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amazing word god bless you
did somebody say activate i feel like
someone has been waiting for this time
of the week when we come together to
simply sit at the feet of jesus i want
to know where you’re tuning in from can
you type it in the chat for me where are
you tuning in from i want to know what
city is being activated as a matter of
fact put activate dallas activate tampa
activate london wherever you’re watching
i want you to put activate in front of
it and i want you to make a demand i
want you to speak a expectation over
your city over your family wherever you
are that it’s going to be activated
someone may be tuning in for the first
time and they’re like what’s going to
get activated the kingdom of heaven is
going to be activated the good news is
going to be activated where there was
depression there will be joy where there
was fear there’s going to be faith where
there was hopelessness there’s going to
be hope because when one or two or three
are gathered together in his name he’s
going to be in the midst and let me tell
you when god gets in the midst every
other thing that isn’t god has to bow
down and i don’t know about you but i am
not up on a thursday night so that fear
can keep standing so that anxiety can
keep standing so that my insecurities
can still sit on the throne i came to
dethrone something tonight and i just
want to know is there anyone with me is
there one is there one is there one let
me know if there’s one in dallas let me
know if there’s one in the dmv is there
one in new york because all it takes is
just a couple of us we could get this
thing started
i don’t know about you but i’m ready
i’m ready to see what god is going to do
through this word i’ve been praying
receiving
listening
and allowing my heart to receive
for what this moment is meant to be i
want to invite you to take a moment and
let all of your friends know that you’re
at church so that they can come and be a
part of this word too they’re not going
to want to miss it you are not going to
want to miss this and so i’m going to
give you a second to get you a little
situation together get your text message
and i’ll send them the link youtube
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i believe god wants to do something
special
my text
for this evening for this message
my text is matthew 11.
i’m going to begin in verse 25.
i have to tell you i was selfishly in my
own prayer and study time when this
scripture came to mind i wanted to
understand the context of it because i
was in the season where i was battling
myself and in a moment in my life where
i was battling with my own fears my own
insecurities and i just had this when i
read it you’re going to some of you’re
going to be like yes i know that but i
was having this moment i was battling
and i wanted to get context for this
scripture
so matthew 11 25
set up a little bit of context here
jesus is
coming off the heels of really rebuking
and setting things straight he’s
rebuking the cities in which he
performed the most miracles
because these are also the cities that
have failed to convert and believe the
way that they should
isn’t it crazy how sometimes the people
who experience the most are often the
last to believe
sometimes we’re the last to believe
because we just can’t consider that
something is too good to be true we just
continue to talk ourselves out of the
goodness of god we continue to talk
ourselves out of the promises of god god
i think you said it but i’m not really
sure can you send another sign god
didn’t send some of y’all so many signs
at this point that he didn’t move it on
somewhere else because you just didn’t
move the way you were supposed to move
jesus is rebuking the cities who
witnessed the height of his divinity
because they did not believe the way
that they should
when verse 25 begins though he’s in the
middle of rebuking his attention turns
and it says at that time jesus answered
and said
i thank you father lord of heaven and
earth
that you have hidden these things from
the wise and prudent
and have revealed them to babes hidden
these things as in his divinity his
identity his nature as the son of god
has been hidden from the wise and
prudent and instead those who are like
children have received him even so verse
26 continues father
for so it seemed good in your sight
all things have been delivered to me by
my father
and no one knows the son except the
father
nor does anyone know the father except
the son and the one to whom the son
wills to reveal him
come to me
all you who labor and are heavy-laden
and i will give you rest
take my yoke upon you and learn from me
for i am gentle and lowly in heart
and you will find rest for your souls
my yoke is easy
and my burden is light
father my prayer
is that you would take these next few
minutes that i’m spending here
and that you would transform them as
only you can do holy spirit
anoint every word
touch every person who needs to hear
this word the most god
you know every circumstance you know
every doubt you know every dream you
know every fear you know every leap of
faith that is connected to this word and
you have gathered us here today not so
that we can be entertained not so that
we can just feel good but so that we can
be empowered to be vessels for your
glory god
we want to be more like jesus
we want to invade territories and
establish your kingdom
teach us god
we’re listening
in jesus name i pray
amen
if i could give this
message any subject it would be listen
like jesus
listen like jesus that’s
