1 00:00:01,240 --> 00:00:05,960 Welcome to the Revival church Bracknell Podcast joins us 2 00:00:06,120 --> 00:00:10,200 asbestos, Will and Michelle Rose share inspiring insights that 3 00:00:10,200 --> 00:00:14,080 help you discover and leave out your God-given purpose. 4 00:00:14,720 --> 00:00:18,560 Don't forget to subscribe and connect with us on Facebook and 5 00:00:18,560 --> 00:00:23,360 YouTube for even more resources. Get ready and God bless you. 6 00:00:26,720 --> 00:00:31,280 Because the fiber with the King. And so when God puts his hand on 7 00:00:31,280 --> 00:00:34,280 favour upon your life, some things begin to happen that you 8 00:00:34,280 --> 00:00:36,120 could not make happen by yourself. 9 00:00:36,400 --> 00:00:41,400 Doors open, opportunities show up out of nowhere, people begin 10 00:00:41,400 --> 00:00:44,960 to notice you. OK, not because of how great you 11 00:00:44,960 --> 00:00:46,920 are, but because of how great your God is. 12 00:00:47,120 --> 00:00:49,680 Can you say I mean somebody Amen. 13 00:00:50,040 --> 00:00:53,560 And so favor with the king. This is a word that God gave me. 14 00:00:53,880 --> 00:00:56,600 And I'm going to read our key verse today from the book of 15 00:00:56,600 --> 00:00:59,880 Esther chapter 2. So let's turn to Esther chapter 16 00:00:59,880 --> 00:01:01,560 2. That's our key verse and we're 17 00:01:01,560 --> 00:01:04,319 just going to read from verse 17. 18 00:01:05,160 --> 00:01:09,840 It says there now the king was attracted to Esther more than 19 00:01:09,840 --> 00:01:12,280 any of the other women and she won his favor. 20 00:01:12,280 --> 00:01:15,520 Everybody say favor and approval. 21 00:01:15,520 --> 00:01:17,440 Let's just pray together. Father, we thank you for this 22 00:01:17,440 --> 00:01:18,880 moment. We thank you that you brought us 23 00:01:19,120 --> 00:01:22,200 together in your presence. Holy Spirit, have your way flow 24 00:01:22,200 --> 00:01:25,040 in this place. Anoint me, speak through me, 25 00:01:25,040 --> 00:01:27,680 anoint this message. Lord, I pray, let this not just 26 00:01:27,680 --> 00:01:30,520 be a sermon, but an encounter with the King in the mighty name 27 00:01:30,520 --> 00:01:32,680 of Jesus and let the church charge. 28 00:01:33,120 --> 00:01:36,360 Amen. And so is the story is not just 29 00:01:36,360 --> 00:01:40,640 about a girl who became a queen, It's more that it's God's favor. 30 00:01:40,640 --> 00:01:45,720 It's about God's favor, purpose and calling, okay, the courage 31 00:01:45,720 --> 00:01:48,240 of God. And so Esther, as we know the 32 00:01:48,240 --> 00:01:52,480 background, she was an orphan and she was raised by her cousin 33 00:01:52,480 --> 00:01:56,720 Mordecai, and she was raised by car in a foreign land, okay? 34 00:01:56,720 --> 00:02:01,480 Now Esther, she didn't come from a a welfare famous family, she 35 00:02:01,480 --> 00:02:05,240 was not born in while she was not born into royalty, but she 36 00:02:05,240 --> 00:02:07,680 was an orphan raised by her cousin in a foreign land. 37 00:02:07,880 --> 00:02:11,280 And so looking at her circumstances, looking from the 38 00:02:11,280 --> 00:02:14,560 outside, who would have guessed that she, Esther, often girl, 39 00:02:14,560 --> 00:02:19,120 would become queen? And so here's the truth, very 40 00:02:19,120 --> 00:02:23,200 powerful truth. God doesn't need a perfect boss. 41 00:02:23,480 --> 00:02:26,040 God doesn't need a perfect background. 42 00:02:26,080 --> 00:02:30,200 OK, God is not looking for a long list of achievements. 43 00:02:30,360 --> 00:02:34,280 God is looking for someone who say, yes, I am available. 44 00:02:34,640 --> 00:02:37,240 Can you say I meet somebody Hallelujah. 45 00:02:37,560 --> 00:02:39,880 And so I love that song. I'm available. 46 00:02:39,960 --> 00:02:41,640 That is just amazing, powerful song. 47 00:02:41,640 --> 00:02:44,160 I'm available. And so Esther, she didn't try 48 00:02:44,160 --> 00:02:46,120 and force her way into the palace. 49 00:02:46,240 --> 00:02:48,480 She didn't try and impress somebody. 50 00:02:48,720 --> 00:02:52,440 But the Bible says that favor found her Hallelujah. 51 00:02:52,600 --> 00:02:54,920 Somebody shown Hallelujah. OK. 52 00:02:54,920 --> 00:02:58,000 Because I believe that is a word for somebody here today that God 53 00:02:58,000 --> 00:03:01,680 is about to find. God's favor is about to find you 54 00:03:01,680 --> 00:03:03,720 too. Can you send me somebody? 55 00:03:04,160 --> 00:03:06,320 Now? You may feel ordinary, OK? 56 00:03:06,320 --> 00:03:09,200 You may feel like that you are not good enough or you may feel 57 00:03:09,280 --> 00:03:14,640 that you have been overlooked. But God loves to use people who 58 00:03:14,640 --> 00:03:19,880 doesn't feel very qualified. God takes the ordinary post 59 00:03:19,920 --> 00:03:23,560 every ordinary day. He takes that and he turns it 60 00:03:23,560 --> 00:03:26,640 into the extraordinary. And he does extraordinary things 61 00:03:26,640 --> 00:03:30,000 through his people, I mean. And so let me just give you a 62 00:03:30,000 --> 00:03:33,000 quick picture here of what favour looks like. 63 00:03:33,040 --> 00:03:36,240 OK, Imagine, Imagine and sitting at an airport and so he's just 64 00:03:36,240 --> 00:03:40,240 got a regular ticket and he says, but no like extras or, you 65 00:03:40,240 --> 00:03:43,040 know, upgrades or any of that. And then here comes a staff or 66 00:03:43,040 --> 00:03:46,920 someone from an airline walks up to him and just ask him, excuse 67 00:03:46,920 --> 00:03:49,920 me, Sir, can I go? May I see your boarding pass? 68 00:03:50,640 --> 00:03:53,800 And so suddenly, just after a few moments later, they tell 69 00:03:53,800 --> 00:03:57,960 you, listen, you have been upgraded to 1st class, nice 70 00:03:57,960 --> 00:04:01,560 legroom, first class. OK, He did not pay for, he did 71 00:04:01,560 --> 00:04:05,280 not ask for it. He did not pay extra for it, OK? 72 00:04:05,280 --> 00:04:08,720 He did not do anything special to get first class to be 73 00:04:08,720 --> 00:04:11,160 upgraded. That's favour. 74 00:04:11,600 --> 00:04:14,720 That's what our God does. Come on somebody, let's keep a 75 00:04:14,720 --> 00:04:16,320 surprise because that's what God does. 76 00:04:16,320 --> 00:04:20,360 That's the favour of God. God upgrades your life. 77 00:04:20,360 --> 00:04:23,480 OK, now you may feel like you are in the back of the queue on 78 00:04:23,480 --> 00:04:25,800 the back of the road. You may feel like forgotten or 79 00:04:25,800 --> 00:04:27,760 nobody notices you appreciate you. 80 00:04:28,040 --> 00:04:32,320 But when the king calls your name, Oh my God, everything 81 00:04:32,320 --> 00:04:33,160 shows. Everything. 82 00:04:33,240 --> 00:04:35,840 Everything changes when the king calls your name. 83 00:04:36,120 --> 00:04:38,560 Somebody did not some place in this place. 84 00:04:39,400 --> 00:04:41,440 Listen, you don't have to push your way forward. 85 00:04:41,440 --> 00:04:45,840 You don't have to try so hard to be noticed because God already 86 00:04:45,840 --> 00:04:48,920 sees you. And like Esther, like this man 87 00:04:48,920 --> 00:04:52,240 at the airport, favour finds you. 88 00:04:52,480 --> 00:04:56,080 And you say, I mean somebody Hallelujah, so dead ready. 89 00:04:56,360 --> 00:05:01,280 Because when it is your time, God knows how to upgrade your 90 00:05:01,280 --> 00:05:03,600 seat. God knows how to move you and 91 00:05:03,600 --> 00:05:06,080 shift you into places that you never thought you'd be. 92 00:05:06,240 --> 00:05:08,680 Hallelujah. Somebody shout, hey man, I feel 93 00:05:08,680 --> 00:05:11,720 favour in this place. Oh my God, I feel this anointing 94 00:05:11,720 --> 00:05:14,760 of favour in this place. Can you say Amen this And 95 00:05:14,760 --> 00:05:17,880 something is about to happen. The season in your life is about 96 00:05:17,880 --> 00:05:20,160 to shift. OK, You will see this about you 97 00:05:20,160 --> 00:05:22,480 will be upgraded. Can you say? 98 00:05:22,480 --> 00:05:25,640 I mean, if you receive that somebody showed Hallelujah with 99 00:05:25,680 --> 00:05:28,480 birds of praise. Let's celebrate if you are 100 00:05:28,480 --> 00:05:30,560 ready. Who's ready for an upgrade? 101 00:05:30,760 --> 00:05:33,520 Who's ready for favour? Hallelujah. 102 00:05:33,720 --> 00:05:35,560 No way to God. Tell your neighbor. 103 00:05:35,560 --> 00:05:39,760 Get ready for your upgrades. Get ready for your upgrades. 104 00:05:42,480 --> 00:05:47,040 Get ready for your upgrade. Are you ready for your upgrade? 105 00:05:47,040 --> 00:05:49,440 Somebody you ready for it? Yeah. 106 00:05:49,440 --> 00:05:51,560 Hallelujah. Praise God. 107 00:05:51,560 --> 00:05:54,840 Can we go deeper? OK, now I want you to get this 108 00:05:54,840 --> 00:05:58,960 word today, because before Haman even ever started his wicked 109 00:05:58,960 --> 00:06:03,080 scheme to destroy God's people, God had already put history 110 00:06:03,080 --> 00:06:05,440 place. My God, I feel the anointing. 111 00:06:05,440 --> 00:06:09,600 Yet before the enemy even plotted, before the enemy even 112 00:06:09,600 --> 00:06:13,960 formed the weapon, God had already released fibre ahead of 113 00:06:13,960 --> 00:06:17,040 the enemy. Somebody saw Hallelujah, God 114 00:06:17,040 --> 00:06:19,320 already released. It is a God's never liked. 115 00:06:19,840 --> 00:06:22,480 God is not surprised. God's not stressed. 116 00:06:22,480 --> 00:06:25,480 He doesn't panic when the enemy starts moving. 117 00:06:25,600 --> 00:06:29,720 No, God is not in reaction. He's already orchestrating. 118 00:06:29,880 --> 00:06:33,640 He's already one step ahead. Oh my God, I feel the noise in 119 00:06:33,640 --> 00:06:36,400 somebody. So before there was a threat, 120 00:06:36,800 --> 00:06:41,160 there was favour. Now Esther, I mean, she didn't 121 00:06:41,160 --> 00:06:44,440 know what was coming. OK, she didn't know she's at a 122 00:06:44,440 --> 00:06:45,840 palace, but she didn't know what was coming. 123 00:06:46,040 --> 00:06:52,760 So yes, God, and he places Easter in the palace before the 124 00:06:52,760 --> 00:06:57,240 fridge before the attack, places her in the palace for such a 125 00:06:57,240 --> 00:07:01,240 time as this. He plays Easter in the right 126 00:07:01,240 --> 00:07:05,400 time, in the right place, with the right purpose for such a 127 00:07:05,400 --> 00:07:07,800 time as this. Now let me tell you, this 128 00:07:07,800 --> 00:07:12,720 morning, Favour will find you before the battle shows up. 129 00:07:13,480 --> 00:07:18,160 Favor will find you before the struggle, before the sickness, 130 00:07:18,240 --> 00:07:21,200 before the heartbreaking, before the challenge. 