Priscilla Shirer: Walk in the Power of God in You! | FULL SERMON | Women of Faith on TBN

you are a coair with a hefty spiritual inheritance he wants you to know that even if you've been rejected by everybody else your God has handpicked hand selected you chosen you adopted you grafted you into the family of God all of the glory of God the Father all of the glory of Heaven Was packaged in human flesh Jesus wanted so much God the Father wanted so much to make sure that he could speak and so that Humanity could hear that he left his throne in glory put on flesh so that the disciples could hear his

call and in the same way he has given us the holy spirit so that each and every one of us have the privilege to hear the calling of God on our lives I came to make sure that you know you are not just children you are children with power and I'm saying to you what a shame it would be what a travesty it would be for the enemy to believe more about your potential than you do because you need to know that even if you are not convinced about what it is that the word of

God declares to be true about you even if you're not sure about the nuances of your inheritance as a coair to the kingdom of God even if you are convinced that you have rights and privileges that you have access to the throne room of God as the scripture says even if you are convinced you need to know that the enemy is he knows who you are he knows that you have been made competent by the spirit of God he knows that you have been qualified he knows that you are already forgiven he knows that you've

already been made free he knows that there is therefore now no condemnation for those of us who are in Christ Jesus he knows that he can form a weapon against you but that that weapon has absolutely no possibility of prospering in your life he knows that in the end we win what a shame it would be for him to believe more about your power than you do and I believe at least in part that is why the Apostle Paul writes to us in the book of Ephesians now y'all know the Apostle Paul was a bad

brother he wrote letter after letter to the first century Christian churches to make sure they knew who they were to disciple them to M mature them to bring them into full knowledge and awareness of what it would mean to be in relationship with Jesus Christ and of all of Paul's writings which gives us about 2third of our new testament Scholars say that the the Pinnacle of all of Paul's writing the cherry on top of the cake really the creme Dela Creme of all the Apostle wrote to us really Ephesians is that cherry on top of

the cake and part of the reason why is because of the six chapters he spends more than the first half of the book just telling you who you are I mean he keeps tripping over himself with robust language to try to communicate to the people of God the power that they have access to by virtue of their relationship with Jesus he wants you to know that you have been blessed with every spiritual blessing he's going to tell you that God's Grace has been lavishly poured out upon you he wants you to know in the first

and second chapter That You Are Holy and blameless and forgiven and that you are free oh if you haven't taken time to read it read through the book of Ephesians because it's going to tell you that you are a coair with a hefty spiritual inheritance he wants you to know that even if you've been rejected by everybody else your God has handpicked hand selected you chosen you adopted you grafted you into the family of God he wants you to know you've been snatched out of darkness and flung Into His Marvelous Light he's going to trip

over himself to make sure you know that you once were dead in your trespasses and in your sins but you've now been made alive together with Jesus Christ he wants you to know that you are his workmanship you're a masterpiece a piece of art recreated in Christ Jesus for good work so that you can walk in them in fact the Apostle Paul y'all he gets so worked up trying to make sure we know how powerful we are that before he even gets through the first chapter he bursts out in a prayer and says I'm praying

that the eyes of your heart would be opened because if you would just know the hope of his calling and choosing you the riches that have been made available to you it's going to change the course of your life so he spills over himself going over and over trying to figure out how do I make sure the Believers know who they are so they can walk in some semblance of Victory and freedom as they live the Abundant Life to which they have been Commissioned I want you to see the Apostle Paul writing this letter he

is in a Roman prison at the time probably on house arrest see the Apostle Paul in your mind's eye sitting on the cold hard floor of his cell trying to figure out the right words under the inspiration of the Holy Spirit to make sure that this SE sacred text communicates exactly what it should and he gets to the end of this letter having given us all this robust language about our inheritance and our power and our potential in Jesus Christ and he's trying to to figure out how do I close this letter how do I

make sure that they don't get tripped up that they live in the victory that is there see the Apostle Paul sitting on that cold floor hanging over his parchment paper ink quill in hand waiting for the inspiration of the Holy Spirit to figure out how do I put an exclamation point on this letter how do I make sure that they will walk in Victory all the days of their life how do I make sure to close this thing with such Clarity and such power that they will know at the end of this letter and at

the end of this era they've been called to walk in Victory picture the possibility that he looks up from his parchment paper his Roman cell and he looks up to see two Roman soldiers standing right outside of the doorway posted up to make sure their prisoner stays put and he would have seen the Roman soldiers equipped in their Roman regalia and then he crafts these words in Ephesians chap 6 verse 10 he says finally in conclusion in the very end after you've heard so much and I've written so much and I've entrusted so much to

you and I've explained so much after all these messages and all this teaching and all this seed that has been planted into the soil of our hearts after all has been entrusted to us after everything we've gotten from a co-pastor Susie Owens and a Cheryl Brady and a Bishop Jake and a Serita Jake and a Cynthia James and and a Jackie Mulla after our lives have been poured into for 30 strong years the Apostle Paul says finally you ought to be strong in the Lord and in the strength of his might the Apostle Paul says

