The Lie That’s Holding You Back
Ever feel like something is fighting you before you even get started, and then coming back to take what you've already sown? In Zechariah 1, the prophet sees four horns that scattered God's people, and then four carpenters sent to break them. Pastor Jason McKinnies walks through the horns of hindrance, devouring and limitation, and shows that for every horn coming against you, God already has an answer.
Horn Two: The Horn of Hindrance
The Horn of Hindrance shows up before you even start. Its goal is to keep you from sowing, because the enemy cannot stop a seed once it is in the ground.
Paul experienced repeated resistance: “Therefore we wanted to come to you—even I, Paul, time and again—but Satan hindered us” (1 Thessalonians 2:18).
When you pray, worship, give, serve, or sacrifice, you are sowing. That is why the enemy fights your Sunday, your quiet time, and your giving before they happen.
Every time you are hindered, get up and sow again.
“Do not rejoice over me, my enemy; when I fall, I will arise; when I sit in darkness, the LORD will be a light to me.” — Micah 7:8
A banged-up tractor still plows more ground than one parked in the shed. Don’t pull yourself out of the field because you’re struggling a little.
Horn Three: The Horn of Devouring
The Horn of Hindrance tries to prevent. The Horn of Devouring waits until you have sown—and then tries to consume.
Whenever Israel planted, the Midianites came and destroyed the produce (Judges 6:3–4). This horn attacks the harvest, eating up progress before it can grow.
But God made a promise:
“Bring all the tithes into the storehouse… And I will rebuke the devourer for your sakes, so that he will not destroy the fruit of your ground.” — Malachi 3:10–11
Your harvest is your seed, and your seed is your harvest. Put it in His hand, and the devourer has to answer to Him.
Horn Four: The Horn of Limitation
The Horn of Limitation works through lies. Once it works, the enemy doesn’t have to keep pushing. You stop yourself.
Like an elephant that stopped pulling against a childhood rope, you can remain bound by an old failure or someone’s words over you. You are far stronger now than the rope.
“I can do all things through Christ who strengthens me.” — Philippians 4:13
The hardest part of breaking a limitation is being the first. Don’t let what happened before determine what you believe God can do now.
The Breakthrough: God Sends Carpenters
Zechariah saw four horns, but then the Lord showed him four carpenters. For every horn, God already had an answer standing by.
God answered with builders. The point was never just to defeat the horns—it was to get the temple built again. Jesus, the Carpenter, came for every horn. His power is complete, perfect, and unmatched.
- Over lack: God supplies—“you have lacked nothing.”
- Over hindrance: The Breaker goes before you (Micah 2:13).
- Over devouring: God promises to rebuke the devourer (Malachi 3:11).
- Over limitation: He can do exceedingly abundantly above all we ask or think (Ephesians 3:20).
Paul and Silas were hindered, beaten, and imprisoned, yet at midnight they prayed and sang hymns. God shook the prison, opened every door, and loosed everyone’s chains (Acts 16:25–26).
They didn’t wait to get out before they praised. They praised their way out.
Which Horn Has Your Head Down?
The coming weeks will examine the influences that try to keep people imprisoned—and how to overcome them. But first, get honest with God: Which horn has been pushing on you?
Name it to Him. For that horn, God has already sent a Carpenter.
