re going
to make you feel that you can’t afford
the cost of moving forward they’re going
to send a captain at 50 with his fifty
men so he went up to him and there he
was sitting on the top of a hill I loved
that he was sitting on the top of the
hill because you would think that if you
see a captain with 50 men coming after
you that you would not hide because you
know we ain’t never scared but like find
a tree big enough to just block the
shade but for some reason he was sitting
on the top of the hill ready and he
spoke to him man of God the King has
said come down so Elisha answered and
said to the captain of 50 if I am a man
of God then let fire come down from
heaven and consume you and your fifty
men and the verse tells us that fire
came down from heaven and consumed him
and his fifty I think God wants somebody
to know that you’ve been fighting the
fifty men when you should have just been
hanging on to the word that God gave you
and just tapped into that men 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
going to take care of it for me I hear
God saying that some of you have been
fighting the wrong battle that is not
about the captain’s 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 in to 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 going to make it can you worship
in the face
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 going to 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 in if I am a man of God
you gotta see in verse nine that it was
like the captain was trying to be a
little funny when he said men of God the
King has come you not my king he says
man of God the King said I answered a
one men and one man alone and if I am a
man of God then your king doesn’t matter
if I am a 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 and 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 and 50 I’m country where
I’m from they say you don’t believe that
meat is greasy so the king said ok you
burned up those but I’m gonna send
another cuz maybe that was just an off
situation maybe you didn’t quite fully
something was wrong cuz surely if I sent
a captain in 50min they should have came
back but the King 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 men of God thus has the King
said come down quickly so Elisha
answered and said to them if I am a man
of God let fire come down from heaven
and consume you in 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
judge not be anointed because I just
stepped into something I just tapped
into my anointing and you can tell me no
but you better learn to say it nicely
because if I didn’t like what happened
here
God who was on my side will go in the
battle for me two times the fire of God
came down yeah just like that just like
that since send your best shot just like
that and verse 13 continues again he’s
in a third captain FNC with his fifty
men and the third 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 was talking to you like
you were the tail is gonna have to start
speaking to you like you are 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 back 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 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 going to come I bet you and
they’re not going to recognize that
they’re not just talking to you that
they’re talking to the God in you so you
won’t have to forgive them in advance
for sleeping on you for telling you that
you weren’t going to 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 going to come when you have
relationships that reflect the God and
you knock the insecurities around you
the day is gonna come when your finances
start reflecting you’re giving the day
is going to come when opportunities are
so image 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 for lights not moves for
followers I mean Kingdom moves I mean
like 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 precious in your sight please vouch
for me you’re going to have the power if
some of you are looking for someone to
vouch for you and God isn’t going to
send anyone because he wants you to
vouch for someone who looks like you
once you’re in the proper position that
you’re going to 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 got to
put the knee down on the inside of you
he’s got to put the pain down on the
inside of you so that your purpose can
be manifest and verse 14 continues it
says look this 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 it’s
burned up the first two captains of 50s
with their 50s but let my life now be
precious in your sight he said I want to
be on your side I want to 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 going to be
like a magnet you’re going to begin
attracting people to you you’re going to
be able to attract influence and
opportunities to you and people are
going to be bowing at your feet asking
you how they 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 Elisha 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
going to 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 what we
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 we’re
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 but 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 actually a director
and I need you to see how much it takes
to bring things together that God is
going to 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 writing off the high
of success of success when you need to
be searching for the insecurities that
come with power moves you see some of
you have been thinking that you were
going to make it to a certain level and
it would be smooth sailing but in
reality God needs you to know that if
you’re going to continue to go from
glory to glory to glory that these power
moves are going to make you afraid
they’re going to make you question
yourself
they’re going to make you wonder if you
really have what it takes it’s going to
make you wonder if your plan was too
crazy and too far-fetched to begin with
power moves confront your fears and you
can’t count on the success you had in
