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[Applause]
little tiny
Ona little
dynamites so powerful I’m so proud of
you and Earl thank you you and John are
the same person I had to tell John
babe I uh I was a hoe and uh he had
a cuz I knew he was I I knew was going
to ask me to marry him and I was like
this this guy has to know because you
know you can get saved and five minutes
later be religious so John had prayed
for me and I remember I looked at him
and I said I am so glad I was moral but
I didn’t understand there’s moral which
I thought meant you only sleep with
people that you love and then there’s
holy I didn’t know about holy and then I
went back to my dorm in Purdue
University I like Jesus stay in the
hallway don’t come in here I got some
stuff I dumped out all the alcohol I
dumped out all the porn why did I have
porn I don’t know
I ask Michelle I
don’t I don’t know I don’t know I dumped
it all
out and then the next morning when I was
making my bed God said the man you were
with last night is your husband I have
called you to be the wife of a minister
now having a Catholic perspective I was
like I’m going to be a nun no nuns are
not they’re not married I don’t I don’t
know but uh it was so funny cuz I could
tell John he was getting ready to ask me
to marry him and he was kind of hinting
and he was like I’m so glad we’re both
we both saved oursel I’m like oh my gosh
why does he think that why does he think
that and I I had to spill the beans and
John looked at me and he said God said
that the old has become new and he said
everything about you has been made new
and I am so thankful for the mercy of
God
so anyway you got can sit down what a
powerful powerful moment I want to tell
you Kind of a Funny Story uh one of the
benefits of being in your 60s is you get
Length of days you get to see a lot of
interesting decades in the body of
Christ and I remember John and I were
serving did you hear that we didn’t
start off in the Pulpit we were serving
in the local church and part of our
serving was we picked up the guest
speakers and back then you weren’t
allowed to talk to them like you pic you
you you would destroy the anointing if
you talk so you you had to like be quiet
it you only speak if you’re spoken to
and there was a particular Minister that
John was driving around and he’s like
where’s your wife well I used to travel
I would leave on Monday come back on
Friday and I was in church all weekend
but I worked as a promotional rep for
Eli Lily’s cosmetic line and so I was
always gone and he said I need to meet
your wife and I need to talk to you and
your wife Saturday morning and I thought
okay this guy is known for demonology he
probably thinks I have a demon so I was
like John we got to pray over me I got
to cast out any demons that might be
residual demons I didn’t even know I’d
invited into my life during my H days I
need to I need to figure out what’s
going on and and so we go and meet with
this guy and I’m just waiting I’m like
like do they do Deliverance in
restaurants I’m like what’s we’re at
breakfast and uh he begins to tell me
all this stuff that shocked me he said
you know if I wasn’t a minister I would
be making perfumes I was like what wait
was Lester sumerall like wait I don’t I
don’t see that I don’t see you as a
perfumer and uh he began to talk to John
N and he told us he said I I see the
hand of God on you guys as a couple I
was 24 John was
25 and he said I want to share with you
some things I’ve seen in the future and
he told us a number of things and then
he told us something that we decided
when he said that he was
crazy he said I see a day coming where
people’s lives will be controlled by a
box they hold in their
hands and we thought he was like box
like present like like here’s my box I’m
carrying my box and John and I got in
the car and wa I think he’s fenile like
we both were like okay that you know
everything made sense until
that a box we hold in our
hands they’re actually saying now that
the human posture is
changing because we are bowing to a
world we can hold in our hands rather
than bowing to the one who holds the
world in his
hands and so you need to be
aware Michelle Mama Michelle already
spanked you about it but I’m going to
let you know that this does have a hold
on you and you need to put the phone
down and walk outside and count the
Stars you need to put the phone down and
sit across the table with your family
members rather than allowing the arrows
of random strangers to wound you or the
false
flattery of strangers to comfort you I
believe that God wants to do something
so significant with this
generation because the enemy is Destro
acting them in such a high level he
wants you to look at everything else but
