Revival Nights | Night 1 | Pastor Nicole Crank

Your way is the lamp unto my feet Your way is the only way for me It's a narrow road that leads to life And I want to be on it It's a narrow road but the mercy's wide Cause you're good at your promise I'll take you at your word You said it, I believe it I've seen how good it works If you start it, you're competing I'll take you at your word You spoke and the chaos fell in line Cause I've seen it in my life It's a narrow road that leads to life But I want to be on it It's a narrow road and the tide is high But you're good at your promise I'll take you at your word You said it, I believe it I've seen how good it works If you start it, you're competing I'll take you at your word You said it, I believe it I've seen how good it works If you start it, you're competing I'll take you at your word I'll take you at your word Sing it with me You said your love will never give up You said your grace is always enough You said your heart will never forget or forsake me You said I'm saved, you call me yours You said my future is full of your hope You never fail, so I know that you'll never fail me You said your love will never give up You said your grace is always enough You said your heart will never forget or forsake me You said I'm saved, you call me yours You said my future is full of your hope You never fail, so I know that you'll never fail me I'll take you at your word You said it, I believe it I've seen how good it works If you start it, you're competing I'll take you at your word You said it, I believe it I've seen how good it works If you start it, you're competing I'll take you at your word I'll take you at your word I'll take you at your word

Come on Church! Come on! Hands up! I have fair hands that bear the scars Reach down and rescue me And I have known the love of the Father's heart A prodigal now I am From where I was to where I'm now, it's overwhelming. The more and more I see you move, you overwhelm me. Come on. Oh, I can't help but praise you, praise you, Lord. Oh, I can't help but lift up shouts of joy. When I think of how good you've been, your faith will mount to the end. I can't help but praise you, praise you, Lord. For the flight you shared to save my life, a debt I cannot repay. For the cross you bore with open arms, salvation they call my name. From where I was to where I'm now, it's overwhelming. The more and more I see you move, you overwhelm me. I can't help but praise you, praise you, Lord. I can't help but lift up shouts of joy. When I think of how good you've been, your faith will mount to the end. I can't help but praise you, praise you, Lord. Come on. Oh, I can't help but dance because I'm free. I got no chains on me. I'm healed and redeemed. Oh, I can't help but call on the day that buried my shame, will open my grave.

I can't help but praise you, praise you, Lord. Oh, I can't help but lift up shouts of joy. Oh, I can't help but praise you, praise you, Lord. Oh, I can't help but lift up shouts of joy. When I think of how good you've been, your faith will mount to the end. I can't help but praise you, praise you, Lord. I can't help but praise you, praise you, Lord. I can't help but praise you, praise you, Lord. I can't help but lift up shouts of joy. When I think of how good you've been, your faith will mount to the end. I can't help but praise you, praise you, Lord. When I think of how good you've been, your faith will mount to the end. I can't help but praise you, praise you, Lord. He's worthy of our praise, Jesus. He's worthy now, he was worthy then, and he will forever be worthy. I pray into the atmosphere, Spirit of God, you're here. You have all authority. Yes, he does. I pray over my heart and mind. I am healed by your stripes. Your blood declares that I am free. In the mighty name of Jesus. I pray, calling on the power of heaven. I obey every weapon from the deity. In the mighty name of Jesus. ♪ The enemy has no right to come near my family ♪

No he doesn't. ♪ No scheme can ever undo God's plans ♪ ♪ No matter the circumstance ♪ ♪ The cross has sealed my destiny ♪ ♪ In the mighty name of Jesus I pray ♪ ♪ I pray calling on the power of heaven ♪ ♪ I pray every weapon on the dead sea ♪ ♪ You must pray in the mighty name of Jesus ♪ ♪ In the mighty name of Jesus I know ♪ ♪ All the power of fear and darkness must know ♪ ♪ There's every key to every victory ♪ ♪ So I hope in the mighty name of Jesus ♪ ♪ I will not fear, I will not fear when the enemy comes near ♪ ♪ When the enemy comes near on the doorframe of our lives ♪ ♪ It's the blood of Jesus Christ ♪ ♪ I will not fear, I will not fear ♪ ♪ There's an army of angels here ♪ ♪ I'm protected on all sides by the blood of Jesus Christ ♪ ♪ I will not fear, I will not fear when the enemy comes near ♪ ♪ When the enemy comes near on the doorframe of my life ♪ ♪ It's the blood of Jesus Christ ♪ ♪ I will not fear, I will not fear ♪ ♪ There's an army of angels here ♪ ♪ I'm protected on all sides by the blood of Jesus Christ ♪ ♪ In the mighty name of Jesus for our faith, for our faith ♪ ♪ Calling on the power of heaven, I'm protected ♪ ♪ Every weapon formed against me, I'm protected ♪ ♪ In the mighty name of Jesus, in the mighty name of Jesus ♪ ♪ I know all the power of fear and blindness, I know all the power of fear and blindness ♪ ♪ When the Lord spoke, He said the key to everything will be found ♪

♪ In the mighty name of Jesus, in the mighty name of Jesus ♪ ♪ In the mighty name of Jesus, in the mighty name of Jesus ♪ ♪ In the mighty name of Jesus, in the mighty name of Jesus ♪ We're covered in the blood of Jesus. Do you know what that means? That means that all we have to do is call upon the name and we know that by His stripes we are healed. It is a finished work on the cross. We know that He showed up then and He will show up forever because He is the Alpha, He is the Omega, He is our God forever. He is God. Just call upon Him and you will be healed. ♪ So I will not fear, I will not fear when the enemy comes near ♪ ♪ On the doorframe of my life is the blood of Jesus Christ ♪ ♪ I will not fear, I will not fear, there's an army of angels here ♪ ♪ I'm protected on all sides by the blood of Jesus Christ ♪ ♪ I will not fear, I will not fear when the enemy comes near ♪ ♪ On the doorframe of my life is the blood of Jesus Christ ♪ ♪ I will not fear, I will not fear, there's an army of angels here ♪ ♪ I'm protected on all sides by the blood of Jesus Christ ♪ ♪ I will not fear, I will not fear when the enemy comes near ♪ ♪ On the doorframe of my life ♪ ♪ Is the blood of Jesus Christ ♪ ♪ I will not fear, I will not fear ♪ ♪ There's an army of angels today ♪ ♪ I'm protected on all sides ♪ ♪ By the blood of Jesus Christ ♪ ♪ In the mighty name of Jesus, I pray ♪ ♪ Calling on the power of heaven ♪

