Nathan Pickens and Karleigh Wood dropping bombs!

Good morning, men and women. Such an honor to be able to speak to you again on the Pando app. What an awesome piece of technology to be able to speak into your lives for you guys to be able to take your free time or whatever time and actually dive into something that's going to speak to your spirit, that's going to feed the spiritual dog inside of you instead of the fleshly dog inside of you. And man, I just, I thank God every day for the Pando app, for the tablets. My name is Logan Williams. My TDC number is 1 4 9 0 2 1 8. And I got out in 2020 and I didn't have a tablet or a Pando app and I wish I did. It sure would have made it a lot easier to grow in the spirit and to feed my spirit. So we're just so grateful for you guys here at Life Fellowship here in McKinney, Texas. We love all of you so much. We consider you part of our church family. We pray for you often. Our senior pastor asks about what we can do, how you guys are doing, what more can we do? So I say that to say if you're ever around the Dallas-Fort Worth Metroplex on a Sunday when you get out, even if you don't live here, if you're somewhere near here, man, come to Life Fellowship where we have four services. I would love to meet you. You can't miss me. I'm out there in the lobby. We would love to introduce you to everyone that's been praying for you and everyone that loves you. And we just want to treat you like a celebrity. Basically what happens, had a guy yesterday and man, he was just awesome. So we want to be able to do that with you. And if you live near here, man, we'd love to walk with you. We'd love for you to be a part of our church family. And we mean that. I mean that. My heart is for inmates because I got four numbers after that number and I've been rounding, rounding, rounding the system wondering, is my life ever going to change? Is this it? Am I even capable of doing this walk, this Christian thing, whatever it may be, whatever the struggle is in your head, because I know many of you, this is not your first time. I know that. And I know that's frustrating and it's disappointing and your loved ones just are like, what, what are you doing? So I get all that. Hey, tell, speaking of loved ones, tell your loved ones they can download the same Pando app that you have right there on their phone. I got it on my phone. You can watch all the same content, the Bible project, chosen. There's a bunch of books. There's 138 churches that put content on there last time I counted. Probably more than that now. And, but the point is you can watch the same messages and you can have conversations like, Hey son, what did the Holy Spirit speak to you in that

message? And y'all can have the dialogue and you can be a spiritual leader in your household, even though you're incarcerated, don't fall victim to the lies of the enemy that says you can't do that. You absolutely can do that. And we want you to do that. And that's why we put so much stuff on there. Don't forget to like and subscribe so that you don't miss anything that we put out. We, I was looking at Hebrews chapter four this morning. And I just want to read it to you starting in verse 14, because I know, uh, it's difficult in there. There are many valleys in there. There are many times when you're just like, want to give up and you just want to, you just get anxious. And he's like, God, because I know there's so many things in there that are out of your control. Um, but I'm about to talk about something that is in your control and that is your relationship with your heavenly father. Verse 14, it's talking about Jesus. The writer's talking about Jesus says, seeing that we have a great high priest who has passed through the heavens, Jesus, the son of God, let us hold fast to our confession. So let's man, let's hang on to this thing with everything we got. Even though we may feel disappointed, even though we may feel like, dang, even though we may have stumbled and fallen again, man, hold fast to that confession. It says for we do not have a high priest talking about Jesus who cannot sympathize with our weaknesses, but was in all points tempted as we are yet without sin. So what that's saying is Jesus at when he walked on this earth as a human, when he He stepped down from heaven into our mess. Amazing. But when he walked as a human, he was tempted in every way that you were tempted. He understands frustration, disappointment. He understands wanting to drink that thing or smoke that thing or lust after that woman or fall into sexual sin or whatever your thing is that gets you. He gets that, man. And he's not mad at you. Like it's not taking him by surprise

because he was right here going through that himself. He just happened to be God and he didn't sin, but he gets it, man. And so with that said, verse 16 says, let us therefore come boldly to the throne of grace that we may obtain mercy and find grace to help in time of need. Because Jesus knows what it's like on planet earth, what it's like to be tempted, man, and to fall and do that thing. Even though he didn't fall and do that thing, he was tempted just like we are. He gets it, man. He's not mad at us. Nothing takes him by surprise. Because of that, we can come boldly to the throne of grace. And so I just wanna encourage somebody today. I just wanna speak into someone's life today that maybe you relapsed back on drugs. Maybe you got in a fight. Maybe you just beat somebody down and you feel bad about it. Maybe you haven't been praying. Maybe you haven't been reading. Maybe you haven't been doing what you feel like you should do as a Christian. Jesus is saying, come boldly. Come boldly, because he knows what that feels like. If you're not feeling it, he's saying, come boldly.

If you hadn't been reading the word, he's saying, come boldly. If you just yelled at your wife over the phone, he's saying, come boldly. No matter what you've done, he's saying, come boldly. Maybe you just gave up on this whole thing and you haven't been coming to church. And for some reason, you're watching this video today. He's saying, come back to church, but come boldly. Guys, the enemy wants to lie to you and tell you that you can't come into his presence because of this, this, this, and this. The enemy wants to make you feel like you can't come to him. Guys, why are we hiding from God? He knows everything that we've done anyway. And he's telling us in his word that he wants us to come boldly. And so I wanna encourage somebody today that is doubting, that is feeling anxious, that is disappointed, that is on the verge of giving up, but for whatever reason, you're watching this video today. I wanna encourage you, man, to come boldly back to the throne of grace, because it says that you're gonna get mercy and you're gonna find grace to help you in this time of need. Jesus walked in your shoes, man. He knows what it's like to have all these temptations. He knows what it's like to be betrayed. He knows what it's like to have his friends

