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do me a favor
and just think for a moment who would i
be
if i truly trusted and believe that
god’s promises never fail
how would it change my life how would it
change the way i’m looking at this
circumstance that i’m standing in right
now
you see it’s so easy for us to forget
the promises of god when we’re in the
middle of trying circumstances and
situations but there is a song that i
have been prophesying over some very
tough situations that i’ve had in my
life
and it’s not even me prophesying that
the situation will be over it’s me
reminding myself that god is still holy
above it all because that’s one of the
promises that we can count on is that
god is going to be the same today
yesterday and forevermore and when i am
reminded of the holiness of god i invite
god’s holiness into my situation and
when i invite god’s holiness into my
situation my situation doesn’t even have
to change but i become more holy as a
part of it and i start worshiping my
hand lifting my hands in worship and i
start praising god because i recognize
that god’s holiness is with me even in
the midst
of trauma
and sometimes that is the hedge of
protection that makes the difference
is knowing that god’s still holy
facing a disease god’s still holy
uncertain of what your future holds god
is still holy
and if god is still holy and i am a part
of god then god’s going to make me whole
in the process
your brokenness is not going to last
forever your disappointment has an
expiration date your fear is not allowed
to be a permanent residence that
holiness
is going to make you whole
and when you’re in the process of being
being made whole
you recognize that you are partnering
with god
and that partnership never leaves us
empty
one of the promises of god is that we
always have access to that
that’s one of the things i love about us
coming together in this way
is that it is an opportunity to be
reminded of the promises the
faithfulness and the holiness of god i’m
so excited about this word that god gave
me
i feel like god gave it for me he gave
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i’m going to let you borrow it and if
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i love activate because i feel like god
always gives me a unique assignment it
feels different from when i preach
anywhere else i feel like activate is
about literally awakening awakening
something that’s down on the inside of
you and sending you off into your sphere
to dominate in the way that god wants
the kingdom of heaven to dominate
my subject is activating audacity
and i’m going to be in matthew 3
verse 4 through 9.
this is
john the baptist we talk a bit about him
being the forerunner to jesus but i’ve
never even preached about john the
baptist’s life but when i was studying
and praying i just felt like god was
activating audacity in somebody is that
you if that’s you i want you to type
that’s me that’s me i feel like god is
calling someone into a season of
audacity but they don’t know how to
activate it let me say that better i
feel like god is calling someone into a
circumstance into an opportunity that
they can only lay hold of if they’re
willing to be audacious and yet you
don’t remember the last time you had
audacity you’ve been on autopilot for so
long that being brave and courageous is
something that feels foreign but i hear
god saying that this is going to be a
season where the audacious step into
opportunities and moments and rooms that
they should have never been in but
because they’re doing it with audacity
it’s going to force the door open it’s
going to force the opportunity to become
what god has assigned so we’re going to
activate some audacity tonight
matthew
3 4-9
now john himself was clothed
in camel’s hair with a leather belt
around his waist and his food was locust
and wild honey
then jerusalem all judea and all the
region around the jordan went out to him
and were baptized by him in the jordan
confessing their sins
but when he saw many of the pharisees
and sadducees coming to his baptism he
said to them
brood of vipers i think that’s the
biblical way of cousin somebody out i
don’t know brutal vipers it just gives
spicy i don’t know
brooded vipers who warns you to flee
from the wrath to come
therefore bear fruits
worthy of repentance
in other words he says if you’re really
going to be here to be baptized
don’t just come here to be looky loose
don’t just come here to see what i’m
doing if you’re coming here to really
have transformation then bear fruits
worthy of repentance and do not think
to say to yourselves we have abraham as
our father for i say to you
that god is able to raise up children to
abraham from these stones
he continues to talk to them i’m going
to stop right here but if you want to
see it in context you’ve got to read the
whole chapter
but i want to talk about the audacity
that he has in this moment
god we just thank you
that you’ve already made a decision
about what this word is supposed to be
and my only job is to pour it out as you
give it to me
so god i pray that you would highlight
the key moments that every person
listening to this message needs to hear
that this would not be about what i
think they need to hear but god that
this would be such a divine such an
intimate encounter with you that there
is no doubt that they heard from heaven
heaven we receive the word assigned to
our lives
we receive the word assigned to our
identity and we say god let nothing be
left on the table
that is meant for us
god we thank you that you’re going to
seal this word and that it’s going to
produce fruit
in jesus name
amen
amen again i just can’t say amen one
time i don’t know what it’s about
i was reading uh this novel
and the novel was based in the 1920s
and i was surprised when i was reading
it because there was this circumstance
that took place in the 1920s
that either i skipped in history class
or didn’t learn about at all
in the south there was this
need for cotton production
because there was so much cotton
production so much demand for cotton
farmers in that area found themselves
just creating crop after crop after crop
of cotton
they didn’t realize though that the
cotton is so dry that it was sucking the
