“There is More” – Stephanie Ike

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go straight into the word and we’re

gonna pray I’m gonna be reading from a

familiar scripture it’s in John 9 verse

1 to 7 and then we’ll jump to verse 32

and it starts and it says now as Jesus

passed by he saw a man who was blind

from birth and his disciples asked him

saying rabbi who sinned this man or his

parents that he was born blind jesus

answered neither this man nor his

parents sinned but that the works of God

should be revealed in him I must work

the works of him who sent me while it is

day the night is coming when no one can

work as long as I am in the world I am

the light of the world when he had set

these things he spat on the ground and

made clay with the saliva and he

anointed the eyes of the blind mine with

clay and he said to him go wash in the

pool called Siloam which is translated

sent so he went and washed and came back

seeing now we’ll jump to verse 32 and it

says since the world began it has been

unheard of that anyone opened the eyes

of one who was born blind Heavenly

Father we thank you for your word today

we thank you Lord God that you will

speak to each and every listener in a

manner Lord that it speaks right to

their heart right to where they are and

right to where you’re taking them – lord

I thank you that every barrier is broken

right now Lord we thank you that you

would have your way in this house and in

and through the lives of each and

everyone with a listening ear Lord I

submit myself to you it would be you

they hear

in Jesus name Amen family you maybe see

that even as you’re sitting down the

title of my message if you’re taking

notes is there is more just a man I’m at

the right room I’m in the right room

with all this excitement just turn to

the person next you get comfortable and

say there is more I love it he sees

family it’s beautiful because there is

more that God wants to do there is

always more rather the God wants to do

in and through you there is more that

God wants to do on the earth there is

more of his glory that needs to be

revealed there is more of his power that

the world has not yet seen there is more

of who he is that we are yet to discover

and we’re gonna look at this through

this word you see what I love about this

scripture is the language of the text as

it begins it says that as Jesus was

passing by he saw a man who was born

blind and that really struck me because

before this text there’s a passage in

John chapter 4 when it talks about when

Jesus encountered a woman in the city of

Samaria and if you ever read that text

it talks about how when the disciples

spoke about Jesus they said he must go

through Samaria that you would

understand that Jesus understood that he

had an appointment there and so when I

read this I said you know it is

interesting because there are times that

God has an appointment with us and there

are times that we have to set an

appointment with God because when Jesus

was walking he was going on a journey he

did not have an intention to meet this

blind man he was walking he was just

passing by and then he sees a man who

was born blind and it struck me family

because this particular man who was born

blind when they’re having a conversation

and a dialogue about him Jesus said no

it’s not that anyone’s sin is that the

glory of God are the works of God to be

revealed in his life and I wondered

if the works of God to be revealed in

the life of this blind man wouldn’t

there be some intentionality shouldn’t

Jesus be aware shouldn’t he have set an

appointment with this man but the man

was the one in position you see family

there are some things that it’s not

about what God is trying to seasons and

times in your life that God has

appointed but there are some things God

is waiting on your will to fall in

alignment because this man was born

blind blindness was all he ever knew and

so although his blindness was a

disability it was also his comfort and

the story as we’re reading it we’re

reading about a man born blind but we

all live in a realm of blindness because

they’re summing this room as I started

to say God show me the people I’m

speaking to they’re some in this room

that maybe you were born into a home and

in that home it it caused your mindset

to be blind about your reality then

maybe you were born into a home of abuse

you were born into a mindset of

rejection you were born into a mindset

of insecurities you were born into a

mindset of I’m never good enough and the

crazy thing is that that disability

becomes your comfort because to the

blind man he had learned how to live

life blind he wasn’t born seen and then

his eyesight was taken he had learned

how to function as a blind man and the

crazy thing about when we make a

disability comfort is that comfort is a

little tricky because when you seek it

you can recreate it you see if we or if

you know someone invites me and says you

know Stephanie let’s go camping we will

both be out there in the wilderness but

we’re gonna have two different

experiences

because while you’re out there in a tent

I need an RV because campaign and me we

don’t go together okay so if I know that

I will go camping with you but I would

bring the things that make me

comfortable out in the wild here and in

the same way family what is crazy is

that when we are so used to rejection so

abuse to not feeling worthy we recreated

where it doesn’t exist we find ourselves

in situation some of some in this house

and some listen you’re holding

