February 5, 2023 • 46 mins
A new chapter is coming.
In “This Is Not Your Final Chapter,” Pastor Jentezen Franklin reminds us not to focus on the past, but to get ready for the new miracles that God is working.
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Scripture References:
John 21, verses 24-25
Jeremiah 36, verses 22-23
Judges 5, verse 14
Psalm 45, verse 1
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
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Let's go to the Word of God. It is a
tremendous honor to be here today and to be with
this amazing team. How about the new song I had?
Maybe they're not new to anybody but me, but could Lord.
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That's why I would say sing it again. When you
have a team like this ministry has you are you?
People are spoiled writing and you don't even know it.
You act like that's normal music and that's normal worship.
What is wrong with you? And then you know to
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see Stephen and see Holly and see their beautiful family
fulfilling that dream. He does not just get up and preach.
There is a tremendous price that is paid to bring
a fresh word from the Lord. He is not a
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robot kind of preacher. Deal. He can't just get up
and say it. He does so much more than that
when he preaches. And you know that's the especially you
who are sitting here and at all the campuses every week,
and people have no idea, They have no idea. The battles,
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the mental battles, the spiritual battles. Not just He, but
Holly and the family carry a tremendous, tremendous load. And
I get emotional about it because I've watched God do
it at my place, and I've been there for thirty
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something years, and when I see in my mind kids
doing what they're doing so quick, so fast, God is
up to something that we can't even imagine with this ministry.
And if you'll be faithful, and I know you will,
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it includes every one of you and your gift and
what God has planned for you. And I want to
just preach a few moments this morning, but I want
to go to the Book of John chapter twenty one.
I don't preach long. They usually have me on a
clock for thirty minutes starting right now, and I'll preach
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about thirty minutes and then the keyboard guy can come
out and I'll know my thirty minutes is up. But
I want to read something. I do believe the Lord
gave me a message for this place. I do, especially
after hearing the last song. It freaked me out. The
last song freaked me out because one of the lines
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that it was write another story. Actually, I gave them
five titles for one sermon, and one of them was
write another story. And I honestly, I'm kind of blown
away at that. But that's how God does it. John
chapter twenty one. I'll begin reading with verse Let's go
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to verse John twenty one. Let's go to verse twenty four.
This is the disciple who testifies of these things and
wrote these things, and we know that his testimony is true.
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And there are so many other things that Jesus did
listen to this which if they were written one by one.
I suppose that even the world itself could not contain
the books that would be written. Amen, while you have
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your Bible open, flip over to the Old Testament. Just
one quick scripture in Jeremiah chapter thirty. Let's go to
Jeremiah chapter thirty six, Jeremiah thirty and I'll make reference
to this in that way. We won't do it. I'll
just keep moving verse twenty two. Now, the king was
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sitting in the winterhouse in the ninth month, with a
fire burning on the heath before him, or the fireplace.
And it happened when Jehordah had read three or four columns,
that the king cut it with the scribes knife some
translations say the pen knife. We would call it a
pocket knife, and cast it into the fire that was
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on the heath, until all the scroll was consumed in
the fire that was in the fireplace. I want to
talk to you for just a few moments, and I'll
give you my title as I go along. But I
do believe the story is still being written over elevation Church.
I really do believe that churches, when you reach where
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you are as a ministry, will do one of two things.
You will become a peruser of history. You just live
in the greatness of what God has done in the past,
or you continue to write history, and you have to
choose by your faith and your belief and what God
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is going to do as a foundation off of what
He's already done. The best days, I declare today are ahead.
The best years are not behind you. The most creative, powerful, open,
incredible opportunities are not behind you. It's yet to be
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written over you. There is a group of people in
the Scriptures that I want to talk about this morning,
and you read, write over it and think it doesn't
mean anything, but it does. They're known as scribes. Scribes
in the Bible came from the tribe of Zebelin. Ezra
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was a priest, but he was all so in the
Old Testament, a scribe. The job definition of a scribe
would be to have access into throne rooms and into courtrooms,
have access into places that most people will never get
access in the throne room like a scribe would get
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every day, and his one purpose was to take a
pen and a piece of paper and hear the conversation
in the throne room where the king was and write
it down and then present it to people. That's what
a scribe did. He had a pen and paper scroll,
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and he would write. He had a very special role
to record history, to write it, and in doing so
he was making history. It would be history that was
being made at that very moment that it was being written.
I think about the story of Esther in the sixth
chapter of the Book of Esther, and how that the
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Bible said, on a certain night, this involved a scribe.
This whole miracle of Esther, in a whole group, of
a whole Jewish nation was on death row, and the
only thing that saved him was a scribe, the Bible said.
The king couldn't sleep, and in order to get drowsy,
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he called for the scribe to bring the books that
had been chronicled and read them. And he just so
happened this scribe to open up and start reading. And
he said, on such and such a day, there was
an assassination attempt that was going to happen. But a man,
a Jew by the name of Mordecai, sat outside the
gate and he overheard the assassin saying what they were
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going to do, and he reported it to someone in
the palace. And because of that, we stopped the assassination attempt,
and the king was not killed, and the kingdom stayed strong.
And the king woke up and he said, say that again,
Read that again. What did you say. I didn't know that.
I didn't know that was in the records. You mean,
what did I do to reward this man? He was
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not aware. And when he heard it, he said, bring
more to kay to the jew And I don't have
time to read the whole and preach the whole story.
You have to read the rest of the story for yourself.
That's not what I'm preaching about. But what I want
you to see is he reminded the king of his obligations.
That something had been done, and the king had an
obligation to do something. Take good notes when the king talks.
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When you hear words from the Lord like you hear
on a regular basis, that the man's probably walked through
something that we can't even imagine. Pull a pin and
a piece of put your phone out and write down.
When you hear the king make you a promise, write
it down. Remind the king of his obligations. So powerful
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where scribes think of this that when Nebuconza invaded with
his Babylonian army, the nation of Israel and took the
city of Jerusalem and leveled it. The scripture said he
gave in Second Kings, chapter twenty five special instructions. He said,
you are to arrest. He said this to his military.
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Arrest their generals, arrest their military leaders. Arrest the royal
seed or the royal family. The family's a threat. Everybody
he's talking about is a threat. And then he makes
this profound statement, and make sure that you arrest the
principal Scribe. I'm scared Nebukanezzar in his mighty Babylonian army.
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I'm scared to death of the Principal Scribe. The guy
who gets in the throne room and hears conversations and
writes them down and communicates it to the people is
one of the most dangerous individuals to my Babylonian culture. Sure,
because if he hears, he has the capacity to go
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back and remind the people of where they have been
before and whow that they didn't see a way back then.
