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connection I want you to look with me in
the book of Acts chapter 12 verse 6 and
when Herod was about to bring him out
that night Peter was sleeping bound with
two chains between two soldiers and the
guards before the door were kicking were
keeping the prison and behold an angel
of Lord stood by him
a light shone in the prison and he
struck Peter on the side and raised him
up saying arise quickly when the King
James says get up and his chains fell
off his hands then then the angel said
to him gird yourself tie on your sandals
and so he did and he said to him put on
your garment and follow me they went out
followed him did not know that what was
done by the angel was real that’s an
astonishing thing but thought that he
was seeing a vision but when he went
past the first and second door or gate
posts they came to the iron gate that
leads to the city which opened of its
own accord and they went out and went
down one Street and immediately the
angel departed notice verse 11 and when
Peter had come to himself he said now I
know for certain in other words he
wasn’t certain this was all real he
didn’t even have faith to believe that
what was happening was happening he said
now I know for certain that this has
that the Lord sent an angel and
delivered me from the hand of Herod and
from the expectation of the Jewish
people and I want to talk to you today
about get up get out and get free how to
do it how to do it
Peter was arrested by King Herod he was
put in prison and being held for
execution
Harrod gave specific orders make sure
this man never gets loose he is never to
break out a prison he’s going to die in
prison I’m going to execute him and
silence his voice forever he said to
those over this prison it is your job to
keep this man from breaking free we have
an enemy who has decided that his job is
to keep every believer from breaking
free the evening before the execution
were told that there was an upgrade in
the security so much so that the Bible
said that two chains were attached to
Peter on his hands one of the chains
were connected to the wall and his hands
to bind his hands we know this from
history one of the other chains there
were two chains and one of the chains
was connected around his ankles to stop
his feet from going anywhere if that
wasn’t enough the upgrade in security
also according to the text included two
soldiers at all times there were four
different ships but two would stand one
on one side one on the other side making
sure that if he got free from the chains
he still had two armed killer guards
standing on both sides of him and if
that were not enough he had two prison
gates that he had to go through before
he got to the large iron gate massive
gate and behind that gate was a warden
the keeper of the prison who who was
watching also I mean we’re talking about
strict strict security and if he could
get out of one situation he would have
to go through another and another and
another in other words it seems nothing
on earth could get him out but we’re not
limited ladies and gentlemen to earthly
help our strength is not in horses and
chariots the Bible declares our strength
is not in Navy SEALs shimmying down a
rope and putting explodes
on the iron gate and busting us out with
machine guns and rocket fire and all
kinds of protection but the Bible says
the spiritual prison that the enemy
wants to hold us in the devil thinks
I’ve got you this time I’ve got two
chains on you I’ve got two guards on you
I’ve got two gates in front of you and
if that’s not enough an iron gate that
you could never move and if that’s not
enough another war a prison guard who is
over the whole the whole prison is
watching you there is no way out but I
want to remind you that the Bible said
he that the Sun sets free is free indeed
two chains I want to talk about those
two chains for just a moment two chains
one on the hands one on the thing I
believe that that speaks of the twin
chains of fear and doubt many of you
have great things ahead of you many of
you have big things coming in your life
but the enemy would love to chain you
and stop you and stop your feet from
going forward stop your life from moving
out into the unknown by two chains the
chain of fear and the chain of doubt
fear that says you can’t go where you’re
supposed to go you can’t do what you
need to do you don’t have what it takes
the fear of someone of what someone
might say of what someone might think
you might fail you might get laughed at
what if you don’t have it what if you’re
not good enough what if you’re not smart
enough the fear the chain of fear and on
and it’s twin is the chain of doubt not
just doubting if God will help you
because that’s what the enemy loves to
do question and make you down is God for
me is God on my side and if you can’t
get you to doubt that one of the biggest
waves the enemy will keep you bound is
to make you doubt your own ability your
own giftedness your own call your own
talents
maybe you doubt if you’re good enough if