resentments against people that you felt

rejected you but that was not their

truth but you recreated a mindset

whether it did not exist because if

although you didn’t realize what you’re

doing you’re living in your comfort that

is also your disability if you were

accustomed to always knowing how to

point the finger to blame somebody else

subconsciously you will find yourself

putting yourself in positions that limit

who you truly are just so you can point

the finger and say it’s their fault I’m

not doing what I’m supposed to be doing

because if you think about it if you are

in a position that you complain more

than you’re grateful for

sometimes it could be a change of

perspective but sometimes is that you

have put yourself in a position that you

know limits you but it’s to continue

what is comfortable to you which is

still your disability many of us live in

this realm of blindness and I studied I

said God if you’re gonna this man if

he’s supposed to be blind from birth so

that the works of God can be revealed

through him what does that mean for us

you see there’s a scripture in the book

of Ephesians and it talks about that we

are God’s workmanship we are the works

of God and there comes a point where we

have to desire that there is more to my

life than what I’ve always known

and when we come to that place to say

Lord everything I’ve known I’m willing

to let it go for who you say I am then

the works of God begins to be revealed

because the works of God is who he

created you to be in reality and in

truth but to each and every one of us we

have a blindness to who we truly are and

we have to go through this journey of

coming to this place that says I know

that all my life this has been my

experience all my life I have worked

this one gift all my life have been

accustomed to this one thing but it

comes a place where you start feeling

like you’re not settled in that thing

that you felt all your life you are

preparing yourself for because God

starts speaking to your heart and he

says there is more but God will never

force himself on you and that is why in

the scripture it was not about God’s

appointment with men but was about man’s

appointment with God that when you come

to the place where you say God I am

willing to walk away from everything

I’ve known for the Lord that is

accessible in you because you see family

for every new blessing there is a

beginning and that beginning makes you a

child because when the blind man begins

to see it’s different all along he

learns how to navigate through life

through the memory of touch but when he

begins to see he has to navigate through

the memory of visuals and that is not an

easy thing actually it’s very

challenging for them and so he is

letting go of everything he’s ever known

to live as a child and until we get to

that point that says god I’m willing to

tap into the more connected to my life

at the cost of a change in my income at

the cost of a change in my relationships

and the cost of a change in my speech at

the cost of a change in my city I want

to know who you say

because in the same way that this blind

man has to readjust when he begins to

see to a new level of life in a new

level of experience is the same thing

with us because when God brings us to

this place of Moore we have to let go of

the memory of our experience of the

memory of God’s Word because you see

this blind man what is fascinating is

that he comes in the presence of Jesus

he’s touched by Jesus and that’s not

where his miracle came from and there’s

so many accounts in the Bible of people

that Jesus touched and instantly they

were healed there are accounts of people

that touch Jesus I mean the lady there’s

a lady of the story that you know those

this woman 12 years she had a bleeding

problem

she didn’t even touch his body she

touched His garment and she was healed

but this blind man he he is in the

presence of Jesus he is touched by him

and that’s not where his miracle came

from his miracle came from obedience to

an instruction you see there are times

in our lives family that in the place of

prayer and fasting and consecration that

miracles can happen it’s true there are

stories in the Bible just like a man

named Peter when he was in prison and

that Bible talks about how the church

was praying for him and as a result of

their prayers and angel was sent by the

Lord to open the prison gates but

there’s another time in scripture where

a woman named Esther and her people the

lives of a nation was in her hands and

she had the people praying and fasting

but the miracle did not come and angel

did not come because she was praying and

fasting to solve the problem in the

place of prayer and fasting God gave her

strategy and God gave her wisdom and so

family what the Lord said that speaking

to me is that in the place of your

prayer and fasting that he is giving you

a word and your obedience to that word

is what begins to birth the supernatural

because there’s things that God is

calling you to that you have never

stepped into before you see the

scripture when we read verse 32 it says

that never has it been heard that a man

opened the eyes of one born blind we

always talk about you know what God I

want to be a recipient of the never been

seen never been heard but in order for

us to qualify for that we also have to

say God I’m willing to take a new form

that if I’m gonna be a recipient of what

has never happened if I want to be a

recipient of your power on the earth of

