Navigating Storms | Pastor David Frech | We Believe

Come on let's give it up for Jesus! Awesome, what a great church! So honored, Pastor Tyrone, Virginia. What incredible hospitality, and what an amazing church. Great team, great ministry, a sense of the presence of God in every service. I might just be a little bit more in this one, I don't know. We'll see how it goes. I bring you greetings from Kansas City, the home of the Chiefs. I just said that because Pastor Tyrone needs deliverance from the Raiders. Amen, but so honored to be in this house and honored by your great pastor. What a great leader, great man he is, and I'm so honored to be serving with him on the leadership team of MFI. It's just great to be in the house today, great to be in the house. I won't keep you more than a couple hours, and some of you don't know how to take me yet, and I get that, I get that. I believe the Lord's given me a word for this church, and I'm gonna do my very best to get all the way through it because I haven't been able to in the first two, but I'm not gonna take your time. I'm gonna manage this well. I'm asking the Lord for grace for that, but I want to say to you that I believe the word for this house is navigate your storm. Navigate your storm. Now there's only one option for a believer when it comes to the storms of life. You know what that option is? Through. It's the only way. You can stop, but it'll kill you. You can go back, but you're just gonna prolong it. You have to go through. Too many people are overwhelmed by the circumstances of life because they haven't learned the principles of getting through. I thank God for deliverance. I thank God for salvation. I thank God for redemption. I thank God for those miracle moments where he pulls us out of the fire, but the majority of our Christian life is really revealed in the through. So I want you to start with me and grab your Bibles briefly if you would with me. Isaiah 43. We're gonna make this our launching pad verse for this morning. Isaiah 43 starting in verse 1. Let's read it together. But now thus says the Lord. He who created you, O Jacob. He who formed you, O Israel. Fear not. I have redeemed you. I have called you by name. You are mine. When you pass through the waters, I will be with you. And through the rivers, they shall not overwhelm you. When you walk, help me now, through the fire, you

shall not be burned. And the flame shall not consume you. For I am the Lord your God, the Holy One of Israel, your Savior. I give Egypt as your ransom, Cush and Sheba, in exchange for you. Father, we surrender to your Word today. I pray for clarity, succinctness. Lord, that you will penetrate our hearts. Give us revelation of how you reveal yourself in the midst of the storm. Lord, how you are the anchor in our storm. How you are the strength of us. Lord God, I pray today that those that are in the storms of life that seem overwhelmed, that they will find victory, they will find freedom, they will find clarity, they will find purpose. I pray today, Lord, those that maybe have never made a decision for you, they will find you in the midst of the chaos that is their storm. And Lord, we thank you for anointing me as your servant, anointing every ear to hear what you are speaking to our soul. In Jesus' name. Amen. Amen. God bless you. You can be seated. So if you're going to navigate storms, here's what I needed. But first, I guess I should ask the question. Has anybody here ever been in a life storm? Nobody? Oh, thank God. There's a couple of you. The rest of you, just pay attention because you'll need this eventually. Storms are an absolute of life. Because you are a believer does not mean you will not experience storms. Because you know Jesus does not mean that you will somehow be exempt from the The struggles of life, from the situations that are overwhelming in life. Because you're a believer does not mean that all of a sudden you've got this protective globe around you where nothing of the earth will ever touch you. That's not true. That's not what the Bible says. In fact, Jesus affirmed the very opposite. He said, in this world you will have trouble. Three of you believe the word of God. Come on. In this world you will have trouble. But be of good cheer, I have overcome the world. So the key is how do I navigate storms the way Jesus would want me to navigate storms? What are the lessons I need to learn and how do I need to understand the strategy to come

to the place that Jesus' purpose and glory is revealed, even in the most chaotic moments of my life? I think one of the real problems with modern day Christianity is we've lost our understanding of the purpose and glory of God in the midst of everything. We are seasonally connective. When everything's going great, we can't jump any higher, we can't sing any louder, we can't wave our hands anymore. But when things get difficult, oh no, where's God? How could he have done this to me? He's abandoned me. He's left me. Where are you Lord? Now we've all experienced that at some level or another. But the difference is, is how do we do it well? So I want to give you lessons in storm walking. Look at your neighbor and say, let's do some storm walking. Now if you know the story of Matthew chapter 14, it starts with the incredible miracle of the loaves and the fishes. Now it is a miracle that is so significant that it actually pulls over into the miracle of Peter walking on the water. That the disciples didn't understand that miracle and because of that they didn't know how to relate to Jesus in the middle of their storm. Now I'm kind of moving forward, but what I want you to hear today is that as they are experiencing this incredible miracle where over 5,000 men, not counting the women and children, so it would not be an exaggeration to say that somewhere between 15 and maybe even 20 to 25,000 people were fed by a single boy's lunch sack that day. So they were a part. And they participated in this incredible miracle where Jesus took the bread and took the fish and he broke them and he blessed them and he put them in 12 baskets and he asked the disciples to go to the various groups that were sitting in 50s and 100s and asked them

