Build It: Overcoming 4 Barriers To God's Blessing | Jentezen Franklin

together we're inspiring people to live for Jesus if you're looking for more in life to live with purpose and peace to make a difference for your family and those in need around the world Jesus is the answer and our mission is to Simply point you to him you're watching Kingdom connection with Jensen Franklin turn in the Bible with me to the book of Zachariah I want to go to Zechariah 1 verse 17 I'll begin reading with verse 17 Again proclaimed saying thus says the Lord of hosts my cities shall again spread out through Prosperity my

cities the cities of Israel will spread out notice that through Prosperity a Bible word the Lord will again Comfort Zion he will again choose Jerusalem then I raised my eyes and looked and there were four horns I said to the angel who taught with me what are these so he answered these are the horns that have scattered Judah Israel and Jerusalem then the Lord showed me four Carpenters or craftsmen the King James says carpenters and I said who are these coming to to do what what are these coming to do so he said these are

the horns that scattered Judah so that no one could lift their head but the Craftsmen or the Carpenters are coming to terrify them to cast out the horns of the Nations that lifted up their horn against the land of Judah to scatter it it's really something when you read these verses and you see what's happening in Israel even as we're speaking same ancient Spirits trying to scatter and Destroy but this is one of the powerful uh insights and visions that Zachariah had and it starts out as soon as God spoke Prosperity over the nation and

over the city of Jerusalem which is a type of the church and over Judah which is the righteous seed a type of the Christians the believer God spoke prosperity to the nation and as soon as God did that instantly the prophet saw in a vision four horns of resistance arise horns are always symbolic of unbridled power and in this case is satanic power with two objectives number number one to scatter Israel to divide families to divide people and to decimate and then secondly so that to so depress and discourage and defeat that no man could

lift up his head these four principalities these four demon Spirits assigned to the people of God to keep their heads down to oppress to depress to defeat and listen carefully to stop from spreading out when I when I read that the spreading out part I thought about go into all the world and preach the gospel the spreading out and what I'm going to share with you this morning is not something that I read somewhere I'm sharing this with you because it is what I have seen uh God do in this church we had to confront

these four horns that I'm going to talk about and whether you're building a business or building a family or building a career or building a dream or Building a Church you will encounter the resistance especially if it's something God has put in your heart to build and that's why it talks about the spirit of the carpenter four Carpenters came to the rescue when they were under attack attack because the carpenter has got to come and help it's a beautiful picture of Jesus Christ and the prosperity the scripture said was given to spread abroad spread abroad

the Nations and let's say spread abroad the kingdom of God and the good news of Jesus Christ and when you think of the word Prosperity don't just think of money but I want you to think of the a prosperous man marriage a prosperous career a prosperous family prosperous work and dreams God wants his people to be productive and fruitful and he said I've decreed Prosperity a breaking forth a spreading out a breakthrough a spreading abroad to do more to grow more to expand more and Jesus the son of the carpenter is part part of that

under the New Covenant and I believe the four horns are the four gospels Matthew Mark Luke and John and I'm sending today and I'm coming today in the spirit of the carpenter to talk to you from my heart just when the horns were pressing them down Jesus Christ and the spirit of the Carpenters showed up to rebuild the nation rebuild the homes and the families rebuild what was once great that had been demolished the first horn I want to liken and call the spirit of lack because if you're going to build something sooner or later

you will con you will come in conflict with the spirit of lack we have to do our work we have to do our part we have to be excellent at what we do but as soon as you start to lift up your head and God gives you a vision I know it happened to me when I came here and Sharice when we came here I was 28 years old when I became pastor of this church and Sharice is seven years younger than me and we were really kids we did not know what we were doing

we just had a vision we just had a dream for this church called Free Chapel it felt right it lived up to its name it felt free and it felt like something God had a special assignment on this place and I remember those days I remember pulling up into the parking lot on brownbridge road of that building and I also know that as soon as we started growing the spirit of lack began to challenge the vision that God had given me and the leadership for this church to keep us in the same place to keep

us on the same level it can even the spirit of lack can even attach itself to families and for Generation after generation they never break out they never get out from under the horn that causes the family to stay down and I'll never forget one thing that really happened to me for 10 years our television Ministry struggled and for 10 years it was in the red and for 10 years it it bumped alone it had hot downs and highs and lows and it was no consistency it was always a challenge I want to quit so

many times and you know why the spirit of lack the spirit of lack kept saying look look how much look how much look at look look you're not it's you're not it's not doing anything nobody's going to help you you're not going to be able to sustain this and so we had bought this property that we're on the 150 acres that we're on now and we were building this Sanctuary this building right here and the beans were up and some of the pouring was up the seen slab here in Gainesville for those of you are

joining us at all of our campuses the slab was all that we had in here and I walked into the other building where there's a little Studio you could call it a studio it's just a room with a high we didn't have we didn't have a lot of money to do that when you're doing a $24 million building program right here and we we had paid that building off and we were wise we knew we could afford it and had all the financing but just hear me a minute so so I walked into the studio