And if God could do it, then he can do
it again. And that's why he's dangerous. When they were
taken into captivity and Jeremiah twenty three, Jeremiah asked the question,
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will we ever be assembled again. We're so scattered, we're
so defeated, we're so humiliated. Will we ever be a
people again? And God gave him a message, and he said,
remember what I did for Egypt and how I brought
Moses out. But then God said, but I've got news
for you. That for them was that for them? For you,
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the story of Moses and the Israelites coming out of Egypt,
that for you is a story, But for them it
was a miracle. And somehow we have to go from
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doing more than reading this book and it being stories
about David against Goliath and stories of Hezekiah having a
death sentence and being given fifteen more years. We have
to go beyond reciting, and then we need to pull
out our pen and start writing and say, if he
ever did it before, All the stories that are written
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are just to let us know he's the same God today.
What he did for seventeen years, He'll do it again
and again and again, from faith under faith, from glory
under glory. Take a praise break if you believe he'll
do it again. Godfid Jeremiah. I don't want you to
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just read about Moses and how he brought them out.
But I'm telling you, I have a remnant that is
going to come from the north, southeast, and west, and
you're going to write a new chapter, and you're gonna
see my faithfulness in your life, in your family, in
your generation against your giant. I'm not playing games. If
I ever did it before, if he ever healed cancer before,
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he can do it again. If he ever redeemed and
restored a family and a marriage, he can do it
again to them. When I think about and I don't
even know all the stories, when I think about Chunks
and his wife, and I think about Stephen, and I
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think about his family coming here with nothing but a dream.
And you've done so much, so fast, so incredibly, so well.
Sure have impacted my life life. In my ministry, we
sing your songs every week, and I travel all over
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the world, and I'm telling you people do all over
the world. What happens in this room. It can't stay
in this room because you, for whatever reason, have been
given access to the throne room. And God says, Stephen,
come in here, and God says to the team of
musicians and singers, come in here. Now. Don't take this
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like it's normal. Don't act like you're just another ministry.
Don't go around, stay humble, stay obedience, stay pure, stay clean,
because I'm trusting you with throne room stuff, and write
it down. Give me all the glory. It'll never stop.
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As a matter of fact, I'll give more instructions. I'll
give more words, I'll give more ascribing the the greatness
of God through song. I'll give it more and more
and more. But what we need in this hour when
I'm fighting Hell, I don't need somebody to give me
a story. I need somebody to give me a pen.
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God wants to change the period to a comma. He's
still doing miracles. And the most dangerous place that a
church can get is when they do more reading than writing.
The most dangerous place that a person in their walk
with God can get is when all they can do
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is recite history of how God used to move in
your life, and how you used to have devotion, and
how you used to really be on fire and couldn't
wait to get here. The most dangerous season in your
life is when you're focused more on where you have
been instead of where you're going and where you are.
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This is why in the New Testament were extremely unpopular
with Jesus. I cannot find anywhere in the Bible where
Jesus ever complimented scribes. He was always saying, like in
Matthew twenty three, woe unto you scribes and Pharisees. They
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followed Jesus around, and every time he was trying to
give him a fresh page of new miracles, all they
could do is compare it to the old Book of
Moses and say, you can't do that because we're living
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over here in what used to be. Stop reading your
history and get your pen out. I appreciate the seventeen years,
but your best chapter have yet to be written. I
don't know who I'm preaching to accept this church, and
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you are the church, not buildings. It's the people God.
When I'm saying church, I'm saying, if you're affiliated with
this thing, he is about to give you your best chapters.
I believe this one of the great stories. I'm going
somewhere and I'll get there. Just relax, Just go with
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me a minute. In Judges chapter five, Deborah is a singer,
but nobody would fight, so she jumps on the horse
and a singer goes out on the front line and
starts leading the charge. And when she looked behind her,
all the twelve tribes of Israel were there, but only
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one of them followed her into battle. The name of
that tribe was Zebbelin. And when the battle was over
and the victory was one, she turned around, and the
spirit of prophecy came upon her, and she said, because
of your courage, and because of your fearlessness, and because
of your willingness to go out and fight and do
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what you could do on the battlefield, when I led
you with nothing but a song and went into the battle,
and you followed the tribe of Zebelin. This prophecy is
spoken over the tribe of Zebelin in Judges chapter five,
in verse fourteen. Out of you Zebelin will come those
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of people who know how to handle the pen. Out
of Zebelin, they that handle the pen of the writer
will come. In other words, your weapon will be your pen.
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I'm gonna give you things, and I'm going to give
you songs, and I'm going to give you whords, and
i'm gonna give you books, and i'm gonna give you
dreams and i'm gonna give you visions. And it's gonna
get in your fingers and it's gonna get in your
chord structures, and it's gonna get in your lyrics, and
it's gonna get in your sermons. And I'm gonna give
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you the hand of the writer, because if I'm gonna
do something, I can't have a church that's living in
what I used to do and how I used to sound,
and the new music and the new flow and the
new annoying. I need somebody who will start with a
fresh page and say, God, we don't have to be
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like every other church. We don't have to sound like
every other sound, we don't have to act like everybody else.
We want a fresh instruction from the throne room. Now
watch this. It's interesting that in Second Chronicles, the Bible
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said that the tribe of Zebelin was paired with the
tribe of Isacar for forty years. They camped out together,
those two tribes Isecar. The Bible says of Isecar, it
says that they had understanding of the times and knew
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what Israel ought to do. But the one that God
trusted to stay with them and pair up with them
was a little tribe called Zebelin that had the anointing
to write down what gods they had the understanding of
what was going on. They understood what the devil was
up to, They understood what God was up to, and
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they knew what Israel the Church ought to do. And
he said, you write it down. They were not intimidated
by transition. But what is amazing? And I can't make
this up. You just go study it for yourself. The
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people with the hand of the ready writer. The people
became a place because the Bible said in the Book
of Matthew and in the Book of Isaiah chapter nine,
a great light shall come to the people of zebeliny
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messionic prophecies. And then in Matthew chapter one, it talks
about the genealogy of Jesus. And here's what's amazing. Do
you know where the tribe of Zebelin settled on the
Sea of Galilee, in an area called Capernaum, where Jesus
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did more miracles in that region than any other spot
on planet Earth. Old everything that got around him broken,
and he wanted to do it where there would be
pens and paper. It ought to have been ascribes. Heyday,
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let's see what he's gonna do today. Let's hear what
he's gonna preach. But instead they follow him around and
he heals somebody, and they come up and say Moses,
and the law said, you can't heal on the Sabbath.
How dare you do that, my God? I can instead
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of writing down and proclaiming revelation and truth. They're living
in yesterday. And Jesus fasted for forty days and forty nights,
came out of the wilderness. And I want to preach
right there, but I gotta keep moving. But can I
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throw you one little thing? The Lord spoke to me.