nutrients out of the soil
so around the 1920s they couldn’t
produce from that soil anymore
which would have been disappointing but
that wasn’t the end there were also
these wind storms and when the wind
stores wind storms came it would blow
the dust and the dirt the soil that
dried out soil these incredible wind
storms would happen and they would
literally bury houses and homes and
people would be inhaling dirt they
called it the dust bowl and this
happened in the south and that’s why
people started migrating to the west
it’s because they were trying to escape
the dust bowl of the south
this was particularly interesting to me
because for years those farmers in those
regions ultimately went without having
anything to produce it was
almost like a wilderness season for them
they went from thriving producing doing
well
being profitable
to suddenly having their very livelihood
ended
because they didn’t recognize how their
actions were affecting the soil
isn’t it crazy
how we can be producing and be
profitable
but also be creating our demise at the
same time
because you’re profitable doesn’t mean
that you’re actually having
sustainability profitability and
sustainability are not the same thing
that’s why we hear phrases like 15
minutes of frame 15 minutes of fame
because those 15 minutes of fame is an
indication that you have to capitalize
on the timing while you have it
otherwise you may not be able to sustain
the attention connected to whatever has
brought you into the spotlight
and yet
all while these farmers were going
through this wilderness season
george washington carver was studying
whenever i think about george washington
carver i think about peanuts and peanut
butter but he was actually an incredible
mind a brilliant mind that was able to
help bring remedy to what was happening
in the south at that time
because while everyone else was just
trying to survive the wilderness
george washington carver was studying it
that’s such an interesting concept
because when i look back over my own
wilderness seasons i can see how i was
so busy trying to survive those seasons
that i didn’t take the time to study
those moments
so you’ve got to be willing to open your
eyes in the wilderness
oh god i feel like that’s somebody’s
message
you may be thinking to yourself my eyes
are open i just don’t like what i see no
if you are in a wilderness season then
there is a lesson that is taking place
in the wilderness and you don’t want to
miss the lesson just because you don’t
like what you see
while everyone else was trying to
survive george washington carver was
trying to study how did we get here but
most importantly how do i get out you
see when you close your eyes in the
middle of your wilderness seasons and
you just say i’m just going to wake up
and go through the motions i’m not going
to be awake and i’m not going to have my
spirit awaken to what action can take
place in the middle of the wilderness
you will be stagnant when you are called
to be the solution in the wilderness
the fear of the wilderness the surprise
the shock of the wilderness it makes us
stagnant it makes us feel stuck but then
we have to make a decision within our
soul to say god if you place me in this
god if you’re still holy in the midst of
it all let me awaken my spirit so that
i’m not on autopilot and miss my
opportunity to be a solution
god’s calling some of you to be
solutions in the middle of the
wilderness that while the industry may
be changing while the world may be
shifting into a different dimension and
people are waiting for the world to
emerge god is calling some people to be
a part of the trailblazer you’re in a
family and your family is going through
a wilderness season and they don’t know
what to do and they don’t know how to
pray and they don’t know how they’re
going to come out of it i hear god
saying that if you awaken your spirit
then you can lead them out of that
wilderness season and if we are willing
to open our eyes
each of us
have an opportunity to carry
those connected to us
into sustainability
god george george washington carver was
studying
in the middle of the wilderness in the
middle of the world changing he’s
studying because he recognizes that this
wilderness cannot happen again oh
god george washington carver recognized
that i don’t want this to happen again
and if i don’t want this to happen again
if i ignore that it occurred if i miss
out on the lessons connected to it then
it could repeat itself and i hear
somebody i hear for somebody that if god
has placed you in a wilderness season
and there’s something down on the inside
of you that is uncomfortable with it
it’s because god is trying to make sure
that you get so bothered by it that it
doesn’t happen again on your watch that
you come to a place where you realize
that if i am exposed to this wilderness
and i open my eyes to lean into this
wilderness that god’s not just going to
give me solution on how to stay out of
the wilderness but how to keep the
generations connected to me from coming
out of it as well you see there’s always
someone coming up behind you and when
someone is coming up behind you you get
to be a part of what they step into when
they come up behind you and i hear god
saying that there are some wildernesses
that you had to face so that the people
coming up behind you don’t have to face
it and when you lean in you teach your
family metrics and ways to have paradigm
shifts and patterns that keep that
wilderness from happening again i wish i
could say that the way that i feel it
but the only way we break a generational
curse is if we study how this
generational curse has shown up in our
family how it’s changed our ability to
show up but most importantly what am i
going to do to make sure it doesn’t
happen again it’s one thing to break a
generational curse it’s another thing to
study that generational curse so you
understand how it functions and you
understand how it shows up in your
paradigms and how it shows up in your
family because if you study it you show
god where to put those prayers when you
study it you show god what that worship
is connected to i’m not just praying to
break a generational curse i’m praying
with specificity god i never want to see