131 00:07:21,320 --> 00:07:25,000 Favor, God had already gone ahead of you. 132 00:07:25,200 --> 00:07:27,760 God had already. God is already in your future. 133 00:07:27,840 --> 00:07:29,920 It's already you. Tomorrow, it's already instead. 134 00:07:30,320 --> 00:07:33,200 Hey, Hallelujah. And so God has already gone 135 00:07:33,200 --> 00:07:35,160 before. He's already lined up to help. 136 00:07:35,240 --> 00:07:38,360 He's already prepared the answer even before the attack, even 137 00:07:38,360 --> 00:07:40,920 before there's a challenge. Hallelujah, are you getting 138 00:07:40,920 --> 00:07:43,120 this? Somebody can I preach this this 139 00:07:43,120 --> 00:07:44,120 morning. Hallelujah. 140 00:07:44,120 --> 00:07:48,640 Call it to God, because that was God prepares the victory already 141 00:07:48,640 --> 00:07:52,000 before the battle. Shoja, are you getting this? 142 00:07:52,080 --> 00:07:55,200 Listen, the victory is already in motion. 143 00:07:55,440 --> 00:07:57,800 It's already planned, it's already there. 144 00:07:58,000 --> 00:08:01,040 Listen, you ought to get this ought to give you peace right 145 00:08:01,040 --> 00:08:03,680 here, right now, to know that favour has already been 146 00:08:03,680 --> 00:08:06,320 releasing your tomorrow fiber is already in your toe. 147 00:08:06,480 --> 00:08:09,800 God has already gone before you. He's already a hey, listen, 148 00:08:09,800 --> 00:08:11,880 here's what I want you to catch here this morning. 149 00:08:11,880 --> 00:08:16,600 The bottom line is God is always a step ahead of the enemy. 150 00:08:17,040 --> 00:08:19,960 Can you shot somebody? Can you shot Hallelujah, 151 00:08:21,040 --> 00:08:23,680 Hallelujah because God is ahead of the enemy. 152 00:08:23,720 --> 00:08:26,640 He's ahead of the fray. He's ahead of the attack of the 153 00:08:26,640 --> 00:08:29,120 difficulty. Now some of you, you may be 154 00:08:29,120 --> 00:08:32,039 walking through a difficult situation, a struggle, or a 155 00:08:32,039 --> 00:08:35,320 challenging situation right now. Maybe it is your health, maybe 156 00:08:35,320 --> 00:08:38,280 it's in your family. Maybe it's you feel that your 157 00:08:38,280 --> 00:08:42,080 finances feel tight or your peace feels shaken and you are 158 00:08:42,080 --> 00:08:45,200 saying, God, I did not see this coming. 159 00:08:45,200 --> 00:08:46,800 I did not see this challenge coming. 160 00:08:46,960 --> 00:08:51,320 I did not see this trouble coming, but God did, and God 161 00:08:51,320 --> 00:08:55,000 better just sit. He has already made a way out. 162 00:08:55,080 --> 00:08:56,640 He's already made a way of escape. 163 00:08:56,640 --> 00:08:59,600 He's already prepared the answer and the victory. 164 00:08:59,720 --> 00:09:03,080 Hallelujah, because favour is already in place. 165 00:09:04,160 --> 00:09:07,840 Hallelujah. God have already put Easter in 166 00:09:07,840 --> 00:09:11,640 the palace before the enemy of time, before the freak came. 167 00:09:11,840 --> 00:09:15,520 Can you sign in somebody? But you might not understand 168 00:09:15,520 --> 00:09:17,960 fully everything that you're going through or the challenges 169 00:09:17,960 --> 00:09:20,280 or the difficulties that you might be going through. 170 00:09:20,280 --> 00:09:23,360 But maybe it doesn't look like the palace, but it looks like 171 00:09:23,360 --> 00:09:26,960 more like confusion. It looks more like a challenge 172 00:09:26,960 --> 00:09:30,000 and a struggle and a waiting. And you're thinking, why the 173 00:09:30,000 --> 00:09:32,920 season Lord? Why this place? 174 00:09:33,000 --> 00:09:35,840 Why this path? Why do I have to cut? 175 00:09:36,000 --> 00:09:40,560 But just remember Esther in the palace, she did not fully 176 00:09:40,560 --> 00:09:44,600 understand in at the beginning. She didn't fully understand all 177 00:09:44,600 --> 00:09:47,800 of it right away. Esther did not understand why 178 00:09:47,800 --> 00:09:50,240 she was chosen. She wasn't awful all of a sudden 179 00:09:50,240 --> 00:09:52,680 she becomes queen. So she didn't understand. 180 00:09:52,680 --> 00:09:55,360 She did not see a hit what was coming. 181 00:09:55,920 --> 00:10:01,560 Okay, and so she did not know, but when the moment came, she 182 00:10:01,560 --> 00:10:05,400 was ready. She was ready because favour had 183 00:10:05,400 --> 00:10:09,920 gone before her. And so when you carry the King's 184 00:10:09,920 --> 00:10:15,120 favour, when you carry and you walk in God's favour, no battle 185 00:10:15,120 --> 00:10:18,320 is too big. Come on, somebody, no enemy is 186 00:10:18,320 --> 00:10:21,760 too strong, no situation is too impossible. 187 00:10:21,760 --> 00:10:25,360 Somebody shout Hallelujah. Come on, get this word today, 188 00:10:25,360 --> 00:10:28,600 Trish, when you walk in favor, there's no difficult that's to 189 00:10:28,600 --> 00:10:31,120 impossible, no situation, Hallelujah. 190 00:10:31,600 --> 00:10:36,680 And so Revelation verse 8 it says here, Revelation 3 verse 8, 191 00:10:36,680 --> 00:10:42,040 it says, see, I have placed before you an open door that no 192 00:10:42,040 --> 00:10:45,440 one could already before you. God has already gone into your 193 00:10:45,440 --> 00:10:47,160 future. It's already gone before you. 194 00:10:47,360 --> 00:10:50,480 It's opened the door already. So when God's favor is on your 195 00:10:50,480 --> 00:10:52,280 life, you don't have to force the door open. 196 00:10:52,280 --> 00:10:56,320 God will open it and when God's opened the door, nobody can shut 197 00:10:56,320 --> 00:10:59,680 it. No man, no devil, no delay can 198 00:10:59,680 --> 00:11:02,840 shut or close it because God's favour has opened the door. 199 00:11:02,960 --> 00:11:04,840 Come on, somebody shot Hallelujah. 200 00:11:05,120 --> 00:11:07,800 Nobody can stop it. And I'm here to declare that you 201 00:11:07,800 --> 00:11:11,560 are stepping into favour. You are stepping into favour 202 00:11:11,760 --> 00:11:16,160 that opens doors for you. That is an override obstacles. 203 00:11:16,440 --> 00:11:19,040 You are stepping into favour. That is unstoppable. 204 00:11:19,040 --> 00:11:21,760 Somebody shot Hallelujah promo somebody. 205 00:11:21,760 --> 00:11:24,600 It's a favour in this place. There's an anointing in this 206 00:11:24,600 --> 00:11:27,400 place that is unstoppable. Somebody Hallelujah. 207 00:11:27,960 --> 00:11:30,640 So here's a powerful truth that I wanted to get this morning. 208 00:11:31,000 --> 00:11:35,720 You don't have to chase favour. You just have to chase God. 209 00:11:36,600 --> 00:11:40,640 You don't have to run off the titles or platforms or applause. 210 00:11:40,800 --> 00:11:44,160 You know, you just run after the presence of the king. 211 00:11:44,960 --> 00:11:47,120 Yeah, Ron, he said. The presence of the king. 212 00:11:47,360 --> 00:11:50,320 OK. So much time that we spend these 213 00:11:50,320 --> 00:11:54,680 days in trying to get the right people to notice us. 214 00:11:55,360 --> 00:11:59,480 We are trying to impress, networking, climbing ladders. 215 00:11:59,640 --> 00:12:04,080 But we forget that favour does not come from man, it doesn't 216 00:12:04,080 --> 00:12:06,560 come from that. Favour comes from the fro. 217 00:12:06,840 --> 00:12:08,760 Favour comes from the presence of God. 218 00:12:09,000 --> 00:12:11,400 Favour. God is a king and he gives 219 00:12:11,400 --> 00:12:15,040 favour, He promotes. When God opens the door, nobody 220 00:12:15,040 --> 00:12:17,040 can shut it. Hallelujah, somebody. 221 00:12:17,560 --> 00:12:22,320 And so the closer that you get to Jesus, the more doors open, 222 00:12:22,320 --> 00:12:24,760 wide open. Let's swing wide open, the 223 00:12:24,760 --> 00:12:28,880 closer we get to Jesus, OK? And so the more you spend time 224 00:12:29,040 --> 00:12:32,240 and the closer you get to Jesus, the more heaven will start 225 00:12:32,240 --> 00:12:36,000 speaking your name, OK? And so the more that you sit at 226 00:12:36,000 --> 00:12:40,280 his feet in his presence, door starts out opening up for you. 227 00:12:40,600 --> 00:12:41,760 Amen. Hallelujah. 228 00:12:41,760 --> 00:12:45,800 Now I want to share with you something about very important 229 00:12:45,920 --> 00:12:50,120 the process of preparation, OK? Because before Esther was 230 00:12:50,120 --> 00:12:52,640 crowned, OK, she went through preparation. 231 00:12:53,080 --> 00:12:57,160 The Bible says in fact, she went through a 12 month preparation, 232 00:12:57,160 --> 00:12:59,840 right? And so here she's going for the 233 00:12:59,840 --> 00:13:04,840 preparation, soaking in oil. And so it's all there bathing in 234 00:13:04,840 --> 00:13:07,920 fragrances, learning the royal protocol, OK? 235 00:13:07,920 --> 00:13:09,920 She did not rush through the process that barged into the 236 00:13:09,920 --> 00:13:12,920 courts, OK? Because there's the protocol. 237 00:13:12,920 --> 00:13:17,360 And this is says there was anointed and she was appointed. 238 00:13:17,920 --> 00:13:23,080 That's how God works, OK, God will through a preparation 239 00:13:23,280 --> 00:13:27,280 process, OK. And so he prepares you in 240 00:13:27,280 --> 00:13:32,240 private before he promotes you in public that you get that, OK, 241 00:13:32,560 --> 00:13:35,800 So that's where he prepares you. So he builds you stronger in the 242 00:13:35,800 --> 00:13:39,720 secret place so that you strong enough to stand in the 243 00:13:39,720 --> 00:13:41,520 spotlight. OK, You get that church, 244 00:13:41,520 --> 00:13:43,600 Hallelujah. Praise God, now we're getting 245 00:13:43,600 --> 00:13:46,640 somewhere because you might feel like you are in hiding. 246 00:13:47,120 --> 00:13:49,840 You might feel like if you've been overlooked, but you mean 247 00:13:49,960 --> 00:13:53,760 the hiding seasons, those are holy seasons, right? 248 00:13:53,960 --> 00:13:56,640 And so God sees your secret prayer time. 249 00:13:56,640 --> 00:13:59,920 He sees the tears, He sees the sacrifice, He sees the 250 00:13:59,920 --> 00:14:00,920 obedience. OK. 251 00:14:01,160 --> 00:14:04,080 And what he's saying is this. And I am getting you ready for 252 00:14:04,080 --> 00:14:07,000 something greater is coming. So through this time of 253 00:14:07,000 --> 00:14:11,000 preparation, get ready because Esther didn't soak in the oil 254 00:14:11,200 --> 00:14:14,480 just for her beauty. Esther soaked in the oil for 255 00:14:14,480 --> 00:14:18,200 consecration. OK, because the will marked her, 256 00:14:18,640 --> 00:14:22,520 the will set her apart. Now will in the Bible is 257 00:14:22,520 --> 00:14:26,120 symbolic representation of the anointing of the presence. 