Be Strong get some spiritual meat on your bones be fortified in your faith don't you dare leave 30 years of ministry and walk out of these doors and be weak willed women pul aside by every new age I ideology and philosophy of our culture be strong don't you dare walk out of these doors and be pulled aside by every impulse of the flesh be strong be strong in the Lord and in the strength of his might we've been too filled up and too blessed and taught beyond what we deserve people have poured their lives into

us we you better leave here and be strong y'all we can't keep waiting on other people to spoon feed us the word of God our entire lives we got to grow up and be strong at some point you got to decide that I'm not going to sip on the Milk of the word my whole life I need some meat because I'm mature I've grown up I need some strength and I believe that part of the reason why the Lord has allowed you and I this privilege to be a part of this final Woman Thou Art

loose is because for so many of us that are in this room these 72 hours is about getting you your strength back to remind you that the joy of the Lord is your strength Paul says finally you be strong in in the Lord and in the strength of his might and he says here's how you're going to be able to do it put on the full armor of God so that you may be able to stand firm against the schemes somebody say schemes come on y'all say schemes you got to stand firm against the schemes

of the devil for we wrestle not against flesh and blood but against the rulers against the powers against the world forces of this Darkness against the spiritual forces of wickedness that are in the Heavenly places therefore you ought to go ahead and put down all the weapons that haven't been working for you anyway and take up some weapons that actually have power take up the full armor of God so that you can stand in the evil day and having done everything to stand firm stand firm therefore the Apostle Paul tells us how to walk in

Victory to remember that we're not just children but we're children with power and he introduces for us in these three verses almost for the very first time at least this overtly in the context of the New Testament it's been inferred throughout the new the Old Testament and at different places throughout the new but this is the very first time that somebody comes right out Point Blank and says you have have an [Applause] enemy and your enemy listen to me this is a revelation that's going to change somebody's life your enemy is not the person that

you're sitting next to this morning your enemy is not the spouse that you left at home a couple days ago your enemy is not the boss that you work for or the coworker you sit next to you know that one that if she says one more thing to you you going to knock her out that one the Apostle Paul says your ene enemy is not flesh and blood I am a fairly easygoing personality I think that the folks that know me best would agree I'm just easy if someone offends me or someone hurts me or

does something to me it rolls off my shoulders Prett pretty easy if somebody comes to me and says hey will you forgive me for what I did to you I'm going forgive them and say girl come on let's move on we get it's all right I'm just I'm wired that way I'm easygoing but if I find out I'm saying don't don't get it twisted if I find out that someone's been scheming that's a whole different story cuz scheming implies pre-planning if you've been scheming against me that means you've been watching for a little while you've

been trying to figure out what it is about me that is most weak most frail most vulnerable so that you can take advantage of me you've been studying me to find out what my patterns are and what predilection of My Flesh is and what my preferences are so that you can figure out the best time to take most full advantage of me and the people that I love and when I find out that you haven't just been scheming against me but you've had your eyes on this man that God has given me to be married

to for the past 23 years when I find out you've been studying him so that you can figure out what his weak points are so that you can try to take advantage of him and when I figure out you've been looking into his history to try to figure out how you can make what's in my history and in his history combust so that we can have real smooth passion and intimacy and friendship in our marriage and when I find out that you haven't just been scheming against me my man but you've had the nerve to

be watching these three boys that the Lord has given to me to raise into men of God when I find out you had your eyes on my kids and you've been studying them so you can already figure out at this young age how you can trip them up so that they do not reach the destiny that has been assigned to them when I find out that you've been schem against me and the people that I love well if it's a war you want it's a war you going to have the war you going to have

cuz cuz I'm not just going to stand here and let you run rough shot over my family and over my own peace of mind and peace of heart and over my marriage and over my father finances and over my health and over my business and over my Ministry I'm going to be a woman guarded in the armor that will bring me victory in battle hallu we got to be strong you speak Paul says get dressed for victory he says you're going to need some stability in your core to make sure that you're not pushed to