my family have to deal with depression
ever again i never want my family to
deal with rejection issues and not
understanding their worth again so when
i pray i pray in that direction when i
worship i worship in that direction i
don’t want them to struggle with
identity the way that i struggled with
identity i’m being specific about the
generational curse i want to break
because i’m standing in the wilderness
myself and i want to make sure that when
i get breakthrough that the breakthrough
has sustainability come on i want to
talk to somebody who thinks it’s bigger
than them i want to talk to somebody who
sees that is broader than them i want to
make sure that this breakthrough has
sustainability you are not a one-off
you are not a one-hit wonder
you are a
trailblazer and if you only make it
about you then you miss that there’s
someone coming up behind you and it’s
going to take audacity for you to see
that this is bigger than just me it’s so
much easier to make it about self
because if you disappoint self you only
have to worry about self but when you
realize that this is about somebody
coming up behind me it makes me more
audacious because i don’t want my
community to face this again i don’t
want another little girl another little
boy another graduate to experience this
again so i’ve got to be audacious about
the moment that i’m standing in
i’m studying this thing
god how does that curse show up in me
god how does that thinking show up in me
if it’s in my generation then it might
be in me and if you show me how to get
it out of me then i can help them get it
out of them i’m talking about
sustainability
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and in that season
that season that they were in
back in the 1920s
there was a commitment to making sure
this never
happens again
and in order to tap into sustainability
george washington carver
started
creating different crops
oh god
he started producing different crops
different outcomes different plants
different species other than what had
been produced before because he
recognized not that we cannot produce
what we had before but that cannot be
what we exclusively produce
that’s such a powerful word because for
some of us we think that in order for us
to change one thing we have to change
everything but they didn’t have to
change everything they just needed to
introduce new items as well
i feel like that’s helpful for somebody
oh
this is such a prophetic word i don’t
know who you are
but god is not calling you to change
everything about you
he’s just calling you to introduce some
new things
the power of the wilderness
is that the wilderness makes you so
desperate
and focused
on what you’re in
that it helps you to produce differently
would we have ever had this
science had they not been in the
wilderness absolutely not
the wilderness taught them something in
that moment
that would extend beyond the wilderness
season that they were in
if i had a secondary long title for this
message it would be don’t forget what
the wilderness put on you
because so often we go through
wilderness seasons and when we go
through the wilderness we are so glad
that we survived that we take things
back to the way they were
but had these people taking things back
to the way they were then they would
have been in a vicious cycle but because
they honored and had respect for the
wilderness when they came out of it they
didn’t forget what the wilderness taught
them and i’m going to be honest with you
over the last few months i’ve been in a
wilderness season in my own life and
i’ve had to make a demand on god’s
anointing to show up in my life in a way
that i’ve never had to do it before but
i also feel more audacious than i’ve
ever felt and i feel like there is a
connection between the wilderness and
the audacity that i’m functioning in the
wilderness teaches you that you can
survive the wilderness teaches you that
you can make a way out of no way the
wilderness teaches you that if god will
be with me in the wilderness then even
if i step into a moment with uncertainty
then god can be with me then there is
something powerful about the wilderness
that teaches you how to sustain your
faith in every season that teaches you
that when i went down to my lowest point
then god was still with me in that
moment the wilderness has tried to teach
you something and i hear god saying that
even if you went through a wilderness
season and you were so afraid of what
was happening in that moment that you
didn’t take inventory and you didn’t
take notes that that doesn’t mean that
the anointing connected to that
wilderness is not still with you i feel
like preaching to somebody today because
i want you to understand that if you
forgot to get the harvest from the
wilderness that the harvest is still
there i hear god saying that if you
would take a minute and pull back from
your circumstance and go back through
the different seasons of your life when
you felt like you were in a wilderness
that you will discover that you are
stronger than you think you are that you
will discover that god gave you words
when you didn’t think you had words that
god gave you relationship when you
didn’t think you had relationship i hear
god saying don’t let this current
presentation trick you into believing
that this is all you’ve ever been go
back to those wilderness moments and see
how god gave you audacity in the middle
of the wilderness how you were willing
to work like you never thought you’d
have to work before how you were willing
to be lonely in those seasons and to
face off with loneliness without
allowing someone to come in and
contaminate your spirit you’ve been in
the wilderness before don’t let this
wilderness make you think that you’re
someone other than who god says you are
i hear god saying that you don’t need
someone to validate you that didn’t
validate you back then i hear god saying
that the same god that was with you back
then is the same god that is with you
right now
and what makes us audacious
is not our own work
it’s not what we hustle up on
my audacity is rooted in who i am in god
my audacity is rooted in the fact that
when god says that he had anointed me to
preach the gospel
that it didn’t matter what stage i was