turn their backs on him. He knows what it's like to have all the feelings that you're having. Okay, come boldly. That's, if you don't hear anything else, come boldly. Father, I just lift up these men and women who are listening to this today. And I just wanna thank you, God, Luke 15, that you've left 99 to come after them. Whatever they're going through, God, I pray that you would meet them right where they are and let them know how much you love them and let them know that, man, you not only are allowing them to come boldly back, but your deepest desire, man, like your yearning is for them to come boldly. And so I just wanna speak against any of the lies of the enemy that are telling anybody that they can't come into your presence, that they can't come back to you because they've done this, this, and this, and that they need to clean themselves up or stop doing drugs for 30 days and then you can come back or stop doing whatever and then they can come to church. No, no, no, no, no. I just bind the enemy in Jesus' name and I just speak and declare that those chains are broken in Jesus' name. And I just want to ask God that you would put a desire in their heart, give them revelation in the knowledge of Christ

and know that they can come boldly right now. I don't care if they just smoked something and set it down. They can come to you boldly because you love them. And not only do you love them, but you gave it all for them, like you went first, God. And so I pray, God, that somebody today would hear this and draw a line in the sand and say, man, I'm coming boldly, God. I'm coming boldly because your word says, not because of what the preacher says, not because of what somebody else said, because your word says. Your word says that I can come boldly right now. And so here I am, I'm here in your presence, boldly. God, speak to me. God, change me. God, transform me. God, this is the cries of our hearts. And so I thank you again for these men and women. I thank you just for the honor and the ability to proclaim your word, what an honor it is. I just ask that you would bless them, that you would bless their families while they're gone, that you would just provide for their families and just heal their families and just be with their families and comfort them, God. And we love you so much. Thank you for your word. And thank you for your presence. In Jesus' name, amen.

Amen. So, you know, I've just got one more question for you. Whose house? God's house. Let's give him some praise. I just want to sit here for just a moment. I don't want to rush too fast with what I feel. There's an excitement in the Lord's heart for you. I feel his love for me. I feel his love for me. I feel his love for me. I feel his love for me. I feel his love so strongly for you, so strongly. He sees your heart. He knows what keeps you up at night. He knows the worries on your heart. And he's already had the answer before you even asked. He knows what you need. He's a savior. He's a redeemer. He's a healer. He is a miracle worker. I don't know what you've come here or into this year with. I don't know what your need is. But I tell you, we serve a very, very big God. He's a very intimate and personal God. He is not distant. He is Emmanuel. He is God with us through all the things. And it delights him to be in the with us.

We're his kids. My kids are here. And I love them more than anything. And there isn't anything I wouldn't do for them. And there is nothing that the Lord hasn't already done for you. That's why when he was done, he said, it's finished. It's complete. It doesn't need to be added to. There's nothing we can do. No amount of hard praying to bring it. I'm telling you, he's gone before you. It is already there. The ram is in the thicket. It is already there. Just partner your faith with his. He's the author and the perfecter of it. So I'm here tonight, and I feel like the Lord has put a word on my heart. For the body for this year. And I wanted to share it with you so you guys can sit down. I'll stop crying. Maybe. So thank you, guys. Thank you, Pastor Chris and Pastor Tatum. For your hearts. Thank you for your encouragement and your support. Your love for the prophetic. Your love for the church. Your love for the Lord. And all that I know that you do behind the scenes. And the prayers.

Countless prayers that you have prayed for us. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Prayer paves the way. Prayer prepares. Prayer is seed. So plant away, people. So with that, we're going to begin in prayer. Before I just kind of launch into the excitement I think the Lord has. And the good things that he has on his heart. For us this year. So if you guys will just join me. Heavenly Father. I thank you first of all. You're a father. You have a father's heart. And you have a father's heart. And you have a father's heart. And you have a father's heart. And you have a father's heart. Thank you for your immense And you have a father's heart. Love and it was because of that love that you sacrificed Jesus. I thank you Jesus. You are the answer. I Thank you. It is finished. I Thank you that times and seasons and circumstances are in your hands and I thank you that you are sovereign And that you are doing a lot in the earth and the kingdom is advancing And I ask as you're a good father that loves to give gifts to his kids I ask that you would give all of us Ears to hear and eyes to see what the spirit of the Lord would say. I ask that you would give us discernment. I

Asked that you Would enlighten the eyes of our heart that we might know the hope of our calling And the riches of our insane riches of our inheritance in the Saints And I just say Holy Spirit come we need you we you are all that we need Lord so come into this place Come into our hearts Let it not be my words. Let it be yours that they hear And I just give you all thanks and praise for your good plans and your good purposes That are being loosed on the earth at a rapid rate in Jesus name Okay, I don't know um, my name is Carly I probably didn't say that before I launched into my crying My name is Carly. I am a prophetic coach here at Life Fellowship. I've got a few prophetic classes that are equipped So Some of you might not even know what is prophecy. What is that all about? So I wanted to share a few scriptures With you before I share the word that he put on my heart. So 2nd Peter chapter 1 verses 20 through 21 talks about how prophecy does not originate in Man's own understanding and man's initiative, but it says someone is moved by the Holy Spirit And Revelations 19 10 talks about Jesus is the essence of prophecy Prophecy has a way of propelling us into our future which for all of us is Jesus And then 1st Thessalonians 5 21 talks about test everything that is said and Hold to what is good. How do you test it? It should line up with the Word of God It should line up with the character of God. It should be confirmed by his spirit. And if it's not let it go So I'm encouraging you tonight to do that with the words that I share with you I I Wanted to find a few concepts that will be within the word so we're all kind of on the on the same page Time in the Bible is described in a couple of different ways. It's Chronos, which I think we're all pretty familiar with right chronological It's linear. It's months days seasons seconds