your doubt if you’ve got
you doubt if you’re talented enough or
smart enough or good-looking enough all
those things the enemy can put chains on
us to say you just don’t have what it
takes in the chain of fear on one part
of you and the chain of doubt on the
other side of you I’m down it’s going to
happen a doubt I can make it I’ve come
today to remind you the Bible declares
God has not given you the spirit of fear
of intimidation of timidity of being
afraid and backing up if there’s an
opportunity that God wants to bring into
your life don’t you dare let the chain
of fear and the chain of doubt hold you
back from God’s very best for your life
shake off the chain of fear shake off
the chain of doubt there are miracles in
your future let God liberate you from
fear and from doubt
it’s your hands free get your voice free
get your feet free shake off between
chains of fear and doubt and then if the
enemy can’t hold him with that if
somehow miraculous I mean he couldn’t it
seemed there was no way to get out of
that but if he did then he had two
guards on either side I believe those
guards represent one of them represents
discouragement because you’re going to
encounter those guards on the journey to
your dream you’re going to have to
confront your fear you’re going to have
to overcome your doubt and you’re going
to have to break free from those chains
but as soon as you do there will be a
guard who will stand and his name is
discouragement and another guard on the
other side called intimidation and
they’ll do everything they can to try to
talk you out of and beat you down and
cause you to stay down you see the enemy
wants to stop you and keep you and Glock
you from being free and he’ll use
discouragement and he’ll use the guard
of intimidation he’ll use the chain of
fear he’ll use the chain of doubt even
self-doubt to hold you in the
place the dark place the limited place
that life has put you in I want you to
understand today that the enemy of your
soul is guarding the gate and he says
you’re not going to go further and if
somehow you could shake the chain of
fear and the chain of doubt and you
could somehow overcome the intimidation
and the discouragement then the enemy
would have closed doors and he would say
those doors will never open for you
those doors that you need to finances
and so on to your dream
they’ll never open for you so you might
as well just get settled right where you
are I’m sure on the other side of that
big gate where that warden of the prison
was he was he was hurling insults you
don’t have what it takes you’re nobody
you’re nothing you can’t do nothing
you’ll never amount to anything these
are the voices and then the end the
instruments of the enemy that he will
use to hold you back from the purpose
and plan and dream that God has for your
life to change to soldiers but keeper on
the door but then the story shifts
suddenly it uses the word suddenly a
light shone into the prison that life
shining light into the darkness was the
shining light of hope and victory and
the word because it doesn’t matter how
bound the enemy has you in fear and
doubt and intimidation and in
discouragement today wherever you are
whatever campus or wherever you’re
watching this by television or listening
streaming live the enemy would love for
you not to hear this message he knows
that if he’s got you chained with fear
and doubt and intimidation and
discouragement you’re not going anywhere
but when the light of the gospel that’s
why so powerful to sit in a service like
this the gospel can shine the light of
hope the light of faith the light that
can bring victory into the dark prison
and suddenly notice the change
are still there the guards are still
there the darn gates are still there the
warden is still there nothing has
changed except the light of the gospel
is hitting and when the light shines the
next thing that happens is the voice of
an angel that says and I’m your angel
today the voice of the angel that says
get up get up that’s my message and it’s
simple in its plain when you think
there’s no way out don’t just sit there
rattling your little chains of fear and
doubts and intimidation and
discouragement and talking about how big
they are
because here’s the point when I’m down
here the guards look so big when I’m
down here the gates look so big when I’m
down here the discouragement looks so
great but when I decide to get up it’s
amazing they’re not as big as I thought
they were they’re not as great as I
thought they were that’s why we can’t
afford to sit around and victim playing
the victim game and and sitting around
feeling sorry for ourselves you have to
get up in life and say I am NOT sitting
here the rest of my life
get up turn your neighbor and say get up
and then the angel says put your shoes
on did you catch that you’re going
somewhere shout we’re going somewhere
don’t sit there you sit there wiggling
your toes long enough and chains of fear
and doubt with guards of intimidation
and discouragement get your shoes on