on and it didn’t matter who was
listening or who wasn’t that that
audacity came from the anointing that
god placed on my life and so my question
for you is are you a child of god or not
or are you going to allow yourself to be
a child of fear a child of anxiety a
child of depression i’m not saying the
anxiety won’t come but i’m saying that
anxiety cannot parent you i’m not saying
that the fear won’t come but i’m saying
that fear cannot parent you that
depression cannot parent you i am a
child of god and because i am a child of
god when depression comes my god shows
me how to conquer it when anxiety comes
my god shows me how to conquer it god
show me
how to be audacious
not because i have certainty
but because i have you
and when i find john in this text
i’m looking at an audacious man
i’m looking at a man who’s understood
that the wilderness put something on him
i’m looking at a man who understands
that his calling
is greater than his presentation
i’m looking at a man who recognizes that
who’s coming up behind him is more
important than who is standing around
him i’m looking at a man who doesn’t
mind taking bold risk
how does he activate this audacity
how does he come to this place
where he’s got the courage to stand in a
moment
where he looks like what he’s been
through
i know there are so many quotes on
instagram that would have us to believe
that we shouldn’t look like what we’ve
been through
but there are some instances when you
should look like what you’ve been
through
because when you look like what you’ve
been through it repels anything that’s
not for you when you look like you don’t
have any time to waste when you look
like you’re not trying to play any games
when you look like you recognize that
you are on a mission it repels from you
people who are going to waste your time
it repels from you people who are going
to take advantage of you when you look
like wisdom when you look like strength
when you look like sturdiness not only
does it repel those who are going to try
and take something from you but it also
attracts everything that is connected to
you you see if john doesn’t look like
what he’s been through then when jesus
comes looking to be baptized he may not
look like the person he’s supposed to
look like he may not look like the
person who has been anointed to baptize
jesus but because he looks like what
he’s been through he’s focused you when
you start looking like what you’ve been
through you get serious you get focused
you get intentional because you
recognize
that i did not survive what i went
through
to go back to looking like a person who
doesn’t have the wisdom
that i had before
that i didn’t have before i went through
the wilderness
john is on assignment
and when we find him in the text
his assignment has been revealed
his assignment is to prepare the way for
the lord
he’s known this since birth
that he was called to be the forerunner
for the messiah when he was in his
mother’s womb god was speaking over
him when you were in your mother’s womb
god was speaking over you
god already had an assignment for who
you were to be in the earth before you
even took your first breath
and john has spent his life being
cultivated with the knowledge of who he
is
what a blessing that is for john because
i recognize that so many of us haven’t
spent our lives cultivating that word
that god spoke over us
as a matter of fact we had to have an
encounter with that word first
and even once we’ve had an encounter
it’s difficult for us to cultivate that
word
but i want to study john because i
believe that john is going to give us
tools to have the audacity that allows
us to cultivate the call that was
connected to our lives before we were
even born
when we find
john the baptist
the first thing that stood out in my
mind when reading this text is that john
found a way
to not lose what the wilderness taught
him even though he stepped into his
calling
when we look at our text and begin with
verse 4
it tells us that now john himself was
clothed and camel’s hair with a leather
belt around his waist and his food was
locus and wild honey
they want us to know off top
john is not like anyone else that’s
walking around right now
when the bible specifies someone’s
appearance and what they eat that is an
indication that they want us to know
that this is unusual for the times and
the
circle and culture that this person
exists in
and so john has already positioned
himself
in such a way that he is still carrying
what the wilderness taught him
that he’s still consuming what the
wilderness taught him
and i felt like this was such a powerful
point to bring up when we talk about
activating audacity
because the wilderness when it shows up
in your life and it begins to change the
way that you show up in the world and it
changes what you put on you and it
changes what you consume it will be so
easy to then get plugged in into circles
and communities that tempt you to change
who you became in the wilderness
everyone knows about a wilderness season
i’ll just use it as an example the
wilderness of living not just paycheck
to paycheck because that would be a
luxury because that would mean that once
one paycheck was over that the other
paycheck came i’m talking about living
okay
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i’m talking about it’s it’s some areas
where it is completely blank
but you also know that when you are in
those seasons
that you spend differently than the way
that you spend when your paycheck to
paycheck let alone living in abundance
but anyone who’s ever had abundance and
then gone to put to pa okay
has within them this knowing
that if i would spend like this when i
actually do have resources
then i would have a lot more savings or
i would be able to do this or i would be
able to do that and those wilderness
thoughts those wilderness ideas those
wilderness practices we lose when we
start to have abundance again
that’s why it’s so powerful that john is
willing to show up
as the person who has been living in the
wilderness
even though his calling no longer
requires him to be in the wilderness any
longer
there is a focus
there is a paradigm shift a mentality
shift that happens in the wilderness