to reach into the basket where Jesus just put a single piece of bread and a single piece of fish and they were reaching in and they were pulling out whole fish and they were pulling out whole loaves and thousands were fed. Come on, when I get to heaven, I'm pushing the DVR button. I want to see that one. They pull it out and they ate so everybody's fulfilled and then they collected 12 baskets full of the remaining fish and loaves. Then when this day is over and the evening is coming upon them, Jesus take his disciples down to the shore of the Sea of Galilee, puts them in a boat and he says, I want you to go to the other side and I'll meet you there. I'm going to go dismiss the crowd and then I'm going to go up in the mountain and pray. And so that's exactly what Jesus did. He went, dismissed the rest of the crowd and then he went apart on a mountain to pray. Then the Bible picks up the story and says, it was at that moment that his disciples now in the middle of the sea were in the midst of a storm. Now that started as it was coming dusk and the storm was so intense, the storm was so difficult that even the professional boatsmen that were in the boat were not convinced that they would survive it. In fact, they were beginning to wonder if their skills, their expertise and their knowledge was enough to face the storm. You ever been in a storm like that? Where it doesn't compare to the storms you've had in the past. Everything was going great, but now it's not going so good. And now everything that I learned seems to not be sufficient for what I'm facing. And it's in this setting that they are learning how to deal with storms. Now the question is, is why do storms come and how did I end up here? You ever wondered that? How did I get in this storm? Where did this storm come from? Now I'm going to suggest that when Jesus put those disciples in the boat and he told them

to go to the other side, there were enough professionals in the room that when they looked at the horizon and they saw the clouds, they were probably thinking to themselves, this doesn't look real good. I don't think it just cropped up. Now it could have. I don't know. But Jesus sent them so they are moving through and now they are in they're in the middle of the storm They can't go forward. They can't go back. They're stuck. Have you ever been in a situation? It's like I just like my way out of here. I just don't know where to turn I don't know where to go and it's as far to go forward as it is to go backward I I just don't know what to do. And so we enter into survival mode Now here's what you need to know you get into storms for various reasons One of them is they often follow great moments I believe that there's an a strategy of the enemy to deflate what God what faith And what testimony God has built in your life And sometimes we get into storms right after a great moment and that was true for the disciples They they saw this incredible church service this incredible miracle court plus Jesus healed the sick plus he raised Raised up people that were lame. He he healed blind eyes He opened deaf ears he cast out demons because that's what Jesus does and then they had church that day, right? And now they're they're living on the high of this incredible Miracle and they're in the middle of the greatest storm of their life and you many of us It's that way I couldn't have had a better sales day than we had last last week But now we're struggling and we've lost our biggest client or or some of us man My wife and I have been getting along so good what just happened a switch got flipped and now everything is breaking down in our home What what did my kid get up and start eating this morning? They've gone crazy They were doing so good they were getting such great grades they had achieved such great things and and now they've lost their minds Man I just got a promotion and now they tell me they don't need my division Anybody know what I'm talking about Storms often follow great moments and that's okay because they they're gonna test us Another reason why storms happen is because it is a result

let's be very honest the primary reason why these disciples were in this storm was because Jesus put them in the boat and told them to go to the other side They're in the storm because they're obeying Jesus Oh, what do you say you mean you mean following Jesus can actually put me in a storm 100% Absolutely, you can follow Jesus and things get tougher I thought when I came to Jesus the preacher told me my life was gonna change it I was gonna have hope and I was gonna have peace and that is true But he didn't tell you that you would have circumstantial hope and Circumstantial peace sometimes things just go wrong because I started serving Jesus and now I've got enemies I didn't have before now people don't trust me like they used to because when I when I Caroused and I cheated on my wife and I did all that other stuff people trusted me more than now that I'm doing it Right living it right and walking it, right Mm-hmm Some of you've asked that question man, I just doing what God told me to do and it's got harder I Quit doing the stuff that I know just pleased him and now and it was easier for me then Man I used to have all kinds of money when I didn't tie Let's keep moving It's A result of choice. Let's be honest. We are in storms because of choice right choices wrong choices We all make decisions today's the day now's the time choose this day who you're gonna serve You make a choice your faith must align with your choice your your faith instructs and informs your choice You've got to decide am I gonna do that? Am I not gonna do it and whatever choices you make those are the consequences that we experience Don't be deceived on a box Galatians tells us that whatever we sow we're gonna reap It is a reality of life. And here's another reason why storms come storms come as a result of circumstance Now, what do I mean by circumstance circumstance is essentially the collective of living in a simple world? Paul said I've learned in every circumstance to be content