creation and its
wonder and each other and so I want to
actually read a scripture over you guys
I promise you uh this was one of the
very first times God ever spoke to me
have you do do you remember that the
first time God actually spoke to you a
scripture and you didn’t even know it
was in the Bible he like gave you a
passage I remember I was working
as a bookkeeper now how many of you
think that’s a good fit for me yeah it
wasn’t it wasn’t but it was at a church
so I thought I’m in the ministry now I
am serving as a bookkeeper at the church
but at this particular Church you know
there’s there’s world girl mean which I
had in my story and then there’s church
girl mean and church girl mean is a
different kind of mean it’s a confusing
mean and so I refus to go to the bath
the entire time I was at work because
whoever left the room got talked about
by this one old lady who was me and so I
remember I would come home from work
John would already be there and I’d be
like get out of the way and I’d be like
taking off my clothes and he’d be like I
love married life and I’d be like no
I’ve got to go to the bathroom I can’t
go to the bathroom at work he’s like why
can’t you I and I explained to him he’s
like Lisa
maybe maybe this isn’t God’s call in
your life you’re probably not a
bookkeeper and so I said okay I have
some choices to make I could say I am a
submissive wife and my husband says he
doesn’t feel like I’m supposed to stay
in this job that would impress everybody
but I also knew to move forward in
confidence I wanted to know what God was
saying to me so I I remember remember I
got alone with my Bible my big King
James Bible it was massive it had tabs
on the ends and I was like all right God
I have to make a decision do I stay or
do I go all right I need to feel it
stay go stay go okay I have an
audience with the creator of the
universe and I’m giving him a multiple
choice
quiz he does not answer me he tells me
to go to a specific scripture it was in
the book of Jeremiah well I didn’t go to
the Book of Jeremiah I’d been saved for
a year and a half you don’t dive into
the Weeping prophets at a year and a
half you might visit Isaiah you love the
Psalms and Prophet Exodus is good skip
Leviticus yeah just like there’s just
pretty much live in the New Testament I
was like I don’t even know if there’s
that many chapters so I I I look and I’m
like I go to the tab I’m like whoa
there’s more than that many chapters in
The Book of Jeremiah and I open it up
and I hear Jeremiah 29 verse 11 for I
know the plans I have for you declares
the Lord plans to prosper you and not to
harm you plans to give you hope and a
future I was like great what’s the
plan okay I’m ready what’s the plan he
answers back I know the plants I have
for you I was like I need to know the
plants you have for
me the plans for good I’m like okay
what’s what’s the good plan what’s the
plan that’s a hope and a future and
here’s the thing God was kind of like
here’s the deal you’re asking me a
small question when I have a big plan
and the plan that I have for you is way
bigger than you it’s about you and every
life that passes through you Lisa I gave
you a brain you can quit the job it’s a
toxic environment for a baby Christian
to be in you can quit your job and so
here’s the thing God had a plan preco
it’s his plan in coid it’s his plan
postco God didn’t change his plan for
you and I I heard one Minister who I
love and respect but I am going to say
I’m 30 years older than him say
something silly like well this doesn’t
apply to us this is about a people in
Exile what do you think Co
was oh
seriously listen there is the historical
promise and then there is the god
promise so I want you to hear this God
is saying baby girl I have a plan don’t
be afraid it is a plan for good and not
for harm this plan is not limited to you
or to your now it is bigger than the one
thing my plan extends to include your
future and hopes you don’t even know how
to put into words yet I’ve got this
hear me god daughter because that’s what
we’re God’s daughters hear me the god
you can’t miss hasn’t missed a thing he
knows your pain he knows the
discouragement he knows how you failed
he knows how others have failed you he
knows the fears that froze you he heard
their Whispers he heard the plans they
made for you but none of that
matters their words are like dust it is
blown away by the wind it is the word of
the Lord and his plan that will prevail
and endure forever he blows away the
vain words like chaff and laughs did you
hear that laughs at the treachery of the
enemy he will use the obstacles he sets
before you that were meant to stop you
as a vehicle of preparation his plan
will prosper your soul and listen to