the past the only thing you can count on
is the voice of God you see because the
angel of the Lord is what gave him the
authority to go down with him and to not
be afraid so he arose and went down with
him to the king and then he said to the
king thus says the Lord because you have
sent messengers to inquire of baal-zebub
of the god of Ekron is it because there
is no God in Israel to inquire of his
word therefore you shall not come down
from the bed to which you have gone up
but you shall surely die it was the same
message that he told the messengers on
the road in the first place this is
interesting because some of you have
been wondering if you can lose if you’re
going to lose your core when you make
your power moves you’re wondering if
you’re still going to be sharp enough
and good enough and creative enough when
you make it to the next level if you
were just good for one arena but not
actually good for the next arena these
power moves are making you wonder if
your message is really special but
Elijah had the same message for the King
as he had for the messengers his core
remained the same even in the mists of
trials and tribulations what we do here
from week to week is not about you
getting Grammys or Oscars or bonuses or
salaries it’s about making sure you have
the same core message when you’re with
the messengers and when you’re with the
king
and if you stand with me as I prepare to
close because I want to confront some
course in this room I want to confront
some misconceptions and some issues and
some insecurities that come with making
power moves if you don’t have to leave
please stick could you put my list on
the screen please because I want you all
to recognize the three things that power
moves you to see we’re so often used to
making power moves as in decisions but
the type of power that I’m talking about
moving inside of you as the power of God
working down on the inside of you and I
need you to know that as his power moves
that it’s going to move you to some
confrontations and it’s going to move
you to your potential and it will to
move you to your fears and I just happen
to believe that there are some people in
this room who have been wondering if
they have what it takes to really let
power move through them to finally come
to a place where they take their hands
off of their life and they stop trying
to create strategies and trying to
create opportunities but to trust God in
such a way that he can move through you
what I love about this text is that one
could say that Elijah should stay in his
lane that what was going on really
didn’t have anything to do with him but
he didn’t recognize that as long as God
was telling him to do it that he was in
his lane that means that as long as God
is your driving force that there is no
such thing as your lane there’s only
what the voice of God told you to do
that means you don’t have to be
relegated to only being one thing that
you can do as many things as God
says that you can do so you don’t have
to answer your critics about why you’re
doing this now or while you’re doing
that now everyone’s not going to
understand your power moves but if you
don’t understand them if you don’t
understand your power moves if you don’t
understand what God is doing in your
life and why he’s doing it then you
leave your life susceptible to other
people’s influence to other people’s
direction in other people’s guidance
that’s why we got to get your core right
and we want to have a moment at this
altar where we take a moment to inspect
our course it’s easy to say Amen in this
room but when you’re given the choice
outside of this room to choose fear over
faith to choose toxic relationships over
loneliness to choose a higher paycheck
in exchange for your integrity or your
morality to place yourself on oxygen
when God has been trying to reserve you
when you have those opportunities
outside of this room I need to know that
you’re going to make power moves and the
beauty of this room is that the amens
echo which is a sign that you’re not the
only one who’s struggled with making
power moves in the past that you’re not
the only one who’s had to take a moment
to figure things out for yourself and to
ask God to help you center yourself
again there’s some of you in here who’ve
known for quite a long time that there
are certain things you need to be doing
in your life but you are afraid that
will it would take you out of your
comfort zone that it would isolate you
that you would lose friends that you
would lose relationships that you would
begin to look weird that you would have
to quit your job that you would have to
get a job
I don’t know your life I’m just saying
that some of you have been holding back
your progress trying to negotiate with
God and I’m here to tell you that he
hasn’t changed his mind about you but
he’s waiting to see if he can trust you
with fire can I trust you with the type
of fire that makes you untouchable to
your enemies can I trust you with fire
and then trust you to go into areas
where people may not like you can I
trust you with fire like Elijah and then
trust you to follow a captain who could
easily overtake you can you trust the
hedge of protection that I’ve had over
you some of you need to recognize that
that hedge of protection has been to
your entire life but I really do believe
that as we step into 2017 which pastor
has told us over and over again is going
to be the year of alignment that
alignment is going to be less about
finding God and more about finding you
that is going to be more about you
making the types of decisions that bring
you into alignment regardless of who you
lose and what you lose in the process
some of you are going to have to start
from ground zero because everything
you’ve built up into this point was
false and it’s shiny and it looks good
and it gets lots of likes but you’ve
lost your soul in the process you don’t
even know who you are anymore those are
not power moves if it causes you to lose
your own power your own confidence your
own grace wisdom and strength those are
not power moves I’m here to offer you