“You, O LORD, are a shield for me, my glory and the One who lifts up my head.” — Psalm 3:3
I want to thank you for joining our broadcast on the Pando App. We love you and we're praying for you. Today, I want to continue what was supposed to be one sermon, broke it apart, and I want to talk about the four horns, and before we get into the second horn, the first horn was we lacked nothing, and there were people last week that were blessed, there were some people that missed the service and needed to be blessed. And so they were talking to us, and the one lady that really needed a blessing didn't know how she was going to make a certain bill. She was not in the building, but listened online, was traveling, and the Lord didn't provide through the altar here. The Lord provided through the mailbox for her and gave her what she needed in order to... Why would I say anything about that again? Well, I think that at some point, we're going to trust God and not the government. We're going to trust God and not our jobs. We're going to trust God with our finances, and we're going to trust God with every area of our lives, and we're going to watch what God can do in this place and in our lives. All right, Zachariah chapter 1, verses 18 through 21. This is a sermon for Dave Fisher, since he has skipped it almost every time I try to talk about it, and he flew in from Cozumel to hear me preach today, and we're glad that he is here, and back with us in the house of the Lord. Zachariah chapter 1, verses 18 through 21, I'm going to read it out of the New King James. Then I raised my eyes and looked, and there were four horns, four horns. And I said to the angel who talked with me, "What are these?" So he answered me, "These are the horns that have scattered Judah, Israel, and Jerusalem." Let me just kind of put that in perspective. They've scattered praise, they've scattered a people, and they have scattered the place of the temple. They've scattered them. "Therefore the Lord showed me," so he answered me, he said, "These are the forms that have scattered Judah, Israel, Israel."
Then the Lord showed me four craftsmen, those of you that King James says, four carpenters. And I said, "What are these coming to do?" And he said, "These are the horns that scattered Judah so that no one could lift up his head, but the craftsmen are coming to terrify them, to cast out the horns of the nations that lifted up their horn against the land of Judah to scatter." And so there's these four horns, biblically speaking, prophetically speaking, you can talk about the four nations that scattered them, and I want to bring that more into a modern sense and talk about the four horns that come to scatter us, to destroy us, to push us, and to press us, and last week we covered the horn of lack, and that the enemy will constantly tell you that you are in lack. And I would tell you that if you have the Lord, you lack nothing. Because lack is not so much about what you possess, but rather who you are walking with. And if you are walking with the Lord, then you lack nothing and that you are more than enough. Look at your neighbor and say, "You're more than enough." Look at your other neighbor and say, "You're more than enough." You are more than enough. And then the horn number two, that's where we're going to start today. So we've had first the horn of lack, and now horn number two, we have the horn of hindrance. And this is an important one, because most of you on a Sunday morning, even though you gained an extra hour today, praise God for that, even though you gained an extra hour today, you, no doubt, probably ran into some hindrance trying to get to church. Those of you that serve here, you probably ran into some hindrance as well. And no doubt there is a temptation when the horn of hindrance comes against us to stop whatever we have committed to do in order to deal with the hindrance instead of keeping our commitment. And the reason why that is important to us is the horn of hindrance always wants to prevent you from planting or sowing a seed. And those of you that serve here and you are committed to the house and you try to get up early and you want to come to church and you want to serve, the enemy has tried to
destroy your seed of serving before you serve. So you can get up and go to work and get the kids to school and there is no issue whatsoever. The kids will roll out of bed and they are excited to go to math class. But ask them to go to Sunday school class. And they want to throw a big old fit about it, what is happening. There is a horn of hindrance that is coming against you and your family to prevent you before you ever get to a place of sowing a seed. This happens in our finances, it happens in our serve, it happens in our worship, it happens And so on Sunday mornings you and your spouse can be getting along all week long, saying sweet, nothing's into their ear. But then, but Sunday morning happens and all kinds of things happen. In our house today, we got new flooring late in our house last week. They took all the doors off and they put all the doors back on Pastor Pete. And all the doors have worked properly all week long until this morning. This morning, Pastor Melissa was locked inside of our bedroom. (audience laughing) And I said, "It's operator air." (audience laughing) 'Cause after 26 years of marriage, I still have not learned that I have the right to remain silent. (audience laughing) And the enemy knows I'm gonna be preaching about the horn of hindrance today. And so she's in a hurry because she wants
to get to church and she's grabbing ahold of the doorknob. And I listen, I walk over to the doorknob. (audience laughing) The enemy was doing everything in his power to hinder before we could get to church. To get you so out of sorts in your mind and your heart and your soul and your spirit that by the time you get here, you are already fighting with your wife and fighting with your spouse and fighting with your kids and fighting with everybody and the police and energy are pulling you over for one mile an hour over the speed limit and all the traffic lights and hair are timed incorrectly and you could get so angry. What's happening? There is a horn of hindrance that's coming so that when you get here, you may be in the building but you are not sowing any seeds of worship and you're not sowing any seeds of praise because you're so bent out of shape. And what has happened? The enemy has been successful in hindering you before you got here. The horn of hindrance and Paul, the apostle Paul, felt this horn often in his life. And first Thessalonians chapter two and verse 18, he said, "Therefore we wanted to come to you, "even odd Paul, time and again, "but Satan hindered us." We were trying to get there.