the left or the right with the schemes and the PLO of the enemy against you you're going to need to be girded in your CH your core with a belt called Truth and then he says you're going to need something to guard your heart you're going to need a breastplate called righteousness and then he says that if you want any hope of being able to move forward successfully on the terrain of this life you're going to need something for your feet your feet better be shot with the preparation of the gospel of peace he says

and oh you going to need a shield because there are not just arrows but flaming arrows that are going to be sent by the enemy into your life and the Flaming Arrow are not meant to kill you they are meant to set fire on everything around you so that you're so distracted putting out fires that you don't have time to advance against this Kingdom so you're going to need a shield to extinguish the Flaming missiles of the evil one and that Shield is your faith you going to need something to cover your mind because the

enemy is trying to erect strongholds which are basically partitions that stand against the knowledge of God so that you can't hear clearly the voice of God in your life you're going to need a helmet and that helmet is your salvation and then he says you're going to need a sword of the spirit the sword that he's referring to is not the three foot long sword that we most picture no this is a 12in dagger he says you're going to need a dagger of the spirit it was reserved for when the enemy encroached beyond the first

lines of defense and the enemy was in close combat he's all up in your face he says for the moments in life when you're encroached upon by the enemy you're going to need something to make sure that you save off the enemy you need a dagger of the spirit and that dagger is the word of God but he does not stop with six pieces of armor because in verse 18 he adds a seventh he says pray it's the seventh piece of armor he says Be alert and pray not as a secondary activity not as a

Pastime not a prayer a day to keep the devil away nope you pray as a priority of spiritual warfare prayer is the key that almighty God has given us so that we can unlock the resources of heaven and have them Unleashed onto the landscape of our Earth I wish I had time because if I did I'd take you through all the pieces of the armor but there really is just one other one that I really want to harp on for just a few more minutes this morning if y'all are still with me everybody still with

me there's one that I think in this hour is of seminal priority and necessity for us to talk about because in verse 14 the Apostle says you need a [Applause] breastplate the breastplate is righteousness okay y'all bear with me I got stories this morning they keep popping into my head about these kids these boys across the street from our house that we raised our children in there was a pond our neighbors had a pond we would go over there and we would go fishing on the pond we'd walk over with a couple fishing poles that

I bought on sale at the local Super Walmart a tackle box you know we got got stuff in The Tackle Box of uh extra Bobbers and extra Hooks and a couple pairs of gloves cuz y'all know I don't mind going fishing but I ain't going to touch no fish so we take whatever hot dog meat is left over from the week cuz we're professional fishermen in our house we walk across the street and normally we fish right there on the edge of the pond but it's a big old pond so they have a little a

metal rowboat that they bought on Craigslist it's just an old little thing but it's seaworthy it can hold you up so every now and then when I'm feeling it adventurous I would get in the boat with the boys we would push out to the middle of the pond and we'd fish from there the only problem is that I knew that in order for us to get in this boat before we could ever get in it we had to turn it over because it was always left upside down on the shoreline upside down so that water

would drain out of it or so that when it rained it wouldn't collect any more water and so rightfully so it was upside down the problem was to get in it we were going to have to turn this sucker over and I knew that the environment that had been created underneath this upside down boat was damp and shady and moist and the perfect environment for Critters to be underneath this boat so I knew when we turned it over something was either going to hop out from underneath it something was going to Waddle out from underneath

it or worst of all so every now and then I'd feel adventurous I'd stand way back at the edge of the boat the boys would get the sides and we'd turn it over and inevitably something would come out it occurred to me that never once did I have to send a golden invitation into the brush nearby to tell the critters hey we're here at 1:00 today if you'd like to come and join us you are welcome the critters did not have to be invited because the environment created by the upside down boat was invitation enough

righteousness is rightside up living that aligns with the truth of God that invites the sunlight of God's favor and blessing on your life unrighteousness is upside down behavior that is out of alignment with the truth of God to where you don't have to invite demonic influence in your life you just keep living upside down and your lifestyle will be invitation enough the Apostle Paul says live right he says be righteous because righteousness is a breastplate over your life it will protect you from a full frontal attack of the schemes of the enemy this is old

school Flatout great grandmother wooden Pew Holiness old school Holiness y'all you going to have to make a decision to live right to choose to live holy because you can be in your War Room praying until you're blue in the face but if you come out of that prayer closet and you live in a raggedy Wayward lifestyle that is out of alignment with the truth of God then your prayers will have been wasted you got to be [Applause] holy so Jerry and I my husband and I we've been married nearly 20 years now I can't believe