the kind of power that takes you from
the back of the classroom to the front
of the classroom that takes you from
being the tail and makes you the head
that makes you stand out a little bit
but ultimately it’s only so that God can
be exalted I want to offer you the kind
of power that says you don’t need the
degree you don’t need the connections
you don’t need the experience all you
need is a word from me you don’t have to
hustle your way up on a blessing I’ve
got blessings stored up for you in
heaven I just need you to come into the
kind of alignment where you truly begin
to believe that all things are possible
for you if this message is speaking to
you and you know that you’ve had some
issues with your core you don’t have to
wait for us to invite you down as a
matter of fact I would dare say but if
you would begin to step out of that
comfort zone that if you would begin to
admit that you need God to help you that
as you’re walking this way that he’s
going to meet you there’s a as he sees
your feet moving that his voice is
drawing out plans for you in heaven
God’s been waiting on a sign that you’re
ready that you heard him and that you’re
ready to move and that you don’t care
what you lose in the process because you
want to start going into rooms and
saying if I am a man of God if I am a
woman of God then let this opportunity
be for me if I
I’m a woman of God then let this
relationship work out if I am a woman of
God then strip away anything in me
that’s not of you if I am a woman of God
then let your light shine through me in
such a way that the world takes notice
if I am a man of God then let weapons
start dropping right now in the name of
Jesus if I am a man of God then let fire
breeze down from heaven on anyone that
would dare come up against my destiny if
I am a man of God pave away ordering my
steps I want to tap into my heavenly
identity I want to tap into who God has
called me to be I want to know I want to
know who I am I want to know what I’m
capable of I want to know that there’s
power down on the inside of me I want to
know that I’m more than my mistakes that
I’m more than what happened to me that
I’m more than these curses that I
thought were around me I want to know
that I am a man or woman of God I want
to know that there’s more to life than
what’s hurt me I want to know that
there’s more to life than what’s in my
bank account and what’s on my Instagram
feed I want to know that there’s
something deeper waiting for me and I’m
ready to turn my life over like never
before
so that I can make the type of
powermoves that build monuments for God
not for people to look at now for people
to approve of not that make my flesh
feel good but make my spirit week I want
to make the kind of power moves that
says when life is shaky I know on the
solid rock I stand I’m going to ask
pastor to pray into this and I don’t
want you to think just because the altar
is for that you don’t have to come
because surely the prayer is going to
reach you there but I’m telling
there’s something about moving there’s
something about moving there’s something
about getting out of your seat there’s
something about a power move when you’ve
been making life moves when you’ve been
making world moves when you’ve been
making flesh moves there’s something
about a power move that says devil you
can’t hold me down no more negativity
you have no place in my life
depression you have no place in my life
right now
when you move into this alter I hear you
rebuking the Devourer of the enemy I
hear you rebuking anything that would
come up against you when you came down
to this altar
I heard chains breaking down in hell I
heard generational curses breaking I
heard Destiny’s happening I heard doors
opening opportunities being created for
you some of you have been wondering how
you’re going to fit into certain
situations and God wants you to know I’m
going to create a situation just for you
pastor would you pray and it is
I want you to take 30 seconds and let
that word speak to your heart clearly
just 30 seconds and in your own worship
in silence and I want that word to just
speak to you
what did God say to you
thank God say about you
that God tell you to do
father
you have spoken
you’ve spoken to your children by name
my name not the name perhaps as some
thought they had but by their divine
name you shall no longer be called this
you shall be called man of God you shall
be called woman of God we thank you for
the name changes the identity changes
the situational changes the prospective
changes that have happened in this house
tonight
Abraham never went back to being Abram
Sarah never went back to being Sarai
Israel never went back to being Jacob
when you define your sons and your
daughters that’s it that’s it that’s it
that’s it that’s it that’s it I am who
you say I am and so father I thank you
that this word is branded Oh glory to
God and the hearts in the minds in the
souls of these your children never to be
the same again and I’ll add
prophetically Romans 8:19 says all of
creation is eagerly awaiting for the
revealing of the sons and daughters of
God that means that means that things
that you could not see before as a
result of this revealing of you say God
has revealed to you who you weren’t he’s
raised up a mirror and says this is who
you are you can’t be revealed to the
world until first you are revealed to
you
and their things they’re things that you
have that you didn’t know you had
because you didn’t know who you were
god I thank you for doors that are going
to open god I thank you right now that
that emails are going to come in to
prove that there were things locked up
tied up in the absence of identity that
will be present now I thank you God just
like the text said that people who once
saw you one way will not help but to see
you another way I thank you God that
this divine favor in this room now
I want you to repeat after me I am and
say it according to your madness or your
womanís I am a man of God I am a child
of God and from this day forward I am
what I am
in Jesus name Amen god bless you love
you so much
you