258 00:14:26,120 --> 00:14:27,800 Are you with me? Chose of the presence of the 259 00:14:27,800 --> 00:14:31,760 Holy Spirit. So if you spend time long enough 260 00:14:31,960 --> 00:14:35,920 in the presence of God in the anointing, the anointing marks 261 00:14:35,920 --> 00:14:38,800 you, the anointing sets you apart. 262 00:14:39,440 --> 00:14:41,960 It's the flow of oil. It's in the secret place where 263 00:14:41,960 --> 00:14:46,000 the anointing comes upon your life and the oil starts flowing. 264 00:14:46,200 --> 00:14:49,280 And all of a sudden, if you spend time in God's presence 265 00:14:49,280 --> 00:14:52,080 long enough in a soaking environment where you soak the 266 00:14:52,080 --> 00:14:54,440 oil of the anointing, you begin to change. 267 00:14:54,600 --> 00:14:57,920 You begin to speak differently. You begin to walk the Frankie. 268 00:14:58,000 --> 00:15:01,360 You begin to talk, OK. You begin to walk like royalty, 269 00:15:01,680 --> 00:15:04,880 OK, not because of your credentials or your profession, 270 00:15:04,960 --> 00:15:07,960 but because you have been in the presence of a king. 271 00:15:08,480 --> 00:15:12,720 Somebody shine, Hallelujah. Shine Hallelujah, Righty, Jesus, 272 00:15:12,720 --> 00:15:14,360 Hallelujah. I feel like preaching in this 273 00:15:14,360 --> 00:15:15,920 place. Glory be to God. 274 00:15:15,920 --> 00:15:18,880 I feel the anointing of the Holy Ghost in this place. 275 00:15:19,160 --> 00:15:20,200 Oh, Hallelujah. Come on. 276 00:15:20,200 --> 00:15:22,800 Shit. We have to got to go all the way 277 00:15:22,800 --> 00:15:24,760 in. We've got to get in the secret 278 00:15:24,760 --> 00:15:28,560 place. Get soaked, get saturated, get 279 00:15:28,560 --> 00:15:30,800 the oil, get oily. Come on, get oily. 280 00:15:31,520 --> 00:15:33,880 We, we soak in the Princess, we get the weather. 281 00:15:33,880 --> 00:15:38,760 The Holy Ghost, the Princess of God, Jesus said Matthew 6 verse 282 00:15:38,760 --> 00:15:42,360 6. But you when you pray, go into 283 00:15:42,360 --> 00:15:46,080 your room and when you have shut your door, pray to your Father 284 00:15:46,520 --> 00:15:51,320 who is in the secret place, and your father who sees in secret 285 00:15:51,400 --> 00:15:55,640 will reward you openly. I mean, somebody that's a secret 286 00:15:55,640 --> 00:16:01,160 place, the secret place, that's where the oil flows, the secret 287 00:16:01,160 --> 00:16:03,960 place, that's where the flavour flows. 288 00:16:04,400 --> 00:16:07,960 Don't skip the secret place. The enemy will try to do 289 00:16:07,960 --> 00:16:10,520 everything to pull you out of the secret place with 290 00:16:10,520 --> 00:16:15,120 destructions, OK? Mobile phones, social media 291 00:16:15,360 --> 00:16:19,760 busyness, trying to wear us down through discouragement to get 292 00:16:19,760 --> 00:16:22,600 out of the secret. Listen, The secret place, that's 293 00:16:22,600 --> 00:16:26,600 one of my principal, my first I that's the first thing I do when 294 00:16:26,600 --> 00:16:30,800 I wake up in the morning. I get in the secret place before 295 00:16:30,800 --> 00:16:33,200 I see anybody. Before breakfast. 296 00:16:33,480 --> 00:16:37,000 Come on before coffee. That's the very first thing I do 297 00:16:37,000 --> 00:16:40,720 is I get in the secret place. First secret place. 298 00:16:41,400 --> 00:16:45,560 If you make the secret place your first place, favour will 299 00:16:45,560 --> 00:16:48,920 follow you in every other place. My God, I feel the Hallelujah. 300 00:16:53,080 --> 00:16:55,320 That is my secret, the secret place. 301 00:16:55,960 --> 00:16:59,360 I tell you, you get in that secret place and the well, 302 00:16:59,360 --> 00:17:02,400 you've sucked that well, the pressures of God and you walk 303 00:17:02,400 --> 00:17:06,040 out there. Bird is lifted, chains broken 304 00:17:06,040 --> 00:17:09,440 off you, you feel uplifted because you've had time with a 305 00:17:09,440 --> 00:17:15,240 king, that flavour is all over. You get saturated, get soaked. 306 00:17:16,160 --> 00:17:19,520 Spending time. That's what I in the secret 307 00:17:19,520 --> 00:17:21,599 place. I make time for that, sit at the 308 00:17:21,599 --> 00:17:25,240 feet of Jesus. I go for nature walks, talk to 309 00:17:25,240 --> 00:17:29,240 the Lord. That is key somebody so public 310 00:17:29,240 --> 00:17:33,480 favour always follows the private time, private 311 00:17:33,480 --> 00:17:38,000 faithfulness with the Lord. Look at Joyce Meyer before the 312 00:17:38,000 --> 00:17:41,080 millions of people, before the crowds, before the platforms, 313 00:17:41,240 --> 00:17:45,600 before the 1st. A small group of Bible study in 314 00:17:45,600 --> 00:17:49,440 allows in the living room. Joyce Meyer before the big 315 00:17:49,440 --> 00:17:54,360 crowds in her home. Sounds like reading Home group. 316 00:17:55,200 --> 00:17:59,440 Yeah, small Bible study group. Yeah, it's happening. 317 00:18:00,520 --> 00:18:02,680 OK. No crown that she was just a 318 00:18:02,960 --> 00:18:06,280 Joyce, my small group. No applause, no cameras, just 319 00:18:06,280 --> 00:18:08,200 faithfulness. She did not need the spotlight, 320 00:18:08,200 --> 00:18:10,240 Joyce, my city. She just needed the secret 321 00:18:10,240 --> 00:18:13,840 place. That one-on-one time before she 322 00:18:13,840 --> 00:18:18,200 stood before the nations. She stood before God privately, 323 00:18:18,680 --> 00:18:25,720 Privately one-on-one with the King before the nations that 324 00:18:25,720 --> 00:18:32,040 one-on-one time and we see this year heaven was preparing Joyce 325 00:18:32,040 --> 00:18:37,200 Meyer while she was sharing in her home, handful of people 326 00:18:37,600 --> 00:18:42,680 sharing heaven was preparing and so the time was right. 327 00:18:43,440 --> 00:18:48,960 Fable found her don't despise small beginnings that one-on-one 328 00:18:48,960 --> 00:18:51,680 time with the Lord. That's the number one before 329 00:18:51,680 --> 00:18:56,240 ministry, before, before Job, before the his number one 330 00:18:56,240 --> 00:18:59,920 church. He deserves our time. 331 00:19:01,280 --> 00:19:03,400 Now I'm a morning person. I get up first thing in the 332 00:19:03,400 --> 00:19:05,440 morning and I'm out. I go sit by the lake and I talk 333 00:19:05,440 --> 00:19:07,600 to him. And you have a conversation with 334 00:19:07,600 --> 00:19:09,360 the Lord and you spend time in the second. 335 00:19:09,520 --> 00:19:11,680 Your secret place can be anywhere. 336 00:19:11,680 --> 00:19:14,080 You find a place alone. Yeah. 337 00:19:14,480 --> 00:19:16,800 I have to get out of the house because I've got three children 338 00:19:16,800 --> 00:19:21,320 and three kids are very busy. So I get up real early when the 339 00:19:21,320 --> 00:19:25,000 sun comes up and I see the deer, I see the nature, I listen to 340 00:19:25,000 --> 00:19:29,080 nature and I spend time with a king one-on-one time. 341 00:19:30,160 --> 00:19:33,760 Don't skip the secret place. Now, maybe you are in a quiet 342 00:19:33,760 --> 00:19:35,120 season. Maybe you're in a quiet. 343 00:19:35,200 --> 00:19:36,000 Am I still on? Yeah. 344 00:19:36,800 --> 00:19:44,800 I don't know, treat this or not. So I got this all test 1-2. 345 00:19:45,600 --> 00:19:48,600 OK, we're back. So maybe you're in a season. 346 00:19:48,600 --> 00:19:52,600 And what the season that you in? You are raising children, 347 00:19:53,280 --> 00:19:56,320 raising your babies, changing nappies, clocking into a job, a 348 00:19:56,320 --> 00:19:59,040 job that doesn't feel very spiritual, OK? 349 00:20:00,120 --> 00:20:02,520 You are serving behind the scenes in the background, 350 00:20:02,600 --> 00:20:06,360 serving, giving, praying when no one notices. 351 00:20:06,840 --> 00:20:13,280 But God notices, God sees, OK. And So what looks like ordinary 352 00:20:13,280 --> 00:20:18,320 every day down here is being recorded what seems like 353 00:20:18,320 --> 00:20:21,400 ordinary everyday jobs. What we is being recorded in 354 00:20:21,400 --> 00:20:23,240 heaven. OK. 355 00:20:24,240 --> 00:20:28,080 And so heaven is watching what we are doing in the season. 356 00:20:28,240 --> 00:20:31,720 Heaven is watching how and what you are stewarding in the 357 00:20:31,720 --> 00:20:34,520 season, how you steward what you're doing. 358 00:20:34,720 --> 00:20:39,720 And the same God who prepared Esther to stand before a king, 359 00:20:40,480 --> 00:20:46,160 the same God is preparing you to stand into an A place of 360 00:20:46,480 --> 00:20:50,320 influence. God is preparing you to stand in 361 00:20:50,320 --> 00:20:53,560 a place of influence, whether it's in the government, in the 362 00:20:53,560 --> 00:20:58,240 politics, where the the days and swear level of influence that 363 00:20:58,240 --> 00:21:03,480 God gives, he's preparing you to stand before people of 364 00:21:03,480 --> 00:21:05,840 influence. OK, in a place of influence, I 365 00:21:05,840 --> 00:21:10,120 mean, and so I want to show you this in let's go to chapter 5. 366 00:21:11,520 --> 00:21:13,160 Is the chapter 5? Is this OK? 367 00:21:13,160 --> 00:21:16,640 Are you getting something? OK, Can I teach this this for a 368 00:21:16,640 --> 00:21:18,200 bit? And then we'll go into preaching 369 00:21:18,200 --> 00:21:20,320 again because I just want us to get this. 370 00:21:20,800 --> 00:21:25,960 Let's go to the next one. Yes, because I want you to see 371 00:21:25,960 --> 00:21:26,800 this. Just powerful. 372 00:21:26,800 --> 00:21:28,200 Now, let me just give you the background. 373 00:21:28,200 --> 00:21:29,880 So, Esther, this is where we are. 374 00:21:29,880 --> 00:21:34,280 She had been prepared. But then after the preparation, 375 00:21:34,840 --> 00:21:37,960 there comes a time where the preparation has to become 376 00:21:37,960 --> 00:21:39,640 activation, right? OK. 377 00:21:40,280 --> 00:21:44,240 And so then she couldn't just stay silent anymore and just sit 378 00:21:44,240 --> 00:21:48,360 back and say maybe later. No, she had to take action. 379 00:21:48,920 --> 00:21:51,520 OK. And that's what is the day. 380 00:21:51,560 --> 00:21:56,040 OK, So there's a moment in your life when you have to step up 381 00:21:56,160 --> 00:21:58,040 into what you have been born for. 382 00:21:58,440 --> 00:22:00,400 I mean. And so that's what she did. 383 00:22:00,600 --> 00:22:05,160 And she stepped out with full courage with boulders through a 384 00:22:05,160 --> 00:22:09,640 time of preparation, soaking in the well, prayer and fasting. 385 00:22:09,640 --> 00:22:11,160 Thank God for prayer and fasting. 