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my topic for tonight is going to be
power
moves because I believe that we’re ready
to start making moves moves that don’t
always make sense to those around us
moves that shake up systems and Shake Up
structures but because of that power I
was talking about earlier that we’re
ready to get ahead of the curve we’ve
been prophetically just speaking about
God equipping us to go into rooms and to
go into me meetings and places where we
really shouldn’t have any business we
don’t have the degrees we don’t have the
experience but for some reason God has
aligned Us in this season to start
making power
moves and so as I Was preparing
for my message I found something in 2
Kings
2 that I think if you would allow me to
submit for your consideration
God may have a
word now Isaiah fell through the lattice
of his Upper Room in Samaria and was
injured so he sent Messengers and said
to them go inquire of babab the god of
echon whether I shall recover from this
injury before we move to verse three I
want to tell you how odd it is that the
king of Israel would be inquiring of a
false god God about his
healing you see because he he already
knows who God is but for some reason his
Brokenness had him looking at other
gods I wanted to judge I really really
did cuz judging is like my thing I could
find something
wrong with anything but then I realized
the times in my life where my Brokenness
had me looking for false gods instead of
going to The God Who I knew could really
fix
me you see there are times in life when
we become so broken that we want to find
a God we can touch as opposed to
trusting a God we cannot
see and these gods that come in all
different shapes and sizes and sometimes
you find them at the club and sometimes
you find them at the workplace but one
way or another we find false gods to
help us cope with
Brokenness and so now the king of Israel
in verse two of this text is looking for
a false god and verse three continues
and it says but the angel of the Lord
said to Elijah at the same time that one
person was looking for a false god
another person was having an encounter
with the real
God that’s important for you to
recognize because you’ll think that
everyone is moving at the same Pace as
you but in reality some people are
moving but they aren’t going
anywhere you can’t confuse busyness with
productivity because some of
us have full calendars and it looks like
we’re making power moves but
really all right but the angel of the
Lord said to Elijah the tishbite arise
go up to meet The Messengers of the king
of Samaria and say to them is it because
there is no God in Israel that you are
going to inquire of bbub the god of
ekron something for you to recognize
about power moves is that power moves is
going to create
confrontation Elijah continues it says
now therefore thus says the Lord You
shall not come down from the bed to
which you have gone up but you shall
surely die so Elijah departed so
Elijah has an encounter with the Angel
of the Lord the angel of the Lord says I
want you to go down and meet a group of
Messengers and when you meet them if you
go back to verse three because I want to
say it verbatim he says I want you to
tell them is it because there is no God
in Israel I want you to confront the
fact that they’re searching for all of
the wrong
things if your power moves don’t cause
confrontation there may not be power
moves at
all you see because God’s going to put
you in the types of positions where you
begin to make moves that break up
systems and structures and the good old
boy clubs and networks and where you
have to know someone to get in the room
he’s going to break all of that stuff up
when he gives you the word that he’s
given you that’s why it’s important for
you to know that you’ve got a word from
God because when that confrontation
comes you may be twisted into thinking
that you should back up when really God
is calling you to go
forward and verse four it
continues verse five rather says Elijah
departed and this is where things get
really good because they go back to the
king and they tell the king and the and
when the messengers returned to him he
said to them why have you come back
because I had sent you to go do
something and he knew that what he sent
them to do should have taken a bit
longer than it did in verse 6 continues
and they said look here dog on the way
to the
road that you had told us to go we ran
into a man a man came up to meet us and
he said to us go return to the king who
sent you how is it that Elijah had more
Authority in that moment than the king
who had directed them to do something in
the first place I hear God saying that
he’s going to give you the type of
authority that changes the tide that
he’s going to give you the type of
authority where people shouldn’t be
listening to you but for some reason
they’re sitting at your feet soaking up
wisdom you got to make sure you’re ready
when it’s time to make power
moves because when you have power moves
you have influence influence over the
way other people think that’s why you
got to be careful who you give your
power
to because when you recognize the power
that’s working on the inside of you
there are going to be people people
drawn to your light who don’t know how
to respect
it there’s going to be people drawn to
your light who don’t know how to honor
it so they said to him a man came up to
meet us and said to us go return to the
king who sent you and say to him thus
says the Lord is it because there is no
God in Israel that you are sending to
inquire of babab the god of eon
therefore you shall not come down from
the bed to which you have gone up but
you shall surely die his Messengers are
telling him I know you were wondering if
you were going to make it out of this
thing and we got a word from the Lord
that says
evidently the way that fall was set
up it’s not looking good for you and
verse seven
continues then he said to them what kind
of man was it who who is this who came
up to meet you who broke up my system
and told you these words what kind of
man is it who who found a way to my
messengers what kind of man was it that
broke up what I was trying to do what
kind of person is it that went into the
audition for one extra role and came out
with the starring role what kind of man
is it that went into a business meeting
for one thing and came out ready to own
the company you got to start expanding
your mind in such a way that people
people start asking what kind of man is
it that you just had an encounter with
what kind of woman is it if you aren’t
in an atmosphere and people don’t leave
talking about you then you left nothing
in the room that’s good or
bad this isn’t the kind of season where
we can afford to just be flies on the
wall we’ve got to leave some type of
impression in the room that makes people
say what kind of person was that I just
had an encounter with what was that I
just experienced what kind of man was it
who came up to meet you and told you
these
words in verse 8 continues it says so
they answered him a hairy man wearing a
leather belt around his waist I tried to
find something so deep and
spiritual about this part but I guess my
antenna wasn’t working that well cuz I’m
not sure what his passion had to do with
it but I will say that that he just had
a little bit of information about who he
was but instantly he knew it was Elijah
the
tishbite just a little bit of
information a hairy man wearing a
leather belt around his waist but could
it be that his reputation had preceded
him that so many people were talking
about what he was doing that when he
walked into a room he needed no
introduction I wonder if we could begin
to start doing the type of work that
when we walk into a room we don’t even
have to introduce ourselves because our
work has gone ahead of us our spirit has
gone ahead of us our connections have
gone ahead of us and so we get to come
in and they have to introduce themselves
to us
because you already know what it is and
verse n
continues that the king sent him to a
captain then the king sent to him a
captain of 50 with his 50
men so the King was so
insecure about the word he received that
he started sending people after Elijah
the
prophet it’s important for you to
recognize this because I need you to
recognize that what you’re about to do
what God has for you when you step into
alignment when you finally get into the
proper position that it’s going to
create insecurities in other
people and out of their insecurity
they’re going to start sending other
rumors or distractions to chase you down
because they’re trying to scare you out
of
alignment they’re trying to make you
feel that loneliness is not worth the
cost of Destiny they’re going to make
you feel that you can’t afford the cost
of moving forward they’re going to send
a captain of 50 with his 50 men so he
went up to him and there he was sitting
on the top of a hill I love that he was
sitting on the top of a hill because you
would think that if you see a captain
with 50 men coming after you that you
would not hide cuz you know we ain’t
never scared but like find a tree big
enough to just block the shade but for
some reason he was sitting on on the top
of a hill
ready and he spoke to him man of God the
King has said come
down so Elijah answered and said to the
captain of 50 if I am a man of God then
let Fire come down from heaven and
consume you and your 50
men and the verse tells us that fire
came down from heaven and consumed him
and his
50