He said, if the devil comes against you like he
did me in the desert of your life, with unusual opposition,
with an unusual satanic temptation, trying to destroy you from
what I've called you to do. There are seasons you
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don't live like this, but there are seasons where you
need to. You need to match his level of aggression.
That's what Jesus said. If you're coming at me with
extreme temptation and extreme demonic opposition, I'll match that. I'll
come at you with extreme fasting, extreme prayer, extreme dedication,
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extreme worship now short worship the Lord, my God ever now,
and then we need to break out of our little thing.
When God's about to do something new We need to
get to a point that we tap into the level
of the extreme. Every once in a while. I'm so
tired of little cookie cutter churches and services. Every once
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in a while we need to break out of a
routine and say, God, I want to see the extreme
move of God for a few days around here. Tap
your hands and praise him. I don't know, I don't know.
I gotta hurd all right, all right, now, watch Jesus
comes out of the desert and walks into the synagogue
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in the region of Zebelin, and he opens up the
book and he begins to read from Isaiah. The spirit
of the Lord is upon me. He's annoying me to
heal the broken hearted, to open the eyes of the bond,
said at liberty them that are bound, and to preach
acceptable year of the Lord. And then the Bible said
in every eye was fastened on him. You gotta understand.
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They had heard that over it was a young fata
yon fast They were just sitting out there, Oh we've
heard this sermon blah blah blah blah blah. But this
time when he walked in and open that book, the
Bible said, every eye was fastened on him, and then
he walked over. He said, this day this scripture is
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fulfilled in your ears, and he had closed the book
closed it said, I'm done with that chapter. Now get
your pen out. Boys yard supposed to be the writers,
let's go do this, but they wouldn't do it. This day.
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It's fulfilled this day. I don't want you just reciting
the history stories. I want you writing what I'm doing
in this day. Jesus Christ the same, yesterday, today, and forever.
You would think that every one of those scribes would
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have been so happy, but they were so locked into
what God had done that they would not receive what
he wanted to do. Listen to me carefully. God says,
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I'm giving this ministry a weapon, and your weapon will
be the weapon of the pen. Songwriters, praise team, worship leaders.
God's given you the weapon of the pen. I've been
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doing this a long time. I started going over to
Australia and preaching at Hillsong when it was a church
smaller than what I'm looking at in this room. They
had no campuses, they were not worldwide. They had one
hit song. When I went over there the first time,
and I watched God do things that would astound you,
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because when God trusts the church with throng room conversations,
it's so serious that you cannot take it, likely because
it becomes so familiar. But just as easy as it's given,
it can be taken. And I'm not here to create.
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But we've all seen things happen that that that will
not happen to this ministry. Because when God gives the
pen and he gives the revelation, if you'll follow it,
he'll fight the battle. The pen is your weapon. What's
this right where I've been trying to get Now I'm
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ready to preach. They're following and around criticizing. The scribes
are supposed to be writing the miracles. Instead they're picking
to death the miracles. I can't believe your disciples ate
on the sabbath. They plucked corn on the sabbath, and
he was going to heal somebody. That's all they could see.
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But in John chapter eight, the Bible said they brought
the woman taken in the act of adultery, and notice
who brought them. According to John eight, the scribes and
the Pharisees brought a woman caught in the act of
adultery and threw her at the feet of Jesus, and
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they said Jesus Moses. And the Law says she's finished.
The Law says it's over. The Law says that her
book is written and concluded, and we're going to stone
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her to death. What do you say, Jesus, I can't
prove it, but I'm gonna preach it like I want to.
This is my sermon. I'm gonna preach it like I
want to. The same finger that wrote the commandments on
the stone with a finger of fire. Now he kneels
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down in the dirt and he says, I've been waiting
on this for three thousand years. You want to know
what I got to say about this woman who's messed
up her life. And everybody says the book is finished.
She's in a mess, she's filthy, she's dirty, and nobody
can help her. He says, and he took that finger.
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That was the same God that wrote the commandments. Now
the finger is skin, God in skin. And he starts
writing in dirt. Stone is permanent, but dirt. He's writing
in dirt. What was he writing? He was saying, I
know that you messed up, woman, but let me give
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you some advice. If you ever found a dirty, rotten
center that's really messed up, and you want to see
them get get in bad trouble, don't throw them at
the feet of Jesus. Throw them at the feet of
a denominational board, throw them at the feet of a
bunch of mean preachers, throw them at the feet of
a bunch of self righteous Christians. But if you ever
want to see somebody get set free, throw them at
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the feet of Jesus. Why. I can't prove it. I
can't prove it, but I got a feeling when he
started writing. He said, I know they think I touched dirt.
I touched dirty, dirty people, and dirty families, and dirty
marriages and dirty ministries. I'm not afraid to touch the dirt.
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But I'm going to write another story. I know Moses
and the Law said you're finished, But I'm going to
write a new story. I don't know about you, but
I'm glad he can write you out of your miss
he can write you out of alcoholism, he can write
you out of drug addiction. I don't care how long
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you've wrestled with it. I don't care how messed up
your life is. If you'll let Jesus he'll write another story.
Give him a praise if you believe. Praise him just
a minute. Praise him at every campus. He's writing another story.
It's not over. You don't have to live in the past.
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You don't have to live in shame. You don't have
to live in disgrace, you don't have to live in condemnation.
He's writing another story. Sit down, I'm almost done. I
have seven more minutes. Nine tend to preach all seven.
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Tell somebody sitting besides you, I don't know what you're
going through. Come on, do it. I deputize you. Turn
to somebody beside you and say, I don't know what
you're going through, but he's gonna write you out of that.
Miss it's not over. It's just a comma. It's not
a period. There's another chapter coming to your broken heart.
There's another chapter coming to your divorce. There's another chapter
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coming to your addiction. There's another chapter coming to your abuse. Now, now, now,
how many of you glad he wrote you out of
the book of Moses and into the book of Jesus.
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How many of you glad he wrote you out of
death and out of defeat and into victory and to
eternal life. Everybody who knows your name is written in
the Lamb's Book of life. Shout just for a minute,
we're gonna preaching them in the shell and praise him.
The enemy set you were finished. The enemy set your
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family would never come up. I had a generational terses,
but he rode another story. She now see. I'm an
organ generation preacher. That's why you That's why I can't
go on. You shouldn't have touched that B three. Y'all know,
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y'all grew up with all these little Corg keyboards and
all that. But I'm a preacher that came up in
old tents and double white trailers. I preached all in
North Carolina. They called it a church. It was a
double white trailer, and all we had was a poolpit,
a microphone, and an organ. But when the Holy Ghost
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started moving, that place started shaking. He needs to leave
me alone. He needs to leave me alone. I don't
want him there on your seventeenth anniverse. You got to
stop for a minute, all right, then let me finish.