♪ I don't fear every weapon from the guilty ♪ ♪ In the name, in the mighty name of Jesus ♪ ♪ In the mighty name of Jesus, I know ♪ ♪ All the power of fear and darkness ♪ ♪ And you must know, there's every key to every victory ♪ ♪ Oh, in the mighty name of Jesus, in the mighty name of Jesus ♪ ♪ In the mighty name of Jesus, I know ♪ Jesus. Jesus. Jesus. Jesus. Jesus. Jesus. Jesus. Jesus. What a beautiful name it is, the name of Jesus Christ, my Lord. Yes, so good. What a beautiful name it is, nothing can stand against. What a beautiful name it is, the name of Jesus. Death could not hold you, the veil tore before you. You silenced the bells of sin and grave. The heavens are roaring praise of your glory. For you are raised to life again. You have no rival, you have no equal. Now and forever, God, you reign. Yours is the kingdom, yours is the glory. Yours is the name, oh, oh, oh, name. What a powerful name it is, Jesus. Jesus. Jesus.

Jesus. What a powerful name it is. The name of Jesus Christ, my Lord. What a powerful name it is, nothing can stand against. No guide of waters, your power has no end. The things you've done before in great measure, I know you will do again. Because there's no prison, oh, you can't break through. No mountain you can't move, oh, things are possible. There's no broken body you can't raise. No soul you can't save, oh, things are possible. The darkest night, you can light it up. You can light it up. Oh, God, help me find hope. And hope will rise, and death is overcome. You rose in victory, and now you're seated forever on the throne. So why should my heart fear what you defeated? I will trust in you alone. There's no prison wall you can't break through. No mountain you can't move over. Come on church, sing it out. Things are possible. Come on, you sound good. Let the devil hear it. Come on. There's no broken body you can't raise. No soul that you can't save. Oh, things are possible. The darkest night, you can light it up. You can light it up. Oh, God of revival.

Their hopes will rise, and death is overcome. For you've already won. Oh, God of revival. Oh, God of revival. Man, I hope that when you came into this house tonight, I hope that you came in expecting something. Because I promise you, by showing up, God has something for you here tonight. Come on, let's sing this together. Come awaken your people. Come awaken the city. Come on, Jesus, give us this city. Oh, God of revival, pour it out. Pour it out. Come on, we're singing. Expectation. Every stronghold will crumble. I hear the chains hit the ground. Oh, God of revival, pour it out. Pour it out. Come on. Come awaken your people. Come awaken the city. Oh, God of revival, pour it out. Pour it out. Every stronghold will crumble. I hear the chains hit the ground. Oh, God of revival, pour it out. Pour it out. In the darkest night, you can light it up. You can light it up.

Oh, God of revival, let hope arise. The day has overcome. You've already won. Oh, God of revival. Oh, God of revival. Oh, oh, oh, oh, God of revival. Oh, oh, oh, we give you the glory, Jesus. You are the kingdom come. We will be there. Come on, let's sing. Come awake in your people. Come awake in your people. Come awake in this city. Oh, God of revival, glory, hall, glory, hell. Every stronghold will crumble. I hear the chants and the bells. Oh, God of revival, glory, hell, glory, hell. Come awake in your people. Come awake in this city. God, we're desperate for you. God of revival, glory, hell, glory, hell. God, we need you. Every stronghold. Every stronghold. I hear the chants and the bells. Oh, God of revival, glory, hell, glory, hell. In the beginning, God created the heavens and the earth. And the earth was formless and empty. And darkness covered over the surface of the deep. But the spirit of God was hovering over the waters.

And God said, let there be light. And there was light. And light was good. And he separated the light from the darkness. Who among you walks in darkness? Who has no light? Let them trust in the name of the Lord. Let them lean on God. Nevertheless, there will be no gloom for those who are in distress. For those who are walking in darkness have seen a great light. The shadow of death, a light has dawned, for God so loved the world that he created his one and only son, that whosoever believes in him will not perish, but have everlasting life. For God did not send his son into the world to condemn the world, but that the world through him might be saved. You see, the thief comes to steal, to kill, and to destroy, but Jesus comes that you would have life, that you would have it to the full. Momentum! Jesus brings light to our darkness. Jesus brings light to our life. You are the light of the world. A city on a hill cannot be hidden. A lamp, you understand, cannot be hidden. Instead, put it on a stand, so it gives light to everyone in the house in the same way. Let your light shine before them, that they may see your good deeds and glorify God. Come, awaken your people. Come, awaken the city. Oh God, help revival pouring out, pouring out. Every stronghold will crumble. I hear the chains hit the ground. Oh God, help revival pouring out, pouring out. Oh God, help revival pouring out, pouring out. I want to ask the question, how many of you here? Yes. I want to ask the question, is this your heart's cry tonight? Come on church, you believe that? All things possible. Do our... Father God, we say thank you for who you are. God, we are here because we are hungry for you.