this bless the work of your hands to
cause the legacy of your life to thrive
there may be weeping in this moment but
there is laughter in your future dare to
hope his plan will use the enemy scheme
for your benefit watch for the plot
twist he’s getting ready to have things
shift in your life so I turned 60 since
I was with you I’m actually now 63 but I
was 59 last time I was here and uh my
husband turned 60 the year before now I
have to be honest with you John’s
birthday is June the 2nd and my birthday
is June the 6 which means we don’t
celebrate my birthday we have the eve of
John bav then we have John B’s birth
then we have John B’s birthday week and
I had
traveled to minister in California where
John was celebrating his 60th birthday
and I remember they booked me on like a
6: a.m. flight back to Colorado I fly
back to Colorado they pick me up they’re
like we’ve packed clothes for you which
is scary when your husband is colorblind
and he has packed clothes for you we
packed clothes for you John need you to
go straight to the Broadmore because all
of his friends are golfing except one of
his friends who hurt his knee he needs
you to take them to the spot I’m like
okay I’m sleeping in my makeup I’ve
gotten up early so I go I I meet them
he’s like take them to the spa so I’m
like okay so I’m walking this couple to
the spa and I hear the husband say I’m
so glad I’m getting a massage I just
feel so tight and his wife said oh I’m
so sorry they didn’t have any massages
you’re getting a facial he was like what
he was like I I don’t want a facial in
in my heart I said I do I do I do and I
think the Holy Spirit heard that and the
wife like is kind of like uh and the
husband look do you want my facial I
said yes yes I I will take your facial
and so we go into the little Spa area
you know you disrobe you put on like a
Fluff robe and slippers and there’s this
big beautiful window you can see all the
mountains I go walking up to this big
beautiful window and I’m just like in
awe of God’s creation and I noticed two
women sitting in chairs and they look at
me like you’re not with us you need to
get back away and you know you’re all
walking around without bras on so you
have to respect each other I’m like okay
I’ll go over here so I go and I sit in a
chair and this young girl comes in and
she does the exact same thing she comes
running up to the window she’s like oh
and then the haters are like you’re not
with us and so she turns around look and
I’m kind of like laughing and she looks
at me and she starts crying and I’m like
okay wait how do I know her how do I
know her is this is this one of my son’s
ex-girlfriend no she’s blond she’s blond
it’s not she’s married I see a ring no I
don’t know her I don’t know her that way
and all of a sudden she opens up her
arms and she’s got my book in her
arms and so I get up I give her a full
frontal hug this was before coid I
invite her to sit down with me and she
just said my friend entered me into a
contest I won three of your books and
she said I I want to show you she showed
me how she’d underlined it and I was
like but didn’t you think this part was
profound she’s like I I did this part
anyway so she showed me the different
things and then I you know I’m talking
to her and she just said I’m just in
such a hard season I said okay tell me
about it she said well we just moved I’m
just married and we just moved from
Dallas to Houston now you know that
would be depressing okay so they moved
from Dallas to Houston she said I left
my church Community I’m at a new church
a new city new husband I just I just
don’t know what’s going on in my life
and I was like hey that sounds like an
adventure this is awesome and she’s like
no I’m just I’m just so afraid that I’ve
missed God and I’m like okay wait which
part the husband the Houston like what
what what part are we
missing and I prayed with her and then I
got the magical facial and I went back
to my hotel
room and I’m sure you guys have seen
this so many times the purest hearted
people are the ones that are so
concerned about displeasing God missing
god making a
mistake and I was like okay God this
precious girl I thought if I had a
dollar for every time somebody has said
I’m afraid I’m going to miss God and I
heard God say you tell them I’m a really
big Target he said the only way they
will not hit me is if they don’t ever
shoot if they don’t ever take a step if
they don’t ever move forward and we have
a lot of people that got frozen in the
last couple years and I am here to tell
you God is saying take the first step
sometimes the most courageous thing you
can do is begin again sometimes the most
courageous thing you can do is to dream
again sometimes the most courageous
thing you could do is dare to Hope