my subject for this message and i’m
going to get into it a little bit but
first i want to kind of set up my
message and i was thinking about the
best way to set up this message and the
first thing that came to mind was i
think that you all should know that the
saying time heals all wounds is a scam
listen some of you have already figured
that out because you are grown years old
and you’re still walking around with
them four-year-old traumas it is i i am
talking to myself time does not heal all
wounds then we hear what they’ve been
saying now it’s what you do with the
time because they realize that was a
scam now they’re saying it’s what you do
with the time that makes the difference
i think it’s so important that we take
the time to really dissect that because
otherwise we will be spending days and
months and weeks and years
waiting for the time that healing comes
when in reality there are some words
that have been spoken over us some words
that have lived down on the inside of us
that though they have been unspoken they
have still caused the scars and wounds
and those are the words that we
generally receive from other people
but then there are the self-inflicted
wounds that come from the words we never
got the chance to release
like that time that you beat yourself up
for not saying the thing that you know
you should have said to the person you
know you should have said it too
there’s somebody you’re watching right
now and you owe someone an apology you
just couldn’t bring yourself to say it
you’ve got to lay something down at the
feet of someone who you would never want
to lay something down in front of you
have to turn over your pride you have to
turn over your ego there’s a
conversation that needs to be had and
yet those words have stayed trapped on
the inside of you because at the end of
the day it feels like it’s easier for it
to stay inside of you not realizing that
words unspoken wound the soul
words unspoken the words you’re supposed
to say
the words you needed to hear
when you don’t receive them when you
don’t give them it wounds the soul and
ultimately your destiny
because if it just stays within you
it never comes out of you then it
doesn’t unlock what the person on the
other side is supposed to give you
no wonder we walk around this world in
relationships and friendships and we
have half partnerships because no one is
willing to say those hard words no one
is willing to release the words that
have been locked into their soul and yet
without them
we get half versions of who we are
so maybe the process of life
is less about trying to figure out how
we can hustle up on the next big thing
or how we can become the next big thing
and instead figure out how do i get
these words out of me
how do i begin to come to a place where
the words that have been spoken over me
can be extracted from my soul so that i
can believe again how do i position
myself in such a way that i can release
the word that god has given me without
second guessing myself without
comparison without insecurity there’s a
word down on the inside of you if i
could give this title this message
another title i would call it the battle
of words because the truth is that most
of us haven’t fully become because we’re
battling the words that are down on the
inside of us and some of us have
foolishly believed that in time i’ll get
to a place where i can have victory over
that word but the truth is you’re never
going to have victory unless you roll up
your sleeves and begin battling with
that word you gotta battle with that
word that says you’re not gonna be
anything you gotta battle with that word
that says you’re not qualified you gotta
battle with that word that your mother
spoke over you that your father spoke
over you you know why you gotta battle
over that word because before they spoke
anything god spoke you into existence
before they said anything that damaged
your soul god spoke you into existence
before the insecurity happened before
the friendships rejected you god said i
spoke a word i gave you enough word
before i formed you to battle the words
that were going to come your way man i
wish i had about 10 seconds in this
place because i would talk about the
words that we receive and how the words
we receive disarm us but being disarmed
is only temporary somebody is watching
this message and i’m telling you right
now you better be careful because you’re
going to get another word you better be
careful because you may walk away from
this message with something to fight
back against those words that the enemy
planted down in your soul when i get on
this platform it’s not so that you can
tweet about it it’s not so that you can
instagram about it it’s because god has
given me a word to fight those other
words and i feel like god’s been trying
to tell somebody that you can’t fight
this word with positive thinking you
can’t fight that past with friendships
you can’t fight that past with music you
got to get an anointed word down in your
soul that’s how the weapons form but
don’t prosper that’s how any tongue that
rises up against you is condemned
because you start fighting back with
word
god you sent me
god you chose me god you protected me
god you kept me why did you keep me why
did you protect me because i put word
down on the inside of you says god i put
word down on the inside of you and it’s
time for that word to come forth but
sometimes the word that god placed in
you cannot come forth until you get all
of those other words that were spoken
over you out of the way somebody needs
to go to therapy so you can get the