God, we are desperate for you. God, in the world that we are living in, they need you. Which God, it means we need you. We need you God, to do what only you can do. So God, we just surrender. God, we surrender. We say start right here. Tonight, the first night of revival. God, we say change me. Start revival right here in me. God, we draw a circle around ourselves. Lord, we are not looking at our brother or our sister. God, we are saying God, change everything in this circle. That is not of you or for you. God, start with us. God, would you do that? God, you have visited this city before. You have moved in this city before. And you are the same yesterday, today and forever. And nothing is too hard for you. And your arms are not short that you cannot save. So God, would you awaken your people tonight? God, would we leave talking about how great you are. How worthy you are. You are worthy to be praised. And we need you. We just want you to know that we want you here. Like while on others you are falling, please, oh God, don't pass us by. We are desperate for you. God, this city needs you. This state needs you.

Our country needs you. God, would you do something so big tonight that only you can get the credit. Only you can get the glory, God. Jesus, you must increase. And Jesus, we must decrease. It's all about you. You're the one. Jesus, you take center stage. God, thank you for the word that we're getting ready to hear tonight. God, help us to be hungry for it. It's great seed, God. I pray it would fall in great soil. And I pray as we leave, God, we not just be hearers of the word, but we would be doers of the word. God, I pray for people watching online. God, I pray over our young people. God, from the front to the back, to the balcony, to overflow, God, we ask your spirit to pour out on us tonight. Do a new thing, King Jesus. God, we're not asking for crumbs. We're not here for crumbs, God. God, we're asking you for salvations. God we're asking you for miracles. God we're asking you for healing, for signs, for wonders God. Would you do something now? Would you do something in our generation, in our day, and would you start it tonight? And all God's people said, Amen. Wow. Wow. It's night one. I know. We haven't even had a message yet. I know. I'm ready. Guys, we've got a preacher in the house. Woo, yes we do. Our pastors are here. Yes. Our pastors. Yes. And we are humbled.

And we are so honored for our pastors to be here. Pastor David, Pastor Nicole Craig. They're the best. They've loved us, poured into us, challenged us. Pastor Nicole's going to be bringing a word here in just a second. Pastor Steph, you got to spend some time with Pastor Nicole. Talk about Pastor Nicole. You know, you ladies met Pastor Linda back in December at our Lyft event. And I told you that I joined this group of women. Well, I got put in this text thread, so I started looking through the names on this text thread. And I see Nicole Craig, and I'm like, Who's this? I don't know this lady. So I looked her up, and I'm like, I think I need to know this lady. And little did I know how much it was going to change my life. She's been an incredible mentor, an incredible friend. She has called me up, and she has called me out, okay? We all need those friends, don't we? She's like, Girl, you can do better than this. And you're like, I know I can. So thank you for being that person to call me up and call me out. Because strong-willed women need somebody else strong enough to call them out too, right? So I love that about her. She's not afraid to just challenge you. She's not afraid to bring the Word of God to us. She's a dynamic speaker filled with the Holy Spirit. I'm telling you, she walks with Him. She listens to Him. And she's just an incredible friend. She's written books. She won't tell you this about herself. New York Times bestseller. New York Times bestseller. Multiple, multiple New York Times. The Nicole Craig Show that has helped so many people around the world, not even here in the U.S., but around the world, people sharing their stories.

You giving people a place to belong, share their stories, and others find hope and healing through this. So I just want to say thank you. I know our people are going to be challenged tonight. I know they're going to be filled tonight. And they're just going to be overwhelmed by the Holy Spirit flowing through you. So we are so excited to have you here tonight. Our pastors, Pastor Nicole and David Craig. I know. We love them so much. But you guys are ready. I feel it. I feel it. Hey, by the way, what a great— A rowdy momentum welcome. What's that? I said a rowdy momentum welcome. I know. Come on. What an incredible moment right now. I want momentum church to show up. Put your hands together. Come on. Make some noise. Pastor Nicole Craig is in the house. Woo-hoo. I tell you what, I don't know how I'm supposed to preach while I'm crying because with an introduction like that. Now I'm going to make women look soft. You know, there's something that happens when people talk about you behind your back. But there's something much more powerful that happens when people talk about you in front of your face. And I want to let you know that Jesus is talking about you right now. Right in front of God the Father.

Because Jesus is seated at the right hand of the Father. And your name is on his lips at this moment. And you might be saying, how could all our names be on his lip at this moment? You obviously forgot that God can do all things. He is multi-talented. He is omnipresent. He is omniscient. He can be everywhere, talk about everybody, know everything and all the time. It's like so wild, right? And Pastor Tim and Pastor Steph, you know, you're just a treasure. There is just this edge of humility and almost this brokenness that rides on their breath at every moment that keeps you so engaged. Because you can feel just like the humility of Jesus coming through them. And what a beautiful thing. Beautiful blessing to be in such a strong house that's leaned into worship with a team that's just putting it on the line and leaders that just chase after God so hard. And here's something, and y'all gonna have to stop my clock because this is my introduction. You got me at 22 minutes. I thought I had 35. I ain't been introducing for 13. I'm not good at math, but I can do that math. But sorry, I'm ADD, okay. Somebody has to go first, and you guys go first. And here's the thing about the people who go first. We live in the woods, and my husband made a path. Now, when I walk through the woods, I don't get hit with briars or thorns or twigs or trees, but he hit all of those

things so that I could walk easier. You guys hit hell and the devil and heat and hate so that you can make a path, because you're the shepherds, and everybody can follow you down that path easier. Thank you for everything that you've done that we don't see. You guys are the real deal. Legit. Legit. And I am honored church, Momentum Church. Wow, what a name, right. Momentum Church. I am so honored to be with you on the first of the revival nights. No pressure. It's like okay, it's a revival night, Jesus better be there. And if he's not, everybody will know because tomorrow night will be awesome. Okay, okay, I'll do that. If you've got your Bibles, you can open it up to Leviticus 26. I wanted to give you a second to open it up because you probably don't want to read Leviticus. Because it's that boring book with all the numbers, I am going to read my Bible in a year. And you get to the book of Leviticus and you are like, nah. If you are a new Christian, don't start with Leviticus. We are going to preach Leviticus tonight but don't start with Leviticus. Start with Matthew. Do Mark, Luke, John. Maybe Acts and Romans.