over there which is a little room and and I sat down and at the time we had equipment that was 10 years old every camera and there was there was duct tape everywhere I looked they they didn't know I I you know we were just getting ready to turn the cameras on and I was going to do some in and outs for some TV shows and I'm sitting there and I look and I see duct tape on this camera I see duct tape on that c cable I see duct tape on that machine I see

duct tape on a tripod holding the camera and then I look and the and the TV director guy the guy who did everything cuz he had to do everything we didn't have much of a staff we had a lot of volunteers and and and he had a big roll of duct tape on his belt that he had clicked on to his belt and it felt like I heard the Lord say do you know what kind of Faith you have you have duct tape Faith that's why you see some duct tape here duct tape there duct

tape everywhere I felt like Old McDonald duct tape was all over the place and it just hit me wrong that day and the Lord kind of impressed me you know you don't even see anything beyond this because you think that I can't do it all now I said now I'm reminded God I'm in a building program trying to obey you you know like when you have a need I'm trying to preach to you I'm telling you the Lord wanted us to spread abroad to the nations of the world but the enemy came with a spirit

of lack and something hit me and I prayed about it for several days and the Lord laid on my heart a message and I told the director I said we're not going in the studio we're going over and I got right in this area right here in that I'm preaching to all of you folks in this main area right here about where the break is back there maybe a little bit down there were no seats there was no carpet there was nothing but a cement floor and some B and these big walls no windows anything

and I told him to set up those two and he had extra tape that day set up those two and we filmed a message and I told the people I said I don't know what else to do we're in a major building program our television Ministry is not doing what we need to do and I don't have the money to pay and I'm not a beggar I'm not going to beg I won't be on TV and I can't promise you a Cadillac if you give to this ministry either but I said if God speaks to

you and you believe that we should be on TV I need your help help that's all I said and do you know in 30 days we receive we had never had anything like this happen $1.3 million and we bought the cameras that we needed and I heard the Lord and I looked in that camera and I said God told me that he was going to take the duct tape off of this ministry and I want to tell you he did that day and he has never it has never come back on us for the glory

of God I'm glad that we kept spreading abroad come on somebody I'm glad we didn't give up I'm glad that right when I didn't have enough God had more than enough and he's telling some of you don't you let the spirit of light make you put your head down if God's given you a vision to spread out and to increase and enlarge you need to say the Lord is my shepherd I shall not want I'm not telling you something I read in a book you're sitting in a miracle this is a story to you it's

a miracle to me because I watched God break duct tape and you know the second horn that we encountered was what I'm going to call the spirit of limitation if the spirit of light can't stop you got to push on through that one keep believing God and work hard and pray for wisdom but the second thing that we had to break through was the spirit of limitation the spirit of limitation says I know God can supply the need but he won't do it for me he do it for others but he won't bless me the

spirit of limitation puts a ceiling on your life you can go this far but you can't go any further and I heard a story one time and saw a program one time about an elephant trainer and he had this huge Bull male elephant with large husk might and strong and he had a rope just a rope around its massive leg and the Rope was tied to a cement block that was about from here to that piano over there and he said this trained animal this massive strong powerful elephant will only walk this far and the

moment he feels the tug on his leg of that rope he could break that rope anytime he wanted to and he said there came a moment where mentally that elephant accepted this is the limit I'll never go any further than where I am right now and that is exactly that second horn is a horn of limitation but every once in a while you just start accepting the limitations on life you stop you start sett you start saying well I've gone this far and you know I didn't think I'd get this far so and it now

now there's a you know it's I I don't think I can go I don't think I can do that I don't think I'm capable of that but every once in a while you got to push on the limitations faith never settles God said spread abroad not stay where you are comfortable and safe and sure and secure so when I did that I pushed on the limitations and I preached that sermon one of the first letters that we got was from a 73 yearold woman who sent a letter and she addressed it and said please give

wrote a little note please tell that preacher that little preacher that I went and got a th000 God told me to go get A1 th000 Bill and tell him I hope he never uses it I want him to put it on the wall in his office to always remind him that if God tells you to do something the resources are already there this is that $1,000 bill you don't hear me this is we still have not used it because my God is Not ELO he's El Shada and he will provide and every time I see

that in my office on the Shelf I realize nothing is impossible with God I shall not want he maketh me to lie down in Green Pastures if you believe it give him a praise come on push on the limitations push on the spirit of life it can't hold [Applause] you ises this helping anybody I've come in the spirit of the Carpenter I've come to tell you you can build it I know the spirit of lack will try to tell you you can't I know the spirit of limitation will tell you others could but but you

