This is “The Power of We”. There is great power in unity. When the focus ceases to be on me and becomes about we, God comes through in amazing ways. In this message with Jentezen Franklin, learn how the Lord is attracted to unity and the commanded blessing awaiting those who understand the power of working together.
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Connection we ought to get rowdy every
once in a while we ought to come
together and with loud praise raise the
roof and give Jesus gold more than noise
fair god commands a bliss
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I’m preaching this morning from Psalms
133 behold how good and how pleasant it
is for people to dwell together you know
you can dwell and not be together but to
dwell together marriage and family in
church on your job dwell together in
unity the last prayer Jesus prayed in
John 17 he prayed he prayed it five
times in one chapter the same prayer
requests making them one make them one
make them one unity is a big deal if the
devil can divide us he can conquer us
and then it says in verse two of the
precious oil upon the head running down
the beard the beard of Aaron running
down the edge of the garments he’s
saying the anointing is attracted to
unity and then he says something
profound it descended upon the mountains
of Zion for the Lord for their for their
the LORD commanded the blessing life
forevermore God said I will command
anointing and blessing on any people who
were unite together dwell together in
unity
no wonder the enemy wants to divide our
families our homes their lives no wonder
he won’t suspend in fighting with one
another because there is a commanded
blessing upon the house the family the
people who dwell together in unity the
listeners great verse in in Joshua 24
and verse 15 but as for me and my house
here it is
we
so we go right over there as for me and
my me and my house we will serve the
Lord I want to talk to you about the
power of weed when it ceases to be about
me and my and it becomes about we then
there is a commanded blessing on your
house when your marriage is about more
than me and mine and it becomes we there
is a blessing when your business has
unity and it’s not about me in mine but
it’s about we we care for other people
God says I will bless that he would
transfer a blessing when we transfer the
shift and the focus off of me in my own
two week we’re so self-centered we only
think of ourselves but today I’m
preaching about the power of we I’m
preaching about the fact that Numbers
chapter 11 and verse 17 God said Moses
this is not a one-man show I’m going to
take of the spirit that’s on you and I’m
going to put it on the 70 elders because
it’s not about me and my it’s about
wheat I don’t want my church to be built
on one man I want it to be about we’re
in this together and I need you and you
need me and together we are a force that
Hale cannot stop the hill cannot defeat
it’s not about me it’s not about my it’s
about we in Matthew chapter 6 Jesus said
in the ninth verse pray this way our
Father not my father I’m not praying for
me but he said the way that you begin
prayer is praying our it’s about we it’s
not about me and mine that’s the hour of
power not H oh you are but oh you are
when you begin to pray for others when
you begin to pray
your husband your wife your children
your fellow friends in the church and in
your family when you begin to pray for
others God says pray one for another
that you may be healed and so the most
powerful prayer is when we pray our
Father Peter and John went up to the
temple together at the hour of prayer
and performed a miracle where the lame
man was begging but they were together
and they went to pray when you
understand how important it is to not be
that person who’s about me and mine as
for me and my all I care about is me and
mine but you begin to understand it’s
about we and the real strategy of Hell
has never changed
divide and conquer just break things up
to where it’s all about me and mind and
forget about we and there that blessing
is with drone the anointing is with
drone because the power of unity is one
of that’s why jesus said five times in
the last prayer meeting he would ever
have on planet earth and he’s
interceding in heaven but he his last
prayer requests was father make them one
do you understand that
it’s a unified response to the moving of
the spirit that God looks for we must be
more than me and I must become a weed we
sing a song forget about yourself and
concentrate on him and worship Him
so forget about yourself
and concentrate on him and worship him
so forget about yourself me my me my
concentrate on him and worship him
Christ the Lord worship Him Christ the
Lord
not you
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you know why Ananias and Sapphira drop
dead in the New Testament church in the
book of Acts the sixth chapter ain’t
give them an e that’s not it
nobody was taking up an offering there
was a move of God nobody got up and said
bring offerings nobody said it but the
people when the spirit started moving
the people started bringing selling
things that they had and bringing and
giving to expand the gospel and the
Bible said Ananias and Sapphira didn’t
flow with what God was doing and even
though grace was a baby God said I’m
gonna interrupt grace while it’s still
in the infant stage and I’m gonna reach
back into judgment and I’m gonna kill me
to new testament members who refuse to
get involved in what I’m doing in my
church do you need me take another offer
in that something in that something you
think participation matters