Then maybe Genesis, get some history. Don't do Revelation either first, okay. You need a lot of context before you go there. How many of you are pretty new in your Christian walk? Give me a hey. How many of y'all been Christians for like 5, 10 years? Be like, ho. How many of you got like, I have been a Christian since I was born. Give me an amen. Okay then. Well, y'all are going to need to teach me something. So we have a really weird context in our life. My dog is here somewhere. So if something fuzzy rubs against your feet, it's not a church mouse. My dog is here somewhere because we have three churches in Florida. We have five churches in the St. Louis area. It's a crazy schedule. So like this morning I was preaching in West Palm Beach and before I go to bed tonight, I will be in St. Louis, Missouri. So as we go back and forth, we are taking our dog with us. That means I am constantly taking things out of our refrigerator. And there is a rule in our house. Well, the primary rule is I don't cook, but nobody listens to that one. The second rule in our house is if you take something out of the refrigerator, you better check the expiration date before you

try to eat it. So I bought this big container of yogurt instead of the pretty little cups. And my husband is like, you don't need to buy that big container of yogurt. I am like, hey babe, I am eating clean for at least the next 20 minutes. And I want the big container of yogurt, so I put my protein in it. And so, because he knows me, he knows I will be back at Chick-fil-A tomorrow. So he leaves town to go to St. Louis. I am hungry and so I need to get something. And I like yogurt because y'all, that's the speed I cook at. You know what I am saying. You don't even have to turn the oven on, no stove. And I grab it out of the refrigerator and there is an open container, an unopened container. And I am going to grab it. I just have this little like, mmmm. I override that. I am like, I know I opened it this week. So I am just doing it and I am spooning it out into a bowl. And I feel this like, mmmm. And I mix my protein in. I mix the last of my fruit in. Y'all it's the last I have in my refrigerator, my fruit. I am mixing it in. I am getting ready to take a bite. And I literally hear the Holy Spirit well up on the inside of

me. How many of you have ever heard God speak to you something? Not like in an audible voice. This is God. But like, God is like, hey, hey. Smart girl. How many times do I have to tell you? Those are the words I have to tell you. I heard. I'm like, and it's how many times do I have to tell you? And I'm like, God, it's the last of my fruit. Like I better check the expiration date for Pete's sake. And I go over and I go to check the expiration date and I look at the expiration date and y'all, this stuff was like a week past the expiration date. And I'm like, okay, it's yogurt. It's already curdled milk. Can it be that bad? It was the last of my fruit. It's funny how we are justified by Christ. And yet we will try and justify ourselves doing the things that God told us not to do. So I'm like, and the Lord again, how many times do I have to tell you? I just wonder what message the Lord has been bringing to you so many times. And he's just asking me here in this first revival night to reinforce that voice of that thing that he has been telling you. He's like, hey, I'm telling you, I'm telling you,

I'm telling you, I'm telling you. And he's like, this thing in your hand, it is expired. I'm looking at it for my provision and the Lord is looking at it as something that has expired in my life. What are you holding on to in 2026 that the Lord asked you to leave in last year? Okay, let me give you one more example. Let me give you one more example. Guys, this is gonna go a little bit girl on me, but anybody in the area of military? All right, good. Cause y'all know about boots then, right? Lace up your boots, put on your backpack. Anyway, anyway, anyway. So I was getting ready to preach and something y'all don't know is y'all think y'all are sweet. What you don't know is you look pretty scary. So you wanna come up here with like your confidence on a little bit. So a preacher, can I get an amen from any, we got a whole row of preachers in the house and worship team, back me up. You have to have on a decent outfit so you have a little bit of confidence. All right, so I was preaching a message and I go to wear these boots. Now the boots that I pull out of my closet have a backstory because I had worn them the week before

to work in St. Louis, cause it was cold. And my sock had gotten twisted inside of my boot. Anybody in the military know what I'm talking about. That is not comfortable. It's like the wrong, it's bunched up. So I take off my boot to fix my sock. And when I do, the inside of my boot crumbles all over the floor when I take my foot out. You see, because I had bought these boots about 20 years ago at Macy's. They had sat in my closet for a while, but they were back in style. Like the really cool, authentic vintage. So I'm like, oh my gosh, no, I need to clean this up. And a girl in my office, Jonna, she's like, no, no, no, Pastor Nicole, I'll clean this up for you, but you got to throw those boots away. I said, yes, ma'am. So I took the boots home. I put them in the box and I prepared them for their funeral. And as I was getting ready to put them in the trash can, I thought, you know, these are really still in style. Don't tell Jonna, but I'll throw them away next year. So I put them back in the closet and they matched the outfit I was going to preach in. So I went ahead and I put them on for the outfit I was going to preach in. And as I went out to preach, I realized as I was looking down at my boots, they had been crumbling on the inside

where nobody could see it. But now they were crumbling on the outside and it was getting embarrassing. And the Lord told me something. He said, these exact words were, if you won't even clear out what's crumbling, how can I give you what's coming? What are you trying so hard to hold onto that you're using a spiritual superglue? You're called prayer that the Lord has already told you is expired. It's moved on, it's next season. So in September of 2025, the Lord gave me my word for 2026. And he said, 2026 is the year of multiplication. Anybody ever watched Family Feud? You ever see him do this? So do this with me. Whenever I say multiplication, do this, right? That's the times, that's the multiply sign, right? He said, 2026 is the year of multiplication. And I started writing 2026 this way. I write two, zero, two, little S, little I, big X. I don't put the number six because y'all are churched. Y'all told me you've been church your whole life. Six is the biblical number of man. I don't want the biblical number of man in my year, I want God's multiplication in my year, I put God's multiplication in my year. And where did that come from? It came from last September. And last September I was reading the scripture and the Lord led

me to Leviticus 26.10. And I went to Leviticus 26.10 and it says, you will still be eating when you have to move it out. To make room for the new. You will still be eating last year's harvest. You will still be living on last year's blessing, last year's provision. The last nice thing that somebody said about you. The last time that a man looked at you and told you, you look good. The last time a girl went, hey, and you thought she was talking about you. The last time that you got a raise at work. The last time you felt like you were good at something. And we get stuck in the last time that we thought we were good. So that we can't move on to the thing that God is calling us to today. Who has been a little bit stuck? Who has been running on the hamster wheel. You are tired of running and exhausted and I can't possibly be in the same place because I am on a treadmill. God, I am tired. God, I am ready. God, I am burnt out. And God is like, maybe it's because you are in the wrong place. Maybe that season is expired. Maybe that thing that is crumbling on the inside is starting to show on the outside.

