Embracing Divine Assignments with Courage and Faith
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"You will begin to make steps in that assignment I don't care what it looks like Do something with what God Has given you That's why the presence Is so strong right now I was sitting there worshiping And I was overwhelmed Because five years ago I said God could you create a space In this house In which your presence Was so thick That we couldn't stand it And as I'm sitting here worshiping I'm saying God you did it I said God you did it But in that same breath I said God I want more God I want more God give me the city Give me this city Give us this city God And I believe God is going to honor that In his sons and daughters Because you are in places and spaces That I won't ever go to Or can't ever go to But he's put an assignment on you For this hour Now raise your hands to the Father Raise your hands to the Father Father Father Father Father Lord I just released That anointing That apostolic anointing To do The assignments that you put on your children The assignments that you put on your children Right now God Right now God Lord I pray for an extraordinary measure Of courage An extraordinary measure Of courage Of courage Release it right now God That this would be the week God's steps are going to be taken Steps are going to be taken Father In the name of the Father And the Son and the Holy Spirit Double portion Double portion Thank you Father Thank you Father Thank you Father Thank you Father Thank you Father Thank you Father Thank you Father Courage An extraordinary measure Of courage Courage, Father." [01:00:30] (129 seconds)
"This is what Paul said in Romans chapter eight, verse 18, the New King James translation. He said, for, I consider that this, this, that the sufferings of this present time are not worthy to be compared with the glory, which shall be revealed in us. What is he talking about? He's saying that we are going to suffer on this side of the cross. That there is suffering on this side of the cross. Now there's two kinds of suffering. I personally believe he's talking specifically about a specific kind of suffering, but you can include other types of suffering as well. There's suffering because of life being challenging. Right? so you're like getting entered into the living. So I don't want to put you in a situation where have to Dillos." [01:15:23] (61 seconds)
"And then there's suffering for the namesake of christ and there are different kinds of suffering but would we agree that suffering is suffering pain is pain anguish is anguish i do specifically believe that the gospel writer is talking about suffering for the namesake of christ for some reason or another i've been this week and the week before kind of fixated on some of the the videos that you can watch on youtube around the persecuted church and all of that that believers in these countries are suffering for because of their belief in jesus like part of their understanding is to believe is to suffer and they just accept that they accept in fact there was a video of a room of chinese believers and when asked you know how many of you have suffered for the namesake of christ raise your hand all of them raise their hand and then the the person that asked the question went a little deeper and he asked he says how many of you have gone to prison" [01:16:34] (88 seconds)
"for christ all but one raised their hand now if i ask that question here how many have gone to prison you know for the namesake of christ probably very few of any hands would raise so there is a a type of suffering that that paul is talking about that gets pretty radical and pretty extreme and he's talking about a time ofOW WE ARE FALSES AND WE ARE SHOWED OFF AS BEING basically saying that compared to what is coming for the believer, compared to what we get to enter into, there is no suffering on this earth that can compare. That's what he's saying. In other words, he's basically saying to the believer, if I had to choose one or the other," [01:18:05] (62 seconds)
"I would take both. I would suffer knowing that something greater is coming. But whether we suffer for Christ or whether we just suffer because life is difficult, as a believer, we all are subject to suffering. But the good news, say good news, is that as believers, we are not left alone in our suffering. We are not left alone. You know, Paul goes on after verse 18, he says, even nature is suffering. Nature is suffering and groaning for the imminent return. The return of Jesus. And then he goes on and says, yes, and believers, we too ourselves are groaning for the full fulfillment of what God has in store for every son and daughter." [01:19:15] (83 seconds)
"It says, likewise, the Spirit, speaking of the Holy Spirit, also helps in our weakness. So Paul is acknowledging that that we are human. We are frail. We are going through stuff in our life, whether it's for Christ or whether it's life circumstances that we are going through stuff. And we do get to a point where we are weak. You know, and there's something about acknowledging our weakness. And just because you're called to the gospel ministry, just because you have a title doesn't mean that you don't experience weakness. I don't care how annoying. I don't care how annoying. you are if you're in the skin you will experience frailty and weakness and guess what it's okay to acknowledge that" [01:21:42] (66 seconds)