words out of the way i need to get some
help because all i hear is insecurity
all i hear is fear all i hear is anxiety
and i’m ready to hear a stronger word
i’m ready to hear a better word a better
word that puts me into the right rooms a
word that puts me into the right mindset
a word that makes me drop the addiction
a word that makes me drop the fear there
is a word more powerful than any word
that has ever been spoken to you
and until you learn to listen like jesus
you’ll listen like you
and if you listen like you you’ll miss
you
because in order for god to pull you out
he’s got to use his word not yours
he’s got to use his word not your
mother’s word he’s got to use his word
not the heartbreaks word not the grief’s
word you’re so busy listening to you
that you can’t hear god anymore but i
hear god saying sometimes you got to
silence your own mind so you can listen
like jesus i only do what i see my
father in heaven do i’m only operating
in this world as someone who was
connected to something that is greater
than them
what word is down on the inside of you
who put it there
but most importantly
can it
stay can it stay inside of you and you
still manifest god’s god-given identity
over you
can it stay inside of you when you still
produce the book can it stay inside of
you when you still build the family can
it stay inside of you when you still
stay connected in the marriage that word
cannot stay in you and you build at the
same time this isn’t even a part of my
message but i feel like that word that
some circumstance spoke over you that
word that some mistake embedded in your
spirit is going to war with the word of
god that’s down on the inside of you and
if you don’t take anything else from
this message i want you to hear me very
clearly god put a word down on the
inside of you in john it tells us that
but in the beginning that god created
jesus and it started with a word it
gives us insight into how god creates
humanity i speak word and then you come
into existence god what is it that you
spoke about me god why did you speak me
into existence god every time i show up
in this room every time i show up in
this family in this relationship in this
friendship i want to show up as what you
spoke and if i’m showing up is what fear
spoke and i’m showing up as what shame
spoke that i’m missing the mark you want
to talk about sin sin is when you show
up as anything other than who god has
created you to be and if you keep on
shrinking and you keep on backing down
and you keep on allowing that insecurity
to determine who you’re connected to and
what you show on instagram and what you
create and what you produce you my
friend are in sin you are missing the
mark because you are not who god has
called you to be
prophesy if no one listens
sing the song if nobody streams it write
the book if nobody reads it because at
the end of the day i can’t keep missing
the mark from me there is a higher
calling for who i am and if i’m going to
reach for that higher calling i got to
make sure i’m accurate that means
anything that’s pulling me back anything
that’s making me disarm myself from who
i am supposed to be i gotta get it off
of me i hear somebody needs to shake it
off shake it off shake it off shake it
off you’ve been carrying that word too
long it’s time for you to shake it off
you’ve been walking around like that
wounded person for too long it’s time
for you to shake it off shake off that
fear shake off that insecurity there is
a higher calling with your name on it
and you my friend cannot afford to miss
the mark
this is god’s business
this is not about your name
this is not about what they said
it’s not even about who you used to be
this is god’s business
and if you’re going to do god’s business
you got to listen like jesus
when we find jesus in this text
jesus has just received
so many different words
words rejecting him
words questioning his identity words
questioning his position he’s
in a battle of words
i was
struck by this text
because i was researching this idea of
jesus saying that his yoke is easy and
his burden is light
just came to me
one day minding my business and i’m like
why did jesus say that
because he got on the cross and was
crucified
and was put to death
and nothing about that sounds easy nor
light
so why is it that he uses this idea that
his yoke is easy and his burden is light
as an attraction for other people to
follow him knowing that he was headed to
the cross
you see i know some of y’all are like
theologians and y’all don’t question the
bible at all but jesus had to give me
some answers to this
jesus i’m trying to listen like you
i’m trying to follow you i’m trying to
live like you
but if i’m honest i don’t understand why
you would say this knowing that you had
so much torment so much pain in your
future
now realize that jesus doesn’t just say
this because his path is going to be
easy jesus is not promising that your
path is going to be easy jesus is not
promising that life will not touch you
jesus is not promising that you will not
experience rejection that you will not
experience turmoil but he’s saying in
the midst of it all he’s figured out a
way to make the yoke easy and the burden
light
he had my intention with that
say more
when i began studying
i realized that this has less to do
about the path being easy
and more to do with him having a rested
spirit
you see so many of us
are worried that our spirit is so
fragile
that it can’t endure any heartbreak it
can endure any rejection and so we treat
ourselves
as if we need to be wrapped in bubble
wrap in order to make it through life