that’s not Old Testament that’s New
Testament there’s something called the
20/80 rule the 20/80 rule says that 20%
of the people in a church participate
they participate in worship they
participate in serving they participate
in the vision they participate in giving
they participate in lifting of hands and
clapping of hands basically 20% of any
church according to church you know
specialists who study church growth 20%
of the people who attend to church
participate 80% spectate what if we
could reverse that in this church and we
could get 80 percent to participate wait
a minute and the 20% is for the heathens
who are lost and they just come into our
world and our atmosphere so fired up
that that 9 out of 10 people are our 8
out of 10 people on the pew are just
going after God with all their heart
they’re like what is wrong with me
at the Last Supper jesus said to his
disciples one of you will betray thee
and all love them look at it all of them
the Bible said all of them said Lord is
it I so many people come to church and
when they hear sermons they think it’s
for everybody around them who preach it
she needs it he needs it boy I’m so glad
they came I saw him in the lobby it’s
exactly what they need but notice the
proper response is Lord is it I these
are disciples they wrote the Bible y’all
and they’re askin is it I we come to
church and act like everybody needs to
really do something except me but maybe
you ought to leave here this morning
saying Lord maybe you ought to sit there
this morning while I’m preaching and say
Lord is it I am I sitting up here like a
bullfrog in a service acting like I
don’t need to praise you I don’t need to
participate I don’t need to get in your
presence I’m not thankful for all you
did for me on the cross I’m not mad I’m
just happy just preaching the truth turn
to somebody say Lord is it I your leaf
Church asking that sometimes not talking
about Boyd they really needed it Acts
chapter 2 and verse 1 when the day of
Pentecost had fully come they were all
there’s 120 of them up there and they
were all with one Accord look at that in
one place all in one Accord in one place
and that was before they received the
baptism in the Holy Spirit how much more
those of us who’ve been filled with the
spirit aren’t we to be in one Accord in
one place altogether praising and
magnifying God if we claim that we’ve
received the fullness of what they
received in the upper room and that was
before they had received it and then the
Bible said there came a sound from
heaven like a mighty rushing wind
the place where they were sitting they
were all they were all filled with the
Holy Ghost and they all begin to pray in
the spirit what are you saying I’m
saying that it was something about all
in one Accord in one place that God
commanded the blessing flow to that
people when they got rid of the division
when they got rid of the me and mine and
it became we the reason God can’t bless
you like he wants to bless you it’s when
you say me and my is more important than
we one of the biggest prayers we ought
to pray is unify us the Bible said on
the day of Pentecost after they were
filled with the Holy Spirit and came out
of the upper room they went into the
streets and we always talked about Peter
preaching the first sermon that birthed
the church but that Bible said in acts
2:14 that Peter standing up with the
eleven he wasn’t standing there by
himself but when he was preaching all
eleven weren’t sitting they were
standing they were with him they were
standing together they were creating a
place that God could put the commanded
blessing out of the temple into the
streets of Jerusalem they understood the
power of unity that this is not a
one-man show it’s not about me and mine
it’s about we and if we don’t stand up
it was an eighth of them standing it
wasn’t seven of them it was eleven plus
one equals twelve disciples and it
brought the power from the from the from
the upper room to the streets of the
city if you get raptured it ain’t gonna
be about me and my 1st Thessalonians 4
verse 16 for the Lord himself shall
descend from heaven with a shout the
voice of an archangel with the trumpet
of God and the dead in Christ shall rise
first watch this and everybody we
who are alive and remain shall be caught
up if you’re gonna get raptured it’s
going to be a wee rapture and it’s gonna
be together it’s not about me and my
walk with God so I don’t really it’s
about we we need each other we need a
church we need to know that we’ve got
each other’s back that that when I’m
weak you can pray for me and when when
when you’re weak I can pray for you and
sometimes you don’t feel the prays but
it’s alright it ain’t about me and mine
I we’ve got the power of we and when we
come together in the name of Jesus and
begin to exalt him suddenly strength is
transferred from from one to another a
great church is a wee Church I’m going
to show you something right here in Acts
the nineteenth chapter and the 34th
verse and actually before and it talks
about a guy by the name of Demetrius
Demetrius was an idol maker in the Bible
said he made a lot of money making idols
until Paul came into town and preached
and shut him down he preached Jesus and
the idol business went belly-up and the
people of the city watch this in verse
34 all with one voice listen to that all
these people are idol worshippers and
all with one voice cried out for about
two hours gray is Diana
now all everybody was doing it not not
the free front rows all the people with
one voice to a false god for about two
hours great is Diana of the Ephesians
Diana was the sex God had multiple