"he said paul said the holy spirit will help in our weakness weakness for we do not know what we should pray as we ought what does he say he says there is a way we should pray but we don't always know the way to pray there's things that we should be praying about concerning our weakness concerning our circumstances but we don't always know what to pray what to pray what to pray i mean we approach the throne of grace and we say whatever comes out of our mouth sometimes we have something to say sometimes we don't have nothing to say sometimes it seems like it comes out eloquently and and sometimes it seems like it's gibberish" [01:22:56] (58 seconds)
"sometimes it's rote memory where we just say the same thing over and over and over and over again because we just don't know what else to say but clearly paul is indicating that there's some way that we ought to pray concerning our situations and i am so grateful that god didn't leave us to our own humanity man this is paul's whole point in chapter 8. this is paul's whole point in chapter 8. as he's expounding on all these amazing doctrines he says the doctrines are worthless if we don't operate under the influence of the holy spirit he says the holy spirit will help in our weakness for we do not know what we should pray for as we ought to know but the holy spirit himself say himself makes our lives to be dwelling in his word for the Now scene. It's intercession, say intercession for us with groanings, which cannot be uttered. Now, some will use that portion of scripture and suggest that. He's talking about tongues." [01:24:10] (88 seconds)
"How many have heard that before? For. Maybe. Maybe not. All I know is when you when you look at the word groanings in the Greek. It's basically. Let's see, how do you say this? Unintelligible. Is that is that is that the proper word? For my. Scholars out here, unintelligible. Also, emotion without words. Is what it also means. So whether it's. Uttering things that are. Unintelligible or whether it's emotions that somehow we can't put words to. There is this sense of groaning. It's the same word used earlier when Paul was referring to nature groans. And then he said, humans groan. And he comes back and says, the Holy Spirit groans." [01:25:46] (82 seconds)
"And he's in this groaning. He's making some sort of intercession. Now, I looked up that word. Intercession, and I repeated it several times in the Greek so I could impress you with how to say it. And I knew once I got up here, I would forget. Because it's a long one. So I could just pull up my YouTube and then put it toward my microphone and let you hear YouTube. Say it. But it's like. Hooper into. Something like that. It's a long Greek word. But essentially it means. These two things. The first part means super or hyper. And the second part means pleading. Intervening as in making an appeal. So the Holy Spirit. In that state of groaning. On behalf of us. Is making some sort of super appeal to the father. Now hold on." [01:27:06] (81 seconds)
"He's dialed into our circumstance that's causing a weakness. In our humanity. We're struggling. We mean well. But we're struggling. And the Holy Spirit says. I'm not going to let you do this alone. Now, when he says that he helps us, he doesn't replace our struggle or our groanings or our initiative. He just comes alongside and helps us. But he dials into your specific and I think you need to you need to bring that to your memory. It's your specific circumstance. It's not just whitewashed general circumstance. It's what you are going through. And he looks at you. And he sees the distress signal coming from your very being. How many how many have ever been in a situation where the only prayer you could pray was help?" [01:28:11] (72 seconds)
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"This is what Paul said in Romans chapter eight, verse 18, the New King James translation. He said, for, I consider that this, this, that the sufferings of this present time are not worthy to be compared with the glory, which shall be revealed in us. What is he talking about? He's saying that we are going to suffer on this side of the cross. That there is suffering on this side of the cross. Now there's two kinds of suffering. I personally believe he's talking specifically about a specific kind of suffering, but you can include other types of suffering as well. There's suffering because of life being challenging. Right? so you're like getting entered into the living. So I don't want to put you in a situation where have to Dillos." [01:15:23] (61 seconds)
"And then there's suffering for the namesake of christ and there are different kinds of suffering but would we agree that suffering is suffering pain is pain anguish is anguish i do specifically believe that the gospel writer is talking about suffering for the namesake of christ for some reason or another i've been this week and the week before kind of fixated on some of the the videos that you can watch on youtube around the persecuted church and all of that that believers in these countries are suffering for because of their belief in jesus like part of their understanding is to believe is to suffer and they just accept that they accept in fact there was a video of a room of chinese believers and when asked you know how many of you have suffered for the namesake of christ raise your hand all of them raise their hand and then the the person that asked the question went a little deeper and he asked he says how many of you have gone to prison" [01:16:34] (88 seconds)