now i want to be sensitive to the fact
that for some of us we have this bubble
wrap around our existence this bubble
wrap around our hope because we’ve
already experienced so much pain
god i don’t want to take
another loss
i don’t want to experience another grief
i don’t want to feel like i’m down to
nothing again and so me walking around
in bubble wrap is actually me protecting
myself and yet
if we’re going to live like jesus and
listen like jesus we can’t treat
ourselves like we’re not resilient
jesus was brave
jesus was courageous
genus jesus lived a vulnerable life
his whole life was open to vulnerability
open to skepticism open to criticism
open to rejection i want to be like
jesus jesus walked around from city to
city and those who got it got it and
those who didn’t did it and then he
moved to the next city he didn’t even
stay there allowing to see how many
likes he got on his post he didn’t stay
there to see how many views he got on
his post because he was so focused on
why he was there that he could move to
the next city i want to be like jesus i
want to know that even on my down days
that i’m still called i want to know
that even when i don’t perform well that
there’s still a place for me i want to
show up in strength i want to show up in
confidence but i keep showing up as me
and jesus is saying that if i yoke
myself to him that it doesn’t mean that
i won’t experience those things it just
means that my spirit will be so rested
jesus had a rested spirit he knew who he
was he knew why he was and he knew what
he needed to get done he knew who he was
he knew why he was and he knew what he
needed to get done i’m going to say that
again he knew who he was
he knew his identity as a child of god
oh i got chills just thinking about that
who would you be
if you really rested in your identity as
a child of god i know your parents
failed you i know that they dropped the
ball a few times but what if even though
they couldn’t show up the way that you
needed them to show up the god says i
can still be your parent i can still
lead you i can still raise you from here
somebody’s an adult child and god says i
can still raise you that even oh guys i
don’t know who you are but i’ve got a
prophetic word for you your parents took
you as far as they could take you they
can’t take you any further than where
you are right now and i hear you saying
to yourself that you’re worried that you
won’t move past this point because you
don’t have anyone else to raise you from
here and i hear guys saying that i’ve
already orchestrated mentors i’ve
already sent people who are going to
raise you up because before you were
their child you were my child before
they ever held you you were held in my
arms that i sent angels to wrap around
you that would lead you and guide you
and protect you because i was going to
raise you i know your daddy died but i
can still raise you i know your mother
left you but i can still raise you i
hear god saying i can get you from here
you don’t have to feel like an orphan
you my friend are not an orphan
you my friend are not in it by yourself
you my friend have heaven backing you up
if you can come to a place where you can
listen like jesus you’ll hear angels
backing you up if you can come to a
place where you listen like jesus you’ll
hear the holy spirit backing you up you
won’t get into a room and wonder what
you’re going to say you won’t get into a
relationship and wonder whether or not
you’ll make it you won’t start raising
those children and run out of words
because the holy spirit is going to back
you up i feel like if i had 10 people in
this place that we would have a 30
second shout break because there is
nothing like knowing that heaven is
backing you up you walk differently when
heaven backs you up you write
differently when heaven is backing you
up you preach differently when heaven is
backing you up because you realize i am
not up here by myself i am not in this
city on my own i am not in this
relationship by myself heaven is backing
me up and because heaven is backing me
up it’s not that i can do no wrong it
just means wrong still turns out right
it doesn’t mean that i’m going to get
everything right it just means that all
things are going to work together and
you’re going to look up and heaven’s
going to say it was all good how could
god take something that felt so terrible
take something that felt so dark and
turn it for good
because when you yoke up with jesus
when you yoke up with god it’s easy
it’s nothing to a boss this is slight
work for your god god says i can do the
impossible i can open up doors that have
never been opened before i can show you
how to do something you’ve never seen
before how are you going to do it god
god says just get yoked up with me just
get tied up with me i’m going to show
you how to show up in this position i’m
going to teach you how to stand in that
anointing god says just yoke up with me
yoke up with me unyoke from your fears
unyoke from your uncertainty and yoke up
with jesus i feel like god’s given
somebody strategy even right now that
god’s given somebody creativity right
now you think that you have been yoked
up with jesus but jesus has been yoked
up with a version of you that feels less
than who you truly are i hear god saying
if you would step all the way into this
call then i could open up the floodgates
of heaven and i can give you everything
you’re going to need for this season of
your life that you’re afraid that you’re
going to run out and i hear god saying
you could never run out if you stay
yoked up with me