again what Psalm 139 tells us it says
you hem me
in
behind and before and that’s awesome I
mean it’s great to know that God was in
our past Onika got a rose it’s good to
know that God’s in our future but he
doesn’t stop there he said and you lay
your hand upon me when God put his hand
on something he puts his hand on it of
provision Direction protection God is
saying I have placed my hand upon you I
love that he’s like okay if you take a
step and it’s the wrong direction you’re
going to hear a voice behind you saying
this is the way walk you in it but too
many people are sitting and God is
saying get back on your feet and take a
step even if it’s in the wrong direction
God will redirect you but you got to
keep moving forward and I heard in my
spirit that some of you buried some
dreams buried some hope buried some
talents in last season you buried it in
discouragement and fear and God is
saying it is time for you to unearth
that Talent it is time for you to
unearth that dream it is time for you to
actually remember there’s a big
difference between burying something and
planting it because when you bury it you
put it in the ground and you walk away
but when you plant something there’s an
expectation you’re going to water it
you’re going to watch for it you’re
going to look over it you’re going to
tend it you’re going to make sure
nothing comes in and grows up around it
you’ve got to plant that thing that you
buried in the last season because God
needs what is on your life for this next
season needs it for the next season now
I’m going to talk to you because I’m an
Italian I’m gonna I’m going to go a
little wild on you here I’m going to
preach out of the book of Romans and I
want to talk to you about a couple
things because I feel like a lot of
times people think that maybe God
doesn’t know what’s going on like God’s
like I don’t I I didn’t know this was
going to happen like wow Jesus do you
see what’s going on here because it’s
kind of a mess in America we we got a
problem so I’m gonna I’m going to teach
on three things and I hardly ever had
three points I’d really love it if you
guys would write it down the first point
is the reality of our God the the next
point was going to be the reality of our
day and the third point is going to be
the reality of us points number one
Romans 1 chapter I mean verse 18- 20 I’m
going to go with the message it says but
God’s angry displeasure erupts as acts
of human mistrust and wrongdoing and
lying accumulate as people try to put a
shroud over truth but the basic reality
of God is pling enough open your eyes
and there it is by taking a long and
thoughtful look at what God has created
people have always been able to see what
their eyes as such can’t see his eternal
power for instance and the Mystery of
his Divine being so nobody has a good
excuse did you notice it said by taking
a long and thoughtful look not scrolling
not glancing long and thoughtful look by
looking at
creation we see the Creator by looking
at one another we should see the image
of God by taking a long and thoughtful
look it means if I was on an island
somewhere and Ona didn’t come to me to
preach the gospel that I could look up
to the stars and say there is something
bigger than me do you know the Stars
declare the glory of God do you know
that I could say whoever it is that made
those Stars the light is drawing me that
there is something bigger than me in the
UN do you know that God would reveal
himself to me
if I cried out for a revelation just by
a long and thoughtful look but we have a
generation that doesn’t know how to do
long looks they’re worried they’re going
to miss something with the people so
they’re scrolling all the time and God’s
like
P
Ponder go outside let me speak to you
see I believe believe that God is
looking for a
generation that he can imprint his heart
on them that he can fill your mouth so
that you’ll be like the prophet Samuel
where not one word you speak will fall
to the ground you say why do I know that
because it says in the last days God
says I’ll pour out my spirit on All
Flesh wait I I don’t want there’s people
I don’t want him to pour it out on what
do you mean he’s gonna pour it out on
All Flesh I don’t want them pouring out
on their flesh no God says in the last
days I’m going to pour out my spirit on
All Flesh and then he says your sons and
your daughters will prophesy and then he
goes your men servants and your maid
servants because he’s he knew there was
going to be some confusion about Paul he
was like the men’s servants and the maid
servants they will prophesy and God’s
going to give the men visions and dreams
do you know that you can believe God to
speak to you in the night watches with
