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We're going to be speaking today on a message about holiness. And I I believe God is going to do something so beautiful in our hearts. But we are literally living in a very interesting season.

Um you know it takes it doesn't take much to recognize that we are in a time in our nation and in the nations of judgment. Right? When you see the things that are happening in the world, it's not just random.

You might look at it and you may feel like, oh, there are just human beings, you know, in power with egos. And I remember when um the Lord kept speaking to me about ventriloquist and he said, "What you're seeing is a puppet show. There is there's there's a spiritual this is really a war of kingdoms.

It's not just egos that are causing, you know, tensions and all these things. There are people just really being influenced to be used for the agendas of kingdoms um in a spiritual sense. And so there is we are in a time of judgment.

Not too long ago, I woke up and the spirit of the Lord said to me, "It has begun." And he was talking about the judgment that has gone forth in the land. But we have to understand that judgment is not a negative thing. You know often times when we hear like you know God is a judge and there is judgment and God is judging and all these things it it sometimes sounds very judgy.

You know it sounds negative but judgment actually flows as a result of God's love. God is love. It is his nature.

And so everything that flows from him is because of love. And so when we think about first of all why is it that God judges this would really lead us into understanding holiness. Right?

So number you know a few things that I wrote down that we see in scripture is that first of all God judges to respond to corporate sin and rebellion. God doesn't only deal with individuals. He deals with nations as a collective.

Right? And so even when you look at Genesis 18 um for verse 20 to 21 and this was about Sodom and Gomorrah when the Lord literally says because of the outcry against Sodom and Gomorrah is great what does he end up doing? He goes down to see if what he's hearing is according to what was happening.

And the outcome of Sodom and Gomorrah is that it was judged in a terrible way. Right? And so judgment in this context is because God loves what sin is destroying.

>> Wow. >> Sin is destroying something that he loves. And so there is judgment that goes forth to put an end to it.

Not judgment because he wants to destroy, but judgment to stop what he loves that is being destroyed by sin. >> So why does God judge? Number two, to establish righteousness in the earth.

Right? Judgment is how God corrects and brings things back into order. When you look at Isaiah, and I I encourage you these scriptures, you know, it's always good to write them down and take time to even study it in your own time with the Holy Spirit because he can unpack further than even what he shared with me.

So Isaiah 26:9 it says, "For when your judgments are in the earth, the inhabitants of the world will learn righteousness." So there are time that God brings correction to actually teach people what is right. And that is why as the church, as a body of Christ, I'm speaking about the church as you because you are the church. that there are certain seasons that when you discern it, when you discern the judgment of the Lord in the land, it's not just about the things that you have to get right within your own life, but it's the opportunity that the harvest is great because that is when people become more vulnerable and more willing and their hearts are more broken and ready to hear the word of the Lord.

Right? And so it's a time where God establishes righteousness in the earth. And another reason we see in scripture is that it is to confront idolatry and false worship.

A lot of times when we see God bringing judgment upon, you know, Israel as a nation, it was that they went into idolatry, right? And so God judges it because he knows that what they're serving will fail them. And so there has to be an interruption in the plan.

You know the scripture talks about how everything will be shaken so that that which cannot be shaken will remain. But often times when everything is standing you you kind of compare them or you put them on the same pedestal. You put your job on the same pedestal as the kingdom.

You put the idols in your heart on the same pedestal as the kingdom because everything seems to be established. And then all of a sudden everything starts to shake and you realize the only thing that is not shaking is the kingdom. It is your place in God.

And then it causes you it it starts to correct and it starts to confront the idolatry in your life. Right? And that is where we're really heading to because one of the other things we see with judgment is that all of this is about a call to repentance.

That is why judgment is an act of God's love. 2 Chronicles 7:14, it says, "If my people," you see, the Lord is talking to his people. Even in this instance, it's not just about the people in the world, because the people in the world will do what they do.

But when we see that the world is in chaos, when we see that the world is is in is in a state of, you know, just immorality, what the Lord is looking at is not the people in the world, but the people that are called to be the light in the world. Because if the darkness has overcome the world, that means it over also overcame their light. So the judgment is not just about the people acting crazy.

It's about but what about the people who are supposed to be salt and light? And so if darkness is overcoming a territory that means the people that God put in the land are failing at their job. That's why even when it comes to you know be don't be don't always be quick to you know judge even churches right like oh this church that's my church in the territory that church is not my church because at the end of the day when the Lord is going to write a letter to the church it's not a act it's not going to be a specific church it's going to be to the church in Los Angeles the people his people in Los Angeles.

And so if only one church in a territory has it right, we failed because it should be a light to the territory that everyone not and you know there's always going to be counterfeits planted by the enemy, but it should be a light where there's more of us than those against us, right? And so the Lord says, "If my people who are called by my name will humble themselves and pray and seek my face and then guess what? And turn from their wicked ways." The Lord is looking at his people as the ones who became wicked because if you were light, it would not be in a state of chaos that is in right now.

So he says, "You will turn." This is repentance. Then I will hear from heaven and will forgive their sin and heal their land. So even in judgment, we see that there is mercy.

But what is it even in this instances that the Lord is always telling us to turn to, right? We are turning away when he talks about we'll turn from their wicked ways to what? A path of righteousness to a way of holiness.

Holiness is what we realize is the standard for which the scripture is calling us to live. Now, there's a scripture I love so much when the Apostle Paul talks about when you compare yourself with yourself, it's it's lacking wisdom. And let's read it and really talk about why he says that.

So 2 Corinthians 10:12 it says, "For we dare not class ourselves uh compare ourselves with those who commend themselves, but they measuring themselves by themselves and comparing themselves among themselves are not wise." So why is he saying this? That if you're comparing yourself to another, it lacks wisdom. Now there are several reasons that you could look into practically, right?

because you might be comparing yourself with someone who has a completely different path from you. But ultimately, I believe that when he says this is lacking wisdom is because you should measure yourself according to something that truly reflects your image. Man was not created in the image of man.

So when you're comparing yourself to another individual, it's an error. And that's when he says it's unwise because you were created in the image of God. So the measure of your life, the measure, what you measure yourself by is that which you were created in the image of which should be the nature of God and not your neighbor.

Because then often times what that level of comparison produces is covetousness. But we ought to compare with what we were created to reflect. I was not created to reflect you.

>> So how can you become the thing I measure myself by? I have to measure myself according to the image that I was formed in. Now when the Bible talks about how we were formed in the image of God, it's not that we look like God like physical traits, right?