Well, I'm a bounding or I'm a base while I have plenty or I have nothing in Everything in every circumstance. I've learned to be what content in other words I don't let the affairs of a world that is wholly given over to to sin and to unrighteousness listen because I'm a believer because I I walk in the light of them in the midst of darkness that still means I'm in a dark world and Sometimes sickness is still in the world and evil still in the world and unrighteousness is still in the world and I'm not exempt from experience in those things. It rains on the just and the unjust. We are in that world. And so I'm never able to exempt myself from the affairs of life, from the circumstances that surround life. But if I'm going to navigate storms well, I have got to learn to do a few things. It doesn't matter how the storm has come. If you're in a storm because you made a wrong decision, can I give you a little key? Repent. Confess. Reset. Decide to do it God's way and he'll get you out of the storm. Let me just identify some things. So let's remember they are in this storm. They're in this storm and it's got them totally overwhelmed. Now let's remember that this storm starts before dusk, before the sun goes down. And when they get into the middle of the sea, now the darkness has fallen. The storm has fallen. They cannot navigate anymore because there's no stars to navigate by. They can't see anything because they don't have lights. If they have a torch, it's been blown out or it's been washed out. They're in utter and complete darkness. They have no way of navigating. They can see nothing. And listen, I've been a pilot for many years and I can tell you I get into those IFR conditions and when you go into the clouds there is no orientation. You don't know if you're up, you're down, you're left, you're right. You have no clue. Your body's telling you things and the only thing, the only thing that can tell you what's true isn't what you feel. Your mind can lie to you. Your inner ear can lie to you. But the instruments in front of you have to become the thing you trust. God put an instrument in front of you that no matter what you're feeling, no matter what you're dealing with, no matter what's going on, even if you don't have stars to align to, you've got the

Word of God and it's an anchor. It's an instrument. It's telling you whether you're straight and level, whether you're falling, whether you're rising, whether you're about to stall or not. Come on somebody. So they're in the midst of the storm and it's now, the Bible says, the fourth watch of the night, which is somewhere between 3 and 4 in the morning, and the Bible says that Jesus comes walking to them on the water. Come on somebody. I got some problems with this. The first is, why'd he wait so long? Why couldn't he showed up when the storm showed up? Don't amen me now just because it's good preaching. Come on, isn't that our problem? It's like, it's like, God, the storm started hours ago. You could have saved us exhaustion. You could have saved us confusion. You could have saved us fear. You could have saved us anxiety. You could have saved us stress. But this storm, they've been fighting this storm for probably close to eight hours. They're exhausted. They're swamped. They're overwhelmed. They don't know which way's up. They're just trying to survive the next gale and the next wave. And here comes Jesus. Now if you can't see the stars and you can't even see the next wave that's about to hit your boat, how do you see Jesus? Now I'm using pastoral imagination here because the Bible doesn't tell us. It just says they saw him. But I'm gonna suggest there's a little Shekinah going on. If you don't know what Shekinah is, it's that light, that radiant light that they saw on the Mount of Transfiguration. And Jesus, by the way, isn't using conventional methods to get across the water. He's walking on the water. He's got a little glory going on. It's him and God. And the storm doesn't seem to be bothering him a whole lot. Because when you're Jesus, the storm has to move for you. You don't move for it. And so when they see him, they see this glowing light moving across what seems to be the horizon. And they realize, wait a minute, that looks like Jesus. So you and I have to, first of all, if we're gonna navigate our storms well, we have to trust God's timing. You gotta trust it. Because if you don't trust it, you'll be convinced that God's late. Now here's what I know. The timing is the time is the first created principle in the Bible