that and we have three sons that we are raising they are giant they are giants y'all my 15-year-old is 6' 2 in tall his 14-year-old brother is 6'2 in tall um their 9-year-old brother is coming up right after them they are some big boys and one of the things I do for these boys in fact you should know that my full-time job is feeding the boys that is my fulltime job I am trying to figure out any which way I can differently to cook chicken for dinner every single night just like it's exactly what I'm

doing so we just do Sports and everything with the boys and they're growing up so quick so one of the things that I have done since my oldest was five I started when he was five um I went to uh Ross dress for l in the backhand Corner leftand side there is a one row that has books and journals and those sorts of things I went and I grabbed um three journals hard back journals they were just little little um with the little spine spiral spines nothing real fancy for 99 I picked one for each

boy I've had it ever since my oldest was five and at that age I started to record a journal for them I do not write in it every week or every month or even um you know just on a regular basis it's just when something happens I don't want to forget or they say something that's really interesting or I see the hand the handiwork the Fingerprints of God in their life in some way I kind of write it down my my goal is to have a collection of writings and thoughts and and love letters really

to my boys about their life that I hand over to them when they're you know mature enough to appreciate it or better yet I might just hand it over to their wives and say girl this is what you getting yourself into right here and because my oldest will be 16 next month I was looking through his journal and came across a story from when he was five I read it with fond memories because it was the the little journal entry I put in there about him losing his first tooth he' wiggled that tooth and wiggled

it he couldn't wait for it to come out and the reason he couldn't wait for it to come out is because we had told him that when your tooth comes out the Tooth Fairy will come she will come and she will replace the tooth with a treasure so he could not wait finally the tooth came out and that is my boy still to this day that that has never been eager to go to sleep but that night he dove into bed at bedtime he could not wait he put the tooth underneath the pillow he laid

his head down and he was look he was trying to go to sleep but every 3 to 5 seconds he would look under the pillow to see if anything had happened finally he did fall asleep we let some time pass and then about 3:00 in the morning or so the 6'2 250 lb tooth fairy that I sleep next to every night he got up he went upstairs and he replaced the tooth for a treasure in the morning I knew when Jackson and at the time we just had Jackson and Jerry Jr at I knew when

they got up I knew I could hear it I could hear the excitement the squeals I could hear the Stomps on the floor I could hear the eagerness and enthusiasm because the tooth fa had come and left the treasure they bounded down the stairs into the room Jackson's fists were both clenched closed he ran up to me and said Mom the Tooth Fairy came she left me a treasure I said buddy let me see what she left you oh opened up one hand and it was a package of gummy bears which was a big deal

at the time cuz that was his favorite snack he opened up the other hand and it was [Applause] $5 now I don't know what happened when y'all were growing up but I grew up in the days of dimes and nickels can the church say Amen anybody so you know I'm trying to be excited for the boy but really I'm annoyed about this whole $5 situation and my husband can see that I am troubled and you know if mama ain't happy nobody's happy after Jackson left the room Jerry came over to me and he said Priscilla

don't worry he said do you remember that last month was Jackson's fifth birthday he said do you remember that we had all of the family over still to this day we do that when one of the boys has a birthday we invite the whole clan over grandparents and cousins and aunts and uncles everybody comes to celebrate he said do you remember they all came most of them had cards and in those cards were $5 bills he said do you remember we took all those $5 bills and we put them in a birthday drawer in the

kitchen he said this morning at 3:00 a.m. I went right inside that birthday drawer [Applause] Dave Ramsey would be so proud of us that's good Financial stewardship right there is what that [Applause] is so that morning really what I had witnessed was my little boy getting excited about treasure that actually already belonged to him treasure that he already had had he just didn't know [Applause] it I came to tell somebody that there is treasure hidden in these Earth and vessels I came to tell you that by God's spirit there is gift and there is power

that that has been entrusted to you that is available to you available to me as Daughters of the most high King you need to know that even if you do not believe what the scriptures declare to be true about your treasure if you don't believe that you've been forgiven or that you already have the victory or that the enemy is already underneath your feet and that there is no condemnation for those of us who are in Christ Jesus or that you have been made competent by the spirit of God I came to tell you that

even if you don't believe it the enemy does he knows who you are what ashamed it would be for him to know and us not to so it's time for us to open up the drawer and start pulling out the treasure the treasure we've been ignoring the treasure we've been calling insignificant the thing that we've said is not enough not valuable Lord if I could just be like her Lord if I could just be like that if I could just have a bit more of that if I weren't me then Lord I'd be enough he