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jesus
says in the middle of this moment
where he’s reading people for filth he’s
reading these cities for filth
he says
in verse 25 it begins it says at that
time jesus answered
that word answered stood out in my mind
because nobody called jesus
if you read all of
matthew 11
it says at that time jesus answered but
no one calls jesus name
the text right before it is all read
the only difference between the text
before it and the text in which we enter
is that he was talking to
them but all of it suddenly says jesus
answered
and he began speaking to the heavenly
father
he shifted his direction
i’m no longer listening to them
i’m listening to him
jesus answered because sometimes god
will interrupt you
in the middle of rebuking
so that you can get refocused
jesus was rebuking this city
and he was rebuking them because they
rejected him let’s talk about that for a
minute
jesus knows that their rejection doesn’t
have to stay with him
to rebuke literally means to send back
and he could have just allowed what they
said to stick
and sometimes we take what people say
and we allow it to stick
but before jesus moves on with his life
he’s got to make sure that he sends back
the words that were not meant to stick
with him he rebukes that rejection he
rebukes their ignorance he rebukes it
that means he sends it back to where it
came from somebody’s got word down on
the inside of them and you’ve just been
walking around with that word but i hear
god saying that it’s not too late for
you to rebuke the word you received
decades ago it’s not too late for you to
rebuke the word that you received 10
minutes ago somebody needs to send some
word back because you’ve been walking
around with that word and that word has
become a part of your identity but you
gotta rebuke rejection i’m not talking
about correction i’m not talking about
stretching i’m not talking about growing
i’m talking about when someone rebukes
your identity when somebody says you are
not who god says you can be when
somebody says that is impossible for
somebody like you when somebody says
you’ll never be restored you’ll always
be bitter and that’s this way the cookie
crumbles for people like us you got to
rebuke that or else it’ll get in your
spirit and if it’s in your spirit it’ll
unsettle you and you got to be settled
for this life ahead of you you got to be
settled for this mission and you got to
send it back because it didn’t come from
heaven jesus takes his time and jesus
don’t have a lot of time to take but
jesus takes his time in this moment to
rebuke the word that came his way
you want to listen like jesus you got to
start rebuking some of that word you
received you want to listen like jesus
you got to know the difference between
rejection and correction your parents
may have called it correction but your
spirit received it as rejection you got
to rebuke that rejection and send it
back they may have said it was
impossible because of their own trauma
but you got to rebuke it and send it
back because it’s become a part of your
identity don’t allow someone’s
correction to become rejection in your
spirit and change the way you show up in
the world
you were correcting me but you actually
rejected me
you shut me down
you kept me from dreaming you kept me
from believing you kept me from growing
you started making me feel like i was
going to be limited and restricted you
may have meant well but you ended up
shutting me down but that’s all right
because i got a rebuke for that that’s
all right because i got a word for that
and that word is that nothing is
impossible if i’m linked up with the
right one that word is the greater is he
that is in me than he greater is he that
is in me than he that is in the world
and sometimes you got to remember that
greater is the x factor that greater
makes up the difference they didn’t know
that you had greater down on the inside
of you man i feel like preaching in this
place when they spoke those words over
you they thought that they were just
speaking to you they didn’t know that
you were going to mess around and have
an encounter with god and once you had
that encounter with god the greater that
was in you was going to be the x factor
it was going to push you over the edge
it was going to push you into overflow
it was going to take you from the realm
of impossible into possible god says i’m
going to stretch you by the greater that
i put down in you
jesus
rebukes it
because it can’t stay
i rebuke it in the name of jesus
i rebuke suicidal thoughts in the name
of jesus i rebuke depression in the name
of jesus i rebuke divorce in the name of
jesus i rebuke bitterness in the name of
jesus i rebuke anger in the name of
jesus i rebuke abandonment in the name
of jesus i rebuke it over your household
i rebuke it over my household i rebuke
it over my future i rebuke it over my
destiny you cannot stay here there is a
greater word at work and i gotta make
room for the greater word to grow i
gotta make room for the greater word to
manifest so you got to get out of my way
hell you gotta move out of my way satan
there is a greater word that’s getting
ready to blossom down on the inside of
you who are you and what is that greater
word i hear god saying i’m going to put
some weight on you i’m going to put some
strategy on you i’m going to put some
oil in your direction and are you ready
for the oil
are you ready for the oil
are you ready for the breakthrough are
you ready for the promise are you ready
to break that way of thinking are you
ready to change your mind about