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He's getting me off timing. Listen, the reason that I
brought that story up about Jeremiah thirty six. I want
to show you. I want to show you something, the
Bible said, God, if you read the whole chapter, God
gave Jeremiah a powerful word for his generation. And the
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Scripture said, he got He got canceled by the culture
and banned from the temple. They would not let him
come to the temple and threatened him with his life.
And God said, that's all right. It ain't about you preaching.
I just need you to called a scribe. And the
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Bible said, in that chapter he called a scribe, and
he said, tell him the sermon God gave you. And
as long as you don't care who gets the credit,
just let him write it down word for word. And
the Bible said, he wrote it down word for word.
And even though Jeremiah was banned from the temple, on
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the Sabbath, as the people were gathering, the Bible said,
this scribe, his notes probably looked like that he took.
He took what God told him through the prophet and
stood on a rock. And as they were going in
to get their latte at the coffee bar, he stood
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outside and started preaching the word of the Lord. And
it was like a you remember what Jeremiah said, It's
like a fire shut up in my bones. And when
you get a song that came from the throne room,
every my sheep, know my, when you sung two of
those several of those songs, might that first one about
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all the names of God? My holy ghost said, whoo,
that's one of ours. I'll be singing that one in
my place. I'll be shouting on that one, and that
last one I'll be shouting on that one, and the
middle one too. I might as well take them all.
Wat's this? And the man just stands up and starts
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reading what came as he wrote it down. And the
Bible said that even the false prophets read that chapter
when you get home. The false prophets stuck their ear out.
And when they heard the word of the Lord, they
knew this little thing that we're about to teach on
seven ways to enjoy your winter vacation, that it just
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ain't gonna quiet get it. And the Bible said, they
grab pens, read it, and they wrote down word word
for word what the man was saying, and took off
left the church and took off to the king's winter palace.
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And the king was setting by his fireplace, and they
come in and they said, sir, this is so important.
We need to tell you. Jeremiah has another hit. It's
on fire, and we can pretend like we don't like it,
but we like it. And we had to come interrupt
your vacation, sir, at your winter palace, because the word
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of the Lord is crazy and it's messing up the
whole congregation. And the king said, let me hear it. Now,
this is where the story gets unbelievable. And they start
reading word for word everything, and the king pulled out
his pocket knife, your Bible said, and when he heard it,
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he said, I like that part. Leave it alone. That's
the good part. I'm highly favored. I'm blessed. I'm oh,
I'm gonna do good. God is with me. I like that.
But then they get to some of that stuff about
but straighten up and live right, be hol in, be clean,
stand before me and love me with all of your heart, mind,
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soul and strength. And if I don't like that, and
he'd start cutting, cutting that out and ball it up
and throw it into the fire cutting. I hate the preest.
Just say I had you all happy a minute ago,
but please don't become that ministry. We're not gonna cut
and paste the word of God. We still need the
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blood of Jesus. We still need the name of Jesus.
There's no other name. I still believe that the Bible
says that marriage is between a man and a woman,
and we're not gonna cut that part out. I still
believe the Bible says holiness is right and separation and
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coming out from the world and being different. Oh, come on,
it's in the book. It's a Let's don't throw out
everything because culture says it's too controversial. I'm afraid, and
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I'm old. I'm an old preacher, so I got to
write to talk like this, And I just say to
the young preachers, don't be a cutting edge preacher. Preach
the eternal word of God. Let's don't cut hell out.
Hell's in the book. Hell is real and ever now
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and then somebody needs to Hell is So where'd that
come from? Somebody needs It needs to be more than
a cuss word. It needs to be a conviction word.
It needs to be something that somebody hears and says,
Oh my God, God, that's the word of God. Let's
not cut out the judgment. Let's not cut out I'm
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preaching better than you're letting home. Let's not cut out
the safetity of life. Jeremiah, when you were in your
mother's wound, before you ever got there, I called you,
let's not cut that out. I'm not gonna cut it out.
I'm not gonna cut out the rapture. I'm not gonna
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cut out He's coming back again. The trumpet's gonna sound,
the dead in Christ are gonna rise, and we're going
home to meet the Lord in there. Read the word
sit down. I'm almost done. You know, if you're not
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careful in a great church like this, the Lord will
give you a word. Because this man spends time in
the throne room, and you know, and you know when
he speaks to you, because it rocks you to your
core and people all around. You may not be that
big of a deal into it, but when it's yours,
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write it down. Here's the point. The Lord spoke to me,
and he said to tell people at Elevation Church, I
spoke to you. I made you a prophetic promise. And
just because it has not happened, there is a tendency
to pull out your little pocket knife and start whittling down. Well,
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maybe he really didn't say it, and you get it
trimmed down to just what you can do, just what
you think you're capable of, just what your mind can conceive.
But if God said nations, then nations it shall be.
If God God says world wide, then worldwide. It's help me.
Get your knife off the promise. Get your knife off
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what God's telling you, music team. If God says you
can feel colosseums better than the rolling stones beyond, say
why don't we get that mentality? And say, God, I'm
gonna take my knife off of it. I'm tired of
trimming down the promise to what I can do. Maybe
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the first seventeen years was just a test. Maybe where
you're going is gonna require more faith, and you're gonna
look back in seventeen years and say, turn to somebody
right now and say, the lords gave you that promise,
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Get your knife off of it. The Lord told you
that there was life beyond your day, and just because
you hadn't met them yet, get your knife off that
promise and learn how to praise heal until the answer comes.
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Let me finish play and they'll know I'm almost done.
So here's where I've been trying to get to. This
whole little sermon a back of two and verse two.
Write the vision, make it plain. But here's what got
me Psalms forty five in verse one. You're not gonna
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believe what God's pen is. Throw it up for me,
Psalms forty five and verse one. And the Lord answered me,
there it is. Everybody, watch this. My heart is indicting
a good matter. I speak of things which I've touched
and made touching the King my tongue. Everybody shouting. My
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tongue is the pen whatever I start praising him for,
whatever I start prophesying, whatever I keep praying and praying
and praying about, and preaching and preaching and preaching about
and praising and praising and praising about and prophesying to
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a new generation, a new generation. My children will be
used of God. They will do mighty things. My tongue
is the pen of the ready rib. Do you believe that?
Do you believe that there's power in what you continually praise, pray,
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preach and prophesy. The Lord said, this is not the
final chapter of elevation. But tell the people to lift
their voice and ascribe the greatness of their God. Tell
the people that the pen is in this house, and
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that means miracles are ready to be written. That means
stories and books are ready to come forward. That means
businesses are about to be started. That did not start
in the flesh. They were born in the sanctuary under
the anointed word of God. You're a vout to write
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new chapters of your family. The first few were addiction
and brokenness and curses. But the next generation, the next
chapter will be blessed, will be annoyed, will be favor
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Let's go to the Word of God. It is a
tremendous honor to be here today and to be with
this amazing team. How about the new song I had?