what the earth has never seen then I’m

willing to take a new form I’m willing

to be clay in your hands I’m willing to

be a child again you see this blind man

is such a fascinating story because he

is in the presence of the Lord and what

he receives is a word and there are

words that God has been putting in your

hearts there are things that in his

presence even right here in this house

as you listen to this word there are

things that the Holy Spirit is gonna

bring to your memory and the Holy Spirit

is gonna charge you to do but it’s up to

you to be obedient you see that in that

the important thing that happens in this

scripture is even what Jesus instructs

him to do Jesus tells them go and wash

in the pool called Siloam

but when he says it the blind man knew

exactly where to go it was not that the

blind man said to the disciples you know

can you guys leave me there I’ve never

heard of that place before he knew

exactly where it was and it seemed as

though it wasn’t an unfamiliar place for

people to be you know taking a shower or

isn’t or so you know I don’t know about

the hygiene of the pool but that’s

what’s happening back in the day but the

thin family is that the instruction was

common

it wasn’t something supernatural that

you know will go to this city and wait

five minutes then the clouds will open

and the pool will be created then step

in wiggle a little bit you know it was a

very common instruction and you see we

have to recognize that sometimes we

cannot overlook what sounds like an

ordinary instruction because when it is

Jesus that is speaking it changes the

nature of the outcome because when we

decide to do things on our own

the outcome is our responsibility but

when God gives you a word the outcome is

his responsibility and so we have to

learn that the instruction may sound

ordinary it may sound ordinary when God

tells you to write that book it may

sound ordinary when God tells you to

write the song it may sound older when

God says to start the business because

everybody else starts a business but

when the word comes from God then he is

responsible for the outcome in your life

and you have to stop looking at what

sounds ordinary to make ordinary results

Jesus gave this man an ordinary

instruction but because it came from him

the outcome was his responsibility you

cannot look at the things and

instructions God has given you go to

that audition

it sounds ordinary but when God is the

one speaking to you then it’s not about

you trying to create an outcome or

manipulate the system God is saying that

if I said it I will back it up

and so the more of this blind man him

stoppin into the more of who God calls

him to be it came in him obeying the

instructions of what sounded ordinary

you see family for some of you you’ve

been in this place and you’ve been

struggling about God what’s next for my

life and God says next is more and what

that may mean and what that may mean to

some in this house is that more would

look like what you have never done

before that you may have been accustomed

to you know what I just want to make

some beats and God says what I have

given you a voice and even though I’m

calling you as a producer but I’m also

calling you as a singer that is for

somebody there are people in this house

and you are so used to the lane that you

have been on and God is saying that I

know that you’re used to this lame but

I’m calling you into something else

because the blind man has been used to

blindness but God says but there is an

appointment for you to see but I need

you to be willing to agree with what I

already have for you you cannot limit

yourself to the labels that you have

been accustomed to and you cannot limit

yourself to the titles that you know

because your truth exists not in your

knowledge but it exists in God and in

this service in your heart the Holy

Spirit is holding a mirror and he’s

speaking to you about things that you

felt like God I have never done this

before and he says don’t worry about

that let me hold your hand in this

process are we willing to be a child

again are we willing to learn things

like for the very first time because

sometimes your knowledge is your

disability

because even though it’s been positive

everyone has supported and encouraged

this one thing in your life and God says

but there is still more that I’m doing

with your life and so your knowledge of

yourself has actually been the thing

that is working against you and so we

have to come to a place and we say God

the reason I don’t feel settled is

because there’s something else that is

tugging on my heart and to answer the

question of what is that tug that tug is

God saying there is more I want to do

with you on the earth

I want to reveal my glory the way that I

reveal what I has not seen and ear has

not heard is when we both come in

partnership to do what we have not seen

and we have not heard but God has put it

in our spirit and so family that is the

word God brought me to tell you that we

can be in this place of battling with

God but I’ve never done this before but

God this just sounds like an ordinary

thing the reason why some of you have

been delaying is because you’re looking

at it like what everybody else does this

everybody else has is in fashion

everybody else is in business everybody

else is in music everybody else is

trying to go back and get their masters

everybody else has done this God why is

this the thing on my heart and God says

when I’m the one giving you the

instruction I am responsible for the