where you don’t allow yourself to have
waste any longer
activating audacity
is about not wasting moments
not wasting time
not allowing yourself to fall back in
the rhythm of the
or culture around you or the circle that
is around you because you recognize that
the wilderness made you focused
that’s exactly what happens to john if
you’re taking notes
i want you to write down four points
the first one i already gave you
i want to talk about what the wilderness
serves to you
as god is cultivating your identity
because god doesn’t just cultivate our
identity in high moments
god cultivates our identity i would say
even more in wilderness moments
i want to talk about the connection
between wilderness moments and audacity
the wilderness
gives you the audacity to adjust your
appetite
just like in verse 4
where it tells us that his food was
locus and wild honey
when you are going through a wilderness
season
you automatically have to change your
audacity somebody ain’t watch activate
since jesus was a little baby you don’t
even know how you stumbled across this
message
but when you get yourself in a
wilderness season you become hungry for
what you know can sustain you in the
middle of the wilderness when you’re in
a wilderness season there is some music
that you can’t even listen to because it
just takes you down further and further
the audacity to change your appetite
only happens in the wilderness where you
become more serious about what you can
and cannot consume where you are willing
to eat what others will not because you
recognize that your survival in this
moment is key why would john be willing
to eat locust and wild honey unless he
recognized that i have to survive this
moment i feel like that’s something that
someone needs to get down in their
spirit oh god i don’t know who you are
but you have found yourself in a
wilderness moment and what you lost is
not the ability to survive in the
wilderness but the ability to recognize
that you must survive in this wilderness
there is somebody who says i could make
it happen if i wanted to but it’s become
optional for you and i hear god saying
that you got to get back to a stage
where you decide i must survive in this
moment when i was going through my
season this summer i was wondering do i
even want to preach right now do i even
want to write right now do i even want
to show up in this moment because i feel
like i’m in a wilderness season but then
there was something that was down on the
inside of me that said all of the people
who you admire in your faith admire them
because they survived the wilderness
seasons not just because they realize
that god was faithful because someone
else said it but because they realized
it in their own life and when you start
changing your thoughts oh i want to come
against someone’s thought life right now
in the name of jesus you’ve been in a
wilderness season and you’re consuming
the kind of thoughts that are going to
kill you you’re consuming the kind of
thoughts that are going to kill your
audacity they’re going to take out your
courage they’re going to take out your
creativity you’re telling yourself maybe
i’m not good enough you’re telling
yourself maybe i don’t have the worth
maybe i don’t have the value and i want
to rebuke that right now in the name of
jesus you may be in the wilderness but
the wilderness is not going to take you
out you may be in the wilderness but the
wilderness is on assignment to bring out
the calling of god that is on your life
i hear god saying that i want you to
start talking back to those thoughts i
must make it to the other side i must
see the faithfulness of god i must see
how god is going to show up i made a
demand in that wilderness season god
where are you and i don’t mean it
hypothetically i mean god where are you
in the middle of this season because i’m
looking for you i hear like some i feel
like somebody needs to start looking for
god all over again god i’m looking for
you i’m not waiting for you to just come
up and appear i’m going to be looking
for you everywhere i go i make an
expectation that you’re going to show up
in this wilderness and because i’m
expecting you
i won’t miss you
if you are expecting failure you won’t
miss it
if you are expecting fear you won’t miss
something to be afraid of
but if you expect the faithfulness of
god
to show up in your
situation you’ll look for it everywhere
you go
you’ll start praising god for a parking
space
you’ll start praising god just because
you woke up in the morning god you’re
still faithful in keeping me here god
you’re still faithful in sending someone
to check on me god you’re still faithful
in allowing me to feel loved god i’m
seeing your faithfulness even when i
listen to this message somebody’s
listening to this message and it feels
like it’s just for them i hear god
saying it is just for you and it may be
for someone else too but you got to take
it and make it personal you got to let
me be your god and their god too i hear
god saying that this message can be just
for you and just for them too that this
is not just church cliche that god is on
assignment to snatch some people not out
of the wilderness but into their calling
because if i snatch you into your
calling you won’t ask me to escape the
wilderness if i snatch you into your
calling you’ll recognize that even the
wilderness is meant to serve me god
snatched me into my calling god snatched
me into someone who thinks that they are
connected to who you are snatch me into
someone who recognizes the power and the
anointing that you placed on my life god
i can see it in someone else’s life
snatch me into the consciousness of what
you’re doing in my life i’m changing my
thoughts god
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i’m changing my thoughts in the
wilderness
and don’t let me change my thoughts just
temporarily
help me to sustain this thing in every
season
god i want to think like this in every
season
i don’t know who you are but your
thought life used to be so much more
pure
and it’s been contaminated by
disappointment
and i hear god saying that if you could
get your mind back that you wouldn’t
even need anything else to change and i
hear god saying the first part of
getting your thoughts back getting your