says uhuh you have enough you just have open up the drawer pull out the treasure there is a story in Scripture that is going to be very familiar to you it's the one that the Lord has been using in my own life to remind me about how he will compel me and he will compel us to open up the drawer and reach in and pull out the treasure and see what it's like when he uses what he has already entrusted to us Luke 9 verse 1 and two says this and he called that's Jesus he

called somebody say he called he called he called the 12 together and he gave somebody say he gave he gave he gave them power and he gave them authority over all demons and to heal all diseases verse two and then he sent somebody say he sent he sent he sent them out he called them he gave them treasure and then he sent them out verse 10 says and then when they returned to him they gave an account to him of everything they had done and taking them with him he withdrew by himself to a Hill

Called Betha the multitudes were aware of this verse 11 says so they followed Jesus because you know wherever Jesus went a crowd was sure to follow they weren't quite sure he was the Messiah but what they did know was that when this man showed up blind people could see what they knew is that when Jesus showed up the lame could walk and the deaf could hear the dead were being raised so wherever Jesus was they came the crowd followed and welcoming the multitude Jesus began speaking to them about the kingdom of God and curing those

who were in need of healing verse 12 so the day starts to come to a close and the 12 come to Jesus and say now Jesus you're going to have to send this multitude away they've got to go into the surrounding Villages and Countryside and find lodging they got to get something to eat Jesus come on now here we're in a desolate Place verse 13 Jesus said to them uh-uh you give them something to eat they said Jesus we have no more than Five Loaves and two fish unless perhaps you let us go and buy

food for all these people CU you know we're not enough as we are right now there were about 5,000 men Scholars say the reason why Luke specifies men is because there were women and children too so there were probably about 15,000 hungry people that day Jesus said have them reclin to E eaten groups of about 50 each so they did so had them all reclin and then he took the Five Loaves and the two fish and looking up to heaven he blessed them and then he broke them and he kept giving them to the disciples

to set before the multitude in verse 17 says they all ate they were all satisfied and just so you know how satisfied they were they went by and picked up all the leftovers cuz there was overflow in this story we meet a hungry multitude a multitude that is placing a demand they have a need there is a lack that needs to be filled and most of the time when this portion of the scriptures is looked into the multitude as we concentrate on the Five Loaves and the two fish and how they were satisfied with it

but just for a few moments tonight I want to talk to you about the 12 disciples those who walked with Jesus and talked with Jesus those who were in close communion with Jesus those who would come out on a Friday night to be in the presence of Jesus amongst the people of Jesus I want to talk to the Disciples of Jesus the disciples on this occasion had been called to Jesus by Jesus they were having a conversation with each other Jesus entrusted them with power and authority and then he sent them out I love that

this uh gospel is one of the synoptic gospels the synoptic gospels are those that tell their three of the Matthew Mark and Luke these three tell some of the similar stories in a similar tone in a similar way so that we're able to get more layers to the story I love the gospels in that way they give us layers just like if someone were to offer you a chocolate cake but they gave you options you could have a one layer chocolate cake or a seven layer chocolate cake which one you going to choose seven every

single time because the more layers there are the more rich and delect The Experience becomes Mark 6 is a layer of CH chocolate cake for us it tells us that this is the experience when Jesus called the disciples to himself and then he sent them out in pairs do you remember two by two into the neighboring towns and communities they were supposed to teach and preach and perform Miracles that would authenticate the deity of Jesus Christ Mark chapter 6 our layer of chocolate cake tells us that they expended themselves y'all they were busy from sun

up to sun down they were about the task of doing what it was that Jesus had assigned to them they wanted to be diligent about it so much so that when they came back to Jesus they gave an account to him and Jesus recognized their exhaustion he saw that they were tired in fact Jesus himself commented that they didn't even have time to eat CU they had been so busy they were depleted and they were tired and they came back to Jesus and they gave him an account for how they'd handled the ass assignment that

he had entrusted to them if you were a believer in Jesus Christ you got an assignment and don't let anybody tell you that your assignment isn't Ministry just because it happens to be in a corporate setting mother of small children who's chosen to stay home with those kids don't let anybody tell you that ain't Ministry every single time you make that chicken for dinner and you set it on that table and you teach those kids a Bible verse before bedtime don't let anybody tell you you that that ain't Ministry corporate woman when you sit around