386 00:22:11,160 --> 00:22:13,120 How powerful it is and we're going to be so doing some 387 00:22:13,120 --> 00:22:15,400 fasting as well. It's powerful when we put some 388 00:22:15,400 --> 00:22:17,560 meals aside. It's very powerful starts 389 00:22:17,560 --> 00:22:19,800 keeping breakfast. God people, if God puts on your 390 00:22:19,800 --> 00:22:22,520 heart fast one day 230. She fasted for three days. 391 00:22:22,840 --> 00:22:26,520 How powerful is that When we start fasting, Oh my God, 392 00:22:26,520 --> 00:22:28,920 there's some deeper levels we breakthrough when we start 393 00:22:28,920 --> 00:22:31,240 fasting. How many of you are ready for 394 00:22:31,240 --> 00:22:33,080 some fasting? Put up your hand if you say yes, 395 00:22:33,080 --> 00:22:35,240 Lord can. Can I see your hands if you say 396 00:22:35,240 --> 00:22:38,240 you are committed for a season of fasting and prayer. 397 00:22:38,600 --> 00:22:41,680 OK, because church, I believe God is speaking to us when God 398 00:22:41,680 --> 00:22:43,600 is putting on your heart to fasten to pray. 399 00:22:43,880 --> 00:22:47,040 We go deeper. I mean and so that's what she 400 00:22:47,040 --> 00:22:50,960 did and she stepped in with full courage into the courts. 401 00:22:51,200 --> 00:22:55,760 Now the Bible says in Easter 51 on the third day knows after 402 00:22:55,760 --> 00:22:58,600 fasting put on her well robe. She stood in the inner quarter 403 00:22:58,600 --> 00:23:01,000 palace and in front of the King's hall. 404 00:23:01,000 --> 00:23:03,640 The king was sitting on his roof round in the hall, facing the 405 00:23:03,640 --> 00:23:06,080 entrance. When he saw Queen Esther 406 00:23:06,080 --> 00:23:08,480 standing in the court, he was pleased with her. 407 00:23:08,520 --> 00:23:13,400 There's the fighter and he held out her, the cold setter that 408 00:23:13,400 --> 00:23:18,560 was in his hand Now that setter, that means you're welcome, you 409 00:23:18,560 --> 00:23:23,760 have access, you have authority. The setter is a symbol of 410 00:23:23,760 --> 00:23:26,760 favour. Yeah, OK. 411 00:23:26,920 --> 00:23:30,880 The scepter represents what Jesus did for you on the cross 412 00:23:31,240 --> 00:23:34,440 when he, when he stretched out his hands on the cross and he 413 00:23:34,440 --> 00:23:38,600 said it is finished. That is your invitation to 414 00:23:38,600 --> 00:23:42,800 divine favor. That is your, that was, that's 415 00:23:42,800 --> 00:23:46,440 your invitation. That's your access into favor. 416 00:23:46,600 --> 00:23:49,440 That's your access when Jesus, that's your acts into the 417 00:23:49,440 --> 00:23:53,240 presence of God. Hallelujah, somebody praise God 418 00:23:53,240 --> 00:23:56,080 and I just love the fact that you know, I just read this the I 419 00:23:56,080 --> 00:23:57,680 don't know. I was like when I was preparing 420 00:23:57,680 --> 00:24:00,160 for this. I'm like Lord, this is amazing 421 00:24:00,160 --> 00:24:04,440 because then Esther and it's it's in the next verse. 422 00:24:05,280 --> 00:24:11,200 I love what she did. She walked up and she touched 423 00:24:11,200 --> 00:24:14,480 that sip that my God, I saw that woman with the issue of blood. 424 00:24:14,480 --> 00:24:17,280 She pressed through the crowds and she touched Jesus and Kong, 425 00:24:17,480 --> 00:24:20,680 she cuts him. She touched him, she touched 426 00:24:20,720 --> 00:24:22,600 him. Oh my God, that's the seven for 427 00:24:22,600 --> 00:24:24,400 another day. But I just want you to get that 428 00:24:24,520 --> 00:24:26,280 because the Bible says come boldly. 429 00:24:27,440 --> 00:24:30,360 She touched him. Oh my goodness. 430 00:24:30,360 --> 00:24:36,800 Hebrews 416. Then I put that in Hebrews 416. 431 00:24:39,200 --> 00:24:47,160 Let us then approach God's throne of grace with confidence. 432 00:24:47,280 --> 00:24:51,080 So we can't both lots of pizza are boldly with confidence, with 433 00:24:51,080 --> 00:24:54,280 full courage. We walk in there, listen like 434 00:24:54,280 --> 00:24:56,680 you belong because you belong there, OK? 435 00:24:56,680 --> 00:25:00,200 Not because of your perfection, but because of his blood. 436 00:25:01,000 --> 00:25:03,600 Hallelujah, somebody come on. It goes off his blood. 437 00:25:06,040 --> 00:25:11,720 And so when the king extended that sitter, he gave her 438 00:25:12,000 --> 00:25:18,080 permission, he granted access, and he gave her a voice because 439 00:25:18,080 --> 00:25:20,880 that's what fiber does. Fiber gives you a voice. 440 00:25:22,240 --> 00:25:25,200 Fiber doesn't just get you in the room. 441 00:25:26,400 --> 00:25:28,360 Fiber gives you a voice in the room. 442 00:25:28,880 --> 00:25:30,360 Yeah, that's it Gives you a vote. 443 00:25:30,480 --> 00:25:32,240 Yeah. Favour doesn't just open the 444 00:25:32,240 --> 00:25:36,040 door, but once you're in it, it gives you influence in it. 445 00:25:36,200 --> 00:25:37,480 It gives you influence in the room. 446 00:25:38,080 --> 00:25:40,120 That's what favour will do. It gives you a voice. 447 00:25:41,320 --> 00:25:45,640 I mean somebody. And so I prophesied today over 448 00:25:45,640 --> 00:25:50,120 you that God is rising up, man in weapon that will speak with a 449 00:25:50,120 --> 00:25:53,480 voice of authority. God is rising up, Estes, in this 450 00:25:53,480 --> 00:25:56,120 generation. People will speak with all this 451 00:25:56,120 --> 00:26:00,280 who will stand up, OK for freedom of speech in this 452 00:26:00,280 --> 00:26:02,920 country, in our nation. And we will stand in rise and we 453 00:26:02,920 --> 00:26:05,160 will not be silenced. We will stand up and we will 454 00:26:05,160 --> 00:26:07,360 speak. We will say what God says. 455 00:26:07,720 --> 00:26:10,960 We will be bold. Come on somebody, Hallelujah. 456 00:26:11,120 --> 00:26:14,200 We will speak with boldness. We will speak with the courage 457 00:26:14,200 --> 00:26:16,560 of God. We will stand up strong like 458 00:26:16,560 --> 00:26:20,480 Easter for such a time as this. I mean, yeah, when God is 459 00:26:20,480 --> 00:26:24,800 calling you to stand up, that's the moment God is calling people 460 00:26:24,800 --> 00:26:28,080 to rise up in this hour right now, to speak in boardrooms, to 461 00:26:28,080 --> 00:26:30,880 go speak in governments. God is raising people up to go 462 00:26:30,880 --> 00:26:34,960 and speak in classrooms, to go into hospitals, to speak. 463 00:26:36,440 --> 00:26:38,480 Yeah. To speak in offices, in the 464 00:26:38,480 --> 00:26:41,440 streets, outdoors are reaching out. 465 00:26:42,480 --> 00:26:45,160 You speak to stand up not because of fancy words or 466 00:26:45,160 --> 00:26:47,960 because we're eloquent of speech, no, but because of the 467 00:26:47,960 --> 00:26:49,880 hand of God is mighty upon your life. 468 00:26:50,040 --> 00:26:54,120 Come on somebody, It's not about an accent or a wages speak or 469 00:26:54,120 --> 00:26:56,640 eloquent of. It's about the hand of God is 470 00:26:56,640 --> 00:26:58,480 upon your life. The favour of God is upon your 471 00:26:58,480 --> 00:27:00,720 life. Hallelujah, praise God. 472 00:27:00,880 --> 00:27:05,400 And so Easter, she didn't just weigh that crown just to enjoy 473 00:27:05,400 --> 00:27:09,200 the luxury in the palace. She didn't just wear the crown 474 00:27:09,200 --> 00:27:12,920 just to enjoy the comforts of the palace. 475 00:27:13,200 --> 00:27:17,760 She didn't receive that that favour to sit and look pretty 476 00:27:17,760 --> 00:27:22,920 and sip from golden cups, OK? She was not called for comfort, 477 00:27:23,160 --> 00:27:29,360 she was chosen for a cause, OK? Listen, favour is not for flash, 478 00:27:29,680 --> 00:27:33,160 it's for function. It's not about status, it's 479 00:27:33,160 --> 00:27:36,040 about service. That's what it's about. 480 00:27:36,040 --> 00:27:39,960 And so this is what Esther understood that deep inside of 481 00:27:39,960 --> 00:27:42,560 us should have listened. This favor that is on my life 482 00:27:42,840 --> 00:27:45,680 isn't just for me to sit here in the palace and look fancy and 483 00:27:45,680 --> 00:27:48,840 pretty and all all bought it. It wasn't the status. 484 00:27:49,120 --> 00:27:52,480 The favor that she realized was on her life was to fulfil at the 485 00:27:52,480 --> 00:27:55,800 fine purpose. Somebody shot Hallelujah, That's 486 00:27:55,800 --> 00:27:57,920 where he was. The favor was for purpose right 487 00:27:57,920 --> 00:28:00,120 there. And because when God opens the 488 00:28:00,120 --> 00:28:04,360 door on your life, when God places favor on your life, it's 489 00:28:04,360 --> 00:28:07,760 not just for your own benefit. But if this was somebody else's 490 00:28:07,760 --> 00:28:11,000 breakthrough, that's the reason. The favour of God, for some to 491 00:28:11,000 --> 00:28:14,720 lift others are to rescue other people, somebody else, 492 00:28:14,720 --> 00:28:16,880 Hallelujah. Look at Latisha Wright, 493 00:28:18,120 --> 00:28:22,280 Hollywood actress, award winner. She did not bend down to the 494 00:28:22,280 --> 00:28:27,280 pressure of that industry. She as an actress in Hollywood, 495 00:28:27,280 --> 00:28:31,040 she did not bow down to that industry or compromise her 496 00:28:31,040 --> 00:28:33,480 faith. She kept her faith and God 497 00:28:33,480 --> 00:28:36,720 opened the door and she uses that platform in the Hollywood 498 00:28:36,840 --> 00:28:40,640 to preach Jesus to the world. She pray and millions of young 499 00:28:40,640 --> 00:28:44,640 people have heard the gospel because of one woman said I will 500 00:28:44,640 --> 00:28:48,320 not be silent even if Hollywood tells me keep it to yourself 501 00:28:48,560 --> 00:28:52,080 because that's what she did and she even declined some roles, 502 00:28:52,320 --> 00:28:54,840 acting roles because of her ethics and her beliefs. 503 00:28:55,200 --> 00:28:58,480 That is bothers. One woman said, I refuse to be 504 00:28:58,480 --> 00:29:01,120 silent and they say you got to keep it to yourself, which is I 505 00:29:01,120 --> 00:29:05,080 will refuse to be silent. They are not going to shut us 506 00:29:05,080 --> 00:29:06,360 up. Church is not the time to be 507 00:29:06,360 --> 00:29:09,360 silent. We got a rise in bothers, 508 00:29:10,160 --> 00:29:12,760 Hallelujah. And so let me know. 509 00:29:12,880 --> 00:29:17,240 Listen, you don't need a mic to have an impact. 510 00:29:17,440 --> 00:29:19,280 You don't need a microphone to have an impact. 511 00:29:19,360 --> 00:29:22,680 Listen, your office is your pulpit, your prisoners. 512 00:29:22,680 --> 00:29:26,440 That's your mission field. The people you're talking to 513 00:29:26,440 --> 00:29:28,280 every day. That's your mission field. 