breast and it was an idol that they
worshiped and they burned incense and
they believed it would give
power and they believe that if they
worship Diana that Diana would bless
them and they would cause their nation
and their people to grow and multiply
the god of fertility Diana great is
Diana of the Ephesians and they stood
and screamed it for two hours all with
one voice for two hours I don’t want two
hours I just want all in one service
with one voice for two minutes
not a few all in one surface for two
minutes to proclaim great is Jesus
Christ the King of Kings and the Lord of
lords the clock is ticking grave is
Jesus Christ Oh with one voice great is
Jesus Christ the King of Kings the Lord
of lords I dare you to open your mouth
from the front to the back and declare
his greatness louder than they did for a
false god oh who know him
oh who have experienced him come on
praise him it ain’t about me and my let
me my that’s not me NEMA it’s about we
somebody shout Jesus Christ great is
Jesus Christ king of kings and Lord of
lords
Chanin just a minute I don’t care what
anybody thinks this is what made this
church great freedom
we ought to get rowdy every once in a
while we ought to come together and with
loud praise raise the roof and give
Jesus glory it’s more than noise their
God commands a blessing hallelujah
hallelujah praise the Lord
I need a commanded blessing on my family
I need a commanded blessing on my
business
I need a commanded blessing on my
endeavors I need a commanded blessing
and anointing on my life it happens when
we come together
you can be seated
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do you know what the Bible said in
Genesis chapter 11
it’s a remarkable verse when we were in
the old old building I preached a sermon
on just this story when we first went
there because God showed me something in
this verse one day he said the power and
the key to success for free chapel back
when we were smaller much much much much
much smaller church on Browns bridge
Road he said you got to get the people
to be wanting and he showed me this
verse and I’ll never forgot it
he said the pea god and the Lord said
talking about the people who were
building the Tower of Babel worshipping
idols and God said this people is one
listen they have one language they’re
talking the same they’ve got one vision
they got a vision to build something and
they’re talking the same talk we can do
it we can do it we can do it and they’re
worshipping demons and this they begin
to do and listen what the Lord said now
nothing will be restrained from them
which they can imagine to do and God
spoke to my heart many many years ago on
that verse and he said if you can get
the people to get one vision and get
them to talking that vision and saying
it if it’ll work for Devils there is
nothing that you can’t imagine to do
that God won’t do for the people who
unite together and God said I got to
break them up and heat you know the
story tore down the tower and messed up
the one language it gave different
languages to everybody because he knew
if they keep talking the same thing if
they keep seeing the thing the same
thing if they keep going together in
unity like that they nothing will be
restrained from them that they can even
imagine to do now think about that in
your own family think about that in your
business think about that in your own
life how much division have you got how
many people you’re not speaking to how
many people are you angrier because all
the devil wants is you
stay that way because you can’t have the
power and anointing and the blessing of
the commanded blessing without unity in
John chapter 5 there’s the story of the
Pool of Bethesda and how the water would
be troubled once a year an angel would
come in what trouble the water make the
water ripple and make the water move and
when the water would move listen to this
the Bible said the first responder the
first person to respond to the troubling
of the water if they could get in first
they would get healed this happened for
a year for thirty-eight years a guy
crippled was laying and and and he would
hear the water once a year but he
couldn’t he said I have no man to put me
in and he would miss it because he was
not the first responder
please understand what I’m saying to you
there’s no there’s a there’s a principle
here I want you to get God loves first
responders and if everybody else misses
it if you’ll be one of those people that
are a first responder to the service I’m
not waiting on you to sing my song me
and I me and my Oh when you’ve sung it
is well finally me my felt something
nothing wrong with that but it ain’t
about me and mine there’s a greater
cause than me and my blessing it’s a wee
blessing and maybe that song that they
sung with the beat didn’t do anything
for you
but there might be a teenager or college
student who they’re like I like this
place I think I’ll come back
and God loves first responders in other
words don’t be the last one to clap
don’t be the last one to get up on your
feet don’t be the last one to raise your
hands don’t wait on somebody else to
move when God says move in the altar
service
God loves first responders he loves
people who just understand if I obey God
I moved from me and mine a we because
when when people obey God
then it has a ripple effect when an
altar call is given it’s not about me
and I got to get to my car so I can go
eat me some food just thought I’d throw
that in there for free it’s about we
it’s about souls there’s nothing more
important and you play a part in our
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