that boardroom table and you're the only one that has a set of ideals that lines up with the truth of scripture at a table with those who are thinking and acting and planning in a way that is left of God's word don't let anybody tell you that you around that boardroom ain't ministry that's Ministry high school student college student you're the only student that stands for truth when your professor says this is the way it is and you say no that's not the way it is don't let anybody tell you as the light on that

college campus that you are not in Ministry every single one of us has an assignment and the day is coming when we're going to have to give an account and here's the thing you don't know when that day is the day is coming and you don't know the day or the hour neither do I when we're going to have to stand before him and give an account for how we handled what he had entrusted to us I'm asking you tonight how are you handling your assignment because young women if you think that you're young because

of your age listen to me if you're 20 but you only have till 30 you're pretty old if you're 50 and you're going to live until 100 then you're pretty young age is just a number my friend and you and I cannot qualify young or old based birth based on our our birth date it's based on our death date and since we don't know when that day is that I implore you Sisters by the mercies of God to walk in a manner worthy of the calling by which you have been called cuz listen I don't

know about y'all but when I see him face to face I'm looking for a well done I'm looking for well done when I see him he will not ask me how many Instagram followers I had he will not wonder whether or not folks liked my post he will not be interested in whether or not my selfies were perfectly lit he will ask me did I know his son and then I will give an account so the disciples they come and they give an account to Jesus I wondered if there was a recipe for Effective Ministry

because if these guys were willing to come and look Jesus in his face and give an account I figured there might be a recipe for us for Effective Ministry I'm interested anybody interested there are three ingredients to the recipe Luke 9 verse1 it says he called them he called them and his calling superseded any personal ambition that they had they laid down whatever they were going to do because they heard the call of God beckoning them to do something else the beautiful thing about that entire picture is that all of the glory of God the

Father all of the glory of Heaven Was packaged in human flesh Jesus wanted so much God the Father wanted so much to make sure that he could speak and so that that Humanity could hear that he left his throne in glory put on flesh so that the disciples could hear his call and in the same way he has given us the holy spirit so that each and every one of us have the privilege to hear the calling of God on our lives the conviction the unction the pressing the fire that is shut up in your

bones sending you in a particular direction heed the call of God on your lives then they were not just called I love so much that before he skips to the third uh ingredient in the recipe sending them I love that before we get to the third one there's that second one he did not just call but then he gave them power and authority it means that what he was calling them to do he was simultaneously equipping them with Supernatural power to be able to pull it off so it's good news for anybody in the room

that you feel like you've got a dream that is way over your head you've been called to do something you don't have the money for you you don't have the time for you don't have the patience for you don't have the gifting for you don't have the talent for you don't have the connections for the good thing and the great thing about our God is that he does not call people who are already equipped he calls you and then for the people that say yes he equips them with what they need for the calling he

entrusted them with power and authority and can I tell you why this is important this is important because in order to accomp accomplish Supernatural tasks you have to have Supernatural capacity in other words you can be the most talented person in the world but if you go in your own strength and power you still won't be able to accomplish the God calling on your life it requires what it is that only God himself can give to you to accomplish the task ooh the enemy hopes you will go in your own power he hopes you will

think you are flashy enough and Savvy enough and talented enough and impressive enough so that you will no longer lean on God instead of leaning to your own understanding but it is not by power and it is not by might it is by the spirit of God and some trust in horses other folks trust in chariots but not us we trust in the name of the Lord Our God so he called them and then he entrusted them he gave them some treasure and then he sent them he's the one who did the sending resist the

urge to send yourself to do something that it is not yet time for because just as important as our calling is that is equal as important as the timing is in which that calling is outworked in our lives and if you go too soon you might if you if you give birth too soon to that which God is trying to produce through you you might abort what it is that he's trying to accomplish in you the spiritual backbone the fortification that he was trying to establish in you so that you could handle the spotlight wouldn't

hit you because listen that Spotlight that you may be craving if it hits you and you have no character it will burn you to a crisp so he called them he entrusted them he sent them out and they returned to him and gave an account they were tired the disciples had been given it everything they had and I know there are some of you in the room and you would admit that you haven't done it per perfectly but man you've sure been purposeful you've been intentional about this marriage you've been giving it everything you've got

you've been intentional about that teenager you've been giving that kid everything you got this toddler that has this specific vent or this specific issue that you've been doing everything you can going to see every expert that you can reading everything that you can to be the best that you can as a mother single mother you've been giving it everything that you've got working the jobs that you've got to work to keep food on the table you've been given that business that Ministry that endeavor everything that you have and you the disciples are tired the good