visions and dreams so if creation’s
Wonder declares The Wonder of the one
what the heck is going on well Romans
1:21 answers that what happened was this
people knew God perfectly well but when
they didn’t treat him like God refusing
to worship him they trivialized
themselves into silliness and confusion
so that there was neither sense nor
Direction left in their lives they
pretended know it all but they were a
literate regarding life they traded the
glory of God who holds the whole world
in his hands for cheap figurines you can
buy at any roadside
stand okay God is saying they refuse to
worship see you can know about God but
knowing about God is Not the same as
worshiping God when I worship God I
don’t say yeah I know about that but I’m
going to live my own Life Worship means
surrender worship means I bow my knee
worship means that what he says is the
ultimate and and be all he said they
refused to worship refused to worship
and then it goes on in verse 24 and you
guys don’t get mad at me I didn’t make
this up okay this is Eugene Peterson it
says so God said in effect if that’s
what you want that’s what you get and it
wasn’t long before they were living in a
pig pen smeared with filth filthy inside
and out and all this because they traded
the true God for a fake God and worship
the god they made instead of the God who
made them the God we Bless The God Who
blesses us oh yes then it goes on it
says worst followed so that wasn’t even
like the worst part do you know that God
right now that everybody worships
himself do you know there’s Idols in the
land an idol is what you give your
strength to or Draw your strength from
outside of God it’s what you give your
time your attention your money to that’s
an idol in your life it has a wrong
place in your life and so many people
have made
themselves self-image self God it’s all
about me no you guys that is not the
life we are called to so he said okay
now worse followed refusing to know God
they soon didn’t know how to be human
either I have never seen people so cruel
so
inhumane so
inhumane so quick to judge so quick to
be hateful so quick to be cruel so quick
to laugh at things that aren’t funny
partner with things that are not
Godly refusing to know God they soon
didn’t know how to be human either women
didn’t know how to be women and men
didn’t know how to be men sexually
confused they abused and defiled one
another women with women and men with
men all lust no love and then they paid
for it oh how they paid for it emptied
of God and love Godless and Loveless
wretches now let’s just again this isn’t
me this is not transphobic this is not
homophobic this is the word of
God and it’s the reality of our
day it goes on to say since they didn’t
bother to acknowledge God quit God quit
bothering them and let them run loose
and then all hell broke loose rampant
evil so this isn’t just talking about
homosexuality rampant evil grabbing and
grasping vicious backstabbing they made
life hell on Earth with their Envy
wanton killing bickering cheating look
at them mean-spirited venomous Fork
tonged God Bashers bullies swaggers
insufferable windbags they keep
inventing new ways of wrecking lives
they ditch their parents when they get
in the way stupid slimy cruel Cold Blood
none these are my words and it is not as
if they don’t know better they they know
perfectly well they are spitting on
God’s face and they don’t care worse
they hand out prizes to those who do the
worst things
best Okay so we’ve done the reality of
our God that’s the reality of the day
what about the reality of us see you
can’t read Romans 1 unless you go to
Romans 2 Romans 2 goes on to say these
people are on a dark spiral downward but
if you think that leaves you on the high
ground where you can point your finger
at others think again every time you
criticize someone you condemn yourself
it takes one to No One judgmental
criticism of others is a well-known way
of escaping detection in your own crimes
and misdemeanors but God isn’t so easily
diverted he sees right through all such
smoke screens and hold you to what
you’ve done you didn’t think did you
that just by pointing your fingers at
others you would restra God from seeing
all your misdoings and from coming down
on you hard or did you think that
because he is such a nice God he’d let
you off the hook better thank this one
through from the beginning God is kind
but he is not soft in kindness he takes
us firmly by the hand and leads us into
a radical life
change all right I’m going to talk to
you about the God took me firmly by the
hand I was a complete Heathen as you
know and I came home from my sority and
I had never heard the gospel John
invites me to a Bible study picnic all I
heard was free food I go to the picnic I