Maybe they're not new to anybody but me, but could Lord.
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That's why I would say sing it again. When you
have a team like this ministry has you are you?
People are spoiled writing and you don't even know it.
You act like that's normal music and that's normal worship.
What is wrong with you? And then you know to
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see Stephen and see Holly and see their beautiful family
fulfilling that dream. He does not just get up and preach.
There is a tremendous price that is paid to bring
a fresh word from the Lord. He is not a
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robot kind of preacher. Deal. He can't just get up
and say it. He does so much more than that
when he preaches. And you know that's the especially you
who are sitting here and at all the campuses every week,
and people have no idea, They have no idea. The battles,
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the mental battles, the spiritual battles. Not just He, but
Holly and the family carry a tremendous, tremendous load. And
I get emotional about it because I've watched God do
it at my place, and I've been there for thirty
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something years, and when I see in my mind kids
doing what they're doing so quick, so fast, God is
up to something that we can't even imagine with this ministry.
And if you'll be faithful, and I know you will,
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it includes every one of you and your gift and
what God has planned for you. And I want to
just preach a few moments this morning, but I want
to go to the Book of John chapter twenty one.
I don't preach long. They usually have me on a
clock for thirty minutes starting right now, and I'll preach
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about thirty minutes and then the keyboard guy can come
out and I'll know my thirty minutes is up. But
I want to read something. I do believe the Lord
gave me a message for this place. I do, especially
after hearing the last song. It freaked me out. The
last song freaked me out because one of the lines
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that it was write another story. Actually, I gave them
five titles for one sermon, and one of them was
write another story. And I honestly, I'm kind of blown
away at that. But that's how God does it. John
chapter twenty one. I'll begin reading with verse Let's go
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to verse John twenty one. Let's go to verse twenty four.
This is the disciple who testifies of these things and
wrote these things, and we know that his testimony is true.
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And there are so many other things that Jesus did
listen to this which if they were written one by one.
I suppose that even the world itself could not contain
the books that would be written. Amen, while you have
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your Bible open, flip over to the Old Testament. Just
one quick scripture in Jeremiah chapter thirty. Let's go to
Jeremiah chapter thirty six, Jeremiah thirty and I'll make reference
to this in that way. We won't do it. I'll
just keep moving verse twenty two. Now, the king was
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sitting in the winterhouse in the ninth month, with a
fire burning on the heath before him, or the fireplace.
And it happened when Jehordah had read three or four columns,
that the king cut it with the scribes knife some
translations say the pen knife. We would call it a
pocket knife, and cast it into the fire that was
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on the heath, until all the scroll was consumed in
the fire that was in the fireplace. I want to
talk to you for just a few moments, and I'll
give you my title as I go along. But I
do believe the story is still being written over elevation Church.
I really do believe that churches, when you reach where
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you are as a ministry, will do one of two things.
You will become a peruser of history. You just live
in the greatness of what God has done in the past,
or you continue to write history, and you have to
choose by your faith and your belief and what God
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is going to do as a foundation off of what
He's already done. The best days, I declare today are ahead.
The best years are not behind you. The most creative, powerful, open,
incredible opportunities are not behind you. It's yet to be
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written over you. There is a group of people in
the Scriptures that I want to talk about this morning,
and you read, write over it and think it doesn't
mean anything, but it does. They're known as scribes. Scribes
in the Bible came from the tribe of Zebelin. Ezra
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was a priest, but he was all so in the
Old Testament, a scribe. The job definition of a scribe
would be to have access into throne rooms and into courtrooms,
have access into places that most people will never get
access in the throne room like a scribe would get
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every day, and his one purpose was to take a
pen and a piece of paper and hear the conversation
in the throne room where the king was and write
it down and then present it to people. That's what
a scribe did. He had a pen and paper scroll,
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and he would write. He had a very special role
to record history, to write it, and in doing so
he was making history. It would be history that was
being made at that very moment that it was being written.
I think about the story of Esther in the sixth
chapter of the Book of Esther, and how that the
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Bible said, on a certain night, this involved a scribe.
This whole miracle of Esther, in a whole group, of
a whole Jewish nation was on death row, and the
only thing that saved him was a scribe, the Bible said.
The king couldn't sleep, and in order to get drowsy,
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he called for the scribe to bring the books that
had been chronicled and read them. And he just so
happened this scribe to open up and start reading. And
he said, on such and such a day, there was
an assassination attempt that was going to happen. But a man,
a Jew by the name of Mordecai, sat outside the
gate and he overheard the assassin saying what they were
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going to do, and he reported it to someone in
the palace. And because of that, we stopped the assassination attempt,
and the king was not killed, and the kingdom stayed strong.
And the king woke up and he said, say that again,
Read that again. What did you say. I didn't know that.
I didn't know that was in the records. You mean,
what did I do to reward this man? He was
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not aware. And when he heard it, he said, bring
more to kay to the jew And I don't have
time to read the whole and preach the whole story.
You have to read the rest of the story for yourself.
That's not what I'm preaching about. But what I want
you to see is he reminded the king of his obligations.
That something had been done, and the king had an
obligation to do something. Take good notes when the king talks.
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When you hear words from the Lord like you hear
on a regular basis, that the man's probably walked through
something that we can't even imagine. Pull a pin and
a piece of put your phone out and write down.
When you hear the king make you a promise, write
it down. Remind the king of his obligations. So powerful
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where scribes think of this that when Nebuconza invaded with
his Babylonian army, the nation of Israel and took the
city of Jerusalem and leveled it. The scripture said he
gave in Second Kings, chapter twenty five special instructions. He said,
you are to arrest. He said this to his military.
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Arrest their generals, arrest their military leaders. Arrest the royal
seed or the royal family. The family's a threat. Everybody
he's talking about is a threat. And then he makes
this profound statement, and make sure that you arrest the
principal Scribe. I'm scared Nebukanezzar in his mighty Babylonian army.
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I'm scared to death of the Principal Scribe. The guy
who gets in the throne room and hears conversations and
writes them down and communicates it to the people is
one of the most dangerous individuals to my Babylonian culture. Sure,
because if he hears, he has the capacity to go
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back and remind the people of where they have been
before and whow that they didn't see a way back then.