It's not because that's a a common thing we say. We're like, "No, you can't look down on someone who was formed in the image of God because it's not like this. It's not a physical thing.

God is spirit, right?" But that we were formed in his nature and in his likeness. But then after the fall of man, things began to shift. We went from the original design of let us make man in our own image according to our likeness.

And all of a sudden, let's actually read both scriptures. So, Genesis 1:27 says, "So God created man in his own image. In the image of God, he created him.

Male and female he created them. But then man fell. And as a result of this, the nature and identity in which we were created began to shift.

It went from being created in the image of God and now we're taking on a sinful nature of man. And so we go at Genesis 5:3 and it says, "And Adam lived 130 years and begott a son in whose likeness?" His. After whose image?

His. No longer was it the likeness of God and the image of God, but now it was the likeness and the image of the fallen man. Now the beautiful thing is that image that was our original identity was restored in Christ Jesus.

And so then we go back to Colossians. We go to Colossians 3 from verse 9 to10 and it says do not lie to one another. since you have put off the old man with his deeds and have put on the new man who is renewed in knowledge according to the image of him who created him.

So you see in Christ we have the ability to get back to the original design. So we are not called to measure ourselves by each other. We are called to the the true measure of who you are is the nature and the likeness of God.

This is why the Lord says be holy for I am holy because you would know that you are growing in the things of Jesus when you are reflecting his nature and his likeness. So how do we embrace this way? 1 Peter 1 from verse 15-16 it says but as he who called you is holy you also be holy in all your conduct because it is written be holy for I am holy now very similar to judgment holiness is also very misunderstood when you say holiness people just feel like all these people doing too much you know but what is holiness now in the old testament We see that the Hebrew word for holy is a word called kadosh and it literally means to be set apart.

Then in the New Testament we see that even the Greek word for holy is speaking to the same thing set apart for God distinct from what is common. The Lord is literally trying to show you do not make yourself too cheap by being influenced and following the way of the world. I called you to be distinct.

I didn't call you to be influenced by the world. I called you to actually bring light to the world. And so you are being set apart for the things and the purposes of God.

And not common that you just fit into anyone's desire and anyone's appetite. You just kind of flow in it. It's so interesting that when the scripture even talks about sexual immorality, it talks about how you you using your body to service another person's lust.

Common. These are things that make people common that any any anyone's lust, you just service it. But the Lord says, "Be set apart unto me." You see, to better understand holiness, you have to know what it is not.

Holiness does not mean that you're isolated from everyone. Holiness has to do with distinction. That the Lord wants to reveal to you that you are distinct and valuable.

You are not common and like everyone else. You know, most people when you're when growing up, I know my mom till today, you know, she would have this area where she would put fine china and don't even look at it because then she thinks you have ideas. Once you're passing it, just keep walking cuz it was in a whole glass thing.

Even the location was valuable. But then the regular plates you anything could happen. She does not care.

Why? What is the is the fine china being isolated? No.

It's revealing its value. It's set apart for special occasions. It's not just common that you're going to buy burger and fries and you're going to put it on fine china.

And so holiness is not isolation. It's also not legalism. Because often times again you hear about holiness and you think about these people who are just so legalistic.

No, it's the nature of God. You see if you have two people who live, you know, live together, one is highly undisiplined, the other person is highly disciplined, the undisiplined person will feel judged, not the disciplined one. The disciplined person would just, you know, wake up, you know, walk past you.

You're watching a show at 2:00 a.m. eating a pizza. They're up and about just ready to read their Bible.

After that, they're going to the gym. They're on a schedule. They're not bothered by you.

But they're not saying anything, but you're bothered by them. You if when you know their schedule, you just say, "You know what? I'm not even going to eat this pizza in front of you.

They will eat their salad in front of you with no care in the world. Why? Because there is something about them that reveals to you what you have the capacity to do, but you chose not to do it.

>> So internally, you start feeling judged and and all these feelings. And so you make it about them like, "Oh, they just think they're better than everybody else. They never said anything to you.

This is what happens in culture that when people are serious about their walk with God. When people are serious about the things they say yes to and no to. When people are just vocal out of the abundance of what is already in their heart that the Lord is teaching them, we try to JUDGE THEM.

THEY'RE NOT JUDGING YOU. They're just speaking truth. But we try to judge them that, oh, they're so legalistic.

Why? Because they're confronting something in you. They're confronting the fact that you have chosen to not live with restraint.

That you have the ability to, but you choose not to because you rather feed the appetites of your flesh than choose restrain. So holiness is not about that. It is simply the nature of God.

Look at what John 3 from verse 19 to20 says. It says, "And this is the condemnation that the light has come into the world and men loved darkness rather than light because their deeds were evil. For everyone practicing evil hates the light and does not come to the light, lest his deeds should be exposed.

You would never want to fall into the category of being a believer who only goes after teachers that appease to your flesh that make room for your weaknesses. You see, even when we think about the Apostle Paul when he talks about having a thorn in his flesh and the Lord says to him, "My grace is sufficient for you." That thorn was not about sin. Because Paul would not boast in sin.

When you study the writings of Paul and the words of Paul, you would know that Paul would not glorify in living in sin. So it was a weakness that was something. That's why I believe the Bible doesn't even speak about it because there's some people their weakness might be the sound of their voice.

Their weakness could be something. It could be an infirmity. It could be a literal physical infirmity that the Lord gave him to keep him humble.

But the weakness is not sin. The weakness is not that he's because when he says I would boast all the more in my weakness that Jesus will be a strength in it. Because you see for many of every anyone who when when you're walking something out that you know the Lord called you to do and you're in partnership with him there is something about you that you know is not qualified not about sin just something about you know about yourself maybe the Lord is calling you into a field that you feel like Lord I don't have the educational background for this or there are times that the Lord is calling you to do something and there is a physical deformity But you trust in him more than you trust in your strength.

And I say this because it's not about making room or giving language for compromise. We have to get back to who the Lord is calling us to be. Now, holiness is also not restriction.

It is alignment with God. It's not God limiting you, but he's aligning you to truth. And so when we look at all of this, holiness is literally about God saying, "Be set apart for me.

Don't be common. Be set apart for my purposes and my use." Because if you are going to walk with the Lord, but in the same vein, you're doing things unto the enemy, you're not set apart. If you're going to walk with the Lord, but what your job demands out of you is in service to the kingdom of darkness, you're not set apart.