get radically saved John knew I was a
piece of work so he made me a a suitcase
of cassette tapes because that’s how old
we are so we had cassette tapes and I
remember I had these cassette tapes
playing in my car so loud as I drove
back from Indiana to the University of
Arizona which is quite a long drive
because I wanted to pray in tongues
while I actually like listen to the
cassette tape because at 21 years of age
I knew that I had squandered my life and
I wanted to live my life with a God who
had taken me firmly by the hand and was
leading me into a radical life changed I
walked into my sority house they were
like Yay Toscano is here that was my
name Toscano Toscano is here let’s go
out get drunk I’m
like I got born again they’re like what
you got born again yeah if You’ had like
a voting list of the most unlikely to
get born again I would have been in the
top three I had been elected to be the
Marshall in my sority what does a
Marshall do they are in charge of hazing
and initiating The Freshman I was chosen
for that position because of my meanness
and now I’m born again and they’re like
what is going on so because God had
taken me firmly by the hand and led me
into a radical life change I began to do
scary things I began to Walk The Halls
at night in my sity and I would call my
sity sister
out by name out of a kingdom of darkness
into a kingdom of light and when you
have those kind of radical prayers
you’re going to get some knocks on your
doors I remember getting a knock on the
door and this freshman girl says we
heard you used to be really mean we
heard you used to be a hoe we heard that
you’re the big Christian in the house
right now we want what you have
I was like oh my gosh nobody told me how
to do this I was like sit down and close
your eyes I had a a campus Crusade
brochure I read everything I made them
repeat everything including the
instructions I had them do the entire
prayer thing you know it was just
ridiculous prayed with them and then
what happens presence of God comes into
the sorty room they’re like what am I
feeling I’m like no no I can’t do the
holy ghost thing I can’t do it I’m going
to get kicked out of the sority they’re
like I feel there’s something like it’s
possibly the Holy Ghost the what and
then I had to like read to them about
the Holy Spirit and they’re like I want
the gift of the Holy Spirit I’m like oh
my gosh cuz I only prayed in tongues in
this in the shower and on the roof of
the sity so that nobody would hear me so
I pray for them they get filled with the
Holy Spirit then there’s another knock
another fresh fresman then another one
of my friends knocks in the door I want
to get saved then the Holy Spirit starts
giving me words of wisdom our sority had
so much stealing in it and God showed me
who it was so I get the president I said
I hadn’t even gone into the room I said
I know who’s stealing everything I
walked into the room and I opened up the
drawer and everything that had been
stolen was in the drawer I got accused
of planting it because they were like
how’d you know I’m like the Holy Spirit
they’re like the what I’m like the Holy
Spirit told me that it was in there I I
didn’t know it was in
there and when you have God take you
firmly by the hand and lead you into
radical life change I remember the
President coming to me and saying listen
you need to calm it down I’m a Christian
too I’m like what wait you’re a
Christian you can’t no you’re not a
Christian you said come in my room after
I had been out all night parting getting
drunk you knew what I was doing you sat
in my room to listen to my wild
escapades of the night before you were
living vicariously through me you knew
how I was hurting and you never told me
about
Jesus not once not
once so everybody knew I was a
Christian now I also took a ridiculously
hard major I don’t know if I thought
well this will be impressive in
conversation what’s your major oh
International
economics that’s mine it’s my
major it was so hard by my junior year
it was so difficult I had to take stats
we had to take something called for Tran
you guys will never understand for Tran
they threw it away and gave you guys
laptops we used to have to do like
little computer cards it was crazy I had
to take all of these highlevel
mathematics and the professors are like
let’s see we can flunk let’s give all
three finals on the same day so I
remember I had pulled an all nighter
with a couple other my sity sisters who
were also in these highlevel classes
we’re up all night we’re we’re you’re
proctoring each other like I would study
this this one would stud this one we’d
give each other a quiz and in comes the
elementary aded major that’s what I
should have majored in with four boys