514 00:29:28,560 --> 00:29:30,960 OK. The classroom, the hospital 515 00:29:30,960 --> 00:29:34,080 ward, the cafe that is your palace. 516 00:29:34,840 --> 00:29:36,400 Hallelujah. You understand what I'm saying? 517 00:29:36,400 --> 00:29:41,280 Just because you have been placed there in the office, out 518 00:29:41,280 --> 00:29:44,120 in the world, you have been placed there for such a time as 519 00:29:44,120 --> 00:29:47,080 this. Yes, it's for such a time as 520 00:29:47,080 --> 00:29:49,560 this. Somebody now it's the 414. 521 00:29:49,800 --> 00:29:51,440 It says one of the famous verses. 522 00:29:51,440 --> 00:29:56,680 And who knows but that you have come to your royal position for 523 00:29:56,680 --> 00:30:02,280 such a time as this. Easter wasn't crowned to wear a 524 00:30:02,280 --> 00:30:05,360 robe and just to look. Britain, enjoy the conference of 525 00:30:05,640 --> 00:30:08,600 OK. She was crowned to rescue a 526 00:30:08,600 --> 00:30:13,120 nation, to save a nation. You have been favoured in your 527 00:30:13,120 --> 00:30:16,000 job today. God has opened that job for a 528 00:30:16,000 --> 00:30:19,840 purpose. My God, when I worked in Bristol 529 00:30:19,840 --> 00:30:23,560 and I was a manager, retirement manager, I said, God, I had such 530 00:30:23,560 --> 00:30:27,600 wonderful opportunities. My office was my deputy manager. 531 00:30:27,600 --> 00:30:31,720 That was my pulpit. It started there before even, 532 00:30:31,720 --> 00:30:35,160 yeah, long before really, I was sitting down in my days ministry 533 00:30:35,160 --> 00:30:39,680 to people, to some of the wealthiest elderly people in the 534 00:30:39,680 --> 00:30:41,840 UK. Check it out to Monica Trust. 535 00:30:42,840 --> 00:30:45,040 It's a retirement, one of the most affluent retirement 536 00:30:45,040 --> 00:30:47,000 villages in the UK. There's a 10 year waiting list. 537 00:30:47,200 --> 00:30:48,360 I was the first point of contact. 538 00:30:48,520 --> 00:30:52,120 I had opportunity to share the gospel with the most incredible, 539 00:30:52,200 --> 00:30:56,720 wealthiest people and God saw that God's like, what are you 540 00:30:56,720 --> 00:30:58,760 doing with the opportunity that's right in front of you 541 00:30:59,400 --> 00:31:02,800 with that disk right there. And so now let's not forget 542 00:31:02,800 --> 00:31:07,120 about Mordecai. It's this cousin, because he was 543 00:31:07,120 --> 00:31:11,400 a faithful, honourable man and he raised Easter and you know 544 00:31:11,400 --> 00:31:16,680 Mordecai, he saw and he overheard the enemy's black and 545 00:31:16,680 --> 00:31:19,720 he was full of faithfulness and integrity. 546 00:31:19,920 --> 00:31:24,920 And while Heyman plotted wicked skin, there's Mordecai. 547 00:31:25,360 --> 00:31:28,680 Now listen, it looked like Heyman with his wicked skin to 548 00:31:28,680 --> 00:31:30,600 destroy God's people. It looked like he was, he had 549 00:31:30,680 --> 00:31:33,880 all the power. Let me just tell you, God is 550 00:31:33,880 --> 00:31:37,320 still in control. God is still in control. 551 00:31:38,520 --> 00:31:41,840 OK. And the king, you know the story 552 00:31:41,840 --> 00:31:46,120 how he had a sleepless night. I love how God used the 553 00:31:46,120 --> 00:31:51,480 sleepless night, how God used insomnia and he shifted the 554 00:31:51,480 --> 00:31:55,080 entire situation. You know the story the king read 555 00:31:55,080 --> 00:32:01,200 about Mordecai tantapages. Oh, and he read about the kind 556 00:32:01,200 --> 00:32:05,640 act of royalty that Mordecai and the king himself realized. 557 00:32:06,080 --> 00:32:11,160 Mordecai has not been rewarded. And like that overnight. 558 00:32:11,480 --> 00:32:15,040 Mordecai, somebody that's been overlooked sitting at the gate 559 00:32:15,040 --> 00:32:19,440 outside, like I forgot. God promoted over his enemy 560 00:32:19,520 --> 00:32:21,360 over. Hey, man, come on. 561 00:32:21,840 --> 00:32:23,640 Come on, somebody. Hallelujah. 562 00:32:23,880 --> 00:32:26,840 That's the kind of a reversal that God can only pull off. 563 00:32:27,240 --> 00:32:28,360 OK? Come on. 564 00:32:28,360 --> 00:32:31,200 So don't stress when it feels like you've been ignored. 565 00:32:31,760 --> 00:32:35,160 Don't stress or panic when you've not been recognized or 566 00:32:35,160 --> 00:32:37,800 you feel overlooked or you're not getting the credit because 567 00:32:37,800 --> 00:32:40,000 God sees. And let me tell you something 568 00:32:40,000 --> 00:32:41,840 about God that ties in with the story. 569 00:32:41,920 --> 00:32:44,040 God never sleeps. God never slumbers. 570 00:32:44,200 --> 00:32:46,880 God is working. It never start working. 571 00:32:47,480 --> 00:32:49,960 Thank God he's up in his way like well, we actually. 572 00:32:49,960 --> 00:32:53,720 God is planning a good future. He's planning your reward. 573 00:32:53,880 --> 00:32:57,280 Your Mordecai moment is coming. Your moment of promotion is 574 00:32:57,280 --> 00:32:59,760 coming. The king is turning the page at 575 00:32:59,760 --> 00:33:03,120 your moment. God is the reward is coming. 576 00:33:03,120 --> 00:33:05,840 Your reward is coming. Somebody shout Hallelujah, 577 00:33:05,880 --> 00:33:07,640 baseball. That's right. 578 00:33:07,640 --> 00:33:09,560 Just stay faithful. Just stay humble. 579 00:33:09,560 --> 00:33:12,440 Just stay obedient. Your mammoth is coming. 580 00:33:12,640 --> 00:33:14,440 And so listen, this is where it now gets. 581 00:33:14,440 --> 00:33:16,600 I want to show you this because the way the rubber hits are out 582 00:33:16,600 --> 00:33:20,200 where Esther had to make the decision, am I going to stay 583 00:33:20,200 --> 00:33:22,880 silent and just hash it under the carpet? 584 00:33:22,880 --> 00:33:27,080 Am I just going to shrink back because Monarch has just dropped 585 00:33:27,080 --> 00:33:30,080 the bomb on me? He just told me the enemy's 586 00:33:30,080 --> 00:33:31,560 plans. Am I just going to ignore it? 587 00:33:32,640 --> 00:33:35,320 Am I going to shrink back and just enjoy the luxury of his 588 00:33:35,320 --> 00:33:42,920 palace or am I going to risk it all and it's going to cost it 589 00:33:42,920 --> 00:33:51,320 will be a it gets she knew it. Am I going to risk it all loser 590 00:33:51,680 --> 00:33:54,280 and fulfill my assignment? So that's your choice. 591 00:33:54,280 --> 00:33:59,760 Am I going to stay silent or And I'm going to speak up and step 592 00:33:59,760 --> 00:34:03,720 out boldly. And you know, Mordecai, you 593 00:34:03,720 --> 00:34:07,040 didn't sugarcoat it. He told her the truth. 594 00:34:07,040 --> 00:34:11,480 But in love he said, listen, Esther, if you are going to stay 595 00:34:11,480 --> 00:34:17,880 silent in this moment, first of all, God will find help 596 00:34:17,880 --> 00:34:20,719 somewhere else. And that is a shocking, sobering 597 00:34:20,719 --> 00:34:24,960 warning for us. If we don't go out and reach 598 00:34:24,960 --> 00:34:28,719 this, the lost God will find somebody else. 599 00:34:29,080 --> 00:34:32,199 If we don't go to the Peel Centre, if we don't reach out to 600 00:34:32,199 --> 00:34:37,199 where we are, God will get the job done and he will find 601 00:34:37,199 --> 00:34:39,040 somebody. If it's now when it comes to 602 00:34:39,040 --> 00:34:41,920 giving, if God is putting on your heart to give, to show, to 603 00:34:41,920 --> 00:34:46,440 minister, to reach out, to pray for somebody, if we don't, God 604 00:34:46,440 --> 00:34:48,520 will find somebody, he won't get the job done. 605 00:34:49,159 --> 00:34:51,719 OK, God is God, he's your so unlike Lord. 606 00:34:51,760 --> 00:34:54,400 What a sobering fault. Please, I don't want to message 607 00:34:54,400 --> 00:34:55,679 because this is what Mordecai told me. 608 00:34:55,679 --> 00:34:57,120 He said this. And if you're going to be silent 609 00:34:57,120 --> 00:34:59,960 right now, help will come for because God will always protect 610 00:34:59,960 --> 00:35:04,560 his people. But he said to her, Esther, you 611 00:35:04,560 --> 00:35:07,040 will miss out, you and your family will perish. 612 00:35:07,840 --> 00:35:10,200 That is sobering. That's hard, real hard talk. 613 00:35:10,280 --> 00:35:15,400 OK, the truth, but in love. And I want I want you to read 614 00:35:15,400 --> 00:35:19,520 this because it reminds me, you know, God revealed to Catherine 615 00:35:19,520 --> 00:35:21,360 Kuhlman she was not his first choice. 616 00:35:22,080 --> 00:35:26,840 God had already asked 3-4 other guys to take on the healing 617 00:35:26,840 --> 00:35:28,520 ministry and they all declined it. 618 00:35:29,160 --> 00:35:31,920 When God came to Katherine Kuhlman because she knew it's 619 00:35:31,920 --> 00:35:34,640 going to cost her everything. It's going to cost her because 620 00:35:34,760 --> 00:35:37,840 we have to die to the flesh. It's going to cost everything. 621 00:35:38,480 --> 00:35:41,760 Katherine Kuhlman, she received that healing in the same. 622 00:35:41,760 --> 00:35:46,240 It is that healing anointing. So the other said no. 623 00:35:46,240 --> 00:35:47,760 So God's like, I've got to find somebody else. 624 00:35:47,760 --> 00:35:49,240 OK, Now I'm going to come to this person. 625 00:35:49,440 --> 00:35:50,960 Do you want a healing ministry? Can I? 626 00:35:51,360 --> 00:35:53,160 No, I'm going to go to this person. 627 00:35:53,240 --> 00:35:55,640 But God will get the job done because they're sick people that 628 00:35:55,640 --> 00:35:58,240 needs to be healed. And he dropped on a woman who 629 00:35:58,240 --> 00:36:03,920 said, oh, the Holy Spirit. Catherine Kuhlman grabbed that 630 00:36:03,920 --> 00:36:07,720 anointing. What many others said no, God 631 00:36:07,720 --> 00:36:10,440 will come to you and he will ask you and he will give you. 632 00:36:10,440 --> 00:36:14,280 He said this is your moment, this is your time, Are you going 633 00:36:14,280 --> 00:36:18,320 to do it yes or no? And we are available. 634 00:36:19,640 --> 00:36:24,760 I don't want God to bypass us to find somebody else because the 635 00:36:24,760 --> 00:36:29,880 end time harvest will come in. OK, now watch this because this 636 00:36:29,880 --> 00:36:32,600 is very sobering. It says, for if you remain 637 00:36:32,600 --> 00:36:38,560 silent at this time, relief and deliverance for the Jews will 638 00:36:38,560 --> 00:36:42,560 arise from another place, but you and your father's family 639 00:36:42,560 --> 00:36:46,760 will perish. And who knows but that you have 640 00:36:46,760 --> 00:36:50,800 come to your royal position for such a time as this. 641 00:36:52,440 --> 00:36:56,760 OK, so he dropped the bombshell on Easter and he said this in 642 00:36:56,760 --> 00:37:00,240 Easter. Don't become so comfortable in 643 00:37:00,240 --> 00:37:02,840 your life. Don't become so comfortable in 644 00:37:02,840 --> 00:37:06,160 this luxury, this good life here in the palace that you actually 645 00:37:06,160 --> 00:37:12,480 forget what's your purpose, OK? Don't think that this moment is 646 00:37:12,480 --> 00:37:15,560 random. Don't think that you are just 647 00:37:15,560 --> 00:37:18,280 here by accident, OK? You notice your vibes. 