Be set apart for the things of God. I love, you know, one of one of the books I love so much when it comes to understanding holiness is the book of Leviticus. Now Leviticus 20 26 it talks about and you shall be holy to me for I the Lord am holy and have separated you from the peoples and that you should be mine.

And so we see this thing when the Lord begins to speak about holiness. What is he speaking about separation? And what does separation point to?

That God you belong to him in a time of judgment in the land. The Lord is calling us back to the place where the only one that we belong to is him. And we're going to see this unfold because it's easy for us to say that Lord, yes, I belong to you.

But what could be the idols in your heart keeping you from the Lord? You see, when the Lord call talks about separation, we see this in 2 Corinthians 6:17. It says, "Therefore, come out from among them and be separate, says the Lord.

Do not touch what is unclean, and I will receive you." Again, this whole essence of belonging to him, he's talking about being separate from sin and the world's patterns. I know you love culture. I know you love the way of the world, but don't let it influence and shape how you live and who you become.

When the Lord says come out from amongst them, he's not saying isolate yourself, but he's talking about influence. That what shapes and influences your life should not be the ways of sin and the ways of the world. Be separate from it.

And we're separate from it is not just about what we are being separated from, but what we are being separated onto. Right? So 2 Timothy verap 2 20-21 it says but in a great house there are not only vessels of gold and silver but also of wood and clay some for honor and some for dishonor.

And that word dishonor in another translation it would literally call it common use. Therefore, if anyone cleanses himself from the latter, that if you cleanse yourself what is making you dishonorable, what does he say? He will be a vessel for honor, sanctified and useful for the master prepared for every good work.

In the the English Standard Version, it would say that if he will be a vessel for I mean if he will set cleanse himself from what is dishonorable, he will be a vessel for honorable use, set apart as holy, useful to the master of the house, ready for every good work. You see, one of the things I've learned about God is that God is not looking for who is available. He's looking for who is useful.

Satan always looks for who is available. But the Lord looks for who is useful because anyone can be available. But the Lord wants to build on you.

And in order to build on you, then you must be useful to his materials because the Lord will never waste. And so usefulness means that there is an agreement with his ways. There is a place where you can yield yourself and submit yourself to who he's calling you to be.

The Lord cannot see you as useful if you're lukewarm. But when you separate yourself, that's why he says cleanse. Whoever would cleanse himself, then he will separate and set apart as holy and that person will be useful in the hands of the Lord.

Now when he says you should cleanse yourself, this brings us to another word that is often misunderstood, purity. Because cleansing yourself is speaking of purity. And there is this beautiful connection we see in the scripture when it talks about holiness and purity.

Hebrews 12:14 it says, "Pursue peace with all people and holiness without which no one will see the Lord." Matthew 5:8, "Blessed are the pure in heart, for they shall see the Lord." And so we see that both things are speaking to seeing the Lord. And this is not just about physical sight. This means to perceive him, to discern his will and his purpose, to be aware of his presence, and to walk in intimacy with him.

There is a place of intimacy with God that it requires you being set apart and having the consciousness, the walking out of purity in your life. Psalms 24:3-4, it says, "Who may ascend into the hill of the Lord? or who may stand in his holy place.

He who has clean hands and a pure heart. You cannot walk in holiness without the pursuit of purity internally. So now what is purity about?

You see purity is about is is really focused on what needs to be removed because in the scripture that word purity is a word that means bar or it's a word that translates to barra and it has this idea of to cleanse to purge and to make clean by removing what is unwanted. So there is something that we ought to purge. we we ought to clear out in order that what remains is that which the Lord can build on.

And so what is it in our lives that needs to be purged? And it really boils down to idols. Whenever we see God reminding his people to be set apart, to be holy, often times there's already idolatry involved.

And in our time, we when we think of, you know, idolatry, when we think of idols, we have this external perspective like I'm bowing down to something that is not Jesus. And that's not always the case because your there your heart can have idols. There are idols in the heart that must be purged.

You know, there was a there was some there was a definition of an idol that I love so much was by a minister, a powerful minister, Apostle Mike Connell. And he says, "An idol is a substitute or replacement for Jesus and his reign in your life. When you see it that from that simple perspective, you will see how many things can be an idol.

Anything that would bring direction and instruction to your life. Anything that would lead you out of the place of following the instructions of the Lord. It's not just what you bow down to.

Ezekiel 14:3 says, "Son of man, these men have set up their idols in their hearts." Do you know that for some of you, food could be an idol? Because if the Lord tells you to fast and you broke your fast, it's not hunger that broke it. It's that something else has mastery over you than the voice of God.

Because when you broke that fast, you were not dying. Nobody called the ambulance. It wasn't a nurse that said, "Please, you need to eat this cheesecake.

You ate the cheesecake." And we think it's hunger. It's not hunger that broke the fast. was the evidence of an idol that something else has more power to direct your life than the instruction of the Holy Spirit that told you to fast.

That is why you will see in scripture that gods were you know the the idea of idols was not always this you know thing of carved images that even in Philippians 3:19 it was said whose god is their belly what are they talking about that their appetite became their god their appetite began to instruct their life many things can be an idol when you see it from that practical place anything that and substitute or replace the reign of Jesus over your life. What is the reign of Jesus? That means you belong to him.

When the Lord gives you an instruction, nothing shakes you from it. But when there are things that begin to distort or there are things that give you the the ability to make an excuse to walk out of obedience, it's not just that you had a moment of weakness. It is revealing an idol.

Anything that has the ability to govern you is an idol. Colossians 3:5, "Therefore, put to death your members which are on the earth, fornication, uncleanness, passion, evil desire, covetousness, which is idolatry." This is just a few of them because why is it idolatry? Because they function as substitutes.

These are things that we know they're clearly not the ways of the Lord. So anytime we give into them, something else has the ability to drive our lives outside of the will of God. So he calls it idolatry.

Many things can be an idol. Your race can be an idol. Wow.

>> The reason that there are many who are turning to this whole idea of the god of their ancestors because race became an idol. >> So the enemy can manipulate it. When your race is an idol, there are things you can never hear the spirit of the Lord say unless it favors your race or what supports your race in culture.

There are things the Lord to to hear the voice of the Lord, you have to be so neutral in life. You have to be temperate in all things because there are some things that the word of the Lord will speak about and culture does not applaud it. But your race can be an idol.

Your sexuality can be an idol. The reason that many cannot humble themselves to say Lord if I am living in a way or identify as something that is not according to your word. I believe and I trust you to heal this.

I come out of agreement with this identity. The reason many cannot do that is because their sexuality has become an idol. That to identify as a certain way is an idol in your life.