stand up get up get your shoes on it’s
time to move it’s time to march it’s
time to get out of here it’s time to put
your walking shoes on you’re going where
you’ve never gone before and God wants
you to go with confidence that is angel
is going before you
I can’t tell you when it happened but
all I know is the Bible said when he
stood up and put his shoes on the chains
fell off
that’s a miraculous thing I wonder if
you two got up the day before or the day
before if the change wouldn’t have
fallen off when you’re ready to get up
all you have to do is get up 38 years a
man waited by a pool for somebody to
pick him up and some of you need to quit
waiting on everybody to have to pick you
up to talk you into your own victory
sometimes you have to do like David and
encourage yourself and get up put your
shoes on and say I’m moving forward get
up and go to church get up and start
praising God get up and start believing
God quit feeling sorry for yourself and
having a pity party and get up and put
your shoes on and say I’m not gonna live
here in discouragement intimidation fear
and doubt I’m going somewhere and here I
go now I don’t know what happened to the
soldiers I don’t understand this but the
next thing to happen is the Bible said
the angel said put your garment on put
your coat on put your coat on that
speaks of the garment of praise so you
get up and the problems don’t look so
big you you put on the garment of praise
for the spirit of heaviness you put on
the shoes of faith so that you walk by
faith not by sight and I don’t know
we’re not told what happened to the
guards they just disappeared I don’t
know if they got slain in the spirit and
fell down I don’t know we don’t have an
answer all we know is the thing that was
holding him back so long didn’t even
matter when God said get up put your
garment of praise on put your shoes of
faith on and go at the sound of my voice
suddenly the guards of intimidation and
discouragement could not hold him any
more
you have to get up and I don’t know what
happened to those soldiers but the thing
that Peter feared the most simply
disappeared the perspective is a lot
different down there than up here and
God wants us up and you might have come
in just bound and determined that you’re
just gonna sit through another service
and the chain of fear and doubt has you
and you’re not expecting God to do
anything and then on top of that you’ve
been discouraged and on top of that
you’re intimidated but the light is
shining right on you in that seat where
you’re sitting and I’m preaching to you
saying get up put the garment of praise
on put your shoes on say I’m going
somewhere I’m not staying here the two
soldiers of discouragement and
intimidation didn’t have anything else
to say when that happened the keeper of
the prison that was so brave
trash-talking behind the gate when the
chains fell off when the guards
disappeared I like this I love the fact
that when he stood up and started
walking by faith put his shoes on had
the garment of praise on he didn’t even
have to worry about the doors he only
had to do was push the door and keep
walking but listen the doors were
already unlocked the doors to your
destiny are already unlocked God’s
waiting on you to get enough courage to
take a step of faith and all you’re
required to do it didn’t take you don’t
have to have I don’t know how that door
is gonna open I’m just moving toward it
I’m praising God I got the garment of
praise on I got up I got misused the
faith on and here I go and in the moment
he would push on the door the door was
already unlocked and he went to another
door and the door was already unlocked
and when he got to the prison gate the
big iron gate the one that the warden
was talking trash from I could hear the
warden in my mind he was saying things
like you don’t have what it takes and
you’re not going to make hitting your
good and you ought to just give up but
now when he sees Simon Peter coming with
the garment on shoes on he’s standing
tall walking by faith he takes off and
runs the Bible said humble yourself
before the mighty hand of God resist the
devil and he will flee from you he went
through the first Ward went through the
second Ward and when they got there they
were unlocked all the time he was held
back by doors that were not even locked
some of you don’t understand there will
be doors that look closed but as you
walk by faith at the right time God will
make those doors open your job is to
keep moving keep moving keep moving it’s
not my job to push the door open my job
is to keep moving walking by faith
having the garment of praise on and I’m
to get up and keep moving and if you do
that every door that is the door to your
destiny and God’s plan for your life
well you thought there would be law but
would you get there the favor of God
will open those doors the favor of God
will open those doors here’s my favorite
part of this love story the whole time
what encourages me Simon Peter didn’t
really believe what was going on I
thought he was some giant of faith