We wanted to be there. We were making commitments to be there but Satan was hindering us so that we could not get to where we wanted to go. Satan was hindering before they got there. So before you ever get to church, before you ever even serve, the enemy is at work in your life. Now listen church, the Bible tells us that we are not ignorant of his devices. So I learned very quickly, I just needed to fix the door and let's keep moving. Otherwise, we're gonna have all these things happening in our lives and we're gonna start arguing about a door and we're gonna miss the door. Everybody good? Y'all mop it what I'm dropping? So if you had a tussle to get here today or maybe you're watching me online, whatever happened, you need to realize that when you're getting ready to do something for God, you're getting ready to go into God, the enemy is going to do everything in his power to hinder you before it happens. He doesn't want you to sow that seed. You made a commitment. You said, Lord, I'm gonna do this for you. And then all these things happen. You need to just step back and say, Satan the Lord, rebuke you.
Paul didn't just get stopped once. There in Thessalonians, he kept running into a same hindrance. You can look at Romans 15, 22. Acts chapter 16, he was on his way to pray and a spirit of divination stepped into Paul's path. They're on their way to pray. The enemy didn't want them to pray. He doesn't want you to sow seeds in faith or sow seeds in worship or sow seeds. And so he sends a hindrance to keep you and prevent you from doing everything in your power. But we need to learn the lesson from Acts chapter 16. When Paul and Silas went into prison, the enemy thought it was going to be a hindrance to them. What did they do? They begin to pray and then prayer went into praise. And when they begin to pray and we're going to praise, their hindrance was broken down and not only was their hindrance broken down, but other people's prison cells begin to get shook loose because they broke through their hindrance in their lives. So just per adventure, maybe you have succumbed to a hindrance in your life. Micah 7.8 is a great prophecy for us. Says, "Do not rejoice over me, O my enemy. When I fall, when I come under subjection to a hindrance, when I fall, I will arise. And when I sit in darkness, the Lord will be a light to me." Maybe that one doesn't encourage you.
Here's Proverbs chapter 24 verse 16. "For a righteous man may fall seven times." Next Sunday, don't allow the enemy to hinder you. Get to church, come sow your seed of worship, come sow your seed of praise, and watch what God will do. Don't allow the enemy to always be a prevention from you before it happens. All right, just a minute. Now, how many of you have a lawnmower? All right, how many of you have a tractor? I don't know your tractor. My tractor is pretty beat up. And I've been wanting a new tractor. Been wanting a new tractor. (congregation laughs) Past Ed, would you lay hands when I was little? The Lord said, "Past to get a new tractor." And the other day I was mowing the yard with my old tractor. And you know what was awesome about my old beat up tractor? It was still producing better than one that was left in the garage and never used. 'Cause some of us think if something has been old and beat up, it serves no purpose. And so we'll leave it in the garage and say it's too old and it's too beat up to do anything. But an old beat up tractor is better than a new tractor that's never been run before. I think I don't even have to preach the next point.