God creates that let there be light and then he divided the light and he gave the evening and morning and it was the first day from that moment forward God has been measuring everything by time and Everything we do is measured by time. We measure our work. We measure our play. We measure our recreation We measure our counseling you're measuring my message All By time, right But time is is relative to God He created it in our world so that we could measure things but for God He lives in a different reality He lives in a thing called eternity and when you became a citizen of heaven Guess what? You became you became an eternal being now God doesn't want you to regulate how you move through life based on the regular time frames Because if you do you will always think God's either late or God's not showing up when he needs to or he's always missing it But when you're on his time, his glory is all that matters His purpose is all that matters and it's not my comfort Because Have you discovered this about God he's never ever never ever ever ever early Anybody He never shows up early Why don't you show up before this starts because then I couldn't appreciate him for it Why don't you show up earlier? Like when I get the diagnosis, why don't you heal me then? Before I have to go through this and I have to go through that and I have to have this treatment or I have to Have this surgery Why don't you show up before I have to go to the lawyer or I have to go talk to the bank Or I have to walk in and do the counseling Ain't nobody amen in me here, but I'll keep preaching Here's What you need to know about timing timing is related to two things the season that you're in what God is trying to show you And secondly his purpose

his purpose is the defining point of timing and The reason why we don't believe that God's ever on time is because we're regulating it based on our comfort Hey Lord, the one whom you love is sick. Great. Let's take four extra days Look Don't bother the teacher the person that you came to minister to he's dead. There's no reason to bother him anymore. He's late And let's be honest. You've said it, too You're late if you'd have just got here then this wouldn't have happened Because let's let's let's be honest. We all have designer prayers Lord this I know you will move if you'll do it this way at this time Because I need to be comfortable and The way you make my faith strong is by giving me everything I asked for when I asked for it Well, that's good preaching pastor man, just keep it up I'm blessed right? Oh the Word of the Lord is great in you David encouraged himself in the Lord. My name is David I Here's what you need to know God's resources are discovered in his timing if we go to the throne of grace to obtain what? Mercy and find grace in the nick of time. That's what Hebrews says. So God's resources mercy is a resource Grace is a resource It's how God enables mercy is me not getting something I deserve grace is me receiving something. I don't deserve These are all key to me being in the victory that God has now remember the story let's stay with it Jesus is walking. They see him in his glow and they look at him and they go. Oh, thank you Lord What took you so long? No, if you read it the Bible says in verse 26 and 27 but when the disciples saw him walking on the sea they were Terrified and said it's a ghost and They cried out in fear, but it wasn't because that's the way we all disciples respond to the revelation of Jesus We get terrified. We think it's a demon spirit and We get full of fear Is that what we're supposed to do when we meet Jesus see Jesus? He comes to us. No, that's just the opposite and

Then Jesus spoke to them saying take heart it is I do not be afraid what happens when the storm comes to your life I believe one of the major reasons that the enemy work how that one of the major ways the enemy works in our lives in the middle of storms is we lose our discernment of Jesus Jesus has showed up he's in his glory he's in his Shekinah he is omniscient he can do anything he's omnipotent he's everywhere he come on he's he's omnipotent he's got all power and he's walking on the water and he's revealing his Shekinah glory and they decide that you know that just can't be him they were quicker to give the devil the credit for a supernatural engagement than they are the Lord who's been doing nothing but supernatural things in front of them we lose our discernment why did they lose it it only took him about eight hours they lose it from the miracle of those and fishes and that's why he says at the very end of this story he says they didn't they didn't understand what he did in the lows and the fishes because had they understood it they would have rejoiced in his coming and they would have all jumped out of the boat and they would all run to Jesus so if you're gonna navigate the storm well let me give you some some lessons some principles number one number one anticipate the unexpected he's omniscient omnipotent omnipresent every snowflake has its own characteristics every human being that's ever existed on planet earth from time and beginning and to the very end of time has its own DNA strand its own significant imprint nobody's like you nobody will ever be like you God has never run out of creative ways to reveal himself except for when he deals with me well God can't do this unless he does it this way he's not God unless he's done it listen I've never seen God do it like that so so what's the problem well he's just never done it like that before so what's the problem what you don't understand I just don't believe God can do it that way because he's he's never done it like that yes and I say so because familiarity is your biggest limit to the greater experiences of God because of what he has done he has been anchored to past experiences past moments past victories past breakthroughs past miracles and I'm here