I thought he had such faith that he you
know was believing and that door is
going to open it was none of that he was
being carried by God’s Spirit and he
didn’t even have faith and he didn’t
even believe that it was real he thought
he was dreaming the whole time he
thought that it was too good to be true
and it wasn’t until he got outside and
the fresh air hid his face it wasn’t
till he got outside and he was
completely freaks that he said now I
know
for real now that I don’t know maybe
they don’t do nothing for you but it
really encourages me that he didn’t have
great faith nor was he totally convinced
but God was just a little faith not
great faith not being totally convinced
but if you will get up if you will shake
off the chain of fear doubt and not
listen to the guard of discouragement
intimidation and use just a little bit
of faith to keep moving forward with a
little faith chains fell off with a
little faith guards disappeared with a
little faith iron gates open of their
own accord with a little faith the the
warden started running for his life and
with a little faith he walked out
because he got up he got out he got free
and it wasn’t great faith it was just a
little thing I’m saying to you today
that the doors are already unlocked and
the iron gate is already opening I
prophesied that big doors are swinging
wide open in 2017 for God’s people and
don’t you let the chain of fear and
don’t you let the chain of doubt and
don’t you let the guard of intimidation
and don’t you let the guard of
discouragement hey you you don’t belong
here
you go and you say what I tell you to
say and do what I tell you to do because
I’m the God who opens doors no man can
shut if you’re supposed to be there God
will get you there if you’ll get up put
the garment appraisal put the shoes on
your feet
and keep moving shalt keep moving the
doors are already unlocked
I believe today is the day of freedom
freedom from fear freedom from doubt
freedom from bondage addiction sin if
you’re under the sound of my voice and
you say pastor Jenson you’re preaching
to me I know I’m not free I know I’m not
right with God I know that that I need
God’s power and God’s grace to cleanse
me and make me whole and I want to leave
this building today that I’m standing in
set free by the power of the blood of
jesus christ in his mighty name would
you pray for me pastor I want to be free
today if that’s you boldly raise your
hand wherever you’re standing at every
campus this is beautiful this is
powerful many many hands raise them high
and under shame there’s no shake see
this is putting your shoes on this is
putting your garment on this is what the
moment you do that chains are breaking
and and and and guards are disappearing
and wardens are running like no more
change no more guards no more no more
lies no more no more closed doors God
have the big plan for my life it is time
for me to cooperate all right come on
I’ll let you now come on come on come on
at every campus get out of your seat
step out of your seat you feel that
that’s the Spirit of God that’s the
light shining in your dark prison don’t
stay there if you’ll get up the chains
will follow if you’ll get up the guards
will disappear if you’ll get up the
warden will run in terror because God is
with you and his angel goes before you
here they come on everybody to celebrate
the harvest come on come on come on come
on come on
freedom
it’s available today from intimidation
discouragement fear doubt and unbelief
come on keep coming keep something will
happen to you can you get out of that
seat lock down that up something will
happen to you James will fall off come
on don’t let fear hold you back
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take that course again
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he’s long
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I can bear
my god
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we’re going to pray this prayer on
everybody to say these words out loud
right where you’re standing and when you
do spiritually you’re standing up chains
are falling off doors are opening
guards are flee and you’re going to be
like it’s a dream but it’s not a dream
it’s real
we’re overcomers by the blood of the
Lamb and the word of our testimony
everybody pray this prayer out loud
Lord Jesus I surrender completely my
life my body my mind my future I
completely surrender to you
I refuse according to your word to be
held back with the chain of fear and the
chain of doubt any longer I refuse to
allow intimidation and to allow
discouragement to defeat me another day
the doors that are closed God has
already unlocked and I am taking a step
of faith and as I move forward every
door will be unlocked and thank you God
that the iron gate the big door is
swinging wide open from my life and I am
free in Jesus Christ right now give him
the greatest shout of praise you can’t
thank you for victory over fear we hope
you’ve enjoyed this teaching by Jensen
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