I think you all got it. The enemy would hinder many of you by telling you you're old and you beat up. And you've been used and abused. And he has tortured you and he has tipped you and he has tried you and you got scratches and you got marks and we just need to get a new tractor. I would tell you that an old beat up tractor is better than a broken down new one. And there are many of you that the enemy has hindered all of your life and you don't think you serve any more purpose in the kingdom of God. And I want to tell you that you can produce more as a old beat up, banged up tractor than people who've got new ones that never put it to its use. And so I want to say to some of you the enemy is hindering you and keeping you saying, "Oh, look at me, I'm old, too old, I'm too beat up." I was just talking to Joe Hale over in kids earlier and he said, "Pastor, I'm 70 years old." And I said, "Joe, we still need you in the kingdom of God. Joe, we still need you here." Why? Because you're training up a new generation that no matter how old you get, you can still serve in the kingdom of God. I'm not saying Joe's old and beat up. What I'm saying is many of you think was time for me to check out and stay in the garage.
No, I'm telling you to rev up your engine, change your oil, put gasoline in it, and let's go do something in the kingdom of God no matter how old we are. The horn of hindrance, that leads us, the horn of hindrance does it before. It tries to prevent, then the next horn is the horn of devouring. hindrance tries to prevent you before the horn of devouring waits until you have sown. And then it tries to consume. Gideon's generation lived under this horn. Judges chapter six, verses three through four. So it was whenever Israel had sown, the Midianites would come. Whenever Israel had sown, then the Midianites would come up and destroy the produce of the earth as far as Gaza and leave no sustenance for Israel. Let me ask this question of purpose house. Have you ever done anything or prayed or praised and worship and you thought, my goodness, the answer is on the way. And by the time you got to the parking lot, you feel like you have been devoured. Anybody in the room ever felt like that. We're gonna have a moment of vulnerability because there's a difference between vulnerability and transparency. Transparency is I'm going to be truthful with you which I always am.
Vulnerability is I'm going to tell you something truthful that should you be my enemy, you could use against me. So I wanna have a moment of vulnerability over the last six to eight months in my life, Pastor Jason's life. I have felt this horn of devouring. After all these years of pastoring in Southern Illinois, having sown scenes and seen revival and seeing God do this and watch God do this. And in fact, while I was telling John all the miracles and signs and wonders that God has been doing, what it was doing was I was trying to tell him how wonderful purpose house is, but what it was doing was making me recall all the times that the enemy couldn't hinder and all the times that the enemy couldn't devour and all the times the enemy couldn't stop what God was doing. But sometimes you can get so caught up in your own life that the enemy just tells you I've devoured everything. I've destroyed everything and over the last few months, devoured my mind. He has devoured what I thought was my knowing. I was sitting in my office and say, "What's the use?" There's no point in even studying. There's no point in even preaching. People aren't listening to me, and the enemy's just sitting over there devouring. He does it after he couldn't stop me from preaching, but he could stop me from believing what I had preached. And sometimes in life, the best sermon you're ever going to preach to anybody is the sermon that you finally preach to yourself, and you start hearing yourself, and you start doing like David did. If nobody else is going to annoy me, I'll anoint myself with oil, and I'll get myself set free and make sure that the enemy cannot devour what I have sown. Anybody else in the room? And you got to see the results of that a few weeks ago in my out of character moment where I finally had this had enough. I was almost
to the point of a nervous breakdown. I was fighting for my health. I was fighting for my family. I was fighting in areas that you could not even imagine. I had nowhere else to turn. So I stepped to the pulpit. I beared my soul to you. Some people have used that against me. That's on that. But at some point, the churches got to realize that even though seeds are sown, just because we put it in the ground, doesn't mean we can walk away and say it's going to grow. You're going to have to fight for what you have sown and make sure that it grows so that it can sustain you, making sense to everybody. Because the enemy sometimes is like, well, I couldn't stop him from saying it, and I couldn't stop them from believing it, but let him put it in the ground and walk away from it. And then I'll come when I see it, it's just about the time for the enemy to get some glory for taking it. The Midianites came and they took from the people of God so that there was no sustenance for Israel. Whenever Israel put it, let him plant, let them do all that work and will enjoy what they have worked for. Let them go ahead and do that. And then I'll enjoy what they have been working for. They came not to plant, they came for the harvest. Can I tell Purpose House