to tell you he hasn't run out of miracles he hasn't run out of favor he hasn't run out of blessing he hasn't run out of provision he's still got it he can still do it in ways that you never dreamed or a match come on your eye hasn't seen your ear hasn't heard it hasn't entered your heart what God has prepared for you come on you gotta anticipate this is called faith expectancy I expect God to move it doesn't matter how he moves can I tell you it doesn't matter where it is how it is can I let you in on something about God you ready you ready it's the most revelational thing I'll say today he's God he can do anything he wants anyway he wants anytime he wants second thing you've got to do if you're gonna navigate your storm well don't let your distress distort your perspective of his coming they're so they're so overwhelmed they're so at the end of themselves that first of all they can't believe that could be him because he's never done that before and secondly they're just exhausted you ever been that way in faith been that way in life I'm just so exhausted I just can't I just can't I can't handle a fresh revelation of God right now I just want to get up have a cup of coffee eat an egg McMuffin our distress distorts our perception and they're looking at Jesus they're looking at their redemption they're looking at their Savior they're looking at their answer and they go it's a ghost but listen how do you know the difference how can you distinguish is this the enemy or is this the Lord by what they say the enemy's gonna say yeah you're you're you're not gonna make it yeah you're not gonna survive yeah this is gonna kill you you're you you're out of your you're out of the way you've missed God you you've disobeyed you've done this you've done that you're never gonna make it that's the enemy but Jesus comes and said hey be happy it's me don't be afraid he's counseling you and his counsel always produces peace it always reveals himself it always removes fear and it encourages your faith you can always discern what God is saying to you as his voice what is the content doesn't have to scream sometimes it's a still small voice but the content will always take heart it's I don't be afraid here's

what navigating a storm so I got to expect the unexpected I've got to I can't let discernment excuse me my distress distort I got to listen to what he's saying in the midst of my storm even if I can't believe what I'm seeing because why we walk by not by sight navigating storms requires you to have faith now I love this about this moment they're up here you know the perfect demonstration of my message on time listen the disciples are sitting there and they're seeing Jesus and they're relating to Jesus but they still can't believe it but Peter says you know what we just saw him multiply a boy's lunch sack we just saw him heal the sick and recover the blind eye and the lame walk you know that could be him that could be him and so Peter looks and he goes Lord if that's you tell me to come to you on the water now whose idea is this it's not Jesus's Jesus didn't say hey who wants to come out here with me no no no Peter in the boat with all these screaming whimpering friends says you know that could be him Lord if that tell me to come and what does Jesus say you need a little bit more counseling you need to have four more sessions on faith walking you need no no no he said he says one word come come and Peter throws his leg over the side of the boat and starts walking on the water now what starts with faith is sustained by obedience and you're going to discover that faith and obedience are essentially the same thing that I can't have faith without obedience and my obedience is always a reflection of my faith you tell me your faith filled and you're never obedient to God I have to question your faith so let me tell you how to walk in the storm storms are for faith not for survival don't turn your back to the storm turn your face into it did I share with you the difference between cattle and Buffalo in a storm cattle when the storm comes turn their back and walk with the storm which prolongs the storm and that's why many cattle don't survive severe storms Buffalo always survives storms you want to know why because Buffalo turn and face and walk into the storm thus shortening the duration but magnifying the intensity and you and I because we have a survivalist mentality we turn and walk with it and we can't why can't I ever why isn't this changing why hasn't

everything I've been delivered Lord where are you what's going on God said would you please turn towards me and walk through your storm because when you go through the fire I'll be with you when you go through the water it will not overcome you when you go through the river it will not over storms are not for survival storms are for faith miracles are result of stepping out of sinking situation the storm will always sink your boat until Jesus gets in it if you're in a boat and Jesus ain't in there you're better out on the storm walking with him what did Jesus say to Peter Come. I love that he didn't give him five theological reasons to come, didn't say, if you'll do this, I'll do that. He just said, come. I'm gonna tell you, can I tell one story? I'm gonna tell one story. I don't have the time pressure. I still wanna honor your time. This is kind of a silly story, but many years ago, I used to man a phone for a great faith preacher by the name of R.W. Schambach. I was one of his students. I later became one of his associate evangelists. Some of you know who he is, some of you don't. And I always manned the late night ones, like the midnight to two, three in the morning ones. And so you always got the weirdos. So I get a call one night, person says, hey, I need you to pray. I said, be glad to pray for you, what do you need? She said, well, she said, I had this cat