outcome family stand with me

thank you lord thank you lord thank you

Jesus thank you Jesus thank you Jesus

Heavenly Father have your way

family for a moment I just want you to

close your eyes because this is the part

where the holy sprit is gonna take over

in your hearts because there are

questions that you have been asking

yourself and there are talents that you

have never shared with anyone else and

God is saying I’m calling that they now

have your way God have your way God

you see there’s some in this room and

for so long you’ve struggled with

worthiness and what you’ve not

recognized is that because it felt like

it was all Union people looking down on

you people bypassing you that was your

interpretation of your experience and

without recognizing you keep putting

yourself in positions where people you

are allowing people to do that to you

and then you you you come out of it and

you’re like but why is this person

treating me like this

but in reality you are allowing them to

treat you like that and what you’re not

recognizing is that that your disability

became the comp your place of comfort

that the reason you don’t speak up that

the reason you’re giving your body to

people that are telling you I want

nothing more from you and yet your

translation is that one day they will

get it

it’s because your comfort is also your

disability and the Lord is saying it

doesn’t have to continue like that

because the truth is that you desire

more you’re like God I want to know

trust I want to know love I want to know

truth I want to know honesty I want to

know loyalty I want to know these things

but God says then you have to call a

disability a disability you cannot you

cannot keep functioning in your in the

pattern that you’re used to while you’re

asking for more you have to be in

position this blind man was in position

because if he was not where he was when

Jesus saw him Jesus would have kept

passing on by and Sabine position means

when everything about you isn’t a

that your thoughts and agreement with

your actions your desires are in

agreement with your actions that you’re

not saying one thing and doing another

and family it’s supposed to be

challenging don’t don’t don’t

embrace the lie that because God is

doing a new thing is supposed to come

with ease no it’s supposed to be

challenging because if you ever study

when a blind man is able to see it is

very difficult for him I’ll do it’s a

blessing because he gets to see colors

and he’s like oh my gosh I’ve never seen

this before oh this is the person I’ve

been speaking to but it’s difficult

because his memory of everything about

you and everything about the city was

through touch and so he can be in a city

he’s always been and feel lost so it’s

not that it’s gonna be easy for you to

walk into the more it’s going to be

challenging and that is why we have to

come before God and say God I want to be

a child again and a child is humble

enough to say I don’t know my left from

my right that God I’m in a new position

and I don’t know how to walk about this

thing but I’m looking to you that you

can lead me in a new territory whatever

has been in a place where you feel

unsettled this is not the space or the

time but you’re like oh that sounds good

no but that will be my testimony because

in this space the Holy Spirit is here to

empower you to make the decisions that

would reveal the works of God in your

life we are all living in a realm of

blindness and when we recognize that

that God and may see physically but I’m

blind to the reality of who I really am

when we acknowledge that God I am blind

to that I am like the blind man but God

I want to see I want to see what you see

about me I want to know what you know

about me I don’t want to just live in

one dimension of my identity I want all

the layers of my life to be unveiled on

the earth while I have breath in me and

so family as the Holy Spirit ministers

to your heart if you know I’m talking to

you and you know that that is the prayer

of your heart that God I want to tap

into the more for my life I want you to

meet me at this altar thank you Jesus

thank you Jesus thank you Jesus

Heavenly Father have your way have your

way have you away oh god there’s someone

in this house I’m not gonna put you on

the spot but you might be on the spot in

your room and you want to sing you want

to sing you want to think you want to

sing again and that is the thing that

you’ve been battling when the Lord says

release your voice even now release your

voice now stop holding it in release

your voice you can have your eyes closed

you can be bended knee you can stand you

can do whatever but the Lord says I want

to hear what I put in you you want to

sing and I just want us for a moment

because what you’re gonna do is actually

what God is doing in our hearts and I

just want everyone

a moment just to be still you want to

sing and God says I want to hear it I

want to hear it

family just join in the worship just

join in worship on cigar what just

happened in this house it’s even bigger

than what I could ever explain because

as you released what God said I put it

in you and I wanted out your sound broke

down everything that was limiting other

people in this house and the Lord said

in that same way because right now he

used you as an instrument of his glory

it sounded like an orchestra in this

house and the Lord is telling me that in

the same way that you released your

sound fears and though you said I don’t

care how this sounds we could all be