right now we are in a season of harvest. That doesn't mean to fight sober. Actually, the fight's just starting. So I want to remind you, for the weapons of our warfare are not carnal, but they are mighty through God to the pulling down of strongholds. Just because the enemy can let you get the seed in the ground and you fought to sow the seed, doesn't mean that the fight is over. And for too long, the church is like, yeah, well, we saw five baptisms, phrase God. Well, we need to see about 50 more all next week. And then, oh, yeah, well, we got 50. No, then we need to see about 500 more after that. And boy, the churches are going to get uncomfortable by winning a battle and we have forgotten that we're at a war. I sowed my seed. Well, you better protect it. Some of you may even know this feeling. Your paycheck's gone before the week is. Progress that you've made is eaten up before anything can even grow. This is why Peter reminded us in 1 Peter, chapter 5 and verse 8, be sober, be vigilant because you're adversary of the devil. Who's your adversary? It's not the person beside you. Your adversary of the devil walks about like a roaring lion seeking whom he may devour. So that tells us the enemy likes to devour. He wants to devour everything in your life. And I'm going to come to a chapter here that some people are going to say, well, that's Old
Testament. That's Old Testament. Let me just say something to all the, all the woke people in the church. If you can come into agreement with a polygamous relationship and quote, Old Testament to prove that that relationship is okay, then you didn't turn, then cannot speak out of the other side of your mouth and say the tithing is Old Testament. So all you woke folks should tithe if you believe in the Old Testament. The red light changed. I want to look at you. You sit in home and you get your TikTok theology. What you need to do is pray through to the baptism of the Holy Ghost and fire and get your relationship with God instead of your TikTok. Can I tell you, there needs to be a woke church, but it needs to be woke liberally. It needs to be woke up in the presence of Almighty God and get its authority back and get its power back and get a relationship back. You need to wake up. It's high time for the church to wake up. He's teaching them theology through TikTok, but you won't bring them to Sunday school. He's devouring your children. This horn of devouring, there's a promise. Malachi chapter 3, verses 10 and 11. She's bringing it all the time to the storehouse, and I, that's God speaking, I will rebuke the devour for your sakes so that he will not destroy the fruit of your ground. You sow a seed, the enemy's like, well, they fought, they got the seed in the ground. Now I'm going to devour what is growing in their life. I'm going to teach you some finances 101, visa and mastercard are natural friends. Soon you will need to discover to stop expressing yourself with an American express. I mean, look how backwards the enemy has got us, that 19 percent to visa is better than 10 percent to God. I hear your moaning, I hear your groaning. Can you get liberated from debt so that you can do the will of God for your life? For we're not supposed to be subject to the lender, we're supposed to be able to be free. From all of that, the enemy is devouring you over and over and over again. So the enemy can devour whatever is not in God's hand and you need to stop putting everything into God's hands. And then if it's in God's hand, then the enemy has to answer to God and not to you.
Then here's the next horn, the horn of limitation. Except the horn of lack, the horn of hindrance, the horn of devouring, and the horn of limitation. I wish I could tell you that I learned about this horn in church. I didn't actually learn about this horn in the corporate world. We were all gifted a book when we got promoted and the title of the book was The Gift of Fear. And the gift of fear that happens to people's lives, they call it a gift. And I would also say that that's also biblical because the fear of the Lord is the beginning of wisdom. But in the book The Gift of Fear, there was a chapter in there that they were very specific they wanted us to read. In fact, as a corporate executive, I had to write one-page book reports about every week. I thought I was done with that stuff. English teachers are the devil. And the title of the chapter, if I remember completely correctly, was The Training of Circus Adlafens. Some of you heard me tell the story because it's been so ingrained into my mind. So when they want to train a circus elephant, an elephant is an amazing creature. So when it's first born, they take that elephant and they put a rope around his neck and they drive a stake into the ground. And every time that little baby elephant wants to wander off to be a baby elephant, he feels that pull of that rope on that stake and he's not strong enough as a baby to pull that stake up out of the ground. Then he gets a little bit older and he can pull the stake up but before he realizes he's strong enough to pull the stake up out of the ground, they take that rope around his neck and they tie it to a brick and they bury the brick into the ground. So that elephant, as he's growing, they just keep putting bigger resistance against him until they break that spirit inside of that elephant that he's no longer an elephant. He's a circus worker and he's going to do what the circus worker tells him to do.