It doesn't hinder you from saying Jesus is Lord. But if he is Lord, his word would be that which governs you and not how you feel. >> Sexuality can be an idol.

Culture can be an idol. If you're more concerned about what the general audience likes and agrees with and you want to fall into that pattern, culture can become an idol. There was something that happened and I was listening to it on the news and so quickly I wanted to just say something about it and the spirit of God just told me right there just to be quiet because what you want to speak against it comes from the place of what culture agrees with not from the wisdom of God.

There are too many things we're so quick to just give an opinion to without first asking. Lord, what are you doing in the midst of this? Culture can be an idol.

Relationships can be an idol. The reason that someone could break up with a person and they become societal immediately is idolatry. that that person had so much power over your life that because things did not work out, you could fall into suicide ideiation.

It's idolatry. A career can be an idol. Money can be an idol.

Anything that diminishes the reign of Jesus over your life is idolatry. Thank you, Lord. I see the Lord wants to do many things, but I want to try and get through this as fast as I can because I believe that there are things in this teaching that will open up our eyes so that we can agree with what is it that God wants to do in this room.

Thank you, Lord. You see, there's a reason, let me just even read this scripture. There's a reason why the Lord would tell us to love him with everything.

In Luke 10 27, it says, "So he answered and said, you shall love the Lord your God with all your heart, with all your soul, with all your strength, and with all your mind, and your neighbor as yourself." There are many things that we see from there. Number one is that love gives access and influence. When the Lord is telling you to love him with your all, it's not because God is insecure and he needs your love.

But love, what you love influences and shapes how you live. Whatever you have affection towards, it shapes your life. So in God's protection for you, he says, "Love me with all." Because again remember what the measure of your life the adequacy of your life that you are growing is that is that you can reflect the one you were created in the image of.

So if there's anyone that should have all your affection it should be the one who would influence you in the right direction. So he says love me with all because whatever you love would has access to influence and shape how you live. What you love will lead you.

What you love would instruct your decisions and it will shape your priority. And the crazy part of that is because anything that you love outside of Jesus in that degree, the enemy would use it as an entry point to influence your life. He would use it to influence where you live, how you look, what you do.

There are people that literally you can just by being around them, you already know which celebrity they're obsessed with. When they cut their hair, they cut their hair. everything.

They just follow a pattern. You're putting you're you're misplacing a love that should be on Jesus so that he would influence and shape your life. The second thing is that this commandment reveals capacity because for the Lord to say that love me with your all, that means we actually have the capacity to love with all.

And if you are not loving Jesus with your all, you're loving something of lesser value. If you pay attention to how you react when certain things don't go your way in life, when you lose the job, you lose the relationship, you know, some things happen that were unexpected. If it literally causes you to be in a space where there might be things the Holy Spirit is instructing you to do and you don't do it because now pain is governing your life because the loss of that thing is governing your life.

You have given your love to something of lesser value because it is in our capacity. It's in our DNA to love with all. And when we don't put that affection on Jesus, this is what creates stalkers.

This is what creates people with this obsessive, you know, personality. This is what causes this, you know, traumatic emotional breakdowns when one thing just goes off. This is what causes people to just feel like God, you know, take me now because something little shifted in your life and you were ready to throw in the hotel.

You put your love on something of lesser capacity. And here is something so key. Loving God requires intention.

When the Lord says that you will love me with all your strength, that speaks to force might. It's an intentional effort. It is not something that happens by default.

And it's also telling us there are many things that will fight for the place of God's love in your life. But he says you fight against it. be intentional in your way of life that you don't expose yourself to things that will distort or corrupt your love for Jesus.

There's some things that the Holy Spirit will tell you to walk away from and you're you're and the reason that many will disobey is because you don't see the what is damaging about what you're walking away from. But if you obey, you later on you may realize or maybe if you disobey then you will realize the harder way. That this thing took me away from my first love.

Something about this door I came in to literally put my life in shambles because I started devoting my all to it and slowly but surely I literally departed from my first love. This is something intentional. This is something that requires your effort.

Anything that will take you away from the place of your desire with Jesus is not worth it. The other part that is interesting when we talk about idols, and this is the key thing that the Lord was showing me to press on are the subtle things that become idols. And those subtle things can be very difficult.

And this is when there are idols in the form of emotion. Pain, offense, unforgiveness, and bitterness in the heart. And these ones can be very difficult because you see Satan, the Bible says that Satan masquerades himself as an angel of light.

That is not just what he does with his identity. That is what he does with everything he presents to you. Whatever the enemy presents to you, he presents it as the opposite of what he's given you.

And so oftentimes there is this feeling that we have of freedom when we hold on to pain. That is why we can be prideful in our bitterness. I would never call this person.

I would never. That pride is because there's something about you holding on to pain that makes you feel powerful. And the unfortunate part is that for many we see it as the only compensation we had.

The person never apologized. The person was never remorseful. So the only thing I have is to feel bitter.

And the enemy masquerades it as some form of freedom when in reality it is bondage. And many pain and offense and unforgiveness is an idol in the heart because it is what directs your life. If there are places you would not go to and the reason for not going there is that bitterness, the reason for not wanting to see that person is that offense in your heart that someone invites you to a place and the moment you heard so so and so is there you're like no you know what just got busy.

It's an idol. It's idolatry that you are more loyal to your pain >> than to Jesus. >> You are more loyal to your bitterness and to your offense than to Jesus.

And here's the crazy thing because you know a lot of times we we try to make it like but God you don't know what this person did to me. But then we serve a God and look at what he says. This this makes you because one of the things I began to learn about our ability to love people that hurt us.

It's the command reveals that there is a revelation about love. That if you embrace the revelation, it makes it easier for you to love because how do you command a person to love? How do you just wake up one morning and say love her, love him?

There is something that is revealed to your spirit that produces that effort. Because for Jesus to say in Matthew 6:14-15 when he says, "For if you forgive men their trespasses, your heavenly father will also forgive you. But if you do not forgive men their trespasses, neither will your father forgive your trespasses." Now this is very weighty because the kingdom of heaven is a legal realm.

The spiritual realm is a legal realm. And remember, Satan is called the accuser of the brethren, the accuser of you. He's the accuser of those in Christ.

And how is he the accuser? How is that his title? Because it is effective.

If the title had no power, it would not there's no need for it. That's just gossip. If Satan coming into the courts of heaven to present a case that on Monday, July, whatever Samantha was doing X, Y, and Z, if it did not have weight, why would he need to say it?