she comes walking in she looks at us
she’s like wow you guys look
awful like you need to just move on you
need we’re we’re we’re we’re studying
you just move on but she didn’t get the
hint she went and got her breakfast tray
and she sat down with us and she said
Toscano you look like you’ve been run
over by a car and I just
remember just this thing coming out of
my mouth before I could stop it I said
Kelly why you such a beep in the morning
and the whole breakfast room froze the
born again had cussed I had managed to
not cuss pretty much the whole semester
because when you become a Christian you
say praise the Lord when you want to
cuss you just say Allelujah praise the
Lord thank you Jesus instead of other
words and so now everybody’s looking at
me she stand hands up she points at me
and she said I know there was no way you
could be a Christian you are just too
bad and she storms out of the room and I
remember one of my soryy sisters grabs
my arm she was I was just about ready to
say the same thing and you know I I was
about like ah so you know what I had to
do I had to stand up in front of all of
my sity sisters and I had to say I’m
completely
out of line will you forgive me I should
never have said that you know what they
said that’s actually when they knew I
was a Christian not when I’m praying
tongues in the shower not when I’m
walking up in down the Halls calling
people out of Darkness not when I’m
getting words of knowledge but when I
actually am owning a sin and a mistake
because when you own your mistakes and
your sin they no longer own you when you
humble yourself see the world actually
wants to see us do it well but we need
to do it with humility we need to do it
with Grace we shouldn’t well I’m not
perfect well God says he wants to
perfect
you well that triggered me you know what
I just want to smack people I’m like
I’ll show you you triggered you want I
seriously if you get triggered it means
that is something you got to bring to
the foot of the cross and ask Jesus to
heal it because for some reason you
you’ve decided to embrace a wound rather
than a
healing and sometimes wounds serve us
better than healing because then we can
make excuses for why we act the way we
act but God actually wants us to move
into a place
of
maturity we heard it it’s time to grow
up it’s time to let our light shine it’s
time not to cast shade on other people
it’s time for us to grow into a place
where people actually look at us and see
God’s hand on us it’s time for us to
begin to actually be those women I hope
you heard Onika call you guys debras I
hope you heard what she said about what
it is to be a Deborah but but I want to
tell you what’s going to happen if you
take what Onika seated you with and walk
out of here with it Ona talked a little
bit about the song of Deborah but I want
to touch on judges 5 verse
20-21 it says from the heavens the Stars
fought did you know
stars stars fight from the heavens the
Stars fought from their courses they
fought against CES the river Kishon
swept them away the ageold river the
river Kishon march on my soul be strong
see you actually sometimes you got to
talk to your
soul you know I I love how aniko was
like that was just am Mara moment was
just like a crazy talking woman
sometimes you just got to say soul why
are you
downcast why are you
downcast put your hope in God
anytime you put your hope in something
other than God you will put yourself in
a place where your hope can be taken
away from you but if you put your hope
in that one and if you say you know what
I I I might I might go home with a word
in my mouth because see like I read
Deborah and I’m me like she’s like hey
bayra get 10,000 chariots get it all
happening you know that makes sense for
Deborah
but why about you go home what are you
going to say when you go home well you
know what you’re going to say to your
husband you you’re going to say to your
sons you’re not going to say to your
daughters you’re going to say to your
friends you’re going to say be strong
and of good courage for the Lord your
God is with you be strong and of good
courage for the Lord your God is with
you we have to speak strength and
courage into each other well Lisa I
don’t know what I’m called to do well
I’ll tell you right now I’ve got a list
for you I’ve got a list first of all get
off your
butt stop sitting stop whining stop
complaining and start prophesying start
speaking your future start speaking
about where you want to go not about
where you’ve been or not even where you
are right now but uh I had this woman I
I love to interact with my social media
sometimes not all times sometimes and uh
she said she was asking God what am I
called to do what am I called to do what