Now think about this, he's so broke in his mind that they use a rope around his neck and he's so strong that he pulls up the very tent that's going to be used for him to be the entertainment for the people to watch him because he's broke. Y'all mopin' what I'm droppin'? And what has happened to us, many of us, is when we were young, somebody tied a rope around your neck and tied you to something. And then when you thought you could break free from that, they just increased the resistance to the point that every time you get ready to do something outside of your limitation, you feel that little pull and the enemy just kind of pulls you back and goes, "Oh, don't you realize you were born in colp." Now you were born in Cairo, don't you realize you're the wrong color, you're the wrong gender. You were born with limitations wrapped around your neck. And when you, those of us in Southern Illinois, we want to do something for God. The first thing, you were born in Southern Illinois. Well, don't you? You're not Chicago. And then you break free from that a little bit. And then a hurt or a habit or a hang up comes into your life. And it's just put around your neck that every time you try to do something, you feel that little tug over your neck. And yet you don't realize that once you have been born again, you're strong enough to pull things up by the root and pull them up out of your life and break free from all of that resistance in your life. But the enemy just keeps burying things deeper and deeper. And I just want to come here and tell you by the power of the Holy Ghost and the Holy Fire in your life that it's time for you to break out of all of those limitations on your life. You are stronger than you ever imagined. You are bigger than you ever imagined.
You have more authority than you ever imagined. And you need to take back what the enemy has stolen from you in your life. [Applause] That horn of limitation, that horn runs on lies. The enemy is lying to you. Let me tell you how drastic it is. Jesus said of the devil, he does not stand in the truth. When he speaks a lie, he speaks from his own resources. For he is a liar, and he is the father of it. Just on Wednesday night, some of you, you guys have no idea what we fight around here. But on Wednesday night, we had wonderful prayer meeting. Wonderful prayer meeting. I mean, the doors got oiled, they don't have to worry about it this week. But out of nowhere, I went up to the upper room of the bookstore and I was looking out and I saw Sergeant Ellis and Captain Tattoo. And this joke could come out of nowhere, not of nowhere. He's on his phone screaming and cussing and ranting and raving and hollering out that we are here all week long. Nobody bothers us at all. You got to want to come past him through his house. Because if you go in that neighborhood, the queen is going to get you. So all of a sudden, we have, and so Brynge starts talking to you, "Hey man, you've got to cut that mess out, we're here praying." And that guy started talking about his father. And Brynge said, "Well, your father ain't no match for my father." So Brynge was telling me this story and I said, "Man, a few years ago, I got to be careful how to tell the story, but a few years ago, there was a guy who served here at the church. Wonderful guy, a marvelous guy.