That would just be gossip. like, "Oh, Lord, let me tell you what Samantha was doing." No, it's because it is a legal realm. And so, when you withhold forgiveness, the enemy comes with your case file.

They're literally demons that have files on people. He will come before the Lord with your foul and say, "Well, on this day, bitterness came into this person's heart and the sun went down and the sun rose and they are still angry according to your word." You see, Satan knows. Why does Satan need to know the word?

It's part of his evidence. He says, "But according to your word," and the scripture says that he has lifted his word above his name. If she withholds forgiveness, you can't forgive her.

What does that make you? Vulnerable in the hands of the enemy. So why would Jesus knowing that there are me there are different degrees of pain that we experience.

Jesus did not categorize it as you know if someone did this to you I understand take your time. He literally said if you don't forgive you will not be forgiven. Why is that?

And something that dawned on me, you see, if you truly believe what Jesus did on the cross, >> it will become easier to forgive. And why is that? Because on the cross, what Jesus put to death was your sinful nature.

It wasn't that he died for sins, but sin as a nature. What you are offended by in someone else is what that sinful nature in you can produce if not for the cross. So when Jesus forgave you, he didn't just forgive you for the things that you did.

He forgave you for the potential of the identity you have. That if you see some of us, we have offense towards people that if we were exposed to the traumas they had, if we live the life they lived, we could do much worse. >> There are people in this room.

Do you know that for that you know a lot of people somehow you know a part of that is just de demonic and diabolic how the enemy always goes after children. >> So many people when you were young you got sexually molested in some way or some form. For men, often times it's by older women.

And older women, not that they were in their 20s or their 30s, they were teenagers. A guy could be seven or eight. And what you know what he experienced was with someone who was 13, 14, 15, 16.

And sometimes that someone is in this room. It's easier to pick apart what someone did to you. I'm not trying to say it doesn't have weight, but what I'm trying to give you is a revelation that all of us without the cross, we are a mess.

what we have the ability to do if not for the cross. There are many stories you will not hear people say because of the shame that they feel that it carries. It's easier to talk about the side of being the victim.

But what about when you were young and dumb and you were the cause of someone's pain in college? Do you know how many women get sexually assaulted? And some of those men are in this room because you did it because the environment it it it it made room for you.

There are some things that we haven't done in this life, not because we didn't want to, but there were laws that stopped us from being criminals. You thought about it. you contemplated it, but because of a law in the land, you did not do it.

So when an environment allows behavior that is immoral, you see how many people fall in that pattern because in in college, college creates an environment for sexual assault. It's true. Everybody's drinking.

Everybody's drunk. Whatever happens happens because it is accepted that sinful nature has room to explore. The potential of your sinful nature is damaging to anyone that comes in contact with it.

This is why it we have to forgive because when we came to Jesus, he forgave us and he gave us his nature. If not for Jesus, like what you you you have to be we all have to get to the place where that we have a level of self-awareness to know how crazy we could be if not for the cross that begins to change our appetites. There was a time that literally people were breaking into the malls and doing all kinds of reckless behavior in broad daylight.

What changed the law? It became a misdemeanor and that sinful nature found agreement to be reckless. So people would just go into the mall and bring a whole gang of people and just start stealing stuff.

If your sinful nature did not have restraint either by the judgment of other people or by the laws of the land, what you had the capacity to do when you were in the world would have been much worse. If you followed the same path some of these people did, that is why the Lord always brings us back to this place of forgiveness. Some of you in this room, you've been you've been holding on.

It's it's almost like you're raising pain like a child. >> You've carried things with you for years. It directs your life.

It is the reason you're so quick to tell God what you can do and what you cannot do, not realizing that you have become a servant to that offense, that it has become an idol in your life. And you if you are going to walk with the Lord, your heart can be divided. You see, idolatry is a distraction.

Because when the Bible talks about how holiness and purity and links it all to seeing God, perceiving his ways, discerning his voice, then idolatry robs you from the sensitivity to the voice of God. It is one of the biggest ways that the enemy can cause you to be ineffective in life because you will not discern God's voice because your heart is divided. You lose sensitivity.

So that's why there's some and you feel as though God I've been seeking you. I'm searching and it feels like I can't hear you. It's idolatry.

You see, there is this connection we see in scripture with famine and idolatry, both natural and spiritual. Right? If you read Jeremiah 5, you would see that there was literally lack in the land because people had forsaken God.

They had given to the ways of idols. And as a result of that, there was provision that was withheld in a natural perspective. And then you look at what I believe it's even more dangerous.

Amos 8 from verse 11 to 12. It says, "Behold, the days are coming, says the Lord God, that I will send a famine on the land, not a famine of bread, nor a thirst for water, but of hearing the words of the Lord. They shall wander from sea to sea.

They shall run to and fro seeking the word of the Lord but shall not find it. Because there are certain things that the Lord wants to speak to you and it's not going to be that which comes from outside of you. It has to flow through you.

We are living in times right now that there are corporate messages that the Lord is saying to people. Get prepared. The world, as we know, is changing.

Things are shifting, right? We're going to see there's a reset happening. There are things that we're hearing for the corporate body, but individually, you need a word of from the Lord.

So the people are running to and fro. But there is a famine in the land because you see and this was connected to idolatry. Where there is idolatry, there are three key things that it does.

A loss of clarity, a loss of direction, and a loss of sensitivity to God's voice. If you're in a place where you feel as though God, I'm I'm in a place of prayer. I'm fasting, but I am so foggy.

I'm so confused right now. Everybody's saying, "Do you know what? Take an AI class.

Do this. Do that. Lord, I need direction." Because there are general things you can do that will be beneficial.

Yes. But for your specific life, you need direction in this time. You see, because in times of tension, it's also speaking to things that are happening in the spiritual realm where there is a change of the guards taking place.

And you need to know where the Lord is placing you. Times of tension is times of deployment. And you need to know how God is sending you, what he's calling you to do, how he's calling you to pray.

You see, these things are not worth your heart because more than ever, you need your sight. You need your spiritual sight to be in tune and activated because there are things that will happen. And it would not be that the Lord did not try to warn you.

It would not be that the Lord didn't want to give you direction, but that the idolatry in your heart prevented you from discerning what God is doing. So the enemy distracts you. He distracts you with pain.

He distracts you with offense. He distracts you with unforgiveness. He distracts you with all kinds of things in your life.

All of it. So that your heart will be divided and you will not discern a move of God. You will not discern shifts you're supposed to make when you ought to make it.