And with God, my husband David Crank, y'all, you probably noticed him when he walked in the room. He was that good looking blonde thing that when he walked there was a soundtrack. I am a woman's man, no time to talk. Uh-huh, uh-huh, uh-huh. Okay, people who are under 30, I just made a musical reference you don't understand. But that's okay, everybody over 30 knows they have 99 problems but this ain't one and I got you. Leviticus 26.10, what I did not realize was for a month or two, I just knew there was something about that scripture. And if you are a note taker, write this down, it might be the most important thing I say all night. Is that the Lord will only give you as much revelation as you seek out. So you get a word and you hear it and you don't write it down, that's all you get. You hear a word, you write it down, you put it in a notebook, you don't look at it, that's all you get. You hear a word, you write it down, you put it in a notebook, that's all you get, more. You take it to your prayer closet again and you get more. Like I am still studying from September of last year, Leviticus 26.10, I'm not to the bottom yet. There's more. Everybody say there's more. Turn to your neighbor on your left and tell them there's more. Turn to the neighbor on your right and tell them there's even more than that.

And you are like, whenever I look that way, everybody is looking at everybody's head. Say it one more time, say there's more. There's more. Because multiplication always starts with movement. And we have been moving in place but not moving to the place. And today God is saying, hey Nicole, by the way if you are wondering how tall I am, it's 5'11". Sometimes he uses big girls to do things. All the big girls in the house. He uses big girls to do things. I need to get a big girl in here who is not afraid to dig in and pick up a shovel and get something done. I need a big girl to walk in the room and say it's not time to be stuck here anymore. It's time to pick up and move to that place that God has you. Now before you put your house on the market. Before you quit your job. Start looking for a divorce attorney and fire your children. A prophetess, Jennifer Nettles, said something profound one time in a song. And I don't sing so forgive the tone but take the words. Why don't you stay? Sometimes the movement that we need to make is not on the outside. But is a huge internal shift. Because that's the thing that we got going on. We want to change everything on the outside so we don't have to deal with what is on the inside. But God wants to change everything on the inside.

And when you change everything on the inside, it affects everything on the outside. We got to start from the inside out. We can't go from the outside in. And it's one of the things I love about God. momentum church as you can get on board with a challenge. Pastor Stephanie, they're just like you. She says, tell me, tell me more, tell me more, tell me what to do, and y'all chase it. I'm telling you what, there is no end for what God has for y'all. And so you have to know that there are rewards for obeying God. So it's right here, I'm in Leviticus 26, and so I brought a picture of my Bible, and in Leviticus 26, it's right there. So Leviticus 26, 10 is right there on the right, kind of right there where the little box is. But right there, it says the rewards for obeying God. And you see, every time I go back there, I keep finding new scriptures, and if you don't mark up your Bible, get you one that you can. Right? And we have to know that there are rewards for obeying God, because God is not this big judge who's wanting to clobber you on the head and tell you what you can't do. How many of you believe that God likes to reward you, say amen.

How many of you aren't sure, say oh me. I mean, it's okay, because a lot of Christians think, okay, no, but God is really more into telling us what we need to do. But it says in Hebrews 11, six, but without faith, it is impossible. Impossible to what? To please God. Before we move on, without faith, it is impossible to please God. What does that mean? Faith does not begin until your ability ends. So you can't be comfortable and in faith at the same time. So if you are comfortable, it's time to move. And it's time to get in faith about whatever God is calling you to do. So if you haven't joined the small group, if you haven't started the prayer group, if you haven't started getting up earlier, if you haven't started the workout, if you haven't started tithing, if you haven't obeyed him with your generosity, if you haven't brought somebody to church, if you haven't asked somebody, if you're not uncomfortable yet, if you haven't dreamed about the business, if you haven't attended what's on the inside of you, I know Jesus is also happy right now. Because he's like, come on. Like, I really need you to need me

because if we don't go to him, if we're not uncomfortable, if we're not in faith, what we are saying is, God, I don't need you, I am sufficient. But we don't mean that, do we? No. Without faith, it's impossible to please him for he comes to God, must believe that he is and that God is a rewarder of those who diligently seek him, right? Turn to your neighbor and say, God's a rewarder. Turn to your neighbor on the other side and say, God's got something good for you. Every move you make in faith, it unlocks something in heaven. Jesus is not gonna give you what you need for your next step until you start to take it, right? Otherwise, we wouldn't need faith. So every step of faith we take unlocks something in heaven and when it unlocks something in heaven, things start to move in a realm that we cannot see before they arrive in the realm that we can see. But God cannot fill our hands until we release what is in them. You will still be eating last year's harvest when you have to move it out and make room for the new. So let me back up just a little bit. If you're Leviticus 26, I want you to go to Leviticus 26 verse three and it says, if you walk in my statutes and keep my commandments