648 00:37:18,440 --> 00:37:20,160 You have been placed this an Ester. 649 00:37:20,160 --> 00:37:25,080 You have been placed here by heaven for such a time as this. 650 00:37:25,440 --> 00:37:29,280 Come on, somebody listen. That's the work that I want to 651 00:37:29,280 --> 00:37:32,920 release over you today, That this favor is not random. 652 00:37:33,080 --> 00:37:35,480 It's not a coincidence. It's not an accident. 653 00:37:35,560 --> 00:37:36,800 OK. That the. 654 00:37:36,960 --> 00:37:38,360 You'll notice. Yeah. 655 00:37:38,400 --> 00:37:40,920 By chance, you are. Yeah. 656 00:37:41,080 --> 00:37:45,000 Destined by God. God's design, God's choosing, 657 00:37:45,280 --> 00:37:48,680 that's why you are here for such a time as who knows that you 658 00:37:48,680 --> 00:37:52,040 have come to your position, to your job, to your family, your 659 00:37:52,040 --> 00:37:55,840 neighborhood, your place of influence for such a time as 660 00:37:55,840 --> 00:37:56,960 this. OK? 661 00:37:57,160 --> 00:37:59,800 So listen church, this is a sobering warning. 662 00:37:59,920 --> 00:38:02,720 Don't miss it, OK? Don't 3 back. 663 00:38:02,720 --> 00:38:06,760 Don't silence your voice when God asks you to rise and shine 664 00:38:07,360 --> 00:38:11,640 and speak up and tell the world about the Lord because God don't 665 00:38:11,640 --> 00:38:16,480 want us to three back because he's placed you in that position 666 00:38:16,640 --> 00:38:20,200 to shine, OK? He's placed something on your 667 00:38:20,200 --> 00:38:23,320 life that he wants to release through you into the lives of 668 00:38:23,320 --> 00:38:25,720 others, OK? So that favour that's on your 669 00:38:25,720 --> 00:38:28,480 life, that blessing, that's on your life, OK? 670 00:38:28,480 --> 00:38:30,960 It's not just for you, but it's for somebody else's miracle. 671 00:38:31,600 --> 00:38:33,480 It's also for somebody else to lift others up. 672 00:38:34,280 --> 00:38:38,080 Amen. So let me talk to you about to 673 00:38:38,080 --> 00:38:40,160 somebody who's been asking about your calling. 674 00:38:42,360 --> 00:38:44,040 Why am I here? What am I supposed to do? 675 00:38:44,040 --> 00:38:46,760 What's my purpose, the calling that God has placed my 676 00:38:46,760 --> 00:38:48,680 assignment. If you've been struggling and 677 00:38:48,680 --> 00:38:51,360 asking God about purpose and you've been wrestling about 678 00:38:51,360 --> 00:38:55,440 direction, one of the ways that God will reveal your assignment 679 00:38:55,680 --> 00:38:59,600 is look where he the areas where he's already given you 680 00:38:59,600 --> 00:39:03,560 influence. Looking around in your life 681 00:39:03,560 --> 00:39:06,880 where he's already opened the door, where he's already given 682 00:39:06,880 --> 00:39:10,160 you a job, a situation, a person, that relationship is 683 00:39:10,160 --> 00:39:13,360 already open. That that is look where God has 684 00:39:13,360 --> 00:39:16,720 given you opportunities. What God keeps on putting in 685 00:39:16,720 --> 00:39:18,920 your hand those opportunities, those gifts. 686 00:39:19,080 --> 00:39:23,560 Look at that places of influence, that places of favour 687 00:39:23,680 --> 00:39:26,640 because those people in your life, those job opportunities, 688 00:39:26,640 --> 00:39:28,720 those say that's not coincidence. 689 00:39:29,200 --> 00:39:34,080 OK, that is divine confirmation, that is direction. 690 00:39:34,080 --> 00:39:37,840 So just look where God has got you, the place that he's given 691 00:39:37,840 --> 00:39:41,280 you right there, OK? Even is the she realized that 692 00:39:41,280 --> 00:39:43,760 this is the very place that I am in, right in the palace. 693 00:39:43,760 --> 00:39:46,640 Goddess. I mean, I from an orphan to a 694 00:39:46,640 --> 00:39:52,880 queen and she's a foreigner and God put her in the palace. 695 00:39:53,120 --> 00:39:57,120 She realized the place where God has placed me, this that's where 696 00:39:57,120 --> 00:39:59,480 God wants to use me. Amen. 697 00:40:00,560 --> 00:40:04,920 No, I remember one of our very first members going back now 7-8 698 00:40:04,920 --> 00:40:06,880 years when we started the church, OK. 699 00:40:08,440 --> 00:40:10,920 I've always used the opportunities that God has given 700 00:40:10,920 --> 00:40:13,240 me. When it wasn't sports, I would 701 00:40:13,240 --> 00:40:14,640 pray. We like, listen guys, you're 702 00:40:14,640 --> 00:40:16,080 going to play rugby now let's pray. 703 00:40:16,480 --> 00:40:20,360 When I would coach tenors, I say to the kids, listen, OK, let's 704 00:40:20,360 --> 00:40:23,560 just let's pray every opportunity I get. 705 00:40:23,880 --> 00:40:27,560 And so we were out in the park, we talk about Jesus and these 706 00:40:27,560 --> 00:40:28,880 guys listen. Why don't you come and join us 707 00:40:28,880 --> 00:40:31,440 for rugby? And so I played rugby and I had 708 00:40:31,440 --> 00:40:33,760 this conversation with this one guy in the rugby and the leading 709 00:40:33,760 --> 00:40:35,080 to the Lord. I got on fire for God. 710 00:40:35,080 --> 00:40:37,520 It was our first judge member. Listen, Ma, that also really my 711 00:40:37,520 --> 00:40:39,760 pulpit, OK? My pulpit is not just younger 712 00:40:39,760 --> 00:40:42,000 son wherever I go, it's just it flows. 713 00:40:42,160 --> 00:40:43,720 You cannot stop what's on my life. 714 00:40:43,720 --> 00:40:46,720 You cannot stop it, OK, I'm in a grocery store in the park, 715 00:40:46,720 --> 00:40:49,920 wherever I am and sounds like listen, you have to be so bold. 716 00:40:49,920 --> 00:40:53,760 I'm like, Lord, sometimes you know, I I cannot stop, but to 717 00:40:53,760 --> 00:40:58,440 share, OK and talk to people. It flats out of me, OK, wherever 718 00:40:58,440 --> 00:41:00,720 I am, OK. And Pastor Miss Charlotte, this 719 00:41:00,720 --> 00:41:03,560 is we would go on holiday and we would just speak about the Lord 720 00:41:03,560 --> 00:41:06,400 because that's who we are, OK? We are not secret agents hiding 721 00:41:06,800 --> 00:41:10,000 somewhere in a closet the way I am, not ashamed of the gospel, 722 00:41:10,000 --> 00:41:12,240 OK, Somebody rejects me. I know it's not personal. 723 00:41:12,640 --> 00:41:14,840 OK, so that's already my pulpit right there. 724 00:41:14,840 --> 00:41:17,560 I'm like, OK, God, I'm not going to wait for Sunday for church. 725 00:41:17,560 --> 00:41:20,160 I'm going to go play rugby. That's my pulpit, right? 726 00:41:20,160 --> 00:41:23,680 There's the first person and he got so on fire now he was 727 00:41:23,960 --> 00:41:25,480 working at a school. Yeah, I'm back now. 728 00:41:26,520 --> 00:41:29,800 And he, the fire got so powerful on him, he couldn't keep his 729 00:41:29,800 --> 00:41:33,600 mouth shut and he would be in the school amongst the students. 730 00:41:33,920 --> 00:41:37,440 And so he came to me. And so as a young Christian and 731 00:41:37,440 --> 00:41:40,080 so he asked me past the world, but what about my purpose and 732 00:41:40,080 --> 00:41:42,840 what about my calling now? Because I feel I'm so on fire 733 00:41:42,840 --> 00:41:46,920 and I mean it's all over him. But you know, I want to be more 734 00:41:46,920 --> 00:41:48,960 involved with like full time ministry. 735 00:41:48,960 --> 00:41:52,120 But now I feel like I'm stuck in this school job. 736 00:41:53,320 --> 00:41:56,240 So I prayed for him for direction, and something 737 00:41:56,240 --> 00:41:57,760 shifted. Something. 738 00:41:57,840 --> 00:42:04,280 Favor opened a door. The headmaster gave him 739 00:42:04,280 --> 00:42:07,640 permission to pray for the students in the classroom. 740 00:42:07,640 --> 00:42:10,440 OK, something, now we can. Oh my God, I've been anointing 741 00:42:10,440 --> 00:42:15,440 in this place right there in the school in the classroom, revival 742 00:42:15,440 --> 00:42:19,000 broke out students, children's hearts got touched, hearts got 743 00:42:19,000 --> 00:42:21,840 healed. Lives were changed in this, not 744 00:42:21,840 --> 00:42:25,400 in the pulpit, not on the Sunday church surface in the classroom 745 00:42:25,440 --> 00:42:28,200 in the school. OK, that's where it's happened. 746 00:42:28,520 --> 00:42:31,040 Listen to it. And he realized in that moment, 747 00:42:31,200 --> 00:42:34,960 what is this is my calling, this is my purpose. 748 00:42:35,160 --> 00:42:38,040 He's I I realized it. Listen, this is not just the 749 00:42:38,040 --> 00:42:42,280 truth. So that when he came that school 750 00:42:42,280 --> 00:42:48,200 job, that job like that, that's his pulpit, that's his calling, 751 00:42:49,000 --> 00:42:51,240 that's his assignment. And that's what he realized that 752 00:42:51,240 --> 00:42:55,560 that school hallway, that was holy ground right here. 753 00:42:55,840 --> 00:43:00,200 And so he had been placed in that school for such a time as 754 00:43:00,200 --> 00:43:04,440 this, in that job, and he got open the door to pray for the 755 00:43:04,440 --> 00:43:06,640 children. And he would come back with 756 00:43:06,640 --> 00:43:09,440 testimony himself every Sunday how God has touched the 757 00:43:09,440 --> 00:43:13,360 children. And so if God had placed you 758 00:43:13,360 --> 00:43:17,520 there, then that that's your, that's already sacred, that's 759 00:43:17,520 --> 00:43:19,280 holy ground, that's your assignment. 760 00:43:19,520 --> 00:43:22,160 Where you, that's your platform, that's your pulpit. 761 00:43:22,360 --> 00:43:26,120 Right there in the office, right there going to the grocery 762 00:43:26,120 --> 00:43:28,760 store, that's your pulpit. Walking amongst the grocery 763 00:43:28,760 --> 00:43:31,440 store, beating people in the park, walking past through the 764 00:43:31,440 --> 00:43:34,760 Lexicon shopping centre, right there, there is your pulpit. 765 00:43:34,760 --> 00:43:36,840 That's your assignment. Going to the Peel Centre, 766 00:43:36,920 --> 00:43:39,000 handing out for us, reaching out to community. 767 00:43:39,080 --> 00:43:42,600 That's your pulpit. That is I've realized speaking 768 00:43:42,600 --> 00:43:46,360 to your neighbor in the park, two people, that is holy ground, 769 00:43:46,360 --> 00:43:49,120 that is sacred. That's your assignment. 