When he was redeemed, he was one of the best guys in the church, served everywhere. And he got caught up in something. And to the point where he was threatening to kill me and Melissa almost every day, I mean almost every day he was threatening to kill us. I'm standing at my grave side of my dad and I looked up and there's my stalker standing there looking at me over the top of my dad's casket. He was there to take me out of my dad's funeral. He had driven almost 12 hours on and along to be at my dad's grave side service to threaten me. And so when I get a phone call from the hospital and they said, "Pass, we need to come down here. This guy wants to talk to you." So I walk in there and there's police officers with their weapons drawn on this guy and he's laying there in the bed, and he said, "My father wants to talk to you." And I said, "Well, who's your father?" "Well, you know my father." And I said, "No, no, no, I want you to tell me who your father is." Because my father owns the cattle on a thousand hills and all the gold that's in them. So you tell me who your father is. He said, "Well, you know my father." I said, "I know who you're talking about, but I want you to tell me his name." He said, "No, no, no, you know my father." So we went almost an hour and 45 minutes of me trying to convince him to tell me who his father was. Because the enemy doesn't want you to know his name. He just wants to use a title because yes, he is a father, but he is the father of
lies. And our father is the God of truth and the truth will set you free and whom the sunset's free is free indeed. And so you need to know, "Hey, well, he's my father, no, no, he's the father of lies." But I serve Jesus Christ, who is the way, the truth and the life. an enemy is operating and he is running all lies and threw he is limiting you. He's saying, you'll never get pregnant. You'll never be blessed. He is telling you the truth from his resources. But the truth from his resources is still an all-out lie because our God shall supply all of your needs. According to what? His resources, his resources. So the enemy telling you, you can't do that. He's right from his resources. But if you're turning that to God, then God tells you a truth from his resources. And our God is limitless. There are, remember this line? "I can do all things how through Christ Jesus." I can do all things through Christ who gives me the strength. Let me give you just a little example of this. In May 6, 1954, Sherry, you were there. Roger Bannister, Roger Bannister ran the first mile ever to be recorded under four minutes, three minutes, 59 seconds, and four tenths. Experts had said previously that the human body could never do that. It was impossible. Roger Bannister did it. 46 days later, John Landy ran it faster. Within a few years of 1954, all kinds of people were breaking the four-minute mile. The limit was never in the legs of the human. The limit was in the mind of the human. And the church has a limit on its mind. The enemy has told us for so long, you can't do that. It will never happen. It will never happen. And you will begin to believe that it will never happen. The limit is not in your legs. The limit is not in your arms. The limit is not in your heart. The limit is in your mind. And if you can have your mind renewed by the Word of God in your life, washed by the water of the Word, you begin to believe in the impossible, becoming possible, because you have known now who you have believed in and know that he is able, that he is able. The hardest part of breaking a limitation is to be the first one. To be the first in your family to graduate out of college, to be the first in your family to be a preacher, to be the first one in your family to be the first one. And once you break it, you break the ceiling for everybody else to be able to do it. Zachariah in the vision, he saw four horns. And then before despair could set into his life, he said, "The Lord showed me
four carpenters or four craftsmen. For every horn, God had already provided an answer. For every area of limitation, every area of lack, every horn of devouring, every horn, God had already provided a means for that horn to be conquered. God already had an answer standing by him. He had craftsmen or carpenters. They were skilled workers. They were skilled in wood, in stone or in metal. The same word that is used there in that scripture describes the artisans who had built the tabernacle and built the temple. God answers the horns of destruction with craftsmen who built up, with builders. The main tool of any craftsman was a hammer. How many of y'all have ever used a hammer? Their main tool was a hammer. In our spiritual life, this is the hammer. Let me read it to you. Jeremiah chapter 23 verse 29, "Is not my word like a fire," says the Lord. "And like a hammer that breaks the rocks in pieces," a hammer. And the other day I was, the doctor passed in before I walked up. I said, "The other day when I was out there I'm going to beat up tractor." I get a lot of praying down with that beat up tractor. I was thinking about that. What good is a hammer without a nail? Well, thankfully Isaiah said of Jesus Christ that he would be as a nail that would be nailed into a sure place. Let me read it to you. Isaiah 22 verse 23, "An apple fastened him as a nail in a secure place, and he will become a glorious throne to his father's house." So now that does he send the hammer to break things into pieces, but then the hammer also then has a nail. And what does a nail do? It fastens something so that it cannot be removed. Jesus was nailed to a cross. We're going to come down. So he fastens something into your life that the enemy can Some of us with our salvation, the enemy has lied to you so long that he tells you he can steal your salvation. But your salvation has been nailed into a sure place because Jesus Christ is the nail and he is the hammer. There are promises over our lives that God has said, listen, the horn is trying to devour, the horn is trying to hinder, the horn is trying to tell you that you lack, the horn is trying to limit you,
but allow the word of God to destroy that and then allow me to fasten some promises into your life that the enemy cannot remove out of your life. He said, the carpenters came to make the horns shake, to cast them down, to make them fear and tremble. James chapter two, verse 19, you believe that there is one God, you do well. Even the demons, the horns, they believe in what do they do? They tremble because they know a carpenter that has already taken all their power, all their authority out of their mouth and out of their hand and they tremble. And so many of us need to remember that the horns that would make us tremble are now trembling themselves. God didn't send soldiers, God didn't send an army. He sent builders. The point was never just to defeat the horns. The point was that the temple would be rebuilt again. Remember this, we're talking about a physical structure in the Old Testament, a temple being built. But it is a type that happens into the New Testament. The point of God sending things into your life is for your temple to be built. Not just with a foundation, but also with walls and a roof and things that protect you and keep you, a place that gives you shelter, that gives you security and brings blessing into your life. So when God sends something into your life, He's trying to build up your temple.