and perform them, then I will give you rain in this season and the land shall yield its produce and the trees of the field shall yield their fruit. And as I sat and I prayed over that, when I was praying over that, the Lord prompted me and was just asking me questions. When do farmers plant? How many of you are not a farmer? But how many of y'all are pretty sure you know when a farmer plants? Probably spring, right? I'm like, the farmer plants in spring. He's like, okay. He said, when does a farmer harvest? Fall, right? So when you plant in one year, you reap in the same year the seed that you have planted in that year. So seed, everybody say seed, is planted and reaped in the same year, right? So the land shall yield its produce and the trees. Okay, wait, wait, wait. Produce from the field and the trees are two different things. So there's a difference between the normal seed that we put in the ground. The normal seed we put in the ground through our tithes and through our offerings, that's one thing. But the special seed, the offering seed, the seed that goes over and above,

that is a different kind of seed. It is not a seed that you plant and you get out of the field. It is the kind of seed that goes and bears fruit. Now, how many of you know you don't get fruit out of a wheat field? We're not farmers, but we get that. Can I get an amen? We get that, right, right, right? So if you're gonna go. plant a fruit tree seed, here's the difference. If you plant a tomato seed, within 90 days, 100 days, you're gonna have a whole plant and you're gonna get about 10 tomatoes. And you can slice them up, you can put them on your sandwich, you can put them on your salad, you can put a little salt and pepper on them, eat them on a hot summer day and it is nice. But if you plant an avocado seed, you're not gonna get a stinking thing. Not this year, not next year, not the year after that. You're not gonna get any fruit for three to five years. But once that avocado tree starts to bear fruit, it will produce two to 300 avocados every single year. For up to 200 years. Some seed you have to plant, there is seed, there is time, and then there is harvest. And when you have to wait for the harvest. That good looking thing, David Crank. See, I looked at you and I got distracted.

Because I forgot to tell them something your daddy always says. And your daddy always says, with God it's never for less, it's always for more. So we think God is moving slower. We don't understand God's method of math. Turn to your neighbor and say, I hate math. I hate math. Right, I don't get math, I don't get math at all. And while I'm trying to figure out God's math, I was in verse five and it says, your threshing will last until the time of vintage. What does that mean? That means while you're harvesting, you're gonna be harvesting so many avocados and you're gonna be harvesting so much that you're gonna be harvesting still while you have to put the stuff away. And then you're gonna be putting the stuff away and the vintage shall last until the time of sowing. You're gonna be canning avocados. I don't even know if you can avocados. You're gonna be canning avocados until it's time to plant again. I have a question for you, are you ready to be that busy? Can you make room for the blessing? Because if you're ready to lay back and retire and lay down and let somebody else take it, you're not making room for the blessing because the blessing takes time.

The blessing takes management. The blessing takes attention. The blessing takes energy. And I'm here to tell you, you are not retired if you are in this room. You might be retired from your job, but you are not retired from the kingdom of God. It took you a long time, come on somebody, to get that gray hair that should speak wisdom. You finally know something. Now is the time of your effectiveness, friends. Now is the time of your effectiveness. This is not your time to retire in the kingdom of God. This is your time to refire in the kingdom of God. Can to your turn to your neighbor say, it's the time to refire. Say it's a time of revival. And that scripture finishes up and says, you shall eat your bread to the full. Baby, the Bible said, eat carbs. You are welcome and good night. You shall eat your bread to the full and dwell safely in your land. Now I know when you are in Florida, you pick oranges, but when you're in the Midwest, you pick apples. And I brought some really cute pictures of my family. If you guys don't mind putting those up there. I was at these apple farms and there's this place not far from us. It's called Eckerd's Orchard.

And you go and you pick the apples and it's so cute and it's so fun. And while we were out there with the family, that's Liam right there. And we're just having the best time and we're out there with the family. I just felt the Lord asked me, how did this orchard get here? Because it was gorgeous. You go and you look out and you see all of these trees and all of this produce and it's feeding so many people. And it's like, how do you feed this many people? How do you have this much provision in one field? And so the Lord started talking to me about apples during this message. You see, we've heard it said a lot of times, all of my church saints said, amen again. So all of y'all have said, you can count the number of seeds in an apple, but you can't count the number of apples in a seed. Y'all have heard that. And I'm like, okay, well, that's not Bible. So I'm going to check it out. Turns out chat GPT can. And when you go and do the research on it, if you eat an apple. And you get to the seed. By the way, notice that the Bible says he gives bread to the eater and seed to the sower. And God says, you have to eat the flesh of the apple

to get to the seed. And by the way, I have a new puppy. My puppy who's running around here, one of the things I learned is that apples are good for dog, but never let them eat the seed. You can't let them eat the seed because the seeds have cyanide. I wonder how poisonous the seed is we've been eating. He's gonna give you bread for the eating, gives you seed for the sowing. So with the apple, if you eat the apple, you've got the seed. So if you take just one apple seed and you plant it, now we're not gonna get a tree in the same year. We're not gonna get fruit in the same year. There's gonna be seed, there's gonna be time, and there's gonna be harvest. But once it starts producing apples, that one seed will produce a tree that will produce, ding, 10,750 apples. One seed, 10,750 apples. How many of you know you could eat those forever and you would have enough apples? But if we take the seeds that are in those apples, ding, you'll have 86,000 seeds. And if you take the 86,000 seeds, you still get to eat the apples, you still get to eat the flesh, you still get to make the pie, make the jam. You still get to smother butter all over them

and put some cinnamon and some brown sugar, y'all. You're gonna roll that sugar and that flour together, put it on top, put butter on it, put it in the oven. Yes, put a little bit of it in your ice cream. So good. You still get to do all that. But if you plant the 86,000 seeds, ding, you get 924,500,000 apples. How long is it gonna take you to manage that blessing? You'll still be eating last year's harvest when you have to move it out to make room for the new. So how do we get to the new? Well, we planted the seed. We had, okay, God, I planted my seed. I got tithed three whole weeks in a row. And then I gave that offering. I mean, that whole, Lord, I gave 20 bucks more than I was supposed to. God, and so we plant the, He heard you. We plant the seed. It has to become the tree. It has to grow the tree. It has to make the fruit. But before it can make the fruit, one of the things that they've noticed about fruit trees is, can I pick on you, honey, just for a minute? Can I pick on you? Can you come up here for me? Because I literally want to pick on you.