If anyone in the room has been having one one of the things that is really the mercy of God is that you might still be sensitive to certain dreams. If you're having dreams where you're always seeing yourself in the house you grew up in even though you don't live there anymore. You're always seeing yourself in an exam room, in a classroom, you see yourself missing a bus or a train or a flight.

You see yourself in a car that is constantly having an accident. The Lord is trying to tell you you are behind where you ought to be. It is a wakeup call that you are not moving at the speed of what he knows about your life in this time.

You see there is the scripture talks about even when Jesus says according to the volume of the books it was written about me to do your will. There is a volume of the books about your life. When we stand before the Lord on the final day, there are many books that will be opened.

And ultimately, when he opens his books, it is to measure what he knew about you and compare it with what you did on the earth. I believe there's a special grace of the Lord for you to let it go. Offense will not restore you.

Bitterness will not restore you. The Lord restores your soul. I understand that there are things that you've experienced that really broke you that allow the enemy to label you as unworthy.

And on the flip side, there are things that you did that broke you, that made you feel unfit because of your mistakes. For some, the pain that you hold on to is the pain against yourself. You got to let it go.

For some, it's the relationship that fell apart. And if it still has a hold on you the way it does, could it be that you poured your all that was supposed to be an affection towards the Lord, but you turned it and poured it in someone who has that that their capacity is to fail you because of the flesh. That's why Jesus says, "Love me with all your heart, cuz I won't fail you.

Love me with all your soul, your will, your emotions. Don't put that to something of lesser value because the enemy would use and access that thing to disrupt you. If there are people in your life that are idols, Satan will use their voice to bring direction to you because your fear of disappointing them would make their opinions shape your life rather than the voice of God.

Your fear of making them think less about you will cause the enemy to choose them as the right candidate. It's idolatry. I'm not saying that don't be a person that is open to counsel.

Right? The Bible talks about how in the multitude of counsel there is safety. I'm not saying that.

But I am saying that when you understand motive, if the motive of you doing something is because a person has become a god to you, it's idolatry. If the only motive that you are moving in a certain direction is because of who said you should do it is idolatry, not because it was wisdom, but because of who said it because Satan will use people to be voices against the voice of the Lord. In the scripture, there was a prophet that the Lord gave a certain instruction to.

He said, "You're going to go this way. Don't turn that way. Don't go back the way you came." Oh, a very specific instruction.

And then he gets to where he's going. And then the Bible says, "An old prophet, which often speaks of one who was in tune with the Lord, but no more, fell away from the path. Got corrupted somehow." But maybe that old prophet still had a name.

As we studied last month, you can be, you know, a church could look thriving, but the Lord says, "You have a reputation of being alive, but you are dead. That prophet might still have a name." And the prophet instructs this individual against the word of the Lord and he chose to follow him. And that was how that man died.

It's in the Bible. The enemy would use what is an idol in your heart to pervert your path. Stand with me.

We're going to pray. Thank you, Lord. Thank you, Lord.

Thank you, Jesus. Nothing is worth being an idol. not money, nothing.

If it takes away the reign of Jesus over my life, it's not worth it. And if you know there are things in your life that the Lord has is ministering to you about that the Lord wants to deal with, I want you to just just begin to pray. Speak to your father to release it.

Speak to your father to help your heart. Because here is the good news in the Lord. It starts with you.

The walk of purity starts with you, but it finishes with the Holy Ghost. What I mean by that, it starts with your willingness. It starts with your belief and your desire to say, "Lord, I don't want to be defined by this thing.

Lord, I don't want to be this person. I I don't want these things in my heart." It starts with your ability to yield. It starts with your agreement that Jesus I love you more than this.

And the spirit of God helps you. And how does he help you? He begins first by bringing to your attention.

He starts to discern helps you discern what is idolatry in your life. and he starts to give you instructions. Your obedience, your ability to carry out those instructions is where your healing will come from.

You might have a fence in your heart and you tell the Lord, "Lord, I don't want this. I want to be free of this." And the spirit of the Lord tells you, "Send this message to that person. the person who hurt you.

He tells you to send a message and speak a blessing. It's your obedience to the instruction that will heal you. But if you move in pride and say, "Lord, tell me something else.

I will never idolatry." You're literally asking the Lord, bringing your idols in his presence to say, "Tell me something else while bowing to it." Either you're going to surrender or you're going to be slave to a wicked master because your idols are not for you. They are against you. If you're willing to yield, just pray right now to the Lord.

If there's someone that the spirit of God begins to reveal to you that you have offense and bitterness in your heart against, I want you to pray for that person. Begin to bless them. Because sometimes pray for them sounds vague and your prayers are like God help them to be a better person.

Still pride. Bless them. And as we're praying, let's just worship.

Thank you, Lord. Thank you, Jesus. Can we sing?

Open the eyes of my heart. Open the eyes of my heart, Lord. Thank you, Lord.

Open the eyes of my heart. I want to see you. >> I want to see you.

Open the eyes of my heart, Lord. >> Open the eyes of my heart. I want to see you.

>> I want to see you. Oh, open the eyes of my heart, Lord. >> Open the eyes of my heart.

>> I want to see you. >> I want to see you. Open the eyes of my heart, Lord.

Open the eyes of my heart. I want to see you. I want to see you.

I want to see you. I want to see you. I want to see you, Jesus.

I want to see you. I want to see you. I want to see you.

>> I want to see you. >> I want to see you. If you can pray in this spirit, just pray in this spirit because as you yield, he will come.

As you yield to the Lord, he will come. And he would restore you. Thank you, Jesus.

Thank you, Jesus, that you are here. He would restore your soul. The offense is only keeping it even more fragmented, but the Lord would restore your soul.

There's some people then you are new to the faith and speaking in the by the spirit speaking in tongues. Every culture has a language. It is how you identify a culture.

It is how they understand each other. Just avail yourself. Don't be freaked out because this is the language of the spirit.

It is how we speak to our father. >> There are some things we don't have words for, but it is the prayer of the spirit through us. And as we release it, he brings understanding for what he's doing.

for prayer team. Just be sensitive. >> The Lord is going to touch some people.

And as he touches them, I just want you to bring them to the front if you can. >> Thank you, Lord. Thank you, Lord.

You see, there are people in the room and it is your offense that has kept you from being released and commissioned by God. Because the Lord is after those that can be usable. >> NOT just available, >> but usable.

That would relinquish their pride. >> Hallelujah. Hallelujah.

>> They would relinquish glory >> service to self >> and to the flesh and say, "But Jesus, I will love you more. I will love you more. >> I will make the hard decisions.