And if God could do it, then he can do
it again. And that's why he's dangerous. When they were
taken into captivity and Jeremiah twenty three, Jeremiah asked the question,
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will we ever be assembled again. We're so scattered, we're
so defeated, we're so humiliated. Will we ever be a
people again? And God gave him a message, and he said,
remember what I did for Egypt and how I brought
Moses out. But then God said, but I've got news
for you. That for them was that for them? For you,
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the story of Moses and the Israelites coming out of Egypt,
that for you is a story, But for them it
was a miracle. And somehow we have to go from
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doing more than reading this book and it being stories
about David against Goliath and stories of Hezekiah having a
death sentence and being given fifteen more years. We have
to go beyond reciting, and then we need to pull
out our pen and start writing and say, if he
ever did it before, All the stories that are written
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are just to let us know he's the same God today.
What he did for seventeen years, He'll do it again
and again and again, from faith under faith, from glory
under glory. Take a praise break if you believe he'll
do it again. Godfid Jeremiah. I don't want you to
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just read about Moses and how he brought them out.
But I'm telling you, I have a remnant that is
going to come from the north, southeast, and west, and
you're going to write a new chapter, and you're gonna
see my faithfulness in your life, in your family, in
your generation against your giant. I'm not playing games. If
I ever did it before, if he ever healed cancer before,
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he can do it again. If he ever redeemed and
restored a family and a marriage, he can do it
again to them. When I think about and I don't
even know all the stories, when I think about Chunks
and his wife, and I think about Stephen, and I
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think about his family coming here with nothing but a dream.
And you've done so much, so fast, so incredibly, so well.
Sure have impacted my life life. In my ministry, we
sing your songs every week, and I travel all over
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the world, and I'm telling you people do all over
the world. What happens in this room. It can't stay
in this room because you, for whatever reason, have been
given access to the throne room. And God says, Stephen,
come in here, and God says to the team of
musicians and singers, come in here. Now. Don't take this
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like it's normal. Don't act like you're just another ministry.
Don't go around, stay humble, stay obedience, stay pure, stay clean,
because I'm trusting you with throne room stuff, and write
it down. Give me all the glory. It'll never stop.
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As a matter of fact, I'll give more instructions. I'll
give more words, I'll give more ascribing the the greatness
of God through song. I'll give it more and more
and more. But what we need in this hour when
I'm fighting Hell, I don't need somebody to give me
a story. I need somebody to give me a pen.
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God wants to change the period to a comma. He's
still doing miracles. And the most dangerous place that a
church can get is when they do more reading than writing.
The most dangerous place that a person in their walk
with God can get is when all they can do
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is recite history of how God used to move in
your life, and how you used to have devotion, and
how you used to really be on fire and couldn't
wait to get here. The most dangerous season in your
life is when you're focused more on where you have
been instead of where you're going and where you are.
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This is why in the New Testament were extremely unpopular
with Jesus. I cannot find anywhere in the Bible where
Jesus ever complimented scribes. He was always saying, like in
Matthew twenty three, woe unto you scribes and Pharisees. They
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followed Jesus around, and every time he was trying to
give him a fresh page of new miracles, all they
could do is compare it to the old Book of
Moses and say, you can't do that because we're living
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over here in what used to be. Stop reading your
history and get your pen out. I appreciate the seventeen years,
but your best chapter have yet to be written. I
don't know who I'm preaching to accept this church, and
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you are the church, not buildings. It's the people God.
When I'm saying church, I'm saying, if you're affiliated with
this thing, he is about to give you your best chapters.
I believe this one of the great stories. I'm going
somewhere and I'll get there. Just relax, Just go with
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me a minute. In Judges chapter five, Deborah is a singer,
but nobody would fight, so she jumps on the horse
and a singer goes out on the front line and
starts leading the charge. And when she looked behind her,
all the twelve tribes of Israel were there, but only
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one of them followed her into battle. The name of
that tribe was Zebbelin. And when the battle was over
and the victory was one, she turned around, and the
spirit of prophecy came upon her, and she said, because
of your courage, and because of your fearlessness, and because
of your willingness to go out and fight and do
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what you could do on the battlefield, when I led
you with nothing but a song and went into the battle,
and you followed the tribe of Zebelin. This prophecy is
spoken over the tribe of Zebelin in Judges chapter five,
in verse fourteen. Out of you Zebelin will come those
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of people who know how to handle the pen. Out
of Zebelin, they that handle the pen of the writer
will come. In other words, your weapon will be your pen.
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I'm gonna give you things, and I'm going to give
you songs, and I'm going to give you whords, and
i'm gonna give you books, and i'm gonna give you
dreams and i'm gonna give you visions. And it's gonna
get in your fingers and it's gonna get in your
chord structures, and it's gonna get in your lyrics, and
it's gonna get in your sermons. And I'm gonna give
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you the hand of the writer, because if I'm gonna
do something, I can't have a church that's living in
what I used to do and how I used to sound,
and the new music and the new flow and the
new annoying. I need somebody who will start with a
fresh page and say, God, we don't have to be
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like every other church. We don't have to sound like
every other sound, we don't have to act like everybody else.
We want a fresh instruction from the throne room. Now
watch this. It's interesting that in Second Chronicles, the Bible
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said that the tribe of Zebelin was paired with the
tribe of Isacar for forty years. They camped out together,
those two tribes Isecar. The Bible says of Isecar, it
says that they had understanding of the times and knew
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what Israel ought to do. But the one that God
trusted to stay with them and pair up with them
was a little tribe called Zebelin that had the anointing
to write down what gods they had the understanding of
what was going on. They understood what the devil was
up to, They understood what God was up to, and
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they knew what Israel the Church ought to do. And
he said, you write it down. They were not intimidated
by transition. But what is amazing? And I can't make
this up. You just go study it for yourself. The
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people with the hand of the ready writer. The people
became a place because the Bible said in the Book
of Matthew and in the Book of Isaiah chapter nine,
a great light shall come to the people of zebeliny
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messionic prophecies. And then in Matthew chapter one, it talks
about the genealogy of Jesus. And here's what's amazing. Do
you know where the tribe of Zebelin settled on the
Sea of Galilee, in an area called Capernaum, where Jesus
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did more miracles in that region than any other spot
on planet Earth. Old everything that got around him broken,
and he wanted to do it where there would be
pens and paper. It ought to have been ascribes. Heyday,
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let's see what he's gonna do today. Let's hear what
he's gonna preach. But instead they follow him around and
he heals somebody, and they come up and say Moses,
and the law said, you can't heal on the Sabbath.
How dare you do that, my God? I can instead
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of writing down and proclaiming revelation and truth. They're living
in yesterday. And Jesus fasted for forty days and forty nights,
came out of the wilderness. And I want to preach
right there, but I gotta keep moving. But can I
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throw you one little thing? The Lord spoke to me.
He said, if the devil comes against you like he
did me in the desert of your life, with unusual opposition,
with an unusual satanic temptation, trying to destroy you from
what I've called you to do. There are seasons you
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don't live like this, but there are seasons where you
need to. You need to match his level of aggression.