But then there's Kairos moments and Kairos moments are God ordained moments They refer to like an appointed time they refer to And not a time that's ripe with opportunity That are divinely orchestrated by the Lord It's like as if the Lord looks down at time and he steps into time and he fulfills his plans and his purposes It also comes with it though a call to action There's an urgency in the faith this opportunity Has within it To change the course of events not just for us on an individual level But also for a group of people around us a body of people So it's much larger than that that the opportunities that we I think have in this Kairos moment on God's calendar I Believe God is being very intentional. He is very purposeful. He is very impactful But his plans happen and they catch up to things on his timeline and I believe he's very powerfully going to manifest them in the earth this year and Some examples in the Bible of Kairos moments are in creation It was God's time to come in and basically dislodge the chaos dislodge the darkness by speaking and By loosing light and new life and order When Abraham Called to leave the homeland. He was comfortable in and go to a place. He didn't know He was not familiar with with a promise and the Lord's blessing. I Think the Lord's gonna be sending some of you this year into some places. You're just not very familiar with But you're gonna have a promise and you're gonna have his blessing Kairos moments are like when Moses Encountered the burning bush right every day. I mean who knows how many days he passed that bush

And yet there was a Kairos moment That bush was burning. It was different there was something unusual about it in the normal course of his life and it drew him to the bush and He left that encounter with the Lord walking out in his calling He had no idea. I'm sure when he woke up for the day where he would end the day a Kairos moment is Esther Divinely positioned but she had to choose to courageously make some decisions to partner what the Lord wanted and Then of course we have Jesus and I love what the Bible says. It says when the fullness of time came God sent his son The fulfillment of promises God sent his son How long had people been waiting? How many words have they been given My feeling is this is a year there have been promises you've been holding on to for a while and This I believe is a year of fulfillment of many promises So holy at Holy Spirit, I ask that you would ignite within each one. What are those promises that? Will be fulfilled this year because it's time It's a Kairos moment And then you have Saul Who's instantaneously Transformed again going about his normal business, right and All of a sudden he encounters the Lord his knowledge of the Lord is now an encounter with the Lord and his sight has changed and he walks out with a new name a new calling a new direction and a new destiny and A new revelation of who his God really is It was a Kairos moment Ecclesiastes 3 talks about there's a time for everything

Under the Sun and God has made everything beautiful and it's time There's gonna be a lot of beauty. I believe this year That's gonna be coming for the people of God. I I Believe there are gonna be rapid moves of the Spirit Suddenly suddenly things will shift But it's gonna cause things to completely reform From the form it previously was There's a quickening spirit, I believe that is on the move in the earth and In Psalm 119 107 it talks about this It says quicken me O Lord According unto thy word there's a quickening spirit on his word. What is his word to you? There's a quickening spirit on the word. The Lord is making up for lost time. The Lord is making up for delays The Lord is like no my plans and my purposes they will prevail His intentions stay in firm they always have been they always will be and today is the day and this is the time and you're Gonna see it You're gonna see it So as I was praying You know how sometimes then again, I don't know guys if you have had this but right you're praying about one thing and the Lord like Interjects this other thing that wasn't on your grid. You weren't looking for it and yet we're talking about something totally different as anyone else or Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Yes. Yes hands hands. Yes. Okay. This was a moment for me I was praying about one thing and Kind of it seemed out of nowhere The Lord drops this word Into my heart and Again another moment that I I had it was very pivotal for my family. I was praying about something for my older son And again, it seems somewhat unrelated The Lord is like you need to take him to a different school

What like things are good Like it's going great. Actually, I have no reason this was not our plan and yet We got our son involved, we all start praying, and I'm talking in record time. We move him. He's at a different school. So now we're like, oh gosh, we hadn't even considered this. Like I went to my husband, and he's like, the Lord's been telling me this for weeks. And I was like, wow. So now I'm like, okay, well, we've got another son, like, what do we do with him? Like, this was not on our grid. So we start looping him in, we start praying about that, and lo and behold, we feel led for him. So now we're like, wow, okay, didn't see that coming, didn't plan for it, didn't prepare. We didn't even have the money. So I'm like, I don't know how that's happening, but okay, we're just going to move with this, right? You said. And of course, the God arranged all the things. And we're there, within a year, my husband's on the board, and I'm involved in all kinds of things. These were not our plans. Like, at all, why? Because the Lord had a Kairos moment. We released a word, and we acted on it. And the next thing I know, it's impacting our whole family, are being blessed by this Kairos moment, and us acting on it. So these are the moments I believe we as a body, we have at hand. So I had the title of this word, I would say, it is time for rapid reforming and divine alignments.

That was plural, in case you weren't listening. I saw, the Lord gave me a picture, and I saw time, right, it's linear, and I saw it folding in on itself. So there are like eight layers. This thing looks like chutes and ladders. Anyone familiar with the game, chutes and ladders? Thank you. I love how the Lord is so playful, as well. Thank you for making it fun, because I was like, I can grab a hold of that. I know chutes and ladders. Except the ladders were also the slides in one. And instead of, if you hit it, you went down a level, of course, right, the kingdom is so opposite the world, right? You didn't go down, you went up, if you found the ladder in the slide. So you could rapidly advance like eight levels in no time flat. So then I had this picture, and I'm like, okay, but what does this mean? And I don't know if the Lord gives you pictures or ideas or things, but always take everything back to scripture, always. So I'm seeking and I'm like, okay, what does this mean? And I felt like he says, I'm causing acceleration and rapid divine alignments. This is a Kairos and a Kronos overlapping. This is a Matthew 6.10. This is my kingdom is coming and my will will be done in the earth as it is in heaven. This is a Genesis 28.12 moment. And if you're familiar with that, it's when Jacob is actually on his way to meet his wife. And in that, he lays down for the night and he has a dream, not expecting it, right? And he encounters the Lord. He sees the stairway, he sees angelic activity coming up and down. And I believe the Lord wanted me to read the scripture over you. So I'm going to begin in Genesis 28, chapter 12, and I'll read through till the end.