>> I will cut things off. >> Yes, Lord. >> Because I love you more.

>> Yes, Lord. Yes, Lord. >> So, spirit of the living God, I pray.

>> There are people in this room and they are behind their season. They are behind their season, OH GOD. BUT LORD, let your anointing begin to flow to locate the people in the room that are behind time and let THERE BE A RESTORATION OF TIME RIGHT NOW IN the name of Jesus.

Lord, I pray you would anoint them for that which you are sending them into. and let that anointing begin to translate that they would BEGIN TO HAVE DREAMS and visions and Lord you will open up their ears again that where THERE WAS A FAMINE OF YOUR WORD THAT IT is returning. It is returning.

IT IS RETURNING. LET THAT OIL locate you now in the name of Jesus. Send me no keys for now.

Yes, LORD. >> There people that YOU NEED TO FORGIVE yourself >> because Satan formed a weapon against you. When you did not know who you were, there were mistakes you MADE SO THAT YOUR MISTAKE WOULD BE the reason for your disqualification in your own eyes, not in the eyes of God.

It was a weapon formed, but by the spirit of God, it will not prosper. >> And it requires your agreement. I hear the Lord say as simple as day.

Get over yourself. >> Thank you. >> Get over yourself.

>> This is about you and God. THE CROSS DEALT WITH your past. get over yourself.

If you would forgive yourself and no longer allow pain to direct what you will and will not do, I see the Lord wanting to touch you. There are seven people in total concerning this matter of offense that I see. And it could also be that seven is just what the Lord is perfecting.

And it could be more than that. But for in the spirit, I see seven people. Spirit of the living God, as they yield to you, >> touch them.

>> Commission them, speak to them. I pray that anything that the enemy has sold in their lives in the place of their rebellion where demons have had influence in their lives. Loose them from it now in the name of Jesus.

>> Loose them now in the name of Jesus. >> Loose them now in the name of Jesus. Loose them now in the name of Jesus.

>> Loose them now in the name of Jesus. >> Every demonic spirit >> that is influencing your sons and daughters to stay in the path of rebellion. Loose them now in the name of Jesus.

I command every spirit from the enemy. The judgment of the Lord is upon you. As the children of God come out of agreement with your ways, the judgment of the Lord is upon you.

Loose them. Everybody begin to pray. Begin to pray.

Thank you Lord. Thank you Lord. Thank you Lord.

Thank you Jesus. Thank you Jesus. Loose them.

Loose them. Loose them. Every old wine skin.

Every old wine skin for what the Lord wants to build. You cannot remain. YOU CANNOT REMAIN.

DEPART from God's children >> in the name of Jesus. Thank you, Lord. Thank you, Lord.

>> I see the oil coming. Spirit of the living God, let it locate your people now. everything that has been working against them, let that oil break the yoke in the name of Jesus.

LET THE OIL BREAK the yoke. Let the oil break THE YOKE THAT THEY WOULD BE ESTABLISHED IN THE THINGS of God. Let it break the yoke.

LET IT BREAK THE YOKE. LET IT BREAK THE YOKE. LET IT BREAK the yoke IN THE NAME OF JESUS.

OH, thank you, Lord. There's someone I see in the back. Let's be sensitive in that area that the Lord is about to touch.

As a child, you used to have nightmares that used to torment you because of your vulnerability and the lack of covering spiritually. So, the enemy tormented you with nightmares to cause you to become afraid of the realm of the spirit. But the person the Lord is showing me is a mighty warrior in God.

But the enemy tried to sow fear early so that you would reject the call of God. Let every light be broken over your life now in the name of Jesus. LET EVERY STRONGHOLD BE BROKEN OVER YOUR LIFE in the name of Jesus.

Let what the enemy PLANTED IN YOU, I COMMAND IT TO loose you now in the name of Jesus THAT THE CALL OF GOD ON YOUR LIFE WOULD BE ESTABLISHED. SATAN, you're a liar. Every stronghold in the mind, we rebuke it off her life in the name of Jesus.

WHEREVER IT TOOK ROOT, spirit of the living God, will you do an an internal surgery in the MIND AND BEGIN TO UPROOT EVERY LIE, every stronghold, >> every exposure to where you have been exposed to witchcraft, >> I disconnect YOU >> FROM EVERY POWERS of witchcraft and new age over your life in the name of Jesus. EVERY OPEN DOOR IS SHUT. For the Lord will make you a mighty warrior in his hands.

And the THING YOU WERE AFRAID of is what he's calling you to confront. Lord, what they planted in her every spirit animal. THE JUDGMENT OF GOD IS UPON YOU.

Loose her now in the name of Jesus. Thank you, Lord. Thank you, Lord.

Thank you, Lord. Thank you, Lord. Thank you, Lord.

>> Everyone under the sound of my voice. >> If there are spirit animals that you have been bound to, continue to pray. I command the judgment of God on that thing.

It watches you. >> The enemy uses it to track you. I blind every demonic assignment through an animal in your life in the name of Jesus.

Lord, >> Lord, I'm seeing a person. You see, animals are not the issue, but there is a way that they can be manipulated. Spirit of the living God, whoever that individual is that is being watched by a cat, I command her freedom now in the name of Jesus.

everything that is watching her. The Lord is going to touch that lady. I see a lady and I see a gentleman.

Depending on how the Lord touches them, just bring them to the front. There's something happening where you're being watched by a cat and an owl. Lord, let your judgment go against that creature >> and blind the eyes of those that are trying to trace and track them in the name of Jesus.

Lord, where they have been studied to make mistakes. At the moment of breakthrough, there are things planted to cause them to abort times and seasons. Thank you, Lord.

We say no more in the name of Jesus. >> Lord, thank you Lord. Lord, let restoration, let your hand of restoration come upon them in the name of Jesus.

Where seasons have been aborted, oh God, restore the times. >> Thank you, Lord. Thank you, Lord.

>> Thank you, Lord. >> Thank you, Lord. Just continue to pray.

I see that that the Lord is moving through this room and there are things that he is moving to touch and answer the prayer of your heart. >> Thank you Lord. Thank you Lord.

Thank you Lord. Thank you Lord. I see the oil of the Lord about to touch a few people now.

Thank you Lord. Thank you Jesus. Thank you Jesus.

Thank you Jesus. There is someone the Lord is about to deliver from masturbation. Let the oil that breaks yolks come upon that individual now >> in the name of Jesus.

>> Oh thank you father. Thank you, Father. Thank you, Father.