That's what Jesus said. If you're coming at me with
extreme temptation and extreme demonic opposition, I'll match that. I'll
come at you with extreme fasting, extreme prayer, extreme dedication,
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extreme worship now short worship the Lord, my God ever now,
and then we need to break out of our little thing.
When God's about to do something new We need to
get to a point that we tap into the level
of the extreme. Every once in a while. I'm so
tired of little cookie cutter churches and services. Every once
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in a while we need to break out of a
routine and say, God, I want to see the extreme
move of God for a few days around here. Tap
your hands and praise him. I don't know, I don't know.
I gotta hurd all right, all right, now, watch Jesus
comes out of the desert and walks into the synagogue
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in the region of Zebelin, and he opens up the
book and he begins to read from Isaiah. The spirit
of the Lord is upon me. He's annoying me to
heal the broken hearted, to open the eyes of the bond,
said at liberty them that are bound, and to preach
acceptable year of the Lord. And then the Bible said
in every eye was fastened on him. You gotta understand.
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They had heard that over it was a young fata
yon fast They were just sitting out there, Oh we've
heard this sermon blah blah blah blah blah. But this
time when he walked in and open that book, the
Bible said, every eye was fastened on him, and then
he walked over. He said, this day this scripture is
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fulfilled in your ears, and he had closed the book
closed it said, I'm done with that chapter. Now get
your pen out. Boys yard supposed to be the writers,
let's go do this, but they wouldn't do it. This day.
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It's fulfilled this day. I don't want you just reciting
the history stories. I want you writing what I'm doing
in this day. Jesus Christ the same, yesterday, today, and forever.
You would think that every one of those scribes would
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have been so happy, but they were so locked into
what God had done that they would not receive what
he wanted to do. Listen to me carefully. God says,
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I'm giving this ministry a weapon, and your weapon will
be the weapon of the pen. Songwriters, praise team, worship leaders.
God's given you the weapon of the pen. I've been
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doing this a long time. I started going over to
Australia and preaching at Hillsong when it was a church
smaller than what I'm looking at in this room. They
had no campuses, they were not worldwide. They had one
hit song. When I went over there the first time,
and I watched God do things that would astound you,
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because when God trusts the church with throng room conversations,
it's so serious that you cannot take it, likely because
it becomes so familiar. But just as easy as it's given,
it can be taken. And I'm not here to create.
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But we've all seen things happen that that that will
not happen to this ministry. Because when God gives the
pen and he gives the revelation, if you'll follow it,
he'll fight the battle. The pen is your weapon. What's
this right where I've been trying to get Now I'm
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ready to preach. They're following and around criticizing. The scribes
are supposed to be writing the miracles. Instead they're picking
to death the miracles. I can't believe your disciples ate
on the sabbath. They plucked corn on the sabbath, and
he was going to heal somebody. That's all they could see.
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But in John chapter eight, the Bible said they brought
the woman taken in the act of adultery, and notice
who brought them. According to John eight, the scribes and
the Pharisees brought a woman caught in the act of
adultery and threw her at the feet of Jesus, and
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they said Jesus Moses. And the Law says she's finished.
The Law says it's over. The Law says that her
book is written and concluded, and we're going to stone
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her to death. What do you say, Jesus, I can't
prove it, but I'm gonna preach it like I want to.
This is my sermon. I'm gonna preach it like I
want to. The same finger that wrote the commandments on
the stone with a finger of fire. Now he kneels
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down in the dirt and he says, I've been waiting
on this for three thousand years. You want to know
what I got to say about this woman who's messed
up her life. And everybody says the book is finished.
She's in a mess, she's filthy, she's dirty, and nobody
can help her. He says, and he took that finger.
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That was the same God that wrote the commandments. Now
the finger is skin, God in skin. And he starts
writing in dirt. Stone is permanent, but dirt. He's writing
in dirt. What was he writing? He was saying, I
know that you messed up, woman, but let me give
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you some advice. If you ever found a dirty, rotten
center that's really messed up, and you want to see
them get get in bad trouble, don't throw them at
the feet of Jesus. Throw them at the feet of
a denominational board, throw them at the feet of a
bunch of mean preachers, throw them at the feet of
a bunch of self righteous Christians. But if you ever
want to see somebody get set free, throw them at
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the feet of Jesus. Why. I can't prove it. I
can't prove it, but I got a feeling when he
started writing. He said, I know they think I touched dirt.
I touched dirty, dirty people, and dirty families, and dirty
marriages and dirty ministries. I'm not afraid to touch the dirt.
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But I'm going to write another story. I know Moses
and the Law said you're finished, But I'm going to
write a new story. I don't know about you, but
I'm glad he can write you out of your miss
he can write you out of alcoholism, he can write
you out of drug addiction. I don't care how long
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you've wrestled with it. I don't care how messed up
your life is. If you'll let Jesus he'll write another story.
Give him a praise if you believe. Praise him just
a minute. Praise him at every campus. He's writing another story.
It's not over. You don't have to live in the past.
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You don't have to live in shame. You don't have
to live in disgrace, you don't have to live in condemnation.
He's writing another story. Sit down, I'm almost done. I
have seven more minutes. Nine tend to preach all seven.
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Tell somebody sitting besides you, I don't know what you're
going through. Come on, do it. I deputize you. Turn
to somebody beside you and say, I don't know what
you're going through, but he's gonna write you out of that.
Miss it's not over. It's just a comma. It's not
a period. There's another chapter coming to your broken heart.
There's another chapter coming to your divorce. There's another chapter
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coming to your addiction. There's another chapter coming to your abuse. Now, now, now,
how many of you glad he wrote you out of
the book of Moses and into the book of Jesus.
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How many of you glad he wrote you out of
death and out of defeat and into victory and to
eternal life. Everybody who knows your name is written in
the Lamb's Book of life. Shout just for a minute,
we're gonna preaching them in the shell and praise him.
The enemy set you were finished. The enemy set your
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family would never come up. I had a generational terses,
but he rode another story. She now see. I'm an
organ generation preacher. That's why you That's why I can't
go on. You shouldn't have touched that B three. Y'all know,
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y'all grew up with all these little Corg keyboards and
all that. But I'm a preacher that came up in
old tents and double white trailers. I preached all in
North Carolina. They called it a church. It was a
double white trailer, and all we had was a poolpit,
a microphone, and an organ. But when the Holy Ghost
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started moving, that place started shaking. He needs to leave
me alone. He needs to leave me alone. I don't
want him there on your seventeenth anniverse. You got to
stop for a minute, all right, then let me finish.
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He's getting me off timing. Listen, the reason that I
brought that story up about Jeremiah thirty six. I want
to show you. I want to show you something, the
Bible said, God, if you read the whole chapter, God
gave Jeremiah a powerful word for his generation. And the
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Scripture said, he got He got canceled by the culture
and banned from the temple. They would not let him
come to the temple and threatened him with his life.