singing a different song but the Lord

hears the worship of our hearts and he

says it the same way that you released

your sound that he will put you on

platforms and that you release that

sound that you will see the glory of God

everything on the earth and family what

we were recipients of in this moment you

see it’s amazing that when we pray

because we are praying in sync with the

word of God the Bible explains to us how

angels move on God’s Word when music

began to rise up to God it was in sync

with the heart of God

and as they released the song yours

might not be music but there were angels

commissioned for your life

because what what is happening in this

house is that we are functioning as one

body and as your sound was raised up

your sound is being released and it’s

the sound of a book it’s the sound of a

business it is the sound of whatever God

has put in your heart

I see where angels were being released

uncle on assignment of our kind of our

sake thank you Jesus thank you Jesus

thank you Jesus thank you Jesus coming

it is bigger than I can explain but I

want you to understand that you just

stepped in to where Earth becomes no

more and heaven and earth becomes one in

the name of Jesus

Heavenly Father we bless you we bless

your name Almighty God there are moments

that we wonder if we are worthy of but

there are moments that as we have come

for an appointment with you you

establish an appointment with us

I want the sound of worship to release

all over this house because whether you

know it or not there are things that is

working right now on your behalf how

Lord we thank you

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we thank you Jesus

we thank you Jesus we thank you Jesus

this is so beautiful family if there’s

something you will keep with you then

keep this word in your hearts the

instruction might be ordinary but

because it came from the presence of God

the outcome is not the it’s not even the

responsibility of your resources it’s

not the responsibility of your

relationships it’s not the

responsibility of the quality you use to

do it because some of you are struggling

with the quality I don’t know why I’m

speaking to your your your struggle has

been God this is not how I want it done

but God says if you just do it then I

would back it up Lord we thank you oh

Jesus

oh Jesus God was to get the glory our

first lady preached a powerful message

called foolish glory and she talked

about how God will use the foolish

things to reveal his power on the earth

the instruction is gonna some ordinary

family but if you move on it if you

quiet out the noise of everybody else’s

doing this and you tap into the voice

that said it to you you see that was

that there was a situation in the Bible

and it was Jesus and counsel with a man

named Peter his disciple and Peter was

in the boat and he was fishing

and he kept throwing his net and he

caught nothing but then Jesus tells him

throw that net again and Peter had been

there for a while so he has scanned the

area of his boats but because the word

came from Jesus

when he threw that net again it was so

much that he could barely carry it

you see you don’t have to wait for like

an audible voice to speak to you because

God speaks in so many ways sometimes it

speaks to an impression unknowing and

there are things that as you have been

coming into the house of God there are

things that every time you walk up from

the house of God or any time you rise up

and you spend time with God there are

things that are impressed on your heart

and God said that is my word to you and

if you will just silence the noise of

what everyone else is doing and focus

that I’m the one who told you to do it

then you would see what you have not

seen on the earth family just lift your

hands in prayer with me heavily father

we thank you for your word we thank you

for who you are we thank you for your

love my god

lord have your way

I want that song to just rise up this is

how I fight my bad as I hear you sing in

it

I hear you thinking that you don’t even

know how prophetic that is oh my god

Lord we thank you we thank you Jesus we

thank you Jesus because we are

surrounded by these thoughts and these

words that are lies and are not speaking

to our truths and you said I am

surrounding everything that you think is

surrounding you Heavenly Father we

submit to you and in this moment that we

come before you we say Lord God that we

would praise you in the midst of it all

we would praise you when we’re confuse

we will praise you when thoughts that

come against us try to creep in we would

praise you because we recognize who

spoke to us and so Lord we say have your

way in this house and I thank you for

the testimonies that will come as a

result of the obedience of your people

the supernatural will be seen and we

would boldly say that what God did in my

life never have I heard it never have I

seen it but God put it in my heart

Heavenly Father have your way if it’s

crazy enough then maybe is joy

maybe that’s God speaking to you if it

sounds crazy that you’re like this is

way too crazy for me then just think

about it if it’s crazy for me

it’s amazing for God Lord we worship You

Heavenly Father we seal this moment we

seal this moment we seal this moment in

your name and we say have your way have

your way Lord God give us those

instructions it’s simple but you would

do it Lord oh Jesus

let’s release the sound of worship in

this house

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