"for christ all but one raised their hand now if i ask that question here how many have gone to prison you know for the namesake of christ probably very few of any hands would raise so there is a a type of suffering that that paul is talking about that gets pretty radical and pretty extreme and he's talking about a time ofOW WE ARE FALSES AND WE ARE SHOWED OFF AS BEING basically saying that compared to what is coming for the believer, compared to what we get to enter into, there is no suffering on this earth that can compare. That's what he's saying. In other words, he's basically saying to the believer, if I had to choose one or the other," [01:18:05] (62 seconds)
"I would take both. I would suffer knowing that something greater is coming. But whether we suffer for Christ or whether we just suffer because life is difficult, as a believer, we all are subject to suffering. But the good news, say good news, is that as believers, we are not left alone in our suffering. We are not left alone. You know, Paul goes on after verse 18, he says, even nature is suffering. Nature is suffering and groaning for the imminent return. The return of Jesus. And then he goes on and says, yes, and believers, we too ourselves are groaning for the full fulfillment of what God has in store for every son and daughter." [01:19:15] (83 seconds)
"It says, likewise, the Spirit, speaking of the Holy Spirit, also helps in our weakness. So Paul is acknowledging that that we are human. We are frail. We are going through stuff in our life, whether it's for Christ or whether it's life circumstances that we are going through stuff. And we do get to a point where we are weak. You know, and there's something about acknowledging our weakness. And just because you're called to the gospel ministry, just because you have a title doesn't mean that you don't experience weakness. I don't care how annoying. I don't care how annoying. you are if you're in the skin you will experience frailty and weakness and guess what it's okay to acknowledge that" [01:21:42] (66 seconds)
"he said paul said the holy spirit will help in our weakness weakness for we do not know what we should pray as we ought what does he say he says there is a way we should pray but we don't always know the way to pray there's things that we should be praying about concerning our weakness concerning our circumstances but we don't always know what to pray what to pray what to pray i mean we approach the throne of grace and we say whatever comes out of our mouth sometimes we have something to say sometimes we don't have nothing to say sometimes it seems like it comes out eloquently and and sometimes it seems like it's gibberish" [01:22:56] (58 seconds)
"sometimes it's rote memory where we just say the same thing over and over and over and over again because we just don't know what else to say but clearly paul is indicating that there's some way that we ought to pray concerning our situations and i am so grateful that god didn't leave us to our own humanity man this is paul's whole point in chapter 8. this is paul's whole point in chapter 8. as he's expounding on all these amazing doctrines he says the doctrines are worthless if we don't operate under the influence of the holy spirit he says the holy spirit will help in our weakness for we do not know what we should pray for as we ought to know but the holy spirit himself say himself makes our lives to be dwelling in his word for the Now scene. It's intercession, say intercession for us with groanings, which cannot be uttered. Now, some will use that portion of scripture and suggest that. He's talking about tongues." [01:24:10] (88 seconds)
"How many have heard that before? For. Maybe. Maybe not. All I know is when you when you look at the word groanings in the Greek. It's basically. Let's see, how do you say this? Unintelligible. Is that is that is that the proper word? For my. Scholars out here, unintelligible. Also, emotion without words. Is what it also means. So whether it's. Uttering things that are. Unintelligible or whether it's emotions that somehow we can't put words to. There is this sense of groaning. It's the same word used earlier when Paul was referring to nature groans. And then he said, humans groan. And he comes back and says, the Holy Spirit groans." [01:25:46] (82 seconds)
"And he's in this groaning. He's making some sort of intercession. Now, I looked up that word. Intercession, and I repeated it several times in the Greek so I could impress you with how to say it. And I knew once I got up here, I would forget. Because it's a long one. So I could just pull up my YouTube and then put it toward my microphone and let you hear YouTube. Say it. But it's like. Hooper into. Something like that. It's a long Greek word. But essentially it means. These two things. The first part means super or hyper. And the second part means pleading. Intervening as in making an appeal. So the Holy Spirit. In that state of groaning. On behalf of us. Is making some sort of super appeal to the father. Now hold on." [01:27:06] (81 seconds)
"He's dialed into our circumstance that's causing a weakness. In our humanity. We're struggling. We mean well. But we're struggling. And the Holy Spirit says. I'm not going to let you do this alone. Now, when he says that he helps us, he doesn't replace our struggle or our groanings or our initiative. He just comes alongside and helps us. But he dials into your specific and I think you need to you need to bring that to your memory. It's your specific circumstance. It's not just whitewashed general circumstance. It's what you are going through. And he looks at you. And he sees the distress signal coming from your very being. How many how many have ever been in a situation where the only prayer you could pray was help?" [01:28:11] (72 seconds)
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