mind back is to start speaking what your
spirit needs to hear i wish i could say
that the way that i feel it but somebody
needs to start speaking it even if they
aren’t ready to believe it because the
power of life and death is in your
tongue and if you want your spirit to
receive it it needs to come out of your
own mouth i feel like prophesying to
somebody that you don’t need anyone else
to speak it over you that you need to
speak it out of your own mouth that
there’s something about your mouth
coming into alignment with what god
wants to do i want somebody’s mouth to
become audacious i want somebody to have
the audacity to start saying i shall
live and not die i want somebody to have
the audacity to say i am anointed for
this position i want someone’s mouth to
have the audacity to say yes it’s me and
i’m going to do it because god sent me
i’m going to raise this child i’m going
to raise this business i’m going to save
this marriage and it might sound crazy
to you but i need my spirit to hear it
because there’s some moments where it
sounds crazy to me too but i’m going to
force my spirit to come into alignment
with the audacity of my god we serve an
audacious god he’s got audacity that
this this earth hasn’t seen eyes haven’t
seen it ears haven’t heard it the things
that god has stored up that means that
god has audacious things
stored up
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for the audacious
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not talking about being big and bad in
the culture
i’m talking about being big and bad with
god
i’m audacious enough
to walk into this room
armed with the knowledge of the
wilderness
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oh god
don’t
cut off your life
from where the wilderness ends and the
promised land begins
that wilderness taught you something
you had to bury some people
that wilderness taught you strength
that wilderness taught you that you can
stand up to life
that wilderness taught me that back
against the wall that i don’t mind doing
what needs to be done in order to not
just survive but to stay connected
to my call
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and what the enemy wants more than
anything
is to make you lose the lessons of the
wilderness
because if you lose the lessons of the
wilderness you’ll lose the audacity that
came with the wilderness too
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we’re looking at an audacious john the
baptist
who recognizes
that this is a moment
that i was born for
oh god
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this feels so heavy
you were
born for this moment
that’s not everyone’s word but you know
who you are
you were born for this
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born to shift the culture
born to be a forerunner
born to prepare the way for the lord
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to make it easier for the king of kings
to come and touch everyone connected to
his kingdom
you were born for this moment
to change that industry you were born
for this
it’s going to take audacity
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man per usual i’m out of my notes
but i feel like god is stirring up he’s
activating audacity
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and when john the baptist
is standing in the manifestation of what
he was born for
it’s only because of the wilderness he
survived he had the audacity to change
his diet he has the audacity
to maximize his resources
they say he’s clothed in camel’s hair
the wilderness taught him to maximize
his resources where is your audacity
going to come from i hear god saying
that you have resources you haven’t even
tapped into yet
do you have the audacity to maximize
them
to recognize that something may have
come into your life one way
but god’s going to allow you to
repurpose it
for the greater use of your call
that camel in the wilderness was not
meant to be wardrobe
but when you’re in the wilderness you
maximize what is available to you
he maximizes his resources and then
the final thing that he does
is he has the audacity to set a standard
for the pharisees and the sadducees
when he tells them that if you’re going
to be here
then really be about what this is about
he has the audacity to create a standard
for what it is he’s doing in the earth
don’t waste
this time don’t waste this moment don’t
waste this grace don’t waste this
anointing because you just want to see
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but he tells them to bear fruit worthy
of repentance
if you’ve really changed your mind bear
the kind of fruit that looks like a
changed mind
that is audacity to tell those who are
around you
that if you’re really going to be
connected to what i’m doing
then i have a standard that i have to
say
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that means that you can still do you but
you may not be able to do you with me
because if you’re going to do you with
me there is a standard of integrity
there is a standard of compassion there
is a standard of excellence there is a
standard of holiness
connected to being with me
what’s powerful about this is that in
order for john the baptist to say this
he had to be willing to not be afraid if
they talked about him to not be afraid
if they left him to not be
afraid if they would even betray him
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the audacity to set a standard
in a world that is constantly telling us
to compromise
can only come from the certainty
of knowing where we’re supposed to be
don’t allow someone else’s halfway in
halfway out
to rob you of the fullness
of who you’re supposed to be
the power of the wilderness
is that it allowed john’s call his focus
his anointing to be concentrated
i mean concentrated like it was
dense it was potent it was powerful
because of what happened in the
wilderness
nobody was in the wilderness but him
god and his call
i want to pray with you family
because i believe that there is an
impartation of audacity
that god wants for all of us to have
let me be very clear
audacity is not the same thing as pride
i am not talking about ego
i’m talking about the type of audacity