Thank you. Okay, before you lust over what you're about to see. I'm a 56-year-old man. You are a good looking 56-year-old man because I would not have married an ugly one. How long have we been married? Oh, gosh, you scared me. 29 years. That's so good, right? Okay, so an apple tree. When the apple tree is growing, if you pick the pretty flowers. Have you ever seen an apple tree in spring? It's so pretty. Baby, I'm gonna take your jacket off you, okay? No, no, no, just let me do it. If you take it. I'm not gonna let you strip for these people, baby. Just let me do my thing. If you go up to the good looking apple tree and you say, hey, I like these buds. I'm just gonna start taking these buds off the tree. And it looks like the tree is getting mishandled and not handled right. And things are coming off. And then it's like, well, no, no, no. You can't have these either. So you gotta take this off here. And you can't have this either. Take this off here.

And all of a sudden, the tree looks a little bit naked. Don't get excited. That's as naked as he's getting. The tree feels pruned. It looks uglier. And it looks a little bit cruel. But here's what God says. He says, if you will take the tree and the seed when it's finally starting to come up and you will prune it and pull it back, it will bear more fruit. It will live longer. It will be stronger. It will grow taller. It will provide more shade. Provide more fruit. So some of you feel like you are in a pruning season and some of you feel like God is literally picking on you or taking the coat off your back, but God is not picking on you. God is preparing you. He sees the strength and what's happening on the inside of you. And he says, I want you to bear more fruit. So if you'll give me a second, the process is ugly, but the product is awesome. Somebody give God a shout for his process. Thank you, baby. Baby, I owe you presents. I owe you presents and food and all kinds of stuff.

I'm so, thank you for letting me do that. It feels wrong, but it's how it makes it grow stronger. So if I can take you quickly through 2 Kings 3, in 2 Kings 3, 1 and 2 Kings, 1 and 2 Chronicles, 1 and 2 Kings, 1 and 2 Chronicles. Well, it's in here somewhere. Okay, 2 Kings 3, there's two kings. They're from Judah and Israel, because how many of you know people can't get along? Church splits, it's like, y'all Judah, you Israel, you don't get along. There's two kings, Jehoshaphat and Jeroboam, they don't get along. They're getting ready to go to war against the Moabites. They finally get united over something. You know what? There's nothing like a fight to make people who fight get together so they can fight some more, right? And so they're having to go to fight against the Moabites. And as they're going to fight against the Moabites, they have to go across this desert. As they're going across the desert, they're going across the desert for seven days. They get into the desert for seven days and they go seven days without water. The desert is the low place, not the high place. So before they go into this war, they have to go into the low place. And it looks like maybe God's trying to kill them, kind of like if we went after that apple tree.

And as we're going, as they're walking through there, they finally go to the man of God, which would have been idea probably that they should have had before they did it. But instead, after seven days with no water and they think they're going to die, they finally inquire of the Lord. We can do that in our prayer closet. In the Old Testament, they did it through a prophet. And in verse 16, the prophet said, "'Thus saith the Lord, make this valley, "'make this low place. "'Make this place you got to go low.'" Sometimes you got to go low to get high. Matter of fact, first Peter 5.5 says, the only way to multiply God's grace in your life is he who humbles himself. That's going low. Under the mighty hand of God, God will multiply his grace, it says in the Passion Translation, or he will be exalted in due time. Sometimes you got to go low to get high. Turn to your neighbor and say, sure to get low. Get low. So he says, make the valley full of dishes. And you're not gonna see wind, and you're not gonna see rain, and you're not gonna see anything good

that makes you think that anything good is gonna happen. But you might wanna write this down. When God is trying to multiply you, he will make you move. So they get into the valley and they're like, okay, we're supposed to make the valley full of ditches. First of all, we have no water. Second of all, we have no shovels, bro. Like, you missed God on this deal because it makes no sense. I love it when people tell me, I think God spoke to me and it doesn't make sense. I'm like, oh wait, it already sounds like him. So they have to dig ditches with swords and picks and little daggers and shields. They don't have the right tools for the job. It's not the right time for the job. They're almost exhausted, and they have to make the valley full of ditches, not dig a ditch, make it full of ditches. You will still be eating last year's harvest when you have to move it out to make room. What if the amount of blessing that the Lord could give you was based on the amount of room you've prepared to make room for the new? So he says, okay, make this valley full of ditches. So here they are, they are all night up, all night digging. It does not make sense. And they get up in the morning and they're about to revolt.

They're like, hey, look, we did this all night long and it is morning and we are exhausted. If they come now, we are going to lose. We are dehydrated and we are tired. God wants to meet you in your tired place. God wants to meet you when you are depleted and you do not know how this is gonna work out. He says, oh, you're at the end of you. I love that because that's the beginning of me. And the prophet says, okay. In verse 20, it happened in the morning. And he said, go, it's time for the grain offering. And when the grain. Offering was offered. Are you kidding me? Are you kidding me right now? We have to dig ditches. We have to make room We've got nothing and you're gonna want to offering on top of this and When they brought the grain offering then suddenly The water came by the way of Edom. I Tell you what suddenly there was no rain. There was no pitter-patter. There was no storm cloud There was no open the floodgates. There was no there was no ceremony. There was no sign There was just water that started coming up out of nowhere You know, there's this place in Missouri It's called Johnson shut-ins and my son was seven years old with my parents at Johnson shut-ins and it's these like natural huge rocks and boulders in a river where you slide down and They were supposed to come home one night They were supposed to be home at 6 and they weren't and in seven and eight and nine and they weren't answering their phones And I was so scared What's going on? Why wasn't my family answering? Were they in a car accident? It's finally probably closer to midnight when I heard from him a