news about Jesus is that when the disciples come to him tired he does not say go away from me and get yourself together come back and then I can use you he says Come Away With Me in other words listen the cure for your exhaustion is intimacy with Jesus that's the Cure y'all I'm saying I agree take the holiday take the vacation tell them you need a little sabatical you got to step back for just a little bit you need a little margin in your life take the holiday but don't take a holiday from Jesus

don't take the sabatical from your relationship with the Lord Prayer shouldn't exit your schedule because these are your rest days you still need to be the deer that pants after the water your soul has still got to be replenished and can only be replenished when you have intimacy with him and you're trying to figure out Lord you told me that I was going to be replenished you told me that I was going to re refresh you told me that you had something that you wanted to give to me why would you take me here here

to this place where I'm being pressed down by a multitude of issues and concerns and frustrations there's something overwhelming me that is bigger than what I feel like I have the capacity to handle why would you bring me here this tells us that the story of defeating of the 5,000 is not just about the 5,000 it's also about the disciples it's not just about the multitude getting fed it's about the disciples being fed physically spiritually emotionally and it tells us that the Five Loaves and the two fish are the gift to the multitude but it's

the multitude that's the gift to the disciples because the multitude is what's going to make them have to finally open up their drawer pull out the treasure that they would have otherwise ignored place it in the hands of a multiplying master who's going to show them what it looks like when he takes their little bit and makes it a lot there is no replenishing like watching God multiply your Loaves and fish I came to tell somebody who's got a multitude pressing on you in your marriage or in your finances or in your health or in

your parenting or in your singleness that thing is weighing down on you that means that there is a drawer waiting to be opened that means there there's some treasure waiting to be unveiled and when you take it out finally when you stop ignoring it when you stop circumventing it when you stop acting like God hasn't given you everything you need when you will finally recognize this little bit this little gifting this little Talent this little time this little money this little dream this little vision that this is all I need if I'll just pull it

out and entrust it to the hands of a multiplying master can I just show you real quick what the disciples did just real quick because I think it's interesting because it's so us they said to Jesus in verse 12 send the multitude [Applause] away and here's the thing that's so us see we don't just say it we pray it [Applause] we pray away what we don't even recognize is the gift he has given us to press us into opening up our drawer so if you've prayed for your multitude to be taken away and in God's

sovereignty he has left it in your life that means there's a drawer there's a drawer stop start looking for a drawer if there's a multitude that means there's Loaves and fish somewhere in your life that is supposed to be entrusted into the hands of God so we pray away did you realize in verse 12 they are wishing away what in verse 11 Jesus welcomed Jesus welcomed what they're wishing away so the disciples say get get this multitude away they don't even know they're praying away their Miracle everybody wants to see the Red Sea divide but

nobody wants to be the one that comes face to face with a red sea everybody wants to see the walls of Jericho come tumbling down but nobody wants to be the one who has to walk around those walls in obedience to God to trust him to shout prior to seeing one brick fall fall if there is a multitude that means there is a miracle okay so praise the multitude or they ask for the multitude to to go away and Jesus he doesn't go for that so when he doesn't they he doesn't go for that the

disciples have another solution this is us too send the multitude away Jesus says mm and they say well send us away then you see it they said send us to the surrounding towns and Villages so that we can go and buy more accumulate more get more because as we are is not sufficient so send us somewhere else so we can get better and be better suited to this multitude because as we are is not enough it has always been the tactic of the enemy to get us to think that we are not enough as we

currently are that what we currently have is not sufficient for the task that is before us but if the Lord has allowed that multitude into your experience that means that as you currently are with the entrusted treasure the power The Authority that he has given to you you've got everything you need if you just pull out what he already has entrusted to you in fact in Mark chapter 6 our layer of chocolate cake we find out that he says to the disciples well what do you have he asked them that question he says what do

you have and then he doesn't even give them a chance to to answer he just immediately responds and says go and look he said it like that go and look he said it like you would tell your kid if the month I mean the week after Christmas they came to you and said Mom I'm bored you would say well what do you have and then before you gave them a chance to respond because you could already tell that the response they was going to give you was going to get them in trouble so you didn't

even give them a chance you just say you would say to them go and look cuz if you'll just look you'll see that the thing you're complaining about is something you already have access to if you will go and look Moses you will see that everything you need to do what I've called you to do it's in your hand it's that Rod that common Rod that has always been right beside you but now I'm going to infuse it with my power if I could just get you to go and look Moses pick the stick up