am I called to do and he answered her
you’re called to love
people doesn’t that just sound like
Jesus well that way we can’t fail
because Love Never
Fails it’s hard to hear love whisper
when fear is yelling love begins with
who you know it’s amazing how people
want to go on mission trips and love
strangers
but they can’t love their
neighbor so you start with your neighbor
and then you work your way out to the
missions trip okay love begins with who
you know love your spouse love your
children love your friends love your
neighbors love the people you work with
love the stranger love people going
through difficult times love when it’s
difficult love difficult people they are
the ones that need it the most love
people you disagree with their lifestyle
and their
faith see we forgot it’s the kindness of
God that leads us to
repentance see kindness is not an
endorsement kindness is an Open Door
kindness is what leads us to the
goodness of God love your your enemies
love is not a
suggestion love is a command and it
would have been super easy if Jesus said
love the way you love want to feel about
loving others but he didn’t say that he
gave us himself as a pattern love them
as I have loved
you Jesus believes the best he speaks
the best he hopes the best he loves us
the best he has faith in us every time
I’ve made mistakes and I’ve made
mistakes every time I make a mistake
he’s just like well done that’s one way
for you to learn not to do it again it’s
always a lesson you will make mistakes
you will make mistakes but that doesn’t
make you a mistake and because you’ve
made a mistake it’s actually okay a lot
of people think making a mistake means
that they’re knocking themselves out of
God’s plan do you know how many of
Heroes in faith made horrible
mistakes Abraham crazy man crazy yeah
I’ll just take Hagar I mean like
seriously oh no that’s not my wife
that’s my sister go ahead and put her in
your herum there was like stuff that I’m
like Abraham really Moses kills some guy
David sleeps with a guy Solomon has a
crazy number of wives we have like so
many people sweet little Rahab Harlot
okay we have so many people who have
mistakes in their past but if you think
that you have blown God’s plan for your
life rest in this my sister you are not
that powerful God has a way to put some
things around but you need to get back
into place so I want to do two things
first of all there are women in here
that have Barren
bodies and have lost their hope there
are women in here that your life feels
Barren and then there’s women in here
that your wombs are Barren if you are a
woman in here and your womb is Barren
and you are believing that God will give
you life I want you to stand to your
feet right now we’re gonna we’re GNA
pray over your womb because you are not
going okay I don’t care if South
Africa’s one of the
90% Nations that is not reproducing
Rivers church is going to reproduce
River’s church is going to flourish
River’s church is going to birth Godly
Legacy so if you’re here put your hand
on your womb I’m going to speak life
into your body I break the enemy’s
assignment I break the attack off the
Next Generation I speak life into your
womb I break barness father I thank you
for joy and laughter and fruitfulness
and harvest in every single woman’s womb
I think this house will be filled with
baby dedications and the households will
be filled with laughter and everybody
agrees say amen amen I I I heard it I
heard in my head I heard in my head
somebody said well wait a minute I got I
got
vaccinated do you think God’s you think
God’s limited by a
vaccine oh seriously God is the god of
the impossible he is the god of the
impossible all right if you’re in here
your marriage feels Barren your ministry
feels Barren you’re stuck in your job
see God is anointing women to flourish
right now because when the women
flourish they begin to fund the gospel
we see that in the gospels of Jesus
Christ if you are here and you’re like
okay I’m tired of burying I buried some
stuff and now I’m buing I want you to
stand to your feet right now come on
stand up stand up all right don’t make
me point you out come on stand up stand
up stand up very good all right okay I
speak
life I speak
blessing I command the blessing of the
most high God that as onica said God’s
going to give you a double
portion he’s going to prosper your soul
and he’s going to bless the work of your
hands bricks is not the answer for South
Africa the answer is the people of God
flourishing that they would flourish in
a season of hardship when everybody else
is decreasing the people of God are
going to increase and multiply and you
will fund the gospel you will be a
nation known for prosperity and not for
poverty in jesus’ name amen and
amen