flash flood had happened Because rain had happened in another city upstream They never saw a drop. They never saw a cloud They never knew that anything was gonna happen. All of a sudden my mom said Rob I Thought you put your shoes way up on the bank. They're floating down the river he goes I did and he looked and he goes Nancy get the kids and run and The river came up and it came up and it came up and it came up out of nowhere. That's what happened They were in the valley and all of a sudden the water just started coming up and coming up and coming up and coming up Out of nowhere. God does a suddenly that he's been working on for a long time He was making it rain in another city for seven days. The very thing they thought was draining them We have no water God says I know I'm storing it up so I can release it suddenly You're thirsty right now, but you're gonna live because of it if you can just trust me in the dry season I'm getting ready to save your life and make you rich and give you everything you could not give yourself I'm gonna give you a victory. You could not win What victory is God working on for you He's working on dead things coming alive. He's working on the water rising He's working on your provision come in and I posted something on Instagram and it went viral What did it say it said that the pain of obedience is the price of the blessing So as I end So as I end In this first night of revival, I just want to ask you again. What's that one thing? What's your yogurt? What's your boots? What's God been asking you to put back what's he told you was expired What's he telling you to get rid of to make room everybody say make room So when they rose up They made the grain offering the water rose The Moabites saw it and when they saw it the Sun was rising and there's red Sun It was really cool and it looked down and they're like, oh my gosh Y'all Judah and Israel killed each other. Let's go down and collect the spoils. So they didn't even bring their swords They just ran down towards the water thinking they were just gonna collect the spoils and they were easy pickets

The enemy That you thought was gonna take you out Is so easy for God to defeat It looks ominous right now But it's really a way of God to transfer you victory transfer you wealth transfer you health transfer you time Transfer you impact transfer you influence transfer you restoration transfer you redemption how long you want me to do this? But it begins with obedience friends What is God Calling you to do What is God? Asking you to put away Let me close this up by going back to where we started Leviticus 26 10 You will still be eating last year's harvest Last year's harvest might have been great Might have been the best year of your life and it's okay to feast on it. Just don't stop on it Don't sleep on God because last year was good You will still be eating last year's harvest when you have to move it out What is God asking you to move? Because he's asking you to move something and it's probably something you don't want to move. No, that's wrong. I guarantee you it's something You don't want to move. Is it your pride? Is it your doubt Is it your lack of confidence Is He asking you to finally step up and lead it, to serve it, to get in front of it, to start it? Come on! You don't know whose breakthrough, whose sustenance, whose apples are gonna come from you. With every head bowed and every eye closed, if there's places in you that have been empty

and spots in your life where you have been a little bit stuck, and God has been whispering to you about getting rid of something or moving something or changing something or rearranging something, you've been trying to push Him down, but you can't overlook the fact that this is coming back and reinforce it. I don't want anybody looking around, but I want you to slip your hand up so I know who I'm praying with right now. I see you, I see you, oh, I see you, okay. I got you, I got you everywhere. You can put your hands down. Father God, I thank you for the honesty and the transparency and the vulnerability of these people, and that is something that you can work with. We humble ourselves before you and say, God, I don't got it, and I don't know how to do it. That's when you start sending wisdom from heaven. Lean not onto your own understanding, but acknowledge Him in all your ways. Lord, that's what they just did, and you will direct their paths. Holy Spirit, speak in these moments. God, I pray that every message in this week builds one upon another. I pray that the time that you're wanting to change, the ideas you're wanting to change, the traditions you're wanting to change,

we've been dogmatic about things that we should be pupmatic about. We've been dogmatic, you've been stuck. People are calling you a stick in the mud behind your back because you're stuck in a way and you won't change it. Friend, I get you, but God's begging you. He's giving you a yogurt wake-up call. How many times do I have to tell you? I've been there. Father God, we lay it down at your feet right now. We surrender to you so that we can be used of you. In Jesus' name I pray, amen and amen. If you don't know Jesus Christ as your Lord and Savior, I wanna invite you to do something extremely important because all this whole message works on one thing and that one thing is Jesus. And if he is not Lord and Savior of your life, the rest of it doesn't work. But if he is, heaven is your home after this earth. Every promise that I read you in this Bible, it is yours right now, not in the sweet by and by, it is yours right now. And it means you are never ever alone again because God is with you, God is for you, God is behind you and God is in front of you. And you get a whole church family to food. So I'm gonna invite you to make Jesus Lord of your life. Or some of y'all have, but you know, we just kinda cooled it, we kinda separated, we got angry, got frustrated,

and we've been doing the motions, but we haven't put him first. Seek ye first the kingdom of God and his righteousness and all these things will be added unto you, Matthew 6.33. For some of us it's a rededication today. To do that we have to A, B, C, we have to admit, number one, that I'm a sinner. How many of you are a sinner and you need Jesus' grace to save you? Can I get an amen? Amen. Then you need to believe that Jesus Christ came and he died so that you could live again. How many of you believe that Jesus was a real man that was part man, part God and he died on a cross and he did it so he could deliver you? Can I hear an amen? Amen. And then we have to confess with our mouth that Jesus is Lord. First John 1 and nine says that if we confess our sins, he is faithful and just to forgive us of our sins and cleanse us of all unrighteousness. Romans 10, 19 says that we confess with our mouth that Jesus Christ is Lord, that he will save us. So will the whole church say with me, dear God, I need you to be first place in my life. You sent Jesus to die on the cross so that I could live and be healed and be saved and be restored.

Jesus, you died for me so I will live for you. In Jesus name I pray. Amen and amen. Would you give the people who just prayed that a hand, clap of praise. Woo! Good move, friend. And I just wanna know who I can celebrate. If you prayed that with us today, would you raise your hand, give me a, hey, that was me. That was you. You are a smart man and I am so proud of you. Come on. Anybody else prayed that prayer with us tonight? Come on, we wanna celebrate you. Who was it? Yes. Come on. You know what? The best way to close this out is with praise. Mike, can you take us there?