that allows you to step out
on water like peter did
the type of audacity that makes you use
the strength of what god said to move
into the uncertainty of what you don’t
understand
audacity
to be led
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boldly
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that word boldly just struck my spirit
if i can share with you i’m almost out
of time but if i can share with you
when i first started speaking
i would get so nervous i still get
nervous but stay focused here’s the
point
i would get so nervous
that when people ask me was i a speaker
or a preacher or a pastor
i didn’t even know what to say because
like
i don’t feel like one i don’t feel
equipped i don’t feel anointed i just
continue to do it because someone says
that their life was changed i didn’t
necessarily feel like this was just like
my thing it felt like something i had to
surrender to god
in order to do
and as long as i was kind of like doing
it but unsure of it
i would have change
but there wasn’t impact
it wasn’t like this is a force
i’m not sure that i even had the
fullness of the power
that god had given me
it’s almost like having your phone
but putting it on low power mode
because you weren’t sure when it would
die and that’s how i was living i wasn’t
sure when people would just start saying
she see she doesn’t have it anyway and
so that opportunity in those moments to
speak would eventually die
but when i fully stepped into it
when i fully surrendered i’ll never
forget
it was like the first sunday of 2018
and the message was unleashed
and i preached that message about
finally being unleashed
into the fullness of
why peter was even created to be the
rock of the church
and as i was preaching that message
something happened to me and i felt
unleashed in a way i’d never felt
unleashed before
i felt audacity
and that’s not to say that i don’t get
nervous anymore
and it’s not to say that i think i’m the
best to ever do it
but my audacity is rooted in the fact
that i know i’m called to somebody
so when the nerves come and the fear
comes
i remind myself to step in audacity
and overcome those moments
i want to pray for someone
who’s been hoping that god would allow
them to step into their calling
with audacity
to step into the fact that you have a
calling with audacity
to not be so random
but to be intentional about studying
every season you’re in because you
recognize that your life is on
assignment you are not random
i don’t care how you got here you
weren’t an accident
i don’t care who didn’t pour into you as
a child i’m sorry they didn’t i wish you
would have had it
but for some reason god says i can take
care of that on the back end
the goal is to get us back to audacity
we were created with it
the audacity to subdue and have dominion
that was inherently available to us then
sin entered the world and yet god says
i’m going to send jesus so that they can
find a way back to audacity jesus
had the audacity
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to come proclaiming that the kingdom of
heaven was at hand
and he did it to his haters and he did
it to those who had never even heard of
the kingdom of heaven because he was so
certain about what he carried
when you go into those rooms when you
begin working within that marriage
working within that family it’s going to
require audacity
and that audacity cannot be rooted in
your own works and your own vision in
your own dreams
that audacity has to be rooted in the
certainty that god has called me to this
moment one thing i’m sure of
god called me to this moment
i don’t know how long i’ll be here i
don’t even know what he wants me to say
when i get here but one thing i know for
sure is god called me to it
and because god called me i move with
boldness
when i step into it
i want to pray with you
i want to pray for somebody
who is ready to activate their audacity
and i want to remind you that having
faith for it is one thing having prayer
for it is another
but speaking it
is what allows there to be activation
i don’t know what you’re activating
tonight what area of your life that you
want to activate audacity in but
wherever you are i just want you to
speak it i want you to say god activate
my audacity in
confidence god activate my
audacity in blank you fill in the blank
and i want you to recite that
prayer
over and over again
this is a personal thing
a spiritual
development that god wants to offer
to anyone who’s poured themselves out
enough to receive it
god activate my audacity in
communicating
god activate my audacity in humility
god activate my audacity in writing and
creating and producing
and healing
activate my audacity and walking away
where do you need audacity
because that’s where i’m going to pray
that god meets you
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god i thank you
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that you sent a word
not just to make us feel good but to
challenge us to
grow and true enough sometimes growth is
uncomfortable
as a matter of fact sometimes growth is
downright scary
but we cannot deny that you’re calling
us to grow
and so god i’m praying for every person
connected to this word
that you would begin to stir up the gift
of god that you placed down on the
inside of them
god revealed the areas in them where
they have been functioning in this false
humility reveal the areas where they’ve
been functioning from the place of their
insecurity from the place of their
inadequacy god show them that area right
now bring it to their mind god i thank
you that someone’s being flooded with
words that they’ve said with thoughts
that they’ve had god and now that we
have that area brought up in their lives
i’ll ask that you would breathe your
spirit oh god the spirit of audacity the
spirit of power the spirit of anointing
the spirit of confidence oh god breathe
that over that area right now in the
name of jesus and we rebuke in the name
of jesus by the blood of jesus we rebuke
any thought that doesn’t look like you
we rebuke any pattern that doesn’t look
like you any fear that has taken
residence in their life we rebuke it
right now in the name of jesus and we do
so with audacity we do so with boldness