everything you’ve ever known are you
ready to get yolked up for real
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this moment
in the text
when jesus shifts his focus
he’s listening to something that no one
can hear but him
the author makes it clear
that he is responding
to something that no one can hear but
him
a whisper
sometimes god
speaks to us and
whispers
did you hear that did you hear that
did you hear that god
i hear god telling me to move god did
you it’s a whisper it’s a whisper
it’s a whisper but it’s still god it’s a
whisper it’s a stall a small still voice
but it’s still god there’s a whisper
there’s a whisper i’m gonna make it
there’s a whisper there’s a whisper your
life has value there’s a whisper there’s
a whisper you’re stronger than you think
you are there’s a whisper there’s a
whisper you can still raise these
children there’s a whisper there’s a
whisper somebody’s made it this far
because they kept following the whisper
somebody’s in this room right now
because they followed the whisper
there’s a whisper that’s where you’re
supposed to be that’s who you’re
supposed to be linked up to it’s a
whisper it’s a whisper it’s whisper if
you’re listening for a big booming voice
you may miss god but if you start
searching for the whisper the whisper
the whisper fear is loud anxiety is loud
but god speaks in whispers whispers
whispers
i’m trying to hear god
i’m trying to see god
shh
i can’t afford to miss shh
i want to make sure that i’m ordered the
i’m doing these steps the way that they
have been ordered shh
you’re commanding me shh you’re calling
me sh you’re growing me you’re
stretching me it’s a whisper it keeps
happening and whispers it keeps
happening there’s a whisper telling me i
need to do this there’s a whisper
telling me i need to create this there’s
a whisper telling me you’re the one and
i’m doing it afraid but i’m still
listening to the whisper because the
whisper hasn’t failed me yet the holy
spirit is whispering and whispering and
whispering to somebody who are you
the holy spirit
god
heavenly father whispers to jesus
and suddenly in that moment
it is no longer about the rejection
nor is it about the rebuking
in this moment in the moment of the
whisper
it is about the reconnecting
can i show you in my text
it says
i thank you
father lord of heaven and earth that you
have hidden these things all of a sudden
when he responds to the whisper
he’s reconnected
my attention has shifted
i’m now focused on the whisper
and what he hears his response tells us
everything about what god downloads in
his spirit
first of all he says i thank you father
father i remembered in this moment
that i wasn’t just a man on a mission
that i wasn’t just someone who needed to
defend themselves and rebuke those who
were rising up against them but i am a
child of god
that there is something bigger than me
you can be the biggest person in the
room
you can have the most responsibility you
can be the head of the household but
when heaven looks down on you you are
still just a child
and in that moment jesus becomes like a
child again in the presence of his
father he says i thank you father
lord of heaven and earth
that you know exactly who needs me
and you know exactly who wouldn’t
receive me
none of this came by surprise to you
that means that god must have told him
in this moment
that he’s hidden these things from the
wise and prudent and have revealed them
to babes
when jesus answers god this is what he
says thank you god
that those who were for me know how to
receive me
and those who were not who don’t know
how to receive me are not called to me
in this moment by listening to god
he’s able to categorize the people in
his surroundings properly
that’s what happens when we reconnect
with god
now all of a sudden we’re no longer on
the defensive
now i can move to a to a place where i
can be on the offense i can score points
i can gain territory because i’m not
chasing after those who rebukes me any
longer he teaches him how to let it go
just let it go
those who are for me are for me
those who are against me are against me
and when it’s all said and done you’ll
sort it all out
so now he is re-centered he’s
reconnected he’s re-centered he’s
refocused
and the text says
that he comes to a place where he
realizes
all things have been delivered to me by
my father i love this
all things have been delivered to me by
my father and no one knows the son
except the father so now i know what to
do about them and everybody has it them
people who are doubting people who are
rejecting not challenging not correcting
but trying to read you for filth and
change your whole existence everyone has
it then
but he’s able to categorize them
properly
and then he’s able to come to this place
where he realizes that maybe it’s
possible i placed an unhealthy demand on
them in the first place
because verse 27 says all things have
been delivered to me by my father and no
one knows the son except the father nor
does anyone know the father except the
son and the one to whom the son wills to
reveal him what does this mean
that at the end of the day maybe i put
too much pressure on them to validate me
anyway
because everything i need for this
moment has already been delivered to me
by my father
you know i had to greek this word
when i greek this word i looked
and realized that the word delivered
actually means locked up
that blessed my soul
i was literally driving here and i said
let me look up this word
that word delivered means locked up so
let’s read it again
all things have been locked up
to me by my father locked up for me by