and it died three days ago. He's in a shoebox in the garage, and I'm so grieved over it, I would like to have somebody agree with me in prayer that God will raise my cat from the dead. No. Not interested in doing that. Number one, I don't care for cats, so one less in the world is not a bad thing. Come on now, pastor, you and me. Now there's some of you, pray for your enemies, pray for your enemies. And so I thought, you know what? I literally had my Bible and I started thumbing through it, I'm like, I gotta find the scripture that says, thou shalt not pray for dead cats. Couldn't find it, it's not in the Bible. So then I thought, you know, she just needs pastoral wisdom. She's clearly a lunatic. And she just needs pastoral wisdom. So I was literally getting ready to open my mouth and say, you know what? Surely that cat stinketh. Bury it in the ground, go adopt yourself another Morris. I'm sure that cat will, you know, and let's just move on. You know, and she just needed wisdom. I'm getting ready to say that, and God speaks to me. Do you know what he says? I'll let you in on it. He said, don't you dare damage her faith.

I'm like, what? Well, I'm perfectly happy doing that, Lord. I'm the faith damager, you just send me and I'll damage anybody's faith you want me to damage. And the Lord just like, so now what am I gonna do? What am I gonna do? I can make, I got a choice. I can disobey God and do what I think is best, right? Which is counsel her, or I can pray for a dead cat that I don't have any faith that God's gonna do anything for. Because God doesn't raise cats from the dead. Because I've never seen him do that before. So you wanna hear my prayer? It was the best Presbyterian prayer I've ever prayed. I said, okay, let's pray. Lord, raise this cat from the dead, in Jesus' name, amen. That's how I prayed, bro, straight up. Now, you've heard me preach. You think I pray like that normally? No, that is my faithless prayer. That's not my faithful prayer, that's my faithless prayer. So I didn't, ha, I didn't do any of that. So, get off the phone, hope nobody's heard that. Because I don't need the reputation of being the great cat prayer person. So the next morning, we're in devotions and we're celebrating what God was doing over the prayer phone. And somebody comes busting out of the room and says,

hey, I got this incredible praise report. So we all turn, we're excited to hear it. Hey, this woman called late last night, asked for prayer for her dead cat. I just started sinking down my seat, oh God, no. She said, well, this morning she woke up at scratching at her garage door. She opens the door, her cat jumped into her arms and the box was empty. God had raised that cat from the dead. Now, this is her testimony, I didn't see it. So you know what I did? You know what I did? Turn around, I punched my buddy, I said, I prayed for that cat. Jesus never discourages faith, even if it doesn't make sense to you. Pastor, build big, Pastor. Build big, even if other wise people tell you, that doesn't make a lot of sense. Why would you do that in you, mom? Because God said, because God put it in my heart, because God's put something. We're going to reach our city. We're going to reach our region. We don't have a big enough place. We need to enlarge our tents. We need to make a bigger house, so that more can know Jesus, so that more can experience the power and presence of God. We've got to have more. We're going to go big. We're going to go gorge, because God is bigger. God is big enough.

God never, God never, God never discourages faith. I'm done. I'll leave you with my dead cat story. If you're in this room right now, and you are in the middle of a storm, I felt like God called me to come here and encourage your faith. God has not forgotten you. God has you on his mind. I don't care how silly, how crazy, how impossible it might seem to you. If you're here today, and you say, pastor, I need, I need, I need to get out of this storm. I need God to give me some wisdom. I need him to reveal himself. I need a breakthrough. Come on, lift your hand right now, and we're going to believe God to break you through, in the name of Jesus. Come on, keep that hand lifted. We've got others that are going to be praying for you, but can I pray right now in the name of Jesus? Father, I ask for faith to arise. I ask for faith that will dictate our distortions, take our fears, take our anxieties, take our exhaustion and remove them. And Father, it will stand on the principle that your word is enough. Your presence is enough. Your goodness is enough. Your promise is enough. And today, Father, I bind the lies of the enemy. I bind the discouragement of the enemy. I pray hope. I pray strength. I pray grace.

I pray anointing, fill and flood each and every heart and each and every life in this room. I thank you, Father, that right now, you're releasing healing. Right now, you're restoring families. Right now, God, you're breaking through emotionally, Lord, those that are tormented with anxiety, with fear. Lord God, that you're breaking that stronghold, and you're giving them a fresh hope. Lord, we give you the glory, the honor, the praise, for you are great and greatly to be praised in Jesus' mighty name. Come on, somebody in the house, give God a praise right now.