because we recognize that when you have
desire to set someone free that you
don’t care what chain you have to break
in order to get there and so we speaking
right now in the name of jesus we
declare and decree that that place that
has been a stronghold in your mind is
rebuked in the name of jesus i speak to
principalities right now in the name of
jesus and i plead the blood of jesus
over you i believe the blood of jesus
over your mind i believe the blood of
jesus over your spirit the blood of
jesus will destroy the yoke and i see it
destroyed right now in the name of jesus
and i want you to come into agreement
that it has been destroyed it has lost
its power over your life it has lost its
grasp over your life
and we thank you god
because we recognize that we didn’t do
anything to earn this
and yet because you are faithful
you have the audacity to use broken
people to do incredible things
you have the audacity to use
people who are just trying and
attempting
and make it look like they did it on
purpose
god we repent
and we ask that you would give us
the strength and the wisdom
to bear fruit worthy of repentance
and lastly god if anyone’s watching
right
now and they don’t know jesus
they don’t recognize what they have when
they are in relationship with jesus is
audacity
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father i pray right now
that as they even consider it’s is
consider accepting jesus as their savior
that they would feel your holy spirit
meeting them right where they are
not in a religious way god but in a real
way where they would be in relationship
with jesus
and because they are in relationship
with jesus
they take on his attributes and his
character
and they recognize that it saves them
from fear and darkness and despair
thank you for jesus
thank you for making him who had no sin
no weakness no limitations
all of ours
we accept jesus as our savior
and we ask that you would teach every
person who is accepting jesus for the
first time
teach them how to walk with jesus
how to talk like jesus how to think like
jesus
how to lay hold of every thought and
walk away from that which no longer
serves them
that’s what we get when we’re in
relationship with jesus
thank you god for the fruit connected to
this word
may they write about it sing about it
produce about it show up in it
and may they do so in such a way that
brings
those coming up behind them
a road map on how it’s done
in jesus name i pray
amen family
amen you got to type amen in the
comments or it didn’t happen amen
amen i love
i love being in relationship with god
i love being in relationship with jesus
and there are so many things that god
does for me
and even through me
that i often feel unworthy of
and yet in romans when it says to
present your body as a living sacrifice
i present my life my being my thoughts
everything connected to me as a living
sacrifice
so that it can be made holy and
acceptable
one of the ways that i choose to do that
is in the area of giving
it’s my way of sacrificing of saying
everything connected to me
i want connected to god
i am a living sacrifice carrying the
sacrifice
and you can’t be god-giving so this
isn’t trying to repay god for all that
he’s done giving is acknowledging who
god is in your life
god i acknowledge that you continue to
feed me
i acknowledge that you continue to show
up in my life
and i acknowledge that through giving
and worship and prayer and connecting
and serving and helping
so i want to extend to you an
opportunity to give
the instructions are on the screen is
very easy
i could list so many of the reasons why
i believe giving to this community is
one of the best things that you could do
if i had time i would talk about all of
the families who have been fed
if i had even more time i would talk
about the work that we’re doing in
africa to help children’s children in
schools in uganda
i would talk about the teen moms and
women who have experienced brokenness
who are sustained every month as a
result of the giving that one does
but what i think is most important about
this community
is that it is quite literally a
reflection of god still moving in the
earth
if you’re going to give
give because you recognize that this is
a place where god continues to move in
the earth and you want to be a part of
what god is doing in the earth
to be very clear
we don’t pressure you to give
we give cheerfully
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because we recognize everything that we
have comes from god
and because we know that everything that
we have comes from god it’s just our way
of saying thank you god
i see you still looking at i see you
still taking care of us
and so let’s give with that in mind
tithe is very easy it’s 10 of your
increase and then there’s the offering
and that offering is our way of just
saying you know what god i want to
continue to sacrifice i want to
sacrifice on an even greater level i
didn’t get paid this week but this word
touched me thank you for sending a word
from heaven we sow into what’s sowing
into us
god i thank you for every
seed connected to this moment
i call it seed because i recognize that
we don’t lose anything when we sow it
into the kingdom of heaven
and when we sow it into the kingdom of
heaven we recognize that it is the only
currency that allows us to literally
have transformed lives
so god we present these seeds this
offering to you when we say build
your
church god
replicate multiply
throughout the world
in afghanistan may they hear of your
wonder
in africa may they hear of your wonder
in russia god all throughout the world
and we thank you that we are a part of a
community that is quite literally
reaching into all of those places
god we thank you that you are going to
continue to edify this church so that we
can continue to touch change and
transform lives and god we pray a
special blessing over everyone
connecting in this moment
god you see how they’re sacrificing
giving above and beyond what they
usually give giving for the first time
god we know that you see every seed and
that you will not allow it to return
unto them void
thank you god for what you’ve already
decided to do as a result of our
obedience
in jesus name i pray
amen family