my father and no one knows the son
except the father that means in this
moment though they were trying to rob me
of my identity in this moment though
they were trying to strip me of my
divinity though they were trying to take
away all of the credit all of the work
that i have done that at the end of that
day they couldn’t touch it because it’s
been locked up that was a word for me
because i thought about all of the times
in my life where the enemy came to kill
steal and destroy and it looked like he
was being successful and i couldn’t even
rebuke because i was all out of strength
and i thought that the enemy had had the
final say i wish that i would have had
the revelation that jesus had in this
text but i’ve got that revelation now
and that revelation is that when god
locks something up for you it doesn’t
matter what happens to you in life that
when god locks it up no threat no enemy
no mistake no judgment can come up
against what god has locked up i need
someone to understand that your joy is
not gone it’s locked up i need someone
to understand that your creativity is
not gone it is locked up that your
anointing is not gone it’s locked up
what does that mean it’s locked up it
means that god saw the threat coming and
he took what was going to be most
valuable and he put it away so that when
you got finished going through the
twists and turns of life that you would
still have something to pull from i hear
god saying that you are anointed i hear
god saying that you are appointed i hear
god saying that it’s still down on the
inside of you but i locked it up so now
life is trying to squeeze out what i
locked up life is trying to pull out
what i locked up but i hear god saying
the only thing that can unlock it is if
you yoke up with jesus and if you yoke
up with jesus i’ll show you how to
unlock everything i put in you you want
confidence i hear god saying it’s locked
up you want wholeness i hear god saying
it’s locked up and you need to thank god
that it’s locked up because had it not
been locked up you would have wasted it
in circumstances and relationships and
situations that threatened to take away
it for to take it away for good but
because god and his infinite wisdom new
to lock it up is still on reserve for
you it’s still on reserve i hear god
saying
i still got it on reserve for you
i kept it with you in mind
it’s locked up it’s not gone
it’s locked up until you become
the person who yokes up with god
and goes to unlock
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everything that the devil thought he
stole from you
everything that the divorce thought it
stole from you everything that the death
thought it stole from you everything
that the disease thought it stole from
you i hear god saying it’s not stolen i
locked it up i put it in a safe and
nobody knows the code but me and nobody
knows where it is but me but i hear god
saying that if you yoke up with me i
want to take you back to that place of
restoration i want to take you back to
that place of breakthrough i want to
take you back to that place of innocence
to that place of joy to that place of
laughter it is not gone bitterness is
not the final say anger is not the final
say i hear god saying i locked it up
because i knew you would have this
moment
where you would want access again
to a version of you you thought was lost
remember when i was on fire
remember when i was excited
remember when i still had passion
remember when i woke up excited for what
the day was going to bring god i want
access back to that and i hear god
saying this is the moment
in which i activate the safe
and show you how to get what i locked up
it’s not gone for good
no wonder then jesus says
to take my yoke upon you
for my yoke is easy
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and my burden is light
because in this moment jesus reminds us
that when he connects with god when he
listens
to god
that it silences the rejection it
silences the wounds and the
disappointment
that came from other people
it reminds him that he has lost nothing
that even the things that could have
been lost were actually locked up
and then
it brings his spirit to a place of rest
when your spirit is hungry
when your spirit is empty
it’s like a scavenger
searching for anything
feed me
love me
validate me
my family couldn’t do it can you do it
the job didn’t do it can you do it the
check didn’t do it can you do it the
drugs aren’t doing it can you doing it
my spirit is hungry
jesus offers something that this world
could never provide
a rested spirit
a certainty a confidence and knowing
that i can survive this
that this can still turn out for good
that i can still release the fullness of
my divinity regardless of those who
cannot receive it
a rested spirit is everything
because a rested spirit changes the way
you show up in life
god i don’t want to have to fight this
cancer
but from a rested spirit maybe i could
win somebody in the cancer ward
i don’t want to fight for this child
but with the rested spirit maybe i’ll be
the only glimpse of god that this child
sees
i’m not anxious for anything
when i’m yoked to god
i’m resting in the promises that i don’t
have to push this career myself i don’t
have to push this ministry by myself
arrested spirit says those who are for
me are for me
those who will help me build will be
attracted to me
god’s going to teach me how to lead
god’s going to teach me how to love
because god’s going to teach me how to
pray a rested spirit isn’t waiting to
lose something
because it trusts i have everything that
i need
you’re watching this and