And it says, and he slept and he dreamed. And I want you to put yourself where I say he, you. And he slept and he dreamed of a stairway that reached from the earth up to heaven. And he saw the angels of God going up and down on the stairway and at the top of the stairway stood the Lord. He said, I am the Lord, the God of your grandfather, Abraham, the God of your father, Isaac, and the ground that you are lying on belongs to you. I'm giving it to you and your descendants. Your descendants will be as numerous as the dust of the earth. They will spread out in all directions to the west and to the east, to the north and to the south. And all the families of the earth will be blessed through you and your descendants. What's more, I am with you. I will protect you wherever you go. And one day I will bring you back to this land. I will not leave you until I have finished giving you everything that I have promised you. Then Jacob awoke from his sleep and he said, surely the Lord is in this place. And I wasn't even aware, but he was also afraid. And he said, Ooh, what an awesome place this is. It's none other than the house of God. The very gateway of heaven. That is who we are. We are the house of God. We are the gateway to heaven. We carry his presence. The next morning, he got up really early. He took a stone that he had rested his head against and he set it upright on a memorial pillar. Then he poured olive oil over it

and he named the place Bethel, which means house of God. Although previously it was called Luz and it might be Luz, I don't know. I'm Texan, so I might be butchering that, but basically it meant light. But it got a new name. He had an encounter with the Lord and that place got a new name. There are places that you are at that the Lord wants to rename. I don't know if your place is disappointment and he wants to give you hope. I don't know if your place is despair and he wants to give you new life. I don't know if your place is grief and he wants to give you joy instead of the ashes that you have. I don't know what your place is, but I'm telling you, he's coming this year. It is a Kairos moment. He is renaming your place because you've had an encounter with the Lord. Then Jacob made a vow. He said, if God will indeed be with me and protect me on this journey, and if he will provide for me with food and clothing, I will return safely to my father's home and then the Lord will certainly be my God. And he set up a memorial pillar and it became a place of worship.

And he presented a God a 10th of everything that he had. I think we're going to be going to deeper places of worship than we've ever known before. I think we're going to be offering him all kinds of offering, right? Because we've encountered the Lord in a way we've never known. And out of that encounter, you want, you can't help, you are compelled to give back and whatever that that might look like, willingly wanting to do that out of worship and out of adoration and out of relationship and out of that encounter. Rapid redemption and restoration is at hand. Wells that have been hidden in the past are going to be opening up like in Genesis 26 for Isaac. Treasure that was lost will be found. Inequity and family is made straight. Generational inheritance will be received. Generational promises will be reclaimed and reignited. This folding of time also creates what I'm going to call a slip stream for people to flow at a faster rate of acceleration and advance in the spirit at a rate determined by the Lord. Has the Lord ever told you like words? You're like, I don't even know if I know what that word means. So I'm like, what is this slip stream? So I asked the Lord and I got this picture

of like a slip and slide and a jet plane had a baby. You're in the slip stream. So the Carly definition would be where people are basically carried by the spirit of the Lord at a rapid rate to a place they could never get on their own. According to Miriam Webster, it actually has the word slip stream in the dictionary. Who knew? It says it's fluid such as air or water. And in this case, both. Driven by a propeller, spirit of the Lord. Noah's boat, which represents salvation, which if you know the Lord, you're in the boat, didn't have a wheel. It just needed the spirit of the Lord to get it where I needed to go and to do what he needed it to do. We're in the boat. He's got the wheel. We're being propelled in places we probably never dreamed. At rates that would make your face flap. It's a Revelations 20 to one moment. It says, then the angel showed me a river with a water of life clear as crystal flowing from the throne of God and of the lamb. It's a Genesis 24, 40 moment. The Lord in whose presence I have lived will send his angel with you and will make your mission successful.

I believe the Lord has released some angelic assistance Because he's like I want assurance that this will go well for you That's his heart. That's his plan It will Examples in the Bible of a slipstream our first Kings 1946 and it's when the Lord gave special strength to Elijah to run ahead of Ahab's chariot, it's a Jonah 4 6 moment When he's there and he causes this leafy plant to rapidly grow like in a day so he could sit under it So it could provide shade from the scorching Sun so it could ease his discomfort The Lord is growing some things in your life for your discomfort to be eased Supernaturally It's like a Nehemiah the Lord had stirred him and given him kind of a burden For the walls and the gates of Jerusalem that were in disarray and he's like I've chosen you You're the one that will help me accomplish this So Nehemiah and his wisdom, of course then just prayed Because I'm sure he's like wow, this sounds like a really big job he prayed and Then he obediently went out And he had to be determined To execute what he felt like the Lord was asking of him and it was bigger than him He had to get Kings involved. He had to get common people involved. It was more than him. It was bigger than him But through everyone getting involved doing their part The walls and the gates were built in like record time slipstream 52 days We're at a time we need one another we need one another we're a body We're a body The hand can't get anywhere without the feet The mouth needs the head. We need the heart. We need the whole body being the body doing our part To bring about some things this year. I think that are on the Lord's heart for us a