put it over the Red Sea you will see that it will make the Red Sea divide like a solid Wall go and look David yes Goliath is right there but if you'll go look down by the stream I've already provided five smooth stones that will be everything you need to take that giant down go and look spend all of the energy that you're spending complaining spend that energy going to look for what God has already given us access to so they pulled it out all right Jesus you're going to do something with this they say

okay here you go and they put it in his hands everything changes when you put your five and two in the hands of of Jesus everything changes when you stop speaking negatively about it and just trust it into the hands of Jes when you just take that little dream that that he is entrusted to you and you give it back to him and you say don't look like much right now but I'm putting it in your hands and the great thing about our God verse 16 says is that he took the meager Gifts of man

he didn't look at their little bit and say come back when you've got more uh-uh a holy Divine Almighty powerful God a God who does not need us or our Loaves and fish when man gave it to him he received it and looking up to heaven he blessed it y'all you don't need more you just need God's blessing on what you've already got you don't need more you just need God's blessing on your 5 and two girl that's all you need you know what his Blessing is it's his favor y'all favor is what makes the

scales balance over in your favor favor is what makes things a little bit unfair on your behalf favor is what opens doors that nobody can shut favor is what puts you in positions that nobody can take away favor is what sets you before kings and queens the favor of God is what you want on your life life on your 5 and two looking up to heaven he blessed it then he broke it and he kept giving it to the [Applause] disciples and it kept going and it kept going and the 12 didn't understand how the

little bit they had they had in the beginning had become so much and their entire multitude the whole burden was satisfied And when everybody was satisfied ooh somebody say satisfied satisfied ooh Victoria I wish we had time tonight girl satisfied this is not some you know happy meal sort of situation here this is not a number one on the Burger King drive-thru this is Sunday afternoon I'm talking about old school Sunday where your mom started to cook on Saturday night and the yeast rolls were rising and the macaroni and cheese was bubbling and the sweet

potatoes were all gooey on the stove and and every the sweet tea was going the roast you know she started the roast on 200 the night before and let it simmer all night long y'all are getting hungry aren't you I know listen do you remember how when you came home from church the next day you ate that and the only thing you could do after that was that's all you could do that's why Jesus said go ahead and have the people recline have them get in a posture of expectation that I'm getting ready to do

exceedingly abundantly above and beyond anything that they can ask or think satisfied Sunday afternoon kind of satisfied that's what he does and they were So Satisfied y'all don't even sit down just stay standing listen they were So Satisfied this is how you know how good the meal was there was leftovers they started going around picking up the leftovers y'all and guess what they were 12 baskets full one basket for each disciple to take home as an overflow of the grace and the blessing of God I want to pray for any of you who are in

this room and you've got a multitude Weighing on you you got I mean that thing is burdening you down and you've never considered the fact that you've already got what you need you've been thinking this is not enough gifting this is not enough Talent it's not enough money it's not enough time I don't have enough and Jesus is whispering in your ear tonight you got enough just give it to me I'm going to multiply it I'm going to blow your mind with what I'm going to do if you just trust it to me anybody got

a specific multitude that you need prayer in regards to just go ahead and raise your hand we're going to pray right now in Jesus name Victoria will you come up with me please just as a pastor in this house would you just be present in this moment so we can pray over God's people Lord right now we entrust every single woman who has her hand raised in particular we entrust every single one under the sound of our voice Lord to your loving care we thank you that you are sovereign over their lives father we thank

you that there is nothing that is in our experience right now that is not first passed through your fingers and since we know you are good and that you are kind and that you're Mercy endures forever then father we believe that if you've allowed this multitude there's something in this multitude we don't want to miss and so father I pray right now that you would change our perspective so we can see in this multitude what you have for us don't let us miss it for anything in the world Lord and then father I'm going to

pray over our five and two I ask right now in Jesus name whatever the Five Loaves and the two fish are that you have entrusted to every single woman I pray that you would give a holy courage and a holy boldness that would compel us to open up the drawer and pull it out and entrust it to your hands father God I do pray that if this multitude has anything to do with the Enemy Lord if the enemy has assigned an attack on any woman or her family I pray that his attack would be cancelled

in jesus' name and by his blood that has been shed on Calvary but Lord if this multitude is of you then right now in Jesus name I thank you for it in our lives come on and thank him for it I thank you for it and then father we're going to go ahead and get in a posture of abundance we're going to start living and praying and acting like people who believe that you are the god of Ephesians 3:20 and 21 you can do above all that we ask or think in Jesus name in Jesus

name come on everybody shout amen thank you Lord