maybe you’re thinking to yourself
i want to experience what it’s like to
be yoked with jesus
i have to tell you i’ve heard this
scripture
basically my whole life right i’m a
church girl
for those of you who are unfamiliar
though this idea of the yolk the two
cattles being tied together usually they
were tied together to carry something
and in order for them to be tied
together there was like this piece of
wood that they would put around one
cattle’s neck and then another piece
connected around the other cattle’s neck
and it had to be equal they had to be
the same weight they had to be the same
height so that the balance would be
weighed equally across the both of them
so we talk about being yoked to jesus
when we talk about being yoked to god
it seems like an oxymoron
because i know i will never be like
jesus
jesus is unequally yoked if he’s tied to
me
i can’t carry my own way
i can’t change my own mind
i can’t heal myself i can’t bring myself
breakthrough and i want to be equally
yoked with jesus but i’m telling you
right now this is an unfair bet for
jesus
and yet jesus knowing who i am
knowing my fear knowing my inadequacy
knowing my sin knowing my weakness and
my limitation jesus still chooses to be
yoked to me
why
why jesus
i’m doing the best i can but lord knows
i’m a mess up again
jesus says because you’re going to take
on my yoke
when you take on the yoke of jesus
he makes up the difference for where you
are inadequate
there are areas in your life
right now when they’re suffering
they’re off balance
you’re wondering to yourself
is this how it’s always going to be
if you’ve heard anything in this message
then hopefully
you’ve learned to start listening like
jesus
because this is not all it will ever be
this is not the end
jesus says if you come unto me
those who are weary
and heavy-laden
i want to give your spirit rest
i want to pray with you
of you who feel stressed
overwhelmed overworked
and adequate
just
unequally yoked for the life you’ve been
called to live
i want to invite you into a moment where
you can listen like jesus
because i believe that heaven has
something that’s been whispering to you
i want you to put your hand on your
chest
because when a word comes into our
spirit
i want you to guard it with your hands
like your hands are going to keep that
word in you
holy spirit you have met us here
father
we need you
we need your word we need your
leadership we need your guidance
we want to be more like jesus we want to
be what you had in mind when you formed
us in our mother’s womb we want to
embody the word that you spoke over us
but right now we often feel very small
smaller than that word
but as we were listening we received
a revelation
that makes us want to listen in a fresh
new way
holy spirit
you are welcome to hear
hearing my soul hearing my spirit
where fear has taken up residency i
invite your holy spirit
to move in and take up space
holy spirit in the place where
i’m stressed and overwhelmed i invite
your spirit to come and settle me
certainly i am weary certainly i am
unsure but if i could get yoked up with
you then the whispers will lead me to
perfect truth
god i thank you for every person who has
received this word
who has made the decision to guard this
word with their soul
god i pray that this word would take
root in their lives
and as it begins to take root that it
would change the way that they listen
father i speak a special anointing over
their ears
god may you put a filter over their ears
that they may rightly divide where the
words are coming from
if it’s coming from someone’s fear
someone’s anger someone’s wearing this
god may they hear it for what it is and
not receive it into their spirit and god
if it comes from you
god if that word comes from you allow it
to invade every excuse allow it to kick
down every obstacle allow it to break
down every insecurity and every fear and
allow it to take up space may your
kingdom be established because they
listened like jesus first in their
spirit and then to their hands and may
we build something that is a monument
for your glory heavenly father have your
way is only you can do
and god for those who are watching and
they don’t know jesus
they’ve heard of them
they grew up in church but they’ve never
had an intimate relationship with jesus
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god i just pray that you would allow
them an introduction
an introduction to jesus that makes them
hungry for more
an introduction for g to jesus that
doesn’t answer all of the questions they
have and the mysteries they wonder about
the bible and theology none of that
religious stuff god but a relationship
they feel the yoke of jesus being easy
and his burden being light
thank you god that you’re meeting them
right now
and that you’re introducing them to
jesus
seal this word as only you can do
in jesus name i pray
amen family if you receive that prayer
of salvation can you type a man in the
comments if you’re stealing this word if
you’re saying listen my ears receive
that word can your ear say amen i want
your ears to say amen i don’t even know
if that’s possible but surely on the
internet all things are possible i want
your ears to say amen family i love you
so much and we are on this journey
together i too am learning to listen
like jesus not to listen like a wife not
to listen like a mother not to listen
like a ceo not to listen like a daughter
i want to listen like jesus so that all
i hear is god and when i hear god it
shows up in the way that i show up in
the world and i want to invite you to do
the same