Slipstream is an acts 12 moment This is when King Herod had Peter in prison and it was King Herod's intention That basically before Passover came He was going to take him to trial but God But God had a different plan But God had a slipstream the church Because the church prayed he was miraculously released she prayed about a miracle This year is ripe for that because the church prayed Because the church came together I think there are miracles that the Lord wants to do but it requires us as the body as the church to earnestly pray But there are things he wants to do but he needs us to partner with him in losing it This slipstream will bypass intellect Intentions and it will bring fast alignments in the spirit fast shifts fast manifestations fast Miracles fast reconciliation fast restoration what took 10 years will take two This slipstream will properly position the body It was just like Joseph was repositioned and relocated at honestly what seems like very unfortunate circumstances No one would say sign me up for that But I would encourage you not to look at the surface I Would encourage you to ask the Lord see in the spirit What's really going on Lord so you can partner with his purposes? Joseph got exactly where he needed to be in his destiny man, though it seemed tried could not stop it I Encourage you to see in the spirit do not judge it by what you see on the surface God relocated Jesus by giving Joseph a dream. I Don't know if there are dreams that you've had that have died or dreams that he's going to give you at night but I think this is going to be a big year of dreams in a lot of ways coming to life and providing direction There are new connections and combinations of relationships that will be forming it is like circles moving and opening

and reforming. Circles upon circles. Lots of circles forming and reforming and moving. This time of relational reforming is for the purposes of the kingdom to advance. We cannot accomplish the mission. We each need each other. No longer will things be done by individuals. God is intentionally creating gaps. Needs that others in the body will fill to help advance the kingdom within the earth. This will also ignite a multiplicity of gifting. A hundredfold harvest is at hand, but it can only be done as the body, not on an individual level. We need one another. We need to partner with one another. We need the gifts to come together for one another, for the purposes and the plans of God. We need one another more than we've ever needed one another. Again, we're a body and he's the head. A lot that will seem chaotic is actually divinely orchestrated and divinely taken place. Discernment is needed to know what God is reordering. So allowing it to carry on. Don't try to shut it down. The religious spirit will try to rise up and stop it and condemn those moving in this, but the spirit of the Lord will prevail and you will know it is the Lord by his fruit, his character qualities, if it's the Lord or not. Again, look beyond logic. See in the spirit. Test it and you'll know. I feel like the Lord is taking off blinders. We've been walking in a really narrow place and soon it's gonna open up into a really large field. New vision, new wine, new mantles are at hand. Matthew 9, 17 comes to mind. It says, no one puts new wine in old wine skins, for the old wine skins would burst from the pressure spilling the wine and ruining the skins. New wine is stored in new wine skins so that both are preserved. So I was like, what is this new wine? And I would encourage you, ask the Lord some questions that I know he probably is stirring in you right now. But I felt like part of the new wine was just a newness of life, a joy in the Lord. And for some of you, I think it's been a long time since you've had genuine joy in the Lord. Rapid transformation is at hand, but I feel so strongly it's going to come. It's going to require let go of the old. Let go of some things. You can't take them where he's taken you. I felt an emphasis on Philippians 3, 13 says, I focus on this one thing, forget the past. And I look forward expectantly to what lies ahead.

And I press on because God is calling us through Christ. I felt an emphasis of Hebrews 12, verses 1 through 2. And it talks about letting go of the things that weigh us down. Let go of the sin that is holding you back. It's keeping you trapped. It's time to let it go. It's time to let some things go. It's time to run the race he has for us. And it's going to require some letting go. It's time to run. But we do this by focusing on who Jesus is. He's our author. He's our perfecter. Keeping our eyes on him, you will know where to go when you're in those places where you're not familiar and you don't know. So I release a grace to you right now to let go of anything that you don't need, anything that is holding you back, anything that is weighing you down. I lose the grace for you to let it go and to step into the new that I know that he has for you. I see many new mantles falling for those who have prepared and positioned themselves in the Lord, for those who have made themselves a living and a holy sacrifice for the Lord. For those who chose to live wholeheartedly, surrender to the Lord. Surrender will be a key. It'll be a key for your today and into your tomorrow. That's your strength. That's your protection. That's your vision. Surrender. Surrender. There are a few workers I believe that the Lord's going to utilize, but man, they're going to do, they're going to do many great things. 300 will do more than 10,000 ever would. These are days of greater glory. The future temple will be greater than the former. And though I know we see darkness fill the earth, the glory that is at hand is greater. Ask, seek, knock, hunger, thirst for righteousness. You will be blessed. You will be satisfied in his presence. Isaiah 43, 18 through 19 says, forget all of that. Forget the former things. It is nothing compared to what he's going to do, for he's about to do something new. See, I've already begun.

Don't you see it? We can't take the old into the new in any form. All things are being made new. We are being made new. The old is deactivated. It is a time for a lot of new. What used to work will no longer, because these are new days and new ways. Gone is the old. Literally, all things are being made new. Old structures are breaking. They will no longer be able to hold the weight of the glory. If you try to go back to old tactics, things will shut down and fall fast. You will know where to go based on where the Spirit is breathing life. Stoke that fire. Stay until you feel the Spirit. See the Spirit move. The days of business as usual are gone. Each and every time, inquire of the Lord. I sense he is deliberately changing things up, so we will seek him and increase in our dependency on him. He will not fail us. He will not abandon us. There is grace that we need. These are days of courage. These are days of honor. These are days of new strength. The Lord will not share his glory with another, but where honor is given, honor will be shown. This is a time to arise, to shine, for the glory of the Lord is rising on you. I don't know if you can feel him. He is just so before us.

As we behold, we become. We go from glory to glory. This glory, I think, is unlike any glory we have seen before. There is no place for compromise. Higher degrees of holiness and righteousness will be displayed in the earth. They will shine bright because we're a light to guide, a light to demonstrate righteousness, a light to demonstrate what it means to be the Lord's covenantal people. I believe it will draw all men to God to receive reconciliation and restoration. Rapid redemption, I'm telling you, is in the earth. The book of Haggai and Nehemiah inspired this next part, and I felt like I heard the harvest is at hand, and I'll say it again, the harvest is at hand. Do your planning and prepare your field and build God's house. It's a time to get to work. My sense is this is more on a global scale, but the Lord is with us and we need not be afraid. After a little while, the Lord will again shake the nations, and the treasures of all the nations will be brought into God's temple. He is filling it with greater glory. He's filling us with greater glory. There's peace in him. God is about to shake and overthrow some thrones, some powers, some principalities of foreign kingdoms, inferior kingdoms. That's not the kingdom we're in. That's not the kingdom we inherit. Strength, their strength will be turned to rubble, and they will fall and they will turn and they will take themselves out in a single day, and in a moment, things will be turned around because that's the God that we serve, a God of rapid turnaround. I think you're going to look back in a year and you're going to be like, wow, he did a lot with a really short amount of time, and I don't even know how he did that. My head's spinning and swirling, but wow, it was amazing.