God does not send things into your life to destroy you. God sends things into your life to build you up and to make you prosperous in your life. (audience applauds) Matthew chapter 13, verse 55. They ask a question, is this not the carpenter's son? - Man. - The carpenter came to build him up. That carpenter, the one in Matthew 13, that's the carpenter that came for every horn of resistance in your life. And what I find interesting is in Luke chapter one, verses 68 and 69, I read to you out of the Old Testament about a prophet Zachariah who said, I saw four horns and then I saw four carpenters. The New Testament Zachariah, when he saw and heard of Jesus, he said, this is the horn of our salvation. What the enemy meant for evil as a horn that was scattered. God sent a carpenter and said, I'll take the horn of destruction, of hindrance, of lack, and of limitation in your life. And I'll turn it into a horn of salvation that you'll be saved from all the horns of hindrance in your life. This carpenter came to build you, to save you, and to free you from all harm in your life. The horn of salvation is stronger than any horn of resistance in your life. Just for a moment, would you just bow your heads or be just for a moment?
Earlier in this service, there was a word of knowledge that came forth. And the reason I would ask for you to keep your head bowed is this could be a very sensitive topic for some. But if you're in this room and you are male or female, and you are struggling, being reproductive, the enemy has put a limit in your family and you are not able to reproduce. With every head bowed, with every eye closed, if that is you in this room, I would ask that you would just slip your hand up so that I know that you're in the room. Thank you. Thank you. Now, still with every head bowed and every eye closed, if you're in this room, and you have never given birth to a spiritual son or daughter and you desire to bring somebody out of darkness and introduce them into the marvelous light and become a spiritual father, a spiritual son, to you and you and you. If you're in this room, and you have never given birth to your father or a spiritual son, to you and you would be able to mentor them and disciple them and lead them. If that is you in this room, I'd ask for you to raise your hand. You've never won a soul in the kingdom of God. Thank you for all. My prayer team is going to come. Those of you that raised your hands,
nobody knows you raised your hand. Those of you that raised your hands in just a moment, when everybody else is coming, I just want you to come. We're going to pray over you. The Bible says for two or three, agree on any one thing, he would do it. There have been horns of resistance and horns that are devouring, horns that are telling you that you lack, horns that are hindering you right now. And I believe that God wants to break down those horns in your life. He sent Jesus Christ to set you free from every horn of limitation, every horn of lack, every horn of hindrance, every horn of devouring. So right now, if you need prayer, I would ask that you just step out of where you are. If you need prayer for any need, any need, including those of you that raised your hand, any need, I want you to step forward. Right now, we want to pray over you. Child and the team are going to be seeing one more song. Pastor Melissa is going to come and dismiss us in just a few moments. But right now, we just be honorable right now to the presence of God. God wants to do something in people's lives right now. Holy Spirit, have your way right now. We feel the brush of your angels' wings right now across this place. We sweep over every life and every heart right now.
Minister, Lord, to each one as each one has need right now. The rest of us, you can just lift our hands to the Lord right now. Ask the Lord right now to touch every life and every heart right now in this place, every need, however it is represented. Lord, heal reproductive organs right now. Lord, spiritually put us in the right place at the right time with the right word. So we would bring somebody out of darkness into your marvelous light. In Jesus' name. In Jesus' name we pray.
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