770 00:43:49,120 --> 00:43:52,160 Somebody you've been placed there to shine. 771 00:43:52,360 --> 00:43:54,400 And so Esther had to take the risk. 772 00:43:55,200 --> 00:44:00,600 She had to face fear. And she, I thank God she did not 773 00:44:00,600 --> 00:44:03,160 stay silent. Thank God I did not have to find 774 00:44:03,160 --> 00:44:05,160 somebody else. But he did it through Esther 775 00:44:06,400 --> 00:44:09,240 because she spoke up. She went to the king. 776 00:44:09,240 --> 00:44:11,920 She didn't play itself. And she stood out in boldness. 777 00:44:12,200 --> 00:44:16,320 And she just said it. And it's in the word, if I 778 00:44:16,320 --> 00:44:19,880 perish, I perish. And that's not a fierce, that's 779 00:44:19,880 --> 00:44:22,520 not fear talking. In fact, if I die, I die. 780 00:44:22,520 --> 00:44:25,400 That's that's boldness. That's actual boldness. 781 00:44:25,400 --> 00:44:27,360 Counting the cost, let's say it will cost me everything. 782 00:44:27,360 --> 00:44:31,480 I've been on tubes in London, in the trains, loud, without a 783 00:44:31,480 --> 00:44:33,880 speaker. I get up, I introduce myself and 784 00:44:33,880 --> 00:44:37,720 I say that's that there's about 5 minutes, you know the 785 00:44:37,720 --> 00:44:40,280 underground tubes and I would preach and we know how to preach 786 00:44:40,280 --> 00:44:43,760 the gospel and which I would tell them how Jesus loves you. 787 00:44:43,960 --> 00:44:46,000 I would look both ways and I'd preach the gospel. 788 00:44:46,120 --> 00:44:48,520 I'd get off bus station, train stations everywhere preach the 789 00:44:48,520 --> 00:44:50,240 gospel. I'm not ashamed of the gospel. 790 00:44:50,320 --> 00:44:53,200 I'm not ashamed because that's what we take to heaven with us 791 00:44:55,440 --> 00:44:59,720 because when God called me, I said this and I know if it will 792 00:44:59,720 --> 00:45:02,480 cost me because the guide was preached with me from Christ's 793 00:45:02,480 --> 00:45:04,480 forgiveness managed in Canada. He ended up in prison. 794 00:45:04,880 --> 00:45:07,920 They locked him up. I know that I said to my wife 795 00:45:07,920 --> 00:45:10,040 before Pastor Michelle, he said this is this is my fault. 796 00:45:10,200 --> 00:45:14,200 If I get erased it if I get listen, we count the cost. 797 00:45:14,680 --> 00:45:18,240 If we have to die, we die. The end is coming. 798 00:45:18,240 --> 00:45:21,160 We don't have long on this earth Church, we're not going to be 799 00:45:21,160 --> 00:45:23,680 here for long. We are living in the end days. 800 00:45:24,440 --> 00:45:26,640 I believe Jesus is coming back in this generation. 801 00:45:28,160 --> 00:45:30,800 So there's work to be done. And so God is going to mobilize 802 00:45:30,800 --> 00:45:33,320 each and every one of us. And I want you this week to 803 00:45:33,320 --> 00:45:34,760 spend time in the book of Esther. 804 00:45:35,120 --> 00:45:39,680 Let that fire come on you. Because listen, she knew if I 805 00:45:39,680 --> 00:45:41,280 perish, I fail. But she understood that her 806 00:45:41,280 --> 00:45:44,320 voice met it, that God has placed it in the palace for such 807 00:45:44,320 --> 00:45:47,640 a time as this. And your yes to God will always 808 00:45:47,640 --> 00:45:51,200 impact more than just you, because your obedience will 809 00:45:51,200 --> 00:45:54,160 touch somebody else. Somebody else's deliverance is 810 00:45:54,160 --> 00:45:57,600 tied to your obedience. OK? 811 00:45:58,000 --> 00:45:59,480 And so are you getting this somebody? 812 00:46:00,280 --> 00:46:02,320 Because I just want to go for this because go with me to 813 00:46:02,320 --> 00:46:08,040 Esther Chapter 9. Because listen Hammond, when he 814 00:46:08,040 --> 00:46:15,040 released that decree of death over God's people, OK, it looked 815 00:46:15,040 --> 00:46:21,280 like that everything was falling apart, that evil was stronger, 816 00:46:22,080 --> 00:46:25,240 evil was in charge. It looks like this is it for the 817 00:46:25,240 --> 00:46:27,560 for God's people. Their time has run out. 818 00:46:27,680 --> 00:46:31,120 OK, the evil 1 had the upper hand and God's people were 819 00:46:31,120 --> 00:46:35,320 outnumbered. But I just love this that God is 820 00:46:35,320 --> 00:46:39,360 always ahead of the enemy. Grab that into your spirit 821 00:46:39,360 --> 00:46:41,640 today. It says here in Esther 9 verse 822 00:46:41,640 --> 00:46:45,160 one, it says on this day the enemies of the Jews had hoped to 823 00:46:45,160 --> 00:46:49,480 overpower them, but now the tables were turned and the Jews 824 00:46:49,480 --> 00:46:51,720 got the upbeat over those who hated them. 825 00:46:51,720 --> 00:46:57,120 OK, now that's that's powerful. It says, and I want you to get 826 00:46:57,120 --> 00:47:00,520 back. The tables were turned. 827 00:47:02,600 --> 00:47:06,000 Get ready. Tables are about to be turned. 828 00:47:07,520 --> 00:47:10,760 Come on, somebody what's against you is going to be turned. 829 00:47:11,360 --> 00:47:13,480 What's been troubling you is going to be turned. 830 00:47:14,760 --> 00:47:16,680 What's this next translation? This is the NIV. 831 00:47:16,680 --> 00:47:20,160 What's this one? In the NKJV version, on the day 832 00:47:20,160 --> 00:47:23,640 that the enemies of the Jews had hoped so, the enemies hoped to 833 00:47:23,640 --> 00:47:27,320 overpower them, but they couldn't because the opposite 834 00:47:27,320 --> 00:47:31,720 occurred. Come on, somebody, the enemies 835 00:47:31,760 --> 00:47:35,160 thought the devil fault is going to crush God's people. 836 00:47:36,440 --> 00:47:39,640 It was flip. Just the opposite occurred. 837 00:47:40,760 --> 00:47:41,600 Just the opposite. Glory. 838 00:47:42,560 --> 00:47:46,080 What the enemy meant for evil, God turned it for good. 839 00:47:47,160 --> 00:47:51,200 That closed door is about to open wide. 840 00:47:51,360 --> 00:47:54,760 It's about to swing wide open. Just the opposite. 841 00:47:55,760 --> 00:47:57,920 I love that. Come on, somebody. 842 00:47:58,160 --> 00:48:01,560 It's going to be just the opposite of what it looks like. 843 00:48:03,360 --> 00:48:08,280 The very man Haman who tried to kill Esther's cousin Mordecai. 844 00:48:08,920 --> 00:48:12,680 OK, he skinned, He lied. He plotted. 845 00:48:12,880 --> 00:48:19,360 Haman, the guy who pulled the gallows to hang him high, What 846 00:48:19,360 --> 00:48:20,960 happened? Just the opposite. 847 00:48:22,520 --> 00:48:24,840 The gallows that he built for Mordecai. 848 00:48:25,120 --> 00:48:29,600 He ended up hanging himself. Please, somebody get this word 849 00:48:29,600 --> 00:48:32,720 today. The enemy ended up hanging 850 00:48:32,720 --> 00:48:35,560 himself. He planned to get to God's 851 00:48:35,560 --> 00:48:36,800 people. He planned to. 852 00:48:37,120 --> 00:48:39,040 He ended hamming on his own gallows. 853 00:48:40,480 --> 00:48:44,120 I'm here to tell you that the trip that whatever trap the 854 00:48:44,120 --> 00:48:47,280 enemy has set for you, he's going to fall into his own trap. 855 00:48:47,640 --> 00:48:49,360 Oh, my God. I want you to get this word. 856 00:48:49,600 --> 00:48:51,200 Come on, Somebody. Hallelujah. 857 00:48:52,520 --> 00:48:55,800 Whatever the enemy is planned against you or your family, he's 858 00:48:55,800 --> 00:48:58,320 going to foil his own trap. Oh, my God. 859 00:48:58,320 --> 00:49:00,800 I'll watch that. Tom and Jerry cartoons. 860 00:49:00,960 --> 00:49:03,520 And this cat always says this job for the mouse. 861 00:49:03,520 --> 00:49:05,240 But he is. I'm falling into his own traps. 862 00:49:06,160 --> 00:49:13,960 Yeah. Yeah, his own traps, the enemy's 863 00:49:13,960 --> 00:49:18,720 lies, accusations, plans, plots, whatever in the politics, 864 00:49:18,880 --> 00:49:21,880 whatever it is to try and form weapons against God's people. 865 00:49:21,880 --> 00:49:25,760 Listen, it's not going to work. Weapons may have been for. 866 00:49:25,760 --> 00:49:30,840 It's not going to work. The freights, the weapons, the 867 00:49:30,840 --> 00:49:32,680 allegations is not going to work. 868 00:49:33,040 --> 00:49:35,040 It's going to backfire on the enemy. 869 00:49:35,280 --> 00:49:40,200 It's going to fall in his ultra Psalm 50, it says you turned my 870 00:49:40,200 --> 00:49:42,960 morning into dancing. There is God turned it around. 871 00:49:42,960 --> 00:49:46,800 God turned the tables when God intervenes, He knows how to turn 872 00:49:46,800 --> 00:49:49,000 it around. He turned the tables. 873 00:49:49,160 --> 00:49:51,000 Tell your neighbor God turned the tables. 874 00:49:52,600 --> 00:49:57,520 God turned the tables and so yeah, Mordecai did, it is not 875 00:49:57,520 --> 00:50:01,080 just paid, but he was promoted over his enemy. 876 00:50:02,280 --> 00:50:04,880 His enemy Haman fell in his own trap. 877 00:50:05,120 --> 00:50:08,120 And so that is favour. That is a divide reversal. 878 00:50:08,240 --> 00:50:10,200 Come on, somebody that is turn around. 879 00:50:11,080 --> 00:50:15,720 And so I hear the Spirit of God is saying right now it's time 880 00:50:16,080 --> 00:50:19,520 for your turn around. You are next in line for a turn 881 00:50:19,520 --> 00:50:22,240 around. Now it might looks like the odds 882 00:50:22,240 --> 00:50:24,280 are against you. It might looks like the 883 00:50:24,280 --> 00:50:27,200 situation is impossible, but I'm yet to tell you that God is 884 00:50:27,200 --> 00:50:30,040 turning the tables. God is turning the tables. 885 00:50:30,640 --> 00:50:32,360 He's standing. Listen, God loves to turn the 886 00:50:32,360 --> 00:50:34,800 tables. He turns the tables. 887 00:50:34,800 --> 00:50:37,360 Yeah. And so instead she went from an 888 00:50:37,360 --> 00:50:41,600 orphan to Queen Mordecai from the gate, from the from the gate 889 00:50:41,720 --> 00:50:44,960 to the palace. And so God knows he's saying to 890 00:50:44,960 --> 00:50:47,880 you today that listen, my son and my daughter, I'm turning the 891 00:50:47,880 --> 00:50:49,680 tables. I'm turning the tables. 892 00:50:49,680 --> 00:50:51,360 That's what God is saying. That's what he's like. 893 00:50:51,360 --> 00:50:55,240 Listen, when fear says it's too late, you say, listen, I was 894 00:50:55,240 --> 00:51:00,960 born for such a time as this. The Hallelujah and let me 895 00:51:00,960 --> 00:51:05,520 prophecy over your life, the tables are turning and your 896 00:51:05,520 --> 00:51:08,600 family and your finances. The tables are turning in your 897 00:51:08,600 --> 00:51:10,200 health. The tables are turning in your 898 00:51:10,200 --> 00:51:12,800 children and your family and your marriage. 