We're all going to be in awe and wonder in the most marvelous of ways, and we get to play a part in that if we choose to partner with him in these kinds of things. moments in these slipstreams. There is a time of prayer and deep intercession and I felt this so strongly and again I love prayer. Prayer is good. We should always pray. Prayer is intimate communication with the Lord but I'm telling you on this year there's something there's something different on it. It's as if he's like right against us and he's like I just need you to say it please. I just need you to say it. There's a quickening spirit on my word. Release it because every time his word is released it will always always accomplish what it's sent to do. Always. But it's a time of deep intercession for watchmen on the wall to rise up and to declare and to decree the word of the Lord to see it birthed and manifest in the earth. We get to partner with him in that. Intimacy births things. To bring down from heaven what God desires at this time and in this earth it's time to partner with the heavens edict and proclaim it so we can praise will rise in the earth for our great God. Blinders will be removed. Awe and wonder are going to abound in our great God because again just like Nehemiah his presence and his power were so on display that not only the people that participated in it but other people that were just around it were in awe and drawn to the Lord. We're in that kind of a Kairos moment. Isaiah 62 6 regarding prayer says Oh Jerusalem I have posted watchmen on your walls and they will pray. We as his people will pray day and night continually. We will take no rest and all you who pray to the Lord. I'm reminded in Exodus how the Hebrew women in Egypt gave birth so fast that the midwives couldn't make it. They couldn't get there to catch him. They multiplied. They became powerful really quickly but despite Pharaoh's edict to try and kill the baby boys they gave birth all the faster. They multiplied all the faster. They grew more powerful all the faster. I'm telling you the enemy cannot stop what God has his calendar for you these Kairos moments. They cannot be stopped. You're gonna birth things with the Lord and you're gonna grow more powerful than you ever have before as you partner with him. I hear in my heart the King is coming. The King is coming.

The King is at hand and forcefully advancing in the earth. It's a time to humbly position ourselves, purify and prepare ourselves to partner with the Lord to move in ways we have not seen before and on new levels we've never known before but we're about to because he's doing all things. They're all new. New mantles, new moves, new time, new you, new. Rapid redesign and reforming is taking place but are you ready to be deployed? I would like for all of you to stand and if I could have anyone on the prayer team anyone on the prophetic team we could have if you're a pastor in here or an elder I would love for you guys to come up and to pray for the people. Again I talked about the body's gonna need the body in a way we've not before and I don't know what the Lord has been stirring in you but I feel the faith. I feel the hope. I don't know what promise you have on your on your heart and you've been wanting and you've been waiting but I'm letting it is time. It is time. Join your faith. Faith without works is dead. This is a time for faith. This is the time to activate in the faith whatever he is stirring in you. These people want to pray for you. These people want to partner their faith with yours. In prayer to the Lord I'm telling you his ear is so close. There's a quickening spirit he wants to. So I'm gonna pray for you guys and if you felt like the Lord was stirring something in you I want you to come up and I want you to partner your faith with theirs and let's call on the Lord. If you did not feel stirred I do not want you this is a year where there is like blessing upon blessing upon blessing being rained down. So if you did not feel stirred I want you to find someone and pray with them again we're going to need each other to activate whatever he's stirring in your heart but put action to it put feet to it so heavenly father I thank you I thank you for your good plans I thank you for your good purposes I thank you for the moments you want to step in you want to catch up you want to give things that have been lost you want to catch up things that had delayed there's a newness in relationship there's a newness in your spirit there's a newness in the wind and I thank you you've already decreed it from heaven I thank you for your good plans for the things that will reform for your people and so father I'm asking for the divine alignments

and I thank you in advance for the wondrous ways that you work and the amazing mighty things that you will do in Jesus name amen Jesus we pour our love on you today and God as we move and continue on God we ask your presence to continue to move in this place God I ask you that as I decrease you arise and increase in me tonight God have your way do what only you can do we thank you we exalt you we love you Jesus and it's in Jesus name we pray that everyone say amen amen if you could just go ahead and be seated where you are I want to move really quickly tonight I really feel like the Lord is already speaking and already moving I first want to give honor to our lovely pastor pastor Chris for making me do this tonight he I said no I don't think I'm supposed to do he said yeah you will do it I said no we can find somebody else I'm good he said no you can do it and I guess you see who won here I am tonight I'm humbled to stand before you out of my comfort zone but I believe that the Lord has a word for us tonight and I just first want to give honor to my lovely wife my beautiful wife babe I love you thanks for praying for me and my parents surprised me tonight so I feel real my real preaching power here tonight my mother and my father and so I just real quick want to jump in as I was preparing for this I had a word from the Lord that I felt like was right and I felt like it was good it was a real good prophetic word it was declare things over yourself you know you can do those things and it's easy for me to do you know but the Lord said no I have something deeper for you and tonight I feel like the Lord wants me to talk about the pursuit of him coming from Psalm 63 1 through 8 I'll read it it says oh God of my life I'm reading the passion translation so it's a little you know in depth but it says oh God of my life I'm lovesick for you in this weary wilderness I thirst with the deepest longings to love you more with cravings in my heart that can't be described such yearnings grips my soul for you my God I'm energized every time I enter your heavenly sanctuary to seek more of your power and drink in more of your glory for your tender mercies mean more to me than life itself how I love and praise you God daily I will worship you passionately with all of my heart my arms will wave to you like banners of praise I overflow with praise when I come before you for the anointing of your presence satisfies me like nothing else you are rich you are a rich banquet of pleasure to my soul I lie awake each night thinking of you reflecting on how you help me like a father