And God said, that's all right. It ain't about you preaching.
I just need you to called a scribe. And the
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Bible said, in that chapter he called a scribe, and
he said, tell him the sermon God gave you. And
as long as you don't care who gets the credit,
just let him write it down word for word. And
the Bible said, he wrote it down word for word.
And even though Jeremiah was banned from the temple, on
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the Sabbath, as the people were gathering, the Bible said,
this scribe, his notes probably looked like that he took.
He took what God told him through the prophet and
stood on a rock. And as they were going in
to get their latte at the coffee bar, he stood
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outside and started preaching the word of the Lord. And
it was like a you remember what Jeremiah said, It's
like a fire shut up in my bones. And when
you get a song that came from the throne room,
every my sheep, know my, when you sung two of
those several of those songs, might that first one about
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all the names of God? My holy ghost said, whoo,
that's one of ours. I'll be singing that one in
my place. I'll be shouting on that one, and that
last one I'll be shouting on that one, and the
middle one too. I might as well take them all.
Wat's this? And the man just stands up and starts
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reading what came as he wrote it down. And the
Bible said that even the false prophets read that chapter
when you get home. The false prophets stuck their ear out.
And when they heard the word of the Lord, they
knew this little thing that we're about to teach on
seven ways to enjoy your winter vacation, that it just
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ain't gonna quiet get it. And the Bible said, they
grab pens, read it, and they wrote down word word
for word what the man was saying, and took off
left the church and took off to the king's winter palace.
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And the king was setting by his fireplace, and they
come in and they said, sir, this is so important.
We need to tell you. Jeremiah has another hit. It's
on fire, and we can pretend like we don't like it,
but we like it. And we had to come interrupt
your vacation, sir, at your winter palace, because the word
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of the Lord is crazy and it's messing up the
whole congregation. And the king said, let me hear it. Now,
this is where the story gets unbelievable. And they start
reading word for word everything, and the king pulled out
his pocket knife, your Bible said, and when he heard it,
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he said, I like that part. Leave it alone. That's
the good part. I'm highly favored. I'm blessed. I'm oh,
I'm gonna do good. God is with me. I like that.
But then they get to some of that stuff about
but straighten up and live right, be hol in, be clean,
stand before me and love me with all of your heart, mind,
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soul and strength. And if I don't like that, and
he'd start cutting, cutting that out and ball it up
and throw it into the fire cutting. I hate the preest.
Just say I had you all happy a minute ago,
but please don't become that ministry. We're not gonna cut
and paste the word of God. We still need the
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blood of Jesus. We still need the name of Jesus.
There's no other name. I still believe that the Bible
says that marriage is between a man and a woman,
and we're not gonna cut that part out. I still
believe the Bible says holiness is right and separation and
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coming out from the world and being different. Oh, come on,
it's in the book. It's a Let's don't throw out
everything because culture says it's too controversial. I'm afraid, and
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I'm old. I'm an old preacher, so I got to
write to talk like this, And I just say to
the young preachers, don't be a cutting edge preacher. Preach
the eternal word of God. Let's don't cut hell out.
Hell's in the book. Hell is real and ever now
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and then somebody needs to Hell is So where'd that
come from? Somebody needs It needs to be more than
a cuss word. It needs to be a conviction word.
It needs to be something that somebody hears and says,
Oh my God, God, that's the word of God. Let's
not cut out the judgment. Let's not cut out I'm
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preaching better than you're letting home. Let's not cut out
the safetity of life. Jeremiah, when you were in your
mother's wound, before you ever got there, I called you,
let's not cut that out. I'm not gonna cut it out.
I'm not gonna cut out the rapture. I'm not gonna
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cut out He's coming back again. The trumpet's gonna sound,
the dead in Christ are gonna rise, and we're going
home to meet the Lord in there. Read the word
sit down. I'm almost done. You know, if you're not
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careful in a great church like this, the Lord will
give you a word. Because this man spends time in
the throne room, and you know, and you know when
he speaks to you, because it rocks you to your
core and people all around. You may not be that
big of a deal into it, but when it's yours,
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write it down. Here's the point. The Lord spoke to me,
and he said to tell people at Elevation Church, I
spoke to you. I made you a prophetic promise. And
just because it has not happened, there is a tendency
to pull out your little pocket knife and start whittling down. Well,
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maybe he really didn't say it, and you get it
trimmed down to just what you can do, just what
you think you're capable of, just what your mind can conceive.
But if God said nations, then nations it shall be.
If God God says world wide, then worldwide. It's help me.
Get your knife off the promise. Get your knife off
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what God's telling you, music team. If God says you
can feel colosseums better than the rolling stones beyond, say
why don't we get that mentality? And say, God, I'm
gonna take my knife off of it. I'm tired of
trimming down the promise to what I can do. Maybe
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the first seventeen years was just a test. Maybe where
you're going is gonna require more faith, and you're gonna
look back in seventeen years and say, turn to somebody
right now and say, the lords gave you that promise,
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Get your knife off of it. The Lord told you
that there was life beyond your day, and just because
you hadn't met them yet, get your knife off that
promise and learn how to praise heal until the answer comes.
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Let me finish play and they'll know I'm almost done.
So here's where I've been trying to get to. This
whole little sermon a back of two and verse two.
Write the vision, make it plain. But here's what got
me Psalms forty five in verse one. You're not gonna
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believe what God's pen is. Throw it up for me,
Psalms forty five and verse one. And the Lord answered me,
there it is. Everybody, watch this. My heart is indicting
a good matter. I speak of things which I've touched
and made touching the King my tongue. Everybody shouting. My
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tongue is the pen whatever I start praising him for,
whatever I start prophesying, whatever I keep praying and praying
and praying about, and preaching and preaching and preaching about
and praising and praising and praising about and prophesying to
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a new generation, a new generation. My children will be
used of God. They will do mighty things. My tongue
is the pen of the ready rib. Do you believe that?
Do you believe that there's power in what you continually praise, pray,
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preach and prophesy. The Lord said, this is not the
final chapter of elevation. But tell the people to lift
their voice and ascribe the greatness of their God. Tell
the people that the pen is in this house, and
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that means miracles are ready to be written. That means
stories and books are ready to come forward. That means
businesses are about to be started. That did not start
in the flesh. They were born in the sanctuary under
the anointed word of God. You're a vout to write
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new chapters of your family. The first few were addiction
and brokenness and curses. But the next generation, the next
chapter will be blessed, will be annoyed, will be favor
Get up on your feet at every campus and give
the Lord the money. Please. Well, if you enjoyed today's podcast,
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there are a couple things I'd love for you to do.
Make sure to subscribe, rate, and review this podcast. You
can also help us reach out by investing today at
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