Because it's robbing you. It's robbing you. Thank you, Lord.

Thank you, Lord. Thank you, Lord. Thank you, Lord.

>> Timmy, just play something for me. Just be in a place of worship. There are things that the Lord is dealing with that is is it goes beyond you.

These are things that there are patterns in your bloodline, patterns in your family. If you've noticed patterns in your bloodline, just begin to pray right now. I see the Lord going back literally.

I see time like going back in time to bring correction to things that open the door to why you see it's there is a there is a type there is a type of weakness and when I talk about weakness in this context I'm talking about a weakness in sin that afflicts a family generation after generation after generation. Those patterns are not I it's not like um random. Whenever you see patterns in a bloodline, there is something engineer in it.

And because no one deals with it, it has an invitation to the next generation. But I see the hand of God on the clock. Begin to pray over your bloodline that it ends with you.

And the instructions the Lord gives you, obey. Because if you don't stop it, your children will have to fight it. >> Yes, Lord.

Yes, Lord. Yes, Lord. >> But if you come in agreement, the hand of the Lord is upon the clock to deliver you and to free you from what HAS BEEN PASSED DOWN FROM ONE GENERATION to the next and to the next and to the next.

Lord, let your hand come upon them. Let your hand come upon them and set them free FROM GENERATIONAL CURSES, generational iniquity, things in the BLOODLINE THAT HAVE BROUGHT BLOCKAGES. Loose them from it.

OH GOD, LOOSE THEM FROM it in the NAME OF JESUS. AND LET IT BE THAT GENERATIONAL BLESSINGS BEGIN to flow >> wherever the enemy has found legal grounds to bring accusation. As your children repent and turn to you, every hand of the enemy, we disconnect you from their lives.

your hand of torment, your hand of affliction, YOUR HAND OF BONDAGE. WE DISCONNECT YOU FROM their lives. Every hand of delay.

Thank you, Lord. Thank you, Lord. I come against the spiritual drought.

As they laid their idols before you, Jesus, >> let this drought come to an end. Let the drought come to an end. >> As they laid their idols before you, >> thank you, Lord.

Kimberly, pray. Touch her back in prayer. Thank you Jesus.

>> Thank you Lord. >> Thank you Lord. I hear this song so strongly.

Yeah. >> And I want us to I'm I'm about to do something and it's it's really a prophetic act. Oh, thank you Lord.

I want us to worship to this song. And the reason, if you know me, I'm a worshshiper in the shower. But there's someone literally that the Lord is calling to use their voice and worship, but you have made what you wanted to be like an idol.

And the Lord is saying it has nothing to do with how you sound. It has everything to do with my anointing. Choose this day to submit that.

And as the Lord is telling you to release yourself, then the funny part is that you actually have a beautiful voice. You just don't believe it. Thank you, Lord.

Lord, as they yield, come. As they yield, come. As they yield, empower them.

As they yield, touch them. As they yield, commission them. Thank you, Lord.

Thank you, Lord. I just want you to stay in the place of prayer. There is none like you, Lord.

There is none like you. No one else >> touch >> can touch my heart like you do. And I have searched through all eternity, Lord.

and found there is none like you. There is none like you. No one else can touch my heart like you do.

There is none like you. There is no just worship him. No one else can touch my heart like you do.

I have searched through all >> eternity, >> eternity, Lord, >> and find. >> There is no like you. Spirit of the living God, touch them now where the oil needs to flow.

Touch them now as they yield before you. Touch them now. Everything in the foundation that does not glorify the Lord, uproot it.

And where you're calling your children to arise, thank you Lord. They will not be in the place of argument anymore, but they will yield. And as you yield, he comes.

I see the hand of God coming upon a person right now. And fear has held you back for so long. But it was not an emotion.

It was a spirit. >> Thank you, Lord. And the hand of God is setting you free from the spirit of fear.

Lord, >> that has brought terror. >> Thank you, Lord. >> Thank you, Jesus.

>> Thank you, Lord. >> Thank you, Jesus. >> It is broken.

It is broken. It is broken. when it is broken never to return.

Your strength is in your yielding. Your strength is in your surrender. Let nothing stand in the way between you and the Lord Jesus.

Thank you, Lord. If you're in this room, Thank you, Lord. Thank you, Lord.

I see the angel of the Lord depositing gifts in hands. Oh, thank you, Lord. You see, what the Lord commissions, he will make the provision for.

There's going to be so so many of you are going to have testimonies of unlikely support, partnerships that came out of nowhere, help that came out of nowhere, support that came out of nowhere, even in the place of finances. Because as you yield, the Lord will provide what he has assigned for you to do. But be mindful.

Your God is not the help. Why I say that? Don't compromise because the enemy also knows how to bring counterfeit help.

You don't you're not a servant to aid. You're a servant to Jesus. If it comes with strings, let it go and trust him.

God never needed you to compromise to obey him. It doesn't go together. Thank you, Lord.

If you're in this room and you have not given your life to the Lord Jesus, Rick is going to come up in just a minute to pray with you. But I want to I I want to take a moment. You see, when the Lord begins to touch your life and because of his mercy, even deliver you and set you free from just bondage and the afflictions of the enemy.

If you don't surrender your life to Jesus, you make yourself a candidate for a worst case scenario. And maybe you came with a friend and maybe you've just been living in this place of compromise. That is not surrender.

That is just the acknowledgment that he is Lord. But you have not made him yours. If the Lord is Lord, that means you belong to him.

He owns you. He directs your path. He governs your ways.

But if he is not your Lord, as Rick is coming up, just lift up your hands. If you want to make him Lord over your life, lift up your hands right now. And Rick is going to pray with you.

Thank you, Jesus. Thank you, Jesus. I want you to lift it up high like you are excited.

Thank you, Lord. We will lift our hands for random things. Thank you, Jesus.

Thank you, Lord. >> Amen. Amen.

Amen. Amen. Keep your hands lifted if you're going to receive this prayer.

If you're receiving salvation for the first time, please keep your hands lifted because the Lord is going to impart his love to you right now. He's going to impart his forgiveness to you right now. You're going to come become a new creation in him.

Just repeat after me. Say, "Dear heavenly father, dear heavenly father, >> I admit that I am a sinner and I need your forgiveness. I believe that Jesus died on the cross for my sins and rose from the dead.

I turn from my sins and invite Jesus to come into my heart and life as my Lord and Savior. I give my life to you and invite the Holy Spirit to dwell within me in Jesus mighty name. Amen.