I sing through the night under the splendor shadow offering up to you songs of delight and joy with passion I pursue and cling to you I'll read that again with passion I pursue cling to you because I feel your grip on my life. I keep my soul close to your heart. So real briefly, I want to talk about the pursuit of Him. I would say in the middle of last year, I found myself in a really low place, a dry place, a place that I feel like a lot of us can relate. Everyone in here been in a dry place before and you're just like, Lord, I don't hear you like I used to. I don't feel you like I used to. Feeling the weight of life and ministry, feeling the weight of being a husband and a father, balancing all of that, um, burying, I think at the time from 21, 2021 to 2025, I buried eight family members, um, having to minister at all of those funerals. Um, my dad, I almost lost my dad to a heart attack last year. Um, talk about feeling weighed down and I get up here every Sunday. I leave worship, but I was like, God, where are you? I don't feel you. I don't feel you like I used to. I can't pray like I used to just feeling the weight. And it's kind of like David in this passage, David was in the wilderness, but instead of David looking at his situation, David wanted to pursue God. And I remember one night I was so burdened down and it was a situation that happened. And I went home and I said, baby, listen, I am over it. I don't feel right. I need you to pray for me. And y'all know my wife, I don't know if y'all know, but she is an intercessor and she was cooking and feeding the kids, holding the baby and praying for me. And, um, in the moment after she got done, I felt better, but I still felt the weight. So I remember saying, babe, I'm going to go. I'm going to go pray. Do you have the kids? She said, yeah, babe, go ahead and go pray. So I remember going in my closet and I remember sitting on the floor and I said, God, God, I need to hear from you. God, where are you? Why can't I hear your voice? And in that very moment, I heard the Lord say, you haven't heard my voice because you haven't pursued me in a long time. And he heard, I heard these exact words. Tell me when the last time you've sat in my presence and pursued me. And then that moment I begin to be overtook by emotions because so many times we get so busy. So many times we go about our life with work, with family, with children, ministry, that we forget how to pursue the Lord. We forget that that's what satisfies our soul. Um, and that leads me to my first point tonight.

This song teaches us the vital truth that pursuit is not based on conditions. It's based on hunger. So my, my first point tonight, are you hungry? Are we hungry? David says, my soul thirsts for you. My flesh faints for you. This is the language of desperation. This is not a routine. This is not religion. This is not convenience, but this is a moment of hunger and desperation. When is the last time you got hungry for God? When's the last time that you just said, Lord, I need you. God, I want you. Nothing else will satisfy me. Nothing else will, will fulfill what I need. God, I'm hungry for you. Can everyone just say, get hungry? The scripture says, Matthew five and six, blessed are those who hunger and thirst for the righteousness for you shall be filled. You know, we know these scriptures, Jeremiah 29, 13. You will seek me and find me when you seek with all of your heart. My favorite one, Psalms 42, as the deer pants for flowing streams, so pants my soul for you, oh God. Hunger is powerful, powerful because hunger moves you. How many of you, when you get hungry, you just get hangry and you're going to do whatever you got to do to satisfy that hunger. Hunger causes pursuit. Hunger removes excuses because when you're hungry, you're going to do whatever you got to do to satisfy the hunger. It's the same thing with God. We must be hungry for his presence. We must be hungry for the thing. of the spirit. We must be hungry to be more like him. We must be hungry to know him. In order to pursue God you must intentionally desire him. David was in a dry land but his thirst and hunger wasn't for food and water. It was for the presence of God. Many believers want God to fill them but God only fills those who come hungry. It's time for us to change our appetite. It's time for us to really change our appetite and we need to crave for Jesus and the presence of the Lord. So again can everyone shout get hungry. Point number two. I'm gonna move quickly because I want us to have some time to pray tonight. So point two is pursuit leads to prioritizing the secret place. David says so I looked upon you in the sanctuary beholding the power of your glory. David was in the wilderness but he's seeing God clearly because he's he's prioritizing the secret place. And as I was praying about this I said what do you mean? I said I feel like if we're in 21 days of prayer the people that are at 21 days of prayer definitely are prioritizing their secret place. He said

no. I'm tired of people coming to me and treating me like a fast-food restaurant. You come with your order. You come with your agenda. You come with your list and then when you get what you feel like God is giving you then you leave. You don't pray for three months. Or some of us so ignorant we'll give a list and give our order and then when God don't answer it then you get an attitude and you start praying. And then you you know what happens when you eat a lot of fast food you begin you you begin to get heavy. You begin to get fat. You begin to get unhealthy. You get weighed down. You just feel weighed down by the unhealthiness of the fast food. And God said I'm tired of that. I want you to come and sit down with me. For I prepare something for you that will satisfy the hunger, satisfy your feelings, satisfy everything that you need. But you have to come and sit. You have to come and prioritize sitting at your feet. Not coming with a list. Not coming with I want this. I need this. I need this. I want this. But God I want to hear from you. Speak to my heart. Mmm. This is what private devotion looks like. Matthew 6 and 6 says when you pray go into your room and shut the door. Psalms 27 and 4 says one thing I've asked to gaze upon your beauty O Lord. Matthew 1 Mark 1 35. Rising every morning Jesus departed and went to a desolate place and there he prayed. If Jesus himself prayed why do we feel like we don't have to prioritize prayer? And when we're in our secret place the Lord will begin to reveal things to us that we need for the seasons that we're in. The Lord will begin to show us. He will begin to to do what only he can do in us when we prioritize the secret place. Because I mean you know I don't want nothing. I don't want to go nowhere. I don't want to do nothing if God's presence is not leading me. I don't want to say nothing. I don't want to hold a mic. I don't want to preach if God's presence is not leading me. We are in a season where we need God's presence like never before. We are in a season that we have to sit at the feet of Jesus to understand what's going on in the spiritual realm. To understand how he's moving. Because the way you met him before he's not in that same place anymore. He's moved over here. We've gotten so familiar with God.