899 00:51:12,800 --> 00:51:16,320 The tables are turning and your career and your coworkers and 900 00:51:16,320 --> 00:51:18,600 your boss. Wherever you are in the offices, 901 00:51:18,680 --> 00:51:21,880 the tables are turning. The tables are turning for God's 902 00:51:21,880 --> 00:51:24,320 people. He's favorite of God's people. 903 00:51:25,040 --> 00:51:28,040 God is shifting the atmosphere. He's shifting the season, the 904 00:51:28,040 --> 00:51:30,400 climate. This time the tables are 905 00:51:30,400 --> 00:51:31,920 turning. In your finances, in your 906 00:51:31,920 --> 00:51:34,120 health. Hallelujah. 907 00:51:34,120 --> 00:51:36,920 If you grab hold of this word, your life will never be the same 908 00:51:36,920 --> 00:51:38,360 again. Somebody shot. 909 00:51:38,360 --> 00:51:41,320 The tables are turning. Come on, shout like you believe 910 00:51:41,320 --> 00:51:42,400 it. The tables are turning. 911 00:51:42,760 --> 00:51:45,440 The tables are turning. The tables are turning. 912 00:51:45,440 --> 00:51:47,960 Yes, Hallelujah. You've got some price. 913 00:51:47,960 --> 00:51:50,880 Somebody that is the God of reversal. 914 00:51:50,880 --> 00:51:53,320 Get ready. These reversals that's been 915 00:51:53,320 --> 00:51:56,400 released in your life, in your situation right now, in your 916 00:51:56,400 --> 00:51:58,720 career. And so as we come to the end of 917 00:51:58,720 --> 00:52:01,520 this message, favour releases victory. 918 00:52:02,720 --> 00:52:05,480 And that victory that it just blessed Esther's life, but it 919 00:52:05,480 --> 00:52:09,560 saved the nation. And so it says, chapter 8, verse 920 00:52:09,560 --> 00:52:12,120 16. For the Jews, it was a time of 921 00:52:12,120 --> 00:52:13,880 happiness and joy, gladness and honour. 922 00:52:14,480 --> 00:52:18,000 Every province, every city, the king kind, there was joy, 923 00:52:18,000 --> 00:52:20,080 gladness, money. We're feasting instead of the 924 00:52:20,080 --> 00:52:21,520 tables. Can you see that? 925 00:52:21,600 --> 00:52:25,600 That's what favour does. Favour brings victory. 926 00:52:26,440 --> 00:52:28,360 Yeah. And so I began with theatre and 927 00:52:28,360 --> 00:52:30,600 Feisty. What a turn around. 928 00:52:31,360 --> 00:52:34,840 And they walked out in victory. And so you might be in a hard 929 00:52:34,840 --> 00:52:36,920 place. You might be right in the middle 930 00:52:36,920 --> 00:52:39,600 of the battle right now. But this is not the end of your 931 00:52:39,600 --> 00:52:42,400 story. There is a new sound coming to 932 00:52:42,400 --> 00:52:44,440 your house right now. There's angels at your house. 933 00:52:44,560 --> 00:52:46,040 There is a new sound coming to your house. 934 00:52:46,040 --> 00:52:48,040 Come on, somebody. There's a new sound coming to 935 00:52:48,040 --> 00:52:49,640 your family. And it's the sound of 936 00:52:49,640 --> 00:52:51,720 celebration. It's the sound of Troy. 937 00:52:52,040 --> 00:52:54,640 It's the sound of feasting. It's the sound of victory. 938 00:52:54,640 --> 00:52:58,480 Somebody showed victory, victory, Hallelujah, victory. 939 00:52:58,680 --> 00:53:02,400 So in closing, I'm here to tell you that there is favour is on 940 00:53:02,400 --> 00:53:04,720 you. The sector has been extended to 941 00:53:04,720 --> 00:53:06,960 you, the King is smiling over you. 942 00:53:07,160 --> 00:53:09,120 Hallelujah, somebody. Are you ready? 943 00:53:09,280 --> 00:53:13,320 Because God is saying this is your Easter moment, this is your 944 00:53:13,320 --> 00:53:15,400 moment right now. This is your hour, this is your 945 00:53:15,400 --> 00:53:17,800 time. You were born for such a time as 946 00:53:17,800 --> 00:53:19,800 this. I mean, let's all stand 947 00:53:19,800 --> 00:53:23,960 together. Hallelujah, praise God and I yes 948 00:53:24,000 --> 00:53:27,560 in a minute and right now under the sound of my voice, if you 949 00:53:27,560 --> 00:53:30,400 are in this place and you've been walking through a season, 950 00:53:30,840 --> 00:53:34,680 maybe it's a season of preparation like Ester, you are 951 00:53:34,680 --> 00:53:40,320 on the verge on the threshold of something great of greatness. 952 00:53:40,440 --> 00:53:43,760 You've been chosen for such a time as this for greatness and 953 00:53:43,760 --> 00:53:46,240 the king is calling you. He's smiling on you. 954 00:53:46,520 --> 00:53:50,120 He's sector is extended to you. He say come, you have access has 955 00:53:50,120 --> 00:53:54,600 been granted to you and so right now you don't have to have it 956 00:53:54,600 --> 00:53:56,880 all figured out. You don't have to have it all 957 00:53:56,880 --> 00:53:59,720 together. All you need is a willing heart 958 00:53:59,720 --> 00:54:03,480 and says yes, I am available Lord, because Jesus already made 959 00:54:03,480 --> 00:54:08,000 the way he's already extended the center OK and he's blood 960 00:54:08,000 --> 00:54:12,600 paid it. He's paid the price for you and 961 00:54:12,600 --> 00:54:14,160 for me. He chose you. 962 00:54:14,600 --> 00:54:18,720 He loves you, He calls you. And so he brought you into this 963 00:54:18,720 --> 00:54:22,880 place, into this visitor, into this Kingdom for such a time as 964 00:54:23,040 --> 00:54:25,080 this. And so if this word is stirring 965 00:54:25,080 --> 00:54:26,880 in your heart today, this is your word. 966 00:54:27,080 --> 00:54:31,200 And you are saying before God, like Esther, yes, Lord, I will 967 00:54:31,200 --> 00:54:33,640 not be silent in this time, but I will speak up. 968 00:54:34,040 --> 00:54:36,960 I will be bold. I will put my life on the line, 969 00:54:37,120 --> 00:54:40,160 my career, whatever it is. I say yes to you if you're to 970 00:54:40,160 --> 00:54:43,680 say, if you're ready to say yes, if you're ready to say this is 971 00:54:43,960 --> 00:54:47,800 your moment of favour, favour with the king, then raise your 972 00:54:47,800 --> 00:54:49,960 hand before the Lord. If you mean business with God, 973 00:54:49,960 --> 00:54:52,800 God means business with you. And receive this prayer. 974 00:54:52,800 --> 00:54:56,880 Father, we come before you. Just like Esther in the court 975 00:54:57,080 --> 00:55:00,680 that said yes, Lord, we are saying yes. 976 00:55:01,160 --> 00:55:04,840 We are saying yes to call yes to your fire right now. 977 00:55:04,960 --> 00:55:08,960 Lord, I pray, let your favour fall on this congregation, 978 00:55:09,040 --> 00:55:12,480 everyone under the sound of my voice, not just to lift us up, 979 00:55:12,480 --> 00:55:16,080 but to lift others through US. I pray right now for boldness. 980 00:55:16,280 --> 00:55:19,520 Let there be courage, Lord, boldness to rise. 981 00:55:19,720 --> 00:55:22,800 That we would not be silent in the pilots, but that we would 982 00:55:22,800 --> 00:55:25,600 speak the truth in law. Law. 983 00:55:26,080 --> 00:55:30,720 That we would use our offices, the platforms for purpose. 984 00:55:30,880 --> 00:55:33,160 Where there's been fear, release coverage. 985 00:55:33,400 --> 00:55:36,520 Where there has been opposition, release a reversal. 986 00:55:36,760 --> 00:55:40,440 Turn the tables, Lord. Turn the tables in families, in 987 00:55:40,440 --> 00:55:43,480 marriages, finances. Lord, turn it right now. 988 00:55:43,760 --> 00:55:48,200 Lord, I prophecy every person, Lord that has with enemies come 989 00:55:48,200 --> 00:55:51,000 against. I pray let the enemy fall in his 990 00:55:51,000 --> 00:55:54,080 own trap. Let the enemy fall right now. 991 00:55:54,240 --> 00:55:57,120 Break off every addiction, every affliction. 992 00:55:57,240 --> 00:56:00,280 Break it off every depression. Right now, break it off in the 993 00:56:00,280 --> 00:56:01,880 name of Jesus. How is for it come? 994 00:56:02,200 --> 00:56:04,200 What? Let the enemy fall in his own 995 00:56:04,200 --> 00:56:05,920 trap. Let the enemy fall. 996 00:56:06,080 --> 00:56:08,400 Let the enemy be crushed. Let the enemy be. 997 00:56:08,400 --> 00:56:11,120 Put your flag right now. In the name of Jesus. 998 00:56:11,320 --> 00:56:15,640 We the flag, the esters do rise. The monarch is to be promoted. 999 00:56:15,800 --> 00:56:18,080 Lord, we say yes to the call of God. 1000 00:56:18,280 --> 00:56:19,880 We say yes. Lord, here we are. 1001 00:56:19,880 --> 00:56:23,800 Send us yes to your favor. And we declare it in the mighty 1002 00:56:23,800 --> 00:56:25,120 name of Jacob. A summary shot. 1003 00:56:25,160 --> 00:56:29,960 Hallelujah. Glory to God now I want us to 1004 00:56:29,960 --> 00:56:32,240 make some bold declarations out loud together. 1005 00:56:32,240 --> 00:56:37,600 Say I declare I am chosen for such a time as this. 1006 00:56:38,600 --> 00:56:41,880 The favour of God is resting on my life. 1007 00:56:42,920 --> 00:56:46,480 God is opening doors that no man can shut. 1008 00:56:47,480 --> 00:56:52,000 What the enemy made for evil, God is standing for my good. 1009 00:56:53,160 --> 00:56:56,160 I have found favour with the King. 1010 00:56:56,960 --> 00:57:00,440 I was born for such a time as this. 1011 00:57:00,720 --> 00:57:06,840 Somebody should Hallelujah, Glory beat you God, Glory beat 1012 00:57:06,840 --> 00:57:09,920 you God. So if you're in this place and 1013 00:57:09,920 --> 00:57:12,480 you've never given your life to Jesus, right now I want to give 1014 00:57:12,480 --> 00:57:15,360 you an opportunity. Or maybe you have drifted or you 1015 00:57:15,360 --> 00:57:17,880 feel your backslidden. You need to come back home. 1016 00:57:17,880 --> 00:57:20,520 This is your moment. Don't leave it for another day 1017 00:57:20,640 --> 00:57:23,600 or don't spend another minute outside the palace gates. 1018 00:57:24,000 --> 00:57:27,080 Come, God is calling you. The king is smiling of you is 1019 00:57:27,080 --> 00:57:30,200 safety is extended towards you. So if that's you and you're 1020 00:57:30,200 --> 00:57:33,560 ready to say yes to Jesus, just raise your hand right now before 1021 00:57:33,560 --> 00:57:36,360 the Lord is I see that hand. Anybody else that wants to say 1022 00:57:36,360 --> 00:57:38,680 yes, I want to come back. I want to be in the paddle where 1023 00:57:38,680 --> 00:57:41,280 God's blessed me. Anybody else I just pray 1024 00:57:41,280 --> 00:57:44,520 together. I invite Jesus to come into my 1025 00:57:44,520 --> 00:57:49,920 life to be my Lord and Savior. I defense of my sins come into 1026 00:57:49,920 --> 00:57:53,600 my heart. I give you my life only with 1027 00:57:53,600 --> 00:57:56,760 your spirit. From this day forward, I am 1028 00:57:56,760 --> 00:57:58,640 yours. Hallelujah. 1029 00:57:58,640 --> 00:58:00,480 Come on, somebody can God some grace. 1030 00:58:00,880 --> 00:58:02,080 Thank you Jesus.