can't you better stay where your rope tells you you can go but nope we're going to New Territory I see open doors I see key people coming into your life I see the favor of God coming on you and you're going to pull the steak out of the ground and it's going to be a elephant gone wild this is in the book of Acts the Apostle Paul said I wanted to come to your city but Satan hindered me the third horn notice that but Satan hindered us come on Aaron I used him in the first

service and I said I wasn't going to use him in this service cause I I didn't think about it when I called him you stand over there but I want to tell you what it was like we we started breaking through the spirit of lack God began to supply our needs and then we started breaking through the spirit of limitation that second horn and then it was like a hindering spirit and I don't know how to describe it but Sharice you'll remember this and still to this day they're hindering Spirits it's like we knew we

were had momentum going with us and we would try to go and it was like it wasn't like no no he's he's big and intimidating so but but it's not like he it was grabbing us and just throwing it but it's like a trip it's it's like a little sucker punch it's like a little it's it's just a it's just a hindering spirit and it's like we would try and we would try okay you go sit down that that's a big devil right there I'm going to tell you what do you know what I'm talking

about it's it's like it's uncanny that the hindering but I'm here to tell you the enemy can hinder you but he can't stop you the enemy can try to but don't you let it make you put your head down and just say Well it must not be God's will no press on through the hindrances all satan is authorized to do is hinder not to stop your family from being built back up and you doing what God's called you to do but here's the here's the other one now this is the last one he's a devouring

Spirit according to Malachi and once you take ground he comes back and tries to Devour the Harvest Devour the Harvest he's a devouring spirit and take back the Harvest that God has given you but my Bible said no weapon formed against you hindering or devouring Spirit of lack Spirit of limitation here comes the spirit of the Carpenters and we're coming to build up what the enemy's tried to destroy in our nation in our families in our church and in our own personal lives and I feel this thing there are people that are discouraged and your

head's been down a long time but I've come in the spirit of the carpenter to tell you you don't have any problems all you need is faith in God when you have faith in God nothing shall be impossible unto you somebody shout like you believe it [Music] well I believe today that you're watching this program because God wanted you to have your faith rebuilt I believe we're living in a time where the spirit of limitation the spirit of lack that devouring spirit that Malachi 3 talks about and even what Paul said the hindering Spirit some

of you have been feeling all of these things going on right now maybe with your business with your with your dream and finan ances and it just feels like all these things are coming against you but God is for you and Lord today I pray for every home every family every marriage every person going through physical challenges and they just feel like they're so defeated may your spirit come on them again get let your breath and your spirit fill their life again with hope and raise up what the enemy has torn down May the power

of God come upon them to rebuild and let the blessing of God let the anointing of God bring all that they need the provision the help the supernatural help to rebuild their lives and families in Jesus name and if you don't know Jesus as your lord and savior just say Lord save me just say it right there where you're watching say Lord save me cleanse me forgive me in Jesus name we would love to hear from you we would love to hear from you I'll send you a free devotional and there are all kinds of

blessings that we have available free of charge all you have to do is go online or call the number on the screen if you've been watching the news then you know the world is turning its eyes toward the escalating conflict between Iran and Israel we are living in prophetic times at any moment we could see this thing turn into a full world war and that's why this ministry is doing all that we can do to bring safety to people in the nation of Israel to rebuild in the north we're rushing to build and complete the

northern Israel Emergency Center and in the South we're keeping family safe through our newest initiative light over Darkness it's a comprehensive three-year plan that we're partnering with our friends at the Jewish National Fund phase one of this initiative is all about safety and that's why we're building civil defense centers and over 800 safe houses attached to the homes of families in that region so that they can be safe from terrorist attacks we cannot do this project without you it's millions and millions of dollars and I want to thank you for standing with us the Bible

said in Genesis 12 and3 I will bless those that bless Israel I will curse those that curse Israel you can be a part of that blessing today so together we can be the light over Darkness watch this you're going to get excited about how you can be involved on October 7 Israel was attacked by the dark Forces of Hamas it was the worst massacre the Jewish people experienced since the Holocaust the eskal region in southern Israel was attacked directly women faced unspeakable atrocities infants were assassinated numerous families were burnt alive and both mothers and their

babies and Holocaust survivors were abducted to the Hamas tunnels in Gosa and now we stand at a pivotal moment poised to provide a Lifeline for the people of eshal who continue to be attacked by terrorists every day Jensen Franklin media Ministries recently committed the largest amount of funding ever towards the initiative light over Darkness phase number one provides physical safety that is why we are building civil defense centers and over 800 safe houses making sure every family in the region has a safe room in case of terrorist attacks this is home Israel is our place

this is the safest place we can be and this safe room became our little Safe Haven it's something that every single person in our area needs I can't stress it enough that it saved Our Lives it saved my husband's family life on the 7th of October and it will continue to save lives when you give to a project like this there is a promise for you found in Genesis 123 I will bless those who bless you Israel together we can demonstrate that Faith combined with Collective action can illuminate the darkest moments and Forge a brighter

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