And it's a scary thing that we've we've gotten so familiar with God and and we don't even feel the fear of God anymore. I don't know about you but I want eyes of the Spirit. I want ears of the Spirit. I want to see what God is doing. I want to hear what God is doing. When you're in your flesh you cannot. When you're not being prioritizing that you cannot see the things of the Spirit. Because now you're doing it as a from a fleshly standpoint. But God says in 1st Corinthians 2, I'm gonna read the passage translations verse ten it said but god now reveals these profound realities to us by the spirit yes he has revealed to us his innermost heart and his deepest mysteries through the holy spirit who has constantly explored all things after all who can really see into a person's heart and know his hidden secrets except for the spirit so it is with god his thoughts his secrets and everything comes when we seek when we seek him he begins to show us the mysteries of heaven he begins to show us the spiritual things i don't know about you but i want to see the spiritual things in this season i want to move how god is moving we play church long enough we've done things our own way long enough we need god's spirit to direct us in every area of our lives not only in the church but in our personal lives when we prioritize you the secret place you will see things change in your family you will see things change in your marriage you will see things change in the church we will see god's glory like never before people of god we have to get back on the post we have to get back on our face the lord really highlighted this to me in order for you to understand in the spirit you must prioritize the secret place there's no being there's no left there's no right it's the secret place everybody shouts secret place god doesn't reveal himself to the busiest but he reveals himself to those who prioritize prioritize the secret place are y'all getting anything from this thank you jesus this is my last and final point and we're going to take some time to pray but when you pursue him it leads to consecration and sanctification David says my soul clings to you your right hand upholds me this verse shows something powerful that David's pursuit didn't change how he felt but it changed how he lived

the lord said we must get clean before him we must walk with integrity and live surrendered lives we all got that one thing that we do that nobody sees we all we gossip we talk about people we got pride in our heart we got envy in our heart we do things that we know that's not right but god said in this season you gotta you gotta clean all that it up you gotta get clean you gotta really search yourself and ask him to reveal to you the things that's in your heart that's not like him because i want the fullness of god in this season consecration means to be set apart for god sanctification is the ongoing work of becoming like god i want to become like god in this season i don't want to be the same prayer and fasting are not just about seeking god's hand they are about surrendering our hearts scripture says in romans 12 1 present your bodies as a living sacrifice holy and acceptable unto the lord and the holy says in romans 12 1 present your bodies as a living sacrifice holy and acceptable unto god first thessalonians 4 and 3 for this is the will of god your sanctification john 17 and 17 sanctify them in truth your word is truth second corinthians 7 and 1 let us cleanse ourselves bringing holiness to completion in the fear of god this is my favorite john 15 and 5 i am the vine you are the branches whoever abides in me and i in him he will bear much fruit for apart from me you can do nothing the closer we draw to god the more he shapes us the closer we draw to god the more he shapes us pursuit explodes exposes what doesn't belong fasting weakens the flesh i know some of you are probably in your fast right now and you're weak but press strengthens you in the spirit we don't pursue god to stay the same we pursue him to be transformed this is a season of transformation if you really take serious the pursuit of god i'm almost finished this is our last gathering and i really want to encourage you not to stop when 21 days is done but make this a year of really pursuing god like never before make this a year of going all in for god because i believe that when we do so we will see the revival happen in our church we will see miracle signs in our church wonders in our church. We will see the glory of God be revealed like never before. I want to see God's glory. I'm tired of doing things the same. I'm tired of just coming in here doing the same thing. But God is wanting to do something new in our church. He wants to do something new in our family. He wants to do something new.

So this, this is what I have to ask you as we move into prayer. Our prophetic teams are gonna be here tonight. But I want you to take a moment for yourself. And I want you to say, God search me. Ask the Lord to search you. Let him identify anything that's not like him in your heart. And then ask God to cleanse you. God set me apart. Because consecration isn't about perfection. It's about devotion. And sanctification isn't instant. It's intentional. This is my last thing. When we pursue him, he purifies us. And when he purifies us, he prepares us. And I believe, Life Fellowship, we are on the edge of something great. I believe God is moving in ways behind the scenes that we don't even know. But he's saying you must be prepared. You must prepare for what's ahead. We can't go into it with the same mindset. We can't go into it doing the same thing. He said prepare for what's ahead. He's going to send the people. And when he sends the people, we must be ready. I had a dream once. And the dream was so real. I seen this place so packed from left to right. And I felt the glory of God like never before. I seen miracles. I seen people get out of wheelchairs. I seen blind eyes. They were able to see. I see people get gotten, they got healed from things. Like and they were just saying, I got healed. Oh my miracle, my miracle. And I said, God, what are you saying? He said, I'm about to do it. But you must prepare for what's ahead. Church, we must prepare for what God is doing. Get hungry. Prioritize your secret place.

Walk in consecration and sanctification. And I believe in this season we will see God move like never before. Amen. Can we just give it up for Jesus? So our prophetic teams are here. I'm going to ask you to wait. I want you to have a personal moment with God. And I want you to ask the Lord to search you. Ask the Lord to reveal the things that you need. If you're not hungry enough, ask the Lord to make you hungry. If you're not hungry enough, ask the Lord to make you hungry. If you haven't been prioritizing the secret place, let's realign that. And if there's anything that's not like God, ask him to consecrate you. In this moment. Father, I thank you for your word. God, I ask you to search our hearts tonight. God, we want to be hungry for your presence. We want to be desperate for you. God, realign our hearts tonight. In Jesus' name. Andrea's going to play. You guys just take a moment and let's pray.